LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000047_000004.wav|I began my journey, not so much deploring my own miseries, as the death of the two fair princesses, of which I have been the occasion.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000040_000004.wav|The sultan and I expected but death, when we heard a cry of "Victory! Victory!" and instantly the princess appeared in her natural shape, but the genie was reduced to a heap of ashes.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000023_000000.wav|Those of the merchants who thought they could write well enough to aspire to this high dignity, wrote one after another what they thought fit.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000016_000001.wav|"Quit," said he, "the form of a man, and take that of an ape." He instantly disappeared, and left me alone, transformed into an ape, and overwhelmed with sorrow in a strange country, not knowing whether I was near or far from my father's dominions.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000034_000001.wav|She placed herself in the middle of the court, where she made a great circle, and within it she wrote several words in Arabian characters, some of them ancient.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000029_000002.wav|I drank, and wrote upon the glass some new verses, which explained the state I was reduced to, after many sufferings.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000023_000002.wav|However, as they had never seen an ape that could write, and could not be persuaded that I was more ingenious than others of my kind, they wished to take the roll out of my hand; but the captain took my part once more.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000047_000000.wav|The grief of the sultan for the loss of his daughter confined him to his chamber for a whole month.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000003_000002.wav|In short, he was much honoured and courted by all ranks.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000047_000005.wav|I passed through many countries without making myself known; at last I resolved to come to Bagdad, in hopes of getting myself introduced to the commander of the faithful, to move his compassion by relating to him my unfortunate adventures.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000037_000001.wav|Immediately the princess turned herself into a serpent, and fought the scorpion, who, finding himself worsted, took the shape of an eagle, and flew away: but the serpent at the same time took also the shape of an eagle, that was black and much stronger, and pursued him, so that we lost sight of them both.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000036_000000.wav|As soon as the princess perceived this monster, "Dog," said she, "instead of creeping before me, dare you present yourself in this shape, thinking to frighten me?"|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000032_000001.wav|That seeming ape is a young prince, son of a powerful sultan, and has been metamorphosed into an ape by enchantment.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000022_000001.wav|The merchants appearing, one of the officers told them, "The sultan our master hath commanded us to acquaint you, that he rejoices in your safe arrival, and beseeches each of you to take the trouble to write a few lines upon this roll.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000027_000000.wav|I found the prince on his throne in the midst of the grandees; I made my obeisance three times very low, and at last kneeled and kissed the ground before him, and afterwards took my seat in the posture of an ape.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000022_000002.wav|That you may understand the design of this request, you must know that we had a prime vizier, who besides possessing great abilities for the management of public affairs could write in the highest perfection.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000047_000007.wav|You know the remaining part, madam, and the cause of my having the honour to be here.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000022_000005.wav|Many have presented specimens of their skill; but to this day, no one in the empire has been judged worthy to supply the vizier's place."|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000022_000003.wav|This minister a few days since died.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000023_000006.wav|My writing not only excelled that of the merchants, but was such as they had not before seen in that country.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000029_000003.wav|The sultan read these likewise, and said, "A man that was capable of doing so much would be above the greatest of his species."|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000025_000000.wav|The officers returned to the vessel and shewed the captain their order, who answered, "The sultan's command must be obeyed." Whereupon they clothed me with the rich brocade robe, and carried me ashore, where they set me on horseback, whilst the sultan waited for me at his palace with a great number of courtiers, whom he gathered together to do me the more honour.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000047_000006.wav|I arrived this evening, and the first man I met was this calender, our brother, who spoke before me.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000019_000002.wav|This action, together with the tears which he saw gush from my eyes, moved his compassion.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000017_000000.wav|I descended the mountain, and entered a plain level country, which took me a month to travel over, and then I came to the sea side.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000029_000001.wav|When the things were removed, they brought him a particular liquor, of which he caused them to give me a glass.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000012_000003.wav|The sultan himself also died without heirs male; upon which the religious orders and the militia consulted together, and the good man was declared and acknowledged sultan by general consent.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000033_000001.wav|Finding I could not speak, I put my hand to my head' to signify that what the princess spoke was correct.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000005_000000.wav|When the envious man saw that he was alone with this good man, he began to tell him his errand, walking side by side in the court, till he saw his opportunity; and getting the good man near the brink of the well, he gave him a thrust, and pushed him into it, without being seen by any one.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000019_000000.wav|The merchants, being both superstitious and scrupulous, thought if they received me on board I should be the occasion of some misfortune to them during their voyage.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000007_000001.wav|But I well know how this good head of the dervises may cure her; the thing is very easy, and I will explain it to you.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000008_000001.wav|The next morning, as soon as daylight appeared, and he could discern the nature of his situation, the well being broken down in several places, he saw a hole, by which he crept out with ease.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000018_000000.wav|I launched out in this posture, and rowed towards the ship.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000024_000001.wav|The sultan was incensed at their rudeness, and would have punished them had they not explained: "Sir," said they, "we humbly beg your majesty's pardon: these hands were not written by a man, but by an ape." "What do you say?" exclaimed the sultan.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000021_000000.wav|Our vessel was instantly surrounded with an infinite number of boats full of people, who came to congratulate their friends on their safe arrival, or to inquire for those they had left behind them in the country from whence they had come, or out of curiosity to see a ship that had performed so long a voyage.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000022_000000.wav|Amongst the rest, some officers came on board, desiring in the name of the sultan to speak with the merchants.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000003_000003.wav|People came from afar to recommend themselves to his prayers; and all who visited him, published what blessings they received through his means.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000030_000001.wav|I kissed the ground, and laying my hand upon my head, signified that I was ready to receive that honour.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000047_000002.wav|No consideration whatever shall hinder me from making you repent your temerity should you violate my injunction." I was going to speak, but he prevented me by words full of anger; and I was obliged to quit the palace, rejected, banished, an outcast from the world.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000039_000000.wav|The wolf had in the meanwhile transformed itself into a cock, and now fell to picking up the seeds of the pomegranate one after another; but finding no more, he came towards us with his wings spread, making a great noise, as if he would ask us whether there were any more seed.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000037_000000.wav|The two parts of the lion disappeared, while the head changed into a large scorpion.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000046_000002.wav|The ashes of the genie were thrown into the air, but those of the princess were collected into a precious urn, to be preserved, and the urn was deposited in a superb mausoleum, constructed for that purpose on the spot where the princess had been consumed.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000028_000001.wav|He went from his chamber of audience into his own apartment, where he ordered dinner to be brought.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000006_000001.wav|He perceived that there was something extraordinary in his fall, which must otherwise have cost him his life; but he neither saw nor felt anything.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000018_000002.wav|In the meantime I got on board, and laying hold of a rope, jumped upon the deck, but having lost my speech I found myself in great perplexity: and indeed the risk I ran was not less than when I was at the mercy of the genie.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000039_000001.wav|There was one lying on the brink of the canal, which the cock perceiving as he went back, ran speedily thither; but just as he was going to pick it up, the seed rolled into the river, and turned into a little fish.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1448/135894/1448_135894_000040_000003.wav|We must all have perished had not the princess, running to our assistance, forced him to retire, and defend himself against her; yet, notwithstanding all her exertions, she could not hinder the sultan's beard from being burnt, and his face scorched, the chief of the eunuchs from being stifled, and a spark from entering my right eye, and making it blind.|1448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000117_000000.wav|"Well, he did not say much.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000018_000004.wav|If Bernard could have owned the truth, he would have acknowledged that he had not gone up to London, because he did not yet know how to treat Crosbie when he should meet him.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000014_000007.wav|Nothing happened to her, or in her presence, that did not in some way connect itself with her misery.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000072_000000.wav|"As you know, Dale, I'm a very bad hand at talking, and therefore I won't beat about the bush in what I've got to say at present.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000082_000001.wav|It mustn't be too late!|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000018_000003.wav|I must be up in London, you know, in a fortnight, for good." Then they were all silent again for a few minutes.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000049_000004.wav|"I don't pretend to know anything about it.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000028_000000.wav|"I hope you don't think me ungrateful," said Bernard.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000037_000000.wav|"mrs Hearn is dining at the vicarage, I suppose?" asked the squire.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000086_000001.wav|I want to interest you in this fellow's favour; and in doing so, I mean to be very open with you. I suppose you'll give her something?"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000023_000002.wav|Bell understood it all, and sat quite silent, with demure countenance;--perhaps even with something of sternness in her face.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000080_000000.wav|"He is an uncommonly good looking young fellow; straight made, broad in the chest, with a good, honest eye, and a young man's proper courage.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000091_000000.wav|"Half a moment," said the squire.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000021_000000.wav|"I think it would be wise.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000061_000004.wav|He did feel himself to be rather out of his place in the Manor pew on the Sunday, conceiving that all the congregation was looking at him; but he got over this on Christmas Day, and sat quite comfortably in his soft corner during the sermon, almost going to sleep.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000078_000002.wav|But I wish,--I only say that I wish,--she had first known what are this young man's feelings towards her."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000115_000000.wav|"And what did he say?" asked Lady Julia, as soon as the squire was gone.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000095_000000.wav|"How do you do, sir?" said Johnny, walking up to him in a wild sort of manner,--going through a premeditated lesson, but doing it without any presence of mind.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000050_000000.wav|"Only think of Johnny Eames being at Guestwick Manor!" said Bell, as they were going home.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000061_000008.wav|But it was not in Johnny's nature to do so, and therefore it was that the earl liked him.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000019_000001.wav|"It would be better, I think, for both of us that he should do so."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000099_000000.wav|"I should rather think it is," said the earl.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000074_000000.wav|"But, my dear Dale, I must mention it at the present moment.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000070_000002.wav|I've taken a great fancy to him myself."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000111_000000.wav|"I don't suppose he ever heard my name as yet," said Johnny.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000083_000001.wav|The story of their lives had been so far the same; each had loved, and each had been disappointed, and then each had remained single through life.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000009_000000.wav|"I should not have thought that Lord De Guest was the man to show so much gratitude for so slight a favour," said the squire.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000023_000000.wav|"That would be your own fault.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000114_000004.wav|Come, we'll go into the drawing room."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000003_000000.wav|"THE TIME WILL COME."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000029_000002.wav|If you should marry-" And then he stopped himself, feeling that he could not go on in Bell's presence.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000014_000006.wav|Lily bore her cross bravely and well; but not the less did it weigh heavily upon her at every turn because she had the strength to walk as though she did not bear it.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000088_000000.wav|"Well, then, whether you do or not, I'll give him something," said the earl.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000040_000001.wav|"She hardly speaks to me now. When she paid her rent the other day to Jolliffe, she said she hoped it would do me much good; as though she thought me a brute for taking it."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000074_000003.wav|Do you know that that young man was in love with her long before Crosbie ever saw her?"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000094_000000.wav|Lord De Guest still felt that he had not succeeded.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000012_000000.wav|"And is Bernard going?"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000025_000001.wav|"I have even offered to settle the property on him if he will leave the service."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000102_000000.wav|"It'll come to him soon enough," said the squire.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000027_000000.wav|"If you mean that I cannot constrain him, I know that well enough. As regards money, I have offered to do for him quite as much as any father would feel called upon to do for an only son."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000068_000001.wav|"I've something I want to say to you."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000066_000000.wav|"I'll give him some port wine that ought to soften his heart," said the earl, "and then we'll see how he is in the evening."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000013_000000.wav|"Indeed I'm not," said Bernard.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000044_000001.wav|I should be very wrong to do so.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000054_000004.wav|You mustn't keep me now, as I am ever so much too late."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000073_000001.wav|But the less we say about that the better.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000107_000002.wav|That's exactly nine minutes to each; and as for lunch, we only have a biscuit dipped in ink."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000049_000000.wav|It was very long and very dull that Christmas evening, making Bernard feel strongly that he would be very foolish to give up his profession, and tie himself down to a life at Allington.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000114_000002.wav|He always was Huffle Scuffle; a noisy, pretentious, empty headed fellow.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000074_000002.wav|And I hope that something may be done to comfort her.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000038_000000.wav|"Yes; she went in after church," said Bell.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000007_000000.wav|"Don't you remember, mamma," said Bell, "that he helped his lordship in his trouble with the bull?"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000015_000004.wav|But when close friends are together, a little conscious reticence is practised till the door is tiled.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000035_000000.wav|"I don't think uncle Christopher would look at all well like Charles the Fifth," said Lily.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000056_000000.wav|He got on very well with Lady Julia, who gave herself no airs, and made herself very civil.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000117_000002.wav|He is to think of it, and let me see him again. You hold your head up, Johnny, and remember that you shan't want a friend on your side.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000034_000000.wav|"You'll be squire of Allington for the next twenty years," said mrs Dale.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000008_000003.wav|But now, she would feel herself injured and hurt if he ever made his way into her presence under circumstances as they existed.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000032_000000.wav|"That's nonsense," said mrs Dale.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000099_000001.wav|"I was lucky enough to get it early, and it hasn't been moved for thirty years.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000006_000001.wav|"Dear me!|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000046_000001.wav|But if she did, I'm sure she would grumble because it wasn't double the amount.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000107_000000.wav|"Not ten minutes.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000092_000000.wav|"Certainly, certainly."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000116_000000.wav|There was no attempt at concealment, and the question was asked in Johnny's presence.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000055_000000.wav|Eames did not attempt to keep him, but went away feeling that the whole matter was being arranged for him in a very wonderful way.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000114_000000.wav|"Huffle Scuffle!|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000062_000001.wav|Lady Julia, who had been present at their discussions, had agreed to receive the squire; and then a servant was to ask him to step into the earl's own room.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000049_000005.wav|But-" So the evening wore itself away; and when the squire was left alone at half past nine, he did not feel that the day had passed badly with him.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000101_000001.wav|So is champagne, or ginger beer, or lollipops,--for those who like them.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000015_000006.wav|When the door was tiled, and when the servants were gone, how could they be merry together?|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000094_000004.wav|mr Dale knew well enough that he was being treated well, and that the effort being made was intended with kindness to those belonging to him; but it was not in his nature to be demonstrative and quick at expressions of gratitude.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000094_000003.wav|As it was, the earl was disappointed; but had he been able to read the squire's mind, his disappointment would have been less strong.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000088_000003.wav|I shall have pleasure in giving to him; but I shall have more pleasure if she can share what I give."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000018_000002.wav|I shall go down to Torquay in February.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000046_000000.wav|"I don't think she would.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000039_000002.wav|The truth was, she was angry because mr Boyce didn't go with her."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000061_000003.wav|Lady Julia's manners were certainly not quite those of mrs Roper; but she made the tea very much in the way in which it was made at Burton Crescent, and Eames found that he could eat his egg, at any rate on the second morning, without any tremor in his hand, in spite of the coronet on the silver egg cup.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000038_000001.wav|"I saw her go with mrs Boyce."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000034_000002.wav|I don't approve of monarchs abdicating in favour of young people."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000117_000001.wav|And coming from him, that ought to be taken as a good sign.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000089_000000.wav|"She ought to be very much obliged to you," said the squire.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000071_000001.wav|He sat down, and in some general terms expressed his good will towards all the Eames family.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000082_000004.wav|But, Dale, the time will come; the time will come;--the time always does come."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000016_000001.wav|"He was with Lord De Guest at Pawkins's."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000046_000002.wav|And if mr Boyce had gone home with her, she would have grumbled because he walked too fast."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000048_000000.wav|"But, nevertheless, she ought to know better than to speak disparagingly of me to my servants.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000053_000002.wav|He must be at his office by twelve on Wednesday, and could manage to do that by an early train from Guestwick.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000052_000001.wav|"There must be some reason for it." Then Lily felt the soreness come upon her again, and spoke no further upon the subject.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000054_000001.wav|"Then I'll tell you what; I've been thinking of it.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000061_000002.wav|But Johnny had already begun to feel at the Manor that, after all, people are not so very different in their ways of life as they are supposed to be.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000055_000005.wav|But he felt afraid of the squire,--that the squire would despise him and snub him, and that the earl would perceive that he had made a mistake when he saw how his client was scorned and snubbed.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty three.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000014_000009.wav|Of course the men there would talk about her, and all such talking was an injury to her.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000108_000000.wav|"Dipped in ink!" said the squire.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000006_000003.wav|There's promotion for Master Johnny!"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000015_000007.wav|By what mirth should the beards be made to wag on that Christmas Day?|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000049_000006.wav|That was his style of life, and he expected no more from it than he got.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000112_000000.wav|"Haven't seen him these thirty years; but I did know him."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000099_000002.wav|I like to give it to a man who knows it, as you do, at the first glance.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000062_000000.wav|At last came the hour of dinner on Tuesday, or at least the hour at which the squire had been asked to show himself at the Manor House. Eames, as by agreement with his patron, did not come down so as to show himself till after the interview.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000049_000007.wav|He did not look to find things very pleasant, and, if not happy, he was, at any rate, contented.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000009_000001.wav|"However, I'm going to dine there to morrow."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000036_000000.wav|"I would always keep a cell for you, my darling, if I did," said the squire, regarding her with that painful, special tenderness.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000085_000000.wav|"I have not thought about it."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000036_000001.wav|Lily, who was sitting next to mrs Dale, put her hand out secretly and got hold of her mother's, thereby indicating that she did not intend to occupy the cell offered to her by her uncle; or to look to him as the companion of her monastic seclusion.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000054_000003.wav|He's a man of business, and he'll understand. If he won't come, why then you must go over to Allington, and find him, if you can, on the Tuesday morning; or I'll go to him myself, which will be better.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000056_000001.wav|Her brother had told her the whole story, and she felt as anxious as he did to provide Lily with another husband in place of that horrible man Crosbie.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000088_000002.wav|"If such a match can be made, it shall not be a bad marriage for your niece in a pecuniary point of view.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000091_000001.wav|"There are matters as to which I never find myself able to speak quickly, and this certainly seems to be one of them.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000082_000002.wav|That child is not to lose her whole life because a villain has played her false. Of course she'll suffer.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000074_000001.wav|Dear young child, I would do anything to comfort her!|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000045_000000.wav|"And she wouldn't take it," said mrs Dale.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000055_000002.wav|Then he declared to himself that there was no longer any possibility of retractation for him.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000067_000003.wav|The earl, as he entered, was standing in the middle of the room, and his round rosy face was a picture of good humour.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000011_000000.wav|"Yes,--especially to meet young Eames.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000062_000002.wav|It was pretty to see the way in which the three conspired together, planning and plotting with an eagerness that was beautifully green and fresh.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000015_000003.wav|People so mixed do not talk together their inward home thoughts.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000039_000001.wav|"The last time she was there, the boy let the lamp blow out as she was going home, and she lost her way.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000015_000000.wav|The afternoon of that day did not pass away brightly.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000049_000002.wav|"Of course you know much better than I do," he would say.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000019_000000.wav|"I want him to give up his profession altogether," said the squire, speaking firmly and slowly.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000006_000000.wav|"At Guestwick Manor!" said mrs Dale.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000075_000000.wav|"What;--john Eames!"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000055_000003.wav|Of course he did not wish to retract.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000117_000003.wav|Faint heart never won fair lady."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000006_000002.wav|Do you hear that, Bell?|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000008_000002.wav|She valued him more highly after that scene than she did before.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000060_000000.wav|In answer to this Lady Julia merely shook her head.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000088_000001.wav|"I shouldn't have ventured to meddle in the matter had I not intended to put myself in such a position with reference to him as would justify me in asking the question." And the peer as he spoke drew himself up to his full height.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000098_000000.wav|"Ah! that's the 'twenty," said the squire, tasting it.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000097_000000.wav|"Dale, I know you drink port," said the earl when Lady Julia left them.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000084_000002.wav|But for her,--you and her mother will look forward to see her married some day."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000078_000001.wav|He was my nephew's friend, and I am not going to say that my nephew was in fault.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000090_000002.wav|I hope that you and I may see them happy together, and that you too may thank me for having assisted in making them so.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000023_000001.wav|But if you did as I would have you, your life would not be idle." In this he was alluding to Bernard's proposed marriage, but as to that nothing further could be said in Bell's presence.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000015_000001.wav|As long as the servants were in the room the dinner went on much as other dinners. At such times a certain amount of hypocrisy must always be practised in closely domestic circles.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000031_000001.wav|"Isn't it big enough?|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000081_000000.wav|"But it's too late now, De Guest."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000031_000000.wav|"Wouldn't she have this house?" said the squire, angrily.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000094_000002.wav|He had said of himself that he was never able to speak quickly in matters of moment; but he would more correctly have described his own character had he declared that he could not think of them quickly.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000054_000002.wav|I'll ask Dale to come over to dinner on Tuesday; and if he'll come, I'll explain the whole matter to him myself.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000029_000000.wav|"No, I do not; but I think you unmindful.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000109_000000.wav|"It comes to that, for you have to be writing while you munch it."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48831/5618_48831_000086_000000.wav|"But I want you to think about it.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000068_000000.wav|"If I thought so," said Eames, "I'd find him out to morrow."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000105_000003.wav|I think I may boast that I never yet went back from my word."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000058_000000.wav|"What sort of a Christian has he been?"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000109_000000.wav|Eames then left the room without another word, and walked out into the cold air of Jermyn Street.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000033_000000.wav|"Come, Johnny, fill your glass." He had already got into the way of calling his young friend Johnny, having found that mrs Eames generally spoke of her son by that name.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000091_000000.wav|"Never mind my lording me, but do as I tell you.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000087_000002.wav|It's my belief that all this will about kill her.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000105_000000.wav|"That won't be comfortable.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000109_000004.wav|Could it be true that he, even now, was in a position to go boldly to the Squire of Allington, and tell him what were his views with reference to Lily?|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000002_000004.wav|Eames had joined his patron at the show after his office hours, looking on upon the living beef by gaslight.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000015_000000.wav|"It's looking after the bull that does it," said Eames.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000002_000002.wav|He was never so happy as when surrounded by butchers, graziers, and salesmen who were able to appreciate the work of his life, and who regarded him as a model nobleman.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000076_000001.wav|It's such a poor thing."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000066_000001.wav|"I'm not so sure of that," he said, mournfully, as though grieving at the thought that there was no chance of currying favour with Lily by thrashing her late lover.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000069_000003.wav|"You don't mean to say that you're in love with Miss Lily Dale?"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000027_000002.wav|When, at half past nine o'clock, the colonel retired from the room, the earl, as the door was closed, threw up his hands, and uttered the one word "negus!"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000027_000003.wav|Then Eames took heart of grace and had his laughter out.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000097_000005.wav|If he'd gone on to this day he wouldn't have been any wiser."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000059_000000.wav|"That's true enough; and if I was Bernard, I should be very apt to forget my Bible lessons about meekness."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000028_000003.wav|Once or twice he tried a word with the colonel, for the colonel sat with his eyes open looking at the fire.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000050_000000.wav|"The waiter didn't seem to think much of it when he brought it."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000036_000000.wav|"You've been asleep," said the colonel.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000037_000000.wav|"Then there's been some excuse for my holding my tongue," said the earl.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000013_000000.wav|"I don't think I ever did."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000081_000001.wav|I hated him the first moment I saw him; but that's no reason she should hate him.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000100_000000.wav|"I hope not."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000011_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, I know them."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000014_000000.wav|"He's a queer sort of fellow;--very well in his way, but he never does anything.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000029_000001.wav|During that terrible conflict between him and his slumber, in which the drowsy god fairly vanquished him for some twenty minutes, his conscience was always accusing him of treating his guests badly.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000087_000003.wav|As to myself, if I thought she'd ever have me-"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000110_000000.wav|"Oh, john, how late you are!" said Amelia, slipping out from the back parlour as he let himself in with his latch key.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000041_000003.wav|I wish I was Lily Dale's brother." Then he sat down again, remembering that he was speaking in the presence of Lily's uncle, and of the father of Bernard Dale, who might be supposed to occupy the place of Lily's brother.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000028_000004.wav|But he was answered with monosyllables, and it was evident to him that the colonel did not wish to talk.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000022_000002.wav|Pawkins then took his lordship's orders about the wine and retired.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000041_000000.wav|"So he ought," said Eames, getting up from his chair in his eagerness, and speaking in a tone somewhat louder than was perhaps becoming in the presence of his seniors.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000099_000003.wav|And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000035_000000.wav|"I'm glad you've found something to amuse you, for it has seemed to me that you and Dale haven't had much to say to each other.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000043_000001.wav|"Nevertheless it is, perhaps, as well not to make too free with a young lady's name.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000053_000001.wav|Somebody ought to do it.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000095_000006.wav|Tell him that if he'll put a little stick under the pot to make it boil, I'll put a bigger one.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000105_000001.wav|See and come with me if you can.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000091_000001.wav|Lady Julia sent you a message, though I forgot all about it till now.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000082_000000.wav|"Did you ever ask her to have you?" said the earl.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000029_000004.wav|Then for twenty minutes he slept soundly, and at the end of that he woke himself with one of his own snorts. "By George!" he said, jumping up and standing on the rug, "we'll have some coffee;" and after that he did not sleep any more.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000044_000000.wav|"I should think not," said the earl.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000067_000000.wav|"I don't pretend to know much about girls," said Lord De Guest; "but I should think it would be so.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000025_000001.wav|They can't get it now, you know."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000008_000002.wav|Come away.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000085_000001.wav|I could not help telling her then."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000023_000001.wav|"It isn't like what it was thirty years ago, but then everything of that sort has got worse and worse."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000097_000004.wav|He knew no more about a beast when he'd done, than-than-than that waiter.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000094_000000.wav|"I couldn't say a word to her now."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000037_000001.wav|"By the by, Dale, what do you think of that fellow Crosbie?"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000080_000000.wav|"By George, I don't see it," said the earl.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000017_000000.wav|Colonel Dale was much like his brother in face, but was taller, even thinner, and apparently older.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000005_000000.wav|"I daresay," said Johnny, who looked very hard, but could not see.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000009_000002.wav|At home, in his own life, his daily companions were Cradell and Amelia Roper, mrs Lupex and mrs Roper.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000092_000000.wav|"That's all nonsense, my lord."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000085_000000.wav|"She knows it now," said Johnny; "I went to say good by to her the other day,--when I thought she was going to be married.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000057_000002.wav|And if we are to be Christians, I suppose we ought to be Christians."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000099_000002.wav|But tell everything to the uncle, and then to the mother.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000093_000001.wav|You may take my word for this, too,--my sister hates Crosbie quite as much as you do.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000004_000003.wav|Don't you see?"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000018_000000.wav|"It's got very cold this afternoon," said Johnny, trying to make conversation.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000109_000005.wav|And how far would he be justified in taking the earl at his word?|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000065_000001.wav|If any fellow wanted now to curry favour with the young lady, what an opportunity he'd have."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000081_000000.wav|"I don't wonder a bit at her accepting a fellow like that.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000108_000003.wav|I dine out to morrow, but you can call and let me know at about six."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000108_000000.wav|"Say nothing,--not a word more to me.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000097_000003.wav|Lord bless you, I knew your father as well as I ever knew any man; and to tell the truth, I believe I helped to ruin him. He held land of me, you know, and there can't be any doubt that he did ruin himself.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000062_000000.wav|"Exactly.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000006_000000.wav|"It's very odd," exclaimed the earl, "but do you know, that bull has been as quiet since that day,--as quiet as-as anything.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000004_000001.wav|The bull that we had the trouble with.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000017_000001.wav|When Eames went into the sitting room, the colonel was there alone, and had to take upon himself the trouble of introducing himself.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000071_000000.wav|"Highty tighty," said the earl.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000070_000001.wav|And then he made up his mind, in a wild sort of way, to tell all the truth to his friend.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000049_000000.wav|"Oh dear, no; I wonder what Pawkins says about him.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000029_000000.wav|But the earl knew what was going on.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000069_000002.wav|Then there was another pause, during which Johnny looked very sheepish.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000063_000001.wav|It wasn't right to hang men for stealing sheep."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000061_000000.wav|"So that he shouldn't do them again?"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000017_000004.wav|I knew your father at Guestwick, a great many years ago;" then he turned his face back towards the fire and sighed.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000026_000001.wav|"I seldom take anything after dinner, except a little negus."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000056_000000.wav|"No, I suppose not," said Eames, sadly.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000007_000000.wav|"I daresay it was," said Johnny;--"or perhaps the flies."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000042_000000.wav|The colonel turned his head round, and looked at the young man with surprise.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000095_000002.wav|Don't talk to me about swells.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000069_000001.wav|what difference does it make to you?"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000075_000000.wav|"Girls don't care much for that."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000040_000000.wav|"He ought to have every bone in his skin broken," said the earl.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000093_000003.wav|You come down to Guestwick for the Christmas, and then go over to Allington and tell them all plainly what you mean."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000077_000000.wav|"The other fellow was only a clerk in another office."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000062_000001.wav|You might say it isn't Christian to hang a man."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000004_000000.wav|"Yes, Lambkin.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000087_000001.wav|I am not a bit obliged to him.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000060_000000.wav|"Do you know, my lord, I should think it the most Christian thing in the world to pitch into him; I should, indeed.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000039_000000.wav|"Think of him?" said the colonel.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000072_000000.wav|"It's very ridiculous, I know," said Johnny, "and of course she would never have accepted me."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000044_000002.wav|And then the earl winked back at Eames.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000016_000000.wav|"By George! you're right, Master Johnny.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000034_000000.wav|"I have been filling my glass all the time," said Eames, taking the decanter again in his hand as he spoke.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000089_000001.wav|You come down and spend your Christmas with me at Guestwick."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000053_000000.wav|"You see he's Bernard Dale's father, and the question is, whether Bernard shouldn't punish the fellow for what he has done.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000002_000003.wav|"Look at that fellow," he said to Eames, pointing to the prize bullock.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000081_000003.wav|He was a swell, and girls like that kind of thing.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000095_000000.wav|"Say it to the squire, then.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000070_000003.wav|"But I'd go through fire and water for her, my lord.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000002_000001.wav|No doubt the butchers of the next half century will have learned much better, and the Guestwick beast, could it be embalmed and then produced, would excite only ridicule at the agricultural ignorance of the present age; but Lord De Guest took the praise that was offered to him, and found himself in a seventh heaven of delight.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000026_000000.wav|"I never drink port," said the colonel.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000066_000000.wav|Johnny remained silent for a moment or two before he answered.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000041_000002.wav|He is the most abominable rascal that ever I met in my life.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000086_000000.wav|"But it seems to me, my dear fellow, that you ought to be very much obliged to Crosbie;--that is to say, if you've a mind to-"|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000065_000000.wav|"Well, I believe so.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000029_000003.wav|But his brother in law would not help him in his efforts; and even Eames was not bright in rendering him assistance.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000099_000005.wav|My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000099_000000.wav|"You come down with me," continued the earl, "and you'll find we'll make it all straight.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000099_000007.wav|But then I don't think you are made of dirt."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000006_000001.wav|I think it must have been my pocket handkerchief."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000093_000002.wav|I think she'd 'pitch into him,' as you call it, herself, if she knew how.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000012_000000.wav|"But, perhaps, you never met the colonel."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000008_000000.wav|"Flies!" said the earl, angrily.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000070_000004.wav|I knew her years before he had ever seen her, and have loved her a great deal better than he will ever love any one.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000091_000002.wav|She wants to thank you herself for what you did in the field."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000045_000000.wav|"De Guest," said the colonel, "I think I'll go upstairs; I always have a little arrowroot in my own room."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000052_000001.wav|I didn't mean it."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000070_000002.wav|Pawkins's port wine may, perhaps, have had something to do with the resolution.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000084_000000.wav|"And you never told her-that you were in love with her, I mean, and all that kind of thing."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000041_000001.wav|"So he ought, my lord.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000102_000000.wav|"I'm afraid not.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000027_000000.wav|His brother in law said nothing, but made a most eloquent grimace as he turned his face towards his soup plate.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000109_000001.wav|The moon was clear and bright, and the pavement in the shining light seemed to be as clean as a lady's hand.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000070_000000.wav|"I don't know much about being in love with her," said Johnny, turning very red as he spoke.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000003_000000.wav|"Lambkin," said Johnny, who had not as yet been able to learn much about the Guestwick stock.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000106_000001.wav|As he went through the little scene, john Eames felt that he was every inch an earl.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000019_000000.wav|"It's always cold in London," said the colonel.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000014_000002.wav|As for me, I'm a year older than he is, but I wouldn't mind going up and down from Guestwick every day."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000051_000002.wav|By the by, you touched him up about that poor girl."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000048_000000.wav|"I don't suppose there's any harm in it."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000087_000000.wav|"I know what you mean, my lord.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000070_000005.wav|When I heard that she had accepted him, I had half a mind to cut my own throat,--or else his."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000060_000001.wav|There are some things for which a man ought to be beaten black and blue."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000016_000001.wav|My sister and Crofts may tell me what they like, but when a man's out in the open air for eight or nine hours every day, it doesn't much matter where he goes to sleep after that.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000046_000000.wav|"I'll ring the bell for a candle," said the host.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000095_000003.wav|The man who means honestly is the best swell I know.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000017_000003.wav|"mr Eames, I believe?|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000009_000003.wav|The difference was very great, and yet he found it quite as easy to talk to the earl as to mrs Lupex.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000025_000000.wav|"I remember when old Pawkins had as good a glass of port as I've got at home,--or nearly.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000028_000005.wav|To sit still, with his hands closed over each other on his lap, was work enough for Colonel Dale during his after dinner hours.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000095_000001.wav|Go to him, and tell him what you mean,--holding your head up like a man.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000099_000006.wav|If you are made of dirt, like that fellow Crosbie, you'll be found out at last, no doubt.|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5618/48830/5618_48830_000035_000001.wav|I've been listening all the time."|5618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/157/121907/157_121907_000017_000000.wav|'Of course.'|157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/157/121907/157_121907_000016_000000.wav|'Is good, then?'|157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1552/140651/1552_140651_000053_000001.wav|As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour or scent, so let a sage dwell in his village.|1552
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1552/141135/1552_141135_000013_000010.wav|They failed both with powdered felspar and quartz.|1552
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1552/141135/1552_141135_000015_000004.wav|Even during our occasional visits to this part of South America, we heard of a ship, two churches, and a house having been struck.|1552
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000061_000000.wav|They all felt for the slices he offered and ate the fruit without being able to see it.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000017_000000.wav|"What do you charge for melons, mr McNutt?" inquired Louise.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000061_000001.wav|But it really tasted delicious.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000064_000001.wav|Please don't, mr McNutt!" pleaded Patsy, in frightened accents.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000057_000000.wav|Through the drifting clouds there was just enough light to enable them to perceive the dark forms of the melons lying side by side upon their vines.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000006_000001.wav|The gossips wanted to know all the whys and wherefores, but the boy kept his room in the hotel, or only walked out when accompanied by Ethel or one of the three nieces.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000030_000000.wav|"And it would be Brayley's fifteen cents, too," added Beth, quickly.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000005_000000.wav|Joe Wegg made a rapid recovery, his strength returning under the influence of pleasant surroundings and frequent visits from Ethel and Uncle John's three nieces.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000055_000001.wav|Peggy climbed over and at once whispered:|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000015_000000.wav|"I'm sure they are finer than these," said Beth.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000016_000000.wav|"Well, I'll be jiggered!" Peggy's eyes stared as they had never stared before.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000074_000000.wav|"Oh, it were Brayley's, all right," McNutt retorted.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000012_000001.wav|Dan Brayley he thinks he kin raise mellings, but the ol' fool ain't got a circumstance to this.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000082_000001.wav|"Good night, gals.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000071_000000.wav|Beth unhitched the horse and they all took their places in the carriage again, having some difficulty to find places for their feet on account of the cargo of melons.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000010_000000.wav|The girls found him a source of much amusement, and relieved their own disappointment at finding the "Wegg Mystery" a pricked bubble by getting McNutt excited over many sly suggestions of hidden crimes.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000045_000000.wav|McNutt was waiting for them when they quietly drew up before his house. The village was dark and silent, for its inhabitants retired early to bed.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000055_000000.wav|They all got out and Beth tied the horse to the fence.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000070_000000.wav|If he came across an especially big melon McNutt would lug it to the carriage and dump it in.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000006_000000.wav|Joe's sudden appearance in the land of his birth and his generally smashed up condition were a nine days' wonder in Millville.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000042_000000.wav|"McNutt wants to get even with Brayley, he says, and we want to get even with McNutt.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000018_000001.wav|Why-er-fifty cents a piece is my price to nabobs; an' dirt cheap at that!"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000059_000000.wav|Patsy giggled, and the others felt a sudden irresistible impulse to join her.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000048_000001.wav|The girls turned down the lane back of the main street and bumped over the ruts until they thought they had arrived at a spot opposite McNutt's own melon patch.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000043_000000.wav|And they decided to join the conspiracy.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000060_000002.wav|Say-here's a ripe one.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000004_000000.wav|PEGGY HAS REVENGE.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000037_000000.wav|"It's a bargain," declared Patsy.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000069_000000.wav|The man had not the faintest suspicion where he was.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000046_000003.wav|The back seat was hemmed in by side curtains and the canopy, so it would be no wonder if he lost all sense of direction, even had not the remarks of the girl at his side completely absorbed him.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000058_000000.wav|"Green's grass!" he grumbled, and slashed another.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000051_000000.wav|McNutt thrust his head out and peered into the blackness.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000060_000000.wav|"Keep still!" cautioned McNutt.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000054_000001.wav|"I think that's them contwisted fifteen cent mellings-over there!"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000057_000001.wav|The agent took out his big clasp knife and recklessly slashed one of them open.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000071_000001.wav|McNutt was stowed away inside, with Louise, and they drove away up the lane.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000035_000001.wav|When shall we do it, mr McNutt?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000027_000000.wav|"But the ones you grow are worth fifty cents each, are they not?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000063_000000.wav|McNutt was stumping over the patch and plumping his wooden foot into every melon he could find, smashing them wantonly against the ground. The discovery filled them with horror.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000048_000000.wav|But now the most difficult part of the enterprise lay before them.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000083_000001.wav|Good night."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000075_000000.wav|"Are you sure?" asked Louise.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000046_000000.wav|They put McNutt on the back seat with Louise, cautioned him to be quiet, and then drove away.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000029_000000.wav|"Then every time you eat one of your own melons you eat fifty cents.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000013_000000.wav|"It seems to me," observed Patsy, gravely, "that Brayley's are just as good.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000081_000000.wav|He took rather more than his share of the spoils, but the girls had no voice to object.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000025_000000.wav|"Tell me," said Patsy, with a smile, "did you ever rob a melon patch, mr McNutt?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000035_000000.wav|"It will be such fun," replied her cousin, with eyes dancing merrily. "Boys always rob melon patches, so I don't see why girls shouldn't.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000022_000000.wav|"But they ain't.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000062_000000.wav|As the girls feasted they heard a crunching sound and inquired in low voices what it was.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000026_000000.wav|"Me?|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000005_000002.wav|Joe was planning to exploit a new patent as soon as he could earn enough to get it introduced, and Ethel exhibited a sublime confidence in the boy's ability that rendered all question of money insignificant.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000007_000003.wav|For one thing, he confided to "the boys" at the store that, in his opinion, the man who had murdered Cap'n Wegg had tried to murder his son also, and it wasn't likely Joe could manage to escape him a second time.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000056_000001.wav|It's them, all right."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000020_000001.wav|Fifteen cents!" gasped Peggy, greatly disappointed.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000007_000000.wav|McNutt, always busy over somebody else's affairs, was very curious to know what had caused the accident Joe had suffered.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000066_000000.wav|"But it's wrong-it's wicked!" protested Beth.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000070_000001.wav|And so angry and energetic was the little man that in a brief space the melon patch was a scene of awful devastation, and the surrey contained all the fruit that survived the massacre.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000020_000000.wav|"Him!|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000041_000001.wav|On the way home she confided to her cousins a method of securing revenge upon the agent for selling them the three copies of the "Lives of the Saints."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000018_000000.wav|"Charge?|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000013_000001.wav|We passed his place this morning and wondered how he could raise such enormous melons."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000032_000000.wav|"By jinks, let's rob Brayley's melling patch!" he cried.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000052_000000.wav|"Drive along a little," he whispered.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000024_000000.wav|"But that's Dan Brayley.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000033_000000.wav|"All right; we'll help you," answered Patsy, readily.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000011_000001.wav|These he had fostered with great care since the plants had first sprouted through the soil, and in these late August days two or three hundreds of fine, big melons were just getting ripe.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000023_000000.wav|"How impolite."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000031_000000.wav|Peggy turned his protruding eyes from one to the other, and a smile slowly spread over his features.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000078_000000.wav|"Feelin's jest the same," declared the little man, confidently.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000014_000000.wav|"'Normous!|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000068_000001.wav|"It's the law of retribution. Poor Peggy will be sorry for this tomorrow."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000041_000000.wav|Patsy was overjoyed at the success of her plot, which she had conceived on the spur of the moment, as most clever plots are conceived.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000039_000000.wav|"Don't betray us, sir," pleaded Beth.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000065_000000.wav|"Yes, I will," declared the agent, stubbornly.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000014_000001.wav|Brayley's!"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000053_000000.wav|The girl obeyed.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty four.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000037_000001.wav|"We will come for you in the surrey at ten o'clock, and all drive together to the back of Brayley's yard and take all the melons we want."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000019_000000.wav|"That is too much," declared Patsy.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000042_000001.wav|I think our chances are best, don't you?" she asked.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/30119/4957_30119_000069_000001.wav|He knew his own melon patch well enough, having worked in it at times all the summer; but he had never climbed over the fence and approached it from the rear before, so it took on a new aspect to him from this point of view, and moreover the night was dark enough to deceive anybody.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000040_000000.wav|"She is a good woman, my Lord," cried Sandford, pleased.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000058_000001.wav|But she told me her letter concerned none but me."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000007_000000.wav|The next morning, when Lord Elmwood and Sandford met at breakfast, the latter was pale with fear for the success of Lady Elmwood's letter-the Earl was pale too, but there was besides upon his face, something which evidently marked he was displeased.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000007_000001.wav|Sandford observed it, and was all humbleness, both in his words and looks, in order to soften him.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000018_000000.wav|"Not exactly, my Lord-I told you before, I did not; but it is no doubt something in favour of her child."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000042_000001.wav|But before he left London, Giffard, the steward, took an opportunity to wait upon him, and let him know, that his Lord had acquainted him with the consent he had given for his daughter to be admitted at Elmwood Castle, and upon what restrictions: that he had farther uttered the severest threats, should these restrictions ever be infringed.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000059_000002.wav|Once she called him cruel-then exclaimed "He was kind;" but at the end of Sandford's intelligence, concluded "that she was happy and grateful for the boon bestowed." Even her mother had not a more exalted idea of Lord Elmwood's worth than his daughter had formed; and this little bounty just obtained, would not have been greater in her mother's estimation, than it was now in hers.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000016_000000.wav|"I know what you have said;" replied Sandford, "you have said you grant Lady Elmwood's request-you cannot recall these words, nor I my gratitude."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000029_000003.wav|Could any thing but a son have preserved my title?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000034_000000.wav|Sandford again repeated, "He should not presume-"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000044_000001.wav|Their apprehensions were far more forcible than their curiosity; they dared not ask a question, and even began to wish he would continue silent upon the subject on which they feared to listen.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000043_000000.wav|It is unnecessary to say with what delight Sandford was received by Miss Woodley, and the hapless daughter of Lady Elmwood, even before he told his errand.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000029_000002.wav|I am not given to alter my resolutions, mr Sandford; and I thought you knew I was not; besides, will not my title be extinct, whoever I make my heir?|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000045_000000.wav|"You don't ask for your father, my dear."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000050_000000.wav|"Nay," said Miss Woodley, "she does not weep for that-she fears her father has not complied with her mother's request.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000024_000001.wav|Lord Elmwood continued:|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000020_000000.wav|"We will take care, Sir, not to disobey them."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000059_000001.wav|She listened sometimes with tears, sometimes with hope, but always with awe, and with terror, to every sentence in which her father was concerned.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000031_000002.wav|Therefore, Sir----"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000031_000000.wav|"By marrying again, you mean?|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000022_000000.wav|"And you will comply?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000055_000000.wav|"Your father has not refused your mother's request," replied Sandford.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000006_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000012_000000.wav|Sandford took it, and putting it up, asked fearfully, "What those two reasons were?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000023_000001.wav|I will, while she avoids my sight, or the giving me any remembrance of her.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000037_000001.wav|I have been clear and explicit in all I have said; there can be no fear of mistaking my meaning; therefore, all future explanation is unnecessary-nor will I permit a word, or a hint on the subject from any one, without shewing my resentment even to the hour of my death." He was going out of the room.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000036_000000.wav|Sandford turned away his head to conceal his feelings.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000054_000000.wav|"Yes," replied Matilda, "and I am prepared for every thing, but my father's refusal to my dear mother."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000029_000000.wav|"Have you not heard me say so?|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000056_000000.wav|She was leaping from her seat in ecstasy.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000033_000001.wav|But I am not to be controlled as formerly; my temper is changed of late; changed to what it was originally; till your religious precepts reformed it.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000015_000000.wav|"Be not hasty in your gratitude; you may have cause to recall it."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000010_000000.wav|Sandford called up a look of surprise, as if he did not know the letter again.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000025_000000.wav|"I am glad her request stopped where it did.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000044_000000.wav|Notwithstanding the joy of mr Sandford's presence, once more to cheer their solitary dwelling; no sooner were the first kind greetings over, than the dread of what he might have to inform them of, possessed poor Matilda and Miss Woodley so powerfully, that all their gladness was changed into affright.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000033_000000.wav|"Do not, Sandford, and we may still be good friends.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000041_000000.wav|"You need not tell me that, mr Sandford; I know her worth." And he left the room.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000058_000000.wav|"Not entirely," replied Matilda, "and since it is granted, I am careless.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000042_000002.wav|Sandford thanked Giffard for his friendly information.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000031_000001.wav|No-no-I have had enough of marriage-and Henry Rushbrook I shall leave my heir.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000025_000002.wav|I am seldom now at Elmwood castle; let her daughter go there; the few weeks or months I am down in the summer, she may easily in that extensive house avoid me-while she does, she lives in security-when she does not-you know my resolution."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000043_000001.wav|They both loved him sincerely; more especially Lady Matilda, whose forlorn state, and innocent sufferings, had ever excited his compassion and caused him to treat her with affection, tenderness, and respect.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000043_000003.wav|For Matilda (with an excellent understanding, a sedateness above her years, and early accustomed to the most private converse between Lady Elmwood and Miss Woodley) was perfectly acquainted with the whole fatal history of her mother; and was, by her, taught the respect and admiration of her father's virtues which they justly merited.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000053_000000.wav|"Do not be so much alarmed, my dear," said Miss Woodley; "you know we are prepared for the worst; and you know you promised your mother, whatever your fate should be, to submit with patience."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000025_000001.wav|I would rather comply with her desires than not; and I rejoice they are such as I can grant with ease and honour to myself.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000026_000000.wav|Sandford bowed-the Earl resumed:|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000023_000002.wav|But if, whether by design or by accident, I ever see or hear from her, that moment, my compliance to her mother's supplication ceases, and I abandon her once more."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000024_000000.wav|Sandford sighed.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000035_000000.wav|To which Lord Elmwood again made answer, "Do not, Sandford;" and added, "for I have a sincere regard for you, and should be loath, at these years, to quarrel with you seriously."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000028_000000.wav|Sandford interrupted the menace prepared for utterance, saying, "and you still mean, I suppose, to make mr Rushbrook your heir?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000039_000001.wav|Oh, by all means let her live at Elmwood House too.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000029_000001.wav|And do you imagine I have changed my determination?|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000043_000002.wav|She knew, too, how much he had been her mother's friend; for that, she also loved him; and for being honoured with the friendship of her father, she looked up to him with reverence.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000038_000000.wav|"But before we bid adieu to the subject for ever, my Lord-there was another person whom I named to you-"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000023_000000.wav|"I will, till she encroaches on this concession, and dares to hope for a greater.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000042_000003.wav|It served him as a second warning of the circumspection that was necessary; and having taken leave of his friend and patron, under the pretence that "He could not live in the smoke of London," he set out for the North.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000049_000000.wav|"Do not think I reproved you," said Sandford; "I only told you what was right."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000032_000000.wav|"My Lord, I do not presume-"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000052_000000.wav|"Oh Heavens!" exclaimed Matilda, clasping her hands together, and the tears falling still faster.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000019_000000.wav|"I think not," he replied: "such as it is, however, I grant it: but in the strictest sense of the word-no farther-and one neglect of my commands, releases me from this promise totally."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000046_000000.wav|"I did not know it was proper:" she replied, timidly.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000044_000002.wav|For near two hours he was so.----At length, after a short interval from speaking, (during which they waited with anxiety for what he might next say) he turned to Lady Matilda, and said,|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000037_000000.wav|"Nay, if we do quarrel," resumed Lord Elmwood, "You know it must be your own fault; and as this is a theme the most likely of any, nay, the only one on which we can have a difference (such as we cannot forgive) take care never from this day to resume it; indeed that of itself, would be an offence I could not pardon.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000008_000000.wav|As soon as the breakfast was removed, Lord Elmwood drew the letter from his pocket, and holding it towards Sandford, said,|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000021_000002.wav|In the literal sense, to suffer that she may reside at one of my seats; dispensing at the same time with my ever seeing her."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000050_000001.wav|Perhaps-not even read her letter?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/23295/4957_23295_000021_000000.wav|"Then listen to what they are, for to you I give the charge of delivering them again.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000006_000000.wav|I have purposely abstained from encumbering my narrative with legal details.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000058_000002.wav|Will you have me for your husband-yes or no?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000047_000000.wav|There had been no doubt about his eyes and his gait; there was no doubt now about his voice, as he answered softly from below-"All right!"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000049_000001.wav|Naomi followed my instructions with a woman's quick intelligence where stratagems are concerned.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000023_000002.wav|Her hair was in disorder; she had evidently just risen in fear and in haste from her bed.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000021_000002.wav|The stillness in the house was breathless.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000007_000000.wav|We insisted on making both the prisoners plead not guilty.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000054_000000.wav|"Promise you will marry me," he said, "and I will go before the magistrate to morrow, and show him that I am a living man."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000058_000001.wav|It's my turn now, miss; and I am not to be trifled with.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000005.wav|On their side, the prosecution produced one new witness in support of their case.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000036_000000.wav|"Yes.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000049_000000.wav|We left the house together, and separated silently.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000019_000001.wav|I had determined, on Naomi's account, to clear the matter up; but it is only candid to add that my doubts of john Jago's existence remained unshaken by the letter.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000034_000000.wav|"I was in bed," she said, "but not asleep, when I heard a pebble strike against the window pane.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000019_000000.wav|To these conclusions I arrived after much thinking.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000033_000001.wav|On our way up the stairs she told me what had happened.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000001.wav|We declared that they had been extorted by terror, or by undue influence; and we pointed out certain minor particulars in which the two confessions failed to corroborate each other.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000022_000001.wav|I was just leaving the room, when the door suddenly opened, and Naomi herself stood before me!|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000006.wav|It is needless to waste time in recapitulating his evidence.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000053_000000.wav|He lowered his voice; but I could still hear him.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000018_000003.wav|Cruel indifference to the injury and the suffering which his sudden absence might inflict on others was plainly implied in his secret withdrawal from the farm.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000021_000000.wav|I rose to go up to my room.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000035_000000.wav|"Did he see you?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000029_000000.wav|"In the back yard," she replied, "under my bedroom window!"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000016_000001.wav|I had time for reflection before it would be necessary for me to act.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000045_000001.wav|Show yourself at the window, and say to him, 'I am coming directly.'"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000060_000004.wav|The bullet was fired into the air.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000055_000000.wav|"Suppose I refuse?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000015_000002.wav|Only the day before, he had, by the merest accident, seen the advertisement for john Jago cut out of a newspaper and pasted into a book of "curiosities" kept by a friend.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000012_000002.wav|The prisoners were both sentenced to death.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000014_000000.wav|The envelope inclosed a letter, and with it a slip of paper on which Naomi had hurriedly written these words: "For God's sake, read the letter I send to you, and do something about it immediately!"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000060_000006.wav|The report of the pistol had alarmed the house.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000002.wav|For the rest, our defense on this occasion was, as to essentials, what our defense had been at the inquiry before the magistrate.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000007.wav|He contradicted himself gravely on cross examination.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000007_000002.wav|We appealed to the old English law, that there should be no conviction for murder until the body of the murdered person was found, or proof of its destruction obtained beyond a doubt.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000033_000000.wav|Her room was on the first floor of the house, and was the only bedroom which looked out on the back yard.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000024_000000.wav|"What is it?" I asked, advancing to meet her.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000013_000001.wav|Miss Meadowcroft informed her of the result of the trial.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000023_000000.wav|Recovering the first shook of her sudden appearance, I saw instantly in her eager eyes, in her deadly pale cheeks, that something serious had happened.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000034_000004.wav|I got up, and ran to the window to look out.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000027_000001.wav|I could hardly believe it, even then!|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000008.wav|We showed plainly, and after investigation proved, that he was not to be believed on his oath.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000016_000000.wav|It was late in the evening when I read these lines.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000003.wav|Once more the judges consulted, and once more they overruled our objection.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000041_000001.wav|His beard and mustache were shaved off; his hair was close cut.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000018_000004.wav|The same cruel indifference, pushed to a further extreme, might well lead him to press his proposals privately on Naomi, and to fix her acceptance of them as the price to be paid for saving her cousin's life.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000028_000000.wav|"Where?" I asked.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000045_000000.wav|"Very good.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000051_000001.wav|It rests with you, Miss Naomi, to keep me here, and to persuade me to save Ambrose by showing myself and owning to my name."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000050_000002.wav|He owned that he had seen the advertisement, and that it had actually encouraged him to keep in hiding!|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000004.wav|The confessions were admitted in evidence.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000030_000000.wav|The emergency was far too serious to allow of any consideration for the small proprieties of every day life.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000010_000000.wav|The chief justice summed up.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000011_000003.wav|We had vainly trusted to the evidence on these two points to induce the court to reject the confessions: and we were destined to be once more disappointed in anticipating that the same evidence would influence the verdict of the jury on the side of mercy.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000021_000001.wav|Everybody else in the farm had retired to bed, as usual, more than an hour since.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000060_000000.wav|I burst open the door, and seized him as he lifted his hand on her.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000050_000001.wav|Mortified pride-doubly mortified by Naomi's contemptuous refusal and by the personal indignity offered to him by Ambrose-was at the bottom of his conduct in absenting himself from Morwick.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000034_000003.wav|So far, I was surprised, but not frightened.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000026_000000.wav|"john Jago!" she whispered.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000022_000000.wav|My bedroom candle was on the side table; I had just lighted it.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000005_000000.wav|MISS MEADOWCROFT and I were the only representatives of the family at the farm who attended the trial.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000046_000000.wav|The brave girl obeyed me without a moment's hesitation.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000015_000005.wav|To his surprise, he was informed that the clerk had not appeared at his desk that day.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000013_000002.wav|Half an hour later, one of the women servants handed to me an envelope bearing my name on it in Naomi's handwriting.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000032_000000.wav|"I am here to fetch you," she answered, in her frank and fearless way. "Come upstairs with me."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000041_000000.wav|There he was!|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000007_000001.wav|This done, we took an objection to the legality of the proceedings at starting.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000015_000001.wav|It assumed to be written by a gentleman in New York.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000023_000001.wav|A large cloak was thrown over her; a white handkerchief was tied over her head.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000018_000000.wav|The newspaper at his breakfast had no doubt given him his first information of the "finding" of the grand jury, and of the trial to follow.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000015_000000.wav|I looked at the letter.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000015_000006.wav|His employer had sent to his lodgings, and had been informed that he had suddenly packed up his hand bag after reading the newspaper at breakfast; had paid his rent honestly, and had gone away, nobody knew where!|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000018_000002.wav|More than this, it was again in my experience, I am sorry to say, that he should attempt to make the critical position of Ambrose a means of extorting Naomi's consent to listen favorably to his suit.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000031_000000.wav|"Let me see him!" I said.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000049_000002.wav|I had hardly been a minute in the tool house before I heard him speaking to Naomi on the other side of the door.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000034_000005.wav|There was john Jago looking up at me in the moonlight!"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000007_000003.wav|We denied that sufficient proof had been obtained in the case now before the court.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000008_000000.wav|The judges consulted, and decided that the trial should go on.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000034_000002.wav|Another pebble was thrown against the glass.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000058_000000.wav|"If you attempt to give the alarm," he answered, "as true as God's above us, you will feel my hand on your throat!|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000004_000000.wav|THE PEBBLE AND THE WINDOW.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000021_000003.wav|I walked softly, by instinct, as I crossed the room to look out at the night.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000027_000000.wav|You will think my obstinacy invincible.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000050_000000.wav|The first words which I caught distinctly related to his motive for secretly leaving the farm.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000040_000000.wav|We entered her room.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000006_000001.wav|I now propose to state the nature of the defense in the briefest outline only.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000060_000003.wav|She struck up his pistol as he pulled it out of his pocket with his free hand and presented it at my head.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000036_000001.wav|He said, 'Come down and speak to me!|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000019_000002.wav|I believed it to be nothing more nor less than a heartless and stupid "hoax."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000020_000001.wav|I counted the strokes-midnight!|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000018_000001.wav|It was in my experience of human nature that he should venture back to Narrabee under these circumstances, and under the influence of his infatuation for Naomi.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000009_000000.wav|We took our next objection when the confessions were produced in evidence.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000011_000004.wav|After an absence of an hour, they returned into court with a verdict of "Guilty" against both the prisoners.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000021_000004.wav|A lovely moonlight met my view; it was like the moonlight on the fatal evening when Naomi had met john Jago on the garden walk.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000060_000005.wav|I tripped up his heels at the same moment.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000059_000000.wav|"No!" she answered, loudly and firmly.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000056_000000.wav|"In that case you will lose me again, and none of you will find me till Ambrose is hanged."|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000037_000000.wav|"Did you answer him?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000011_000000.wav|He charged, in relation to the confessions, that no weight should be attached to a confession incited by hope or fear; and he left it to the jury to determine whether the confessions in this case had been so influenced.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000038_000001.wav|What shall I do?"|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000011_000002.wav|As for Silas, he was proved to have been beside himself with terror when he made his abominable charge against his brother.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000034_000001.wav|I waited, wondering what it meant.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4957/36386/4957_36386_000012_000001.wav|This statement was not noticed by the bench.|4957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1811/129443/1811_129443_000003_000001.wav|Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life: But pain is perfet miserie, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturnes All patience.|1811
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1811/129443/1811_129443_000007_000002.wav|if on they rusht, repulse Repeated, and indecent overthrow Doubl'd, would render them yet more despis'd, And to thir foes a laughter; for in view Stood rankt of Seraphim another row In posture to displode thir second tire Of Thunder: back defeated to return They worse abhorr'd.|1811
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1811/129443/1811_129443_000007_000003.wav|SATAN beheld thir plight, And to his Mates thus in derision call'd.|1811
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1811/129443/1811_129443_000003_000002.wav|He who therefore can invent With what more forcible we may offend Our yet unwounded Enemies, or arme Our selves with like defence, to mee deserves No less then for deliverance what we owe.|1811
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1811/129443/1811_129443_000012_000000.wav|He said, and on his Son with Rayes direct Shon full, he all his Father full exprest Ineffably into his face receiv'd, And thus the filial Godhead answering spake.|1811
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000014_000000.wav|"God, that was a close one," Ato said, and wiped his forehead.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000017_000000.wav|She smiled proudly.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000031_000000.wav|"Then, what have you done?" Odin asked.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000017_000002.wav|You see, I have two of them now.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000005_000003.wav|The voice was Gunnar's.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000017.wav|We decided to have one last try for Maya. But we found you two and a dead Bron and the head of a native.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000018_000002.wav|You might say that we are master electronicians, rebuilding circuits, repairing transistors and condensers-"|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000033_000001.wav|"If not destroyed, it has a chance to improve its percentage when the pursuer has made its pass."|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000023_000001.wav|"I threw The Nebula into the Fourth Drive some time ago.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000022_000000.wav|Gunnar sat up and began grumbling anew: "Well, thanks.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000004_000000.wav|Something was falling across the back of his neck and spreading out across his shoulders.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000007_000000.wav|At intervals, he could hear Gunnar's voice-and his own-crying, pleading, threatening.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000024_000000.wav|"Will you please tell me where we are?" Gunnar demanded.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000003.wav|They hurtled through the murky light like shooting stars.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000035_000001.wav|"What is far?|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000032_000004.wav|As I said before, he is heading for a dust cloud.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000032_000001.wav|I have a fix upon him.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000034_000003.wav|It must be far, far away."|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000017_000008.wav|You were electrocuted."|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000005.wav|The sparks came falling down through a billion miles of space, and as they fell they built up planets and systems of their own.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000020_000008.wav|We had to arouse it."|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000020_000000.wav|"We had to be.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000003_000001.wav|It was neither sad nor glad.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000029_000001.wav|"We had time on our side before. Now, if he gets away from us he can live out his days on some obscure planet.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000029_000002.wav|The years will pass like a whirlwind-while we go dashing this way and that, and in a surprisingly short time our willing and unwilling fugitives will have lived out their lives.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000005_000001.wav|But the hands held him tight.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000013_000000.wav|Ato and n e a smiled at them.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000032_000003.wav|We have power enough, but there are no stars nearby.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000010_000001.wav|Beside Odin on another bed was Gunnar, lying flat on his back and stripped to the waist.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000006_000003.wav|And once when he almost struggled clear, a strong knee was thrust into his back and forced him down.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000015_000003.wav|But these were mere scenes that flashed before his mind.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000000.wav|He had been drowned.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000019_000000.wav|"You were plenty rough," Gunnar grumbled.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000008.wav|Graft, corruption, and patronage had taken its toll.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000036_000000.wav|Ato flushed in anger.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000001.wav|He was floating in a sea of light, and now and then shining little fishes swam inquisitively up to him and stared.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000011_000002.wav|He was not completely conscious-and for a second she looked like a high priestess of the Amazon, holding two mummified heads before her-|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000000.wav|"Give me time, little man," Ato retorted.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000034_000001.wav|"That is why I propose to stay close behind it.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000008_000001.wav|The hands turned Odin upon his back and he lay there, gasping and hurting, like one who has just come up from deep water.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000022_000001.wav|Now, get me some clothes.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000015_000000.wav|"What happened?" Odin asked.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000007.wav|The people were bled white.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000004_000004.wav|But then, just as the strange soothing feeling was putting him back to sleep, the hairs changed their soft caress and a dozen of them plunged into his spinal cord and upward into that small old brain where all the bogies of the stone age still cowered.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000005_000000.wav|Odin yelled in pain and fought.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000019.wav|All this time I have had a fix on Hagen."|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000001.wav|"We are back in Trans Einsteinian space, and Aldebaran and its worlds are far behind us.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000007.wav|The sparks disappeared into its dark maw.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000002_000000.wav|Jack Odin groaned in pain and awoke.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000015_000001.wav|He remembered something about a glittering tomb and Maya awakening from her long sleep and Grim Hagen.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000012.wav|They won, of course.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000021_000000.wav|Odin fancied that he could hear the two Kalis purring contentedly like cats.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000020_000007.wav|It was convinced that you were dead.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000020_000002.wav|Here." She held her two precious Kalis in one arm while she tapped the base of her skull.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000004_000003.wav|But not much.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000004.wav|And once two of them dashed together and burst like a rocket.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000010_000002.wav|Gunnar was howling curses and kicking like a frog.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000032_000002.wav|We sapped all the energy from Aldebaran that we could.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000020_000004.wav|It is a simple, worrying brain.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000009_000000.wav|The lights were so bright that at first he could see nothing.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000022_000003.wav|And tell me where we are?"|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000015.wav|They gathered at the Old Ship and took off.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000008_000000.wav|Then at last it was over.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000011_000000.wav|A doctor and a nurse were there.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000021_000002.wav|Let them purr.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000023_000002.wav|That may have helped to save your lives too.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000034_000000.wav|"True enough," Ato admitted.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000014_000002.wav|And it was touch and go all the time."|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000025_000005.wav|Also, a dozen Brons. Maybe more, but not many.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000035_000002.wav|What is near?|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/178149/3717_178149_000001_000006.wav|Until a dark coil that had the shape of a dragon slithered across the milky way and began to devour them one by one.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000038_000003.wav|And the maiden named many pieces of gold, which the princess paid her gladly, so pleased was she with her new possessions.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000041_000000.wav|This time the maiden answered that the price of the dress was the permission to see the bridegroom.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000000.wav|The bride promised to be careful, but in a little while, when there was nothing left for her to do, she began to wonder what could be in the chest, which was opened by the key.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000035_000000.wav|'Ask her if she would like to buy this mantle.'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000021_000000.wav|'It is my lord, the Wind, that you want,' answered the old woman who opened it.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000040_000000.wav|When the message was delivered the princess sprang to her feet with delight, for she had been thinking that after all it was not much use to have a lovely mantle and elegant petticoats if she had no dress, and she knew the tailors would never be ready in time.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000012_000002.wav|I have come to ask if, of your charity, you will help me in my need.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000042_000000.wav|The princess was not at all pleased when she heard the maiden's reply, but, as she could not do without the dress, she was forced to give in, and contented herself with thinking that after all it did not matter much.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000032_000000.wav|But by this time the maiden had arrived footsore and weary at the castle, and as soon as she reached the door she cracked her nut and drew out of it the most beautiful mantle in the world.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000003_000000.wav|The girl went out, and soon collected a large bundle, and then she plucked at a sprig of sweet smelling rosemary for herself.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000003_000001.wav|But the harder she pulled the firmer seemed the plant, and at last, determined not to be beaten, she gave one great tug, and the rosemary remained in her hands.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000030_000002.wav|After them ran the tailors, catching, jumping, climbing, but all to no purpose!|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000015_000001.wav|'I have come, of your charity, to ask your help!'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000028_000000.wav|Who can tell the despair which seized the poor maiden when she heard this news!|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000040_000001.wav|So she sent at once to say she would buy the dress, and what sum did the maiden want for it.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000018_000000.wav|'Do you, rich as you are, need help?'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000012_000001.wav|And she knocked boldly at the door, saying, 'All hail, O Sun!|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000013_000001.wav|'Do you, rich as you are, need help?|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000024_000001.wav|And the Wind listened, and was sorry for her, and he gave her a walnut that she was to eat in time of need. But the girl did not go as the Wind expected.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000019_000001.wav|So the damsel thanked her, and departed, and walked and walked and walked till she came to another castle.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000015_000000.wav|'All hail!' said the girl.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000029_000000.wav|The Wind gladly promised to do what he could, and as he travelled much faster than the maiden he soon arrived at the palace, where he found five tailors working night and day at the wedding clothes of the princess.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000013_000002.wav|But though you live in a palace without windows, the Sun enters everywhere, and he knows you.'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000005_000000.wav|The girl, who felt much confused, only managed to stammer out as an excuse that her father had sent her.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000008.wav|And she knocked at the door, and asked if they wanted a servant.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000009.wav|The mistress said she did, and if the girl was willing she might stay.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000007.wav|So she walked and she walked and she walked, till she arrived at a house built of straw.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000006_000000.wav|'Very well,' replied the young man; 'then come with me.'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000013_000000.wav|'Indeed!' spoke the sun|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000034_000000.wav|'Yes, she is.'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000007_000000.wav|So he took her through the opening made by the torn up root, and they travelled till they reached a beautiful palace, splendidly furnished, but only lighted from the top.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000020_000001.wav|I have come to ask if, of your charity, you will help me in my need.'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000012_000000.wav|On hearing these words the damsel set forth once more, and walked till she reached the Golden Castle, where lived the sun|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000005.wav|She burst into a flood of bitter tears, partly at her own folly, but more for the loss of her husband, whom she dearly loved.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000031_000000.wav|However, the king was much too anxious to see his daughter married to listen to any excuses, and he declared that a dress must be put together somehow for the bride to wear.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000039_000000.wav|Then the girl went down the steps where none could watch her and cracked her walnut, and out came the most splendid court dress that any dressmaker had ever invented; and, carrying it carefully in her arms, she knocked at the door, and asked if the princess wished to buy a court dress.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000025_000000.wav|'Don't be frightened; I will go and see if I can find out something.'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000028_000001.wav|As soon as she could speak she implored the Wind to do all he could to get the wedding put off for two or three days, for it would take her all that time to reach the palace of the king.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000037_000000.wav|The maiden fixed a large sum, many pieces of gold, but the princess had set her heart on the mantle, and gave it readily.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000026_000000.wav|And the Wind departed with a great noise and fuss, and in the twinkling of an eye he was back again, beaming with delight.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000017_000000.wav|So the Moon came out, and when she saw the maiden she knew her again, for she had watched her sleeping both in the cottage and in the palace. And she spake to her and said:|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000004_000000.wav|Then she heard a voice close to her saying, 'Well?' and turning she saw before her a handsome young man, who asked why she had come to steal his firewood.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000024_000003.wav|The Wind wept too for company, and said:|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000024_000002.wav|She was tired and sad, and knew not where to turn, so she began to weep bitterly.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000038_000000.wav|Now the maiden hid her gold in the pocket of her dress, and turned away from the castle.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000014_000000.wav|Then the bride told him the whole story. and did not hide her own ill doing.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000030_000005.wav|It was plainly quite impossible that the wedding clothes could be ready next day.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000002_000000.wav|Once upon a time there lived a man with one daughter and he made her work hard all the day.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000022_000000.wav|And the Wind looked on her and knew her again, for he had seen her in the cottage and in the palace, and he spake to her and said:|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000019_000002.wav|And she knocked at the door, and said:|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000031_000001.wav|But when he went to look at the princess, she was such a figure that he agreed that it would be unfitting for her position to be seen in such a gown, and he ordered the ceremony and the banquet to be postponed for a few hours, so that the tailors might take the dress to pieces and make it fit.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000032_000001.wav|Then she rang the bell, and asked:|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000009_000000.wav|The next day the old dame who looked after the house handed her all the keys, but pointed her out one that she would do well never to use, for if she did the whole palace would fall to the ground, and the grass would grow over it, and the damsel herself would be remembered no more.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000038_000001.wav|The moment she was out of sight she broke her almond, and drew from it the most magnificent petticoats that ever were seen. Then she went back to the castle, and asked if the princess wished to buy any petticoats.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000010.wav|But day by day the poor maiden grew more and more sad, till at last her mistress begged her to say what was the matter.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000011.wav|Then she told her story-how she was going through the world seeking after her husband.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000033_000000.wav|'Is not the princess to be married to day?'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000002.wav|But the lock was stiff and resisted all her efforts, and in the end she had to break it.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000016_000000.wav|'It is my mistress, the Moon, you seek.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000016_000001.wav|I will tell her of your prayer.'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000007_000001.wav|And when they had entered he told her that he was a great lord, and that never had he seen a maiden so beautiful as she, and that if she would give him her heart they would be married and live happy for ever after.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000010_000006.wav|Then, breaking a sprig of rosemary off a bush hard by, she resolved, cost what it might, to seek him through the world till she found him.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000027_000000.wav|'From what one person and another have let fall,' he exclaimed, 'I have contrived to learn that he is in the palace of the king, who keeps him hidden lest anyone should see him; and that to morrow he is to marry the princess, who, ugly creature that she is, has not been able to find any man to wed her.'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21498/3717_21498_000014_000001.wav|And the Sun listened, and was sorry for her; and though he could not tell her where to go, he gave her a nut, and bid her open it in a time of great distress.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000045_000001.wav|Come with me.'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000035_000001.wav|But she cried loudly that she had brought him the coat, and then he grew quiet, and invited her to come into his house.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000004_000000.wav|One morning she was driving her cows through the meadows when she heard near by a loud groan that almost sounded human.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000019_000003.wav|Then she ate a very good dinner, which was on a shelf in the corner, and once more clambered up to the top of her tree.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000033_000001.wav|But the girl could not give up hope, and each day she entreated to be allowed to cut off just one tress.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000015_000000.wav|Then she sank down on the ground and wept bitterly, not daring to return home until some hours had passed away.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000034_000001.wav|But that she must be careful to cry out a long way off what she had with her, or else he would spring upon her and run her through with his sword.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000016_000001.wav|But it was no use; there was not a sign of the pigs.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000007_000000.wav|So every day she had to take the asses to the woods to feed, until one morning, exactly a year after she had found the lion, she heard a groan which sounded quite human.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000008_000000.wav|This time she was not afraid at all, and ran towards him, washing the wound and laying soothing herbs upon it; and when she had bound it up the lion thanked her in the same manner as before.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000044_000000.wav|Then the young man thanked the maiden for all she had done for him, and said she should be his wife and none other.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000006_000001.wav|Then he said, 'Now you will have to look after the asses.'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000021_000000.wav|Next morning out came the lion.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000035_000000.wav|So the maiden departed and climbed up the mountain, but before she reached the top the giant heard her footsteps, and rushed out breathing fire and flame, having a sword in one hand and a club in the other.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000041_000000.wav|But the maiden went away weeping, lest the giant should have deceived her, and that after she had killed the lion she would find she had also slain the prince.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000009_000000.wav|After that she returned to her flock, but they were nowhere to be seen.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000012_000000.wav|Another year passed by, and one morning when the maiden was out with her pigs she heard a groan which sounded quite human.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000028_000000.wav|At last there came the waiting maid of the princess.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000023_000001.wav|And he added that he was a prince enchanted by a powerful giant, but was only allowed to take his own shape at night, for all day he was forced to appear as the lion whom she had so often helped; and, more than this, it was the giant who had stolen the oxen and the asses and the pigs in revenge for her kindness.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000029_000000.wav|'What can you do?' she said; and the girl was forced to confess that she could do very little.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000039_000000.wav|This time it fitted him, and he was quite pleased, and asked her what he could give her in return.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000046_000000.wav|So they went together to the king's palace.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000027_000000.wav|So they parted, and when she arrived at the city she walked about the streets crying, 'Who will hire me for a servant?|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000025_000000.wav|But he said he was afraid it was very difficult, because the only way was to get a lock of hair from the head of a king's daughter, to spin it, and to make from it a cloak for the giant, who lived up on the top of a high mountain.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000017_000001.wav|But no sooner was she seated on the highest branch than something happened which put the pigs quite out of her head.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000033_000002.wav|At length the princess lost patience, and exclaimed, 'You may have it, then, on condition that you shall find the handsomest prince in the world to be my bridegroom!'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000045_000000.wav|But the prince replied, 'If it is the princess, we must go quickly.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000005_000000.wav|You can guess how frightened she was!|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000031_000000.wav|Then the maiden dressed her hair afresh, and made herself look very neat and smart, and everyone admired and praised her, till by and bye it came to the ears of the princess.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000004_000001.wav|She hastened to the spot from which the noise came, and found it proceeded from a lion who lay stretched upon the ground.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000013_000001.wav|And the lion licked her hands and thanked her, and asked if she would not stay and sit by him.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000046_000001.wav|And when the king and queen and princess saw the young man a great joy filled their hearts, for they knew him for the eldest son, who had long ago been enchanted by a giant and lost to them.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000007_000001.wav|She went straight to the place from which the noise came, and, to her great surprise, beheld the same lion stretched on the ground with a deep wound across his face.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000033_000000.wav|The princess, who was very proud of her hair, did not like the idea of parting with any of it, so she said no|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000030_000000.wav|'Then you will have to do scullion's work, and wash up dishes,' said she; and they went straight back to the palace.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000010_000000.wav|Then she had to go home and confess to her master, who first scolded her and afterwards beat her.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000003_000001.wav|One day she arrived at a thatched cottage, and inquired if they could give her any work.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000013_000000.wav|She fell on her knees before him and washed his wounds one by one, and laid healing herbs upon them.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000020_000000.wav|As the sun set she saw the same young man walking gaily down the path, and, as before, he pushed aside the rock and disappeared behind it.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000013_000002.wav|But the girl said she had her pigs to watch, and she must go and see after them.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000018_000000.wav|The maiden rubbed her eyes and wondered if she had been dreaming.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000027_000001.wav|Who will hire me for a servant?' But, though many people liked her looks, for she was clean and neat, the maiden would listen to none, and still continued crying, 'Who will hire me for a servant?|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000040_000001.wav|She was to kill the lion herself and cut him up very small; then she must burn him, and cast his ashes into the water, and out of the water the prince would come free from enchantment for ever.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000037_000000.wav|The next morning, when she was combing the princess's hair, she begged leave to cut off another lock.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000018_000001.wav|Next she thought, 'I will not stir from here till I see him come out, and discover who he is.' Accordingly she waited, and at dawn the next morning the rock moved to one side and a lion came out.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000027_000002.wav|Who will hire me for a servant?'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000001_000000.wav|The Wounded Lion|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000032_000000.wav|Now the hair of the princess was very thick and long, and shone like the sun|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000019_000000.wav|When he had gone quite out of sight the girl climbed down from the tree and went to the rock, which she pushed aside, and entered the opening before her.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000036_000000.wav|He tried on the coat, but it was too short, and he threw it off, and declared it was no use.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000040_000000.wav|For a long time the giant would not hear of it, but in the end he gave in, and told her exactly how it must all be done.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000019_000001.wav|The path led to a beautiful house.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000012_000001.wav|She ran to see what it was, and found her old friend the lion, wounded through and through, fast dying under a tree.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000036_000001.wav|And the girl picked it up sadly, and returned quite in despair to the king's palace.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000043_000000.wav|And the maiden believed what the prince told her; and in the morning when he put on his lion's form she took a knife and slew him, and cut him up very small, and burnt him, and cast his ashes into the water, and out of the water came the prince, beautiful as the day, and as glad to look upon as the sun himself.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000026_000000.wav|'Very well,' answered the girl, 'I will go to the city, and knock at the door of the king's palace, and ask the princess to take me as a servant.'|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000003_000002.wav|The farmer said he wanted a cowherd, as his own had left him, and if the girl liked the place she might take it.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000014_000001.wav|She whistled and called, but only the birds answered her.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000038_000000.wav|The maiden told her that she had already found him, and spun the lock into shining stuff, and fastened it on to the end of the coat.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000034_000000.wav|And the girl answered that she would, and cut off the lock, and wove it into a coat that glittered like silk, and brought it to the young man, who told her to carry it straight to the giant.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000039_000001.wav|And she said that the only reward he could give her was to take the spell off the lion and bring him back to his own shape.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000009_000001.wav|She searched here and she searched there, but they had vanished completely!|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000005_000002.wav|She pulled out the thorn and bound up the place, and the lion was grateful, and licked her hand by way of thanks with his big rough tongue.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000022_000000.wav|The maiden then came down from the tree and did exactly as she had done the day before.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000023_000000.wav|The young man looked very pleased to see her, and said he thought it must be she who had secretly kept his house for so many days.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000021_000001.wav|He looked sharply about him on all sides, but saw no one, and then vanished into the forest.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000014_000000.wav|So she ran to the place where she had left them, but they had vanished as if the earth had swallowed them up.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000011_000000.wav|So the next day she took out the pigs, and found them such good feeding grounds that they grew fatter every day.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000017_000002.wav|This was a handsome young man who was coming down the path; and when he had almost reached the tree he pulled aside a rock and disappeared behind it.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000019_000002.wav|She went in, swept and dusted the furniture, and put everything tidy.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000002_000000.wav|Cuentos Populars Catalans.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000017_000000.wav|At last she thought that perhaps if she climbed a tree she might see further.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000022_000001.wav|Thus three days went by, and every day she went and tidied up the palace.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3717/21493/3717_21493_000022_000002.wav|At length, when the girl found she was no nearer to discovering the secret, she resolved to ask him, and in the evening when she caught sight of him coming through the wood she came down from the tree and begged him to tell her his name.|3717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000041_000004.wav|The praetor Marcellus, who had slain a Gaulish king with his own hand in the last Gaulish war, was at Ostia with a legion.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000058_000003.wav|He wheeled round both his flanks, and the Africans, who had hitherto not struck a blow, now fell in perfect order upon the flanks of the Roman mass, while Hasdrubal with his victorious cavalry charged down like a torrent upon their rear.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000006_000004.wav|The scheme had been entirely successful.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000041_000002.wav|Varro belonged to the popular party, and is described by the historians of the period as a coarse and brutal demagogue, the son of a butcher, and having himself been a butcher.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000051_000001.wav|The river, whose general course was east and west, made a loop, and across this Hannibal had drawn up his army with both wings resting upon the river.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000004_000000.wav|"Quick, my lord," he exclaimed, "now is the time."|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000007_000001.wav|Nessus and the Arab at once returned to the citadel.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000015_000004.wav|She lives contentedly under the constant tyranny of Hanno's rule, satisfied to be wealthy, luxurious, and slothful, to carry on her trade, to keep her riches, caring nothing for the manly virtues, indifferent to valour, preparing herself slowly and surely to fall an easy prey to Rome.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000003_000002.wav|The latter became less and less frequent, until, at a distance of two miles from the foot of the citadel, the mahout, on looking round, perceived no one in sight.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000023_000002.wav|He stopped at the junction of the roads and stood for a few seconds in hesitation, then he followed Malchus.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000018_000000.wav|"I say nothing to dissuade you, Malchus," the old man replied, "such are the natural sentiments of your age; and methinks, were my own time to come over again, I too would choose such a life in preference to an existence in the polluted atmosphere of ungrateful Carthage.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000055_000002.wav|While the Carthaginian heavy horse were thus defeating the Roman cavalry, the Numidians maneuvered near the greatly superior cavalry of the Italian allies, and kept them occupied until the heavy horse, after destroying the Roman cavalry, swept round behind their infantry and fell upon the rear of the Italian horse, while the Numidians charged them fiercely in front.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000044_000000.wav|Hannibal saw the opportunity, and when spring was passing into summer broke up his camp and marched straight to Cannae, where the vast magazines of the romans at once fell into his hands.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000030_000001.wav|On the sixth day after leaving Carthage the ship entered the port of Corinth.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000055_000000.wav|The latter were instantly overthrown, and were driven from the field with great slaughter.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000058_000002.wav|This was the moment for which Hannibal had waited.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000052_000001.wav|The Africans formed the two wings.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000049_000001.wav|Hannibal, seeing that the romans would not fight, detached his Numidian cavalry across the river to cut off the Roman foraging parties and to surround and harass their smaller camp on that side of the river.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000036_000000.wav|Malchus at once sought the tent of the general, whose surprise at seeing him enter was great, for he had not expected that he would return until the spring.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000040_000002.wav|The romans possessed the great advantage over him of having magazines in their rear constantly replenished by their allies, and move where they might, they were sure of obtaining subsistence without difficulty.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000010_000000.wav|"Hanno's faction is all powerful at present," he said, "and were Hannibal himself here I doubt whether his voice could stir the senate into taking action such as is needed.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000032_000001.wav|We are ready, of course, to pay extra for the trouble."|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000039_000002.wav|They had absolute confidence in their general, and were willing to undertake the most tremendous labours and to engage in the most arduous conflicts to please him, knowing that he, on his part, was unwearied in promoting their comfort and well being at all other times.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000057_000001.wav|These resisted with great obstinacy.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000037_000001.wav|He and his friends will doubtless work quietly to prepare the public mind, and I trust that ere very long some decisive victory will give them the opportunity for exciting a great demonstration on our behalf."|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000058_000007.wav|All the troops in both camps were forced to surrender on the following morning, and thus only fifteen thousand scattered fugitives escaped of the eighty seven thousand two hundred infantry and cavalry under the command of the Roman consuls.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000057_000002.wav|The principes, who formed the second line of the Roman infantry, came forward and joined the spearmen, and even the triarii pressed forward and joined in the fight.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000024_000001.wav|When within a few paces of him he gave a sudden spring and flung himself upon him, burying his knife between his shoulders.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000033_000003.wav|He asked rather a high price for putting them ashore in a boat as they wished, and Malchus haggled over the sum for a considerable time, as a readiness to pay an exorbitant price might have given rise to doubts in the captain's mind as to the quality of his passengers.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000024_000003.wav|Nessus coolly wiped his knife upon the garments of the spy, and then proceeded at a rapid pace until he overtook Malchus.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000047_000001.wav|Hannibal attacked the Roman advanced guard with his cavalry and light infantry, but Varro had supported his cavalry not only by his light troops, but by a strong body of his heavy armed infantry, and after an engagement, which lasted for several hours, he repulsed the Carthaginians with considerable loss.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000005_000000.wav|Malchus threw off the sack, climbed out of the howdah, and slipped down by the elephant's tail, the usual plan for dismounting when an elephant is on its feet.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000039_000000.wav|From first to last, through the long war, there was neither grumbling, nor discontent, nor insubordination among the troops.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000058_000004.wav|Then followed a slaughter unequalled in the records of history.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000010_000005.wav|You would, I am convinced, throw away your life for no good purpose, while your presence and your mysterious escape from prison would be made the pretense for a fresh series of persecutions of our partisans.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000014_000001.wav|I trust that never again shall I set foot within its walls.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000053_000001.wav|The Roman cavalry, numbering two thousand four hundred men, was on his right wing, and was thus opposed to Hannibal's heavy cavalry, eight thousand strong.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000003_000003.wav|He brought the elephant suddenly to a standstill.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000003_000000.wav|On reaching the foot of the descent the mahout guided the animal to the left, and, avoiding the busy streets of the town, directed its course towards the more quiet roads of the opulent quarter of Megara.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000047_000000.wav|On the following day Varro, whose turn it was to command, marched towards the hostile camp.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000057_000003.wav|Fighting with extreme obstinacy the Carthaginian centre was forced gradually back until they were again in a line with the Africans on their flanks.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000006_000000.wav|A minute or two later Malchus issued out and quietly followed it.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000028_000002.wav|In the course of the day he had provided himself with the garments of a trader, the character which he was now about to assume.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000033_000004.wav|Once or twice he made as if he would go ashore, and the captain at last abated his demands to a reasonable sum.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000035_000002.wav|The Roman army was as before watching him at a short distance off.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000023_000001.wav|A minute later Nessus saw a dark figure come stealthily along.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000022_000003.wav|If the man behind us be honest he will go straight on; if he be a spy, he will hesitate and stop at the corner to decide which of us he shall follow; then I shall know what to do."|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000041_000000.wav|The annual elections at Rome had just taken place, and Terentius Varro and Emilius Paulus had been chosen consuls.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000054_000003.wav|While this contest was going on, Hannibal advanced his centre so as to form a salient angle projecting in front of his line.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000051_000000.wav|This had been skillfully chosen.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000040_000003.wav|Thus, upon the march, they were unembarrassed by the necessity of taking a great baggage train with them, and, when halted, their general could keep his army together in readiness to strike a blow whenever an opportunity offered; while Hannibal, on the other hand, was forced to scatter a considerable portion of the army in search of provisions.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000011_000000.wav|"To ask Carthage to make these sacrifices in her present mood is hopeless; we must await an opportunity.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000039_000001.wav|They served willingly and cheerfully.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000014_000000.wav|"The sooner the better," Malchus said bitterly, "for Carthage with its hideous tyranny, its foul corruption, its forgetfulness of its glory, its honour, and even its safety, is utterly hateful to me.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000044_000001.wav|He thus not only obtained possession of his enemy's supplies, but interposed between the romans and the low lying district of Southern Apulia, where alone, at, this early season of the year, the corn was fully ripe.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eighteen: CANNAE|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000002_000000.wav|As the elephant tore down the road to the town many were the narrow escapes that, as they thought, those coming up had of being crushed or thrown into the air by the angry beast.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000007_000002.wav|It was agreed that the former had better continue his work as usual until the evening, and then ask for his discharge on the plea that he had received a message requiring his presence in his native village, for it was thought that suspicion might be excited were he to leave suddenly without drawing his pay, and possibly a search might be instituted in the city to discover his whereabouts.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000015_000003.wav|She sees unmoved the heroic efforts which Hannibal and his army are making to save her, and she will not stretch out a hand to aid him.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000011_000001.wav|I and my friends will prepare the way, will set our agents to work among the people, and when the news of another victory arrives and the people's hopes are aroused and excited, we will strike while the iron is hot, and call upon them to make one great effort to bring the struggle to a conclusion and to finish with Rome forever.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000028_000000.wav|After bidding farewell to the old noble, Malchus returned to the house of the Arab and prepared for his departure.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000012_000001.wav|To move now would be to ensure a rejection of our demands, to bring fresh persecutions upon us, and so to weaken us that we should be powerless to turn to good account the opportunity which the news of another great victory would afford.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000017_000001.wav|I have done with her; and if I do not fall in the battlefield I will, when the war is over, seek a refuge among the Gauls, where, if the life is rough, it is at least free and independent, where courage and manliness and honour count for much, and where the enervating influence of wealth is as yet unknown.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000056_000000.wav|Thus caught in a trap the Italian horse were completely annihilated, and so, before the heavy infantry of the two armies met each other, not a Roman cavalry soldier remained alive and unwounded on the field.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000024_000000.wav|Nessus issued from his hiding place, and, with steps as silent and stealthy as those of a tiger tracking his prey, followed the man.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000010_000002.wav|I think it would be in the highest degree dangerous were we, as you propose, to introduce you suddenly to the senate as Hannibal's ambassador to them, and leave you to plead his cause.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000046_000004.wav|Varro wished to march against the enemy without delay, while Emilius was adverse to risking an engagement in a country which, being level and open, was favourable to the action of Hannibal's superior cavalry.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000003_000001.wav|The cries of the people at the approach of the elephant preceded its course, and all took refuge in gardens or houses.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000019_000003.wav|Bid him on his return watch closely to see that he is not followed, and tell him to go by devious windings and to mix in the thickest crowds in order to throw any one who may be following off his track before he rejoins you.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000018_000001.wav|And now, will you stop here with me, or will you return to the place where you are staying?|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000022_000002.wav|When we get to the next turning do you walk on and I will turn down the road.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000019_000002.wav|I will come down and see him; his visits, were they known, would excite suspicion.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000013_000000.wav|"In the meantime you must, for a short time, remain in concealment, while I arrange for a ship to carry you back to Italy."|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000006_000005.wav|Malchus had escaped from the citadel without the possibility of a suspicion arising that he had issued from its gates, and in his Arab garb he could now traverse the streets unsuspected.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000052_000000.wav|The Spaniards and Gauls occupied the centre of the line of infantry.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000022_000000.wav|"I think we are followed, my lord," he said, "one of Hanno's spies in Manon's household is no doubt seeking to discover who are the Arabs who have paid his master a visit.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000048_000001.wav|The next morning Emilius, who was in command, detached a third of his force across the river, and encamped them there for the purpose of supporting the Roman foraging parties on that side and of interrupting those of the Carthaginians.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000049_000000.wav|The next day passed quietly, but on the following morning Hannibal quitted his camp and formed his army in order of battle to tempt the romans to attack; but Emilius, sensible that the ground was against him, would not move, but contented himself with further strengthening his camps.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000040_000000.wav|As the spring advanced the great magazines which Hannibal had brought with him became nearly exhausted, and no provisions could be obtained from the surrounding country, which had been completely ruined by the long presence of the two armies.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000053_000000.wav|Varro placed his infantry in close and heavy order, so as to reduce their front to that of the Carthaginians.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000050_000000.wav|By thus doing he obtained a position which he could the better hold with his inferior forces, while the romans, deeming that he intended to attack their camp on that side of the river, would be likely to move their whole army across and to give battle.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000023_000000.wav|Accordingly at the next crossroad they came to Nessus turned down and concealed himself a few paces away, while Malchus, without pausing, walked straight on.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000054_000000.wav|Emilius commanded the Roman right, Varro the left.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000041_000003.wav|But he was unquestionably an able man, and possessed some great qualities.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000045_000001.wav|The senate therefore, having largely reinforced the army, ordered the consuls to advance and give battle.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000002_000001.wav|Some threw themselves on their faces, others got over the parapet and hung by their hands until he had passed, while some squeezed themselves against the wall; but the elephant passed on without doing harm to any.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000019_000005.wav|Come again and see me before you leave.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8573/286306/8573_286306_000051_000003.wav|The following was the disposition of his troops.|8573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000012_000000.wav|The rattlesnake rarely moves after sunset.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000016.wav|Having obtained a position close enough to observe the strength of their enemies, they stopped to reconnoitre.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000016_000009.wav|For some unaccountable reason the savages did not give chase.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000018_000003.wav|However, they succeeded in passing the night without further molestation.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000009.wav|The attack was skillfully planned and would undoubtedly have succeeded, but for the unexpected daring and promptitude displayed by Kit and his comrades.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000013.wav|As soon as it would do for them to move, they started, eager for the strife.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000014_000003.wav|One of them received a very severe wound; which, eventually, gave him considerable difficulty; but from the effects of which he finally recovered.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000011_000001.wav|The experience of the day, however, had admonished them to be on their guard against surprise.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000007.wav|As Kit's departure with the men weakened the camp party the Indians had gathered together sufficient courage to make a bold charge for the coveted plunder.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000008.wav|With this object in view they traveled towards some timber which was near by.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000002_000000.wav|There always existed such a feeling of brotherly love among the old trappers of the Rocky Mountains, that the hour of peril was never the hour for separation or desertion.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000002.wav|The Camanches are particularly expert and daring in this kind of robbery.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000004.wav|The country was so infested with hostile Indians that it made their position, thus alone, very precarious.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000019.wav|Just outside one of the forts, the nine stolen animals were securely tied.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000005.wav|It was very difficult to follow the trail of the Indians from the fact that many herds of buffalo had crossed and repeatedly recrossed it during the night, making the tracks very indistinct.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000001.wav|Then, with his comrades, he marched directly for the Indian camp.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000005.wav|One brave had succeeded in capturing and mounting a horse before the white men could reach him.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000006.wav|The departure of Carson and his companions from camp was doubtless seen by the savages and afforded them a clear proof that the white men had forgotten their fears.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000018.wav|A dance was in progress in honor of the robbery so recently perpetrated, which proved conclusively, that they were without even a suspicion of danger.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000015_000000.wav|Kit and his companions in the mean time, in order to reach their destination, found it necessary, unless they should take a long and circuitous route, to cross one of those lofty peaks for which the Rocky Mountains are so famous.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000016_000001.wav|The bullets from the rifles of the Indians flew about their ears thick and fast, for a heavy fire was opened upon them, as they passed, and incessantly kept up until they were out of their reach.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000015_000004.wav|Taking therefore a circuitous route, they avoided recrossing the lofty mountain peak already alluded to.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000020.wav|This sight did not tend to allay the wrath of the trappers.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000015_000002.wav|In due time, they reached the desired stream; but, the beaver signs did not appear. Finding their errand had proved entirely useless, they started to return into camp.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000004.wav|The rest of the band made off as empty handed as they came, with one exception.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000021.wav|They resolved that come what might the attempt to regain their property and punish the Indians should be made notwithstanding their strength.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000000.wav|As soon as Carson and his comrades had got out of the reach of the Indians they began to recall the suspicions concerning signs of Indians which their faithful dog had aroused.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000009.wav|Such, most frequently, is the fate of stampeded horses which have been bred in the States, not being trained by a prairie life experience to take care of themselves.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000004.wav|Kit Carson, with twelve of his companions, immediately saddled their horses and started in pursuit.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000005_000004.wav|Carson and his companion failed entirely in their efforts to find the two men.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000005.wav|Those who survived retreated to the fort occupied by their friends, and, as soon as possible, commenced returning the fire; but without execution, as the trappers, on discharging their first volley, had well concealed themselves behind trees, from whence they were shooting only when sure of an object.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000000.wav|[Footnote four: These stampedes are a source of great profit to the Indians of the Plains.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000003.wav|It now remained for them to determine their future course.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000011_000007.wav|Not so however with the mere visitor of, or casual traveller over, the Western Territories.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000006.wav|It was now nearly daybreak; and as the savages discovered the weakness of the attacking party, they resolved to charge, feeling sure of success.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000000.wav|In the month of January, the daily routine of their lives was rather unpleasantly disturbed.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000000.wav|Kit Carson, who had from the first acted as captain, ordered three men to take the recovered animals back to where they had secured their saddle horses.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000011.wav|The whole pack are sure to leave the bolder animals and make for the runaways, which they seldom fail to overtake and dispatch.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000020_000002.wav|It speaks more than would volumes of mere praise, concerning their character for true manhood.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000012.wav|Kit and his friends had reason, therefore, to be very thankful for their safety.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000002.wav|They succeeded in stealing nine of their loose animals, with which they escaped unperceived.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000000.wav|This old camp, the reader will please bear in mind, was on the Arkansas River.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000004.wav|When a camp is made which is nearly in range they turn their trained animals loose, who at once fly across the plain, penetrating and passing through the camp of their victims.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000015_000001.wav|The ascent was however commenced and successfully accomplished; but, not without labor and an occasional resting place being sought for breathing their animals.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000005.wav|Kit Carson, with three companions, proposed a visit to a fork of a river close by, to look for signs of beaver.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000009.wav|On arriving at the woods, the advance of the party, to their surprise and not less to their satisfaction, discovered the smoke of their enemies' fires.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000015_000003.wav|Experience had taught them that the longest way round was, in this case, the quickest way home.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000005_000003.wav|They had succeeded in digging it up and stealing about three hundred pounds of this valuable property, belonging to the company in general, share and share alike.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000012_000004.wav|Although they are so numerous, it very seldom happens that either the Indian or the trapper is bitten by them.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000005.wav|All of the picketed animals will endeavor to follow, and usually succeed in following, the trained horses.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000011.wav|Their first care was to secure and provide for their animals.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000012.wav|He was accompanied by fifteen men, and brought with him a complete outfit for the entire band.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000010_000001.wav|This animal seldom fails to frighten the remainder, when away they all go with long ropes and picket pins dangling after them.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000012_000001.wav|The night air is generally too chilling for him.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000001.wav|Fears for the safety of their companions arose accordingly.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000012_000003.wav|By these two wise provisions of the Creator the power of this otherwise terrible reptile, is so limited or restrained, that the trapper rarely gives him a thought unless he comes in direct contact.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000015.wav|Shortly after this arrival, four men from the trapping party came into camp and brought the news as to the whereabouts of Gaunt and his men.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000006.wav|Having traveled forty miles, their horses, which were very poor in flesh, became fatigued, causing them to think of making a halt.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000004_000004.wav|They had heard the incessant firing and had become convinced that the fight was hotly contested and that their services were required.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000016_000002.wav|The trappers did not return a shot.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000002.wav|An extra guard was therefore immediately posted, when the remainder of the party lay down; but, not for sleep.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000004_000006.wav|Both sides had now, seemingly, had enough of fighting, and hostilities soon after entirely ceased, the savages marching back and leaving the whites masters of the field. Several of the trappers were slightly, but none dangerously, wounded. The Indians had paid dearly, in numbers killed, for their rascality. Finding the coast clear, Carson and his men set out and soon rejoined their comrades on the Arkansas River.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000026.wav|Kit Carson and five of his companions commenced crawling towards the stolen horses, which, on reaching, were easily set free by cutting their halters.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000011.wav|mr Blackwell, mr Gaunt's partner, arrived from the United States.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000011_000004.wav|There are many of these charming little brooks which, emptying into, form this river. To the general traveler, however, they present one great drawback as eligible camping sites.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000009.wav|The remainder immediately retreated into the fort.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000004.wav|The whites did not throw away a single shot; every ball struck a warrior in some vital spot.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000011.wav|Had such a skirmish taken place, nothing beyond an absolute miracle, or change of the laws of nature, could have saved the little band.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000002_000002.wav|The whole band were now unanimous in favor of the attack.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000031.wav|The more peaceful party, seeing this earnestness, could not do otherwise than lend their aid in the fight and cheerfully did so.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000005_000001.wav|Suspecting their design, Gaunt sent Kit Carson and another man in pursuit of the fugitives, who had one day the start.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000027.wav|They then threw snow balls at them and by this means drove them away without disturbing the sleeping Indians.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000008.wav|The rascals succeeded in running off all of their loose animals.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000011_000005.wav|Their banks are usually pretty thickly lined with rattlesnakes.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000009.wav|While one slept, the other stood on guard.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000012.wav|The second was to prepare their arms.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000005.wav|Having been watching the camp during the night and finding the white men fully on the alert and carefully guarding against any surprise, they had quietly waited until suspicion of their proximity had been entirely laid aside.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000004_000000.wav|After considerable deliberation, the Indians decided once more to make a sortie.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000019_000004.wav|If the poles are long they will act as springs, especially when the wood used is of a kind which has considerable elasticity.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000025.wav|At last the time for action arrived.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000015_000005.wav|As they were riding carelessly homeward, beguiling the time with anecdote and remark upon their future prospects, the scenery around them, with an occasional sight at some kind of game, what should appear ahead of them but four Indian warriors, remarkably well mounted, painted and decked with feathers, showing, conclusively, that they were out upon the war path.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000001.wav|A faithful dog belonging to the camp kept up a furious barking, much more lustily than when wolves annoyed him.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000001.wav|When four days' journey had been accomplished, and while they were partaking of their breakfast in camp, an alarm of Indians was given by one of the men.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000024.wav|But as there is an end to all things, there was an end to the dance and other festivities and the savages sought their rest.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000006.wav|Such are invariably led into the haunts of the thieves, who easily secure them. Young horses and mules are easily frightened; and, in the havoc which generally ensues, oftentimes great injury is done to the runaways themselves.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000002_000001.wav|This instance affords a fair example how the minority could easily rule the majority when the minority held to the side of danger.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000011_000008.wav|To them his rattlesnake ship is a formidable personage.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000004_000002.wav|They disputed, however, every inch of ground over which they trod, as they fell back from one tree to another, continually making their bullets tell with terrible effect on their foes.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000003_000003.wav|As soon as the occupants of the fort heard the noise they sprang to their feet, and thus became fair marks for the unerring rifles of the trappers.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000016_000005.wav|There is nothing they so much dread as being left on foot with an empty gun and no time to load, when perhaps a single shot might change defeat into victory; sure captivity into freedom, or a dead companion into a laughing, jolly and lovable help mate, ready for setting a trap or to engage in the next bloody skirmish.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000014_000002.wav|A sharp skirmish ensued in which one of the warriors was killed, when the remainder fled, leaving the property once more in the hands of its rightful owners. The men however did not come off entirely safe.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000023.wav|During this time of suspense the trappers were subjected to great suffering for the weather was intensely cold and they possessed but a scanty allowance of clothing fit for such work.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000014.wav|They were also made quite happy in obtaining the articles of outfit which would render their wild life more agreeable and easy.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000030.wav|The remainder, those who had lost no animals, wanted satisfaction for the trouble and hardship they had undergone while in pursuit of the thieves. Kit Carson and two others composed this latter party and thus were determined to punish the thieves, let the consequences of the attempt be ever so fatal.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000001.wav|A party of fifty Crow Indians made an unfriendly visit to their camp on one very dark night.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000015.wav|Their movements were made slowly and with great care in order not to alarm the savages.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000011_000002.wav|To make things sure as to their animals, they fastened them to stakes driven in the earth, sufficient rope being given them for grazing.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000006.wav|Time in learning the loss was of no great importance either to their leader or their party. Sooner or later this, as a matter of course, would be fully shown.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000004_000001.wav|On they came, and this time with such determination that the trappers could not withstand the assault, but were compelled to retreat.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000007.wav|The sight of a stampede on a grand scale requires steady nerves to witness without tremor; and, woe to the footman who cannot get out of the way when the frightened animals come along.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000012_000002.wav|In the day time they are a noble enemy, always warning their antagonist of their hostile intentions by springing their rattles, thus giving a person warning of his danger.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000004.wav|Everything however passed as usual during the night; and, with the morning, all suspicion was laid aside.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000005_000006.wav|It is probable that they were killed by Indians, a fate which they, at least, richly merited.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000007.wav|Kit and his comrade, therefore, determined to remain where they were, in the old camp; and, to this end, immediately arranged everything so that they could make a successful defence in case they should be attacked by the savages.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000005_000000.wav|While on the south fork of the Platte, two of the party deserted, taking with them three of their best animals.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000005_000002.wav|As was suspected, the two deserters had gone to the camp where the beaver fur was concealed and buried.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000010_000003.wav|At other times, the limbs of the running horses get entangled in the ropes, when they are suddenly thrown.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000000.wav|The party had not been long at rest before their suspicions were aroused that hostile Indians were near them.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000005.wav|To regain their commander's company was almost impracticable; at least, without a more important object to make the risk necessary, it was a foolhardy attempt.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000007.wav|On the contrary, he galloped off; seemingly, quite proud of his trophy.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000004_000005.wav|On their joining, the whole party resolved to make one more stand, and as soon as the Indians saw this, they wavered and finally drew off.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000013_000003.wav|They expected at every moment that their services would be needed to defend the camp.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000002.wav|He had accidentally discovered the red skin rascals as they were prowling about the camp.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000004.wav|They had already surmised the reason why the Indians had thus set a trap for them.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000009_000010.wav|Instead of bravely stopping and fighting off the wolves, they run.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000003.wav|A rush was instantly made by the trappers, with rifles in hand, to save their horses. Shots were fired and one Indian fell.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000013.wav|Kit and his comrade had been expecting and were anxiously looking for this party.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000008.wav|They did not dare to venture out far from their fortifications; but, this was no great trial to them, as game existed in great plenty and came very near their fortifications.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000022.wav|To insure success in spite of their weakness, they determined to conceal themselves and wait quietly until the Indians had lain down for sleep.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000010_000004.wav|Such seldom escape without broken legs or severe contusions, which are often incurable.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000017_000013.wav|They all felt that they had retained their scalps by a very close shave.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000001_000017.wav|The men then crept for a long distance on their hands and knees until finally they obtained a full view of the Indians, which showed them that the savages had erected two rough forts and that they were now divided into two parties.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000016_000003.wav|It would not have been according to their custom.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000006_000010.wav|It was their intention to await the return of their party; but, at the expiration of one month, they were quite happily relieved from their perilous position.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281132/8527_281132_000008_000000.wav|These Springs form the head waters of the south fork of the River Platte.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000009_000003.wav|The opportunity to instill a lesson on the savage marauders was too good to be lost.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000002.wav|The market price was twelve dollars the pound. The proceeds, therefore, of the entire trip were nearly twenty four thousand dollars.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000011.wav|They have proved a knotty historical problem to many an investigating mind; for their authentic history has fallen, and probably will ever remain in oblivion.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000005_000000.wav|About dark, Young, by urging his half drunken men into a forced march, succeeded in overtaking Carson.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000010.wav|The whole party, as now organized, remained where they were throughout the winter of eighteen thirty and eighteen thirty one, employed in killing only the amount of game necessary for their sustenance.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000008.wav|Here they purchased licenses to trade with the Indians who live about the copper mines.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000014.wav|The more probable hypothesis, however, is that the Indians themselves, many centuries in the past, were versed to some extent in the art of mining, and carried on the business in these mines; but from indolence or, to them, uselessness of the metals, the work was abandoned, and their descendants failed to obtain the knowledge which their ancestors possessed.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000008.wav|After making a short stay at this point they started for the Salmon River.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000007.wav|Hence they journeyed to Jackson's Hole, which is a fork of the Great Columbia River.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000006_000001.wav|The rascals professed the greatest friendship for the trappers, but their actions not fully measuring their words, the white men looked to Carson for advice.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000007.wav|The stock of beaver was therefore placed under the care of mr McKnight. Young and his men then renewed their march, and in due time arrived safely at Santa Fe.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000005_000002.wav|A night of sleep soon set the brains of Young's trappers once more to rights.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000010.wav|Young Kit, at this period of his life, imitated the example set by his elders, for he wished to be considered by them as an equal and a friend.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000005_000003.wav|The next day the party, most of them sufficiently ashamed of their drunken debauch, commenced with vigor the homeward march.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000004.wav|The company then renewed their trapping, and continued it up the Gila to a point opposite the copper mines of New Mexico.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000003.wav|In some things nature has lavished upon them charms and beauties which no human skill can imitate.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000006_000000.wav|While encamped on this stream, a band of five hundred Indians made their appearance and entered the camp.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000003.wav|mr Fitzpatrick, a trapper well known and respected by the mountaineers, had charge of the party.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000005_000001.wav|At the first supply of water, they went into camp.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000009_000000.wav|On the same evening, after the men had wrapped themselves up in their blankets and laid down for a sleep, and while enjoying their slumbers, a noise reached their ears which sounded very much like distant thunder; but a close application of the sense of hearing showed plainly that an enemy was near at hand.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000009.wav|These hardy trappers, like reliable old salts, proved to be as true to the bowl as they had been to their steel; for, most of the party, in a very brief space of time, were penniless and ready to be fitted out for another expedition.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000014_000002.wav|A single trial is usually sufficient to satisfy the uninitiated on this point; for, the beaver, above all other wild animals of America is endowed with an extraordinary amount of instinct.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000002_000005.wav|They are usually a quiet and industrious race, and are most devout in their religious worship, according to the principles, forms, and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000001.wav|Kit then joined his second trapping expedition.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000011.wav|An unfortunate affair here happened to them.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000003.wav|Such either became wild mustangs or fell again into the clutches of the Indians.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000007_000002.wav|As a general rule, no matter what the profit or urgent necessity which chance offers, these Indians will not hazard a contest when, to a certainty, they must expect their own killed will equal the number of scalps which they can obtain.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000006_000003.wav|At the time the Indians entered the camp, Carson, with only a few of the party, occupied it; the rest were out visiting their traps, which it was their general custom to set whenever they arrived at a suitable stream.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000015.wav|These mines, and those which exist nearer to the large towns, will some day render New Mexico a profitable and rich field for the learned antiquary.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000004_000006.wav|Such conduct so terrified the Mexicans that they took sudden and precipitous leave.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000005.wav|Here they disbanded, having completed their enterprise.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000005_000005.wav|On the ninth day, they once more stood on the banks of the Colorado River.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000012.wav|He contracted no bad habits, but learned the usefulness and happiness of resisting temptation, and became so well schooled that he was able, by the caution and advice of wisdom founded on experience, to prevent many a promising and skillful hand from grasping ruin in the same vortex.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000009_000002.wav|The trappers comprehended instantly that the warriors had been to the Mexican settlements in Sonora on a thieving expedition, and that the horses had changed hands with only one party to the bargain.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000008.wav|The party then went into Winter Quarters.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000005_000004.wav|They continued nine days almost upon their former track, when outward bound.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000006.wav|From here they worked on until they reached the Green River.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000002_000001.wav|The homeward route was through most of the country over which they had previously traveled.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000017.wav|For this purpose they started, and, after ten days of steady travel, found his party.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000002_000003.wav|Scattered over various parts of the dominion of Old Mexico are these Peublos, or Indian villages, called so because they are inhabited by Indians who bear that name.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000004_000005.wav|One of the trappers, named james Higgins, without any provocation and without any excuse, except that he was intoxicated, shot a man named james Lawrence, inflicting a slight wound.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000002_000000.wav|In September, mr Young, having accomplished all that he had intended, informed his men that he was going to New Mexico.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000010.wav|The deserted mines of New Mexico show incontrovertible signs of having been successfully and extensively worked, at some remote period, for various kinds of metals.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000001.wav|In a few moments, the whites found themselves masters of the field, and also of the property.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000014_000001.wav|A person unaccustomed to it may possibly look upon it as no very difficult task.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000006_000002.wav|He had discovered that beneath their articles of dress their weapons were very carefully concealed; and from this circumstance it became quite clearly apparent the Indians intended to massacre the entire party. Here Carson's boldness proved, as it had before, and did many a time afterwards, the safety of himself and friends or associates.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000016.wav|Kit Carson and four of his companions determined to join him.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000008_000006.wav|The entire herd fell into the possession of the trappers.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000007_000001.wav|Seeing that they would inevitably lose several of their braves if they made any hostile demonstration, they chose the discreet part of best policy, and departed.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000002.wav|As their names imply, they are fair natural examples of the manufactured parks of civilization.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000009.wav|Here they were joined by a band of their own party, who had left Taos some days in advance of the main body, and for whom they were then hunting.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000006_000005.wav|He found present among the warriors one who could speak the Spanish language.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000007.wav|From their own accounts, they passed a short time gloriously.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000006.wav|Like as Jack, when he returns from his battles with old ocean, having a pocket well lined with hard earnings, fails not to plunge into excess, with the determination to make up for the pleasure lost by years of toil, the brave mountaineers courted merrymaking.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000004.wav|It was during the month of April, eighteen thirty, that mr Young's party again reached the town of Taos.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000016_000000.wav|During the winter the trappers had many very pleasant times, for they had little work beyond the task of making themselves comfortable. The snow fell to a great depth, which proved rather hard for their animals.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000007_000003.wav|This rule, and doubtless some fearfulness on the part of the Indians, saved the lives of the entire band.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000001.wav|The amount of beaver thus brought in amounted to two thousand pounds.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000004_000002.wav|The treacherous Mexicans, however, continued annoying the commander of the trappers by gratuitously offering the men all the liquor they desired.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000000.wav|They saluted the thieves with a volley from their rifles, which, with the bullet whizzing about their heads and bodies, so astonished them, that they seemed almost immediately to forget their stolen property, and to think only of a precipitous flight.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000002.wav|This band had been formed for the purpose of trapping the principal streams of the Rocky Mountains.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000011.wav|He, however, passed through this terrible ordeal, which most frequently ruins its votary, and eventually came out brighter, clearer and more noble for the conscience polish which he received.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000008_000003.wav|Not having forgotten their former troubles with these people, they determined to pay them off in their own coin by depriving them of the herd.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000005.wav|Kit and his companions were graciously received by Gaunt; and, with him they trapped the streams in the vicinity of the New Park and the plains of Laramie to the South fork of the Platte.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000003_000003.wav|Former experience in a similar matter of official duty had taught those Mexicans that the American trappers were men of a peculiarly resolute nature.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000006.wav|The holes which had many years before been made by the miners-but who they were is unknown-formed a safe hiding place for their skins.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000007.wav|Gaunt returned after an absence of two months; when, trapping operations were resumed on the Arkansas River, which they trapped until it froze over.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000013_000006.wav|Having finished here, they left for the Arkansas, remaining there while their captain went to Taos to dispose of their stock of furs and to make such purchases of necessaries as the men required.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000014.wav|This is the principal stream that empties into GREAT SALT LAKE.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000003_000004.wav|Fair and legitimate means were therefore laid aside, and a foul policy adopted.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000016_000002.wav|The buffalo existed about there in great abundance; and, early in the winter, they had taken the precaution to kill and prepare a large supply of this kind of game, while it was in good condition.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000011_000000.wav|The ruse which mr Young found absolutely necessary to employ, in order to blind the Mexican authorities, succeeded so well, that when the fur arrived at Santa Fe, every one considered the trappers had made a very good trade.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000004.wav|He was, at that time, well acquainted by experience with the Rocky Mountains, and has, since then, gained an enviable fame as an Indian Agent.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000016_000001.wav|By dint of cutting down cottonwood trees and gathering the bark and branches for fodder, they managed to prevent them from dying of starvation.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000005.wav|Here they left the river and proceeded to the copper mines, where they found mr Robert McKnight engaged in trading with the neighboring Indian tribes. These mines were not then, and ever since have not been, worked.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000002_000006.wav|They have not failed to inherit the superstition of their forefathers.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000004_000004.wav|They would soon have fallen a complete prey to their enemies, had not a most singular circumstance put the Mexicans to flight.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000009_000001.wav|Springing up, with rifle in hand-for generally in the mountains a man's gun rests in the same blanket with himself on all sleeping occasions-they sallied forth to reconnoitre, and discovered a few warriors driving along a band of at least two hundred horses.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000013.wav|In April of eighteen thirty one, they recommenced trapping, shaping their course for Bear River.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000010_000002.wav|To return the animals to their owners was an impossibility; mr Young, therefore, selected as many of the best horses as he needed for himself and men, and game being very scarce, killed two and dried most of the meat for future use, turning the remainder loose.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000012_000000.wav|The scenes of pleasure lasted until the fall of eighteen thirty.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8527/281131/8527_281131_000014_000000.wav|The business of trapping for beaver is no child's play.|8527
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000003.wav|Nay more, there are some foolish rich covetous men, that take a pride, in having no children, because they may be thought so much the richer.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000011_000000.wav|For the second, which is dissimulation; it followeth many times upon secrecy, by a necessity; so that he that will be secret, must be a dissembler in some degree.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000008_000002.wav|These properties, of arts or policy, and dissimulation or closeness, are indeed habits and faculties several, and to be distinguished.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000009.wav|For soldiers, I find the generals commonly in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children; and I think the despising of marriage amongst the Turks, maketh the vulgar soldier more base.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000011.wav|The third and greatest is, that it depriveth a man of one of the most principal instruments for action; which is trust and belief.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000011.wav|Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving husbands, as was said of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati. Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000015_000006.wav|They that are the first raisers of their houses, are most indulgent towards their children; beholding them as the continuance, not only of their kind, but of their work; and so both children and creatures.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000003.wav|For if a man engage himself by a manifest declaration, he must go through or take a fall.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000000.wav|For the first of these, secrecy; it is indeed the virtue of a confessor. And assuredly, the secret man heareth many confessions.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000007.wav|Therefore set it down, that an habit of secrecy, is both politic and moral.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000013.wav|But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also?|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000001.wav|First, to lay asleep opposition, and to surprise.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000005.wav|But the most ordinary cause of a single life, is liberty, especially in certain self pleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters, to be bonds and shackles.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000005.wav|As for talkers and futile persons, they are commonly vain and credulous withal.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000016.wav|It is often seen that bad husbands, have very good wives; whether it be, that it raiseth the price of their husband's kindness, when it comes; or that the wives take a pride in their patience.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000014.wav|And so of friends in a proportion.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000007.wav|A single life doth well with churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must first fill a pool.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000002_000000.wav|Of Revenge|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000008_000000.wav|Tacitus saith, Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband, and dissimulation of her son; attributing arts or policy to Augustus, and dissimulation to Tiberius.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000010.wav|Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000012.wav|Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable; You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read, that we are commanded to forgive our friends.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000007_000001.wav|Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are the great dissemblers.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000003.wav|It is yet a higher speech of his, than the other (much too high for a heathen), It is true greatness, to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000008.wav|And in this part, it is good that a man's face give his tongue leave to speak.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000015_000003.wav|The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000015_000005.wav|So the care of posterity is most in them, that have no posterity.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000001.wav|For who will open himself, to a blab or a babbler?|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000015_000002.wav|They increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000010.wav|For the delight seemeth to be, not so much in doing the hurt, as in making the party repent.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000011_000003.wav|As for equivocations, or oraculous speeches, they cannot hold out long.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000009.wav|The first, that simulation and dissimulation commonly carry with them a show of fearfulness, which in any business, doth spoil the feathers, of round flying up to the mark.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000011.wav|We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work, upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work, upon a lightsome ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000008.wav|It is indifferent for judges and magistrates; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant, five times worse than a wife.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000010.wav|The second, that it puzzleth and perplexeth the conceits of many, that perhaps would otherwise co-operate with him; and makes a man walk almost alone, to his own ends.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000008.wav|Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000001.wav|Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000011_000004.wav|So that no man can be secret, except he give himself a little scope of dissimulation; which is, as it were, but the skirts or train of secrecy.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000009_000003.wav|And the third, simulation, in the affirmative; when a man industriously and expressly feigns and pretends to be, that he is not.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000006.wav|But to speak in a mean.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000015_000001.wav|Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000008.wav|Some, when they take revenge, are desirous, the party should know, whence it cometh.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000012_000000.wav|But for the third degree, which is simulation, and false profession; that I hold more culpable, and less politic; except it be in great and rare matters.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000002.wav|For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum, to call up all that are against them. The second is, to reserve to a man's self a fair retreat.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000005.wav|There is no man doth a wrong, for the wrong's sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the like.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000007.wav|As if there were no way of discovery, but by simulation.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000008_000004.wav|But if a man cannot obtain to that judgment, then it is left to him generally, to be close, and a dissembler.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000011.wav|But base and crafty cowards, are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000004.wav|That which is past is gone, and irrevocable; and wise men have enough to do, with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves, that labor in past matters.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000016_000003.wav|And therefore the proof is best, when men keep their authority towards the children, but not their purse.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000002.wav|Nay, there are some other, that account wife and children, but as bills of charges.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000001.wav|Yet it were great reason that those that have children, should have greatest care of future times; unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges. Some there are, who though they lead a single life, yet their thoughts do end with themselves, and account future times impertinences.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000002.wav|Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000001.wav|For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong, putteth the law out of office.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000005_000007.wav|The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000006.wav|For he that talketh what he knoweth, will also talk what he knoweth not.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000016_000002.wav|The illiberality of parents, in allowance towards their children, is an harmful error; makes them base; acquaints them with shifts; makes them sort with mean company; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000013_000004.wav|The third is, the better to discover the mind of another.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000018_000006.wav|Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives, are of that condition.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000003_000016.wav|Public revenges are for the most part fortunate; as that for the death of Caesar; for the death of Pertinax; for the death of Henry the Third of France; and many more.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132272/764_132272_000010_000002.wav|But if a man be thought secret, it inviteth discovery; as the more close air sucketh in the more open; and as in confession, the revealing is not for worldly use, but for the ease of a man's heart, so secret men come to the knowledge of many things in that kind; while men rather discharge their minds, than impart their minds.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000006_000002.wav|For both the pause reinforceth the new onset; and if a man that is not perfect, be ever in practice, he shall as well practise his errors, as his abilities, and induce one habit of both; and there is no means to help this, but by seasonable intermissions.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000018.wav|Certainly the great multiplication of virtues upon human nature, resteth upon societies well ordained and disciplined.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000014.wav|So we see, in languages, the tongue is more pliant to all expressions and sounds, the joints are more supple, to all feats of activity and motions, in youth than afterwards.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000007_000000.wav|Of Custom And Education|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000003.wav|And the most frequent of external causes is, that the folly of one man, is the fortune of another.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000006_000006.wav|A man's nature is best perceived in privateness, for there is no affectation; in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts; and in a new case or experiment, for there custom leaveth him.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000014.wav|And certainly there be not two more fortunate properties, than to have a little of the fool, and not too much of the honest.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000016.wav|Some sweet odors suddenly coming forth, without any drops falling, are, in such a company as there is steam and heat, things of great pleasure and refreshment.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000007.wav|The Spanish name, desemboltura, partly expresseth them; when there be not stonds nor restiveness in a man's nature; but that the wheels of his mind, keep way with the wheels of his fortune.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000018.wav|For those two, Felicity breedeth; the first within a man's self, the latter in others towards him.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000017.wav|Double masques, one of men, another of ladies, addeth state and variety.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000016.wav|But if the force of custom simple and separate, be great, the force of custom copulate and conjoined and collegiate, is far greater.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000004.wav|For no man prospers so suddenly, as by others' errors.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000007.wav|The Indians (I mean the sect of their wise men) lay themselves quietly upon a stock of wood, and so sacrifice themselves by fire.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000006.wav|Overt and apparent virtues, bring forth praise; but there be secret and hidden virtues, that bring forth fortune; certain deliveries of a man's self, which have no name.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000004_000000.wav|NATURE is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000011.wav|As for rich embroidery, it is lost and not discerned.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000002.wav|His instance is, that for the achieving of a desperate conspiracy, a man should not rest upon the fierceness of any man's nature, or his resolute undertakings; but take such an one, as hath had his hands formerly in blood.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000005.wav|Serpens nisi serpentem comederit non fit draco.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000015.wav|Therefore extreme lovers of their country or masters, were never fortunate, neither can they be.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000000.wav|IT CANNOT be denied, but outward accidents conduce much to fortune; favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000006_000008.wav|In studies, whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself, let him set hours for it; but whatsoever is agreeable to his nature, let him take no care for any set times; for his thoughts will fly to it, of themselves; so as the spaces of other business, or studies, will suffice.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000004.wav|Only superstition is now so well advanced, that men of the first blood, are as firm as butchers by occupation; and votary resolution, is made equipollent to custom, even in matter of blood.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000013.wav|Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor, to obtain good customs. Certainly custom is most perfect, when it beginneth in young years: this we call education; which is, in effect, but an early custom.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000017.wav|Fortune is to be honored and respected, and it be but for her daughters, Confidence and Reputation.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000012.wav|Let the suits of the masquers be graceful, and such as become the person, when the vizors are off; not after examples of known attires; Turke, soldiers, mariners', and the like.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000004_000004.wav|For it breeds great perfection, if the practice be harder than the use.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000005.wav|Turning dances into figure, is a childish curiosity.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000000.wav|MEN'S thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000006_000003.wav|But let not a man trust his victory over his nature, too far; for nature will lay buried a great time, and yet revive, upon the occasion or temptation.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000022.wav|It is written that Timotheus the Athenian, after he had, in the account he gave to the state of his government, often interlaced this speech, and in this, Fortune had no part, never prospered in anything, he undertook afterwards.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000017.wav|For there example teacheth, company comforteth, emulation quickeneth, glory raiseth: so as in such places the force of custom is in his exaltation.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000001.wav|And therefore, as Machiavel well noteth (though in an evil favored instance), there is no trusting to the force of nature, nor to the bravery of words, except it be corroborate by custom.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000015.wav|For it is true, that late learners cannot so well take the ply; except it be in some minds, that have not suffered themselves to fix, but have kept themselves open, and prepared to receive continual amendment, which is exceeding rare.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000008_000009.wav|The lads of Sparta, of ancient time, were wont to be scourged upon the altar of Diana, without so much as queching.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000004.wav|Several quires, placed one over against another, and taking the voice by catches, anthem wise, give great pleasure.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000006_000005.wav|Therefore, let a man either avoid the occasion altogether; or put himself often to it, that he may be little moved with it.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000006_000001.wav|Let not a man force a habit upon himself, with a perpetual continuance, but with some intermission.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000010.wav|The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, but giving light together.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000013.wav|Let anti masques not be long; they have been commonly of fools, satyrs, baboons, wild men, antics, beasts, sprites, witches, Ethiops, pigmies, turquets, nymphs, rustics, Cupids, statuas moving, and the like.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000006.wav|And generally let it be noted, that those things which I here set down, are such as do naturally take the sense, and not respect petty wonderments. It is true, the alterations of scenes, so it be quietly and without noise, are things of great beauty and pleasure; for they feed and relieve the eye, before it be full of the same object.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000001_000015.wav|But chiefly, let the music of them be recreative, and with some strange changes.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000020.wav|So Sylla chose the name of Felix, and not of Magnus.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000004_000002.wav|He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though by often prevailings.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000010_000011.wav|So are there a number of little, and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/764/132280/764_132280_000004_000001.wav|Force, maketh nature more violent in the return; doctrine and discourse, maketh nature less importune; but custom only doth alter and subdue nature.|764
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000029_000000.wav|"Good Lord! exclaimed Smith Oldwick.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000020_000000.wav|The girl shuddered.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000024_000000.wav|Smith Oldwick lighted his cigarette and sat puffing slowly upon it.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000008_000000.wav|"Oh!" cried the girl, breathing a sigh of relief, "is it our lion?"|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000028_000000.wav|"Three?" said Tarzan.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000018_000000.wav|"What chance would we three have against them?" asked the girl.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000056_000000.wav|Thus reassured, the ape man spoke to the lion and at the same time made a motion as though he would arise.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000028_000001.wav|"There are seven of them out there now."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000043_000000.wav|"What is it?" asked the girl.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000075_000000.wav|Fruits were growing among the trees and some of these he saw that Manu, the monkey, ate.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000060_000000.wav|"Come," said Tarzan suddenly and grasping the lion's mane with his left hand he moved toward the other lions, his companion pacing at his side.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000075_000001.wav|Being hungry he swung to the lower branches and, amidst a great chattering of the monkeys, proceeded to eat such of the fruit as he saw the monkeys ate in safety.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000019_000004.wav|What difference does it make which it is, or whether it comes tonight or next year or in ten years? After it is over it will be all the same."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000047_000000.wav|"You mean the water?" asked the girl.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000071_000004.wav|The trail became more difficult but was well marked and showed indications of great antiquity, and, in places, the handiwork of man.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000033_000000.wav|"What makes you think there is a man there?" asked the girl.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000051_000001.wav|Yet something held him there in futile self sacrifice.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000021_000002.wav|Tarzan squatted on the opposite side.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000049_000000.wav|For some time they sat in silence which was broken only by an occasional sound of movement from the outer darkness.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000067_000001.wav|The lions they had bested were splendid specimens themselves and in their coats Tarzan noted a suggestion of the black which was such a strongly marked characteristic of Numa of the pit.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000015_000002.wav|If you are very anxious that they should, fire your pistol and hit one of them."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000003_000000.wav|Chapter sixteen|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000064_000001.wav|But this time Numa was too quick for him and he was but partially up when a great paw struck him on the side of the head and bowled him over.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000068_000002.wav|Immediately Numa of the pit pricked up his ears and, regarding the ape man steadily for a moment, he answered the call of hunger and started briskly off toward the south, stopping occasionally to see if Tarzan was following.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000074_000003.wav|It was as though he had been suddenly transported to another world and he felt a strange restlessness that might easily have been a premonition of danger.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000048_000000.wav|"Yes," replied Tarzan.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000021_000001.wav|Smith Oldwick sat in the entrance and leaned against the cliff.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000071_000002.wav|Presently the bottom of the gorge began to slope more rapidly.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000049_000003.wav|An instant after Tarzan arose, Smith Oldwick and the girl were aroused by a volley of thunderous roars and the noise of many padded feet rushing toward them.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000062_000000.wav|With outspread, raking talons and bared fangs Numa sprang for the naked chest of the ape man.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000015_000001.wav|If we had a fire or the moon were up you would see their eyes plainly. Presently they may come after us but the chances are that they will not.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000031_000001.wav|A man is out there now with those lions."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000022_000000.wav|"May I smoke?" questioned the officer of Tarzan.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000032_000000.wav|"It is impossible!" exclaimed Smith Oldwick.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000055_000000.wav|With the full return of his senses Tarzan's nose told him that the beast above him was Numa of the Wamabo pit.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000006_000001.wav|"There is something out there in the darkness."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000032_000001.wav|"They would tear him to pieces."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000052_000002.wav|In falling his head struck the rocky surface of the cliff, stunning him.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000058_000000.wav|His efforts had been for naught.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000011_000000.wav|"He is," replied the ape man. Smith Oldwick fingered the grip of his pistol.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000014_000001.wav|"I couldn't help it, you know, old man," he said; "instinct of self preservation and all that."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000053_000001.wav|The first dim impression borne to his awakening mind was a confusion of savage sounds which gradually resolved themselves into the growling of lions, and then, little by little, there came back to him the recollections of what had preceded the blow that had felled him.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000054_000001.wav|Slowly Tarzan opened his eyes.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000013_000000.wav|"Leave that thing where it is, Lieutenant," he said.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000041_000001.wav|"No," he said, "I cannot understand."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000064_000000.wav|With a final effort he threw himself from Numa's back and sought, by his quickness, to elude the frenzied beast for the fraction of an instant that would permit him to regain his feet and meet the animal again upon a more even footing.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000035_000000.wav|"What do you mean by that?" asked the officer.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000004_000000.wav|The Night Attack|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000016_000000.wav|"What if they do charge?" asked the girl; "there is no means of escape."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000061_000002.wav|Instead he resorted to methods of agility and cunning, for quick as are the great cats, even quicker is Tarzan of the Apes.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000019_000001.wav|"One must die sometime," he said.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000067_000000.wav|As Numa rose from his second victim and shook himself, Tarzan could not but again note the wondrous proportions and symmetry of the beast.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000025_000001.wav|"Aren't they unusually quiet for lions?" he asked.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000071_000003.wav|Here and there were indications of ancient rapids and waterfalls.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000038_000000.wav|Tarzan nodded affirmatively.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000025_000000.wav|It was Smith Oldwick who broke the silence.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000066_000000.wav|He of the black coat tremendously outclassed his adversary in point of size and strength as well as in ferocity.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000046_000000.wav|"We can't know," replied Tarzan, "and the chances are that the very place we are seeking is the place they don't wish us to trespass on."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000072_000000.wav|That it was a well watered valley was indicated by the wealth of vegetation that carpeted its floor from the rocky cliffs upon the north to the mountains on the south.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000061_000001.wav|To have attempted to meet the full shock of a lion's charge would have been suicidal even for the giant Tarmangani.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000054_000000.wav|Strong in his nostrils was the scent of Numa, the lion, and against one naked leg he could feel the coat of some animal.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000058_000001.wav|With an angry toss of his head, the ape man turned upon the two lions who had continued to pace back and forth a few yards from him.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000052_000000.wav|The great Tarmangani had not even the satisfaction of striking a blow in self defense.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000034_000001.wav|"I am afraid you would not understand," he replied.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000070_000001.wav|The ape man was puzzled by the possibilities suggested by the tracks, but in the light of any previous experience he could not explain satisfactorily to himself what his perceptions indicated.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000071_000006.wav|How far it extended east and west he could not see, but apparently it was no more than three or four miles across from north to south.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000073_000001.wav|Preceded by the lion Tarzan descended into the valley, which, at this point, was forested with large trees.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000056_000001.wav|Immediately Numa stepped from above him.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000037_000000.wav|"You mean that you scent a man?" asked the girl.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000065_000000.wav|As he fell he saw a black streak shoot above him and another lion close upon his antagonist.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000036_000000.wav|"Well," said Tarzan, "if you had been born without eyes you could not understand sense impressions that the eyes of others transmit to their brains, and as you have both been born without any sense of smell I am afraid you cannot understand how I can know that there is a man there."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000042_000001.wav|I have a theory, but it is utterly preposterous."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000073_000003.wav|Raucous voiced birds of brilliant plumage screamed among the branches while innumerable monkeys chattered and scolded above him.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000071_000000.wav|There was little change in the formation of the gorge; it still wound its erratic course between precipitous cliffs.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000007_000002.wav|Hadn't you noticed it before?"|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000014_000000.wav|The officer laughed nervously.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000015_000000.wav|"It would prove an instinct of self destruction," said Tarzan. "There are at least three hunting lions out there watching us.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000057_000000.wav|And then Tarzan turned his eyes into the cave and saw that the girl and Smith Oldwick were gone.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000020_000001.wav|"Yes," she said in a dull, hopeless voice, "after it is over it will be all the same."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105171/7828_105171_000040_000000.wav|"Yes," said Tarzan.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000011_000000.wav|And so they moved to the side of the gorge beneath the shade of an overhanging rock and lay down in the hot sand to rest.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000017_000001.wav|They had gone no great distance when the others of the party became aware of the sounds of pursuit, for now the lions were whining as though the fresh scent spoor of their quarry had reached their nostrils.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000034_000000.wav|Rolling the body of the warrior to one side Tarzan struggled to his feet, the spear still protruding from his shoulder.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000004_000004.wav|You will have to go on without me."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000008_000001.wav|But we need not be concerned with them until they come."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000038_000000.wav|"You are not going back with us, then?" asked the girl.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000019_000002.wav|Possibly then we might hold them off.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000039_000000.wav|"No," replied the ape man.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000022_000003.wav|To be sure it was open at both ends but at least they could not be attacked upon all sides at once.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000045_000004.wav|They asked me to urge you to return to civilization."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000006_000007.wav|Let us rest now because you and Lieutenant Smith Oldwick need the rest, and when you are stronger we will go on again."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000042_000000.wav|In the morning Colonel Capell came from the base camp in one of the planes that was to carry Smith Oldwick and the girl to the east. Tarzan was standing some distance away as the ship landed and the officer descended to the ground.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000042_000001.wav|He saw the colonel greet his junior in command of the advance detachment, and then he saw him turn toward Bertha Kircher who was standing a few paces behind the captain.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000019_000004.wav|The lions don't bother me so much. Sometimes they are stupid animals, and I am sure that these that pursue us, and who are so dependent upon the masters that have raised and trained them, will be easily handled after the warriors are disposed of."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000008_000000.wav|"Yes," he said, "they probably will.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000052_000001.wav|Look!|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000019_000003.wav|Smith Oldwick is a good shot and if there are not too many men he might be able to dispose of them provided they can only come at him one at a time.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000006_000001.wav|"You are not dead," he said to her, "nor is the lieutenant, nor Otobu, nor myself.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000037_000000.wav|That night it was arranged that the following day Smith Oldwick and Bertha Kircher should be transported to British headquarters near the coast by aeroplane, the two planes attached to the expeditionary force being requisitioned for the purpose.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000055_000001.wav|"Can this be true?|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000006_000000.wav|The ape man returned her serious look with a smile.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000059_000000.wav|"I will return with you, of course.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000056_000000.wav|"'Played a little joke on the English pig.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000013_000000.wav|"They are coming," he replied.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000053_000000.wav|"The diary of Hauptmann Fritz Schneider!" repeated Tarzan in a constrained voice.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000006_000006.wav|Let us take things as they come.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000011_000001.wav|Numa wandered restlessly to and fro and finally, after sprawling for a moment close beside the ape man, rose and moved off up the gorge to be lost to view a moment later beyond the nearest turn.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000034_000006.wav|"Don't shoot," she cried to the latter, "we are both friends."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000026_000000.wav|The minutes that dragged by seemed veritable eternities to Bertha Kircher and then at last, and almost with relief, she knew that the pursuers were upon them.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000002_000002.wav|There were places where the ape man alone might have negotiated the ascent but none where the others could hope successfully to reach the plateau, nor where Tarzan, powerful and agile as he was, could have ventured safely to carry them aloft.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000004_000002.wav|"I can go no farther.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000005_000003.wav|It must be as evident to you as it is to me that you cannot save us, for though you succeeded in dragging us from the path of our pursuers, even your great strength and endurance could never take one of us across the desert waste which lies between here and the nearest fertile country."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000024_000000.wav|"It is all the same," replied Tarzan; "the lions would have found us here.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000048_000002.wav|"Yes," he replied, "I knew that she was Bertha Kircher, the German spy?"|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000031_000001.wav|In attempting to shield the girl, Tarzan received one of the shafts in the shoulder, and so heavily had the weapon been hurled that it bore him backward to the ground.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000018_000000.wav|"I wish that your Numa would return," said the girl.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000016_000000.wav|Tarzan knew that neither of them quite spoke the truth, that people do not recover so quickly from utter exhaustion, but he saw no other way and there was always the hope that just beyond the next turn would be a way out of the gorge.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000037_000001.wav|Tarzan and Otobu declined the offers of the British captain to accompany his force overland on the return march as Tarzan explained that his country lay to the west, as did Otobu's, and that they would travel together as far as the country of the Wamabos.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000015_000000.wav|"Oh, yes," she said, "I am much stronger.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000027_000002.wav|Again they came, this time a man opposing Tarzan and a lion seeking to overcome Smith Oldwick.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000031_000002.wav|Smith Oldwick fired his pistol twice when he too was struck down, the weapon entering his right leg midway between hip and knee.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000040_000001.wav|"You will go back into that terrible jungle?" she asked.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000041_000000.wav|He looked at her a moment in silence.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000046_000001.wav|Miss Kircher and Lieutenant Smith Oldwick were only prompted by a sense of gratitude in considering my welfare."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000053_000002.wav|He is the man who murdered Lady Greystoke."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000036_000002.wav|Smith Oldwick's wounds were dressed, as well as were those of the ape man, and in half an hour they were on their way to the camp of their rescuers.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000009_000000.wav|"I wish," said the girl, "that I possessed your philosophy but I am afraid it is beyond me."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000022_000001.wav|It was a jagged fragment of rock which rose some ten feet above the surface of the sand, leaving a narrow aperture between it and the cliff behind.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000005_000001.wav|We have all been through so much together and the chances of our escape are still so remote that whatever comes, let us remain together, unless," and she looked up at Tarzan, "you, who have done so much for us to whom you are under no obligations, will go on without us.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000014_000001.wav|"I believe I could make a go of it now for a short way.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000045_000003.wav|"I wish you would come back with us, Greystoke," he said, "and if my appeal carries no inducement possibly that of Smith Oldwick and the young lady who just left us may.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000012_000000.wav|For an hour the little party rested and then Tarzan suddenly rose and, motioning the others to silence, listened.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000023_000002.wav|"He will tell the parrots," said the black, "and the parrots will tell the madmen."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000054_000003.wav|Capell looked at him questioningly.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000014_000002.wav|I am much rested.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000014_000003.wav|How about you Miss Kircher?"|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000043_000000.wav|Tarzan turned away scowling, and if any had been close by they might have heard a low growl rumble from his chest.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000058_000001.wav|"And now?"|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000040_000002.wav|"We shall never see you again?"|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000059_000001.wav|How terribly I have wronged Miss Canby, but how could I know?|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000033_000000.wav|Simultaneously there broke upon the astonished ears of both attackers and attacked a volley of shots from the gorge.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000021_000000.wav|"We are still alive," was his only answer.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000040_000000.wav|She cast appealing eyes toward him.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000039_000002.wav|I will continue my journey in that direction."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000022_000002.wav|Toward this they directed their steps and when finally they reached their goal they found a space about two feet wide and ten feet long between the rock and the cliff.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000006_000005.wav|So far we have found a way.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000013_000001.wav|"They are yet some distance away, though not far, for the sandaled feet of the men and the pads of the lions make little noise upon the soft sands."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000042_000003.wav|He saw Colonel Capell walk toward her with outstretched hands and smiling face and, although he could not hear the words of his greeting, he saw that it was friendly and cordial to a degree.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000035_000000.wav|"Hold up your hands, you, then," he commanded Tarzan.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000033_000001.wav|With the sweetness of the voice of an angel from heaven the Europeans heard the sharp barked commands of an English noncom.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000012_000002.wav|"What is it?" asked the girl.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000023_000001.wav|Otobu had seen the monkey too.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000005_000000.wav|"No," said the girl, "we cannot do that.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000032_000000.wav|As he fell his pistol dropped from his fingers, and the girl, seeing, snatched it up.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000046_000000.wav|"No;" said Tarzan, "I shall go my own way.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000029_000000.wav|"Is this the end?" asked the girl.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000041_000001.wav|"Never," he said, and without another word turned and walked away.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000027_000001.wav|Evidently disheartened by the failure of their first attempt the assaulters drew off, but only for a short time.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000014_000000.wav|"What shall we do-try to go on?" asked Smith Oldwick.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000004_000001.wav|"It's no use," he said to Tarzan.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000024_000001.wav|We could not hope to hide from them."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000010_000000.wav|"You were not born and reared in the jungle by wild beasts and among wild beasts, or you would possess, as I do, the fatalism of the jungle."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000015_000001.wav|Yes, surely I can go on."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000060_000000.wav|"Not only must I return to find my wife but I must right this wrong."|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000003_000003.wav|Nor could he help but admire her fortitude and the uncomplaining effort she was making to push on.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000059_000002.wav|I even told Smith Oldwick, who loves her, that she was a German spy.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000036_000000.wav|At this juncture the British sergeant who had been in command of the advance guard approached and when Tarzan and the girl spoke to him in English, explaining their disguises, he accepted their word, since they were evidently not of the same race as the creatures which lay dead about them.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000045_000000.wav|The Tommies, their packs and accouterments slung, were waiting the summons to continue their return march.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000055_000002.wav|Listen!" and he read an excerpt from the closely written page:|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000057_000000.wav|"She lives!" cried Tarzan.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000019_000000.wav|"Yes," said Tarzan, "but we shall have to do the best we can without him.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000019_000001.wav|I should like to find some place where we can barricade ourselves against attack from all sides.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7828/105179/7828_105179_000027_000000.wav|Then she heard footsteps running rapidly toward Smith Oldwick and, as his pistol spoke, there was a scream and the sound of a falling body.|7828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000044_000000.wav|"Does he like carrots yet?" replied Carol.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000027_000001.wav|Their coats were soaked through.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000037_000000.wav|"Perhaps I should never have gone away.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000032_000001.wav|They got the feed store all fixed up, and a new sign on it, black and gold.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000007_000001.wav|The nobility of good sense.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000048_000002.wav|Nothing had changed.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000014_000003.wav|The wet snow drenched their gloves; the water underfoot splashed their itching ankles.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000030_000000.wav|Kennicott chuckled, "By golly, look down there!|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000051_000000.wav|He was standing before the furnace.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000007_000005.wav|It's a new start.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000054_000000.wav|She smiled at him.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000014_000004.wav|They scuffled inch by inch for three blocks.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000057_000000.wav|The Sam Clarks called that evening and encouraged her to describe the missions.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000005_000000.wav|She felt strong.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000055_000000.wav|She saw a pencil mark on a window sill.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000003_000000.wav|THEY journeyed for three and a half months.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000020_000000.wav|"No, but----"|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000030_000005.wav|Chicken tight and dog tight.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000037_000002.wav|I wish they would get it over!|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000029_000002.wav|Stripped of summer leaves the houses were hopeless-temporary shelters.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000028_000000.wav|Carol had forgotten her facile hopes.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000030_000002.wav|And look!|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000035_000000.wav|Kennicott chuckled, "Look who's coming!|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/124547/1100_124547_000026_000001.wav|The driver stopped at a corner.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/135264/1100_135264_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER seventeen|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/135264/1100_135264_000002_000003.wav|The safe ways were "bushed" by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh bells sounded on it.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1100/135264/1100_135264_000027_000002.wav|But it's not in the power of my gift.|1100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000007_000004.wav|But these places were in Spanish colonies, and access to them had been forbidden by the mischievous and intolerant tyranny- ecclesiastical, political, and economic-which then rendered Spain the most backward of European nations; and Humboldt was the first scientific man of intellectual independence who had permission to visit them.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000016.wav|mr Haseman drags it in continually when its use is either pointless and redundant or else serves purely to darken wisdom. He speaks of the "Antillean complex" when he means the Antilles, of the "organic complex" instead of the characteristic or bodily characteristics of an animal or species, and of the "environmental complex" when he means nothing whatever but the environment.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000004_000000.wav|First, there are the travellers who skirt the continent in comfortable steamers, going from one great seaport to another, and occasionally taking a short railway journey to some big interior city not too far from the coast.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000006_000002.wav|To cross the Andes on mule back along the regular routes is a feat comparable to the feats of the energetic tourists who by thousands traverse the mule trails in out of the way nooks of Switzerland.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000005_000006.wav|They can add little to our geographical knowledge; but if they are competent zoologists or archaeologists, especially if they live or sojourn long in a locality, their work may be invaluable from the scientific standpoint.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000002_000003.wav|The only two other continents where such work, of like volume and value, remains to be done are Africa and Asia; and neither Africa nor Asia offers a more inviting field for the best kind of field worker in geographical exploration and in zoological, geological, and paleontological investigation.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000002.wav|Unquestionably, the distribution of many forms of life, past and present, offers problems which with our present paleontological knowledge we are wholly unable to solve.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000006.wav|The thought is essential, but ability to give it clear expression is only less essential.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000007_000003.wav|He visited places which had been settled and inhabited for centuries and traversed places which had been travelled by civilized men for years before he followed in their footsteps.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000006.wav|These land bridges, moreover, must, many of them, have been literally bridges; long, narrow tongues of land thrust in every direction across the broad oceans.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000010.wav|Surely, if he will take as much pains with his writing as he has with the far more difficult business of exploring and collecting, he will become able to express his thought clearly and forcefully.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000005_000001.wav|Such travelling is difficult in the sense that travelling in parts of Spain or southern Italy or the Balkan states is difficult.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000007_000001.wav|Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle" is to me the best book of the kind ever written; it is one of those classics which decline to go into artificial categories, and which stand by themselves; and yet Darwin, with his usual modesty, spoke of it as in effect a yachting voyage.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000004.wav|The trouble is that as more groups of animals are studied from the standpoint of this hypothesis the number of such land bridges demanded to account for the existing facts of animal distribution is constantly and indefinitely extended.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000007.wav|Ability to write well, if the writer has nothing to write about, entitles him to mere derision.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000006_000000.wav|Of course travellers of this kind need to remember that their experiences in themselves do not qualify them to speak as wilderness explorers.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000010_000000.wav|But as a rule the work must be specialized; and in its final shape it must be specialized everywhere.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000002_000004.wav|The explorer is merely the most adventurous kind of field geographer; and there are two or three points worth keeping in mind in dealing with the South American work of the field geographer and field zoologist.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000000.wav|Haseman made his long journey with a very slender equipment, his extraordinarily successful field work being due to his bodily health and vigor and his resourcefulness, self reliance, and resolution.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000007_000002.wav|Humboldt's work had a profound effect on the thought of the civilized world; his trip was one of adventure and danger; and yet it can hardly be called exploration proper.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000003_000000.wav|Roughly, the travellers who now visit (like those who for the past century have visited) South America come in three categories- although, of course, these categories are not divided by hard and fast lines.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000012_000000.wav|There is no better example of the kind of zoologist who does first class field work in the wilderness than john d Haseman, who spent from nineteen o seven to nineteen ten in painstaking and thorough scientific investigation over a large extent of South American territory hitherto only partially known or quite unexplored.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000007_000000.wav|A hundred years ago, even seventy or eighty years ago, before the age of steamboats and railroads, it was more difficult than at present to define the limits between this class and the next; and, moreover, in defining these limits I emphatically disclaim any intention of thereby attempting to establish a single standard of value for books of travel.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000010_000002.wav|This is true even of exploration done along the courses of unknown rivers; it is more true of the exploration, which must in South America become increasingly necessary, done across country, away from the rivers.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000017_000002.wav|But he generalized with complete recklessness from the slenderest data; and even these data he often completely misunderstood or misinterpreted.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000017_000007.wav|The evidence we have, so far as it goes, tends to show that the South American fauna always has been more archaic in type than the arctogeal fauna of the same chronological level.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000009_000001.wav|It can be accomplished with reasonable thoroughness only by the efforts of very many different workers, each in his own special field.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000007_000007.wav|He never went off the native routes of ordinary travel. But he was a devoted and able naturalist.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000011_000001.wav|The zoologist who works to most advantage in the wilderness must take his time, and therefore he must normally follow in the footsteps of, and not accompany, the first explorers. The man who wishes to do the best scientific work in the wilderness must not try to combine incompatible types of work nor to cover too much ground in too short a time.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000008_000000.wav|Travel of the third category includes the work of the true wilderness explorers who add to our sum of geographical knowledge and of the scientific men who, following their several bents, also work in the untrodden wilds.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000015_000001.wav|He holds that life has been intermittently distributed southward along these continental masses when there were no breaks in their southward connection, and intermittently exchanged between them when they were connected in the north; and he also upholds the view that from a common ancestral form the same species has been often developed in entirely disconnected localities when in these localities the conditions of environment were the same.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000004.wav|Modern scientists, like modern historians and, above all, scientific and historical educators, should ever keep in mind that clearness of speech and writing is essential to clearness of thought and that a simple, clear, and, if possible, vivid style is vital to the production of the best work in either science or history.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000000.wav|The opposite view is that there have been frequent connections between the great land masses, alike in the tropics, in the south temperate zone, and in the Antarctic region.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000012_000001.wav|Haseman's primary object was to study the characteristics and distribution of South American fishes, but as a matter of fact he studied at first hand many other more or less kindred subjects, as may be seen in his remarks on the Indians and in his excellent pamphlet on "Some Factors of Geographical Distribution in South America."|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000012.wav|He can take pains to see that his whole thought is expressed, instead of leaving vacancies which must be filled by the puzzled and groping reader.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000005_000003.wav|In economic, social, and political matters the studies and observations of these travellers are essential in order to supplement, and sometimes to correct, those of travellers of the first category; for it is not safe to generalize overmuch about any country merely from a visit to its capital or its chief seaport.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000001_000000.wav|The Work of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer in South America|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000017_000004.wav|In addition to valuable investigations of fossil bearing beds in the Argentine, he made some excellent general suggestions, such as that the pithecoid apes, like the baboons, do not stand in the line of man's ancestral stem but represent a divergence from it away from humanity and toward a retrogressive bestialization.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000005.wav|A recent book by one of the most learned advocates of this hypothesis calls for at least ten such land bridges between South America and all the other continents, present and past, of the world since a period geologically not very remote.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000008.wav|By parity of reasoning, the land bridges could be made a hundred instead of merely ten in number.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000013_000003.wav|There is, however, one serious criticism to be made on Haseman: the extreme obscurity of his style-an obscurity mixed with occasional bits of scientific pedantry, which makes it difficult to tell whether or not on some points his thought is obscure also.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000016_000003.wav|If we consider only the biological facts concerning some one group of animals it is not only easy but inevitable to conclude that its distribution must be accounted for by the existence of some former direct land bridge extending, for instance, between Patagonia and Australia, or between Brazil and South Africa, or between the West Indies and the Mediterranean, or between a part of the Andean region and northeastern Asia.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000005_000004.wav|These travellers of the second category can give us most interesting and valuable information about quaint little belated cities; about backward country folk, kindly or the reverse, who show a mixture of the ideas of savagery with the ideas of an ancient peasantry; and about rough old highways of travel which in comfort do not differ much from those of mediaeval Europe.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3852/175448/3852_175448_000017_000005.wav|But of his main theses he proves none, and what evidence we have tells against them. At the Museum of La Plata I found that the authorities were practically a unit in regarding his remains of tertiary men and proto men as being either the remains of tertiary American monkeys or of American Indians from strata that were long post tertiary.|3852
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000033_000001.wav|If I had a ladder and an axe, I could cut away the plastering and reach it."|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000043_000002.wav|I think it was done with a pickaxe."|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000036_000000.wav|"Would it not be better to have a carpenter?" asked Elizabeth Eliza.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000022_000001.wav|Amanda went to the dumb waiter for the dinner, but she could not move it down.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000055_000000.wav|"I think," said mr Peterkin, "she would say, let them that want tea have it; the rest can go without."|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000018_000000.wav|"No dinner!" exclaimed Agamemnon.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000027_000000.wav|"Squash, tomato, potato, and sweet potato," mrs Peterkin continued.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000021_000001.wav|All consented to this.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000061_000000.wav|"The trouble was in the weight," said the carpenter.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000047_000000.wav|They went to the carpenter's house, but found he had gone out of town for a day's job.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000011_000001.wav|"Very well, then." said mr Peterkin, "let them go and ask the lady from Philadelphia."|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000003_000002.wav|mr Peterkin sat down to cut the ham.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000012_000000.wav|"All of us?" cried one of the little boys, in the excitement of the moment.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000046_000000.wav|"Happy man," exclaimed mr Peterkin, "he has a dinner to eat!"|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000014_000001.wav|Agamemnon and Elizabeth Eliza told her all the difficulty, and the lady from Philadelphia said, "But why don't you give the slices of fat to those who like the fat, and the slices of lean to those who like the lean?"|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000052_000000.wav|"Oh, yes," said mrs Peterkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000002_000001.wav|This was at dinner time.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000035_000000.wav|"If you think you could do it," said mr Peterkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000030_000000.wav|"Let us sit down and think about it," said mr Peterkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000063_000000.wav|The dinner was put upon the table.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000017_000002.wav|But something was the matter; she could not pull it up.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000044_000001.wav|But when mr Peterkin reached the carpenter's shop, there was no carpenter to be found there.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000043_000001.wav|Now, I should like to know how they did it; and I mean to borrow a book and read.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000024_000000.wav|"What is there for dinner?" asked mr Peterkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000056_000000.wav|So they had tea, and, as it proved, all sat down to it.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000042_000000.wav|"Oh, yes," interrupted Elizabeth Eliza, "and Pompeii."|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000059_000000.wav|When the matter was explained to him, he went into the dining room, looked into the dumb waiter, untwisted a cord, and arranged the weight, and pulled up the dinner.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000041_000000.wav|"This affair of the turkey," he said, "reminds me of those buried cities that have been dug out,--Herculaneum, for instance."|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000009_000000.wav|At last said mrs Peterkin, rather uncertainly, "Suppose we ask the lady from Philadelphia what is best to be done."|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000060_000000.wav|There was a family shout.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000011_000000.wav|And they all tried, but they couldn't.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000007_000000.wav|"What shall be done now?" said mrs Peterkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000032_000000.wav|"Let us hear it," said mr Peterkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000062_000000.wav|"That is why it is called a dumb waiter," Solomon john explained to the little boys.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000053_000000.wav|"Let us try to think what she would advise us," said mr Peterkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000038_000000.wav|"A carpenter!|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000040_000000.wav|Agamemnon proposed that, meanwhile, he should go and borrow a book; for he had another idea.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000015_000002.wav|"Why didn't we think of that?" said they, and ran home to tell their mother.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000039_000000.wav|It was decided that mr Peterkin, Solomon john, and the little boys should go in search of a carpenter.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000010_000000.wav|But mr Peterkin said he didn't like to go to her for everything; let the children try and eat their dinner as it was.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000058_000000.wav|They asked him to bring a ladder, axes and pickaxe.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000037_000000.wav|"A carpenter might have a ladder and an axe, and I think we have neither," said mrs Peterkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000017_000003.wav|There was the dinner, but she could not reach it.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000017_000004.wav|All the family, in turn, went and tried; all pulled together, in vain; the dinner could not be stirred.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000050_000002.wav|A part of the family thought it would not do; the rest wanted tea.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000013_000000.wav|"Yes," said mrs Peterkin, "only put on your india rubber boots." And they hurried out of the house.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000028_000000.wav|"Sweet potato!" exclaimed both the little boys.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000017_000001.wav|All had seated themselves at the dinner table, and Amanda had gone to take out the dinner she had sent up from the kitchen on the dumb waiter.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000004_000000.wav|It was a rule of the Peterkin family, that no one should eat any of the vegetables without some of the meat; so now, although the children saw upon their plates apple sauce and squash and tomato and sweet potato and sour potato, not one of them could eat a mouthful, because not one was satisfied with the meat.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000025_000000.wav|"Roast turkey," said mrs Peterkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000003_000008.wav|Nobody had what he could eat.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000021_000002.wav|Each one went down, taking a napkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000038_000001.wav|A carpenter!" exclaimed the rest.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000029_000000.wav|"I am very glad now that I did not have cranberry," said mrs Peterkin, anxious to find a bright point.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000020_000000.wav|At last mr Peterkin said, "I am not proud.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134121/1050_134121_000050_000000.wav|Time passed on, and the question arose about tea.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000029_000000.wav|So they went into the parlor, and sat down to make a book.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000008_000000.wav|It was very pleasant, too, moonlight evenings.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000021_000000.wav|"Let us think how we shall get one," said mrs Peterkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000036_000003.wav|The bookseller was just shutting up his shop.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000009_000000.wav|So did Elizabeth Eliza, only she had to have her back to the moon.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000030_000003.wav|mrs Peterkins put on her cape bonnet, and the little boys got into their india rubber boots, and off they went.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000002_000000.wav|ELIZABETH ELIZA had a present of a piano, and she was to take lessons of the postmaster's daughter.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000018_000004.wav|"People who have a great many books are very wise." Then they counted up that there were very few books in the house,--a few school books and mrs Peterkin's cook book were all.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000037_000000.wav|So Solomon john sat down again, but there was no paper.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000054_000000.wav|"I have tried the whip," said Elizabeth Eliza.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000037_000001.wav|And now the bookstore was shut up.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000050_000000.wav|So they tried this, but the horse would not stir.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000057_000000.wav|"We have got plenty of cream," said Elizabeth Eliza.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000030_000002.wav|So they decided to make some. The little boys said they could find some nutgalls up in the woods. So they all agreed to set out and pick some.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000061_000000.wav|They carried some out to the horse, who swallowed it down very quickly.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000047_000000.wav|Elizabeth Eliza shook the reins, and pulled them, and then she clucked to the horse; and mrs Peterkin clucked; and the little boys whistled and shouted; but still the horse would not go.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000030_000000.wav|What should he do for ink?|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000033_000002.wav|But it was already dark.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000056_000000.wav|"We might make those," said mrs Peterkin, thoughtfully.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000035_000000.wav|But there were no geese!|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000035_000002.wav|"No geese but ourselves," said mrs Peterkin, wittily, as they returned to the house. The sight of this procession roused up the village.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000062_000000.wav|"That is just what he wanted," said mrs Peterkin; "now he will certainly go!"|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000033_000005.wav|When they got there, the fowls were all at roost, so they could look at them quietly.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000016_000000.wav|"Why did we not think of that before?" said mrs Peterkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000033_000004.wav|They set out in procession for the poultry yard.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000048_000000.wav|"We shall have to whip him," said Elizabeth Eliza.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000036_000000.wav|After the crowd had dispersed, Solomon john sat down to think of his writing again.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000012_000000.wav|One day, when she was talking with the lady from Philadelphia, she spoke of this trouble.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134120/1050_134120_000018_000003.wav|"It comes from books," said one of the family.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000032_000007.wav|They saw her digging with her trowel round a sassafras bush.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000019_000000.wav|"Publish them, of course."|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000004_000000.wav|By Lucretia p Hale|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000040_000001.wav|"Why didn't we think of that?" said Elizabeth Eliza; and they all went back to their mother, and she had her cup of coffee.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000023_000000.wav|THIS was mrs Peterkin.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000029_000000.wav|Then he tried, each in turn, some oxalic, cyanic, acetic, phosphoric, chloric, hyperchloric, sulphuric, boracic, silicic, nitric, formic, nitrous nitric, and carbonic acids.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000030_000001.wav|The chemist was not discouraged.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000033_000000.wav|There she stopped, and stuffed her huge pockets with some of all the kinds of herbs.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000015_000000.wav|mr Peterkin believed there could be no difficulty, there was but one question:--|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000031_000003.wav|He should like to be paid, and go.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000028_000004.wav|But no; it was no better.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000028_000000.wav|First he looked at the coffee, and then stirred it.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000032_000006.wav|It was steeple crowned, without any vane.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000036_000003.wav|mrs Peterkin tasted, and did the same.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000036_000002.wav|The children tasted after each mixture, but made up dreadful faces.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000023_000003.wav|It tasted bad.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000023_000001.wav|It was a mistake.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000028_000005.wav|"I have it!" exclaimed the chemist,--"a little ammonia is just the thing!" No, it wasn't the thing at all.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000035_000002.wav|mrs|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000016_000000.wav|Shall the adventures of the Peterkin family be published?|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000014_000001.wav|It would not take so long to write as a letter, and would not be so expensive.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000014_000002.wav|But could they get the whole subject on a postal?|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000031_000000.wav|The chemist said that all he had done ought to have taken out the salt.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000038_000000.wav|Then the family were in despair, and all sat and thought a great while. It was growing late in the day, and mrs Peterkin hadn't had her cup of coffee.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000037_000003.wav|And all she would take for pay was five cents in currency.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000026_000002.wav|But he didn't.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000036_000004.wav|The more the old woman stirred, and the more she put in, the worse it all seemed to taste.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000031_000007.wav|He sat himself down to do it.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000026_000001.wav|He came near throwing his crucible-that was the name of his melting pot-at their heads.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000038_000001.wav|At last Elizabeth Eliza said, "They say that the lady from Philadelphia, who is staying in town, is very wise.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000025_000001.wav|He could turn things into almost gold.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000020_000000.wav|And in time came the answer of the lady from Philadelphia:--"Yes, of course; publish them."|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000036_000001.wav|Then she tried a little flagroot and snakeroot, then some spruce gum, and some caraway and some dill, some rue and rosemary, some sweet marjoram and sour, some oppermint and sappermint, a little spearmint and peppermint, some wild thyme, and some of the other tame time, some tansy and basil, and catnip and valerian, and sassafras, ginger, and pennyroyal.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000032_000005.wav|They knew her by her hat.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000029_000001.wav|mrs Peterkin tasted each, and said the flavor was pleasant, but not precisely that of coffee.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000037_000001.wav|She believed the coffee was bewitched.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000018_000001.wav|Their card had been addressed to the lady from Philadelphia, with the number of her street.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1050/134119/1050_134119_000038_000002.wav|Suppose I go and ask her what is best to be done." To this they all agreed, it was a great thought, and off Elizabeth Eliza went.|1050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000032_000000.wav|"They're bigger," said Dora.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000028_000000.wav|"I couldn't help it.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000079_000001.wav|"You just shut up, Dora Keith."|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000025_000002.wav|I'm not going to Sunday School or church at all.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000031_000000.wav|"The very idea of your being scared of those cows," scoffed Davy.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000033_000002.wav|This is great.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000063_000000.wav|"Did you put your collection in?"|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000027_000000.wav|"You've got to," said Davy.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000102_000000.wav|"You bet!" said Davy emphatically.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000069_000000.wav|"Was prayer meeting?"|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000037_000000.wav|"We've come to go fishing," announced Davy.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000011_000000.wav|"Darn her," exploded Davy.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000129_000001.wav|Go, now!"|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000046_000001.wav|"And they have far better times than we have.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000067_000000.wav|"Was the Ladies' Aid announced for next week?"|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000076_000000.wav|"You look pale.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123192/829_123192_000122_000003.wav|Good night."|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000053_000001.wav|He was bad."|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000037_000001.wav|Have you got a title for it?"|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000024_000001.wav|But I like everything to come right at last."|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000048_000000.wav|"I don't believe it," said Anne flatly.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000023_000000.wav|"But you like to cry over stories?"|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000032_000001.wav|"He had to be punished."|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000006_000000.wav|"Oh, have you really begun it?" cried Diana, all alight with eager interest in a moment.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000020_000000.wav|"How are you going to end it-happily or unhappily?"|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000036_000000.wav|"That wouldn't have been romantic, and, besides, it would have made the story too long."|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000047_000001.wav|"But your folks ain't like real folks anywhere.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000031_000000.wav|"Why did you kill MAURICE LENNOX?" she asked reproachfully.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000077_000003.wav|I can teach.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000038_000001.wav|I call it AVERIL'S ATONEMENT. Doesn't that sound nice and alliterative?|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000016_000000.wav|"How much do you suppose you'll get for it?" asked Diana.|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/829/123191/829_123191_000047_000004.wav|If he'd done that in real life she'd have pitched him."|829
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/128310/636_128310_000025_000000.wav|"Worth no more than that," repeated mr Cruncher.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/128310/636_128310_000021_000000.wav|"You weren't.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/128310/636_128310_000030_000003.wav|Keep still!"|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/128310/636_128310_000019_000000.wav|"Saying your prayers!|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/128331/636_128331_000016_000000.wav|"Not dead!|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000028_000000.wav|To Stew Terrapins.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000058_000000.wav|Wash and drain the oysters, and put them in salt and water, that will bear an egg; let them scald till plump, and put them in a glass jar, with some cloves and whole peppers, and when cold cover them with vinegar.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000010_000000.wav|Make a stuffing of bread, butter, salt, pepper and parsley; fill a large shad with this, and bake it in a stove or oven.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000024_000000.wav|To Boil Salt Salmon.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000044_000000.wav|A Rich Oyster Pie.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000027_000001.wav|A fat shad is very nice boiled, although rock and bass are preferred generally; when done, take it up on a fish dish, and cover it with egg sauce or drawn butter and parsley.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000009_000000.wav|To Bake a Fresh Shad.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000061_000000.wav|A Dish of Poached Eggs.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000051_000000.wav|Plain Oyster Pie.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000015_000000.wav|To Stew Clams.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000003_000000.wav|To Bake a Rock Fish.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000067_000000.wav|Omelet.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/636/123163/636_123163_000032_000000.wav|Another Way.|636
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2039/141209/2039_141209_000021_000000.wav|"Where is the Doctor?" I asked.|2039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000001_000000.wav|AN ADJUSTMENT OF NATURE|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000005_000002.wav|She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000023_000001.wav|He had just come off the "trail," he said, at one of the North River ferries.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000000.wav|Three years ago Kraft, Bill Judkins (a poet), and I took our meals at Cypher's, on Eighth Avenue.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000005_000005.wav|I never saw her but I thought of the Yosemite.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000002_000005.wav|The idea of Kraft-but that is not the beginning of the story.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000017_000001.wav|Few things were less improbable.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000004_000004.wav|Pedestalled and in bronze she might have stood with the noblest of her heroic sisters as "Liver and Bacon Enlivening the World." She belonged to Cypher's.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000028_000001.wav|"That's the girl for my money," he declared.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000004_000000.wav|But the chief thing at Cypher's was Milly.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000022_000001.wav|We embraced him as a specimen, and in three minutes we had all but died for one another as friends.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000004.wav|We had confidence in Cypher's sullenness and smouldering ferocity.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000008.wav|Now and then we paid up back scores.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000005_000001.wav|Her sleeves were always rolled above her elbows. She could have taken us three musketeers in her two hands and dropped us out of the window.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000037_000000.wav|I hurried away to see Kraft.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000020_000002.wav|We shuddered to think of Milly, with her voice modulated and her elbows covered, pouring tea in the marble teepee of a tree murderer.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000027_000002.wav|"Come out and drink," he shouted.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000024_000000.wav|"Bank drafts for two millions," was his summing up, "and a thousand a day piling up from my claims.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000029_000000.wav|"You'll take another whiskey and milk now," Kraft persuaded, with Satan's smile.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000013_000000.wav|"Never!" exclaimed Judkins and I, in horror.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000020_000004.wav|In Cypher's she belonged-in the bacon smoke, the cabbage perfume, the grand, Wagnerian chorus of hurled ironstone china and rattling casters.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000027_000001.wav|He leaped up and pounded the Klondiker's back.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000027_000000.wav|Kraft was the first to act.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000005_000006.wav|And yet, somehow, I could never think of her as existing outside of Cypher's.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000003.wav|We paid or we did not pay.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000028_000000.wav|There he rumbled a roughly good humoured protest.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000040_000000.wav|"Then," said I, "when you led us against the lumberman-the-Klondiker --it wasn't altogether on account of the Unerring Artistic Adjustment of Nature?"|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000005_000007.wav|There nature had placed her, and she had taken root and grown mightily.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000036_000001.wav|The title was "Boadicea," and the figure seemed to fill all out of doors.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000002_000004.wav|There was a story behind the picture, so I went home and let it drip out of a fountain pen.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000012_000000.wav|"One day," concluded Kraft, solemnly, "there will come to Cypher's for a plate of beans a millionaire lumberman from Wisconsin, and he will marry Milly."|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000038_000000.wav|"I didn't know," I said to him.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000006.wav|He sat at a worm eaten desk, covered with files of waiters' checks so old that I was sure the bottomest one was for clams that Hendrik Hudson had eaten and paid for. Cypher had the power, in common with Napoleon the third. and the goggle eyed perch, of throwing a film over his eyes, rendering opaque the windows of his soul.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000001.wav|I say "took." When we had money, Cypher got it "off of" us, as he expressed it.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000009_000000.wav|"She will go to night school and become refined?" I ventured anxiously.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000017_000006.wav|The Sunday newspaper's headliner's work is cut for him.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000021_000001.wav|But Alaska and not Wisconsin bore the burden of the visitation.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000017_000005.wav|Why, the alphabet itself connives.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000011_000001.wav|"You do not think that Milly will begin to lace?"|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000033_000002.wav|And Milly-I mean the Natural Adjustment-is saved!"|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000028_000002.wav|"She can eat out of my skillet the rest of her life.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000036_000002.wav|But of all the picture's admirers who stood before it, I believe I was the only one who longed for Boadicea to stalk from her frame, bringing me corned beef hash with poached egg.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000036_000000.wav|But, as I said, I saw a painting the other day that was sold for five thousand dollars.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000004_000005.wav|You expected to see her colossal figure loom through that reeking blue cloud of smoke from frying fat just as you expect the Palisades to appear through a drifting Hudson River fog.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000028_000004.wav|I'm going back there and ask her to marry me.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000020_000003.wav|No!|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000003_000002.wav|We had no credit; we went in, called for food and ate it.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000016_000000.wav|"From Wisconsin!" groaned Judkins.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000017_000000.wav|We agreed that the awful fate seemed to menace her.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000002_000001.wav|The painter was a young scrub out of the West named Kraft, who had a favourite food and a pet theory.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000010_000001.wav|"Caesar had his Brutus-the cotton has its bollworm, the chorus girl has her Pittsburger, the summer boarder has his poison ivy, the hero has his Carnegie medal, art has its Morgan, the rose has its-"|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000006_000000.wav|It was Kraft who first voiced the fear that each of us must have held latently.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000033_000001.wav|"He will propose to the first white apron he sees in a dairy restaurant to morrow.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000033_000000.wav|"He will never find Cypher's again," said Kraft.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000034_000000.wav|And back to Cypher's went we three, and, finding customers scarce, we joined hands and did an Indian dance with Milly in the centre.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000039_000001.wav|"Any evening at seven."|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000024_000001.wav|And now I want some beef stew and canned peaches.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000018_000000.wav|"Winsome Waitress Wins Wealthy Wisconsin Woodsman."|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000004_000001.wav|Milly was a waitress.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000024_000004.wav|You gentlemen order what you want."|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000035_000001.wav|And about that time a little luck descended upon us three, and we were enabled to buy costlier and less wholesome food than Cypher's.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000002_000003.wav|His theory was fixed around corned beef hash with poached egg.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000035_000000.wav|This, I say, happened three years ago.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000029_000001.wav|"I thought you up country fellows were better sports."|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000026_000000.wav|At last the bollworm had attacked the cotton-the poison ivy was reaching out its tendrils to entwine the summer boarder-the millionaire lumberman, thinly disguised as the Alaskan miner, was about to engulf our Milly and upset Nature's adjustment.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000014_000000.wav|"A lumberman," repeated Kraft, hoarsely.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000017_000002.wav|Milly, like some vast virgin stretch of pine woods, was made to catch the lumberman's eye.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000011_000000.wav|"Speak," I interrupted, much perturbed.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000037_000001.wav|His satanic eyes were the same, his hair was worse tangled, but his clothes had been made by a tailor.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/92812/7297_92812_000035_000002.wav|Our paths separated, and I saw Kraft no more and Judkins seldom.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000015_000001.wav|The bookcase proper rested upon this projecting cupboard, thus raising the books above the level of the furniture.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000002_000000.wav|THE LIBRARY, SMOKING ROOM, AND "DEN"|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000004_000004.wav|Beautiful bindings were still highly valued, and some of the most wonderful work produced in France belongs to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; but as people began to buy books for the sake of what they contained, less exaggerated importance was attached to their exterior, so that bindings, though perfect as taste and skill could make them, were seldom as extravagantly enriched as in the two preceding centuries.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000015_000000.wav|Almost all the old bookcases had one feature in common: that is, the lower cupboard with solid doors.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000010_000004.wav|The plain paper or buckram covers of a good publisher are, in fact, more decorative, because more artistic, than showy tree calf or "antique morocco."|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000015_000003.wav|Architects are beginning to rediscover the forgotten fact that the stud of a room should be regulated by the dimensions of its floor space; so that in the newer houses the dwarf bookcase is no longer a necessity.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000010_000000.wav|The question of binding leads incidentally to that of editions, though the latter is hardly within the scope of this book.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000007_000000.wav|The substitution of the octavo for the folio, and certain modifications in binding which made it possible to stand books upright instead of laying one above the other with edges outward, gradually gave to the library a more modern aspect.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000022_000001.wav|Fragile chairs, lace petticoat lamp shades and irrelevant bric a brac are consequently excluded; and the master's sense of comfort often expresses itself in a set of "office" furniture-a roller top desk, a revolving chair, and others of the puffy type already described as the accepted model of a luxurious seat.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000001_000000.wav|twelve|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000014_000002.wav|It was natural that where books were few, small bookcases should be preferred to a room lined with shelves; and in the seventeenth century, according to john Evelyn, the "three nations of Great Britain" contained fewer books than Paris.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000011_000000.wav|The same principle applies to the library itself: plain shelves filled with good editions in good bindings are more truly decorative than ornate bookcases lined with tawdry books.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000022_000004.wav|Convenience was not sacrificed to beauty in either desk or chair; but both the old pieces, being designed by skilled cabinet makers, were as decorative as they were useful.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000008_000000.wav|There is no doubt that this is not only the most practical, but the most decorative, way of housing any collection of books large enough to be so employed.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000012_000001.wav|The best examples of this treatment are found in France.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000026_000001.wav|The walls should be free from pattern and light in color, since dark walls necessitate much artificial light, and have the disadvantage of making a room look small.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000008_000001.wav|To adorn the walls of a library, and then conceal their ornamentation by expensive bookcases, is a waste, or rather a misapplication, of effects-always a sin against aesthetic principles.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000004_000001.wav|It was not until the middle of the seventeenth century that the taste for books became a taste for reading.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000010_000001.wav|People who have begun to notice the outside of their books naturally come to appreciate paper and type; and thus learn that the modern book is too often merely the cheapest possible vehicle for putting words into print.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000007_000001.wav|In France, by the middle of the seventeenth century, the library had come to be a recognized feature in private houses.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000004_000000.wav|Long after the establishment of the printing press, books, except in the hands of the scholar, continued to be a kind of curiosity, like other objects of art: less an intellectual need than a treasure upon which rich men prided themselves.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000009_000001.wav|To be decorative, a bookcase need not contain the productions of the master binders,--old volumes by Eve and Derome, or the work of Roger Payne and Sanderson,--unsurpassed as they are in color value.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7297/275885/7297_275885_000003_000000.wav|In the days when furniture was defined as "that which may be carried about," the natural bookcase was a chest with a strong lock.|7297
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000012_000001.wav|"Oh, guardy dear, it's been splendid-just splendid-nothing but sun and cheers and flowers-and joy."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000006_000002.wav|He had long thought that he must get away from it all.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000017_000002.wav|Her manner, too, as she came towards him, was, he thought, a little strained.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000006_000004.wav|To explain matters now would do no good, spoiling as it would Galva's happiness.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000025_000000.wav|"But you will come back, mr Sydney?"|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000009_000001.wav|He had seen the yachts in the bay gay with little flags.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000026_000000.wav|"Oh yes-that is, I----Oh, I'm sure to come back-yes-sure-to-come-back."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000023_000000.wav|A moment's final hesitation, then Edward took the plunge.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000006_000003.wav|Every kind word, every smile was a stab to him.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000014_000003.wav|there would have been no joy, then, only----"|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000009_000002.wav|He had heard, too, the bells pealing joyously from the tall belfry of the Cathedral, the firing of the guns on the fort, and the distant murmur of the people cheering their Queen.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000010_000000.wav|He had said a little prayer for everybody and had fallen asleep there on the flower decked balcony.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000012_000000.wav|"A right down, regular, Royal Queen," she quoted gaily as she dropped an elegant curtsey.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000008_000000.wav|From there he had seen the procession leave the palace, had noted the enthusiasm of the holiday crowd, and, best of all, had seen Galva turn in her carriage and wave her bouquet of orchids at his balcony.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000001_000000.wav|THE IMPOSTOR|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000005_000000.wav|Amongst other thoughts which crowded into the brain of mr Povey were the warm feelings he had experienced towards Charlotte when, as he thought, he lay dying in Enrico's death chamber, and he told himself that they were very right thoughts to have.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000016_000001.wav|It was time for him to leave the stage, to take off the motley, for he had no part in the next act of the drama.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000029_000001.wav|Why, I walked twice round the palace this morning; besides, I'm not going to morrow." Now that his departure had been decided on, and he had burnt his boats, he felt disposed to allow himself the luxury of delay.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000027_000002.wav|As she felt the paper under her fingers she smiled.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000013_000000.wav|She turned to her husband who was standing a little behind her, for the ceremonies in the Cathedral had been twofold that day, and the Archbishop who had placed the crown on the little head, had, in the little private chapel, placed a circlet of gold also on the Queen's finger.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000032_000004.wav|The lid was broken here and there, and had been carefully pasted together with scraps of plaster paper.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000017_000000.wav|The attendant, who in the gorgeous Estrato livery was slowly propelling the chair, pulled up rather suddenly, as, turning into one of the alley ways which led back to the palace he came in sight of the figure of a woman.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000029_000002.wav|"It may be a month before I really go," he added.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000032_000003.wav|She selected a tiny key from the bunch at her waist and, opening the case, took out a box, a little cardboard box, which had once contained chocolates.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000006_000001.wav|The thought that the time had now come when his part in her affairs was done was a very bitter one, but as day followed day the feeling that he was an impostor grew stronger.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/77173/3645_77173_000003_000001.wav|The shrubberies loomed big in the violet twilight and afar out the sea lay placid, steel blue and mysterious.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000037_000000.wav|"And the boy?" he asked, persistently.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000045_000003.wav|Here Patricia was also brought in her wheel chair by Beth, who then left the two invalids together.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000040_000000.wav|"Make it ten, Jane."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000061_000000.wav|Although he had no teacher, as yet, he had begun to understand color a little, and succeeded in finishing one or two water color sketches which Patsy, who knew nothing at all of such things, pronounced "wonderfully fine." Of course the boy blushed with pleasure and was encouraged to still greater effort.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000014_000000.wav|"To your brother?"|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000004_000000.wav|mr Watson gave a start of astonishment.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000027_000000.wav|The lawyer sighed.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000041_000001.wav|"Now leave me, and prepare the paper at once.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000068_000000.wav|"He shall not come," declared Aunt Jane, sternly.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000021_000000.wav|"Then do as I bid you, Silas Watson."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000018_000000.wav|"Jane!"|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000073_000000.wav|Then she burst into laughter; she could not help it, the sight was too ridiculous.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000029_000000.wav|"Drat the boy!|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000072_000000.wav|Louise hesitated, and looked from Miss Jane to Patsy, and back again. They were glaring upon each other like two gorgons.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000020_000000.wav|"Yes."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000079_000000.wav|This arrangement gave great pleasure to both Uncle john and mr Watson, the latter of whom was often present at the "state dinner," and both men congratulated Patsy upon the distinct victory she had won.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000068_000002.wav|Phibbs, call Louise!"|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000071_000000.wav|"Also, Louise," said Patsy, "tell them not to lay a plate for me, and ask Oscar to be ready with the wagon at five o'clock.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000069_000001.wav|Presently Louise appeared.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000010_000000.wav|"Yes, Jane," jotting down the memorandum.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000013_000000.wav|"Also to my brother, john Merrick, the sum of five thousand dollars," she resumed.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000008_000000.wav|"Yes?" he said, enquiringly, and drew from his pocket a pencil and paper.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000060_000001.wav|His fits of gloomy abstraction and violent bursts of temper had alike vanished, or only prevailed at brief intervals.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000005_000000.wav|"Very well, Jane," he said, briefly.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000063_000000.wav|One day she said calmly to Aunt Jane:|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000078_000000.wav|Patsy was radiant with delight, and the next day Aunt Jane remarked casually that she did not object to the boy's presence at dinner, at all, and he could come whenever he liked.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000059_000001.wav|The four had many excursions and picnics into the country together; but Kenneth and Patsy were recognized as especial chums, and the other girls did not interfere in their friendship except to tease them, occasionally, in a good natured way.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000019_000000.wav|"Did you hear me?"|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000067_000001.wav|I just took it," said Patsy, saucily.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000066_000000.wav|"Who gave you such authority?" she demanded.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000022_000000.wav|He leaned back in his chair and looked at her thoughtfully.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000028_000001.wav|You seem to have forgotten him," he said.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000024_000002.wav|She's frank and open and brave, and will do credit to my judgment."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000048_000000.wav|"Patricia is quite right, Silas," she declared, "and I deserve all that she has said.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000075_000000.wav|"How?" asked Patsy.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000053_000000.wav|After that it became the daily program for Patsy to spend her mornings in Aunt Jane's little garden, and although they sometimes clashed, and, as Phibbs told Beth, "had dreadful fights," they both enjoyed these hours very much.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000064_000000.wav|"I've invited Kenneth to dinner this evening."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000012_000000.wav|The lawyer seemed disappointed.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/186230/3645_186230_000024_000001.wav|I liked the child from the first.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000006_000001.wav|Kindly wait your turn."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000011_000001.wav|He was attired as though for a wedding, from his cravat to his double watch chain and varnished boots.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000046_000000.wav|"Very good."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000026_000000.wav|He let his eyes rest on Alexey Alexandrovitch's feet, feeling that he might offend his client by the sight of his irrepressible amusement.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000045_000000.wav|"In a week's time.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000032_000003.wav|I should not permit myself to express it so, speaking with a man of no education," he said, "but I imagine that to you this is comprehensible."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000041_000000.wav|On his way back he caught unobserved another moth.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000006_000000.wav|"He has no time free; he is always busy.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000043_000000.wav|"I will communicate my decision to you by letter," said Alexey Alexandrovitch, getting up, and he clutched at the table.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000035_000001.wav|But he had religious scruples, which hindered the execution of such a plan.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000038_000002.wav|If one wants the result, one must admit the means."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000011_000002.wav|His face was clever and manly, but his dress was dandified and in bad taste.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000045_000001.wav|Your answer as to whether you will undertake to conduct the case, and on what terms, you will be so good as to communicate to me."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000044_000001.wav|"When can I reckon on receiving information from you?" he asked, moving towards the door, his eyes and his varnished boots shining.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000023_000000.wav|"You desire my assistance in securing a divorce?"|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000005_000000.wav|"Can't he spare time to see me?" said Alexey Alexandrovitch.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000024_000003.wav|It is very possible that if that form does not correspond with my requirements I may give up a legal divorce."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000020_000000.wav|Alexey Alexandrovitch sighed, plucking up his courage.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000030_000000.wav|"Divorce by our laws," he said, with a slight shade of disapprobation of our laws, "is possible, as you are aware, in the following cases.... Wait a little!" he called to a clerk who put his head in at the door, but he got up all the same, said a few words to him, and sat down again. "...|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000036_000000.wav|"That is out of the question in the present case," he said.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000034_000000.wav|"People cannot go on living together-here you have a fact.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000013_000003.wav|The lawyer, with a swiftness that could never have been expected of him, opened his hands, caught the moth, and resumed his former attitude.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000012_000000.wav|"Pray walk in," said the lawyer, addressing Alexey Alexandrovitch; and, gloomily ushering Karenin in before him, he closed the door.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000030_000002.wav|And therefore, guided by precedents, I must inform you that in practice cases of divorce may all be reduced to the following-there's no physical defect, I may assume, nor desertion?..."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000032_000000.wav|"--May be reduced to the following: adultery of one of the married parties, and the detection in the fact of the guilty party by mutual agreement, and failing such agreement, accidental detection.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000013_000001.wav|He sat down himself, and, rubbing his little hands with short fingers covered with white hairs, he bent his head on one side.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000020_000001.wav|But having once made up his mind he went on in his shrill voice, without timidity-or hesitation, accentuating here and there a word.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000010_000000.wav|"Coming immediately," said the clerk; and two minutes later there did actually appear in the doorway the large figure of an old solicitor who had been consulting with the lawyer himself.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000028_000000.wav|"You would be glad," the lawyer, without lifting his eyes, responded, adopting, with a certain satisfaction, the tone of his client's remarks, "for me to lay before you all the methods by which you could secure what you desire?"|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000021_000000.wav|"I have the misfortune," Alexey Alexandrovitch began, "to have been deceived in my married life, and I desire to break off all relations with my wife by legal means-that is, to be divorced, but to do this so that my son may not remain with his mother."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000009_000001.wav|His whole life had been spent in administrative work, and consequently, when he did not approve of anything, his disapproval was softened by the recognition of the inevitability of mistakes and the possibility of reform in every department.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000009_000003.wav|But till then he had had nothing to do with the law courts, and so had disapproved of their publicity simply in theory; now his disapprobation was strengthened by the unpleasant impression made on him in the lawyer's waiting room.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000024_000002.wav|I want a divorce, but the form in which it is possible is of great consequence to me.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000034_000001.wav|And if both are agreed about it, the details and formalities become a matter of no importance.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000011_000000.wav|The lawyer was a little, squat, bald man, with a dark, reddish beard, light colored long eyebrows, and an overhanging brow.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000008_000000.wav|The clerk took the card and, obviously not approving of what he read on it, went to the door.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000002_000005.wav|"What are you wanting?"|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000002_000004.wav|He could not help observing this. One of the clerks, without getting up, turned wrathfully to Alexey Alexandrovitch, half closing his eyes.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000022_000000.wav|The lawyer's gray eyes tried not to laugh, but they were dancing with irrepressible glee, and Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that it was not simply the delight of a man who has just got a profitable job: there was triumph and joy, there was a gleam like the malignant gleam he saw in his wife's eyes.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000025_000000.wav|"Oh, that's always the case," said the lawyer, "and that's always for you to decide."|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000032_000001.wav|It must be admitted that the latter case is rarely met with in practice," said the lawyer, and stealing a glance at Alexey Alexandrovitch he paused, as a man selling pistols, after enlarging on the advantages of each weapon, might await his customer's choice.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000041_000001.wav|"Nice state my rep curtains will be in by the summer!" he thought, frowning.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000024_000000.wav|"Yes, precisely so; but I ought to warn you that I may be wasting your time and attention.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000019_000000.wav|"I know you and the good"--again he caught a moth-"work you are doing, like every Russian," said the lawyer, bowing.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000026_000001.wav|He looked at a moth that flew before his nose, and moved his hands, but did not catch it from regard for Alexey Alexandrovitch's position.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3645/39840/3645_39840_000002_000003.wav|The appurtenances of the writing tables, about which Alexey Alexandrovitch was himself very fastidious, were exceptionally good.|3645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000005_000000.wav|Rather broken and crumbled, certainly, but still biscuits.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000004_000001.wav|'Look here!|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000026_000000.wav|'I think I'm glad it's only a game; it IS only a game, isn't it?' said Jane.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000031_000004.wav|And I'll tell the others to fetch theirs.'|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000090_000006.wav|A new cap, and everything!'|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000040_000001.wav|They looked at Robert with surprised respect.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000072_000000.wav|'I should just hope we HAD!' he said; 'I'd give something for a jolly good boiling kettle of lead.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000008_000000.wav|'Yes, but look here, Squirrel,' said Robert; 'you're so clever at explaining about invisibleness and all that.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000006_000000.wav|'I got them this morning — cook — and I'd quite forgotten,' he explained as he divided them with scrupulous fairness into four heaps.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000088_000000.wav|'Look here,' she said, 'it's just come into my head.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000053_000001.wav|Never,|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000042_000001.wav|'He's been getting ready to be brave all the afternoon.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000063_000004.wav|But he saw the clinging fingers, and hit them as hard as he could with an iron bar that he caught up from the floor.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000010_000000.wav|'Then if we HAD the mutton it would be real,' said Robert. 'Oh, don't I wish we could find it!'|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000064_000000.wav|Then they stood in the arched gate house, breathing hard and looking at each other.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000065_000000.wav|'Cheer up, jenny,' said Robert - 'it won't last much longer.'|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000004_000002.wav|Biscuits.'|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000063_000002.wav|Another man had swum over, and his fingers were on the window ledge.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000066_000001.wav|The pavement they stood on seemed to tremble.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000054_000000.wav|Never, NEVER!'|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000031_000001.wav|She went to Martha and said, 'May we have just biscuits for tea?|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000057_000001.wav|'Cheer to show them we aren't afraid, and rattle the daggers to make more noise.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000016_000003.wav|It is true that, directly he bit a piece off, the rest vanished; but it was all right, because he knew he had it in his hand though he could neither see nor feel it.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000057_000000.wav|'Cheer,' said Robert in a fierce whisper.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/323/126408/323_126408_000078_000002.wav|They heard a splash below, but no one below seemed to have felt it.|323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000000.wav|Lee fully realized his danger, and saw that his only chance was, first to beat back Hooker, and then to turn and overwhelm Sedgwick, who was in his rear.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000003.wav|The country was thickly covered with a forest of rather small growth, for it was a wild region, in which there was still plenty of game.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000016_000000.wav|For several days he lingered, hearing how Lee beat Hooker, in detail, and forced him back across the river.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000015_000000.wav|"You must hold your ground."|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000005_000003.wav|He was a master of strategy and tactics, fearless of responsibility, able to instil into his men his own intense ardor in battle, and so quick in his movements, so ready to march as well as fight, that his troops were known to the rest of the army as the "foot cavalry."|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000001_000000.wav|Like a servant of the Lord, with his bible and his sword, Our general rode along us, to form us for the fight. --Macaulay.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000004_000001.wav|In dash and light-hearted daring, Custer and Kearney stood as conspicuous as Stuart and Morgan; and, on the other hand, no Northern general approached the Roundhead type-the type of the stern, religious warriors who fought under Cromwell-so closely as Stonewall Jackson.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000004_000006.wav|It was quite in keeping with his character that this gentle, high minded, and religious man should, early in the contest, have proposed to hoist the black flag, neither take nor give quarter, and make the war one of extermination.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000018_000000.wav|Thus perished Stonewall Jackson, one of the ablest of soldiers and one of the most upright of men, in the last of his many triumphs.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000014_000000.wav|It was about this time that Jackson himself was mortally wounded.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000001.wav|He consulted with Jackson, and Jackson begged to be allowed to make one of his favorite flank attacks upon the Union army; attacks which could have been successfully delivered only by a skilled and resolute general, and by troops equally able to march and to fight.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000016_000002.wav|At the end his mind wandered, and he thought he was again commanding in battle, and his last words were.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000002_000005.wav|We have in us nobler capacities for what is great and good because of the infinite woe and suffering, and because of the splendid ultimate triumph.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000002.wav|Lee consented, and Jackson at once made off.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000004_000002.wav|He was a man of intense religious conviction, who carried into every thought and deed of his daily life the precepts of the faith he cherished.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000004_000000.wav|It is often said that the Civil War was in one sense a repetition of the old struggle between the Puritan and the Cavalier; but Puritan and Cavalier types were common to the two armies.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000003_000000.wav|The greatest general of the South was Lee, and his greatest lieutenant was Jackson.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000002_000003.wav|We are the richer for each grim campaign, for each hard fought battle.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000006.wav|Yet all the while the battle was going on elsewhere, and Berdan's sharpshooters had surrounded and captured a Georgia regiment, from which information was received showing definitely that Jackson was not retreating, and must be preparing to strike a heavy blow.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000012_000000.wav|Keenan himself fell, pierced by bayonets, and the charge was repulsed at once; but a few priceless moments had been saved, and Pleasanton had been given time to post twenty two guns, loaded with double canister, where they would bear upon the enemy.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000002_000002.wav|North and South, all Americans, now have a common fund of glorious memories.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000014_000004.wav|He was put in a litter and carried back; but he never lost consciousness, and when one of his generals complained of the terrible effect of the Union cannonade he answered:|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000009_000003.wav|While they were thus utterly unprepared Jackson's gray clad veterans pushed straight through the forest and rushed fiercely to the attack.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000017_000000.wav|"Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade."|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000005_000001.wav|From that time until his death, less than two years afterward, his career was one of brilliant and almost uninterrupted success; whether serving with an independent command in the Valley, or acting under Lee as his right arm in the pitched battles with McClellan, Pope, and Burnside.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000004_000005.wav|He knew no such word as falter, and when he had once put his hand to a piece of work, he did it thoroughly and with all his heart.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000003_000003.wav|But when Virginia joined the Southern Confederacy, and the war had actually begun, both men cast their lot with the South.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000004_000004.wav|The vein of fanaticism that ran through his character helped to render him a terrible opponent.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000009_000000.wav|The Eleventh Corps had not the slightest idea that it was about to be assailed.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000006_000001.wav|He had under him one hundred twenty thousand men when, toward the end of April, he prepared to attack Lee's army, which was but half as strong.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000006_000000.wav|In the spring of eighteen sixty three Hooker had command of the Army of the Potomac. Like McClellan, he was able to perfect the discipline of his forces and to organize them, and as a division commander he was better than McClellan, but he failed even more signally when given a great independent command.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000002_000001.wav|The captains and the armies that, after long years of dreary campaigning and bloody, stubborn fighting, brought the war to a close, have left us more than a reunited realm.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000002_000004.wav|We are the richer for valor displayed alike by those who fought so valiantly for the right, and by those who, no less valiantly, fought for what they deemed the right.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000003_000001.wav|Both were Virginians, and both were strongly opposed to disunion.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000014_000003.wav|Jackson fell, struck in several places.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000003_000002.wav|Lee went so far as to deny the right of secession, while Jackson insisted that the South ought to try to get its rights inside the Union, and not outside.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000009_000002.wav|Many of them had stacked their muskets and were lounging about, some playing cards, others cooking supper, intermingled with the pack mules and beef cattle.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000005_000002.wav|Few generals as great as Lee have ever had as great a lieutenant as Jackson.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000013_000001.wav|Again they charged, and again were driven back; and when the battle once more began the Union reinforcements had arrived.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000011_000000.wav|Keenan's regiment of Pennsylvania cavalry, but four hundred sabers strong, was accordingly sent full against the front of the ten thousand victorious Confederates.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000004.wav|Shielded by the forest, Jackson marched his gray columns rapidly to the left along the narrow country roads until he was square on the flank of the Union right wing, which was held by the Eleventh Corps, under Howard.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000007_000000.wav|The Union army lay opposite Fredericksburg, looking at the fortified heights where they had received so bloody a repulse at the beginning of the winter.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000009_000006.wav|Some of the regiments resisted for a few moments, and then they too were carried away in the flight.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000002_000007.wav|But we recognize gladly that, South as well as North, when the fight was once on, the leaders of the armies, and the soldiers whom they led, displayed the same qualities of daring and steadfast courage, of disinterested loyalty and enthusiasm, and of high devotion to an ideal.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000008_000005.wav|The Union scouts got track of the movement and reported it at headquarters, but the Union generals thought the Confederates were retreating; and when finally the scouts brought word to Howard that he was menaced by a flank attack he paid no heed to the information, and actually let his whole corps be surprised in broad daylight.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000009_000004.wav|The first notice the troops of the Eleventh Corps received did not come from the pickets, but from the deer, rabbits and foxes which, fleeing from their coverts at the approach of the Confederates, suddenly came running over and into the Union lines.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170438/2827_170438_000005_000000.wav|In the first battle in which Jackson took part, the confused struggle at Bull Run, he gained his name of Stonewall from the firmness with which he kept his men to their work and repulsed the attack of the Union troops.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000008_000001.wav|"The bearer of the despatch insisted that I ought to obey the order, and was giving arguments to support the position, when I heard a great cheering to the right of our line, and looking in that direction, saw Lawler, in his shirt sleeves, leading a charge on the enemy.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000003.wav|There was a sharp fight, but Grant easily defeated the enemy, and took possession of the town.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000010_000005.wav|Measured by the skill displayed and the result achieved, there is no campaign in our history which better deserves study and admiration.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000009_000000.wav|As soon as the National troops reached Vicksburg an assault was attempted, but the place was too strong, and the attack was repulsed, with heavy loss.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000009_000002.wav|He no longer needed to ask for them.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000000.wav|Pressing forward, Grant met the enemy, numbering between seven and eight thousand, at Raymond, and readily defeated them.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000009.wav|After this useless turn to the southward Pemberton resumed his march to the east, as he should have done in the beginning, in accordance with Johnston's orders; but Grant was now more than ready.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000008_000002.wav|I immediately mounted my horse and rode in the direction of the charge, and saw no more of the officer who had delivered the message; I think not even to this day." When Grant reached Vicksburg, there was no further talk of recalling him to Grand Gulf or Port Hudson.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000002.wav|It was absolutely necessary for success that Grant, with inferior numbers, should succeed in destroying the smaller forces to the eastward, and thus prevent their union with Pemberton and the main army at Vicksburg.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000015.wav|Grant then crossed the Big Black and the next day was before Vicksburg, with his enemy inside the works.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000003_000001.wav|The complete possession of the Mississippi was absolutely essential to the National Government, because the control of that great river would cut the Confederacy in two, and do more, probably, than anything else, to make the overthrow of the Rebellion both speedy and certain.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000011.wav|The forces were at this time very nearly matched, and the severest battle of the campaign ensued, lasting four hours.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000008_000003.wav|The authorities at Washington then saw plainly enough what had been done in the interior of Mississippi, far from the reach of telegraphs or mail.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000005.wav|Grant destroyed the factories and the munitions of war which were gathered there, and also came into possession of the line of railroad which ran from Jackson to Vicksburg.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000009.wav|This enabled him to move with great rapidity, but deprived him of his wagon trains, and of all munitions of war except cartridges.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000010_000001.wav|It was the most brilliant single campaign of the war.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000000.wav|The situation was this: The enemy had about sixty thousand men at Vicksburg, Haines' Bluff, and at jackson mississippi, about fifty miles east of Vicksburg.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000005.wav|General Grant, looking at this grave political situation with the eye of a statesman, decided, as a soldier, that under no circumstances would he withdraw the army, but that, whatever happened, he would "press forward to a decisive victory."|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000001.wav|Grant, when he started, had about thirty three thousand men.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000010.wav|Everything, however, in this campaign, depended on quickness, and Grant's decision, as well as all his movements, marked the genius of the great soldier, which consists very largely in knowing just when to abandon the accepted military axioms.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000001.wav|He then marched on toward Jackson, fighting another action at Clinton, and at Jackson he struck General Joseph Johnston, who had arrived at that point to take command of all the rebel forces.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000001.wav|All these expedients failed, however, one after another, as Grant, from the beginning, had feared that they would.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000009_000004.wav|His lines were soon made so strong that it was impossible for the defenders of Vicksburg to break through them, and although Johnston had gathered troops again to the eastward, an assault from that quarter on the National army, now so largely reinforced, was practically out of the question.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000003.wav|His plan, in brief; was to fight and defeat a superior enemy separately and in detail.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000004.wav|The elections of eighteen sixty two had gone against the government, and there was great discouragement throughout the North. Voluntary enlistments had fallen off, a draft had been ordered, and the peace party was apparently gaining rapidly in strength.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000002_000000.wav|What flag is this you carry Along the sea and shore? The same our grandsires lifted up- The same our fathers bore. In many a battle's tempest It shed the crimson rain- What God has woven in his loom Let no man rend in twain. To Canaan, to Canaan, The Lord has led us forth, To plant upon the rebel towers The banners of the North. --Holmes.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000008.wav|He took nothing with him except ammunition, and his army was in the lightest marching order.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000006.wav|When he reached Grand Gulf, however, he found that he would be obliged to wait a month, in order to obtain the reinforcements which he expected from General Banks at Port Hudson.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000012.wav|Grant, however, defeated Pemberton completely, and came very near capturing his entire force.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000004.wav|On april twenty sixth, Grant began to move his men over the river and landed them at Bruinsburg.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000009_000001.wav|Grant then settled down to a siege, and Lincoln and Halleck now sent him ample reinforcements.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000001.wav|A strong base should have been established at Memphis, and then the army and the fleet moved gradually forward, building storehouses and taking strong positions as they went.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000005.wav|Thence he marched to Grand Gulf, on the Mississippi, which he took, and which he had planned to make a base of supply.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000000.wav|Efforts were made through the winter to reach Vicksburg from the north by cutting canals, and by attempts to get in through the bayous and tributary streams of the great river.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000010.wav|He did not wait the coming of Pemberton. Leaving Jackson as soon as he heard of the enemy's advance from Vicksburg, he marched rapidly westward and struck Pemberton at Champion Hills.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000006_000007.wav|He, therefore, gave up the idea of making Grand Gulf a base, and Sherman having now joined him with his corps, Grant struck at once into the interior.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000010_000000.wav|Grant's campaign against Vicksburg deserves to be compared with that of Napoleon which resulted in the fall of Ulm.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000010_000003.wav|He crushed Johnston before Pemberton could get to him, and he flung Pemberton back into Vicksburg before Johnston could rally from the defeat which had been inflicted.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000003.wav|But such a movement, at that time, would not have been understood by the country, and would have had a discouraging effect on the public mind, which it was most essential to avoid.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000004.wav|This was an important point, for Jackson was the capital of the State of Mississippi, and was a base of military supplies.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000013.wav|With a broken army, Pemberton fell back on Vicksburg. Grant pursued without a moment's delay, and came up with the rear guard at Big Black River.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000007.wav|Pemberton, however, instead of holding a straight line against Grant, turned at first to the south, with the view of breaking the latter's line of communication.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000005.wav|"When this was effected," he writes, "I felt a degree of relief scarcely ever equaled since.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000006.wav|Vicksburg was not yet taken, it is true, nor were its defenders demoralized by any of our previous movements.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000002.wav|To do this, however, it first would have been necessary to withdraw the army from the positions it then held not far above Vicksburg, on the western bank of the river.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000004_000000.wav|The natural way to invest and capture so strong a place, defended and fortified as Vicksburg was, would have been, if the axioms of the art of war had been adhered to, by a system of gradual approaches.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000014.wav|A sharp engagement followed, and the Confederates were again defeated.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000008.wav|This was not a success, for, as Grant says, with grim humor, "I had no line of communication to break"; and, moreover, it delayed Pemberton when delay was of value to Grant in finishing Johnston.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000007.wav|I was now in the enemy's country, with a vast river and the stronghold of Vicksburg between me and my base of supplies, but I was on dry ground, on the same side of the river with the enemy."|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000009_000003.wav|His campaign had explained itself, and in a short time he had seventy thousand men under his command.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000009_000008.wav|On the same day Lee was beaten at Gettysburg, and these two great victories really crushed the Rebellion, although much hard fighting remained to be done before the end was reached.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000010_000002.wav|With an inferior force, and abandoning his lines of communication, moving with a marvelous rapidity through a difficult country, Grant struck the superior forces of the enemy on the line from Jackson to Vicksburg.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000005_000003.wav|With the aid of the fleet, which ran the batteries successfully, he moved his army down the west bank until he reached a point beyond the possibility of attack, while a diversion by Sherman at Haines' Bluff, above Vicksburg, kept Pemberton in his fortifications.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000007_000006.wav|While he was thus engaged, an intercepted message revealed to him the fact that Pemberton, in accordance with Johnston's orders, had come out of Vicksburg with twenty five thousand men, and was moving eastward against him.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2827/170440/2827_170440_000010_000004.wav|With an inferior force, Grant was superior at every point of contest, and he won every fight.|2827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000001_000001.wav|He died while on a visit to see his daughter at Hillsborough.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000008_000000.wav|The hearth is desolate.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000009_000008.wav|But it was not to them that I was attached.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000001_000009.wav|I took passage with Captain Rowe, in the schooner Wild Cat, and, after a sail of about twenty four hours, I found myself near the place of my birth.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000001_000007.wav|Prior to this, I had become, if not insensible to my lot, at least partly so.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000006_000002.wav|Not a slave was left free. All remained slaves, from the youngest to the oldest.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000011_000001.wav|On my passage, I paid particular attention to the direction which the steamboats took to go to Philadelphia.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000001_000002.wav|Cut off thus unexpectedly, he left no will as to the disposal of his property.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000011_000000.wav|I sailed from Baltimore for saint Michael's in the sloop Amanda, Captain Edward Dodson.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139297/1425_139297_000001_000004.wav|I was immediately sent for, to be valued with the other property.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000001_000000.wav|My master's family consisted of two sons, Andrew and Richard; one daughter, Lucretia, and her husband, Captain Thomas Auld.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000001_000007.wav|The principal products raised upon it were tobacco, corn, and wheat.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000006_000001.wav|He was a very different man.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000007_000001.wav|All the mechanical operations for all the farms were performed here.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000005_000009.wav|His career was short.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000008_000006.wav|Especially would they do this, when leaving home.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139291/1425_139291_000007_000009.wav|He was called the smartest and most trusty fellow, who had this honor conferred upon him the most frequently.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000008_000010.wav|I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000014_000005.wav|She now stood fair for his infernal purpose.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000022.wav|It was a most terrible spectacle.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000007_000002.wav|The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000007_000001.wav|He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000014_000009.wav|I expected it would be my turn next.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000014_000008.wav|I was so terrified and horror stricken at the sight, that I hid myself in a closet, and dared not venture out till long after the bloody transaction was over.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000005_000008.wav|I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000008_000001.wav|She was hired by a mr Stewart, who lived about twelve miles from my home.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000014_000010.wav|It was all new to me. I had never seen any thing like it before.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000013.wav|I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000000.wav|I have had two masters.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000008_000011.wav|She was gone long before I knew any thing about it.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000003.wav|He was generally called Captain Anthony-a title which, I presume, he acquired by sailing a craft on the Chesapeake Bay. He was not considered a rich slaveholder.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000013_000001.wav|Aunt Hester went out one night,--where or for what I do not know,--and happened to be absent when my master desired her presence.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000010.wav|It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000014_000006.wav|Her arms were stretched up at their full length, so that she stood upon the ends of her toes.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000005_000004.wav|They seldom come nearer to it than planting time, harvest time, cherry time, spring time, or fall time.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000013_000004.wav|Why master was so careful of her, may be safely left to conjecture.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000006_000001.wav|She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey, both colored, and quite dark.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000008_000005.wav|She was with me in the night.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000017.wav|I was quite a child, but I well remember it.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000020.wav|It struck me with awful force.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000013_000000.wav|This occurrence took place very soon after I went to live with my old master, and under the following circumstances.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1425/139290/1425_139290_000012_000012.wav|He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave.|1425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000025_000001.wav|I am expecting her every minute, madame.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000063_000001.wav|Even then I doubt if he realizes what a good one it was on-everybody.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000017_000002.wav|An hour later Bunderby appeared at the back door and handed me a note addressed to my mistress, which I immediately delivered.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000021_000001.wav|On my return Henriette was dressed for travel.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000010_000000.wav|Henriette was silent for a moment, and then her face lit up with one of her most charming smiles.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000027_000000.wav|I must say I did not envy Henriette the meeting that was in prospect, for it was quite evident that mrs Shadd was mad all through.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000057_000000.wav|And so it was agreed, and Henriette successfully landed mrs Shadd's musicale.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000013_000000.wav|"Well, anyhow, dear, you have started me thinking, and maybe we'll have Jockobinski at Bolivar Lodge yet," she murmured.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000023_000002.wav|At any rate, a great sensation was sprung on Newport on Friday morning.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000021_000000.wav|This I handed to Bunderby and he made off.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000054_000000.wav|"Not a bit, the naughty boy!" cried mrs Shadd.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000040_000000.wav|Henriette turned to me.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000001_000000.wav|Henriette was visibly angry the other morning when I took to her the early mail and she discovered that mrs Van Varick Shadd had got ahead of her in the matter of Jockobinski, the monkey virtuoso.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000035_000000.wav|"Yes, Bunderby did carry a note to you from me on Wednesday," said mrs Shadd.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000011_000000.wav|"Bunny, do you know that at times, in spite of your supreme stupidity, you are a source of positive inspiration to me?" she said, looking at me, fondly, I ventured to think.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000009_000000.wav|"It's never too late for a woman of your resources to do anything she has a mind to do," said i "It seems to me that a person who could swipe a Carnegie library the way you did should have little difficulty in lifting a musicale.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000050_000001.wav|I wonder if he could have done it!"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000006_000002.wav|Heaven knows I was willing to pay for it if I had to abscond with a national bank to get the money."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000062_000000.wav|"You've guessed right," said Henriette.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000008_000001.wav|"Not too late with mrs Shadd's cards out and the whole thing published in the papers?"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000053_000001.wav|"It wouldn't be unlike him, would it?"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000043_000001.wav|"You can read it for yourself.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000046_000002.wav|Where could it have come from?"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000060_000000.wav|"Who do you suppose, Bunny, my boy?" she asked with a grin.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000043_000002.wav|What else could I do after that?"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000029_000001.wav|"I have come to ask you what-"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000023_000004.wav|Friday afternoon Jockobinski's private and particular piano arrived at the Lodge and was set up promptly in the music room, and later when the caterers arrived with the supper for the four hundred odd guests bidden to the feast all was in readiness for them.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000030_000000.wav|"Not ill?" cried Henriette, interrupting her.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000056_000001.wav|"That's the best way out of it.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000054_000001.wav|"That's it, mrs Van Raffles, as certainly as we stand here.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000005_000000.wav|I confessed to having read something about such an incident in high society.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000050_000000.wav|"Only the Duke and Duchess of Snarleyow and-mercy!|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000004_000002.wav|Not that I care particularly about the music end of it, but because there is nothing that gives a woman so assured a social position as being the hostess of an animal of his particular kind.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000039_000003.wav|The cards have gone to everybody.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000018_000000.wav|"Is Bunderby waiting?" asked Henriette as she read the note.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000024_000000.wav|She demanded rather than asked to see my mistress, with a hauteur born of the arctic snow.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000041_000000.wav|"All, madame," said I, briefly.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000022_000005.wav|See?"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000049_000000.wav|"Whom did you have at dinner Wednesday night, dear?" asked Henriette.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000061_000000.wav|"No," said i|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000002_000000.wav|"He's a whole orchestra in himself," said Tommy enthusiastically, "and is the only living creature that I know of who can tackle a whole symphony without the aid of a hired man."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000025_000000.wav|"mrs Van Raffles went to New York Wednesday evening," said I, "and has not yet returned.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000027_000001.wav|In spite of my stupidity I rather thought I could divine the cause too.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000031_000000.wav|"That is precisely what I have come to find out," said mrs Shadd.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000042_000001.wav|"I don't understand it.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000012_000001.wav|Perhaps hid in the dull residuum of my poor but honest gray matter lies the seed of real genius that will sprout the loveliest blossoms of achievement."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000013_000002.wav|To be second in doing a thing of that kind is worse than never doing it at all."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000023_000001.wav|Henriette made off at once for Providence by motor car, and got the midnight train out of Boston for the city where, from what I learned afterwards, she must have put in a strenuous day on Thursday.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000007_000000.wav|"It isn't too late, is it?" I queried.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000004_000001.wav|"I had quite set my heart on having Jockobinski here.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000039_000001.wav|"I don't suppose we can do anything now," said mrs Shadd, ruefully.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000060_000001.wav|"Bunderby?"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000058_000000.wav|Incidentally, Jockobinski was very affable and the function went off well.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000056_000002.wav|If we did we'd be the laughing stock of all Newport.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000029_000000.wav|"My son is not ill, mrs Van Raffles," said mrs Shadd, coldly.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000020_000001.wav|What it said was that she would be only too happy to oblige mrs Shadd, and was very sorry indeed to hear that her son had been injured in an automobile accident while running into Boston from Bar Harbor.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000047_000000.wav|"I supposed it came from Onyx House," said Henriette simply, glancing at the envelope.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000025_000003.wav|Won't you wait?"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000022_000001.wav|"You will have the music room prepared at once, Bunny.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000032_000001.wav|"Surely, you got my note saying that I would let Jockobinski play here to night instead of-"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000020_000002.wav|It closed with the line, "you must know, my dear Pauline, that there isn't anything I wouldn't do for you, come weal or come woe."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000044_000000.wav|Innocence on a monument could have appeared no freer of guile than Henriette at that moment.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000039_000004.wav|You have all the supper-not a sandwich has come to my house-and I presume all of mr Jockobinski's instruments as well have come here."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000035_000001.wav|"But-"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000059_000000.wav|"Who wrote that letter, Henriette?" I asked late in the evening when the last guest had gone.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000013_000001.wav|"I want to have him first, of course, or not at all.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000048_000000.wav|"Well-it's a very mysterious affair," said mrs Shadd, rising, "and I-oh, well, my dear woman, I-I can't blame you-indeed, after all you have done I ought to be-and really am-very much obliged to you. Only-"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000056_000000.wav|"Never!" said mrs Shadd, rising and kissing Henriette good bye.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000034_000003.wav|About half past seven o'clock it was-Wednesday."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000023_000005.wav|Everything was running smoothly, and, although Henriette had not yet arrived, I felt easy and secure of mind until nearing five thirty o'clock when mrs Shadd herself drove up to the front door.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000039_000000.wav|Henriette was a perfect picture of despair.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000038_000000.wav|"And attend to all the details-your very words, my dear Pauline," said Henriette, with an admirably timed break in her voice.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000055_000000.wav|"Splendid!" said Henriette, with enthusiasm.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000006_000001.wav|Of course mrs Shadd is doing this to retain her grip, but it irritates me more than I can say to have her get it just the same.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000014_000001.wav|Wednesday night came, and, consumed by curiosity to learn just how the matter stood, I attempted to sound Henriette on the subject.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000003_000001.wav|better.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000017_000000.wav|She arose from the table and handed me a daintily scented missive addressed to mrs Shadd, and I faithfully executed her errand.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000022_000002.wav|mrs Shadd's musicale will be given here.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000008_000000.wav|"Not too late?" echoed Henriette.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000039_000002.wav|"It's too late.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000026_000001.wav|"The musicale, indeed!|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000037_000000.wav|"I?" said mrs Shadd, showing more surprise than was compatible with her high social position.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000034_000000.wav|"In reply to your note of Wednesday evening," said Henriette.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000016_000000.wav|"Shut up, Bunny," she returned, abruptly.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000027_000002.wav|She was not kept long in waiting, for ten minutes later the automobile, with Henriette in it, came thundering up the drive.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107486/7783_107486_000016_000002.wav|Just take this note over to mrs Shadd this evening and leave it-mind you, don't wait for an answer but just leave it, that's all."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000033_000002.wav|Second, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's maid servant.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000011_000000.wav|"He holds the divorce record I believe," said i "He's been married to four social leaders already, hasn't he?"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000008_000001.wav|"Do be careful.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000033_000000.wav|"First, thou shalt not steal.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000052_000000.wav|"Oh yes," said Henriette.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000021_000005.wav|She turns hash into a confection and liver and bacon into a delicacy.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000024_000000.wav|"What, mrs Innitt?" I asked.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000046_000000.wav|"On what grounds?"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000029_000001.wav|"I've robbed churches and I've made way with fresh air funds, and I've helped you in many another legitimate scheme, but in this, mrs Van Raffles, you'll have to go it alone."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000020_000001.wav|Never more than ten people at a time and everything cooked to a turn."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000032_000000.wav|"What!" cried Henrietta "What, pray, does the decalogue say about cooks, I'd like to know?"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000031_000001.wav|"It's worse than murder, for it is prohibited twice in the decalogue, while murder is only mentioned once."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000027_000001.wav|"It is not only a mean crime, but a dangerous one to boot.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000014_000001.wav|"How do you account for them?"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000038_000000.wav|"Do as I tell you," she commanded.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000008_000002.wav|An epigram from you?|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000018_000000.wav|"Well-I don't envy them in the least," said Henriette.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000033_000001.wav|You propose to steal this woman.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000048_000000.wav|"'I don't understand it at all, mrs Van Raffles,' she said with a sheepish smile.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000043_000000.wav|"I won out, Bunny-I won out!" she cried.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000034_000001.wav|Anybody'd know you were the son of a clergyman! Well, let me tell you, I sha'n't steal the woman, and I sha'n't covet her.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000045_000000.wav|"mrs Innitt has discharged Norah, though I begged her not to," she fairly sang.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000033_000003.wav|How many times does that make?" I asked.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000055_000000.wav|"It's ruined I am unless somebody'll be good to me and give me a riference, which mrs Innitt, bad cess to her, won't do, at all, at all," she wailed, and then I left her.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000016_000000.wav|"But how do they live?--they haven't a cent to their names," said Henriette.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000021_000002.wav|It's her cook, that's what does it.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000009_000001.wav|"Neither you nor my dear old friend Raffles ever gave me credit for any brains.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000049_000000.wav|"Even as mrs Innitt spoke I conveyed a luscious morsel of filet mignon with mushrooms to my mouth and nearly broke my tooth on a piece of gravel that went with it, and Norah was doomed, for although we all laughed heartily, the thing had come to be such a joke, it was plain from the expression of mrs Innitt's countenance that she was very, very angry.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000047_000003.wav|All went well until the fish, when one of the two hair pins turned up in the pompano to the supreme disgust of my hostess, who was now beginning to look worried. Hair pin number two made its debut in my timbale.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000006_000000.wav|"It is curious, Bunny," said Henriette the other morning after an unusually late breakfast, "to observe by what qualities certain of these Newport families have arrived, as the saying is.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000040_000001.wav|How would you like it if mrs Gaster stole me away from you?"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000021_000003.wav|If she lost her cook she'd be mrs Outofit.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000030_000000.wav|"Oh, don't you be afraid, Bunny," she answered.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000047_000002.wav|She was much mortified of course and apologized profusely.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000036_000000.wav|The Friday before Norah's arrival Henriette requested me to get her a rusty nail, a piece of gravel from the drive, two hair pins, and a steel nut from the automobile.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000019_000001.wav|"I call that genius of a pretty high order.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000021_000000.wav|"That's just it," said i|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000048_000002.wav|If anything of the kind ever happens again she shall go.'"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000038_000002.wav|"But I'm willing to tell you just one thing, Bunny"--here her eyes began to twinkle joyously-"I'm going to mrs Innitt's to dinner to morrow night-so look out for Norah by Monday."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000013_000000.wav|"Well, he got into the swim with each marriage-so he's got a four ply grip," said i|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000047_000001.wav|"To begin with, there was a rusty nail in my clam cocktail, and it nearly choked me to death. I tried hard to keep mrs Innitt from seeing what had happened, but she is watchful if not brainy, and all my efforts went for naught.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000026_000001.wav|Full of sympathy as I had always been with the projects of mrs Van Raffles, and never in the least objecting on moral grounds to any of her schemes of acquisition, I could not but think that this time she proposed to go too far.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000029_000000.wav|"Well, I draw the line at stealing a cook," said I, coldly.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000041_000001.wav|"You are free to better your condition, Bunny," she said.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000008_000003.wav|My dear boy, you'll be down with brain fever if you don't watch out."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000057_000000.wav|A new treasure was added to the stores of our loot, but somehow or other I have never been happy over the successful issue of the enterprise.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000051_000000.wav|"And you didn't have to use the automobile nut?" I asked, deeply impressed with the woman's ingenuity.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000041_000000.wav|Henriette's answer was a puzzling smile.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000040_000000.wav|"You know how I feel on that subject," said i "This business of going into another person's house as a guest and inducing their servants to leave is an infraction of the laws of hospitality.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000038_000001.wav|"You are not in on this venture." And then apparently she relented.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000019_000000.wav|"Exactly; and with car fare and sandwiches, and the champagne supplied free by the importers, for the advertisement, it cost them exactly twelve dollars and was set down as the jolliest affair of the season," said i|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000039_000000.wav|I turned sulkily away.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000006_000001.wav|The Gasters of course belong at the top by patent right.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000017_000000.wav|"Simplicity itself," said i "He is dressed by his tailors and she by her dressmaker; and as for food, they take home a suit case full of it from every house party they attend.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000054_000000.wav|With this Henriette retired and the next morning on her way to early church I waylaid Norah.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000025_000000.wav|"No-her cook," said Henriette.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000052_000002.wav|The Duke of Snarleyow got it and the climax was capped. mrs Innitt burst into a flood of tears and-well, to morrow, Bunny, Norah leaves.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000021_000007.wav|A woman with a cook like Norah Sullivan could rule an empire."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000048_000001.wav|'Cook's perfectly sober.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000027_000003.wav|mrs Innitt would never forgive you, and society at large-"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000041_000002.wav|"But I am not going to rob mrs Innitt, as I told you once before.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000047_000000.wav|"Several," said Henriette, unfastening her glove.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000006_000002.wav|Having invented American society, or at least the machine that at present controls it, they are entitled to all the royalties it brings in.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000056_000000.wav|She called that night, and two days later was installed in the Van Raffles's kitchen.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000050_000001.wav|'After all it is the little surprises that give zest to life.'"|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000006_000003.wav|The Rockerbilts got there all of a sudden by the sheer lavishness of their entertainment and their ability to give bonds to keep it up.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000027_000000.wav|"You'd better think twice on that proposition, Henriette," I advised with a gloomy shake of the head.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000054_000002.wav|Her discharge was unrighteous; mrs Innitt was no lady; the butler was in a conspiracy to ruin her-and all that; indeed, her mood was most receptive to the furtherance of Henriette's plans.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000020_000000.wav|"mrs Innitt, though-I envy her," said Henriette; "that is, in a way. She has no conversation at all, but her little dinners are the swellest things of the season.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000019_000003.wav|They're happy."|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000008_000000.wav|"Bunny!" cried Henriette, with a silvery ripple of laughter.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000028_000000.wav|"Society at large would dine with me instead of with mrs Innitt, that's all," said Henriette.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000021_000004.wav|There never were such pancakes, such purees, such made dishes as that woman gets up.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000014_000000.wav|"And the Dedbroke Hickses?" asked Henriette.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7783/107487/7783_107487_000037_000000.wav|"What on earth-" I began, but she shut me off with an imperious gesture.|7783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000023_000000.wav|twelve.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000033_000001.wav|Cohesion of solid parts and Impulse, the primary ideas peculiar to Body.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000030_000005.wav|Every act of sensation, when duly considered, gives us an equal view of both parts of nature, the corporeal and spiritual.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000029_000001.wav|Our Ideas of spiritual Substances, as clear as of bodily Substances.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000001_000000.wav|OF OUR COMPLEX IDEAS OF SUBSTANCES.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000036_000000.wav|The ideas we have belonging and PECULIAR TO SPIRIT, are THINKING, and WILL, or A POWER OF PUTTING BODY INTO MOTION BY THOUGHT, AND, WHICH IS CONSEQUENT TO IT, LIBERTY.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000034_000000.wav|The primary ideas we have PECULIAR TO BODY, as contradistinguished to spirit, are the COHESION OF SOLID, AND CONSEQUENTLY SEPARABLE, PARTS, and a POWER OF COMMUNICATING MOTION BY IMPULSE.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000025_000001.wav|Conjecture about the corporeal organs of some Spirits.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000031_000001.wav|No Idea of abstract Substance either in Body or Spirit.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000006_000003.wav|These, and the like fashions of speaking, intimate that the substance is supposed always SOMETHING BESIDES the extension, figure, solidity, motion, thinking, or other observable ideas, though we know not what it is.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000027_000000.wav|fourteen.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty three.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000014_000000.wav|For he has the perfectest idea of any of the particular sorts of substances, who has gathered, and put together, most of those simple ideas which do exist in it; among which are to be reckoned its active powers, and passive capacities, which, though not simple ideas, yet in this respect, for brevity's sake, may conveniently enough be reckoned amongst them.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000018_000001.wav|First, the ideas of the primary qualities of things, which are discovered by our senses, and are in them even when we perceive them not; such are the bulk, figure, number, situation, and motion of the parts of bodies; which are really in them, whether we take notice of them or not.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000012_000003.wav|Thus, the idea of the sun,--what is it but an aggregate of those several simple ideas, bright, hot, roundish, having a constant regular motion, at a certain distance from us, and perhaps some other: as he who thinks and discourses of the sun has been more or less accurate in observing those sensible qualities, ideas, or properties, which are in that thing which he calls the sun|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000020_000000.wav|POWERS therefore justly make a great part of our complex ideas of substances.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000007_000001.wav|No clear or distinct idea of Substance in general.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000014_000001.wav|Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000009_000001.wav|As clear an Idea of spiritual substance as of corporeal substance.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000024_000006.wav|But were our senses altered, and made much quicker and acuter, the appearance and outward scheme of things would have quite another face to us; and, I am apt to think, would be inconsistent with our being, or at least wellbeing, in the part of the universe which we inhabit.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000035_000001.wav|Thinking and Motivity|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000034_000001.wav|These, I think, are the original ideas proper and peculiar to body; for figure is but the consequence of finite extension.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000012_000000.wav|Whatever therefore be the secret abstract nature of substance in general, all the ideas we have of particular distinct sorts of substances are nothing but several combinations of simple ideas, co existing in such, though unknown, cause of their union, as makes the whole subsist of itself.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000024_000000.wav|The infinite wise Contriver of us, and all things about us, hath fitted our senses, faculties, and organs, to the conveniences of life, and the business we have to do here.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290361/8705_290361_000036_000001.wav|For, as body cannot but communicate its motion by impulse to another body, which it meets with at rest, so the mind can put bodies into motion, or forbear to do so, as it pleases.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000023_000000.wav|seven.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000014_000000.wav|These and the like relations, expressed by relative terms that have others answering them, with a reciprocal intimation, as father and son, bigger and less, cause and effect, are very obvious to every one, and everybody at first sight perceives the relation.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000029_000000.wav|Thirdly, Though there be a great number of considerations wherein things may be compared one with another, and so a multitude of relations, yet they all terminate in, and are concerned about those simple ideas, either of sensation or reflection, which I think to be the whole materials of all our knowledge.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000018_000001.wav|g.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000027_000003.wav|THE IDEAS, THEN, OF RELATIONS, ARE CAPABLE AT LEAST OF BEING MORE PERFECT AND DISTINCT IN OUR MINDS THAN THOSE OF SUBSTANCES.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000007_000000.wav|three.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000012_000005.wav|And since any idea, whether simple or complex, may be the occasion why the mind thus brings two things together, and as it were takes a view of them at once, though still considered as distinct: therefore any of our ideas may be the foundation of relation.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000035_000000.wav|OF CAUSE AND EFFECT, AND OTHER RELATIONS.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000020_000000.wav|The nature therefore of relation consists in the referring or comparing two things one to another; from which comparison one of both comes to be denominated.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000042_000001.wav|Relations of Time.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000042_000000.wav|three.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000040_000000.wav|First, When the thing is wholly made new, so that no part thereof did ever exist before; as when a new particle of matter doth begin to exist, IN RERUM NATURA, which had before no being, and this we call CREATION.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000041_000002.wav|When the cause is extrinsical, and the effect produced by a sensible separation, or juxta position of discernible parts, we call it MAKING; and such are all artificial things.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000027_000000.wav|Secondly, This further may be considered concerning relation, that though it be not contained in the real existence of things, but something extraneous and superinduced, yet the ideas which relative words stand for are often clearer and more distinct than of those substances to which they do belong.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8705/290363/8705_290363_000015_000001.wav|Some seemingly absolute Terms contain Relations.|8705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000005_000002.wav|To overcome this difficulty a plan was worked out whereby shipowners and other persons of means furnished the passage money to immigrants in return for their promise, or bond, to work for a term of years to repay the sum advanced.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000006_000000.wav|It is probable that the number of bond servants exceeded the original twenty thousand Puritans, the yeomen, the Virginia gentlemen, and the Huguenots combined.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000014_000000.wav|The great increase in later years was due in no small measure to the inordinate zeal for profits that seized slave traders both in Old and in New England.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000014_000003.wav|The ship owners of New England were not far behind their English brethren in pushing this extraordinary traffic.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000016_000000.wav|All such protests were without avail.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000013_000002.wav|Moreover it does not appear that those planters who first bought negroes at the auction block intended to establish a system of permanent bondage.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000015_000002.wav|This effort was futile, for the royal governor promptly vetoed it.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000013_000001.wav|When this form of bondage was first introduced into Virginia in sixteen nineteen, it was looked upon as a temporary necessity to be discarded with the increase of the white population.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000011_000000.wav|In this gruesome business there lurked many tragedies, and very few romances.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000009_000001.wav|When their weary years of servitude were over, if they survived, they might obtain land of their own or settle as free mechanics in the towns.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000014_000002.wav|The English Royal African Company sent to America annually between seventeen thirteen and seventeen forty three from five to ten thousand slaves.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000015_000004.wav|South Carolina, in seventeen sixty, absolutely prohibited importation; but the measure was killed by the British crown.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000017_000003.wav|"If the Northern states will consult their interest, they will not oppose the increase in slaves which will increase the commodities of which they will become the carriers," said john Rutledge, of South Carolina, in the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000003_000001.wav|It involved the use of capital to pay for their passage, to sustain them on the voyage, and to start them on the way of production.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000007_000000.wav|The story of this traffic in white servants is one of the most striking things in the history of labor.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000011_000002.wav|Hundreds of skilled artisans-carpenters, smiths, and weavers-utterly disappeared as if swallowed up by death.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000011_000004.wav|In one case a young man who was forcibly carried over the sea lived to make his way back to England and establish his claim to a peerage.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000017_000000.wav|The climate, the soil, the commerce, and the industry of the North were all unfavorable to the growth of a servile population.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000012_000004.wav|This class included now Irish who revolted against British rule in Ireland; now Cavaliers who championed the king against the Puritan revolutionists; Puritans, in turn, dispatched after the monarchy was restored; and Scotch and English subjects in general who joined in political uprisings against the king.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000005_000003.wav|This system was called indentured servitude.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000016_000001.wav|The negro population grew by leaps and bounds, until on the eve of the Revolution it amounted to more than half a million.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000004_000005.wav|For the present it is an unsolved problem just how many of the colonists were able to bear the cost of their own transfer to the New World.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000016_000003.wav|In South Carolina they formed almost two thirds of the population.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000004_000004.wav|They did not belong to the classes from which emigration is usually supplied, for they all had a stake in the country they left behind." Though it would be interesting to know how accurate this statement is or how applicable to the other colonies, no study has as yet been made to gratify that interest.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000006_000005.wav|In Pennsylvania, it was not uncommon to find a master with fifty bond servants on his estate.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000009_000003.wav|For thousands, on the contrary, bondage proved to be a real avenue to freedom and prosperity.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000011_000001.wav|Parents were separated from their children and husbands from their wives.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000004_000002.wav|Henry Cabot Lodge is authority for the statement that "the settlers of New England were drawn from the country gentlemen, small farmers, and yeomanry of the mother country....|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000016_000002.wav|In five states-Maryland, Virginia, the two Carolinas, and Georgia-the slaves nearly equalled or actually exceeded the whites in number.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000007_000001.wav|Bondmen differed from the serfs of the feudal age in that they were not bound to the soil but to the master. They likewise differed from the negro slaves in that their servitude had a time limit.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000012_000003.wav|Other transported offenders were "political criminals"; that is, persons who criticized or opposed the government.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000017_000001.wav|Still, slavery, though sectional, was a part of the national system of economy.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000007_000004.wav|A free citizen of Pennsylvania who indulged in horse racing and gambling was let off with a fine; a white servant guilty of the same unlawful conduct was whipped at the post and fined as well.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000004_000001.wav|What proportion of the colonists were able to finance their voyage across the sea is a matter of pure conjecture. Undoubtedly a very considerable number could do so, for we can trace the family fortunes of many early settlers.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000017_000002.wav|Northern ships carried slaves to the Southern colonies and the produce of the plantations to Europe.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000006_000004.wav|Hence the gates of the proprietary colonies were flung wide open. Every inducement was offered to immigrants in the form of cheap land, and special efforts were made to increase the population by importing servants.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000013_000003.wav|Only by a slow process did chattel slavery take firm root and become recognized as the leading source of the labor supply.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000013_000004.wav|In sixteen fifty, thirty years after the introduction of slavery, there were only three hundred Africans in Virginia.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000016_000005.wav|To the North, the proportion of slaves steadily diminished although chattel servitude was on the same legal footing as in the South.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000015_000003.wav|From time to time similar bills were passed, only to meet with royal disapproval.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000015_000006.wav|Deeply impressed with these sentiments, we most humbly beseech Your Majesty to remove all those restraints on Your Majesty's governors of this colony which inhibit their assenting to such laws as might check so very pernicious a commerce."|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000007_000002.wav|Still they were subject to many special disabilities.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000008_000003.wav|Loose indentures and harsh laws put them at the mercy of their masters." It would not be unfair to add that such was their lot in all other colonies.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000012_000001.wav|The Americans protested vigorously but ineffectually against this practice. Indeed, they exaggerated its evils, for many of the "criminals" were only mild offenders against unduly harsh and cruel laws.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000003_000002.wav|Under this stern economic necessity, Puritans, Scotch Irish, Germans, and all were alike laid.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000010_000002.wav|Many of the victims of the practice were young children, for the traffic in them was highly profitable.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000014_000001.wav|Finding it relatively easy to secure negroes in Africa, they crowded the Southern ports with their vessels.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000006_000001.wav|All the way down the coast from Massachusetts to Georgia were to be found in the fields, kitchens, and workshops, men, women, and children serving out terms of bondage generally ranging from five to seven years.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000008_000001.wav|A bondman could not marry without his master's consent; nor engage in trade; nor refuse work assigned to him.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000015_000005.wav|As late as seventeen seventy two, Virginia, not daunted by a century of rebuffs, sent to George the third a petition in this vein: "The importation of slaves into the colonies from the coast of Africa hath long been considered as a trade of great inhumanity and under its present encouragement, we have too much reason to fear, will endanger the very existence of Your Majesty's American dominions....|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000008_000002.wav|For an attempt to escape or indeed for any infraction of the law, the term of service was extended. The condition of white bondmen in Virginia, according to Lodge, "was little better than that of slaves.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/138545/949_138545_000002_000000.wav|THE PROCESS OF COLONIZATION|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/134660/949_134660_000010_000003.wav|They fixed, by unquestionable tradition, the scene of each memorable event.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/134660/949_134660_000018_000005.wav|This minister, to whom Julian communicated, without reserve, his most careless levities, and his most serious counsels, received an extraordinary commission to restore, in its pristine beauty, the temple of Jerusalem; and the diligence of Alypius required and obtained the strenuous support of the governor of Palestine.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/134657/949_134657_000005_000004.wav|The office, or rather the name, of consul, was cherished by a prince who contemplated with reverence the ruins of the republic; and the same behavior which had been assumed by the prudence of Augustus was adopted by Julian from choice and inclination.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/134657/949_134657_000005_000005.wav|On the calends of January, at break of day, the new consuls, Mamertinus and Nevitta, hastened to the palace to salute the emperor.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/134657/949_134657_000002_000009.wav|Without appearing to indulge his personal resentment, Julian might easily confound the crime of the son and of the father; but he was reconciled by the distress of Marcellus, and the liberality of the emperor endeavored to heal the wound which had been inflicted by the hand of justice.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/134657/949_134657_000005_000007.wav|From the palace they proceeded to the senate.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/134657/949_134657_000002_000008.wav|But that youth was the son of Marcellus, the general of cavalry, who, in the first campaign of the Gallic war, had deserted the standard of the Caesar and the republic.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000017_000000.wav|At this time Theodosius, son of Arcadius, succeeded to the empire; and, bestowing little attention on the affairs of the west, caused those who had taken possession to think of securing their acquisitions.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000017_000001.wav|Thus the Vandals ruled Africa; the Alans and Visigoths, Spain; while the Franks and Burgundians not only took Gaul, but each gave their name to the part they occupied; hence one is called France, the other Burgundy.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000018_000005.wav|The romans, having returned to their city, and Maximus being dead, elected Avitus, a Roman, as his successor.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000014_000001.wav|The emperor Theodosius conquered them with great glory; and, being wholly reduced to his power, they no longer selected a sovereign of their own, but, satisfied with the terms which he granted them, lived and fought under his ensigns, and authority.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000016_000000.wav|After this victory, Alaric died, and his successor, Astolphus, having married Placidia, sister of the emperors, agreed with them to go to the relief of Gaul and Spain, which provinces had been assailed by the Vandals, Burgundians, Alans, and Franks, from the causes before mentioned.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000017_000006.wav|He, a short time previously, in order to possess the entire monarchy, had murdered his brother Bleda; and having thus become very powerful, Andaric, king of the Zepidi, and Velamir, king of the Ostrogoths, became subject to him.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000013_000000.wav|These migrating masses destroyed the Roman empire by the facilities for settlement which the country offered when the emperors abandoned Rome, the ancient seat of their dominion, and fixed their residence at Constantinople; for by this step they exposed the western empire to the rapine of both their ministers and their enemies, the remoteness of their position preventing them either from seeing or providing for its necessities.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000018_000000.wav|Attila having left Italy, Valentinian, emperor of the west, thought of restoring the country; and, that he might be more ready to defend it against the barbarians, abandoned Rome, and removed the seat of government to Ravenna.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000014_000006.wav|To make the Visigoths their enemies, he advised that the accustomed stipend allowed to this people should be withheld; and as he thought these enemies would not be sufficient alone to disturb the empire, he contrived that the Burgundians, Franks, Vandals, and Alans (a northern people in search of new habitations), should assail the Roman provinces.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000018_000003.wav|Tempted by the hope of booty, he came immediately, and finding Rome abandoned, plundered the city during fourteen days.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000013_000001.wav|To suffer the overthrow of such an extensive empire, established by the blood of so many brave and virtuous men, showed no less folly in the princes themselves than infidelity in their ministers; for not one irruption alone, but many, contributed to its ruin; and these barbarians exhibited much ability and perseverance in accomplishing their object.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000018_000004.wav|He also ravaged many other places in Italy, and then, loaded with wealth, withdrew to Africa.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000017_000003.wav|To these disorders it must be added, that the emperor, seeing himself attacked on so many sides, to lessen the number of his enemies, began to treat first with the Vandals, then with the Franks; a course which diminished his own power, and increased that of the barbarians.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000011_000000.wav|Irruption of Northern people upon the Roman territories-Visigoths-Barbarians called in by Stilicho-Vandals in Africa-Franks and Burgundians give their names to France and Burgundy-The Huns-Angles give the name to England-Attila, king of the Huns, in Italy-Genseric takes Rome-The Lombards.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000017_000008.wav|This, as will be related in its place, caused the origin of Venice.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000014_000002.wav|On the death of Theodosius, his sons Arcadius and Honorius, succeeded to the empire, but not to the talents and fortune of their father; and the times became changed with the princes.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000014_000004.wav|Each of these, after the death of Theodosius, determined not to be governors merely, but to assume sovereign dominion over their respective provinces.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/949/162667/949_162667_000017_000007.wav|Attila, having entered Italy, laid siege to Aquileia, where he remained without any obstacle for two years, wasting the country round, and dispersing the inhabitants.|949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000021_000002.wav|He bought a house on Gad's Hill-a place near Chatham, where he had spent the happiest part of his childhood-and settled down to a life of comfort and labor.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000009_000002.wav|More than all, it made people acquainted with a new company of characters, none of whom had ever existed, or could ever exist, and yet whose manners and appearance were pictured so really that they seemed to be actual persons whom one might meet and laugh with anywhere.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000002_000005.wav|It is easy to see that the young Charles Dickens noted carefully and remembered everything he saw, and this habit was of great use to him all his life.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000012_000002.wav|He liked best, however, a little English watering place called Broadstairs-a tiny fishing village, built on a cliff, with the sea rolling and dashing beneath it. In such a place he felt that he could write best, but he greatly missed his London friends.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000005_000002.wav|This was by no means an easy task.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000014_000002.wav|Up to this time he had never seen the United States; he decided now to visit this country and meet his American readers face to face.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000022_000006.wav|So earnest was he in this that he was not pleased at all when a person praised one of his stories, unless the other showed that he had grasped the lesson that lay beneath it.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000014_000000.wav|When he was less than thirty, Dickens was invited to visit Scotland, and there he received his first great national tribute.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000022_000004.wav|Everyone, he thought, had some good in him, and in all he met he was on the lookout to find it.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000021_000003.wav|When he was a little boy his father had pointed out this fine house to him, and told him he might even come to live there some day, if he were very persevering and worked hard.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000032_000000.wav|He never fully recovered consciousness, and next day, june ninth eighteen seventy, Charles Dickens breathed his last.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000018_000003.wav|Everything he did "went like clockwork," and he prided himself on his punctuality.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000006_000001.wav|He did not marry on this occasion, as did David, but how much he was in love one may see by the story of David's Dora.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000006.wav|It became, almost at once, the most popular book of its day, perhaps, indeed, the most popular book ever published in England.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000017_000003.wav|These sorrows made him throw himself into his work with greater earnestness.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000029_000002.wav|He attempted one more series of readings, and with their close bade farewell for ever to his English audience.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000027_000004.wav|A great banquet of farewell was given to him in New York and he returned to England bearing the admiration and love of the whole American people.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000000_000001.wav|Round about are chalk hills, green lanes, forests and marshes, and amid such scenes the little Charles's genius first began to show itself.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000016_000002.wav|He liked best to wander along the cliffs or across the downs by the sea.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000029_000000.wav|This summer of eighteen sixty nine--the last summer of his life-was a contented and even a happy one.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000023_000002.wav|As the years went by, his letters to his oldest son told of his own work and plans. When his youngest son sailed away to live in Australia, he wrote: "Poor Plorn is gone.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000007_000004.wav|If he did, his success as a reporter soon determined him otherwise.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000027_000002.wav|He was unable to sleep and his appetite entirely failed him.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000018_000002.wav|He was the most systematic of men.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000012_000000.wav|With his increasing wealth, Dickens had, of course, changed his manner of life.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000002.wav|He followed this with others as successful, signed "Boz"--the child nickname of one of his younger brothers.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000018_000000.wav|People have often wondered how Dickens found time to accomplish so many different things.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000027_000001.wav|Often at the close of an evening he would become so faint that he would have to lie down.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000025_000001.wav|His restlessness, perhaps also his lack of happiness, drove him to work without rest.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000002_000000.wav|He had a great affection for Chatham and Rochester, and after he began to write stories that were printed, he often used to put these places into them.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000014_000001.wav|A public banquet was given him in Edinburgh, and he was much sought after and entertained.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000015_000002.wav|Unfortunately, however, Dickens had taken a dislike to American ways, and this dislike appeared in many things he wrote after his return to England.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000007_000002.wav|Some of his early experiences of this kind he has told in the adventures of Nicholas Nickleby at mr Crummles's theater.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000018_000004.wav|He could not work in a room unless everything in it was in its proper place.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000005_000003.wav|But Dickens had great strength of will and a determination to do well whatever he did at all, and he succeeded, just as David Copperfield did in the story.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000021_000000.wav|This book brought Dickens to the height of his career.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000026_000003.wav|A serious illness followed, and afterward he was troubled with an increasing lameness-the first real warning of the end.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000012_000003.wav|He used to say that being without them was "like losing his arms and legs."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000031_000002.wav|They begged him to lie down.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000031_000000.wav|One day as he entered the house at Gad's Hill, he seemed tired and silent.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000007_000001.wav|Throughout his life he loved to act in plays got up and often written, too, by himself and his friends.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000030_000001.wav|Soon after, the end came.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000011_000009.wav|Often, too, Dickens's stories are, in a sense, sermons against very human sins.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000022_000001.wav|Everyone, old and young throughout the neighborhood, liked him.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000007_000000.wav|The theater had always a great attraction for Dickens.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000023_000003.wav|It was a hard parting at the last.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000005_000001.wav|This did not content him and he made up his mind to learn to write shorthand so as to become a reporter, in the Houses of Parliament, for a newspaper.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000017_000000.wav|In the meantime he had met with both joy and sorrow.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000025_000003.wav|Much better to die doing." The idea of giving public readings from his stories suggested itself to him, and he was soon engaged in preparation.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000022_000002.wav|Children, dogs and horses were his friends.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000021_000004.wav|And so, indeed, it had proved.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000030_000000.wav|He was seen in public but a few times more-once at the last dinner party he ever attended, to meet the Prince of Wales and the King of the Belgians, and once when the Queen invited him to Buckingham Palace.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000019_000003.wav|Dickens loved to encourage young writers, and would just as quickly accept a good story or poem from an unknown author as from the most famous.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000001_000001.wav|They loved to watch the stars together, and there was one particular star which they used to pretend was their own.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000009_000001.wav|Certainly its honest fun, its merriment, its quaintness, good humor and charity appealed to every reader.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000001.wav|He had dropped it into a letter box with mingled hope and fear, and read it now through tears of joy and pride.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000007_000003.wav|But his acting was for his own amusement, and it is doubtful if he ever thought seriously of adopting the stage as a profession.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000003_000002.wav|Before another year had passed, his father was put into prison for debt-the same prison in which Little Dorrit, in the story of that name, grew up.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000011_000002.wav|He wrote with a purpose.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000028_000002.wav|He found himself for the first time in his life feeling, as he said, "giddy, jarred, shaken, faint, uncertain of voice and sight, and tread and touch, and dull of spirit." He was obliged to discontinue the course and to rest.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000016_000003.wav|When he was in London he often walked the streets half the night, thinking out his stories, or searching for the odd characters which he put in them.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000003_000001.wav|When he was nine years old, his father became poor and the family was obliged to move to London, where it lived in a shabby house in a poor suburb.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000015_000000.wav|He landed at Boston accompanied by his wife, in eighteen forty two, and visited many of the greater cities of the Eastern states.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000016_000000.wav|Dickens was a very active man, and his life was simple and full of work and exercise.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000018_000005.wav|As a consequence of this habit of regularity, he never wasted time.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000025_000000.wav|The years that followed this separation were years of constant labor for Dickens.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000023_000000.wav|With such a tender heart for all the world, he was more than an affectionate father to his own children, and gave much thought to their happiness and education.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000001_000000.wav|He did not like the rougher sports of his school fellows and preferred to amuse himself in his own way, or to wander about with his older sister, Fanny, whom he especially loved.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000031_000003.wav|"Yes, on the ground," he said-these were the last words he ever uttered-and as he spoke he slipped down upon the floor.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000001_000002.wav|People called him a "very queer small boy" because he was always thinking or reading instead of playing.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000003_000000.wav|These happy years were not to last long.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000003.wav|This was his beginning.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000018_000001.wav|One of the secrets of this, no doubt, was his love of order.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000026_000000.wav|He gave readings, not only in England, but also in Scotland and Ireland, and everywhere he met with enormous success.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000017_000002.wav|His much loved sister, his father, and his own little daughter, the youngest of his family, had died.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000026_000001.wav|The first series was hardly over, when he was at work on a new story, and this was scarcely completed when he was planning more readings.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000000.wav|When he was twenty one he saw his first printed sketch in a monthly magazine.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000016_000006.wav|It was not long before he withdrew also from this second venture.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000016_000001.wav|He rose early and almost every day might have been seen tramping for miles along the country roads, or riding horseback with his dogs racing after him.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000032_000001.wav|Five days later he was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, where are buried so many of the greatest of England's dead.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000027_000000.wav|In spite of his weakness, he decided on another trip to America, and here, in eighteen sixty seven, he began a series of readings which left him in a far worse condition.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000019_000001.wav|His aim was to make it cheerful, useful and at the same time cheap, so that the poor could afford to buy it as well as the rich.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000006_000000.wav|And like the latter, too, about this time Dickens fell in love.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000004_000000.wav|Better days, however, came at last.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000024_000004.wav|It is sad to reflect that he who has painted so beautifully for others the joys and sorrows of perfect love and home, was himself destined to know neither.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000008_000007.wav|Soon after the appearance of its first chapters, Dickens married Miss Catherine Hogarth, daughter of the editor of one of the London newspapers, who had helped him in his career.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/113336/7752_113336_000012_000001.wav|He lived part of the time in the country near London, in Brighton, in Dover, and in France and Italy.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000046_000002.wav|Giroflee and the Fawn walked in the direction the Fairy had pointed out, and arrived at a neat little cottage where an old woman showed them a room which they could occupy.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000013_000002.wav|Marvellously fine linen, but so strong that it could be worn a hundred years without going into holes, lace of the finest, with the history of the world worked into its pattern, toys of all descriptions that a child would love to play with, and a cradle ornamented with rubies and diamonds, and supported by four Cupids ready to rock it should the baby cry.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000062_000000.wav|One can guess the astonishment of Becafigue and of the Prince. Guerrier would almost have died of pleasure had he not thought that it must be some enchantment, for did he not know that Desiree and her Lady in Waiting were shut up in the castle.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000004_000000.wav|One day when the Queen was staying in a watering place, some distance from home, she was sitting by a fountain alone, sadly thinking of the daughter she longed to have, when she perceived a crab coming in her direction, who, to the Queen's surprise, addressed her thus:|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000019_000000.wav|"But where have you seen her?" enquired the King.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000017_000000.wav|When the Princess Desiree was fourteen years old, the Queen had her portrait painted, and copies of it were carried to all the Courts in the world.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000032_000000.wav|No one replied at first, and then one of the boldest said,|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000016_000000.wav|Then, with three waves of a wand, the Fairies caused a high tower to spring up; it had neither door nor window, an underground passage was made, through which everything necessary could be carried, and in this tower the little Princess was shut up and there she lived by candlelight, where never a glimpse of the sun could come.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000056_000000.wav|"Beautiful Fawn," said he, "do not fear me, I shall lead you with me everywhere." Then he covered her with roses and fed her with the choicest leaves and grasses.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000003_000000.wav|There was once upon a time a King and Queen who were perfectly happy, with one exception, and that was that they had no child.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000002_000000.wav|THE WHITE FAWN|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000034_000001.wav|She was frightfully thin, and her nose, which was more hooked than a parrot's beak, shone like a danger signal.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000048_000001.wav|He addressed her politely and asked for the things he required for his master.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000044_000001.wav|Towards night the fear of having no shelter made the two friends so dreadfully dismayed that the Fairy Tulip suddenly appeared before them.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000052_000000.wav|The next day the young Prince sought in vain for the White Fawn, and finally tired out threw himself upon the grass and fell asleep.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000061_000003.wav|To be a Fawn all the day, to hear him speaking, and not to be able to tell him of my sad fate."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000035_000001.wav|Then he said, turning to his father, "We have been deceived, that portrait was painted to mislead us.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000057_000001.wav|The next day for a long time she hid from the Prince, but at last he found her, and as she dashed off he shot an arrow which wounded her in the leg.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000024_000003.wav|Meanwhile once more Becafigue came to the capital where Desiree's father lived, and throwing himself at the King's feet, besought him in most touching words to let his daughter go with him at once to the Prince, who would surely die if he could not behold her.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000048_000002.wav|She hastened to fill a basket, and gave it to him, saying, "I fear that if you pass a night without shelter some harm may come to you.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000020_000001.wav|So the King despatched as ambassador a rich young lord named Becafigue.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000069_000000.wav|And, in accordance with the wish of Princess Desiree, Longue Epine and her mother, the false Lady in Waiting, were set at liberty.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000034_000002.wav|Then her teeth were black and uneven, and, in fact, she was as ugly as Desiree was beautiful.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000050_000000.wav|Next morning the Prince arose early and went out; he had not long been in the forest when he saw a beautiful little Fawn.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000058_000000.wav|Sad that he should have done so cruel a thing, the Prince took herbs and laid them upon the wound, and at last he went to fetch Becafigue to help him carry her to the house.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000059_000001.wav|Who would have thought that the most beautiful Princess in the world would be treated thus?|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000037_000000.wav|"It is not to be wondered at," remarked the King, "that your father kept such a treasure shut up for fifteen years."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000013_000001.wav|Then taking the bouquet into her hand, the Queen, one by one, pronounced the names of the flowers, when there immediately appeared, flying through the air in elegant chariots drawn by different kinds of birds, the six Fairies who entered the apartment, bearing beautiful presents for the little baby.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000035_000002.wav|It will be the death of me."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000011_000000.wav|The Queen, transported with joy, and overcome with gratitude, threw herself upon their necks, and warmly embraced them; she then spent several hours admiring the wonders of the palace and its gardens, and it was not until evening that she returned to her attendants, who were in a serious state of anxiety at the prolonged absence of Her Majesty.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000007_000000.wav|The crab smiled, and transforming herself into a beautiful little old woman, said:|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000008_000000.wav|"Now, madam, it is not necessary to go backwards.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000043_000001.wav|But with morning dawn she felt a little safer, and the sun appeared a marvellous sight to her from which she could hardly turn her eyes.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000033_000000.wav|"Sir, you will see; apparently the fatigue of the journey has somewhat changed her." The Prince was surprised, but when he saw Longue Epine words fail to express what he felt.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000013_000003.wav|But, best of all, the Fairies endowed the little Princess with beauty, and virtue, and health, and every good thing that could be desired.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000046_000000.wav|"I am not going to scold you," she said, "although it is through not following my advice that you are in this misfortune, for it goes to my heart to see you thus.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000044_000000.wav|It did not take Giroflee long to discover that this was her dearly loved mistress, and she promised the White Fawn never to forsake her, for she found she could hear all that was said although she could not speak.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000042_000000.wav|It is a long time since we left the White Fawn, that is to say the charming Princess.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000029_000003.wav|She placed the crown upon her head, the sceptre and orb she carried in her hands, so that all should take her for the Princess.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000058_000001.wav|He tied her to a tree.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000053_000001.wav|Coming nearer and nearer she presently touched him and he awoke.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000010_000002.wav|You have only to hold this bouquet, and mention each flower, thinking of us, and be assured that we shall at once appear in your chamber."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000025_000000.wav|When Princess Desiree heard of the Prince's illness, she suggested that she should set out without delay, but in a dark carriage, that only at night should be opened to give her food.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000048_000003.wav|I can offer you a poor one, but at any rate it is secure from the lions."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000055_000000.wav|"Stay, dear little Fawn," he cried, "I would not hurt you for the world." But the wind carried off the words before they reached her ears.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000063_000000.wav|He went softly and knocked at the chamber door, which Giroflee opened, thinking it was the old woman, for she required help for the wounded arm.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000051_000000.wav|"It is no use talking thus, when I am a Fawn this room is stifling to me and I must depart from it."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000041_000000.wav|After three or four days' journeying, the wanderers found themselves in a thick forest.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000035_000000.wav|At first the Prince could not speak a word, he simply gazed at her in amazement.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000029_000004.wav|With her mother bearing her train she gravely walked in the direction of the town.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000059_000002.wav|While she was straining at the ribbons trying to break them, Giroflee arrived, and was leading her away when the Prince met them and claimed the Fawn as his.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000066_000000.wav|Then it was found that it was the Fairy Tulip in disguise of the old woman who had provided that sheltering cottage in the forest.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000041_000001.wav|Quite wearied out, the Prince threw himself upon the ground, while Becafigue went on further in search of fruit wherewith to refresh his royal master.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000013_000000.wav|Not very long afterwards, when the Queen was once more at home in her Royal Palace, a baby Princess was born, whom she named Desiree.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000006_000000.wav|"I would certainly come with you," replied the Queen, "but I am afraid that I cannot walk backwards."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000038_000000.wav|Then he and the Prince turned towards the town, and the false Princess and the Lady in Waiting, without any ceremony, were mounted each behind a soldier and taken to be shut up in a castle.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110522/7752_110522_000049_000000.wav|Becafigue went back to the Prince and together they returned to the cottage, where they were led into the room next to that occupied by the Princess.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000020_000001.wav|At that moment the ring pricked like a pin running into his finger.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000005_000000.wav|There was once a king who was such an honourable man that his subjects called him "The Good King."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000048_000005.wav|The worthy Governor was delighted to behold his dear master, and gladly resigned the throne to him.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000048_000001.wav|For several days he flew around hoping to catch sight of Zelie, and at last, seated by a hermit, outside a cave, he found her.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000026_000000.wav|But Zelie was as good as she was beautiful, and said to him:|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000008_000001.wav|She wore a robe as white as snow, and a wreath of white roses on her head.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000016_000000.wav|And with this the father had to rest content.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000030_000000.wav|Great was his surprise, on entering the apartment, to find the captive had disappeared, for he carried the key of the door in his pocket.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000018_000000.wav|"I promised your father to be your friend," she told him; "here is a little gold ring, take care of it, for it is worth more than diamonds. Every time that you are about to do any wrong action it will prick you.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000038_000001.wav|At the same moment he found himself in a forest, and there, after roaming about miserably for some time, he fell into a pit dug by hunters.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000044_000000.wav|One day he carried his little piece of bread into the garden to eat it there, but wandering with it in his mouth, still further on, he saw a young girl pale and thin, and almost fainting for want of food.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000025_000000.wav|One day when he was out walking he saw a girl named Zelie, who was so beautiful that he resolved to marry her.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000035_000000.wav|"I promised your father," said she in a stern voice, "to give you good advice, and to punish you if you refused to follow it.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000048_000002.wav|Fluttering down he alighted upon her shoulder.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000013_000000.wav|"Willingly," responded the Fairy, "I will make your son the most handsome prince in the world, or the richest, or the most powerful; choose which you will for him."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000045_000001.wav|Just then he heard loud cries, and saw that it was the beautiful Zelie struggling to free herself from four men who were carrying her into a house near by.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000008_000000.wav|That night when he was alone in his room, there appeared a lovely lady.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000006_000001.wav|The King caressed the little creature, and said:|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000038_000000.wav|He had a lion's head, a bull's horns, the feet of a wolf, and the tail of a viper.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000021_000000.wav|"What is this?" he exclaimed: "the Fairy must be mocking me, surely I've done no great harm in kicking an animal that annoyed me.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000009_000000.wav|"I am the Fairy Candide; I wished to see if you were as good as everybody declares you are, and for this reason I changed myself into the little rabbit, and ran to you in my distress, for I know that those who have pity for dumb creatures have still more pity for mankind.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000038_000002.wav|He was captured and led into the capital of his Kingdom.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000018_000001.wav|If, in spite of the pricks, you continue your bad actions, you will lose my friendship and I shall become your enemy."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000035_000003.wav|I condemn you to take the resemblance of the beasts you are like in disposition-A lion, because of your fury-a wolf, on account of your greediness-a serpent, for destroying him who has been your second father-a bull, by reason of your brutality."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000035_000002.wav|Now it is time to fulfill my promise of punishment.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000021_000001.wav|What's the use of being ruler of a great empire if I may not treat my dog as I will?"|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000035_000001.wav|You have despised my counsels and your crimes have converted you into a monster, the horror of heaven and earth.|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7752/110526/7752_110526_000015_000001.wav|All that I can promise is that I will give him good advice, and punish him for his faults, if he will not himself correct them."|7752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000001.wav|I found him living in a small cottage containing only one room, but a perfect curiosity in its method and arrangement.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000009_000001.wav|All this may appear like mere egotism, yet I cannot refrain from uttering these recollections, which are passing like a strain of music over my mind and have been called up by an agreeable scene which I witnessed not long since.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000011_000004.wav|The country around was of that pastoral kind which Walton is fond of describing.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000011_000002.wav|In the meanwhile he was giving instructions to his two disciples, showing them the manner in which they should handle their rods, fix their flies, and play them along the surface of the stream.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000016_000000.wav|There is certainly something in angling-if we could forget, which anglers are apt to do, the cruelties and tortures inflicted on worms and insects-that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit and a pure serenity of mind.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000011.wav|His implements for angling were carefully disposed on nails and hooks about the room.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000008_000000.wav|I recollect also that, after toiling and watching and creeping about for the greater part of a day, with scarcely any success in spite of all our admirable apparatus, a lubberly country urchin came down from the hills with a rod made from a branch of a tree, a few yards of twine, and, as Heaven shall help me!|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000010_000000.wav|In the morning's stroll along the banks of the Alun, a beautiful little stream which flows down from the Welsh hills and throws itself into the Dee, my attention was attracted to a group seated on the margin. On approaching I found it to consist of a veteran angler and two rustic disciples.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000004_000001.wav|He wore a broad skirted fustian coat, perplexed with half a hundred pockets; a pair of stout shoes and leathern gaiters; a basket slung on one side for fish; a patent rod, a landing net, and a score of other inconveniences only to be found in the true angler's armory.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000016_000002.wav|Indeed, it is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and highly cultivated scenery of England, where every roughness has been softened away from the landscape.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000005_000001.wav|It was one of those wild streams that lavish, among our romantic solitudes, unheeded beauties enough to fill the sketch book of a hunter of the picturesque.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000004_000002.wav|Thus harnessed for the field, he was as great a matter of stare and wonderment among the country folk, who had never seen a regular angler, as was the steel clad hero of La Mancha among the goatherds of the Sierra Morena.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000013_000000.wav|I soon fell into conversation with the old angler, and was so much entertained that, under pretext of receiving instructions in his art, I kept company with him almost the whole day, wandering along the banks of the stream and listening to his talk.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000006_000000.wav|How smoothly would this vagrant brook glide at such times through some bosom of green meadowland among the mountains, where the quiet was only interrupted by the occasional tinkling of a bell from the lazy cattle among the clover or the sound of a woodcutter's axe from the neighboring forest!|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000016_000001.wav|As the English are methodical even in their recreations, and are the most scientific of sportsmen, it has been reduced among them to perfect rule and system.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000005_000002.wav|Sometimes it would leap down rocky shelves, making small cascades, over which the trees threw their broad balancing sprays and long nameless weeds hung in fringes from the impending banks, dripping with diamond drops.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000024_000001.wav|His happiness, however, sprung from within himself and was independent of external circumstances, for he had that inexhaustible good nature which is the most precious gift of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000009.wav|"All in the Downs," and "Tom Bowling," intermingled with pictures of sea fights, among which the battle of Camperdown held a distinguished place.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000015_000004.wav|In taking him under his care, therefore, the old man had probably an eye to a privileged corner in the tap room and an occasional cup of cheerful ale free of expense.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000004_000000.wav|One of our party had equalled the Don in the fulness of his equipments, being attired cap a pie for the enterprise.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000023_000000.wav|I found him seated on a bench before the door, smoking his pipe in the soft evening sunshine.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000025_000002.wav|The whole tenor of his life was quiet and inoffensive, being principally passed about the neighboring streams when the weather and season were favorable; and at other times he employed himself at home, preparing his fishing tackle for the next campaign or manufacturing rods, nets, and flies for his patrons and pupils among the gentry.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000005_000000.wav|Our first essay was along a mountain brook among the Highlands of the Hudson-a most unfortunate place for the execution of those piscatory tactics which had been invented along the velvet margins of quiet English rivulets.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000011_000006.wav|The day too, like that recorded in his work, was mild and sunshiny, with now and then a soft dropping shower that sowed the whole earth with diamonds.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000000.wav|On parting with the old angler I inquired after his place of abode, and, happening to be in the neighborhood of the village a few evenings afterwards, I had the curiosity to seek him out.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000007.wav|From the centre of the chamber hung a model of a ship, of his own workmanship.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000007_000000.wav|For my part, I was always a bungler at all kinds of sport that required either patience or adroitness, and had not angled above half an hour before I had completely "satisfied the sentiment," and convinced myself of the truth of Izaak Walton's opinion, that angling is something like poetry-a man must be born to it.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000023_000001.wav|His cat was purring soberly on the threshold, and his parrot describing some strange evolutions in an iron ring that swung in the centre of his cage.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000015_000003.wav|The lad that was receiving his instructions, I learnt, was the son and heir apparent of a fat old widow who kept the village inn, and of course a youth of some expectation, and much courted by the idle gentleman like personages of the place.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000022_000001.wav|The establishment reminded me of that of the renowned Robinson Crusoe; it was kept in neat order, everything being "stowed away" with the regularity of a ship of war; and he informed me that he "scoured the deck every morning and swept it between meals."|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000008.wav|Two or three chairs, a table, and a large sea chest formed the principal movables. About the wall were stuck up naval ballads, such as "Admiral Hosier's Ghost,"|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000010.wav|The mantelpiece was decorated with sea shells, over which hung a quadrant, flanked by two wood cuts of most bitter looking naval commanders.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000025_000000.wav|On inquiring further about him, I learnt that he was a universal favorite in the village and the oracle of the tap room, where he delighted the rustics with his songs, and, like Sindbad, astonished them with his stories of strange lands and shipwrecks and sea fights.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000026_000000.wav|He was a regular attendant at church on Sundays, though he generally fell asleep during the sermon.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000008_000001.wav|I believe a crooked pin for a hook, baited with a vile earthworm, and in half an hour caught more fish than we had nibbles throughout the day!|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000007_000001.wav|I hooked myself instead of the fish, tangled my line in every tree, lost my bait, broke my rod, until I gave up the attempt in despair, and passed the day under the trees reading old Izaak, satisfied that it was his fascinating vein of honest simplicity and rural feeling that had bewitched me, and not the passion for angling.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000010_000006.wav|I have a kind feeling towards all "brothers of the angle" ever since I read Izaak Walton.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000014_000002.wav|This was the only stroke of real good fortune he had ever experienced, for it got him a pension, which, together with some small paternal property, brought him in a revenue of nearly forty pounds. On this he retired to his native village, where he lived quietly and independently, and devoted the remainder of his life to the "noble art of angling."|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000006.wav|A hammock was slung from the ceiling which in the daytime was lashed up so as to take but little room.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000004.wav|On the top was a ship for a weathercock.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000005.wav|The interior was fitted up in a truly nautical style, his ideas of comfort and convenience having been acquired on the berth deck of a man of war.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000010_000004.wav|The other was a tall, awkward country lad, with a lounging gait, and apparently somewhat of a rustic beau.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000024_000000.wav|How comforting it is to see a cheerful and contented old age, and to behold a poor fellow like this, after being tempest tost through life, safely moored in a snug and quiet harbor in the evening of his days!|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000010_000005.wav|The old man was busy in examining the maw of a trout which he had just killed, to discover by its contents what insects were seasonable for bait, and was lecturing on the subject to his companions, who appeared to listen with infinite deference.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000003_000002.wav|It was early in the year, but as soon as the weather was auspicious, and that the spring began to melt into the verge of summer, we took rod in hand and sallied into the country, as stark mad as was ever Don Quixote from reading books of chivalry.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000016_000004.wav|"When I would beget content," says Izaak Walton, "and increase confidence in the power and wisdom and providence of Almighty God, I will walk the meadows by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other little living creatures that are not only created, but fed (man knows not how) by the goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore trust in Him."|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000014_000001.wav|He had afterwards experienced many ups and downs in life until he got into the navy, where his leg was carried away by a cannon ball at the battle of Camperdown.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53343/6550_53343_000020_000002.wav|It was on the skirts of the village, on a green bank a little back from the road, with a small garden in front stocked with kitchen herbs and adorned with a few flowers.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000002_000005.wav|Drinking is here the principal relaxation of the men, including smoking, but the women are very abstemious, though they have no public amusements as a substitute.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000017_000000.wav|But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view everything with the jaundiced eye of melancholy-for I am sad-and have cause.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000006_000007.wav|yet I cannot describe the curiosities to you.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000008_000003.wav|The cottage is well imitated, and the whole has a pleasing effect, particularly so to me who love Norway-its peaceful farms and spacious wilds.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000002_000002.wav|It is merely the sobriety of the Parisians which renders their fetes more interesting, their gaiety never becoming disgusting or dangerous, as is always the case when liquor circulates.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000003_000001.wav|The farce, termed ballet, was a kind of pantomime, the childish incidents of which were sufficient to show the state of the dramatic art in Denmark, and the gross taste of the audience.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000005_000002.wav|Every object carried me back to past times, and impressed the manners of the age forcibly on my mind.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000016_000001.wav|The Prince Royal, at present, runs into the opposite extreme; and the formality, if not the parsimony, of the court, seems to extend to all the other branches of society, which I had an opportunity of observing; though hospitality still characterises their intercourse with strangers.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000006_000000.wav|The vacuum left by departed greatness was everywhere observable, whilst the battles and processions portrayed on the walls told you who had here excited revelry after retiring from slaughter, or dismissed pageantry in search of pleasure.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000013_000000.wav|Besides, the Prince Royal, determined to be economical, almost descends to parsimony; and perhaps depresses his subjects, by labouring not to oppress them; for his intentions always seem to be good-yet nothing can give a more forcible idea of the dulness which eats away all activity of mind, than the insipid routine of a court, without magnificence or elegance.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000010_000000.wav|There are some good pictures in the royal museum.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000016_000000.wav|The burning of the palace was, in fact, a fortunate circumstance, as it afforded a pretext for reducing the establishment of the household, which was far too great for the revenue of the Crown.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000002_000000.wav|I have formerly censured the French for their extreme attachment to theatrical exhibitions, because I thought that they tended to render them vain and unnatural characters; but I must acknowledge, especially as women of the town never appear in the Parisian as at our theatres, that the little saving of the week is more usefully expended there every Sunday than in porter or brandy, to intoxicate or stupify the mind.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000010_000002.wav|The good pictures were mixed indiscriminately with the bad ones, in order to assort the frames.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000003_000005.wav|Each laughs at the other, unconscious of his own appearance; meanwhile the women enter to enjoy the sport, "the rare fun," with other incidents of the same species.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000018_000000.wav|God bless you!|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000002_000001.wav|The common people of France have a great superiority over that class in every other country on this very score.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000003_000004.wav|The tinker, with the frying pan for a shield, renders them immovable, and blacks their cheeks.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000006_000005.wav|It cannot be!--as easily could I believe that the large silver lions at the top of the banqueting room thought and reasoned.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000006_000006.wav|But avaunt! ye waking dreams!|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000003_000000.wav|The play was founded on the story of the "Mock Doctor;" and, from the gestures of the servants, who were the best actors, I should imagine contained some humour.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000009_000003.wav|It might with propriety, perhaps, be termed the malady of genius; the cause of that characteristic melancholy which "grows with its growth, and strengthens with its strength."|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000002_000003.wav|Intoxication is the pleasure of savages, and of all those whose employments rather exhaust their animal spirits than exercise their faculties.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000008_000001.wav|As they are in the modern and English style, I thought I was following the footsteps of Matilda, who wished to multiply around her the images of her beloved country.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000012_000000.wav|There are some respectable men of science here, but few literary characters, and fewer artists.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000014_000000.wav|The Prince, from what I can now collect, has very moderate abilities; yet is so well disposed, that Count Bernstorff finds him as tractable as he could wish; for I consider the Count as the real sovereign, scarcely behind the curtain; the Prince having none of that obstinate self sufficiency of youth, so often the forerunner of decision of character.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000006_000003.wav|Could the thoughts, of which there remained so many vestiges, have vanished quite away?|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000005_000000.wav|I have likewise visited the public library and museum, as well as the palace of Rosembourg.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000008_000002.wav|I was also gratified by the sight of a Norwegian landscape in miniature, which with great propriety makes a part of the Danish King's garden.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000008_000000.wav|I have not visited any other palace, excepting Hirsholm, the gardens of which are laid out with taste, and command the finest views the country affords.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000009_000000.wav|The public library consists of a collection much larger than I expected to see; and it is well arranged.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000007_000000.wav|There were cabinets full of baubles and gems, and swords which must have been wielded by giant's hand.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/65820/6550_65820_000010_000003.wav|The same fault is conspicuous in the new splendid gallery forming at Paris; though it seems an obvious thought that a school for artists ought to be arranged in such a manner, as to show the progressive discoveries and improvements in the art.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000014_000005.wav|Whenever they seized upon a book, by one of those incongruities common to dreams, methought it turned into a garment of foreign or antique fashion, with which they proceeded to equip themselves.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000016_000003.wav|He had decked himself in wreaths and ribbons from all the old pastoral poets, and, hanging his head on one side, went about with a fantastical, lackadaisical air, "babbling about green field." But the personage that most struck my attention was a pragmatical old gentleman in clerical robes, with a remarkably large and square but bald head.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000015_000000.wav|There was a portly, rosy, well fed parson, whom I observed ogling several mouldy polemical writers through an eyeglass.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000018_000001.wav|The tumult and the scuffle were at an end.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000010_000003.wav|I observed him, now and then, draw a large fragment of biscuit out of his pocket, and gnaw; whether it was his dinner, or whether he was endeavoring to keep off that exhaustion of the stomach, produced by much pondering over dry works, I leave to harder students than myself to determine.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000012_000005.wav|Thus it is in the clearing of our American woodlands; where we burn down a forest of stately pines, a progeny of dwarf oaks start up in their place; and we never see the prostrate trunk of a tree mouldering into soil, but it gives birth to a whole tribe of fungi.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000011_000003.wav|He made more stir and show of business than any of the others; dipping into various books, fluttering over the leaves of manuscripts, taking a morsel out of one, a morsel out of another, "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little." The contents of his book seemed to be as heterogeneous as those of the witches' cauldron in Macbeth.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000018_000003.wav|The old authors shrunk back into their picture frames, and hung in shadowy solemnity along the walls.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000005.wav|Beaumont and Fletcher, side by side, raged round the field like Castor and Pollux, and sturdy Ben Jonson enacted more wonders than when a volunteer with the army in Flanders.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000010_000000.wav|Being now in possession of the secret, I sat down in a corner, and watched the process of this book manufactory.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000014_000004.wav|The long tables had disappeared, and, in place of the sage magi, I beheld a ragged, threadbare throng, such as may be seen plying about the great repository of cast off clothes, Monmouth Street.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000011_000000.wav|There was one dapper little gentleman in bright colored clothes, with a chirping gossiping expression of countenance, who had all the appearance of an author on good terms with his bookseller.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000010_000002.wav|He was evidently constructing some work of profound erudition, that would be purchased by every man who wished to be thought learned, placed upon a conspicuous shelf of his library, or laid open upon his table-but never read.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000007_000003.wav|There was an air of mystery about this that piqued my languid curiosity, and I determined to attempt the passage of that strait, and to explore the unknown regions beyond.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000004.wav|On one side might be seen half a dozen old monks, stripping a modern professor; on another, there was sad devastation carried into the ranks of modern dramatic writers.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000012_000004.wav|What was formerly a ponderous history, revives in the shape of a romance-an old legend changes into a modern play-and a sober philosophical treatise furnishes the body for a whole series of bouncing and sparkling essays.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000008_000000.wav|Now and then one of these personages would write something on a small slip of paper, and ring a bell, whereupon a familiar would appear, take the paper in profound silence, glide out of the room, and return shortly loaded with ponderous tomes, upon which the other would fall, tooth and nail, with famished voracity.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000013_000002.wav|Thus, also, do authors beget authors, and having produced a numerous progeny, in a good old age they sleep with their fathers, that is to say, with the authors who preceded them-and from whom they had stolen.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000013_000001.wav|Generation after generation, both in animal and vegetable life, passes away, but the vital principle is transmitted to posterity, and the species continue to flourish.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000003.wav|The unhappy culprits endeavored in vain to escape with their plunder.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000011_000001.wav|After considering him attentively, I recognized in him a diligent getter up of miscellaneous works, which bustled off well with the trade.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000007_000004.wav|The door yielded to my hand, with all that facility with which the portals of enchanted castles yield to the adventurous knight errant.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000001.wav|The old authors thrust out, first a head, then a shoulder, from the canvas, looked down curiously for an instant upon the motley throng, and then descended, with fury in their eyes, to claim their rifled property.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000018_000004.wav|In short, I found myself wide awake in my corner, with the whole assemblage of hookworms gazing at me with astonishment.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000008.wav|They were close upon his haunches; in a twinkling off went his wig; at every turn some strip of raiment was peeled away, until in a few moments, from his domineering pomp, he shrunk into a little, pursy, "chopp'd bald shot," and made his exit with only a few tags and rags fluttering at his back.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000009_000002.wav|I found that these mysterious personages, whom I had mistaken for magi, were principally authors, and were in the very act of manufacturing books.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000010_000001.wav|I noticed one lean, bilious looking wight, who sought none but the most worm eaten volumes, printed in black letter.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000000.wav|In the height of this literary masquerade, a cry suddenly resounded from every side, of "Thieves! thieves!" I looked, and lo! the portraits about the walls became animated!|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000016_000004.wav|He entered the room wheezing and puffing, elbowed his way through the throng with a look of sturdy self confidence, and, having laid hands upon a thick Greek quarto, clapped it upon his head, and swept majestically away in a formidable frizzled wig.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000018_000000.wav|There was something so ludicrous in the catastrophe of this learned Theban that I burst into an immoderate fit of laughter, which broke the whole illusion.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000014_000006.wav|I noticed, however, that no one pretended to clothe himself from any particular suit, but took a sleeve from one, a cape from another, a skirt from a third, thus decking himself out piecemeal, while some of his original rags would peep out from among his borrowed finery.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000019_000001.wav|At first I did not comprehend him, but I soon found that the library was a kind of literary "preserve," subject to game laws, and that no one must presume to hunt there without special license and permission.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000013_000000.wav|Let us not then, lament over the decay and oblivion into which ancient writers descend; they do but submit to the great law of Nature, which declares that all sublunary shapes of matter shall be limited in their duration, but which decrees, also, that their element shall never perish.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000014_000003.wav|I dreamt that the chamber was still decorated with the portraits of ancient authors, but that the number was increased.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000018_000005.wav|Nothing of the dream had been real but my burst of laughter, a sound never before heard in that grave sanctuary, and so abhorrent to the ears of wisdom, as to electrify the fraternity.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000016_000001.wav|Some, too, seemed to contemplate the costumes of the old writers, merely to imbibe their principles of taste, and to catch their air and spirit; but I grieve to say, that too many were apt to array themselves, from top to toe, in the patchwork manner I have mentioned.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000006.wav|As to the dapper little compiler of farragos mentioned some time since, he had arrayed himself in as many patches and colors as harlequin, and there was as fierce a contention of claimants about him, as about the dead body of Patroclus.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000017_000002.wav|The scene of scampering and hubbub that ensued baffles all description.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000005_000001.wav|BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6550/53320/6550_53320_000012_000002.wav|In like manner, the beauties and fine thoughts of ancient and obsolete authors are caught up by these flights of predatory writers, and cast forth, again to flourish and bear fruit in a remote and distant tract of time.|6550
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000011_000004.wav|If he who struck him, though he did so sneakingly and treacherously, had drawn his sword and stood and faced him, then he who had been struck would have received offence and insult at the same time; offence because he was struck treacherously, insult because he who struck him maintained what he had done, standing his ground without taking to flight.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000007_000000.wav|"No, Sancho my friend, certainly not," said the duke, "for in the name of Senor Don Quixote I confer upon you the government of one of no small importance that I have at my disposal."|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000014_000002.wav|The duke and duchess, who had not known anything about this, waited to see what came of this strange washing.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000011_000001.wav|Women, children, and ecclesiastics, as they cannot defend themselves, though they may receive offence cannot be insulted, because between the offence and the insult there is, as your excellence very well knows, this difference: the insult comes from one who is capable of offering it, and does so, and maintains it; the offence may come from any quarter without carrying insult.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000046_000000.wav|With this, the conversation came to an end, and Don Quixote retired to take his midday sleep; but the duchess begged Sancho, unless he had a very great desire to go to sleep, to come and spend the afternoon with her and her damsels in a very cool chamber.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000045_000002.wav|Rise, Sancho, my friend; I will repay your courtesy by taking care that my lord the duke makes good to you the promised gift of the government as soon as possible."|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000011_000000.wav|"That is true," said Don Quixote, "and the reason is, that he who is not liable to offence cannot give offence to anyone.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000037_000001.wav|The one with the trough pursued him and followed him everywhere he went, endeavouring with the utmost persistence to thrust it under his chin, while another kitchen boy seemed anxious to wash his beard.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000017_000000.wav|"What are you saying to yourself, Sancho?" asked the duchess.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000040_000001.wav|The customs of countries and princes' palaces are only good so long as they give no annoyance; but the way of washing they have here is worse than doing penance.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000003_000001.wav|Pious, well meant reproof requires a different demeanour and arguments of another sort; at any rate, to have reproved me in public, and so roughly, exceeds the bounds of proper reproof, for that comes better with gentleness than with rudeness; and it is not seemly to call the sinner roundly blockhead and booby, without knowing anything of the sin that is reproved.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000003_000004.wav|Is it, haply, an idle occupation, or is the time ill spent that is spent in roaming the world in quest, not of its enjoyments, but of those arduous toils whereby the good mount upwards to the abodes of everlasting life?|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000014_000003.wav|The barber damsel, when she had him a hand's breadth deep in lather, pretended that there was no more water, and bade the one with the jug go and fetch some, while Senor Don Quixote waited.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000014_000000.wav|Don Quixote finally grew calm, and dinner came to an end, and as the cloth was removed four damsels came in, one of them with a silver basin, another with a jug also of silver, a third with two fine white towels on her shoulder, and the fourth with her arms bared to the elbows, and in her white hands (for white they certainly were) a round ball of Naples soap.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000036_000012.wav|My advice to him will be to take no bribe and surrender no right, and I have some other little matters in reserve, that shall be produced in due season for Sancho's benefit and the advantage of the island he is to govern."|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000027_000000.wav|"True," said the duke; "you must have lost your wits to ask such a question.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000016_000000.wav|Sancho observed the ceremony of the washing very attentively, and said to himself, "God bless me, if it were only the custom in this country to wash squires' beards too as well as knights'.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000016_000001.wav|For by God and upon my soul I want it badly; and if they gave me a scrape of the razor besides I'd take it as a still greater kindness."|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000028_000000.wav|"I would do so certainly," said Don Quixote, "had she not been blurred to my mind's eye by the misfortune that fell upon her a short time since, one of such a nature that I am more ready to weep over it than to describe it.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000038_000000.wav|"What is all this, brothers?" asked the duchess.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000014_000004.wav|She did so, and Don Quixote was left the strangest and most ludicrous figure that could be imagined.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000002_000000.wav|OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, GRAVE AND DROLL|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000005_000000.wav|"Perhaps, brother," said the ecclesiastic, "you are that Sancho Panza that is mentioned, to whom your master has promised an island?"|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000003_000002.wav|Come, tell me, for which of the stupidities you have observed in me do you condemn and abuse me, and bid me go home and look after my house and wife and children, without knowing whether I have any?|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000034_000001.wav|Dulcinea, besides, has that within her that may raise her to be a crowned and sceptred queen; for the merit of a fair and virtuous woman is capable of performing greater miracles; and virtually, though not formally, she has in herself higher fortunes."|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000011_000002.wav|To take an example: a man is standing unsuspectingly in the street and ten others come up armed and beat him; he draws his sword and quits himself like a man, but the number of his antagonists makes it impossible for him to effect his purpose and avenge himself; this man suffers an offence but not an insult.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000036_000007.wav|Dulcinea is illustrious and well born, and of one of the gentle families of El Toboso, which are many, ancient, and good.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000023_000000.wav|The duchess begged Don Quixote, as he seemed to have a retentive memory, to describe and portray to her the beauty and features of the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, for, judging by what fame trumpeted abroad of her beauty, she felt sure she must be the fairest creature in the world, nay, in all La Mancha.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000032_000000.wav|"There is a good deal to be said on that point," said Don Quixote; "God knows whether there be any Dulcinea or not in the world, or whether she is imaginary or not imaginary; these are things the proof of which must not be pushed to extreme lengths.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000039_000000.wav|To which the barber kitchen boy replied, "The gentleman will not let himself be washed as is customary, and as my lord and the senor his master have been."|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000036_000005.wav|And so, as I am not and, so far as one can judge, cannot be enchanted, she it is that is enchanted, that is smitten, that is altered, changed, and transformed; in her have my enemies revenged themselves upon me, and for her shall I live in ceaseless tears, until I see her in her pristine state.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000029_000001.wav|Who can have robbed it of the beauty that gladdened it, of the grace and gaiety that charmed it, of the modesty that shed a lustre upon it?"|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000030_000002.wav|For to deprive a knight errant of his lady is to deprive him of the eyes he sees with, of the sun that gives him light, of the food whereby he lives.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000042_000001.wav|Let them bring me a comb here, or what they please, and curry this beard of mine, and if they get anything out of it that offends against cleanliness, let them clip me to the skin."|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000014_000005.wav|All those present, and there were a good many, were watching him, and as they saw him there with half a yard of neck, and that uncommonly brown, his eyes shut, and his beard full of soap, it was a great wonder, and only by great discretion, that they were able to restrain their laughter.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000027_000001.wav|Nevertheless, Senor Don Quixote would greatly gratify us if he would depict her to us; for never fear, even in an outline or sketch she will be something to make the fairest envious."|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000008_000000.wav|"Go down on thy knees, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and kiss the feet of his excellence for the favour he has bestowed upon thee."|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000036_000006.wav|I have mentioned this lest anybody should mind what Sancho said about Dulcinea's winnowing or sifting; for, as they changed her to me, it is no wonder if they changed her to him.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000035_000001.wav|But I cannot help entertaining a doubt, and having a certain grudge against Sancho Panza; the doubt is this, that the aforesaid history declares that the said Sancho Panza, when he carried a letter on your worship's behalf to the said lady Dulcinea, found her sifting a sack of wheat; and more by token it says it was red wheat; a thing which makes me doubt the loftiness of her lineage."|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty two.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000038_000002.wav|What do you want to do to this good man?|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000003_000006.wav|Some take the broad road of overweening ambition; others that of mean and servile flattery; others that of deceitful hypocrisy, and some that of true religion; but I, led by my star, follow the narrow path of knight errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not honour.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000038_000001.wav|"What is it?|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000011_000003.wav|Another example will make the same thing plain: a man is standing with his back turned, another comes up and strikes him, and after striking him takes to flight, without waiting an instant, and the other pursues him but does not overtake him; he who received the blow received an offence, but not an insult, because an insult must be maintained.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000029_000000.wav|"God bless me!" said the duke aloud at this, "who can have done the world such an injury?|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2618/138042/2618_138042_000046_000001.wav|Sancho replied that, though he certainly had the habit of sleeping four or five hours in the heat of the day in summer, to serve her excellence he would try with all his might not to sleep even one that day, and that he would come in obedience to her command, and with that he went off.|2618
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130569/815_130569_000002_000000.wav|After this the prince set his face homewards as he had spent all his money; and he began to repent of having spent his gold pieces on advice that seemed worthless.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130569/815_130569_000001_000007.wav|The ploughman agreed and said.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130569/815_130569_000001_000008.wav|"Listen attentively!|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130569/815_130569_000000_000001.wav|The Prince Who Acquired Wisdom.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130569/815_130569_000001_000011.wav|"The second maxim is this: You are the son of a Raja; whenever you go to bathe, do not bathe at the common bathing place, but at a place by yourself; give me my coin," and the Prince did so.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130569/815_130569_000000_000000.wav|fourteen.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000003_000000.wav|Chapter thirteen|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000035_000000.wav|The youth contemplated his friend with grateful eyes.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000013_000004.wav|"Who yeh talkin' to?|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000019_000002.wav|It's full 'a coffee.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000044_000000.wav|"Well, but hol' on a minnit," continued the youth.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000046_000000.wav|After the reproof the youth said no more.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000012_000001.wav|"What?|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000023_000009.wav|Still, I don't much think so.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000015_000000.wav|But his friend had interrupted hastily.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000007_000002.wav|"Halt! halt!"|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000041_000001.wav|He stretched out with a murmur of relief and comfort.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000041_000000.wav|The youth, with his manner of doglike obedience, got carefully down like a crone stooping.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000011_000015.wav|I got shot, too."|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000022_000002.wav|He puckered his mouth with a critical air.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000012_000002.wav|Got shot?|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000008_000000.wav|The rifle was lowered to a position of caution and the loud soldier came slowly forward.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000024_000000.wav|The corporal went away.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000013_000003.wav|His voice was anger toned.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000029_000001.wav|From it swelled light smoke.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/815/130105/815_130105_000017_000002.wav|There was a faltering in his voice.|815
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000008.wav|It lapsed for him with a strange steady sweep, and the oddest oddity was that it gave him, independently of the threat of much inconvenience, almost the only positive surprise his career, if career it could be called, had yet offered him.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000024_000000.wav|"I see," Marcher returned.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000000.wav|When the day came, as come it had to, that his friend confessed to him her fear of a deep disorder in her blood, he felt somehow the shadow of a change and the chill of a shock.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000005.wav|If she did "know," moreover, in the sense of her having had some-what should he think?--mystical irresistible light, this would make the matter not better, but worse, inasmuch as her original adoption of his own curiosity had quite become the basis of her life.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000026_000001.wav|"Yes, but since, as you say, I'm only, so far as people make out, ordinary, you're-aren't you?|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000028_000000.wav|He was careful to acknowledge the remark handsomely.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000025_000002.wav|It's my intimacy with you that's in question."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000025_000001.wav|"I don't pretend it exactly shows that I'm not living for you.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000003.wav|He had been far from holding it a failure-long as he had waited for the appearance that was to make it a success.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000007.wav|It grew more grave as the gravity of her condition grew, and the state of mind it produced in him, which he himself ended by watching as if it had been some definite disfigurement of his outer person, may pass for another of his surprises.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000029_000001.wav|But she chose.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000003.wav|It had come up for him then that she "knew" something and that what she knew was bad-too bad to tell him.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000012.wav|It all hung together; they were subject, he and the great vagueness, to an equal and indivisible law. When the possibilities themselves had accordingly turned stale, when the secret of the gods had grown faint, had perhaps even quite evaporated, that, and that only, was failure.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000005.wav|He circled about it at a distance that alternately narrowed and widened and that still wasn't much affected by the consciousness in him that there was nothing she could "know," after all, any better than he did.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000011.wav|If she was old, or almost, john Marcher assuredly was, and yet it was her showing of the lesson, not his own, that brought the truth home to him.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000026_000005.wav|Is that it?"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000001.wav|He had never so unreservedly qualified her as while confronted in thought with such a possibility; in spite of which there was small doubt for him that as an answer to his long riddle the mere effacement of even so fine a feature of his situation would be an abject anticlimax.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000026_000000.wav|He laughed as he saw what she meant.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000013.wav|It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000021_000000.wav|"And you mean that makes you all right?"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000008.wav|This conjoined itself still with another, the really stupefying consciousness of a question that he would have allowed to shape itself had he dared.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000005.wav|The breath of his good faith came short, however, as he recognised how long he had waited, or how long at least his companion had.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000024_000001.wav|"'Humanly,' no doubt, as showing that you're living for something.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000004.wav|It would have been brutal, in the early stages of her trouble, to put that question to her; but it had immediately sounded for him to his own concern, and the possibility was what most made him sorry for her.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000001.wav|He immediately began to imagine aggravations and disasters, and above all to think of her peril as the direct menace for himself of personal privation.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000009.wav|He felt in these days what, oddly enough, he had never felt before, the growth of a dread of losing her by some catastrophe-some catastrophe that yet wouldn't at all be the catastrophe: partly because she had almost of a sudden begun to strike him as more useful to him than ever yet, and partly by reason of an appearance of uncertainty in her health, co incident and equally new.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000014.wav|And so, in the dark valley into which his path had taken its unlooked for twist, he wondered not a little as he groped.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000023_000000.wav|"I don't know why it shouldn't make me-humanly, which is what we're speaking of-as right as it makes you."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000027_000001.wav|"That's it. It's all that concerns me-to help you to pass for a man like another."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000020_000000.wav|"It hasn't been a question for me.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000028_000002.wav|How shall I ever repay you?"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000029_000000.wav|She had her last grave pause, as if there might be a choice of ways.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000025_000000.wav|May Bartram smiled.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000020_000001.wav|If you've had your woman I've had," she said, "my man."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000007.wav|These reflexions, as I say, quickened his generosity; yet, make them as he might, he saw himself, with the lapse of the period, more and more disconcerted.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000026_000003.wav|You help me to pass for a man like another.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000000.wav|It was into this going on as he was that they relapsed, and really for so long a time that the day inevitably came for a further sounding of their depths.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000002.wav|It would represent, as connected with his past attitude, a drop of dignity under the shadow of which his existence could only become the most grotesques of failures.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000004.wav|When he had spoken of it as visibly so bad that she was afraid he might find it out, her reply had left the matter too equivocal to be let alone and yet, for Marcher's special sensibility, almost too formidable again to touch.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000024_000002.wav|Not, that is, just for me and my secret."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000031_000002.wav|This indeed gave him one of those partial recoveries of equanimity that were agreeable to him-it showed him that what was still first in his mind was the loss she herself might suffer.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000028_000001.wav|"How kind, how beautiful, you are to me!|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000006.wav|She had no source of knowledge he hadn't equally-except of course that she might have finer nerves.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000032_000011.wav|Since it was in Time that he was to have met his fate, so it was in Time that his fate was to have acted; and as he waked up to the sense of no longer being young, which was exactly the sense of being stale, just as that, in turn, was the sense of being weak, he waked up to another matter beside.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000029_000002.wav|"By going on as you are."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10088/3914_10088_000030_000002.wav|A difference had been made moreover, once for all, by the fact that she had all the while not appeared to feel the need of rebutting his charge of an idea within her that she didn't dare to express-a charge uttered just before one of the fullest of their later discussions ended.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000010_000001.wav|"Do you consider that we went far?"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000006.wav|Was it-or rather wasn't it-that if for so long she had been watching with him the answer to their question must have swum into her ken and taken on its name, so that her occupation was verily gone?|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000052_000000.wav|"What then has happened?"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000005.wav|You've had your experience.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000027_000004.wav|"Then tell me if I shall consciously suffer."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000006.wav|You leave me to my fate."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000025_000001.wav|"That's enough for me.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000032_000001.wav|"You see what?"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000053_000000.wav|She was once more, with her companion's help, on her feet, and, feeling withdrawal imposed on him, he had blankly found his hat and gloves and had reached the door.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000010_000000.wav|She was frail and ancient and charming as she continued to look at him, yet it was rather as if she had lost the thread.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000036_000002.wav|It's not what you think.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000015_000003.wav|"You know something I don't. You've shown me that before."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000007_000002.wav|He had to admit, however, what she said.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000010.wav|There was something, it seemed to him, that the wrong word would bring down on his head, something that would so at least ease off his tension.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000031_000000.wav|She seemed to mean something so special that he again sharply wondered, though still with the dawn of a prospect of relief.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000009.wav|She gave way at the same instant to a slow fine shudder, and though he remained staring-though he stared in fact but the harder-turned off and regained her chair.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000038_000002.wav|"Oh no," she declared; "it's nothing of that sort.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000036_000001.wav|"Something new.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000027_000002.wav|He couldn't pity her for that; he could only take her as she showed-as capable even yet of helping him.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000037_000000.wav|His divination drew breath then; only her correction might be wrong.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000028_000001.wav|"Never!"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000045_000000.wav|"Too ill to tell me?" it sprang up sharp to him, and almost to his lips, the fear she might die without giving him light.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000002_000001.wav|It had ever been the mark of their talk that the oldest allusions in it required but a little dismissal and reaction to come out again, sounding for the hour as new. She could thus at present meet his enquiry quite freshly and patiently. "Oh yes, I've repeatedly thought, only it always seemed to me of old that I couldn't quite make up my mind.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000020_000002.wav|"I mean the thing I've never said."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000015_000002.wav|It isn't a question now of choosing." At last he came out with it.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000040_000003.wav|The door isn't shut. The door's open," said May Bartram.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000017_000001.wav|"You can't hide it."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000047_000000.wav|"'Now'--?"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000026_000002.wav|"I haven't forsaken you."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000027_000001.wav|But the cold charm in her eyes had spread, as she hovered before him, to all the rest of her person, so that it was for the minute almost a recovery of youth.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000047_000001.wav|She had spoken as if some difference had been made within the moment.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000011.wav|But he wanted not to speak the wrong word; that would make everything ugly.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000035_000000.wav|"It's something new?"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000039_000001.wav|It seemed to him he should be most in a hole if his history should prove all a platitude.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000027_000003.wav|It was as if, at the same time, her light might at any instant go out; wherefore he must make the most of it. There passed before him with intensity the three or four things he wanted most to know; but the question that came of itself to his lips really covered the others.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000012.wav|He wanted the knowledge he lacked to drop on him, if drop it could, by its own august weight.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000008_000001.wav|"Oh far-!"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000031_000002.wav|After which, as their eyes, over his question, met in a silence, the dawn deepened, and something to his purpose came prodigiously out of her very face.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, oh!" May Bartram sounded over what she couldn't hide.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000026_000001.wav|"I'm with you-don't you see?--still." And as to make it more vivid to him she rose from her chair-a movement she seldom risked in these days-and showed herself, all draped and all soft, in her fairness and slimness.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000023_000000.wav|Marcher thought.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000034_000000.wav|She again shook her head.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000000.wav|"You admitted it months ago, when I spoke of it to you as of something you were afraid I should find out.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000004.wav|I'm only afraid of ignorance to day-I'm not afraid of knowledge." And then as for a while she said nothing: "What makes me sure is that I see in your face and feel here, in this air and amid these appearances, that you're out of it. You've done.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000007_000000.wav|It deepened the strangeness to see her, as such a figure in such a picture, talk of "horrors," but she was to do in a few minutes something stranger yet-though even of this he was to take the full measure but afterwards-and the note of it already trembled.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000016_000000.wav|These last words had affected her, he made out in a moment, exceedingly, and she spoke with firmness.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000007_000004.wav|Well, he wished it were; and the consummation depended for him clearly more and more on his friend.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000029_000001.wav|"Well, what's better than that?|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000049_000000.wav|"Are you in pain?" he asked as the woman went to her.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000008.wav|Something else took place instead, which seemed to consist at first in the mere closing of her eyes.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000002.wav|But you had something therefore in mind, and I see now how it must have been, how it still is, the possibility that, of all possibilities, has settled itself for you as the worst.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000012_000001.wav|"But you're quite right. We've had together great imaginations, often great fears; but some of them have been unspoken."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000022_000001.wav|Isn't that what you sufficiently express," she asked, "in calling it the worst?"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000021_000000.wav|It hushed him a moment.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000025_000002.wav|I feel your beliefs are right.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000008.wav|It was a point he had never since ventured to press, vaguely fearing as he did that it might become a difference, perhaps a disagreement, between them.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000044_000000.wav|She had touched in her passage a bell near the chimney and had sunk back strangely pale.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000019_000003.wav|This," he went on, "is why I appeal to you.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000018_000001.wav|It was almost a smothered groan.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000039_000000.wav|Yet he couldn't help asking himself if she weren't, thus pressed, speaking but to save him.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000013_000003.wav|"It's spent."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000038_000003.wav|You've been right."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000025_000003.wav|Therefore if, having this one, you give me no more light on it, you abandon me."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000032_000000.wav|In her own look, however, was doubt.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000025_000000.wav|"It's your belief," Marcher returned.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000043_000000.wav|"Well, you don't say-?"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000005.wav|She was "out of it," to Marcher's vision; her work was over; she communicated with him as across some gulf or from some island of rest that she had already reached, and it made him feel strangely abandoned.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000004_000000.wav|"They were too, too dreadful?"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000031_000003.wav|His own, as he took it in, suddenly flushed to the forehead, and he gasped with the force of a perception to which, on the instant, everything fitted.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000034_000001.wav|"What I mean isn't what I've always meant. It's different."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000003.wav|She was a sphinx, yet with her white petals and green fronds she might have been a lily too-only an artificial lily, wonderfully imitated and constantly kept, without dust or stain, though not exempt from a slight droop and a complexity of faint creases, under some clear glass bell.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000024_000001.wav|"What we're speaking of, remember, is only my idea."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000033_000000.wav|"Why what you mean-what you've always meant."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000001_000004.wav|The perfection of household care, of high polish and finish, always reigned in her rooms, but they now looked most as if everything had been wound up, tucked in, put away, so that she might sit with folded hands and with nothing more to do.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000003.wav|He had been standing by the chimney piece, fireless and sparely adorned, a small perfect old French clock and two morsels of rosy Dresden constituting all its furniture; and her hand grasped the shelf while she kept him waiting, grasped it a little as for support and encouragement. She only kept him waiting, however; that is he only waited.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000023_000001.wav|"Assuredly-if you mean, as I do, something that includes all the loss and all the shame that are thinkable."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000010.wav|It was the end of what she had been intending, but it left him thinking only of that.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000053_000001.wav|Yet he waited for her answer.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000005_000000.wav|"Too, too dreadful-some of them."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000031_000004.wav|The sound of his gasp filled the air; then he became articulate.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000017_000000.wav|He shook his head.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000029_000000.wav|It confirmed the authority he imputed to her, and it produced on him an extraordinary effect.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000013_000002.wav|I feel," he explained, "as if I had lost my power to conceive such things." And he wondered if he looked as blank as he sounded.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000031_000005.wav|"I see-if I don't suffer!"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000002_000002.wav|I thought of dreadful things, between which it was difficult to choose; and so must you have done."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000036_000000.wav|She hung back from it a little.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000003_000002.wav|I appear to myself to have spent my life in thinking of nothing but dreadful things. A great many of them I've at different times named to you, but there were others I couldn't name."|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000007.wav|The end, none the less, was that what he had expected failed to come to him.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000051_000000.wav|Her maid, who had put an arm round her as if to take her to her room, fixed on him eyes that appealingly contradicted her; in spite of which, however, he showed once more his mystification.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000002.wav|Her movement might have been for some finer emphasis of what she was at once hesitating and deciding to say.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000041_000000.wav|"Then something's to come?"|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000042_000006.wav|This, prompting bewilderment, made him but gape the more gratefully for her revelation, so that they continued for some minutes silent, her face shining at him, her contact imponderably pressing, and his stare all kind but all expectant.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000027_000000.wav|It was really, in its effort against weakness, a generous assurance, and had the success of the impulse not, happily, been great, it would have touched him to pain more than to pleasure.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000003_000001.wav|I feel now as if I had scarce done anything else.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3914/10089/3914_10089_000012_000000.wav|"Including each other?" She still smiled.|3914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000036_000001.wav|"I'll see after them myself."|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000022_000003.wav|Don't think about that for a moment.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000010_000000.wav|Philip was taken aback and for the moment remained speechless.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000022_000002.wav|They'd have come down the harbour and held us up.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000039_000009.wav|Then he replaced it, a little dazed.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000011_000002.wav|What might your output be in England per week?|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000023_000000.wav|"I will not," he promised.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000032_000003.wav|No mail yet."|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000034_000001.wav|"Those packages of yours will be all right.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000038_000000.wav|"Just seen Henshaw.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000007_000005.wav|"I want to point out some of the buildings to you."|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000038_000009.wav|Please reply.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000038_000011.wav|Potts."|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000033_000000.wav|He handed the key to a small boy and waved Philip away.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000034_000002.wav|You don't need to worry about them."|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000037_000008.wav|He feed the linen coated porters and dismissed them as rapidly as possible.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000032_000001.wav|"Been several people here enquiring for you.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000039_000003.wav|His cousin's great wealth was a fiction.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000005_000003.wav|The great buildings of New York, at which he had been gazing for hours, were standing, heterogeneous but magnificent, clear cut against an azure sky.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000040_000000.wav|He left the cable carefully open upon the dressing table, and, picking up the small leather case, left the room.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000007_000004.wav|mr Romilly, please wait for me," she called after him.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000005_000009.wav|His fellow passengers, in unfamiliar costumes, were standing about with their eyes glued upon the distant docks.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000007_000001.wav|"Really, I can't tell any of you a thing more," she went on, turning back to them, "only this, and I am sure it ought to be interesting.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000034_000000.wav|"You just step this way, sir," he invited encouragingly.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157861/2473_157861_000031_000000.wav|"Ninth floor!" Philip gasped.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000033_000000.wav|"Don't!" she interrupted.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000004.wav|I simply know.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000024_000000.wav|He was back again on the deck, walking quite steadily yet seeing little. He made his way to the smoking room, asked almost indifferently for a brandy and soda, and drained it to the last drop.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000025_000000.wav|"So I am missing," he remarked, almost in his ordinary tone.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000038_000000.wav|He shook his head.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000019_000006.wav|He was in the library, standing in front of those many sheets of typewritten messages, passing them all over, heedless of what their message might be, until he came to the last and most insignificant. Four lines, almost overlapped by another sheet-|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000044_000000.wav|"Isn't it wonderful!" she exclaimed.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000009_000000.wav|"Bob Millet," he repeated thoughtfully.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000005_000000.wav|CHAPTER seven|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000005.wav|Listen.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000035_000000.wav|"Not what they are looking for.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000054_000006.wav|Come right this way, both of you.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000017_000001.wav|An unopened book lay by her side.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000054_000004.wav|But," he added confidentially, dropping his voice and taking them both by the arm, "I have made a cocktail down in my stateroom-it's there in the shaker waiting for us, something I can't talk about.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000015_000001.wav|They drank two cocktails and found themselves unfortunately devoid of cigarettes, a misfortune which it became his privilege to remedy.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000035_000001.wav|Have you brought the paper and pencil you spoke of?|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000033_000001.wav|"You know what I mean.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000047_000004.wav|Oh!|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000007_000002.wav|You know Bob, don't you?"|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000047_000001.wav|"My brain is too full.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000025_000002.wav|Fancy reading of my own disappearance within a few days of its taking place, in the middle of the Atlantic!"|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000022_000001.wav|Philip Romilly, a teacher of art in a London school, visited Detton Magna on Friday afternoon and apparently started for a walk along the canal bank, towards dusk.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000051_000000.wav|He looked away from her.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000033_000005.wav|What can they hope to find there in his place?"|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000047_000000.wav|"I'd rather not," she admitted.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000043_000001.wav|She sat up in her chair with a happy little laugh.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000027_000004.wav|Yes, the whole thing was reasonable."|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000036_000000.wav|She drew a little nearer to him.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000047_000007.wav|No, we'll leave them there. Perhaps, after dinner, we might walk for a little time."|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000029_000003.wav|I don't envy the men who have to handle the drags."|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000048_000001.wav|"Couldn't we go into the library?|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000017_000000.wav|She smiled at him tolerantly.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000022_000002.wav|Nothing has since been heard of him or his movements, and arrangements have been made to drag the canal at a certain point.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000011.wav|Bring your chair a little nearer-so.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000055_000001.wav|Elizabeth, as though by accident, had dropped her veil.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000014_000001.wav|"Hilda and I are dying for a cocktail, mr Romilly."|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000048_000002.wav|We could find a corner by ourselves."|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000046_000000.wav|She shook her head.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000053_000000.wav|They neither of them moved.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000029_000000.wav|"A difficult business," he assured her.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000043_000000.wav|They worked until the first gong for dinner rang.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000012.wav|Now take down these notes."|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000000.wav|"Chance," she declared, "is a wonderful thing.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000023_000003.wav|He saw the whole ghastly business, the police on the canal banks, watching the slow progress of the men with their drags bringing to the surface all the miserable refuse of the turgid waters, the dripping black mud, perhaps at last....|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000047_000006.wav|"Take off my rugs and help me up.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000049_000000.wav|She turned and looked at him, standing up now, the wind blowing her skirts, her eyes glowing, her lips a little parted.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000010_000000.wav|"Of course!|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000054_000005.wav|I've given Lawton one, and he's following me about like a dog.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000019_000001.wav|All his new found buoyancy of spirits had suddenly left him.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000034_000000.wav|His evil moments for that afternoon were over.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000010_000001.wav|Good old Bob!|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000018_000001.wav|No, don't sit down," she went on.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000006_000001.wav|They were obviously of the chorus girl type, a fact which they seemed to lack the ambition to conceal.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000044_000002.wav|There isn't any pleasure in the world like this," she added, a little impulsively, "the pleasure of letting your thoughts run out to meet some one else's, some one who understands.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000048_000000.wav|"But the whole thing is tingling in my brain," he protested.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000002.wav|Don't think I am vain," she went on.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000042_000001.wav|Chance has pitchforked you here, absolutely to my side, I, the one woman who could understand what you mean, who could give your Mona life.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000030_000000.wav|"You do not believe, then, that they will find anything-interesting?"|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000017_000002.wav|She seemed to have been spending the last quarter of an hour in thought.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000052_000001.wav|"We will talk, if you will."|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000021_000000.wav|SUICIDE FEARED|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000020_000000.wav|STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF A LONDON ART TEACHER|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000008_000000.wav|Philip for a moment was taken aback.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000028_000000.wav|"And they are going to drag the canal," Elizabeth said thoughtfully.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000044_000001.wav|"I never knew time to pass so quickly.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/157859/2473_157859_000054_000008.wav|Been to sleep, either of you?"|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/155521/2473_155521_000015_000000.wav|"Why?"|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/155521/2473_155521_000016_000000.wav|"Because I don't think he's guilty.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/155521/2473_155521_000010_000001.wav|"You've got-"|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2473/155521/2473_155521_000011_000000.wav|"In my pocket!" I interrupted.|2473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000015_000000.wav|"Well, and I will tell you now what I have decided on.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000033_000000.wav|"And if on your return you find it open?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000083_000000.wav|"What's the name of the President?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000072_000000.wav|"Rosa," said Cornelius, almost gasping, "Rosa, there is not one moment to lose in writing the letter."|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000028_000000.wav|"Oh!"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000058_000001.wav|Touch it gently, Rosa.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000014_000000.wav|"Well?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000049_000000.wav|"Your cheek,--your fresh cheek, your soft, rosy cheek.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000039_000000.wav|"Rosa, Rosa, I don't know to what wonder under the sun I shall compare you."|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000074_000000.wav|"Is it, indeed?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000034_000000.wav|"Well?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000006_000001.wav|Night came, and with it Rosa, joyous and cheerful as a bird.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000069_000000.wav|Cornelius uttered a cry, and was nearly fainting.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000043_000000.wav|"Say, 'My very dear friend.'"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000007_000000.wav|"Well?" asked Cornelius.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000012_000000.wav|"Without one speck."|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000077_000001.wav|As soon as it is open, I shall send a messenger to you, with the request that you will come and fetch it in person from the fortress at Loewestein.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000021_000000.wav|"By Jove!"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000011_000000.wav|"Without a speck of any other colour."|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000077_000003.wav|I cannot, therefore, bring to you this wonderful flower.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000049_000001.wav|Oh, Rosa, give it me of your own free will, and not by chance.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000082_000006.wav|The messenger! the messenger!"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68192/5588_68192_000051_000000.wav|Rosa made her escape.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/39648/5588_39648_000068_000000.wav|"One single thing.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000105_000000.wav|Rosa felt her heart sink within her, and her eyes were filling with tears.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000029_000000.wav|"'Indeed I have.'|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000097_000000.wav|"Accept two or three, and, along with them, you may grow the third sucker."|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000108_000000.wav|"I see one thing."|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000103_000000.wav|"Be easy, Mynheer Cornelius," said Rosa, with a sweet mixture of melancholy and gravity, "be easy; your wishes are commands to me."|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000050_000002.wav|This poor Mynheer van Baerle amused himself with this bulb.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000102_000001.wav|If I thus give up the only and last resource which we possess to the uncertain chances of the bad passions of anger and envy, I should never deserve to be forgiven.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000109_000000.wav|"What do you see?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000079_000000.wav|"But with whom else?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000107_000000.wav|"What is it?" asked Cornelius.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000075_000000.wav|"Well?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000077_000000.wav|"Who else, then?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000094_000000.wav|"Which proposition?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000072_000000.wav|"That not one of your movements escaped him?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000069_000000.wav|"So he did."|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000028_000000.wav|"'You have done that,' he cried, 'you have crushed the bulb?'|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000073_000000.wav|"Not one, indeed."|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000013_000000.wav|"And how do you know that?" the prisoner asked, with a doleful look.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000071_000000.wav|"Certainly."|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000064_000000.wav|"Halloa, halloa!" said Cornelius.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000111_000000.wav|Saying this, she fled.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000009_000000.wav|Poor Cornelius, thus left alone with his bitter grief, muttered to himself,--|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000106_000000.wav|"Alas!" she said.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000058_000000.wav|"'How so?'|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000060_000001.wav|"Did you say that I have three?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000087_000000.wav|"Well, and what then?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000099_000000.wav|"Well, that is true; but only think! you are depriving yourself, as I can easily see, of a very great pleasure."|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000012_000000.wav|In the evening she came back.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000085_000000.wav|"Tell me."|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000011_000000.wav|And certainly the unfortunate prisoner would have fallen ill but for the counterpoise which Providence had granted to his grief, and which was called Rosa.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000084_000000.wav|"Oh, it would be very easy!"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000004_000000.wav|"What?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000061_000000.wav|"The word certainly struck me just as much as it does you.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000067_000000.wav|"What?"|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5588/68188/5588_68188_000050_000001.wav|I only know-as unfortunately it is our lot to live with prisoners-that for them any pastime is of value.|5588
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000019_000001.wav|Either from taste, from a desire to instruct herself, from a love of renown, or possibly from all these together, she spent her life with philosophers.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000022_000000.wav|LAWS AND CUSTOMS RESPECTING THE ROMAN WOMEN.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000032_000000.wav|Such a treatment is touching them in the tenderest part.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000008_000000.wav|The Roman women saved the city a second time, when besieged by Brennus. They gave up all their gold as its ransom.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000007_000000.wav|To these austere manners, the Roman women joined an enthusiastic love of their country, which discovered itself upon many great occasions.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000008_000001.wav|For that instance of their generosity, the senate granted them the honor of having funeral orations pronounced in the rostrum, in common with patriots and heroes.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000006.wav|The indulgence of the polity was proscribed by the manners.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000025_000000.wav|The Oppian law prohibited women from having more than half an ounce of gold employed in ornamenting their persons, from wearing clothes of divers colors, and from riding in chariots, either in the city, or a thousand paces round it.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000021_000001.wav|She had courtiers for her lovers, scholars for her friends, and philosophers for her counsellors.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000007_000002.wav|In the time of Coriolanus they saved the city.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000012_000002.wav|They were desirous to join admiration to esteem, 'till they learned to exceed esteem itself.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000031_000000.wav|A few sumptuary laws, a subordination to the men, and a total want of authority, do not so much affect the sex, as to be coldly and indelicately treated by their husbands.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000012_000003.wav|For in all countries, in proportion as the love of virtue diminishes, we find the love of talents to increase.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000006_000001.wav|Their first quality was decency.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000030_000001.wav|They were also liable to be divorced for barrenness, which, if it could be construed into a fault, was at least the fault of nature, and might sometimes be that of the husband.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000018_000001.wav|It was predicted that she would rise to sovereign dignity; and her character justified the prophecy.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000018_000000.wav|This lady was born in Syria, and a daughter of a priest of the sun|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000005_000000.wav|Such was the influence of beauty at Rome before the licentious intercourse of the sexes had corrupted both.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000019_000003.wav|These three kinds of empire rendered less necessary to her that which consists only in art; and which, attentive to their tastes and their weaknesses, govern great minds by little means.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000005.wav|In vain the legislature, foreseeing the wants which exist only among a corrupt people, permitted divorce.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000003.wav|In vain the too rigid laws made them the arbiters of life and death.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000006_000000.wav|The Roman matrons do not seem to have possessed that military courage which Plutarch has praised in certain Greek and barbarian women; they partook more of the nature of their sex; or, at least, they departed less from its character.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000000.wav|The Roman women, for many ages, were respected over the whole world. Their victorious husbands re visited them with transport, at their return from battle.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000020_000000.wav|It is said she was a philosopher.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000001.wav|They laid at their feet the spoils of the enemy, and endeared themselves in their eyes by the wounds which they had received for them and for the state.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000003_000000.wav|The time when the Roman women began to appear in public, marks a particular era in history.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000004.wav|More powerful than the laws, the women ruled their judges.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000014_000001.wav|Portia, the daughter of Cato, and wife of Brutus, showed herself worthy to be associated with the first of human kind, and trusted with the fate of empires.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000029_000000.wav|Fabius Pictor relates, that the parents of a Roman lady, having detected her picking the lock of a chest which contained some wine, shut her up and starved her to death.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000004_000002.wav|Those warriors often came from imposing commands upon kings, and in their own houses accounted it an honor to obey.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000011_000000.wav|Hortensia was conducted home in triumph, and had the honor of having given, in one day, an example of courage to men, a pattern of eloquence to women, and a lesson of humanity to tyrants.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000021_000003.wav|Julia arrived at the highest celebrity; but as among all her excellencies, we find not those of her sex, the virtues of a woman, our admiration is lost in blame.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000010_000005.wav|She revived the memory of her father's abilities, and supported with intrepidity her own cause and that of her sex.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000010_000003.wav|Nobody would reason against those who had the power of life and death.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000023_000000.wav|The Roman women, as well as the Grecian, were under perpetual guardianship; and were not at any age, nor in any condition, ever trusted with the management of their own fortunes.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000010_000002.wav|The women sought an orator to defend their cause, but found none.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000007_000004.wav|The senate decreed them public thanks, ordered the men to give place to them upon all occasions, caused an altar to be erected for them on the spot where the mother had softened her son, and the wife her husband; and the sex were permitted to add another ornament to their head dress.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000035_000001.wav|They were places of public resort, where people met with their acquaintances and friends, where public libraries were kept for such as chose to read, and where poets recited their works to such as had patience to hear.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000001_000000.wav|ROMAN WOMEN.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000010_000004.wav|The daughter of the celebrated Hortensius alone appeared.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000015_000000.wav|The example of Portia was followed by that of Arria, who seeing her husband hesitating and afraid to die, in order to encourage him, pierced her own breast, and delivered to him the dagger with a smile.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000021_000000.wav|Julia was, in short, an empress and a politician, occupied at the same time about literature, and affairs of state, while she mingled her pleasures freely with both.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000021_000004.wav|In her life time she obtained more praise than respect; and posterity, while it has done justice to her talents and her accomplishments, has agreed to deny her esteem.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000033_000001.wav|The principal eunuch of Justinian the Second, threatened to chastise the Empress, his master's wife, in the manner that children are chastised at school, if she did not obey his orders.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000019_000000.wav|Julia, while on the throne, loved, or pretended passionately to love, letters.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000026_000001.wav|For either of these faults they were liable to be divorced by their husbands.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000034_000001.wav|Their public ones, were such as were common to both sexes; as bathing, theatrical representations, horse races, shows of wild beasts, which fought against one another, and sometimes against men, whom the emperors, in the plenitude of their despotic power, ordered to engage them.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000007_000001.wav|On the death of Brutus, they all clothed themselves in mourning.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000013_000001.wav|The vast inequality of ranks, the enormous fortunes of individuals, the ridicule, affixed by the imperial court to moral ideas, all contributed to hasten the period of corruption.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000010_000006.wav|The ruffians blushed and revoked their orders.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28375/3357_28375_000024_000000.wav|Every father had power of life and death over his own daughters: but this power was not restricted to daughters only; it extended also to sons.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000006_000000.wav|A lady to whom a gentleman pays his addresses, is sole mistress of his time and money; and, should he refuse her any request, whether reasonable or capricious, it would reflect eternal dishonor upon him among the men, and make him the detestation of all the women.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000021_000002.wav|This a few years ago, was enjoyed by an empress, whose head did honor to her nation and to her sex; although, on some occasions, the virtues of her heart have been much suspected. The sex, in general, are protected from insult, by many salutary laws; and, except among the peasants, are exempted from every kind of toil and slavery.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000011_000002.wav|She cannot be fined by any court of law; but is liable to be tried and punished for crimes by peers of the realm.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000019_000001.wav|On her wedding day, the bride is crowned with a garland of wormwood; and, after the priest has tied the nuptial knot, his clerk or sexton throws a handful of hops upon the head of the bride, wishing that she might prove as fruitful as that plant.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000004_000000.wav|There is in the Spaniards a native dignity; which, though the source of many inconveniences, has nevertheless this salutary effect, that it sets them above almost every species of meanness and infidelity.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000011_000005.wav|A peeress can only be tried by a jury of peers.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000021_000001.wav|They share the rank and splendor of the families from which they are sprung, and are even allowed the supreme authority.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000013_000002.wav|But the general character of English women is modest, reserved, sincere, and dignified. They have strong passions and affections, which often develope themselves in the most beautiful forms of domestic life.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000001_000000.wav|SPANISH WOMEN.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000007_000000.wav|But, in no situation does their character appear so whimsical, or their power so conspicuous, as when they are pregnant.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000021_000000.wav|Females, however, in Russia, possess several advantages.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000014_000000.wav|RUSSIAN WOMEN.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000020_000002.wav|The present empress, with the ladies of her court, sometimes divert themselves by shooting at a mark. Drunkenness, the vice of almost every cold climate, they are so little ashamed of, that not many years ago, when a lady got drunk at the house of a friend, it was customary for her to return next day, and thank him for the pleasure he had done her.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000013_000004.wav|Perhaps the world does not present a lovelier or more graceful picture than the English home of a virtuous family.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000011_000001.wav|The king's wife is considered as a subject; but is exempted from the law which forbids any married woman to possess property in her own right during the lifetime of her husband; she may sue any person at law without joining her husband in the suit; may buy and sell lands without his interference; and she may dispose of her property by will, as if she were a single woman.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000004_000001.wav|This quality is not peculiar to the men; it diffuses itself, in a great measure, among the women also.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000013_000001.wav|Misconduct and divorces are not unfrequent among the former, because their mode of life corrupts their principles, and they deem themselves above the jurisdiction of popular opinion; the latter feel as if they were beneath the influence of public censure, and find it very difficult to be virtuous, on account of extreme poverty, and the consequent obstructions in the way of marriage.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000003_000000.wav|The Spanish women are little or nothing indebted to education.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000019_000002.wav|She is then led home, with abundance of coarse ceremonies, which are now wearing off even among the lowest ranks; and the barbarous treatment of wives by their husbands is either guarded against by the laws of the country, or by particular stipulations in the marriage contract.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000020_000001.wav|Even their exercises and diversions have more of the masculine than the feminine.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000008_000000.wav|ENGLISH WOMEN.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000004_000003.wav|Their affections are not to be gained by a bit of sparkling lace, or a tawdry set of liveries.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000013_000003.wav|They are in general remarkable for a healthy appearance, and an exquisite bloom of complexion.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000004_000004.wav|Their deportment is rather grave and reserved; and, on the whole, they have much more of the prude than the coquette in their composition.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000009_000000.wav|The women of England are eminent for many good qualities both of the head and of the heart.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000007_000001.wav|In this case, whatever they long for, whatever they ask, or whatever they have an inclination to do, they must be indulged in.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000020_000000.wav|In the conversation and actions of the Russian ladies, there is hardly any thing of that softness and delicacy which distinguishes the sex in other parts of Europe.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000009_000003.wav|In England they consist not only in abstinence from evil, but in doing good.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000010_000000.wav|There we see the sex every day exerting themselves in acts of benevolence and charity, in relieving the distresses of the body, and binding up the wounds of the mind; in reconciling the differences of friends, and preventing the strife of enemies; and, to sum up all, in that care and attention to their offspring, which is so necessary and essential a part of their duty.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000016_000000.wav|A late empress of Russia, as a punishment for some female frailties, ordered a most beautiful young lady of family to be publicly chastised, in a manner which was hardly less indelicate than severe.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000019_000000.wav|Their nuptial ceremonies are peculiar to themselves; and formerly consisted of many whimsical rites, some of which are now disused.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000002_000000.wav|As the Spanish ladies are under a greater seclusion from general society, than the sex is in other European countries, their desires of an adequate degree of liberty are consequently more strong and urgent.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000012_000001.wav|A piece of sharp iron entered the mouth, and severely pricked the tongue whenever the culprit attempted to move it.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000002_000001.wav|A free and open communication being denied them, they make it their business to secure themselves a secret and hidden one.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000003_000003.wav|Thus in Spain, as in all countries where the sex is kept much out of sight, the thoughts of men are continually employed in devising methods to break into their concealments.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3357/28380/3357_28380_000018_000002.wav|As soon as a young man is old enough to be married, his parents seek a wife for him, and all is settled before the young couple know any thing of the matter.|3357
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000005_000002.wav|One bundle was marked "private," and in that she found what she wanted.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000017_000000.wav|Now a former thought struck her-she would speak to mrs Hawkins.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000002.wav|His crime was discovered, and his fall followed instantly.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000003.wav|That was her thought.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000027_000002.wav|Let them talk-I will not stoop to be affected by it.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000005_000003.wav|She selected six or eight letters from the package and began to devour their contents, heedless of the cold.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000008_000000.wav|In one letter the Major said he agreed with mr Hawkins that the inquirer seemed not altogether on the wrong track; but he also agreed that it would be best to keep quiet until more convincing developments were forthcoming.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000022_000000.wav|There was no longer any sense of separation or estrangement between them.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000005_000000.wav|That night she sat in her room till all was still, and then she stole into the garret and began a search.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000004_000003.wav|She was about to ask her mother if there was any truth in these reports, but upon second thought held her peace.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000008.wav|His case is not considered dangerous at all; he will recover presently, the doctors say.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000035_000004.wav|I do begin to despise this world!"|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000039_000000.wav|"Well, I am glad of it-I'm glad of it.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000004_000005.wav|She shaped her course without difficulty the day that that hint reached her.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000007.wav|Of course the physicians will not let me tell him now that our Laura is indeed his child-that must come later, when his health is thoroughly restored.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000000.wav|She sat long, with the letters in her lap, thinking-and unconsciously freezing.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000006_000002.wav|The substance of them was, that some one in the east had been inquiring of Major Lackland about a lost child and its parents, and that it was conjectured that the child might be Laura.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000032_000003.wav|I attended their funerals.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000035_000001.wav|Are all books lies?|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000024_000001.wav|But they could not quiet down and they did not.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000035_000002.wav|I thought he would fly to the front, and be brave and noble, and stand up for me against all the world, and defy my enemies, and wither these gossips with his scorn!|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000015_000002.wav|One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of his heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead that seem greater.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000004.wav|It was not for me to assist him, of course.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000024_000000.wav|It is barely possible that things might have presently settled down into their old rut and the mystery have lost the bulk of its romantic sublimity in Laura's eyes, if the village gossips could have quieted down.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000003_000001.wav|They were but little hampered by the fact that the memoranda referred to betrayed nothing but the bare circumstance that Laura's real parents were unknown, and stopped there. So far from being hampered by this, the gossips seemed to gain all the more freedom from it.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000005.wav|A dreary, melancholy settled down upon her.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000006.wav|But I will write out his wonderful escape in full to morrow or next day.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000016_000000.wav|The recent wearing days and nights of watching, and the wasting grief that had possessed her, combined with the profound depression that naturally came with the reaction of idleness, made Laura peculiarly susceptible at this time to romantic impressions.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000002.wav|It is this: his lost memory returns to him when he is delirious, and goes away again when he is himself just as old Canada Joe used to talk the French patois of his boyhood in the delirium of typhus fever, though he could not do it when his mind was clear.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000004_000001.wav|Her pride was stung.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000026_000001.wav|At night the day's contribution of detraction, innuendo and malicious conjecture would be canvassed in her mind, and then she would drift into a course of thinking.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000026_000002.wav|As her thoughts ran on, the indignant tears would spring to her eyes, and she would spit out fierce little ejaculations at intervals.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000017_000001.wav|And naturally enough mrs Hawkins appeared on the stage at that moment.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000013_000003.wav|And this indistinct shadow represented her father.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000033_000000.wav|But Maria could not stay.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000021_000000.wav|"You are my mother, and always shall be.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000000.wav|Major Lackland had once been a man of note in the State-a man of extraordinary natural ability and as extraordinary learning.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000004_000004.wav|She soon gathered that Major Lackland's memoranda seemed to refer to letters which had passed between himself and Judge Hawkins.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000022_000004.wav|With his usual consideration for his wife, mr Hawkins had shielded her from the worry the matter would have caused her.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000003.wav|Nothing could reinstate him in the confidence of the people, his ruin was irretrievable-his disgrace complete.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000022_000001.wav|Indeed their love seemed more perfect now than it had ever been before.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000013_000005.wav|They had probably been burned; and she doubted not that the ones she had ferreted out would have shared the same fate if mr Hawkins had not been a dreamer, void of method, whose mind was perhaps in a state of conflagration over some bright new speculation when he received them.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000032_000004.wav|Well, other people have hoped and been disappointed; I am not alone in that.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000039_000001.wav|I never cared anything for him anyway!"|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000026_000003.wav|But finally she would grow calmer and say some comforting disdainful thing-something like this:|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000020_000001.wav|Laura put her arms about her mother's neck and said:|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000020_000000.wav|All barriers fell, before this appeal.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000024_000004.wav|Villagers always want to know.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000013_000002.wav|Random remarks here and there, being pieced together gave Laura a vague impression of a man of fine presence, about forty three or forty five years of age, with dark hair and eyes, and a slight limp in his walk-it was not stated which leg was defective.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000006.wav|An undefined sense of injury crept into her heart.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000035_000000.wav|"The coward!|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000027_000003.wav|I could hate----. Nonsense-nobody I care for or in any way respect is changed toward me, I fancy."|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000032_000001.wav|He is well favored in person, and well liked, too, I believe, and comes of one of the first families of the village.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000028_000001.wav|And her heart warmed somewhat, too, the while.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000029_000001.wav|How is that?"|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000019_000001.wav|Forget all this miserable talk. Say I am your mother!--I have loved you so long, and there is no other. I am your mother, in the sight of God, and nothing shall ever take you from me!"|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000034_000000.wav|But as soon as Maria was gone, Laura stamped her expressive foot and said:|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000019_000000.wav|"Speak to me, child-do not forsake me.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000022_000003.wav|But it transpired that mrs Hawkins had never known of this correspondence between her husband and Major Lackland.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000018_000003.wav|Finally mrs Hawkins said:|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000009.wav|But they insist that he must travel a little when he gets well-they recommend a short sea voyage, and they say he can be persuaded to try it if we continue to keep him in ignorance and promise to let him see l as soon as he returns." The letter that bore the latest date of all, contained this clause:|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000023_000002.wav|The great secret was new to some of the younger children, but their love suffered no change under the wonderful revelation.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000024_000002.wav|Day after day they called at the house, ostensibly upon visits of condolence, and they pumped away at the mother and the children without seeming to know that their questionings were in bad taste.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000026_000000.wav|Under this ceaseless persecution, Laura's morbid self communing was renewed.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000004.wav|But now the dead had carried their secrets with them.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000024_000003.wav|They meant no harm they only wanted to know.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000038_000000.wav|She could not find a word that was strong enough, perhaps.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000004.wav|All doors were closed against him, all men avoided him.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000015_000000.wav|She had just reached the romantic age-the age when there is a sad sweetness, a dismal comfort to a girl to find out that there is a mystery connected with her birth, which no other piece of good luck can afford.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000004_000002.wav|She was astonished, and at first incredulous.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000036_000001.wav|Presently she said:|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000008.wav|The coroner's jury found certain memoranda upon his body and about the premises which revealed a fact not suspected by the villagers before viz., that Laura was not the child of mr and mrs Hawkins.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000003_000000.wav|The gossips were soon at work.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000012_000005.wav|But now in his delirium it all comes out: the names of the boats, every incident of the explosion, and likewise the details of his astonishing escape-that is, up to where, just as a yawl boat was approaching him (he was clinging to the starboard wheel of the burning wreck at the time), a falling timber struck him on the head.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000002.wav|If she could only have found these letters a month sooner!|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000028_000000.wav|She may have supposed she was thinking of many individuals, but it was not so-she was thinking of only one.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000014_000007.wav|She grew very miserable.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000009_000000.wav|Another letter said that "the poor soul broke completely down when he saw Laura's picture, and declared it must be she."|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000006.wav|He died as he had latterly lived-wholly alone and friendless.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000036_000000.wav|She lapsed into thought.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000005.wav|After years of skulking retirement and dissipation, death had relieved him of his troubles at last, and his funeral followed close upon that of mr Hawkins.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000002_000001.wav|He had been universally trusted and honored in his day, but had finally, fallen into misfortune; while serving his third term in Congress, and while upon the point of being elevated to the Senate-which was considered the summit of earthly aggrandizement in those days-he had yielded to temptation, when in distress for money wherewith to save his estate; and sold his vote.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000030_000001.wav|I think she is a fine girl every way, and so would you if you knew her as well as I do; but you know how it is when a girl once gets talked about-it's all up with her-the world won't ever let her alone, after that."|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000023_000000.wav|Laura went to bed at last with a mind that had gained largely in tranquility and had lost correspondingly in morbid romantic exaltation. She was pensive, the next day, and subdued; but that was not matter for remark, for she did not differ from the mournful friends about her in that respect.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000033_000001.wav|She had come to mingle romantic tears with Laura's over the lover's defection and had found herself dealing with a heart that could not rise to an appreciation of affliction because its interest was all centred in sausages.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29091/4945_29091_000029_000000.wav|"Ned, they say you don't go there any more.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000007_000001.wav|And then Washington's heart would sink again and a sigh would tell when it touched bottom.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000002_000000.wav|Washington dreamed his way along the street, his fancy flitting from grain to hogs, from hogs to banks, from banks to eye water, from eye water to Tennessee Land, and lingering but a feverish moment upon each of these fascinations.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000020_000004.wav|He lay almost motionless for a little while, then suddenly partly raised his head and looked about him as one who peers into a dim uncertain light.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000007_000000.wav|Every time the Colonel came into the real estate office Washington's heart bounded and his eyes lighted with hope, but it always turned out that the Colonel was merely on the scent of some vast, undefined landed speculation-although he was customarily able to say that he was nearer to the all necessary ingredient than ever, and could almost name the hour when success would dawn.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000013_000000.wav|"Clay is not good, father-he did not call me.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000008.wav|Where are the papers?--Have you got the papers safe?|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000020_000001.wav|But now the fire faded out of his eyes and he fell back exhausted.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000009.wav|Show them-show them to me!"|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000020_000005.wav|He muttered:|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000020_000002.wav|The papers were brought and held before him, and the answering smile that flitted across his face showed that he was satisfied.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000006_000002.wav|But it always turned out that the lacking ingredient was still lacking-though it always appeared, at the same time, that the Colonel was right on its heels.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000008.wav|And he did not need Laura's rebuke when he heard his father say:|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000009_000002.wav|These thoughts made him weep, and weep more broken heartedly than ever; and he wished that she could see his sufferings now.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000010_000001.wav|But there was something significant in the fact that she scratched the word out every time she wrote it; examined the erasure critically to see if anybody could guess at what the word had been; then buried it under a maze of obliterating lines; and finally, as if still unsatisfied, burned the paper.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000003_000002.wav|This vision swept Washington's mind clear of its chaos of glittering rubbish in an instant.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000013_000001.wav|I would not have treated him so.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000022_000004.wav|Then she closed the dead eyes, and crossed the hands upon the breast; after a season, she kissed the forehead reverently, drew the sheet up over the face, and then walked apart and sat down with the look of one who is done with life and has no further interest in its joys and sorrows, its hopes or its ambitions.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000020_000003.wav|He closed his eyes, and the signs of approaching dissolution multiplied rapidly.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000021_000004.wav|Safe. The Ten-----"|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000003.wav|Other afternoons like it followed.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000016_000001.wav|Hawkins roused out of a doze, looked about him and was evidently trying to speak.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000003_000001.wav|Washington was introduced to mrs Boswell, and his imagination was on the point of flitting into the vapory realms of speculation again, when a lovely girl of sixteen or seventeen came in.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000022_000001.wav|The emaciated fingers began to pick at the coverlet, a fatal sign.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000004.wav|Washington plunged into this love affair as he plunged into everything else-upon impulse and without reflection.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000010_000000.wav|There was nothing significant in the fact that Louise, dreamy and distraught, stood at her bedroom bureau that night, scribbling "Washington" here and there over a sheet of paper.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000008_000001.wav|It was thought best that Washington should come home.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000003_000000.wav|Arrived at the finest dwelling in the town, they entered it and were at home.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000007.wav|And, he had noticed, also, that when midnight struck, the patient turned his eyes toward the door, with an expectancy in them which presently grew into a longing but brightened into contentment as soon as the door opened and Laura appeared.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000001.wav|The darkened room, the labored breathing and occasional moanings of the patient, the tip toeing of the attendants and their whispered consultations, were full of sad meaning.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000006.wav|His attentions to her troubled her father and mother a little, and they warned Louise, without stating particulars or making allusions to any special person, that a girl was sure to make a mistake who allowed herself to marry anybody but a man who could support her well.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000017_000000.wav|"Wife-children-come nearer-nearer.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000021_000003.wav|But you are-safe.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000017_000001.wav|The darkness grows.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000002.wav|Blissful as the afternoon was, delivered up to such a revel as this, it seemed an eternity, so impatient was he to see the girl again.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000000.wav|"I am leaving you in cruel poverty.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000016_000002.wav|Instantly Laura lifted his head and in a failing voice he said, while something of the old light shone in his eyes:|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000005_000001.wav|He longed for riches now as he had never longed for them before.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000013_000002.wav|How could you do it, Clay?"|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000005.wav|Be wary.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000001.wav|He was constantly catching himself in a reverie-reveries made up of recalling how she looked when she first burst upon him; how her voice thrilled him when she first spoke; how charmed the very air seemed by her presence.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000005.wav|By degrees Laura and her mother began to show wear, but neither of them would yield a minute of their tasks to Clay.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000009_000000.wav|All the way home he nursed his woe and exalted it.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000009_000001.wav|He pictured himself as she must be picturing him: a noble, struggling young spirit persecuted by misfortune, but bravely and patiently waiting in the shadow of a dread calamity and preparing to meet the blow as became one who was all too used to hard fortune and the pitiless buffetings of fate.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000002.wav|But courage!|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000003.wav|mr Hawkins would have none but these three, though neighborly assistance was offered by old friends.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000004_000000.wav|Louise Boswell occupied his mind and drifted among his multiplication tables all the afternoon.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000015_000001.wav|It was a wintry one. The darkness gathered, the snow was falling, the wind wailed plaintively about the house or shook it with fitful gusts.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000021_000001.wav|No-I see you-still.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000004.wav|From this time forth three hour watches were instituted, and day and night the watchers kept their vigils.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000003_000003.wav|Beauty had fascinated him before; many times he had been in love even for weeks at a time with the same object but his heart had never suffered so sudden and so fierce an assault as this, within his recollection.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000007.wav|The children shall hold up their heads with the best in the land, yet.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000021_000000.wav|"Gone?|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000011_000002.wav|For three or four nights mrs Hawkins and Laura had been watching by the bedside; Clay had arrived, preceding Washington by one day, and he was now added to the corps of watchers.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000022_000002.wav|After a time there were no sounds but the cries of the mourners within and the gusty turmoil of the wind without.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000001.wav|I have been-so foolish-so short sighted.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000012_000000.wav|"Clay is good, and you are tired, poor child; but I wanted you so."|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000003.wav|A better day is-is coming.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000019_000006.wav|There is wealth stored up for you there-wealth that is boundless!|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29090/4945_29090_000006_000001.wav|Sellers, and had been discouraged to note that the Colonel's bill of fare was falling off both in quantity and quality-a sign, he feared, that the lacking ingredient in the eye water still remained undiscovered-though Sellers always explained that these changes in the family diet had been ordered by the doctor, or suggested by some new scientific work the Colonel had stumbled upon.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000012_000000.wav|"I thought you'd like them.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000012_000007.wav|The plague can't come where this article is, my boy!"|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000013_000001.wav|What plague?"|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000011_000002.wav|No, he kept this to himself, and praised the turnips to the peril of his soul.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000010_000010.wav|How does that fruit strike you?"|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000006_000005.wav|It was a good idea; especially as Louise had absented herself from breakfast that morning, and torn his heart; he would tear hers, now, and let her see how it felt.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000006_000003.wav|It occurred to him, now, that the Colonel had not invited him lately-could he be offended?|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000010.wav|Children will be children, you know.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000011_000001.wav|He did not add that he detested turnips even when they were cooked-loathed them in their natural state.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000005.wav|Nothing like it in the world, old McDowells says, just fill yourself up two or three times a day, and you can snap your fingers at the plague.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000013.wav|They're, mighty sustaining-brim full of nutriment-all the medical books say so.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000015.wav|You'll feel like a fighting cock next day."|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000004.wav|Turnips and water!|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000006.wav|Sh!--keep mum, but just you confine yourself to that diet and you're all right.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000001.wav|And whoever it touches can make his will and contract for the funeral. Well you can't cure it, you know, but you can prevent it.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000008.wav|Take some more water, Washington-the more water you drink, the better.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000010_000006.wav|No?|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000006_000002.wav|No particular reason except one which he preferred to keep to himself-viz. that he could not bear to be away from Louise.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000005_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000018_000003.wav|The other matter that disturbed him was the dire inflation that had begun in his stomach.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000010_000001.wav|The poor woman's face was crimson, and the tears stood in her eyes.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000009_000001.wav|Was this the plain family dinner?|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000012_000001.wav|Examine them-examine them-they'll bear it.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000011.wav|There, now.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000013_000000.wav|"Plague?|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000012_000005.wav|These are the Early Malcolm-it's a turnip that can't be produced except in just one orchard, and the supply never is up to the demand.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000009_000000.wav|Washington contemplated the banquet, and wondered if he were in his right mind.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000005.wav|Plain folks, you know-plain folks.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000014_000000.wav|"What plague, indeed?|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000003.wav|You can't please us any better than that, Washington; the little woman will tell you so herself.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000008.wav|To visit such a family, was to find one's self confronted by a congress made up of representatives of the imperial myths and the majestic dead of all the ages.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000007_000001.wav|For an instant the Colonel looked nonplussed, and just a bit uncomfortable; and mrs Sellers looked actually distressed; but the next moment the head of the house was himself again, and exclaimed:|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000018_000002.wav|He had not needed the dreadful "fruit," and had not wanted it; and when he saw the pathetic sorrow in their faces when they asked for more and there was no more to give them, he hated himself for his stupidity and pitied the famishing young things with all his heart.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000020_000000.wav|In bed he passed an hour that threatened to turn his hair gray, and then a blessed calm settled down upon him that filled his heart with gratitude.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000006.wav|Just a plain family dinner, but such as it is, our friends are always welcome, I reckon you know that yourself, Washington.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000019_000000.wav|He rose in the midst of the Colonel's talk and excused himself on the plea of a previous engagement.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000000.wav|"All right, my boy, all right-always glad to see you-always glad to hear your voice and take you by the hand.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000009_000002.wav|And was it all present? It was soon apparent that this was indeed the dinner: it was all on the table: it consisted of abundance of clear, fresh water, and a basin of raw turnips-nothing more.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000010_000002.wav|Washington did not know what to do.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000018_000001.wav|One was, that he discovered, to his confusion and shame, that in allowing himself to be helped a second time to the turnips, he had robbed those hungry children.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000018_000004.wav|It grew and grew, it became more and more insupportable.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000010_000008.wav|The Baron used to say, 'Take mustard, Sellers, try the mustard,--a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without, mustard,' but I always said, 'No, Baron, I'm a plain man and I want my food plain-none of your embellishments for Beriah Sellers-no made dishes for me!|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000012_000006.wav|Take some more water, Washington-you can't drink too much water with fruit-all the doctors say that.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000007.wav|I wouldn't have old McDowells know that I told about it for anything-he never would speak to me again.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000017_000002.wav|How?|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000018_000005.wav|Evidently the turnips were "fermenting." He forced himself to sit still as long as he could, but his anguish conquered him at last.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000011_000000.wav|Washington said he did not know that he had ever tasted better.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000010_000007.wav|Well, you're right, you're right. Some people like mustard with turnips, but-now there was Baron Poniatowski-Lord, but that man did know how to live!--true Russian you know, Russian to the back bone; I say to my wife, give me a Russian every time, for a table comrade.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4945/29092/4945_29092_000008_000004.wav|We don't pretend to style.|4945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1336/138115/1336_138115_000014_000002.wav|He asked the question with his eyes straight on the other's face.|1336
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1336/138115/1336_138115_000020_000002.wav|I propose a swim and then bed.|1336
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1336/138115/1336_138115_000031_000001.wav|"The wind's gusty and we've got hardly any ballast."|1336
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1336/138115/1336_138115_000014_000001.wav|"But what makes you think the creature is starved?"|1336
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1336/138113/1336_138113_000018_000000.wav|"Good!|1336
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1336/138113/1336_138113_000042_000000.wav|"I declare, Hubbard, you're tanned like an aboriginal, and you look like one, too," laughed Maloney.|1336
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1336/138113/1336_138113_000018_000002.wav|"We'll have the first decent breakfast we've had this year.|1336
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1336/138113/1336_138113_000031_000000.wav|Some folk, of course, who talk glibly about the simple life when it is safely out of reach, betray themselves in camp by for ever peering about for the artificial excitements of civilisation which they miss.|1336
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1336/138113/1336_138113_000030_000004.wav|The mind, like the body, grows quickly hard, simple, uncomplex.|1336
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1336/138113/1336_138113_000018_000001.wav|Good again!" he cried.|1336
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000007_000001.wav|His music was in a minor key now.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000012_000008.wav|So dear!"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000019_000005.wav|He left a hollow limb on the old red pearmain apple tree, because when he came to cut it there was a pair of bluebirds twittering around, frantic with anxiety.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000012_000000.wav|With shining eyes and flushed cheeks, she sped down the fence.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000002_000001.wav|So dear!" crooned the Cardinal|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000025_000001.wav|Then he filled his pockets with crumbs and grain, and strolled to the river to set the Cardinal's table.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000018_000001.wav|He carried food to the top rail of the line fence every day, rain or shine, with the same regularity that he curried and fed Nancy in the barn.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000025_000000.wav|Abram caught Maria, and planted a resounding smack on her cheek, where the roses of girlhood yet bloomed for him.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000011_000001.wav|As he trilled forth his tender caressing strain, the heart of the listening woman translated as did that of the brooding bird.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000000.wav|She had taken possession of the sumac.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000004.wav|Hiding behind the oak, with straining ear and throbbing heart, she eagerly listened.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000002_000000.wav|"So dear!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000007_000005.wav|So dear!"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000004.wav|If she worked in a bit of wild grape vine bark, he peeled grape vines until she would have no more.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000026_000001.wav|When Abram had scattered his store on the rail, the bird came tipping and tilting, daintily caught up a crumb, and carried it to the sumac.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000015_000001.wav|You have got it, honey!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000006_000003.wav|Always on leaving he gave her a tender little peck and ran his beak the length of her wing-a characteristic caress that he delighted to bestow on her.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000005_000002.wav|It was not enough that he brooded while she went to bathe and exercise.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000012_000005.wav|Oh, Abram, my love!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000026_000000.wav|The Cardinal met him at the corner of the field, and hopped over bushes and the fence only a few yards from him.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000006_000001.wav|In the sumac he uttered not the faintest "Chip!" that might attract attention.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000013_000001.wav|So dear!" echoed the Cardinal.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000026_000003.wav|He made a light supper himself; and then swinging on the grape vine, he closed the day with an hour of music. He repeatedly turned a bright questioning eye toward Abram, but he never for a moment lost sight of the nest and the plump gray figure of his little mate.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000000.wav|Maria felt flattered.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000028_000002.wav|The Cardinal mournfully carried away the tell tale bits of shell, so that any one seeing them would not look up and discover his treasures.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000002.wav|Here was an opportunity to test it and please Abram at the same time.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000004_000002.wav|If he went to the corn field for grubs, she stood astride her eggs and peered down, watching his every movement with unconcealed anxiety.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000005_000003.wav|The daintiest of every morsel he found was carried to her.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000007.wav|Her nest certainly was a loose ramshackle affair; but she had built it, and had allowed him to help her.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000019_000002.wav|Alders and sweetbriers grew in his fence corners undisturbed that spring if he discovered that they sheltered an anxious eyed little mother.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000002.wav|She placed the first twig, and after examining it carefully, he spent the day carrying her others just as much alike as possible.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000025_000002.wav|He could hear the sharp incisive "Chip!" and the tender mellow love notes as he left the barn; and all the way to the sumac they rang in his ears.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000004_000000.wav|Then she nestled them against her warm breast, and turned adoring eyes toward the Cardinal.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000017_000001.wav|So dear!"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000001.wav|The location was her selection and he loudly applauded her choice.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000019_000004.wav|He delayed burning the brush heap from the spring pruning, back of the orchard, until fall, when he found it housed a pair of fine thrushes; for the song of the thrush delighted him almost as much as that of the lark.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000012_000006.wav|My own!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000013_000000.wav|"So dear!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000004_000003.wav|The Cardinal forgot to be vain of his beauty; she delighted in it every hour of the day.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000019_000003.wav|He left a square yard of clover unmowed, because it seemed to him that the lark, singing nearer the Throne than any other bird, was picking up stray notes dropped by the Invisible Choir, and with unequalled purity and tenderness, sending them ringing down to his brooding mate, whose home and happiness would be despoiled by the reaping of that spot of green.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000012_000002.wav|Forgetful of her habitual reserve, she threw her arms around his neck, and drawing his face to hers, she cried: "Oh, Abram!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000028_000000.wav|With a vicious scream the Cardinal struck him full force.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000021_000000.wav|Then he hunted a sign painter, and came home bearing a number of pine boards on which gleamed in big, shiny black letters:|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000014_000000.wav|The bewilderment in Abram's face melted into comprehension.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000001.wav|She always had believed that she had a musical ear.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000019_000000.wav|He drove a stake to mark the spot where the killdeer hen brooded in the corn field, so that he would not drive Nancy over the nest.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000026_000005.wav|So dear!"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000003.wav|She hastened her work the following morning, and very early slipped along the line fence.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000008_000001.wav|"I swanny!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000027_000002.wav|Seeing her there, he made all possible haste to take his turn at brooding, so he arrived just in time to see a pilfering red squirrel starting away with an egg.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000020_000004.wav|His very muscles seemed to relax, and new strength arose to meet the demands of his uplifted spirit.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000018_000000.wav|After that Abram's devotion to his bird family became a mild mania.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000024_000000.wav|Maria studied the signs meditatively.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000009_000000.wav|One night he said to his wife: "Maria, have you been noticin' the redbird of late?|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000006.wav|Chip!" came the warning of the Cardinal, as he flew to his mate.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000027_000001.wav|He had overstayed his time, chasing a fat moth he particularly wanted for his mate, and she, growing thirsty past endurance, left the nest and went to the river.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000026_000002.wav|His mate was pleased to take it; and he carried her one morsel after another until she refused to open her beak for more.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000003_000006.wav|She was not a skilled architect.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000006_000002.wav|He was so anxious to be inconspicuous that he appeared only half his real size.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000007_000000.wav|If he felt that he was disturbing her too often, he perched on the dogwood and sang for life, and love, and happiness.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000014_000001.wav|He swept Maria from her feet as he lifted his head.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000010_000005.wav|"Clip, clip," came the sound of the planter, as Abram's dear old figure trudged up the hill. "Chip!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000008_000000.wav|The farmer leaned on his corn planter and listened to him intently.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000012_000001.wav|Panting and palpitating with excitement, she met Abram half-way on his return trip.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000020_000000.wav|His pockets were bulgy with wheat and crumbs, and his heart was big with happiness.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000004_000001.wav|If he sang from the dogwood, she faced that way. If he rocked on the wild grape vine, she turned in her nest.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000015_000002.wav|That's what he's saying, plain as gospel!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000009_000002.wav|I can't for the life of me make out what he's saying.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/117384/8113_117384_000016_000000.wav|He gathered Maria in his arms, pressed her head against his breast with a trembling old hand, while the face he turned to the morning was beautiful.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000005.wav|Worship not the false gods, for they are devils.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000037_000004.wav|Suddenly his face grew bright. He put his lips close to Irma's cheek again.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000029_000002.wav|Let us call it the tree of the Christ child.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000018_000002.wav|Now, young woodsman, show thy craft!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000022_000002.wav|The axe heads glittered in their rhythmic flight, like fierce eagles circling about their quarry.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000038_000000.wav|"Oh, mother!" he whispered very low, "do not speak.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000004.wav|Since He has come to earth the bloody sacrifices must cease.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000005_000000.wav|Even so Winfried's bold deed fell into the midst of the thoughts and passions of the council.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000007.wav|Build a house for him that he may dwell among you, and a church where you may offer your prayers to the only living God, the Almighty King of Heaven.'"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000008_000001.wav|There is no voice of the council.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000018_000001.wav|"Bring the axes, thine and one for me.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000017_000003.wav|Hunrad lifted his head and muttered hoarsely, "Thor! take vengeance!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000008_000003.wav|His words shall give us judgment, whether he is to live or to die."|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000017_000004.wav|Thor!"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000026_000000.wav|A strong, whirling wind passed over the tree tops.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000006_000001.wav|Conflicting counsels troubled the air.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000008_000000.wav|"All have spoken, but none are agreed.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000023_000003.wav|Then the great wonder of Winfried's life came to pass.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000037_000002.wav|But he heard the last words of Winfried as he spoke of the angelic messengers, flying over the hills of Judea and singing as they flew.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000030_000001.wav|The horses tossed their heads and drew their load bravely, as if the new burden had made it lighter.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000021_000001.wav|Thus we fight thee!"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000037_000000.wav|The boy obeyed.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000029_000004.wav|You shall go no more into the shadows of the forest to keep your feasts with secret rites of shame.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000015_000000.wav|"Tell us, then," said Gundhar, "what is the word that thou bringest to us from the Almighty.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000038_000001.wav|Do you hear them?|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000002_000000.wav|THE FELLING OF THE TREE|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000038_000003.wav|They are singing now behind the tree."|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000002.wav|Bow your hearts to his teaching.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000027_000000.wav|Winfried let his axe drop, and bowed his head for a moment in the presence of almighty power.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000018_000003.wav|The king tree of the forest must fall, and swiftly, or all is lost!"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000017_000000.wav|A troubled voice of assent rose from the throng.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000004.wav|Depart from evil works.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000037_000001.wav|His eyes were heavy with sleep.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000019_000002.wav|Firmly they grasped the axe helves and swung the shining blades.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000035_000000.wav|"Mother," whispered the boy again, laying his finger on the stains upon her breast, "see, your dress is red!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000011.wav|Does he protect it?"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000026_000001.wav|It gripped the oak by its branches and tore it from its roots.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000029_000005.wav|You shall keep them at home, with laughter and song and rites of love.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000017_000001.wav|The people stirred uneasily.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000036_000001.wav|"Dear, be still, and listen!"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000038_000002.wav|Those angels have come back again.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000005_000001.wav|They were at a standstill.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000009.wav|See, my brothers, you call this tree his oak.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000023_000000.wav|The broad flakes of wood flew from the deepening gashes in the sides of the oak.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000019_000000.wav|The two men took their places facing each other, one on each side of the oak.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000039_000000.wav|And some say that it was true; but others say that it was only Gregor and his companions at the lower end of the hall, chanting their Christmas hymn:|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000001.wav|Not a life shall be blotted out in the darkness tonight; but the great shadow of the tree which hides you from the light of heaven shall be swept away.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000028_000001.wav|On this spot shall rise a chapel to the true God and his servant saint Peter.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000014_000001.wav|The dignity of the words imposed mightily upon the hearts of the people.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000024_000000.wav|Out of the stillness of the winter night, a mighty rushing noise sounded overhead.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000007.wav|His power in the world is broken.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000035_000001.wav|What are these stains? Did some one hurt you?"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000004_000000.wav|A swift mountain flood rolling down its channel; a huge rock tumbling from the hill side and falling in mid stream; the baffled waters broken and confused, pausing in their flow, dash high against the rock, foaming and murmuring, with divided impulse, uncertain whether to turn to the right or the left.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000011_000002.wav|There is magic in it.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000029_000003.wav|Take it up and carry it to the chieftain's hall.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000017_000002.wav|Women covered their eyes.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000028_000000.wav|Then he turned to the people, "Here is the timber," he cried, "already felled and split for your new building.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000014_000000.wav|It was a splendid message: proud, strong, peaceful, loving.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000020_000000.wav|"Tree god!" cried Winfried, "art thou angry?|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000006_000000.wav|The old priest crouched by the altar, silent.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000032_000001.wav|All the people listened, charmed into stillness.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000001.wav|Hearken to him in all things like a father.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000003.wav|He comes not for earthly gain, but for the gain of your souls.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000011_000000.wav|A murmur of awe ran through the crowd.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000013_000006.wav|Offer no more bloody sacrifices, nor eat the flesh of horses, but do as our Brother Boniface commands you.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000007_000002.wav|The angry voices clashed against each other and fell like opposing waves.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000018_000000.wav|Winfried beckoned to Gregor.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000010.wav|Does he dwell here?|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000008_000002.wav|Keep silence now, and let the stranger speak.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000005.wav|The dark Thor, on whom you vainly call, is dead.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000014_000002.wav|They were quieted as men who have listened to a lofty strain of music.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000006_000004.wav|Not so, there is a better counsel yet; seize the stranger whom the gods have led hither as a victim and make his life pay the forfeit of his daring.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000031_000001.wav|They kindled lights among the branches until it seemed to be tangled full of fire flies.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301694/8113_301694_000016_000008.wav|Will you serve a helpless god?|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000001_000000.wav|three|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000032_000001.wav|Summoning all the strength of his withered arms, he swung it high in the air.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000014_000001.wav|Whence come you, and what seek you here?" His voice was heavy and toneless as a muffled bell.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000005_000001.wav|Seen against that glowing background, it was but the silhouette of a crowd, vague, black, formless, mysterious.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000022_000001.wav|More costly is the offering that shall cleanse your sin, more precious the crimson dew that shall send new life into this holy tree of blood.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000024_000001.wav|Hearken, Bernhard, wilt thou go to Valhalla, where the heroes dwell with the gods, to bear a message to Thor?"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000014_000000.wav|"Who are you?|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000010_000001.wav|A stranger claims the warmth of your fire in the winter night."|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000022_000002.wav|Thor claims your dearest and your noblest gift."|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000018_000000.wav|"Stand still, then, thou common man," said Hunrad, scornfully, "and behold what the gods have called us hither to do.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000032_000002.wav|It poised for an instant above the child's fair head-then turned to fall.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000018_000002.wav|This night is the hour of darkness and the power of winter, of sacrifice and mighty fear.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000026_000001.wav|Is it far away? Shall I run quickly?|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000017_000000.wav|The question came sharply, as if a sudden gleam of hope had flashed through the tangle of the old priest's mind.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000021_000001.wav|The old priest stood silent for a moment.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000030_000000.wav|"Naught fear I," said the boy, "neither darkness, nor the great bear, nor the were wolf.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000020_000001.wav|Thor!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000006_000000.wav|The travellers paused for a moment at the edge of the thicket, and took counsel together.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000031_000001.wav|He gave him his little bow tipped with silver, and his spear with shining head of steel.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000026_000002.wav|Must I take my bow and arrows for the wolves?"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000035_000000.wav|Winfried's heavy staff thrust mightily against the hammer's handle as it fell.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000004_000002.wav|But to night these tattered remnants of glory were red again: ancient bloodstains against the dark blue sky.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000034_000001.wav|But swifter still was the hand of the deliverer.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000008_000003.wav|Here the cross must stand and be our rede."|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000021_000003.wav|Then he lifted his face and spoke.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000031_000004.wav|Winfried moved noiselessly until he stood close behind the priest.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000007_000005.wav|At least we must hide the cross, if we would escape death."|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000031_000002.wav|He bound the child's eyes with a white cloth, and bade him kneel beside the stone with his face to the east.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000021_000002.wav|His shaggy brows swept down over his eyes like ashes quenching flame.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000002_000000.wav|THE SHADOW OF THE THUNDER OAK|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000007_000004.wav|It will be at the peril of our lives if we approach them.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000029_000002.wav|Fearest thou?"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000008_000002.wav|I have seen it in a dream.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000013_000000.wav|The only figure untouched by the glow was the old priest, Hunrad, with his long, spectral robe, flowing hair and beard, and dead pale face, who stood with his back to the fire and advanced slowly to meet the strangers.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000029_000001.wav|But in darkness thou must journey for a little space, and with eyes blindfolded.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000031_000000.wav|Then the priest led the child in his raiment of lamb's wool to a broad stone in front of the fire.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000035_000001.wav|Sideways it glanced from the old man's grasp, and the black stone, striking on the altar's edge, split in twain.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000007_000002.wav|All who swear by the old gods have been summoned.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000025_000000.wav|The boy answered, swift and clear:|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000029_000000.wav|"Yes, my Prince, both bow and spear shalt thou have, for the way is long, and thou art a brave huntsman.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000007_000001.wav|I heard of it three days ago, as we passed through one of the villages.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000033_000000.wav|One keen cry shrilled out from where the women stood: "Me! take me!|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000032_000000.wav|The old man stooped to lift a black hammer of stone from the ground,--the sacred hammer of the god Thor.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000024_000000.wav|"Here," said the old man, with his voice vibrating as when a thick rope is strained by a ship swinging from her moorings, "here is the chosen one, the eldest son of the Chief, the darling of the people.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000009_000001.wav|They approached unnoticed, for all the multitude were looking intently towards the fire at the foot of the oak.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000035_000003.wav|The branches of the oak shivered.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000016_000001.wav|Canst thou work miracles?"|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000022_000000.wav|"None of these things will please the god.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000026_000000.wav|"Yes, priest, I will go if my father bids me.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000004_000001.wav|The bright crimson of autumn had long since disappeared, bleached away by the storms and the cold.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8113/301693/8113_301693_000004_000000.wav|Withered leaves still clung to the branches of the oak: torn and faded banners of the departed summer.|8113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000051_000004.wav|This concluded, he went to his Patent place, I suppose; but at all events went away on his horse, looking very idle.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000096_000005.wav|I believe it is unnecessary to add that I allude to mr justice Blackstone.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000011_000001.wav|When he did, and came towards me, he looked at me thoughtfully for a few moments, evidently without thinking about me at all; and then his benevolent face expressed extraordinary pleasure, and he took me by both hands.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000056_000000.wav|I took mr Dick with me, because, acutely sensitive to my aunt's reverses, and sincerely believing that no galley slave or convict worked as I did, he had begun to fret and worry himself out of spirits and appetite, as having nothing useful to do.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000114_000002.wav|I cannot express how extremely delighted they both were, by the idea of my aunt's being in difficulties; and how comfortable and friendly it made them.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000073_000001.wav|Our instructions to mr Dick were that he should copy exactly what he had before him, without the least departure from the original; and that when he felt it necessary to make the slightest allusion to King Charles the First, he should fly to the Memorial.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000036_000000.wav|Our plans being thus arranged to our mutual satisfaction, the Doctor took me into the house to present me to mrs Strong, whom we found in the Doctor's new study, dusting his books,--a freedom which he never permitted anybody else to take with those sacred favourites.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000057_000001.wav|He received us cordially, and made friends with mr Dick in a moment.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000035_000000.wav|The Doctor was quite happy in the prospect of our going to work together on that wonderful performance, and we settled to begin next morning at seven o'clock.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000008_000002.wav|When I had made this discovery, I went back, in an attraction I could not resist, to a lane by mrs Steerforth's, and looked over the corner of the garden wall.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000051_000003.wav|So the Doctor persisted in making the engagement for her, and mr Jack Maldon was to come back to dinner.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000005_000003.wav|Dora was the reward, and Dora must be won.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000053_000001.wav|I often glanced at it, for she sat in the window all the time we were at work; and made our breakfast, which we took by snatches as we were employed.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000029_000000.wav|'Dear me!' said the Doctor, innocently.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000037_000000.wav|They had postponed their breakfast on my account, and we sat down to table together.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000006_000002.wav|I stimulated myself into such a heat, and got so out of breath, that I felt as if I had been earning I don't know how much.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000029_000004.wav|On your word, now?' said the Doctor,--which he had always made a very grave appeal to the honour of us boys.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000016_000002.wav|He's pretty well, too.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000098_000002.wav|Now, for example, mr Traddles,' said mrs Micawber, assuming a profound air, 'a judge, or even say a Chancellor.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000116_000003.wav|Whatever station in society I may attain, through the medium of the learned profession of which I am about to become an unworthy member, I shall endeavour not to disgrace, and mrs Micawber will be safe to adorn.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000027_000000.wav|'No, no,' interposed the Doctor.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000004_000007.wav|And I went on at a mighty rate, as if it could be done by walking.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000115_000000.wav|When we were nearly come to the last round of the punch, I addressed myself to Traddles, and reminded him that we must not separate, without wishing our friends health, happiness, and success in their new career. I begged mr Micawber to fill us bumpers, and proposed the toast in due form: shaking hands with him across the table, and kissing mrs Micawber, to commemorate that eventful occasion.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000018_000000.wav|'From India?' said the Doctor.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000018_000001.wav|'Yes.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000005_000000.wav|When I found myself on the familiar Highgate road, pursuing such a different errand from that old one of pleasure, with which it was associated, it seemed as if a complete change had come on my whole life. But that did not discourage me.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000011_000000.wav|Knowing the utter hopelessness of attracting his attention from that distance, I made bold to open the gate, and walk after him, so as to meet him when he should turn round.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000073_000002.wav|We exhorted him to be resolute in this, and left my aunt to observe him.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000090_000002.wav|I may augur, from the silence of my family, that they object to the resolution I have taken; but I should not allow myself to be swerved from the path of duty, mr Copperfield, even by my papa and mama, were they still living.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000023_000000.wav|'Well, well,' said the Doctor, 'that's true.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000090_000001.wav|Indeed I may be superstitious,' said mrs Micawber, 'but it appears to me that mr Micawber is destined never to receive any answers whatever to the great majority of the communications he writes.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000116_000005.wav|All I have to say on that score is, that the cloud has passed from the dreary scene, and the God of Day is once more high upon the mountain tops.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000008_000001.wav|It was not in that part of Highgate where mrs Steerforth lived, but quite on the opposite side of the little town.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000067_000000.wav|'Don't you think,' said Traddles, 'you could copy writings, sir, if I got them for you?'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000006_000001.wav|I wanted to be cutting at those trees in the forest of difficulty, under circumstances that should prove my strength. I had a good mind to ask an old man, in wire spectacles, who was breaking stones upon the road, to lend me his hammer for a little while, and let me begin to beat a path to Dora out of granite.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000117_000000.wav|mr Micawber resumed his seat on the close of these remarks, and drank two glasses of punch in grave succession.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000086_000001.wav|My family may consider it banishment, if they please; but I am a wife and mother, and I never will desert mr Micawber.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000057_000002.wav|mr Dick professed an absolute certainty of having seen him before, and we both said, 'Very likely.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000053_000002.wav|When I left, at nine o'clock, she was kneeling on the ground at the Doctor's feet, putting on his shoes and gaiters for him.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000092_000000.wav|'Oh!|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000056_000002.wav|Seriously apprehending that his malady would increase, unless we put some innocent deception upon him and caused him to believe that he was useful, or unless we could put him in the way of being really useful (which would be better), I made up my mind to try if Traddles could help us.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000100_000000.wav|'Micawber,' she returned, 'no!|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000021_000000.wav|'Now, my dear Copperfield, in reference to this proposal of yours.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000046_000002.wav|She is perfectly exquisite.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000091_000001.wav|'It may be a sacrifice,' said mrs Micawber, 'to immure one's self in a Cathedral town; but surely, mr Copperfield, if it is a sacrifice in me, it is much more a sacrifice in a man of mr Micawber's abilities.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000007_000002.wav|I came out again, hotter and faster than ever, and dashed up to Highgate, at such a rate that I was there an hour too early; and, though I had not been, should have been obliged to stroll about to cool myself, before I was at all presentable.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000056_000001.wav|In this condition, he felt more incapable of finishing the Memorial than ever; and the harder he worked at it, the oftener that unlucky head of King Charles the First got into it.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000030_000000.wav|'On my word, sir!' I returned, answering in our old school manner.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000070_000000.wav|I explained to Traddles that there was a difficulty in keeping King Charles the First out of mr Dick's manuscripts; mr Dick in the meanwhile looking very deferentially and seriously at Traddles, and sucking his thumb.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000065_000000.wav|Poor fellow!|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000078_000000.wav|'You may possibly not be unprepared to receive the intimation that something has turned up.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000014_000003.wav|And-yes, to be sure-you recollect mr Jack Maldon, Copperfield?'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000078_000001.wav|I may have mentioned to you on a former occasion that I was in expectation of such an event.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000063_000001.wav|I passed that off, and brought mr Dick on the carpet.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000045_000001.wav|I have known it very fashionable indeed.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000080_000001.wav|If, on the eve of such a departure, you will accompany our mutual friend, mr Thomas Traddles, to our present abode, and there reciprocate the wishes natural to the occasion, you will confer a Boon|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000054_000000.wav|I was pretty busy now; up at five in the morning, and home at nine or ten at night.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000058_000000.wav|The first subject on which I had to consult Traddles was this,--I had heard that many men distinguished in various pursuits had begun life by reporting the debates in Parliament.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000106_000001.wav|Only a barrister is eligible for such preferments; and mr Micawber could not be a barrister, without being entered at an inn of court as a student, for five years.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000060_000000.wav|Traddles looked astonished, as he well might; but he had no notion as yet of my rapturous condition.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000017_000000.wav|'Has he come home, sir?' I inquired.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000021_000004.wav|You have laid a foundation that any edifice may be raised upon; and is it not a pity that you should devote the spring time of your life to such a poor pursuit as I can offer?'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000071_000003.wav|Wouldn't that make a difference, Copperfield? At all events, wouldn't it be well to try?'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000118_000001.wav|My friend mr Thomas Traddles has, on two several occasions, "put his name", if I may use a common expression, to bills of exchange for my accommodation.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000086_000000.wav|'My dear mr Copperfield,' said mrs Micawber, 'of your friendly interest in all our affairs, I am well assured.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000068_000000.wav|mr Dick looked doubtfully at me.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000014_000000.wav|'Oh dear, yes!' said the Doctor; 'Annie's quite well, and she'll be delighted to see you.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000082_000000.wav|I was glad to find that mr Micawber had got rid of his dust and ashes, and that something really had turned up at last.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000037_000002.wav|A gentleman on horseback came to the gate, and leading his horse into the little court, with the bridle over his arm, as if he were quite at home, tied him to a ring in the empty coach house wall, and came into the breakfast parlour, whip in hand.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000088_000001.wav|And,' said mrs Micawber, 'though it is possible I may be mistaken in my view of the ceremony, I never will!'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000004_000000.wav|I began the next day with another dive into the Roman bath, and then started for Highgate.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000010_000001.wav|He had his old companions about him, too; for there were plenty of high trees in the neighbourhood, and two or three rooks were on the grass, looking after him, as if they had been written to about him by the Canterbury rooks, and were observing him closely in consequence.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000113_000001.wav|'He has a remarkable head voice, and will commence as a chorister.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000018_000002.wav|mr Jack Maldon couldn't bear the climate, my dear.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000118_000002.wav|On the first occasion mr Thomas Traddles was left-let me say, in short, in the lurch.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000092_000001.wav|You are going to a Cathedral town?' said i|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000099_000000.wav|'My dear,' observed mr Micawber-but glancing inquisitively at Traddles, too; 'we have time enough before us, for the consideration of those questions.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000112_000000.wav|'For the Church?' said I, still pondering, between whiles, on Uriah Heep.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000054_000003.wav|In the meantime, I put myself on a short allowance of bear's grease, wholly abandoned scented soap and lavender water, and sold off three waistcoats at a prodigious sacrifice, as being too luxurious for my stern career.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000029_000002.wav|Dear, dear!|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000074_000001.wav|'I'll provide for her, Sir!' and he flourished his ten fingers in the air, as if they were ten banks.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000096_000004.wav|I have already some acquaintance with the law-as a defendant on civil process-and I shall immediately apply myself to the Commentaries of one of the most eminent and remarkable of our English jurists.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000046_000000.wav|'I came out to inquire whether Annie would like to go to the opera tonight,' said mr Maldon, turning to her.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000111_000001.wav|If I am reserved to wear a wig, I am at least prepared, externally,' in allusion to his baldness, 'for that distinction.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000100_000002.wav|You are bound, in justice to your family, if not to yourself, to take in at a comprehensive glance the extremest point in the horizon to which your abilities may lead you.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000076_000001.wav|Micawber never missed any possible opportunity of writing a letter) was addressed to me, 'By the kindness of t Traddles, Esquire, of the Inner Temple.' It ran thus:--|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000094_000001.wav|In fact, my dear Copperfield, I have entered into arrangements, by virtue of which I stand pledged and contracted to our friend Heep, to assist and serve him in the capacity of-and to be-his confidential clerk.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000116_000006.wav|On Monday next, on the arrival of the four o'clock afternoon coach at Canterbury, my foot will be on my native heath-my name, Micawber!'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000069_000000.wav|I shook my head.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000111_000004.wav|It is my intention, my dear Copperfield, to educate my son for the Church; I will not deny that I should be happy, on his account, to attain to eminence.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000034_000002.wav|It was sticking out of him in all directions.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000027_000001.wav|'Pardon me!'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000055_000001.wav|mr Dick, who had been with me to Highgate twice already, and had resumed his companionship with the Doctor, I took with me.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000074_000000.wav|'No starving now, Trotwood,' said mr Dick, shaking hands with me in a corner.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000029_000001.wav|'To think that so little should go for so much!|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000106_000000.wav|'--Has nothing,' pursued Traddles, 'to do with that.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000006_000000.wav|I got into such a transport, that I felt quite sorry my coat was not a little shabby already.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000098_000001.wav|I am convinced that mr Micawber, giving his mind to a profession so adapted to his fertile resources, and his flow of language, must distinguish himself.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000121_000001.wav|I am persuaded, not only that this was quite the same to mr Micawber as paying the money, but that Traddles himself hardly knew the difference until he had had time to think about it.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000053_000003.wav|There was a softened shade upon her face, thrown from some green leaves overhanging the open window of the low room; and I thought all the way to Doctors' Commons, of the night when I had seen it looking at him as he read.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000107_000000.wav|'Do I follow you?' said mrs Micawber, with her most affable air of business.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000120_000001.wav|I have, therefore, prepared for my friend mr Thomas Traddles, and I now hold in my hand, a document, which accomplishes the desired object.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000041_000000.wav|'Is there any news today?' inquired the Doctor.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000093_000000.wav|mr Micawber, who had been helping us all, out of the wash hand stand jug, replied:|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000037_000003.wav|It was mr Jack Maldon; and mr Jack Maldon was not at all improved by India, I thought.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000004_000003.wav|My whole manner of thinking of our late misfortune was changed.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000058_000001.wav|Traddles having mentioned newspapers to me, as one of his hopes, I had put the two things together, and told Traddles in my letter that I wished to know how I could qualify myself for this pursuit.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000012_000004.wav|You are quite-yes-dear me!'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000049_000000.wav|'I would rather not,' she said to the Doctor. 'I prefer to remain at home.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000117_000001.wav|He then said with much solemnity:|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000042_000000.wav|'Nothing at all, sir,' replied mr Maldon. 'There's an account about the people being hungry and discontented down in the North, but they are always being hungry and discontented somewhere.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000084_000000.wav|'My dear Copperfield,' said mr Micawber, 'yourself and mr Traddles find us on the brink of migration, and will excuse any little discomforts incidental to that position.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000034_000001.wav|His pockets were as full of it as his head.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000005_000001.wav|With the new life, came new purpose, new intention.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000051_000000.wav|But he saw nothing.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000035_000001.wav|We were to work two hours every morning, and two or three hours every night, except on Saturdays, when I was to rest.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000064_000000.wav|'You see,' said mr Dick, wistfully, 'if I could exert myself, mr Traddles-if I could beat a drum-or blow anything!'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000102_000001.wav|'I mean the real prosaic fact, you know-'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000068_000001.wav|'Eh, Trotwood?'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000091_000000.wav|I expressed my opinion that this was going in the right direction.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000009_000001.wav|The church with the slender spire, that stands on the top of the hill now, was not there then to tell me the time.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000077_000000.wav|'MY DEAR COPPERFIELD,|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000082_000001.wav|Learning from Traddles that the invitation referred to the evening then wearing away, I expressed my readiness to do honour to it; and we went off together to the lodging which mr Micawber occupied as mr Mortimer, and which was situated near the top of the Gray's Inn Road.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000100_000001.wav|Your mistake in life is, that you do not look forward far enough.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000085_000000.wav|Glancing round as I made a suitable reply, I observed that the family effects were already packed, and that the amount of luggage was by no means overwhelming.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000118_000000.wav|'One thing more I have to do, before this separation is complete, and that is to perform an act of justice.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000045_000000.wav|A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000072_000001.wav|Traddles and I laying our heads together apart, while mr Dick anxiously watched us from his chair, we concocted a scheme in virtue of which we got him to work next day, with triumphant success.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000016_000001.wav|'To be sure.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000113_000000.wav|'Yes,' said mr Micawber.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000028_000000.wav|'If you will take such time as I have, and that is my mornings and evenings, and can think it worth seventy pounds a year, you will do me such a service as I cannot express.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000094_000000.wav|'To Canterbury.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000038_000001.wav|'Copperfield!'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000004_000002.wav|I was not afraid of the shabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant greys.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000054_000002.wav|I had not revealed myself in my altered character to Dora yet, because she was coming to see Miss Mills in a few days, and I deferred all I had to tell her until then; merely informing her in my letters (all our communications were secretly forwarded through Miss Mills), that I had much to tell her.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000043_000000.wav|The Doctor looked grave, and said, as though he wished to change the subject, 'Then there's no news at all; and no news, they say, is good news.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000062_000000.wav|'Dear me,' said Traddles, opening his eyes, 'I had no idea you were such a determined character, Copperfield!'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000079_000001.wav|mrs Micawber and our offspring will accompany me.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000004_000001.wav|I was not dispirited now.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000088_000000.wav|'That,' said mrs Micawber, 'that, at least, is my view, my dear mr Copperfield and mr Traddles, of the obligation which I took upon myself when I repeated the irrevocable words, "I, Emma, take thee, Wilkins." I read the service over with a flat candle on the previous night, and the conclusion I derived from it was, that I never could desert mr Micawber.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000034_000004.wav|His papers were in a little confusion, in consequence of mr Jack Maldon having lately proffered his occasional services as an amanuensis, and not being accustomed to that occupation; but we should soon put right what was amiss, and go on swimmingly.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000118_000005.wav|These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty one, ten, eleven and a half.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000072_000000.wav|This gave us new hope.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000109_000000.wav|'Thank you,' said mrs Micawber.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000024_000000.wav|'It doubles our income, Doctor Strong,' said i|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000021_000003.wav|You are qualified for many good things.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000038_000000.wav|'mr Jack!' said the Doctor.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000083_000002.wav|I also became once more known to his sister, Miss Micawber, in whom, as mr Micawber told us, 'her mother renewed her youth, like the Phoenix'.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000008_000004.wav|She gave me the idea of some fierce thing, that was dragging the length of its chain to and fro upon a beaten track, and wearing its heart out.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000114_000001.wav|After many compliments on this performance, we fell into some general conversation; and as I was too full of my desperate intentions to keep my altered circumstances to myself, I made them known to mr and mrs Micawber.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000056_000003.wav|Before we went, I wrote Traddles a full statement of all that had happened, and Traddles wrote me back a capital answer, expressive of his sympathy and friendship.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000052_000001.wav|She had not, but had sent into London to put her cousin off; and had gone out in the afternoon to see Agnes, and had prevailed upon the Doctor to go with her; and they had walked home by the fields, the Doctor told me, the evening being delightful.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000096_000001.wav|The gauntlet, to which mrs Micawber referred upon a former occasion, being thrown down in the form of an advertisement, was taken up by my friend Heep, and led to a mutual recognition.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000108_000000.wav|'He would be ELIGIBLE,' returned Traddles, with a strong emphasis on that word.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000121_000002.wav|mr Micawber walked so erect before his fellow man, on the strength of this virtuous action, that his chest looked half as broad again when he lighted us downstairs.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000118_000006.wav|My friend Copperfield will perhaps do me the favour to check that total?'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000103_000000.wav|'Just so,' said mrs Micawber, 'my dear mr Traddles, I wish to be as prosaic and literal as possible on a subject of so much importance.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000119_000000.wav|I did so and found it correct.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000052_000002.wav|I wondered then, whether she would have gone if Agnes had not been in town, and whether Agnes had some good influence over her too!|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000121_000003.wav|We parted with great heartiness on both sides; and when I had seen Traddles to his own door, and was going home alone, I thought, among the other odd and contradictory things I mused upon, that, slippery as mr Micawber was, I was probably indebted to some compassionate recollection he retained of me as his boy lodger, for never having been asked by him for money.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000005_000002.wav|Great was the labour; priceless the reward.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000081_000000.wav|'On 'One 'Who 'Is 'Ever yours, 'WILKINS MICAWBER.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000110_000000.wav|I quite believe that mr Micawber saw himself, in his judicial mind's eye, on the woolsack.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000111_000000.wav|'My dear, we will not anticipate the decrees of fortune.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000104_000000.wav|'--Is,' said Traddles, 'that this branch of the law, even if mr Micawber were a regular solicitor-'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000019_000000.wav|Forgotten the Old Soldier!|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000045_000002.wav|I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000025_000001.wav|'To think of that!|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000087_000000.wav|Traddles, appealed to by mrs Micawber's eye, feelingly acquiesced.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000015_000000.wav|'Perfectly, sir.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000025_000002.wav|Not that I mean to say it's rigidly limited to seventy pounds a year, because I have always contemplated making any young friend I might thus employ, a present too. Undoubtedly,' said the Doctor, still walking me up and down with his hand on my shoulder.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty six.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000053_000000.wav|She did not look very happy, I thought; but it was a good face, or a very false one.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000098_000003.wav|Does an individual place himself beyond the pale of those preferments by entering on such an office as mr Micawber has accepted?'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000019_000001.wav|And in that short time!|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000009_000002.wav|An old red brick mansion, used as a school, was in its place; and a fine old house it must have been to go to school at, as I recollect it.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000009_000000.wav|I came softly away from my place of observation, and avoiding that part of the neighbourhood, and wishing I had not gone near it, strolled about until it was ten o'clock.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000039_000001.wav|But his languor altogether was quite a wonderful sight; except when he addressed himself to his cousin Annie. 'Have you breakfasted this morning, mr Jack?' said the Doctor.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000120_000000.wav|'To leave this metropolis,' said mr Micawber, 'and my friend mr Thomas Traddles, without acquitting myself of the pecuniary part of this obligation, would weigh upon my mind to an insupportable extent.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000090_000000.wav|'I am aware, my dear mr Copperfield,' pursued mrs Micawber, 'that I am now about to cast my lot among strangers; and I am also aware that the various members of my family, to whom mr Micawber has written in the most gentlemanly terms, announcing that fact, have not taken the least notice of mr Micawber's communication.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000107_000001.wav|'Do I understand, my dear mr Traddles, that, at the expiration of that period, mr Micawber would be eligible as a Judge or Chancellor?'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000020_000001.wav|Markleham,' said the Doctor, 'was quite vexed about him, poor thing; so we have got him at home again; and we have bought him a little Patent place, which agrees with him much better.' I knew enough of mr Jack Maldon to suspect from this account that it was a place where there was not much to do, and which was pretty well paid.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000052_000000.wav|I was curious to find out next morning, whether she had been.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000023_000002.wav|But, my good young friend, what's seventy pounds a year?'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000014_000002.wav|She said so, last night, when I showed her your letter.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000012_000001.wav|How do you do?|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000079_000000.wav|'I am about to establish myself in one of the provincial towns of our favoured island (where the society may be described as a happy admixture of the agricultural and the clerical), in immediate connexion with one of the learned professions.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000111_000002.wav|I do not,' said mr Micawber, 'regret my hair, and I may have been deprived of it for a specific purpose.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000025_000000.wav|'Dear me!' replied the Doctor.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000014_000001.wav|You were always her favourite.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000031_000000.wav|'Then be it so,' said the Doctor, clapping me on the shoulder, and still keeping his hand there, as we still walked up and down.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000121_000000.wav|With this introduction (which greatly affected him), mr Micawber placed his i o u in the hands of Traddles, and said he wished him well in every relation of life.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000022_000000.wav|I became very glowing again, and, expressing myself in a rhapsodical style, I am afraid, urged my request strongly; reminding the Doctor that I had already a profession.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000058_000003.wav|Traddles reasonably supposed that this would settle the business; but I, only feeling that here indeed were a few tall trees to be hewn down, immediately resolved to work my way on to Dora through this thicket, axe in hand.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000116_000001.wav|It may be expected that on the eve of a migration which will consign us to a perfectly new existence,' mr Micawber spoke as if they were going five hundred thousand miles, 'I should offer a few valedictory remarks to two such friends as I see before me.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000021_000001.wav|It's very gratifying and agreeable to me, I am sure; but don't you think you could do better?|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000085_000001.wav|I congratulated mrs Micawber on the approaching change.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000105_000000.wav|'Exactly so,' returned mrs Micawber. ('Wilkins, you are squinting, and will not be able to get your eyes back.')|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000111_000003.wav|I cannot say.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000037_000001.wav|We had not been seated long, when I saw an approaching arrival in mrs Strong's face, before I heard any sound of it.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000008_000003.wav|His room was shut up close. The conservatory doors were standing open, and Rosa Dartle was walking, bareheaded, with a quick, impetuous step, up and down a gravel walk on one side of the lawn.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000023_000001.wav|Certainly, your having a profession, and being actually engaged in studying it, makes a difference.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000040_000000.wav|'I hardly ever take breakfast, sir,' he replied, with his head thrown back in an easy chair. 'I find it bores me.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000109_000001.wav|'That is quite sufficient.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000039_000000.wav|mr Jack Maldon shook hands with me; but not very warmly, I believed; and with an air of languid patronage, at which I secretly took great umbrage.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000116_000002.wav|But all that I have to say in this way, I have said.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000045_000003.wav|Perhaps it impressed me the more then, because it was new to me, but it certainly did not tend to exalt my opinion of, or to strengthen my confidence in, mr Jack Maldon.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000004_000004.wav|What I had to do, was, to show my aunt that her past goodness to me had not been thrown away on an insensible, ungrateful object.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000095_000000.wav|I stared at mr Micawber, who greatly enjoyed my surprise.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000071_000001.wav|'mr|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000113_000002.wav|Our residence at Canterbury, and our local connexion, will, no doubt, enable him to take advantage of any vacancy that may arise in the Cathedral corps.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000118_000003.wav|The fulfilment of the second has not yet arrived.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000049_000001.wav|I would much rather remain at home.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000066_000000.wav|'But you are a very good penman, sir.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000075_000000.wav|I hardly know which was the better pleased, Traddles or i 'It really,' said Traddles, suddenly, taking a letter out of his pocket, and giving it to me, 'put mr Micawber quite out of my head!'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000018_000003.wav|mrs Markleham-you have not forgotten mrs Markleham?'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000054_000001.wav|But I had infinite satisfaction in being so closely engaged, and never walked slowly on any account, and felt enthusiastically that the more I tired myself, the more I was doing to deserve Dora.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000079_000002.wav|Our ashes, at a future period, will probably be found commingled in the cemetery attached to a venerable pile, for which the spot to which I refer has acquired a reputation, shall I say from China to Peru?|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000008_000000.wav|My first care, after putting myself under this necessary course of preparation, was to find the Doctor's house.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000073_000000.wav|On a table by the window in Buckingham Street, we set out the work Traddles procured for him-which was to make, I forget how many copies of a legal document about some right of way-and on another table we spread the last unfinished original of the great Memorial.|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2401/144485/2401_144485_000048_000001.wav|You must go.'|2401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000031_000000.wav|The two men looked at each other, silent as death: Baldassarre, with dark fierceness and a tightening grip of the soiled worn hands on the velvet clad arm; Tito, with cheeks and lips all bloodless, fascinated by terror.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000003_000000.wav|The sky was grey, but that made little difference in the Piazza del Duomo, which was covered with its holiday sky of blue drapery, and its constellations of yellow lilies and coats of arms.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000013_000001.wav|He wore nothing but black, for he was in mourning; but the black was presently to be covered by a red mantle, for he too was to walk in procession as Latin Secretary to the Ten.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000007_000009.wav|However, Piero de' Medici wasn't come after all; and it was a pity; for we'd have left him neither legs nor wings to go away with again."|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000003_000001.wav|The sheaves of banners were unfurled at the angles of the Baptistery, but there was no carpet yet on the steps of the Duomo, for the marble was being trodden by numerous feet that were not at all exceptional.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000013_000004.wav|It was that change which comes from the final departure of moral youthfulness-from the distinct self conscious adoption of a part in life.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000013_000002.wav|Tito Melema had become conspicuously serviceable in the intercourse with the French guests, from his familiarity with Southern Italy, and his readiness in the French tongue, which he had spoken in his early youth; and he had paid more than one visit to the French camp at Signa.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000009_000000.wav|"But I like not those French cannon they talk of," said Goro, none the less fat for two years' additional grievances.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000018_000004.wav|His beard, which had grown long in neglect, and the hair which fell thick and straight round his baldness, were nearly white.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000022_000000.wav|"Snatch their pikes from them!"|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000007_000002.wav|So I threw my cloth in at the first doorway, and took hold of my meat axe and ran after my fine cavaliers towards the Vigna Nuova.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000027_000003.wav|The cause could not be precisely guessed, for the French dress was screened by the impeding crowd.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000034_000001.wav|"Who is he, I wonder?"|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000014_000002.wav|But Lorenzo Tornabuoni possessed that power of dissembling annoyance which is demanded in a man who courts popularity, and Tito, besides his natural disposition to overcome ill will by good humour, had the unimpassioned feeling of the alien towards names and details that move the deepest passions of the native.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000023_000001.wav|They'll run as fast as geese-don't you see they're web footed?" These were the cries which the soldiers vaguely understood to be jeers, and probably threats. But every one seemed disposed to give invitations of this spirited kind rather than to act upon them.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000013_000003.wav|The lustre of good fortune was upon him; he was smiling, listening, and explaining, with his usual graceful unpretentious ease, and only a very keen eye bent on studying him could have marked a certain amount of change in him which was not to be accounted for by the lapse of eighteen months.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000031_000001.wav|It seemed a long while to them-it was but a moment.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000021_000000.wav|"Bullock feet!"|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000037_000001.wav|But the next instant the grasp on his arm had relaxed, and Baldassarre had disappeared within the church.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000019_000000.wav|This sight had been witnessed by the Florentines with growing exasperation.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000025_000004.wav|And now, when the people began to hoot and jostle more vigorously, Lollo felt that his moment was come-he was close to the eldest prisoner: in an instant he had cut the cord.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000012_000001.wav|"He pretends to look well satisfied-that deep Tornabuoni-but he's a Medicean in his heart: mind that."|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000007_000008.wav|And the lasses peppered a few stones down to frighten them.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000005_000003.wav|Standing in the grey light of the street, with bare brawny arms and soiled garments, they made all the more striking the transition from the brightness of the Piazza.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000005_000001.wav|Some were in close and eager discussion; others were listening with keen interest to a single spokesman, and yet from time to time turned round with a scanning glance at any new passer by.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000028_000001.wav|"The people are not content with having emptied the Bargello the other day.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000015_000000.wav|Arrived where they could get a good oblique view of the Duomo, the party paused.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000008_000002.wav|But we'll swallow no Medici any more, whatever else the French king wants to make us swallow."|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000015_000005.wav|It seemed as if the piazza had been decorated for a real Florentine holiday.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000018_000006.wav|And yet there was something fitful in the eyes which contradicted the occasional flash of energy: after looking round with quick fierceness at windows and faces, they fell again with a lost and wandering look.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000036_000001.wav|They carry in them an inspiration of crime, that in one instant does the work of long premeditation.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000037_000000.wav|The two men had not taken their eyes off each other, and it seemed to Tito, when he had spoken, that some magical poison had darted from Baldassarre's eyes, and that he felt it rushing through his veins.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000024_000000.wav|"Santiddio! here's a sight!" said the dyer, as soon as he had divined the meaning of the advancing tumult, "and the fools do nothing but hoot. Come along!" he added, snatching his axe from his belt, and running to join the crowd, followed by the butcher and all the rest of his companions, except Goro, who hastily retreated up a narrow passage.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26947/5115_26947_000020_000000.wav|"French dogs!"|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000010_000001.wav|Tito gave a slight start and quickened his pace, for the sounds had suggested a welcome thought.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000025_000006.wav|Let it be till to morrow."|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000001_000000.wav|THE GARMENT OF FEAR.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000016_000000.wav|"Assuredly, Niccolo; else I should not have ventured to interrupt you when you are working out of hours, since I take that as a sign that your work is pressing."|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000021_000001.wav|"I'm rather nice about what I sell, and whom I sell to.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000028_000000.wav|"There, then," he said, when the florins had been told down on his palm. "Take the coat.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000025_000002.wav|For you've passed my shop often enough to know my sign: you've seen the burning account books.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000013_000001.wav|That was not until the smith had beaten the head of an axe to the due sharpness of edge and dismissed it from his anvil. But in the meantime Tito had satisfied himself by a glance round the shop that the object of which he was in search had not disappeared.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000012_000000.wav|Preoccupied as he was, he could not help pausing a moment in admiration as he came in front of the workshop.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000011_000000.wav|"What makes the giant at work so late?" thought Tito.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000025_000001.wav|"But have you the money to pay for the coat?|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000002_000002.wav|There was no sunshine to light up the splendour of banners, and spears, and plumes, and silken surcoats, but there was no thick cloud of dust to hide it, and as the picked troops advanced into close view, they could be seen all the more distinctly for the absence of dancing glitter.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000019_000001.wav|Arms are good, and Florence is likely to want them.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000019_000005.wav|He sees sense, and not nonsense.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000020_000001.wav|I want to buy it for a certain personage who needs a protection of that sort under his doublet."|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000024_000000.wav|"Well, then, to be plain with you, Niccolo mio, I want it myself," said Tito, knowing it was useless to try persuasion.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000009_000004.wav|But he had left himself no second path now: there could be no conflict any longer: the only thing he had to do was to take care of himself.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000024_000001.wav|"The fact is, I am likely to have a journey to take-and you know what journeying is in these times.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000028_000002.wav|But, for my part, I would never put such a thing on.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000021_000002.wav|I like to know who's my customer."|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000019_000002.wav|The Frate tells us we shall get Pisa again, and I hold with the Frate; but I should be glad to know how the promise is to be fulfilled, if we don't get plenty of good weapons forged?|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000025_000003.wav|I trust nobody.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000026_000000.wav|"I happen to have the money," said Tito, who had been winning at play the day before, and had not emptied his purse.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000021_000000.wav|"Let him come and buy it himself, then," said Niccolo, bluntly.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000027_000000.wav|Niccolo reached down the finely wrought coat, which fell together into little more than two handfuls.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26951/5115_26951_000019_000003.wav|The Frate sees a long way before him; that I believe.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000010_000000.wav|"No, I have nothing to tell."|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000021_000006.wav|The effect was inevitable. No man ever struggled to retain power over a mixed multitude without suffering vitiation; his standard must be their lower needs and not his own best insight.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000023_000000.wav|It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out for sacrifice to Jupiter, to chalk the dark spots, and give the offering a false show of unblemished whiteness.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000005_000001.wav|At last he said, "If you will."|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000012_000000.wav|Baldassarre nodded, and turned in silent acceptance of the offer, and he and Piero left the church together.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000011_000002.wav|He has been sent off."|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000007_000003.wav|The poor devil shall have a chance, at least."|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000013_000001.wav|"I am a painter: I would give you money to get your portrait."|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000002_000000.wav|OUTSIDE THE DUOMO.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000017_000000.wav|"It is well," said Piero, with a shrug, and they turned away from each other.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000018_000000.wav|"A mysterious old tiger!" thought the artist, "well worth painting. Ugly-with deep lines-looking as if the plough and the harrow had gone over his heart.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5115/26950/5115_26950_000007_000002.wav|"Well," he thought, "if he does any mischief, he'll soon get tied up again.|5115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000017_000005.wav|An attack from behind, so sudden and unexpected, threw the squire sprawling on his face into a stone pile.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000013_000003.wav|Begone with your nonsense, ye demented jades!"|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000034_000000.wav|"An emblem of the devil," interrupted the squire, boiling over.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000012_000000.wav|After the squire got older, and a family grew up around him, he was not always victorious in his contests.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000014_000002.wav|The ladies were, of course, greatly delighted; and while professing great aversion and contempt for the "tawdry lumber," it was plain to see that the worthy man enjoyed their pleasure as much as they did the new furniture.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000025_000001.wav|The offender made a bound and fell dead, the black blood spouting from his forehead in a stream as thick as your thumb.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000017_000001.wav|The black ram halted, and the long procession of ewes and well grown lambs moved up in a dense semicircle, and also halted, expressing their pleasure at the expected treat by gentle bleatings.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000000.wav|All saw the act, and with open eyes and mouth sat in astonished silence, waiting to see what would be done next.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000017_000002.wav|The squire stooped to spread the salt.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000013_000002.wav|we've a house with windows to let the light in, and you want curtains to keep it out; we've plastered the walls to make them white, and now you want to paste blue paper over them; we've waxed floors to walk on, and we must pay two dollars a yard for a carpet to save the oak plank!|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000011_000001.wav|In reply to this speech a treat was ordered.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000031_000000.wav|The squire, who had listened with great attention up to this point, hastily rose to his feet.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000007_000001.wav|The district judge was at the table, the lawyers, justices, and everybody else that felt disposed to dine.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000007_000000.wav|At Culpepper Court house, or some court house thereabout, Dick Hardy, then a good humored, gay young bachelor, and the prime favorite of both sexes, was called upon to carve the pig at the court dinner.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000002.wav|The colonel, unmindful of the pallid countenance and significant glances of the burning eye, leaned back in his chair, with arms akimbo, regarding the young farmer with cool disdain.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000025_000000.wav|Crayon leveled his piece and fired.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000017_000003.wav|The black ram, either from most uncivil impatience, or mistaking the movement of the proprietor's coat tail for a challenge, pitched into him incontinently.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000008_000000.wav|The colonel, swelling with wrath, seized a spoon, and deliberately dipping it into the gravy, dashed it over Dick's prominent shirt frill.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000032_000000.wav|"A sheep!" he exclaimed; "did you call a sheep a peaceful animal?|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000026_000000.wav|"There, now," exclaimed the squire, with infinite satisfaction, "you've got it, you ungrateful brute!|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000008.wav|Dick Hardy, whose wrath waxed hotter and hotter, followed, belaboring him unmercifully at every step, around the table, through the hall, and into the street, the crowd shouting and applauding.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000001.wav|The outraged citizen calmly laid down his knife and fork, and looked at his frill, the officer, and the pig, one after another.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000016_000000.wav|The western horizon was blushing rosy red at the coming of the sun, whose descending chariot was hidden by the thick Indian summer haze that covered lowland and mountain as it were with a violet tinted veil.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000029_000000.wav|Not long after this occurrence, Squire Hardy went to hear an itinerant phrenologist who lectured in the village.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000004_000002.wav|The Squire, out of his own district, we ignore.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000004_000000.wav|As the isolated oak that spreads his umbrageous top in the meadow surpasses his spindling congener of the forest, so does the country gentleman, alone in the midst of his broad estate, outgrow the man of crowds and conventionalities in our cities.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000026_000002.wav|Friend Crayon, that's a capital gun of yours, and you shot well."|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000032_000002.wav|Sir, I had a ram once-"|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000014_000000.wav|The squire smote the oak floor with his heavy cane, and the rosy petitioners fled from his presence laughing.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000007_000004.wav|"Beg your pardon," said Dick, as he went on with his carving.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000007.wav|He seized a carving knife and attempted to defend himself with blind but ineffectual fury, and at length, with a desperate effort, rose and took to his heels.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000016_000002.wav|Barring his modern costume, he might have suggested to the artist's mind a picture of one of the Patriarchs.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000004_000001.wav|The oak may have the advantage in the comparison, as his locality and consequent superiority are permanent.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000005_000001.wav|"It will be time enough for them to hive," quoth the Squire, "when the old box is full."|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000029_000001.wav|In the progress of his discourse, the lecturer, for purposes of illustration, introduced the skulls of several animals, mapped off in the most correct and scientific manner.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000007_000006.wav|"Beg your pardon" might serve as a napkin to wipe the stain from one's honor, but did not touch the question of the greased and spotted regimentals.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000033_000000.wav|"My dear sir," cried the astonished lecturer, "on the authority of our most distinguished writers, the sheep is an emblem of peace and innocence."|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000026_000001.wav|You've found something harder than your own head at last, you cursed reptile!|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000005.wav|He deliberately took the pig by the hind legs, and with a sudden whirl brought it down upon the head of the unlucky officer.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000011_000000.wav|The company reassembled, and finished their dinner as best they might. In reply to a toast, Hardy made a speech, wherein he apologized for sacrificing the principal dinner dish, and, as he expressed it, for putting public property to private uses.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000021_000000.wav|"Quick, quick! young man-your gun; let me shoot the cursed brute on the spot."|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000020_000003.wav|With the other he crippled a favorite ewe.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000013_000001.wav|God help us!|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000004_000004.wav|Such, at least, was Squire Hardy.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000027_000000.wav|The squire dropped the stones which he had in his hands, and looking back at the dead body of the belligerent sheep, observed, with a thoughtful air, "He was a fine animal, mr Crayon-a fine animal, and this will teach him a good lesson."|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000034_000001.wav|"You are an ignorant impostor, and your science a humbug.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000020_000001.wav|The timid flock looked all aghast, while the audacious offender, so far from having shown any disposition to skulk, stood shaking his head and threatening, as if he had a mind to follow up the dastardly attack.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000010_000001.wav|There's no law in Christendom against basting a man with a roast pig!" Dick's weapon failed before his anger; and when at length the battered colonel escaped into the door of a friendly dwelling, the victor had nothing in his hands but the hind legs of the roaster.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000019_000000.wav|like the fury of Squire Hardy on that occasion.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000030_000002.wav|Here combativeness is a nullity-absolutely wanting-while the fullness of the sentimental organs indicate at once the mild and peaceful disposition of the sheep."|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000006_000000.wav|Notwithstanding his contempt for fast men nowadays, he is rather pleased with any allusion to his own youthful reputation in that line, and not unfrequently tells a good story on himself.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000014_000001.wav|In due time, however, the parlors were furnished with carpets, curtains, paper, and all the fixtures of modern luxury.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000007_000005.wav|Now these were times when the war spirit was high, and chivalry at a premium.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000018_000000.wav|Oh, never was the thunder's jar, The red tornado's wasting wing, Or all the elemental war,|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000009_000003.wav|A murmur of surprise and indignation arose from the congregated guests.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000030_000000.wav|"Observe, ladies and gentlemen, the head of the wolf: combativeness enormously developed, alimentiveness large, while conscientiousness is entirely wanting.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000023_000000.wav|"By your leave, Squire, and by your orders, I'll do the shooting myself. Which of them was it?"|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000007_000003.wav|He had probably been engaged on some court martial, imposing fifty cent fines on absentees from the last general muster. Howbeit Dick, in thrusting his fork into the back of the pig, bespattered the officer's regimentals with some of the superfluous gravy.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000013_000000.wav|"What!" said he, in a towering passion, "isn't it enough that you spend your time and money in vinegar to sour sweet peaches, and your sugar to sweeten crab apples, that you must turn the house you were born in topsy turvy?|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/59288/5189_59288_000020_000002.wav|The squire let fly one stone, which grazed the villain's head and killed a lamb.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000018_000004.wav|Then return the same way you came, followed by three fast sets of tennis, a light supper and early to bed. If you do not feel better in the morning, cut out milk, fresh fruit and uncooked foods for a while.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000020_000001.wav|Take three oranges, a lemon, three of gin, to one of vermouth, with a dash of bitters.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000027_000002.wav|You will find that you have drawn a blank, that she comes from Topeka, Kan., that her paw made his money in oil, and that she is religious.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000012_000000.wav|If you are compelled to go to the dining car alone, you will probably sit beside an Elk with white socks, who will call the waiter "George." Along about the second course he will say to you, "It's warm for September, isn't it?" to which you should answer "no" That will dispose of the Elk.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000017_000003.wav|Get off at forty fourth Street, and walk one block south to the Biltmore.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000017_000001.wav|Take Fifth Avenue Bus to Times Square.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000027_000000.wav|In your first day at school you will be shown your room; in your room you will find a sad eyed fat girl.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000009_000001.wav|Partings are always somewhat sad, but it will be found that much simple pleasure may be derived from the last nights with the various boys to whom one is engaged.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000021_000001.wav|Take taxicab and fifty dollars.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000009_000000.wav|After the purchase of a complete outfit, it will be necessary to say goodbye to one's local friends.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000010_000000.wav|In this connection, however, it would be well to avoid making any rash statements regarding undying friendship and affection, because, when you next see Eddie or Walter, at Christmas time, you will have been three months in the East, while they have been at the State University, and really, after one starts dancing with Yale men-well, it's a funny world.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000018_000000.wav|Grant's Tomb.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000013_000001.wav|When the fish is served, the Grand Army man will choke on a bone.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000032_000001.wav|It was here, for example, in eighteen ninety three, that Yale defeated Harvard at football, and the historic Pigskin which was used that day is still preserved intact.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000006_000000.wav|Having selected an educational institution, the next requisite is a suitable equipment.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000015_000001.wav|The next morning, tired but unhappy, you will reach New York.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000030_000002.wav|She sniffs at the "cousin" and tell's you that she must have a letter from Charley's father, one from Charley's minister, one from the governor of your state, and one from some disinterested party certifying that Charley has never been in the penitentiary, has never committed arson, and is a legitimate child.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000006_000002.wav|I would, therefore, recommend the following list, subject, of course, to variation in individual cases.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000031_000002.wav|This will cause Charley to perspire freely and to wish to God he had worn his dark suit.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000027_000003.wav|You will be nice to her for the first week, because you aren't taking any chances at the start; you will tolerate her for the rest of the year, because she will do your lessons for you every night.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000020_000002.wav|Serve cold.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000003_000000.wav|This is, of course, mainly a parent's problem and is best solved by resorting to the following formula: Let A and B represent two young girls' finishing schools in the East.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000013_000000.wav|Across the table from you will be a Grand Army man and his wife, going to visit their boy Elmer's wife's folks in Schenectady.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000022_000002.wav|And their auction is worse.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000031_000001.wav|While he is sitting there alone, the entire school will walk slowly, one by one, past the open door and look in at him.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000033_000001.wav|A lady who has left town may send a brief note or a "P.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000021_000000.wav|The Ritz.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000018_000001.wav|Take Fifth Avenue bus, and a light lunch.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000028_000000.wav|Across the hall from you there will be two older girls who are back for their second year.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000029_000000.wav|A VISITOR FROM PRINCETON|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000031_000000.wav|Charley will come and will be ushered into the reception room.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000011_000000.wav|In case you do not happen to meet any friends on the train, the surest way to protect yourself from any unwelcome advances is to buy a copy of the Atlantic Monthly and carry it, in plain view.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000013_000003.wav|Offer her your raspberry sherbet.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000028_000001.wav|One of them will remind you of the angel painted on the ceiling of the Victory Theatre back home, until she starts telling about her summer at Narragansett; from the other you will learn how to inhale.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000020_000000.wav|The Bronx.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000017_000004.wav|The most interesting fish will be found underneath the hanging clock, near the telephone booths.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000017_000000.wav|The Aquarium.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000019_000000.wav|Metropolitan Museum of Art.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000002_000000.wav|SELECTING A PROPER SCHOOL|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000005_000000.wav|CORRECT EQUIPMENT FOR THE SCHOOLGIRL|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000025_000002.wav|We advise: Go slow at first.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000024_000000.wav|THE FIRST DAYS IN THE NEW SCHOOL|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000011_000001.wav|Next to a hare lip, this is the safest protection for a travelling young girl that I know of; it has, however, the one objection that all the old ladies on the train are likely to tell you what they think of Katherine Fullerton Gerould, or their rheumatism.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000013_000002.wav|Let him choke, but do not be too hopeful, as the chances are that he will dislodge the bone. All will go well until the dessert, when his wife will begin telling how raspberry sherbet always disagrees with her.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000022_000000.wav|Brooklyn Bridge.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000032_000000.wav|It is not at all likely that you will be allowed to go to New Haven during your first year, which is quite a pity, as this city, founded in sixteen thirty eight, is rich in historical interest.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000023_000000.wav|When you have visited all these places, it will probably be time to take the train to your school.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000014_000001.wav|It will also be found that the light in your berth does not work, so you will be awake for a long time; finally, just as you are leaving Buffalo, you will at last get to sleep, and when you open your eyes again, you will be-in Buffalo.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000033_000002.wav|p c" ("pour prendre conge," i e, "to take leave") card to a gentleman who remains at home, if the gentleman is her husband and if she has left town with his business partner.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000032_000003.wav|In the month of June, for example, there is really nothing which quite conjures up for the college youth of today a sense of the mutability and impermanence of this mortal life so much as the sight of a member of the class of eighteen seventy five after three days' intensive drinking.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000025_000000.wav|The first week of school life is apt to be quite discouraging, and we can not too emphatically warn the young girl not to do anything rash under the influence of homesickness.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000014_000000.wav|After dinner you may wish to read for a while, but the porter will probably have made up all the berths for the night.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000032_000002.wav|Many other quaint relics are to be seen in and around the city of elms, mementos of the past which bring to the younger generation a knowledge and respect for things gone.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000004_000000.wav|Answer: A, because life is real, life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000017_000002.wav|Transfer to forty second Street Crosstown.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/37999/5189_37999_000019_000001.wav|Take Subway to Brooklyn. (Flatbush.) Then ask the subway guard where to go; he will tell you.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000008_000001.wav|My thots were gloomy beyond expression.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000019_000001.wav|Are you quite shoor-quite shoor?|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000020_000001.wav|"I stand by Andrew Johnson and his policy, and I don't want no office!"|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000016_000000.wav|"Be quiet, yoo idiot!" remarked I, soothingly, to him.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000007_000001.wav|My esteemed and life-long friend and co laborer, Rev.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000026_000004.wav|General Ewing made another extemporaneous address, which he read from manuscript, and we adjourned for dinner.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000008_000004.wav|Why harrow up the public bosom, or lasserate the public mind?|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000004_000000.wav|FROM PETROLEUM v NASBY|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5189/56574/5189_56574_000008_000000.wav|So, receevin transportashen and suffishent money from the secret service fund for expenses, I departed for Cleveland, and after a tejus trip thro' an Ablishn country, I arrived there.|5189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/130125/3889_130125_000031_000000.wav|"no|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000004_000001.wav|To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. End of the trees, beginning of the roofs; end of the grass, beginning of the pavements; end of the furrows, beginning of the shops, end of the wheel ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000017_000006.wav|A man kept his hat on in the presence of a procession-it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000015_000001.wav|A little of Egypt and Bohemia in the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of the powerful.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000014_000001.wav|In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the public highway.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000008_000002.wav|The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the suburbs belong to them.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000008_000006.wav|These encounters with strange children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of the environs of Paris.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000007_000002.wav|The spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped with a certain piercing melancholy.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000013_000002.wav|While in any other great city the vagabond child is a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the surface, is almost intact on the interior.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000013_000001.wav|In a relative measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the exception is just.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000009_000002.wav|In the evening they can be heard laughing.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000014_000002.wav|Hence these obscure destinies.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000018_000006.wav|Who?|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000007_000001.wav|The campagna of Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000016_000000.wav|Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in that case it skimmed the streets.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000017_000001.wav|The idea was a good one.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000011_000000.wav|CHAPTER six-A BIT OF HISTORY|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000010_000000.wav|Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth to those children.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000012_000001.wav|The statistics give an average of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process of construction, and under the arches of the bridges.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000010_000001.wav|They never venture beyond this.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000018_000001.wav|People whispered with terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000013_000000.wav|Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000004_000000.wav|To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, notably Paris.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000018_000000.wav|Under Louis the fifteenth. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000003_000001.wav|Urbis amator, like Fuscus; ruris amator, like Flaccus.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000015_000004.wav|Such was the countersign. Now, the erring child is the corollary of the ignorant child.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000007_000004.wav|Local originalities there make their appearance.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000003_000000.wav|The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something of the sage in him.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000018_000003.wav|It sometimes happened that the exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who had fathers.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000018_000004.wav|The fathers, in despair, attacked the exempts.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000010_000002.wav|They can no more escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the water.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000013_000003.wav|It is a magnificent thing to put on record, and one which shines forth in the splendid probity of our popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of the ocean.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000009_000000.wav|Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of rye, gay, haggard, barefooted.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000017_000002.wav|But let us consider the means.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000018_000005.wav|In that case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000008_000004.wav|There they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000006_000000.wav|He who writes these lines has long been a prowler about the barriers of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000007_000003.wav|Nature and humanity both appeal to you at the same time there.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000014_000000.wav|What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around whom one fancies that he beholds floating the threads of a broken family.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000017_000007.wav|A child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the galleys.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000008_000003.wav|There they are eternally playing truant.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000009_000001.wav|They can be seen devouring cherries among the wheat.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER five-HIS FRONTIERS|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000015_000002.wav|The hatred of instruction for the children of the people was a dogma.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3889/9915/3889_9915_000017_000000.wav|Under Louis the fourteenth., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired to create a fleet.|3889
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000005.wav|I could not answer that question at the moment.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000033_000000.wav|The only difficulty in proceeding lay in not sliding too fast down an incline of about forty five degrees; happily certain asperities and a few blisterings here and there formed steps, and we descended, letting our baggage slip before us from the end of a long rope.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000004_000001.wav|"Did you ever spend a quieter night in our little house at Koenigsberg?|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000001.wav|Hans sat down at once.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000011.wav|My uncle reckoned upon a fresh supply from subterranean sources, but hitherto we had met with none.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000002.wav|The lamps were hung upon a projection in the lava; we were in a sort of cavern where there was plenty of air.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000007.wav|A descent of seven hours consecutively is not made without considerable expenditure of strength.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000025_000000.wav|This last observation applied to the dark gallery, and was indicated by the compass.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000051_000003.wav|But certain local conditions may modify this rate.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000057_000000.wav|"Is that possible?"|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER eighteen.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000006.wav|Hunger and fatigue made me incapable of reasoning.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000019_000000.wav|And so it was.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000044_000001.wav|How could springs break through such walls as these?"|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000056_000000.wav|"By my observation we are at ten thousand feet below the level of the sea."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000013_000000.wav|And in truth this instrument would become useless as soon as the weight of the atmosphere should exceed the pressure ascertained at the level of the sea.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000037_000002.wav|The compass, which I consulted frequently, gave our direction as south-east with inflexible steadiness.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000034_000000.wav|But that which formed steps under our feet became stalactites overhead.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000051_000006.wav|Let us therefore assume this last hypothesis as the most suitable to our situation, and calculate."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000027_000000.wav|So saying, my uncle took in one hand Ruhmkorff's apparatus, which was hanging from his neck; and with the other he formed an electric communication with the coil in the lantern, and a sufficiently bright light dispersed the darkness of the passage.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000010.wav|Hans laid our provisions upon a block of lava, and we ate with a good appetite. But one thing troubled me, our supply of water was half consumed.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000004_000002.wav|No noise of cart wheels, no cries of basket women, no boatmen shouting!"|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000036_000002.wav|Now let us march: march!"|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000037_000000.wav|He had better have said slide, for we did nothing but drop down the steep inclines.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000051_000000.wav|"This is my conclusion.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000032_000000.wav|The lava, in the last eruption of twelve twenty nine, had forced a passage through this tunnel.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000004_000000.wav|"Well, Axel, what do you say to it?" cried my uncle, rubbing his hands.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000038_000001.wav|This justified Davy's theory, and more than once I consulted the thermometer with surprise.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000037_000003.wav|This lava stream deviated neither to the right nor to the left.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000045_000000.wav|"But perhaps this passage runs to a very great depth.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000015_000002.wav|Don't let us lose a moment.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000019_000002.wav|Immediately the Icelander climbed up like a cat, and in a few minutes the package was in our possession.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000019_000001.wav|The bundle had been caught by a projection a hundred feet above us.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000016_000000.wav|I then remembered that we had searched for it in vain the evening before.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000059_000001.wav|We had already attained a depth of six thousand feet beyond that hitherto reached by the foot of man, such as the mines of Kitz Bahl in Tyrol, and those of Wuttembourg in Bohemia.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000038_000000.wav|Yet there was no sensible increase of temperature.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000035_000001.wav|"My uncle, what a sight! Don't you admire those blending hues of lava, passing from reddish brown to bright yellow by imperceptible shades?|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000002_000000.wav|At eight in the morning a ray of daylight came to wake us up.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000058_000000.wav|"Yes, or figures are of no use."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000059_000000.wav|The Professor's calculations were quite correct.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000009_000000.wav|"Are you sure of that?"|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000015_000000.wav|"No; we shall descend at a slow rate, and our lungs will become inured to a denser atmosphere.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000032_000001.wav|It still lined the walls with a thick and glistening coat.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000004.wav|What atmospheric disturbance was the cause of them?|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000011_000000.wav|In fact, the mercury, which had risen in the instrument as fast as we descended, had stopped at twenty nine inches.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000009.wav|The order to 'halt' therefore gave me pleasure.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000053_000000.wav|"Nothing is easier," said I, putting down figures in my note book. "Nine times a hundred and twenty five feet gives a depth of eleven hundred and twenty five feet."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000016_000001.wav|My uncle questioned Hans, who, after having examined attentively with the eye of a huntsman, replied:|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000035_000002.wav|And these crystals are just like globes of light."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000026_000001.wav|At this precise moment the journey commences."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000001_000000.wav|THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL DEPTHS|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000014_000000.wav|"But," I said, "is there not reason to fear that this ever increasing pressure will become at last very painful to bear?"|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000008.wav|I was exhausted.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000022_000000.wav|Breakfast over, my uncle drew from his pocket a small notebook, intended for scientific observations.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000042_000000.wav|"Don't be uneasy, Axel, we shall find more than we want."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000002_000001.wav|The thousand shining surfaces of lava on the walls received it on its passage, and scattered it like a shower of sparks.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000003_000000.wav|There was light enough to distinguish surrounding objects.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000039_000003.wav|Certain puffs of air reached us.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000051_000004.wav|Thus at Yakoutsk in Siberia the increase of a degree is ascertained to be reached every thirty six feet.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000043_000000.wav|"When?"|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000030_000000.wav|Each shouldered his package.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000054_000000.wav|"Very accurate indeed."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000022_000001.wav|He consulted his instruments, and recorded:|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000028_000000.wav|Hans carried the other apparatus, which was also put into action. This ingenious application of electricity would enable us to go on for a long time by creating an artificial light even in the midst of the most inflammable gases.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000041_000000.wav|"More than that, I am anxious about it; we have only water enough for five days."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000055_000000.wav|"Well?"|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123271/176_123271_000032_000002.wav|The electric light was here intensified a hundredfold by reflection.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000048_000002.wav|Now, you look out, Rat!|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000077_000000.wav|The Clerk scratched his nose with his pen.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000000_000002.wav|TOAD|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000016_000000.wav|The Badger strode up the steps.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000000_000001.wav|mr|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000064_000000.wav|The Toad, who had hopped lightly out of bed as soon as he heard the key turned in the lock, watched him eagerly from the window till he disappeared down the carriage drive.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000011_000000.wav|'Right you are!' cried the Rat, starting up.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000038_000000.wav|'Certainly not!' replied Toad emphatically.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000070_000003.wav|My! won't he catch it when the Badger gets back! A worthy fellow, Ratty, with many good qualities, but very little intelligence and absolutely no education.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000033_000002.wav|At last he spoke.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000072_000000.wav|He was about half-way through his meal when an only too familiar sound, approaching down the street, made him start and fall a trembling all over.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000001_000000.wav|It was a bright morning in the early part of summer; the river had resumed its wonted banks and its accustomed pace, and a hot sun seemed to be pulling everything green and bushy and spiky up out of the earth towards him, as if by strings.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000034_000001.wav|And it wasn't folly at all!|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000032_000001.wav|First, you are sorry for what you've done, and you see the folly of it all?'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000070_000000.wav|'Smart piece of work that!' he remarked to himself chuckling.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000073_000000.wav|The car stood in the middle of the yard, quite unattended, the stable helps and other hangers on being all at their dinner.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000046_000002.wav|However, we will see it out.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000060_000001.wav|And, by the way-while you are about it-I HATE to give you additional trouble, but I happen to remember that you will pass the door-would you mind at the same time asking the lawyer to step up?|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000022_000000.wav|'You knew it must come to this, sooner or later, Toad,' the Badger explained severely.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000055_000001.wav|'But I tell you, I'd take any trouble on earth for you, if only you'd be a sensible animal.'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000057_000000.wav|'Why, what do you want a doctor for?' inquired the Rat, coming closer and examining him.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000019_000001.wav|'What is the meaning of this gross outrage?|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000005_000000.wav|The Badger strode heavily into the room, and stood looking at the two animals with an expression full of seriousness.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000047_000003.wav|When his violent paroxysms possessed him he would arrange bedroom chairs in rude resemblance of a motor car and would crouch on the foremost of them, bent forward and staring fixedly ahead, making uncouth and ghastly noises, till the climax was reached, when, turning a complete somersault, he would lie prostrate amidst the ruins of the chairs, apparently completely satisfied for the moment.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000031_000000.wav|He was looking very hard at Toad as he said this, and could not help thinking he perceived something vaguely resembling a twinkle in that animal's still sorrowful eye.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000002_000000.wav|'Bother!' said the Rat, all over egg.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000003_000002.wav|Badger!'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000017_000004.wav|Please understand that this is final.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000059_000002.wav|Let's talk about something else.'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000040_000005.wav|Take him upstairs, you two, and lock him up in his bedroom, while we arrange matters between ourselves.'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000025_000002.wav|He'll SAY anything.'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000040_000003.wav|You've often asked us three to come and stay with you, Toad, in this handsome house of yours; well, now we're going to.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000081_000001.wav|There at last they paused, where an ancient gaoler sat fingering a bunch of mighty keys.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000035_000001.wav|'You backsliding animal, didn't you tell me just now, in there----'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000052_000001.wav|But do not trouble about me.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000013_000001.wav|As they neared the door it was flung open, and mr Toad, arrayed in goggles, cap, gaiters, and enormous overcoat, came swaggering down the steps, drawing on his gauntleted gloves.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000023_000002.wav|Now, you're a good fellow in many respects, and I don't want to be too hard on you. I'll make one more effort to bring you to reason.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000072_000003.wav|Toad listened eagerly, all ears, for a time; at last he could stand it no longer.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000071_000000.wav|Filled full of conceited thoughts such as these he strode along, his head in the air, till he reached a little town, where the sign of 'The Red Lion,' swinging across the road halfway down the main street, reminded him that he had not breakfasted that day, and that he was exceedingly hungry after his long walk.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000073_000001.wav|Toad walked slowly round it, inspecting, criticising, musing deeply.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000047_000005.wav|But his interest in other matters did not seem to revive, and he grew apparently languid and depressed.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000040_000004.wav|When we've converted you to a proper point of view we may quit, but not before.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000060_000000.wav|'I fear, dear friend,' said Toad, with a sad smile, 'that "talk" can do little in a case like this-or doctors either, for that matter; still, one must grasp at the slightest straw.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000066_000000.wav|'He did it awfully well,' said the crestfallen Rat.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000074_000000.wav|'I wonder,' he said to himself presently, 'I wonder if this sort of car STARTS easily?'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000008_000001.wav|'Why, Toad's hour!|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000050_000001.wav|At last a feeble voice replied, 'Thank you so much, dear Ratty!|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000048_000000.wav|One fine morning the Rat, whose turn it was to go on duty, went upstairs to relieve Badger, whom he found fidgeting to be off and stretch his legs in a long ramble round his wood and down his earths and burrows. 'Toad's still in bed,' he told the Rat, outside the door.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000030_000000.wav|'Very good news indeed,' observed the Rat dubiously, 'if only-IF only----'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000019_000002.wav|I demand an instant explanation.'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000036_000003.wav|But I've been searching my mind since, and going over things in it, and I find that I'm not a bit sorry or repentant really, so it's no earthly good saying I am; now, is it?'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000063_000002.wav|If there's nothing really the matter, the doctor will tell him he's an old ass, and cheer him up; and that will be something gained.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000016_000001.wav|'Take him inside,' he said sternly to his companions.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000063_000001.wav|'I've known Toad fancy himself frightfully bad before, without the slightest reason; but I've never heard him ask for a lawyer!|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000069_000000.wav|Meanwhile, Toad, gay and irresponsible, was walking briskly along the high road, some miles from home.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000053_000002.wav|And in weather like this, and the boating season just beginning!|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000056_000000.wav|'If I thought that, Ratty,' murmured Toad, more feebly than ever, 'then I would beg you-for the last time, probably-to step round to the village as quickly as possible-even now it may be too late-and fetch the doctor.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000070_000001.wav|'Brain against brute force-and brain came out on the top-as it's bound to do.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000032_000000.wav|'There's only one thing more to be done,' continued the gratified Badger. 'Toad, I want you solemnly to repeat, before your friends here, what you fully admitted to me in the smoking room just now.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000047_000002.wav|At first Toad was undoubtedly very trying to his careful guardians.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000008_000002.wav|The hour of Toad!|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000046_000001.wav|'I've never seen Toad so determined.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000001_000001.wav|The Mole and the Water Rat had been up since dawn, very busy on matters connected with boats and the opening of the boating season; painting and varnishing, mending paddles, repairing cushions, hunting for missing boat hooks, and so on; and were finishing breakfast in their little parlour and eagerly discussing their plans for the day, when a heavy knock sounded at the door.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000047_000001.wav|Each animal took it in turns to sleep in Toad's room at night, and they divided the day up between them.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000080_000003.wav|And mind, if you appear before us again, upon any charge whatever, we shall have to deal with you very seriously!'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000050_000000.wav|He had to wait some minutes for an answer.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000013_000000.wav|They reached the carriage drive of Toad Hall to find, as the Badger had anticipated, a shiny new motor car, of great size, painted a bright red (Toad's favourite colour), standing in front of the house.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000009_000002.wav|I remember now!|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000004_000000.wav|This was a wonderful thing, indeed, that the Badger should pay a formal call on them, or indeed on anybody.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000051_000002.wav|Now jump up, there's a good fellow, and don't lie moping there on a fine morning like this!'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000017_000001.wav|'mr|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000027_000000.wav|After some three quarters of an hour the door opened, and the Badger reappeared, solemnly leading by the paw a very limp and dejected Toad. His skin hung baggily about him, his legs wobbled, and his cheeks were furrowed by the tears so plentifully called forth by the Badger's moving discourse.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000080_000002.wav|It's going to be twenty years for you this time.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000015_000000.wav|His hearty accents faltered and fell away as he noticed the stern unbending look on the countenances of his silent friends, and his invitation remained unfinished.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000010_000002.wav|We must be up and doing, ere it is too late.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000050_000002.wav|So good of you to inquire!|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000076_000001.wav|Let me see: he has been found guilty, on the clearest evidence, first, of stealing a valuable motor car; secondly, of driving to the public danger; and, thirdly, of gross impertinence to the rural police.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000006_000000.wav|'The hour has come!' said the Badger at last with great solemnity.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000024_000000.wav|He took Toad firmly by the arm, led him into the smoking room, and closed the door behind them.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000011_000002.wav|We'll convert him!|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000040_000000.wav|'Very well, then,' said the Badger firmly, rising to his feet.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000076_000003.wav|Without, of course, giving the prisoner the benefit of any doubt, because there isn't any.'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000034_000000.wav|'No!' he said, a little sullenly, but stoutly; 'I'm NOT sorry.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000021_000000.wav|They had to lay Toad out on the floor, kicking and calling all sorts of names, before they could get to work properly.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000017_000005.wav|You needn't wait.' Then he followed the others inside and shut the door.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000016_000002.wav|Then, as Toad was hustled through the door, struggling and protesting, he turned to the chauffeur in charge of the new motor car.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000047_000000.wav|They arranged watches accordingly.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000054_000002.wav|It's natural enough.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000028_000000.wav|'Sit down there, Toad,' said the Badger kindly, pointing to a chair.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000058_000000.wav|'Surely you have noticed of late----' murmured Toad. 'But, no-why should you?|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000012_000001.wav|Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000060_000002.wav|It would be a convenience to me, and there are moments-perhaps I should say there is A moment-when one must face disagreeable tasks, at whatever cost to exhausted nature!'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000075_000000.wav|Next moment, hardly knowing how it came about, he found he had hold of the handle and was turning it.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000071_000001.wav|He marched into the Inn, ordered the best luncheon that could be provided at so short a notice, and sat down to eat it in the coffee room.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000017_000002.wav|Toad has changed his mind.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000048_000005.wav|I know him. Well, now, I must be off.'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000056_000001.wav|But don't you bother.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000062_000000.wav|Outside, he stopped to consider.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000003_000000.wav|The Mole went to attend the summons, and the Rat heard him utter a cry of surprise.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000078_000000.wav|'First rate!' said the Chairman.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000054_000001.wav|'I can quite understand it.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000054_000004.wav|I mustn't ask you to do anything further.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000054_000003.wav|You're tired of bothering about me.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000021_000003.wav|Now that he was merely Toad, and no longer the Terror of the Highway, he giggled feebly and looked from one to the other appealingly, seeming quite to understand the situation.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000047_000004.wav|As time passed, however, these painful seizures grew gradually less frequent, and his friends strove to divert his mind into fresh channels.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000077_000002.wav|But cheeking the police undoubtedly carries the severest penalty; and so it ought.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000035_000000.wav|'What?' cried the Badger, greatly scandalised.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000009_000000.wav|'Toad's hour, of course!' cried the Mole delightedly.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000052_000003.wav|Indeed, I almost hope not.'|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000059_000001.wav|But you can hardly be bad enough for that yet.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000063_000000.wav|'It's best to be on the safe side,' he said, on reflection.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000046_000003.wav|He must never be left an instant unguarded.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000052_000002.wav|I hate being a burden to my friends, and I do not expect to be one much longer.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000040_000001.wav|'Since you won't yield to persuasion, we'll try what force can do.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000009_000001.wav|'Hooray!|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000069_000001.wav|At first he had taken by paths, and crossed many fields, and changed his course several times, in case of pursuit; but now, feeling by this time safe from recapture, and the sun smiling brightly on him, and all Nature joining in a chorus of approval to the song of self praise that his own heart was singing to him, he almost danced along the road in his satisfaction and conceit.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000012_000000.wav|They set off up the road on their mission of mercy, Badger leading the way.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000077_000001.wav|'Some people would consider,' he observed, 'that stealing the motor car was the worst offence; and so it is.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000067_000001.wav|'However, talking won't mend matters.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000003_000001.wav|Then he flung the parlour door open, and announced with much importance, 'mr|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/122025/176_122025_000045_000000.wav|They descended the stair, Toad shouting abuse at them through the keyhole; and the three friends then met in conference on the situation.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000030_000001.wav|The Icelanders had been dismissed, and they were now descending the outer slopes of Snaefell to return to Stapi.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000037_000001.wav|Here was june twenty fifth.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000007_000000.wav|"Greenland!" said he.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000016_000000.wav|But I did not try to back out of it.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000024_000000.wav|I ran.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000004_000007.wav|The eye could hardly tell where the snowy ridges ended and the foaming waves began.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000022_000001.wav|I thought his foot must have slipped and that he had fallen down one of the holes.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000047_000000.wav|I looked at Hans, to hear what he would say.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000031_000000.wav|Hans slept peaceably at the foot of a rock, in a lava bed, where he had found a suitable couch for himself; but my uncle was pacing around the bottom of the crater like a wild beast in a cage.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000021_000001.wav|Each of these chimneys was a hundred feet in diameter.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000034_000001.wav|For this reason.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000020_000002.wav|Just upon the edge appeared the snowy peak of Saris, standing out sharp and clear against endless space.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000040_000001.wav|It was enough to irritate a meeker man than he; for it was foundering almost within the port.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000018_000001.wav|Here Hans advanced only with extreme precaution, sounding his way with his iron pointed pole, to discover any crevasses in it.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000014_000001.wav|Its depth appeared to be about two thousand feet.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000008_000000.wav|"Greenland?" I cried.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000009_000003.wav|Hans will tell us the name of that on which we are now standing."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000022_000002.wav|But, no; I saw him, with arms outstretched and legs straddling wide apart, erect before a granite rock that stood in the centre of the crater, just like a pedestal made ready to receive a statue of Pluto.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000029_000000.wav|I made no answer; and I returned in silence to my lava seat in a state of utter speechless consternation.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000023_000000.wav|"Axel, Axel," he cried.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000030_000000.wav|How long I remained plunged in agonizing reflections I cannot tell; all that I know is, that on raising my head again, I saw only my uncle and Hans at the bottom of the crater.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000011_000000.wav|"Scartaris."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000043_000000.wav|My uncle turned too, and followed it.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000006_000000.wav|My uncle pointed out to me in the far west a light steam or mist, a semblance of land, which bounded the distant horizon of waters.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000004_000005.wav|The undulating surface of these endless mountains, crested with sheets of snow, reminded one of a stormy sea.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000033_000000.wav|The next morning, a grey, heavy, cloudy sky seemed to droop over the summit of the cone.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000032_000000.wav|Thus the first night in the crater passed away.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000021_000003.wav|I had not the courage to look down either of them.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000044_000000.wav|At noon, being at its least extent, it came and softly fell upon the edge of the middle chimney.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000016_000001.wav|Hans with perfect coolness resumed the lead, and I followed him without a word.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000041_000000.wav|But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a satisfaction in store proportioned to his desperate anxieties.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000003_000000.wav|Next morning we awoke half frozen by the sharp keen air, but with the light of a splendid sun|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000038_000001.wav|The day wore on, and no shadow came to lay itself along the bottom of the crater.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000027_000000.wav|[At this point a Runic text appears]|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000021_000004.wav|But Professor Liedenbrock had hastily surveyed all three; he was panting, running from one to the other, gesticulating, and uttering incoherent expressions.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000010_000000.wav|The question being put, Hans replied:|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000019_000000.wav|Yet, notwithstanding the difficulties of the descent, down steeps unknown to the guide, the journey was accomplished without accidents, except the loss of a coil of rope, which escaped from the hands of an Icelander, and took the shortest way to the bottom of the abyss.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000021_000000.wav|At the bottom of the crater were three chimneys, through which, in its eruptions, Snaefell had driven forth fire and lava from its central furnace.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000005_000003.wav|I felt intoxicated with the sublime pleasure of lofty elevations without thinking of the profound abysses into which I was shortly to be plunged.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000014_000004.wav|Involuntarily I compared the whole crater to an enormous erected mortar, and the comparison put me in a terrible fright.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000018_000000.wav|In certain parts of the cone there were glaciers.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000013_000000.wav|"Now for the crater!" he cried.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000014_000003.wav|The bottom of the funnel was about two hundred fifty feet in circuit, so that the gentle slope allowed its lower brim to be reached without much difficulty.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000021_000002.wav|They gaped before us right in our path.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000014_000000.wav|The crater of Snaefell resembled an inverted cone, the opening of which might be half a league in diameter.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000004_000004.wav|On my right were numberless glaciers and innumerable peaks, some plumed with feathery clouds of smoke.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000026_000000.wav|And, sharing his astonishment, but I think not his joy, I read on the western face of the block, in Runic characters, half mouldered away with lapse of ages, this thrice accursed name:|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000037_000002.wav|If the sun was clouded for six days we must postpone our visit till next year.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000021_000005.wav|Hans and his comrades, seated upon loose lava rocks, looked at him with as much wonder as they knew how to express, and perhaps taking him for an escaped lunatic.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000004_000000.wav|I stood on the very summit of the southernmost of Snaefell's peaks. The range of the eye extended over the whole island.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000004_000002.wav|It seemed as if one of Helbesmer's raised maps lay at my feet.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000034_000000.wav|I soon found out the cause, and hope dawned again in my heart.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000037_000000.wav|Now, no sun no shadow, and therefore no guide.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000012_000000.wav|My uncle shot a triumphant glance at me.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000039_000002.wav|Hans built a hut of pieces of lava.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixteen.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000029_000001.wav|Here was crushing evidence.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000038_000004.wav|His gaze, ever directed upwards, was lost in the grey and misty space beyond.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000025_000000.wav|"Look!" cried the Professor.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000023_000001.wav|"Come, come!"|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000022_000000.wav|Suddenly my uncle uttered a cry.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000009_000000.wav|"Yes; we are only thirty five leagues from it; and during thaws the white bears, borne by the ice fields from the north, are carried even into Iceland.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000038_000000.wav|My limited powers of description would fail, were I to attempt a picture of the Professor's angry impatience.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000015_000000.wav|"What madness," I thought, "to go down into a mortar, perhaps a loaded mortar, to be shot up into the air at a moment's notice!"|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000033_000001.wav|I did not know this first from the appearances of nature, but I found it out by my uncle's impetuous wrath.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000014_000002.wav|Imagine the aspect of such a reservoir, brim full and running over with liquid fire amid the rolling thunder.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000003_000001.wav|I rose from my granite bed and went out to enjoy the magnificent spectacle that lay unrolled before me.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000001_000000.wav|BOLDLY DOWN THE CRATER|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123269/176_123269_000038_000002.wav|Hans did not move from the spot he had selected; yet he must be asking himself what were we waiting for, if he asked himself anything at all.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000014_000000.wav|Of course, we were not included under that head.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000028_000000.wav|"Attention!" repeated my uncle.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000013_000001.wav|I will divide them into three lots; each of us will strap one upon his back.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000029_000000.wav|In half an hour we were standing upon the surface of a rock jammed in across the chimney from one side to the other.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000020_000000.wav|My uncle was always willing to employ magnificent resources.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000011_000000.wav|But, however short was my examination of this well, I had taken some account of its conformation.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000024_000001.wav|It was effected in profound silence, broken only by the descent of loosened stones down the dark gulf.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000044_000000.wav|"At the bottom of the perpendicular chimney," he answered.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000020_000001.wav|Obeying orders, Hans tied all the non fragile articles in one bundle, corded them firmly, and sent them bodily down the gulf before us.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000013_000000.wav|"Now," said my uncle, after having completed these preparations, "now let us look to our loads.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000008_000001.wav|Hitherto our toil had overcome all difficulties, now difficulties would spring up at every step.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000013_000002.wav|I mean only fragile articles."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000009_000000.wav|I had not yet ventured to look down the bottomless pit into which I was about to take a plunge.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000010_000001.wav|I bent over a projecting rock and gazed down.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000010_000003.wav|The bewildering feeling of vacuity laid hold upon me.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000018_000000.wav|"How so?" I asked.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000041_000000.wav|I stopped short just as I was going to place my feet upon my uncle's head.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000025_000003.wav|I made as little use of it as possible, performing wonderful feats of equilibrium upon the lava projections which my foot seemed to catch hold of like a hand.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000009_000001.wav|The supreme hour had come.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000019_000000.wav|"You will see presently."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000043_000000.wav|"Where?" said I, stepping near to him.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000033_000000.wav|I don't suppose the maddest geologist under such circumstances would have studied the nature of the rocks that we were passing.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000024_000000.wav|The Professor fastened his package of instruments upon his shoulders; Hans took the tools; I took the arms: and the descent commenced in the following order; Hans, my uncle, and myself.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000047_000000.wav|The darkness was not yet complete.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000012_000000.wav|My uncle employed a very simple expedient to obviate this difficulty. He uncoiled a cord of the thickness of a finger, and four hundred feet long; first he dropped half of it down, then he passed it round a lava block that projected conveniently, and threw the other half down the chimney.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000026_000000.wav|When one of these slippery steps shook under the heavier form of Hans, he said in his tranquil voice:|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000010_000000.wav|I have already mentioned that it was a hundred feet in diameter, and three hundred feet round.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000016_000000.wav|"But," said I, "the clothes, and that mass of ladders and ropes, what is to become of them?"|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000025_000001.wav|One idea overpowered me almost, fear lest the rock should give way from which I was hanging.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000009_000004.wav|Hans accepted the enterprise with such calmness, such indifference, such perfect disregard of any possible danger that I blushed at the idea of being less brave than he.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000023_000000.wav|Now I ask any sensible man if it was possible to hear those words without a shudder.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000048_000000.wav|When lying on my back, I opened my eyes and saw a bright sparkling point of light at the extremity of the gigantic tube three thousand feet long, now a vast telescope.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000034_000004.wav|We shall see further proof of that very soon."|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000012_000001.wav|Each of us could then descend by holding with the hand both halves of the rope, which would not be able to unroll itself from its hold; when two hundred feet down, it would be easy to get possession of the whole of the rope by letting one end go and pulling down by the other.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000025_000000.wav|I dropped as it were, frantically clutching the double cord with one hand and buttressing myself from the wall with the other by means of my stick.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000030_000000.wav|Hans pulled the rope by one of its ends, the other rose in the air; after passing the higher rock it came down again, bringing with it a rather dangerous shower of bits of stone and lava.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000009_000003.wav|But I was ashamed to recoil in the presence of the hunter.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000035_000002.wav|My silence was taken for consent and the descent went on.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000010_000004.wav|I felt my centre of gravity shifting its place, and giddiness mounting into my brain like drunkenness.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000046_000000.wav|"Yes; there is a sort of passage which inclines to the right.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000037_000000.wav|Still we kept descending.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000045_000000.wav|"Is there no way farther?"|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000036_000001.wav|When I lifted my head I perceived the gradual contraction of its aperture. Its walls, by a gentle incline, were drawing closer to each other, and it was beginning to grow darker.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000033_000001.wav|I am sure I did trouble my head about them.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000034_000002.wav|We are now among the primitive rocks, upon which the chemical operations took place which are produced by the contact of elementary bases of metals with water.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000036_000000.wav|Another three hours, and I saw no bottom to the chimney yet.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000031_000000.wav|Leaning over the edge of our narrow standing ground, I observed that the bottom of the hole was still invisible.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000007_000000.wav|VERTICAL DESCENT|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000033_000003.wav|But the Professor, no doubt, was pursuing his observations or taking notes, for in one of our halts he said to me:|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000011_000003.wav|But how were we to unfasten it, when arrived at the other end?|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000034_000000.wav|"The farther I go the more confidence I feel.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000008_000000.wav|Now began our real journey.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000010_000006.wav|I was just about to drop down, when a hand laid hold of me.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000021_000000.wav|I listened to the dull thuds of the descending bale.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000021_000001.wav|My uncle, leaning over the abyss, followed the descent of the luggage with a satisfied nod, and only rose erect when he had quite lost sight of it.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000010_000005.wav|There is nothing more treacherous than this attraction down deep abysses.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000009_000002.wav|I might now either share in the enterprise or refuse to move forward.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000011_000001.wav|Its almost perpendicular walls were bristling with innumerable projections which would facilitate the descent.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000034_000003.wav|I repudiate the notion of central heat altogether.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000037_000001.wav|It seemed to me that the falling stones were meeting with an earlier resistance, and that the concussion gave a more abrupt and deadened sound.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/176/123270/176_123270_000047_000001.wav|The provision case was opened; we refreshed ourselves, and went to sleep as well as we could upon a bed of stones and lava fragments.|176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000017_000000.wav|Election Of The President|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000000_000004.wav|He may make, but he cannot conclude, a treaty; he may designate, but he cannot appoint, a public officer.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000000_000006.wav|The President of the United States is responsible for his actions; but the person of the King is declared inviolable by the French Charter.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000033_000001.wav|The nation possessed two of the main causes of internal peace; it was a new country, but it was inhabited by a people grown old in the exercise of freedom.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000003_000003.wav|The fundamental principle of legislation-a principle essentially republican-is the same in both countries, although its consequences may be different, and its results more or less extensive. Whence I am led to conclude that France with its King is nearer akin to a republic than the Union with its President is to a monarchy.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000043_000000.wav|The Election may be considered as a national crisis-Why?--Passions of the people-Anxiety of the President-Calm which succeeds the agitation of the election.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000029_000002.wav|In America society is so constituted that it can stand without assistance upon its own basis; nothing is to be feared from the pressure of external dangers, and the election of the President is a cause of agitation, but not of ruin.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000014_000000.wav|Why The President Of The United States Does Not Require The Majority Of The Two Houses In Order To Carry On The Government It is an established axiom in Europe that a constitutional King cannot persevere in a system of government which is opposed by the two other branches of the legislature.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000040_000001.wav|Ten of these elections took place simultaneously by the votes of the special electors in the different States.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000020_000000.wav|It is clear that the greater the privileges of the executive authority are, the greater is the temptation; the more the ambition of the candidates is excited, the more warmly are their interests espoused by a throng of partisans who hope to share the power when their patron has won the prize.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000020_000004.wav|To reduce hereditary royalty to the condition of an elective authority, the only means that I am acquainted with are to circumscribe its sphere of action beforehand, gradually to diminish its prerogatives, and to accustom the people to live without its protection.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000026_000005.wav|The political maxims of the country depend therefore on the mass of the people, not on the President alone; and consequently in America the elective system has no very prejudicial influence on the fixed principles of the Government.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000016_000004.wav|In Europe, harmony must reign between the Crown and the other branches of the legislature, because a collision between them may prove serious; in America, this harmony is not indispensable, because such a collision is impossible.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000034_000005.wav|This mode of election rendered a majority more probable; for the fewer the electors are, the greater is the chance of their coming to a final decision.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000026_000004.wav|In America the President exercises a certain influence on State affairs, but he does not conduct them; the preponderating power is vested in the representatives of the whole nation.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1487/133273/1487_133273_000040_000002.wav|The House of Representatives has only twice exercised its conditional privilege of deciding in cases of uncertainty; the first time was at the election of mr Jefferson in eighteen o one; the second was in eighteen twenty five, when mr Quincy Adams was named.|1487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000030_000002.wav|Ladies, to whom the advice contained in this paragraph is particularly addressed, know how the shadow of suspicion withers and torments them.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000034_000001.wav|She should not turn her head on one side and the other, especially in large towns, where this bad habit seems to be an invitation to the impertinent.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000016_000000.wav|The rigorous simplicity of the dress of men establishes but very little difference between that of young and old.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000007.wav|Such disorder of the toilet can be excused when it occurs rarely, or for a short time, as in such cases it seems evidently owing to a temporary embarrassment; but if it occur daily, or constantly; if it seems the result of negligence and slovenliness, it is unpardonable, particularly in ladies, whose dress seems less designed for clothing than ornament.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000009_000005.wav|For to make a noise in walking is entirely at variance with good manners.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER four.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000036_000000.wav|If the master of the house wishes to accompany you himself, you must excuse yourself politely from giving him so much trouble, but finish however by accepting.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000028_000001.wav|So that we must begin by fulfilling exactly our duties towards relations; but we must beware of making public those petty quarrels, and little differences of interest, of ill humor or opinion, which sometimes trouble families most closely united.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000031_000002.wav|Neither should they show themselves except with a gentleman of their family, and then he should be a near relation or of respectable age.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000021_000001.wav|Propriety with difficulty tolerates these fancies of a spoiled child: but it applauds a woman of sense and taste, who is not in a hurry to follow the fashions and asks how long they will probably last before adopting them; finally, who selects and modifies them with success according to her size and figure.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000006_000001.wav|It requires that our clothing be in keeping with our sex, fortune, profession, age, and form, as well as with the season, the different hours of the day and our different occupations.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000020_000000.wav|Vary your toilet as much as possible, for fear that idlers and malignant wits, who are always a majority in the world, should amuse themselves by making your dress the description of your person.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000034_000002.wav|If such persons address her in any flattering or insignificant terms, she should take good care not to answer them a word.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000009_000004.wav|When you go to see any one, you cannot dispense with taking off your socks or clogs before you are introduced into the room.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000019_000000.wav|It is superlatively ridiculous for a lady to go on foot, when dressed in her hair, or attired for the drawing room or a ball.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000030_000003.wav|This shadow, it is necessary to avoid at all hazards, and on that account to submit to all the requirements of propriety.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000005.wav|To neglect to take off this morning dress as soon as possible, is to expose one's self to embarrassments often very painful, and to the appearance of a want of education.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000006_000000.wav|Propriety requires that we should always be clothed in a cleanly and becoming manner, even in private, in leaving our bed, or in the presence of no one.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000010_000006.wav|Ceremonious visits, evening visits, and especially balls, require more attention to the dress of gentlemen, and a more brilliant costume for ladies.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000010_000001.wav|Ladies should make morning calls in an elegant and simple neglige, all the details of which we cannot give, on account of their multiplicity and the numerous modification of fashion.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000031_000001.wav|They are at liberty however to walk with young married ladies or unmarried ones, while the latter should never walk alone with their companions.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000027_000001.wav|They are obtained by the accomplishment of our obligations of family and of our profession; by our probity and good manners; by our fortune and situation in society.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000007_000000.wav|Let us now descend to the particulars of these general rules.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000026_000000.wav|Among the cares which propriety obliges us to take of our person, to please is but an accessary circumstance; the principal end is to indicate by cleanliness, and the suitableness of apparel, that good order, a sense of what is right, and politeness in all things, direct our thoughts and actions.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000014_000000.wav|We must beware of a shoal in this case; frequently a young lady of small fortune, desiring to appear decently in any splendid assembly, makes sacrifices in order to embellish her modest attire.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000034_000004.wav|If a man follow her in silence, she should pretend not to perceive him, and at the same time hasten a little her step.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000004.wav|In this dress, we can receive only intimate friends or persons, who call upon urgent or indispensable business; even then we ought to offer some apology for it.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000036_000003.wav|The seeds of such an imputation, once sown, quickly come to maturity.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000003_000001.wav|If vanity, pride, or prudery, have frequently given to these attentions the names of coquetry, ambition, or folly, this is a still stronger reason, why we should endeavor to clear up these points.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000000.wav|The dress for a man on his first rising, is a cap of cotton, or silk and cotton, a morning gown, or a vest with sleeves; for a lady, a small muslin cap, (bonnet de percale,) a camisole or common robe.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000019_000002.wav|Who does not perceive how laughable it is to see a lady who is clothed in satin lace, or velvet, laboriously travelling in the dust or mud.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000002.wav|The hair papers, which cannot be removed on rising (because the hair would not keep in curl till evening,) should be concealed under a bandeau of lace or of the hair.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000021_000000.wav|Certain fashionables seek to gain a kind of reputation by the odd choice of their attire, and by their eagerness to seize upon the first caprices of the fashions.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000034_000000.wav|A lady ought to have a modest and measured gait; too great hurry injures the grace which ought to characterize her.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000010_000005.wav|With regard to ladies, it is necessary for them when visiting at this time, to arrange their toilet with more care.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000034_000003.wav|If they persist, she should tell them in a brief and firm, though polite tone, that she desires to be left to herself.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000006.wav|Moreover, it is well to impose upon yourself a rule to be dressed at some particular hour (the earliest possible,) since occupations will present themselves to hinder your being ready for the day; and you will easily acquire the habit of this.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000037_000000.wav|The care of the reputation of ladies further demands that they should have a modest deportment; should abstain from forward manners, and free speeches.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000036_000001.wav|On arriving at your house, you should offer him your thanks.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000019_000001.wav|If one dwells in a provincial town where it is not customary to use carriages, they should go in a chair.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000024_000000.wav|SECTION two.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000032_000001.wav|Young widows have equal liberty with married ladies.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000014_000004.wav|Neither too high, nor too low; it is equally ridiculous either to pretend to be the most showy, or to display the meanest attire in an assembly.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000033_000000.wav|A lady ought not to present herself alone in a library, or a museum, unless she goes there to study or work as an artist.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000031_000000.wav|Young married ladies are at liberty to visit by themselves their acquaintances, but they cannot present themselves in public without their husband, or an aged lady.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000003.wav|They should be removed as soon as may be.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000017_000003.wav|It only belongs to septuagenarians and ecclesiastics to wear doublets or wadded outer coats.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000009_000000.wav|To suppose that great heat of weather will authorise this disorder of the toilet, and will permit us to go in slippers, or with our legs and arms bare, or to take nonchalant or improper attitudes, is an error of persons of a low class, or destitute of education.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000008_000001.wav|It is well that a half corset should precede the full corset, which last is used only when one is dressed; for it is bad taste for a lady not to be laced at all.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000009_000001.wav|Even the weather of dog days would not excuse this; and if we would remain thus dressed, we must give directions that we are not at home.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000035_000001.wav|But however much this may be considered proper, and consequently an obligation, a married lady well educated will disregard it if circumstances prevent her being able, without trouble, to find a conductor.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000010_000003.wav|Gentlemen may call in an outside coat, in boots and pantaloons, as when they are on their ordinary business.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000003_000000.wav|Attention to one's person and reputation is also a duty.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000029_000000.wav|Probity, that powerful means of obtaining consideration, by its elevated and religious nature, is not within our investigation of the principles of politeness.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000017_000001.wav|Men till lately were almost free from this obligation; they used to be constantly clothed in broadcloth in all seasons: but now, although this may form the basis of their toilet, they must select stuffs for winter or summer, as may be suitable.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000026_000001.wav|In this point of view, we see that a regard to reputation is the necessary consequence of the duties of propriety toward one's self.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000022_000000.wav|It would be extremely clownish to carry dirt into a decent house, especially if one makes a ceremonious visit; and, when there is much mud, or when we cannot walk with skill, it is proper to go in a carriage, or at least to put in requisition the services of a shoe black at a short distance from the house.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000014_000003.wav|Moreover, whatever be the opulence which you enjoy, luxury encroaches so much upon it, that no riches are able to satisfy its demands; but fortunately propriety, always in accordance with reason, encourages by this maxim social and sensible women.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000027_000000.wav|To inspire esteem and consideration, is then the grand object of propriety of conduct; for without this treasure, the relations of society would be a humiliation and punishment.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000013_000000.wav|All ladies cannot use indiscriminately the privilege which marriage confers upon them in this respect, and the toilet of those whose fortune is moderate should not pass the bounds of an elegant simplicity. Considerations of a more elevated nature, as of good domestic order, the dignity of a wife, and the duties of a mother, come in support of this law of propriety, for it concerns morality in all its branches.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000012_000000.wav|Situation in the world determines among ladies, those differences, which though otherwise well marked, are becoming less so every day.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000010_000004.wav|In short, this dress is proper for gentlemen's visits in the middle of the day.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/110054/7982_110054_000014_000002.wav|The toilet then wants harmony, which is the soul of elegance as well as of beauty.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000019_000000.wav|Whether the Intellect Is a Power of the Soul?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000053_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the active intellect is not something in the soul.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000045_000001.wav|But the passive intellect is an immaterial power.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000037_000006.wav|This is made clear from the fact, that at first we are only in potentiality to understand, and afterwards we are made to understand actually.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000072_000001.wav|For if the active intellect were not something belonging to the soul, but were some separate substance, there would be one active intellect for all men.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000079_000003.wav|Therefore memory is not in the intellectual part, but only in the sensitive.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000043_000002.wav|But because sense is in potentiality to things sensible, the sense is not said to be active, but only passive.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000071_000002.wav|Therefore the same active intellect is not in various men.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000032_000001.wav|But the intellectual power results from the immateriality of the intelligent substance.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000001.wav|Firstly, in its most strict sense, when from a thing is taken something which belongs to it by virtue either of its nature, or of its proper inclination: as when water loses coolness by heating, and as when a man becomes ill or sad.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000068_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that there is one active intellect in all. For what is separate from the body is not multiplied according to the number of bodies.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000010.wav|For we find an intellect whose relation to universal being is that of the act of all being: and such is the Divine intellect, which is the Essence of God, in which originally and virtually, all being pre exists as in its first cause.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000082_000002.wav|But in the intellect, which has no corporeal organ, nothing but what is intelligible exists.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000057_000001.wav|For it is neither a passion nor a habit; since habits and passions are not in the nature of agents in regard to the passivity of the soul; but rather passion is the very action of the passive power; while habit is something which results from acts.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000059_000001.wav|In order to make this evident, we must observe that above the intellectual soul of man we must needs suppose a superior intellect, from which the soul acquires the power of understanding.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000047_000003.wav|But since Aristotle did not allow that forms of natural things exist apart from matter, and as forms existing in matter are not actually intelligible; it follows that the natures or forms of the sensible things which we understand are not actually intelligible.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000031_000000.wav|Whether the Intellect Is a Passive Power?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000033_000002.wav|Therefore the intellectual power is not passive.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000060_000005.wav|And we know this by experience, since we perceive that we abstract universal forms from their particular conditions, which is to make them actually intelligible.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000008_000000.wav|(four) Whether it is something in the soul?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000044_000002.wav|Therefore there is no necessity for an active intellect.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000060_000000.wav|Wherefore some held that this intellect, substantially separate, is the active intellect, which by lighting up the phantasms as it were, makes them to be actually intelligible.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000043_000003.wav|Therefore, since our intellect is in potentiality to things intelligible, it seems that we cannot say that the intellect is active, but only that it is passive.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000020_000001.wav|For the intellect seems to be the same as the mind.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000069_000001.wav|But that which is the cause of unity is still more itself one.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000028_000002.wav|But the soul has many other powers, such as the sensitive and nutritive powers, and therefore the comparison fails.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000049_000002.wav|And according to this the active intellect is required for understanding, in like manner and for the same reason as light is required for seeing.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000067_000000.wav|Whether the Active Intellect Is One in All?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000015_000000.wav|(eleven) Whether the speculative and practical intellect are distinct powers?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000004.wav|Thirdly, in a wide sense a thing is said to be passive, from the very fact that what is in potentiality to something receives that to which it was in potentiality, without being deprived of anything.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000012.wav|But no created intellect can be an act in relation to the whole universal being; otherwise it would needs be an infinite being.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000082_000004.wav|Thus, therefore, according to him, as soon as we cease to understand something actually, the species of that thing ceases to be in our intellect, and if we wish to understand that thing anew, we must turn to the active intellect, which he held to be a separate substance, in order that the intelligible species may thence flow again into our passive intellect.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000005_000000.wav|(one) Whether the intellect is a power of the soul, or its essence?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000079_000002.wav|Memory, therefore, knows a thing under a condition of a fixed time; which involves knowledge under the conditions of "here" and "now." But this is not the province of the intellect, but of the sense.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000059_000002.wav|For what is such by participation, and what is mobile, and what is imperfect always requires the pre existence of something essentially such, immovable and perfect.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000072_000002.wav|And this is what they mean who hold that there is one active intellect for all.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000034_000002.wav|But all the powers of the vegetative part are active; yet they are the lowest among the powers of the soul.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000012_000000.wav|(eight) Whether the reason is a distinct power from the intellect?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000023_000001.wav|But the soul is immaterial through its essence.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000086_000004.wav|But on the part of the act, the condition of past, even as such, may be understood to be in the intellect, as well as in the senses.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000075_000002.wav|Wherefore all men enjoy in common the power which is the principle of this action: and this power is the active intellect.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000037_000008.wav|And consequently the intellect is a passive power.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000085_000002.wav|But the intellect in itself is retentive of species, without the association of any corporeal organ.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000060_000001.wav|But, even supposing the existence of such a separate active intellect, it would still be necessary to assign to the human soul some power participating in that superior intellect, by which power the human soul makes things actually intelligible.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000002.wav|Secondly, less strictly, a thing is said to be passive, when something, whether suitable or unsuitable, is taken away from it.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000084_000004.wav|Thus, therefore, if we take memory only for the power of retaining species, we must say that it is in the intellectual part.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000060_000004.wav|Wherefore we must say that in the soul is some power derived from a higher intellect, whereby it is able to light up the phantasms.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000083_000001.wav|And, even then, it is in potentiality, but not in the same way as before learning and discovering." Now, the passive intellect is said to be each thing, inasmuch as it receives the intelligible species of each thing.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000052_000000.wav|Whether the Active Intellect Is Something in the Soul?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000080_000001.wav|But this cannot happen in the intellect, because the intellect is reduced to act by the fact that the intelligible species are received into it.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000084_000003.wav|If, therefore, corporeal matter holds the forms which it receives, not only while it actually does something through them, but also after ceasing to act through them, much more cogent reason is there for the intellect to receive the species unchangeably and lastingly, whether it receive them from things sensible, or derive them from some superior intellect.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000083_000002.wav|To the fact, therefore, that it receives the species of intelligible things it owes its being able to operate when it wills, but not so that it be always operating: for even then is it in potentiality in a certain sense, though otherwise than before the act of understanding-namely, in the sense that whoever has habitual knowledge is in potentiality to actual consideration.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000034_000003.wav|Much more, therefore, all the intellectual powers, which are the highest, are active.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000040_000001.wav|Now the intellect is a passive power in regard to the whole universal being: while the vegetative power is active in regard to some particular thing, namely, the body as united to the soul.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000060_000007.wav|Therefore the power which is the principle of this action must be something in the soul.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000006.wav|And thus with us to understand is to be passive.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000043_000001.wav|For as the senses are to things sensible, so is our intellect to things intelligible.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000059_000003.wav|Now the human soul is called intellectual by reason of a participation in intellectual power; a sign of which is that it is not wholly intellectual but only in part.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000086_000001.wav|These two are found together in the sensitive part, which apprehends something from the fact of its being immuted by a present sensible: wherefore at the same time an animal remembers to have sensed before in the past, and to have sensed some past sensible thing.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000039_000004.wav|Hence it is incorruptible.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000042_000000.wav|Whether There Is an Active Intellect?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000057_000004.wav|Therefore the active intellect is not something in our soul.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000032_000002.wav|Therefore it seems that the intellect is not a passive power.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000063_000002.wav|From this point of view it matters not whether the active intellect is something belonging to the soul, or something separate from the soul.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000057_000003.wav|It would therefore follow that the active intellect flows from the essence of the soul. And thus it would not be in the soul by way of participation from some higher intellect: which is unfitting.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000059_000005.wav|Again it has an imperfect understanding; both because it does not understand everything, and because, in those things which it does understand, it passes from potentiality to act.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000068_000002.wav|Therefore it is not multiplied in the many human bodies, but is one for all men.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000053_000001.wav|For the effect of the active intellect is to give light for the purpose of understanding.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000004_000000.wav|The next question concerns the intellectual powers, under which head there are thirteen points of inquiry:|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000078_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that memory is not in the intellectual part of the soul.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000086_000003.wav|For the intellect understands man, as man: and to man, as man, it is accidental that he exist in the present, past, or future.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000045_000003.wav|Now a form is intelligible in act from the very fact that it is immaterial. Therefore there is no need for an active intellect to make the species actually intelligible.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000074_000001.wav|But for this purpose it need not be the same intellect in all intelligent beings; but it must be one in its relationship to all those things from which it abstracts the universal, with respect to which things the universal is one.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000049_000001.wav|For some say that light is required for sight, in order to make colors actually visible.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000037_000004.wav|Wherefore the angelic intellect is always in act as regards those things which it can understand, by reason of its proximity to the first intellect, which is pure act, as we have said above.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000060_000002.wav|Just as in other perfect natural things, besides the universal active causes, each one is endowed with its proper powers derived from those universal causes: for the sun alone does not generate man; but in man is the power of begetting man: and in like manner with other perfect animals.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000013.wav|Wherefore every created intellect is not the act of all things intelligible, by reason of its very existence; but is compared to these intelligible things as a potentiality to act.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000050_000002.wav|Now the intelligible in act is not something existing in nature; if we consider the nature of things sensible, which do not subsist apart from matter.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000082_000006.wav|According, therefore, to this supposition, nothing is preserved in the intellectual part that is not actually understood: wherefore it would not be possible to admit memory in the intellectual part.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000075_000004.wav|Yet it must be derived by all from one principle.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000028_000001.wav|And for this reason an angel is called a "mind" or an "intellect"; because his whole power consists in this.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000047_000001.wav|For Plato supposed that the forms of natural things subsisted apart from matter, and consequently that they are intelligible: since a thing is actually intelligible from the very fact that it is immaterial.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000079_000001.wav|But the past is said of something with regard to a fixed time.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000055_000002.wav|Therefore the active intellect is not something in our soul.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000007_000000.wav|(three) If it is a passive power, whether there is an active intellect?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000006_000000.wav|(two) If it be a power, whether it is a passive power?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000056_000001.wav|If, therefore, the passive intellect, which is in potentiality to all things intelligible, is something in the soul, it seems impossible for the active intellect to be also something in our soul.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000082_000005.wav|And from the practice and habit of turning to the active intellect there is formed, according to him, a certain aptitude in the passive intellect for turning to the active intellect; which aptitude he calls the habit of knowledge.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000037_000000.wav|Now, potentiality has a double relation to act.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000084_000000.wav|The foregoing opinion is also opposed to reason.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000047_000004.wav|Now nothing is reduced from potentiality to act except by something in act; as the senses as made actual by what is actually sensible.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000084_000005.wav|But if in the notion of memory we include its object as something past, then the memory is not in the intellectual, but only in the sensitive part, which apprehends individual things.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000064_000001.wav|On the contrary, phantasms are actual images of certain species, but are immaterial in potentiality.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000066_000001.wav|five]|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000075_000001.wav|Now to know the first intelligible principles is the action belonging to the human species.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000075_000003.wav|But there is no need for it to be identical in all.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000069_000002.wav|Therefore the active intellect is the same in all.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000020_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the intellect is not a power of the soul, but the essence of the soul.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000084_000006.wav|For past, as past, since it signifies being under a condition of fixed time, is something individual.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000048_000001.wav|Wherefore it is clear that in the nutritive part all the powers are active, whereas in the sensitive part all are passive: but in the intellectual part, there is something active and something passive.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000025_000003.wav|Wherefore in God alone is His intellect His essence: while in other intellectual creatures, the intellect is a power.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000044_000001.wav|But in the operation of the intellect there is no appointed medium that has to be brought into act.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000059_000006.wav|Therefore there must needs be some higher intellect, by which the soul is helped to understand.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000050_000001.wav|But if the agent does not pre exist, the disposition of the recipient has nothing to do with the matter.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000007.wav|This is clear from the following reason.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000023_000002.wav|Therefore it seems that the soul must be intellectual through its essence.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000009.wav|We may therefore see whether the intellect be in act or potentiality by observing first of all the nature of the relation of the intellect to universal being.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000011_000000.wav|(seven) Whether the memory be distinct from the intellect?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000086_000008.wav|In this way, then, the notion of memory, in as far as it regards past events, is preserved in the intellect, forasmuch as it understands that it previously understood: but not in the sense that it understands the past as something "here" and "now."|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000016_000000.wav|(twelve) Whether "synderesis" is a power of the intellectual part?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000047_000005.wav|We must therefore assign on the part of the intellect some power to make things actually intelligible, by abstraction of the species from material conditions.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000084_000002.wav|But the intellect is of a more stable nature, and is more immovable than corporeal nature.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000014_000000.wav|(ten) Whether the intelligence is distinct from the intellect?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000036_000011.wav|And therefore the Divine intellect is not in potentiality, but is pure act.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000085_000001.wav|For species are not retained in the sensitive part of the soul only, but rather in the body and soul united: since the memorative power is the act of some organ.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000021_000002.wav|Therefore the mind and intellect of man is of the very essence of the soul and not a power thereof.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000055_000001.wav|If, therefore, the passive intellect, which is a passive power, is something belonging to the soul; and also the active intellect, which is an active power: it follows that a man would always be able to understand when he wished, which is clearly false.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000037_000003.wav|And there is another potentiality which is not always in act, but proceeds from potentiality to act; as we observe in things that are corrupted and generated.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000076_000001.wav|six]|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000013_000000.wav|(nine) Whether the superior and inferior reason are distinct powers?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000077_000000.wav|Whether Memory Is in the Intellectual Part of the Soul?|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7982/245691/7982_245691_000073_000001.wav|And in the same sense the active intellect is also called "separate"; but not as a separate substance.|7982
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000162_000000.wav|Of course, you understand what had happened?|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000144_000000.wav|'I think I am,' said the curate.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000134_000002.wav|Search the house.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000148_000002.wav|Now DO let us go.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000086_000004.wav|But, as so often happens, in looking for one thing he found another.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000062_000000.wav|The uncle felt in his pocket.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000142_000000.wav|'Send for a doctor,' said the curate.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000070_000000.wav|'Oh, come on home and let's mend the carpet.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000086_000005.wav|There was a trap door leading down into the house.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000090_000001.wav|'Oh, my cats alive!'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000108_000001.wav|So the two ladies dragged a box under the trap door and put another box on the top of it, and then they both climbed up very carefully and put their two trim, tidy heads out of the trap door to look for the 'mad children'.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000053_000000.wav|'Stop!' cried the Phoenix; 'the carpet is dropping to earth.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000155_000001.wav|Then she said boldly-|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000045_000000.wav|The carpet seemed to awaken to new energy as soon as it had got rid of their weight, and it rose high in the air.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000145_000000.wav|Jane had been crying ever since her capture.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000154_000001.wav|'I've had something like it before.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000125_000001.wav|As he came into the room Jane and Robert each uttered a shriek of joy so loud and so sudden that the ladies leaped with surprise, and nearly let them go.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000113_000002.wav|As they passed the table they saw on it a missionary box with its bottom label torn off, open and empty.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000051_000002.wav|It's all my fault.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000102_000002.wav|I'll catch you.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000076_000003.wav|I think, if you'll excuse me-'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000057_000000.wav|They were face to face with their pet uncle-their Uncle Reginald.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000009_000000.wav|Cyril moved the table off the carpet as he spoke, and its leg caught in one of Anthea's darns and ripped away most of it, as well as a large slit in the carpet.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000074_000001.wav|So he tried to help Anthea, which was very good of him, but not much use to her.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000104_000000.wav|Robert tried to catch her, and even before they had finished the breathless roll among the piles of clothes, which was what his catching ended in, he whispered-|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000067_000000.wav|'Well!' said the Phoenix.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000163_000001.wav|They bought her a pink silk handkerchief, a pair of blue and white vases, a bottle of scent, a packet of Christmas candles, and a cake of soap shaped and coloured like a tomato, and one that was so like an orange that almost any one you had given it to would have tried to peel it-if they liked oranges, of course.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000112_000000.wav|The children with one consent crept swiftly through the first open door.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000160_000004.wav|We must never tell dear Seppy.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000069_000000.wav|'It WAS clever of it-so adequate and yet so simple,' said the Phoenix, with calm approval.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000036_000001.wav|Be careful,' said the Phoenix, in warning tones.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000081_000000.wav|But I had to tell you the other first.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000006_000001.wav|People never do, somehow, if it's at all interesting.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000050_000000.wav|But Anthea would not be comforted.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000028_000000.wav|'Well, I must say you are learning the way to get the most out of the carpet,' said Cyril.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000002_000000.wav|Jane sang this simple song directly after breakfast, and the Phoenix shed crystal tears of affectionate sympathy.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000137_000000.wav|'Aren't you going to let us go?' asked Robert, with furious indignation, for there is something in being held by a strong lady that sets the blood of a boy boiling in his veins with anger and despair.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000160_000000.wav|'Yes, I know it was an untruth, and I shall doubtless be punished for it in due course.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000096_000000.wav|'The others have gone on, on the wishing carpet,' said Jane truthfully.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000054_000000.wav|And indeed it was.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000049_000002.wav|They'll howl till some one gets them down, or drop tiles into the front garden to attract attention of passersby.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000076_000002.wav|My Robert-who set my egg to hatch-in the bosom of whose Norfolk raiment I have nestled so often and so pleasantly!|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000042_000000.wav|'I feel just exactly the same,' Robert said.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000027_000001.wav|Let's tell the carpet to take us somewhere where we can get the money for mother's present, and-and-and get it some way that she'll believe in and not think wrong.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000008_000000.wav|'Suppose it took us somewhere foreign, and the purse was covered with strange Eastern devices, embroidered in rich silks, and full of money that wasn't money at all here, only foreign curiosities, then we couldn't spend it, and people would bother about where we got it, and we shouldn't know how on earth to get out of it at all.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000029_000000.wav|'Yes,' said the Phoenix, 'you certainly are.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000103_000000.wav|Jane dropped.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000111_000000.wav|Robert and Jane tiptoed down the stairs-one flight, two flights.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000134_000000.wav|'Dream?|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000086_000000.wav|And then he looked about, just as Cyril had known he would, for something to throw down, so as to attract the attention of the wayfarers far below in the street.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000133_000000.wav|'No, no,' said the curate, hastily.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000168_000000.wav|'There's mother's cab,' cried Anthea, and the Phoenix hid and they lighted the candles, and next moment mother was home again.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000156_000002.wav|You must have dropped off in your chair.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000032_000000.wav|Then every one put on its outdoor things, the Phoenix fluttered on to the mantelpiece and arranged its golden feathers in the glass, and all was ready.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000013_000000.wav|Cyril thumped her on the back.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000138_000000.wav|'Oh, my head!' said the curate.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000160_000005.wav|But I shall send an account of it to the Psychical Society, with stars instead of names, you know.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000111_000001.wav|Then they looked over the banisters.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000045_000001.wav|The others lay down flat and peeped over the edge of the rising carpet.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000087_000000.wav|And that trap door was not fastened.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000060_000000.wav|'I don't exactly know,' Cyril replied, this time quite truthfully.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000073_000001.wav|It was the strongest thing he could think of.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000117_000000.wav|'I am afraid you are right,' said Selina; 'and WHERE ARE THEY NOW?'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000001_000000.wav|Hooray! hooray!|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000043_000000.wav|'It's the hole,' said the Phoenix; 'it's not measles whatever that possession may be.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000001_000001.wav|hooray! Mother comes home to day; Mother comes home to day, Hooray! hooray!|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000059_000000.wav|'And where are the others?' asked Uncle Reginald.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000145_000001.wav|Now she said- 'You aren't now, but perhaps you will be, if-And it would serve you jolly well right, too.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000038_000001.wav|'We might go and have a look at the Palace.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000025_000002.wav|Don't speak.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000163_000000.wav|When the joyful emotions of reunion had calmed down a little, they all went out and spent what was left of Uncle Reginald's sovereign in presents for mother.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000073_000000.wav|Anthea set to work at once to draw the edges of the broken darn together, and Cyril hastily went out and bought a large piece of the marble patterned American oil cloth which careful house wives use to cover dressers and kitchen tables.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000148_000000.wav|'You're a dear,' she said.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000016_000000.wav|'An obol is about twopence halfpenny,' the Phoenix replied.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000004_000000.wav|'She won't be home till past bedtime, though,' said Robert. 'We might have one more carpet day.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000135_000000.wav|The curate, still pale and trembling, searched the house, which, of course, was blamelessly free of burglars.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000116_000002.wav|I was certain of it from the first.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000024_000000.wav|'No,' said the girls together, 'there must be SOME way.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000052_000002.wav|I wish-'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000116_000003.wav|The children were not mad.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000093_000000.wav|In the middle of the floor was a box, open, half full of clothes.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000086_000001.wav|He could not find anything.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000170_000000.wav|'Good old carpet,' were Cyril's last sleepy words.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000052_000001.wav|We must just chuck mother's present, that's all.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000093_000001.wav|Other clothes lay on the floor in neat piles.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000088_000001.wav|'Lend a hand to heave this up.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000000_000001.wav|THE HOLE IN THE CARPET|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000011_000000.wav|But Anthea was a really first-class sister.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000149_000001.wav|Perhaps it's only a sort of other life-quite real enough for you to be mad in.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000127_000000.wav|'Don't you remember us?' asked Robert. 'You married our burglar for us-don't you remember?'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000065_000000.wav|'Well!' said Anthea.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000046_000000.wav|'Are you hurt?' cried Cyril, and Robert shouted 'No,' and next moment the carpet had sped away, and Jane and Robert were hidden from the sight of the others by a stack of smoky chimneys.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000146_000005.wav|As I said before, it was I who opened the box.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000129_000000.wav|The Reverend Septimus passed his hand wearily over his brow.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000084_000000.wav|Jane's first act was tears.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000140_000000.wav|'This is a judgement on me for something, I suppose,' said the Reverend Septimus, wearily, 'but I really cannot at the moment remember what.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000109_000000.wav|'Now,' whispered Robert, getting the bedstead leg out of his side.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000148_000003.wav|There's a good, kind, honourable clergyman.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000075_000000.wav|The Phoenix watched them for a time, but it was plainly growing more and more restless.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000061_000004.wav|If only I could come with you to the Painted Hall and give you lunch at the "Ship" afterwards!|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000076_000001.wav|This suspense!|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000061_000001.wav|I've a case in the County Court.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000111_000002.wav|Horror! a servant was coming up with a loaded scuttle.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000105_000001.wav|Then, when all is calm, we'll creep down the stairs and take our chance.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000102_000004.wav|Drop, I say.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000021_000000.wav|'Suppose,' said Robert-'suppose we asked to be taken where we could find a purse and give it back to the person it belonged to, and they would give us something for finding it?'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000078_000000.wav|Cyril opened the window.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000151_000000.wav|But all the curate could now say was, 'Oh, my head!'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000081_000001.wav|That is one of the most annoying things about stories, you cannot tell all the different parts of them at the same time.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000162_000002.wav|And, of course, they were at home at once.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000047_000000.wav|'Oh, how awful!' said Anthea.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000152_000001.wav|A really conscientious curate is a very difficult thing to manage.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000108_000000.wav|'Let me look out,' said the second lady, who was, if possible, older and thinner and primmer than the first.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000163_000002.wav|Also they bought a cake with icing on, and the rest of the money they spent on flowers to put in the vases.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000090_000000.wav|'Discovered!' hissed Robert.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000119_000001.wav|Lock the door.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000005_000000.wav|He was glad that mother was coming home-quite glad, very glad; but at the same time that gladness was rudely contradicted by a quite strong feeling of sorrow, because now they could not go out all day on the carpet.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000141_000000.wav|'Send for the police,' said Miss Selina.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000093_000003.wav|And it was she who had screamed, and who, in fact, was still screaming.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000146_000002.wav|It has happened to me before.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000013_000001.wav|He understood exactly how she had felt, and he was not an ungrateful brother.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000051_000000.wav|'It's all my fault,' she said.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000097_000000.wav|'The wishing carpet?' said the lady.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000085_000000.wav|'Dry up, Pussy; don't be a little duffer,' said her brother, kindly, 'it'll be all right.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000160_000002.wav|He couldn't have stood the strain of three dreams. It WAS odd, wasn't it?|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000126_000000.wav|'It's our own clergyman,' cried Jane.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000007_000000.wav|'I'll tell you what,' said Robert. 'Suppose we wished the carpet to take us somewhere where we could find a purse with money in it-then we could buy her something.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000132_000000.wav|'Then your confederates did,' said Miss Selina.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000075_000001.wav|It fluffed up its splendid feathers, and stood first on one gilded claw and then on the other, and at last it said-|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000166_000000.wav|'But, really, it's just as much good old Phoenix,' said Robert. 'Suppose it hadn't thought of getting the wish!'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000092_000000.wav|They found themselves looking down into an attic, which was also a lumber room.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000098_000000.wav|'Yes,' said Jane, before Robert could say 'You shut up!' 'You must have read about it.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000018_000000.wav|'The situation,' remarked the Phoenix, 'does indeed bristle with difficulties.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000152_000000.wav|And Jane and Robert felt quite ill with helplessness and hopelessness.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000006_000000.wav|'I do wish we could go and get something nice for mother, only she'd want to know where we got it,' said Anthea. 'And she'd never, never believe it, the truth.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000100_000000.wav|'Now,' said Robert quickly; 'I'll drop first.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000086_000003.wav|The roof was of slate, and every single slate knew its place and kept it.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000116_000000.wav|'I knew it,' said one.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000055_000000.wav|It sank swiftly, yet steadily, and landed on the pavement of the Deptford Road.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000098_000001.wav|The Phoenix is with them.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000119_000002.wav|I WILL-I will-'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000094_000000.wav|'Don't!' cried Jane, 'please don't!|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000123_000001.wav|You open the window at once and call "Murder!" as loud as you can.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000082_000000.wav|Robert's first remark when he found himself seated on the damp, cold, sooty leads was-|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000074_000000.wav|Then they set to work to line the carpet throughout with the oil cloth. The nursery felt very odd and empty without the others, and Cyril did not feel so sure as he had done about their being able to 'tram it' home.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000091_000000.wav|They were indeed discovered.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000051_000003.wav|Let's go home and patch the carpet with your Etons-something really strong-and send it to fetch them.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000036_000000.wav|'That's right.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000077_000000.wav|'Yes-DO,' cried Anthea, 'I wish we'd thought of asking you before.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000162_000003.wav|Cyril and Anthea had not half finished mending the carpet.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000124_000000.wav|Selina obeyed; but when she had opened the window, instead of calling 'Murder!' she called 'Septimus!' because at that very moment she saw her nephew coming in at the gate.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000157_000000.wav|The curate heaved a sigh of relief.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000049_000001.wav|'They'll be all right.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000001_000002.wav|hooray!'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000040_000001.wav|Part of them was on the carpet, and part of them-the heaviest part-was on the great central darn.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000128_000001.wav|They have already forced the missionary box and purloined its contents.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000114_000000.wav|'Oh, how awful!' whispered Jane.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000083_000000.wav|'Here's a go!'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000134_000003.wav|I insist upon it.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000066_000000.wav|'Well!' said Cyril.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000128_000000.wav|'I KNEW it was a gang,' said Amelia. 'Septimus, these abandoned children are members of a desperate burgling gang who are robbing the house.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000058_000000.wav|'We DID think of going to Greenwich Palace and talking about Nelson,' said Cyril, telling as much of the truth as he thought his uncle could believe.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000035_000001.wav|I mean it's a PITY we aren't higher up,' said Anthea, as the edge of the carpet grazed a chimney pot.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000078_000001.wav|The Phoenix flapped its sunbright wings and vanished.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000020_000000.wav|'Mother wouldn't believe THAT,' said more than one voice.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000055_000001.wav|It tipped a little as it landed, so that Cyril and Anthea naturally walked off it, and in an instant it had rolled itself up and hidden behind a gate post.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000049_000000.wav|'Yes, there's that,' said Cyril, recovering himself.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000106_000001.wav|A corner of an iron bedstead stuck into Robert's side, and Jane had only standing room for one foot-but they bore it-and when the lady came back, not with Septimus, but with another lady, they held their breath and their hearts beat thickly.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000131_000000.wav|'We never touched the beastly box,' said Robert.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000147_000001.wav|Robert shook himself and stood in sulky resentment.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000061_000000.wav|'Well,' said Uncle Reginald, 'I must fly.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000116_000004.wav|They were sent to distract our attention while their confederates robbed the house.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000148_000001.wav|'It IS like a dream just at first, but you get used to it.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000023_000000.wav|'No, THAT wouldn't do,' said Cyril. 'Let's chuck it and go to the North Pole, or somewhere really interesting.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000063_000002.wav|Take care of yourselves.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000118_000000.wav|'Downstairs, no doubt, collecting the silver milk jug and sugar basin and the punch ladle that was Uncle Joe's, and Aunt Jerusha's teaspoons. I shall go down.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000041_000001.wav|I feel as if I was going to have measles; everything looked awfully rum then, remember.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000167_000000.wav|'Ah!' said the Phoenix, 'it is perhaps fortunate for you that I am such a competent bird.'|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157242/2512_157242_000121_000001.wav|We AREN'T burglars, and we haven't any gang, and we didn't open your missionary box. We opened our own once, but we didn't have to use the money, so our consciences made us put it back and-DON'T!|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000049_000000.wav|"Yes, indeed!" came the answer from all the dolls, even the tiny penny dolls.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000014_000000.wav|"It doesn't bite!|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000031_000003.wav|He took me within his hand and, giving his feet a thump upon the yellow sand, rose with me to the surface.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000046_000000.wav|"And you will bring lots of pleasure to us, by being so happy!" said Raggedy Andy.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000011_000000.wav|"It seems to be nearly all mouth!" said Henny, the Dutch doll.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000024_000001.wav|Pretty silken sea weeds grew around my home and reached their waving branches up, up towards the top of the water.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000043_000001.wav|"Like fairies singing in the distance!|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000040_000000.wav|"Raggedy Ann can play 'peter, peter, Pumpkin Eater' on the piano, with one hand," said Uncle Clem, "but none of us can sing.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000037_000001.wav|"So I was placed along with a lot of other shells in the bottom of the boat and every once in a while another shell was placed amongst us.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000013_000001.wav|"Marcella would not have it up here if it would bite!" And, saying this, Raggedy Andy put his rag arm into the lovely shell's mouth.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000039_000000.wav|"Yes," replied the shell, "I have lived there ever since Gran'ma was a little girl.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000036_000001.wav|"He must have been a kindly man!"|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000041_000001.wav|Put your head close to the opening in my shell and listen!"|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000034_000000.wav|"Did the tiny creatures get back into the water safely?" he asked the beautiful shell.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000014_000002.wav|"Just feel how smooth it is inside!"|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000012_000000.wav|"It has teeth!" the French doll pointed out.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000007_000000.wav|Marcella had seen the shell time and time again and often admired its lovely coloring, which could be seen when one looked inside the shell.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000010_000001.wav|Here the dolls saw it that night, when all the house was still, and stood about it wondering what kind of toy it might be.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000006_000001.wav|It was a large shell with many points upon it. These were coarse and rough, but the shell was most beautiful inside.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000017_000000.wav|"It's whispering!" he said, as he raised up in surprise.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000041_000000.wav|"I sing all the time," the shell replied, "for I cannot help singing, but my singing is a secret and so is very soft and low.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000029_000000.wav|"They would stay inside until I whispered that the larger creature had gone, then they would leave me and return to their play.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000044_000000.wav|"It is queer that anything so rough on the outside could be so pretty within!" said Raggedy Andy.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000015_000000.wav|All the dolls felt and were surprised to find it polished so highly inside, while the outside was so coarse and rough.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000020_000000.wav|"If we don't make a sound we may be able to hear what it says!" he explained.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000042_000000.wav|The dolls took turns doing this, and heard the shell sing softly and very sweetly.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000016_000000.wav|The coloring consisted of dainty pinks, creamy whites and pale blues, all running together just as the coloring in an opal runs from one shade into another.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000013_000000.wav|"I do not believe it will bite," Raggedy Andy mused, as he got down upon his hands and knees and looked up into the shell.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000037_000002.wav|We whispered together and wondered where we were going.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000018_000000.wav|All the dolls took turns putting their ears to the mouth of the beautiful shell.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000038_000000.wav|"You lived there when Gran'ma was a little girl, didn't you?" Raggedy Ann asked.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000040_000001.wav|Will you sing for us?" he asked the shell.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000031_000002.wav|How the tiny sea creatures scurried to hide from him.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000026_000000.wav|"Through the pretty sea weeds, fishes of pretty colors and shapes darted here and there, playing at their games.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000045_000000.wav|"Indeed it is," replied the beautiful shell, "and I get a great happiness from singing all the time."|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000037_000000.wav|"Yes, indeed!" the beautiful shell replied.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000048_000002.wav|Aren't we?" he asked, turning to the rest of the dolls.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000016_000001.wav|Raggedy Andy, stooping over to look further up inside the pretty shell, heard something.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000018_000001.wav|Yes, truly it whispered, but they could not catch just what it said.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000030_000000.wav|"Pretty little sea horses with slender, curving bodies often went sailing above me, or would come to rest upon my back.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000032_000000.wav|"He poured the water from me, and out came all the little creatures who had been hiding there!"|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000011_000001.wav|"Perhaps it can talk."|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000019_000000.wav|Finally Raggedy Andy suggested that all the dolls lie down upon the floor directly before the shell and keep very quiet.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000047_000000.wav|"I will tell you the secret of my singing," said the shell.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000012_000001.wav|"It may bite!"|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000043_000000.wav|"How strange and far away it sounds!" exclaimed the French doll.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000015_000001.wav|With the help of Uncle Clem and Henny, Raggedy Andy turned the shell upon its back, so that all the dolls might look in.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000035_000000.wav|"Oh, yes!" the shell whispered in reply.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000050_000000.wav|"That is why the shell is so beautiful inside!" said Raggedy Ann.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000021_000000.wav|So the dolls lay down, placing themselves flat upon the floor directly in front of the shell and where they could see and admire its beautiful coloring.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2512/157480/2512_157480_000048_000000.wav|"How unselfish you are to say this!" said Raggedy Andy.|2512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000029_000000.wav|"Conspiracy and fraud," said the other cheerfully.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000085_000002.wav|Kara was by his side.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000042_000001.wav|Coming up from Princetown was a big, grey car.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000067_000001.wav|They discovered your escape," he said. "Get in."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000075_000001.wav|From time to time he consulted the compass on the board before him, and changed his course ever so slightly.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000008_000002.wav|It was usual to have twelve months at the Scrubbs before testing the life of a convict establishment.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER six|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000020_000000.wav|"What have you got!"|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000027_000000.wav|The drive in the brake to the station, the ride to London in creased, but comfortable clothing, free as the air, at liberty to go to bed and rise when he liked, to choose his own dinner, to answer no call save the call of his conscience, to see-he checked himself.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000049_000005.wav|Now it was going fast, now faster, now it rocked and swayed as it gathered speed.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000059_000000.wav|"But, I do not understand.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000029_000002.wav|Damn rough luck, wasn't it?"|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000076_000000.wav|john Lexman read:|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000083_000000.wav|"We ought to be able to keep afloat for ten minutes," said Kara, "and by that time they will pick us up."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000049_000000.wav|Like an automaton john put down his brushes, and walked slowly to the gate.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000085_000000.wav|In less than five minutes the boat had come alongside, manned, as Lexman gathered from a glimpse of the crew, by Greeks.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000073_000000.wav|john Lexman looked down.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000082_000001.wav|He could see the feathery wake in her rear, and as the aeroplane fell he had time to observe that a boat had been put off.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000040_000000.wav|"Where's the other man?" asked the warder, in a low voice.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000025_000000.wav|john Lexman looked at him enviously.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000070_000000.wav|He clicked over a lever and with a roar the big three bladed tractor screw spun.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000038_000000.wav|"Forty three," he called sharply, "I want you down here."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000045_000002.wav|Get down into the bottom and pull a sack over you, and do not get up until the car stops."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000035_000001.wav|"He's coming out next month, too, and we are all fixed up proper.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000082_000002.wav|Then with a jerk the monoplane flattened out and came like a skimming bird to the surface of the water; her engines stopped.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000074_000000.wav|Talking was impossible.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000077_000000.wav|"If you cannot swim there is a life belt under your seat."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000045_000001.wav|When that car comes abreast of the gate, ask no questions and jump into it.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000072_000000.wav|Up, up, they climbed in one long sweeping ascent, passing through drifting clouds till the machine soared like a bird above the blue sea.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000075_000000.wav|Kara was evidently a skilful pilot.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000009_000000.wav|He heard his warder's voice behind him.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000005_000002.wav|The future meant Sunday chapel; the present whatever task they found him.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000043_000000.wav|"Put down your paint pot," he said.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000023_000000.wav|"Hardly," said Lexman, drily.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000045_000000.wav|"I am going upstairs.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000051_000000.wav|"Get out," said a voice.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000004_000000.wav|john Lexman-A.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000035_000002.wav|We are going to get the pile and then we're off to South America, and you won't see us for dust."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000039_000000.wav|john took his paint pot and brush and went clattering down the uncarpeted stairs.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000037_000000.wav|The warder's step on the stones outside reduced them to silence. Suddenly his voice came up the stairs.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000041_000000.wav|"He's upstairs in the back room."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000007_000001.wav|They were desperate men, peculiarly interesting to him, and he had watched their faces furtively in the early period of his imprisonment.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000012_000000.wav|The house was as yet without a tenant.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000008_000003.wav|He believed there was some talk of sending him to Parkhurst, and here he traced the influence which t x would exercise, for Parkhurst was a prisoner's paradise.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000082_000000.wav|A white steam yacht, long and narrow of beam, was steaming slowly westward.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000010_000000.wav|"Right turn, forty three, quick march."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/134312/476_134312_000054_000001.wav|Where could he go?|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000045_000000.wav|"Then who had?" demanded Bryce.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000022_000002.wav|Ever since Braden was found at the foot of those stairs in Paradise, and I was fetched to him, I've interested myself.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000012_000001.wav|"Good stuff, those."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000018_000000.wav|"Aye, doctor," he said.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000024_000000.wav|"Oh!" he said after a pause.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000003_000002.wav|Let's go where it's quiet."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000042_000006.wav|Come, now!--whose?"|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000007_000000.wav|"Deepest well in all Wrychester under that," he remarked.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000025_000001.wav|"I came to tell you-on seeing that Glassdale had been with you.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000073_000001.wav|"Hell and-What's this mean?"|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000007_000006.wav|Come up!"|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000026_000001.wav|But Bryce saw that his cool, almost indifferent manner was changing-he was beginning, under the surface, to get anxious.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000007_000001.wav|"You'd never think it-it's a hundred feet deep-and more!|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000032_000004.wav|I went back-to the time when Braden was married.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000041_000002.wav|What is it?"|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000034_000008.wav|He had to stand the racket.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000020_000001.wav|"The fact is-I came here to tell you so!--I know a good deal about everything."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000036_000001.wav|"Of the other-the man of lesser importance-Flood."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000034_000005.wav|I know what happened-he used to let them have money for short financial transactions-to be refunded within a very brief space.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000046_000001.wav|He was evidently thinking deeply, and Bryce made no attempt to disturb him.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000036_000000.wav|"The name of the particular one was Wraye-Falkiner Wraye," replied Bryce promptly.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000031_000000.wav|"What might you know, now?" he asked after another pause.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000034_000009.wav|He stood it-to the tune of ten years' penal servitude.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000071_000001.wav|"Never!|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000071_000005.wav|What-"|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000003_000001.wav|"Private talk.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000042_000000.wav|"We've not come to that," retorted Bryce.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000043_000001.wav|"That's a fact?"|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000038_000002.wav|mr Falkiner Wraye, after cheating and deceiving Brake, and leaving him to pay the penalty of his over trustfulness, cleared out of England and carried his money making talents to foreign parts.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000042_000001.wav|"You're a bit mistaken.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000024_000001.wav|"Dear me!|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000059_000000.wav|"That's about it," assented Folliot laconically.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000046_000002.wav|Some minutes went by before Folliot took the cigar from his lips and leaning against the chimneypiece looked fixedly at his visitor.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000038_000001.wav|"I will!--it's deeply interesting.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000042_000003.wav|Look here!|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000060_000000.wav|Bryce laughed cynically.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000074_000000.wav|Bryce looked in the direction pointed out.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000029_000002.wav|But all that Glassdale knows is nothing-to what I know."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000034_000002.wav|He got to know-got into close touch with a Barthorpe man who, about the time of Brake's marriage, left Barthorpe end settled in London.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000025_000000.wav|"Lots!" answered Bryce.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000027_000000.wav|"When I left Glassdale-at noon," continued Bryce, "I'd no idea-and I don't think he had-that he was coming to see you.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000030_000001.wav|He threw it away, took a fresh one from the box, and slowly struck a match and lighted it.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000056_000000.wav|"As if there must be!" interrupted Bryce.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000007_000005.wav|"Had that put in," he continued, "and turned the top of the building into a little snuggery.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000061_000001.wav|"Here!|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000025_000002.wav|Because-I was with Glassdale this morning."|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000072_000001.wav|A sharp exclamation from him took Bryce to his side.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000049_000000.wav|"Collishaw?"|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000067_000000.wav|"What!" he exclaimed.|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/476/133471/476_133471_000052_000001.wav|"Supposing that all you say is true about-about past matters?|476
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000035_000001.wav|Rub with butter, season with salt and pepper, and cook in the oven or under a gas flame.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000033_000001.wav|Season with salt, red pepper, and lemon juice, add enough boiling water to keep from burning, and bake.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000035_000002.wav|Put a border of mashed potato mixed with the beaten white of egg around the fish, using a pastry tube and forcing bag.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000016_000000.wav|BAKED WHITEFISH A l a BORDEAUX|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000033_000000.wav|Clean, split, and bone the fish, and put into a buttered baking pan, skin side down.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000011_000000.wav|Make a stuffing of one and one half cupfuls of dry bread crumbs, seasoning with salt and pepper.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000013_000001.wav|Bake in a buttered dripping pan for twenty five minutes and serve with Cream Sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000025_000001.wav|Put into a buttered baking pan, sprinkle with chopped onion and minced parsley, seasoning with grated nutmeg, salt, and pepper.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000029_000003.wav|Butter a baking dish, put in a layer of the fish, cover with sauce, and repeat until the dish is full.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000011_000001.wav|Add a heaping tablespoonful of butter and one egg well beaten.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000005_000001.wav|Garnish with parsley and lemon.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000019_000001.wav|Add a beaten egg to bind, stuff the fish, and sew up.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000032_000000.wav|WHITEFISH A l a POINT SHIRLEY|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000013_000000.wav|Dip the fillets of whitefish in beaten egg, then in crumbs, then in egg, then in crumbs, and lastly in beaten egg.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000029_000002.wav|Cook until thick, stirring constantly, seasoning with salt, pepper, lemon juice, minced parsley, grated onion, and a tablespoonful of vinegar.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000009_000000.wav|Clean and split a large fish, remove the bone, and put in a buttered baking pan skin side down.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000027_000004.wav|Cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000014_000000.wav|BAKED FILLETS OF WHITEFISH|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000021_000002.wav|Pour over a Cream Sauce to which cooked oysters and a little lemon juice and minced parsley have been added.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000030_000000.wav|WHITEFISH A l a MAITRE D'HOTEL|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000023_000000.wav|Cook the fish until done in boiling salted water, drain, and remove the large bones.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000001_000000.wav|Clean and dry the fish, cut into fillets, dip in seasoned crumbs, then in egg, then in crumbs, and fry quickly in fat to cover.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000005_000000.wav|Put a cleaned and split whitefish on a wire broiler, season with salt and cayenne, lay a few thin slices of bacon on top, put the broiler on a baking pan, and cook in the oven without turning. Put on a platter, add a little butter, and rub hard boiled eggs through a sieve over the fish.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000015_000002.wav|Bake in a thickly buttered baking dish, drain on brown paper, garnish with fried parsley, and serve with Parsley Sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000018_000000.wav|STUFFED WHITEFISH|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000011_000003.wav|Put in a buttered baking pan, pour in one cupful of vinegar, and bake until done, basting with butter and hot water.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000017_000000.wav|Stuff a large whitefish with seasoned crumbs, put into a buttered baking pan, rub with butter, dredge with seasoned flour, add one cupful of Claret, and bake.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000020_000000.wav|STUFFED WHITEFISH WITH OYSTER SAUCE|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000023_000003.wav|Add also the white of an egg well beaten.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000009_000002.wav|Serve with any preferred sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000027_000003.wav|Butter a baking dish, put in a layer of fish, cover with sauce, season with grated nutmeg, and repeat until the dish is full.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000029_000004.wav|Cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000007_000001.wav|Pour over melted butter and serve.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000015_000000.wav|Cut a large cleaned whitefish into fillets, removing as much as possible of the bone.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000019_000000.wav|Make a stuffing of bread crumbs, seasoning with salt, pepper, sweet herbs, and melted butter.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000027_000000.wav|Boil a whitefish in salted water and flake fine with a fork.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000023_000004.wav|Put the fish on a serving dish, spread the sauce over it and brown in the oven.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000001_000001.wav|Serve with Tartar Sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000029_000000.wav|Skin and bone the fish, cut into small squares, and season with salt and pepper.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000035_000000.wav|Butter a fish plank and tack a large cleaned and split whitefish on it, skin side down.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000025_000002.wav|Cover with Cream Sauce to which three tablespoonfuls of butter have been added, and put into a hot oven for ten or fifteen minutes.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128636/1079_128636_000011_000002.wav|Stuff the fish and sew it up.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000027_000003.wav|Simmer until done, drain, and keep warm.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000011_000002.wav|Add boiling water to make a sauce, and cook until thick, stirring constantly.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000004.wav|Dredge with seasoned flour after each basting, and add more boiling water if necessary.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000011_000000.wav|Cut the fish into cutlets, dredge with flour, dip into egg and crumbs, and saute in a frying pan.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000027_000002.wav|Add red wine and white stock in equal parts to cover.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000029_000000.wav|Remove the skin from a five pound cut of sturgeon, cover with thin slices of salt pork, and tie into shape with a string.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000027_000004.wav|Take enough of the strained liquid to make a sauce, and thicken with butter and flour cooked together.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000011_000001.wav|Drain off the fat, add a little flour and cook to a smooth paste.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000025_000001.wav|Add an onion, four cloves, a blade of mace, a sliced carrot, and a bunch of sweet herbs.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000017_000001.wav|Rub with a marinade of oil and vinegar, cover, and bake with enough water to keep from burning.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000005.wav|After the fish has cooked for an hour, remove the pork, and drop it into the pan.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000021_000000.wav|Skin a six pound cut of sturgeon, soak in salted water for an hour, drain, and parboil in fresh water.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000027_000005.wav|Take from the fire, add a tablespoonful of anchovy essence, a dash of paprika, two tablespoonfuls of butter, and the juice of a lemon.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000024_000000.wav|STURGEON A l a CARDINAL|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000021_000002.wav|Score the upper side of the fish deeply and fill the gashes with the stuffing.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000007.wav|Bake until the fish is a rich brown color.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000021_000001.wav|Make a stuffing of bread crumbs, chopped salt pork, sweet herbs, and enough melted butter to make a smooth paste.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000021_000004.wav|Serve with Drawn Butter Sauce, seasoned with capers and catsup.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000003_000001.wav|Serve with melted butter or Maitre d'Hotel Sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000002.wav|Season the fish with salt, pepper, and lemon juice, and cover with thin slices of pork.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000001.wav|Sprinkle with chopped carrot, turnip, and onion, and lay a thick cut of sturgeon upon it.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000029_000002.wav|Cover and cook slowly for an hour, basting with the liquid frequently. When done, drain the fish, and keep warm.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000013_000000.wav|Cut sturgeon steaks into small cutlets.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000000.wav|Cover a buttered baking pan with thin slices of salt pork.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000017_000000.wav|Skin a large cut of sturgeon, parboil for fifteen minutes, drain, and cool.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000009.wav|Thicken with butter and flour cooked together, strain, and serve with the fish.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000027_000006.wav|Pour over the fish and serve.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000017_000002.wav|Serve with Caper Sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000027_000000.wav|Skin and clean a five pound cut of sturgeon, and tie into shape with strings.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000005_000001.wav|Drain, wipe dry, and soak for an hour in a marinade of oil and vinegar.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128631/1079_128631_000023_000006.wav|Pour a wineglassful of Sherry over the fish, spread with butter, and dredge thickly with flour.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000016_000000.wav|Cook together three tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour, add a quart of cream and cook until thick, stirring constantly.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000008_000001.wav|Let stand for an hour and put into a buttered baking dish.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000004_000000.wav|Clean a small turbot and marinate for an hour in seasoned oil and vinegar or lemon juice.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000018_000000.wav|Remove the skin, fat, and bone from cold turbot, and flake fine with a fork.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000002_000001.wav|With a sharp knife score the black skin in a straight line from head to tail.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000018_000003.wav|Cook until thick, stirring constantly.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000010_000000.wav|Reheat cold flaked turbot in a Bechamel Sauce, adding a few cooked oysters.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000012_000000.wav|Cut cold cooked turbot into small fillets.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000011_000000.wav|TURBOT AU BEURRE NOIR|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000016_000002.wav|Butter a baking dish, put in a layer of cold cooked turbot flaked fine, cover with sauce, and repeat until the dish is full, having sauce on top.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000016_000001.wav|Season with pepper, salt, minced parsley, and grated onion.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000012_000001.wav|Brown half a cupful of butter, add tarragon vinegar to taste, and pepper, salt, and minced parsley to season.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000006_000005.wav|Pour over the fish and serve.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000006_000000.wav|Soak the fish for four hours in a marinade of oil and lemon juice, seasoned with sliced carrot, onion, bay leaf, thyme, parsley, and garlic.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000007_000000.wav|BAKED TURBOT|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000016_000004.wav|Sprinkle with chopped eggs and parsley.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000003_000000.wav|BROILED TURBOT|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000018_000004.wav|Season with salt and pepper and rub through a sieve.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000006_000003.wav|Take up the fish, and add the remainder of the bottle of wine to the liquid.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128633/1079_128633_000008_000000.wav|Rub a small cleaned turbot with melted butter, sprinkle with minced parsley, powdered mace, and salt and pepper to season.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000039_000002.wav|Serve in the dish in which they were baked.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000021_000002.wav|Serve with any preferred sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000063_000002.wav|Strain over the fish, garnish with olives, and serve.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000015_000002.wav|Bake, basting frequently.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000005_000000.wav|Remove the fillets from slices of sea trout, dip in beaten egg, then in seasoned crumbs, and fry in deep fat.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000011_000000.wav|Saute a small trout in butter, drain on brown paper, and serve with Remoulade Sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000051_000003.wav|Pour the sauce over the fish and serve.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000038_000000.wav|STUFFED TROUT|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000013_000000.wav|Saute the fillets of a cleaned trout in butter, seasoning with salt and pepper.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000051_000002.wav|Bake in the oven, basting frequently. Take up the fish, strain the liquid, and add it to a cupful of Spanish Sauce, with a chopped truffle, four cooked mushrooms, chopped, and a dozen cooked oysters.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000055_000001.wav|Broil carefully.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000037_000003.wav|Melt one and one half cupfuls of butter and add a tablespoonful of minced parsley, and three hard boiled eggs chopped very fine.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000025_000000.wav|Soak a cupful of bread crumbs in milk, squeeze dry, add two tablespoonfuls of butter, the yolk of an egg, and pepper, salt, thyme, and lemon juice to season.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000019_000000.wav|Stuff a large sea or lake trout with mashed potatoes, seasoning with butter, pepper, salt, and grated onion.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000029_000000.wav|Take the fillets from a three pound trout and bake for ten minutes in a buttered baking pan.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000035_000000.wav|Butter a baking dish, sprinkle with bread crumbs, lay a sea trout upon it, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, squeeze over the juice of half a lemon, and bake, adding enough water to keep from burning. Brown a tablespoonful of flour in butter, add the liquid drained from the fish, one cupful each of mushroom and oyster liquor, and a wineglassful of Madeira.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000017_000000.wav|Clean a large sea or lake trout.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000008_000000.wav|FRIED TROUT WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000017_000002.wav|Cook the stuffing for ten minutes, using as little water as possible.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000002_000000.wav|FRIED BROOK TROUT|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000043_000002.wav|Bake in a hot oven.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000049_000002.wav|Pour over the fish and serve.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000017_000003.wav|Stuff the fish, put into a buttered baking pan with enough hot water to keep from burning.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000047_000000.wav|Boil and skin the fish, put on a serving dish, cover with Allemande Sauce, and the chopped yolks of hard boiled eggs.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000005_000001.wav|Serve with Tartar Sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000001_000000.wav|Salt the fish and dip in equal parts of flour and corn meal, thoroughly mixed.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000015_000000.wav|Scrape and clean the trout, stuff with seasoned crumbs, and put into a buttered baking dish.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000059_000000.wav|Stuff a cleaned trout through the mouth with butter mixed with finely chopped sweet herbs.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000039_000001.wav|Put in a buttered baking dish, lay in the fish, season with salt and pepper, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, pour over a little white wine, and bake in the oven.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000025_000001.wav|Stuff the fish, sew up, put in a buttered baking pan, dredge with flour, dot with butter, and bake.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000051_000000.wav|Stuff cleaned trout with chopped oysters or seasoned crumbs, and put into a buttered baking dish.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000035_000002.wav|Season with salt and pepper and serve separately.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000049_000000.wav|Prepare six trout according to directions given in the recipe for Trout with Shrimp Sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000033_000002.wav|Add also a small chopped onion, two shallots, twice the quantity of mushrooms, and a bean of garlic, all minced and fried in butter.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000017_000006.wav|Season with salt and pepper, add a few capers, pour around the fish, and serve.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000012_000000.wav|FILLETS OF TROUT A L'AURORE|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000019_000003.wav|Bake until done and serve with the tomatoes and sliced hard boiled eggs.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000007_000001.wav|Dip into crumbs, then into beaten egg, then into crumbs, fry in deep fat, and serve with any preferred sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000049_000001.wav|Serve with one cupful of Spanish Sauce, adding two chopped truffles, half a dozen chopped mushrooms, a dozen chopped olives, and three tablespoonfuls of stewed and strained tomato.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000019_000002.wav|Lay the fish upon it, sprinkle with salt and pepper, add two tablespoonfuls of butter and enough water to keep from burning.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000029_000002.wav|Cook until thick, stirring constantly, and add two tablespoonfuls of butter, broken into bits.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000033_000000.wav|Put half a dozen cleaned trout in a buttered baking dish with half a glassful of white wine, and a finely chopped shallot.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000015_000003.wav|Thicken the liquid with butter and flour cooked together, pour over the fish, and serve.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000044_000000.wav|TROUT IN CASES|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000023_000002.wav|Bake for half an hour, basting as required.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000061_000000.wav|Boil a large sea trout in salted water, drain, skin, and serve with Italian Sauce, seasoned with butter, anchovy paste, nutmeg, and lemon juice.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000047_000001.wav|Brown in the oven and serve with Aurora Sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000010_000000.wav|TROUT WITH REMOULADE SAUCE|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000034_000000.wav|BAKED TROUT WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000037_000002.wav|Sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake slowly until done.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000036_000000.wav|BAKED TROUT WITH POLISH SAUCE|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000065_000001.wav|Drain the fish and reduce the liquid by rapid boiling to one cupful.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000041_000000.wav|Stuff trout with seasoned crumbs, cover each one with a thin slice of salt pork, and wrap in buttered paper, fastening the papers securely; bake and serve in the papers.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000017_000004.wav|Cover the fish with thin slices of salt pork and bake until done, adding more hot water if required.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000043_000001.wav|Lay a very thin slice of salt pork on each fish and wrap in buttered paper.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000051_000001.wav|Add half a wineglassful of white wine, a sprig of celery, a bay leaf, a sprig of thyme, two cloves, and salt and pepper to season.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000023_000001.wav|Put in a buttered baking pan, sprinkle with minced parsley, and pour over half a cupful of stock to which two tablespoonfuls of butter have been added.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000065_000000.wav|Stuff a large trout with seasoned crumbs, and cover it with Claret, adding mushrooms, parsley, chopped onion, thyme, a bay leaf, pepper corns, and mace to season.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000053_000000.wav|Boil, skin, trim the fish, cover with very thick Cream Sauce and let cool.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000033_000003.wav|Season with salt, pepper, minced parsley, and lemon juice; pour over the fish and serve.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000027_000001.wav|Cover with buttered paper and bake, basting with the liquid.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000031_000002.wav|Cover the bones and trimmings with cold water, adding two tablespoonfuls of butter, a sliced onion, and two cupfuls of stock. Boil for half an hour, strain, add a can of mushrooms, chopped, and enough crumbs to thicken.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000019_000001.wav|Butter a baking pan and cover the bottom with thin slices of tomatoes.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000043_000003.wav|Remove the string and serve in the paper.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000021_000000.wav|Clean and score small trout, dip in seasoned melted butter, and put in a buttered baking pan.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000031_000000.wav|Split and bone the cleaned fish and put in a buttered baking pan skin side down.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000031_000001.wav|Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and crumbs, and put into the oven.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000029_000003.wav|Pour the sauce over the fillets and bake for fifteen minutes longer.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000045_000000.wav|Clean, parboil, and trim the fish, wrap in buttered paper, bake, and serve with Fine Herb Sauce.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1079/128632/1079_128632_000031_000003.wav|Season with salt, pepper, and anchovy paste.|1079
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000033_000000.wav|"Bringing the princess to life: I ought to have left her to her just fate."|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000032_000000.wav|"Which do you count your most indiscreet action?"|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000045_000002.wav|It is my duty, and I will go-if I perish for it!"|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000001.wav|A spot appeared on the face of the half risen moon.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000019_000001.wav|The horse stood like a block of marble.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000051_000003.wav|I gazed aghast.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000050_000000.wav|Across the evil hollow we sped like a bolt from an arblast.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000018_000000.wav|"Not that way at night," answered the raven; "the road is difficult.--But come; loss now will be gain then!|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000046_000000.wav|"Go, then, foolish boy!" he returned, with anger in his croak.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000008_000000.wav|By and by the moon appeared, slow crossing the far horizon.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000051_000000.wav|We were near the middle of the many channels, my horse every other moment clearing one, sometimes two in his stride, and now and then gathering himself for a great bounding leap, when the moon reached the key stone of her arch.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000011_000003.wav|I laid my hands on him, and stroked the protuberant bones that humped a hide smooth and thin, and shiny as satin-so shiny that the very shape of the moon was reflected in it; I fondled his sharp pointed ears, whispered words in them, and breathed into his red nostrils the breath of a man's life.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000040_000001.wav|Five quick flaps I heard, and he perched on the horse's head.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000017_000000.wav|"He would outspeed any leopard in creation!" I cried.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000049_000003.wav|I sat as on the ridge of a wave.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000052_000003.wav|But there was the moon jolting like an old chariot wheel down the hill of heaven, with awful boding!|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000006_000003.wav|Besides, no one would wake me, and how could I be certain of waking early-of waking at all?--the sleepers in that house let morning glide into noon, and noon into night, nor ever stirred!|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000049_000004.wav|I felt under me the play of each individual muscle: his joints were so elastic, and his every movement glided so into the next, that not once did he jar me.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000038_000000.wav|"Be persuaded, and go home with me," he continued gently.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000006_000004.wav|I murmured, but followed, for I knew not what else to do.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000051_000002.wav|Like our own moon, this one had a human face, and now the broad forehead now the chin was uppermost as she rolled.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000040_000002.wav|The horse checked himself instantly, ploughing up the ground with his feet.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000005_000001.wav|THE SEXTON'S OLD HORSE|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000007_000001.wav|Time and space glided past us.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000044_000000.wav|But a false sense of power, a sense which had no root and was merely vibrated into me from the strength of the horse, had, alas, rendered me too stupid to listen to anything he said!|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000045_000001.wav|"This time there shall be no shirking!|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000019_000000.wav|I sat silent.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000053_000003.wav|Not a bone could I find broken, but he was a horse no more.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000040_000000.wav|Through the dark I heard the wings of the raven.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000011_000002.wav|I do not mean that I could have stolen him, but that, regardless of his proper place, I would have bought him if I could.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000018_000004.wav|It will rejoice my wife's heart to see son of hers on that horse!"|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000041_000001.wav|Twice already has evil befallen you-once from fear, and once from heedlessness: breach of word is far worse; it is a crime."|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000050_000001.wav|No monster lifted its neck; all knew the hoofs that thundered over their heads!|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000041_000000.wav|"mr Vane," croaked the raven, "think what you are doing!|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000042_000001.wav|"--But indeed I will not break my word to you.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000020_000000.wav|"Why do you linger?" asked the raven.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000038_000001.wav|"The most-nearly the only foolish thing you ever did, was to run from our dead."|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000007_000003.wav|My heart sank lower and lower.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000034_000001.wav|You could not have done otherwise than you did, not knowing she was evil!--But you never brought any one to life! How could you, yourself dead?"|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000052_000000.wav|Across the ravines came the howling of wolves.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000006.wav|Terrifically large, he moved with the lightness of a winged insect.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000016_000001.wav|I twisted my hands in his mane and scrambled onto his back, not without aid from certain protuberant bones.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000047_000001.wav|Again I pressed the lean ribs under me.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000024_000000.wav|"Yield to the temptation and you will bring mischief upon them-and on yourself also."|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000022_000000.wav|"You have promised!"|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000036_000000.wav|"Yes," he answered; "and you will be dead, so long as you refuse to die."|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000011_000001.wav|It was pure greed, nay, rank covetousness, an evil thing in all the worlds.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000009_000000.wav|"You are tired, are you not, mr Vane?" said the raven, alighting on a stone.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000007_000004.wav|I began to lose sight of the lean, long coated figure, and at length could no more hear his swishing stride through the heather. But then I heard instead the slow flapping wings of the raven; and, at intervals, now a firefly, now a gleaming butterfly rose into the rayless air.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000046_000002.wav|May it be to humility!"|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000011_000005.wav|What eyes he had!|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000007_000000.wav|The librarian walked on in silence, and I walked silent as he.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000053_000002.wav|I got up, kneeled beside him, and felt him all over.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000034_000000.wav|"Nay, now you talk foolishly!|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000048_000000.wav|"After the spotted leopardess!" I whispered in his ear.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000045_000000.wav|"Would you take from me my last chance of reparation?" I cried.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000042_000002.wav|I will return, and spend in your house what nights-what days-what years you please."|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000049_000006.wav|The wind met and passed us like a tornado.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000021_000000.wav|"I long so much to ride after the leopardess," I answered, "that I can scarce restrain myself!"|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000053_000000.wav|The mighty steed was in the act of clearing a wide shallow channel when we were caught in the net of the darkness.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000007_000002.wav|The sun set; it began to grow dark, and I felt in the air the spreading cold of the chamber of death.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000050_000002.wav|We rushed up the hills, we shot down their farther slopes; from the rocky chasms of the river bed he did not swerve; he held on over them his fierce, terrible gallop.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000018_000002.wav|Go on, my son-straight to the cottage.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000049_000001.wav|Suddenly he quickened his walk; broke into a trot; began to gallop, and in a few moments his speed was tremendous.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000004.wav|Nineteen hands he seemed, huge of bone, tight of skin, hard of muscle-a steed the holy Death himself might choose on which to ride abroad and slay!|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000047_000000.wav|He spread his wings and flew.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000050_000003.wav|The moon, half-way up the heaven, gazed with a solemn trouble in her pale countenance.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000028_000000.wav|"mr Vane," he said, "do you not know why you have not yet done anything worth doing?"|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000003.wav|His mane flowed away behind him like the crest of a wind fighting wave, torn seaward in hoary spray, and the whisk of his tail kept blinding the eye of the moon.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000000.wav|He gave a strange whistle through his long black beak.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000049_000002.wav|He seemed to see in the dark; never stumbled, not once faltered, not once hesitated.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000006_000001.wav|What had I to do with sleep?|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000046_000001.wav|"Take the horse, and ride to failure!|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000051_000001.wav|Then came a wonder and a terror: she began to descend rolling like the nave of Fortune's wheel bowled by the gods, and went faster and faster.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000052_000002.wav|The horse maintained his headlong swiftness, with ears pricked forward, and thirsty nostrils exulting in the wind his career created.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000007.wav|As he drew near, his speed slackened, and his mane and tail drifted about him settling.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000050_000004.wav|Rejoicing in the power of my steed and in the pride of my life, I sat like a king and rode.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000006_000000.wav|I stood and watched the last gleam of the white leopardess melt away, then turned to follow my guide-but reluctantly.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000039_000001.wav|I gave him a pat on the side of the neck, and he went about in a sharp driven curve, "close to the ground, like a cat when scratchingly she wheels about after a mouse," leaning sideways till his mane swept the tops of the heather.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000010_000002.wav|To my ears came presently the drumming of swift, soft galloping hoofs, and in a minute or two, out of the very disc of the moon, low thundered the terrible horse.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000015_000000.wav|"By all means!" he answered.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000009_000001.wav|"You must make acquaintance with the horse that will carry you in the morning!"|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152864/2229_152864_000025_000002.wav|I will go."|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000047_000001.wav|Good night."|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000006_000004.wav|The more I thought of my behaviour to them, the more disgusted I became with myself.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000022_000000.wav|"I doubt it.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000031_000000.wav|"I cannot understand you!"|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000047_000000.wav|"You forget," said the raven, "that, when I brought you and you declined my hospitality, you reached what you call home in safety: now you are come of yourself!|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000013_000001.wav|"Will you take me with you now?|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000024_000001.wav|No one who will not sleep can ever wake."|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000030_000000.wav|"You will not find him; but you will hardly miss the wood.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000032_000000.wav|"Naturally not.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000048_000001.wav|I stood dazed.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000039_000000.wav|"Worse and worse!" I cried.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000028_000000.wav|"No; he is still in the Evil Wood, fighting the dead."|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000036_000004.wav|Everybody who is not at home, has to go home.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000048_000000.wav|He turned and walked slowly away, with his beak toward the ground.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000043_000000.wav|"If I am not to go home, at least direct me to some of my kind."|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000036_000003.wav|But you will get there; you must get there; you have to get there.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000025_000000.wav|"I do not at all understand you!"|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000014_000000.wav|"Ah!" he returned, and looked up.|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2229/152842/2229_152842_000004_000001.wav|I REPENT|2229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000009_000003.wav|"If you are discovered, it is certain death; death-upon-you know!"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000045_000000.wav|"It is impossible to think of it to night," returned Barbara in an alarmed tone.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000058_000003.wav|mr Hare closed the gate and walked on up the path.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000018_000000.wav|"Did you expect it would be as a merchant, or a banker, or perhaps as secretary to one of her majesty's ministers-or that I was a gentleman at large, living on my fortune?" retorted Richard Hare, in a tone of chafed anguish, painful to hear.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000021_000000.wav|"What!" she exclaimed.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000005_000000.wav|"Barbara," was the whispered, eager answer, "don't you recognize me?"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000041_000003.wav|Indeed, it is most dangerous for you to be here."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000024_000000.wav|"Bethel!" lightly returned Richard Hare.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000051_000002.wav|And you know that he is true as steel."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000046_000002.wav|It is a hundred pounds that I want."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000036_000000.wav|"What?"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000058_000002.wav|The brother and sister cowered together, scarcely daring to breathe; you might have heard Barbara's heart beating.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000044_000001.wav|Is she up, or in bed?"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000035_000001.wav|"Richard!"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000064_000000.wav|"I went down to the gate to look for you," she panted, "and had-had- strolled over to the side path.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000012_000001.wav|"I have been working in London ever since-"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000061_000001.wav|"Let me in, papa," she called out.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000060_000002.wav|Barbara, we are here alone in the still night, with God above us; as truly as that you and I must sometime meet Him face to face, I told you the truth.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000039_000003.wav|Richard's.' I think the woman did it heedlessly, not maliciously, to provoke papa; she was a good servant, and had been with us three years you know.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000019_000000.wav|"Poor Richard, poor Richard!" she wailed, caressing his hand and weeping over it.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000034_000000.wav|"I don't know who.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000017_000001.wav|"Richard!"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000048_000000.wav|"Who is to prove it?|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000017_000000.wav|"A stable yard!" she uttered, in a deeply shocked tone.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000054_000000.wav|"It had none.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000039_000005.wav|Papa took an oath-did you hear of it?"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000044_000000.wav|"Why can't she come out to me as you have done?|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000056_000000.wav|"I could not do better.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000026_000001.wav|"The truth as to what he is may come out, some time.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000042_000003.wav|Barbara, I must be allowed an interview with my mother."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000023_000002.wav|"You surely do not mean to throw the guilt on Bethel?"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000050_000001.wav|"So, even you doubt me?"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000056_000001.wav|I was not brought up to anything, and I did understand horses.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000049_000000.wav|"Is he a myth?" said Barbara, in a low voice.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000015_000001.wav|What at?"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000042_000001.wav|"If my health was delicate, causing my poor mother to indulge me, ought that to have been a reason for his ridiculing me on every possible occasion, public and private?|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000010_000001.wav|"I do know it, Barbara."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000033_000000.wav|"Thorn!" echoed Barbara, lifting her head.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000040_000001.wav|He takes many."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000026_000002.wav|Not that I wish it to come out; the man has done no harm to me, and he may go on poaching with impunity till doomsday for all I care.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000018_000001.wav|"I get twelve shillings a week, and that has to find me in everything!"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000040_000000.wav|"What oath?|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000006_000002.wav|In spite of his smock frock and his straw wisped hat, and his false whiskers, black as Erebus, she knew him for her brother.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000020_000000.wav|"I did not commit it at all," he replied.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000047_000001.wav|I am terrified for your safety.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000038_000000.wav|"Well," returned Richard.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000059_000000.wav|"I must go, Richard," said Barbara, hastily; "I dare not stay another minute.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000034_000002.wav|He was a friend of Afy's."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000010_000000.wav|"Upon the gibbet," returned Richard Hare.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000014_000002.wav|Perhaps my mother can let me have it; it is what I have come to ask for."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000057_000001.wav|"Be silent for your life," she whispered, "here's papa."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000035_000000.wav|Barbara threw back her neck with a haughty gesture.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000008_000000.wav|"Did you know me, Barbara?" was his rejoinder.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000046_000001.wav|"And about the money?|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000058_000001.wav|The latter walked on; the former came in.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000029_000000.wav|"How the conviction arose at first, I cannot tell you; I do not think she knows herself.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000009_000001.wav|A thought crossed my mind that it might be some one from you, and even that made me sick with terror.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000060_000003.wav|It was Thorn murdered Hallijohn, and I had nothing whatever to do with it."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000041_000002.wav|You know his disposition, Richard, and therefore may be sure he will keep it.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000046_000000.wav|"It is hard to have been separated from her for eighteen months, and to go back without seeing her," returned Richard.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000043_000000.wav|Barbara Hare reflected before she spoke.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000032_000000.wav|"I was not even at the cottage at the time; I swear it to you.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000016_000000.wav|"In a stable yard."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000031_000000.wav|"And-you say that you were not?"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000011_000000.wav|"Then why risk it?|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000037_000000.wav|"You forget yourself when you mention that name to me."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000052_000001.wav|Where is it they suppose that I am, Barbara?"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000041_000001.wav|After the delivery of the verdict, he took an oath in the justice room, in the presence of his brother magistrates, that if he could find you he would deliver you up to justice, and that he would do it, though you might not turn up for ten years to come.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000053_000001.wav|A report arose that you had been seen at Liverpool, in an Australian bound ship, but we could not trace it to any foundation."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000039_000000.wav|"Quite.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000034_000001.wav|I wish I did; I wish I could unearth him.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000028_000001.wav|Why should she think so?"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000013_000000.wav|"In London!" interrupted Barbara.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000027_000000.wav|"Richard," interrupted his sister, in a hushed voice, "mamma entertains one fixed idea, which she cannot put from her.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000032_000001.wav|The man who did the deed was Thorn."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000055_000000.wav|"Working in a stable yard?"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000041_000000.wav|"This was a solemn one, Richard.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/5330/1066_5330_000024_000001.wav|"He had nothing to do with it.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000020_000000.wav|Out of the blackness wave on livid wave Leapt into being-thundered to our feet; Counting the moments for us, beat by beat, Until the last and smallest dwindled past, Trailing its pallor like a winding sheet Over the last crew and its chosen grave.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000023_000000.wav|There would be eight of them. Here in the gathering light Were waiting eight women or more Who were destined forever to pay, Who never again would laugh back Into the eyes of life In the old glad, confident way. Each huddled dumbly to each; But eyes could not lift from the sea, Only hands touched in the dawn.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000013_000000.wav|And as each body spent out of its ebbing store Of strength and hope, I felt the forward thrust, At first so sure, Fail in its rhythm, Falter slow, And slower- Hang an endless moment- Till in a rush came fear- Fear of the sea, that it might win again, Gathering one crew more, Making them pay in vain.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000015_000000.wav|three|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000014_000000.wav|Then through the horror of it, like a clear Sweet wind among the stars, I felt the lift And drive of heart and will Working their miracles until Spent muscles tensed again to offer all In one transcendent gift.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000025_000000.wav|Brave, but with quivering lips, Each alone in the press of the crowd, Was saying it over and over.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/103481/1066_103481_000009_000000.wav|On such a night as this I saw the last crew go Out of a world too beautiful to leave. Only a chosen few Beside the crew Were gathered on the pier; And in the ebb and flow Of dark and moon, we saw them fare Straight past the row of coffins Where the fifth crew lay Waiting their last short voyage Across the bay.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000028_000000.wav|"Well, he is coming, you see; good news, I think.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000020_000000.wav|"You may well class the delight, the honour, and the comfort of such a situation together," said Jane, "they are pretty sure to be equal; however, I am very serious in not wishing any thing to be attempted at present for me.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000011_000002.wav|You are afraid of giving me trouble; but I assure you, my dear Jane, the Campbells can hardly be more interested about you than I am.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000022_000000.wav|In this style she ran on; never thoroughly stopped by any thing till mr Woodhouse came into the room; her vanity had then a change of object, and Emma heard her saying in the same half whisper to Jane,|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000023_000007.wav|I must put on a few ornaments now, because it is expected of me.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000024_000002.wav|He had been too much expected by the best judges, for surprize-but there was great joy.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000028_000006.wav|Have you finished it?|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000009_000004.wav|You may imagine how desirable!|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000009_000003.wav|A cousin of mr Suckling, mrs Bragge, had such an infinity of applications; every body was anxious to be in her family, for she moves in the first circle. Wax candles in the schoolroom!|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000024_000001.wav|He had returned to a late dinner, and walked to Hartfield as soon as it was over.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000026_000000.wav|"Read it, read it," said he, "it will give you pleasure; only a few lines-will not take you long; read it to Emma."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000004_000000.wav|"But I have never fixed on June or any other month-merely looked forward to the summer in general."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000029_000000.wav|mrs Weston was most comfortably pleased on the occasion.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000011_000000.wav|"Trouble!|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000005_000000.wav|"But have you really heard of nothing?"|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000015_000000.wav|"Oh! my dear, human flesh!|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000028_000002.wav|As to her illness, all nothing of course.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000003_000000.wav|"Here is April come!" said she, "I get quite anxious about you.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000028_000008.wav|Put it up, put it up; we will have a good talk about it some other time, but it will not do now.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000023_000006.wav|How do you like it?--Selina's choice-handsome, I think, but I do not know whether it is not over trimmed; I have the greatest dislike to the idea of being over trimmed-quite a horror of finery.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000025_000001.wav|He gave her a letter, it was from Frank, and to herself; he had met with it in his way, and had taken the liberty of opening it.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000003_000001.wav|June will soon be here."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000011_000003.wav|I shall write to mrs Partridge in a day or two, and shall give her a strict charge to be on the look out for any thing eligible."|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1066/4479/1066_4479_000028_000004.wav|They will stay a good while when they do come, and he will be half his time with us.|1066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000036_000004.wav|He created patriotism and taught the nations war-founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000015_000001.wav|A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000014_000001.wav|A festival.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000026_000001.wav|A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000060_000005.wav|The frog is a diligent songster, having a good voice but no ear.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000022_000001.wav|The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000012_000000.wav|The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000002_000004.wav|The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000002_000007.wav|He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000002_000009.wav|He does not say if any of the wounded recovered.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000005_000001.wav|Well, his grill has a plating of gold, And his twistings are greatly admired.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000010_000001.wav|They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye-dared not See better than their master.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000067_000000.wav|Jex Wopley|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000009_000000.wav|Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000009_000001.wav|That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking.|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/986/129388/986_129388_000059_000000.wav|Armit Huff Bettle|986
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000013_000000.wav|'He loves you, Henrietta,' said her father.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000010_000001.wav|'If he knew all that had occurred he would shrink from blending his life with mine.'|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000028_000005.wav|It is my wish.'|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000021_000001.wav|He seated himself at her side, but he was unusually constrained.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000027_000001.wav|You make me wretched.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000017_000002.wav|Lean upon your father, listen to him, be guided by his advice.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000025_000000.wav|'The only aim of my life is to make you happy,' said Lord Montfort.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000014_000002.wav|No, Lord Montfort cannot love me.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000017_000010.wav|For his sake, for my sake, for all our sakes, dearest Henrietta, grant his wish.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000020_000001.wav|Henrietta seemed plunged in thought. Suddenly she said, 'I cannot rest until this is settled.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73729/4800_73729_000031_000003.wav|Alas!|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000018_000000.wav|"Well," mr Engelman resumed, "Doctor Dormann asked his questions, and smelt and tasted the medicine, and with Madame Fontaine's full approval took away a little of it to be analyzed.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000017_000000.wav|After what I had seen myself of the housekeeper's temper on the previous evening, this last piece of news failed to surprise me.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000005.wav|So the night passed.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000016_000003.wav|He said, 'Let me see the lady, and speak to her myself, before the new remedy is tried.' As for the other, what do you think he did?|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000009.wav|Don't blame me, David.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000004.wav|The bottle might still perhaps be found at Wurzburg.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000008.wav|'Why should you distress yourself, mamma?' she said.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000020_000001.wav|What would Fritz think, when he knew of it?|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000015_000002.wav|We arranged that I should write to Fritz by that night's mail, on the chance that my announcement of the better news might reach him before he left London.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000016_000004.wav|Walked out of the house (the old brute!) and declined any further attendance on the patient.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000009.wav|Some person in her husband's employment at the University of Wurzburg had been attacked by a malady presenting exactly the same symptoms from which mr Keller was suffering.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000008_000001.wav|"Of course you asked her for the prescription?" I said.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000015_000001.wav|In his place I should have done what he did.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000016_000002.wav|Doctor Dormann behaved like a gentleman.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000006.wav|She clasped her hands in despair-she said, 'Oh, if my poor husband had been alive!' I naturally asked what she meant.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000005_000002.wav|Can you guess what that meant?"|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000012.wav|He made up the medicine that he administered with his own hand.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER nineteen|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000000.wav|"Quite right, David.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000014.wav|His extraordinary recovery is remembered in the University to this day."|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000020_000004.wav|But we had not got as far as that yet.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000020_000002.wav|What would mr Keller say when he recognized his nurse, and when he heard that she had saved his life?|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000018_000001.wav|That came to nothing!|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000011.wav|Alone among them Doctor Fontaine understood the case.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000015_000000.wav|I was far from blaming him-and I said so.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000003_000000.wav|"A tumbler of the old Marcobrunner, David, and a slice of the game pie-before I say one word about what we owe to that angel upstairs.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000004.wav|I know this from my husband's instructions, and it is due to his memory (to say nothing of what is due to mr Keller) that I should be at the bedside.' It is needless to say that I joyfully accepted the offered help.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000013_000000.wav|He opened an old cabinet, and took out a long narrow bottle of dark blue glass.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000013_000006.wav|It was very important, he said, that no air should be admitted to the bottle, except when there was an actual necessity for administering the remedy.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000006.wav|The next morning, soon after you fell asleep, the doctors came.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000012_000001.wav|"I can show it to you, if you like.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000013_000003.wav|No label appeared on it; but, examining the surface of the glass carefully, I found certain faintly marked stains, which suggested that the label might have been removed, and that some traces of the paste or gum by which it had been secured had not been completely washed away.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000000.wav|"No, David; you don't understand it yet.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000002.wav|No such thing was known to be in existence-she reminded me that her husband had made up the medicine himself.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000018_000002.wav|The medicine kept its own secret.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000010.wav|I could not feel absolutely sure of the new medicine; and, with time of such terrible importance, and London so far off, I was really afraid to miss a post."|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000013_000002.wav|The glass stopper was carefully secured by a piece of leather, for the better preservation, I suppose, of the liquid inside. Down one side of the bottle ran a narrow strip of paper, notched at regular intervals to indicate the dose that was to be given.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000005_000001.wav|"You remember my going out to get a breath of fresh air.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000001.wav|I certainly asked her for the prescription.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000003_000001.wav|Off with the wine, my dear boy; you look as pale as death!"|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000005.wav|I told her that one of the doctors was evidently puzzled, and that the other had acknowledged that the malady was so far incomprehensible to him.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000002.wav|Madame Fontaine, always just in her views, said, 'You had better wait and consult the doctors.' She made but one condition (the generous creature!) relating to herself.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000000.wav|"I took it away with me the same night," he went on.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000020_000003.wav|"All's well that ends well" is a good proverb.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000016_000001.wav|There I told them, in the plainest words I could find, exactly what I have told you.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000019_000002.wav|Under the widow's instructions, she was preparing the peculiar vegetable diet which had been prescribed by Doctor Fontaine as part of the cure.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000011.wav|At any sacrifice of her own feelings, she was prepared to do it."|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000007_000013.wav|Madame Fontaine, under her husband's instructions, assisted in nursing the sick man, and in giving the nourishment prescribed when he was able to eat.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000010_000000.wav|I interrupted him again, eager to hear the end.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000018_000005.wav|Half an hour since we tried the second.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000003.wav|'If the remedy is tried,' she said, 'I must ask you to give it a fair chance by permitting me to act as nurse; the treatment of the patient when he begins to feel the benefit of the medicine is of serious importance.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000019_000000.wav|The door opened as he spoke, and I found myself confronted by a second surprise.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000010.wav|It was quite enough for Madame Fontaine that there was an act of mercy to be done.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000009.wav|'Tell me what the bottle is like, and let me try if I can find it.' No!|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000006.wav|'I have not had the heart to open it yet,' she said; 'but for mr Keller's sake, I will look it over before you go away.' There is a Christian woman, David, if ever there was one yet! After the manner in which poor Keller had treated her, she was as eager to help him as if he had been her dearest friend.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000016_000000.wav|"My letter despatched," mr Engelman continued, "I begged both the doctors to speak with me before they went away, in my private room.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000008.wav|I was just in time to catch the special mail which left this morning.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000019_000004.wav|What a charming substitute for the crabbed old housekeeper who had just left us!|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000006_000000.wav|I guessed of course that it meant a visit to Madame Fontaine.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000005.wav|Or it might be in a small portmanteau belonging to her husband, which she had found in his bedroom, and had brought away with her, to be examined at some future time.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000019_000003.wav|The good girl was eager to make herself useful to us in any domestic capacity.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000005_000000.wav|"Now carry your mind back to last night," he began.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000007.wav|Minna offered to take her place.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000014_000007.wav|You may imagine what they thought of poor Keller, when I tell you that they recommended me to write instantly to Fritz in London summoning him to his father's bedside.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000004_000000.wav|With those words mr Engelman lit his pipe, and waited in silence until the good eating and drinking had done their good work.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000012_000002.wav|She has herself requested me to keep it under lock and key, so long as it is wanted in this house."|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000018_000008.wav|But for you we might never have known Madame Fontaine."|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000019_000001.wav|Minna came in, wearing a cook's apron, and asked if her mother had rung for her yet.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000008_000000.wav|I interrupted mr Engelman at that point.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/38660/4800_38660_000009_000003.wav|But she remembered that the results had exceeded his anticipations, and that only a part of the remedy had been used.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000013_000001.wav|That constraint which at first she had attributed to reserve, but which of late she had ascribed to modesty, now entirely quitted him.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000017_000000.wav|At the end of the principal gallery, Henrietta perceived an open door which admitted them into a small octagon chamber, of Ionic architecture. The walls were not hung with pictures, and one work of art alone solicited their attention.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000009_000000.wav|'I should like it very much,' said mr Temple.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000005_000010.wav|Sometimes they entered merely to see a statue or a picture they were reading or conversing about the preceding eve; and then they repaired to some modern studio, where their entrance always made the sculptor's eyes sparkle.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000017_000002.wav|The cheek, by an ancient process, the secret of which has been recently regained at Rome, was tinted with a delicate glow.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000016_000000.wav|Henrietta accepted his proffered arm.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000017_000001.wav|Elevated on a pedestal of porphyry, surrounded by a rail of bronze arrows of the lightest workmanship, was that statue of Diana which they had so much admired at Pisa.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000015_000005.wav|Lord Montfort approached Miss Temple. 'There is one room in the palace you have never yet visited,' he said, 'my tribune; 'tis open to night for the first time.'|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000004_000004.wav|The apartments were supplied with every book which it could have been supposed might amuse her; there were guitars of the city and of Florence, and even an English piano; a library of the choicest music; and all the materials of art.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000005_000004.wav|Her lively and refined taste, and her highly cultured mind, could not refrain from responding to these glorious spectacles.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000005_000009.wav|Short visits, but numerous ones, was his system.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000013_000004.wav|It was they whom he wished to catch.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000013_000002.wav|Frank, yet always dignified, smiling, apt, and ever felicitous, it seemed that he had a pleasing word for every ear, and a particular smile for every face.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000014_000001.wav|I would not ask this favour of you unless I thought you would be pleased.'|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000006_000001.wav|Perhaps he prided himself upon his skill as a physician, but he certainly watched the apparent convalescence of his friend's daughter with zealous interest.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4800/73728/4800_73728_000005_000015.wav|The colour returned to Henrietta's cheek and the lustre to her languid eye: her form regained its airy spring of health; the sunshine of her smile burst forth once more.|4800
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000012_000001.wav|What surprised me most was a sparkling light which came from above the bed.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000004_000003.wav|I took her to a bath, clothed her with my own apparel, and thus addressed her: "Sister, you are the elder, and I esteem you as my mother: during your absence, God has blest the portion that fell to my share, and the employment I follow of breeding silk worms. Assure yourself there is nothing I have but is at your service, and as much at your disposal as my own."|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000010_000001.wav|I entered; and in a large hall I found several black eunuchs turned into stone. I went from thence into a room richly furnished, where I perceived a lady in the same situation.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000015_000001.wav|Being extremely glad to hear it, I immediately arose, and taking a torch in my hand, passed from one chamber to another on that side from whence the sound proceeded.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000022_000003.wav|She happened to die, but not before she had perfectly instructed me in all that was necessary to convince me of the truth of the Moosulmaun religion.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000033_000001.wav|I instantly arose, and perceived that it was pursued by a larger serpent which had hold of its tail, and was endeavouring to devour it.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000004_000001.wav|I received her with every possible tenderness, and inquiring into the cause of her distress, she told me with tears how inhumanly her husband had behaved towards her.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000008_000000.wav|I had not patience to wait till my sisters were dressed to go along with me, but went ashore alone in the boat.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000007_000003.wav|It was a very high mountain, at the bottom of which we perceived a great town: having a fresh gale, we soon reached the harbour, and cast anchor.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000022_000002.wav|As soon as I was capable of understanding it, she explained to me all the passages of this excellent book, and infused piety into my mind, unknown to my father or any other person.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000013_000001.wav|Several other rarities detained my curiosity in this room, which was inestimable in value, were it only for the diamond I mentioned.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000004_000002.wav|Her misfortunes affected me: and I mingled my tears with hers.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000006_000005.wav|Believe what I say, and let us live together as comfortably as we can." All my persuasion was in vain; they were resolved to marry, and soon accomplished their wishes.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000016_000002.wav|I wondered how it came to pass that he should be the only living creature in a town where all the people were turned into stones, and I did not doubt but there was something in the circumstance very extraordinary.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000007_000002.wav|We set sail with a fair wind, and soon cleared the Persian gulf; when we had reached the open sea, we steered our course to the Indies; and the twentieth day saw land.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000037_000000.wav|After the caliph had heard Zobeide with much astonishment, he desired his grand vizier to request Amene to acquaint him wherefore her breast was disfigured with so many scars.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000014_000005.wav|I laid myself down upon a couch, not without some dread to be alone in a desolate place; and this fear hindered my sleep.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000014_000001.wav|I looked into the offices and store rooms, which were full of riches.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000014_000003.wav|In the mean time night came on, which reminded me that it was time to retire.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000003_000000.wav|After our father's death, the property that he left was equally divided among us, and as soon as these two sisters received their portions, they left me to live with their mother.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000032_000003.wav|I went towards a dark spot, that, by what I could discern, seemed to be land, and proved to be a flat on the coast, which, when day appeared, I found to be a desert island, lying about twenty miles from Bussorah.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000034_000000.wav|Judge what was my surprise when I awoke, to see standing by me a black woman of lively and agreeable features, who held in her hand two bitches of the same colour, fastened together.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000032_000004.wav|I soon dried my clothes in the sun, and as I walked along I found several kinds of fruit, and likewise fresh water, which gave me some hopes of preserving my life.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000008_000002.wav|I entered the town and passed through several streets, where at different intervals stood men in various attitudes, but all motionless and petrified. In the quarter inhabited by the merchants I found most of the shops shut, and in such as were open I likewise found the people petrified.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000015_000004.wav|It had, as we have in our mosques, a niche, to direct us whither we are to turn to say our prayers: there were also lamps hung up, and two candlesticks with large tapers of white wax burning.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000015_000002.wav|I came to the closet door, and stood still, not doubting that it came from thence.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000024_000002.wav|The sultan, my father, shared the same fate, for he was metamorphosed into a black stone, as he is to be seen in this palace, and the queen, my mother, had the like destiny.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000033_000005.wav|I then sought another shady spot for repose, and fell asleep.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000030_000001.wav|But alas!|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000006_000001.wav|I observed, that if putting me to expense was the only reason, they might lay those thoughts aside, and be welcome to remain: for what I had would be sufficient to maintain us all three, in a manner answerable to our condition.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000007_000000.wav|We continued thus a whole year in perfect love and harmony. Seeing that God had increased my small stock, I projected a voyage, to embark some of it in a commercial speculation.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000034_000004.wav|The treachery of your sisters was well known to me, and to avenge your wrongs, as soon as I was liberated by your generous assistance, I called together several of my companions, fairies like myself, conveyed into your storehouses at Bagdad all the lading of your vessel, and afterwards sunk it.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000014_000002.wav|In short, the wonders that everywhere appeared so wholly engrossed my attention, that I forgot my ship and my sisters, and thought of nothing but gratifying my curiosity.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000005_000000.wav|We lived very comfortably together for some months.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000023_000001.wav|The words were these: Inhabitants, abandon the worship of Nardoun, and of fire, and worship the only God who shews mercy.'|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000033_000003.wav|The other, finding itself at liberty, took wing and flew away.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000019_000000.wav|I told him in a few words whence I had come, what had made me undertake the voyage, and how I safely arrived at the port after twenty days' sailing; when I had done, I prayed him to perform his promise, and told him how much I was struck by the frightful desolation which I had seen in the city.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000036_000002.wav|Since that time I have whipped them every night, though with regret, whereof your majesty has been a witness.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000030_000000.wav|The young prince, my sisters and myself, enjoyed ourselves for some time very agreeably.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000006_000003.wav|After the experience you have had of the little satisfaction there is in wedlock, is it possible you dare venture a second time?|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000032_000001.wav|They did the same to the prince, who was drowned.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000002_000000.wav|Commander of the faithful, the relation which I am about to give your majesty is singularly extraordinary.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000035_000000.wav|"These two black bitches are your sisters, whom I have transformed into this shape.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000021_000000.wav|"Madam," said the young man, "by the prayer you just now addressed to him, you have given me to understand that you have a knowledge of the true God.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000027_000001.wav|After I had presented my sisters to the prince, I told them what had hindered my return the day before, how I had met with the young prince, his story, and the cause of the desolation of so fine a city.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000033_000004.wav|I looked after it for some time till it disappeared.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000017_000001.wav|Hear me, O Lord, and grant my request."|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000025_000000.wav|"I am the only person who did not suffer under that heavy judgment, and ever since I have continued to serve God with more fervency than before.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000032_000002.wav|I floated some minutes on the water, and by good fortune, or rather miracle, I felt ground.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000006_000002.wav|"But," I added, "I rather believe you wish to marry again; I shall feel much surprised if such be the case.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000024_000000.wav|"This voice was heard three years successively, but no one was converted.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000016_000001.wav|At this sight I was transported with admiration.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/135897/159_135897_000003_000001.wav|My other two sisters and myself stayed with our mother, who was then alive, and who when she afterwards died left each of us a thousand sequins.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/121902/159_121902_000051_000000.wav|SONG two.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/159/121902/159_121902_000052_000000.wav|THE BONDAGE OF PASSION.|159
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2498/134786/2498_134786_000025_000000.wav|"Iron has a taste."|2498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2498/134786/2498_134786_000009_000000.wav|"Great, good God!|2498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2498/134816/2498_134816_000019_000013.wav|Yes. Carry?|2498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000036_000001.wav|But my dear Lydia, I don't at all like your going such a way off.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000003_000004.wav|mrs Bennet had no turn for economy, and her husband's love of independence had alone prevented their exceeding their income.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000035_000000.wav|"Well, mamma," said she, when they were all returned to the breakfast room, "and what do you think of my husband?|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000004_000005.wav|He would scarcely be ten pounds a year the loser by the hundred that was to be paid them; for, what with her board and pocket allowance, and the continual presents in money which passed to her through her mother's hands, Lydia's expenses had been very little within that sum.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000010_000004.wav|That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable resentment as to refuse his daughter a privilege without which her marriage would scarcely seem valid, exceeded all she could believe possible.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000022_000000.wav|"She is so fond of mrs Forster," said she, "it will be quite shocking to send her away!|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000023_000004.wav|Elizabeth was surprised, however, that Wickham should consent to such a scheme, and had she consulted only her own inclination, any meeting with him would have been the last object of her wishes.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000048_000004.wav|And it was settled that we should all be there by eleven o'clock.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000000.wav|"It was greatly my wish that he should do so," he added, "as soon as his marriage was fixed on.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000049_000002.wav|Not one party, or scheme, or anything.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000050_000000.wav|"mr Darcy!" repeated Elizabeth, in utter amazement.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000052_000000.wav|"If it was to be secret," said Jane, "say not another word on the subject.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000030_000001.wav|The bride and her mother could neither of them talk fast enough; and Wickham, who happened to sit near Elizabeth, began inquiring after his acquaintance in that neighbourhood, with a good humoured ease which she felt very unable to equal in her replies.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000035_000004.wav|They must all go to Brighton.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000034_000001.wav|Her ease and good spirits increased.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000007_000002.wav|The marriage of a daughter, which had been the first object of her wishes since Jane was sixteen, was now on the point of accomplishment, and her thoughts and her words ran wholly on those attendants of elegant nuptials, fine muslins, new carriages, and servants.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000048_000006.wav|Well, Monday morning came, and I was in such a fuss!|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000046_000001.wav|You were not by, when I told mamma and the others all about it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000006_000000.wav|The good news spread quickly through the house, and with proportionate speed through the neighbourhood.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000051_000000.wav|"Oh, yes!--he was to come there with Wickham, you know.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000029_000000.wav|Wickham was not at all more distressed than herself, but his manners were always so pleasing, that had his character and his marriage been exactly what they ought, his smiles and his easy address, while he claimed their relationship, would have delighted them all.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000025_000002.wav|Their arrival was dreaded by the elder Miss Bennets, and Jane more especially, who gave Lydia the feelings which would have attended herself, had she been the culprit, and was wretched in the thought of what her sister must endure.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000057_000000.wav|"You may readily comprehend," she added, "what my curiosity must be to know how a person unconnected with any of us, and (comparatively speaking) a stranger to our family, should have been amongst you at such a time.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000045_000000.wav|One morning, soon after their arrival, as she was sitting with her two elder sisters, she said to Elizabeth:|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000051_000004.wav|I promised them so faithfully!|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000035_000002.wav|I am sure my sisters must all envy me.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000028_000003.wav|Elizabeth was disgusted, and even Miss Bennet was shocked.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000007_000001.wav|No sentiment of shame gave a damp to her triumph.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000052_000001.wav|You may depend upon my seeking no further."|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000003_000003.wav|This event had at last been despaired of, but it was then too late to be saving.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000003_000001.wav|The son was to join in cutting off the entail, as soon as he should be of age, and the widow and younger children would by that means be provided for.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000005.wav|He promises fairly; and I hope among different people, where they may each have a character to preserve, they will both be more prudent.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000010_000001.wav|It soon led to another; and mrs Bennet found, with amazement and horror, that her husband would not advance a guinea to buy clothes for his daughter.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000004_000002.wav|This was one point, with regard to Lydia, at least, which was now to be settled, and mr Bennet could have no hesitation in acceding to the proposal before him.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000038_000000.wav|"I should like it beyond anything!" said her mother.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000006_000001.wav|It was borne in the latter with decent philosophy.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000028_000005.wav|She turned from sister to sister, demanding their congratulations; and when at length they all sat down, looked eagerly round the room, took notice of some little alteration in it, and observed, with a laugh, that it was a great while since she had been there.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000013_000001.wav|The wish of procuring her regard, which she had assured herself of his feeling in Derbyshire, could not in rational expectation survive such a blow as this.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000008.wav|He has given in all his debts; I hope at least he has not deceived us.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000049_000007.wav|But, luckily, he came back again in ten minutes' time, and then we all set out.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000018_000002.wav|The principal purport of his letter was to inform them that mr Wickham had resolved on quitting the militia.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000028_000000.wav|Their reception from mr Bennet, to whom they then turned, was not quite so cordial.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000042_000001.wav|These parties were acceptable to all; to avoid a family circle was even more desirable to such as did think, than such as did not.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000008_000000.wav|"Haye Park might do," said she, "if the Gouldings could quit it-or the great house at Stoke, if the drawing room were larger; but Ashworth is too far off!|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000009_000003.wav|I will not encourage the impudence of either, by receiving them at Longbourn."|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000037_000004.wav|We shall be at Newcastle all the winter, and I dare say there will be some balls, and I will take care to get good partners for them all."|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000017_000001.wav|But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000048_000002.wav|But I must tell you how it went off.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000040_000000.wav|"I thank you for my share of the favour," said Elizabeth; "but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands."|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000002_000000.wav|He was seriously concerned that a cause of so little advantage to anyone should be forwarded at the sole expense of his brother in law, and he was determined, if possible, to find out the extent of his assistance, and to discharge the obligation as soon as he could.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000036_000000.wav|"Very true; and if I had my will, we should.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000051_000002.wav|I quite forgot!|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000037_000002.wav|I shall like it of all things.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000009.wav|Haggerston has our directions, and all will be completed in a week.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000033_000001.wav|She got up, and ran out of the room; and returned no more, till she heard them passing through the hall to the dining parlour.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000013_000005.wav|She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000048_000010.wav|I longed to know whether he would be married in his blue coat."|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000025_000001.wav|The carriage was sent to meet them at ----, and they were to return in it by dinner time.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000010_000002.wav|He protested that she should receive from him no mark of affection whatever on the occasion.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000005_000002.wav|His letter was soon dispatched; for, though dilatory in undertaking business, he was quick in its execution.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000009_000001.wav|But when they had withdrawn, he said to her: "mrs Bennet, before you take any or all of these houses for your son and daughter, let us come to a right understanding.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000021_000001.wav|But mrs Bennet was not so well pleased with it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000005_000003.wav|He begged to know further particulars of what he was indebted to his brother, but was too angry with Lydia to send any message to her.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000056_000000.wav|But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible; or at least it was impossible not to try for information.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000030_000002.wav|They seemed each of them to have the happiest memories in the world.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000024_000000.wav|Chapter fifty one|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000035_000006.wav|What a pity it is, mamma, we did not all go."|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000026_000002.wav|Smiles decked the face of mrs Bennet as the carriage drove up to the door; her husband looked impenetrably grave; her daughters, alarmed, anxious, uneasy.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000033_000000.wav|Elizabeth could bear it no longer.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000007.wav|And will you give yourself the trouble of carrying similar assurances to his creditors in Meryton, of whom I shall subjoin a list according to his information?|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000001_000002.wav|Had he done his duty in that respect, Lydia need not have been indebted to her uncle for whatever of honour or credit could now be purchased for her.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000034_000000.wav|It was not to be supposed that time would give Lydia that embarrassment from which she had been so wholly free at first.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000023_000000.wav|His daughter's request, for such it might be considered, of being admitted into her family again before she set off for the North, received at first an absolute negative.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000004_000004.wav|He had never before supposed that, could Wickham be prevailed on to marry his daughter, it would be done with so little inconvenience to himself as by the present arrangement.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000032_000000.wav|Her father lifted up his eyes.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000007_000003.wav|She was busily searching through the neighbourhood for a proper situation for her daughter, and, without knowing or considering what their income might be, rejected many as deficient in size and importance.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000004.wav|It is an advantage to have it so far from this part of the kingdom.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000048_000005.wav|My uncle and aunt and I were to go together; and the others were to meet us at the church.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000010_000000.wav|A long dispute followed this declaration; but mr Bennet was firm.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000016_000000.wav|But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude what connubial felicity really was.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000053_000000.wav|"Oh! certainly," said Elizabeth, though burning with curiosity; "we will ask you no questions."|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000054_000000.wav|"Thank you," said Lydia, "for if you did, I should certainly tell you all, and then Wickham would be angry."|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000026_000000.wav|They came.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000046_000002.wav|Are not you curious to hear how it was managed?"|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000055_000000.wav|On such encouragement to ask, Elizabeth was forced to put it out of her power, by running away.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000028_000002.wav|The easy assurance of the young couple, indeed, was enough to provoke him.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000028_000001.wav|His countenance rather gained in austerity; and he scarcely opened his lips.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000013_000000.wav|From such a connection she could not wonder that he would shrink.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000015_000001.wav|His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000030_000000.wav|There was no want of discourse.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000018_000000.wav|mr Gardiner soon wrote again to his brother.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000027_000000.wav|Lydia's voice was heard in the vestibule; the door was thrown open, and she ran into the room.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000020_000001.wav|GARDINER."|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000041_000001.wav|mr Wickham had received his commission before he left London, and he was to join his regiment at the end of a fortnight.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000008_000001.wav|I could not bear to have her ten miles from me; and as for Pulvis Lodge, the attics are dreadful."|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000051_000001.wav|But gracious me!|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000017_000000.wav|How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000029_000001.wav|Elizabeth had not before believed him quite equal to such assurance; but she sat down, resolving within herself to draw no limits in future to the impudence of an impudent man.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000047_000000.wav|"No really," replied Elizabeth; "I think there cannot be too little said on the subject."|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000048_000003.wav|We were married, you know, at saint Clement's, because Wickham's lodgings were in that parish.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000010_000005.wav|She was more alive to the disgrace which her want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter's nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they took place.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000001_000000.wav|mr Bennet had very often wished before this period of his life that, instead of spending his whole income, he had laid by an annual sum for the better provision of his children, and of his wife, if she survived him.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000019_000002.wav|It is mr Wickham's intention to go into the regulars; and among his former friends, there are still some who are able and willing to assist him in the army.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124164/318_124164_000004_000003.wav|In terms of grateful acknowledgment for the kindness of his brother, though expressed most concisely, he then delivered on paper his perfect approbation of all that was done, and his willingness to fulfil the engagements that had been made for him.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000068_000002.wav|I came to explain.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000010.wav|Your secretarial duties must be paramount.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000031_000003.wav|I think perhaps it would be as well not to leave it just yet.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000044_000000.wav|Mike came forward.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000093_000001.wav|He did not know much about the City and its ways, but he knew enough to understand that summary dismissal from a bank is not the best recommendation one can put forward in applying for another job.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000111_000004.wav|I prefer to think that Comrade Bickersdyke regards me as his friend and well wisher, and will lend a courteous ear to any proposal I see fit to make.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000065_000000.wav|Mike almost laughed.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000004_000003.wav|The employees of the New Asiatic Bank, having plenty of time on their hands, were able to retain their individuality.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000005.wav|They are fully competent to conduct the business of the department in my absence.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000004.wav|But calm will succeed storm, and we may be able to do something yet.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000019_000000.wav|'Good man,' said Mike.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000079_000001.wav|What exactly did you say?'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000015_000001.wav|The fight is beginning to be too much for me.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000036_000003.wav|For these he was prepared.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000050_000002.wav|All he could understand was that a far worse thing had happened than anything he could have imagined.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000028_000004.wav|The cashier was overflowing with happiness and goodwill towards his species.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000076_000001.wav|He spoke in rather an awed voice.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000031_000000.wav|'Just so, just so.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000046_000001.wav|It came in the morning, rather late.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000056_000000.wav|His voice died away.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000005.wav|My time from now onward is his.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000006_000002.wav|He told him that he had knocked them at the Bedford the week before, and in support of the statement showed him a cutting from the Era, in which the writer said that 'Other acceptable turns were the Bounding Zouaves, Steingruber's Dogs, and Arthur Hignett.' Mike wished him luck.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000006.wav|I could not believe that I had passed it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000009.wav|It was this which drew to him those who had intelligence enough to see beyond his sometimes rather forbidding manner, and to realize that his blunt speech was largely due to shyness.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000002.wav|Oh it's hard.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000057_000003.wav|It was a curious crooked way, but at that moment it stretched clear and broad before him.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000010.wav|And that kind of thing is a little overwhelming at short range.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000014_000001.wav|Mike led the way to a quiet corner of the Telegrams Department.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000010_000000.wav|On this particular day, however, the cashier was silent and absent minded.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000011.wav|Nothing must be allowed to interfere with them.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000054_000005.wav|I shall lose my place.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000075_000000.wav|Focusing his attention with some reluctance upon this blot on the horizon, he discovered that the exploiter of rainbow waistcoats and satin ties was addressing him.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000101_000001.wav|At the conclusion of the narrative he sipped his coffee in silence for a moment.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000008.wav|My mind was far away.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000054_000006.wav|I shall be dismissed.' He was talking more to himself than to Mike.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000024_000001.wav|The habit of years had made his work mechanical.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000082_000000.wav|Bristow chuckled.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000015_000004.wav|It's hard, Comrade Jackson, it's hard, I tell you.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000093_000004.wav|Cricket was his line.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000008.wav|Why so-called I do not know, nor, indeed, do I ever hope to know.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000009.wav|I don't remember the cheque or anything about it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000011_000001.wav|He did not like to ask if there was anything the matter.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000083_000003.wav|There was old Bick cursing for all he was worth, and a little red faced buffer puffing out his cheeks in an armchair.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000004.wav|He oughtn't to be here at all today.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000110_000000.wav|'Get some of his own back!' he repeated.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000090_000000.wav|It continued to spin; but he never lost sight of the fact round which it revolved, namely, that he had been dismissed from the service of the bank.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000007.wav|If the man Bickersdyke is proved to have had good grounds for his outbreak, he shall escape uncensured.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000070_000000.wav|'Yes.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000002.wav|That generous temperament was stirred to its depths.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000080_000000.wav|'He's getting it hot on the carpet.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000023_000001.wav|Mike, as always, was rendered utterly dumb by the sight of suffering.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000003.wav|I must look into this.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000000.wav|'His kid's ill, poor chap,' he said briefly.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000058_000000.wav|He got up, smiling.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000016_000002.wav|I hope there's nothing up.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000027_000000.wav|twenty.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000107_000001.wav|Naturally, to pacify the aggrieved bart., Comrade b had to lay it on regardless of expense.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000000.wav|His life was very regular.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000008.wav|Made straight for the corner flag, you understand,' he added, as Mr Rossiter emerged from his lair, 'and centred, and Sandy Turnbull headed a beautiful goal.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000107_000002.wav|In America, as possibly you are aware, there is a regular post of mistake clerk, whose duty it is to receive in the neck anything that happens to be coming along when customers make complaints.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000087_000003.wav|Which I jolly well did.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000062_000000.wav|'I can assure you, Sir john--' he was saying.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000006_000001.wav|He confided to Mike his intention of leaving the bank as soon as he had made a name, and taking seriously to the business.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000005.wav|Mike had expected sentence of dismissal, and he had got it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000097_000003.wav|I can't tell you about it here.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000012_000001.wav|It was his hour for pottering, so he pottered round to the Postage Department, where he found the old Etonian eyeing with disfavour a new satin tie which Bristow was wearing that morning for the first time.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000009.wav|However, we shall see.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000047_000001.wav|It was the only three figure cheque which had come across the counter during the day.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000011_000004.wav|He had always envied the cooing readiness of the hero on the stage when anyone was in trouble.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000005.wav|I can't make another start.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000047_000003.wav|He recollected the man who had presented it, a tallish man with a beard.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000036_000000.wav|We do not claim originality for the statement that things never happen quite as one expects them to.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000051_000000.wav|'A forgery?' he said.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000005_000002.wav|He was a small, dried up youth, with black hair plastered down on his head.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000006.wav|Let us, as you say, scud forth.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000007.wav|I don't remember doing it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000070_000001.wav|He didn't cash it at all.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000001.wav|He felt confused and rattled.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000002_000000.wav|Mike, except for a fortnight at the beginning of his career in the New Asiatic Bank, had not had to stand the test of sunshine.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000036_000002.wav|The Edward's pneumonia episode having ended satisfactorily (or, rather, being apparently certain to end satisfactorily, for the invalid, though out of danger, was still in bed), Mike looked forward to a series of days unbroken by any but the minor troubles of life.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000061_000000.wav|The manager was in his chair at the big table.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000004_000005.wav|Indeed, they had so much leisure that it is a wonder they thought of their work at all.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000106_000000.wav|'I bet we shall!' said Mike ruefully.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000049_000000.wav|'It was a forgery,' muttered Mr Waller, sitting down heavily.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000003.wav|Waller was up all night.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000087_000001.wav|I was too jolly glad to get away.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000048_000000.wav|'Why,' he said.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000091_000000.wav|Up till now the matter had seemed entirely a personal one.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000083_000001.wav|Blooming hurricane, more like it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000100_000004.wav|Tell me all.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000050_000001.wav|He was stunned.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000024_000005.wav|It is no affair of yours whether life is treating the machine well or ill that day.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000047_000000.wav|Mike remembered the cheque perfectly well, owing to the amount.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000007.wav|We will go to a Mecca.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000086_000001.wav|He has, as you suggest, a ready flow of speech.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000039_000000.wav|There was no one in the department at the moment of his arrival; but a few minutes later he saw Mr Waller come out of the manager's room, and make his way down the aisle.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000008.wav|I may even look in on him and throw him a word of praise.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000111_000001.wav|I yield to nobody in my respect for our manager.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000000.wav|Mike went.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000005.wav|But the thing, once started, fascinated you.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000008_000000.wav|Mike found himself, by degrees, growing quite attached to the New Asiatic Bank.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000067_000000.wav|'I have already seen Mr Waller.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000009_000002.wav|No action of this young prodigy was withheld from Mike.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000034_000001.wav|Mr Waller, in the intervals of work, talked a good deal, mostly of Edward, his doings, his sayings, and his prospects.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000010.wav|In spite of his prejudice against Edward, he could put himself into Mr Waller's place, and see the thing from his point of view.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000077_000001.wav|'You have our ear. You would seem to have something on your chest in addition to that Neapolitan ice garment which, I regret to see, you still flaunt.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000083_000002.wav|I was in Bick's room just now with a letter to sign, and I tell you, the fur was flying all over the bally shop.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000024_000002.wav|Probably few of the customers who came to cash cheques suspected that there was anything the matter with the man who paid them their money.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000095_000002.wav|Is this so?'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000012.wav|Yes.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000057_000002.wav|He saw a way out.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000063_000000.wav|He looked up as the door opened.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000064_000000.wav|'Well, Mr Jackson?'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000002.wav|He wore a crushed, beaten look, as if all the life and fight had gone out of him.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000095_000001.wav|When my informant left, he tells me, Comrade b had got a half Nelson on you, and was biting pieces out of your ear.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000103_000000.wav|'It seems to me,' said Mike, 'that it has gone too far.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000042_000000.wav|Mr Waller caught sight of him and quickened his pace.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000002.wav|Comrade Bristow has blown into the office today in patent leather boots with white kid uppers, as I believe the technical term is.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000024_000003.wav|After all, most people look on the cashier of a bank as a sort of human slot machine.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000092_000001.wav|That was the point.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000111_000003.wav|No!|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000006_000000.wav|There was also Hignett, who added to the meagre salary allowed him by the bank by singing comic songs at the minor music halls.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000031_000001.wav|But get on with your work, Smith.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000043_000000.wav|'Jackson,' he said.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000066_000000.wav|'Mr Waller has told me-' he began.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000004_000000.wav|Then there was no doubt that it was an interesting little community, that of the New Asiatic Bank.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000008.wav|Buck along.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000056_000001.wav|There was a silence.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000073_000000.wav|twenty one.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000016_000003.wav|He's not a bad sort.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000057_000001.wav|The whole pressure of the atmosphere seemed to lift.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000004.wav|They know how I like things to be done.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000061_000002.wav|Mr Bickersdyke was speaking as Mike entered.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000027_000001.wav|Concerning a Cheque|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000047_000005.wav|The former had been so very cheery and breezy, the latter so dazed and silent.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000004.wav|I could not have missed it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000007.wav|But he had not expected it to come to him riding high on the crest of a great, frothing wave of verbal denunciation.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000006.wav|Look here, you'd better nip back and do as much of the work as you can.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000018_000000.wav|'So other people have troubles as well as myself,' he murmured musingly.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000025_000001.wav|He walked listlessly.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000061_000001.wav|Opposite him, facing slightly sideways, was a small, round, very red faced man.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000001_000001.wav|When all the world outside is dark and damp and cold, the light and warmth of the place are comforting.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000057_000000.wav|Then, quite suddenly, an idea came to him.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000034_000000.wav|The day passed quickly.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000078_000000.wav|'Jackson isn't half copping it from old Bick.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000071_000000.wav|'I don't understand you, Mr Jackson.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000002.wav|He never liked me.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000007.wav|I shouldn't talk to him much if I were you.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000093_000003.wav|If it were only summer, he might get taken on somewhere as a cricket professional.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000100_000000.wav|'Dominoes,' he said, 'is one of the few manly sports which have never had great attractions for me.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000077_000002.wav|If it is one tithe as painful as that, you have my sympathy.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000037_000001.wav|The sky was blue and free from all suggestions of approaching thunderbolts.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000040_000001.wav|It was the same limp, crushed walk which Mike had seen when Edward's safety still hung in the balance.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000011_000000.wav|Mike could not make it out.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000069_000000.wav|'Explain?'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000034_000003.wav|Most of the goals towards which the average man strives struck him as too unambitious for the prodigy.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000007.wav|More work from two till half past three.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000023_000002.wav|He sat at his desk, occupying himself as best he could with the driblets of work which came to him.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000001.wav|You must check it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000029_000001.wav|All was joy, jollity, and song.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000007.wav|If he sees that I am opposed to this step, he may possibly reconsider it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000001.wav|You must recollect that Comrade Bickersdyke spoke in the heat of the moment.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000087_000002.wav|Old Bick looked at me as if he could eat me, snatched the letter out of my hand, signed it, and waved his hand at the door as a hint to hop it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000090_000001.wav|And for the first time he began to wonder what they would say about this at home.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000108_000000.wav|'In my case,' interrupted Mike, 'there was none of that rot. Bickersdyke wasn't putting it on.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000025_000002.wav|He was evidently tired out.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000001_000003.wav|The green shaded lamps look cosy.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000068_000001.wav|He told me about the cheque.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000002.wav|But my absence will not spell irretrievable ruin, as it would at a period of greater commercial activity.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000028_000006.wav|His attitude towards the latest actions of His Majesty's Government was that of one who felt that, after all, there was probably some good even in the vilest of his fellow creatures, if one could only find it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000009.wav|He had thundered at Mike as if Mike had been his Majesty's Government or the Encroaching Alien, or something of that sort.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000093_000000.wav|Again, what could he do by way of earning a living?|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000003.wav|He did not pick his words.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000085_000000.wav|'Jackson wasn't saying much.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000003.wav|But, then, trouble is such an elastic word.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000054_000007.wav|It was dreadful to see him sitting there, all limp and broken.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000101_000000.wav|He listened gravely while Mike related the incidents which had led up to his confession and the results of the same.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000013.wav|The thing must stop before it goes too far.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000046_000000.wav|'Yes.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000053_000001.wav|For the life of him he could not think of anything to say.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000093_000002.wav|And if he did not get another job in the City, what could he do?|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000018_000003.wav|I will reel round and make inquiries.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000006.wav|I shall not act rashly, Comrade Bristow.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000105_000005.wav|I have some little influence with Comrade Bickersdyke.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000004.wav|Henceforth my services, for what they are worth, are at the disposal of Comrade Bickersdyke.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000005.wav|I will hear what Comrade Jackson has to say on the matter.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000089_000011.wav|Mike's head was still spinning.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000005.wav|From eleven to half past twelve he would put in a little gentle work.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000093_000005.wav|He could earn his pay at that.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000004.wav|I will go and see if the orgy is concluded.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000004.wav|What can I do? I'm an old man.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000009.wav|But if I find, as I suspect, that he has wronged Comrade Jackson, I shall be forced to speak sharply to him.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000003.wav|A customer came to the desk to cash a cheque.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000059_000000.wav|The cashier did not notice the movement.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000087_000000.wav|'I couldn't wait to hear.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000004.wav|If you had stopped there, all might have been well.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000023_000000.wav|Psmith's injunction to him not to talk much was unnecessary.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000053_000000.wav|Once more Mike was tongue tied.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000059_000001.wav|Somebody had come in to cash a cheque, and he was working mechanically.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000035_000000.wav|By the end of the day Mike had had enough of Edward.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000050_000000.wav|Mike could not take it in all at once.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000097_000001.wav|I'm in a bit of a hole, and perhaps you can tell me what to do.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000002.wav|Pneumonia.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000025_000000.wav|The hours dragged slowly by till five o'clock struck, and the cashier, putting on his coat and hat, passed silently out through the swing doors.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000010.wav|Yet there it is.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000099_000000.wav|The Mecca, except for the curious aroma which pervades all Meccas, was deserted.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000100_000001.wav|A cousin of mine, who secured his chess blue at Oxford, would, they tell me, have represented his University in the dominoes match also, had he not unfortunately dislocated the radius bone of his bazooka while training for it.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000037_000003.wav|Mike went for his morning stroll round the office feeling that things had settled down and had made up their mind to run smoothly.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000001.wav|And a clumsy one.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000068_000000.wav|'I know.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000001.wav|Comrade Jackson is essentially a Sensitive Plant, highly strung, neurotic.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000103_000002.wav|I don't know how much farther you want it to go.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000102_000008.wav|When you were free and without ties, it did not so much matter.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000002_000001.wav|At present, the weather being cold and dismal, he was almost entirely contented. Now that he had got into the swing of his work, the days passed very quickly; and with his life after office hours he had no fault to find at all.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000011_000002.wav|Mr Waller's face had the unreasonable effect on him of making him feel shy and awkward.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000103_000001.wav|I've got the sack.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000028_000002.wav|He was amazed to find the cashier not merely cheerful, but even exuberantly cheerful.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000098_000001.wav|Naturally I shall be missed, if I go out.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000054_000004.wav|I shall be dismissed.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000088_000002.wav|I cannot have his nervous system jolted and disorganized in this manner, and his value as a confidential secretary and adviser impaired, even though it be only temporarily.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000038_000000.wav|When he got back, barely half an hour later, the storm had burst.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000053_000004.wav|He sat silent.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000036_000001.wav|We repeat it now because of its profound truth.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000107_000003.wav|He is hauled into the presence of the foaming customer, cursed, and sacked.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000006.wav|I am good for nothing. Nobody will take an old man like me.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000052_000003.wav|I should have seen it on any other day but that.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000001_000002.wav|There is a pleasant air of solidity about the interior of a bank.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000008.wav|From half past three till half past four tea in the tearoom, with a novel.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000037_000002.wav|Mr Waller, still chirpy, had nothing but good news of Edward.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000005.wav|Mike could guess what he was feeling, and what he was thinking about.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000091_000002.wav|Mike's was one of those direct, honest minds which are apt to concentrate themselves on the crisis of the moment, and to leave the consequences out of the question entirely.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000009.wav|And from half past four till five either a little more work or more pottering, according to whether there was any work to do or not.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000087_000004.wav|He had started jawing Jackson again before I was out of the room.'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000005_000000.wav|The place was full of quaint characters.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000021_000001.wav|'Pretty badly too, from what I can gather.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000016_000000.wav|'Look here, Smith,' said Mike, 'I wish you'd go round to the Cash and find out what's up with old Waller.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000016_000001.wav|He's got the hump about something. He's sitting there looking absolutely fed up with things.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000000.wav|'I shall lose my place.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000056_000002.wav|Mike sat staring miserably in front of him.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000086_000002.wav|What, exactly was the cause of the turmoil?'|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000003_000003.wav|From ten to eleven he would potter.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000004_000004.wav|They had leisure to think of other things besides their work.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000097_000000.wav|'Look here, Smith,' he said, 'I want to speak to you.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000001.wav|I may now think of my own troubles.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000022_000001.wav|Mr Waller was still sitting staring out across the aisle. There was something more than a little gruesome in the sight of him.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000055_000003.wav|I shall be dismissed.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000001_000004.wav|And, the outside world offering so few attractions, the worker, perched on his stool, feels that he is not so badly off after all.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000005_000001.wav|There was West, who had been requested to leave Haileybury owing to his habit of borrowing horses and attending meets in the neighbourhood, the same being always out of bounds and necessitating a complete disregard of the rules respecting evening chapel and lock up.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000108_000001.wav|He meant every word.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000053_000003.wav|But he could find nothing that would not sound horribly stilted and cold.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000030_000006.wav|He shall have the full educative value of my exclusive attention.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/318/124224/318_124224_000028_000001.wav|Mike came to the office next morning prepared for a repetition of the previous day.|318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000009_000000.wav|After several minutes had passed and no harm had befallen them, Betsy gained courage.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000033_000001.wav|"What can all this mean?"|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000021_000000.wav|"The star exploded?" asked Betsy wonderingly.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000009_000002.wav|Whether she and Hank were alone, or the others were with them, she could not tell.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000044_000000.wav|"We didn't do it on purpose," explained Betsy, and Polychrome added: "I am quite sure that Ruggedo, the Nome King, pushed us down that Tube."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000014_000000.wav|"Why?" said Betsy.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000047_000000.wav|"Then you are enemies of Ruggedo?" inquired the peculiar Person.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000031_000001.wav|Then, just as they began to fear the Tube would never end, Tik Tok popped out into broad daylight and, after making a graceful circle in the air, fell with a splash into a great marble fountain.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000057_000000.wav|"Gracious!" cried Betsy; "it must be Tik Tok, and he'll drown."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000029_000000.wav|All this time they were swiftly falling through the Tube, and it was not so easy for them to talk as you may imagine when you read their words.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000011_000000.wav|"This is awful, Hank!" cried Betsy in a loud voice, and Queen Ann heard her and called out: "Are you safe, Betsy?"|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000004_000001.wav|But no one suspected any especial danger until after they had entered Ruggedo's cavern, and so they were journeying along in quite a contented manner when Tik Tok, who marched ahead, suddenly disappeared.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000004.wav|He wore a robe of scarlet, which did not cover his arms and extended no lower than his bare knees.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000063_000001.wav|Shaggy took the can and tried to oil Tik Tok's joints.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000002.wav|His hair was black and bushy and seemed inclined to curl at the ends.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000024_000001.wav|"But I don't think it matters much."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000005.wav|On the bosom of the robe was embroidered a terrible dragon's head, as horrible to look at as the man was beautiful.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000041_000000.wav|"Don't call it a 'hollow' Tube, please," exclaimed the Peculiar Person in an irritated tone of voice.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000065_000000.wav|"Shall we go?" asked Queen Ann, uncertainly; but just then she received a shove that almost pitched her forward on her head; so she decided to go.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000042_000000.wav|"Why?" asked Betsy.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000009_000004.wav|There was Tik Tok, flat upon his back and sliding headforemost down the incline.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000018_000001.wav|"But isn't this an odd experience?|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000035_000000.wav|The mule was heavier and had Betsy clinging to his back, so he did not go so high up.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000032_000000.wav|Out came the officers, in quick succession, tumbling heels over head and striking the ground in many undignified attitudes.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000006_000001.wav|Suddenly Hank pitched forward and began falling and Betsy would have tumbled over his head had she not grabbed the mule's shaggy neck with both arms and held on for dear life.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000018_000000.wav|"Be patient and you'll find out, my dear," said Polychrome.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000058_000001.wav|But before they could reach it, invisible hands raised Tik Tok from the marble basin and set him upon his feet beside it, water dripping from every joint of his copper body.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000003.wav|So far no one could find any fault with his appearance.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000045_000001.wav|Did you say Ruggedo?" cried the man, becoming much excited.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000059_000001.wav|He next made an attempt to walk but after several awkward trials found he could not move his joints.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000049_000001.wav|He looked thoughtfully from one to another of them for a while and then he turned his head over his shoulder and said: "Never mind the fire and pincers, my good brothers.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000045_000000.wav|"Ha! Ruggedo!|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000028_000000.wav|"I'll try," laughed the Rainbow's Daughter.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000037_000000.wav|Shaggy, who was always polite, helped him to do this and when the man was free and could see again he looked at his visitors with evident amazement.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000007_000003.wav|They were, indeed, descending the "Hollow Tube" that led to the other side of the world.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000060_000000.wav|Peals of jeering laughter from persons unseen greeted Tik Tok's failure, and the new arrivals in this strange land found it very uncomfortable to realize that there were many creatures around them who were invisible, yet could be heard plainly.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000064_000000.wav|"Come!" commanded Tubekins, and turning his back upon them he walked up the path toward the castle.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000001.wav|His eyes were large and blue in color and his teeth finely formed and white as snow.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000009_000005.wav|And there were the Officers of the Army of Oogaboo, all tangled up in a confused crowd, flapping their arms and trying to shield their faces from the clanking swords, which swung back and forth during the swift journey and pommeled everyone within their reach.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000063_000002.wav|As if to assist him, a strong current of warm air was directed against the copper man which quickly dried him.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000009_000001.wav|She could see nothing at all, nor could she hear anything except the rush of air past her ears as they plunged downward along the Tube.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000065_000001.wav|The officers who hesitated received several energetic kicks, but could not see who delivered them; therefore they also decided-very wisely-to go.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000027_000001.wav|"Couldn't you manage to fall all by yourself, my dear?"|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000052_000000.wav|But soon they gained courage to look more closely at the Peculiar Person.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000005_000000.wav|The officers thought he must have turned a corner, so they kept on their way and all of them likewise disappeared-one after another. Queen Ann was rather surprised at this, and in hastening forward to learn the reason she also vanished from sight.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000049_000002.wav|It will be best to take these strangers to the Private Citizen."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000020_000002.wav|He thought it would save him the bother of going around the earth's surface, but he tumbled through the Tube so fast that he shot out at the other end and hit a star in the sky, which at once exploded."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000000.wav|His face was beautiful, but lacked expression.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000052_000001.wav|As he was a type of all the inhabitants of this extraordinary land whom they afterward met, I will try to tell you what he looked like.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000007.wav|He had one blue leg and one pink one, while both his feet-which showed through the open sandals he wore-were jet black.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000036_000002.wav|But as yet the only inhabitant to greet them was the Peculiar Person just mentioned, who had shaken off the grasp of the officers without effort and was now trying to pull the battered crown from off his eyes.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000040_000000.wav|"I can't say, exac'ly where we came from, cause I don't know the name of the place," said the girl, "but the way we got here was through the Hollow Tube."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000023_000000.wav|"And what became of the Magician?" inquired the girl.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000050_000000.wav|"Very well, Tubekins," responded a Voice, deep and powerful, that seemed to come out of the air, for the speaker was invisible.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000019_000000.wav|"How do you know we're in the center of the earth?" asked Betsy, her voice trembling a little through nervousness.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000061_000000.wav|"Shall I wind him up?" asked Betsy, feeling very sorry for Tik Tok.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000002_000000.wav|Chapter Ten|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000025_000000.wav|"It matters a good deal, if we also hit the stars when we come out," said Queen Ann, with a moan.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000053_000006.wav|His arms and legs were left bare and the skin of one arm was bright yellow and the skin of the other arm a vivid green.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000056_000000.wav|But just then a Voice exclaimed: "Here's another of them, Tubekins, lying in the water of the fountain."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000007_000000.wav|All around was darkness, and they were not falling directly downward but seemed to be sliding along a steep incline.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000051_000000.wav|All our friends gave a jump, at this.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000043_000000.wav|"Because all tubes are made that way.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000035_000001.wav|Fortunately for his little rider he struck the ground upon his four feet.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000013_000000.wav|"Don't ask her that, please don't!" said Shaggy, who was not too far away to overhear them.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000046_000000.wav|"That is what she said," replied Shaggy, "and I believe she is right. We were on our way to conquer the Nome King when suddenly we fell into the Tube."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000020_000001.wav|"I have often heard of this passage, which was once built by a Magician who was a great traveler.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000003_000000.wav|A Terrible Tumble Through a Tube|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000041_000001.wav|"If it's a tube, it's sure to be hollow."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000063_000000.wav|At once an oil can appeared before him, held on a level with his eyes by some unseen hand.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000048_000000.wav|"Not exac'ly enemies," said Betsy, a little puzzled by the question, "'cause we don't know him at all; but we started out to conquer him, which isn't as friendly as it might be."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000007_000001.wav|Hank's hoofs were resting upon some smooth substance over which he slid with the swiftness of the wind.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000038_000001.wav|"Where did you come from and how did you get here?"|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000029_000001.wav|But although they were so helpless and altogether in the dark as to their fate, the fact that they were able to converse at all cheered them, considerably.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000051_000001.wav|Even Polychrome was so startled that her gauze draperies fluttered like a banner in a breeze.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000058_000000.wav|"Water is a bad thing for his clockworks, anyway," agreed Shaggy, as with one accord they all started for the fountain.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000007_000002.wav|Once Betsy's heels flew up and struck a similar substance overhead.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000055_000000.wav|"Follow me to the Residence-all of you!"|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000054_000000.wav|Betsy could not decide whether these gorgeous colors were dyes or the natural tints of the skin, but while she was thinking it over the man who had been called "Tubekins" said:|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000049_000000.wav|"True," agreed the man.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000006_000000.wav|Betsy Bobbin had tired her feet by walking, so she was now riding upon the back of the stout little mule, facing backward and talking to Shaggy and Polychrome, who were just behind.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135022/1313_135022_000026_000000.wav|"Don't worry," advised Polychrome.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000002.wav|If we stay here, the Blacks might come this way and their dingo dogs hunt us to death.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000006.wav|I've done it many times before at night."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000025_000000.wav|"But it's all sham," said Dot; "the Black man couldn't be a real kangaroo."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000022_000000.wav|"All Humans are the same underneath, they all kill kangaroos," said the Kangaroo.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000005_000001.wav|"We are not in danger at present," she said, "but one never knows when one will be, so we must move; and that will be more dangerous than staying where we are."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000027_000001.wav|"Well, I forgive their killing such a silly creature!|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000033_000002.wav|There are hawks, snakes, dingoes and humans, and no one can tell for what good they exist.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000023_000000.wav|Dot looked once more at the hideous figures as they left the fire and began acting like actors.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000026_000002.wav|But their legs bend the wrong way for jumping, and that stick isn't any good for a tail, and it has to be worked with those big, clumsy arms.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000026_000005.wav|Dot thought the Kangaroo had never looked so grand before.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000012_000002.wav|We shall have to pass quite close to their playground." So in perfect silence they went on.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000018_000001.wav|She had thought she would see a few Black folk, not a crowd of such terrible people as she beheld. They did not look like human beings at all, but like dreadful demons, they were so wicked and ugly in appearance.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000030_000000.wav|Dot thought that if men behaved like that in towns it must be very strange.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000018_000000.wav|Dot nearly screamed with fright at the sight.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000017_000003.wav|Of course Dot thought this would be great fun, so the Kangaroo took her to the rock, where they peeped through the trees and saw before them the weird scene and dance.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000000.wav|"That won't do," replied the Kangaroo.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000029_000000.wav|"Now this is better!" said the Kangaroo, with a smile.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000026_000004.wav|Why it's enough to make a kangaroo's sides split with laughter to see such foolery!" Dot's friend peeped at the Black's acting with the contempt to be expected of a real kangaroo, who saw human beings pretending to be one of those noble animals.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000021_000000.wav|"But white Humans are not like that," said Dot.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000018_000003.wav|The dancing men were divided from the rest of the tribe by a row of fires, which, burning brightly, lit the horrid scene with a lurid red light.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000033_000004.wav|After all," said the kind animal, "it wouldn't do for every one to be a kangaroo, for I doubt if there would be enough grass; but you may become an improved Human."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000026_000003.wav|Just see, too, how those skins fit!|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000026_000006.wav|She was so tall, so big, and yet so graceful: a really beautiful creature.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000018_000006.wav|Sometimes the women would cease beating the skin bags to clap their hands and strike their sides, yelling the words of the corroboree song, as the painted figures, like fiends and skeletons, danced before the row of fires.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000017_000000.wav|If they had gone on their way it is possible that they would have slipped past the Blacks without danger.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000018_000002.wav|The men who were dancing were without clothes, but their black bodies were painted with red and white stripes, and bits of down and feathers were stuck on their skin. Some had only white stripes over the places where their bones were, which made them look like skeletons flitting before the fire, or in and out of the surrounding darkness.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000017_000001.wav|But although the Kangaroo is as timid an animal as any in the bush, it is also very curious, and Dot's Kangaroo wished to peep at the corroboree.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000036_000000.wav|"Never do what?" enquired Dot, anxious to know all that she should do, so as to be improved.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000008_000000.wav|Dot looked round to say good bye to the Koala, but the little animal had heard the Kangaroo speak of Blacks, and that word suggested to its empty little head that it must keep its skin whole, so, without waiting to be polite to Dot, it had sneaked up its gum tree and was well out of sight.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000001.wav|"This is the conclusion I have jumped to.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000027_000002.wav|There wasn't a jump in it."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000019_000001.wav|"Oh, Kangaroo!" she whispered, "they are dreadful, horrid creatures."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000028_000000.wav|After more dancing to the singing and noise of the on lookers, a Blackfellow came from the little bower in the dim background, with a battered straw hat on, and a few rags tied round his neck and wrist, in imitation of a collar and cuffs.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000011_000001.wav|"Their camp is over there," said the Kangaroo, "that is the sound of their game."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000004.wav|That is a little risky, but we must go that way.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000023_000001.wav|One of the Blackfellows had come from a little bower of trees, and wore a few skins so arranged as to make him look as much like a kangaroo as possible, whilst he worked a stick which he pretended was a kangaroo's tail, and hopped about.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000033_000001.wav|For some reason there have to be all sorts of creatures on the earth.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000039_000001.wav|Perhaps this was because the kangaroo cannot think, but it quickly jumped to the conclusion that they were in danger.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000017_000002.wav|She whispered to Dot that it would be nice for a little Human to see some other Humans after being so long amongst bush creatures, and said, also, that there would be no great danger in hopping to a rock that would command a view of the open ground where the corroboree was being held.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000004_000000.wav|"I'm so glad you've come back!" she exclaimed.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER seven|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000012_000000.wav|"Can't we go some other way?" asked Dot.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000040_000000.wav|Whilst they had been peeping at the corroboree, and talking, the dingo dogs that had been prowling around the camp, had caught scent of the Kangaroo; and, following the trail, had set up an angry snapping and howling.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000031_000000.wav|"I wish I were not a little white girl," she whispered to the Kangaroo.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000022_000001.wav|"Look there! they are playing at killing us in their dance."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000030_000002.wav|But she did not say anything, for it was quite clear in her little mind that Blackfellows, kangaroos, and willy wagtails had a very poor opinion of white people.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000030_000001.wav|She had not seen any like the acting Blackfellow at her cottage home.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000024_000000.wav|"What an idea of a kangaroo!" sniffed Dot's friend, "why, a real kangaroo would have smelt or heard those Humans, and have bounded away far out of sight by now."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000019_000000.wav|It was a terrifying sight to Dot.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000037_000000.wav|"Never, never eat kangaroo tail soup!" said the Kangaroo, solemnly.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000005.wav|We can do this easily if the dogs don't get scent of us, as all the Blacks are prancing about and making a noise, having a kind of game in fact, and they are so amused that we ought to get past quite safely.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000033_000003.wav|They must have dropped on to this world by mistake for another, where there could only have been themselves.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000032_000000.wav|The gentle animal patted her kindly with her delicate black hands.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000033_000000.wav|"You are as nice now as my baby kangaroo," she said sadly, "but you will have to grow into a real white Human.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000026_000001.wav|"Humans think themselves so clever," she continued, "but just see what bad kangaroos they make-such a simple thing to do, too!|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000009_000000.wav|Without wasting time, Dot settled in the Kangaroo's pouch, and they started upon their perilous way.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000018_000004.wav|The firelight seemed to make the ferocious faces of the tribe still more hideous.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000006_000000.wav|"Then let us stay," said Dot.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/136054/1313_136054_000007_000003.wav|To get to a safe place we must pass their camp.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000073_000000.wav|"Shoulder your gun and stand ready to march," advised Files; so Tik Tok held the gun straight and stood still.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000013_000000.wav|"No," agreed Files, "that is a fact.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000051_000000.wav|This prospect was so tempting that the officers began whispering together and presently Colonel Cheese said: "Your Majesty, by combining our brains we have just evolved a most brilliant idea.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000074_000000.wav|"What next?" he asked.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000018_000001.wav|"Advance, Private Files, and bind the enemy hand and foot!"|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000034_000001.wav|The adventurers from Oogaboo were now his firm friends, and there was no more talk about conquering and binding any of his party.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000000_000001.wav|This pole he stuck in the ground just in front of the well and then he cried in a loud voice:|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000025_000000.wav|Betsy laughed joyously at the comical rout of the "noble army," and Polychrome danced with glee.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000086_000001.wav|There were hundreds of white daisies, golden buttercups, bluebells and daffodils growing by the roadside, and each flower head was firmly set upon its slender but stout stem.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000051_000001.wav|We will make the Clockwork Man the private soldier!"|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000057_000000.wav|"What must I do?" asked Tik Tok.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000049_000001.wav|If anything happened to him, it would break my heart."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000028_000000.wav|"No," said Files, throwing down his gun and removing the knapsack which was strapped to his back, "I resign my position as the Army of Oogaboo. I enlisted to fight the enemy and become a hero, but if you want some one to bind harmless girls you will have to hire another Private."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000040_000000.wav|"Ah!" exclaimed General Apple, heaving a deep sigh, "that would be plunder worth our while.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000044_000002.wav|They are exceptionally brave in commanding others to fight, but could not themselves meet the enemy and conquer."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000024_000001.wav|The mule now dashed forward and began backing upon the officers and kicking fierce and dangerous heels at them.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000021_000000.wav|"You must!" cried Ann.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000052_000001.wav|Me?" asked Tik Tok.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000032_000000.wav|"Indeed you haven't!" retorted the Queen.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000069_000000.wav|Tik Tok looked at them and then around him in surprise.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000090_000000.wav|"That's it!" cried Files joyfully.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000042_000002.wav|Therefore I cannot conquer Ruggedo and win all his wealth."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000078_000000.wav|"But this is absurd!" said Ann with a frown.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000078_000001.wav|"If we can't get to Ruggedo, it is certain that we can't conquer him."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000047_000001.wav|Had not Private Files proved himself a traitor and a deserter, I would gladly have conquered this Ruggedo; but an Army without a private soldier is like a bee without a stinger."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000048_000002.wav|But there are plenty of people to take my place.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000064_000001.wav|Officers, give the command to march."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000053_000000.wav|"At that time you had no gun," said Polychrome.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000071_000000.wav|"No," said Queen Ann, "you must fall in marching order."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000082_000000.wav|Files and the Rose Princess, who had by this time become good friends, advanced a little way along one of the roads and found that it was bordered by pretty wild flowers.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000026_000000.wav|"Private Files, I command you to do your duty!" she cried again, and then she herself ducked to escape the mule's heels-for Hank made no distinction in favor of a lady who was an open enemy.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000087_000000.wav|She dropped to her knees, facing the flowers, and extended both her arms pleadingly toward them.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000059_000000.wav|"And that's enough, too," said Files.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000032_000002.wav|I know it is undignified in officers to fight, but unless you immediately capture Private Files and force him to obey my orders there will be no plunder for any of us.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000081_000001.wav|They all stood looking from one road to another in perplexity.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000050_000000.wav|"It would hurt me worse than that," declared Shaggy.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000045_000001.wav|"There are many kinds of bravery and one cannot be expected to possess them all.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000086_000000.wav|She looked more closely at the flowers.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000085_000000.wav|"Of course," said Files.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000027_000000.wav|"Private Files, seize and bind these prisoners!" screamed the Queen.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000034_000000.wav|Quite disconcerted by this unexpected effect of the Magnet, Shaggy disengaged himself from the Queen's encircling arms and quickly hid the talisman in his pocket.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000064_000000.wav|Then Ann strapped the knapsack to Tik Tok's copper back and said: "Now we are ready to march to Ruggedo's Kingdom and conquer it.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000049_000000.wav|"He might be killed," said Ann, looking tenderly at Shaggy, "for he is mortal, and able to die.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000026_000001.wav|Betsy grabbed her champion by the forelock, however, and so held him fast, and when the officers saw that the mule was restrained from further attacks they crept fearfully back and picked up their discarded swords.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000039_000000.wav|"Of course," answered Shaggy.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000070_000001.wav|The well?" he asked.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000048_000000.wav|"I am not a traitor, Your Majesty," protested Files.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000010_000000.wav|"Permit us to introduce ourselves," replied Shaggy, stepping forward. "This is Tik Tok, the Clockwork Man-who works better than some meat people.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000041_000000.wav|The Queen looked reproachfully at Files, who was sitting next to the lovely Princess and whispering in her ear.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000048_000003.wav|Why not make Shaggy Man the private soldier?"|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000045_000000.wav|"Very true, Your Majesty," said Colonel Plum, eagerly.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000044_000000.wav|"That is impossible.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000042_000001.wav|I have plenty of brave officers, indeed, but no private soldier for them to command.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000020_000000.wav|"It would be impolite, and I won't do it," he asserted.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000024_000000.wav|All this noise annoyed Hank, who had been eyeing the Army of Oogaboo with strong disfavor.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000000_000000.wav|Then out from among the trees marched Private Files, bearing the banner of Oogaboo, which fluttered from a long pole.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000031_000000.wav|"Nonsense," said Files.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000055_000000.wav|"I'll keep you wound up, Tik Tok," promised Betsy.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000011_000001.wav|I'm sorry I've conquered you."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000003_000000.wav|"Is the coast clear, Private Files?"|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000021_000001.wav|"It is your duty to obey orders."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000080_000000.wav|"Well, then, get busy and discover it," snapped the Queen.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000047_000000.wav|"You see," said Ann, "how helpless I am.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000013_000001.wav|But if my officers will kindly command me to conquer you, I will do so at once, after which we can stop arguing and converse more at our ease."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000052_000000.wav|"Who?|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000056_000002.wav|And, since a private soldier seems to be necessary to this Army, Tik Tok is the only one of our party fitted to undertake the job."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000008_000000.wav|Files turned around and, seeing the strangers for the first time, examined them with much curiosity.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000004_000000.wav|"There is no coast here," was the reply, "but all's well."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000033_000000.wav|The prospect of this awful fate so frightened the officers that they drew their swords and rushed upon Files, who stood beside Shaggy, in a truly ferocious manner.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000012_000000.wav|"But you haven't conquered us yet," called Betsy indignantly.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000035_000001.wav|To conquer the world, as you have set out to do, you must conquer everyone under its surface as well as those upon its surface, and no one in all the world needs conquering so much as Ruggedo."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000058_000001.wav|"When the officers command you to do anything, you must do it; that is all."|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000014_000000.wav|The officers had by this time risen from their knees and brushed the dust from their trousers.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000088_000000.wav|"Tell me, pretty cousins," she said in her sweet, gentle voice, "which way will lead us to the Kingdom of Ruggedo, the Nome King?"|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000043_000000.wav|"Why don't you make one of your officers the Private?" asked Shaggy; but at once every officer began to protest and the Queen of Oogaboo shook her head as she replied:|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000006_000002.wav|Spare us, and we will be your slaves forever!"|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000032_000001.wav|"If you resign it will break up my Army, and then I cannot conquer the world." She now turned to the officers and said: "I must ask you to do me a favor.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000018_000000.wav|"We'll see about that," retorted the Queen, angrily.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000086_000002.wav|There were even a few wild roses scattered here and there and perhaps it was the sight of these that gave the Princess courage to ask the important question.|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1313/135020/1313_135020_000001_000000.wav|"I hereby conquer this territory in the name of Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo, and all the inhabitants of the land I proclaim her slaves!"|1313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000005_000000.wav|The years flew by, and at last the twelve year period was nearly up. Then the king went away one day and left the servants to carry food to the princess.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000019_000003.wav|There was even enough left over to pay for a gun.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000007_000000.wav|"Ah," said she when she discovered the bone in her meat.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000045_000000.wav|Jose told all the circumstances of his mother's escape from the tower, just as she had so often described them to him.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000034_000000.wav|"I am called Jose the Beast Slayer, your majesty," replied the boy as he bowed low before the throne.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000048_000000.wav|"Why did she never come to me?" asked the father.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000006_000000.wav|The little princess had grown very tired of being shut up in the tower of the forest.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000007_000001.wav|"At last I have something with which to make this little window larger.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000028_000000.wav|Accordingly, Jose carried the money as a gift to the king.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000008_000000.wav|She used the bone to dig away the wall each side of the window and soon the little opening had grown so large that the princess could lean her head out of it and look up at lofty trees.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000037_000001.wav|It was the tale he liked best of all.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000017_000000.wav|They went to a church and the boy was baptized.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000003_000001.wav|You must give her meat which has no bones in it."|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000044_000001.wav|"Go on with your story, my boy," he said.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000021_000000.wav|One day in the deep forest he entered a cave where the giant of the forest lived.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000042_000000.wav|Jose looked at him in surprise.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000009_000000.wav|Now that the princess had some one to help her make the hole larger it was an easy matter to make it big enough to escape.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000044_000000.wav|The king nodded.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000041_000000.wav|"I always suspected something like that," interrupted the king.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000014_000001.wav|"I'll come and get you."|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000050_000002.wav|They brought home so many bags of gold that it required the entire royal army to transport it.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000019_000000.wav|Together they entered the house and together they explored the various rooms.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000032_000000.wav|Accordingly, the boy was led before the throne.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000031_000001.wav|"I'd like to see him."|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000008_000001.wav|That very day a duke passed that way on a hunting expedition and saw the beautiful princess in the tower.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000027_000000.wav|"You must carry some of this to the king," said his mother when she saw it and had heard his story.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000019_000002.wav|He asked alms at the royal palace and there he was given money to buy food.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000024_000000.wav|"I may be a little penny chicken, but I'm not in the least afraid of giants," replied the boy boldly.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000040_000003.wav|This was because the Wise Man of the Forest had told her father that it was the best way to bring her up. One day her father went away and the servants gave her meat with a bone in it and-"|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000004_000001.wav|It had no door, and only a little window.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000017_000003.wav|The boy thrust in his arm and opened the door as if it had been his own.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000025_000000.wav|"What, a little penny chicken like you not afraid of me!" cried the giant as he picked him up roughly and set him on his neck.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000010_000002.wav|He tried in vain to find out what had become of her, but there was no person who could tell him anything about her.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000022_000000.wav|"What are you doing here, little penny chicken?" asked the huge giant as he frowned down at Jose.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000030_000000.wav|"A little lad," replied the king's servants.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000011_000000.wav|The princess had gone with the duke across a great river which no one else knew how to cross.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000045_000001.wav|Tears were running down the king's cheeks when at last the story was ended.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000035_000000.wav|"Who are your parents?" asked the king.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000007_000002.wav|I've tried in vain to make it bigger with my fingers."|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000014_000000.wav|"Don't worry, mother," replied the child.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000050_000000.wav|When the princess was brought home to the royal palace there was a great feast held which lasted for three days and three nights.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000011_000002.wav|When at last her baby son was born she thought that she was the very happiest person in the whole world.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000026_000000.wav|Jose seized the giant's long beard and drew it around his neck so tightly that the giant fell to the floor dead.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000002_000001.wav|He went to the Wise Man of the Forest to learn how best to bring her up, and this is what he was told:|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000020_000000.wav|Now that he owned a gun there was no need of begging any more.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000015_000000.wav|To her amazement he crossed the great river in safety and bravely escorted his mother to the other bank in spite of her tears and cries of fear.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000049_000000.wav|"I think she was afraid she'd be punished for running away from the tower without any door," was Jose's reply.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000004_000002.wav|Here the princess was placed.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000009_000001.wav|That very night she ran away with the duke.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000011_000001.wav|She lived in a big cave in the rocks, and after all the years in the tower it seemed a wonderful home indeed. She was never tired of admiring the trees and flowers of the forest and listening to the songs of the birds.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000039_000000.wav|"Tell me about this tower," he said eagerly.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000004_000000.wav|The king ordered a tower constructed in the deep forest.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000012_000003.wav|The strong current bore him swiftly away, leaving the princess on one side of the river and her little son on the other.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000012_000002.wav|Then he returned for the princess, but on the way his foot slipped and he fell into the river.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000013_000000.wav|"How shall I get across?" cried the princess when she saw what had happened.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000020_000001.wav|He shot plenty of game for his mother and what was left he carried to the royal palace to give to the king.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000038_000000.wav|At the boy's words the king started and looked at him sharply.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000018_000000.wav|"Walk in, mother dear," were his words.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000047_000001.wav|"It is she who told me to carry the money to the king."|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000019_000001.wav|There was nobody there and there was nothing to eat. Accordingly, Jose went out begging.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000016_000001.wav|"You are indeed a son to be proud of!"|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000000_000000.wav|JOSE THE BEAST SLAYER|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/110131/7881_110131_000033_000000.wav|"What is your name, my lad?" asked the king kindly.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000005_000001.wav|On the table stood a singular looking green plant in a red earthen jar.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000010.wav|He was courteous, adamant, waiting her explanation.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000012_000004.wav|During their conversation she had said:|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000018_000001.wav|You look unhappy as if you yourself had been married instead of having acted merely as an accomplice.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000018_000002.wav|Look at me, another accessory, come two thousand miles on a garlicky, cockroachy banana steamer all the way from South America to connive at the sacrifice-please to observe how lightly my guilt rests upon my shoulders.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000012.wav|Where was his fault?|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000009_000005.wav|Indeed, his conceit had crumbled; its last prop was gone.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000009_000001.wav|He had told himself that her paleness was from thoughts of another than the man to whom she was about to give herself.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000006_000001.wav|Both men were in evening dress.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000006.wav|There was no note, no message, merely a tag upon the plant bearing a barbarous foreign or botanical name.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000005_000000.wav|That is what Trysdale was doing, standing by a table in his bachelor apartments.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000015.wav|If-|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000015_000001.wav|He allowed the imputation to pass without denial.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000008_000000.wav|From this last hopeless point of view he still strove, as if it had become a habit of his mind, to reach some conjecture as to why and how he had lost her.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000006_000002.wav|White favors like stars upon their coats shone through the gloom of the apartment.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000020_000000.wav|"Your brandy," resumed the other, coming over and joining him, "is abominable.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000009.wav|Their greetings were conventional, but she looked at him, breathless, wondering, eager.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000013_000002.wav|Is there anything you do not know?"|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000012_000000.wav|As Trysdale grimly wrenched apart the seam of his last glove, the crowning instance of his fatuous and tardily mourned egoism came vividly back to him.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000012_000002.wav|He could not, now, for the pain of it, allow his mind to dwell upon the memory of her convincing beauty that night-the careless wave of her hair, the tenderness and virginal charm of her looks and words.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000015_000002.wav|Without protest, he allowed her to twine about his brow this spurious bay of Spanish scholarship.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000024_000000.wav|"Yes.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000013.wav|Who had been to blame?|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000009_000004.wav|Once that same look had been raised to him, and he had gauged its meaning.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000012_000003.wav|But they had been enough, and they had brought him to speak.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000008.wav|His large pride and hurt vanity kept him from seeking her. Two evenings later they met at a dinner.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000008_000005.wav|These were the joints in his armor.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000015_000003.wav|He let it grace his conquering head, and, among its soft convolutions, he did not feel the prick of the thorn that was to pierce him later.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000007.wav|He waited until night, but her answer did not come.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000007_000000.wav|As he slowly unbuttoned his gloves, there passed through Trysdale's mind a swift, scarifying retrospect of the last few hours.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000018_000005.wav|take something to ease your conscience."|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000024_000002.wav|They call it by this name-Ventomarme.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000007_000001.wav|It seemed that in his nostrils was still the scent of the flowers that had been banked in odorous masses about the church, and in his ears the lowpitched hum of a thousand well bred voices, the rustle of crisp garments, and, most insistently recurring, the drawling words of the minister irrevocably binding her to another.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000004_000000.wav|The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000002.wav|He could have sworn, and he could swear now, that unmistakable consent was in her eyes, but, coyly, she would give him no direct answer.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000018_000000.wav|"I say, Trysdale, what the deuce is the matter with you?|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000011_000000.wav|She had always insisted upon placing him upon a pedestal, and he had accepted her homage with royal grandeur.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000013_000001.wav|Why have you hidden this accomplishment from me?|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000009_000007.wav|There had been no quarrel between them, nothing-|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000014.wav|Humbled now, he sought the answer amid the ruins of his self conceit.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000009_000002.wav|But even that poor consolation had been wrenched from him.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000022_000002.wav|See hundreds of 'em around Punta every day.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000003_000000.wav|THE CACTUS|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000009_000003.wav|For, when he saw that swift, limpid, upward look that she gave the man when he took her hand, he knew himself to be forgotten.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000014_000001.wav|No doubt he (Trysdale) had been guilty (he sometimes did such things) of airing at the club some old, canting Castilian proverb dug from the hotchpotch at the back of dictionaries. Carruthers, who was one of his incontinent admirers, was the very man to have magnified this exhibition of doubtful erudition.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000022_000001.wav|It's a tropical concern.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000005_000002.wav|The plant was one of the species of cacti, and was provided with long, tentacular leaves that perpetually swayed with the slightest breeze with a peculiar beckoning motion.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000008_000006.wav|And how free from either she had always been-But why-|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000021_000000.wav|"A present," said Trysdale, "from a friend.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000019_000000.wav|"I don't drink just now, thanks," said Trysdale.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000014_000000.wav|Now, Carruthers was an idiot.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000016_000003.wav|"I will send you my answer to morrow," she said; and he, the indulgent, confident victor, smilingly granted the delay.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000022_000003.wav|Here's the name on this tag tied to it.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000008_000004.wav|Vanity and conceit?|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000020_000003.wav|Wherever did you rake up this cactus, Trysdale?"|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000020_000002.wav|It's worth the trip. Hallo! here's an old acquaintance.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000023_000000.wav|"No," said Trysdale, with the bitter wraith of a smile-"Is it Spanish?"|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/109662/7881_109662_000012_000001.wav|The scene was the night when he had asked her to come up on his pedestal with him and share his greatness.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000014_000000.wav|A comrade in Company A of my regiment had been wounded a few days before and had died in the enemy's hands.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000013.wav|He was one of the most military looking men in the whole army, but friends he had none.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000011_000001.wav|We went out of that cornfield faster than we went in.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000011.wav|In their minds the colonel had been only a petty tyrant, and not even wholly loyal.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000006.wav|The bullet struck the colonel in the forehead, killing him instantly.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000020_000005.wav|The equipment and rations we carried in weight would have been a respectable load for a mule.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000005_000003.wav|Their kind of war meant ambuscades and murder.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000007_000000.wav|The glad news came to my regiment that we were to be transferred to the South, where the real war was.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000020_000003.wav|I was only doing my duty.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000014_000003.wav|He was killed while trying to attend to other people's business."|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000003_000001.wav|They were not opponents from different far off sections fighting, but near neighbors, and nothing seemed too awful or too cruel for them to do.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000009_000000.wav|As we were about to embark on boats at saint Louis we beheld in the snow and storm many steamers anchored out in the pitiless waters of the Mississippi River.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000015_000002.wav|Our deeds were no credit to anybody, though here and there we had a little fight.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000008_000002.wav|Many a man we left to sicken and die at some farmhouse by the roadside.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000003_000000.wav|One half of the male population of Missouri was trying to kill the other half.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000010.wav|He was, however, a splendid disciplinarian, but this was something the volunteers did not want.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000020_000002.wav|I deserved no special credit for this.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000009_000004.wav|This army of prisoners taken in battle was his introduction to the world.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000010_000001.wav|The town was defended by strong forts and many cannon, but its speedy capture by us helped to open up the Mississippi River.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000002.wav|The sentinel who did the killing declared that Rebels had been slipping up to his post all night, and when he would hail with "Who goes there?" they would fire at him and run into the darkness.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000017_000000.wav|His body was brought into camp the next morning and lay in his tent in state.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000018_000001.wav|Their promotions had never come about.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000000.wav|One incident of great importance, however, happened to my regiment here. It was the death of our colonel.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000008_000003.wav|Our destination was New Madrid, where we were to be a part of Pope's army in the siege and capture of that town.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000019_000000.wav|Worthington was succeeded by Colonel c l Matthies, one of the bravest, best, and most loved commanders of our army.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000008_000001.wav|A long, cold, miserable march it was too, hurrying in the daytime and freezing in our bivouacs in the snow and woods at night.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000003.wav|He resolved to stand behind a tree the next time and fire without hailing.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000006_000001.wav|We were to stop running after Price's ubiquitous army too.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000012_000004.wav|A candle burned beside him, and his cold hands closed on a pencil note that said, "Kindly bury this unfortunate officer." His breakfast waited on a table in the tent, showing how unexpected was his taking off.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000007.wav|As he fell from his horse the adjutant sprang to the ground and cried, "Who shot the officer of the day?" "I fired," exclaimed the sentinel, and he then told of his experiences of the night.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000012_000002.wav|I recall finding a dead Rebel officer, lying on a table in his tent, in full uniform.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000010_000003.wav|Yet few men were injured by them.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000019_000001.wav|Later Matthies was made a general, and at the close of the war died of wounds received in battle.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000002_000001.wav|A great volume would not contain the record of them all.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000010_000004.wav|We were in more danger when a fool officer one day took our brigade of infantry down through a cornfield to assault a gunboat that lay in a creek close by.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000013_000000.wav|Our victory was a great one for the nation, and it put two stars on the shoulder straps of General Pope.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000014_000002.wav|At its head stood a board with this curious inscription: "This man says he was a private in the Fifth Iowa Regiment.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000015_000001.wav|But we took part in the long, wonderful, and ridiculous siege of Corinth, under Halleck, when our great army was held back by red tape, martinets, and the fear of a lot of wooden guns that sat on top of the enemy's breastworks, while that enemy, with all his men, and with all his guns, and bag and baggage, was escaping to the south.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000008.wav|He was arrested, tried, and acquitted.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000006_000000.wav|At last an end came to this dreadful guerrilla chasing business in Missouri so far as we were concerned, anyway.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000005_000002.wav|It was rare that we could catch them or have a real fight.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000009.wav|Yet there were many among us who believed that the colonel had been intentionally murdered. He was one of the most competent colonels in the army, but among his soldiers he was fearfully unpopular.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000016_000012.wav|With a different disposition he certainly would have been a distinguished soldier.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000020_000004.wav|We had muzzle loading Whitney rifles and bayonets.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000018_000002.wav|Now they knew why.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000020_000000.wav|Although I was quartermaster sergeant of the regiment, I was always careful that this should not keep me away from the command when enduring hard marches or when engagements were coming on.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000010_000002.wav|It was a new experience to us, to have cannonballs come rolling right into our camp occasionally.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000008_000000.wav|One morning we left the cold and snow, where we had lived and shivered in thin tents all the winter, left the thankless duty of patrolling railroads in the storm at midnight, and marched in the direction of saint Louis.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000018_000000.wav|After his death numbers of the men of the regiment were indignant, when they found among his papers warrants and commissions intended by the governor for them, commissions that had never been delivered.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000005_000000.wav|Now for months my regiment, with others, had chased up and down, and all over that unhappy old State of Missouri, trying to capture and punish these bands of murderers.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000002_000003.wav|The sight moved me as no great battle ever did afterward.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7881/105574/7881_105574_000010_000000.wav|Shortly we were before New Madrid, and the siege conducted by General Pope commenced.|7881
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000012_000000.wav|"Then I dare you to do it," said Josie defiantly.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000004.wav|Not a kindred spirit, of course; but still I like him and I'm awfully sorry I ever criticized his prayers.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000035_000001.wav|If I could blame it on anybody I would feel so much better.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000039_000001.wav|"You're an unlucky child, there's no doubt about that; but as you say, you'll have the suffering of it.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000035_000000.wav|"And that is just why you should be sorry for me," said Anne, "because the thought that it is all my own fault is what makes it so hard.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000006.wav|I won't be able to go around for six or seven weeks and I'll miss the new lady teacher.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000015_000002.wav|"I shall walk that ridgepole, Diana, or perish in the attempt.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000036_000000.wav|"I'd have stayed on good firm ground and let them dare away.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000007_000004.wav|Josie descended from her perch, flushed with victory, and darted a defiant glance at Anne.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000009_000000.wav|"I don't think it's such a very wonderful thing to walk a little, low, board fence," she said.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000016.wav|When a minister's wife has so many claims on her time!|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000024_000000.wav|Marilla was out in the orchard picking a panful of summer apples when she saw mr Barry coming over the log bridge and up the slope, with mrs Barry beside him and a whole procession of little girls trailing after him.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000010_000002.wav|YOU couldn't, anyhow."|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000030.wav|Oh, it's just glorious to think of it.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000033.wav|And the Friday afternoons they don't have recitations Miss Stacy takes them all to the woods for a 'field' day and they study ferns and flowers and birds.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000041_000001.wav|But she was not solely dependent on it.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000022_000000.wav|"What's the matter?|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000040_000001.wav|"It will help me through splendidly, I expect.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000021_000001.wav|"Oh, where, Anne?" Before Anne could answer mrs Barry appeared on the scene.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000030_000000.wav|It was quite true.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000010_000001.wav|"I don't believe anybody could walk a ridgepole.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000020.wav|Even Josie Pye came to see me.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000026_000000.wav|"mr Barry, what has happened to her?" she gasped, more white and shaken than the self-contained, sensible Marilla had been for many years.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000012.wav|When I try to imagine him as a boy I see him with gray whiskers and spectacles, just as he looks in Sunday school, only small.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000002.wav|I just felt that I couldn't bear Josie Pye's scorn.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000036_000001.wav|Such absurdity!" said Marilla.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000026.wav|The girls all think she is perfectly sweet.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000003_000000.wav|"Small and select," Anne assured Marilla.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000012_000001.wav|"I dare you to climb up there and walk the ridgepole of mr Barry's kitchen roof."|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000002_000000.wav|A week after the tea at the manse Diana Barry gave a party.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000007_000003.wav|Josie walked the Barry fence with an airy unconcern which seemed to imply that a little thing like that wasn't worth a "dare." Reluctant admiration greeted her exploit, for most of the other girls could appreciate it, having suffered many things themselves in their efforts to walk fences.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000023.wav|Diana has been a faithful friend.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000028_000001.wav|I was walking the ridgepole and I fell off.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000001.wav|I haven't.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000017_000001.wav|Fortunately she fell on the other side, where the roof extended down over the porch so nearly to the ground that a fall therefrom was a much less serious thing.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000018_000001.wav|"Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed."|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000014_000002.wav|Never mind Josie Pye.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000029_000001.wav|Mercy me, the child has gone and fainted!"|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000023_000002.wav|I know I can never walk there.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000021_000000.wav|"Where?" sobbed Carrie Sloane.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000009.wav|But I'll try to bear it all bravely if only you won't be cross with me, Marilla."|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000007.wav|I gave him a good broad hint.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000040_000000.wav|"Isn't it fortunate I've got such an imagination?" said Anne.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000007.wav|She won't be new any more by the time I'm able to go to school. And Gil-everybody will get ahead of me in class.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000014_000001.wav|"You'll fall off and be killed.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000028_000002.wav|I expect I have sprained my ankle.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000004_000000.wav|They had a very good time and nothing untoward happened until after tea, when they found themselves in the Barry garden, a little tired of all their games and ripe for any enticing form of mischief which might present itself.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000025_000000.wav|At that moment Marilla had a revelation.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000041_000002.wav|She had many visitors and not a day passed without one or more of the schoolgirls dropping in to bring her flowers and books and tell her all the happenings in the juvenile world of Avonlea.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000021.wav|I received her as politely as I could, because I think she was sorry she dared me to walk a ridgepole.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000006_000000.wav|First of all Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door; which Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid Carrie Sloane.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000024.wav|She's been over every day to cheer my lonely pillow.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000016_000001.wav|Nevertheless, she managed to take several steps before the catastrophe came.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000007_000002.wav|But Josie Pye, if deficient in some qualities that make for popularity, had at least a natural and inborn gift, duly cultivated, for walking board fences.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000016_000002.wav|Then she swayed, lost her balance, stumbled, staggered, and fell, sliding down over the sun baked roof and crashing off it through the tangle of Virginia creeper beneath-all before the dismayed circle below could give a simultaneous, terrified shriek.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000015.wav|Isn't that something to be proud of, Marilla?|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000005_000001.wav|It had begun among the boys, but soon spread to the girls, and all the silly things that were done in Avonlea that summer because the doers thereof were "dared" to do them would fill a book by themselves.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000040_000002.wav|What do people who haven't any imagination do when they break their bones, do you suppose, Marilla?"|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000018.wav|She never tells you it's your own fault and she hopes you'll be a better girl on account of it.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000025_000001.wav|In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her. She would have admitted that she liked Anne-nay, that she was very fond of Anne.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000015_000003.wav|If I am killed you are to have my pearl bead ring."|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000032_000000.wav|That night, when Marilla went up to the east gable, where a white faced girl was lying, a plaintive voice greeted her from the bed.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000011_000000.wav|"Couldn't I?" cried Anne rashly.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000039_000000.wav|"There, there, I'm not cross," said Marilla.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000023_000000.wav|"My ankle," gasped Anne.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000013_000002.wav|All the fifth class girls said, "Oh!" partly in excitement, partly in dismay.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000039_000002.wav|Here now, try and eat some supper."|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000006.wav|He could get over that if he'd take a little trouble.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000003.wav|Why, even Superintendent Bell came to see me, and he's really a very fine man.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000028_000004.wav|Let us look on the bright side of things."|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000035_000002.wav|But what would you have done, Marilla, if you had been dared to walk a ridgepole?"|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000003_000001.wav|"Just the girls in our class."|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000005.wav|It's not a bit nice to faint, after all. And the doctor hurt me dreadfully when he was setting my ankle.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000010_000000.wav|"I don't believe it," said Josie flatly.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000028_000000.wav|"Don't be very frightened, Marilla.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000038_000008.wav|Oh, I am an afflicted mortal.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/698/122863/698_122863_000042_000009.wav|He told me all about the time he broke his ankle when he was a boy.|698
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000016_000015.wav|Well, said Balin, she shall bleed as much as she may bleed, but I will not lose the life of her whiles my life lasteth.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000014_000013.wav|So King Arthur let bury this knight richly, and made a mention on his tomb, how there was slain Herlews le Berbeus, and by whom the treachery was done, the knight Garlon.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000014.wav|We have little to do, said the two knights, to tell thee.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000008.wav|Therewith Merlin vanished away suddenly.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000014_000000.wav|WITHIN a day or two King Arthur was somewhat sick, and he let pitch his pavilion in a meadow, and there he laid him down on a pallet to sleep, but he might have no rest.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000020.wav|Come on, said Merlin, ye shall have great worship, and look that ye do knightly, for ye shall have great need.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000021.wav|As for that, said Balin, dread you not, we will do what we may.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000012_000007.wav|As for Pellinore, said Merlin, he will meet with you soon; and as for Balin he will not be long from you; but the other brother will depart, ye shall see him no more.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000014_000012.wav|That shall I do, said Balin, and that I make vow unto knighthood; and so he departed from this knight with great sorrow.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000016_000009.wav|Alas, said Balin, it is not the first despite he hath done me; and there the hermit and Balin buried the knight under a rich stone and a tomb royal.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000016_000013.wav|Then he went up into the tower, and leapt over walls into the ditch, and hurt him not; and anon he pulled out his sword and would have foughten with them.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000010_000009.wav|Alas he might not endure, the which was great pity, that so worthy a knight as he was one should be overmatched, that of late time afore had been a knight of King Arthur's, and wedded the sister of King Arthur; and for King Arthur lay by King Lot's wife, the which was Arthur's sister, and gat on her Mordred, therefore King Lot held against Arthur.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000002_000007.wav|So as they talked together, there came a king of Cornwall riding, the which hight King Mark.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000016_000007.wav|And as they came by an hermitage even by a churchyard, there came the knight Garlon invisible, and smote this knight, Perin de Mountbeliard, through the body with a spear.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000015_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000002_000006.wav|As for that, said Balin, I fear not greatly, but I am right heavy that I have displeased my lord King Arthur, for the death of this knight.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000012_000004.wav|All this made Merlin by his subtle craft, and there he told the king, When I am dead these tapers shall burn no longer, and soon after the adventures of the Sangreal shall come among you and be achieved.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000016_000016.wav|And so Balin made her to bleed by her good will, but her blood helped not the lady.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000012_000000.wav|SO at the interment came King Lot's wife Margawse with her four sons, Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000012_000008.wav|By my faith, said Arthur, they are two marvellous knights, and namely Balin passeth of prowess of any knight that ever I found, for much beholden am I unto him; would God he would abide with me.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000012_000010.wav|So after, for great trust, Arthur betook the scabbard to Morgan le Fay his sister, and she loved another knight better than her husband King Uriens or King Arthur, and she would have had Arthur her brother slain, and therefore she let make another scabbard like it by enchantment, and gave the scabbard Excalibur to her love; and the knight's name was called Accolon, that after had near slain King Arthur.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000010_000003.wav|Now what is best to do?|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000004.wav|Then said Merlin to Balin, Thou hast done thyself great hurt, because that thou savest not this lady that slew herself, that might have saved her an thou wouldest.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000004_000019.wav|Ah! said Balin, ye are Merlin; we will be ruled by your counsel.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000014_000007.wav|Sir, said Balin, I pray you make you ready, for ye must go with me, or else I must fight with you and bring you by force, and that were me loath to do.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000012_000005.wav|Also he told Arthur how Balin the worshipful knight shall give the dolorous stroke, whereof shall fall great vengeance.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000002_000000.wav|Now go we hence, said Balin, and well be we met.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000006_000003.wav|Abide, said Merlin, here in a strait way ye shall meet with him; and therewith he showed Balin and his brother where he rode.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000007_000002.wav|Then said he thus: Knights full of prowess, slay me not, for by my life ye may win, and by my death ye shall win nothing.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000010_000000.wav|In the meanwhile came one to King Lot, and told him while he tarried there Nero was destroyed and slain with all his people.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000011_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000010_000004.wav|said King Lot of Orkney; whether is me better to treat with King Arthur or to fight, for the greater part of our people are slain and destroyed?|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000007_000016.wav|But, sir, are ye purveyed, said Merlin, for to morn the host of Nero, King Rience's brother, will set on you or noon with a great host, and therefore make you ready, for I will depart from you.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000002_000003.wav|For I would wit it, said the dwarf.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137589/1322_137589_000013_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000009_000000.wav|CHAPTER two.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000007_000005.wav|Then Arthur took the sword by the sheath and by the girdle and pulled at it eagerly, but the sword would not out.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000014_000009.wav|Then the king buried her richly.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000008_000000.wav|Sir, said the damosel, you need not to pull half so hard, for he that shall pull it out shall do it with little might.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000021_000007.wav|Anon the knight Balin told his brother of his adventure of the sword, and of the death of the Lady of the Lake, and how King Arthur was displeased with him.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000015_000000.wav|CHAPTER four.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000007_000001.wav|And when she came before King Arthur, she told from whom she came, and how she was sent on message unto him for these causes.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000020_000000.wav|CHAPTER six.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000012_000000.wav|CHAPTER three.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000013_000003.wav|The name of it, said the lady, is Excalibur, that is as much to say as Cut steel.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000021_000002.wav|And therewith she took the sword from her love that lay dead, and fell to the ground in a swoon.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000016_000005.wav|She hath a brother, a passing good knight of prowess and a full true man; and this damosel loved another knight that held her to paramour, and this good knight her brother met with the knight that held her to paramour, and slew him by force of his hands.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000006_000005.wav|Well, said the king, let make a cry, that all the lords, knights, and gentlemen of arms, should draw unto a castle called Camelot in those days, and there the king would let make a council general and a great jousts.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000007_000002.wav|Then she let her mantle fall that was richly furred; and then was she girt with a noble sword whereof the king had marvel, and said, Damosel, for what cause are ye girt with that sword? it beseemeth you not.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000010_000007.wav|Ah! fair damosel, said Balin, worthiness, and good tatches, and good deeds, are not only in arrayment, but manhood and worship is hid within man's person, and many a worshipful knight is not known unto all people, and therefore worship and hardiness is not in arrayment.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000008_000005.wav|By my faith, said Arthur, here are good knights, as I deem, as any be in the world, but their grace is not to help you, wherefore I am displeased.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000010_000004.wav|And as the damosel took her leave of Arthur and of all the barons, so departing, this knight Balin called unto her, and said, Damosel, I pray you of your courtesy, suffer me as well to assay as these lords; though that I be so poorly clothed, in my heart meseemeth I am fully assured as some of these others, and meseemeth in my heart to speed right well.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000013_000001.wav|And she came on horseback, richly beseen, and saluted King Arthur, and there asked him a gift that he promised her when she gave him the sword.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000011_000000.wav|Anon after, Balin sent for his horse and armour, and so would depart from the court, and took his leave of King Arthur.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000021_000003.wav|And when she arose she made great dole out of measure, the which sorrow grieved Balin passingly sore, and he went unto her for to have taken the sword out of her hand, but she held it so fast he might not take it out of her hand unless he should have hurt her, and suddenly she set the pommel to the ground, and rove herself through the body.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000004_000000.wav|BOOK two.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000006_000003.wav|If this be true, said Arthur, it were great shame unto mine estate but that he were mightily withstood.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000014_000006.wav|In King Arthur's court, said Balin.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000021_000006.wav|Then Balan said, I little weened to have met with you at this sudden adventure; I am right glad of your deliverance out of your dolorous prisonment, for a man told me, in the castle of Four Stones, that ye were delivered, and that man had seen you in the court of King Arthur, and therefore I came hither into this country, for here I supposed to find you.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000006_000004.wav|It is truth, said the knight, for I saw the host myself.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000019_000003.wav|Peradventure, said Balin, it had been better to have holden you at home, for many a man weeneth to put his enemy to a rebuke, and oft it falleth to himself.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000010_000002.wav|And so he went privily into the court, and saw this adventure, whereof it raised his heart, and he would assay it as other knights did, but for he was poor and poorly arrayed he put him not far in press.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000018_000001.wav|This was the cause that the damosel came into this court.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000010_000013.wav|Nay, said Balin, for this sword will I keep, but it be taken from me with force.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000014_000001.wav|Now, said Balin, we must depart, take thou this head and bear it to my friends, and tell them how I have sped, and tell my friends in Northumberland that my most foe is dead.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000013_000006.wav|I will ask none other thing, said the lady.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000011_000004.wav|Then the most part of the knights of the Round Table said that Balin did not this adventure all only by might, but by witchcraft.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000014_000000.wav|Then Balin took up the head of the lady, and bare it with him to his hostelry, and there he met with his squire, that was sorry he had displeased King Arthur and so they rode forth out of the town.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1322/137588/1322_137588_000010_000006.wav|And then she said unto the knight, Sir, it needeth not to put me to more pain or labour, for it seemeth not you to speed there as other have failed.|1322
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000005_000003.wav|He can have nothing to say to me that anybody need not hear.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000002_000000.wav|The next day opened a new scene at Longbourn.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000012_000001.wav|"You forget that I have made no answer.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000010_000013.wav|On that head, therefore, I shall be uniformly silent; and you may assure yourself that no ungenerous reproach shall ever pass my lips when we are married."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000005_000000.wav|"Dear madam, do not go.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000005_000004.wav|I am going away myself."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000016_000002.wav|I wish you very happy and very rich, and by refusing your hand, do all in my power to prevent your being otherwise. In making me the offer, you must have satisfied the delicacy of your feelings with regard to my family, and may take possession of Longbourn estate whenever it falls, without any self reproach.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000004_000000.wav|Before Elizabeth had time for anything but a blush of surprise, mrs Bennet answered instantly, "Oh dear!--yes-certainly.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000020_000003.wav|My feelings in every respect forbid it.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000015_000001.wav|And you may be certain when I have the honour of seeing her again, I shall speak in the very highest terms of your modesty, economy, and other amiable qualification."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000005_000002.wav|mr Collins must excuse me.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000010_000005.wav|This is my advice.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000014_000000.wav|"Upon my word, sir," cried Elizabeth, "your hope is a rather extraordinary one after my declaration.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000004_000001.wav|I am sure Lizzy will be very happy-I am sure she can have no objection.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000010_000007.wav|You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000008_000000.wav|"Believe me, my dear Miss Elizabeth, that your modesty, so far from doing you any disservice, rather adds to your other perfections.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000013_000000.wav|"I am not now to learn," replied mr Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, "that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second, or even a third time.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000020_000002.wav|I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000012_000000.wav|"You are too hasty, sir," she cried.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000002_000002.wav|Having resolved to do it without loss of time, as his leave of absence extended only to the following Saturday, and having no feelings of diffidence to make it distressing to himself even at the moment, he set about it in a very orderly manner, with all the observances, which he supposed a regular part of the business.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000019_000004.wav|As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000020_000005.wav|Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000016_000003.wav|This matter may be considered, therefore, as finally settled." And rising as she thus spoke, she would have quitted the room, had mr Collins not thus addressed her:|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000013_000001.wav|I am therefore by no means discouraged by what you have just said, and shall hope to lead you to the altar ere long."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000007_000000.wav|Elizabeth would not oppose such an injunction-and a moment's consideration making her also sensible that it would be wisest to get it over as soon and as quietly as possible, she sat down again and tried to conceal, by incessant employment the feelings which were divided between distress and diversion.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000016_000001.wav|You must give me leave to judge for myself, and pay me the compliment of believing what I say.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000004_000002.wav|Come, Kitty, I want you up stairs." And, gathering her work together, she was hastening away, when Elizabeth called out:|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000010_000011.wav|And now nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000005_000001.wav|I beg you will not go.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000014_000004.wav|Nay, were your friend Lady Catherine to know me, I am persuaded she would find me in every respect ill qualified for the situation."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000010_000008.wav|Thus much for my general intention in favour of matrimony; it remains to be told why my views were directed towards Longbourn instead of my own neighbourhood, where I can assure you there are many amiable young women.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000019_000003.wav|Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000016_000000.wav|"Indeed, mr Collins, all praise of me will be unnecessary.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000008_000002.wav|You can hardly doubt the purport of my discourse, however your natural delicacy may lead you to dissemble; my attentions have been too marked to be mistaken.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000003_000000.wav|"May I hope, madam, for your interest with your fair daughter Elizabeth, when I solicit for the honour of a private audience with her in the course of this morning?"|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000001_000000.wav|Chapter nineteen|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000012_000002.wav|Let me do it without further loss of time.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000019_000001.wav|My reasons for believing it are briefly these: It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000007_000001.wav|mrs Bennet and Kitty walked off, and as soon as they were gone, mr Collins began.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000014_000001.wav|I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000019_000000.wav|"You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000014_000002.wav|I am perfectly serious in my refusal.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000018_000000.wav|"Really, mr Collins," cried Elizabeth with some warmth, "you puzzle me exceedingly.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1129/345_1129_000021_000000.wav|"You are uniformly charming!" cried he, with an air of awkward gallantry; "and I am persuaded that when sanctioned by the express authority of both your excellent parents, my proposals will not fail of being acceptable."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1120/345_1120_000035_000000.wav|"I wish it may."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1120/345_1120_000042_000000.wav|"I think she will.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1120/345_1120_000046_000000.wav|"Yes, all of them, I think.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000005_000000.wav|Chapter seven|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000021_000000.wav|"It is from Miss Bingley," said Jane, and then read it aloud.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000044_000000.wav|"Is this a hint to me, Lizzy," said her father, "to send for the horses?"|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000047_000000.wav|"We will go as far as Meryton with you," said Catherine and Lydia. Elizabeth accepted their company, and the three young ladies set off together.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000037_000000.wav|"MY DEAREST LIZZY,--|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000036_000000.wav|"This was a lucky idea of mine, indeed!" said mrs Bennet more than once, as if the credit of making it rain were all her own.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000020_000002.wav|What does he say?|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000024_000000.wav|"CAROLINE BINGLEY"|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000040_000000.wav|"Oh!|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000011_000000.wav|"From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000038_000000.wav|"I find myself very unwell this morning, which, I suppose, is to be imputed to my getting wet through yesterday.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000006_000000.wav|mr Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000009_000000.wav|Their visits to mrs Phillips were now productive of the most interesting intelligence.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000011_000001.wav|I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000020_000001.wav|What is it about?|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000014_000000.wav|"If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000052_000003.wav|Elizabeth did not quit her room for a moment; nor were the other ladies often absent; the gentlemen being out, they had, in fact, nothing to do elsewhere.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000007_000000.wav|She had a sister married to a mr Phillips, who had been a clerk to their father and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000045_000002.wav|I shall be back by dinner."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000050_000001.wav|She was received, however, very politely by them; and in their brother's manners there was something better than politeness; there was good humour and kindness.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000050_000004.wav|The latter was thinking only of his breakfast.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000052_000002.wav|The advice was followed readily, for the feverish symptoms increased, and her head ached acutely.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000051_000003.wav|She was not equal, however, to much conversation, and when Miss Bingley left them together, could attempt little besides expressions of gratitude for the extraordinary kindness she was treated with.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000029_000000.wav|"That would be a good scheme," said Elizabeth, "if you were sure that they would not offer to send her home."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000035_000002.wav|Her hopes were answered; Jane had not been gone long before it rained hard.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000051_000001.wav|Miss Bennet had slept ill, and though up, was very feverish, and not well enough to leave her room.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000043_000000.wav|"I shall be very fit to see Jane-which is all I want."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000039_000000.wav|"Well, my dear," said mr Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness-if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of mr Bingley, and under your orders."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000034_000000.wav|"But if you have got them to day," said Elizabeth, "my mother's purpose will be answered."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000050_000002.wav|mr Darcy said very little, and mr Hurst nothing at all.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000045_000000.wav|"No, indeed, I do not wish to avoid the walk.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000020_000003.wav|Well, Jane, make haste and tell us; make haste, my love."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000028_000000.wav|"No, my dear, you had better go on horseback, because it seems likely to rain; and then you must stay all night."|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000027_000000.wav|"Can I have the carriage?" said Jane.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/345/1119/345_1119_000006_000001.wav|Her father had been an attorney in Meryton, and had left her four thousand pounds.|345
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000043_000005.wav|Perhaps he's helping her to pack the things. Don't you think we might go in; or would it be ill natured?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000017_000005.wav|Would it not be well that she should learn to like him?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000048_000004.wav|"How do you do, doctor?" said mrs Dale, striving to use her accustomed voice, and to look as though there were nothing of special importance in his visit.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000026_000000.wav|Then the squire muttered certain words below his breath,--ejaculations against Crosbie, which were hardly voluntary; but even as involuntary ejaculations were very improper.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000017_000002.wav|Now you know it all.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000021_000001.wav|"I fear it is not possible.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000069_000000.wav|"I shall always call you Dame Commonplace when you're married," said Lily.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000002.wav|It would be a healing of wounds most desirable and salutary; an arrangement advantageous to them all; a destiny for Lily most devoutly to be desired,--if only it were possible.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000059_000001.wav|"They do in America."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000014.wav|This was the last suggestion made by dr Crofts, induced no doubt by the great encouragement he had received.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000031_000001.wav|In truth the squire, as he spoke, was half ashamed of the warmth of what he said.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000007.wav|There's one thing certain,--he can't kiss her hand."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000007.wav|Death would create no sorrow; ingratitude would lose its sting; and the betrayal of love would do no injury beyond that which it might entail upon worldly circumstances.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000039_000000.wav|"But he's in there certainly, unless he has gone out through the window, or up the chimney."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000066_000000.wav|"I don't think it will make much difference," said Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000065_000001.wav|"It's just the sort of thing for primitive people to do, like you and Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000001.wav|Every word that the squire said was true.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000033_000002.wav|There was a smile upon Lily's face as she lifted up her finger as if in caution, and no one looking at her would have supposed that she was herself in trouble.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000048_000002.wav|Bell still wore the checked apron as described by her sister.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000009_000000.wav|"I wish she could.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000050_000001.wav|Has any one undoctored him?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000047_000003.wav|But they'll remain there for ever if we don't go in.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000007_000001.wav|I shall go over myself with it, and see the earl.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000034_000001.wav|Where's Bell?" and mrs Dale went into the parlour as she was bidden.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000011.wav|Bell was as sure of her lot in life as though she were already being taken home to her modest house in Guestwick.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000065_000002.wav|All the same, Bell, I do wish you could have been married from this house."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000056_000000.wav|"I hate to be rich," said Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000028_000001.wav|The earl has behaved so kindly that every possible consideration is due to him.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000010.wav|The older and more solid things,--articles of household stuff that stand the wear of half a century,--had been in the Small House when they came to it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000021_000000.wav|"It is not possible for her," said mrs Dale.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000057_000000.wav|"Bell was always a fanatic in praise of poverty," said mrs Dale.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000053_000000.wav|"mrs Dale," said the doctor, "Bell has consented that it shall be so, if you will consent."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000023_000000.wav|"It will take years,--not months," said mrs Dale.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000056_000002.wav|I don't think it quite manly even to think about it; and I'm sure it isn't womanly."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000000.wav|mrs Dale sat silent, thinking over it all.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000035_000000.wav|"He's there!"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000004_000001.wav|And after dinner mrs Dale went through the gardens, up to the other house, with a written note in her hand.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000027_000000.wav|"And will you go to Guestwick yourself?" asked mrs Dale.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000009_000001.wav|I wish she could.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000026_000005.wav|Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged!|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000006.wav|How great had been the occasion, forcing Lily almost to lose herself in wonderment at what had occurred!|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000012.wav|In the first month or two they were to live in lodgings, and their goods were to be stored in some friendly warehouse.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000033_000001.wav|This latter mode of entrance mrs Dale now adopted; and as she made her way into the hall Lily came upon her, with very silent steps, out from the parlour, and arrested her progress.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000074_000000.wav|"I don't remember the austerity," said mrs Dale.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000070_000000.wav|Then they had tea, and after tea dr Crofts got on his horse and rode back to Guestwick.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000026_000004.wav|If, also, he could have perceived and understood the light in which an alliance with the De Courcy family was now regarded by Crosbie, I think that he would have received some consolation from that consideration.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000056_000001.wav|"I hate even to talk about it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000041_000000.wav|"He met me here, in the passage, and spoke to me ever so seriously. 'Come in,' I said, 'and see Bell packing the pokers and tongs.' 'I will go in,' he said, 'but don't come with me.' He was ever so serious, and I'm sure he had been thinking of it all the way along."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000014_000000.wav|"That is very generous; and I am delighted to hear it,--for John's sake."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000054_000000.wav|"There is but little doubt of that," said mrs Dale.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000049_000000.wav|"Mamma," said Bell, jumping up, "you must not call him doctor any more."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000005.wav|It is the view which the mind takes of a thing which creates the sorrow that arises from it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000004_000005.wav|Then, without closing her letter, she took it up to the squire in order that it might be decided whether it would or would not suit his views.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000058_000001.wav|I'm very fond of money earned.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000007.wav|There was no great occasion now, and no wonderment.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000013_000002.wav|Lord De Guest has taken him by the hand, and wishes him to marry.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000017_000006.wav|She always did like him, I thought, before that other fellow came down here among us."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000003.wav|I wonder how he is managing, for there is nothing on earth to sit upon but the old lump of a carpet.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000064_000000.wav|"I was not joking at all," said the doctor.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000033_000003.wav|"Mamma," she said, pointing to the drawing room door, and speaking almost in a whisper, "you must not go in there; come into the parlour."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000018_000000.wav|"She has always liked him-as a friend."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000029_000001.wav|She well knew what he meant by the curing of difficulties. He had intended to signify that had they lived together for a week at Guestwick the idea of flitting from Allington might possibly have been abandoned.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000005_000000.wav|"Leave it with me," he said; "that is, if you do not object."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000042_000000.wav|"And why should he not be serious?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000055_000000.wav|"We shall not be rich-" began the doctor.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000013_000001.wav|Perhaps I had better tell you all.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000026_000001.wav|mrs Dale heard them, and was not offended either by their impropriety or their warmth.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000006.wav|If the heart were always malleable and the feelings could be controlled, who would permit himself to be tormented by any of the reverses which affection meets?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000006.wav|I don't suppose she was ever in such a mess before.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000005.wav|She has got on your old checked apron, and when he came in she was rolling up the fire irons in brown paper.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000043_000004.wav|I have been so tired of waiting and looking out for you.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000030_000000.wav|"I do not know what I ought to say to you for your kindness."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000044_000000.wav|"Lily, don't be in too great a hurry to say anything.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000028_000002.wav|I had better tell him the whole truth, and go or stay, as he may wish.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000017_000004.wav|That other man was a villain. This man is honest.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000029_000000.wav|mrs Dale got up to leave him, but she could not go without saying some word of gratitude for all that he had attempted to do for them.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000004_000000.wav|On that day they dined early at the Small House, as they had been in the habit of doing since the packing had commenced.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000034_000002.wav|"But who is there?" she repeated.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000021_000002.wav|It is too soon."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000048_000000.wav|Then mrs Dale did open the door, giving some little premonitory notice with the handle, so that the couple inside might be warned of approaching footsteps.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000010.wav|It was but the other day that one of them had been thrown rudely to the ground through the treachery of a lover, but yet none of them feared treachery from this lover.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000004_000004.wav|But her other daughter, she said, would be very happy to accompany her uncle to Guestwick Manor.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000001.wav|dr Crofts is there, of course.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000008.wav|No one, unless it was Crofts, felt very triumphant.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000048_000005.wav|"I have just come down from the Great House."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000004.wav|The room is strewed about with crockery, and Bell is such a figure!|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000028_000003.wav|I don't see the good of going.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000011_000000.wav|"Oh, I know," said the squire: "I understand it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000050_000000.wav|"Must I not?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000029_000003.wav|She felt half ashamed of what she was doing, almost acknowledging to herself that she should have borne with his sternness in return for the benefits he had done to her daughters. Had she not feared their reproaches she would, even now, have given way.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000022_000000.wav|"Six months," pleaded the squire.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000008.wav|But the heart is not malleable; nor will the feelings admit of such control.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000009_000002.wav|I wish she could." As he repeated the words over and over again, there was an eagerness in his voice that filled mrs Dale's heart with tenderness towards him.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000016_000000.wav|"Ah! then he will do well."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000026_000002.wav|"But you can understand," she said, "that she cannot bring herself to go there." The squire struck the table with his fist, and repeated his ejaculations.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000051_000000.wav|"Oh, mamma, you understand," said Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000028_000005.wav|I did think that if we had all been there it might have cured some difficulties."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000003.wav|It was not so at all with Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000045_000000.wav|"Yes, mamma, there is," said Lily, putting her hand inside her mother's arm, "that's true enough."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000024_000000.wav|"And she will lose all her youth."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000002.wav|He's been nearly an hour.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000007_000002.wav|Then I will decline it or not, according to what passes between me and him.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000002.wav|She had been in no wise ashamed of her love, and had shown it constantly by some little caressing motion of her hand, leaning on his arm, looking into his face, as though she were continually desirous of some palpable assurance of his presence.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000003.wav|mrs Dale firmly believed that if her daughter could be made to accept john Eames as her second lover in a year or two all would be well. Crosbie would then be forgotten or thought of without regret, and Lily would become the mistress of a happy home.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000063_000000.wav|"james is joking," said Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000032_000000.wav|"At any rate I will not think evil," mrs Dale answered, giving him her hand.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000044_000001.wav|You may be mistaken, you know; and there's many a slip between the cup and the lip."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000075_000000.wav|"Nor yet Lily's silence," said Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000040_000000.wav|"What made you leave them?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000010_000000.wav|"The truth is," said mrs Dale, "she could not go there to meet john Eames."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000025_000001.wav|But it is done, and we cannot now go back.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000067_000001.wav|It sounds so ugly, being married from lodgings; doesn't it, mamma?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000004_000003.wav|She explained also, that the business of moving was in hand, and that, therefore, she could not herself accept the invitation.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000005.wav|How it had been felt by all concerned that the fortunes of the Small House were in the ascendant,--felt, indeed, with some trepidation, but still with much inward triumph.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000004.wav|With what a pretty speech had Crosbie been greeted!|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000043_000002.wav|We shall live alone together, you and I; but she will be so close to us!|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000076_000000.wav|"But it's all settled now," said Lily, "and I'm downright happy.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000013_000003.wav|He has promised to settle on him an income which will make him comfortable for life."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000026_000006.wav|It is arranged, apparently, that the injurer shall be punished, but that the person injured shall not gratify his desire for vengeance.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000028_000004.wav|What am I to do at Guestwick Manor?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000000.wav|But Bell was not seated next to her lover.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000052_000001.wav|I expect him to do everything for us, and not to call a moment of his time his own."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000034_000000.wav|"Who's there?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000036_000000.wav|"Who is he?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000009.wav|But they were all very happy, and were sure that there was safety in their happiness.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000011_000001.wav|But that is just what we want her to do.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000028_000000.wav|"I will take the note," said the squire, "and will let you know to morrow.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000001.wav|The proceeding, considering the nature of it,--that a young lady, acknowledged to be of great beauty and known to be of good birth, had on the occasion been asked and given in marriage,--was carried on after a somewhat humdrum fashion, and in a manner that must be called commonplace.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000013.wav|Under such circumstances would it not be well that Bell's marriage should be so arranged that the lodging question might not be in any degree complicated by her necessities?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000017_000003.wav|I did not mean to tell you; but it is as well that you should have the means of judging.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000032_000001.wav|After that she left him, and returned home.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000048_000003.wav|What might have been the state of her hands I will not pretend to say; but I do not believe that her lover had found anything amiss with them.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000008.wav|As her mother was about to go into a new residence, it might be as well that that residence should be fitted to the wants of two persons instead of three.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000062_000001.wav|"It only wants three weeks;--and with the house in such a condition!"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000025_000002.wav|She loves him yet as dearly as she ever loved him."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000060_000003.wav|Lily for the time had been raised to a pinnacle,--a pinnacle which might be dangerous, but which was, at any rate, lofty.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000011_000002.wav|Why should she not spend a week in the same house with an honest young man whom we all like."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000037_000000.wav|"Oh, mamma, don't be a goose!|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000052_000000.wav|"I understand," said Lily, going up to the doctor, and giving him her cheek to kiss, "he is to be my brother, and I mean to claim him as such from this moment.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000059_000000.wav|"Let her go out and visit the lady patients," said Lily.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000004_000002.wav|In that note she had told Lady Julia, with many protestations of gratitude, that Lily was unable to go out so soon after her illness, and that she herself was obliged to stay with Lily.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000062_000000.wav|"That would be hardly possible," said mrs Dale.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000033_000000.wav|In these days of the cold early spring, the way from the lawn into the house, through the drawing room window, was not as yet open, and it was necessary to go round by the kitchen garden on to the road, and thence in by the front door; or else to pass through the back door, and into the house by the kitchen.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000003_000000.wav|mrs DALE IS THANKFUL FOR A GOOD THING.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000043_000001.wav|I am so glad.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000073_000001.wav|And wasn't it hard to bear that you should have scolded me with such pertinacious austerity, and that I wasn't to say a word in answer!"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000046_000000.wav|"Oh, my darling, forgive me," said the mother, suddenly remembering that the use of the old proverb at the present moment had been almost cruel.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000007_000000.wav|"I'll tell you the plain truth at once, Mary.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000072_000000.wav|"No; you may not."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000005.wav|I do not think it would have made her unhappy if some sudden need had required that Crofts should go to India and back before they were married.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000020_000004.wav|But there are positions which cannot be reached, though there be no physical or material objection in the way.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000019_000000.wav|"She will never get a better lover."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000015_000000.wav|"And they have promoted him at his office."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48848/5712_48848_000061_000009.wav|So they talked about chairs and tables, carpets and kitchens, in a most unromantic, homely, useful manner! A considerable portion of the furniture in the house they were now about to leave belonged to the squire,--or to the house rather, as they were in the habit of saying.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000066_000002.wav|I never can understand it, but I rather think that makes it nicer."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000015_000000.wav|mrs Dale was silent for a minute or two before she answered this, but then she did answer it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000048_000000.wav|"I'm sometimes inclined to think, that whatever is, is wrong."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000008.wav|She was the chief sinner, in that she had refused to marry her cousin, and had declined even to listen to rational counsel upon the matter.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000007.wav|She's well rid of him; I'm sure of that;--though I suppose it would not do to tell her so."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000035_000001.wav|I should so like to see her.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000001.wav|Her visits were made with the pretence of taking to him information as to Lily's health; but there was perhaps at the bottom of them a feeling that, as the family intended to leave the Small House at the end of March, it would be well to let the squire know that there was no enmity in their hearts against him.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000011_000002.wav|She was transgressing the acknowledged rule of the house in saying any word that could be construed as being inimical to Crosbie or his bride.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000043_000001.wav|But you're a radical, Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000019_000000.wav|"I should call it jolly," said Lily, "if I could get up and go out. Do you remember lecturing me about talking slang the day that he first came?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000060_000001.wav|I hope God will bless them, and I pray that they may be happy." As she spoke these words, there was an unwonted solemnity in her tone which startled mrs Dale and Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000056_000000.wav|When half past eleven came, she was seated in a large easy chair over the drawing room fire, with a little table by her side, on which a novel was lying.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000010_000000.wav|"Mamma," she said, "how cold they'll be!" Her mother had announced to her the fact of the black frost, and these were the first words she spoke.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000079_000004.wav|Well; he's got another-valen-tine-now." So much she said with articulate voice, and then she broke down, bursting out into convulsive sobs, and crying in her mother's arms as though she would break her heart.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000003.wav|But the matter was going on, and he knew it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000032_000001.wav|They will be fashionable, and will be married late."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000077_000001.wav|And I'll try to get on with this stuff in the meantime." Then again she sat with her eyes fixed upon the pages of the book.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000001.wav|"I won't be regarded as ill used; not as specially ill used.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000001.wav|He gets no fortune with her, and she will expect everything that fortune can give.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000004_000004.wav|This was not known to the Dales till the twelfth, and they would willingly have spared the knowledge then, had it been possible to spare it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000070_000001.wav|"And yet they get something out of their reading.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000014_000002.wav|A man is not cold hearted, because he does not know himself.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000006.wav|I believe it was that that did it." And she pushed the book away from her.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000087_000000.wav|In the evening the first volume of the French Revolution had been procured, and Lily stuck to her reading with laudable perseverance; till at eight her mother insisted on her going to bed, queen as she was.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000004.wav|She made that effort of which her mother had spoken, but she made it altogether in vain.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000012_000000.wav|"Why should their hearts be cold?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000082_000000.wav|After this little scene she said no further word about Crosbie and his bride on that day, but turned the conversation towards the prospect of their new house at Guestwick.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000079_000000.wav|"Yes, but I am.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000071_000001.wav|"I'll go on with this, as you say it's so grand.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000012_000001.wav|Oh, mamma, that is a terrible thing to say.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000000.wav|"He will be a wretched man.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000005.wav|The squire was very sad about it,--very sad indeed.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000007_000000.wav|"I don't want him to be wretched," said Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000075_000001.wav|Let me see: I was told to read Carlyle's History of the French Revolution, and I think I'll begin now."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000070_000003.wav|I don't think she could interpret a single image, but she has a hazy, misty idea of the truth.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000061_000001.wav|"And now, Lily, will it not be well that you should turn your mind away from the subject, and endeavour to think of other things?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000041_000004.wav|They have all the governing in their hands, and get very little money for doing it."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000039_000005.wav|I should never have done for that kind of thing; should I?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000054_000000.wav|"He must take his chance," said Bell, thinking within her own mind that that chance would be a very bad one.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000001_000000.wav|VALENTINE'S DAY AT ALLINGTON.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000035_000002.wav|I feel such an interest about her.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000015_000002.wav|"I think I do wish for it."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000062_000000.wav|"But I can't, mamma.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000002.wav|But I am your darling, your own darling.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000009_000001.wav|It brought with it a hard, bitter frost,--a black, biting frost,--such a frost as breaks the water pipes, and binds the ground to the hardness of granite. Lily, queen as she was, had not yet been allowed to go back to her own chamber, but occupied the larger bed in her mother's room, her mother sleeping on a smaller one.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000003_000002.wav|But in the course of such talking she would too often break down, showing by some sad word or melancholy tone how great was the burden on her heart.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000047_000001.wav|Somebody said, that whatever is, is right, and I declare I believe it."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000073_000001.wav|"But I won't think of it any more," continued Lily; "I will fix my mind to something." And then she got up from her chair.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000057_000000.wav|"Mamma," she said at last, "it is over now, I'm sure."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000027_000000.wav|"But your foot must bear scrutiny, and your eyes, and your voice.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000030_000000.wav|"What; become engaged again within a week!"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000083_000000.wav|"It will be a great comfort to be nearer dr Crofts; won't it, Bell?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000003.wav|I cannot understand it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000011_000003.wav|But her feeling on the matter was too strong, and she could not restrain herself.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000003_000001.wav|She would begin by doing so almost in a drolling strain, alluding to herself as a forlorn damsel in a play book; and then she would go on to speak of his interests as a matter which was still of great moment to her.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000003_000003.wav|mrs Dale and Bell would willingly have avoided the subject, but Lily would not have it avoided.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000076_000000.wav|"Jane shall fetch it, if you really want it," said mrs Dale.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000051_000002.wav|It's only half past ten yet."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000070_000000.wav|"But then so many readers are fools," said Lily.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000000.wav|"But I can't make the effort.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000075_000003.wav|"But I must put it off till I can get it down from the other house."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000050_000000.wav|"There's a beautiful fire," said Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000041_000002.wav|After all, think how much work they do.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000062_000001.wav|It is so easy to say that; but people can't choose their own thoughts."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000045_000001.wav|If I were a man, Bell, you are just the girl that I should worship."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000006.wav|When Hopkins spoke to him on the subject, he sharply desired that faithful gardener to hold his tongue, giving it to be understood that such things were not to be made matter of talk by the Allington dependants till they had been officially announced.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000052_000000.wav|"I shouldn't be at all surprised if it's over."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000037_000000.wav|"I should.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000079_000001.wav|Isn't it odd, Bell, that it should take place on Valentine's day?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000008.wav|I think I'll read Pilgrim's Progress again."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000020_000000.wav|"Did I, my pet?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000039_000002.wav|Don't you remember that he told us that mr Palliser is about the grandest grandee of them all.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000053_000002.wav|A thing like that is over, and then all the world cannot put it back again.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000077_000002.wav|"I'll tell you what, mamma,--you may have some comfort in this: that when to day's gone by, I shan't make a fuss about any other day."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000061_000000.wav|"I also will hope so," said mrs Dale.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000029_000001.wav|It was as I have said, and if so, you shouldn't hate him because he did the only thing which he honestly could do when he found out his mistake."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000018_000001.wav|"The cold is what you would call awful."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000026_000000.wav|"Don't scrutinize my foot too closely, Lily."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000037_000002.wav|I'm not going up to London to ask her.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000035_000004.wav|I suppose she is a sort of Juno of a woman,--very tall and handsome.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000002_000002.wav|But this was not sufficient for Lily.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000000.wav|"No, mamma, I won't be that." And she struggled grievously to get the better of the hysterical attack which had overpowered her.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000031_000001.wav|"Bell," she said, stopping her other speech suddenly, "at what o'clock do people get married in London?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000011_000001.wav|She ought not to have said so.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000049_000001.wav|I think I'll get up now, Bell; only it's so frightfully cold that I'm afraid."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000071_000002.wav|The personages are always in their tantrums, and go on as though they were mad.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000051_000000.wav|"Yes; I see.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000009_000000.wav|The morning of the fourteenth came upon them at the Small House, as comes the morning of those special days which have been long considered, and which are to be long remembered.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000089_000000.wav|"I do," said Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000038_000000.wav|"I don't think there's any difference.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000028_000002.wav|But we will not talk about it."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000090_000002.wav|As for Charles the First, he was about the best man in history."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000056_000001.wav|She had not opened her book that morning, and had been sitting for some time perfectly silent, with her eyes closed, and her watch in her hand.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000003.wav|Only I wish you'd beat me and thump me when I'm such a fool, instead of pitying me.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000047_000000.wav|"But you mustn't let your foot go astray in that way; you mustn't, indeed.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000055_000002.wav|"We must all take our chance.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000063_000000.wav|"They can usually direct them as they will, if they make the effort."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000033_000000.wav|"You don't think she's mrs Crosbie yet, then?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000004_000002.wav|The day was named soon enough, and the tidings came down to Allington.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000043_000000.wav|"The country seems to do pretty well.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER forty four.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000027_000005.wav|Who could expect that such an engagement should be lasting?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000005.wav|Give my love to Lily.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000015_000001.wav|"I think I do," said she.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000011_000000.wav|"I fear their hearts will be cold also," said mrs Dale.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000071_000000.wav|"No, not now," said Lily.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000041_000003.wav|He used to tell me of that.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000007_000001.wav|"But I can hardly think that he can act as he has done without being punished."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000023_000003.wav|I'm a fine sort of teacher, am I not?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000085_000000.wav|"Because if we are ill, he won't have such a terrible distance to come."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000080_000000.wav|"Lily, my darling; my poor, ill used darling."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000018_000000.wav|"You must be very careful in wrapping yourself as you go downstairs," said Bell, who stood by the tray on which she had brought up the toast and tea.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000005.wav|There, Bell; there's your stupid book, and I won't have any more of it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000025_000000.wav|"When your foot goes in that way it is a very unchristian foot, and you ought to keep it still.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000088_000000.wav|"I don't believe a bit, you know, that the king was such a bad man as that," she said.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000090_000000.wav|"Ah, that's because you're a radical.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000007.wav|With Bell during these visits he never alluded to the matter.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000023_000004.wav|And I did not quite mean that."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000027_000004.wav|In a week or two it was done.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000067_000000.wav|"I hate books I can't understand," said Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000041_000001.wav|I don't.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000070_000004.wav|That's why she likes it,--because it's too beautiful to be understood; and that's why I like Pilgrim's Progress." After which Bell offered to get the book in question.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000079_000005.wav|And yet her heart was not broken, and she was still strong in that resolve which she had made, that her grief should not overpower her.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000075_000002.wav|It was Crosbie who had told her to read the book, as both Bell and mrs Dale were well aware.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000067_000001.wav|"I like a book to be clear as running water, so that the whole meaning may be seen at once."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000003.wav|When you have had so deep an interest in a person, you can't drop him all of a sudden." Then there was again silence, and after a while Lily took up her novel.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000038_000001.wav|Look at Lady Julia."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000039_000000.wav|"Oh, she's not a grand person.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000034_000000.wav|"Lady Alexandrina Crosbie," said Bell, shuddering.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000024_000000.wav|"I wish I could learn it from some one," said Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000006.wav|This was specially ungrateful, because Bell had recommended the book.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000072_000000.wav|"No, my dear."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000002.wav|It seems natural to me to think about him, and I don't suppose it can be very wrong.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000000.wav|During these days, Bell used to see her uncle daily.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000004_000003.wav|On the fourteenth of February, Crosbie was to be made a happy man.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000023_000002.wav|Come here, Bell, and let me teach you Christianity.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000027_000003.wav|I was so proud of having him, that I gave myself up to him all at once, without giving him a chance of thinking of it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000028_000000.wav|"And why not?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000074_000000.wav|"Of course it would not, my darling."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000006.wav|I'll see her to morrow or the next day.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000007.wav|"All the books have got to be so stupid!|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000027_000001.wav|He was very foolish to fall in love with me.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000059_000000.wav|"What is over, my dear?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000081_000004.wav|It's a great mistake being soft to people when they make fools of themselves.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000004.wav|dr Crofts was already in treaty on their behalf for a small furnished house at Guestwick.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000055_000001.wav|Well,--I'll get up now." And then she took her first step out into the cold world beyond her bed.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000039_000003.wav|I suppose people do learn to like them.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000031_000000.wav|"There had been a very old friendship, Bell; you must remember that. But I was speaking of his conduct to me, and not of his conduct to-" And then she remembered that that other lady might at this very moment possess the name which she had once been so proud to think that she would bear herself.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000037_000001.wav|Don't you hear me say that I know it's not possible?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000053_000000.wav|"Over!|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000008_000002.wav|I believe, too, that she is older than he is.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000027_000002.wav|And so was I very foolish to let him love me, at a moment's notice,--without a thought as it were.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000035_000003.wav|I wonder what coloured hair she has.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000004_000005.wav|But it was not so, and on that evening Lily was told.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000023_000001.wav|I know what your foot means when it goes in that way; and you shan't do it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000041_000000.wav|"Do you?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000064_000005.wav|"I declare, Bell," she said, "it's the greatest rubbish I ever attempted to read."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000010.wav|Their conversation, therefore, generally fell upon Crosbie, and the tone in which he was mentioned in the Great House was very different from that assumed in Lily's presence.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000003_000004.wav|For them it was a very difficult matter on which to speak in her hearing.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000066_000001.wav|"But I believe I'll have Pilgrim's Progress.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000053_000001.wav|What a word that is!|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000043_000002.wav|My belief is, you wouldn't be a lady if you could help it."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000039_000004.wav|He always used to say that he had been so long among people of that sort, that it would be very difficult for him to divide himself off from them.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000071_000003.wav|Mamma, do you know where they're going for the honeymoon?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000077_000000.wav|"Bell shall get it, when she goes up in the afternoon; will you, Bell?|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000025_000001.wav|It means anger against him, because he discovered before it was too late that he would not be happy,--that is, that he and I would not be happy together if we were married."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000022_000001.wav|Her anger was more difficult of restraint than was even her mother's,--and now, not restraining it, but wishing to hide it, she gave it vent in this way.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000024_000001.wav|"There are circumstances in which what we call Christianity seems to me to be hardly possible."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000014_000000.wav|"Of course you do; of course we all hope it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000075_000000.wav|"And I'm going to be well again now, immediately.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000035_000000.wav|"Yes, of course; I forgot.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000079_000002.wav|I wonder whether it was so settled on purpose, because of the day.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000032_000000.wav|"Oh, at all manner of hours,--any time before twelve.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000022_000000.wav|Bell for a moment turned her face away, and beat with her foot against the ground.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000014_000003.wav|Mamma, I want you to wish for their happiness."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000037_000003.wav|She'll have all manner of grandees for her godfathers and godmothers.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000023_000000.wav|"I understand, Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000012_000002.wav|Why should their hearts be cold?"|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000003_000000.wav|And as the time drew nearer,--Lily becoming stronger the while, and less subject to medical authority,--the marriage of Crosbie and Alexandrina was spoken of much more frequently at the Small House. It was not a subject which mrs Dale or Bell would have chosen for conversation; but Lily would refer to it.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000014_000001.wav|He was not cold hearted, at any rate.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000073_000000.wav|"He used to talk to me about going to the lakes." And then there was another pause, during which Bell observed that her mother's face became clouded with anxiety.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000090_000001.wav|I never will believe that kings are so much worse than other people.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000084_000000.wav|"I don't know," said Bell.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000002_000003.wav|She must know the day.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000070_000002.wav|mrs Crump is always poring over the Revelations, and nearly knows them by heart.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000037_000004.wav|I wonder what those grand people are really like."|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000045_000000.wav|"And so you are,--my own dear, dearest, honest Bell,--and the fairest lady that I know.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000005_000002.wav|Nothing more had been said about their moving,--nothing, that is, from them to him.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5712/48842/5712_48842_000039_000001.wav|It isn't merely having a title.|5712
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/408/122806/408_122806_000017_000000.wav|"Yes!|408
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/408/122806/408_122806_000075_000000.wav|"But I will go first!" said the shadow.|408
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/408/122806/408_122806_000038_000000.wav|"But WHAT DID you see?|408
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/408/122806/408_122806_000072_000001.wav|"I will not have it; I will not do it!|408
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/408/122806/408_122806_000072_000003.wav|I will tell everything!|408
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000014_000002.wav|When again shall the guns arouse us in the morning with their delightful reports?"|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000018_000001.wav|"Still, what is the use of so many studies worked out, so many difficulties vanquished?|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000025_000000.wav|"And why not?" demanded the colonel.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000009_000000.wav|The Gun Club once founded, it is easy to conceive the result of the inventive genius of the Americans.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000009_000001.wav|Their military weapons attained colossal proportions, and their projectiles, exceeding the prescribed limits, unfortunately occasionally cut in two some unoffending pedestrians.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000018_000000.wav|"Fact!" replied he.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000035_000000.wav|"Bah!" growled Bilsby between the four teeth which the war had left him; "that will never do!"|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000004_000002.wav|In point of grazing, plunging, oblique, or enfilading, or point blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing to learn; but their cannon, howitzers, and mortars are mere pocket pistols compared with the formidable engines of the American artillery.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000015_000001.wav|"It was delightful once upon a time! One invented a gun, and hardly was it cast, when one hastened to try it in the face of the enemy!|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000020_000000.wav|"Well?"|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000041_000000.wav|On the morrow after this conversation every member of the association received a sealed circular couched in the following terms:|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000006_000000.wav|Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000003_000001.wav|Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point; nevertheless; they quickly rivaled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000006_000005.wav|Thus was formed the nucleus of the "Gun Club." In a single month after its formation it numbered one thousand eight hundred thirty three effective members and thirty thousand five hundred sixty five corresponding members.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000036_000000.wav|"By Jove!" cried j t Maston, "he mustn't count on my vote at the next election!"|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000015_000003.wav|But now the generals are gone back to their counters; and in place of projectiles, they despatch bales of cotton.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000031_000000.wav|"Undoubtedly," replied Tom Hunter, stamping his crutch with fury.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000006_000004.wav|The inventor of a new cannon associated himself with the caster and the borer.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000040_000000.wav|Matters were in this unfortunate condition, and the club was threatened with approaching dissolution, when an unexpected circumstance occurred to prevent so deplorable a catastrophe.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000004_000000.wav|But the point in which the Americans singularly distanced the Europeans was in the science of gunnery.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000026_000000.wav|"Because their ideas of progress in the Old World are contrary to our American habits of thought.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000039_000000.wav|"In that case we will accompany you," cried the others.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000013_000001.wav|They reverted invariably to gigantic shells and howitzers of unparalleled caliber.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000042_000000.wav|BALTIMORE, october third. The president of the Gun Club has the honor to inform his colleagues that, at the meeting of the fifth instant, he will bring before them a communication of an extremely interesting nature.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000006_000002.wav|Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000013_000000.wav|Some few of the more advanced and inveterate theorists set themselves again to work upon calculations regarding the laws of projectiles.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000018_000002.wav|It's mere waste of time!|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000005_000000.wav|This fact need surprise no one.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129513/119_129513_000014_000000.wav|"This is horrible!" said Tom Hunter one evening, while rapidly carbonizing his wooden legs in the fireplace of the smoking room; "nothing to do! nothing to look forward to!|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000010_000003.wav|What kind of spectacle would its hidden hemisphere present to our terrestrial spheroid?|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000012_000000.wav|From that day forward Impey Barbicane became one of the greatest citizens of the United States, a kind of Washington of science. A single trait of feeling, taken from many others, will serve to show the point which this homage of a whole people to a single individual attained.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000009_000000.wav|About two a m, however, the excitement began to subside. President Barbicane reached his house, bruised, crushed, and squeezed almost to a mummy.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER three|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000005_000003.wav|In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000002_000000.wav|EFFECT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMUNICATION|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000007_000001.wav|The Yankees all turned their gaze toward her resplendent orb, kissed their hands, called her by all kinds of endearing names.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000003_000001.wav|It was a scene of indescribable confusion and uproar.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129515/119_129515_000005_000002.wav|People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/121722/119_121722_000000_000001.wav|Note, Women who have captivated men.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000030_000001.wav|"I have looked at the question in all its bearings, I have resolutely attacked it, and by incontrovertible calculations I find that a projectile endowed with an initial velocity of twelve thousand yards per second, and aimed at the moon, must necessarily reach it.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000006_000001.wav|His chair, supported by a carved gun carriage, was modeled upon the ponderous proportions of a thirty two-inch mortar.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000019_000000.wav|"Three cheers for the Moon!" roared the Gun Club, with one voice.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000020_000002.wav|Photography has given us proofs of the incomparable beauty of our satellite; all is known regarding the moon which mathematical science, astronomy, geology, and optics can learn about her.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000022_000005.wav|He then distinctly perceived caverns frequented by hippopotami, green mountains bordered by golden lace work, sheep with horns of ivory, a white species of deer and inhabitants with membranous wings, like bats.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000020_000003.wav|But up to the present moment no direct communication has been established with her."|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000005_000003.wav|Models of cannon, bronze castings, sights covered with dents, plates battered by the shots of the Gun Club, assortments of rammers and sponges, chaplets of shells, wreaths of projectiles, garlands of howitzers- in short, all the apparatus of the artillerist, enchanted the eye by this wonderful arrangement and induced a kind of belief that their real purpose was ornamental rather than deadly.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000004_000001.wav|That was reserved exclusively for resident or corresponding members; no one else could possibly have obtained a place; and the city magnates, municipal councilors, and "select men" were compelled to mingle with the mere townspeople in order to catch stray bits of news from the interior.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000016_000000.wav|A thrill of excitement ran through the meeting.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000029_000002.wav|The president attempted to speak, but could not.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000024_000007.wav|The means of arriving thither are simple, easy, certain, infallible- and that is the purpose of my present proposal."|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000006_000002.wav|It was pointed at an angle of ninety degrees, and suspended upon truncheons, so that the president could balance himself upon it as upon a rocking chair, a very agreeable fact in the very hot weather.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000024_000006.wav|It is reserved for the practical genius of Americans to establish a communication with the sidereal world.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000024_000002.wav|Thus, a few days ago, a German geometrician proposed to send a scientific expedition to the steppes of Siberia.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000029_000000.wav|At these words a murmur of amazement escaped from a thousand panting chests; then succeeded a moment of perfect silence, resembling that profound stillness which precedes the bursting of a thunderstorm.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000009_000001.wav|Bold in his conceptions, he contributed powerfully to the progress of that arm and gave an immense impetus to experimental researches.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000023_000000.wav|"Cheers for Edgar Poe!" roared the assemblage, electrified by their president's words.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000029_000001.wav|In point of fact, a thunderstorm did peal forth, but it was the thunder of applause, or cries, and of uproar which made the very hall tremble.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000024_000000.wav|"I have now enumerated," said Barbicane, "the experiments which I call purely paper ones, and wholly insufficient to establish serious relations with the Queen of the Night.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000020_000001.wav|Selenographic charts have been constructed with a perfection which equals, if it does not even surpass, that of our terrestrial maps.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000015_000000.wav|"For some months past, my brave colleagues," continued Barbicane, "I have been asking myself whether, while confining ourselves to our own particular objects, we could not enter upon some grand experiment worthy of the nineteenth century; and whether the progress of artillery science would not enable us to carry it out to a successful issue.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000027_000000.wav|As soon as the excitement had partially subsided, Barbicane resumed his speech in a somewhat graver voice.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000024_000001.wav|Nevertheless, I am bound to add that some practical geniuses have attempted to establish actual communication with her.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000006_000000.wav|At the further end of the saloon the president, assisted by four secretaries, occupied a large platform.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000022_000000.wav|"Permit me," he continued, "to recount to you briefly how certain ardent spirits, starting on imaginary journeys, have penetrated the secrets of our satellite.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000004_000000.wav|On that evening a stranger who might have chanced to be in Baltimore could not have gained admission for love or money into the great hall.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000002_000000.wav|PRESIDENT BARBICANE'S COMMUNICATION|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000022_000008.wav|This journey, like all previous ones, was purely imaginary; still, it was the work of a popular American author- I mean Edgar Poe!"|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000025_000001.wav|There was not a single person in the whole audience who was not overcome, carried away, lifted out of himself by the speaker's words!|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000014_000000.wav|The meeting felt that the president was now approaching the critical point, and redoubled their attention accordingly.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000003_000002.wav|They overflowed into the adjoining rooms, down the narrow passages, into the outer courtyards.|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/119/129514/119_129514_000003_000003.wav|There they ran against the vulgar herd who pressed up to the doors, each struggling to reach the front ranks, all eager to learn the nature of the important communication of President Barbicane; all pushing, squeezing, crushing with that perfect freedom of action which is so peculiar to the masses when educated in ideas of "self government."|119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000027_000001.wav|I felt queer all the afternoon as I packed those trunks for the five o'clock train.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000052_000001.wav|Don't you want to tell me what a little girl like you did in a big city, and-and read me part of that Paris letter I saw the postman give Jane this afternoon?"|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000012_000002.wav|Miss Clinton!|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000018_000002.wav|And I bought things!|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000001_000000.wav|Men are very strange people.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000048_000001.wav|I couldn't stand that.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000004_000001.wav|I have firmly determined not to blush any more at the thought of that gorgeous man-at least outwardly.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000036_000003.wav|The judge is like that.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000012_000001.wav|Not me!|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000026_000000.wav|That was an awful shock, and I hope I didn't show it as I murmured "Perfectly, thank you."|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000004_000000.wav|I was tempted to say, "Why not my heart?" I was glad she didn't know how good that heart did feel under my blouse when the boy brought that basket of fish from Judge Wade's fishing expedition Saturday.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000010_000000.wav|"Delightful indeed!|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000025_000001.wav|He only said politely, "And I am delighted that the trousseau is perfectly satisfactory to you, madame."|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000019_000000.wav|First I went to see Madam Courtier for corsets.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000019_000002.wav|But that didn't matter!|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184447/4111_184447_000001_000001.wav|They are like those sums in algebra that you think about and worry about and cry about and try to get help from other women about, and then, all of a sudden, X works itself out into perfectly good sense.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000050_000000.wav|"You are cruel, cruel, john Moore, and I hate you worse than I ever did before, if that is possible.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000022_000000.wav|There is one exercise here on page twenty that I hate worst of all.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000048_000000.wav|I sat down at the long table by the window and slowly prepared to enjoy myself.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000012_000002.wav|It was the dearest old-fashioned tune ever written, and Billy sang the words as distinctly as if he had been a boy chorister doing a difficult recitative.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000015_000003.wav|Lift me up, and I can put him in the waterglass on your table." He held up one muddy hand to me, and promptly I lifted him up into my arms.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000038_000000.wav|Miss Clinton was delightfully gracious about the dinner-I almost called it the debut dinner-and the expression on the judge's face when he accepted!|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000007_000002.wav|I was thinking about things.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000049_000001.wav|The spoon crashed on the table, and I turned and crashed into words.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000012_000003.wav|My heart beat so it shook the lace on my breast, like a breeze from heaven, as he took the high note and then let it go on the last few words.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000046_000000.wav|I'll never forget my first real party.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000051_000002.wav|I was glad myself.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000004_000005.wav|To see me stagger out of my perfectly nice bed at six o'clock every morning now would wring the sternest heart with compassion and admiration at my faithfulness-to whom?|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000054_000000.wav|"Thank you, I will, all of it, and the bread and butter, too," he answered, in that detestable friendly tone of voice, as he drew himself up and sat in the window.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000034_000000.wav|"Help!|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000055_000000.wav|"Supper," I sniffed, as I spread the jam on those lovely, lovely slices of bread and thick butter that I had fixed for my own self.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000025_000002.wav|He never stopped coming to see me occasionally, and mr Carter liked him.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000046_000006.wav|Candle light, pretty women's frocks, black coat sleeves, cut glass and flowers are good ingredients for a joy drink, and why not?|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000006_000006.wav|I get up now!|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000048_000003.wav|I had just lifted it high in the air when out of the lilac scented dark of the garden came a laugh.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000009_000000.wav|The subject of the conduct of widows is a serious one.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000056_000001.wav|Forget-" He didn't finish his sentence, and I'm glad.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000034_000001.wav|Let my kinship protect me!" exclaimed Tom in alarm, and he pretended to move an inch away from me.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000006_000005.wav|But that was before my martyrdom to this book had begun.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000028_000002.wav|Aren't you happy with me?"|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000031_000002.wav|Do you think we could arrange it for Tuesday evening?"|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000006_000000.wav|"Jane," I said, looking past her head, "my health is not very good, and you can bring my breakfast to me in bed after this." Poor mr Carter always wanted breakfast on the stroke of seven.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000031_000001.wav|I was just planning a gorgeous dinner party I want to have for her when you came so suddenly.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000038_000001.wav|I was glad she was sitting beside him and couldn't see. Some women like to make other women unhappy, but I think it is best for you to keep them blissfully unconscious until you get what you want. Anyhow, I like that girl all over, and I can't see that her neck is so absolutely impossibly flowery.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000023_000003.wav|I've put it away on the top shelf of a cupboard, for it is a torment to look at it.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000055_000001.wav|"I am so tired of that apple toast combination now that I forget it if I can." As I handed him the first slice of drippy lusciousness, I turned my head away.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000019_000000.wav|"Nobody taught it to me.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000028_000001.wav|I'm not sore, why should you be?|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000016_000000.wav|"That was a lovely song you sang about 'Molly darling,' Billy," I said. "Where did you hear it?"|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000036_000003.wav|Then we both laughed and began to plan what Tom called a conflagration.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000046_000004.wav|I can hardly stand thinking about how he looked even now.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000032_000000.wav|"Good gracious, Molly, don't knock the town down like that!|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000004_000003.wav|The command is to sleep as little as possible to keep the nerves in a good condition-"eight hours at the most, and seven would be better." What earthly good would a seven hour nap do me?|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000044_000003.wav|She doesn't know it yet; but I do.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000005_000005.wav|After breakfast, I went into the kitchen to speak to Jane.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000041_000000.wav|"He's just a week younger, mrs Johnson, and I wouldn't tie him for worlds, even if I married him," I said meekly.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000022_000003.wav|Hereafter I'll get up at the time directed on page three, or maybe earlier.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000005_000004.wav|Anyhow, it made me take a resolve.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000018_000000.wav|"Who taught it to you, sugar sweet?" I persisted as I poured water in on the frog under his direction.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000004_000004.wav|I want ten hours to sleep and twelve if I get a good tired start.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000019_000002.wav|He don't know no good songs like 'Black eyed Susan' or 'Little Boy Blue.' I go to sleep quick 'cause he makes me feel tired with his slow tune what's only good for frogs and things.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000039_000001.wav|That, mrs Johnson just couldn't stand, and she came across the street immediately and called me back to the gate.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000004_000002.wav|But this torture book found that out about me, and stopped it the very first thing on page three.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000022_000005.wav|I won't let myself even think "perfect flower" and "scarlet runner." If I do, I get warm and happy all over.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000006_000003.wav|Jane understands everything I say to her.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000006_000001.wav|Jane has buried husbands.|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4111/184448/4111_184448_000050_000001.wav|I'm hungry, hungry to death, and now you've spoiled it all!|4111
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000002_000000.wav|Then, so suddenly that it quite startled the childish voyagers, the boat glided from the archway into the most beautiful country one could imagine.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000013_000000.wav|Then the leader of the Clowns again spoke, "If you will graciously consent to land in our country, where everything we have is at your service, we shall be delighted to amuse you to the best of our ability."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000016_000000.wav|The one who had first spoken to them now came forward and shook hands with both Dot and Tot in a very polite manner.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000029_000000.wav|"Come on!" he cried, and jumping down the hole, disappeared from view.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000019_000001.wav|You are welcome to remain our guests as long as you please, and while you are with us you must consider us your slaves, for Clowns have always been the slaves of children." Then he turned to the others.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000024_000000.wav|"Welcome to my dwelling," he said.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER six THE FIRST VALLEY|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000031_000000.wav|"Come on!" he said again; "I'll catch you."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000009_000001.wav|As his lips seemed to move, she took away her fingers from her ears that she might hear what he was saying.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000021_000000.wav|Instantly every Clown stood upon his head and knocked his heels together in the air.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000001_000001.wav|Some of the voices sounded loud and shrill, others low and deep, but all rang with a happy tone that aroused the children's interest at once, and made them wonder what occasion could cause so much amusement.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000020_000001.wav|"Allow me to introduce you to our friends Dot and Tot, of the Big Round World.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000018_000001.wav|We've come in a boat, long, long ways off.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000032_000000.wav|Dot did not hesitate, but dropped through the opening, and the Prince caught her safely in his arms.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000023_000000.wav|The Prince carried them to one of the prettiest platforms and set them gently upon its cushioned top.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000004_000001.wav|Yet in their costumes was an endless variety of colorings and combinations of colors, making the groups look remarkably bright and pleasing.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000015_000001.wav|Then Dot and Tot stepped out upon land, and as they did so every Clown present turned a backward somersault and shouted, "Here we are again!"|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000011_000000.wav|Then, with another bow, the leader addressed her, speaking in a sweet and most pleasing tone of voice, "Welcome, O King and Queen of Children, to the Valley of Clowns!|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000017_000001.wav|I beg you will allow me to escort you to my dwelling; but first I should like to know your names, and how you came here."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000003_000000.wav|It was a Valley, as the Watch Dog had said; but it was level and sunny and dotted with broad leaved trees; while soft, tender grasses, mingled with brilliant flowers, covered the ground in every direction.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000004_000000.wav|On many of these raised and padded platforms, Dot and Tot saw groups of funny looking Clowns, all dressed in wide, baggy trousers, puffy jackets and soft, pointed caps.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000027_000001.wav|Let us enter."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000006_000001.wav|These feats were greeted with shouts of laughter by other Clowns who were resting and looking on, and these spectators also cried out their approval or poked fun at the performers when they failed to accomplish the acts they were attempting.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000014_000000.wav|"You are very kind," answered Dot, "and as we are tired by sitting in the boat so long, we shall be glad to accept your invitation."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271811/8008_271811_000019_000000.wav|"We are delighted to have you with us, however you came here," replied the Clown; "and as for your getting home again, why, that is worry, and no one ever worries in the Valley of Clowns.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000052_000001.wav|But the laughing faces will make you slumber peacefully when the time comes, and give you pleasant dreams, too."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000043_000000.wav|She touched a bell that stood upon a table near by, and at once there came into the room a little boy doll, dressed in a brown suit with brass buttons.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000034_000001.wav|"We keep them quite full of it all the time.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000031_000000.wav|"It would tire them too much," answered the Captain.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000051_000002.wav|Softly his eyes closed, and in another moment he would have been sound asleep had not Scollops raised him to his feet and said:|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000020_000001.wav|Until then you must come to my palace and be treated as my guests."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000045_000000.wav|Scollops, as the knitted boy seemed named, bowed again and murmured, "Your Majesty shall be obeyed." Then, turning to Tot, he took his hand and led him from the room.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000044_000000.wav|This curious doll walked straight up to the Queen and bowed before her, while she said, "Scollops, show this young man to the laughing chamber, and wait upon him while he arranges his toilet."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000019_000000.wav|Then the Queen again smiled upon them.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000006_000000.wav|"We came in a boat," replied the girl; "and this is my friend, Tot Thompson, and I am Dot Freeland."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000039_000000.wav|Thereupon the gate opened slowly, and they passed into a beautiful flower garden, and walked along the green bordered paths until they came to the high arched doorway of the palace.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000001_000000.wav|The carriage itself was of the kind that are sold in toy shops, and it was drawn by two horses standing upon wooden platforms with rollers underneath, so that instead of the horses themselves running, the wheels of the platforms whirled around, taking the carriage wherever the driver might direct.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000034_000000.wav|"Cotton," answered the Captain.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000002_000002.wav|Her silken hair was long and of a golden color, while her eyes were blue, and had in their depths a sweet and gentle expression.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000016_000000.wav|"Then what are you going to do with us?" inquired the girl.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000049_000000.wav|When the boy had looked the room over and seen all the faces, Scollops helped him to wash his hands and face, to comb his hair and to brush his clothes, and when this task was finished, the woolly doll said:|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000047_000000.wav|"To the laughing chamber," replied Scollops; and having reached the top of the stairs, they walked down a long hallway and entered a room so odd and pretty that Tot stopped short and gazed at it in astonishment.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000034_000002.wav|That's what makes them look so plump and healthy.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000031_000001.wav|"Being on platforms, the horses never get tired, you see, for the wheels do all the work."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000043_000001.wav|He was larger in size than any doll Tot had seen outside of Merryland, yet he was not so big as the Queen herself. When the children looked at him closely, they could see that his face and hands and feet were knitted from colored worsteds, while his eyes were two big black beads.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000021_000000.wav|"Thank you," said Dot and Tot together.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000017_000001.wav|You see, I am so perplexed that I have stopped smiling, and that will never do in the world; for should the weather change and cool my wax, I would remain solemn until it warmed up again, and my people would then think me unworthy to be the Queen of Merryland."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000013_000001.wav|If that happened, all our comfort and fun would be spoiled, for strangers would be coming here every day."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000034_000003.wav|What do they feed horses on in your country?"|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000001_000001.wav|This driver looked for all the world like a rag doll dressed in a coachman's uniform.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000026_000000.wav|Then the Queen stepped into her carriage, the rag coachman cracked his whip, and the wheels of the horses' platform began spinning around.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000015_000000.wav|"Never," answered the Queen.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000048_000001.wav|But upon the wall were painted hundreds of heads of children-boys and girls of all countries, with light and dark hair, straight and curly hair, blue and black and brown and gray eyes, and all with laughing faces.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000008_000001.wav|"This is private property, and I have placed guards to prevent anyone entering my Valleys."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000011_000001.wav|"It was we who disobeyed. But we really couldn't help it, for we had to go wherever the boat carried us."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000036_000000.wav|"We tried stuffing ours with hay once," remarked the Captain; "but it made their skins look lumpy, it was so coarse; so now we use cotton altogether."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000027_000000.wav|Dot and Tot followed more slowly, for the Captain who escorted them was exceedingly small and walked stiffly, having no joints in his knees.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000023_000000.wav|"Escort these strangers to my royal palace, and see that you treat them most politely; for although they are in reality my prisoners, they have been guilty of no intentional wrong and seem to be nice children."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000037_000000.wav|"I see," said Tot again, in a rather bewildered voice.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000027_000001.wav|As they trudged along Tot asked the Captain:|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000048_000003.wav|To match the rest of the furniture, the carpet had woven upon it in bright colors all kinds of laughing children's faces, and the effect of the queer room was to make Tot himself laugh until the tears roll down his cheeks.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000028_000000.wav|"Why do the horses go on wheels?"|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000018_000000.wav|"I'm sorry to have caused you so much trouble," said Dot, softly. "I'd much rather be at home again, if I could, although your Valleys are so queer and delightful."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000048_000002.wav|The posts of the bed were also carved into laughing baby faces; the chairs and the dresser showed a face upon every spot where there was a place for one, and every face throughout the whole room had a smile upon it.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000022_000000.wav|The Queen turned to the wooden Captain and commanded:|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000014_000000.wav|"Have strangers been here before?" asked Dot, timidly.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000026_000001.wav|Then the Queen rode swiftly up the street to her royal palace.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000032_000000.wav|"Oh!" said Tot, "I see." Then, after a pause, he asked:|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000002_000003.wav|As for her complexion, it was a dainty pink and white, delicately blended.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000001_000002.wav|His neck was rather weak, and that caused his head to lean slightly to one side, giving him a somewhat broken down appearance; but he held the reins firmly in his stuffed hands and looked straight ahead, like a well trained servant.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000029_000000.wav|"Because they're made that way, I suppose," was the reply.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000052_000000.wav|"It is not time for sleep yet, for you haven't had your dinner.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271817/8008_271817_000009_000000.wav|"Are you the Queen?" asked the girl.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000055_000000.wav|"Nice Clowns," declared Tot, with emphasis.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000033_000000.wav|They left the Prince's platform and came to the next, where three gaily dressed Clowns were bounding into the air and whirling around before they came down again.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000039_000000.wav|After each verse another Clown cracked a long whip at the singer, which made him leap into the air and screw his face up in such a comical way that Dot and Tot were greatly amused, and applauded him rapturously.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000028_000003.wav|Would you like to watch them?"|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000012_000000.wav|"Certainly!" answered the Prince, and immediately sticking his head through the trapdoor, he asked a Clown who stood outside to fetch the basket.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000048_000000.wav|"But a very good one," returned the Clown.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000052_000000.wav|"Don't want 'em!" cried Tot.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000030_000000.wav|So Flippityflop lifted them through the hole to the top of the padded platform, where they saw a strange and merry sight.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000028_000001.wav|The real Clowns are sure to make you laugh.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000028_000000.wav|"When they do not," said Flippityflop, gravely, "they are imitation Clowns, and were never trained in this Valley of Merryland.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000001_000000.wav|Flippityflop's house proved to be one big room, built under the platform, and lighted by a soft glow from hidden electric lamps.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000028_000002.wav|But come, it is time our people were gathering on the platforms for their evening practice.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000034_000001.wav|One of these placed a light ladder on his shoulders, and another ran up it and stood upon his head on the top rung.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000033_000002.wav|When this happened they were not hurt, for the platform was soft and yielding; so they sprang up at once and tried it over again, laughing at their own mishaps.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000046_000000.wav|"That is my alarm clock," answered Flippityflop, who had been reclining upon a bench at the other side of the room.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000004_000001.wav|But you must be hungry, and I trust you will allow me to offer you some dinner.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000002_000001.wav|Therefore I am proud of them."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000011_000000.wav|"If you'll send to the boat for our basket, I think we will prefer to eat the things we brought with us," declared Dot.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000031_000001.wav|The trees were full of electric lights, which shed brilliant rays over the scene and enabled the children to see everything distinctly.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000053_000001.wav|"What peculiar tastes you children have!"|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000017_000001.wav|Perhaps you will bring us some fresh water from the river."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000019_000000.wav|"Oh, yes; we're accustomed to drinking water," said the girl.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000009_000000.wav|"Of course, they are foolish things," agreed Flippityflop, cheerfully.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000047_000000.wav|"It's a queer alarm clock," said the girl.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000017_000000.wav|"No, thank you," said Dot; "we couldn't drink those.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000013_000000.wav|It came in a remarkably short time, and then Flippityflop assisted Dot to lay the cloth on the blue and silver table, while the children proceeded to eat of the sandwiches, cake and apple tarts that remained in the basket.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000010_000000.wav|"Course not," said Tot.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000004_000002.wav|What will you have?"|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000044_000001.wav|In less than a minute Dot and Tot were fast asleep, curled up side by side, with their arms entwined.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000005_000000.wav|"What you got?" inquired Tot.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000026_000001.wav|Do they make the children laugh?"|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000008_000000.wav|"These seem rather foolish things to eat," remarked Dot.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000054_000000.wav|But he allowed them to breakfast from their own stock of food, and when the meal was finished Dot said, "We must be going now; but first I wish to thank you for the pleasant time we have had in your Valley. We enjoyed the Clowns very much indeed."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000014_000000.wav|"Wouldn't you like something to drink?" asked the Prince.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000003_000000.wav|"They look very jolly," said Dot.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000048_000001.wav|"It is really a big music box under the bench, which starts playing every morning at seven o'clock.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000001_000001.wav|The walls were covered with bright yellow silk hangings and on the floor was a crimson carpet.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000025_000001.wav|"I've seen 'em--in circuses."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000018_000000.wav|"But the water is quite wet," exclaimed the Clown, "and is liable to make you damp.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000029_000000.wav|"Yes, indeed!" cried Dot, joyfully; and Tot clapped his hands and echoed: "'Deed, yes!"|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000004_000000.wav|"They were jolly, and proved a comfort to thousands of children.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000006_000000.wav|"Well, I have in my cupboard some fried goldfish, boiled buttercups and pickled shoelaces," he answered.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000009_000001.wav|"Everything we do here is foolish.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000042_000001.wav|Indeed, the whole performance was a delight to the children, and they were sorry when a bell rang and put a stop to the antics of the Clowns.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000024_000000.wav|"At the upper edge of our Valley there is one place not so steep as the rest.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000009_000002.wav|You certainly can't expect wisdom in a country of Clowns."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000022_000001.wav|"You see, we train them all very carefully, and every year one is selected to go into the world."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000016_000001.wav|"But we have some excellent green paint, or, if you prefer it, I can give a bottle of red mucilage."|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8008/271812/8008_271812_000042_000000.wav|This singer had so droll an expression on his face that Tot yelled with rapture, and Dot found herself laughing heartily.|8008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000067_000000.wav|"What a pity!" cried Sepia; "you are destroying the ring!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000017_000005.wav|But mr Redmain still stared in her face.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000052_000000.wav|"I see!" he said; "it's been a trifle too much for you, and I don't wonder!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000027_000000.wav|"For Miss Marston?" inquired Mewks, who had learned not a little cunning in the service.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000061_000000.wav|mr Redmain asked his visitor what he would have, as if, although it was quite early, he must, as a matter of course, stand in need of refreshment.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000003_000001.wav|She did not much like it, neither did she hesitate.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000070_000000.wav|"A splendid sapphire!" answered Count Galofta, taking it in his fingers, but, as mr Redmain saw, not looking at it closely.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000011_000000.wav|"Did you search it?"|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000004_000001.wav|He was seated, evidently waiting for her.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000077_000000.wav|"Of course," said the Count, "you will prosecute the jeweler."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000009_000000.wav|"There's the point!" he returned.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000016_000000.wav|He looked hard at Mary.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000085_000001.wav|Turning the first corner he came to, and the next and the next, he stepped into a mews, the court of which seemed empty, and slipped behind the gate.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000071_000000.wav|"I have always heard it called a splendid stone," said Sepia, whose complexion, though not her features, passed through several changes while all this was going on: she was anxious.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000019_000001.wav|"I was only plaguing myself between my recollection of the stone and the actual look of it.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000050_000001.wav|Her look went to what he had of a heart, and the slightest possible color rose to his face.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000012_000002.wav|Who found it, sir?"|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000052_000001.wav|You needn't believe a word I said about myself.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000086_000000.wav|What had become of him mr Redmain did not care.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000072_000000.wav|Nor did her inquisitor fail to surprise the uneasy glances she threw, furtively though involuntarily, in the face of the Count-who never once looked in hers: tolerably sure of himself, he was not sure of her.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000084_000000.wav|I would not have my reader take Sepia for an accomplice in the robbery. Even mr Redmain did not believe that: she was much too prudent!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000035_000002.wav|But Tom was now so much better, and Letty so much like her former self, that, if mrs Redmain had asked her, she might perhaps have consented.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000047_000000.wav|But here Mary all at once came to herself, and was aware that she was in quite a false position.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000080_000001.wav|Her face was set and colorless, and strange to look upon.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000062_000003.wav|At all of them mr Redmain laughed heartily, and applauded their cleverness extravagantly, though some of them were downright swindling.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000083_000000.wav|When he turned, Sepia too was gone.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000085_000000.wav|When he went out of the door of mr Redmain's study, he vanished from the house and from London.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000009_000002.wav|Can you suggest any explanation of the fact that it was found, after all, in a corner of my wife's jewel box?|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000088_000000.wav|But Sepia knew that mr Redmain had now to himself justified his dislike of her; and, as he said nothing, she was the more certain he meant something.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000004_000000.wav|She was shown into the room mr Redmain called his study, which communicated by a dressing room with his bedroom.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000037_000005.wav|I won't take a refusal."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000047_000001.wav|She withdrew therefore to the farthest corner, sat down, closed her ears with the palms of her hands, and waited.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000021_000001.wav|"You haven't the face to hint that the stone has been changed?"|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000040_000001.wav|She had to draw back to avoid him, and the man, perceiving at once how things were, closed the door the moment he entered, and stood with his back against it.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000030_000000.wav|But Mary took no notice, and left the house.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000063_000001.wav|I do not believe there was a word of truth in it.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000085_000003.wav|Presently a man came out of the mews in a Scotch cap and a full beard.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000059_000001.wav|Till Sepia came, he had been conventionally faithful-faithful with the faith of a lackey, that is-but she had found no difficulty in making of him, in respect of her, a spy upon his master.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000073_000000.wav|"That ring, when I bought it-the stone of it," said mr Redmain, "was a star sapphire, and worth seven hundred pounds; now, the whole affair is worth about ten."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000046_000000.wav|Bewildered and annoyed, Mary stood motionless in the middle of the room, and presently heard a man, whose voice seemed not quite strange to her, greet mr Redmain like an old friend.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000003_000000.wav|One morning, as Mary sat at her piano, Mewks was shown into the room. He brought the request from his master that she would go to him; he wanted particularly to see her.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000063_000004.wav|But the Count had not studied non expression in vain, and had brought it to a degree of perfection not easily disturbed.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000064_000001.wav|She made, consequently, what preparation she could against surprise.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000080_000000.wav|When he turned, the Count was gone, as he had expected, and Sepia stood with eyes full of anger and fear.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000035_000000.wav|For such a request Mary was not prepared.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000018_000001.wav|"I have been watching you think for three minutes and a half, I do believe.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000062_000000.wav|The talk then veered in another direction-that of personal adventure, so guided by mr Redmain.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000017_000000.wav|Now, Mary had very much admired the ring, as any one must who had an eye for stones; and had often looked at it-into the heart of it-almost loving it; and while they were talking now, she kept gazing at it.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000057_000000.wav|"It is impossible," Mary answered.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000015_000003.wav|There is something mysterious about it."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000017_000004.wav|At last, with a sigh, as if she waked from a reverie, she laid the ring on the table.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000053_000000.wav|"I have not heard a word, mr Redmain," she said with indignation.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000031_000000.wav|For about a week she heard nothing.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000038_000000.wav|"I can not do it, mr Redmain," said Mary; "the thing is impossible." And she turned to leave the room.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000051_000000.wav|"Gone a step too far, damn it!" he murmured to himself.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000086_000003.wav|He did not at once make up his mind how he would act on this last; while he lived, it did not matter so much; and he had besides a certain pleasure in watching his victim.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000045_000001.wav|You must hear what passes: I want you for a witness."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000058_000000.wav|She left the room, and mr Redmain did not try to prevent her.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000008_000000.wav|"I am so glad!" she said, and took it in her hand.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000014_000000.wav|"I don't know what you mean, sir.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000064_000003.wav|Having greeted the Count with the greatest composure, she turned to mr Redmain with question in her eyes.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000048_000001.wav|She raised her head, and saw the white, skin drawn face of mr Redmain grinning at her from the open door.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000019_000002.wav|It is so annoying to find what seemed a clear recollection prove a deceitful one!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000009_000003.wav|Who searched the box last?"|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000015_000002.wav|It is not like a small thing, you see.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000056_000003.wav|I did think I was past being taken in, but it seems possible for once again.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000054_000003.wav|A fine thing if your pretended squeamishness ruin my plot!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000037_000003.wav|But I have reasons for wanting to have you within call.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000025_000000.wav|That done, he began to examine the ring intently, as Mary had been doing, and did not speak a word.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000025_000001.wav|Mewks came.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000049_000000.wav|"I fancy you've had a dose of it!" he said.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000018_000002.wav|Come, out with it!"|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000063_000003.wav|Count Galofta thought it was to order something more in the way of "refreshment," and was not a little surprised when he heard his host desire the man to request the favor of Miss Yolland's presence.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000060_000000.wav|I will now relate what passed while Mary sat deaf in the corner.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000062_000002.wav|And whatever he told, his guest capped, narrating trick upon trick to which on different occasions he had had recourse.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000022_000000.wav|Mary laughed.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000064_000000.wav|Sepia had been told that Galofta was in the study, and therefore received the summons thither-a thing that had never happened before-with the greater alarm.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000037_000004.wav|Go to mrs Perkin.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000019_000003.wav|It may appear a presumptuous thing to say, but my recollection seems of a finer color."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000056_000004.wav|Of course, you will return to mrs Redmain now that all is cleared up."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000066_000000.wav|So saying, he took the ring from one drawer, and from another a bottle, from which he poured something into a crystal cup.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000086_000004.wav|But Hesper, free, rich, and beautiful, and far from wise, with Sepia for counselor, was not an idea to be contemplated with equanimity.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000061_000002.wav|A good deal of conversation followed about a disputed point in a late game of cards at one of the clubs.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000088_000001.wav|She lived, therefore, in constant dread of his sudden vengeance, against which she could take no precaution, for she had not even a conjecture as to what form it might assume.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000002_000000.wav|THE SAPPHIRE.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000034_000000.wav|"I want you to come back to the house," he said, abruptly, the moment she entered his room.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000039_000000.wav|"Stop, stop!" cried mr Redmain, and jumped from his chair to prevent her.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000037_000001.wav|humbug!" he returned, with annoyance.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000084_000002.wav|If he was right in this theory of the affair, then the Count had certainly a hold upon her, and she dared not or would not expose him!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000006_000000.wav|"You are very kind, sir," Mary answered.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000081_000000.wav|"Very odd-ain't it?" said mr Redmain, and, opening the door of his dressing room, called out:|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000046_000001.wav|The latter made a slight apology for having sent for him to his study-claiming the privilege, he said, of an invalid, who could not for a time have the pleasure of meeting him either at the club or at his wife's parties.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000013_000000.wav|"I will tell you who found it, if you will tell me who put it there."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000018_000000.wav|"Now what is it you've got in your head?" he said at last.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000037_000000.wav|"Oh, rubbish!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000023_000000.wav|"Such a thing never came into my head, sir; but now that you have put it there, I could almost believe it."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000035_000001.wav|Even since the ring was found, so long a time had passed that she never expected to hear from the house again.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000044_000001.wav|She turned, and knocked.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000048_000002.wav|When he spoke again, his words sounded like thunder, for she had removed her hands from her ears.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000063_000002.wav|But it was capped by the other with a narrative that seemed specially pleasing to the listener. In the midst of a burst of laughter, he rose and rang the bell.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000026_000000.wav|"Show Miss Marston out," said his master; "and tell my coachman to bring the hansom round directly."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000082_000000.wav|"Miss Marston!"|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000057_000001.wav|"I can not live in a house where the lady mistrusts and the gentleman insults me."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000017_000001.wav|When mr Redmain ended, she stood silent.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000028_000000.wav|"No!" roared mr Redmain; and Mewks darted from the room, followed more leisurely by Mary.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000042_000000.wav|A scarcely perceptible sign of question was made by the master, and answered in kind by the man.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000040_000000.wav|He would not have succeeded had not Mewks met her in the doorway full in the face.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000024_000000.wav|"Go along with you!" he cried, casting at her a strange look which she could not understand, and the same moment pulling the bell hard.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000010_000000.wav|"I do not know, sir."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000086_000005.wav|Still he shrank from the outcry and scandal of sending her away; for certainly his wife, if it were but to oppose him, would refuse to believe a word against her cousin.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000058_000001.wav|As she left the house she burst into tears; and the fact Mewks carried to his master.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000086_000002.wav|It was enough he had found him out, proved his suspicion correct, and obtained evidence against Sepia.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000050_000000.wav|As he spoke, she rose to her feet, her countenance illumined both with righteous anger and the tender shine of prayer.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000052_000002.wav|It was all hum to make the villain show his game."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000043_000000.wav|"Show him here directly," said mr Redmain.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000054_000004.wav|What do you think of yourself, hey?--But I don't believe it."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000043_000001.wav|Then turning to Mary, "Go out that way, Miss Marston, if you will go," he said, and pointed to the dressing room.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000054_000000.wav|"Oh, you needn't trouble yourself!" he returned.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000015_000001.wav|mrs Redmain swears it was not, and could not have been, there when she looked for it.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000014_000001.wav|It must have been there all the time."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000012_000001.wav|I offered to help mrs Redmain to look for the ring, but she said it was no use.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000078_000000.wav|"I will not prosecute the jeweler," answered mr Redmain; "but I have taken some trouble to find out who changed the stones."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000087_000001.wav|mr Redmain, who had pleasure in behaving handsomely so far as money was concerned, bought his wife the best sapphire he could find, and, for once, really pleased her.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000064_000002.wav|Thoroughly capable of managing her features, her anxiety was sufficient nevertheless to deprive her of power over her complexion, and she entered the room with the pallor peculiar to the dark skinned.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000032_000000.wav|In the meantime mr Redmain had been prosecuting certain inquiries he had some time ago begun, and another quite new one besides.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000065_000000.wav|"Count Galofta," said mr Redmain in reply, "has just been telling me a curious story of how a certain rascal got possession of a valuable jewel from a lady with whom he pretended to be in love, and I thought the opportunity a good one for showing you a strange discovery I have made with regard to the sapphire mrs Redmain missed for so long.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000015_000000.wav|"That's the point again!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000012_000000.wav|"No, sir.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000067_000001.wav|What will Cousin Hesper say?"|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000036_000000.wav|"mr Redmain," she answered, "you must see that I can not do so at your desire."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000009_000001.wav|"That is just why I sent for you!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000032_000001.wav|He was acquainted with many people of many different sorts, and had been to jewelers and pawnbrokers, gamblers and lodging house keepers, and had learned some things to his purpose.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000069_000000.wav|"You see this?" he said.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000066_000001.wav|Then he took a file, and, looking at Galofta, in whose well drilled features he believed he read something that was not mere curiosity, said, "I am going to show you something very curious," and began to file asunder that part of the ring which immediately clasped the sapphire, the setting of which was open.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64290/6426_64290_000017_000003.wav|She stood long, looking closely at it, moving it about a little, and changing the direction of the light; and, while her gaze was on the ring, mr Redmain's gaze was on her, watching her with equal attention.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000011_000001.wav|An alarming relapse was the consequence, and there was no more playing; for now his condition began to draw to a change, of which, for some time, none of them had even thought, the patient had seemed so certainly recovering.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000006_000000.wav|What the gift of such an instructor was to Joseph, my reader may be requested to imagine.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000018_000000.wav|But mrs Wardour's letter was kind perhaps a little repentant; it is hard to say, for ten persons will repent of a sin for one who will confess it-I do not mean to the priest-that may be an easy matter, but to the only one who has a claim to the confession, namely, the person wronged.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000008_000003.wav|O my brother, what were it not for thee to have a hand in making thy brother beautiful!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000002_000002.wav|When he had done with Joseph, or when he did not want him, Mary was always ready to give the latter a lesson; and, had he been a less gifted man than he was, he could not have failed to make progress with such a teacher.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000008_000001.wav|Nay, are there none such even now?|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000019_000000.wav|The letter contained a poverty stricken expression of sympathy, and an invitation to spend the summer months with them at her old home.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000004_000003.wav|They enabled her also to understand the man better and better; for to have a thing to brood over which we are capable of understanding must be more to us than even the master's playing of it.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000011_000000.wav|Tom had come down to his old quarters, and, in the arrogance of convalescence, had presumed on his imagined strength, and so caught cold.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000004_000002.wav|Mary's delight was great when first he brought her one of his compositions very fairly written out-after which others followed with a rapidity that astonished her.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000020_000001.wav|With all the probable unpleasant accompaniments of the visit, nowhere else, she thought, could she feel the same sense of shelter as where her childhood had passed.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000006_000005.wav|Of such a nobility, good Lord, deliver us from all envy!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000005_000001.wav|Plainly he thought the accompaniment a triumph of human faculty, and beyond anything he could ever develop.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000013_000004.wav|After all, he had not been one of the worst of babies.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000015_000005.wav|But the print of him was deep in the heart of Letty, and not shallow in the affection of Mary; nor were such as these, insignificant records for any one to leave behind him, as records go.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000002_000000.wav|For some time Tom made progress toward health, and was able to read a good part of the day.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000007_000001.wav|She belonged to another world from his, a world which his world worshiped, waiting. He might miss her even to death; her absence might, for him, darken the universe as if the sun had withdrawn his brightness; but who thinks of falling in love with the sun, or dreams of climbing nearer to his radiance?|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000016_000002.wav|Children must learn to walk, but not by being turned out alone in Cheapside.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000012_000000.wav|Joseph, whose violin was useless now, was not the less in attendance. Every evening, when his work was over, he came knocking gently at the door of the parlor, and never left until Tom was settled for the night. The most silently helpful, undemonstrative being he was, that doctor could desire to wait upon patient.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000003_000001.wav|And no teacher, not to say no woman, could have failed to be pleased at the thorough painstaking with which he followed the slightest of her hints, and the delight his flushed face would reveal when she praised the success he had achieved.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000020_000000.wav|Letty's heart felt one little throb of gladness at the thought of being again at Thornwick, and in peace.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000006_000002.wav|Under such an influence all that was gentlest and sweetest in his nature might well develop with rapidity, and every accidental roughness-and in him there was no other-by swift degrees vanish from both speech and manners.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000016_000001.wav|She was little more than a baby yet, not silly from youth, but young from silliness.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000016_000000.wav|But what was Mary to do now with Letty?|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000006_000003.wav|The angels do not want tailors to make their clothes: their habits come out of themselves.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000013_000002.wav|He was sorry for his past life, and thoroughly ashamed of much of it, saying in all honesty he would rather die than fall for one solitary week into the old ways-not that he wished to die, for, with the confidence of youth, he did not believe he could fall into the old ways again.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000005_000000.wav|To the first he brought her she contrived to put a poor little faulty accompaniment; and when she played his air to him so accompanied, his delight was touching, and not a little amusing.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000012_000001.wav|When it was his turn to watch, he never closed an eye, but at daybreak-for it was now spring-would rouse Mary, and go off straight to his work, nor taste food until the hour for the mid day meal arrived.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000009_000001.wav|It is left to a certain school of weak enthusiasts, who believe that such growth, such embellishment, such creation, is all God cares about; these enthusiasts can not indeed see, so blind have they become with their fixed idea, how God could care for anything else.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000015_000002.wav|Indeed, all about its office had loved him, each after his faculty.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000008_000002.wav|The day will come when a man, rather than build a great house for the overflow of a mighty hospitality, will give himself, in the personal labor of outgoing love, to build spiritual houses like saint Paul--a higher art than any of man's invention.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000013_000001.wav|Are our hairs numbered, and our days forgotten-till death gives a hint to the doctor?|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000010_000000.wav|There soon came a change, however, and the lessons ceased altogether.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000005_000002.wav|Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything he had done or could do, his path was open to the swiftest and highest growth.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000019_000001.wav|It might, the letter said, prove but a dull place to her after the gayety to which she had of late been accustomed, but it might not the less suit her present sad situation, and possibly uncertain prospects.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000013_000000.wav|Tom speedily became aware that his days were numbered-phrase of unbelief, for are they not numbered from the beginning?|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000015_000007.wav|For what is the loudest praise of posterity to the quietest love of one's own generation?|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64292/6426_64292_000011_000002.wav|The cold settled on his lungs, and he sank rapidly.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000005_000001.wav|His presence there was enough to make her angry, but she took no notice of it.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000031_000000.wav|"By Jove!" interrupted her husband, "it would have been more to the purpose if I, or poor Mary Marston, had had it; for I swear you put our souls in peril!"|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000012_000001.wav|Do you imagine, madam, I have found you a hair worse than I expected?"|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000027_000003.wav|She had a week to think about it, and she would see!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000006_000000.wav|"I understand, mrs Redmain," he began, "that you wish to bring the fate of Sodom upon the house."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000026_000000.wav|"Then you had better get into the habit; for I swear to you, madam, if you don't fetch that girl home within the week, I will, next Monday, discharge your coachman, and send every horse in the stable to Tattersall's!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000048_000000.wav|She had to show him half a score ere he was satisfied, declaring he would do it himself, if she could not make a better job of it.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000037_000000.wav|"So you came to forgive me?" he said.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000029_000000.wav|On the Sunday, after service, she knocked at his door, and, being admitted, bade him good morning, but with no very gracious air-as, indeed, he would have been the last to expect.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000034_000003.wav|How was I to know?|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000046_000000.wav|"I will show you the letter I write."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000051_000001.wav|She believed there was more hope of mr Redmain even.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000010_000000.wav|"You'll hear worse before long, if you keep on at this rate.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000050_000004.wav|Perhaps that will be taken into the account one day."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000050_000001.wav|"But you have done your best now-short of a Christian apology, which it would be folly to demand of you.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000035_000000.wav|"Not where there is no heart in the reader."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000008_000000.wav|"You have turned out of it the only just person in it, and we shall all be in hell soon!"|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000012_000000.wav|"You shall at least find me capable of a good deal.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000022_000003.wav|I will go myself a thousand times rather!--But will you not feel the want of pocket money when you come to pay a rough cabman?|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000047_000000.wav|"If you please."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000045_000001.wav|A man must be fair, even to his wife."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000020_000000.wav|Hesper started up in a rage.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000019_000002.wav|They know better which side their bread is buttered."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000045_000000.wav|"You are not.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000040_000001.wav|Marston may return when she pleases."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000049_000000.wav|At length one was dispatched, received, and answered: Mary would not return.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000022_000002.wav|"You really ought to consider before you utter such an awful threat!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000027_000001.wav|But she could not at once give in.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000050_000002.wav|I fear we have seen the last of her."--"And there was I," he said to himself, "for the first time in my life, actually beginning to fancy I had perhaps thrown salt upon the tail of that rare bird, an honest woman!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000011_000000.wav|"You have taught me to believe you capable of anything."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000024_000000.wav|"But you have not yet opened a banking account in your own name."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000034_000004.wav|We can not read each other's hearts."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000034_000001.wav|But, as to her character, that of persons in her position is in constant peril.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000018_000002.wav|He burst into a loud and almost merry laugh.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000026_000001.wav|Good morning."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000042_000000.wav|"Of course, mr Redmain.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000028_000000.wav|During the interval, he took care not once to refer to his threat, for that would but weaken the impression of it, he knew.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000004_000000.wav|However indifferent a woman may be to the opinion of her husband, he can nevertheless in general manage to make her uncomfortable enough if he chooses; and mr Redmain did choose now, in the event of her opposition to his wishes: when he set himself to do a thing, he hated defeat even more than he loved success.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000005_000000.wav|The moment Mary was out of the study, he walked into his wife's boudoir, and shut the door behind him.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000022_000000.wav|"Oh, don't!" he cried, in a tone of pretended alarm.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000015_000001.wav|You can best answer that question yourself."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000043_000000.wav|"You must write so as to make it possible to accept your offer."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000051_000000.wav|But Mary lay awake at night, and thought of many things she might have said and done better when she was with Hesper, and would gladly have given herself another chance; but she could no longer flatter herself she would ever be of any real good to her.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000027_000000.wav|She had no doubt he would do as he said; she knew mr Redmain would just enjoy selling her horses.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000013_000000.wav|"I never took the trouble to imagine anything about you."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000039_000000.wav|"Well, I will accept the condescension-that is, if the terms of it are to my mind."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000040_000000.wav|"I will make no terms.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000022_000001.wav|His pleasure was great, for he had succeeded in stinging the impenetrable.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000050_000000.wav|"You must have behaved to her very cruelly," he said.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000007_000000.wav|"I do not know what you mean," she answered, scarcely raising her eyes from her novel-and spoke the truth, for she knew next to nothing of the Bible, while the Old Testament was all the literature mr Redmain was "up in."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000049_000002.wav|mrs Redmain carried the letter, with ill concealed triumph, to her husband; nor did he conceal his annoyance.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000022_000004.wav|The check I gave you yesterday will not last you long."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000021_000000.wav|"mr Redmain, if you do not leave the room, I will."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000033_000000.wav|"And what, pray, was your foolish ring compared to the girl's character?"|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000017_000000.wav|"We do not, mr Redmain; and, if this occurs again, I shall go to Durnmelling."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000038_000000.wav|"And Marston," she answered.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000015_000000.wav|"You need not.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000041_000000.wav|"You must write and ask her."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000034_000002.wav|They have to lay their account with that, and must get used to it.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000030_000000.wav|"We have had a sermon on the forgiveness of injuries, mr Redmain," she said.|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000036_000002.wav|She said nothing, and her husband resumed:|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000019_000001.wav|Why, you goose, if I send a telegram before you, they won't so much as open the door to you!|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000023_000000.wav|"The money is my own, mr Redmain."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6426/64291/6426_64291_000016_000000.wav|"Then we understand each other."|6426
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000007_000000.wav|"Who are you, our brother?|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000051_000003.wav|And the road seemed not to be flat before us, but as if it were leaping up to meet us, and we waited for the earth to rise and strike us in the face.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000017_000003.wav|We give it to you."|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000007_000001.wav|For you do not look like a Scholar."|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000058_000003.wav|We built it for its own sake.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000014_000001.wav|We spoke of it, and of our long quest, and of our tunnel, and of our escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000022_000001.wav|They moved to the table and the others followed.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000052_000003.wav|We were in the Uncharted Forest.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000059_000003.wav|It is best.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000055_000004.wav|So we walked on, our box in our arms, our heart empty.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000058_000002.wav|We have not built this box for the good of our brothers.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000051_000004.wav|But we ran.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000032_000004.wav|But the light?|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000014_000005.wav|And slowly, slowly as a flush of blood, a red flame trembled in the wire. Then the wire glowed.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000001_000004.wav|We have no bed now, save the moss, and no future, save the beasts.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000002_000001.wav|No men stopped us at the gate.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000051_000000.wav|We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000057_000001.wav|We care for nothing on earth. We are tired.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000049_000002.wav|You thrice damned fools!"|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000032_000005.wav|What will you do with the light?"|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000017_000002.wav|It is yours.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000001_000002.wav|The moss is soft and warm.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000054_000000.wav|We lay thus for a long time.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000055_000000.wav|It mattered not where we went.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000056_000001.wav|Whatever days are left to us, we shall spend them alone. And we have heard of the corruption to be found in solitude.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000014_000003.wav|Then we put the wires to the box, and they all bent forward and sat still, watching.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000041_000002.wav|We cannot alter the Plans again so soon."|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000057_000000.wav|We know these things, but we do not care.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000052_000002.wav|Then we knew.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000015_000000.wav|But terror struck the men of the Council.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000001_000000.wav|It is dark here in the forest.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000059_000001.wav|We thought of the Golden One.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000004_000002.wav|It is true that our tunic was torn and stained with brown stains which had been blood. We raised our right arm and we said:|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000032_000003.wav|We do not care.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000055_000002.wav|We had nothing to fear from them. The forest disposes of its own victims.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000020_000000.wav|But they looked upon us, and suddenly we were afraid.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000010_000003.wav|It is against all the rules and all the laws!"|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000018_000000.wav|Still they would not move.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000046_000000.wav|"It must be destroyed!"|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000049_000000.wav|"You fools!" we cried.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000054_000001.wav|Then we rose, we took our box and walked on into the forest.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000010_000000.wav|"A Street Sweeper!|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132705/948_132705_000059_000000.wav|Then a blow of pain struck us, our first and our only.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000029_000001.wav|But questions come to us again, as we walk in silence.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000032_000001.wav|What is that error?|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000029_000003.wav|If this is the great evil of being alone, then what is good and what is evil?|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000022_000002.wav|There is no danger in solitude.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000026_000005.wav|The fires smoulder as a crown of jewels around us, and smoke stands still in the air, in columns made blue by the moonlight.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000019_000003.wav|The Golden One breathed once, and their breath was a moan, and then their arms closed around us.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000022_000001.wav|Fear nothing of the forest.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000002_000001.wav|We hid in the bushes, and we waited.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000002_000003.wav|And then we saw the fold of a white tunic among the trees, and a gleam of gold.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000019_000001.wav|We bent to raise the Golden One to their feet, but when we touched them, it was as if madness had stricken us.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000038_000000.wav|We looked into each other's eyes and we knew that the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000028_000004.wav|They approach us, and they stop, laughing, knowing what we think, and they wait obediently, without questions, till it pleases us to turn and go on.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000031_000005.wav|Thus do we wonder.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000022_000005.wav|Give us your hand.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000026_000006.wav|We sleep together in the midst of the ring, the arms of the Golden One around us, their head upon our breast.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000029_000000.wav|We go on and we bless the earth under our feet.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000025_000000.wav|We have walked for many days.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000028_000003.wav|We watch the leaf which has fallen upon their shoulder, and it lies at the curve of their neck, and a drop of dew glistens upon it like a jewel.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000004_000001.wav|And they could not speak.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000032_000002.wav|We do not know, but the knowledge struggles within us, struggles to be born.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000018_000000.wav|Then they knelt, and bowed their golden head before us.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000002_000002.wav|The steps came closer.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000028_000001.wav|When questions come to puzzle us, we walk faster, then turn and forget all things as we watch the Golden One following. The shadows of leaves fall upon their arms, as they spread the branches apart, but their shoulders are in the sun|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000026_000003.wav|We sleep in the midst of that ring, and the beasts dare not attack us.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000031_000001.wav|But we lived not, when we toiled for our brothers, we were only weary.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000036_000000.wav|They were silent, then they spoke slowly, and their words were halting, like the words of a child learning to speak for the first time:|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000019_000000.wav|We had never thought of that which we did.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000026_000002.wav|At night, we choose a clearing, and we build a ring of fires around it.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000020_000000.wav|We stood together for a long time.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132707/948_132707_000007_000000.wav|But they whispered only:|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000024_000001.wav|For the freedom of Man.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000003_000001.wav|Then I called the Golden One, and I told her what I had read and what I had learned.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000015_000001.wav|And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000002_000001.wav|I understood why the best in me had been my sins and my transgressions; and why I had never felt guilt in my sins.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000024_000003.wav|For his life.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000016_000003.wav|But he broke their chains.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000019_000002.wav|Thus did all thought, all science, all wisdom perish on earth.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000021_000004.wav|And they chose to perish, for they knew.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000023_000001.wav|And it will become as the heart of the earth, lost and hidden at first, but beating, beating louder each day.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000006_000001.wav|There was a time when each man had a name of his own to distinguish him from all other men.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000022_000008.wav|Man, not men.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000020_000000.wav|But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000006_000000.wav|"My dearest one, it is not proper for men to be without names.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000012_000004.wav|I shall learn how to use the wires which carry this power.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000019_000001.wav|Those men who survived those eager to obey, eager to live for one another, since they had nothing else to vindicate them-those men could neither carry on, nor preserve what they had received.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000006_000005.wav|And he suffered for his deed as all bearers of light must suffer.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000024_000002.wav|For his rights.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000018_000002.wav|What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission?|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000003_000002.wav|She looked at me and the first words she spoke were:|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000012_000003.wav|I have found the engine which produced this light. I shall learn how to repair it and how to make it work again.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000015_000004.wav|Freedom from what?|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000015_000007.wav|That is freedom.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000013_000001.wav|Gaea is pregnant with my child.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000017_000000.wav|But then he gave up all he had won, and fell lower than his savage beginning.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000025_000000.wav|And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000022_000003.wav|For that which they died to save can never perish.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000022_000005.wav|It may sleep, but it will awaken.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000002_000002.wav|I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000025_000001.wav|The word which will not die, should we all perish in battle.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000012_000006.wav|For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000026_000000.wav|The sacred word:|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000001_000001.wav|I wept in deliverance and in pity for all mankind.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000021_000005.wav|To them, I send my salute across the centuries, and my pity.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000018_000000.wav|What brought it to pass?|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000016_000005.wav|But he broke their chains.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000021_000000.wav|Perhaps, in those days, there were a few among men, a few of clear sight and clean soul, who refused to surrender that word.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000023_000004.wav|And all my brothers, and the Councils of my brothers, will hear of it, but they will be impotent against me.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000022_000004.wav|Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000016_000002.wav|Then he was enslaved by the kings.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000021_000001.wav|What agony must have been theirs before that which they saw coming and could not stop! Perhaps they cried out in protest and in warning.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000012_000007.wav|I have my mind.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000022_000001.wav|And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000004_000000.wav|"I love you."|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000013_000003.wav|He will be taught to say "I" and to bear the pride of it.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000016_000004.wav|He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000016_000001.wav|But he broke their chains.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000024_000004.wav|For his honor.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000008_000002.wav|Let this be your name, my Golden One, for you are to be the mother of a new kind of gods."|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000016_000006.wav|He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000010_000000.wav|Now I look ahead.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/948/132710/948_132710_000008_000001.wav|Her name was Gaea.|948
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7339/86765/7339_86765_000038_000000.wav|"In stock?"|7339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7339/86765/7339_86765_000042_000000.wav|"Yes."|7339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000051_000000.wav|"What are you looking at?"|7339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000012_000004.wav|What for?--that they may try, a month hence, to marry me again; and to whom?--M.|7339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000021_000000.wav|"M.|7339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000018_000000.wav|"Our passport?"|7339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000022_000001.wav|How did you get this passport?"|7339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000012_000005.wav|Debray, perhaps, as it was once proposed.|7339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000017_000000.wav|"Yes."|7339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000035_000001.wav|"But I cannot," said she; "I am not strong enough; do you shut it."|7339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7339/86804/7339_86804_000044_000000.wav|"Come and help me."|7339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000051_000000.wav|Jos remembered this remarkable circumstance perfectly well, but vowed that he had totally forgotten it.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000070_000001.wav|"You would not have listened to me," she said to mr Osborne (though she knew she was telling a fib), "had you heard Rebecca first."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000021_000000.wav|"I shall take care how I let YOU choose for me another time," said Rebecca, as they went down again to dinner.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000021_000001.wav|"I didn't think men were fond of putting poor harmless girls to pain."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000024_000003.wav|We can't resist them, if they do.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000066_000002.wav|He was quite surprised and delighted at his own graceful familiar manner.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000066_000001.wav|And as he talked on, he grew quite bold, and actually had the audacity to ask Miss Rebecca for whom she was knitting the green silk purse?|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000059_000000.wav|"Why?" answered the other, still more sadly.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000061_000001.wav|"Those two have told theirs."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000066_000000.wav|"Pooh, pooh, Miss Sharp," said he, pulling up his shirt collars; "the danger makes the sport only the pleasanter." He had never been but once at a tiger hunt, when the accident in question occurred, and when he was half killed-not by the tiger, but by the fright.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000062_000001.wav|George Osborne is a capital fellow."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000039_000002.wav|"Amelia had better write a note," said her father; "and let George Osborne see what a beautiful handwriting we have brought back from Miss Pinkerton's.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000013_000001.wav|"How kind you all are to me!|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000086_000001.wav|I don't know on what pretext Osborne left the room, or why, presently, Amelia went away, perhaps to superintend the slicing of the pine apple; but Jos was left alone with Rebecca, who had resumed her work, and the green silk and the shining needles were quivering rapidly under her white slender fingers.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000045_000001.wav|The girl's a white face at any rate.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000015_000000.wav|"Yes; how could you be so cruel as to make me eat that horrid pepper dish at dinner, the first day I ever saw you?|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000043_000007.wav|But, mark my words, the first woman who fishes for him, hooks him."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000079_000005.wav|Amelia, who was writing to her twelve dearest friends at Chiswick Mall), and Rebecca was employed upon her yesterday's work.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000073_000000.wav|Conversation of a sentimental sort, befitting the subject, was carried on between the songs, to which Sambo, after he had brought the tea, the delighted cook, and even mrs Blenkinsop, the housekeeper, condescended to listen on the landing place.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000088_000000.wav|"Because you have a kind heart, mr Joseph; all the Sedleys have, I think."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000068_000001.wav|"Why, your friend has worked miracles."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000079_000006.wav|As Joe's buggy drove up, and while, after his usual thundering knock and pompous bustle at the door, the ex Collector of Boggley Wollah laboured up stairs to the drawing room, knowing glances were telegraphed between Osborne and Miss Sedley, and the pair, smiling archly, looked at Rebecca, who actually blushed as she bent her fair ringlets over her knitting.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000078_000004.wav|I might go farther, and fare worse, egad!" And in these meditations he fell asleep.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000019_000000.wav|"And the chilis?"|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000054_000001.wav|Boys never forget those tips at school, nor the givers."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000046_000000.wav|And presently the voices of the two speakers were hushed, or were replaced by the gentle but unromantic music of the nose; and save when the church bells tolled the hour and the watchman called it, all was silent at the house of john Sedley, Esquire, of Russell Square, and the Stock Exchange.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000027_000000.wav|"O, delightful!" said Rebecca, going to clap her hands; but she recollected herself, and paused, like a modest creature, as she was.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000024_000000.wav|It was an advance, and as such, perhaps, some ladies of indisputable correctness and gentility will condemn the action as immodest; but, you see, poor dear Rebecca had all this work to do for herself.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000090_000000.wav|"O you droll creature!|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000060_000002.wav|But this arrangement left mr Joseph Sedley tete a tete with Rebecca, at the drawing room table, where the latter was occupied in knitting a green silk purse.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000085_000002.wav|Let's have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather." Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond everything to taste one.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000015_000001.wav|You are not so good to me as dear Amelia."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER four|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000005_000000.wav|As for mr Sedley's jokes, Rebecca laughed at them with a cordiality and perseverance which not a little pleased and softened that good-natured gentleman.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000062_000000.wav|"As soon as he gets his company," said Joseph, "I believe the affair is settled.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000045_000002.wav|I don't care who marries him.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000032_000000.wav|"The children must have someone with them," cried mrs Sedley.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000091_000003.wav|Will you help me, mr Sedley?" And before he had time to ask how, mr Joseph Sedley, of the East India Company's service, was actually seated tete a tete with a young lady, looking at her with a most killing expression; his arms stretched out before her in an imploring attitude, and his hands bound in a web of green silk, which she was unwinding.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000061_000000.wav|"There is no need to ask family secrets," said Miss Sharp.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000054_000000.wav|"Yes, and after I had cut the tassels of his boots too.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000091_000002.wav|"My spirits are not equal to it; besides, I must finish the purse.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000076_000002.wav|Hark to the wind upon the hill!|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000049_000002.wav|In a word, George was as familiar with the family as such daily acts of kindness and intercourse could make him.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000016_000000.wav|"He doesn't know you so well," cried Amelia.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000009_000000.wav|"The poor child is all heart," said mrs Sedley.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000038_000000.wav|"The girls must have a gentleman apiece," said the old gentleman.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000072_000001.wav|Osborne hinted that he should like quite as well to sit in the dark; but Miss Sedley, laughing, declined to bear him company any farther, and the two accordingly followed mr Joseph.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000024_000006.wav|They would overcome us entirely if they did.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000082_000000.wav|"Thank you, dear Joseph," said Amelia, quite ready to kiss her brother, if he were so minded. (And I think for a kiss from such a dear creature as Amelia, I would purchase all mr Lee's conservatories out of hand.)|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000028_000000.wav|"To night is not the night," said Joe.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000004_000002.wav|One day, Amelia had a headache, and could not go upon some party of pleasure to which the two young people were invited: nothing could induce her friend to go without her.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000077_000000.wav|It was the sentiment of the before mentioned words, "When I'm gone," over again.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000064_000002.wav|As there was music in the next room, the talk was carried on, of course, in a low and becoming tone, though, for the matter of that, the couple in the next apartment would not have been disturbed had the talking been ever so loud, so occupied were they with their own pursuits.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000003_000000.wav|The Green Silk Purse|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000011_000000.wav|"She's devilish like Miss Cutler that I used to meet at Dumdum, only fairer.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000058_000000.wav|"O that you could stay longer, dear Rebecca," said Amelia.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000045_000003.wav|Let Joe please himself."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000079_000008.wav|It was a nervous moment for all; and as for Amelia, I think she was more frightened than even the people most concerned.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000065_000001.wav|Miss Rebecca asked him a great number of questions about India, which gave him an opportunity of narrating many interesting anecdotes about that country and himself.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000029_000000.wav|"Well, to morrow."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000011_000002.wav|Do you know, Ma'am, that once Quintin, of the fourteenth, bet me-"|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000069_000002.wav|For the affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's bean stalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000012_000000.wav|"O Joseph, we know that story," said Amelia, laughing.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000072_000000.wav|"You shall hear," said Amelia; and Joseph Sedley was actually polite enough to carry the candles to the piano.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000069_000000.wav|"The more the better," said Miss Amelia; who, like almost all women who are worth a pin, was a match maker in her heart, and would have been delighted that Joseph should carry back a wife to India.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000039_000000.wav|At this, I don't know in the least for what reason, mrs Sedley looked at her husband and laughed.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000059_000002.wav|George Osborne looked at the two young women with a touched curiosity; and Joseph Sedley heaved something very like a sigh out of his big chest, as he cast his eyes down towards his favourite Hessian boots.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000010_000000.wav|"I wish she could stay with us another week," said Amelia.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000034_000002.wav|Poor victim! carry him up; he's as light as a feather!"|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000077_000001.wav|As she came to the last words, Miss Sharp's "deep toned voice faltered." Everybody felt the allusion to her departure, and to her hapless orphan state.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000083_000001.wav|Perhaps she just looked first into the bouquet, to see whether there was a billet doux hidden among the flowers; but there was no letter.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000033_000001.wav|"He's big enough." At which speech even mr Sambo at the sideboard burst out laughing, and poor fat Joe felt inclined to become a parricide almost.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000036_000000.wav|"Order mr Jos's elephant, Sambo!" cried the father.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000037_000000.wav|A goblet of Champagne restored Joseph's equanimity, and before the bottle was emptied, of which as an invalid he took two thirds, he had agreed to take the young ladies to Vauxhall.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000076_000001.wav|The dawn is up-the guest is gone, The cottage hearth is blazing still; Heaven pity all poor wanderers lone!|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000033_000000.wav|"Let Joe go," said his father, laughing.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000079_000007.wav|How her heart beat as Joseph appeared-Joseph, puffing from the staircase in shining creaking boots-Joseph, in a new waistcoat, red with heat and nervousness, and blushing behind his wadded neckcloth.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000079_000001.wav|need not be told here.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000004_000004.wav|Never!" and the green eyes looked up to Heaven and filled with tears; and mrs Sedley could not but own that her daughter's friend had a charming kind heart of her own.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000078_000000.wav|"Bravo, Jos!" said mr Sedley; on hearing the bantering of which well-known voice, Jos instantly relapsed into an alarmed silence, and quickly took his departure.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000025_000000.wav|"Egad!" thought Joseph, entering the dining room, "I exactly begin to feel as I did at Dumdum with Miss Cutler." Many sweet little appeals, half tender, half jocular, did Miss Sharp make to him about the dishes at dinner; for by this time she was on a footing of considerable familiarity with the family, and as for the girls, they loved each other like sisters.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000042_000000.wav|"It was quite wicked of you, mr Sedley," said she, "to torment the poor boy so."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000067_000000.wav|"For any one who wants a purse," replied Miss Rebecca, looking at him in the most gentle winning way.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000064_000000.wav|When two unmarried persons get together, and talk upon such delicate subjects as the present, a great deal of confidence and intimacy is presently established between them.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000092_000001.wav|The skein of silk was just wound round the card; but mr Jos had never spoken.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000024_000005.wav|A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000084_000000.wav|"Do they talk the language of flowers at Boggley Wollah, Sedley?" asked Osborne, laughing.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000026_000000.wav|As if bent upon advancing Rebecca's plans in every way-what must Amelia do, but remind her brother of a promise made last Easter holidays-"When I was a girl at school," said she, laughing-a promise that he, Joseph, would take her to Vauxhall.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000090_000001.wav|Do let me hear you sing it."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000044_000000.wav|"She shall go off to morrow, the little artful creature," said mrs Sedley, with great energy.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000076_000000.wav|They mark'd him as he onward prest, With fainting heart and weary limb; Kind voices bade him turn and rest, And gentle faces welcomed him.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000012_000001.wav|"Never mind about telling that; but persuade Mamma to write to Sir Something Crawley for leave of absence for poor dear Rebecca: here she comes, her eyes red with weeping."|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000091_000000.wav|"Me?|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000065_000003.wav|How delighted Miss Rebecca was at the Government balls, and how she laughed at the stories of the Scotch aides de camp, and called mr Sedley a sad wicked satirical creature; and how frightened she was at the story of the elephant!|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/664/129011/664_129011_000057_000000.wav|"I shan't have time to do it here," said Rebecca.|664
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000013_000003.wav|At length upon her getting nearer, I saw distinctly that she was heading immediately for us, with her light sails filled.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000012_000000.wav|Peters and Augustus now made several ineffectual efforts to swallow portions of the leather.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000005_000002.wav|I therefore returned in despair.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000004_000001.wav|In groping along the floor of the passage for this, I felt a hard substance, which I immediately grasped, not having time to ascertain what it was, but returning and ascending instantly to the surface.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000007.wav|Parker appeared to be somewhat more in possession of his senses than the others, and I endeavoured, by every means in my power, to rouse him.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000014_000002.wav|The conduct of Augustus most sensibly affected me.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000008.wav|I now went down again, and returned without any success.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000010_000008.wav|He suffered with great patience, making no complaint, and endeavouring to inspire us with hope in every manner he could devise.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000005.wav|To this I consented, and, in the first attempt, after staying under a full minute, brought up a small leather trunk belonging to Captain Barnard.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000009.wav|As my head came above water I heard a crash on deck, and, upon getting up, saw that my companions had ungratefully taken advantage of my absence to drink the remainder of the wine, having let the bottle fall in the endeavour to replace it before I saw them.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000001_000002.wav|Nothing, however, could be done until the morning, and, securing ourselves as well as possible, we endeavoured to snatch a little repose.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000000.wav|There seemed now to be no longer any room for hope, and I could perceive in the countenances of my companions that they had made up their minds to perish.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000015_000001.wav|As soon as she was entirely gone, Parker turned suddenly toward me with an expression of countenance which made me shudder.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000009_000000.wav|Finding that I could now trust my companions to hold the end of the rope, I again made three or four plunges into the cabin, although it was now quite dark, and a gentle but long swell from the northward rendered the hulk somewhat unsteady.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000004_000003.wav|Giving thanks to God for this timely and cheering assistance, we immediately drew the cork with my penknife, and, each taking a moderate sup, felt the most indescribable comfort from the warmth, strength, and spirits with which it inspired us.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000001_000001.wav|The pangs of hunger and thirst then returned, absorbing all other cares and considerations.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000015_000002.wav|There was about him an air of self possession which I had not noticed in him until now, and before he opened his lips my heart told me what he would say.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000010.wav|Having explained my object, he expressed himself indebted to me, and said that he felt greatly better from the immersion, afterward conversing sensibly upon our situation.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000006.wav|This was immediately opened in the faint hope that it might contain something to eat or drink.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000011.wav|The other two endeavoured to laugh the matter off as a joke, but I hope never again to behold laughter of such a species: the distortion of countenance was absolutely frightful.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000013.wav|With great difficulty I prevailed upon them to lie down, when they fell very soon into a heavy slumber, accompanied with loud stertorous breathing.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000007_000001.wav|No prospect offered itself to my view but a lingering death by famine, or, at the best, by being overwhelmed in the first gale which should spring up, for in our present exhausted condition we could have no hope of living through another.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000009.wav|I had good reason to congratulate myself upon having made this experiment; for he appeared much revived and invigorated, and, upon getting out, asked me, in a rational manner, why I had so served him.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000014_000003.wav|In spite of all I could say or do to the contrary, he persisted in saying that the ship was rapidly nearing us, and in making preparations to go on board of her.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000002.wav|They talked incoherently, and about matters unconnected with our condition, Peters repeatedly asking me questions about Nantucket.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000012.wav|Indeed, it was apparent that the stimulus, in the empty state of their stomachs, had taken instant and violent effect, and that they were all exceedingly intoxicated.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000012_000001.wav|I advised them to chew it and spit it out; but they were too excessively debilitated to be able to follow my advice.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000014_000001.wav|They replied to all my assertions with a stare and a gesture implying that they were not to be deceived by such misrepresentations.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000004_000004.wav|We then carefully recorked the bottle, and, by means of a handkerchief, swung it in such a manner that there was no possibility of its getting broken.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000001_000000.wav|WE spent the remainder of the day in a condition of stupid lethargy, gazing after the retreating vessel until the darkness, hiding her from our sight, recalled us in some measure to our senses.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000014_000004.wav|Some seaweed floating by the brig, he maintained that it was the ship's boat, and endeavoured to throw himself upon it, howling and shrieking in the most heartrending manner, when I forcibly restrained him from thus casting himself into the sea.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000007.wav|We found nothing, however, except a box of razors and two linen shirts.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000011_000003.wav|It was a long time, nevertheless, before I could convince Parker of his mistake.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000014_000000.wav|It was some time before I could induce my poor companions to believe that this sad reverse in our prospects had actually taken place.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000011.wav|We then resolved to treat Augustus and Peters in the same way, which we immediately did, when they both experienced much benefit from the shock.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000003_000003.wav|The condition of Augustus's wounded arm rendered it useless for him to attempt going down, as he would be unable to force the room open should he reach it, and it accordingly now devolved upon me to exert myself for our common deliverance.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000005_000000.wav|Having rested a while after this fortunate discovery, I again descended, and now recovered the chain, with which I instantly came up.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000010.wav|I remonstrated with them on the heartlessness of their conduct, when Augustus burst into tears.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000010_000000.wav|We passed the remainder of this night in a state of the most intense mental and bodily anguish that can possibly be imagined.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000011_000004.wav|He then burst into a flood of tears, weeping like a child, with loud cries and sobs, for two or three hours, when becoming exhausted, he fell asleep.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000003.wav|Augustus, too, I remember, approached me with a serious air, and requested me to lend him a pocket comb, as his hair was full of fish scales, and he wished to get them out before going on shore.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000006_000004.wav|Parker appeared somewhat less affected, and urged me to dive at random into the cabin, and bring up any article which might come to hand.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000003_000001.wav|He was quite exhausted with his long stay under water, and it became absolutely necessary that some other one of us should take his place.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000000.wav|The gnawing hunger which I now experienced was nearly insupportable, and I felt myself capable of going to any lengths in order to appease it.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000006.wav|I had not yet abandoned all idea being able to get up something from below; but the attempt could not possibly be resumed until some one of them was sufficiently master of himself to aid me by holding the end of the rope while I went down.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000009_000002.wav|I continued my efforts, after getting these articles, until I was completely exhausted, but brought up nothing else.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000010_000007.wav|Parker, although sadly reduced, and so feeble that he could not raise his head from his bosom, was not so far gone as the other two.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000015_000003.wav|He proposed, in a few words, that one of us should die to preserve the existence of the others.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000002_000001.wav|The brig was out of sight.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000010_000005.wav|Had I met them on shore in their present condition I should not have had the slightest suspicion that I had ever beheld them.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000008_000001.wav|With my knife I cut off a small portion of the leather trunk, and endeavoured to eat it, but found it utterly impossible to swallow a single morsel, although I fancied that some little alleviation of my suffering was obtained by chewing small pieces of it and spitting them out.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000010_000001.wav|The morning of the sixteenth at length dawned, and we looked eagerly around the horizon for relief, but to no purpose.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000013_000001.wav|She appeared to be a large ship, and was coming nearly athwart us, being probably twelve or fifteen miles distant.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000003_000000.wav|He succeeded very quickly in reaching the door, when, loosening one of the chains from his ankle, he made every exertion to force the passage with it, but in vain, the framework of the room being far stronger than was anticipated.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000013_000004.wav|I could now contain myself no longer, and pointed her out to my fellow sufferers. They immediately sprang to their feet, again indulging in the most extravagant demonstrations of joy, weeping, laughing in an idiotic manner, jumping, stamping upon the deck, tearing their hair, and praying and cursing by turns.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000009_000001.wav|In the course of these attempts I succeeded in bringing up two case knives, a three gallon jug, empty, and a blanket, but nothing which could serve us for food.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000009_000003.wav|During the night Parker and Peters occupied themselves by turns in the same manner; but nothing coming to hand, we now gave up this attempt in despair, concluding that we were exhausting ourselves in vain.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000013_000002.wav|None of my companions had as yet discovered her, and I forbore to tell them of her for the present, lest we might again be disappointed of relief.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108621/7816_108621_000011_000001.wav|Peters and Augustus took little notice of what he said, being apparently wrapped up in moody contemplation.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000005_000001.wav|Of a sudden, and all at once, there came wafted over the ocean from the strange vessel (which was now close upon us) a smell, a stench, such as the whole world has no name for-no conception of-hellish-utterly suffocating-insufferable, inconceivable.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000000.wav|The body from which it had been taken, resting as it did upon the rope, had been easily swayed to and fro by the exertions of the carnivorous bird, and it was this motion which had at first impressed us with the belief of its being alive.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000009.wav|We had seen and felt, but we could neither think nor act, until, alas! too late.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000004_000003.wav|He seemed by his manner to be encouraging us to have patience, nodding to us in a cheerful although rather odd way, and smiling constantly, so as to display a set of the most brilliantly white teeth.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000005_000005.wav|Shall I ever forget the triple horror of that spectacle? Twenty five or thirty human bodies, among whom were several females, lay scattered about between the counter and the galley in the last and most loathsome state of putrefaction.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000002_000005.wav|The former danced about the deck like a madman, uttering the most extravagant rhodomontades, intermingled with howls and imprecations, while the latter burst into tears, and continued for many minutes weeping like a child.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000003_000000.wav|The vessel in sight was a large hermaphrodite brig, of a Dutch build, and painted black, with a tawdry gilt figure head.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000003_000005.wav|She yawed about so considerably, that once or twice we thought it impossible she could see us, or imagined that, having seen us, and discovered no person on board, she was about to tack and make off in another direction.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000006.wav|The brig, as I have already told, passed under our stern, and made its way slowly but steadily to leeward.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000005.wav|this the-but I forbear.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000008.wav|Deliberately as she went by, we might possibly have found means of boarding her, had not our sudden disappointment and the appalling nature of the discovery which accompanied it laid entirely prostrate every active faculty of mind and body.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000008_000001.wav|Her build and general appearance, as I have before stated, led us to the belief that she was a Dutch trader, and the dresses of the crew also sustained this opinion.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000006_000002.wav|We saw the tall stout figure still leaning on the bulwark, and still nodding his head to and fro, but his face was now turned from us so that we could not behold it.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000008_000000.wav|I have, since this period, vainly endeavoured to obtain some clew to the hideous uncertainty which enveloped the fate of the stranger.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000004_000004.wav|As his vessel drew nearer, we saw a red flannel cap which he had on fall from his head into the water; but of this he took little or no notice, continuing his odd smiles and gesticulations.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000002_000004.wav|Peters and Parker were equally affected, although in different ways.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000008_000002.wav|We might have easily seen the name upon her stern, and, indeed, taken other observations, which would have guided us in making out her character; but the intense excitement of the moment blinded us to every thing of that nature.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000006_000003.wav|His arms were extended over the rail, and the palms of his hands fell outward.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000003_000002.wav|When we first saw her, she was, as I have already said, about two miles off and to windward, bearing down upon us.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000002_000002.wav|I turned my head, and shall never forget the ecstatic joy which thrilled through every particle of my frame, when I perceived a large brig bearing down upon us, and not more than a couple of miles off.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000004_000000.wav|No person was seen upon her decks until she arrived within about a quarter of a mile of us.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000003_000003.wav|The breeze was very gentle, and what astonished us chiefly was, that she had no other sails set than her foremast and mainsail, with a flying jib-of course she came down but slowly, and our impatience amounted nearly to phrensy.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000004.wav|This, then, was the smile which had cheered us on to hope!|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000010.wav|How much our intellects had been weakened by this incident may be estimated by the fact, that when the vessel had proceeded so far that we could perceive no more than the half of her hull, the proposition was seriously entertained of attempting to overtake her by swimming!|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000005_000003.wav|But we had now no time left for question or surmise-the brig was within fifty feet of us, and it seemed to be her intention to run under our counter, that we might board her without putting out a boat.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000006_000000.wav|As our first loud yell of terror broke forth, it was replied to by something, from near the bowsprit of the stranger, so closely resembling the scream of a human voice that the nicest ear might have been startled and deceived.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000007.wav|With her and with her terrible crew went all our gay visions of deliverance and joy.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000002_000000.wav|SHORTLY afterward an incident occurred which I am induced to look upon as more intensely productive of emotion, as far more replete with the extremes first of delight and then of horror, than even any of the thousand chances which afterward befell me in nine long years, crowded with events of the most startling and, in many cases, of the most unconceived and unconceivable character.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000003.wav|The eyes were gone, and the whole flesh around the mouth, leaving the teeth utterly naked.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000006_000004.wav|His knees were lodged upon a stout rope, tightly stretched, and reaching from the heel of the bowsprit to a cathead.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000003_000004.wav|The awkward manner in which she steered, too, was remarked by all of us, even excited as we were.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000006_000001.wav|At this instant another sudden yaw brought the region of the forecastle for a moment into view, and we beheld at once the origin of the sound.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000005_000000.wav|The brig came on slowly, and now more steadily than before, and-I cannot speak calmly of this event-our hearts leaped up wildly within us, and we poured out our whole souls in shouts and thanksgiving to God for the complete, unexpected, and glorious deliverance that was so palpably at hand.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7816/108620/7816_108620_000007_000001.wav|As the gull relieved it of its weight, it swung round and fell partially over, so that the face was fully discovered.|7816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000094_000000.wav|"How the devil did he get out here?"|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000043_000002.wav|Then he would forget, and nothing would matter any more.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000068_000002.wav|He could feel distinctly the slow, irresistible heave of its bulk beneath him.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000032_000001.wav|The sheer habit of an accustomed swimmer alone bade him hold his breath.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000068_000003.wav|His feet touched and slipped upon its horrible sleek flanks.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000096_000000.wav|"Impossible for any man to swim this far since our torpedo struck-"|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000049_000000.wav|Athwart the drab texture of consciousness wild fancies played like heat lightning in a still midsummer night.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000097_000000.wav|"Then he must have gone overboard before it struck-or was thrown-"|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000029_000000.wav|As he shot under the guard rope and into space between the edge of the deck and the keel of the lifeboat, the spy rounded smartly on a heel and darted to the smoking room door.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000022_000000.wav|Then the spy's weapon in turn went out of action.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000086_000003.wav|A hatch forward of the tower opened, and a quick firing gun on a disappearing carriage swung smoothly and silently up from its lair.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000110_000002.wav|If not...."|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000068_000001.wav|A shape of horror was rising out of the deep to engorge him.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000102_000000.wav|During a moment of apparent confusion, one of the men sustaining Lanyard caught the attention of an officer.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000029_000002.wav|He followed, closed the door.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000075_000002.wav|Men uncouthly clothed in shapeless, shiny leather garments, straddled and stretched above him, filling their lungs with the sweet air.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000021_000003.wav|Twice the automatic blazed in his face as he closed in, the bullets clearing narrowly-or else he fancied that their deadly cold breath fanned his cheek.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000008_000000.wav|Then, at the third shot, the automatic jammed upon a discharged shell.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000055_000000.wav|Why live, when one might die and, dying, find endless rest?|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000110_000000.wav|"Take him below!" the latter ordered.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000074_000001.wav|Ceasing to struggle, he rested in half stupour, panting.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000089_000000.wav|The first rejoined him.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000071_000001.wav|His hands passed over a riveted joint of metal plates.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000054_000000.wav|The heave of a swell enabled him to glance incuriously after the steamship. She seemed smaller, less genuine than ever, a shadow shape that boasted visibility solely through that unearthly light on her after deck.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000077_000000.wav|A pang of despair shot through Lanyard when he heard them conferring together in the German tongue.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000050_000000.wav|Death's countenance was kind.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000093_000000.wav|"At the last gasp, but alive," one announced.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000109_000001.wav|One officer had already popped through the conning tower hatch, followed by several of the crew.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000099_000000.wav|"Hell's fury!|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000005_000000.wav|No; if by any freak of good fortune, any exertion of wit or daring, that one were to be apprehended, it must be within the next few minutes, it could only be through immediate pursuit.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000072_000000.wav|Slowly the truth came home: a submarine had risen beneath him.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000063_000003.wav|They had got what they sought, that accursed document, whatever it was, that page torn from the Book of Doom.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000099_000001.wav|what's that searchlight?"|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000032_000000.wav|He felt himself plunging headlong down, down, and down to inky depths unguessable.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000021_000002.wav|But the distance was too great.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000075_000003.wav|He tried to call to them, but evoked a mere rattle from his throat.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000086_000001.wav|The crew on deck leaped to attention.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000069_000002.wav|The thing came up too rapidly.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000012_000001.wav|And the darkness in the shadow of the boat was dense, an excellent screen.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000024_000001.wav|The first phase of the struggle was still in contest when the rear door of the smoking room opened and a man stepped out, paused, summed up the situation in a glance, seized Lanyard from behind.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000007_000000.wav|For that matter, the whole transaction had been characterised by almost unbelievable rapidity.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000046_000000.wav|No reading that riddle!...|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000044_000001.wav|Had Lanyard wished it he could not have ceased to swim, at least to keep afloat.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000074_000000.wav|But when he sought to drag himself up to the bridge, he could not, he was too weak and faint.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000047_000002.wav|What must be, must....|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000040_000000.wav|Then the cold began to bite into his marrow, and he struggled manfully to swim, taking long, slow strokes, at first comparatively powerful, by insensible degrees losing force.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000011_000000.wav|As Lanyard gained the after rail of the promenade deck a man standing on the boat deck at the head of the companion ladder greeted him with pistol fire.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000002_000000.wav|eight|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000069_000004.wav|Almost instantly he was floundering in knee deep waters that parted, cascading away on either hand.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000026_000001.wav|Something in the brain of the adventurer seemed to let go; his head dropped weakly to one side.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000110_000001.wav|"He may be telling the truth.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000004_000001.wav|Let them knock and clamour; he had more urgent work in hand, and knew too well the penalty were he stupid enough to unbolt to them.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000028_000000.wav|He was falling backward into nothingness, into an everlasting gulf of night that yawned for him....|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000069_000001.wav|He could not escape.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000033_000000.wav|Then came a pause: he was no more descending; for a time of indeterminate duration, an age of anguish, he seemed to float without motion, suspended in frigid purgatory.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000111_000000.wav|In the distance a gun boomed.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000107_000001.wav|The officer turned back sharply.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000108_000000.wav|"Imperial Secret Service," Lanyard faltered-"Personal Division-Wilhelmstrasse Number twenty seven--"|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000041_000000.wav|Just why he took this trouble he did not know: for some dim reason it seemed desirable to live as long as possible.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000068_000000.wav|The impossible was happening to him, out there, alone and helpless on the face of the waters.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000047_000000.wav|On obscure impulse he gave up swimming, turned upon his back, floated face to the sky, derelict, resigning himself to the cradling arms of the sea. The gradual, slow rocking of the swells soothed his passion like a kindly opiate.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000027_000001.wav|He felt unutterably weary, and was weakened by a sensation of nausea.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000033_000003.wav|His head felt swollen and enormous, on the point of bursting wide.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000038_000000.wav|She seemed absurdly small.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000044_000000.wav|Yet the will to live persisted amazingly.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000111_000003.wav|He tried feebly to help them.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000058_000000.wav|This the one cogent reason why he must not, could not, die....|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000071_000000.wav|Incredulously Lanyard pawed the body of the monster beneath him.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000066_000001.wav|A wave of pure fear flooded him, body, mind, and soul.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000041_000001.wav|Withal he was aware he could not live.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000101_000001.wav|Forward, there-house that gun! And get below-quickly!"|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000030_000000.wav|The first officer, charging aft from the bridge, rounded the deck house and pulled up with a grunt of surprise to find the deck completely deserted....|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000086_000002.wav|One leaned over the conning tower hatch and shouted to his mates below.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000062_000000.wav|When his dazzled vision cleared, he could see no more of the ship.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000062_000001.wav|He imagined a faint, wild rumour of panic voices, conjured up scenes of horror indescribable as that great fabric sank almost instantaneously, as if some gigantic hand plucked her under.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000010_000000.wav|Dropping to the deck, he turned in time to see the fugitive dart round the shoulder of the superstructure.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000100_000000.wav|"A Yankee destroyer-in all probability the one we dodged yesterday afternoon."|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000060_000000.wav|Across the sea rolled a dull, brutish detonation.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000019_000000.wav|As it struck midway between superstructure and stern it burst into brilliant flame, releasing upon the night an electric blue glare that must have been visible from any point within the compass of the horizon.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000048_000000.wav|For all that, life clutched at him with jealous hands.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000069_000003.wav|Following that first mad thrill of contact with it underfoot, he was lifted swiftly and irresistibly into the air.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000063_000000.wav|What had happened?|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000020_000000.wav|A yell of profane remonstrance saluted the light, and throughout the brief passage that followed Lanyard was conscious that pistols and rifles on the after deck below were making him and his antagonist their targets.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000035_000000.wav|Instinctively he kept afloat with feeble strokes.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000078_000000.wav|Death, then, was but a little delayed.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000071_000002.wav|Looking up, he made out the truncated cone of a conning tower with its antennae like periscope tubes stencilled black upon the soft purple of the star strewn sky.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000043_000000.wav|He felt very sleepy.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000111_000002.wav|The men rushed Lanyard toward the conning tower.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000070_000000.wav|His clawing hands clutched something solid and substantial, an upright bar of metal.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000003_000000.wav|OFF NANTUCKET|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000026_000002.wav|The man who had struck him said quietly, "Loose the fool, Ed," and followed as Lanyard reeled away, striking him repeatedly.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000004_000000.wav|Upon the authors of that commotion Lanyard wasted no consideration whatever.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000023_000000.wav|That effort failed; his onslaught was met with address and ability that all but matched his own.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000059_000002.wav|It must not be!...|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000022_000001.wav|Half blinded, Lanyard clipped the man round the body and hugged him tight, exerting all his skill and strength to effect a throw.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000036_000000.wav|The cold was bitter, as sharp as the teeth of death; but his head was now clear, he was able to appreciate what had befallen him.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000006_000001.wav|With him, whose ways of life were ceaselessly beset by instant and mortal perils, each with its especial and imperative demand upon his readiness and ingenuity, action must ever press so hard upon the heels of thought as to make the two seem one.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000027_000003.wav|There fell one final blow, ruthless as the wrath of God.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000107_000000.wav|"What's that?"|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000004_000003.wav|And all attempts would be futile to make them understand that, while they plagued him with futile questions, a murderer and spy and thief was making good his escape, being afforded ample opportunity to slough all traces of his recent work and resume unchallenged his place among them.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000044_000002.wav|Vaguely he wondered how people ever managed to commit suicide by drowning; it seemed to pass human power to resist that buoyancy which sustained one, to let go, let one's self go down.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000061_000000.wav|It vanished instantly.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000024_000000.wav|Yet he was given little chance to prove himself the master.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000069_000000.wav|His most desperate efforts were all unavailing.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000029_000001.wav|His confederate was in the act of stepping across the raised threshold.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000021_000000.wav|Before the German could face about, Lanyard, moving almost noiselessly in his bare feet, had covered more than half the intervening space.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000038_000001.wav|Incredulity infected Lanyard's mind.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000089_000001.wav|"Impossible!"|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000109_000000.wav|A brilliant glare settled suddenly upon the deck of the submarine, and was welcomed by a panicky gust of oaths.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000041_000003.wav|Even were an alarm to be given, were she to stop now and put out a boat, it would find him, if it found him at all, too late.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000009_000000.wav|Exasperated, the adventurer cast the weapon from him, shrugged hastily out of his unfastened coat and waistcoat, hitched tight his belt, and clambered through the port.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000072_000001.wav|He lay upon its after deck, grasping a stanchion that supported the small raised bridge round the conning tower.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000044_000003.wav|Impossible to conceive how that was ever done....|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000111_000001.wav|A shell shrieked over the submarine and dropped into the sea not a hundred yards to starboard.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000091_000000.wav|"Have him up and see...."|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000011_000001.wav|He dodged back, untouched, and instantaneously devised a stratagem to cope with this untoward development.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000043_000001.wav|Drowsily he apprehended the beginning of the end. His senses, growing numb with cold, presently must cease to function altogether.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000015_000000.wav|A man of good stature, broad at the shoulders, slender at the hips, he poised himself with athletic grace-the lower part of his face masked by what Lanyard took to be a dark silk handkerchief.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000088_000001.wav|What's this?"|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000079_000000.wav|Thereafter he lay in dumb apathy, save that he shivered and his teeth chattered uncontrollably.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000017_000000.wav|Then a brisk little spray of sparks jetted from the flint and steel of a patent cigar lighter in the hands of the spy.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000103_000000.wav|"What shall we do with this fellow, sir?" he enquired.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000065_000001.wav|A target for what?...|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000031_000000.wav|The shock of icy immersion reanimated Lanyard.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000075_000000.wav|With a harsh clang a hatch was thrown back.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000018_000000.wav|The man leaned over the rail and cast a small black object to which the sputtering fuse was attached, down to the main deck.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000054_000002.wav|Even as he that had been named Michael Lanyard was a lost light, a tiny flame that guttered toward its swift extinction....|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000023_000002.wav|For a moment Lanyard was able to accomplish no more than to smother resistance in a rib crushing embrace; no sooner did he relax it than all attempts to shift his hold were anticipated and met half way, forcing him back upon the defensive.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000042_000000.wav|The cold was killing.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000080_000000.wav|Through the torpor that rested like a black cloud upon his senses he caught broken phrases, snatches of sentences:|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000075_000001.wav|Rousing, Lanyard saw several figures emerge from the conning tower.|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7383/95441/7383_95441_000051_000000.wav|That wide field of stars, drooping low and lifting away with rhythmic motion, would sometime dip swiftly down to the very sea itself and, swinging back, take with it his soul to some remote bourne....|7383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000014_000001.wav|When I repeated,--|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000050_000001.wav|away, our fears!"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000037_000005.wav|He wanted me to be good, and I could be, I would be, for his sake.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000005_000005.wav|It began with the words-|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000004_000006.wav|I did not, I think, change my resolution because there were so many, but because, little as I was, I discovered that there were hymns and hymns.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000036_000003.wav|Jesus said He would come back again, and would always be with those who loved Him.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000036_000002.wav|The New Testament, then, did really mean what it said!|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000044_000002.wav|I earned the book when I was about four years old.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000002_000000.wav|THE HYMN BOOK.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000004_000003.wav|Finding it so easy, I thought I would begin at the beginning, and learn the whole.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000037_000001.wav|He loves me!|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000005_000004.wav|I had no idea of its meaning, but made up a little story out of it, with myself as the heroine.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000066_000001.wav|I thought that they really knew better.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000009_000003.wav|But it did read-|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000003_000000.wav|ALMOST the first decided taste in my life was the love of hymns. Committing them to memory was as natural to me as breathing.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000050_000000.wav|"Awake, our souls!|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000009_000000.wav|I did not know that this last line was bad grammar, but thought that the sin in question was something pretty, that looked "like a mountain rose." Mountains I had never seen; they were a glorious dream to me. And a rose that grew on a mountain must surely be prettier than any of our red wild roses on the hill, sweet as they were.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000057_000000.wav|"Love divine, all love excelling; Joy of heaven, to earth come down."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000037_000000.wav|"He is alive!|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000001_000000.wav|three.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000011_000001.wav|The last verse began with the lines,--|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000058_000000.wav|"Joy to the world! the Lord is come!"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/68888/6215_68888_000039_000000.wav|I tried long afterward, thinking that it was my duty, to build up a wall of difficult doctrines over my spring blossoms, as if they needed protection.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000011_000001.wav|I shall think her very ill natured if she does. But it can't make any real difference now, you know."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000032_000000.wav|"If this matter is settled, Rachel-"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000024_000000.wav|"But it would be well that you should learn, because I'm sure you will be glad to think as well of your brother in law as possible."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000020_000000.wav|"What! the young man that was dismissed from mr Tappitt's?"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000039_000002.wav|But it was not possible.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000053_000002.wav|Why should anybody be more dangerous to me than to anybody else?"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000025_000000.wav|"Do you mean that he is engaged to marry Rachel?"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000019_000000.wav|"mr Rowan, my dear.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000026_000000.wav|"Yes, Dorothea.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000044_000000.wav|"I mean that you mustn't mind her seeming to be so hard.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000069_000001.wav|And if it will give Rachel any pleasure,--though I don't suppose it will, the least in the world; but if it would, she may know that I think she has done wisely to accept him."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000013_000000.wav|Then with half frightened, muffled steps they entered their own house, and joined mrs Prime in the sitting room.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000000.wav|mrs Prime was still reading the serious book; but I am bound to say that her mind had not been wholly intent upon it during the long absence of her mother and sister.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000016_000001.wav|But I thought you were staying late with mrs Sturt."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000066_000000.wav|"Yes, just so; of course we know that.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000023_000000.wav|"I don't know much about it," said mrs Prime; "I only know that they've quarrelled."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000055_000000.wav|"But you don't think he is dangerous now, mamma?"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000071_000001.wav|I love Rachel dearly, though I fear she does not think so, and anything I have said, I have said in love, not in anger."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000009_000000.wav|"You had better tell her, mamma."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000047_000000.wav|"Call him luke, mamma."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000075_000001.wav|She has only to put out her hand the least little bit in the world, and I will go the rest of the way.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000039_000003.wav|Though she would permit no such foreshadowings as those at which her mother had hinted, she had committed herself to forebodings against this young man, to such extent that she could not wheel her thoughts round and suddenly think well of him.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000059_000005.wav|I think there must have been a gleam of triumph in her face as she put her hand with such confidence well round her lover's arm.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000030_000001.wav|Only I don't think he'll ever do away with cider in Devonshire, because of the apple trees.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000042_000000.wav|"You mustn't mind Dorothea," the widow said.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000011_000000.wav|"I hope not, mamma.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000034_000000.wav|"If it is settled I hope that it may be for your lasting happiness and eternal welfare."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000060_000003.wav|But the girl feels herself to be exalted for those few weeks as a conqueror, and to be carried along in an ovation of which that bucolic victim, tied round with blue ribbons on to his horns, is the chief grace and ornament.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000008_000000.wav|"Will you tell her or shall I?" said mrs Ray, pausing for a moment at the cottage gate.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000075_000002.wav|As for her living, I don't know what will be best about that, because luke says that of course you'll come and live with us."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000002_000002.wav|The farmer had come in and had joked his joke, and mrs Sturt had clacked over them as though they were a brood of chickens of her own hatching; and mrs Ray had smiled and cried, and sobbed and laughed till she had become almost hysterical. Then she had jumped up from her seat, saying, "Oh, dear, what will Dorothea think has become of us?"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000067_000000.wav|"No; I don't say that.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000071_000000.wav|"And I hope they will be happy together for very many years.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000069_000000.wav|"Well, mother, I have nothing to say against him,--not a word.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000052_000004.wav|Think how she has been troubled herself about this affair of mr Prong's."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000001_000000.wav|mrs PRIME READS HER RECANTATION.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000030_000000.wav|"At any rate I liked him very much; didn't I, Rachel?--from the first moment I set eyes on him.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000039_000004.wav|She could not do so as yet, but she would make the struggle.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000051_000000.wav|"Yes; and they are the people who talk most of Christian charity!"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000002.wav|If it were not wicked, why should not she have been allowed to share it?|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000078_000001.wav|Mamma has already looked at a villa near Torquay, which will suit us delightfully."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000007_000004.wav|The whole affair had now been managed so suddenly, and the action had been so quick, that she had hardly found a moment for thought.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000070_000000.wav|"Indeed it will; the greatest pleasure."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000007_000008.wav|She longed for hours of absolute quiet, in which she might make herself sure that her malady had also passed away, and that the soreness which remained came only from the memory of former pain.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000074_000002.wav|"You won't be living together in the same house after a bit," said mrs Ray, thinking, with some sadness, that those little evening festivities of buttered toast and thick cream were over for her now,--"but I do hope you will be friends."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000002_000000.wav|Above an hour had passed after the interruption mentioned at the end of the last chapter before mrs Ray and Rachel crossed back from the farm house to the cottage, and when they went they went alone.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000058_000004.wav|There was no moment that she had ever passed with him that had not to be recalled.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000021_000004.wav|The colour came to her cheeks, and she threw up her head with a gesture of angry pride, but at the moment she said nothing.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000021_000003.wav|Rachel was still standing in the middle of the room when she heard her lover thus described; but she would not condescend to plead in answer to such a charge.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000039_000000.wav|It was still the voice of a raven!|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000063_000001.wav|I do not know that anybody ever doubted its prettiness."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000059_000004.wav|Now he was there on purpose to take her with him, and she went forth with him, leaning lovingly on his arm, while yet close under her sister's eyes.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000002_000003.wav|After that Rachel insisted upon going, and the mother and daughter returned across the green, leaving luke at the farm house, ready to take his departure as soon as mrs Ray and Rachel should have safely reached their home.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000004_000000.wav|In answer to this luke protested that he had not thought of Rachel when he was making that speech, and tried to explain that all that was "soft sawder" as he called it, for the election.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000007.wav|She had been loud and defiant in her denunciation when she had first suspected Rachel of having a lover. Since that she had undergone some troubles of her own by which the tone of her remonstrances had been necessarily moderated; but even now she could not forgive her sister such a lover as luke Rowan.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000037_000000.wav|"That's quite true, my dear," said mrs Ray.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000054_000002.wav|I don't know how to be thankful enough when I think how things have turned out;--but when I first heard of him I thought he was dangerous too."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000060_000000.wav|Girls do triumph in their lovers,--in their acknowledged and permitted lovers, as young men triumph in their loves which are not acknowledged or perhaps permitted.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000062_000002.wav|Though Rachel spoke no triumph, there was a triumph in her eye, which prevented almost the possibility of such yielding on the part of Dorothea.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000016_000000.wav|"No, mother, I didn't think that.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000062_000001.wav|In Rachel's presence she could not have first made this recantation.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000030_000002.wav|But if people are to drink beer it stands to reason that good beer will be better than bad."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000029_000000.wav|"Mother, there can have been nothing of the kind.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000050_000000.wav|"Miss Pucker, and mr Prong, and that set."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000004_000001.wav|But the words were too apposite to the event, and the sentiment too much in accordance with mrs Sturt's chivalric views to allow of her admitting the truth of any such assurance as this.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000005.wav|She felt all but sure that some tidings of luke Rowan had been brought in mrs Sturt's budget of news, and she had never been able to think well of luke Rowan since the evening on which she had seen him standing with Rachel in the churchyard.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000058_000003.wav|But why need she sleep now that every thought was a new pleasure?|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000004.wav|They were away talking about love and pleasure, and those heart throbbings in which her sister had so unfortunately been allowed to indulge.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000021_000001.wav|But she could not help it.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000056_000001.wav|And I never did after he drank tea here that night; only mr Comfort told me it wouldn't be safe not to see how things went a little before you,--you understand, dearest?"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000077_000000.wav|"We have heard of your engagement," said Martha, "and we congratulate you.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000008.wav|She would have been quite willing to see her sister married, but the lover should have been dingy, black coated, lugubrious, having about him some true essence of the tears of the valley of tribulation. Alas, her sister's taste was quite of another kind!|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000056_000000.wav|"No, my dear; of course I don't.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000033_000000.wav|"It is settled,--I think," said Rachel.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000017_000001.wav|But, Dorothea, there was some one else over there besides mrs Sturt, and he kept us."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000064_000000.wav|"And isn't it nice too?|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000074_000000.wav|"Amen!" said mrs Ray, solemnly.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000068_000002.wav|Everybody seems to speak well of him now."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000026_000003.wav|And a fine comely fellow he is, as a woman's eye would wish to rest on."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000062_000003.wav|But when the thing should have been once done, when she should once have owned that Rachel was not wrong, then gradually she could bring herself round to the utterance of some kindly expression.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000035_000000.wav|"I hope it will," said Rachel.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000046_000001.wav|can't you understand?|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000026_000001.wav|I think we may say that it is all settled now;--mayn't we, Rachel?|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000007_000000.wav|Rachel, as she followed her mother out from the farmyard gate, had not a word to say.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000052_000001.wav|They try to do good.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000027_000000.wav|"Beauty is but skin deep," said mrs Prime, with no little indignation in her tone, that a thing so vile as personal comeliness should have been mentioned by her mother on such an occasion.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000057_000002.wav|She has behaved best through it all,--next to you, mamma."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000022_000001.wav|I think he has dismissed mr Tappitt."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000076_000002.wav|But to this both Martha and Cherry objected.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000021_000005.wav|mrs Ray spoke.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000046_000002.wav|When she first heard of mr Rowan-"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000052_000003.wav|And you can't expect her to turn round all in a minute.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000010_000000.wav|"I suppose she won't set herself against it; will she?"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000063_000000.wav|"Pretty," she said; "yes, it is pretty.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000044_000001.wav|She means well through it all, and is as affectionate as any other woman."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000018_000000.wav|"He!|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000075_000000.wav|"Of course we will, mamma.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000005_000000.wav|"I know," she said; "I know.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000060_000001.wav|A man's triumph is for the most part over when he is once allowed to take his place at the family table, as a right, next to his betrothed.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000021_000000.wav|It was ill said of her,--very ill said, and so she was herself aware as soon as the words were out of her mouth.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000018_000002.wav|She had not even suspected that the lover had been over there in person.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000012_000000.wav|"No; it can't make any difference.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000006.wav|She knew nothing against him; but she had then made up her mind that he was pernicious, and she could not bring herself to own that she had been wrong in that opinion.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000017_000000.wav|"So we were,--and really I didn't think we had been so long.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000018_000001.wav|What he?" said mrs Prime.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000007_000006.wav|She had been scalded so cruelly that she still feared the hot water.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000058_000008.wav|She could almost believe that he had been specially made and destined for her behoof.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000074_000001.wav|It was thus that mrs Prime read her recantation, which was repeated on that evening to Rachel with some little softening touches.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000012_000001.wav|Only it will be so uncomfortable."|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000057_000001.wav|I ain't a bit obliged to mr Comfort, though I mean to forgive him because of mrs Cornbury.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000064_000001.wav|Dear girl!|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000058_000005.wav|There was no word of his that had not to be re weighed.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000014_000003.wav|She did not imagine it to be wicked according to the world's ordinary wickedness;--but she feared that it was wicked according to that tone of morals to which she was desirous of tying her mother down as a bond slave.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000038_000000.wav|"A most important step, and one that requires the most exact circumspection,--especially on the part of the young woman.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000031_000000.wav|All this time Rachel had not spoken a word, nor had her sister uttered anything expressive of congratulation or good wishes.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000052_000000.wav|"But, my dear, they don't mean to be uncharitable.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000026_000002.wav|And a very excellent young man he is,--and as for being well off, a great deal better than what a child of mine could have expected.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000021_000002.wav|She had taken a side against luke Rowan, and could not restrain herself from ill natured words.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000007_000005.wav|Could it be that things were so fixed that there was no room for further disappointment?|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000053_000001.wav|What makes me so angry is that she should think everybody is a fool except herself.|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6215/62347/6215_62347_000049_000001.wav|Who taught her?"|6215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000037_000000.wav|"That's the end of those short necked Yellowskins," said one, shaking his head.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000010_000002.wav|Who has stolen my golden Key?" And then there followed shouts of soldiers and guards and servants and the rapid pattering of feet was heard throughout the palace.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000007_000002.wav|The terrible teeth came together and buried themselves in the pillow, and then mr Wolf found he could not pull them out again-because his mouth was stuffed full.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000031_000000.wav|"Gee!|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000022_000002.wav|They'd tear us to pieces, if they could."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000016_000000.wav|"We must make for the open country and hide in the Fog Bank, or in the Arch of Phinis," replied the boy.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000010_000001.wav|It was the voice of the Boolooroo, crying: "My Key-my Key!|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000014_000001.wav|I can't find it.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000036_000000.wav|The Blueskins fell back, horrified at the mad act of the strangers.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000025_000000.wav|"No more do I, mate," he answered.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000014_000000.wav|"I don't know.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000008_000001.wav|Of course he could not find it, as it was not there.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000024_000000.wav|"Don't like that place, Cap'n," whispered Trot.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000034_000001.wav|Rhymes come from your head, but real po'try from your heart, an' whether the blue parrot has a heart or not he's sure got a head."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000028_000000.wav|"Where are you, Trot? As like as not I've been forgot!"|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000033_000001.wav|They were all astonished to hear the bird talk-and in poetry, too-but Cap'n Bill told Trot that some parrots he had known had possessed a pretty fair gift of language, and he added that this blue one seemed an unusually bright bird.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000012_000000.wav|"Quick!" cried the boy; "we must escape from here at once or we will be caught and patched."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284434/8190_284434_000014_000003.wav|Come, let's get away at once!"|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000051_000002.wav|Suddenly Cap'n Bill tripped and would have fallen flat had not Trot and Button Bright held him up.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000028_000000.wav|"Look out!" cried the parrot, sharply; and they all halted to find a monstrous frog obstructing their path.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000009_000000.wav|"Floods and gushes fill our path- This is not my day for a bath! Shut it off, or fear my wrath."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000019_000000.wav|"We can't say till we get there, mate," answered the sailor in a cheerful voice.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000061_000001.wav|They're rheumatic, it's so moist here."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000064_000000.wav|"It isn't that," said Trot.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000007_000002.wav|I'm sort o' drippy myself."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000032_000000.wav|"Oh, I'm glad to hear that!" cried Button Bright.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000055_000000.wav|"Probably not," said the crab.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000073_000000.wav|"Don't-don't!|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000036_000002.wav|It's only about six jumps."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000047_000001.wav|Did you ever taste a parsnip?"|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000024_000000.wav|"Can't you dry up?" asked Cap'n Bill.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000042_000000.wav|"How can we jog To a frog in a fog?"|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000052_000000.wav|"Oh; beg parding, I'm sure!" exclaimed Cap'n Bill backing away.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000062_000001.wav|Soon they had left the creature far behind.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000051_000001.wav|Then off it went again, its tremendous leap carrying it far into the fog.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000013_000000.wav|"We don't know that, sir," said the boy.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000050_000000.wav|"Then climb over me-or go around-I don't care which," murmured the lizard.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000065_000000.wav|The frog chuckled and leaped again.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000036_000000.wav|"Follow me," said the frog.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000043_000002.wav|Cap'n Bill thought it must be a giant alligator, at first, it was so big; but he looked at them sleepily and did not seem at all dangerous.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000060_000000.wav|"If you don't mind, we'd like to pass on," said Button Bright.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000007_000001.wav|"When it's a case of life 'n' death, clo's don't count for much.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000040_000000.wav|"Brooks and creeks, How it leaks!"|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000037_000000.wav|He turned around, made a mighty leap and disappeared in the gray mist.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000012_000000.wav|"Why not?" returned Cap'n Bill.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000011_000000.wav|"Had we better go to the other side?" asked Button Bright, anxiously.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000003_000000.wav|THROUGH THE FOG BANK|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000005_000000.wav|It was rather moist in the Fog Bank.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000034_000002.wav|But I hope to grow, in time.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000045_000000.wav|cried the parrot.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000071_000000.wav|"Ding dong!" cried the parrot;|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000048_000000.wav|"We're in a hurry, if it's the same to you, sir," said Cap'n Bill, politely.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284435/8190_284435_000043_000001.wav|When at last they came up to him he made a second jump-out of sight, as before-and when they attempted to follow they found a huge lizard lying across the path.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000032_000000.wav|During his absence the prisoners had been talking together very earnestly.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000046_000003.wav|Cap'n Bill won't have anything to do, for I've ordered Tiggle to mix the nectar."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000028_000004.wav|I really hope they'll come out of the Great Blue Grotto alive!"|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000069_000000.wav|"Go back and wait till morning," commanded the guard.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000067_000000.wav|"What are you doing here at this hour?" he demanded.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000038_000000.wav|"No; it won't be easy," Button Bright admitted.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000050_000000.wav|"You're safer in the palace than anywhere else," said the Majordomo, "for there is no way you can escape from the island, and here the servants and soldiers dare not injure you for fear of the Boolooroo."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000054_000001.wav|"The Boolooroo's afraid of me."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000051_000000.wav|He placed Trot and her six pets-which followed her wherever she went-in one room, and Cap'n Bill in another, and took Button Bright away with him to show the boy the way to the King's bedchamber.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000021_000000.wav|"You'll do more than that, or I'll have you patched!" roared the angry Boolooroo.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000026_000000.wav|"Has anyone ever come out of that Arch alive?" he asked.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000071_000000.wav|This threat frightened the long necked guard, who did not know what orders the Boolooroo had given his Royal Bootblue.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000012_000000.wav|"They needn't worry 'bout that," replied Trot; "the Snubnoses hate me worse than the people do."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000075_000002.wav|He passed the long necked guard again, finding the man half asleep, and then made his way to the Treasure Chamber.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000046_000000.wav|"You must be very careful not to anger the Boolooroo, or he may do you a mischief.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000079_000002.wav|Do you understand?"|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000082_000000.wav|He placed the key in the lock and the bolt turned with a sharp click. Button Bright did not hesitate.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000034_000000.wav|"No; I must surely manage to get my umbrella first," said Button Bright.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000078_000000.wav|"I am to take your place," said Button Bright.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000018_000000.wav|"No, your Majesty; I do not," was the reply.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000031_000001.wav|He did not approve the way the strangers were being treated and thought it was wicked and cruel to try to destroy them.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000016_000004.wav|But the umbrella, in his hands, proved just as common as any other umbrella might.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000025_000000.wav|The King looked at him with a sneer.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000035_000000.wav|"Do it quick, then," urged Trot, "for I can't stand those snubnoses much longer."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000080_000000.wav|"Yes," said Button Bright.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000057_000001.wav|He had marked the place well, so he couldn't miss it when he wanted to find it again.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000053_000000.wav|"I'm sorry for him," muttered Jimfred.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000044_000000.wav|The boy nodded.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000055_000001.wav|"You're the first person I ever knew that could scare our Boolooroo."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000048_000000.wav|"Now follow me and I will take you to your rooms."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000016_000000.wav|The Majordomo found the Boolooroo in a bad temper.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000074_000001.wav|The boy had taken off his own shoes after he passed the guard and now he tiptoed carefully into the room, set down the royal shoes very gently and then crept to the chair where his Majesty's clothes were piled.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000047_000000.wav|"Thank 'e, friend Sizzle," said Cap'n Bill.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000051_000002.wav|It was Jimfred Jinksjones, the double of the Fredjim Jonesjinks they had talked with in the servants' hall, and he bowed low before the Majordomo.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000060_000000.wav|"All right," answered the guard.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000016_000005.wav|He opened it and closed it, and turned it this way and that, commanding it to do all sorts of things; but of course the Magic Umbrella would obey no one but a member of the family that rightfully owned it.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000014_000000.wav|"Or a necktie mixer," added Cap'n Bill.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000060_000002.wav|It will go hard with this little short necked creature if he doesn't polish the shoes properly."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000082_000001.wav|He was afraid, to be sure, and his heart was beating fast with the excitement of the moment, but he knew he must regain the Magic Umbrella if he would save his comrades and himself from destruction, for without it they could never return to the Earth.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000011_000000.wav|"My people seem to dislike strangers," said the Majordomo, thoughtfully, "and that surprises me because you are the first strangers they have ever seen.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000065_000000.wav|While he polished the shoes he told his plans to Cap'n Bill and Trot, and asked them to be ready to fly with him as soon as he returned with the Magic Umbrella.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000016_000002.wav|Also his wife, the Queen, had made him angry by begging for gold to buy ribbons with.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000044_000002.wav|But their present position was a very serious one and even Cap'n Bill dared not advise Button Bright to give up the desperate attempt.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000073_000000.wav|"I'll be quiet," promised the boy.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000062_000000.wav|"Hi, there!|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000023_000000.wav|"Why can't I?"|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000040_000000.wav|"Yes; I know."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000062_000001.wav|What are you doing here?" he roared, as he saw Button Bright.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000066_000002.wav|But the sleepy guard before the King's apartments was cross and surly.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000028_000000.wav|"Well, I'm going to try the experiment," declared the Boolooroo.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000019_000001.wav|Make the Whiteskins tell you, so that I can use it for my own amusement."|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8190/284433/8190_284433_000039_000001.wav|There's a Blue Wolf in the Treasure Chamber!" exclaimed Trot.|8190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000007_000002.wav|I obtained what roots I could get that year, but not enough to plant an acre.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000013_000001.wav|Finally our annual shipments reached eleven thousand bales a year, or the equivalent in value of half a million dollars-said at that time to be the largest export hop business of any one concern in the United States.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000008_000001.wav|But seeing that there were possibilities of great gain, I took pains to study hop culture, and found that by allowing our hops to mature thoroughly, curing them at a low temperature, and baling them while hot, we could produce hops that would compete with any product in the world.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000006_000000.wav|In March of eighteen sixty five, Charles Wood of Olympia sent about three pecks of hop roots to Steilacoom for my father, Jacob r Meeker, who then lived on his claim in the Puyallup valley.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000016_000002.wav|One of my clerks from the office said the same thing-the vines did not look natural.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000014_000001.wav|My first publication was an eighty page pamphlet descriptive of Washington Territory, printed in eighteen seventy.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000013_000003.wav|I spent four winters in London dealing in the hop market.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000011_000003.wav|Many of these were Indians, some of whom would come for a thousand miles down the coast from British Columbia and even the confines of Alaska; they came in the great cedar log canoes manned with twenty paddlers or more.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000016_000001.wav|One evening in eighteen ninety two, as I stepped out of my office and cast my eyes toward one group of hop houses, it struck me that the hop foliage of a field near by was off color-did not look natural.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000019_000000.wav|At that time I had advanced to my neighbors and others upon their hop crops more than a hundred thousand dollars, which was lost.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000012_000001.wav|I had to go through the mud to the Columbia River, then out over the bar to the Pacific Ocean, and down to San Francisco.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000015_000001.wav|We actually pressed the English growers so closely that more than fifteen thousand acres of hops were destroyed in that country.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000017_000000.wav|It appeared that the attack of lice was simultaneous in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, extending over a distance coastwise of more than five hundred miles, and even inland up the Skagit River, where there was an isolated yard.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000013_000002.wav|At one time I had two full trainloads between the Pacific and the Atlantic, on their way to London.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000018_000003.wav|The last crop I raised cost me eleven cents a pound and sold for three under the hammer at sheriff's sale.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000019_000001.wav|These people simply could not pay, and I forgave the debt, taking no judgments against them, and I have never regretted the action.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000007_000003.wav|The following year (eighteen sixty seven) I planted four acres, and for twenty six successive years thereafter we added to the area planted, until our holdings reached past the five hundred acre mark and our production was more than four hundred tons a year.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000006_000004.wav|This was sold for eighty five cents a pound, or a little more than a hundred and fifty dollars for the bale.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000016_000000.wav|Our great prosperity was not to last.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000018_000001.wav|We found to our cost, however, in the course of time, that the English methods did not suit our different conditions; for while we could kill the lice, we had to use so much spraying material on the dense foliage that, in killing them, we virtually destroyed the hops.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000005_000001.wav|Therefore it seems fitting to tell here the story of the beginnings of an industry that came to have great importance.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000007_000000.wav|This sum was more money than had been received by any of the settlers in the Puyallup valley, except perhaps two, from the products of their farms for that year.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000018_000002.wav|Instead of being able to sell our hops at the top price of the market, we saw our product fall to the foot of the list.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000008_000000.wav|None of us knew anything about the hop business, and it was entirely by accident that we engaged in it.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER TWENTY ONE|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000019_000002.wav|All my accumulations were swept away, and I quit the business-or, rather, the business quit me.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000018_000000.wav|I sent my second son, Fred Meeker, to London to learn the English methods of fighting the pest and to import some spraying machinery.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000004_000001.wav|The business was well started by the time of my father's death in eighteen sixty nine, and in the fifteen years following the acreage planted to hops was increased until the crop yield of eighteen eighty two, a yield of more than seventy one tons, gave the Puyallup valley the banner crop, as to quantity, of the United States-and, some persons asserted, of the world.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000011_000002.wav|We frequently employed more than a thousand people during harvest time.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000016_000005.wav|I issued a hop circular, sending it to more than six hundred correspondents all along the coast in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, and before the week was out I began to receive samples from them, and letters asking what was the matter with the hops.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000003_000002.wav|The comfort and plenty we had hoped and struggled for was attained.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000002_000000.wav|FINDING AND LOSING A FORTUNE|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000008_000002.wav|Others of my neighbors planted them, and so did many people in Oregon, until soon there came to be a field for purchasing and shipping hops.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000011_000001.wav|It still stands in Pioneer Park in Puyallup.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000017_000001.wav|This plague was like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky to us.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000007_000001.wav|My father's near neighbors obtained a barrel of hop roots from California the next year, and planted them the following spring-four acres.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000014_000003.wav|I mention this fact simply as one instance out of the many that could be given of the unexpected lines of development that life in the new land opened out to the pioneers.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000016_000003.wav|I walked down to the yards, a quarter of a mile away, and there first saw the hop louse.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000010_000000.wav|Finally, during the failure of the world's hop crop in the year eighteen eighty two, there came to be unheard of prices for hops, and fully one third of the crop of the Puyallup valley was sold for a dollar a pound.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000012_000002.wav|Then there was the seven days' journey over the Central and Union Pacific and connecting lines; this meant sitting bolt upright all the way, for there were no sleeping cars then, and no diners either.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000004_000000.wav|This unexpected prosperity came to us through the hop growing industry, upon which we entered with all our force.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000003_000000.wav|OUR youthful dream of becoming farmers was now realized in fullest measure.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/12539/3003_12539_000011_000005.wav|Once I had to tie up two of them to a tree for getting drunk; their friends came and stole away the prisoners-which was what I intended they should do.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000022_000003.wav|A soldier is cleaning the windows and floors, and making things tidy generally.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000014_000006.wav|He thinks this way because, having graduated at West Point this year, he is only a second lieutenant just now, and General Phillips is his captain and company commander.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000031_000000.wav|As soon as they got to the counter they demanded powder, balls, and percussion caps, and as these things were given them, they were stuffed down their muzzle loading rifles, and what could not be rammed down the barrels was put in greasy skin bags and hidden under their blankets.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000045_000001.wav|These were carried so that if it should be found necessary to secure the horses on the plains, they could be picketed out.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000041_000002.wav|But I have learned to ride very well, and have a secure seat now.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000068_000003.wav|Both General Phillips and Major Pierce have fine voices.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000024_000002.wav|There is a little store just outside the post that is named "Post Trader's," where many useful things are kept, and we have just been there to purchase some really nice furniture that an officer left to be sold when he was retired last spring.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000056_000004.wav|I saw no glory in shooting a wounded animal, so I turned my horse back again, but had not gone far before I heard the pistol shot.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000021_000000.wav|Faye is wonderfully amiable about it, and assures me that when he gets to be a captain I will see that it is just and fair.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000058_000002.wav|But I got through the day very well, considering the very short time I have been riding-that is, really riding.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000001.wav|At least that is what they tell me.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000008.wav|They seem to be simply famished for months after they graduate.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000013_000001.wav|As you know, Fort Lyon is fifty miles from Kit Carson, and we came all that distance in a funny looking stage coach called a "jerkey," and a good name for it, too, for at times it seesawed back and forth and then sideways, in an awful breakneck way.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000003_000000.wav|ARMY LETTERS FROM AN OFFICER'S WIFE|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000075_000000.wav|The party was given for Doctor and mrs Anderson, who are guests of General Bourke for a few days.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000053_000000.wav|Lieutenant Baldwin gained steadily on the buffalo, and in a wonderfully short time both passed directly in front of us-within a hundred feet, Faye said.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000014_000001.wav|General and mrs Phillips gave us a most cordial welcome-just as though they had known us always.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000072_000004.wav|We have no fresh vegetables here, except potatoes, and have to depend upon canned stores in the commissary for a variety, and our meat consists entirely of beef, except now and then, when we may have a treat to buffalo or antelope.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000040_000001.wav|When we reached the post they made a wonderful turn and took us safely to the government corral, where they stopped, just when they got ready.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000061_000000.wav|FORT LYON, COLORADO TERRITORY, December, eighteen seventy one.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000073_000006.wav|The girls East may have better music to dance by, and polished waxed floors to slip down upon, but they cannot have the excellent partners one has at an army post, and I choose the partners!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000031_000002.wav|All this time the other Indians were on their ponies in front, watching every move that was being made around them.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000034_000001.wav|They instantly mounted their ponies, and all rode down the street and out of sight at race speed, some leaning so far over on their little beasts that one could hardly see the Indian at all. The pony that was ridden into the store door was without a bridle, and was guided by a long strip of buffalo skin which was fastened around his lower jaw by a slipknot.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000048_000002.wav|But the very thought of pointing a pistol at anything so weak and utterly helpless was revolting in the extreme.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000030_000001.wav|The others passed on just the same, however, and if we had fallen to the floor, I presume they would have stepped over us, and otherwise been oblivious to our existence.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000066_000003.wav|I think Faye was the first to mention it, saying it was a "great success"; then the others said "perfectly delicious," and so on, but at the same time assuring me that a large piece had been left for me.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000018_000005.wav|There was the same performance this morning, and at breakfast I asked General Phillips why soldiers required such a beating of drums, and deafening racket generally, to awaken them in the morning.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000071_000000.wav|The hall was very prettily decorated with flags and accoutrements, but one missed the greens.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000072_000000.wav|At six o'clock Faye and I, Lieutenant Baldwin, and Lieutenant Alden dined with Doctor and mrs Wilder.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000020_000001.wav|But instead of the smile and gracious acquiescence I had expected, there was another straightening back in the chair, and a silence that was ominous and chilling.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000017_000001.wav|There is no high wall around it as there is at Fort Trumbull.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000063_000001.wav|This is a rare treat out here, where we are so far from shops and beautiful Christmas displays. We all went to the bachelors' quarters, almost everyone taking over some little remembrance-homemade candy, cakes, or something of that sort.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000066_000002.wav|Before I was quite in the room they all stood up and began to praise the cake.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000053_000001.wav|Lieutenant Baldwin was close upon him then, his horse looking very small and slender by the side of the grand animal that was taking easy, swinging strides, apparently without effort and without speed, his tongue lolling at one side.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000074_000000.wav|The officers are excellent dancers-every one of them-and when you are gliding around, your chin, or perhaps your nose, getting a scratch now and then from a gorgeous gold epaulet, you feel as light as a feather, and imagine yourself with a fairy prince.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000020_000003.wav|Later on, however, I learned that only captains and officers of higher rank can have such things.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000007.wav|And I am to learn to shoot pistols and guns, and do all sorts of things.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000006.wav|It so happened, too, that just that instant there was not a sound in the room, so everyone heard the blunder. General Phillips straightened back in his chair, and his little son gave a smothered giggle-for which he should have been sent to bed at once. But that was not all!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000073_000003.wav|The music consisted of one violin with accordion accompaniment.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000048_000004.wav|He was very tall, had a fine head, with an uncommonly long beard, and showed every indication of having been a grand specimen of his kind.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000038_000001.wav|The mules must have felt the excitement in the air, for as soon as their heads were turned toward home they proceeded to run away with us.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000045_000002.wav|The bachelors' set of quarters is next to ours, so we all got ready together, and I must say that the deliberate way in which each girth was examined, bridles fixed, rifles fastened to saddles, and other things done, was most exasperating.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000010_000000.wav|I am all upset!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000070_000002.wav|It is the custom in the regiment for the wives of the officers every Christmas to send the enlisted men of their husbands' companies large plum cakes, rich with fruit and sugar.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000022_000004.wav|Many of the men like to cook, and do things for officers of their company, thereby adding to their pay, and these men are called strikers.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000067_000006.wav|But they were not ill-not in the least-which proved that the cake was well baked.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000014_000005.wav|I was so disappointed when I was told this, but Faye says that he is very much afraid that I will have cause, sooner or later, to think that the grade of captain is quite high enough.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000024_000003.wav|We got only enough to make ourselves comfortable during the winter, for it seems to be the general belief here that these companies of infantry will be ordered to Camp Supply, Indian Territory, in the spring.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000067_000001.wav|And there were plates with crumbs, and napkins, that told the rest of the sad tale-and there was wine and empty glasses, also.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000026_000000.wav|FORT LYON, COLORADO TERRITORY, October, eighteen seventy one.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000031_000001.wav|I saw one test the sharp edge of a long, wicked looking knife, and then it, also, disappeared under his blanket.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000043_000001.wav|These hunts exact the very best of riding and a fast horse, for coyotes are very swift, and so are jack rabbits, too, and one look at a greyhound will tell anyone that he can run-and about twice as fast as the big eared foxhounds in the East.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000016_000003.wav|When I told Faye about it, he looked vexed and said I must never laugh at an enlisted man-that it was not dignified in the wife of an officer to do so.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000038_000004.wav|They are full of mischief, and full of wisdom, too, even for government mules, and when one says, "Let's take a sprint," the others always agree-about that there is never the slightest hesitation.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000062_000006.wav|I did this to let everyone know that we had not been forgotten by home people.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000013_000002.wav|The day was glorious, and the atmosphere so clear, we could see miles and miles in every direction.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000013_000000.wav|AFTER months of anticipation and days of weary travel we have at last got to our army home!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000036_000004.wav|These were their scalp locks.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000044_000002.wav|Lieutenant Baldwin saying that the hunt would be worth seeing, and well repay one for the fatigue of the hard ride.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000035_000001.wav|The Utes and Cheyennes are bitter enemies.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000036_000001.wav|There was hatred in their eyes as they approached us in that store, and there was restrained murder in the hand that pushed mrs Phillips and me over.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000030_000000.wav|Their coming was so sudden we did not have a chance to get out of their way, and it so happened that mrs Phillips and I were in their line of march, and when the one in the lead got to us, we were pushed aside with such impatient force that we both fell over on the counter.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000050_000000.wav|We must have gone at least two miles farther before we saw the herd we were looking for, making fifteen or sixteen miles altogether that we had ridden.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000062_000004.wav|All the little presents were spread out on a table, and in a way to make them present as fine an appearance as possible.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000067_000005.wav|The cake was scarcely cold, and must have been horribly sticky-and I remember wondering, as I sat there, which one would need the doctor first, and what the doctor would do if they were all seized with cramps at the same time.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000051_000000.wav|It seemed only a few minutes when we saw the buffalo start, going from some of the men, of course, who at once began to chase them.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000046_000001.wav|Two large army wagons followed us, each drawn by four mules, and carrying several enlisted men.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000055_000000.wav|Lieutenant Baldwin and the buffalo were soon far away, and when our horses had quieted down we recalled that shots had been fired in another direction, and looking about, we saw a pathetic sight.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000029_000001.wav|There are several small stores in the half Mexican village, where curious little things from Mexico can often be found, if one does not mind poking about underneath the trash and dirt that is everywhere.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000009_000004.wav|The hotel is much like the houses, and appears to have been made of dirt, and a few drygoods boxes.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000001.wav|After the ingredients were all mixed together there seemed to be enough for a whole regiment, so we decided to make two cakes of it.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000074_000002.wav|Every woman appeared in her finest gown.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000012_000000.wav|FORT LYON, COLORADO TERRITORY, October, eighteen seventy one.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000038_000003.wav|They are perfectly matched-coal black all over, except their little noses, and are quite small.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000056_000001.wav|As soon as Faye got there I put my fingers over my ears so that I would not hear the report of the pistol.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000020_000004.wav|The captains seem to have the best of everything, and the lieutenants are expected to get along with smaller houses, much less pay, and much less everything else, and at the same time perform all of the disagreeable duties.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000004.wav|Lieutenant Baldwin has been on the frontier many years, and is an experienced hunter of buffalo and antelope.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000007.wav|That soldier, who had been so dignified and stiff, put his hand over his mouth and fairly rushed from the room so he could laugh outright.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000014_000000.wav|It was dark when we reached the post, so of course we could see nothing that night.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000018_000002.wav|The drumming became less loud, and then ceased altogether, when a big gun was fired that must have wasted any amount of powder, for it shook the house and made all the windows rattle.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000005.wav|But alas!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000000.wav|Well, for two long, tiresome days I worked over that cake, preparing with my own fingers every bit of the fruit, which I consider was a fine test of perseverance and staying qualities.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000073_000005.wav|And Doos plays very well.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000035_000004.wav|Not one penny did they pay for the things they carried off.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000057_000001.wav|They said he was a magnificent specimen-unusually large, and very black-what they call a blue skin-with a splendid head and beard.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000043_000000.wav|IN many of my letters I have written about learning to ride and to shoot, and have told you, also, of having followed the greyhounds after coyotes and rabbits with Faye and Lieutenant Baldwin.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000043_000002.wav|But I started to write you about something quite different from all this-to tell you of a really grand hunt I have been on-a splendid chase after buffalo!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000041_000005.wav|Any attempt to "rise" when on a trot is ridiculed at once here, and it does look absurd after seeing the splendid and graceful riding of the officers.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000072_000003.wav|At holiday time, however, it seems that the post trader sends to saint Louis for turkeys, celery, canned oysters, and other things.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000075_000003.wav|I am to assist mrs Phillips in receiving New Year's day, and shall wear my pearl colored Irish poplin.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000022_000002.wav|It has a hall with a pretty stairway, three rooms and a large shed downstairs, and two rooms and a very large hall closet on the second floor.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000067_000000.wav|For one minute I stood still, not in the least grasping their meaning; but finally I suspected mischief, they all looked so serenely contented. So I passed on to the dining room, and there, on the table, was one of the precious cakes---at least what was left of it, the very small piece that had been so generously saved for me.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000060_000000.wav|Several experienced hunters tell marvelous tales of how they have stood within a few yards of a buffalo and fired shot after shot from a Springfield rifle, straight at his head, the balls producing no effect whatever, except, perhaps, a toss of the head and the flying out of a tuft of hair.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000029_000003.wav|As they came toward us in their imperious way, never once looking to the right or to the left, they seemed like giants, and to increase in size and numbers with every step.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000064_000000.wav|I had a splendid cake to send over that morning, and I will tell you just what happened to it.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000033_000003.wav|They could have killed every one of us, and ridden far away before anyone in the sleepy town found it out.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000055_000002.wav|It was plain to be seen that the poor horse was not enjoying the meeting, for every now and then he would try to back away, or give a jump sideways.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000003.wav|Most girls would.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000033_000001.wav|We were actually prisoners-penned in with all those savages, who were evidently in an ugly mood, with quantities of ammunition within their reach, and only two white men to protect us.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000036_000006.wav|They were not tall, but rather short and stocky.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000050_000005.wav|He and I rode over the hill, stopping when we got where we could command a good view of the valley and watch the run.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000047_000002.wav|So, when the horses were a little rested, we started, and, after riding a mile or more, we came to a small ravine, where we found one poor buffalo, too old and emaciated to keep up with his companions, and who, therefore, had been abandoned by them, to die alone.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000036_000002.wav|They were all hideous-with streaks of red or green paint on their faces that made them look like fiends.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000024_000000.wav|We are to remain with General and mrs Phillips several days, while our own house is being made habitable, and in the meantime our trunks and boxes will come, also the colored cook.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000028_000000.wav|Well, I have seen an Indian-a number of Indians-but they were not Red Jackets, neither were they noble red men.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000059_000001.wav|The skin he intends to take to an Indian camp, to be tanned by the squaws. Lieutenant Baldwin followed his buffalo until he got in the position he wanted, and then killed him with one shot.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000009_000005.wav|Even the low roof is of dirt.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000074_000001.wav|Of course the officers were in full dress uniform Friday night, so I know just what I am talking about, scratches and all.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000050_000004.wav|Faye would not join in the hunt, but remained with me the entire day.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000007.wav|It is a shame that those cadets at West Point are so starved.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000014_000002.wav|Dinner was served soon after we arrived, and the cheerful dining room, and the table with its dainty china and bright silver, was such a surprise-so much nicer than anything we had expected to find here, and all so different from the terrible places we had seen since reaching the plains.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000062_000001.wav|And I expect that it has been at Kit Carson for days, waiting to be brought down.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000068_000005.wav|Once I forgot them entirely, and everybody smiled-even the chaplain!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000063_000000.wav|They have such a charming custom in the Army of going along the line Christmas morning and giving each other pleasant greetings and looking at the pretty things everyone has received.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000005.wav|I wanted to watch him all the time, which distracted me, I suppose, for once I called General Phillips "Mister!"|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000047_000000.wav|Well, we rode twelve miles without seeing one living thing, and then we came to a little adobe ranch where we dismounted to rest a while.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000056_000002.wav|After a while I looked across, and there was the buffalo still standing, and both Faye and Lieutenant Alden were beckoning for me to come to them.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000024_000004.wav|It must be a most dreadful place-with old log houses built in the hot sand hills, and surrounded by almost every tribe of hostile Indians.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000059_000002.wav|Faye says that only a cool head and experience could have done that.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000069_000000.wav|From the chapel we-that is, the company officers and their wives-went to the company barracks to see the men's dinner tables.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000028_000001.wav|They were simply, and only, painted, dirty, and nauseous smelling savages!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000021_000002.wav|Just think of it-a whole long lifetime-and always a Mister, too-and perhaps by that time it will be "just and fair" for the lieutenants to have everything!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000009_000006.wav|The whole place is horrible, and dismal beyond description, and just why anyone lives here I cannot understand.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000062_000000.wav|OUR first Christmas on the frontier was ever so pleasant, but it certainly was most vexatious not to have that box from home.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000069_000003.wav|He would have done it, too, and then put all the blame upon me, without loss of time.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000070_000000.wav|The first sergeant came to meet us, and went around with us.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000045_000000.wav|So, one morning after an early breakfast, the horses were led up from the stables, each one having on a strong halter, and a coiled picket rope with an iron pin fastened to the saddle.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000003.wav|In my letters to you I will disregard army etiquette, and call the lieutenants by their rank, otherwise you would not know of whom I was writing-an officer or civilian.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000018_000000.wav|Yesterday morning-our first here-we were awakened by the sounds of fife and drum that became louder and louder, until finally I thought the whole Army must be marching to the house.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000067_000003.wav|Their early Christmas had been a fine one.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000050_000002.wav|We immediately fell back a short distance and waited for the wagons, and when they came up there was great activity, I assure you.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000060_000001.wav|Every time the ball would glance off from the thick skull. The wonderful mat of curly hair must break the force some, too.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000067_000004.wav|There was nothing for me to say or do-at least not just then-so I went back to the little living room and forced myself to be halfway pleasant to the four men who were there, each one looking precisely like the cat after it had eaten the canary!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000059_000000.wav|The rest of the party did not come in until several hours later; but they brought the meat and skins of four buffalo, and the head of Lieutenant Alden's, which he will send East to be mounted.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000002.wav|They looked lovely when baked, and just right, and smelled so good, too!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000062_000002.wav|We had quite a little Christmas without it, however, for a number of things came from the girls, and several women of the garrison sent pretty little gifts to me.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000048_000001.wav|One of the officers tried to persuade me to shoot him, saying it would be a humane act, and at the same time give me the prestige of having killed a buffalo!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000070_000001.wav|There were three long tables, fairly groaning with things upon them: buffalo, antelope, boiled ham, several kinds of vegetables, pies, cakes, quantities of pickles, dried "apple duff," and coffee, and in the center of each table, high up, was a huge cake thickly covered with icing. These were the cakes that mrs Phillips, mrs Barker, and I had sent over that morning.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000018_000001.wav|I stumbled over everything in the room in my haste to get to one of the little dormer windows, but there was nothing to be seen, as it was still quite dark.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000047_000001.wav|By this time our feet and hands were almost frozen, and Faye suggested that I should remain at the ranch until they returned; but that I refused to do-to give up the hunt was not to be thought of, particularly as a ranchman had just told us that a small herd of buffalo had been seen that very morning only two miles farther on.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000041_000003.wav|My teachers, Faye and Lieutenant Baldwin, have been most exacting, but that I wanted.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000066_000000.wav|It so happened that there was choir practice that very evening, and that I was at the chapel an hour or so.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000019_000001.wav|So it is apparent to me that the safest thing to do is to call everyone general-there seem to be so many here.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000003.wav|I wrapped them in nice white paper that had been wet with brandy, and put them carefully away-one in a stone jar, the other in a tin box-and felt that I had done a remarkably fine bit of housekeeping.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000046_000002.wav|Mounted orderlies led extra horses that officers and men were to ride when they struck the herd.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000064_000003.wav|So, about four weeks ago, I commenced.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000064_000002.wav|But it seemed that the only way to get it was to make it.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000075_000004.wav|We are going out now for a little ride.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000051_000001.wav|This kept them running straight ahead, and, fortunately, in Lieutenant Baldwin's direction, who apparently was holding his horse in, waiting for them to come.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000033_000002.wav|Even the few small windows had iron bars across.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000040_000002.wav|One leader looked around at us and commenced to bray, but the driver was in no mood for such insolence, and jerked the poor thing almost down.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000071_000001.wav|There are no evergreen trees here, only cottonwood.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000051_000002.wav|We saw through our field glasses that as soon as they got near enough he made a quick dash for the herd, and cutting one out, had turned it so it was headed straight for us.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000072_000001.wav|It was a beautiful little dinner, very delicious, and served in the daintiest manner possible.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000038_000002.wav|We had the four little mules that are the special pets of the quartermaster, and are known throughout the garrison as the "shaved tails," because the hair on their tails is kept closely cut down to the very tips, where it is left in a square brush of three or four inches.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000055_000003.wav|The buffalo was wounded and unable to run, but he could still turn around fast enough to keep his head toward the horse, and this he did every time Lieutenant Alden tried to get an aim at his side.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000059_000003.wav|Much depends upon the horse, too, for so many horses are afraid of a buffalo, and lunge sideways just at the critical moment.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000010_000003.wav|And then, to make my shortcomings the more vexatious, Faye will be simply fine all the time, in his brand new uniform!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000004.wav|The bachelors have been exceedingly kind to me, and I rejoiced at having a nice cake to send them Christmas morning.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000045_000003.wav|But we finally started, about seven o'clock, Lieutenant Baldwin and I taking the lead, and Faye and Lieutenant Alden following.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000035_000002.wav|He said that the Utes were very cross-ready for the blood of Indian or white man-therefore he had permitted them to do about as they pleased while in the store, particularly as we were there, and he saw that we were frightened.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000044_000000.wav|A week or so ago it was decided that a party of enlisted men should be sent out to get buffalo meat for Thanksgiving dinner for everybody-officers and enlisted men-and that Lieutenant Baldwin, who is an experienced hunter, should command the detail.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000058_000000.wav|Very soon after that Faye and I came on home, reaching the post about seven o'clock.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000014_000003.wav|It was apparent at once that this was not a place for spooks!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000002.wav|With the cavalry he has a classmate, and a friend, also, which will make it pleasant for both of us.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000037_000000.wav|We heard this morning that those very savages rode out on the plains in a roundabout way, so as to get in advance of the Cheyennes, and then had hidden themselves on the top of a bluff overlooking the trail they knew the Cheyennes to be following, and had fired upon them as they passed below, killing two and wounding a number of others.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000010_000001.wav|Faye has just been in to say that only one of my trunks can be taken on the stage with us, and of course I had to select one that has all sorts of things in it, and consequently leave my pretty dresses here, to be sent for-all but the Japanese silk which happens to be in that trunk.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000041_000000.wav|Three tired, disheveled women walked from the corral to their homes; and very glad one of them was to get home, too!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000006.wav|mrs Phillips insists upon my using her saddle until I can get one from the East, so I can ride as soon as our trunks come.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000049_000001.wav|The pitiful bleary eyes of the helpless old beast have haunted me ever since we saw him.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000006_000000.wav|PERHAPS it is not necessary to say that the events mentioned in the letters are not imaginary-perhaps the letters themselves tell that! They are truthful accounts of experiences that came into my own life with the Army in the far West, whether they be about Indians, desperadoes, or hunting-not one little thing has been stolen.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000073_000004.wav|This would seem absurd in the East, but I can assure you that one accordion, when played well by a German, is an orchestra in itself.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000024_000001.wav|I have not missed my dresses very much-there has been so much else to think about.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000069_000002.wav|With eyes to the front and hands down their sides they looked absurdly like wax figures waiting to be "wound up," and I did want so much to tell the little son of General Phillips to pinch one and make him jump.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000049_000000.wav|We left him undisturbed, but only a few minutes later we heard the sharp report of a rifle, and at once suspected, what we learned to be a fact the next day, that one of the men with the wagons had killed him. Possibly this was the most merciful thing to do, but to me that shot meant murder.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000006_000002.wav|All flowery descriptions have been omitted, as it seemed that a simple, concise narration of events as they actually occurred, was more in keeping with the life, and that which came into it.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000033_000000.wav|It was an awful situation to be in, and one to terrify anybody.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000053_000002.wav|But we could see that the pace was really terrific-that Lieutenant Baldwin was freely using the spur, and that his swift thoroughbred was stretched out like a greyhound, straining every muscle in his effort to keep up.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000008.wav|And how I longed to run some place, too-but not to laugh, oh, no!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000047_000003.wav|He had eaten the grass as far as he could reach, and had turned around and around until the ground looked as though it had been spaded.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000005_000000.wav|PREFACE|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000065_000006.wav|I forgot that the little house was fragrant with the odor of spice and fruit, and that there was a man about who was ever on the lookout for good things to eat.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000075_000002.wav|mrs Anderson was very handsome in an elegant gown of London smoke silk.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000056_000000.wav|There was no possibility of his killing him without assistance, and of course the poor beast could not be abandoned in such a helpless condition, so Faye decided to go over and worry him, while Lieutenant Alden got in the fatal shot.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000019_000002.wav|If I make a mistake, it will be on the right side, at least.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000072_000002.wav|But out here one is never quite sure of what one is eating, for sometimes the most tempting dishes are made of almost nothing.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000055_000001.wav|Lieutenant Alden was on his horse, and facing him was an immense buffalo, standing perfectly still with chin drawn in and horns to the front, ready for battle.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000001.wav|You must always remember that Faye is in the infantry.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000068_000001.wav|We sang our Christmas music, and received many compliments.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000041_000004.wav|Of course I ride the army way, tight in the saddle, which is more difficult to learn.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000069_000001.wav|When we entered the dining hall we found the entire company standing in two lines, one down each side, every man in his best inspection uniform, and every button shining.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000035_000003.wav|That young man did not know that his own swarthy face was a greenish white all the time those Indians were in the store!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000071_000002.wav|Before coming out, General Phillips said a few pleasant words to the men, wishing them a "Merry Christmas" for all of us. Judging from the laughing and shuffling of feet as soon as we got outside, the men were glad to be allowed to relax once more.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000038_000000.wav|We were glad enough to get in the ambulance and start on our way to the post, but alas! our troubles were not over.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000036_000007.wav|The odor of those skins, and of the Indians themselves, in that stuffy little shop, I expect to smell the rest of my life!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000041_000001.wav|Hereafter I shall confine myself to horseback riding-for, even if john is frisky at times, I prefer to take my chances with the one horse, to four little long eared government mules!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000017_000005.wav|A little ditch-they call it acequia-runs all around the post, and brings water to the trees and lawns, but water for use in the houses is brought up in wagons from the Arkansas River, and is kept in barrels.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000052_000002.wav|But he would not go back one step, assuring me that my horse was a trained hunter and accustomed to such sights.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000064_000001.wav|At home we always had a large fruit cake made for the holidays, long in advance, and I thought I would have one this year as near like it as possible.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000074_000003.wav|I wore my nile green silk, which I am afraid showed off my splendid coat of tan only too well.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000039_000001.wav|But we got over the narrow bridge without meeting more than one man, who climbed over the railing and seemed less anxious to meet us than we were to meet him. As soon as we got on the road again, those mules, with preliminary kicks and shakes of their big heads, began to demonstrate how fast they could go.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000034_000000.wav|Well, when those inside had been given, or had helped themselves to, whatever they wanted, out they all marched again, quickly and silently, just as they had come in.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000037_000002.wav|They are so disappointing, too-so wholly unlike Cooper's red men.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000005.wav|He says that I must commence riding horseback at once, and has generously offered me the use of one of his horses.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000020_000002.wav|Finally, he recovered sufficient breath to tell me that at present, there were no good carpenters in the company.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000015_000004.wav|A soldier in uniform waited upon us at dinner, and that seemed so funny.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000044_000001.wav|You can imagine how proud and delighted I was when asked to go with them.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000048_000000.wav|He got up on his old legs as we approached him, and tried to show fight by dropping his head and throwing his horns to the front, but a child could have pushed him over.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000037_000001.wav|You can see how treacherous these Indians are, and how very far from noble is their method of warfare!|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000008_000000.wav|KIT CARSON, COLORADO TERRITORY, October, eighteen seventy one.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3003/14274/3003_14274_000023_000000.wav|There are four companies here-three of infantry and one troop of cavalry.|3003
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2085/147971/2085_147971_000032_000000.wav|"Very well.|2085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000005_000004.wav|Since he was praised by the frank, he was therefore envied of the mean.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000023_000000.wav|The porter entered in the hall, where he found none but two lords seated at a great table, playing chess for their delight.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000002_000000.wav|twelve|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000041_000005.wav|Milon rejoiced greatly when he knew this thing.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000029_000014.wav|What he took from the rich he bestowed on such knights as were poor and luckless.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000013_000001.wav|She is a rich dame, pitiful and good, and is wedded to a lord of Northumberland.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000021_000001.wav|I am of Caerleon, and a fowler by craft.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000006_000001.wav|With this baron dwelt his daughter, a passing fair and gracious damsel.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000026_000002.wav|At the end she wrote a letter according to her heart, and sealed it with her ring.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000029_000011.wav|He rode to Southampton, that he might find a ship equipped for sea, and so came to Barfleur.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000019.wav|Milon struck his adversary so fiercely, that the lance splintered in his gauntlet; but the young knight kept his seat without even losing a stirrup.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000029_000018.wav|Folk told how a certain knight from beyond the Humber, who had passed the sea in quest of wealth and honour, had so done, that by reason of his prowess, his liberality, and his modesty, men called him the Knight Peerless, since they did not know his name.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000038_000001.wav|They rode to their hostel, and with the knights of their fellowship, passed the hours in mirth and revelry.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000036_000002.wav|Fair friend, by my faith thou art my very son, for whom I came forth from my own land, and have sought through all this realm."|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000008_000001.wav|He placed the ring in her hand, saying that he had done her will, as he was bidden to do.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000001.wav|She took the bird kindly, and smoothing his head and neck, felt the letter that was hidden beneath its feathers.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000027_000004.wav|He glanced from head to head of the letter, seeking the means that he hoped to find, and the salutation he so tenderly wished.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000030_000006.wav|Milon caused his friend to know of his wishes.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000008.wav|Strive to find a plan by which we may speak as friend to friend, if you would have me live.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000017.wav|Very comely showed the varlet, and much to Milon's mind.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000036_000001.wav|He got him swiftly from his horse, and taking the lad by the fringe of his hauberk, he cried, "Praise be to God, for now am I healed.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000006.wav|At that time a tournament was proclaimed to be held at Mont st Michel.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000033_000000.wav|Milon sprang upon his steed.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000005.wav|She kissed the name a hundred times through her tears.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000029_000006.wav|He rejoiced greatly to hear of his father's prowess, and was proud beyond measure of his renown.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000034_000004.wav|This day I am overthrown by a boy, and yet I cannot help but love thee."|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000013_000003.wav|Whether it be a boy or girl his mother will have suffered much because of him, and for her sister's sake you will pray her to cherish the babe.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000023_000004.wav|When the swan was proffered to the lady it pleased her to receive the gift.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000014_000011.wav|They served their lord so faithfully, keeping such watch upon the way, that at the last they won to the lady to whom they were bidden.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000035_000006.wav|In hope and wish I purpose to cross the sea, and return to my own realm.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000042_000000.wav|Of their love and content the minstrel wrought this Lay.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000021_000000.wav|"Friend," said he, "hearken to me.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000001.wav|She approved his desire to quit the realm for the sake of his honour, and far from putting let and hindrance in his path, trusted that in the end he would bring again her son.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000005_000001.wav|So great was his prowess that from the day he was dubbed knight there was no champion who could stand before him in the lists.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000017_000000.wav|So on the appointed day the lady was wedded to the baron, and her husband took her to dwell with him in his fief.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000014_000001.wav|The old nurse who tended her mistress was privy to the damsel's inmost mind.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000000.wav|The varlet put the swan in his lady's hands.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000014.wav|But the Knight Peerless carried the cry from all his fellows, for none might stand before him, nor rival him in skill and address.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000032_000000.wav|"Sir," said he, "I pray you to get upon your horse.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000037_000002.wav|Their love was fair to see, and those who looked upon their meeting, wept for joy and pity.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000013_000000.wav|"When the child is born," replied the lady, "you must carry him forthwith to my sister.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000028_000003.wav|He to whom the letter came, saw to it that the messenger was fed to heart's desire.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000029_000015.wav|These loved him greatly, since he gained largely and spent freely, granting of his wealth to all.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000026_000001.wav|She held him for a month within her chamber, but this was less from choice, than for the craft that was necessary to obtain the ink and parchment requisite for her writing.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000009.wav|The knight prayed her in his letter to send him an answer by means of the swan.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000014_000014.wav|These having bestowed the boy in accordance with their lord's commandment, returned to their own land.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000013_000002.wav|You will send messages with the babe-both in writing and by speech-that the little innocent is her sister's child.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000030_000007.wav|He opened out to her all his thought, and craved her permission to depart.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000013_000006.wav|If this be done, perchance the orphan will not be fatherless all his days."|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000020_000001.wav|He made him ready quickly, and went forth, bearing the swan with him.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000028_000001.wav|There was no speech between them, save that carried by the bird.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000015.wav|Milon observed him curiously.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000005_000002.wav|He was a passing fair knight, open and brave, courteous to his friends, and stern to his foes.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000037_000001.wav|Father and son kissed each other tenderly, with many comfortable words.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000024_000002.wav|The swan is fit to serve at a royal table, for the bird is plump as he is fair."|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000034_000000.wav|"Friend," said he, "hearken to me.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000034_000002.wav|I have seen much, and gone to and fro about the world.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000022_000000.wav|"Friend," replied the porter, "fowlers are not always welcomed of ladies.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000004.wav|When they had parted the lady called a maiden to her aid. She broke the seal, and unfastening the letter, came upon the name of Milon at the head.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000020_000002.wav|He went by the nearest road, and passing through the streets of the city, came before the portal of the castle.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000015_000001.wav|Though this baron was a worthy knight, justly esteemed of all his fellows, the damsel was grieved beyond measure when she knew her father's will.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000026_000003.wav|The lady caused the swan to fast for three full days; then having concealed the message about his neck, let him take his flight.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000041_000001.wav|They embarked in a propitious hour, for a fair wind carried the ship right swiftly to its haven.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000005_000005.wav|Nevertheless, by reason of his skill with the spear, he was counted a very worshipful knight, and was honourably entreated by many a prince in divers lands.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000040_000000.wav|"In faith, fair father, let us return to our own land.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000004_000002.wav|I purpose in this place to show you the story of Milon, and-since few words are best-I will set out the adventure as briefly as I may.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000037_000000.wav|The varlet climbed from the saddle, and stood upon his feet.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000031_000011.wav|Now in this tournament a knight could joust with that lord who was set over against him, or he could seek to break a lance with his chosen foe.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000025_000007.wav|In you-he wrote-is all my pleasure, and in your white hands it lies to heal me or to slay.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000030_000002.wav|He marvelled greatly that the stout spears of the past had not put on their harness and broken a lance for their ancient honour.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000003_000000.wav|THE LAY OF MILON|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000014_000009.wav|The servitors set forth, bearing the infant with them.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000029_000007.wav|He considered within himself, saying to his own heart, that much should be required of his father's son, and that he would not be worthy of his blood if he did not endeavour to merit his name.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000030_000003.wav|One thing he determined, that he would cross the sea without delay, so that he might joust with the dansellon, and abate his pride.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000023_000002.wav|They went therefore to the chamber of the lady.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000041_000003.wav|His task was done long before sundown in chancing on the knight.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000041_000004.wav|He gave over the sealed writing with which he was charged, praying the knight to hasten to his friend without any tarrying, since her husband was in his grave.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6258/49755/6258_49755_000014_000005.wav|The child was then placed in his cradle, swathed close in white linen.|6258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000022_000004.wav|He fished a hard stick out of the pot and bit into it.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000017_000002.wav|Then he said, "O, children!|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000019_000000.wav|The children begged him to dance some more.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000011_000003.wav|When the man returned the little boy did not dare to tell him that the monkey had escaped.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000022_000007.wav|"That is not the monkey's head," he said as he tasted it, "That is just an empty cocoanut shell." He couldn't find a single trace of the monkey in that monkey stew.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000017_000004.wav|You have nothing at all cooking in that pot over the fire.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000017_000005.wav|Let us put something into the pot to cook."|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000004_000005.wav|Some of the beasts were good to eat and others were not good at all.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000012_000001.wav|If he had not had the good luck to catch the monkey napping one day there is no knowing when he would have got his hands upon him.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000006_000000.wav|The monkey was playing his guitar.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000013_000002.wav|The monkey and his guitar were shut up in the box, and there, inside the box, the monkey played on his guitar.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000020_000000.wav|"If you will open the door a little bit so that I can have more air to breathe I'll show you a new dance," said the monkey.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000021_000001.wav|The monkey danced over to the door and out of the door away to the tree top.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000004_000002.wav|People had to eat meat.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000012_000002.wav|One day, however, he caught the monkey napping.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000008_000000.wav|After a while the man became thirsty and went to get a drink.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000007_000005.wav|He did not think that the man would hear him, but the man had very sharp ears.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000005_000000.wav|The ox was found to be very good, and so was the sheep, and the armadillo.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000007_000000.wav|After that every time the man heard the monkey play the guitar he would come near and try to catch him.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000022_000001.wav|They let him think that the sticks and the cocoanut shell in the pot was the monkey.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000006_000003.wav|Just as he was about to stretch out his hand and seize the monkey, the monkey gave a sudden leap to the tree and hurried away to the tree top.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000011_000004.wav|The man waited and waited and waited there by the hole in the ground.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000016_000001.wav|"Just let me out and I'll show you how well I can dance."|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000012_000003.wav|He shut him up in a box and carried him home to the children for supper.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000021_000002.wav|That was the last they ever saw of him.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000022_000006.wav|Then he fished the empty cocoanut shell out of the pot.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000012_000000.wav|After that the man tried harder than ever to catch the monkey.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000021_000000.wav|The children opened the door.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000021_000003.wav|He moved to another part of the country after that experience.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000017_000003.wav|O, children!|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000011_000002.wav|When the little boy was rubbing his eyes to get the dirt out of them the monkey made a sudden dash out of the cave and escaped to the tree tops.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26559/5154_26559_000011_000005.wav|At last he became tired of waiting and went away.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000020_000002.wav|The sun came at once.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000001_000002.wav|She told him that if he would gather the bunches of bananas for her she would give him half of them. The monkey gathered the bananas.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000020_000001.wav|The monkey with the loudest voice on top of the pyramid made the sun hear.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000000_000000.wav|Perhaps you do not know it, but the monkeys think that all the bananas belong to them.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000005_000000.wav|"O, peddler boy, peddler boy," he said to him, "please give me a banana." The image of wax answered never a word.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000017_000000.wav|"O, peddler boy, peddler boy," the monkey shouted, "let go my body! Let go my body and my two feet and my two hands or I'll call all the other monkeys to help me!"|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000018_000000.wav|Then the monkey made such an uproar with his cries and shouts that very soon monkeys came running from all directions.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000014_000000.wav|Then the monkey who was now very angry, gave the image of wax a kick with his foot and his foot remained stuck fast in the wax.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000001_000004.wav|The nice big fat ones he kept for himself and carried them home to let them ripen in the dark.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000021_000002.wav|The monkey was at last able to pull out one of his hands.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000020_000000.wav|This is what all the big sized, little sized, middle sized monkeys did.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000021_000004.wav|Then he could pull out one foot, then another, and in a little while his body, too.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000021_000001.wav|After a while the wax began to melt.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000010_000000.wav|The monkey gave the image a hard, hard blow with his other hand.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000022_000001.wav|She decided to move to another part of the world where she raised cabbages instead of bananas.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000016_000001.wav|His body remained caught fast in the wax.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000015_000001.wav|Let go my two feet and my two hands and give me a banana or else I'll give you a push with my body." The image of wax did not let go.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000002_000000.wav|The little old woman was very angry.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000019_000000.wav|It was the very littlest monkey who thought of a plan to help the biggest monkey out of his plight.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000007_000000.wav|Then the monkey called out in his loudest voice, "O, peddler boy, peddler boy, if you don't give me a banana I'll give you such a push that it will upset all of your bananas." The image of wax was silent.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000003_000001.wav|Then she placed a large flat basket on the top of the image's head and in the basket she placed the best ripe bananas she could find.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000013_000001.wav|Let go my two hands and my foot and give me a banana or else I'll give you a kick with my other foot." The image of wax did not let go.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000011_000001.wav|Let go my two hands and give me a banana or else I will give you a kick with my foot." The image of wax did not let go.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000019_000001.wav|The monkeys were to climb up into the biggest tree and pile themselves one on top of another until they made a pyramid of monkeys.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000016_000000.wav|The monkey gave the image of wax a push with his body.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000018_000002.wav|A whole army of monkeys had come to the aid of the biggest monkey.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000017_000001.wav|The image of wax did not let go.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000012_000000.wav|The monkey gave the image a kick with his foot and his foot remained stuck fast in the wax.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000009_000000.wav|"O, peddler boy, peddler boy, let go my hand," the monkey called out. "Let go my hand and give me a banana or else I'll give you a hard, hard blow with my other hand." The image of wax did not let go.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000004_000002.wav|He had often pushed over boy banana peddlers, upset their baskets and then had run away with the bananas.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000015_000000.wav|The monkey shouted, "O, peddler boy, peddler boy, let go my foot.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000001_000001.wav|It was very difficult for the old woman to gather the bananas herself, so she made a bargain with the largest monkey.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000010_000001.wav|The other hand remained firmly embedded in the wax.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/26558/5154_26558_000022_000000.wav|When the little old woman saw what had happened she was very much discouraged about raising bananas.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000010_000000.wav|She never went into rages like the princess, and would have thought Rosamond-oh, so ugly and vile! if she had seen her in one of her passions.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000005_000000.wav|Now as the least atom of conceit is a thing to be ashamed of, you may fancy what she was like with such a quantity of it inside her!|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000011_000002.wav|The wise woman took it, for she made it a rule to accept every kindness that was offered her.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000004_000006.wav|They would even say sometimes that she ought not to hear her own praises for fear it should make her vain, and then whisper them behind their hands, but so loud that she could not fail to hear every word.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000008_000002.wav|By degrees, from thinking herself so clever, she came to fancy that whatever seemed to her, must of course be the correct judgment, and whatever she wished, the right thing; and grew so obstinate, that at length her parents feared to thwart her in any thing, knowing well that she would never give in.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000013_000004.wav|For whoever is possessed by a devil, judges with the mind of that devil; and hence Agnes was guilty of such a meanness as many who are themselves capable of something just as bad will consider incredible.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000018_000001.wav|Some foolish people think they take another's part when they take the part he takes.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000017_000000.wav|The wise woman looked at the mother.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000007_000001.wav|Had she been, the wise woman would have only pitied and loved her, instead of feeling sick when she looked at her.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000004_000007.wav|The consequence was that she soon came to believe-so soon, that she could not recall the time when she did not believe, as the most absolute fact in the universe, that she was SOMEBODY; that is, she became most immoderately conceited.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000021_000001.wav|The shepherd wondered where she could be going-right up the hill.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000020_000001.wav|But she never turned her head; and the mother went back into her cottage.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000010_000003.wav|So that, on the whole, of two very unpleasant creatures, I would say that the king's daughter would have been the worse, had not the shepherd's been quite as bad.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000012_000000.wav|Agnes was not by nature a greedy girl, as I have said; but self conceit will go far to generate every other vice under the sun|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000013_000003.wav|Agnes looked at it, did not want it, was inclined to refuse it from a beggar, but thinking it would show her consequence to assert her rights, took it and drank it up.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000001_000001.wav|Her name was Agnes.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000004_000005.wav|Impertinent and rude things done by THEIR child they thought SO clever! laughing at them as something quite marvellous; her commonplace speeches were said over again as if they had been the finest poetry; and the pretty ways which every moderately good child has were extolled as if the result of her excellent taste, and the choice of her judgment and will.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000025_000000.wav|Her hair hung in tangles from her head; her clothes were tattered, and through the rents her skin showed in many places; her cheeks were white, and worn thin with hunger; the hollows were dark under her eyes, and they stood out scared and wild.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000013_000002.wav|The wise woman saw it, for all her business was with Agnes though she little knew it, and, rising, went and offered the cup to the child, where she sat with her knitting in a corner.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000019_000001.wav|Then she turned again to Agnes, who had never looked round but sat with her back to both, and suddenly lapped her in the folds of her cloak.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000023_000003.wav|Then the whole country side arose to search for the missing Agnes; but day after day and night after night passed, and nothing was discovered of or concerning her, until at length all gave up the search in despair except the mother, although she was nearly convinced now that the poor woman had carried her off.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000002_000000.wav|Her father and mother were poor, and could not give her many things. Rosamond would have utterly despised the rude, simple playthings she had.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000011_000001.wav|The shepherd's wife looked at her, liked her, and brought her a cup of milk.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000023_000001.wav|They were accustomed to such an absence now and then, and were not at first frightened; but when it grew dark and she did not appear, the husband set out with his dogs in one direction, and the wife in another, to seek their child.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000028_000000.wav|Perhaps her words were not just like these, but her thoughts were.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000014_000000.wav|The wise woman waited till she had finished it-then, looking into the empty cup, said:|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000008_000000.wav|As time went on, this disease of self conceit went on too, gradually devouring the good that was in her.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5154/6174/5154_6174_000010_000002.wav|True, there is more hope of helping the angry child out of her form of selfishness than the conceited child out of hers; but on the other hand, the conceited child was not so terrible or dangerous as the wrathful one. The conceited one, however, was sometimes very angry, and then her anger was more spiteful than the other's; and, again, the wrathful one was often very conceited too.|5154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000020_000000.wav|I have all but finished|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000156_000000.wav|I have yet to learn|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000122_000000.wav|I have read with great regret|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000179_000000.wav|I hope to be excused if|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000031_000000.wav|I have attempted thus hastily|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000152_000000.wav|I have very much less feeling of|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000169_000000.wav|I hope I have expressed myself explicitly|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000047_000000.wav|I have been trying to show|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000024_000000.wav|I have always been under the impression|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000114_000000.wav|I have often lingered in fancy|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000141_000000.wav|I have thought it incumbent on me|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000032_000000.wav|I have barely touched some of the points|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000105_000000.wav|I have not time to present|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000120_000000.wav|I have pride and pleasure in quoting|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000055_000000.wav|I have found great cause for wonder|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000054_000000.wav|I have felt it almost a duty to|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000029_000000.wav|I have anticipated the objection|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000108_000000.wav|I have now explained to you|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000154_000000.wav|I have witnessed the extraordinary|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000113_000000.wav|I have often been struck with the resemblance|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000034_000000.wav|I have been asked several times|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000166_000000.wav|I hold to the principle|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000100_000000.wav|I have not been able to deny|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000151_000000.wav|I have undertaken to speak|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000149_000000.wav|I have touched very cursorily|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000139_000000.wav|I have the honor to propose|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000058_000000.wav|I have generally observed|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000098_000000.wav|I have not accustomed myself|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000164_000000.wav|I hold the maxim no less applicable|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000162_000000.wav|I hold it to be clearly expedient|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000178_000000.wav|I hope the time may come again|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000145_000000.wav|I have thus been led by my feelings|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000050_000000.wav|I have demonstrated to you|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000010_000000.wav|I have a dark suspicion|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000123_000000.wav|I have said and I repeat|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000175_000000.wav|I hope not to occupy more than a few minutes|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000013_000000.wav|I have a profound pity for those|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000153_000000.wav|I have watched with some attention|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000126_000000.wav|I have scant patience|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000121_000000.wav|I have racked this brain of mine|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000116_000000.wav|I have only partially examined|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000110_000000.wav|I have now rather more than kept my word|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000049_000000.wav|I have but one more word to add|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000016_000000.wav|I have a very high respect for|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000023_000000.wav|I have already stated, and now repeat|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000079_000000.wav|I have long been of the conviction|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000081_000000.wav|I have never whispered a syllable|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000150_000000.wav|I have tried to convey to you|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000083_000000.wav|I have no doubt whatever|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000111_000000.wav|I have now said all that occurs to me|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000142_000000.wav|I have thought it right on this day|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000048_000000.wav|I have before me the statistics|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000181_000000.wav|I hope we may forget|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000101_000000.wav|I have not particularly referred to|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000177_000000.wav|I hope the day may be far distant|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000051_000000.wav|I have depicted|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000107_000000.wav|I have noticed of late years|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000117_000000.wav|I have partly anticipated|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000167_000000.wav|I hope by this time we are all convinced|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000043_000000.wav|I have been requested to say a word|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000109_000000.wav|I have now made bold to touch upon|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000015_000000.wav|I have a strong belief|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000059_000000.wav|I have gone so far as to suggest|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000115_000000.wav|I have one step farther to go|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000014_000000.wav|I have a right to consider|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130530/1379_130530_000135_000000.wav|I have still two comments to make|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000063_000000.wav|I do not think it possible|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000122_000000.wav|I foresaw the consequence|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000134_000000.wav|I had occasion to criticize|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000130_000000.wav|I greatly deplore|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000069_000000.wav|I do not think you will often hear|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000132_000000.wav|I had almost said|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000041_000000.wav|I do not know with what correctness|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000026_000000.wav|I do not despair of surmounting|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000102_000000.wav|I feel some explanation is due|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000049_000000.wav|I do not, of course, deny|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000085_000000.wav|I especially hail with approval|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000105_000000.wav|I feel that I have a special right to|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000086_000000.wav|I even add this|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000123_000000.wav|I fully recognize|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000030_000000.wav|I do not fear a contradiction|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000072_000000.wav|I do not want to discourage you|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000020_000000.wav|I do not contend|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000015_000000.wav|I do not believe it possible|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000106_000000.wav|I feel that it is not true|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000101_000000.wav|I feel respect and admiration|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000112_000000.wav|I find my reference to this|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000111_000000.wav|I find it more easy|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000099_000000.wav|I feel keenly myself impelled by every duty|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000071_000000.wav|I do not vouch for|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000053_000000.wav|I do not recount all|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000067_000000.wav|I do not think this at all an exaggeration|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000066_000000.wav|I do not think that I need further discuss|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000133_000000.wav|I had in common with others|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000126_000000.wav|I go further|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000108_000000.wav|I feel the task is far beyond my power|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000121_000000.wav|I forbear to inquire|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000113_000000.wav|I find myself called upon to say something|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000065_000000.wav|I do not think myself obliged to dwell|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000129_000000.wav|I gratefully accept|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000025_000000.wav|I do not desire to put too much emphasis|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000119_000000.wav|I, for my part, would rather|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000029_000000.wav|I do not fail to admire|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000120_000000.wav|I, for one, greatly doubt|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000012_000000.wav|I do not argue|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000094_000000.wav|I feel bound to add my expression|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000044_000000.wav|I do not mean to impute|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000104_000000.wav|I feel tempted to introduce here|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000051_000000.wav|I do not propose to take up your time|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000135_000000.wav|I happen to differ|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000047_000000.wav|I do not myself pretend to be|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000034_000000.wav|I do not imagine|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000116_000000.wav|I find no fault with|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000050_000000.wav|I do not pretend to argue|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000110_000000.wav|I find it difficult to utter in words|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000118_000000.wav|I flatter myself|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000131_000000.wav|I had a kind of hope|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000136_000000.wav|I hardly dare to dwell longer|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000021_000000.wav|I do not countenance for a moment|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000052_000000.wav|I do not question for a moment|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000095_000000.wav|I feel constrained to declare|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000056_000000.wav|I do not see how it is possible|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000024_000000.wav|I do not desire to call in question|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000090_000000.wav|I fear lest I may|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000035_000000.wav|I do not in the least degree|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000014_000000.wav|I do not at this moment remember|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000077_000000.wav|I dwell with pleasure on the considerations|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000057_000000.wav|I do not see much difference between|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000032_000000.wav|I do not forget the practical necessity|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000098_000000.wav|I feel it a proud privilege|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000018_000000.wav|I do not complain of|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000107_000000.wav|I feel the greatest satisfaction|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000100_000000.wav|I feel only a great emotion of gratitude|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000127_000000.wav|I grant all this|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000058_000000.wav|I do not seek to palliate|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000091_000000.wav|I fearlessly appeal|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000060_000000.wav|I do not stop to discuss|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000009_000000.wav|I do, indeed, recollect|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000043_000000.wav|I do not mean now to go further than|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000109_000000.wav|I fervently trust|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000059_000000.wav|I do not speak exclusively|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000016_000000.wav|I do not belong to those who|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130529/1379_130529_000017_000000.wav|I do not choose to consume|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000108_000000.wav|Surely we can speak frankly|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000004_000000.wav|Join us, please, when you have time|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000029_000000.wav|No, I am speaking seriously|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000106_000000.wav|Such conduct seems to me unjustifiable|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000096_000000.wav|Show me that the two cases are analogous|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000010_000000.wav|Let me speak frankly|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000103_000000.wav|Speaking with all due respect|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000084_000000.wav|Really-you must go?|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000077_000000.wav|Quibbling, I call it|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000107_000000.wav|Surely there can be no question about that|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000064_000000.wav|Perhaps you think me ungrateful|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000009_000000.wav|Let me say how deeply indebted I feel for your kindness|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000048_000000.wav|Oh, yes, I quite admit that|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000006_000000.wav|Justify it if you can|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000056_000000.wav|One must be indulgent under the circumstances|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000098_000000.wav|So I inferred|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000060_000000.wav|Pardon me, I meant something different|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000016_000000.wav|May I be privileged to hear it?|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000005_000000.wav|Just trust to the inspiration of the moment|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000094_000000.wav|She seems uncommonly appreciative|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000087_000000.wav|Relatively speaking|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000073_000000.wav|Precisely, that is just what I meant|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000047_000000.wav|Oh, that was a manner of speaking|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000078_000000.wav|Quite so|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000062_000000.wav|Perhaps not in the strictest sense|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000054_000000.wav|One assumption you make I should like to contest|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000070_000000.wav|Pray don't apologize|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000015_000000.wav|May I ask to whom you allude?|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000030_000000.wav|No, I don't understand it|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000083_000000.wav|Really?|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000066_000000.wav|Please continue to be frank|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000021_000000.wav|My attitude would be one of disapproval|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000072_000000.wav|Pray go on!|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000045_000000.wav|Oh, that's mere quibbling|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000039_000000.wav|Of course I am delighted|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000014_000000.wav|Many thanks-how kind and good you are!|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000091_000000.wav|Shall we have a compact?|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000052_000000.wav|On the contrary, I agree with you thoroughly|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000035_000000.wav|Now you are flippant|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000043_000000.wav|Oh, do not form an erroneous impression|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000099_000000.wav|So much the better for me|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000104_000000.wav|Still, you might make an exception|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000105_000000.wav|Strangely it's true|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000023_000000.wav|My idea of it is quite the reverse|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000041_000000.wav|Of course you will do what you think best|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000020_000000.wav|Most dangerous!|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000008_000000.wav|Let me persuade you|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130517/1379_130517_000017_000000.wav|May I speak freely?|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000037_000000.wav|An air of inimitable, scrutinizing, superb impertinence|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000008_000000.wav|Affected an ironic incredulity|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000007_000000.wav|Administering a little deft though veiled castigation|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000072_000000.wav|An inexpressible fervor of serenity|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000019_000000.wav|All the lesser lights paled into insignificance|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000059_000000.wav|An eternity of silence oppressed him|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000096_000000.wav|Apprehensive solicitude about the future|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000010_000000.wav|After a first moment of reluctance|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000027_000000.wav|All was instinctive and spontaneous|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000006_000000.wav|Across the gulf of years|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000044_000000.wav|An antagonist worth her steel|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000012_000000.wav|Aghast at his own helplessness|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000035_000000.wav|An air of affected civility|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000005_000000.wav|Accidents which perpetually deflect our vagrant attention|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000062_000000.wav|An exquisite perception of things beautiful and rare|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000039_000000.wav|An air of uncanny familiarity|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000100_000000.wav|As if smitten by a sudden spasm|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000011_000000.wav|After an eternity of resolutions, doubts, and indecisions|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000018_000000.wav|All hope of discreet reticence was ripped to shreds|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000090_000000.wav|And day peers forth with her blank eyes|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000009_000000.wav|Affecting a tone of gayety|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000088_000000.wav|An unsuspected moral obtuseness|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000022_000000.wav|All the sky was mother of pearl and tender|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000066_000000.wav|An impersonal and slightly ironic interest|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000021_000000.wav|All the place is peopled with sweet airs|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000094_000000.wav|Appalled in speechless disgust|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000069_000000.wav|An increased gentleness of aspect|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000045_000000.wav|An artful stroke of policy|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000061_000000.wav|An expression of rare and inexplicable personal energy|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000060_000000.wav|An expression of mildly humorous surprise|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000065_000000.wav|An impenetrable screen of foliage|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000049_000000.wav|An atmosphere thick with flattery and toadyism|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000002_000000.wav|Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000095_000000.wav|Appealing to the urgent temper of youth|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000043_000000.wav|An answering glow of gratitude|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000017_000000.wav|All her gift of serene immobility brought into play|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000050_000000.wav|An attack of peculiar virulence and malevolence|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000097_000000.wav|Ardent words of admiration|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000099_000000.wav|Artless and unquestioning devotion|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000016_000000.wav|All embrowned and mossed with age|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000081_000000.wav|An oppressive sense of strange sweet odor|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1379/130486/1379_130486_000091_000000.wav|And what is all this pother about?|1379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000062_000000.wav|"No! no!|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000022_000004.wav|What have I done? Where am I? Have I been sick?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000024_000004.wav|And the bottle-the handkerchief-"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000059_000002.wav|But don't think of it, dear." He tried to brush back her hair, but she stopped him.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000032_000000.wav|"Besides," the old doctor paused.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000012_000001.wav|Raymond waited anxiously, and then applied his ear to her heart.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000062_000001.wav|It is too late, too late!" Her voice sank to a hoarse whisper.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000060_000005.wav|"Do not touch me!|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000008_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000051_000000.wav|"We thought it best to bring you here.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000063_000000.wav|"But Margaret, dear-"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000048_000001.wav|Where?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000060_000006.wav|Do not come near me!"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000009_000000.wav|IS THIS MADNESS?|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000021_000000.wav|She did not answer, but continued to stare, turning from him to the nurse and then to the old doctor.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000017_000001.wav|"She will-will come around all right?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000020_000000.wav|"What's that?" he questioned.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000025_000003.wav|It will all come out right.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000025_000000.wav|"Margaret, Margaret!|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000043_000003.wav|He saw the eyelids of the one he loved quiver slightly.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000034_000001.wav|"Oh, yes, I suppose that is right. But you can't take her to jail.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000051_000002.wav|The doctor said you must be kept very quiet." He smoothed down her hair.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000026_000003.wav|The paroxysm lasted for several minutes and then she fainted once more.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000052_000001.wav|I don't remember it.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000056_000008.wav|They found blood on it, blood!" And she shivered again.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000011_000002.wav|She must have air," and he moved towards a window.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000048_000000.wav|"With you, Raymond?|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000022_000002.wav|What struck me?|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000014_000000.wav|Doctor Bardon came forward, followed by Doctor Bird, and both looked at the unconscious one closely and critically.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000023_000000.wav|"Margaret!" Raymond came closer and took her hand.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000064_000000.wav|"No, I cannot listen!|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/71405/6637_71405_000014_000001.wav|There was no shamming here-the shock had been heavy-the bolt had struck home.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000008_000001.wav|Observe, please!--even after the Lamb has been devoured he is still the object of calumny on the part of the Wolf!|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000041_000001.wav|"A lad whom I sent to Eton and Oxford, when his father couldn't pay his bills-what does it matter to me what he thinks?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000019_000002.wav|Well, I understand you walked home from the Crowboroughs' the other night with-that woman."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000034_000002.wav|Insulted because they had been kept in the dark-that's all.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000034_000003.wav|Vanity, not morals."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000097_000001.wav|Feeling and excitement had blanched her no less than Lady Henry, but her fine head and delicate form breathed a will so proud, a dignity so passionate, that Lady Henry shrank before her.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000009_000004.wav|She could neither see it nor hear it, but she was jealously conscious of it.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000082_000001.wav|"So you didn't go to Winton's.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000022_000003.wav|I did my best as a peacemaker.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000017_000001.wav|"Poor thing!|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000028_000003.wav|I was beginning to-to have some returns on myself, when the Duchess appeared on the scene."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000023_000000.wav|Lady Henry threw out her hand in disdain.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000094_000000.wav|Lady Henry gasped.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000017_000000.wav|"Good God! she is in love with him!" was the thought that rushed through Sir Wilfrid's mind.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000079_000000.wav|"Did you ever go to Winton's at all?" she said, quickly.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000108_000000.wav|Lady Henry gulped.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000040_000000.wav|"So you don't know what Jacob thinks?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000002.wav|But-you have been playing tricks with me.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000042_000000.wav|"Women are strange folk," thought Sir Wilfrid.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000020_000001.wav|The accent was indescribable.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000068_000000.wav|Lady Henry sat alone in her brightly lighted drawing room for some time. She could neither read nor write nor sew, owing to her blindness, and in the reaction from her passion of the afternoon she felt herself very old and weary.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000056_000002.wav|She gets on my nerves, and I'm not responsible.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000028_000000.wav|"Oh no|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000103_000001.wav|Various things that Wilfrid Bury had said recurred to her.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000032_000004.wav|I could name half a dozen people, who come here habitually, who would consider themselves insulted if they knew-what you and I know."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000057_000000.wav|"Well," he said, slowly, "I hope you understand what it means?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000016_000003.wav|They had been talking earnestly, wholly forgetting and apparently forgotten by the rest of the room.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000082_000000.wav|"Hm," said Lady Henry, slowly.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000038_000001.wav|Evelyn, of course, brings him in perpetually-Jacob this and Jacob that.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000091_000001.wav|Allow me to assure you, mademoiselle"--Lady Henry rose from her seat, leaning on her stick; surely no old face was ever more formidable, more withering-"that whatever ambitions you may cherish, Jacob Delafield is not altogether the simpleton you imagine.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000050_000000.wav|"I dare say.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000109_000001.wav|"But we may as well have one more trial.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000111_000000.wav|"I don't think I have any heart for it," she said, sadly; and then, as Lady Henry sat silent, she approached.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000059_000002.wav|Let them take what view they please.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000086_000001.wav|May I ask what you were doing there?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000030_000000.wav|"She came, of course, to beg and protest.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000088_000002.wav|Answer me, mademoiselle."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000038_000000.wav|"I should think not!|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000016_000005.wav|He seemed to be choosing his words with difficulty, his eyes on the floor.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000031_000000.wav|"Oh yes," murmured Sir Wilfrid, "if you want to dismiss her."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000054_000001.wav|No, no, Wilfrid, your first instinct was the true one.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000017_000002.wav|Poor thing!"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000030_000003.wav|That alone would be sufficient to justify me in dismissing her.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000006_000001.wav|"mr Montresor can do nothing but quarrel and contradict."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000002_000002.wav|The statesman slipped in for an instant between the trifler coming and the trifler gone.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000006.wav|I apologize for my recent remarks.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000018_000001.wav|By seven o'clock all were gone. Mademoiselle Le Breton had retired.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000006_000000.wav|"Then I fear you won't get it," said Lady Henry, throwing herself back in her chair.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000035_000000.wav|"As far as I can ascertain," said Sir Wilfrid, meditatively, "only the Duchess, Delafield, Montresor, and myself are in the secret."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000078_000000.wav|Something in the tone struck Lady Henry's quick ears.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000087_000000.wav|"I was trying to help the Duchess in her plans for the bazaar."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000092_000000.wav|Julie Le Breton also rose.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000038_000003.wav|Where Julie has found the time I can't imagine; I thought I had kept her pretty well occupied."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000016_000006.wav|Julie Le Breton, on the contrary, was looking at him-looking with all her soul, her ardent, unhappy soul-unconscious of aught else in the wide world.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000101_000001.wav|"I like that better than anything you've said yet.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000037_000000.wav|"Wait a little.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000076_000000.wav|"Well, what did they say?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000020_000000.wav|She turned sharply upon him.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000033_000001.wav|Because her mother-"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000047_000000.wav|"What do you mean?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000065_000000.wav|"Well, I'll try again.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000005.wav|Anyway, I offer you my hand.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000084_000001.wav|"I meant to have done all your commissions.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000015_000002.wav|He turned away, ashamed of having seen, and hid himself, as it were, with relief, in the clamor of amusement awakened by his own remarks.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000098_000000.wav|"Why did you refuse him?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000018_000000.wav|Sir Wilfrid outstayed his fellow guests.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000019_000001.wav|"I must have some private talk with you.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000003_000000.wav|As for Wilfrid Bury, he was dazzled by the young man's good looks. "'Young Harry with his beaver up!'" he thought, admiring against his will, as the tall, slim soldier paid his respects to Lady Henry, and, with a smiling word or two to the rest of those present, took his place beside her in the circle.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000109_000000.wav|"Oh, it mayn't answer," she said, as their hands dropped.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000007_000000.wav|Montresor lifted his hands in wonder.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000100_000000.wav|"That, I think, is my affair.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000073_000001.wav|"You remember, I gave you a message about it on Thursday?|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000056_000000.wav|"No, I can't!|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000081_000000.wav|"I am so sorry.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000054_000003.wav|She must take her departure, or I shall go to pieces, morally and physically.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000067_000000.wav|"I shall do nothing of the kind," she vowed.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000093_000002.wav|But it is because-I have refused him twice."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000008_000003.wav|Tell me what new follies the Duchess has on foot."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000026_000001.wav|"You see, I guessed that it was not spontaneous; that you had wrung it out of her."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000053_000001.wav|You are really unjust," said Sir Wilfrid, laying a kind hand upon her arm.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000063_000001.wav|Her look of exhaustion distressed him, and, for all her unreason, he felt himself astonishingly in sympathy with her.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000064_000000.wav|Perhaps it was the consciousness of this mood in him which at last partly appeased her.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000062_000000.wav|And, drawing his chair close to her, he argued with her for half an hour.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000007.wav|Shall we bury the hatchet, and try and go on as before?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000101_000000.wav|"That's frank," said Lady Henry.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000032_000003.wav|Who can say what absurdities may happen if it once gets out that she is Lady Rose's child?|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000009_000006.wav|Lady Henry had been thorny over much during the afternoon; even for her oldest friend she had passed bounds; he desired perhaps to bring it home to her.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000059_000001.wav|At least," he entreated, "don't quarrel with everybody who may sympathize with her.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000012_000000.wav|"Mademoiselle, be so good as to return his father's letters to Captain Warkworth," she said, abruptly, in her coldest voice, just as Montresor, dropping his-head thrown back and knees crossed-was about to pour into the ears of his companion the whole confidential history of his appointment to office three years before.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000066_000000.wav|"That's a great pity," was his naive reply.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000110_000000.wav|Julie shook her head.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000096_000002.wav|But you forced me."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000093_000001.wav|"I shall not marry mr Delafield.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000003.wav|In a good many ways, we're quits.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000055_000000.wav|"And you can't subdue the temper?" he asked, with a queer smile.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000002_000001.wav|Montresor put up his glasses and bestowed on him a few moments of scrutiny, during which the Minister's heavily marked face took on the wary, fighting aspect which his department and the House of Commons knew.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000063_000002.wav|The age in him held out secret hands to the age in her-as against encroaching and rebellious youth.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000036_000000.wav|"Montresor!" cried Lady Henry, beside herself.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000089_000000.wav|Julie hesitated again, and again spoke with a kind of passionate composure.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000094_000001.wav|She fell back into her chair, staring at her companion.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000090_000000.wav|"Yes.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000009_000001.wav|But it was not easy.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000051_000000.wav|"And as Jacob's wife-the wife perhaps of the head of the family-you still mean to quarrel with her?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000060_000000.wav|"On the contrary!" She was now white to the lips.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000088_000000.wav|"Indeed?|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000034_000000.wav|"Because her mother broke the seventh commandment?|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000099_000000.wav|Julie shrugged her shoulders.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000050_000001.wav|She is always wanting to patronize or influence somebody. It's in her nature.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000083_000001.wav|She had grown very white.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000054_000002.wav|I shall have to bring myself to it, whatever it costs.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000037_000001.wav|Have you had any talk with Jacob?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000013_000002.wav|Montresor, perhaps repenting himself a little, returned to Lady Henry; and though she received him with great coolness, the circle round her, now augmented by dr Meredith, and another politician or two, was reconstituted; and presently, with a conscious effort, visible at least to Bury, she exerted herself to hold it, and succeeded.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000046_000000.wav|"By the way, as to that"--he spoke as though feeling his way-"have you never had suspicions in quite another direction?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000045_000001.wav|"What does it matter to me?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000034_000001.wav|Oh, dear, no! That, in my opinion, doesn't touch people much nowadays.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000072_000000.wav|She had no sooner, however, begun to knit than her very acute sense of touch noticed something wrong with the wool she was using.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000074_000000.wav|Julie laid down the newspaper and looked in perplexity at the ball of wool.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000033_000000.wav|"Insulted?|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000016_000001.wav|Merely, or mainly, a woman's face.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000100_000001.wav|But if-I had loved him-I should not have consulted your scruples, Lady Henry."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000026_000000.wav|"I dare say," said Lady Henry.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000013_000000.wav|Julie Le Breton rose at once.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000032_000000.wav|"We shall come to that presently," said Lady Henry, shortly.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000060_000001.wav|"Whoever goes with her gives me up.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000069_000000.wav|But at last the door opened and Julie Le Breton's light step approached.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000028_000001.wav|You were very kind.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000015_000001.wav|Like an icy wave, a swift and tragic impression swept through him.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000041_000000.wav|"Why should I want to know?" said Lady Henry, disdainfully.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000030_000001.wav|She offered me her valuable services for all sorts of superfluous things that I didn't want-if only I would spare her Julie for this ridiculous bazaar.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000049_000000.wav|Lady Henry laughed impatiently.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000103_000002.wav|She thought of Captain Warkworth. She wondered.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000024_000001.wav|I told her, of course, that I would put up with nothing of the kind."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000106_000000.wav|Julie Le Breton turned slowly and took the hand-without unction.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000096_000000.wav|"A month ago, and last year.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000016_000002.wav|Young Warkworth stood beside the sofa, on which sat Lady Henry's companion, his hands in his pockets, his handsome head bent towards her.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000070_000000.wav|"May I read to you?" she said, gently.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000011_000000.wav|At last Lady Henry could bear it no longer.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000018_000002.wav|He and Lady Henry were left alone.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000027_000000.wav|"What else did you expect me to do?" cried Sir Wilfrid.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000114_000000.wav|"At once, please.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000113_000001.wav|But she shook off the spell.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000022_000000.wav|"I am sorry to hear you speak so," he said, gravely, after a pause. "Yes, I talked with her.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000084_000000.wav|"No," she said, calmly.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000008_000000.wav|"Had I been AEsop," he said, slyly, "I would have added another touch to a certain tale.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000083_000002.wav|Suddenly her face settled and steadied.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000066_000001.wav|"Nothing would put you in a better position than to give her leave."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000077_000000.wav|"I suppose that was all they had."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000083_000000.wav|Julie hesitated.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000088_000001.wav|Was any one else there?|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000081_000001.wav|The Duchess's maid was going there," said Julie, hurriedly, "and she went for me.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000009_000003.wav|Throughout, Sir Wilfrid perceived in her a strained attention directed towards the conversation on the other side of the room.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000056_000001.wav|That's flat.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000050_000005.wav|What can an old, blind creature like me do to stop it?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000095_000000.wav|"You have-refused him?"|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000053_000000.wav|"No, no!|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000112_000000.wav|"You look very tired.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000010_000000.wav|Meanwhile, Julie Le Breton, after a first moment of reserve and depression, had been beguiled, carried away.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000015_000000.wav|His smile stiffened on his lips.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000028_000002.wav|And I dare say you might have done some good.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000085_000000.wav|Lady Henry flushed deeply.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000091_000003.wav|He will take some time before he really makes up his mind to marry a woman of your disposition-and your history."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000075_000000.wav|"I remember you gave me a message," she faltered.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000102_000000.wav|"I have several times heard you say so," said the other, coldly.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000105_000001.wav|I suppose I've been insulting you.|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000053_000002.wav|"That was not her fault."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6637/69607/6637_69607_000061_000000.wav|"My dear friend, listen to reason."|6637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000016_000000.wav|Her head sunk on her bosom; her delicate lips trembled a little; she said no more.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000042_000001.wav|"Don't mortify me by refusing to take my letter."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000043_000002.wav|Leave me now, please.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000039_000000.wav|"To morrow?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000033_000005.wav|In an instant more it was over.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000043_000000.wav|"I will take your letter," she answered, quietly.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000023_000000.wav|"Would you please say," she went on, "that I am only to be taken on trial, at first?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000006_000002.wav|I think I should do better in London; at some respectable milliner's, if I could be properly recommended.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000029_000000.wav|She lifted her noble head.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000020_000002.wav|Some forgotten consideration seemed to have occurred to her.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000020_000000.wav|She blushed delightfully; she cast one tenderly grateful look at me, which I remembered but too well for many and many an after day.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000005_000000.wav|"Do you propose staying in Edinburgh?" I asked.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000018_000005.wav|Those rare persons who have been in love, and who have not completely forgotten it yet, may perhaps find excuses for me.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000025_000000.wav|"Have you some other employment in prospect?" I asked.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000006_000003.wav|I am quick at my needle, and I understand cutting out.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000033_000004.wav|For a moment she lay helpless and trembling on my breast; for a moment her fragrant lips softly returned the kiss.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000009_000003.wav|"Have I any right," she asked, sadly, "to accept what you offer me?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000013_000004.wav|She abruptly broke it.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000023_000001.wav|I am not to be engaged for more"--her voice sunk lower and lower, so that I could barely hear the next words-"for more than three months, certain."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000024_000000.wav|It was not in human nature-perhaps I ought to say it was not in the nature of a man who was in my situation-to refrain from showing some curiosity, on being asked to supplement a letter of recommendation by such a postscript as this.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000033_000002.wav|I don't believe the man lives who could have resisted her at that moment.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000043_000001.wav|"Thank you for writing it.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000032_000000.wav|We stood together by the table; we looked at each other in a momentary silence.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000017_000002.wav|I can introduce you to a dressmaker in London who is at the head of a large establishment, and I will do it before I leave you to night."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000037_000000.wav|"You will give me time for atonement?" I pleaded.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000004_000000.wav|She thanked me warmly, and hesitated, looking up the street and down the street in evident embarrassment what to say next.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000015_000003.wav|I am a miserable wretch who has tried to commit a great sin-I have tried to destroy myself.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000027_000000.wav|An unworthy doubt of her-the mean offspring of jealousy-found its way into my mind.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000022_000000.wav|I suppressed all appearance of surprise as well as I could, and took up the pen again.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000015_000000.wav|"You know nothing of me.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000006_000001.wav|I want to go much further away.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000003_000002.wav|What are your plans?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000043_000003.wav|Good night."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000018_000004.wav|Will anybody find excuses for me?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000035_000001.wav|The violence of her agitation more than distressed me-I was really alarmed by it.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000008_000000.wav|"I can give you exactly the recommendation you want," I said, "whenever you like.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000008_000001.wav|Now, if you would prefer it."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000002_000000.wav|I LOOKED at the house.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000016_000001.wav|The way to reassure and console her lay plainly enough before me, if I chose to take it.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000018_000006.wav|It matters little; I don't deserve them.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000034_000001.wav|How dare you touch me!" she said. "Take your letter back, sir; I refuse to receive it; I will never speak to you again.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000012_000000.wav|She shrunk back in alarm.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000002_000001.wav|It was an inn, of no great size, but of respectable appearance.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000009_000000.wav|Her charming features brightened with pleasure.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000020_000001.wav|The next moment, to my astonishment, this changeable creature changed again.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000033_000000.wav|"How can I thank you?" she murmured, softly.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000038_000000.wav|"I will write to you," she said.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000006_000004.wav|Or I could keep accounts, if-if anybody would trust me."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000018_000002.wav|The dressmaker to whom I had alluded had been my mother's maid in f ormer years, and had been established in business with money lent by my late step father, mr Germaine.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000017_000001.wav|"In the mean time," I added, "I have the most perfect confidence in you; and I beg as a favor that you will let me put it to the proof.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000034_000004.wav|Oh!" she cried, throwing herself in despair on a sofa that stood near her, "shall I ever recover my self respect? shall I ever forgive myself for what I have done to night?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000009_000002.wav|Her face clouded again-she saw my proposal in a new light.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000007_000000.wav|She stopped, and looked at me doubtingly, as if she felt far from sure, poor soul, of winning my confidence to begin with.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000012_000001.wav|What would the landlady think if she saw her lodger enter the house at night in company with a stranger, and that stranger a gentleman?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000014_000000.wav|"Why not?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000001_000001.wav|THE LETTER OF INTRODUCTION.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000042_000000.wav|"Make your goodness to me complete," I said.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000033_000001.wav|"Oh, sir, I will indeed be worthy of the confidence that you have shown in me!" Her eyes moistened; her variable color came and went; her dress heaved softly over the lovely outline of her bosom.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000041_000000.wav|I took up the letter of recommendation from the floor.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000036_000000.wav|She composed herself after a while.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000019_000000.wav|I handed her the open letter to read.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000034_000002.wav|You don't know what you have done.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000021_000000.wav|"Would you mind adding a postscript, sir?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000044_000000.wav|I left her, pale and sad, with my letter in her hand.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000035_000000.wav|I implored her pardon; I assured her of my repentance and regret in words which did really come from my heart.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000033_000003.wav|I lost all power of restraint; I caught her in my arms; I whispered, "I love you!" I kissed her passionately.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000037_000001.wav|"You will not lose all confidence in me?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000030_000001.wav|"For God's sake, ask me no more questions to night!"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000018_000003.wav|I used both their names without scruple; and I wrote my recommendation in terms which the best of living women and the ablest of existing dressmakers could never have hoped to merit.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294697/5062_294697_000012_000003.wav|She led the way into a sort of parlor behind the "bar," placed writing materials on the table, looked at my companion as only one woman can look at another under certain circumstances, and left us by ourselves.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000002_000001.wav|You present the best of all replies to my letter in presenting yourself.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000030_000001.wav|"You have been forced into your present position: there are circumstances which excuse you, and which you are purposely keeping back from me. Nothing will convince me that you are a base woman.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000018_000000.wav|I closed the door and seated myself by her side.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000036_000002.wav|Her hand closed on mine, a low sigh fluttered on her lips.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000034_000001.wav|But the subject dropped.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000079_000000.wav|"Yes."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000066_000005.wav|In her interests, the wise thing and the merciful thing to do was to conciliate the fellow before I left the house.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000013_000000.wav|"There must be some mistake," she said.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000018_000002.wav|She looked at me with a cold and steady surprise.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000009_000000.wav|"mr Germaine!" she exclaimed, starting back, as if the bare sight of me repelled her.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000069_000001.wav|When he mentioned the "old friend" and the "rubber of whist," her face expressed the strongest emotions of shame and disgust. The next moment (when she had heard him fix the date of the dinner for "the day after to morrow") her features became composed again, as if a sudden sense of relief had come to her.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000053_000000.wav|"Have you a mother living?" she asked.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000033_000002.wav|Can you tell why?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000016_000000.wav|"Yes."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000010_000001.wav|They only heightened her color; they only added a new rapture to the luxury of looking at her.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000075_000001.wav|"Is it possible that you expect me to visit a woman, who, by her own confession-"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000033_000000.wav|"Never.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000068_000002.wav|"A slice of mutton, you know, and a bottle of good wine.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000035_000000.wav|"Look at me," I pleaded, "and tell me the truth.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000020_000001.wav|"I am going to ask your pity for a man whose whole heart is yours, whose whole life is bound up in you."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000066_000001.wav|She turned deadly pale when she shook hands with me at parting.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000029_000002.wav|I knew my power over her, and used it (as any man in my place would have used it) without scruple.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000067_000000.wav|"I am sorry not to be able to accept your invitation," I said, as we walked together to the door.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000063_000002.wav|At the same moment the door of the room opened suddenly and softly.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000002_000002.wav|mrs Van Brandt is at home. mrs Van Brandt will be delighted.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000070_000001.wav|That farewell kiss, that sudden composure when the day of the dinner was fixed, weighed on my spirits.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000021_000000.wav|She started to her feet, and looked round her incredulously, as if doubting whether she had rightly heard and rightly interpreted my last words.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000078_000000.wav|"Do you mean, George, that you have offered her marriage?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000003.wav|I told him I knew nothing of your position in the world.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000042_000002.wav|Leave him at once and forever. Leave him, and come with me to a future that is worthy of you-your future as my wife."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000009_000003.wav|You allow me to be entrapped into receiving you, and you accept as your accomplice mr Van Brandt!|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000008_000002.wav|She stood before me.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000030_000000.wav|"I don't believe you have voluntarily degraded yourself," I said.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000067_000001.wav|"Perhaps you will give me another chance?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000009_000001.wav|"Is this honorable?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000008.wav|I am living under that man's protection, mr Germaine.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000024_000000.wav|"His letter tells me," I said, "that he is mr Van Brandt."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000069_000000.wav|She had followed us to the door, keeping behind Van Brandt while he was speaking to me.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000029_000003.wav|I took her hand.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000021_000001.wav|Before I could speak again, she suddenly faced me, and struck her open hand on the table with a passionate resolution which I now saw in her for the first time.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000080_000000.wav|"And she has said No?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000023_000001.wav|She was indeed in earnest-vehemently in earnest.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000009_000004.wav|Oh, sir, I have accustomed myself to look up to you as a high minded man.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000037_000000.wav|"I think of you perpetually," she said.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000063_000004.wav|I saw in his face that he had some vile motive of his own for trying to take us by surprise, and that the result of the experiment had disappointed him.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000002_000003.wav|Pray walk in."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000082_000002.wav|"Write down the name and address," she said resignedly.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000081_000001.wav|I have tried vainly to make her explain herself.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000002_000000.wav|"My dear sir, how good this is of you!|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000039_000003.wav|I love you!"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000022_000005.wav|I am speaking in earnest."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000036_000000.wav|I spoke as I felt-fervently, passionately.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000057_000000.wav|She considered with herself once more.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000022_000000.wav|"Stop!" she cried.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000019_000000.wav|"What are you going to do?" she asked.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000060_000002.wav|"Kiss me," she whispered.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000005_000006.wav|What similarity was perceivable in the sooty London lodging house to remind me of the bailiff's flower scented cottage by the shores of the lake?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000068_000005.wav|Mary and you partners-eh?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000081_000000.wav|"She has said No, because there is some obstacle in her way.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000031_000001.wav|She tried to change the subject.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000039_000002.wav|Degraded as I am, unworthy as I am-knowing as I do that nothing can ever come of it-I love you!|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000047_000001.wav|Go, I implore you, before Van Brandt comes back.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000000.wav|"You force me to tell you the truth," she went on.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000049_000001.wav|"Let him come back!|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000048_000001.wav|I positively refused to leave her.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000013_000001.wav|"You cannot possibly have received my letter, or you have not read it?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000069_000003.wav|Did she really believe, when I had heard what passed at the interview, that I should never enter the house again, and never attempt to see her more? And was this the secret of her composure when she heard the date of the dinner appointed for "the day after to morrow"?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000064_000002.wav|Put down your hat, mr Germaine. No ceremony!"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000055_000000.wav|"Do you think she would come and see me?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000040_000000.wav|She threw her arms round my neck, and held me to her with all her strength.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000005_000004.wav|As the sound caught my ear, the old times and the old faces vanished again from my thoughts as completely as if they had never existed.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000007_000003.wav|Good morning."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000037_000001.wav|"I was thinking of you at the opera last night.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000063_000003.wav|mr Van Brandt came in.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000074_000000.wav|The color deepened in my mother's face.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000082_000000.wav|The serious nature of the emergency had its effect.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000052_000000.wav|She reflected for a moment.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000068_000000.wav|His eyes twinkled cunningly.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000001_000000.wav|As I lifted my hand to ring the house bell, the door was opened from within, and no less a person than mr Van Brandt himself stood before me.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000066_000003.wav|The bare suspicion of it made my blood boil.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000017_000001.wav|My answers seemed not only to have distressed, but to have perplexed her.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000084_000000.wav|"Is it as serious as that, George?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000025_000000.wav|She sat down again, and turned her face away from me.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000044_000001.wav|What obstacle is there?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000062_000001.wav|"He has come back."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000036_000001.wav|She made a last effort to repel me, and yielded even as she made it.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000017_000002.wav|"Are men all alike?" I heard her say.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000000_000001.wav|mrs VAN BRANDT AT HOME.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000029_000001.wav|She tried to get up and leave me.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000073_000000.wav|I told her the truth as honestly as I have told it here.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000001_000002.wav|We had evidently met just as he was going out.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000017_000000.wav|She sat down by the table, and, leaning her arms on it, covered her face with her hands.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000066_000000.wav|I took leave of her as I spoke.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000063_000000.wav|My duller sense of hearing had discovered nothing.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000075_000000.wav|"Must I remind you, for the first time in your life, of what is due to your mother?" she asked.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000030_000002.wav|Should I love you as I love you, if you were really unworthy of me?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000007_000001.wav|Pray excuse me.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000015_000000.wav|"And Van Brandt's letter-you have read that too?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000063_000001.wav|I rose and took my hat to quiet her.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000004.wav|He was too cunning to believe me; he went out to the public house and looked at a directory.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000048_000000.wav|She had roused my jealousy.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000068_000001.wav|"What do you say to a quiet little dinner here?" he asked.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000009.wav|His wife is not dead, as you may suppose; she is living, and I know her to be living.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000062_000000.wav|"Take your hat," she said.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000038_000000.wav|"You love me!" I whispered.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000022_000001.wav|"There must be an end to this.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000001.wav|"He asked me who you were, last night on our way home.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000068_000003.wav|Only our three selves, and one old friend of mine to make up four.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000035_000002.wav|Do you really care nothing for me?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000004_000000.wav|"Mary! come down directly."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000077_000000.wav|My mother looked at me in blank dismay.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000041_000001.wav|I spoke as recklessly to her as she had spoken to me.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000005_000000.wav|"Mary"!|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000076_000001.wav|"Surely I am not asking what is unworthy of you, if I ask that?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000068_000007.wav|Shall we say the day after to morrow?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000039_000001.wav|"My whole heart goes out to you in spite of myself.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000003_000000.wav|He threw open the door of a room on the ground floor.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000058_000000.wav|"When?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000054_000000.wav|"Yes."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000020_000000.wav|"I am going to try if I can recover my place in your estimation," I said.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000031_000002.wav|"There is one thing you haven't told me yet," she said, with a faint, forced smile.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000051_000000.wav|"Don't frighten me," she said.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000022_000002.wav|And an end there shall be.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000005_000003.wav|The next moment I heard the rustling of mrs Van Brandt's dress on the stairs.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000029_000000.wav|I drew closer to her.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000057_000001.wav|"I will tell your mother what the obstacle is," she said, thoughtfully.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000060_000003.wav|"You will never come here again.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000007.wav|He is not a man for a poor devil like me to offend; I mean to make a friend of him, and I expect you to make a friend of him too.' He sat down and wrote to you.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000060_000004.wav|Kiss me for the last time."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000040_000002.wav|"Oh, don't tempt me!" she murmured.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000007_000000.wav|"I have a business appointment," he said, "which it is impossible to put off.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000072_000002.wav|Where have you been?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000044_000000.wav|"Why not?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000072_000000.wav|"You have gone out earlier than usual to day," she said.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000072_000001.wav|"Did the fine weather tempt you, my dear?" She paused, and looked at me more closely. "George!" she exclaimed, "what has happened to you?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000009_000002.wav|Is this worthy of you?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000065_000000.wav|"You are very good," I answered.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000056_000000.wav|"I am sure she would if I asked her."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000031_000000.wav|She struggled to free her hand; I still held it.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000059_000000.wav|"To morrow, at this time."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000014_000000.wav|"I have received it, and I have read it."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000001_000001.wav|He had his hat on.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000064_000000.wav|"You are not going yet?" he said, speaking to me with his eye on mrs Van Brandt.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000070_000000.wav|Asking myself these questions, I accepted my invitation, and left the house with a heavy heart.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000045_000000.wav|"I can't tell you-I daren't tell you."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000065_000002.wav|I must beg you and mrs Van Brandt to excuse me."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000046_000000.wav|"Will you write it?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000034_000002.wav|Instead of answering her question, I drew her nearer to me-I returned to the forbidden subject of my love.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000005_000002.wav|No words can tell how the name jarred on me, spoken by his lips. For the first time for years past my mind went back to Mary Dermody and Greenwater Broad.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000023_000000.wav|There was no choice but to answer her.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000005.wav|He came back and said, 'mr|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000003_000002.wav|"Be seated, mr Germaine, I beg of you." He turned to the open door, and called up the stairs, in a loud and confident voice:|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000010_000000.wav|Her reproaches passed by me unheeded.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000041_000000.wav|I was beside myself.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000043_000000.wav|"Never!" she answered, crouching low at my feet.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000061_000000.wav|My lips had barely touched hers, when she started to her feet and snatched up my hat from the chair on which I had placed it.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000076_000000.wav|"I expect you to visit a woman who has only to say the word and to be your daughter in law," I interposed.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000069_000002.wav|What did the change mean? "To morrow" was the day she had appointed for seeing my mother.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000027_000001.wav|I made no reply.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000036_000003.wav|She answered with a sudden self abandonment; she recklessly cast herself loose from the restraints which had held her up to this time.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000022_000003.wav|Do you know who that man is who has just left the house?|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000060_000001.wav|She drew me to her gently.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000026_000001.wav|"Do you know what made him invite you to this house?"|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000039_000000.wav|"Love you!" she repeated.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000074_000001.wav|She looked at me, and spoke to me with a severity which was rare indeed in my experience of her.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000005_000001.wav|I knew her Christian name at last, and knew it through Van Brandt.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000012_000000.wav|She suddenly approached me, and fixed her eyes in eager scrutiny on my face.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000028_000010.wav|I wrote to you that I was beneath your notice, and you have obliged me to tell you why.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000060_000000.wav|She raised herself on her knees; the tears suddenly filled her eyes.|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5062/294700/5062_294700_000047_000002.wav|Go, if you love me and pity me."|5062
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000021_000004.wav|It might pay, though, if they could do the hatching; but cats at present cannot be taught to sit upon eggs.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000006_000000.wav|"No," she said; exhibiting no sort of surprise at my question, for a dish of French missionary was by no means unknown in those parts.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000004_000003.wav|She had the bite and was satisfied.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000002.wav|In fact about this time she always appears jollier than at any other, apparently looking upon the whole business as a capital lark-a rather enjoyable practical joke.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000000.wav|The cat, unlike most animals, seems singularly exempt from the pains of parturition.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000024_000002.wav|But still another died, and probably she could not find any more, for she contented herself with nursing, and tending the two remaining ones, along with her own two kittens.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000023_000000.wav|NURSING HEDGEHOGS.--Yes, three of those thorny little things were actually nursed, suckled, and reared lately by a cat belonging to a gentleman, who is very fond of trying experiments of this sort.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000021_000003.wav|We see, then, that chicken rearing by cats does not give that amount of satisfaction which is desired.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000011_000000.wav|One day she gave birth to her kittens in an out house, and at once leaving them to shift for themselves, she entered the dwelling house and insisted on giving suck to the dog of her first adoption.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000002.wav|One of these pussy, watching her chance, sprang upon and seized by the neck, and although hotly pursued by the enraged mother, managed to reach the house in safety, and went straight to her own bed.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000014_000003.wav|No one cat, they thought, could nurse and suckle ten kits, and it was equally evident that three kittens did not require the services of two cats.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000014_000001.wav|There being no chance of finding homes for so many, they were all drowned with the exception of three.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000004_000005.wav|Or the princess who had her husband killed; she ate part of him, and had the remainder salted for future consumption.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000023_000004.wav|But three pairs of bright beady eyes were keeking at her from among the thorns; and before she had reached the fender, the little pigs were all unfolded and after her at the galop.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000007.wav|Several times was the kitten taken back, and each time pussy went and stole it again; and as she never failed to give the other cat a preliminary hiding, it was at last deemed most prudent to let her retain it.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000018_000002.wav|Squirrels thus reared make most delightful little pets.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000011_000002.wav|Pussy went after him nevertheless, lying down in front of him, and mewing piteously up in his face.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000024_000005.wav|More probably they lived and grew, and went back as missionaries to their own people.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000009_000000.wav|A gentleman, the other day, had a very nice fox terrier bitch.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000005.wav|Her song, moreover, is interlarded with little hysterical squeaks, as if she were brim full of some strange joy, and running over.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000010_000000.wav|I know of another similar instance, where a cat was house mate with a rather valuable bitch; this bitch brought forth a litter of seven pups. The cat had five kittens at the same time.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000012_000002.wav|She was a mighty huntress, and it was no uncommon thing, to see her coming waddling across the fields with a rabbit as big as herself in her mouth.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000004.wav|In fact she becomes a small opera in herself, chorus and all.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000008_000001.wav|I thought at the time this was rather surprising; but I should not be surprised now at anything a cat did.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000009_000001.wav|The poor thing died giving birth to a litter of four puppies.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000024_000000.wav|SUCKLING RATS.--Some years ago there was a cat in Scotland who, when three of her kittens were drowned, supplied their place by bringing in three young rats to make up the number.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000014_000005.wav|This was accordingly done, and turned out to be a very satisfactory arrangement for all parties concerned; for either cat could now go abroad when she pleased, happy in the thought that nothing could go wrong at home.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000015_000000.wav|NURSING A HARE.--A certain carpenter whom I knew had a cat which in due season,--as all cats will,--produced a litter of kittens which-very cruel and thoughtless was the action-were all drowned.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000016_000001.wav|I'll seek the mountain, and be it what it may, I'll have something to love, something to suckle me."|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000007_000000.wav|Cats are greatly sensible of the honour of maternity, and when deprived of their kittens feel very wretched indeed.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000012_000003.wav|Both these cats had kittens at the same time, but the daughter seemed determined, that nursing should not interfere with her hunting expeditions.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000006.wav|Off goes puss to this neighbour's house, and having thrashed the mother to begin with, she kidnapped and carried home one of her family.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000004_000000.wav|CATS EATING THEIR KITTENS.--Numerous instances might be cited of cats eating their kittens as soon as born.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000022_000000.wav|I think the reader will now be prepared to hear of cats-|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000018_000000.wav|NURSING SQUIRRELS.--This is by no means uncommon in cats.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000024_000003.wav|I never heard what eventually became of the rats.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000009_000003.wav|She proved a good mother to them, and successfully reared every one of them.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000020_000001.wav|Once she had a cat nursing a litter of kittens, and one of the chickens in the yard being rather deformed and not thriving, Miss g brought it and flung it to the cat, thinking it would be a great treat to her.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000000.wav|NURSING CHICKENS.--I know several instances of cats supplying the place of their lost kittens with a chicken.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000021_000001.wav|In this case the adopted chicken was nursed alone, pussy's kittens having been drowned.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000011_000003.wav|When, to get rid of her importunities, the dog went out, she even followed him to the street, and only ceased pestering him, when her kittens were discovered and brought to her.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000021_000000.wav|A gentleman in New Deer, also possessed a cat who reared a chicken to hen hood.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000024_000004.wav|I don't think she would have eaten them.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000003.wav|My own cat, Muffie, invariably gives due notice of the coming event, by some of the most wonderful specimens of cantation I ever listened to.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000001.wav|"In sorrow shalt thou bring forth," was never meant to apply to pussy.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000002_000000.wav|NURSING VAGARIES.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000003_000006.wav|At the same time she lavishes more caresses than usual upon Nero, who, not knowing what to make of it, looks very foolish indeed.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000005.wav|I may mention here, that next time this same cat had kittens they were all drowned again; but this time she did a wiser thing. She found out that a cat, belonging to one of the neighbours, was the happy mother of three kittens which she had been allowed to keep.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000019_000004.wav|So it became a sort of household pet, and when not eating, it was always cuddling down beside its funny foster mother.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000007_000001.wav|Under these circumstances, they will nurse and suckle almost any creature.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000020_000000.wav|Miss G---- is an old maid, and a great lover of cats and poultry.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000012_000001.wav|The mother was of a quiet, domesticated turn of mind, and preferred fire side enjoyments to out of door sports; but the daughter was quite the reverse.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000008_000000.wav|CATS REARING DOGS.--A cat of mine, a few years ago, suckled and reared a beautiful Pomeranian dog.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/291172/8605_291172_000005_000000.wav|"But, in the name of goodness," said I, "what have you got in the pot? French missionary?"|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000034_000000.wav|The sun was setting when they pulled up at the steps of their boat landing where Colonel and mrs Howard, Edith's parents, were sitting in comfortable wicker garden chairs, waiting for them.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000040_000001.wav|Edith had her pet chickens, too, and she and her papa could never agree as to whose chickens were the finest, when they went to feed them in the morning.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000038_000000.wav|From the window of this delightful room, one overlooked the rose garden. Adjoining was the schoolroom, a big room where Miss Green and Edith spent much of their time.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000030_000000.wav|"Now you rest, Miss Green, and we will pack up everything," said Eleanor.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000020_000001.wav|The Thames swans are as well known as the river itself. They are very privileged birds and directly under the protection of the government itself.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000037_000001.wav|She had a pretty little room, with a little brass bed, and an old-fashioned chest of drawers for her clothes.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000018_000001.wav|Daintily fitted up rowboats with soft cushioned seats, the ladies in their bright summer dresses, with parasols of gay colours; the men in white flannel suits and straw hats.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000020_000000.wav|In the midst of it all were to be seen the swans gliding in and out among the boats.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000037_000000.wav|Tom, Edith's brother, was at school at Eton College, so Edith had a double share of petting, and led a very happy existence with plenty of work and plenty of play.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000044_000002.wav|"I take two lumps of sugar only, thank you." Rainy afternoons she often worked on fancy articles for the bazaars held by the Children's League of Mercy. Edith was a member, and the money from the sales was given to help the very poor children in their neighbourhood.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000020_000003.wav|But no harm ever happens to them, for the lovely white birds are great pets with every one, and the children especially like nothing better than to feed them.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000018_000004.wav|All made way for these swift racing boats, for one of the unwritten rules of the river is that boat crews must not be interfered with while practising.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000018_000002.wav|There were many punts like their own.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000041_000001.wav|Her dress was very simply made, and around the neck was a pink ribbon-pink was her favourite colour-tied in a bow.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000037_000003.wav|The chairs were covered with a bright, pretty pink, green, and white chintz, and the carpet was pale green with pink roses.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000042_000001.wav|Always she finished with marmalade.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000039_000000.wav|Edith usually dressed quickly, for, when the weather was fine, she and her papa always took a walk around the gardens before breakfast.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000035_000000.wav|Oldham Manor, Edith's home, was a fine old house built in the "Tudor" style, of red brick with stone doorways and windows, and quaint, tall, ornamental chimneys, with the lower story entirely covered with ivy.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000019_000000.wav|Occasionally our party in the punt would get the effect of a gentle wave from an automobile boat or a steam launch as it rushed by.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000028_000000.wav|"Why do we always eat more out of doors," said Edith, "than when we are indoors eating in the proper way?|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000036_000000.wav|Colonel Howard was a retired army officer who had seen much service in far away India.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000013_000000.wav|You may imagine it did not take Edith long to put away her books; then giving her good-natured governess a hug she skipped off for her hat and coat.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000025_000000.wav|Their kettle was especially constructed for these occasions with a hollow space in the bottom into which fits a small spirit lamp,--this so the wind cannot blow out the flame.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000040_000000.wav|Another hobby of Colonel Howard's was his fancy chickens and ducks, of which he had a great variety.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000012_000000.wav|Miss Green smiled indulgently as she closed her book.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000014_000000.wav|"There are Eleanor and Clarence waiting for us now," cried Edith, as she and Miss Green, who was carrying the tea basket, crossed the gardens. Running over the lawn, which stretched down to the river, she greeted her two little playmates from the vicarage.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000024_000000.wav|Then the tea basket was brought from the punt.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000029_000000.wav|"Perhaps the fresh air has more to do with it than anything else," laughed Miss Green, as she cut them the sixth piece of cake all around.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000018_000003.wav|Also tiny sailboats, some of them with bright red or blue sails; while every now and then a crew of young men from one of the colleges sculled past them, practising for the forthcoming boat race.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000039_000001.wav|Colonel Howard was very proud of his roses, and the rose garden of the manor was quite famous; many of the rose bushes were trained to form great arches over the walks.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000015_000001.wav|Towser, the big collie dog, was already in the boat, for he knew he was a welcome companion on these trips.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000020_000002.wav|There are special keepers to look after them, and any person who injured a swan in any way would be punished.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000015_000000.wav|The children were soon seated on cushions in the neat little shallow punt.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000010_000000.wav|EDITH'S HOME ON THE THAMES|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000021_000000.wav|Along the banks, under the shade of overhanging trees, were merry boat loads of family parties making a picnic of their afternoon tea, as our little party intended to do.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000044_000000.wav|Thursday was a red letter day for Edith, for in the afternoon she always took tea with mamma and papa in state, in the drawing room.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000041_000000.wav|Edith would run each morning into the breakfast room, a bright faced little girl with sparkling blue eyes and golden brown hair tied up with a pink ribbon and waving loosely over her shoulders-as all English girls wear their hair until they are quite young ladies.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000031_000000.wav|"Yes, and let's wash up the tea things.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000031_000001.wav|It will be fun," said Edith, "and Betty will be surprised."|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000023_000000.wav|Presently the punt glided behind a clump of trees.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000026_000000.wav|"My! we have got a jolly lot of cake; that's good," and Clarence looked very approvingly at the nice plum cake and the Madeira cake, which is a sort of sponge cake with slices of preserved citron on top of it,--a favourite cake for teas.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000027_000000.wav|In a few minutes the water boiled in spite of everybody watching it attentively, and Miss Green filled the teapot.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000032_000000.wav|So the little girls amused themselves with their housekeeping, while Clarence and Towser ran races up and down the greensward until it was time to return.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000017_000000.wav|"Does not the river look gay?" said Eleanor.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000024_000001.wav|"Now, Clarence," said Miss Green, "you fill the teakettle while the girls help me."|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/292138/8605_292138_000014_000001.wav|All three were bubbling over with glee at the prospect of an outing this bright June afternoon upon the river Thames.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000004_000002.wav|Vanity is plainly her predominant passion, and, if you will administer to that, it will infallibly throw her into your arms.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000006_000000.wav|The rest of their conversation turned on Booth's affairs.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000013_000001.wav|Down therefore the company sat, and silence prevailed for some time, during which mrs james surveyed the room with more attention than she would have bestowed on one much finer.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000007_000003.wav|His fear, moreover, betrayed him into a meanness which he would have heartily despised on any other occasion. This was to order the maid to deliver him any letter directed to Amelia; at the same time strictly charging her not to acquaint her mistress with her having received any such orders.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000014_000002.wav|She went from Amelia directly to a rout, where she spent two hours in a croud of company, talked again and again over the diversions and news of the town, played two rubbers at whist, and then retired to her own apartment, where, having past another hour in undressing herself, she went to her own bed.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000004_000000.wav|Booth exprest much astonishment at this declaration; he said he could not conceive how it was possible to have such an affection for a woman who did not shew the least inclination to return it.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000003_000001.wav|"Why, my dear colonel," said he, "would you not acquaint me with that secret which this letter hath disclosed?" james read the letter, at which his countenance changed more than once; and then, after a short silence, said, "mr|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000011_000000.wav|Amelia, who had no suspicion that mrs james was really at home, and, as the phrase is, was denied, would have made a second visit the next morning, had she not been prevented by a cold which she herself now got, and which was attended with a slight fever.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000014_000001.wav|We will pursue her for the sake of the contrast during the rest of the evening.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000004_000003.wav|To this I attribute my own unfortunate success.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000014_000000.wav|After a visit of twenty minutes, during which not a word of any former occurrences was mentioned, nor indeed any subject of discourse started, except only those two above mentioned, mrs james rose from her chair and retired in the same formal manner in which she had approached.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000009_000003.wav|believe me, for my own sake, you ought not; for, as you cannot hide the consequences, you make me always suspect ten times worse than the reality.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000015_000004.wav|At length they retired, happy in each other.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000010_000002.wav|nor could she, upon telling her name, obtain any admission.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000007_000000.wav|Booth was greatly overjoyed at this success.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000015_000001.wav|After which, over a pint of wine, they entertained themselves for a while with the ridiculous behaviour of their visitant.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000003_000002.wav|Booth, I have been to blame, I own it; and you upbraid me with justice.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000009_000004.wav|While I have you and my children well before my eyes, I am capable of facing any news which can arrive; for what ill news can come (unless, indeed, it concerns my little babe in the country) which doth not relate to the badness of our circumstances? and those, I thank Heaven, we have now a fair prospect of retrieving.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000008_000000.wav|A servant of any acuteness would have formed strange conjectures from such an injunction; but this poor girl was of perfect simplicity; so great, indeed, was her simplicity, that, had not Amelia been void of all suspicion of her husband, the maid would have soon after betrayed her master.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000006_000001.wav|The colonel again reassumed the part of a friend, gave him the remainder of the money, and promised to take the first opportunity of laying his memorial before a great man.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000004_000004.wav|While she relieved my wants and distresses she was daily feeding her own vanity; whereas, as every gift of yours asserted your superiority, it rather offended than pleased her.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000004_000005.wav|Indeed, women generally love to be of the obliging side; and, if we examine their favourites, we shall find them to be much oftener such as they have conferred obligations on than such as they have received them from."|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000016_000000.wav|It is possible some readers may be no less surprized at the behaviour of mrs james than was Amelia herself, since they may have perhaps received so favourable an impression of that lady from the account given of her by mr Booth, that her present demeanour may seem unnatural and inconsistent with her former character.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000013_000000.wav|Poor Amelia, who was going to rush into her friend's arms, was struck motionless by this behaviour; but re collecting her spirits, as she had an excellent presence of mind, she presently understood what the lady meant, and resolved to treat her in her own way.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000011_000001.wav|This confined her several days to her house, during which Booth officiated as her nurse, and never stirred from her.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000003_000006.wav|I own, I have not the least reason to conceive any anger against you; and yet, curse me if I should not have been less displeased at your lying with my own wife; nay, I could almost have parted with half my fortune to you more willingly than have suffered you to receive that trifle of my money which you received at her hands.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000003_000005.wav|I know what the impertinence of virtue is, and I can submit to it; but to be treated thus by a whore-You must forgive me, dear Booth, but your success was a kind of triumph over me, which I could not bear.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000016_000002.wav|And what was her present behaviour more than that of a fine lady who considered form and show as essential ingredients of human happiness, and imagined all friendship to consist in ceremony, courtesies, messages, and visits?|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000015_000000.wav|Booth and his wife, the moment their companion was gone, sat down to supper on a piece of cold meat, the remains of their dinner.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000013_000002.wav|At length the conversation began, in which the weather and the diversions of the town were well canvassed.|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8605/276939/8605_276939_000005_000001.wav|Damnation seize the proud insolent harlot! the devil take me if I don't love her more than I ever loved a woman!"|8605
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4433/16802/4433_16802_000025_000005.wav|Compare ALLOW.|4433
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000089_000000.wav|But Cyril said very firmly, 'No, thank you.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000007_000001.wav|'And she won't, so you're quite safe.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000185_000000.wav|'Yes,' said Robert, 'and the odd part is that you feel just as if it was REAL-her being so jolly, I mean-and not only the carpet making her nice.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000103_000001.wav|'Come out! whatever do you mean by creeping about under the stalls, like earwigs?'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000044_000000.wav|'We're invisible,' Cyril whispered: 'what awful larks!'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000021_000000.wav|'It shall,' said Anthea, 'but, mother-'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000055_000001.wav|'It feels just exactly as if mother didn't love us.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000071_000000.wav|'I can't understand a word,' said Cyril. 'How on earth are we to ask for things for our bazaar?'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000017_000003.wav|I'm going to Bournemouth to morrow with the Lamb-and there's that bazaar.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000179_000003.wav|Have a piece of cake before you go!|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000102_000000.wav|A crowd instantly collected.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000081_000000.wav|And Jane briefly said why, and the interpreter interpreted.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000010_000000.wav|'Mother dear,' said Anthea.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000176_000001.wav|I'm sorry we vexed you at the bazaar to day.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000134_000002.wav|How could they say, 'The carpet is ours!' For who brings carpets to bazaars?|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000031_000001.wav|'When's the bazaar?'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000037_000001.wav|So they sat on the carpet, and thought and thought and thought till they almost began to squint.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000167_000000.wav|Mrs Biddle actually stamped that booted foot of hers.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000134_000001.wav|But the others were struck dumb.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000066_000000.wav|There was no finding the Phoenix, so they sat on the beautiful wishing carpet, and said-|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000077_000001.wav|She asks do you lose yourselves, and do you desire to sell carpet?|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000043_000000.wav|Mother turned her dear head and looked straight at them, and DID NOT SEE THEM!|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000179_000001.wav|How vexing!' said Mrs Biddle, kindly.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000130_000000.wav|'There's nothing to go back for,' said Miss Peasmarsh gaily; 'thanks to you dear children we've sold everything.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000105_000000.wav|'Such nasty, prying ways,' said Mrs Biddle, 'will never make you successful in life.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000126_000001.wav|Miss Peasmarsh was very willing, for now her stall, that had been SO neglected, was surrounded by people who wanted to buy, and she was glad to be helped.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000180_000000.wav|'Yes, thank you,' said Robert.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000132_000000.wav|'Oh,' said Miss Peasmarsh, radiantly, 'don't bother about the carpet. I've sold even that.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000016_000000.wav|'It's like this,' said Anthea, in a hurry: 'that egg, you know, that came in the carpet; we put it in the fire and it hatched into the Phoenix, and the carpet was a wishing carpet-and-'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000106_000000.wav|'Oh, isn't there!' said Jane.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000067_000000.wav|'We want Indian things for mother's bazaar.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000012_000000.wav|'About cook,' said Anthea.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000147_000000.wav|'Mrs Biddle, WE meant to have that carpet.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000042_000000.wav|But the faithful carpet had not deceived them.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000125_000000.wav|'I don't understand about that blue paper,' said Mrs Biddle. 'It looks to me like the work of a lunatic.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000164_000001.wav|We have quite twelve shillings between us, and-'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000090_000000.wav|So then the queen sent out for little pretty things, and her servants piled the carpet with them.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000127_000000.wav|It took some time to arrange the things on the stall.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000180_000001.wav|'I say, you ARE good.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000164_000000.wav|'Don't be angry,' said Anthea, soothingly, 'we only wanted to ask you to let us have the carpet.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000119_000000.wav|'And after all our trouble!|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000014_000001.wav|'May I tell you about it from the beginning?'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000107_000000.wav|'Little girl, don't be rude,' said Mrs Biddle, flushing violet.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000133_000001.wav|We had cook from her, and she told us so.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000023_000001.wav|They thought her cap was a crown, and-'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000017_000002.wav|I've got a lot of letters to write.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000095_000000.wav|And of course they were.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000149_000001.wav|He found the others and said-|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000121_000001.wav|Who's got a pencil?'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000080_000000.wav|'Why?' asked the ranee.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000144_000000.wav|It was then that they dragged her away.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000108_000002.wav|The other three children felt the same.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000119_000001.wav|I'm hoarse with gassing to that trousered lady in India.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000074_000000.wav|'We asked the carpet to take us where we could get Indian things for bazaars,' said Anthea, 'and it will.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000183_000000.wav|'You ARE a dear,' said Anthea, and she and Mrs Biddle kissed each other heartily.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000058_000001.wav|It would be different if you were a prince, or a bandit, or a burglar.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000014_000000.wav|'It's not her fault,' said Anthea.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000020_000001.wav|'I promised them, and I've no time to go to Liberty's now.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000104_000000.wav|'We were looking at the things in the corner.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000126_000004.wav|But I am afraid they were not so sorry as they ought to have been.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000118_000000.wav|'That stiff starched PIG!'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000065_000000.wav|And on Saturday morning, the first thing, they went.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000163_000002.wav|Be off, or I'll send for the police.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER four.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000079_000002.wav|And when the queen asked to buy the carpet, the children said 'no'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000046_000000.wav|'I don't like it,' said Jane. 'Mother never looked at us like that before.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000034_000000.wav|The Phoenix begged to be excused.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000115_000002.wav|Of course they are for me.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000108_000001.wav|No one would believe it; and if they did, and wrote to thank mother, she would think-well, goodness only knew what she would think.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000046_000001.wav|Just as if she didn't love us-as if we were somebody else's children, and not very nice ones either-as if she didn't care whether she saw us or not.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000053_000001.wav|Come to mother,' she cried, and jumped up and ran to the baby.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000030_000001.wav|'And daddy's got to go to Scotland.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000102_000005.wav|I wonder why.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000105_000001.wav|There's nothing there but packing and dust.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000075_000000.wav|Her faith was justified.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000177_000000.wav|'Not another word,' said the changed Mrs Biddle.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000081_000001.wav|The queen spoke, and then the interpreter said-|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000017_000001.wav|'Now do be quiet.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000045_000000.wav|But to the girls it was not larks at all.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000116_000000.wav|'My stall touches yours at the corner,' said poor Miss Peasmarsh, timidly, 'and my cousin did promise-'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000077_000002.wav|She see you from her palkee.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000032_000000.wav|'On Saturday,' said mother, 'at the schools.|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2577/157236/2577_157236_000114_000001.wav|'Then Charles has not forgotten, after all.'|2577
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000030_000003.wav|The water was growing cooler as the season advanced.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000082_000006.wav|In the large and pleasant salon which extended across the width of the house, the Ratignolles entertained their friends once a fortnight with a soiree musicale, sometimes diversified by card playing.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000031_000003.wav|She hoped that Edna would go to see her in the city, and wrote her address with the stub of a pencil on a piece of card which she found in her pocket.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000016_000000.wav|"I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000037_000002.wav|The house was painted a dazzling white; the outside shutters, or jalousies, were green.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000007.wav|mrs Pontellier did not know him if she supposed he was one to let an opportunity like that escape him.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000031_000002.wav|She talked about music.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000045_000002.wav|What did you have to do?"|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000106_000001.wav|He could see plainly that she was not herself.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000037_000006.wav|There were paintings, selected with judgment and discrimination, upon the walls.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000119_000001.wav|It was very pleasant there on the side porch, where there were chairs, a wicker lounge, and a small table.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000011_000000.wav|Every one seemed to take for granted that she missed him.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000025_000012.wav|That Victor! hanging would be too good for him.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000037_000001.wav|It was a large, double cottage, with a broad front veranda, whose round, fluted columns supported the sloping roof.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000082_000007.wav|There was a friend who played upon the 'cello.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000064_000000.wav|"I'm going to get my dinner at the club.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000076_000003.wav|She was unusually pale and very quiet.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000005_000000.wav|sixteen|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000077_000002.wav|The boys were dragging along the banquette a small "express wagon," which they had filled with blocks and sticks.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000056_000003.wav|His business is worth a good, round sum to me.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000044_000001.wav|"I found their cards when I got home; I was out."|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000118_000000.wav|Victor was surprised and delighted to see mrs Pontellier, and he made no attempt to conceal either his astonishment or his delight.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000119_000002.wav|She seated herself, for she was tired from her long tramp; and she began to rock gently and smooth out the folds of her silk parasol.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000107_000006.wav|While Edna worked she sometimes sang low the little air, "Ah! si tu savais!"|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000007_000001.wav|The conditions of her life were in no way changed, but her whole existence was dulled, like a faded garment which seems to be no longer worth wearing.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000068_000002.wav|The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000067_000007.wav|When she saw it lying there, she stamped her heel upon it, striving to crush it.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000058_000000.wav|"I'm not making any fuss over it.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000087_000004.wav|What do you think of them?|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000078_000001.wav|She felt no interest in anything about her.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000023_000002.wav|It must have been quite hard to let him go."|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000056_000005.wav|'mrs|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000009.wav|She must have betrayed in her look some degree of interest or entertainment.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000093_000001.wav|His cheerfulness was unbounded, and it was matched by his goodness of heart, his broad charity, and common sense.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000117_000002.wav|Before she saw them Edna could hear them in altercation, the woman-plainly an anomaly-claiming the right to be allowed to perform her duties, one of which was to answer the bell.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000089_000000.wav|"Your talent is immense, dear!"|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000028_000000.wav|"Was her name Mariequita?" asked Edna.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000099_000003.wav|Then her absolute disregard for her duties as a wife angered him.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000020_000000.wav|"Oh, good morning, Mademoiselle; is it you?|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000048_000000.wav|"No, I left no excuse.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000015_000003.wav|They had never taken the form of struggles.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000067_000008.wav|But her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000023_000000.wav|"She must feel very lonely without her son," said Edna, desiring to change the subject.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000030_000002.wav|She had not intended to go into the water; but she donned her bathing suit, and left Mademoiselle alone, seated under the shade of the children's tent.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000096_000002.wav|It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000117_000001.wav|A black woman, wiping her hands upon her apron, was close at his heels.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000073_000000.wav|eighteen|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000037_000004.wav|Within doors the appointments were perfect after the conventional type.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000045_000001.wav|"Why, what could have taken you out on Tuesday?|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000046_000001.wav|I simply felt like going out, and I went out."|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000025_000008.wav|I miss the poor fellow myself, my dear.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000014_000001.wav|She went down and led them out of the sun, scolding the quadroon for not being more attentive.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000023_000001.wav|"Her favorite son, too.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000088_000000.wav|She knew that Madame Ratignolle's opinion in such a matter would be next to valueless, that she herself had not alone decided, but determined; but she sought the words of praise and encouragement that would help her to put heart into her venture.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000037_000005.wav|The softest carpets and rugs covered the floors; rich and tasteful draperies hung at doors and windows.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000054_000000.wav|Joe offered the tray to mr Pontellier, and removed the soup.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000032_000000.wav|"When do you leave?" asked Edna.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000087_000003.wav|I feel as if I wanted to be doing something.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000025_000000.wav|"Her favorite son!|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000048_000001.wav|I told Joe to say I was out, that was all."|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000095_000003.wav|His wife was keenly interested in everything he said, laying down her fork the better to listen, chiming in, taking the words out of his mouth.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000066_000001.wav|Her face was flushed and her eyes flamed with some inward fire that lighted them.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000010_000002.wav|She examined every detail of the outside before opening it.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000117_000000.wav|It was Victor who opened the gate for her.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000051_000001.wav|I don't remember who was here."|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000090_000000.wav|"Nonsense!" protested Edna, well pleased.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000065_000001.wav|They had often made her very unhappy.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000087_000005.wav|Do you think it worth while to take it up again and study some more?|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000013_000006.wav|How did he look?|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000027_000002.wav|It's about time he was getting another."|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000037_000003.wav|In the yard, which was kept scrupulously neat, were flowers and plants of every description which flourishes in South Louisiana.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000002.wav|He was scintillant with recollections.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000098_000003.wav|She completely abandoned her Tuesdays at home, and did not return the visits of those who had called upon her.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000107_000004.wav|The quadroon sat for hours before Edna's palette, patient as a savage, while the house maid took charge of the children, and the drawing room went undusted.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000104_000000.wav|"On account of what, then?"|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000059_000000.wav|The fish was scorched.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000099_000002.wav|It shocked him.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000010_000005.wav|Edna experienced a pang of jealousy because he had written to his mother rather than to her.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000056_000001.wav|'mrs Belthrop.' I tell you what it is, Edna; you can't afford to snub mrs Belthrop.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000036_000000.wav|seventeen|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000108_000000.wav|It moved her with recollections.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000025_000001.wav|Oh, dear!|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000043_000001.wav|Whom did you have?|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000033_000000.wav|"Next Monday; and you?"|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000005.wav|Oh! but she was a beauty!|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000068_000001.wav|She wanted to destroy something.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000006.wav|Certainly he smiled back, and went up and talked to her.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000003.wav|Of course, he couldn't think of telling mrs Pontellier all about it, she being a woman and not comprehending such things.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000105_000001.wav|I don't know.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000109_000001.wav|She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000013_000003.wav|On Carondelet Street, in the morning.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000091_000003.wav|One might almost be tempted to reach out a hand and take one."|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000058_000001.wav|But it's just such seeming trifles that we've got to take seriously; such things count."|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000116_000003.wav|A gate or door opening upon the street was locked.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000050_000002.wav|Was mrs Belthrop here?"|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000043_000002.wav|Many callers?" he asked.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000017_000001.wav|I'm sure I couldn't do more than that."|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000120_000001.wav|He wouldn't want his mother to know, and he began to talk in a whisper.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000031_000000.wav|But Mademoiselle waited.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000067_000005.wav|She carried in her hands a thin handkerchief, which she tore into ribbons, rolled into a ball, and flung from her.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000102_000001.wav|And she's more of a musician than you are a painter."|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000046_000000.wav|"Nothing.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, yes you could!" laughed Edna.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000013_000005.wav|What had they talked about? Chiefly about his prospects in Mexico, which mr Pontellier thought were promising.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000057_000001.wav|"Why are you taking the thing so seriously and making such a fuss over it?"|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000010_000000.wav|The letter was on the bookshelf.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000087_000006.wav|I might study for a while with Laidpore."|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000079_000000.wav|She went back into the house.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000025_000007.wav|Favorite son, indeed!|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000039_000002.wav|A maid, in white fluted cap, offered the callers liqueur, coffee, or chocolate, as they might desire.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000121_000001.wav|Her eyes beamed an effusive welcome.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000064_000001.wav|Good night." He went into the hall, took his hat and stick from the stand, and left the house.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000106_000002.wav|That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000119_000003.wav|Victor drew up his chair beside her.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/576/129623/576_129623_000109_000003.wav|She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.|576
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000014_000000.wav|Just so is it in duration.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000028_000000.wav|ten.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000024_000000.wav|eight.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000008_000000.wav|IDEAS OF DURATION AND EXPANSION, CONSIDERED TOGETHER.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000007_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000017_000000.wav|five.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000011_000001.wav|Expansion not bounded by Matter.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000033_000005.wav|Finite or any magnitude holds not any proportion to infinite.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000028_000001.wav|Their Parts inseparable.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000022_000000.wav|seven.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000019_000000.wav|six.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000032_000000.wav|twelve.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000024_000001.wav|They belong to all finite beings.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000026_000000.wav|nine.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000009_000000.wav|one.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290351/8575_290351_000017_000001.wav|Time to Duration is as Place to Expansion.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000019_000000.wav|Hence I leave it to others to judge, whether it be not probable that our ideas do, whilst we are awake, succeed one another in our minds at certain distances; not much unlike the images in the inside of a lantern, turned round by the heat of a candle.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000016_000000.wav|eight.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000014_000001.wav|Very slow motions unperceived.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000028_000001.wav|Proof.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000038_000001.wav|The Revolutions of the Sun and Moon, the properest Measures of Time for mankind.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000006_000000.wav|three.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000005_000001.wav|Duration, time, and eternity, are, not without reason, thought to have something very abstruse in their nature.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000002_000000.wav|one.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000010_000001.wav|The Idea of Duration applicable to Things whilst we sleep.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000011_000002.wav|But if Adam and Eve, (when they were alone in the world,) instead of their ordinary night's sleep, had passed the whole twenty four hours in one continued sleep, the duration of that twenty four hours had been irrecoverably lost to them, and been for ever left out of their account of time.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000020_000000.wav|ten.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000034_000000.wav|seventeen.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000014_000000.wav|seven.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000038_000000.wav|nineteen.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000030_000000.wav|fifteen.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000007_000000.wav|To understand TIME and ETERNITY aright, we ought with attention to consider what idea it is we have of DURATION, and how we came by it.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000028_000000.wav|fourteen.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000020_000001.wav|Real succession in swift motions without sense of succession.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000010_000000.wav|five.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000024_000000.wav|twelve.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000036_000000.wav|eighteen.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000012_000000.wav|six.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000035_000001.wav|This consideration of duration, as set out by certain periods and marked by certain measures or epochs, is that, I think, which most properly we call TIME.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000022_000001.wav|In slow motions.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000022_000000.wav|eleven.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000006_000001.wav|Nature and origin of the idea of Duration.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290349/8575_290349_000016_000001.wav|Very swift motions unperceived.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000009_000000.wav|twenty five.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000002_000001.wav|No two Parts of Duration can be certainly known to be equal.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000000_000001.wav|But not by their Motion, but periodical Appearances.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000013_000001.wav|Eternity.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000004_000001.wav|Time not the Measure of Motion|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000021_000000.wav|thirty one.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000011_000000.wav|twenty six.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000019_000000.wav|thirty.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000015_000000.wav|twenty eight.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000007_000001.wav|Our Measure of Time applicable to Duration before Time.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000007_000000.wav|twenty four.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000006_000000.wav|twenty three.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000003_000002.wav|These yet, by their presumed and apparent equality, serve as well to reckon time by (though not to measure the parts of duration exactly) as if they could be proved to be exactly equal.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000017_000000.wav|twenty nine.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000013_000000.wav|twenty seven.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8575/290350/8575_290350_000000_000000.wav|twenty.|8575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000133_000000.wav|Wait till in everlasting robes This democrat is dressed, Then prate about "preferment" And "station" and the rest!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000017_000000.wav|Morns like these we parted; Noons like these she rose, Fluttering first, then firmer, To her fair repose.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000072_000000.wav|I noticed people disappeared, When but a little child, -- Supposed they visited remote, Or settled regions wild.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000034_000000.wav|They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars, Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the June A wind with fingers goes.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000011_000000.wav|Thou stirrest earthquake in the South, And maelstrom in the sea; Say, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Hast thou no arm for me?|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000170_000000.wav|All these did conquer; but the ones Who overcame most times Wear nothing commoner than snow, No ornament but palms.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000048_000000.wav|Death sets a thing significant The eye had hurried by, Except a perished creature Entreat us tenderly|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000009_000000.wav|three.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000157_000000.wav|If I should disappoint the eyes That hunted, hunted so, to see, And could not bear to shut until They "noticed" me -- they noticed me;|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000054_000000.wav|I went to heaven, -- 'T was a small town, Lit with a ruby, Lathed with down. Stiller than the fields At the full dew, Beautiful as pictures No man drew. People like the moth, Of mechlin, frames, Duties of gossamer, And eider names. Almost contented I could be 'Mong such unique Society.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000007_000000.wav|The smallest "robe" will fit me, And just a bit of "crown;" For you know we do not mind our dress When we are going home.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000141_000000.wav|REQUIEM.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000109_000000.wav|I lived on dread; to those who know The stimulus there is In danger, other impetus Is numb and vital less.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000053_000000.wav|fourteen.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000152_000000.wav|When everything that ticked has stopped, And space stares, all around, Or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, Repeal the beating ground.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000114_000000.wav|AT LENGTH.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000105_000000.wav|twenty five.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000122_000000.wav|Far safer, of a midnight meeting External ghost, Than an interior confronting That whiter host.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000097_000000.wav|twenty four.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000165_000000.wav|A throe upon the features A hurry in the breath, An ecstasy of parting Denominated "Death," --|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000050_000000.wav|The thimble weighed too heavy, The stitches stopped themselves, And then 't was put among the dust Upon the closet shelves.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000075_000000.wav|FOLLOWING.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000078_000000.wav|I looked at sunrise once, And then I looked at them, And wishfulness in me arose For circumstance the same.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000051_000000.wav|A book I have, a friend gave, Whose pencil, here and there, Had notched the place that pleased him, -- At rest his fingers are.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000180_000000.wav|After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, -- Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000047_000000.wav|MEMORIALS.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000124_000000.wav|Ourself, behind ourself concealed, Should startle most; Assassin, hid in our apartment, Be horror's least.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000102_000000.wav|For chanticleer to wake it, -- Or stirring house below, Or giddy bird in orchard, Or early task to do?|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000052_000000.wav|Now, when I read, I read not, For interrupting tears Obliterate the etchings Too costly for repairs.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000145_000000.wav|thirty four.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000077_000000.wav|But called the others clear, And passed their curtains by. Sweet morning, when I over sleep, Knock, recollect, for me!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000071_000000.wav|nineteen.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000149_000000.wav|It was not frost, for on my flesh I felt siroccos crawl, -- Nor fire, for just my marble feet Could keep a chancel cool.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000096_000000.wav|Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise' yellow noise Interrupt this ground.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000059_000000.wav|Better than larger values, However true their show; This timid life of evidence Keeps pleading, "I don't know."|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000150_000000.wav|And yet it tasted like them all; The figures I have seen Set orderly, for burial, Reminded me of mine,|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000162_000000.wav|Great streets of silence led away To neighborhoods of pause; Here was no notice, no dissent, No universe, no laws.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000013_000000.wav|EPITAPH.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000115_000000.wav|Her final summer was it, And yet we guessed it not; If tenderer industriousness Pervaded her, we thought|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000024_000000.wav|The date, and manner of the shame; And then the pious form That "God have mercy" on the soul The jury voted him.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000087_000000.wav|Past bows and invitations, Past interview, and vow, Past what ourselves can estimate, -- That makes the quick of woe!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000041_000000.wav|Never the treasures in her nest The cautious grave exposes, Building where schoolboy dare not look And sportsman is not bold.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000030_000000.wav|The hillsides must not know it, Where I have rambled so, Nor tell the loving forests The day that I shall go,|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000117_000000.wav|We wondered at our blindness, -- When nothing was to see But her Carrara guide post, -- At our stupidity,|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000172_000000.wav|Our panting ankle barely gained When night devoured the road; But we stood whispering in the house, And all we said was "Saved"!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000033_000000.wav|THE BATTLE FIELD.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000104_000000.wav|Playmates, and holidays, and nuts, And visions vast and small. Strange that the feet so precious charged Should reach so small a goal!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000091_000000.wav|Our pace took sudden awe, Our feet reluctant led. Before were cities, but between, The forest of the dead.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000116_000000.wav|A further force of life Developed from within, -- When Death lit all the shortness up, And made the hurry plain.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000100_000000.wav|So quiet, oh, how quiet! That nobody might know But that the little figure Rocked softer, to and fro?|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000099_000000.wav|On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair,|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000049_000000.wav|To ponder little workmanships In crayon or in wool, With "This was last her fingers did," Industrious until|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000044_000000.wav|As by the dead we love to sit, Become so wondrous dear, As for the lost we grapple, Though all the rest are here, --|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000164_000000.wav|thirty eight.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000147_000000.wav|thirty five.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000076_000000.wav|I had no cause to be awake, My best was gone to sleep, And morn a new politeness took, And failed to wake them up,|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000031_000000.wav|Nor lisp it at the table, Nor heedless by the way Hint that within the riddle One will walk to day!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000086_000000.wav|You asked the company to tea, Acquaintance, just a few, And chatted close with this grand thing That don't remember you?|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000093_000000.wav|twenty three.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000057_000000.wav|The house of supposition, The glimmering frontier That skirts the acres of perhaps, To me shows insecure.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000027_000000.wav|eight.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000090_000000.wav|Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000069_000000.wav|eighteen.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000134_000000.wav|Around this quiet courtier Obsequious angels wait! Full royal is his retinue, Full purple is his state!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000137_000000.wav|GONE.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000179_000000.wav|THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000168_000000.wav|SAVED!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000083_000000.wav|Their costume, of a Sunday, Some manner of the hair, -- A prank nobody knew but them, Lost, in the sepulchre.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000139_000000.wav|Beguiling thus the wonder, The wondrous nearer drew; Hands bustled at the moorings -- The crowd respectful grew. Ascended from our vision To countenances new! A difference, a daisy, Is all the rest I knew!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000128_000000.wav|She died, -- this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000046_000000.wav|thirteen.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000101_000000.wav|On such a dawn, or such a dawn, Would anybody sigh That such a little figure Too sound asleep did lie|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000055_000000.wav|fifteen.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000037_000000.wav|The only ghost I ever saw Was dressed in mechlin, -- so; He wore no sandal on his foot, And stepped like flakes of snow. His gait was soundless, like the bird, But rapid, like the roe; His fashions quaint, mosaic, Or, haply, mistletoe.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000015_000000.wav|Step lofty; for this name is told As far as cannon dwell, Or flag subsist, or fame export Her deathless syllable.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000127_000000.wav|VANISHED.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000103_000000.wav|There was a little figure plump For every little knoll, Busy needles, and spools of thread, And trudging feet from school.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000025_000000.wav|I made my soul familiar With her extremity, That at the last it should not be A novel agony,|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000019_000000.wav|Till the evening, nearing, One the shutters drew -- Quick! a sharper rustling! And this linnet flew!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000161_000000.wav|VOID.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000143_000000.wav|One little maid from playmates, One little mind from school, -- There must be guests in Eden; All the rooms are full.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000005_000001.wav|-- How dim it sounds! And yet it will be done As sure as flocks go home at night Unto the shepherd's arm!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000043_000000.wav|twelve.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000029_000000.wav|I will not name it in the street, For shops would stare, that I, So shy, so very ignorant, Should have the face to die.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000040_000000.wav|Some, too fragile for winter winds, The thoughtful grave encloses, -- Tenderly tucking them in from frost Before their feet are cold.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000018_000000.wav|Never did she lisp it, And 't was not for me; She was mute from transport, I, from agony!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000171_000000.wav|Surrender is a sort unknown On this superior soil; Defeat, an outgrown anguish, Remembered as the mile|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000022_000000.wav|seven.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000118_000000.wav|When, duller than our dulness, The busy darling lay, So busy was she, finishing, So leisurely were we!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000121_000000.wav|One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000169_000000.wav|Of tribulation these are they Denoted by the white; The spangled gowns, a lesser rank Of victors designate.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000060_000000.wav|sixteen.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000098_000000.wav|GOING.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000148_000000.wav|It was not death, for I stood up, And all the dead lie down; It was not night, for all the bells Put out their tongues, for noon.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000140_000000.wav|thirty three.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000159_000000.wav|My heart would wish it broke before, Since breaking then, since breaking then, Were useless as next morning's sun, Where midnight frosts had lain!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000023_000000.wav|I read my sentence steadily, Reviewed it with my eyes, To see that I made no mistake In its extremest clause, --|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000163_000000.wav|By clocks 't was morning, and for night The bells at distance called; But epoch had no basis here, For period exhaled.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000108_000000.wav|twenty six.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000067_000000.wav|A triumph when temptation's bribe Is slowly handed back, One eye upon the heaven renounced And one upon the rack.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000061_000000.wav|There is a shame of nobleness Confronting sudden pelf, -- A finer shame of ecstasy Convicted of itself.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000177_000000.wav|And so, until delirious borne I con that thing, -- "forgiven," -- Till with long fright and longer trust I drop my heart, unshriven!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000107_000000.wav|The general rose decays; But this, in lady's drawer, Makes summer when the lady lies In ceaseless rosemary.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000153_000000.wav|But most like chaos, -- stopless, cool, -- Without a chance or spar, Or even a report of land To justify despair.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000146_000000.wav|What inn is this Where for the night Peculiar traveller comes? Who is the landlord? Where the maids? Behold, what curious rooms! No ruddy fires on the hearth, No brimming tankards flow. Necromancer, landlord, Who are these below?|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000142_000000.wav|Taken from men this morning, Carried by men to day, Met by the gods with banners Who marshalled her away.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000123_000000.wav|Far safer through an Abbey gallop, The stones achase, Than, moonless, one's own self encounter In lonesome place.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000155_000000.wav|TILL THE END.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000175_000000.wav|I think just how my lips will weigh With shapeless, quivering prayer That you, so late, consider me, The sparrow of your care.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000089_000000.wav|THE JOURNEY.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000080_000000.wav|So choosing but a gown And taking but a prayer, The only raiment I should need, I struggled, and was there.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000176_000000.wav|I mind me that of anguish sent, Some drifts were moved away Before my simple bosom broke, -- And why not this, if they?|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000002_000000.wav|Let down the bars, O Death! The tired flocks come in Whose bleating ceases to repeat, Whose wandering is done.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000130_000000.wav|thirty one.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000154_000000.wav|thirty six.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000081_000000.wav|twenty one.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000131_000000.wav|PRECEDENCE.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000151_000000.wav|As if my life were shaven And fitted to a frame, And could not breathe without a key; And 't was like midnight, some,|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000181_000000.wav|Weeds triumphant ranged, Strangers strolled and spelled At the lone orthography Of the elder dead.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000045_000000.wav|In broken mathematics We estimate our prize, Vast, in its fading ratio, To our penurious eyes!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000028_000000.wav|I have not told my garden yet, Lest that should conquer me; I have not quite the strength now To break it to the bee.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000094_000000.wav|A COUNTRY BURIAL.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000174_000000.wav|I think just how my shape will rise When I shall be forgiven, Till hair and eyes and timid head Are out of sight, in heaven.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000119_000000.wav|twenty nine.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000132_000000.wav|Wait till the majesty of Death Invests so mean a brow! Almost a powdered footman Might dare to touch it now!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000129_000000.wav|Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104890/7245_104890_000010_000000.wav|At least to pray is left, is left. O Jesus! in the air I know not which thy chamber is, -- I 'm knocking everywhere.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000021_000001.wav|She was not an invalid, and she lived in seclusion from no love disappointment.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000013_000000.wav|The "portfolios" were found, shortly after Emily Dickinson's death, by her sister and only surviving housemate.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000016_000001.wav|In most of her poems, particularly the later ones, everything by way of punctuation was discarded, except numerous dashes; and all important words began with capitals.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000022_000000.wav|Storm, wind, the wild March sky, sunsets and dawns; the birds and bees, butterflies and flowers of her garden, with a few trusted human friends, were sufficient companionship.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000010_000000.wav|If such a thing should happen as that I should outlive you, I wish you would make me your literary legatee and executor.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000013_000002.wav|While many of them bear evidence of having been thrown off at white heat, still more had received thoughtful revision.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000019_000001.wav|In Emily Dickinson's exacting hands, the especial, intrinsic fitness of a particular order of words might not be sacrificed to anything virtually extrinsic; and her verses all show a strange cadence of inner rhythmical music.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000020_000002.wav|And while, as one critic has said, she may exhibit toward God "an Emersonian self possession," it was because she looked upon all life with a candor as unprejudiced as it is rare.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000024_000000.wav|AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS, August, eighteen ninety one.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000007_000001.wav|That "irresistible needle touch," as one of her best critics has called it, piercing at once the very core of a thought, has found a response as wide and sympathetic as it has been unexpected even to those who knew best her compelling power.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000016_000002.wav|The effect of a page of her more recent manuscript is exceedingly quaint and strong.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000007_000000.wav|The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest themes,--life and love and death.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000017_000000.wav|As a rule, the verses were without titles; but "A Country Burial," "A Thunder Storm," "The Humming Bird," and a few others were named by their author, frequently at the end,--sometimes only in the accompanying note, if sent to a friend.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000015_000000.wav|Emily Dickinson appears to have written her first poems in the winter of eighteen sixty two.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000012_000000.wav|HELEN JACKSON.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000008_000000.wav|Although Emily Dickinson had been in the habit of sending occasional poems to friends and correspondents, the full extent of her writing was by no means imagined by them.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000010_000002.wav|You ought to be.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000022_000001.wav|The coming of the first robin was a jubilee beyond crowning of monarch or birthday of pope; the first red leaf hurrying through "the altered air," an epoch.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000023_000000.wav|MABEL LOOMIS TODD.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000020_000001.wav|She touches these themes sometimes lightly, sometimes almost humorously, more often with weird and peculiar power; but she is never by any chance frivolous or trivial.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000025_000000.wav|My nosegays are for captives; Dim, long expectant eyes, Fingers denied the plucking, Patient till paradise,|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000019_000002.wav|Lines are always daringly constructed, and the "thought rhyme" appears frequently,--appealing, indeed, to an unrecognized sense more elusive than hearing.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000013_000004.wav|And in the copies which she sent to friends, sometimes one form, sometimes another, is found to have been used.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000016_000004.wav|Although there is nowhere a date, the handwriting makes it possible to arrange the poems with general chronologic accuracy.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000020_000000.wav|Emily Dickinson scrutinized everything with clear eyed frankness. Every subject was proper ground for legitimate study, even the sombre facts of death and burial, and the unknown life beyond.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000010_000001.wav|Surely after you are what is called "dead" you will be willing that the poor ghosts you have left behind should be cheered and pleased by your verses, will you not?|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000016_000000.wav|The handwriting was at first somewhat like the delicate, running Italian hand of our elder gentlewomen; but as she advanced in breadth of thought, it grew bolder and more abrupt, until in her latest years each letter stood distinct and separate from its fellows.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104886/7245_104886_000021_000000.wav|She had tried society and the world, and found them lacking.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000042_000000.wav|AT HOME.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000072_000000.wav|THE LOST JEWEL.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000036_000000.wav|Peruse how infinite I am To -- no one that you know! And sigh for lack of heaven, -- but not The heaven the creeds bestow.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000074_000000.wav|I woke and chid my honest fingers, -- The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000007_000000.wav|When that which is and that which was Apart, intrinsic, stand, And this brief tragedy of flesh Is shifted like a sand;|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000019_000000.wav|At least, it solaces to know That there exists a gold, Although I prove it just in time Its distance to behold!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000023_000000.wav|I gave myself to him, And took himself for pay. The solemn contract of a life Was ratified this way.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000014_000000.wav|You drifted your dominions A different Peru; And I esteemed all poverty, For life's estate with you.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000029_000000.wav|"GOING to him!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000056_000000.wav|THE LOVERS.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000046_000000.wav|To feel if blinds be fast, And closer to the fire Her little rocking chair to draw, And shiver for the poor,|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000037_000000.wav|seven.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000012_000000.wav|three.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000006_000000.wav|Of all the souls that stand create I have elected one. When sense from spirit files away, And subterfuge is done;|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000069_000000.wav|He put the belt around my life, -- I heard the buckle snap, And turned away, imperial, My lifetime folding up Deliberate, as a duke would do A kingdom's title deed, -- Henceforth a dedicated sort, A member of the cloud.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000044_000000.wav|The wind pursued the little bush, And drove away the leaves November left; then clambered up And fretted in the eaves.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000010_000000.wav|I have no life but this, To lead it here; Nor any death, but lest Dispelled from there;|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000039_000000.wav|Futile the winds To a heart in port, -- Done with the compass, Done with the chart.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000071_000000.wav|fifteen.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000005_000000.wav|CHOICE.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000034_000000.wav|And then I go the furthest off To counteract a knock; Then draw my little letter forth And softly pick its lock.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000024_000000.wav|The wealth might disappoint, Myself a poorer prove Than this great purchaser suspect, The daily own of Love|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000064_000000.wav|thirteen.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000038_000001.wav|Wild nights!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000068_000000.wav|fourteen.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000030_000000.wav|"Tell him it was n't a practised writer, You guessed, from the way the sentence toiled; You could hear the bodice tug, behind you, As if it held but the might of a child; You almost pitied it, you, it worked so. Tell him -- No, you may quibble there, For it would split his heart to know it, And then you and I were silenter.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000008_000000.wav|When figures show their royal front And mists are carved away, -- Behold the atom I preferred To all the lists of clay!|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000043_000000.wav|The night was wide, and furnished scant With but a single star, That often as a cloud it met Blew out itself for fear.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000066_000000.wav|He never misses a degree; Obedient to her eye, He comes just so far toward the town, Just so far goes away.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000022_000000.wav|THE CONTRACT.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000058_000000.wav|Her fingers fumbled at her work, -- Her needle would not go; What ailed so smart a little maid It puzzled me to know,|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000035_000000.wav|Then, glancing narrow at the wall, And narrow at the floor, For firm conviction of a mouse Not exorcised before,|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000011_000000.wav|Nor tie to earths to come, Nor action new, Except through this extent, The realm of you.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000025_000000.wav|Depreciate the vision; But, till the merchant buy, Still fable, in the isles of spice, The subtle cargoes lie.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000013_000000.wav|Your riches taught me poverty. Myself a millionnaire In little wealths, -- as girls could boast, -- Till broad as Buenos Ayre,|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000053_000000.wav|A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld, -- The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000003_000000.wav|LOVE.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000070_000000.wav|Yet not too far to come at call, And do the little toils That make the circuit of the rest, And deal occasional smiles To lives that stoop to notice mine And kindly ask it in, -- Whose invitation, knew you not For whom I must decline?|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000075_000000.wav|sixteen.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000057_000000.wav|The rose did caper on her cheek, Her bodice rose and fell, Her pretty speech, like drunken men, Did stagger pitiful.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000059_000000.wav|Till opposite I spied a cheek That bore another rose; Just opposite, another speech That like the drunkard goes;|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000016_000000.wav|So much that, did I meet the queen, Her glory I should know: But this must be a different wealth, To miss it beggars so.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000045_000000.wav|No squirrel went abroad; A dog's belated feet Like intermittent plush were heard Adown the empty street.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7245/104888/7245_104888_000049_000000.wav|POSSESSION.|7245
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000000_000000.wav|Chapter sixteen|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000007_000004.wav|The inside of the cottage was dark, and I heard no motion; I cannot describe the agony of this suspense.|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000003_000001.wav|There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies?|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000036_000003.wav|The crime had its source in her; be hers the punishment!|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000017_000003.wav|Oh, earth!|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000012_000000.wav|"I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair.|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000020_000000.wav|"This was then the reward of my benevolence!|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000007_000002.wav|That hour passed, the sun mounted high in the heavens, but the cottagers did not appear.|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000016_000003.wav|From you only could I hope for succour, although towards you I felt no sentiment but that of hatred.|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000009_000000.wav|"'Do you consider,' said his companion to him, 'that you will be obliged to pay three months' rent and to lose the produce of your garden?|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000018_000004.wav|Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun, which bestowed such joy upon me.|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000017_000002.wav|Nature decayed around me, and the sun became heatless; rain and snow poured around me; mighty rivers were frozen; the surface of the earth was hard and chill, and bare, and I found no shelter.|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000029_000003.wav|You dare not keep me.'|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/362/17_362_000020_000004.wav|But the agony of my wound overcame me; my pulses paused, and I fainted.|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000005_000000.wav|"I do refuse it," I replied; "and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000006_000001.wav|I am malicious because I am miserable.|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000002_000002.wav|He continued,|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000016_000002.wav|His power and threats were not omitted in my calculations; a creature who could exist in the ice caves of the glaciers and hide himself from pursuit among the ridges of inaccessible precipices was a being possessing faculties it would be vain to cope with.|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000022_000003.wav|I felt as if I were placed under a ban-as if I had no right to claim their sympathies-as if never more might I enjoy companionship with them.|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000014_000000.wav|"You swear," I said, "to be harmless; but have you not already shown a degree of malice that should reasonably make me distrust you?|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000008_000001.wav|This passion is detrimental to me, for you do not reflect that YOU are the cause of its excess.|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/17/363/17_363_000001_000000.wav|Chapter seventeen|17
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000015.wav|COLOUR-Steel or iron grey, black brindle, brown brindle, grey brindle, black, sandy and wheaten.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000011_000000.wav|Scottish Terriers frequently go by the name of Aberdeen Terriers-an appellation, it is true, usually heard only from the lips of people who do not know much about them.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000016.wav|White markings are objectionable, and can only be allowed on the chest and to a small extent.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000010.wav|He was apparently too much inbred to, and though he produced or was responsible for several beautiful terriers, it is much to be doubted whether in a breed which is suffering from the ill effects of too much inbreeding, he was not one of the greatest sinners.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000013_000001.wav|In the same year a joint committee drew up a standard of perfection for the breed, Messrs.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000003_000005.wav|I know but few that take such a delight in the brave little 'die hards' as mr Pigott, and he may well feel proud of the lot he has got together at great trouble and expense."|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000001.wav|He may well be called the Father of the breed in England, for when he gave up exhibiting, a great deal of his best blood got into the kennels of mr h j Ludlow, who, as everyone knows, has done such a tremendous amount of good in popularising the breed and has also himself produced such a galaxy of specimens of the very best class.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000012.wav|TAIL-Should be about seven inches long, never docked, carried with a slight bend and often gaily.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000003_000001.wav|He seems almost at once to have attained popularity, and he has progressed gradually since then, ever in an upward direction, until he is to day one of the most popular and extensively owned varieties of the dog.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000008_000000.wav|Granite was unquestionably a typical Scottish Terrier, even as we know them at the present day.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000015_000002.wav|EARS-Large, round at the points or drop.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000001.wav|It should not be quite flat, as there should be a sort of stop or drop between the eyes.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000013.wav|COAT-Should be rather short (about two inches), intensely hard and wiry in texture, and very dense all over the body.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000013_000002.wav|j b Morison and Thomson Gray, two gentlemen who were looked upon as great authorities, having a good deal to do with it.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000003_000000.wav|The Scottish Terrier as a show dog dates from about eighteen seventy seven to eighteen seventy nine.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000002.wav|MUZZLE-Very powerful, and gradually tapering towards the nose, which should always be black and of a good size.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000010_000001.wav|There is strong presumption that they one and all came originally from one variety, and it is quite possible, nay probable, that different crosses into other varieties have produced the assortment of to day.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000017_000000.wav|It is highly probable that of all the terrier tribe, the "Scottie," taken as a whole, is the best companion.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000004.wav|EYES-A dark brown or hazel colour; small, piercing, very bright and rather sunken. EARS-Very small, prick or half prick (the former is preferable), but never drop.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000015_000004.wav|LEGS-Bent, or slightly bent, and out at elbows.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000019.wav|In fact, a Scottish Terrier, though essentially a terrier, cannot be too powerfully put together, and should be from about nine inches to twelve inches in height.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000003.wav|The jaws should be perfectly level, and the teeth square, though the nose projects somewhat over the mouth which gives the impression of the upper jaw being longer than the under one.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000015_000001.wav|EYES-Large or light coloured.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000003_000003.wav|At the end of his report on the kennel the writer adds these words: "It was certainly one of the happiest days of my life to have the pleasure of looking over so many grand little dogs, but to find them in England quite staggered me.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000007.wav|Alister especially was quite an extraordinary stud dog.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000006.wav|The ears should be free from any fringe at the top.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000007.wav|NECK-Short, thick and muscular; strongly set on sloping shoulders.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000015_000000.wav|SPECIAL FAULTS: MUZZLE-Either under or over hung.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000003.wav|The name of Kildee is, in the breed, almost world famous, and it is interesting to note that in every line does he go back to the said Splinter two.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty eight|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000016_000007.wav|Carter Laddie.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000005.wav|They should also be sharp pointed, and the hair on them should not be long, but velvety, and they should not be cut.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000009.wav|BODY-Of moderate length, but not so long as a Skye's, and rather flat sided; well ribbed up, and exceedingly strong in hind quarters.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000015_000003.wav|It is also a fault if they are too heavily covered with hair.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000002_000000.wav|THE SCOTTISH TERRIER|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000017_000001.wav|He makes a most excellent house dog, is not too big, does not leave white hairs about all over the place, loves only his master and his master's household, and is, withal, a capable and reliable guard.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000009_000000.wav|To dive deeper into the antiquity of the Scottish Terrier is a thing which means that he who tries it must be prepared to meet all sorts of abuse, ridicule, and criticism.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000008_000001.wav|He was certainly longer in the back than we care for nowadays, and his head also was shorter, and his jaw more snipy than is now seen, but his portrait clearly shows he was a genuine Scottish Terrier, and there is no doubt that he, with his kennel mates, Tartan, Crofter, Syringa, Cavack, and Posey, conferred benefit upon the breed.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000016_000004.wav|Callum Dhu, mr McCandlish's Ems Cosmetic, mr Chapman's Heather Bob and Heather Charm, mr Kinnear's Seafield Rascal, mr Wood's Hyndman Chief, Messrs.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000010.wav|LEGS AND FEET-Both fore and hind legs should be short and very heavy in bone, the former being straight and well set on under the body, as the Scottish Terrier should not be out at elbows.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000004.wav|Rambler-called by the great authorities the first pillar of the stud book-was a son of a dog called Bon Accord, and it is to this latter dog and Roger Rough, and also the aforesaid Tartan and Splinter two. that nearly all of the best present day pedigrees go back.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000011.wav|The hocks should be bent, and the thighs very muscular, and the feet strong, small and thickly covered with short hair, the fore feet being larger than the hind ones.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000010_000000.wav|It is a most extraordinary fact that Scotland should have unto herself so many different varieties of the terrier.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000013_000000.wav|The Scottish Terrier Club was formed in the year eighteen eighty two.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000002.wav|mr Ludlow's first terrier was a bitch called Splinter two.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000014_000008.wav|CHEST-Broad in comparison to the size of the dog, and proportionately deep.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/14929/4243_14929_000012_000000.wav|Sir Paynton Pigott's kennel of the breed assumed quite large proportions, and was most successful, several times winning all the prizes offered in the variety at different shows.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000008_000004.wav|He chattered on.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000003_000001.wav|Somewhere within that city within a city, inside the enormous spread of the palace walls that were surrounded in their turn by the city of Peking, lay the goal they had come so far to seek, the Jewel Tree of the Princess of China. Now, like a general planning his campaign, Chris lay looking down at the high angular walls, thinking of how he would gain entry.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty eight|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000017_000001.wav|From within the main gate drifted out the sound, becoming fainter and fainter, of other trumpets sounding the order for the opening of other gates.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000025_000002.wav|As they were blown, the final gates were pushed aside.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000004_000001.wav|He had given much thought to what he considered would be the last dangerous section of the journey, and after listening to what his master said through the shell, was permitted to take amos on this stage of the voyage.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000008_000000.wav|Chris paid little attention to Amos's exclamations.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000025_000000.wav|The trumpeters atop the great outer gates were now differently dressed, and there were not two but a dozen lined along the deep palace walls.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000015_000003.wav|Sixteen men came into sight, eight on either side, pushing wide the gates.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000031_000001.wav|Made of silver and rock crystal, studded with diamonds and pearls, and hung about with sheer curtains of embroidered yellow silk, the palanquin belonged without doubt to a young girl of the royal house.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000002_000001.wav|Below them in the blistering noon lay the palace walls of the Lord of the Seven Seas, Descendant of the Sun and the Moon, Overlord of the Mountains and the Plains, Prince of all the Isles, Father of Plenty, and Brilliance Before Which All Cast Down Their Eyes, the Emperor of China.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000008_000003.wav|His mind was on the present moment and the present scene, forgetful of what lay ahead of them, a few hours away.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000026_000002.wav|Guards with curved swords and many thonged whips formed a double hedge between those in the procession and the bystanders.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000017_000000.wav|The waiting procession, the richly dressed courtiers and curtained palanquin, moved inside and the gates were slowly pulled close by lines of men dragging at ropes and chains to shut them.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000008_000002.wav|But amos was not waiting for an answer.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000030_000000.wav|"amos!" Chris breathed, "That color!|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000016_000004.wav|Those gates are made of bronze, nearly three feet thick!|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000004_000002.wav|It was reasoned if something happened to Chris, amos might be able to carry out their mission by himself.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000005_000001.wav|As amos had never seen a real camel, he thought the rope animal quite natural, and as remarkable a creature as a real one.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000008_000001.wav|Leaning on his elbows and looking at the scene below, his mind worked busily on these last vital problems.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000019_000000.wav|amos need not have been so concerned, for Chris had a good plan.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000011_000001.wav|They carry dignitaries in them."|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000011_000000.wav|"It's a palanquin, amos.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000007_000000.wav|"Chris!|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000021_000001.wav|Boys climbed upon one another's shoulders, teakwood stools were brought for the richer people to stand on, and along the street that led away to the right around the palace walls, Chris and amos could see embroidered silks hung from all the windows, and Chinese people in their best holiday clothes laughing excitedly.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000007_000005.wav|"Or the one with the peacock in green and purple.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000020_000001.wav|For a moment they both lay rubbing their eyes and peering out.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000022_000000.wav|"Never heard a sweeter note," amos said.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000007_000002.wav|All those pigtailed gentlemen dressed in embroidered coats.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000003_000000.wav|The two boys were uninterested in titles.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000007_000006.wav|Which would you sooner have?"|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000018_000001.wav|"Ten walls and ten gates-at the very least!|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000021_000002.wav|All were looking toward the gates, and at last, from far within, even more distantly than before, came the first sound of trumpets.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000020_000002.wav|Then they realized, by the growing crowd on either side of the palace gate and along the narrow street leading away from it, that someone of importance was about to come from the palace and parade through the streets of Peking.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000009_000001.wav|Why don't they look like us, Chris?" he asked.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000006_000001.wav|Flies droned over the dates and figs that the boys pulled from their pockets to eat.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000009_000002.wav|And then, "Who all's in the curtained stretcher they're carrying?"|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000016_000001.wav|Imagine the weight of those doors!" Chris murmured, and taking out his spyglass looked through it.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000002_000000.wav|Chris and amos lay belly down in a low clump of pine scrub at the top of a precipitous rocky pinnacle.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000020_000000.wav|amos slept too, and it must have been several hours later that the rising sound of a crowd talking and laughing with excitement penetrated their sleep and brought them to consciousness.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000007_000001.wav|Look at that procession going in the big gate!|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000026_000003.wav|Still others led leopards and black panthers on chains as an added protection to those they guarded.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000018_000002.wav|'Course we don't know-" He rolled his worried eyes toward Chris, "We don't know whether those folks got to the Emperor or not.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000006_000002.wav|amos wriggled with excitement as he pointed out details to Chris.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000028_000002.wav|After it came four lines of Chinese girls, fanning the air with peacock fans on long staves, fans of white egret feathers, and ostrich plumes dyed a yellow gold.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000026_000004.wav|Palanquin after palanquin passed by, but still the crowd seemed to be waiting for something.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000016_000002.wav|"Golly Moses!" he exclaimed.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000015_000000.wav|Gaily dressed trumpeters with dragon masks on the visors of their helmets raised long brass trumpets.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000030_000001.wav|Yellow is the royal color of China!"|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000032_000002.wav|Her slightly uptilted eyes were large and dark, her skin put a magnolia flower to shame, her mouth was lifted in a charming smile, and her long exquisite fingers held a spray of jeweled flowers.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000005_000000.wav|The boys had come to Peking on camel back, a camel made from the magic rope.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000016_000005.wav|And now they have the gates open, look at the depth of the walls.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000016_000000.wav|"Gee!|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000012_000000.wav|"Hate to be a dignitary in all this heat," amos said, unenviously. "What are they doing now?" he enquired, and both boys parted the prickly pine needles to look out and down.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000028_000000.wav|Then, as the silver trumpets continued their sweet lingering notes, a murmur arose from the crowd.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000016_000003.wav|"Take a look, amos.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000026_000001.wav|Elephants and camels, llamas and horses, all richly caparisoned in Eastern silks, passed along with their riders.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000013_000001.wav|Sentinels and guards came forward, walking on the broad gate top, and after talking with the members of the procession, turned to give an order.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000032_000001.wav|The thin silk was transparent enough under the strong focus of the glass, and behind it Chris could perceive, leaning delicately against silk cushions, a Chinese girl as beautiful as a dream.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000007_000004.wav|No, I'd sooner have the black satin one with the dragon in red and yellow!" He looked again more closely.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000028_000001.wav|Four lines of youths preceded a palanquin more finely decked than the rest, and the murmur rose.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000018_000003.wav|Likely he's in behind a couple more walls, just to be on the safe side." He searched his friend's face. "How are we going past all that many guards and trumpets, Chris?|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000005_000002.wav|Chris took care to make it or disentangle it out of Amos's sight, and so many were the strange and wonderful things to be seen, that amos had no time to concern himself over the reality of a camel.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000006_000000.wav|The arid countryside was blanched by the excessive heat.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000009_000000.wav|"I like their funny black hats and droopy mustaches.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000019_000001.wav|But just at that moment the heat overcame Chris.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000019_000002.wav|Putting his head down on his arms, he slept.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000031_000002.wav|As it appeared under the high arch of the outer gate, a roar of joy and greeting arose from the waiting crowd and with one accord every man bowed low, covering his eyes with the wide sleeve of his left arm.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187023/4243_187023_000013_000000.wav|The leader of the procession rapped three times on the great gate with a gold staff.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000004_000001.wav|"We have to wait until dusk anyway," he said, his voice abstracted, "and by the look of the light that won't be long."|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty nine|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000036_000001.wav|Oh."|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000026_000000.wav|amos brightened at once and broke into a broad grin.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000011_000000.wav|"Strike three."|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000016_000000.wav|"Now, if that isn't handy!" Chris exclaimed.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000040_000001.wav|He had important things to do.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000032_000002.wav|If someone comes after you, or if I don't come back.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000041_000000.wav|"Look, amos.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000006_000000.wav|Listening and watching, the boys gathered by the silver trumpet notes that the Princess and her retinue had re-entered the palace walls by another gate.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000017_000000.wav|"amos!" he said, shaking his friend's shoulder, "it's time for me to go.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000019_000000.wav|"Then listen to me," Chris told him earnestly, "and listen hard!" amos sat up more alertly.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000005_000002.wav|The green and scarlet of curved tiles spread under the boys' sight like a curling sea.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000002_000000.wav|"I'm supposed to take something from her," Chris said with his eyes sparkling, "but I know now what I'm going to give her back in return. I feel sort of sorry for that girl," he added thoughtfully.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000055_000002.wav|Somewhere, Chris had heard of this and remembered it, and now in the dusk that was nearly night, the eagle carried him silently over the city as he looked for what he wanted to find.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000010_000000.wav|Then, remembering the bag of magic "odds and ends," Chris put his hand inside it and drew out a small folded piece of silk and netting.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000014_000000.wav|At once the folded object began to unfold itself and to puff itself up like a little mushroom.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000007_000005.wav|She held a spray of jeweled flowers in her hand, maybe off the Tree, and I never saw anything like it.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000028_000000.wav|"The ledge near where we climbed up.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000038_000000.wav|"It's something that will hold you up in the air.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000046_000003.wav|Now don't lose that package.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000037_000000.wav|Chris stopped and stared at amos.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000047_000000.wav|amos clasped his hand, and then, rushing off, dashed back again.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000010_000002.wav|Chris looked closer and read: "Strike three."|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000037_000002.wav|How very confusing!|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000030_000000.wav|"Well," Chris took up again, "you put the package on the ledge and strike the ground three times-"|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000007_000000.wav|Thinking about it Chris mused: I wonder if that first palanquin held someone she's to marry?|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000049_000001.wav|amos turned back into the darkening pine knoll, and Chris pushed his way out to the narrow steep ledge, hanging high above the roofs of Peking.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000043_000000.wav|"And now, wish me luck, and stay here and wait for me.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000018_000000.wav|amos blinked a few times and said he thought so.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000041_000003.wav|I'll be back-I hope."|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000012_000001.wav|Going softly out of the pine grove to a narrow ledge of rock where he was out of sight, Chris put the object down and said: "Strike three."|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000033_000000.wav|amos raised his right hand looking very solemn.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000042_000000.wav|He turned away toward the ledge and clearing.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000046_000001.wav|"Better not.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000037_000001.wav|Perhaps balloons had not yet been invented.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000023_000005.wav|That's very important.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000013_000001.wav|The object remained an object.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000046_000000.wav|"No," he said after a long moment.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000004_000000.wav|Chris passed him some.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000013_000000.wav|Nothing happened.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000048_000000.wav|"Here, Chris.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000029_000000.wav|"Oh yes," amos said, looking wise.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000056_000001.wav|Pools of water reflected the first stars among their lilypads.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000048_000002.wav|Better not to eat strange food in this foreigny place.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000046_000004.wav|It's your escape.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000008_000000.wav|The evening was not long in coming, and Chris, who had been sitting cross legged under the little crooked pines, looked across with great concern to where amos lay on his back, dozing.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000023_000001.wav|"Well, I don't know how you could, myself.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000007_000001.wav|It could be.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000044_000000.wav|amos jumped up from the pine covered ground.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000003_000001.wav|"What all comes next, and have we some more of those dates?"|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000040_000000.wav|Chris was becoming exasperated.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000055_000001.wav|Wealthy Chinese and people of title and family owned beautiful houses set in terraced gardens surrounded by parks and ancient trees.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000050_000003.wav|Its wings were not wide enough, its back very insecure to look at.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000050_000004.wav|In short, Chris knew, it was a total failure.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000055_000000.wav|Peking at that time had many palaces.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000027_000003.wav|Where's that, on this tippy top of a hill?" amos asked, looking about.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000017_000001.wav|Are you awake?"|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000044_000002.wav|You might get hurt. There's no telling what could happen if you're all alone!"|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000009_000001.wav|What in the world do I do?|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000048_000003.wav|Good luck," he added.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000025_000001.wav|"I mean, do you understand that much?"|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000050_000001.wav|It was a complicated, fast maneuver.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000041_000001.wav|If you have to use it, you'll be in such a bad fix that being up in the air will seem like the very best thing that could happen.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000014_000001.wav|In a matter of seconds, Chris could see what it was becoming, and before he could wink ten times, a balloon with a basket hanging from it, quite big enough for two boys, hung swaying in the air.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000007_000004.wav|He paused, remembering.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000027_000000.wav|"Oh yes, of course.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000033_000001.wav|"I promise," he said. "Only," he added, looking bewildered and already somewhat forlorn, "what happens when I do hit three times?"|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000028_000001.wav|That's big enough," Chris reminded him.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000056_000002.wav|The shaded walks and lawns were deserted at that hour.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000014_000003.wav|The balloon gently collapsed and refolded itself, basket and all, into its original neat shape.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000027_000001.wav|Why didn't you say so in the first place?|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000023_000002.wav|But don't you cross any bridges until you come to them.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000007_000006.wav|Well, can't do a thing until dusk comes down.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000035_000000.wav|"A what?" amos stuck his head forward, trying hard to understand.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000052_000000.wav|But this second eagle seemed secure enough.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000048_000001.wav|Our fruits.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000014_000002.wav|Chris examined it with pleasure and then struck the ground three times again.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000038_000001.wav|There's a basket for you to sit in-"|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000010_000001.wav|On it a piece of paper, like a label, showed mr Wicker's fine script.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000007_000003.wav|I can't imagine a woman leaving a thing like that behind.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000023_000006.wav|You've got that?"|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000041_000002.wav|Stop running.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000013_000002.wav|Then, suddenly understanding, Chris struck the stone ledge three times.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000031_000000.wav|"Like this?" And before Chris could stop him, amos had struck the earth beside him twice before Chris seized his hand in mid-air.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000023_000003.wav|Look." He held out the folded balloon.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000050_000000.wav|Chris uncoiled the magic rope from around his waist, and standing as far out on the rock ledge as he dared, in order to have the greatest possible freedom of movement, he attempted for the first time to draw an eagle in the air with the rope.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000046_000002.wav|But I'd sure like to, amos.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000052_000001.wav|Chris pressed his hands on the wings spread out on either side, with a jolt they flapped, and the boy's strange conveyance moved somewhat unsteadily through the air.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000023_000004.wav|"If I'm not back by two sunups from now-I may have to hide all during tomorrow-if I'm not back by then, put this package out beyond the trees in the clearing.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000009_000000.wav|I can't take him along, Chris thought, and I can't leave him alone, if I should get caught.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000046_000005.wav|Wish me luck."|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000053_000000.wav|Chris, frightened but resolute, found that by touching the head of the bird in the direction he wanted to go, the magic eagle would turn, and after a few moments to test out his new method of travel, Chris coasted over the gaily tiled roofs as he hunted for something.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000027_000002.wav|You said, put the package out in the clear.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000043_000001.wav|Don't follow me now, or watch, or I might fail."|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000049_000000.wav|Chris stuffed the dried fruit in his pocket.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000024_000000.wav|"I haven't got anything but a few old dried up fruits," amos pouted. "That's all."|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000005_000001.wav|Too precipitous on which to build houses, it rose far above the surrounding roofs of Peking.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000051_000000.wav|He tried again, racing against the oncoming darkness, and this time he succeeded, although, when he pulled it close and straddled the body of the magic bird, his heart was in his throat that it might unfurl itself, become just a rope, and hurl him to his death far below.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4243/187024/4243_187024_000001_000000.wav|Chris put down his spyglass and the two boys, hidden on the piny knoll, watched the procession out of sight.|4243
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000068_000000.wav|"Now, you see, they hang me high, And the people passing by Stop to shake their fists and curse; So 'tis come from ill to worse."|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000037_000000.wav|THE IMMORTAL PART|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000128_000000.wav|THE ISLE OF PORTLAND|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000043_000000.wav|"Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton."|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000064_000000.wav|THE CARPENTER'S SON|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000116_000000.wav|THE DAY OF BATTLE|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000066_000000.wav|"Oh, at home had I but stayed 'Prenticed to my father's trade, Had I stuck to plane and adze, I had not been lost, my lads."|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000129_000000.wav|The star filled seas are smooth to night From France to England strown; Black towers above the Portland light The felon quarried stone.|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000056_000000.wav|Turn safe to rest, no dreams, no waking; And here, man, here's the wreath I've made: 'tis not a gift that's worth the taking, But wear it and it will not fade.|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000125_000000.wav|When I came last to Ludlow Amidst the moonlight pale, Two friends kept step beside me, Two honest lads and hale.|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000122_000000.wav|You smile upon your friend to day, To day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover.|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000070_000000.wav|"Comrades all, that stand and gaze, Walk henceforth in other ways; See my neck and save your own: Comrades all, leave ill alone."|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000025_000000.wav|And with kind looks and laughter And nought to say beside We two went on together, I and my happy guide.|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000071_000000.wav|"Make some day a decent end, Shrewder fellows than your friend. Fare you well, for ill fare I: Live, lads, and I will die."|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000048_000000.wav|Before this fire of sense decay, This smoke of thought blow clean away, And leave with ancient night alone The stedfast and enduring bone.|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000042_000000.wav|" 'tis long till eve and morn are gone: Slow the endless night comes on, And late to fulness grows the birth That shall last as long as earth."|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000031_000000.wav|And like the cloudy shadows Across the country blown We two face on for ever, But not we two alone.|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000003_000000.wav|thirty eight|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000039_000000.wav|"When shall this slough of sense be cast, This dust of thoughts be laid at last, The man of flesh and soul be slain And the man of bone remain?"|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000035_000000.wav|With lips that brim with laughter But never once respond, And feet that fly on feathers, And serpent circled wand.|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000097_000000.wav|THE TRUE LOVER|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7090/91801/7090_91801_000065_000000.wav|"Here the hangman stops his cart: Now the best of friends must part. Fare you well, for ill fare I: Live, lads, and I will die."|7090
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000013_000000.wav|As society was organized in the twentieth Century, I do not believe the system could have worked in anything but politics.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000014_000000.wav|But owing to the centuries of desperate suffering the people had endured at the hands of the Hans, there developed a spirit of self sacrifice and consideration for the common good that made the scheme applicable and efficient in all forms of human co-operation.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000027_000000.wav|"Just what evidence is there that anybody has been clearing information to the Hans?" I asked.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000016_000002.wav|The eternal cycle seems to be at work.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000022_000008.wav|Our reports indicate that the Eries' rockets bounced off harmlessly.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000010_000004.wav|Under these modern social and economic conditions, the kind of individual freedom to which I had been accustomed in the twentieth Century was impossible.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000010_000002.wav|But many of the gangs, I found, were badly organized, lacked strong hands in authority, and were rife with intrigue.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000019_000003.wav|They got one rep ray. The other was not strong enough to hold it up.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000028_000003.wav|Then, the Hans quite obviously have learned that we are picking up their electrophone waves, for they've gone back to their old, but extremely accurate, system of directional control.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000018_000002.wav|There was feverish activity in the ammunition plants, and the hunting of stray Han ships became an enthusiastic sport.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000028_000006.wav|But they've been beaming those paths so hard, it looks as though they even had information of this strategy.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000010_000001.wav|The Wyomings had a high morale, and had prospered under the rule of Big Boss Hart for many years.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000017_000000.wav|All this, however, is wandering afar from my story, which concerns our early battles against the Hans, and not our more modern problems of self control.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000022_000007.wav|As near as we can gather from their reports, their laboratories have developed a new alloy of great tensile strength and elasticity which nevertheless lets the rep rays through like a sieve.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000028_000008.wav|Finally, we've picked up three of their messages in which they discuss, with some nervousness, the existence of our 'mysterious' ultrophone."|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000022_000001.wav|One of them will become public property in a few days, I think.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000022_000004.wav|They're putting armor of great thickness in the hulls of their ships below the rep ray machines.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000032_000001.wav|The trick would be to locate the goods.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER seven|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000019_000005.wav|It seemed barbarous to me.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000019_000004.wav|It floated to earth, nose down, and since it was unarmed and unarmored, they had no difficulty in shooting it to pieces and massacring its crew and passengers.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000025_000002.wav|You know, a hundred and fifteen or twenty years ago there were certain of these people's ancestors who actually degraded themselves by mating with the Hans, sometimes even serving them as slaves, in the days before they brought all their service machinery to perfection.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000026_000002.wav|They wouldn't have the information to give the Hans, nor would they be capable of imparting it. They're absolute savages."|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000005_000000.wav|The synthetic fabrics plant had been partially wiped out, though the lower levels underground had not been reached by the dis ray.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000022_000000.wav|"Tony," he said, "There are two things I want to talk to you about.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000028_000001.wav|That first Han ship knew the location of our plants exactly.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000026_000001.wav|But I hardly suspect the Pineys. There is little intelligence among them.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000024_000002.wav|I'm thinking of developing a permanent field force, along the lines of the regular armies of the twentieth Century you told me about.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000009_000002.wav|We were assigned to location ten seventeen.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000009_000003.wav|And as might be expected, we had a great deal of banter over which one of us was Camp Boss.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000008_000000.wav|During this period, a sharp check was kept upon Han messages, for the phone plant had been one of the first to be put in operation, and when it became evident that the Hans did not intend any immediate reprisals, the entire membership of the community was summoned back, and normal life was resumed.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000020_000001.wav|The Sand snipers, practically invisible in their sand colored clothing, and half buried along the beaches, lay in wait for days, risking the play of dis beams along the route, and finally registering four hits within a week.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000023_000003.wav|I have been made Superboss of the Mid Atlantic Zone.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000019_000001.wav|A dozen Sacramentos had caught the hazy outlines of its rep rays approaching them, head on, in the twilight, like ghostly pillars reaching into the sky.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000031_000001.wav|It sounds like a bit of occasional barter, rather than an out and out alliance.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000010_000000.wav|I found myself a full fledged member of the Gang now, for I had elected to search no farther for a permanent alliance, much as I would have liked to familiarize myself with this twenty fifth Century life in other sections of the country.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000009_000001.wav|On our return, we had a camp of our own, of course.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000019_000000.wav|From the Pacific Coast came the report of a great transpacific liner of seventy five thousand tons "lift" being brought to earth from a position of invisibility above the clouds.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000018_000000.wav|Our victory over the seven Han ships had set the country ablaze.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000028_000000.wav|"Well," he replied, "first of all there was that raid upon us.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115687/8119_115687_000031_000000.wav|"Then it's quite clear," I ventured, "that whoever is 'clearing' us to them is doing it piecemeal.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000054_000000.wav|"At this point projectoscope r b three of the ship now out of focus control, dimly showed the landing party walking back toward the ship.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000009_000003.wav|Have a ruling against it."|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000018_000000.wav|"Not yet," I heard the Boss reply.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000017_000000.wav|"Any signs we have been observed?" I asked my men on the hillsides.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000022_000000.wav|Apparently reassured at the absence of any further sound, a man came around a sort of bulkhead-and I leaped.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000045_000001.wav|It was in the form of a public warning and news item, and read as follows:|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000026_000005.wav|I spoke.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000010_000005.wav|Shoot at the word, but not before.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000019_000005.wav|I'll take care of them.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000006_000002.wav|That seems to be all.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000033_000004.wav|But I fired pointblank with my hand gun, pressing the button as fast as I could and aiming at their feet to make sure my explosive rockets would make contact and do their work.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000026_000003.wav|It was time to act.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000019_000000.wav|"Good," I said quickly.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000036_000000.wav|Some eighth of a mile away I saw one of the ships crash to earth.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000034_000003.wav|They had been fairly bunched, and I got them all.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000024_000007.wav|A dial on it glowed and a faint hum came from within its shielding metallic case.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000010_000002.wav|Abandon the ring target.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000018_000002.wav|No beams have been broken out.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000053_000005.wav|Before the Base Captain could speak to him he left the room, nor was any response given to the attention signal the Captain flashed throughout the ship.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000018_000004.wav|Most of them have crawled into it out of sight."|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000019_000002.wav|Knocked out.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000016_000000.wav|We had made some noise within the ship.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000059_000003.wav|One of these, from a machine which happened to be set in telescopic focus, shows several views of great value in picturing the falls of the other ships, and all of the rear projectoscope records enable the reconstruction in detail of the pendulum and torsional movements of the ship, and its sag toward the earth.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000024_000008.wav|But I had no time to study it.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000032_000001.wav|For an instant they stood frozen with horror at whatever they saw.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000053_000003.wav|An instant later confused sounds reached the control room electrophone, such as might be made by a man falling heavily, and footsteps reapproached the control room, a figure entering and leaving the control room hurriedly.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000028_000000.wav|Again there was a chorus of assent.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000008_000000.wav|"How are they armed?" I asked.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000041_000001.wav|I leaped back into the compartment of the Han ship and knelt beside my Wilma.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000024_000004.wav|I gazed at the mass of controls.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000015_000001.wav|She was already crouched with her feet braced against a metal beam.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000018_000001.wav|"Ships overhead still standing.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000013_000000.wav|At last they were on the far side.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000025_000001.wav|I abandoned the idea and withdrew softly.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000019_000006.wav|Stand a bit longer, but be ready."|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000011_000003.wav|I'll follow.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000026_000000.wav|I ran back to the entrance compartment.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000033_000001.wav|It grazed my cheek.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER six|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000006_000000.wav|"They're coming out of the ship." I spoke quietly, with my hand over my mouth, for fear they might hear me.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000042_000000.wav|"Oh, my head!" she groaned, coming to as I lifted her gently in my arms and strode out in the open with her.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000021_000000.wav|I crouched at the far side of the compartment, motionless.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000032_000000.wav|Then startled, they turned their eyes upward.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000010_000004.wav|You, on the hilltops, all train on the repellors of the ships to the south.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000013_000001.wav|In a moment they would be picking their way into the wreck.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000019_000004.wav|We're not discovered yet.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000009_000000.wav|"Just knives," came the reply.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000006_000001.wav|"One-two-three-four, five-six-seven-eight-nine.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000036_000002.wav|But it never reached it.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000030_000000.wav|I think my "three" was a bit weak.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000025_000000.wav|Above all else, I was afraid that some automatic telephone apparatus existed in the room, through which I might be heard on the other ships. The risk of trying to jam the controls was too great.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000059_000000.wav|"As its control room was shattered, verbal report from its Action Captain was precluded.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000011_000000.wav|"Wilma, crawl over to your left where you can make a straight leap for the door in that ship.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000009_000002.wav|Afraid of accidents.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000033_000003.wav|The rest followed.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000015_000003.wav|I followed in a split second, more clumsily, but no less speedily, bruising my shoulder painfully, as I ricocheted from the edge of the opening and brought up sliding against the unconscious girl; for she evidently had hit her head against the partition within the ship into which she had crashed.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000033_000002.wav|Then a couple of them made a break for the doorway.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000020_000000.wav|I think my last words must have been heard by the man who was approaching, for he stopped suddenly.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000049_000003.wav|So unless further evidence actually is developed, or the Heaven Born orders to the contrary, the Military will hold to a defensive policy.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000014_000000.wav|"Wilma, leap!" I almost whispered the order.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000011_000006.wav|They can't see over this wreck."|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000015_000000.wav|The distance between Wilma's hiding place and the door in the side of the Han ship was not more than fifteen feet.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000041_000000.wav|His commands, sending out jumpers in pursuit of the descending ship, rang in my ears, but I paid no attention to them.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000015_000002.wav|Taking the lift of that wonderful inertron belt into her calculation, she dove headforemost, like a green projectile, through the door.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000026_000001.wav|Wilma still lay where she had slumped down.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000043_000001.wav|"All but one crashed and that one is drifting down toward the south; we've captured this one we're in intact.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000024_000006.wav|In the center of the compartment, on a massively braced universal joint mounting, was what I took for the repellor generator.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000027_000000.wav|"Are you boys all ready?" I asked, creeping to a position opposite the door and drawing my hand gun.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000038_000001.wav|The other, farther away, drifted down diagonally, its disintegrator ray playing viciously over the ground below it.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000053_000004.wav|The Base Captain now believes, and the stills of the photorecord support his belief, that this was not the crew member who had been left in the control room.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000011_000001.wav|These men are all walking around the wreck in a bunch.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8119/115686/8119_115686_000052_000006.wav|The party debarked, leaving one man on board in the control cabin.|8119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000015_000000.wav|Ah! but the Bill must pass first....|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000014_000000.wav|For herself she intended to go at least once a week to the little old church half a mile away from her home, to kneel there before the sunlit sanctuary, to meditate on sweet mysteries, to present herself to That which she was yearning to love, and to drink, it might be, new draughts of life and power.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000008_000002.wav|As she looked, too, she saw the President of the House coming down the three steps from his chair, for Another would need it in a few moments.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000017_000002.wav|And through swimming eyes she saw the long ridges of heads rise beneath her, and through drumming ears heard the murmur of many feet. All faces looked this way; and she watched them as a mirror to see the reflected light of His presence.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000015_000001.wav|She clenched her hands on the rail, and stared steadily before her on the ranks of heads, the open gangways, the great mace on the table, and heard, above the murmur of the crowd outside and the dying whispers within, her own heart beat.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000017_000000.wav|Ah! there was silence now outside; the soft roar had died.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000016_000002.wav|But she would hear His voice-that must be joy enough for her....|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000006_000000.wav|Mabel, seated in the gallery that evening behind the President's chair, had already glanced at her watch half a dozen times in the last hour, hoping each time that twenty one o'clock was nearer than she feared.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000010_000001.wav|A month ago he had assented to a similar Bill in Germany, and had delivered a speech on the same subject at Turin.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000010_000006.wav|It might be three words or twenty thousand.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000013_000004.wav|Ah! these Christians had understood human nature, she had told herself a hundred times: it was true that they had degraded it, darkened light, poisoned thought, misinterpreted instinct; but they had understood that man must worship --must worship or sink.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000011_000002.wav|These penalties were not vindictive: on a first offence a week's detention only was to be given; on the second, one month's imprisonment; on the third, one year's; and on the fourth, perpetual imprisonment until the criminal yielded.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000006_000002.wav|His supreme punctuality was famous all over the continent.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000010_000002.wav|To morrow he was to be in Spain.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000013_000000.wav|For herself the new worship was a crowning sign of the triumph of Humanity.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000013_000001.wav|Her heart had yearned for some such thing as this-some public corporate profession of what all now believed.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000010_000007.wav|There were a few clauses in the Bill-notably those bearing on the point as to when the new worship was to be made compulsory on all subjects over the age of seven-it might be he would object and veto these.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000010_000004.wav|A rumour had spread that his volor had been seen passing over Lake Como, and had been instantly contradicted.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000011_000000.wav|Mabel herself was inclined to these clauses.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000010_000005.wav|No one knew either what he would say to night.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000018_000000.wav|"Englishmen, I assent to the Bill of Worship."|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000012_000001.wav|These four things were facts-they were the manifestations of what she called the Spirit of the World-and if others called that Power God, yet surely these ought to be considered as His functions.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000013_000002.wav|She had so resented the dulness of folk who were content with action and never considered its springs.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000017_000001.wav|He had come then.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000007_000001.wav|Once more she lifted her wrist, saw that it wanted five minutes of the hour; then she leaned forward from her corner and stared down into the House.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000012_000002.wav|Where then was the difficulty?|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000007_000000.wav|A sharp bell note impinged from beneath, and in a moment the drawling voice of the speaker stopped.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000006_000001.wav|She knew well enough by now that the President of Europe would not be half a minute either before or after his time.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000006_000003.wav|He had said Twenty One, so it was to be twenty one.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000016_000001.wav|He would come in from beneath through the door that none but He might use, straight into the seat beneath the canopy.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000008_000001.wav|All down the long brown seats members were shifting and arranging themselves more decorously, uncrossing their legs, slipping their hats beneath the leather fringes.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/43321/770_43321_000009_000000.wav|The house was full from end to end; a late comer ran in from the twilight of the south door and looked distractedly about him in the full light before he saw his vacant place.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000007.wav|He had been a riotous, roystering puppy, mad with the joy of life, when she was already a tottering, hobbling dame; now he was just a blind, breathing carcase, nothing more, and she still worked with frail energy, still swept and baked and washed, fetched and carried.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000013_000000.wav|She felt the meanness of the wish come over her with a qualm of self reproach one day when she came into the kitchen and found an unaccustomed state of things in that usually busy quarter.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000001.wav|"Martha Crale" was the name written on that yellow page.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000010_000002.wav|But she was not mistress of the kitchen.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000014.wav|And they always quarrelled and shouted as to who was right and who was wrong.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000016_000000.wav|The young woman's eyes clouded with pity.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000012.wav|There had been a Palmerston, that had been a name down Tiverton way; Tiverton was not a far journey as the crow flies, but to Martha it was almost a foreign country.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000024_000000.wav|"'tis young Mister Ladbruk," she shrilled back; "they've just a carried his body in.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000013_000002.wav|A basket of corn was on the floor by her side, and out in the yard the poultry were beginning to clamour a protest of overdue feeding time.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000026_000000.wav|The farm was a family property, and passed to the rabbit shooting cousin as the next of kin.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000009_000005.wav|The musty farm parlour, looking out on to a prim, cheerless garden imprisoned within high, blank walls, was not a room that lent itself readily either to comfort or decoration.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000005.wav|She was so old and so much a part of the place, it was difficult to think of her exactly as a living thing.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000009_000003.wav|The window nook made almost a little room in itself, quite the pleasantest room in the farm as far as situation and capabilities went.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000021_000001.wav|Emma turned to catch the meaning of his remark.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000020_000000.wav|A grin spread over his good-natured features.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000026_000004.wav|Into her mind came the thought that for months, perhaps for years, long after she had been utterly forgotten, a white, unheeding face would be seen peering out through those latticed panes, and a weak muttering voice would be heard quavering up and down those flagged passages.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000021_000000.wav|"It don't look like it," he said, nodding towards the yard.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000016_000003.wav|Her husband, she knew, was down at a tree felling some little distance off, but she might find some other intelligent soul who knew the old woman better than she did.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000017_000001.wav|Jim was not the sort of person to whom one had to break news gently.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000025_000000.wav|And she turned to fling a handful of barley at a belated group of guinea fowl that came racing toward her.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000010_000000.wav|"When we are more settled I shall work wonders in the way of making the kitchen habitable," said the young woman to her occasional visitors. There was an unspoken wish in those words, a wish which was unconfessed as well as unspoken.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000006.wav|Old Shep, the white nozzled, stiff limbed collie, waiting for his time to die, seemed almost more human than the withered, dried up old woman.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000021_000005.wav|She was still harping on the theme of death coming to the farm.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000021_000002.wav|Old Martha stood in the middle of a mob of poultry scattering handfuls of grain around her.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000012_000005.wav|It would have been an unworthy meanness to have wished to see the span of that brave old life shortened by a few paltry months, but as the days sped by Emma was conscious that the wish was there, disowned though it might be, lurking at the back of her mind.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000015.wav|The one they quarrelled about most was a fine old gentleman with an angry face—she had seen his picture on the walls. She had seen it on the floor too, with a rotten apple squashed over it, for the farm had changed its politics from time to time.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000017.wav|Such was her sweeping verdict, given with all a peasant's distrust of the outside world.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000016.wav|Martha had never been on one side or the other; none of "they" had ever done the farm a stroke of good.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000009.wav|And what memories she must have of human generations that had passed away in her time.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000010_000001.wav|Emma Ladbruk was the mistress of the farm; jointly with her husband she might have her say, and to a certain extent her way, in ordering its affairs.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000026_000005.wav|She made her way to a narrow barred casement that opened into the farm larder.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000017_000000.wav|"I'm afraid old Martha is dying," said Emma.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000012_000004.wav|Above all, the coveted window corner, that was to be a dainty, cheerful oasis in the gaunt old kitchen, stood now choked and lumbered with a litter of odds and ends that Emma, for all her nominal authority, would not have dared or cared to displace; over them seemed to be spun the protection of something that was like a human cobweb. Decidedly Martha was in the way.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000023_000000.wav|"Who's dead, then, old Mother?" called out the young man.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000014_000000.wav|"Is anything the matter, Martha?" asked the young woman.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000016_000006.wav|Then, as she retraced her steps towards the kitchen, she came suddenly on her cousin, young mr Jim, as every one called him, who divided his time between amateur horse dealing, rabbit shooting, and flirting with the farm maids.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000010.wav|It was difficult for anyone, let alone a stranger like Emma, to get her to talk of the days that had been; her shrill, quavering speech was of doors that had been left unfastened, pails that had got mislaid, calves whose feeding time was overdue, and the various little faults and lapses that chequer a farmhouse routine.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000000.wav|On one of the shelves of an old dresser, in company with chipped sauce boats, pewter jugs, cheese graters, and paid bills, rested a worn and ragged Bible, on whose front page was the record, in faded ink, of a baptism dated ninety four years ago.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000012_000000.wav|When the half frightened curiosity had somewhat faded away, Emma Ladbruk was uncomfortably conscious of another feeling towards the old woman. She was a quaint old tradition, lingering about the place, she was part and parcel of the farm itself, she was something at once pathetic and picturesque—but she was dreadfully in the way.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000015_000006.wav|I knew it were a coming."|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000021_000004.wav|But she threw the grain deftly amid the wilderness of beaks, and her quavering voice carried as far as the two people who were watching her.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000016_000004.wav|The farm, she soon found out, had that faculty common to farmyards of swallowing up and losing its human population.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000026_000003.wav|From where she stood she could see an angle of the long latticed window that was to have been cosy with curtains and gay with bowls of flowers.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000018_000000.wav|"Nonsense," he said; "Martha means to live to a hundred.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000004.wav|Emma Ladbruk, of whose coming she took as little notice as she would of a bee wandering in at a window on a summer's day, used at first to watch her with a kind of frightened curiosity.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000012_000001.wav|Emma had come to the farm full of plans for little reforms and improvements, in part the result of training in the newest ways and methods, in part the outcome of her own ideas and fancies.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000008.wav|If there were something in these wise old dogs that did not perish utterly with death, Emma used to think to herself, what generations of ghost dogs there must be out on those hills, that Martha had reared and fed and tended and spoken a last good bye word to in that old kitchen.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000009_000004.wav|Young mrs Ladbruk, whose husband had just come into the farm by way of inheritance, cast covetous eyes on this snug corner, and her fingers itched to make it bright and cosy with chintz curtains and bowls of flowers, and a shelf or two of old china.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000019_000000.wav|"She may be actually dying at this moment, or it may just be the beginning of the break-up," persisted Emma, with a feeling of contempt for the slowness and dulness of the young man.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000018_000001.wav|She told me so, and she'll do it."|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000016_000005.wav|The poultry followed her in interested fashion, and swine grunted interrogations at her from behind the bars of their styes, but barnyard and rickyard, orchard and stables and dairy, gave no reward to her search.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000015_000001.wav|I knew it.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000011_000003.wav|For longer than anyone could remember she had pattered to and fro between oven and wash house and dairy, and out to chicken run and garden, grumbling and muttering and scolding, but working unceasingly.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000016_000001.wav|The old thing sitting there so white and shrunken had once been a merry, noisy child, playing about in lanes and hay lofts and farmhouse garrets; that had been eighty odd years ago, and now she was just a frail old body cowering under the approaching chill of the death that was coming at last to take her.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000026_000002.wav|On a cold grey morning she stood waiting, with her boxes already stowed in the farm cart, till the last of the market produce should be ready, for the train she was to catch was of less importance than the chickens and butter and eggs that were to be offered for sale.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/134592/770_134592_000013_000001.wav|Old Martha was not working.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000007.wav|The little glass knob insulators made seductive targets for ignorant sportsmen. Attempts to insulate the line wire were limited to coating it with tar or smearing it with wax for the benefit of all the bees in the neighborhood.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000008.wav|The farthest western reach of the telegraph lines in eighteen forty seven was Pittsburg, with three ply iron wire mounted on square glass insulators with a little wooden pentroof for protection.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000007_000001.wav|Aside from the personal interest that attaches to the picturesque career, so typically American, there is a broader aspect in which the work of the "Franklin of the Nineteenth Century" touches the welfare and progress of the race.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000005.wav|The poles were two hundred feet apart and could barely hold up a wash line.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000005_000000.wav|THE year eighteen forty seven marked a period of great territorial acquisition by the American people, with incalculable additions to their actual and potential wealth.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000001.wav|Almost all the electrical arts now employed made their beginnings in the next twenty five years, and while the more extensive of them depend to day on the dynamo for electrical energy, some of the most important still remain in loyal allegiance to the older source.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000003.wav|Various analogies next pointed to the use of heat, and the thermoelectric cell emerged, embodying the application of flame to the junction of two different metals.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000012.wav|Within a score of years telegraph wires covered the whole occupied country with a network, and the first great electrical industry was a pronounced success, yielding to its pioneers the first great harvest of electrical fortunes.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000008_000011.wav|The gigantic expansion of the iron and steel industry was foreshadowed in the change from wood to coal in the smelting furnaces. The sewing machine had brought with it, like the friction match, one of the most profound influences in modifying domestic life, and making it different from that of all preceding time.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000005_000001.wav|By the rational compromise with England in the dispute over the Oregon region, President Polk had secured during eighteen forty six, for undisturbed settlement, three hundred thousand square miles of forest, fertile land, and fisheries, including the whole fair Columbia Valley. Our active "policy of the Pacific" dated from that hour.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000009_000001.wav|But it is when we turn to electricity that the rich virgin condition of an illimitable new kingdom of discovery is seen.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000010_000003.wav|For the first time man had command of a steady supply of electricity without toil or effort.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000008.wav|To all the coal fields and all the waterfalls Faraday had directly hitched the wheels of industry.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000010.wav|Boats were propelled by it, cars were hauled, and even papers printed.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000011.wav|Then came the great outburst of activity.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000007.wav|"Hitch your wagon to a star," said Emerson.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000010_000006.wav|No art or trade could be founded on it; no diminution of daily work or increase of daily comfort could be secured with it.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000000.wav|At the time Edison was born, in eighteen forty seven, telegraphy, upon which he was to leave so indelible an imprint, had barely struggled into acceptance by the public.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000010_000007.wav|But the little battery with its metal plates in a weak solution proved a perennial reservoir of electrical energy, safe and controllable, from which supplies could be drawn at will.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000011.wav|Electroplating became an art, and telegraphy sprang into active being on both sides of the Atlantic.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000007_000000.wav|Into such times Thomas Alva Edison was born, and his relations to them and to the events of the past sixty years are the subject of this narrative.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000009.wav|In that office, where Andrew Carnegie was a messenger boy, the magnets in use to receive the signals sent with the aid of powerful nitric acid batteries weighed as much as seventy five pounds apiece.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000010_000008.wav|That which was wild had become domesticated; regular crops took the place of haphazard gleanings from brake or prairie; the possibility of electrical starvation was forever left behind.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000008_000010.wav|The application of machinery in the harvest field had begun with the embryonic reaper, while both the bicycle and the automobile were heralded in primitive prototypes.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000005_000002.wav|With swift and clinching succession came the melodramatic Mexican War, and February, eighteen forty eight, saw another vast territory south of Oregon and west of the Rocky Mountains added by treaty to the United States.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000006_000000.wav|Equally momentous were the times in Europe, where the attempt to secure opportunities of expansion as well as larger liberty for the individual took quite different form.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000006_000006.wav|In England the fierce fervor of the Chartist movement, with its violent rhetoric as to the rights of man, was sobering down and passing pervasively into numerous practical schemes for social and political amelioration, constituting in their entirety a most profound change throughout every part of the national life.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000006_000005.wav|In eighteen forty seven, too, Russia began her tremendous march eastward into Central Asia, just as France was solidifying her first gains on the littoral of northern Africa.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000006_000001.wav|The old absolutist system of government was fast breaking up, and ancient thrones were tottering.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000006_000004.wav|But the retrospect indicates that many reforms and political changes were accomplished, although the process involved the exile of not a few ardent spirits to America, to become leading statesmen, inventors, journalists, and financiers.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000008_000000.wav|Viewed from the standpoint of inventive progress, the first half of the nineteenth century had passed very profitably when Edison appeared-every year marked by some notable achievement in the arts and sciences, with promise of its early and abundant fruition in commerce and industry.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000004_000000.wav|THE AGE OF ELECTRICITY|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000008_000006.wav|Chloroform, nitrous oxide gas, and ether had been placed at the service of the physician in saving life, and the revolver, guncotton, and nitroglycerine added to the agencies for slaughter.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000009.wav|Not only was it now possible to convert mechanical energy into electricity cheaply and in illimitable quantities, but electricity at once showed its ubiquitous availability as a motive power.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000001.wav|In England, Wheatstone and Cooke had introduced a ponderous magnetic needle telegraph.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000004.wav|Everything was crude and primitive.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000009_000006.wav|But these few appliances made up the meagre kit of tools with which the nineteenth century entered upon its task of acquiring the arts and conveniences now such an intimate part of "human nature's daily food" that the average American to day pays more for his electrical service than he does for bread.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000011_000002.wav|The battery itself soon underwent modifications, and new types were evolved-the storage, the double fluid, and the dry.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000005_000003.wav|Thus in about eighteen months there had been pieced into the national domain for quick development and exploitation a region as large as the entire Union of Thirteen States at the close of the War of Independence.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000010_000004.wav|The useful results obtainable previously from the current of a frictional machine were not much greater than those to be derived from the flight of a rocket.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000008_000005.wav|The first photographs had been taken.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000006.wav|The slim, bare, copper wire snapped on the least provocation, and the circuit was "down" for thirty six days in the first six months.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/770/131704/770_131704_000012_000010.wav|But the business was fortunately small at the outset, until the new device, patronized chiefly by lottery men, had proved its utility.|770
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000003_000001.wav|He chased Fidilini over half the mountainside while the others were resting, and he carried the chafing dish for a couple of miles because it refused to adjust itself nicely to the pack.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000004_000007.wav|As they were about to start on, Constance spied high above their heads, where the stream burst from the rocks, a clump of starry white blossoms.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000002_000000.wav|After some delay-owing to Tony's inability to balance the chafing dish on Cristoforo Colombo's back-they filed from the gateway, an imposing cavalcade.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000006_000003.wav|It was very gracefully and easily done, and a burst of applause greeted his descent.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000004_000001.wav|It was owing to Beppo's knowledge of the mountain paths rather than Tony's which had guided them to this agreeable spot; though no one in the party except Constance appeared to have noted the fact.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000006_000004.wav|He divided his flowers into two equal parts, and sweeping off his hat, presented them with a bow, not to Constance, but to the officers, who somewhat sulkily passed them on.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000011_000004.wav|The winding path was both stony and steep, and, from a donkey's standpoint, thoroughly objectionable.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000003_000002.wav|The morning ended by his being left behind with a balking donkey, while the others completed the last ascent that led to their halting place for lunch.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000004_000006.wav|But his moment was coming.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000005_000001.wav|'Oh, I must have it-it's the first I ever saw growing; I hadn't supposed we were high enough.' She glanced at the officers.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000006_000005.wav|She received them with a smile; for an instant her eyes met Tony's, and he fell back, rewarded.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000011_000006.wav|Whether Constance pulled the wrong rein, or whether, as she affirmed, it was merely his natural badness, in any case, he suddenly veered from the path and took a cross cut down the rocky slope below them.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000009_000000.wav|The two said nothing, but they looked at each other and shrugged.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000012_000002.wav|Leaping forward, he dropped over the precipice, a fall of ten feet, to a narrow ledge below.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000016_000003.wav|Tony rejoined them somewhat short of breath, but leading a humbled Fidilini.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000008_000002.wav|He has been in the United States and speaks English, which is a great convenience.'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000012_000005.wav|It was not a dignified rescue, but at least it was effective; Fidilini came to a halt.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112012/7945_112012_000016_000001.wav|Captain Coroloni and her father helped Constance to her feet while Lieutenant di Ferara recovered a side comb and the white sun hat.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000003_000002.wav|There were four persons present, though there should have been five.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000056_000000.wav|'And who is Carlo?'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000030_000000.wav|'He's perfect!' she cried.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000046_000000.wav|'I suppose not,' she agreed, 'though I should have included that in my order.'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000028_000000.wav|He wore a loose white shirt-immaculately white-with a red silk handkerchief knotted about his throat, brown corduroy knee breeches, and a red cotton sash with the hilt of a knife conspicuously protruding.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000005_000003.wav|Her father had finished his egg and hers too, before she appeared, as nonchalant and smiling as if she were out the earliest of all.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000041_000003.wav|The one insult which she could not brook was for an Italian to fail to understand her when she talked Italian.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000041_000002.wav|Constance looked after him, puzzled and suspicious.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000038_000000.wav|'What is your name?'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000028_000002.wav|His skin was dark-not too dark-just a good healthy out door tan: his brows level and heavy, his gaze candour itself.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000016_000001.wav|There was something at once guilty and triumphant about his expression.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000049_000003.wav|Zat donk', signorina, he go all day and never one little stumble.'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000059_000000.wav|'Oh, indeed!|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000003_000003.wav|The two guests were an Englishman and his wife, whom the chances of travel had brought over night to Valedolmo.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000009_000000.wav|'You can't make us believe that,' said her father.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000013_000001.wav|There are two of him.'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000009_000001.wav|'The reason is, that Lieutenant di Ferara and Captain Coroloni are going with us to day, and that this hat is more becoming than the other.'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000053_000000.wav|Elizabetta appeared in the doorway with two rush covered flasks, and Tony hurried forward to receive them.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000014_000001.wav|I only ordered one.'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000040_000000.wav|'I don't care if you do speak English; I prefer Italian-what is your name?' She repeated the question in Italian.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000019_000000.wav|'Really?|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000063_000000.wav|'But yes, of the best!'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000016_000000.wav|Constance eyed her father sharply.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000032_000000.wav|'My dear,' her father warned, 'he understands English.'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000045_000001.wav|The man is scarcely to blame for his name.'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000069_000000.wav|'How long?'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000020_000000.wav|'I don't know about his Italian, but he talks uncommonly good English.'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000025_000001.wav|It's too bad of Gustavo!|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000064_000001.wav|He divined suspicion behind these persistent inquiries, and he knew that in case Tony were dismissed, his own munificent pay would stop.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000041_000005.wav|She suppressed it quickly and turned away.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000070_000000.wav|Beppo considered.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000008_000000.wav|'I am sorry not to wear my own Alpine hat, Aunt Hazel; I look so deliciously German in it, but I simply can't afford to burn all the skin off my nose.'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000025_000000.wav|'If there's anything I detest, it's an Americanized Italian-and here in Valedolmo of all places, where you have a right to demand something unique and romantic and picturesque and real.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000029_000000.wav|Constance clasped her hands in an ecstasy of admiration.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000062_000000.wav|'Is Tony a good guide?'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000075_000001.wav|She drew from her pocket a handful of coppers and dropped them into his grimy little palm.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000021_000000.wav|'English!' There was reproach, disgust, disillusionment, in her tone. 'Not really, father?'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000047_000000.wav|Further discussion was precluded by the appearance of a station carriage which turned in at the gate and stopped before them.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000023_000000.wav|'How simply horrible!'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000053_000003.wav|She stifled a laugh of prophetic triumph and sauntered over to Beppo.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000057_000000.wav|'He is the guide who owns them.'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000004_000003.wav|This morning she was very business like in her short skirt, belted jacket, and green felt Alpine hat with a feather in the side.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000027_000001.wav|Constance patted their shaggy mouse coloured noses, made the acquaintance of the boy, whose name was Beppo, and looked about for the driver proper.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000024_000000.wav|'Very convenient, I should say.'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000072_000000.wav|'Really!|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000025_000002.wav|I shall never place any faith in his judgment again.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000043_000001.wav|'His name is Tony,' he added-even he had understood that much Italian.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000047_000004.wav|He had not counted upon this addition to the party, and was as scowling as she could have wished.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000012_000000.wav|'And the driver?'|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000061_000000.wav|He put forth this preposterous statement with a glance as grave and innocent as that of a little cherub.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER four|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000043_000000.wav|'The poor fellow is embarrassed,' apologized her father.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7945/112011/7945_112011_000003_000000.wav|The table was set on the terrace; breakfast was served and the company was gathered.|7945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000013_000004.wav|Nothing could ever make you feel. You are a doll!"|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000061_000000.wav|"That you can't learn things quickly.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000003_000004.wav|If I were you, I should try.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000008_000000.wav|"I shall die presently!" she said at first.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000027_000001.wav|A sudden plan formed itself in her sharp mind.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000023_000000.wav|"I hate it!" replied Miss Ermengarde saint John.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000008.wav|Do you hear!"|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000051_000004.wav|One thing she had decided upon was, that a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to any one.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000031_000000.wav|Ermengarde put her handkerchief in her pocket.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000066_000000.wav|"Well," said Sara, with courage and determination, "I'll tell it to you over again."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000062_000000.wav|"Perhaps," she said, "to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000017_000008.wav|Sara had once actually found her crying over a big package of them.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000005.wav|They know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000025_000000.wav|Ermengarde wiped her eyes to look at such a prodigy.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000030_000001.wav|"I like to read, and I always remember. I'll take care of the books, too; they will look just as new as they do now, when I give them back to you."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000054_000000.wav|"Yes, I do," said Sara.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000051_000000.wav|Sara recollected herself.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000065_000000.wav|"Well, I don't remember all of it," admitted Ermengarde.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000046_000004.wav|You can make a story out of anything."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000001_000004.wav|I think them over afterward."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000051_000001.wav|She knew she was sometimes rather impolite in the candor of her remarks, and she did not want to be impolite to a girl who was not unkind-only stupid.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000048_000000.wav|Sara stared at her a minute reflectively.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000063_000000.wav|She stopped again and examined her companion's countenance.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000015_000005.wav|Remorse overtook her.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000026_000000.wav|"Oh, gracious!" she exclaimed.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000005.wav|Some men laughed at me because my old shoes made me slip down in the mud.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000052_000000.wav|"Emily is-a person-I know," she replied.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000049_000001.wav|"I suppose you couldn't.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000014_000000.wav|Emily lay upon the floor, with her legs ignominiously doubled up over her head, and a new flat place on the end of her nose; but she was still calm, even dignified.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000001_000003.wav|I like to know about people.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000053_000000.wav|"Do you like her?" asked Ermengarde.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000002.wav|When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word-just to look at them and think.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000059_000000.wav|She pulled herself up quickly.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000032_000000.wav|"If you'll do that," she said, "and if you'll make me remember, I'll give you-I'll give you some money."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000039_000001.wav|Why can't you tell him I read them and then told you about them?"|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000021_000000.wav|"My papa has sent me some more books," answered Ermengarde woefully, "and he expects me to read them."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000003_000005.wav|Why don't you try?"|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000039_000000.wav|"I won't do it," she said rather slowly, "if you are going to tell him lies about it-I don't like lies.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000042_000000.wav|"He would like it better if I read them myself," replied Ermengarde.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000061_000002.wav|If I can, why, I can-that's all." She paused a minute, looking at the plump face before her, and then, rather slowly, one of her wise, old-fashioned thoughts came to her.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000008.wav|I scarcely ever do.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000020_000000.wav|"What is the matter with you?" she asked.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000000_000006.wav|The fact was that, as a rule, Miss Minchin's pupils were rather dull, matter of fact young people, accustomed to being rich and comfortable; and Sara, with her elfish cleverness, her desolate life, and her odd habit of fixing her eyes upon them and staring them out of countenance, was too much for them.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000051_000003.wav|In the hours she spent alone, she used to argue out a great many curious questions with herself.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000003_000003.wav|It ought to make you try, to know you are the only thing I have.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000015_000000.wav|Sara hid her face on her arms and sobbed.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000016_000000.wav|"You can't help being a doll," she said, with a resigned sigh, "any more than those girls downstairs can help not having any sense.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000046_000000.wav|"It is a story," Sara would answer.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000051_000006.wav|So she would be as polite as she could to people who in the least deserved politeness.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000003.wav|I've walked a thousand miles to day, and they have done nothing but scold me from morning until night.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000056_000000.wav|"Do you like me?" said Ermengarde, finally, at the end of her scrutiny.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000000.wav|"As to answering," she used to say, "I don't answer very often.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000007.wav|It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000002.wav|I'm cold, I'm wet, I'm starving to death.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000022_000000.wav|"Don't you like reading?" said Sara.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000061_000001.wav|If you can't, you can't.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000027_000000.wav|Sara returned the look with interest.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000062_000003.wav|Lots of clever people have done harm and been wicked.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000000.wav|"I can't bear this!" said the poor child, trembling.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000017_000004.wav|She liked romances and history and poetry; she would read anything.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000029_000000.wav|"Oh, goodness!" said Ermengarde.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000064_000000.wav|"Do you remember about him?" she demanded.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000009_000000.wav|Emily stared.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000006.wav|Poor little Sara! everything was "pretend" with her.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000016_000002.wav|Perhaps you do your sawdust best."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000059_000001.wav|She had been going to say, "that you are stupid."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000001_000002.wav|"That's what I look at them for.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000013_000000.wav|"Nothing but a doll doll doll!|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000004.wav|There were rat holes in the garret, and Sara detested rats, and was always glad Emily was with her when she heard their hateful squeak and rush and scratching.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000062_000004.wav|Look at Robespierre-"|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000000_000002.wav|She was a little drudge and outcast; she was given her lessons at odd times and expected to learn without being taught; she was sent on errands by Miss Minchin, Miss Amelia and the cook.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000013_000001.wav|You care for nothing.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000008.wav|She imagined and pretended things until she almost believed them, and she would scarcely have been surprised at any remarkable thing that could have happened.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000069_000002.wav|On a cold night, when she had not had enough to eat, she would draw the red footstool up before the empty grate, and say in the most intense voice:|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000067_000001.wav|But afterward she preserved lively recollections of the character of Robespierre, and did not even forget Marie Antoinette and the Princess de Lamballe.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000000_000005.wav|She had never been intimate with the other pupils, and soon she became so shabby that, taking her queer clothes together with her queer little ways, they began to look upon her as a being of another world than their own.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000040_000000.wav|"But he wants me to read them," said Ermengarde.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000011.wav|She keeps it all in her heart."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000036_000000.wav|"What are you going to tell your father?" she asked.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000006.wav|There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in-that's stronger.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000050_000000.wav|"Who is Emily?"|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000055_000006.wav|One could not help staring at her and feeling interested, particularly one to whom the simplest lesson was a trouble and a woe.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000001.wav|"I know I shall die.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000067_000000.wav|And she plunged once more into the gory records of the French Revolution, and told such stories of it, and made such vivid pictures of its horrors, that Miss saint John was afraid to go to bed afterward, and hid her head under the blankets when she did go, and shivered until she fell asleep.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000070_000000.wav|"Suppose there was a grate, wide steel grate here, and a great glowing fire-a glowing fire-with beds of red hot coal and lots of little dancing, flickering flames.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000024_000000.wav|"I'd like it better than anything else in the world," said Sara.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000028_000002.wav|I know I can.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000058_000001.wav|It's not your fault that-"|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000007.wav|She had a strong imagination; there was almost more imagination than there was Sara, and her whole forlorn, uncared for child life was made up of imaginings.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000028_000003.wav|The A B C children always remember what I tell them."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000001.wav|I never answer when I can help it.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000002_000003.wav|Sara used to talk to her at night.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000044_000000.wav|And though this was not a flattering way of stating the case, Ermengarde was obliged to admit it was true, and, after a little more argument, gave in.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000044_000001.wav|And so she used afterward always to hand over her books to Sara, and Sara would carry them to her garret and devour them; and after she had read each volume, she would return it and tell Ermengarde about it in a way of her own.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000015_000002.wav|But, as I have already intimated, Sara was not in the habit of crying.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000033_000000.wav|"I don't want your money," said Sara.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000046_000001.wav|"They are all stories.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000028_000000.wav|"Look here!" she said.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000058_000000.wav|"I like you because you are not ill natured-I like you for letting me read your books-I like you because you don't make spiteful fun of me for what I can't help.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000069_000001.wav|One of her chief entertainments was to sit in her garret, or walk about it, and "suppose" things.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000046_000002.wav|Everything is a story-everything in this world.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000015_000004.wav|Sara bent and picked her up.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000009.wav|Perhaps Emily is more like me than I am like myself.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000003.wav|Miss Minchin turns pale with rage when I do it.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000017_000006.wav|There was also a fat, dull pupil, whose name was Ermengarde saint John, who was one of her resources.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000064_000001.wav|"I believe you've forgotten."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000004.wav|Miss Amelia looks frightened, so do the girls.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000038_000000.wav|Sara looked down at the books; her heart really began to beat fast.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000002.wav|She did not like to own to herself that her only friend, her only companion, could feel and hear nothing.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000018_000000.wav|"What is the matter with you?" she asked her, perhaps rather disdainfully.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000013_000003.wav|You never had a heart.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000035_000000.wav|Sara picked up the books and marched off with them.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000005_000010.wav|Perhaps she would rather not answer her friends, even.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000010_000007.wav|And they laughed!|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000060_000000.wav|"That what?" asked Ermengarde.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000015_000003.wav|After a while she stopped, and when she stopped she looked at Emily, who seemed to be gazing at her around the side of one ankle, and actually with a kind of glassy eyed sympathy.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000062_000001.wav|To be kind is worth a good deal to other people.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000055_000000.wav|Ermengarde examined her queer little face and figure again.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000055_000001.wav|She did look odd.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000044_000002.wav|She had a gift for making things interesting. Her imagination helped her to make everything rather like a story, and she managed this matter so well that Miss saint John gained more information from her books than she would have gained if she had read them three times over by her poor stupid little self.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000028_000001.wav|"If you'll lend me those books, I'll read them and tell you everything that's in them afterward, and I'll tell it to you so that you will remember it.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000017_000000.wav|None of Miss Minchin's young ladies were very remarkable for being brilliant; they were select, but some of them were very dull, and some of them were fond of applying themselves to their lessons.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000011_000000.wav|She looked at the staring glass eyes and complacent wax face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000069_000000.wav|Yes, it was true; to this imaginative child everything was a story; and the more books she read, the more imaginative she became.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000001.wav|It arose from her being so desolate.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000017_000003.wav|If she had always had something to read, she would not have been so lonely.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000016_000001.wav|We are not all alike.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000000_000003.wav|Nobody took any notice of her except when they ordered her about.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000023_000001.wav|"And he will ask me questions when he sees me: he will want to know how much I remember; how would you like to have to read all those?"|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000035_000001.wav|But when she was at the door, she stopped and turned around.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000003_000001.wav|Why don't you speak?|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000001_000001.wav|"I am," said Sara promptly, when she heard of it.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000034_000000.wav|"Take them, then," said Ermengarde; "I wish I wanted them, but I am not clever, and my father is, and he thinks I ought to be."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000004_000005.wav|One of her "pretends" was that Emily was a kind of good witch and could protect her.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000045_000000.wav|"It sounds nicer than it seems in the book," she would say.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000000_000001.wav|Sometimes she used to feel as if it must be another life altogether, the life of some other child.|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6160/44912/6160_44912_000045_000001.wav|"I never cared about Mary, Queen of Scots, before, and I always hated the French Revolution, but you make it seem like a story."|6160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000051_000001.wav|The cobbler was so busy at work that he did not see him for some time, but, happening to look up, he caught sight of his visitor, and letting shoes, thread, and everything fall to the ground, he cried with horror: 'Good heavens! what is that?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000004_000003.wav|His wife sold the fruit and vegetables they grew in their garden in the Market Place, and as she was always neat and clean and her goods were temptingly spread out she had plenty of customers.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000055_000001.wav|Why, when he was only twelve he was quite sharp and quick, and had learnt many little things, and a good looking boy too, and pleasant, so that customers were taken by him.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000111_000000.wav|And so Jem lived on for two years, much respected and considered, and only saddened when he thought of his parents.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000019_000001.wav|'Your neck is as thin as a cabbage stalk, and it might easily break and your head fall into the basket, and then who would buy anything?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000055_000000.wav|'I had one: he was called Jem, and would have been a tall sturdy lad of twenty by this time, and able to help me well.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000033_000001.wav|He thought the old woman took off all his clothes and wrapped him up in a squirrel skin, and that he went about with the other squirrels and guinea pigs, who were all very pleasant and well mannered, and waited on the old woman.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000051_000000.wav|When he got to the stall he stood in the doorway and looked in.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000077_000000.wav|He determined to go again to his mother, and found her still in the market place.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000104_000002.wav|'You certainly are a master of the art, little fellow, and the herb heal well gives a particular relish.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000156_000000.wav|'Not yet,' said the goose.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000161_000001.wav|I will now take you back to your father, who will certainly know how to disenchant you.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000014_000000.wav|This made Jem very angry|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000036_000001.wav|He did this quite according to rule.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000107_000001.wav|Of course, Jem could not say he had been turned into a squirrel, but he said he was without parents and had been taught cooking by an old woman.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000101_000000.wav|'Is that all!' said Jem, who had often made both dishes.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000023_000001.wav|'I will buy these six cabbages, but, as you see, I can only walk with my stick and can carry nothing.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000066_000001.wav|He felt his nose.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000062_000004.wav|He stood there thinking, till at last his father asked him:|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000151_000000.wav|He did as she bade, and as soon as they were in the garden put her on the ground, when she waddled off as fast as she could towards the lake, Jem hurrying after her with an anxious heart, for he knew that his life depended on her success.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000121_000001.wav|He killed the other two geese for dinner, but built a little shed for Mimi in one of his rooms, under the pretence of fattening her under his own eye.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000089_000000.wav|So saying, the head steward led him to the head cook's room.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000130_000002.wav|But tell me why you have never served the queen of all dishes, a Suzeraine Pasty?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000068_000001.wav|Good morning.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000039_000000.wav|The part of the town was out of the way, and Jem did not know the many narrow streets in it and was puzzled by their windings and by the crowd of people, who seemed excited about some show.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000118_000001.wav|'So you can speak, Mistress Goose.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000049_000000.wav|Poor Jem did not know what to make of it all.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000115_000000.wav|But the goose answered him quite distinctly:|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000033_000000.wav|Strange dreams came to him.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000029_000001.wav|'Sit down, you've had a long walk and a heavy load to carry, and I must give you something for your trouble.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000079_000005.wav|Wait a bit, and I'll bewitch you!'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000036_000000.wav|When he had lived seven years with the old woman she ordered him one day, as she was going out, to kill and pluck a chicken, stuff it with herbs, and have it very nicely roasted by the time she got back.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000049_000003.wav|Why, what had happened to him?|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000112_000000.wav|Dwarf Long Nose-as he was always called-made a practice of doing his marketing as much as possible himself, and whenever time allowed went to the market to buy his poultry and fruit.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000011_000000.wav|'Yes, I am,' was the answer.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000106_000003.wav|'I must say your dumplings are always very good; but I don't think I ever tasted anything so delicious as they were to day. Who made them?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000097_000000.wav|When the head cook came in with Jem everyone stood quite still.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000118_000005.wav|But I could bet you were not always in this plumage-wasn't I a squirrel myself for a time?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000004_000002.wav|The man sat all day in a little stall at the street corner and mended any shoes that were brought him.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000140_000000.wav|'The dish is very nicely made, but the Suzeraine is not quite complete-as I expected.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000154_000002.wav|The stems and leaves were a bluish green, and it bore a dark, bright red flower with a yellow edge.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000103_000001.wav|He could not nearly reach up to the kitchen range, but by putting a wide plank on two chairs he managed very well.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000086_000001.wav|I think you want to be the grand duke's dwarf, don't you?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000005.wav|They seemed to be the scullions, for they clambered up the walls and brought down pots and pans, eggs, flour, butter, and herbs, which they carried to the stove.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000036_000003.wav|Then he went to fetch the herbs to stuff it with.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000082_000000.wav|As soon as it was quite daylight he set out for the palace, for he knew that the grand duke who reigned over the country was fond of good things.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000036_000006.wav|He opened one and found a very uncommon herb in it.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000091_000000.wav|The head cook looked him over from head to foot, and burst out laughing.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000045_000000.wav|'I have said already, get away,' replied Hannah, quite angrily.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000106_000001.wav|He had emptied the dishes, and was wiping his mouth as the head cook came in.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000009_000000.wav|In this fashion she came along till she got to the stall where Jem and his mother were, and there she stopped.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000016_000000.wav|The old woman looked sharply at the saucy boy, laughed unpleasantly, and said:|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000010_000000.wav|'Are you Hannah the herb seller?' she asked in a croaky voice as her head shook to and fro.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000110_000002.wav|He never even grumbled at anything, had five meals instead of three, thought everything delicious, and grew fatter daily.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000067_000000.wav|'Master,' said he, 'have you got a glass that I could see myself in?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000079_000000.wav|'Indeed!' interrupted the cobbler angrily.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000004.wav|They too walked on their hind legs, wore full Turkish trousers, and little green velvet caps on their heads.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000144_000000.wav|The prince laughed.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000007.wav|At last the broth began to bubble and boil, and she drew off the saucepan and poured its contents into a silver bowl, which she set before Jem.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000101_000002.wav|Let me have some eggs, a piece of wild boar, and such and such roots and herbs for the soup; and as for the dumplings,' he added in a low voice to the head cook, 'I shall want four different kinds of meat, some wine, a duck's marrow, some ginger, and a herb called heal well.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000027_000000.wav|'Where are my slippers, lazy crew?' cried the old woman, and hit about with her stick.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000023_000000.wav|'Very well, I will do as you ask,' said the old woman, with an angry look.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000119_000001.wav|Ah! no one ever thought that Mimi, the daughter of the great Weatherbold, would be killed for the ducal table.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000017_000000.wav|'So you don't like my long nose, sonny?|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000059_000002.wav|Jem was a beautiful boy, and everyone made much of him, and my wife was so proud of him, and liked him to carry the vegetables and things to grand folks' houses, where he was petted and made much of.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000031_000000.wav|'There, my boy,' said she, 'eat this soup and then you'll have everything which pleased you so much about me.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000110_000001.wav|Now all was changed.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000004_000000.wav|In a large town in Germany there lived, some couple of hundred years ago, a cobbler and his wife.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000157_000000.wav|So they went back to Jem's rooms, and here he gathered together some fifty ducats he had saved, his clothes and shoes, and tied them all up in a bundle.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000159_000001.wav|'Oh, how big and how beautiful you are!' she cried.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000038_000000.wav|He jumped up and prepared to go: all his limbs still seemed quite stiff with his long sleep, especially his neck, for he could not move his head easily, and he laughed at his own stupidity at being still so drowsy that he kept knocking his nose against the wall or cupboards.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000006_000000.wav|One day Jem and his mother sat as usual in the Market Place with plenty of nice herbs and vegetables spread out on the board, and in some smaller baskets early pears, apples, and apricots.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000059_000001.wav|I always thought and said that something of the kind would happen.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000062_000001.wav|As he thought it over rage filled his heart.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000007_000002.wav|Come, buy, buy!'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000005_000002.wav|He used to sit by his mother in the market and would carry home what people bought from her, for which they often gave him a pretty flower, or a slice of cake, or even some small coin.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000099_000000.wav|'Sir, his highness has graciously ordered a Danish soup and red Hamburg dumplings.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000020_000001.wav|'Then you sha'n't have any, but a head stuck close between your shoulders so that it may be quite sure not to fall off.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000069_000000.wav|So saying, he gently pushed Jem into the street, shut the door, and went back to his work.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000153_000000.wav|The goose fluttered and skipped in front, and he ran after as fast as his little legs could carry him.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000124_000001.wav|He sent for Long Nose and said to him:|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000124_000000.wav|About this time the grand duke had a visit from a neighbouring prince, a friend of his.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000031_000001.wav|And you shall be a clever cook too, but the real herb-no, the REAL herb you'll never find.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000058_000000.wav|'SEVEN YEARS AGO!' cried Jem, with horror.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000094_000000.wav|'What matters an extra egg or two, or a little butter or flour and spice more or less, in such a house as this?' said he.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000055_000002.wav|Well, well! so goes the world!'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000078_000000.wav|'Look here,' said she, 'this creature says he is our lost son.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000164_000001.wav|The prince hinted that the duke had allowed his cook to escape, and had therefore broken his word.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000146_000001.wav|'Either the pasty must be made properly to morrow or this rascal's head shall come off.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000148_000000.wav|'Oh, is that all,' said she, 'then I can help you, for my father taught me to know all plants and herbs.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000026_000000.wav|The old woman took out a silver whistle and blew it till the sound rang through the house.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000113_000001.wav|He went up to her, felt and weighed her geese, and, finding them very good, bought three and the cage to put them in, hoisted them on his broad shoulders, and set off on his way back.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000103_000003.wav|At last, when all was ready, Jem ordered the two dishes to be put on the fire till he gave the word.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000109_000000.wav|Jem bowed to the ground, and promised to obey his new master in all things.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000144_000002.wav|Know, then, that a herb is wanting called Relish, which is not known in this country, but which gives the pasty its peculiar flavour, and without which your master will never taste it to perfection.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000011_000001.wav|'Can I serve you?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000141_000000.wav|The grand duke flew into a rage.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000008_000000.wav|As he cried an old woman came across the Market Place.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000163_000000.wav|They got through the journey without accident, and the wizard soon released his daughter, and loaded Jem with thanks and valuable presents. He lost no time in hastening back to his native town, and his parents were very ready to recognise the handsome, well made young man as their long lost son.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000119_000000.wav|'You are right,' said the goose, 'in supposing I was not born in this horrid shape.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000017_000001.wav|Well, you shall have one yourself, right down to your chin.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000025_000001.wav|She drew a rusty old hook from her pocket and stuck it into a little hole in the door, which suddenly flew open.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000036_000008.wav|But the smell was so sharp that he began to sneeze again and again, and at last-he woke up!|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000062_000002.wav|Seven years of his youth had been stolen from him, and what had he got in return?|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000146_000002.wav|Go, scoundrel, I give you twenty four hours respite.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000077_000003.wav|At last she decided to go and talk to her husband about it.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000137_000000.wav|Sure enough, next day a magnificent pasty all wreathed round with flowers was placed on the table.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000007_000001.wav|See these lovely cabbages and these fresh herbs! Early apples, ladies; early pears and apricots, and all cheap.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000068_000000.wav|'Young gentleman,' was the answer, 'your appearance is hardly one to be vain of, and there is no need to waste your time looking in a glass. Besides, I have none here, and if you must have one you had better ask Urban the barber, who lives over the way, to lend you his.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000143_000001.wav|I made the pasty according to the best rules; nothing has been left out.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000077_000004.wav|She gathered up her baskets, told Jem to follow her, and went straight to the cobbler's stall.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000161_000000.wav|'I owe you my life and my release,' he said, 'for without you I should never have regained my natural shape, and, indeed, would soon have been beheaded.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000148_000002.wav|But tell me, are there chestnut trees near the palace?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000031_000002.wav|Why had your mother not got it in her basket?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000070_000000.wav|Jem stepped across to the barber, whom he had known in old days.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000032_000000.wav|The child could not think what she was talking about, but he quite understood the soup, which tasted most delicious.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000062_000000.wav|As his father spoke, things grew clearer to Jem's mind, and he saw now that he had not been dreaming, but had really served the old woman seven years in the shape of a squirrel.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000083_000001.wav|Don't you know his highness is still asleep?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000046_000003.wav|Can't you see I am your own son Jem?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000015_000000.wav|'You are a very rude old woman,' he cried out.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000047_000001.wav|'Just see that frightful dwarf-would you believe that he wants me to think he is my son Jem?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000121_000003.wav|They confided their histories to each other, and Jem learnt that the goose was the daughter of the wizard Weatherbold, who lived on the island of Gothland.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000038_000001.wav|The squirrels and guinea pigs ran whimpering after him, as though they would like to go too, and he begged them to come when he reached the door, but they all turned and ran quickly back into the house again.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000049_000004.wav|When he found that his mother would really have nothing to do with him he turned away with tears in his eyes, and went sadly down the street towards his father's stall.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000137_000002.wav|As he entered the head carver was in the act of cutting up the pie and helping the duke and his guests.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000032_000003.wav|As he was finishing it the guinea pigs lit some Arabian incense, which gradually filled the room with clouds of blue vapour.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000110_000000.wav|He lost no time in setting to work, and everyone rejoiced at having him in the kitchen, for the duke was not a patient man, and had been known to throw plates and dishes at his cooks and servants if the things served were not quite to his taste.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000024_000000.wav|The little fellow didn't like this, and began to cry, for he was afraid of the old woman, but his mother ordered him to go, for she thought it wrong not to help such a weakly old creature; so, still crying, he gathered the cabbages into a basket and followed the old woman across the Market Place.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000081_000002.wav|Suddenly he remembered that he was an excellent cook, and he determined to look out for a place.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000148_000001.wav|Luckily this is a new moon just now, for the herb only springs up at such times.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000035_000000.wav|In this way he passed from one kind of service to another, spending a year in each, till in the fourth year he was promoted to the kitchen. Here he worked his way up from under scullion to head pastrycook, and reached the greatest perfection.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000032_000002.wav|The smell of the herbs and spices rose from the bowl, and the soup tasted both sweet and sharp at the same time, and was very strong.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000085_000000.wav|Indeed, the steward found it hard to keep himself from laughing at the comic sight, but he ordered the servants off and led the dwarf into his own room.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000162_000000.wav|The goose accepted his offer with joy, and they managed to slip out of the palace unnoticed by anyone.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000080_000000.wav|So saying, he caught up a bundle of straps, and hit out at Jem so hard that he ran off crying.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000130_000000.wav|'You are a wonderful cook,' said the prince, 'and you certainly know what is good.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000004_000001.wav|They were poor and hard-working.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000052_000001.wav|'How do you do?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000159_000002.wav|'Thank heaven, you are quite changed.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000025_000003.wav|The house was splendidly furnished, the walls and ceiling of marble, the furniture of ebony inlaid with gold and precious stones, the floor of such smooth slippery glass that the little fellow tumbled down more than once.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000006.wav|Here the old woman was bustling about, and Jem could see that she was cooking something very special for him.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000092_000002.wav|Oh, my dear little fellow, whoever sent you to me wanted to make fun of you.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000049_000002.wav|And they called him a horrid dwarf!|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000013_000001.wav|When the old hag had turned over the whole basket she muttered, 'Bad stuff, bad stuff; much better fifty years ago-all bad.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000022_000000.wav|'If you wish to buy, please make haste, as you are keeping other customers away.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000108_000000.wav|'If you will stay with me,' said the grand duke, 'you shall have fifty ducats a year, besides a new coat and a couple of pairs of trousers.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000139_000000.wav|The prince took several small pieces, tasted and examined carefully, and then said with a mysterious and sarcastic smile:|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000105_000001.wav|The head cook took Jem to his own room, but had hardly had time to question him before he was ordered to go at once to the grand duke.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000135_000003.wav|As he sat there lost in thought the goose Mimi, who was left free to walk about, came up to him and asked what was the matter?|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000142_000001.wav|I've a good mind to chop off your great head as a punishment.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000066_000003.wav|So, then, the old woman had changed his shape, and that was why his own mother did not know him, and called him a horrid dwarf!|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000078_000001.wav|He has been telling me how he was stolen seven years ago, and bewitched by a fairy.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000095_000000.wav|He said much more, and at last persuaded the head cook to give him a trial.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000013_000000.wav|The cobbler's wife felt much disgusted at seeing her wares treated like this, but she dared not speak.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000073_000001.wav|Meantime Jem had stepped up to the mirror, and stood gazing sadly at his reflection. Tears came to his eyes.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000135_000004.wav|When she heard she said:|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000044_000001.wav|'You can't be well.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000147_000000.wav|The poor dwarf hurried back to his room, and poured out his grief to the goose.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000048_000000.wav|Then all the market women came round and talked all together and scolded as hard as they could, and said what a shame it was to make game of mrs Hannah, who had never got over the loss of her beautiful boy, who had been stolen from her seven years ago, and they threatened to fall upon Jem and scratch him well if he did not go away at once.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000035_000001.wav|He could make all the most difficult dishes, and two hundred different kinds of patties, soup flavoured with every sort of herb-he had learnt it all, and learnt it well and quickly.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000153_000001.wav|The tree cast a wide shadow, and it was almost dark beneath it, but suddenly the goose stood still, flapped her wings with joy, and plucked something, which she held out to her astonished friend, saying: 'There it is, and there is more growing here, so you will have no lack of it.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000096_000001.wav|A little stream of clear water ran through the room, and live fish were kept at one end of it.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000100_000000.wav|'Good,' said the head cook.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000131_000001.wav|But he did not lose his presence of mind, and replied:|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000137_000003.wav|The grand duke took a large mouthful and threw up his eyes as he swallowed it.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000036_000005.wav|He peeped in and saw a lot of baskets from which came a strong and pleasant smell.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000023_000002.wav|Let your boy carry them home for me and I'll pay him for his trouble.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000125_000006.wav|I would rather be a poor man than have to blush before him.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000040_000000.wav|He was quite puzzled when he reached the market place.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000001.wav|First came in guinea pigs in men's clothing.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000012_000002.wav|I wonder if you've got what I want,' said the old woman as she thrust a pair of hideous brown hands into the herb basket, and began turning over all the neatly packed herbs with her skinny fingers, often holding them up to her nose and sniffing at them.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000047_000000.wav|'Well, did you ever hear such impudence?' asked Hannah, turning to a neighbour.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000032_000004.wav|They grew thicker and thicker and the scent nearly overpowered the boy.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000037_000000.wav|There he lay on the old woman's sofa and stared about him in surprise. 'Well, what odd dreams one does have to be sure!' he said to himself. 'Why, I could have sworn I had been a squirrel, a companion of guinea pigs and such creatures, and had become a great cook, too.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000061_000000.wav|'Yes, seven years: we had him cried-we went from house to house.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000102_000000.wav|'Why,' cried the astonished cook, 'where did you learn cooking?|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000098_000000.wav|'What has his highness ordered for luncheon?' asked the head cook.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000129_000000.wav|The prince had been a fortnight with the grand duke, and enjoyed himself mightily.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000057_000000.wav|'Heaven only knows!' replied the man; 'seven years ago he was stolen from the market place, and we have heard no more of him.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000088_000000.wav|'Well, as you will; but believe me, you would have an easier place as the grand ducal dwarf.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000037_000002.wav|But won't she scold me, though, for sleeping away here in a strange house, instead of helping her at market!'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000121_000000.wav|The goose thanked him with tears in her eyes, and the dwarf kept his word.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000015_000001.wav|'First you mess all our nice herbs about with your horrid brown fingers and sniff at them with your long nose till no one else will care to buy them, and then you say it's all bad stuff, though the duke's cook himself buys all his herbs from us.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000053_000002.wav|I am all alone, and am getting old, and a workman is costly.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000006_000001.wav|Jem cried his wares at the top of his voice:|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000003_000001.wav|Fairies and their like belong to every country and every age, and no doubt we should see plenty of them now-if we only knew how.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000081_000001.wav|He woke next morning with the first rays of light, and began to think what he could do to earn a living.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000133_000000.wav|'Indeed,' laughed the grand duke; 'then I suppose you would have waited for the day of my death to treat me to it, for you have never sent it up to me yet.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000130_000001.wav|All the time I have been here you have never repeated a dish, and all were excellent.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000079_000002.wav|Wait a minute, you rascal!|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000118_000004.wav|I know better than to hurt so rare a bird.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000071_000000.wav|'Good morning, Urban,' said he; 'may I look at myself in your glass for a moment?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000018_000000.wav|As she spoke she shuffled towards the hamper of cabbages, took up one after another, squeezed them hard, and threw them back, muttering again, 'Bad stuff, bad stuff.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000075_000002.wav|His legs were small and spindly, but his arms were as large as those of a well grown man, with large brown hands, and long skinny fingers.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000136_000001.wav|I know the dish quite well: we often had it at home, and I can guess pretty well how it was made.' Then she told him what to put in, adding: 'I think that will be all right, and if some trifle is left out perhaps they won't find it out.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000152_000000.wav|Suddenly the dwarf noticed a big old tree standing alone on the other side of the lake.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000103_000004.wav|Then he began to count: 'One, two, three,' till he got to five hundred when he cried, 'Now!' The saucepans were taken off, and he invited the head cook to taste.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000002.wav|They had tied on large kitchen aprons, and in their belts were stuck carving knives and sauce ladles and such things.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000063_000001.wav|Shall I make you a pair of slippers, or perhaps' with a smile-'a case for your nose?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000034_000000.wav|First he learned to clean her cocoa nut shoes with oil and to rub them up.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000092_000000.wav|'You a cook!|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000164_000000.wav|I must not forget to mention that much disturbance was caused in the palace by Jem's sudden disappearance, for when the grand duke sent orders next day to behead the dwarf, if he had not found the necessary herbs, the dwarf was not to be found.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000028_000002.wav|She threw away her stick and walked briskly across the glass floor, drawing little Jem after her.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000060_000000.wav|'And that was seven years ago, you say?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000032_000005.wav|He reminded himself that he must get back to his mother, but whenever he tried to rouse himself to go he sank back again drowsily, and at last he fell sound asleep in the corner of the sofa.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000087_000000.wav|'No, sir,' replied Jem. 'I am an experienced cook, and if you will kindly take me to the head cook he may find me of some use.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000074_000000.wav|'No wonder you did not know your child again, dear mother,' thought he; 'he wasn't like this when you were so proud of his looks.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000142_000000.wav|'Dog of a cook,' he shouted; 'how dare you serve me so?|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000041_000000.wav|He hesitated what to do, but at last he slipped behind her, laid a hand on her arm, and said: 'Mammy, what's the matter?|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000128_000000.wav|From this time the little cook was hardly seen except in the kitchen, where, surrounded by his helpers, he gave orders, baked, stewed, flavoured and dished up all manner of dishes.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000112_000002.wav|No one thought of laughing at his appearance now; he was known as the duke's special body cook, and every goose woman felt honoured if his nose turned her way.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000121_000004.wav|He fell out with an old fairy, who got the better of him by cunning and treachery, and to revenge herself turned his daughter into a goose and carried her off to this distant place.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000104_000001.wav|'First rate, indeed!' he exclaimed.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000056_000000.wav|'But where is your son?' asked Jem, with a trembling voice.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000075_000001.wav|He was no taller than he had been seven years ago, when he was not much more than twelve years old, but he made up in breadth, and his back and chest had grown into lumps like two great sacks.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000117_000000.wav|Quite frightened, the dwarf set down the cage, and the goose gazed at him with sad wise looking eyes and sighed again.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000053_000000.wav|'Very ill, little sir, replied the father, to Jem's surprise, for he did not seem to know him.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000030_000000.wav|So saying, she whistled again.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000062_000003.wav|To learn to rub up cocoa nuts, and to polish glass floors, and to be taught cooking by guinea pigs!|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000133_000001.wav|However, you will have to invent some other farewell dish, for the pasty must be on my table to morrow.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000083_000000.wav|When he reached the palace all the servants crowded about him, and made fun of him, and at last their shouts and laughter grew so loud that the head steward rushed out, crying, 'For goodness sake, be quiet, can't you.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000065_000001.wav|Here is a nice piece; and think what a protection it would be to you.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000032_000001.wav|His mother had often given him nice things, but nothing had ever seemed so good as this.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000029_000000.wav|'Sit down,' said the old woman pleasantly, and she pushed Jem into a corner of a sofa and put a table close in front of him.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000064_000000.wav|'What have you to do with my nose?' asked Jem. 'And why should I want a case for it?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000042_000000.wav|She turned round quickly and jumped up with a cry of horror.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000005_000000.wav|The couple had one boy called Jem.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000028_000003.wav|At last she paused in a room which looked almost like a kitchen, it was so full of pots and pans, but the tables were of mahogany and the sofas and chairs covered with the richest stuffs.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000040_000001.wav|There sat his mother, with a good deal of fruit still in her baskets, so he felt he could not have slept so very long, but it struck him that she was sad, for she did not call to the passers by, but sat with her head resting on her hand, and as he came nearer he thought she looked paler than usual.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000084_000000.wav|Some of the servants ran off at once, and others pointed out Jem.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000103_000002.wav|All the cooks stood round to look on, and could not help admiring the quick, clever way in which he set to work.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000129_000002.wav|On the fifteenth day the duke sent for the dwarf and presented him to the prince.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000007_000000.wav|'This way, gentlemen!|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000104_000000.wav|The first cook took a golden spoon, washed and wiped it, and handed it to the head cook, who solemnly approached, tasted the dishes, and smacked his lips over them.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000026_000001.wav|Immediately a lot of guinea pigs came running down the stairs, but Jem thought it rather odd that they all walked on their hind legs, wore nutshells for shoes, and men's clothes, whilst even their hats were put on in the newest fashion.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000012_000001.wav|Let me look at those herbs.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000118_000000.wav|'Good gracious!' said Long Nose.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000050_000001.wav|'I'll stand by the door and talk to him.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000111_000001.wav|One day passed much like another till the following incident happened.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000043_000000.wav|'What do you want, you hideous dwarf?' she cried; 'get away; I can't bear such tricks.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000100_000002.wav|Not that you will be able to make the dumplings, for they are a secret receipt.'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000066_000000.wav|The lad was dumb with fright.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000041_000001.wav|Are you angry with me?'|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7481/101276/7481_101276_000061_000001.wav|Many knew the pretty boy, and were fond of him, but it was all in vain.|7481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000024_000004.wav|By continuing their violent persecution, and still more violent menaces against priests and Papists, they confirmed the Irish Catholics in their rebellion, and cut off all hopes of indulgence and toleration.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000003_000003.wav|Should the king, they said, be able by force of arms to prevail over the parliament of England, and reestablish his authority in that powerful kingdom, he will undoubtedly retract all those concessions which, with so many circumstances of violence and indignity, the Scots have extorted from him.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000013_000000.wav|The English parliament was at that time fallen into great distress by the progress of the royal arms; and they gladly sent to Edinburgh commissioners, with ample powers to treat of a nearer union and confederacy with the Scottish nation.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000029_000002.wav|During the course of six months, no supplies had come from England, except the fourth part of one small vessel's lading.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000006_000001.wav|The commissioners were also empowered to press the king on the article of religion, and to recommend to him the Scottish model of ecclesiastic worship and discipline.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000029_000004.wav|The army had little ammunition, scarcely exceeding forty barrels of gunpowder; not even shoes or clothes; and for want of food, the soldiers had been obliged to eat their own horses.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000024_000003.wav|But except this contract with the Scottish nation, all the other measures of the parliament either were hitherto absolutely insignificant, or tended rather to the prejudice of the Protestant cause in Ireland.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000012_000001.wav|Under color of providing for national peace, endangered by the neighborhood of English armies, was a convention called; an assembly which though it meets with less solemnity, has the same authority as a parliament in raising money and levying forces.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000030_000000.wav|The justices and council of Ireland had been engaged, chiefly by the interest and authority of Ormond, to fall into an entire dependence on the king.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000003_000008.wav|Not to mention our own necessary security can we better express our gratitude to Heaven for that pure light with which we are, above all nations, so eminently distinguished, than by conveying the same divine knowledge to our unhappy neighbors, who are wading through a sea of blood in order to attain it?|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000031_000001.wav|A truce with the rebels, he thought, would enable his subjects in Ireland to provide for their own support, and would procure him the assistance of the army against the English parliament.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000029_000003.wav|Dublin, to save itself from starving, had been obliged to send the greater part of its inhabitants to England.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000003_000006.wav|Does not the parliament consist of those very men who have ever opposed all war with Scotland, who have punished the authors of our oppressions, who have obtained us the redress of every grievance, and who, with many honorable expressions, have conferred on us an ample reward for our brotherly assistance?|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000029_000000.wav|But notwithstanding these successes, even the most common necessaries of life were wanting to the victorious armies.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000020_000002.wav|By means of a hundred thousand pounds, which they received from England; by the hopes of good pay and warm quarters; not to mention men's favorable disposition towards the cause; they soon completed their levies.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000024_000002.wav|These troops, so long as they were allowed to remain, were useful, by diverting the force of the Irish rebels, and protecting in the north the small remnants of the British planters.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000012_000003.wav|The general assembly of the church met at the same time with the convention; and exercising an authority almost absolute over the whole civil power, made every political consideration yield to their theological zeal and prejudices.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000019_000000.wav|In the English parliament there remained some members who, though they had been induced, either by private ambition or by zeal for civil liberty, to concur with the majority, still retained an attachment to the hierarchy, and to the ancient modes of worship.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000016_000000.wav|In this negotiation, the man chiefly trusted was Vane, who, in eloquence, address, capacity, as well as in art and dissimulation, was not surpassed by any one even during that age, so famous for active talents.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000019_000001.wav|But in the present danger which threatened their cause, all scruples were laid aside; and the covenant, by whose means alone they could expect to obtain so considerable a reenforcement as the accession of the Scottish nation, was received without opposition.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000012_000002.wav|Hamilton, and his brother the earl of Laneric, who had been sent into Scotland in order to oppose, these measures, wanted either authority or sincerity; and passively yielded to the torrent.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000019_000002.wav|The parliament, therefore, having first subscribed it themselves, ordered it to be received by all who lived under their authority.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000030_000003.wav|They even intercepted some small succors sent thither by the king.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000003_000000.wav|When the Scottish Covenanters obtained that end for which they so earnestly contended, the establishment of Presbyterian discipline in their own country, they were not satisfied, but indulged still in an ardent passion for propagating, by all methods, that mode of religion in the neighboring kingdoms.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000003_000007.wav|And is not the court full of Papists, prelates, malignants; all of them zealous enemies to our religious model, and resolute to sacrifice their lives for their idolatrous establishments?|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000029_000001.wav|The Irish, in their wild rage against the British planters, had laid waste the whole kingdom, and were themselves totally unfit, from their habitual sloth and ignorance, to raise any convenience of human life.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000024_000001.wav|They had entered, indeed, into a contract with the Scots, for sending over an army of ten thousand men into Ireland; and in order to engage that nation in this undertaking, besides giving a promise of pay, they agreed to put Caricfergus into their hands, and to invest their general with an authority quite independent of the English government.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000020_000001.wav|And being determined that the sword should carry conviction to all refractory minds, they prepared themselves, with great vigilance and activity, for their military enterprises.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000030_000001.wav|Parsons, Temple, Loftus, and Meredith, who favored the opposite party, had been removed; and Charles had supplied their place by others better affected to his service.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274376/8225_274376_000018_000000.wav|The subscribers of the covenant vowed also to preserve the reformed religion established in the church of Scotland; but, by the artifice of Vane, no declaration more explicit was made with regard to England and Ireland, than that these kingdoms should be reformed according to the word of God and the example of the purest churches.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000025_000003.wav|The militia of London especially, though utterly unacquainted with action, though drawn hut a few days before from their ordinary occupations, yet having learned all military exercises, and being animated with unconquerable zeal for the cause in which they were engaged, equalled on this occasion what could be expected from the most veteran forces.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000029_000000.wav|The loss sustained on both sides in the battle of Newbury, and the advanced season, obliged the armies to retire into winter quarters.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000031_000000.wav|Newcastle, having carried on the attack of Hull for some time, was beat off by a sally of the garrison, and suffered so much that he thought proper to raise the siege.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000017_000002.wav|His garrison, however, was reduced to the last extremity; and he failed not from time to time to inform the parliament that, unless speedily relieved, he should be necessitated, from the extreme want of provisions and ammunition, to open his gates to the enemy.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000025_000005.wav|Next morning, Essex proceeded on his march; and though his rear was once put in some disorder by an incursion of the king's horse, he reached London in safety, and received applause for his conduct and success in the whole enterprise.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000014_000002.wav|The zealots took the alarm.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000004_000000.wav|Edward Waller, the first refiner of English versification, was a member of the lower house; a man of considerable fortune, and not more distinguished by his poetical genius than by his parliamentary talents, and by the politeness and elegance of his manners.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000025_000004.wav|While the armies were engaged with the utmost ardor, night put an end to the action and left the victory undecided.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000020_000002.wav|He lay five days at Tewkesbury, which was his first stage after leaving Gloucester; and he feigned, by some preparations, to point towards Worcester.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000030_000001.wav|There appeared, however, in opposition to him, two men on whom the event of the war finally depended, and who began about this time to be remarked for their valor and military conduct.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000018_000002.wav|Having associated in their cause the counties of Hertford, Essex, Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincoln, and Huntingdon, they gave the earl of Manchester a commission to be general of the association, and appointed an army to be levied under his command.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000030_000000.wav|In the north, during this summer, the great interest and popularity of the earl, now created marquis of Newcastle, had raised a considerable force for the king; and great hopes of success were entertained from that quarter.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000002_000001.wav|The rapid progress of the royalists threatened the parliament with immediate subjection: the factions and discontents among themselves in the city, and throughout the neighboring counties, prognosticated some dangerous division or insurrection.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000014_000003.wav|A petition against peace was framed in the city, and presented by Pennington, the factious mayor.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000018_000000.wav|The parliament, in order to repair their broken condition, and put themselves in a posture of defence, now exerted to the utmost their power and authority.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000007_000000.wav|Waller, as soon as imprisoned, sensible of the great danger into which he had fallen, was so seized with the dread of death, that all his former spirit deserted him; and he confessed whatever he knew, without sparing his most intimate friends, without regard to the confidence reposed in him, without distinguishing between the negligence of familiar conversation and the schemes of a regular conspiracy.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000014_000000.wav|The upper house sent down terms of accommodation, more moderate than had hitherto been insisted on.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000025_000001.wav|On both sides the battle was fought with desperate valor and a steady bravery.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000030_000003.wav|The former gained a considerable advantage at Wakefield over a detachment of royalists, and took General Goring prisoner: the latter obtained a victory at Gainsborough over a party commanded by the gallant Cavendish, who perished in the action.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000004_000001.wav|As full of keen satire and invective in his eloquence, as of tenderness and panegyric in his poetry, he caught the attention of his hearers, and exerted the utmost boldness in blaming those violent counsels by which the commons were governed.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000030_000005.wav|After this victory, Newcastle, with an army of fifteen thousand men, sat down before Hull. Hotham was no longer governor of this place.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000006_000001.wav|A covenant, as a test, was taken by the lords and commons, and imposed on their army, and on all who lived within their quarters.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000008_000001.wav|But by the progress of the king's arms, the defeat of Sir William Waller, the taking of Bristol, the siege of Gloucester, a cry for peace was renewed, and with more violence than ever.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000027_000001.wav|Before assembling the present parliament, this man, devoted to the pursuits of learning and to the society of all the polite and elegant, had enjoyed himself in every pleasure which a fine genius, a generous disposition, and an opulent fortune could afford.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000006_000000.wav|They were all three condemned, and the two latter executed on gibbets erected before their own doors.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000020_000000.wav|The chief difficulty still remained.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000027_000005.wav|In excuse for the too free exposing of his person, which seemed unsuitable in a secretary of state, he alleged, that it became him to be more active than other men in all hazardous enterprises, lest his impatience for peace might bear the imputation of cowardice or pusillanimity.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000019_000002.wav|One barrel of powder was their whole stock of ammunition remaining; and their other provisions were in the same proportion.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000018_000003.wav|But, above all, they were intent that Essex's army, on which their whole fortune depended, should be put in a condition of marching against the king.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000025_000002.wav|Essex's horse were several times broken by the king's, but his infantry maintained themselves in firm array; and, besides giving a continued fire, they presented an invincible rampart of pikes against the furious shock of Prince Rupert, and those gallant troops of gentry of which the royal cavalry was chiefly composed.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000018_000004.wav|They excited afresh their preachers to furious declamations against the royal cause.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000027_000006.wav|From the commencement of the war, his natural cheerfulness and vivacity became clouded; and even his usual attention to dress, required by his birth and station gave way to a negligence which was easily observable.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000002_000006.wav|In the beginning of this summer, a combination, formed against them in London, had obliged them to exert the plenitude of their authority.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000020_000001.wav|Essex dreaded a battle with the king's army, on account of its great superiority in cavalry; and he resolved to return, if possible, without running that hazard.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000007_000001.wav|With the most profound dissimulation, he counterfeited such remorse of conscience, that his execution was put off, out of mere Christian compassion, till he might recover the use of his understanding.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000017_000000.wav|Massey, resolute to make a vigorous defence, and having under his command a city and garrison ambitious of the crown of martyrdom, had hitherto maintained the siege with courage and abilities, and had much retarded the advances of the king's army.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000002_000002.wav|Those parliamentary leaders, it must be owned, who had introduced such mighty innovations into the English constitution, and who had projected so much greater, had not engaged in an enterprise which exceeded their courage and capacity.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000004_000005.wav|While this affair was in agitation, and lists were making of such as they conceived to be well affected to their design, a servant of Tomkins, who had overheard their discourse, immediately carried intelligence to Pym.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000017_000001.wav|By continual sallies he infested them in their trenches, and gained sudden advantages over them: by disputing every inch of ground, he repressed the vigor and alacrity of their courage, elated by former successes.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000002_000003.wav|Great vigor, from the beginning, as well as wisdom, they had displayed in all their counsels; and a furious, headstrong body, broken loose from the restraint of law, had hitherto been retained in subjection under their authority, and firmly united by zeal and passion, as by the most legal and established government.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274375/8225_274375_000030_000002.wav|These were Sir Thomas Fairfax, son of the lord of that name, and Oliver Cromwell.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000004.wav|The parliament, alarmed at this appearance of the royalists, gave a commission to Ruthven, a Scotchman, governor of Plymouth, to march with all the forces to Dorset.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000008_000001.wav|In the spring, it was broken by the authority of the two houses; but war recommenced with great appearance of disadvantage to the king's party. Stamford, having assembled a strong body of near seven thousand men, well supplied with money, provisions, and ammunition, advanced upon the royalists, who were not half his number, and were oppressed by every kind of necessity.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000015_000000.wav|Colonel Urrey, a Scotchman, who served in the parliamentary army, having received some disgust, came to Oxford and offered his services to the king.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000022_000004.wav|Having joined the camp at Bristol, and sent Prince Maurice with a detachment into Devonshire, he deliberated how to employ the remaining forces in an enterprise of moment.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000005.wav|Somerset, and Devon, and make an entire conquest of Cornwall.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000008_000007.wav|This defect, which they concealed from the soldiers, they resolved to supply by their valor. They agreed to advance without firing till they should reach the top of the hill, and could be on equal ground with the enemy.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000015_000003.wav|The alarm being given, every one mounted on horseback, in order to pursue the prince, to recover the prisoners, and to repair the disgrace which the army had sustained.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000014_000000.wav|This important victory, following so quick after many other successes, struck great dismay into the parliament, and gave an alarm to their principal army, commanded by Essex.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000000.wav|But though the king was naturally the gainer by such a method of conducting war, and it was by favor of law that the train, bands were raised in Cornwall, it appeared that those maxims were now prejudicial to the royal party.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000018_000003.wav|That an enterprise correspondent to men's expectations might be undertaken, the prince resolved to lay siege to Bristol, the second town for riches and greatness in the kingdom. Nathaniel Fiennes, son of Lord Say he himself, as well as his father, a great parliamentary leader was governor, and commanded a garrison of two thousand five hundred foot, and two regiments, one of horse, another of dragoons.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000001.wav|These troops could not legally, without their own consent, be carried out of the county; and consequently it was impossible to push into Devonshire the advantage which they had obtained.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000015_000004.wav|Among the rest Hambden, who had a regiment of infantry that lay at a distance, joined the horse as a volunteer; and overtaking the royalists on Chalgrave field, entered into the thickest of the battle.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000012_000002.wav|It was resolved that Hertford and Prince Maurice should proceed with the cavalry; and, having procured a reenforcement from the king, should hasten back to the relief of their friends.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000008_000003.wav|Stamford being encamped on the top of a high hill near Stratum, they attacked him in four divisions, at five in the morning, having lain all night under arms.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000009_000002.wav|On the other hand, the parliament, having supplied Sir William Waller, in whom they much trusted, with a complete army, despatched him westwards, in order to check the progress of the royalists.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000008_000002.wav|Despair, joined to the natural gallantry of these troops, commanded by the prime gentry of the county, made them resolve by one vigorous effort, to overcome all these disadvantages.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000006.wav|The earl of Stamford followed him at some distance With a considerable supply.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000015_000005.wav|By the bravery and activity of Rupert, the king's troops were brought off, and a great booty, together with two hundred prisoners, was conveyed to Oxford.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000022_000006.wav|But this undertaking, by reason of the great number and force of the London militia, was thought by many to be attended with considerable difficulties.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000018_000002.wav|The king, freed from this enemy, sent his army westward under Prince Rupert; and, by their conjunction with the Cornish troops, a formidable force, for numbers as well as reputation and valor, was composed.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000012_000006.wav|After a sharp action, he was totally routed, and flying with a few horse, escaped to Bristol.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000008_000006.wav|The fight continued with doubtful success, till word was brought to the chief officers of the Cornish, that their ammunition was spent to less than four barrels of powder.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000018_000006.wav|On the prince's side, the assault was conducted with equal courage, and almost with equal loss, but with better success.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000002.wav|The Cornish royalists, therefore, bethought themselves of levying a force which might be more serviceable.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000009.wav|The battle was fought on Bradoc Down; and the king's forces, though inferior in number, gave a total defeat to their enemies.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000018_000001.wav|Dislodging from Thame and Aylesbury, where he had hitherto lain, he thought proper to retreat nearer to London; and he showed to his friends his broken and disheartened forces, which a few months before he had led into the field in so flourishing a condition.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000018_000000.wav|Essex, discouraged by this event, dismayed by the total rout of Waller, was further informed, that the queen, who landed at Burlington Bay, had arrived at Oxford, and had brought from the north a reenforcement of three thousand foot and fifteen hundred horse.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000022_000001.wav|Five hundred excellent soldiers perished.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000009_000000.wav|After this success, the attention both of king and parliament was turned towards the west, as to a very important scene of action.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000008_000000.wav|Notwithstanding these advantages, the extreme want both of money and ammunition under which the Cornish royalists labored, obliged them to enter into a convention of neutrality with the parliamentary party in Devonshire; and this neutrality held all the winter season.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000018_000007.wav|One party, led by Lord Grandison, was indeed beaten off, and the commander himself mortally wounded: another, conducted by Colonel Bellasis, met with a like fate: but Washington, with a less party, finding a place in the curtain weaker than the rest, broke in, and quickly made room for the horse to follow.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000012_000003.wav|Waller was so confident of taking this body of infantry, now abandoned by the horse, that he wrote to the parliament that their work was done, and that by the next post he would inform them of the number and quality of the prisoners.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000015_000001.wav|In order to prove the sincerity of his conversion, he informed Prince Rupert of the loose disposition of the enemy's quarters, and exhorted him to form some attempt upon them.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000003.wav|Sir Bevil Granville, the most beloved man of that country, Sir Ralph Hopton, Sir Nicholas Slanning, Arundel, and Trevannion undertook as their own charges to raise an army for the king; and their great interest in Cornwall soon enabled them to effect their purpose.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8225/274374/8225_274374_000007_000010.wav|Ruthven, with a few broken troops, fled to Saltash; and when that town was taken, he escaped with some difficulty, and almost alone, into Plymouth.|8225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000031_000003.wav|They have numbers instead of names, you see."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000002_000000.wav|STORY twenty three|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000023_000000.wav|Then the sunbeam played about the little green plant, turning the pale leaves a darker color and swelling out the tiny buds.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000028_000001.wav|"I think you must be mistaken," he went on politely.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000025_000000.wav|"I want a loaf of bread, a yeast cake and three pounds of sugar," said Nurse Jane.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000035_000000.wav|"Oh, throw it away!" growled the fox.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000033_000000.wav|"You can't always do as you like," barked the fox.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000012_000000.wav|"Trouble, eh?" cried Uncle Wiggily.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000015_000001.wav|"But you don't look much like a flower."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000037_000000.wav|So Uncle Wiggily held out the bright yeast cake.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000026_000001.wav|On his way home from the store with the sugar, bread and yeast cake, Uncle Wiggily thought he would hop past the place where he had lifted the stone off the head of the plant, to see how it was growing.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000028_000000.wav|"You want to see me?" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000016_000004.wav|Then came the cold winter, and I went to sleep.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000016_000000.wav|"Oh!|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000016_000006.wav|I don't know by whom.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000008_000001.wav|I can't get up!|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000006_000000.wav|"Ha! that sounds like some one who can't get out of bed," exclaimed the bunny uncle.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000013_000004.wav|Oh, dear!" sighed the Woodland flower.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000015_000000.wav|"There you are!" cried the bunny uncle.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000005_000000.wav|"Oh, dear!|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000032_000002.wav|I don't like it!"|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000014_000000.wav|"Oh, don't worry about that!" cried Uncle Wiggily, in his jolly voice. "I'll lift the stone off your head for you," and he did, just as he once had helped a Jack in the pulpit flower to grow up, as I have told you in another story.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000020_000001.wav|"Thank you, Uncle Wiggily, for taking the stone off the leaves so I could shine on them," went on the sunbeam, who had known Uncle Wiggily for some time.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000012_000001.wav|"Here is where I come in.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000031_000002.wav|Eight, Nine and Ten.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000006_000002.wav|Perhaps I can help them."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000020_000002.wav|"Though I am strong I am not strong enough to lift stones, nor was the flower.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120277/8396_120277_000018_000000.wav|"How will all that happen?" Uncle Wiggily asked.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000029_000002.wav|And it wasn't so bad, after all."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000007_000000.wav|"Bitter medicine, eh?" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000019_000004.wav|Where is it?"|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000009_000000.wav|"Why, not?" asked the rabbit gentleman.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000013_000000.wav|"Of course he does," agreed Uncle Wiggily.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000001_000000.wav|STORY twenty seven|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000023_000004.wav|Just hold the cup to your lips, but don't swallow any."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000018_000001.wav|"But I'm glad to see you.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000010_000000.wav|"Because we can't get him to take a drop," said the puppy dog boy's mother.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000023_000000.wav|"Never mind about that," laughed the bunny uncle.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000022_000000.wav|"Oh, I'll do that for you, Uncle Wiggily, but I'll not take it," Jackie said.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000029_000001.wav|"It went down my throat!|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120281/8396_120281_000006_000001.wav|"They seemed to get over them nicely, at least Peetie did, but then Jackie caught the epizootic, and he has to stay in bed a week longer, and take bitter medicine."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000020_000000.wav|Neddie did so, and soon the bunny uncle was free.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000006_000001.wav|But when he awakened still no adventure had happened to him.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000022_000001.wav|"As for having stuck me fast, that was my own fault.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000012_000000.wav|"Who are you, if you please?" asked the rabbit gentleman.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000029_000003.wav|And other cones I threw at a big bear that was chasing me.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000018_000000.wav|Then, all of a sudden, along through the woods came Neddie Stubtail, the little bear boy, and Neddie had some butter, which he had just bought at the store for his mother.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000013_000000.wav|"I am the pine tree against which you leaned your back.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000019_000000.wav|"Oh!" cried the pine tree.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000017_000000.wav|"Help!|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000011_000001.wav|"I am holding you fast!"|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000023_000002.wav|Oh, I wish I were a peach tree, or a rose bush!"|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000027_000001.wav|"You must try to do the best you can for what you are!|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000006_000000.wav|It was nice and warm in the woods, and, with the sun shining down upon him, Uncle Wiggily soon dozed off in a little sleep.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000024_000001.wav|Don't feel so badly."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000002_000001.wav|He had been looking all around for an adventure, which was something he liked to have happen to him, but he had seen nothing like one so far.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000015_000003.wav|Try to get loose yourself."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000027_000002.wav|And I have come to tell you how useful your pine cones were."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000000_000000.wav|STORY twenty eight|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000029_000002.wav|With others I built a little play house, and amused Lulu Wibblewobble, the duck girl, when she had the toothache.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000008_000000.wav|"Oh, dear! what has happened," cried the bunny uncle.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000027_000000.wav|"Hush!" cried Uncle Wiggily.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000014_000001.wav|"And it is just like the time you held the bear fast for me."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000022_000002.wav|I should have looked before I leaned back.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000016_000000.wav|"I will," said Uncle Wiggily, and he did, but he could not get loose, though he almost pulled out all his fur.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000013_000002.wav|It is that which is holding you fast," the tree answered.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000028_000000.wav|"Really?" asked the tree, in great surprise.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000031_000000.wav|And, if the roof of our house doesn't come down stairs to play with the kitchen floor and let the rain in on the gold fish, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and his torn coat.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120282/8396_120282_000008_000003.wav|Oh, dear!"|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000013_000000.wav|Doubtless the tone of the words deprived them of any sting.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000004.wav|What wonder then that one of the records should say of them all, that they saw two angels?|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000017_000000.wav|Perhaps, for one thing, that men should not limit him, or themselves in him, to the known forms of humanity; and for another, that the best hope might be given them of a life beyond the grave; that their instinctive desires in that direction might thus be infinitely developed and assured.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000014_000002.wav|If any man say he cannot believe it, my only answer is that I can.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000010_000000.wav|"Master!"|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000009.wav|Perhaps something might yet be done to rescue the precious form, and lay it aside with all futile honours.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000015_000000.wav|It may be objected that although this might be credible of the glorified body of even the human resurrection, it is hard to believe that the body which suffered and died on the cross could become thus plastic to the will of the indwelling spirit.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000007_000000.wav|Hopelessness had dulled every sense: not even a start at the sound of his voice!|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000014_000004.wav|The wisdom of this world can believe that matter generates mind: what seems to me the wisdom from above can believe that mind generates matter-that matter is but the manifest mind.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000016_000000.wav|Why was this miracle needful?|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000007.wav|All I care to do is to suggest to any one anxious to understand the records the following arrangement of facts.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000002.wav|The first who came saw one angel outside and another inside the sepulchre.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000009_000000.wav|"Mary!"|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000014_000005.wav|On this supposition matter may well be subject to mind; much more, if Jesus be the Son of God, his own body must be subject to his will.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000003.wav|One at a different time saw two inside.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000020_000004.wav|I can well understand how a man should not believe in any life after death.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000019_000001.wav|They can tell us little of this, and nothing of the glad safety beyond.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000018_000000.wav|If Christ be risen, then is the grave of humanity itself empty.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000018_000003.wav|Ever since the Lord lay down in the tomb, and behold it was but a couch whence he arose refreshed, we may say of every brother: He is not dead but sleepeth.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000001.wav|All knew that the Lord had risen indeed: what matter whether some of them saw one or two angels in the tomb?|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000010.wav|With peter and john she returned to the grave, whence, in the mean time, her former companions, having seen and conversed with the angel outside and the angel inside, had departed to find their friends.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000005.wav|I do not care to set myself to the reconciliation of the differing reports.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000014_000000.wav|For in regard of this glorified body of Jesus, we must note that it appeared and disappeared at the will of its owner; and it would seem also that other matter yielded and gave it way; yes, even that space itself was in some degree subjected to it.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000012_000002.wav|"Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended." She was about to grasp him with the eager hands of reverent love: why did he refuse the touch?|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000012.wav|As she wept, she stooped down into the sepulchre.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000008_000000.wav|"Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000017_000001.wav|I suspect, however, that it followed just as the natural consequence of all that preceded.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000014_000001.wav|Upon the first of these, the record is clear.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000001_000001.wav|If he was one with the Father, the question cannot be argued, seeing that Jesus apart from the Father is not a conceivable idea.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000013_000010.wav|After he had once ascended to the Father, he not only appeared to his disciples again and again, but their hands handled the word of life, and he ate in their presence.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000013_000008.wav|If any one thinks this founded on too human a notion of the Saviour, I would only reply that I suspect a great part of our irreligion springs from our disbelief in the humanity of God.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000021_000001.wav|He was not there because he had risen.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000000_000001.wav|THE RESURRECTION.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000020_000009.wav|In truth I am ashamed of even combating such an essential falsehood.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000014_000006.wav|I doubt, indeed, if the condition of any man is perfect before the body he inhabits is altogether obedient to his will-before, through his own absolute obedience to the Father, the realm of his own rule is put under him perfectly.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000006_000000.wav|"Whom seekest thou?"|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000013_000012.wav|Upon the body he inhabited, death could no longer lay his hands, and from the vantage ground he thus held, he could stretch down the arm of salvation to each and all.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000020_000010.wav|Were it not that here and there a weak soul is paralysed by the presence of the monstrous lie, and we dare not allow sympathy to be swallowed up of even righteous disdain, a contemptuous denial would be enough.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000015.wav|It is a lovely story that follows, full of marvel, as how should it not be?|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000012_000001.wav|It would almost seem that, arrested by her misery, he had delayed his ascent, and shown himself sooner than his first intent.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000013_000002.wav|For the rest, we know so little of the new conditions of his bodily nature, that nothing is ours beyond conjecture.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000015_000001.wav|But I do not see why that which was born of the spirit of the Father, should not be so inter penetrated and possessed by the spirit of the Son, that, without the loss of one of its former faculties, it should be endowed with many added gifts of obedience; amongst the rest such as are indicated in the narrative before us.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000005_000000.wav|"Woman, why weepest thou?" repeats the gardener.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000002_000006.wav|Their trifling disagreement is to me even valuable from its truth to our human nature.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000013_000009.wav|There lie endless undiscovered treasures of grace.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000004_000000.wav|"Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him," answered Mary, and turning away, tear blinded, saw the gardener, as she thought.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000020_000003.wav|Not to believe in mutual recognition beyond, seems to me a far more reprehensible unbelief than that in the resurrection itself.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000020_000000.wav|With any theory of the conditions of our resurrection, I have scarcely here to do.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/240992/8396_240992_000003_000000.wav|"Woman, why weepest thou?" said the angels.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000020_000000.wav|"Thank you," spoke Uncle Wiggily, and then he hopped on to the store to get the loaf of bread and the pound of sugar for Nurse Jane.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000023_000001.wav|You can't fool me!|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000033_000001.wav|Ouch!|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000006_000000.wav|"A loaf of bread and a pound of sugar," she answered, and Uncle Wiggily started off.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000029_000001.wav|"No, I guess I'll first scratch you.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000005_000000.wav|"Indeed I will, Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy," said mr Longears, most politely. "What is it you want?"|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000017_000000.wav|"Thank you, Uncle Wiggily," said the beech tree.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000010_000000.wav|"Ha!|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000009_000000.wav|On his way to the store through the woods, the bunny uncle came to a big beech tree, which had nice, shiny white bark on it, and, to his surprise the rabbit gentleman saw a big black bear, standing up on his hind legs and scratching at the tree bark as hard as he could.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000004_000000.wav|"Will you go to the store for me, Uncle Wiggily?" asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, of the rabbit gentleman one day, as he sat out on the porch of his hollow stump bungalow in the woods.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000015_000001.wav|"The hunter man with his gun must be after me.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000012_000000.wav|So Uncle Wiggily picked up a stone, and throwing it at the bear, hit him on the back, where the skin was so thick it hurt hardly at all.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000029_000004.wav|I'll scrite you!"|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000034_000000.wav|And away he ran from the shower of sharp beech nuts which didn't hurt Uncle Wiggily at all because he raised his umbrella and kept them off. Then he thanked the tree for having saved him from the bear and went safely home.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000019_000000.wav|"The bear would not stop scratching my bark when I asked him to," went on the beech tree, "so I am glad you came along, and scared him.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000002_000000.wav|STORY twenty six|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000024_000001.wav|I wanted to save the beech tree."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000023_000002.wav|I know all about the trick you played on me.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000010_000003.wav|I must drive the bear away."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000021_000000.wav|It was on the way back from the store that an adventure happened to Uncle Wiggily.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000017_000001.wav|"You saved my life by not letting the bear scratch off all my bark."|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000025_000001.wav|"I'm going to scratch as much as I like!"|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000018_000000.wav|"I am glad I did," spoke the rabbit, making a polite bow with his tall silk hat, for mr Longears was polite, even to a tree.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000025_000000.wav|"Oh, I don't care!" cried the bear, saucy like and impolitely.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000029_000000.wav|"First, I'll bite you," said the bear.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8396/120280/8396_120280_000015_000002.wav|He has shot me once, but the bullet did not hurt.|8396
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000003.wav|For a long while she was sure he was bearing her feeling in mind, since it couldn't have changed since Christmas, and that when she arrived there she would find that he had had everything altered and all traces of Vera's life there removed.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000011.wav|Yet that couldn't be true either, for several times on the honeymoon he had begun talking of her, of things she had said, of things she had liked, and it was she, Lucy, who stopped him.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000001.wav|She soon learned that a doubt in her mind was better kept there.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000018.wav|That, at least, ought to be kept free from her.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000005.wav|She was to sleep in the very room that had been his and Vera's, in the very bed.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000014_000000.wav|Lucy fought and fought against it, but always at the back of her mind was the thought, not looked at, slunk away from, but nevertheless fixed, that there at The Willows, waiting for her, was Vera.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000002_000002.wav|You need no more be ashamed of telling him than of thinking them by yourself.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000003.wav|Sometimes Lucy would be sure that deep in his character there was a wonderful store of simple courage.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000005_000002.wav|A waiter, if you please.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000000.wav|Well, if she couldn't tell him the things she was feeling, why couldn't she get rid of the sorts of feelings she couldn't tell him, and just be wholesome?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000010_000000.wav|How difficult it was sometimes.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000006_000001.wav|He had had occasion to reprimand this waiter at lunch for gross negligence, and here was Lucy alleging he had done so without any reason that she could see, and anyhow roughly.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000011_000000.wav|'Is it possible,' she thought, 'that I am abject?'|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000004.wav|Then, when he began to talk about The Willows, she found that such an idea as alterations hadn't entered his head.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000003_000003.wav|Her mind was a chalice filled only with love, and so clear and bright was the love that even at the bottom, when she stirred it up to look, there wasn't a trace of sediment.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000010_000004.wav|For he was so much bigger than she was, so wonderful in the way he had triumphed over diseased thinking, and his wholesomeness would spread over her too, a purging, disinfecting influence, if only he would let her talk, if only he would help her to laugh.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000008.wav|She couldn't believe it.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000001_000000.wav|Early in their engagement Wemyss had expounded his theory to Lucy that there should be the most perfect frankness between lovers, while as for husband and wife there oughtn't to be a corner anywhere about either of them, mind, body, or soul, which couldn't be revealed to the other one.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000006.wav|And positively, so far was it from true that she could tell him every thought and talk everything over with him, when she discovered this she wasn't able to say more than that hesitating remark on the chateau terrace at Amboise about supposing he was going to change his bedroom.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000002_000001.wav|'Tell him your innermost thoughts, whatever they may be.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000012_000001.wav|Love had made her so.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000009_000000.wav|Of course as far as the minor wishes and preferences of every day went it was all quite easy, once she had grasped the right answer to the question, 'Would you like?' She instantly did like.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000000.wav|Well, that was at the very beginning.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000012_000000.wav|Yes, she was extremely abject, she reflected, lying awake at night considering her behaviour during the day.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000006_000002.wav|Would he remove the feeling of discomfort she had at being forced to think her own heart's beloved, the kindest and gentlest of men, hadn't been kind and gentle but unjust, by explaining?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000012_000002.wav|Love did make one abject, for it was full of fear of hurting the beloved.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000019.wav|Later on at The Willows....|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000002_000000.wav|'You can talk about everything to your Everard,' he assured her.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000010_000003.wav|She couldn't laugh all alone, though she was always trying to; with him she could have, and so have become quite sensible.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000010_000001.wav|When he said to her, 'You'll like the view from your sitting room at The Willows,' she naturally wanted to cry out that she wouldn't, and ask him how he could suppose she would like what was to her a view for ever associated with death?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000006_000000.wav|Wemyss's smile died away.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000016.wav|She might be too morbid, but wasn't it possible to be too wholesome?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000008_000005.wav|Silent trouble.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000003_000000.wav|Lucy thought so highly of it that she had no words with which to express her admiration, and fell to kissing him instead.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000008_000003.wav|There seemed to be no moment when it was in a condition of becoming, and she might have slipped in a suggestion or laid a wish before him; his plans were sprung upon her full fledged, and they were unalterable.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000005_000001.wav|But Lucy in such matters was content to follow him, aware of her want of experience and of the abundance of his, and the thought that was worrying her only had to do with a waiter.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000012_000003.wav|The assertion of the Scriptures that perfect love casteth out fear only showed, seeing that her love for Everard was certainly perfect, how little the Scriptures really knew what they were talking about.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000009.wav|What had perhaps happened, she thought, was that in self defence, for the preservation of his peace, he had made up his mind never to think of Vera.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000010.wav|Only by banishing her altogether from his mind would he be safe.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000007_000002.wav|If she brought it out to air it and dispel it by talking it over with him, all that happened was that he was hurt, and when he was hurt she instantly became perfectly miserable. Seeing, then, that this happened about small things, how impossible it was to talk with him of big things; of, especially, her immense doubt in regard to The Willows.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000002_000007.wav|What do you think of it?'|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000013.wav|She especially shrank from hearing her mentioned casually.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000004.wav|He didn't speak of Vera's death, naturally he didn't wish to speak of that awful afternoon, but how often he must think of it, hiding his thoughts even from her, bearing them altogether alone.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000004_000000.wav|But marriage-or was it sleeplessness?--completely changed this, and there were perfect crowds of thoughts in her mind that she was thoroughly ashamed of.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000005_000000.wav|Wemyss pricked up his ears, thinking it was something interesting to do with sex, and waited with an amused, inquisitive smile.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000010_000002.wav|Why shouldn't she be able to cry out naturally if she wanted to, to talk to him frankly, to get his help to cure herself of what was so ridiculous by laughing at it with him?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000008_000001.wav|What a comfort if, even if he had thought her too silly and morbid to be laughed at, he had indulged her and consented to alter those rooms.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000008_000004.wav|Sometimes he said, 'Would you like----?' and if she didn't like, and answered truthfully, as she answered at first before she learned not to, there was trouble.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000002_000006.wav|That, little Love, is real marriage.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48525/4438_48525_000013_000012.wav|She shrank from hearing anything about Vera.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000000.wav|All that day and all the next day Wemyss was Lucy's tower of strength and rock of refuge.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000002.wav|It is true the doctor was kind and ready to help, but he was a complete stranger; she had never seen him till he was fetched that dreadful morning; and he had other things to see to besides her affairs,--his own patients, scattered widely over a lonely countryside.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000005_000002.wav|Vera had accepted everything he did for her as a matter of course.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000039_000000.wav|'Remember you're to go to sleep and not think of anything,' Wemyss ordered as she went slowly upstairs.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000004_000000.wav|He saw she didn't like it when he went away, off along the top of the cliff on his various business visits, purpose in each step, a different being from the indignantly miserable person who had dragged about that very cliff killing time such a little while before; he could see she didn't like it.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000007.wav|She felt that since the beginning of time she and he had been advancing hand in hand towards just this place, towards just this house and garden, towards just this year, this August, this moment of existence.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000014_000000.wav|'Oh, but you have done good,' said Lucy, her voice, too, dropped into more than ordinary gentleness by the night, the silence, and the occasion; besides which it vibrated with feeling, it was lovely with seriousness, with simple conviction.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000003.wav|Wemyss had nothing to see to.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000004.wav|He could concentrate entirely on Lucy.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000028_000001.wav|'Don't cry again. Don't cry any more to night.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000017_000002.wav|Vera----|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000032_000000.wav|'He has,' said Lucy. 'Indeed He has already, in sending me you.' And she smiled up at him.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000018_000000.wav|'Who is Vera?' asked Lucy.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000020_000000.wav|'Ah, don't,' said Lucy earnestly, taking his hand very gently in hers. 'Don't talk of that to night please don't let yourself think of it.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000022_000000.wav|'Aren't we like two children,' he said, his voice, like hers, deepened by feeling, 'two scared, unhappy children, clinging to each other alone in the dark.'|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000015_000000.wav|And Wemyss said, Well, he had done his best and tried, and no man could say more, but judging from what-well, what people had said to him, it hadn't been much of a success sometimes, and often and often he had been hurt, deeply hurt, by being misunderstood.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000016_000000.wav|And Lucy said, How was it possible to misunderstand him, to misunderstand any one so transparently good, so evidently kind?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000027_000000.wav|'It's my hair,' said Lucy.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000033_000000.wav|For the first time since he had known her-and he too had the feeling that he had known her ever since he could remember-he saw her smile, and the difference it made to her marred, stained face surprised him.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000003_000003.wav|After each fruitful visit to the undertaker, and he paid several in his zeal, he came back to Lucy and she was grateful; and she was not only grateful, but very obviously glad to get him back.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000023_000000.wav|So they talked on in subdued voices as people do who are in some holy place, sitting close together, looking out at the starlit sea, darkness and coolness gathering round them, and the grass smelling sweetly after the hot day, and the little waves, such a long way down, lapping lazily along the shingle, till Wemyss said it must be long past bedtime, and she, poor girl, must badly need rest.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000004_000002.wav|He saw she didn't like it; he saw that she clung to him; and it pleased him.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000001_000000.wav|three|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000025_000000.wav|'Twenty two,' said Lucy.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000020_000001.wav|If I could only, only find the words that would comfort you----'|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000026_000000.wav|'You might just as easily be twelve,' he said, 'except for the sorts of things you say.'|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000005_000000.wav|'Don't be long,' she murmured each time, looking at him with eyes of entreaty; and when he got back, and stood before her again mopping his forehead, having triumphantly advanced the funeral arrangements another stage, a faint colour came into her face and she had the relieved eyes of a child who has been left alone in the dark and sees its mother coming in with a candle.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000005.wav|And he was her friend, linked to her so strangely and so strongly by death.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000028_000003.wav|It's time you were in bed.'|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000004_000001.wav|She knew he had to go, she was grateful and immensely expressive of her gratitude-Wemyss thought he had never met any one so expressively grateful-that he should so diligently go, but she didn't like it.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000006.wav|She felt she had known him for ever.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000029_000000.wav|And he helped her up, and when they got into the light of the hall he saw that she had, this time, successfully strangled her tears.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000007_000000.wav|He felt he was being delicate and tactful in this about the drawing room sofa.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000037_000000.wav|Then she laughed; but the sound of it in the silent, brooding house was shocking.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000013_000002.wav|It wasn't as if he had deserved it.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000002_000001.wav|He did everything that had to be done of the business part of death-that extra wantonness of misery thrown in so grimly to finish off the crushing of a mourner who is alone.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000013_000001.wav|Why this calm should have been interrupted, and so cruelly, he couldn't imagine.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000003_000000.wav|Wemyss dropped quite naturally into the place a near male relative would have been in if there had been a near male relative within reach; and his relief at having something to do, something practical and immediate, was so immense that never were funeral arrangements made with greater zeal and energy,--really one might almost say with greater gusto.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000006_000002.wav|What she would have done without him Wemyss couldn't think.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000030_000000.wav|'Good night,' she said, when he had lit her candle for her, 'good night, and-God bless you.'|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000027_000001.wav|'My father liked-he liked----'|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000019_000000.wav|'My wife.'|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000035_000000.wav|'Do what?' asked Lucy.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000011_000001.wav|'What would I have done without you?'|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000014_000001.wav|'Always, always I know that you've been doing good,' she said, 'being kind.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000024_000000.wav|'How old are you?' he asked suddenly, turning to her and scrutinising the delicate faint outline of her face against the night.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000005_000001.wav|Vera usedn't to look like that.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000014_000002.wav|I can't imagine you anything else but a help to people and a comfort.'|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/48513/4438_48513_000017_000001.wav|It wasn't much to ask.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000003_000004.wav|He could scarcely hear what it said, so ravished was he, though he controlled his face, for he knew that mr Higginbotham's ferret eyes were fixed upon him.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000009_000004.wav|But then, again, he had seen them when they didn't; and he wondered if it was only in the evening that arms were taken, or only between husbands and wives and relatives.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000017_000001.wav|They are splendid.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000015_000000.wav|Martin could have blessed her, though he said:-|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000005.wav|You belong by rights to girls like Lizzie Connolly.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000011_000000.wav|It wouldn't do any harm to try it, he decided, by the time they had reached the sidewalk; and he swung behind ruth and took up his station on the outside.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000003.wav|He had seen a great vision and was as a god, and he could feel only profound and awful pity for this maggot of a man.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000026_000000.wav|He looked at her and saw her eyes luminous with pity.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000011.wav|Yet he was not satisfied with his conclusion, and when he found himself on the inside, he talked quickly and earnestly, making a show of being carried away by what he was saying, so that, in case he was wrong in not changing sides, his enthusiasm would seem the cause for his carelessness.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000002.wav|Who are you?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000013_000002.wav|Only for an instant he hesitated, then his hand went up and his hat came off.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000016_000000.wav|"I don't know.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000008.wav|It was the only fit way in which he could express the tremendous and lofty emotion he felt for her.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000010_000000.wav|Just before he reached the sidewalk, he remembered Minnie.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000025_000000.wav|"I think you are right," ruth said in a low voice.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000009_000001.wav|It was not unalloyed bliss, taking her to the lecture.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000017_000002.wav|Her face is as clear cut as a cameo.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000006.wav|He should be on the outside.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000022_000002.wav|Before that time I talked as that girl talks.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000011_000003.wav|He had never offered anybody his arm in his life.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000000.wav|Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking glass, that night when he got back to his room.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000005.wav|Because of the years I put in on the sea.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000006_000000.wav|His hand trembled as he hung up the receiver, and he was weak from the organ which had stirred him.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000020_000001.wav|I'm sure you couldn't understand a quarter of what she said if she just spoke naturally."|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000006.wav|You belong with the legions of toil, with all that is low, and vulgar, and unbeautiful.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000013_000004.wav|She nodded and looked at him boldly, not with soft and gentle eyes like Ruth's, but with eyes that were handsome and hard, and that swept on past him to ruth and itemized her face and dress and station.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000010.wav|And he was only twenty one, and he had never been in love before.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000003_000002.wav|And such a voice!--delicate and sweet, like a strain of music heard far off and faint, or, better, like a bell of silver, a perfect tone, crystal pure. No mere woman had a voice like that.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000011_000007.wav|She wasn't that kind of a girl. He must do something.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000017_000003.wav|And her eyes are beautiful."|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000002.wav|Anger and hurt were beneath him.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000001.wav|He fought to suppress the eagerness in his voice.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000001.wav|When one's body is young, it is very pliable, and hard work will mould it like putty according to the nature of the work.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000011_000001.wav|Then the other problem presented itself.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000009.wav|And the next?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000009.wav|It was the sublime abnegation of true love that comes to all lovers, and it came to him there, at the telephone, in a whirlwind of fire and glory; and to die for her, he felt, was to have lived and loved well.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000013_000000.wav|As they crossed Broadway, he came face to face with a new problem.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000022_000001.wav|I have learned a new language since then.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000007.wav|And so with that girl. You noticed that her eyes were what I might call hard.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000011_000006.wav|But this was different.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000008.wav|And if he did so, would he have to repeat the manoeuvre the next time?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000028_000000.wav|He shook his fist at himself in the glass, and sat down on the edge of the bed to dream for a space with wide eyes.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000010.wav|There was something wrong about it, and he resolved not to caper about and play the fool.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000019_000001.wav|If that girl had proper opportunity to dress, mr Eden, and if she were taught how to carry herself, you would be fairly dazzled by her, and so would all men."|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000012.wav|Who are you? and what are you?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000001.wav|Not even the bestiality of the allusion could bring him back to earth.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000017_000000.wav|"Why, there isn't one woman in ten thousand with features as regular as hers.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000025_000001.wav|"And it is too bad. She is such a pretty girl."|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000011_000004.wav|The girls he had known never took the fellows' arms.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000014.wav|And are you going to make good?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000013_000001.wav|In the blaze of the electric lights, he saw Lizzie Connolly and her giggly friend.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000008.wav|She has never been sheltered.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000022_000000.wav|"You forget how I talked when you first met me.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000004.wav|He did not look at him, and though his eyes passed over him, he did not see him; and as in a dream he passed out of the room to dress.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000004.wav|And he had never dared to ask her to go anywhere with him.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000001.wav|And then the wonderful thing happened.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000000.wav|Would he!|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000022_000004.wav|And do you know why she carries herself the way she does?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000004.wav|Why am I rolling all about the shop?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000004.wav|Where do you belong?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000000.wav|But Martin could not come down from the height.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000004.wav|But he was soon back again, perturbed by a new complication.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000013_000003.wav|He could not be disloyal to his kind, and it was to more than Lizzie Connolly that his hat was lifted.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000010_000001.wav|Minnie had always been a stickler.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000002_000000.wav|"It's a lady's voice, a fine lady's," mr Higginbotham, who had called him, jeered.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000009.wav|Those potatoes are rotting.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000003_000001.wav|In his battle with the sonnet he had forgotten her existence, and at the sound of her voice his love for her smote him like a sudden blow.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000007.wav|You belong with the oxen and the drudges, in dirty surroundings among smells and stenches.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000005.wav|They were crossing the street. This would put him on the inside.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000000.wav|"She has worked long hours for years at machines.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000002.wav|He felt her hand upon his arm.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000013.wav|damn you!|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000020_000000.wav|"She would have to be taught how to speak," he commented, "or else most of the men wouldn't understand her.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000009.wav|She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like-like yours, for example."|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000026_000001.wav|And then he remembered that he loved her and was lost in amazement at his fortune that permitted him to love her and to take her on his arm to a lecture.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000002.wav|I can tell at a glance the trades of many workingmen I meet on the street.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000023_000000.wav|"But why does she?"|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000008.wav|There are the stale vegetables now.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000018_000000.wav|"Do you think so?" Martin queried absently, for to him there was only one beautiful woman in the world, and she was beside him, her hand upon his arm.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000022_000003.wav|Now I can manage to make myself understood sufficiently in your language to explain that you do not know that other girl's language.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000007_000002.wav|You'll be in the police court yet."|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000006.wav|On investigating this sound he identified it as the final snort of Bernard Higginbotham, which somehow had not penetrated to his brain before.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000028_000001.wav|Then he got out note book and algebra and lost himself in quadratic equations, while the hours slipped by, and the stars dimmed, and the gray of dawn flooded against his window.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000007.wav|Should he therefore drop her arm and change over?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000001_000000.wav|Early one evening, struggling with a sonnet that twisted all awry the beauty and thought that trailed in glow and vapor through his brain, Martin was called to the telephone.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000008_000005.wav|It was not until he had reached his own room and was tying his necktie that he became aware of a sound that lingered unpleasantly in his ears.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000010.wav|Smell them, damn you, smell them.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000006.wav|He loved her so much, so terribly, so hopelessly.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000019_000000.wav|"Do I think so?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000024_000003.wav|Look at me.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000022_000005.wav|I think about such things now, though I never used to think about them, and I am beginning to understand-much."|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000009_000003.wav|He had seen, on the streets, with persons of her class, that the women took the men's arms.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000021_000000.wav|"Nonsense!|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000009_000002.wav|He did not know what he ought to do.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000013_000005.wav|And he was aware that ruth looked, too, with quick eyes that were timid and mild as a dove's, but which saw, in a look that was a flutter on and past, the working class girl in her cheap finery and under the strange hat that all working class girls were wearing just then.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000003_000003.wav|There was something celestial about it, and it came from other worlds.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000016_000001.wav|I guess it's all a matter of personal taste, but she doesn't strike me as being particularly pretty."|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000006_000001.wav|His eyes were shining like an angel's, and his face was transfigured, purged of all earthly dross, and pure and holy.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000007_000000.wav|"Makin' dates outside, eh?" his brother in law sneered.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000005_000005.wav|Quite irrelevantly, still at the telephone and talking with her, he felt an overpowering desire to die for her, and visions of heroic sacrifice shaped and dissolved in his whirling brain.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000027_000003.wav|What are you?|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4438/52195/4438_52195_000012_000003.wav|Delicious thrills ran through him at the contact, and for a few sweet moments it seemed that he had left the solid earth and was flying with her through the air.|4438
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000002.wav|I was overwhelmed with horror at the merciless destruction of brave comrades, whose wounds, so gallantly received, should have been enough to inspire pity even in a heart of stone.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000018_000005.wav|And so I sought to alleviate her distress and to banish her sadness.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000005.wav|At last a grisly thought came to me: it was that they would learn these sweet strains, and put their own words to them so as to use them at the awful sacrifices.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000002.wav|It was to be the last sight of the sun for six months, and this was the spectacle upon which he threw his parting beam.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000001.wav|I found myself among a people who were at once the gentlest of the human race and the most blood thirsty-the kindest and the most cruel.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000002.wav|Then I played more lively airs.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000007_000003.wav|Almah wished to refuse, but I prevailed upon her to sit down, and she did so.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000005.wav|It seemed quite possible for the Kohen to kill his own child, or cut the throat of his wife, if the humor seized him.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000008.wav|She informed me that she would have to go, whereupon I assured her that this was an additional reason why I should go.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000007_000001.wav|The Kohen attended us with his usual kind and gracious consideration.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000016_000002.wav|Oh, horrible, horrible, thrice horrible spectacle!|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000016_000001.wav|All the others came forward in the same manner.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000002.wav|As the Kohen reached the summit there arose a strange sound-a mournful, plaintive chant, which seemed to be sung chiefly by the paupers at the base of the pyramid.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000015_000007.wav|Rejoice!|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000021_000001.wav|Music is all powerful to awaken the one, but powerless to abate the other; and the eyes that weep over the pathetic strains of "Lochaber" can gaze without a tear upon the death agonies of a slaughtered friend.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000019_000000.wav|The first time that I played was memorable.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000018_000009.wav|Almah was delighted at the proposal, and at once found a very clever workman, who under my direction succeeded in producing one which served my purpose well.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000018_000010.wav|I was a good violinist, and in this I was able to find solace for myself and for Almah for many a long hour.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000000.wav|I resolved to go on no more sacred hunts.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000004_000000.wav|THE BALEFUL SACRIFICE|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000000.wav|Some more joms had passed, and the light season had almost ended. The sun had been sinking lower and lower.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000014_000001.wav|We are lost if you move.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000006.wav|When I told Almah, she looked sad, but said nothing.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000007_000002.wav|It seemed almost as though he was our servant. He took us to a place where we could be seated, although all the others were standing.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000007.wav|There were thirty of them and they arranged themselves in three rows of ten each, and as they stood they never ceased to sing, while the paupers below joined in the strain.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000014_000002.wav|Keep still-restrain yourself-shut your eyes."|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000001.wav|The time had at last come when only a portion of his disk would be visible for a little while above the hills, and then he would be seen no more for six months of our time.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000011_000002.wav|One of the youths came forward, stepped upon it, and lay down on his back with his head toward the Kohen.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000005.wav|All this only served to heighten the effect of this striking scene; and as the light faded away, I looked with increasing curiosity upon the group at the top of the pyramid.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000005.wav|As I was anxious to witness some of their purely religious ceremonies, I wished to go.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000015_000008.wav|Give thanks to darkness!"|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000021_000000.wav|It is a land of tender love and remorseless cruelty.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000004.wav|There was no particular tune, and nothing like harmony; but the effect of so many voices uniting in this strain was very powerful and altogether indescribable.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000001.wav|I was sickened at the horrible cruelty, the needless slaughter, the mad self sacrifice which distinguished them.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000011_000003.wav|The mournful chant still went on.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000005.wav|Of what avail was all this profound respect, this incessant desire to please, this attention to our slightest wish, this comfort and luxury and splendor, this freedom of speech and action? Was it anything better than a mockery?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000009.wav|It was an awful thought!|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000019_000004.wav|They were the utterance of the human heart, and in them there was that touch of nature which makes all men kin.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000006.wav|Then they ascended the steps, two by two, still singing, and at length reached the summit, where they arranged themselves in order.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000008_000003.wav|The light was faint.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000002.wav|This mild, amiable, and self sacrificing Kohen, how was it possible that he should transform himself to a fiend incarnate?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000008_000000.wav|The scene was upon the semicircular terrace in front of the cavern, and we were seated upon a stone platform beside the chief portal.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000007.wav|Was it, after all, in any degree better than the kindness of the cannibal savages on those drear outer shores who received us with such hospitality, but only that they might destroy us at last?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000018_000004.wav|She felt as I did, and this despair of soul might wreck her young life if there were no alleviation.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000000.wav|I played "Tara," "Bonnie Doon," "The Last Rose of Summer," "The Land of the Leal," "Auld Lang Syne," "Lochaber." They stood entranced, listening with all their souls.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000015_000000.wav|I tried to do so, but could not.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000011_000004.wav|Then the Kohen raised his knife and plunged it into the heart of the youth.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000008.wav|Might they not all belong to the same race, dwelling as they did in caverns, shunning the sunlight, and blending kindness with cruelty?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000018_000002.wav|I tried for her sake to resist the feelings that were coming over me.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000002.wav|This was the dark season, and, as I had already learned, its advent was always hailed with joy and celebrated with solemn services, for the dark season freed them from their long confinement, permitted them to go abroad, to travel by sea and land, to carry on their great works, to indulge in all their most important labors and favorite amusements.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000004.wav|At first, however, there was rather twilight than darkness, and this twilight continued long.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000015_000002.wav|The Kohen took the victim, and drawing it from the altar, threw it over the precipice to the ground beneath.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000005.wav|In the midst of this I saw the crowd parting asunder so as to make way for something; and through the passage thus formed I saw a number of youths in long robes, who advanced to the pyramid, singing as they went.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000006.wav|Might it not be the shallow kindness of the priest to the victim reserved for the sacrifice?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000008_000001.wav|A vast crowd was gathered in front.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000011_000000.wav|Those fears were but too well founded, for now the dread ceremony began.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000000.wav|After this there remained a dark mystery and an ever present horror.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000003.wav|And for me and for Almah, what possible hope could there be?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000012_000000.wav|"Be firm," she said, "or we are both lost.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000018_000000.wav|Yet I had one consolation.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000014_000000.wav|"Don't move," she said, "for your life!|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000008_000004.wav|It came from the disk of the sun, which was partly visible over the icy crest of the distant mountains.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000008_000002.wav|Before us arose the half pyramid of which I have already spoken.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000003.wav|The gentleness, the incessant kindness, the matchless generosity of these people seemed all a mockery.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000008.wav|She said nothing, but looked at me with such an expression that I was filled with amazement.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000003.wav|So the sun passed away, and then there came the beginning of the long dark season.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000004.wav|What availed it all when the same hand that heaped favors upon me, the guest, could deal death without compunction upon friends and relatives?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000004.wav|There seemed to be nothing in this that could be repellent.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000010_000009.wav|I saw in her face something like a dreadful anticipation-something that spoke of coming evil.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000017_000004.wav|What fate might they have in reserve for us?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000007_000000.wav|I went with Almah.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000001.wav|They seemed to hunger and thirst after this music, and the strains of the inspired Celtic race seemed to come to them like the revelation of the glory of heaven.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000003.wav|Some I played a second time, singing the words.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000006_000003.wav|The Kohen asked me to be present at the great festival, and I gladly consented.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000001.wav|At the base there was a crowd of men, with emaciated forms and faces, and coarse, squalid attire, who looked like the most abject paupers, and seemed the lowest in the land.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000016_000003.wav|I do not remember how I endured it.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000019_000003.wav|In these there was nothing artificial, nothing transient.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000003.wav|The words of this chant I could not make out, but the melancholy strain affected me in spite of myself.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000005_000006.wav|And how long could I hope to be spared among a people who had this insane thirst for blood?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000009_000000.wav|The Kohen ascended the pyramid, and others followed.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000015_000001.wav|There was a horrible fascination about the scene which forced me to look and see all.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000006.wav|After that I would play no more.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000016_000000.wav|Then another of the youths went forward amid the singing, and laid himself down to meet the same fate; and again the corpse was flung from the top of the pyramid, and again the shout arose.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000008_000005.wav|Far away the sea was visible, rising high over the tops of the trees, while overhead the brighter stars were plainly discernible.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135227/2517_135227_000020_000004.wav|They seemed eager to have the same one played often.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000046_000000.wav|"Why, who are influential if he is not?" I asked.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000044_000001.wav|He is the chief man here, and ought to have great influence."|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000000.wav|Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000043_000000.wav|"The Kohen," said she; "why, he can do nothing."|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000003.wav|I could only wait, and try as best I might to quell my impatience.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000024_000001.wav|I could die happy now, since I know that you love me."|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000034_000000.wav|"The sacrifice!" exclaimed Almah, with another shudder.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000021_000000.wav|We had many things to say to one another, and long exchanges of confidence to make.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000008_000001.wav|I learned how dear she was. With her the brightness of life had passed; without her existence would be intolerable.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000004.wav|Calmness followed, and then all the circumstances of my life here conspired to perpetuate that calm.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000021_000003.wav|After this she had sunk into dull despair; she had grown familiar with horrors and lived in a state of unnatural calm.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000027_000000.wav|"Fate!" I repeated, looking at her in wonder and in deep concern. "What do you mean by our fate?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000029_000002.wav|I looked at her in wonder, and could not say a word.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000009_000000.wav|At length on one blessed jom, the Kohen came to me with a bright smile.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000021_000007.wav|I had the same fear of death which she had.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000023_000002.wav|We have seen the worst; let us now try to shake off these grisly thoughts, and be happy with one another. Your strength will soon be back, and while we have one another we can be happy even in this gloom."|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000010_000005.wav|It may have been caused by the bright light, but I attributed this to his loving heart, and I forgot that he was a cannibal.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000006_000001.wav|On asking after her I learned that she was ill.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000001.wav|Among all classes there seemed to be but one thought-her illness.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000020_000002.wav|After this we had much to say that we had never mentioned before.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000045_000001.wav|"The Kohen is the lowest and least influential man in the city."|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000008.wav|This, however, did not interfere in the slightest degree with the most intense interest in her, and the most assiduous attention.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000016_000001.wav|It was not the custom here to shake hands, but with his usual amiability he had adopted my custom, and used it as naturally as though he had been to the manner born.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000006_000008.wav|I felt utterly crushed. I forgot all else save her illness, and all that I had endured seemed as nothing when compared with this.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000028_000001.wav|For you and for me there is a fate-inconceivable, abhorrent, tremendous!--a fate of which I dare not speak or even think, and from which there is no escape whatever."|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000010_000007.wav|He looked at me with a sweet and gentle smile.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000026_000002.wav|There is no hope.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000014_000000.wav|At all this I was so full of amazement that I could not say one word.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000039_000002.wav|Death is terrible; yet it may be endured-if there is only death.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000017_000000.wav|I was encouraged now.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000010.wav|On the whole, I felt more than ever puzzled, and less able than ever to understand these people.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000023_000000.wav|"What do you mean by that?" I asked, anxiously.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000016_000000.wav|Saying this, he pressed my hand and left me.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000009.wav|Everything combined to make her most dear to me.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000035_000002.wav|It is our doom the great sacrifice-at the end of the dark season.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000012_000000.wav|I pressed his hands harder, but said nothing.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000032_000003.wav|I saw it all at once.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000019_000003.wav|Oh, forgive me, but I must tell you-and don't weep, darling."|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000032_000002.wav|You came.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000033_000000.wav|"Our doom?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000006.wav|I had light and luxury and amusements.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000020_000001.wav|She said nothing, but twined her arms around my neck and wept on my breast.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000001.wav|Sadness, whether from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind, may linger on through life. In my case, however, the milder and more enduring feeling of sadness had no sufficient cause for existence.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000025_000002.wav|No, Almah, let us live and love-let us hope-let us fly."|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000000.wav|At last I learned that she was much better, and would be out on the following jom.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000007.wav|Around me there were thousands of faces, all greeting me with cordial affection, and thousands of hands all ready to perform my slightest wish.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000020_000000.wav|She was weeping as I spoke.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000010.wav|My life had been such that I never before had seen anyone whom I loved; and here Almah was the one congenial associate in a whole world of aliens: she was beautiful and gentle and sympathetic, and I loved her dearly, even before I understood what my feelings were.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000025_000000.wav|"Death!" said I; "do not talk of it-do not mention that word.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000000.wav|In the midst of my own anxiety I was surprised to find that the whole community was most profoundly agitated.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000035_000003.wav|It is at the amir.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000008_000002.wav|Her sweet voice, her tender and gracious manner, her soft touch, her tender, affectionate smile, her mournful yet trustful look-oh, heavens! would all these be mine no more?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000006_000007.wav|While she was absent, life was nothing; all its value, all its light, its flavor, its beauty, were gone.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000044_000000.wav|"Why not?|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000042_000002.wav|Above all, there was the Kohen, so benevolent, so self denying, so amiable, so sympathetic.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000012_000001.wav|Indeed, I could not trust myself to speak.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000021_000001.wav|She now for the first time told me all the sorrow that she had endured in her captivity-sorrow which she had kept silent and shut up deep within her breast.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000002.wav|Sleep was impossible.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000017_000005.wav|But just then all this was unknown, and I judged him by myself.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000017_000003.wav|In all this he seemed more like a man of my own race than before, and in his eager desire for her recovery he failed to exhibit that love for death which was his nature.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000027_000001.wav|Is there anything more which you know and which I have not heard?"|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000003.wav|But when the first rush of this feeling had passed there came a reaction.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000040_000002.wav|Oh, horror, horror, horror!|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000004.wav|At last the time came.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000010_000006.wav|I took his hands in mine and pressed them in deep emotion.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000003.wav|It seemed to be the one subject of interest, beside which all others were forgotten.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000041_000001.wav|The shock of this discovery was overpowering, and some time elapsed before I could rally from it.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000022_000000.wav|"Then," said Almah, "I felt the full meaning of all that lies before us."|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000017_000001.wav|The mild Kohen came often to cheer me.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000013_000003.wav|When I first saw you I thought that you would be a fit companion for her here-that you would lessen her gloom, and that she would be pleasant to you.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000008_000003.wav|I could not endure the thought.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000026_000001.wav|"We cannot fly.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000005.wav|I was somewhat perplexed, however, at their manner.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000010_000004.wav|The physicians say that she will soon be well." There were tears in his eyes as he spoke.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000021_000006.wav|The darkness, the bloodshed, the sacrifices, all these affected me as they had once affected her.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000015_000000.wav|"Pardon me," continued he, "if I have said anything that may seem like an intrusion upon your secret and most sacred feelings.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000042_000001.wav|Hope is ever ready to arise; and I began to think that these people, though given to evil ways, were after all kind hearted, and might listen to entreaty.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000032_000004.wav|I have known it-dreaded it-tried to fight against it.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000013_000001.wav|You are both of a different race from us; you are both much alike, and in full sympathy with one another.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000035_000001.wav|I have no one but you. The sacrifice, the sacrifice!|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000007.wav|Indeed, from what I heard it seemed as though this strange people regarded sickness as rather a blessing than otherwise.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000013_000004.wav|I found out soon that I was right, and I felt glad, for you at once showed the fullest sympathy with one another.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000009.wav|She bore still the marks of her illness.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000040_000000.wav|Now the full meaning flashed upon me, and I saw it all.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000031_000001.wav|What is this fate which you fear so much?"|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000025_000001.wav|It is more abhorrent than ever.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000049_000000.wav|"Yes," said Almah.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000050_000000.wav|This was incomprehensible.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000010_000001.wav|"Eat, I beseech you.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000010.wav|She seemed deeply embarrassed and agitated at the fervor of my greeting; while I, instead of apologizing or trying to excuse myself, only grew more agitated still.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000048_000000.wav|"The paupers!" I exclaimed, in amazement.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000045_000000.wav|"You don't understand," said she, with a sigh.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000040_000004.wav|I could not speak.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000001.wav|This intelligence filled me with a fever of eager anticipation, so great that I could think of nothing else.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000035_000000.wav|"Do not leave me!" she cried-"do not leave me!|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000012.wav|He looked like an anxious father, full of tenderest love for a sick child-full also of delicate sympathy with me; and yet I knew all the time that he was quite capable of plunging the sacrificial knife in Almah's heart and of eating her afterward.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000007.wav|I sprang up, and, hurrying toward her, I caught her in my arms and wept for joy.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000034_000001.wav|In her voice and look there was a terrible meaning, which I could not fail to take. I understood it now, and my blood curdled in my veins.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000006.wav|They were certainly agitated and intensely interested, yet not exactly sad.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000008.wav|Above all, there was Almah.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000007_000009.wav|The Kohen in particular was devoted to her. He was absent minded, silent, and full of care.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000039_000000.wav|"Oh!" she cried, "you will not understand.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000005_000002.wav|The sights which I had seen inspired horror, and horror only.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000004_000000.wav|I LEARN MY DOOM|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000018_000008.wav|Ah me, how pale she looked!|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000010_000003.wav|But now all danger is past.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000042_000003.wav|I could not forget all that he had said during Almah's illness, and it seemed more than probable that an appeal to his better nature might not be without effect.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000047_000000.wav|"The paupers," said Almah.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000013_000002.wav|This draws you together.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2517/135229/2517_135229_000040_000005.wav|I caught her in my arms, and we both wept passionately.|2517
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000076_000000.wav|The Democratic Judiciary Committee of the House which had refused to report suffrage to the House for a vote, had only one Democratic member from a suffrage state, mr Taggart of Kansas, standing for reelection.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000042_000003.wav|For the first time in history representatives of men's political parties came to plead before these women voters for the support of their respective parties.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000049_000005.wav|They did so. The President chose the plank and his subordinates followed his lead.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000067_000001.wav|The people were excited to an almost unprecedented pitch over the issue of peace versus war.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000079_000000.wav|Again, with more force, national suffrage had been injected into a campaign where it was not wanted, where the leaders had hoped the single issue of "peace" would hold the center of the stage. Again many women had stood together on this issue and put woman suffrage first.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000038_000002.wav|Oh, no, indeed; it was men's business to keep the nation out of war.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000020_000000.wav|Women from all the voting states assembled in a mass convention september fourteenth fifteen and sixteen.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000073_000001.wav|The women there voted two to one against mr Wilson and for mr Hughes.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000048_000005.wav|The two major parties acknowledged the issue by writing it into their party platforms.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000076_000001.wav|This was the only spot where women could strike out against the action of this committee and mr Taggart. They struck with success.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000014_000000.wav|Our aim in this campaign was primarily to call to the attention of the public the bad suffrage record of the Democratic Party. The effect of our campaign was soon evident in Congress.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000025_000000.wav|The envoys, symbolic of the new strength that was to come out of the West, made their journey across continent by automobile.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000050_000001.wav|It would not permit it even to be reported from the Judiciary Committee.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000008.wav|Often he was heckled.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000034_000001.wav|"Sirs, that depends upon what you gentlemen do.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000012_000002.wav|Nor did they relish spending more money publishing more literature, in short, adding greatly to the burdens of their campaign.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000018_000002.wav|This red herring drawn across the path had been accepted by the conservative suff ragists evidently in a moment of hopelessness, and their strength put behind it, but the politicians who persuade them to back it knew that it was merely an attempt to evade the issue.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000070_000000.wav|Space will not permit in this book to give more than a hint of the scope and strength of our campaign.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000050_000000.wav|Protected by the President's plank, the Democratic Congress continued to block national suffrage.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000048_000002.wav|To be sure, they were planks that failed to satisfy us.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000049_000003.wav|If the Republicans could afford to write a vague and indefinite plank, the President and his party could not.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000048_000001.wav|The Republican National Convention, meeting immediately. after the Woman's Party Convention, and the Democratic National Convention the week following, both included suffrage planks in their national platforms for the first time in history.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000038_000005.wav|Logic must not be pressed too hard upon the "reasoning" sex.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000055_000000.wav|Miss Mabel Vernon of Delaware, beloved and gifted crusader, was the first member of the Woman's Party to commit a "militant" act. President Wilson, speaking at the dedication services of the Labor Temple in Washington, was declaring his interest in all classes and all struggles.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000006.wav|He pleaded.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000072_000006.wav|But just as the Progressive Party's protest had been effective in securing progressive legislation without winning the election, so the Woman's Party hoped its protest would bring results in Congress without attempting to win the election.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000005.wav|He explained.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000014_000001.wav|The most backward member realized for the first time that women had voted. Even the President perceived that the movement had gained new strength, though he was not yet politically moved by it.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000023_000001.wav|These women from the deserts of Arizona, from the farms of Oregon, from the valleys of California, from the mountains of Nevada and Utah, were in deadly earnest.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000072_000003.wav|The appeal was to vote a vote of protest against mr Wilson and his Congressional candidates, because he and his party had had the power to pass the amendment through Congress and had refused to do so.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000072_000001.wav|It must be made perfectly clear that the Woman's Party did not attempt to elect mr Hughes. It did not feel strong enough to back a candidate in its first battle, and did not conduct its fight affirmatively at all.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000076_000002.wav|He was defeated almost wholly by the women's votes.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000063_000000.wav|The President accepted at once the opportunity to speak before a convention of suffragists at Atlantic City in an effort to prove his great belief in suffrage.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000012_000001.wav|Of course, the Democratic leaders did not welcome an issue raised unexpectedly, and one which forced them to spend an endless amount of time apologizing for and explaining the Democratic Party's record.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000048_000004.wav|The new Woman's Party had declared suffrage a national political issue.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000074_000000.wav|Men outnumber women throughout the entire western territory; in some states, two and three to one; in Nevada, still higher.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000001.wav|At least a third of each speech was devoted to suffrage.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000007_000003.wav|"You can do no good here.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000005_000000.wav|But the women had faith in their appeal.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000029_000001.wav|The envoys replied by asking that their message be carried by friends of the measure to the floor of the Senate and House, and this was done.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000002.wav|He urged.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000023_000002.wav|They had answered the call and they meant to stay in the fight until it was won.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000007_000000.wav|The campaign became a very hot one during which most of the militancy seemed to be on the side of the political leaders. Heavy fists came down on desks.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000064_000006.wav|Enticing doctrine to women the peace lovers of the human race.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000032_000003.wav|It|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000049_000006.wav|It may be remarked in passing that this declaration so solidified the opposition within the President's party that when the President ultimately sought to repudiate it, he met stubborn resistance.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000007.wav|He condemned.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000054_000000.wav|Meanwhile the women continued to protest.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000032_000000.wav|No more questions on mother and home!|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000025_000001.wav|They created a sensation all along the way, received as they were by governors, by mayors, by officials high and low, and by the populace.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000002_000000.wav|Chapter two|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000072_000005.wav|It was to be expected that the main strength of the vote taken from mr Wilson would go to mr Hughes, as few women perhaps threw their votes to the minority parties.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000048_000003.wav|But the mere hint of organized political action on suffrage had moved the two dominant parties to advance a step.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000030_000001.wav|This visit of the representatives of women with power marked rather an advance in the President's position.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000047_000000.wav|power to free women; a party which became a potent factor of protest in the following national election.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000007_000001.wav|Harsh words were spoken. Violent threats were made.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000044_000000.wav|All laid their claims for suffrage support before the women with the result that the convention resolved itself into another political party The Woman's Party.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000028_000002.wav|Casting a vote for it would help his case with women voters, and still not bring suffrage in the East a step nearer.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000062_000000.wav|We also went to the country.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000068_000004.wav|He apologized.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000042_000002.wav|For the first time in history, women came together to organize their political power into a party to free their own sex.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000049_000001.wav|The Democratic Party made its suffrage plank specific against action by Congress.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000036_000001.wav|And so the hearing passed in something of a verbal riot, but with no doubt as to the fact that Congressmen were alarmed by the prospect of women voting as a protest group.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000050_000002.wav|The party platform was written.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000042_000000.wav|The instant response which met this appeal surpassed the most optimistic hopes.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000038_000006.wav|This time, men would do it.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000077_000001.wav|As much literature was used on suffrage as on peace in the suffrage states.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2709/158074/2709_158074_000030_000000.wav|The envoys waited upon the President at the White House.|2709
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000095_000000.wav|Javert thrust aside the book which the coachman held out to him, and said:|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000107_000000.wav|Javert had taken his departure.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000043_000000.wav|"So you have brought him thither from the barricade?" remarked Javert.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000033_000001.wav|Dispose of me as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000086_000000.wav|"Let me go home for one instant.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000005.wav|The river flowed to his feet with the sound of a kiss.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000090_000000.wav|They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000062_000000.wav|Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the presence of the porter of a factious person.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000074_000000.wav|The porter did not stir.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000023_000000.wav|"I."|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000032_000000.wav|Jean Valjean replied, and the sound of his voice appeared to rouse Javert:|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000059_000002.wav|This good, old quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily under their coverlet.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000009_000000.wav|It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to permit of recognition at close quarters.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000079_000001.wav|Basque woke Nicolette; Nicolette roused great aunt Gillenormand.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000100_000001.wav|It was deserted as usual.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000051_000000.wav|Javert kept Marius' pocket book.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000012_000000.wav|We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is familiar.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000094_000003.wav|At the same time, drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation."|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000105_000004.wav|The street lantern, situated directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some economy in illumination.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000094_000002.wav|He added that an indemnity was due him.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000014_000000.wav|Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while before.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000080_000000.wav|As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would hear about the matter early enough in any case.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000106_000001.wav|He leaned out over the street.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000010_000002.wav|Then he bent down swiftly to Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few drops on the latter's face.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000094_000001.wav|That is the way he understood it.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000082_000000.wav|The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their arrival, in terrified somnolence.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000104_000003.wav|He pushed open the door, entered the house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000100_000005.wav|The door opened.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000056_000000.wav|At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' hair.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000019_000000.wav|Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000041_000000.wav|Jean Valjean replied:|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000092_000000.wav|Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean Valjean.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000102_000000.wav|He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an effort in speaking in this manner:|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000029_000003.wav|At length he released Jean Valjean, straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered this question:|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000034_000000.wav|Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to think him capable of making a concession.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000052_000000.wav|A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane of the watering place, was on the shore.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000059_000000.wav|Everyone in the house was asleep.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000016_000001.wav|An ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000100_000004.wav|Jean Valjean knocked.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000054_000002.wav|A glacial silence reigned in the carriage.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000081_000001.wav|He understood and descended the stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000031_000000.wav|He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as thou.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000034_000001.wav|Nevertheless, he did not say "no"|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000100_000002.wav|Javert followed Jean Valjean.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000021_000000.wav|Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer looked like himself.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000035_000000.wav|Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood stained brow.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000106_000002.wav|It is short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000018_000001.wav|An assassin, what a godsend!|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000105_000002.wav|The window on the landing place, which was a sash window, was open.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000104_000002.wav|However, he could not be greatly surprised that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of its claws, seeing that Jean Valjean had made up his mind to surrender himself and to make an end of it.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000091_000001.wav|To finish what he had begun; to warn Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other useful information, to take, if he could, certain final measures.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000024_000000.wav|"Who is 'I'?"|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000020_000000.wav|These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thenardier upon Javert, was a rude shock.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000028_000003.wav|Take me. Only grant me one favor."|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000006_000000.wav|He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000093_000001.wav|Javert and Jean Valjean alighted.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000070_000000.wav|Javert continued:|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000073_000001.wav|Go waken his father."|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000097_000001.wav|Eighty francs, mr Inspector."|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000076_000000.wav|And he added:|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000007.wav|A few stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity. Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of the infinite.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000054_000001.wav|The coachman, a black form on his box, whipped up his thin horses.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000002.wav|Everywhere around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has set in an unclouded azure sky.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000029_000002.wav|His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his nose, a sign of savage revery.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000033_000000.wav|"It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000026_000001.wav|Their faces almost touched.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000045_000000.wav|Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000105_000001.wav|All sorrowful roads have their stations.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000100_000000.wav|They entered the street.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000083_000000.wav|They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000084_000000.wav|"Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor."|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000045_000001.wav|He resumed:|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000104_000000.wav|Jean Valjean looked at Javert.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000089_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven-CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000064_000000.wav|"Here.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000048_000001.wav|Besides this, Javert possessed in his eye the feline phosphorescence of night birds.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000061_000001.wav|It was even beating a little less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a certain fresh access of life.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000029_000001.wav|He kept his eyes riveted on Jean Valjean.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000018_000002.wav|Such an opportunity must never be allowed to slip.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000013_000000.wav|He turned round.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000077_000000.wav|"There will be a funeral here to morrow."|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000003.wav|Twilight had descended; night was drawing on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of darkness that they may escape from an anguish.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000105_000003.wav|As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light from without and had a view on the street.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000021_000001.wav|He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his bludgeon in his fist, by an imperceptible movement, and said in a curt, calm voice:|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000018_000000.wav|Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thenardier's part. Thenardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a bone to that sleuth hound.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000072_000000.wav|"To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000060_000000.wav|In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the coachman under the knees.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000093_000000.wav|At the entrance to the Rue de l'Homme Arme, the carriage halted, the way being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000068_000000.wav|Jean Valjean, who, soiled and tattered, stood behind Javert, and whom the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his head that this was not so.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000054_000000.wav|They quitted the quays and entered the streets.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000105_000000.wav|On arriving at the first floor, he paused.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000049_000000.wav|Then he exclaimed: "Coachman!"|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000028_000001.wav|Moreover, I have regarded myself as your prisoner ever since this morning.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000052_000001.wav|Marius was laid upon the back seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000101_000001.wav|"Go up stairs."|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000063_000000.wav|"Some person whose name is Gillenormand?"|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000017_000002.wav|The reader knows the rest.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000001.wav|The pure, healthful, living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000061_000000.wav|As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the latter's clothes, which were broadly rent, felt his breast, and assured himself that his heart was still beating.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000027_000000.wav|Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion submitting to the claws of a lynx.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000011_000000.wav|Jean Valjean was on the point of dipping his hand in the river once more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, such as a person feels when there is some one behind him whom he does not see.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000098_000000.wav|Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000029_000000.wav|Javert did not appear to hear him.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000053_000000.wav|The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the quays in the direction of the Bastille.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000059_000001.wav|People go to bed betimes in the Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000101_000000.wav|"It is well," said Javert.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000106_000000.wav|Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, thrust his head out of this window.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000000.wav|The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000008_000004.wav|The sky presented itself in all directions like an enormous calm.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000042_000000.wav|"no|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000094_000000.wav|The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000073_000000.wav|"He has got himself killed.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000050_000000.wav|The reader will remember that the hackney coach was waiting in case of need.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000058_000001.wav|The gate opened a little way and Javert gave it a push.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000015_000000.wav|A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was visible, stood a few paces in the rear of the spot where Jean Valjean was crouching over Marius.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000086_000001.wav|Then you shall do whatever you like with me."|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000046_000001.wav|I do not recollect his name."|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000058_000000.wav|Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr confronting each other, he gave a violent peal.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000091_000000.wav|What did Jean Valjean want?|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000010_000000.wav|For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19208/5448_19208_000010_000001.wav|Jean Valjean could not refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over him; thoughtfully he bathed in the sea of ecstasy and prayer in the majestic silence of the eternal heavens.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000022.wav|His mother is dead.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000003_000000.wav|The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000002_000004.wav|A full pail was reddened in an instant.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000016_000001.wav|Begin by telling me one thing.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000008.wav|A barricade!|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000025_000000.wav|He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and to whom the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000006.wav|Killed!|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000019_000007.wav|You blood drinker!|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000029_000018.wav|At twenty!|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000010.wav|Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe?|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000028_000000.wav|Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other side of an abyss:|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000026.wav|He could not manage to pronounce his d's.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000002_000005.wav|The porter, candle in hand, lighted them.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000016_000000.wav|"Sir," said he, "you are the doctor.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000003.wav|Not a single scar disfigured his face; but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of these wounds on the head?|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000006.wav|A grave symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always recover from such swoons.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000008.wav|From the waist down, the barricade had protected the lower part of the body from injury.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000002.wav|The arms had been slashed with sabre cuts.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000015_000000.wav|Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this centenarian as erect as a young man.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000013_000000.wav|"Sir," said Basque, "Monsieur has just been brought back.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000000_000001.wav|At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been prepared beside the sofa.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000007_000002.wav|In the evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through sheer fatigue.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000024_000013.wav|I am going to tell you.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000001.wav|The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation of the broken collar bone, and the disorder there was serious.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000010_000000.wav|He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless and brilliantly lighted up.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000008_000001.wav|Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000004.wav|Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle, or would they attack the brain?|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000005.wav|As yet, this could not be decided.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000002_000003.wav|The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with cold water.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000029_000017.wav|Just think of it!|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000029_000028.wav|Come, he's dead, completely dead.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000009_000000.wav|He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the half open door, with his head bent a little forward and quivering, his body wrapped in a white dressing gown, which was straight and as destitute of folds as a winding sheet; and he had the air of a phantom who is gazing into a tomb.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000002_000001.wav|As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000019_000009.wav|Misery of my life, he is dead!"|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000000.wav|The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by the pocket book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not dangerous.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000001_000007.wav|Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted by hemorrhage.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000000_000003.wav|She set herself to telling her beads in her own chamber.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000004_000000.wav|A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor with himself.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000003_000001.wav|From time to time, he made a negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which he had inwardly addressed to himself.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000007_000001.wav|He had not been able to sleep on the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long.|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5448/19209/5448_19209_000025_000001.wav|The old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death agony:|5448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000086_000000.wav|By this time they had taken to their oars again, but there were only two of them pulling: a sure indication of the extent to which our last shot had told.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000010_000000.wav|"Broad on our lee bow," I answered, still clinging to the thin wire topmast shrouds.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000002_000001.wav|The wind hauled gradually more round from the northward too, and blew warm and balmy; a most welcome change after the raw and chilly weather we had lately experienced.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000012_000000.wav|"Either a barque or a brig," answered I; "the latter I am inclined to believe, though he is still too far away for his mizzen mast to show, if he has one."|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000084_000000.wav|"Now," shouted I, "luff you may, Bob, and let's heave the craft to, and finish the job for them."|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000030_000000.wav|Bob, on the other hand, was delighted beyond measure, stoutly avowing that the falling breeze was little, if anything, short of a divine manifestation in our favour.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000011_000000.wav|"What d'ye make her out to be, Harry, my lad?" was the next question.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000071_000001.wav|It was a most beautiful little weapon, exquisitely finished; was a breech loader, and threw a solid shot about a mile, and a shell nearly half as far again.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000047_000000.wav|It was by this time perfectly manifest that whatever he might be able to do in a breeze, he had no chance with us in a light air like the present; and I entertained strong hopes of being able to slip past him unscathed, when I felt sanguine of our ability to get fairly away from him in a chase dead to windward.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000062_000000.wav|Friend Johnson was evidently greatly nettled at our having slipped so handsomely through his fingers as we had, and seemed determined to have a word or two with us yet, whether we would or no; for he had lowered one of his boats, and she was just leaving the vessel in chase.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000071_000000.wav|This gun was, as I think I have mentioned before, a four pound rifled piece, which was specially made to my order by an eminent firm.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000021_000002.wav|If we are both going at about the same speed, I should say we shall pass extremely close to her."|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000023_000000.wav|"To the northward, rather edging down towards us, if anything, I thought."|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000109_000001.wav|At length it came.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000025_000001.wav|Having reached the cross trees, he stood upon them, with one hand grasping the peak halliards to steady himself, whilst with the other he shaded his eyes.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000032_000000.wav|We were very busy with the viands, keeping one eye always on the brig however, when we noticed something fluttering over her taffrail; and the next moment a flag of some sort floated up to her peak.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000065_000001.wav|So I directed Bob to keep the cutter away about three points, and then lash the tiller, and lend me a hand to get our balloon canvas set.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000006_000000.wav|One morning, the wind having fallen considerably lighter during the preceding night, as soon as breakfast was over I roused up our square headed topsail, with the intention of setting it in the room of the small one.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000105_000001.wav|Judging that more powder would have to be burned after all, I once more loaded our little piece, charging with shell as before; and whilst I was doing this our pursuers opened fire upon us.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000018_000000.wav|At the same time there was of course a possibility of our being mistaken as to the craft in sight being the pirate brig, it being by no means an unusual thing for vessels as small as she was, or even smaller, to venture round the Cape.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000109_000002.wav|The shell entered the starboard bow of the pursuing boat, about midway between her gunwale and her water line; and immediately, to our great surprise, there was a violent explosion on board her.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000042_000000.wav|"You are right, Bob," I replied, glancing at the compass; "he is more than a point farther aft than he was a quarter of an hour ago; but is it not possible that we are giving ourselves needless uneasiness?|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000029_000000.wav|The wind, however, was dropping fast; and by the time that the sun was on the meridian we were not going more than five knots.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000049_000001.wav|"Three more such fool's tricks as that, and we'll say good bye t'ye without ever having been within range.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000075_000001.wav|I carefully levelled the piece accordingly, and desiring Bob to sit well out of the line of fire and steer as steadily as possible, I watched the heave of the cutter, and pulled the trigger line.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000086_000001.wav|They were turning the boat round to pull back to the ship, and seeing this I felt some compunction about firing on them again, and said so.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000073_000000.wav|I had it loaded, and was in the act of levelling it, when Bob said, "Suppose we was to let them chaps get a bit nearer, Hal, afore we opens fire.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000090_000000.wav|The shell struck the boat's stern fairly amidships, and close to the water line; there was an explosion, but both the oarsmen appeared to be unhurt.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000049_000000.wav|"Do that again, you lubber!" exclaimed Bob, contemptuously apostrophising the brig.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000082_000001.wav|We saw four fall from the thwarts, at all events, and all hands ceased pulling, whilst three of the oars slipped unnoticed overboard.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000067_000000.wav|This additional spread of canvas, coupled with the fact that we were running far enough off the wind to permit of its drawing well, made a perceptible difference in our speed-quite a knot, I considered, and Bob agreed with me.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000072_000001.wav|Bob took the tiller, desiring me to work the gun, as I was not only a more practised artillerist than he, but knew also how to handle a breech loader, and I had the knack somehow of shooting straight.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000063_000000.wav|I took the glass, and counted six men at the oars, besides one or two (I could not be sure which) in the stern sheets.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000016_000000.wav|I was inclined to take the same view of the matter that Bob did.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000055_000000.wav|The shot shaved us pretty close to windward nevertheless, striking the water for the last time just short of our taffrail, and scurrying along and ploughing up the surface close enough to give us a pretty copious shower bath of spray ere it finally sank just ahead of us.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER TEN.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000038_000000.wav|"Commercial code pennant," said he; and then he read out the flags beneath it.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000019_000001.wav|What, under such circumstances, is your advice?"|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000097_000000.wav|As soon as I had got the spinnaker set, I took the glass and had a good look at the boat we had beaten off.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000099_000000.wav|Almost immediately there was a furious splashing, and by the aid of the glass I distinctly saw the dorsal fins of several sharks darting here and there among them, whilst over the glassy surface of the water a shriek or two came faintly towards us.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000060_000000.wav|I had not been below above two minutes when I heard his voice shouting to me to come on deck again.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000094_000000.wav|The boat was very much disabled, and appeared to be sinking gradually, notwithstanding their efforts to keep her afloat, for they were now baling rapidly;--but I thought it best to make sure of her, so once more loaded and fired.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000080_000000.wav|I was too busy with the gun to reply just then, and in another moment I fired once more.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000061_000000.wav|The wind had by this time fallen so light that we were not making above three knots' way through the water, whilst the pirate appeared barely to have steerage way-in fact, his canvas was flapping to the mast with every sluggish roll which the vessel took over the long, scarcely perceptible swell.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000033_000000.wav|I was at the tiller; so Bob took the glass, and levelling it at the brig, gave her a more thorough scrutiny than we had bestowed upon her at all hitherto.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000052_000000.wav|"That's his long gun, Bob," said I; "his broadside guns would never reach so far as this, and though we're just now in rather warm quarters, we shall be out of range again very soon; and then, I think, we need give ourselves no further trouble concerning him.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000005_000001.wav|We were fairly in the Pacific, the region of fine weather; and our little barkie had behaved so well in the gale that our confidence in her seaworthiness was thoroughly established; so that all fear of future danger from bad weather was completely taken off our minds.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000064_000000.wav|This was serious indeed; for a light boat, propelled by six good oarsmen, would go about two feet to our one at our then rate of sailing, and must necessarily soon overhaul us.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000051_000002.wav|"Well missed!" added he, as the shot struck the water close to us, and bounded fairly over the boat, passing close beneath the main boom and the foot of the mainsail, without injuring so much as a ropeyarn.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000048_000001.wav|He had aimed apparently so as to throw the shot across our fore foot; but it fell short by about fifty feet.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000034_000002.wav|Well, anyhow, we won't be behindhand with him in the matter of politeness;" and therewith Master Bob dived below, returning in a moment with our ensign and club burgee in his hand, which he bent to their respective halliards and ran them up-the one to our gaff end, and the other to our mast head.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000081_000001.wav|This looked like a fixed determination to come alongside at any price, so I this time inserted a shell instead of a solid shot, which I had before been firing.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000087_000000.wav|"Don't be such a soft hearted donkey, Harry, lad," retorted Bob. "Settle the whole lot if you can, boy; it'll only be so many skulking cut throats the less in the world.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000095_000000.wav|The shell passed through her stern this time also, and exploded; there was a shrill scream from more than one agonised throat, and the baling and pulling ceased altogether; every man in her was wounded, if not killed outright.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000109_000000.wav|I accordingly levelled the breech loader, and then waited for a favourable opportunity to fire.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000007_000000.wav|But when I proceeded to take the latter in, I found that the halliards were somehow jammed aloft, and I shinned up to clear them.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000070_000000.wav|"So be it," replied Bob gleefully.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000091_000000.wav|I took the glass, and then saw that a large gap had been made by the explosion of the shell, through which the water was doubtless pouring rapidly.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000097_000001.wav|She was nearly full of water, her gunwale being but an inch or two above the surface.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000076_000000.wav|The shot sped straight for the boat, but, striking the water just before it reached her, bounded clear over her and into the sea beyond.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000060_000001.wav|Wondering what was now in the wind, I sprang up the short companion ladder, and my eye at once falling upon the brig (which was now dead astern of us, heading in the same direction as ourselves, though not lying so close to the wind), I saw in a moment that our troubles were not yet by any means over.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000071_000002.wav|It was mounted on a swivel or pivot, which we had the means of firmly fixing to the deck.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000104_000000.wav|The pirates tugged at their oars with might and main, passing within oar's length of the wreck of the first boat, when they again raised a furious yell, straining away at their stout ash blades until they made them bend like willow wands.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000057_000000.wav|After this he fired no more.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000041_000001.wav|I reckon 'twould be about the most onprofitable conwersation as ever the crew of this here cutter took a part in.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000034_000000.wav|"The stars and stripes, and a pennant!" exclaimed he, with his eye still at the tube.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000037_000000.wav|Bob at once assumed the duties of signal officer, by once more taking a peep through the glass.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000041_000000.wav|"Thank 'ee!" ejaculated Bob, "not if we can help it, Mister Johnson.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000058_000002.wav|It's your eight hours out to night, my lad, and if the breeze should happen to freshen about sundown, and that chap comes after us-and, by the piper, he means that same, for I'm blest if he isn't in stays-you'll need to keep both eyes open all your watch."|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000051_000001.wav|"Scaldings! out of the road all of us that's got thin skulls," continued he, as the shot came skipping across the water in such long bounds as showed we were within range.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000093_000000.wav|"It is time we were off once more, Bob," I remarked, as soon as I saw this; "so another shot at our friends here, and then we'll fill away."|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000026_000001.wav|Having satisfied himself, he descended deliberately to the deck, evidently ruminating deeply.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000069_000004.wav|By the time that we have it ready, they will be within range; and I think we may persuade them to turn back yet."|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000013_000000.wav|"Why d'ye think it's a brig, Harry?" queried Bob.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000075_000000.wav|At length, however, they were within half a mile of us, and I thought we might now fairly commence operations.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000088_000000.wav|I accordingly loaded again, and fired; but, probably from excitement, fired too high, and the missile flew harmlessly over the boat.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000022_000000.wav|"How is she heading, Harry?" was the next question.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000106_000000.wav|They miscalculated their distance, however, or the powers of their gun; for the shot fell considerably short of us, much to Bob's delight, to which he gave expression by the utterance of a few remarks of such biting sarcasm and raillery that they would infallibly have still further incensed the individuals to whom they were addressed could they but have heard them.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000004_000000.wav|Nothing of importance occurred for more than a week.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000017_000001.wav|Had she been bound to the eastward, the weather was not so bad at that time as to have prevented her scudding before it, which she undoubtedly would have done under such circumstances, making a fair wind of it.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000085_000000.wav|As I said this, Bob put his helm down, whilst I hauled the jib sheet to windward, and then I sprang aft again to the gun.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000065_000000.wav|Our case appeared pretty nearly desperate; but a seaman never gives up "whilst there is a shot in the locker," or a fresh expedient to be tried.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000035_000000.wav|As we had by this time finished our meal, Bob cleared the things away, muttering something about having "plenty to do afore long besides eating and drinking."|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000090_000001.wav|Almost immediately, however, one of them sprang aft and crouched down, doing something that we could not make out.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000102_000000.wav|They paused for a moment on their oars as though paralysed with horror; and then with a vengeful shout gave way more energetically than before.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000096_000000.wav|Satisfied with our work of destruction, and not particularly caring to expose ourselves to the fire of the gun in the other boat, which was no doubt much heavier than our own toy of a weapon, we filled away; and I once more swayed up the spinnaker forward, desiring Bob to keep just sufficiently away to permit of our balloon canvas fully drawing, but no more.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000052_000001.wav|Any way, you've got something very like the fulfilment of the wish you expressed the other day."|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000044_000000.wav|It was but too evident that Bob was right.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000058_000001.wav|"We can now take things quietly; and as it's your watch below, I'd recommend you to turn in and get a bit of a snooze.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000051_000000.wav|"Here it comes straight for us this time, and no mistake," exclaimed Bob, as the water jets again marked the course of the shot.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000034_000001.wav|"Lord bless us for the two pretty innocents he takes us for, Harry; but there, of course he don't know as we've got his character and all about him at our fingers' ends.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000100_000000.wav|In less than a minute all was over with the miserable wretches; the voracious sharks made short work of it with them, tearing living and dead alike to pieces in their eagerness to obtain a share of the prey.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000039_000000.wav|"Run down and fetch up the signal book," said i|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000072_000000.wav|We got it out and upon deck, and soon had it mounted and ready for service.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000020_000000.wav|"Which of us has the weather gauge, d'ye think?" queried Bob.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000001_000000.wav|CHASED BY PIRATES.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5918/46890/5918_46890_000098_000000.wav|I saw three or four figures rouse themselves on board her, and recommence baling feebly; but their efforts were useless; she sank lower and lower, and at length rolled heavily bottom upwards, throwing her wounded crew into the water.|5918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000004.wav|She was exquisitely dressed in dark blue velvet with a high collar of point lace tapering almost to her bust, and revealing a long white throat clasped at the base by a string of pearls.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000013_000000.wav|Her skirt was full but straight and did not disguise the lines of her graceful figure; above her small waist it fitted as closely as a riding habit.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000005.wav|On her head, as proudly poised as mrs McLane's, was a blue velvet hat, higher in the crown than the prevailing fashion, rolled up on one side and trimmed only with a drooping gray feather.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000002.wav|The South could have done no better.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000009_000000.wav|At ten minutes after the hour the buzz and chatter stopped abruptly and every face was turned, every neck craned toward the door.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000008_000000.wav|dr Talbot and his wife had not arrived.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000008_000004.wav|But mrs Abbott, a lady of three chins and an eagle eye, who had clung for twenty five years to black satin and bugles, was too persistent to be denied.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000003.wav|She should continue to live at the Occidental Hotel as her husband would be out so much at night and she was rather timid.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000009.wav|mrs Abbott succumbed.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000004_000000.wav|The rooms filled early.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000007_000001.wav|If they took up less room than the women they certainly were more decorative.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000015.wav|Or was this lovely creature of surpassing elegance, a law unto herself?|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000013_000005.wav|mrs Ballinger, who had been the belle of Richmond and was still adjudged the handsomest woman in San Francisco, lifted the eyebrows to which sonnets had been written with an air of haughty resignation; but made up her mind to abate her scorn of the North and order her gowns from New York hereafter.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000004_000004.wav|The effect was by no means accidental.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000011_000003.wav|They had been prepared to forgive, to endure, to make every allowance.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000012.wav|As she moved forward and stood in front of mrs McLane, or acknowledged introductions to those that stood near, the women gave another gasp, this time of consternation.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000008_000001.wav|To all eager questions mrs McLane merely replied that "they" would "be here." She had the dramatic instinct of the true leader and had commanded the doctor not to bring his bride before four o'clock.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000006.wav|When the attack was over mrs McLane would arise with a clear complexion, serene nerves, and renewed strength for social duties.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000006_000000.wav|Unlike as a reception of that day was in background and costumes from the refinements of modern art and taste, it possessed one contrast that was wholly to its advantage.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000007.wav|The girls drew little unconscious sighs of relief.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000001.wav|Manners as fine as mrs McLane's, but too aloof and sensitive to care for leadership.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000003_000001.wav|A magnificent crystal chandelier depended from the high and lightly frescoed ceiling and there were side brackets beside the doors and the low mantel piece.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000005.wav|Today this would be a rest cure and was equally beneficial.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000011_000004.wav|The poor thing could no more help being plain and dowdy than born in Boston, and as their leader had satisfied herself that she "would do," they would never let her know how deeply they deplored her disabilities.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000011_000002.wav|Then they gave an audible gasp, induced by an ingenuous compound of amazement, disappointment, and admiration.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000008_000005.wav|She extracted the information that the Bostonian had sent her own furniture by a previous steamer and that her drawing room was graceful, French, and exquisite.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000010.wav|Her features were delicate and regular, the mouth not too small, curved and sensitive; her refinement was almost excessive.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000000.wav|mrs McLane had called on mrs Talbot.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000004.wav|She took no nourishment but milk and broth and spoke to no one.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000004.wav|And she was bright, unaffected, responsive.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000011_000001.wav|But few cast him more than a passing glance.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000013_000002.wav|mrs Abbott, who was given to primitive sounds, snorted.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000003.wav|No one wasted time on a second effort to gossip with their leader; it was known that just so often mrs McLane drew down the blinds, informed her household that she was not to be disturbed, disposed herself on the sofa with her back to the room and indulged in the luxury of blues for three days.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000006.wav|And her figure, her face, her profile!|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000009.wav|Her skin was as white as the San Francisco fogs, her lips were scarlet, her cheeks pink, her hair and eyes a bright golden brown.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000015_000000.wav|They all met her in the course of the afternoon.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000015_000001.wav|She was sweet and gracious, but although there was not a hint of embarrassment she made no attempt to shine, and they liked her the better for that.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000008_000003.wav|They should have an entrance.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000011_000000.wav|The doctor looked as rubicund, as jovial, as cynical as ever.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000006_000001.wav|Its men were gentlemen and the sons and grandsons of gentlemen.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000015_000002.wav|The young men soon discovered they could make no impression on this lovely importation, for her eyes strayed constantly to her husband; until he disappeared in search of cronies, whiskey, and a cigar: then she looked depressed for a moment, but gave a still closer attention to the women about her.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000003.wav|She was tall and supple and self possessed.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000007.wav|Her friends knew that her retirement on this occasion was timed to finish on the morning of her reception and had not the least misgiving that her doors would still be closed.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000004_000005.wav|mrs McLane's grandmother had been French and she resembled her.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000002.wav|She had made the grand tour in Europe, they discovered, and enjoyed a season in Washington.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000012_000001.wav|mrs Talbot was unquestionably a product of the best society.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000004_000001.wav|mrs McLane stood before the north windows receiving her friends with her usual brilliant smile, her manner of high dignity and sweet cordiality.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000010.wav|In short they all took her to their hearts.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000010_000000.wav|"dr and mrs Talbot."|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000009_000001.wav|The colored butler had announced with a grand flourish:|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000002_000001.wav|That was known to all San Francisco, for her carriage had stood in front of the Occidental Hotel for an hour.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/302000/4837_302000_000016_000000.wav|In love with her husband but a woman of the world.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000002.wav|A curious thought had taken possession of me.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000001.wav|There must have been quite twenty of them, all of the same breed-beagles-and amongst them two people were walking, a man and a woman.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000008.wav|My whole life was like that, I thought, with a sudden despondent chill.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000040_000002.wav|I must have fainted!" he exclaimed.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000032_000000.wav|His eyes were half closed, and his hands were cold.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000009.wav|The woman by his side I could only see very indistinctly.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000007.wav|He was by no means an ordinary looking person, but he was certainly not prepossessing.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000030_000004.wav|His great figure, looming unnaturally large through the misty twilight, was the last to vanish.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000018_000006.wav|I looked after her and sighed.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000006.wav|I could not.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000025_000001.wav|The parson was bound to come, I suppose, but what the mischief does he want with a daughter?"|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000006.wav|He wore knickerbockers, and stockings, and thick shoes.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000018_000004.wav|She had the supreme good fortune to be in accord with her environment.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000021_000001.wav|Get over, Marvel!"|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000018_000001.wav|The little sober figure turned the bend and disappeared without looking around.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000037_000002.wav|Where is she?|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000033_000003.wav|Quick!"|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000000.wav|Alice bent over him full of sympathy, and he took her arm.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000010.wav|In our little family Alice absorbed the domesticity.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000030_000001.wav|I was the pale faced, black haired chit, but it was scarcely a polite way of alluding to me, mr Bruce Deville.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000031_000003.wav|I caught his hand and gazed into his face with horrified eyes.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000001.wav|I walked behind him in silence.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000007.wav|The landscape was grey, colorless, monotonous.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000035_000001.wav|"It is only a fainting fit."|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000012.wav|I was not seen, but I could hear their voices.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000015_000000.wav|"So I do sometimes," I answered; "but to day my callers have been all women, winding up with an hour and a half of Lady Naselton.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000012_000001.wav|"I am tired of being indoors.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000005.wav|I tried to laugh at the idea.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000020_000001.wav|Suddenly I heard an unexpected sound-the sound of voices close at hand.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000007.wav|His cry was so natural, his terror so apparent!|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000020_000003.wav|A deep voice rang out upon the still, damp air-|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000031_000002.wav|A single step, and I was bending over the prostrate form of a man.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000008.wav|He had heard a voice.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000040_000004.wav|Yet, I thought-I thought----"|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000003.wav|He was tall and very broad, with a ragged beard and long hair.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000036_000001.wav|Presently he opened his eyes, and raised his head a little, looking half fearfully around.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000000.wav|I had no desire to go in; on the other hand, there was nothing to stay out for.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000012_000002.wav|There have been people here all the afternoon.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000007_000000.wav|ON THE MOOR|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000027_000000.wav|"Daughters, I believe-I heard some one say that there were two.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000004.wav|Was it indeed a wild fancy of his, or had he really heard this voice which had stirred him so deeply?|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000035_000000.wav|"There is nothing serious the matter-at least I think not," I whispered to Alice.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000010_000002.wav|To look at your airy attire one would imagine that it was summer instead of autumn.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000002.wav|The man was nearest to me, and I could see him more distinctly.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000012_000000.wav|"Have you ever known me to catch cold through wearing thin clothes or going without a hat?" I asked.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000017_000000.wav|"I am surprised to hear you talk like that, Kate," she said, quietly.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000002.wav|This restlessness was one of my greatest troubles.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000042_000002.wav|I don't like it though.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000034_000003.wav|His cheeks were ghastly pale, and his eyes were still closed.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000003.wav|When the fit came I could neither work nor read nor think connectedly.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000007.wav|What a comfort to be blessed with a placid disposition and an optimistic frame of mind!|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000018_000000.wav|"Be off, you little goose!" I called after her as she passed on towards the house with quickened step and rigid head.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000037_000000.wav|"It was her voice," he whispered, hoarsely.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000030_000003.wav|The sound of their voices came to me indistinctly; but I could hear the deep bass of the man as he slung some scornful exclamation out upon the moist air.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000011_000001.wav|There was a difference indeed between my muslin gown and the plain black skirt and jacket, powdered with dust, which was Alice's usual costume.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000038_000002.wav|Are you better?"|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000031_000001.wav|Almost at my side some heavy body had fallen to the ground with a faint groan.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000023_000001.wav|I fancy I heard that one was expected."|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000037_000003.wav|What have you done with her?|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000010_000000.wav|"So I have-after a fashion," she answered, good humoredly.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000037_000004.wav|There was a rustling of the leaves-and then I heard her speak!"|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000000.wav|After tea my father went to his study, for it was late in the week, and he was a most conscientious writer of sermons.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000005.wav|Of his features I could see nothing.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000006.wav|I watched her coming towards me, and I almost envied her.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000015_000002.wav|Not a single man all the afternoon.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000012.wav|Already he was better.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000004.wav|He wore no collar, and there was a great rent in his shabby shooting coat.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000008.wav|The most favorable thing about him was his carriage, which was upright and easy, but even that was in a measure spoiled by a distinct suggestion of surliness.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000034_000004.wav|I felt his pulse and his heart, and unfastened his collar.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000015_000001.wav|One gets so tired of one's own sex!|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000005.wav|At the end of the drive nearest the road, I met Alice, my youngest sister, walking briskly with a book under her arm, and a quiet smile upon her homely face.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000001.wav|I read for an hour, and then, tired alike of my book and my own company, I strolled up and down the drive.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000011_000000.wav|I laughed at her in contempt.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000028_000003.wav|He was lashing the thistles by the side of the road with his long whip.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000014.wav|I looked at him with new and curious eyes.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000030_000005.wav|It was my first glimpse of mr Bruce Deville of Deville Court.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000028_000002.wav|The man's huge form stood out with almost startling distinctness against the grey sky.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000008_000004.wav|It was a phase of incipient dissatisfaction with life, morbid, but inevitable.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000038_000001.wav|"You must have been fancying things.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000041_000001.wav|He was still white and shaken, but evidently his memory was returning.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000030_000000.wav|I smothered a laugh.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000039_000000.wav|"Better!"|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000011.wav|As they came nearer to me, I slipped from the drive on to the verge of the shrubbery, standing for a moment in the shadow of a tall laurel bush.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000018_000003.wav|She was the right person in the right place.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000014_000001.wav|I was in an evil mood, and I determined to shock her.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000006.wav|The trees had taken to themselves fantastic shapes, little wreaths of white mist were rising from the hollows of the park.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000005.wav|There was nothing to look at.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000004.wav|I leaned over the gate with my face turned towards the great indistinct front of Deville Court.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000003.wav|I could not get rid of the impression of my father's first words, and his white, terrified face.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000013.wav|His features had reassumed their customary air of delicate and reserved strength.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000034_000000.wav|She brought it in a moment.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000034_000002.wav|He had not moved.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000010_000001.wav|"Are you wise to be without a hat, Kate?|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000010.wav|Whose was the voice-whence his fear of it?|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000033_000001.wav|"Get some brandy!" I cried, breathlessly.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000016_000000.wav|Alice pursed up her lips, and turned her head away with a look of displeasure.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000042_000000.wav|"I remember it was close in the study," he said-"very close; I was tired too.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000031_000005.wav|He must have been within a yard of me when he fell.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000031_000000.wav|I turned round with a terrified start.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000019_000011.wav|There was not one shred of it in my disposition.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000031_000004.wav|It was my father.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000020_000000.wav|I realized with a start that I was becoming morbid, and turned from the gate towards the house.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000028_000000.wav|There was a contemptuous snort, and a moment's silence.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000043_000009.wav|He had been stricken with a sudden terror.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000022_000013.wav|The woman was speaking.|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000042_000003.wav|I must see a doctor; I must certainly see a doctor!"|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4837/285896/4837_285896_000040_000000.wav|"Ah!|4837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000012_000015.wav|It was owing to the strength of our Government and the good sense of the quiet masses of the people that it did not wrap our country in one widespread conflagration.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000012_000007.wav|I thought it a fallacy which would surely be exploded. I doubted then, and still more for some time afterward, when held to a dread responsibility for the position which I occupied.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000028_000002.wav|Every citizen of the United States, as a joint owner of that Territory, has a right to go into it with any property which he may possess.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000029_000001.wav|Is it to be expected that a compact thus broken in part, violated in its important features, will be regarded as binding in all else?|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000016_000003.wav|That I hold to now.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000026_000006.wav|I am not disposed to ask this Congress to go into speculative legislation.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000016_000002.wav|Non intervention then meant, as the debates show, that Congress should neither prohibit nor establish slavery in the Territories.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000007_000001.wav|And this prohibition is not confined to the States, but the words are general, and extend to the whole territory over which the Constitution gives it power to legislate, including those portions of it remaining under territorial government, as well as that covered by States.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000025_000001.wav|It has been sometimes assumed that this was the recognition of the power of the Territorial Legislature to exercise plenary legislation, as might that of a State.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000028_000000.wav|The sixth resolution of the series declares at what time a State may form a Constitution and decide upon her domestic institutions.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000032_000009.wav|I can speak for myself-and I have no right to speak for others-when I say, that, if I belonged to a party organized on the basis of making war on any section or interest in the United States, if I know myself, I would instantly quit it.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000011_000002.wav|It was obligatory on those who selected the umpire and agreed to abide by the award.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000021_000002.wav|If non intervention means that we shall not have protection for our property in slaves, then I always was, and always shall be, opposed to it.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000032_000004.wav|The argument, then, or the reason on which this agitation commenced, has passed away; and yet we are asked, if a party hostile to our institutions shall gain possession of the Government, that we shall stand quietly by, and wait for an overt act.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000015_000005.wav|Therefore its powers are not comparable to the powers of the State Legislature, because one is the creature of grant, and the other the exponent of sovereign power.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000018_000000.wav|Upon that, mr Clay said:|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000016_000005.wav|Why, sir, the very acts which they passed at the time refute it.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000016_000001.wav|It seems to have been more malleable than gold; to have been hammered out to an extent that covers boundless regions undiscovered by those who proclaimed the doctrine.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000034_000001.wav|We have tampered with a question which has grown in magnitude by each year's delay.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000030_000002.wav|For it was only last fall that an overt act was committed by men who were sustained by arms and money, raised by extensive combination among the non slaveholding States, to carry treasonable war against the State of Virginia, because now, as before the Revolution, and ever since, she held the African in bondage.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000000.wav|Among the great purposes declared in the preamble of the Constitution is one to provide for the general welfare.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000020_000000.wav|That was the position taken by mr Clay, the leader.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000032_000012.wav|We claim to have but the Constitution fairly and equally administered.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000034_000004.wav|But so long as we deal, like the Delphic oracle, in words of double meaning, so long as we attempt to escape from responsibility, and exhibit our fear to declare the truth by the fact that we do not act upon it, we must expect speculative theory to occupy the mind of the public, and error to increase as time rolls on.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000007_000000.wav|"The powers over person and property, of which we speak, are not only not granted to Congress, but are in express terms denied, and they are forbidden to exercise them.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000027_000003.wav|I think their bearing was worthy of the mother State which sent them there; and I doubt not she will receive them with joy and gratitude.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000022_000000.wav|mr Downs, one of the Committee of Thirteen, and an advocate of the measures, said:|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000028_000005.wav|They have no right within their municipal power to attempt to decide the rights of the people of the States.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000012_000013.wav|This was the first fruit.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000012_000003.wav|It was ushered in by a great and good man.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000009.wav|Higher than all this, we have achieved a moral triumph.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000029_000003.wav|We have a right to claim abstinence from interference with our rights from any Government on the earth.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000026_000005.wav|I find myself physically unable to go as fully into the subject as I intended, and therefore, omitting a reference to those acts, suffice it to say that here was the recognition of the obligation of Congress to interpose against a Territorial Legislature for the protection of personal right. That is what we ask of Congress now.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000026_000011.wav|That is the announcement of the fifth resolution.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000015_000001.wav|This is confounding the whole theory and the history of our Government.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000001.wav|Provision for the general welfare implies general fraternity.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000009_000002.wav|The only power conferred is the power coupled with the duty of guarding and protecting the owner in his rights.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000030_000001.wav|It was first for political power, and directed against new States; now it has assumed a social form, is all prevailing, and has reached the point of revolution and civil war.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000032_000006.wav|Is not a declaration of war an overt act?|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000007.wav|We have tamed a wilderness; we have spanned a continent.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000027_000005.wav|By that asserted equality of right I doubt not she will stand.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000009_000000.wav|"This is done in plain words-too plain to be misunderstood.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000004.wav|It declared its purpose to be the benefit of all. Concessions which were made between the different States in the Convention prove the motive.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000021_000001.wav|It has different meanings in every State, in every county, in every town.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000026_000002.wav|That was all the difference.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000006_000000.wav|"The Territory being a part of the United States, the Government and the citizen both enter it under the authority of the Constitution, with their respective rights defined and marked out; and the Federal Government can exercise no power over his person or property beyond what that instrument confers, nor lawfully deny any right which it has reserved....|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000030_000003.wav|This is part of the history and marks the necessity of the times.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000028_000001.wav|I deny this right to the territorial condition, because the Territory belongs in common to the States.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000026_000007.wav|I am not one of those who would willingly see this Congress enact a code to be applied to all Territories and for all time to come.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000019_000000.wav|"mr|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000020_000002.wav|I said:|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000033_000002.wav|This Union was not expected to be held together by coercion; the power of force as a means was denied. They sought, however, to bind it perpetually together with that which was stronger than triple bars of brass and steel-the ceaseless current of kind offices, renewing and renewed in an eternal flow, and gathering volume and velocity as it rolled.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000014_000001.wav|Can this be a definition of sovereignty?|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000015_000002.wav|The States were the grantors; they made the compact; they gave the Federal agent its powers; they inhibited themselves from doing certain things, and all else they retained to themselves.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000015_000003.wav|This Federal agent got just so much as the States chose to give-no more.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000012_000002.wav|In eighteen forty eight it made its appearance for good purposes.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000020_000001.wav|A mere sentence will show with what view I regarded the dogma of non intervention when that amendment was offered.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000012_000014.wav|More deadly than the fatal upas, its effect was not limited to the mere spot of ground on which the dew fell from its leaves, but it spread throughout the United States; it kindled all which had been collected for years of inflammable material.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000029_000000.wav|The last resolution refers to a law founded on a provision of the Constitution, which contains an obligation of faith to every State of the Union; and that obligation of faith has been violated by thirteen States of the Confederacy-as many as originally fought the battles of the Revolution and established the Confederation.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000026_000004.wav|It left Congress, as to its power, just where it was.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000027_000002.wav|I honor them, and I approve their conduct.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000017_000000.wav|"And that all laws, or parts of laws, usages, or customs, preexisting in the Territories acquired by the United States from Mexico, and which in said Territories restrict, abridge, or obstruct, the full enjoyment of any right of person or property of a citizen of the United States, as recognized or guaranteed by the Constitution or laws of the United States, are hereby declared and shall be held as repealed."|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000004_000005.wav|I ask my friend to read some extracts from the decision.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000007_000003.wav|And if Congress itself can not do this-if it is beyond the powers conferred on the Federal Government-it will be admitted, we presume, that it could not authorize a territorial government to exercise them.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000028_000003.wav|These territorial inhabitants require municipal law, police, and government.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000024_000005.wav|We differed radically then.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000021_000000.wav|"But what is non intervention seems to vary as often as the light and shade of every fleeting cloud.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7991/102381/7991_102381_000027_000004.wav|They have asserted and vindicated her equality of right.|7991
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000020.wav|Of course it was not to be thought of then; but matters are quite different, you know, now, and the viscount, who is a very sensible fellow in the main, saw it at once.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000020_000002.wav|We had been for nearly three years at school together; and when his ship came to England, met frequently; and twice, when he was on leave, we had been for months together under the same roof; and had for some years kept up a regular correspondence, which first grew desultory, and finally, as manhood supervened, died out.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000008_000001.wav|Mark Wylder,' I exclaimed, a good deal relieved.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000006.wav|The next generation or two would amuse themselves with a lawsuit, until the old Brandon type reappeared in some bachelor brother or uncle, with a Jezebel on his left hand, and an attorney on his right, and, presto!|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000011_000002.wav|There must have been some damnable taint in the blood of the common ancestor-a spice of the insane and the diabolical.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000022.wav|So Miss Dorcas must pack, and turn out whenever I die, that is, if I slip my cable first.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000007_000003.wav|I examined it carefully, and laid it down unopened.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000001.wav|They had produced their madmen and villains, too; and there had been frequent intermarriages-not very often happy.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000021_000003.wav|It was but a marriage of convenience, with mitigations.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000007.wav|He seems a clever fellow-a bit too clever, perhaps-and was too much master here, I suspect, in poor Dickie's reign.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000002_000001.wav|The old rector had long passed away; the shorts, gaiters, and smile-a phantom; and nature, who had gathered in the past, was providing for the future.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000017_000000.wav|'Your old Friend,|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000007_000001.wav|The original lines were not prepossessing.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000021_000001.wav|Where is the laggard so dull as to experience no pleasing flutter at his heart in anticipation of meeting a perfect beauty in a country house.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000003_000002.wav|There were new faces at the door.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000003_000004.wav|A retrospect of a score of years or so, at three and thirty, is a much vaster affair than a much longer one at fifty.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000021_000000.wav|Then there was that beautiful apathetic Dorcas Brandon.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000007.wav|the estates were back again with the Wylders.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000024.wav|She is a wide awake young lady, and nothing the worse for that: I'm a bit that way myself.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000004_000001.wav|And I think when another such yesterday shall have arrived, where shall I be?|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000005.wav|Do you know anything of him?|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000009.wav|I met poor Dominick-what an ass that chap is-but he did not know me till I introduced myself, so I must be a good deal changed.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000030.wav|I want you for best man, maybe; and besides, I would like to talk to you about some things they want me to do in the settlements, and you were always a long headed fellow: so pray don't refuse.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000011.wav|I was sick of the service, and no wonder: a lieutenant-and there likely to stick all my days.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000013_000000.wav|A 'statement of title' is usually a dry affair.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000000_000000.wav|An undulating landscape, with a homely farmstead here and there, and plenty of old English timber scattered grandly over it, extended mistily to my right; on the left the road is overtopped by masses of noble forest.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000011_000004.wav|There was Sir Jonathan Brandon, for instance, who ran his own nephew through the lungs in a duel fought in a paroxysm of Cencian jealousy; and afterwards shot his coachman dead upon the box through his coach window, and finally died in Vienna, whither he had absconded, of a pike thrust received from a sentry in a brawl.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000010.wav|Our ship was at Malta when I got the letter.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000027.wav|And now, dear Charlie, you have it all.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000000_000001.wav|The old park of Brandon lies there, more than four miles from end to end.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000016_000000.wav|'Dear Charlie, ever most sincerely,|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000020_000001.wav|But he was certainly one of the oldest and most intimate acquaintances I had.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000001_000003.wav|This general liking for children and instinct of smiling on them is one source of the delightful illusions which make the remembrance of early days so like a dream of Paradise, and give us, at starting, such false notions of our value.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000000.wav|'DEAR CHARLES-Of course you have heard of my good luck, and how kind poor Dickie-from whom I never expected anything-proved at last.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000003_000001.wav|Up Church street I contrived a peep at the old gray tower where the chimes hung; and as we turned the corner a glance at the 'Brandon Arms.' How very small and low that palatial hostelry of my earlier recollections had grown!|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000004.wav|So there were Wylders of Brandon, and Brandons of Brandon.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000005_000000.wav|The first ten years of my life were longer than all the rest put together, and I think would continue to be so were my future extended to an ante Noachian span.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000005_000003.wav|But, I beg your pardon.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000004_000000.wav|The whole thing seemed like yesterday; and as I write, I open my eyes and start and cry, 'can it be twenty, five and twenty, aye, by Jove! five and thirty, years since then?' How my days have flown!|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000019.wav|Our ship was at Naples when she was there two years ago; and I saw a good deal of her.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000013.wav|I do not think he is a year older than I, but takes airs because he's a trustee.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000002.wav|There had been many lawsuits, frequent disinheritings, and even worse doings.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000001_000000.wav|As I looked through the chaise windows, every moment presented some group, or outline, or homely object, for years forgotten; and now, with a strange surprise how vividly remembered and how affectionately greeted! We drove by the small old house at the left, with its double gable and pretty grass garden, and trim yews and modern lilacs and laburnums, backed by the grand timber of the park.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000017.wav|Well, you know he left Brandon with some charges to my Cousin Dorcas.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000003_000003.wav|It was only two and twenty years ago, and I was then but eleven years old.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000014_000000.wav|Here is Mark Wylder's letter:--|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000025.wav|And so very little courtship has sufficed.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000029.wav|Don't disappoint.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000028.wav|It will take place somewhere about the twenty fourth of next month; and you must come down by the first, if you can.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000021.wav|You see, the old brute meant to leave her a life estate; but it does not amount to that, though it won't benefit me, for he settled that when I die it shall go to his right heirs-that will be to my son, if I ever have one.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000009_000000.wav|Mark Wylder!|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000003_000000.wav|The pretty mill road, running up through Redman's Dell, dank and dark with tall romantic trees, was left behind in another moment; and we were now traversing the homely and antique street of the little town, with its queer shops and solid steep roofed residences.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000014.wav|But I only laugh at trifles that would have riled me once.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000000_000002.wav|These masses of solemn and discoloured verdure, the faint but splendid lights, and long filmy shadows, the slopes and hollows-my eyes wandered over them all with that strange sense of unreality, and that mingling of sweet and bitter fancy, with which we revisit a scene familiar in very remote and early childhood, and which has haunted a long interval of maturity and absence, like a romantic reverie.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000005_000001.wav|It is the first ten that emerge from nothing, and commencing in a point, it is during them that consciousness, memory-all the faculties grow, and the experience of sense is so novel, crowded, and astounding.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000009_000002.wav|There was nothing about him to excite the least uneasiness; on the contrary, I believe he liked me as well as he was capable of liking anybody, and it was now seven years since we had met.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000002_000000.wav|There was a little fair haired child playing on the ground before the steps as I whirled by.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000000.wav|The Wylders had not much to boast of, even in contrast with that wicked line.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000015_000008.wav|Tell me all you can make out about him. It is a long time since I saw you, Charles; I'm grown brown, and great whiskers.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000007_000000.wav|It had not a good countenance, somehow.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000006_000000.wav|My journey was from London.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000011_000003.wav|They were an ill conditioned race-that is to say, every now and then there emerged a miscreant, with a pretty evident vein of madness.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000012_000005.wav|In one generation, a Wylder ill using his wife and hating his children, would cut them all off, and send the estate bounding back again to the Brandons.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000007_000004.wav|I went through half a dozen others, and recurred to it, and puzzled over its exterior again, and again postponed what I fancied would prove a disagreeable discovery; and this happened every now and again, until I had quite exhausted my budget, and then I did open it, and looked straight to the signature.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000018_000000.wav|'MARK WYLDER.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32856/6014_32856_000019_000000.wav|'p s--I stay at the Brandon Arms in the town, until after the marriage; and then you can have a room at the Hall, and capital shooting when we return, which will be in a fortnight after.'|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000003_000002.wav|It commenced thus:--|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000045_000000.wav|No, it was a mistake; it could not be.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000043_000000.wav|Larcom did understand perfectly, and so this little visit ended.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000019_000000.wav|'But do sit down, mr Larcom-pray do,' said the attorney, who was very gracious to Larcom. 'You'll get the scrip, you know, on executing, but the shares are allotted.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000023_000000.wav|Larcom received it with grave gratitude, and sipped it, and spoke respectfully of it.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000017_000000.wav|'Oh, yes; and how do you do, mr Larcom?|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000007_000003.wav|That, too, plainly refers to a former letter-not a word of the sort.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000012_000000.wav|While he was buttoning his walking boots, with his foot on the chair before the fire, a tap at his study door surprised him.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000009_000003.wav|I don't think the captain would venture anything so awfully hazardous.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000048_000002.wav|He had called to mention the circumstance, lest mr Driver should be taken by surprise by official investigation. Was it possible that the letter had been sent by mistake to Brandon-to Captain Lake?|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000047_000000.wav|Quite impossible!|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000007_000002.wav|Is it Martin of the China Kilns, or Martin of the bank?|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000009_000000.wav|'There has plainly been a letter lost, manifestly.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000048_000004.wav|At all events, it would be well to make your clerks recollect themselves. (mr Larkin knew that Driver's 'clerks' were his daughters.) It is not easy to meet with a young fellow that is quite honest.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000035_000001.wav|Larkin continued to stare on him in silence, with his round eyes, for some seconds after.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000005_000000.wav|'DEAR LARKIN,--I hope you did the three commissions all right.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000006_000000.wav|There was a great deal more, but these were the passages which perplexed Larkin.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000036_000002.wav|incredible!|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000006_000001.wav|He unlocked the iron safe, and took out the sheaf of Wylder's letters, and conned the last one over very carefully.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000042_000000.wav|'Well, mr Larcom, I think you have been led into an erroneous conclusion.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000035_000000.wav|The butler nodded gloomily.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000045_000001.wav|It was Mark Wylder's penmanship-he could swear to it.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000024_000001.wav|I-you know-I'm interested for all parties.'|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32904/6014_32904_000002_000000.wav|LARCOM, THE BUTLER, VISITS THE ATTORNEY.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000023_000005.wav|She has fine eyes-and I think no other good point-much too dark for my taste-but they say clever;' and not another word was there on this subject.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000009_000000.wav|They had not walked together very far, when Stanley recollected that he must take his leave, and walk back to Gylingden; and so the young lady and Lord Chelford were left to pursue their way towards Redman's Farm together.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000038_000000.wav|So the old nurse mounted her spectacles, glad of the invitation, and began to read.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000018_000004.wav|She stopped, with something almost wild in her look.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000011_000000.wav|The shock of her brief interview with her brother over, reflection assured her, knowing all she did, that Stanley's wooing would prosper, and so this cause of quarrel had really nothing in it; no, nothing but a display of his temper and morals-not very astonishing, after all-and, like an ugly picture or a dreadful dream, in no way to affect her after life, except as an odious remembrance.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000039_000000.wav|'Stop,' said Rachel suddenly, as she reached about the middle of the chapter.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000015_000000.wav|Lord Chelford was a lively and agreeable companion; but there was something unusually gentle, almost resembling tenderness, in his manner. She was so different from her gay, fiery self in this walk-so gentle; so subdued-and he was more interested by her, perhaps, than he had ever been before.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000014_000002.wav|That perverse and utterly selfish brother, Stanley Lake, had chosen to take his leave.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000040_000000.wav|The old woman looked up, with her watery eyes wide open, and there was a short pause.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000036_000000.wav|So they sat down together in her chamber.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000020_000004.wav|She seemed to like those lingering sentences-and hung upon them-and even smiled but in her eyes there was a vague and melancholy pleading-a wandering and unfathomable look that pained him.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000018_000002.wav|But the fitful evening breeze came up through Redman's Dell, with a gentle sweep over the autumnal foliage.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000006_000000.wav|Lord Chelford raised his hat, smiling: 'I am so very glad I met you, I was beginning to feel so solitary!' he placed himself beside Miss Lake. 'I've had such a long walk across the park.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000008_000003.wav|But though he never hinted at an unfavourable estimate of the captain, his intimacies with him were a little reserved; and I think I have seen him, even when he smiled, look the least little bit in the world uncomfortable, as if he did not quite enter into the captain's pleasantries.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000031_000002.wav|Rachel, Rachel, girl! what a fool you were near becoming!'|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000028_000000.wav|'He treats the young lady very coolly,' thought Rachel, forgetting, perhaps, that his special relations to Dorcas Brandon had compelled his stay in that part of the world.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000029_000001.wav|But then she had been very guarded; not stiff or prudish, indeed, but frank and cold enough with him, and that was comforting.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000022_000000.wav|She turned into the little drawing room at the left, and, herself unseen, did take that last look, and saw him go up the road again towards Brandon.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000023_000003.wav|The Dulhamptons have arrived: the old Marchioness never appears till three o'clock, and only out in the carriage twice since they came.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000018_000000.wav|There was not much in this little speech, but it was spoken in a low, sweet voice; and Rachel looked down on the ferns before her feet, as they walked on side by side, not with a smile, but with a blush, and that beautiful look of gratification so becoming and indescribable.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000018_000005.wav|But with an effort she smiled, and said, with a little shiver, 'The air has grown quite chill, and the sun nearly set; we loitered, Stanley and I, a great deal too long in the park, but I am now at home, and I fear I have brought you much too far out of your way already; good bye.' And she extended her hand.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000016_000000.wav|The sun just touched the verge of the wooded uplands, as the young people began to descend the slope of Redman's Dell.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000043_000002.wav|The dead themselves declare their dreadful secrets, open mouthed, to the winds.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000020_000002.wav|He had a few pleasant, lingering words to say.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000008_000000.wav|I think Lord Chelford perceived there was something amiss between the young people, for his eye rested on Rachel with a momentary look of enquiry, unconscious, no doubt, and quickly averted, and he went on chatting pleasantly; but he looked, once or twice, a little hard at Stanley Lake.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000027_000000.wav|But no Nothing could be more perfectly distinct than 'Chelford,' traced in her fair correspondent's very legible hand.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6014/32886/6014_32886_000013_000000.wav|It was rather a marked thing-as lean mrs Loyd, of Gylingden, who had two thin spinsters with pink noses under her wing, remarked-this long walk of Lord Chelford and Miss Lake in the park; and she enjoined upon her girls the propriety of being specially reserved in their intercourse with persons of Lord Chelford's rank; not that they were much troubled with dangers from any such quarter.|6014
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000021_000000.wav|'Oh yes; poor child, she looks so pale and miserable.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000006_000000.wav|His eyelids twitched; the fire before him had for an instant gone black out.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000031_000000.wav|'Well, Arthur?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000013_000002.wav|Honestly, Arthur, when I think over it calmly, the whole tragedy comes back on me with such a force it sweeps me off my feet; I am for the moment scarcely my own mistress.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000041_000001.wav|'Ask me not to come back,' he said; 'that's nearer your hope.' He turned his face to the fire.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000009_000001.wav|But Dr Simon advised me most particularly to go out at least once a day.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000018_000000.wav|Her husband was pouring out his tea, unaware, apparently, of her change of position.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000018_000003.wav|And for the first time she realised the power and mastery of that eager and far too hungry face.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000009_000004.wav|Anyhow, he said that I looked worried and run down.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000034_000000.wav|'I am going out.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000036_000001.wav|'It is useless to argue.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000019_000000.wav|'Will you want anything more, do you think, for an hour?' she asked.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000013_000001.wav|'Supposing,' she said, watching her lips move, 'supposing-of course, I know you are getting better and all that-but supposing you don't change back as Mr Bethany thinks, what will you do?|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000006_000004.wav|And when Sheila brought up his tea, as if Chance had heard his cry, she entered in hat and stole.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000040_000000.wav|'For the last time,' she said in a quiet, hard voice, 'I ask you not to go.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000026_000001.wav|But there; giving way will do nothing for either of us.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000009_000006.wav|Let us both try for each other's sakes, or even if only for Alice's, to-to do all we can.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000003_000002.wav|A few callers had called. Hothouse flowers, waxen and pale, had been left with messages of sympathy.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000036_000003.wav|As for criminal-why, that's a woman's word.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000007_000000.wav|'Alice says you are to eat every one of those delicious sandwiches, and especially the tiny omelette.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000029_000001.wav|But the door was already closed.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000041_000000.wav|He shrugged his shoulders.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000016_000000.wav|'YOU, dear!'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000017_000000.wav|Sheila turned softly round, conscious in a most humiliating manner that she had ever so little flushed.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000021_000002.wav|You will lock your door?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000033_000001.wav|'Your latchkey?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000038_000001.wav|It was almost a physical discomfort, this longing unspeakable for the twilight, the green secrecy and the silence of the graves.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000020_000000.wav|Her husband looked up over his little table.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000005.wav|A consciousness had begun to stir in him that was neither that of the old, easy Lawford, whom he had never been fully aware of before, nor of this strange ghostly intelligence that haunted the hawklike, restless face, and plucked so insistently at his distracted nerves.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000024_000001.wav|'I wish you could stay with me,' he said slowly.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000038_000000.wav|Lawford eyed her coldly and stubbornly-thinking of the empty room he would leave awaiting his return, its lamp burning, its fire flames shining.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000006_000001.wav|He seemed to see slow gesturing branches, grass stooping beneath a grey and wind swept sky.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000012_000001.wav|But I'm not, say what you like, blind.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000008.wav|There could be only one end to such a struggle-THE end.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000021_000001.wav|We are going to Mrs Sherwin's, and then on to Church.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000020_000001.wav|'Is Alice going with you?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000007_000002.wav|I am a poor one to preach, I am afraid; but you know what that will mean-a worse breakdown still.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000007.wav|It would, of course, wear him down in time.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000035_000000.wav|'"Going out!"--you will not be so mad, so criminal; and after your promise!'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000018_000001.wav|She watched him curiously.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000003_000003.wav|Even Dr Critchett had respectfully and discreetly made inquiries on his way home from chapel.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000033_000000.wav|Sheila came hastily in again.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000036_000000.wav|He stood up.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000006_000003.wav|Now, at last, at the windows; afternoon had begun to wane.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000007_000001.wav|You have scarcely touched anything to day, Arthur.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000009_000002.wav|We must remember, this is not the beginning of your illness.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000029_000000.wav|'Oh, well-' he began.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000018_000004.wav|Her mind seemed to pause, fluttering in air, like a bird in the wind.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000006_000005.wav|She put down the tray, and paused at the glass, looking across it out of the window.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000008_000000.wav|'Are you going to church?' he asked in a low voice.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000023_000000.wav|'And I do hope Arthur-nothing rash!'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000005_000000.wav|All day he had longed for freedom, on and on, with craving for the open sky, for solitude, for green silence, beyond these maddening walls.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000013_000000.wav|Sheila lowered her eyes softly on to the rich toned picture in the glass.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000006.wav|He had begun in a vague fashion to be aware of them both, could in a fashion discriminate between them, almost as if there really were two spirits in stubborn conflict within him.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000030_000000.wav|'Sheila!' he called in a burst of anger.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000005_000002.wav|And above all, betwixt dread and an almost physical greed, he hungered for night.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000003_000001.wav|Sunlight had drawn across his room in one pale beam, and vanished.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000039_000001.wav|why do you seem to delight in trying to estrange me?' Husband and wife faced each other across the clear lit room.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000036_000004.wav|Who on earth is to know me?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000005_000003.wav|He sat down with elbows on knees and head on his hands, thinking of night, its secrecy, its immeasurable solitude.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000028_000000.wav|'It's useless to discuss that, Arthur; you have always consistently disliked my friends.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000014_000000.wav|'I think, Sheila,' replied a low, infinitely weary voice, 'I think I should marry again.' It was the same wavering, faintly ironical voice that had slightly discomposed Dr Simon that same morning.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000010_000000.wav|'You always look pretty, Sheila; to night you look prettier: THAT is the only change, I think.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000018_000002.wav|In spite of all her reason, of her absolute certainty, she wondered even again for a moment if this really could be Arthur.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000024_000002.wav|'I don't think you have any idea what-what I go through.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000036_000002.wav|If I do not go out, I shall certainly go mad.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000002_000000.wav|The Sabbath, pale with September sunshine, and monotonous with chiming bells, had passed languidly away.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000027_000000.wav|'But why Mrs Sherwin?|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000012_000002.wav|You ARE pretty: I'd repeat it if I was burning at the stake.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000006_000002.wav|He started up; and the remembrance of the morning returned to him-the glassy light, the changing rays, the beaming gilt upon the useless books.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000013_000003.wav|What would you do?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000001.wav|The very monotony had eased his mind.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000011_000001.wav|'Now, speaking quite frankly, what is it in you suggests these remarks at such a time? That's what baffles me.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000022_000000.wav|'Yes, I will lock my door.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000039_000002.wav|He did not answer.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000004.wav|He had hardly been aware of the process, but every hour had done something, it seemed, towards clarifying his point of view.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000038_000002.wav|'Keep them out of the way,' he said in a low voice; 'it will be dark when I come in.' His hardened face lit up.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000011_000002.wav|It seems so childish, so needlessly blind.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000024_000000.wav|A change, that seemed almost the effect of actual shadow, came over his face.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000009_000007.wav|I must not harass you; but is there any-do you see the slightest change of any kind?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000025_000000.wav|It was as if a child had asked on the verge of terror for a candle in the dark.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000000.wav|Lawford had spent most of his time in pacing to and fro in his soft slippers.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000007_000003.wav|You really must try to think of-of us all.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000004_000002.wav|Now and again he had lain motionless, with his face to the ceiling.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000002_000001.wav|Dr Simon had come and gone, optimistic and urbane, yet with a faint inward dissatisfaction over a patient behind whose taciturnity a hint of mockery and subterfuge seemed to lurk.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000003_000000.wav|The voices and footsteps, even the frou frou of worshippers going to church, the voices and footsteps of worshippers returning from church, had floated up to the patient's open window.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000002_000002.wav|Even Mrs Lawford had appeared to share her husband's reticence. But Dr Simon had happened on other cases in his experience where tact was required rather than skill, and time than medicine.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000026_000000.wav|'I think,' she said, 'I too might say that.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000025_000001.wav|But an hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity. Sheila sighed.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000041_000002.wav|Without moving he heard her go out, return, pause, and go out again.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73846/5570_73846_000027_000001.wav|She'd worm a secret out of one's grave.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000004_000003.wav|And the thought of that-though he hardly realised its full import-actually did send him on tip toe for a glance that more or less effectually set the question at rest.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000004_000000.wav|Supposing, though, that he had really fallen into a deep sleep, with none to watch or spy-what then?|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000037_000001.wav|'Excuse the confidence, Mrs Lawford, I'm forty three.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000008_000003.wav|Has he had supper?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000029_000000.wav|Danton inserted a plump, white finger between collar and chin.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000009.wav|He had not yet even glanced into the glass.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000000.wav|Mr Bethany rose cheerfully.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000026_000001.wav|We all know what that MEANS.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000018_000001.wav|'To tell you the truth, I am too tired to care a jot either way.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000010.wav|We simply believe.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000020_000004.wav|You'll perish of surfeit some day, of sheer Dantonism.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000018_000005.wav|You pride your dear old brawn on it in secret?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000004.wav|This morning he was as sane, as lucid as I hope I am now.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000000.wav|Mr Bethany raised a small lean hand: 'One moment, please.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000022_000002.wav|Blow hot, blow cold. North, south, east, west-to have a weathercock for a wife is to marry the wind.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000005.wav|An awful calamity has suddenly fallen upon him-this change.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000038_000003.wav|CAN we?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000004_000004.wav|And there looked out at him, it seemed, the same dark sallow face that had so much appalled him only two nights ago-expressionless, cadaverous, with shadowy hollows beneath the glittering eyes.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000024_000000.wav|Lawford peered as if out of a gathering dusk, that thickened and flickered with shadows before his eyes.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000001.wav|'I rather feared some such temporary breakdown as this, Danton.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000039_000001.wav|'Not finally.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000005.wav|But his mind was wearier even than his body.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000006.wav|I own frankly at the first sheer shock it staggered me as I think for the moment it has staggered you.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000004.wav|I simply cannot bear the burden of this incessant anxiety.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000017_000000.wav|'Am I really to believe,' Danton began huskily.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000006.wav|You look positively at death's door.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000018_000002.wav|And'--he lifted a long arm-'I must positively refuse to produce the least, the remotest proof that I am not, so far as I am personally aware, even the Man in the Moon.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000008.wav|I had no more doubt in my own mind and heart that he was he than I have in my mind that I-am i We do in some mysterious way, you'll own at once, grow so accustomed, so inured, if you like, to each other's faces (masks though they be) that we hardly realise we see them when we are speaking together.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000008_000000.wav|'What-what an instinct you have for the right word,' said Lawford softly.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000013_000000.wav|They went quickly downstairs, Sheila with less dignity, perhaps, than she had been surprised into since she had left a slimmer girlhood behind.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000024_000001.wav|'What's he mean, then,' he muttered huskily, 'coming here with his black, still carcase-peeping, peeping-what's he mean, I say?' There was a moment's silence.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000033_000000.wav|'Oh yes, Vicar; but you see-'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000022_000003.wav|There's nothing to be got from poor Sheila but....|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000025_000000.wav|'I suppose,' began Danton, with an obvious effort to disentangle himself from the humiliation of the moment, 'I suppose he was-wandering?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000005_000001.wav|As he leaned his head on his hands, gladly conscious that he could not possibly bear this incessant strain for long, Sheila opened the door.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000016_000000.wav|'You take such formidable risks, Lawford,' said Mr Bethany in a dry, difficult voice.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000041_000003.wav|And 'pon my word, Mrs Lawford, there's plenty of room for sceptics in a world like this.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000004_000001.wav|However ridiculous that idea, it was not more ridiculous, more incredible than the actual fact.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000005.wav|You, my dear Danton, forgive the freedom, merely incredulously grope.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000004.wav|He sat down in front of the fire, tired out and bitterly cold in spite of his long walk home.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000020_000006.wav|Oh, what a basting's there!'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000020_000005.wav|And fat, postmortem, Danton.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000003.wav|Mere dull, stubborn prejudice; bigotry, if you like.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000004.wav|I will only remark just this-that Mrs Lawford and I, in our inmost hearts, know.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000014_000001.wav|His small eyes wandered, and instantaneously met and rested on those of Mrs Lawford.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000039_000002.wav|That's all very well, but'--he paused, and nodded, nodding his round head upward as if towards the inaudible overhead, 'I suppose he can't HEAR?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000008.wav|He'll win through; and of his own sheer will and courage.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000008.wav|'How could I possibly fall asleep with that fellow talking there?' he had said to himself angrily; yet knew in his heart that their talk had driven every other idea out of his mind.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000020_000000.wav|'Oh, but you know you are,' drawled on the slightly hesitating long drawn syllables; 'it's your parochial metier.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000010.wav|What step by step creatures we are, to be sure!|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000001.wav|'All right, Danton; I am afraid you are exactly what the poor fellow in his delirium solemnly asseverated. And, jesting apart, it is in delirium that we tell our sheer, plain, unadulterated truth: you're a nicely covered sceptic.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000035_000000.wav|But Danton merely continued to stare, as if into the quiet of an aquarium.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000017_000001.wav|'I am sure, Bethany, you will-My dear Mrs Lawford!' said he, stirring vaguely, glancing restlessly.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000013.wav|But still, Friday be it.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000003.wav|What more likely, more inevitable than that such a thing should leave its scar, its cloud, its masking shadow?--call it what you will.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000042_000000.wav|'Very well,' said Mr Bethany crisply, 'that's settled, then.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000024_000002.wav|Then with lifted brows and wide eyes that to every one of his three witnesses left an indelible memory of clear and wolfish light within their glassy pupils, he turned heavily, and climbed back to his solitude.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000007.wav|This-this shutter will be taken down as abruptly as by some inconceivably drowsy heedlessness of common Nature it has been put up.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000015_000000.wav|'Arthur thought he would prefer to come down and see you himself.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000038_000000.wav|'Good,' said Mr Bethany; 'and I'm seventy one, and this child here'--he pointed an accusing finger at Sheila-is youth perpetual.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000031_000000.wav|He poised himself, as if it were, on the monolithic stability of his legs.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000007.wav|He only knew for certain that so far as his first hope and motives had gone his errand had proved entirely futile.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000010_000000.wav|'He won't believe: too-bloated.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000022_000000.wav|'It's no good, Vicar.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000005.wav|Some experience, which would be nothing but a hideous cruelty and outrage to ask too closely about-one, perhaps, which he could, even if he would, poor fellow, give no account of-has put him temporarily at the world's mercy.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000010.wav|His every thought was vainly wandering round and round the one curious hint that had drifted in, but which he had not yet been able to put into words.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000011_000001.wav|Besides, Arthur, as for believing-without in the least desiring to hurt your feelings-I must candidly warn you, some people won't.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000004_000002.wav|If he had remained there, he might, it was just possible that he would by now, have actually awakened just his own familiar every day self again.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000027_000000.wav|'Yes,' said Danton, taking refuge in Mrs Lawford's white and intent gaze.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000020_000003.wav|Lampreys!|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000005_000002.wav|He started up.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000003.wav|He very gently let himself in, and unheard, unseen, mounted the stairs.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000018_000004.wav|Aren't you, t d?|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000038_000001.wav|So,' he briskly brightened, 'say, between us we're six score all told.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000036_000000.wav|'My dear good Danton,' persisted Mr Bethany with cherubic patience, 'how old are you?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000018_000003.wav|Danton at heart was always an incorrigible sceptic.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000002.wav|I think I foresaw it.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000004_000005.wav|And even as he watched it, its lips, of their own volition, drew together and questioned him-'Whose?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000002.wav|He agrees with me it really would be advisable to take such a very old and prudent and practical friend into our confidence.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000009.wav|But now, because I ask it, and this poor child here entreats it, you will say nothing to a living soul about the matter, say, till Friday?|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000004.wav|A smile can turn a face we dread into a face we'd die for.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000001.wav|He heard voices in the dining room.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000021_000000.wav|Mr Bethany, with a convulsive effort, woke.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000006.wav|He tried in vain to catch up the thread of his thoughts.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000041_000002.wav|But then, I am a sceptic; I own it.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000006_000001.wav|I refuse to be watched and guarded and peeped on like this.' He knew that his hands were trembling, that he could not keep his eyes fixed, that his voice was nearly inarticulate.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000005.wav|Look, now, what your night walk has done for you!|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000003_000002.wav|A light shone faintly between the blinds of his bedroom.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000003.wav|And now, just while we are all three alone here together in friendly conclave, wouldn't it be as well, don't you think, to confront ourselves with the difficulties? I know-we all know, that that poor half demented creature IS Arthur Lawford.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000023_000001.wav|Do you hear me?|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000026_000000.wav|'Bless me, yes,' said Mr Bethany cordially-'fever.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000000.wav|Sheila drew in her lips.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000005_000000.wav|He was not to be given much leisure, however, for fantastic reveries like this.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000007.wav|And that, my dear Danton, is just where we come in. We know the man himself; and it is to be our privilege to act as a buffer state, to be intermediaries between him and the rest of this deadly, craving, sheepish world-for the time being; oh yes, just for the time being.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000021_000001.wav|He turned swiftly on Mrs Lawford. 'Why, why, could you not have seen?' he cried.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000038_000002.wav|Are we-can we, deliberately, with this mere pinch of years at our command out of the wheeling millions that have gone-can we say, "This is impossible," to any single phenomenon?|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000006.wav|Faith versus Reason-that prehistoric Armageddon. Some day, and a day not far distant either, Lawford will come back to us.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000003.wav|You do nothing I ask of you.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000032_000009.wav|And yet the slightest, the most infinitesimal change is instantly apparent.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000020_000002.wav|You were born fat; you became fat; and fat, my dear Danton, has been deliberately thrust on you-in layers!|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000037_000000.wav|'I don't see quite...' smiled Danton with recovered ease, and rapidly mobilising forces.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000008_000001.wav|'And Danton, of all people in the world!|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000009.wav|We don't attempt to explain; we can't.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000018_000000.wav|'It was not my wish, Vicar, to come at all,' said a voice from the doorway.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000029_000001.wav|'Oh yes. But-eh?--needlessly abusive?|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000014_000000.wav|Mr Danton composed his chin in his collar, and deliberately turned himself towards his companion.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000042_000001.wav|With your permission, my dear,' he added, turning untarnishably clear childlike eyes on Sheila, 'I will take all risks-even to the foot of the gibbet: accessory, Danton, AFTER the fact.' And so direct and cloudless was his gaze that Sheila tried in vain to evade it and to catch a glimpse of Danton's small agate like eyes, now completely under mastery, and awaiting confidently the meeting with her own.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000007_000001.wav|'I have merely come to tell you, Arthur, that Mr Bethany has brought Mr Danton in to supper.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000008.wav|Other and keener and more knowledgeable minds than mine or yours will some day bring him back to us again.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000008_000002.wav|It was surely rather a curious, a thoughtless choice.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000034_000001.wav|I have heard Lawford's own account.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000012_000000.wav|'Come along,' said Lawford, with a faint gust of laughter; 'let's see.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000012.wav|And what's a week?--to Nature scarcely the unfolding of a rose.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000023_000002.wav|I forbid it.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000029_000002.wav|I never SAID I disbelieved him.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000009_000000.wav|'Why do you ask?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73848/5570_73848_000040_000014.wav|Then, if nothing has occurred, we will, we shall HAVE to call a friendly gathering, we shall be compelled to have a friendly consultation.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000050_000000.wav|Lawford took out his pocket book and a card.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000012_000003.wav|'Of course, the church itself is centuries older, drenched with age.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000041_000000.wav|Lawford sat quite still.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000001.wav|The moon cast lean grey beams of light between the cypresses.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000021_000001.wav|If he did kill himself, he did.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000004.wav|But there'--he rose stiff and chilled-'I am afraid I have bored you with my company.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000025_000000.wav|'Has anything-ever-occurred?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000009_000003.wav|Perhaps you would tell me something of its history?' He sat down.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000007_000001.wav|'Oh yes, often.' He smiled.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000049_000002.wav|Come at any time of the evening'; he paused again and smiled-'the third house after the Rectory, which is marked up on the gate.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000006_000000.wav|'You often sit here?' Lawford persisted.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000048_000000.wav|Lawford took out his watch, 'You are really very kind,' he said.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000018_000001.wav|Dead or alive, they try to keep the wolf out.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000005_000000.wav|The stranger turned his head to glance over the fields.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000044_000001.wav|'What did you dream?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000037_000002.wav|He killed himself, poor wretch, think of the fret and fever he must have been in-just before.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000017_000000.wav|'A suicide,' said Lawford, under his breath.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000026_000002.wav|I come here simply, as I have said, because it's quiet; because I prefer the company of those who never answer me back, and who do not so much as condescend to pay me the least attention.' He smiled and turned his face towards the quiet fields.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000050_000001.wav|'Mine,' he said, handing it gravely to his companion.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000023_000002.wav|'You say you often come?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000021_000000.wav|'But, surely,' said Lawford, 'was it so entirely a matter of choice-the laws of the Church?|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000037_000000.wav|'He was a stranger; it says so.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000005_000001.wav|'Yes, it is, very,' he replied.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000002.wav|But to his wide and wandering eyes it seemed that a radiance other than hers haunted these mounds and leaning stones.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000048_000001.wav|'But, perhaps-well, whatever that history may be, I think you would agree that mine is even-but, there, I've talked too much about myself already.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000010_000000.wav|'To tell you the truth,' he replied, picking his way as it were from word to word, 'it's "history," as people call it, does not interest me in the least.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000050_000002.wav|'is Lawford-at least...' It was really the first time that either had seen the other's face at close quarters and clear lit; and on Lawford's a moon almost at the full shone dazzlingly.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000004_000000.wav|Lawford again hesitated, then slowly advanced.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000031_000001.wav|'But it is an absolutely new one to me.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000022_000002.wav|I fancied I was his only friend.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000007_000000.wav|The stranger raised his eyebrows.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000004.wav|He would not be seen down there.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000043_000003.wav|The stranger turned away from him.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000002_000000.wav|'I am afraid,' called Lawford rather nervously-'I hope I am not intruding?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000003.wav|But the stooping stones and the cypresses were out of sight of its porch.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000029_000000.wav|'Answer back?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000009_000004.wav|His companion moved slowly to the other side of the broken gravestone.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000018_000000.wav|'Yes, a suicide; that's why our Christian countrymen have buried him outside of the fold.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000022_000003.wav|May I venture to ask why you are interested in the poor old thing?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000050_000003.wav|He saw an expression-dismay, incredulity, overwhelming astonishment-start suddenly into the dark, rather indifferent eyes.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000016_000000.wav|His companion leant his hand on the old stooping tombstone.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000040_000000.wav|It was almost too dark now to distinguish the stranger's features but there seemed a faint suggestion of irony in his voice.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000030_000000.wav|There was a low rotting wall of stone encompassing Sabathier's grave; on this the stranger sat down.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000022_000000.wav|The stranger turned with a little shrug.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000033_000001.wav|'But I believe in the resurrection of the body; that is what we say; and supposing, when a man dies-supposing it was most frightfully against one's will; that one hated the awful inaction that death brings, shutting a poor devil up like a child kicking against the door in a dark cupboard; one might surely one might-just quietly, you know, try to get out?|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000031_000000.wav|'Of course, of course,' said Lawford eagerly.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000024_000000.wav|'Often,' said the stranger rather curtly.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000006.wav|You will forgive my intrusion?' There was a kind of old-fashioned courtesy in his manner that he himself was dimly aware of.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000043_000002.wav|He felt instinctively it was madness to sit on here in the thin gliding mist that had gathered in swathes above the grass, milk pale in the rising moon.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000010_000003.wav|Of course, age has its charms.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000028_000000.wav|'"One ever could?"'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000003_000001.wav|'I have no privileges here; at least as yet.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000010_000002.wav|What this is'--he glanced, with head bent, across the shadowy stones, 'is pretty evident.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000049_000003.wav|My name is Herbert-Herbert Herbert to be precise.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000040_000001.wav|'And how do you suppose your angry naughty child would set about it?|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000046_000005.wav|At the porch they paused once more.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000027_000001.wav|'Do you think,' he said softly, 'it is possible one ever could?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000052_000000.wav|'Why,' said the other, laughing and turning away, 'I think the moon must have bewitched me too.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000040_000002.wav|It's narrow quarters; how would he begin?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000023_000000.wav|Lawford's mind was as calm and shallow as a millpond.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000012_000000.wav|'Oh yes, it's old right enough, as things go; but even age, perhaps, is mainly an affair of the imagination.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000037_000001.wav|Good God!' said Lawford, 'how he must have wanted to get home!|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000005.wav|You came here for solitude, and I have been trying to convince you that we are surrounded with witnesses.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000007.wav|He stood hesitating, gazing steadily and yet half vacantly at the motionless figure, and in a while a face was lifted in his direction, and undisconcerted eyes calmly surveyed him.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000046_000002.wav|And I confess I too should very much like a peep into his cupboard.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000003.wav|'Have you ever noticed it?' he said, putting out his hand towards his unknown companion; 'this stone is cracked from head to foot?...|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000012_000001.wav|There's a tombstone near that little old hawthorn, and there are two others side by side under the wall, still even legibly late seventeenth century.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000000.wav|The last light of sunset lay in the west; and a sullen wrack of cloud was mounting into the windless sky when Lawford entered the country graveyard again by its dark weather worn lych gate.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000009_000001.wav|He made another effort-for conversation with strangers had always been a difficulty to him-and advanced towards the seat.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000022_000001.wav|'I don't suppose it's a matter of much consequence to HIM.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000036_000000.wav|And a sheer enormous abyss of silence seemed to follow the unanswerable question.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000011_000000.wav|'And is this very old?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000016_000002.wav|Even if you don't.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000007_000003.wav|The congregation is rapt.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000049_000001.wav|'It's a flat wooden house, on the left hand side.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000005_000002.wav|There was the faintest accent, a little drawl of unfriendliness in the remark.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000006.wav|Far over the harvest fields showed a growing pallor in the solitary seat beneath the cypresses.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000012_000004.wav|But she's still sleep walking while these old tombstones dream.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000004_000001.wav|'It's astonishingly quiet and beautiful,' he said.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000020_000000.wav|'Haven't you noticed,' drawled the other, 'how green the grass grows down here, and how very sharp are poor old Sabathier's thorns?|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000002.wav|He could hear a steady, rather nasal voice through its open lattices.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000047_000003.wav|Perhaps you could spare the time now?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000005.wav|He paused a moment, however; his hat was drawn down over his eyes; he was shivering.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000007.wav|He held out his hand.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000045_000000.wav|Lawford glanced helplessly about him.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000007_000002.wav|'It is my own modest fashion of attending divine service.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000041_000001.wav|'You say-I hope I am not detaining you-you say you have come here, sat here often, on this very seat; have you ever had-have you ever fallen asleep here?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000038_000000.wav|'But it might, you know,' suggested the other with a smile-'might have been sheer indifference.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000001_000001.wav|The old stone church with its square tower stood amid trees, its eastern window faintly aglow with crimson and purple.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000043_000001.wav|He was cold and shivering.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000033_000002.wav|wouldn't you?' he added.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000049_000000.wav|'Why, to morrow, then,' said his companion.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000047_000002.wav|I live only at the foot of the hill, not half a mile distant.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000031_000002.wav|I don't mean that I have never had such an idea, just in one's own superficial way; but'--he paused and glanced swiftly into the fast thickening twilight-'I wonder: are they, do you think, really, all quite dead?'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000046_000004.wav|But there, it's merely a matter of time, I suppose.' He paused, and together they slowly ascended the path already glimmering with a heavy dew.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000026_000000.wav|'"Occurred?"' He raised his eyebrows.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000046_000001.wav|It's the old story of Bluebeard.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000008_000000.wav|'My visits,' said Lawford, 'have been very few-in fact, so far as I know, I have only once been here before.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000051_000000.wav|'What is it?' he cried, hastily stooping close.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000009_000002.wav|'You mustn't please let me intrude upon you,' he said, 'but really I am very interested in this queer old place.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000012_000005.wav|Glow worms and crickets are not such bad bedfellows.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000044_000000.wav|'"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come must give us pause,"' he said slowly, with a little satirical catch on the last word.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000010_000001.wav|After all, it's not when a thing is, but what it is, that much matters.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000015_000001.wav|'Not, I suppose,' he resumed faintly-'not, I suppose, beyond what's there.'|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5570/73847/5570_73847_000032_000000.wav|'Call and see!' taunted the stranger softly.|5570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000030_000000.wav|They were the first mathematicians of the Old World.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000012_000002.wav|The constant cry of the mourners as the funeral procession moved forward was, "To the west; to the west." This under world was beyond the water, hence the funeral procession always crossed a body of water.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000013.wav|This papyrus is a medical treatise; there are in it no incantations or charms; but it deals in reasonable remedies, draughts, unguents and injections.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000044_000002.wav|In reality, the intercalation of the Mexicans being thirteen days on each cycle of fifty two years, comes to the same thing as that of the Julian calendar, which is one day in four years; and consequently supposes the duration of the year to be three hundred and sixty five days six hours.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000014.wav|The later medical papyri contain a great deal of magic and incantations.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000031_000002.wav|Professor Mitchell, to whom the fact was communicated, employed his assistants to ascertain the exact position of the heavenly bodies belonging to our solar system on the equinox of that year.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000022_000005.wav|Look at the Temple of Karnac, covering a square each side of which is eighteen hundred feet.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000015_000001.wav|There is no evidence that the civilization of Egypt was developed in Egypt itself; it must have been transported there from some other country.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000002.wav|They were the first agriculturists of the Old World, raising all the cereals, cattle, horses, sheep, etc|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000030_000003.wav|They knew the rotundity of the earth, which it was supposed Columbus had discovered!|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000018_000001.wav|Light may yet be thrown upon her rise and progress, but our deepest researches have hitherto shown her to us as only the mother of a most accomplished race.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000030_000001.wav|Those Greeks whom we regard as the fathers of mathematics were simply pupils of Egypt. They were the first land surveyors.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000006.wav|The word "chemistry" comes from chemi, and chemi means Egypt.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000048_000000.wav|In Egypt we have the oldest of the Old World children of Atlantis; in her magnificence we have a testimony to the development attained by the parent country; by that country whose kings were the gods of succeeding nations, and whose kingdom extended to the uttermost ends of the earth.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000006_000000.wav|three.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000009_000000.wav|six.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000029_000000.wav|Then look at the proficiency in art of this ancient people.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000008.wav|Their dentists filled teeth with gold; their farmers hatched poultry by artificial heat.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000004_000001.wav|They claimed descent from "the twelve great gods," which must have meant the twelve gods of Atlantis, to wit, Poseidon and Cleito and their ten sons.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000014_000003.wav|Poole says, "How then can we account for this strong conviction?|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000022_000003.wav|Look at the magnificent mason work of this ancient people!|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000041_000000.wav|Even the obelisks of Egypt have their counterpart in America.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000007_000001.wav|The great similarity between the Egyptian civilization and that of the American nations.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000018_000000.wav|"As we have not yet discovered any trace of the rude, savage Egypt, but have seen her in her very earliest manifestations already skilful, erudite, and strong, it is impossible to determine the order of her inventions.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000014_000002.wav|In connection with all this we must not forget that Plato described Atlantis as "that sacred island lying beneath the sun" Everywhere in the ancient world we find the minds of men looking to the west for the land of the dead.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000004.wav|They worked in gold, silver, copper, bronze, and iron; they tempered iron to the hardness of steel.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000032_000005.wav|They were the first chemists.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000020_000000.wav|And how mighty must have been the parent nation of which this Egypt was a colony!|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000015_000002.wav|To use the words of a recent writer in Blackwood,|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000027_000000.wav|"When we consider the high ideal of the Egyptians, as proved by their portrayals of a just life, the principles they laid down as the basis of ethics, the elevation of women among them, their humanity in war, we must admit that their moral place ranks very high among the nations of antiquity.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000038_000000.wav|"Among the ancient cultured nations of Egypt and Assyria handicrafts had already come to a stage which could only have been reached by thousands of years of progress.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000019_000000.wav|The explanation is simple: the waters of the Atlantic now flow over the country where all this magnificence and power were developed by slow stages from the rude beginnings of barbarism.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000038_000002.wav|To see gold jewellery of the highest order, the student should examine that of the ancients, such as the Egyptian, Greek, and Etruscan."|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000012_000001.wav|We find another proof of the descent of the Egyptians from Atlantis in their belief as to the "under world." This land of the dead was situated in the West-hence the tombs were all placed, whenever possible, on the west bank of the Nile.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32136/5147_32136_000030_000002.wav|They were the first astronomers, calculating eclipses, and watching the periods of planets and constellations.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32135/5147_32135_000021_000002.wav|They wrote on cotton cloth, on skins prepared like parchment, on a composition of silk and gum, and on a species of paper, soft and beautiful, made from the aloe.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32135/5147_32135_000026_000002.wav|Cotton napkins and ewers of water were placed before them as they took their seats at the board.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32135/5147_32135_000003_000000.wav|THE CENTRAL AMERICAN AND MEXICAN COLONIES.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32135/5147_32135_000006_000001.wav|Who brought the dialect of Homer to America? or who took to Greece that of the Mayas? Greek is the offspring of the Sanscrit.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32137/5147_32137_000066_000000.wav|eight.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32137/5147_32137_000049_000002.wav|Sea shells from the Gulf, pearls from the Atlantic, and obsidian from Mexico, have also been found side by side in their mounds.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5147/32137/5147_32137_000063_000000.wav|five.|5147
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000003.wav|Cases, in some instances, would appeal so loudly and forcibly to humanity, civilization, and Christianity, that it would really seem as if the very stones would cry out, unless something was done.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000033_000005.wav|Equally true and faithful also did mr Bigelow prove to the last; but at times he had some painfully dark seasons to encounter, as may be seen from the subjoined letter:|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000014_000000.wav|J. BIGELOW.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000002.wav|STILL, DEAR SIR:--I strongly hope the little matter of business so long pending and about which I have written you so many times, will take a move now.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000009_000000.wav|All the rest I leave to the experience and sagacity of the gentleman who maps out the enterprise.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000005.wav|I shall, however, know before I mail this note.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000034_000000.wav|WASHINGTON, d c, october sixth eighteen fifty five.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000030_000000.wav|Yours, very truly,|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000001.wav|It was the business of the Vigilance Committee, as it was clearly understood by the friends of the Slave, to assist all needy fugitives, who might in any way manage to reach Philadelphia, but, for various reasons, not to send agents South to incite slaves to run away, or to assist them in so doing.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000011.wav|Well, let him come.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000002_000000.wav|WASHINGTON, d c, june twenty seventh eighteen fifty four.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000035_000001.wav|STILL, DEAR SIR:--I regret exceedingly to learn by your favor of fourth instant, that all things are not ready.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000002.wav|Sometimes, however, this rule could not altogether be conformed to.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000026_000002.wav|It will be repeated soon, and you shall know the result.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000015_000001.wav|The information which mr Bigelow's letter contained of the painful situation of this young girl was submitted to different parties who could be trusted, with a view of finding a person who might possess sufficient courage to undertake to bring her away.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000015_000000.wav|While this letter clearly brought to light the situation of things, its author, however, had scarcely begun to conceive of the numberless difficulties which stood in the way of success before the work could be accomplished.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000005.wav|At the same time it may be seen how much anxiety, care, hazard, delay and material aid, were required in order to effect the deliverance of some who were in close places, and difficult of access.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000000.wav|PROFESSORS h AND t OFFER THEIR SERVICES-CAPTAINS b ALSO ARE ENLISTED-SLAVE TRADER GRASPING TIGHTLY HIS PREY, BUT SHE IS RESCUED-LONG CONFLICT, BUT GREAT TRIUMPH-ARRIVAL ON THANKSGIVING DAY, november twenty fifth eighteen fifty five.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000035_000000.wav|mr|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000003_000000.wav|mr|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000033_000004.wav|The hope of Freedom, however, buoyed up the heart of the young slave girl during the long months of anxious waiting and daily expectation for the hour of deliverance to come.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000004.wav|As an illustration of this point, the story of the young girl, which is now to be related, will afford the most striking proof.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000027_000001.wav|I hope soon to know that this reaches you in safety.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000036_000001.wav|Such outrages are always common here, and no kind of property exposed to colored protection only, can be considered safe.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000039_000000.wav|It was a great misunderstanding, though not your fault, that so much delay would be necessary.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000031_000000.wav|j b|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000026_000001.wav|The attempt was made on Sunday to forward the merchandize, but failed through no fault of any of the parties that I now know of.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000020_000000.wav|I had an interesting call a week ago from two gentlemen, masters of vessels, and brothers, one of whom, I understand, you know as the "powder boy." I had a little light freight for them; but not finding enough other freight to ballast their craft, they went down the river looking for wheat, and promising to return soon. I hope to see them often.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000032_000001.wav|You will find an example at the close of my letter.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000015_000004.wav|The impression made on mr Bigelow's mind may be seen from the following letter; it may also be seen that he was fully alive to the necessity of precautionary measures.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000008.wav|You have never given me his name, nor am I anxious to know it.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000007.wav|The first letter, in explanation, is the following:|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000000_000006.wav|It will be necessary to present a considerable amount of correspondence in this case, to bring to light the hidden mysteries of this narrative.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000033_000000.wav|Up to this time the chances seemed favorable of procuring the ready services of either of the above mentioned captains who visited Lawyer Bigelow for the removal of the merchandize to Philadelphia, providing the shipping master could have it in readiness to suit their convenience.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000027_000000.wav|"Whorra for Judge Kane." I feel so indignant at the man, that it is not easy to write the foregoing sentence, and yet who is helping our cause like Kane and Douglas, not forgetting Stringfellow.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000017_000000.wav|SECOND LETTER FROM LAWYER BIGELOW.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000000.wav|mr|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000019_000003.wav|I have the promise that the merchandize shall be delivered in this city to night.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000015_000002.wav|Amongst those consulted were two or three captains who had on former occasions done good service in the cause.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000018_000000.wav|WASHINGTON, d c, september ninth eighteen fifty five.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000005_000002.wav|All this, I think, is now provided for with entire safety.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000029_000000.wav|[I wish here to caution you against the supposition that I would do any act, or say a word towards helping servants to escape. Although I hate slavery so much, I keep my hands clear of any such wicked or illegal act.]|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/118112/7120_118112_000033_000003.wav|In this hopeful, although painfully indefinite position the matter remained for more than a year; but the correspondence and anxiety increased, and with them disappointments and difficulties multiplied.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000032_000003.wav|He made a step towards his patient and hesitated.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000056_000000.wav|dr Martineau stood up softly.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000010_000001.wav|But the household is well trained.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000054_000000.wav|His voice sank to the faintest whisper.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000005_000001.wav|It was late in October and Sir Richmond was already seriously ill.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000002.wav|Then he brushed a gust of chilly rain across the face of Sir Richmond as he stood waiting for his car outside the strangers' entrance to the House.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000000.wav|Sir Richmond's bedroom was a large apartment in which sleep seemed to have been an admitted necessity rather than a principal purpose.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000045_000000.wav|"Yes, yes," whispered dr Martineau.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000043_000000.wav|But Sir Richmond was also remorseful.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000003.wav|I can't last out unless I am.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000051_000001.wav|Never done anything-WELL....|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000049_000001.wav|Always lose my damned grip.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000020_000001.wav|I want to pull through."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000000.wav|Death approved of Sir Richmond's determination to see the Committee through.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000005.wav|But I order you.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000015_000003.wav|My wife's g p--an exasperating sort of ass.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000057_000001.wav|The photograph of the American girl drew his eyes.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000015_000002.wav|I know....|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000008.wav|His skin was suddenly a detestable garment to wear.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000009.wav|He took his temperature with a little clinical thermometer he kept by him and found it was a hundred and one.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000041_000002.wav|"They'd want things said to them...Things to remember...I CAN'T.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000005_000004.wav|dr Martineau received him as though there had never been a shadow of offence between them.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000019_000000.wav|"I am afraid you are very ill," he said, returning to the bedside.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000031_000001.wav|He seemed to regard the matter as settled.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000047_000004.wav|Love...|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000005.wav|Over the mantelpiece was an enlarged photograph of Lady Hardy and a plain office calendar.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000048_000000.wav|"It had been splendid work," said dr Martineau, and was not sure that Sir Richmond heard.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000007.wav|For a moment dr Martineau's mind hung in doubt and then he knew it for the young American of Stonehenge.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000006.wav|On the evening of the second day his lungs became painful and his breathing difficult.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000011_000002.wav|I wish the Committee room wasn't down those abominable House of Commons corridors...."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000057_000002.wav|What had happened?|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000018_000002.wav|"We must find a small table somewhere to put near the bed.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000009.wav|If this open weather lasts you may go about and still pull through.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000003.wav|"I can't see them, Martineau, until I've something to say.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000024_000003.wav|All men ought to have some such training, Not a bad idea to put every boy and girl through a year or so of hospital service....|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000038_000000.wav|dr Martineau rested on that for a little while.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000008.wav|How that affair had ended he did not know.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000003.wav|"Pro forma," he said, stethoscope in hand, "I must order you to bed.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000002.wav|It bore witness to the nocturnal habits of a man who had long lived a life of irregular impulses to activity and dislocated hours and habits.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000003.wav|There was a desk and reading lamp for night work near the fireplace, an electric kettle for making tea at night, a silver biscuit tin; all the apparatus for the lonely intent industry of the small hours.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000011_000001.wav|Wrap up like a mummy.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000008_000000.wav|"I'll take all reasonable care."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000030_000000.wav|"Send then."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000037_000002.wav|His voice was faint but firm.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000004_000000.wav|Section two|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000001.wav|Our universal creditor gave this particular debtor grace to the very last meeting.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000043_000002.wav|Love."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000000.wav|He came straight to the point.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000006.wav|The Commission can't go on now for more than another three weeks.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000033_000000.wav|Sir Richmond opened his eyes and regarded him with a slight frown.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000008.wav|That may spread at any time.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000002.wav|Then he made a great effort.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000036_000003.wav|Probably there is a night train."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000037_000000.wav|Sir Richmond manifested no surprise at the warning.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000035_000000.wav|Sir Richmond, cheek on pillow, seemed to assent.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000056_000003.wav|He hated this lonely launching from the shores of life of one who had sought intimacy so persistently and vainly.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000025_000000.wav|Sir Richmond's raised eyebrows conveyed that he accepted this fact.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000042_000000.wav|"Don't trouble," whispered dr Martineau, suddenly remorseful.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000034_000000.wav|"A case of pneumonia," said the doctor, "after great exertion and fatigue, may take very rapid and unexpected turns."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000009.wav|People exaggerate...People exaggerate-importance these occasions."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000041_000003.wav|I'm tired out."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000016_000001.wav|He had twisted the bed clothes into a hopeless muddle, the sheet was on the floor.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000059_000000.wav|Sir Richmond continued to smile dimly at the doctor's back until his eyes closed again.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000010_000002.wav|I can manage."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000005_000000.wav|It was with some surprise that dr Martineau received a fresh appeal for aid from Sir Richmond.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000005.wav|He found it increasingly difficult to make decisions; he would correct and alter back and then repeat the correction, perhaps half a dozen times.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000041_000001.wav|His face puckered like a peevish child's.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000004.wav|There was a bookcase of bluebooks, books of reference and suchlike material, and some files.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000058_000000.wav|"Oh!--WELL!" said dr Martineau and turned away.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000058_000001.wav|He went to the window and stared out as his habit was.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000039_000000.wav|"Not possible," said Sir Richmond, with his eyes on the ceiling.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000012_000000.wav|They parted with an affectionate handshake.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000011.wav|He was already thoroughly ill when the doctor arrived.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000053_000000.wav|"Done."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000047_000001.wav|Then he stirred and muttered.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000038_000001.wav|Then he said: "If there is anyone else?"|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000016_000000.wav|He was lying on a narrow little bed with a hard pillow that the doctor replaced by one from Lady Hardy's room.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000036_000002.wav|One never knows in these cases.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000056_000004.wav|It was extraordinary-he saw it now for the first time-he loved this man.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000037_000004.wav|Anything she'd like."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000000.wav|dr Martineau was turning away when Sir Richmond spoke again in a whisper.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000024_000004.wav|Sir Richmond must have dozed, for his next perception was of dr Martineau standing over him and saying "I am afraid, my dear Hardy, that you are very ill indeed. Much more so than I thought you were at first."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000003.wav|For a couple of days Sir Richmond felt almost intolerably tired, but scarcely noted the changed timbre of the wheezy notes in his throat.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000009_000000.wav|"Is your wife at home!"|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000007.wav|Whatever happens afterwards I must keep going until then."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000029_000000.wav|"But if anything happens ?"|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000043_000001.wav|"Give them my love," he said. "Best love...Old Martin.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000006.wav|You must know that what you are doing is risking your life.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000001.wav|He made no vain objections.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000032_000002.wav|Did Sir Richmond fully understand?|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000015_000000.wav|"Forgive my sending for you," he said.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000010_000000.wav|"She is in Wales with her people.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000056_000005.wav|If it had been in his power, he would at that moment have anointed him with kindness.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000004.wav|It's like that.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000010.wav|But at any time this may pass into pneumonia.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000047_000003.wav|Poor at the best...|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000054_000001.wav|"Done for ever and ever... and ever... and ever."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000028_000000.wav|"Don't want her about," he said, and after a pause, "Don't want anybody about."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000057_000004.wav|He turned about as if to enquire of the dying man and found Sir Richmond's eyes open and regarding him.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000027_000000.wav|Sir Richmond shook his head with unexpected vigour.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000013_000000.wav|Section three|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000005_000002.wav|But he was still going about his business as though he was perfectly well.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000046_000000.wav|Section four|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000056_000001.wav|Something beyond reason told him that this was certainly a dying man.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000026_000000.wav|"I think Lady Hardy ought to be sent for."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000022_000000.wav|The second doctor presently came, with the right sort of nurse hard on his heels.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000015_000005.wav|No one else."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000036_000001.wav|If you don't want to take risks about that-...|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000002.wav|He did what he could to patch up his friend for his last struggles with the opposition in the Committee.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000060_000000.wav|It was their last exchange.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000007.wav|Hurt someone.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000051_000000.wav|"Never....|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000052_000001.wav|Done.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000007.wav|Your lungs are congested, the bronchial tubes already.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000004.wav|I'm at the end of my energy.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000014_000004.wav|He rose later each day and with ebbing vigour, jotted down notes and corrections upon the proofs of the Minority Report.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000015_000001.wav|"Not your line.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000006_000001.wav|"Martineau," he said, "I must have those drugs I asked you for when first I came to you now.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000021_000000.wav|"He will know better where to get the right sort of nurse for the case-and everything."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000020_000000.wav|"I'm in your hands, said Sir Richmond.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000047_000005.wav|Work.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000005_000003.wav|He had not mistaken his man.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000018_000001.wav|"I must get in a night nurse at once," he said.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000050_000001.wav|Put their backs up....Silly....|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000000.wav|The doctor did understand.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000017_000009.wav|And now it was not his business to know.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000047_000002.wav|"Second rate...|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000057_000005.wav|In them he saw an expression he had seen there once or twice before, a faint but excessively irritating gleam of amusement.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000011_000000.wav|"Go in a closed car from door to door.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000024_000002.wav|He began to think what a decent chap dr Martineau was, how helpful and fine and forgiving his professional training had made him, how completely he had ignored the smothered incivilities of their parting at Salisbury.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000060_000001.wav|Sir Richmond died that night in the small hours, so quietly that for some time the night nurse did not observe what had happened.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000044_000005.wav|Perhaps I shall think of some kind things to say-after a sleep.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000019_000002.wav|Will you let me call in another man, a man we can trust thoroughly, to consult?"|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000045_000001.wav|"I quite understand."|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000018_000000.wav|These various observations printed themselves on dr Martineau's mind after his first cursory examination of his patient and while he cast about for anything that would give this large industrious apartment a little more of the restfulness and comfort of a sick room.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000037_000003.wav|"Couldn't make up anything to say to her.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000031_000000.wav|An expression of obstinate calm overspread Sir Richmond's face.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000037_000001.wav|But he stuck to his point.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000007_000004.wav|You won't go.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7120/76055/7120_76055_000032_000001.wav|He went to the window and turned to look again at the impassive figure on the bed.|7120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000006_000000.wav|"Jesse Head, the good Methodist minister that married them, was also a carpenter or cabinet maker by trade, and as he was then a neighbor, they were good friends.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000005.wav|There was a wide fireplace in the big chimney which was built outside.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000026_000003.wav|If he told us what he was laughin' at, half the time we couldn't see no joke.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000004.wav|It contained but a single room, with only one window and one door.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000003_000004.wav|She read well and could write, too.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000014_000000.wav|"NANCY'S BOY BABY"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000024_000000.wav|"You bet I was tickled to death.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000007_000000.wav|"While you pin me down to facts, I will say that I saw Nancy Hanks Lincoln at her wedding, a fresh looking girl, I should say over twenty. Tom was a respectable mechanic and could choose, and she was treated with respect.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000011_000005.wav|They killed off the varmints an' made it safe fur other fellers to go into the woods with an ax.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000020_000000.wav|The exact spot was identified after his death, and the house was found standing many years later.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000027_000000.wav|"Abe never give Nancy no trouble after he could walk excep' to keep him in clothes.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000009_000003.wav|Thomas was very fond of shooting and as he was a fine marksman he could provide game for the table, and other things which are considered luxuries to day, such as furs and skins needed for the primitive wearing apparel of the pioneers.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000009_000002.wav|There was so little carpentering or cabinet making to do that he could make a better living by farming or hunting.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000004_000001.wav|I was hunting roots for my medicine and just went to the wedding to get a good supper and got it.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000006.wav|But that rude hut became the home of "the greatest American."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000003_000006.wav|Thomas was twenty eight and Nancy twenty three when their wedding day came. Christopher Columbus Graham, when almost one hundred years old, gave the following description of the marriage feast of the Lincoln bride and groom:|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000003_000001.wav|She had a full forehead, a sharp, angular face and a sad expression.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000009_000000.wav|Thomas Lincoln took his bride to live in a little log cabin in a Kentucky settlement-not a village or hardly a hamlet-called Elizabethtown.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000003.wav|It was a barren spot and the cabin on it was a rude and primitive sort of home for a carpenter and joiner to occupy.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000012_000000.wav|"When Nancy married Tom he was workin' in a carpenter shop.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000013_000000.wav|"Pore?|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000025_000001.wav|Nancy let me hold him purty soon.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000025_000002.wav|Folks often ask me if Abe was a good lookin' baby.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000002.wav|From this spring the place came to be known as "Rock Spring Farm."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000026_000000.wav|"But he was mighty good comp'ny, solemn as a papoose, but interested in everything.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000020_000001.wav|The logs were removed to Chicago, for the World's Columbian Exposition, in eighteen ninety three, and the cabin was reconstructed and exhibited there and elsewhere in the United States.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000011_000000.wav|"Looks didn't count them days, nohow.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000009_000004.wav|A daughter was born to the young couple at Elizabethtown, whom they named Sarah.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000005_000000.wav|"Tom Lincoln was a carpenter, and a good one for those days, when a cabin was built mainly with the ax, and not a nail or a bolt or hinge in it, only leathers and pins to the doors, and no glass, except in watches and spectacles and bottles.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000024_000001.wav|Babies wasn't as common as blackberries in the woods o' Kaintucky.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000012_000002.wav|Thar was sca'cely any money in that kentry.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000000.wav|Evidently Elizabethtown failed to furnish Thomas Lincoln a living wage from carpentering, for he moved with his young wife and his baby girl to a farm on Nolen Creek, fourteen miles away.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000010_000000.wav|Dennis Hanks, a cousin of Nancy, lived near the Lincolns in the early days of their married life, and gave mrs Eleanor Atkinson this description of their early life together:|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000025_000006.wav|I ricollect how Tom joked about Abe's long legs when he was toddlin' round the cabin.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000017_000000.wav|After his nomination to the presidency, mr Lincoln gave to mr Hicks, a portrait painter, this memorandum of his birth:|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000028_000000.wav|When little Abe was four years old his father and mother moved from Rock Spring Farm to a better place on Knob Creek, a few miles to the northeast of the farm where he was born.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000008_000000.wav|"I was at the infare, too, given by john h Parrott, her guardian, and only girls with money had guardians appointed by the court.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000027_000002.wav|Ever wear a wet buckskin glove?|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000021_000000.wav|Cousin Dennis Hanks gives the following quaint description of "Nancy's boy baby," as reported by mrs Eleanor Atkinson in her little book on "Lincoln's Boyhood."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000002_000000.wav|ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FATHER AND MOTHER|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000016_000000.wav|Abraham Lincoln was born to poverty and privation, but he was never a pauper.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000015_000001.wav|The chief attraction of the so-called farm was a fine spring of water bubbling up in the shade of a small grove.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000018_000000.wav|"I was born february twelfth eighteen o nine, in then Hardin county kentucky, at a point within the now county of Larue, a mile or a mile and a half from where Hodgen's mill now is.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000008_000002.wav|Our table was of the puncheons cut from solid logs, and the next day they were the floor of the new cabin."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000020_000002.wav|The materials were taken back to their original site, and a fine marble structure now encloses the precious relics of the birthplace of "the first American," as Lowell calls Lincoln in his great "Commemoration Ode."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000025_000005.wav|Abe never was much fur looks.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000003_000000.wav|While Thomas Lincoln was living with a farmer and doing odd jobs of carpentering, he met Nancy Hanks, a tall, slender woman, with dark skin, dark brown hair and small, deep set gray eyes.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000003_000005.wav|It is stated that Nancy Hanks taught Thomas Lincoln to write his own name.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295446/8718_295446_000009_000001.wav|He evidently thought this place would be less lonesome for his wife, while he was away hunting and carpentering, than the lonely farm he had purchased in Hardin County, about fourteen miles away.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000010_000001.wav|"I thought she never was sick."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000014_000001.wav|But we are forgetting our list.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000000.wav|"I'm surprised to hear the question!|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000048_000000.wav|"Now that Keziah Cricket, who just came in here, is quite a musician, and her old father plays the violin beautifully;--by the way, we might engage him for our orchestra."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000051_000001.wav|The worthy Cricket family, however, avoided Jack Frost by emigrating in time to the chimney corner of a nice little cottage that had been built in the wood that summer.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000010_000000.wav|"Whatever could give the old lady such a turn?" said Miss Katy.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000038_000000.wav|"Certainly.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000012_000000.wav|"For my part, I can't conceive how the Moths can live as they do," said Miss Katy, with a face of disgust.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000034_000000.wav|Little Miss Cricket perceived how the case stood, and so hopped briskly off, without giving herself even time to be offended.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000017_000000.wav|"Well, then, there are the Bumble Bees."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000036_000000.wav|"Who?|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000016_000000.wav|"Worthy enough, but dreadfully humdrum," said Miss Katy.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000013_000001.wav|"One can see that nothing so gross or material has ever entered into your system."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000002_000001.wav|It was a fine morning, too, which goes for as much among the Katy dids as among men and women.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000044_000001.wav|"You know we republicans go for no distinctions except those created by Nature herself, and we found our rank upon COLOUR, because that is clearly a thing that none has any hand in but our Maker.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000044_000002.wav|You see?"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000018_000001.wav|General Bumble is one of the most dashing, brilliant fellows of the day."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000005.wav|They have a vast talent for music and dancing; they are very quick at learning, and would be getting to the very top of the ladder if we once allowed them to climb.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000011_000001.wav|I understand she and her family ate up a whole ermine cape last month, and it disagreed with them."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000050_000000.wav|The good doctor was even with his word in the matter, and gave out some very sonorous discourses, without in the least stopping the round of gaieties kept up by these dissipated Katy dids, which ran on, night after night, till the celebrated Jack Frost epidemic, which occurred somewhere about the first of September.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000013_000000.wav|"That is quite evident from the fairy like delicacy of your appearance," said the colonel.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000033_000003.wav|Mamma said yesterday she was sure she didn't know how our bills were to be paid; and there's my green satin with point lace yet to come home." And Miss Katy did shrugged her shoulders and affected to be very busy with Colonel Katy did, in just the way that young ladies sometimes do when they wish to signify to visitors that they had better leave.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000043_000000.wav|"Oh!" said the colonel.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000042_000000.wav|"Why, their COLOUR, to be sure.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000041_000000.wav|"My dear cousin, I am afraid you must explain."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000049_000001.wav|The Katy dids and the Mosquitoes, and the Locusts, and a full orchestra of Crickets made the air perfectly vibrate, insomuch that old Parson Too Whit, who was preaching a Thursday evening lecture to a very small audience, announced to his hearers that he should certainly write a discourse against dancing for the next weekly occasion.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000007_000000.wav|"Yes, we must have the Fireflies," echoed the colonel.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000049_000000.wav|And so Miss Katy's ball came off, and the performers kept it up from sundown till daybreak, so that it seemed as if every leaf in the forest were alive.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000008_000001.wav|Now, there's a trouble.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000008_000003.wav|Still, if you have the Butterflies, you can't leave out the Moths."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000011_000000.wav|"I suspect it's high living.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000009_000000.wav|"Old mrs Moth has been laid up lately with a gastric fever, and that may keep two or three of the Misses Moth at home," said the colonel.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000003_000000.wav|"Certainly I am a pretty creature," she said to herself; and when the gallant colonel said something about being dazzled by her beauty, she only tossed her head and took it as quite a matter of course.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000052_000000.wav|There good old mr and mrs Cricket, with sprightly Miss Keziah and her brothers and sisters, found a warm and welcome home; and when the storm howled without, and lashed the poor naked trees, the Crickets on the warm hearth would chirp out cheery welcome to papa as he came in from the snowy path, or mamma as she sat at her work basket.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000043_000002.wav|Excuse me, but I have been living in France, where these distinctions are wholly unknown, and I have not yet got myself in the train of fashionable ideas here."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000019_000000.wav|"I think he is shockingly corpulent," said Colonel Katy did, not at all pleased to hear him praised; "don't you?"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000032_000000.wav|"Well, they are in great trouble; all their stores destroyed, and their father killed-cut quite in two by a hoe."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000023_000000.wav|"Nevertheless, dear Miss Katy, one does not like to offend the Hornets."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000001_000000.wav|Miss Katy did sat on the branch of a flowering azalea, in her best suit of fine green and silver, with wings of point lace from Mother Nature's finest web.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000021_000000.wav|"Well, if you invite the Bumble Bees, you must have the Hornets."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000033_000001.wav|I don't like to hear of such disagreeable things; it affects my nerves terribly.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000047_000000.wav|"Oh yes, I see exactly," said the colonel.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000040_000001.wav|But then you must see the difficulty."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000024_000000.wav|"No, one can't.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000027_000000.wav|"Well dear Miss Katy," said the colonel, "if you ask my candid opinion as a friend, I should say not.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000039_000000.wav|"I thought they were nice, respectable people."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000012_000001.wav|"Why, I could no more eat worsted and fur, as they do-"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000006_000001.wav|The Fireflies, of course; everybody wants them, they are so brilliant,--a little unsteady, to be sure, but quite in the higher circles."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000033_000002.wav|Well, I'm sure I haven't anything to give.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000002_000002.wav|It was, in fact, a morning that Miss Katy thought must have been made on purpose for her to enjoy herself in.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000053_000000.wav|"Cheep, cheep, cheep!" little Freddy would say.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000025_000000.wav|"How about the Mosquitoes!" said the colonel.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000006.wav|But their being black is a convenience; because, as long as we are green and they black, we have a superiority that can never be taken from us. Don't you see now?"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000043_000001.wav|"That's it, is it?|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000024_000002.wav|You may be sure they will every one come, and be looking about to make spiteful remarks.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000000_000000.wav|MISS KATY DID AND MISS CRICKET|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000015_000000.wav|"The Bees are a worthy family," said the colonel.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000036_000001.wav|I?|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000020_000000.wav|"I don't know but he IS a little stout," said Miss Katy; "but so distinguished and elegant in his manners-something quite martial and breezy about him."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000031_000000.wav|"How stupid of them," said Katy, "not to know better than to put their house in the garden walk; that's just like those Ants."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000030_000000.wav|Just at this moment the conference was interrupted by a visitor, Miss Keziah Cricket, who came in with her work bag on her arm to ask a subscription for a poor family of Ants who had just had their house hoed up in clearing the garden walks.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000036_000003.wav|Invite the Crickets?|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000037_000000.wav|"And shall you not ask the Locusts, and the Grasshoppers?"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000003.wav|But then we are liberal;--we associate with the Moths, who are gray; with the Butterflies, who are blue and gold coloured; with the Grasshoppers, yellow and brown; and society would become dreadfully mixed if it were not fortunately ordered that the Crickets are black as jet.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000014_000000.wav|"I'm sure," said Miss Katy, "mamma says she don't know what does keep me alive; half a dewdrop and a little bit of the nicest part of a rose leaf, I assure you, often last me for a day.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, I dote on them!|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000001.wav|The only true colour-the only proper one-is OUR colour, to be sure.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000002_000000.wav|Miss Katy was in the very highest possible spirits, because her gallant cousin, Colonel Katy did, had looked in to make her a morning visit.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000008_000000.wav|"Well, then, and the Butterflies and the Moths.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000024_000001.wav|There are those five Misses Hornet-dreadful old maids!--as full of spite as they can live.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000027_000002.wav|It won't do to offend him."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000045_000000.wav|"Yes; but who decides what colour shall be the reigning colour?"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000026_000000.wav|"Those horrid Mosquitoes-they are dreadfully plebeian!|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000036_000002.wav|Why, colonel, what a question!|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000036_000004.wav|Of what can you be thinking?"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000014_000002.wav|Let's see-the Fireflies, Butterflies, Moths. The Bees must come, I suppose."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000029_000000.wav|"It is a pity," said the colonel; "but one must pay one's tax to society."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000051_000000.wav|Poor Miss Katy, with her flimsy green satin and point lace, was one of the first victims, and fell from the bough in company with a sad shower of last year's leaves.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000053_000001.wav|"Mamma, who is it says 'cheep'?"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000005_000000.wav|"My dear, you make me the happiest of Katy dids."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000004.wav|The fact is, that a class to be looked down upon is necessary to all elegant society; and if the Crickets were not black, we could not keep them down, because, as everybody knows, they are often a great deal cleverer than we are.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000022_000001.wav|I detest them!"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000022_000000.wav|"Those spiteful Hornets!|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000006_000000.wav|"Now," said Miss Katy did, drawing an azalea leaf towards her, "let us see-whom shall we have?|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000008_000002.wav|There's such an everlasting tribe of those Moths; and if you invite dull people they're always sure all to come, every one of them.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000027_000001.wav|There's young Mosquito, who graduated last year, has gone into literature, and is connected with some of our leading papers, and they say he carries the sharpest pen of all the writers.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000044_000000.wav|"Well, then, let me teach you," said Miss Katy.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000035_000000.wav|"Pray, shall you invite the Crickets?" said Colonel Katy did.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000038_000001.wav|The Locusts, of course,--a very old and distinguished family; and the Grasshoppers are pretty well, and ought to be asked. But we must draw a line somewhere,--and the Crickets! why, it's shocking even to think of!"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000024_000003.wav|Put down the Hornets, though."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295197/8718_295197_000046_000002.wav|A lovely pea green is the precise shade on which to found aristocratic distinction.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000008_000000.wav|HOW INDIANS KILLED "GRANDFATHER LINCOLN"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000018_000002.wav|They had been watchin' an', of course, 'twas all right to kill Father, but when 'Mord' killed one o' their bucks, that made a big difference.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000013_000004.wav|I think I must 'a' knowed he was dead.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000018_000001.wav|It was like hell broke loose.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000006_000001.wav|He accompanied Boone from Virginia to Kentucky and lost his life there.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000023_000003.wav|'Mord' he wasn't satisfied with killin' a few Injuns that day to revenge Father's death.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000010_000000.wav|"You know, Dan'l Boone he had lived among the Injuns.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000032_000004.wav|An effort to identify them with the New England family of the same name ended in nothing more definite than a similarity of Christian names in both families, such as Enoch, Levi, Mordecai, Solomon, Abraham, and the like.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000007_000000.wav|Grandfather Lincoln had built a solid log cabin and cleared a field or two around it, near the Falls of the Ohio, about where Louisville now stands.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000012_000000.wav|"Young as I was, I remember what happened that day like it was only yesterday.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000011_000000.wav|"Well, your grandfather was a Quaker, you see, and believed in treatin' them red devils well-like William Penn done, you know.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000028_000000.wav|"He was a man of great drollery, and it would almost make you laugh to look at him.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000017_000003.wav|Waitin' till the ol' demon turns away, so's not to hit me, 'Mord' he aims at a silver dangler on mr Injun's breast and makes him drop in his tracks like I said.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000004_000001.wav|The Boones and the Lincolns had intermarried for generations.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000018_000003.wav|I had sense enough left to run for the house with them Injuns after me.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000014_000001.wav|I knowed what he was goin' to do-skelp my father!|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000017_000001.wav|Then I knowed 'Mord' had shot my Injun.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000012_000001.wav|It come like a bolt out of the blue.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000010_000004.wav|So he thought they'd let Father alone.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000003_000000.wav|ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FOREFATHERS|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000010_000003.wav|He was such a good fellow that them Injuns admired his shrewdness, and they let him do about what he pleased.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000030_000000.wav|"Abe Lincoln had a very high opinion of his uncle, and on one occasion remarked, 'I have often said that Uncle Mord had run off with all the talents of the family.'"|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000032_000001.wav|My mother was of a family of the name of Hanks.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000018_000004.wav|Seemed like I couldn't run half as fast as usual, but I must 'a' made purty good time, from what 'Mord' an' Mother said afterward.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000026_000001.wav|Josiah he stayed with her, an' between him an' 'Mord,' they helped her along, but I had to git out and scratch for a livin'.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000011_000002.wav|I went along too, but I didn't help much-for I was only six.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000005_000000.wav|"The short and simple annals of the poor."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000023_000000.wav|"That was the breaking up of our family.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000023_000005.wav|He couldn't see that he was jist as savage as the worst Injun, to murder 'em without waitin' to see whether mr Injun was a friend or a foe.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000017_000000.wav|"I was standin' there, kind o' dazed, watchin' another puff o' white smoke, comin' out between two logs in the side of our house.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000004_000003.wav|When he was President, Abraham Lincoln, who had never given much attention to the family pedigree, said that the history of his family was well described by a single line in Gray's "Elegy":|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000022_000000.wav|"MORD" LINCOLN, INDIAN FIGHTER|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000031_000000.wav|In a letter about his family history, just before he was nominated for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln wrote:|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000006_000002.wav|He had sacrificed part of his property to the pioneer spirit within him, and, with the killing of their father, his family lost the rest.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000014_000003.wav|I never think what the devil looks like without seein' that red demon with his snaky black eyes, grinnin' at me!|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000013_000000.wav|"Injuns!" gasps Mord, and starts on the run for the house-to get his gun.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000013_000003.wav|Seemed like I'd ought to woke him up so he could run too. Yet I didn't feel like touchin' him.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000025_000002.wav|Folks didn't mind his shootin' an' Injun or two, more or less, when he got the chancet.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000033_000000.wav|"My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education."|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000032_000002.wav|My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham county virginia, to Kentucky about seventeen eighty one or two, where, a year or two later, he was killed by Indians-not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000007_000002.wav|His son Thomas told this story to his children:|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000015_000000.wav|TOM LINCOLN CHASED BY INDIANS|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000029_000001.wav|He was an honest man, as tender hearted as a woman, and to the last degree charitable and benevolent.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000007_000001.wav|But, in the Summer of seventeen eighty four, the tragic day dawned upon the Lincolns which has come to many a pioneer family in Kentucky and elsewhere.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000027_000001.wav|Mordecai Lincoln was a joker and humorist.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000009_000001.wav|He was rich for them times, as he had property worth seventeen thousand dollars; but mr Boone he told Father he could make a good deal more by trappin' and tradin' with the Injuns for valuable pelts, or fur skins.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000013_000002.wav|I knowed I'd ought to run too, but I didn't want to leave my father layin' there on the ground.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000023_000002.wav|He was welcome to it too, for he was the only one of us that could take care of it.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000004_000002.wav|The Lincolns were of good old English stock.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000006_000000.wav|Yet Grandfather Abraham was wealthy for his day.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000011_000001.wav|He was a man for peace and quiet, and everything was goin' smooth with the tribes of what we called the Beargrass Country, till one day, when he and my brothers, Mordecai-'Mord' was a big fellow for his age-and Josiah, a few years younger-was out in the clearin' with the oxen, haulin' logs down to the crick.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000019_000001.wav|That made the others mad an' they took after me, but 'Mord' he drops the head one jist when he's goin' to hit me.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000004_000000.wav|Lincoln's grandfather, for whom he was named Abraham, was a distant cousin to Daniel Boone.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000032_000003.wav|His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, Pennsylvania.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000010_000001.wav|He was a sure shot with the rifle so's he could beat the redskins at their own game.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000032_000000.wav|"My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families-second families, perhaps I should say.|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000023_000004.wav|He made a business of shootin' 'em on sight-a reg'lar Injun stalker!|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8718/295445/8718_295445_000027_000002.wav|One who knew him well said of him:|8718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000003_000004.wav|Meanwhile the rivers are increasing in volume, being fed by the melting snows at their mountain sources far to the north.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000037_000008.wav|In a fragmentary Babylonian charm there is a reference to a sacred tree or bush at Eridu.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000009_000002.wav|Another Egyptian fish deity was the god Rem, whose name signifies "to weep"; he wept fertilizing tears, and corn was sown and reaped amidst lamentations.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000001_000004.wav|A day's journey separated the river mouths when Alexander the Great broke the power of the Persian Empire.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000002_000002.wav|The greatest of these canals appear to have been anciently river beds.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000007_000002.wav|This description recalls the familiar figures of Egyptian gods and priests attired in the skins of the sacred animals from whom their powers were derived, and the fairy lore about swan maids and men, and the seals and other animals who could divest themselves of their "skin coverings" and appear in human shape.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000003_000006.wav|More sluggish in movement, the Euphrates, which is one thousand seven hundred eighty miles long, shows signs of rising a fortnight later than the Tigris, and is in flood for a more extended period; it does not shrink to its lowest level until early in September.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000007_000008.wav|It relates that when the fish was small and in danger of being swallowed by other fish in a stream it appealed to Manu for protection.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000007.wav|Law and religion being closely associated, they had to adapt their gods to suit the requirements of existing social and political organizations. A deity of pastoral nomads had to receive attributes which would give him an agricultural significance; one of rural character had to be changed to respond to the various calls of city life.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000012_000007.wav|Ptah moulded the first man on his potter's wheel: he also moulded the sun and moon; he shaped the universe and hammered out the copper sky.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000003.wav|He was a national rather than a city god.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000005.wav|Conquerors have ever sought reward not merely in spoil, but also the services of the conquered.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000032_000002.wav|The others were phases of light and darkness and the forces of nature in activity and repose.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000030_000000.wav|In the later systematized theology of the Babylonians we seem to trace the fragments of a primitive mythology which was vague in outline, for the deities were not sharply defined, and existed in groups.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000000.wav|Babylonia is a treeless country, and timber had to be imported from the earliest times.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000032_000000.wav|We cannot say definitely what these various deities represent.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000004.wav|When brick walls were cemented with bitumen they were given great stability.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000003.wav|It does not follow, however, that the peasant class was greatly affected by periodic revolutions of this kind, which brought little more to them than a change of rulers.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000029_000000.wav|Associated with Bel Enlil was Beltis, later known as "Beltu-the lady".|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000010.wav|It may be, of course, that Baal dagon represents a fusion of deities.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000037_000009.wav|Professor Sayce has suggested that it is the Biblical "Tree of Life" in the Garden of Eden.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000002_000004.wav|It is believed to mark the course followed in the early Sumerian period by the Euphrates river, which has moved steadily westward many miles beyond the sites of ancient cities that were erected on its banks.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000008.wav|"From one", writes a traveller, "flows hot water black with bitumen, while the other discharges intermittently bitumen, or, after a rainstorm, bitumen and cold water....|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000007_000010.wav|It gradually increased in bulk, and he transferred it next to a tank and then to the river Ganges.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000024_000003.wav|The seven demons, who were his messengers, recall the stormy Maruts, the followers of Indra.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000026_000003.wav|Those attached to a deity as "attendants" appear to represent the original animistic group from which he evolved.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000006.wav|It bubbles up through crevices of rocks on river banks and forms small ponds.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000010_000000.wav|The Euphrates, indeed, was hailed as a creator of all that grew on its banks.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000003_000008.wav|Nature conferred upon them bountiful rewards for their labour; trade and industries flourished, and the cities increased in splendour and strength.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000034_000001.wav|The attributes of this beneficent god reflect the progress, and the social and moral ideals of a people well advanced in civilization.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000002_000005.wav|Another important canal, the Shatt el Hai, crossed the plain from the Tigris to its sister river, which lies lower at this point, and does not run so fast.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000003.wav|Except Eridu, where ancient workers quarried sandstone from its sea shaped ridge, all the cities were built of brick, an excellent clay being found in abundance.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000014.wav|This god of the sea, who is somewhat like the Roman Neptune, carried a lightning trident and caused earthquakes.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000036_000001.wav|We shall find these elder demons figuring in the Babylonian Creation myth, which receives treatment in a later chapter.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000006.wav|In northern Babylonia the invaders apparently found it necessary to conciliate and secure the continued allegiance of the tillers of the soil.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000002.wav|Our knowledge regarding him is derived mainly from the Bible.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000001.wav|It must, therefore, have had a brisk and flourishing foreign trade at an exceedingly remote period.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000008_000001.wav|The growth of the fish suggests the growth of the river rising in flood.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000002_000001.wav|A network of canals was constructed throughout the country, which restricted the destructive tendencies of the Tigris and Euphrates and developed to a high degree their potentialities as fertilizing agencies.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000004.wav|The needs of the country necessitated the continuance of agricultural methods and the rigid observance of existing land laws; indeed, these constituted the basis of Sumerian prosperity.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000019_000004.wav|Osiris and Isis of Egypt were associated with the Nile.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000009_000004.wav|The connection between a fish god and a corn god is not necessarily remote when we consider that in Babylonia and Egypt the harvest was the gift of the rivers.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000037_000002.wav|In its temple tower, built of brick, was a marble stairway, and evidences have been forthcoming that in the later Sumerian period the structure was lavishly adorned.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000017.wav|In his train were the Tritons, half men, half fishes, and the water fairies, the Nereids.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000002.wav|Stone, suitable for building, was very scarce, and limestone, alabaster, marble, and basalt had to be taken from northern Mesopotamia, where the mountains also yield copper and lead and iron.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000000_000003.wav|"This territory", he wrote, "is of all that we know the best by far for producing grain; it is so good that it returns as much as two hundredfold for the average, and, when it bears at its best, it produces three hundredfold.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000015.wav|He was a brother of Zeus, the sky and atmosphere deity, and had bull and horse forms.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000007.wav|Two famous springs at modern Hit, on the Euphrates, have been drawn upon from time immemorial.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000002_000000.wav|In the days of Babylonia's prosperity the Euphrates was hailed as "the soul of the land" and the Tigris as "the bestower of blessings". Skilful engineers had solved the problem of water distribution by irrigating sun parched areas and preventing the excessive flooding of those districts which are now rendered impassable swamps when the rivers overflow.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000024_000002.wav|It is possible that he was developed as an atmospheric god with solar and lunar attributes.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000007_000004.wav|The Indian creative gods Brahma and Vishnu had fish forms.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000038_000001.wav|Here, amidst the shifting rivers in early times, the agriculturists may have learned to control and distribute the water supply by utilizing dried up beds of streams to irrigate the land.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000034_000002.wav|He rewarded mankind for the services they rendered to him; he was their leader and instructor; he achieved for them the victories over the destructive forces of nature.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000016_000000.wav|The Indian Varuna was similarly a sky as well as an ocean god before the theorizing and systematizing Brahmanic teachers relegated him to a permanent abode at the bottom of the sea.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000000_000002.wav|Herodotus found it still flourishing and extremely fertile.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000013.wav|The Philistines came from Crete, and if their Dagon was imported from that island, he may have had some connection with Poseidon, whose worship extended throughout Greece.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000008_000005.wav|The idea is that "where a god dies, that is, ceases to exist in human form, his life passes into the waters where he is buried; and this again is merely a theory to bring the divine water or the divine fish into harmony with anthropomorphic ideas.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000001_000000.wav|This historic country is bounded on the east by Persia and on the west by the Arabian desert.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000005_000008.wav|Besides, local gods could not be ignored on account of their popularity.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000007_000011.wav|In time the fish complained to Manu that the river was too small for it, so he carried it to the sea.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000038_000000.wav|If Eridu was not the "cradle" of the Sumerian race, it was possibly the cradle of Sumerian civilization.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000012_000005.wav|He taught the people how to form and use alphabetic signs and instructed them in mathematics: he gave them their code of laws.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000018_000009.wav|Near the name is an ear of corn, and other symbols, such as the winged solar disc, a gazelle, and several stars, but there is no fish.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000008_000002.wav|In Celtic folk tales high tides and valley floods are accounted for by the presence of a "great beast" in sea, loch, or river.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000026_000002.wav|"Evil spirits", according to a Babylonian chant, were "the bitter venom of the gods".|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000024_000004.wav|They are referred to as|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000003_000007.wav|By controlling the flow of these mighty rivers, preventing disastrous floods, and storing and distributing surplus water, the ancient Babylonians developed to the full the natural resources of their country, and made it-what it may once again become-one of the fairest and most habitable areas in the world.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000013_000001.wav|His word became the creative force; he named those things he desired to be, and they came into existence.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000005.wav|This resinous substance is found in the north and south.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000017_000001.wav|His worship was certainly of great antiquity.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000037_000007.wav|The Egyptians obtained from that sacred land incense bearing trees which had magical potency.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000006_000002.wav|The chief deity of a state was the central figure in a pantheon, which had its political aspect and influenced the growth of local theology.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000003_000005.wav|The swift Tigris, which is one thousand one hundred forty six miles long, begins to rise early in March and reaches its highest level in May; before the end of June it again subsides.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000007_000009.wav|The sage at once lifted up the fish and placed it in a jar of water.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000030_000001.wav|Enneads were formed in Egypt by placing a local god at the head of a group of eight elder deities.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000004_000001.wav|The date palm was probably introduced by man, as were certainly the vine and the fig tree, which were widely cultivated, especially in the north.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000019_000005.wav|The connection between agriculture and the water supply was too obvious to escape the early symbolists, and many other proofs of this than those referred to could be given.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000023_000000.wav|A suggestion of the Vedic Vritra and his horde of monsters.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000006_000000.wav|The petty kingdoms of Sumeria appear to have been tribal in origin. Each city was presided over by a deity who was the nominal owner of the surrounding arable land, farms were rented or purchased from the priesthood, and pasture was held in common.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6782/61316/6782_61316_000037_000004.wav|At the sacred city the first man was created: there the souls of the dead passed towards the great Deep.|6782
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000027_000001.wav|Now, what were you going to give me?|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000010_000001.wav|"I guess he's not lost-only mislaid.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000025_000000.wav|"But that isn't the thing," objected Carol, nestling close to her father; "it wouldn't be mine.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000023_000000.wav|The feast being over, the Ruggleses lay back in their chairs languidly, and the table was cleared in a trice; then a door was opened into the next room, and there, in a corner facing Carol's bed, which had been wheeled as close as possible, stood the brilliantly lighted Christmas tree, glittering with gilded walnuts and tiny silver balloons, and wreathed with snowy chains of pop corn.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000034_000001.wav|"From first to last, everything was just right.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000008_000002.wav|They were all sure that he had come in with them, for Susan remembered scolding him for tripping over the door mat.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000040_000003.wav|Good night, Mama.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000003_000001.wav|The other Ruggleses stood in horror stricken groups as the door closed behind their commanding officer; but there was no time for reflection, for a voice from above was heard, saying, "Come right up stairs, please!"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000001_000000.wav|"WHEN THE PIE WAS OPENED, THE BIRDS BEGAN TO SING!"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000013_000003.wav|He was afraid to yell!|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000008_000001.wav|Larry!" Good Gracious, where was Larry?|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000010_000000.wav|"Oh, well, cheer up!" cried Uncle Jack.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000028_000001.wav|Oh, you would never give it up if you could see it."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000025_000002.wav|Haven't I almost everything already, and am I not the happiest girl in the world this year, with Uncle Jack and Donald at home?|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000014_000003.wav|What a wonderful sight it was to the poor little Ruggles children, who ate their sometimes scanty meals on the kitchen table!|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000006_000001.wav|Now, will you come right in to Miss Carol's room, she is so anxious to see you?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000026_000000.wav|"Very well, your Highness, I surrender."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000037_000001.wav|There was no noise or confusion; it was just a merry time.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000020_000001.wav|Then, when Carol and Uncle Jack perceived that more turkey was a physical impossibility, the meats were taken off and the dessert was brought in-a dessert that would have frightened a strong man after such a dinner as had preceded it.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000023_000003.wav|Then every girl had a pretty plaid dress of a different color, and every boy a warm coat of the right size.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000025_000001.wav|What is the use?|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000010_000002.wav|I'll go and find him before you can say Jack Robinson!"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000038_000000.wav|"Oh, I'm willing to stay alone; but I am not sleepy yet, and I am going to hear the music by and by, you know."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000037_000000.wav|"Perhaps; I hope so.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000023_000005.wav|"I know they need the clothes," she had said, when they were talking over the matter just after Thanksgiving, "but they don't care much for them, after all.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000019_000000.wav|"I declare to goodness," murmured Susan, on the other side, "there's so much to look at I can't scarcely eat nothin!"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000014_000004.wav|It blazed with tall colored candles, it gleamed with glass and silver, it blushed with flowers, it groaned with good things to eat; so it was not strange that the Ruggleses, forgetting that their mother was a McGrill, shrieked in admiration of the fairy spectacle.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000031_000000.wav|"Poor Carol," laughed the child, merrily, "she can afford to give up these lovely things, for there will still be left Uncle Jack, and Donald, and Paul, and Hugh, and Uncle Rob, and Aunt Elsie, and a dozen other people."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000014_000001.wav|Her golden hair fell in soft fluffy curls over her white forehead and neck, her cheeks flushed delicately, her eyes beamed with joy, and the children told their mother, afterwards, that she looked as beautiful as the pictures of the Blessed Virgin.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000043_000000.wav|"I am sure of it," said mrs Bird, softly.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000042_000002.wav|Don't you?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000036_000002.wav|Perhaps this has done me good."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000012_000000.wav|The other Ruggleses stood rooted to the floor.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000040_000004.wav|Such a happy, happy day!"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000034_000000.wav|"Oh, wasn't it a lovely, lovely time," sighed Carol.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000004_000000.wav|"Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do or die."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000013_000005.wav|Uncle Jack dried his tears, carried him upstairs, and soon had him in breathless fits of laughter, while Carol so made the other Ruggleses forget themselves that they were soon talking like accomplished diners out.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000030_000001.wav|A few more books, and a gold thimble, and a smelling bottle, and a music box."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000006_000000.wav|However, mrs Bird said, pleasantly, "Of course you wouldn't wear hats such a short distance-I forgot when I asked.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000015_000001.wav|There was turkey and chicken, with delicious gravy and stuffing, and there were half a dozen vegetables, with cranberry jelly, and celery, and pickles; and as for the way these delicacies were served, the Ruggleses never forgot it as long as they lived.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000039_000000.wav|"Yes, I have opened the window a little, and put the screen in front of it, so that you will not feel the air."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000028_000000.wav|"A bronze figure of Santa Claus; and in the little round belly, that shakes, when he laughs, like a bowl full of jelly, is a wonderful clock.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000027_000000.wav|"That's a dear Papa!|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000005_000000.wav|Accordingly, they walked upstairs, and Elfrida, the nurse, ushered them into a room more splendid than anything they had ever seen.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000033_000000.wav|"Now, my darling, you have done quite enough for one day," said mrs Bird, getting Carol into her little night dress; "I am afraid you will feel worse to morrow, and that would be a sad ending to such a good time."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000027_000002.wav|Confess!"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000035_000000.wav|"But we mustn't talk any longer about it to night," said mrs Bird, anxiously; "you are too tired, dear."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000024_000000.wav|"You can have both," said mr Bird, promptly; "is there any need of my little girl's going without her Christmas, I should like to know? Spend all the money you like."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000007_000000.wav|Just then Sarah Maud came up the back stairs, so radiant with joy from her secret interview with the cook, that peter could have pinched her with a clear conscience, and Carol gave them a joyful welcome.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000037_000002.wav|Now, may I close the door and leave you alone?|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000025_000005.wav|Now, Papa, submit, or I shall have to be very firm and disagreeable with you!"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000020_000003.wav|Kitty chose ice cream, explaining that she knew it "by sight," but hadn't never tasted none; but all the rest took the entire variety, without any regard to consequences.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000014_000002.wav|There was great bustle behind a huge screen in another part of the room, and at half past five this was taken away, and the Christmas dinner table stood revealed.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000037_000003.wav|I will steal in softly the first thing in the morning, and see if you are all right; but I think you need to be quiet."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000008_000003.wav|Uncle Jack went into convulsions of laughter.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000013_000000.wav|Sarah Maud went out through the hall, calling, "Larry!|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000003_000000.wav|peter rang the door bell, and presently a servant admitted them, and, whispering something in Sarah's ear, drew her downstairs into the kitchen.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000040_000002.wav|I never saw it before, and I thought of the Star in the East, that guided the wise men to the place where Jesus was.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000008_000000.wav|"Larry!|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000009_000000.wav|"I think so, sir," said Peoria, timidly; "but, anyhow, there was Larry;" and she showed signs of weeping.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000029_000000.wav|"Nonsense," laughed Carol; "as I never have to get up to breakfast, nor go to bed, nor catch trains, I think my old clock will do very well! Now, Mama, what were you going to give me?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000032_000001.wav|The candles flickered and went out, the tree was left alone with its gilded ornaments, and mrs Bird sent the children down stairs at half past eight, thinking that Carol looked tired.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000007_000001.wav|"But where is Baby Larry?" she cried, looking over the group with searching eye.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000023_000004.wav|Here the useful presents stopped, and they were quite enough; but Carol had pleaded to give them something "for fun."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000023_000002.wav|Each girl had a blue knitted hood, and each boy a red crocheted comforter, all made by Mama, Carol and Elfrida ("because if you buy everything, it doesn't show so much love," said Carol).|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000007_000002.wav|"Didn't he come?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000021_000000.wav|"My dear child," whispered Uncle Jack, as he took Carol an orange, "there is no doubt about the necessity of this feast, but I do advise you after this to have them twice a year, or quarterly, perhaps, for the way they eat is positively dangerous; I assure you I tremble for that terrible Peoria.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000042_000001.wav|"Mama, dear, I do think that we have kept Christ's birthday this time just as He would like it.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000040_000000.wav|"Can I have the shutters open; and won't you turn my bed a little, please?|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000030_000000.wav|"Oh, I hadn't decided.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000036_000001.wav|I have felt well all day; not a bit of pain anywhere.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000008_000004.wav|"Are you sure there were nine of you?" he asked, merrily.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000021_000001.wav|I'm going to run races with her after dinner."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000042_000000.wav|"Bend your head a minute, mother dear," whispered Carol, calling her mother back.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50778/5731_50778_000025_000004.wav|You never look half as happy when you are getting your presents as when you are giving us ours.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000028_000000.wav|"Dunno!" said Cornelius, turning pale.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000002_000001.wav|Gala day!|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000035_000001.wav|nobody could speak more genteel than that.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000025_000000.wav|This was too much for the boys.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000021_000002.wav|The little Ruggleses hung their diminished heads.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000005_000001.wav|I want them every one, please, from Sarah Maud to Baby Larry.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000008_000003.wav|Clem, you and Con hop into bed with Larry while I wash yer underflannins; 'twont take long to dry 'em.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000021_000004.wav|Speak up, Sarah Maud."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000002_000002.wav|I should think so!|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000020_000000.wav|All the little Ruggleses shouted, "Yes, marm," in chorus.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000013_000001.wav|I say, "complete;" but I do not know whether they would be called so in the best society.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000035_000000.wav|"First rate!|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000019_000003.wav|Now, look me in the eye.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000029_000001.wav|Ask Mis' Bird how she's feelin' this evenin', or if mr Bird's havin' a busy season, or somethin' like that.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000037_000003.wav|Now, is there anything more ye'd like to practice?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000008_000008.wav|Won't yer, Peory?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000007_000000.wav|Breakfast was on the table promptly at seven o'clock, and there was very little of it, too; for it was an excellent day for short rations, though mrs Ruggles heaved a sigh as she reflected that even the boys, with their India rubber stomachs, would be just as hungry the day after the dinner party as if they had never had any at all.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000015_000004.wav|There were not quite chairs enough for ten, since the family had rarely all wanted to sit down at once, somebody always being out, or in bed, but the wood box and the coal hod finished out the line nicely.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000001_000000.wav|SOME OTHER BIRDS ARE TAUGHT TO FLY.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000005_000002.wav|Mama says dinner will be at half past five, and the Christmas tree at seven; so you may expect them home at nine o'clock.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000019_000001.wav|The third time brought deserved success, and the pupils took their seats in the row.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000015_000005.wav|The children took their places according to age, Sarah Maud at the head and Larry on the coal hod, and mrs Ruggles seated herself in front, surveying them proudly as she wiped the sweat of honest toil from her brow.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000002_000000.wav|Before the earliest Ruggles could wake and toot his five cent tin horn, mrs Ruggles was up and stirring about the house, for it was a gala day in the family.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000015_000003.wav|A row of seats was formed directly through the middle of the kitchen.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000043_000000.wav|"Oh, don't fret," said her mother, good naturedly, "I guess you'll git along.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000014_000000.wav|"Now, Sarah Maud," said mrs Ruggles, her face shining with excitement, "everything is red up an' we can begin.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000041_000000.wav|"ABOUT ONCE IN SO OFTEN!" Could any words in the language be fraught with more terrible and wearing uncertainty?|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000008_000002.wav|You other boys clear out from under foot!|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000033_000001.wav|mr peter, do you speak for white or dark meat?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000018_000000.wav|The matter began to assume a graver aspect; the little Ruggleses stopped giggling and backed into the bed room, issuing presently with lock step, Indian file, a scared and hunted expression in every countenance.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000006_000000.wav|CAROL BIRD."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000031_000002.wav|mr Clement, will you take some of the cramb'ry?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000005_000003.wav|Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I am, yours truly,|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000033_000000.wav|"Very good, indeed!|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000010_000000.wav|"That's a lady;" cried her mother.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000013_000002.wav|The law of compensation had been well applied; he that had necktie had no cuffs; she that had sash had no handkerchief, and vice versa; but they all had boots and a certain amount of clothing, such as it was, the outside layer being in every case quite above criticism.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000023_000000.wav|"Quick!"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000037_000000.wav|"You just stop your gruntin', peter Ruggles; that was all right.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000031_000000.wav|"Clement Ruggles, do you mean to tell me that you'd say that to a dinner party?|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50777/5731_50777_000019_000005.wav|Now, can you remember?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000022_000002.wav|Susan was thankful for 'TRUNKS,' of all things in the world; Cornelius, for 'horse cars;' Kitty, for 'pork steak;' while Clem, who is very quiet, brightened up when I came to him, and said he was thankful for 'HIS LAME PUPPY.' Wasn't that pretty?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000028_000003.wav|Will you see if it is all right?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000016_000000.wav|"Now, don't laugh-that's Peoria!"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000013_000000.wav|"And the fat youngster?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000015_000000.wav|"And that freckled one?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000006_000002.wav|The house was built for mr Carter's coachman, but mr Carter lives in Europe, and the gentleman who rents his place doesn't care what happens to it, and so this poor Irish family came to live there.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000021_000000.wav|"How did you ever learn all their names?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000003_000001.wav|He was not detained by business, nor did he get left behind nor snowed up, as frequently happens in stories, and in real life too, I am afraid.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000040_000003.wav|Last, and sweetest of all, like the little children in Austria, she put a lighted candle in her window to guide the dear Christ child, lest he should stumble in the dark night as he passed up the deserted street.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000036_000000.wav|p s--The reason I like 'Carol, brothers, carol,' is because the choir boys sang it eleven years ago, the morning I was born, and put it into Mama's head to call me Carol.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000032_000000.wav|I want to know if you can let the boys sing 'Carol, brothers, carol,' on Christmas night, and if the one who sings 'My ain countree' so beautifully may please sing that too.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000003.wav|Carol and Elfrida, her pretty German nurse, had ransacked books, and introduced so many plans, and plays, and customs and merry makings from Germany, and Holland, and England and a dozen other places, that you would scarcely have known how or where you were keeping Christmas.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000006_000000.wav|"Yes; isn't it nice to see so many together?|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000017_000000.wav|"Carol, you are joking."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000023_000000.wav|"It might teach some of us a lesson, mightn't it, little girl?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000004.wav|The dog and the cat had enjoyed their celebration under Carol's direction. Each had a tiny table with a lighted candle in the center, and a bit of Bologna sausage placed very near it, and everybody laughed till the tears stood in their eyes to see Villikins and Dinah struggle to nibble the sausages, and at the same time evade the candle flame.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000034_000000.wav|--Yours respectfully,|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000008_000002.wav|Then, one day, 'Cary,' my pet canary, flew out of her cage, and peter Ruggles caught her and brought her back, and I had him up here in my room to thank him."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000001.wav|The days flew by, as they always fly in holiday time, and it was Christmas eve before anybody knew it.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000004_000004.wav|Mama says she supposes that ever so many other children have been born on that day.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000003_000002.wav|The snow storm came also; and the turkey nearly died a natural and premature death from over eating.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000004_000005.wav|I often wonder where they are, Uncle Jack, and whether it is a dear thought to them, too, or whether I am so much in bed, and so often alone, that it means more to me.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000006.wav|Dinah, meanwhile, watched him placidly, her delicate nostrils quivering with expectation, and, after all excitement had subsided, walked with dignity to the table, her beautiful gray satin tail sweeping behind her, and, calmly putting up one velvet paw, drew the sausage gently down, and walked out of the room without "turning a hair," so to speak.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000024_000001.wav|Now I'm going to give this whole Christmas to the Ruggleses; and, Uncle Jack, I earned part of the money myself."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000019_000000.wav|"And is the next boy Oshkosh?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000033_000000.wav|If it isn't too much trouble, I hope they can sing them both quite early, as after ten o'clock I may be asleep.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000004_000001.wav|Carol's hand (all too thin and white these latter days) lay close clasped in Uncle Jack's, and they talked together quietly of many, many things.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000005.wav|Villikins barked, and sniffed, and howled in impatience, and after many vain attempts succeeded in dragging off the prize, though he singed his nose in doing it.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000018_000000.wav|"No, really, Uncle dear.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000030_000001.wav|WILKIE,--|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000026_000003.wav|Just think!"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000004_000006.wav|Oh, I do hope that none of them are poor, or cold, or hungry; and I wish, I wish they were all as happy as I, because they are my little brothers and sisters.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000003_000003.wav|Donald came, too; Donald, with a line of down upon his upper lip, and Greek and Latin on his tongue, and stores of knowledge in his handsome head, and stories-bless me, you couldn't turn over a chip without reminding Donald of something that happened "at College."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000022_000001.wav|That brings them quite near, and I read to them and tell them stories; On Thanksgiving Day they came up for a few minutes, it was quite warm at eleven o'clock, and we told each other what we had to be thankful for; but they gave such queer answers that Papa had to run away for fear of laughing; and I couldn't understand them very well.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000031_000000.wav|I am the little sick girl who lives next door to the church, and, as I seldom go out, the music on practice days and Sundays is one of my greatest pleasures.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000036_000001.wav|She didn't remember then that my other name would be Bird, because she was half asleep, and couldn't think of but one thing at a time.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000040_000001.wav|That was to keep the dear ones from quarreling all through the year.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000028_000002.wav|I have written a letter to the organist, and asked him if I might have the two songs I like best.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000032_000001.wav|I think it is the loveliest song in the world, but it always makes me cry; doesn't it you?|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000012_000000.wav|"That's Kitty."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000006_000001.wav|We ought to call them the Ruggles children, of course; but Donald began talking of them as the 'Ruggleses in the rear,' and Papa and Mama took it up, and now we cannot seem to help it.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000026_000002.wav|This thought was, to let her write down, just as I told her, a description of how a little girl lived in her own room three years, and what she did to amuse herself; and we sent it to a magazine and got twenty five dollars for it.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000007.wav|Elfrida had scattered handfuls of seeds over the snow in the garden, that the wild birds might have a comfortable breakfast next morning, and had stuffed bundles of dried grasses in the fireplaces, so that the reindeer of Santa Claus could refresh themselves after their long gallops across country.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000035_000000.wav|CAROL BIRD.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000022_000000.wav|"Well, I have what I call a 'window school.' It is too cold now; but in warm weather I am wheeled out on my little balcony, and the Ruggleses climb up and walk along our garden fence, and sit down on the roof of our carriage house.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000026_000001.wav|Of course she thought of something lovely; she always does; Mama's head is just brimming over with lovely thoughts, and all I have to do is ask, and out pops the very one I want.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000000.wav|Uncle Jack thought the letter quite right, and did not even smile at her telling the organist so many family items.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000027_000001.wav|And what are you going to do with this wonderful 'own' money of yours?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000011_000000.wav|"And which is the pretty little red haired girl?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000005_000000.wav|"That large and interesting brood of children in the little house at the end of the back garden?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000002_000000.wav|"BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000027_000000.wav|"Well, well," cried Uncle Jack, "my little girl a real author!|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000014_000000.wav|"Baby Larry."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000039_000008.wav|This was really only done for fun, but it pleased Carol.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000010_000001.wav|He is a dressmaker's boy."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000010_000000.wav|"No; Sarah Maud is the oldest-she helps do the washing; and peter is the next.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000038_000000.wav|CAROL BIRD."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000018_000001.wav|She was born in Peoria; that's all."|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000008_000000.wav|"Yes, we all thought it very funny, and I smiled at them from the window when I was well enough to be up again.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000028_000000.wav|"I shall give the nine Ruggleses a grand Christmas dinner here in this very room-that will be Papa's contribution, and afterwards a beautiful Christmas tree, fairly blooming with presents-that will be my part; for I have another way of adding to my twenty five dollars, so that I can buy everything I like.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000030_000000.wav|DEAR mr|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000024_000000.wav|"That's what Mama said.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000026_000000.wav|"Well, you see, it could not be my own, own Christmas if Papa gave me all the money, and I thought to really keep Christ's birthday I ought to do something of my very own; and so I talked with Mama.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000040_000002.wav|There were Papa's stout top boots; Mama's pretty buttoned shoes next; then Uncle Jack's, Donald's, Paul's and Hugh's; and at the end of the line her own little white worsted slippers.|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5731/50776/5731_50776_000009_000000.wav|"Is peter the oldest?"|5731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000018_000001.wav|Last season seems like a dream to me now."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000002_000000.wav|JULIA PERFORMS A SACRED DUTY|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000036_000004.wav|I shall not try to decide where I want to go for a while yet."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000012_000002.wav|Bring your girls along and I'll do my best to give them a good time, although I'm generally anything but a success with new girls.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000009_000000.wav|"I'll tell you what we'll do to square ourselves," said David, smiling. "We'll take you girls to the football game next Thursday.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000011_000002.wav|"mrs Gray had planned a party for us, but when we told her what we were about to do, she gave up her party and agreed to go to mine instead, on condition that Anne's family, plus Anne's two guests, should have dinner with her."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000052_000000.wav|At Julia's first words Eleanor dropped the small spade she held and straightened up, the picture of defiance.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000062_000000.wav|"Really, Miss Crosby," said Edna Wright, "you are very amusing."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000032_000002.wav|We'll support you, only you must agree to do all the talking."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000049_000001.wav|"She probably knows nothing about our acquaintance with Eleanor; besides, Eleanor has no business to play such tricks.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000039_000001.wav|"The enemy has not arrived.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000065_000002.wav|But you have with you seven girls who do know all about the enmity that was buried here last spring, and who ought to have enough good sense to know that this afternoon's performance is liable to bring it to life again.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000020_000001.wav|The sophomore year had been crowded with many trials, some of them positive school tragedies, in which Anne and Grace had been the principal actors.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000024_000000.wav|"Why, of course," answered Grace and Anne in the same breath.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000010_000003.wav|One of the things that our sorority has pledged itself to do this year is to look up the stray girls in High School, and see that they are not lonely and homesick during holiday seasons.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000005_000004.wav|Reddy is horribly jealous of her.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000049_000002.wav|Edna Wright must have told her all about last year."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000027_000001.wav|Just as though it wouldn't upset your team as much as ours.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000035_000002.wav|She wanted to enter Smith next year.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000036_000001.wav|She'll be a junior when I'm a freshman.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000076_000000.wav|"I can't help feeling badly," said Grace, with a sob.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000067_000001.wav|I feel sure that under the circumstances the absent members of both classes would agree with us if they were present. Digging up a rusty old hatchet is nothing, but digging up a rusty old grudge is quite another matter.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000034_000000.wav|Grace chose Anne, Nora, Jessica and Marian Barber, the latter three being considerably mystified at her request, but nevertheless agreeing to be on hand when school closed.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000031_000002.wav|I give you my word that the girls I overheard talking are not particular friends of yours. You aren't going to back out, are you, and leave me without proper support?"|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000041_000000.wav|"Never fear," replied Julia.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000074_000002.wav|What on earth did you ever do to her, Grace?"|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000069_000000.wav|"Perhaps we'd better let the old hatchet alone," Daisy Culver said sullenly.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000030_000001.wav|"We don't want to go into this blindfolded."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000068_000002.wav|Eleanor alone looked belligerent.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000071_000002.wav|You pretend to be honorable and high principled, but you are nothing but a hypocrite and a sneak. I would not trust you as far as I could see you.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000007_000003.wav|But now he'll have to hustle if he gets through with High School this year, and he's wide awake to that fact."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000046_000000.wav|Softly the procession approached the spot where the marauders were energetically digging.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000060_000001.wav|"Last year the girls belonging to the present senior and junior classes met on this very spot and amicably disposed of a two year old class grudge.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000028_000001.wav|"Who are the girls, Julia?|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000056_000001.wav|"Do you?"|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000070_000000.wav|"Daisy, how can you say so?" exclaimed Grace, who, fearing a scene with Eleanor, had hitherto remained silent.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000023_000001.wav|"That's the only thing that keeps me from your side.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000007_000000.wav|"Yes, Hippy is studying some this year," replied David.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000023_000002.wav|The duties of the class president are many and irksome.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000058_000000.wav|"Granted," replied Julia calmly.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000064_000000.wav|She looked at Edna with the old time aggravating smile that was always warranted to further incense her opponent.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000013_000000.wav|"In the laboratory, I suppose," said Anne teasingly.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000044_000000.wav|"They're coming," whispered Julia.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000045_000003.wav|They've begun to dig, and they are having their own troubles, for the ground is hard.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000004_000000.wav|"Why, David Nesbit, how can you make such statements?" replied Grace, looking at the young man in mock disapproval.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000020_000000.wav|Anne pressed Grace's hand by way of answer.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000054_000000.wav|This was too much for Eleanor.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000032_000001.wav|"Don't worry.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000065_000000.wav|"No," said Julia resolutely, every vestige of a smile leaving her face at Eleanor's words.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000050_000000.wav|Her reflections were cut short, for one of the girls glanced up from her digging with a sudden exclamation which drew all eyes toward Julia and her party.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000012_000003.wav|However, Hippy makes up for what I lack.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000048_000000.wav|"Now I'm in for it," groaned Grace.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000075_000001.wav|She was winking hard to keep back the tears. Twice she attempted to speak and failed.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000009_000002.wav|Reddy's on the team, but Hippy and I will do the honors."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000010_000002.wav|You see it's this way.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000012_000004.wav|He can entertain a regiment of them, and not even exert himself. Now I must leave you, for I have a very important engagement at home."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000031_000001.wav|"Then you'll feel more indignant and can help my cause along all the better.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000027_000002.wav|It's an idiotic trick, at any rate, and anything but funny.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000077_000000.wav|"No one who knows you would believe them," replied Julia.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000005_000002.wav|However, you folks are equally guilty, you've all gone mad over your sorority, and left Hippy and Reddy and me to wander about Oakdale like lost souls.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000048_000001.wav|"She's down on me now, and she'll be sure to think I organized the whole thing." For an instant Grace regretted making the promise to Julia, before learning the situation; then, holding her head a trifle more erect, she decided to make the best of her unfortunate predicament.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000033_000000.wav|"I shall endeavor to overcome their insane freshness with a few well chosen words," Julia promised.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000035_000001.wav|Julia was studying hard, she told Grace.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000051_000000.wav|"Well, little folks," said Julia in mock surprise, "what sort of a party is this?|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000003_000000.wav|"What have we ever done that we should be so neglected?" said David Nesbit, swinging himself from his motorcycle and landing squarely in front of Grace Harlowe and Anne Pierson while they were out walking one afternoon.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000064_000001.wav|It had its desired effect, for Edna fairly bristled with indignation and was about to make a furious reply when she was pushed aside by Eleanor, who said loftily, "Allow me to talk to this person, Edna."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000012_000000.wav|"Bless her dear heart," said David, "she is always thinking of the pleasure of others.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000012_000001.wav|Now about the football game.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000044_000002.wav|Form in line and when they get nicely started, we'll circle about them and hem them in.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000055_000001.wav|"What business is it of yours why we are here?|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000014_000001.wav|"Good bye, girls.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000061_000000.wav|"Yesterday," continued Julia, "I overheard two juniors plotting to get possession of this same hatchet for the purpose of flaunting it in the faces of the seniors at the opening basketball game.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000021_000000.wav|"What are you two mooning over?" asked a gay voice, and the two girls turned with a start to find Julia Crosby grinning cheerfully at them.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000041_000001.wav|"I'll effectually attend to their case.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000033_000001.wav|"Be sure and be on hand early."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000063_000000.wav|"My friends all think so," returned Julia sweetly, "but never mind now about my amusing qualities, Edna.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000041_000003.wav|Then we'll swoop down upon them unawares."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000071_000004.wav|You seem determined to meddle with matters that do not concern you, and I warn you that if you do not change your tactics you may regret it.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000045_000001.wav|"They have trowels," Julia informed them from time to time.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000032_000000.wav|"Of course not," laughed Grace.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000067_000002.wav|We didn't come here to quarrel, but I appeal to you, as members of the junior class, to think before you do something that is bound to cause us all annoyance and perhaps unhappiness."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000024_000001.wav|"What is it you want us to do?"|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000068_000000.wav|There was complete silence after Julia finished speaking.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000057_000000.wav|"No," replied Eleanor a trifle less rudely, "but we have as much right here as you have."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000019_000001.wav|"I have forgiven, long ago, but I have not forgotten the way some of those girls performed last year.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000073_000000.wav|With these words she turned and stalked across the field to the road, where her runabout stood.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000016_000002.wav|We've had so many special meetings."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000047_000000.wav|The girl using the spade was Eleanor.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000008_000001.wav|"You'll have to have better excuses than football and experiments."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000026_000000.wav|"Yes, yes," was the answer.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000027_000000.wav|"This morning I overheard certain girls planning to go out to the Omnibus House after school to morrow and dig up the poor hatchet and flaunt it in the seniors' faces the day of the opening basketball game, simply to rattle us.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000028_000002.wav|Are you sure they're juniors?"|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000027_000004.wav|Select your girls, but don't tell them what you want or they may tell some one about it beforehand."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000029_000000.wav|"The two I heard talking are juniors.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000039_000002.wav|Thank goodness, it's not cold to day or we might have a chilly vigil.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000071_000001.wav|Turning furiously on Grace, her eyes flashing, she exclaimed: "Yes, there is one girl who would tell anything, and that girl is you!|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000077_000001.wav|"By the way, who is she?|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000072_000000.wav|"You seem to think yourself the idol of your class, but there are some of the girls who are too clever to be deceived.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000066_000000.wav|"If you girls carry this hatchet to school and exhibit it to the seniors on the day of the game you are apt to start bad feeling all over again," she said, turning to the others.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000076_000001.wav|"She said such dreadful things."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000071_000000.wav|This was Eleanor's opportunity.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000069_000001.wav|"The fun is all spoiled now, and everyone will know about it before school begins to morrow."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000072_000001.wav|They do not belong among the number who trail tamely after you, either.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000016_000000.wav|"We do seem to be getting awfully serious and settled of late," replied Anne.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000055_000000.wav|"How dare you speak to us in that manner and treat us as though we were children?" she burst forth.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000070_000001.wav|"You know perfectly well that none of us will say anything about it.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000039_000000.wav|"We're early!" exclaimed Julia.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000025_000000.wav|"Well, it seems that some of your juniors are still in need of discipline.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000052_000002.wav|The other diggers looked sheepishly at Julia, who stood eyeing them in a way that made them feel "too foolish for anything," as one of them afterwards expressed it.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000007_000002.wav|You know Hippy never bothered himself much about study, just managed to scrape through.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000004_000002.wav|We have scarcely seen you since the walking party.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000010_000001.wav|"But are you willing to burden yourselves with some extra girls?|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000014_000002.wav|Let me know how many tickets you want for the game." He raised his cap, mounted his machine and was off down the street.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000063_000001.wav|Let's talk about the present situation."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000079_000002.wav|No one has been killed and only one wounded.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000045_000002.wav|"They have a spade.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000031_000000.wav|"Wait and see," replied Julia tantalizingly.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000010_000000.wav|"Fine," replied Grace.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000005_000003.wav|I hear you've adopted a girl, too.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000058_000001.wav|"However, there is this difference. You are here to make mischief and we are here to prevent it, and, furthermore, are going to do so."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000060_000002.wav|Emblematic of this they buried a hatchet, once occupying a humble though honorable position in the Crosby family, but cheerfully sacrificed for the good of the cause.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000039_000003.wav|Now listen, all ye faithful, while I set forth the object of this walk." She thereupon related what Grace and Anne already knew.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000036_000000.wav|"I don't know where I shall go after I finish High School," said Grace. "Ethel Post wants me to go to Wellesley.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000079_000001.wav|"The battle is over.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000005_000001.wav|"That's what comes of having a sister who belongs to a sorority.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000038_000000.wav|As they neared the old Omnibus House they could see no one about.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000036_000003.wav|But I don't know whether I should like Wellesley.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000045_000000.wav|The girls waited in silence.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000034_000001.wav|They were met at the gate by Julia and four other seniors, and the whole party set out for the Omnibus House without delay.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000053_000000.wav|"Why don't you answer me, little girls?" asked Julia.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000073_000001.wav|After an instant's hesitation, she was followed by Edna, Daisy Culver and those who had come with her. Henceforth there would again be two distinct factions in the junior class.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000061_000001.wav|Therefore I decided to take a hand in things, and here I am, backed by girls from both classes, who are of the self same mind."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000060_000000.wav|"Just this," replied Julia.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000043_000000.wav|They had not waited long before they heard voices.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000045_000004.wav|All ready! March!"|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000078_000000.wav|"I'll tell you about her as we walk along," replied Grace, wiping her eyes and smiling a little.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000005_000005.wav|He says Jessica won't look at him any more."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000040_000001.wav|"It isn't the hatchet we care for, it's the principle of the thing.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000006_000001.wav|"He is head over heels in football practice and has forgotten he ever knew Jessica. As for Hippy, Nora says that he is studying night and day, and that he is actually wearing himself away by burning midnight oil."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000027_000003.wav|Now I propose to take four of our class, and you must select four of yours. We'll hustle out there the minute school is over to morrow, and be ready to receive the marauders when they arrive.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000041_000002.wav|Now we'd better dodge around the corner and keep out of sight until they get here.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000074_000000.wav|"Good gracious," exclaimed Julia Crosby.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000044_000001.wav|"There are eight of them.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000049_000000.wav|"It isn't Julia's fault," she thought.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000023_000003.wav|At the present moment I've a duty on hand that I don't in the least relish, and I want your august assistance.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000040_000002.wav|Give them what they deserve, Julia."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000075_000000.wav|But Grace could not answer.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000022_000000.wav|"O Julia, how glad I am to see you at close range!" exclaimed Grace. "Admiring you from a distance isn't a bit satisfactory."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000067_000000.wav|"That's the reason I asked Grace to appoint a committee of juniors and come out here with me.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000025_000001.wav|You remember the hatchet that we buried last year with such pomp and ceremony?"|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000004_000001.wav|"You know perfectly well that you've been shut up in your old laboratory all fall.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000014_000000.wav|"Just so," replied David.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41610/6054_41610_000030_000000.wav|"Tell us who they are, Julia," said Grace.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000004_000002.wav|Their sorority enthusiasm had so completely run away with them that they had even neglected basketball until now.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000008_000001.wav|The substitutes were also assigned their positions and practice began.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000004_000001.wav|Only two weeks remained in which to practise.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000013_000000.wav|"Grace Harlowe, are you ever going to stop mourning over Eleanor?" cried Miriam impatiently.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000014_000000.wav|"You're a dear, Miriam!" exclaimed Nora impulsively.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000007_000002.wav|Don't you agree with me, girls?"|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000004_000000.wav|Now that Thanksgiving was past, basketball became the topic of the hour. The juniors had accepted the challenge of the senior class, and had agreed to play them on saturday december twelfth, at two o'clock, in the gymnasium.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000026_000001.wav|She halted her machine, scanning curiously the list of plays on the billboard.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000007_000000.wav|"You are our captain," she declared to Grace, "and the best center I ever saw on a girls' team.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000013_000002.wav|I know what I am talking about because I used to be just as ridiculous as she is, and knowing what you suffered through me, I can't bear to see you unhappy again over some one who is too trivial to be taken seriously."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000006_000001.wav|Grace had fully intended that Miriam should play center, but when she proposed it, Miriam flatly refused to do so, and asked for her old position of right forward.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000024_000000.wav|During the winter, theatrical companies sometimes visited Oakdale for a week at a time, presenting, at popular prices, old worn out plays and cheap melodramas.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000021_000001.wav|Grace nodded to her, but her salutation met with a chilly stare.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000008_000000.wav|Nora was detailed as left forward, while Marian Barber and Eva Allen played right and left guards.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000013_000001.wav|"She doesn't deserve your regret and is too selfish to appreciate it.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000005_000000.wav|The instant the last bell sounded on lessons, ten girls made for their lockers, and fifteen minutes later the first team and the subs. were moving toward the gymnasium deep in the discussion of the coming game and their chances for success over their opponents.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000026_000000.wav|Eleanor's eyes sparkled.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000023_000000.wav|But before the close of the week Grace was destined to cross swords with Eleanor in earnest, and the toleration she had felt was swallowed up in righteous indignation.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000022_000003.wav|I am not angry, even if she is; although I have far greater cause to be."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000026_000004.wav|Then, possessed with a sudden idea, she laughed gleefully.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000006_000000.wav|A brief meeting was held, and the girls were assigned to their positions.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000026_000003.wav|She wasn't afraid of Miss Thompson.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000025_000001.wav|Directly after cutting Grace Harlowe, she had turned her runabout into Main Street, where a billboard had caught her eye, displaying in glaring red and blue lettering the fact that the "Peerless Dramatic Company" would open a week's engagement in Oakdale with daily matinees.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000010_000001.wav|"It will be a sorry day for the seniors when we line up on the twelfth."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000012_000002.wav|I suppose she will stay away from the game merely because we are on the team.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000010_000000.wav|"I never saw you girls work better!" she exclaimed.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000022_000001.wav|"I suppose she thinks that hurts me.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000004_000003.wav|Therefore Grace Harlowe lost no time in getting Miss Thompson's permission to use the gymnasium, and promptly notified her team and the subs. to meet there, in gymnasium suits, prepared to play, that afternoon.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000017_000002.wav|It is their ambition to become loud and loyal fans."|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000022_000002.wav|Of course it isn't exactly pleasant, but I'm going to keep on speaking to her, just the same.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000011_000000.wav|"There'll be a great gnashing of senior teeth after the game," remarked Nora confidently.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000025_000000.wav|All this Eleanor had heard, among other things, from Edna Wright, but had paid little attention to it when Edna had told her.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6054/41614/6054_41614_000012_000000.wav|"Do you know, girls," said Grace, as they left the gymnasium that afternoon, "I am sorry that Eleanor won't be peaceable.|6054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000039_000003.wav|No shot."|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000067_000000.wav|"If somethin' happen we no come back to night heem safe from wolf," he explained.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000020_000010.wav|Well-"|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000032_000000.wav|The old Indian looked up with a grin.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000033_000000.wav|"Better get up," he advised.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000049_000000.wav|"Mink!" he explained.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000022_000001.wav|And then, the people at the Post say, the mother must have slipped and hurt herself.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000065_000001.wav|Heem like blood.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000012_000000.wav|He ran back to the door and whistled loudly.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000041_000000.wav|"See if I'm not right.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000053_000000.wav|"Is a mink worth much?"|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000052_000007.wav|Smart fellow-lynx.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000054_000001.wav|Seven-eight dollar for good one."|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000002_000000.wav|Twice that night Rod was awakened by Mukoki opening the cabin door.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000055_000000.wav|During the next mile six other mink traps were set.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000052_000001.wav|"Build house to keep snow off traps.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000068_000001.wav|At its farther edge the ground rose gently from the creek toward the hills, and this sloping plain was covered with huge boulders and a thin growth of large spruce and birch. Just beyond the creek was a gigantic rock which immediately caught Mukoki's attention.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000020_000005.wav|He was the happiest Indian at the Post, and one of the poorest.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000029_000000.wav|When he finally fell asleep it was to dream of the Indian mother and her child; only after a little there was no child, and the woman changed into Minnetaki, and the ravenous wolves into men.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000026_000002.wav|Rod took out his watch.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000064_000003.wav|When he had finished his task he held it up with an air of unbounded satisfaction.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000070_000005.wav|Several times Mukoki stopped and leaned perilously close to the dizzy edge of the mountain, peering down with critical eyes, and once when he pulled himself back cautiously by means of a small sapling he explained his interest by saying:|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000071_000000.wav|"Plenty bear there in spring!"|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000016_000000.wav|"Did Minnetaki ever tell you-anything-queer-about Mukoki, Rod?"|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000059_000004.wav|Caribou and deer tracks crossed and recrossed the creek, but the Indian paid little attention to them.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000052_000002.wav|No do that, be digging out traps all winter.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000022_000007.wav|He calls this a 'wolf night.' No one can stop him from going out; no one can get him to talk; he will allow no one to accompany him when in such a mood.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000027_000003.wav|Wolf, as well as Mukoki, has good cause for what he does.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000061_000002.wav|In places the snow was literally packed with deer tracks.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000069_000003.wav|Shoot from there!" He pointed to a clump of spruce a dozen rods away.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000058_000001.wav|"Travel early this morning.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000062_000001.wav|Inch by inch he crouched upon his snow shoes, and beckoned for Rod to approach, slowly, quietly.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000038_000000.wav|"What were you doing last night?" he questioned.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000009_000000.wav|"Wolf night!" he repeated, and slipped like a shadow to the side of the unconscious young hunter.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000020_000006.wav|One day Mukoki came to the Post with a little bundle of fur, and most of the things he got in exchange for it, mother says, were for the kid.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000055_000004.wav|He spoke in whispers, and Rod followed his example.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000012_000002.wav|Again he whistled, a dozen times, twenty, but there came no reply.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000045_000000.wav|Rod noticed that the captive wolf received no breakfast that morning, and he easily guessed the reason.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000059_000006.wav|Mukoki's face was crinkled with joy.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000032_000001.wav|His face bore no signs of his mad night on the trail.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000020_000001.wav|And he has good reason.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000033_000002.wav|Much fine sunshine to day. Find wolves on mountain-plenty wolves!"|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000025_000006.wav|To morrow night, if Mukoki comes back by then, we shall have some exciting sport with the wolves, and then you will see how Wolf out there does his work!"|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000041_000003.wav|What do you think of it?"|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000063_000004.wav|The buck was standing broadside, his head and neck stretched up, offering a beautiful shot at the vital spot behind his fore leg.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000052_000008.wav|Wolf and fox, too."|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000072_000003.wav|The dark and gloomy silence that hung between those two walls of rock, the death like desolation, the stealthy windings of the creek-everything in that dim and mysterious world between the two mountains, unshattered by sound and impenetrable to the winter sun, seemed in his mind to link itself with the tragedy of long ago.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000010_000001.wav|The young Indian had joined Rod at the open door and together they watched Mukoki's gaunt figure as it sped swiftly across the lake, up the hill and over into the wilderness desolation beyond.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000059_000003.wav|A little farther still they came across a fisher trail and another trap was laid.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000066_000001.wav|After taking the heart, liver and one of the hind quarters of the buck Mukoki drew a long rope of babeesh from his pack, tied one end of it around the animal's neck, flung the other end over a near limb, and with his companion's assistance hoisted the carcass until it was clear of the ground.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000006_000000.wav|The old Indian looked silently at him for a moment, some mysterious, all absorbing joy revealed in every lineament of his face.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000061_000006.wav|Ten minutes, fifteen-twenty of them passed in this cautious, breathless trailing of the swamp.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000061_000000.wav|Soon the creek swung out from the ridge and cut a circuitous channel through a small swamp.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000063_000003.wav|With a powerful effort Rod steadied himself.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000070_000000.wav|By Rod's watch it was now nearly noon and the two sat down to eat the sandwiches they had brought with them.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000027_000007.wav|We caught Wolf in a lynx trap, Mukoki and i He wasn't much more than a whelp then-about six months old, Mukoki said. And while he was in the trap, helpless and unable to defend himself, three or four of his lovely tribe jumped upon him and tried to kill him for breakfast.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000055_000005.wav|Frequently the two would stop and scan the openings for signs of life.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000005_000000.wav|"What is it, Mukoki?" he asked.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000061_000004.wav|The stealth with which Mukoki now advanced was almost painful.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000066_000000.wav|Mukoki no longer maintained his usual quiet, and it was evident to Rod that the Indian considered his mission for that day practically accomplished.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000061_000003.wav|Trails ran in every direction, the bark had been rubbed from scores of saplings, and every step gave fresh evidence of the near presence of game.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000060_000000.wav|"Many wolf near," he exclaimed.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000003_000002.wav|The moon was directly above the cabin.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000059_000000.wav|They followed now in the wolf trail.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000003_000000.wav|Mukoki was peering up into space.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000025_000004.wav|Something in the air to night, something in the sky-in the moon-in the very way the wilderness looks, tells him that stray wolves in the plains and hills are 'packing' or banding together to night, and that in the morning the sun will be shining, and they will be on the sunny sides of the mountains.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000026_000003.wav|It lacked only ten minutes of midnight.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000007_000000.wav|"Wolf night!" he whispered.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000003_000003.wav|The sky was clear of clouds and so bright was the light that objects on the farther side of the lake were plainly visible.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000065_000002.wav|Smell um-come make big shoot to night.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000001_000000.wav|HOW WOLF BECAME THE COMPANION OF MEN|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000048_000000.wav|At the foot of this hill Mukoki and his companion struck the creek.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000028_000001.wav|And for another hour after that the former found it impossible to sleep.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000025_000003.wav|He can catch them in every trap he sets, which no other trapper in the world can do; he can tell you a hundred different things about a certain wolf simply by its track, and because of his wonderful knowledge he can tell, by some instinct that is almost supernatural, when a 'wolf night' comes.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000020_000000.wav|"Yes, wolves.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000027_000004.wav|You might call it animal vengeance.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000075_000000.wav|"Mukoki-the gold was found between those mountains!"|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000060_000002.wav|Good place for night hunt."|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000028_000000.wav|It was two hours later when Rod and Wabigoon extinguished the candles and returned to their blankets.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000026_000000.wav|There followed several minutes of silence.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000022_000009.wav|But he will come back.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000064_000000.wav|Hardly had Rod seen the effect of his shot before Mukoki was traveling swiftly toward the fallen game, unstrapping his pack as he ran.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000034_000000.wav|The boys tumbled from their blankets and began dressing.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000002_000002.wav|It was a brilliantly clear night and a flood of moonlight was pouring into the camp.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000068_000000.wav|The two now continued through the swamp.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000018_000003.wav|But the Indians at the Post believe that at certain times he goes crazy over wolves."|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000039_000002.wav|See wolf tracks on red deer trail.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000004_000000.wav|Besides, it was bitter cold-so cold that his face began to tingle as he stood there.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000069_000002.wav|We call heem here.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000047_000000.wav|The sun was just beginning to show itself above the wilderness when the hunters left camp.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000072_000000.wav|But Rod was not thinking of bears.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000062_000002.wav|When the boy had come near enough he passed back his rifle, and his lips formed the almost noiseless word, "Shoot!"|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000033_000001.wav|"Big day's hunt.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000058_000000.wav|"T'ree wolf!" continued the Indian jubilantly.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000043_000001.wav|"I'm going with you, Mukoki!"|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000063_000006.wav|With one spasmodic bound the animal dropped dead.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000018_000000.wav|"Well, once in a great while Mukoki has-not exactly a fit, but a little mad spell!|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000059_000002.wav|Here Mukoki set another trap.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000039_000000.wav|"Big moon-might get shot," grunted Mukoki.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000030_000000.wav|There was Mukoki-peeling potatoes!|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000031_000000.wav|"Hello, Muky!" he shouted.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000019_000000.wav|"Wolves!" exclaimed Rod.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000073_000000.wav|Did that chasm hold the secret of the dead men?|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000072_000002.wav|Perhaps that very chasm held the priceless secret that had died with its owners half a century ago.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000061_000005.wav|Every twig was pressed behind him noiselessly, and once when Rod struck his snow shoe against the butt of a small tree the old Indian held up his hands in mock horror.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000041_000001.wav|He will choose the mountain trail." When their companion returned, he said: "We had better split up this morning, hadn't we, Muky?|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000059_000005.wav|A fourth wolf joined the pack, and a fifth, and half an hour later the trail of three other wolves cut at right angles across the one they were following and disappeared in the direction of the thickly timbered plains.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000048_000002.wav|The snow on this log was beaten by tiny footprints.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000048_000003.wav|Mukoki gazed a moment, cast an observant eye along the trail, and at once threw off his pack.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000004_000001.wav|These things he noticed, but he could see nothing to hold Mukoki's vision in the sky above unless it was the glorious beauty of the night.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000027_000008.wav|We hove in sight just in time to drive the cannibals off. We kept Wolf, sewed up his side and throat, tamed him-and to morrow night you will see how Mukoki has taught him to get even with his people."|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000042_000001.wav|"You two go north-I take ridges."|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000029_000002.wav|Rod looked, and caught his breath.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000009_000002.wav|Wolf night!"|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000063_000005.wav|At this the young hunter aimed and fired.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000026_000004.wav|Yet neither seemed possessed with a desire to return to their interrupted sleep.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000062_000000.wav|Suddenly Mukoki stopped, and a hand was held out behind him warningly. He turned his face back, and Rod knew that he saw game.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000002_000001.wav|The second time he raised himself upon his elbows and quietly watched the old warrior.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7011/66622/7011_66622_000024_000000.wav|"What does Mukoki mean by 'wolf night'?" he asked.|7011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000025_000000.wav|A man who feels great thirst at night after enjoying highly seasoned food for supper, often dreams that he is drinking.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000023_000000.wav|If there were only infantile dreams, our problem would be solved, our task accomplished, and that without questioning the dreamer, or approaching the unconscious, and without taking free association into consideration.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000010_000002.wav|At the landing she does not want to leave the boat and cries bitterly.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000020_000000.wav|Not only this but other colloquial usages also express the same feeling. well-known proverbs say, "The pig dreams of acorns, the goose of maize," or ask, "Of what does the hen dream?|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000014_000004.wav|But upon closer consideration we shall have to admit of a tiny bit of distortion, a certain differentiation between manifest dream content and latent dream thought, even in these dreams.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000019_000006.wav|For day dreaming is an activity closely bound up in gratification and is, indeed, pursued only for this reason.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000018_000005.wav|For the interfering tendency we substitute the psychic stimulus, the wish which strives for its fulfillment, let us say, for thus far we are not familiar with any other sleep disturbing psychic stimulus.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000014_000000.wav|three.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000001.wav|It is those that are called up throughout life by the imperative needs of the body-hunger, thirst, sexual desire-hence wish fulfillments in reaction to internal physical stimuli.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000005_000002.wav|But do not think that all children's dreams are like this.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000008.wav|Food and drink were most often the pivots about which our dreams revolved.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000015_000004.wav|In these children's dreams nothing points to the influence of such somatic stimuli; we cannot be mistaken, for the dreams are entirely intelligible and easy to survey. But we need not give up the theory of physical causation entirely on this account.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000023_000001.wav|The continuation of our task plainly lies in this direction.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000027_000003.wav|Or the well named dreams of comfort, when a person who likes to prolong his sleep, dreams that he is already up, is washing himself, or is already in school, while as a matter of fact he continues sleeping, hence would rather get up in a dream than in reality.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000026_000003.wav|Moreover, all dreams of desire of adults usually contain something besides satisfaction, something that has its origin in the sources of the purely psychic stimuli, and which requires interpretation to render it intelligible.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000011_000001.wav|A boy of five and a quarter years is taken on an excursion into the Escherntal near Hallstatt.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000020_000006.wav|There is indeed no proverb that tells us that the pig or the goose dreams of being slaughtered.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000004_000003.wav|But here again we digress from the history of the evolution of our knowledge, for as a matter of fact we become aware of dreams entirely free of distortion only after the consistent application of our method of interpretation and after complete analysis of the distorted dream.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000005_000006.wav|Even among adults, dreams that closely resemble the typically infantile ones occur under certain conditions.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000022_000002.wav|Aside from its connection with errors our work has no specific connotation.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000016_000006.wav|It could not help disturbing us slightly, just as the night watchman often cannot avoid making a little noise while he drives away the rioters who would awaken us with their noise.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000007.wav|All of them dealt with that outside world that now was so far away from us, but often they fitted into our present condition.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000010_000003.wav|The time of the trip seems to her to have passed entirely too rapidly.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000004_000000.wav|We think we have advanced too rapidly.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000013_000002.wav|You will recall what I represented to you as the medical opinion concerning the dream, the simile of untrained fingers wandering aimlessly over the keys of the piano.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000009.wav|One of us, who excelled in going to great dinners in his sleep, was most happy whenever he could tell us in the morning that he attended a dinner of three courses; another one dreamed of tobacco, whole mountains of tobacco; still another dreamed of a ship that came along on the open sea, under full sail.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000025_000001.wav|It is of course impossible to satisfy a rather strong desire for food or drink by means of the dream; from such a dream one awakes thirsty and must now drink real water.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000012.wav|It would surely be of great psychological interest if all these dreams were recorded.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000011_000004.wav|He started on the excursion in a joyously expectant mood.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000021_000001.wav|Indeed, this was very often the case, but none of them thought of acknowledging this characteristic as universal and of making it the basis of an explanation of the dream. We can easily imagine what may have deterred them and shall discuss it subsequently.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000013_000005.wav|Indeed, we have every reason to attribute the more normal and deeper sleep to the child.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000005.wav|"Very significant in determining the trend of our inmost thoughts were our dreams, which were never more vivid and numerous than just at this time.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000016_000002.wav|The dream, as a reaction to the psychic stimulus, must have the value of a release of this stimulus which results in its elimination and in the continuation of sleep.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000022_000003.wav|Any psychologist, who is entirely ignorant of the claims of psychoanalysis, could have given this explanation of children's dreams.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000017_000001.wav|One main characteristic of the dream is that a wish is its source, and that the content of the dream is the gratification of this wish. Another equally constant feature is that the dream does not merely express a thought, but also represents the fulfillment of this wish in the form of a hallucinatory experience.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000023_000003.wav|It is therefore for us to decide whether the common characteristics which we have gathered from children's dreams can be applied universally, whether they also hold for those dreams that are not transparent, whose manifest content shows no connection with wishes left over from the previous day.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000028_000002.wav|It is a very neat stroke that the release should be effected through the window, for the ray of light that awakens the prisoner comes through the same window.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000020_000003.wav|"I should never have dreamed of that," "in my wildest dreams I hadn't imagined that." This is open partisanship on the part of colloquial usage.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000004_000001.wav|Let us go back a little.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000011_000003.wav|The child had tried again and again to see it through the telescope, with what result no one knew.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000019_000003.wav|In this instance, therefore, the less firmly established of the two main characteristics of the dream holds, while the other proves itself entirely dependent upon the condition of sleep and impossible to the waking state.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000009_000001.wav|A boy of twenty two months is to present a basket of cherries as a birthday gift.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000011_000006.wav|The oftener this question was answered in the negative, the more moody he became; later he became entirely silent and would not take part in a small climb to a waterfall.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000018_000007.wav|We sleep, and yet we experience the removal of a wish; we gratify the wish, but at the same time continue to sleep. Both are partly carried out and partly given up.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000016_000004.wav|It is true, we think we would have slept better if we had not dreamt, but here we are wrong; as a matter of fact, we would not have slept at all without the help of the dream.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000026_000000.wav|In a like manner, under the influence of sexual stimuli, the dream brings about satisfaction that shows noteworthy peculiarities.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000015_000006.wav|The dreamer does not wish to interrupt his life, but would rather continue his work with the things that occupy him, and for this reason he does not sleep.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000010_000001.wav|A little girl of three and a quarter years makes her first trip across a lake.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000020_000002.wav|Many turns of speech seem to point to the same thing-"dreamlike beauty,"|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000017_000000.wav|six.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000007_000002.wav|We need not question the child that is giving an account of his dream.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000018_000003.wav|The dream fits into the same scheme.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000007_000001.wav|For the understanding of these dreams we need no analysis, no technical methods.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000023_000002.wav|We have already repeatedly had the experience that characteristics that at first seemed universally true, have subsequently held good only for a certain kind and for a certain number of dreams.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000015_000003.wav|We learned definite facts about this, but could only explain a very small number of dreams in this way.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000011_000008.wav|The only detail he gave was one he had heard before, "you had to climb steps for six hours."|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000029_000000.wav|In all other dreams except those of children and those of the infantile type, distortion, as we have said, blocks our way.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000027_000002.wav|As, for example, in dreams of impatience, whenever a person has made preparations for a journey, for a theatrical performance, for a lecture or for a visit, and now dreams of the anticipated fulfillment of his expectations, and so arrives at his goal the night before the actual experience, in the theatre or in conversation with his host.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000018_000000.wav|seven.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000026_000002.wav|This peculiarity of the dream of pollution, as o Rank has observed, makes it a fruitful subject to pursue in the study of dream distortion.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000020_000005.wav|It is true that common usage recognizes "bad" dreams, but still the dream plainly connotates to it only the beautiful wish fulfillment.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000023_000005.wav|We also suspect that for the explanation of this distortion we shall need the psychoanalytic method which we could dispense with in the understanding of children's dreams.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000007_000000.wav|one.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000015_000001.wav|The child's dream is a reaction to an experience of the day, which has left behind it a regret, a longing or an unfulfilled desire.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000017_000003.wav|In the interpretation of the dream it is of utmost importance that this change be traced back.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000025_000002.wav|The effect of the dream is in this case practically trifling, but it is none the less clear that it was called up for the purpose of maintaining the sleep in spite of the urgent impulse to awake and to act.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000019_000004.wav|In colloquial usage, therefore, there is a presentment of the fact that the fulfillment of a wish is a main characteristic of the dream.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000014_000002.wav|The manifest and latent dreams are merged.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000024_000014.wav|"Mungo Park, who during a trip in Africa was almost exhausted, dreamed without interruption of the fertile valleys and fields of his home.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000022_000001.wav|And we were almost able to forget that we are engaged in psychoanalysis.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/270777/8772_270777_000017_000005.wav|Only extensive investigation can ascertain that the cause of the dream must always be a wish, and cannot also be an anxiety, a plan or a reproach; but this does not alter the other characteristic, that the dream does not simply reproduce the stimulus but by experiencing it anew, as it were, removes, expells and settles it.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000014_000003.wav|Who were they? And what had he to do with them?|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000020_000001.wav|And the Group Soul caught and used it.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000003_000002.wav|Calm and untouched himself, he lay outside the circle of evocation, watching, waiting, scarcely daring to breathe, yet well aware that any minute the scene would transfer itself from memory that was subjective to matter that was objective.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000002_000004.wav|He held his mind steady enough to realise that it was akin to what men call a "descent" of some "spiritual movement" that wakens a body of believers into faith-a race, an entire nation; only that he experienced it in this brief, concentrated form before it has scattered down into ten thousand hearts.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000024_000003.wav|And the horror of the man's approach struck him like a hammer in the face. He closed his eyes, sinking back to hide.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000014_000002.wav|He had once been there; there were many people, but insignificant people.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000015_000007.wav|The admixture of an evil motive was the flaw that marred complete success.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000004_000007.wav|It shaped for itself a bodily outline.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000023_000003.wav|And the Wadi, empty at his feet, filled slowly with the gentle little winds that bring the sunrise.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000011_000004.wav|He merely watched.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000017_000002.wav|The motive of the man was so insignificant, his purpose so atrocious.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000001_000003.wav|But both were dim, dropped somewhere into a lesser scale.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000021_000006.wav|Sand took her.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000008_000002.wav|It stretched forth an arm.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000021_000002.wav|Whether the woman was pushed of set intention, or whether some detail of sound and pattern was falsely used to effect the terrible result, he was helpless to determine.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000015_000004.wav|Blackness touched the picture there.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000019_000000.wav|The supreme moment of evocation was close.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000014_000000.wav|But at first, so deeply had his soul been dipped in this fragment of ancient worship, he could remember nothing more.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000007_000002.wav|A fragment of old Egypt had returned-a little portion of that vast Body of Belief that once was Egypt.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000004_000005.wav|The liberation of its life appalled him. All that was free, untied, responded instantly like chaff; loose objects fled towards it; there was a yielding in the hills and precipices; and even in the mass of Desert which provided their foundation.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000019_000001.wav|Life, through that awful sandy vortex, whirled and raged.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000009_000000.wav|Here was the beginning the woman had spoken of-little opening clue. Entire reconstruction lay perhaps beyond.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000006_000003.wav|The stars themselves, it seemed, contributed some part of the terrific, flowing impulse that conquered matter and shaped itself this physical expression.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000013_000003.wav|The chill breath of the Desert made him shiver.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000010_000000.wav|And Henriot next realised that these Magnitudes in which this group energy sought to clothe itself as visible form, were curiously familiar.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000002_000000.wav|For a tempest that seemed to toss loose stars about the sky swept round about him, pouring up the pillared avenue in front of the procession.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000021_000004.wav|She went.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000010_000006.wav|Yes, he recognised them in their partial revelation, though he never saw the monstrous host complete.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000010_000002.wav|Booming softly as they dropped downwards through the sky, with a motion the size of them rendered delusive, they trooped up the Avenue towards the central point that summoned them.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000011_000003.wav|He forgot himself.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000013_000000.wav|What was it, then, that suddenly strengthened this solitary link so that the chain tautened and he felt the pull of it?|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000018_000002.wav|Outer and inner mingled in violent, inextricable confusion.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000018_000003.wav|The wrench seemed almost physical.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000017_000004.wav|And human terror caught him.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000002_000008.wav|Through all things the impulse poured and spread, like fire at white heat.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000012_000001.wav|But-that a movement of six inches in any direction meant for any one of them instant death.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000017_000005.wav|He shrieked.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000014_000004.wav|All recent memories had been drowned in the tide that flooded him from an immeasurable Past.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000018_000006.wav|He witnessed it.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000022_000000.wav|There followed emptiness-a hush of unutterable silence, stillness, peace.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000024_000000.wav|Then, across the pale glimmering of sand, Henriot saw a figure moving.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000010_000005.wav|He recognised them, cold in him of death, though the outlines reared higher than the pyramids, and towered up to hide whole groups of stars.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000014_000001.wav|Somewhere lay a little spot of streets and houses; its name escaped him.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000008_000000.wav|Yet only a portion came.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000011_000005.wav|The glory numbed him.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000021_000001.wav|He was a witness, but a witness who could give no evidence.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000011_000006.wav|Block and pencil, as the reason of his presence there at all, no longer existed....|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000016_000000.wav|The names then flashed upon him-Lady Statham-Richard Vance.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000004_000003.wav|He saw it, as he saw the hands he was holding stupidly up to shield his face. For this terrific release of force long held back, long stored up, latent for centuries, came pouring down the empty Wadi bed prepared for its reception.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000017_000000.wav|Vance!|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000005_000004.wav|For stubborn matter turned docile before the stress of this returning life, taught somewhere to be plastic.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000003_000000.wav|Yet nothing visible came as yet, no alteration in the actual landscape, no sign of change in things familiar to his eyes, while impetus thus fought against inertia.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000001_000000.wav|The entire range of Henriot's experience, read, imagined, dreamed, then fainted into unreality before the sheer wonder of what he saw.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000013_000001.wav|Henriot could not say.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000004_000006.wav|The hinges of the Sand went creaking in the night.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000015_000002.wav|Yet he remembered them; and, thus robbed of association that names bring, he saw them for an instant naked, and knew that one of them was evil.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000005_000000.wav|Yet, most strangely, nothing definitely moved.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000004_000004.wav|Through stones and sand and boulders it came in an impetuous hurricane of power.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000021_000000.wav|The actual accomplishment Henriot did not claim to see.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000023_000002.wav|The Desert settled back to sleep, huge, unfathomable, charged to the brim with life that watches, waits, and yet conceals itself behind the ruins of apparent desolation.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000002_000001.wav|A blast of giant energy, of liberty, came through.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000017_000001.wav|With a horrid drop from splendour into something mean and sordid, Henriot felt the pain of it.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000018_000004.wav|It happened all at once, retreat and continuation for a moment somehow combined. And, if he did not definitely see the awful thing, at least he was aware that it had come to pass.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000010_000007.wav|But, one of them, he realised, posing its eternal riddle to the sands, had of old been glimpsed sufficiently to seize its form in stone,--yet poorly seized, as a doll may stand for the dignity of a human being or a child's toy represent an engine that draws trains....|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000004_000001.wav|How or where he did not see, he could not tell.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000002_000003.wav|It came to the accurate out line of its form they had traced for it.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000017_000003.wav|More and more, with the name, came back-his first repugnance, fear, suspicion.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000015_000005.wav|The man, his name still out of reach, was sinister, impure and dark at the heart.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000025_000000.wav|But, before he swooned, there reached him the clatter of the murderer's tread as he began to climb over the splintered rocks, and the faint echo of his voice, calling him by name-falsely and in pretence-for help.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000005_000001.wav|How could he express the violent contradiction?|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000007_000000.wav|Then, before he was able to fashion any preconceived idea of what visible form this potent life might assume, he was aware of further change.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000007_000001.wav|It came at the briefest possible interval after the beginning-this certainty that, to and fro about him, as yet however indeterminate, passed Magnitudes that were stupendous as the desert. There was beauty in them too, though a terrible beauty hardly of this earth at all.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000018_000001.wav|The inner perception clouded and grew dark.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8772/295710/8772_295710_000012_000000.wav|Yet one small link remained that held him to some kind of consciousness of earthly things: he never lost sight of this-that, being just outside the circle of evocation, he was safe, and that the man and woman, being stationary in its untouched centre, were also safe.|8772
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/143361/1874_143361_000011_000011.wav|Theodoric loved the virtues which he possessed, and the talents of which he was destitute.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/143361/1874_143361_000011_000002.wav|From a tender regard to the expiring prejudices of Rome, the Barbarian declined the name, the purple, and the diadem, of the emperors; but he assumed, under the hereditary title of king, the whole substance and plenitude of Imperial prerogative.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/143361/1874_143361_000002_000003.wav|His prudence could not safely intrust the bulwark of Italy to such feeble and turbulent neighbors; and his justice might claim the lands which they oppressed, either as a part of his kingdom, or as the inheritance of his father.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/143361/1874_143361_000011_000007.wav|And the subordinate care of justice and the revenue was delegated to seven consulars, three correctors, and five presidents, who governed the fifteen regions of Italy according to the principles, and even the forms, of Roman jurisprudence.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/143361/1874_143361_000002_000008.wav|He maintained, with a powerful hand, the balance of the West, till it was at length overthrown by the ambition of Clovis; and although unable to assist his rash and unfortunate kinsman, the king of the Visigoths, he saved the remains of his family and people, and checked the Franks in the midst of their victorious career.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000018_000003.wav|Besides which, he industriously gathered the histories of their martyrdom, together with other ecclesiastical writings, and erected there a large and noble library.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000004_000000.wav|The king gave him Wilfrid for a companion, and bade Wilfrid conduct him to Rome.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000018_000002.wav|For he gave all diligence, as he does to this day, to procure relics of the blessed Apostles and martyrs of Christ from all parts, and to raise altars in their honour in separate side chapels built for the purpose within the walls of the same church.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000015_000005.wav|Grant, O Jesus, that the flock may follow in the path of the shepherd."|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000004_000002.wav|But Wilfrid thanked him for the loving kindness which he was pleased to show to a stranger, and answered, that he had resolved upon another course of life, and for that reason had left his country and set out for Rome.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000003_000004.wav|When he told the brethren, they commended his design, and advised him to carry out that which he purposed.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000018_000004.wav|He likewise carefully provided holy vessels, lamps, and other such things as appertain to the adorning of the house of God.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000018_000001.wav|He enriched the structure of his church, which is dedicated in honour of the blessed Apostle Andrew with manifold adornments and marvellous workmanship.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000013_000000.wav|"A dread vision has even now appeared to me, which I would have you hear and keep secret, till I know what God will please to do with me.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000015_000004.wav|And long time sore vexed by many a peril at home and abroad, when he had held the office of a bishop forty five years, he passed away and with joy departed to the heavenly kingdom.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000011_000004.wav|This being heard, the Pope and all the rest said, that a man of so great authority, who had held the office of a bishop for nearly forty years, ought by no means to be condemned, but being altogether cleared of the faults laid to his charge, should return home with honour.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000007_000001.wav|Eleven other bishops met at the consecration of the new bishop, and that function was most honourably performed.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000005_000000.wav|Hereupon the bishop sent him to Rome, furnishing him with a guide and supplying plenty of all things requisite for his journey, earnestly requesting that he would come that way, when he returned into his own country.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000011_000002.wav|This being read, the hearers were amazed, and the reader ceasing, they began to ask of one another, who that Bishop Wilfrid was.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000015_000002.wav|And he also brought the holy season of Easter, returning in its course, to accord with the true teaching of the catholic rule which the Fathers fixed, and, banishing all doubt and error, gave his nation sure guidance in their worship.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/89898/1874_89898_000012_000003.wav|This man, straightway being called, came in, and seeing him somewhat recovered and able to speak, knelt down, and gave thanks to God, with all the brethren there present.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000025_000004.wav|april twenty first to may fourth, funeral train through principal cities North, to springfield illinois.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000025_000002.wav|april nineteenth, body lay in state at Washington.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000019_000000.wav|eighteen fifty nine--Placed for the presidential candidacy.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000015_000000.wav|eighteen fifty two--Electioneered for General Scott.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000019_000001.wav|Made Eastern tour "to get acquainted."|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000016_000000.wav|eighteen fifty four--Won the State over to the Republicans, but by arrangement transferred his claim to the senatorship to Trumbull.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000028_000000.wav|eighteen seventy six--To frustrate repetition of body snatchers' attempt, reinterred deeper.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000026_000000.wav|eighteen seventy one--Temporarily deposited in catacomb.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000003_000000.wav|eighteen thirty one--Election clerk at New Salem.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000023_000002.wav|december ninth, pardon to rebels proclaimed.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000024_000001.wav|Reelected november eighth.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000010_000000.wav|eighteen forty four--Proposed for Congress.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000006_000000.wav|eighteen thirty five--Postmaster, New Salem; appointed by President Jackson.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000004_000001.wav|Henry Clay, Whig platform.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000022_000000.wav|eighteen sixty two--september twenty second, emancipation announced.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000009_000000.wav|eighteen forty two--Married Miss Mary Todd, of Kentucky.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000008_000000.wav|eighteen forty--Partner in law with s t Logan.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000009_000001.wav|Of the four sons, Edward died in infancy; William ("Willie") at twelve at Washington; Thomas ("Tad") at Springfield, aged twenty; Robert m t, minister to Great Britain, presidential candidate, secretary of war to President Garfield.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000025_000001.wav|april fourteenth, assassinated in Ford's Theater, Washington, by a mad actor, Wilkes Booth.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000016_000001.wav|October, debated with Douglas.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000025_000003.wav|april twenty sixth, Booth slain in resisting arrest, by Sergeant Boston Corbett, near Port Royal.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000017_000000.wav|eighteen fifty six--Organized the Republican Party and became its chief; nominated vice president, but was not chosen by its first convention; worked for the Fremont Dayton presidential ticket.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000011_000000.wav|eighteen forty five--Law partner with w h Herndon, for life.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000004_000002.wav|Defeated through strong local vote.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000020_000000.wav|eighteen sixty--may ninth, nominated for President, "shutting out" Seward, Chase, Cameron, Dayton, Wade, Bates, and McLean.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000009_000002.wav|His only grandson, Abraham, died in London, March, eighteen ninety.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000018_000000.wav|eighteen fifty eight--Lost in the legislature the senatorship to Douglas.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000007_000000.wav|eighteen thirty eight to eighteen forty--Reelected to State legislature.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000023_000000.wav|eighteen sixty three--january first, emancipation proclaimed.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000024_000000.wav|eighteen sixty four--Unanimous nomination as Republican presidential candidate for re-election, june seventh.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000004_000000.wav|eighteen thirty two--First political speech.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000002_000000.wav|eighteen thirty one--Works for himself: boatbuilding and sailing, carpentering, hog sticking, sawmilling, blacksmithing, river pilot, logger, etc, in Menard County, Indiana.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000004_000003.wav|Deputy surveyor, at three dollars a day, Sangamon County.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000003_000002.wav|Store clerk and merchant, New Salem.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000014_000000.wav|eighteen forty nine--Defeated by Shields for United States senator.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000003_000001.wav|Captain and private (re enlisted) in Black Hawk War.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000005_000000.wav|eighteen thirty four--Elected to State legislature as Whig. (Resides in Springfield till eighteen sixty one.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000025_000000.wav|eighteen sixty five--march fourth, inaugurated for the second term.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000016_000002.wav|Declined the governorship in favor of Bissell.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000005_000001.wav|Law partner with john l Stuart till eighteen forty.)|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000027_000000.wav|eighteen seventy four--In catacomb, in sarcophagus.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000027_000001.wav|The completed monument dedicated.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165702/1874_165702_000023_000001.wav|november nineteenth, Gettysburg Cemetery address.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000023_000001.wav|Lincoln was their puzzle; for he had a sweet sauce for every "roast," and showed the smile of invigoration to every croaking prophet.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000017_000000.wav|Repulsed at the polls, he turned to the law as another channel, supplementing forensic failings by his artful story telling.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000018_000000.wav|mrs Lincoln, the first to weigh this man justly, said proudly, that "Lincoln was the great favorite everywhere."|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000021_000001.wav|He imbibed all the political ruses, and returned home with his quiver full of new and victorious arrows for the Presidential campaign, for his bosom friends urged him to try to gratify that ambition, preposterous when he first felt it attack him. He had grown out of the sensitiveness that once made him beg the critics not to put him out by laughing at his appearance.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000023_000002.wav|His state papers suited the war tragedies, but still he delighted the people with those tales, tagging all the events of what may be called the Lincoln era.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000010_000000.wav|The Abraham Lincoln Statue at Chicago is accepted as the typical Westerner of the forum, the rostrum, and the tribune, as he stood to be inaugurated under the war cloud in eighteen sixty one.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000013_000002.wav|One watching him in eighteen thirty said foresightedly: "Lincoln has touched land at last."|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000021_000000.wav|A sound authority who knew him of old pronounced him "as good at telling an anecdote as in the thirties." But the fluent chatterer reined in and became a good listener.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000014_000000.wav|In commencing electioneering, he cultivated the farming population and their ways and diction.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000011_000000.wav|This talkativeness, as Lincoln himself realized, was a very valuable asset.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000026_000000.wav|Time has refuted the purblind purists, the chilly "wet blankets"; and the Lincoln stories, bright, penetrative, piquant, and pertinent are our classics.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000005.wav|Lincoln displaced "Sam Slick," and opened the way to Artemus Ward and Mark Twain.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000002.wav|These formed the rapt ring around Lincoln in his own chair in the snug corner of the congressional chat room.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000004.wav|It was here, too, that his stereotyped prologue to his digressions-"That reminds me"--became popular, and even reached England, where a publisher so entitled a joke book.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000012_000002.wav|Lincoln was hailed as the "capper" of any "good things on the rounds."|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000007_000000.wav|COMPILED BY|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000013_000001.wav|Their praise emboldened him to stand forward as the spokesman at schoolhouse meetings, lectures, log rollings, huskings auctions, fairs, and so on-the folk meets of our people.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000023_000003.wav|The camp and the press echoed them though the Cabinet frowned-secretaries said that they exposed the illustrious speaker to charges of "clownishness and buffoonery."|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000011_000002.wav|In the camp of the lumber jacks and of the Indian rangers he was regarded as the pride of the mess and the inspirator of the tent. From these stages he rose to be a graduate of the "college" of the yarn spinner-the village store, where he became clerk.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000000.wav|Such loquacious witchery fitted him for the Congress.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000014_000001.wav|He learned by their parlance and Bible phrases to construct "short sentences of small words," but he had all along the idea that "the plain people are more easily influenced by a broad and humorous illustration than in any other way."|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000021_000003.wav|He worked out Euclid to brace his fantasies, as the steel bar in a cement fence post makes it irresistibly firm.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000022_000001.wav|He was not of the universities, but of the universe; the Mississippi of Eloquence, uncultivated, stupendous, enriched by sweeping into the innumerable side bayous and creeks.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000012_000001.wav|Lincoln, from behind the counter-his pulpit-not merely repeated items of information which he had heard, but also recited doggerel satire of his own concoction, punning and emitting sparks of wit.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000006.wav|The longing for elevation was fanned by the association with the notables-Buchanan, to be his predecessor as President; Andrew Johnson, to be his vice and successor; Jefferson Davis and Alex.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000013_000000.wav|Even then his friends saw the germs of the statesman in the lank, homely, crack voiced hobbledehoy.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000010_000001.wav|But there is another Lincoln as dear to the common people-the Lincoln of happy quotations, the speaker of household words.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000009_000000.wav|PREFACE.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000006_000000.wav|A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000011_000001.wav|Leaving home, he found, in a venture at "Yankee notion pedling," that glibness meant three hundred per cent, in disposing of flimsy wares.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000012_000000.wav|The store we know is the township vortex where all assemble to "swap stories" and deal out the news.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000016_000001.wav|He stood upon his "imperfect education," his not belonging "to the first families, but the seconds"; and his shunning society as debarring him from the study he required.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000023_000000.wav|Elected and re-elected President, he continued to be a surprise to those who shrank from levity.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000021_000004.wav|But he allowed his vehement fervor to carry him into such flights as left the reporters unable to accompany his sentences throughout.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000014_000002.wav|It is the Anglo Saxon trait, distinguishing all great preachers, actors, and authors of that breed.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000007.wav|H. Stephens, President and Vice President of the c s a; Adams, Winthrop, Sumner, and the galaxy over whom his solitary star was to shine dazzlingly.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000020_000003.wav|Here he perceived that his rusticity and shallow skimmings placed him under the trained politicians.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1874/165701/1874_165701_000025_000000.wav|Even his official letters were in the same vein.|1874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000047_000001.wav|You were mixed up in this one, Eustace, though I can't remember how.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000095_000000.wav|"That old devil of an uncle of mine," began Eustace-"oh, I can't explain it all.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000084_000000.wav|"I wish Saunders was back," he said; "one can't tackle this sort of thing alone." It was after eleven, and there seemed little likelihood of Saunders returning before twelve.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000008.wav|Oh, and there's just one other thing.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000082_000003.wav|His fingers touched the metal knob at last.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000047_000004.wav|Choose your friends well.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000090_000001.wav|"Don't go to bed yet, Morton.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000070_000000.wav|"It's culpably careless of the man, whoever he was," said Eustace, as he removed the screws, "packing an animal like this in a wooden box with no means of getting air.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000104_000001.wav|It would be too smart for us.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000084_000001.wav|He did not dare to leave the shelf unwatched, even to run downstairs to ring the bell.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000004_000003.wav|It will be a thing to look back upon with pride when he grows to be a man."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000075_000005.wav|His grandfather had placed a little gate at the top of the stair, so that children could run and romp in the gallery without fear of accident.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000046_000000.wav|Adrian Borlsover awoke with a start.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000064_000000.wav|"Oh, dear me, no! We've had all things in common for far too many years for me to raise objections at this hour of the day."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000063_000001.wav|Any objection?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000098_000001.wav|The accumulated dust of centuries, eh?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000083_000004.wav|He no longer saw it, but he could hear it as it squeezed its way behind the books on one of the shelves.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000076_000001.wav|There was no sense of intimacy about the room.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000078_000000.wav|"Very well; you'll starve for this, my beauty!" he said.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000099_000001.wav|"It's got a funny stumpy end to it, whatever it is, and nips like a crab.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000004.wav|The mere passing of his long supple fingers over a flower was sufficient means for its identification, though occasionally he would use his lips.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000007_000000.wav|"But I saw his eyes," I said.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000005_000001.wav|He spoke to me kindly, and hoped that I should always try to please my father.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000047_000002.wav|Eustace, I want to warn you.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000006.wav|And if by any chance I don't see you again, my will is at my solicitor's.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000080_000001.wav|And what in the name of all that's holy is that?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000081_000002.wav|Someone must be in the gallery, for a second blind did the same.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000099_000003.wav|"Shove in a book quickly.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000093_000001.wav|"All right, Morton, you can go now.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000005.wav|Marry some good, sensible girl.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000065_000004.wav|I didn't look, because I didn't want to mess up my things but I should gather from the way it's jumping about that it's pretty hungry."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000079_000003.wav|He wished his body to be embalmed (he gave us the address of the man we were to employ-Pennifer, Ludgate Hill), with orders that his right hand was to be sent to you, stating that it was at your special request.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000022_000003.wav|He left his seat in the window and sat down beside the bed.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000013_000000.wav|Adrian Borlsover, as my father had said, was a wonderful man.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000091_000001.wav|That beast in the box got out, and I've been chasing it all over the place."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000094_000002.wav|He was completely satisfied, both with himself and with Captain Lockwood's taste in wines.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000101_000002.wav|Give me some brandy."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000065_000002.wav|There's also a box with a rat, or something, inside it that came by the evening post.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000105_000001.wav|One by one, as they took out the books, the space behind grew smaller and smaller.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000057_000001.wav|"I wonder where I shall find room for all his books."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000035_000000.wav|"Is it my uncle who is writing?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000008_000000.wav|And so I learnt for the first time that a man might have eyes that looked dark and beautiful and shining without being able to see.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000015_000002.wav|He illustrated all his scientific papers, made his own woodcuts, and carved the reredos that is at present the chief feature of interest in the church at Borlsover Conyers.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000078_000002.wav|Go on! Chuck them down!|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000090_000002.wav|There are a lot of books that have fallen down by accident; bring them up and put them back in their shelves."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000060_000000.wav|The two men met for the first time after many weeks in the dining room that evening.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000106_000001.wav|"It seems to be a hand right enough, too.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000084_000002.wav|Morton the butler often used to come round about eleven to see that the windows were fastened, but he might not come.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000097_000001.wav|If you don't believe me take out one of those books and put your hand in and feel."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000082_000000.wav|"I haven't got to the bottom of this yet," said Eustace, "but I will do before the night is very much older," and he hurried up the corkscrew stair.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000002_000000.wav|BY w f|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000109_000001.wav|"Now let's hear more about your uncle."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000096_000000.wav|"What's up with you, Eustace?|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000070_000001.wav|Confound it all!|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000073_000005.wav|There were still the private letters.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000095_000002.wav|But I've got it cornered behind these books.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000083_000003.wav|While he was looking, too surprised to stir, the hand disappeared round the corner Eustace ran forward.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000085_000000.wav|"Morton!" he shouted; "Morton!"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000092_000002.wav|I think that's the carriage, sir; I'll go and call mr Saunders."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000108_000001.wav|"Drive in the screws," said Eustace, "we won't run any risks.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000086_000000.wav|"Sir?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000004_000000.wav|When I was a little boy I once went with my father to call on Adrian Borlsover.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000005.wav|I have found several letters of his among my father's correspondence.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000101_000000.wav|"It was something that wanted very much to get hold of me.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000099_000004.wav|Now it can't get out."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000044_000001.wav|Then, picking up the pencil, they wrote:|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000089_000000.wav|"Well, bring me some brandy, and hurry up about it.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000083_000002.wav|It was moving quickly, in the manner of a geometer caterpillar, the fingers humped up one moment, flattened out the next; the thumb appeared to give a crab like motion to the whole.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000061_000002.wav|Why these dress togs?" He himself was wearing an old shooting jacket.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000083_000008.wav|Then, emptying two shelves of their contents, he took the wooden boards and propped them up in front to make his barrier doubly sure.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000012.wav|Eustace took it.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000105_000000.wav|It certainly seemed to be the best plan.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000021_000000.wav|Uncle and nephew saw little of each other.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000079_000004.wav|The other arrangements as to the funeral remained unaltered."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000107_000001.wav|We'll get it back into the box."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000051_000000.wav|"Nonsense, uncle!" said his nephew.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000061_000000.wav|"Hullo!" said Eustace, standing before the fire with his hands in his pockets.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000045_000003.wav|He doesn't know what to make of it, and I won't have poor old Adrian disturbed.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000094_000001.wav|The luck had been with him all the evening.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000094_000000.wav|"What's all the row?" asked Saunders, as he lounged forward with his hands in his pockets.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000051_000002.wav|Every one marvels at your splendid perseverance in teaching your hand to take the place of your lost sight.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000022_000001.wav|Eustace made the discovery by accident.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000002.wav|He quickly learned to read Braille.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000107_000000.wav|"Infectious fiddlesticks!" said Eustace, his face white with anger; "bring the thing downstairs.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000019_000000.wav|Like his uncle, he was a remarkable man.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000045_000001.wav|Put your book away, Eustace.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000104_000002.wav|I tell you, Saunders, it can cover the ground far faster than I can walk.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000009.wav|You know, before the end people often lose control over themselves and make absurd requests.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000075_000002.wav|There was a noise at the other end of the room, as if something was crawling up the iron corkscrew stair.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000018_000001.wav|His elder brother George had married late in life, leaving one son, Eustace, who lived in the gloomy Georgian mansion at Borlsover Conyers, where he could work undisturbed in collecting material for his great book on heredity.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000108_000000.wav|It was not altogether easy, but they were successful at last.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000080_000000.wav|"Good Lord!" said Eustace; "what in the world was the old boy driving at?|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000084_000003.wav|Eustace was thoroughly unstrung.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000006.wav|In no case was there anything to show that he was afflicted with blindness and this in spite of the fact that he exercised undue economy in the spacing of lines.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000031_000001.wav|Almost immediately it began to write.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000058_000000.wav|The question occurred to him again with greater force when three days later he found himself standing in the library at Borlsover Conyers, a huge room built for use, and not for beauty, in the year of Waterloo by a Borlsover who was an ardent admirer of the great Napoleon.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000047_000000.wav|"I've been dreaming again," he said; "such queer dreams of leaguered cities and forgotten towns.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000061_000001.wav|"How goes the world, Saunders?|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000070_000003.wav|Now I suppose I shall have to get one myself."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000021_000004.wav|Both men possessed, too, the reticence the Borlsovers had always shown, and which their enemies sometimes called hypocrisy.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000023_000003.wav|Beautiful Belinda Borlsover."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000029_000000.wav|But on his return he was at first disappointed.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000001_000000.wav|The Beast with Five Fingers|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000094_000003.wav|"What's the matter?|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000002_000001.wav|HARVEY|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000004_000001.wav|I played on the floor with a black spaniel while my father appealed for a subscription.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000042_000000.wav|"Where shall you not?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000030_000000.wav|The old man, propped up in bed with pillows, had sunk into a light sleep.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000050_000000.wav|On the following day Eustace Borlsover left.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000014_000002.wav|Occasionally he would relieve one or other of the local clergy.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000058_000002.wav|At the end of the room, behind the bust of some unknown eighteenth century divine, an ugly iron corkscrew stair led to a shelf lined gallery. Nearly every shelf was full.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000021_000001.wav|The visits of Eustace were confined to a week in the summer or autumn: long weeks, that dragged almost as slowly as the bath chair in which the old man was drawn along the sunny sea front.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000036_000000.wav|"Oh, my prophetic soul, mine uncle."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000061_000004.wav|"The world," said Saunders, "goes the same as usual, confoundedly slow.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000029_000003.wav|Not until the day before he left had Eustace an opportunity of observing Adrian Borlsover's new found faculty.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000065_000003.wav|Very likely it's the six toed albino.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000007.wav|I've not left you any legacy, because I know you're well provided for, but I thought you might like to have my books.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000013_000001.wav|He came of an eccentric family.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000078_000004.wav|The letter was from the family solicitor.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000104_000000.wav|"No good.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000075_000004.wav|But he could see nothing.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000050_000001.wav|He thought his uncle looked ill when he said good by, and the old man spoke despondently of the failure his life had been.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000023_000002.wav|Honesty is the Best Policy.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000030_000002.wav|Eustace took an empty manuscript book and placed a pencil within reach of the fingers of the right hand.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000073_000000.wav|To search for it did indeed seem hopeless.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000019_000001.wav|The Borlsovers had always been born naturalists, but Eustace possessed in a special degree the power of systematizing his knowledge.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000072_000001.wav|The beast's got out.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000106_000003.wav|I've read about such cases before."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000077_000000.wav|With a crash two heavy books fell from the gallery to the floor; then, as Borlsover looked, another and yet another.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000001.wav|In a wonderfully short time he had adapted himself to the new conditions of life.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000105_000004.wav|At last they had it pressed between the two big books.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000103_000000.wav|"What about a landing net?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000029_000002.wav|He was listless too, preferring others to read to him and dictating nearly all his letters.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000076_000003.wav|They made the room feel cold, in spite of the heavy red damask curtains and great gilt cornices.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000073_000003.wav|Very likely the animal might gain confidence and show itself.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000006_000000.wav|"That old gentleman, Jim," said he, "is the most wonderful man in the whole town.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000075_000003.wav|"If it's gone into the gallery," he said, "well and good." He hastily turned on the lights, crossed the room, and climbed up the stair.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000100_000000.wav|"What was it?" asked Eustace.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000095_000003.wav|You've got to help me catch it."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000014_000004.wav|"An excellent proof," he would add, "of the truth of the doctrine of direct verbal inspiration."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000062_000000.wav|"How are you getting there?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000015_000000.wav|Adrian Borlsover was exceedingly clever with his hands.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000094_000004.wav|You look to me to be in an absolute blue funk."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000068_000001.wav|"And, Morton," he added, when the butler brought the coffee, "get me a screwdriver or something to undo this box.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000037_000000.wav|"Is it anyone I know?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000068_000004.wav|Why are you dawdling?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000106_000002.wav|I suppose this is a sort of infectious hallucination.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000057_000000.wav|"Poor old fellow!" he said.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000061_000005.wav|The dress togs are accounted for by an invitation from Captain Lockwood to bridge."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000005_000003.wav|"Amen!" said my father, and I followed him out of the room, feeling as if I wanted to cry.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000043_000000.wav|Instead of speaking his next question, Borlsover wrote it.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000075_000001.wav|Then he stopped.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000078_000005.wav|It spoke of his uncle's death and of the valuable collection of books that had been left to him in the will.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000093_000002.wav|I'm up here, Saunders."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000105_000003.wav|Once they caught sight of fingers pressing outward for a way of escape.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000007_000002.wav|Can't he see at all?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000082_000004.wav|He turned on the electric light.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000069_000000.wav|"If you please, sir, when the postman brought it he told me that they'd bored the holes in the lid at the post office.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000083_000007.wav|In his fear lest it should escape him again, he seized the first book that came to his hand and plugged it into the hole.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000005_000002.wav|Then he placed his right hand on my head and asked for a blessing to rest upon me.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000058_000001.wav|It was arranged on the plan of many college libraries, with tall, projecting bookcases forming deep recesses of dusty silence, fit graves for the old hates of forgotten controversy, the dead passions of forgotten lives.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000068_000003.wav|What is it?|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000081_000001.wav|Someone had pulled the cord attached to one of the blinds, and it had rolled up with a snap.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000065_000000.wav|"You'll find your correspondence in the library," went on Saunders. "Most of it I've seen to.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000073_000002.wav|Eustace resolved to go on quietly reading.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000011_000000.wav|That was the only time I saw Adrian Borlsover.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000023_000001.wav|B, for Borlsover.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000099_000000.wav|"There's something there right enough," he said.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000066_000000.wav|"Oh, I'll see to it," said Eustace, "while you and the Captain earn an honest penny."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000104_000003.wav|But I think I see how we can manage it.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000011_000002.wav|But for a week I prayed that those dark tender eyes might see.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000071_000001.wav|As he came back into the library with an empty cage in his hand he heard the sound of something falling, and then of something scuttling along the floor.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000045_000002.wav|Adrian mustn't find us working at this sort of thing.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000012_000000.wav|"His spaniel may have puppies," I said in my prayers, "and he will never be able to know how funny they look with their eyes all closed up. Please let old mr Borlsover see."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000068_000000.wav|"We'll have all the lights on at any rate," he said, as he turned the switches.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000047_000003.wav|Don't walk in doubtful paths.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000015_000001.wav|His penmanship was exquisite.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000082_000002.wav|Quickly he stole on tiptoe in the dim moonshine in the direction of the noise, feeling as he went for one of the switches.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000027_000000.wav|He went along the promenade, but stopped at the first shelter, and seating himself in the corner best protected from the wind, he examined the book at leisure.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000065_000001.wav|There are a few private letters I haven't opened.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000043_000001.wav|"What is the time?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000014_000000.wav|Adrian was an authority on the fertilization of orchids.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000090_000000.wav|"Thanks," said Eustace, as he emptied the glass.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000029_000001.wav|His uncle, he thought, looked older.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000034_000000.wav|"Never you mind," wrote the hand of Adrian.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000022_000002.wav|Adrian was sitting reading in bed, the forefinger of his left hand tracing the Braille characters, when his nephew noticed that a pencil the old man held in his right hand was moving slowly along the opposite page.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000097_000000.wav|"It's no game, you silly idiot!|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000059_000001.wav|"I suppose that it will be necessary to have the billiard room fitted up with book cases."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000049_000001.wav|"We're friends already; aren't we, Eustace Borlsover?"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000063_000000.wav|"I've told your coachman to drive me in your carriage.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000047_000005.wav|Your poor grandfather----"|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000072_000000.wav|"Bother it!|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000007.wav|Towards the close of his life the old man was credited with powers of touch that seemed almost uncanny: it has been said that he could tell at once the color of a ribbon placed between his fingers.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000022_000000.wav|Two years before his death Adrian Borlsover developed, unknown to himself, the not uncommon power of automatic writing.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000083_000001.wav|Eustace stared at it in utter astonishment.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000013_000002.wav|Borlsovers' sons, for some reason, always seemed to marry very ordinary women, which perhaps accounted for the fact that no Borlsover had been a genius, and only one Borlsover had been mad.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000089_000001.wav|I'm up here in the gallery, you duffer."|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000007_000001.wav|"They were ever so black and shiny; they weren't shut up like Nora's puppies.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000051_000001.wav|"You have got over your difficulties in a way not one in a hundred thousand would have done.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000074_000000.wav|What was that?|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000045_000000.wav|"Ten minutes before four.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000014.wav|There was, too, in its touch a subtle sense of intimacy.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000004_000002.wav|Just before we left my father said, "mr Borlsover, may my son here shake hands with you?|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000016_000008.wav|My father would neither confirm nor deny the story.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1054/143005/1054_143005_000052_000011.wav|Good by!" and he held out his hand.|1054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000028_000001.wav|The artist who carved this had once been a heathen; perhaps in former days he had made and sold idols, but now all his life and talents were consecrated to God.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000012_000000.wav|How wonderful to read the names of those who loved Christ and suffered for His sake so long, long ago!|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000008_000000.wav|A few miles from the city of Rome, deep, deep underground, are those wonderful networks of galleries and chambers called 'The Catacombs.'|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000005_000000.wav|Those boys and girls who love their Bibles are fond of Bible pictures. Even tiny children delight to see a picture of Jesus Christ holding the little ones in His arms; and how sad children feel when they are shown a painting or engraving of the Saviour led away to die!|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000031_000000.wav|Now, there is one very wonderful thing about all these pictures: although so many martyrs lie buried here, nearly all the pictures and inscriptions are cheerful!|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000003_000000.wav|THE FIRST BIBLE PICTURES|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000023_000000.wav|Now, these first Christians loved the Bible with all their hearts, and just as you like to see hanging in your room the picture of the Good Shepherd with the little lamb, so they began to long for pictures from their Bible.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000024_000001.wav|Only Bible pictures interested the first Christians.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000029_000000.wav|And here carved in stone, is the Good Shepherd, Christ bearing the lost lamb on His shoulder, just as He does in the picture you love so well at home; Christ, the Good Shepherd of your life, just as surely as He was the Saviour and Friend of these men and women who fell asleep so long ago!|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000012_000001.wav|Their very names speak to us of the courage and joy which, in spite of torture, Christ had brought into their lives.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000033_000000.wav|How thoroughly these first Christians knew their Bible!|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000026_000000.wav|There are many pictures of jonah and the whale, and one of the three children in the burning fiery furnace, for this had special messages for the martyrs as we can well understand.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000020_000000.wav|Now, about the time of Nero's cruel persecution, the Christians of Rome began to use the Catacombs for meetings and services.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000006_000000.wav|We have learnt much now of the Bible, and of how the Old and New Testaments were written, but who first thought of making pictures from the Bible?|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000016_000000.wav|How different from the words carved over heathen tombs!|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000021_000000.wav|So they met deep underground in the dim galleries, their little oil lamps twinkling like stars, and there they listened to the Word of God, and prayed and sang together.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000033_000002.wav|Had all the writings of the New Testament been lost, we should have known the most important events of our Lord's life on earth from these faded paintings and worn carvings alone.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000016_000001.wav|We know what these were like, for not very far away is a heathen catacomb.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000024_000000.wav|Some of the subjects were taken from the Old Testament, some from the New.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000025_000002.wav|So will God keep safe all those who trust in Him.'|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000022_000000.wav|Many touching stories are told of these days; and of the meetings held underground in these Catacombs, where the living were surrounded by the bodies of the martyred dead.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000034_000001.wav|This is the message which these first Bible pictures bring to us all.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000017_000001.wav|So the Christian woman was laid to rest.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000011_000000.wav|For all this great underground city is in reality one huge cemetery: the quiet resting place where the first Christians of heathen Rome buried their dead, where the martyred bodies so cruelly tortured by Nero were laid at last.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000020_000001.wav|Their heathen tormentors had a horror of death, and therefore among the quiet dead the Christians were safe for a while.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000023_000001.wav|Every heathen Roman had his house decorated with pictures and carvings from his pagan religion, but it was in the dim underground galleries that the first Bible pictures appeared.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000019_000000.wav|'Spare your tears, dear husband and daughter, and believe that it is forbidden to weep for one who lives in God.' How beautiful to know that we shall one day meet the woman in Heaven of whom these words are written!|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000014_000000.wav|'Rest,' 'Constancy,' 'God's will.' Many names have meanings like these.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24516/4973_24516_000032_000000.wav|The heathen Roman writers tell a great deal about the dreadful sufferings of the Christians, but there is very little said about it on the tombs of the martyrs themselves.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000018_000001.wav|He wrote on papyrus-that is, on reed paper, using an ink like black paint, and a reed pen.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000009_000000.wav|But although the men of this great nation knew nothing of our wise and loving Heavenly Father, He knew and loved them every one, and as we have seen, He called a Greek Christian author to help Him in the wonderful work of writing the Bible.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000039_000001.wav|True, they knew that the Holy Spirit was bidding them write, but that their written words should ever be used by God to form a part of the Bible would have seemed impossible to them all.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000012_000002.wav|Above all, the story of our Saviour's ascension into Heaven, and the marvellous fulfilment of His promises in the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, would have been left untold.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000015_000000.wav|The marvellous accuracy of saint Luke and his keen observation become every year more striking as fresh discoveries in the lands of which he wrote show how true he is in the tiniest detail; while his modesty is equally remarkable, for only by carefully noticing when he says 'we' and when 'they' can we discover when he shared saint Paul's dangers and trials.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000008_000001.wav|How little those clever Greeks had been able to discover of the mercy and justice of God!|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000044_000000.wav|Now the 'revelation,' though placed at the end of our Bible, was not the last Book to be written.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000034_000000.wav|This Epistle of saint Peter was written, we believe, to comfort God's people under the heavy trial of Paul's second imprisonment.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000004_000001.wav|In the days when Paul preached at Athens, the old capital of Greece, much of the ancient splendour and power of the Greek people had passed away, for the romans had conquered their country, and they were no longer a free nation.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000022_000000.wav|But the writings of saint Luke are as full of blessing and power as ever, and the war he wrote about grows more wonderful every day.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000043_000002.wav|It may well be then that these calm and loving letters were the last of all the Bible words to be written.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000041_000000.wav|The last and by far the latest writer of God's Book was saint John, the beloved disciple.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000017_000002.wav|The beloved physician was faithful to his great leader to the last.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000012_000001.wav|Stephen's victorious death would be all unknown to us.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000021_000000.wav|Homer's book belongs to the forgotten past, for the heathen religion of Greece is to day as though it had never been.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000007_000000.wav|The picture it gives of the old heathen religion is terrible, for Homer described the 'gods' and 'goddesses' in whom he believed as being far more cruel and unjust than the worst men and women of his time. According to his ideas, Jupiter, Diana, Apollo, Mars, and the rest came down to earth and took part in the battle.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000027_000001.wav|Thus it is that Peter's contribution to our Bible has become one of the strongest witnesses to the truth of the words written down in the Gospels.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000002_000000.wav|SOME OTHER WRITERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000014_000000.wav|There are four Gospels-written from four different points of view, but of the four writers, luke, the Greek, was the only one who wrote a sequel and showed the results which our Saviour's Life, and Death, and Resurrection produced at once in the world.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000023_000000.wav|The Apostle peter, in contrast to saint Luke, was only a fisherman when the Lord bade him leave his boat and his nets to preach and teach the Gospel.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000045_000000.wav|It was probably composed whilst Nero, the wicked Emperor, was torturing and burning the followers of Christ.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000046_000000.wav|Among the fragments of the oldest Bibles in the world recently discovered, the Book of revelation takes a prominent place.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000024_000000.wav|His ideas were very limited when Jesus Christ first came into his life, and he knew little or nothing of the various branches of knowledge which had become a second nature to the Greek scholar; but the fisherman was to receive his education in a very different fashion from luke, for his teacher was the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000012_000000.wav|The Apostle Paul's life would be almost a blank.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000030_000001.wav|eight.) 'Charity' should have been translated 'love.'|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000036_000005.wav|seven.)|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000017_000001.wav|eleven) wrote the Apostle from his Roman prison.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000036_000002.wav|This vow is often mentioned in the Old Testament.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000039_000000.wav|These writers of the New Testament as they took their reed pens in their hands, and spread out their rolls of whitey brown papyrus paper, were not like Moses.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000043_000000.wav|Three of the shortest and yet most beautiful Books of the Bible are the three epistles which bear John's name.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000005_000001.wav|Homer, the greatest Greek poet, who lived about a thousand years b c, is still world famous.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000020_000001.wav|luke.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000004_000000.wav|Let us now look at the rest of the books which make up the New Testament.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000025_000000.wav|How impossible it would have seemed to peter, in the days when he washed his nets by the Lake of Galilee, that his writings should ever form a part of the Scriptures-God's Book, which he had learned from his childhood to love and reverence!|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000026_000000.wav|Yet with God all things are possible.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000036_000003.wav|james had not believed that Jesus Christ was the Saviour of the world until after His Resurrection, when the Lord appeared to him.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24515/4973_24515_000008_000000.wav|In vain did the great hero, Hector, fight his bravest; in vain did he sacrifice himself, and strive to make up for the wrong doing of his brother; he failed utterly, for Homer tells us that he was hated by some of the 'gods' for no fault of his own, and so they doomed him to destruction, and guided the hand of the man who slew him.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000018_000001.wav|This is why we find in the Gospel according to matthew more quotations from the Old Testament than in the writings of any of the other evangelists.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000025_000000.wav|Written last of all, we have the good news-that is, Gospel, told by saint John.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000008_000001.wav|Precious words would be forgotten, precious facts passed over, unless they were collected together and put down in black and white.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000026_000002.wav|He was able, therefore, to mention details, and give the actual names of people and places, which, if told earlier, might have endangered the lives of those of whom he wrote.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000026_000001.wav|By the time that saint John wrote his Gospel, Jerusalem had been destroyed and her inhabitants slain or scattered.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000006_000000.wav|But how did the story of the Saviour's life on earth come to be written?|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000024_000001.wav|fourteen), and besides being highly educated and gifted, he took infinite pains with his work.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000016_000000.wav|matthew, the writer of the Gospel which comes the first in our New Testament, was a Levite; that is, he belonged to the tribe of Levi, and this tribe was specially chosen in the time of Moses to learn the Law and serve God in His Temple.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000022_000001.wav|This is because the whole work is written from the Gentile point of view-it is the world's history of Christ.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000021_000000.wav|Twenty years after Matthew's Gospel was written, God called a Greek scholar, named luke, to write what was to be a most important part of our Bible.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000028_000000.wav|So filled with love was the Apostle john that before he died his spirit became altogether one with Christ's spirit, and the sayings of Jesus, which he had only half understood whilst his Master had walked this earth, grew quite clear to him, so that he remembered them distinctly.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000007_000000.wav|We have seen that many years passed before any one thought of writing it down at all.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000020_000000.wav|Years passed, and those who had seen Christ in His earthly life had nearly all died, while Gentile Christians everywhere were asking eagerly for the written story of His life.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000027_000000.wav|Many instances of this will be found by those who read carefully.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000016_000001.wav|matthew, therefore, was very learned in the books of the Law, and in the writings of the old prophets.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000013_000000.wav|Now a Christian writer, named Papias, who lived about sixty years after this time, tells us that Mark wrote his Gospel story from what peter had told him about Christ; so we think this Gospel writing is really the Apostle Peter's account of our Lord's life on earth.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000024_000002.wav|He collected all the information he could both from books and eye witnesses-either from the Saviour's Mother herself, or from some of her relations-and to him we owe many of the most beautiful and touching facts of our Lord's life on earth.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000010_000000.wav|But about the time that saint Paul was imprisoned at Rome we think that the Gospel according to saint Mark was written.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000015_000001.wav|The very things saint Peter would have noticed are mentioned by Mark.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000026_000000.wav|When the Saviour ascended into Heaven, john was still a young man, but he lived to be older than all the other Apostles.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000019_000000.wav|'See, My Book has always spoken of the coming of My Son.' This is the wonderful message which God gave to the world through Matthew's knowledge of the Old Testament Scriptures.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000008_000000.wav|But as the years passed, the number of those who had seen Christ grew less, and the need of a written Gospel became ever greater.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000014_000000.wav|Very likely, as Mark journeyed with the Apostle from place to place, and heard him tell and retell the wonderful story of His Master's life on earth, the thought came into the young man's mind, 'Why not write down what peter says, so that his words shall not be forgotten?'|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000004_000000.wav|HOW THE GOSPELS CAME TO BE WRITTEN|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000016_000002.wav|As you all know, the Lord Jesus chose matthew to be one of His special companions; and as matthew followed his Master day by day, he saw more and more clearly how all the old prophecies which he knew so well pointed to the coming of Christ.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000008_000002.wav|Some of those, therefore, who had seen and heard Christ began to write down all they remembered of His life.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000011_000004.wav|eleven.)|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000009_000001.wav|They loved it and searched its pages eagerly, as they realized that all its words spoke of Christ!|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/24514/4973_24514_000015_000000.wav|And so fresh and vivid are the words of Mark's Gospel, so full of little natural touches, that most people agree that old Papias must have been right.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000048_000000.wav|eight.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000020_000001.wav|It is no wonder that nature, abhorring a vacuum, fills them with the nearest thing handy, which generally happens to be, "I wonder if I am doing this right!|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000011_000001.wav|Dan Patch was more susceptible to suffering than a superannuated dray horse would be.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000018_000003.wav|You know this to be true, for you have recognized overweening self love in others.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000050_000001.wav|Write out very briefly any experience you may have had involving the teachings of this chapter.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000026_000000.wav|If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000036_000000.wav|So cast out fear, for fear is cowardly-when it is not mastered.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000023_000000.wav|Let your bearing be modestly confident, but most of all be modestly confident within.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000021_000003.wav|Know what you are going to talk about, and, in general, how you are going to say it.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000034_000001.wav|It ought not to be necessary; and if it is, it will not help.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000021_000002.wav|Prepare yourself.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000020_000002.wav|How does my hair look?|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000002_000000.wav|ACQUIRING CONFIDENCE BEFORE AN AUDIENCE|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000027_000001.wav|You are a god, with infinite capabilities.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000016_000003.wav|The youth subordinated himself to the message he bore.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000041_000000.wav|one.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000010_000001.wav|All we can do here is to offer you suggestions as to how best to prepare for your plunge.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000039_000000.wav|In this foundation chapter we have tried to strike the tone of much that is to follow.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000017_000000.wav|Far worse than self consciousness through fear of doing poorly is self consciousness through assumption of doing well.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000016_000001.wav|To hold any other view is to regard yourself as an exhibit instead of as a messenger with a message worth delivering.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000044_000001.wav|Why are you free from it under the stress of unusual excitement?|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000050_000000.wav|ten.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000031_000000.wav|In facing your audience, pause a moment and look them over-a hundred chances to one they want you to succeed, for what man is so foolish as to spend his time, perhaps his money, in the hope that you will waste his investment by talking dully?|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000026_000001.wav|You will.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000034_000000.wav|Do not apologize.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000021_000001.wav|If you go before an audience without any preparation, or previous knowledge of your subject, you ought to be self conscious-you ought to be ashamed to steal the time of your audience.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000025_000001.wav|In the middle of his speech Irving hesitated, became embarrassed, and sat down awkwardly.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000021_000004.wav|Have the first few sentences worked out completely so that you may not be troubled in the beginning to find words.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000034_000002.wav|Go straight ahead.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000011_000004.wav|The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000036_000004.wav|Go win it.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000045_000000.wav|five.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000037_000000.wav|Is all this unsympathetic, do you say?|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000036_000007.wav|But remember that men erect no monuments and weave no laurels for those who fear to do what they can.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000043_000000.wav|three.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000035_000001.wav|You will not find it half so bad as you imagined; really, it is like taking a cold plunge: after you are in, the water is fine.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000018_000005.wav|There are things in this world bigger than self, and in working for them self will be forgotten, or-what is better-remembered only so as to help us win toward higher things.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000025_000002.wav|Turning to a friend beside him he remarked, "There, I told you I would fail, and I did."|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000003_000002.wav|Most speakers have been conscious of this in a nameless thrill, a real something, pervading the atmosphere, tangible, evanescent, indescribable.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000021_000000.wav|It is not enough to be absorbed by your subject-to acquire self confidence you must have something in which to be confident.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000016_000000.wav|Self consciousness is undue consciousness of self, and, for the purpose of delivery, self is secondary to your subject, not only in the opinion of the audience, but, if you are wise, in your own.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000008_000000.wav|Apply horse sense to ridding yourself of self consciousness and fear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000029_000003.wav|If you assume the negative you are sure to be negative.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000029_000001.wav|Either you or your audience are going to possess the positive factor.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000018_000002.wav|Voltaire said, "We must conceal self love." But that can not be done.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000029_000007.wav|Your assumption of being able to instruct or lead or inspire a multitude or even a small group of people may appall you as being colossal impudence-as indeed it may be; but having once essayed to speak, be courageous.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000029_000005.wav|Summon all your power of self direction, and remember that though your audience is infinitely more important than you, the truth is more important than both of you, because it is eternal.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000038_000001.wav|No one doubts that temperament and nerves and illness and even praiseworthy modesty may, singly or combined, cause the speaker's cheek to blanch before an audience, but neither can any one doubt that coddling will magnify this weakness.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000036_000001.wav|The bravest know fear, but they do not yield to it.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000010_000000.wav|The Apostle Paul tells us that every man must work out his own salvation.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000048_000001.wav|Write out a two minute speech on "Confidence and Cowardice."|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000051_000000.wav|eleven.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000010_000002.wav|The real plunge no one can take for you.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000016_000006.wav|Say this to yourself sternly, and shame your self consciousness into quiescence.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000020_000000.wav|The trouble with many speakers is that they go before an audience with their minds a blank.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000009_000001.wav|You must learn to speak by speaking.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000043_000001.wav|What is your observation regarding self consciousness in children?|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000016_000007.wav|If the theater caught fire you could rush to the stage and shout directions to the audience without any self consciousness, for the importance of what you were saying would drive all fear thoughts out of your mind.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000020_000003.wav|I know I shall fail." Their prophetic souls are sure to be right.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000029_000006.wav|If your mind falters in its leadership the sword will drop from your hands.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000047_000000.wav|seven.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000008_000001.wav|You can never attain freedom from stage fright by reading a treatise.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000049_000000.wav|nine.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000021_000005.wav|Know your subject better than your hearers know it, and you have nothing to fear.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000024_000000.wav|Humility is not the personal discount that we must offer in the presence of others-against this old interpretation there has been a most healthy modern reaction.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000018_000000.wav|Nothing advertises itself so thoroughly as conceit.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000033_000000.wav|Do not make haste to begin-haste shows lack of control.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000011_000003.wav|A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000011_000002.wav|It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000041_000001.wav|What is the cause of self consciousness?|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000016_000002.wav|Do you remember Elbert Hubbard's tremendous little tract, "A Message to Garcia"?|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000003_000003.wav|All writers have borne testimony to the power of a speaker's eye in impressing an audience.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000042_000001.wav|Why are animals free from it?|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000046_000000.wav|six.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000036_000003.wav|In your audience lies some victory for you and the cause you represent.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000017_000002.wav|Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures us, you must "not look too good nor talk too wise."|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000025_000000.wav|Washington Irving once introduced Charles Dickens at a dinner given in the latter's honor.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000040_000000.wav|QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000003_000001.wav|It may proceed from the gaze of the many eyes that turn upon the speaker, especially if he permits himself to steadily return that gaze.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000038_000000.wav|Man, what you need is not sympathy, but a push.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000003_000000.wav|There is a strange sensation often experienced in the presence of an audience.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000023_000001.wav|Over confidence is bad, but to tolerate premonitions of failure is worse, for a bold man may win attention by his very bearing, while a rabbit hearted coward invites disaster.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000035_000002.wav|In fact, having spoken a few times you will even anticipate the plunge with exhilaration.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000027_000002.wav|"All things are ready if the mind be so." The eagle looks the cloudless sun in the face.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000049_000002.wav|In this connection read the chapter on "Right Thinking and Personality."|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000011_000000.wav|Do not be disheartened if at first you suffer from stage fright.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000017_000001.wav|The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4973/44575/4973_44575_000030_000000.wav|Reflect that your audience will not hurt you.|4973
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000025_000000.wav|Not that she wanted to be a teacher!|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000003_000003.wav|He had never been "captain" of anything except the Crescent Volunteer Fire Company, but he owned the title because he collected rents, wrote insurance, and meddled with lawsuits.|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000047_000001.wav|She pounced on it.|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000016_000002.wav|Her mouth was as kind as her spirited eyes, but it drooped.|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000003_000002.wav|He lived in Panama, Pennsylvania.|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000042_000002.wav|While she trudged home-a pleasant, inconspicuous, fluffy haired young woman, undramatic as a field daisy-a cataract of protest poured through her.|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000046_000000.wav|"Poor, poor little mother, working away happy up there, and I've got to go and scold you," Una agonized.|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000054_000000.wav|"Mumsie!" she cried, "we're going to New York!|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000048_000002.wav|They liked New York.|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000028_000008.wav|Una was facing the feminist problem, without knowing what the word "feminist" meant.|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000056_000002.wav|Is it the letter from Emma Sessions?|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000031_000001.wav|This she knew scientifically.|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000025_000004.wav|Of course she would teach!|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000048_000000.wav|mr and mrs Albert Sessions, of Panama, had gone to New York.|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000000_000000.wav|Part one|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000004_000004.wav|He was aimlessly industrious, crotchety but kind, and almost quixotically honest.|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000045_000005.wav|There was no place to which she could flee.|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000058_000000.wav|"But can we afford to?...|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3025/12971/3025_12971_000057_000000.wav|"She suggested it, but we are going up independent."|3025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000067_000001.wav|But upon the branches of a tree between, Zeb Stump saw something that had escaped the eyes not only of the searchers, but of their guide Spangler-a scrap of paper, blackened and half burnt-evidently the wadding of a discharged gun!|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000014_000000.wav|He was soon within identifying distance.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000056_000000.wav|With this apostrophe to his "critter," ending in a laugh at the conceit of her "tallow," the hunter turned off on the track of the third horse.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000030_000001.wav|He needed no such guidance.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000040_000001.wav|But despite his superior attainments in the tracking craft, he was compelled to relinquish it.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000003_000000.wav|By keeping to the former, he might find out much; but by changing to the latter he might learn more?|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000065_000000.wav|He might have traced them right up to it, but for the hundreds of horse tracks that had trodden the ground like a sheep pen.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000038_000000.wav|The attempt terminated in a failure.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000009_000001.wav|He showed no signs of having done so.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000057_000000.wav|It led him along the edge of an extended tract of chapparal; which, following all three, he had approached at a point well known to him, as to the reader,--where it was parted by the open space already described.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000043_000000.wav|He had learnt enough to know that this last promised a rich reward for its exploration.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000046_000000.wav|Once only did he make pause; at a point where the tracks of two horses converged with that he was following.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000062_000000.wav|He soon discovered two sets of them-one going-another coming back.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000028_000000.wav|These consisted in taking hold of the bridle, and giving the old mare a kick; that caused her to start instantaneously to her feet.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000030_000002.wav|The two fresh trails would be sufficient for him; and he felt as sure of finding the direction in which both would lead, as if he had ridden alongside the horseman without a head, or him without a heart.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000027_000000.wav|With but short time spent in consideration, so Zeb concluded; and commenced making preparations for a stalk after Cassius Calhoun.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000066_000002.wav|There was no turf, and the loose mould was baked hard and smooth, evidently by the sole of a boot or shoe.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000022_000003.wav|He remained in shadow, to have a better view of what was passing under the sunlight.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000011_000002.wav|He was tracking the headless rider.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000038_000001.wav|The chalk surface defied interpretation-at least by skill such as that of Cassius Calhoun.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000036_000000.wav|He too had lost the trail, and was endeavouring to recover it.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000006_000001.wav|They were things to be remembered; and he soon remembered them.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000026_000000.wav|If there was reason before for taking the trail of the Headless Horseman, it was redoubled now.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000011_000001.wav|Zeb Stump guessed it at a glance.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000059_000000.wav|Zeb saw that the animal had proceeded no further: for there was another set of tracks showing where it had returned to the prairie-though not by the same path.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000033_000000.wav|For once in his life, Zeb Stump had made a mistake.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000000_000000.wav|Still continuing his fleet career, the Headless Horseman galloped on over the prairie-Zeb Stump following only with his eyes; and not until he had passed out of sight, behind some straggling groves of mezquite, did the backwoodsman abandon his kneeling position.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000001_000000.wav|Then only for a second or two did he stand erect-taking council with himself as to what course he should pursue.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000047_000000.wav|From this point the three coincided-at times parting and running parallel, for a score of yards or so, but again coming together and overlapping one another.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000031_000000.wav|With this confidence he cleared out from among the acacias, and took the path just trodden by Calhoun.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000033_000001.wav|On rounding the mezquite grove, behind which both had made disappearance, he discovered he had done so.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000054_000000.wav|"Wonder now what thet's for?" he continued, after standing awhile to consider.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000013_000000.wav|Zeb had not long to wait for the gratification of his wish.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000005_000000.wav|While thus absorbed, in considering what course he had best take, he had forgotten the puff of smoke, and the report heard far off over the prairie.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000020_000001.wav|The blue cloth frock of semi military cut-the forage cap-the belt sustaining a bowie knife, with a brace of revolving pistols-all have been mentioned before as enveloping and equipping the person of Captain Cassius Calhoun.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000035_000000.wav|Zeb guessed so, by seeing the other, at some distance before him, riding to and fro, in transverse stretches, like a pointer quartering the stubble in search of a partridge.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000017_000000.wav|This was a man, who, once seen, was not likely to be soon forgotten. Scarce thirty years old, he showed a countenance, scathed, less with care than the play of evil passions.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000058_000001.wav|Two hundred yards from the embouchure of the avenue, it ran into it; and fifty paces further on Zeb came to a spot where the horse had stood tied to a tree.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000034_000000.wav|Beyond, extended a tract of chalk prairie; over which one of the horsemen appeared to have passed-him without the head.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000051_000000.wav|All three had gone over the same ground, at separate times, and each by himself.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000066_000000.wav|But before going so far, he was stayed by the discovery of some fresh "sign"--too interesting to be carelessly examined.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000050_000002.wav|The States horse had followed; and behind him, the roadster with the broken shoe- also an American.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000002_000001.wav|Should he continue along the trail he was already deciphering; or forsake it for that of the steed that had just swept by?|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000007_000001.wav|The old mare, relishing the recumbent attitude, had still kept to it; and there was no necessity for re disposing of her.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000016_000000.wav|The last speech was an apostrophe to the "maar"--after which Zeb waxed silent, with his head among the spray of the acacias, and his eyes peering through the branches in acute scrutiny of him who was coming along.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000025_000000.wav|The backwoodsman's brain having become the recipient of new thoughts, required a fresh exercise of its ingenuity.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000052_000000.wav|Whatever may have been in his thoughts, he said nothing, beyond giving utterance to the simple exclamation "Good!" and, with satisfaction stamped upon his features, he moved on, the old mare appearing to mock him by an imitative stride!|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000010_000000.wav|On the contrary, he was sitting stooped in the saddle, his breast bent down to the pommel, and his eyes actively engaged in reading the ground, over which he was guiding his horse.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000050_000001.wav|That was as clear to him, as if he had been a spectator at their passing. The stallion had been in the lead,--how far Zeb could not exactly tell; but certainly some distance beyond that of companionship.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000045_000000.wav|Nor did he lose any in following it up.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000011_000000.wav|There could be no difficulty in ascertaining his occupation.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000013_000001.wav|As the trail was fresh, the strange horseman could take it up at a trot-in which pace he was approaching.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000058_000000.wav|The new trail skirted the timber only for a short distance.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000030_000000.wav|He had no thoughts of keeping the latter in view.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000066_000001.wav|In a place where the underwood grew thick, he came upon a spot where a man had remained for some time.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000061_000000.wav|Leaving his critter to occupy the "stall" where broken shoe had for some time fretted himself, the old hunter glided off upon the footmarks of the dismounted rider.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000019_000000.wav|Withal it was a handsome face: such as a gentleman need not have been ashamed of, but for that sinister expression that told of its belonging to a blackguard.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000021_000000.wav|It was he.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000063_000000.wav|He followed the former.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000018_000000.wav|But there was care upon it now-a care that seemed to speak of apprehension-keen, prolonged, yet looking forward with a hope of being relieved from it.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000064_000000.wav|He was not surprised at their bringing him out into the avenue-close to the pool of blood-by the coyotes long since licked dry.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000042_000000.wav|Dazed almost to blindness, the backwoodsman determined upon turning late back; and once more devoting his attention to the trail from which he had been for a time seduced.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000050_000000.wav|He did not stay to inquire which had gone first over the ground.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61780/6378_61780_000002_000000.wav|The episode-strange as unexpected-had caused some disarrangement in his ideas, and seemed to call for a change in his plans.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000024_000001.wav|There is a head; and, as also stated, with a hat upon it-a black sombrero, with bullion band as described.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000012_000005.wav|The only question was, how to account for a spectacle so peculiar, as to give the lie to all the known laws of creation.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000013_000000.wav|At least half a score of theories were started-more or less feasible- more or less absurd.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000026_000000.wav|At times too can a glimpse be obtained of the face.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000012_000004.wav|No one denied that it had been seen.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000029_000000.wav|By the horse they are certainly not liked; as is proved by the snorting and stamping of his hoof, when one of them ventures upon a too close proximity to his heels.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000026_000001.wav|Its features are well formed, but wearing a sad expression; the lips of livid colour, slightly parted, showing a double row of white teeth, set in a grim ghastly smile.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000021_000000.wav|The aboriginal of America might not perceive it.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000020_000000.wav|In the midst of the open, prairie there is a "motte"--a coppice, or clump of trees-of perhaps three or four acres in superficial extent.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000009_000000.wav|I can speak more precisely as to the place; though in this I must be allowed latitude.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000015_000000.wav|There were still further speculations, that related less to the apparition itself than to its connection with the other grand topic of the time-the murder of young Poindexter.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000008_000001.wav|I am not certain as to the exact year-the unit of it-though I can with unquestionable certainty record the decade.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000008_000000.wav|Such a horse; and just such a rider, were seen upon the prairies of south-western Texas in the year of our Lord eighteen fifty something.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000012_000000.wav|It had become the talk not only of the Leona settlement, but of others more distant.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000027_000001.wav|Hitherto he has been seen going alone.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000022_000001.wav|He is the same that carries the headless rider; and this weird equestrian is still bestriding him, with but little appearance of change, either in apparel or attitude, since first seen by the searchers.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000020_000001.wav|A prairie man would call it an "island," and with your eyes upon the vast verdant sea that surrounds it, you could not help being struck with the resemblance.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000022_000000.wav|By the timber island in question-about two hundred yards from its edge-a horse is quietly pasturing.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000016_000001.wav|He, whom everybody believed, could have thrown some light upon the subject, was still ridden by the night mare of delirium.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000024_000000.wav|Those who asserted that they saw a head, only told the truth.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000028_000000.wav|It cannot be called agreeable;--consisting as it does of wolves-half a score of them squatting closely upon the plain, and at intervals loping around him.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000012_000003.wav|To have done so would have been to ignore the evidence of two hundred pairs of eyes, all belonging to men willing to make affidavit of the fact-for it could not be pronounced a fancy.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000016_000000.wav|Most people believed there was some connection between the two mysteries; though no one could explain it.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000031_000000.wav|Three times one of the birds has alighted thus-first upon the right shoulder, then upon the left, and then midway between-upon the spot where the head should be!|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000005_000000.wav|If the horse browsed with a bit in his mouth, and a saddle on his shoulders, there would be no ambiguity-only the conjecture, as to how he had escaped from his rider.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000011_000000.wav|But there were others who saw it elsewhere and on different occasions- hunters, herdsmen, and travellers-all alike awed, alike perplexed, by the apparition.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000018_000000.wav|Rejecting many tales told of the Headless Horseman-most of them too grotesque to be recorded-one truthful episode must needs be given- since it forms an essential chapter of this strange history.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000003_000000.wav|The former would simply be followed by the reflection: "A drove of mustangs." The latter conducts to a different train of thought, in which there is an ambiguity.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61777/6378_61777_000004_000000.wav|The practised eye of the prairie man would soon decide which.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000010_000002.wav|It was caused by an obstruction,--a patch of impenetrable thicket.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000012_000000.wav|After a short examination, he observed a trail altogether distinct, and of a different character.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000005_000000.wav|So saying, he drew out a small skin wallet, which contained his tinder of "punk," along with his flint and steel; and, after carefully stowing away the scrap of paper, he returned the sack to his pocket.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000003_000000.wav|"That ere's the backin' o' a letter," muttered he.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000035_000002.wav|The branch contorted to afford passage for a human form-the displaced tendrils of a creeping plant- the scratched surface of the earth-all told that a man had passed that way.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000035_000003.wav|The sign signified more-that the man was disabled-had been crawling-a cripple!|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000009_000000.wav|Having already noted that the man who made them had returned to the place where the horse had been left, he knew the back track would lead him there.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000030_000001.wav|A huge tree overshadowed it, with limbs extending horizontally. One of these ran transversely to the path over which the horses had passed-so low that a horseman, to shun contact with it, would have to lower his head.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000028_000000.wav|Beyond the party along with Spangler had proceeded-without staying to inquire why the horse had shied from his track.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000029_000000.wav|Zeb Stump was more inquisitive, and paused upon this spot.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000008_000001.wav|Only in one or two places were the footprints at all distinct.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000037_000001.wav|He had made one more splice of the broken thread.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000008_000000.wav|With this grotesque apostrophe to himself, he commenced retracing the footmarks that had guided him to the edge of the opening.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000037_000002.wav|Another, and his clue would be complete!|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000025_000000.wav|It was about three quarters of a mile from the edge of the venue.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000023_000000.wav|To the hoof marks of these he paid but slight attention; at times, none whatever.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000008_000002.wav|But Zeb scarce cared for their guidance.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000013_000000.wav|Zeb saw that several shod horses had passed along it, some days before: and it was this that caused him to come back and examine it.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000035_000000.wav|A portion of it perhaps had not.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000010_000000.wav|There was one place, however, where the two trails did not go over the same ground.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000017_000001.wav|As he stood looking along it, his attitude showed indecision.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000030_000000.wav|It was a sterile tract, without herbage, and covered with shingle and sand.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000021_000002.wav|The ole maar kin wait till I kum back."|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000012_000001.wav|It was a well marked path entering the opening on one side, and going out on the other: in short, a cattle track.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000017_000000.wav|Zeb Stump did not seem to think so.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000026_000000.wav|It was not a halt the galloping horse had made, but only a slight departure from his direct course; as if something he had seen-wolf, jaguar, cougar, or other beast of prey-had caused him to shy.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000004_000000.wav|"The writin' air in a sheemale hand," he continued, looking anew at the piece of paper.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000032_000001.wav|"I thort so.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000015_000000.wav|He had heard the whole story of that collateral investigation-how Spangler and his comrades had traced Henry Poindexter's horse to the place where the negro had caught it-on the outskirts of the plantation.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000037_000000.wav|It was not necessary for him to go further.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000023_000003.wav|The trackers had ridden slowly.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000027_000000.wav|Beyond he had continued his career; rapid and reckless as ever.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000006_000003.wav|Now thur ain't the ghost o' a chance.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000003_000001.wav|"Tells a goodish grist o' story; more'n war wrote inside, I reck'n.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000010_000001.wav|There was a forking in the open list, through which the supposed murderer had made his way.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000019_000000.wav|He had turned to go out of the glade, when a thought once more stayed him.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000036_000000.wav|Zeb Stump continued on, till he had traced this cripple to the banks of a running stream.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000023_000002.wav|As he would have himself said, any greenhorn could do that. The young planter's horse had gone over the ground at a gallop.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000001_000000.wav|ANOTHER LINK.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000034_000000.wav|To one unaccustomed to the chapparal, he might have appeared going without a guide, and upon a path never before pressed by human foot.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000023_000001.wav|His eye only sought those of Henry Poindexter's horse. Though the others were of an after time, and often destroyed the traces he was most anxious to examine, he had no difficulty in identifying the latter.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000033_000000.wav|With an elastic step-his countenance radiant of triumph-the old hunter strode away from the tree, no longer upon the cattle path, but that taken by the man who had been so violently dismounted.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000004_000003.wav|It air somethin' to be tuk care o'."|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000035_000001.wav|But Zeb was conducted by signs which, although obscure to the ordinary eye, were to him intelligible as the painted lettering upon a finger post.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6378/61781/6378_61781_000030_000003.wav|He observed an abrasion upon the bark; that, though very slight, must have been caused by contact with some substance, as hard, if not sounder, than itself.|6378
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000030_000000.wav|"I am satisfied," replied Zobeida; "you can go when you like."|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000027_000001.wav|It was sunset, and I paused for a little to look about me, and to decide which way to turn my steps.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000020_000002.wav|However, we passed through the smoke into a large chamber, which at first seemed quite empty.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000009_000000.wav|"No matter," he replied, "go back by the path that you came."|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000014_000000.wav|My persecutor, however, did not stop here.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000007_000002.wav|"My cousin," he exclaimed, "I do not know how to thank you for your kindness.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000014_000001.wav|He shut me up in a large case and ordered his executioner to carry me into a desert place, to cut off my head, and then to abandon my body to the birds of prey.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000004_000003.wav|Suddenly the prince said to me, "Cousin, we have no time to lose; be so kind as to conduct this lady to a certain spot, where you will find a dome like tomb, newly built.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000018_000000.wav|"My dear nephew," he said, "your story gives me some hope.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000007_000001.wav|At the top, however, he looked at me.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000007_000003.wav|Farewell."|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000008_000001.wav|"I don't understand."|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10673/1337_10673_000021_000000.wav|This horrible sight turned me faint, but, to my surprise, my uncle did not show so much surprise as anger.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000024_000009.wav|Are they thereby excused?|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000005_000000.wav|MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS ACTS.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000024_000012.wav|What was the real nature of her act?|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000016_000005.wav|Is the act necessarily wrong in itself?|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000020_000006.wav|The temptation came from within rather than from without, and the responsibility of not choosing the best rested with the individual.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000021_000001.wav|One god, Ormuzd, was the embodiment of light and goodness. The other, Ahriman, represented darkness and evil.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000009_000000.wav|And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eye, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000025_000002.wav|The Hebrew word for sin (which means to miss the mark placed before each individual) vividly and aptly describes the real nature of sin.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000020_000001.wav|Most primitive peoples defined it as failure to perform certain ceremonial acts, or to bring tribute to the gods.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000021_000002.wav|They traced all sin to the direct influence of Ahriman and the evil spirits that attended him.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000004_000000.wav|STUDY two|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000022_000000.wav|three.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000020_000003.wav|The Hebrew people were the first to define right and wrong in terms of personal life and service.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000016_000001.wav|Do they thereby commit a sin?|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000024_000006.wav|The serpent's words represent the natural inclinations that were struggling in the mind of the woman against her sense of duty. Note that in the story the temptation did not come to man through his appetite or his curiosity or his esthetic sense but through his wife whom God had given him.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/156963/1337_156963_000024_000011.wav|How far did her experience reflect common human experience?|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000031_000002.wav|The palace opened and the genius appeared, who, turning angrily to the princess, asked indignantly,|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000035_000000.wav|"I never saw them before," she answered, "and you came in such a hurry that you may have picked them up on the road without knowing it." To this the genius only replied by insults and blows.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000008_000004.wav|I managed to jump off without any injury, and looked about to see if I was pursued.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000018_000000.wav|To save her all the trouble possible, I hastened towards her, and bowed low.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000028_000001.wav|"If you do, it will be the ruin of both of us," said she; "I know genii much better than you." But the wine I had drunk had confused my brain; I gave one kick to the talisman, and it fell into a thousand pieces.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000050_000001.wav|The genius, however, paid no attention to my prayers, but said sternly, "That is the way in which a genius treats the woman who has betrayed him.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000020_000000.wav|"A man, madam," I replied; "I have nothing to do with genii."|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000033_000000.wav|"A pain in my heart," she replied hastily, "obliged me to seek the aid of this little bottle.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000009_000001.wav|Luckily my wound was only a slight one, and after binding it up as well as I could, I walked on for the rest of the day, till I reached a cave at the foot of a mountain, where I passed the night in peace, making my supper off some fruits I had gathered on the way.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000005_000000.wav|"Madam," said the young man, addressing Zobeida, "if you wish to know how I lost my right eye, I shall have to tell you the story of my whole life."|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000039_000000.wav|She lifted up her eyes slowly, and looked sadly at me.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000026_000000.wav|"What you ask is impossible," she answered; "but stay here with me instead, and we can be happy, and all you will have to do is to betake yourself to the forest every tenth day, when I am expecting my master the genius.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000029_000002.wav|"Princess!" I cried, "what is happening?"|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000047_000001.wav|But the look of gratitude she gave me shook my courage, and I flung the sabre to the earth.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000012_000000.wav|"Beware," he said, "of telling any one what you have told me, for the prince who governs the kingdom is your father's greatest enemy, and he will be rejoiced to find you in his power."|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000037_000000.wav|"I am a genius," he said, "the son of the daughter of Eblis, prince of the genii.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000046_000000.wav|"Cut her head off," then, "if she is a stranger to you, and I shall believe you are speaking the truth, and will set you at liberty."|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000011_000002.wav|The tailor listened with attention, but his reply, instead of giving me consolation, only increased my trouble.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000051_000001.wav|"O genius!" I cried, "as you wish to spare my life, be generous, and spare it altogether.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000006_000002.wav|I also learnt history, and was instructed in poetry, versification, geography, chronology, and in all the outdoor exercises in which every prince should excel.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000031_000001.wav|But I was too late.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000045_000001.wav|"How should I, when I never saw her before?"|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000006_000001.wav|I was taught first to read and write, and then to learn the Koran, which is the basis of our holy religion, and the better to understand it, I read with my tutors the ablest commentators on its teaching, and committed to memory all the traditions respecting the Prophet, which have been gathered from the mouth of those who were his friends.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000017_000002.wav|I soon cleared away the earth, and pulling up the door, found a staircase, which I hastily made up my mind to go down, carrying my hatchet with me by way of protection.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000017_000001.wav|I was hacking at the root of a tree, when I beheld an iron ring fastened to a trapdoor of the same metal.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000033_000001.wav|Feeling faint, I slipped and fell against the talisman, which broke.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000023_000003.wav|For a long while I did nothing but weep, and would not suffer the genius to come near me; but time teaches us submission, and I have now got accustomed to his presence, and if clothes and jewels could content me, I have them in plenty.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000034_000000.wav|"You are an impudent liar!" cried the genius.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000016_000000.wav|This counsel was very distasteful to me, but I thought I could not do otherwise than adopt it.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000016_000001.wav|So the next morning I set out with a company of poor wood cutters, to whom the tailor had introduced me.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000017_000003.wav|When I reached the bottom I discovered that I was in a huge palace, as brilliantly lighted as any palace above ground that I had ever seen, with a long gallery supported by pillars of jasper, ornamented with capitals of gold.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000027_000002.wav|Awful though you think him, he shall feel the weight of my arm, and I herewith take a solemn vow to stamp out the whole race."|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000042_000000.wav|"Very well," said the genius, drawing his sword, "take this, and cut off his head."|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000017_000004.wav|Down this gallery a lady came to meet me, of such beauty that I forgot everything else, and thought only of her.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1337/10674/1337_10674_000036_000001.wav|While I was thus indulging my grief my host entered, and said, "There is an old man downstairs who has brought your hatchet and slippers, which he picked up on the road, and now restores to you, as he found out from one of your comrades where you lived.|1337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000030_000000.wav|"No, Harry.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000046_000000.wav|"What!|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000050_000003.wav|And are you happy there?"|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000046_000001.wav|In the Dochart pit?"|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000034_000000.wav|"And your mother?"|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000025_000000.wav|"Yes, mr Starr."|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/18533/4495_18533_000041_000000.wav|"mr|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000016_000001.wav|"Made with the best intentions-but a mistake for all that."|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000012_000004.wav|If you will come here-with papa's permission-after tea, my views on the subject of Falkland will be at your disposal.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000028_000000.wav|Knowing by experience that interference would be hopeless, under these circumstances, Miss Garth turned sharply and left the room.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000030_000007.wav|"I'm to come to morrow, and hear more of her views-if you have no objection.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000029_000003.wav|"I have conceived the part of Lucy," she observed, with the demurest gravity.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000018_000005.wav|The Marrables are respectable people, and keep the best company in Clifton.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000008_000004.wav|Renewed efforts were made in every direction.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000028_000003.wav|Miss Garth was prophetically pitying Magdalen's unfortunate husband.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000028_000002.wav|The female mind does occasionally-though not often-project itself into the future.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000030_000011.wav|Goodnight."|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000029_000006.wav|No, papa-no wine to day, thank you.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000016_000000.wav|"A mistake, mr Vanstone," chimed in Miss Garth.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000030_000005.wav|The clock on the mantel piece pointed to half past eleven before Lucy the resolute permitted Falkland the helpless to shut up his task book for the night.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000029_000007.wav|I must keep my intelligence clear.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000029_000004.wav|"The next difficulty is to make Frank conceive the part of Falkland.|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4495/10160/4495_10160_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|4495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000056_000003.wav|Religion was the real cause of the ruin of feudal property.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000039_000001.wav|Did the philanthropy of the Visigoths make its first appearance before or after the preaching of the Gospel?|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000054_000002.wav|Where, then, did he ever see the labor of the slave and the cultivation by the tenant prescribe the soil for their own profit, to the detriment of a recognized master daily acting as a proprietor?|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000060_000000.wav|In France, the Revolution was much more gradual.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000045_000000.wav|When, how, and by what title did they obtain this privilege?|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000015_000007.wav|The lands, like the men, were secured to a chief or seignior by a bond of mutual protection and fidelity.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000014_000001.wav|The land was held in common: each individual could plow, sow, and reap.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000032_000002.wav|Constantine, who embodied in the laws the grand ideas of Christianity, valued the life of a slave as highly as that of a freeman, and declared the master, who had intentionally brought death upon his slave, guilty of murder.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000056_000002.wav|The seignior could kill the serf with impunity, could deprive him of his wife, violate his daughter, pillage his house, and rob him of his savings; religion checked his invasions: it excommunicated the seignior.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000050_000002.wav|The authority of m Laboulaye shall give credence to my words.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000015_000001.wav|This property, like that of the romans, was wholly individual, independent, exclusive, transferable, and consequently susceptible of accumulation and invasion.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000035_000003.wav|The women spin the wool; the men grind the grain, make the bread, or practise, in the interest of the seignior, what little they know of the industrial arts. The master punishes them when he chooses, kills them with impunity, and sells them and theirs like so many cattle.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000029_000000.wav|one.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000056_000005.wav|Since the middle ages, there has been no change in social economy except in its forms; its relations remain unaltered.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000030_000000.wav|"Discharge your old workman," says the economist of the proprietary school; "turn off that sick domestic, that toothless and worn out servant.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000024_000000.wav|When feudalism was established, society had to die of the same disease which killed it under the Caesars,--I mean accumulated property.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000061_000000.wav|Finally, 'eighty nine arrived; liberty resumed its march; a century and a half had been required to wear out the last form of feudal property,--monarchy.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000006_000000.wav|"The concentration of property," says m Laboulaye, "while causing extreme poverty, forced the emperors to feed and amuse the people, that they might forget their misery.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000009_000000.wav|"While grain was gratuitous, agriculture was impossible.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000056_000000.wav|The seignior had attached the serf to the soil; religion granted the serf rights over the soil.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000003_000001.wav|When the Senate sold captured lands at auction, it was in the interest of the treasury and of public welfare. When the patricians bought up possessions and property, they realized the purpose of the Senate's decrees; when they lent at high rates of interest, they took advantage of a legal privilege.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000002_000001.wav|Under Vespasian and titus, Pliny, the naturalist, exclaimed: "Large estates have ruined Italy, and are ruining the provinces."|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000013_000000.wav|Let us now trace the revolutions in property among the Barbarians.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000029_000002.wav|He had neither property, family, nor personality; he was defenceless against his master's cruelty, folly, or cupidity.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000024_000003.wav|In the twelfth century, a new spirit pervading all society gave the slave his rights, and through justice breathed new life into the heart of nations. It has been said, and often repeated, that Christianity regenerated the world.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000037_000000.wav|Why did his condition improve?|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000030_000001.wav|Put away the unserviceable beauty; to the hospital with the useless mouths!"|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000015_000009.wav|By fair means or foul, every proprietor who could not be a chief was forced to be a vassal." (Laboulaye: History of Property.)|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000017_000003.wav|His property, his life, and the honor of his wife and children always in danger the small proprietor made haste to do homage to his seignior, and to bestow something on the church of his freehold, that he might receive protection and security.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000014_000002.wav|But, when the empire was once invaded, they bethought themselves of sharing the land, just as they shared spoils after a victory.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000017_000002.wav|The tenth century, among others, if my memory serves me rightly, was called the CENTURY OF IRON.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000035_000002.wav|Some are employed in the personal service of the master; others are charged with household cares.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000059_000002.wav|There were sub associations, fraternities, tradesmen's associations in the communes, and colleges in the universities.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000010_000000.wav|"Finally, luxury, carried further and further every day, covered the soil of Italy with elegant villas, which occupied whole cantons.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000050_000000.wav|But this law itself, on what did it bear?--what was its principle?--what was the philosophy of the councils and popes with reference to this matter?|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000018_000004.wav|It is said that, whenever a poor man refused to give his estate to the bishop, the curate, the count, the judge, or the centurion, these immediately sought an opportunity to ruin him.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000054_000003.wav|Let us not disguise matters.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000056_000001.wav|The seignior imposed duties upon the serf; religion fixed their limits.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000029_000001.wav|Slavery among the romans.--"The Roman slave was, in the eyes of the law, only a thing,--no more than an ox or a horse.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000032_000000.wav|"As soon as the Church met in council, it launched an anathema against the masters who had exercised over their slaves this terrible right of life and death.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000018_000001.wav|The Capitularies are full of repressive provisions; but the incessant reiteration of these threats only shows the perseverance of the evil and the impotency of the government.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000047_000000.wav|Whence came the regulations?|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000024_000002.wav|In the fifth century, the invasion of the Barbarians partially restored the world to a state of natural equality.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000042_000000.wav|"The Barbarians," again says m Laboulaye, "were the first to recognize the slave's rights of family and property,--two rights which are incompatible with slavery."|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000014_000000.wav|As long as the German tribes dwelt in their forests, it did not occur to them to divide and appropriate the soil.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000024_000004.wav|That is true; but it seems to me that there is a mistake in the date.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000048_000001.wav|As for Sunday, that belonged to God."|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000029_000004.wav|Claudius was the first defender of this shameful practice."|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000039_000000.wav|Always Christianity, always religion, though we should like to speak of the laws only.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000021_000002.wav|At its second term, it exists in its perfection; then it is truly property.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000060_000001.wav|The communes, in taking refuge under the protection of the kings, had found them masters rather than protectors.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000034_000002.wav|Let the same author answer.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000015_000004.wav|Consequently, in the feudal ages, rents were almost nothing,--simply a hare, a partridge, a pie, a few pints of wine brought by a little girl, or a Maypole set up within the suzerain's reach.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000040_000002.wav|The law favored this realization of the serf, in not allowing him to be sold out of the country."|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000024_000007.wav|The patrician families became extinct, as the feudal families did, and as all aristocracies must.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000040_000001.wav|They were rarely separated from their homes when their land was sold; they and all that they had became the property of the purchaser.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000017_000000.wav|The times which paved the way for the advent of feudalism and the reappearance of large proprietors were times of carnage and the most frightful anarchy.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000052_000001.wav|The honest tenant-the laborer who earns weekly a moderate but constant salary-is more to be envied than the independent but small farmer, or the poor licensed mechanic.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000036_000001.wav|Slavery is always the same, whether in a Roman villa or on a Barbarian farm.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000050_000001.wav|The reply to all these questions, coming from me alone, would be distrusted.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000024_000001.wav|But humanity, created for an immortal destiny, is deathless; the revolutions which disturb it are purifying crises, invariably followed by more vigorous health.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000054_000006.wav|But in law-I mean in Roman and Napoleonic law-their refusal to obey and pay tribute to their masters was illegitimate.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000053_000003.wav|As fast as the social tempest abated, it became necessary to respect the union and heritage of these villeins, who by their labor had truly prescribed the soil for their own profit."|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000010_000001.wav|Gardens and groves replaced the fields, and the free population fled to the towns.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000010_000005.wav|One day later, and three hundred thousand starving men walked the streets of Rome: that was a revolution.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000053_000000.wav|At that time, all were either seigniors or serfs, oppressors or oppressed.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000050_000003.wav|This holy philosophy, to which the slaves were indebted for every thing, this invocation of the Gospel, was an anathema against property.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000060_000004.wav|The nobles, the clergy, the commoners, the parliaments, every thing in short except a few seeming privileges, were controlled by the king; who, like his early predecessors, consumed regularly, and nearly always in advance, the revenues of his domain,--and that domain was France.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000021_000001.wav|Reduced to personal exploitation, it is property only potentially.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000054_000001.wav|M. Laboulaye is a lawyer.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000011_000000.wav|"This decline of Italy and the provinces did not stop.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000048_000000.wav|"The master took a part of the labor of the serf,--three days, for instance,--and left the rest to him.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000056_000004.wav|Why should it not be bold enough to day to resolutely condemn capitalistic property?|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000035_000006.wav|In all these particulars Germanic slavery and Roman servitude are alike."|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000053_000001.wav|"Then, under the protection of convents, or of the seigniorial turret, new societies were formed, which silently spread over the soil made fertile by their hands, and which derived their power from the annihilation of the free classes whom they enlisted in their behalf.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000034_000001.wav|In what did it differ from Roman slavery, and whence came this difference?|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000008_000000.wav|"The emperor shrank at the thought.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000054_000000.wav|I ask how prescription could take effect where a contrary title and possession already existed?|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000018_000002.wav|Oppression, moreover, varies but little in its methods.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000051_000000.wav|The proprietors of small freeholds, that is, the freemen of the middle class, had fallen, in consequence of the tyranny of the nobles, into a worse condition than that of the tenants and serfs.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000010_000002.wav|Husbandry disappeared almost entirely, and with husbandry the husbandman.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000019_000000.wav|How many small proprietors and manufacturers have not been ruined by large ones through chicanery, law suits, and competition?|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000010_000003.wav|Africa furnished the wheat, and Greece the wine.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000054_000005.wav|In doing these things they were perfectly right; for, in fact, their condition was intolerable.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000036_000000.wav|This similarity is worthy of notice.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000011_000001.wav|After the reign of Nero, depopulation commenced in towns as noted as Antium and Tarentum.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000043_000002.wav|Suppose that the Barbarians had remained Pagans in the midst of a Pagan world.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000039_000002.wav|This point must be cleared up.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000023_000000.wav|When property is concentrated, society, abusing itself, polluted, so to speak, grows corrupt, wears itself out-how shall I express this horrible idea?--plunges into long continued and fatal luxury.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000015_000005.wav|In return, the vassal or incumbent had to follow the seignior to battle (a thing which happened almost every day), and equip and feed himself at his own expense.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000026_000000.wav|The destruction of feudalism, the conversion of the serf into the commoner, the emancipation of the communes, and the admission of the Third Estate to political power, were deeds accomplished by Christianity exclusively.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000007_000001.wav|In the time of Caesar, three hundred and twenty thousand people were thus fed.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000051_000002.wav|It was better to have a noble for a seignior than for a judge."|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000046_000000.wav|"GRADUALLY their duties were regulated."|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000011_000003.wav|Senators were compelled to invest one third of their fortunes in real estate in Italy; but this measure served only to increase the evil which they wished to cure.|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8687/216570/8687_216570_000047_000001.wav|Who had the authority to introduce them?|8687
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000010_000005.wav|To this day among some of the barbarians, especially in Asia, when prizes for boxing and wrestling are offered, belts are worn by the combatants.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000017_000004.wav|All these places were founded subsequently to the war with Troy.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000011_000000.wav|With respect to their towns, later on, at an era of increased facilities of navigation and a greater supply of capital, we find the shores becoming the site of walled towns, and the isthmuses being occupied for the purposes of commerce and defence against a neighbour.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000022_000006.wav|So that the whole period from the Median war to this, with some peaceful intervals, was spent by each power in war, either with its rival, or with its own revolted allies, and consequently afforded them constant practice in military matters, and that experience which is learnt in the school of danger.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000022_000003.wav|This coalition, after repulsing the barbarian, soon afterwards split into two sections, which included the Hellenes who had revolted from the King, as well as those who had aided him in the war.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000013_000006.wav|To all this Agamemnon succeeded.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000013_000005.wav|And so the power of the descendants of Pelops came to be greater than that of the descendants of Perseus.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000013_000000.wav|What enabled Agamemnon to raise the armament was more, in my opinion, his superiority in strength, than the oaths of Tyndareus, which bound the suitors to follow him.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000017_000001.wav|The late return of the Hellenes from Ilium caused many revolutions, and factions ensued almost everywhere; and it was the citizens thus driven into exile who founded the cities.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000025_000000.wav|There are many other unfounded ideas current among the rest of the Hellenes, even on matters of contemporary history, which have not been obscured by time.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000005_000002.wav|The preparations of both the combatants were in every department in the last state of perfection; and he could see the rest of the Hellenic race taking sides in the quarrel; those who delayed doing so at once having it in contemplation.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000012_000006.wav|And it was at a somewhat later stage of this development that they went on the expedition against Troy.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000005_000001.wav|This belief was not without its grounds.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000018_000010.wav|For after these there were no navies of any account in Hellas till the expedition of Xerxes; Aegina, Athens, and others may have possessed a few vessels, but they were principally fifty oars.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000019_000001.wav|All their insignificance did not prevent their being an element of the greatest power to those who cultivated them, alike in revenue and in dominion.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000005_000000.wav|Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000021_000001.wav|All this is only true of the mother country, for in Sicily they attained to very great power.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000010_000001.wav|And the fact that the people in these parts of Hellas are still living in the old way points to a time when the same mode of life was once equally common to all.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000011_000001.wav|But the old towns, on account of the great prevalence of piracy, were built away from the sea, whether on the islands or the continent, and still remain in their old sites.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000010_000006.wav|And there are many other points in which a likeness might be shown between the life of the Hellenic world of old and the barbarian of to day.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000018_000007.wav|These were the most powerful navies.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000016.wav|In short, if they had stuck to the siege, the capture of Troy would have cost them less time and less trouble.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000026_000004.wav|In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000010_000004.wav|Formerly, even in the Olympic contests, the athletes who contended wore belts across their middles; and it is but a few years since that the practice ceased.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000006_000006.wav|And here is no inconsiderable exemplification of my assertion that the migrations were the cause of there being no correspondent growth in other parts.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000009_000002.wav|An illustration of this is furnished by the honour with which some of the inhabitants of the continent still regard a successful marauder, and by the question we find the old poets everywhere representing the people as asking of voyagers-"Are they pirates?"--as if those who are asked the question would have no idea of disclaiming the imputation, or their interrogators of reproaching them for it.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000015.wav|If they had brought plenty of supplies with them, and had persevered in the war without scattering for piracy and agriculture, they would have easily defeated the Trojans in the field, since they could hold their own against them with the division on service.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000006_000003.wav|The goodness of the land favoured the aggrandizement of particular individuals, and thus created faction which proved a fertile source of ruin.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000018_000000.wav|But as the power of Hellas grew, and the acquisition of wealth became more an object, the revenues of the states increasing, tyrannies were by their means established almost everywhere-the old form of government being hereditary monarchy with definite prerogatives-and Hellas began to fit out fleets and apply herself more closely to the sea.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000012_000005.wav|For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000022_000005.wav|For a short time the league held together, till the Lacedaemonians and Athenians quarrelled and made war upon each other with their allies, a duel into which all the Hellenes sooner or later were drawn, though some might at first remain neutral.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000012_000004.wav|The coast population now began to apply themselves more closely to the acquisition of wealth, and their life became more settled; some even began to build themselves walls on the strength of their newly acquired riches.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000012_000001.wav|These islanders were Carians and Phoenicians, by whom most of the islands were colonized, as was proved by the following fact.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000019_000000.wav|The navies, then, of the Hellenes during the period we have traversed were what I have described.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000009_000001.wav|They would fall upon a town unprotected by walls, and consisting of a mere collection of villages, and would plunder it; indeed, this came to be the main source of their livelihood, no disgrace being yet attached to such an achievement, but even some glory.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000017_000002.wav|Sixty years after the capture of Ilium, the modern Boeotians were driven out of Arne by the Thessalians, and settled in the present Boeotia, the former Cadmeis; though there was a division of them there before, some of whom joined the expedition to Ilium.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000027_000002.wav|Old stories of occurrences handed down by tradition, but scantily confirmed by experience, suddenly ceased to be incredible; there were earthquakes of unparalleled extent and violence; eclipses of the sun occurred with a frequency unrecorded in previous history; there were great droughts in sundry places and consequent famines, and that most calamitous and awfully fatal visitation, the plague.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000025_000002.wav|So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000023_000000.wav|The policy of Lacedaemon was not to exact tribute from her allies, but merely to secure their subservience to her interests by establishing oligarchies among them; Athens, on the contrary, had by degrees deprived hers of their ships, and imposed instead contributions in money on all except Chios and Lesbos.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000013.wav|Even after the victory they obtained on their arrival-and a victory there must have been, or the fortifications of the naval camp could never have been built-there is no indication of their whole force having been employed; on the contrary, they seem to have turned to cultivation of the Chersonese and to piracy from want of supplies.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000026_000002.wav|My conclusions have cost me some labour from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eye witnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000008_000002.wav|He made himself master of what is now called the Hellenic sea, and ruled over the Cyclades, into most of which he sent the first colonies, expelling the Carians and appointing his own sons governors; and thus did his best to put down piracy in those waters, a necessary step to secure the revenues for his own use.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000012_000000.wav|The islanders, too, were great pirates.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000018_000006.wav|About this time also the Phocaeans, while they were founding Marseilles, defeated the Carthaginians in a sea fight.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000006_000007.wav|The most powerful victims of war or faction from the rest of Hellas took refuge with the Athenians as a safe retreat; and at an early period, becoming naturalized, swelled the already large population of the city to such a height that Attica became at last too small to hold them, and they had to send out colonies to Ionia.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000022_000002.wav|In the face of this great danger, the command of the confederate Hellenes was assumed by the Lacedaemonians in virtue of their superior power; and the Athenians, having made up their minds to abandon their city, broke up their homes, threw themselves into their ships, and became a naval people.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000009.wav|That they were all rowers as well as warriors we see from his account of the ships of Philoctetes, in which all the men at the oar are bowmen.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000011_000002.wav|For the pirates used to plunder one another, and indeed all coast populations, whether seafaring or not.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000005_000003.wav|Indeed this was the greatest movement yet known in history, not only of the Hellenes, but of a large part of the barbarian world-I had almost said of mankind.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000012.wav|Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000024_000000.wav|Having now given the result of my inquiries into early times, I grant that there will be a difficulty in believing every particular detail. The way that most men deal with traditions, even traditions of their own country, is to receive them all alike as they are delivered, without applying any critical test whatever.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000007_000000.wav|There is also another circumstance that contributes not a little to my conviction of the weakness of ancient times.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000006_000002.wav|The richest soils were always most subject to this change of masters; such as the district now called Thessaly, Boeotia, most of the Peloponnese, Arcadia excepted, and the most fertile parts of the rest of Hellas.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000025_000004.wav|Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000007_000003.wav|The best proof of this is furnished by Homer.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000014_000000.wav|Of many an isle, and of all Argos king.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000008.wav|By this, I conceive, he meant to convey the maximum and the minimum complement: at any rate, he does not specify the amount of any others in his catalogue of the ships.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000014.wav|This was what really enabled the Trojans to keep the field for ten years against them; the dispersion of the enemy making them always a match for the detachment left behind.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000013_000009.wav|Besides, in his account of the transmission of the sceptre, he calls him|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000006_000005.wav|Accordingly Attica, from the poverty of its soil enjoying from a very remote period freedom from faction, never changed its inhabitants.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000008_000000.wav|Indeed, they could not unite for this expedition till they had gained increased familiarity with the sea.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000016_000000.wav|And from this expedition we may infer the character of earlier enterprises.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000020_000000.wav|Various, too, were the obstacles which the national growth encountered in various localities.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126945/580_126945_000026_000003.wav|The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000023_000006.wav|This decision of the assembly, judging that the treaty had been broken, was made in the fourteenth year of the thirty years' truce, which was entered into after the affair of Euboea.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000006_000007.wav|The deficiency created by the miscarriage of an undertaking is soon filled up by fresh hopes; for they alone are enabled to call a thing hoped for a thing got, by the speed with which they act upon their resolutions.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000005_000011.wav|The Mede, we ourselves know, had time to come from the ends of the earth to Peloponnese, without any force of yours worthy of the name advancing to meet him.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000011_000005.wav|We assert, therefore, that we conferred on you quite as much as we received.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000005_000012.wav|But this was a distant enemy.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000022_000002.wav|And yet if they behaved well against the Mede then, but ill towards us now, they deserve double punishment for having ceased to be good and for having become bad.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000014_000007.wav|This at least is certain.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000005_000003.wav|We are at last assembled.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000003_000000.wav|But the siege of Potidaea put an end to her inaction; she had men inside it: besides, she feared for the place.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000020_000000.wav|"And the slowness and procrastination, the parts of our character that are most assailed by their criticism, need not make you blush.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/580/126947/580_126947_000010_000004.wav|We need not refer to remote antiquity: there we could appeal to the voice of tradition, but not to the experience of our audience.|580
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000019_000001.wav|But if I could go and see Captain Carleton, and tell him that she was going to Boston with us, and then bring her back a message, I know she'd be happier," thought the little girl.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000010_000001.wav|Philip had not come into the house.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000054_000000.wav|Once or twice a guard boat passed them closely enough to make sure that there were only two colored children in the boat, and they came up under the walls of Fort Sumter without a hindrance.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000031_000001.wav|If the men are hungry we could carry them something to eat.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000060_000000.wav|"I am so glad I thought about it; but it was really Estralla.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000002_000000.wav|"TWO LITTLE DARKY GIRLS"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000003_000000.wav|"When will mr Lincoln be President?" Sylvia asked a few mornings after her father's announcement of his intention to return to Boston.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000035_000002.wav|"We will start early to morrow morning.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000029_000000.wav|"But, Estralla, listen.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000051_000001.wav|Negro children were always playing about, and no attention was paid to them.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000059_000000.wav|"mrs Carleton and I will always remember your courage," he said, as he handed her the letter.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000050_000000.wav|It was still early in the forenoon when two little negro girls, one carrying a large package wrapped in a newspaper, appeared at the wharf where the Butterfly was moored.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000014_000000.wav|"I hears a good deal, Missy, 'deed I does," he declared, "but I doan' let on as I hears.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000017_000001.wav|It was known in Charleston that Fort Sumter was near the end of its food supplies, and that unless the Government at Washington sent reinforcements and provisions very soon by ships that the little garrison would be at the mercy of the Confederates, who were daily growing in strength.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000040_000002.wav|Then I will tell her, and you too."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000050_000001.wav|Uncle peter was not to be seen.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000043_000002.wav|It would give them all courage," said mrs Carleton.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000051_000000.wav|Two or three men in uniform watched the little "darkies," as they supposed both the girls to be, with amusement.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000025_000000.wav|Sylvia sprang to her feet so quickly that she nearly upset the plate of cookies.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000009_000001.wav|Many flowers were in bloom, the hedges were green, and the air soft and warm.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000035_000000.wav|"I'll come to your cabin and dress up there, and I will ask your mammy to give me some food for a poor man.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000015_000000.wav|"I wish I could have a sail in the Butterfly again," said Sylvia, a little wistfully.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000013_000001.wav|He said that unless Major Anderson and his soldiers left Fort Sumter at once that all the forts, and the new batteries built by the Confederates, would open fire upon Sumter and destroy it.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000048_000000.wav|Sylvia was the first one at the breakfast table the next morning, and was delighted when her mother said that she and mrs Carleton were invited to luncheon at the house of a friend.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000006_000000.wav|But mrs Fulton shook her head.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000061_000000.wav|Then the boat swung clear and headed toward Charleston.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000016_000001.wav|Well, I reckons you can.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000011_000003.wav|Now and then he appeared at Aunt Connie's kitchen, and one warm day toward the last of March, when Sylvia was wandering about the garden, she saw Uncle peter going up the walk to the rear of the house.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000029_000004.wav|Then nobody would know me." Sylvia had quite forgotten the fine cookies.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000016_000000.wav|"Do you, Missy?|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000008_000000.wav|Sylvia listened soberly.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000031_000003.wav|She is so unhappy to go away without a word."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000040_000001.wav|I want to give it away, and I don't want to tell even my mother until-well," and Sylvia hesitated a moment, and then continued, "until next week.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000047_000001.wav|Sylvia realized that this kind friend was troubled, and wished with all her heart that she could say: "To morrow I will tell you all about Captain Carleton." But she knew that she must keep silent until she had carried out her plan.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000054_000001.wav|The sentries at the fort had watched the little craft with anxious eyes, wondering if it could be bringing any message.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000037_000001.wav|She carried the remainder to her room and then went to the kitchen.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000009_000002.wav|Sylvia and Grace often spoke of Flora, and wished that they could again visit the plantation.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000062_000002.wav|And then we'll tell Uncle peter where the Butterfly is."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000012_000001.wav|Wait!" she called and ran to ask him about the boat.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000010_000004.wav|"I'd be a soldier if I was only a little older," he declared; and Sylvia did not even ask him about Dinkie, or the ponies. She wished that she could tell him that very soon she was going to Boston, but she knew that she must not; so she said good bye, and Philip walked down the path, and waved his cap to her as he reached the gate.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000031_000002.wav|But most of all I want to see Captain Carleton, and get some message for his wife.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000007_000000.wav|"Captain Carleton must stay and perhaps fight to defend the flag," she replied.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000019_000002.wav|And she thought, too, of the pleasure it would be to once more sail the Butterfly to Fort Sumter.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000037_000000.wav|Sylvia was glad that she had eaten only one of the cookies.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000045_000000.wav|"If you could send a message to Captain Carleton what would you say?" questioned Sylvia, and mrs Carleton smiled at Sylvia's serious voice.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000007_000001.wav|"I wish we could leave at once, but we must stay as long as we can."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000032_000000.wav|"Come 'long down in de garden," said Estralla, now as interested as Sylvia herself, "an' tells me more whar' nobody'll be hearin'," and the two little girls hurried off to a far corner of the pleasant garden.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000029_000003.wav|And I could pin my hair close on top of my head and twist one of your mammy's handkerchiefs tight over it.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000060_000001.wav|She said if I was black we could come," Sylvia had replied.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000040_000000.wav|"It's a secret, Aunt Connie!|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000055_000001.wav|And he was eager to hear all that she could tell him.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000050_000003.wav|In a moment Sylvia had unfastened the rope, pushed the boat clear of the landing, and rudder in hand was steering the boat out toward the channel.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000049_000001.wav|But she made no reply, and soon hurried to the cabin where Estralla was waiting for her.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000008_000001.wav|She wondered what her mother would say if she knew of her promise to mrs Carleton to take a message to Fort Sumter if mrs Carleton should ask her to do so.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000065_000000.wav|"Missy wants a big pitcher of hot water," replied Estralla, dancing about just beyond Aunt Connie's reach.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000053_000000.wav|But it happened that Uncle peter had been sent on an errand to a distant part of the town, and before he returned the Butterfly was well down the harbor.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000029_000005.wav|She was holding Estralla by the arm, and talking very rapidly. Estralla was almost frightened at Sylvia's eagerness.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000035_000003.wav|And, Estralla, we will have to tell Uncle peter, or he won't let us have the boat."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000057_000000.wav|"That is great news," said the Captain; "if it is only true we may keep the fort for the Union."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000022_000000.wav|"I'll go and thank her myself," said Sylvia, taking the plate, and offering one of the cookies to Estralla.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000011_000001.wav|But the little boat was in the charge of an old negro who took good care of it.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000036_000003.wav|But she was finally convinced that Missy Sylvia could carry out the plan, and agreed to have a large quantity of soot ready at her mother's cabin the next morning.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000056_000000.wav|"You can write a letter to mrs Carleton and we will take it," suggested Sylvia, and then she told him Uncle Peter's news: that the President was sending ships to the aid of the fort.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000029_000002.wav|You could rub soot from the chimney all over my face and hands.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000041_000000.wav|"Dat's right, Missy.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000046_000000.wav|"Why, if I could only let him know that I was safe and well and going to Boston with you, in case Sumter really is attacked; I know that is what he wants to hear."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000029_000001.wav|I could be black.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000044_000000.wav|Sylvia was for a moment tempted to tell her friend that she would carry the message, but she kept silent, thinking to herself that here was another reason for her to carry out her plan.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000011_000000.wav|It had been many weeks since the Butterfly had sailed about Charleston harbor.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000026_000000.wav|"Could we?|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000035_000001.wav|Some cookies and a cake," she said.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000009_000000.wav|The warm days of early March made the southern city full of fragrance and beauty.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000058_000001.wav|The Captain had praised and thanked Sylvia for the loyal friendship that had prompted her visit.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000010_000003.wav|He said that Ralph was in the Confederate army.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000020_000000.wav|She sat down on the porch steps, and a moment later Estralla appeared bringing a plate of freshly baked sugar cookies from Aunt Connie.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000054_000003.wav|She is white."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000017_000000.wav|Sylvia knew that mrs Carleton was worried and unhappy.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000055_000002.wav|Estralla held the cake and cookies, which she had carefully wrapped in a newspaper, and the Captain seemed as much pleased with the paper as with the cake.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000036_000001.wav|But I reckon Uncle Pete won' let us.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000062_000000.wav|"I am not going to land at the big wharves," said Sylvia.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000010_000000.wav|Philip had brought Sylvia a letter from Flora, thanking her for the locket, and hoping that they would see each other again.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000004_000000.wav|"He was inaugurated yesterday," replied her mother.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000005_000000.wav|"Then can't Captain Carleton go north with us?" asked Sylvia, who had convinced herself that when mr Lincoln was in charge of the Government that all the troubles over Charleston's forts would end.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/67863/6544_67863_000019_000000.wav|"Perhaps she won't ask me.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000054_000000.wav|The minutes passed slowly in the darkness, and there was an unbroken silence save for the breathing of the watchers and the restless movements of mrs Clear near the window.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000037_000000.wav|Lucian put on his hat at once, and the two walked out into the dark night, for dark it was, with no moon, few stars, and a great many clouds.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000058_000002.wav|"I am glad you have come."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000030_000001.wav|However, if the old man does get into trouble he can plead insanity.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000035_000001.wav|But only Link knew where the woman was to be found, and kept that information to himself-especially from Denzil.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000046_000000.wav|"Are you there?" whispered mrs Clear nervously.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000059_000000.wav|"I am glad, also," said the voice harshly, "as I wish to know why you propose to betray me."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000048_000001.wav|"He will, if he knows I've betrayed him."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000024_000000.wav|"Absolutely.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000050_000001.wav|He'll see you!"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000003_000001.wav|Miss Vrain declared that her stepmother was innocent, visited her in prison, and engaged a lawyer to defend her.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000001_000000.wav|However closely one may study the fair sex, there is no understanding them in the least.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000060_000001.wav|"And if you don't give it to me this very night I'll go straight and tell the police all about my husband."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000049_000000.wav|"That will be all right," said Link in a low, impatient voice.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000015_000000.wav|"But won't the two be seen climbing over that fence in the daytime?" asked the barrister doubtfully.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000019_000000.wav|"I am doubtful of that, also," admitted Lucian, "but you know Vrain is now out of the asylum, and, for the time being, has been left to his own devices.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000052_000001.wav|"It's an awful situation," and she moved stealthily across the floor to the window.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000039_000001.wav|Link had a dark lantern, which he used carefully, so that no light could be seen from the window looking on to the square; and with his three companions he went into the back room which had formerly been used by Clear as a sleeping apartment.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000022_000002.wav|It is as well to give him enough rope to hang himself with."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000061_000000.wav|"I'll kill you first!" cried the man with a snarl, and made a dash at the woman.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000024_000001.wav|She knows on which side her bread is buttered.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000017_000000.wav|"Well, he won't show much fight if he is mr Vrain."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000003_000000.wav|Yet when these things came to pass; when, by the discovery that Vrain yet lived, Lydia lost her liberty; and when, as connected with the conspiracy, she was arrested on a criminal warrant and put into prison, Diana was the only friend she had.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000030_000002.wav|His having been in the asylum of Jorce is a strong card for him to play.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000033_000000.wav|Diana, as a good daughter should, held firmly to the idea that her father could not behave in such a way; and as a sensible woman, she did not think that a man with so few of his senses about him could have acted the dual part with which he was credited without, in some measure, betraying himself.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000066_000000.wav|"Jabez Clyne!--Jabez Clyne!" he exclaimed in astonishment.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000045_000001.wav|She entered the sitting room cautiously, moving slowly in the darkness, and stole up to the door behind which Lucian and the detective were hiding.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000051_000000.wav|"He won't, mrs Clear.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000003_000002.wav|Lucian could not forbear pointing out the discrepancy between Diana's past sentiments and her present actions; but Miss Vrain was quite ready with an excuse.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000004_000000.wav|"I am only doing my duty," she said.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000012_000001.wav|"You and I and a couple of policemen will go down to that house in Geneva Square-by the front, sir, by the front."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000038_000002.wav|Here's the door open-in with you, mr Denzil!"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000063_000002.wav|Lucian uttered a cry.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000062_000000.wav|"Lost! lost!" he muttered.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000045_000000.wav|Suddenly Link had laid his clasp on Lucian's wrist to command silence, and the next moment they heard the swish swish of a woman's dress coming along the passage.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000051_000001.wav|We'll keep back in the darkness.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000038_000001.wav|I wish to secure this fellow as quietly as possible.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000058_000000.wav|"Yes.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000005_000001.wav|"If it had not been for Lydia, your father would not have left his home for a lunatic asylum, nor would Clear have been murdered."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000028_000002.wav|Peacock gave it to me this morning.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000002_000000.wav|Diana had never liked Lydia; when the American girl became her stepmother she hated her, and not only said as much but showed in her every action that she believed what she said.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000041_000000.wav|"Have you heard anything of that girl Rhoda?" he asked.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000022_000001.wav|For such reason, mr Denzil, I wish to overhear what he says to mrs Clear.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000051_000003.wav|Get back to the window!"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000044_000000.wav|"So do I, and I hope to make him confess as much to night.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000007_000001.wav|"It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000026_000001.wav|Then, maybe, you won't require an answer."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000008_000000.wav|So Diana played the part of a Good Samaritan towards her stepmother, and helped her to bear the evil of being thrust into prison.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000030_000003.wav|Good day, mr Denzil.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000061_000002.wav|The next moment the four watchers were in the room wrestling with Wrent.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000016_000002.wav|No! no!|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000026_000000.wav|"Well, sir," said Link, putting his head on one side, and looking at Lucian with an odd expression, "you had better wait till the man's caught before I answer that question.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000042_000000.wav|"We have traced her to Berkshire," whispered Link.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000008_000001.wav|Lydia wrote to her father in Paris, but received no reply, and therefore was without a friend in the world save Diana.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000014_000001.wav|She'll come in by the back, down the cellarway, as Wrent expects her to come.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000027_000000.wav|"It is very probable I won't," replied Lucian drily.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000007_000000.wav|"Egad! that is true!" said Lucian, kissing her.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000034_000000.wav|Lucian was somewhat of this opinion himself, yet he had an uneasy feeling that Vrain might prove to be the culprit.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000004_000001.wav|"In herself I like Lydia as little as ever I did, but I think we have suspected her wrongly in being connected with this conspiracy, so I wish to help her if possible.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000030_000000.wav|"I hope not," answered Link curtly, "but there's no knowing.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000061_000004.wav|However, he could do little against his four adversaries, and, worn out with the struggle, collapsed suddenly on to the dusty floor with a motion of despair.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000014_000000.wav|"no|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000039_000000.wav|According to instructions, a policeman had waited behind the closed door, and at the one sharp knock of his superior opened it at once so that the two slipped in as speedily as possible.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000064_000000.wav|"mr Vrain!" he said, shrinking back, "mr|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000037_000001.wav|A most satisfactory night for their purpose.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000036_000000.wav|Punctual to the minute, Link, in a state of subdued excitement, came to Lucian's rooms.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000013_000000.wav|"mrs Clear, also?" questioned Lucian, wishing to be enlightened on all points.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000008_000002.wav|Later on she was admitted to bail, and Diana took her to the hotel in Kensington, there to wait for the arrival of mr Clyne.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000029_000000.wav|"I hope it won't prove to be Vrain," said Lucian restlessly, for he thought how grieved Diana would be.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000047_000001.wav|"Myself, mr Denzil, and two policemen.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000019_000002.wav|Supposing, after all, this mysterious Wrent proves to be this unhappy man?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000052_000000.wav|"I hope I'll get through with this all right," said mrs Clear nervously.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000022_000000.wav|"Yes, and perhaps with the murder of Clear; but we don't know if the so-called Wrent committed the crime.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000034_000002.wav|Again, the resemblance between them was most extraordinary and unaccountable.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000039_000002.wav|Here the two policemen stationed themselves in one corner; and Link, with Lucian, waited near the door leading into the sitting room, so as to be ready for mrs Clear.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000018_000000.wav|"I don't believe he is mr Vrain," retorted the detective bluntly.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000040_000001.wav|In a whisper he conversed with Link.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000016_000000.wav|"Who said anything about the daytime, mr Denzil?|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000028_000001.wav|I have the key in my pocket now.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000044_000001.wav|Hush!"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000012_000000.wav|"We've got him this time, mr Denzil," he said, with enthusiasm.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000036_000001.wav|Already he had sent his two policemen over to the house, into which he had instructed them to enter in the quietest and most unostentatious manner, and now came to escort the barrister across.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000053_000001.wav|All was still and silent as the grave when they began their dreary watch.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000063_000001.wav|Out of the darkness started a pale face with white hair and long white beard.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000065_000000.wav|"Look again," said Link, passing his hand rapidly over the face and head of the prostrate man.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000065_000002.wav|Wig and beard and venerable looks were all gone, and he recognised at once who Wrent was.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000042_000001.wav|"She went back to her gypsy kinsfolk, you know.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000062_000001.wav|"All lost!"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000053_000000.wav|There was a faint gaslight outside, and the watchers could see her figure and profile black against the slight illumination.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000056_000001.wav|They paused at the door, and then moved towards the window where mrs Clear was standing.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000004_000002.wav|And after all," added Diana, "she is my father's wife," as if that fact extenuated all.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000060_000000.wav|"Because you won't pay me the money," said mrs Clear boldly.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000034_000001.wav|The fact of Vrain's being often away from mrs Clear's house in Bayswater, and Wrent absent in the same way from mrs Bensusan's house in Jersey Street, appeared strange, and argued a connection between the two.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000023_000000.wav|"Can you trust mrs Clear?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000010_000000.wav|While she was thus waiting for her father, and Link in every way was seeking evidence against her, mrs Clear received an answer to her message.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000016_000005.wav|We'll give him rope enough to hang himself, sir, and then pounce out and nab him."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000065_000001.wav|Denzil did look, and uttered a second cry more startling than the first.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000005_000000.wav|"He has reason to know it," replied Lucian bitterly.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000028_000000.wav|"I'll call for you at nine o'clock sharp, and we'll go across to the house at once.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000064_000001.wav|Vrain!"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000016_000001.wav|I did not, and Wrent knows too much to risk himself at a time that he can be seen from the windows of the adjacent houses.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000032_000001.wav|In the first place, he did not wish to see Lydia, for whom he had no great love; and in the second, he was afraid to speak to Diana as to the possibility of her father being Wrent.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000009_000000.wav|"I hope nothing is wrong with poppa," wept Lydia.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000047_000000.wav|"Yes," replied Link in the same tone.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000021_000000.wav|"You mean in connection with the conspiracy?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000020_000000.wav|"In that case, he'll have to pay for his whistle, sir."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/231862/6544_231862_000045_000002.wav|The position of this she knew well, because it was opposite the window.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000028_000000.wav|"Yes."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000085_000001.wav|If I tell them that I caught you, that you begged me to let you get away-that you even said you would marry me, if I would aid you, what then?|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000002.wav|And I'll promise you more than that.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000091_000000.wav|"I do."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000060_000000.wav|She wrung her hands and his dark eyes seemed to pierce her very soul. She felt faint and sank on a bench.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000074_000001.wav|Besides, your folks and myself were on good terms.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000031_000001.wav|She tried to think, but her mind was almost a blank.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000024_000001.wav|As they came up, Margaret's strength gave out, and suddenly she sank down on her knees.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000036_000000.wav|Margaret said no more and the woman went about some little work. Presently the girl arose and dressed herself.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000095_000001.wav|"You'll not be needed here any more.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000063_000000.wav|"But think of what is before you."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000003.wav|Listen, do you know that I am immensely wealthy?|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000086_000000.wav|"You-you monster!"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000044_000000.wav|"Oh, that's all right, Miss Margaret.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000075_000000.wav|"Who was it?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000038_000000.wav|As she sat there she reviewed what had passed, her mind becoming clearer as she thought.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000083_000003.wav|I can hand you over to the police whenever I will."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000042_000001.wav|"I was afraid your running away would hurt you."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000043_000000.wav|"I-I must thank you for what you have done for me, mr Styles," she answered.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000009_000000.wav|A GLASS OF POISON|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000045_000000.wav|"Well, I suppose it cannot be helped.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000023_000001.wav|Cannot you trust me, girl?|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000012_000001.wav|"I know what is best, and you must do as I say.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000049_000001.wav|I must go back and give myself up.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000054_000003.wav|"If you'll do what I wish, I'll see to it that you escape-that you are never bothered any more."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000072_000000.wav|"You know the murderer," she repeated.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000000.wav|"Never mind how it can be done.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000001.wav|Promise to give up Case, and be my wife, and I will attend to all of the rest.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000019_000000.wav|He led the way through the woods, across a small stream and past a spot where some wild berries grew.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000068_000000.wav|She gave a start and looked at him wildly, pleadingly.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000015_000000.wav|"I-I do not wish to go to your home."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000092_000000.wav|He glared at her steadily.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000098_000000.wav|He paused again and took from his pocket several sheets of paper, closely and carelessly written upon in pencil.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000047_000001.wav|I am not guilty, mr Styles."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000067_000000.wav|"Because the world will know that you are innocent."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000089_000001.wav|He breathed heavily through his set teeth.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000023_000002.wav|I'm not going to hurt you.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000019_000001.wav|Then they struck a trail leading up a hillside.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000089_000000.wav|There was a moment of silence, and his dark face turned a sickly white and then red.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000048_000003.wav|But things do look black, no use of talking.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000037_000001.wav|She knew she must have come a long distance, but could not tell if it was five miles or fifty.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000064_000000.wav|"If I tried to escape, they would soon be on my track-"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000100_000002.wav|I'll add a line telling where she can be found and then send it to the coroner.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000070_000000.wav|"If I answer that question, will you become my wife?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000041_000000.wav|As the man entered the room, Margaret arose and faced him.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000024_000000.wav|At last they came in sight of a tumbled down cottage on the edge of what had once been a clearing, but which was now overgrown with weeds and brushwood.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000071_000000.wav|Again she shrank back.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000083_000001.wav|Don't you understand the matter?|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000059_000001.wav|"I am giving you everything I have, my wealth, my honor, everything!|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000018_000001.wav|Come.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000050_000000.wav|"If you go back, do you know what they will do?|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000008.wav|I can easily raise five times this amount in forty eight hours.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000084_000000.wav|"That will not be such a hardship.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000041_000001.wav|The Englishman was well dressed, and newly shaven, and wore a rosebud in his buttonhole.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000077_000000.wav|"Tell me first."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000050_000001.wav|They will surely hang you?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000095_000000.wav|"Go back to the house," he said to the old woman.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000080_000001.wav|Marry me, and I will clear you as surely as the sun is shining."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000097_000001.wav|"Half a glass will do the work and she will never bother me or anybody else any more."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000008_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty nine|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000013_000000.wav|"Where to?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000006.wav|"I have ten thousand dollars here.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000032_000000.wav|She had been put to bed, and sat there, trying to think for several minutes.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000080_000000.wav|"I swear I am not, Margaret.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000031_000003.wav|She looked around. The old woman was not in sight.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000046_000000.wav|"Don't be in a hurry to go.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000030_000001.wav|She had administered some sort of drug-what, the girl did not know-and it had put her into a sound sleep.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000025_000000.wav|"All in, are you?" he said, not unkindly, and, stooping, he picked her up bodily.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000054_000002.wav|I've loved you for a long time-I told you so before." He took hold of her arm.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000088_000001.wav|My mind is made up.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000084_000001.wav|I said I was going back."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000094_000001.wav|Then he hurried outside:|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000026_000001.wav|"You need one."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000023_000004.wav|Come!" And again he made her move on.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000019_000002.wav|The place was new to her.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000031_000000.wav|When Margaret looked around again, she was surprised to see that it was morning.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000096_000000.wav|Once inside of the cottage, he took up a glass of water standing on the table, and to this added a powder taken from his pocket, stirring it up well.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000042_000000.wav|"I'm glad to see you up and looking so well," he said pleasantly.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000049_000003.wav|It was a very foolish thing to do."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000082_000000.wav|He came and caught her by the arm, his face blazing with sudden passion.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000012_000000.wav|"You are sick-out of your head," he interrupted.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000022_000000.wav|"That isn't answering the question."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000073_000000.wav|He took a step back as if struck a blow.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000011_000000.wav|"mr Styles-" she began, but he put his hand over her mouth.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000039_000001.wav|"Who could have been so wicked as to take your life?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000095_000002.wav|And see that you keep your jaw closed over this," he added harshly.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000059_000002.wav|Can a man do more than that?|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000054_000000.wav|"I feel that you are, and that is why I side with you.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000016_000000.wav|"I'll not take you there, don't fear."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000094_000000.wav|He waited, and as she did not return to consciousness, he picked her up, and placed her on the bed.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000093_000000.wav|"Fainted!" he hissed between his set teeth.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000092_000002.wav|She offered no resistance, and pausing in his madness he realized that she had swooned away.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000031_000002.wav|Outside of the broken window a wild bird was singing gayly.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000012_000002.wav|Come on." And he pulled her forward by the hand.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000014_000000.wav|"Not very far."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000100_000006.wav|I'll give her some of it now, and make sure."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000057_000000.wav|She put up her hands, and waved him away.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000079_000000.wav|"You are fooling me."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000076_000000.wav|"Will you consent to marry me?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000007.wav|It shall be yours for the taking-if you will marry me.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000023_000003.wav|I love you, and I'll do all I can to help you.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000046_000002.wav|"What's the use of going back?|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000051_000000.wav|"Oh, merciful Heaven?|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000048_000002.wav|I knew that from the start.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000074_000000.wav|"No, I was not near the place, I can prove it.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000009.wav|We can go to Europe, or Australia, or anywhere we wish.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000059_000003.wav|I love you-love you more than Raymond Case ever did, or will."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000018_000000.wav|"Never!|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000100_000003.wav|That will be better than leaving it around here.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000087_000000.wav|"Perhaps I am a monster when aroused.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000066_000000.wav|"How?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000058_000000.wav|"Don't speak so, please don't!|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000046_000003.wav|Don't you know things look beastly black for you?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000055_000000.wav|"How can you do that?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000017_000000.wav|"You are going to hand me over to the-the authorities."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000072_000001.wav|"Perhaps you committed the foul deeds yourself."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000034_000000.wav|"Where am I?" asked Margaret feebly.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000058_000001.wav|I-I cannot bear it, I have gone through so much already!"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000078_000000.wav|"No, afterwards."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000047_000000.wav|"Perhaps, but I am not afraid-now.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000045_000001.wav|But I must be getting back soon. You will show me the road?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000057_000001.wav|Then she burst into tears.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000046_000001.wav|You're not strong enough to go. Besides-" the Englishman paused impressively.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000074_000002.wav|There is somebody else, who was around the house when the affair happened-somebody you know well, a person who would know all about the drug with which your father and mrs Langmore were killed."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000040_000001.wav|He spoke a few low words to the old woman, and the latter walked away.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000040_000000.wav|An hour went by, and she prepared to leave the cottage, when a shadow fell across the window, and Matlock Styles appeared.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000085_000000.wav|"Bah!|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000092_000001.wav|Then, in a burst of rage, he caught her by the throat and threw her backward to the floor.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000085_000002.wav|Everybody will think you guilty, and Raymond Case will never come near you again."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000048_000001.wav|Of course not!|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000004.wav|It is so, and I can easily prove it.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000026_000000.wav|"I'll get you a nurse," he said, noting her extreme paleness.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000096_000001.wav|Then he looked around to see that there was no other water around the building.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000100_000000.wav|"A fine forgery, if I do say so myself," he mused.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000037_000002.wav|She looked out of the window, but the scenery was strange to her.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000005.wav|Look here." He drew a big roll of bank bills from his pocket, each bill of a large denomination.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000083_000002.wav|You are in my power-in my power absolutely.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000049_000000.wav|"Thank you, but I do not see what you can do.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000073_000001.wav|Then he recovered quickly and smiled a bitter smile.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000025_000001.wav|She tried to resist, but could not, and he took her into the cottage and placed her on a couch.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000021_000000.wav|"To a place where you will be safe."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000056_000010.wav|Isn't that far better than to stay here, to be hung by a lot of country bumpkins, who don't understand the matter at all?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000098_000001.wav|The first sheet was headed:|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000093_000001.wav|"I wish she was dead! Curse her and her beauty!"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000069_000000.wav|"Then you know the real murderer?" she panted.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000101_000000.wav|He raised up the almost lifeless girl, and forced open her lips.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000100_000004.wav|She might find it before she drank that dose." He paused again.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000035_000000.wav|"You're safe enough, never fear."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000054_000001.wav|Besides, you know my feeling for you.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000097_000000.wav|"When she rouses up she will be dry, and she will drink this," he muttered to himself.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000081_000000.wav|"And if I refuse?"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000036_000001.wav|She felt much stronger than when at the home of Martha Sampson, in spite of what she had experienced in running away.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000049_000002.wav|I-I was not myself when I ran away.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000052_000000.wav|"I wouldn't if it wasn't so.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000036_000002.wav|She sank down in a rocking chair, to think matters over.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000088_000003.wav|I loathe and despise you!"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000010_000000.wav|Margaret could do nothing but stare at the man before her.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000051_000001.wav|Do not say that!"|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000029_000000.wav|"Thank you," she murmured, and then closed her eyes, for she was too far gone to say more, or to make a move.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000065_000000.wav|"No, I can prevent that."|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000032_000001.wav|Then she gave a low call, and the old woman appeared in the doorway.|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6544/71420/6544_71420_000037_000000.wav|How far was she from Sidham?|6544
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000012_000003.wav|Help-help!"|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000016_000000.wav|"Where are you, Dick?" cried Polly's voice outside, and rapping at the door.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000025_000001.wav|"Well, here are the men."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000024_000001.wav|"I won't stir."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000027_000000.wav|"Turn the creature over and let us see how he looks," said mr King, hurrying in as the last knot of the rope was made fast.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000071_000000.wav|"Well, if you've got through laughing," observed dr Fisher, "I'll remark that the secret is out."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000026_000001.wav|It was easy to secure and bind him then.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000046_000000.wav|"No, I won't," said Dick.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000068_000000.wav|"Humph!" laughed mr King, "it looks like it.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000036_000000.wav|With that mrs Chatterton's spirit returned.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000064_000001.wav|"Come, Papa Fisher," holding out her hand, "do give me the honor."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000029_000004.wav|Let me give him the last knot." He staggered blindly to his feet.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000007_000002.wav|Well, I must catch him." So without the preamble of knocking, the boy dashed into the dressing room.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000068_000001.wav|Just see Polly."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000067_000002.wav|"It looked so nice to see Jasper and Polly, I thought I'd try it.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000070_000001.wav|That's just it, Polly, you did.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000039_000001.wav|"Oh, Dick! do tell over again how it all happened."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000028_000000.wav|"I've seen that fellow round here for many a day," said Michael, giving the recumbent legs a small kick.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000065_000002.wav|Thereupon a most extraordinary hopping up and down the hall was commenced, the two figures bobbing like a pair of corks on a quivering water surface.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000052_000001.wav|"Boys like to get hurt, you know.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000045_000000.wav|"Do let me bathe it," she begged.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000026_000000.wav|Jasper had seized a table spread, and as Michael and the undergardeners advanced, he went back of the robber, and cleverly threw it over his head.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000004_000000.wav|"Not exactly money, ma'am," said the man, "for I don't suppose you have much here.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000060_000001.wav|Oh!|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000056_000000.wav|"Oh!" Polly gasped.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000035_000001.wav|"I'll peep.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000072_000001.wav|"Say, my girl?" And then before she could answer, he went on, "You see, we can't do anything without a doctor on our travels.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000061_000000.wav|"Have to," said Jasper, guiding his partner deftly in the intricacies of the chairs and statuary.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000020_000000.wav|"Oh, Dick!" cried Polly in a breath, with a fearful glance at the boy lying there.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000063_000001.wav|"If I wasn't such an old fellow, I'd try; that is, if anybody asked me."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000016_000001.wav|"mrs Chatterton, have you seen him?"|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000053_000000.wav|Phronsie gave a sigh, which so went to Dick's heart, that he said, "All right, bring on some water if you want to.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000063_000000.wav|"I'm almost tempted to dance myself," said dr Fisher.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000033_000002.wav|Call Hortense, will you?"|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000023_000001.wav|"I'm a splendid markswoman."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000029_000001.wav|Dick opened his eyes, rubbed them, and felt of his head.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000011_000000.wav|"Go back!" she screamed again.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000046_000003.wav|See his wings now-he's stretching."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000026_000002.wav|Polly rushed over to Dick.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000021_000000.wav|"I think he's all right, Polly." She dared say no more, for Dick had not stirred.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000029_000003.wav|I saw stars, but I've got over it, I guess.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000018_000000.wav|Polly threw wide the door.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000060_000000.wav|"How can we ever leave the boys!|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000027_000002.wav|"He's no beauty, and that's a fact."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000002_000001.wav|And dropping her fingers quickly and turning away from the glass, she exclaimed, "How dare you, Hortense, come in without knocking?"|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000064_000000.wav|"I will," said Polly, laughing.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000065_000001.wav|So Jasper took the deserted post by the pillar, and whistled a Strauss waltz.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000072_000002.wav|Now Providence has given us one, though rather an obstinate specimen," he pointed to Father Fisher.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000011_000001.wav|There was only a moment to think, but Dick dashed in, and with a mighty spirit, but small fists, he flung himself against the stalwart arms and shoulders.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000048_000001.wav|"May I?"|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000010_000002.wav|There was no chance for her to escape, she knew, but she could save Dick.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000019_000002.wav|Hurry!"|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000046_000002.wav|I'm all right, Phronsie.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000049_000000.wav|Dick made a wry face.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000029_000000.wav|"I want to tie one rope," cried a voice.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000029_000002.wav|"I'm all right, Polly.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000009_000000.wav|"Go back!" cried mrs Chatterton hoarsely, "you'll be killed."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000001_000000.wav|THE SECRET|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000019_000001.wav|"I'll take care of him till you get help.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000005_000002.wav|Should she dare to scream?|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000042_000000.wav|"No, not a bit," declared Dick, shaking his brown poll.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000070_000002.wav|Lucky you two caperers didn't break anything."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000007_000000.wav|"There he goes!" cried Dick, "in her room.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000067_000000.wav|"I couldn't help it," said the little doctor, coming up red and animated, and wiping his forehead.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000049_000001.wav|"Worse and worse."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000065_000000.wav|"All right," said dr Fisher bravely.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000052_000002.wav|'Tisn't manly to be fixed up."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000072_000000.wav|"Do you like it, Polly?" asked mr King, holding out his hand.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000022_000001.wav|"A burglar-a burglar!" and he dashed into mrs Chatterton's room.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000035_000002.wav|She put me up to it; we was goin' shares on the old lady's stuff."|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000060_000003.wav|As they danced lightly down the long hall, dr Fisher leaned against a pillar, and watched them.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/7741/3513_7741_000069_000000.wav|"Oh, Papa Fisher!" cried Polly with a merry peal in which Jasper, unpuckering his lips from the Strauss effort, had joined, "we must have looked"--Here she went off again.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000030_000002.wav|hop! without hesitating, the rats took the leap, swam straight to the funnel, plunged in head foremost and disappeared.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000044_000000.wav|'All your rats took a jump into the river yesterday,' said he to the counsellors, 'and I guarantee that not one of them comes back.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000055_000000.wav|Then through the east door of the town came three little boys, who cried and wept, and this is what they told:|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000023_000002.wav|When the people of Hamel heard of the bargain, they too exclaimed: 'A gros a head! but this will cost us a deal of money!'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000056_000004.wav|At their approach the mountain had opened a little, and the bagpiper had gone in with them, after which it had closed again. Only the three little ones who told the adventure had remained outside, as if by a miracle.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000038_000000.wav|'Well reckoned?'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000017_000000.wav|'Leave it to the Town Counsellor,' said the citizens one to another.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000024_000000.wav|'Leave it to the Town Counsellor,' said the town council with a malicious air.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000015_000000.wav|The Town Counsellor, who was considered clever, reassured them.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000039_000000.wav|'Well reckoned.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000049_000001.wav|'If you do not pay me I will be paid by your heirs.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000046_000000.wav|The ratcatcher did not expect this treacherous stroke.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000044_000002.wav|Reckon!'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000047_000000.wav|'The heads!' cried he, 'if you care about them, go and find them in the river.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000034_000000.wav|'Are they all there, friend Blanchet?' asked the bagpiper.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000029_000000.wav|Arrived there he turned round; the rats were following.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000006_000001.wav|The more they killed the more came.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000056_000002.wav|There they found the ratcatcher playing his bagpipes at the same spot as the evening before.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000024_000001.wav|And the good people of Hamel repeated with their counsellors, 'Leave it to the Town Counsellor.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000062_000002.wav|These people also declared that they came from Germany, but they did not know how they chanced to be in this strange country.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163607/3513_163607_000054_000000.wav|'Our children! where are our poor children?' was the cry that was soon heard in all the streets.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000046_000001.wav|'Wait!|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000043_000002.wav|There, there you are.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000077_000000.wav|Thus he became King.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000021_000001.wav|Make yourself quite small, get into my throat-go into my gizzard and I will carry you.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000051_000001.wav|quack! he tears them to pieces; so much so that at the end of five minutes there was not one left alive.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000035_000001.wav|I wish to speak to the King.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000047_000000.wav|'What is it?|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000043_000000.wav|'This way, this way,' says the porter.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000013_000000.wav|'I am going to the King for what he owes me.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000039_000002.wav|Make him come in, and put him with the turkeys and chickens.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000023_000000.wav|She takes bag and baggage, and glou, glou, glou, she takes her place between friend Fox and my friend Ladder.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000014_000000.wav|'Oh! take me with thee!'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000027_000000.wav|'I am going to the King for what he owes me.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000060_000000.wav|'River, River, outward flow, Or to death Drakestail must go.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000036_000002.wav|The King is dining, and will not be disturbed.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000037_000000.wav|'Tell him that it is I, and I have come he well knows why.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000029_000001.wav|Make yourself quite small, go into my throat-get into my gizzard and I will carry you.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000005_000000.wav|'I am going to the King for what he owes me.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000035_000000.wav|''tis I, Drakestail.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000042_000000.wav|'Good!' says Drakestail to himself, 'I shall now see how they eat at court.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000071_000001.wav|He could not get over it.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000074_000000.wav|'The King is dead, long live the King! Heaven has sent us down this thing.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000044_000001.wav|in the poultry yard?'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000078_000000.wav|'And now,' said he after the ceremony, 'ladies and gentlemen, let's go to supper.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000028_000000.wav|'Oh! take me with thee!'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000031_000000.wav|And left file! he takes the same road to join the others with all his party.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000029_000000.wav|Drakestail said to himself, 'One can't have too many friends.'... 'I will,' says he, 'but with your battalion to drag along, you will soon be tired.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000064_000000.wav|'Bring him here, and I'll cut his throat! bring him here quick!' cried he.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000054_000000.wav|And it was done as he commanded.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000045_000000.wav|Fancy how vexed Drakestail was!|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000003_000000.wav|He had not gone far when he met friend Fox, on his rounds that way.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000036_000000.wav|'Speak to the King!...|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000051_000000.wav|Then friend Fox, who was only waiting for these words, hastens out, throws himself on the wicked fowls, and quick!|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000072_000000.wav|Nevertheless, he remembered shortly what he had come for to the palace, and improving the occasion, he set to work to hunt for his dear money. But in vain he rummaged in all the drawers; he found nothing; all had been spent.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000070_000001.wav|'The brave Wasp's nest rushes out with all his wasps.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000075_000000.wav|Drakestail, who was no longer surprised at anything, received the acclamations of the people as if he had never done anything else all his life.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000049_000000.wav|'I am lost!' said Drakestail to himself, when by good luck he remembers his comrade friend Fox, and he cries:|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000067_000001.wav|He thought this time it was all up with him.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000041_000000.wav|'Have the goodness to enter.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000006_000000.wav|'Oh! take me with thee!'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000019_000000.wav|'I am going to the King, you know, for what he owes me.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000044_000000.wav|'How? what?|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000043_000001.wav|'One step further....|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000008_000000.wav|'Happy thought!' says friend Fox.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000071_000000.wav|Behold Drakestail much astonished, all alone in the big saloon and master of the field.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000015_000000.wav|Drakestail said to himself: 'One can't have too many friends.' ... 'I will,' says he, 'but with your wooden legs you will soon be tired.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000034_000000.wav|'Who is there?' asks the porter, putting his head out of the wicket.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000055_000000.wav|'Ladder, Ladder, come out of thy hold, Or Drakestail's days will soon be told.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000033_000000.wav|He strikes with the knocker: 'Toc! toc!'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000050_000000.wav|'Reynard, Reynard, come out of your earth, Or Drakestail's life is of little worth.'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000059_000000.wav|The furnace was soon hot, but this time Drakestail was not so afraid; he counted on his sweetheart, my friend River.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000031_000001.wav|There was not much more room, but by closing up a bit they managed....|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000047_000001.wav|what does he want?'|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3513/163606/3513_163606_000040_000000.wav|The porter descends.|3513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000004.wav|Unless you are a sprig of nobility there is little hope of seeing him at home.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000007_000003.wav|Prince Polonia, at Rome, and his brother, the Duke of Strachino, are also remarkable for their hospitalities.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000002.wav|The great City Snob is commonly most difficult of access.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000005.wav|Your pedigree begins in a workhouse; mine can be dated from all the royal palaces of Europe.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000001.wav|But here is a difficulty.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000004.wav|'Pump and Aldgate, says he, 'your grandfather was a bricklayer, and his hod is still kept in the bank.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000007_000006.wav|It is a comfort to be able to gratify such grandees with a farthing or two; it makes the poorest man feel that he can do good.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000009_000003.wav|Why should we, who don't possess it, set a higher store on it than those who do?|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000005.wav|In a great City Snob firm there is generally one partner whose name is down for charities, and who frequents Exeter Hall; you may catch a glimpse of another (a scientific City Snob) at my Lord N----'s SOIREES, or the lectures of the London Institution; of a third (a City Snob of taste) at picture auctions, at private views of exhibitions, or at the Opera or the Philharmonic.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000014_000000.wav|We can imagine the weary life this poor Pump, this martyr to Mammon, is compelled to undergo.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000009_000000.wav|Old Pump and Aldgate clutches at the bargain.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000007.wav|I despise you, but I want money; and I will sell you my beloved daughter, Blanche Stiffneck, for a hundred thousand pounds, to pay off my mortgages.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000011_000000.wav|After this interesting event, some old acquaintance, who saw young Pump in the parlour at the bank in the City, said to him, familiarly, 'How's your wife, Pump, my boy?'|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000009_000001.wav|And a comfortable thing it is to think that birth can be bought for money.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000002_000001.wav|Notes of admiration (!), of interrogation (?), of remonstrance, approval, or abuse, come pouring into mr|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000000.wav|Great City Snobs are the next in the hierarchy, and ought to be considered.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000012_000000.wav|mr Pump looked exceedingly puzzled and disgusted, and, after a pause, said, 'LADY BLANCHE PUMP' is pretty well, I thank you.'|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000006.wav|But intimacy is impossible, in most cases, with this grave, pompous, and awful being.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000010_000001.wav|The sale of the girl's person is blessed by a Bishop at saint George's, Hanover Square, and next year you read, 'At Roehampton, on Saturday, the Lady Blanche Pump, of a son and heir.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000005_000003.wav|Unless you are a capitalist, you cannot visit him in the recesses of his bank parlour in Lombard Street.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000010_000000.wav|Old Pump and Aldgate buys the article and pays the money.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000004_000000.wav|No; far from it.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000003.wav|I like to see an old aristocrat, swelling with pride of race, the descendant of illustrious Norman robbers, whose blood has been pure for centuries, and who looks down upon common Englishmen as a free American does on a nigger,--I like to see old Stiffneck obliged to bow down his head and swallow his infernal pride, and drink the cup of humiliation poured out by Pump and Aldgate's butler.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000001.wav|I like to see such.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000007_000000.wav|In other countries of Europe, the Banking Snob is more expansive and communicative than with us, and receives all the world into his circle.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight-GREAT CITY SNOBS|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000002_000002.wav|PUNCH'S box.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000013_000000.wav|'OH, I THOUGHT SHE WAS YOUR WIFE!' said the familiar brute, Snooks, wishing him good bye; and ten minutes after, the story was all over the Stock Exchange, where it is told, when young Pump appears, to this very day.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000004_000001.wav|If his lordship's boots are dirty, it is because he is Lord b, and walks.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000004_000002.wav|There is nothing snobbish in having only one pair of boots, or a favourite pair; and certainly nothing snobbish in desiring to have them cleaned.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000008_000002.wav|I am of a savage and envious nature,--I like to see these two humbugs which, dividing, as they do, the social empire of this kingdom between them, hate each other naturally, making truce and uniting, for the sordid interests of either.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000007_000004.wav|I like the spirit of the first named nobleman.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000009_000002.wav|So you learn to value it.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000007_000007.wav|'The Polonias have intermarried with the greatest and most ancient families of Rome, and you see their heraldic cognizance (a mushroom or on an azure field) quartered in a hundred places in the city with the arms of the Colonnas and Dorias.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000007_000002.wav|They entertain all the world, even the poor, at their FETES.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/11254/4057_11254_000015_000001.wav|Pump the Second becomes chief of the house, spins more and more money, marries his son to an Earl's daughter.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000014_000000.wav|"No fooling!|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000012_000000.wav|Whitcomb, instantly awake, gazed at the masked face without a word or movement.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000012_000001.wav|Darrell, powerless to aid his friend, watched intently, dreading some rash act on his part to which his impetuous nature might prompt him.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000022_000001.wav|His lips moved; Darrell bent his head still lower to listen.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000005_000000.wav|"No noise!|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000016_000000.wav|"Fool!" he heard the man mutter, with an oath.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000011_000000.wav|"Hand over that money, young man, and no fuss about it, either!"|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000020_000001.wav|Here is a man stabbed, dying; don't stop to talk of money when a life is at stake!"|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000009_000001.wav|He half expected a further demand, as the purse contained only a few small bills and some change, the bulk of his money being secreted about the mattress, as was his habit; but the man turned with peculiar abruptness to the opposite section, as one who had a definite object in view and was in haste to accomplish it.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000021_000001.wav|When it became known throughout the train what had occurred, the greatest excitement followed.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000004_000000.wav|Suddenly he heard a muttered oath in one of the sections, followed by an order, low, but peremptory,--|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000028_000001.wav|"He ought never to have made a bluff of that sort; there were too many odds against him."|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000003_000001.wav|The heat was intolerable; he raised himself to the open window that he might get a breath of cooler air; his head whirled, but the half sitting posture seemed to clear his brain, and he recalled his surroundings.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000006_000000.wav|Instantly Darrell comprehended the situation.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000028_000000.wav|"Too bad!" said Parkinson.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000006_000001.wav|Peering cautiously between the curtains, he saw, at the forward end of the sleeper, a masked man with a revolver in each hand, while the mirror behind him revealed another figure at the rear, masked and armed in like manner.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000030_000001.wav|Yes, that was bad business for him, poor fellow!|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000006_000003.wav|He thought at once of young Whitcomb, but no sound came from the opposite section, and he sank quietly back upon his pillow.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000008_000000.wav|"Hand out your valuables!"|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000015_000001.wav|A quick, desperate, silent struggle followed.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000002_000000.wav|A NIGHT'S WORK|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000020_000000.wav|"For God's sake, see if there is a surgeon aboard!|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000026_000000.wav|"How did it happen?" the latter inquired, recognizing Darrell for the first time in the dim light.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000009_000000.wav|A man of medium height, wearing a mask and full beard, stood over him. Darrell quietly handed over his watch and purse, noting as he did so the man's hands, white, well formed, well kept.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000003_000000.wav|For a few seconds Darrell tried vainly to recall what had awakened him. Low, confused sounds occasionally reached his ears, but they seemed part of his own troubled dreams.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000009_000003.wav|The man had been a spy sent out by the band now holding the train, and Whitcomb's money was without doubt the particular object of the hold up.|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000005_000001.wav|Hand over, and be quick about it!"|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4057/12085/4057_12085_000014_000001.wav|Hand that money over, lively!"|4057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000000.wav|Hastily putting out the fire which burned brightly at the back, and bidding his mother come in and keep very still, the prince began to pace up and down, listening for the return of the robbers.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000018_000002.wav|Let there be peace between us.'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000024_000001.wav|The prince drew them out of his pocket, and silently handed them to the giant, who washed them well, and then put them back in the prince's head.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000021_000003.wav|The robber, indeed, granted him his life, but took out both his eyes, which he thrust into the prince's hand, saying brutally:|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000005.wav|Someone forgot to pile up the fire before we left and it has burnt itself out!|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000004_000000.wav|His wife and son mourned his loss bitterly, for, in spite of his faults, he had always been kind to them.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000006.wav|But it is all right.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000029_000000.wav|'Come out, you rascal! come out, you villain!' cried he, 'and answer to me for the wrong you have done.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000030_000004.wav|His mother the prince sent back to her father, and never would see her again.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000015_000001.wav|So the moment that her son had turned his back, she opened the doors of all the rooms, and peeped in, till she came to the one where the robbers lay.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000016_000002.wav|He found that a secret way led from it into the forest; and following the path, he reached another castle larger and more splendid than the one belonging to the robbers.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000010_000002.wav|I am here.'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000007.wav|Let every man jump across, and as he does so cry out "Hop!|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000014_000001.wav|The prince went round all these and carefully locked them up, bidding his mother take care of the keys while he was hunting.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000005_000001.wav|When they had finished the queen said: 'My son, I am thirsty; fetch me some water.'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000017_000001.wav|'I am the son of a king, and I have killed all the band.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000032_000000.wav|So they were married, and the wedding feast was so splendid that there was not a kingdom in the world that did not hear of it.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000023_000000.wav|Weeping, the blind youth felt his way to the giant's house, and told him all the story.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000003.wav|'This must be the place,' said a voice, which the prince took to be that of the captain.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000010_000001.wav|Then the young man cried instead, 'Hop!|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000030_000003.wav|As he had done to the prince, so the prince did to him, and, blinded, he was thrust forth, and fell down a deep hole, where he is to this day.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000030_000005.wav|After this he returned to the giant, and said to him:|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000016_000000.wav|Soon after her son came in, bringing with him a large bear, which he had killed for supper.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000004.wav|'Yes, I feel the ditch before the entrance.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000028_000004.wav|The giant bade him give the sword to the prince, who girded himself with it, and returned with all speed to the castle.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000022_000000.wav|'Here, you had better keep them!|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000031_000000.wav|'My friend, add one more kindness to those you have already heaped on me.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000015_000003.wav|She quickly turned the key in the lock, and ran back to the chamber she had slept in.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000012_000001.wav|Being very cunning, however, he made no resistance, and rolled over as if he were as dead as the other men.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000030_000002.wav|In his turn he fell on his knees to beg for mercy, but it was too late.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000027_000000.wav|'Tell the fox and the squirrel that they are to go with you, and fetch me back the prince's sword,' ordered he.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000016_000001.wav|As there was enough food to last them for many days, the prince did not hunt the next morning, but, instead, began to explore the castle.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000016_000003.wav|He knocked at the door with his fist, and said that he wanted to enter; but the giant, to whom the castle belonged, only answered: 'I know who you are.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000015_000002.wav|But if the sight of the blood on the ground turned her faint, the sight of the robber captain walking up and down was a greater shock still.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000008_000003.wav|At last with a great heave he moved it out of the road, and as it fell he knew it was a huge rock.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000008_000000.wav|This discovery put new life into the queen and her son, and they continued their walk through the forest.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000012_000002.wav|Still, the prince was no fool, and wondered if indeed he was as dead as he seemed to be; but the captain lay so stiff and stark, that at last he was taken in.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000018_000001.wav|When the giant found that it was no use keeping it shut, he opened it, saying: 'I see you are a brave youth.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000006_000000.wav|The prince got up at once and went to a brook which he heard gurgling near at hand.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000020_000000.wav|Now the queen led a dull life all alone in the castle, and to amuse herself she paid visits to the robber captain, who flattered her till at last she agreed to marry him.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000018_000000.wav|He waited a little, but the door remained shut as tightly as before. Then he just put his shoulder to it, and immediately the wood began to crack.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000002_000000.wav|The Strong Prince|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000010_000000.wav|The man who stood nearest jumped across, but he had no time to give the call which the captain had ordered, for with one swift, silent stroke of the prince's sword, his head rolled into a corner.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000003_000002.wav|But one day an accident happened to him, and he was struck on the head by a falling bough, so that he fell from his horse and lay dead upon the ground.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000009_000008.wav|I am here." I will go last.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000028_000001.wav|Directly they came to the window of the robber captain's room, the monkey sprang from the backs of the fox and the squirrel, and climbed in.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000028_000002.wav|The room was empty, and the sword hanging from a nail.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000028_000003.wav|He took it down, and buckling it round his waist, as he had seen the prince do, swung himself down again, and mounting on the backs of his two companions, hastened to his master.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000006_000003.wav|The young man drew back with a start; but in a moment he climbed the tree, cutting the rope which held the sword, and carried the weapon to his mother.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000017_000000.wav|'I am no robber,' answered the prince.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000031_000001.wav|Give me your daughter as my wife.'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000003_000001.wav|All day long he drank till he was too stupid to attend to his business, and everything in the kingdom went to rack and ruin.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8674/5810_8674_000008_000001.wav|But night was drawing on, and the darkness grew so thick that it seemed as if it could be cut with a knife.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000024_000003.wav|Then, seizing the monster by the neck, he dashed the remaining heads against the rock.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000004_000001.wav|'I am Tree Comber,' he answered proudly; 'and the greatest wish of my life is to wrestle with Shepherd Paul.'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000042_000002.wav|Off with you!' He next took the three apples out of his pocket and placed them all in the prettiest places he could find; after which he tapped them with his golden rod, and they became castles again. He gave two of the castles to the eldest sisters, and kept the other for himself and the youngest, whom he married, and there they are living still.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000006_000000.wav|'Very good,' answered Paul, and they continued their journey together.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000019_000000.wav|And he stepped into the basket, which was lowered by his friends.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000031_000000.wav|He had scarcely put it on, when the whole castle began to shake violently, and the dragon flew up the steps into the hall.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000042_000000.wav|'You know what to expect,' Paul said to them quietly.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000028_000000.wav|Then Paul changed the castle into an apple, which he put into his pocket, and set out with the two girls in search of the third castle.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000016_000001.wav|The fourth day Paul said to them: 'My friends, there must be some reason why your cooking has always been so bad, now you shall go and hunt and I will stay behind.' So they went off, amusing themselves by thinking what was in store for Paul.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000029_000001.wav|Her husband had eighteen heads, but when he quitted the lower regions for the surface of the earth, he left them all at home except one, which he changed for the head of a little dwarf, with a pointed beard.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000023_000001.wav|'I am sure of my supper, but let us have a mouthful of something first, just to give us an appetite.'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000035_000001.wav|But Paul jumped underneath, and gave an upward cut so that six of the heads went rolling down.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000018_000004.wav|See! there is a basket that will do for me to sit in, and a cord to lower me with.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000000_000000.wav|Shepherd Paul|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000038_000000.wav|'By carrying me up to the earth,' answered Paul; and the griffin agreed, but first went to get some food to eat on the way, as it was a long journey.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000026_000002.wav|After that, they started on their search.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000020_000002.wav|As the door was open he walked in, but a lovely maiden met him and implored him to go back, for the owner of the castle was a dragon with six heads, who had stolen her from her home and brought her down to this underground spot.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000027_000001.wav|She was overjoyed at the sight of her sister and of Paul, and brought him a shirt belonging to the dragon, which made every one who wore it twice as strong as they were before.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000020_000003.wav|But Paul refused to listen to all her entreaties, and declared that he was not afraid of the dragon, and did not care how many heads he had; and he sat down calmly to wait for him.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000037_000000.wav|At length, one day, he happened to pass the nest of a huge griffin, who had left her young ones all alone.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000004_000000.wav|The man stopped his work and laughed.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000032_000000.wav|'Well, my friend, so we meet once more!|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000018_000005.wav|But when I pull the cord again, lose no time in drawing the basket up.'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000012_000000.wav|'I am Iron Kneader, and should like to fight Shepherd Paul,' answered he.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000026_000001.wav|He did so, and it instantly changed into a golden apple, which he put in his pocket.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000015_000001.wav|The dwarf took no notice, but waited patiently till the dinner was cooked, then suddenly throwing Tree Comber on the ground, he ate up the contents of the saucepan and vanished.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000024_000000.wav|Whereupon he began to eat some huge boulders as if they had been cakes, and when he had quite finished, he offered Paul one.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000032_000001.wav|Have you forgotten me?|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000018_000001.wav|When we have finished supper I will show you what I have done with him!' But when they reached the place where Paul had left the dwarf, neither he nor the tree was to be seen, for the little fellow had pulled it up by the roots and run away, dragging it after him.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000017_000000.wav|He set to work at once, and had just got all his vegetables simmering in the pot when the dwarf appeared as before, and asked to have some of the stew.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000001_000001.wav|The shepherd was fond of children, so he took the baby home with him and gave it plenty of milk, and by the time the boy was fourteen he could tear up oaks as if they were weeds.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000024_000001.wav|Paul was not fond of boulders, but he took a wooden knife and cut one in two, then he snatched up both halves in his hands and threw them with all his strength at the dragon, so that two out of the six heads were smashed in.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000014_000001.wav|'We three will go and look for game,' he said, 'and you, Tree Comber, will stay behind and prepare a good supper for us.' So Tree Comber set to work to boil and roast, and when dinner was nearly ready, a little dwarf with a pointed beard strolled up to the place.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000001_000002.wav|Then Paul, as the shepherd had called him, grew tired of living at home, and went out into the world to try his luck.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000040_000000.wav|For three days and three nights Paul and the griffin flew upwards, and on the fourth morning it touched the ground just outside the city where Paul's friends had gone to live.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000032_000002.wav|I am Shepherd Paul, and I have come to wrestle with you, and to free your wife from your clutches.'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000030_000001.wav|But the thought of the eighteen heads warned him to be careful, and the third sister brought him a silk shirt which would make him ten times stronger than he was before.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000009_000000.wav|'I am Stone Crusher,' answered the man, and the greatest wish of my life is to wrestle with Shepherd Paul.'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000034_000000.wav|At this the dragon grew rather frightened, but in a moment had recollected his eighteen heads, and was bold again.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000010_000001.wav|After a short time the man declared himself beaten, and begged leave to go with them; so they all three travelled together.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000035_000003.wav|Then Paul changed the castle into an apple, and put it in his pocket.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000017_000003.wav|The hunters came back early, longing to see how Paul had got on, and, to their surprise, dinner was quite ready for them.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000008_000000.wav|'Good morning,' said Paul politely; 'upon my word, you must be a strong fellow!'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000035_000000.wav|'Come on,' he cried, rearing himself up and preparing to dart all his heads at once at Paul.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000005_000001.wav|However, in a moment he was up again, and catching hold of Paul, threw him so that he sank up to his waist; but then it was Paul's turn again, and this time the man was buried up to his neck.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000022_000000.wav|'I am Shepherd Paul,' said the young man, 'and I have come to fight you, and as I am in a hurry we had better begin at once.'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000001_000000.wav|Once upon a time a shepherd was taking his flock out to pasture, when he found a little baby lying in a meadow, left there by some wicked person, who thought it was too much trouble to look after it.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000020_000000.wav|At last it touched the ground and he jumped out and looked about him.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000007_000000.wav|By and by they reached a man who was grinding stones to powder in his hands, as if they had been nuts.|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000039_000000.wav|'Now get on my back,' he said to Paul, 'and when I turn my head to the right, cut a slice off the bullock that hangs on that side, and put it in my mouth, and when I turn my head to the left, draw a cupful of wine from the cask that hangs on that side, and pour it down my throat.'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5810/8689/5810_8689_000003_000000.wav|'Good morning, friend,' said Paul; 'upon my word, you must be a strong man!'|5810
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000039_000000.wav|"I have a right to my life-and you're it, you're my life!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000002_000000.wav|Once, when Kennicott announced at noon dinner, "What do you know about this!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000066_000000.wav|"It is, O male Kennicott!"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000017_000007.wav|Next thing, I suppose you'll be yapping about free speech.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000052_000003.wav|Let's play something else.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000029_000000.wav|"Of course a little thing like Hugh makes no difference!"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000032_000000.wav|"You won't!"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000020_000001.wav|All I've done has been in line.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000039_000001.wav|You've made yourself so.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000015_000002.wav|If we were fighting England, you'd call the radicals 'pro English.' When this war is over, I suppose you'll be calling them 'red anarchists.' What an eternal art it is-such a glittery delightful art-finding hard names for our opponents!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000043_000000.wav|For a month they discussed it.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000054_000005.wav|Can I be a preacher?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000052_000000.wav|Hugh complained, "Notice me, mummy!"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000054_000001.wav|She gives me cookies and she tells me about the Dear Lord.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000034_000000.wav|"Oh, conversation!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000043_000003.wav|At most he agreed to a public theory that she was "going to take a short trip and see what the East was like in wartime."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000052_000004.wav|Let's go see Auntie Bogart."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000030_000001.wav|That's why I'm going to take him with me."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000056_000000.wav|"What's a generation?"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000018_000000.wav|"Will!"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000039_000002.wav|I'm damned if I'll agree to all your freak notions, but I will say I've got to depend on you.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000034_000001.wav|No, it's much more than that.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000034_000002.wav|I think it's a greatness of life-a refusal to be content with even the healthiest mud."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000053_000001.wav|Do you really like mrs Bogart?"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000014_000002.wav|Whenever it comes right down to a question of defending Americanism and our constitutional rights, it's justifiable to set aside ordinary procedure."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000022_000000.wav|"I don't know.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000026_000005.wav|As it happens, I've done that sort of thing.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000018_000002.wav|"Am I pro German if I fail to throb to Honest Jim Blausser, too?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000025_000004.wav|You haven't got enough work to do.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000028_000001.wav|I was not.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty six|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000024_000000.wav|"No, I think we can save you that trouble.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000037_000000.wav|"So have I to mine!"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000065_000000.wav|"That's foolish."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000028_000006.wav|We're going to chuck it.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000013_000002.wav|Is it a new kind of logic?"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000054_000006.wav|Can I preach about the Dear Lord?"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000025_000002.wav|Sure!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000067_000000.wav|"Huh!" said Kennicott two, and went to sleep on her shoulder.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000036_000005.wav|I'm going away to be quiet and think.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000039_000003.wav|Never thought of that complication, did you, in this 'off to Bohemia, and express yourself, and free love, and live your own life' stuff!"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000058_000001.wav|She kissed his frown, and marveled:|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000048_000000.wav|three|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000054_000000.wav|"Yes.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000025_000001.wav|Work?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000015_000001.wav|You don't oppose this organizer because you think he's seditious but because you're afraid that the farmers he is organizing will deprive you townsmen of the money you make out of mortgages and wheat and shops. Of course, since we're at war with Germany, anything that any one of us doesn't like is 'pro German,' whether it's business competition or bad music.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000040_000001.wav|Can you?"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000017_000005.wav|You can camouflage all you want to, but you know darn well that these radicals, as you call 'em, are opposed to the war, and let me tell you right here and now, and you and all these long haired men and short haired women can beef all you want to, but we're going to take these fellows, and if they ain't patriotic, we're going to make them be patriotic.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000025_000003.wav|That's the whole trouble with you!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000063_000000.wav|"And cookies?"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000024_000002.wav|I've got to find out what my work is----"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000026_000001.wav|That's what most men-and women-like you WOULD say.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000050_000000.wav|She had her freedom, and it was empty.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000025_000000.wav|"Work?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000040_000000.wav|"You have a right to me if you can keep me.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000052_000002.wav|"I'm tired of playing train.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000054_000004.wav|Auntie Bogart says I'm going to be a preacher.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000030_000000.wav|"Yes, all the difference.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000012_000001.wav|They didn't give him a chance!" His laugh was stagey.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000036_000007.wav|I have a right to my own life."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000028_000008.wav|Oh, we're hopeless, we dissatisfied women! Then why do you want to have us about the place, to fret you?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000015_000000.wav|"What editorial did he get that from?" she wondered, as she protested, "See here, my beloved, why can't you Tories declare war honestly?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000019_000000.wav|He was grumbling, "The whole thing's right in line with the criticism you've always been making.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000036_000006.wav|I'm-I'm going!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000050_000001.wav|The moment was not the highest of her life, but the lowest and most desolate, which was altogether excellent, for instead of slipping downward she began to climb.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000021_000000.wav|He grunted.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000028_000003.wav|It's work-but not my work.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000017_000006.wav|And-Lord knows I never thought I'd have to say this to my own wife-but if you go defending these fellows, then the same thing applies to you!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000020_000002.wav|I don't belong to Gopher Prairie.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000064_000003.wav|We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000028_000002.wav|I was just bedraggled and unhappy.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000020_000006.wav|I don't belong here, and I'm going.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000028_000004.wav|I could run an office or a library, or nurse and teach children.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000015_000004.wav|The churches have always done it, and the political orators-and I suppose I do it when I call mrs Bogart a 'Puritan' and mr Stowbody a 'capitalist.' But you business men are going to beat all the rest of us at it, with your simple hearted, energetic, pompous----"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000059_000002.wav|But the story doesn't go right.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000036_000000.wav|"Perhaps.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000014_000001.wav|They knew this fellow would try to stir up trouble.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000018_000001.wav|She was not timorous now.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000058_000000.wav|"That's foolish." He was a serious and literal person, and rather humorless.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124549/512_124549_000064_000000.wav|"Cookies?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000017_000004.wav|The frames of their buck saws were cherry red, the blades blued steel, and the fresh cut ends of the sticks-poplar, maple, iron wood, birch-were marked with engraved rings of growth.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000062_000000.wav|"How much do the maids get here?" Carol ventured.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000009.wav|If there's any more pecking, I'll take charge of the hen roost myself!"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000035_000001.wav|In tam o'shanter and tweed skirt Carol felt herself a college junior going out to play hockey.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000006_000004.wav|He rushed from house to house till after bedtime-ten o'clock.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000019_000000.wav|So brilliant was the snow glare that when she entered the house she saw the door knobs, the newspaper on the table, every white surface as dazzling mauve, and her head was dizzy in the pyrotechnic dimness.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000006_000002.wav|He was the only person besides the repairman at Sam Clark's who understood plumbing.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000063_000001.wav|I know positively that mrs Clark, after swearing that she wouldn't weaken and encourage them in their outrageous demands, went and paid five fifty-think of it! practically a dollar a day for unskilled work and, of course, her food and room and a chance to do her own washing right in with the rest of the wash.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000005.wav|Juanita, quit looking so belligerent.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000004_000001.wav|Through late November and all December it snowed daily; the thermometer was at zero and might drop to twenty below, or thirty.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000087_000000.wav|She walked home.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000023_000006.wav|Lamb chops were as exotic as sharks' fins.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000033_000000.wav|"It's infuriating to have to pay attention to what people think.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000011_000001.wav|The lesser sort appeared in yellow and black dogskin coats, but Kennicott was lordly in a long raccoon ulster and a new seal cap.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000004_000000.wav|GOPHER PRAIRIE was digging in for the winter.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000020_000000.wav|In the mid afternoon of this same day Kennicott was called into the country.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000077_000001.wav|We have two thousand more books than Wakamin."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000069_000000.wav|Carol was retorting, "But a maid does it for strangers, and all she gets out of it is the pay----"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000027_000000.wav|There were only three things which she could do: Have children; start her career of reforming; or become so definitely a part of the town that she would be fulfilled by the activities of church and study club and bridge parties.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000030_000002.wav|She reflected that she did not know whether the people liked her.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000087_000004.wav|Only----I can't!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000081_000000.wav|"You feel so?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000014_000004.wav|Harry Haydock did figure eights, and Carol was certain that she had found the perfect life.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000024_000001.wav|She could not find a glass headed picture nail in town; she did not hunt for the sort of veiling she wanted-she took what she could get; and only at Howland and Gould's was there such a luxury as canned asparagus.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000061_000000.wav|mrs Dave Dyer snapped, "Honest?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000001.wav|What angry passions-and what an idiotic discussion!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000063_000002.wav|HOW MUCH DO YOU PAY, mrs KENNICOTT?"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000011_000000.wav|Winter garments surpassed even personal gossip as the topic at parties. It was good form to ask, "Put on your heavies yet?" There were as many distinctions in wraps as in motor cars.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000007_000000.wav|But he was courtly to Carol.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000006_000005.wav|Icicles from burst water pipes hung along the skirt of his brown dog skin overcoat; his plush cap, which he never took off in the house, was a pulp of ice and coal dust; his red hands were cracked to rawness; he chewed the stub of a cigar.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000018_000000.wav|Carol cried "Fine day!" to the boys; she came in a glow to Howland and Gould's grocery, her collar white with frost from her breath; she bought a can of tomatoes as though it were Orient fruit; and returned home planning to surprise Kennicott with an omelet creole for dinner.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000028_000000.wav|Children, yes, she wanted them, but----She was not quite ready.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000025_000001.wav|To the village doctor's wife it was taboo.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000032_000002.wav|Was that merely his usual manner?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000029_000001.wav|But she would set them going now.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000055_000002.wav|She talked.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000006_000001.wav|Now, for a week, he was commissioner general of Gopher Prairie.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000031_000000.wav|She was poisoned with doubt, as she drooped up to bed.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000044_000002.wav|She twittered, "You're perfectly right.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000005_000004.wav|He called both Lyman Cass the miller and the Finn homesteader from Lost Lake by their first names. He was known as "The Red Swede," and considered slightly insane.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000014_000001.wav|It was so rich looking to sit and drive-and so easy. Skiing and sliding were "stupid" and "old-fashioned." In fact, the village longed for the elegance of city recreations almost as much as the cities longed for village sports; and Gopher Prairie took as much pride in neglecting coasting as saint Paul--or New York-in going coasting.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000016_000000.wav|Carol was discouraged.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000059_000000.wav|They were off, riding hard.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000017_000005.wav|The boys wore shoe packs, blue flannel shirts with enormous pearl buttons, and mackinaws of crimson, lemon yellow, and foxy brown.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000035_000000.wav|A thaw which stripped the snow from the sidewalks; a ringing iron night when the lakes could be heard booming; a clear roistering morning.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000064_000001.wav|How much do you pay?" insisted half a dozen.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000008.wav|Boooooo!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000030_000000.wav|Become an authentic part of the town?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000028_000002.wav|She was sorry----Perhaps he had made all the mystery of love a mechanical cautiousness but----She fled from the thought with a dubious, "Some day."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000004_000002.wav|Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000014_000007.wav|They scooted down a long hill on a bob sled, they upset and got snow down their necks they shrieked that they would do it again immediately-and they did not do it again at all.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000058_000000.wav|Juanita Haydock rattled, "They're ungrateful, all that class of people. I do think the domestic problem is simply becoming awful.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000030_000001.wav|She began to think with unpleasant lucidity.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000036_000002.wav|Across the street, at another window, the curtain had secretively moved.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000004.wav|Carol Kennicott, you're probably right, but you're too much ahead of the times.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000042_000001.wav|They were already playing. Despite her flabby resolves she had not yet learned bridge.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000067_000001.wav|"I don't care!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000066_000000.wav|They gasped.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000061_000001.wav|Do you call it honest to hold us up for every cent of pay they can get?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000023_000004.wav|The cuts of beef were not cuts.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000028_000001.wav|She had been embarrassed by Kennicott's frankness, but she agreed with him that in the insane condition of civilization, which made the rearing of citizens more costly and perilous than any other crime, it was inadvisable to have children till he had made more money.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000016_000004.wav|He belonged there, masculine in reefer and sweater and high laced boots.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000003.wav|Stop it!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000004_000004.wav|While Kennicott put up his windows Carol danced inside the bedrooms and begged him not to swallow the screws, which he held in his mouth like an extraordinary set of external false teeth.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000052_000005.wav|The olives need not be stuffed.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000034_000000.wav|three|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000035_000004.wav|She galloped down a block and as she jumped from a curb across a welter of slush, she gave a student "Yippee!"|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000029_000000.wav|Her "reforms," her impulses toward beauty in raw Main Street, they had become indistinct.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000067_000000.wav|Carol was angry.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000005_000002.wav|The children's parents either laughed at him or hated him.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000055_000004.wav|Isn't the country lovely!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000030_000004.wav|The men smiled-but did they like her?|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000064_000000.wav|"Yes!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000004_000003.wav|Storm sheds were erected at every door. In every block the householders, Sam Clark, the wealthy mr Dawson, all save asthmatic ezra Stowbody who extravagantly hired a boy, were seen perilously staggering up ladders, carrying storm windows and screwing them to second story jambs.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000005_000003.wav|He was the one democrat in town.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000071_000006.wav|What is this, a card party or a hen fight? Carol, you stop admiring yourself as the Joan of Arc of the hired girls, or I'll spank you.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000016_000005.wav|That night she ate prodigiously of steak and fried potatoes; she produced electric sparks by touching his ear with her finger tip; she slept twelve hours; and awoke to think how glorious was this brave land.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000026_000000.wav|She was a woman with a working brain and no work.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000079_000000.wav|"So I have been informed.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000014_000006.wav|She had to nag them.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000044_000003.wav|I'm a lazy thing.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000035_000002.wav|She wanted to whoop, her legs ached to run.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000054_000000.wav|She tried to get back into the current.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000032_000000.wav|Next day, through her shopping, her mind sat back and observed.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000067_000002.wav|A maid has one of the hardest jobs on earth.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000036_000003.wav|She stopped, walked on sedately, changed from the girl Carol into mrs dr Kennicott.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000078_000002.wav|I've had some experience, in saint Paul."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000019_000001.wav|When her eyes had recovered she felt expanded, drunk with health, mistress of life.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000006_000000.wav|Bjornstam could do anything with his hands-solder a pan, weld an automobile spring, soothe a frightened filly, tinker a clock, carve a Gloucester schooner which magically went into a bottle.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000056_000000.wav|"Oh, do you THINK so?" protested mrs Jackson Elder.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000033_000002.wav|But here I'm spied on.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000072_000000.wav|They all laughed artificially, and Carol obediently "talked libraries."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000017_000001.wav|Snug in her furs she trotted up town.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000063_000000.wav|mrs b j Gougerling, wife of the banker, stated in a shocked manner, "Any place from three fifty to five fifty a week!|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000012_000000.wav|Carol herself stirred Main Street by a loose coat of nutria.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000070_000000.wav|Their eyes were hostile.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000007_000001.wav|He stooped to examine the furnace flues; he straightened, glanced down at her, and hemmed, "Got to fix your furnace, no matter what else I do."|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000040_000002.wav|Then the town exploded.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000021_000000.wav|Thus she chanced to discover that she had nothing to do.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000025_000000.wav|She could not have outside employment.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/512/124520/512_124520_000023_000005.wav|They were hacks.|512
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000038_000000.wav|From dr Robert Mackenzie to Sir Deryck Brand.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000030_000000.wav|Yours always devotedly,|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000013_000005.wav|I learn much from dr Mackenzie, and I love dr Rob, excepting on those occasions when I long to pick him up by the scruff of his fawn overcoat and drop him out of the window.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000031_000000.wav|Deryck Brand.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000012_000001.wav|I always thought it was made in five minutes, as wanted.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000036_000000.wav|Yours very faithfully,|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000007_000001.wav|Having been here a fortnight, I think it is time I sent you a report.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000010_000007.wav|Dear wise old Boy, dare you undertake the role of Moses!|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000010_000004.wav|And behind come galloping the hosts of Pharaoh; chance, speeding on the wheels of circumstance.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000026_000004.wav|In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." Ancient marching orders, and simple; but true, and therefore eternal.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000024_000000.wav|My dear Jeanette: Certainly I will come.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000029_000001.wav|And you so priceless!|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000026_000000.wav|Still I am hopeful, nay, more than hopeful,--confident.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000009_000003.wav|And you, dear, clever doctor, are proved perfectly right in your diagnosis of the sentiment of the case.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000026_000003.wav|The more intricate and involved this problem of human existence becomes, the greater the need to take as our own clear rule of life: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000040_000002.wav|She cannot quite bring herself to trust in|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000035_000000.wav|I hope you are satisfied with the nurse I sent up.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000012_000000.wav|As you may suppose, Jane grows haggard and thin in spite of old Margery's porridge-which is "put on" every day after lunch, for the next morning's breakfast, and anybody passing "gives it a stir." Did you know that was the right way to make porridge, Deryck?|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000025_000002.wav|Moreover, latest investigations have proved that the Israelites could not have crossed at the place you mention, but further north at the Bitter Lakes; a mere matter of detail, in no way affecting the extreme appositeness of your illustration, rather, adding to it; for I fear there are bitter waters ahead of you, my poor girl.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000004_000000.wav|JANE REPORTS PROGRESS|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000019_000005.wav|Oh, Boy-come!|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000008_000001.wav|She is making herself indispensable to the patient, and he turns to her with a completeness of confidence which causes her heart to swell with professional pride.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000026_000002.wav|Any one can make GOOD things work together for good: but only the Heavenly Father can bring good out of evil; and, taking all our mistakes and failings and foolishnesses, cause them to work to our most perfect well-being.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000007_000004.wav|And yet I wish I might, for once, borrow the pen of a ready writer; because I cannot help knowing that I have been passing through experiences such as do not often fall to the lot of a woman.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000019_000004.wav|And a breath of the moors would be good for you. Also I have a little private plan, which depends largely for its fulfilment on your coming.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000014_000002.wav|Mercifully, the perfect training of an English man servant saved the situation, and he merely said: "Yessir; certainly sir," and looked upon, me, standing silently by, as a person who evidently delighted in giving unnecessary trouble.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000005_000000.wav|Letter from the Honourable Jane Champion to Sir Deryck Brand.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000009_000006.wav|But how to make him realise this, is the puzzle.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000034_000000.wav|I find I can make it possible to come north this week end.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000007_000000.wav|My dear Deryck: My wires and post cards have not told you much beyond the fact of my safe arrival.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000029_000003.wav|Trust me to prove it to him,--to my own satisfaction and his,--if I get the chance.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000040_000001.wav|She may confide in you.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000015_000002.wav|Simpson's expression of polite attention did not vary, and his only comment was: "Certainly, miss.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000032_000000.wav|From Sir Deryck Brand to dr Robert Mackenzie.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000013_000004.wav|By the way, I was quite unprepared to find him such a character.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000021_000000.wav|Jeanette.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000013_000000.wav|But what a syntactical digression!|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000027_000003.wav|We must avert such a catastrophe.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000037_000000.wav|Deryck Brand.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000033_000000.wav|Dear Mackenzie: Do you consider it to be advisable that I should shortly pay a visit to our patient at Gleneesh and give an opinion on his progress?|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000023_000000.wav|Wimpole Street.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000014_000000.wav|On the point of Nurse Rosemary's personal appearance, I found it best to be perfectly frank with the household.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000026_000001.wav|Often of late, in connection with you, I have thought of the promise about all things working together for good.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000016_000000.wav|Well, to continue my report.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122544/968_122544_000015_000001.wav|He thought me small and slim; fair and very pretty; and it was most important, in order to avoid long explanations and mental confusion for him, that he should not at present be undeceived.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000032_000000.wav|"And the writing?" asked Garth, mechanically and very quietly.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000051_000000.wav|An early bee hummed in from the hyacinths and buzzed against the pane. Otherwise the room was very still.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000019_000002.wav|But no wonder you want a time off.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000042_000002.wav|Never mind this Egyptian address.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000017_000001.wav|"And what a change he will find!|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000014_000000.wav|Nurse Rosemary laughed.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000046_000000.wav|Jane Champion.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000018_000001.wav|But, mr Dalmain, I was wanting to ask whether you could spare me just during forty eight hours; and dr Brand's visit would be an excellent opportunity.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000061_000003.wav|Did I read it badly?|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000041_000001.wav|I was sitting on the piazza after dinner.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000006_000000.wav|They were seated close to the French window opening on to the terrace; the breeze, fragrant with the breath of spring flowers, blew about them, and the morning sun streamed in.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000048_000003.wav|May we begin?-- Dear Miss Champion ...|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000056_000000.wav|Nurse Rosemary dropped her pen.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000018_000000.wav|"No," said Nurse Rosemary, "not yet.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000015_000001.wav|"I had no idea of seeming curious as to your private correspondence, Miss Gray.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000019_000003.wav|Shall you be going far?"|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000059_000000.wav|"But think how hard it must be for any one to want so much to be near a-a friend in trouble, and to be kept away."|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000060_000002.wav|It would greatly sadden her to see me thus."|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000025_000001.wav|He made no remark, but after a moment laid it down and took up the next.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000070_000001.wav|Her right hand held the pen poised over the paper.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000070_000002.wav|Her left was pressed against her breast.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000023_000006.wav|It is always best to avoid classical allusions, especially if sacred, unless one has them accurately.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000041_000004.wav|Would you have come, Garth?|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000056_000001.wav|"Oh, mr Dalmain," she said, "let her come."|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000031_000000.wav|"Quite straight," she said.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000038_000001.wav|If I were with you, there would be so much I could say; but writing is so difficult, so impossible.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000008.wav|She might think-she might misunderstand.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000066_000000.wav|"Never mind," he said, with his winning smile, "my kind little mentor and guide.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000048_000000.wav|"If you are not tired, Miss Gray, after reading so many letters, I should like to dictate my answer to that one immediately, while it is fresh in my mind.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000015_000000.wav|"Oh, don't tell me," cried Garth quickly, putting out his hand in protest.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000013.wav|Full stop after 'matter.' Now let me think."|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000009.wav|Had you begun to write it?|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000042_000004.wav|Direct to me at my aunt's town house.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000015_000002.wav|Only it is such a pleasure to report progress to you in the things I manage to find out without being told."|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000066_000003.wav|Where were we?|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000011_000000.wav|"Because it was on one sheet.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000005.wav|I feel sure my friends will respect my wish in this matter.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000021_000004.wav|I don't want that.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000042_000001.wav|If you just say: "COME," I will come from any part of the world where I may chance to be when the message reaches me.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000057_000000.wav|Garth turned upon her a face of blank surprise.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000031_000001.wav|"mr Dalmain, this letter has an Egyptian stamp, and the postmark is Cairo.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000021_000005.wav|But kindly give me the rest."|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000024_000001.wav|He had just come to one written on foreign paper, and sealed.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000016_000001.wav|"The letter is from Sir Deryck, and, amongst other things, he says he is coming up to see you next Saturday."|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000005_000000.wav|Nurse Rosemary sat with her patient in the sunny library at Gleneesh.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000043_000000.wav|LET ME COME.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty one|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000014_000001.wav|"You are getting on so fast, mr Dalmain, that soon we shall be able to keep no secrets.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000055_000000.wav|"It is more than kind of you to suggest coming to see me, but-"|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000069_000000.wav|Garth dropped his face into his hands, and sat for a long time absorbed in thought.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000058_000000.wav|"I do not wish it," he said, in a tone of absolute finality.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000010_000000.wav|"Quite right," said Nurse Rosemary.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000004_000000.wav|HARD ON THE SECRETARY|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000033_000000.wav|"The handwriting is rather bold and very clear, with no twirls or flourishes.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000045_000000.wav|Yours, more than I can write,|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000062_000001.wav|He spoke with quiet sternness, a frown bending his straight black brows.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000065_000000.wav|Garth stretched his hand across the table, and left it there a moment; though no responsive hand was placed within it.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000017_000000.wav|"Ah, good!" said Garth.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000048_000001.wav|Have you paper there?|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000004.wav|During the summer I shall be learning step by step to live this new life, in complete seclusion at Gleneesh.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000060_000000.wav|"It is only her wonderful kindness of heart makes her offer to come, Miss Gray.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000027_000000.wav|Nurse Rosemary took up the first letter, read the postmark, and described the writing on the envelope.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000023_000000.wav|Garth took them.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000036_000000.wav|"It is signed 'Jane Champion,' mr Dalmain," said Nurse Rosemary.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000053_000000.wav|The bee fought the window angrily, up and down, up and down, for several minutes; then found the open glass and whirled out into the sunshine, joyfully.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000024_000002.wav|He broke off his sentence abruptly, held the letter silently for a moment, then passed his fingers slowly over the seal.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000052_000000.wav|--"but of course, if you had sent for me I should have come."|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000048_000004.wav|I am deeply touched by your kind letter of sympathy ...|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000064_000000.wav|"I beg your pardon, sir," said Nurse Rosemary humbly.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000049_000000.wav|A long pause.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000048_000002.wav|Thank you.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000042_000000.wav|And now, my friend, as you cannot come to me, may I come to you?|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000035_000001.wav|She opened the letter, turned to the last page, and found the signature.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000040_000000.wav|I hear you receive no visitors; but cannot you make just one exception, and let me come?|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000033_000001.wav|It is written with a broad nib."|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000066_000001.wav|You can direct me in most things, but not in this.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000026_000000.wav|Then the usual order of proceedings commenced.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000063_000001.wav|I must feel able to dictate my letters to my secretary, without having to explain them."|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000022_000000.wav|Nurse Rosemary took out the newspaper; then pushed the pile along, until it touched his hand.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000063_000000.wav|"You read it quite well," he said, "but you do not do well to discuss it.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000006.wav|I have with me one who most perfectly and patiently is helping-Ah, wait!" cried Garth suddenly.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000016_000000.wav|"But I meant to tell you anyway," said Nurse Rosemary.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000014_000002.wav|My letter was from-"|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000066_000002.wav|Now let us conclude.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000023_000004.wav|Kind old soul!|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000018_000004.wav|dr Brand would read you Saturday's and Sunday's-Ah, I forgot; there is no Sunday post.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000024_000000.wav|He had been handling his letters, one by one; carefully fingering each, before laying it on the table beside him.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000019_000001.wav|"I should have liked that we three should have talked together.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000005_000001.wav|A small table was between them, upon which lay a pile of letters-his morning mail-ready for her to open, read to him, and pass across, should there chance to be one among them he wished to touch or to keep in his pocket.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000035_000000.wav|Nurse Rosemary fought with her throat, which threatened to close altogether and stifle her voice.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000047_000000.wav|Garth removed the hand which had been shielding his face.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000021_000001.wav|"Wait a minute.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000050_000000.wav|"I am glad you did not give up the Nile trip but-"|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000020_000000.wav|"No; I have friends near by.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000010.wav|No? What was the last word?|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000021_000000.wav|"Yes," said Garth, reaching out his hand.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000007.wav|"I will not say that.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000041_000000.wav|I was at the Great Pyramid when I heard.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000031_000002.wav|It is sealed with scarlet sealing wax, and the engraving on the seal is a plumed helmet with the visor closed."|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000028_000000.wav|Nurse Rosemary's fingers shook as she replaced the eighth in its envelope.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000070_000004.wav|At last Garth lifted his face.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000068_000002.wav|Now let us go on ...|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000007_000000.wav|Garth, in white flannels, wearing a green tie and a button hole of primroses, lay back luxuriously, enjoying, with his rapidly quickening senses, the scent of the flowers and the touch of the sun beams.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000026_000001.wav|Garth lighted a cigarette-one of the first things he had learned to do for himself-and smoked contentedly, carefully placing his ash tray, and almost unfailingly locating the ash, in time and correctly.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000041_000002.wav|The moonlight called up memories.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000029_000000.wav|"Did I shoot straight, nurse?" he asked.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000044_000000.wav|Believe me to be,|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000008_000001.wav|Deryck was coming. He had not failed her.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/968/122545/968_122545_000070_000005.wav|"Yours very sincerely, Garth Dalmain;" he said.|968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000046_000000.wav|"I'm come to bid you good bye," said the sailor, and would in his sociable friendly humour have gone on speaking.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000009_000001.wav|Bless me, Will, that's sudden, isn't it?"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000023_000005.wav|He's starting this evening."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000097_000000.wav|"Oh! grandfather!|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000086_000004.wav|When john heard the words of blessing, he shook his head mournfully, and turned away to retrace his steps.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000060_000001.wav|It was not often he came, but when he did pay visits, Mary knew from past experience they were any thing but short.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000045_000000.wav|john Barton came in.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000113_000001.wav|"It's perhaps as well he shouldn't see her now, for they say her face is sadly drawn.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000027_000000.wav|"I could almost wish it had been otherwise," said Will, thoughtfully. "I could have been so glad to comfort her, and cherish her, if she had been in trouble."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000055_000000.wav|Mary looked at him to see if he spoke jestingly.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000015_000003.wav|I'm sorry enough; but I mustn't slight poor mother's friends.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000074_000000.wav|What could her father be doing up stairs?|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000108_000000.wav|"And what does the doctor say?" asked Mary.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000079_000000.wav|"Oh! father, don't go yet.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000060_000004.wav|Job, however, did not stand upon ceremony.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000017_000001.wav|I shan't see you again."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000001.wav|You'll often speak of me to her, Mary?|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000050_000003.wav|She wondered if he disliked Will being there; or if he were vexed to find that she had not got further on with her work.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000023_000004.wav|Father is going as a delegate from his Union, to ask help from the Glasgow folk.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000060_000002.wav|Her father's countenance fell back into the deep gloom from which it was but just emerging at the sound of Mary's sweet voice, and pretty pleading.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000114_000003.wav|And to a place so mysteriously distant as Glasgow seemed to be to her!|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000083_000001.wav|"It's best as it is.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000010.wav|Dear! and how different it is!|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000094_000005.wav|Hark! that's her!"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000042_000000.wav|They both stood thinking.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000068_000000.wav|"When does thy father start, Mary?"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000030_000000.wav|Mary could not help laughing outright, in spite of her depression, at the idea of Margaret as an angel; it was so difficult (even to her dress making imagination) to fancy where, and how, the wings would be fastened to the brown stuff gown, or the blue and yellow print.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000085_000003.wav|Her father, as soon as he was out of sight, slackened his pace, and fell into that heavy listless step, which told as well as words could do, of hopelessness and weakness.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000054_000000.wav|"Thou dost not know that I'm larning to do without food," said he.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000074_000002.wav|Or why did not Job go?|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000041_000001.wav|I dare say it's best.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000022_000002.wav|To Glasgow, did you say?|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000098_000001.wav|Do tell us, Margaret!" said Mary, placing her in a chair, and loosening her bonnet strings.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000082_000000.wav|"Don't go yet, father; I can't bear you to go yet.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000008_000001.wav|I'm come to say good bye; and few folk like to say good bye to them they love."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000086_000003.wav|So, aided by inquiries here and there from a passer by, he led and carried the little fellow home, where his mother had been too busy to miss him, but now received him with thankfulness, and with an eloquent Irish blessing.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000007_000001.wav|You seem quite cut up about something!"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000015_000001.wav|But, you see, I got a letter this afternoon from Jack Harris, to tell me our ship sails on Tuesday next; and it's long since I promised my uncle (my mother's brother, him that lives at Kirk Christ, beyond Ramsay, in the Isle of Man) that I'd go and see him and his, this time of coming ashore.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000080_000001.wav|She followed him to the door, her eyes blinded by sudden tears; she stood there looking after him. He was so strange, so cold, so hard.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000055_000001.wav|No! he looked savagely grave.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000012_000001.wav|"No, it isn't;" rousing himself, to think of what he was saying.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000079_000002.wav|Stay one moment!"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000083_000003.wav|I cannot be still at home. I must be moving."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000088_000002.wav|A leaden weight seemed to hang over her; a sort of presentiment of evil, or perhaps only an excess of low spirited feeling in consequence of the two departures which had taken place that afternoon.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000007_000000.wav|"Why, Will! what's the matter with you?|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000114_000005.wav|Her heart began to despair, too, about Jem.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000106_000000.wav|She sobbed a little; and they let her give that ease to her heart. Then she went on-|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000098_000000.wav|"What is it?|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000015_000004.wav|I must go.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000076_000003.wav|But, comes the Trades' Union, and says, 'Well, if you take the half loaf, we'll worry you out of your life.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000049_000001.wav|That's the day we shall hoist our blue peter, Jack Harris says."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000097_000001.wav|Alice Wilson's so bad!" She could say no more, for her breathless agitation.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000012.wav|I wish she had been able to go to Burton once afore she died."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000003_000000.wav|BARTON'S NIGHT ERRAND.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000049_000000.wav|"You'll think on me on Tuesday, Mary.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000022_000004.wav|Trade is as bad there as here, folk say."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000029_000001.wav|I don't know.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000077_000001.wav|Her father was coming down at last.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000006_000000.wav|The events recorded in the last chapter took place on a Tuesday.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000012_000002.wav|"The captain told me in a fortnight he would be ready to sail again; but it comes very sudden on me, I had got so fond of you all."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000014_000001.wav|Not a fortnight since you knocked at Jane Wilson's door, and I was there, you remember.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000008.wav|And she knew such a deal about plants and birds, and their ways!|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000005_000000.wav|ANONYMOUS.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000050_000005.wav|She would speak.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER seventeen.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000002.wav|And if I should meet with any mischance, tell her how dear, how very dear, she was to me, and bid her, for the sake of one who loved her well, try and comfort my poor aunt Alice.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000076_000000.wav|"You see my folly is this, Mary.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000105_000001.wav|"But, oh!|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000086_000001.wav|His thoughts were running on little Tom; on the dead and buried child of happier years.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000014_000002.wav|Nothing like a fortnight!"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000078_000001.wav|He went up to Job, and, more civilly than Mary expected, wished him good bye.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000006_000003.wav|He came in, and sat down, more quietly than usual.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000107_000000.wav|"No!|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000114_000002.wav|Will gone; her father gone-and so strangely too!|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000088_000000.wav|Mary took her sewing after he had gone, and sat on, and sat on, trying to listen to Job, who was more inclined to talk than usual. She had conquered her feeling of impatience towards him so far as to be able to offer him her father's rejected supper; and she even tried to eat herself.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000088_000001.wav|But her heart failed her.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000052_000000.wav|"And why shouldst thou know?" replied he, gruffly.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000076_000002.wav|I would work for low wages rather than sit idle and starve.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000064_000000.wav|"To night."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000018_000000.wav|"To night! and you go to Liverpool!|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000083_000002.wav|I couldn't eat, and it's best to be off.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000023_000002.wav|It's very hard to keep up one's heart.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000033_000002.wav|He did not notice her change of look and of complexion.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000010_000000.wav|Mary left off ironing, and came and stood near the fire place.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000045_000002.wav|He looked at Will, but spoke no word of greeting or welcome.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000058_000001.wav|I telled thee I were not for eating."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000063_000000.wav|"When art starting?"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000089_000001.wav|She did not like putting down her work, and crying before him, and yet she had never in her life longed so much to be alone in order to indulge in a good hearty burst of tears.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000037_000003.wav|I've been in to wish them good bye, and my voice stuck in my throat.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000048_000000.wav|There was that in his manner which left no doubt of his desire to get rid of the visitor, and Will accordingly shook hands with Mary, and looked at john, as if doubting how far to offer to shake hands with him.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000018_000001.wav|May be you and father will go together.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000071_000000.wav|"Yes, she's well enough.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000050_000002.wav|He was so restless; not speaking (she wished he would), but starting up and then sitting down, and meddling with her irons; he seemed so fierce, too, to judge from his face.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000020_000001.wav|You can get by railway for three and sixpence."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000022_000001.wav|"It's a fine clear night, and I shall set off betimes, and get in afore the Manx packet sails. Where's your father going?|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000079_000001.wav|Your supper is all ready.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000102_000001.wav|Why didn't he go for the doctor?"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000046_000001.wav|But john answered abruptly,|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000007.wav|How pleased I used to be when she would take me into the fields with her to gather herbs! I've tasted tea in China since then, but it wasn't half so good as the herb tea she used to make for me o' Sunday nights.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000091_000000.wav|"But perhaps she is," suggested Mary.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000013_000000.wav|Mary understood the particular fondness that was thus generalised. She spoke again.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000077_000000.wav|Creak, creak, went the stairs.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000022_000003.wav|Perhaps he and I may have a bit of a trip together then, for, if the Manx boat has sailed when I get into Liverpool, I shall go by a Scotch packet. What's he going to do in Glasgow?--Seek for work?|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000069_000000.wav|That plaguing question again.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000085_000004.wav|It was getting dark, but he loitered on, returning no greeting to any one.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000092_000001.wav|Look ye here!" and he pulled out the great house key.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000010_000001.wav|She had always liked Will; but now it seemed as if a sudden spring of sisterly love had gushed up in her heart, so sorry did she feel to hear of his approaching departure.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000078_000002.wav|He then turned to her, and in a short cold manner, bade her farewell.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000070_000002.wav|Is Margaret very well?"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000026_000001.wav|Her blindness almost appears a blessing sometimes; she was so downhearted when she dreaded it, and now she seems so calm and happy when it's downright come.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000036_000001.wav|"But I should say that was a good sign from a girl like her.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000110_000000.wav|Margaret, having told her tale, leant back with weariness, both of body and mind.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000009_000000.wav|"Good bye!|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000114_000004.wav|She had felt his presence as a protection against Harry Carson and his threats; and now she dreaded lest he should learn she was alone.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000110_000001.wav|Mary hastened to make her a cup of tea; while Job, lately so talkative, sat quiet and mournfully silent.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000107_000001.wav|I went round by mrs Davenport's, and she were hard at work; but, the minute I told my errand, she were ready and willing to go to Jane Wilson, and stop up all night with Alice."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000086_000000.wav|A child's cry caught his ear.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000083_000000.wav|"No," he said, faintly and mournfully.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000053_000000.wav|"I wanted to get you something to eat first," answered she, gently.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000105_000000.wav|"No, no," said Margaret.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000076_000001.wav|I would take what I could get; I think half a loaf is better than no bread.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000066_000003.wav|But no! Job seemed imperturbable.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000019_000000.wav|"No! I'm walking; and I don't think your father will be up to walking."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000105_000003.wav|I should have so loved to nurse her; and I did try, until I found I did more harm than good.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000094_000002.wav|But, bless you! she goes along as steadily as can be; rather slow, to be sure, and her head a bit on one side as if she were listening.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000036_000002.wav|I've no right to say what I think; but, if I was you, I would not leave her now without speaking."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000014_000000.wav|"But it's not a fortnight since you came.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000066_000001.wav|He got up without speaking, and went up stairs.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000018_000002.wav|He's going to Glasgow, by way of Liverpool."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000089_000000.wav|She wondered how long Job Legh would sit.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000037_000001.wav|I cannot speak!|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000031_000001.wav|Then he said-|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000058_000000.wav|"If thou'rt doing that for me, Mary, thou may'st spare thy labour.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000029_000003.wav|And her voice! When I hear it, and think of the wishes that are in my heart, it seems as much out of place to ask her to be my wife, as it would be to ask an angel from heaven."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000026_000000.wav|"No!" replied Mary, smiling a little, "she's the only one I know, I believe, who seems free from care.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000080_000002.wav|Suddenly, at the end of the court, he turned, and saw her standing there; he came back quickly, and took her in his arms.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000017_000000.wav|"To night.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000065_000001.wav|But by what train?"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000085_000000.wav|And he was out of sight!|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000042_000001.wav|Suddenly Mary started.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000028_000000.wav|"And why can't you cherish her, even though she is happy?" asked Mary.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000059_000000.wav|"Just a little bit, father, before starting," coaxed Mary, perseveringly.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000109_000001.wav|He's ordered her leeches to her head."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000033_000001.wav|It was unkind of him.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000082_000001.wav|Come in, and eat some supper; you look so ghastly; dear father, do!"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000025_000000.wav|"You say no one crosses the threshold but has something sad to say; you don't mean that Margaret Jennings has any trouble?" asked the young sailor, anxiously.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000087_000000.wav|Let us leave him.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000072_000000.wav|"Yes, they've given him a sovereign.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000015_000005.wav|Don't try to keep me," said he, evidently fearing the strength of his own resolution, if hard pressed by entreaty.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000066_000000.wav|That was just what Mary wanted to know; but what apparently her father was in no mood to tell.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000037_000002.wav|I have tried.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000084_000000.wav|So saying, he unlaced her soft twining arms, and kissing her once more, set off on his fierce errand.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000016_000000.wav|"I'm not a going, Will.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000066_000002.wav|Mary knew from his step, and his way, how much he was put out, and feared Job would see it, too.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000043_000000.wav|"That's father's step.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000085_000002.wav|She turned in to Job, who sat there still.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000037_000007.wav|and, if you can slip in something tender,--something, you know, of what I feel,--may be she would listen to you, Mary."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000040_000000.wav|"She would may be have found all sadly changed," said Mary, though her heart echoed Will's feeling.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000090_000001.wav|Only I wonder as Margaret is not come back."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000015_000002.wav|I must go.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000094_000001.wav|At first I were afraid o' trusting her, and I used to follow her a bit behind; never letting on, of course.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000034_000000.wav|"I thought-I think, that when I come back from this voyage, I will speak.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000056_000000.wav|She finished her bit of ironing, and began preparing the food she was sure her father needed; for by this time her experience in the degrees of hunger had taught her that his present irritability was increased, if not caused, by want of food.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000073_000004.wav|But then they won't let me be silly in peace and quietness, but will force me to be as wise as they are; now that's not British liberty, I say.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000023_000003.wav|I wish I were a boy, I'd go to sea with you. It would be getting away from bad news at any rate; and now, there's hardly a creature that crosses the door step, but has something sad and unhappy to tell one.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000044_000000.wav|She hurried to her irons, and tried to make up for lost time.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000075_000000.wav|But Job had no notion of going.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000073_000005.wav|I'm forced to be wise according to their notions, else they parsecute me, and sarve me out."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000038_000000.wav|Mary promised that she would do all that he asked.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000066_000004.wav|So much the better, and perhaps she could cover her father's rudeness by her own civility to so kind a friend.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000006_000001.wav|On Thursday afternoon Mary was surprised, in the midst of some little bustle in which she was engaged, by the entrance of Will Wilson. He looked strange, at least it was strange to see any different expression on his face to his usual joyous beaming appearance.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000043_000001.wav|And his shirt's not ready!"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000114_000006.wav|She feared he had ceased to love her; and she-she only loved him more and more for his seeming neglect.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000060_000005.wav|He had come to pay a visit, and was not to be daunted from his purpose.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000050_000004.wav|At last she could bear his nervous way no longer, it made her equally nervous and fidgetty.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000114_000000.wav|With a few more sorrowful remarks they separated for the night, and Mary was left alone in her house, to meditate on the heavy day that had passed over her head.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000085_000001.wav|She did not know why, but she had never before felt so depressed, so desolate.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000080_000000.wav|But he pushed her away, and was gone.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000105_000002.wav|grandfather; it's now I feel how hard it is to have lost my sight.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000039_000011.wav|Here is she still in a back street o' Manchester, never likely to see her own home again; and I, a sailor, off for America next week.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000096_000000.wav|"What's the matter, my wench?" said Job, hastily.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000026_000002.wav|No! Margaret's happy, I do think."|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000037_000006.wav|So, will you give it to her, Mary, when I'm gone?|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000074_000003.wav|The supper would be spoilt.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000041_000003.wav|Oh Mary! many a hasty word comes sorely back on the heart, when one thinks one shall never see the person whom one has grieved again!"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000105_000004.wav|Oh! grandfather; if I could but see!"|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2882/147159/2882_147159_000036_000000.wav|"You must ask Margaret, not me, Will; she's never named your name to me." His countenance fell.|2882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000030.wav|Otherwise his later "I told you so" has no intellectual quality at all; it does not mark any testing or verification of prior thinking, but only a coincidence that yields emotional satisfaction-and includes a large factor of self deception.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000008.wav|A premium is put on physical quietude; on silence, on rigid uniformity of posture and movement; upon a machine like simulation of the attitudes of intelligent interest.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000001.wav|Certainty cannot be guaranteed in advance.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000008.wav|An experience, a very humble experience, is capable of generating and carrying any amount of theory (or intellectual content), but a theory apart from an experience cannot be definitely grasped even as theory.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000015.wav|While all thinking results in knowledge, ultimately the value of knowledge is subordinate to its use in thinking.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000003.wav|For the pupil has a body, and brings it to school along with his mind.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000007.wav|The connection of these two phases of experience measures the fruitfulness or value of the experience.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000014.wav|But it is also true that as long as men kept a sharp disjunction between knowledge and ignorance, science made only slow and accidental advance.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000024.wav|In form, yes, though not of course in content.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000016.wav|But the flagrant partisanship of human nature is evidence of the intensity of the tendency to identify ourselves with one possible course of events, and to reject the other as foreign.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000003.wav|In schools, those under instruction are too customarily looked upon as acquiring knowledge as theoretical spectators, minds which appropriate knowledge by direct energy of intellect.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000014.wav|Being burned is a mere physical change, like the burning of a stick of wood, if it is not perceived as a consequence of some other action.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000006.wav|To fill our heads, like a scrapbook, with this and that item as a finished and done for thing, is not to think.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000016_000005.wav|Our most elaborate and rationally consistent thought has to be tried in the world and thereby tried out.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000015.wav|For neutrals, it is indirect and dependent upon imagination.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000004.wav|Certain other facts about thinking accompany this feature.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000007.wav|The opposites, once more, to thoughtful action are routine and capricious behavior.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000003.wav|As soon as an infant begins to expect he begins to use something which is now going on as a sign of something to follow; he is, in however simple a fashion, judging.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000007.wav|An ounce of experience is better than a ton of theory simply because it is only in experience that any theory has vital and verifiable significance.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000008.wav|But if they originally learned the sensory motor technique of reading-the ability to identify forms and to reproduce the sounds they stand for-by methods which did not call for attention to meaning, a mechanical habit was established which makes it difficult to read subsequently with intelligence.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000022.wav|The general who allows his hopes and desires to affect his observations and interpretations of the existing situation will surely make a mistake in calculation.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000006.wav|The stimulus to thinking is found when we wish to determine the significance of some act, performed or to be performed.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000003.wav|On the active hand, experience is trying-a meaning which is made explicit in the connected term experiment.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000014.wav|For the general in the war, or a common soldier, or a citizen of one of the contending nations, the stimulus to thinking is direct and urgent.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000007.wav|It is seeking, a quest, for something that is not at hand.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000015.wav|Systematic advance in invention and discovery began when men recognized that they could utilize doubt for purposes of inquiry by forming conjectures to guide action in tentative explorations, whose development would confirm, refute, or modify the guiding conjecture.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000010.wav|Experience as trying involves change, but change is meaningless transition unless it is consciously connected with the return wave of consequences which flow from it.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000009.wav|Judgment is employed in the perception; otherwise the perception is mere sensory excitation or else a recognition of the result of a prior judgment, as in the case of familiar objects.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000009.wav|The teachers' business is to hold the pupils up to these requirements and to punish the inevitable deviations which occur.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000020.wav|His inference is more or less dubious and hypothetical.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000004.wav|But we may contrast two types of experience according to the proportion of reflection found in them.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000027.wav|But in the degree in which he is actively thinking, and not merely passively following the course of events, his tentative inferences will take effect in a method of procedure appropriate to his situation.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000025.wav|The almost insurmountable difficulty of achieving this detachment is evidence that thinking originates in situations where the course of thinking is an actual part of the course of events and is designed to influence the result.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000011.wav|When an activity is continued into the undergoing of consequences, when the change made by action is reflected back into a change made in us, the mere flux is loaded with significance.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000006.wav|For either we know already what we are after, or else we do not know.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000008.wav|The former accepts what has been customary as a full measure of possibility and omits to take into account the connections of the particular things done.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000020.wav|We get nothing which may be carried over to foresee what is likely to happen next, and no gain in ability to adjust ourselves to what is coming-no added control.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000014.wav|The action which rests simply upon the trial and error method is at the mercy of circumstances; they may change so that the act performed does not operate in the way it was expected to.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000001.wav|It is altogether too common to separate perceptions and even ideas from judgments.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000013.wav|To take it by itself as a complete existence is to take it unreflectively. Reflection also implies concern with the issue-a certain sympathetic identification of our own destiny, if only dramatic, with the outcome of the course of events.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000000.wav|The obvious result is a mechanical use of the bodily activities which (in spite of the generally obtrusive and interfering character of the body in mental action) have to be employed more or less.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000033.wav|Apparatus is arranged; possibly an expedition is made to some far part of the globe.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000003.wav|The object of thinking is to help reach a conclusion, to project a possible termination on the basis of what is already given.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000003.wav|The conclusions of thinking, till confirmed by the event, are, accordingly, more or less tentative or hypothetical.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000009.wav|The possibility of hypothetical conclusions, of tentative results, is the fact which the Greek dilemma overlooked.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000010.wav|It says, virtually, "things are to be just as I happen to like them at this instant," as routine says in effect "let things continue just as I have found them in the past." Both refuse to acknowledge responsibility for the future consequences which flow from present action.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000001_000000.wav|Chapter Eleven: Experience and Thinking|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000007.wav|The intimate union of activity and undergoing its consequences which leads to recognition of meaning is broken; instead we have two fragments: mere bodily action on one side, and meaning directly grasped by "spiritual" activity on the other.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000010.wav|Imagine the war done with, and a future historian giving an account of it.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000006.wav|We simply do something, and when it fails, we do something else, and keep on trying till we hit upon something which works, and then we adopt that method as a rule of thumb measure in subsequent procedure.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000019.wav|He then infers certain prospective movements, thus assigning meaning to the bare facts of the given situation.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000002.wav|The nature of experience can be understood only by noting that it includes an active and a passive element peculiarly combined.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000004.wav|It notes not only that they are connected, but the details of the connection.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000029.wav|In the degree in which he is intellectually concerned, or thoughtful, he will be actively on the lookout; he will take steps which although they do not affect the campaign, modify in some degree his subsequent actions.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000036.wav|Knowledge, already attained knowledge, controls thinking and makes it fruitful.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000018.wav|We desire this or that outcome.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000002.wav|It is the condition of our having aims.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000003.wav|No experience having a meaning is possible without some element of thought.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000011_000000.wav|In discovery of the detailed connections of our activities and what happens in consequence, the thought implied in cut and try experience is made explicit.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000007.wav|Some experiences have very little else in them than this hit and miss or succeed process.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000002.wav|The invasion of the unknown is of the nature of an adventure; we cannot be sure in advance.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000004.wav|Their dogmatic assertion as final is unwarranted, short of the issue, in fact.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000004.wav|For he takes one thing as evidence of something else, and so recognizes a relationship.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000010.wav|Our discernment is very gross.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000003.wav|For an active participant in the war, it is clear that the momentous thing is the issue, the future consequences, of this and that happening.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000012.wav|If it brings about certain consequences, certain determinate changes, in the world, it is accepted as valid.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000035.wav|It remains suspended.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000007.wav|Then we anticipate consequences.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000005.wav|But even for an onlooker in a neutral country, the significance of every move made, of every advance here and retreat there, lies in what it portends. To think upon the news as it comes to us is to attempt to see what is indicated as probable or possible regarding an outcome.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000005.wav|The Greeks acutely raised the question: How can we learn?|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000034.wav|In any case, some active steps are taken which actually change some physical conditions. And apart from such steps and the consequent modification of the situation, there is no completion of the act of thinking.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000001.wav|Only what is finished, completed, is wholly assured.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000009.wav|We do not see the details of the connection; the links are missing.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000000.wav|It would be impossible to state adequately the evil results which have flowed from this dualism of mind and body, much less to exaggerate them. Some of the more striking effects, may, however, be enumerated.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000005_000000.wav|The nervous strain and fatigue which result with both teacher and pupil are a necessary consequence of the abnormality of the situation in which bodily activity is divorced from the perception of meaning.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000011_000004.wav|Thinking, in other words, is the intentional endeavor to discover specific connections between something which we do and the consequences which result, so that the two become continuous. Their isolation, and consequently their purely arbitrary going together, is canceled; a unified developing situation takes its place.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000002.wav|There is no difference of opinion as to the theory of the matter.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000001.wav|It makes it possible to act with an end in view.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000021.wav|Born in partiality, in order to accomplish its tasks it must achieve a certain detached impartiality.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000018.wav|On the other hand, many things happen to us in the way of pleasure and pain which we do not connect with any prior activity of our own. They are mere accidents so far as we are concerned.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000006.wav|We do not really know a chair or have an idea of it by inventorying and enumerating its various isolated qualities, but only by bringing these qualities into connection with something else-the purpose which makes it a chair and not a table; or its difference from the kind of chair we are accustomed to, or the "period" which it represents, and so on.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000008.wav|And these connections are not those of mere physical juxtaposition; they involve connection with the animals that draw it, the things that are carried on it, and so on.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000001.wav|In determining the place of thinking in experience we first noted that experience involves a connection of doing or trying with something which is undergone in consequence.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000002.wav|Where there is reflection there is suspense.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000002.wav|The latter are thought to come after the former in order to compare them.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000011.wav|Mathematics, even in its higher branches, when undue emphasis is put upon the technique of calculation, and science, when laboratory exercises are given for their own sake, suffer from the same evil.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000009.wav|Nor will the reflective experience be different in kind if we substitute distance in time for separation in space.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000010.wav|The perplexities of the situation suggest certain ways out.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000013.wav|This extension of our insight makes foresight more accurate and comprehensive.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000006_000004.wav|The muscles of eye, hand, and vocal organs accordingly have to be trained to act as pipes for carrying knowledge back out of the mind into external action.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000006.wav|The former is then thought to be purely intellectual and cognitive; the latter to be an irrelevant and intruding physical factor.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000015.wav|But if we know in detail upon what the result depends, we can look to see whether the required conditions are there.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000003.wav|It is alleged that the mind perceives things apart from relations; that it forms ideas of them in isolation from their connections-with what goes before and comes after.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000008.wav|This implies that the situation as it stands is, either in fact or to us, incomplete and hence indeterminate.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000010.wav|Because of our education we use words, thinking they are ideas, to dispose of questions, the disposal being in reality simply such an obscuring of perception as prevents us from seeing any longer the difficulty.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000004.wav|And the body is, of necessity, a wellspring of energy; it has to do something.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000004.wav|The failure arises in supposing that relationships can become perceptible without experience-without that conjoint trying and undergoing of which we have spoken.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000011.wav|The episode is, by assumption, past.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000001.wav|Reflection in Experience.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000001.wav|The Nature of Experience.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000009.wav|The latter makes the momentary act a measure of value, and ignores the connections of our personal action with the energies of the environment.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000008.wav|We see that a certain way of acting and a certain consequence are connected, but we do not see how they are.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000013.wav|It is not experience when a child merely sticks his finger into a flame; it is experience when the movement is connected with the pain which he undergoes in consequence. Henceforth the sticking of the finger into flame means a burn.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000006_000003.wav|To keep the eyes on the book and the ears open to the teacher's words is a mysterious source of intellectual grace. Moreover, reading, writing, and figuring-important school arts-demand muscular or motor training.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000011_000003.wav|The deliberate cultivation of this phase of thought constitutes thinking as a distinctive experience.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000026.wav|That is not his problem.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000011_000001.wav|Its quantity increases so that its proportionate value is very different.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000004.wav|On the passive, it is undergoing.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000000.wav|Summary.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000000.wav|Two conclusions important for education follow. (one) Experience is primarily an active passive affair; it is not primarily cognitive.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000007.wav|A wagon is not perceived when all its parts are summed up; it is the characteristic connection of the parts which makes it a wagon.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000016_000006.wav|And since it can never take into account all the connections, it can never cover with perfect accuracy all the consequences.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000001.wav|Its point, its meaning lies literally in what it is going to be, in how it is going to turn out.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000005_000004.wav|It may be seriously asserted that a chief cause for the remarkable achievements of Greek education was that it was never misled by false notions into an attempted separation of mind and body.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000008.wav|Mere activity does not constitute experience.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000005_000002.wav|The neglected body, having no organized fruitful channels of activity, breaks forth, without knowing why or how, into meaningless boisterousness, or settles into equally meaningless fooling-both very different from the normal play of children.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000002.wav|A separation of the active doing phase from the passive undergoing phase destroys the vital meaning of an experience.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000002.wav|The boy flying a kite has to keep his eye on the kite, and has to note the various pressures of the string on his hand.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000002.wav|Having nothing, so it is thought, to do with mental activity, it becomes a distraction, an evil to be contended with.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000011.wav|In other cases we push our observation farther.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000007.wav|The chief source of the "problem of discipline" in schools is that the teacher has often to spend the larger part of the time in suppressing the bodily activities which take the mind away from its material.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000009.wav|The projection of consequences means a proposed or tentative solution.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000011.wav|Then the suggested solution-the idea or theory-has to be tested by acting upon it.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000009.wav|But all thinking is research, and all research is native, original, with him who carries it on, even if everybody else in the world already is sure of what he is still looking for.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000019.wav|There is no before or after to such experience; no retrospect nor outlook, and consequently no meaning.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000006_000002.wav|The senses are then regarded as a kind of mysterious conduit through which information is conducted from the external world into the mind; they are spoken of as gateways and avenues of knowledge.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000007.wav|It is customary for teachers to urge children to read with expression, so as to bring out the meaning.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000007.wav|It is to turn ourselves into a piece of registering apparatus.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000007_000006.wav|It is such isolation of an act from a purpose which makes it mechanical.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000016_000000.wav|So much for the general features of a reflective experience.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000013.wav|Taken by itself, the Greek argument is a nice piece of formal logic.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000018.wav|A commanding general cannot base his actions upon either absolute certainty or absolute ignorance. He has a certain amount of information at hand which is, we will assume, reasonably trustworthy.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000014.wav|Thinking includes all of these steps,--the sense of a problem, the observation of conditions, the formation and rational elaboration of a suggested conclusion, and the active experimental testing.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000004.wav|Then judgment or thought is called upon to combine the separated items of "knowledge" so that their resemblance or causal connection shall be brought out.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000006_000000.wav|(b) Even, however, with respect to the lessons which have to be learned by the application of "mind," some bodily activities have to be used. The senses-especially the eye and ear-have to be employed to take in what the book, the map, the blackboard, and the teacher say.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000009.wav|It tends to become a mere verbal formula, a set of catchwords used to render thinking, or genuine theorizing, unnecessary and impossible.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000028.wav|He will anticipate certain future moves, and will be on the alert to see whether they happen or not.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000006.wav|They lead the pupil away from the lesson with which his "mind" ought to be occupied; they are sources of mischief.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000012.wav|Tentative means trying out, feeling one's way along provisionally.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000009_000005.wav|It is assumed that "mind" can grasp them if it will only give attention, and that this attention may be given at will irrespective of the situation.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000005.wav|But its activities, not being utilized in occupation with things which yield significant results, have to be frowned upon.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000017.wav|To recur to our illustration.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000002.wav|As this is written, the world is filled with the clang of contending armies.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000004.wav|The very word pupil has almost come to mean one who is engaged not in having fruitful experiences but in absorbing knowledge directly.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000016.wav|So far as this happens, everything is writ in water.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000000.wav|The starting point of any process of thinking is something going on, something which just as it stands is incomplete or unfulfilled.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000022.wav|To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000021.wav|But he acts upon it. He develops a plan of procedure, a method of dealing with the situation. The consequences which directly follow from his acting this way rather than that test and reveal the worth of his reflections.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000015.wav|Blind and capricious impulses hurry us on heedlessly from one thing to another.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000023.wav|But will this account apply in the case of the one in a neutral country who is thoughtfully following as best he can the progress of events?|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000026.wav|Only gradually and with a widening of the area of vision through a growth of social sympathies does thinking develop to include what lies beyond our direct interests: a fact of great significance for education.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000005.wav|Since the situation in which thinking occurs is a doubtful one, thinking is a process of inquiry, of looking into things, of investigating.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000005.wav|It makes connecting links explicit in the form of relationships.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000001.wav|But (two) the measure of the value of an experience lies in the perception of relationships or continuities to which it leads up.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000006.wav|We do something to the thing and then it does something to us in return: such is the peculiar combination.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000008_000000.wav|(c) On the intellectual side, the separation of "mind" from direct occupation with things throws emphasis on things at the expense of relations or connections.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000004.wav|He is identified, for the time at least, with the issue; his fate hangs upon the course things are taking.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000005_000001.wav|Callous indifference and explosions from strain alternate.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000002.wav|Thought or reflection, as we have already seen virtually if not explicitly, is the discernment of the relation between what we try to do and what happens in consequence.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000004_000001.wav|(a) In part bodily activity becomes an intruder.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000023.wav|Under such conditions, doing becomes a trying; an experiment with the world to find out what it is like; the undergoing becomes instruction-discovery of the connection of things.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000000.wav|It also follows that all thinking involves a risk.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000003_000005.wav|Something which is called mind or consciousness is severed from the physical organs of activity.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000016.wav|The method extends our practical control.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000011.wav|We try these ways, and either push our way out, in which case we know we have found what we were looking for, or the situation gets darker and more confused-in which case, we know we are still ignorant.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000012_000011.wav|Reflection is the acceptance of such responsibility.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000008.wav|To consider the bearing of the occurrence upon what may be, but is not yet, is to think.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000017_000003.wav|Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000006_000001.wav|The lips and vocal organs, and the hands, have to be used to reproduce in speech and writing what has been stowed away.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000016_000002.wav|It is the extent and accuracy of steps three and four which mark off a distinctive reflective experience from one on the trial and error plane.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000010_000012.wav|We analyze to see just what lies between so as to bind together cause and effect, activity and consequence.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000019.wav|One wholly indifferent to the outcome does not follow or think about what is happening at all.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000011_000005.wav|The occurrence is now understood; it is explained; it is reasonable, as we say, that the thing should happen as it does.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000015_000008.wav|The dilemma makes no provision for coming to know, for learning; it assumes either complete knowledge or complete ignorance. Nevertheless the twilight zone of inquiry, of thinking, exists.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000002_000005.wav|When we experience something we act upon it, we do something with it; then we suffer or undergo the consequences.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000016_000007.wav|Yet a thoughtful survey of conditions is so careful, and the guessing at results so controlled, that we have a right to mark off the reflective experience from the grosser trial and error forms of action.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000014_000008.wav|We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000011_000002.wav|Hence the quality of the experience changes; the change is so significant that we may call this type of experience reflective-that is, reflective par excellence.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000016_000003.wav|They make thinking itself into an experience.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7484/39971/7484_39971_000013_000012.wav|But he cannot give a thoughtful account of the war save as he preserves the time sequence; the meaning of each occurrence, as he deals with it, lies in what was future for it, though not for the historian.|7484
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000052_000001.wav|"It's still within me-whispering, whispering; urging me away from you, from Martin, from every human thing; bidding me give myself up, surrender my humanity.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000027_000001.wav|Every fact and every scrap of knowledge that we can lay hold of is of the utmost importance in enabling us to determine our course.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000039_000000.wav|"I seemed to be at the doorway to unknown ecstasies-and the life I had known only a dream-and you, all of you-even Martin, dreams within a dream.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000055_000003.wav|For sleeping how do I know what I may be when I wake?"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000059_000002.wav|And remember this-nine tenths of what you're thinking now is purely over wrought nerves and weariness.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000056_000001.wav|I slipped my hand down into the medicine case, brought forth a certain potent and tasteless combination of drugs which I carry upon explorations.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000002_000000.wav|The peculiar ability of the human mind to slip so readily into the refuge of the commonplace after, or even during, some well nigh intolerable crisis, has been to me long one of the most interesting phenomena of our psychology.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000060_000000.wav|"I don't," she said.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000012_000003.wav|I'm hungry."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000042_000001.wav|Then, when I saw that beautiful, flaming Shape-I felt no terror, no fear-only a tremendous-joyous-anticipation, as though-as though-" She faltered, hung her head, then leaving that sentence unfinished, whispered: "and when-it-lifted me it was as though I had come at last out of some endless black ocean of despair into the full sun of paradise."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000031_000002.wav|You must tell us-for his sake." I pointed toward Ventnor.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000058_000001.wav|"Never think it!|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000038_000001.wav|It whispered and then seemed to float from her and cover me like-like a veil, and from head to foot.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000044_000001.wav|"You asked-and now you must listen."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000045_000000.wav|She was silent; and when once more she spoke her voice was low, curiously rhythmic; her eyes rapt:|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000030_000000.wav|"There was nothing," she whispered-then defiantly-"nothing.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000040_000000.wav|"Hypnotism," muttered Drake, as she paused.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000039_000001.wav|You weren't-real-and you did not-matter."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000048_000001.wav|Vast chords and singing themes that rang like clusters of little swinging stars and harmonies that were like the very voice of infinite law resolving within itself all discords.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000046_000001.wav|And I was elemental; one with the eternal things yet fully conscious that I was-I.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000005_000000.wav|And these paths are bordered and screened, figuratively and literally, with bush and trees of his own selection, setting out and cultivation-shelters of the familiar, the habitual, the customary.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000025_000002.wav|And in her eyes I read both terror and-shame.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000038_000002.wav|It was a quietness and peace that held within it a happiness at one and the same time utterly tranquil and utterly free.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000053_000002.wav|An alien consciousness sealed within me, that tries to make the human me a slave-that waits to overcome my will-and if I surrender gives me freedom, an incredible freedom-but makes me, being still human, a-monster."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000019_000000.wav|"Oh-you brute!" she whispered.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000030_000001.wav|I don't know what you mean."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000059_000003.wav|You'll win-and we'll win, never doubt it."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000054_000000.wav|She hid her face in her hands, quivering.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000043_000000.wav|"ruth!" cried Drake, and at the pain in his cry she winced.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000008_000000.wav|But they are home to him!|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000048_000000.wav|"And there was music-strange and wondrous music and terrible, but not terrible to me-who was part of it.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000011_000000.wav|He strode over to the weeping girl, and in his voice was a roughness that angered me until I realized his purpose.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000041_000002.wav|The wonder of it grew-and grew.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000041_000001.wav|"No-more than that.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000038_000000.wav|"It whispered to me first," she said, "from Norhala-when she put her arm around me.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000015_000001.wav|"Come on; we've got to make the best of it."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000042_000000.wav|"And I saved him-and again forgot.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000035_000002.wav|It came to me from Norhala when we rode the flying block, and-he-sealed upon me when I was in-his"--again she crimsoned, "embrace."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000023_000000.wav|And while I sat studying Ventnor, they put together a meal from the stores, brewed tea over the spirit lamp with water from the bubbling spring.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000023_000001.wav|In these commonplaces I knew that she at least was finding relief from that strain of the abnormal under which we had labored so long.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000001_000002.wav|BUT A MONSTER!"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000055_000001.wav|"But I'm afraid to sleep.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000053_000001.wav|"No-HIS seal!|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000023_000002.wav|To my surprise I found that I was hungry, and with deep relief I watched ruth partake of food and drink even though lightly.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000026_000000.wav|It came to me that painful as it might be for her the time for questioning had come.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000001_000001.wav|"FREE!|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000010_000000.wav|I crave pardon for this digression.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000020_000001.wav|"Go ahead and hit me if you want.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000012_000001.wav|"He came back once and he'll come back again.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000049_000000.wav|"Out of the Thing that held me, out from its fires pulsed vitality-a flood of inhuman energy in which I was bathed.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000033_000002.wav|But you'll have to know it-there's a taint upon me."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000018_000000.wav|She lifted Ventnor's head from her lap, rested it on the silks; arose, eyes wrathful, her little hands closed in fists as though to strike him.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000037_000000.wav|"A thing that urges me to forget you two-and Martin-and all the world I've known.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000027_000000.wav|"ruth," I said, "I know it's not necessary to remind you that we're in a tight place.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000041_000004.wav|I remember nothing of that ride, saw nothing-except that once through the peace enfolding me pierced warning that Martin was in peril, and I broke through to see him clutching Norhala and to see floating up in her eyes death for him.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000044_000000.wav|"Wait," she said, and held up a little, tremulous hand.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000057_000001.wav|Like a child, unthinking, she obeyed and drank.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000055_000000.wav|"If I could sleep," she wailed.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000050_000001.wav|I saw Martin-blasted.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000014_000000.wav|"Eat!" she exclaimed.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000059_000000.wav|"Win?" Drake dropped down beside her, drew her toward him.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000051_000000.wav|"And, O Walter-Dick-it hurt-it hurt-and for a breath before I ran to him it was like-like coming from a world in which there was no disorder, no sorrow, no doubts, a rhythmic, harmonious world of light and music, into-into a world that was like a black and dirty kitchen.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000024_000001.wav|Was it the strangely pellucid light that gave the effect, I wondered; and knew it was not, for as I scanned her covertly, there fell upon her face that shadow of inhuman tranquillity, of unearthly withdrawal which, I guessed, had more than anything else maddened Ventnor into his attack upon the Disk.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000020_000000.wav|"That's better," said Dick.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000049_000001.wav|And it was as though this energy were-reassembling me, fitting me even closer to the elemental things, changing me fully into them.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000058_000002.wav|I can win-don't you know I can?"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000055_000002.wav|I think I shall never sleep again.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000022_000000.wav|"Thanks-Dick," she said quietly.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000028_000001.wav|And what happened when you were floating before the Disk?"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000024_000000.wav|About her seemed to hover something of the ethereal, elusive, and disquieting.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000020_000002.wav|The madder you get the better you'll feel."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000032_000000.wav|She drew a long breath.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000006_000000.wav|On these ancestral paths, within these barriers of usage, man moves hidden and secure as the animals in their haunts-or so he thinks.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000017_000000.wav|"No use crying in the milk even if it's spilt," observed Drake, even more cheerfully brutal.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000031_000000.wav|"ruth!" I spoke sharply now, in my own perplexity.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000009_000000.wav|Therefore it is that he scurries from some open place of revelation, some storm of emotion, some strength testing struggle, back into the shelter of the obvious; finding it an intellectual environment that demands no slightest expenditure of mental energy or initiative, strength to sally forth again into the unfamiliar.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000033_000001.wav|"Only I-I thought maybe I could fight it out myself.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000057_000000.wav|I dropped a little into her cup, then held it to her lips.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000010_000001.wav|I set it down because now I remember how, when Drake at last broke the silence that had closed in upon the passing of that still, small voice the essence of these thoughts occurred to me.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000056_000000.wav|I caught Drake's eye; he nodded.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000046_000000.wav|"I was free-free from every human fetter of fear or sorrow or love or hate; free even of hope-for what was there to hope for when everything desirable was mine?|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000034_000000.wav|I caught in Drake's swift glance the echo of my own thrill of apprehension for her sanity.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000035_000000.wav|"Yes," she said, now quietly.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000017_000001.wav|"I learned that at the front where we got so we'd yelp for food even when the lads who'd been bringing it were all mixed up in it."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000025_000000.wav|I watched her fight against it, drive it back.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000041_000000.wav|"no" She shook her head.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000016_000001.wav|You must eat-and then rest."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000012_000000.wav|"Get up, ruth," he ordered.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000014_000001.wav|"You can be hungry?"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000047_000000.wav|"It was as though I were the shining shadow of a star afloat upon the breast of some still and hidden woodland pool; as though I were a little wind dancing among the mountain tops; a mist whirling down a quiet glen; a shimmering lance of the aurora pulsing in the high solitudes.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000058_000000.wav|"But I'll not surrender." Her eyes were tragic.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/166433/2592_166433_000033_000000.wav|"You're right-of course," she said unsteadily.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000009_000000.wav|"Then what would you like to take?" asked Miss Corny.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000003.wav|Isabel was silent with perplexity; she had never given such an order in her life.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000013_000002.wav|Marvel was very stylish, with five flounces to her dress, a veil, and a parasol.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000072_000000.wav|He spoke in all the sincerity of truth, and Isabel knew it: and the thought came across her that with him by her side, her loving protector, Miss Carlyle could not mar her life's peace.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000037_000001.wav|"I came back to the chair and covered my head over, hoping some one would come up."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000058_000001.wav|Embarrassment makes cowards of us; and mr Carlyle repeated it after her.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000060_000003.wav|The fishmonger will be here presently!"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000047_000001.wav|But he hastily put back one of his hands, and held her tightly in his protecting grasp.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000022_000006.wav|I dare say she never gave a domestic order in her life."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000013_000003.wav|Meanwhile, Lady Isabel sat down and burst into bitter tears and sobs.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000032_000001.wav|mr Carlyle drank a glass, and then proceeded to mix some wine and water.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000013_000005.wav|mr Carlyle entered and witnessed the grief.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000069_000000.wav|He thought it a good opportunity to speak about his sister.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000024_000000.wav|"Did you buy that fine piano which has arrived?" angrily asked Miss Carlyle.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000036_000000.wav|"What is the matter?" he hastily asked.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000074_000001.wav|"I wish I could go with you and be your clerk," she cried, unwilling to release his hand.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000007_000000.wav|mr Carlyle left them together, and went back to search for some trifles which had been left in the carriage.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000075_000000.wav|He laughed and shook his head, telling her that she wanted to bribe him into taking her back, but it could not be.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000022_000003.wav|Your wife will be mistress.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000072_000001.wav|"Let her stay, Archibald; she will not incommode us."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000061_000000.wav|"Oh, I wish you would!" cried the relieved Lady Isabel.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000074_000002.wav|"I should not have all that long way to go back by myself."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000034_000000.wav|"Isabel."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000035_000002.wav|As she raised it, he saw that it was flushed and agitated; that her eyes were bright, and her frame was trembling.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000030_000002.wav|mr Carlyle rose and looked on the side board.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000065_000000.wav|He rose, laid his hands playfully on her slender waist, and looked at her.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000042_000002.wav|Its position had been changed in some late alterations to the house.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000074_000000.wav|They reached the park gates.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000062_000001.wav|Isabel rose from her chair, like a bird released from its cage, and stood by his side.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000012_000002.wav|Do not let me give trouble."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000039_000000.wav|"Oh!|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000041_000000.wav|"I thought of a dreadful story about the bats, that the servants told-I dare say you never heard it; and I kept thinking.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000027_000001.wav|The old piano here was a bad one, and I bought a better."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000062_000002.wav|"Have you finished, Archibald?"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000070_000001.wav|"As you and Miss Carlyle please," she answered.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000060_000001.wav|"Are you aware, Lady Isabel, that an order such as that would only puzzle the butcher?|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000021_000000.wav|mr Carlyle felt checkmated.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000008_000001.wav|I will go to my rooms, but I do not require supper.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000022_000005.wav|She will be glad of that, inexperienced as she is.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000067_000000.wav|"I will be with you as much as ever I can, my dearest," he whispered.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000010_000000.wav|"Some tea, if you please, I am very thirsty."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000065_000001.wav|"You may as well ask me to take a journey to the moon.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000011_000003.wav|You'd never sleep a wink all night, ma'am, if you took tea at eleven o'clock."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000069_000002.wav|"I do not know what to decide.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000045_000000.wav|But, even as she spoke, her actions belied her words.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000017_000000.wav|mr Carlyle preferred to go himself, and he held out his arm to Isabel.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000039_000001.wav|I was very foolish.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000045_000001.wav|mr Carlyle had gone to the door and opened it, and she flew close up to him, cowering behind him.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000043_000000.wav|"Your rooms shall be changed to morrow, Isabel."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000063_000003.wav|There; I have finished now."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000023_000000.wav|This was a view of the case, to mr Carlyle, so plausibly put, that he began to think it might be all for the best.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000063_000001.wav|Oh!|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000064_000000.wav|"Let us go around the grounds."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000071_000000.wav|"Isabel," he said, "I wish it to be as you please; I wish matters to be arranged as may best please you: and I will have them so arranged.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000068_000001.wav|mr Carlyle waited for her in the hall, and they went out together.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000039_000002.wav|I kept thinking of frightful things.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000016_000000.wav|Neither did mr Carlyle know, but Miss Carlyle came whisking in again, and said: "The best rooms; those next the library.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000026_000000.wav|Miss Corny groaned.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000012_000001.wav|"It is of no consequence.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000033_000001.wav|Who's that for?"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000052_000001.wav|I hope you slept well," was Miss Carlyle's salutation.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000073_000000.wav|"At any rate it can be tried for a month or two, and we shall see how it works," he musingly observed.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000066_000002.wav|East Lynne will not be East Lynne without you."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000047_000002.wav|Marvel was coming along the corridor in answer to the ring.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000006_000001.wav|"I hope you are well, ma'am," she jerked out.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000022_000002.wav|There'll be enough expense without our keeping on two houses; and most people in your place would jump at the prospect of my living here.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000005.wav|It was the presence of that grim Miss Corny which put her out.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000021_000001.wav|He had always bowed to the will of Miss Corny, but he had an idea that he and his wife should be better without her.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000003_000000.wav|Miss Carlyle, having resolved upon her course, quitted her own house, and removed to East Lynne with peter and her handmaidens.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000057_000000.wav|"A----Something to roast and boil, if you please," stammered Lady Isabel.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000004_000004.wav|She was attired in a handsome dark silk dress and a new cap; her anger had had time to cool down in the last month, and her strong common sense told her that the wiser plan would be to make the best of it.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000066_000001.wav|"I wish you would be always with me!|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000047_000000.wav|"Not more than an hour," he answered.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000053_000001.wav|Miss Carlyle pointed to the top of the table.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000020_000002.wav|I have come up here to live."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000068_000000.wav|She ran for her bonnet, gloves and parasol.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000046_000000.wav|"Shall you be gone very long, Archibald?" she whispered.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000035_000001.wav|She was sitting half buried, it seemed, in the arm chair, her face muffled up.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000007_000001.wav|Miss Carlyle led the way to a sitting room, where the supper tray was laid.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000022_000000.wav|"I have let it furnished; the people enter to day.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000004_000003.wav|Miss Carlyle compressed her lips as she scanned it.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000005_000000.wav|"You here, Cornelia!|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000051_000003.wav|mr Carlyle came down next; and then Lady Isabel entered, in an elegant half mourning dress, with flowing black ribbons.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000008_000000.wav|"Thank you.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000039_000004.wav|Do not blame me, Archibald.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000016_000001.wav|Should she go up with my lady?"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000018_000002.wav|"I fancy the servants must have misunderstood my letter, and not have expected us until to morrow night."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000035_000000.wav|He quitted the room, carrying the wine and water, and entered his wife's.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000058_000002.wav|He knew no more about housekeeping than she did.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000002_000000.wav|COMING HOME.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000005_000003.wav|Isabel, this is my sister."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000018_000000.wav|The branches were not lighted, and the room looked cold and comfortless.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000051_000001.wav|But, first of all, just fancy the group at breakfast.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000028_000000.wav|"What did it cost?" repeated Miss Carlyle.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000069_000001.wav|"She wishes to remain with us," he said.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000070_000000.wav|Isabel's heart sank within her at the idea of that stern Miss Corny, mounted over her as resident guard; but, refined and sensitive, almost painfully considerate of the feelings of others, she raised no word of objection.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000062_000000.wav|Miss Corny's answer was to stalk from the room.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000006.wav|Alone with her husband she would have said, "What ought I to order, Archibald?|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000065_000002.wav|It is past nine, and I have not been to the office for a month."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000060_000000.wav|Up started Miss Corny; she could not stand that.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000050_000001.wav|"He is very kind to me," thought Isabel.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000039_000005.wav|This is the room papa died in."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000071_000001.wav|My chief object in life now is your happiness."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000017_000001.wav|She drew her veil over her face as she passed Miss Carlyle.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000037_000000.wav|"I got nervous after Marvel went," she whispered, laying hold of him, as if for protection from terror.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000004_000000.wav|On a Friday night, about a month after the wedding, mr Carlyle and his wife came home.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000050_000000.wav|mr Carlyle shut the door, and then looked at his wife and laughed.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000014_000001.wav|"My darling, what ails you?"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000005_000001.wav|That was kind.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000004.wav|Totally ignorant was she of the requirements of a household; and did not know whether to suggest a few pounds of meat or a whole cow.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000033_000000.wav|"I'll mix for myself if I want any.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000044_000001.wav|I shall like to feel that papa was once their occupant.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000061_000001.wav|"I have not been accustomed to it, but I must learn.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000004_000001.wav|They were expected, and Miss Carlyle went through the hall to receive them, and stood on the upper steps, between the pillars of the portico.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000026_000001.wav|"What did it cost?"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000051_000002.wav|Miss Carlyle descended in the startling costume the reader has seen, took her seat at the breakfast table, and there sat bolt upright.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000032_000000.wav|The servant put it out, port and sherry.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000006_000000.wav|Lady Isabel put forth her hand, and Miss Carlyle condescended to touch the tips of her fingers.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000051_000000.wav|With the morning began the perplexities of Lady Isabel Carlyle.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000001.wav|The meal was nearly over, when peter came in, and said the butcher had come up for orders.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000015_000001.wav|I should like to go to my rooms, Archibald, but I don't know which they are."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000019_000000.wav|On returning to the sitting room mr Carlyle inquired the cause of the servants' negligence.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000014_000000.wav|"Isabel!" he uttered in amazement, as he hastened up to her.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000031_000000.wav|"Where is the wine, peter?"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000063_000000.wav|"I think I have, dear.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000038_000000.wav|"I have been talking to Cornelia.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000058_000000.wav|She spoke in a low tone.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000061_000002.wav|I don't think I know anything about housekeeping."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000042_000000.wav|Yes, he was smiling; for he knew that these moments of nervous fear are best met jestingly.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000000.wav|So Miss Carlyle proceeded to her duties, very stern and grim.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000020_000000.wav|"I sent them away because they were superfluous encumbrances," hastily replied Miss Carlyle.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000013_000004.wav|A chill had come over her; it did not seem like coming to East Lynne.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000004_000002.wav|An elegant chariot with four post horses was drawing up.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000025_000000.wav|"It was my present to Isabel."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000049_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000011_000000.wav|"Tea!" ejaculated Miss Corny.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000056_000007.wav|Tell me." peter waited.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000003_000001.wav|In spite of mr Dill's grieved remonstrances, she discharged the servants whom mr Carlyle had engaged, all save one man.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000030_000001.wav|But at that moment peter entered with some hot water which his master had rung for.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000060_000002.wav|Shall I give the necessary orders for to day?|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000039_000003.wav|They would come into my mind.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000013_000000.wav|Miss Carlyle whisked out of the room; upon what errand was best known to herself; and in the hall she and Marvel came to an encounter.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000059_000000.wav|"Something to roast and boil, tell the man, peter."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000023_000002.wav|Still he did not know.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000069_000003.wav|On the one hand I think she might save you the worry of household management; on the other, I fancy we shall be happier by ourselves."|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000032_000002.wav|"Shall I mix some for you, Cornelia?" he asked.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000055_000000.wav|"I should be glad if you would," answered Lady Isabel.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000048_000000.wav|"Have the goodness to let Miss Carlyle know that I am not coming down again to night," he said.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000063_000002.wav|Here's my coffee.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000040_000000.wav|"Blame you, my darling," he uttered with deep feeling.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000020_000001.wav|"We have four in the house, and my lady has brought a fine maid, I see, making five.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000011_000002.wav|I don't know that they have boiling water.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000029_000001.wav|Obedience to her will was yet powerful within him.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000038_000001.wav|But what made you nervous?"|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000042_000001.wav|He made her drink the wine and water, and then he showed her where the bell was, ringing it as he did so.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000021_000002.wav|"And your house?" he exclaimed.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2592/5341/2592_5341_000030_000000.wav|Miss Corny threw up her hands and eyes.|2592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000001_000000.wav|As soon as tea was over, dr Martineau realized, they meant to walk round and about Salisbury.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000025_000000.wav|"Sky scrapers?" she conceded.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000068_000004.wav|I can't imagine it.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000039_000005.wav|dr Martineau thought her evening throat much too confidential.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000001_000002.wav|In front and keeping just a little beyond the range of his intervention, Sir Richmond would go with Miss Grammont; he himself and Miss Seyffert would bring up the rear.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000059_000001.wav|"My native instinctive democracy-"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000056_000000.wav|"And in your world?"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000001_000001.wav|He foresaw that walk with the utmost clearness.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000041_000000.wav|Miss Grammont let her companion pull the talk about as she chose.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000067_000000.wav|Miss Grammont smiled an enquiry at Miss Seyffert.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000008_000000.wav|It became clear to dr Martineau that Sir Richmond was to be let off Belinda.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000007_000000.wav|Miss Grammont stood up.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000030_000003.wav|For good...."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000014_000000.wav|"It's a perfect little lady of a cathedral," said Sir Richmond.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000029_000000.wav|"And what do you think we are building now?|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000060_000003.wav|The rest never get a chance."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000039_000002.wav|They were quietly but definitely dressed, pretty alterations had happened to their coiffure, a silver band and deep red stones lit the dusk of Miss Grammont's hair and a necklace of the same colourings kept the peace between her jolly sun burnt cheek and her soft untanned neck.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000086_000010.wav|I give the affair its proper name.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000058_000002.wav|At least, not from this angle."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000002_000000.wav|"You said-?" asked Miss Seyffert.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000086_000007.wav|That is not the word.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000035_000000.wav|"I wish I could believe they were foundations."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000067_000001.wav|"If YOU are," said Belinda.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000069_000001.wav|Just for a moment they stood hand in hand, appreciatively....|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000046_000000.wav|"Begging-from foreigners-is just a sport in Italy," said Sir Richmond. "It doesn't imply want.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000000_000001.wav|"Rome of the Empire comes nearest to it...."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000040_000000.wav|The conversation drifted from topic to topic.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000057_000002.wav|It would be quite enough for this little planet, for a time, at any rate.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000053_000000.wav|"Does that matter?|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000071_000002.wav|But dr Martineau grunted.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000085_000000.wav|"Evidently."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000045_000002.wav|Who ought to be getting wages-sufficient...."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000016_000003.wav|You must talk to him-he is a very curious and subtle thinker.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000040_000006.wav|"To think it was exactly where it is before there was a Cabot in America!"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000030_000001.wav|I believe we have almost grown up.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000051_000001.wav|"Which amount to nothing.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000081_000000.wav|"As you please," said Sir Richmond insincerely.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000086_000005.wav|You may not like the word.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000016_000002.wav|"My friend, the philosopher," he had said, "will not have it that we are really the individuals we think we are.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000016_000005.wav|We are-what does he call it?--Man on his Planet, taking control of life."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000049_000000.wav|"I've no doubt of it," said Miss Seyffert, and added amazingly: "I'm out for Birth Control all the time."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000000_000000.wav|"Baths and aqueducts," Miss Grammont compared.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000076_000001.wav|"Birth Control!|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000031_000000.wav|"But are we building anything at all?"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000051_000003.wav|And which help to use up the resources, the fuel and surplus energy of the world."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000057_000003.wav|Don't you think so, doctor?"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000027_000001.wav|"And my sky scrapers?"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000029_000001.wav|And what do you think you are building over here?"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000017_000000.wav|"Man and woman," she had amended.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000006_000000.wav|(With the unspoken addition of, "You try her for a bit.")|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000003_000000.wav|"That I have some writing to do-before the post goes," said the doctor brightly.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000022_000006.wav|The priest and his altar were just an excuse.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000064_000001.wav|But is the movement of events?"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000050_000000.wav|A brief but active pause ensued.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000022_000005.wav|We squirted it up in all these spires and pinnacles.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000074_000000.wav|The doctor thought for a moment or so.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000086_000004.wav|An absurd, mischievous, irrelevant flirtation.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000019_000001.wav|"But the impulse was losing its force."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000009_000001.wav|He could think over his notes....|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000086_000013.wav|Good night....|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000086_000009.wav|You people eye one another.... Flirtation.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000005_000001.wav|"Impossible."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000020_000000.wav|She looked up at the spire and then at him with a faintly quizzical expression.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000040_000003.wav|She broke every thread that appeared.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000036_000000.wav|"But can you doubt we are scrapping the old?..."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000055_000001.wav|Twelve hundred, fifteen hundred millions perhaps."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/76046/6956_76046_000022_000001.wav|We were already very clever engineers.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000002_000005.wav|It would take her five minutes to reach the lodge gate.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000015_000001.wav|The Archdeacon, his hands behind his back, paced the noiseless Turkey carpet.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000004_000001.wav|She loved Drane's Court.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000026_000002.wav|"Pneumonia.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000006_000003.wav|Ursula Winwood closed her eyes.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000026_000001.wav|He shook a grave head.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000023_000001.wav|"I'm glad," she said.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000043_000000.wav|Ursula was very fond of her uncle.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000025_000000.wav|"I'm very fond of Sir Thomas Browne, myself," she replied.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000022_000001.wav|On the flyleaf, 'Paul Savelli.' An undergraduate, I should say, on a walking tour."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000027_000001.wav|But she looked at Paul and hesitated.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000042_000000.wav|"Why are you sure?"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000018_000000.wav|"Poor fellow!" said the Archdeacon.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000043_000005.wav|It speaks for itself."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000006_000000.wav|This aspect of family history seldom presented itself to Ursula Winwood.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000036_000000.wav|"As bad as that," said the doctor, with grave significance.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000044_000003.wav|"But what is 'it'?"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000008_000000.wav|He lay very still.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000005.wav|The spaniel barked his respectable disapproval.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000033_000000.wav|"You're certainly looking for it," replied the doctor glancing at Paul and stuffing his stethoscope into his pocket.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000030_000007.wav|That's quite right, isn't it?"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000003.wav|Then clear awake, and sending scudding the dear ghosts of the past, she sat up, and catching the indignant spaniel by the collar, looked with a queer, sudden interest at the newcomer.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000020_000000.wav|"Perhaps this may tell us," said the Archdeacon.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000010.wav|The young man threw out his hands towards her, tripped over the three inch high border of grass, and fell in a sprawling heap at her feet.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000030_000006.wav|It has a south-east aspect"--she turned to the doctor-"and so gets the sun most of the day.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000027_000002.wav|Paul's destiny, though none knew it, hung in the balance.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000009.wav|He kept on advancing. Miss Winwood rose, disgusted, and drew herself up.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000043_000004.wav|"Just look at him.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000044_000002.wav|"I'm sorry to carry on a conversation so Socratically," said he.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000023_000000.wav|Miss Winwood took the book from his hands-a little cheap reprint.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000008_000010.wav|So there he lay, a new Endymion, while the most modern of Dianas hung over him, stricken with great wonderment at his perfection.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000003_000001.wav|Her appointments were kept to the minute, and her appointment (self made on this occasion) was the welcoming of her uncle, the Archdeacon, on the threshold of Drane's Court.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000006_000012.wav|Miss Ursula Winwood fell asleep.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000002.wav|She remained for a moment tense, passively awaiting co-ordination of her faculties.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000004_000002.wav|Save for the three years of her brother's short married life, it had been part of herself.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000027_000000.wav|Miss Winwood, a practical woman, was aware that the doctor gave wise counsel.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000032_000000.wav|"I like trouble," said Miss Winwood.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000048_000000.wav|"Proves what?"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000040_000000.wav|"Of what?"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000008_000001.wav|Ursula Winwood looked down upon him.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000004.wav|He was young, extraordinarily beautiful; but he staggered and reeled like a drunken man.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000027_000003.wav|"I disapprove altogether of the cottage hospital," she said.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000021_000001.wav|The Archdeacon took it up.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000024_000000.wav|"Why, my dear Ursula?"|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000045_000001.wav|If he's not an aristocrat to the finger tips, I'll give up all my work, turn Catholic, and go into a nunnery-which will distress you exceedingly.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000012_000001.wav|"I would suggest," said she, "that we put him into the carriage, drive him up to the house, and send for dr Fuller."|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000039_000000.wav|"I was sure of it," said Miss Winwood.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000012_000000.wav|She narrated what had occurred, and together they bent over the unconscious youth.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000001.wav|He was dark and handsome, and, by a trick of coincidence, was dressed in loose knickerbocker suit, just as he was when he had walked up that very avenue to say his last good bye.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000007_000008.wav|But the trespasser did not hear.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000030_000005.wav|You can't nurse people properly in four posters.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000004_000004.wav|As for the name, he had used that of his wife, Viscountess Drane in her own right,--a notorious beauty of whom, so History recounts, he was senilely enamoured and on whose naughty account he was eventually run through the body by a young Mohawk of a paramour.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000030_000001.wav|"If I turned him out of my house, doctor, and anything happened to him, I should have to reckon with his people.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000035_000001.wav|"Is he as bad as that?" she asked quickly.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000026_000004.wav|Perhaps a touch of the sun as well." The housekeeper smiled discreetly.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000030_000002.wav|He stays here.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000008_000002.wav|The shiny brown spaniel took up a strategic position three yards away and growled, his chin between his paws.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000002_000007.wav|She had, therefore, eight minutes to spare.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6956/81870/6956_81870_000008_000006.wav|For a moment or so she had a qualm of fear lest he might be dead.|6956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000025_000002.wav|Couriers mounted on foam flecked horses dashed to and fro.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000001_000002.wav|It was just such a charge as a skilled horseman such as Haig would keenly enjoy, despite the danger.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000025_000000.wav|"The environment of the Commander in chief is strongly suggestive of his conduct of the war.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000009.wav|Inspector general, cavalry, India. nineteen o four.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000014_000001.wav|This was in nineteen o one.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000007_000000.wav|In this war, Haig is not credited with many personal exploits.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000025_000001.wav|Before war became a thing of precise science, the headquarters of an army head seethed with all the picturesque details so common to pictures of martial life.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000011_000000.wav|"Yes," replied Haig solemnly, "my Bible!"|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000018_000001.wav|French was generosity itself in his praise of Haig in these early days of disaster.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000003_000000.wav|"Two hundred and fifty yards away, the dark blue men were firing madly in a thin film of light blue smoke.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000015_000002.wav|He practically predicted the war that was to come.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000018_000000.wav|At the outbreak of the World War, he was hurriedly sent to France, under the command of Sir john French, his old leader in Africa.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000013.wav|Commander in chief of British forces. nineteen seventeen.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000025_000006.wav|It is only when your imagination conjures up the picture of flame and fury that lies beyond the horizon line that you get a thrill.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000008_000000.wav|Now he tried the same strategy in the operations around Colesburg-and paved the way for later victory.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000023_000001.wav|The appointment, however, left most of the world frankly amazed.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000015.wav|Created an earl. nineteen twenty eight.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000027_000000.wav|The same writer on meeting Haig says: "I found myself in a presence that, even without the slightest clue to its profession, would have unconsciously impressed itself as military.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000030_000001.wav|And that is one reason why the Little Contemptibles grew and grew until they became a mighty barrier stretching across the pathway of the invader from sea to sea, and saying with their Allies:|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000029_000000.wav|"This finished, the brief period of respite begins.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000032_000000.wav|IMPORTANT DATES IN HAIG'S LIFE|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000022_000000.wav|Again and again, the generous French pays tribute to his friend, which while deserved reflects no less honor upon the speaker.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000026_000001.wav|Neither time nor words are wasted when myriad lives hang in the balance and an empire is at stake.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000027_000001.wav|Dignity, distinction, and a gracious reserve mingle in his bearing.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000028_000001.wav|After lunch, for example, he spends an hour alone, and in this period of meditation the whole fateful panorama of the war passes before him.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000009_000000.wav|Haig somewhat resembled another Southern leader, Stonewall Jackson, in his piety.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000002_000005.wav|The Colonel, nearer than his regiment, already saw what lay behind the skirmishers.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000009_000002.wav|Haig did not swear or gamble or dance all night.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000015_000004.wav|It gave the German plan with a mastery of detail, shrewd prophecy, and earnest warning.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000002_000008.wav|On the instant the troops swung round and locked up into a long, galloping line.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000002.wav|Douglas Haig born. eighteen eighty.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000005_000001.wav|He returned to England wearing the Khedive's medal and the honorary title of Major.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000001_000000.wav|The final battle of the Soudanese campaign, Khartoum, put the finishing touches to the rebellion, and gave to Kitchener the title "K. of k"--Kitchener of Khartoum.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000009_000003.wav|He was more apt to be found in his tent, when off duty, either reading or writing.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000000.wav|eighteen sixty one.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000011.wav|Lieutenant general. nineteen fourteen.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000004_000000.wav|In such a melee as then followed, that trooper was lucky indeed who escaped without a scratch.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000001_000003.wav|Winston Churchill, the British Minister, thus describes it:|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000031_000000.wav|"You shall not pass!"|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000023_000000.wav|It is not strange, therefore, when French was superseded, for strategic reasons, that Haig should have been given the chief command.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000015_000000.wav|About this time he paid a visit to Germany, then at peace and professing a warm affection for England.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000004.wav|Joined seventh Hussars, British army. eighteen ninety eight.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000003_000002.wav|The pace was fast and the distance short.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000008.wav|Lieutenant colonel commanding seventeenth Lancers. nineteen o three.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000002_000006.wav|He ordered 'Right wheel into line' to be sounded.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000006_000001.wav|It is the lot of military men to vegetate in days of peace.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000006.wav|Served in South Africa.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000020_000000.wav|In the first battle of Ypres, the chief honors of victory were again awarded to him:|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000012_000000.wav|Not once did his countenance relax its gravity, as he met the grinning faces across the table.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000002_000004.wav|The only course was plain and welcome to all.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000015_000001.wav|One result of this visit was a letter which showed him possessed with wonderful powers of analysis and foresight.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000003_000006.wav|The Lancers acknowledged the apparition only by an increase of pace."|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000029_000003.wav|He rides like those latter day centaurs-the Australian ranger and the American cowboy.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000017_000000.wav|During the intervening years since the South African campaign he had risen by fairly rapid stages to Inspector General of the Cavalry in India-a situation which he handled with great skill for three years-then Major General, and Lieutenant General.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000016.wav|january thirtieth.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000012.wav|General, commanding First Army in France. nineteen fifteen.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000029_000004.wav|He seems part of his horse."|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000002_000002.wav|It was hardly possible to miss such a target at such a range.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000007_000005.wav|He was a warm admirer of the American officer, j e b Stuart, the Confederate General whose dashing tactics turned the scale in so many encounters.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000021_000000.wav|"Throughout this trying period, Sir Douglas Haig, aided by his divisional commanders and his brigade commanders, held the line with marvelous tenacity and undaunted courage."|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000027_000004.wav|His chest is broad and deep, yet scarcely broad enough for the rows of service and order ribbons that plant a mass of color against the background of khaki. . . .|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000003.wav|Entered Brasenose College, Oxford. eighteen eighty five.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000027_000003.wav|His hair and mustache are fair, and his clear, almost steely blue eyes search you, but not unkindly.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000006_000002.wav|They live upon action. Haig was no exception to this rule.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000028_000002.wav|When it is over the wires splutter and the fierce life of the coming night-the Army does not begin to fight until most people go to sleep-is ordained.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000001_000001.wav|This battle was noteworthy in employing the cavalry in an open charge across the plains against the dervish infantry.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000022_000001.wav|He was big enough to share honor.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000016_000000.wav|It required thirteen years to demonstrate the truth of Haig's predictions, and then the blow fell.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000025_000004.wav|h q'--as headquarters are familiarly known-are totally different.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000025_000005.wav|Although army units have risen from thousands to millions of men, and fields of operations stretch from sea to sea, and more ammunition is expended in a single engagement than was employed in entire wars of other days, absolute serenity prevails.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000001.wav|june nineteenth.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000027_000002.wav|I have rarely seen a masculine face so handsome and yet so strong.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000006_000003.wav|He welcomed new fields.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000006_000004.wav|He went to South Africa as aide and right-hand man to Sir john French-the general whom he was to succeed in later years on the battlefields of France.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000010.wav|Major general. nineteen ten.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000023_000002.wav|Haig had come forward so quietly that few save those in official circles knew anything about him.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000028_000000.wav|"Into every detail of daily life at General Headquarters the Commander's character is impressed.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000013_000001.wav|Almost daily he risked his life in these cavalry operations-until the "Haig luck" became a watchword.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000033_000007.wav|d a a g for cavalry; then staff officer to General French. nineteen o one.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000007_000003.wav|As usual Haig pinned his faith upon the cavalry.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000009_000001.wav|It was not ostentatious, but simply part and parcel of the man, due to his Presbyterian training.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000006_000000.wav|It is probable, however, that little more would have been heard of him, had not the South African War broken out, soon after.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000007_000001.wav|His was essentially a thinking part.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000024_000000.wav|One war correspondent who visited headquarters in the midst of the War's turmoil, thus describes his visit:|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/57831/6006_57831_000023_000003.wav|It was nevertheless but a matter of weeks, possibly days, before a quiet confidence born of the man himself was manifest everywhere.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000031_000000.wav|"They are most interesting and delightful pets.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000022_000000.wav|mrs Vyvyan further remarks:|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000012_000000.wav|"The Siamese cats are very prolific breeders, having generally five at each litter, and three litters a year.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000026_000001.wav|They also like chicken and game.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000013_000001.wav|Hitherto we have never had any half bred Siamese; but there used to be a male Siamese at Hurworth on Tees, and there were many young bred from English cats.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000005_000000.wav|mr Young, of Harrogate, possesses a chocolate variety of this Royal Siamese cat; it was sent from Singapore to mr Brennand, from whom he purchased it, and is described as "most loving and affectionate," which I believe is usually the case.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000006_000000.wav|"The dun Siamese we have has won whenever shown; the body is of a dun colour, nose, part of the face, ears, feet, and tail of a very dark chocolate brown, nearly black, eyes of a beautiful blue by day, and of a red colour at night!|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000030_000001.wav|After maturity they are apt to darken considerably, though not in all specimens.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000018_000002.wav|We were in China when they reached us, and the following year, eighteen eighty six, we brought the father, mother, and a pair of kittens to England.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000029_000001.wav|We also give cod liver oil, if the appetite fails and weight diminishes.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000018_000000.wav|"The original pair were sent from Bangkok, and it is believed that they came from the King's Palace, where alone the breed are said to be kept pure.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000034_000002.wav|Other colours should be shown in the variety classes.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000004_000000.wav|Among the beautiful varieties of the domestic cat brought into notice by the cat shows, none deserve more attention than "The Royal Cat of Siam." In form, colour, texture, and length, or rather shortness of its coat, it is widely different from other short haired varieties; yet there is but little difference in its mode of life or habit.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000027_000000.wav|"Rather a free life seems necessary to their perfect acclimatisation, where they can go out and provide themselves with raw animal food, 'feather and fur.'|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000026_000002.wav|We have proved the fish diet is not essential, as two of our cats (in Cornwall) never get it.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000008_000000.wav|"mr Brennand, who brought the chocolate one and another, a male, from Singapore last year, informs me that there are two varieties, a large and small.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000006_000003.wav|The dun, unless under special judges, invariably beats the chocolate at the shows.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000033_000001.wav|We have at present two males, four adult females, and five kittens." One of our kittens sent to Scotland last August, has done well.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000007_000000.wav|"I may add that we lately have had four kittens from the chocolate cat by a pure dun Siamese he cat.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000034_000000.wav|mrs Lee, of Penshurst, also has some fine specimens of the breed, and of the same colours as described.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000035_000002.wav|The body should be one bright, uniform, even colour, not clouded, either rich fawn, dun, or ash.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000021_000000.wav|This tallies with the description given by mr Darwin of the Malayan and also the Siamese cats.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000006_000001.wav|My other prize cat is of a very rich chocolate or seal, with darker face, ears, and tail; the legs are a shade darker, which intensifies towards the feet.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000007_000001.wav|All the young are dun coloured, and when born were very light, nearly white, but are gradually getting the dark points of the parents; in fact, I expect that one will turn chocolate. The cats are very affectionate, and make charming ladies' pets, but are rather more delicate than our cats, but after they have once wintered in England they seem to get acclimatised.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000028_000000.wav|"We find these cats require a great deal of care, unless they live in the country, and become hardy through being constantly out of doors.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000023_000000.wav|"They are very affectionate and personally attached to their human friends, not liking to be left alone, and following us from room to room more after the manner of dogs than cats.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000019_000000.wav|"Their habits are in general the same as the common cat, though it has been observed by strangers, 'there is a pleasant wild animal odour,' which is not apparent to us.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000035_000001.wav|The form should be slight, graceful, and delicately made, body long, tail rather short and thin, and the legs somewhat short, slender, and the feet oval, not so round as the ordinary English cat.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000005_000005.wav|But I give mr Young's own views:|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000028_000002.wav|Most deaths occur before they are six months old.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000021_000001.wav|See my notes on the Manx cat.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000032_000001.wav|'Loquat' also provided this for a young family for whom she had no milk.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000028_000001.wav|The kittens are difficult to rear unless they are born late in the spring, thus having the warm weather before them.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000034_000001.wav|I take it, therefore, that the true breed, by consensus of opinion, is that of the dun, fawn, or ash coloured ground, with black points.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000021_000002.wav|mr Young had also noted this peculiarity in "the Royal cat of Siam."|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000011_000000.wav|"It is my intention to try and breed from a white English female with blue eyes, and a Siamese male.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000009_000000.wav|"I have heard a little more regarding the Siamese cats from Miss Walker, the daughter of General Walker, who brought over one male and three females.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000035_000000.wav|The head should be long from the ears to the eyes, and not over broad, and then rather sharply taper off towards the muzzle, the forehead flat, and receding, the eyes somewhat aslant downwards towards the nose, and the eyes of a pearly, yet bright blue colour, the ears usual size and black, with little or no hair on the inside, with black muzzle, and round the eyes black.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000004_000001.wav|I have not had the pleasure of owning one of this breed, though when on a visit to Lady Dorothy Nevill, at Dangstein, near Petersfield, I had several opportunities for observation.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000006_000004.wav|The tail is shorter and finer than our English cats.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000015_000001.wav|Poodle) had three kittens by an English cat; but none showed any trace of the Siamese, being all tabby.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000005_000003.wav|I therefore take that to be the correct form and colour, and the darker colour to be an accidental deviation.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000005_000001.wav|Although this peculiar colour is very beautiful and scarce, I am of opinion that the light gray or fawn colour with black and well marked muzzle, ears, and legs is the typical variety, the markings being the same as the Himalayan rabbits.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000008_000001.wav|Ours are the small; he also tells me the chocolate is the most rare.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60480/6006_60480_000025_000000.wav|"They are friendly with the dogs of the house, occupying the same baskets; but the males are very strong, and fight with great persistency with strange dogs, and conquer all other tom cats in their neighbourhood.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000018_000000.wav|The symptoms are twofold, usually there is constant sneezing and discharge from the nose.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000054_000001.wav|Children have died from eating the seeds, of which ten or twelve were sufficient to cause death.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000011_000002.wav|mr George Cheverton, of High Street, Tunbridge Wells, who is very successful with animals and their diseases, thinks it best to treat them homoeopathically.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000004_000000.wav|CATARRHAL FEVERS.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000009_000002.wav|Probably inoculation with cultivated or modified virus would be found a good and safe preventative."|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000050_000000.wav|Another remedy: give a teaspoonful of castor oil; next day give raw meat, dusted over with flowers of sulphur.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000005_000001.wav|From a d fourteen fourteen up to eighteen thirty two no fewer than nineteen widespread outbreaks of this kind have been recorded.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000024_000001.wav|When the nose becomes dry, and the eye restless and glaring, give belladonna.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000022_000000.wav|DISTEMPER.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000041_000000.wav|CATARRH.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000054_000003.wav|How many cases have happened before the danger was discovered is of course only a matter of conjecture, as few would suspect the cause to come from the lovely plant that so delights the eye.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000026_000000.wav|When internal, drop into the affected ear, night and morning, three or five drops of the following mixture:|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000007_000003.wav|Solid food should not be allowed until convalescence has set in.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000052_000000.wav|POISON.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000006_000000.wav|"The symptoms are intense fever, prostration, vomiting, diarrhoea, sneezing, cough, and profuse discharge from the nose and eyes.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000003_000002.wav|Care should always be taken on the first symptoms of illness to remove the animal at once from contact with others.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000008_000000.wav|"Simple Catarrh demands similar treatment.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000035_000000.wav|DISTEMPER.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000007_000001.wav|The disease rapidly produces intense debility, and therefore the strength should be maintained from the very commencement by frequent small doses of strong beef tea, into which one grain of quinine has been introduced twice a day, a small quantity of port wine (from half to one teaspoonful) according to the size of the cat, and the state of debility.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000012_000000.wav|WORMS.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000029_000000.wav|APERIENT.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000002_000000.wav|DISEASES OF CATS.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000016_000000.wav|A most useful lotion is acid sulphurous, one ounce. to five ounces. of water, adding about a teaspoonful of glycerine, and sponging the affected parts twice or thrice daily.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000039_000000.wav|WORMS.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000046_000001.wav|Mix.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000040_000000.wav|Two or three grains of santonine in a teaspoonful of castor oil, for two or three days.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000017_000000.wav|COLDS.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000047_000001.wav|Wash the eyes carefully with warm water, dry off with a soft silk handkerchief, and apply a little of the ointment.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000032_000000.wav|REMEDIES AND STRENGTHENING MEDICINES.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000013_000001.wav|After the course give an aperient powder.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000006_000001.wav|Sometimes the parotid glands are swollen, as in human mumps.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000007_000000.wav|"The treatment consists in careful nursing and cleanliness, keeping the animal moderately warm and comfortable.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000036_000001.wav|Mix for ointment.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000043_000000.wav|FLEAS, AND IRRITATION OF SKIN.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000047_000000.wav|The above prescription was given to me many years ago by the late dr Walsh (Stonehenge), and I have found it of great service, both for my own eyes, also those of animals and birds.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000042_000001.wav|Mix. Give one teaspoonful every two or three hours.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000005_000002.wav|The most notable of these was in seventeen ninety six, when the cats in England and Holland were generally attacked by the disease, and in the following year when it had spread over Europe and extended to America; in eighteen o three, it again appeared in this country and over a large part of the European continent.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000053_000000.wav|It is not generally known that the much admired laburnum contains a strong poison, and is therefore an exceedingly dangerous plant.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000023_000001.wav|The first indications usually are a disinclination to rest in the usual place, seeking a dark corner beneath a sofa, etc|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000008_000001.wav|Warmth, cleanliness, broth, and beef tea, are the chief items of treatment, with a dose of castor oil if constipation is present.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000038_000000.wav|Nothing like castor oil for purgation; half the quantity of syrup of buckthorn, if necessary, may be added.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000011_000001.wav|Other members of the r c v s, whom I have consulted, have all given the same kind of advice, not only prescribing for the sick animal wine, but brandy, as a last resource, to arouse sinking vitality.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000054_000000.wav|A small dose of juice infused under the skin is quite sufficient to kill a cat or a dog.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000046_000000.wav|Red oxide of mercury, twelve grains; spermaceti ointment, one ounce.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000007_000002.wav|If there is no diarrhoea, but constipation, a small dose of castor oil or syrup of buckthorn should be given.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000013_000000.wav|For a full grown cat give three grains of santonine every night for a week or ten days; it might be administered in milk, or given in a small piece of beef or meat of any kind.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000030_000002.wav|Large cats often require two powders. The dose might be repeated if necessary.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000011_000000.wav|It will be observed that dr Fleming treats the distemper as a kind of influenza, and considers one of the most important things is to keep up the strength of the suffering animal.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000014_000000.wav|MANGE.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000045_000000.wav|EYE OINTMENT.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000030_000000.wav|Get a chemist to rub down a medium size croton bean with about forty grains of sugar of milk, and divide into four powders.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000023_000000.wav|Early symptoms should be noted and receive prompt attention; this will often cut short the duration of the malady.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000010_000000.wav|I was anxious to know about this, as inoculation used to be the practice with packs of hounds.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000023_000002.wav|The eyes flow freely, the nose after becoming hard and dry becomes stopped with fluid, the tongue parched, and total aversion to food follows.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000034_000001.wav|Mindful of the old proverb that "In a multitude of counsellors there is wisdom," I place all before my friends, and those of the cat, that they may select which remedy they deem best:|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000003_000001.wav|Through the kindness of friends I am enabled to give recipes for medicines considered as useful, or, at any rate, tending to abate the severity of the attack in the one, and utterly eradicate the other.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000033_000005.wav|Santonine.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000037_000000.wav|PURGATIVE.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000048_000000.wav|FOR MANGE.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000047_000002.wav|dr Walsh informed me that he deemed it excellent for canker in the ear, but of that I have had no experience.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000034_000000.wav|mr Frank Upjohn, of Castelnau, Barnes, has also kindly forwarded me his treatment of some few of the cat ailments.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000051_000001.wav|Of all the ailments, both of dogs and cats, distemper is the worst to combat, and is so virulent and contagious that I have thought it well to offer remedies that are at least worthy of a trial, though when the complaint has firm hold, and the attack very severe, the case is generally almost hopeless, especially with high bred animals.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000025_000000.wav|CANKER OF EAR.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000007_000004.wav|Isolation, with regard to other cats, and disinfection, should be attended to.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000019_000000.wav|COUGHS.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6006/60489/6006_60489_000011_000003.wav|The following is what he prescribes as efficacious for some of the most dire complaints with which cats are apt to be afflicted.|6006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000042_000000.wav|"Ah!"|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000000.wav|He was guided, and he did talk and to some effect.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000034_000000.wav|Sweetwater made only one stop on his way to mr Grey's hotel rooms, and that was at the stables.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000046_000001.wav|Couldn't you rap him up at his own door, and hold him in talk a minute, while I looked on from the carriage or whatever vehicle we can get to carry us there?|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000015_000002.wav|It was not the one he had anticipated, but it came near to it. It was that of james Wellgood.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000019_000000.wav|The man behind the boxes was used to the name and reached out a hand toward a box unusually well stacked, but stopped half-way there and gave Sweetwater a sharp look.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000033_000001.wav|Sweetwater took the opportunity to slide away.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000022_000000.wav|"You're taking up another man's time," complained the postmaster.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000004_000000.wav|Sweetwater had just come to town,--this was evident from the gripsack he had set down in a corner on entering, also from a certain tousled appearance which bespoke hasty rising and but few facilities for proper attention to his person.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000043_000000.wav|mr Grey rose precipitately.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000025_000000.wav|Sauntering to the door, he watched for the owner of that buggy.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000026_000001.wav|"I wonder if my instinct will go so far as to make me recognize his presence.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000038_000001.wav|the man named Wellgood?" mr Grey exclaimed with all the astonishment the other secretly expected.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000023_000002.wav|"That is his buggy standing before the drug store on the opposite side of the way."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000003_000000.wav|A few days later three men were closeted in the district attorney's office.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000028_000002.wav|The man was commonplace,--commonplace in feature, dress and manner, but his eye gave him away.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000023_000001.wav|But he was better pleased yet when Dick-a fellow with a squint whose hand was always in the sugar-told him that mr Wellgood would probably be in for his mail in a few moments.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000003_000002.wav|The third was the detective, Sweetwater, chosen by them to keep watch on mr Grey.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000020_000000.wav|"Who are you?" he asked.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000001.wav|That is, he gave information of the man which surprised Sweetwater.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000024_000001.wav|"Lucky!" was what he said to himself, "still lucky!"|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000026_000000.wav|"A dangerous customer," thought he.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000011.wav|Sweetwater felt all his convictions confirmed, and ended the colloquy with the final question:|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000038_000000.wav|"Wellgood does?|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000033_000000.wav|The other made a gesture, said something about northwest and rushed to help a customer.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000008_000000.wav|It was a prelude to this tale which I give, not as it came from his mouth, but as it was afterward related to me.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000021_000001.wav|I thought, perhaps, you could tell me where to find him.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000013_000000.wav|Of this he was made absolutely certain a little later.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000009_000001.wav|His task had been to follow this gentleman, and follow him he did.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000039_000000.wav|"Yes; Wellgood, james Wellgood.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000004_000001.wav|These details counted little, however, in the astonishment created by his manner.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000009.wav|If it sells as he says it will-then he will soon be rich: and so on, till Sweetwater brought the garrulous Dick to a standstill by asking whether Wellgood had been away for any purpose since he first came to town.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000029_000003.wav|He knew nothing of the man's circumstances or of his position in the town.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000025_000002.wav|In this way he would soon be looking upon the very man whose steps he had followed through the Fairbrother house a few nights before, and through whose resolute action he had very nearly run the risk of a lingering death from starvation.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000030_000000.wav|But that was nothing.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000023_000000.wav|The detective was glad enough to escape and ask Dick.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000007_000000.wav|They produced a most unhappy sensation.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000044_000000.wav|"I must see him.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000024_000000.wav|So! he had netted Jones' quondam waiter at the first cast!|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000046_000002.wav|The least glimpse of his face would satisfy me.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000005.wav|Money for this, money for that, a horse where another man would walk, and mail-well, that alone would make this post office worth while.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000012_000000.wav|Once on the platform of the small station at which mr Grey had bidden him to stop, he noticed two things: the utter helplessness of the man in all practical matters, and his extreme anxiety to see all that was going on about him without being himself seen.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000007_000001.wav|Both the men, hardened as they were by duties which soon sap the sensibilities, started and turned as pale as the speaker himself.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000008.wav|Count them, some one, and think of the bottles and bottles of stuff they stand for.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000032_000000.wav|"And where is his manufactory?|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000006.wav|Then the drugs ordered by wholesale.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000012_000002.wav|Women did not interest him in the least. They could pass and repass without arousing his attention, but the moment a man stepped his way, he shrank from him only to betray the greatest curiosity concerning him the moment he felt it safe to turn and observe him.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000036_000000.wav|The detective, with some semblance of respect, answered that he had seen Wellgood, but that he had been unable to detain him or bring him within his employer's observation.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000035_000001.wav|He looked up eagerly, however, when Sweetwater entered, and asked what news.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000018_000000.wav|His calculation was a correct one.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000004.wav|He was going to make things hum, he was.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000047_000000.wav|"I'll try," said Sweetwater, not very sanguine as to the probable result of this effort.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000011_000000.wav|This was a great stroke of luck, he thought, but he little knew how big a stroke or into what a series of adventures it was going to lead him.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000043_000001.wav|His manner had changed.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000032_000001.wav|Might be worth visiting, perhaps."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000021_000002.wav|I see that his letters pass through this office."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000003_000001.wav|Two of them were officials-the district attorney himself, and our old friend, the inspector.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000048_000000.wav|Returning to the stables, he ordered the team.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000025_000001.wav|He had learned, as such fellows do, that there was a secret hue and cry after this very man by the New York police; that he was supposed by some to be Sears himself.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000029_000002.wav|But how, with the conditions laid on him by mr Grey, was this to be done?|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000030_000002.wav|He had perceived that in the pauses of weighing and tasting, Dick talked; if he were guided with suitable discretion, why should he not talk of Wellgood?|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000010_000000.wav|mr Grey was a very stately man, difficult of approach, and was absorbed, besides, by some overwhelming care.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000014_000002.wav|Do this and you will earn a week's salary in one day."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000017_000001.wav|The train on which he had just come had been a mail train, and he calculated that he would find half the town there.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000002_000001.wav|SWEETWATER IN A NEW ROLE|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000029_000004.wav|How, then, go to work to secure his cooperation in a scheme possibly as mysterious to him as it was to himself?|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000015_000001.wav|Not till he had found what he wished, and installed the Englishman in his room, did he venture to open the precious memorandum and read the name he had been speculating over for an hour.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000003.wav|He had not been long in town and was somewhat of a stranger yet, but he wouldn't be so long.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000029_000006.wav|Wellgood, or, as he believed, Sears, knew too much of life to be beguiled by any open clap trap, and Sweetwater was obliged to see him drive off without having made the least advance in the purpose engrossing him.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000034_000001.wav|Here he learned whatever else there was to know, and, armed with definite information, he appeared before mr Grey, who, to his astonishment, was dining in his own room.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000014_000000.wav|"I want you to get me a room at a very quiet hotel.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000028_000001.wav|It was enough.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000029_000005.wav|He could stop this stranger in mid street, with some plausible excuse, but it did not follow that he would succeed in luring him to the hotel where mr Grey could see him.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000004_000002.wav|For a hardy chap he looked strangely nervous and indisposed, so much so that, after the first short greeting, the inspector asked him what was up, and if he had had another Fairbrother house experience.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000021_000000.wav|"A stranger," that young man put in volubly, "looking for james Wellgood.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000002_000000.wav|seventeen.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000037_000000.wav|"He is a patent medicine man," he then explained, "and manufactures his own concoctions in a house he has rented here on a lonely road some half mile out of town."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000009_000000.wav|The detective had just been with mr Grey to the coast of Maine. Why there, will presently appear.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000022_000002.wav|"Ask Dick over there; he knows him."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000006_000000.wav|Here he glanced at every door and window; and then, leaning forward over the table at which the two officials sat, he brought his head as nearly to them as possible and whispered five words.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000031_000007.wav|Those boxes over there were his, ready to be carted out to his manufactory.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000044_000001.wav|What you tell me makes it all the more necessary for me to see him.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000012_000003.wav|All of which convinced Sweetwater that the Englishman's errand was in connection with a man whom he equally dreaded and desired to meet.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000005_000000.wav|He replied with a decided no; that it was not his adventure which had upset him, but the news he had to bring.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000046_000003.wav|That is, to night."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000029_000000.wav|He had taken in Sweetwater as he passed, but Sweetwater was of a commonplace type, too, and woke no corresponding dread in the other's mind; for he went whistling into the store, from which he presently reissued with a bundle of mail in his hand.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/153309/3923_153309_000030_000001.wav|He had all the evening before him, and reentering the store, he took up his stand near the sugar barrel.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000034_000004.wav|He founded the inter hospital rowing club at Putney and rowed in the first inter hospital race; he played on the Varsity football team, and won the "throwing the hammer" at the sports.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000023_000001.wav|With these fitting words was presented a man whose simple faith has been the motive power of his works, to whom pain and weariness of flesh have called no stay since there was discouragement never, to whom personal danger has counted as nothing since fear is incomprehensible.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000022_000002.wav|Thus, up to the measure of human ability, he seems to follow, if it is right to say it of any one, in the footsteps of Christ Himself, as a truly Christian man.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000024_000001.wav|Algernon Sydney Grenfell and Jane Georgiana Hutchinson, was born on the twenty eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty five, at Mostyn House School, Parkgate, by Chester, England, of an ancestry which laid a firm foundation for his career and in surroundings which fitted him for it.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000032_000003.wav|In these excursions the youthful Wilfred was a participant, and therein he learned some of his first lessons in that accuracy of observation essential to his later life work.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000032_000000.wav|Parkgate, at one time a seaport of renown, when Liverpool was still unimportant, and later a seaside health resort to which came the fashion and beauty of England, had fallen, through the silting of the estuary and the broadening of the "Sands of Dee," to the level of a hamlet in the time of dr Grenfell's boyhood.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000035_000001.wav|Need called, misery appealed, the message of life, of hope, and of salvation awaited, and the young doctor turned from Oxford to the medical mission work in which his record stands among the foremost for its effectiveness and for the spirituality of its purpose.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000027_000001.wav|Nor has the strain died out, as is demonstrated in the present generation by many of dr Grenfell's cousins, among them General Francis Wallace Grenfell, Lord Kilvey, and by dr Grenfell himself on the Labrador in the fight against disease and disaster and distress along a stormy and uncharted coast.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000027_000000.wav|There was also Sir Richard Grenville, immortalized by Tennyson in "The Revenge," and john Pascoe Grenville, the right-hand man of Admiral Cochrane, who boarded the Spanish admiral's ship, the Esmeralda, on the port side, while Cochrane came up on the starboard, when together they made short work of the capture.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000031_000000.wav|Mostyn House School still stands, enlarged and modernized, in the charge of dr Grenfell's elder brother, and in it his mother is still the real head and controlling genius.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000030_000000.wav|dr Grenfell's father, after a brilliant career at Rugby School and at Balliol College, Oxford, became assistant master at Repton, and later, when he married, head master of Mostyn House School, a position which he resigned in eighteen eighty two to become Chaplain of the London Hospital.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000001_000000.wav|ADRIFT ON AN ICE PAN|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000032_000002.wav|Thither came Charles Kingsley, Canon of Chester, who married a Grenfell, and who coupled his verse with scientific study and made geological excursions to the river's mouth with the then Master of Mostyn House School.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000034_000003.wav|Nor were the needs of his own bodily machine neglected; football, rowing, and the tennis court kept him in condition, and his athletics served to strengthen his appeals to the London boys whom he enrolled in the brigades.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000022_000000.wav|"A citizen of Britain is before you, once a student in this University, now better known to the people of the New World than to our own.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000022_000001.wav|This is the man who fifteen years ago went to the coast of Labrador, to succor with medical aid the solitary fishermen of the northern sea; in executing which service he despised the perils of the ocean, which are there most terrible, in order to bring comfort and light to the wretched and sorrowing.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000024_000002.wav|On both sides of his inheritance have been exhibited the courage, patience, persistence, and fighting and teaching qualities which are exemplified in his own abilities to command, to administer, and to uplift.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000039_000000.wav|To accomplish this, to make of the scattered settlements a united and independent people, to safeguard their future by such measures as the establishment of a Seamen's Institute at saint John's, Newfoundland, and the insurance of communication with the outside world, and to raise, by personal solicitation, the money needed for these enterprises, requires an unusual personality.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000022_000003.wav|Rightly then we praise him by whose praise not he alone, but our University also is honored.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000030_000001.wav|"He was a man of much learning, with a keen interest in science, a remarkable eloquence, and a fervent evangelistic faith."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000028_000001.wav|The eldest fought with distinction throughout the Indian Mutiny and in the defence of Lucknow, and another commanded the crack cavalry regiment, the "Guides," at Peshawar, and fell fighting in one of the turbulent North of India wars.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000036_000001.wav|The conditions of the life were onerous, the existing traffic in spirituous liquors and in all other demoralizing influences had to be fought step by step, prejudice and evil habit had to be overcome and to be replaced by better knowledge and better desire, there was room for both fighting and teaching, and the medical mission won its way.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000023_000002.wav|"As the Lord wills, whether for wreck or service, I am about His business." On november ninth of the preceding year, the King of England gave one of his "Birthday Honors" to the same man, making him a Companion of saint Michael and saint George (c m g).|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000034_000001.wav|Matriculating later at the University of London, Grenfell entered the London Hospital, and there laid not only the foundation of his medical education, but that of his friendship with Sir Frederick Treves, renowned surgeon and daring sailor and master mariner as well.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000034_000002.wav|With plenty of work to the fore, as a hospital interne, the ruling spirit still asserted itself, and the young doctor became an inspiration among the waifs of the teeming city; he was one of the founders of the great Lads' Brigades which have done much good, and fostered more, in the example that they have set for allied activities.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000028_000000.wav|On his mother's side, four of her brothers were generals or colonels in the trying times of service in India.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000032_000001.wav|The broad stretch of seaward trending sand, with its interlacing rivulets of fresh and brackish water, made a tempting though treacherous playground, alluring alike in the varied forms of life it harbored and in the adventure which whetted exploration.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000025_000000.wav|On his father's side were the Grenvilles, who made good account of themselves in such cause as they approved, among them Basil Grenville, commander of the Royalist Cornish Army, killed at Lansdown in sixteen forty three in defence of King Charles.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000026_000000.wav|"Four wheels to Charles's wain: Grenville, Trevanion, Slanning, Godolphin slain."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000020_000000.wav|BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000029_000000.wav|Of teachers, there was dr Grenfell's paternal grandfather, the reverend Algernon Grenfell, the second of three brothers, house master at Rugby under Arnold, and a fine classical scholar, whose elder and younger brothers each felt the ancestral call of the sea and became admirals, with brave records of daring and success.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000021_000000.wav|"MOST NOBLE VICE CHANCELLOR, AND YOU, EMINENT PROCTORS:|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000036_000002.wav|"When you set out to commend your gospel to men who don't want it, there's only one way to go about it,--to do something for them that they'll be sure to understand.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000036_000000.wav|Seeking some way in which he could satisfy his medical aspirations, as well as his desire for adventure and for definite Christian work, he appealed to Sir Frederick Treves, a member of the Council of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, who suggested his joining the staff of the mission and establishing a medical mission to the fishermen of the North Sea.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/181420/3923_181420_000035_000000.wav|A couple of terms at Queen's College, Oxford, followed the London experience, but here the conditions were too easy and luxurious for one who, by both inheritance and training, had within him the incentive to the strenuous life.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000012.wav|The Duke might have his foxes destroyed if he pleased, but he could hardly do so and remain a popular magnate in England.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000004.wav|To ordinary thinkers, to unprejudiced outsiders,--to Americans, let us say, or Frenchmen,--there does not seem to be room even for an argument.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000029_000000.wav|"Your Grace shall at any rate have one of them," said Lord Chiltern.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000000.wav|The Duke, however, had declined to interfere personally.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000001.wav|During the summer considerable acerbity had been added to the matter by certain articles which had appeared in certain sporting papers, in which the new Duke of Omnium was accused of neglecting his duty to the county in which a portion of his property lay.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000005.wav|To kill a certain number of foxes in the year, after the legitimate fashion, had become to him the one great study of life;--and he did it with an energy equal to that which the Duke devoted to decimal coinage.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000006.wav|Trumpeton Wood was the Duke's own,--to do just as he pleased with it.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000005.wav|And she did prevent it.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000008.wav|But a good deal had been said which, though not perhaps capable of convincing the unprejudiced American or Frenchman, had been regarded as cogent arguments to country bred Englishmen.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000005_000007.wav|As the vulpicide, on the afternoon of the day of the deed, went along the corridor to his room, one maid servant whispered to another, and the poor victim of an imperfect sight heard the words-"That's he as shot the fox!"|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000030_000001.wav|Nothing short of an embassy on behalf of the great coverts of his country would have kept this master away at present; and now, his diplomacy having succeeded, he hurried back to make the most of its results.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000018_000000.wav|"Then nobody can manage his own property as he pleases?"|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000022_000002.wav|Keepers shall prefer foxes to pheasants, wires shall be unheard of, and Trumpeton Wood shall once again be the glory of the Brake Hunt.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000028_000001.wav|But if you only knew what I have gone through to get rid of him,--and all on account of Trumpeton Wood,--you'd send me every brush taken in the Brake country during the next season."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000012_000000.wav|"Certainly;--only say so, and we shall know where we are." He looked very angry, and poor Lady Chiltern was covered with dismay.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000005_000001.wav|The animal becomes sacred, and his preservation is a religion.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000035_000001.wav|You owe it to us to come.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000005_000004.wav|He had mistaken it for a hare, and had done the deed in the presence of keepers, owner, and friends.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000019_000002.wav|I vote that we have an officer of State, to go in and out with the Government,--with a seat in the Cabinet or not according as things go, and that we call him Foxmaster General.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000019_000000.wav|"Nobody can,--unless he does the work himself.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000004_000003.wav|It had fallen out in this wise.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000005.wav|By what law of God or man can a man be bound to maintain a parcel of injurious vermin on his property, in the pursuit of which he finds no sport himself, and which are highly detrimental to another sport in which he takes, perhaps, the keenest interest?|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000032_000000.wav|"I should like."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000010_000000.wav|"I don't write the newspapers, Duchess.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000005_000008.wav|The gentleman did not appear at dinner, nor was he ever again seen in those parts.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000009_000000.wav|"Why couldn't you keep it all out of the newspapers?"|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000030_000002.wav|Lady Chiltern, before she went, made a little speech to Phineas Finn.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000005_000005.wav|His feelings were so acute and his remorse so great that, in their pity, they had resolved to spare him; and then, on the spot, entered into a solemn compact that no one should be told.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000026_000000.wav|"I am so glad," said his wife.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000028_000000.wav|"He was an impudent old man, and that's the truth," said the Duchess;--"and he has always been my thorough detestation.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000022_000000.wav|"My dear Lord Chiltern, everything has been done.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000017.wav|Knowing well that "home staying youths have ever homely wits," he goes out and sees the world.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000015_000001.wav|As for the Duke, he can't be comfortable in his arithmetic for thinking of them.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000000.wav|In these fine early autumn days spent at Matching, the great Trumpeton Wood question was at last settled.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000010.wav|The preservation of foxes might be an open question in such counties as Norfolk and Suffolk, but could not be so in the Brake country.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000022_000003.wav|It won't cost the Duke above a thousand or two a year."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000025_000000.wav|"Then it'll be all right," said Lord Chiltern.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000016.wav|The fox is a travelling animal.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000031_000000.wav|"You'll come to us in the winter, mr Finn?"|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000014.wav|As it happened, Trumpeton Wood was, and always had been, the great nursery of foxes for that side of the Brake country.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000015_000000.wav|"And if they go on being not properly brought up and educated, they'll make an old woman of me.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000002.wav|And even the Duke was angry.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000015.wav|Now he had consented to come to Matching, bringing his wife with him, in order that the matter might be settled.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000009.wav|The Brake Hunt had been established for a great many years, and was the central attraction of a district well known for its hunting propensities.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000008_000000.wav|"Well;--how about them?" said the lord, showing by the fiery eagerness of his eye, and the increased redness of his face, that though the matter had been introduced somewhat jocosely, there could not really be any joke about it.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000012.wav|And it was too much for him that such a one as mr Fothergill should be allowed to wire foxes in Trumpeton Wood!|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000019.wav|If all foxes so wandering be doomed to death, if poison, and wires, and traps, and hostile keepers await them there instead of the tender welcome of the loving fox preserver, the gorse coverts will soon be empty, and the whole country will be afflicted with a wild dismay.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000017_000002.wav|Don't you know what vested interests mean, Lord Chiltern?"|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER seventy five.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000002.wav|The question was argued at considerable length.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000015.wav|Gorse coverts make, no doubt, the charm of hunting, but gorse coverts will not hold foxes unless the woodlands be preserved.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000022_000001.wav|Vested interests have been attended to.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000023_000000.wav|"I should be very sorry indeed to put the Duke to any unnecessary expense," said Lord Chiltern solemnly,--still fearing that the Duchess was only playing with him.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000016_000000.wav|"Change your keepers," said Lord Chiltern energetically.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000003.wav|The Duke was angry because Lord Chiltern had been violent;--and Lord Chiltern had been violent because mr Fothergill's conduct had been, to his thinking, not only sacrilegious, but one continued course of wilful sacrilege.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000001.wav|He had told his wife that he should be delighted to welcome Lord and Lady Chiltern,--as he would any other friends of hers.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000035_000002.wav|And may I say this? If there be anybody to come with you, that will make it only so much the better.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000019_000001.wav|If I were to go and live in Trumpeton Wood I could do it; but you see I have to live here.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000030_000000.wav|On the next day Lord and Lady Chiltern went back to Harrington Hall. When the end of August comes, a Master of Hounds,--who is really a master,--is wanted at home.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000019_000003.wav|It would be just the thing for mr Finn."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000011_000000.wav|"We may have traps if we like it, Lord Chiltern."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000033_000001.wav|No one was truer to you than we were, you know.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000004_000000.wav|But our dear old friend, only the other day a duke, Planty Pall as he was lately called, devoted to work and to Parliament, an unselfish, friendly, wise man, who by no means wanted other men to cut their coats according to his pattern, was the last man in England to put himself forward as the enemy of an established delight.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000005_000006.wav|Encouraged by the forbearing tenderness, the unfortunate one ventured to return to the house of his friend, the owner of the wood, hoping that, in spite of the sacrilege committed, he might be able to face a world that would be ignorant of his crime.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000014.wav|Surely all that was understood in England by this time.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000033_000000.wav|"You must.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000007.wav|Lady Chiltern and Madame Goesler were present, and also Phineas Finn.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000013_000000.wav|"But we don't like traps, Lord Chiltern;--nor yet poison, nor anything that is wicked.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000002.wav|The guests, indeed, at the Duke's house were never his guests, but always hers.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000016.wav|There had been a threat that he would give up the country, in which case it was declared that it would be impossible to carry on the Brake Hunt in a manner satisfactory to masters, subscribers, owners of coverts, or farmers, unless a different order of things should be made to prevail in regard to Trumpeton Wood.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000007.wav|Why should foxes be demanded from him then any more than a bear to be baited, or a badger to be drawn, in, let us say, his London dining room?|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000006.wav|His huntsman was always well mounted, with two horses; but Lord Chiltern would give up his own to the man and take charge of a weary animal as a common groom when he found that he might thus further the object of the day's sport.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000027_000000.wav|"And so the great mr Fothergill falls from power, and goes down into obscurity," said Madame Goesler.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000021_000000.wav|"Then I suppose that nothing can be done," said Lord Chiltern.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000015_000002.wav|But what can one do?"|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000000.wav|mr Fothergill had become angry.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000013_000001.wav|I'd go and nurse the foxes myself if I knew how, wouldn't I, Marie?"|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000003.wav|But he could not allow himself to be brought into an argument with Lord Chiltern as to the management of his own property.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000007_000004.wav|The Duchess was made to understand that she must prevent any such awkwardness.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000013.wav|The Duke's property, indeed!|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000004_000001.wav|He did not hunt himself,--but neither did he shoot, or fish, or play cards.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000024_000001.wav|We have pensioned poor mr Fothergill, and he retires from the administration."|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000014_000000.wav|"They have robbed the Duchess of her sleep for the last six months," said Madame Goesler.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000034_000000.wav|"Oh, Lady Chiltern!"|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000003_000003.wav|Is a landed proprietor bound, or is he not, to keep foxes for the amusement of his neighbours?|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000035_000000.wav|"Of course you'll come.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000004_000002.wav|He recreated himself with Blue Books, and speculations on Adam Smith had been his distraction;--but he knew that he was himself peculiar, and he respected the habits of others.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3923/174992/3923_174992_000006_000011.wav|He devoted his life to the Brake Hounds.|3923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000036_000000.wav|The words came out, interrupted by peals and cracks of thunder.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000006_000002.wav|He went straight to the bowl and addressed the fish.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000028_000000.wav|Without interest at first, Chris stared at the little Negro boy, so gaily dressed in full red trousers, gilded jacket and white turban. The figure's shoes, carved in some Eastern style, had curved up pointing toes.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000019_000000.wav|"Better come back now.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000039_000001.wav|Under his eyes the wooden folds of cloth became rich silk, embroidery gleamed in its reality upon the coat, and oh! the face!|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000013_000004.wav|Remember Incantation Seventy three, Book One."|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000031_000001.wav|With difficulty, standing on tiptoe, Chris lifted it down, and placing it on the floor, turned over page after page.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000013_000002.wav|If you get stuck I can help you.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000041_000001.wav|Outside, the rain poured down as if over some skyward dam.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000029_000000.wav|The prospect excited him wildly, for he had no companion with whom to laugh and share jokes.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000003_000001.wav|So there was nothing left to do but to work as fast and as well as he could.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000009_000000.wav|"How you have improved, my boy!" he exclaimed.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000014_000000.wav|Chris stared at the fishbowl, empty now.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000039_000000.wav|It was as if the stiffness melted.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000021_000001.wav|Sniff the smoke and drink the liquid that remains," he said.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000038_000000.wav|For in the blackness lit only by the lightning and its own eerie glow, the wood was changing as he watched.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000011_000001.wav|Do you really think I know how?" he cried, gazing up into the face of his master.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000012_000000.wav|mr Wicker shook his head with a smile.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000013_000003.wav|Come now," he said, putting out his hand to touch Chris's shoulder in a reassuring way, "here you go.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000030_000002.wav|He heard the magician going up the spiral staircase to his room above, and after changing himself to a mouse to slip under the door and see that the room was really empty, Chris resumed his proper shape and opened the doors of the cupboard at the far end of the room.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000011_000000.wav|"Oh, sir!|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000033_000001.wav|There were the words, and there the charm. Certain elements were to be mixed and poured at the proper time.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000025_000001.wav|They played this new and unique form of hide and seek, each one taking a new shape, turn by turn, as a challenge to the other's powers of imagination and detection.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000019_000002.wav|Seventy four, Book One: The Return."|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000026_000002.wav|This afternoon, a rainy one, he had tired of changing himself into and out of objects.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000016_000004.wav|His head swam and he felt faint and a little sick, but he persisted through the final words.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000035_000001.wav|Chris, his cheeks hot from excitement and the fire, tiptoed out just as mr Wicker's step creaked on the topmost tread of the spiral stair.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000039_000003.wav|The feet of the boy twitched and shifted in their pointed shoes.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000007_000001.wav|What shall I do first?"|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000015_000000.wav|Then as nothing happened, with a voice like a whip mr Wicker said: "Start at once!"|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000025_000000.wav|From that time, Chris became increasingly proficient, and as his ability grew he began to find magic a wonderful game, which he and mr Wicker played together.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000009_000001.wav|"It is now time for you to try, and this is as good a change as any."|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000033_000002.wav|He hurried, memorizing as he closed the book, and hoisted it once more to its high shelf.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000036_000001.wav|The shop was black except for the paler crescent of the bow window giving onto the street.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000032_000001.wav|Dusk came two hours before its time; thunder snarled in the sky.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000039_000002.wav|The wooden grin loosened, the large eyes turned, the hand holding the hard bouquet of carved flowers moved, and let the bouquet fall.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000016_000001.wav|As he went on, concentrating on becoming a goldfish in the bowl on the table, he became aware of a humming sensation in his head.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000028_000002.wav|If he was to be a magician, could he make this boy come to life?|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000016_000002.wav|This grew until it seemed that all his body was filled with the strange new vibration, tingling from his feet to the crown of his head.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000002_000003.wav|mr Wicker though interested and attentive, gave Chris the impression that what he had been told was not new to him.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000044_000000.wav|And as they turned, the light and the dark hands holding firm, the firelight was streaming from the distant door and mr Wicker waited.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000021_000000.wav|"This will seem to smoke.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000025_000002.wav|Soon Chris could turn himself into a limited number of things, for even mr Wicker's magic had a limit: a singing bird in a cage, a part of the pattern in the brocaded curtains, or a section of the design in the Indian rug.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000011_000002.wav|"Suppose I change and can't change back?"|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000024_000001.wav|A peculiar feeling, but as you come to do it more often and more quickly, the change will come more rapidly and in time you will be scarcely aware of the sensations at all." He looked at his pupil with pride.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000028_000001.wav|Then all at once the idea came to Chris.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000035_000002.wav|With infinite caution Chris closed the door silently behind him, and running lightly forward, reached the figure of the Negro boy.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187005/4222_187005_000013_000000.wav|"Never fear, Christopher.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000018_000002.wav|New York refused to send members to the Congress, and in many other provinces the adhesion given to the disaffected movement was but lukewarm.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000012_000001.wav|This step caused extreme discontent among the trading classes of America, and these set to work vigorously to stir up a strong feeling of disaffection against England.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000003.wav|But I consider that it has done nothing whatever to justify the attitude of the colonists.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000012_000000.wav|Their first step was to strengthen the naval force on the American coast and by additional vigilance to put some sort of check on the wholesale smuggling which prevailed.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000023_000001.wav|He returned in half an hour.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000016_000000.wav|In England neither the spirit nor the strength of the colonists was understood.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000028_000001.wav|Pompey, saddle two horses at once.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000040_000001.wav|Many American writers have declared that previous to that battle there was no desire for independence on the part of the colonists, but this is emphatically contradicted by the language used at the meetings and in the newspapers which have come down to us.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000029_000004.wav|At every village the bells were ringing, the people were assembling in the streets, all carrying arms, while numbers were flocking in from the farmhouses around.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000013.wav|Such, gentlemen, are not my sentiments.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000016.wav|France, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands all monopolize the trade of their colonies; all, far more than does England, regard their colonies as sources of revenue.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000005.wav|The colonists pay nothing for their land; they pay nothing toward the expenses of the government of the mother country; and it appears to me to be perfectly just that people here, free as they are from all the burdens that bear so heavily on those at home, should at least bear the expense of the army stationed here.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000002_000004.wav|mr Welch's farm was the only one along the lake that had escaped, and the loss the Indians had sustained in attacking it had been so heavy that they were not likely to make an expedition in that quarter, where the chances of booty were so small and the certainty of a desperate resistance so great.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000020_000000.wav|The Congress drilled, armed, and organized; the English brought over fresh troops and prepared for the struggle.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000011_000004.wav|They saw in America a population of over two million people, subjects of the king, like themselves, living free from rent and taxes on their own land and paying nothing whatever to the expenses of the country.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000003_000001.wav|The news was brought by a wandering hunter that a quarrel had arisen between the Shawnees and the Iroquois, and that the latter had recalled their braves from the frontier to defend their own villages in case of hostilities breaking out between them and the rival tribe.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000029_000005.wav|Once or twice Captain Wilson was stopped and asked where he was going.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000015_000000.wav|The whole of the States now began to prepare for war.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000016_000001.wav|Men could not bring themselves to believe that these would fight rather than submit, still less that if they did fight it would be successfully.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000018_000001.wav|There were throughout the country a large number of gentlemen, like Captain Wilson, wholly opposed to the general feeling.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000028_000000.wav|"Yes, if you like, my boy.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000028_000003.wav|Our house lies beyond the town, and whatever takes place will be in Concord.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000029_000001.wav|The horses were soon brought round, and Captain Wilson and his son mounted and rode off at full speed.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000011_000003.wav|The expense of the army and navy was great, and the ministry, in striving to lighten the burdens of the people, turned their eyes to the colonies.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000000.wav|"I am an Englishman," he said, "and my sympathies are wholly with my country.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000045_000009.wav|To this I have agreed.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000008_000000.wav|"The time will come, sir," one of the gentlemen said, "when you will have reason to regret the line which you have now taken."|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000032_000002.wav|john Parker, who commanded them, ordered the drums to beat and the alarm guns to be fired, and his men drew up in two ranks across the road.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000004.wav|The soldiers of England have fought for you against French and Indians and are still stationed here to protect you.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000021_000000.wav|The disaffected of Massachusetts had collected a large quantity of military stores at Concord.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000016_000004.wav|It is true that even had England at this point abandoned altogether her determination to raise taxes in America the result would probably have been the same.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000037_000000.wav|As they approached the town the militia retreated from it.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000034_000001.wav|Major Pitcairne was at their head and shouted to the militia to lay down their arms.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000016_000006.wav|As it was, Parliament agreed to let the stamp tax drop, and in its place established some import duties on goods entering the American ports.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000040_000000.wav|Such was the beginning of the war of independence.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000017_000001.wav|The English government, in its desire for peace, abandoned all the duties with the exception of that on tea; but even this concession was not sufficient to satisfy the colonists.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000023_000000.wav|Captain Wilson and his household were startled from sleep by the sudden ringing of the alarm bells, and a negro servant, Pompey, who had been for many years in their service, was sent down into the town, which lay a quarter of a mile from the house, to find out what was the news.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000007.wav|Some of the colonists paid their quota, others refused to do so, and this being the case, it appears to me that England is perfectly justified in laying on a tax.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000019_000000.wav|So far but few acts of violence had taken place.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000045_000000.wav|"The die is cast," he said to his wife as she met him at the door. "The war has begun, and I fear it can have but one termination.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000037_000005.wav|The English tried to pull up the planks, but the Americans ran forward rapidly.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000002_000000.wav|Harold remained for four months longer with his cousin.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000010_000000.wav|When the deputation had departed Harold, who had been a wondering listener to the conversation, asked his father to explain to him the exact position in which matters stood.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000042_000006.wav|It was but the spark in the powder.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000035_000001.wav|The Americans assert that it was the English; the English say that as they advanced several shots were fired at them from behind a stone wall and from some of the adjoining houses, which wounded one man and hit Major Pitcairne's horse in two places.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000045_000007.wav|I have pointed out to him that as he was born here he can without dishonor remain neutral in the struggle.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000011_000002.wav|At home the burdens of the people were extremely heavy.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000013_000003.wav|Meetings were everywhere held, at which the strongest and most treasonable language was uttered, and such violent threats were used against the persons employed as stamp collectors that these, in fear of their lives, resigned their posts.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000006_000000.wav|Upon the day after Harold's return two gentlemen called upon Captain Wilson and asked him to sign the agreement which a number of colonists had entered into to resist the mother country to the last. This Captain Wilson positively refused to do.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000032_000000.wav|Just as Captain Wilson rode in a messenger ran up with the news that the head of the British column was close at hand.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000002_000002.wav|The farming operations had gone on regularly, but the men always worked with their rifles ready to their hand.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000003_000000.wav|Other matters occurred which rendered the renewal of the attack improbable.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000037_000003.wav|In destroying the stores by fire the court house took flames.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000037_000007.wav|Half an hour later Colonel Smith, having performed the duty that he was sent to do, resumed the homeward march with the whole of his troops.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000046_000005.wav|She would, too, be living among her friends and would meet with many of the same convictions and opinions as her husband's, whereas in Concord the whole population would be hostile.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000037_000004.wav|At the sight of this fire the militia and armed countrymen advanced down the hill toward the bridge.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000002_000001.wav|The Indians had made several attacks upon settlements at other points of the frontier, but they had not repeated their incursion in the neighborhood of the lake.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000017_000000.wav|The colonists, however, were determined that they would submit to no taxation whatever.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000020_000001.wav|It was December when Harold returned home to his parents, and for the next three months the lull before the storm continued.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000012.wav|There are, of course, among them a large number of men-among them, gentlemen, I place you-who conscientiously believe that they are justified in doing nothing whatever for the land which gave them or their ancestors birth; who would enjoy all the great natural wealth of this vast country without contributing toward the expense of the troops to whom it is due that they enjoy peace and tranquility.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000006.wav|I grant that it would have been far better had the colonists taxed themselves to pay the extra amount, instead of the mother country taxing them; but this they would not do.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000024_000002.wav|Down wid de redcoats!|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000012_000002.wav|The revenue officers were prevented, sometimes by force, from carrying out their duties.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000034_000000.wav|The British, hearing the drums and the alarm guns, loaded, and the advance company came on at the double.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000028_000002.wav|You are not afraid of being left alone, Mary?" he said, turning to his wife. "There is no chance of any disturbance here.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000011_000001.wav|The success of England, in her struggle with France for the supremacy of North America had cost her a great deal of money.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000007_000001.wav|I do not say that the whole of the demands of England are justifiable.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000011_000005.wav|They were, it is true, forced to trade with England, but this obligation was set wholly at naught.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000033_000001.wav|"Let us get out of the line of fire."|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000030_000001.wav|If he has orders to come at all hazards, my words will not stop him; if it is left to his discretion, possibly he may pause before he brings on so dire a calamity."|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000009_000000.wav|"No, sir," Captain Wilson said haughtily.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000014_000000.wav|The stamp tax remained uncollected and was treated by the colonists as if it were not in existence.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/12898/4222_12898_000026_000000.wav|"Nothing, my boy.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187006/4222_187006_000028_000000.wav|"Gee!|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187006/4222_187006_000026_000000.wav|"Go and feel of it, Christopher," mr Wicker urged.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187006/4222_187006_000028_000002.wav|"This is the best yet-except for amos.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4222/187006/4222_187006_000007_000001.wav|That is change enough from a carved wooden figure.|4222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000017_000000.wav|Tom drew the pin.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000035_000004.wav|While Tom, in the tender, yanked logs loose from the pile, Andrews stood ready to pass them to Knight, who shoved them into the fire box.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000039_000000.wav|If ever a man combined determination with luck it was Fuller.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000017_000003.wav|The wheels of the abandoned car knocked several out of the way; then, as the train swung about the curve, leaving the car hidden in the shed, Tom saw one tie resting at an angle across the track.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000029_000002.wav|Andrews waved him aside.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000038_000004.wav|Those questions were pounding in the brains of Andrews' men.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000045_000000.wav|The left forward wheel of the box car had mounted upon one of the ties thrown before it.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000014_000000.wav|The Reseca bridge which ran over the Oostenaula River was covered by a long shed.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000038_000001.wav|There were moments when the smoke paused and mounted straight into the sky; then a few seconds later it flattened out and rose in a long black stream.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000061_000000.wav|"We'll have to stop for fuel," yelled Murphy.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000053_000002.wav|Fuller watched it breathlessly.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000056_000001.wav|"What was that?" he asked.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000035_000002.wav|There was no talking now.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000005_000003.wav|Well see if we can wreck her."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000055_000001.wav|As it was, the cars cleared it.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000036_000004.wav|Slowly the needle of the gauge crept up.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000012_000000.wav|"No," answered Andrews; "they'll be better armed." He still believed that the engine in their rear had come from Atlanta-probably with a detachment of soldiers aboard, prepared for a battle.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000009_000003.wav|They're too close upon us."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000021_000002.wav|Fuel was running low.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000060_000000.wav|Fuller's arms went up again, and he was on the ground removing ties.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000016_000000.wav|"Get ready," yelled Ross; then, as they entered the shed, "Go!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000040_000002.wav|They coasted down upon the box car, picked it up and carried it on with them. Fuller and Murphy climbed to the top of it; Murphy, staying at the rear end to repeat the signals of Fuller, who was perched on the front.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000006_000001.wav|It struck one wheel of the detached car, bounded, struck again and then bounded out of the way. The men silently watched the car rolling along behind them.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000057_000002.wav|Thought the engine was going off for a second."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000030_000000.wav|"Throw that wood aboard, men," he said.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000019_000000.wav|"We'll have to break the wires above here," he said as the little station in Reseca flashed past them.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000019_000001.wav|"Stop about a mile up here, Knight.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000007_000003.wav|Tom climbed up over the end of the tender and reported to Andrews.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000002_000002.wav|When he reached the end of the train he lay on his stomach and looked down.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000038_000003.wav|How had they done it? How had they passed the broken rail, the ties along the track, the box cars and the snag?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000005_000002.wav|"No-here, shove a tie off.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000007_000000.wav|Tom shook his head in disgust.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000049_000000.wav|"Yes," answered Fuller.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000047_000000.wav|"They've dropped the second box car in there," explained Fuller.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000034_000000.wav|Andrews seemed not to hear him.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000044_000000.wav|"Wait here," he yelled, sliding down the ladder.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000026_000001.wav|It was the one they had ripped from the ties north of Calhoun.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000005_000000.wav|"I'll pull the pin," said Tom.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000045_000003.wav|Apparently the car had struck the tie just at the moment of losing momentum.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000047_000003.wav|We'll have to find a coupling pin."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000035_000003.wav|The race had reached the final test of strength.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000000_000000.wav|"Yes," answered Tom.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000039_000002.wav|Undoubtedly, if he had known that a party of Northern raiders had taken it, he would have waited until a locomotive came from Atlanta.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000012_000003.wav|Go back and tell them.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000008_000000.wav|"We tried to wreck it," he said, "but the tie bounced out of the way."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000041_000002.wav|Then, when the decreasing speed of the train gave his legs the advantage, Fuller was ahead, heaving ties from the road.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000009_000001.wav|"We're within a mile of Reseca bridge," he said slowly.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000013_000000.wav|Tom hurried back again over the wood pile.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000034_000001.wav|Four Confederate soldiers who were standing several hundred yards away yelled and pointed in the direction of the whistling.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000015_000002.wav|The train's speed decreased.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000029_000001.wav|The keeper of the yard came running toward them.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000020_000000.wav|"Wood!" yelled Brown.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000040_000000.wav|Fuller and Murphy, still sitting on the edge of the tender, saw the abandoned box car as they swerved around the bend.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000042_000004.wav|It appeared intact, but Fuller knew that long curving shed too well through his years of travel over the road not to be suspicious of what lurked inside.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000002_000004.wav|The hole was large enough so that he could climb down the ladder, swing around the corner, and enter.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000056_000000.wav|He motioned Murphy ahead.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000037_000000.wav|In the box car the men silently dropped ties upon the tracks.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000033_000001.wav|"What's this train!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000047_000001.wav|"The front wheels are off the track.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000009_000002.wav|"I don't dare to stop and build a fire.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000057_000001.wav|Something on the track.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000025_000001.wav|"Put an obstruction here!|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000036_000000.wav|"The wood's wet," said Knight.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000021_000001.wav|He stopped once, and pointed to the wood pile.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000023_000000.wav|"Water there, too?" asked Brown.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000030_000001.wav|But they had already attacked the pile.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000039_000001.wav|He had started on foot from Big Shanty in complete ignorance of what was happening to his stolen train.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000037_000001.wav|Sometimes there was a mumble of satisfaction as a tie fell squarely across the rails; or a grunt of disgust when one tumbled end for end and landed out of position.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000007_000002.wav|Once again they took the rail up and battered their way through.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000009_000000.wav|Andrews nodded and leaned from the cab.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000036_000002.wav|He worked with the drafts, coaxing the fire.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000010_000001.wav|The excitement of the race, of reaching this point where the road to Chattanooga lay clear before them, had been upon him; it had never entered his head that their long struggle against so many obstacles could end in anything but glorious success.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000001_000001.wav|Uncouple just as soon as you can."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000017_000004.wav|The wheels struck it, and the car lurched heavily....|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000058_000000.wav|"They'll probably stop at Green's for wood," said Fuller.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000025_000002.wav|That bent rail!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000054_000002.wav|They swept out of the shed, pushing the two cars.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000028_000001.wav|Tom put the last of the fuel in the fire, and leaned wearily against the cab.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000053_000001.wav|The left wheel followed back along the groove its flange had cut in the tie.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000000_000001.wav|"Why not break 'through the ends of all the cars-so we can get back and forth without having to climb over the roofs!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000004_000001.wav|They passed the remaining ties and the rails forward.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000027_000000.wav|"Keep dropping ties, men," ordered Andrews.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000045_000002.wav|The right wheel was nearly a foot off the track.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000022_000000.wav|"At Green's Station," said Andrews.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000040_000001.wav|Fuller waved his arms up and down slowly to the engineer as a signal to come to a gradual stop.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000017_000002.wav|Ties streamed out upon the track.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000024_000000.wav|"At Tilton-just a few miles farther on." Andrews waved to Knight to shut off the power.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000012_000001.wav|"There are bridges ahead-the Chickamauga bridges.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000028_000003.wav|Instinctively they turned toward Andrews. He was in the fireman's seat, hands clenched and face set, staring ahead. He did not move until they were within sight of Green's Station.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000018_000001.wav|Andrews slapped him on the back.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000035_000000.wav|"'Board," called Andrews.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000036_000003.wav|Occasionally, Brown glanced at the steam gauge; then the two engineers would exchange glances.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000010_000002.wav|Surely they could do something to block the way of the pursuing engine.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000031_000001.wav|The men paused and looked at Andrews.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000032_000001.wav|Hurry!" he yelled.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000048_000001.wav|"Will this be all right?" he asked, holding up a short crow bar.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000010_000000.wav|Now, for the first time, Tom realized that the raid might fail in its purpose.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000055_000002.wav|The snag caught on the low cow catcher of the engine and gave the train a mighty jerk.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000002_000000.wav|Tom climbed over the logs in the tender; then, balancing carefully, he stood up and clutched the top of the swaying freight car.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000039_000003.wav|The idea of running after a locomotive would have seemed too ridiculous.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000051_000000.wav|"Careful now," yelled Fuller, as the two box cars came closer together. "Easy-easy!" The cars met gently.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000046_000001.wav|Murphy was coming forward to meet him.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000012_000002.wav|We'll drop another car on the Reseca bridge.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000042_000003.wav|Then they swept around the curve and the bridge lay before them, indistinct in the drizzle of rain.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000001_000000.wav|"All right-but hurry.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000052_000000.wav|"Now run back slowly-an inch at a time," ordered Fuller.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000017_000005.wav|They could see no more.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000014_000001.wav|And, as it was built upon a curve in the road, a box car-either wrecked or merely left standing-could not be seen until the pursuing engine was almost upon it.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000007_000001.wav|"Let's knock the ends of these cars out," he said.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000002_000001.wav|In an instant he had swung himself over and was running down the roofs of the cars, silhouetted against the cloudy sky.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000047_000002.wav|We can drag it back, I think.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000045_000001.wav|The tie was wedged diagonally across the track, and the flange had cut a deep groove in it.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279849/4535_279849_000036_000001.wav|The others heard him and made no reply.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000061_000002.wav|Lock the door, Joe, so we won't be disturbed.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000098_000000.wav|"What!" yelled the Judge.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000080_000000.wav|"No-not exactly," replied the Judge.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000041_000000.wav|They stopped at a two story frame building labeled "Hotel." One of the guards went in, then motioned to the others to bring the prisoners. Presently they found themselves in a big room, lighted by two lamps which hung from the ceiling.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000030_000003.wav|But such hopes were shattered a few minutes later when two horsemen pulled up before them.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000086_000002.wav|It was a request which amounted to a command.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000100_000000.wav|Tom jumped to his feet.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000015_000000.wav|"I'm asking what sort of a Yank trick this is?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000050_000000.wav|"You...."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000078_000000.wav|"It's not so near to Beauregard as you think," the Judge answered.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000100_000004.wav|To jump on that mess of farm tools below him would probably mean a broken leg.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000077_000002.wav|It's near Beauregard and we'll probably get into action pretty soon."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000085_000002.wav|Obviously, the atmosphere had changed, now that Alf was no longer there to incite trouble, but they noticed that the Judge took good care to keep the revolvers out of their reach.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000089_000000.wav|They nodded and said good night.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000064_000003.wav|It was easy.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000012_000001.wav|"I'm after you."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000062_000002.wav|They found nothing of importance.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000096_000000.wav|Tom left the hole, and continued his investigations.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000036_000000.wav|"Why not wait until we get back to Judson?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000084_000001.wav|And tell Alf that I don't want to be disturbed."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000069_000000.wav|"A raft!" exclaimed the Judge.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000068_000000.wav|"I know there aren't," answered Tom.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000086_000001.wav|Tomorrow you can go to Chattanooga and enlist."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000055_000002.wav|Whose bridges?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000059_000002.wav|Go on, now." He pushed Alf gently toward the door.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000091_000004.wav|In the dim light which came from the room in which they had been sitting downstairs he could see a wagon drawn up beside the house; there was a stack of farm tools against the wagon, and the ground was strewn with objects he could not make out. Just a mixture of things which had been thrown there for want of a better place, he thought.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000055_000001.wav|"We're arrested for burning bridges.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000085_000003.wav|What did he think?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000011_000000.wav|"If you're after our money you won't get much," Tom replied.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000060_000000.wav|"That man acts a little crazy," said Tom.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000085_000000.wav|Dinner came and they ate ravenously.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000092_000000.wav|Alf had just returned to the room.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000029_000000.wav|"I'll walk you back to Judson, an' you can tell yer story there.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000040_000000.wav|It was nearly six o'clock when they reached the little town of Judson.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000033_000000.wav|"What's that?"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000093_000005.wav|They can do whatever they think best."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000085_000001.wav|The Judge sat across the table from them, talking with some of his friends.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000083_000001.wav|"Do you think we could get some supper here?"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000061_000004.wav|Now let's search these men, and see what we can find."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000075_000000.wav|It was a good yarn, and they enlarged upon it.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000003_000003.wav|He waved the rifle from one to the other.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000044_000000.wav|"You better keep your mouth shut," yelled Alf.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000093_000004.wav|I'm going over to Chattanooga with them in the morning and turn them over to the authorities.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000088_000001.wav|I'll keep these for the present, if you don't mind." He motioned towards the revolvers.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000005_000001.wav|He said it coolly but it required an effort.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000065_000000.wav|"Where did you come across the river?" demanded the Judge.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000028_000000.wav|"Then let's go," said Tom.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000084_000000.wav|"Joe, run out to the kitchen and see if mrs james can give these boys some dinner.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000090_000002.wav|They shook hands.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000094_000000.wav|"I'd take 'em over tonight," answered Alf.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000059_000004.wav|The Judge shook his head, laughing.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000041_000003.wav|Instantly there was commotion.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000005_000000.wav|"Chattanooga," answered Tom.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000054_000001.wav|"That's what I arrested you for."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000090_000000.wav|"You and Shadrack take it," said Tom to Wilson.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000076_000000.wav|"And so you're going to enlist, eh?" asked the Judge finally.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000070_000002.wav|Look at my hands." He spread his hands out upon the table, palms up.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000030_000002.wav|If only they could get him at a disadvantage, and pull their revolvers before he could fire.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000089_000001.wav|Joe handed them candles and they followed him upstairs.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000096_000005.wav|But first he barred the door with a chair.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000086_000000.wav|"Now, boys," said the Judge as they pushed back from the table, "I want you to stay here in this hotel for the night.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000019_000000.wav|"Burning what?"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000010_000000.wav|"Hey?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000092_000001.wav|"Why not take 'em to Chattanooga now?" he was demanding.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000091_000012.wav|Then he put his ear down and listened.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000100_000005.wav|Leaning far out, he reached around and pushed up the window of the next room, climbed in and closed his own window.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000025_000000.wav|"Bridges," replied Tom, laughing.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000047_000000.wav|A murmur arose from the men.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000091_000006.wav|He leaned over and peered in, but he could see nothing.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000085_000005.wav|Were they to be set free again, or would they be taken to Chattanooga?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000091_000003.wav|He opened the window and looked down.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000061_000001.wav|"He gets one idea and he can't think of anything else.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000007_000001.wav|"I can think of better company if you're going to keep that rifle waving around in the air.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000030_000004.wav|They yelled when they saw the three prisoners.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000007_000002.wav|What's the matter with you?"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000020_000000.wav|"Burning bridges!" shouted the man.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000063_000000.wav|"Now let's sit down here and talk this thing over," said the Judge.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000057_000000.wav|"He's crazier than any Yank I've ever seen in my life," remarked Shadrack, nodding toward Alf.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000097_000002.wav|The man who had entered announced: "They've captured two of the engine stealers over at Julian's Gap!|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000078_000001.wav|"The Yanks have taken a bite out of the railroad between there and Corinth."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000021_000000.wav|"You seem to be running the talking match," said Tom.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000046_000000.wav|"Down the Ringgold road about five miles."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000031_000000.wav|"Good work, Alf!" said one of the men.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000091_000007.wav|Then he put his ear against the thin wall and listened.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000037_000002.wav|I'm done up totin' this gun."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000079_000001.wav|"Is that what this man Alf was so excited about!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000093_000001.wav|The men are upstairs going to bed, and Joe is in the hall on guard.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000053_000000.wav|Wilson broke in: "We tried to tell this wild man with his rifle that we were going to enlist in the army.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000030_000000.wav|Here was a man they couldn't talk down.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000004_000000.wav|"Where're you going?" he demanded.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000091_000000.wav|"Here's the other," said Joe, leading the way down the corridor.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000082_000000.wav|"That's what they did!" He gave them a wild and inaccurate account of what Andrews' raiders had done.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000029_000001.wav|I ain't believing you and I ain't disbelieving you.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000009_000002.wav|The folks at home'll laugh when they hear that we were held up just as soon as we got in the South."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000088_000000.wav|"Joe, you show them their rooms.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000063_000001.wav|"Where do you men say you come from!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000051_000000.wav|"Now, Alf, keep quiet," said the Judge.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000002_000000.wav|"Halt there!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000096_000002.wav|But perhaps Joe might leave for a moment.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000040_000001.wav|As they went down the main street, men and boys tagged along beside them, plying the guards with questions.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000009_000000.wav|"Well, this way we won't take the wrong road again," said Tom.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000009_000001.wav|"I'd rather walk at the end of a rifle than drown in this mud.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000037_000000.wav|"All right," replied Alf.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000040_000002.wav|The guards waved them aside, and answered, "Don't know if it's them or not.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000059_000000.wav|"Now, Alf," said the Judge, "you go on out to the kitchen and get something to eat.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000085_000004.wav|Did he believe their story?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000036_000001.wav|Easier to do it there."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000022_000000.wav|"And you might have the decency," answered Wilson, "to ask us who we are before you go any further."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000087_000001.wav|We need it."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000099_000000.wav|"There you are!" Alf shouted triumphantly.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000018_000001.wav|That's what I want."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000061_000000.wav|"Oh, he's hot headed," said the Judge.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000081_000000.wav|"Stole a train!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000083_000000.wav|"Judge, we're famished," said Wilson.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000041_000004.wav|Everyone commenced talking.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000089_000003.wav|"Two of you can sleep there."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000077_000001.wav|"We thought that Chattanooga would be a good place for us.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000021_000001.wav|"What do you want us to do?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000045_000001.wav|"Where did you find them?"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000049_000000.wav|"I can tell a fool just as far away as I can see you," interrupted Wilson.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000007_000000.wav|"That so?" asked Wilson.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000055_000003.wav|What bridges?"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000048_000000.wav|"I can tell a Yank one mile off," boasted Alf.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000059_000003.wav|Alf, still protesting, disappeared reluctantly into the kitchen.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000030_000001.wav|He was probably a good shot, and ready to keep his threat.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000062_000001.wav|Three revolvers, handkerchiefs, Confederate money....|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000070_000003.wav|They had been torn and bruised by the logs he had yanked from the tender.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000010_000001.wav|What's that?" demanded the man.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000100_000002.wav|He could hear the boots pounding up the stairs.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000040_000003.wav|Picked 'em up a piece down the road."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000090_000001.wav|"Good night."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000041_000001.wav|The air was cloudy with smoke.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000003_000001.wav|They whipped about and found themselves facing a raised rifle.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000053_000001.wav|We've sneaked through the Union lines from Kentucky, and came across the Tennessee yesterday.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000031_000002.wav|Hello there, Yanks."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000017_000000.wav|"Then what do you want?"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000052_000000.wav|"We were trying to get to Chattanooga," Tom replied, "We got started on the wrong road this morning."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000058_000000.wav|"Search 'em," demanded Alf.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000093_000000.wav|"Now, Alf," said the Judge, "I'm taking care of this.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000032_000000.wav|"You're a Yank yourself," answered Tom hotly.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000055_000000.wav|"All right," answered Wilson.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000001_000000.wav|CAPTURED|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000053_000003.wav|This fellow held us up and arrested us in the name of the law for something or other.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000067_000000.wav|One of the men beside the Judge interrupted: "There aren't any ferries running up there."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000038_000000.wav|The procession started again.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000035_000000.wav|"Don't believe 'em," said Alf.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279852/4535_279852_000073_000000.wav|"And finally," said Wilson, "I got down on my stomach and held to his wrists, while Shadrack sat on the other side and balanced us."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000039_000001.wav|She was up, adjusting herself to the saddle, stroking Star's neck, talking to him softly.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000008_000000.wav|"But they'll know...."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000047_000002.wav|"They're starting.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000003_000002.wav|You'll have to stay here, Tom.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000034_000001.wav|Tom could see her pressing her cheek to the horse's nose, stroking its head and neck.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000025_000002.wav|Oh, I wish they'd hurry." There was anguish in her voice.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000057_000002.wav|He whooped, and dug his heels into Star's flanks.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000038_000005.wav|Ahead of them was the black wall of the rail fence.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000066_000000.wav|"Friend," answered Tom.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000053_000004.wav|Ahead of them Tom distinguished a man who had dismounted and was standing beside his horse.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000029_000002.wav|Then, too...." She faltered and stopped.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000037_000003.wav|"They haven't started yet," she said.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000055_000000.wav|"Hey!|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000057_000001.wav|Then with his hat he slapped the man's horse on the head.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000004_000000.wav|"No!|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000068_000001.wav|I'm...."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000049_000002.wav|It was a strength which seemed to flow into the road, which carried him forward in long, swinging leaps.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000031_000000.wav|"You can't leave by the main road.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000034_000000.wav|She jumped up and ran to the horse.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000019_000003.wav|I've been here two years now.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000059_000007.wav|Won't we-Star?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000011_000008.wav|Run!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000022_000000.wav|"But how did they know that I was in this part of the country?"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000046_000000.wav|He mounted and for a moment they delayed the parting.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000063_000002.wav|"Put your hands up!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000007_000002.wav|You must...."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000047_000003.wav|Go straight ahead until you come to the road, then to your left."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000053_000003.wav|They trotted around a bend in the road.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000005_000001.wav|Take my horse."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000004_000003.wav|Go on back."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000034_000003.wav|"Take everything with you.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000046_000003.wav|"Good by."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000038_000000.wav|A few minutes later she stopped again.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000063_000001.wav|"Halt there!" came the second warning as Star came to a stop.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000019_000005.wav|I'm going back just as soon as I can.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000002_000001.wav|"Please go back. Don't you see what it'll mean if I'm found near here?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000011_000006.wav|Sam!|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000031_000003.wav|I'm going to take Star over it."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000058_000000.wav|"Keep it up, Star!" he urged.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000028_000000.wav|"Why not?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000020_000000.wav|There were more horses on the road.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000000_000001.wav|"Thanks a thousand times for all you've done.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000042_000003.wav|He had cleared it by a foot.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000041_000001.wav|Then he watched her, as she retreated into the black background of the woods, his heart thumping so that it hurt.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000064_000002.wav|His head drooped and each breath came as a great heave.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000064_000000.wav|Tom dropped the reins and raised his hands.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000050_000001.wav|"Go it, boy!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000055_000001.wav|You!" called the man.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000021_000003.wav|Uncle took them into the dining room to give them something to eat and drink; then I dressed and stole down."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000023_000001.wav|It was found ashore a few miles down the river, and there was a report from Chattanooga that the boat had been taken.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000019_000004.wav|When mother and father were alive I lived in Albany.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000059_000000.wav|Tom did not look back, but he cast out short, broken sentences to console his pursuer.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000004_000001.wav|If they get me, they'll get me in the open.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000047_000001.wav|The sounds of shouting came from the Beecham's.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000051_000000.wav|Star was willing, but no horse could stand such a pace forever, so he reined in to a trot.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000012_000001.wav|They disappeared into the darkness.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000039_000000.wav|"Now," she said, "if you'll help me mount." He held his hands braced against his knees so that they formed a step for her.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000021_000000.wav|"They're coming to join Kirby," she said.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000030_000000.wav|"What?"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000046_000001.wav|He reached down and took her hand.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000023_000005.wav|If you're ahead of him they'll never catch you.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000032_000000.wav|It was useless to protest, for she became calm again and determined.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000003_000003.wav|I'll hide you in the house-Matty'll hide you over the kitchen.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000032_000002.wav|"You've come to me for help, and it's my right to help you all I can.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000023_000002.wav|I didn't wait to hear it all.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000037_000001.wav|With Marjorie leading Star, they made their way through the woods.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000040_000001.wav|"Put it on the top rail as a marker," she said, as she turned back for the run.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000043_000001.wav|"There!" she said.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000017_000004.wav|You men have left the whole South gasping at your bravery.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000059_000008.wav|Huh!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000025_000000.wav|"My horse," she explained.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000033_000000.wav|"There they are-General Marjorie," he said presently.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000062_000002.wav|No civilian could say halt in that tone.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000050_000000.wav|"Go it, Star!" he said.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000042_000000.wav|Star's hoofs pounded upon the soft turf, then his body emerged from the shadows.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000004_000002.wav|No, Marjorie.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000017_000002.wav|"It's all so terrible, isn't it?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000036_000001.wav|"No, don't argue!|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000038_000002.wav|"Let me mount now.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000021_000002.wav|When Uncle went down to let them in, I went to the head of the stairs to hear what they were saying.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000032_000003.wav|And remember, I'll always be proud of it.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000031_000002.wav|Then there's a fence to jump.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000011_000002.wav|He knows about you.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000017_000000.wav|There was a moment of silence.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000011_000004.wav|You must....|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000044_000000.wav|"I can never thank you," he began.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000013_000001.wav|Are you strong enough?" she asked anxiously.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000039_000003.wav|Once again he did as he was told to do.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000001_000001.wav|"I won't let you. Here!--Joe and Sam-put those things down and stay here.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000052_000001.wav|Through each settlement he walked Star quietly, but always ready to throw himself forward, dig his heels into the horse's flanks and race away.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000016_000000.wav|"You're worth a dozen soldiers!" he exclaimed.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000013_000000.wav|"Can you ride?|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000060_000000.wav|Presently he eased Star's gait, for the horse was beginning to breath too heavily.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000037_000002.wav|Once she stopped and listened.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000041_000000.wav|Tom spread the handkerchief on the fence-a tiny spot of white to guide Star over.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000007_000001.wav|Uncle gave him to me, and I give him to you.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000014_000000.wav|"Yes-if I once get my legs wrapped around him I can stick there.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000059_000002.wav|Race me-on that hunk o'--dog meat.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000009_000000.wav|"No, they won't...."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000050_000003.wav|He leaned forward, riding easily, peering ahead at the road.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000025_000001.wav|"He's a beautiful horse....|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000045_000000.wav|"Don't-please don't even try," she interrupted.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000036_000002.wav|Hurry!|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000059_000006.wav|We'll race-anything that-wears four legs.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000042_000001.wav|Tom could see Marjorie crouching, riding to his gait, holding him down for the jump.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000032_000001.wav|"I want to do it," she said.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000011_000001.wav|"Matty's husband is the stableman.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000000_000000.wav|"Here we are, Marjorie." He went forward to meet her.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000052_000002.wav|An hour passed ... two hours ... three hours.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000003_000004.wav|Let me do that for you-let me take the risk.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000063_000000.wav|Tom pulled on the reins and Star planted his feet; they went sliding past the Sentry with his rifle glinting in the moonlight.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000058_000001.wav|"Go it, Star!|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000028_000001.wav|Please go back now."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000034_000004.wav|If Matty is up, tell her that I'll be home in a few minutes."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000023_000006.wav|Star can run like the wind."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000021_000001.wav|"I heard him say that more men were coming.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000038_000003.wav|You hold Star while I fix the stirrups." He slid to the ground and stood there, while she measured the straps with her arms and fixed the buckles.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000062_000000.wav|It was a cry that brought a yell of exultation to Tom's lips.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000024_000000.wav|"Star?"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000038_000001.wav|"There's the fence," she said.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000037_000000.wav|Laboriously, he did as he was told to do.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000019_000001.wav|"We don't talk about the war.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000017_000003.wav|And so wonderful!|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000019_000002.wav|He just takes it for granted that I believe everything he believes.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000045_000001.wav|"Good luck once again. Good by, Star dear." She pressed her cheek against the horse's head. "Good by, Tom.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000059_000001.wav|"Huh!|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000011_000005.wav|Joe!|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000043_000000.wav|Marjorie wheeled about, dismounted, and readjusted the stirrups.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000057_000005.wav|Tom, flat against Star's neck, with the black mane whipping his face, sped down the road-past the spot where they had met Andrews that first day of the raid, past the Widow Fry's and down the one street of Manchester at a full gallop.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000060_000003.wav|Must be pretty close...."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000067_000000.wav|"Password?"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000054_000000.wav|"Get ready, boy," he whispered, reining in slightly.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000051_000003.wav|"You've shown them what a pair of hind hoofs look like."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000006_000000.wav|"Yours?"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000051_000002.wav|"They'll stop there, old fellow," he confided.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000068_000000.wav|"Haven't got it.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000026_000001.wav|"Why don't you go back to the house now!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000031_000001.wav|I'm going to show you the way through the woods.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000017_000001.wav|"Poor Tom!" she said softly.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000034_000002.wav|"Go back now," she said to the negroes.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000023_000004.wav|Men are going out in all directions, and Kirby is taking the road to Wartrace.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000058_000002.wav|We're almost there, old boy.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000043_000002.wav|"Now-now, go."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000019_000000.wav|"Yes," she answered.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000046_000002.wav|"Always, little soldier, always," he said.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000007_000000.wav|"Yes.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000023_000000.wav|"There was something about a boat.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000057_000003.wav|As they shot forward, he saw the other horse rear up, pawing the air.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000018_000000.wav|"But you-you're from the North."|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000053_000000.wav|The first light of dawn found him a mile south of Manchester.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000048_000000.wav|He gave Star the reins, and above the beat of hoofs heard her call: "Good luck, Tom!" He glanced back and saw her standing there, her arms raised above her head.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000003_000005.wav|Please!"|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000053_000002.wav|Star snorted and shook his head.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000053_000001.wav|"Guess we'd better begin to step lively, Star," he said, reaching forward and stroking the horse's neck.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000049_000001.wav|Then, when they turned northward, Tom could feel all the strength of the fine, valiant animal he was riding.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000005_000000.wav|"Then take a horse from the stable.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000032_000004.wav|Oh, so proud!" She slipped her hand into his and they sat there quietly, straining to catch the first sounds of the negroes returning.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000057_000000.wav|"None of your business!" he replied.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4535/279856/4535_279856_000058_000004.wav|His neck was outstretched and his head was thrust forward as though he were devouring the road.|4535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000007_000003.wav|She hides herself once more, ready to bleed a second gleaner should the occasion offer.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000007_000002.wav|The murderess now sucks the victim's blood at her ease and, when she has done, scornfully flings the drained corpse aside.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000028_000000.wav|As matters continue to drag, it occurs to me, at eleven o'clock, to take the bundle of brushwood swarming with the little Spiders, all eager to be off, and place it on the window sill, in the glare of the sun|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000026_000002.wav|All of them pass through the wire gauze and form a group on the summit of the brushwood, where they swiftly weave a spacious lounge of criss cross threads.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000001.wav|She fastens to her spinnerets and dangles, by way of a bag of eggs, a ball of cork polished with my file, a paper pellet, a little ball of thread.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight: THE CRAB SPIDER|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000004_000001.wav|The only thing wanting to complete the resemblance is the front pair of stone gauntlets, raised in the attitude of self defence.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000023_000005.wav|She lives exclusively upon maternal devotion, a commendable but unsubstantial fare.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000012_000003.wav|How difficult it is to name animals rationally!|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000006.wav|Perhaps so.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000005_000001.wav|Without springs or snares, she lies in ambush, among the flowers, and awaits the arrival of the quarry, which she kills by administering a scientific stab in the neck.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000032_000002.wav|The Crested Lark crumbles the mule droppings in the road and thus picks up his food, the oaten grain which he would never find by soaring in the sky, his throat swollen with song.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000011_000001.wav|The fact that the Bee huntress carries a heavy paunch is no reason to refer to this as a distinctive characteristic.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000029_000003.wav|Then, at a certain height, individual movement ceases.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000023_000001.wav|Seeing her look so thin and wrinkled, I imagine that I can please her by bringing her a provision of Bees, as I was wont to do.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000030_000001.wav|There is a slight breeze outside.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000003_000000.wav|What will posterity do in face of the rising tide of a barbarous vocabulary which, under the pretence of progress, stifles real knowledge? It will relegate the whole business to the quagmire of oblivion.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000031_000005.wav|What a glorious send off!|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000015_000001.wav|The skin, more pleasing to the eye than any satin, is milk white in some, in others lemon yellow.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000030_000003.wav|I see it drifting away, showing, like a spot of light, against the dark foliage of the near cypresses, some forty feet distant.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000013_000003.wav|This glorious efflorescence goes on for five or six weeks.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000021_000000.wav|Even so does the Narbonne Lycosa struggle when we try to take away her pill.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000028_000001.wav|After a few minutes of heat and light, the scene assumes a very different aspect. The emigrants run to the top of the twigs, bustle about actively.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000015_000005.wav|Novice fingers, which shrink from touching any other Spider, allow themselves to be enticed by these attractions; they do not fear to handle the beauteous Thomisus, so gentle in appearance.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000007.wav|Let us not be too extravagant with our praise, however; the imitation of the bag was a very clumsy one.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000016_000000.wav|Well, what can this gem among Spiders do?|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000032_000003.wav|We have to descend; the stomach's inexorable claims demand it.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000033_000001.wav|What infinitely tiny Midges does she capture before possessing the strength to stab her Bee?|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000024_000003.wav|The Thomisus' wallet, sheathed in leaves over the greater part of its surface, never bursts; nor does the lid rise, so carefully is it sealed down.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000011_000002.wav|Nearly all Spiders have a voluminous belly, a silk warehouse where, in some cases, the rigging of the net, in others, the swan's down of the nest is manufactured.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000020_000003.wav|When I propose to dislodge her in view of certain experiments, I find some difficulty in doing so.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000005_000002.wav|The Thomisus, in particular, the subject of this chapter, is passionately addicted to the pursuit of the Domestic Bee.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000006_000004.wav|In vain, the Bee protests and darts her sting at random; the assailant does not let go.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000016_000001.wav|In the first place, she makes a nest worthy of its architect.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000014_000001.wav|Their persecutrix knows of this affluence.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000006_000000.wav|The Bee appears, seeking no quarrel, intent upon plunder.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000020_000004.wav|She clings to the silken floor, she frustrates my attacks, which I am bound to moderate lest I should injure her.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000027_000002.wav|There are hesitations, retrogressions, perpendicular falls at the end of a thread, ascents that bring the hanging Spider up again. In short much ado for a poor result.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000004.wav|When removed from her home and placed on the artificial wallet, the mother Thomisus obstinately refused to settle there.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000015_000003.wav|A narrow pale green ribbon sometimes edges the right and left of the breast.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000015_000000.wav|After all, this cutter of Bees' throats is a pretty, a very pretty creature, despite her unwieldy paunch fashioned like a squat pyramid and embossed on the base, on either side, with a pimple shaped like a camel's hump.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000016_000003.wav|Herself a lover of high places, the Thomisus selects as the site of her nest one of the upper twigs of the rock rose, her regular hunting ground, a twig withered by the heat and possessing a few dead leaves, which curl into a little cottage.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000019_000001.wav|Greatly emaciated by the laying of her eggs and by her expenditure of silk, she lives only for the protection of her nest.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000031_000003.wav|The comparison is correct down to the dazzling light itself.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000020_000002.wav|She uses her fists against my weapon.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000014_000005.wav|The thug has struck her blow; she is draining the blood of the departed.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000010_000001.wav|The comparison is not inappropriate as regards many Spiders who tie their prey with a thread to subdue it and consume it at their ease; but it just happens that the Thomisus is at variance with her label.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000018_000001.wav|Lastly, a few threads, stretched like a thin curtain, form a canopy above the nest and, with the curved tips of the leaves, frame a sort of alcove wherein the mother takes up her abode.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000031_000006.wav|What an entrance into the world!|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000026_000000.wav|When July comes, the little ones emerge.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000026_000003.wav|Here they remain, pretty quietly, for a day or two; then foot bridges begin to be flung from one object to the next.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000007_000000.wav|Besides, the bite in the neck is paralysing, because the cervical nerve centres are affected.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000029_000004.wav|The tiny animal soars in space and shines, lit up by the sun|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000018_000000.wav|When the eggs are laid, the mouth of the receptacle is hermetically closed with a lid of the same white silk.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000003.wav|My attempt was unsuccessful.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000008_000003.wav|These hateful discords amid the general harmony perplex the thinker, all the more as we shall see the cruel vampire become a model of devotion where her family is concerned.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000024_000002.wav|The balloon has to split automatically and to scatter the youngsters and their flossy mattress all mixed up together.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000006_000001.wav|She tests the flowers with her tongue; she selects a spot that will yield a good return.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000014_000002.wav|She posts herself in her watch house, under the rosy screen of a petal.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000029_000002.wav|Moreover, the road is visible behind the climber, it is of double thickness, thanks to an added thread.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000032_000005.wav|Gravity, tempered by the parachute, is kind to her.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000030_000005.wav|Others follow, some higher, some lower, hither and thither.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000024_000001.wav|There is none to come to their assistance; and they have not the strength to free themselves unaided.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000013_000000.wav|As the technical name tells the reader nothing, how shall he be informed? I see but one means, which is to invite him to the May festivals, in the waste lands of the South.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000030_000002.wav|The floating cable has snapped and the creature has gone off, borne on its parachute.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000029_000000.wav|Three or four Spiders start at a time, each going her own way in directions independent of her neighbours'.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000020_000001.wav|If I tease her with a straw, she parries with big gestures, like those of a prize fighter.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000029_000005.wav|Softly it sways, then suddenly takes flight.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000025_000003.wav|After performing this duty, she gently lets herself die, hugging her nest and turning into a shrivelled relic.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000023_000008.wav|She is waiting for her children to emerge; the dying creature is still of use to them.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000024_000005.wav|Who contrived this window, which was not there at first?|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000032_000000.wav|Sooner or later, nearer or farther, the fall comes.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000030_000000.wav|What has happened?|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000005_000000.wav|The Spider with the Crab like figure does not know how to manufacture nets for catching game.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000004_000000.wav|Like the Crab, the Thomisus walks sideways; she also has forelegs stronger than her hind legs.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000025_000002.wav|She persists in living for five or six weeks, despite her shattered health, so as to give a last helping hand and open the door for her family.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000023_000000.wav|The work of laying is finished by the end of May, after which, lying flat on the ceiling of her nest, the mother never leaves her guard room, either by night or day.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000020_000005.wav|She is no sooner attracted outside than she stubbornly returns to her post.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000031_000000.wav|But the throng has finished its preparations; the hour has come to disperse in swarms.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000029_000001.wav|All are moving upwards, all are climbing some support, as can be perceived by the nimble motion of their legs.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000012_000002.wav|When all is said, the scientific term is composed of a misconception and a worthless epithet.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000033_000000.wav|The rest of her story escapes me.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000010_000002.wav|She does not fasten her Bee, who, dying suddenly of a bite in the neck, offers no resistance to her consumer.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000023_000003.wav|The Bee, hitherto her favourite dish, tempts her no longer.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000027_000000.wav|I put the bunch laden with beasties on a small table, in the shade, before the open window.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000015_000002.wav|There are fine ladies among them who adorn their legs with a number of pink bracelets and their back with carmine arabesques.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000021_000005.wav|When moved from her nest to another of the same kind, she settles upon it and never stirs from it, even though the different arrangement of the leafy fence be such as to warn her that she is not really at home.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000021_000003.wav|Those hallowed words, maternal love, were out of place here: it is an impetuous, an almost mechanical impulse, wherein real affection plays no part whatever.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000028_000003.wav|I do not see the ropes manufactured and sent floating at the mercy of the air; but I guess their presence.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000022_000000.wav|The Lycosa surpasses her in maternal blindness.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000006_000003.wav|While she is filling her baskets and distending her crop, the Thomisus, that bandit lurking under cover of the flowers, issues from her hiding place, creeps round behind the bustling insect, steals up close and, with a sudden rush, nabs her in the nape of the neck.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145138/3307_145138_000023_000007.wav|What is the withered thing waiting for, before expiring?|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000064_000001.wav|The concrete of our buildings is obtained by the simultaneous manipulation of gravel and mortar.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000039_000005.wav|Let us put everything into a glass tube to study the hatching.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000023_000002.wav|The Locust is demoralized rather than tied up; it is merely bits of broken thread that he is trailing from his legs. The bold assailant does not mind.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000022_000003.wav|Throw a small Locust into the rigging.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000036_000000.wav|It is an oval of exquisite white muslin, a diaphanous abode wherein the mother must make a long stay to watch over the brood.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000031_000001.wav|Each group builds according to the same set of principles, conforming to the laws of a very elementary system of aesthetics; but often circumstances beyond the architect's control-the space at her disposal, the unevenness of the site, the nature of the material and other accidental causes-interfere with the worker's plans and disturb the structure.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000036_000006.wav|I see the Spider, at intervals, standing here on the look out for the Locust, whom she consumes outside, taking care not to soil the spotless sanctuary with corpses.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000045_000000.wav|Like any other, the Labyrinth Spider dreads the scoundrelly advent of the pickwallet; she provides for it and, to shield herself against it as far as possible, chooses a hiding place outside her dwelling, far removed from the tell tale web.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000037_000000.wav|The structure of the nest is not without a certain similarity to that of the home occupied during the hunting season.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000017_000000.wav|At the bottom of the passage dipping into the brushwood, we might expect to find a secret cabin, a wadded cell where the Spider would take refuge in her hours of leisure.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000002.wav|The work is done with the silk constantly hanging from the spinnerets and constantly extracted as the animal moves about.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000039_000002.wav|Its material is rather stout; my pincers, pulling at it, do not tear it without difficulty.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000041_000002.wav|The watching of the nest and the easy acquisition of provender would go hand in hand.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000054_000002.wav|She recruits herself with a Locust at longer intervals; she sometimes scorns those whom I myself entangle in her trap.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000012_000002.wav|Here is one spreading its sheet over a large cluster of rock roses; it is the size of a handkerchief.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000032_000003.wav|As yet, what I have seen of her work is but an unsightly bundle.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000034_000000.wav|As laying time approaches, towards the middle of August, I instal half a dozen Labyrinth Spiders in large wire gauze cages, each standing in an earthen pan filled with sand.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000059_000003.wav|Put aside that idea, says the satin wall, which itself is perfectly clean inside.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000018_000001.wav|When attacked from the front, the fugitive runs down and slips through the postern gate at the bottom.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000030_000002.wav|They are clumsy bundles of dead leaves, roughly drawn together with silk threads. Under this rude covering is a pouch of fine texture containing the egg casket, all in very bad condition, because of the inevitable tears incurred in its extrication from the brushwood.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000060_000000.wav|If we continue to unshell the kernel, we find, below this mineral layer, a last silken tunic that forms a globe around the brood.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000028_000003.wav|But where?|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000062_000000.wav|This means of defence seems to be pretty frequent among Spiders.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000051_000000.wav|Her attentive watch does not make her overlook her meals.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000045_000001.wav|When she feels her ovaries ripen, she shifts her quarters; she goes off at night to explore the neighbourhood and seek a less dangerous refuge.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000039_000001.wav|Apart from its pillars, the egg pocket is an inverted conoid, reminding us of the work of the Silky Epeira.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000023_000001.wav|The attack is not without danger.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000058_000000.wav|Let us examine our find and look more closely into its shapelessness. Here is the large room, the maternal cabin, which rips as the coating of leaves is removed; here are the circular galleries of the guard room; here are the central chamber and its pillars, all in a fabric of immaculate white.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000064_000003.wav|The operation would be impossible if, after cementing each grain of sand, it were necessary to stop the work of the spinnerets and go to a distance to fetch further stony elements.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000020_000003.wav|The Epeira has her treacherous limed net; the Spider of the bushes has her no less treacherous labyrinth.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000040_000001.wav|When laying time comes, the mother forsakes her dwelling, her crater into which her falling victims dropped, her labyrinth in which the flight of the Midges was cut short; she leaves intact the apparatus that enabled her to live at her ease. Thoughtful of her natural duties, she goes to found another establishment at a distance.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000050_000003.wav|If I shake the net at any point with a straw, she quickly runs up to enquire what is happening. Will this vigilance frighten off the Ichneumon and other lovers of omelettes?|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000041_000000.wav|She has still a few long months to live and she needs nourishment.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000037_000004.wav|Each species, in this way, possesses a primary architectural model which is followed as a whole, in spite of altered conditions.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000028_000001.wav|Whoso will can take possession of the house.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000036_000003.wav|The front entrance broadens into a gallery; the back entrance tapers into a funnel neck.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000013_000001.wav|The central portion is a cone shaped gulf, a funnel whose neck, narrowing by degrees, dives perpendicularly into the leafy thicket to a depth of eight or nine inches.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000034_000001.wav|A sprig of thyme, planted in the centre, will furnish supports for the structure, together with the trellis work of the top and sides.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000051_000004.wav|The meal is taken outside the guard room, on the threshold, never indoors.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000025_000000.wav|The rigging builder, therefore, to whom we have just thrown a Locust attacks the prey at the lower end of a thigh.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000055_000000.wav|For four or five weeks longer, the mother never ceases her leisurely inspection rounds, happy at hearing the new born Spiders swarming in the wallet.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000038_000000.wav|Now this palace of silk, when all is said, is nothing more than a guard house.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000021_000004.wav|There are long ropes and short ropes, upright and slanting, straight and bent, taut and slack, all criss cross and a tangle, to the height of three feet or so in inextricable disorder.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000055_000002.wav|She has done all that maternal devotion can do; the special providence of tiny animals will do the rest.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000065_000003.wav|She also refuses to do so when, for reasons which I have not fathomed, the site chosen is some way up in the tuft of rosemary.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000062_000004.wav|The same fears have inspired the same protective methods.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000032_000000.wav|We might discover an interesting subject of research in the type adopted by each species when the work is accomplished without hindrances.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000007_000001.wav|But I must abandon the idea.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000047_000002.wav|The Spider of the brushwood, on the contrary, endowed with greater maternal devotion, has, like the Crab Spider, to mount guard over hers until they hatch.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000057_000001.wav|It needs the eyes of faith to see in these ruins the equivalent of the edifices built inside my cages.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000054_000001.wav|The mother continues to watch and spin, lessening her activity from day to day.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000052_000002.wav|Can this other mother have so great a need as that to eat?|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000037_000003.wav|In front of the bell shaped mouth is a tangle of threads wherein the passers by are caught.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen: THE LABYRINTH SPIDER|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000046_000002.wav|Very few neglect this precaution; each, in her own manner, conceals the eggs she lays.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000024_000002.wav|Locusts' legs often dangle, emptied of their succulent contents, on the edges of the web, from the meat hooks of the butcher's shop.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000041_000001.wav|Were it not better, then, to lodge the eggs in the immediate neighbourhood of the present home and to continue her hunting with the excellent snare at her disposal?|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000014_000000.wav|At the entrance to the tube, in the gloom of that murderous alley, sits the Spider, who looks at us and betrays no great excitement at our presence.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000055_000003.wav|When spring comes, the youngsters will emerge from their snug habitation, disperse all over the neighbourhood by the expedient of the floating thread and weave their first attempts at a labyrinth on the tufts of thyme.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000034_000004.wav|They are readily accepted, provided they be tender and not too large.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000014_000002.wav|At the tip of the belly, two small, mobile appendages form a sort of tail, a rather curious feature in a Spider.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000063_000001.wav|After all, sand abounded: the pans in which the wire gauze covers stood were full of it.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000007_000005.wav|Opportunity, as we know, is fleeting.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000026_000003.wav|The Labyrinth Spider knows nothing of the diversions of the table; she flings the drained remnants out of her web, without chewing them.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000042_000002.wav|Whoso comes to look at the bright thing too closely dies the victim of his curiosity.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000022_000006.wav|She does not run up the shrouds of the mast work to seize the desperate prisoner; she waits until his bonds of threads, twisted backwards and forwards, make him fall on the web.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000020_000001.wav|It is just possible for the casual pedestrian to catch his legs in the silky carpets; but giddy pates who come here for a walk must be very rare.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000001.wav|Every night she goes to it, walks over it, inspecting her snares, extending her domain and increasing it with new threads.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000046_000000.wav|So far, there is no departure from current usage.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000065_000000.wav|In my cages, the sand is too far off.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000018_000002.wav|To look for her by rummaging in the brushwood often leads to nothing, so swift is her flight; besides, a blind search entails a great risk of maiming her.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000049_000001.wav|After laying her eggs, so far from becoming thin, she preserves an excellent appearance and a round belly.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000066_000002.wav|The Labyrinth Spider has simply taught us that instinct possesses resources which are employed or left latent according to the conditions of the moment.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000065_000004.wav|But, when the nest touches the ground, the clay rampart is never missing.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000062_000003.wav|They wrap their eggs in a mineral shell held together with silk.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000049_000003.wav|She therefore requires a dwelling with a hunting box close to the eggs watched over.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000057_000003.wav|Oak leaves, roughly joined by a few threads, wrap it all round.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000043_000000.wav|Harpies will not fail to come running at this signal, showing up against the green; guided by the position of the web, they will assuredly find the precious purse; and a strange grub, feasting on a hundred new laid eggs, will ruin the establishment.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000031_000000.wav|The insect, in its buildings, has its own architectural rules, rules as unchangeable as anatomical peculiarities.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000050_000005.wav|But, though this danger be averted, others will come when the mother is no longer there.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000053_000002.wav|To satisfy this lavish expenditure, she must incessantly, by means of feeding, fill her silk glands as and when she empties them by spinning.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000030_000000.wav|By this method of investigation, far from the labyrinth trap, I become the owner of as many nests as are needed to satisfy my curiosity.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000009_000003.wav|This is where I resort, as the isolation and kindliness of the supports lend themselves to proceedings which might not be tolerated by the unfriendly hedge.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000038_000001.wav|Behind the soft, milky opalescence of the wall glimmers the egg tabernacle, with its form vaguely suggesting the star of some order of knighthood.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000040_000000.wav|We will now retrace our steps a little.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000052_000003.wav|Yes, certainly she has; and for an imperative reason.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000034_000003.wav|By way of provision, Locusts, every day.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000049_000002.wav|Moreover, she does not lose her appetite and is always prepared to bleed a Locust.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000045_000003.wav|Rosemary tufts, which gain in thickness what they lose in height on the unfostering rock, suit her particularly.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000026_000004.wav|Although it lasts long, the meal is eaten in perfect safety.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000025_000003.wav|When this first point is drained, she passes on to others, to the second haunch in particular, until the prey becomes an empty hulk without losing its outline.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000020_000000.wav|The surface of the crater is not exactly a snare.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000059_000001.wav|What is this?|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000005_000001.wav|The Lycosa surrounds the mouth of her shaft with a simple parapet, a mere collection of tiny pebbles, sticks and silk; the others fix a movable door to theirs, a round shutter with a hinge, a groove and a set of bolts.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000022_000001.wav|The threads are not sticky; they act only by their confused multitude.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000029_000000.wav|I learn the secret at last.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000019_000004.wav|In this way, I fill my cages with subjects that have not been demoralized by contusions.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000004_000001.wav|Some of them are celebrities of long-standing renown, who are mentioned in all the books.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000061_000000.wav|To sum up, when working in the natural state, the Labyrinth Spider builds around the eggs, between two sheets of satin, a wall composed of a great deal of sand and a little silk.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000000.wav|The Spider never ceases working at her carpet, which represents her investigation platform.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000009_000002.wav|In the open country and especially in hilly places laid bare by the wood man's axe, the favourite sites are tufts of bracken, rock rose, lavender, everlasting and rosemary cropped close by the teeth of the flocks.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000052_000000.wav|These are not capricious mouthfuls, serving to beguile the boredom of the watch for a brief while; they are substantial repasts, which require several sittings.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000006.wav|This part has been strengthened by the nightly rounds of inspection.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000054_000003.wav|This increasing abstemiousness, a sign of decrepitude, slackens and at last stops the work of the spinnerets.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000023_000000.wav|He falls; the other comes and flings herself upon her prostrate prey.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000008_000003.wav|When patiently entreated, the least of creatures adds its note to the harmonies of life.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000029_000002.wav|If these contain a low, thick cluster, the nest is there, hidden from the eye.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000047_000001.wav|In the vast majority of instances, the eggs, once lodged in a favourable spot, are abandoned to themselves, left to the chances of good or ill fortune.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000029_000003.wav|It carries an authentic certificate of its origin, for the mother invariably occupies it.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000063_000000.wav|Then how comes it that, of the five mothers reared in my cages, not one has had recourse to the clay rampart?|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000056_000000.wav|Accurate in structure and neat in silk work though they be, the nests of the caged captives do not tell us everything; we must go back to what happens in the fields, with their complicated conditions.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000018_000003.wav|Let us eschew violence, which is but seldom successful, and resort to craft.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000039_000000.wav|For a closer examination, let us use the dilapidated nests which we brought from the fields.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000045_000002.wav|The points selected are, by preference, the low brambles dragging along the ground, keeping their dense verdure during the winter and crammed with dead leaves from the oaks hard by.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000036_000002.wav|The cabin is open at either end.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000065_000001.wav|To obtain it, the Spider would have to leave the top of the dome, where the nest is being built on its trellis work support; she would have to come down some nine inches.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000059_000005.wav|The grains of sand are stuck together with a cement of silk; and the whole resists the pressure of the fingers.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000025_000001.wav|The bite is a lingering one: once the Spider has planted her fangs, she does not let go.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000011_000003.wav|A splendid spectacle indeed is that of our Spider's labyrinth, heavy with the tears of the night and lit up by the first rays of the sun|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000059_000000.wav|Now open the habitation of the offspring.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000057_000004.wav|One of these leaves, larger than the others, roofs it in and serves as a scaffolding for the whole of the ceiling.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000008_000001.wav|What is common is not necessarily unimportant.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000061_000001.wav|To stop the Ichneumon's probe and the teeth of the other ravagers, the best thing that occurred to her was this hoarding which combines the hardness of flint with the softness of muslin.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000044_000004.wav|There are other Ichneumon flies, moreover, addicted to robbing Spiders' nests; a basket of fresh eggs is their offspring's regular food.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000014_000001.wav|She is grey, modestly adorned on the thorax with two black ribbons and on the abdomen with two stripes in which white specks alternate with brown.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000049_000000.wav|The Labyrinth Spider is better treated.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000024_000000.wav|The bite is usually given at the lower end of a haunch: not that this place is more vulnerable than any other thin skinned part, but probably because it has a better flavour.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000028_000005.wav|Mornings are spent in fruitless searches.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000024_000004.wav|It is the equivalent, on a very small scale, of the larger legs of the Crayfish.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000008_000000.wav|Let us make up for it with trivial things of frequent encounter, a condition favourable to consecutive study.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000007_000000.wav|If I possessed documents derived from personal observation, I should like to speak of these ingenious workers; I would gladly add a few unpublished facts to their life history.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000007.wav|Lastly come the less visited expanses, which consequently have a thinner carpet.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000027_000002.wav|And yet, like the others, the builder of this slovenly edifice must have her own principles of beauty and accuracy.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000010_000000.wav|Several times a week, in July, I go to study my Spiders on the spot, at an early hour, before the sun beats fiercely on one's neck.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000019_000003.wav|Feeling its retreat cut off, it readily darts into the paper bag held out to it; if necessary, it can be stimulated with a bit of straw.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000029_000001.wav|I chance upon a web which, though deserted, is not yet dilapidated, proving that it has been but lately quitted. Instead of hunting in the brushwood whereon it rests, let us inspect the neighbourhood, to a distance of a few paces.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000010_000003.wav|The expedition promises to be fruitful.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000055_000001.wav|At length, when October ends, she clutches her offspring's nursery and dies withered.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000058_000001.wav|The dirt from the damp ground has not penetrated to this dwelling protected by its wrapper of dead leaves.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000021_000000.wav|Look above the web.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000053_000001.wav|The walls never seem thick enough; the Spider is always working at them.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000038_000005.wav|The mother walks gravely to and fro under the arches of her cloisters, she stops first here, then there; she makes a lengthy auscultation of the egg wallet; she listens to all that happens inside the satin wrapper.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000030_000001.wav|They do not by a long way come up to my idea of the maternal talent.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000051_000002.wav|The Spider arrives hurriedly, snatches the giddy pate and disjoints his shanks, which she empties of their contents, the best part of the insect.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000057_000002.wav|Fastened to the creeping branch, the unsightly bundle lies on the sand heaped up by the rains.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000063_000002.wav|On the other hand, under normal conditions, I have often come across nests without any mineral casing.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000057_000005.wav|If we did not see the silky remnants of the two vestibules projecting and feel a certain resistance when separating the parts of the bundle, we might take the thing for a casual accumulation, the work of the rain and the wind.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000011_000004.wav|Accompanied as it is by the Thrushes' symphony, this alone is worth getting up for.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000051_000001.wav|One of the Locusts whereof I renew the supply at intervals in the cages is caught in the cords of the great entrance hall.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000018_000000.wav|It is well to know this arrangement of the home, if you wish to capture the Spider without hurting her.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000010_000002.wav|They lend me their good eyes and supple limbs.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000042_000003.wav|There is nothing better for playing upon the folly of the passer by, but also nothing more dangerous to the safety of the family.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000027_000003.wav|As it is, the prettily latticed mouth of the crater makes us suspect this; the nest, the mother's usual masterpiece, will prove it to the full.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000054_000000.wav|A month passes and, about the middle of September, the little ones hatch, but without leaving their tabernacle, where they are to spend the winter packed in soft wadding.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000007_000002.wav|The Water Spider is not found in my district.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000024_000003.wav|In my urchin days, days free from prejudices in regard to what one ate, I, like many others, was able to appreciate that dainty.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000065_000002.wav|The worker refuses to take this trouble, which, if repeated in the case of each grain, would make the action of the spinnerets too irksome.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000021_000001.wav|What a forest of ropes!|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000027_000001.wav|It is hardly more than a shapeless scaffolding, run up anyhow.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000064_000004.wav|Those materials have to be right under her legs; otherwise the Spider does without and continues her work just the same.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000062_000002.wav|Other species, living in the open under stones, work in the same way.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000041_000003.wav|The Spider is of another opinion; and I suspect the reason.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000012_000004.wav|There is not a twig but supplies a contact point.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000036_000005.wav|As for the opening in front, which is wider, this is, beyond a doubt, a victualling door.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000037_000005.wav|The animal knows its trade thoroughly, but it does not know and will never know aught else, being incapable of originality.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000028_000000.wav|When laying time is at hand, the Spider changes her residence; she abandons her web in excellent condition; she does not return to it.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000060_000001.wav|No sooner do we tear this final covering than the frightened little ones run away and scatter with an agility that is singular at this cold and torpid season.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000050_000004.wav|Perhaps so.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000019_000001.wav|If practicable, squeeze the bottom of the tuft, containing the neck of the funnel, with both hands.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000063_000003.wav|These incomplete nests were placed at some height from the ground, in the thick of the brushwood; the others, on the contrary, those supplied with a coating of sand, lay on the ground.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000015_000000.wav|The crater shaped web is not of the same structure throughout.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000035_000000.wav|The experiment works perfectly.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000005_000003.wav|If the aggressor persist and seek to raise the trap door, the recluse pushes the bolt, that is to say, plants her claws into certain holes on the opposite side to the hinge, props herself against the wall and holds the door firmly.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000006_000001.wav|Thus supplied with the wherewithal to breathe, she awaits the coming of the game and keeps herself cool meanwhile.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000022_000004.wav|Unable to obtain a steady foothold on that shaky support, he flounders about; and the more he struggles the more he entangles his shackles.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000064_000000.wav|The method of the work explains these differences.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000056_000002.wav|We inspect the stunted rosemaries along the edge of a path sheltered by a rocky, wooded slope; we lift the branches that spread over the ground.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000038_000002.wav|It is a large pocket, of a splendid dead white, isolated on every side by radiating pillars which keep it motionless in the centre of the tapestry.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000066_000001.wav|No inference is permissible in either direction.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000066_000003.wav|Place sand under her legs and the spinstress will knead concrete; refuse her that sand, or put it out of her reach, and the Spider will remain a simple silk worker, always ready, however, to turn mason under favourable conditions.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000030_000003.wav|No, I shall not be able to judge of the artist's capacity by these rags and tatters.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000044_000003.wav|Nothing but empty shells was left inside the central keg; the germs were completely exterminated.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000004.wav|Beyond it are the slopes of the crater, which are also much frequented regions.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000025_000002.wav|She drinks, she sips, she sucks.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000047_000000.wav|In the case of the Labyrinth Spider, the protection of the brood is complicated by another condition.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000043_000001.wav|I do not know these enemies, not having sufficient materials at my disposal for a register of the parasites; but, from indications gathered elsewhere, I suspect them.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000012_000005.wav|Entwined on every side, surrounded and surmounted, the bush disappears from view, veiled in white muslin.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000052_000001.wav|Such an appetite astonishes me, after I have seen the Crab Spider, that no less ardent watcher, refuse the Bees whom I give her and allow herself to die of inanition.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000026_000005.wav|From the first bite, the Locust becomes a lifeless thing; the Spider's poison has settled him.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000033_000001.wav|Toiling in the midst of a dense thicket, among a tangle of dead leaves and twigs, she may well produce a very inaccurate piece of work; but compel her to labour when free from all impediment: she will then-I am convinced of it beforehand-apply her talents without constraint and show herself an adept in the building of graceful nests.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000016_000003.wav|The neck of the funnel, being more often walked upon than the rest of the dwelling, is therefore provided with a thicker upholstery.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000053_000003.wav|Food is the means whereby she keeps the inexhaustible factory going.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000038_000006.wav|To disturb her would be barbarous.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000031_000002.wav|Then virtual regularity is translated into actual chaos; order degenerates into disorder.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000028_000006.wav|In vain I ransack the bushes that carry the webs: I never find aught that realizes my hopes.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000038_000003.wav|These pillars are about ten in number and are slender in the middle, expanding at one end into a conical capital and at the other into a base of the same shape.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000008_000002.wav|Give it our sustained attention and we shall discover in it merits which our former ignorance prevented us from seeing.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000006_000002.wav|At times of scorching heat, hers must be a regular sybaritic abode, such as eccentric man has sometimes ventured to build under water, with mighty blocks of stone and marble.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000012_000000.wav|Half an hour's heat; and the magic jewels disappear with the dew.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000024_000001.wav|The different webs which I inspect to study the food in the larder show me, among other joints, various Flies and small Butterflies and carcasses of almost untouched Locusts, all deprived of their hind legs, or at least of one.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000048_000002.wav|She does not make up her mind to die until the little ones are gone.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000012_000001.wav|Now is the moment to inspect the webs.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000042_000000.wav|The sheet net and the labyrinth that surmounts it are objects visible from afar, owing to their whiteness and the height whereat they are placed.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000048_000001.wav|And this mere shred, hardly more than a skin that persists in living without eating, stoutly defends her egg sack, shows fight at the approach of any tramp.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000011_000000.wav|We soon discover high silk buildings, betrayed at a distance by the glittering threads which the dawn has converted into dewy rosaries.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000022_000005.wav|The Spider, spying on the threshold of her abyss, lets him have his way.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000022_000000.wav|We have here nothing similar to the lime threads used by the Garden Spiders.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000044_000000.wav|The Banded Epeira, trusting to the strength of her stuff, fixes her nest in the sight of all, hangs it on the brushwood, taking no precautions whatever to hide it.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3307/145145/3307_145145_000056_000004.wav|In a couple of hours, I am the owner of some nests.|3307
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000022_000000.wav|"And we have also learnt that the poison of the Pelagian heresy again springs up among you; we, therefore, exhort you, that you put away from your thoughts all such venomous and superstitious wickedness.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000022_000001.wav|For you cannot be ignorant how that execrable heresy has been condemned; for it has not only been abolished these two hundred years, but it is also daily condemned by us and buried under our perpetual ban; and we exhort you not to rake up the ashes of those whose weapons have been burnt.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000024_000005.wav|Nor did he pay any respect to the Christian religion which had sprung up among them; it being to this day the custom of the Britons to despise the faith and religion of the English, and to have no part with them in anything any more than with pagans.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000001_000005.wav|Paulinus, for the space of six years from this time, that is, till the end of the king's reign, with his consent and favour, preached the Word of God in that country, and as many as were foreordained to eternal life believed and were baptized.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000011_000000.wav|At that time Honorius, successor to Boniface, was Bishop of the Apostolic see.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000009_000000.wav|It is told that there was then such perfect peace in Britain, wheresoever the dominion of King Edwin extended, that, as is still proverbially said, a woman with her new born babe might walk throughout the island, from sea to sea, without receiving any harm.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000008_000001.wav|He likewise built, in that city, a stone church of beautiful workmanship; the roof of which has either fallen through long neglect, or been thrown down by enemies, but the walls are still to be seen standing, and every year miraculous cures are wrought in that place, for the benefit of those who have faith to seek them.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000013_000001.wav|How Honorius, who succeeded Justus in the bishopric of Canterbury, received the pall and letters from Pope Honorius. [six thirty four a d]|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000012_000003.wav|Employing yourself, therefore, in reading frequently the works of my lord Gregory, your Evangelist, of apostolic memory, keep before your eyes that love of his doctrine, which he zealously bestowed for the sake of your souls; that his prayers may exalt your kingdom and people, and present you faultless before Almighty God.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000010_000001.wav|How Edwin received letters of exhortation from Pope Honorius, who also sent the pall to Paulinus. [six thirty four a d]|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000014_000002.wav|Which letter we have also thought fit to insert in this our history:|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000000_000001.wav|How King Edwin and his nation became Christians; and where Paulinus baptized them.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000018_000002.wav|The beginning of the epistle was as follows:|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000016_000002.wav|God preserve you in safety, most dear brother!|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000012_000006.wav|May God's grace preserve your Highness in safety!"|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000024_000006.wav|King Edwin's head was brought to York, and afterwards taken into the church of the blessed peter the Apostle, which he had begun, but which his successor Oswald finished, as has been said before.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000017_000002.wav|[six forty a d]|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000012_000001.wav|For the terms of your kingship you know to be this, that taught by orthodox preaching the knowledge of your King and Creator, you believe and worship God, and as far as man is able, pay Him the sincere devotion of your mind.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000001_000002.wav|In that city also he bestowed upon his instructor and bishop, Paulinus, his episcopal see.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000023_000001.wav|How Edwin being slain, Paulinus returned into Kent, and had the bishopric of Rochester conferred upon him.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000000_000002.wav|[six twenty seven a d]|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000006_000002.wav|Nor were his good wishes in vain; for the pious labourer in the spiritual field reaped therein a great harvest of believers, delivering all that province (according to the inner signification of his name) from long iniquity and unhappiness, and bringing it to the faith and works of righteousness, and the gifts of everlasting happiness.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89882/7395_89882_000023_000002.wav|[six thirty three a d]|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000007_000000.wav|Chap.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000023_000000.wav|"God preserve you in safety, most dear brother!"|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000011_000001.wav|Nor did the unbelieving king escape without the scourge of Divine severity in chastisement and correction; for he was troubled with frequent fits of madness, and possessed by an unclean spirit.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000017_000002.wav|The bishop, being carried thither by his servants, weak as he was, set about averting by prayer the danger which the strong hands of active men had not been able to overcome with all their exertions.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000029_000002.wav|The king, delighted with his words, promised, that if God would grant him life and victory over the king by whom the murderer who had wounded him had been sent, he would renounce his idols, and serve Christ; and as a pledge that he would perform his promise, he delivered up that same daughter to Bishop Paulinus, to be consecrated to Christ.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000011_000009.wav|Nevertheless, the people, having been once turned to wickedness, though the authors of it were destroyed, would not be corrected, nor return to the unity of faith and charity which is in Christ.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000011_000003.wav|They immediately began openly to give themselves up to idolatry, which, during their father's lifetime, they had seemed somewhat to abandon, and they granted free licence to their subjects to serve idols.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000020_000000.wav|Justus, bishop of the church of Rochester, immediately succeeded Mellitus in the archbishopric.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000017_000003.wav|Immediately the wind, which blowing from the south had spread the conflagration throughout the city, veered to the north, and thus prevented the destruction of those places that had been exposed to its full violence, then it ceased entirely and there was a calm, while the flames likewise sank and were extinguished.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000006_000002.wav|This pope was Boniface, the fourth after the blessed Gregory, bishop of the city of Rome.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000003_000004.wav|The beginning of which epistle is as follows:|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000011_000002.wav|The storm of this disturbance was increased by the death of Sabert, king of the East Saxons, who departing to the heavenly kingdom, left three sons, still pagans, to inherit his temporal crown.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000015_000002.wav|How Bishop Mellitus by prayer quenched a fire in his city.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000011_000006.wav|Mellitus and Justus accordingly went away first, and withdrew into the parts of Gaul, intending there to await the event.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000006_000000.wav|About this time, Mellitus, bishop of London, went to Rome, to confer with the Apostolic Pope Boniface about the necessary affairs of the English Church.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000014_000002.wav|But he and his nation, after his conversion to the Lord, sought to obey the commandments of God.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000015_000001.wav|seven.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000009_000002.wav|Among which, he set down first what satisfaction should be given by any one who should steal anything belonging to the Church, the bishop, or the other clergy, for he was resolved to give protection to those whom he had received along with their doctrine.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000029_000001.wav|The king, in the presence of Bishop Paulinus, gave thanks to his gods for the birth of his daughter; and the bishop, on his part, began to give thanks to Christ, and to tell the king, that by his prayers to Him he had obtained that the queen should bring forth the child in safety, and without grievous pain.|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000015_000003.wav|[six nineteen a d]|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7395/89880/7395_89880_000019_000002.wav|How Pope Boniface sent the Pall and a letter to Justus, successor to Mellitus. [six twenty four a d]|7395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000022_000001.wav|Joe was not offended; she was only bored.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000101_000000.wav|"Why in the world should it injure me?" asked john, much astonished at the remark.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000004.wav|There would be a scene of solemn farewell, in which he would bid her be happy in her own way, in a tone of semi paternal benevolence, after which he would give her his blessing, and bid farewell to the pomps and vanities of society.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000046_000003.wav|"You mean about the senatorship?" asked Joe.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000081_000000.wav|"I think I have taken a part already," said Joe, somewhat hurt.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000091_000001.wav|"The man may do me harm, but as I never expected his friendship or help, he neither falls nor rises in my estimation on that account.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000056_000000.wav|"There is a great difference," answered Vancouver.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000104_000000.wav|"Well, do not be angry.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000066_000000.wav|"I believe mrs Wyndham thinks I dislike Englishmen," said Vancouver at random.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000041_000001.wav|"In fact, I am sure there is none, except that you would of course always do exactly as you pleased about that and everything else."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000107_000002.wav|He had long regarded mrs Wyndham as a woman of fine sense and judgment, and had often asked her opinion on important questions.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000114_000001.wav|"Make things what they should be.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000044_000000.wav|"Do let me get you something more, Miss Thorn," suggested mr Biggielow. "No?|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000011.wav|But surely, for a disappointed lover there could be no course so proper as a speedy death by dissipation-which would serve Joe right.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000042_000001.wav|But then, you know, I did not send you away."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000051_000001.wav|At all events, he is honest."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000064_000001.wav|"I hear there is to be a dinner for him to morrow night at mrs Sam Wyndham's.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000071_000001.wav|"Why should I not believe you?" Her voice was calm, but that same angry flush that had of late so often shown itself began to rise slowly at her temples.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000055_000001.wav|"Why do you say politics are dirty work?"|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000090_000002.wav|"You do not seem to mind it at all."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000045_000000.wav|"Of course you have heard about Harrington?" said Vancouver in a low voice close to Josephine's ear.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000079_000000.wav|"But it does"--Joe began, impulsively.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000016_000002.wav|Sybil did not go to parties, and john probably had too much to do.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000001.wav|Biggielow is getting me something." She did not look at Vancouver as she answered, and the angry color began to rise to her temples.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000084_000000.wav|john looked at her earnestly for a few seconds, and saw that she was perfectly sincere.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, I so much wanted to see you, Miss Thorn," said the latter.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000007_000004.wav|His conscience smote him as he realized that he was thinking of her appearance, and he immediately quieted the qualm by saying that it was but natural admiration for an artistic object.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000052_000001.wav|"You think, perhaps, that some man of your own party may be elected who will not turn out to be honest?"|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000004.wav|It struck her that, considering the situation of affairs, it would be unwise to break off her acquaintance with Vancouver at the present time.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000007_000005.wav|Ronald did not know much about artists and that sort of people, but the expression formed itself conveniently in his mind.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000013.wav|He tasted it, and thought it detestable.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000091_000000.wav|"It is not worth while to lose one's temper or one's soul for the iniquities of mr Pocock Vancouver," said john.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000046_000001.wav|"Will you take my plate?|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000098_000000.wav|"You do not seem to have a very exalted idea of humanity," said Joe.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000006_000000.wav|Sybil Brandon and Miss Schenectady were elements in the solemn leave taking which Ronald had not anticipated.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000012_000000.wav|"Good by," he answered in a doubtful tone of voice, as he raised his hat; and the two girls drove away.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000071_000002.wav|Vancouver saw it, and thought she was blushing at what he said.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000058_000000.wav|"Between saying that the business of politics is not clean, and saying that all public officers are liars, like the Cretans."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000009_000000.wav|"Come and see us after five o'clock," said Sybil.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000102_000001.wav|"I do not like to tell you," she added.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000007_000002.wav|He was grateful after a time, and he was also flattered.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000074_000003.wav|mrs Wyndham had long since disappeared.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000096_000000.wav|"Then why do you defend him?" asked Joe, with flashing eyes.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000105_000001.wav|But why?"|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000077_000000.wav|It is amazing what a difference the common knowledge of a secret will make in the intimacy of two people.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000007.wav|In the first place, there might be more to be learnt which might be of service to john; secondly, people would talk about it if she cut him, and would invent some story to the effect that he had proposed to marry her, or that she had proposed to marry him.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000071_000000.wav|"Oh, yes," said Joe.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000053_000001.wav|You see, politics are such a dirty business-all kinds of men get in."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000023_000000.wav|"Will you not come and dine too, to morrow night?" asked mrs Wyndham, who was anxious to atone.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000003.wav|He had gone to see Joe, arriving during luncheon, in the expectation of seeing her alone again.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000032_000002.wav|He could only suppose that the two had been talking of something, and were annoyed at being interrupted.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000005_000002.wav|He changed his tie for one of a darker hue, ate sparingly of a beefsteak, and went back to bid Joe a last farewell.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000094_000004.wav|And he should not go about saying that he has the highest reverence for a man, and then call him a lunatic and a charlatan in print, unless he is willing to sign his name to it, and take the consequences.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000015_000000.wav|"Really, I do not believe he is-so very much, you know," Joe answered. But she was thoughtful, and did not speak again for some time.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000005.wav|He would naturally retire gloomily from the gay world, and end his miserable existence in the approved Guy Livingstone fashion of life, between cavendish tobacco, deep drinking, and high play.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000003.wav|A sudden thought passed through Joe's mind.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000075_000002.wav|He bowed and stared a little at seeing Joe on Vancouver's arm, but she gave him a look of such earnest entreaty that he turned and followed her at a distance to see what would happen.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000094_000006.wav|I think it is vile, and horrid, and abominable, and nasty, and I hate him."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000074_000002.wav|She wished him back again, but he was embarked in an enterprise to dispute with Johnny Hannibal a place near Miss saint Joseph.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000075_000000.wav|"Will you please take me back to my aunt?" said Joe.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000008_000000.wav|The consequence was that he accepted an invitation to drive with the two girls after luncheon, and when they left him at his hotel, a proceeding against which he vehemently protested on the score of propriety, he reluctantly acknowledged to himself that he had enjoyed the afternoon very much.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000006_000001.wav|Sybil, moreover, made a great effort, for she was anxious to help Joe as much as possible in her difficulties.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000106_000000.wav|"Just for that very reason; you are too calm.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000044_000002.wav|You always like"--|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000064_000000.wav|"I am so anxious to meet your cousin, Miss Thorn," said Vancouver, trying a new subject.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000048_000000.wav|"Among whom you count yourself, doubtless," remarked Joe.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000028_000000.wav|"Miss Thorn, what can I get you?" he asked, turning to Joe.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000053_000000.wav|"Well, the thing is possible.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000106_000001.wav|You are not enough of a partisan.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000114_000000.wav|"Ah, yes," said Joe, softly.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000090_000000.wav|"Oh, I would not care about that," said Joe, hotly.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000103_000000.wav|"I would like to hear what you think, if you will tell me," said john, gravely.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000057_000000.wav|"What difference?|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000107_000001.wav|The remark was profound in its way, and showed a far deeper insight into political matters than he imagined Joe possessed.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000107_000003.wav|But in all his experience she had never said anything that seemed to strike so deeply at the root of things as this simple remark of Josephine's.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000104_000002.wav|Are you angry?"|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000080_000001.wav|Besides, I would not for all the world have you take a part in this thing.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000087_000000.wav|"Yes, trivial," john repeated.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000026_000000.wav|"Can I get you anything, mrs Wyndham?" he inquired, after a double bow.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000006_000002.wav|She talked to Ronald with a vivacity that was unusual, and Joe herself was astonished at the brilliance of her conversation.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000006.wav|Joe would then repent of the ruin she had caused, and that would be a great satisfaction.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000111_000000.wav|"The idea is quite new to me, I think it is perhaps the best definition of the fact that I ever heard.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000072_000001.wav|"I trust that some day you will let me tell you who that Englishwoman is."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000007_000000.wav|Perhaps Sybil pitied Ronald a little.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000030_000001.wav|He instantly disappeared; but even in the moment before he departed to execute her command he had time to express by his look a sense of injury forgiven, which did not escape Joe.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000079_000001.wav|"That is, I began by meaning to cut him, and then I thought it would be a mistake to make a scandal."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000067_000000.wav|"Really?"|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000092_000001.wav|"But one cannot help expecting men who have the reputation of being gentlemen to behave decently."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000022_000000.wav|mrs Wyndham rarely said a tactless thing, but this evening she was in such good spirits that she said what came uppermost in her thoughts.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000000.wav|"Nothing, thanks," said Joe, "mr|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000061_000002.wav|Cut square at the neck, it showed her dazzling throat at its best advantage, and a knot of pink lilies at the waist harmonized delicately with the color of the whole.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000074_000000.wav|"Thanks-no, if you do not mind," said she.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000100_000000.wav|"I wish you were not so tremendously calm, you know," said Joe, looking thoughtfully into John's face.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000018_000000.wav|"Yes?" said Joe, turning a shade paler.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000107_000000.wav|john was silent, and his face was grave and thoughtful.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000113_000000.wav|"And make them what they should be," added john, and the look of strong determination came into his face.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000102_000000.wav|"I have a presentiment"--she checked herself suddenly.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000082_000000.wav|"Yes, I know.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000030_000000.wav|"On second thoughts-if you would get me a glass of water"--she said, speaking to him.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000041_000000.wav|"I hope there is no reason," he said gravely.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000054_000002.wav|Nevertheless, he was fascinated by her.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000097_000002.wav|Almost every businessman is trying to get the better of some other business man by fair means or foul."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000051_000000.wav|"Oh, if it comes to that," said Vancouver mildly, "I would rather see Harrington senator than some of our own men.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000033_000002.wav|mr Bonamy Biggielow was a little poet.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000072_000000.wav|"I trust you will," said Vancouver.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000111_000001.wav|But it is not what ought to be."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000060_000001.wav|"If it is not a rude question, did not that dress come from Egypt?"|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000078_000000.wav|"I was rather taken aback at seeing you with him," said john.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000104_000001.wav|I have a presentiment that you will not be made senator.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000005_000000.wav|On reflection, he would put off the commencement of his wild career until the evening after he had seen Joe again.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000049_000000.wav|"Not politically, of course.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000073_000000.wav|It was horrible; he was making love to her, this wretch, whom she despised.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000108_000000.wav|"I am afraid you are angry," said Joe, seeing that he was grave and silent.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000050_000000.wav|"Yes, I know." Joe knew the remainder of the sentence by heart.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000001.wav|But the scenes about him were too new, and very many of the faces he saw were too attractive, to allow of his brooding for long over his misfortune.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000112_000001.wav|"Nothing is just what it ought to be.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000031_000000.wav|"What a hypocrite the man is!" she thought.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000093_000000.wav|"Vancouver has a right to his political opinions, and a perfect right to express them in any way he sees fit," said john.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000074_000001.wav|"I do not care to receive confidences,--I always forget to forget them." It was not in order that Pocock Vancouver might make love to her that she had sent away Bonamy Biggielow, the harmless little poet.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000065_000000.wav|"Why 'of course'?" inquired Joe quickly.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000010_000000.wav|"With great pleasure-thanks," said Ronald.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000088_000001.wav|"He always says to every one that he has the greatest respect for you, and then he does a thing like this.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000068_000000.wav|"Yes-I should be willing to like any number of Englishmen for the sake of being liked by one Englishwoman." He looked at Joe expressively as he spoke.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000088_000002.wav|If I were you I would kill him-I am sure I would."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000014_000000.wav|"Do not be frightened, Joe dearest," she said.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000119_000000.wav|As Joe sat by her aunt's side in the deep dark carriage on the way home, her hands were cold and she trembled from head to foot.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000009.wav|It serves my father right for not buying me my gloves." That was Ronald's state of mind.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000097_000001.wav|There are things done every day, all over the world, quite as bad as that, and no one takes much notice of them.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000052_000000.wav|"At all events!" Joe repeated.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000002.wav|Vancouver, who was not used to repulses such as these, and was too old a soldier to give up a situation so easily, stood a moment playing with his coat tails.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000038_000000.wav|mr Biggielow also answered Joe's interrogation.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000099_000000.wav|"A large part of humanity is sick," said john, "and it is as well to be prepared for the worst in any illness."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000118_000001.wav|Good night."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000040_000002.wav|Then turning to Vancouver, she added, "Why should I send you away?"|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000040_000001.wav|That sort of thing?" said Joe to Biggielow.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000084_000001.wav|He had grown to like Josephine of late, and he was grateful to her for her friendship.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000086_000000.wav|"Trivial!" she exclaimed.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000080_000002.wav|It would do no good, and it might do harm."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000036_000000.wav|"Why?" said Joe, eating her salad and looking straight before her.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000109_000000.wav|"You have set me thinking, Miss Thorn," he answered.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000016_000003.wav|But at supper Joe chanced to be standing near mrs Sam Wyndham.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000064_000002.wav|But of course I am not asked."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000007_000003.wav|Besides, he could not help noticing that his new acquaintance was extremely beautiful.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000097_000000.wav|"Because, on general principles, I do not think a man is so much worse than his fellows because he does things they would very likely do in his place.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000085_000000.wav|"My dear Miss Thorn," he said earnestly, in a low voice, "you are too good and kind, and I thank you very heartily for your friendship.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000087_000001.wav|"Remember that it is the policy of that paper to abuse me, and that if Vancouver had not written the article, the editor could have found some one else easily enough who would have done it."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000029_000008.wav|It was contrary to her nature to pretend anything she did not feel, but it would nevertheless be a mistake to quarrel openly with Vancouver.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000117_000000.wav|"Shall I see you to morrow night at mrs Wyndham's dinner?" asked john, as they parted.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000100_000001.wav|"I am afraid it will injure you."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000075_000003.wav|Seeing her sit down by her aunt, he came up and spoke to her, almost thrusting Vancouver aside with his broad shoulders.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000084_000002.wav|Her manner that morning, when she told him of her discovery, had made a deep impression on him.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000112_000002.wav|But one has to take things as they are."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000049_000001.wav|I take no active part"--|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000032_000000.wav|Vancouver on his part could form no conception of the cause of the coldness the two ladies had shown him.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000043_000000.wav|"Thanks, again," said Vancouver.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000003_000001.wav|There was of course the usual amount of gossip concerning him, but as he refrained from eccentricities of dress when asked to dinner, and did not bet that he would ride his horse into the smoking room of the Somerset Club, the gossip soon lost ground against the list of his good qualities.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000062_000000.wav|"It is just like you," said Vancouver, "to have something different from everybody else.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000039_000000.wav|"Well," he said, "I mean it is thronged with people.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000069_000000.wav|"Really?"|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000027_000000.wav|"No, thank you.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000085_000001.wav|But I think you were very wise not to cut Vancouver, and I hope you will not quarrel with anybody for any matter so trivial." The color came to Joe's face, but not for anger this time.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000017_000002.wav|He came today, and I have asked him to dinner to morrow."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000027_000001.wav|Johnny Hannibal is taking care of me," answered mrs Sam, coldly.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000047_000000.wav|"Yes.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000034_000000.wav|"I ought to thank you, Miss Thorn, instead of you thanking me," said Vancouver, in a seductive voice, on one side of Joe.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000006_000003.wav|She had always thought Sybil very reserved, if not somewhat shy.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000115_000000.wav|"Perhaps we might go home, Joe," said Miss Schenectady, who had been conversing for a couple of hours with another old lady of literary tastes.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000110_000000.wav|"You think I may be right?" she said.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000055_000000.wav|"It is not long since you told me that mr Harrington's very mild remark about extinguishing bribery and corruption was a piece of gross exaggeration," said Joe.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000059_000000.wav|"Who is exaggerating now?" asked Joe scornfully.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000075_000001.wav|As they passed from the supper room they suddenly came upon john Harrington, who was wandering about in an unattached fashion, apparently looking for some one.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000011_000000.wav|"Good by, Ronald dear," said Joe pleasantly.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000004_000012.wav|Therefore, on his return to his hotel, he ordered whiskey, in a sepulchral tone of voice.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000021_000000.wav|"Oh my dear," said mrs Wyndham, "I always forget you are not one of us. Besides, you are, you see."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000094_000005.wav|Should he?|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000063_000000.wav|"I am glad you like it," said Joe, indifferently.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000094_000001.wav|"This is a free country, and that sort of thing.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000025_000000.wav|Pocock Vancouver, pale and exquisite as ever, came up to the two ladies.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000009_000002.wav|Nine hundred and thirty six, Beacon Street," she added, laughing.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000118_000000.wav|"No, I refused.|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000106_000002.wav|Every one is a partisan here."|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2787/157400/2787_157400_000057_000001.wav|Between what?"|2787
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000081_000000.wav|Now we descend by stairways such as these; Mount thou in front, for I will be midway, So that the tail may have no power to harm thee."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000067_000000.wav|There let thy conversation be concise; Till thou returnest I will speak with him, That he concede to us his stalwart shoulders."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000200_000000.wav|As God may let thee, Reader, gather fruit From this thy reading, think now for thyself How I could ever keep my face unmoistened,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000111_000000.wav|For all upon one side towards the Castle Their faces have, and go unto saint Peter's; On the other side they go towards the Mountain.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000119_000000.wav|I was the one who the fair Ghisola Induced to grant the wishes of the Marquis, Howe'er the shameless story may be told.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000074_000000.wav|Proceeding then the current of my sight, Another of them saw I, red as blood, Display a goose more white than butter is.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000162_000000.wav|And the good Master yet from off his haunch Deposed me not, till to the hole he brought me Of him who so lamented with his shanks.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000206_000000.wav|See, he has made a bosom of his shoulders! Because he wished to see too far before him Behind he looks, and backward goes his way:|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000047_000000.wav|He said to me: "Soon there will upward come What I await; and what thy thought is dreaming Must soon reveal itself unto thy sight."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000225_000000.wav|Its people once within more crowded were, Ere the stupidity of Casalodi From Pinamonte had received deceit.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000142_000000.wav|And he thereon, belabouring his pumpkin: "The flatteries have submerged me here below, Wherewith my tongue was never surfeited."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000050_000000.wav|Athwart that dense and darksome atmosphere I saw a figure swimming upward come, Marvellous unto every steadfast heart,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000135_000000.wav|Thence we heard people, who are making moan In the next Bolgia, snorting with their muzzles, And with their palms beating upon themselves|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000107_000000.wav|Within this place, down shaken from the back Of Geryon, we found us; and the Poet Held to the left, and I moved on behind.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000053_000000.wav|Inferno: Canto seventeen|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000171_000000.wav|And truly was I son of the She bear, So eager to advance the cubs, that wealth Above, and here myself, I pocketed.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000154_000000.wav|And one of which, not many years ago, I broke for some one, who was drowning in it; Be this a seal all men to undeceive.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000163_000000.wav|"Whoe'er thou art, that standest upside down, O doleful soul, implanted like a stake," To say began I, "if thou canst, speak out."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000182_000000.wav|I would make use of words more grievous still; Because your avarice afflicts the world, Trampling the good and lifting the depraved.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000083_000000.wav|Even such became I at those proffered words; But shame in me his menaces produced, Which maketh servant strong before good master.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000058_000000.wav|Two paws it had, hairy unto the armpits; The back, and breast, and both the sides it had Depicted o'er with nooses and with shields.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000177_000000.wav|I do not know if I were here too bold, That him I answered only in this metre: "I pray thee tell me now how great a treasure|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000155_000000.wav|Out of the mouth of each one there protruded The feet of a transgressor, and the legs Up to the calf, the rest within remained.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000027_000000.wav|I leave the gall, and go for the sweet fruits Promised to me by the veracious Leader; But to the centre first I needs must plunge."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000015_000000.wav|Thus, wheeling round, did every one his visage Direct to me, so that in opposite wise His neck and feet continual journey made.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000124_000000.wav|This very easily did we ascend, And turning to the right along its ridge, From those eternal circles we departed.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000224_000000.wav|They built their city over those dead bones, And, after her who first the place selected, Mantua named it, without other omen.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000168_000000.wav|Then said Virgilius: "Say to him straightway, 'I am not he, I am not he thou thinkest.'" And I replied as was imposed on me.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000118_000000.wav|And he to me: "Unwillingly I tell it; But forces me thine utterance distinct, Which makes me recollect the ancient world.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000030_000000.wav|For Guglielmo Borsier, who is in torment With us of late, and goes there with his comrades, Doth greatly mortify us with his words."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000180_000000.wav|Therefore stay here, for thou art justly punished, And keep safe guard o'er the ill gotten money, Which caused thee to be valiant against Charles.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000231_000000.wav|Eryphylus his name was, and so sings My lofty Tragedy in some part or other; That knowest thou well, who knowest the whole of it.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000032_000000.wav|In this wise I exclaimed with face uplifted; And the three, taking that for my reply, Looked at each other, as one looks at truth.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000159_000000.wav|And he to me: "If thou wilt have me bear thee Down there along that bank which lowest lies, From him thou'lt know his errors and himself."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000208_000000.wav|And afterwards was forced to strike once more The two entangled serpents with his rod, Ere he could have again his manly plumes.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000105_000000.wav|Just such an image those presented there; And as about such strongholds from their gates Unto the outer bank are little bridges,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000212_000000.wav|Was Manto, who made quest through many lands, Afterwards tarried there where I was born; Whereof I would thou list to me a little.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000178_000000.wav|Our Lord demanded of Saint peter first, Before he put the keys into his keeping? Truly he nothing asked but 'Follow me.'|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000039_000000.wav|Which is above called Acquacheta, ere It down descendeth into its low bed, And at Forli is vacant of that name,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000096_000000.wav|As falcon who has long been on the wing, Who, without seeing either lure or bird, Maketh the falconer say, "Ah me, thou stoopest,"|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000080_000000.wav|I found my Guide, who had already mounted Upon the back of that wild animal, And said to me: "Now be both strong and bold.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000070_000000.wav|Not otherwise in summer do the dogs, Now with the foot, now with the muzzle, when By fleas, or flies, or gadflies, they are bitten.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000164_000000.wav|I stood even as the friar who is confessing The false assassin, who, when he is fixed, Recalls him, so that death may be delayed.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000191_000000.wav|There tenderly he laid his burden down, Tenderly on the crag uneven and steep, That would have been hard passage for the goats:|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000110_000000.wav|Even as the romans, for the mighty host, The year of Jubilee, upon the bridge, Have chosen a mode to pass the people over;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000237_000000.wav|Thus spake he to me, and we walked the while.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000139_000000.wav|And whilst below there with mine eye I search, I saw one with his head so foul with ordure, It was not clear if he were clerk or layman.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000045_000000.wav|"It must needs be some novelty respond," I said within myself, "to the new signal The Master with his eye is following so."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000136_000000.wav|The margins were incrusted with a mould By exhalation from below, that sticks there, And with the eyes and nostrils wages war.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000223_000000.wav|The men, thereafter, who were scattered round, Collected in that place, which was made strong By the lagoon it had on every side;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000220_000000.wav|Not far it runs before it finds a plain In which it spreads itself, and makes it marshy, And oft 'tis wont in summer to be sickly.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000020_000000.wav|The other, who close by me treads the sand, Tegghiaio Aldobrandi is, whose fame Above there in the world should welcome be.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000071_000000.wav|When I had turned mine eyes upon the faces Of some, on whom the dolorous fire is falling, Not one of them I knew; but I perceived|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000221_000000.wav|Passing that way the virgin pitiless Land in the middle of the fen descried, Untilled and naked of inhabitants;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000093_000000.wav|I heard already on the right the whirlpool Making a horrible crashing under us; Whence I thrust out my head with eyes cast downward.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000149_000000.wav|For silver and for gold do prostitute, Now it behoves for you the trumpet sound, Because in this third Bolgia ye abide.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000017_000000.wav|Let the renown of us thy mind incline To tell us who thou art, who thus securely Thy living feet dost move along through Hell.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000068_000000.wav|Thus farther still upon the outermost Head of that seventh circle all alone I went, where sat the melancholy folk.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000066_000000.wav|Then said to me the Master: "So that full Experience of this round thou bear away, Now go and see what their condition is.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000106_000000.wav|So from the precipice's base did crags Project, which intersected dikes and moats, Unto the well that truncates and collects them.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000131_000000.wav|There with his tokens and with ornate words Did he deceive Hypsipyle, the maiden Who first, herself, had all the rest deceived.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000150_000000.wav|We had already on the following tomb Ascended to that portion of the crag Which o'er the middle of the moat hangs plumb.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000187_000000.wav|And while I sang to him such notes as these, Either that anger or that conscience stung him, He struggled violently with both his feet.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000007_000000.wav|Now was I where was heard the reverberation Of water falling into the next round, Like to that humming which the beehives make,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000190_000000.wav|Nor did he tire to have me clasped to him; But bore me to the summit of the arch Which from the fourth dike to the fifth is passage.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000172_000000.wav|Beneath my head the others are dragged down Who have preceded me in simony, Flattened along the fissure of the rock.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000189_000000.wav|Therefore with both his arms he took me up, And when he had me all upon his breast, Remounted by the way where he descended.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000087_000000.wav|Even as the little vessel shoves from shore, Backward, still backward, so he thence withdrew; And when he wholly felt himself afloat,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000205_000000.wav|Amphiaraus?|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000022_000000.wav|Could I have been protected from the fire, Below I should have thrown myself among them, And think the Teacher would have suffered it;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000029_000000.wav|Valour and courtesy, say if they dwell Within our city, as they used to do, Or if they wholly have gone out of it;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000234_000000.wav|Behold the wretched ones, who left the needle, The spool and rock, and made them fortune tellers; They wrought their magic spells with herb and image.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000064_000000.wav|We therefore on the right side descended, And made ten steps upon the outer verge, Completely to avoid the sand and flame;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000199_000000.wav|Perchance indeed by violence of palsy Some one has been thus wholly turned awry; But I ne'er saw it, nor believe it can be.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000059_000000.wav|With colours more, groundwork or broidery Never in cloth did Tartars make nor Turks, Nor were such tissues by Arachne laid.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000085_000000.wav|But he, who other times had rescued me In other peril, soon as I had mounted, Within his arms encircled and sustained me,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000120_000000.wav|Not the sole Bolognese am I who weeps here; Nay, rather is this place so full of them, That not so many tongues to day are taught|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000210_000000.wav|Among the marbles white a cavern had For his abode; whence to behold the stars And sea, the view was not cut off from him.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000025_000000.wav|As soon as this my Lord said unto me Words, on account of which I thought within me That people such as you are were approaching.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000197_000000.wav|As lower down my sight descended on them, Wondrously each one seemed to be distorted From chin to the beginning of the chest;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000176_000000.wav|New Jason will he be, of whom we read In Maccabees; and as his king was pliant, So he who governs France shall be to this one."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000213_000000.wav|After her father had from life departed, And the city of Bacchus had become enslaved, She a long season wandered through the world.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000227_000000.wav|And I: "My Master, thy discourses are To me so certain, and so take my faith, That unto me the rest would be spent coals.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000184_000000.wav|The same who with the seven heads was born, And power and strength from the ten horns received, So long as virtue to her spouse was pleasing.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000037_000000.wav|I followed him, and little had we gone, Before the sound of water was so near us, That speaking we should hardly have been heard.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000214_000000.wav|Above in beauteous Italy lies a lake At the Alp's foot that shuts in Germany Over Tyrol, and has the name Benaco.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000013_000000.wav|As soon as we stood still, they recommenced The old refrain, and when they overtook us, Formed of themselves a wheel, all three of them.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000072_000000.wav|That from the neck of each there hung a pouch, Which certain colour had, and certain blazon; And thereupon it seems their eyes are feeding.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000062_000000.wav|His tail was wholly quivering in the void, Contorting upwards the envenomed fork, That in the guise of scorpion armed its point.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000205_000001.wav|Why dost leave the war?' And downward ceased he not to fall amain As far as Minos, who lays hold on all.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000158_000000.wav|"Master, who is that one who writhes himself, More than his other comrades quivering," I said, "and whom a redder flame is sucking?"|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000108_000000.wav|Upon my right hand I beheld new anguish, New torments, and new wielders of the lash, Wherewith the foremost Bolgia was replete.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000035_000000.wav|See that thou speak of us unto the people." Then they broke up the wheel, and in their flight It seemed as if their agile legs were wings.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000148_000000.wav|O Simon Magus, O forlorn disciples, Ye who the things of God, which ought to be The brides of holiness, rapaciously|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000079_000000.wav|And fearing lest my longer stay might vex Him who had warned me not to tarry long, Backward I turned me from those weary souls.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000147_000000.wav|Inferno: Canto nineteen|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000056_000000.wav|And that uncleanly image of deceit Came up and thrust ashore its head and bust, But on the border did not drag its tail.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000167_000000.wav|Such I became, as people are who stand, Not comprehending what is answered them, As if bemocked, and know not how to answer.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000207_000000.wav|Behold Tiresias, who his semblance changed, When from a male a female he became, His members being all of them transformed;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000016_000000.wav|And, "If the misery of this soft place Bring in disdain ourselves and our entreaties," Began one, "and our aspect black and blistered,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000014_000000.wav|As champions stripped and oiled are wont to do, Watching for their advantage and their hold, Before they come to blows and thrusts between them,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000183_000000.wav|The Evangelist you Pastors had in mind, When she who sitteth upon many waters To fornicate with kings by him was seen;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000179_000000.wav|Nor peter nor the rest asked of Matthias Silver or gold, when he by lot was chosen Unto the place the guilty soul had lost.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000112_000000.wav|This side and that, along the livid stone Beheld I horned demons with great scourges, Who cruelly were beating them behind.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000203_000000.wav|Here pity lives when it is wholly dead; Who is a greater reprobate than he Who feels compassion at the doom divine?|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000009_000000.wav|Towards us came they, and each one cried out: "Stop, thou; for by thy garb to us thou seemest To be some one of our depraved city."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000218_000000.wav|There of necessity must fall whatever In bosom of Benaco cannot stay, And grows a river down through verdant pastures.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000092_000000.wav|Onward he goeth, swimming slowly, slowly; Wheels and descends, but I perceive it only By wind upon my face and from below.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000054_000000.wav|"Behold the monster with the pointed tail, Who cleaves the hills, and breaketh walls and weapons, Behold him who infecteth all the world."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000195_000000.wav|I was already thoroughly disposed To peer down into the uncovered depth, Which bathed itself with tears of agony;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000006_000000.wav|Inferno: Canto sixteen|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000082_000000.wav|Such as he is who has so near the ague Of quartan that his nails are blue already, And trembles all, but looking at the shade;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000095_000000.wav|I saw then, for before I had not seen it, The turning and descending, by great horrors That were approaching upon divers sides.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000174_000000.wav|But longer I my feet already toast, And here have been in this way upside down, Than he will planted stay with reddened feet;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000228_000000.wav|But tell me of the people who are passing, If any one note worthy thou beholdest, For only unto that my mind reverts."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000023_000000.wav|But as I should have burned and baked myself, My terror overmastered my good will, Which made me greedy of embracing them.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000233_000000.wav|Behold Guido Bonatti, behold Asdente, Who now unto his leather and his thread Would fain have stuck, but he too late repents.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000140_000000.wav|He screamed to me: "Wherefore art thou so eager To look at me more than the other foul ones?" And I to him: "Because, if I remember,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000222_000000.wav|There to escape all human intercourse, She with her servants stayed, her arts to practise And lived, and left her empty body there.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000152_000000.wav|I saw upon the sides and on the bottom The livid stone with perforations filled, All of one size, and every one was round.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000157_000000.wav|Even as the flame of unctuous things is wont To move upon the outer surface only, So likewise was it there from heel to point.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000151_000000.wav|Wisdom supreme, O how great art thou showest In heaven, in earth, and in the evil world, And with what justice doth thy power distribute!|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000069_000000.wav|Out of their eyes was gushing forth their woe; This way, that way, they helped them with their hands Now from the flames and now from the hot soil.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000226_000000.wav|Therefore I caution thee, if e'er thou hearest Originate my city otherwise, No falsehood may the verity defraud."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000065_000000.wav|And after we are come to him, I see A little farther off upon the sand A people sitting near the hollow place.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000169_000000.wav|Whereat the spirit writhed with both his feet, Then, sighing, with a voice of lamentation Said to me: "Then what wantest thou of me?|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000101_000000.wav|There is a place in Hell called Malebolge, Wholly of stone and of an iron colour, As is the circle that around it turns.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000194_000000.wav|Of a new pain behoves me to make verses And give material to the twentieth canto Of the first song, which is of the submerged.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000051_000000.wav|Even as he returns who goeth down Sometimes to clear an anchor, which has grappled Reef, or aught else that in the sea is hidden,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000033_000000.wav|"If other times so little it doth cost thee," Replied they all, "to satisfy another, Happy art thou, thus speaking at thy will!|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000114_000000.wav|While I was going on, mine eyes by one Encountered were; and straight I said: "Already With sight of this one I am not unfed."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000185_000000.wav|Ye have made yourselves a god of gold and silver; And from the idolater how differ ye, Save that he one, and ye a hundred worship?|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000073_000000.wav|And as I gazing round me come among them, Upon a yellow pouch I azure saw That had the face and posture of a lion.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000026_000000.wav|I of your city am; and evermore Your labours and your honourable names I with affection have retraced and heard.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000046_000000.wav|Ah me! how very cautious men should be With those who not alone behold the act, But with their wisdom look into the thoughts!|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000063_000000.wav|The Guide said: "Now perforce must turn aside Our way a little, even to that beast Malevolent, that yonder coucheth him."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000075_000000.wav|And one, who with an azure sow and gravid Emblazoned had his little pouch of white, Said unto me: "What dost thou in this moat?|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000219_000000.wav|Soon as the water doth begin to run, No more Benaco is it called, but Mincio, Far as Governo, where it falls in Po.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000011_000000.wav|Unto their cries my Teacher paused attentive; He turned his face towards me, and "Now wait," He said; "to these we should be courteous.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000235_000000.wav|But come now, for already holds the confines Of both the hemispheres, and under Seville Touches the ocean wave, Cain and the thorns,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000129_000000.wav|Still what a royal aspect he retains! That Jason is, who by his heart and cunning The Colchians of the Ram made destitute.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000109_000000.wav|Down at the bottom were the sinners naked; This side the middle came they facing us, Beyond it, with us, but with greater steps;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000094_000000.wav|Then was I still more fearful of the abyss; Because I fires beheld, and heard laments, Whereat I, trembling, all the closer cling.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000115_000000.wav|Therefore I stayed my feet to make him out, And with me the sweet Guide came to a stand, And to my going somewhat back assented;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000102_000000.wav|Right in the middle of the field malign There yawns a well exceeding wide and deep, Of which its place the structure will recount.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000098_000000.wav|Even thus did Geryon place us on the bottom, Close to the bases of the rough hewn rock, And being disencumbered of our persons,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000100_000000.wav|Inferno: Canto eighteen|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000104_000000.wav|As where for the protection of the walls Many and many moats surround the castles, The part in which they are a figure forms,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000116_000000.wav|And he, the scourged one, thought to hide himself, Lowering his face, but little it availed him; For said I: "Thou that castest down thine eyes,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000153_000000.wav|To me less ample seemed they not, nor greater Than those that in my beautiful Saint john Are fashioned for the place of the baptisers,|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000130_000000.wav|He by the isle of Lemnos passed along After the daring women pitiless Had unto death devoted all their males.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000215_000000.wav|By a thousand springs, I think, and more, is bathed, 'Twixt Garda and Val Camonica, Pennino, With water that grows stagnant in that lake.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000236_000000.wav|And yesternight the moon was round already; Thou shouldst remember well it did not harm thee From time to time within the forest deep."|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000057_000000.wav|The face was as the face of a just man, Its semblance outwardly was so benign, And of a serpent all the trunk beside.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000088_000000.wav|There where his breast had been he turned his tail, And that extended like an eel he moved, And with his paws drew to himself the air.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000008_000000.wav|When shadows three together started forth, Running, from out a company that passed Beneath the rain of the sharp martyrdom.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000132_000000.wav|There did he leave her pregnant and forlorn; Such sin unto such punishment condemns him, And also for Medea is vengeance done.|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/79/121541/79_121541_000040_000000.wav|Reverberates there above San Benedetto From Alps, by falling at a single leap, Where for a thousand there were room enough;|79
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/269254/8643_269254_000018_000004.wav|To day this edition is only valuable on account of its comparative rarity.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/269254/8643_269254_000018_000001.wav|Such, however, is not the case.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/269254/8643_269254_000015_000000.wav|PREFACE.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000063_000005.wav|His arms were folded across his arching chest, and his mouth was set in a fixed smile.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000028_000000.wav|"I might march north, colonel, as if to join General Goeben.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000060_000008.wav|He was tired and hungry after his long tramp, so he threw his sword, his helmet, and his revolver belt down upon a chair, and fell to eagerly upon his supper.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000060_000002.wav|While the butler brought his supper he occupied himself in making his preparations for a comfortable night.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000025_000000.wav|"You will proceed to Chateau Noir to night, captain," said he.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000077_000004.wav|It is about my son, my only child, Eustace, who was taken and died in escaping.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000057_000002.wav|You will call me if there is any alarm. What can you give me for supper-you?"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000062_000002.wav|But the fire was hot, and the captain's eyes were heavy.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000011_000000.wav|"You lie!" cried the colonel, angrily.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000069_000000.wav|"The Count of Chateau Noir."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000066_000001.wav|"You have no cause to trouble about your men.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000075_000000.wav|"Drink!" said he.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000010_000000.wav|"It is Count Eustace of Chateau Noir."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000090_000002.wav|I regret extremely that you will not permit me to use such slight skill in surgery as I possess.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000078_000002.wav|It was brought by a brother officer who was at his side throughout, and who escaped while my lad died.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000020_000001.wav|I can tell you no more."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000085_000002.wav|When at last, blinded and half senseless, he staggered to his feet, it was only to be hurled back again into the great oaken chair.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000002.wav|It is this way, colonel.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000038_000001.wav|He is out, sir."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000006_000000.wav|"Yes, colonel."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000083_000001.wav|By the way, you look a little comical yourself at the present moment, captain, and your colonel would certainly say that you had been getting into mischief.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000004_000003.wav|There was no response.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000036_000002.wav|I will open it!" He rushed from the room with his paper still crumpled up in his hand. An instant later, with a groaning of old locks and a rasping of bars, the low door swung open, and the Prussians poured into the stone flagged passage.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000002_000000.wav|Black and bitter were the thoughts of Frenchmen when they saw this weal of dishonour slashed across the fair face of their country.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000083_000004.wav|I am grateful from my heart for this kindness shown to my boy.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000049_000000.wav|Captain Baumgarten rasped out a German oath.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000034_000002.wav|The sergeant thrust his needle gun through the glass, and the man sprang to his feet with a shriek.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000003_000001.wav|He commanded in the little Norman town of Les Andelys, and his outposts stretched amid the hamlets and farmhouses of the district round.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000044_000002.wav|You may kill me, but you cannot make me tell you that which I do not know."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000081_000000.wav|"The colonel, as I say, was good to my boy.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000008.wav|I do not know how many he has killed, but it is he who cut the cross upon the foreheads, for it is the badge of his house."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000004_000005.wav|The peasants were incorruptible.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000077_000005.wav|It is a curious little story, and I think that I can promise you that you will never forget it.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000070_000003.wav|I have much to talk to you about."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000061_000003.wav|Above the fireplace were rows of heraldic shields with the blazonings of the family and of its alliances, the fatal saltire cross breaking out on each of them.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000027_000001.wav|A large force will attract attention.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000079_000000.wav|"Eustace was taken at Weissenburg on the fourth of August.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000030_000003.wav|The captain walked first with Moser, a veteran sergeant, beside him.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000028_000002.wav|In that case, with twenty men-"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000064_000003.wav|Ah! what then?"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000094_000001.wav|My son was also face to face with death, and he prayed, also.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000004.wav|The Count of Chateau Noir is a hard man, even at the best time he was a hard man. But of late he has been terrible.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000025_000001.wav|"A guide has been provided.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000067_000000.wav|"I am Captain Baumgarten of, the twenty fourth Posen Regiment."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000004_000001.wav|Gold might be more successful.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000044_000000.wav|"I cannot tell.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000013_000001.wav|The murdered sentries had each had a saltire cross slashed across their brows, as by a hunting knife.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000084_000001.wav|He heaped every outrage upon my lad, because the spirit of the Chateau Noirs would not stoop to turn away his wrath by a feigned submission.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000026_000000.wav|"How many men shall I take, colonel?"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000018_000000.wav|Colonel von Gramm rang the bell.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000045_000000.wav|"Is he often out at this hour?"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000060_000007.wav|It was a sight which gave a zest to his comfortable quarters, and to the cold fowl and the bottle of wine which the butler had brought up for him.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000075_000002.wav|Drink, sir, and be happy!|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000033_000003.wav|He and the sergeant stole on tiptoe to the lighted window.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000050_000000.wav|It was long, however, before Captain Baumgarten had satisfied himself upon the point.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000003.wav|What I tell you is the truth, and I am not afraid that you should test it.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000002_000005.wav|Thus, unchronicled amid the battles and the sieges, there broke out another war, a war of individuals, with foul murder upon the one side and brutal reprisal on the other.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000083_000000.wav|"My boy was disfigured by the blow, and this villain made his appearance the object of his jeers.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000038_000000.wav|"My master!|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000060_000000.wav|Captain Baumgarten was an old campaigner.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000072_000003.wav|We must improve upon this."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000050_000002.wav|Thin stairs, which only one man could ascend at a time, connected lines of tortuous corridors.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000017_000000.wav|"I used to work there."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000023_000000.wav|The Prussian commander waved him away.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000032_000002.wav|It was shaped like an L, with a low arched door in front, and lines of small windows like the open ports of a man of war.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000031_000002.wav|The wall in which it had been the opening had crumbled away, but the great gate still towered above the brambles and weeds which had overgrown its base.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000091_000005.wav|The count blew a double call upon his whistle, and three hard faced peasants entered the room.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000033_000000.wav|The captain whispered his orders to his men.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000078_000003.wav|I want to tell you all that he told me.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000063_000002.wav|There, beside the table, and almost within arm's length of him, was standing a huge man, silent, motionless, with no sign of life save his fierce glinting eyes.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000002_000002.wav|That swarming cavalry, those countless footmen, the masterful guns-they had tried and tried to make head against them.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000057_000000.wav|"I will take my supper up here in the dining hall.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000050_000001.wav|It was a difficult house to search.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000093_000000.wav|The unfortunate soldier was dragged from his chair to where a noosed rope had been flung over one of the huge oaken rafters which spanned the room.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000081_000004.wav|That night upon my son answering fiercely back to some taunt of his, he struck him in the eye, like this!"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000063_000004.wav|His cheeks were wrinkled like a last year's apple, but his sweep of shoulder, and bony, corded hands, told of a strength which was unsapped by age.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000091_000004.wav|Ah! it was hard, was it not, when they had come so far and were so near to safety?"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000075_000005.wav|Will you not venture upon a second and more savoury supper?"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000056_000000.wav|"And yourself, captain?"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000053_000001.wav|It is likely enough that about daybreak our bird may return to the nest."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000050_000005.wav|Captain Baumgarten stamped with his feet, tore down curtains, and struck with the pommel of his sword.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000023_000001.wav|"Send Captain Baumgarten to me at once," said he.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000079_000002.wav|Eustace was taken upon the fifth to a village called Lauterburg, where he met with kindness from the German officer in command. This good colonel had the hungry lad to supper, offered him the best he had, opened a bottle of good wine, as I have tried to do for you, and gave him a cigar from his own case.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000060_000001.wav|In the Eastern provinces, and before that in Bohemia, he had learned the art of quartering himself upon the enemy.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000009_000001.wav|Come!|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000036_000001.wav|I will open it!|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000071_000000.wav|Captain Baumgarten sat still in his chair.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000059_000001.wav|Let a guard go about with him, sergeant, and let him feel the end of a bayonet if he plays us any tricks."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000066_000002.wav|They have already been provided for.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000032_000001.wav|The moon had shone out between two rain clouds, and threw the old house into silver and shadow.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000025_000002.wav|You will arrest the count and bring him back. If there is an attempt at rescue, shoot him at once."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000022_000001.wav|But the count?|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000000.wav|The peasant shrugged his shoulders.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000050_000003.wav|The walls were so thick that each room was cut off from its neighbour.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000091_000003.wav|Hiding by day and travelling by night, they had got as far into France as Remilly, and were within a mile-a single mile, captain-of crossing the German lines when a patrol of Uhlans came right upon them.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000049_000003.wav|It was what he might have expected.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000071_000003.wav|The count had picked up the claret bottle and held it to the light.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000000_000000.wav|THE LORD OF CHATEAU NOIR|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000061_000000.wav|He sat within a small circle of brilliant light which gleamed upon his silver shoulder straps, and threw out his terra cotta face, his heavy eyebrows, and his yellow moustache.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000030_000005.wav|Behind them the twenty infantrymen plodded along through the darkness with their faces sunk to the rain, and their boots squeaking in the soft, wet clay. They knew where they were going, and why, and the thought upheld them, for they were bitter at the loss of their comrades.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000034_000001.wav|He leaned back in his wooden chair with his feet upon a box, while a bottle of white wine stood with a half filled tumbler upon a stool beside him.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000072_000002.wav|I am ashamed to look you in the face, Captain Baumgarten.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000029_000001.wav|I hope to see you with your prisoner to morrow morning."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000013_000002.wav|The colonel bent his stiff back and ran his forefinger over the map which lay upon the table.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000091_000000.wav|"Well, to continue my story-at the end of a fortnight my son and his friend escaped.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000086_000001.wav|"You will understand me when I say that it is a bitter thing to be helpless in the hands of an insolent and remorseless enemy.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000090_000007.wav|Get back into the chair, you dog!|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000054_000000.wav|"And the others, captain?"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000035_000001.wav|The house is surrounded, and you cannot escape.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000090_000004.wav|That reminds me, captain, that you are not quite situated upon a bed of roses yourself, are you now?|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000062_000003.wav|His chin sank slowly upon his chest, and the ten candles gleamed upon the broad, white scalp.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000001_000002.wav|Many a German trooper saw the sea for the first time when he rode his horse girth deep into the waves at Dieppe.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000070_000000.wav|"Precisely.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000048_000000.wav|"Before daybreak."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000031_000001.wav|At half past eleven their guide stopped at a place where two high pillars, crowned with some heraldic stonework, flanked a huge iron gate.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000049_000007.wav|Up above, in an attic, they found Marie, the elderly wife of the butler; but the owner kept no other servants, and of his own presence there was no trace.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000076_000000.wav|The German officer shook his head.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000031_000004.wav|At the top they halted and reconnoitred.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000064_000000.wav|"Pray do not trouble yourself to look for your weapons," he said, as the Prussian cast a swift glance at the empty chair in which they had been laid.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000020_000000.wav|"Why detain me, colonel?|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000083_000003.wav|Into your hands, Captain Baumgarten, I return these ten gold pieces, since I cannot learn the name of the lender.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000008_000000.wav|"Those thousand francs, colonel-"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000090_000001.wav|Let me see, I had got as far as the young Bavarian at Carlsruhe.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000042_000000.wav|"I do not know."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000024_000002.wav|The colonel could trust him where a more dashing officer might be in danger.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000077_000000.wav|"There is nothing in my house which is not at your disposal.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000085_000000.wav|The German writhed and struggled.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000030_000004.wav|The sergeant's wrist was fastened to that of the French peasant, and it had been whispered in his ear that in case of an ambush the first bullet fired would be through his head.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000041_000000.wav|"Where?"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000085_000003.wav|He sobbed in his impotent anger and shame.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000075_000003.wav|There are cold joints below.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000093_000002.wav|The three peasants seized the other end, and looked to the count for his orders.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000005_000000.wav|"You say that you know who did these crimes?" asked the Prussian colonel, eyeing with loathing the blue bloused, rat faced creature before him.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000081_000001.wav|But, unluckily, the prisoners were moved next day across the Rhine into Ettlingen. They were not equally fortunate there.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000011_000001.wav|"A gentleman and a nobleman could not have done such crimes."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000039_000001.wav|Your life for a lie!"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000044_000001.wav|No, it is no use your cocking your pistol, sir.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000005.wav|It was his son's death, you know. His son was under Douay, and he was taken, and then in escaping from Germany he met his death.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000034_000000.wav|It was a small room into which they looked, very meanly furnished. An elderly man, in the dress of a menial, was reading a tattered paper by the light of a guttering candle.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000043_000000.wav|"Doing what?"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000040_000000.wav|"It is true, sir.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000015_000000.wav|"Three and a kilometre, colonel."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000003_000003.wav|Then the colonel would go forth in his wrath, and farmsteadings would blaze and villages tremble; but next morning there was still that same dismal tale to be told.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000077_000002.wav|Well, then, you will allow me to tell you a story while you drink your wine.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000077_000001.wav|You have but to say the word.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000093_000003.wav|The officer, pale, but firm, folded his arms and stared defiantly at the man who tortured him.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000079_000001.wav|The prisoners were broken up into parties, and sent back into Germany by different routes.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000027_000002.wav|On the other hand, you must not risk being cut off."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000030_000000.wav|It was a cold December night when Captain Baumgarten marched out of Les Andelys with his twenty Poseners, and took the main road to the north west.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000055_000000.wav|"Let them have their suppers in the kitchen.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000052_000000.wav|"Yes, captain."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000060_000004.wav|The fire was already burning up, crackling merrily, and sending spurts of blue, pungent smoke into the room.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000086_000003.wav|I regret to see that your eye is bleeding so.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000091_000002.wav|Suffice it that to disguise themselves they had to take the clothes of two peasants, whom they waylaid in a wood.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000083_000002.wav|To continue, however, my boy's youth and his destitution-for his pockets were empty-moved the pity of a kind hearted major, and he advanced him ten Napoleons from his own pocket without security of any kind.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000049_000002.wav|The man's answers were only too likely to be true.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000030_000001.wav|Two miles out he turned suddenly down a narrow, deeply rutted track, and made swiftly for his man.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000036_000000.wav|"For God's sake, don't shoot!|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000078_000000.wav|"You must know, then, that my boy was in the artillery-a fine young fellow, Captain Baumgarten, and the pride of his mother.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000022_000000.wav|"As guide?|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000012_000006.wav|It was the count's only child, and indeed we all think that it has driven him mad.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000088_000000.wav|"I am in your power, you monster!" he cried; "I can endure your brutalities, but not your hypocrisy."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000027_000000.wav|"Well, we are surrounded by spies, and our only chance is to pounce upon him before he knows that we are on the way.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000035_000002.wav|Come round and open the door, or we will show you no mercy when we come in."|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000092_000000.wav|"These must represent my Uhlans," said he.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000032_000004.wav|A single light gleamed in one of the lower windows.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000033_000002.wav|Some were to watch the east, and some the west.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000071_000001.wav|Brave as he was, there was something in this man's manner which made his skin creep with apprehension.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000016_000000.wav|"You know the place?"|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000061_000002.wav|Two sides were oak panelled and two were hung with faded tapestry, across which huntsmen and dogs and stags were still dimly streaming.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000029_000000.wav|"Very good, captain.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000033_000001.wav|Some were to creep to the front door, some to the back.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000053_000000.wav|"And you will place four men in ambush at the front and at the back.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000013_000000.wav|It was true.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000003_000004.wav|Do what he might, he could not shake off his invisible enemies.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8643/298549/8643_298549_000032_000003.wav|Above was a dark roof, breaking at the corners into little round overhanging turrets, the whole lying silent in the moonshine, with a drift of ragged clouds blackening the heavens behind it.|8643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/126296/559_126296_000016_000003.wav|'Now, then, Gretel,' she cried to the girl, 'stir yourself, and bring some water. Let Hansel be fat or lean, tomorrow I will kill him, and cook him.' Ah, how the poor little sister did lament when she had to fetch the water, and how her tears did flow down her cheeks!|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/126296/559_126296_000010_000004.wav|'We will set to work on that,' said Hansel, 'and have a good meal.|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/126296/559_126296_000015_000004.wav|Then she went to Gretel, shook her till she awoke, and cried: 'Get up, lazy thing, fetch some water, and cook something good for your brother, he is in the stable outside, and is to be made fat.|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000053_000001.wav|I'll show you up stairs, if you please."|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000068_000000.wav|"Now, I'll tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge, "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer.|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000066_000002.wav|I think you are. Step this way, sir, if you please."|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000043_000001.wav|"Not a farthing less.|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000059_000000.wav|"It's i Your uncle Scrooge.|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000062_000003.wav|A quarter past.|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000063_000000.wav|His hat was off, before he opened the door; his comforter too.|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000062_000005.wav|He was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time.|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000058_000000.wav|"Why bless my soul!" cried Fred, "who's that?"|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000056_000000.wav|"Fred!" said Scrooge.|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000040_000000.wav|"mr Scrooge?"|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000068_000001.wav|And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again; "and therefore I am about to raise your salary!"|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000059_000001.wav|I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred?"|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000032_000004.wav|Whoop! How are you!|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000007_000006.wav|Whoop!|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000032_000005.wav|Merry Christmas!"|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000011_000003.wav|I'm quite a baby.|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/559/289453/559_289453_000070_000003.wav|Make up the fires, and buy another coal scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!"|559
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000016.wav|The Iroquois rushed upon them, mangled their bodies with tomahawks and swords, stripped them, and then flung them into the torrent.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000004_000000.wav|As spring approached, the starving multitude on Isle saint Joseph grew reckless with hunger.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000007_000007.wav|And, in fact, only a few days passed before we heard of the disaster which we had foreseen.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000014.wav|Suddenly they were set upon by a troop of Iroquois, who had crouched behind thickets, rocks, and fallen trees, to waylay them.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000001.wav|From their remote position, and the difficult nature of the intervening country, they thought themselves safe; but a band of Iroquois, marching on snow shoes a distance of twenty days' journey northward from the saint Lawrence, fell upon one of their camps in the winter, and made a general butchery of the inmates.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000014_000002.wav|Bressani's party outnumbered them six to one; but they resolved that it should not pass without a token of their presence. Late on a dark night, the French and Hurons lay encamped in the forest, sleeping about their fires.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000016_000010.wav|Not long after, he came to Canada, and, with a view, as it was thought, to some further treachery, rejoined the French. A sharp cross questioning put him to confusion, and he presently confessed his guilt.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000011_000003.wav|Their resolution once taken, they pushed their preparations with all speed, lest the Iroquois might learn their purpose, and lie in wait to cut them off. Canoes were made ready, and on the tenth of June they began the voyage, with all their French followers and about three hundred Hurons.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000013.wav|The Indian led the way with the canoe on his head, while Buteux and the other Frenchman followed with the baggage.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000013_000001.wav|Their scouts came in, and reported that they had found fresh footprints of men in the forest.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000000.wav|In the forests far north of Three Rivers dwelt the tribe called the Atticamegues, or Nation of the White Fish.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000008_000001.wav|The doom of their flock seemed inevitable.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000012.wav|They toiled through the naked forest, among the wet, black trees, over tangled roots, green, spongy mosses, mouldering leaves, and rotten, prostrate trunks, while the cataract foamed amidst the rocks hard by.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000009_000007.wav|If you do as we wish, we will form a church under the protection of the fort at Quebec.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000016_000001.wav|A party of Christian Indians, chiefly from Sillery, planned a stroke of retaliation, and set out for the Mohawk country, marching cautiously and sending forward scouts to scour the forest.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000013_000002.wav|These proved, however, to be the tracks, not of enemies, but of friends.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000004_000006.wav|Some were drowned; while others dragged themselves out, drenched and pierced with cold, to die miserably on the frozen lake, before they could reach a shelter.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000016_000007.wav|The Iroquois, in great delight, demanded to be shown where they were.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000007_000012.wav|Go where they would, they met with slaughter on all sides.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000008.wav|With him were a large party of Atticamegues, and several Frenchmen.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000004_000005.wav|The ice was still thick, but the advancing season had softened it; and, as a body of them were crossing, it broke under their feet.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000010.wav|The snows had melted, and all the streams were swollen.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000015_000003.wav|Their good will exceeded their power; for food was scarce at Quebec, and the Jesuits themselves had to bear the chief burden of keeping the sufferers alive.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000009_000000.wav|"Take courage, brother," continued one of the chiefs, addressing Ragueneau.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000018_000009.wav|Game was exceedingly scarce, and they were forced by hunger to separate, a Huron convert and a Frenchman named Fontarabie remaining with the missionary.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000017_000000.wav|In the course of the summer, the French at Three Rivers became aware that a band of Iroquois was prowling in the neighborhood, and sixty men went out to meet them.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000016_000004.wav|He had come, he declared, with no other thought than that of joining them, and turning Iroquois, as they had done.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000014_000003.wav|They had set guards: but these, it seems, were drowsy or negligent; for the ten Iroquois, watching their time, approached with the stealth of lynxes, and glided like shadows into the midst of the camp, where, by the dull glow of the smouldering fires, they could distinguish the recumbent figures of their victims.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000009_000002.wav|Turn your eyes towards Quebec, and transport thither what is left of this ruined country.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000009_000008.wav|Our faith will not be extinguished.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000004_000001.wav|Along the main shore, in spots where the sun lay warm, the spring fisheries had already begun, and the melting snow was uncovering the acorns in the woods.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15081/4335_15081_000007_000002.wav|So, too, our starving Hurons were driven out of a town which had become an abode of horror.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000011_000001.wav|Etienne's time had come.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000004_000000.wav|Iroquois bullets and tomahawks had killed the Hurons by hundreds, but famine and disease had killed incomparably more.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000017_000004.wav|It was built of brick, like its original, of which it was an exact facsimile; and it stood in the centre of a quadrangle, the four sides of which were formed by the bark dwellings of the Hurons, ranged with perfect order in straight lines.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000013_000004.wav|The fugitives directed their course to the Grand Manitoulin Island, where they remained for a short time, and then, to the number of about four hundred, descended the Ottawa, and rejoined their countrymen who had gone to Quebec the year before.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000011_000003.wav|Three of the Iroquois, immediately before the slaughter began, had received from Etienne a warning of their danger in time to make their escape.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000007_000010.wav|Thus it appears that the Wyandots, whose name is so conspicuous in the history of our border wars, are descendants of the ancient Hurons, and chiefly of that portion of them called the Tobacco Nation.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000009_000005.wav|A Huron war chief, named Etienne Annaotaha, whose life is described as a succession of conflicts and adventures, and who is said to have been always in luck, landed with a few companions, and fell into an ambuscade of the Iroquois.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000009_000002.wav|In the succeeding autumn a small Iroquois war party had the audacity to cross over to the island, and build a fort of felled trees in the woods.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000010_000005.wav|The squaws began their preparations at once, and all was bustle and alacrity; for the Hurons themselves were no less deceived than were the Iroquois envoys.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000013_000001.wav|The miseries of the Hurons were lighted up with a brief gleam of joy; but it behooved them to make a timely retreat from their island before the Iroquois came to exact a bloody retribution.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000009_000010.wav|He set out accordingly with three of the principal Iroquois.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000009_000007.wav|Etienne suspected treachery, but concealed his distrust, and advanced towards the Iroquois with an air of the utmost confidence. They received him with open arms, and pressed him to accept their invitation; but he replied, that there were older and wiser men among the Hurons, whose counsels all the people followed, and that they ought to lay the proposal before them.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000009_000001.wav|They took possession of the stone fort which the French had abandoned, and where, with reasonable vigilance, they could maintain themselves against attack.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000007_000004.wav|This brought them in contact with the Illinois, an Algonquin people, at that time very numerous, but who, like many other tribes at this epoch, were doomed to a rapid diminution from wars with other savage nations.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000004_000005.wav|The mortality among the exiles was prodigious.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4335/15082/4335_15082_000004_000004.wav|Game was very scarce; and, without agriculture, the country could support only a scanty and scattered population like that which maintained a struggling existence in the wilderness of the lower saint Lawrence.|4335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000008.wav|He loved to watch the great men of whom he daily wrote, and flatter himself that he was greater than any of them.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000009.wav|Each of them was responsible to his country, each of them must answer if inquired into, each of them must endure abuse with good humour, and insolence without anger.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000003.wav|No one here will ask whether you are out or at home; alone or with friends; here no Sabbatarian will investigate your Sundays, no censorious landlady will scrutinise your empty bottle, no valetudinarian neighbour will complain of late hours.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000026_000000.wav|It was here that Tom Towers lived, and cultivated with eminent success the tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000010.wav|But to whom was he, Tom Towers, responsible?|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000028_000003.wav|On this occasion, after twisting the card twice in his fingers, he signified to his attendant imp that he was visible; and the inner door was unbolted, and our friend announced.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000001.wav|It is a throne because the most exalted one sits there,--and a sceptre because the most mighty one wields it.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000026_000003.wav|He indulged in four rooms on the first floor, each of which was furnished, if not with the splendour, with probably more than the comfort of Stafford House.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000003.wav|It is true he wore no ermine, bore no outward marks of a world's respect; but with what a load of inward importance was he charged!|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000017_000009.wav|Tom Towers, and he alone, knows all about it.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000019_000000.wav|Yes indeed, able and willing to guide all men in all things, so long as he is obeyed as autocrat should be obeyed,--with undoubting submission: only let not ungrateful ministers seek other colleagues than those whom Tom Towers may approve; let church and state, law and physic, commerce and agriculture, the arts of war, and the arts of peace, all listen and obey, and all will be made perfect.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000004.wav|To the outward and uninitiated eye, Mount Olympus is a somewhat humble spot,--undistinguished, unadorned,--nay, almost mean.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000014_000002.wav|He had been very intimate with Tom Towers, and had often discussed with him the affairs of the hospital.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000014_000000.wav|He next thought of the newspapers.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000017_000001.wav|With what endless care, with what unsparing labour, do we not strive to get together for our great national council the men most fitting to compose it.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000021_000001.wav|It may probably be said that no place in this nineteenth century is more worthy of notice.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000028_000001.wav|He was lingering over his last cup of tea, surrounded by an ocean of newspapers, through which he had been swimming, when john Bold's card was brought in by his tiger.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000023_000000.wav|It was not to Mount Olympus that our friend Bold betook himself.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000018_000001.wav|Would it not be wise in us to abandon useless talking, idle thinking, and profitless labour?|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000003.wav|Should a stranger make his way thither at dull noonday, or during the sleepy hours of the silent afternoon, he would find no acknowledged temple of power and beauty, no fitting fane for the great Thunderer, no proud facades and pillared roofs to support the dignity of this greatest of earthly potentates.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000028_000000.wav|It was easy, from his rooms, to see that Tom Towers was a Sybarite, though by no means an idle one.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000028_000002.wav|This tiger never knew that his master was at home, though he often knew that he was not, and thus Tom Towers was never invaded but by his own consent.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000008.wav|where can you be so sure of all the pleasures of society?|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000012_000000.wav|Wretched in spirit, groaning under the feeling of insult, self condemning, and ill satisfied in every way, Bold returned to his London lodgings.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000007.wav|Where can retirement be so complete as here?|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000027_000003.wav|But they are anything but happy in their change.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000017_000010.wav|Why, oh why, ye earthly ministers, why have ye not followed more closely this heaven sent messenger that is among us?|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000012_000001.wav|Ill as he had fared in his interview with the archdeacon, he was not the less under the necessity of carrying out his pledge to Eleanor; and he went about his ungracious task with a heavy heart.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000022_000001.wav|He rises in the morning degraded, mean, and miserable; an object of men's scorn, anxious only to retire as quickly as may be to some German obscurity, some unseen Italian privacy, or indeed, anywhere out of sight.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000001.wav|There was no very great difference in their ages, for Towers was still considerably under forty; and when Bold had been attending the London hospitals, Towers, who was not then the great man that he had since become, had been much with him.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000014_000005.wav|Tom Towers had never said that such a view of the case, or such a side in the dispute, would be taken by the paper with which he was connected.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000022_000003.wav|what has so afflicted him?|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000011.wav|No one could insult him; no one could inquire into him.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000001.wav|If doomed to live within the thickest of London smoke you would surely say that that would be your chosen spot.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000000.wav|Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000027_000000.wav|Our modern artists, whom we style Pre Raphaelites, have delighted to go back, not only to the finish and peculiar manner, but also to the subjects of the early painters.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000014_000004.wav|He did not even know, as a fact, that they had been written by his friend.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000007.wav|"Is it from these small, dark, dingy buildings that those infallible laws proceed which cabinets are called upon to obey; by which bishops are to be guided, lords and commons controlled, judges instructed in law, generals in strategy, admirals in naval tactics, and orange women in the management of their barrows?" "Yes, my friend-from these walls.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000010_000000.wav|Chapter fourteen|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000017_000008.wav|What money, honesty, and science can do, is done; and yet how badly are our troops brought together, fed, conveyed, clothed, armed, and managed. The most excellent of our good men do their best to man our ships, with the assistance of all possible external appliances; but in vain. All, all is wrong-alas! alas!|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000026_000007.wav|This picture was not hung, as pictures usually are, against the wall; there was no inch of wall vacant for such a purpose: it had a stand or desk erected for its own accommodation; and there on her pedestal, framed and glazed, stood the devotional lady looking intently at a lily as no lady ever looked before.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000006.wav|This kind of hidden but still conscious glory suited the nature of the man.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000006.wav|"Is this Mount Olympus?" asks the unbelieving stranger.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000018_000003.wav|Is not Tom Towers here, able to guide us and willing?|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000023_000003.wav|With such ideas, half ambitious and half awe struck, had Bold regarded the silent looking workshop of the gods; but he had never yet by word or sign attempted to influence the slightest word of his unerring friend.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000002.wav|Yes, you, you whom I now address, my dear, middle aged bachelor friend, can nowhere be so well domiciled as here.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000016_000008.wav|From here issue the only known infallible bulls for the guidance of British souls and bodies. This little court is the Vatican of England.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000024_000000.wav|Not far removed from Mount Olympus, but somewhat nearer to the blessed regions of the West, is the most favoured abode of Themis.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000014_000007.wav|Nevertheless Bold believed that to him were owing those dreadful words which had caused such panic at Barchester,--and he conceived himself bound to prevent their repetition.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000014_000008.wav|With this view he betook himself from the attorneys' office to that laboratory where, with amazing chemistry, Tom Towers compounded thunderbolts for the destruction of all that is evil, and for the furtherance of all that is good, in this and other hemispheres.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000020_000000.wav|No established religion has ever been without its unbelievers, even in the country where it is the most firmly fixed; no creed has been without scoffers; no church has so prospered as to free itself entirely from dissent.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000026_000001.wav|But let it not be supposed that his chambers were such, or so comfortless, as are frequently the gaunt abodes of legal aspirants.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000004.wav|If you love books, to what place are books so suitable?|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000000.wav|Here, on the choicest spot of this choice ground, stands a lofty row of chambers, looking obliquely upon the sullied Thames; before the windows, the lawn of the Temple Gardens stretches with that dim yet delicious verdure so refreshing to the eyes of Londoners.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000006.wav|Would you worship the Paphian goddess, the groves of Cyprus are not more taciturn than those of the Temple. Wit and wine are always here, and always together; the revels of the Temple are as those of polished Greece, where the wildest worshipper of Bacchus never forgot the dignity of the god whom he adored.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000015_000000.wav|Who has not heard of Mount Olympus,--that high abode of all the powers of type, that favoured seat of the great goddess Pica, that wondrous habitation of gods and devils, from whence, with ceaseless hum of steam and never ending flow of Castalian ink, issue forth fifty thousand nightly edicts for the governance of a subject nation?|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000029_000004.wav|It is true his name appeared in no large capitals; on no wall was chalked up "Tom Towers for ever;"--"Freedom of the Press and Tom Towers;" but what member of Parliament had half his power?|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000025_000005.wav|The whole spot is redolent of typography.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000019_000003.wav|From a bishopric in New Zealand to an unfortunate director of a north-west passage, is he not the only fit judge of capability?|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000011_000000.wav|MOUNT OLYMPUS|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000013_000000.wav|The attorneys whom he had employed in London received his instructions with surprise and evident misgiving; however, they could only obey, and mutter something of their sorrow that such heavy costs should only fall upon their own employer,--especially as nothing was wanting but perseverance to throw them on the opposite party.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/278/127215/278_127215_000021_000002.wav|No treasury mandate armed with the signatures of all the government has half the power of one of those broad sheets, which fly forth from hence so abundantly, armed with no signature at all.|278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000018_000000.wav|O hail to him whose locks his cheeks o'ershade, Who slew my life by cruel hard despight: Said I, "Hast veiled the Morn in Night?" He said, "Nay, I but veil the Moon in hue of Night."|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000027_000016.wav|Then there reigned after them a wise ruler, who was just, keen witted, and accomplished, and loved tales and legends, especially those which chronicle the doings of Sovrans and Sultans, and he found in the treasury these marvelous stories and wondrous histories, contained in the thirty volumes aforesaid.|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000017_000000.wav|Then they returned to Shahrazad and displayed her in the second dress, a suit of surpassing goodliness, and veiled her face with her hair like a chin veil.|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000017_000001.wav|Moreover, they let down her side locks, and she was even as saith of her one of her describers in these couplets:--|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000027_000006.wav|The Minister kissed ground and prayed that they might be vouchsafed length of life: then he went in to his daughters, whilst the Eunuchs and Ushers walked before him, and saluted them and farewelled them.|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000021_000000.wav|Then they displayed Shahrazad in the third dress and the fourth and the fifth, and she became as she were a Ban branch snell of a thirsting gazelle, lovely of face and perfect in attributes of grace, even as saith of her one in these couplets:--|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000027_000010.wav|So he bestowed on them robes of honor and entreated them with distinction, and they made him Sultan over them.|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000027_000017.wav|So he read in them a first book and a second and a third and so on to the last of them, and each book astounded and delighted him more than that which preceded it, till he came to the end of them.|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000019_000000.wav|Then they displayed Dunyazad in a second and a third and a fourth dress, and she paced forward like the rising sun, and swayed to and fro in the insolence of her beauty; and she was even as saith the poet of her in these couplets:--|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000015_000000.wav|Then they attired Dunyazad in a dress of blue brocade, and she became as she were the full moon when it shineth forth.|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000027_000008.wav|So he entered the city, and they decorated the houses and it was a notable day.|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000012_000005.wav|Their cheeks were rosy red, and their necks and shapes gracefully swayed, and their eyes wantoned like the gazelle's; and the slave girls came to meet them with instruments of music.|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000012_000000.wav|Then the eunuchs went forth that they might perfume the Hammam for the brides; so they scented it with rosewater and willow flower water and pods of musk, and fumigated it with Kakili eaglewood and ambergris.|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6157/40556/6157_40556_000027_000000.wav|Thus also they did with her sister Dunyazad; and when they had made an end of the display, the King bestowed robes of honor on all who were present, and sent the brides to their own apartments.|6157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1290/135762/1290_135762_000005_000004.wav|Why, look you, she may cover it with a brooch, or such like heathenish adornment, and so walk the streets as brave as ever!"|1290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1290/135762/1290_135762_000015_000001.wav|"Make way, good people-make way, in the King's name!" cried he.|1290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1290/135762/1290_135762_000007_000001.wav|"This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die; is there not law for it?|1290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1290/135762/1290_135762_000008_000001.wav|That is the hardest word yet!|1290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1290/135762/1290_135762_000005_000001.wav|"At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne's forehead.|1290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1290/135762/1290_135762_000001_000002.wav|But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.|1290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000031_000001.wav|I've never cared about singing myself; I've had something better to do.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000037_000004.wav|He could not gather what was vexing her, but it was impossible to him to feel otherwise than that she was the prettiest thing in the world, and that if he could have his way, nothing should ever vex her any more.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000017_000000.wav|"I know what to do, never fear," said Bartle, moving on.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000011_000000.wav|Adam was not the only guest invited to come upstairs on other grounds than the amount he contributed to the rent roll.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000013_000002.wav|Have you heard anything about what the old squire means to do?"|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000032_000001.wav|They're fit for nothing but to frighten the birds with-that's to say, the English birds, for the Scotch birds may sing Scotch for what I know.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000037_000006.wav|It was a bit of flirtation-she knew Mary Burge was looking at them.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000037_000000.wav|Adam was looking at Hetty, and saw the frown, and pout, and the dark eyes seeming to grow larger with pettish half gathered tears.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000030_000001.wav|"That's a song I'm uncommon fond on."|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000011_000003.wav|Opportunities of getting to Hetty's side would be sure to turn up in the course of the day, and Adam contented himself with that for he disliked any risk of being "joked" about Hetty-the big, outspoken, fearless man was very shy and diffident as to his love making.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000037_000002.wav|And it was quite true that if Hetty had been plain, she would have looked very ugly and unamiable at that moment, and no one's moral judgment upon her would have been in the least beguiled.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000028_000000.wav|"No, mr Casson," said Adam, in his strong voice, that could be heard along the table; "I've never dined here before, but I come by Captain Donnithorne's wish, and I hope it's not disagreeable to anybody here."|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000016_000002.wav|But if anybody asks any questions upstairs, just you take no notice, and turn the talk to something else, and I'll be obliged to you.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000025_000001.wav|Martin Poyser the younger, as the broadest, was to be president, and mr Casson, as next broadest, was to be vice.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000024_000000.wav|"Why, the broadest man," said Bartle; "and then he won't take up other folks' room; and the next broadest must sit at bottom."|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000037_000003.wav|But really there was something quite charming in her pettishness: it looked so much more like innocent distress than ill humour; and the severe Adam felt no movement of disapprobation; he only felt a sort of amused pity, as if he had seen a kitten setting up its back, or a little bird with its feathers ruffled.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000014_000000.wav|"Why, yes," said Adam; "I'll tell you what I know, because I believe you can keep a still tongue in your head if you like, and I hope you'll not let drop a word till it's common talk, for I've particular reasons against its being known."|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000035_000001.wav|No sooner were the little fat legs pushed down than up they came again, for Totty's eyes were too busy in staring at the large dishes to see where the plum pudding was for her to retain any consciousness of her legs.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000035_000000.wav|Adam minded the less about sitting by mr Casson, because this position enabled him to see Hetty, who was not far off him at the next table. Hetty, however, had not even noticed his presence yet, for she was giving angry attention to Totty, who insisted on drawing up her feet on to the bench in antique fashion, and thereby threatened to make dusty marks on Hetty's pink and white frock.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000010_000000.wav|"Well, thee canst say thee wast ordered to come without being told the reason.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000029_000000.wav|"Nay, nay," said several voices at once, "we're glad ye're come.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000015_000000.wav|"Trust to me, my boy, trust to me.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000026_000001.wav|mr Casson, we have seen, considered Adam "rather lifted up and peppery like": he thought the gentry made more fuss about this young carpenter than was necessary; they made no fuss about mr Casson, although he had been an excellent butler for fifteen years.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000019_000001.wav|I wasn't butler fifteen year without learning the rights and the wrongs about dinner."|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000017_000002.wav|Aye, aye, my boy, you'll get on.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000035_000002.wav|Hetty got quite out of patience, and at last, with a frown and pout, and gathering tears, she said, "Oh dear, Aunt, I wish you'd speak to Totty; she keeps putting her legs up so, and messing my frock."|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000004_000000.wav|Chapter twenty three|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000034_000000.wav|"Why, the Scotch tunes are just like a scolding, nagging woman," Bartle went on, without deigning to notice mr Craig's remark.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000026_000000.wav|Owing to this arrangement, Adam, being, of course, at the bottom of the table, fell under the immediate observation of mr Casson, who, too much occupied with the question of precedence, had not hitherto noticed his entrance.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000013_000000.wav|"Ah!" said Bartle, pausing, with one hand on his back.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000037_000005.wav|And presently, when Totty was gone, she caught his eye, and her face broke into one of its brightest smiles, as she nodded to him.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000025_000000.wav|This happy mode of settling the dispute produced much laughter-a smaller joke would have sufficed for that mr Casson, however, did not feel it compatible with his dignity and superior knowledge to join in the laugh, until it turned out that he was fixed on as the second broadest man.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000031_000003.wav|But a second cousin o' mine, a drovier, was a rare hand at remembering the Scotch tunes.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000013_000001.wav|"Then there's something in the wind-there's something in the wind.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000018_000000.wav|When they got upstairs, the question which Arthur had left unsettled, as to who was to be president, and who vice, was still under discussion, so that Adam's entrance passed without remark.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000017_000001.wav|"The news will be good sauce to my dinner.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000010_000001.wav|That's the truth.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000005_000000.wav|Dinner Time|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000031_000004.wav|He'd got nothing else to think on."|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142362/2751_142362_000011_000001.wav|There were other people in the two parishes who derived dignity from their functions rather than from their pocket, and of these Bartle Massey was one.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000012_000002.wav|But he felt no shyness about speaking, not being troubled with small vanity or lack of words; he looked neither awkward nor embarrassed, but stood in his usual firm upright attitude, with his head thrown a little backward and his hands perfectly still, in that rough dignity which is peculiar to intelligent, honest, well built workmen, who are never wondering what is their business in the world.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000011_000003.wav|If Jonathan Burge and a few others felt less comfortable on the occasion, they tried their best to look contented, and so the toast was drunk with a goodwill apparently unanimous.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000011_000001.wav|"Tough work" as his first speech had been, he would have started up to make another if he had not known the extreme irregularity of such a course.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000020_000002.wav|The foolish child felt her heart swelling with discontent; for what woman was ever satisfied with apparent neglect, even when she knows it to be the mask of love?|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000006_000001.wav|In the course of things we may expect that, if I live, I shall one day or other be your landlord; indeed, it is on the ground of that expectation that my grandfather has wished me to celebrate this day and to come among you now; and I look forward to this position, not merely as one of power and pleasure for myself, but as a means of benefiting my neighbours.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000003_000002.wav|The pleasure he felt was in his face as he said, "My grandfather and I hope all our friends here have enjoyed their dinner, and find my birthday ale good.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000012_000000.wav|Adam was rather paler than usual when he got up to thank his friends.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000008_000001.wav|The superior refinement of his face was much more striking than that of Arthur's when seen in comparison with the people round them.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000009_000005.wav|That feeling is his value and respect for Adam Bede.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000014_000002.wav|There was none of the strong ale here, of course, but wine and dessert-sparkling gooseberry for the young ones, and some good sherry for the mothers.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000000.wav|Hereupon a glorious shouting, a rapping, a jingling, a clattering, and a shouting, with plentiful da capo, pleasanter than a strain of sublimest music in the ears that receive such a tribute for the first time.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000013_000008.wav|And as to this new employment I've taken in hand, I'll only say that I took it at Captain Donnithorne's desire, and that I'll try to fulfil his expectations.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000006_000005.wav|But the pleasure I feel in having my own health drunk by you would not be perfect if we did not drink the health of my grandfather, who has filled the place of both parents to me.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000007_000010.wav|I know you have all reason to love him, but no one of his parishioners has so much reason as i Come, charge your glasses, and let us drink to our excellent rector-three times three!"|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000006.wav|Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future, which can be formed so rapidly that he had time to be uncomfortable and to become easy again before mr Poyser's slow speech was finished, and when it was time for him to speak he was quite light-hearted.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000009_000008.wav|He is one of those to whom honour is due, and his friends should delight to honour him.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000009_000000.wav|"This is not the first time, by a great many," he said, "that I have had to thank my parishioners for giving me tokens of their goodwill, but neighbourly kindness is among those things that are the more precious the older they get.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000007_000005.wav|I'm proud to say that I was very fond of Adam when I was a little boy, and I have never lost my old feeling for him-I think that shows that I know a good fellow when I find him.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000010_000000.wav|As mr Irwine paused, Arthur jumped up and, filling his glass, said, "A bumper to Adam Bede, and may he live to have sons as faithful and clever as himself!"|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000001.wav|Arthur had felt a twinge of conscience during mr Poyser's speech, but it was too feeble to nullify the pleasure he felt in being praised.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000007_000006.wav|It has long been my wish that he should have the management of the woods on the estate, which happen to be very valuable, not only because I think so highly of his character, but because he has the knowledge and the skill which fit him for the place.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000019_000001.wav|"My aunt and the Miss Irwines will come up and see you presently.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000003.wav|If there was something in his conduct that Poyser wouldn't have liked if he had known it, why, no man's conduct will bear too close an inspection; and Poyser was not likely to know it; and, after all, what had he done?|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000005.wav|It was necessary to Arthur, you perceive, to be satisfied with himself.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000013_000000.wav|"I'm quite taken by surprise," he said.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000007_000000.wav|Perhaps there was no one present except mr Irwine who thoroughly understood and approved Arthur's graceful mode of proposing his grandfather's health.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000011_000000.wav|No hearer, not even Bartle Massey, was so delighted with this toast as mr Poyser.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000002.wav|Did he not deserve what was said of him on the whole?|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000005_000004.wav|Gone a little too far, perhaps, in flirtation, but another man in his place would have acted much worse; and no harm would come-no harm should come, for the next time he was alone with Hetty, he would explain to her that she must not think seriously of him or of what had passed.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000017_000000.wav|"What! you think you could have made it better for him?" said mr Irwine, laughing.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000003_000001.wav|He liked to feel his own importance, and besides that, he cared a great deal for the good will of these people: he was fond of thinking that they had a hearty, special regard for him.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000019_000000.wav|"I'm sure I never saw a prettier party than this," Arthur said, looking round at the apple cheeked children.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000018_000000.wav|"Well, sir, when I want to say anything, I can mostly find words to say it in, thank God.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2751/142363/2751_142363_000007_000002.wav|But the toast could not be rejected and when it had been drunk, Arthur said, "I thank you, both for my grandfather and myself; and now there is one more thing I wish to tell you, that you may share my pleasure about it, as I hope and believe you will.|2751
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000030_000001.wav|Several times, too, he saw the eyes of the Negroes turned upon him and once they flashed simultaneously toward the white girl.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000012_000000.wav|When Bertha Kircher had repeated Usanga's proposition to the aviator, the latter shrugged his shoulders and with a wry face finally agreed.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000006_000000.wav|"What do you want of him?" asked the girl.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000028_000004.wav|However, as one plan after another was conjured by the strength of his desires, he at last hit upon one which came to him almost with the force of a blow and brought him sitting upright among his sleeping companions.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000038_000001.wav|"It is useless," she said.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000050_000004.wav|At any instant the machine might plunge to earth and even if, by some miracle of chance, the black could succeed in rising above the tree tops and make a successful flight, there was not one chance in one hundred thousand that he could ever land again without killing his fair captive and himself.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000040_000000.wav|"What is it you want?" he inquired.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000002.wav|Once seated within what he already considered his new possession, the black's courage began to wane and when the motor was started and the great propeller commenced to whir, he screamed to the Englishman to stop the thing and permit him to alight, but the aviator could neither hear nor understand the black above the noise of the propeller and exhaust.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000042_000000.wav|"You will go with me anyway," growled Usanga.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000041_000001.wav|He can never catch us.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000024_000001.wav|For two days they camped there, and constantly during daylight hours Usanga compelled the Englishman to instruct him in the art of flying.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000022_000001.wav|A moment later Smith Oldwick had righted the machine and was dropping rapidly toward the earth.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000004.wav|Then the plane rose from the ground and in a moment soared gracefully in a wide circle until it topped the trees.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000038_000003.wav|The blacks are so unprincipled themselves that they can imagine no such thing as principle or honor in others, and especially do these blacks distrust an Englishman whom the Germans have taught them to believe are the most treacherous and degraded of people.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000037_000000.wav|"God!" cried the man.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000043_000000.wav|He had in mind that he would start properly with this woman.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000012_000002.wav|If I refuse the black scoundrel's request, there is no doubt but what he will make short work of me with the result that the machine will lie here until it rots.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000005_000001.wav|"You know where they are, white woman," he replied. "They are dead, and if this white man does not do as I tell him, he, too, will be dead."|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000018_000001.wav|"They will not harm her unless you fail to bring me back safely."|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000022_000000.wav|"I said I'd give this beggar the lesson of his life," he murmured as he heard, even above the whir of the propeller, the shriek of the terrified Negro.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000031_000001.wav|Even the spear that he had had when captured had been taken away from him, so that now he was unarmed and absolutely at the mercy of the black sergeant and his followers.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000046_000001.wav|She was very pale but her lips smiled bravely.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000012_000001.wav|"I fancy there is no other way out of it," he said. "In any event the plane is lost to the British government.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000050_000002.wav|He saw the plane tilt and the machine rise from the ground.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000028_000000.wav|It was with these thoughts in mind that Usanga lay down to sleep in the evening of the second day.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000016_000001.wav|The Englishman attempted to dissuade him, but immediately the black became threatening and abusive, since, like all those who are ignorant, he was suspicious that the intentions of others were always ulterior unless they perfectly coincided with his wishes.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000039_000001.wav|Suddenly she turned to the black.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000003_000001.wav|To have been thus close to safety and then to have all hope snatched away by a cruel stroke of fate seemed unendurable.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000046_000000.wav|The girl turned her eyes toward the Englishman.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000038_000002.wav|"He would not understand and if he did understand, he would not trust you.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000017_000001.wav|I shall be afraid to leave you here with these devilish scoundrels." But when she put the suggestion to Usanga the black immediately suspected some plan to thwart him-possibly to carry him against his will back to the German masters he had traitorously deserted, and glowering at her savagely, he obstinately refused to entertain the suggestion.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000041_000002.wav|That is all I ask of you.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000012_000003.wav|If I accept his offer it will at least be the means of assuring your safe return to civilization and that" he added, "is worth more to me than all the planes in the British Air Service."|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000017_000000.wav|"All right, old top," muttered the Englishman, "I will give you the lesson of your life," and then turning to the girl: "Persuade him to let you accompany us.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000037_000002.wav|Anything that you want.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000009_000001.wav|"He wants to learn to fly, does he?" he repeated.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000038_000000.wav|The girl shook her head.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000015_000000.wav|She smiled and thanked him, but the thing had been said and could never be unsaid, and Bertha Kircher knew even more surely than as though he had fallen upon his knees and protested undying devotion that the young English officer loved her.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000042_000002.wav|I am going to be a great king and you will do whatever I tell you to do."|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000035_000000.wav|"What is he saying?" called the Englishman.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000039_000000.wav|Usanga had been continually interrupting their brief conversation in an attempt to compel the girl to translate it to him, for he feared that they were concocting some plan to thwart him, and to quiet and appease him, she told him that the Englishman was merely bidding her farewell and wishing her good luck.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000014_000000.wav|"Forgive me," he said quickly.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000005.wav|The black sergeant was in a veritable collapse of terror.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000028_000003.wav|The thought having taken form persisted, but always it was more than outweighed by the fact that the black sergeant was actually afraid of his woman, so much afraid of her in fact that he would not have dared to attempt to put her out of the way unless he could do so secretly while she slept.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000044_000000.wav|Bertha Kircher saw that it was useless to appeal to the brute and so she held her peace though she was filled with sorrow in contemplating the fate that awaited the young officer, scarce more than a boy, who had impulsively revealed his love for her.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000001_000000.wav|Chapter twelve|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000009_000000.wav|The Englishman meditated for a moment.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000050_000003.wav|It was a good take-off--as good as Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith Oldwick could make himself but he realized that it was only so by chance.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000038_000004.wav|No, it is better thus.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000006.wav|He saw the earth dropping rapidly from beneath him.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000047_000000.wav|"Good bye!" she cried.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000038_000005.wav|I am sorry that you cannot go with us, for if he goes high enough my death will be much easier than that which probably awaits you."|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000009.wav|He attempted to concentrate his mind upon the twenty four wives which this great bird most assuredly would permit him to command.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000041_000003.wav|If you will grant him his freedom and his life, I will go willingly with you.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000033_000002.wav|When they had finally secured him to their satisfaction, they rolled him over on his side and then it was he saw Bertha Kircher had been similarly trussed.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000034_000000.wav|Smith Oldwick lay in such a position that he could see nearly the entire expanse of meadow and the aeroplane a short distance away. Usanga was talking to the girl who was shaking her head in vehement negatives.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000029_000000.wav|When morning dawned Usanga could scarce wait for an opportunity to put his scheme into execution, and the moment that he had eaten, he called several of his warriors aside and talked with them for some moments.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000024_000000.wav|So jealous was the black of his new found toy that he would not return to the village of Numabo, but insisted on making camp close beside the plane, lest in some inconceivable fashion it should be stolen from him.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000005_000000.wav|Usanga grinned.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000014_000001.wav|"Please forget what that remark implied.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000008.wav|He tried hard not to think of the results of a sudden fall to the rapidly receding ground below.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000049_000000.wav|Her lips moved but whether they voiced consent or refusal he did not know, for the words were drowned in the whir of the propeller.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000007.wav|He saw the trees and river and at a distance the little clearing with the thatched huts of Numabo's village.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000008_000000.wav|Bertha Kircher looked her astonishment, but repeated the demand to the lieutenant.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000025_000000.wav|Smith Oldwick, in recalling the long months of arduous training he had undergone himself before he had been considered sufficiently adept to be considered a finished flier, smiled at the conceit of the ignorant African who was already demanding that he be permitted to make a flight alone.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000042_000001.wav|"It is nothing to me whether you go willingly or not.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000026_000000.wav|"If it was not for losing the machine," the Englishman explained to the girl, "I'd let the bounder take it up and break his fool neck as he would do inside of two minutes."|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000033_000000.wav|Without a word of explanation the warriors seized the young officer and threw him to the ground upon his face.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000018_000000.wav|"The white woman will remain here with my people," he said.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000050_000000.wav|The black had learned his lesson sufficiently well so that the motor was started without bungling and the machine was soon under way across the meadowland.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000039_000003.wav|"If I go willingly with you?"|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000010_000000.wav|The girl put the question to Usanga, who, degraded, cunning, and entirely unprincipled, was always perfectly willing to promise anything whether he had any intentions of fulfilling his promises or not, and so immediately assented to the proposition.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000011_000000.wav|"Let the white man teach me to fly," he said, "and I will take you back close to the settlements of your people, but in return for this I shall keep the great bird," and he waved a black hand in the direction of the aeroplane.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000007_000000.wav|"I want him to teach me how to fly like a bird," replied Usanga.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000037_000003.wav|I have money, more money than that poor fool could imagine there was in the whole world.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000019_000000.wav|"Tell him," said the Englishman, "that if you are not standing in plain sight in this meadow when I return, I will not land, but will carry Usanga back to the British camp and have him hanged."|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000028_000001.wav|Constantly, however, the thought of Naratu and her temper arose to take the keen edge from his pleasant imaginings.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000048_000000.wav|"Good bye, and God bless you!" he called back-his voice the least bit husky-and then: "The thing I wanted to say-may I say it now, we are so very near the end?"|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000013_000002.wav|She regretted that he had spoken as he had and he, too, regretted it almost instantly as he saw the shadow cross her face and realized that he had unwittingly added to the difficulties of her already almost unbearable situation.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000022_000002.wav|He circled slowly a few times above the meadow until he had assured himself that Bertha Kircher was there and apparently unharmed, then he dropped gently to the ground so that the machine came to a stop a short distance from where the girl and the warriors awaited them.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000020_000000.wav|Usanga promised that the girl would be in evidence upon their return, and took immediate steps to impress upon his warriors that under penalty of death they must not harm her.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000003_000003.wav|He noted the remnants of the uniforms upon the blacks and immediately he demanded to know where were their officers.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000037_000004.wav|With it he can buy anything that money will purchase, fine clothes and food and women, all the women he wants.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105167/7720_105167_000043_000001.wav|There should be no repetition of his harrowing experience with Naratu. This wife and the twenty four others should be carefully selected and well trained.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000004_000000.wav|Motionless as a bronze statue was the wily ape man, for well he knew how wary is Pisah, the fish.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000044_000002.wav|"I know what you are trying to say. It is not that.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000027_000000.wav|Usanga, all unconscious of what was going on behind him, drove the plane higher and higher into the air.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000002.wav|Simultaneously Tarzan was dragged from his feet and the plane lurched sideways in response to the new strain.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000021_000001.wav|At last there came to the ears of the ape man a peculiar whirring, throbbing sound.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000005.wav|The Englishman, lying bound upon the ground, had been a witness of all these happenings. His heart stood still as he saw Tarzan's body hurtling through the air toward the tree tops among which it seemed he must inevitably crash; but the plane was rising rapidly, so that the beast man cleared the top most branches.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000015_000002.wav|We both thank you for your kindness and protection.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000044_000001.wav|"No," he said.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000046_000001.wav|"The quicker you go, the quicker you will reach safety."|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000042_000001.wav|"I prefer the jungle," he said.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000035_000001.wav|The blacks, at first dismayed at the death of their leader, were now worked to a frenzy of rage and a determination to be avenged.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000022_000000.wav|When Tarzan of the Apes finally reached the edge of the meadowland where Smith Oldwick's plane had landed, he took in the entire scene in one quick glance and grasped the situation, although he could scarce give credence to the things he saw.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000007.wav|Upon the other side of the range he would search for a stream running downward toward the west coast, and thus following the rivers he would be sure of game and water in plenty.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000002.wav|They were gone and would forget, but somehow he could not forget.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000033_000003.wav|Far below the watchers in the meadow could see the aeroplane careening in the sky, for with the change of control it had taken a sudden dive.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000047_000002.wav|"Good bye," said the girl as she extended her hand to Tarzan.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000042_000000.wav|Tarzan shook his head.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000013_000002.wav|We do not know why they left."|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000003_000000.wav|For two days Tarzan of the Apes had been hunting leisurely to the north, and swinging in a wide circle, he had returned to within a short distance of the clearing where he had left Bertha Kircher and the young lieutenant.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000020_000000.wav|An inexplicable urge spurred Tarzan to increasing, speed.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000014_000003.wav|Both were empty, and his trained nostrils told him that they had been gone for at least two days.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000012_000000.wav|"Did the tribe chase them away?" asked Tarzan.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000009_000000.wav|"They are hunting for pisangs and scimatines farther back in the forest," replied Zu tag.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000011_000001.wav|"Kudu has come out of his lair twice since they left."|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000011_000000.wav|"They have gone away," replied Zu tag.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000044_000004.wav|I have lived all my life in the jungle, and I shall die in the jungle.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000032_000004.wav|Tarzan realized that only through a miracle of chance could they reach Usanga and effect the change in pilots and yet he knew that that chance must be taken, for in the brief moments since he had first seen the plane, he had realized that the black was almost without experience as a pilot and that death surely awaited them in any event should the black sergeant remain at the control.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000041_000001.wav|"This jungle is no place for us at least," said Smith Oldwick, "and it is no place for any other white man.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000032_000002.wav|With one hand Tarzan grasped the girl's arm and steadied her as the two crawled slowly across the few feet which intervened between the two seats.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000035_000000.wav|Again and again the plane circled above the meadow.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000038_000000.wav|"You saved yourself," he insisted, "for had you been unable to pilot the plane, I could not have helped you, and now," he said, "you two have the means of returning to the settlements.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000004_000004.wav|It might be a minute or it might be an hour before the fish would swim into the little pool above which he crouched, but sooner or later one would come.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000022_000008.wav|He had told them that he would take the captive to a sultan of the north and there obtain a great price for her and that when he returned they should have some of the spoils.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000014_000001.wav|The hut and boma were as he had left them, but there was no sign of either the man or the woman.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000028_000000.wav|Tarzan glanced downward.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000029_000002.wav|It seemed to her that those lifeless fingers must relax at any instant and then, when she had about given up hope, she saw a strong brown hand reach up and grasp the side of the fuselage.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000025_000000.wav|Usanga did not see him, being too intent upon the unaccustomed duties of a pilot, but the blacks across the meadow saw him and they ran forward with loud and savage cries and menacing rifles to intercept him.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000045_000000.wav|The others shook their heads.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000015_000003.wav|If there was any way that I might repay the obligation I feel, I should be only too glad to do so.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000005_000003.wav|The moment that he turned he saw that the author of the disturbance was Zu tag.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000039_000001.wav|"I have plenty," he replied.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000006_000000.wav|"What does Zu tag want?" asked the ape man.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000006.wav|Then slowly, hand over hand, he climbed toward the fuselage.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000032_000003.wav|A single slight tip of the plane would have cast them both into eternity.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000003_000001.wav|He had spent the night in a large tree that overhung the river only a short distance from the clearing, and now in the early morning hours he was crouching at the water's edge waiting for an opportunity to capture Pisah, the fish, thinking that he would take it back with him to the hut where the girl could cook it for herself and her companion.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000023_000000.wav|These things Tarzan did not know.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000044_000005.wav|I do not wish to live or die elsewhere."|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000041_000000.wav|The girl and the Englishman smiled too.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000004_000001.wav|The slightest movement would frighten him away and only by infinite patience might he be captured at all.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000034_000001.wav|Usanga had reaped his reward.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000047_000001.wav|Smith Oldwick pressed the ape man's hand and clambered into the pilot's seat.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000025_000002.wav|They saw him take a long grass rope from about his shoulders as he ran.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000000.wav|Twenty feet above the running ape man soared the huge plane.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000022_000005.wav|His knowledge of Usanga, together with the position of the white man, told him that the black sergeant was attempting to carry off the white girl.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000033_000002.wav|Usanga clawed the air and shrieked but he was helpless as a babe.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000029_000003.wav|Instantly the weight upon the rope was removed and a moment later Tarzan of the Apes raised his body above the side and threw a leg over the edge. He glanced forward at Usanga and then, placing his mouth close to the girl's ear he cried: "Have you ever piloted a plane?" The girl nodded a quick affirmative.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000021_000002.wav|For an instant he paused, listening intently, "An aeroplane!" he muttered, and hastened forward at greatly increased speed.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000003.wav|Usanga clutched wildly at the control and the machine shot upward at a steep angle.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000031_000001.wav|"Yes," she replied, "but my feet are bound."|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000007.wav|The girl, clinging desperately to the noose, strained every muscle to hold the great weight dangling at the lower end of the rope.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000031_000000.wav|The girl looked toward Usanga and shuddered.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000044_000000.wav|Tarzan laughed.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000020_000002.wav|Tarzan's conscience was troubling him, which accounted for the fact that he compared himself to a weak, old woman, for the ape man, reared in savagery and inured to hardships and cruelty, disliked to admit any of the gentler traits that in reality were his birthright.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000047_000000.wav|They walked to the plane together.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000047_000003.wav|"Before I go won't you tell me you don't hate me any more?" Tarzan's face clouded. Without a word he picked her up and lifted her to her place behind the Englishman.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000018_000005.wav|"Tarzan of the Apes is a fool and a weak, old woman," and he turned back toward the south.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000032_000000.wav|Tarzan drew his hunting knife from its sheath and reaching down, severed the thongs that bound her ankles.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000045_000001.wav|They could not understand him.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000000.wav|Tarzan shrugged his shoulders, crumpled the note in his hand and tossed it aside.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000047_000004.wav|An expression of pain crossed Bertha Kircher's face.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000022_000001.wav|Bound and helpless, the English officer lay upon the ground at one side of the meadow, while around him stood a number of the black deserters from the German command.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000013_000001.wav|"We did not see them go.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000022_000003.wav|Coming toward him down the meadow was an aeroplane piloted by the black Usanga and in the seat behind the pilot was the white girl, Bertha Kircher.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000043_000000.wav|The aviator dug his toe into the ground and still looking down, blurted something which he evidently hated to say.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000038_000002.wav|You can easily cover the distance in a few hours if you have sufficient petrol." He looked inquiringly toward the aviator.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000007_000000.wav|"Zu tag comes to the water to drink," replied the ape.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000026_000004.wav|Dangling at the end of the rope the ape man swung pendulum like in space.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000004_000002.wav|Tarzan depended upon his own quickness and the suddenness of his attack, for he had no bait or hook.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000015_000000.wav|After what you told me about Miss Kircher, and knowing that you dislike her, I feel that it is not fair to her and to you that we should impose longer upon you.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000015_000001.wav|I know that our presence is keeping you from continuing your journey to the west coast, and so I have decided that it is better for us to try and reach the white settlements immediately without imposing further upon you.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000033_000005.wav|Turning and twisting in mid-air it fell with ever increasing velocity and the Englishman held his breath as the thing hurtled toward them.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000040_000001.wav|"Neither of you belong in the jungle." A slight smile touched his lips as he spoke.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000038_000001.wav|The day is still young.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000022_000002.wav|Tarzan had seen these men before and knew who they were.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000030_000000.wav|"Have you the courage to climb up there beside the black and seize the control while I take care of him?"|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000004.wav|He felt uneasy and restless.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000039_000000.wav|Smith Oldwick nodded his head affirmatively.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000023_000002.wav|Already the machine was slowly leaving the ground.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000029_000000.wav|It seemed to Bertha Kircher that the fingers of her hands were dead. The numbness was running up her arms to her elbows.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000032_000001.wav|Then the girl unsnapped the strap that held her to her seat.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000018_000000.wav|But he did not go far.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000023_000003.wav|In a moment more it would rise swiftly out of reach.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000001.wav|He felt a certain sense of relief from responsibility and was glad that they had taken the matter out of his hands.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000041_000002.wav|Why don't you come back to civilization with us?"|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000025_000001.wav|They saw a giant white man leap from the branches of a tree to the turf and race rapidly toward the plane.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000014_000000.wav|Tarzan swung quickly through the trees toward the clearing.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000003.wav|He walked out across the boma and into the clearing.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000001_000000.wav|Chapter thirteen|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000004_000003.wav|His knowledge of the ways of the denizens of the water told him where to wait for Pisah.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000014_000002.wav|Crossing the clearing, he entered the boma and then the hut.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000019_000000.wav|Manu, the monkey, had seen the two Tarmangani pass two days before. Chattering and scolding, he told Tarzan all about it.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000017_000005.wav|Once he started toward the north in response to a sudden determination to continue his way to the west coast.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000002_000000.wav|Usanga's Reward|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000013_000000.wav|"No," replied the ape.|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7720/105168/7720_105168_000010_000000.wav|"And the Tarmangani she and bull-" asked Tarzan, "are they safe?"|7720
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000011_000001.wav|The empiricists-who are best represented by the British philosophers, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume-maintained that all our knowledge is derived from experience; the rationalists-who are represented by the Continental philosophers of the seventeenth century, especially Descartes and Leibniz-maintained that, in addition to what we know by experience, there are certain 'innate ideas' and 'innate principles', which we know independently of experience.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000020_000000.wav|The fact is that, in simple mathematical judgements such as 'two and two are four', and also in many judgements of logic, we can know the general proposition without inferring it from instances, although some instance is usually necessary to make clear to us what the general proposition means.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000011_000003.wav|It must be admitted, for the reasons already stated, that logical principles are known to us, and cannot be themselves proved by experience, since all proof presupposes them.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000015_000000.wav|We judge, for example, that happiness is more desirable than misery, knowledge than ignorance, goodwill than hatred, and so on.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000019_000003.wav|This may be made plain by the attempt to imagine two different worlds, in one of which there are men who are not mortal, while in the other two and two make five.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000022_000001.wav|In regard to the former, deduction is the right mode of argument, whereas in regard to the latter, induction is always theoretically preferable, and warrants a greater confidence in the truth of our conclusion, because all empirical generalizations are more uncertain than the instances of them.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000003_000003.wav|In fact, the truth of the principle is impossible to doubt, and its obviousness is so great that at first sight it seems almost trivial.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000011_000004.wav|In this, therefore, which was the most important point of the controversy, the rationalists were in the right.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000000_000001.wav|They constitute the means of drawing inferences from what is given in sensation; and if what we infer is to be true, it is just as necessary that our principles of inference should be true as it is that our data should be true.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000018_000004.wav|Such generalizations always remain mere facts: we feel that there might be a world in which they were false, though in the actual world they happen to be true.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000003_000001.wav|Whenever one thing which we believe is used to prove something else, which we consequently believe, this principle is relevant.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000019_000000.wav|The case may be made clearer by considering a genuinely empirical generalization, such as 'All men are mortal.' It is plain that we believe this proposition, in the first place, because there is no known instance of men living beyond a certain age, and in the second place because there seem to be physiological grounds for thinking that an organism such as a man's body must sooner or later wear out.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000002_000000.wav|Now such an argument is not hard to follow; and if it is granted that its premisses are true in fact, no one will deny that the conclusion must also be true.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000020_000003.wav|If we already know that two and two always make four, and we know that Brown and Jones are two, and so are Robinson and Smith, we can deduce that Brown and Jones and Robinson and Smith are four.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000016_000003.wav|If, however, this were the source of our knowledge that two and two are four, we should proceed differently, in persuading ourselves of its truth, from the way in which we do actually proceed.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000001_000002.wav|Suppose two men are discussing what day of the month it is.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000005_000000.wav|They are as follows:|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000009_000002.wav|But this is a large question, to which we must return at a later stage.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000016_000004.wav|In fact, a certain number of instances are needed to make us think of two abstractly, rather than of two coins or two books or two people, or two of any other specified kind.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000014_000002.wav|I am not speaking of judgements as to what is useful or as to what is virtuous, for such judgements do require empirical premisses; I am speaking of judgements as to the intrinsic desirability of things.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000019_000001.wav|Neglecting the second ground, and considering merely our experience of men's mortality, it is plain that we should not be content with one quite clearly understood instance of a man dying, whereas, in the case of 'two and two are four', one instance does suffice, when carefully considered, to persuade us that the same must happen in any other instance.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000002_000001.wav|But it depends for its truth upon an instance of a general logical principle.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000004_000003.wav|For no very good reason, three of these principles have been singled out by tradition under the name of 'Laws of Thought'.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000018_000003.wav|Moreover, we feel some quality of necessity about the proposition 'two and two are four', which is absent from even the best attested empirical generalizations.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000010_000001.wav|An example of such principles-perhaps the most important example is the inductive principle, which we considered in the preceding chapter.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000001_000000.wav|In all our knowledge of general principles, what actually happens is that first of all we realize some particular application of the principle, and then we realize that the particularity is irrelevant, and that there is a generality which may equally truly be affirmed.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000020_000002.wav|We can now see that in certain cases, at least, it does do so.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000012_000002.wav|It would certainly be absurd to suppose that there are innate principles in the sense that babies are born with a knowledge of everything which men know and which cannot be deduced from what is experienced.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000002_000004.wav|Thus our principle states that if this implies that, and this is true, then that is true. In other words, 'anything implied by a true proposition is true', or 'whatever follows from a true proposition is true'.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000020_000004.wav|This is new knowledge, not contained in our premisses, because the general proposition, 'two and two are four', never told us there were such people as Brown and Jones and Robinson and Smith, and the particular premisses do not tell us that there were four of them, whereas the particular proposition deduced does tell us both these things.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000013_000003.wav|Our belief that the Emperor of China exists, for example, rests upon testimony, and testimony consists, in the last analysis, of sense data seen or heard in reading or being spoken to.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000019_000005.wav|But a world where two and two make five seems quite on a different level.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000004_000002.wav|When some of them have been granted, others can be proved, though these others, so long as they are simple, are just as obvious as the principles taken for granted.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000012_000003.wav|For this reason, the word 'innate' would not now be employed to describe our knowledge of logical principles.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000004_000000.wav|The above principle is merely one of a certain number of self evident logical principles.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000013_000005.wav|In this belief they seem to have been mistaken.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000001_000001.wav|This is of course familiar in such matters as teaching arithmetic: 'two and two are four' is first learnt in the case of some particular pair of couples, and then in some other particular case, and so on, until at last it becomes possible to see that it is true of any pair of couples. The same thing happens with logical principles.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000013_000004.wav|Rationalists believed that, from general consideration as to what must be, they could deduce the existence of this or that in the actual world.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000014_000004.wav|Thus all judgements as to what is useful depend upon judgements as to what has value on its own account.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000015_000003.wav|But it is fairly obvious that they cannot be proved by experience; for the fact that a thing exists or does not exist cannot prove either that it is good that it should exist or that it is bad.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000011_000000.wav|One of the great historic controversies in philosophy is the controversy between the two schools called respectively 'empiricists' and 'rationalists'.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000014_000003.wav|If something is useful, it must be useful because it secures some end; the end must, if we have gone far enough, be valuable on its own account, and not merely because it is useful for some further end.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000018_000005.wav|In any possible world, on the contrary, we feel that two and two would be four: this is not a mere fact, but a necessity to which everything actual and possible must conform.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000013_000009.wav|All knowledge that something exists must be in part dependent on experience.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000019_000006.wav|We feel that such a world, if there were one, would upset the whole fabric of our knowledge and reduce us to utter doubt.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000003_000002.wav|If any one asks: 'Why should I accept the results of valid arguments based on true premisses?' we can only answer by appealing to our principle.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000013_000000.wav|There is another point of great importance, in which the empiricists were in the right as against the rationalists.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142745/1777_142745_000023_000001.wav|The question which must next occupy us is this: How is it possible that there should be such knowledge?|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000003_000002.wav|In this respect our theory of belief must differ from our theory of acquaintance, since in the case of acquaintance it was not necessary to take account of any opposite.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000005_000000.wav|(three) But, as against what we have just said, it is to be observed that the truth or falsehood of a belief always depends upon something which lies outside the belief itself.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000007_000002.wav|It may be that, with sufficient imagination, a novelist might invent a past for the world that would perfectly fit on to what we know, and yet be quite different from the real past.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000008.wav|But this relation, as it occurs in the act of believing, is not the relation which creates the unity of the complex whole consisting of the subject and the objects.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000003_000001.wav|A good many philosophers have failed adequately to satisfy this condition: they have constructed theories according to which all our thinking ought to have been true, and have then had the greatest difficulty in finding a place for falsehood.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000009_000003.wav|For example, the two propositions, 'this tree is a beech' and 'this tree is not a beech', are not coherent, because of the law of contradiction.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000006_000000.wav|The third of the above requisites leads us to adopt the view-which has on the whole been commonest among philosophers-that truth consists in some form of correspondence between belief and fact.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000022_000001.wav|They create beliefs, but when once the beliefs are created, the mind cannot make them true or false, except in the special case where they concern future things which are within the power of the person believing, such as catching trains.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000000.wav|The necessity of allowing for falsehood makes it impossible to regard belief as a relation of the mind to a single object, which could be said to be what is believed.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000002_000000.wav|There are three points to observe in the attempt to discover the nature of truth, three requisites which any theory must fulfil.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000009.wav|The relation 'loving', as it occurs in the act of believing, is one of the objects-it is a brick in the structure, not the cement.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000008_000000.wav|In philosophy, again, it seems not uncommon for two rival hypotheses to be both able to account for all the facts.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000014_000000.wav|It might be said that his belief is a relation to a different object, namely 'that Desdemona loves Cassio'; but it is almost as difficult to suppose that there is such an object as this, when Desdemona does not love Cassio, as it was to suppose that there is 'Desdemona's love for Cassio'.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000005_000002.wav|If I believe that Charles the first died in his bed, I believe falsely: no degree of vividness in my belief, or of care in arriving at it, prevents it from being false, again because of what happened long ago, and not because of any intrinsic property of my belief.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000015_000002.wav|Take, for instance, the relation 'between'.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000002.wav|In every act of judgement there is a mind which judges, and there are terms concerning which it judges.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000009_000000.wav|The other objection to this definition of truth is that it assumes the meaning of 'coherence' known, whereas, in fact, 'coherence' presupposes the truth of the laws of logic.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000007_000003.wav|In more scientific matters, it is certain that there are often two or more hypotheses which account for all the known facts on some subject, and although, in such cases, men of science endeavour to find facts which will rule out all the hypotheses except one, there is no reason why they should always succeed.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000000.wav|We are now in a position to understand what it is that distinguishes a true judgement from a false one.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000015_000004.wav|York is between London and Edinburgh; but if London and Edinburgh were the only places in the world, there could be nothing which was between one place and another.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000005.wav|We may believe what is false as well as what is true.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000006.wav|When an act of believing occurs, there is a complex, in which 'believing' is the uniting relation, and subject and objects are arranged in a certain order by the 'sense' of the relation of believing.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000003.wav|Thus there is no dualism as regards acquaintance.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000001.wav|If belief were so regarded, we should find that, like acquaintance, it would not admit of the opposition of truth and falsehood, but would have to be always true.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000015_000003.wav|So long as only two terms come in, the relation 'between' is impossible: three terms are the smallest number that render it possible.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000004.wav|We cannot say that this belief consists in a relation to a single object, 'Desdemona's love for Cassio', for if there were such an object, the belief would be true.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000012_000000.wav|In accordance with our three requisites, we have to seek a theory of truth which (one) allows truth to have an opposite, namely falsehood, (two) makes truth a property of beliefs, but (three) makes it a property wholly dependent upon the relation of the beliefs to outside things.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000016_000007.wav|What is called belief or judgement is nothing but this relation of believing or judging, which relates a mind to several things other than itself.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000003.wav|Othello believes falsely that Desdemona loves Cassio.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000005.wav|There is in fact no such object, and therefore Othello cannot have any relation to such an object.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000009.wav|The 'sense' of relations is the ultimate source of order and series and a host of mathematical concepts; but we need not concern ourselves further with this aspect.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000010.wav|The cement is the relation 'believing'.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000016_000006.wav|Thus the actual occurrence, at the moment when Othello is entertaining his belief, is that the relation called 'believing' is knitting together into one complex whole the four terms Othello, Desdemona, loving, and Cassio.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000016_000004.wav|When we say that it is a relation of four terms, we do not mean that Othello has a certain relation to Desdemona, and has the same relation to loving and also to Cassio.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000003.wav|If Othello loves Desdemona, there is such a complex whole as 'Othello's love for Desdemona'.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000008_000001.wav|Thus, for example, it is possible that life is one long dream, and that the outer world has only that degree of reality that the objects of dreams have; but although such a view does not seem inconsistent with known facts, there is no reason to prefer it to the common sense view, according to which other people and things do really exist.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000005_000003.wav|Hence, although truth and falsehood are properties of beliefs, they are properties dependent upon the relations of the beliefs to other things, not upon any internal quality of the beliefs.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000002.wav|Whatever we are acquainted with must be something; we may draw wrong inferences from our acquaintance, but the acquaintance itself cannot be deceptive.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000001.wav|For this purpose we will adopt certain definitions.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000016_000001.wav|When Othello believes that Desdemona loves Cassio, he must not have before his mind a single object, 'Desdemona's love for Cassio', or 'that Desdemona loves Cassio ', for that would require that there should be objective falsehoods, which subsist independently of any minds; and this, though not logically refutable, is a theory to be avoided if possible.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000006_000002.wav|By this partly-and partly by the feeling that, if truth consists in a correspondence of thought with something outside thought, thought can never know when truth has been attained-many philosophers have been led to try to find some definition of truth which shall not consist in relation to something wholly outside belief.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000015_000001.wav|Some relations demand three terms, some four, and so on.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000011_000001.wav|It remains to define precisely what we mean by 'fact', and what is the nature of the correspondence which must subsist between belief and fact, in order that belief may be true.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000006.wav|We know that on very many subjects different people hold different and incompatible opinions: hence some beliefs must be erroneous.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000003_000000.wav|(one) Our theory of truth must be such as to admit of its opposite, falsehood.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000007_000000.wav|There is, however, a great difficulty in this view, or rather two great difficulties.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000002.wav|Whenever a relation holds between two or more terms, it unites the terms into a complex whole.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000016_000002.wav|Thus it is easier to account for falsehood if we take judgement to be a relation in which the mind and the various objects concerned all occur severally; that is to say, Desdemona and loving and Cassio must all be terms in the relation which subsists when Othello believes that Desdemona loves Cassio.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000001.wav|In this respect, judging is exactly like every other relation.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000009_000004.wav|But if the law of contradiction itself were subjected to the test of coherence, we should find that, if we choose to suppose it false, nothing will any longer be incoherent with anything else.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000021_000002.wav|Thus a belief is true when there is a corresponding fact, and is false when there is no corresponding fact.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000004.wav|But as regards knowledge of truths, there is a dualism.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000009_000005.wav|Thus the laws of logic supply the skeleton or framework within which the test of coherence applies, and they themselves cannot be established by this test.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000020_000002.wav|This correspondence ensures truth, and its absence entails falsehood.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000000_000001.wav|TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000011.wav|It is this preliminary question which is to be considered in this chapter.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000013_000002.wav|This may be made clear by examples.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000008.wav|This property of having a 'sense' or 'direction' is one which the relation of judging shares with all other relations.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000012.wav|In this chapter we are not asking how we can know whether a belief is true or false: we are asking what is meant by the question whether a belief is true or false.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000016_000003.wav|This relation, therefore, is a relation of four terms, since Othello also is one of the terms of the relation.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000001_000009.wav|This is a question of the very greatest difficulty, to which no completely satisfactory answer is possible.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000006_000004.wav|It is said that the mark of falsehood is failure to cohere in the body of our beliefs, and that it is the essence of a truth to form part of the completely rounded system which is The Truth.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000019_000002.wav|This constitutes the definition of truth and falsehood that we were in search of.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000015_000007.wav|Instances might be multiplied indefinitely, but enough has been said to show that there are relations which require more than two terms before they can occur.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000009_000001.wav|Two propositions are coherent when both may be true, and are incoherent when one at least must be false.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000005_000001.wav|If I believe that Charles the first died on the scaffold, I believe truly, not because of any intrinsic quality of my belief, which could be discovered by merely examining the belief, but because of an historical event which happened two and a half centuries ago.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000014_000001.wav|Hence it will be better to seek for a theory of belief which does not make it consist in a relation of the mind to a single object.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000007.wav|Similarly, if Cassio judges that Desdemona loves Othello, the constituents of the judgement are still the same, but their order is different.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000018_000005.wav|Wherever there is a relation which relates certain terms, there is a complex object formed of the union of those terms; and conversely, wherever there is a complex object, there is a relation which relates its constituents.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000017_000004.wav|Thus, when Othello judges that Desdemona loves Cassio, Othello is the subject, while the objects are Desdemona and loving and Cassio.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000015_000000.wav|It is common to think of relations as though they always held between two terms, but in fact this is not always the case.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1777/142750/1777_142750_000009_000002.wav|Now in order to know whether two propositions can both be true, we must know such truths as the law of contradiction.|1777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000001_000000.wav|Tom Swift considered a few minutes.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000020_000000.wav|"Who's that?" asked the diamond man, in a hoarse whisper.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000031_000000.wav|The three made a hasty search among the trees, but the intruder had vanished, leaving no trace.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000025_000000.wav|"Then that wasn't you over in the orchard?" asked Tom, in some uneasiness.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000018_000002.wav|I'll be here at this time to morrow."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000014_000000.wav|"Do you think he means you harm?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000033_000000.wav|"And I guess it's time for me to go, too," added mr Jenks.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000006.wav|I took it as a good omen.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000016_000002.wav|If they were, he could then decide whether or not to go with mr Jenks on the mysterious quest.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000004.wav|However, I decided to come here, and I did.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000011_000000.wav|"But I did not.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000004_000000.wav|"I guess that's it," assented Tom.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000003.wav|On my return from Earthquake Island, I again endeavored to interest an airship man in my plan, but he evidently thought me insane. Then I thought of you, as I had done before, but I was afraid you, too, would laugh at my proposition.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000036_000001.wav|"Guess I'll take a run over to Chester in the Butterfly, and see what one of the jewelers there has to say."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000045_000000.wav|Suiting the action to the word, Tom shut off his power.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000032_000001.wav|"You can go back to bed, Rad," for the colored man, of late, had been sleeping in a shack on the Swift premises.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000047_000002.wav|Evidently he doesn't dare venture back to Shopton.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000034_000000.wav|Tom did not sleep well the remainder of the night, for his fitful slumbers were disturbed by dreams of enormous caves, filled with diamonds, with dark, shadowy figures trying to put him into a red hot steel box.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000024_000002.wav|Sometimes he's restless, an' don't sleep laik he oughter."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000016_000000.wav|Tom Swift made up his mind quickly.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000002.wav|I don't want those scoundrels to find out what I am about to do.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000006_000002.wav|Here's another, uncut," and mr Jenks drew from his pocket what looked like a piece of crystal.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000021_000002.wav|"Is that you, Rad?" he called.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000045_000001.wav|The little craft dipped toward the ground, but the lad threw up the forward planes, and caught a current of air that sent him skimming along horizontally.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000005_000001.wav|"In fact, I didn't believe it when they told me they could make diamonds.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000030_000000.wav|"I don't believe it was any one after the mule," murmured mr Jenks, "but it certainly was some one-more likely some one after me."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000042_000000.wav|"I'll just drop down outside of the city," he reasoned, "for too much of a crowd gathers when I land in the street.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000010_000001.wav|As long as I remained quiet, after their shabby treatment of me, and did not try to discover their secret, they were all right.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000028_000000.wav|"We'll have a look!" exclaimed Tom.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000001_000003.wav|The search for the mysterious mountain, and the cave of the diamond makers, might offer a new field for him.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000023_000000.wav|"Where are you, Rad?" called the young inventor.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000028_000002.wav|We just saw some one sneaking around."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000005_000003.wav|I'm ready now to prove it to you."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000028_000001.wav|"Here, Rad, come over and scurry among those trees.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000039_000001.wav|Over the ground ran the dainty, little aeroplane, until, having momentum enough, Tom tilted the wing planes and the machine sailed up into the air.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000007.wav|Now it remains with you.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000042_000001.wav|Besides I might frighten horses, and then, too, it's hard to get a good start from the street. I'll leave it in some barn until I want to go back."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000037_000001.wav|This had been damaged by Andy Foger just before Tom left on the trip that ended at Earthquake Island, but the monoplane had been repaired, and Andy had left town, not having returned since.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER four-ANDY FOGER GETS A FRIGHT|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000050_000001.wav|"I'll teach you to slash my aeroplane! Come with me!"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000021_000000.wav|"I think not.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000008.wav|May I call here to morrow night, and get your answer?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000020_000002.wav|Some one was here-listening to what I said!|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000006_000004.wav|I'll abide by the verdict you get, and I'll come here to morrow night, and hear what you have to say."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000021_000001.wav|I guess it was Eradicate Sampson, a colored man who does work for us," said Tom.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000016_000001.wav|After all it would be easy enough to find out if the diamonds were real.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000015_000000.wav|"I'm sure of it.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000041_000000.wav|It was not long before Tom saw, looming up in the distance the church spires and towering factory chimneys of Chester, for his machine was a speedy one, and could make ninety miles an hour when driven.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000039_000000.wav|Adjusting the mechanism, and seeing that it was in good shape, Tom took his place in one of the two seats, for the monoplane would carry two. mr Jackson then spun the propellers, and, with a crackle and roar the motor started.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000020_000001.wav|"Did you see that, Tom Swift?|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000001_000004.wav|But there came to him a certain distrust of mr Jenks.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000018_000001.wav|"Now I'll bid you goodnight, and be going.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000031_000001.wav|They went out into the road, which the moon threw into bold relief along its white stretch, but there was no figure scurrying away.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000044_000001.wav|"I'll shut off the motor, and vol plane down."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000011_000003.wav|Again I received a warning to drop all search for the diamond makers, but I persisted, and about a week ago I found I was being shadowed."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000049_000001.wav|Andy pedaled on, never looking up nor behind him, A moment later, as Tom threw up his headplanes, to make his landing more easy, and just as he swooped down at one side of the cyclist, our hero let out a most alarming yell, right into Andy's ear.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000041_000001.wav|But now a slower speed satisfied our hero.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000008_000000.wav|"Because my life might be in danger if I was seen talking to you, and showing you diamonds in the daytime-especially just now.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000011_000001.wav|I came East, and tried to get help to discover the cave of the diamond makers, but I was unsuccessful.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000040_000001.wav|In his pocket, snugly tucked away, were the two stones mr Jenks had given him.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000037_000000.wav|In addition to his big airship, Red Cloud, Tom owned a small, swift monoplane, which he called Butterfly.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000047_000000.wav|"It's Andy Foger!" said Tom, in a whisper.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000017_000001.wav|I'll meet you here to morrow night.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000006_000003.wav|"Take them to any jeweler," he resumed-"to the one in whose place I saw you to night.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000032_000000.wav|"Whoever it was, is gone," spoke Tom.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000005_000000.wav|"I don't blame you a bit!" exclaimed the odd man.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000033_000001.wav|"I'll be here to morrow night, Tom, and I hope your answer will be favorable."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000047_000003.wav|Well, here's where I give him a scare."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000044_000000.wav|"Looks like a good place there," he murmured.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000035_000000.wav|Tom made up his mind to find out if the stones were really diamonds, before saying anything to his father about the chance of going to seek Phantom Mountain.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000020_000003.wav|Perhaps it was the man who has been shadowing me!"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000043_000000.wav|Tom sent his craft down, in order to pick out a safe place for a landing.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000016_000003.wav|So he answered:|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000005_000002.wav|But they proved it to me.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000052_000000.wav|Andy gave a yell like an Indian, about to do a stage scalping act, and fairly dived over the handlebars of his bicycle, sprawling in a heap on the dusty road.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000048_000001.wav|He was gliding swiftly toward the earth, and, with the plan in his mind of administering some sort of punishment to the bully, he aimed the machine directly at him.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000001_000001.wav|On the face of it, the proposition appealed to him.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000003_000000.wav|"You mean you can hardly believe me?" asked mr Jenks.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000006_000001.wav|Here's this one stone, cut ready for setting.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000002_000000.wav|"I don't like to doubt your word," began Tom, slowly, "but you know, mr Jenks, that some of the greatest chemists have tried in vain to make diamonds; or, at best, they have made only tiny ones.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000040_000000.wav|Rising about a thousand feet, and circling about several times to test the wind currents, Tom headed his craft toward Chester, a city about fifty miles from Shopton.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000002_000001.wav|To think that any man, or set of men, made real diamonds as large as the ones you have, doesn't seem-well-" and Tom hesitated.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000017_000002.wav|In the meanwhile, for my own satisfaction, I'll let an expert look at these stones."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000048_000000.wav|Tom's monoplane was making no more noise, now, than a soaring bird.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000010_000000.wav|"For the reason that the diamond makers are on my trail.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000034_000002.wav|They had not been disturbed.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000027_000000.wav|"If it wasn't your man, it was some one else," said mr Jenks, decidedly.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000009_000000.wav|"Why at this particular time?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000011_000002.wav|I needed an airship, as I said, and no person who could operate one, would agree to go with me on the quest.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000038_000000.wav|Telling his father that he was going off on a little business trip, which he often did in his aeroplane, Tom, with the aid of mr Jackson, the engineer, wheeled the Butterfly out of its shed.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000017_000000.wav|"I'll consider the matter, mr Jenks.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000051_000000.wav|Andy gave one look at the white bird like apparatus that had flown up beside him so noiselessly, and, being too frightened to recognize Tom's voice, must have thought that he had been overtaken by some supernatural visitor.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000036_000000.wav|"Though if this one proves to be a good gem, I'll have mr Track set it in a brooch, and give it to Mary for her birthday," decided the young inventor.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000006_000000.wav|"I'll tell you what I'll do.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000010_000002.wav|But, after I realized that I had been cheated out of my rights, and when I began to make an investigation, with a view to discovering their secret whereabouts, I received mysterious and anonymous warnings to stop."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287358/8498_287358_000050_000000.wav|"Now I've got you!" he shouted.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000008_000001.wav|Never mind what I thought!|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000001_000001.wav|He remained prostrate in the dust, and Tom, observing him, thought perhaps the bully might have been seriously injured.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000034_000001.wav|"They are so far superior to the usual run of diamonds, that I feel justified in saying that the cut one would bring fifteen hundred dollars, anywhere.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000037_000002.wav|mr Jenks had told the truth.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000009_000002.wav|Hop in my airship and I'll take you right into town.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000009_000005.wav|Want to come, Andy?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000037_000003.wav|Now the young inventor could go with him to seek the diamond makers.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000036_000001.wav|"Do you want to sell?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000020_000000.wav|"You wished an opinion on-on these?" queried the proprietor of the place.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000010_000000.wav|This was too much for the bully.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000020_000001.wav|Tom noticed at once that the word "diamonds" was not used.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000004_000001.wav|"Was that you, Tom Swift?" he demanded.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000030_000000.wav|"Perhaps," answered Tom, as he accepted the gems which the expert held out to him.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000024_000000.wav|"Oh, it isn't that," the proprietor hastened to assure him.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000036_000000.wav|"They are worth every cent of it," declared mr Roberts.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000028_000001.wav|"It is enough for me to know that they are diamonds.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000009_000004.wav|I've mended her up, however, so she goes better than ever, and I can take you to the police station in jig time.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000026_000002.wav|"If it is possible to get a supply of them you would be justified in asking half as much again as we charge for African or Indian diamonds.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000011_000001.wav|He looked about, and saw that he was near a house, in the rear of which was a good sized barn.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000049_000000.wav|"No, Massa Tom, it ain't him.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000005_000002.wav|That's the scientific explanation."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000061_000002.wav|But I did not come here to merely ask you for employment.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000001_000000.wav|For several minutes Andy Foger did not arise.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000022_000000.wav|"Would you mind stating where you got them?" asked the other of the two men.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000034_000002.wav|In fact, I would offer that for it.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000017_000001.wav|He wondered if he was going to have his trouble for his pains. Presently two elderly gentlemen came from the little room, on the glass door of which appeared the word "Diamonds."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000023_000000.wav|"Is that necessary?" inquired the lad.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000061_000000.wav|"Yes.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000005_000001.wav|It was the nervous reaction caused by your fright, and the knowledge that you had done wrong, that made you jump over the handlebars.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000041_000002.wav|The uncut gem Tom took away with him.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000010_000002.wav|Instead he shuffled over to where his wheel lay, picked it up, and rode slowly off.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000006_000000.wav|"You-you did it!" stammered Andy, getting to his feet.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000011_000002.wav|"Guess I'll ask if I can leave the Butterfly there," he murmured, and, ringing the doorbell, he was greeted by a man.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000018_000000.wav|"Who brought these stones in?" asked one of the men, evidently the proprietor, from the deference paid him by the clerk.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000035_000000.wav|"Thirty five hundred dollars for these two stones!" exclaimed Tom.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000054_000001.wav|I am in need of employment, and I have had considerable to do with balloons and aeroplanes, but never with an airship like this, which combines the two features.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000038_000000.wav|"Can you get any more of these?" went on mr Roberts.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000061_000001.wav|mr Barcoe Jenks.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000056_000000.wav|"I was told that you did," was the rather surprising answer.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000009_000001.wav|Delighted, as the boys say.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000034_000004.wav|I should say it was worth two thousand dollars as it is now."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000052_000000.wav|"I'll see about this," exclaimed Tom, striding to the large shed, where the Red Cloud was kept.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000024_000001.wav|"But these are diamonds of such a peculiar kind, so perfect and without a flaw, that I wondered from what part of the world they came."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000003_000000.wav|"Is what gone?" asked Tom, grimly.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000014_000000.wav|Tom readily agreed, and a few minutes later he had caught a trolley going into the city.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000005_000000.wav|"My monoplane and I together did," was the reply; "or, rather, we didn't.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000041_000001.wav|He thanked the diamond merchant for his kindness, and arranged to have the cut stone set in a pin for Miss Nestor.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000043_000002.wav|When mr Jenks comes to night I'll tell him I'll help him to get his rights, and discover the secret of the diamond makers."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000029_000001.wav|"We are very glad to have had the opportunity of seeing such stones.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000007_000001.wav|"Did you think it was a hob goblin in a chariot of fire after you, Andy?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000029_000000.wav|"Nothing," was the unexpected answer.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000014_000001.wav|He was soon in one of the largest jewelry stores of Chester.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000011_000000.wav|"Good riddance," murmured Tom.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000026_000003.wav|The Kimberly products are not to be compared to these," and he looked at the two stones in his hand-the one cut, and sparkling brilliantly, the other in a rough state.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000060_000000.wav|"mr Jenks?" Tom could not conceal his astonishment.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000028_000002.wav|How much is your charge?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000025_000000.wav|"Then they are diamonds?" asked Tom, eagerly.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000010_000001.wav|He knew that Tom would have a clear case against him, and he did not dare answer.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000052_000001.wav|As he entered it he saw a man looking over the wonderful craft.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000040_000000.wav|"Then if you succeed I wish you would sell us some," fairly begged the proprietor of the store.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000026_000000.wav|"The finest I have ever tested!" declared the other man, evidently mr Porter, the gem expert.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000037_000001.wav|He could scarcely believe the good news.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000054_000000.wav|"I did, and I apologize for entering here, but I am interested in airships, and I thought you might want to hire a pilot.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000027_000000.wav|"Do you care to state where these diamonds came from?" asked mr Roberts, looking critically at Tom.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000008_000002.wav|I'll have you arrested for this!"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000017_000000.wav|The young man disappeared into a private office with the stones, and Tom waited.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000021_000000.wav|"I wanted to find out if they were of any value," he said.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000002_000000.wav|"Is it-is it gone?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000032_000000.wav|"What is the value of these stones?" asked Tom.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000031_000001.wav|"We will pay you the full market price."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000057_000000.wav|"Who told you?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000009_000000.wav|"Will you?|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000050_000000.wav|"In the airship shed!|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000004_000002.wav|"Did you knock me off my wheel?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000019_000000.wav|"Will you kindly step inside here?" requested the elderly man.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000007_000000.wav|"Have it your own way," resumed our hero.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000039_000000.wav|"I think so-that is I don't know-I am going to try," answered the lad.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000037_000000.wav|Tom shook his head.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000050_000001.wav|No strangers are allowed in there, Rad."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000001_000002.wav|But, a little later, Andy cautiously raised his head, and inquired in a frightened voice:|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000006_000001.wav|He wasn't hurt much, Tom thought.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000021_000001.wav|"Are they diamonds?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000034_000003.wav|The other is larger, though what it would lose in cutting would be hard to say.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000013_000000.wav|"Indeed, you're welcome to leave it there without pay," was the answer. "I'm interested in airships, and, I'll consider it a favor if you'll let me look yours over while it's here."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000008_000000.wav|"Huh!|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000043_000001.wav|"It will be a risky trip, perhaps, but I've taken risks before.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000019_000001.wav|When the door was closed, Tom found himself in a room which was mostly taken up with a bench for the display of precious stones, a few chairs, and some lights arranged peculiarly; while various scales and instruments stood on a table.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000061_000003.wav|I would like to hire out to you, but the real object of my visit was to say this to you."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000062_000000.wav|The man approached still closer to Tom, and, in a lower voice, and one that could scarcely be heard, he fairly hissed:|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000044_000000.wav|As Tom was wheeling the Butterfly into the shed, Eradicate came out to help him.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000012_000000.wav|"I'll pay you if you'll let me store my machine in the barn a little while, until I go into the city, and return," spoke the lad.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000048_000000.wav|"It isn't mr Damon; is it, Rad?|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000033_000000.wav|mr Roberts looked at his gem expert.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000046_000000.wav|"Who is it?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000028_000000.wav|"I had rather not," answered the lad.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287359/8498_287359_000026_000001.wav|"They are a joy to look at, mr Roberts," he went on, turning to the proprietor.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000066_000003.wav|Take it, and-and give it to the person for whom you were about to purchase a diamond to night.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000046_000001.wav|I was taken into a small chamber of the cave, and there saw quite a complicated apparatus.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000066_000002.wav|I intended it for you, anyhow, for what you did for me on Earthquake Island.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000041_000000.wav|"I don't know, exactly-it's somewhere in the Rockies, but the exact location is a mystery.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000042_000002.wav|After traveling for some distance I was led, still blindfolded, up a steep trail.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000038_000001.wav|An expert gem merchant, to whom I took them, said he had never seen any diamonds like them, and he wanted to know where I got them.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000064_000003.wav|Was his story, fantastical as it sounded-true?|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000057_000005.wav|It is my right."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000058_000000.wav|"I agree with you," spoke Tom.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000001.wav|I got your address from the owner of the yacht Resolute.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000006.wav|Will you come?|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000064_000004.wav|Would it be safe for Tom to go?|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000057_000002.wav|Probably the stones are worth nearly as much as the money I invested, but I was cheated, for I was promised an equal share in the profits.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000049_000002.wav|In the rays of the moon it showed all the colors of the rainbow-a beautiful gem.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000063_000001.wav|"Will you go with me on this quest-go in your airship to discover the secret of the diamond makers?|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000027_000002.wav|But I could not attract your attention without also attracting that of the jeweler. He became suspicious, gave chase, and I thought it best to vanish.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000004.wav|He called at my apartments about a week later, saying he had secured work as an expert setter of diamonds, and wanted to repay me.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000051_000000.wav|"How?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000004.wav|Will you come with me to discover the secret of Phantom Mountain?|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000002.wav|I knew that if there was one person who could aid me to recover my rights, it would be you, Tom Swift.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000021_000001.wav|"Do you want to hear my story?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000006.wav|I talked with the man, and he made a curious statement.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000064_000001.wav|How far was mr Jenks to be trusted?|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000056_000001.wav|I spent some time in the Rockies, but no one could tell where Phantom Mountain was; in fact, few had heard of it, and I was nearly lost searching for it.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000034_000002.wav|He said he and some other friends of his, who were diamond cutters, had a plant in the midst of the Rocky Mountains, where they had succeeded in making several small, but very perfect diamonds.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000060_000000.wav|"But how can you locate it, if you were blindfolded when you were taken there, mr Jenks?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000030_000002.wav|My father, or mr Jackson, or the housekeeper, may hear us talking, and it may disturb them.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000063_000003.wav|Will you go, Tom Swift?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000055_000000.wav|"Didn't you try to find the cave again?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000040_000000.wav|"Phantom Mountain?" interrupted Tom.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000030_000001.wav|"But first let me suggest that we move farther away from the house.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000053_000000.wav|"What happened?" asked Tom, much surprised by the unexpected outcome of the affair.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000003.wav|Will you help me?|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000032_000000.wav|"I'll make it as short as possible," went on the queer man.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, I don't mind being awakened," answered Tom, good naturedly, "but I will be frank with you, mr Jenks.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000005.wav|I did not want to take his money, but the fact that such a sorry looking specimen of manhood as he had been when I aided him, was an expert handler of gems interested me.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000024_000000.wav|"I'm used to danger," answered Tom, quietly.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000052_000000.wav|"As soon as the men got the cash, they had no further use for me.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000026_000000.wav|"Why not?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000054_000002.wav|They did not want me to learn the secret of their diamond making, and they drugged me, carried me away from the cave, and left me in the hotel."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000034_000001.wav|I laughed at him, but he told me so many details that I began to believe him.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000014_000000.wav|"Why?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000045_000000.wav|"Well, I waited, and, all that while, I was virtually a prisoner in the cave.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000000.wav|"I was touched by the man's appearance, and gave him some money.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000013_000000.wav|"I realize that, Tom Swift," was the answer, and the lad noticed that the man spoke much more calmly than he had that evening at the jewelry shop.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000019_000000.wav|"I can prove it to you," was the quiet answer.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000021_000000.wav|"All except this process-the process used at Phantom Mountain," insisted the queer man.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000052_000001.wav|The next I remember is eating a rude meal, while we discussed the future of making diamonds.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000041_000001.wav|That is why I need your help.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000027_000001.wav|That will prove my story better than any amount of words or argument.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000018_000001.wav|I hardly can believe what you have stated to me several times-that you know how diamonds can be made."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000057_000003.wav|These were denied me, and I was tricked.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000063_000002.wav|If you will, I will share with you whatever diamonds we can discover, or make; besides paying all expenses.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000032_000002.wav|I was living in New York City at the time, and this was midnight, as I was returning home from my club.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000062_000000.wav|"Perhaps," admitted the young inventor.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000030_000003.wav|Come with me to my private shop," and Tom led the way to a small building where he did experimental work.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000041_000003.wav|Well, as I said, myself, Folwell and the others, who were not exactly prepossessing sort of men, started west.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000050_000000.wav|"Naturally I was much impressed by what I saw, and, after I had made certain tests which convinced me that the stones in the steel box were diamonds, I paid over the money as I had promised.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000028_000001.wav|But how did you happen to come to Shopton?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000066_000000.wav|"Here," said the strange man, "I will prove what I say.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000027_000000.wav|"Because I want to present you with a beautiful stone, that will answer your purpose as well or better, than any one you could buy.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000064_000002.wav|Were the stones he had real diamonds?|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000059_000002.wav|But I knew I needed an airship in which to fly over the mountains, and pick out the location of the cave where the diamonds are made."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000011_000000.wav|CHAPTER three-A STRANGE STORY|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000028_000000.wav|"No, the lad whom mr Track caught was let go.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000046_000000.wav|"At last one night, during a terrific thunder storm, the leader of the diamond makers-Folwell-announced that I could now see the stones made. The men had been preparing their chemicals for some days previous.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000049_000003.wav|"That is one of the stones I made-or rather that I supposed I had made," went on mr Jenks.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000065_000000.wav|The lad asked himself these questions.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000066_000004.wav|But, first of all, take it to a gem expert, and get his opinion.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000034_000005.wav|They had all agreed to go out into civilization, and work for enough funds to enable them to go on with their diamond making.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000061_000001.wav|I caught a glimpse of a very peculiarly shaped cliff-it is like a great head, standing out in bold relief against the moonlight, when I saw it.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000049_000000.wav|mr Jenks held out one hand.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000012_000000.wav|"Well, mr Jenks," began Tom, when he had descended to the garden, and greeted the man who had acted so strangely on Earthquake Island, "this is rather an odd time for a visit."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000052_000002.wav|I knew nothing more until I found myself back in the small hotel at Indian Ridge, whence I had gone some time previous, with the men, to the cave in the mountain."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000061_000003.wav|It may be the landmark by which we can locate Phantom Mountain."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000020_000002.wav|But they have all been failures."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000027_000003.wav|I hope no one was made to suffer for what may have been my imprudence."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000034_000003.wav|They had come to the end of their rope, though, so to speak, because they could not afford to buy the materials needed.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000013_000001.wav|"I realize that, but I have to be cautious in my movements."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000041_000002.wav|You will soon understand the reason.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000044_000001.wav|I refused to do this until I had seen some of the precious stones, and they agreed that this was fair, but said I would have to wait a few days.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000020_000000.wav|"Yes, I know.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000061_000000.wav|"I forgot to tell you that, on our journey into the mountains, and just before I was carried into the cave, I managed to raise one corner of the bandage.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000032_000001.wav|"To begin with, it is now several years ago since a poorly dressed stranger applied to me one night for money enough to get a meal and a bed to sleep in.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000000.wav|"To see you.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000001.wav|He asked for my card, saying he would repay me some day.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000054_000001.wav|As soon as the men had my money they had no further use for me.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000035_000000.wav|"I hardly knew whether to believe the man or not, but he offered proof. He had several small, but very perfect diamonds with him, and he gave them to me, to have tested in any way I desired.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000044_000000.wav|"Next they demanded that I give them a large sum, which I had promised when they showed me, conclusively, that they could make diamonds.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000030_000004.wav|He unlocked the door with a key he carried, turned on the lights, which were run by a storage battery, and motioned mr Jenks to a seat.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000042_000000.wav|"I did not want to agree to this, but they insisted, and I gave in, foolishly perhaps.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000025_000001.wav|I tried to attract your attention at the store, because I saw that you were going to buy a diamond, and I didn't want you to."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000003.wav|But I did.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000024_000001.wav|"Let me hear your story. But first explain how you came to come here, and why you acted so strangely at the jewelry store."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000065_000001.wav|mr Jenks saw his hesitation.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000023_000000.wav|"Then let me warn you," went on mr Jenks, "that if you do hear it, you will be so fascinated by it that I am sure you will want to cast your lot in with mine, and aid me to get my rights, and solve the mystery. And I also want to warn you that if you do, there is a certain amount of danger connected with it."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000015_000000.wav|"Because there are enemies on my track.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000057_000004.wav|I determined to be revenged, or at least to discover the secret of making diamonds.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000064_000000.wav|The young inventor did not know what to answer.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000036_000000.wav|"I promised to look into the matter, and, as I was quite wealthy, as, in fact I am now, and if I found that the stones he gave me were real, I said I might invest some money in the plant."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000039_000000.wav|"To make a long story short, I saw Folwell again, told him to communicate with his companions, and to tell them that I would agree to supply the cash needed, if I could share in the diamond making.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000057_000000.wav|"I came back East, determined to get even.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000038_000000.wav|"They were-stones of the first water, though small.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000016_000000.wav|"Are you in earnest, mr Jenks?"|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000043_000003.wav|I had to agree.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000054_000000.wav|"I had been tricked, that was all!|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000007.wav|I will pay you well."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000033_000002.wav|I gave it to him, little thinking I would hear from the man again.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000056_000000.wav|"I did, but without avail.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000031_000000.wav|"Now I'll hear your story," said Tom.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000025_000000.wav|"Willingly.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000047_000000.wav|"We will let you make some diamonds for yourself," Folwell said to me, and he directed me to pull the lever of the box, at a certain signal. The signal came, just as a terrific crash of thunder shook the very mountain inside of which we were.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000015_000001.wav|If they thought I was seeking aid to discover the secret of Phantom Mountain, my life might pay the forfeit."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000043_000001.wav|The men were with me, and they apologized for the necessity that caused them to blindfold me.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000049_000001.wav|In the palm glittered a large stone-ostensibly a diamond.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000050_000001.wav|That was my undoing."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000038_000002.wav|Of course I did not tell him.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000046_000002.wav|Part of it was a great steel box, with a lever on it.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000022_000000.wav|"I have no objections."|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8498/287357/8498_287357_000029_000005.wav|If we go, it will have to be in an airship, for in no other way, I think, can we come upon the place, as it is closely guarded.|8498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000007_000002.wav|He knew the difference between a smooth yoke and a rough one, a bad fit and a good fit; the difference also it made to the patient animal which had to wear it. The rough yoke galled, and the burden was heavy; the smooth yoke caused no pain, and the load was lightly drawn.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000007_000001.wav|It is the literal wooden yoke which He, with His own hands in the carpenter shop, had probably often made.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000006_000000.wav|It is not a malicious contrivance for making work hard; it is a gentle device to make hard labor light.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000014_000001.wav|Suppose the attraction of the earth were removed?|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000003.wav|It is just the opposite.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000013_000001.wav|It has a perfectly miraculous gift of healing.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000007.wav|It is still the whole world's problem.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000001_000001.wav|After the statement, "Learn of Me," Christ throws in the disconcerting qualification:|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000002.wav|Is it to be a burden to the animal which wears it?|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000003_000002.wav|Is the Christian life, after all, what its enemies take it for-an additional weight to the already great woe of life, some extra punctiliousness about duty, some painful devotion to observances, some heavy restriction and trammeling of all that is joyous and free in the world?|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000003.wav|It was simply life, human life itself, the general burden of life which all must carry with them from the cradle to the grave.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000001_000000.wav|There is still one doubt to clear up.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000000_000001.wav|WHAT YOKES ARE FOR.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000004.wav|Christ saw that men took life painfully.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000010.wav|Look at it from My point of view.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000012_000000.wav|This is the origin, among other things, of a disease called "touchiness"--a disease which, in spite of its innocent name, is one of the gravest sources of restlessness in the world.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000006_000004.wav|How many, especially among the young, has this one mistaken phrase driven forever away from the kingdom of God?|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000009.wav|Take life as I take it.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000006_000003.wav|For generations we have had homilies on "The Yoke of Christ"--some delighting in portraying its narrow exactions; some seeking in these exactions the marks of its divinity; others apologizing for it, and toning it down; still others assuring us that, although it be very bad, it is not to be compared with the positive blessings of Christianity.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000006.wav|How to carry this burden of life had been the whole world's problem.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000005.wav|Attached to the oxen in any other way than by a yoke, the plough would be intolerable.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000007.wav|A yoke is not an instrument of torture; it is|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000006_000001.wav|It is not meant to give pain, but to save pain.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000013_000002.wav|Without doing any violence to human nature it sets it right with life, harmonizing it with all surrounding things, and restoring those who are jaded with the fatigue and dust of the world to a new grace of living.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000012.wav|Take My yoke and learn of Me, and you will find it easy.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000011_000000.wav|is simply His secret for the alleviation of human life, His prescription for the best and happiest method of living.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000015_000003.wav|For the most part their attainment is hopeless and the results wretched.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000013_000003.wav|In the mere matter of altering the perspective of life and changing the proportions of things, its function in lightening the care of man is altogether its own.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000011_000003.wav|A rough, ill fitted collar at the best, they make its strain and friction past enduring, by placing it where the neck is most sensitive; and by mere continuous irritation this sensitiveness increases until the whole nature is quick and sore.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000015_000001.wav|But let us be quite sure when we speak of Christianity that we mean Christ's Christianity.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000009_000002.wav|What Christianity does propose is to make it tolerable.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000003_000003.wav|Is life not hard and sorrowful enough without being fettered with yet another yoke?|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000011_000002.wav|The harness they put on is antiquated.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000000.wav|And what was the "burden"?|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000014_000005.wav|So without changing one's circumstances, merely by offering a wider horizon and a different standard, it alters the whole aspect of the world.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000001.wav|Did you ever stop to ask what a yoke is really for?|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000009_000001.wav|That would be to absolve him from living, since it is life itself that is the burden.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000002.wav|It was what all men bear.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000006.wav|Worked by means of a yoke, it is light.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000004_000004.wav|It is to make its burden light.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8157/925_8157_000008_000011.wav|Interpret it upon My principles.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000014_000001.wav|God loves me!"|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000015_000004.wav|And there is no other way to get it. There is no mystery about it.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000006_000007.wav|By synthesis of all the virtues, men can make virtue, they cannot make love.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000005_000000.wav|What was Christ doing in the carpenter's shop?|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000003_000004.wav|What makes a man a good linguist, a good stenographer?|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000005_000009.wav|Therefore keep in the midst of life.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000003_000001.wav|Practice.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000006_000006.wav|And love is something more than all its elements-a palpitating, quivering, sensitive, living thing. By synthesis of all the colors, men can make whiteness, they cannot make light.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000003_000007.wav|Practice.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000014_000000.wav|"God loves me!|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000003_000013.wav|And the constituents of this great character are only to be built up by|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000007_000004.wav|We cannot help it.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000003_000003.wav|Practice.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000003_000005.wav|Practice.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000007_000012.wav|And so look at this Perfect Character, this Perfect Life.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000000_000007.wav|And|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000006_000010.wav|We try to copy those who have it.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000006_000000.wav|How?|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000007_000013.wav|Look at|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000005_000008.wav|It is growing more beautiful, though you see it not; and every touch of temptation may add to its perfection.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8141/925_8141_000000_000005.wav|The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000010_000003.wav|Christ, the Spirit of Christ, interpenetrating ours, sweetens, purifies, transforms all.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000003_000002.wav|This compatibility of ill temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000010_000002.wav|Souls are made sweet not by taking the acid fluids out, but by putting something in-a great Love, a new Spirit, the Spirit of Christ.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000006_000003.wav|What is it made of?|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000009_000005.wav|A want of patience, a want of kindness, a want of generosity, a want of courtesy, a want of unselfishness, are all instantaneously symbolized in one flash of Temper.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000006_000001.wav|"He was angry," we read, "and would not go in." Look at the effect upon the father, upon the servants, upon the happiness of the guests.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000010_000000.wav|Hence it is not enough to deal with the Temper.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000017_000004.wav|To be trusted is to be saved.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000003_000001.wav|You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick tempered, or "touchy" disposition.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000003_000007.wav|But are we right?|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000010_000006.wav|Time does not change men.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000003_000006.wav|Its brand falls, without a challenge, upon the Prodigal.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000007_000000.wav|BORN AGAIN,|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/925/8140/925_8140_000016_000001.wav|In an atmosphere of suspicion men shrivel up; but in that atmosphere they expand, and find encouragement and educative fellowship.|925
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000007_000005.wav|He must be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000007_000001.wav|Paris has been transformed since he quitted it.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000013_000002.wav|Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself aware of it, to the peculiarities of this good man and to the freaks of destiny.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000013_000003.wav|And then she was with him, and she felt safe.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000012_000000.wav|The moon was full that night.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000011_000000.wav|This manoeuvre is peculiar to the hunted stag.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000008_000000.wav|May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present?|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000007_000003.wav|There is no need for him to say that he loves Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000014_000005.wav|Was not he disguised?|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000009_000000.wav|Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being followed.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000005_000000.wav|CHAPTER one-THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000007_000000.wav|The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning himself, has been absent from Paris for many years.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000013_000000.wav|Cosette walked on without asking any questions.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000008_000001.wav|That said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168638/3328_168638_000012_000004.wav|He did not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the dark side escaped him.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000013_000002.wav|She was forced to sit down.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000019_000001.wav|Man requires light.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000006_000010.wav|She only paused in her course when her breath failed her; but she did not halt in her advance.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000022_000001.wav|Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, felt cold; she rose; her terror, a natural and unconquerable terror, had returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the lighted candles.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000003_000003.wav|She plunged into it.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000022_000002.wav|Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; such was the fright which the Thenardier inspired in her, that she dared not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both hands; she could hardly lift the pail.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000009_000002.wav|On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an atom.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000019_000003.wav|When the eye sees black, the heart sees trouble.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000027_000002.wav|This anguish was mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000010_000003.wav|A remnant of instinct guided her vaguely.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000012_000000.wav|Cosette did not take time to breathe.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000016_000000.wav|Jupiter was setting in the depths.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000012_000001.wav|It was very dark, but she was in the habit of coming to this spring.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000019_000002.wav|Whoever buries himself in the opposite of day feels his heart contract.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000010_000002.wav|Strange to say, she did not get lost.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000019_000000.wav|The darkness was bewildering.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000005_000010.wav|She took a good look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw spectres moving in the trees.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000003_000002.wav|The poor child found herself in the dark.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000004_000004.wav|Then the woman recognized Cosette.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000013_000001.wav|She would have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000005_000004.wav|When she had passed the corner of the last house, Cosette paused.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000012_000007.wav|She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it on the grass.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000006_000005.wav|Where was she to go?|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000006_000004.wav|What was to become of her?|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000005_000003.wav|But in proportion as she advanced, her pace slackened mechanically, as it were.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000023_000002.wav|After some seconds of repose she set out again. She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000028_000000.wav|At that moment she suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000012_000004.wav|While thus bent over, she did not notice that the pocket of her apron had emptied itself into the spring.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000021_000000.wav|Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror alone which was gaining possession of her; it was something more terrible even than terror; she shivered.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000022_000000.wav|Then, by a sort of instinct, she began to count aloud, one, two, three, four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state which she did not understand, but which terrified her, and, when she had finished, she began again; this restored her to a true perception of the things about her.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000011_000001.wav|A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little noise.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000004_000003.wav|Is it a werewolf child?"|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000006_000003.wav|What was she to do?|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000015_000000.wav|Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like masses of smoke.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000004_000005.wav|"Well," said she, "it's the Lark!"|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000005_000008.wav|Black and desert space was before her.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/168626/3328_168626_000002_000000.wav|As the Thenardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000041_000000.wav|So thinking I became aware of increasing light; strode past Yuruk to the door and peeped out.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000026_000001.wav|"You will take them and go by that path?"|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000009_000001.wav|"Those who are unlike us smote those who are like us and drove them back when they would have taken and slain us.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000038_000001.wav|A secretion of the brain? The cumulative expression, wholly chemical, of the multitudes of cells that form us?|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000043_000001.wav|"Goodwin, you ought not to have let me sleep so long.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000030_000000.wav|And by that curious human habit of seeking for the complex when the simple answer lies close, failed to recognize that it was jealousy of us that was the root of his behavior; that he wished to be, as it would seem he had been for years, the only human thing near Norhala; failed to realize this, and with ruth and Drake was terribly to pay for this failure.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000000.wav|Cherkis?|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000041_000002.wav|I stooped over Drake, shook him.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000014_000003.wav|Much, I think.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000011_000000.wav|He spat-in a way that made me want to kill him.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000010_000001.wav|"Cherkis would forgive much for her.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000041_000003.wav|On the instant he was awake, alert.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000024_000001.wav|"Take those who came with you and follow it."|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000014_000004.wav|Go then to him-unafraid."|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000020_000005.wav|Well?|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000027_000001.wav|"Not yet."|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000008_000001.wav|"The way leads to them; to their place.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000043_000002.wav|I feel like a damned pig."|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000020_000001.wav|The goddess was born here.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000044_000001.wav|"But watch the eunuch closely."|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000022_000001.wav|Over the floor he slid, still holding fast to me, and pressed against the farther wall.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000003.wav|Of course-it was the name of Xerxes, the Persian Conqueror, corrupted by time into this-Cherkis.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000021_000002.wav|Cleave to your kind.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000029_000001.wav|He slid the door into place, turned sullenly.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000002_000002.wav|Answer my questions truthfully and it may be that we shall return through that door."|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000042_000000.wav|"I only need a little sleep, Dick," I said.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000020_000004.wav|Was not the father of Iskander the god Zeus Ammon, who came to Iskander's mother in the form of a great snake?|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000039_000000.wav|Is it what many call the soul?|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000004.wav|And Iskander?|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000028_000000.wav|And was brought abruptly to full alertness, vigilance, by the flame of rage that filled the eyes thrust so close.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000021_000000.wav|"Cleave to your kind!|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000029_000000.wav|"Lead back," I directed curtly.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000032_000001.wav|"And turn your back to me."|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000005.wav|Equally, of course-Alexander.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000005_000000.wav|I had not been blind to the flash of malice, of cunning, that had shot across the wrinkled face.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000002.wav|Cherkis?|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000024_000000.wav|"Follow it." He pointed.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000032_000000.wav|"Sit," I ordered the eunuch.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000001.wav|There was a familiar sound to that.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000043_000000.wav|"Why, it's dawn," he whispered.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000014_000000.wav|"Cherkis," he whined.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000017_000000.wav|"Long ago," he answered; "long, long ago there was trouble in their city, even in the great dwelling place of Cherkis.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000004_000002.wav|I can show it to you."|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000013_000000.wav|"Cherkis?" I asked.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000015_000006.wav|Ventnor had been right.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000035_000001.wav|Clearly it came to me that these were sense organs!|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000006_000002.wav|Does your way lead to them, Yuruk?"|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3328/166436/3328_166436_000027_000000.wav|"Not yet," I answered absently.|3328
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000005_000004.wav|In other words, he prefers death and murder due to ambition, to abstinence and wisdom.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000020_000002.wav|If the author does not actually feel what he expresses, then the recipient can not become infected with the feeling of the author, does not experience any feeling, and the production can no longer be classified as a work of art.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000016_000002.wav|And he who will attentively read Shakespeare's works can not fail to recognize that the description of this Shakespearian view of life by his admirers is quite correct.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000001_000000.wav|But, perhaps, the height of Shakespeare's conception of life is such that, tho he does not satisfy the esthetic demands, he discloses to us a view of life so new and important for men that, in consideration of its importance, all his failures as an artist become imperceptible.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000005_000001.wav|And happiness and success, according to Shakespeare, are attained by individuals possessing this active character, not at all owing to the superiority of their nature; on the contrary, notwithstanding their inferior gifts, the capacity of activity itself always gives them the advantage over inactivity, quite independent of any consideration whether the inactivity of some persons flows from excellent impulses and the activity of others from bad ones.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000011_000002.wav|But even for such educated people, Shakespeare's teaching is not always without danger. The condition on which his teaching is quite harmless is that it should be accepted in all its completeness, in all its parts, without any omission.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000006_000005.wav|He did not admit that the limits of duties should exceed the biddings of Nature.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000007_000000.wav|That one may do too much good (exceed the reasonable limits of good) is convincingly proved by Shakespeare's words and examples.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000022_000000.wav|The second condition also, with the exception of the rendering of the scenes in which the movement of feelings is expressed, is quite absent in Shakespeare.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000003_000000.wav|The ethical authority of this supreme teacher of life consists in the following: The starting point of Shakespeare's conception of life, says Gervinus, is that man is gifted with powers of activity, and therefore, first of all, according to Gervinus, Shakespeare regarded it as good and necessary for man that he should act (as if it were possible for a man not to act):|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000005_000002.wav|"Activity is good, inactivity is evil. Activity transforms evil into good," says Shakespeare, according to Gervinus.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000002_000001.wav|Gervinus devotes the concluding chapter of his second volume, about fifty pages, to an explanation of this.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000022_000001.wav|He does not grasp the natural character of the positions of his personages, nor the language of the persons represented, nor the feeling of measure without which no work can be artistic.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000020_000001.wav|Without this condition there can be no work of art, as the essence of art consists in the contemplation of the work of art being infected with the author's feeling.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000012_000000.wav|In order thus to accept all, one should understand that, according to his teaching, it is stupid and harmful for the individual to revolt against, or endeavor to overthrow, the limits of established religious and state forms.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000012_000008.wav|Even if the attraction of honors and false power treacherously obtained were to cease, could the poet admit of the most dreadful of all violence, that of the ignorant crowd?|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000012_000007.wav|How could a man who so eloquently attracts people toward honors, permit that the very aspiration toward that which was great be crushed together with rank and distinction for services, and, with the destruction of all degrees, "the motives for all high undertakings be stifled"?|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000001_000001.wav|So, indeed, say Shakespeare's admirers.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000012_000004.wav|Property, the family, the state, are sacred; but aspiration toward the recognition of the equality of men is insanity.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000015_000001.wav|And indeed, Shakespeare always held that there are no unconditional prohibitions, nor unconditional duties.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000011_000001.wav|They are comprehensible and accessible only to the educated, from whom one can expect that they should acquire the healthy tact of life and self consciousness by means of which the innate guiding powers of conscience and reason, uniting with the will, lead us to the definite attainment of worthy aims in life.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000017_000000.wav|The merit of every poetic work depends on three things:|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/37092/5333_37092_000011_000000.wav|"There are classes of men whose morality is best guarded by the positive precepts of religion and state law; to such persons Shakespeare's creations are inaccessible.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5097/5333_5097_000006_000000.wav|And hurry, hurry, off they rode, As fast as fast might be; Hurra, hurra, the dead can ride, Dost fear to ride with me? Burger.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5097/5333_5097_000001_000000.wav|ROB ROY|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5097/5333_5097_000002_000000.wav|By Sir Walter Scott|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000009.wav|Interdicted by her master from speaking to him on the subject of the heaths, glades, and dales of her beloved Northumberland, she poured herself forth to my infant ear in descriptions of the scenes of her youth, and long narratives of the events which tradition declared to have passed amongst them.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000014_000008.wav|All our family renown was acquired-all our family misfortunes were occasioned-by the northern wars.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000004.wav|But I was not prepared for the air of easy self possession and superiority with which he seemed to predominate over the company into which he was thrown, as it were by accident.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000007.wav|And yet, under these disadvantages, he seemed, as a matter of course, to treat the rest of the company with the cool and condescending politeness which implies a real, or imagined, superiority over those towards whom it is used.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000006.wav|But his designs, as will happen occasionally to the wisest, were, in some degree at least, counteracted by a being whom his pride would never have supposed of importance adequate to influence them in any way.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000014_000001.wav|The inhabitants of the opposite frontier served in her narratives to fill up the parts which ogres and giants with seven leagued boots occupy in the ordinary nursery tales.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000001.wav|Yet, from an early period, they had occupied and interested my imagination.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000015_000002.wav|The Scottish mercantile men, whom he was under the necessity of employing as a sort of middle men on these occasions, were also suspected by my father of having secured, by one means or other, more than their own share of the profit which ought to have accrued.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000000.wav|This was the first time I had heard the Scottish accent, or, indeed, that I had familiarly met with an individual of the ancient nation by whom it was spoken.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000029_000002.wav|I could not help overhearing him pressing something-I supposed his company upon the journey, which mr Campbell seemed to decline.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000029_000000.wav|So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000001.wav|The divisions of Whig and Tory then shook England to her very centre, and a powerful party, engaged in the Jacobite interest, menaced the dynasty of Hanover, which had been just established on the throne.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000014_000000.wav|Now, in the legends of Mabel, the Scottish nation was ever freshly remembered, with all the embittered declamation of which the narrator was capable.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000002.wav|He had the hard features and athletic form said to be peculiar to his country, together with the national intonation and slow pedantic mode of expression, arising from a desire to avoid peculiarities of idiom or dialect.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000000.wav|On the subject of politics, Campbell observed a silence and moderation which might arise from caution.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000029_000001.wav|My companion made up to him, and taking him by the button, drew him aside into one of the windows.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000005.wav|Dire was the screaming-deep the oaths!|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000036_000000.wav|"The gentleman," replied I, "knows his own affairs best, and I should be sorry to constitute myself a judge of them in any respect."|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000015_000001.wav|He had engaged in some large speculations concerning oak woods, the property of Highland proprietors, and alleged, that he found them much more ready to make bargains, and extort earnest of the purchase money, than punctual in complying on their side with the terms of the engagements.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000009.wav|Mine host and his Sunday guests, after an effort or two to support their consequence by noise and bold averment, sunk gradually under the authority of mr Campbell, who thus fairly possessed himself of the lead in the conversation.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000028_000000.wav|"We can scarce travel together," he replied, drily.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000006.wav|His conversation intimated that he was engaged in the cattle trade, no very dignified professional pursuit.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000031_000000.wav|"It is quite impossible," said Campbell, somewhat contemptuously; "I have business at Rothbury."|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000004.wav|The excise man, as in duty bound, and the attorney, who looked to some petty office under the Crown, together with my fellow traveller, who seemed to enter keenly into the contest, staunchly supported the cause of King George and the Protestant succession.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000038_000001.wav|I cannot tell whether he felt relieved or embarrassed by my departure, considering the dubious light in which he seemed to regard me.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000028_000001.wav|"You, sir, doubtless, are well mounted, and I for the present travel on foot, or on a Highland shelty, that does not help me much faster forward."|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000030_000000.wav|"I will pay your charges, sir," said the traveller, in a tone as if he thought the argument should bear down all opposition.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000014_000005.wav|And had we not many a trophy, but, according to old Mabel's version of history, far more honourably gained, to mark our revenge of these wrongs?|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000002.wav|Every alehouse resounded with the brawls of contending politicians, and as mine host's politics were of that liberal description which quarrelled with no good customer, his hebdomadal visitants were often divided in their opinion as irreconcilably as if he had feasted the Common Council.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000034_000000.wav|"That gentleman," I replied, looking towards the traveller, "is no friend of mine, but an acquaintance whom I picked up on the road.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000014_000004.wav|Was it not Wat the Devil, who drove all the year old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn side, in the very recent days of my grandfather's father?|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000038_000000.wav|Next day I parted company with my timid companion, as I left the great northern road to turn more westerly in the direction of Osbaldistone Manor, my uncle's seat.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000015_000000.wav|Warmed by such tales, I looked upon the Scottish people during my childhood, as a race hostile by nature to the more southern inhabitants of this realm; and this view of the matter was not much corrected by the language which my father sometimes held with respect to them.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000006.wav|Each party appealed to mr Campbell, anxious, it seemed, to elicit his approbation.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000013_000000.wav|Oh, the oak, the ash, and the bonny ivy tree, They flourish best at home in the North Countrie!|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000018_000003.wav|The curate and the apothecary, with a little man, who made no boast of his vocation, but who, from the flourish and snap of his fingers, I believe to have been the barber, strongly espoused the cause of high church and the Stuart line.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000007.wav|His nurse, an old Northumbrian woman, attached to him from his infancy, was the only person connected with his native province for whom he retained any regard; and when fortune dawned upon him, one of the first uses which he made of her favours, was to give Mabel Rickets a place of residence within his household.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000015_000004.wav|In justification, or apology, for those who entertained such prejudices, I must remark, that the Scotch of that period were guilty of similar injustice to the English, whom they branded universally as a race of purse proud arrogant epicures.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000001_000000.wav|It was on such a day, and such an occasion, that my timorous acquaintance and I were about to grace the board of the ruddy faced host of the Black Bear, in the town of Darlington, and bishopric of Durham, when our landlord informed us, with a sort of apologetic tone, that there was a Scotch gentleman to dine with us.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000001.wav|There was much about him that coincided with my previous conceptions.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000024_000000.wav|"And did you, sir, really," said my fellow traveller, edging his chair (I should have said his portmanteau) nearer to mr Campbell, "really and actually beat two highwaymen yourself alone?"|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000008.wav|When he gave his opinion on any point, it was with that easy tone of confidence used by those superior to their society in rank or information, as if what he said could not be doubted, and was not to be questioned.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000027_000000.wav|This piece of gratuitous information concerning the route he proposed to himself, the first I had heard my companion bestow upon any one, failed to excite the corresponding confidence of the Scotchman.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000037_000000.wav|mr Campbell made no farther observation, but merely wished me a good journey, and the party dispersed for the evening.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000008_000001.wav|But thou kens I'm an outspoken Yorkshire tyke.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000015_000005.wav|Such seeds of national dislike remained between the two countries, the natural consequences of their existence as separate and rival states.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000017_000005.wav|His dress was as coarse as it could be, being still decent; and, at a time when great expense was lavished upon the wardrobe, even of the lowest who pretended to the character of gentleman, this indicated mediocrity of circumstances, if not poverty.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000004_000001.wav|"I respect the Scotch, sir; I love and honour the nation for their sense of morality.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000003.wav|The quarrel betwixt him and his relatives was such, that he scarcely ever mentioned the race from which he sprung, and held as the most contemptible species of vanity, the weakness which is commonly termed family pride.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000004_000002.wav|Men talk of their filth and their poverty: but commend me to sterling honesty, though clad in rags, as the poet saith.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000026_000000.wav|"Upon my word, sir," replied my acquaintance, "I should be happy to have the pleasure of your company on my journey-I go northward, sir."|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000002_000000.wav|"A gentleman!--what sort of a gentleman?" said my companion somewhat hastily-his mind, I suppose, running on gentlemen of the pad, as they were then termed.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000011_000000.wav|So saying, he eagerly whetted his knife, assumed his seat of empire at the head of the board, and loaded the plates of his sundry guests with his good cheer.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000012_000004.wav|His ambition was only to be distinguished as William Osbaldistone, the first, at least one of the first, merchants on Change; and to have proved him the lineal representative of William the Conqueror would have far less flattered his vanity than the hum and bustle which his approach was wont to produce among the bulls, bears, and brokers of Stock alley.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000014_000002.wav|And how could it be otherwise?|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5333/5083/5333_5083_000015_000006.wav|We have seen recently the breath of a demagogue blow these sparks into a temporary flame, which I sincerely hope is now extinguished in its own ashes.|5333
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000027_000002.wav|It was she who caused this enchanted chamber to appear in the heart of the foundations of my castle; and in this chamber I have hidden since that terrible hour when the spell was put upon me.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000003_000001.wav|I have forgotten exactly what the quarrel was about, but I think that it had to do with the best spell for causing castles to fall to pieces in an instant.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000024_000003.wav|Beside the fireplace, in which a wood fire was cheerily burning, sat a gray haired lady, who was no other than the Fairy Jocapa, and in the centre of the room, reading a great book by the light of many candles, sat a young man, the King.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000003_000003.wav|So the poor old gentleman packed up his magic books, put his enchanter's wand into its silver case, and went to the country one pleasant day in search of a house.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000006_000001.wav|And he brought his possessions to the house.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000037_000000.wav|"Nothing whatever," replied the dog.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000038_000000.wav|"I will try to morrow," said the cat.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000043_000000.wav|Now Zidoc knew very well where the dog had concealed himself.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000055_000000.wav|The animals turned to look, and saw their master, the old enchanter.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000015_000002.wav|For a long time the enchanter, who loved his charges very much indeed, resisted their request; but as they continued to press him, he came at length to yield.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000013_000000.wav|Thus did the white puppy and black kitten change hands.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000015_000003.wav|Calling them before him, he said to them:--|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000035_000001.wav|When twilight came, the dog ran out and met the cat in the castle garden.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000052_000000.wav|When the darkness cleared, the hearts of the true animals fell for fear lest the sorcerer's ruse be successful; but they met the challenge readily, and instead of fleeing, stood their ground; the true dog battling with the false dog, the real cat with the false cat.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000055_000001.wav|He had been worried by their long absence and had gone forth to look for them.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000050_000002.wav|At the same moment he caused the locked door to fly open.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000004_000000.wav|Thanks to the advice of a friendly chimney swift, it did not take him long to find one.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000028_000009.wav|You know the rest.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000012_000000.wav|"Give them to me," said the old enchanter, "I will bring them up." The countryman nodded his head.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000060_000001.wav|He came to the castle gate to meet them, for Zidoc's overthrow had broken the spell which had so oddly disfigured him.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000014_000002.wav|So he taught the cat and the dog all the known languages, then history, arithmetic, dancing, social deportment, and a variety of the best magic and spells. The cat, as was to be expected, was particularly good on anything that had 'cat' in it; he once catalogued all the principal catastrophes; while the dog, although a good student, had a fancy for writing doggerel.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000005_000002.wav|Only the far away klingle klangle of a cow bell could be heard.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000021_000000.wav|"Very," whispered back the dog in his deeper tone.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000061_000000.wav|So the old enchanter gave his arm to the Fairy Jocapa, the Prince gave his to the white dog, and the cat followed all by himself.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000003_000002.wav|At any rate, Zidoc, who considered himself quite the most wonderful enchanter in Fairyland, was furious at being opposed, and told the old enchanter, very angrily, that he was not to have his classes any more and must leave the college at once.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000041_000000.wav|"Very little," replied the cat.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000005_000001.wav|It was very quiet.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000057_000000.wav|Now, if you remember the first part of this story, you will recall that Zidoc quarreled with the old enchanter over the right spell for destroying castles.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000007_000001.wav|Arriving at the crest of a little hill in the woodland, he saw below him, almost at the foot of the slope, a countryman with a white puppy and a black kitten following at his heels.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000026_000002.wav|Listen, then, to my story and help me if you can.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000019_000002.wav|Arriving in the twilight, they were somewhat surprised to find a number of torchbearers waiting for them in the castle courtyard.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000053_000001.wav|Hardly had he reached a point above the dog's jaws when a voice said:--|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000054_000002.wav|Stop your quarreling this instant!"|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000019_000004.wav|A few minutes later, a very old woman, who, the animals noticed, was stone blind, came to take them before the king.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000028_000001.wav|The driver of the chariot was a tall, elderly man, wearing a wizard's cap; his face was red as with anger, an evil light gleamed in his small malicious eyes.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000017_000000.wav|So the white dog, who was the stronger of the two, took the purse with the twelve golden coins, and put it in a large wallet which he wore at his side, and then both the wonderful animals said good bye.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000018_000004.wav|Both the cat and the dog were awarded countless honorary decorations.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000044_000001.wav|First, Zidoc locked the only door with a great key and then he said to Serponel,--|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000019_000003.wav|With great respect, these attendants conducted the cat and the dog into a little ante room, and then retired, leaving them alone.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000059_000000.wav|"There, I told him so!" said the old enchanter.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000003_000000.wav|The old enchanter liked this life of quiet and study, and doubtless would have been teaching in Fairyland to this very day, had he not been so unfortunate as to quarrel with the terrible sorcerer Zidoc, who was then Lord High Chancellor of the Fairies' College.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000047_000000.wav|"And something tells me that it is time to let him feel your staff."|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000027_000005.wav|But hearken to my story.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000033_000002.wav|The dog's plan was to pretend to be but an everyday stray dog, and to this end, he rolled several times in a mud puddle; the cat, too, was to appear as a stray cat, and neglected his fine black coat in order to look the part.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000027_000004.wav|The Lord Chancellor rules the kingdom in my stead.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000016_000000.wav|"Well, dear pupils, if you must go, you must go.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90852/7241_90852_000016_000001.wav|I owe the Fairy Jocapa twelve months rent for this house.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000027_000000.wav|"They will soon be coming to get us," said the King to the bird boy.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000025_000001.wav|And even if it were to come, what could it do to save us from these cruel people?"|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000019_000000.wav|When Malefico saw the bird boy, a look of surprise appeared on his face, for he had believed that the wonderful child was dead.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000031_000000.wav|The King and the Queen, Rosabella and the bird boy, rushed down the stairs and out into the sunlight.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000005_000002.wav|So the Queen and her baby were taken to an old and gloomy tower on a great rock overlooking the northern sea; and after they had been there a day or two, the chief jailer came to the Queen's room to take the child and kill him.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000028_000000.wav|And sure enough, they heard the jangle of the jailer's keys at the foot of the stair.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000005_000000.wav|Now it came to pass that before the harvest moon rose again over the land, the Queen became the mother of a little boy who was born with wings on his shoulders.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000009_000001.wav|So, instead of killing the bird boy, he carried him many leagues back into the dark forest which bordered the sea, and gave him to a family of charcoal burners.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000016_000001.wav|His enemy was no other than the wicked chamberlain Malefico, who had succeeded to the kingdom of the bird boy's father, when that Prince had died some years before. So the good King, who had been a real father to the bird boy, put on his shining armor, kissed his dear wife and child good bye, and rode off to the battlefield.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000013_000000.wav|So the bird boy became the best beloved playmate of the Queen's only child, her darling Rosabella.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000026_000000.wav|When the clock stood at five minutes to twelve, there was a confused noise below, and Malefico and the judges who shared with him the guilt of the unrighteous punishment took their places on a kind of platform which overlooked the place of execution.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000030_000003.wav|The doom which Malefico had intended for another had overtaken him.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000008_000004.wav|Crying mournfully, the bird circled the old tower thrice, and disappeared over the white capped waters.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000032_000000.wav|Thus it came to pass that, when the troops of Malefico saw their former Queen and heard her story, they acclaimed the bird boy as their rightful king, and carried him back in triumph into his own country.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000011_000001.wav|Really, dear, I must have him for my page.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000017_000002.wav|A great battle had been fought, the army of Rosabella's father had been completely defeated, and the troops of the wicked Malefico were hurrying toward the castle as fast as they could come.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000022_000002.wav|The morning was fresh and fair; a pleasant southwest wind was blowing.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000010_000001.wav|There was a pretty spring near the door of the hut, and the party came to a halt at its edge.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000008_000001.wav|But although she fought for her baby with all her might, the rude strength of the jailers prevailed, and the child was torn from its mother's arms.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000020_000000.wav|"If it were known that the winged child is alive," he thought, "the people would thrust me from my place, and restore him to his father's throne.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000017_000000.wav|A month passed, an unhappy month in which there were no tidings from the King.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000022_000000.wav|And now dawned the unhappy day.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000008_000002.wav|Then, before anyone could prevent her, the poor Queen beat open the rotted fastening of an old casement window, sprang upon the ledge, and giving one last look of love and tenderness to her unhappy child, leaped down into the sea surging and pounding over the rocks hundreds of feet below.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000009_000003.wav|And every year, on the boy's birthday, a great gray bird came flying over the forest from the distant ocean, circled thrice the charcoal burners' hut, and disappeared again, crying mournfully.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000014_000000.wav|Twelve years passed.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000022_000004.wav|The clock marked a quarter to twelve.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000011_000003.wav|Besides, he will be a playmate for Rosabella."|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000010_000003.wav|And a wonderful sight it was, indeed, to see the horses tossing their jeweled bridles, the hooded falcons riding on the saddlebow, clutching the leather with their curving claws, the merry young pages in their dark suits, and all the gay company in rich attire.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000020_000001.wav|Now that the bird boy is in my hands, I will destroy him, and be sure of my power."|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000013_000002.wav|It was a lovely picture to see the children building toy castles on the floor of the nursery in the castle tower, the sun streaming on the black brown hair and silver white wings of the little boy, and on the golden curls of Rosabella.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000015_000000.wav|Every year, on the bird boy's birthday, a great gray bird would fly in from over the sea, circle the castle thrice, and disappear, crying mournfully.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000013_000001.wav|Now, if the bird boy was the prettiest little boy in all the world, Rosabella was the prettiest little girl. Moreover, she had a sweet disposition, which is a gift even more precious than the gift of beauty.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000002_000000.wav|THE BIRD BOY|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000008_000003.wav|She certainly would have been dashed to pieces, had not a good spirit of the ocean taken pity on her, and changed her into a great gray bird.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7241/90850/7241_90850_000031_000003.wav|She took her son in her arms, and told them all his history and her misfortunes, and how she had watched over him year after year and gathered the birds to save him.|7241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000014_000000.wav|With mrs Darling to help them in launching their boat, Grace and her father put forth from the lighthouse, running their boat into the sea in the lee of the rocks, and pulling strongly for the wreck.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000010_000003.wav|Sails were hoisted, but were torn to ribbons by the wind.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000018_000003.wav|She also received four medals, and a large sum of money in private gifts.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000018_000001.wav|Scores of people visited the lighthouse.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000002_000000.wav|GRACE DARLING|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000020_000001.wav|Her confined life at the lighthouse and the exposure she underwent there resulted in the disease of consumption from which she rapidly wasted away.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000020_000002.wav|In spite of the best medical aid she steadily drooped, and two years after she had done her brave deed she died in the town of Bamborough where she had been born.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000014_000003.wav|They must succeed or die, and their chance of success was small.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000003_000002.wav|As is usual in such a locality it is the home of brave fishermen and daring boatmen who have many thrilling rescues to remember and many stormy encounters with the utmost fury of the sea.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000010_000005.wav|Fog and rain made it impossible for the sailors to see until they were in the teeth of the breakers, and then the beam of the lighthouse showed them the wild rocks only a short distance away.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000021_000000.wav|Again a subscription was collected and a monument was erected in her honor.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000004_000001.wav|Grace, who was the seventh of nine children, was born in eighteen fifteen, in Bamborough, and when she was a little girl of eleven years her father was given charge of the new light on Longstone Rock, which was one of a series of dangerous reefs where no vessel ever built could live when a gale was blowing.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000016_000002.wav|When the last person was aboard Darling clambered back, and with new hands at the oars the boat was rowed back to the lighthouse-a trip that required great strength and much time for the current was against them.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000017_000003.wav|In the course of a few days the fishermen succeeded in returning to the shore, taking with them the news.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000006_000000.wav|Grace did not find the life at the lighthouse unpleasant.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000011_000000.wav|Nothing could save them from destruction.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000018_000002.wav|Grace was feted and admired, and a public subscription in her benefit resulted in a gift of seven hundred pounds, or about thirty five hundred dollars of our money.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000009_000002.wav|She was a fine new steamer, well and strongly built, but she had put to sea with her boilers in poor condition, and it had been intended to give them a thorough overhauling in Dundee.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000007_000002.wav|But she possessed a kindly and winning nature, and, as will be seen, the ability to rise to heights of greatness when necessity called on her to do so.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000014_000001.wav|Father and daughter both labored at the oars, unable to speak on account of the roar of the sea and wind, and blinded by the spray that whirled over them.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000012_000001.wav|The after half of the vessel was swept away by the seas with many passengers and the captain and his wife.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000010_000002.wav|While pitching in the heavy seas the boilers leaked terribly, the fires were again put out and the ship became unmanageable.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000015_000002.wav|As the rescuers drew near the reef, Darling leaped ashore, and Grace kept the frail rowboat from dashing itself to pieces against the rocks.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000021_000001.wav|Her father and mother lived to a ripe old age, reaping benefits from the money that Grace had left them.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000004_000000.wav|Grace Horsley Darling was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper named William Darling, who tended a light on one of the Farne Islands as his father had done before him.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000016_000000.wav|Then followed the difficult task of getting the survivors into the boat.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000012_000003.wav|On the forward part of the ship about twelve wretched persons remained in most desperate plight, the seas breaking over them and threatening to engulf the remaining portion of the vessel.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000003_000001.wav|It is a coast that is feared by vessels and many wrecks have taken place there.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000019_000001.wav|They were astonished at the commotion their exploit had caused, for to them it appeared little more than a part of the day's work that duty required them to perform.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000006_000001.wav|Her father was an intelligent and kind hearted man who gave an eye to her education himself, and taught her how to read and write.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000007_000001.wav|Nor was she handsome.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000020_000000.wav|But Grace did not live long after her exploit.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000003_000003.wav|But of all the tales of daring that are talked of by the fisher folk, the bravest of all was performed by a girl whose name was Grace Darling,--a name that now is known not only in the places where she lived but all over the world.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000003_000000.wav|The coast of Northumberland in England is rocky and severe with lofty flint ledged cliffs where great waves thunder, hurling the white foam high into the air.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000013_000003.wav|Darling was no coward, and the prayers and entreaties of his daughter won the day.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000008_000000.wav|When Grace was a young woman of twenty three a terrible storm burst suddenly upon the coast and in the twinkling of an eye the reefs about the lighthouse were a sea of churning foam, while the great waves racing in from the ocean thundered so mightily at its base that it seemed as though they must tear it from its foundations and sweep it away.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000017_000002.wav|Among them was Grace's brother, Brooks Darling, and the heroism of his achievement and that of the other fishermen was only exceeded by the marvelous feat of the girl herself and of her father.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000013_000000.wav|When day broke the wreck could be seen from the mainland, but the misery of the unfortunate persons who survived was even more plain to William Darling and his family.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000015_000000.wav|Little by little they drew near the wreck.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000005_000001.wav|It was a wild spot, even in calm weather, but when a storm blew it became terrible.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000016_000003.wav|And when the light was reached, the shipwrecked people were soon made comfortable and cared for by Grace and mrs Darling, and nine lives were thus saved by the determination of a single girl.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000013_000004.wav|He decided to risk launching a boat from the lighthouse.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000013_000001.wav|Grace begged her father to launch a boat and go to their assistance, but Darling, brave sailor as he was, knew that there was little or no chance of his ever reaching the doomed ship, and shook his head.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000014_000002.wav|Their boat was tossed like a shuttlecock in the great waves, and they knew that unless the shipwrecked persons could aid them it would be impossible to return to the lighthouse.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000007_000000.wav|But the confinement of the life in the lighthouse was not good for the growing girl, and Grace never was strong and robust as would be expected from the daughter of fishermen.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/92934/7294_92934_000018_000000.wav|All England rang with the fame of Grace's exploit, and letters and gifts poured in from every side.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000048_000000.wav|'O miserable mother!|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000076_000000.wav|'What am I to do?' she asked, when, after clapping her hands, the old woman appeared before her.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000014_000001.wav|In an instant there poured forth such a stream of milk that it ran like a river into the hut.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000020_000001.wav|So, as I did not know what else to do, I gave it to him.'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000034_000000.wav|Then, in her turn, Thakane sang:|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000038_000000.wav|Crossing the plain, the girl and her father passed a herd of gazelles feeding.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000004_000001.wav|While they were absent the little girl kept house alone, for her brother always got up before the dawn, when the air was fresh and cool, and drove out the cattle to the sweetest patches of grass he could find.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000067_000000.wav|'Well, you can go,' answered he.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000061_000002.wav|He was so surprised to see how like the face of the girl was to Masilo, that he left his work and returned to the village.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000047_000001.wav|But when her mother in law saw it was a girl, she wrung her hands and wept, saying:|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000006_000001.wav|Give me a drink from the tree Koumongoe, which has the best milk in the world.'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000016_000000.wav|The man saw a white stream a long way off, and guessed what had happened.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000024_000000.wav|'Because she has eaten what she ought not to have eaten.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000069_000000.wav|Then the old woman came out of the water, holding the girl, now tall and slender, by the hand.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000059_000000.wav|Bring to me Dilah, Dilah the rejected one, Dilah, whom her father Masilo cast out!|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000069_000003.wav|I will not leave the girl to day, but will take her back with me'; and sinking beneath the surface, she drew the girl after her.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000078_000000.wav|'Why, I would gladly give her two thousand!' cried he, 'for she has saved my daughter.' And he bade messengers hasten to all the neighbouring villages, and tell his people to send him at once all the cattle he possessed.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000046_000001.wav|At first he did not know what to make of this strange feeling, for all his life he had hated women, and had refused several brides whom his parents had chosen for him.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000075_000000.wav|But Masilo promised that he would never let his father see her, and that now she was a woman no one would try to hurt her; so Thakane's heart melted, and she went down to the lake to consult the old woman.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000061_000001.wav|Her mother came to visit her whenever she was able, and one day, when they were sitting talking together, they were spied out by a man who had come to cut willows to weave into baskets.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000060_000001.wav|At last she felt she must return to the village, lest she should be missed, and the child was handed back to the old woman, who vanished with her into the lake.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000052_000001.wav|Here, hidden from everyone, she sat down on a stone and began to think what she should do to save her child.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000039_000000.wav|Why do you give to the ogre Your child, so fair, so fair?|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000007_000002.wav|For he would be sure to know.'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000068_000000.wav|Bring to me Dilah, Dilah the rejected one, Dilah, whom her father Masilo cast out!|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000037_000002.wav|So, in spite of her dread of the ogre, she slept till dawn, when her father woke her, and told her roughly that he was ready to continue their journey.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000027_000000.wav|'You had better ask her,' replied the man, 'she is old enough to give you an answer.'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000032_000000.wav|Why do you give to the ogre Your child, so fair, so fair?|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000056_000000.wav|'What you say is true,' replied the old woman.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000074_000000.wav|Then Masilo implored her to give the child back to him; but she would not listen, and only answered: 'If I were to give her back you would only obey the laws of your country and take her to your father, the ogre, and she would be eaten.'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000054_000000.wav|'What are you crying for, my dear?' said she.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000021_000003.wav|When all was ready, the man sent for his servants and said:|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000051_000001.wav|There, when children die, they are buried in the earth.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000013_000001.wav|Go and get me three times as much!'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000021_000001.wav|Instead, he went outside and brought in two sheepskins, which he stained red and sent for a blacksmith to forge some iron rings.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000002_000000.wav|The Sacred Milk of Koumongoe|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000037_000000.wav|By this time it was nearly dark, and the father said they could travel no further that night, and must go to sleep where they were.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000048_000001.wav|Miserable child!|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000080_000000.wav|Bring to me Dilah, Dilah the rejected one, Dilah, whom her father Masilo cast out!|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000056_000001.wav|'Give me your child, and let me take care of it.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000056_000002.wav|And if you will fix a day to meet me here I will bring the baby.'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000064_000000.wav|'But what shall we do now?' asked he.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000073_000000.wav|'I don't know what you are talking about,' replied Thakane. 'I buried my child under the sand on the beach.'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000018_000000.wav|Kneeling on the grass, the man and his wife made a cup of their hands and drank the milk from it.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000071_000000.wav|'My head aches,' he answered; 'it aches very badly.' And his mother passed on, and left him alone.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000070_000000.wav|All the rest of the day he sat in a corner weeping, and his mother who came in asked: 'Why are you weeping so bitterly, my son?'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000043_000000.wav|And the gazelles all cried: 'Wretched man! it is you whom the ogre should eat, and not your beautiful daughter.'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000051_000000.wav|'But it is not the customer in MY country!|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000023_000000.wav|'Get rid of your only daughter?' they answered, in surprise.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000026_000000.wav|Why do you give to the ogre Your child, so fair, so fair?|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000017_000002.wav|I must go home and find out what is the matter.' And they both threw down their hoes and hurried to the side of Koumongoe.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000007_000001.wav|What would father say when he came home?|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000062_000001.wav|We have been deceived, for we all thought she was dead.'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000040_000000.wav|'You had better ask her, replied the man, 'she is old enough to answer for herself.'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000077_000000.wav|'If I let her go he must pay me a thousand head of cattle in exchange,' replied the old woman.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000078_000001.wav|When they were all assembled he chose a thousand of the finest bulls and cows, and drove them down to the river, followed by a great crowd wondering what would happen.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000004_000000.wav|Early in the morning and late in the evenings the parents worked hard in the fields, resting, when the sun was high, under the shade of some tree.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000072_000000.wav|In the evening he said to his wife: 'I have seen my daughter, in the place where you told me you had drowned her.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000019_000001.wav|Why did Koumongoe come to us in the fields instead of staying in the garden?'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000058_000001.wav|As soon as she got there, she crouched down among the willows, and sang softly:|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000025_000000.wav|They were passing along some fields where the corn was ripening, when a rabbit suddenly sprang out at their feet, and standing on its hind legs, it sang:|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000051_000002.wav|No one shall take my baby from me.'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000023_000001.wav|'But why?'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000062_000000.wav|'Masilo,' he said, as he entered the hut, 'I have just beheld your wife near the river with a girl who must be your daughter, she is so like you.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000011_000001.wav|She was afraid to disobey her parents, who would most likely beat her, yet the beasts would be sure to suffer if they were kept in, and she would perhaps be beaten for that too.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000053_000000.wav|Suddenly she heard a rustling among the willows, and an old woman appeared before her.|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000022_000000.wav|'I am going to get rid of Thakane.'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7294/86026/7294_86026_000048_000002.wav|Alas for you! why were you not a boy!'|7294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000003_000006.wav|The canoes were of red cedar, and flat bottomed; the paddles had oval blades, to which short, quick strokes were given perpendicularly to the water entering and leaving.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000018_000004.wav|Not a note did they whistle or sing.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000003_000005.wav|They furnished three canoes, two for baggage and one covered with a palm leaf awning for ourselves.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000019_000001.wav|Their goodness, however, as Bates says of the Cucama tribe, consists more in the absence of active bad qualities than in the possession of good ones.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000008_000003.wav|He declared there was but one large canoe in town, and that we must send to Suno for another, and for men to man it.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000019_000003.wav|They strictly maintained a decent arrangement of such apparel as they possessed.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000011.wav|The most common birds on the Napo are macaws, parrots, toucans, and ciganas.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000025.wav|The black species is said to make the most honey, and the yellow the best. The quadrupeds of the Oriente are few and far between in the dry season. Not a sloth nor armadillo did we see.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000003_000002.wav|Out of feast time they are out of town, and during the festival they are loth to leave, or are so full of chicha they do not know what they want.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000018.wav|The flesh has a musky odor, and it is for this reason, perhaps, that they exist in such numbers throughout the country.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000008_000002.wav|The Indians seemed reluctant to quit their feasts and go on such a long voyage, and the alcalde was unwilling they should go, and manufactured a host of lies and excuses.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000012_000007.wav|A full grown specimen will measure twenty eight inches in expanse of wing.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000013.wav|The toucan, peculiar to the New World, and distinguished by its enormous bill, is a quarrelsome, imperious bird.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000012_000002.wav|Nevertheless, one of our number bravely threw down his blanket within, and went to sleep; two swung their hammocks between the trees, and the rest slept in the canoe.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000018_000000.wav|At different points down the river they deposited pots of chicha for use on their return.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000002_000000.wav|Afloat on the Napo.--Down the Rapids.--Santa Rosa and its mulish Alcalde.--Pratt on Discipline.--Forest Music.--Coca.--Our Craft and Crew.--Storm on the Napo.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000014_000004.wav|Pizarro having reached it from Quito by way of Baeza and the Coca, halted and built a raft or canoe (Prescott says a brig), in which Orellana was sent down the river to reconnoitre, but who never returned.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000010_000005.wav|After many delays, we put our baggage into one canoe, and ourselves into the other, and pushed off into the rapid current of the Napo.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000008_000005.wav|After some time lost in word fighting, we tried the virtues of authority.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000023_000003.wav|We left Coca on Thanksgiving Day, november twenty eighth, and to imitate our distant friends, we sacrificed an extra meal-fricasseed chicken, jerked beef, boiled yucas, bananas, oranges, lemonade, and guayusa.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000018_000006.wav|At no time did we have the least fear of treachery or violence.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000002.wav|A little bamboo church, open only when the missionary from Archidona makes his annual visit, stood near our quarters.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000007.wav|At sunset parrots and monkeys resume their chatter for a season, and then give way to the noiseless flight of innumerable bats chasing the hawk moth and beetle.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000011_000009.wav|Indeed, when we mixed up our Quichua with a little Anglo Saxon, they evidently thought the latter was a terrible anathema, for they sprang to their places without delay.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000012_000008.wav|Bates found two species on the Amazon-one black, the other of a ruddy line, and both fruit eaters.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000003_000001.wav|It is no easy matter to hire or cajole the Indians for any service.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000017_000002.wav|Over these we spread a flooring of split bamboo, and planted four stout chonta sticks to support a palm thatched roof.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000009.wav|Between the posts swing two chambiri hammocks.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000008_000001.wav|This was not easily done.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000017_000004.wav|The alcalde, with a hiccough, declared we would be forever going down the river in such a huge craft, and the Indians smiled ominously.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000014.wav|It is clumsy in flight, but nimble in leaping from limb to limb.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000017_000003.wav|A rudder (a novel idea to our red skinned companions), and a box of sand in the stern of one of the boats for a fire place, completed our rig.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000009.wav|The birds are usually silent; those that have voices utter a plaintive song, or hoarse, shrill cry.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000023_000006.wav|Six o'clock was our usual hour of departure, and ten or twelve hours our traveling time, always tying up at a plaia or island, of which there are hosts in the Napo, but never to the main land, for fear of unfriendly Indians and the still more unwelcome tiger. Our crew encamped at a respectful though hailing distance.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000010_000007.wav|Our Indian quartet, after several last drinks of chicha, bade their friends farewell by clasping hands, one kissing the joined hands, and then the other.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000005.wav|As the sun rises higher, one musician after another seeks the forest shade, and the morning concert ends at noon.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000002.wav|Between midnight and three a m almost perfect silence reigns.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000011.wav|When a stranger enters, he is invited to sit in a hammock; and at Santa Rosa we were always presented with a cup of guayusa; in Brazil with a cup of coffee.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000008.wav|In one corner stands a table (the only one we remember seeing on the Napo); on the opposite side are heaped up jars, pots, kettles, hunting and fishing implements, paddles, bows and arrows.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000010_000002.wav|We had to wait, however, two days for the Indians to prepare their chicha for the journey and to cover the canoes with palm awnings.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000014_000006.wav|We remained here two days to construct a more comfortable craft for our voyage to the Amazon, a distance of at least five hundred miles.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000012_000005.wav|So far as our experience goes, we can say, with Bates, that the vampire, so common on the Amazon, is the most harmless of all bats.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000024_000002.wav|They always came after a uniform fashion and at a regular hour, so that we learned when to expect them.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000010_000004.wav|Unfortunately we had only fifty varas left; but, through the influence of the now good-natured alcalde, we induced the Indians to take the balance in coin.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000026.wav|But when the rains descend the wilderness is a menagerie of tigers and tapirs, pumas and bears, while a host of reptiles, led by the gigantic boa, creep forth from their hiding places.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000005_000002.wav|It is now overgrown with sour orange and calabash trees, the latter bearing large fruit shells so useful to the Indians in making pilches or cups.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000011_000001.wav|The Indians, so accustomed to brutal violence from the hands of the whites, had begged of us, before our departure, that we would not beat them.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000014_000007.wav|The canoe is the only means of navigation known to the Indians. But the idea of spending fifteen days cooped, cribbed, and cramped in a narrow canoe, exposed to a tropical sun and furious rains, was intolerable.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000023_000004.wav|Favored by a powerful current and the rhythmic paddling of our Santa Rosans, we made this day sixty miles; but our average daily run was fifty miles.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000019_000000.wav|The Napos are not savages.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000011_000002.wav|But shortly after we left, one of them, who was literally filled with chicha, dropped his paddle and tumbled into a heap at the bottom of the canoe, dead drunk.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000003.wav|The Indians were keeping one of their seven feasts in a hut near by, and their drumming was the last thing we heard as we turned into our hammocks, and the first in the morning.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000017_000009.wav|On approaching any human habitation, the Indians blew horns to indicate that they came as friends.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000019_000007.wav|Her coarse, black hair was simply combed back, not braided into plaits as commonly done by the Andean women.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000010_000006.wav|We had three styles of valediction on leaving.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000008.wav|There is scarcely a sound in a tropical forest which is joyous and cheering.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000024.wav|It is singular these Indians have no term for bees, but call them honey, and distinguish them by their color.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000018_000001.wav|The mass breeds worms so rapidly, however, as Edwards informed us, that after the lapse of a month or two it is a jumble of yuca scraps and writhing articulates.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000003_000007.wav|But there was little need of paddling on this trip.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000024_000001.wav|Nearly every afternoon we were treated to a shower, accompanied by a strong wind, but seldom by thunder and lightning, though at Coca we had a brilliant thunder storm at night.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000012_000006.wav|It has, however, a most hideous physiognomy.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000003_000000.wav|We embarked november twentieth on our voyage down the river.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000005_000001.wav|At five p m we reached the deserted site of Old Santa Rosa, the village having been removed a few years ago on account of its unhealthy location.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000023_000000.wav|Pratt managed the helm (the governor could not work the Yankee notion) and the kitchen.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000010_000001.wav|After this bombardment Sandoval was another man, and the two canoes and four Indians we wanted were forthcoming.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000004_000000.wav|The Napo starts off in furious haste, for the fall between Napo village and Santa Rosa, a distance of eighty miles, is three hundred and fifty feet.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000017.wav|The cigana or "gypsy" (in Peru called "chansu") resembles a pheasant.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000028.wav|Darwin says that we ought not to expect any closer similarity between the organic beings on the opposite sides of the Andes than on the opposite shores of the ocean.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000023_000005.wav|The winds (doubtless the trades) were almost unchangeably from the east; but an occasional puff would come from the northwest, when we relieved our paddlers by hoisting a blanket for a sail.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000018_000005.wav|Yet they were always in good humor, and during the whole voyage we did not see the slightest approach to a quarrel.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000019.wav|The Indians never eat them.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000006.wav|It is embowered in a magnificent grove of plantains and papayas.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000024_000000.wav|On the second day from Coca we were caught in a squall, and to save our roof we ran ashore.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000012.wav|The parrots, like the majority in South America, are of the green type.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000012.wav|Sandoval wore nothing but shirt and pantaloons; the dignity of the barefooted functionary was confined to his Spanish blood.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000001.wav|The town is pleasantly situated on the left bank of the river, about fifteen feet above the water level.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000027.wav|The most ferocious carnivores are found in the mountains, and the most venomous serpents haunt the lowlands.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000006_000000.wav|Santa Rosa, once the prosperous capital of the Provincia del Oriente, now contains about two hundred men, women, and children.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000011_000000.wav|The Napo at Santa Rosa runs at least five miles an hour, and we were soon picking our way-now drifting, now paddling-through a labyrinth of islands and snags.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000011_000004.wav|At once the liquor left the muddled brain of the astonished culprit, and, taking his paddle, he became from that hour the best of the crew.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000008_000000.wav|At Santa Rosa we procured Indians and canoes for the Maranon.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000017_000001.wav|These were placed about five feet apart and parallel, and then firmly secured by bamboo joists.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000001.wav|Occasionally frogs, owls, and goat suckers croak, hoot, and wail.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000013_000006.wav|In the heat of the day there is an all pervading rustling sound, caused by the fluttering of myriad insects and the gliding of lizards and snakes.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000005_000000.wav|In four hours we were abreast the little village of Aguano; on the opposite bank we could see the tambos of the gold washers.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000018_000002.wav|But the owner of the heap coolly separates the animal from the vegetable, adds a little water, and drinks his chicha without ceremony.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000011_000007.wav|None of them could speak Spanish, so we had provided ourselves with a vocabulary of Quichua.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000014_000003.wav|This spot is memorable in history.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000005_000003.wav|In pitch darkness and in a drizzling rain we arrived at New Santa Rosa, and swung our hammocks in the Government House.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000024_000003.wav|About noon the eastern horizon would become suddenly black, and when this had spread to the zenith we heard the rush of a mighty wind sweeping through the forest, and the crash of falling trees, and then down fell the deluge.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000004_000001.wav|We were about seven hours in the voyage down, and it takes seven days to pole back.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000023_000002.wav|So we fared sumptuously every day.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000012_000001.wav|They gave us possession of their largest hut, in which they had been roasting a sea cow, and the stench was intolerable.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000014_000001.wav|This little village, the last we shall see till we come within sight of the Amazon, is beautifully located on the right bank, twenty five feet above the river, and opposite the confluence of the Rio Coca.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7030/64588/7030_64588_000019_000006.wav|The girl was a graceful paddler, and had some well founded pretensions to beauty.|7030
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000005_000001.wav|quick, I am waiting."|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000065_000006.wav|Nay, that was out of the question.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000051_000000.wav|I staggered to my desk, and sat there in a deep study.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000061_000000.wav|Shall I acknowledge it?|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000032_000000.wav|"Bartleby," said I, "when those papers are all copied, I will compare them with you."|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000019_000000.wav|"Turkey," said I, "what do you think of this?|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000022_000000.wav|"I think I should kick him out of the office."|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000014_000006.wav|Answer!"|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000008_000000.wav|"The copies, the copies," said I hurriedly.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000031_000010.wav|The passiveness of Bartleby sometimes irritated me.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000014_000004.wav|Is it not so?|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000017_000001.wav|Yes: his decision was irreversible.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000014_000005.wav|Will you not speak?|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000005_000000.wav|"Bartleby!|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000041_000000.wav|"Sit down, Turkey," said I, "and hear what Nippers has to say.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000063_000002.wav|Another was kept by Turkey for convenience sake.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000030_000004.wav|A hot, spicy thing.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000039_000000.wav|"Think of it?" roared Turkey; "I think I'll just step behind his screen, and black his eyes for him!"|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000031_000007.wav|Here I can cheaply purchase a delicious self approval.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/141320/1571_141320_000020_000000.wav|"With submission, sir," said Turkey, with his blandest tone, "I think that you are."|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000013.wav|He would always, by a large portion of the members of that Church, be regarded as a deserter.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000008.wav|Was every thing which was not of the essence of religion to be given up as soon as it became unpleasing to a knot of zealots whose heads had been turned by conceit and the love of novelty?|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000009.wav|Painted glass, music, holidays, fast days, were not of the essence of religion.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000012.wav|Nor could he hope to have, as a minister of the Anglican Church, the authority and dignity which he had hitherto enjoyed.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000012.wav|The Baptist was even more irreclaimable than the Independent, and the Quaker even more irreclaimable than the Baptist.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000004.wav|Why should his feelings, his prejudices, if prejudices they were, be less considered than the whims of schismatics?|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000010_000004.wav|The Comprehension Bill was not passed; and the Test Act was not repealed.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000009.wav|In the sixteenth century Quakerism was unknown; and there was not in the whole realm a single congregation of Independents or Baptists.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000010_000003.wav|The effect of this division among the friends of religious liberty was that the High Churchmen, though a minority in the House of Commons, and not a majority in the House of Lords, were able to oppose with success both the reforms which they dreaded.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000003_000000.wav|Then followed clauses providing that a clergyman might, except in a few churches of peculiar dignity, wear the surplice or not as he thought fit, that the sign of the cross might be omitted in baptism, that children might be christened, if such were the wish of their parents, without godfathers or godmothers, and that persons who had a scruple about receiving the Eucharist kneeling might receive it sitting.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000002_000000.wav|Then it was provided that any minister who had been ordained after the Presbyterian fashion might, without reordination, acquire all the privileges of a priest of the Established Church.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000004_000001.wav|It was proposed that the two Houses should request the King and Queen to issue a commission empowering thirty divines of the Established Church to revise the liturgy, the canons, and the constitution of the ecclesiastical courts, and to recommend such alterations as might on inquiry appear to be desirable.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000002_000001.wav|He must, however, be admitted to his new functions by the imposition of the hands of a bishop, who was to pronounce the following form of words; "Take thou authority to preach the word of God, and administer the sacraments, and to perform all other ministerial offices in the Church of England." The person thus admitted was to be capable of holding any rectory or vicarage in the kingdom.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000007_000000.wav|The easy manner in which the zealous friends of the Church gave up her confession of faith presents a striking contrast to the spirit with which they struggled for her polity and her ritual.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000016.wav|If his bill passed, there would doubtless be a considerable defection from the dissenting body; and every defection must be severely felt by a class already outnumbered, depressed, and struggling against powerful enemies.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000006_000006.wav|As the clause finally stood, the ministers of the Church were required to declare, not that they approved of her constitution, but merely that they submitted to it.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000005.wav|His influence over his flock was immense.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000010.wav|At the time of the Revolution, the Independents, Baptists, and Quakers were a majority of the dissenting body; and these sects could not be gained over on any terms which the lowest of Low Churchmen would have been willing to offer.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000002.wav|Few indeed of the parochial clergy were so abundantly supplied with comforts as the favourite orator of a great assembly of nonconformists in the City.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000008.wav|The Parliament of sixteen eighty nine could no more put an end to nonconformity by tolerating a garb or a posture than the Doctors of Trent could have reconciled the Teutonic nations to the Papacy by regulating the sale of indulgences.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000010_000001.wav|One section of that party was for relieving the dissenters from the Test Act, and giving up the Comprehension Bill.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000006.wav|Scarcely any member of a congregation of separatists entered into a partnership, married a daughter, put a son out as apprentice, or gave his vote at an election, without consulting his spiritual guide.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000006.wav|About the same time at which the Toleration bill became law with the general concurrence of public men, the Comprehension Bill was, with a concurrence not less general, suffered to drop.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000007_000004.wav|The majority of peers in the House was against the proposed indulgence, and the scale was but just turned by the proxies.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000001_000001.wav|For the Articles was substituted a Declaration which ran thus; "I do approve of the doctrine and worship and government of the Church of England by law established, as containing all things necessary to salvation; and I promise, in the exercise of my ministry, to preach and practice according thereunto." Another clause granted similar indulgence to the members of the two universities.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000006.wav|The inquiring spirit which had been roused by a single abuse had discovered or imagined a thousand: controversies engendered controversies: every attempt that was made to accommodate one dispute ended by producing another; and at length a General Council, which, during the earlier stages of the distemper, had been supposed to be an infallible remedy, made the case utterly hopeless.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000003.wav|Why, these persons asked, was the docile and affectionate son of the Church to be disgusted by seeing the irreverent practices of a conventicle introduced into her majestic choirs?|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000013.wav|Concessions, therefore, which would once have extinguished nonconformity would not now satisfy even one half of the nonconformists; and it was the obvious interest of every nonconformist whom no concession would satisfy that none of his brethren should be satisfied.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000003.wav|Both were laid by the same peer on the table of the Upper House; and both were referred to the same select committee.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000001.wav|Compton, who, since Sancroft had shut himself up at Lambeth, was virtually Primate, supported Nottingham with ardour.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000003.wav|The voluntary contributions of his wealthy hearers, Aldermen and Deputies, West India merchants and Turkey merchants, Wardens of the Company of Fishmongers and Wardens of the Company of Goldsmiths, enabled him to become a landowner or a mortgagee.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000001_000000.wav|The first clause, as it stood when the bill was introduced, dispensed all the ministers of the Established Church from the necessity of subscribing the Thirty nine Articles.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000006.wav|But, in truth, the scrupulosity of the Puritan was not that sort of scrupulosity which the Apostle had commanded believers to respect.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000004.wav|But it soon began to appear that they would have widely different fates. The Comprehension Bill was indeed a neater specimen of legislative workmanship than the Toleration Bill, but was not, like the Toleration Bill, adapted to the wants, the feelings, and the prejudices of the existing generation.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000011.wav|Was the organ of Exeter to be silenced to please another?|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000004.wav|But the general tendency of schism is to widen. Had Leo the Tenth, when the exactions and impostures of the Pardoners first roused the indignation of Saxony, corrected those evil practices with a vigorous hand, it is not improbable that Luther would have died in the bosom of the Church of Rome.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000017.wav|Every proselyte too must be reckoned twice over, as a loss to the party which was even now too weak, and as a gain to the party which was even now too strong.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000014.wav|The more liberal the terms of comprehension, the greater was the alarm of every separatist who knew that he could, in no case, be comprehended.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000009.wav|No collector of antiquities has thought it worth preserving.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000007.wav|It sprang, not from morbid tenderness of conscience, but from censoriousness and spiritual pride; and none who had studied the New Testament could have failed to observe that, while we are charged carefully to avoid whatever may give scandal to the feeble, we are taught by divine precept and example to make no concession to the supercilious and uncharitable Pharisee.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000012.wav|In spite of cancellations and interlineations, the original words can easily be distinguished from those which were inserted in the committee or on the report.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000000.wav|The bill went smoothly through the first stages.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000006_000002.wav|One of the characteristic marks of that party is the disposition which it has always shown to appeal, on points of dogmatic theology, rather to the Liturgy, which was derived from Rome, than to the Articles and Homilies, which were derived from Geneva.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000012.wav|Were all the village bells to be mute because Tribulation Wholesome and Deacon Ananias thought them profane? Was Christmas no longer to be a day of rejoicing?|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000007_000002.wav|The clause which permitted scrupulous persons to communicate sitting very narrowly escaped the same fate.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000011.wav|The Independent held that a national Church, governed by any central authority whatever, Pope, Patriarch, King, Bishop, or Synod, was an unscriptural institution, and that every congregation of believers was, under Christ, a sovereign society.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000010_000002.wav|Another section was for pushing forward the Comprehension Bill, and postponing to a more convenient time the consideration of the Test Act.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000015.wav|There was but slender hope that the dissenters, unbroken and acting as one man, would be able to obtain from the legislature full admission to civil privileges; and all hope of obtaining such admission must be relinquished if Nottingham should, by the help of some wellmeaning but shortsighted friends of religious liberty, be enabled to accomplish his design.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000000.wav|But by this time it began to appear that the bill which the High Churchmen were so keenly assailing was menaced by dangers from a very different quarter.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000005_000016.wav|And is it not probable that, by thus attempting to heal one schism, we may cause another?|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000007_000003.wav|In the Committee it was struck out, and, on the report, was with great difficulty restored.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000005.wav|But the opportunity was suffered to escape; and, when, a few years later, the Vatican would gladly have purchased peace by yielding the original subject of quarrel, the original subject of quarrel was almost forgotten.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000003.wav|If, a hundred years earlier, when the division in the Protestant body was recent, Elizabeth had been so wise as to abstain from requiring the observance of a few forms which a large part of her subjects considered as Popish, she might perhaps have averted those fearful calamities which, forty years after her death, afflicted the Church.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000008_000002.wav|The truth is that the time for such a scheme had gone by.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000011.wav|It is a fortunate circumstance that, in this copy, almost the whole history of the Bill can be read.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000004_000000.wav|The concluding clause was drawn in the form of a petition.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000004.wav|The best broadcloth from Blackwell Hall, and the best poultry from Leadenhall Market, were frequently left at his door.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000001.wav|The two bills had a common origin, and, to a great extent, a common object.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000009_000010.wav|He might indeed hold a rectory or a vicarage, when he could get one.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000005.wav|Accordingly, while the Toleration Bill found support in all quarters, the Comprehension Bill was attacked from all quarters, and was at last coldly and languidly defended even by those who had introduced it.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000006_000004.wav|It does not appear that, in the debates on the Comprehension Bill, a single High Churchman raised his voice against the clause which relieved the clergy from the necessity of subscribing the Articles, and of declaring the doctrine contained in the Homilies to be sound.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000006_000000.wav|It is remarkable that those who held this language were by no means disposed to contend for the doctrinal Articles of the Church.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1571/138486/1571_138486_000000_000008.wav|The Comprehension Bill is forgotten.|1571
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000013_000000.wav|The revenue of the customs, instead of suffering, profits from such drawbacks, by that part of the duty which is retained.|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000000_000001.wav|OF DRAWBACKS.|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000012_000003.wav|The carrying trade, though it deserves no preference, ought not to be precluded, but to be left free, like all other trades.|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000002_000000.wav|Of these encouragements, what are called drawbacks seem to be the most reasonable.|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000007_000004.wav|It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000011_000001.wav|Upon the exportation of the greater part of commodities to other countries, half the old subsidy was drawn back.|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000003_000001.wav|By the second of the rules, annexed to the act of parliament, which imposed what is now called the old subsidy, every merchant, whether English or alien. was allowed to draw back half that duty upon exportation; the English merchant, provided the exportation took place within twelve months; the alien, provided it took place within nine months.|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/7371/2201_7371_000009_000006.wav|These rules took place with regard to all places of lawful exportation, except the British colonies in America.|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/160438/2201_160438_000005_000003.wav|The butcher, the brewer, and the baker, soon join them, together with many other artificers and retailers, necessary or useful for supplying their occasional wants, and who contribute still further to augment the town.|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/160438/2201_160438_000000_000001.wav|OF THE DIFFERENT PROGRESS OF OPULENCE IN DIFFERENT NATIONS|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/160438/2201_160438_000005_000001.wav|Smiths, carpenters, wheelwrights and ploughwrights, masons and bricklayers, tanners, shoemakers, and tailors, are people whose service the farmer has frequent occasion for.|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/160438/2201_160438_000002_000001.wav|It consists in the exchange of rude for manufactured produce, either immediately, or by the intervention of money, or of some sort of paper which represents money. The country supplies the town with the means of subsistence and the materials of manufacture.|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/160438/2201_160438_000002_000002.wav|The town repays this supply, by sending back a part of the manufactured produce to the inhabitants of the country. The town, in which there neither is nor can be any reproduction of substances, may very properly be said to gain its whole wealth and subsistence from the country.|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2201/160438/2201_160438_000007_000001.wav|The smith erects some sort of iron, the weaver some sort of linen or woollen manufactory.|2201
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/127691/606_127691_000004_000001.wav|This was in the winter of eighteen seventy three, when the snow laden peaks were swept by a powerful norther.|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000024_000000.wav|"Is this the town of Norwich, madam?"|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000018_000001.wav|But he plucked up courage and said to the farmer,|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000057_000001.wav|The nights are too hot."|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000050_000001.wav|Well, what were you running for?"|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000054_000001.wav|Therefore he begged the magistrate to wait a few minutes while he looked through his telescope to see if the Man in the Moon was there.|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000034_000000.wav|"Matter!" screamed the Man; "why, your porridge is so hot it has burned me."|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000040_000001.wav|Who are you?"|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000050_000000.wav|"Indeed!|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000013_000000.wav|Well, he sat by his ice cool fire and thought about his journey to the earth, and finally he decided the only way he could get there was to slide down a moonbeam.|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000006_000000.wav|"How is everything down on the earth?"|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000053_000000.wav|"This person is evidently crazy; so take him to the lunatic asylum and keep him there."|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000051_000000.wav|"A woman gave me some cold pease porridge, and it burned my mouth."|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000049_000000.wav|"I slid down a moonbeam."|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000023_000000.wav|A good looking woman answered his knock at the door, and he asked politely,|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000060_000001.wav|So the balloon was brought and inflated, and the Man got into the basket and gave the word to let go, and then the balloon mounted up into the sky in the direction of the moon.|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000047_000000.wav|"The moon."|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000003_000000.wav|What!|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/121661/606_121661_000040_000000.wav|"Come, come, no nonsense!" said the magistrate, "you must have some name.|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/130296/606_130296_000001_000021.wav|They cruised along the land, leaving it on the starboard side.|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/130296/606_130296_000000_000003.wav|His mother's name was Thorun.|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/130296/606_130296_000001_000000.wav|seven.|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/130296/606_130296_000000_000009.wav|They had in the ship forty men.|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/606/130296/606_130296_000004_000020.wav|It was cooked by the cook boys, and they ate thereof; though bad effects came upon all from it afterwards. Then began Thorhall, and said, "Has it not been that the Redbeard has proved a better friend than your Christ?|606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000026_000002.wav|Against the turbid current worked tipsy rafts towed by wheezy steamers or leaky old sailing craft, and rickety row boats raced cockle shell canoes for the gold bars above.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000005.wav|They shunned the Indians and had little to say to any one.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000004.wav|By the time speculators reached Victoria the best lots in that place had already been bought by the company's men; and some of the substantial fortunes of Victoria date from this period.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000020_000001.wav|When men drifted in to trade dust and nuggets for picks and flour, the fur traders smiled, and rightly surmised that the California diggings were playing out.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000005.wav|Almost every bar on the river from Yale up will pay from three dollars to seven dollars a day to the man at the present stage of water.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000018.wav|The Indians above are disposed to be troublesome and went into a camp twenty miles above us and forcibly took provisions and arms from a party of four men and cut two severely with their knives.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000033_000000.wav|Within two miles of Yale eighty Indians and thirty white men were working the gold bars; and log boarding houses and saloons sprang up along the river bank as if by magic.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000025_000000.wav|Without waiting instructions from England and with poignant memory of Oregon, Governor Douglas at once clapped on a licence of twenty one shillings a month for mining privileges under the British crown.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000001.wav|The little fort had expanded beyond the stockade.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000000.wav|Because California and Oregon had gone American, some small British warships lay at Esquimalt harbour.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000010.wav|Before Finlayson could believe his own eyes, he had two million dollars in his safe, some of it for purchases, some of it on deposit for safe keeping. Though the company gave no guarantee to the depositors and simply sealed each man's leather pouch as it was placed in the safe, no complaint was ever made against it of dishonesty or unfair treatment.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000005.wav|A city of tents sprang up overnight round Victoria.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000019_000000.wav|It has been so with every discovery of gold in the history of the world.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000002.wav|Higher up could be seen some Chinamen, but whether they were fishing or washing we could not tell.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000009.wav|'But,' he said, pointing his trembling old hands at the two railways, 'if we prospectors hadn't blazed the trail of the canyon, you wouldn't have your railroads here to day.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000018.wav|Then, as now, it was Victoria's boast that it was more English than England.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000011.wav|The company also had a saw mill.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000000.wav|Exactly fifty six years from the first rush of 'fifty eight in the month of April, I sat on the banks of the Fraser at Yale and punted across the rapids in a flat bottomed boat and swirled in and out among the eddies of the famous bars.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000003.wav|A mushroom boom in town lots had sprung up at these points before Victoria was well awake.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000003.wav|There is more danger going down than coming up.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000031_000001.wav|Every party that starts from the Sound should have their own supplies to last them three or four months, and they should bring the largest size chinook canoes, as small ones are very liable to swamp in the rapids.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000001.wav|Many of the company's servants drifted away to California in the wake of the 'Forty Niners,' and the company found it hard to keep its trappers from deserting all up and down the Pacific Coast.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000009.wav|The prompt action of Douglas, however, had the effect of keeping the mining movement in hand.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000014.wav|There are also in that region diggings of coarser gold on small streams that empty into the main river.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000016.wav|The Indians all along the river have gold in their possession that they say they dug themselves, but they will not tell where they get it, nor allow small parties to go up after it.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000017_000000.wav|He handled their nuggets doubtfully.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000016_000000.wav|Finlayson did not know exactly what to do.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000009.wav|Though Maclean, the chief factor at Kamloops, kept all the specks and flakes brought to his post as samples from eighteen fifty two to eighteen fifty six, he had less than would fill a half pint bottle.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000026_000001.wav|In the spring the Fraser rolled to the sea a swollen flood.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000002.wav|The governor's house was to the east of the stockade.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000033_000003.wav|That is the hope that draws the prospector from river to stream, from stream to dry gully bed, from dry gully to precipice edge, and often over the edge to death or fortune.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000003.wav|A new church had been built, and the Rev.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000004.wav|They did not forgather with the Indians.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000029_000000.wav|Judge Howay gives the letter of a treasure seeker who reached the Fraser in April, the substance of which is as follows:|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000020_000000.wav|Victoria went to sleep again.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000006.wav|Inside the fort were perhaps forty five employees.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000004.wav|Yet nothing occurred to cause any excitement in Victoria.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000026_000003.wav|Ashore, the banks of the river were lined with foot passengers toiling under heavy packs, wagons to which clung human forms on every foot of space, and long rows of pack horses bogged in the flood of the overflowing river.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000006.wav|This amount, divided among the ten thousand men who were on the bars around Yale, would not average as much as they could have earned as junior clerks with the fur company, or as peanut pedlars in San Francisco; but not so does the mind of the miner work.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000006.wav|He had been one of the leaders against the murderous bands of Indians.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000031_000003.wav|The Indians here can beat anything alive stealing. They will soon be able to steal a man's food after he has eaten it.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000013.wav|The gold is not any coarser, but there is more of it.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000016_000003.wav|No doubt these men were 'argonauts' drifted up from the gold diggings of California; no doubt they were searching for new mines; but who had ever heard of gold in Vancouver Island, or in New Caledonia, as the mainland was named?|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000014_000000.wav|THE 'ARGONAUTS'|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000008.wav|By canoe, by dugout, by pack horse, and on foot, they planned to ascend the Fraser, and they mobbed the company for passage to Langley by the first steamer out from Victoria.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000023.wav|There is a pack trail from Hope, but it cannot be travelled till the snow is off the mountains.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000008.wav|Later these tolls were disallowed by the home authorities.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000012.wav|The prospect is better as we go up the river on the bars.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000010.wav|Three hundred acres about the fort were worked by the company as a farm, which gave employment to about two dozen workmen, and on which were perhaps a hundred cattle and a score of brood mares.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000025_000004.wav|In four months sixty seven vessels, carrying from a hundred to a thousand men each, had come up from San Francisco to Victoria.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000010.wav|They only followed the trail we first cut and then built.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000002.wav|Whatcom and Townsend, on the American side, advertised the advantages of the Washington route to the Fraser river gold mines.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000013.wav|There were two bastions, and from each cannon pointed.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000002.wav|The Hudson's Bay men had thought nothing of this. Other treasure seekers had come to New Caledonia before and had gone back to San Francisco disappointed.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000017_000001.wav|Who knew for a certainty that it was gold anyhow?|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000033_000001.wav|Naturally, the last comers of 'fifty eight were too late to get a place on the gold bars, and they went back to the coast in disgust, calling the gold stampede 'the Fraser River humbug.' Nevertheless, men were washing, sluicing, rocking, and digging gold as far as Lillooet.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000019.wav|They came to our camp the same day and insisted that we should trade with them or leave the country.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000017_000003.wav|Finlayson, smiling sceptically, did as he was told.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000004.wav|When we came back across the river an old, old man met us and sat talking to us on the bank.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000020.wav|We design to remain here until we can get a hundred men together, when we will move up above the falls and do just what we please without regard to the Indians.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000035_000000.wav|What the trapper was to the fur trade, the prospector was to the mining era that ushered civilization into the wilds with a blare of dance halls and wine and wassail and greed.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000016_000002.wav|The miner, wherever he went, sounded the knell of fur trading; and the trapper did not like to have his game preserve overrun by fellows who scared off all animals from traps, set fire going to clear away underbrush, and owned responsibility to no authority.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000002.wav|A few days ago six men were drowned by their canoe upsetting.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000016_000004.wav|If there had been gold, would not the company have found it?|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000004.wav|Edward Cridge, afterwards known as Bishop Cridge, was the rector.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000010.wav|Though the miners were of the same class as the 'argonauts' of California, they never broke into the lawlessness that compelled vigilance committees in San Francisco.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000010.wav|If a half pint is counted as a half pound and the gold at the company's price of eleven dollars an ounce, it will be seen why four years of such discoveries did not set Victoria on fire.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000010.wav|They unstrapped those little leather bags round under their cartridge belts and produced in tiny gold nuggets the price of what they had bought.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000002.wav|They did not wear moccasins after the fashion of trappers, but heavy, knee high, hobnailed boots.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000016.wav|The fort was sound asleep, secure in an eternal certainty that the domain which it guarded would never be overrun by American settlers as California and Oregon had been.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000011.wav|We followed the "float" up and they followed us.'|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000003.wav|In place of guns over their shoulders, they had picks and hammers and such stout sticks as mountaineers use in climbing.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000017_000004.wav|The nuggets flattened to a yellow leaf as fine and flexible as silk.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000007.wav|Inside and outside lived some eight hundred people.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000025_000003.wav|Another boat load of eight hundred and fifty came in April.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000001.wav|About a fourth of the canoes that attempt to come up are lost in the rapids which extend from Fort Yale nearly to the Forks.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000017_000006.wav|It proved sixteen dollars to the ounce.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000008.wav|But grass grew in the roads.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000021.wav|We are at present the highest up of any white men on the river, and we must go higher to be satisfied.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000002.wav|The quest for gold had become a sort of yellow fever madness.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000006.wav|When the river gets low, which will be about August, the bars will pay very well.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000021_000001.wav|He was assisted in the administration by a council of three, nominated by himself-john Tod, james Cooper, and Roderick Finlayson.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000018_000006.wav|But the nugget was an isolated freak; the quartz could not be worked at a profit; and the movement suddenly died out.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000025_000001.wav|Thus he obtained a rough registration of the men going to the up country; but thousands passed Victoria altogether and went in by pack train from Okanagan or rafted across from Puget Sound.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000025_000006.wav|Before Victoria awoke to what it was all about, twenty thousand people were camped under tents outside the stockade, and the air was full of the wildest rumours of fabulous gold finds.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000001.wav|Victoria was a ten hour trip from the mainland.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000009.wav|Goods were paid for in cash.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000011.wav|We only commenced work yesterday and we are satisfied that when we get fully under way we can make from five dollars to seven dollars a day each.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000000.wav|Then, in march eighteen fifty eight, just when Victoria felt most secure as the capital of a perpetual fur realm, something happened.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000015.wav|A few men have been there and proved the existence of rich diggings by bringing specimens back with them.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000001.wav|They carried blanket packs on their backs and leather bags belted securely round the waist close to their pistols.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000003.wav|Two transcontinental railroads skirted the canyon, one on each side, and the tents of a thousand construction workers stood where once were the camps of the gold seekers banded together for protection.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000012.wav|Buildings of huge, squared timbers flanked three sides of the inner stockades-the dining hall, the cook house, the bunk house, the store, the trader's house.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000034_000005.wav|He had come to the Fraser in that first rush of 'fifty eight.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000006.wav|They volunteered little information as to whence they had come or whither they were going.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000031_000000.wav|The prices of provisions are as follows: flour thirty five dollars per hundred weight, pork a dollar a pound, beans fifty cents a pound, and other things in proportion.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000022_000017.wav|The little Admiralty cruisers which lay at Esquimalt were guarantee that New Caledonia should never be stampeded into a republic by an inrush of aliens.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000007.wav|They sought out Roderick Finlayson, chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000025_000005.wav|Crews deserted their ships, clerks deserted the company, trappers turned miners and took to the gold bars.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000030_000004.wav|There can be no doubt about this country being immensely rich in gold.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000031_000002.wav|Each canoe should be provided with thirty fathoms of strong line for towing over swift water, and every man well armed.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000006.wav|The smithy was besieged for picks, for shovels, for iron ladles.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000027_000005.wav|Though the river was so high that the richest bars could not be worked till late in August, five hundred thousand dollars in gold was taken from the bed of the Fraser during the first six months of 'fifty eight.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000015_000000.wav|Early in eighteen forty nine the sleepy quiet of Victoria, Vancouver Island, was disturbed by the arrival of straggling groups of ragged nondescript wanderers, who were neither trappers nor settlers.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282357/9022_282357_000024_000007.wav|Men stood in long lines for their turn at the trading store.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000006.wav|Prairie chickens nestled along the single file trail. Deer bounded from the poplar thickets and shy coyotes barked all night in the offing.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000007_000001.wav|On the way to the vessel some of the Overlanders had narrowly escaped a massacre.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000030_000001.wav|Just beyond the shining mountains lay-Fortune.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000006_000002.wav|That was their first inkling that fraudulent practices were being carried on and that they had been deceived, that there was, in fact, no stage route from saint Paul to Cariboo.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000017_000001.wav|A few continued with oxen, and these oxen were to save their lives in the mountains.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000010.wav|These sold as low as a dollar each.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000007_000003.wav|The old plainsman who acted as guide bethought him of a ruse: he hoisted a flag of the Hudson's Bay Company and waved it in the face of the Sioux without speaking.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000007.wav|Night in June on the northern prairie is but the shadowy twilight between two long days.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000002.wav|One wonders whether, as the last ox cart creaked into the distance, the fur traders realized that the miner heralded the settler, and that the settler would fence off the hunter's game preserve into farms and cities.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000012.wav|Some nights, when the captain permitted a longer halt than usual and when camp fires blazed before the tents, men played the violin and sang and danced.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000006_000001.wav|Tickets could be purchased in London, England, as well as in Canada, for when these young Canadians reached saint Paul, they found eighteen young men from England, like themselves, diligently searching the whereabouts of the stage route.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000004_000003.wav|Eastern papers were full of advertisements of easy routes to the gold diggings.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000005.wav|An hour was permitted for harnessing and breaking camp, and then the carts creaked out in line.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000006_000003.wav|A few of them turned back, but the majority, by ox cart and rickety stagecoach, pushed on to the Red River and went up to a point near the boundary of modern Manitoba, where lay the first steamboat to navigate that river, about to start on her maiden trip.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000022_000004.wav|Great seams of coal, too, were seen projecting from the banks of the Saskatchewan.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000015_000003.wav|Pemmican bags were replenished from the company's stores.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000004_000006.wav|Besides, times were so hard in the East that the majority of the youthful adventurers who were caught by the fever had nothing to lose except their lives.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER four|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000008.wav|Pemmican cost sixteen cents a pound, and a pair of duffel Hudson's Bay blankets cost eight or ten dollars.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000023_000000.wav|The Overlanders were to enter the Rockies by the Yellowhead Pass, which had been discovered long ago by Jasper Hawse, of the Hudson's Bay Company.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000002.wav|A scout preceded the marchers, and at sundown camp was formed in a big triangle with the carts as a stockade, the animals tethered or hobbled inside.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000026_000000.wav|Instead of the thirty miles a day which they had made farther east, the travellers were now glad to cover ten miles a day.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000008.wav|On Sunday the procession rested and some one read divine service.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000016_000000.wav|Miners often uttered loud complaints against the charges made by the fur traders for provisions, forgetting what it cost to pack these provisions in by dog train and canoe.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000031_000003.wav|To the stern of this was attached a tree, the branch end dipping in the water, as a sweep and rudder to keep the craft to its course.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000004.wav|The unfenced prairie billowed to the horizon a sea of green, diversified by the sky blue waters of slough and lake, and decked with the hues of gorgeous flowers-the prairie rose, fragrant, tender, elusive, and fragile as the English primrose; the blood red tiger lily; the brown windflower with its corn tassel; the heavy wax cups of the sedgy water lily, growing where wild duck flackered unafraid.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000003.wav|Tents were pitched outside with six men doing sentry duty all night.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000004.wav|At two in the morning a halloo roused camp.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000011.wav|While the scout led the way, the captain and his lieutenants kept the long procession in line; and the travellers for the most part dozed lazily in their carts, dreaming of the fortunes awaiting them in Cariboo.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000015_000002.wav|Concerts were given, with bagpipes, concertinas, flutes, drums, and fiddles, in honour of the far travellers.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000031_000001.wav|It was necessary to camp here for a week.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000023_000003.wav|The miner came next, fevered to delirium, lured by the siren of an elusive yellow goddess.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000030_000007.wav|Even the Irishwoman's two little children came out and gazed at what they could not understand.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000013_000003.wav|From the Qu'Appelle westward the journey grew more arduous.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000016_000002.wav|Though the miner did everything to destroy the fur trade-started fires which ravaged the hunter's forest haunts, put up saloons which demoralized the Indians, built wagon roads where aforetime wandered only the shy creatures of the wilds-though the miner heralded the doom of the fur trade-yet with an unvarying courtesy, from Fort Garry to the Rockies, the Hudson's Bay men helped the Overlanders.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000022_000002.wav|Afterwards many who failed in the mines drifted back to the plains and became farmers.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000028_000005.wav|Then the trail lifted to the foothills.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000005.wav|Game was superabundant.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000028_000003.wav|For eleven days in August every soul of the company, including Mrs Shubert's babies, travelled wet to the skin.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000028_000001.wav|Three times in one day windfall and swamp forced the party to ford the stream for passage on the opposite side.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000028_000004.wav|At night great log fires were kindled and the Overlanders sat round trying to dry themselves out.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000008_000003.wav|But everybody was jubilant.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000003_000000.wav|THE OVERLANDERS|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000008_000000.wav|There had been heavy rains that spring on the prairie, and trees came jouncing down the muddy flood of the Red River.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000023_000005.wav|And then came the railroad, following the trail which had been beaten hard by the stumbling feet of pioneers.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000015_000000.wav|The arrival of the Overlanders is remembered at Edmonton by some old timers even to this day.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000004_000000.wav|When the Cariboo fever reached the East, the public there had heard neither of the Indian massacres in Oregon nor that the Sioux were on the war path in Dakota.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000028_000002.wav|The oxen swam and the ox carts floated and the packs came up the bank dripping.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000013_000006.wav|From Fort Pitt westward the trail crossed a rough, wooded country, and there were no more scows to take the ox carts across the rivers.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000013_000001.wav|Another week passed before they arrived at Fort Ellice.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000002.wav|Two wheeled ox carts, made wholly of wood, without iron or bolt, wound up to the fort from saint Paul in processions a mile long, with fat squaws and whole Indian families sitting squat inside the crib like structure of the cart.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000021_000001.wav|'If those husky dogs last night could devour all our camp kit without disturbing us, to night they might swallow us before we'd waken.'|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000001.wav|And on a beautiful June afternoon the Overlanders headed towards the setting sun in a procession of almost a hundred ox carts; and the fort waved them farewell.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000010.wav|By limiting camp to five hours, in spite of the slow pace of the oxen, forty to fifty miles a day could be made on a good trail in fair weather.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000020_000001.wav|'Why, now, when the huskies have chewed all you own but your instruments?|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000021_000000.wav|'No,' answered the prospectors.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000014_000000.wav|It was the twenty first of July when the travellers came out on the high banks of the North Saskatchewan, flowing broad and swift, opposite Fort Edmonton.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000031_000000.wav|The party now crossed a ravine to the main stream of the Athabaska.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000023_000001.wav|This section of their trail is visible to the modern traveller from the windows of a Grand Trunk Pacific Railway train, just as the lower sections of the Cariboo Trail in the Fraser Canyon are to be seen from the trains of the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian Northern.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000005.wav|With the Indians, who were camped everywhere in the woods along the Assiniboine, the Overlanders began to barter for carts, oxen, ponies, and dried deer meat or pemmican.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000023_000004.wav|The settler came third, prosaic and plodding, but dauntless too.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000004_000001.wav|Promoters who had never set foot west of Buffalo launched wild cat mining companies and parcel express devices and stages by routes that went up sheer walls and crossed unbridged rivers.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000030_000006.wav|But there were no faint hearts in the camp that night.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000007_000005.wav|The oxen stood complacently chewing the cud. Indians never molested British fur traders.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000020_000000.wav|'Why?' asked the amused trader.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000007_000002.wav|The story is told that as they slowly made their way in ox carts up the river bank, a band of horsemen swept over the horizon, and the travellers found themselves surrounded by Sioux warriors.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000000.wav|john Black, the Presbyterian 'apostle of the Red River,' preached special sermons on Sunday for the miners.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000020_000002.wav|You are locking the stable door after your horse has been stolen.'|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000010_000008.wav|The sun sets between nine and ten, and rises between three and four, and the moonlight is clear enough on cloudless nights for campers to see the time on their watches.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000006_000000.wav|A group of threescore young men from different parts of Canada, from Kingston, Niagara, and Montreal, having noticed advertisements of an easy stage route from saint Paul, set out for the gold diggings in may eighteen sixty two.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000025_000002.wav|And to the skirl of the bagpipes the procession wound away westward bound for the mountains.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000031_000005.wav|And so they entered the Yellowhead Pass.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000007_000006.wav|Presently the raiders went off over the horizon as swiftly as they had come, and the gold seekers drove on, little realizing the fate from which they had been delivered.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000000.wav|The arrival of the steamer at Fort Garry (Winnipeg) was celebrated with great rejoicing.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000009.wav|Instead of blankets, many of the travellers bought the cheaper buffalo robes.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000004_000005.wav|Far off gold glittered the brighter for the distance. Cariboo became in popular imagination a land where nuggets grew on the side of the road and could be picked by the bushel basket.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000014.wav|In the company was one woman, with two children.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000006.wav|An ox and cart cost from forty to fifty dollars.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000001.wav|Indians ran along the river bank firing off rifles in welcome, and opposite the flats where the fort gate opened, on what is now Main Street, the company's men came out and fired a royal salute. The people bound for Cariboo camped on the flats outside Fort Garry. Here was a strange world indeed.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000023_000002.wav|First came the fur trader, seeking adventure through these passes, pursuing the little beaver.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000022_000003.wav|The same thing had happened in California, and was repeated at a later day in the rush to the Klondike.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000007_000004.wav|The painted warriors drew together and conferred.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000009.wav|The oxen and ponies foraged for themselves.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000008_000005.wav|The Queen's Birthday, the twenty fourth of May, was celebrated on board the vessel pottle deep to the tune of the bagpipes played by the governor's Scottish piper.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000013_000009.wav|Where the trees swerved to the current, some one would swim out and anchor them with ropes till the hundred carts had passed safely to the other side.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000004_000002.wav|To such frauds there could be no certain check; for it took six months to get word in and out of Cariboo.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000022_000006.wav|Later, when these belated Overlanders decided to follow on to Cariboo, they suffered terrible hardships.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000014_000001.wav|There had been floods and all the company's rafts had been carried away.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000012_000006.wav|They halted at six for breakfast and marched again at seven.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000013_000002.wav|Heavy rains came on now, and james M'Kay, chief trader at Fort Ellice, opened his doors to the gold seekers. Harness and carts repaired and more pemmican bought, the travellers crossed the Qu'Appelle river in a Hudson's Bay scow, paying toll of fifty cents a cart.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000009_000007.wav|Ponies sold at twenty five dollars.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000031_000004.wav|On this the Overlanders were ferried across the Athabaska.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000015_000001.wav|Salvoes of welcome were fired from the fort cannon by a half breed shooting his musket into the touch hole of the big gun.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9022/282383/9022_282383_000030_000003.wav|Cheer on cheer rang from the encampment.|9022
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000002.wav|Those perceptions, which enter with most force and violence, we may name impressions: and under this name I comprehend all our sensations, passions and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000008.wav|But notwithstanding this near resemblance in a few instances, they are in general so very different, that no one can make a scruple to rank them under distinct heads, and assign to each a peculiar name to mark the difference [Footnote one.].|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000005.wav|Every one of himself will readily perceive the difference betwixt feeling and thinking.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000013_000002.wav|Now if this be true of different colours, it must be no less so of the different shades of the same colour, that each of them produces a distinct idea, independent of the rest.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000007_000000.wav|Upon a more accurate survey I find I have been carried away too far by the first appearance, and that I must make use of the distinction of perceptions into simple and complex, to limit this general decision, that all our ideas and impressions are resembling.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000008_000002.wav|After the most accurate examination, of which I am capable, I venture to affirm, that the rule here holds without any exception, and that every simple idea has a simple impression, which resembles it, and every simple impression a correspondent idea.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000008_000001.wav|We may next consider how the case stands with our simple, perceptions.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000013_000003.wav|For if this should be denied, it is possible, by the continual gradation of shades, to run a colour insensibly into what is most remote from it; and if you will not allow any of the means to be different, you cannot without absurdity deny the extremes to be the same.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000013_000004.wav|Suppose therefore a person to have enjoyed his sight for thirty years, and to have become perfectly well acquainted with colours of all kinds, excepting one particular shade of blue, for instance, which it never has been his fortune to meet with.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000000.wav|All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000011_000006.wav|Our ideas upon their appearance produce not their correspondent impressions, nor do we perceive any colour, or feel any sensation merely upon thinking of them.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000001.wav|The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness, with which they strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought or consciousness.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000014_000001.wav|Ideas produce the images of themselves in new ideas; but as the first ideas are supposed to be derived from impressions, it still remains true, that all our simple ideas proceed either mediately or immediately, from their correspondent impressions.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000012_000002.wav|We cannot form to ourselves a just idea of the taste of a pine apple, without having actually tasted it.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000005_000001.wav|This division is into SIMPLE and COMPLEX.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000001_000000.wav|PART one OF IDEAS, THEIR ORIGIN, COMPOSITION, CONNEXION, ABSTRACTION, etc|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000004_000001.wav|I here make use of these terms, impression and idea, in a sense different from what is usual, and I hope this liberty will be allowed me.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000006_000004.wav|In running over my other perceptions, I find still the same resemblance and representation. Ideas and impressions appear always to correspond to each other.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000006_000003.wav|When I shut my eyes and think of my chamber, the ideas I form are exact representations of the impressions I felt; nor is there any circumstance of the one, which is not to be found in the other.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000006_000002.wav|The one seem to be in a manner the reflexion of the other; so that all the perceptions of the mind are double, and appear both as impressions and ideas.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000011_000001.wav|I first make myself certain, by a new, review, of what I have already asserted, that every simple impression is attended with a correspondent idea, and every simple idea with a correspondent impression.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000007.wav|Thus in sleep, in a fever, in madness, or in any very violent emotions of soul, our ideas may approach to our impressions, As on the other hand it sometimes happens, that our impressions are so faint and low, that we cannot distinguish them from our ideas.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000012_000000.wav|To confirm this I consider Another plain and convincing phaenomenon; which is, that, where ever by any accident the faculties, which give rise to any impressions, are obstructed in their operations, as when one is born blind or deaf; not only the impressions are lost, but also their correspondent ideas; so that there never appear in the mind the least traces of either of them.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000005_000004.wav|Though a particular colour, taste, and smell, are qualities all united together in this apple, it is easy to perceive they are not the same, but are at least distinguishable from each other.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000011_000000.wav|In seeking for phenomena to prove this proposition, I find only those of two kinds; but in each kind the phenomena are obvious, numerous, and conclusive.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000010_000000.wav|The full examination of this question is the subject of the present treatise; and therefore we shall here content ourselves with establishing one general proposition, THAT ALL OUR SIMPLE IDEAS IN THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE ARE DERIVED FROM SIMPLE IMPRESSIONS, WHICH ARE CORRESPONDENT TO THEM, AND WHICH THEY EXACTLY REPRESENT.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000006_000005.wav|This circumstance seems to me remarkable, and engages my attention for a moment.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000015_000000.wav|This then is the first principle I establish in the science of human nature; nor ought we to despise it because of the simplicity of its appearance.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000003_000003.wav|By ideas I mean the faint images of these in thinking and reasoning; such as, for instance, are all the perceptions excited by the present discourse, excepting only those which arise from the sight and touch, and excepting the immediate pleasure or uneasiness it may occasion.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000004_000002.wav|Perhaps I rather restore the word, idea, to its original sense, from which Mr LOCKE had perverted it, in making it stand for all our perceptions.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000011_000005.wav|To give a child an idea of scarlet or orange, of sweet or bitter, I present the objects, or in other words, convey to him these impressions; but proceed not so absurdly, as to endeavour to produce the impressions by exciting the ideas.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5912/3118_5912_000011_000004.wav|That I may know on which side this dependence lies, I consider the order of their first appearance; and find by constant experience, that the simple impressions always take the precedence of their correspondent ideas, but never appear in the contrary order.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000014_000002.wav|In pretending, therefore, to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a compleat system of the sciences, built on a foundation almost entirely new, and the only one upon which they can stand with any security.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000018_000004.wav|But should I endeavour to clear up after the same manner any doubt in moral philosophy, by placing myself in the same case with that which I consider, it is evident this reflection and premeditation would so disturb the operation of my natural principles, as must render it impossible to form any just conclusion from the phenomenon.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000011_000004.wav|For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000011_000005.wav|I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000018_000003.wav|When I am at a loss to know the effects of one body upon another in any situation, I need only put them in that situation, and observe what results from it.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000015_000002.wav|Locke, my Lord Shaftesbury, dr Mandeville, mr Hutchinson, dr Butler, etc] in England, who have begun to put the science of man on a new footing, and have engaged the attention, and excited the curiosity of the public.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000018_000002.wav|Moral philosophy has, indeed, this peculiar disadvantage, which is not found in natural, that in collecting its experiments, it cannot make them purposely, with premeditation, and after such a manner as to satisfy itself concerning every particular difficulty which may be.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000010_000000.wav|Nor is there required such profound knowledge to discover the present imperfect condition of the sciences, but even the rabble without doors may, judge from the noise and clamour, which they hear, that all goes not well within.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000017_000001.wav|For nothing is more certain, than that despair has almost the same effect upon us with enjoyment, and that we are no sooner acquainted with the impossibility of satisfying any desire, than the desire itself vanishes.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000011_000001.wav|By metaphysical reasonings, they do not understand those on any particular branch of science, but every kind of argument, which is any way abstruse, and requires some attention to be comprehended.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000014_000001.wav|From this station we may extend our conquests over all those sciences, which more intimately concern human life, and may afterwards proceed at leisure to discover more fully those, which are the objects of pore curiosity. There is no question of importance, whose decision is not comprised in the science of man; and there is none, which can be decided with any certainty, before we become acquainted with that science.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000010_000002.wav|The most trivial question escapes not our controversy, and in the most momentous we are not able to give any certain decision.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000015_000000.wav|And as the science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences, so the only solid foundation we can give to this science itself must be laid on experience and observation.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000011_000003.wav|And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000016_000000.wav|Nor ought we to think, that this latter improvement in the science of man will do less honour to our native country than the former in natural philosophy, but ought rather to esteem it a greater glory, upon account of the greater importance of that science, as well as the necessity it lay under of such a reformation.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000018_000000.wav|But if this impossibility of explaining ultimate principles should be esteemed a defect in the science of man, I will venture to affirm, that it is a defect common to it with all the sciences, and all the arts, in which we can employ ourselves, whether they be such as are cultivated in the schools of the philosophers, or practised in the shops of the meanest artizans.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000012_000001.wav|Even.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000010_000004.wav|Amidst all this bustle it is not reason, which carries the prize, but eloquence; and no man needs ever despair of gaining proselytes to the most extravagant hypothesis, who has art enough to represent it in any favourable colours.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000016_000002.wav|And though we must endeavour to render all our principles as universal as possible, by tracing up our experiments to the utmost, and explaining all effects from the simplest and fewest causes, it is still certain we cannot go beyond experience; and any hypothesis, that pretends to discover the ultimate original qualities of human nature, ought at first to be rejected as presumptuous and chimerical.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000016_000001.wav|For to me it seems evident, that the essence of the mind being equally unknown to us with that of external bodies, it must be equally impossible to form any notion of its powers and qualities otherwise than from careful and exact experiments, and the observation of those particular effects, which result from its different circumstances and situations.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000008_000000.wav|INTRODUCTION.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000009_000003.wav|Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them, want of coherence in the parts, and of evidence in the whole, these are every where to be met with in the systems of the most eminent philosophers, and seem to have drawn disgrace upon philosophy itself.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000010_000001.wav|There is nothing which is not the subject of debate, and in which men of learning are not of contrary opinions.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5911/3118_5911_000011_000000.wav|From hence in my opinion arises that common prejudice against metaphysical reasonings of all kinds, even amongst those, who profess themselves scholars, and have a just value for every other part of literature.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000015_000001.wav|OF THE SCEPTICAL AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF PHILOSOPHY.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000022_000011.wav|twelve OF THE LOVE AND HATRED OF ANIMALS|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000019_000000.wav|PART one OF PRIDE AND HUMILITY|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000015_000000.wav|PART four.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000021_000000.wav|PART two OF LOVE AND HATRED|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000014_000019.wav|thirteen.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000014_000022.wav|fifteen.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000030_000000.wav|PART three OF THE OTHER VIRTUES AND VICES|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000010_000010.wav|seven. OF ABSTRACT IDEAS.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000020_000011.wav|twelve OF THE PRIDE AND HUMILITY OF ANIMALS|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000012_000009.wav|OF THE IDEA OF EXISTENCE, AND OF EXTERNAL EXISTENCE.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000022_000000.wav|SECT.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000028_000000.wav|PART two OF JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000023_000000.wav|PART three OF THE WILL AND DIRECT PASSIONS|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000012_000004.wav|three. OF THE OTHER QUALITIES OF OUR IDEA OF SPACE AND TIME. SECT.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000025_000000.wav|BOOK three OF MORALS|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000024_000000.wav|SECT.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000022_000003.wav|three DIFFICULTIES SOLVED SECT.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000029_000000.wav|SECT.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000007_000000.wav|INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000027_000002.wav|two MORAL DISTINCTIONS DERIVED FROM A MORAL SENSE|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000014_000006.wav|OF THE COMPONENT PARTS OF OUR REASONINGS CONCERNING CAUSE AND EFFECT. SECT.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000029_000011.wav|twelve OF CHASTITY AND MODESTY|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000029_000003.wav|three OF THE RULES WHICH DETERMINE PROPERTY SECT.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000013_000000.wav|PART three.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000014_000011.wav|eight.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000018_000000.wav|BOOK two OF THE PASSIONS|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000031_000000.wav|SECT.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3118/5909/3118_5909_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|3118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000023_000000.wav|The promise he had made was nothing more than a ratification of the old one.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000033_000000.wav|He shrugged his shoulders.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000018_000001.wav|He dismissed the carriage, and walked down the street, feeling fairly depressed in spirits.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000037_000000.wav|"Yes," answered Theo, looking actually pleased, and blushing beautifully as he looked down at her.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000011.wav|The desperate young scribbler of twenty years had been the lodger of the elder Miss Gower, and Priscilla, aged seventeen, had brought in his frugal dinners to him, and receipted his modest bills on their weekly payment.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000043_000000.wav|"I am glad you have come," she said, simply, extending her hand in acknowledgment of Denis's introduction.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000029_000001.wav|"Miss Priscilla Gower."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000015_000001.wav|"Yes, I believe you would, Theodora."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000037_000001.wav|"But I am very much obliged to you for telling me, mr Oglethorpe."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000003.wav|It is easy to guess how the matter terminated.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000009.wav|Twice, in one night, he had found himself feeling toward Theodora North as he had never felt toward Priscilla Gower in his life.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000008.wav|Truly, Priscilla Gower and enthusiasm were not in accordance with each other.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000008.wav|This was why Theodora North, in glistening rose pink satin, sent him home confronting a suddenly raised spirit of pain.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000028_000001.wav|"Then say it to me-let me hear it."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000039_000001.wav|I hope-oh!|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000008_000002.wav|Indeed, a second later, she was quite sure it had been Marguerite.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000007.wav|He was not old Miss Elizabeth Gower's lodger now-he was her niece's husband in perspective. He was to marry Priscilla Gower in eight months.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000000.wav|Priscilla at seventeen, silent, practical, grave and handsome, had, perhaps, softened unconsciously at the sight of his often pale face-he worked so hard and so far into the night; when at length they became friends, Priscilla gravely, and without any hesitation, volunteered to help him.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000022_000000.wav|"I will keep my promise to morrow," he said, "and Priscilla shall go with us.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000031_000001.wav|"Miss Gower, or rather Miss Priscilla Gower, as you say. Number twenty three, Broome street; and Broome street is not a fashionable locality, my dear Theodora."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000017_000000.wav|He sat by her side until the curtain fell; but his silent mood seemed to have come upon him again.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000032_000001.wav|"Why not?"|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000028_000000.wav|"Do you?" was his reply.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000038_000001.wav|It was very preposterous, that even though his mood was so prosaic and paternal a one, he was absurdly, vacantly sensible of feeling some uneasiness at the brightness of her upturned face.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000013_000000.wav|"I would have done it if I had been Marguerite," Theo half whispered.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000041_000000.wav|"My dearest Theodora," he said.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000008_000001.wav|She did not know why she had exclaimed-she scarcely knew how; but when she met his unembarrassed eyes, she began to think that possibly it might be Marguerite.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000008_000000.wav|She looked at him in a little fright at herself.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000003.wav|And, after all, his blindness had not been the result of any frivolous lack of thought.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000022_000001.wav|Poor Priscilla!--poor girl!|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000006.wav|He had quiet fancies of his own about people and things, and many of these reticent, rarely expressed ideas were reverent, chivalrous ones of women.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000035_000000.wav|Her bright eyes crept up to his, half timidly; but she said nothing, so he continued.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000000.wav|He had, perhaps, never given the girl a thought before, unless when chance had thrown them together, and even then his thoughts had been common admiring ones.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000012_000000.wav|"Would she have done it if she could?" commented Denis, languidly.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000049_000001.wav|"It will please me very much to see you, Miss Theodora.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000016_000000.wav|He was sure she would, after that swift glance of his, and-Well, what a happy man he would be for whom this tender young Marguerite would suffer or be sacrificed.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000038_000002.wav|For pity's sake, why was it that he was impelled to such a puerile weakness-such a vanity, as he sternly called it.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000010.wav|Propinquity is the strongest of agents in a love affair, and in Denis Oglethorpe's love affair, propinquity had accomplished what nothing else would have been likely to have done.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000038_000000.wav|"Why?" he asked.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000009_000000.wav|"Yes-I think so," she faltered.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000024_000004.wav|She was not world wise enough for that yet.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000042_000002.wav|She was a trifle afraid of Miss Priscilla.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000021_000003.wav|He was on better terms with himself, and his weakness seemed less formidable.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000042_000004.wav|There was an absence of anything girl like in her fine, ivory pale face, somehow, though it was a young face and a handsome face, at whose fine lines and clear contour even a connoisseur could not have caviled.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000002.wav|He had been so used to Priscilla, that it never occurred to him that a girl so young as this one could be a woman.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000009_000002.wav|If she could only have saved him?"|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000012.wav|She had no right to win such admiration from him-he had no right to give it.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000040_000000.wav|He had been looking straight before him while she spoke, but this brought his eyes to hers again, and to her face-bright, appealing, upturned-and he found himself absolutely obliged to steady himself with a jesting speech.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000001.wav|She could copy well and clearly, and he could come into her aunt's room-it would save fires.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000007_000001.wav|"Is it Marguerite?"|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000024_000001.wav|The girl was pretty enough, too, in her soft, black merino-her "best" dress in Downport-but she was not dazzling.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000034_000001.wav|"But do you know who Miss Priscilla Gower is, Theodora?"|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000031_000000.wav|"Yes," he said.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000004.wav|If ever he won success he determined to give it to Priscilla-and so he told her.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000036_000001.wav|Did you know that?"|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000011_000001.wav|If-if she could have suffered something, or sacrificed something-"|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000006.wav|He had worked steadily for her sake, and shielded her from every care that it lay within his power to lighten.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000041_000001.wav|"Miss Priscilla Gower could not possibly help it."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000005_000001.wav|She had been deeply interested in Marguerite a minute before, and, in her heart touched pleasure, had leant upon the edge of the box, her whole face thrilled with excitement.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000009_000001.wav|"Poor Marguerite!|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000030_000000.wav|He nodded, slightly, with a curious mixture of expressions in his face.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000015_000000.wav|"You?" he said, the next moment.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000043_000003.wav|She was constitutionally unenthusiastic, if such a thing may be.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000004.wav|A sharp experience had made him as thoroughly a man of the world as a man may be; but it had not made him callous or indifferent to the beauties of life.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000039_000002.wav|I do hope Miss Priscilla Gower will like me."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000024_000000.wav|And when the morrow came, he found it, after all, safe enough, and an easy enough matter, to tuck Theodora's small, gloved hand under his arm, when they set out on their tour of investigation and discovery.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000011_000000.wav|"I don't-at least I scarcely know; but I think the author ought to have made her save him, someway.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000021_000000.wav|But as his walk in the night air cooled him, it cooled his ardor of self examination somewhat.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000046_000000.wav|Yet Theo had some faint misgivings during the day as to whether Miss Priscilla Gower would like her or not.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000043_000001.wav|The quietness of this greeting speech was a fair sample of all her manner.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000032_000000.wav|"Isn't it?" queried Theo.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000021_000001.wav|His discontent was modified by the time he reached his own door, and took his latch key out of his pocket.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000047_000000.wav|"I hope," said Theodora, when, after their sight seeing was over, she stood on the pavement before the door in Broome street, her nice little hand on Denis Oglethorpe's arm, "I hope you will let me come to see you again, Miss Gower."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000034_000000.wav|"Ask Lady Throckmorton," he said.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000020_000010.wav|Twice, in one night, he had turned his eyes upon this girl of sixteen, and suffered a sudden shock of enthusiasm, or something like it.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000021_000002.wav|The face that had looked down upon him beneath the light at the head of the stair case, had faded into less striking color-it was only a girl's face again.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000001.wav|She had pleased him, and he had tried to amuse her in a careless, well meant fashion, though he had never made fine speeches to her, as nine men out of ten would have done.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000049_000002.wav|Come as often as you can spare the time."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000005.wav|No one would ever have called him emotional, or prone to enthusiasms of a weak kind, and yet he was by no means hard of heart.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000036_000000.wav|"Miss Priscilla Gower is the young lady to whom I am to be married next July.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000010_000000.wav|"How?" he asked.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000012_000001.wav|He had quite recovered himself by this time.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000019_000007.wav|The opposing force of a whole world could never have shaken his faith in Priscilla Gower, or touched his respect for her; but though, perhaps, he had never understood it so, he had never felt very enthusiastically concerning her.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000042_000005.wav|Its long almond shaped, agate gray eyes, black fringed and lustrous as they were, still were silent eyes-they did not speak even to Denis Oglethorpe.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000005_000000.wav|But during the final act she found that he was not looking at the stage at all; but was sitting in the shadow of the box curtain watching herself.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000007_000000.wav|"What is it, Theodora?" he asked, in a low, clear voice.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000042_000003.wav|Miss Priscilla was sitting at the table reading when they entered, and as she rose to greet them, holding her book in one hand, the thought entered Theo's mind that she could comprehend dimly why Lady Throckmorton disliked her, and thought her unsuited to Denis Oglethorpe.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000014_000001.wav|He turned upon her suddenly, and meeting her sweet, world ignorant eyes, felt the faint, pained shock once more, and strangely enough his first thought was a disconnected one of Priscilla Gower.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000023_000001.wav|They were to see the lions together, and Priscilla was to guide them.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000048_000001.wav|All Priscilla's smiles were like moonlight.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000046_000002.wav|As Lady Throckmorton had said, it was not a matter of age.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000044_000001.wav|The fact that Denis had spoken of her admiringly was sufficient to arouse in her mind an interest in this young creature, who was at once, and so inconsistently, beautiful, timid, and regal, without consciousness.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000045_000000.wav|"Three years more will make her something wonderful, as far as beauty is concerned," he had said; and, accordingly, she had felt some slight pleasure in the anticipation of seeing her.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000029_000000.wav|"Miss Gower," she answered, softly, in a pretty reverence for him.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11547/4098_11547_000018_000000.wav|Bright as the future was, it left a sense of discomfort, he could not explain why.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000035_000002.wav|Your figure is perfect, and you have eyes like a Syrian, instead of a commonplace English woman.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000039_000000.wav|But whether he jested or not, Theo was always inclined to listen to him with some degree of serious belief.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000038_000001.wav|"They spoiled me in my infancy, and my unfortunate experience causes me to warn you."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER three.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000017_000001.wav|"A relative of hers.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000018_000002.wav|He was aroused to a recognition of their beauty all at once.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000020_000000.wav|Theodora stroked Sabre, apologetically, but could scarcely find courage to speak.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000043_000000.wav|"What for?" asked Theo, blushing.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000031_000001.wav|"Priscilla is a little like Pamela."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000038_000000.wav|"Don't let all these fine people and fine speeches turn your head, Theodora," he would say, in a tone that might either have been jest or earnest.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000016_000000.wav|She was so abashed at her blunder, that she looked absolutely imploring, and mr Denis Oglethorpe smiled again.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000007_000001.wav|The moment she saw him she stood up blushing, and with a light in her eyes.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000035_000000.wav|"You are very handsome, indeed, Theodora," she said to her a few days after her arrival.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000021_000003.wav|It was easy, as well as proper enough, to talk to her unceremoniously without the trouble of being diffuse and complimentary. So he made himself agreeable, and Theodora listened until she quite forgot Sir Dugald, and only remembered Sabre, because his big heavy head was on her knee, and she was stroking it.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000010_000001.wav|"Come here, Sabre."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000047_000002.wav|He did not talk to her as much as usual, and she was quite sure he paid very little attention to Faust.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000004_000000.wav|Lady Throckmorton was in her private room when he came, and as he made his entrance with as little ceremony as usual, he ran in upon Theodora. Now, to tell the truth, he had, until this moment, forgotten all about that young person's very existence.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000015_000002.wav|I don't think he cares about being liked at all."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000018_000003.wav|What contour there was in the turn of arm and shoulder under the close fitting purple cloth!|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000002_000000.wav|THE MEETING.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000028_000001.wav|Theodora was beginning a minute later, when the handsome face changed suddenly as her companion turned upon her in evident surprise.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000027_000000.wav|"It would be simply delightful," he said.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000003_000002.wav|At any rate, he did not call again until the end of the week.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000029_000000.wav|"Priscilla?" he repeated, after her.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000041_000000.wav|He was conscious of a faint shock of delight on first beholding her.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000008.wav|But free from any touch of light gallantry as his manner toward the girl was, Denis Oglethorpe did not forget her this night.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000041_000001.wav|He had just left Priscilla, pale and heavy eyed, in dun colored merino, poring over a Greek dictionary, and the sudden entering the bright room, and finding himself facing Theodora North in rose colored satin, was a little like electricity.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000021_000001.wav|But he had been tired and fagged out, he remembered, on the first occasion of their meeting-too tired to think of anything but his appointment at Broome street, and Priscilla's Greek grammar.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000020_000002.wav|He must think her dreadfully stupid, though he was good humored enough to make light of her silly speech.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000009_000003.wav|She never reads late in the evening.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000003_000000.wav|But Denis Oglethorpe did not appear again for several days.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000007_000000.wav|But Theodora had not forgotten him.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000039_000002.wav|Who should know better than he what was right?|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000045_000002.wav|He had such an eccentric fashion of being almost curt sometimes.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000017_000002.wav|A pretty creature, too, Priscilla, for a bread and butter Miss."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000004_000002.wav|Of course, he had noticed Theodora North that first night.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000025_000000.wav|"Better than anything in the world," glowing with delighted surprise. "If it wouldn't be too much trouble," she added, quite apologetically.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000018_000001.wav|What tender, speechful eyes she had!|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000037_000000.wav|In the meantime, Denis Oglethorpe made friendly calls as usual, and always meeting Theodora, found her very pleasant to talk to and look at. He found out her enthusiastic admiration for the poetic effusions of his youth, and in consideration thereof, good humoredly presented her with a copy of the volume, with some very witty verses written on the fly leaf in a flourishing hand.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000033_000001.wav|The two had encountered each other some years ago, when Denis had been by no means in his palmiest days.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000010.wav|But he thought of her carelessly and honestly enough, as a beautiful young creature years behind him in experience, and utterly beyond him in all possibility of any sentimental fancy.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000046_000001.wav|"And she does not comprehend it in the least."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000033_000000.wav|The friendship existing between Lady Throckmorton and this young man was a queer, inconsistent sentiment enough, and yet was a friendship, and a mature one.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000024_000000.wav|"Then we must take you to see the lions," he said, "if Lady Throckmorton will let us, Miss Theodora.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000003_000001.wav|Perhaps business detained him; perhaps he went oftener to see Priscilla.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000019_000001.wav|I don't know anything in London so like Sir Dugald as Sir Dugald's dog."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000028_000000.wav|"When Priscilla was in London-"|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000006_000001.wav|"To be sure; I had forgotten Theodora."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000015_000001.wav|"I oughtn't to have said that, ought I? I forgot how rude it would sound; but, indeed, I only meant that Sabre was so slow and heavy, and-and so indifferent to people, somehow.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000034_000000.wav|And, in like manner, Theodora North became another of them.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000004.wav|But he managed to end his conversation with Theo unconstrainedly enough.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000009_000004.wav|This is a very handsome dog, Miss North."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000011_000000.wav|Sabre stalked majestically to her side, and laid his head upon her knee. Theo stroked him softly, raising her eyes quite seriously to mr Oglethorpe's face.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000037_000001.wav|It was worth while to amuse Theodora, she was so pretty and unassuming in her delight at his carelessly amiable efforts for her entertainment.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000009_000001.wav|No," said mr Denis Oglethorpe.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000005.wav|He even gained her ladyship's consent to their plan.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000018_000005.wav|Her unconscious stateliness of girlish form, and the conscious shyness of her manner, were the loveliest inconsistency in the world.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000037_000003.wav|Better that he should amuse her than that she should be left to the mercy of men who would perhaps have the execrable taste to spoil her pretty childish ways with flattery.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000027_000002.wav|We will appeal to Lady Throckmorton."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000007_000004.wav|She did not feel stately at all; she only felt somewhat confused, and rather glad that mr Denis Oglethorpe had surprised her by coming again.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000018_000000.wav|But just at this moment, he thought better of the matter.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000020_000001.wav|She had stood somewhat in awe of mr Denis Oglethorpe, even at first, and her discomfort was rapidly increasing.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000036_000002.wav|Theodora was an actual beauty, of an uncommon type, in the face of her ignorance of manners and customs. Pamela had never, at her best, been more than a delicately pretty girl.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000039_000004.wav|He paid her his first compliment the night the rose colored satin dress came home.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000030_000001.wav|"I meant to say Pamela. My eldest sister's name is Pamela, and-and-"|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000024_000003.wav|How should you like that?"|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000004_000001.wav|He saw so many pretty girls in a day's round, and he was so often too busy to notice half of them-though he was an admirer of pretty girls-that it was nothing new to see one and forget her, until chance threw them together again.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000012_000000.wav|"He reminds me of Sir Dugald himself," she said.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000004_000005.wav|And yet, until this moment, he had forgotten her, with the assistance of proofs, and printers, and Priscilla.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000045_000000.wav|Theo looked up at him for a second, and then looked down.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000042_000000.wav|"Oh! it's Theodora, is it?" he said, slowly, when he recovered himself. "Thank you, Theodora."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000007_000002.wav|It was odd how un English she looked, and yet how thoroughly English she was in that delicious, uncomfortable trick of blushing vividly upon all occasions.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000033_000006.wav|In fact, she was a woman of caprices even at sixty five, and Denis Oglethorpe was one of her caprices.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000017_000000.wav|"There is a little girl staying at Lady Throckmorton's," he had said to Priscilla.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000039_000003.wav|His indifference to the rule of opinion could only be the result of conscious perfection, and his careless satires were to her the most brilliant of witticisms.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000031_000000.wav|"And you said Priscilla by mistake," interposed Oglethorpe, with a sudden accession of gravity.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000004_000004.wav|And the something beautifully over awed and bashfully curious in her lovely, uncommon eyes, had half amused him.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000023_000002.wav|I was never even out of Downport before."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000007.wav|She had been so used to Pamela, that she would have felt half afraid of being treated with any greater ceremony; but still she could clearly understand that mr Oglethorpe did not speak to her as he would have spoken to Miss Gower.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000009_000002.wav|"I would not disturb her on any account; and, besides, I know she will be down directly.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000014_000000.wav|"Does he?" he returned, as quietly as possible, and then his glance meeting Theo's, she broke into a little burst of horror stricken self reproach.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000021_000002.wav|And now in recognizing what he had before passed by, he was quite glad to find the girl so young and inexperienced-so modest, in a sweet way.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000033_000002.wav|In fact, my lady had picked him up when he stood in sore need of friends, and Oglethorpe never forgot a favor.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000033_000004.wav|Oglethorpe, junior, was pretty much what Oglethorpe, senior, had been, and notwithstanding her practical views, Lady Throckmorton liked him none the worse for it.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000045_000001.wav|Much as she admired mr Denis Oglethorpe, she never quite comprehended him.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000000.wav|It needed nothing more than this simple slip of Theodora North's tongue to assure him that Lady Throckmorton had been telling her the story of his engagement to Miss Gower, and, as might be anticipated, he was not as devoutly grateful to her ladyship as he might have been.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000023_000000.wav|"No, sir," Theo answered.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000046_000000.wav|"I have been making a fine speech to Theodora," he said to Lady Throckmorton, when she came in.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000033_000003.wav|He never forgot to be grateful to Lady Throckmorton; and so, despite the wide difference between their respective ages and positions, their mutual liking had ripened into a familiarity of relationship which made them more like elder sister and younger brother than anything else.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000003.wav|It roused his pride to think how liberally he must have been discussed, and, consequently, when Lady Throckmorton joined them, he was not in the most amiable of moods.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000044_000000.wav|"For the rose colored satin," he returned, complacently.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000047_000000.wav|It was somewhat singular, Theo thought, that he should be so silent after this, for he was silent.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000008_000001.wav|"I will go and tell her you are here." There were no bells in the house at Downport, and no servants to answer if any one had rang one, and, very naturally, Theo forgot she was not at Downport.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000010_000000.wav|"Very handsome, indeed," was Theo's reply.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000020_000003.wav|Certainly Priscilla never made such a silly speech in her life; but then, how could one teach French and Latin, and be anything but ponderously discreet?|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000027_000001.wav|"I should like it better than anything in the world, too.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000013_000000.wav|mr Denis Oglethorpe smiled faintly.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000004_000003.wav|How could a man help noticing her?|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000021_000000.wav|mr Denis Oglethorpe was not thinking of Priscilla's wisdom, however; he was thinking of Theodora North; he was thinking that he must have been very blind not to have seen before that his friend's niece was a beauty of the first water, young as she was.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000044_000001.wav|"It is so very becoming.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000044_000002.wav|You look like a sultana, my dear Theodora."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000026_000000.wav|mr Denis Oglethorpe smiled.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000034_000001.wav|Finding her tractable, she became quite fond of her, in her own way, and was at least generous to lavishness in her treatment of her.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000007_000005.wav|How mr Denis Oglethorpe would have smiled if he had known what an innocent commotion his simple presence created!|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000039_000001.wav|She took his advice when it was proffered, and regarded his wisdom as the wisdom of an oracle.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000015_000000.wav|"Oh, dear!" she exclaimed.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000001.wav|He was careless to a fault in some things, and punctilious to a fault in others; and he was very punctilious about Priscilla Gower.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000037_000002.wav|She was only a mere child after all at sixteen, with Downport in the background; so he felt quite honestly at ease in being attentive to her girlish requirements.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000035_000004.wav|Rose pink is just your shade, and some day, when we go out together, I will lend you some of my diamonds."|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000032_000002.wav|He was not an ardent lover, but he was a conscientiously honorable one, and, apart from his respect for his betrothed, he was very impatient of interference with his affairs; and my lady was not chary of interfering when the fancy seized her.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4098/11546/4098_11546_000009_000000.wav|"Excuse me.|4098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000018_000001.wav|It acted as well as a three or four feet refractor of that day, and showed Jupiter's moons.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000010_000000.wav|At once the true nature of colour became manifest.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000068_000005.wav|His body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, six peers bearing the pall.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000010_000002.wav|Red glass for instance adds nothing to sunlight.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000008_000005.wav|If the spreading out depended on the prism only it should spread out just as much as before, but if it depended on the complex character of white light, this isolated simple constituent should be able to spread out no more.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000068_000002.wav|His silver white hair when he removed his peruke was a venerable spectacle.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000065_000002.wav|It is not to be supposed that he had lost his power, for he frequently solved problems very quickly which had been given out by great Continental mathematicians as a challenge to the world.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000049_000006.wav|He actually couldn't find it just then, but sent it him shortly by post, and with it much more-in fact, what appeared to be a complete treatise on motion in general.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000056_000000.wav|By some fatality, principally no doubt because of the interest they excited, every discovery he published was the signal for an outburst of criticism and sometimes of attack.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000006_000005.wav|The patch on the screen was not a round disk, as it would have been without the prism, but was an elongated oval and was coloured at its extremities.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000047_000009.wav|Their developments and completions, due to such men as Clairaut, Euler, D'Alembert, Lagrange, Laplace, Airy, Leverrier, Adams, we should of course not have had to the same extent; because the lives and energies of these great men would have been partially consumed in obtaining the main facts themselves.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000003_000004.wav|The tree was blown down in eighteen twenty and part of its wood is preserved.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000039_000002.wav|How far did it fall?|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000073_000004.wav|Much ought to be sacrificed to obtain those conditions.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000067_000001.wav|Perhaps if he had been maintained at the national expense to do that for which he was preternaturally fitted, he might have worn himself out prematurely; whereas by giving him routine work the scientific world got the benefit of his matured wisdom and experience.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000047_000003.wav|They had guessed at a law of inverse squares, and their difficulty was to prove what curve a body subject to it would describe.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000047_000008.wav|We should never have had them stated in the same form, nor proved with the same marvellous lucidity and simplicity, but the facts themselves we should by this time have arrived at.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000063_000004.wav|However, I dare say he made a good average member.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000055_000000.wav|By this time Newton was only forty five years old, but his main work was done.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000039_000001.wav|If gravity were the force keeping the moon in its orbit, it would fall toward the earth sixteen feet every minute.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000015_000003.wav|Each point of an object will be represented in the image not by a point but by a coloured patch: a fact which amply explains the observed blurring and indistinctness.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000008_000004.wav|Pierce the screen to let one of the constituents through and interpose a second prism in its path.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000053_000004.wav|The only useful way really to read a book like that is to pore over every sentence: it is no book to be skimmed.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000038_000006.wav|What if it should turn out to be true after all!|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000029_000002.wav|His lectures were afterwards published both in Latin and English, and are highly valued to this day.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000050_000004.wav|Mathematicians regard the achievement now as men might stare at the work of some demigod of a bygone age, wondering what manner of man this was, able to wield such ponderous implements with such apparent ease.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000051_000002.wav|It is no small part of the merit of Halley that he recognized the transcendent value of the yet unfinished work, that he brought it to light, and assisted in its becoming understood to the best of his ability.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000068_000000.wav|The events of his later life I shall pass over lightly.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000066_000002.wav|Certainly Newton did not know it.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000010_000003.wav|The light does not get dyed red by passing through the glass; all that the red glass does is to stop and absorb a large part of the sunlight; it is opaque to the larger portion, but it is transparent to that particular portion which affects our eyes with the sensation of red.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000066_000003.wav|He several times talks of giving up philosophy altogether; and though he never really does it, and perhaps the feeling is one only born of some temporary overwork, yet he does not sacrifice everything else to it as he surely must had he been conscious of his own greatness. No; self consciousness was the last thing that affected him.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000061_000000.wav|Some years later, when his method of fluxions was published, another and a worse controversy arose-this time with Leibnitz, who had also independently invented the differential calculus.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000063_000002.wav|He went, I believe, as a Whig, but it is not recorded that he spoke.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000020_000001.wav|Fifty years elapsed before it was much improved on, and then, first by Hadley and afterwards by Herschel and others, large and good reflectors were constructed.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000029_000000.wav|Still, however, his method of fluxions was unknown, and still he did not publish it.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000044_000004.wav|This shows how much he cared for contemporary fame.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000038_000004.wav|Armed with this new datum, his old speculation concerning gravity occurred to him.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000017_000002.wav|A concave mirror forms an image just as a lens does, but since it does so without refraction or transmission through any substance, there is no accompanying dispersion or chromatic aberration.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000031_000007.wav|He is well known as an architect, but he was a most accomplished all round man, and had a considerable taste and faculty for science.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000059_000000.wav|By indiscreet friends these two great men were set somewhat at loggerheads, and worse might have happened had they not managed to come to close quarters, and correspond privately in a quite friendly manner, instead of acting through the mischievous medium of third parties.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000051_000001.wav|For though he ultimately suffered no pecuniary loss, rather the contrary, yet there was considerable risk in bringing out a book which not a dozen men living could at the time comprehend.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000050_000002.wav|To this he consented; but the Royal Society wisely appointed mr Halley to see after him and jog his memory, in case he forgot about it.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000010_000005.wav|Coloured media act like filters, stopping certain kinds but allowing the rest to go through.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000040_000000.wav|But of course it had to be worked out.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000046_000001.wav|The theory of gravitation seemed to be in the air, and Wren, Hooke, and Halley had many a talk about it.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000017_000001.wav|So he gave up his "glass works"; and proceeded to think of reflexion from metal specula.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000050_000003.wav|However, he set to work to polish it up and finish it, and added to it a great number of later developments and embellishments, especially the part concerning the lunar theory, which gave him a deal of trouble-and no wonder; for in the way he has put it there never was a man yet living who could have done the same thing.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000021_000001.wav|The sextant, as used by navigators, was also invented by Newton.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000049_000004.wav|He said, "What path will a body describe if it be attracted by a centre with a force varying as the inverse square of the distance." To which Newton at once replied, "An ellipse." "How on earth do you know?" said Halley in amazement.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000003_000002.wav|Fortunately this anecdote is well authenticated, and moreover is intrinsically probable; I say fortunately, because it is always painful to have to give up these child learnt anecdotes, like Alfred and the cakes and so on.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000006_000003.wav|So he bought a prism to try the law.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000031_000004.wav|With great ingenuity, remarkable scientific insight, and consummate experimental skill, he stands in many respects almost on a level with Galileo.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000005_000003.wav|Accordingly he calculated out their proper curves, just as Descartes had also done, and then proceeded to grind them as near as he could to those figures. But the images did not please him; they were always blurred and rather indistinct.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000014_000002.wav|Beyond the crossing point or focus the order of cones is reversed, as the above figure shows.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000042_000001.wav|After waiting a long time, dr Stukely removed the cover and ate the chicken underneath it, replacing and covering up the bones again.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000031_000002.wav|Hooke began as his assistant, but being of a most extraordinary ingenuity he rapidly rose so as to exceed his master in importance.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000032_000001.wav|He communicated to them an account of his reflecting telescope, and presented them with the instrument.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000068_000004.wav|He died quietly, after a painful illness, at the ripe age of eighty five.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000059_000001.wav|In the next edition Newton liberally recognizes the claims of both Hooke and Wren.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000053_000002.wav|In less than twenty years the edition was sold out, and copies fetched large sums.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000067_000000.wav|However, it is difficult for us to judge of these things.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000031_000006.wav|Of Christopher Wren I need not say much.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000005_000000.wav|He now began to turn his attention to optics, and, as was usual with him, his whole mind became absorbed in this subject as if nothing else had ever occupied him.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000008_000007.wav|It differed from sunlight in being simple.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000047_000006.wav|He surmised also that gravity was the force concerned, and asserted that the path of an ordinary projectile was an ellipse, like the path of a planet-which is quite right.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000063_000003.wav|It is, in fact, recorded that he was once expected to speak when on a Royal Commission about some question of chronometers, but that he would not.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000047_000004.wav|They knew it ought to be an ellipse if it was to serve to explain the planetary motion, and Hooke said he could prove that an ellipse it was; but he was nothing of a mathematician, and the others scarcely believed him.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000041_000002.wav|Thus, for instance, when getting up in a morning he would sit on the side of the bed half dressed, and remain like that till dinner time.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000006_000000.wav|At length, it struck him that perhaps it was not the lenses but the light which was at fault.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000008_000000.wav|Why did the image thus spread out?|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000044_000000.wav|The first part of the work having been done, any ordinary mortal would have proceeded to publish it; but the fact is that after he had sent to the Royal Society his papers on optics, there had arisen controversies and objections; most of them rather paltry, to which he felt compelled to find answers.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000006_000006.wav|Evidently refraction was not a simple geometrical deflection of a ray, there was a spreading out as well.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000028_000004.wav|It happened, about sixteen sixty nine, that a mathematical discovery of some interest was being much discussed, and dr Barrow happened to mention it to Newton, who said yes, he had worked out that and a few other similar things some time ago.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000066_000004.wav|It is for a great man's contemporaries to discover him, to make much of him, and to put him in surroundings where he may flourish luxuriantly in his own heaven intended way.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000049_000005.wav|"Why, I have calculated it," and began hunting about for the paper.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000008_000009.wav|White light was not simple but compound. It could be sorted out by a prism into an infinite number of constituent parts which were differently refracted, and the most striking of which Newton named violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000008_000001.wav|If it were due to irregularities in the glass a second prism should rather increase them, but a second prism when held in appropriate position was able to neutralise the dispersion and to reproduce the simple round white spot without deviation. Evidently the spreading out of the beam was connected in some definite way with its refraction.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000039_000004.wav|He throws down the pen; and the secret of the universe is, to one man, known.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000004_000000.wav|I have mentioned Voltaire in connection with Newton's philosophy.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000064_000000.wav|Then a little later it was realized that Newton was poor, that he still had to teach for his livelihood, and that though the Crown had continued his fellowship to him as Lucasian Professor without the necessity of taking orders, yet it was rather disgraceful that he should not be better off.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000048_000001.wav|He had been at Cambridge, doubtless had heard Newton lecture, and had acquired a great veneration for him.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000050_000001.wav|The Society at his representation wrote to mr Newton asking leave that it might be printed.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000006_000002.wav|Perhaps the law of refraction was not quite accurate, but only an approximation.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000041_000001.wav|During those years he lived but to calculate and think, and the most ludicrous stories are told concerning his entire absorption and inattention to ordinary affairs of life.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000028_000002.wav|However, he was known as an accomplished young mathematician, and was made a fellow of his college.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000022_000000.wav|The year after the plague, in sixteen sixty seven, Newton returned to Trinity College, and there continued his experiments on optics.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000010_000006.wav|Leonardo's and all the ancient doctrines of colour had been singularly wrong; colour is not in the object but in the light.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000021_000000.wav|The largest telescope ever made, that of Lord Rosse, is a Newtonian reflector, fifty feet long, six feet diameter, with a mirror weighing four tons.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000031_000001.wav|Boyle was a great experimenter, a worthy follower of dr Gilbert.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000029_000001.wav|He lectured first on optics, giving an account of his experiments.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000012_000003.wav|If light be simple it acts well, but if ordinary white light fall upon a lens, its different constituents have different foci; every bright object is fringed with colour, and nothing like a clear image can be obtained.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000037_000000.wav|Comparisons in different departments are but little help perhaps, nevertheless it seems to me that in his own department, and considered simply as a man of science, Newton towers head and shoulders over, not only his contemporaries-that is a small matter-but over every other scientific man who has ever lived, in a way that we can find no parallel for in other departments.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000047_000002.wav|It does not obey Kepler's laws; still it was a striking experiment.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000012_000000.wav|Refraction analysed out the various constituents of white light and displayed them in the form of a series of overlapping images of the aperture, each of a different colour; this series of images we call a spectrum, and the operation we now call spectrum analysis.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000060_000000.wav|However, fortunately, Halley was able to prevail upon him to publish the third book also.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4629/19366/4629_19366_000015_000000.wav|If a screen be held anywhere nearer the lens than the place marked one there will be a whitish centre to the patch of light and a red and orange fringe or border.|4629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/583/139009/583_139009_000021_000002.wav|Come in, Bates.|583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/583/139009/583_139009_000059_000007.wav|Can't be.|583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/583/139009/583_139009_000032_000000.wav|"no|583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/583/139009/583_139009_000060_000003.wav|But it isn't.|583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000004.wav|Russia refused to take this view.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000005_000000.wav|Extremely sensitive to American opinion, but ill informed about it, the German government soon began systematic efforts to present its cause to the people of the United States in the most favorable light possible. dr Bernhard Dernburg, the former colonial secretary of the German empire, was sent to America as a special agent.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000021_000003.wav|Between february twenty sixth and april second, six American merchant vessels were torpedoed, in most cases without any warning and without regard to the loss of American lives. President Wilson therefore called upon Congress to answer the German menace.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000025_000001.wav|The powers against which we were arrayed had every able bodied man in service and all their resources, human and material, thrown into the scale.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000012_000000.wav|The response of the United States to the ominous German order was swift and direct.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000005_000001.wav|For months he filled the newspapers, magazines, and periodicals with interviews, articles, and notes on the justice of the Teutonic cause.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000008.wav|We could not, however, in these vital interests of Austria Hungary which were at stake, advise our ally to take a yielding attitude not compatible with his dignity nor deny him our assistance." That made the war inevitable.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000003.wav|The first loan had four and a half million subscribers; the fourth more than twenty million.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000024_000003.wav|Democracy, the right of nations to determine their own fate, a covenant of enduring peace-these were the ideals for which the American people were to pour out their blood and treasure.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000011_000001.wav|The German decree added that, as the British admiralty had ordered the use of neutral flags by English ships in time of distress, neutral vessels would be in danger of destruction if found in the forbidden area.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000016_000004.wav|The Republicans chose, and the Progressives accepted, Charles e Hughes, an associate justice of the federal Supreme Court who, as governor of New York, had won a national reputation by waging war on "machine politicians."|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000019_000003.wav|On january twenty second nineteen seventeen, President Wilson in an address before the Senate, declared it to be a duty of the United States to take part in the establishment of a stable peace on the basis of certain principles.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000032_000004.wav|The Socialist party denounced the war as a capitalist quarrel; but all the protests combined were too slight to have much effect.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000005.wav|Great Britain proposed a settlement by mediation.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000016_000003.wav|The friends of Roosevelt hoped that both parties would select him as their candidate; but this hope was not realized.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000033_000002.wav|Before the end of the war more than three hundred American vessels and seventy five thousand officers and men were operating in European waters. Though the German fleet failed to come out and challenge the sea power of the Allies, the battleships of the United States were always ready to do their full duty in such an event.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000021_000004.wav|The reply of Congress on april sixth was a resolution, passed with only a few dissenting votes, declaring the existence of a state of war with Germany.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000028_000001.wav|By a series of measures, enlarging the principles of the shipping act of nineteen sixteen, ships and shipyards were brought under public control and the government was empowered to embark upon a great ship building program.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000025_000003.wav|By the first act of may eighteenth nineteen seventeen, it fixed the age limits at twenty one to thirty one inclusive.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000004_000004.wav|On the other hand, many Americans of German descent, in memory of their ties with the Fatherland, openly sympathized with the Central Powers; and many Americans of Irish descent, recalling their long and bitter struggle for home rule in Ireland, would have regarded British defeat as a merited redress of ancient grievances.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000028_000004.wav|By war risk insurance acts allowances were made for the families of enlisted men, compensation for injuries was provided, death benefits were instituted, and a system of national insurance was established in the interest of the men in service.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000015_000000.wav|In a second note, made public on june eleventh, the position of the United States was again affirmed.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000021_000002.wav|"God grant," he concluded, "that we may not be challenged to defend them by acts of willful injustice on the part of the government of Germany." Yet the challenge came.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000032_000006.wav|Labor was given representation on the important boards and commissions dealing with industrial questions. Trade union standards were accepted by the government and generally applied in industry.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000027_000002.wav|No power over the lives and property of citizens, deemed necessary to the prosecution of the armed conflict, was withheld from the government.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000024_000000.wav|In a very remarkable message read to Congress on january eighth nineteen eighteen, President Wilson laid down his famous "fourteen points" summarizing the ideals for which we were fighting.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000025_000006.wav|"The whole nation," said the President, "must be a team in which each man shall play the part for which he is best fitted."|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000015_000003.wav|In a third and final note of july twenty first nineteen fifteen, President Wilson made it clear to Germany that he meant what he said when he wrote that he would maintain the rights of American citizens.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000007_000001.wav|On this point there existed on august first nineteen fourteen, a fairly definite body of principles by which nations were bound.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000001_000000.wav|THE UNITED STATES AND THE EUROPEAN WAR|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000023_000002.wav|Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000013_000005.wav|The German papers in America and a few American people argued that American citizens had been duly warned of the danger and had deliberately taken their lives into their own hands; but the terrible deed was almost universally condemned by public opinion.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000003.wav|Germany at once proposed that the issue should be regarded as "an affair which should be settled solely between Austria Hungary and Serbia"; meaning that the small nation should be left to the tender mercies of a great power.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000003_000003.wav|On the same day, Great Britain, anxiously besought by the French government, promised the aid of the British navy if German warships made hostile demonstrations in the Channel.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000028_000000.wav|A law of august tenth nineteen seventeen, gave the President power to fix the prices of wheat and coal and to take almost any steps necessary to prevent monopoly and excessive prices.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000014_000001.wav|It solemnly informed the German government that "no warning that an unlawful and inhumane act will be committed can possibly be accepted as an excuse or palliation for that act or as an abatement of the responsibility for its commission."|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000023_000001.wav|"The world must be made safe for democracy.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000038_000001.wav|At Belleau Wood, at Chateau Thierry, and other points along the deep salient made by the Germans into the French lines, American soldiers distinguished themselves by heroic action.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000021_000005.wav|Austria Hungary at once severed diplomatic relations with the United States; but it was not until december seventh that Congress, acting on the President's advice, declared war also on that "vassal of the German government."|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000028_000005.wav|Never before in the history of the country had the government taken such a wise and humane view of its obligations to those who served on the field of battle or on the seas.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000023_000000.wav|Though assailed in many ways and compelled to resort to war, the United States sought no material rewards.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000009_000003.wav|Ships bound for Denmark, Norway, and Sweden were ordered to come by the English Channel for inspection and sailing directions.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000023_000004.wav|We desire no conquest, no dominion.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000011_000005.wav|Of necessity the lives and the ships of neutrals, as well as of belligerents, were put in mortal peril.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000027_000001.wav|Between the declaration of war and the armistice, Congress enacted law after law relative to food supplies, raw materials, railways, mines, ships, forests, and industrial enterprises.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000009_000002.wav|On november second nineteen fourteen, the English government announced that the Germans wore sowing mines in open waters and that therefore the whole of the North Sea was a military zone.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000021_000001.wav|At the same time he explained to Congress that he desired no conflict with Germany and would await an "overt act" before taking further steps to preserve American rights.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000003_000005.wav|The following day, Great Britain demanded of Germany respect for Belgian neutrality and, failing to receive the guarantee, broke off diplomatic relations.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000003_000007.wav|The storm now broke in all its pitiless fury.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000007.wav|To use the language of the German authorities: "We were perfectly aware that a possible warlike attitude of Austria Hungary against Serbia might bring Russia upon the field and that it might therefore involve us in a war, in accordance with our duties as allies.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000009_000001.wav|Great Britain early began to intercept ships carrying oil, gasoline, and copper-all war materials of prime importance-on the ground that they either were destined ultimately to Germany or would release goods for sale to Germans.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000005_000002.wav|From a press bureau in New York flowed a stream of pamphlets, leaflets, and cartoons.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000019_000004.wav|These were, in short: "peace without victory"; the right of nationalities to freedom and self government; the independence of Poland; freedom of the seas; the reduction of armaments; and the abolition of entangling alliances.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000009_000004.wav|In effect, Americans were now licensed by Great Britain to trade in certain commodities and in certain amounts with neutral countries.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000018_000002.wav|He had received the largest vote yet cast for a presidential candidate.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000007_000004.wav|In the second place, it was agreed that "contraband of war" found on an enemy or neutral ship was a lawful prize; any ship suspected of carrying it was liable to search and if caught with forbidden goods was subject to seizure.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000001.wav|Some urged the "conscription of wealth as well as men," meaning the support of the war out of taxes upon great fortunes; but more conservative counsels prevailed.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000016_000001.wav|On the Republican side everything seemed to depend upon the action of the Progressives.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000007.wav|"This," said a distinguished economist, "is the high water mark in the history of taxation.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000012_000001.wav|On february tenth nineteen fifteen, it warned Germany that if her commanders destroyed American lives and ships in obedience to that decree, the action would "be very hard indeed to reconcile with the friendly relations happily subsisting between the two governments." The American note added that the German imperial government would be held to "strict accountability" and all necessary steps would be taken to safeguard American lives and American rights.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000004.wav|Combined with loans were heavy taxes.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000019_000001.wav|On december sixteenth, the German Emperor proposed to the Allied Powers that they enter into peace negotiations, a suggestion that was treated as a mere political maneuver by the opposing governments.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000001.wav|On june twenty eighth, the heir to the Austro Hungarian throne was assassinated at Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia, an Austrian province occupied mainly by Serbs.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000005.wav|A progressive tax was laid upon incomes beginning with four per cent on incomes in the lower ranges and rising to sixty three per cent of that part of any income above two million dollars.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000026_000008.wav|Never before in the annals of civilization has an attempt been made to take as much as two thirds of a man's income by taxation."|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000012_000002.wav|This was firm and clear language, but the only response which it evoked from Germany was a suggestion that, if Great Britain would allow food supplies to pass through the blockade, the submarine campaign would be dropped.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000027_000004.wav|Never was a nation more completely devoted to a single cause.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000008_000001.wav|As to contraband of war Great Britain put such a broad interpretation upon the term as to include nearly every important article of commerce.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000018_000000.wav|In the election which ensued President Wilson's popular vote exceeded that cast for mr Hughes by more than half a million, while his electoral vote stood two hundred seventy seven to two hundred fifty four.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000018_000003.wav|The Progressive party practically disappeared, and the Socialists suffered a severe set back, falling far behind the vote of nineteen twelve.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000013_000002.wav|On the morning of may first nineteen fifteen, Americans were astounded to see in the newspapers an advertisement, signed by the German Imperial Embassy, warning travelers of the dangers in the war zone and notifying them that any who ventured on British ships into that area did so at their own risk.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000015_000002.wav|The German reply was still evasive and German naval commanders continued their course of sinking merchant ships.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000023_000003.wav|We have no selfish ends to serve.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000003_000006.wav|On the fifth, the British prime minister announced that war had opened between England and Germany.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000028_000003.wav|In the summer of nineteen eighteen the express, telephone, and telegraph business of the entire country passed under government control.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000022_000003.wav|They had filled our communities with spies.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000035_000000.wav|Although American troops did not take part on a large scale until the last phase of the war in nineteen eighteen, several battalions of infantry were in the trenches by October, nineteen seventeen, and had their first severe encounter with the Germans early in November.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000027_000003.wav|The farmer's wheat, the housewife's sugar, coal at the mines, labor in the factories, ships at the wharves, trade with friendly countries, the railways, banks, stores, private fortunes-all were mobilized and laid under whatever obligations the government deemed imperative.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000011_000004.wav|A warship overhauling a merchant vessel could easily take its crew and passengers on board for safe keeping as prescribed by international law; but a submarine ordinarily could do nothing of the sort.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000028_000002.wav|In December, nineteen seventeen, the government assumed for the period of the war the operation of the railways under a presidential proclamation which was elaborated in March, nineteen eighteen, by act of Congress.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000002_000006.wav|Germany backed up Austria to the limit.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000004_000002.wav|Moreover, they regarded the German imperial government as an autocratic power wielded in the interest of an ambitious military party.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000020_000000.wav|THE UNITED STATES AT WAR|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000003_000000.wav|Every day of the fateful August, nineteen fourteen, was crowded with momentous events.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000033_000001.wav|Special effort was made to stimulate the production of "submarine chasers" and "scout cruisers" to be sent to the danger zone. Convoys were provided to accompany the transports conveying soldiers to France.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000011_000002.wav|It was clear that Germany intended to employ submarines to destroy shipping.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000025_000004.wav|Later, in August, nineteen eighteen, it extended them to eighteen and forty five.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000038_000002.wav|They also played an important role in the counter attack that "smashed" the salient and drove the Germans back.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000013_000004.wav|A cry of horror ran through the country.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000017_000002.wav|The Democrats, on their side, renominated President Wilson by acclamation, reviewed with pride the legislative achievements of the party, and commended "the splendid diplomatic victories of our great President who has preserved the vital interests of our government and its citizens and kept us out of war."|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000025_000002.wav|For this reason, President Wilson summoned the whole people of the United States to make every sacrifice necessary for victory. Congress by law decreed that the national army should be chosen from all male citizens and males not enemy aliens who had declared their intention of becoming citizens.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000016_000002.wav|If the breach created in nineteen twelve could be closed, victory was possible; if not, defeat was certain. A promise of unity lay in the fact that the conventions of the Republicans and Progressives were held simultaneously in Chicago.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000007_000005.wav|In the third place, international law prescribed that a peaceful merchant ship, whether belonging to an enemy or to a neutral country, should not be destroyed or sunk without provision for the safety of crew and passengers.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000022_000001.wav|He first made it clear that it was a war of self defense.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000009_000000.wav|A new question arose in connection with American trade with the neutral countries surrounding Germany.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6317/54487/6317_54487_000022_000002.wav|"The military masters of Germany," he exclaimed, "denied us the right to be neutral." Proof of that lay on every hand. Agents of the German imperial government had destroyed American lives and American property on the high seas.|6317
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000002.wav|The driest details had a charm for her now that she was likely to see the real places.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000004.wav|Quince marmalade? Debby can make that.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000010_000003.wav|Katy would like to see Italy.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000045_000000.wav|"And Deniston Browne," put in Clover.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000007.wav|I'll order the kindling!|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000017_000001.wav|I know you will not refuse me unless you think it right and necessary; and," she continued mischievously, "I have great faith in Katy as an ally.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000020_000000.wav|"She is only twenty one," he reflected; "hardly out of childhood.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000041_000000.wav|"Your loving|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000030_000000.wav|Clover's gift was a set of blank books for notes, journals, etc|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000010_000002.wav|Then we could cross over to France and visit Paris and a few other places; and before it gets cold go down to Nice, and from there to Italy.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000006_000003.wav|Don't you think so yourself?"|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000003_000000.wav|AN INVITATION.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000016_000001.wav|dr Carr, who was soft hearted where women were concerned, was touched.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000029_000004.wav|mrs Ashe and Cousin Helen had both warned her of the inconvenient consequences of weight in baggage; and by their advice she had limited herself to a single trunk of moderate size, besides a little flat valise for use in her stateroom.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000004.wav|When built?|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000015_000002.wav|I am a lonely person," she went on; "I have no mother or sister, and no cousins of my own age. My brother's profession keeps him at sea; I scarcely ever see him.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000010.wav|People always wish this when they are starting for Europe; and they wish it more and more after they get there, and realize of what value exact ideas and information and a fuller knowledge of the foreign languages are to all travellers; how they add to the charm of everything seen, and enhance the ease of everything done.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000003.wav|I put it at the head of all the nice things that ever happened, except my baby.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000017_000000.wav|"But I won't tease any more.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000035_000000.wav|"Papa!|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000001.wav|To go to Europe for a year with mrs Ashe and Amy seemed simply too delightful to be true.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000051_000004.wav|Burnet pulled less strongly as it got farther away, and Europe beckoned more brilliantly now that they were fairly embarked on their journey.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000012.wav|"So, Katy darling, cast that shadow from your brow, and look as a girl ought to look who's going to Europe.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000024_000000.wav|"Yes, it is, if you just turn your trunk upside down!|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000028_000005.wav|mrs Hall's gift was a warm and very pretty woollen wrapper of dark blue flannel, with a pair of soft knitted slippers to match.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000005_000004.wav|For mrs Ashe was asking papa to let her do the very thing of all others that she most longed to do; she was asking him to let Katy go with her to Europe!|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000036_000000.wav|One very interesting thing was to happen before they sailed, the thought of which helped both Katy and Clover through the last hard days, when the preparations were nearly complete, and the family had leisure to feel dull and out of spirits.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000011_000001.wav|"She would be a queer girl if she didn't."|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000011_000000.wav|"I dare say she would," said dr Carr, with a smile.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000008.wav|"Cecilia Metella.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000029_000001.wav|Miss Inches sent a "History of Europe" in five fat volumes, which was so heavy that it had to be left at home.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000019_000002.wav|He would miss her, she well knew, and might not the charge of the house be too much for Clover?|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000040_000000.wav|"I saw Silvery Mary the other day and told her you were coming.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000005.wav|After all, it was a great chance,--perhaps the only one of the sort that she would ever have. mrs Ashe could well afford to give Katy this treat, he knew; and it was quite true what she said, that it was a favor to her as well as to Katy.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000001.wav|"Tucks in Johnnie's dress, forsooth!|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000005.wav|They will be those of Deniston and myself.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000002.wav|It is too enchanting, the whole of it.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000000.wav|Katy learned a great deal while thus talking over what she was to see and do.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000037_000000.wav|Rose had by no means been idle during the three years and a half which had elapsed since they all parted at Hillsover, and during which the girls had not seen her.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000031_000000.wav|"Those are for immediate use," he said.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000008_000003.wav|I do hope you will consent."|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000032_000002.wav|Really and truly, I don't want to buy things.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000011.wav|When once her little anxieties had been laid aside, the idea of the coming journey grew in pleasantness every moment.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000050_000006.wav|Life was so short, how could she take a whole year out of it to spend away from the people she loved best?|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000004_000000.wav|It is a curious fact, and makes life very interesting, that, generally speaking, none of us have any expectation that things are going to happen till the very moment when they do happen.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000000.wav|"My dearest child,--Your note made me dance with delight.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000004_000003.wav|No instinct bids us to delay or to hasten the opening of the letter or telegram, or the lifting of the latch of the door at which stands the messenger of good or ill.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000003.wav|Now, Katy, don't waste another thought on such miserable things as pickles and undershirts.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000032_000000.wav|"But, papa," protested Katy, opening wide her candid eyes, "I didn't expect you to give me any money, and I'm afraid you are giving me too much.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000023_000000.wav|"Not a very convenient position for packing," said Katy, smiling.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000021_000000.wav|"Little Clover" came gallantly "to the fore" when the first shock of surprise was over, and she had relieved her mind with one long private cry over having to do without Katy for a year.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000005.wav|Just fix your mind instead on the dome of saint Peter's, or try to fancy how you'll feel the first time you step into a gondola or see the Mediterranean.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000016_000002.wav|Perhaps his face showed it, for mrs Ashe added in a more hopeful tone,--|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000035_000001.wav|I should think not!" cried Katy, with unsophisticated horror.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000050_000004.wav|Why had she said she would go?|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000025_000002.wav|I can't think why she did it."|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000011.wav|Wouldn't that be fine?" and Clover laughed merrily.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000010.wav|My funny little house, which is quite a dear little house too, assumes a new interest in my eyes from the fact that you so soon are to see it.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000012_000004.wav|If you decide against it, I shall give the whole thing up.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000044_000002.wav|What fun it will be to see her and little Rose!"|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000050_000005.wav|What was all Europe in comparison with what she was leaving?|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000050_000000.wav|The first bell rang.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000021_000002.wav|Anything and everything seemed possible to secure it for her; and she made light of all Katy's many anxieties and apprehensions.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000048_000000.wav|The last day came, as last days will.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000019_000004.wav|A host of housewifely cares began to troop through Katy's mind, and a little pucker came into her forehead, and a worried look across the face which had been so bright a few minutes before.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000005.wav|By whom built?|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000005_000001.wav|mrs Ashe often did come to the office to consult dr Carr.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000033_000000.wav|Her father only laughed.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000002.wav|why, of course.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000019_000000.wav|But, the first excitement over, Katy's second thoughts were more sober ones.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000043_000000.wav|"She never signs herself Browne, I observe," said Clover, as she finished the letter.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000013_000000.wav|mrs Ashe was very pretty and persuasive, but still dr Carr hesitated. To send Katy for a year's pleasuring in Europe was a thing that had never occurred to his mind as possible.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER two.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000009.wav|Don't worry about us.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000003.wav|Ripping out a tuck doesn't require any superhuman ingenuity! Give me your scissors, and I'll show you at once.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000010_000000.wav|"About a year, I think.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000037_000003.wav|To see Rose in her own home, and Rose's husband, and Rose's baby, was only next in interest to seeing Europe.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000000.wav|"Well, I can," replied Clover, always ready to defend Katy even against herself.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000010_000004.wav|Don't you think so?"|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000009.wav|We shall stick out all over with knowledge before you come back; and this makes it a plain duty to go, if it were only for our sakes." With these zealous promises, Katy was forced to be content.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000030_000003.wav|He also gave her five English sovereigns.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000004.wav|He had no idea that Katy would care so much about it.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000015_000000.wav|"Doctor, I'm not kind at all, and I don't want to be thanked.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000028_000000.wav|All Burnet took an interest in Katy's plans, and almost everybody had some sort of advice or help, or some little gift to offer.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000012_000009.wav|I am sure you won't deny me, when I have so set my heart upon having her."|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000031_000003.wav|mrs Ashe will explain how.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000013.wav|But they didn't know that, and it made no real difference.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000006.wav|There will be a moment!|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000003.wav|She went about with scraps of paper in her pocket, on which were written such things as these: "Forum.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000036_000001.wav|Katy was to make Rose Red a visit.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000024_000001.wav|When I think of all the delightful things you are going to do, I can hardly sit still.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000017_000002.wav|I am pretty sure that she will say that she wants to go."|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000008_000001.wav|But if you will let me have Katy, dr Carr, it will settle all my difficulties.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000005_000002.wav|Amy might not be quite well, Katy thought, or there might be a letter with something about Walter in it, or perhaps matters had gone wrong at the house, where paperers and painters were still at work.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000032_000003.wav|I shall see everything, you know, and that's enough."|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000042_000000.wav|"ROSE RED."|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000031_000001.wav|"Put the notes away carefully, and don't lose them.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000025_000001.wav|"It was the kindest thing!|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000050_000002.wav|Her parting from him, hardest of all, took place in the midst of a crowd of people; then he had to leave her, and as the wheels began to revolve she went out on the side deck to have a last glimpse of the home faces.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000006.wav|I'll make the spiced peaches!|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000015_000003.wav|I have no one but a couple of old aunts, too feeble in health to travel with me or to be counted on in case of any emergency.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000034_000000.wav|"You'll be wiser and greedier before the year is out, my dear," he replied.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000019_000001.wav|How could papa manage without her for a whole year, she asked herself.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000004_000004.wav|And because it may be, and often is, happy tidings that come, and joyful things which happen, each fresh day as it dawns upon us is like an unread story, full of possible interest and adventure, to be made ours as soon as we have cut the pages and begun to read.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000010.wav|Indeed, contentment was not difficult with such a prospect of delight before her.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000027_000006.wav|More than one?"|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000002.wav|You needn't say you're not, for you are!|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000022_000000.wav|"My dear child, I know a flannel undershirt when I see one, just as well as you do," she declared.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000048_000003.wav|He now proceeded to prepare and paste on two square cards, labelled respectively, "Hold" and "State room." mrs Hall had told them that this was the correct thing to do.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000006_000001.wav|"I got tired and run down while Walter was ill, and I don't seem to throw it off as I hoped I should.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000009_000000.wav|"How long do you mean to be away?" asked dr Carr, divided between pleasure at these compliments to Katy and dismay at the idea of losing her.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000015_000001.wav|My desire to take Katy with me to Europe is purely selfish.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000037_000002.wav|mrs Ashe had taken passage in the "Spartacus," sailing from Boston; and it was arranged that Katy should spend the last two days before sailing, with Rose, while mrs Ashe and Amy visited an old aunt in Hingham.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000000.wav|And indeed Katy's cry of delight when the plan was proposed to her said that sufficiently, without need of further explanation.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000034_000001.wav|"Three hundred dollars won't go far, as you'll find.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000029_000002.wav|In fact, a good many of Katy's presents had to be left at home, including a bronze paper weight in the shape of a griffin, a large pair of brass screw candlesticks, and an ormolu inkstand with a pen rest attached, which weighed at least a pound and a half.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000044_000000.wav|"Oh, Rose Red Browne would sound too funny.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000020_000001.wav|I don't want her to settle into an anxious, drudging state and lose her youth with caring for us all.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000007.wav|The baby is both good and beautiful, and you will adore her.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000051_000000.wav|But it was not left for her to choose.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000028_000002.wav|Debby's sister in law brought a bundle of dried chamomile for the same purpose.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000007.wav|dr Carr began to waver in his mind.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000050_000001.wav|Katy kissed everybody quietly and went on board with her father.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000014_000001.wav|"The child ought to have a say in the matter; and whatever we decide, you must let me thank you in her name as well as my own for your great kindness in proposing it."|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000007_000000.wav|"Yes, I do," dr Carr admitted.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000030_000001.wav|In one of these, Katy made out a list of "Things I must see," "Things I must do," "Things I would like to see," "Things I would like to do." Another she devoted to various good shopping addresses which had been given her; for though she did not expect to do any shopping herself, she thought mrs Ashe might find them useful.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000005_000000.wav|Nothing whispered to Katy Carr, as she sat at the window mending a long rent in Johnnie's school coat, and saw mrs Ashe come in at the side gate and ring the office bell, that the visit had any special significance for her.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000015_000004.wav|You see, I am a real case for pity."|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000006.wav|This train of reasoning led to its natural results.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000007.wav|I feel a forty horse power of housekeeping developing within me; and what fun it will be to get your letters!|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000004.wav|Write the moment you get this by what train you expect to reach Boston, and when you roll into the station you will behold two forms, one tall and stalwart, the other short and fatsome, waiting for you.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000016_000000.wav|mrs Ashe spoke gayly, but her brown eyes were dim with tears as she ended her little appeal.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000004.wav|We shall get along perfectly well, I do assure you.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000026_000001.wav|"She did it because she wanted you, and she wanted you because you are the dearest old thing in the world, and the nicest to have about.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000020_000002.wav|She shall go; though how we are to manage without her I don't see.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000012_000003.wav|Then toward spring I should like to go to Florence and Venice, and visit the Italian lakes and Switzerland in the early summer. But all this depends on your letting Katy go.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000039_000008.wav|I am neither; but you know all about me, and I always did adore you and always shall.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000051_000003.wav|But there were mrs Ashe and Amy, inclined to be homesick also, and in need of cheering; and Katy, as she tried to brighten them, gradually grew bright herself, and recovered her hopeful spirits.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000018_000003.wav|dr Carr's objections, his reluctance to part with her, melted before the radiance of her satisfaction.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4054/11077/4054_11077_000025_000000.wav|"So do I," said Katy, soberly.|4054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000008_000000.wav|"Come, come," cried Emma, feeling this to be an unsafe subject, "I must beg you not to talk of the sea.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000022_000004.wav|We are so very airy!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000021_000002.wav|It is a dreadful thing to have you forced to live there;--so far off!--and the air so bad!"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000041_000003.wav|And by what I understand, you might have had lodgings there quite away from the sea-a quarter of a mile off-very comfortable.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000002_000000.wav|While they were thus comfortably occupied, mr Woodhouse was enjoying a full flow of happy regrets and tearful affection with his daughter.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000039_000002.wav|Perry was surprised to hear you had fixed upon South End."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000008_000003.wav|My dear Isabella, I have not heard you make one inquiry after mr Perry yet; and he never forgets you."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000029_000001.wav|But will it answer?|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000024_000002.wav|I trust at least that you do not think mr Knightley looking ill," turning her eyes with affectionate anxiety toward her husband.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000046_000000.wav|"True, true," cried mr Knightley, with most ready interposition, "very true.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000016_000002.wav|Good old mrs Bates.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000029_000000.wav|"I did not thoroughly understand what you were telling your brother," cried Emma, "about your friend mr Graham's intending to have a bailiff from Scotland to look after his new estate.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000033_000000.wav|"Our little friend Harriet Smith, however, is just such another pretty kind of young person.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000041_000004.wav|You should have consulted Perry."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000033_000001.wav|You will like Harriet.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000027_000000.wav|"I am sorry to find, my love, that my father does not think you looking well; but I hope it is only from being a little fatigued.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000016_000005.wav|And that excellent Miss Bates!--such thorough worthy people!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000022_000006.wav|mr Wingfield thinks the vicinity of Brunswick Square decidedly the most favorable as to air."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000012_000001.wav|And, my dear, whenever he comes, you had better let him look at little Bella's throat."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000038_000001.wav|I assure you it did the children a great deal of good."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000013_000001.wav|Either bathing has been of the greatest service to her, or else it is to be attributed to an excellent embrocation of mr Wingfield's, which we have been applying at times ever since August."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000030_000000.wav|And she talked in this way so long and successfully that, when forced to give her attention again to her father and sister, she had nothing worse to hear than Isabella's kind inquiry after Jane Fairfax; and Jane Fairfax, though no great favorite with her in general, she was at that moment very happy to assist in praising.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000040_000001.wav|We all had our health perfectly well there, never found the least inconvenience from the mud, and mr Wingfield says it is entirely a mistake to suppose the place unhealthy; and I am sure he may be depended on, for he thoroughly understands the nature of the air, and his own brother and family have been there repeatedly."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000023_000002.wav|Now, I cannot say that I think you are any of you looking well at present."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000032_000000.wav|mr Woodhouse agreed to it all, but added:--|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000004_000001.wav|After a little more discourse in praise of gruel, with some wondering at its not being taken every evening by everybody, he proceeded to say, with an air of grave reflection:--|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000024_000000.wav|"I am sorry to hear you say so, sir; but I assure you, excepting those little nervous headaches and palpitations which I am never entirely free from anywhere, I am quite well myself; and if the children were rather pale before they went to bed, it was only because they were a little more tired than usual from their journey and the happiness of coming.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000003_000003.wav|You and I will have a nice basin of gruel together.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000003_000002.wav|You must go to bed early, my dear,--and I recommend a little gruel to you before you go.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000045_000002.wav|I may be allowed, I hope, the use of my judgment as well as mr Perry.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000040_000000.wav|"I know there is such an idea with many people, but indeed it is quite a mistake, sir.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000029_000002.wav|Will not the old prejudice be too strong?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000017_000001.wav|But poor mrs Bates had a bad cold about a month ago."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000042_000000.wav|"But my dear sir, the difference of the journey: only consider how great it would have been.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000036_000002.wav|It does not bear talking of." And for a little while she hoped he would not talk of it, and that a silent rumination might suffice to restore him to the relish of his own smooth gruel.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000035_000002.wav|Often as she had wished for and ordered it, she had never been able to get anything tolerable.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000031_000003.wav|I always regret excessively, on dear Emma's account, that she cannot be more at Highbury; but now their daughter is married I suppose Colonel and mrs Campbell will not be able to part with her at all.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000042_000001.wav|A hundred miles, perhaps, instead of forty."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000043_000001.wav|Better not move at all, better stay in London altogether than travel forty miles to get into a worse air.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000037_000000.wav|"I shall always be very sorry that you went to the sea this autumn, instead of coming here."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000016_000004.wav|They are always so pleased to see my children.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000003_000000.wav|"My poor, dear Isabella," said he, fondly taking her hand, and interrupting for a few moments her busy labors for some one of her five children, "how long it is, how terribly long since you were here!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000022_000003.wav|The neighborhood of Brunswick Square is very different from almost all the rest.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000025_000001.wav|I think mr john Knightley very far from looking well."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000000_000000.wav|FAMILY DOCTORS|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000038_000000.wav|"But why should you be sorry, sir?|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000045_000000.wav|"mr Perry," said he, in a voice of very strong displeasure, "would do as well to keep his opinion till it is asked for.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000045_000003.wav|I want his directions no more than his drugs." He paused, and growing cooler in a moment, added, with only sarcastic dryness, "If mr Perry can tell me how to convey a wife and five children a distance of a hundred and thirty miles with no greater expense or inconvenience than a distance of forty, I should be as willing to prefer Cromer to South End as he could himself."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000031_000000.wav|"That sweet, amiable Jane Fairfax!" said mrs john Knightley.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000036_000003.wav|After an interval of some minutes, however, he began with-|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000046_000001.wav|That's a consideration, indeed.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000006_000001.wav|He recommended it for all the children, but particularly for the weakness in little Bella's throat,--both sea air and bathing."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000010_000001.wav|Poor Perry is bilious, and he has not time to take care of himself; he tells me he has not time to take care of himself-which is very sad-but he is always wanted all round the country.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000025_000000.wav|"Middling, my dear; I cannot compliment you.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000031_000004.wav|She would be such a delightful companion for Emma."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000017_000000.wav|"Why, pretty well, my dear, upon the whole.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000011_000001.wav|Do the children grow?|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000022_000001.wav|Our part of London is so very superior to most others.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000005_000001.wav|I never had much opinion of the sea air."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000024_000001.wav|I hope you will think better of their looks to morrow; for I assure you mr Wingfield told me that he did not believe he had ever sent us off, altogether, in such good case.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000035_000000.wav|This topic was discussed very happily, and others succeeded of similar moment, and passed away with similar harmony; but the evening did not close without a little return of agitation.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000019_000002.wav|Perry does not call it altogether a sickly season."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000039_000000.wav|"And moreover, if you must go to the sea, it had better not have been to South End.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000006_000000.wav|"mr Wingfield most strenuously recommended it, sir, or we should not have gone.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000010_000003.wav|But then, there is not so clever a man anywhere."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000041_000000.wav|"You should have gone to Cromer, my dear, if you went anywhere.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000004_000000.wav|Emma could not suppose any such thing, knowing as she did that both the mr Knightleys were as unpersuadable on that article as herself, and two basins only were ordered.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000028_000001.wav|Be satisfied with doctoring and coddling yourself and the children, and let me look as I choose."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000019_000000.wav|"That has been a good deal the case, my dear, but not to the degree you mention.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000016_000006.wav|How are they, sir?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000005_000000.wav|"It was an awkward business, my dear, your spending the autumn at South End instead of coming here.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000028_000000.wav|"My dear Isabella," exclaimed he hastily, "pray do not concern yourself about my looks.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000041_000001.wav|Perry was a week at Cromer once, and he holds it to be the best of all the sea bathing places.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000003_000004.wav|My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000016_000001.wav|I hope they are quite well.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000026_000001.wav|Did you speak to me?" cried mr john Knightley, hearing his own name.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000018_000000.wav|"How sorry I am! but colds were never so prevalent as they have been this autumn.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000011_000004.wav|He will be so pleased to see my little ones."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000008_000002.wav|South End is prohibited, if you please.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73296/6696_73296_000019_000001.wav|Perry says that colds have been very general, but not so heavy as he has very often known them in November.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000001_000000.wav|A WELL MATCHED SISTER AND BROTHER|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000045_000000.wav|"Yes, very: I have hardly ever an opportunity of being in one; but I am particularly fond of it."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000025_000001.wav|mr Morland and my brother!"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000012_000002.wav|They really put me quite out of countenance.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000031_000000.wav|"You have lost an hour," said Morland: "it was only ten o'clock when we came from Tetbury."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000064_000000.wav|"I have never read it."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000023_000000.wav|Catherine had nothing to oppose against such reasoning; and therefore, to show the independence of Miss Thorpe, and her resolution of humbling the sex, they set off immediately, as fast as they could walk, in pursuit of the two young men.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000007_000002.wav|By the by, though I have thought of it a hundred times, I have always forgot to ask you what is your favorite complexion in a man.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000032_000003.wav|Do but look at my horse: did you ever see an animal so made for speed in your life?" (The servant had just mounted the carriage and was driving off.) "Such true blood!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000065_000000.wav|"You have no loss, I assure you; it is the horridest nonsense you can imagine: there is nothing in the world in it but an old man's playing at see saw and learning Latin; upon my soul, there is not."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000005_000000.wav|"Signify! oh, heavens!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000054_000000.wav|"A third, indeed!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000046_000000.wav|"I am glad of it: I will drive you out in mine every day."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000020_000000.wav|"Oh! never mind that.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000011_000002.wav|Let us drop the subject."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000005_000001.wav|I make it a rule never to mind what they say. They are very often amazingly impertinent, if you do not treat them with spirit, and make them keep their distance."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000006_000000.wav|"Are they?|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000059_000000.wav|"Not I, faith!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000066_000000.wav|This critique, the justness of which was unfortunately lost on poor Catherine, brought them to the door of mrs Thorpe's lodgings, and the feelings of the discerning and unprejudiced reader of 'Camilla' gave way to the feelings of the dutiful and affectionate son, as they met mrs Thorpe, who had descried them from above, in the passage.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000012_000003.wav|Let us go and look at the arrivals. They will hardly follow us there."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000025_000000.wav|"Oh, these odious gigs!" said Isabella, looking up, "how I detest them!" But this detestation, though so just, was of short duration, for she looked again, and exclaimed, "Delightful!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000032_000001.wav|I counted every stroke.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000013_000000.wav|Away they walked to the book; and while Isabella examined the names, it was Catherine's employment to watch the proceedings of these alarming young men.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000018_000001.wav|And now what say you to going to Edgar's Buildings with me, and looking at my new hat?|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000006_000002.wav|They always behave very well to me."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000008_000000.wav|"I hardly know.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000053_000000.wav|"How delightful that will be!" cried Isabella, turning round; "my dearest Catherine, I quite envy you; but I am afraid, brother, you will not have room for a third."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000011_000001.wav|I believe I have said too much.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000044_000002.wav|I would not sell my horse for a hundred.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000048_000000.wav|"I will drive you up Lansdown Hill to morrow."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000036_000001.wav|He asked fifty guineas: I closed with him directly, threw down the money, and the carriage was mine."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000003_000000.wav|"My dearest Catherine, have you settled what to wear on your head to night?|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000018_000000.wav|"Well, I am amazingly glad I have got rid of them!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000026_000001.wav|'tis james!" was uttered at the same moment by Catherine; and on catching the young men's eyes, the horse was immediately checked with a violence which almost threw him on his haunches; and the servant having now scampered up, the gentlemen jumped out, and the equipage was delivered to his care.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000028_000000.wav|john Thorpe, who in the mean time had been giving orders about the horse, soon joined them, and from him she directly received the amends which were her due; for while he slightly and carelessly touched the hand of Isabella, on her he bestowed a whole scrape and half a short bow.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000010_000001.wav|What do you mean?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000007_000003.wav|Do you like them best dark or fair?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000032_000005.wav|Look at that creature, and suppose it possible, if you can!"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000018_000002.wav|You said you should like to see it."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000044_000003.wav|Are you fond of an open carriage, Miss Morland?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000032_000000.wav|"Ten o'clock! it was eleven, upon my soul!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000009_000003.wav|I prefer light eyes; and as to complexion, do you know, I like a sallow better than any other.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000036_000000.wav|"Curricle hung, you see; seat, trunk, sword case, splashing board, lamps, silver molding, all, you see, complete; the ironwork as good as new, or better.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000047_000000.wav|"Thank you," said Catherine, in some distress, from a doubt of the propriety of accepting such an offer.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000028_000001.wav|He was a stout young man, of middling height, who, with a plain face and ungraceful form, seemed fearful of being too handsome unless he wore the dress of a groom, and too much like a gentleman unless he were easy where he ought to be civil, and impudent where he might be allowed to be easy.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000010_000000.wav|"Betray you!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000008_000002.wav|Something between both, I think-brown: not fair, and not very dark."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000055_000002.wav|It was, "Have you ever read 'Udolpho,' mr Thorpe?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000049_000000.wav|"Thank you; but will not your horse want rest?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000051_000000.wav|"Shall you, indeed!" said Catherine, very seriously: "that will be forty miles a day."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000055_000000.wav|This brought on a dialogue of civilities between the other two; but Catherine heard neither the particulars nor the result.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000011_000000.wav|"Nay, do not distress me.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000063_000000.wav|"Yes, that's the book: such unnatural stuff!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000003_000001.wav|I am determined, at all events, to be dressed exactly like you.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000039_000000.wav|"That was very good-natured of you," said Catherine, quite pleased.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000009_000002.wav|I have not forgot your description of mr Tilney: 'a brown skin, with dark eyes, and rather dark hair.' Well, my taste is different.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000061_000000.wav|"No, sure; was it?|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000014_000001.wav|I hope they are not so impertinent as to follow us.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000060_000000.wav|"'Udolpho' was written by mrs Radcliffe," said Catherine, with some hesitation, from the fear of mortifying him.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000063_000001.wav|An old man playing at see saw: I took up the first volume once, and looked it over, but I soon found it would not do; indeed, I guessed what sort of stuff it must be before I saw it; as soon as I heard she had married an emigrant, I was sure I should never be able to get through it."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000034_000001.wav|What do you think of my gig, Miss Morland?|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000024_000000.wav|Half a minute conducted them through the Pump yard to the archway, opposite Union Passage; but here they were stopped.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000022_000000.wav|"I shall not pay them any such compliment, I assure you.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000030_000001.wav|"I know it must be five and twenty," said he, "by the time we have been doing it." "It is now half after one; we drove out of the inn yard at Tetbury as the town clock struck eleven; and I defy any man in England to make my horse go less than ten miles an hour in harness; that makes it exactly twenty five."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000054_000002.wav|Morland must take care of you."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000019_000000.wav|Catherine readily agreed.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000054_000001.wav|no, no; I did not come to Bath to drive my sisters about: that would be a good joke, faith!|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/73295/6696_73295_000009_000000.wav|"Very well, Catherine.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000042_000000.wav|Then Tom Gates broke down and began to cry like a child, although he tried hard to control himself.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000027_000002.wav|I wouldn't mind my own punishment, but it drove my Lucy mad."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000077_000000.wav|Beth sighed.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000013_000001.wav|"She was such a gentle, shrinking girl, as shy and retiring as a child.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000068_000000.wav|"Eliza Parsons is no ghost," declared Beth.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000014_000001.wav|Did she take any clothing with her?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000052_000000.wav|It happened that Beth, whose room was near this rear corridor, had just gone there to dress for dinner, and as she was closing her door she heard a wild, impassioned cry:|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000044_000000.wav|"Then you must go to sleep now, and get a good rest." He turned to Beth. "Will you see Martha," he asked, "and have her give Tom Gates a room?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000080_000001.wav|Can you tell me where I'll find mr Forbes?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000055_000000.wav|Young Gates was standing with his arms outstretched toward Eliza Parsons, who, a few paces away, had her back to the door of her own chamber, from which she had evidently just stepped.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000082_000001.wav|It-it was a great shock to me, that likeness, Miss DeGraf."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000022_000001.wav|If you had waited Lucy would have proved her innocence."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000037_000000.wav|"There's a good deal to hope for.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000012_000000.wav|"It's strange," remarked Kenneth, thoughtfully, while the girls regarded the youth with silent sympathy.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000037_000001.wav|Despair won't help you.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000065_000000.wav|"Could you have been mistaken?" persisted the questioner.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000030_000001.wav|"You have failed, it seems, and Will Rogers had failed.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000070_000000.wav|"No; only a few days."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000018_000000.wav|"Does Lucy resemble her mother?" inquired Beth.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000079_000000.wav|"Eliza Parsons."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000019_000000.wav|"Very much, miss.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000011_000000.wav|"Everywhere, sir, that she might be likely to go.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000020_000000.wav|"You might have known that," declared Kenneth.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000024_000000.wav|"They wouldn't dare arrest her on suspicion."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000033_000002.wav|But you may rest assured that what any man can do, Burke will do."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000076_000005.wav|I-I'm sure I was mistaken."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000013_000003.wav|But she was out of her head, sir, and didn't know what she was about.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000007_000000.wav|"What have you been up to, Tom?" he asked.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000008_000002.wav|Where do you think she can be, sir?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000059_000003.wav|Look at me, dear-I'm Tom.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000022_000000.wav|"That is a poor excuse.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000006_000000.wav|Kenneth scrutinized him closely.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000002_000000.wav|LUCY'S GHOST|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000058_000000.wav|Tom Gates shrank away from her as if he had been struck.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000013_000005.wav|And from the moment she left her home all trace of her was lost."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000016_000000.wav|"What was her dress like?" asked Beth, quickly.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000051_000000.wav|So, greatly refreshed, and in a quieter mood than he had been for days, the young man dressed and entered the hall to find his way downstairs.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000059_000004.wav|I'm your own Tom, Lucy!"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000057_000001.wav|And as we've not been properly introduced I really don't see why I should know you," she added, with a light laugh.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000036_000000.wav|"I'll try, sir, now that there's something to hope for."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000047_000001.wav|"Just now you must have some sleep and get your strength back.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000064_000000.wav|He looked at her with a dazed expression, as if he scarcely comprehended her words.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000056_000000.wav|"Lucy! don't you know me?" he asked, his voice trembling with emotion.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000053_000000.wav|"Lucy!"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000081_000000.wav|"He's getting ready for dinner, now, and won't need you at present."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000028_000001.wav|If Lucy is found do you want her to see you in this condition?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000031_000000.wav|"Oh, Kenneth!" exclaimed Beth.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000082_000000.wav|"Then I'll go back to my room.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000041_000001.wav|I'll pay you twenty dollars a week to start with, and more if you serve me faithfully.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000041_000000.wav|"Yes, Tom.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000074_000000.wav|"She may be acting," suggested Beth.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000047_000002.wav|And don't worry about Lucy.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000004_000000.wav|Beth and Louise were with Kenneth at the time, and were eager to remain during the interview, so the young man was shown into the library.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000045_000000.wav|She went on her errand at once, and gradually the young man recovered his composure.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000029_000000.wav|"Can she be found, sir, do you think?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000037_000002.wav|You must go to work."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000080_000000.wav|"Thank you.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000050_000002.wav|He remembered that he was mr Forbes's secretary now, and that mr Forbes might want him.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000076_000001.wav|She's quick and impulsive, but she-she couldn't act.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000041_000002.wav|And you'll board here, of course."|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000054_000000.wav|Quickly she sprang out into the hall and turned the corner in time to see a strange tableau.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000003_000000.wav|Kenneth had sent word to Tom Gates, asking the young man to come to Elmhurst, but it was not until two days after the lawn party that Tom appeared and asked permission to see mr Forbes.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000063_000001.wav|"Tell me, Tom, is she really like Lucy?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000039_000000.wav|"I need someone to assist me in my correspondence," said Kenneth.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000077_000001.wav|She was disappointed.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000059_000000.wav|"You can't be Lucy!" he murmured.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000075_000000.wav|But he shook his head gloomily.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000010_000001.wav|"Where have you searched?"|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000049_000001.wav|The Honorable Erastus still insisted upon making the anti sign fight the prominent issue of the campaign, and they must reply forcibly to the misleading statements made in his last hand bill.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6696/68773/6696_68773_000076_000000.wav|"No; Lucy couldn't act that way.|6696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000011_000001.wav|It was he who called attention to the obstacles placed in the way of improvement by the patent laws, and some of those obstacles, through him, were speedily removed.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000005_000002.wav|The records were rearranged, catalogued, rendered safe, and made accessible to students.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000017_000001.wav|He has borne a leading part in all the industrial exhibitions held in London during the last quarter of a century, and served as English commissioner at the Paris exhibitions of eighteen fifty five and eighteen sixty seven.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000013_000003.wav|But by that energy which comes of strong conviction and patriotic feeling, and of the opportunity given him by his public employment, Henry Cole wrung from a reluctant Parliament the annual grants necessary to make South Kensington Museum what it now is.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000006_000001.wav|One of these prizes was assigned to Henry Cole. He was one of the persons who first became converts to the idea of penny postage, and he lent the aid of his pen and influence to its adoption.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000009_000003.wav|He saw himself beaten in some things by the French, in some by the Germans, in others by the Italians, and in a few (O wonder!) by the Yankees.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000005_000000.wav|He proved to be in an eminent sense the right man in the right place. Besides publishing, from time to time, curious and interesting documents which he discovered in his office, he called attention, by a series of vigorous pamphlets, to the chaotic condition in which the public records of Great Britain were kept.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000006_000000.wav|When the subject of cheap postage came up in eighteen forty, the government offered four prizes of a hundred pounds each for suggestions in aid of Sir Rowland Hill's plan.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000008_000000.wav|His exhibitions attracted attention, and they led at length to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of eighteen fifty one.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000008_000003.wav|Yes, said Prince Albert, and let us also invite competition from foreign countries on equal terms with native products.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000017_000000.wav|The formation of this Museum, the chief work of Sir Henry Cole's useful life, was far from exhausting his energies.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000012_000003.wav|The chief of these now is the Museum of South Kensington, which is to many Americans the most interesting object in London.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000013_000002.wav|It was one of the most difficult things in the world to excite public interest in the exhibition.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000005_000003.wav|This has already led to important corrections in history, and to a great increase in the sum of historical knowledge.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000018_000001.wav|Administrations might change, and Parliaments might dissolve; but he was a fixture as long as he did his duty.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000009_000001.wav|It benefited England more than all other nations put together, because it revealed to her people their inferiority in many branches both of workmanship and design.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000013_000001.wav|These objects, chiefly selected by Cole, were arranged by him for exhibition in temporary buildings of such extreme and repulsive inconvenience as to bring opprobrium and ridicule upon the undertaking.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000012_000002.wav|They asked him to undertake the reconstruction of the schools of design, and they gave him an office which placed him practically at the head of the various institutions designed to promote the application of art to manufacture.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000015_000001.wav|As the London "Times" said some time ago:--|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000002_000000.wav|He was an "Old Public Functionary" in the service of the British people.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000014_000003.wav|There are schools for instruction in every branch of art and science which can be supposed to enter into the products of industry.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000015_000000.wav|The influence of this institution upon British manufactures has been in many branches revolutionary.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000009_000000.wav|The Exhibition of eighteen fifty one was admirably managed, and had every kind of success.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000004_000001.wav|At the age of fifteen he received an appointment as clerk in the office of Public Records.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000003_000000.wav|When President Buchanan spoke of himself as an Old Public Functionary he was a good deal laughed at by some of the newspapers, and the phrase has since been frequently used in an opprobrious or satirical sense.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000014_000004.wav|The prizes which are offered for excellence in design and invention have attracted, in some years, as many as two hundred thousand objects.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000007_000000.wav|At length, about the year eighteen forty five, he entered upon the course of proceedings which rendered him one of the most influential and useful persons of his time.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000004_000000.wav|The son of an officer in the British army, he was educated at that famous Blue Coat School which is interesting to Americans because Lamb and Coleridge attended it.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000018_000000.wav|This man was enabled to render all this service to his country, to Europe, and to us, because he was not obliged to waste any of his energies in efforts to keep his place.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000011_000000.wav|Henry Cole was the life and soul of the movement.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000014_000000.wav|Magnificent buildings, filled with a vast collection of precious and interesting objects, greet the visitor.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000014_000005.wav|During three days of every week admission to this superb assemblage of exhibitions is free, and on the other three days sixpence is charged.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000014_000002.wav|Some of the most celebrated pictures in the world are there, and there is an art library of thirty thousand volumes.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000014_000001.wav|There are collections of armor, relics, porcelain, enamel, fabrics, paintings, statues, carvings in wood and ivory, machines, models, and every conceivable object of use or beauty.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000008_000001.wav|The merit of that scheme must be shared between Henry Cole and Prince Albert.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000007_000001.wav|He had long lamented the backward condition of arts of design in England, and the consequent ugliness of the various objects in the sight and use of which human beings pass their lives.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000009_000002.wav|We all know how conceited people are apt to become who have no opportunity to compare themselves with superiors. john Bull, never over modest, surveyed the Exhibition of eighteen fifty one, and discovered, to his great surprise, that he was not the unapproachable Bull of the universe which he had fondly supposed.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000004_000002.wav|In due time, having proved his capacity and peculiar fitness, he was promoted to the post of Assistant Keeper, which gave him a respectable position and some leisure.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000007_000002.wav|English furniture, wall papers, carpets, curtains, cutlery, garments, upholstery, ranged from the tolerable to the hideous, and were inferior to the manufactures of France and Germany.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000007_000003.wav|He organized a series of exhibitions on a small scale, somewhat similar to those of the American Institute in New York, which has held a competitive exhibition of natural and manufactured objects every autumn for the last fifty years.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000010_000000.wav|Happily he had the candor to admit this humiliating fact to himself, and he put forth earnest and steadfast exertions to bring himself up to the level of modern times.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000001_000000.wav|SIR HENRY COLE.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000013_000000.wav|It came to pass in this way: After the close of the Crystal Palace in eighteen fifty one, Parliament gave five thousand pounds for the purchase of the objects exhibited which were thought best calculated to raise the standard of taste in the nation.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000012_000000.wav|During this series of services to his country, he remained in the office of Public Records.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63839/6683_63839_000003_000001.wav|This is to be regretted, for there is no character more respectable, and there are few so useful, as an intelligent and patriotic man of long standing in the public service.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000005.wav|This animal was supposed to be eight years old, and to have destroyed for the last five years a ton of fish annually.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000000.wav|The male otter never makes any complaint when seized by the dogs, or even when transfixed with a spear, but the females emit a very shrill squeal.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000002_000000.wav|"How greedily They snuff the fishy steam, that to each blade Rank scenting clings!|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000004_000002.wav|The animal is impaled on the huntsman's spear, while the rough, shaggy, and picturesque looking pack are represented with eyes intently fixed on the amphibious beast, and howling in uncouth chorus round their agonized and dying prey.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000005.wav|It may frequently be traced by the dead fish and fish bones strewed along the banks of the river.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000004_000000.wav|Those who saw the exhibition of pictures in the Royal Academy in eighteen forty four will recollect a large, interesting, and beautiful picture by Sir Edwin Landseer of a pack of otter hounds.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000004.wav|The Earl of Cadogan has, what his Lordship considers, the last of the breed of the true otter hound.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000002_000003.wav|Yon hollow trunk, That with its hoary head incurv'd salutes The passing wave, must be the tyrant's fort And dread abode.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000010.wav|Instances are recorded of dogs having been drowned by otters, which they had seized under water, for they can sustain the want of respiration for a much longer time than the dog.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000001.wav|In the year seventeen ninety six, near Bridgenorth, on the river Wherfe, four otters were killed.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000011_000000.wav|Otters bite very severely, and they will seize upon a dog with the utmost ferocity, and will shake it as a terrier does a rat.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000007.wav|The otter preys during the night, and conceals himself in the daytime under the banks of lakes and rivers, where he generally forms a kind of subterraneous gallery, running for several yards parallel to the water's edge, so that if he should be assailed from one end, he flies to the other.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000006.wav|Lord Cadogan offered one hundred pounds for another dog of the same breed, but of a different sex; but I believe without being able to procure one with those true marks which are confined to the authentic breed.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000000.wav|The above is an animated and beautiful description of an otter hunt, an old English sport fast falling into disuse, and the breed of the real otter hound is either extinct or very nearly so.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000007_000001.wav|And on that bank Behold the glitt'ring spoils, half eaten fish, Scales, fins, and bones, the leavings of his feast."|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000001.wav|Indeed, as lately as the year eighteen forty four, a pack of otter hounds was advertised in the newspapers to be sold by private contract.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000001.wav|In stating this, I am aware that there are still many dogs which are called otter hounds; but it may be doubted whether they possess that peculiar formation which belongs exclusively to the true breed.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000002_000002.wav|With quick sensation now The fuming vapour stings; flutter their hearts, And joy redoubled bursts from every mouth In louder symphonies.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000008_000001.wav|When an otter is wounded, he makes directly to land, where he maintains an obstinate defence:--|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000000.wav|An otter hunt is a cheerful and inspiriting sport, and it is still carried on in some of the lakes of Cumberland.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000002_000004.wav|How these impatient climb, While others at the root incessant bay!-- They put him down."--SOMERVILLE.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000011_000002.wav|Otters are frequently found on the banks of the Thames, and a large one was caught in an eel basket, near Windsor, but the hunting of them is discontinued.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000005.wav|It was a present from Sir Walter Scott.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000002.wav|Few things in nature are more curious and interesting than this formation, and it shows forcibly how beautifully everything has been arranged for the instincts and several habits of animals.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000004.wav|The best time to find it is early in the morning.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000009.wav|When the otter is seized, or upon the point of being caught by the hounds, he turns upon his pursuers with the utmost ferocity.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000008.wav|When he takes to the water, it is necessary that those who have otter spears should watch the bubbles, for he generally vents near them.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000004_000001.wav|The picture describes the hunt at the time of the termination of the chase and the capture of the otter.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000002_000001.wav|See! how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind. Now on firm land they range, then in the flood They plunge tumultuous; or through reedy pools Rustling they work their way; no holt escapes Their curious search.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000006.wav|The destruction of fish by this animal is, indeed, very great, for he will eat none unless it be perfectly fresh, and what he takes himself.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000011_000001.wav|The jaws of the otter are so constructed, that even when dead it is difficult to separate them, as they adhere with the utmost tenacity.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000006_000001.wav|The sportsmen went on each side of the river, beating the banks and sedges with the dogs.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000008.wav|In rivers it is always observed to swim against the stream, in order to meet its prey.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000003_000007.wav|A gipsy was, indeed, said to have possessed one, but he refused to part with it.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000005_000002.wav|The alleged cause of the owner's parting with them was in consequence of their having cleared the rivers of three counties (Staffordshire being one) of all the otters, and the number captured and killed in the last few years was mentioned.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000006_000003.wav|If one was found, the sportsmen viewed his track in the mud, to find which way he had taken.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000007_000000.wav|"On the soft sand, See there his seal impress'd!|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000007.wav|By his mode of eating them he causes a still greater consumption, for so soon as an otter catches a fish he drags it on shore, devours it to the vent, and, unless pressed by extreme hunger, always leaves the remainder, and takes to the water in search of more.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000009_000000.wav|"Lo! to yon sedgy bank He creeps disconsolate; his numerous foes Surround him, hounds and men.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000004.wav|It measured from the nose to the end of the tail, four feet ten inches, and weighed thirty four and a half pounds.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/67218/6683_67218_000010_000002.wav|One stood three, another four hours before the dogs, and was scarcely a minute out of sight.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000002_000000.wav|HOUSE OWNER.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000009_000004.wav|What he could have done safely, other men would have attempted to whom the attempt would have been destruction.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000008_000002.wav|To complete the histrionic performance, eight young girls, each bearing a beautiful gold embroidered bag, and attended by a young gentleman, "took up a collection" for the poor, which yielded seven thousand francs.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000005_000005.wav|He was very far from being miserly, though keenly intent upon accumulation.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000012_000004.wav|He had his enormous estate, and he had mind enough to take care of it in ordinary ways; but he had nothing more.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000005_000002.wav|He did not have the gas turned down low in a temporarily vacated room because he would save two cents by doing so, but because he justly regarded waste as wicked. His example in this particular, in a city so given to careless and ostentatious profusion as New York, was most useful.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000004.wav|He began by a burst of ostentatious charity.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000005_000001.wav|It was both an instinct and a principle with him to avoid waste.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000003.wav|"William will never make money," his father used to say; "but he will take good care of what he has." And so it proved.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000007.wav|Unless he is grossly belied, he preferred to compromise than fight, and did not always disdain to court the ruffians who plundered him.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000012_000002.wav|This he could not do.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000009_000002.wav|He, too, could have had his park, his half a dozen mansions, his thirty carriages, his hundred horses and his yacht as big as a man of war.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000007.wav|Here, again, we were lucky.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000009.wav|For the conveyance of the wedding party from the house to the synagogue, he caused twenty five magnificent carriages to be made, such as monarchs use when they are going to be crowned, and these vehicles were drawn by horses imported from England for the purpose.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000004.wav|He would take a great deal of trouble to avoid crossing a temporary bridge or scaffolding, though assured by an engineer that it was strong enough to bear ten elephants.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000001.wav|He was one of the most timid of men.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000004.wav|The consequence was, that all his life he invested money in the way that was at once best for himself and best for the country.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000003_000000.wav|In estimating the character and merits of such a man as the late mr Astor, we are apt to leave out of view the enormous harm he might have done if he had chosen to do it.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000004_000004.wav|He paid for everything which he consumed the market price-no more, no less-and he made his purchases with prudence and forethought.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000004_000003.wav|He refrained from doing so.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000012_000003.wav|Nature had denied him the qualities required for such a contest.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000005.wav|No useless or premature scheme had had any encouragement from him.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000002.wav|He was even timorous.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000010.wav|The bridal veil was composed of ineffable lace, made from an original design expressly for this bride.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000003.wav|His timidity was constitutional and physical.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000012_000001.wav|He who had the most immediate and the most obvious interest in exposing and resisting the scoundrels, ought to have taken the lead in putting them down.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000006_000002.wav|Nothing can make it right.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000008.wav|He provided such enormous quantities of clothing for her little body, that his house, if it had not been exceedingly large, would not have conveniently held them.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000009_000001.wav|He was one of a score or two of men in North America who could have maintained establishments in town and country on the dastardly scale so common among rich people in Europe.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000012_000000.wav|This was a grave fault.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000009_000000.wav|mr Astor could, if he had chosen, have thrown his millions about in this style.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000006_000001.wav|A magnificent park of a thousand acres of the richest land set apart and walled in for the exclusive use of one family, while all about it are the squalid hovels of the peasants to whom the use of a single acre to a family would be ease and comfort, is the most painful and shameful spectacle upon which the sun looks down this day.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000005.wav|He subscribed money for the relief of the victims of recent inundations, and dowered a number of portionless girls; expending in these ways a quarter of a million francs.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000005_000004.wav|Nor did he appear to carry this principle to an extreme.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000003.wav|In pursuing this inquiry, he caused the wedding festivals of Louis the fourteenth's court, once so famous, to seem poverty stricken and threadbare.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000004_000000.wav|The rich fool who tosses a dollar to a waiter for some trifling service, debases the waiter, injures himself, and wrongs the public.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000005_000000.wav|There was nothing which he so much abhorred as waste.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000001.wav|I read some time ago of a wedding in Paris.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000008.wav|When we wanted houses more than we wanted coal, he built houses for us; and when we wanted coal more than we wanted houses, he set his money to digging coal; charging nothing for his trouble but the mere cost of his subsistence.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000005_000003.wav|We needed such an example.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000006.wav|He gave his daughter a portion of five millions of francs.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000004_000002.wav|The late mr Astor, with an income from invested property of nearly two millions a year, could have made life more difficult than it was to the whole body of people in New York who are able to live in a liberal manner.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000006_000000.wav|In the life of the Old World there is nothing so shocking to a republicanized mind as the awful contrast between the abodes of the poor and the establishments of the rich.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000002.wav|A thriving banker there, who is styled the Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, having a daughter of seventeen to marry, appears to have set seriously to work to find out how much money a wedding could be made to cost.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000008_000000.wav|And then what doings in the synagogue!|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000006_000003.wav|It is monstrous.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000009_000005.wav|Some discredit also would have been cast upon those who live in moderate and modest ways.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000009_000003.wav|That he was above such atrocious vulgarity as this, was much to his credit and more to our advantage.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000006_000005.wav|The mere fact that the lord can look upon such a scene and not stir to mend it, is proof positive of a profound vulgarity.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000001_000000.wav|WILLIAM b ASTOR.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000010_000000.wav|Every quarter day mr Astor had nearly half a million dollars to invest in the industries of the country.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000007_000007.wav|One of her painted fans cost five thousand francs.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000011_000006.wav|Year after year he saw a gang of thieves in the City Hall stealing his revenues under the name of taxes and assessments, but he never led an assault upon them nor gave the aid he ought to those who did.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000008_000001.wav|A choir of one hundred and ten trained voices, led by the best conductor in Europe-the first tenor of this generation engaged, who sang the prayer from "Moses in Egypt"--a crowd of rabbis, and assistant rabbis, with the grand rabbi of Paris at their head.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000004_000005.wav|As he lived for many years next door to the Astor Library, the frequenters of that noble institution had an opportunity of observing that he laid in his year's supply of coal in the month of June, when coal is cheapest.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6683/63841/6683_63841_000004_000001.wav|By acting in that manner in all the transactions of life, a rich man diffuses around him an atmosphere of corruption, and raises the scale of expense to a point which is oppressive to many, ruinous to some, and inconvenient to all.|6683
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000015_000002.wav|It is, of course, now too late for me to give any advice in reference to the proposed scheme of Captain Fox.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000007_000001.wav|I take it for granted, no man will deny the proposition, that whoever permanently holds Charleston and South Carolina is entitled to the possession of Fort Sumter.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000019_000000.wav|"Your obedient servant,|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000047_000000.wav|"Sir: The Government of the Confederate States has hitherto forborne from any hostile demonstration against Fort Sumter, in the hope that the Government of the United States, with a view to the amicable adjustment of all questions between the two Governments, and to avert the calamities of war, would voluntarily evacuate it.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000010_000000.wav|The General in Chief of the United States Army, also, it is well known, urgently advised the evacuation of the forts.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000043_000000.wav|"The reasons are special for twelve o'clock.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000049_000002.wav|All proper facilities will be afforded for the removal of yourself and command, together with company arms and property, and all private property, to any post in the United States which you may elect.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000017_000000.wav|"We shall strive to do our duty, though I frankly say that my heart is not in this war, which I see is to be thus commenced. That God will still avert it, and cause us to resort to pacific means to maintain our rights, is my ardent prayer!|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000016_000000.wav|"We have not oil enough to keep a light in the lantern for one night.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000071_000002.wav|You are therefore requested to communicate to them an open answer.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000042_000000.wav|"L.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000010_000002.wav|The letter in which his views were expressed has been carefully suppressed in the partisan narratives of that period and wellnigh lost sight of, although it does the highest honor to his patriotism and integrity.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000006_000001.wav|In the Senate of the United States, which continued in executive session for several weeks after the inauguration of mr Lincoln, it was the subject of discussion.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000014_000001.wav|I am preparing, by the side of my barbette guns, protection for our men from the shells which will be almost continually bursting over or in our work.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000018_000000.wav|"I am, Colonel, very respectfully,|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000032_000000.wav|(Signed) "L.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000006_000000.wav|The course pursued by the Government of the United States with regard to the forts had not passed without earnest remonstrance from the most intelligent and patriotic of its own friends during the period of the events which constitute the subject of the preceding chapter.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000067_000000.wav|(Signed) "L.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000071_000000.wav|"If you will state the time at which you will evacuate Fort Sumter, and agree that in the mean time you will not use your guns against us, unless ours shall be employed against Fort Sumter, we will abstain from opening fire upon you.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000058_000000.wav|"Thanking you for the fair, manly, and courteous terms proposed, and for the high compliment paid me,|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000008_000003.wav|I proclaim boldly the policy of those with whom I act.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000027_000000.wav|"An authorized messenger from President Lincoln just informed Governor Pickens and myself that provisions will be sent to Fort Sumter peaceably, or otherwise by force.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000052_000000.wav|(Signed) "G.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000049_000001.wav|My aides, Colonel Chesnut and Captain Lee, are authorized to make such demand of you.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000048_000000.wav|"But the Confederate States can no longer delay assuming actual possession of a fortification commanding the entrance of one of their harbors, and necessary to its defense and security.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000008_000001.wav|We may regret it.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000040_000000.wav|(Signed) "L.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000007_000000.wav|"We certainly can not justify the holding of forts there, much less the recapturing of those which have been taken, unless we intend to reduce those States themselves into subjection.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000010_000001.wav|But the most striking protest against the coercive measures finally adopted was that of Major Anderson himself.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000007_000002.wav|Whoever permanently holds Pensacola and Florida is entitled to the possession of Fort Pickens.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000044_000000.wav|(Signed) "G.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000024_000000.wav|These facts became known to the Confederate Government, and it was obvious that no time was to be lost in preparing for, and if possible anticipating the impending assault.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000007_000005.wav|Not so with Moultrie, Johnson, Castle Pinckney, and Sumter, in Charleston Harbor; not so with Pulaski, on the Savannah River; not so with Morgan and other forts in Alabama; not so with those other forts that were intended to guard the entrance of a particular harbor for local defense....|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000066_000001.wav|You are thus to avoid the effusion of blood.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000031_000001.wav|Answer.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000049_000003.wav|The flag which you have upheld so long and with so much fortitude, under the most trying circumstances, may be saluted by you on taking it down.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000050_000000.wav|"Colonel Chesnut and Captain Lee will, for a reasonable time, await your answer.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000031_000000.wav|"If you have no doubt of the authorized character of the agent who communicated to you the intention of the Washington Government to supply Fort Sumter by force, you will at once demand its evacuation, and, if this is refused, proceed, in such a manner as you may determine, to reduce it.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000015_000001.wav|I trust that this matter will be at once put in a correct light, as a movement made now, when the South has been erroneously informed that none such would be attempted, would produce most disastrous results throughout our country.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000022_000000.wav|This frank and manly letter, although written with the reserve necessarily belonging to a communication from an officer to his military superiors, expressing dissatisfaction with orders, fully vindicates Major Anderson from all suspicion of complicity or sympathy with the bad faith of the Government which he was serving.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000015_000004.wav|Even with his boat at our walls, the loss of life (as I think I mentioned to mr Fox) in unloading her will more than pay for the good to be accomplished by the expedition, which keeps us, if I can maintain possession of this work, out of position, surrounded by strong works which must be carried to make this fort of the least value to the United States Government.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000051_000000.wav|"I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000009_000001.wav|He knew that their continued occupation was virtually a declaration of war.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000097_000000.wav|Inasmuch as it was known to the Confederate commander that the "controlling instructions" were already issued, and that the "additional supplies" were momentarily expected; inasmuch, also, as any attempt to introduce the supplies would compel the opening of fire upon the vessels bearing them under the flag of the United States-thereby releasing Major Anderson from his pledge-it is evident that his conditions could not be accepted.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000028_000000.wav|(Signed) "G.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000066_000002.wav|If this or its equivalent be refused, reduce the fort as your judgment decides to be most practicable.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8479/276730/8479_276730_000026_000000.wav|"L.|8479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000072_000000.wav|He laughed.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000012_000000.wav|Craven took out a note book.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000044_000002.wav|I don't know how I'm to put up with it.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000010_000000.wav|"Oh yes, I know!" said Wharton impatiently; "a mere blind.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000065_000002.wav|They dropped their vexation, and Anthony for the next ten minutes had to submit to the part of the fractious person whom one humours but does not argue with.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000005.wav|When Louis came home he discovered a neat heap reposing on his table.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000049_000001.wav|"My manners, you perceive, are what they always were."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000004.wav|Why?|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000079_000000.wav|She hesitated, looking at him steadily.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000075_000000.wav|She stood resting both hands on a little table behind her, in an attitude touched with the wild freedom which best became her, a gleam of storm in her great eyes.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000050_000001.wav|"How can a man who has reached the position he has in so short a time-in so many different worlds-be disposed of by calling him an ugly name?|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000055_000000.wav|It had soon become evident to Marcella, upon the renewal of her friendship with the Cravens, that Anthony's temper towards all men, especially towards social reformers and politicians, had developed into a mere impotent bitterness.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000006.wav|Of course he wept-whatever he may say.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000088_000003.wav|Her cheek, her eye had a child's brightness.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000001.wav|And a pleasure which took nothing from self respect; which was open, honourable, eager.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000000.wav|Altogether, to have met him again was pleasure; to think of him was pleasure; to look forward to hearing him speak in Parliament was pleasure; so too was his new connection with her old friends.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000031_000003.wav|Oh! it'll do."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000021_000000.wav|He took up his hat as he spoke.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000008.wav|That is not all, I know-oh! don't trouble to tell me so!--but it is more than I thought.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000028_000000.wav|And with a hasty shake of the hand to the Cravens, and one more keen glance, first at Marcella and then round the little workman's room in which they had been sitting, he went.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000009_000000.wav|"One thing more," said Craven suddenly, as Wharton looked for his stick-"you see there is talk of arbitration."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000069_000000.wav|"And you are as much in love with the poor as ever?"|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000005.wav|Both belong to well paid artisans with equal opportunities.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000091_000000.wav|How changed he was, yet how much the same!|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000009.wav|No!--my sympathies in this district where I work are not so much with the Socialists that I know here-saving your presence! but-with the people, for instance, that slave at Charity Organisation! and get all the abuse from all sides."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000056_000004.wav|At any rate he believed in her no more than before.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000020_000001.wav|"Business is up and I am off!"|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000085_000001.wav|When the Liberty and Property Defence people have got hold of you-ask me to come and hear!"|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000046_000000.wav|"Nonsense!" said Anthony doggedly; "you'll have to bear it from me, I tell you-unless you muzzle me too with an Anna."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000036_000001.wav|She had earned fourteen shillings her last week at tailoring, but the feat had exhausted her so much that he had been obliged to insist on two or three days respite before moving on to shirts.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000047_000001.wav|"I think you know that I owe mr Wharton a debt.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000017_000000.wav|Craven, however, except in print, where he could be as vehement as anybody else, never spoke but in the driest way of those workman's grievances, which in reality burnt at the man's heart.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000023_000004.wav|She wore her nurse's dress; for her second daily round began at half past four, and her cloak, bonnet, and bag were lying ready on a chair beside her.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000064_000000.wav|"Bunkum!" interrupted Anthony drily; "pure bunkum!|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000039_000000.wav|"You must bring her to see me," she said to Louis.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000002.wav|I go to two tenements in the same building.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000001_000000.wav|"So I understand you wish me to go down at once?" said Louis Craven. "This is Friday-say Monday?"|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000056_000002.wav|Poor devil-the lover!|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000086_000002.wav|Anthony only pretended or desired to have it.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000004.wav|I mean to go for them hot and strong.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000031_000000.wav|"All right!" said Louis, whose manner had entirely changed since Wharton had left the room.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000023_000002.wav|But now that she was on the scene again, he did not find it so easy to go away.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000002_000005.wav|So far as that went, Craven was abundantly satisfied.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000014_000000.wav|Craven looked up absently.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000008_000000.wav|Wharton was disagreeably reminded of the Venturist habit of never accepting anything that was said quite as it stood-of not, even in small things, "swearing to the words" of anybody.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000002_000002.wav|Their hostess and Edith Craven had escaped through the door in the back kitchen communicating with the Hurds' tenement, so that the two men might be left alone a while.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000052_000000.wav|"Come, come, Anthony!" said Louis, "nobody expects a man of that type to be the pure eyed patriot.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000051_000000.wav|"You forget," said Anthony, as he calmly helped himself to more bread and butter, "that it is some three years since Master Harry Wharton joined the Venturists and began to be heard of at all.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000061_000002.wav|Anthony had taken a fancy to him.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000062_000000.wav|"Ah, well!" he said, in reply to his brother, "I don't know.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000022_000001.wav|Tea is just coming, without which no guest departs," said Marcella, taking as she spoke a little tray from the red haired Daisy who followed her, and motioning to the child to bring the tea table.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000031_000001.wav|"I am to go down on Monday to report the Damesley strike that is to be.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000060_000000.wav|"No chance!" said Anthony shortly, "the masters are too strong.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000043_000000.wav|"Never mind," said Louis recklessly.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000066_000001.wav|It was always in her mind that Anthony Craven was lame and solitary, and her pity no less than her respect for him had long since yielded him the right to be rude.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000027_000001.wav|Miss Craven comes too?|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000036_000002.wav|Shirts were now brisk, and the hours appallingly long in this heat.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000023_000005.wav|The dress was plain brown holland, with collar and armlets of white linen; but, to Wharton's eye, the dark Italian head, and the long slenderness of form had never shown more finely.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000036_000000.wav|Louis explained that Anna was exploring various sweated trades for the benefit of an East End newspaper.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000055_000004.wav|He loathed wealth more passionately than ever; but he believed less in the working man, less in his kind.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000007.wav|Could any one suppose that such a temperament as Wharton's would be congenial to Hallin or to Craven-or-to yet another person, of whom she did not want to think?|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000091_000001.wav|He had not sat beside her for ten minutes before each was once more vividly, specially conscious of the other.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000052_000002.wav|Am I asked to take him to my bosom?|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000000.wav|"It was on shirts they made acquaintance," said Edith pensively.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000002.wav|It's like all these home industries, abominably ground down.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000026_000000.wav|The quarter of an hour that followed went agreeably enough.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000004_000002.wav|Wharton had never felt himself personally at ease with him, either now, or in the old days of Venturist debates.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000066_000000.wav|However, at the end, Marcella bade him a perfectly friendly farewell.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000000.wav|"No!--so far as Socialism means a political system-the trampling out of private enterprise and competition, and all the rest of it-I find myself slipping away from it more and more.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000000.wav|"No!--The quarrel itself is as plain as a pikestaff.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000005_000001.wav|The poor wretches have been skinned too long; it is high time the public backed them up.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000034_000002.wav|And she was to have a month at each."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000009.wav|It was the very complexity and puzzle of the character that made its force.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000081_000000.wav|Anthony laughed scornfully.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000050_000000.wav|"What do you mean by such a remark," cried Marcella, fuming.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000007.wav|But next morning Miss Anna found her shoes outside her door, blacked as they had never been blacked before, with a note inside one of them.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000073_000003.wav|Your people were wise to let you take this work."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000003.wav|Otherwise friends they would and should be; and the personal interest in his public career should lift her out of the cramping influences that flow from the perpetual commerce of poverty and suffering.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000073_000000.wav|"How like a woman!|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000084_000000.wav|Anthony clapped her ironically.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000005.wav|Such equal friendships between men and women grow more possible every day.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000045_000001.wav|Louis protested.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000026_000001.wav|Wharton sat among the little group, far too clever to patronise a cat, let alone a Venturist, but none the less master and conscious master of the occasion, because it suited him to take the airs of equality.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000065_000001.wav|Extravagance after a certain point becomes amusing.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000034_000000.wav|"It can't be next week," said Edith Craven's quiet voice, interposing. "Anna's got to work out her shirt making time.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000032_000000.wav|He fidgeted and looked away from his brother, as though trying to hide his pleasure.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000082_000000.wav|"It is always the way with a woman," he said; "she invariably prefers the tinkers to the reformers."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000001.wav|No!--as I go about among these wage earners, the emphasis-do what I will-comes to lie less and less on possession-more and more on character.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000010_000001.wav|The men have been done by it twice before.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000059_000000.wav|"I told you.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000073_000002.wav|A few well paid London artisans will carry you safely back to your class.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000061_000003.wav|Louis as yet knew little or nothing of him.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000083_000002.wav|And so with Socialism.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000042_000001.wav|The Labour men tell me he is superb in that line.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000008.wav|Affecting! wasn't it?|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000044_000000.wav|"No; by Heaven, you shan't be!" said Anthony, with a fierce change of tone.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000025_000000.wav|He nodded and smiled, and she went back to the tea table with an eye all gaiety, pleased with herself and everybody else.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000006.wav|Both, so far as I can see, might have a decent and pleasant life of it.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000093_000000.wav|So with a reddened cheek, she lost herself a few minutes in this pleasant sense of a new wealth in life; and was only roused from the dreamy running to and fro of thought by the appearance of Minta, who came to clear away the tea.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000055_000005.wav|Rich men must cease to exist; but the world on any terms would probably remain a sorry spot.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000086_000001.wav|He really had a contempt for what a handsome half taught girl of twenty three might think.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000001.wav|The men are asking for a mere pittance, and must get it if they are to live.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000094_000000.wav|"Why, it is close on the half hour!" cried Marcella, springing up. "Where are my things?"|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000019_000000.wav|"May we come in?" said Marcella's voice.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000023_000000.wav|Wharton looked at her irresolute.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000010_000002.wav|They get some big wig from the neighbourhood-not in the trade, indeed, but next door to it-and, of course, the award goes against the men."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000005_000003.wav|Denny, I should say, belonged quite to the worst type of employer going."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000006_000000.wav|He spoke with light venom, buttoning his coat as he spoke with the air of the busy public man who must not linger over an appointment.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000032_000001.wav|But in spite of him it transformed every line of the pinched and worn face.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000002.wav|One day she heard him imploring the little slavey to put some buttons on his shirts.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000088_000004.wav|The old passion for ruling and influencing was all alive and happy.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000004.wav|Why not?|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000091_000002.wav|She felt in him the old life and daring, the old imperious claim to confidence, to intimacy-on the other hand a new atmosphere, a new gravity, which suggested growing responsibilities, the difficulties of power, a great position-everything fitted to touch such an imagination as Marcella's, which, whatever its faults, was noble, both in quality and range.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000048_000000.wav|Anthony looked at her an instant in silence.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000086_000000.wav|Meanwhile, Louis stood behind, with his hands on his sides, a smile in his blinking eyes.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000027_000002.wav|Excellent!|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000007.wav|Arbitration?|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000054_000000.wav|"Suppose we leave mr Wharton alone?" she said with emphasis, and Anthony, making her a little proud gesture of submission, threw himself back in his chair, and was silent.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000040_000000.wav|"I will," said Louis, with some perplexity; "if I can get hold of her. But when she isn't stitching she's writing, or trying to set up Unions. She does the work of six.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000005.wav|Poor devils!|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000023_000006.wav|He hesitated and stayed.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000009.wav|Thenceforward, as long as they remained in those lodgings, Anna mended and Louis blacked. Naturally, Anthony and I drew our conclusions."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000071_000000.wav|"I see a great deal more happiness than I expected."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000008_000001.wav|He was conscious of the quick passing feeling that his judgment, with regard to Denny, ought to have been enough for Craven.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000051_000001.wav|I watched his beginnings, and if I didn't know him well, my friends and Louis's did. And most of them-as he knows!--have pretty strong opinions by now about the man."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000016_000001.wav|If he chose to be expansive, it was not for Craven to take no notice.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000015_000000.wav|"And I think," he said, "you gave me mr Thorpe's address?" mr Thorpe was the secretary.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000083_000001.wav|The Crusades-they set out to recover the tomb of the Lord!--what they did was to increase trade and knowledge.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000007_000000.wav|"Oh! Denny!" said Craven, musing; "yes, Denny is a hard man, but a just one according to his lights.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000003.wav|We must go for them!|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000040_000002.wav|Oh! we shall swim!"|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000056_000006.wav|He was thankful, at any rate, that Louis in this two years' interval had finally transferred his heart elsewhere.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000053_000001.wav|She saw nothing in his attack on Wharton, except personal prejudice and ill will.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000065_000003.wav|He accepted the part, saying little, his eager, feverish eyes, full of hostility, glancing from one to the other.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000055_000001.wav|While Louis had renounced his art, and devoted himself to journalism, unpaid public work and starvation, that he might so throw himself the more directly into the Socialist battle, Anthony had remained an artist, mainly employed as before in decorative design.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000056_000003.wav|To fall a victim to enthusiasms so raw, so unprofitable from any point of view, was hard. And as to this move to London, he thought he foresaw the certain end of it.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000055_000003.wav|Only what with Louis was an intoxication of hope, was on the whole with Anthony a counsel of despair.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000049_000000.wav|"I am dumb," he said.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000059_000001.wav|I am to investigate, report, and back up the Damesley strike, or rather the strike that begins at Damesley next week."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000096_000000.wav|Suddenly-the room was empty, for Minta had just gone away with the tea-by a kind of subtle reaction, the face in that photograph on Hallin's table flashed into her mind-its look-the grizzled hair.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000008.wav|no, indeed! let them live first!"|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000002_000004.wav|Wharton, whose tendency in matters of business was always to go rather further than he had meant to go, for the sake generally of making an impression on the man with whom he was dealing, had spoken of a two years' engagement, and had offered two hundred a year.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000068_000001.wav|There is a parish doctor who calls me 'my good woman,' and a sanitary inspector who tells me to go to him whenever I want advice. Those are my chief grievances, I think."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000018_000000.wav|Wharton repeated the address, following it up by some rather curt directions as to the length and date of articles, to which Craven gave the minutest attention.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000038_000000.wav|Marcella laughed.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000023_000003.wav|How astonishingly beautiful she was, even in this disguise!|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000037_000004.wav|When he'd gone out, Anna came downstairs, calmly demanded his shirts, and, having the slavey under her thumb, got them, walked off with them, and mended them all.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000088_000000.wav|When they were all gone Marcella threw herself into her chair a moment to think.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000089_000001.wav|"I will look after them."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000073_000001.wav|A few ill housed villagers made you a democrat.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000004_000000.wav|He fixed his penetrating greenish eyes on his companion.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000061_000001.wav|He had lately joined the Venturists.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000048_000001.wav|A question crossed his mind concerning her.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000087_000000.wav|Nevertheless, Louis said good bye to his hostess with real, and, for him, rare effusion.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000088_000002.wav|But Louis's thanks had filled her with delicious pleasure.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000052_000004.wav|I like the job, and mean to use him and his paper, both to earn some money that I want, and do a bit of decent work."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000076_000000.wav|"Why are you still a Venturist?" he asked her abruptly.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000095_000000.wav|She looked down the notes of her cases, satisfied herself that her bag contained all she wanted, and then hastily tied on her bonnet and cloak.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000083_000000.wav|"And as to your Socialism," she went on, unheeding, the thought of many days finding defiant expression-"it seems to me like all other interesting and important things-destined to help something else! Christianity begins with the poor and division of goods-it becomes the great bulwark of property and the feudal state.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000008.wav|Besides, who wished to make a hero of him?|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000003.wav|One is Hell-the other Heaven.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000080_000007.wav|But one is a man-the other, with all his belongings, will soon be a vagabond.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000033_000000.wav|"And you and Anna will walk to the Registry Office next week?" said Anthony, sourly, as he took his tea.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000042_000000.wav|"Two hundred a year?" he said slowly; "about what mr Harry Wharton spends on his clothes, I should think.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000087_000004.wav|And now, so kindly, so eagerly!--she had given him his Anna.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000007_000001.wav|There are plenty worse than he."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000041_000000.wav|Anthony surveyed his radiant aspect-so unlike the gentle or satirical detachment which made his ordinary manner-with a darkening eye, as though annoyed by his effusion.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000005_000002.wav|There are two of the masters in the House.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000056_000001.wav|Anthony Craven thought out the story for himself, finding it a fit food for a caustic temper.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000002_000000.wav|Wharton nodded.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000070_000000.wav|She stiffened at the note of sarcasm, and a retaliatory impulse made her say:--|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000056_000005.wav|But her beauty was more marked than ever, and would, of course, be the dominant factor in her fate.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000026_000002.wav|Craven said little, but as he lounged in Marcella's long cane chair with his arms behind his head, his serene and hazy air showed him contented; and Marcella talked and laughed with the animation that belongs to one whose plots for improving the universe have at least temporarily succeeded. Or did it betray, perhaps, a woman's secret consciousness of some presence beside her, more troubling and magnetic to her than others?|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000004_000001.wav|Louis Craven was now a tall man with narrow shoulders, a fine oval head and face, delicate features, and a nervous look of short sight, producing in appearance and manner a general impression of thin grace and of a courtesy which was apt to pass unaccountably into sarcasm.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000087_000001.wav|Two years before, for the space of some months, he had been in love with her.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000029_000000.wav|He had hardly departed before Anthony Craven, the lame elder brother, who must have passed him on the stairs, appeared.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000050_000003.wav|Besides, what can you know of him?"|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000065_000000.wav|At this both Marcella and Louis laughed out.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000005_000000.wav|"Certainly, we shall fight it through," Wharton replied, with emphasis-"I have gone through the secretary's statement, which I now hand over to you, and I never saw a clearer case.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000016_000000.wav|Again Wharton gulped down his annoyance.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000031_000002.wav|A month's trial, and then a salary-two hundred a year.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000052_000003.wav|Not at all! He proposes a job to me, and offers to pay me.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000035_000000.wav|Marcella's lifted eyebrows asked for explanations.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000027_000000.wav|"Well then, Friday," said Wharton at last, when his time was more than spent.--"You must be there early, for there will be a crush.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000030_000000.wav|"Well-any news?" he said, as Marcella found him a chair.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000013_000006.wav|did you read the evidence in that Bluebook last year?|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000092_000006.wav|While, as for Hallin's distrust, and Anthony Craven's jealous hostility, why should a third person be bound by either of them?|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000050_000002.wav|It is more than unjust-it is absurd!|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000077_000000.wav|"Because I have every right to be!|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/21305/6189_21305_000044_000003.wav|You know very well what I think of him, and of your becoming dependent on him."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000024_000001.wav|Once, when he thought he had him safe, the fawn sprang over the bushes and disappeared.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000032_000000.wav|In the meantime the loving sister was terribly alarmed at finding the stag's foot wounded and bleeding.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000038_000000.wav|So they went together, and when the king saw it he sent his companion home, and went on alone so quickly that he arrived there before the fawn; and, going up to the little door, knocked and said softly, "Dear little sister, let me in."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000008_000000.wav|Then she cried quickly, "Stay, brother, stay! do not drink, or you will become a wild beast, and tear me to pieces."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000022_000000.wav|"But remember," she said, "I must lock the cottage door against those huntsmen, so when you come back in the evening, and knock, I shall not admit you, unless you say, 'Dear little sister let me in.'"|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000003_000001.wav|At last they found themselves in a large forest; it began to rain, and the little sister said, "See, brother, heaven and our hearts weep together." At last, tired out with hunger and sorrow, and the long journey, they crept into a hollow tree, laid themselves down, and slept till morning.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000045_000001.wav|Therefore when she heard of their happiness, such envy and malice arose in her heart that she could find no rest till she had tried to destroy it.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000006_000001.wav|She had seen the children go away, and, following them cautiously like a snake, had bewitched all the springs and streams in the forest.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000002_000004.wav|Heaven pity us!|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000027_000000.wav|She opened the door, and said, "I will let you go this time; but pray do not forget to say what I told you, when you return this evening."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000033_000001.wav|"Oh, dear sister, I must go once more; it will be easy for me to avoid the hunters now, and my foot feels quite well; they will not hunt me unless they see me running, and I don't mean to do that."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000005_000000.wav|"Oh, I am so thirsty!" said the boy.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000037_000000.wav|As soon as the king caught sight of him, he said to the huntsmen, "Follow that stag about, but don't hurt him." So they hunted him all day, but at the approach of sunset the king said to the hunter who had followed the fawn the day before, "Come and show me the little cottage."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000049_000000.wav|The queen escaped from the bath room, where the wicked old woman had locked her up, but she did not go far, as she wanted to watch over her child and the little fawn.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000002_000002.wav|Our stepmother gives us dry hard crusts for dinner and supper; she often knocks us about, and threatens to kick us out of the house.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000041_000000.wav|"Ah yes," replied the maiden, "I would willingly; but I cannot leave my dear fawn: he must go with me wherever I am."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000040_000000.wav|However, he appeared very friendly, and after a little talk he held out his hand to her, and said, "Wilt thou go with me to my castle and be my dear wife?"|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000001_000000.wav|THE ENCHANTED STAG|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000004_000000.wav|When they awoke the sun was high in the heavens, and shone brightly into the hollow tree, so they left their place of shelter and wandered away in search of water.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000034_000000.wav|But his sister wept, and begged him not to go: "If they kill you, dear fawn, I shall be here alone in the forest, forsaken by the whole world."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000025_000000.wav|As it was now nearly dark, he ran up to the little cottage, knocked at the door, and cried, "Dear little sister, let me in." The door was instantly opened, and oh, how glad his sister was to see him safely resting on his soft pleasant bed!|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000039_000000.wav|As the door opened, the king stepped in, and in great astonishment saw a maiden more beautiful than he had ever seen in his life standing before him.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000012_000000.wav|Again the brother denied himself and promised to wait; but he said, "At the next stream I must drink, say what you will, my thirst is so great."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000036_000000.wav|So at length his sister, with a heavy heart, set him free, and he bounded away joyfully into the forest.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000007_000000.wav|"Whoever drinks of me, a tiger soon will be."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000019_000000.wav|When evening came, and the poor sister felt tired, she would kneel down and say her prayers, and then lay her delicate head on the fawn's back, which was a soft warm pillow, on which she could sleep peacefully.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000051_000000.wav|The wicked witch had thrown her into a trance, hoping she would die, and that the king would then marry her daughter; but on the king speaking to her, the spell was broken.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000009_000000.wav|Thirsty as he was, the brother conquered his desire to drink at her words, and said, "Dear sister, I will wait till we come to a spring." So they wandered farther, but as they approached, she heard in the bubbling spring the words-|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000013_000000.wav|Not far off ran a pretty streamlet, looking clear and bright; but here also in its murmuring waters, the sister heard the words-|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000050_000000.wav|For two nights the baby's nurse saw a figure of the queen come into the room and take up her baby and nurse it.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000014_000000.wav|"Who dares to drink of me, Turned to a stag will be."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000029_000000.wav|They chased him with all their skill till the evening; but he was too light and nimble for them to catch, till a shot wounded him slightly in the foot, so that he was obliged to hide himself in the bushes, and, after the huntsmen were gone, limp slowly home.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000011_000000.wav|"Brother, I pray you, do not drink of this brook; you will be changed into a wolf, and devour me."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000039_000001.wav|But how frightened she felt to see instead of her dear little fawn a noble gentleman walk in with a gold crown on his head.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000053_000000.wav|After this, the brother and sister lived happily and peacefully for the rest of their lives.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000048_000000.wav|She would not, however, let him speak to her, but pretended that she must be kept quite quiet.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000006_000002.wav|The pleasant trickling of a brook over the pebbles was heard by the children as they reached it, and the boy was just stooping to drink, when the sister heard in the babbling of the brook:|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000044_000001.wav|Soon after, their marriage was celebrated with great splendour, and the fawn was taken the greatest care of, and played where he pleased, or roamed about the castle grounds in happiness and safety.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000045_000000.wav|In the meantime the wicked stepmother, who had caused these two young people such misery, supposed that the sister had been devoured by wild beasts, and that the fawn had been hunted to death.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000002_000001.wav|One day the boy took his sister's hand, and said to her, "Dear little sister, since our mother died we have not had one happy hour.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000002_000003.wav|Even the little dogs under the table fare better than we do, for she often throws them nice pieces to eat.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000051_000001.wav|The queen told the king how cruelly she had been treated by her stepmother, and on hearing this he became very angry, and had the witch and her daughter brought to justice.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000024_000000.wav|He had not run far when the king's chief hunter caught sight of the beautiful animal, and started off in chase of him; but it was no easy matter to overtake such rapid footsteps.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000050_000001.wav|Then she told the king, and he determined to watch himself.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000043_000001.wav|Then his sister fastened the string of rushes to his collar, took it in her hand, and led him away from the cottage in the wood to where the king's beautiful horse waited for him.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000042_000000.wav|"He shall remain with you as long as you live," replied the king, "and I will never ask you to forsake him."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000044_000000.wav|The king placed the maiden before him on his horse and rode away to his castle, the fawn following by their side.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000030_000000.wav|One of them, however, determined to follow him at a distance, and discover where he went.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000051_000002.wav|They were both sentenced to die-the daughter to be devoured by wild beasts, and the mother to be burnt alive.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000015_000001.wav|How the little sister wept over the enchanted brother, and the fawn wept also.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000030_000001.wav|What was his surprise at seeing him go up to a door and knock, and to hear him say, "Dear little sister, let me in." The door was only opened a little way, and quickly shut; but the huntsman had seen enough to make him full of wonder, when he returned and described to the king what he had seen.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000031_000000.wav|"We will have one more chase to morrow," said the king, "and discover this mystery."|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000002_000006.wav|Come, let us go out into the wide world!"|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000043_000000.wav|While they were talking, the fawn came bounding in, looking quite well and happy.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000050_000002.wav|The old stepmother, who acted as nurse to her ugly daughter, whom she tried to make the king believe was his wife, had said that the queen was too weak to see him, and never left her room.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000003_000000.wav|So they went out, and wandered over fields and meadows the whole day till evening.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000021_000000.wav|"Oh dear," he said, "do let me go and see the hunt; I cannot restrain myself." And he begged so hard that at last she reluctantly consented.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6189/64708/6189_64708_000018_000000.wav|Every morning she went out to gather dried roots, nuts, and berries, for her own food, and sweet fresh grass for the fawn, which he ate out of her hand, and the poor little animal went out with her, and played about as happy as the day was long.|6189
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1645/141819/1645_141819_000012_000001.wav|And he said, Yea, O king, they be whole.|1645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1645/141819/1645_141819_000004_000001.wav|And Daniel said unto the king, Let it be according to thy word.|1645
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000082_000001.wav|'It's all very fine-Well!|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000037_000002.wav|'Stamp upon me, kill me!|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000063_000000.wav|'It has been put into your hearts, perhaps, to save a wretched creature for repentance.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000001_000002.wav|She proceeded so quickly, when she got free of the two currents of passengers setting towards and from the bridge, that, between this and the advance she had of us when she struck off, we were in the narrow water side street by Millbank before we came up with her.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000000.wav|The neighbourhood was a dreary one at that time; as oppressive, sad, and solitary by night, as any about London.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000064_000000.wav|Again she repressed the tears that had begun to flow; and, putting out her trembling hand, and touching mr Peggotty, as if there was some healing virtue in him, went away along the desolate road.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000084_000002.wav|Let me speak to him.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000015_000001.wav|I can't forget it.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000069_000000.wav|He was eating as well as drinking, and seemed to eat with a hungry appetite.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000015_000004.wav|Oh, the dreadful river!'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000039_000000.wav|'Martha,' said mr Peggotty, 'God forbid as I should judge you.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000093_000003.wav|He soon made ducks and drakes of what I gave him, sank lower and lower, married another woman, I believe, became an adventurer, a gambler, and a cheat.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000073_000001.wav|'Here!|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000074_000002.wav|It is because you know how weak I am!|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000058_000001.wav|'I'll try.'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000055_000001.wav|She listened with great attention, and with a face that often changed, but had the same purpose in all its varying expressions.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000091_000003.wav|He repaid her by breaking her fortune, and nearly breaking her heart.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000073_000000.wav|'Then I can't go,' said he.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000057_000002.wav|She continued steadfast.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000057_000003.wav|In this particular, his influence upon her was equally powerless with mine.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000039_000001.wav|Forbid as I, of all men, should do that, my girl!|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000094_000000.wav|She gave my hand a squeeze, and shook her head.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000078_000000.wav|'Is this all you mean to give me, then?'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000065_000001.wav|I had such implicit confidence in her declaration, that I then put it to mr Peggotty, whether it would not seem, in the onset, like distrusting her, to follow her any farther.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000010_000002.wav|In a little while she sat among the stones, holding her wretched head with both her hands.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000015_000002.wav|It haunts me day and night.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000034_000000.wav|Long unused to any self control, the piercing agony of her remorse and grief was terrible.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000047_000004.wav|I knew she always was, to all.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000049_000000.wav|'Will you trust me?' she asked, in a low voice of astonishment.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000004.wav|In one part, carcases of houses, inauspiciously begun and never finished, rotted away.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000011_000000.wav|'Oh, the river!' she cried passionately.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000025_000000.wav|Her sobs broke out afresh, and she murmured some inarticulate thanks to me for not having driven her away from the door.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000054_000000.wav|She did not raise her voice above her breath, or address us, but said this to the night sky; then stood profoundly quiet, looking at the gloomy water.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000037_000011.wav|Kill me for being what I am, and having ever known her; but don't think that of me!'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000026_000000.wav|'I want to say nothing for myself,' she said, after a few moments.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000018_000001.wav|He made some motion with his mouth, and seemed to think he had spoken; but he had only pointed to her with his outstretched hand.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000075_000000.wav|'And why don't you abandon me to my deserts?' said he.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000047_000005.wav|You're thankful to her, and you love her.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000014_000000.wav|'I know it's like me!' she exclaimed.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000026_000002.wav|I have no hope at all.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000015_000003.wav|It's the only thing in all the world that I am fit for, or that's fit for me.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000002.wav|A sluggish ditch deposited its mud at the prison walls.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000007_000001.wav|I then signed to mr Peggotty to remain where he was, and emerged from their shade to speak to her.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000055_000003.wav|It seemed as if her spirit were quite altered, and she could not be too quiet.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000008_000000.wav|I think she was talking to herself.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000080_000001.wav|'I lead the life of an owl.'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000010_000000.wav|She uttered a terrified scream, and struggled with me with such strength that I doubt if I could have held her alone.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000066_000000.wav|It was midnight when I arrived at home.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000091_000001.wav|When she loved him, Trot, right well.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000043_000001.wav|Maybe you can guess that if you'd had such a friend, you'd have got into a way of being fond of him in course of time, and that my niece was kiender daughter like to me.'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000001_000003.wav|At that moment she crossed the road, as if to avoid the footsteps that she heard so close behind; and, without looking back, passed on even more rapidly.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000043_000000.wav|'I have heerd her tell,' said mr Peggotty, 'as you was early left fatherless and motherless, with no friend fur to take, in a rough seafaring way, their place.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000088_000000.wav|'Your husband, aunt?|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000001_000001.wav|We had turned back to follow her, having encountered her coming towards us; and Westminster Abbey was the point at which she passed from the lights and noise of the leading streets.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000076_000001.wav|'What a heart you must have!'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000057_000004.wav|She gratefully thanked him but remained inexorable.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000082_000000.wav|'Aye!' he returned.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000015_000000.wav|'I can't keep away from it.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000060_000001.wav|'I could not take it, if I was starving.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000053_000000.wav|She lifted up her eyes, and solemnly declared that she would devote herself to this task, fervently and faithfully.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000079_000002.wav|I have told you so.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000070_000000.wav|The light in the passage was obscured for a moment, and my aunt came out.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000080_000000.wav|'I have become shabby enough, if you mean that,' he said.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000031_000001.wav|She never spoke a word to me but what was pleasant and right.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000083_000001.wav|Taking two or three quick steps, as if I had just come up, I met him at the gate, and went in as he came out.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000008.wav|Or else it looked as if it had gradually decomposed into that nightmare condition, out of the overflowings of the polluted stream.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000027_000000.wav|'It was you, if I don't deceive myself,' she said, in a broken voice, 'that came into the kitchen, the night she took such pity on me; was so gentle to me; didn't shrink away from me like all the rest, and gave me such kind help!|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000088_000001.wav|I thought he had been dead!'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000063_000001.wav|I am afraid to think so; it seems too bold.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000074_000000.wav|'You bad man,' returned my aunt, with great emotion; 'how can you use me so?|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000067_000000.wav|Thinking that my aunt might have relapsed into one of her old alarms, and might be watching the progress of some imaginary conflagration in the distance, I went to speak to her.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000000_000001.wav|MARTHA|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000079_000000.wav|'It is all I CAN give you,' said my aunt.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000040_000001.wav|She stood, shrinkingly, before him, as if she were afraid to meet his eyes; but her passionate sorrow was quite hushed and mute.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000071_000000.wav|'What's the use of this?' he demanded.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000003_000002.wav|As soon as she came here, and saw the water, she stopped as if she had come to her destination; and presently went slowly along by the brink of the river, looking intently at it.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000087_000000.wav|'Trot,' said my aunt, calmly, 'it's my husband.'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000048_000000.wav|She looked at him hastily, and for the first time, as if she were doubtful of what he had said.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000007_000000.wav|There were some boats and barges astrand in the mud, and these enabled us to come within a few yards of her without being seen.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000092_000000.wav|'My dear, good aunt!'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000091_000004.wav|So she put all that sort of sentiment, once and for ever, in a grave, and filled it up, and flattened it down.'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000001.wav|There were neither wharves nor houses on the melancholy waste of road near the great blank Prison.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000056_000000.wav|She asked, when all was told, where we were to be communicated with, if occasion should arise.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000052_000000.wav|We both replied together, 'Yes!'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000074_000001.wav|But why do I ask?|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000030_000001.wav|'You are innocent of any part in it, we thoroughly believe,--we know.'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000037_000009.wav|Oh, don't think that all the power I had of loving anything is quite worn out!|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000044_000000.wav|As she was silently trembling, he put her shawl carefully about her, taking it up from the ground for that purpose.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000041_000001.wav|My dear niece,' he repeated steadily.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000003.wav|Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all the marshy land in the vicinity.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000002_000000.wav|A glimpse of the river through a dull gateway, where some waggons were housed for the night, seemed to arrest my feet.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000079_000003.wav|Having got it, why do you give me the pain of looking at you for another moment, and seeing what you have become?'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000056_000003.wav|She said, after a pause, in no place long.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000037_000001.wav|'How can I go on as I am, a solitary curse to myself, a living disgrace to everyone I come near!' Suddenly she turned to my companion.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000005_000006.wav|Slimy gaps and causeways, winding among old wooden piles, with a sickly substance clinging to the latter, like green hair, and the rags of last year's handbills offering rewards for drowned men fluttering above high water mark, led down through the ooze and slush to the ebb tide.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000060_000000.wav|'I could not do what I have promised, for money,' she replied.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000037_000006.wav|I don't complain.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000063_000002.wav|If any good should come of me, I might begin to hope; for nothing but harm has ever come of my deeds yet.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000014_000001.wav|'I know that I belong to it. I know that it's the natural company of such as I am!|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000016_000002.wav|He shook as if he would have fallen; and his hand-I touched it with my own, for his appearance alarmed me-was deadly cold.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000047_000000.wav|'According to our reckoning,' he proceeded, 'Mas'r Davy's here, and mine, she is like, one day, to make her own poor solitary course to London.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000074_000003.wav|What have I to do, to free myself for ever of your visits, but to abandon you to your deserts?'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000026_000001.wav|'I am bad, I am lost.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000019_000001.wav|Knowing that this state must pass, before we could speak to her with any hope, I ventured to restrain him when he would have raised her, and we stood by in silence until she became more tranquil.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000033_000001.wav|When, Heaven knows, I would have died to have brought back her good name!'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000039_000003.wav|Well!' he paused a moment, then went on.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000073_000002.wav|You may take it back!'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000039_000004.wav|'You doen't understand how 'tis that this here gentleman and me has wished to speak to you.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000058_000000.wav|'There may be work to be got,' she said.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000082_000002.wav|I must do the best I can, for the present, I suppose.'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000063_000003.wav|I am to be trusted, for the first time in a long while, with my miserable life, on account of what you have given me to try for.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000081_000001.wav|You treated me falsely, ungratefully, and cruelly.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000086_000002.wav|Then she came out, and took a seat beside me.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000083_000000.wav|In spite of himself, he appeared abashed by my aunt's indignant tears, and came slouching out of the garden.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000035_000000.wav|'To have died, would not have been much-what can I say?---I would have lived!' she cried.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000046_000000.wav|I read, in every word of his plain impressive way of delivering himself, new evidence of his having thought of this one topic, in every feature it presented.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000068_000000.wav|He had a glass and bottle in his hand, and was in the act of drinking.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000070_000002.wav|I heard it chink.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000047_000003.wav|Bless her, I knew she was!|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000084_000003.wav|Who is he?'|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2393/144496/2393_144496_000086_000000.wav|We sat down in her little parlour.|2393
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000016_000004.wav|No people can progress that lacks imagination.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000005_000001.wav|"Well, I don't agree with you.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000010_000003.wav|Similarly with the Democratic candidate.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000029_000000.wav|"A Sammycrat," said the Idiot.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000005_000002.wav|I for one am sick and tired of politics, and it will be a great relief to me when it is all over."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000016_000000.wav|"Well, that's the way the thing works," said the Idiot.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000007_000003.wav|A couple of men are put up for the most dignified office known to the world-both are gentlemen by birth and education, men of honor, men who, you would think, would scorn baseness as they hate poison-and then what happens?|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000027_000000.wav|"Oh, that's different," said the Idiot.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000022_000000.wav|"Then you approve of these stories of candidates' cousins, the prattling anecdotes of their grandchildren, these paragraphs narrating the doings of their uncles in law, and all that?" sneered the Bibliomaniac.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000010_000000.wav|"Not a bit of it," laughed the Idiot.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000010_000005.wav|It hurts no one, therefore, and provokes a great deal of innocent mirth.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000012_000000.wav|"That he is the owner of a brewery up in Rochester, and backs fifteen saloons and a pool room in New York?" said the Idiot.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000025_000000.wav|"Don't ask me," laughed the Idiot.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000018_000000.wav|The Idiot laughed.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000023_000000.wav|"Certainly, I do," said the Idiot.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000006_000002.wav|Why, to me it is what a bag full of nuts must be to a squirrel.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000014_000001.wav|Take that other story published in a New York newspaper that on the tenth of last August Thompson Bondifeller's yacht was seen anchored for six hours off Tom Watson's farm, two hundred miles from the sea, and that the Populist candidate, disguised as a bank president, went off with the trust magnate on a cruise from atlanta georgia, to Oklahoma-you don't believe that, do you?"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000016_000001.wav|"And that's why I think there's a lot of bully good fun to be had out of a political campaign.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000025_000002.wav|I admire all the candidates personally very much."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000007_000002.wav|This quest for the flesh pots of politics, so far from being diverting, is, to my notion, one of the most deplorable exhibitions of human weakness that modern civilization, so called, has produced.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000021_000000.wav|"Then you cannot complain if Uncle Sam is equally solicitous about the personal paraphernalia of the man who asks to occupy his little cottage on the Potomac," said the Idiot.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000006_000005.wav|They satisfy all one's zest for warfare without the distressing shedding of blood which attends real war, and regarded from the standpoint of humor, I know of nothing that, to the eye of an ordinarily keen observer, is more provocative of good, honest, wholesome mirth."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000021_000003.wav|You may say that the lady is not running for a public office, and that, therefore, she should be protected from public scrutiny, but that is a fallacy.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000005_000000.wav|"You think that, do you?" observed the Bibliomaniac.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000007_000004.wav|For three weary months the followers of each attack the character and intelligence of the other until, if you really believed what was said of either, neither in your estimation would have a shred of reputation left.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000025_000001.wav|"I don't know yet.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000016_000005.wav|Politics is an emery wheel that keeps our wits polished."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000016_000002.wav|I love anything that arouses the imagination of a people too much given over to the pursuit of the cold, hard dollar.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000007_000001.wav|"To my mind, the average political campaign is just a vulgar scrap in which men who ought to know better descend to all sorts of despicable trickery merely to gain the emoluments of office.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000010_000006.wav|You don't yourself believe that last yarn about the Prohibition candidate, do you?"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000009_000000.wav|"You must admit, however," said the Bibliomaniac, "that a man with an honorable name must find it unpleasant to have such outrageous stories told of him."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000013_000001.wav|"Who does?"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000028_000000.wav|"A what?" cried the Idiot's fellow boarders in unison.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000003_000000.wav|HE DEFENDS CAMPAIGN METHODS|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000029_000001.wav|"I'm for Uncle Sam every time.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000001.wav|"The very idea of a man who deliberately chooses public life as the sphere of his activities seeking to hide behind his private life is preposterous.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000021_000004.wav|A man's wife is his better half and his children are a good part of the remainder, and what they do or don't do becomes a matter of legitimate public concern.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000021_000001.wav|"So it happens that when a man runs for the Presidency the persons who intrude upon his private life, as you put it, are conferring a real service upon their fellow citizens.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000015_000000.wav|"It's preposterous on the face of it," said mr Bib.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000006_000003.wav|I fairly gloat over these quadrennial political campaigns of ours.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000014_000000.wav|"Nobody," said the Idiot; "and therefore the story doesn't hurt the man's reputation a bit, or interfere with his chances of election in the least.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000013_000000.wav|"Of course I don't," said the Bibliomaniac.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000027_000001.wav|"I'm a Sammycrat."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000005.wav|If he beats his mother in law, and eats asparagus with the sugar tongs, and doesn't pay his grocer, the public have a right to know it.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000007_000005.wav|Is that either diverting or elevating or educational or, indeed, anything but deplorable?"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000006.wav|If he has children, the voters are perfectly justified in asking what kind of children they are, since the voters own the White House furniture, and if the Jim Jones children wipe their feet on plush chairs, and shoot holes in the paintings with their bean snappers and putty blowers, Uncle Sam, as a landlord and owner of the premises, ought to be warned beforehand.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000000.wav|"That's the strangest argument of all," he said.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000007.wav|You wouldn't yourself rent a furnished residence to a man whose children were known to have built bonfires in the parlor of their last known home, would you?"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000003.wav|The man who offers himself to the people hasn't any business to tie a string to any part of him.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000008_000003.wav|Even old Diogenes, who spent his life looking for an honest man, would have to admit every four years that he could spot him instantly by merely coming to this country and taking his choice from among the several candidates."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000019_000002.wav|The fellow who does that, mr Bib, wants to lead a double life, and that is reprehensible.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000004_000001.wav|"This is a fine Sunday morning in spite of the gloom into which the approaching death of the campaign should plunge us all."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000008_000000.wav|"It's perfectly fine," said the Idiot, "to think that we have men in the country whose characters are such that they can stand four months of such a test.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000017_000000.wav|"Well, granting all that you say is true," said the Bibliomaniac, "the intrusion upon a man's private life that politics makes possible-surely you cannot condone that."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000006_000004.wav|They are to me among the most exhilarating institutions of modern life.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000011_000000.wav|"I haven't heard any yarn about him," said the Bibliomaniac.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000007_000000.wav|"I don't see it," said mr Bib.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000010_000002.wav|You know well enough that he either never did what is charged against him, or at least that the story is greatly exaggerated-he may have stuck a pin into the cook, and played some boyish trick upon some of his relatives-but the story on the face of it is untrue and therefore harmless.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000006_000001.wav|"Do you mean to say that a Presidential campaign does not keep your nerve centres in a constant state of pleasurable titillation?|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/77779/4064_77779_000024_000000.wav|"Say, mr Idiot," put in the Poet, at this point, "who are you going to vote for, anyhow?"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000047_000003.wav|He knows all the navy people."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000052_000002.wav|"That fellow in Society!"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000059_000000.wav|"Leave that to him."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000021_000000.wav|"Yes, do," said mr Gamble, cordially.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000003_000000.wav|"Who is it?" inquired Montague.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000064_000002.wav|"Is there nothing we can do about it?"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000052_000001.wav|"Oliver, you don't mean it," he said.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000004_000003.wav|Tell Alice to take my word for him."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000079_000001.wav|Alice seems to be quite taken with that young chap, Curtiss."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000032_000001.wav|"I have talked to them sometimes, but it don't do any good.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000025_000002.wav|It wasn't his fault.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000009_000000.wav|There was a moment's pause.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000073_000000.wav|"Why a trust company particularly?" asked the other.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000074_000000.wav|"It's the easiest graft that's going," said Oliver.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000012_000000.wav|"mr Gamble comes from Pittsburg," interposed Oliver.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000027_000003.wav|And the public went wild, and they made him resign-just imagine it!"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000043_000000.wav|"Why, I thought you would like to meet him," said Oliver; "he is an interesting chap."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000055_000000.wav|"Oh, that's not it-the family stays in Pittsburg.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000042_000000.wav|"That man," exclaimed the other.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000025_000001.wav|"Poor chap-it really was hard luck, you know.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000037_000000.wav|"No, no, they live in Pittsburg," was the answer.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000053_000001.wav|Why not?"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000019_000001.wav|"Glad to see you again."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000030_000000.wav|"They're a lively crowd, the Steel fellows," laughed the other. "They want to make Davidson resign, too, but he'll fight them.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000014_000002.wav|I want to see the world a bit before I get too old."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000026_000000.wav|"No," said Montague, but he knew to what the other referred.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000017_000002.wav|He spoke for himself, however,--he had important work to do, and must be excused.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000037_000002.wav|They're stunning girls, I tell you-I'd like you to meet them, mr Montague."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000046_000000.wav|"Where did you meet him?" asked Montague.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000037_000001.wav|"I've got four daughters-all in college.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000035_000000.wav|mr Gamble relapsed into thought again.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000052_000000.wav|Montague stared at him.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000045_000000.wav|"Why, you are talking nonsense!" exclaimed Oliver; "he knows the best people-"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000006_000002.wav|His face was round like a full moon, and out of it looked two little eyes like those of a pig.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000014_000001.wav|"Made my pile, so to speak, and got out.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000008_000000.wav|"Good evening.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000034_000001.wav|I've been fighting the Trust, and last year they bought me out, and now I'm seeing the world."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000063_000004.wav|He gave her a good time this evening, and I wager she'll like him before he gets through. He's really a good-natured chap; the chief trouble with him is that he gets confidential."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000081_000000.wav|"No doubt," said the other.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000032_000003.wav|If you're buying pictures, there's an end to it-you get your walls covered sooner or later.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000054_000000.wav|"But his wife and his daughters!" exclaimed the other.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000032_000000.wav|"It's too bad," said the other, earnestly.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000071_000000.wav|"I hope so," said Montague.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000078_000000.wav|"He might just as well own it," was the reply.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000080_000001.wav|"He seems a very decent fellow."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000032_000005.wav|"Too bad, too bad," he repeated.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000016_000000.wav|But it proved not very difficult to talk with the gentleman from Pittsburg.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000047_000002.wav|He has been living in Brooklyn this winter.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000079_000000.wav|"By the way," Oliver remarked after a moment, "the Prentices have asked Alice up to Newport.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000063_000000.wav|"Oh, stuff!" said Oliver.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000027_000000.wav|"He is an old friend of mine," said Gamble; "he told me all about it.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000063_000003.wav|He won't hurt Alice.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/19132/4064_19132_000030_000002.wav|You should hear his story!"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000022_000000.wav|With the revolver still levelled at Walcott, Kate slowly advanced towards him.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000026_000000.wav|At sight of her, Walcott's face grew livid.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000030_000000.wav|"No, no, Senor, a little turn of the wrist, so slight you would not see, would cause death.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000005_000000.wav|"mr Walcott, there is no use dallying or beating about the bush; I want this partnership terminated at once.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000045_000000.wav|"How about the past year?|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000030_000001.wav|I will take it from him; the viper dare not sting me!"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000052_000000.wav|As Kate and her strange companion parted, the former inquired, "Why did you ask me not to shoot him?|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000046_000000.wav|He raised his hand and the revolver gleamed in the light.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000037_000000.wav|"Here is one, papa, to whom we owe much.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000023_000000.wav|"Give me that weapon!" she demanded.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000010_000002.wav|As Walcott listened, the sneer on his face deepened.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000048_000003.wav|No, by God!|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000013_000001.wav|"Supposing we come at once to the point of dissolving our partnership; it cannot be done any too quickly for me. May I inquire on what terms you propose to settle?"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000021_000000.wav|"I am all right," she cried, brightly; "look after papa, first; then we will attend to this creature."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000052_000001.wav|You surely cannot love him!"|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000047_000001.wav|"Don't be rash or foolish; let the law take its course."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000042_000000.wav|"Yes, Senor; I have the papers to prove it."|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4064/12118/4064_12118_000008_000001.wav|You will not kill him?" she breathed rather than whispered.|4064
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000000.wav|This is perhaps a fitting time to give some personal description of Miss Bronte.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000016.wav|It was about this time I told her she was very ugly.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000002.wav|She had a habit of writing in italics (printing characters), and said she had learnt it by writing in their magazine.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000032_000000.wav|"This habit of 'making out' interests for themselves that most children get who have none in actual life, was very strong in her.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000025_000003.wav|The little girl was well read, but not well grounded.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000031_000001.wav|I used to believe them to have been wonders of talent and kindness.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000013_000006.wav|It is known in the neighbourhood to be the place described as "Field Head," Shirley's residence.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000032_000002.wav|I told her sometimes they were like growing potatoes in a cellar.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000034_000002.wav|We had a rage for practicality, and laughed all poetry to scorn.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000021_000001.wav|She was coming to school at Miss W---'s.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000014_000000.wav|They show a bloody footprint in a bed chamber of Oakwell Hall, and tell a story connected with it, and with the lane by which the house is approached.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000002.wav|They were large and well shaped; their colour a reddish brown; but if the iris was closely examined, it appeared to be composed of a great variety of tints.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000006.wav|Her hands and feet were the smallest I ever saw; when one of the former was placed in mine, it was like the soft touch of a bird in the middle of my palm.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000016_000000.wav|But the Oakwell property passed out of the hands of the Batts at the beginning of the last century; collateral descendants succeeded, and left this picturesque trace of their having been.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000028_000000.wav|"We used to be furious politicians, as one could hardly help being in eighteen thirty two.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000034_000004.wav|Charlotte, at school, had no plan of life beyond what circumstances made for her.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000034_000005.wav|She knew that she must provide for herself, and chose her trade; at least chose to begin it once.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000019.wav|Whenever an opportunity offered of examining a picture or cut of any kind, she went over it piecemeal, with her eyes close to the paper, looking so long that we used to ask her 'what she saw in it.' She could always see plenty, and explained it very well.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000034_000006.wav|Her idea of self improvement ruled her even at school.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000035_000000.wav|What I have heard of her school days from other sources, confirms the accuracy of the details in this remarkable letter.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000021_000003.wav|She looked a little old woman, so short sighted that she always appeared to be seeking something, and moving her head from side to side to catch a sight of it.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000011_000005.wav|It is just such a neighbourhood as the monks loved, and traces of the old Plantagenet times are to be met with everywhere, side by side with the manufacturing interests of the West Riding of to day.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000012_000001.wav|These are to be seen in every direction, picturesque, many gabled, with heavy stone carvings of coats of arms for heraldic ornament; belonging to decayed families, from whose ancestral lands field after field has been shorn away, by the urgency of rich manufacturers pressing hard upon necessity.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000022_000002.wav|"E." was younger than she, and her tender heart was touched by the apparently desolate condition in which she found the oddly dressed, odd looking little girl that winter morning, as "sick for home she stood in tears," in a new strange place, among new strange people.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000008.wav|She was remarkably neat in her whole personal attire; but she was dainty as to the fit of her shoes and gloves.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000035_000002.wav|She never lost a moment of time, and seemed almost to grudge the necessary leisure for relaxation and play hours, which might be partly accounted for by the awkwardness in all games occasioned by her shortness of sight.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000005.wav|She promised to show me some of these magazines, but retracted it afterwards, and would never be persuaded to do so.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000009.wav|We made her try, but soon found that she could not see the ball, so we put her out. She took all our proceedings with pliable indifference, and always seemed to need a previous resolution to say 'No' to anything.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000006.wav|In our play hours she sate, or stood still, with a book, if possible.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000003.wav|The usual expression was of quiet, listening intelligence; but now and then, on some just occasion for vivid interest or wholesome indignation, a light would shine out, as if some spiritual lamp had been kindled, which glowed behind those expressive orbs.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000021_000000.wav|"I first saw her coming out of a covered cart, in very old-fashioned clothes, and looking very cold and miserable.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000012.wav|She said that at Cowan Bridge she used to stand in the burn, on a stone, to watch the water flow by.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000024_000000.wav|"We thought her very ignorant, for she had never learnt grammar at all, and very little geography."|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000035_000003.wav|Yet, in spite of these unsociable habits, she was a great favourite with her school fellows.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000032_000004.wav|I know we are!'|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000025_000001.wav|But Miss W--- was a lady of remarkable intelligence and of delicate tender sympathy.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000034_000007.wav|It was to cultivate her tastes.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000032_000003.wav|She said, sadly, 'Yes!|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000031_000003.wav|I was eager for her to go on, and when she said there was no more, I said, 'but go on!|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000034_000000.wav|"This is the epitome of her life.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000008.wav|She said she had never played, and could not play.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000019_000000.wav|The kind motherly nature of Miss W---, and the small number of the girls, made the establishment more like a private family than a school. Moreover, she was a native of the district immediately surrounding Roe Head, as were the majority of her pupils.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000013_000001.wav|Take Oakwell Hall, for instance.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000013_000002.wav|It stands in a pasture field, about a quarter of a mile from the high road.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000000.wav|"She would confound us by knowing things that were out of our range altogether.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000035_000001.wav|She was an indefatigable student: constantly reading and learning; with a strong conviction of the necessity and value of education, very unusual in a girl of fifteen.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000004.wav|No one wrote in it, and no one read it, but herself, her brother, and two sisters.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000015.wav|She ate no animal food at school.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000016_000004.wav|Lanes branch off for three or four miles to heaths and commons on the higher ground, which formed pleasant walks on holidays, and then comes the white gate into the field path leading to Roe Head itself.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000025_000002.wav|She gave a proof of this in her first treatment of Charlotte.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000028_000002.wav|She worshipped the Duke of Wellington, but said that Sir Robert Peel was not to be trusted; he did not act from principle like the rest, but from expediency.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000023_000000.wav|To quote again from "Mary's" letter:--|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000011_000010.wav|Within six miles of Miss W---'s house-on the left of the road, coming from Leeds-lie the remains of Howley Hall, now the property of Lord Cardigan, but formerly belonging to a branch of the Saviles.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000025_000000.wav|This account of her partial ignorance is confirmed by her other school fellows.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000021_000004.wav|She was very shy and nervous, and spoke with a strong Irish accent.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000021_000002.wav|When she appeared in the schoolroom, her dress was changed, but just as old.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000011.wav|We understood but little of it.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000010_000000.wav|I can well imagine that the grave serious composure, which, when I knew her, gave her face the dignity of an old Venetian portrait, was no acquisition of later years, but dated from that early age when she found herself in the position of an elder sister to motherless children.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000026_000020.wav|She made poetry and drawing at least exceedingly interesting to me; and then I got the habit, which I have yet, of referring mentally to her opinion on all matters of that kind, along with many more, resolving to describe such and such things to her, until I start at the recollection that I never shall."|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000031_000000.wav|"She used to speak of her two elder sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, who died at Cowan Bridge.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170453/3482_170453_000009_000007.wav|The delicate long fingers had a peculiar fineness of sensation, which was one reason why all her handiwork, of whatever kind-writing, sewing, knitting-was so clear in its minuteness.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000066_000001.wav|He desires me to say that the Bridegroom is coming, and that we must prepare to meet him; that the cords are about to be loosed, and the golden bowl broken; the pitcher broken at the fountain.'|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000005_000000.wav|Patrick Branwell, their only brother, was a boy of remarkable promise, and, in some ways, of extraordinary precocity of talent.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000002_000004.wav|Her words were far from flattery; but she would spare no deeds in the cause of those whom she kindly regarded.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000015_000008.wav|The Marquis of Douro and Lord Charles Wellesley's Tale to his little King and Queen; completed december second eighteen twenty nine.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000001_000000.wav|For the reason just stated, the little girls were sent home in the autumn of eighteen twenty five, when Charlotte was little more than nine years old.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000020_000007.wav|Two Fragments, namely, first, The Vision; second, A Short untitled Poem; the Evening Walk, a Poem, june twenty third eighteen thirty.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000039_000000.wav|"Guido Reni, Julio Romano, Titian, Raphael, Michael Angelo, Correggio, Annibal Caracci, Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Bartolomeo, Carlo Cignani, Vandyke, Rubens, Bartolomeo Ramerghi."|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000042_000003.wav|I remember the day when the Intelligence Extraordinary came with mr Peel's speech in it, containing the terms on which the Catholics were to be let in!|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000036_000000.wav|THE HISTORY OF THE YEAR eighteen twenty nine.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000049_000000.wav|"Liffey Castle," a Tale by Lord c Wellesley.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000044_000003.wav|It is a letter to the editor of one of the "Little Magazines."|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000025_000001.wav|One night, about the time when the cold sleet and stormy fogs of November are succeeded by the snow storms, and high piercing night winds of confirmed winter, we were all sitting round the warm blazing kitchen fire, having just concluded a quarrel with Tabby concerning the propriety of lighting a candle, from which she came off victorious, no candle having been produced.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000047_000002.wav|Did Charlotte want a knight errant, or a devoted lover, the Marquis of Douro, or Lord Charles Wellesley, came ready to her hand.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000067_000002.wav|Her reply was, that she had never seen him before, nor any one like him.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000006.wav|The Spirit of Cawdor; seven.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000042_000001.wav|Oh, those six months, from the time of the King's speech to the end!|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000023.wav|The Swiss Artists continued; twenty four.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000002_000003.wav|She abounded in strong practical sense and shrewdness.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000020_000000.wav|Miscellaneous Poems, finished may thirtieth eighteen thirty.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000033_000007.wav|The manner of the building was as follows.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000067_000001.wav|As Tabby closed the door, I asked her if she knew him.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000022.wav|This shall be the Duke!' When I had said this, Emily likewise took up one and said it should be hers; when Anne came down, she said one should be hers.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000057_000003.wav|An old man appeared, standing without, who accosted her thus:--|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000007.wav|Interior of a Pothouse, a Poem; eight.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000025_000002.wav|A long pause succeeded, which was at last broken by Branwell saying, in a lazy manner, 'I don't know what to do.' This was echoed by Emily and Anne.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000054_000003.wav|This peculiarity I perceive very strongly in Charlotte's writings at this time.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000012_000000.wav|The Adventures of Edward de Crack, a Tale, february second eighteen thirty.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000033_000005.wav|After this, for a long time, nothing worth noticing occurred.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000020_000003.wav|Description of the Duke of Wellington's Palace on the Pleasant Banks of the Lusiva; this article is a small prose tale or incident; three.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000003_000001.wav|What is more, she had known the "bottom," or valley, in those primitive days when the fairies frequented the margin of the "beck" on moonlight nights, and had known folk who had seen them.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000005.wav|A True Story continued; six.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000015_000006.wav|The strange Incident in the Duke of Wellington's Life; three.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000068_000000.wav|Though the date of the following poem is a little uncertain, it may be most convenient to introduce it here.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000009.wav|The Silver Cup, a Tale; ten.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000033_000002.wav|I chose the Duke of Wellington and two sons, Christopher North and Co., and mr Abernethy.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000015.wav|An American Tale; sixteen.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000029_000001.wav|'If we had I would choose the Island of Man.'|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000020_000002.wav|The Churchyard; two.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000019.wav|I will sketch out the origin of our plays more explicitly if I can.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000020_000006.wav|Winter; six.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000068_000002.wav|I give it as a specimen of the remarkable poetical talent shown in the various diminutive writings of this time; at least, in all of them which I have been able to read.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000069_000000.wav|THE WOUNDED STAG.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000067_000003.wav|Though I am fully persuaded that he was some fanatical enthusiast, well meaning perhaps, but utterly ignorant of true piety; yet I could not forbear weeping at his words, spoken so unexpectedly at that particular period."|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000033_000004.wav|The next day we added many others to our list of men, till we got almost all the chief men of the kingdom.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000028_000002.wav|Oh! suppose we had each an island of our own.'|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000044_000000.wav|It will be interesting to some of my readers to know what was the character of her purely imaginative writing at this period.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000035_000000.wav|There is another scrap of paper, in this all but illegible handwriting, written about this time, and which gives some idea of the sources of their opinions.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000034_000001.wav|Tabby moves about in her quaint country dress, frugal, peremptory, prone to find fault pretty sharply, yet allowing no one else to blame her children, we may feel sure.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000057_000002.wav|Suddenly we heard a knock at the door; Tabby rose and opened it.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000016_000000.wav|Characters of Great Men of the Present Age, december seventeenth eighteen twenty nine.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000054_000000.wav|Life in an isolated village, or a lonely country house, presents many little occurrences which sink into the mind of childhood, there to be brooded over.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000027_000001.wav|'I'd rather do anything than that.'|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000033_000003.wav|Here our conversation was interrupted by the, to us, dismal sound of the clock striking seven, and we were summoned off to bed.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000001.wav|It was an old geography book; she wrote on its blank leaf, 'Papa lent me this book.' This book is a hundred and twenty years old; it is at this moment lying before me.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000048_000000.wav|As one evidence how Wellesley haunted her imagination, I copy out a few of the titles to her papers in the various magazines.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000009_000000.wav|Two romantic tales in one volume; viz., The Twelve Adventurers and the Adventures in Ireland, april second eighteen twenty nine.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000011.wav|The Editor is mr Christopher North, an old man seventy four years of age; the first of April is his birth day; his company are Timothy Tickler, Morgan O'Doherty, Macrabin Mordecai, Mullion, Warnell, and james Hogg, a man of most extraordinary genius, a Scottish shepherd.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000008_000000.wav|CATALOGUE OF MY BOOKS, WITH THE PERIOD OF THEIR COMPLETION, UP TO august third eighteen thirty.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000015_000010.wav|The Duke of Wellington's Adventure in the Cavern; two.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000022.wav|Harvest in Spain; twenty three.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000002_000001.wav|She remained there, as a member of the household, for thirty years; and from the length of her faithful service, and the attachment and respect which she inspired, is deserving of mention.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000009.wav|We see the 'john Bull;' it is a high Tory, very violent.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000008.wav|We take the 'Leeds Intelligencer,' Tory, and the 'Leeds Mercury,' Whig, edited by mr Baines, and his brother, son in law, and his two sons, Edward and Talbot.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000023_000001.wav|So much for the quantity; the quality strikes me as of singular merit for a girl of thirteen or fourteen.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000015_000013.wav|The three old Washer women of Strathfieldsaye; two.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000053_000000.wav|"Strange Events," by Lord c a f Wellesley.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000021.wav|Emily and I jumped out of bed, and I snatched up one and exclaimed, 'This is the Duke of Wellington!|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000068_000001.wav|It must have been written before eighteen thirty three, but how much earlier there are no means of determining.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000004_000001.wav|Their father was in the habit of relating to them any public news in which he felt an interest; and from the opinions of his strong and independent mind they would gather much food for thought; but I do not know whether he gave them any direct instruction.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000023.wav|Mine was the prettiest of the whole, and the tallest, and the most perfect in every part.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000019_000003.wav|A Short Poem; three.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000019_000006.wav|On Seeing the Ruins of the Tower of Babel; six.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000004.wav|Papa and Branwell are gone to Keighley.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000055_000002.wav|Thus we see that, while her imagination received vivid impressions, her excellent understanding had full power to rectify them before her fancies became realities.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000017.wav|The Lay of the Glass Town; eighteen.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000021.wav|Chief Genii in Council; twenty two.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000007.wav|We take two and see three newspapers a week.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000015.wav|Best plays mean secret plays; they are very nice ones.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000000.wav|"Once Papa lent my sister Maria a book.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000001.wav|A True Story; two.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000044_000001.wav|While her description of any real occurrence is, as we have seen, homely, graphic, and forcible, when she gives way to her powers of creation, her fancy and her language alike run riot, sometimes to the very borders of apparent delirium.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000052_000000.wav|"The Green Dwarf, a Tale of the Perfect Tense," by the Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000016.wav|All our plays are very strange ones.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000015_000011.wav|The Duke of Wellington and the little King's and Queen's visit to the Horse Guards; completed may eighth eighteen thirty.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000055_000000.wav|To counterbalance this tendency in Charlotte, was the strong common sense natural to her, and daily called into exercise by the requirements of her practical life.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000032_000001.wav|'And mine shall be Guernsey.'|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000057_000000.wav|"The following strange occurrence happened on the twenty second of June, eighteen thirty:--At the time Papa was very ill, confined to his bed, and so weak that he could not rise without assistance.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000023_000000.wav|As each volume contains from sixty to a hundred pages, and the size of the page lithographed is rather less than the average, the amount of the whole seems very great, if we remember that it was all written in about fifteen months.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000019_000008.wav|Lines written on the Bank of a River one fine Summer Evening; eight.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000042_000002.wav|Nobody could write, think, or speak on any subject but the Catholic question, and the Duke of Wellington, and mr Peel.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000004_000000.wav|Miss Branwell instructed the children at regular hours in all she could teach, making her bed chamber into their schoolroom.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000010_000000.wav|The Search after Happiness, a Tale, august first eighteen twenty nine.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000037_000017.wav|Their nature I need not write on paper, for I think I shall always remember them.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000021_000000.wav|Making in the whole twenty two volumes.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000033_000006.wav|In June, eighteen twenty eight, we erected a school on a fictitious island, which was to contain one thousand children.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000015_000000.wav|Tales of the Islanders, in four volumes.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000006_000001.wav|I have had a curious packet confided to me, containing an immense amount of manuscript, in an inconceivably small space; tales, dramas, poems, romances, written principally by Charlotte, in a hand which it is almost impossible to decipher without the aid of a magnifying glass.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000019_000002.wav|The Beauty of Nature; two.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000019_000004.wav|Meditations while Journeying in a Canadian Forest; four.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000057_000001.wav|Tabby and I were alone in the kitchen, about half past nine ante meridian.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000051_000000.wav|"An Extraordinary Dream," by Lord c Wellesley.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000034_000003.wav|Moreover, they do not confine themselves to local heroes; their range of choice has been widened by hearing much of what is not usually considered to interest children.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000017_000014.wav|Scene in my Tun, a Tale; fifteen.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000034_000004.wav|Little Anne, aged scarcely eight, picks out the politicians of the day for her chief men.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3482/170452/3482_170452_000070_000000.wav|Passing amid the deepest shade Of the wood's sombre heart, Last night I saw a wounded deer Laid lonely and apart.|3482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000005_000000.wav|American tourists, sure appreciators of all that is ancient and picturesque in England, invariably come to a halt, holding their breath in a sudden catch of wonder, as they pass through the half ruinous gateway which admits to the Close of Wrychester.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000034_000000.wav|"You forget that mr Pemberton Bryce is what most people would call a very pushing young man," said Mary.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000028_000001.wav|"Don't you trouble yourself about it-I'm not at all keen about him.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000003_000000.wav|By j s Fletcher|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000047_000001.wav|He hesitated-and she went on speaking.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000025_000000.wav|"Twice," she answered.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000052_000001.wav|"Don't be angry-or hurt-if I tell you plainly what it is.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000052_000003.wav|It's this-have we been dependent on you?"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000058_000001.wav|"You see, I can scarcely-yet-realize that you're both growing up!|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000047_000000.wav|She was looking at him with a certain amount of demand-and Ransford, who had always known that some moment of this sort must inevitably come, felt that she was not going to be put off with ordinary excuses.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000039_000000.wav|"Thank you," she said.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000028_000002.wav|He's a clever enough fellow, and a good assistant, but I don't like him, personally-never did."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000030_000004.wav|When I was young-"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000032_000000.wav|"When you were young-which is, of course, such an awfully long time since!" said the girl, a little teasingly.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000060_000000.wav|"Of course not-of course not!" he said hastily.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000008_000001.wav|His quick eyes wandered alternately between his book and his plate; now and then he muttered a line or two to himself.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000055_000001.wav|"And I only wanted to know-because I'd got an idea that-well, that we were owing everything to you."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000027_000000.wav|"But-what shall you do?" she asked anxiously.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000053_000000.wav|Ransford's face flushed and he turned deliberately to the window, and for a moment stood staring out on his garden and the glimpses of the Cathedral.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000014_000000.wav|Mary Bewery took the empty cup and began to refill it.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000051_000002.wav|Is-is there anything much more that I could tell?"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000060_000002.wav|And-but we'll talk again.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000015_000000.wav|"I don't like him to be late," she remarked.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000016_000001.wav|"He's pretty free from anything of that sort, you know.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000059_000001.wav|"Perhaps-some day-you'll tell me more about our father and mother?--but never mind even that now.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER one ONLY THE GUARDIAN|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000063_000000.wav|"Heaven help me if the lad ever insists on the real truth and on having proofs and facts given to him!" he muttered.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000042_000000.wav|"When are you going to tell me all about-Dick and myself?" she asked. "You promised that you would, you know, some day.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000063_000001.wav|"I shouldn't mind telling her, when she's a bit older-but he wouldn't understand as she would. Anyway, thank God I can keep up the pleasant fiction about the money without her ever knowing that I told her a deliberate lie just now. But-what's in the future?|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000022_000000.wav|"Bryce?" he asked.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000018_000004.wav|Most people-don't!"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000036_000001.wav|"It's-irritating!"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000050_000002.wav|"They say," she went on, "that it doesn't matter, nowadays, if you can't tell who your grandfather was-but, just think, we don't know who our father was-except that his name was john Bewery.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000023_000001.wav|Before saying more, Ransford lighted a cigarette.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000005_000002.wav|There before their eyes, set in the centre of a great green sward, fringed by tall elms and giant beeches, rises the vast fabric of the thirteenth century Cathedral, its high spire piercing the skies in which rooks are for ever circling and calling.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000007_000002.wav|A strong, intellectually superior man, this, scrupulously groomed and well dressed, as befitted what he really was-a medical practitioner with an excellent connection amongst the exclusive society of a cathedral town.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000034_000003.wav|Perhaps he'll take it finally from you-as my guardian."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000042_000004.wav|Will he, now?"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000044_000001.wav|"I'm just twenty-do you really think I shall be any wiser in twelve months?|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000019_000001.wav|And the girl, instead of picking up her letter again, glanced at him a little doubtfully.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000005_000004.wav|In morning, as in afternoon, or in evening, here is a perpetual atmosphere of rest; and not around the great church alone, but in the quaint and ancient houses which fence in the Close.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000063_000004.wav|And-so will she, then.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000039_000002.wav|Now I wonder if you'll tell me something more?"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000010_000002.wav|At that, she glanced at her brother.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000037_000001.wav|"I'll speak to him.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000008_000000.wav|The second person of the three was a boy of apparently seventeen-a well built, handsome lad of the senior schoolboy type, who was devoting himself in business like fashion to two widely differing pursuits-one, the consumption of eggs and bacon and dry toast; the other, the study of a Latin textbook, which he had propped up in front of him against the old-fashioned silver cruet.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000046_000000.wav|"But what has that got to do with it?" she persisted.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000050_000001.wav|"It's only natural." She laughed a little-a forced laugh.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000000.wav|"No!" he said.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000018_000001.wav|"You couldn't give him higher!|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000013_000002.wav|Dick could get to any given point in just about one fourth of the time that I could, for instance-moreover, he has a cunning knowledge of every short cut in the city."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000058_000004.wav|"If not-"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000026_000000.wav|"Confound his impudence!" growled Ransford.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000057_000003.wav|I won't ask more now."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000057_000002.wav|Thank you.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000006.wav|Perhaps I ought to have told you all that before, but-I didn't think it necessary.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000004.wav|Not a great lot-but sufficient to-to cover all your expenses. Education-everything.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000040_000000.wav|Ransford turned back with a sudden apprehension.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000015_000001.wav|"It's the beginning of bad habits."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000009_000001.wav|Each had a wealth of brown hair, inclining, in the girl's case to a shade that had tints of gold in it; each had grey eyes, in which there was a mixture of blue; each had a bright, vivid colour; each was undeniably good looking and eminently healthy.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000048_000000.wav|"You know," she continued, almost pleadingly.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000025_000003.wav|I dislike him intensely-I can't tell why, but it's there, and nothing could ever alter the feeling. And though I told him-before-that it was useless-he mentioned it again-yesterday-at mrs Folliot's garden party."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000002_000000.wav|THE PARADISE MYSTERY|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000061_000001.wav|"Wouldn't that solve the difficulty?"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000062_000000.wav|Ransford shook his head and made no answer.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000030_000003.wav|The fellow must be an ass!|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000011_000001.wav|"You'll have to hurry."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000035_000000.wav|"I don't know if parents and guardians count for much in these degenerate days," said Ransford.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000063_000002.wav|Here's one man to be dismissed already, and there'll be others, and one of them will be the favoured man.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000023_000000.wav|The girl nodded her face showing distinct annoyance and dislike.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000019_000000.wav|He took his refilled cup, rose from the table, and opened a box of cigarettes which stood on the mantelpiece.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000012_000003.wav|The doctor laughed, laid aside his newspaper, and handed his cup across the table.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000037_000000.wav|"All right," said Ransford quietly.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000010_000001.wav|She was deep in it when, from one of the turrets of the Cathedral, a bell began to ring.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000059_000002.wav|You're sure you haven't minded my asking-what I have asked?"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000042_000002.wav|And-Dick's seventeen!|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000063_000003.wav|That man will have to be told!|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000037_000002.wav|There's going to be no annoyance for you under this roof."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000045_000001.wav|"You may be-a great deal wiser."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000062_000002.wav|He was alone there when he had shut the door-and he relieved his feelings with a deep groan.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000018_000000.wav|"That's giving him high praise, then," said Ransford.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000058_000000.wav|"I've always meant to tell you-a good deal," remarked Ransford, after another pause.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000002.wav|You've both got money-due to you when you're of age.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000017_000001.wav|"He would smoke if it weren't for that."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000042_000001.wav|And-a whole year's gone by since then.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000050_000000.wav|"Once or twice, lately-yes," replied Mary.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000051_000001.wav|"I told you-always have told you-that he was an early friend of mine, a man of business, who, with your mother, died young, and I, as their friend, became guardian to you and Dick.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000030_000000.wav|"No need to bother," interrupted Ransford.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000000_000000.wav|This is a LibriVox recording.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000041_000000.wav|"Well?" he asked brusquely.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000053_000001.wav|And just as deliberately as he had turned away, he turned back.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000058_000003.wav|And Dick is still very young. Are-are you more satisfied now?" he went on anxiously.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000041_000001.wav|"What?"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000013_000000.wav|"I don't think you need bother yourself about Dick's ever being late, Mary," he said.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000050_000003.wav|That doesn't convey much."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000052_000000.wav|"There's something I should very much like to know-personally," she answered, after a pause which lasted so long that Ransford began to feel uncomfortable under it.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000010_000000.wav|While the boy learnt the last lines of his Latin, and the doctor turned over the newspaper, the girl read a letter-evidently, from the large sprawling handwriting, the missive of some girlish correspondent.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000026_000003.wav|I gave him a quiet hint before.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000021_000001.wav|Her eyes shifted their gaze away to her letter, and she picked it up and began to fold it nervously.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000032_000001.wav|"What?"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000026_000004.wav|And since he won't take it-all right!"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000009_000000.wav|It was not difficult to see that the third member of the party, a girl of nineteen or twenty, was the boy's sister.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000057_000001.wav|"But-don't you understand? I-wanted to know-something.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000025_000001.wav|"I didn't like to tell you-I've hated to bother you about it.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000027_000001.wav|"Not-send him away?"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000005_000001.wav|Nowhere else in England is there a fairer prospect of old world peace.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000020_000001.wav|I-I wish some people would!"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000055_000000.wav|"You've never let things slide about us," she replied quickly, with a sudden glance which made him turn away again.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000035_000001.wav|"But-I won't have him annoying you. And-I suppose it has come to annoyance?"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000020_000000.wav|"That reminds me of-of something I wanted to say to you," she said. "You're quite right about people not repressing their inclinations.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000056_000000.wav|"Not from me!" he exclaimed.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000043_000000.wav|Ransford laid down his letters again, and thrusting his hands in his pockets, squared his shoulders against the mantelpiece.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000005_000003.wav|The time worn stone, at a little distance delicate as lacework, is transformed at different hours of the day into shifting shades of colour, varying from grey to purple: the massiveness of the great nave and transepts contrasts impressively with the gradual tapering of the spire, rising so high above turret and clerestory that it at last becomes a mere line against the ether.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000038_000000.wav|The girl gave him a quick glance, and Ransford turned away from her and picked up his letters.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000026_000002.wav|It's useless trifling with anything like that.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000001.wav|"Since you ask me, I'll tell you that.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000063_000006.wav|She's no idea of it-and she shan't have; I must-must continue to be-only the guardian!"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000016_000002.wav|I haven't even suspected him of smoking, yet."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000033_000000.wav|"Only that if a woman said No-unmistakably-once, a man took it as final," replied Ransford.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000031_000000.wav|He stopped short at that, and turning away, looked out across the garden as if some recollection had suddenly struck him.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000030_000001.wav|"He'll get another in two minutes-so to speak.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000060_000003.wav|I must get into the surgery-and have a word with Bryce, too."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000017_000000.wav|"That's because he thinks smoking would stop his growth and interfere with his cricket," answered Mary.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000018_000003.wav|An excellent thing-and most unusual, I fancy.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000021_000000.wav|Ransford turned quickly from the hearth and gave her a sharp look, beneath which her colour heightened.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000034_000002.wav|But-if you must speak to him-and I really think you must!--will you tell him that he is not going to get-me?|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000033_000001.wav|"At least-so I was always given to believe. Nowadays-"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000012_000002.wav|And Dick Bewery, without a word, bolted half his coffee, snatched up his book, grabbed at a cap which lay with more books on a chair close by, and vanished through the open window.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000029_000001.wav|"That would seem-"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000029_000000.wav|"I don't want to think that anything that I say should lose him his situation-or whatever you call it," she remarked slowly.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000039_000001.wav|"But-there's no need to tell me that, because I know it already.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000058_000002.wav|You were at school a year ago.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000007_000001.wav|In some lights he looked no more than forty: a strong light betrayed the fact that his dark hair had a streak of grey in it, and was showing a tendency to whiten about the temples.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000007.wav|I-I dare say I've a tendency to let things slide."|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000045_000000.wav|"You don't know that," he replied.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000044_000002.wav|Of course I shan't!"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000054_000003.wav|It-it's in my hands.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000025_000002.wav|But-what am I to do?|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000024_000001.wav|"Since last time?"|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/133447/1018_133447_000048_000001.wav|"We don't know anything-at all.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000012_000010.wav|I must land here, venture among these people, and trust in that Providence which had hitherto sustained me.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000004_000000.wav|In the midst of this I awoke.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000017_000001.wav|He led the way to the cabin, where, opening the door, he entered, and I followed, after which the others came in also and then the door was shut.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000002_000000.wav|THE NEW WORLD|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000016_000001.wav|They looked at me, examining me all over, inspecting my gun, pistol, coat, trousers, boots, and hat, and talking all the time among themselves.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000015_000004.wav|Their costume varied.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000004_000001.wav|It was with a sudden start, and I looked all around in speechless bewilderment.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000019_000002.wav|Then the chief, who had stood looking on with a smile on his face took off his rich furred mantle and handed it to me.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000022_000001.wav|Our road constantly ascended, and at length we came to a crossing.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000019_000007.wav|I now wished to show my generous entertainers that I was grateful; so I raised my cup, bowed to all of them, particularly the chief, and drank their health.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000012_000000.wav|So I hesitated, yet what could I do?|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000022_000004.wav|We continued on our way without stopping, and passed several successive terraces like the first, with the same caverns on the upper side and massive edifices on the lower, until at last the ascent ended at the fifth terrace, and here we turned to the left. Now the view became more varied.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000021_000003.wav|I followed, and the rest came after.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000012_000006.wav|No; return was impossible.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000019_000008.wav|They all watched this ceremony with very sober faces, and I could not quite make out whether they took my meaning or not.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000003_000002.wav|The cannibals beckoned to us from the peak, and we landed between the two volcanoes.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000017_000003.wav|There were no windows whatever, and only one or two slight crevices through which the light came.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000018_000001.wav|I noticed that the eyes of my new friends no longer blinked; they were wide open; and, so far as I could make them out, their faces were much improved.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000011_000000.wav|But I had no time for such speculations as these.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000017_000008.wav|The food was of different kinds-some tasting like goose, others like turkey, others like partridge.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000017_000005.wav|There was a large table and seats.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER six|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000022_000005.wav|The tree ferns arose on either side, arching overhead; on my right were the portals that opened into caverns, on my left solid and massive houses, built of great blocks of stone, with pyramidal roofs.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000012_000001.wav|My hunger was beginning to be insupportable.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000019_000005.wav|Then they offered me various drinks, of which I tasted several kinds.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000010_000008.wav|Whatever the true one might be, I was utterly unable to form a conjecture.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000023_000002.wav|We now went on until we reached the central portal of the range of caverns, and here we stopped.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000016_000002.wav|They did not touch me, but merely showed the natural curiosity which is felt at the sight of a foreigner who has appeared unexpectedly.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000013_000003.wav|After some hesitation I concluded to make signals to her, so as to attract attention; for, now that I had resolved to venture among the people here, I was anxious to end my suspense as soon as possible. So I continued rowing, and gradually drew nearer.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000003_000000.wav|How long I slept I do not know.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000009_000008.wav|I had reached the antarctic pole.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000012_000003.wav|To go back was impossible.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000019_000000.wav|After the repast they brought me water in a basin, and all stood around me.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000016_000003.wav|There was a scrupulous delicacy and a careful and even ceremonious politeness in their attitude toward me which was at once amazing and delightful.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000021_000011.wav|Their wings were short, and evidently could not be used for flight; their beaks were like that of a sea gull; each one had a man on his back, and was harnessed to a car.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1018/135221/1018_135221_000014_000001.wav|Their hair was black and straight, their features were quite regular, and their general expression was one of great gentleness.|1018
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/39761/3790_39761_000001_000000.wav|BOOK fourteen.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/39761/3790_39761_000007_000007.wav|He also proposed to make him presents on that account. At length he prevailed with Aretas in his suit.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000034_000001.wav|My heart is too full of it to express myself as I ought.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000017_000002.wav|Should I go back, or should I not?--I doubt he has got too great hold in my heart, for me to be easy presently, if I should refuse: And yet this gipsy information makes me fearful.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000015_000005.wav|I am 'Yours, etc'|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000031_000002.wav|He asked, What?|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000035_000001.wav|I said I had, and hoped it would be brought.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000036_000003.wav|She said she would, to be sure.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000011_000000.wav|'Monday morn, near three o'clock.'|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000051_000003.wav|But I won't, I think, change my garb.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000030_000005.wav|I did not think I could have lived under such fatigue.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000035_000002.wav|He said it was doubly kind.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000031_000003.wav|And she said, I was come.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000042_000000.wav|'Your much grieved sister.'|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000031_000005.wav|And he said, Why, these tender fair ones, I think, bear fatigue better than us men.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000052_000001.wav|Blessed be God for it!|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000053_000001.wav|What would you say?--Sir, said I, (a little ashamed,) I think it is too great an honour to go into the chariot with you.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000010_000002.wav|For I must be 'Yours, and only yours.'|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000003_000002.wav|Is it for you, who keep an inn, to treat passengers at this rate?|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000030_000002.wav|'tis well for her she can sleep so purely.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000005_000000.wav|More and more surprising things still----|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000051_000002.wav|But I shall see what light this new honour will procure me!--So I'll get ready.|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3790/140725/3790_140725_000032_000001.wav|Will she come?|3790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000039_000000.wav|"So, after Mother Hubbard had given me a good meal of turnips and sliced cabbage, Santa Claus put the magic collar around my neck and I started for home.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, tell me about it!" pleaded Dorothy.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000011_000001.wav|We cannot fight, but we can always run away, and that is a much better way to save our lives than by fighting."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000003_000000.wav|Little Dorothy had passed all the few years of her life in the country, and being the only child upon the farm she was allowed to roam about the meadows and woods as she pleased.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000030_000001.wav|When it was all finished he pressed the toy rabbit with his thumb, and it squeaked so naturally that I jumped off the table, fearing at first the new rabbit was alive.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000019_000000.wav|"It was one morning after Christmas," said the rabbit, who seemed to enjoy talking, now that he had overcome his fear of Dorothy, "and I was sitting by the road side when Santa Claus came riding back in his empty sleigh.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000020_000000.wav|"'You look very pretty this morning, Bun Rabbit,' he said, in his jolly way; 'I think the babies would love to have you to play with.'|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000011_000000.wav|"I suppose so," returned the rabbit; "you see we have only our eyes and our ears and our legs to defend ourselves with.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000003_000001.wav|On the bright summer mornings Dorothy's mother would tie a sun bonnet under the girl's chin, and then she romped away to the fields to amuse herself in her own way.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000017_000003.wav|I like to see the toys, for they are so bright and pretty, and every year there is something new amongst them.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000017_000004.wav|Once I visited Santa, and saw him make the toys."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000038_000000.wav|"'If that is the case,' replied Santa, 'I must give you a magic collar to wear, so that you will come to no harm.'|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000002_000000.wav|"Oh, Little Bun Rabbit, so soft and so shy, Say, what do you see with your big, round eye?" "On Christmas we rabbits," says Bunny so shy, "Keep watch to see Santa go galloping by."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000034_000000.wav|"'Ah, you can run about all day, in summer and in winter, and enjoy yourself in your own way,' said Santa; 'but the poor little children are obliged to stay in the house in the winter and on rainy days in the summer, and then they must have toys to amuse them and keep them contented."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000006.wav|On one side is his work bench, with plenty of saws and hammers and jack knives; and on another side is the paint bench, with paints of every color and brushes of every size and shape.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000004_000002.wav|And the animals loved Dorothy in turn, for the word passed around amongst them that she could be trusted to do them no harm.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000025_000001.wav|He smoked and whistled all the time he was working, and he talked to me in such a jolly way that I sat perfectly still and allowed him to measure my ears and my legs so that he could cut the fur into the proper form.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000041_000001.wav|The next Christmas, when I watched by the road side to see Santa, I was pleased to notice a great many of the toy rabbits sticking out of the loaded sleigh.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000032_000000.wav|"I thanked him and decided to stay.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000009_000001.wav|I see the cool bushes where I can hide from my enemies, and I see the dogs and the men long before they can see me, or know that I am near, and therefore I am able to keep out of their way."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000039_000001.wav|I took my time on the journey, for I knew nothing could harm me, and I saw a good many strange sights before I got back to this place again."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, yes; every winter.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000045_000000.wav|"What is it?" enquired the girl.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000028_000000.wav|"So he immediately began to make another, and this time he cut the fur just the right size, so that it was even better than the first rabbit.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000043_000001.wav|The babies still love you dearly.'"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000047_000000.wav|The next instant he had sprung into the wood, and all that Dorothy could see of him was a gray streak darting in and out amongst the trees.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000041_000000.wav|"After I got home," replied the rabbit, "the collar disappeared from around my neck, and I knew Santa had called it back to himself again. He did not give it to me, you see; he merely let me take it on my journey to protect me.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000024_000000.wav|"After Mother Hubbard had given me a good dinner, and I had eaten some of the most delicious clover I have ever tasted, Santa took me up into his work room and sat me upon the table.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000046_000001.wav|So good bye, Dorothy; I hope we shall meet again, and then I will gladly tell you more of my adventures."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000025_000000.wav|"'If I can only make rabbits half as nice as you are,' he said, 'the little ones will be delighted.' Then he lit a big pipe and began to smoke, and soon he took a roll of soft fur from a shelf in a corner and commenced to cut it out in the shape of a rabbit.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000035_000000.wav|"I knew this was true, so I only said, admiringly, 'You must be the quickest and the best workman in all the world, Santa.'|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000029_000000.wav|"'I must put a squeak in it,' said Santa.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000004_000001.wav|And she was also very fond of all the animals, and learned to know them well, and even to understand their language, which very few people can do.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000014_000000.wav|"You have told me what you see in summer," continued Dorothy, who was greatly interested in the rabbit's account of himself, "but what do you see in the winter?"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000037_000000.wav|"'Oh, no,' said I, 'I prefer to run by myself, for I can easily find the way and I want to see the country.'|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000002.wav|It stood on the top of a high mountain and is built of gold and silver bricks, and the windows are pure diamond crystals.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000044_000000.wav|The Rabbit paused, and Dorothy was just about to ask another question when Bunny raised his head and seemed to hear something coming.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000017_000001.wav|I am not afraid of him, nor of his reindeer. And it is such fun to see him come dashing along, cracking his whip and calling out cheerily to his reindeer, who are able to run even swifter than we rabbits.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000001.wav|I enjoyed the ride very much, but I enjoyed the castle far more; for it was one of the loveliest places you could imagine.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000032_000001.wav|So for several days I watched him making all kinds of toys, and I wondered to see how quickly he made them, and how many new things he invented.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000043_000000.wav|"'A merry Christmas to you, Bun Rabbit!|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000015_000000.wav|"In winter we rabbits," said Bunny so shy, "Keep watch to see Santa go galloping by."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000006_000000.wav|Dorothy herself was afraid she might frighten him away, so she kept very quiet for a time, leaning silently against a tree and smiling encouragement at her timorous companion until the rabbit became reassured and blinked his big eyes at her thoughtfully.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000000.wav|"Of course I consented, for we all like to please old Santa, and a minute later I had jumped into the sleigh beside him and we were dashing away at full speed toward his castle.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000026_000003.wav|When it was all done he put it on the table beside me, and at first I did n't know whether I was the live rabbit or the toy rabbit, we were so much alike.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000007_000000.wav|Finally Dorothy ventured to speak, so she asked, very softly and slowly,|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000005.wav|At the top of the castle there is one big room, and that is Santa's work shop, where he makes the toys.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000004_000003.wav|For the horse, whose soft nose Dorothy often gently stroked, told the cow of her kindness, and the cow told the dog, and the dog told the cat, and the cat told her black kitten, and the black kitten told the rabbit when one day they met in the turnip patch.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000013_000002.wav|When I meet an enemy I run to my hole and jump in, and there I stay until all danger is over."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000036_000000.wav|"'I suppose I am,' he answered; 'but then, you see, I have been making toys for hundreds of years, and I make so many it is no wonder I am skillful.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000012_000000.wav|"Where is your home, bunny?" enquired the girl.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000040_000000.wav|"But what became of the magic collar?" asked Dorothy, who had listened with breathless interest to the rabbit's story.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000013_000001.wav|At the bottom of the hole is the nicest little room you can imagine, and there I have made a soft bed to rest in at night.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000026_000001.wav|And again he said, 'Good gracious! the ears are too short entirely!' So he had to get a needle and thread and sew on more fur to the ears, so that they might be the right size.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000026_000002.wav|But after a time it was all finished, and then he stuffed the fur full of sawdust and sewed it up neatly; after which he put in some glass eyes that made the toy rabbit look wonderfully life like.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000004_000000.wav|She came to know every flower that grew, and to call them by name, and she always stepped very carefully to avoid treading on them, for Dorothy was a kind hearted child and did not like to crush the pretty flowers that bloomed in her path.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000010_000000.wav|"Is that the reason your eyes are so big?" asked Dorothy.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000041_000002.wav|The babies must have liked them, too, for every year since I have seen them amongst the toys.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000030_000002.wav|Old Santa laughed merrily at this, and I soon recovered from my fright and was pleased to think the babies were to have such pretty playthings.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000030_000000.wav|"So he took a box of squeaks from a shelf and put one into the rabbit before he sewed it up.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000007.wav|And in other places are great shelves, where the toys are put to dry and keep new and bright until Christmas comes and it is time to load them all into his sleigh.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000042_000000.wav|"Santa never forgets me, and every time he passes he calls out, in his jolly voice,|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000031_000000.wav|"'After this,' said Santa Claus, 'I can make rabbits without having you for a pattern; but if you like you may stay a few days longer in my castle and amuse yourself."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000022_000000.wav|"'That is true,' replied Santa Claus; 'and yet you are so soft and pretty it is a pity the babies can't have you.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000021_000000.wav|"'I do n't doubt it, your honor,' I answered; 'but they 'd soon kill me with handling, even if they did not scare me to death; for babies are very rough with their playthings.'|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000008_000000.wav|"Oh, Little Bun Rabbit, so soft and so shy, Say, what do you see with your big, round eye?"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000013_000000.wav|"I live in the ground, far down in a cool, pleasant hole I have dug in the midst of the forest.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000019_000001.wav|He does not come home quite so fast as he goes, and when he saw me he stopped for a word.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000023_000004.wav|Santa Claus lives there all alone, except for old Mother Hubbard, who cooks the meals for him; and her cupboard is never bare now, I can promise you!|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000033_000000.wav|"'I almost wish I was a child,' I said to him one day, 'for then I too could have playthings.'|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121674/100_121674_000006_000001.wav|For he was as much interested in the little girl as she in him, since it was the first time he had dared to meet a person face to face.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000057_000002.wav|You would think him gentle, yet in some things he is inexorable as death; and the worst of it is, my conscience will hardly permit me to dissuade him from his severe decision: certainly, I cannot for a moment blame him for it.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000011_000000.wav|Diana and Mary's general answer to this question was a sigh, and some minutes of apparently mournful meditation.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000028_000000.wav|"And since I am myself poor and obscure, I can offer you but a service of poverty and obscurity.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000050_000003.wav|I know I am: but how did you find it out?"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000000.wav|"Jane, you will wonder at us and our mysteries," she said, "and think us hard hearted beings not to be more moved at the death of so near a relation as an uncle; but we have never seen him or known him.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000042_000000.wav|"I will go to my house to morrow, and open the school, if you like, next week."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000009.wav|Thus occupied, and mutually entertained, days passed like hours, and weeks like days.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000005.wav|Our natures dovetailed: mutual affection-of the strongest kind-was the result.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000000.wav|If in our trio there was a superior and a leader, it was Diana. Physically, she far excelled me: she was handsome; she was vigorous.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000005_000007.wav|These details were just to me what they were to them-so many pure and sweet sources of pleasure.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000021_000000.wav|"Yes; and when they go, I shall return to the parsonage at Morton: Hannah will accompany me; and this old house will be shut up."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000027_000001.wav|He resumed-|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000067_000001.wav|We can yet live," said Diana at last.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000036_000001.wav|"It is a village school: your scholars will be only poor girls-cottagers' children-at the best, farmers' daughters.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000048_000000.wav|"I read it in your eye; it is not of that description which promises the maintenance of an even tenor in life."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000005.wav|I have hired a building for the purpose, with a cottage of two rooms attached to it for the mistress's house.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000026_000003.wav|I am obscure: Rivers is an old name; but of the three sole descendants of the race, two earn the dependant's crust among strangers, and the third considers himself an alien from his native country-not only for life, but in death.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000053_000000.wav|"What?"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000004.wav|Mutual recrimination passed between them: they parted in anger, and were never reconciled.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000008_000001.wav|One reason of the distance yet observed between us was, that he was comparatively seldom at home: a large proportion of his time appeared devoted to visiting the sick and poor among the scattered population of his parish.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000057_000004.wav|Mary bent her head low over her work.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000054_000002.wav|I am sure you cannot long be content to pass your leisure in solitude, and to devote your working hours to a monotonous labour wholly void of stimulus: any more than I can be content," he added, with emphasis, "to live here buried in morass, pent in with mountains-my nature, that God gave me, contravened; my faculties, heaven bestowed, paralysed-made useless.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000064_000000.wav|She riveted a searching gaze on her brother's face.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000044_000001.wav|Standing still, he again looked at me.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000068_000000.wav|"At any rate, it makes us no worse off than we were before," remarked Mary.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000073_000000.wav|This explanation given, the subject was dropped, and no further reference made to it by either mr Rivers or his sisters.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000006.wav|Her salary will be thirty pounds a year: her house is already furnished, very simply, but sufficiently, by the kindness of a lady, Miss Oliver; the only daughter of the sole rich man in my parish-mr|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000054_000004.wav|I, who preached contentment with a humble lot, and justified the vocation even of hewers of wood and drawers of water in God's service-I, His ordained minister, almost rave in my restlessness.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000059_000000.wav|At that moment a little accident supervened, which seemed decreed by fate purposely to prove the truth of the adage, that "misfortunes never come singly," and to add to their distresses the vexing one of the slip between the cup and the lip.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000052_000000.wav|"Well, if you are not ambitious, you are-" He paused.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000008.wav|He had a right, of course, to do as he pleased: and yet a momentary damp is cast on the spirits by the receipt of such news.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000065_000000.wav|"What then, Die?" he replied, maintaining a marble immobility of feature. "What then?|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000009_000001.wav|He would then say, with a peculiar smile, more solemn than cheerful-|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000002.wav|My father and he quarrelled long ago.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000060_000000.wav|"Our uncle john is dead," said he.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000025_000001.wav|I grew impatient: a restless movement or two, and an eager and exacting glance fastened on his face, conveyed the feeling to him as effectually as words could have done, and with less trouble.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000002.wav|I shall leave the place probably in the course of a twelve month; but while I do stay, I will exert myself to the utmost for its improvement.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000073_000001.wav|The next day I left Marsh End for Morton.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000065_000002.wav|Read."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000066_000002.wav|Mary perused it in silence, and returned it to her brother.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000005_000001.wav|They loved their sequestered home.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000037_000001.wav|They will keep."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000003.wav|Morton, when I came to it two years ago, had no school: the children of the poor were excluded from every hope of progress.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000058_000000.wav|"We are now without father: we shall soon be without home and brother," she murmured.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000001.wav|I shall not stay long at Morton, now that my father is dead, and that I am my own master.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000016_000000.wav|Meantime a month was gone.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000003.wav|It was by his advice that my father risked most of his property in the speculation that ruined him.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000000.wav|"I will; and you shall hear how poor the proposal is,--how trivial-how cramping.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000036_000000.wav|"But you comprehend me?" he said.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000036_000002.wav|Knitting, sewing, reading, writing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000006.wav|He was never married, and had no near kindred but ourselves and one other person, not more closely related than we.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000004.wav|I established one for boys: I mean now to open a second school for girls.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000057_000003.wav|It is right, noble, Christian: yet it breaks my heart!" And the tears gushed to her fine eyes.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000044_000002.wav|He shook his head.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000014_000002.wav|I wish I could describe that sermon: but it is past my power.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000010_000000.wav|"And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose to myself?"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000005_000005.wav|I saw the fascination of the locality.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000004_000002.wav|I could join with Diana and Mary in all their occupations; converse with them as much as they wished, and aid them when and where they would allow me.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000026_000001.wav|Before I explain, recall, if you please, my notice, clearly given, that if I helped you, it must be as the blind man would help the lame.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000065_000001.wav|Why-nothing.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000054_000001.wav|I mean, that human affections and sympathies have a most powerful hold on you.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000005_000004.wav|I could comprehend the feeling, and share both its strength and truth.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000006_000003.wav|Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000023_000001.wav|I hope this delay will not have increased the difficulty of securing it."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000004_000003.wav|There was a reviving pleasure in this intercourse, of a kind now tasted by me for the first time-the pleasure arising from perfect congeniality of tastes, sentiments, and principles.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000022_000000.wav|I waited a few moments, expecting he would go on with the subject first broached: but he seemed to have entered another train of reflection: his look denoted abstraction from me and my business.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000020_000000.wav|"And they will go in three days now?" I said.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000054_000003.wav|You hear now how I contradict myself.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000028_000003.wav|His, under such circumstances, is the destiny of the pioneer; and the first pioneers of the Gospel were the Apostles-their captain was Jesus, the Redeemer, Himself."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000054_000000.wav|"I was going to say, impassioned: but perhaps you would have misunderstood the word, and been displeased.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000050_000000.wav|He started at the word "ambitious." He repeated, "no|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000061_000000.wav|Both the sisters seemed struck: not shocked or appalled; the tidings appeared in their eyes rather momentous than afflicting.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000066_000003.wav|All three looked at each other, and all three smiled-a dreary, pensive smile enough.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000006_000000.wav|Indoors we agreed equally well.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000043_000000.wav|"Very well: so be it."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000034_000000.wav|He put the question rather hurriedly; he seemed half to expect an indignant, or at least a disdainful rejection of the offer: not knowing all my thoughts and feelings, though guessing some, he could not tell in what light the lot would appear to me.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000037_000000.wav|"Save them till they are wanted.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000003.wav|Diana offered to teach me German.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000041_000000.wav|"And when will you commence the exercise of your function?"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000049_000000.wav|"I am not ambitious."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000051_000000.wav|"I was speaking of myself."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000038_000000.wav|"You know what you undertake, then?"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000047_000001.wav|What is your reason for saying so?"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000062_000000.wav|"Dead?" repeated Diana.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000063_000000.wav|"Yes."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000012_000000.wav|But besides his frequent absences, there was another barrier to friendship with him: he seemed of a reserved, an abstracted, and even of a brooding nature.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000031_000000.wav|"I believe you will accept the post I offer you," said he, "and hold it for a while: not permanently, though: any more than I could permanently keep the narrow and narrowing-the tranquil, hidden office of English country incumbent; for in your nature is an alloy as detrimental to repose as that in mine, though of a different kind."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000054_000005.wav|Well, propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000023_000000.wav|"What is the employment you had in view, mr Rivers?|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000045_000000.wav|"What do you disapprove of, mr Rivers?" I asked.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000009_000000.wav|No weather seemed to hinder him in these pastoral excursions: rain or fair, he would, when his hours of morning study were over, take his hat, and, followed by his father's old pointer, Carlo, go out on his mission of love or duty-I scarcely know in which light he regarded it. Sometimes, when the day was very unfavourable, his sisters would expostulate.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000014_000001.wav|I first got an idea of its calibre when I heard him preach in his own church at Morton.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000004_000000.wav|The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000050_000001.wav|What made you think of ambition?|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000066_000000.wav|He threw the letter into her lap.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000039_000000.wav|"I do."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000006.wav|They discovered I could draw: their pencils and colour boxes were immediately at my service.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000005.wav|My uncle engaged afterwards in more prosperous undertakings: it appears he realised a fortune of twenty thousand pounds.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000025_000000.wav|He again paused: there seemed a reluctance to continue.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000030_000000.wav|He looked at me before he proceeded: indeed, he seemed leisurely to read my face, as if its features and lines were characters on a page.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000047_000000.wav|"Why?|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000007.wav|My skill, greater in this one point than theirs, surprised and charmed them.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000057_000000.wav|"He will sacrifice all to his long framed resolves," she said: "natural affection and feelings more potent still.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000028_000002.wav|I hold that the more arid and unreclaimed the soil where the Christian labourer's task of tillage is appointed him-the scantier the meed his toil brings-the higher the honour.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000007.wav|Oliver, the proprietor of a needle factory and iron foundry in the valley.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000008.wav|Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together: then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000071_000000.wav|For some minutes no one spoke.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000005_000000.wav|I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000029_000000.wav|"Well?" I said, as he again paused-"proceed."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000006_000001.wav|They were both more accomplished and better read than I was; but with eagerness I followed in the path of knowledge they had trodden before me.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000014_000000.wav|Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000026_000002.wav|I am poor; for I find that, when I have paid my father's debts, all the patrimony remaining to me will be this crumbling grange, the row of scathed firs behind, and the patch of moorish soil, with the yew trees and holly bushes in front.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000018_000000.wav|"Yes; I wish to know whether you have heard of any service I can offer myself to undertake?"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000004.wav|I liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and suited her; that of scholar pleased and suited me no less.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000024_000000.wav|"Oh, no; since it is an employment which depends only on me to give, and you to accept."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000071_000001.wav|Diana then turned to me.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000014_000003.wav|I cannot even render faithfully the effect it produced on me.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000036_000003.wav|What will you do with your accomplishments? What, with the largest portion of your mind-sentiments-tastes?"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000007_000001.wav|In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000064_000001.wav|"And what then?" she demanded, in a low voice.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000055_000001.wav|In this brief hour I had learnt more of him than in the whole previous month: yet still he puzzled me.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000019_000000.wav|"I found or devised something for you three weeks ago; but as you seemed both useful and happy here-as my sisters had evidently become attached to you, and your society gave them unusual pleasure-I deemed it inexpedient to break in on your mutual comfort till their approaching departure from Marsh End should render yours necessary."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000033_000008.wav|The same lady pays for the education and clothing of an orphan from the workhouse, on condition that she shall aid the mistress in such menial offices connected with her own house and the school as her occupation of teaching will prevent her having time to discharge in person.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000035_000000.wav|"I thank you for the proposal, mr Rivers, and I accept it with all my heart."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000046_000000.wav|"You will not stay at Morton long: no, no!"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000022_000001.wav|I was obliged to recall him to a theme which was of necessity one of close and anxious interest to me.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000073_000002.wav|The day after, Diana and Mary quitted it for distant B .|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000066_000001.wav|She glanced over it, and handed it to Mary.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000072_000001.wav|He was my mother's brother.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000006_000002.wav|I devoured the books they lent me: then it was full satisfaction to discuss with them in the evening what I had perused during the day.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000004_000001.wav|In a few days I had so far recovered my health that I could sit up all day, and walk out sometimes.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000059_000002.wav|He entered.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/122655/100_122655_000055_000000.wav|He left the room.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000019_000000.wav|"The farmer gave me nothing but a scolding; but there was a very nice pig running around the yard."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000027_000000.wav|It was not long before the piper had the pig killed and cut into pieces and boiling in the pot.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000042_000000.wav|"Ow, ow!" cried the boy, and started to run down the street.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000033_000000.wav|Up and down the street he went, and in and out the lanes, but no traces of the pig could he find anywhere.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000015_000000.wav|When he came to Farmer Bowser's house, Tom started up the pipes and began to play with all his might.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000034_000000.wav|Finally the farmer came to the end of the street where the piper lived in his little hut, and there he saw Tom sitting on a bench and blowing on a whistle made from a pig's tail.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000040_000000.wav|"The pig is eat, your honor," he answered.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000044_000000.wav|It was dark before he came back to his home, and his father was still asleep; so Tom crept into the hut and went to bed.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000005_000001.wav|You may not suppose that Tom was a very good boy, since he had such a queer father; but neither was he very bad, and the worst fault he had was in obeying his father's wishes when Barney wanted him to steal a chicken for their supper or a pot of potatoes for their breakfast.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000004_000000.wav|There was not a worse vagabond in Shrewsbury than old Barney the piper.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000014_000000.wav|And he played this one tune as badly as his father himself played, so that the people were annoyed when they heard him, and often begged him to stop.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000017_000000.wav|"Over the hills, not a great ways off, The woodchuck died with the whooping cough!"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000020_000000.wav|"How big was it?" asked Barney.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000013_000000.wav|Tom, Tom, the piper's son, Learned to play when he was young; But the only tune that he could play Was "Over the hills and far away."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000010_000000.wav|"No," answered Tom, shaking his head; "no one will give me a penny for playing; but Farmer Bowser might give me a penny to stop playing, if I went to his house.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000035_000000.wav|"Where did you get that tail?" asked the farmer.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000041_000000.wav|The farmer said never a word, but his face grew black with anger, and, unbuckling the strap that was about his waist, he waved it around his head, and whack! came the strap over Tom's back.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000018_000000.wav|The farmer had stopped sawing to rest, just then; and when he heard the singing he rushed out of the shed, and chased Tom away with a big stick of wood.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000007_000000.wav|Tom, Tom, the piper's son, Was hungry when the day begun; He wanted a bun and asked for one, But soon found out that there were none.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000031_000000.wav|"Piggy, piggy, piggy!" he called, but no piggy came, and then he knew his pig had been stolen.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000027_000001.wav|Only the tail was left out, for Tom wanted to make a whistle of it, and as there was plenty to eat besides the tail his father let him have it.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000030_000000.wav|Now Farmer Bowser, when he had finished sawing the wood, found it was time to feed the pig, so he took a pail of meal and went to the pigsty.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000044_000001.wav|But he had received a good lesson and never after that could the old piper induce him to steal.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000001_000000.wav|Tom, the Piper's Son|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000005_000000.wav|Barney had one son, named Tom; and they lived all alone in a little hut away at the end of the village street, for Tom's mother had died when he was a baby.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000030_000001.wav|But when he came to the sty there was no pig to be seen, and he searched all round the place for a good hour without finding it.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000003_000000.wav|Tom, Tom, the piper's son, Stole a pig and away he run; The pig was eat and Tom was beat And Tom ran crying down the street.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000026_000001.wav|We shall have a dinner fit for a king."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000010_000001.wav|He did last week, you know."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000006_000000.wav|One morning|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000026_000000.wav|"You are a good son, and the pig is very nice and fat.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000015_000001.wav|The farmer was in his woodshed, sawing wood, so he did not hear the pipes; and the farmer's wife was deaf, and could not hear them.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000004_000002.wav|It was whispered around that old Barney was not very honest, but he was so sly and cautious that no one had ever caught him in the act of stealing, although a good many things had been missed after they had fallen into the old man's way.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000045_000000.wav|When Tom showed by his actions his intention of being honest he soon got a job of work to do, and before long he was able to earn a living more easily, and a great deal more honestly, than when he stole the pig to get a dinner and suffered a severe beating as a punishment.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000033_000001.wav|And that was no great wonder, for the pig was eaten by that time and its bones picked clean.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000015_000002.wav|But a little pig that had strayed around in front of the house heard the noise, and ran away in great fear to the pigsty.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000025_000000.wav|The piper was very glad to see the pig, and said to Tom,|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000037_000000.wav|"Let me see it," demanded the farmer; and when he had looked at it carefully he cried out,|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000009_000000.wav|"Go hungry," replied Barney, "unless you want to take my pipes and play in the village.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000039_000000.wav|Then Tom fell in a tremble, for he knew his wickedness was discovered.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000012_000000.wav|So Tom took his father's pipes and walked over the hill to Farmer Bowser's house; for you must know that|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000005_000002.wav|Tom did not like to steal, but he had no one to teach him to be honest, and so, under his father's guidance, he fell into bad ways.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000009_000001.wav|Perhaps they will give you a penny."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000023_000000.wav|Tom knew very well what he meant by that, so he laid down the pipes, and went back to the farmer's house.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000021_000000.wav|"Oh, just about big enough to make a nice dinner for you and me."|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000036_000000.wav|"I found it," said naughty Tom, beginning to be frightened.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000038_000000.wav|"This tail belonged to my little pig, for I know very well the curl at the end of it!|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000018_000001.wav|The boy went back to his father, and said, sorrowfully, for he was more hungry than before,|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000032_000000.wav|So he put on his coat and buckled a strap around his waist, and went down to the village to see if he could find out who had stolen his pig.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000016_000000.wav|Then, as Tom saw the playing did no good, he thought he would sing also, and therefore he began bawling, at the top of his voice,|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000031_000001.wav|He was very angry, indeed, for the pig was a great pet, and he had wanted to keep it till it grew very big.|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000038_000001.wav|Tell me, you rascal, where is the pig?"|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/100/121669/100_121669_000008_000000.wav|"What shall we do?" he asked his father|100
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000017_000001.wav|I will well, said Sir Launcelot, for I have neither helm, nor horse, nor sword.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000001_000002.wav|And then they took the way under the castle, and there they lost the way that Sir Galahad rode, and there everych of them departed from other; and Sir Gawaine rode till he came to an hermitage, and there he found the good man saying his evensong of Our Lady; and there Sir Gawaine asked harbour for charity, and the good man granted it him gladly.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000009_000002.wav|Certes, said he, I thank God right well, through the holy vessel I am healed.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000002.wav|Truly, said Sir Launcelot, that were me full loath to discover.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000012_000001.wav|And then Launcelot kneeled down and cried on Our Lord mercy for his wicked works.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000000.wav|THEN anon Sir Launcelot waked, and set him up, and bethought him what he had seen there, and whether it were dreams or not.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000009.wav|And then Sir Launcelot promised him he nold, by the faith of his body.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000002_000000.wav|Then the good man asked him what he was.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000001.wav|Right so heard he a voice that said: Sir Launcelot, more harder than is the stone, and more bitter than is the wood, and more naked and barer than is the leaf of the fig tree; therefore go thou from hence, and withdraw thee from this holy place.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000003.wav|For then he deemed never to have had worship more.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000000_000005.wav|Right as they thus stood talking there came in riding Sir Gareth.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000016_000006.wav|Certes, said Sir Launcelot, all that you have said is true, and from henceforward I cast me, by the grace of God, never to be so wicked as I have been, but as to follow knighthood and to do feats of arms.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000010_000000.wav|CHAPTER nineteen.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000015_000000.wav|Holy father, said Sir Launcelot, I marvel of the voice that said to me marvellous words, as ye have heard to forehand.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000006_000006.wav|Then he returned and came to his horse and did off his saddle and bridle, and let him pasture, and unlaced his helm, and ungirt his sword, and laid him down to sleep upon his shield to fore the cross.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000000_000006.wav|And then they made joy either of other.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000016_000004.wav|Then Our Lord cursed the tree that bare no fruit; that betokeneth the fig tree unto Jerusalem, that had leaves and no fruit.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000002_000005.wav|For certes had ye not been so wicked as ye are, never had the seven brethren been slain by you and your two fellows.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000009.wav|So thus he sorrowed till it was day, and heard the fowls sing: then somewhat he was comforted.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000009_000006.wav|And when he was clean armed he took Sir Launcelot's horse, for he was better than his; and so departed they from the cross.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000013_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000016_000003.wav|And then He went without the town, and found in midst of the way a fig tree, the which was right fair and well garnished of leaves, but fruit had it none.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000008.wav|And then they turned again with heavy cheer.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000006_000004.wav|And within he found a fair altar, full richly arrayed with cloth of clean silk, and there stood a fair clean candlestick, which bare six great candles, and the candlestick was of silver.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000003.wav|For this fourteen year I never discovered one thing that I have used, and that may I now wite my shame and my disadventure.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000007.wav|For when I sought worldly adventures for worldly desires, I ever enchieved them and had the better in every place, and never was I discomfit in no quarrel, were it right or wrong.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000008_000001.wav|And when he was nigh the cross he there abode still.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000012_000003.wav|With a good will, said the good man.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000005.wav|Ah certes, said she, all aloud that Launcelot and Percivale might hear it: An yonder two knights had known thee as well as I do they would not have encountered with thee.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000002.wav|And when Sir Launcelot heard this he was passing heavy and wist not what to do, and so departed sore weeping, and cursed the time that he was born.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000001.wav|Right so Sir Launcelot, his father, dressed his spear and brake it upon Sir Galahad, and Galahad smote him so again that he smote down horse and man.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000010.wav|But when Sir Launcelot missed his horse and his harness then he wist well God was displeased with him.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000007_000000.wav|CHAPTER eighteen.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000002_000006.wav|For Sir Galahad himself alone beat them all seven the day to fore, but his living is such he shall slay no man lightly. Also I may say you the Castle of Maidens betokeneth the good souls that were in prison afore the Incarnation of Jesu Christ.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000004.wav|And when she saw Sir Galahad ride, she said: God be with thee, best knight of the world.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000008_000005.wav|With that Sir Launcelot saw the candlestick with the six tapers come before the cross, and he saw nobody that brought it.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000001.wav|Sir, said the good man, hide none old sin from me.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000009.wav|Let us spere some tidings, said Percivale, at yonder recluse.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000006_000001.wav|But Sir Launcelot rode overthwart and endlong in a wild forest, and held no path but as wild adventure led him.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000000_000010.wav|And either promised other of the three knights not to depart while they were in that quest, but if fortune caused it.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000017_000002.wav|As for that, said the good man, I shall help you or to morn at even of an horse, and all that longed unto you.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000006_000005.wav|And when Sir Launcelot saw this light he had great will for to enter into the chapel, but he could find no place where he might enter; then was he passing heavy and dismayed.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000016_000002.wav|It befell that Our Lord on Palm Sunday preached in Jerusalem, and there He found in the people that all hardness was harboured in them, and there He found in all the town not one that would harbour him.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000011_000006.wav|And then he called himself a very wretch, and most unhappy of all knights; and there he said: My sin and my wickedness have brought me unto great dishonour.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000003_000004.wav|And by adventure he met with Sir Aglovale and Sir Griflet, two knights of the Table Round.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000012_000000.wav|Then he departed from the cross on foot into a forest; and so by prime he came to an high hill, and found an hermitage and a hermit therein which was going unto mass.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000004.wav|And then he told there that good man all his life.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000009_000001.wav|Then the sick knight dressed him up and kissed the cross; anon his squire brought him his arms, and asked his lord how he did.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000003.wav|This jousts was done to fore the hermitage where a recluse dwelled.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000016_000001.wav|Now shall I shew thee why thou art more naked and barer than the fig tree.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000000_000004.wav|Sir, said he, for ye be wicked and sinful, and he is full blessed.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000006_000000.wav|When Sir Percivale came to the recluse she knew him well enough, and Sir Launcelot both.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000007.wav|Then perceived they both that he was Galahad; and up they gat on their horses, and rode fast after him, but in a while he was out of their sight.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000005_000000.wav|So when Sir Galahad was departed from the Castle of Maidens he rode till he came to a waste forest, and there he met with Sir Launcelot and Sir Percivale, but they knew him not, for he was new disguised.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000014_000007.wav|Then Sir Launcelot said: I pray you counsel me.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4691/3228_4691_000003_000005.wav|And they two rode four days without finding of any adventure, and at the fifth day they departed. And everych held as fell them by adventure.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000002_000004.wav|With that Sir Galahad heard in the leaves cry on high: Knight, keep thee from me.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000003.wav|What will ye that I shall do? said Galahad. Sir, said the gentlewoman, that ye send after all the knights hither that hold their lands of this castle, and make them to swear for to use the customs that were used heretofore of old time.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000002_000002.wav|And when Sir Melias heard him speak: Sir, he said, for God's love let me not die in this forest, but bear me unto the abbey here beside, that I may be confessed and have my rights.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000012_000007.wav|And therefore is it called the Maidens' Castle, for they have devoured many maidens.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000003.wav|And the other way betokeneth the way of sinners and of misbelievers.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000003_000002.wav|And then he fled, and Sir Galahad pursued fast after him.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000012_000006.wav|Well, said the seven knights, sithen ye say so, there shall never lady nor knight pass this castle but they shall abide maugre their heads, or die therefore, till that knight be come by whom we shall lose this castle.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000001_000006.wav|Then Sir Melias blessed him and said: Fair lord of heaven, help and save thy new made knight.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000012_000003.wav|And then by great force they held all the knights of this castle against their will under their obeissance, and in great service and truage, robbing and pilling the poor common people of all that they had.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000008_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000002_000006.wav|Sir Galahad answered: Sir knight, come on your peril.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000009_000005.wav|Then looked Sir Galahad on his arms that nothing failed him, and then he put his shield afore him; and anon there met him seven fair maidens, the which said unto him: Sir knight, ye ride here in a great folly, for ye have the water to pass over.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000010_000005.wav|Then Galahad put forth his spear and smote the foremost to the earth, that near he brake his neck.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000012_000002.wav|And then they took the maiden and the treasure of the castle.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000002_000001.wav|And then he said: Ah Melias, who hath wounded you? therefore it had been better to have ridden the other way.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000005_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000010_000006.wav|And therewithal the other smote him on his shield great strokes, so that their spears brake.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000010_000002.wav|And when they saw Galahad they cried: Knight, keep thee, for we assure thee nothing but death.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000002.wav|For the way on the right hand betokeneth the highway of our Lord Jesu Christ, and the way of a good true good liver.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000012_000008.wav|Now, said Galahad, is she here for whom this castle was lost? Nay sir, said the priest, she was dead within these three nights after that she was thus enforced; and sithen have they kept her younger sister, which endureth great pains with mo other ladies.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000010_000007.wav|Then Sir Galahad drew out his sword, and set upon them so hard that it was marvel to see it, and so through great force he made them to forsake the field; and Galahad chased them till they entered into the castle, and so passed through the castle at another gate.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000013_000002.wav|I suppose well, said Sir Galahad, and took his armour and his horse, and commended them unto God.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000004_000004.wav|Then he said he was turned unto helping, God be thanked.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000003_000000.wav|With that came out another knight out of the leaves, and brake a spear upon Galahad or ever he might turn him.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000001_000003.wav|Also there were cloths covered upon the earth, and many delicious meats set thereon.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000003_000006.wav|And therewith he drew out the truncheon of the spear out of his body: and then he swooned.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000010_000003.wav|Why, said Galahad, will ye all have ado with me at once?|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000003_000005.wav|And when he had received Him he said unto Sir Galahad: Sir, let death come when it pleaseth him.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000009_000006.wav|Why should I not pass the water? said Galahad.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000006.wav|When Sir Galahad had blown the horn he set him down upon a bed.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000007_000001.wav|Sir Melias said: My lord Galahad, as soon as I may ride I shall seek you. God send you health, said Galahad, and so took his horse and departed, and rode many journeys forward and backward, as adventure would lead him.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000009_000008.wav|Fair sir, said Galahad, I come for to destroy the wicked custom of this castle.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000004_000002.wav|Then was Sir Galahad glad, and unarmed him, and said he would abide there three days.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000001_000001.wav|And then he came into a fair meadow, and there was a fair lodge of boughs.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000002.wav|Then came to him a gentlewoman and said: These knights be fled, but they will come again this night, and here to begin again their evil custom.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000009_000003.wav|Therefore, I counsel you, sir knight, to turn again.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000006.wav|And where thou tookest the crown of gold thou sinnest in covetise and in theft: all this were no knightly deeds.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000003_000001.wav|Then Galahad drew out his sword and smote off the left arm of him, so that it fell to the earth.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000007_000002.wav|And at the last it happened him to depart from a place or a castle the which was named Abblasoure; and he had heard no mass, the which he was wont ever to hear or ever he departed out of any castle or place, and kept that for a custom.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000004_000001.wav|And anon he ransacked him; and then he said unto Sir Galahad: I shall heal him of his wound, by the grace of God, within the term of seven weeks.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000005.wav|And pride is head of all deadly sins, that caused this knight to depart from Galahad.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000010_000000.wav|Then the squire entered into the castle.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000003_000003.wav|And then he turned again unto Sir Melias, and there he alighted and dressed him softly on his horse to fore him, for the truncheon of his spear was in his body; and Sir Galahad stert up behind him, and held him in his arms, and so brought him to the abbey, and there unarmed him and brought him to his chamber.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000004.wav|And when the devil saw your pride and presumption, for to take you in the quest of the Sangreal, that made you to be overthrown, for it may not be enchieved but by virtuous living. Also, the writing on the cross was a signification of heavenly deeds, and of knightly deeds in God's works, and no knightly deeds in worldly works.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000002_000007.wav|Then either dressed to other, and came together as fast as their horses might run, and Galahad smote him so that his spear went through his shoulder, and smote him down off his horse, and in the falling Galahad's spear brake.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000001_000004.wav|Sir Melias beheld this adventure, and thought it marvellous, but he had no hunger, but of the crown of gold he took much keep; and therewith he stooped down and took it up, and rode his way with it.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000013_000000.wav|By this were the knights of the country come, and then he made them do homage and fealty to the king's daughter, and set them in great ease of heart.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000009_000004.wav|Sir, said Galahad, wit you well I shall not turn again.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000001.wav|Sir, said a good man, for his sin he was thus wounded; and I marvel, said the good man, how ye durst take upon you so rich a thing as the high order of knighthood without clean confession, and that was the cause ye were bitterly wounded.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000001_000008.wav|And then he took the crown and went his way; and Sir Melias lay still and had no power to stir.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000006_000007.wav|And this Galahad, the holy knight, the which fought with the two knights, the two knights signify the two deadly sins which were wholly in this knight Melias; and they might not withstand you, for ye are without deadly sin.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000009_000007.wav|So rode he away from them and met with a squire that said: Knight, those knights in the castle defy you, and defenden you ye go no further till that they wit what ye would.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000001.wav|Then Sir Galahad opened the gates, and saw so much people in the streets that he might not number them, and all said: Sir, ye be welcome, for long have we abiden here our deliverance.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000004.wav|I will well, said Galahad.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000001_000007.wav|And then they let their horses run as fast as they might, so that the other knight smote Sir Melias through hauberk and through the left side, that he fell to the earth nigh dead.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000002_000000.wav|In the meanwhile by fortune there came Sir Galahad and found him there in peril of death.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4690/3228_4690_000011_000005.wav|And there she brought him an horn of ivory, bounden with gold richly, and said: Sir, blow this horn which will be heard two mile about this castle.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000016_000001.wav|By my head, said Tristram, as for one battle thou shalt not seek it no longer.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000008_000003.wav|And ever as Sir Ector and Sir Percivale told these tales of Sir Launcelot, Queen Guenever wept as she should have died. Then the queen made great cheer.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000021_000008.wav|And here within this mile is the Suffragan of Carlisle that shall give you the sacrament of baptism.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000003.wav|And so those knights had good cheer of the King Brandegore.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000002.wav|And when Sir Bors saw that child it liked him passing well.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000011_000005.wav|See how Sir Tristram hunteth, and hawketh, and cowereth within a castle with his lady, and forsaketh your worship.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000022_000006.wav|And so therewithal departed and dissevered all the knights of the Round Table.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000005_000001.wav|It befell upon a day Sir Ector and Sir Percivale came to Sir Launcelot and asked him what he would do, and whether he would go with them unto King Arthur or not.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000012_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000009_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000005_000000.wav|Now will we turn to our matter of Sir Launcelot.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000022_000003.wav|And then soon after they departed, riding toward Camelot, where King Arthur and Queen Guenever was, and for the most part all the knights of the Round Table.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000011_000007.wav|Also what shall queens and ladies say of me? It is pity that I have my life, that I will hold so noble a knight as ye are from his worship.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000007.wav|So when Sir Bors should depart there was made great sorrow for the departing of Helin le Blank, and great weeping was there made.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000011_000004.wav|What shall be said among all knights?|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000014_000003.wav|Ye say well, said Sir Palomides; now, I require you, tell me a question that I shall say to you.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000014_000002.wav|That is truth, said Sir Tristram, I understand thy valiantness well.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000014_000009.wav|As for that I may choose, said Sir Tristram, either to ride or to abide.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000005.wav|Sir, said the king, ye may well take him with you, but he is over tender of age.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000001_000004.wav|Alas, said Sir Percivale, what have I done?|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000021_000002.wav|And for this cause, said Palomides: mine offence to you is not so great but that we may be friends.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000011_000000.wav|Thereof am I glad, said Sir Tristram, and now shall ye and I make us ready, for both ye and I will be at the feast.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000019_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000008_000004.wav|O Jesu, said King Arthur, I marvel for what cause ye, Sir Launcelot, went out of your mind.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000006.wav|As for that, said Sir Bors, I will have him with me, and bring him to the house of most worship of the world.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000008_000000.wav|THEN they departed, and within five days' journey they came to Camelot, that is called in English, Winchester.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000005_000002.wav|Nay, said Sir Launcelot, that may not be by no mean, for I was so entreated at the court that I cast me never to come there more.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000016_000004.wav|As ye will, said Palomides, so it shall be.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000008_000007.wav|And therewithal the king spake no more. But all Sir Launcelot's kin knew for whom he went out of his mind.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000008_000001.wav|And when Sir Launcelot was come among them, the king and all the knights made great joy of him.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000018_000001.wav|And when he was unarmed he stood upon his feet, for he was bruised in the back with a spear; yet so as Sir Galleron might, he armed Sir Tristram.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000001_000005.wav|I was sent by the queen for to seek you, and so I have sought you nigh this two year, and yonder is Sir Ector de Maris, your brother abideth me on the other side of the yonder water.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000010_000003.wav|Alas, said Sir Tristram, that caused some debate betwixt him and Queen Guenever.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000017_000001.wav|Sir knight, said Sir Tristram, I require you tell me your right name.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000021_000000.wav|Then Palomides stood still and beheld his sword with a sorrowful heart. How now, said Sir Tristram unto Palomides, now have I thee at advantage as thou haddest me this day; but it shall never be said in no court, nor among good knights, that Sir Tristram shall slay any knight that is weaponless; and therefore take thou thy sword, and let us make an end of this battle.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000017_000002.wav|Sir, he said, my name is Sir Galleron of Galway, and knight of the Table Round.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000001.wav|And as they thus rode, by adventure they came to the house of Brandegore, and there Sir Bors was well known, for he had gotten a child upon the king's daughter fifteen year to fore, and his name was Helin le Blank.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000021_000006.wav|And then will we all ride together unto the court of Arthur, that we be there at the high feast.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000022_000007.wav|And Sir Tristram returned again unto Joyous Gard, and Sir Palomides followed the Questing Beast.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000005_000003.wav|Sir, said Sir Ector, I am your brother, and ye are the man in the world that I love most; and if I understood that it were your disworship, ye may understand I would never counsel you thereto; but King Arthur and all his knights, and in especial Queen Guenever, made such dole and sorrow that it was marvel to hear and see.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000011_000009.wav|But there shall no man nor child ride with me, but myself.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000013_000001.wav|Then Sir Tristram repented him that he was not armed, and then he hoved still.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000016_000002.wav|For God defend, said Sir Tristram, that through my default thou shouldst longer live thus a Saracen, for yonder is a knight that ye, Sir Palomides, have hurt and smitten down.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000021_000004.wav|And as for her, I dare say she is peerless above all other ladies, and also I proffered her never no dishonour; and by her I have gotten the most part of my worship.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000023_000001.wav|But here is no rehersal of the third book.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000021_000007.wav|Now take your horse, said Sir Tristram, and as ye say so it shall be, and all thine evil will God forgive it you, and I do.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000008_000008.wav|And then there were great feasts made and great joy; and many great lords and ladies, when they heard that Sir Launcelot was come to the court again, they made great joy.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000008.wav|But Sir Bors and Sir Lionel departed, and within a while they came to Camelot, where was King Arthur.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000018_000000.wav|Then Sir Tristram unarmed Galleron, the which was a noble knight, and had done many deeds of arms, and he was a large knight of flesh and bone.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000001_000007.wav|It is soon forgiven, said Sir Launcelot.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000022_000004.wav|And so the king and all the court were glad that Sir Palomides was christened.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000001_000006.wav|Now for God's sake, said Sir Percivale, forgive me mine offences that I have here done.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000017_000004.wav|Sir, said the hurt knight, ye shall have it with a good will; but ye must beware, for I warn you that knight is wight.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000006_000001.wav|And when Sir Launcelot should depart Dame Elaine made great sorrow.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000022_000000.wav|Then they took their horses and Sir Galleron rode with them.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000017_000008.wav|So God me help, said Sir Tristram, either he shall slay me or I him but that he shall be christened or ever we depart in sunder. My lord Sir Tristram, said Sir Galleron, your renown and worship is well known through many realms, and God save you this day from shenship and shame.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000004_000000.wav|NOW leave we Sir Launcelot in the Joyous Isle with the Lady Dame Elaine, and Sir Percivale and Sir Ector playing with them, and turn we to Sir Bors de Ganis and Sir Lionel, that had sought Sir Launcelot nigh by the space of two year, and never could they hear of him.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3228/4687/3228_4687_000006_000002.wav|My lord, Sir Launcelot, said Dame Elaine, at this same feast of Pentecost shall your son and mine, Galahad, be made knight, for he is fully now fifteen winter old.|3228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000017_000000.wav|The weather stained effigy of the mounted king, with its vague suggestion of a saluting gesture, seemed to present an inscrutable breast to the political changes which had robbed it of its very name; but neither did the other horseman, well known to the people, keen and alive on his well shaped, slate coloured beast with a white eye, wear his heart on the sleeve of his English coat.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000018_000004.wav|Don Jose Avellanos, their neighbour across the street, a statesman, a poet, a man of culture, who had represented his country at several European Courts (and had suffered untold indignities as a state prisoner in the time of the tyrant Guzman Bento), used to declare in Dona Emilia's drawing room that Carlos had all the English qualities of character with a truly patriotic heart.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000029_000000.wav|For a moment, biting her carmine lip, she deplored inwardly the tyranny of the rigid principles governing the sale of her influence in high places.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000014.wav|"It will end by killing me," he used to affirm many times a day.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000009.wav|Indeed, the intention of this affair, though no doubt deeply meditated in the closet, lay open on the surface of the document presented urgently for his signature.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000002.wav|Years ago, in the time of Guzman Bento, he had been mixed up, it was whispered, in a conspiracy which was betrayed and, as people expressed it, drowned in blood.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000012_000008.wav|I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick."|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000014.wav|She would never have thought of imposing upon him this marked show of deference.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000022_000003.wav|What?"|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000007.wav|His experience had taught him that, however short the plunder might fall of their legitimate expectations, no gang in possession of the Presidential Palace would be so incompetent as to suffer itself to be baffled by the want of a pretext.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000024_000003.wav|There were knick knacks on little tables, mirrors let into the wall above marble consoles, square spaces of carpet under the two groups of armchairs, each presided over by a deep sofa; smaller rugs scattered all over the floor of red tiles; three windows from the ceiling down to the ground, opening on a balcony, and flanked by the perpendicular folds of the dark hangings.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000018_000000.wav|"My dear, you seem to forget that I was born here." These few words made her pause as if they had been a sudden revelation.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000008.wav|He was versed in the ways of Governments.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000018_000001.wav|Perhaps the mere fact of being born in the country did make a difference.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000011.wav|The doctor, with his habit of sceptical, bitter speech, had no other means of showing his profound respect for the character of the woman who was known in the country as the English Senora.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000017_000003.wav|In the early days of her Costaguana life, the little lady used to clench her hands with exasperation at not being able to take the public affairs of the country as seriously as the incidental atrocity of methods deserved.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000009.wav|"No go," she had said with a cavalier, husky intonation which was natural to her, and using turns of expression more suitable to a child of parents unknown than to the orphaned daughter of a general officer.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000025_000005.wav|An English company obtained the right to work it, and found so rich a vein that neither the exactions of successive governments, nor the periodical raids of recruiting officers upon the population of paid miners they had created, could discourage their perseverance.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000001.wav|What advantage that Government had expected from the spoliation, it is impossible to tell now.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000001.wav|He became at once mine ridden, and as he was well read in light literature it took to his mind the form of the Old Man of the Sea fastened upon his shoulders.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000016_000001.wav|The other Carlos, turning off to the left with a rapid clatter of hoofs on the disjointed pavement-Don Carlos Gould, in his English clothes, looked as incongruous, but much more at home than the kingly cavalier reining in his steed on the pedestal above the sleeping leperos, with his marble arm raised towards the marble rim of a plumed hat.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000021_000001.wav|Only then he would say-|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000017_000005.wav|Charles, very quiet and twisting his long moustaches, would decline to discuss them at all.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000018.wav|He groaned over the injustice, the persecution, the outrage of that mine; he occupied whole pages in the exposition of the fatal consequences attaching to the possession of that mine from every point of view, with every dismal inference, with words of horror at the apparently eternal character of that curse.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000004.wav|It would have been useless.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000009_000001.wav|Clearly he was one of those invaluable subordinates whom to possess is a legitimate cause of boasting.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000006.wav|The father of Charles Gould, for a long time one of the most wealthy merchants of Costaguana, had already lost a considerable part of his fortune in forced loans to the successive Governments.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000003.wav|His hair had turned grey, his hairless, seamed face was of a brick dust colour; the large check pattern of his flannel shirt and his old stained Panama hat were an established defiance to the conventionalities of Sulaco.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000015.wav|And, in fact, since that time he began to suffer from fever, from liver pains, and mostly from a worrying inability to think of anything else.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000008.wav|The friend of mr Gould, charged with the delicate mission, used to say afterwards that she was the only honest person closely or remotely connected with the Government he had ever met.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000019_000000.wav|mrs Gould, raising her eyes to her husband's thin, red and tan face, could not detect the slightest quiver of a feature at what he must have heard said of his patriotism.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000012_000005.wav|But directly, with a little capable air of setting her wits to work, she would have found an explanation.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000020.wav|He implored his son never to return to Costaguana, never to claim any part of his inheritance there, because it was tainted by the infamous Concession; never to touch it, never to approach it, to forget that America existed, and pursue a mercantile career in Europe.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000025_000002.wav|Whole tribes of Indians had perished in the exploitation; and then the mine was abandoned, since with this primitive method it had ceased to make a profitable return, no matter how many corpses were thrown into its maw.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000012_000002.wav|She was highly gifted in the art of human intercourse which consists in delicate shades of self forgetfulness and in the suggestion of universal comprehension.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000022_000002.wav|No?|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000025_000004.wav|It was rediscovered after the War of Independence.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000013.wav|There was for him in that affair a malignancy of perverted justice which, by means of a moral shock, attacked his vigorous physique.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000010_000001.wav|Not that dr Monygham was a prodigal either of laughter or of words.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000017_000001.wav|His mind preserved its steady poise as if sheltered in the passionless stability of private and public decencies at home in Europe.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000010.wav|But to be robbed under the forms of legality and business was intolerable to his imagination.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000000.wav|After such a warning there was nothing for it but to sign and pay. mr Gould had swallowed the pill, and it was as though it had been compounded of some subtle poison that acted directly on his brain.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000009.wav|He was old, ugly, learned-and a little "loco"--mad, if not a bit of a sorcerer, as the common people suspected him of being.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000012_000006.wav|"Of course, it was such a surprise for these boys to find any sort of welcome here.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000027_000000.wav|mr Gould, senior, defended himself from this fatal favour with many arguments and entreaties, but without success.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000012.wav|He presented this tribute very seriously indeed; it was no trifle for a man of his habits.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000019_000002.wav|Basilio, in a livery of white linen and a red sash, had squatted for a moment behind his heels to unstrap the heavy, blunt spurs in the patio; and then the Senor Administrator would go up the staircase into the gallery.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000004.wav|Had it not been for the immaculate cleanliness of his apparel he might have been taken for one of those shiftless Europeans that are a moral eyesore to the respectability of a foreign colony in almost every exotic part of the world.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000003.wav|Marta, in a soft and implacable voice, and with such malicious glances that mr Gould's best friends advised him earnestly to attempt no bribery to get the matter dropped.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000011.wav|mr Gould, the father, had one fault in his sagacious and honourable character: he attached too much importance to form.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000010_000003.wav|At his worst people feared the open scornfulness of his tongue.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000010_000002.wav|He was bitterly taciturn when at his best.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000025_000001.wav|Worked in the early days mostly by means of lashes on the backs of slaves, its yield had been paid for in its own weight of human bones.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000010_000004.wav|Only mrs Gould could keep his unbelief in men's motives within due bounds; but even to her (on an occasion not connected with Nostromo, and in a tone which for him was gentle), even to her, he had said once, "Really, it is most unreasonable to demand that a man should think of other people so much better than he is able to think of himself."|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000012_000000.wav|She kept her old Spanish house (one of the finest specimens in Sulaco) open for the dispensation of the small graces of existence.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000017_000004.wav|She saw in them a comedy of naive pretences, but hardly anything genuine except her own appalled indignation.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000025_000003.wav|Then it became forgotten.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000025_000009.wav|The mine, which by every law, international, human, and divine, reverts now to the Government as national property, shall remain closed till the sword drawn for the sacred defence of liberal principles has accomplished its mission of securing the happiness of our beloved country."|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000010.wav|"No; it's no go.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000000.wav|And mrs Gould had hastened to drop the subject.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000015_000003.wav|His accent had never been English; but there was something so indelible in all these ancestral Goulds-liberators, explorers, coffee planters, merchants, revolutionists-of Costaguana, that he, the only representative of the third generation in a continent possessing its own style of horsemanship, went on looking thoroughly English even on horseback.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000024_000000.wav|Then giving up the empty cup into his young friend's hand, extended with a smile, he continued to expatiate upon the patriotic nature of the San Tome mine for the simple pleasure of talking fluently, it seemed, while his reclining body jerked backwards and forwards in a rocking chair of the sort exported from the United States.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000019_000001.wav|Perhaps he had just dismounted on his return from the mine; he was English enough to disregard the hottest hours of the day.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000018_000003.wav|He had struck her imagination from the first by his unsentimentalism, by that very quietude of mind which she had erected in her thought for a sign of perfect competency in the business of living.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000004.wav|It was an ordinary Costaguana Government-the fourth in six years-but it judged of its opportunities sanely.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000009.wav|mr Gould knew that very well, and, armed with resignation, had waited for better times.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000020_000003.wav|His close cropped head was perfectly white; his eyes coalblack.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000014_000001.wav|His grandfather had fought in the cause of independence under Bolivar, in that famous English legion which on the battlefield of Carabobo had been saluted by the great Liberator as Saviours of his country.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000017_000006.wav|Once, however, he observed to her gently-|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000006.wav|Everybody around him was being robbed by the grotesque and murderous bands that played their game of governments and revolutions after the death of Guzman Bento.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000010.wav|The little white jacket was in reality a concession to mrs Gould's humanizing influence.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000009_000000.wav|At that time Nostromo had been already long enough in the country to raise to the highest pitch Captain Mitchell's opinion of the extraordinary value of his discovery.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000019_000003.wav|Rows of plants in pots, ranged on the balustrade between the pilasters of the arches, screened the corredor with their leaves and flowers from the quadrangle below, whose paved space is the true hearthstone of a South American house, where the quiet hours of domestic life are marked by the shifting of light and shadow on the flagstones.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000022_000001.wav|Always the true English activity.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000012_000004.wav|She would have protested that she had done nothing for them, with a low laugh and a surprised widening of her grey eyes, had anybody told her how convincingly she was remembered on the edge of the snow line above Sulaco.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000005.wav|But man is a desperately conservative creature, and the extravagant novelty of this outrage upon his purse distressed his sensibilities.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000003.wav|But afterwards another Government bethought itself of that valuable asset.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000024_000002.wav|The loftiness dwarfed the mixture of heavy, straight backed Spanish chairs of brown wood with leathern seats, and European furniture, low, and cushioned all over, like squat little monsters gorged to bursting with steel springs and horsehair.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000027_000003.wav|It was no longer an abandoned mine; it was a wild, inaccessible, and rocky gorge of the Sierra, where vestiges of charred timber, some heaps of smashed bricks, and a few shapeless pieces of rusty iron could have been found under the matted mass of thorny creepers covering the ground.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000001.wav|Now, after reaching his exalted position, that politician had proclaimed his intention to repay evil with good to Senor Gould-the poor man.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000013_000000.wav|She was always sorry for homesick people.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000027_000004.wav|mr Gould, senior, did not desire the perpetual possession of that desolate locality; in fact, the mere vision of it arising before his mind in the still watches of the night had the power to exasperate him into hours of hot and agitated insomnia.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000014_000004.wav|Thus, at least, the priests explained its disappearance to the barefooted multitude that streamed in, awestruck, to gaze at the hole in the side of the ugly box of bricks before the great altar.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000004.wav|His position in Costaguana was no worse than before.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000026_000007.wav|He was a man of calm judgment, who never dreamed of pressing his claims; and when, suddenly, the perpetual concession of the San Tome mine was offered to him in full settlement, his alarm became extreme.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000014_000000.wav|Born in the country, as his father before him, spare and tall, with a flaming moustache, a neat chin, clear blue eyes, auburn hair, and a thin, fresh, red face, Charles Gould looked like a new arrival from over the sea.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000020_000002.wav|He did not like tea; and, usually, rocking his American chair, his neat little shiny boots crossed on the foot rest, he would talk on and on with a sort of complacent virtuosity wonderful in a man of his age, while he held the cup in his hands for a long time.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000006.wav|She was good-natured, and her despondency was genuine.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000012.wav|It is a failing common to mankind, whose views are tinged by prejudices.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000020_000001.wav|Don Jose chose to come over at tea time because the English rite at Dona Emilia's house reminded him of the time he lived in London as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of saint James.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000005.wav|The young ladies of Sulaco, adorning with clusters of pretty faces the balconies along the Street of the Constitution, when they saw him pass, with his limping gait and bowed head, a short linen jacket drawn on carelessly over the flannel check shirt, would remark to each other, "Here is the Senor doctor going to call on Dona Emilia.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000021_000000.wav|On seeing Charles Gould step into the sala he would nod provisionally and go on to the end of the oratorial period.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000024_000004.wav|The stateliness of ancient days lingered between the four high, smooth walls, tinted a delicate primrose colour; and mrs Gould, with her little head and shining coils of hair, sitting in a cloud of muslin and lace before a slender mahogany table, resembled a fairy posed lightly before dainty philtres dispensed out of vessels of silver and porcelain.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000028_000013.wav|Ah! zut!|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000016.wav|The Finance Minister could have formed no conception of the profound subtlety of his revenge.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000030_000017.wav|Even mr Gould's letters to his fourteen year old boy Charles, then away in England for his education, came at last to talk of practically nothing but the mine.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4257/6397/4257_6397_000011_000001.wav|There were strange rumours of the English doctor.|4257
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000007_000000.wav|Now the eight ships with their demon crews sailed away over the lake toward Maracaibo.|663
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000018_000001.wav|This was a serious undertaking, but it was all they could do.|663
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000016_000000.wav|After a time the buccaneers got back to their fleet and remained on the coast about three months, waiting for some expected Spanish ships, which they hoped to capture.|663
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000017_000000.wav|Now L'Olonnois proposed to his men that they should sail for Guatemala, but he met with an unexpected obstacle; the buccaneers who had enlisted under him had expected to make great fortunes in this expedition, but their high hopes had not been realized.|663
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000007_000004.wav|The money was paid, the cattle were put on board the ships, and to the unspeakable relief of the citizens, the pirate fleet sailed away from the harbor.|663
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000010_000000.wav|Before the regular allotment of shares was made, the claims of the wounded were fully satisfied according to their established code.|663
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000013_000004.wav|They robbed Indians, they robbed villages; they devastated little towns, taking everything that they cared for, and burning what they did not want, and treating the people they captured with viler cruelties than any in which the buccaneers had yet indulged.|663
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000018_000002.wav|They could not swim away, and their ship was of no use to them as she was.|663
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/663/128990/663_128990_000009_000000.wav|They did not go directly to Tortuga, but stopped at a little island near Hispaniola, which was inhabited by French buccaneers, and this delay was made entirely for the purpose of dividing the booty.|663
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/663/128991/663_128991_000001_000000.wav|Chapter sixteen|663
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/663/128991/663_128991_000018_000002.wav|Thus prepared, this able commander knew just what to do.|663
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000036_000000.wav|She laid the letter carefully on the chimney piece of the kitchen.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000029_000001.wav|I'll have Aunt Zilphy fetch you a piece of 'tater pone, if you'll hol' on a minute."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000031_000001.wav|Mis' Molly was still scanning the superscription of the letter.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000002_000000.wav|When Judge Straight's visitors had departed, he took up the papers which had been laid loosely on the table as they were taken out of Tryon's breast pocket, and commenced their perusal.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000025_000000.wav|"Who's it fur?" she asked.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000001_000000.wav|AN INJUDICIOUS PAYMENT|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000022_000007.wav|He reached the house behind the cedars, went round to the back door, and handed the envelope to Mis' Molly, who was seated on the rear piazza, propped up by pillows in a comfortable rocking chair.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000022_000001.wav|Very few mortals can spare the spring of hope, the motive force of expectation.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000002_000001.wav|There was a note for five hundred dollars, many years overdue, but not yet outlawed by lapse of time; a contract covering the transaction out of which the note had grown; and several letters and copies of letters modifying the terms of the contract.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000018_000000.wav|This note he dried by sprinkling it with sand from a box near at hand, signed with his own name, and, with a fine courtesy, addressed to "mrs Molly Walden." Having first carefully sealed it in an envelope, he stepped to the open door, and spied, playing marbles on the street near by, a group of negro boys, one of whom the judge called by name.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000006_000003.wav|My young client, Green's relation, is her lover-is engaged to marry her-is in town, and is likely to meet her!"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000014_000001.wav|But the old man's attitude toward society was chiefly that of an observer, and the narrow stream of sentiment left in his heart chose to flow toward the weaker party in this unequal conflict,--a young woman fighting for love and opportunity against the ranked forces of society, against immemorial tradition, against pride of family and of race.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000013_000000.wav|The judge sighed as he contemplated another possibility.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000021_000001.wav|When you come back and tell me what she says, I'll give you ten cents.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000031_000003.wav|Oh, boy!"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000015_000001.wav|There is certainly as much reason in my helping the girl as the boy, for being a woman, she is less able to help herself."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000022_000004.wav|When the party turned the corner of Front Street and were safely out of sight of Judge Straight's office, the capitalist entered the grocery store and invested his unearned increment in gingerbread.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000035_000001.wav|Never mind."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000012_000001.wav|"If he made the discovery here, the facts would probably leak out in the town.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000012_000002.wav|It is something that a man might do in secret, but only a hero or a fool would do openly."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000013_000006.wav|Yes, conditions were changed, so far as the girl was concerned; there was a possible future for her under the new order of things; but white people had not changed their opinion of the negroes, except for the worse.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000031_000002.wav|"I wonder," she murmured, "what old Judge Straight can be writin' to me about.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000006_000002.wav|She has come to visit her sick mother.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000022_000006.wav|He had nearly reached his objective point when he met upon the street a young white lady, whom he did not know, and for whom, the path being narrow at that point, he stepped out into the gutter.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000005_000002.wav|While he still held the sheet in his hand, it dawned upon him slowly that he held also one of the links in a chain of possible tragedy which he himself, he became uncomfortably aware, had had a hand in forging.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000008_000001.wav|One curse of negro slavery was, and one part of its baleful heritage is, that it poisoned the fountains of human sympathy.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000005_000001.wav|Age had dimmed his perceptions somewhat, and it was not until he had finished the letter, and read it over again, and noted the signature at the bottom a second time, that he perceived that the writing was in a woman's hand, that the ink was comparatively fresh, and that the letter was dated only a couple of days before.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000019_000001.wav|Do you know where she lives-down on Front Street, in the house behind the cedars?"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000016_000000.wav|He dipped his pen into the ink and wrote the following lines:--|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000009_000003.wav|I wonder," he mused, "if he will find her out?"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000003_000000.wav|MY DEAREST GEORGE,--I am going away for about a week, to visit the bedside of an old friend, who is very ill, and may not live.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000003_000001.wav|Do not be alarmed about me, for I shall very likely be back by the time you are.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000013_000003.wav|Conditions were changed, but human nature was the same.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000013_000007.wav|The general belief was that they were just as inferior as before, and had, moreover, been spoiled by a disgusting assumption of equality, driven into their thick skulls by Yankee malignity bent upon humiliating a proud though vanquished foe.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000015_000000.wav|"It may be the unwisest thing I ever did," he said to himself, turning to his desk and taking up a quill pen, "and may result in more harm than good; but I was always from childhood in sympathy with the under dog.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000022_000002.wav|The boy kept the note in his hand, winked at his companions, who had gathered as near as their awe of the judge would permit, and started down the street.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000030_000000.wav|She called to Aunt Zilphy, who soon came hobbling out of the kitchen with a large square of the delicacy,--a flat cake made of mashed sweet potatoes, mixed with beaten eggs, sweetened and flavored to suit the taste, and baked in a Dutch oven upon the open hearth.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000031_000000.wav|The boy took the gratuity, thanked her, and turned to go.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000009_000002.wav|Ten years later, the ghost of my good deed returns to haunt me, and makes me doubt whether I have wrought more evil than good.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000011_000000.wav|"If he found her out, would he by any possibility marry her?"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000017_000000.wav|MADAM,--If you value your daughter's happiness, keep her at home for the next day or two.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000022_000003.wav|As soon as the judge had disappeared, Billy beckoned to his friends, who speedily overtook him.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000008_000002.wav|Under a system where men might sell their own children without social reprobation or loss of prestige, it was not surprising that some of them should hate their distant cousins.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000012_000000.wav|"It is not likely," he answered himself.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000008_000000.wav|Such people were, for the most part, merely on the ragged edge of the white world, seldom rising above the level of overseers, or slave catchers, or sheriff's officers, who could usually be relied upon to resent the drop of black blood that tainted them, and with the zeal of the proselyte to visit their hatred of it upon the unfortunate blacks that fell into their hands.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000005_000000.wav|The judge was unable to connect this letter with the transaction which formed the subject of his examination.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300208/5985_300208_000021_000002.wav|On second thoughts, I shall be gone to lunch, so here's your money," he added, handing the lad the bit of soiled paper by which the United States government acknowledged its indebtedness to the bearer in the sum of ten cents.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000004.wav|He meant her no harm-but he must see her.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000007_000000.wav|"You may go with me to morrow, Plato," answered the teacher.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000001.wav|On the one hand, Jeff Wain's infatuation had rapidly increased, in view of her speedy departure.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000001.wav|Rena's letter had re inflamed his smouldering passion; only opposition was needed to fan it to a white heat.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000013.wav|He assumed, in conversation with her which she could not avoid, and stated to others, that she had left his house because of a previous promise to divide the time of her stay between Elder Johnson's house and his own. He volunteered to teach a class in the Sunday school which Rena conducted at the colored Methodist church, and when she remained to service, occupied a seat conspicuously near her own.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000021_000002.wav|Plato led the way by the road through the woods to a point where, amid somewhat thick underbrush, another path intersected the road they were following.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000011.wav|Rena believed that, to defend herself from persecution at his hands, it was only necessary that she never let him find her alone. This, however, required constant watchfulness.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000006.wav|He was conscious of a certain relief at the thought that he had not asked Blanche Leary to be his wife.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000003.wav|He felt some dim realization of the tyranny of caste, when he found it not merely pressing upon an inferior people who had no right to expect anything better, but barring his own way to something that he desired.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000020_000000.wav|"Very well, Plato.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000010.wav|If he could have understood how she loathed the sight of his narrow eyes, with their puffy lids, his thick, tobacco stained lips, his doubtful teeth, and his unwieldy person, Wain, a monument of conceit that he was, might have shrunk, even in his own estimation, to something like his real proportions.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000005.wav|In a week her school would be over, and then she would get Elder Johnson, or some one else than Wain, to take her back to Patesville.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000003.wav|In the light of this knowledge, Wain's former conduct took on a blacker significance than, upon reflection, she had charitably clothed it with after the first flush of indignation.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000012_000001.wav|Plato scratched his head disconsolately, but suddenly a bright thought struck him.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000011_000001.wav|I wanted you to go to town to morrow to take an important message for me.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000022_000005.wav|But you mustn't say a word about it, Plato, or you won't get the dollar, and I'll not ask the teacher to let you go home with her again."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000022_000001.wav|This path leads to the main road, and will take you to town very quickly.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000017_000001.wav|Your teacher, I imagine, merely wants some one to see her safely home. Don't you think, if you should go part of the way, that I might take your place for the rest, while you did my errand?"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000022_000004.wav|You shall have a dollar, and I'll ask her to let you go home with her the next day.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000022_000003.wav|As soon as you are gone, I'll come out and tell the teacher that I've sent you away on an errand, and will myself take your place.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000012.wav|Relying upon his own powers, and upon a woman's weakness and aversion to scandal, from which not even the purest may always escape unscathed, and convinced by her former silence that he had nothing serious to fear, Wain made it a point to be present at every public place where she might be.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000004_000001.wav|To it must be added the consciousness that he, too, was pursuing her, to what end she could not tell.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000008.wav|He could not marry the other girl, of course, but they must meet again.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000009.wav|He was evidently bent upon conquest, and vain enough to think he might achieve it by virtue of his personal attractions.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000006.wav|True, she might abandon her school and go at once; but her work would be incomplete, she would have violated her contract, she would lose her salary for the month, explanations would be necessary, and would not be forthcoming.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000004_000004.wav|If he had loved her truly, he would never have forgotten her in three short months,--three long months they had heretofore seemed to her, for in them she had lived a lifetime of experience.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000020_000001.wav|I think we can arrange it so that you can kill the two rabbits at one shot.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000016_000009.wav|The rest he would leave to Fate, which seemed reluctant to disentangle threads which it had woven so closely.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000015_000001.wav|The honor might be postponed or, if necessary, foregone; the opportunity to earn a dollar was the chance of a lifetime and must not be allowed to slip.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000002.wav|From mrs Tryon's remark about Wain's wife Amanda, and from things Rena had since learned, she had every reason to believe that this wife was living, and that Wain must be aware of the fact.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000022_000000.wav|"Now, Plato," said Tryon, pausing here, "this would be a good spot for you to leave the teacher and for me to take your place.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000004_000000.wav|The knowledge of Tryon's presence in the vicinity had been almost as much as Rena could bear.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000019_000008.wav|Fortunate teacher!|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000008.wav|She had as yet no fear of personal violence from Wain; but, under the circumstances, his attentions were an insult.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000019_000009.wav|Happy Plato!|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000003_000007.wav|She might feign sickness,--indeed, it would scarcely be feigning, for she felt far from well; she had never, since her illness, quite recovered her former vigor-but the inconvenience to others would be the same, and her self sacrifice would have had, at its very first trial, a lame and impotent conclusion.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000022_000002.wav|I shouldn't say anything to the teacher about it at all; but when you and she get here, drop behind and run along this path until you meet me,--I'll be waiting a few yards down the road,--and then run to town as fast as your legs will carry you.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/300225/5985_300225_000004_000007.wav|She must not meet him-at any cost she must avoid him.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000020_000000.wav|"Of course she did," said Cope under his breath.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000004_000002.wav|Another set up her easel and painted a picture for us.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000046_000000.wav|"Parnassus, yes.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000030_000000.wav|"I mean," proceeded mrs Phillips, "can you do nothing whatever to entertain?"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000061_000003.wav|The bishop can spare you.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000027_000000.wav|He was lingering in a smiling abstractedness on his fancy, when-|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000013_000002.wav|I leave it to mr Cope, if it isn't!"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000034_000000.wav|"Some of the simpler ones."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000060_000000.wav|Cope, on his way eastward, in the early evening, passed near the trolley tracks, the Greek lunch counter, without a thought; he was continuing his letter to "Dear Arthur":|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000049_000000.wav|"Possibly," Cope said, turning his back on the keyboard.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000052_000005.wav|"You've earned your tea," she added. "Hortense," she said over her shoulder to the dark girl behind the sofa, "will you-?|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000047_000000.wav|Medora spoke up loudly and promptly.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000021_000000.wav|"It's getting almost too dark to see it," said his hostess, and suddenly pressed a button.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000015_000000.wav|"Well, listen, anyway," said Medora.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000044_000001.wav|I'll try not to."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000044_000000.wav|"Meaning, then, that I am not to raise the roof nor jar the china.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000005_000001.wav|The others-either engaged elsewhere or consciously unworthy-went away after a moment or two on the front steps.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000029_000000.wav|He suddenly came to.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000053_000001.wav|There was an interval which Cope might have employed in praising the artistic aptitudes of this variously gifted household, but he found no appropriate word to say,--or at least uttered none.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000058_000000.wav|"It's you who don't care for me," he returned.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000016_000001.wav|Its title was read, formally, by the writer; and, quite as formally, the dedication which intervened between title and first stanza,--a dedication to "Medora Townsend Phillips."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000004_000004.wav|And a few sophomores hung about in the background.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000037_000000.wav|"Will you sing before your tea, or after it?"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000021_000001.wav|This brought into play a row of electric bulbs near the top edge of the frame and into full prominence the dark plumpness of the subject.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000028_000000.wav|"Bertram Cope!" a voice suddenly said, "do you do nothing-nothing?"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000045_000004.wav|Lassen, Grieg, Rubinstein-all these were carried through rather cautiously, perhaps a little mechanically; and there was a silence.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000038_000000.wav|"I'm ready to sing this instant,--during it, or before it."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000057_000001.wav|She tried to look rebuking, reproachful; yet some shade of expression conveyed to him a hint that her protest was by no means sincere: if he really didn't, it was no loss-it was even a possible gain.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000035_000003.wav|Shall we let him?"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000052_000002.wav|But I never saw you before without your mortar board.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000020_000001.wav|He transferred an obligatory glance from the canvas to the expectant artist.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000059_000002.wav|Be sure you come again soon, and put in a little more work on the foreground."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000052_000003.wav|That changes the forehead.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000031_000000.wav|Cope gained another stage on the way to self consciousness and self control. Entertainment was doubtless the basic curse of this household.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000017_000002.wav|He knew what he expected to find.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000020_000002.wav|But-|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000004_000001.wav|They came on as thick as spatter. One played a few things on the violin.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000013_000000.wav|"Oh, you're so sweet, so old-fashioned!" protested mrs Phillips, slightly rolling her eyes.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000036_000000.wav|"That's unfair," Cope protested.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000012_000002.wav|Her eyes were shy, and her hair was plainly dressed.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000012_000001.wav|She was a quiet, sedate girl, with brown eyes and hair.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000057_000000.wav|"No, you don't care for them one bit," she insisted.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000008_000000.wav|And further on mrs Phillips said:|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000023_000000.wav|"Isn't he the dear, comical chap!" exclaimed mrs Phillips, with unction, glancing upward and backward at the girls.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000012_000000.wav|"A copy of verses," corrected Carolyn, with a modest catch in her breath.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000061_000002.wav|The term is young, and you can enter for Spanish, or Psychology, or something. There's nothing for you up there.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000052_000000.wav|"Of course," she said.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000040_000001.wav|Roddy, the possible sophomore, helped a maid find places for the cups and saucers; and the three girls, still formed in a careful group about the sofa, silently waited.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000007_000000.wav|He met Hortense and Carolyn-with due stress laid on their respective patronymics-and he made an early acquaintance with Amy's violin.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000009_000000.wav|"Now, Amy, before you really stop, do play that last little thing.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000005_000002.wav|Perhaps they did not feel "encouraged." And in fact mrs Phillips looked back toward Cope with the effect of communicating the idea that she had enough men for to day.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000035_000002.wav|He is quite prepared to wipe us all out.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000048_000000.wav|"Do you know, I think I've heard you sing before."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000062_000000.wav|And we await a reply from "Dear Arthur"--the fifth and last of our little group.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000005_000003.wav|She even conveyed to him the notion that he had made the others superfluous.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000052_000004.wav|Yes, you're yourself," she went on, adding to her previous pleasure the further pleasure of recognition.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000025_000001.wav|Cope went on with his letter to "Arthur":|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000010_000001.wav|And it gave, of course, a good chance for the arms.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000055_000000.wav|"You don't like my poor girls," she said.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000004_000003.wav|A third wrote a poem and read it to us.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000018_000002.wav|Cope spatted a little too, but kept his eye on one of the walls.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000019_000001.wav|"Hortense did it."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000040_000000.wav|The room was now in dusk, save for the bulbs which made the portrait shine forth like a wayside shrine.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000023_000002.wav|Yet one of them-Hortense-formed her black brows into a frown, and might have spoken resentfully, save for a look from their general patroness.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000046_000001.wav|And finally comes Apollo." She reached over and murmured to mrs Phillips: "None too skillful on the lyre, and none too strong in the lungs...."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000050_000001.wav|'Come, Holy Spirit,' and all that?"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000033_000001.wav|There's the open piano.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000033_000002.wav|Can you play your own accompaniments?"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000061_000000.wav|"I think," he wrote, with his mind's finger, "that you might as well come down.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000042_000000.wav|"Meaning....?"|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000055_000001.wav|"You don't find them clever; you don't find them interesting."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000003_000000.wav|mrs Phillips stepped to the front door to meet the half dozen young people who were cheerily coming up the walk.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000059_000001.wav|"If you have a slight past, that only makes you the more atmospheric.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000033_000000.wav|"Then, sing-do.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000053_000000.wav|She slid into her place at table and got things to going.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000054_000001.wav|She looked up at him questioningly.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000019_000000.wav|"You're looking at my portrait!" declared mrs Phillips, as the poetess sank deeper into the big chair.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000026_000000.wav|"It was an afternoon in Lesbos-with Sappho and her band of appreciative maidens.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000025_000000.wav|The youth hastened to get into action.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000053_000002.wav|And none of the three girls made any further comment on his own performance.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000032_000000.wav|"I sing," he said, with naif suddenness and simplicity.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000021_000002.wav|He looked back again from the painter (who also had black hair and eyes) to her work.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000045_000003.wav|Possibly Cope gave too great heed to his hostess' caution; but it seemed as if a voice essentially promising had slipped through some teacher's none too competent hands, or-what was quite as serious-as if some temperamental brake were operating to prevent the complete expression of the singer's nature.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000054_000000.wav|mrs Phillips accompanied him, on his way out, as far as the hall.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000056_000000.wav|"On the contrary," he rejoined, "I have spent a delightful hour." Must he go on and confess that he had developed no particular dexterity in dealing with the younger members of the opposite sex?|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000017_000000.wav|"Of course," said Cope to himself.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000026_000001.wav|Phaon, a poor lad of nineteen, swept some pamphlets and paper cutters off the center table, and we all plunged into the ocean of Oolong-the best thing we do on this island...."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000059_000000.wav|"Nonsense," she rejoined.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000024_000000.wav|"Meanwhile, how about a drop of tea?" asked mrs Phillips suddenly. "Roddy"--to the sophomore-"if you will help clear that table...."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000061_000001.wav|I miss you-even more than I thought I should.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000039_000000.wav|"Very well."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000045_000005.wav|Hortense broke it.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000003_000001.wav|Cope, looking at the fallen cushions with an unseeing eye, remained within the drawing room door to compose a further paragraph for the behoof of his correspondent in Wisconsin:|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000029_000001.wav|Perhaps he had really deserved his hostess' rebuke.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000011_000002.wav|And it inspired Carolyn too.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000061_000005.wav|We can easily arrange some suitable quarters..."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000011_000003.wav|She wrote a poem after hearing it."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000010_000000.wav|The last little thing was a kind of "meditation," written very simply and performed quite seriously and unaffectedly.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000052_000006.wav|No; I'll pour, myself."|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5985/63885/5985_63885_000013_000001.wav|"It's a poem,--of course it's a poem.|5985
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000004_000005.wav|Clara Durrant procured the stockings, played the sonata, filled the vases, fetched the pudding, left the cards, and when the great invention of paper flowers to swim in finger bowls was discovered, was one of those who most marvelled at their brief lives.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000026_000000.wav|"You don't say so," said mr Salvin.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000036_000000.wav|"I am afraid I did not catch your name," said Miss Edwards.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000068_000005.wav|She left them standing against the wall.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000074_000000.wav|"Whom I have heard so much of," said mr Pilcher, bowing low.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000069_000000.wav|Neither of the gentlemen said anything for three minutes, though Jacob shifted perhaps five inches to the left, and then as many to the right. Then Jacob grunted, and suddenly crossed the room.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000031_000000.wav|"Are you going away for Christmas?" said mr Calthorp.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000023_000000.wav|"Are they going to dance?" asked mr Salvin.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000000.wav|It must not be thought, though, that they ousted the flowers of nature. Roses, lilies, carnations in particular, looked over the rims of vases and surveyed the bright lives and swift dooms of their artificial relations.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000011_000000.wav|"But I am too severe," she thought to herself.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000067_000001.wav|I like hearing it," said Jacob.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000033_000000.wav|"What regiment is he in?" said mr Calthorp.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000016_000000.wav|"And which of them ...?" asked mr Salvin, dropping his voice and speaking in quizzical tones.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000010_000000.wav|"Nonsense," said mrs Durrant.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000044_000001.wav|"Dearest Clara-I know we mustn't try to stop you..."|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000015_000000.wav|"Doesn't she look charming?" exclaimed Miss Eliot, as Clara Durrant passed them.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000001_000003.wav|Their fortunes were watched by eyes intent and lovely.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000035_000000.wav|"Perhaps he knows my brother?" said mr Calthorp.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000003.wav|If they could, human life would be a different affair altogether.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000018_000000.wav|"You don't remember Elizabeth as I do," said mr Salvin, "dancing Highland reels at Banchorie.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000003_000001.wav|More horses' legs have been worn out, more coachmen's lives consumed, more hours of sound afternoon time vainly lavished than served to win us the battle of Waterloo, and pay for it into the bargain.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000057_000000.wav|"Ah," sighed Clara, who stood beside Jacob, half-way through.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000073_000001.wav|Pilcher from New York-This is Miss Durrant."|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000004_000000.wav|The flamingo hours fluttered softly through the sky.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000053_000000.wav|"How d'you do, mr Flanders," said Julia Eliot, holding out her hand. "What's been happening to you?"|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000041_000000.wav|mr Bowley looked round him, and catching sight of Rose Shaw moved towards her, threw out his hands, and exclaimed: "Well!"|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000068_000002.wav|Why is that, Sir Jasper?--Sir Jasper Bigham-mr|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000005.wav|Never tell me that girls often are incapable of love!|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000052_000000.wav|"People must go downstairs," said Clara, passing.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000021_000001.wav|"I know nothing about politics," she added.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000071_000002.wav|Now," she said.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000004.wav|For flowers fade; chrysanthemums are the worst; perfect over night; yellow and jaded next morning-not fit to be seen.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000001_000002.wav|In these sheltered lakes the little coloured flowers swam and slid; surmounted smooth slippery waves, and sometimes foundered and lay like pebbles on the glass floor.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000039_000000.wav|"There is no reason to doubt that Charles james Fox ..." mr Burley began; but here mrs Stretton told him that she knew his sister well; had stayed with her not six weeks ago; and thought the house charming, but bleak in winter.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000030_000002.wav|mr Calthorp, let me introduce you to Miss Edwards."|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000002.wav|But real flowers can never be dispensed with.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000065_000008.wav|No, mr Carter is playing by himself-This is BACH," she whispered, as mr Carter played the first bars.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000059_000000.wav|sang Elsbeth Siddons.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000067_000000.wav|"Yes.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000019_000000.wav|"What different people one sees here!" said Miss Eliot.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000058_000000.wav|"Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling. To her let us garlands bring,"|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000027_000000.wav|"But I do," said Lady Hibbert.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000007_000002.wav|But when, between ten and eleven on a rainy morning, Edwin Mallett laid his life at her feet she ran out of the room and hid herself in her bedroom, and Timothy below could not get on with his work all that morning on account of her sobs.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000004_000002.wav|No wonder that Italian remained a hidden art, and the piano always played the same sonata.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000065_000001.wav|You always see mr Clutterbuck here.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000022_000000.wav|"The piano is in tune," said Clara, passing them, "but we may have to ask some one to move it for us."|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000002.wav|"And mr Salvin.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000043_000001.wav|"I will ask Jimmy to breakfast."|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000008_000000.wav|"Which is the result of enjoying yourself," said mrs Durrant severely, surveying the dance programme all scored with the same initials, or rather they were different ones this time-r b instead of e m; Richard Bonamy it was now, the young man with the Wellington nose.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000042_000001.wav|"Nothing at all-though I left them alone the entire afternoon on purpose."|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000014_000000.wav|"Last time we met," said mr Salvin, "was at the Farquhars.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000065_000005.wav|Were you there when they acted mr Wortley's play?|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000071_000001.wav|Quickly.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000003_000000.wav|The little cards, however, with names engraved on them, are a more serious problem than the flowers.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000072_000000.wav|Downstairs they went.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000006.wav|I had all Shakespeare by heart before I was in my teens, mr Salvin!"|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000004.wav|With all my experience of English politics-My dear, I was thinking of your father last night-one of my oldest friends, mr Salvin.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000013_000000.wav|"Please," said Julia Eliot, taking up her position by the curtain almost opposite the door, "don't introduce me.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000068_000004.wav|Why is nobody taught anything that they ought to know, Sir Jasper?"|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000021_000000.wav|"I never read them," said Miss Eliot.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000062_000000.wav|"Yes," said Jacob.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000038_000000.wav|"But what proof was there that the marriage service was actually performed?" said mr Crosby.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000067_000002.wav|"I know nothing about it."|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000003.wav|What is going to happen to us, mr Salvin?|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000001_000000.wav|About this time a firm of merchants having dealings with the East put on the market little paper flowers which opened on touching water.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000006_000000.wav|And read their doom in Chloe's eyes,|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000005_000000.wav|Nor were there wanting poets to celebrate the theme.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000052_000002.wav|How d'you do, mr Flanders."|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000044_000000.wav|"But who could resist her?" cried Rose Shaw.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000014_000001.wav|Poor lady! She has much to put up with."|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000001_000005.wav|The paper flowers did no less.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000017_000001.wav|Three young men stood at the doorway looking about for their hostess.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000037_000000.wav|"Calthorp," said mr Calthorp.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000003_000004.wav|But, even if the cards should be superseded, which seems unlikely, there are unruly powers blowing life into storms, disordering sedulous mornings, and uprooting the stability of the afternoon-dressmakers, that is to say, and confectioners' shops.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000005.wav|On the whole, though the price is sinful, carnations pay best;--it's a question, however, whether it's wise to have them wired.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000070_000000.wav|"Will you come and have something to eat?" he said to Clara Durrant.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000042_000000.wav|"Nothing!" she replied.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000046_000000.wav|"Life is wicked-life is detestable!" cried Rose Shaw.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000011_000001.wav|For Clara, losing all vivacity, tore up her dance programme and threw it in the fender.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000007_000000.wav|which caused Clara to blush at the first reading, and to laugh at the second, saying that it was just like him to call her Chloe when her name was Clara.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000012_000000.wav|Such were the very serious consequences of the invention of paper flowers to swim in bowls.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000030_000000.wav|"You shall sit by my mother," said Clara.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000060_000000.wav|"Ah!" Clara exclaimed out loud, and clapped her gloved hands; and Jacob clapped his bare ones; and then she moved forward and directed people to come in from the doorway.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000006.wav|Some shops advise it.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000001_000004.wav|It is surely a great discovery that leads to the union of hearts and foundation of homes.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000003_000006.wav|It has not arrived.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000003_000002.wav|The little demons are the source of as many reprieves, calamities, and anxieties as the battle itself.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000065_000000.wav|"There is mr Clutterbuck.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000029_000000.wav|"I will remove myself if you'll kindly lend me a hand," said mr Salvin.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000030_000001.wav|"Everybody seems to come in here. ...|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000063_000000.wav|"In rooms?"|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000068_000003.wav|Flanders.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000068_000001.wav|"I daresay you were never taught.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000001.wav|mr Stuart Ormond made this very observation; and charming it was thought; and Kitty Craster married him on the strength of it six months later.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000047_000000.wav|"There's not much to be said for this sort of thing, is there?" said Timothy Durrant to Jacob.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000013_000002.wav|The amusing thing," she went on, addressing mr Salvin, who, owing to his lameness, was accommodated with a chair, "the amusing thing about a party is to watch the people-coming and going, coming and going."|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000001.wav|It IS Julia Eliot!" said old Lady Hibbert, holding out both her hands.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000052_000001.wav|"Take Charlotte, Timothy.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000068_000000.wav|"Very few people do that," said mrs Durrant.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000005_000001.wav|Edwin Mallett, for example, wrote his verses ending:|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000024_000000.wav|"Nobody shall disturb you," said mrs Durrant peremptorily as she passed.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000004_000004.wav|Mackie's dye works, suffering in winter with his chest, letters must be written, columns filled up in the same round, simple hand that wrote in mr Letts's diary how the weather was fine, the children demons, and Jacob Flanders unworldly.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000075_000000.wav|So Clara left him.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000045_000000.wav|"You and mr Bowley are talking dreadful gossip, I know," said Clara.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000017_000000.wav|"There are so many ..." Miss Eliot replied.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000073_000000.wav|But half-way down they met mr and mrs Gresham, Herbert Turner, Sylvia Rashleigh, and a friend, whom they had dared to bring, from America, "knowing that mrs Durrant-wishing to show mr Pilcher.--mr|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000040_000000.wav|"Going about as girls do nowadays-" said mrs Forster.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000064_000000.wav|'Yes."|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000050_000000.wav|"Where have you come from?" said Timothy.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000032_000000.wav|"If my brother gets his leave," said Miss Edwards.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000018_000002.wav|Clara is a little pale."|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000065_000002.wav|He is not very happy at home, I am afraid.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000043_000000.wav|"Dear me, dear me," said mr Bowley.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000056_000000.wav|Every one stood where they were, or sat down if a chair was empty.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000049_000000.wav|"Like what?" said Charlotte Wilding, coming up to them.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000004_000001.wav|But regularly they dipped their wings in pitch black; Notting Hill, for instance, or the purlieus of Clerkenwell.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000025_000000.wav|"Julia Eliot.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000002_000008.wav|Old mrs Temple used to recommend an ivy leaf-just one-dropped into the bowl. She said it kept the water pure for days and days.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/10988/5489_10988_000066_000000.wav|"Are you fond of music?" said mr Durrant.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000004_000005.wav|In the winter, I am told, they take the linen down to the river to wash it in the cold water, and though their hands, cut by the ice, are cracked and bleeding, the men, their fellow servants, will not disgrace their manhood by carrying a tub to lighten their burden.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000012_000001.wav|And, perhaps, the efforts which the aristocrats are making here, as well as in every other part of Europe, to secure their sway, will be the most effectual mode of undermining it, taking into the calculation that the King of Sweden, like most of the potentates of Europe, has continually been augmenting his power by encroaching on the privileges of the nobles.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000015_000001.wav|Mixing with mankind, we are obliged to examine our prejudices, and often imperceptibly lose, as we analyse them.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000015_000000.wav|I am, my friend, more and more convinced that a metropolis, or an abode absolutely solitary, is the best calculated for the improvement of the heart, as well as the understanding; whether we desire to become acquainted with man, nature, or ourselves.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000005_000002.wav|The treatment of servants in most countries, I grant, is very unjust, and in England, that boasted land of freedom, it is often extremely tyrannical.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000005_000006.wav|We must love our servants, or we shall never be sufficiently attentive to their happiness; and how can those masters be attentive to their happiness who, living above their fortunes, are more anxious to outshine their neighbours than to allow their household the innocent enjoyments they earn?|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000006_000000.wav|It is, in fact, much more difficult for servants, who are tantalised by seeing and preparing the dainties of which they are not to partake, to remain honest, than the poor, whose thoughts are not led from their homely fare; so that, though the servants here are commonly thieves, you seldom hear of housebreaking, or robbery on the highway.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000004_000000.wav|In fact, the situation of the servants in every respect, particularly that of the women, shows how far the Swedes are from having a just conception of rational equality.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000015_000002.wav|And in the country, growing intimate with nature, a thousand little circumstances, unseen by vulgar eyes, give birth to sentiments dear to the imagination, and inquiries which expand the soul, particularly when cultivation has not smoothed into insipidity all its originality of character.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000009_000000.wav|Such are the effects of war, that it saps the vitals even of the neutral countries, who, obtaining a sudden influx of wealth, appear to be rendered flourishing by the destruction which ravages the hapless nations who are sacrificed to the ambition of their governors.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000003_000002.wav|The servants also, in most families, eat this kind of bread, and have a different kind of food from their masters, which, in spite of all the arguments I have heard to vindicate the custom, appears to me a remnant of barbarism.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000010_000000.wav|The prohibition of drinking coffee under a penalty, and the encouragement given to public distilleries, tend to impoverish the poor, who are not affected by the sumptuary laws; for the regent has lately laid very severe restraints on the articles of dress, which the middling class of people found grievous, because it obliged them to throw aside finery that might have lasted them for their lives.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000017_000000.wav|It visited, near Gothenburg, a house with improved land about it, with which I was particularly delighted.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000004_000003.wav|The most menial, and even laborious offices, are therefore left to these poor drudges.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000013_000001.wav|This may be reckoned an advantage in some respects; but it prevents the cultivation of their own, and any considerable advance in literary pursuits.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000006_000001.wav|The country is, perhaps, too thinly inhabited to produce many of that description of thieves termed footpads, or highwaymen.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000016_000001.wav|It requires uncommon taste to form a whole, and to introduce accommodations and ornaments analogous with the surrounding scene.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000003_000001.wav|Hard enough, you may imagine, as it is baked only once a year.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000017_000001.wav|It was close to a lake embosomed in pine clad rocks.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000013_000000.wav|The well bred Swedes of the capital are formed on the ancient French model, and they in general speak that language; for they have a knack at acquiring languages with tolerable fluency.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000004_000002.wav|Still the men stand up for the dignity of man by oppressing the women.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000004_000004.wav|Much of this I have seen.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000014_000001.wav|The reflection necessary to produce a certain number even of tolerable productions augments more than he is aware of the mass of knowledge in the community.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000008_000001.wav|Since then the burden has continually been growing heavier, and the price of provisions has proportionately increased-nay, the advantage accruing from the exportation of corn to France and rye to Germany will probably produce a scarcity in both Sweden and Norway, should not a peace put a stop to it this autumn, for speculations of various kinds have already almost doubled the price.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000005_000001.wav|It is the custom, I know, to give them a new year's gift and a present at some other period, but can it all amount to a just indemnity for their labour?|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000005_000004.wav|I do not know a more agreeable sight than to see servants part of a family.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000006_000002.wav|They are usually the spawn of great cities-the effect of the spurious desires generated by wealth, rather than the desperate struggles of poverty to escape from misery.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000011_000000.wav|These may be termed vexatious; still the death of the king, by saving them from the consequences his ambition would naturally have entailed on them, may be reckoned a blessing.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000001_000000.wav|LETTER three.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000014_000003.wav|But we must have an object to refer our reflections to, or they will seldom go below the surface.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000016_000000.wav|I love the country, yet whenever I see a picturesque situation chosen on which to erect a dwelling I am always afraid of the improvements.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000018_000000.wav|Here the hand of taste was conspicuous though not obtrusive, and formed a contrast with another abode in the same neighbourhood, on which much money had been lavished; where Italian colonnades were placed to excite the wonder of the rude crags, and a stone staircase, to threaten with destruction a wooden house.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000005_000003.wav|I have frequently, with indignation, heard gentlemen declare that they would never allow a servant to answer them; and ladies of the most exquisite sensibility, who were continually exclaiming against the cruelty of the vulgar to the brute creation, have in my presence forgot that their attendants had human feelings as well as forms.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000018_000003.wav|Numberless workmen have been employed, and the superintending artist has improved the labourers, whose unskilfulness tormented him, by obliging them to submit to the discipline of rules.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000017_000002.wav|In one part of the meadows your eye was directed to the broad expanse, in another you were led into a shade, to see a part of it, in the form of a river, rush amongst the fragments of rocks and roots of trees; nothing seemed forced.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000002_000000.wav|The population of Sweden has been estimated from two millions and a half to three millions; a small number for such an immense tract of country, of which only so much is cultivated-and that in the simplest manner-as is absolutely requisite to supply the necessaries of life; and near the seashore, whence herrings are easily procured, there scarcely appears a vestige of cultivation.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000004_000001.wav|They are not termed slaves; yet a man may strike a man with impunity because he pays him wages, though these wages are so low that necessity must teach them to pilfer, whilst servility renders them false and boorish.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5489/65803/5489_65803_000005_000000.wav|You will not be surprised to hear that they do not wear shoes or stockings, when I inform you that their wages are seldom more than twenty or thirty shillings per annum.|5489
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000014_000003.wav|She plays round the most vulgar and rude beings, gentle and caressing, yet unsullied; in her wildness there is nothing cold or savage; her elevation is soft and warm.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000012_000000.wav|The most interesting fiction we have ever read in this coarse, homely, but genuine class, is one called "Metallek." It may be in circulation in this city; but we bought it in a country nook, and from a pedlar; and it seemed to belong to the country.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000007_000002.wav|We have our doubts, though, from the stamp upon literature, always the nearest evidence of truth we can get, whether, even there, the difference between town and country life is as much in favor of the latter as is generally supposed.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000010_000000.wav|We believe the amount of ill circulated by means of anonymous letters, as described in this book, to be as great as can be imported in all the French novels (and that is a bold word).|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000014_000001.wav|It is a portrait from the life-it has the mystic charm of fulfilled reality, how far beyond the fairest ideals ever born of thought!|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000013_000000.wav|In this book you find the very life; the most vulgar prose, and the most exquisite poetry.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000021_000002.wav|The ease with which she assimilates the city life when in it, making it a part of her imaginative tapestry, is a sign of the power to which she has grown.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000018_000000.wav|A young girl could not sufficiently express her delight at the simple nature with which scenes of childhood are given, and especially at Margaret's first going to meeting.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000007_000001.wav|It may be so in countries of old established habits, where a genuine peasantry have inherited some of the practical wisdom and loyalty of the past, with most of its errors.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000011_000000.wav|But what does this prove?|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000004_000001.wav|We see it with pleasure, because, in its way, it is genuine.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000022_000000.wav|We have much more to think and to say of the book, as a whole, and in parts; and should the mood and summer leisure ever permit a familiar and intimate acquaintance with it, we trust they will be both thought and said.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000015_000000.wav|The lonely life of the girl after the death of her parents,--her fearlessness, her gay and sweet enjoyment of nature, her intercourse with the old people of the neighborhood, her sisterly conduct towards her "suitors,"--all seem painted from the life; but the death bed scene seems borrowed from some sermon, and is not in harmony with the rest.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000014_000000.wav|But when we come to the girl who is the presiding deity, or rather the tutelary angel of the scene, how are all discords harmonized; how all its latent music poured forth!|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000016_000001.wav|At the time of that notice we had only looked into it here and there, and did no justice to a work full of genius, profound in its meaning, and of admirable fidelity to nature in its details.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000010_000001.wav|We know ourselves of two or three cases of morbid wickedness, displayed by means of anonymous letters, that may vie with what puzzled the best wits of France in a famous law suit not long since.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000007_000000.wav|It is a current superstition that country people are more pure and healthy in mind and body than those who live in cities.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000019_000001.wav|Christi.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000009_000000.wav|We have lived in a beautiful village, where, more favorably placed than any other person in it, both as to withdrawal from bad associations and nearness to good, we heard inevitably, from domestics, work people, and school children, more ill of human nature than we could possibly sift were we to elect such a task from all the newspapers of this city, in the same space of time.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000005_000001.wav|The ballads are not more true to the facts; but they give us, in a coarser form, far more of the spirit than we get from the same facts reflected in the intellect of a Dickens, for instance, or of any writer far enough above the scene to be properly its artist.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000005_000000.wav|That class is a large one in our country villages, and these books reflect its thoughts and manners as half penny ballads do the life of the streets of London.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000008_000000.wav|There are exceptions, and not a few; but, in a very great proportion of country villages, the habits of the people, as to food, air, and even exercise, are ignorant and unhealthy to the last degree.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000008_000001.wav|Their want of all pure faith, and appetite for coarse excitement, is shown by continued intrigues, calumnies, and crimes.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000012_000003.wav|That such things are, private observation has made us sure; but the writers of books rarely seem to have seen them; rarely to have walked alone in an untrodden path long enough to hold commune with the spirit of the scene.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000012_000001.wav|Had we met with it in any other way, it would probably have been to throw it aside again directly, for the author does not know how to write English, and the first chapters give no idea of his power of apprehending the poetry of life.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/92420/6788_92420_000011_000003.wav|Our people require a thoroughly diffused intellectual life, a religious aim, such as no people at large ever possessed before; else they must sink till they become dregs, rather than rise to become the cream of creation, which they are too apt to flatter themselves with the fancy of being already.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000005.wav|But it follows from the point of view of our system that the will is not only free, but almighty.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000002_000001.wav|THE WORLD AS WILL.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000004.wav|"Ought to will!"--wooden iron!|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000003_000001.wav|The Assertion And Denial Of The Will To Live, When Self Consciousness Has Been Attained.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000011.wav|This we shall do in connection with the preceding portion of our work, and in precisely the same way as we have hitherto explained the other phenomena of the world, and have sought to bring their inmost nature to distinct abstract knowledge.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000007.wav|Both are the self knowledge of the will and nothing more.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000000.wav|The given point of view, and the method of treatment announced, are themselves sufficient to indicate that in this ethical book no precepts, no doctrine of duty must be looked for; still less will a general moral principle be given, an universal receipt, as it were, for the production of all the virtues.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000014.wav|But this actual world of experience, in which we are, and which is in us, remains both the material and the limits of our consideration: a world which is so rich in content that even the most searching investigation of which the human mind is capable could not exhaust it.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000005_000007.wav|Virtue cannot be taught any more than genius; indeed, for it the concept is just as unfruitful as it is in art, and in both cases can only be used as an instrument.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000006_000005.wav|There is, indeed, just one thought which forms the content of this whole work.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000002.wav|In general, we shall not speak at all of "ought," for this is how one speaks to children and to nations still in their childhood, but not to those who have appropriated all the culture of a full grown age.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000005_000004.wav|But, in my opinion, all philosophy is theoretical, because it is essential to it that it should retain a purely contemplative attitude, and should investigate, not prescribe.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000006_000001.wav|It can only bring to distinct abstract knowledge of the reason the nature of the world which in the concrete, that is, as feeling, expresses itself comprehensibly to every one.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000005_000008.wav|It would, therefore, be just as absurd to expect that our moral systems and ethics will produce virtuous, noble, and holy men, as that our aesthetics will produce poets, painters, and musicians.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000013.wav|Notwithstanding Kant's great doctrine, it will not attempt to use the forms of the phenomenon, the universal expression of which is the principle of sufficient reason, as a leaping pole to jump over the phenomenon itself, which alone gives meaning to these forms, and land in the boundless sphere of empty fictions.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000006_000004.wav|In considering it I shall faithfully adhere to the method I have hitherto followed, and shall support myself by presupposing all that has already been advanced.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000005_000006.wav|For here, where the worth or worthlessness of an existence, where salvation or damnation are in question, the dead conceptions of philosophy do not decide the matter, but the inmost nature of man himself, the Daemon that guides him and that has not chosen him, but been chosen by him, as Plato would say; his intelligible character, as Kant expresses himself.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000005_000000.wav|section fifty three.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000005_000005.wav|To become, on the contrary, practical, to guide conduct, to transform character, are old claims, which with fuller insight it ought finally to give up.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000006.wav|From it proceeds not only its action, but also its world; and as the will is, so does its action and its world become.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000002_000000.wav|FOURTH BOOK.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000006_000002.wav|This, however, it does in every possible reference and from every point of view.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000022.wav|It is just the knowledge which belongs to the principle of sufficient reason, with which no one can penetrate to the inner nature of things, but endlessly pursues phenomena, moving without end or aim, like a squirrel in its wheel, till, tired out at last, he stops at some point or other arbitrarily chosen, and now desires to extort respect for it from others also.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000006_000007.wav|I shall then have done all that is in my power to communicate it as fully as possible.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000006_000000.wav|Philosophy can never do more than interpret and explain what is given.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000007_000009.wav|Only thus is the will truly autonomous, and from every other point of view it is heteronomous.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/96241/6788_96241_000003_000000.wav|Second Aspect.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000024_000003.wav|If you could watch the creature having its dinner, you would see a constant stream of water flowing over the gills and towards the mouth.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000027_000000.wav|Besides being so skilful at digging, the Cockle is a first rate jumper. If left on the beach, it jumps over the sand, towards the sea, in the funniest way.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000007.wav|What a strange use for a "beard"!|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000035_000000.wav|five.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000027_000001.wav|It is strange to see a quiet looking shell suddenly take to hopping and jumping like an acrobat.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000034_000001.wav|Of what use is the "beard" of the Oyster?|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000028_000000.wav|To perform this astonishing feat the Cockle makes use of its foot, which is worked by very strong muscles.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000010_000003.wav|On the piers and groynes, and the woodwork of the harbour, you can see other clusters of Mussels; they are placed where the high tide covers them.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000000.wav|What makes the water move in that way?|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000026_000002.wav|Where Cockles have buried themselves you will see spurts of water and sand, showing where they are busy down below in the wet sand.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000020_000000.wav|Their shells open and shut like a trap.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000017_000000.wav|At the right moment, the Oyster gets rid of its numerous family.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000014_000000.wav|If the Mussel is such a stay at home, how does he find his food?|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000009_000000.wav|The Snail, and other one shelled molluscs, poke their heads out of the shell when feeding or moving.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000011_000001.wav|He uses a bunch of threads, like so many cables or tiny ropes.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000010_000001.wav|In dense black masses they cling to the rocks; and, though heavy waves bang them like so many hammers, they stick tight.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000018_000000.wav|They have no defence, and countless numbers of them are gobbled up by crabs, anemones, and others.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000021_000002.wav|They are its only defence, so it closes them at the least hint of danger.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000024_000002.wav|Trace the "beard" as far as the hinge of the shells, and you see the mouth with its white lips.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000021_000000.wav|Between the hinge of the two shells there is a pad, which acts like an elastic spring, and forces the shells open.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000024_000000.wav|Oysters feed in rather a strange way.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000008_000001.wav|You can imagine the Periwinkle's mantle as a tube enclosing the animal's body.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000007_000002.wav|It is a tug of war, your skill and strength against the muscles of the animal inside the tight shells.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000028_000002.wav|Then, by using all its power, it leaps backwards or forwards in a surprising manner.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000029_000000.wav|There are many other interesting molluscs, besides those we have looked at.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000019_000001.wav|In rough weather they are driven far into the deeps of the ocean, and lost.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000016_000002.wav|Needless to say, these babies are very small indeed, else their nursery could not contain them all Though so small that thousands of them together look more like a pinch of dust than anything else, yet each one has two thin shells; so that, if you eat the parent Oyster, they grate on your teeth like sand.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000011_000002.wav|It is interesting to know how these threads are made.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000033_000000.wav|three.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000016_000001.wav|Strangely enough, its eggs are not sent into the sea at once, but are kept between the Oyster's shells until they hatch.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000006.wav|The Oyster, fixed in its "bed," unable to hunt for food, thus makes its dinner come to it.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000016_000000.wav|Many sea animals have wonderfully large families, but the Oyster, with its millions and millions of eggs, beats most of them.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000036_000000.wav|six.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000013_000000.wav|Our ordinary Mussels do not make very long threads, but those of some kinds are so long that they can be woven into silky purses or stockings. The Mussel which makes such long anchor threads might be called "the silkworm of the sea."|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000012_000002.wav|Now the threads are fixed by the foot, just where the Mussel wishes to anchor himself.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000022_000003.wav|Sometimes the Oysters are stifled in their "beds" by other Oysters settling and growing over them.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000008_000002.wav|The mantle of the Mussel or the Oyster is in two pieces; and each half forms its own shell.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000012_000003.wav|They are made from a liquid which forms in the body of the creature.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000023_000000.wav|Like the other animals which are useful as food, Oysters have been carefully studied and cultivated by man for many, many years.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000002.wav|There are so many of them that, as they keep moving, they force the water along, over the gills and towards the mouth.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000029_000006.wav|Chalk, sandstone, or oak, it is all the same to the Piddock, which rasps them away with its file.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000032_000001.wav|Describe how the shells of the Oyster are opened and closed.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000031_000000.wav|one.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000029_000005.wav|You will often see stones and rocks riddled by the Piddock as if they were as soft as cheese.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000019_000003.wav|Only a very few out of each million become "grown ups"--the rest are eaten by enemies, or smothered in mud or sand.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000031_000001.wav|How does the Mussel anchor itself?|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000020_000001.wav|You may have seen a picture of an inquisitive mouse trapped by an Oyster.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000035_000001.wav|Why is the Oyster called a bi valve?|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000015_000001.wav|Our British Oysters were famous even in the time of the romans; they were carefully packed and sent to Rome, and, at the Roman feasts, surprising quantities of them were eaten.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000022_000004.wav|Thick masses of Mussels may cling to them and suffocate them.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000021_000001.wav|The Oyster can close them by means of a strong muscle.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000005.wav|This is driven to the Oyster's mouth and swallowed.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000019_000005.wav|In five years they are fine, fat grown up Oysters-that is to say, if they have not been dredged up from their bed and sent to market.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000029_000007.wav|When the points of this strange instrument are worn out with all this hard wear, a new set takes their place.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000016_000003.wav|Oysters, at this time, are "out of season"--that is, unfit for food.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000022_000000.wav|Even these thick walls are sometimes of no avail, as we saw in our talk on "Five fingered Jack." We saw how the starfish forces the shells open with the help of its strong tube feet.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000011_000000.wav|Have you noticed how the Mussel anchors himself?|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000036_000001.wav|Why is the Oyster sometimes unfit for use as food?|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000017_000001.wav|It opens its shells, then shuts them rapidly; and, each time this happens, a cloud of young Oysters is puffed out like smoke.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000029_000002.wav|But this foot is a most wonderful boring tool, fitted with a hard file.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000009_000001.wav|Oysters and their two shelled cousins cannot do this, for the simple reason that they have no heads!|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000028_000001.wav|It is large and pointed, and bent: if the Cockle wishes to move quickly, it stretches out its foot from between the shells, as far as it will go.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000025_000008.wav|It not only serves as lungs, but also helps the animal to catch its "daily bread"!|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000033_000001.wav|What is the food of the Mussel?|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000019_000000.wav|For a time, the baby Oysters-which are known as "spat"--are able to swim here and there.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000022_000005.wav|And grains of sand sometimes get in the hinges of their shells, so that they cannot close up the house when they wish.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000006_000000.wav|THE MUSSEL AND OYSTER.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000014_000001.wav|The answer is, that the food comes to him, brought by the ever moving water. There are countless specks floating in the sea, mostly specks of vegetable stuff.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6788/111574/6788_111574_000012_000001.wav|He has a long, slender foot which can be pushed out of the shells.|6788
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/171171/3549_171171_000017_000007.wav|And now Simon, thinking he might be able to astonish and elude the romans, put on a white frock, and buttoned upon him a purple cloak, and appeared out of the ground in the place where the temple had formerly been.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/171171/3549_171171_000017_000006.wav|But when they came to make the experiment, they were disappointed of their hope; for the miners could make but small progress, and that with difficulty also; insomuch that their provisions, though they distributed them by measure, began to fail them.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/171171/3549_171171_000017_000005.wav|Now, so far as had been digged of old, they went onward along it without disturbance; but where they met with solid earth, they dug a mine under ground, and this in hopes that they should be able to proceed so far as to rise from under ground in a safe place, and by that means escape.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000005_000001.wav|Ancient days, when there was battles and famines and hang fairs and other pomps, seem to me as yesterday.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000003_000002.wav|Not but that Giles has worked hard in helping me to bring things to such perfection to day. 'Giles,' says I, though he's maister.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000016_000003.wav|Every now and then the comparatively few remarks of the players at the round game were harshly intruded on by the measured jingle of Farmer Bawtree and the hollow turner from the back of the room:|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000036_000001.wav|At last he entered the bakehouse, and found there Robert Creedle sitting over the embers, also lost in contemplation.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000015_000002.wav|He had done it, in dearth of other friends, that the room might not appear empty.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000043_000000.wav|"What snail?"|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000003_000000.wav|"Well, yes.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000020_000002.wav|I didn't know you had such glasses in the house.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000028_000000.wav|"The doctor is not abed yet," said mrs Melbury.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000041_000000.wav|"I'm afraid, too, that it was a failure there!"|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000015_000000.wav|Giles himself, since the untoward beginning of the feast, had not quite liked to see Grace present.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000035_000000.wav|The timber merchant turned indignantly to mrs Melbury.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000014_000001.wav|She must bear these little mishaps." But there could be discerned in his face something which said "I ought to have foreseen this."|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000047_000000.wav|"But, Robert, of all places, that was where he shouldn't have been!"|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000002_000000.wav|"I s'pose the time when you learned all these knowing things, mr Creedle, was when you was in the militia?"|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000004_000000.wav|"I s'pose your memory can reach a long way back into history, mr Creedle?"|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000020_000004.wav|I can't get such coats.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000021_000000.wav|After supper there was a dance, the bandsmen from Great Hintock having arrived some time before.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000023_000001.wav|Her fortune has been told by men of science-what do you call 'em?|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000019_000000.wav|The timber merchant showed his feelings by talking with a satisfied sense of weight in his words, and by praising the party in a patronizing tone, when Winterborne expressed his fear that he and his were not enjoying themselves.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000022_000001.wav|Grace assented to the proposal, and the woman told her tale unskilfully, for want of practice, as she declared.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000011_000002.wav|It was nothing."|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000040_000000.wav|"The victuals did; that I know.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000024_000000.wav|At last the time came for breaking up, Melbury and his family being the earliest to leave, the two card players still pursuing their game doggedly in the corner, where they had completely covered Giles's mahogany table with chalk scratches.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000020_000005.wav|You dress better than i"|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000036_000000.wav|Meanwhile, in the empty house from which the guests had just cleared out, the subject of their discourse was walking from room to room surveying the general displacement of furniture with no ecstatic feeling; rather the reverse, indeed.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000039_000001.wav|"Do you think it went off well, Creedle?" he asked.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000031_000003.wav|I don't expect he'll stay here long."|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000042_000001.wav|Not but what that snail might as well have come upon anybody else's plate as hers."|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000050_000000.wav|"Oh no|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000038_000002.wav|But 'tis well to think the day IS done, when 'tis done."|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000014_000000.wav|The timber merchant said, quickly, "Oh, it is nothing!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000051_000001.wav|"Do you know, Robert," he said, "that she's been accustomed to servants and everything superfine these many years?|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000008_000000.wav|"Good heavens! what did you do that for, Creedle?" said Giles, sternly, and jumping up.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000024_000001.wav|The three walked home, the distance being short and the night clear.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000013_000000.wav|Miss Melbury blushed.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000007_000000.wav|A splash followed.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000035_000002.wav|"For us old folk it didn't matter; but for Grace-Giles should have known better!"|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000037_000000.wav|"Well, Robert, you must be tired.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000023_000003.wav|You can't teach her anything new.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000010_000000.wav|"Well, yes-but-" replied Giles.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000007_000001.wav|Grace gave a quick, involuntary nod and blink, and put her handkerchief to her face.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000022_000000.wav|A woman she did not know came and offered to tell her fortune with the abandoned cards.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000011_000001.wav|"Only a sprinkle on my face.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000040_000001.wav|And the drink did; that I steadfastly believe, from the holler sound of the barrels.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000025_000000.wav|"Well, Giles is a very good fellow," said mr Melbury, as they struck down the lane under boughs which formed a black filigree in which the stars seemed set.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000009_000000.wav|"'tis how I do it when they baint here, maister," mildly expostulated Creedle, in an aside audible to all the company.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000048_000001.wav|I don't care who the man is, snails and caterpillars always will lurk in close to the stump of cabbages in that tantalizing way."|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000048_000000.wav|"Well, 'twas his native home, come to that; and where else could we expect him to be?|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000049_000000.wav|"He wasn't alive, I suppose?" said Giles, with a shudder on Grace's account.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000030_000001.wav|'tis astonishing how little we see of him."|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000039_000000.wav|Winterborne had abstractedly taken the poker, and with a wrinkled forehead was ploughing abroad the wood embers on the broad hearth, till it was like a vast scorching Sahara, with red hot bowlders lying about everywhere.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000040_000003.wav|Still, I don't deny I'm afeared some things didn't go well with He and his." Creedle nodded in a direction which signified where the Melburys lived.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000003_000001.wav|I seed the world at that time somewhat, certainly, and many ways of strange dashing life.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000006_000001.wav|He could not get over the initial failures in his scheme for advancing his suit, and hence he did not know that he was eating mouthfuls of bread and nothing else, and continually snuffing the two candles next him till he had reduced them to mere glimmers drowned in their own grease.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000020_000001.wav|What handsome glasses those are!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000029_000000.wav|"Hard study, no doubt," said her husband.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000020_000000.wav|"Oh yes, yes; pretty much.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000030_000000.wav|"One would think that, as he seems to have nothing to do about here by day, he could at least afford to go to bed early at night.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000003_000003.wav|Not that I should call'n maister by rights, for his father growed up side by side with me, as if one mother had twinned us and been our nourishing."|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000034_000000.wav|"She may go, oh! She may go, oh! She may go to the d---- for me!"|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000051_000000.wav|"Oh yes-'tis all over!" murmured Giles to himself, shaking his head over the glooming plain of embers, and lining his forehead more than ever.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000031_000001.wav|"It is natural enough," he replied.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000021_000001.wav|Grace had been away from home so long that she had forgotten the old figures, and hence did not join in the movement.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000012_000000.wav|"Kiss it and make it well," gallantly observed mr Bawtree.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000023_000004.wav|She's been too far among the wise ones to be astonished at anything she can hear among us folks in Hintock."|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000005_000003.wav|There, he's calling for more plates.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000023_000000.wav|mr Melbury was standing by, and exclaimed, contemptuously, "Tell her fortune, indeed!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000051_000002.wav|How, then, could she stand our ways?"|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000027_000000.wav|When they were opposite an opening through which, by day, the doctor's house could be seen, they observed a light in one of his rooms, although it was now about two o'clock.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000031_000002.wav|"What can a man of that sort find to interest him in Hintock?|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000033_000000.wav|At this moment the two exclusive, chalk mark men, having at last really finished their play, could be heard coming along in the rear, vociferously singing a song to march time, and keeping vigorous step to the same in far reaching strides-|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/8890/3549_8890_000021_000003.wav|As for her, she was thinking, as she watched the gyrations, of a very different measure that she had been accustomed to tread with a bevy of sylph like creatures in muslin, in the music room of a large house, most of whom were now moving in scenes widely removed from this, both as regarded place and character.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000008.wav|Exhausted by suffering and hunger, trembling with pain, he pressed onward.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000009.wav|It was an ecstasy of joy!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000013_000003.wav|They were conversing in low tones, and seemed to be discussing some important subject, for they were gesticulating vehemently.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000019_000004.wav|A latch!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000006.wav|He could doubt no longer.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000015_000001.wav|One, while listening to his companion, gazed at the rabbi! And, beneath the look-whose absence of expression the hapless man did not at first notice-he fancied he again felt the burning pincers scorch his flesh, he was to be once more a living wound.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000018_000000.wav|Suddenly the poor wretch felt a gust of cold air on the hands resting upon the flags; it came from under the little door to which the two walls led.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000022_000000.wav|Then he fancied he saw the shadow of his arms approach him-fancied that he felt these shadowy arms inclose, embrace him-and that he was pressed tenderly to some one's breast.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000003_000001.wav|Yet "his blindness was as dense as his hide," and he had refused to abjure his faith.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000001.wav|It revealed the neighboring fields, stretching toward the sierras, whose sinuous blue lines were relieved against the horizon.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000022_000002.wav|He lowered his eyes-and remained motionless, gasping for breath, dazed, with fixed eyes, fairly driveling with terror.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000000.wav|"My son, rejoice: your trials here below are about to end.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000000.wav|The door had opened into the gardens, above which arched a starlit sky, into spring, liberty, life!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000023_000000.wav|Horror!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000004_000000.wav|Proud of a filiation dating back thousands of years, proud of his ancestors-for all Jews worthy of the name are vain of their blood-he descended Talmudically from Othoniel and consequently from Ipsiboa, the wife of the last judge of Israel, a circumstance which had sustained his courage amid incessant torture.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000007_000007.wav|By an extraordinary accident the familiar who closed it had turned the huge key an instant before it struck the stone casing, so that the rusty bolt not having entered the hole, the door again rolled on its hinges.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000023_000001.wav|He was in the clasp of the Grand Inquisitor himself, the venerable Pedro Arbuez d'Espila, who gazed at him with tearful eyes, like a good shepherd who had found his stray lamb.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000001.wav|He passed swiftly by, holding in his clenched hand an instrument of torture-a frightful figure-and vanished.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000019_000003.wav|He passed his hand over it: no bolt, no lock!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000019_000005.wav|He started up, the latch yielded to the pressure of his thumb: the door silently swung open before him.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000007_000006.wav|Marvelous!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000017_000000.wav|Forward!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000019_000001.wav|Every nerve in the miserable fugitive's body thrilled with hope.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000011_000003.wav|He pressed himself into a niche and, half lifeless with terror, waited.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000008_000001.wav|By the aid of a sort of luminous dusk he distinguished at first a semicircle of walls indented by winding stairs; and opposite to him, at the top of five or six stone steps, a sort of black portal, opening into an immense corridor, whose first arches only were visible from below.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000009_000005.wav|What a terrible silence!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000020_000000.wav|"HALLELUIA!" murmured the rabbi in a transport of gratitude as, standing on the threshold, he beheld the scene before him.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000009_000000.wav|Stretching himself flat he crept to the threshold.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000001.wav|If in the presence of such obstinacy I was forced to permit, with deep regret, the use of great severity, my task of fraternal correction has its limits.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000008.wav|Placed in the last row, you will have time to invoke God and offer to Him this baptism of fire, which is of the Holy Spirit.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000015_000000.wav|Just opposite to him the two inquisitors paused under the light of the lamp-doubtless owing to some accident due to the course of their argument.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000016_000001.wav|Amid the horrible confusion of the rabbi's thoughts, the idea darted through his brain: "Can I be already dead that they did not see me?" A hideous impression roused him from his lethargy: in looking at the wall against which his face was pressed, he imagined he beheld two fierce eyes watching him!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000009.wav|Hope in the Light, and rest."|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000003.wav|Oh, to escape!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000003.wav|Fearing an increase of tortures if he were captured, he thought of returning to his dungeon.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000016_000003.wav|Yet, no! no|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000004_000001.wav|With tears in his eyes at the thought of this resolute soul rejecting salvation, the venerable Pedro Arbuez d'Espila, approaching the shuddering rabbi, addressed him as follows:|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000005.wav|A miracle had happened.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000009_000006.wav|Yet, yonder, at the far end of that passage there might be a doorway of escape!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000017_000002.wav|He pressed forward faster on his knees, his hands, at full length, dragging himself painfully along, and soon entered the dark portion of this terrible corridor.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000002.wav|You are the fig tree which, having failed so many times to bear fruit, at last withered, but God alone can judge your soul.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000006_000002.wav|This ceremony over, the captive was left, solitary and bewildered, in the darkness.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000008.wav|And to thank once more the God who had bestowed this mercy upon him, he extended his arms, raising his eyes toward Heaven.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000004.wav|We must hope so. There are examples.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000004.wav|He would journey all night through the lemon groves, whose fragrance reached him.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000003.wav|Perhaps Infinite Mercy will shine upon you at the last moment!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000024_000000.wav|The dark robed priest pressed the hapless Jew to his heart with so fervent an outburst of love, that the edges of the monochal haircloth rubbed the Dominican's breast.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000011_000002.wav|Well, it was over, no doubt.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000007_000001.wav|Closed?|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000019_000002.wav|He examined it from top to bottom, though scarcely able to distinguish its outlines in the surrounding darkness.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000002.wav|The suspense which the rabbi had endured seemed to have suspended the functions of life, and he lay nearly an hour unable to move.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000013_000001.wav|He again heard footsteps, but this time they were slower, more heavy.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000012_000007.wav|He began to crawl toward the chance of escape.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000009_000001.wav|Yes, it was really a corridor, but endless in length.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000006_000000.wav|With these words, having signed to his companions to unchain the prisoner, the prior tenderly embraced him.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000005.wav|Once in the mountains and he was safe!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000006.wav|He inhaled the delicious air; the breeze revived him, his lungs expanded!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000021_000002.wav|Yonder lay freedom!|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000015_000002.wav|Fainting, breathless, with fluttering eyelids, he shivered at the touch of the monk's floating robe.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000007_000005.wav|Then, very gently and cautiously, slipping one finger into the crevice, he drew the door toward him.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000008_000000.wav|The rabbi ventured to glance outside.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000003_000000.wav|This prisoner was no other than Rabbi Aser Abarbanel, a Jew of Arragon, who-accused of usury and pitiless scorn for the poor-had been daily subjected to torture for more than a year.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000005_000005.wav|So sleep in peace to night.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/9203/3549_9203_000013_000002.wav|The white and black forms of two inquisitors appeared, emerging from the obscurity beyond.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000008_000004.wav|They took a small Spanish vessel off the coast of Cuba, but were soon compelled by famine to put into Havana and give themselves up.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000013.wav|She made a desperate fight, but was taken at last, and with her a rich booty.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000019_000000.wav|At the request of his followers, however, he commuted the sentence to shooting.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000000.wav|They were no sooner gone than the unfortunate Laudonniere was gladdened in his solitude by the approach of his fast friends Ottigny and Arlac, who conveyed him to the fort and reinstated him.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000015.wav|Hence it happened that at daybreak three armed vessels fell upon them, retook the prize, and captured or killed all the pirates but twenty six, who, cutting the moorings of their brigantine, fled out to sea.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000020_000000.wav|A file of men, a rattling volley, and the debt of justice was paid.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000013_000000.wav|The buccaneers now bestirred themselves to finish the two small vessels on which the carpenters had been for some time at work.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000008_000005.wav|Here, to make their peace with the authorities, they told all they knew of the position and purposes of their countrymen at Fort Caroline, and thus was forged the thunderbolt soon to be hurled against the wretched little colony.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000016.wav|Among these was the ringleader Fourneaux, and also the pilot Trenchant, who, eager to return to Fort Caroline, whence he had been forcibly taken, succeeded during the night in bringing the vessel to the coast of Florida.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000006_000002.wav|He found an ally in a gentleman named Genre, one of Laudonniere's confidants, who, while still professing fast adherence to his interests, is charged by him with plotting against his life.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000001.wav|The entire command was reorganized, and new officers appointed.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000013_000002.wav|Trenchant, an excellent pilot, was forced to join the party.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000011.wav|Embarking in her, they next fell in with a caravel, which also they captured.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000002.wav|The colony was wofully depleted; but the bad blood had been drawn off, and thenceforth all internal danger was at an end.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000006_000005.wav|On this, Genre made advances to the apothecary, urging him to put arsenic into his medicine; but the apothecary shrugged his shoulders.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000007_000001.wav|The malcontents took the opportunity to send home charges against Laudonniere of peculation, favoritism, and tyranny.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000006_000001.wav|But for Laudonniere, he said, their fortunes would all be made.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000011_000001.wav|The ringleader was one Fourneaux, a man of good birth, but whom Le Moyne calls an avaricious hypocrite.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000018_000000.wav|"These," retorted Laudonniere, "are no comrades of mutineers and rebels."|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000005_000000.wav|The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000008_000001.wav|When he returned, about the tenth of November, Laudonniere persuaded him to carry home seven or eight of the malcontent soldiers.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000004_000000.wav|In the little world of Fort Caroline, a miniature France, cliques and parties, conspiracy and sedition, were fast stirring into life. Hopes had been dashed, and wild expectations had come to naught.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000004_000002.wav|Gathered in knots, they nursed each other's wrath, and inveighed against the commandant.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000004_000001.wav|The adventurers had found, not conquest and gold, but a dull exile in a petty fort by a hot and sickly river, with hard labor, bad fare, prospective famine, and nothing to break the weary sameness but some passing canoe or floating alligator.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000018.wav|They chose the latter course, and bore away for the saint John's.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000012_000004.wav|The sick commandant, imprisoned in the ship with one attendant, at first refused; but receiving a message from the mutineers, that, if he did not comply, they would come on board and cut his throat, he at length yielded.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000013_000003.wav|Their favorite object was the plunder of a certain church on one of the Spanish islands, which they proposed to assail during the midnight mass of Christmas, whereby a triple end would be achieved: first, a rich booty; secondly, the punishment of idolatry; thirdly, vengeance on the arch enemies of their party and their faith.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000011_000000.wav|A severe illness again seized Laudonniere, and confined him to his bed. Improving their advantage, the malcontents gained over nearly all the best soldiers in the fort.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000004.wav|Laudonniere sent to reconnoitre. The stranger lay anchored at the mouth of the river.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000017_000000.wav|"Comrades," said one of the condemned, appealing to the soldiers, "will you stand by and see us butchered?"|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000016_000001.wav|A court martial was called near Fort Caroline, and all were found guilty.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000020.wav|As the wine mounted to their heads, in the mirth of drink and desperation, they enacted their own trial.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000011_000005.wav|It was late in the night.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000008_000003.wav|The exchange proved most disastrous. These pirates joined with others whom they had won over, stole Laudonniere's two pinnaces, and set forth on a plundering excursion to the West Indies.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000011_000007.wav|Forcing an entrance, they wounded a gentleman who opposed them, and crowded around the sick man's bed.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000014_000008.wav|Discomfited, woebegone, and drunk, they were landed under a guard.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000011_000008.wav|Fourneaux, armed with steel cap and cuirass, held his arquebuse to Laudonniere's throat, and demanded leave to go on a cruise among the Spanish islands.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000013_000004.wav|They set sail on the eighth of December, taunting those who remained, calling them greenhorns, and threatening condign punishment if, on their triumphant return, they should be refused free entrance to the fort.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000010_000000.wav|Laudonniere refused, but assured them that, as soon as the defences of the fort should be completed, a search should be begun in earnest for the Appalachian gold mine, and that meanwhile two small vessels then building on the river should be sent along the coast to barter for provisions with the Indians.|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3549/173591/3549_173591_000015_000000.wav|"Say what you like," said one of them, after hearing the counsel for the defence; "but if Laudonniere does not hang us all, I will never call him an honest man."|3549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000016_000000.wav|"I am sure Coo ee oh is punished," said Glinda, "for she has lost all her magic power and her grand palace and can no longer misrule the poor Skeezers."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000061_000001.wav|"I think I can find a way."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000058_000000.wav|"That is true," said Glinda the Good.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000043_000003.wav|Did Coo ee oh come here in the boat to meet the Flatheads before the island was sunk, or afterward?"|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000045_000000.wav|"Who are you, and where did you come from?" inquired the Wizard.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000020_000000.wav|"Handsome is as handsome does," replied the Scarecrow.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000053_000000.wav|"If you find you can make this boat obey your sorcery, you could have it return to the island, submerge itself, and enter the door in the basement from which it came.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000037_000001.wav|"If we could get that boat and row all over the lake, calling to the magic fishes, we might be able to find them."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000012_000001.wav|But soon their attention was caught by a more brilliant sight, for here was the Diamond Swan swimming just before them, its long neck arched proudly, the amethyst eyes gleaming and all the diamond sprinkled feathers glistening splendidly under the rays of the sun|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000034_000000.wav|"It seems to me," said the Wizard after a brief silence had followed Glinda's speech, "that there are three fishes in this lake that used to be Adepts at Magic and from whom Coo ee oh stole much of her knowledge. If we could find those fishes and return them to their former shapes, they could doubtless tell us what to do to bring the sunken island to the surface."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000025_000000.wav|"Nothing can add to my beauty, for I'm the most beautiful creature anywhere in the whole world."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000059_000000.wav|The little Wizard seemed to think that this was rather a forlorn hope.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000019_000002.wav|Admire me!"|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000056_000000.wav|"By making several trips in the boat, Glinda could fetch all your people to the shore," replied the Wizard.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000055_000000.wav|"And leave all of our people still imprisoned?" asked one of the Skeezers reproachfully.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000006_000001.wav|"I quite agree with you."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000028_000000.wav|"It's no use," said Button Bright; "the old Swan is too much in love with herself to think of anything else."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000024_000001.wav|Tell us that and I'll give you a string of pearls to wear around your neck and add to your beauty."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000033_000002.wav|I do not despair in the least, but it will require some deep study to solve this difficult problem.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000043_000000.wav|"It will not be necessary to use the boat for that purpose," replied Glinda.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000044_000000.wav|No one could answer that question, of course; but while they pondered the matter three young men advanced from the line of trees, and rather timidly bowed to the strangers.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000014_000000.wav|"She's wonderfully beautiful now," remarked the Frogman.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000041_000001.wav|But, most noble Sorceress, provided you can make the boat go, of what use will it be to us?"|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000039_000002.wav|There were no oars or sails, no machinery to make the boat go, and although Glinda promptly realized it was meant to be operated by witchcraft, she was not acquainted with that sort of magic.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000027_000002.wav|"Just watch me circle around and see me glitter!|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000008_000001.wav|These were set closely together, the branches, which came quite to the ground, being so tightly interlaced that even the Glass Cat could scarcely find a place to squeeze through.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000036_000000.wav|You will understand, of course, that had Glinda been at home in her castle, where the Great Book of Records was, she would have known that Ervic the Skeezer already had taken the gold and silver and bronze fishes from the lake.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000063_000000.wav|"Very well," agreed the Wizard.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000037_000000.wav|"I think I see a boat yonder on the shore," said Ojo the Munchkin boy, pointing to a place around the edge of the lake.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000033_000000.wav|"If it were just an ordinary sunken island," said the powerful sorceress, "there would be several ways by which I might bring it to the surface again.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000061_000000.wav|"That is something we must consider carefully," responded stately Glinda, with a serene smile.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000057_000001.wav|"They would have no homes and no place to go, and would be at the mercy of their enemies, the Flatheads."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000031_000000.wav|"But how?" asked Uncle Henry in a grave voice, for he could not bear to think of his dear niece Dorothy being out there under water; "how shall we do it?"|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000019_000000.wav|"Admire me, Strangers!|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000039_000001.wav|It was a mere shell of blackened steel, with a collapsible roof that, when in position, made the submarine watertight, but at present the roof rested in slots on either side of the magic craft.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000022_000000.wav|"Have you forgotten your former life?|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000050_000002.wav|As their island was under water and they could not get back to it, the three Skeezers had no place to go, and so had waited patiently beside their boat for something to happen.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000054_000001.wav|"If the boat would obey my commands to enter the basement door, it would also obey my commands to come out again, and I could bring Ozma and Dorothy back with me."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000040_000001.wav|After I have given a little thought to the matter, the boat will take us wherever we desire to go."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000006_000000.wav|"That is sensible," approved the Shaggy Man.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000005_000002.wav|Afterward we can visit the mountain and punish the cruel magician of the Flatheads."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000005_000001.wav|So I think our best plan will be to go to the Skeezer Country, raise the sunken island and save our friends and the imprisoned Skeezers.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000007_000000.wav|The others, too, seemed to think the Wizard's plan the best, and Glinda herself commended it, so on they marched toward the line of palm trees that hid the Skeezers' lake from view.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000043_000002.wav|What I am trying to discover is how the boat came to be on this shore, while the island on which it belongs is under water yonder.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000042_000000.wav|"Can't we use it to catch the three fishes?" asked Button Bright.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000039_000000.wav|They walked around the lake to where the boat was stranded upon the beach, but found it empty.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000021_000001.wav|What deeds can a swan do but swim around and give pleasure to all beholders?" said the sparkling bird.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000015_000000.wav|"It doesn't seem like much of a punishment," said Trot.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000018_000001.wav|Before anyone could speak Coo ee oh called to them in a rasping voice-for the voice of a swan is always harsh and unpleasant-and said with much pride:|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000012_000000.wav|Of course every eye was at first fixed upon this dome, where Ozma and Dorothy and the Skeezers were still fast prisoners.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000043_000001.wav|"Wherever in the lake the enchanted fishes may be, they will answer to my call.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000040_000000.wav|"However," said she, "the boat is merely a boat, and I believe I can make it obey a command of sorcery, as well as it did the command of witchcraft.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000027_000001.wav|If ever I knew I've forgotten, and I'm glad of it," was the response.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000009_000000.wav|"Here's a job for the Tin Woodman," said the Scarecrow.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000062_000000.wav|All of Ozma's counsellors applauded this sentiment, for they knew well the powers of the Sorceress.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000053_000001.wav|But I cannot see that our going to the sunken island would enable our friends to escape.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000058_000002.wav|I believe the best plan will be to summon the three fishes and learn from them how to raise the island."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000024_000000.wav|"Tell us, Coo ee oh," said Glinda earnestly, "if you can recall enough of your witchcraft to enable us to raise the sunken island to the surface of the lake.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000041_000000.wav|"Not all of us," returned the Wizard, "for it won't hold so many.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000023_000004.wav|Don't you admire my beauty, Strangers?"|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000046_000000.wav|"We are Skeezers," answered one of them, "and our home is on the Magic Isle of the Lake.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000047_000000.wav|"If you belong on the island, why are you here?" demanded Glinda.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000052_000000.wav|When they had gleaned all the information they could from these Skeezers, the Wizard said to Glinda:|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000049_000001.wav|The young men told how, in the night when they were asleep, their comrade Ervic had mysteriously disappeared, while the boat in some strange manner had floated to the shore and stranded upon the beach.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000008_000000.wav|Pretty soon they came to the palms.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000054_000000.wav|"Not so, friend Wizard," replied Glinda.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000050_000001.wav|They had searched in vain for three days for Ervic.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000051_000000.wav|Being questioned by Glinda and the Wizard, they told all they knew about Ozma and Dorothy and declared the two girls were still in the village under the Great Dome.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000053_000002.wav|We would only Join them as prisoners."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000023_000003.wav|I wouldn't go back to it if I could.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000001_000000.wav|Chapter Seventeen|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000050_000000.wav|That was all they knew.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000002_000000.wav|Under the Great Dome|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/149798/3994_149798_000051_000001.wav|They were quite safe and would be well cared for by Lady Aurex, now that the Queen who opposed them was out of the way.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000026_000001.wav|All around were low, wild looking hills.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000019_000002.wav|I was personally in a position to state that neither of these men could be lightly persuaded into such a step, and that neither of them would work for a small salary.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000004_000000.wav|PART one|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000010_000001.wav|The sociology professor struck a responsive chord in us: for since our earliest years we had wigwagged to each other as Boy Scouts, learned the finger alphabet of the deaf and dumb so that we might maintain communication during school hours, strung a telegraph wire between our two homes, admired Poe's "Gold Bug" together and devised boyish cipher codes in which to send each other postcards when chance separated us.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000023_000000.wav|I pondered on it a good deal, and could think of no hypothesis to account for it.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000024_000008.wav|During the last ten miles we met no traffic at all, and I was the only passenger left in the bus. Suddenly the vehicle stopped.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000026_000002.wav|The road went on ahead through a narrow pass.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000011_000001.wav|It turned out that both of us actually did devote our lives to the cause of communication; but the passing years saw us engaged in widely and curiously divergent phases of the work.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000007_000001.wav|The increase and refinement of this ability to communicate is an index of the degree of civilization of a people.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000020_000002.wav|The next letter announced his acceptance of the position.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000022_000000.wav|There followed several months of letters like that: a lot of words, evasion of coming to the point about anything; just conventional letters.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000016_000001.wav|At the time of which I now speak, the novelty had worn off, and no one paid any more attention to it than they do to Zion City or the Dunkards.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000021_000003.wav|He seemed to be writing merely to cover the sheet, trifles such as he had never previously considered worth writing letters about.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000013_000000.wav|That was the state of affairs between us up to a year ago.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000014_000002.wav|That the Science Community would want Benda was easy to understand; but, that it could outbid the New York Bell, was, to say the least, a surprise.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000031_000000.wav|An impertinent thing, that card was.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000009_000000.wav|As usual, the observation burst harmlessly over the heads of most of the students in the class, who were preoccupied with more immediate things-with the evening's movies and the week end's dance.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000021_000001.wav|His letters had always been crisp and direct, and thoroughly familiar and confidential.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000006_000000.wav|(This part is related by peter Hagstrom, p h d)|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000031_000003.wav|Sign here, the card said.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000012_000002.wav|We were just as close chums at the age of fifty as we had been at ten, and just as thrilled at new advances in communication: at television, at the international language, at the supposed signals from Mars.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000023_000001.wav|In the meanwhile, New York City lost a third technical man to the Science Community.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000009_000002.wav|It crystallized within them certain vague conceptions and brought them to a conscious focus, enabling the young men to turn formless dreams into concrete acts.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000016_000000.wav|The Science Community, situated in Virginia, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, had first been heard of many years ago, when it was already a going concern.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000021_000004.wav|Four pages of letter conveyed not a single idea.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000015_000002.wav|What the Science Community was, no one knew exactly; but that there was something abnormal, fanatical, about it, no one doubted.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000020_000004.wav|I should like to see them because I am curious as to whether they exhibit the characteristics of the subsequent letters, some of which I now have.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000030_000000.wav|"Nothing," he said curtly.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000021_000000.wav|As I have stated, Benda and I had been on the most intimate terms for forty years.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000024_000005.wav|It involved a drive of about fifty miles northwest, through a picturesque section of the country.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000009_000003.wav|That is why I take the position that the above enthusiastic words of this sociology professor, whose very name I have forgotten, were the prime moving influence which many years later succeeded in saving Occidental civilization from a catastrophe which would have been worse than death and destruction.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000007_000000.wav|"The ability to communicate ideas from one individual to another," said a professor of sociology to his class, "is the principal distinction between human beings and their brute forbears.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000012_000001.wav|But we still kept up our intimate friendship and our intense interest in our beloved subject.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000014_000000.wav|Of course, it was commonly known that Benda was being sought by Universities and corporations: I know personally of several tempting offers he had received.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000015_000000.wav|Furthermore, that a man like Benda would want to have anything at all to do with the Science Community seemed strange enough in itself.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000031_000002.wav|It looked for all the world as though they had something to conceal; Czarist Russia couldn't beat that for keeping track of people and prying into their business.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000011_000002.wav|Thirty years later, I was Professor of the Psychology of Language at Columbia University, and Benda was Maintenance Engineer of the Bell Telephone Company of New York City; and on his knowledge and skill depended the continuity and stability of that stupendously complex traffic, the telephone communication of Greater New York.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000015_000001.wav|He had the most practical common sense-well balanced habits of thinking and living, supported by an intellect so clear and so keen that I knew of none to excel it.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000021_000005.wav|Yet Benda was, if anything, a man of ideas.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000020_000003.wav|I would give a month's salary to get a look at those letters now; but I neglected to preserve them.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000017_000000.wav|So much, visitors and reporters were able to say.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000025_000000.wav|"Far as we go!" the driver shouted.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000016_000003.wav|It was modern to the highest degree in construction and operation; there was very little manual labor there; no poverty; every person had all the benefits of modern developments in power, transportation, and communication, and of all other resources provided by scientific progress.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000009_000001.wav|But upon two young men in the class, it made a powerful impression.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000021_000002.wav|I do not know just how many letters I received from him from the Science Community before I noted the difference, but I have one from the third month of his stay there (he wrote every two or three weeks), characterized by a verbosity that sounded strange for him.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000020_000001.wav|He had heard of the place, and while at Washington on business had taken advantage of the opportunity to drive out and see it. Fascinated by the equipment he saw there, he had decided to stay a few days and study it.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000028_000001.wav|A small, neat looking bus drove through the pass and stopped for me.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000022_000003.wav|Something had changed Benda.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000013_000001.wav|At about that time Benda resigned his position with the New York Bell Telephone Company to accept a place as the Director of Communication in the Science Community.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000023_000002.wav|Donald Francisco, Commissioner of the Water Supply, a sanitary engineer of international standing, accepted a position in the Science Community as Water Director.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000010_000002.wav|But we had always felt a little foolish about what we considered our childish hobbies, until the professor's words suddenly roused us to the realization that we were a highly civilized pair of youngsters.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000014_000001.wav|But the New York Bell is a wealthy corporation and had thus far managed to hold Benda, both by the munificence of its salary and by the attractiveness of the work it offered him.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000026_000000.wav|I looked about in consternation.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000024_000007.wav|The city of my destination was back in the hills, and very much isolated.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000010_000000.wav|One of these young men was myself, and the other was my lifelong friend and chum, Carl Benda, who saved his country by solving a tremendously difficult scientific puzzle in a simple way, by sheer reasoning power, and without apparatus.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000031_000001.wav|Besides asking for my name, address, nationality, vocation, and position, it requested that I state whom I was visiting in the Science Community, the purpose of my visit, the nature of my business, how long I intended to stay, did I have a place to stay arranged for, and if so, where and through whom.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000019_000000.wav|I knew Benda as well as I knew myself, and if I was sure of anything in my life, it was that he was not the type of man to leave a fifty thousand dollar job and join a communist city on an equal footing with the clerks in the stores.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000011_000000.wav|Not only did we then and there cease feeling guilty about our secret ciphers and our dots and dashes, but the determination was born within us to make of communication our life's work.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000024_000002.wav|The average man would have done that, but my long years of training in psychological interpretation told me that a character and a friendship built during forty years does not change in six months, and that there must be some other explanation for this.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000029_000001.wav|"What do I owe you?"|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000018_000003.wav|It was obvious that as an organization, the Science Community must also be wealthy.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000023_000003.wav|I did not know whether to laugh and compare it to the National Baseball League's trafficking in "big names," or to hunt for some sinister danger sign in it.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000024_000003.wav|I wrote him that I was coming.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000019_000001.wav|As it happens, I was also intimately acquainted with john Edgewater Smith, recently Power Commissioner of New York City and the most capable power engineer in North America, who, following Benda by two or three months, resigned his position, and accepted what his letter termed the place of Director of Power in the Science Community.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000030_000001.wav|"Fill that out." He handed me a card.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/11512/3994_11512_000013_000002.wav|This, for many reasons, was a most amazing piece of news to myself and to anyone who knew Benda.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000023_000002.wav|My delighted sister was soon in touch with a crowd of other little girls, and brought home many of their bright sayings for my edification.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000027_000003.wav|The sleeves, small at the wrist, were trimmed with folds of the material and a quilling of white lace at the hand.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000029_000000.wav|Did I look old fashioned?|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000025_000000.wav|Grandma was pleased that I was invited, and declared that she would send a liberal donation of milk and cheese as a mark of appreciation.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000029_000002.wav|Carry it carefully so it won't get mussed before the company see it, and come not back late for milking."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000027_000001.wav|Its wide skirt reached to my shoetops, and the gathers to its full waist were gauged to a sharp peak in front.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000032_000000.wav|They came to our house, and we had a hurried little talk with a closed window between us, and were favorably impressed by our tall "Brother Ben," who had very blue eyes and soft brown hair.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000020_000003.wav|I also expected to meet familiar faces in that great building, which had been the home of mr Jacob Leese.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000020_000005.wav|The bell rang, I followed to the recitation hall, and was assigned a seat below the rest, because I was the only small Sonoma girl yet enrolled.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000011_000001.wav|So when he came to us from the sick room, soured and crestfallen because disease had deeply pitted and seamed that feature which had formerly been his pride, she laughingly whispered, "Well, I don't care, my nose could never look like his, even if I had the smallpox, for there is not so much of it to spoil."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000010_000000.wav|He was then a handsome, rugged fellow, and particularly proud of the shape of his nose.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000003_000003.wav|She did not expose us during what she termed the "catching stage," but after that had passed, she called us to share her work and become familiar with its details, and taught us how to brew the teas, make the ointments, and apply them.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000027_000000.wav|There, I wore a dark calico dress and sun bonnet, both made by poor mrs McCutchen of the Donner Party, who had to take in sewing for a livelihood; but to the Seminary, I should wear grandpa's gift, a costly alpaca, changeable in the sunlight to soft mingling bluish and greenish colors of the peacock.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000017_000001.wav|When she came back speaking English, and insisting that she was an American, grandma became very angry, and threatened to send her away among strangers; then hesitated, as if realizing how fully Georgia belonged to me and I to her, and that we would cling together whatever might happen.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000031_000003.wav|But the most aggravating feature of the illness was that it developed the week that sister Elitha and mr Benjamin w Wilder were married in Sacramento; and when they reached Sonoma on their wedding tour, we could not visit with them, because neither had had the disease.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000005_000000.wav|The other was our arch enemy, Castle, who seemed so near death that one night as grandma was peering into the darkness for signal lights from the homes of the sick, she exclaimed impulsively, "Hark, children! there goes the Catholic bell.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000032_000001.wav|He was the second of the three Wilder brothers, who had been among the early gold seekers, and tried roughing it in the mines.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000032_000002.wav|Though a native of Rhode Island, and of Puritan ancestry, he was quite Western in appearance.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000011_000000.wav|Georgia fled, and cried in anger over this indignity, declaring that she hated Castle and would not be sorry if something should happen to spoil his fine nose.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000020_000000.wav|We were also allowed to go to Sunday school oftener, and later, she sent me part of the term to the select school for girls recently established by dr Ver Mehr, an Episcopalian clergyman.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000033_000001.wav|He was also interested in a stage line running between Sacramento and the gold regions.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000020_000001.wav|In fact, my tuition was expected to offset the school's milk bill, yet that did not lessen my enthusiasm.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000003_000000.wav|These whispered comments, which did not improve our situation, suddenly ceased, for the smallpox made its appearance in Sonoma, and helpers were needed to care for the afflicted.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000026_000001.wav|Turkey, chicken, and wild duck, at the ends; a whole roasted pig in the centre, and more than enough delicious accompaniments to cover the spaces between.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000029_000001.wav|Yes, for grandma said, "Thou art like a picture I saw somewhere long ago." Then she continued brightly, "Here are thy mits, and thy little embroidered handkerchief folded in a square.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000004_000002.wav|Grandma was called hurriedly in the night, because the afflicted girl, in delirium, had loosened the straps which held her upon her bed, and while her attendant was out of the room had rushed from the house into the rain, and was not found until after she had become thoroughly drenched.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000006_000000.wav|She was right.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000031_000000.wav|"Mumps.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000026_000000.wav|I caught much of Georgia's spirit of delight, for I had a vivid recollection of the grand dinner given in commemoration of our very first legally appointed Thanksgiving Day in California; I had only to close my eyes, and in thought would reappear the longest and most bountifully spread table I had ever seen.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000003_000002.wav|In fact, she had such confidence in her method of treating it, that she would not have Georgia and me vaccinated while the epidemic prevailed, insisting that if we should take the disease she could nurse us through it without disfigurement, and we would thenceforth be immune.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000016_000000.wav|Poor grandma was conscience stricken, drew me into her own room, and did not let me leave it until after she had soothed my hurts and we had become friends again.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000020_000002.wav|I was eager for knowledge.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000006_000003.wav|Yet months previous, he had laid the foundation for her mirth.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000010_000002.wav|Now, look at mine, large and finely shaped.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000004_000000.wav|I do not remember a death among her patients, and only two who were badly disfigured.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000006_000002.wav|He conceived a special grudge against Georgia, whom he had caught slyly laughing when she first observed the change in his appearance.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000001_000001.wav|MARY'S HALL-THANKSGIVING DAY IN CALIFORNIA-ANOTHER BROTHER IN LAW.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000015_000001.wav|I raised my sleeve, showed the welt on my arm, and replied, "I am going to see if I can't find a home where they will treat me kindly."|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000021_000002.wav|Nor was there a class for me.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000019_000003.wav|Sometimes she would let us bring her, from under the sofa, her gorgeous prints, illustrating "Wilhelm Tell," and would repeat the text relating to the scenes as we examined each picture with eager interest.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000006_000001.wav|Later he came to us to recuperate, and was the most exacting and profane man we ever waited on.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000031_000002.wav|True enough, the least taste of anything sour produced the tell tale shock.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000027_000002.wav|A wide open V from the shoulder down to the peak displayed an embroidered white Swiss chemisette.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000019_000000.wav|Thereafter grandma changed her methods.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000030_000000.wav|The Seminary playground was so noisy with chatter and screams of joy, that it was impossible to remember all the games we played; and later the dining room and its offerings were so surprising and so beautifully decorated that the sight nearly deprived me of my appetite.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000005_000001.wav|Count its strokes.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3994/156757/3994_156757_000017_000000.wav|Georgia went to mrs Bergwald's, and remained quite a while.|3994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000005_000000.wav|These pirates, a bad lot of men, used to wait for sailors to be shipwrecked on their shores.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000018_000000.wav|"See!" cried Dab Dab.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000017_000001.wav|I smell trouble.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000025_000001.wav|Then the ends of these strings were tied on to the front of the ship; and the swallows took hold of the strings with their feet and flew off, pulling the boat along.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000019_000000.wav|"They are bad sailors," said Jip; "and their ship is very swift.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000005_000001.wav|And often, if they saw a boat passing, they would come out in their fast sailing ships and chase it.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000020_000000.wav|"Well, we must put up more sails on our boat," said the Doctor, "so we can go faster and get away from them.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000004_000000.wav|SAILING homeward, the Doctor's ship had to pass the coast of Barbary. This coast is the seashore of the Great Desert.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000007_000001.wav|"I have a feeling it isn't a friendly ship.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000008_000000.wav|Jip, who was lying near taking a nap in the sun, began to growl and talk in his sleep.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000021_000000.wav|The dog hurried downstairs and dragged up every sail he could find.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000017_000005.wav|Then he barked, loud, and woke himself up with a surprised look on his face.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000017_000003.wav|I want to help him.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000009_000000.wav|"I smell roast beef cooking," he mumbled-"underdone roast beef-with brown gravy over it."|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000015_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, he could," said Dab Dab.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000018_000002.wav|You can count its three big sails-all red.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000023_000002.wav|Look how near they are now!-- You can see the mustaches on the faces of the men-six of them.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000026_000000.wav|And although swallows are not very strong when only one or two are by themselves, it is different when there are a great lot of them together.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000018_000004.wav|I wonder who they are."|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000010_000000.wav|"Good gracious!" cried the Doctor.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000028_000000.wav|And all the animals on the ship began to laugh and dance about in the rushing air, for when they looked back at the pirates' ship, they could see that it was growing smaller now, instead of bigger.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000025_000000.wav|When the swallows heard this, they all came down on to the Doctor's ship; and they told him to unravel some pieces of long rope and make them into a lot of thin strings as quickly as he could.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000012_000000.wav|"But what is he smelling?" asked the Doctor.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000005_000003.wav|Then they used to make the people they had caught write home to their friends for money.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000023_000003.wav|What are we going to do?"|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000010_000001.wav|"What's the matter with the dog? Is he SMELLING in his sleep-as well as talking?"|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000018_000001.wav|"That boat is nearer now.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000004_000002.wav|And it was here that the Barbary pirates lived.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126861/101_126861_000023_000000.wav|"This is a poor ship the Prince gave us," said Gub Gub, the pig-"the slowest he could find, I should think.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000023_000000.wav|At last the Prince lifted his face up out of the basin, breathing very hard.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000033_000002.wav|And who knows?--he may stay white after all."|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000011_000000.wav|"White Man, I am an unhappy prince.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000046_000000.wav|And in the silent moonlight john Dolittle spoke:|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000011_000004.wav|But when she saw my face she cried out, 'Oh, he's black!' And she ran away and wouldn't marry me-but went to sleep again somewhere else.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000005_000001.wav|So Gub Gub went and woke the Doctor who was taking a nap.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000005_000000.wav|She found Gub Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking smells that came from the palace kitchen. She told the pig to bring the Doctor to the window because she wanted to speak to him.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000044_000000.wav|And then they all looked up.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000020_000000.wav|When he came back and said that it was done, the Doctor asked Dab Dab to bring a basin.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000010_000000.wav|Well, that night Prince Bumpo came secretly to the Doctor in prison and said to him,|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000045_000002.wav|When they began to settle on the sands, along the ropes of the ship-anywhere and everywhere except the trees-the Doctor could see that they had blue wings and white breasts and very short, feathered legs.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000017_000000.wav|"Yes, all over," said Bumpo-"and I would like my eyes blue too, but I suppose that would be very hard to do."|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000032_000002.wav|Serve him right, if he does turn black again!|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000026_000000.wav|Bumpo begged that he might keep the looking glass, as it was the only one in the Kingdom of Jolliginki, and he wanted to look at himself all day long.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000022_000000.wav|He held it there a long time-so long that the Doctor seemed to get dreadfully anxious and fidgety, standing first on one leg and then on the other, looking at all the bottles he had used for the mixture, and reading the labels on them again and again.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000035_000001.wav|After all, 'handsome is as handsome does.'"|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000042_000000.wav|And Jip, with his nose pointing and his tail quite straight, said,|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000008_000004.wav|He'll do anything for you if you change his color.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000022_000001.wav|A strong smell filled the prison, like the smell of brown paper burning.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000033_000000.wav|"But HE didn't have anything to do with it," said the Doctor.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000018_000004.wav|You have a strong skin-yes?|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000036_000000.wav|"I don't believe the poor booby found The Sleeping Beauty at all," said Jip, the dog.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000006_000001.wav|And you've got to find some way to turn him white.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000047_000005.wav|Pull up the anchor and set the sail!"|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000035_000000.wav|"Still, he had a good heart," said the Doctor-"romantic, of course-but a good heart.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000045_000000.wav|And presently all these birds came down close, skimming over the water and the land; and the night sky was left clear above, and the moon shone as before.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000043_000000.wav|"Birds!--millions of them-flying fast-that's it!"|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000030_000004.wav|But I had to do something, didn't I?--I couldn't possibly scrub the King's kitchen for the rest of my life.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000036_000004.wav|Silly business!"|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000018_000003.wav|I might have to try two or three times.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000030_000005.wav|It was such a dirty kitchen!--I could see it from the prison window.--Well, well!--Poor Bumpo!"|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000013_000000.wav|"No," said Bumpo.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000047_000002.wav|For these are the swallows going back. Swallows, I thank you for waiting for us.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000014_000001.wav|You only want your face white, do you not?"|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000041_000001.wav|It seemed to be coming nearer to them-a sound like the Autumn wind blowing through the leaves of a poplar tree, or a great, great rain beating down upon a roof.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000040_000000.wav|But even while he was wondering, they heard a strange whispering noise, high in the air, coming through the night.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000027_000001.wav|And the Doctor with all his animals ran as fast as they could down to the seashore; while Bumpo leaned against the wall of the empty dungeon, smiling after them happily, his big face shining like polished ivory in the light of the moon.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000009_000000.wav|"Well, I suppose it MIGHT be possible," said the Doctor.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000008_000005.wav|It is your only chance to get out of prison."|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000015_000000.wav|"Yes, that is all," said Bumpo.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000008_000000.wav|"I don't know anything about that," said Polynesia impatiently.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000018_000006.wav|Now come over here by the light-Oh, but before I do anything, you must first go down to the beach and get a ship ready, with food in it, to take me across the sea.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000028_000000.wav|When they came to the beach they saw Polynesia and Chee Chee waiting for them on the rocks near the ship.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000011_000008.wav|If you will turn me white, so that I may go back to The Sleeping Beauty, I will give you half my kingdom and anything besides you ask."|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000018_000001.wav|"Well, I will do what I can for you.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000003_000000.wav|MEDICINE AND MAGIC|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000038_000000.wav|And when the Doctor stood upon the boat, he looked over the side across the water.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000027_000000.wav|Then the Prince, taking a bunch of copper keys from his pocket, undid the great double locks.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000011_000007.wav|So I come to you for help.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000040_000001.wav|And the animals all stopped saying Good by and listened.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000048_000000.wav|When the ship moved out upon the water, those who stayed behind, Chee Chee, Polynesia and the crocodile, grew terribly sad.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000044_000003.wav|There were so many that for a little they covered the whole moon so it could not shine, and the sea grew dark and black-like when a storm cloud passes over the sun|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000031_000000.wav|"Oh, of course he will know we were just joking with him," said the parrot.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000029_000000.wav|"I feel sorry about Bumpo," said the Doctor.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000007_000001.wav|"But it isn't so easy to turn a black man white.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000011_000005.wav|So I came back, full of sadness, to my father's kingdom.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126860/101_126860_000047_000001.wav|It will be nearly Summer when we get home.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000019_000001.wav|Whenever she said nothing and blinked her eyes, it meant that somebody had been making trouble, and she was thinking out some way to put things right.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000009_000000.wav|Chee Chee, when he could not see them anywhere, was terribly upset.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000016_000000.wav|"This is a great nuisance," said the Doctor.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000009_000001.wav|He climbed high trees and looked out from the top branches to try and see the Doctor's high hat; he waved and shouted; he called to all the animals by name.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000007_000000.wav|"What I am wondering," said the Doctor, "is where we are going to get another boat to go home in....|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000029_000000.wav|"Bumpo, some one might turn thee into a white prince perchance."|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000013_000002.wav|This time you shall not escape.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000010_000001.wav|They had strayed a long way off the path, and the jungle was so thick with bushes and creepers and vines that sometimes they could hardly move at all, and the Doctor had to take out his pocket knife and cut his way along.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000024_000000.wav|And there, sure enough, was Prince Bumpo, the King's son, opening the garden gate.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000019_000002.wav|People who made trouble for Polynesia or her friends were nearly always sorry for it afterwards.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000028_000000.wav|Then the parrot, talking in a small, high voice like a little girl, said aloud,|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000010_000003.wav|There seemed no end to their troubles; and nowhere could they come upon a path.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000009_000003.wav|They seemed to have disappeared altogether.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000035_000000.wav|"Farewell!" cried the Prince.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000014_000001.wav|And the Doctor was told that in the morning he must begin scrubbing the kitchen floor.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000005_000000.wav|Afterwards, when the Doctor and his pets were going on alone, Polynesia said,|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000023_000000.wav|"It was all that stupid pig's fault," said Polynesia.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000013_000003.wav|Take them all back to prison and put double locks on the door.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000033_000000.wav|"Oh tell me, Fairy Queen," cried Bumpo, clasping his hands in joy, "who is it can turn me white?"|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000008_000000.wav|One day, while they were passing through a very thick part of the forest, Chee Chee went ahead of them to look for cocoanuts.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000032_000001.wav|For 'tis I, Tripsitinka, the Queen of the Fairies, that speak to thee.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000035_000001.wav|"A thousand thanks, good Tripsitinka!"|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000021_000001.wav|"We lost our way in the jungle and blundered into the palace garden by mistake."|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000031_000002.wav|Strange!"|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000030_000000.wav|The King's son started up off the seat and looked all around.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000008_000001.wav|And while he was away, the Doctor and the rest of the animals, who did not know the jungle paths so well, got lost in the deep woods.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000025_000000.wav|Chee Chee and Polynesia watched him, keeping very quiet and still.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000020_000000.wav|Presently she spied Chee Chee swinging through the trees still looking for the Doctor.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000034_000003.wav|Go to him, brave Bumpo, secretly, when the sun has set; and behold, thou shalt be made the whitest prince that ever won fair lady!|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000034_000004.wav|I have said enough.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000003_000000.wav|BY the edge of the river they stopped and said farewell.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000006_000000.wav|"We must tread softly and talk low as we go through the land of the Jolliginki.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000017_000002.wav|Then Gub Gub began to cry again.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000013_000004.wav|This White Man shall scrub my kitchen floor for the rest of his life!"|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000009_000002.wav|But it was no use.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000002_000000.wav|THE BLACK PRINCE|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000023_000002.wav|And I was kept so busy catching him and bringing him back, that I turned to the left, instead of the right, when we reached the swamp.--Sh!--Look!|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000010_000000.wav|Indeed they had lost their way very badly.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000011_000001.wav|The King's men came running up at once and caught them.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000013_000001.wav|"So you are caught again!|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000024_000001.wav|He carried a book of fairy tales under his arm.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000011_000000.wav|At last, after blundering about like this for many days, getting their clothes torn and their faces covered with mud, they walked right into the King's back garden by mistake.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000014_000000.wav|So the Doctor and his pets were led back to prison and locked up.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000006_000001.wav|If the King should hear us, he will send his soldiers to catch us again; for I am sure he is still very angry over the trick I played on him."|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000020_000001.wav|When Chee Chee saw her, he came into her tree and asked her what had become of him.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/101/126859/101_126859_000024_000002.wav|He came strolling down the gravel walk, humming a sad song, till he reached a stone seat right under the tree where the parrot and the monkey were hiding.|101
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000015_000000.wav|fifty three.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000010_000000.wav|fifty two.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000013_000003.wav|Usually it is fed to the babies and weaker children.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000005.wav|If rice boiler is used there should be at least two inches of broth above the mixture.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000003.wav|When the chicken is nearly done, add the fried rice and onions to the chicken and chicken broth.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000028_000001.wav|Cocoanut Rice.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000008.wav|Cook until the broth is absorbed, then steam.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000019_000000.wav|Pullao is the most festive dish in India.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000009_000000.wav|The process is very simple.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000018_000000.wav|fifty four.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000014_000003.wav|After the water in the lower vessel has boiled a while, if the rice seems a little dry, add more water.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000030_000000.wav|fifty nine.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000006.wav|If you have no rice boiler, but must boil it on the stove, more broth will be required.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000014_000000.wav|There is another method of preparing rice which is almost as satisfactory, and by which all the nutrition is retained.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000029_000002.wav|Boil the rice and cocoanut together, being sure to add to the water the cocoanut milk.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000011_000002.wav|Then throw in the rice, and give it an occasional stir until the water begins to boil again.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000019_000001.wav|It stands for all that roast turkey does in this country.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000022_000001.wav|Beef or Mutton Pullao.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000018_000001.wav|Pullao.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000036_000007.wav|When cold, cut into squares and serve like fudge.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000023_000000.wav|Very delicious pullao may be made from the cheapest cuts of beef and mutton.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000013_000002.wav|In India this is not the case, for every ounce of rice water is there carefully saved. It is used in various ways.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000023_000003.wav|Boil with this a little bag of mixed spices and two onions.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000031_000001.wav|Take cold meat and gravy and stew together with onion.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000017_000001.wav|Shred it finely and return to the broth.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000011_000000.wav|For every cup of rice have about eight cups of water.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000031_000002.wav|When the onion is nearly done, add to the broth the rice.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000014_000004.wav|Cook until the rice is soft, then turn the fire very low, so that the water in the lower vessel does not boil but retains its heat.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000011_000001.wav|Do not add the rice until the water is boiling briskly.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000014_000001.wav|That is by cooking it in a regular rice boiler.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000005_000000.wav|Rice.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000000.wav|Fry three onions, six tomatoes, two peppers or pimentos together.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000032_000000.wav|sixty.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000024_000000.wav|fifty six.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000036_000005.wav|Press in plates and sprinkle well with minced almonds, or any kind of nuts will do.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000022_000000.wav|fifty five.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000012_000004.wav|Rice served with curry is always prepared in this way.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000012_000001.wav|Drain off the water and pour over the rice several cups of cold water.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000026_000001.wav|Pea Pullao.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000006.wav|In that case fry the onions and peppers and rice together.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000012_000000.wav|Cook until a grain feels soft when rubbed between the thumb and finger, then turn into a colander.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000004.wav|Put all in a rice boiler if you have it and cook slowly until the rice is done. Retain the spices.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000016_000000.wav|This is the first solid food that babies of English or American parents in India are allowed.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000012_000002.wav|Drain that off, too, and place the rice where it can have moist heat for a while before serving.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000003.wav|After the rice has browned a little, add the two together, turn into a rice boiler or steamer and cook until rice is tender.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000036_000003.wav|It can hardly be cooked too much.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000028_000000.wav|fifty eight.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000031_000004.wav|Cook all together until rice is thoroughly done.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000034_000001.wav|Fried Rice (Parsi).|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000036_000001.wav|Cook until the sugar melts and begins to bubble; then quickly add two cups of boiling water.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000029_000003.wav|There should be about three inches of liquid above the rice.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000008_000000.wav|In the first place, very few know how to cook just plain boiled rice. Many know that there is a way of preparing it so that when done it will be a fluffy mass of separate grains, but they have no idea how to go about making it look like this.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000013_000000.wav|There is one objection, however, to rice prepared in this way.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000011_000003.wav|After that it need not be stirred.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000001.wav|They must all be cut into small bits.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000005.wav|In case tomatoes are not in season, a can of tomatoes, or, better, a large sized can of tomato soup will do nicely.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000031_000003.wav|A quarter as much uncooked rice as there is meat is a good proportion.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000002.wav|In another pan fry a cup of rice in a very little oil or crisco.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000031_000000.wav|A very nice way of making hash is to use rice instead of potatoes.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000000.wav|For chicken pullao, take a good fat hen, not too old, cut up and stew until almost tender.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000036_000004.wav|Remove from the fire, pour over all a half ounce of rose water and stir well.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000014_000002.wav|Put just enough water over the rice to well cover it.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000035_000000.wav|(A fine dish for a missionary tea.)|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000013_000004.wav|Often it is given to ducks and fowl to fatten them, and sometimes it is put into the curry pot.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000006_000000.wav|As a rule rice is badly cooked in the average American home.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000012_000005.wav|It may be served in place of potatoes with meat, and may also be used as a basis for many inexpensive and attractive dishes, just as macaroni and spaghetti are.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000009_000001.wav|Always use the unpolished rice.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000019_000004.wav|In India it is usually made with chicken, but any kind of meat does nicely.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000019_000002.wav|At weddings, feasts, and holidays it is the chief dish.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000026_000000.wav|fifty seven.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000010_000001.wav|Plain Boiled Rice.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000017_000002.wav|Cook a tablespoonful of rice in this broth and shredded mutton.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000023_000005.wav|Two cups of rice will be the right amount to use with two pounds of meat. Use the same method that is used in making chicken pullao.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000023_000002.wav|Cook until it is very tender.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000015_000001.wav|Baby's Pesh Pash.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000017_000003.wav|Cook slowly and let every grain swell to its utmost.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000020_000007.wav|In the latter case do not cook until it becomes soggy.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000025_000004.wav|A half cupful of grated or diced cheese is an improvement to this dish.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000032_000001.wav|Rice Cutlets.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000027_000001.wav|Pour over the mixture a half cupful of milk or cream; add a tablespoonful of butter or crisco, and cook in a rice boiler or steamer until the peas are nicely done.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/163935/1335_163935_000029_000001.wav|A ten cent tin of Baker's cocoanut does very nicely if one doesn't care to prepare the fresh cocoanut.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/160602/1335_160602_000001_000000.wav|CLOVER BLOSSOM.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/160602/1335_160602_000009_000000.wav|"Most joyfully will we do our best, dear Queen," said the Elves, as they folded their wings beside her.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/160602/1335_160602_000008_000000.wav|"Now," said the Queen, "call hither Moon light and Summer Wind, for they have seen many pleasant things in their long wanderings, and will gladly tell us them."|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/160602/1335_160602_000007_000000.wav|"Ah, that is very lovely," cried the Elves, gathering round little Sunbeam as she ceased, to place a garland in her hair and praise her song.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000006.wav|Brush them with the well beaten yolk of an egg, sprinkle with fine bread crumbs, and fry in butter to a light brown. Serve with green peas in the center of the dish.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000015_000000.wav|Puree of Chestnuts with Chops|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000008_000002.wav|Let it cook two minutes, take from the fire and stir in the yolks of six eggs beaten well with one half cup of cream.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000017_000000.wav|Lamb Chops a la Nesselrode|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000005_000000.wav|Terrapin|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000012_000005.wav|Repeat with each chop, and when cold roll each in beaten egg and cracker crumbs, and fry a light brown.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000012_000004.wav|Place a chop on top of this, cover it with another spoonful of the mixture and dust with cracker crumbs.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000012_000002.wav|Stir in six ounces of flour. Then add two cups of milk and cook until the mixture is thick and smooth.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000005.wav|Cover the chops with this and set aside to cool.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000016_000001.wav|Shell them, season with salt and pepper, add a piece of butter and wet with milk.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000025_000004.wav|Serve with a browned veal gravy and sliced lemon.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000031_000004.wav|Stir well and then add the macaroni with one pound of sweetbreads, cut in small pieces and two dozen Eastern oysters.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000025_000000.wav|Lard lamb cutlets with strips of truffle, anchovy and gherkin.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000003_000002.wav|Put them in a saucepan with a pint of stock, two small onions and one carrot chopped, a teaspoonful of minced parsley, salt, pepper, cayenne, and a little mace.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000004_000000.wav|Serve with a mushroom sauce, made as follows: Take a small bottle of mushrooms or one dozen fresh mushrooms sliced and boil them five minutes in water and lime juice.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000029_000003.wav|Fill the dish and on the top layer put truffles.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000000.wav|Fry one dozen lamb chops in butter and set aside to cool.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000029_000001.wav|Simmer very slowly until the gravy is all absorbed, shaking the pan occasionally.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000003_000003.wav|Stew until tender.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000006_000001.wav|Rub into a paste the yolks of six hard boiled eggs, half the white of one egg chopped, one tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of flour, three whole cloves, salt, pepper, cayenne and mace.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000027_000002.wav|Simmer fifteen minutes.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000027_000001.wav|Add half a dozen tomatoes peeled and cut up, salt and pepper.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000010_000000.wav|Simmer a calves' head for two hours.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000010_000004.wav|Thicken the sauce with flour rubbed into butter and serve with the calves' head.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000031_000003.wav|Add one cup of cream, stir until very smooth, add the beaten yolks of eight eggs and one can of mushrooms sliced.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000021_000002.wav|Serve the remaining sauce over them in a very hot dish.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000028_000000.wav|Macaroni a la Rossini|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000003.wav|Cook a few minutes.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000026_000000.wav|Eggs with Tomatoes|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000019_000002.wav|Add the juice of a lime, take from the fire and stir in the well beaten yolks of two eggs.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000012_000003.wav|Dust a plate with cracker crumbs and on this place a spoonful of the fried mixture.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000027_000000.wav|Fry in two ounces of butter two small dry onions and two green peppers, chopped.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000018_000005.wav|Then with a biscuit cutter, cut it into rounds about the size of a chop.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000007_000000.wav|Frogs a la Poulette|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000018_000006.wav|On each one of these rounds place a chop and cover the top with Bechamel sauce.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000018_000003.wav|Cook for half an hour or until pasty.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000027_000005.wav|Place in the oven until set.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000016_000002.wav|Mash through a colander and heap lightly on a platter, arranging broiled chops around the puree.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000027_000003.wav|Add the corn cut from half a dozen ears, and cook fifteen minutes longer.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000012_000001.wav|Remove them and in the same butter place two onions, sliced, four green peppers minced, one can of mushrooms minced, and two stalks of celery chopped; salt, pepper, cayenne, and the juice of a lime. Cook until these ingredients are soft.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000014_000003.wav|Then remove from the fire and beat in the yolks of two eggs which have been mixed with the juice of a lime and a tablespoonful of water.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000031_000000.wav|Boil one half pound of macaroni in water for five minutes.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000019_000000.wav|A good recipe for the Bechamel sauce is the following: One ounce of butter browned with one ounce of flour.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000010_000001.wav|Tie the brains in a cloth, put them in the saucepan with the head and cook two hours longer.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000001.wav|Put in a stew pan two ounces of butter with half a can of mushrooms, one small onion and a teaspoonful of parsley, all minced fine; salt, pepper, cayenne and a little mace.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000004_000002.wav|Cook until the sauce is reduced one half.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000000_000000.wav|ENTREES|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000031_000001.wav|Cut in inch length pieces and simmer for twenty minutes in one quart of milk, being careful that it does not boil.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000002_000000.wav|Sweetbreads with Mushrooms|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000020_000000.wav|Devil Chops|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000023_000002.wav|Cook this gently for ten minutes and add a cup of milk thickened with flour and butter, the juice of a lemon and one teaspoonful of sugar.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000030_000000.wav|Timbale of Macaroni for Twelve Persons|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000031_000002.wav|Season with salt, pepper, mace and cayenne.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000016_000000.wav|Boil chestnuts in salted water for twenty minutes.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000029_000004.wav|Place in the oven a few minutes and serve with grated Parmesan cheese on a separate dish.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000019_000001.wav|To this add half a glass of sherry, some finely chopped truffles, one cup and a half of stock, salt and pepper, and cook for ten minutes.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000010_000002.wav|Then extract the bones and cut the meat in pieces, return it to the saucepan without the brains, adding two ounces of butter, two dozen stoned olives, one dozen cloves, salt, pepper, cayenne, and a cup of white wine.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000029_000002.wav|Put a layer of the macaroni in a baking dish, sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese and sliced truffles mixed with a little good sauce espagnole.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000006_000003.wav|Cook slowly for twenty minutes.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000025_000002.wav|Put this on each side of the cutlets and cover with crepinette.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000003_000000.wav|Lay half a dozen sweetbreads in cold water for twelve hours, changing the water several times.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000003_000001.wav|Then boil them five minutes, drop into cold water, remove the skin and lard with fat bacon.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000021_000000.wav|Make a dressing of the following ingredients mixed together: One ounce of butter, one teaspoonful of made mustard, one half teaspoonful of French mustard, one teaspoonful of grated horseradish, one teaspoonful of chutney, a little Chili vinegar, the juice of one lime, salt, pepper and cayenne.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000018_000002.wav|Then add a glass of sherry and stir it well before adding also a cup of rice, four cups of stock, several sweet Chili peppers chopped and some salt.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000012_000000.wav|Trim twelve lamb chops very closely and fry lightly in six ounces of butter.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000006_000000.wav|Boil the terrapin for one hour, and clean carefully.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000024_000000.wav|Lamb Cutlets a la Condi|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000027_000004.wav|Pour the mixture into a baking dish, and break over it six eggs.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000006_000004.wav|Add three glasses of sherry and madeira and allow it to boil once, when it is ready to serve.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000008_000000.wav|Joint the hind legs and backs of twelve frogs; put in a closely covered saucepan with some truffles, a small can of mushrooms sliced, a glass of white wine, salt, white pepper, cayenne, mace and four ounces of butter.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000021_000001.wav|Rub this on the chops and broil rare.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000004_000003.wav|Pour over the hot sweetbreads.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000008_000003.wav|Place this mixture where it will keep hot without cooking.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000018_000007.wav|When cold dip in egg and bread crumbs and fry a light brown.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000014_000000.wav|Boil four calves' feet until tender.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000014_000005.wav|When cold cut into slices, brush with egg and bread crumbs and fry in butter until a light brown.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000008_000004.wav|Cut the crust from a loaf of bread, scoop out the center, brush with butter and brown in the oven.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000008_000005.wav|Pour the frogs legs and sauce into the bread cup, garnish with mushrooms and truffles.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000008_000001.wav|Stew gently fifteen minutes, stirring once or twice. If then tender, add one teaspoonful cornstarch rubbed into one ounce of butter.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1335/27593/1335_27593_000010_000003.wav|Cook for one hour, then add the brains cut in bits, the shaved peel and piece of one lemon and three hard boiled eggs sliced. Cook thirty minutes.|1335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000054_000002.wav|The problem to be solved was to choose such an orbit and such a law of speed, for both the earth and Mars, that a line joining them, produced out to the stars, should always mark correctly the apparent position of Mars as seen from the earth.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000075_000004.wav|No money could be got at Prague, so after a short time he accepted a professorship at Linz, and withdrew with his two quite young remaining children.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000030_000000.wav|The imagined discovery is purely fictitious and accidental.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000004.wav|Strange that he had not thought of it before. It was a famous curve, for the Greek geometers had studied it as one of the sections of a cone, but it was not so well known in Kepler's time. The fact that the planets move in it has raised it to the first importance, and it is familiar enough to us now.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000015_000000.wav|The one, rich, noble, vigorous, passionate, strong in mechanical ingenuity and experimental skill, but not above the average in theoretical and mathematical power.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000062_000001.wav|For the enemy left at home a despised captive has burst all the chains of the equations, and broken forth from the prisons of the tables."|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000036_000001.wav|Part of the hesitation Kepler expresses by saying that "for observations his sight was dull, and for mechanical operations his hand was awkward.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000002_000002.wav|Ultimately discovered the connection between the times and distances of the planets for which he had been groping all his mature life, and announced it in sixteen eighteen:--|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000046_000000.wav|The Imperial funds were by this time, however, so taxed by wars and other difficulties that the tables could only be proceeded with very slowly, a staff of calculators being out of the question.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000076_000002.wav|We do not find that his circumstances were ever prosperous, and though eight thousand crowns were due to him from Bohemia he could not manage to get them paid.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000095_000001.wav|Astronomy is so clear and so thoroughly explored now, that it is difficult to put oneself into a contemporary attitude.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000033_000001.wav|Kepler tried to establish some propelling force emanating from the sun, like the spokes of a windmill.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000065_000000.wav|Now, however, the geometrical and mathematical difficulties of calculation, which before had been tedious and oppressive, threatened to become overwhelming; and it is with a rising sense of despondency that Kepler sees his six years' unremitting labour leading deeper and deeper into complication.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000096_000000.wav|We have passed through the stage of ascribing atmospheric disturbances-thunderstorms, cyclones, earthquakes, and the like-to supernatural agency; we have had our Copernican era: not perhaps brought about by a single individual, but still achieved.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000095_000002.wav|But take some other science still barely developed: meteorology, for instance.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000063_000000.wav|Still, a part of the truth had been gained, and was not to be abandoned any more.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000023_000001.wav|Is there any connection between their orbital distances, or between their orbits and the times of describing them? These things tormented him, and he thought about them day and night.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000025_000001.wav|This also Kepler made continual attempts to discover.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000063_000003.wav|that circular motion was not the perfect and natural motion, but that planets might move in some other closed curve?|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000010.wav|The orbit was found.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000092_000001.wav|Much, nevertheless, he did; more one cannot but feel he might have done had he been properly helped.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000016_000000.wav|The other, poor, sickly, devoid of experimental gifts, and unfitted by nature for accurate observation, but strong almost beyond competition in speculative subtlety and innate mathematical perception.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000062_000000.wav|"While thus triumphing over Mars, and preparing for him, as for one already vanquished, tabular prisons and equated excentric fetters, it is buzzed here and there that the victory is vain, and that the war is raging anew as violently as before.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000022_000000.wav|For astronomy in those days seems to have ranked as a minor science, like mineralogy or meteorology now.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000059_000002.wav|He was rewarded by finding that at any rate the plane of the orbit did not tilt up and down: it was fixed, and this was a simplification on Copernicus's theory.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000003.wav|Yes, the curve so described by the planet is a comparatively simple one: it is a special kind of oval-the ellipse.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000087_000000.wav|This great publication marks an era in astronomy.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000000.wav|Away he started through his calculations again.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000055_000000.wav|The equants might divide the line in any arbitrary ratio.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000023_000003.wav|Nowadays, we should simply record the fact and look out for a seventh.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000021_000000.wav|An astronomical lectureship at Graz happening to offer itself, he was urged to take it, and agreed to do so, though stipulating that it should not debar him from some more brilliant profession when there was a chance.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000088_000000.wav|After this, the Grand Duke of Tuscany sent Kepler a golden chain, which is interesting inasmuch as it must really have come from Galileo, who was in high favour at the Italian Court at this time.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000085_000000.wav|This honour, however, gave Kepler no satisfaction-it rather occasioned him dismay, especially as it deprived him of all pecuniary benefit, and made it almost impossible for him to get a publisher to undertake another book.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000093_000004.wav|His imagination was perhaps more luxuriant and was allowed freer play than most men's, but it was nevertheless always controlled by rigid examination and comparison of hypotheses with fact.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000055_000002.wav|It was easy to get them to agree for a short time, but sooner or later a discrepancy showed itself.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000089_000003.wav|It matters little one way or the other whether Germany, having almost refused him bread during his life, should, a century and a half after his death, offer him a stone.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000058_000001.wav|He thought he had found the truth; but no, before long the position of the planet, as calculated, and as recorded by Tycho, differed by eight minutes of arc, or about one eighth of a degree.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000057_000001.wav|Grope he did, however, with unexampled diligence.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000094_000001.wav|A few of his attempts succeeded-a multitude failed.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000091_000000.wav|The contiguity of the lives of Kepler and Tycho furnishes a moral too obvious to need pointing out.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000019_000007.wav|Meanwhile home affairs had gone to rack and ruin. His father abandoned the home, and later died abroad.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000033_000000.wav|He then went on to speculate as to the cause of the planets' motion. The old idea was that they were carried round by angels or celestial intelligences.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000019_000003.wav|His parents seem to have been of fair condition, but by reason, it is said, of his becoming surety for a friend, the father lost all his slender income, and was reduced to keeping a tavern.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000048_000000.wav|The true law of refraction was discovered some years after by a Dutch professor, Willebrod Snell.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000089_000002.wav|His body was buried at Ratisbon, and a century ago a proposal was made to erect a marble monument to his memory, but nothing was done.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000073_000001.wav|Well might he be called, as he was, "the legislator," or law interpreter, "of the heavens."|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000089_000000.wav|Once more Kepler made a determined attempt to get his arrears of salary paid, and rescue himself and family from their bitter poverty.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000067_000002.wav|This coincidence, in his own words, woke him out of sleep; and for some reason or other impelled him instantly to try making the planet oscillate in the diameter of its epicycle instead of revolve round it-a singular idea, but Copernicus had had a similar one to explain the motions of Mercury.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000004_000002.wav|Accepted a professorship at Linz.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000096_000001.wav|Something of the laws of cyclone and anticyclone are known, and rude weather predictions across the Atlantic are roughly possible.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000032_000000.wav|Nevertheless, the idea gave him great delight.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000076_000001.wav|He is continually attacking and throwing sarcasm at astrology, but it was the only thing for which people would pay him, and on it after a fashion he lived.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000005_000001.wav|His laws, so extraordinarily discovered, introduced order and simplicity into what else would have been a chaos of detailed observations; and they served as a secure basis for the splendid erection made on them by Newton.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000094_000000.wav|Brewster says of him:--"Ardent, restless, burning to distinguish himself by discovery, he attempted everything; and once having obtained a glimpse of a clue, no labour was too hard in following or verifying it.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000055_000001.wav|All sorts of combinations had to be tried, the relative positions of the earth and Mars to be worked out for each, and compared with Tycho's recorded observations.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000018_000001.wav|I shall only sketch in its broad features, so that we may have more time to attend to his work.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000061_000006.wav|Thus he announces it himself:--|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000004_000003.wav|Published the Rudolphine tables in sixteen twenty seven, embodying Tycho's observations and his own theory.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000054_000000.wav|He specially attacked the motion of the planet Mars, because that was sufficiently rapid in its changes for a considerable collection of data to have accumulated with respect to it.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000036_000002.wav|He suffered much from weak eyes, and dare not expose himself to night air." In all this he was, of course, the antipodes of Tycho, but in mathematical skill he was greatly his superior.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000032_000001.wav|He says:--"The intense pleasure I have received from this discovery can never be told in words. I regretted no more the time wasted; I tired of no labour; I shunned no toil of reckoning, days and nights spent in calculation, until I could see whether my hypothesis would agree with the orbits of Copernicus, or whether my joy was to vanish into air."|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000075_000001.wav|While at Prague his salary was in continual arrear, and it was with difficulty that he could provide sustenance for his family.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000002_000000.wav|Published his second book containing these laws in sixteen o nine.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000004_000001.wav|In sixteen twenty had to intervene to protect his mother from being tortured for witchcraft.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000034_000000.wav|This first book of his brought him into notice, and served as an introduction to Tycho and to Galileo.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000080_000000.wav|It might well have been that there was no connection, that it was purely imaginary, like his old idea of the law of the successive distances of the planets, and like so many others of the guesses and fancies which he entertained and spent his energies in probing.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000000.wav|About this time occurred a singular interruption to his work.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000075_000003.wav|While he was hesitating what best to do, and reduced to the verge of despair, his wife, who had long been suffering from low spirits and despondency, and his three children, were taken ill; one of the sons died of small pox, and the wife eleven days after of low fever and epilepsy.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000036_000000.wav|Tycho immediately replied, "Come, not as a stranger, but as a very welcome friend; come and share in my observations with such instruments as I have with me, and as a dearly beloved associate." After this visit, Tycho wrote again, offering him the post of mathematical assistant, which after hesitation was accepted.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000004_000000.wav|The book in which this law was published ("On Celestial Harmonies") was dedicated to james of England.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000004.wav|He succeeded in saving her from the torture, but she remained in prison for a year or so.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000066_000000.wav|One most disheartening circumstance appeared, viz. that when he made the circuit oval his law of equable description of areas broke down.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000030_000001.wav|First of all, eight planets are now known; and secondly, their real distances agree only very approximately with Kepler's hypothesis.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000091_000001.wav|What Kepler might have achieved had he been relieved of those ghastly struggles for subsistence one cannot tell, but this much is clear, that had Tycho been subjected to the same misfortune, instead of being born rich and being assisted by generous and enlightened patrons, he could have accomplished very little.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000005_000000.wav|A man of keen imagination, indomitable perseverance, and uncompromising love of truth, Kepler overcame ill health, poverty, and misfortune, and placed himself in the very highest rank of scientific men.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000002.wav|A change of judge having in process of time occurred, the defendant saw his way to turn the tables on the old lady by accusing her of sorcery.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000041_000000.wav|"MOST NOBLE TYCHO," (these are the words of his letter), "how shall I enumerate or rightly estimate your benefits conferred on me?|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000092_000002.wav|Besides, the world would have been free from the reproach of accepting the fruits of his bright genius while condemning the worker to a life of misery, relieved only by the beauty of his own thoughts and the ecstasy awakened in him by the harmony and precision of Nature.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000058_000000.wav|At length he hit upon a point that seemed nearly right.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000041_000001.wav|For two months you have liberally and gratuitously maintained me, and my whole family; you have provided for all my wishes; you have done me every possible kindness; you have communicated to me everything you hold most dear; no one, by word or deed, has intentionally injured me in anything; in short, not to your children, your wife, or yourself have you shown more indulgence than to me.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000046_000001.wav|In fact, Kepler could not get even his own salary paid: he got orders, and promises, and drafts on estates for it; but when the time came for them to be honoured they were worthless, and he had no power to enforce his claims.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000061_000001.wav|To simplify calculation, he divided the orbit into triangles, and tried if making the triangles equal would do.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000093_000001.wav|He maps out his route like a traveller.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000064_000000.wav|Suppose he tried an oval.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000017_000000.wav|The one is the complement of the other; and from the fact of their following each other so closely arose the most surprising benefits to science.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000072_000000.wav|Such is a crude and bald sketch of the steps by which Kepler rose to his great generalizations-the two laws which have immortalized his name.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000002.wav|Could it be expressed no more simply?|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000018_000000.wav|The outward life of Kepler is to a large extent a mere record of poverty and misfortune.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000019_000005.wav|He was a sickly lad, subject to violent illnesses from the cradle, so that his life was frequently despaired of.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000075_000002.wav|He had been there eleven years, but they had been hard years of poverty, and he could leave without regret were it not that he should have to leave Tycho's instruments and observations behind him.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000045_000000.wav|These tables of planetary motion Tycho had always regarded as the main work of his life; but he died before they were finished, and on his death bed he intrusted the completion of them to Kepler, who loyally undertook their charge.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000083_000001.wav|It is not eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light, three months since the dawn, very few days since the unveiled sun, most admirable to gaze upon, burst upon me.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000086_000001.wav|He applied to the Court till he was sick of applying: they lay idle four years.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000049_000000.wav|We must now devote a little time to the main work of Kepler's life.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000003.wav|She was sent to prison, and condemned to the torture, with the usual intelligent idea of extracting a "voluntary" confession. Kepler had to hurry from Linz to interpose.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000007.wav|Well, he tried the ellipse, and to his inexpressible delight he found that it did satisfy the condition of equable description of areas, if the sun was in one focus.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000037_000000.wav|On his way to Prague he was seized with one of his periodical illnesses, and all his means were exhausted by the time he could set forward again, so that he had to apply for help to Tycho.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000082_000001.wav|It welds the planets together, and shows them to be one system.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000044_000001.wav|While Bohemia suffered, however, the world has benefited at his hands; and the tables upon which Tycho was now engaged are well called the Rudolphine tables.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000058_000003.wav|No, he had known Tycho, and knew that he was never wrong eight minutes in an observation.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000019_000006.wav|Ultimately he was sent to a monastic school and thence to the University of Tuebingen, where he graduated second on the list.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000001.wav|His old mother, of whose fierce temper something has already been indicated, had been engaged in a law suit for some years near their old home in Wuertemberg.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000092_000000.wav|Kepler, with his ill health and inferior physical energy, was unable to command the like advantages.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000061_000003.wav|Over this discovery he greatly rejoices.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000047_000001.wav|He gave a very accurate explanation of the action of the human eye, and made many hypotheses, some of them shrewd and close to the mark, concerning the law of refraction of light in dense media: but though several minor points of interest turned up, nothing of the first magnitude came out of this long research.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000064_000001.wav|Well, there are a great variety of ovals, and several were tried: with the result that they could be made to answer better than a circle, but still were not right.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000005.wav|But did it satisfy the law of speed?|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000086_000000.wav|Still he worked on at the Rudolphine tables of Tycho, and ultimately, with some small help from Vienna, completed them; but he could not get the means to print them.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000013_000000.wav|KEPLER AND THE LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000012_000000.wav|LECTURE three|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000086_000002.wav|At last he determined to pay for the type himself.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000038_000000.wav|It is clear, indeed, that for some time now he subsisted entirely on the bounty of Tycho, and he expresses himself most deeply grateful for all the kindness he received from that noble and distinguished man, the head of the scientific world at that date.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000083_000003.wav|If you forgive me, I rejoice; if you are angry, I can bear it; the die is cast, the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which; it may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer."|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000049_000001.wav|All the time he had been at Prague he had been making a severe study of the motion of the planet Mars, analyzing minutely Tycho's books of observations, in order to find out, if possible, the true theory of his motion.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000082_000000.wav|This (however stated) is called Kepler's third law.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000047_000000.wav|So everything but brooding had to be abandoned as too expensive, and he proceeded to study optics.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000009.wav|Mars was finally conquered, and remains in his prison house to this day.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000052_000000.wav|But although the planetary paths might be roughly represented by a combination of circles, their speeds could not, on the hypothesis of uniform motion in each circle round the earth as a fixed body.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000053_000000.wav|But now that Kepler had the accurate observations of Tycho to refer to, he found immense difficulty in obtaining the true positions of the planets for long together on any such theory.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000022_000001.wav|It had little of the special dignity with which the labours of Kepler himself were destined so greatly to aid in endowing it.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000097_000000.wav|Observation is heaped on observation; tables are compiled; volumes are filled with data; the hours of sunshine are recorded, the fall of rain, the moisture in the air, the kind of clouds, the temperature-millions of facts; but where is the Kepler to study and brood over them?|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000059_000000.wav|So he set out the whole weary way again, and said that with those eight minutes he would yet find out the law of the universe.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000093_000002.wav|In fact he compares himself to Columbus or Magellan, voyaging into unknown lands, and recording his wandering route.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000005.wav|Her spirit, however, was unbroken, for no sooner was she released than she commenced a fresh action against her accuser.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000071_000001.wav|The above is a tracing of it.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000061_000004.wav|He feels as though he had been carrying on a war against the planet and had triumphed; but his gratulation was premature.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000002_000001.wav|Death of Rudolph in sixteen twelve, and subsequent increased misery and misfortune of Kepler.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000043_000000.wav|In sixteen o one, Kepler was appointed "Imperial mathematician," to assist Tycho in his calculations.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000040_000000.wav|Kepler repents instantly, and replies:--|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000094_000003.wav|But his methods were the same.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000081_000003.wav|The product of the distance into the square of the speed is the same for each planet.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000082_000002.wav|His rapture on detecting the law was unbounded, and he breaks out into an exulting rhapsody:--|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000059_000001.wav|He proceeded to see if by making the planet librate, or the plane of its orbit tilt up and down, anything could be done.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000069_000001.wav|A long course of work night and day was rewarded by finding that he was now able to hit off the motions better than before; but what a singularly complicated motion it was.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000054_000001.wav|He tried all manner of circular orbits for the earth and for Mars, placing them in all sorts of aspects with respect to the sun|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000023_000000.wav|Well, he speedily became a thorough Copernican, and as he had a most singularly restless and inquisitive mind, full of appreciation of everything relating to number and magnitude-was a born speculator and thinker just as Mozart was a born musician, or Bidder a born calculator-he was agitated by questions such as these: Why are there exactly six planets?|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000078_000000.wav|This narration renders the unflagging energy shown by her son in his mathematical wrestlings less surprising.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000091_000003.wav|Frederick and Sophia of Denmark, and Rudolph of Bohemia, are therefore to be remembered as co-workers with him.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000004_000004.wav|Made a last effort to overcome his poverty by getting the arrears of his salary paid at Prague, but was unsuccessful, and, contracting brain fever on the journey, died in November, sixteen thirty, aged fifty nine.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000025_000000.wav|Once more, the further the planet the slower it moved; there seemed to be some law connecting speed and distance.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000039_000000.wav|To illustrate Tycho's kindness and generosity, I must read you a letter written to him by Kepler.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000094_000002.wav|Those which failed seem to us now fanciful, those which succeeded appear to us sublime.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000027_000003.wav|Brooding over this disappointment, the idea of trying solid figures suddenly strikes him. "What have plane figures to do with the celestial orbits?" he cries out; "inscribe the regular solids." And then-brilliant idea-he remembers that there are but five.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000039_000002.wav|Tycho's secretary replied quietly enough, pointing out the groundlessness and ingratitude of the accusation.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000027_000002.wav|Then try inscribing and circumscribing squares, hexagons, and other figures, and see if the circles thus defined would correspond to the several planetary orbits. But they would not give any satisfactory result.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000061_000002.wav|A great piece of luck, they did beautifully: the rate of description of areas (not arcs) is uniform.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000073_000000.wav|All the complications of epicycle, equant, deferent, excentric, and the like, were swept at once away, and an orbit of striking and beautiful properties substituted.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000063_000002.wav|But what about the shape of the orbit-Was it after all possible that Aristotle, and every philosopher since Aristotle, had been wrong?|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000077_000006.wav|But fresh trouble was averted by the death of the poor old dame at the age of nearly eighty.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000075_000000.wav|He concludes his book on the motions of Mars with a half comic appeal to the Emperor to provide him with the sinews of war for an attack on Mars's relations-father Jupiter, brother Mercury, and the rest-but the death of his unhappy patron in sixteen twelve put an end to all these schemes, and reduced Kepler to the utmost misery.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000054_000003.wav|He had to arrange the size of the orbits that suited best, then the positions of their centres, both being supposed excentric with respect to the sun; but he could not get any such arrangement to work with uniform motion about the sun|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000051_000001.wav|The carrying circle was called the Deferent.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000081_000000.wav|The connection is this, that if one compares the distance of the different planets from the sun with the length of time they take to go round him, the cube of the respective distances is proportional to the square of the corresponding times.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000063_000001.wav|The law of speed was fixed: that which is now known as his second law.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000091_000002.wav|His instruments, his observatory-the tools by which he did his work-would have been impossible for him.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000080_000001.wav|But fortunately this time there was a connection, and he lived to have the joy of discovering it.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000042_000000.wav|Tycho accepted the apology thus heartily rendered, and the temporary breach was permanently healed.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000019_000004.wav|Young john Kepler was thereupon taken from school, and employed as pot boy between the ages of nine and twelve.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000093_000003.wav|This being remembered, it will be found that his methods do not differ so utterly from those used by other philosophers in like case.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000027_000000.wav|One of his ideas concerning the law of the successive distances was based on the inscription of a triangle in a circle.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000071_000000.wav|In a paroxysm of delight Kepler celebrates his victory by a triumphant figure, sketched actually on his geometrical diagram-the diagram which proves that the law of equable description of areas can hold good with an ellipse.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3032/19361/3032_19361_000029_000000.wav|On the other hand, he inscribes in the sphere of the earth's orbit an icosahedron; and inside the sphere determined by that, an octahedron; which figures he takes to inclose the spheres of Venus and of Mercury respectively.|3032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000072_000001.wav|Let us Republicans do our part to have it so.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000072_000002.wav|Even though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000078_000001.wav|If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong, and should be silenced and swept away.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000074_000001.wav|Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must, somehow, convince them that we do let them alone.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000073_000005.wav|We know it will not.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000067_000000.wav|To show all this, is easy and certain.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000026_000000.wav|Second.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000050_000001.wav|What is conservatism?|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000051_000001.wav|We deny it.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000037_000003.wav|The Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott case, plant themselves upon the fifth amendment, which provides that no person shall be deprived of "life, liberty, or property without due process of law"; while Senator Douglas and his peculiar adherents plant themselves upon the tenth amendment, providing that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution" "are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000074_000002.wav|This, we know by experience, is no easy task.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000029_000001.wav|Many votes were taken, by yeas and nays, in both branches of Congress, upon the various phases of the general question.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000046_000001.wav|Still, when you speak of us Republicans, you do so only to denounce us as reptiles, or, at the best, as no better than outlaws.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000024_000003.wav|New Orleans, lying within that part, was an old and comparatively large city.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000078_000004.wav|Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000049_000002.wav|We respect that warning of Washington, and we commend it to you, together with his example pointing to the right application of it.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000043_000003.wav|But he should, at the same time, brave the responsibility of declaring that, in his opinion, he understands their principles better than they did themselves; and especially should he not shirk that responsibility by asserting that they "understood the question just as well, and even better than we do now."|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000078_000003.wav|All they ask we could readily grant if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000053_000001.wav|We do not believe it.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000075_000000.wav|These natural and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them?|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000052_000001.wav|We deny it; and what is your proof'?|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000078_000002.wav|If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension-its enlargement.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000044_000002.wav|This is all Republicans ask-all Republicans desire-in relation to slavery.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000057_000001.wav|He spoke of Virginia; and, as to the power of emancipation, I speak of the slave holding States only.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000071_000000.wav|To be sure, what the robber demanded of me my money was my own, and I had a clear right to keep it; but it was no more my own than my vote is my own; and the threat of death to me, to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000025_000000.wav|First.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000055_000004.wav|In that case, only about twenty were admitted to the secret; and yet one of them, in his anxiety to save a friend, betrayed the plot to that friend, and, by consequence, averted the calamity.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000007_000002.wav|It simply leaves the inquiry: What was the understanding those fathers had of the question mentioned?|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000023_000009.wav|They all, probably, voted for it.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000073_000002.wav|In all their present complaints against us, the Territories are scarcely mentioned.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000074_000004.wav|In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000047_000001.wav|We deny it.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000076_000002.wav|They will continue to accuse us of doing, until we cease saying.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000053_000004.wav|The elections came, and your expectations were not quite fulfilled.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000075_000002.wav|And this must be done thoroughly-done in acts as well as in words.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000024_000002.wav|In eighteen o four, Congress gave a territorial organization to that part of it which now constitutes the State of Lousiana.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000050_000000.wav|But you say you are conservative-eminently conservative-while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something, of the sort.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000023_000003.wav|Under these circumstances, Congress, on taking charge of these countries, did not absolutely prohibit slavery within them.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000073_000001.wav|We know they will not.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000047_000002.wav|That makes an issue; and the burden of proof is upon you.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000004_000000.wav|mr|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000020_000006.wav|Fitzsimmons, William Few, Abraham Baldwin, Rufus King, William Paterson, George Claimer, Richard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, james Madison.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000054_000003.wav|The indispensable concert of action cannot be attained.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000078_000005.wav|Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full recognition, as being right; but thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them?|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000054_000005.wav|The explosive materials are everywhere in parcels; but there neither are, nor can be supplied the indispensable connecting trains.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000017_000002.wav|The other of the four-james McHenry voted against the prohibition, showing that, for some cause, he thought it improper to vote for it.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000047_000012.wav|If our principle, put in practice, would wrong your section for the benefit of ours, or for any other object, then our principle, and we with it, are sectional, and are justly opposed and denounced as such.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000047_000014.wav|Do you accept the challenge?|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000051_000002.wav|We admit that it is more prominent, but we deny that we made it so.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000055_000002.wav|This is the rule; and the slave revolution in Hayti was not an exception to it, but a case occurring under peculiar circumstances.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000070_000001.wav|In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us!|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000058_000006.wav|He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000061_000001.wav|But we are proposing no such thing.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/340/124368/340_124368_000024_000000.wav|In eighteen o three, the Federal Government purchased the Louisiana country.|340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000005_000000.wav|"Miss Kate, here's mrs Conroy."|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000002_000000.wav|"O, mr Conroy," said Lily to Gabriel when she opened the door for him, "Miss Kate and Miss Julia thought you were never coming.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000001_000001.wav|And then it was long after ten o'clock and yet there was no sign of Gabriel and his wife.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000021_000001.wav|Just... here's a little...."|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000006_000001.wav|Both of them kissed Gabriel's wife, said she must be perished alive, and asked was Gabriel with her.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000092_000001.wav|"And his poor mother made him take the pledge on New Year's Eve.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000036_000000.wav|"Don't mind him, Aunt Kate," she said.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000009_000000.wav|"Is it snowing again, mr Conroy?" asked Lily.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000052_000001.wav|Julia! Julia!|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000029_000000.wav|They both kissed Gabriel frankly.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000000_000009.wav|Lily, the caretaker's daughter, did housemaid's work for them. Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well; the best of everything: diamond bone sirloins, three shilling tea and the best bottled stout.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000000_000011.wav|They were fussy, that was all. But the only thing they would not stand was back answers.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000046_000001.wav|"Of course, you've seen about the room.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000050_000003.wav|She's not the girl she was at all."|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000020_000001.wav|Then he took a coin rapidly from his pocket.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000058_000002.wav|Julia, there's Miss Daly and Miss Power will take some refreshment.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000002_000001.wav|Good night, mrs Conroy."|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000065_000000.wav|"God help me," he said, smiling, "it's the doctor's orders."|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000036_000002.wav|The poor child!|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1933/146437/1933_146437_000036_000001.wav|"He's really an awful bother, what with green shades for Tom's eyes at night and making him do the dumb bells, and forcing Eva to eat the stirabout.|1933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000026_000002.wav|Then we go around among the people and select the articles of pottery, stone implements, instruments and utensils made of bone, horn, shell, articles of clothing and ornament, baskets, trays, and many other things, and tell the people to bring them the next day to our rooms.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000020_000007.wav|So his talk is explained to us. Some must gather corn, others must go for wood, water must be brought from the distant wells, and the animals of the strangers must be cared for.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000027_000005.wav|"Good by; good by; good by!" At last we start.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000025_000008.wav|After a while some one gets permanent possession of the charm and the music ceases.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000027_000002.wav|The whole town comes to bid us good by.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000017_000024.wav|Some days after we learned how they are made; they are prepared of goat's flesh, bread, and turnips, and kneaded by mastication.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000031_000000.wav|Here at Walpi the great snake dance is performed.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000021_000010.wav|Ears of corn, vases of holy water, and trays of meal make up a part of the paraphernalia of worship. I try to record some of the prayers, but am not very successful, as it is difficult to hold my interpreter to the work.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000004_000001.wav|The mules are packed and away goes our train of lumber, rations, and camping equipage. The Indian trail is at the foot of the Vermilion Cliffs.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000013_000002.wav|At night we camp at a water pocket, a pool in a great limestone rock.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000009_000002.wav|In the morning we turn to the northeast and descend from Kaibab to the back of Marble Canyon and cross it at the foot of the Vermilion Cliffs, and find our packers camped at Jacob's Pool, where a spring bursts from the cliff at the summit of a great hill of talus.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000026_000003.wav|A little after sunrise they come in, and we have a busy day of barter.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000027_000011.wav|It is a good site for defense.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000008_000004.wav|That painting, known as "The Chasm of the Colorado," is in a hall in the Senate wing of the Capitol of the United States.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000004_000003.wav|On rare occasions a stream flows down this valley, but now sand dunes stretch across it.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000005_000004.wav|We find it at the Navajo Well. As we approach in the darkness the camp fire is a cheerful sight.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000017_000023.wav|They are eaten with much gusto by the party and highly praised.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000027_000013.wav|All the water used in these three towns is derived from a well nearly a mile away-a deep pit sunk in the sand, over the site of a dune buried brook.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000020_000000.wav|The next morning we are up at daybreak.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000013_000007.wav|At night we come to the cliff, and under it, in a great cave, we find a lakelet.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000011_000001.wav|Where the declivity of the stream is great the river corrades, or cuts its bottom deeper and still deeper, ever forming narrow clefts, but when the stream has cut its channel down until the declivity is greatly reduced, it can no longer carry the load of sand with which it is fed, but drops a part of it on the way.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000031_000009.wav|It is managed in this way: The snake is teased with the feather wand and his attention occupied by one man, while another, standing near, at a favorable moment seizes the snake just, back of the head.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000031_000002.wav|Most of these snakes are quite harmless, but rattlesnakes abound, and they are also caught, for they play the most important role in the great snake dance.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000011_000002.wav|Wherever it drops it in this manner a sand bank is formed.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000028_000006.wav|After supper the hours till midnight are passed in rather formal talk.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/143307/1556_143307_000027_000010.wav|To reach it from below, it must be climbed by niches and stairways in the rock.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/139350/1556_139350_000019_000000.wav|If the pilot was the material director of this immense machine-for can we not justly call it so?--another personage was its spiritual director; this was Padre Passanha, who had charge of the mission at Iquitos.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/139350/1556_139350_000015_000000.wav|Such would have been useless.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/139350/1556_139350_000006_000000.wav|The principal habitation, with its annexes-kitchen, offices, and cellars-was placed in the rear-or, let us say, stern of the craft-and formed a part reserved for the Garral family and their personal servants.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/139350/1556_139350_000026_000000.wav|The parsonage was not enough for Padre Passanha; he ought to have a chapel.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1556/139350/1556_139350_000030_000000.wav|All was ready to date, the fifth of June.|1556
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000044_000001.wav|"But what did she know?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000084_000001.wav|"Let me take this up to Durham, and if he agrees you can be arrested."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000072_000002.wav|I believe he killed him."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000022_000004.wav|He helped him, and the other day he procured him a situation with Miss Berengaria."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000053_000000.wav|"You will, when you learn what I have to say." And Conniston related everything concerning the false marriage and the half brother of young Gore.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000067_000000.wav|"Very plain," said Gore, emphatically.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000016_000003.wav|When Bernard came back and married Alice, she would have to leave the Hall and live on the small income allotted to her by the generosity of the dead man.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000030_000001.wav|But really," added Miss Randolph, wrinkling her pretty brows, "I hardly knew what I was doing, save that in some vague way I fancied the removal of the handkerchief might help Bernard. Is that clear?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000004_000000.wav|In reply to this pressing epistle, Durham wrote, telling Miss Berengaria to wait for three or four days.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000064_000002.wav|Still, she may have thought it might fall into the hands of another person, and therefore made her son safe.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000068_000001.wav|mrs Gilroy went, and there she found Signor Tolomeo, who asked to see Sir Simon.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000079_000002.wav|However, Durham, at my request, has put an advertisement in the papers which may bring him to the office, then we can see how much of this story is true.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000015_000000.wav|"Sooner than you think, perhaps.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000016_000002.wav|She was glad of this as she admired Conniston exceedingly, and, moreover, wished to escape from her awkward position at the Hall.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000009.wav|Nor do I wish Bernard to know.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000024_000001.wav|"Why not ask the boy himself?|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000060_000000.wav|"Oh!" Lucy burst into tears and impulsively threw the book into Conniston's lap.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000071_000001.wav|"Well, it seems my uncle is the guilty person, Conniston."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000004_000004.wav|The lawyer, in conclusion, quite agreed with Miss Plantagenet that Conniston and Bernard should not be told.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000024_000000.wav|"I know nothing about that," said Lucy, frankly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000075_000000.wav|"I believe she left the diary behind on purpose," said Gore, with some ill humor.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000046_000002.wav|I will do anything I can to help Bernard.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000082_000002.wav|But the best thing to do, is to take this up to Durham and see what he thinks."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000010_000000.wav|"Perhaps that is why he holds his tongue," said Alice, rising.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000016_000004.wav|It would be much better, as she truly thought, to marry Conniston, even though he was the poorest of peers.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000047_000001.wav|You are the truest and best woman in the world," said Conniston, eagerly, "but what I have to tell you is not my own secret. It concerns Bernard."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000032_000001.wav|I want to do all I can to help Bernard."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000033_000001.wav|"I wonder if you could make a chap good?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000080_000000.wav|"What would he go for?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000081_000004.wav|But I don't believe my uncle killed Sir Simon," said Bernard, striking the table.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000061_000001.wav|He took away the diary with Lucy's permission, and carried it in triumph to the castle. Here he and Bernard sat down to master its contents.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000002.wav|He resolved to propose as soon as possible.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000021_000000.wav|"In the first place, tell me if you sent a boy to bring Bernard to Crimea Square?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000079_000001.wav|I don't know his whereabouts.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000011.wav|At all events I have a fast hold of Bernard's double, and you may be sure I shall not allow him to go until this mystery is cleared up."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000051_000002.wav|And mrs Gilroy's diary may tell us."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000081_000000.wav|"To ask my grandfather for money.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000054_000000.wav|"She would not be such a fool, if her son is guilty."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000065_000000.wav|"Go on," said Bernard.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000011_000001.wav|"Drat the whole business!|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000041_000000.wav|"Perfectly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000081_000002.wav|Sir Simon hated him, but if Guiseppe was hard up he wouldn't mind that.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000040_000000.wav|"Will that be honorable?" said Lucy, retaining her hold of the book.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000006.wav|The lamp was before it, and stretched across the pane was a red bandanna handkerchief of Sir Simon's.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000062_000001.wav|She had no suspicion that the lover of Jane Riordan was her son, but truly believed from the description that he was young Gore whom she hated-as she plainly stated in several pages.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000068_000002.wav|She took him up the stairs, and left him to speak with Sir Simon.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000013_000002.wav|Owing to my reticence to Sir Simon about your parents, Alice, I am really responsible for the whole business, so I will keep working at it until Bernard is out of danger and married to you."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000018_000001.wav|"I am so pleased, so glad.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000006.wav|Conniston, more determined than ever to win this adorable woman, came over regularly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000062_000000.wav|mrs Gilroy, it appears, thought that her son, Michael, was really and truly in America.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000055_000001.wav|Criminals who are very secretive in speech sometimes give themselves away in writing.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000018_000000.wav|"To think that he should be alive after all," she said.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000012_000000.wav|"Well then, aunt, will you leave it alone?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000036_000002.wav|You prevent my working."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000022_000001.wav|I know the boy you mean.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000013_000000.wav|"Certainly not.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000002_000000.wav|Before Miss Berengaria could communicate with Durham, he had left the castle for town.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000066_000000.wav|"Because I believe her son is guilty.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000079_000003.wav|Certainly, mrs Gilroy may have seen him at the house on that night."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000041_000003.wav|She knew too much about the murder, and fled because she thought Durham would come and question her."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000002.wav|Then she ran out and found Gore at the door.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000066_000001.wav|He left Sir Simon dead.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000052_000000.wav|"I don't see that."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000055_000000.wav|"Oh, people do all manner of queer things.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000051_000001.wav|We are trying to hunt down the assassin.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000055_000002.wav|You were at the theatre on that night?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000017_000000.wav|As usual, Conniston, having taken into his head that Lucy would be an ideal wife, pursued his suit with characteristic impetuosity.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000076_000000.wav|"What kind of man is he?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000024_000002.wav|It would be easy."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000001.wav|She found him strangled, and with the handkerchiefs tied over his mouth and round his neck.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000062_000004.wav|He saw Sir Simon and after a stormy interview he departed.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000003.wav|He had come back again, and mrs Gilroy said she accused him.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000053_000002.wav|It is probable that she has set down the events of that night in her diary."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000047_000000.wav|"I know-I know.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000020_000002.wav|"What do you wish me to do?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000014_000000.wav|"Ah!" sighed Miss Malleson.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000068_000004.wav|It was just before a quarter to eleven that she heard this."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000061_000003.wav|Conniston made out a short and concise account of the events of that fatal night, for the benefit of Durham.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000059_000000.wav|"Would you rather have Bernard hanged?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000041_000002.wav|mrs Gilroy's diary may save Bernard's life.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000036_000000.wav|"Please stop, Lord Conniston," cried Lucy, starting up in confusion.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000013_000001.wav|I intend to see the thing through.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000084_000000.wav|"Wait a bit," persuaded Dick.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000039_000002.wav|We must read her diary."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000005.wav|He had hired Guiseppe Tolomeo to kill his grandfather, and then came to see if the deed had been executed thoroughly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000061_000002.wav|These astonished them considerably.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000000.wav|mrs Gilroy-as appeared from the diary-ran up to see if the master was all right.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000056_000000.wav|"Yes, with Julius; so neither of us had anything to do with the matter, if that is what you mean."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000020_000000.wav|Lucy stared at him with widely open eyes.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000083_000001.wav|"I tell you, Dick, I'm dead tired of doing nothing.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000004_000005.wav|"I hope to be with you by the end of the week," he finished.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000001.wav|I know that.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000036_000001.wav|"I have heaps and heaps to do.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000045_000003.wav|"You are, of course, on Bernard's side," he said.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000001.wav|But he was not daunted.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000005_000001.wav|"Does he think I can wait all that time?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000081_000001.wav|He was always hard up.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000002.wav|We have accepted him as Bernard, and when you come down you can question him either in that character or as Michael.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000005.wav|I went upstairs, and after attending to Sir Simon, I went to the window.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000004_000003.wav|The examination of Michael-which Durham proposed to make, would then be rendered much easier.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000035_000000.wav|"I know a chap who----"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000061_000004.wav|They were as follows:|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000077_000000.wav|"A very decent chap in his own way.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000004.wav|When I saw Bernard in the hall I was not astonished, for I thought he had come in answer to the light.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000006_000001.wav|"And this poor creature is so weak, that I do not think he will be able to speak much for a few days.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000031_000000.wav|"Perfectly clear," said Conniston, "and I am glad I know this.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000039_000000.wav|"That's a good thing," said Conniston, eagerly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000007.wav|I took that away, so you see how it was Julius did not see the light."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000003.wav|But Lucy thought he was making love too ardently, and by those arts known to women alone, she managed to keep him at arm's length.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000049_000000.wav|"Yes, I will.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000072_000001.wav|"mrs Gilroy is trying to shield her son.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000066_000002.wav|mrs Gilroy found the body, knew what had occurred, and then ran out on hearing Jerry's whistle knowing she would meet you.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000061_000000.wav|Conniston availed himself of this permission at once.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000043_000001.wav|A woman like mrs Gilroy does not take such a course for nothing. She's a clever woman."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000083_000002.wav|It will be better to do what Miss Berengaria suggests and give myself up."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000049_000001.wav|You have the diary and I want to read it.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000030_000000.wav|"Well, I wanted to save Bernard if possible, and I thought if the Red Light which had drawn him were removed, he could make some excuse. Julius knew about the Red Light, and, as he hated Bernard, I fancied he would use it against him.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000038_000000.wav|"Fancy," said Lucy, running to meet Conniston one afternoon as soon as he appeared at the drawing room door, "I have found the diary of mrs Gilroy."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000041_000001.wav|One does not stand on ceremony when a man's neck is at stake.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000002.wav|It was my fault.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000023_000000.wav|"He is there now.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000073_000000.wav|"If we could only find Michael," said Bernard, dolefully.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000050_000001.wav|Who killed Sir Simon?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000018_000002.wav|Dear Bernard, now he will be able to enjoy the fortune and the title, and marry Alice."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000078_000000.wav|"Can't you see him and show him the diary?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000008_000000.wav|"Oh, he is quite convinced of that," said Alice, quickly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000016_000005.wav|One can do a lot with a title even without money, and Lucy was wise in her generation.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000044_000000.wav|"And a very disagreeable woman," said Lucy, emphatically.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000082_000001.wav|Tolomeo, from your account of him, would not commit a murder without getting some money from doing it.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000000.wav|Her hurried flight prevented Conniston from putting the question on that occasion.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000004_000001.wav|He was advertising for Tolomeo, and hoped to see him at his office.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000071_000000.wav|"Very much obliged to her," said Bernard, when Conniston concluded reading, and beginning to walk to and fro.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000011_000000.wav|"I suppose we must," said Miss Berengaria, dolefully.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000028_000000.wav|"And Julius afterwards didn't.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000046_000000.wav|"Yes.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000050_000000.wav|"What have you discovered?|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000010.wav|With his impetuosity, he would probably come over at once, and run the chance of arrest. The whole matter is in your hands, Durham, so write and tell me what I am to do.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000065_000001.wav|"If I am innocent, why did she accuse me?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000006.wav|And you may be sure that I am taking care Jerry Moon learns nothing.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000057_000000.wav|"I mean nothing of the sort," said Conniston, quickly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000066_000003.wav|It's all plain."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000017_000001.wav|He came over daily-or almost daily-to Gore Hall, and, finally, when Lucy broke off her engagement to Beryl, he told her of the whereabouts of Bernard. Lucy was overwhelmed and delighted.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000062_000002.wav|When the presumed Bernard went away before six, he did not call again at ten o'clock.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000031_000001.wav|May I tell Bernard and Durham?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000064_000000.wav|"Wait a bit," said Conniston, who was reading his precis.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000026_000001.wav|He is usually in Miss Plantagenet's poultry yard, and I rarely go round there." Lucy paused. "It is strange that the boy should act like that.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000003.wav|To tell you the truth, I am sorry for the boy-he is only twenty one or thereabouts, and I think he has been misguided.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000067_000001.wav|"A regular trap.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000064_000004.wav|See! here's the bit," and he read, "Sir Simon was alive after mr Gore left the house."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000026_000000.wav|"I will not, and I am not likely to meet the boy.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000027_000002.wav|mrs Webber saw the light, and----"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000070_000006.wav|mrs Gilroy ended her diary by stating that she would do her best to get both the Italian and his nephew hanged.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000014_000001.wav|"And when will that be?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000008_000001.wav|"I suppose he hoped I would think his altered looks might induce me to overlook any lack of resemblance to Bernard."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000043_000000.wav|"Yes!|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000058_000000.wav|"You might suspect Julius," said Lucy, suspiciously, "and although we have quarrelled I don't want to harm him."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000068_000003.wav|What took place she did not know, but she was sitting below working, and heard the door close.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000064_000001.wav|"This diary is meant for her eye alone.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000048_000000.wav|"Then don't tell me," said Lucy, coloring angrily.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000077_000003.wav|He has the credit for being a scamp, but I don't think he deserves it."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000042_000000.wav|"Oh! Was that why she ran away?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000005.wav|Of course, Lucy was ready to accept him, but, sure of her fish, she played with him until such time as she felt disposed to accept his hand and heart and title and what remained of the West fortune.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000020_000001.wav|"Of course I will, Lord Conniston," she said heartily.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000029_000000.wav|"Why did you remove the handkerchief?" asked the puzzled Conniston.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000037_000007.wav|But Lucy skilfully kept him off the dangerous ground, whereby he fell deeper in love than ever.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000077_000001.wav|His blood is hot, and he has a temper something like the one I have inherited from my mother, who was Guiseppe's sister.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000057_000001.wav|"How can you think I should suspect you?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000083_000000.wav|"I'll come too," said Gore, excitedly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000060_000001.wav|"Read it at once; I would rather save Bernard than Julius."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000049_000002.wav|To know why I do, it is necessary that you should learn all that we have discovered."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000027_000000.wav|"The Red Window.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000019_000001.wav|We are all trying to help him.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000074_000001.wav|Things would soon be put right then," replied Conniston, and neither was aware that the man they wished to see was at that very moment lying in the turret chamber at the Bower, "or even mrs Gilroy. Could we see her, and show her the diary, she might put things straight."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000003_000005.wav|The servants-with the exception of my own especial maid, Maria Tait-know nothing of the man's presence in the turret chamber.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000032_000000.wav|"Certainly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000045_000002.wav|But, after some reflection, he decided to speak out.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000023_000001.wav|But he-we have reason to believe-is the boy who lured Bernard to Crimea Square."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000046_000001.wav|And against Julius, who hates Bernard.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000072_000000.wav|"I don't believe it," said Dick, firmly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000019_000000.wav|"You forget," said Conniston, a trifle dryly, "Bernard has yet to prove his innocence.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000011_000002.wav|Was there ever such a coil?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000068_000000.wav|"Afterwards, and shortly before a quarter past ten, there came a ring at the door.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000026_000002.wav|I wonder if Sir Simon sent him to fetch Bernard, and arranged the Red Window as a sign which house it was?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000001_000000.wav|THE DIARY|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000025_000000.wav|"We will ask the boy shortly," replied Conniston, evasively, not wishing at this juncture to tell her that the great object of everyone was to prevent Jerry thinking he was suspected.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000077_000002.wav|But Tolomeo is not half bad.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000081_000003.wav|I daresay Tolomeo did see Sir Simon, and did have a row, as both he and grandfather were hot blooded.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000015_000001.wav|Every day brings a surprise."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000005_000000.wav|"Deuce take the man," said Miss Berengaria, rubbing her nose.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000069_000000.wav|"About the time I came," muttered Bernard.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000025_000001.wav|"Should you meet the boy say nothing to him."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293957/8848_293957_000016_000006.wav|Moreover, she was truly in love with the young man, and thought, very rightly, that he would make her a good husband.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000009_000000.wav|"The new life?" asked Alice, flushing.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000024_000002.wav|"Oh, I wish we could meet them."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000054_000003.wav|While I was telling Inspector Groom about her confession, she poisoned herself in my office.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000014_000000.wav|"I am glad they have got off so easily.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000076_000000.wav|Durham bowed.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000054_000004.wav|I thought she was asleep, but she evidently was watching for her opportunity to make away with herself."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000007_000000.wav|"Oh, dear me," sighed Alice, "can I ever see him soon enough?|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000086_000001.wav|"I must look out a wife for you, sir," she said, leading him to the house.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000032_000002.wav|I wonder how he inherited such a tainted nature."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000021_000000.wav|"Ah," sighed the old lady, sitting down.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000037_000002.wav|How glad I am that the poor creature was acquitted after that dreadful trial.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000057_000000.wav|"My dear young lady, she came especially to confess, so as to save her son.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000061_000000.wav|"It couldn't be kept out of the papers," said Durham, with a shrug. "After all, Bernard's character had to be fully cleansed.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000068_000001.wav|Michael saw him in New York."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000020_000000.wav|"I was only discussing Miss Malleson's future life," said Durham.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000045_000000.wav|Durham shrugged his shoulders.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000078_000000.wav|"I thought he had gone back to Italy," said Durham.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000053_000002.wav|So the poor creature killed herself with that drug?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000040_000001.wav|"I was sorry for the poor fellow.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000031_000001.wav|"At least, Bernard seems to think so."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000054_000002.wav|She hinted that I would know what drows meant before the end of the day, and I did.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000052_000000.wav|"Because, if they kill a pig in that way, the farmer to whom it belongs, thinking the animal has died a natural death, gives it to the gipsies and they eat it."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000013_000000.wav|"You needn't," laughed Miss Malleson, opening her sunshade which cast a delicate pink hue on her cheeks.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000036_000000.wav|"Yes.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000037_000003.wav|I am sure there is good in him."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000082_000000.wav|"Dear Alice," said Bernard, who had his arm in a sling, but otherwise looked what Conniston called "fit!", "how glad I am to see you!"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000077_000001.wav|"Oh, by the way, mr Durham, I forgot to tell you that Signor Tolomeo called at the Hall yesterday.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000026_000001.wav|"Bernard at Gore Hall and Conniston at the castle."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000070_000002.wav|He has taken to drink, I believe-Beryl I mean-so some day he will die, and a nice fate awaits him where he will go," said Miss Berengaria, grimly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000046_000002.wav|He is doing very well in America, and with the money Bernard gave him he has bought a farm.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000081_000001.wav|Durham left the garden and drove to the station to fetch back Conniston and Bernard.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000056_000000.wav|"How lucky it was that she signed that confession before she died," was the remark made by Alice.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000062_000000.wav|"And a nice trouble there was over it," said the old lady, annoyed.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000065_000001.wav|"Victoria reached him on that very night, and he cleared without loss of time.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000090_000002.wav|Thank Heaven that, after all our trouble, we are at last in smooth waters. There's the gong for dinner."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000062_000001.wav|"I believe Bernard had a man calling on him who wished to write a play about the affair-a new kind of 'Corsican Brothers.'"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000034_000002.wav|When he comes out, we will see what will happen.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000087_000003.wav|Gore pointed it out.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000066_000002.wav|I understand she still believes in Jerry and will marry him when he comes out of the reformatory.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000060_000000.wav|"I am glad Bernard did," said Miss Berengaria, emphatically; "even at the risk of all that scandal."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000033_000001.wav|"I can tell you," she said.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000048_000000.wav|"Not if he is wise," said Durham, looking at Alice, who had spoken.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000040_000000.wav|Alice assented.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000025_000000.wav|"Not at all," rejoined Miss Berengaria, brusquely, "better wait here with Lucy.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000004_000000.wav|It was midsummer, and Miss Berengaria's garden was a sight.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000087_000002.wav|When it grew quite dusk a red light was seen shining from the window of the drawing room.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000081_000000.wav|The girls laughed and tripped away.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000024_000000.wav|Alice glanced at her watch.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000049_000000.wav|"No," replied the old lady, promptly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000073_000000.wav|It was indeed Lucy tripping across the lawn in the lightest of summer frocks.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000063_000002.wav|They cheered him when he left the court."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000067_000000.wav|"I never could find out," confessed Durham.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000064_000001.wav|"The man who should have suffered was that wretch Beryl."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000007_000002.wav|I wish he hadn't gone."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000046_000000.wav|"Don't be hard on him," said Miss Berengaria, suddenly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000071_000003.wav|The past is past, so let it rest.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000019_000000.wav|"What's that?" asked Miss Berengaria, coming up to the pair.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000073_000003.wav|"The train will be in soon."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000027_000000.wav|"I hope he and Lucy won't live there," said the old lady, rubbing her nose.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000010_000000.wav|"He is coming home to be married to you," said Durham.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000040_000003.wav|And, remember, that he had intended to tell me who he was when he arrived, only he was so ill."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000015_000001.wav|"Don't, mr Durham!"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000084_000002.wav|Conniston, your fever has pulled you down.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000090_000001.wav|"It once led me into trouble, but now it shines upon me with my arms around you.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000029_000000.wav|"So, so.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000069_000000.wav|"Where?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000018_000001.wav|Both weddings will take place on the same day, and Conniston has escaped the dangers of the war with a slight touch of fever.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000070_000001.wav|He didn't see Michael, or he might have troubled him.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000045_000002.wav|He was forced to be honest at the trial for his own sake."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000066_000000.wav|Miss Berengaria nodded.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000006_000001.wav|"You will see Bernard soon enough, Miss Malleson."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000015_000000.wav|Alice shuddered and grew pale.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000006_000000.wav|"The train won't be here for another hour," he said, smiling.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000048_000001.wav|"By the way, Miss Berengaria, does he mention his mother?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000073_000001.wav|She looked charming, and greeted Alice with a kiss.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000037_000000.wav|"He has.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000068_000000.wav|"Then I can tell you, Durham.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000066_000004.wav|But, regarding Beryl, what became of him?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000034_000001.wav|"However, he is safe for the next three years in his reformatory.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000043_000000.wav|"And he must have wondered how you never put the questions."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000091_000001.wav|"A prosaic ending to a pretty speech," she said.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000027_000002.wav|I went over there the other day to tell mrs Moon about Jerry."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000059_000001.wav|"After all, her confession meant hanging to her.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000087_000001.wav|Conniston, with Lucy on his arm, strolled away in the twilight, but Bernard and Alice remained under the elm.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000084_000000.wav|"Really," cried Miss Berengaria, while Durham stood by laughing, "it is most perplexing to assist at the meeting of a quartette of lovers.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000035_000000.wav|"Michael Gilroy?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000008_000001.wav|But now I think it was just as well Bernard did keep to his original intention and go to the Front.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000071_000004.wav|Bernard has the title and the money and----"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000086_000003.wav|I expect dinner will be late."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000008_000002.wav|It is advisable there should be an interval between the new life and the old."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000090_000000.wav|"This is the exception that proves the rule," said Gore.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000059_000000.wav|"Oh, I think so," said Durham, reflectively.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000084_000001.wav|Gore, how are you?|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000012_000000.wav|"Miss Randolph will be occupied in the same pleasing task with Conniston," replied Durham, lazily, "and I envy both my friends."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000039_000000.wav|"I think you put in a good word for him, Miss Malleson."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000021_000001.wav|"What I shall do without her I don't know."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000080_000000.wav|"I don't envy his wife," said Miss Berengaria, rising.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000004_000002.wav|The weather was exceedingly warm, and on this particular day there was not a cloud in the sky.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000091_000000.wav|Alice laughed.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000086_000002.wav|"Come away and let the turtle doves coo alone.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000023_000001.wav|"But Bernard will want you all to himself, and small blame to him.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000046_000001.wav|"I received a letter from him yesterday.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000018_000000.wav|"He is coming also to marry Miss Randolph.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000027_000001.wav|"A dreadfully damp place.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000075_000000.wav|"Yes.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000025_000002.wav|I don't want a scene of kissing and weeping on the platform.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000071_000002.wav|I don't see why we should revive such very unpleasant memories.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000086_000000.wav|Miss Berengaria took Durham's arm.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000013_000001.wav|"Poor Bernard has been wounded and Lord Conniston has been down with enteric fever."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000036_000001.wav|Has he taken that name for good?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000085_000000.wav|"With the most charming of wives," said Dick, bowing.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000029_000002.wav|But Jerry is a tree which will grow crooked. He seems to have been giving a lot of trouble."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000049_000004.wav|I never heard, though, of what poison she died."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000049_000001.wav|"Drat you, Durham! why should the boy mention his mother at this point?|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000061_000001.wav|It was therefore necessary to tell the whole of Beryl's plot, to produce Michael as an example of what Nature can do in the way of resemblances, and to supplement the whole with mrs Gilroy's confession."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000066_000003.wav|He will then be of a marriageable age, the brat!|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000030_000000.wav|"Yet he was lucky to get off as he did," said Durham.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000005_000001.wav|She looked particularly pretty, and her face was a most becoming color.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000011_000001.wav|"I shall have to nurse him back to health before we can marry."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty three|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000032_000000.wav|"I fancy Bernard is about right," replied Durham.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000042_000000.wav|"Well, I don't think he was quite himself during that illness," said Alice, pensively.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000065_000002.wav|Of course, he was afraid of being accused of the crime, although he knew he was innocent, but, besides that, there was the conspiracy to get the estate by means of the false will.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000076_000001.wav|"You have been an admirable Lady of the Manor," he said. "But soon you will be Lady Conniston."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000088_000000.wav|"That is the signal Lucy used to set in the window at the Hall to show that all was well," he said, putting his unwounded arm round the girl, "and now it gleams as a sign that there is a happy future for you and I, dearest."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000071_000001.wav|"Well," said he, looking down on the two ladies, "the whole case is over and ended.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000087_000000.wav|And dinner was late.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000004_000004.wav|And well she might be, for this was a red letter day with her.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000045_000001.wav|"The serpent in the bamboo.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000077_000002.wav|He thought Bernard was back, and came to thank him for his allowing him an income."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000042_000002.wav|A few questions from me, and he would have been exposed, even had I truly believed he was Bernard."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000050_000001.wav|"The gipsies use it to poison pigs."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000046_000003.wav|Also, he hopes to marry."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000051_000000.wav|"Why do they wish to poison pigs?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000034_000000.wav|"To rope ends, I suppose, as Jerry will come," said Durham.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000008_000000.wav|"Well," said Durham, following with his eyes the spare little figure of Miss Berengaria flitting about amongst the flowers, "I didn't approve of it at the time, and I told Conniston so.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000073_000002.wav|"I am so anxious," she whispered.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000003_000000.wav|A YEAR LATER|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000033_000000.wav|Miss Berengaria sat up briskly.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000063_000000.wav|"Or a new 'Comedy of Errors,'" said Alice, smiling.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000085_000001.wav|"We have."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000017_000000.wav|"And Lord Conniston?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000049_000003.wav|Poor soul! her end was a sad one.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000053_000001.wav|"I'll look well after my own pigs.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000081_000002.wav|They did not come by that train, however, much to the disappointment of those at the Bower. It was seven before they arrived, and then the three ladies came out to meet them on the lawn.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000089_000000.wav|"A red light is a danger signal," said Alice, laughing.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000077_000000.wav|"And Alice will be Lady of the Manor," laughed Lucy.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000084_000003.wav|I hope you have both sown your wild oats and have come back to settle for good."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000049_000002.wav|She has been dead all these months.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000028_000000.wav|"Have you had good reports of him?"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000040_000002.wav|While I nursed him I saw much good in him.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000042_000001.wav|"Had he been better, he would certainly have doubted the fact of aunty's and my beliefs.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000083_000000.wav|"And you, Lucy," said Conniston, taking his sweetheart in his arms.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000059_000002.wav|She wished to escape the gallows."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000029_000001.wav|The reformatory he was put into seems to be a good one, and the boys are well looked after.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000016_000001.wav|"I thought it would be a pity, after all he passed through, that he should be killed by a Boer bullet.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000032_000001.wav|"The lad is a born criminal.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000065_000000.wav|"We couldn't catch him," said Durham.|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000079_000000.wav|"He is going next week, and talks of marriage."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000022_000001.wav|The Hall is within visiting distance."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000033_000002.wav|"mrs Moon informed me that her son-Jerry's father-was a desperate scamp, and also that several of her husband's people had come to bad ends."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000072_000001.wav|"Dear girl, how sweet she looks!"|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8848/293963/8848_293963_000018_000002.wav|But why tell you all this-you know it as well as I do."|8848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000012.wav|Yet somehow the whole environment seemed only asleep, and to wear even in sleep an air of expectation.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000023_000000.wav|Instead of answering the question, she went again to the window and looked out, saying she feared the fairies would be interrupted by foul weather, for a storm was brewing in the west.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000057_000001.wav|They talked singing, and their talk made a song, something like this:|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000056_000000.wav|"All for the good of the community!" said one, and ran off with a great hollow leaf.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000044_000000.wav|"Are the trees fairies too, as well as the flowers?" I asked.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000067_000001.wav|Half of them were on the cat's back, and half held on by her fur and tail, or ran beside her; till, more coming to their help, the furious cat was held fast; and they proceeded to pick the sparks out of her with thorns and pins, which they handled like harpoons.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000026_000002.wav|So do I, in another way."|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000068_000000.wav|"Now, Pussy, be patient.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER three|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000005.wav|I could not conjecture what she meant, but satisfied myself with thinking that it would be time enough to find out her meaning when there was need to make use of her warning, and that the occasion would reveal the admonition.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000004.wav|Then she turned suddenly and left me, walking still with the same unchanging gait.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000063_000001.wav|During the latter part of the song talk, they had formed themselves into a funeral procession, two of them bearing poor Primrose, whose death Pocket had hastened by biting her stalk, upon one of her own great leaves.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000033_000001.wav|The woman brought it to me directly, but not before taking another look towards the forest, and then drawing a white blind over the window.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000051_000005.wav|The woman with a smile begged me not to trouble myself, for money was not of the slightest use there; and as I might meet with people in my journeys whom I could not recognise to be fairies, it was well I had no money to offer, for nothing offended them so much.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000063_000004.wav|Pocket, who had been expelled from the company by common consent, went sulkily away towards her hammock, for she was the fairy of the calceolaria, and looked rather wicked.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000068_000001.wav|You know quite well it is all for your good. You cannot be comfortable with all those sparks in you; and, indeed, I am charitably disposed to believe" (here he became very pompous) "that they are the cause of all your bad temper; so we must have them all out, every one; else we shall be reduced to the painful necessity of cutting your claws, and pulling out your eye teeth.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000020_000002.wav|I had just time to see, across the open space, on the edge of the denser forest, a single large ash tree, whose foliage showed bluish, amidst the truer green of the other trees around it; when she pushed me back with an expression of impatience and terror, and then almost shut out the light from the window by setting up a large old book in it.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000006.wav|I concluded from the flowers that she carried, that the forest could not be everywhere so dense as it appeared from where I was now walking; and I was right in this conclusion.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000002_000005.wav|But when we met, instead of passing, she turned and walked alongside of me for a few yards, still keeping her face downwards, and busied with her flowers. She spoke rapidly, however, all the time, in a low tone, as if talking to herself, but evidently addressing the purport of her words to me.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000048_000000.wav|"Do they live IN the flowers?" I said.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000004_000004.wav|This was homely and comforting.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000068_000002.wav|Quiet!|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000056_000003.wav|At last, after another good cry, she chose the biggest she could find, and ran away laughing, to launch her boat amongst the rest.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000047_000001.wav|Sometimes they will act a whole play through before my eyes, with perfect composure and assurance, for they are not afraid of me.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000008.wav|But even here I was struck with the utter stillness.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000031_000000.wav|"You are welcome to do as you please; only it might be better to stay all night, than risk the dangers of the wood then.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000033_000005.wav|At length I came to this passage-|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000022_000000.wav|"But what danger is to be dreaded from him?"|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000025_000001.wav|She replied-|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000047_000002.wav|Only, as soon as they have done, they burst into peals of tiny laughter, as if it was such a joke to have been serious over anything.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000002_000002.wav|In the midst of the intervening twilight, however, before I entered what appeared to be the darkest portion of the forest, I saw a country maiden coming towards me from its very depths.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000059_000000.wav|"She'll come by and by." "You will never see her." "She went home to dies, "Till the new year." "Snowdrop!" "'tis no good To invite her." "Primrose is very rude, "I will bite her."|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000066_000000.wav|"Because she said we should never see Snowdrop; as if we were not good enough to look at her, and she was, the proud thing!--served her right!"|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000030_000000.wav|"I should like to stay here till the evening," I said; "and then go on my journey, if you will allow me."|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000053_000002.wav|The whole garden was like a carnival, with tiny, gaily decorated forms, in groups, assemblies, processions, pairs or trios, moving stately on, running about wildly, or sauntering hither or thither.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000017.wav|Soon, however, I became again anxious, though from another cause.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000020_000001.wav|My eyes followed her; but as the window was too small to allow anything to be seen from where I was sitting, I rose and looked over her shoulder.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000029_000002.wav|A smile passed between the mother and daughter; and then the latter began to help her mother in little household duties.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000069_000001.wav|"Never mind, never mind, we shall find her again; and by that time she will have laid in a fresh stock of sparks.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000011_000000.wav|"What do you see?"|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000034_000005.wav|Now it came about in this wise.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000004_000005.wav|As I came near, she looked up, and seeing me, showed no surprise, but bent her head again over her work, and said in a low tone:|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000051_000004.wav|I pulled out my purse, but to my dismay there was nothing in it.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000026_000001.wav|If the cat were at home, she would have her back up; for the young fairies pull the sparks out of her tail with bramble thorns, and she knows when they are coming.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000018.wav|I had eaten nothing that day, and for an hour past had been feeling the want of food.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000007_000001.wav|As soon as she had shut the door and set a chair-|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000001.wav|"Trust the Oak," said she; "trust the Oak, and the Elm, and the great Beech.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000019_000000.wav|"What did you mean by speaking so about the Ash?"|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000060_000000.wav|"Oh, you naughty Pocket! "Look, she drops her head." "She deserved it, Rocket, "And she was nearly dead." "To your hammock-off with you!" "And swing alone." "No one will laugh with you." "No, not one."|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000004_000003.wav|A woman sat beside it, preparing some vegetables for dinner.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000049_000006.wav|If I speak to one, he or she looks up in my face, as if I were not worth heeding, gives a little laugh, and runs away." Here the woman started, as if suddenly recollecting herself, and said in a low voice to her daughter, "Make haste-go and watch him, and see in what direction he goes."|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000053_000000.wav|Here, to my great pleasure, all was life and bustle.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000054_000000.wav|"You can't wear half you've got," said some.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000033_000004.wav|I read on and on, till the shades of the afternoon began to deepen; for in the midst of the forest it gloomed earlier than in the open country.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000049_000001.wav|"There is something in it I do not understand.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000067_000002.wav|Indeed, there were more instruments at work about her than there could have been sparks in her.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000024_000000.wav|"And the sooner it grows dark, the sooner the Ash will be awake," added she.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000065_000000.wav|"Why did you bite poor Primrose?"|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000068_000003.wav|Pussy, quiet!"|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000038_000000.wav|"He is almost awake, mother; and greedier than usual to night."|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000010_000001.wav|I think I see it."|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000067_000000.wav|"Oh, Pocket, Pocket," said I; but by this time the party which had gone towards the house, rushed out again, shouting and screaming with laughter.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000015_000001.wav|I noticed too that her hands were delicately formed, though brown with work and exposure.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000050_000005.wav|Yet you would see a strange resemblance, almost oneness, between the flower and the fairy, which you could not describe, but which described itself to you.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000050_000001.wav|The flowers seem a sort of houses for them, or outer bodies, which they can put on or off when they please.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000002.wav|Take care of the Birch, for though she is honest, she is too young not to be changeable.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000047_000003.wav|These I speak of, however, are the fairies of the garden. They are more staid and educated than those of the fields and woods. Of course they have near relations amongst the wild flowers, but they patronise them, and treat them as country cousins, who know nothing of life, and very little of manners.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000029_000001.wav|Here, however, the young woman, whom I had met in the morning, entered.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000004_000001.wav|I wondered at finding a human dwelling in this neighbourhood; and yet it did not look altogether human, though sufficiently so to encourage me to expect to find some sort of food.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000070_000003.wav|Even the most mischievous of the fairies would not tease him, although he did not belong to their set at all, but was quite a little country bumpkin.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000070_000001.wav|Their manners and habits are now so well known to the world, having been so often described by eyewitnesses, that it would be only indulging self conceit, to add my account in full to the rest. I cannot help wishing, however, that my readers could see them for themselves.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000033_000000.wav|Accordingly I sat down, and feeling rather tired, and disinclined for further talk, I asked leave to look at the old book which still screened the window.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000053_000003.wav|From the cups or bells of tall flowers, as from balconies, some looked down on the masses below, now bursting with laughter, now grave as owls; but even in their deepest solemnity, seeming only to be waiting for the arrival of the next laugh. Some were launched on a little marshy stream at the bottom, in boats chosen from the heaps of last year's leaves that lay about, curled and withered.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000014.wav|Then I remembered that night is the fairies' day, and the moon their sun; and I thought-Everything sleeps and dreams now: when the night comes, it will be different.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000005_000000.wav|"Did you see my daughter?"|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000002_000004.wav|I could hardly see her face; for, though she came direct towards me, she never looked up.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000053_000004.wav|These soon sank with them; whereupon they swam ashore and got others.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000003_000010.wav|No insect hummed.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000070_000002.wav|Especially do I desire that they should see the fairy of the daisy; a little, chubby, round eyed child, with such innocent trust in his look!|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000028_000000.wav|"There, I told you!" said the woman.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000063_000006.wav|I could not help speaking to her, for I stood near her.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000002_000001.wav|I seemed to be advancing towards a second midnight.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000063_000007.wav|I said, "Pocket, how could you be so naughty?"|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000033_000003.wav|It contained many wondrous tales of Fairy Land, and olden times, and the Knights of King Arthur's table.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000013_000000.wav|"But how then do you come to live here?"|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000050_000000.wav|I may as well mention here, that the conclusion I arrived at from the observations I was afterwards able to make, was, that the flowers die because the fairies go away; not that the fairies disappear because the flowers die.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000063_000005.wav|When she reached its stem, she stopped and looked round.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000049_000000.wav|"I cannot tell," she replied.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000053_000005.wav|Those who took fresh rose leaves for their boats floated the longest; but for these they had to fight; for the fairy of the rose tree complained bitterly that they were stealing her clothes, and defended her property bravely.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000036_000000.wav|"Look there!" she said; "look at his fingers!"|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1562/1748_1562_000007_000000.wav|Having said this, she rose and led the way into the cottage; which, I now saw, was built of the stems of small trees set closely together, and was furnished with rough chairs and tables, from which even the bark had not been removed.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1560/1748_1560_000015_000002.wav|Now, to the point.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1560/1748_1560_000018_000000.wav|"I did; but I meant something quite different from what you seem to think."|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1748/1560/1748_1560_000015_000000.wav|"How do you know that?" she retorted.|1748
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000045_000001.wav|I have killed five boars, and two great ones got off after falling; two bucks; six does; and a hare: fourteen in all.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000078_000000.wav|I dined, this morning, at nine o'clock; and, I think, it agreed better with me than tea.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000052_000000.wav|Your's, ever, my dear wife,|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000071_000000.wav|The news you sent me, of poor Lord Pembroke, gave me a little twist; but I have, for some time, perceived, that my friends, with whom I spent my younger days, have been dropping around me.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000056_000001.wav|Suppose you had put it on nine parts out of ten of the ladies in company, would any one have appeared angelic?|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000070_000000.wav|By having grumbled a little, I got a better post to day; and have killed two boars and a sow, all enormous.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000049_000000.wav|This is a heavy air; nobody eats with appetite, and many are ill with colds.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000004_000000.wav|My cold is better, notwithstanding the weather.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000083_000000.wav|Here we are, my Dear Emma, after a pleasant day's journey!|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000054_000000.wav|fifteen.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000003_000000.wav|I approve of all you do in my absence; but it would be nonsense, and appear affected, to carry your scruples too far.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000012_000000.wav|MY DEAR EMMA,|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000079_000002.wav|Divert yourself-I shall soon be at you again.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000059_000000.wav|Yesterday, when we brought home all we killed, it filled the house, completely; and, to day, they are obliged to white wash the walls, to take away the blood.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000001_000000.wav|We have had a miserable cold day, but good sport.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000069_000000.wav|MY DEAR EM.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000073_000002.wav|Admire the Creator, and all his works, to us incomprehensible: and do all the good you can upon earth; and take the chance of eternity, without dismay.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000014_000000.wav|I find, in my book of letters, twentieth of December, that I wrote, that day, a letter to mr Burgess, to deliver to Messieurs Biddulph and Co.--to Lord Abercorn-and to mr Durno, with the order inclosed.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000081_000000.wav|seventeen.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47237/5157_47237_000035_000000.wav|thirteen.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47239/5157_47239_000004_000000.wav|MY DEAR LORD,|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47239/5157_47239_000062_000000.wav|MY DEAR LORD,|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47239/5157_47239_000074_000000.wav|twelve.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47239/5157_47239_000037_000000.wav|Emma|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000055_000000.wav|God bless you!|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000054_000000.wav|Having wrote fully by the felucca to day, that went off at three o'clock-and have not yet General Acton's answer, with respect to what the Court would wish you to do when you hear how the French fleet is disposed of-I have nothing to write by the transport.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000040_000000.wav|Above all, take care of your health; that is the first of blessings. May God ever protect you!|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000018_000000.wav|With our love to Sam, I am, ever, dear Sir, your's, sincerely,|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000053_000000.wav|MY DEAR LORD,|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000052_000000.wav|Palermo, june twentieth seventeen ninety nine. Eight o'Clock at Night.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000055_000001.wav|And I hope, somehow or other, we shall meet again soon.|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000049_000000.wav|Ever, my dear Lord, your truly attached friend,|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000045_000000.wav|MY DEAR LORD,|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5157/47238/5157_47238_000009_000000.wav|MY DEAR SIR,|5157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000039_000000.wav|None of those who had known little Nell ever forgot her story.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000003_000001.wav|The strangest habit he had was this: He seemed to be very fond of Punch and Judy shows, and whenever he heard one on the street he would run out without his hat, make the showmen perform in front of the house and then invite them to his rooms, where he would question them for a long time.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000004_000007.wav|And finally, in this way, he did find the very same pair the wanderers had met!|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000021_000000.wav|The waves threw his drowned body finally on the edge of a dismal swamp, in the red glare of the blazing ruin which the overturned stove that night made of the building in which he had framed his evil plots.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000018_000000.wav|A few minutes before the officers arrived the dwarf received warning from Sally Brass, but he had no time to get away.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000000_000001.wav|He had loaned the grandfather more money than the shop would bring, and he made up his mind now that the old man had a secret hoard somewhere, which might be his if he could find it.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000009_000000.wav|But they were all too late.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000005_000002.wav|So he tried to find some one they had loved to go with him to show that he intended only kindness.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000020_000002.wav|He had been so wicked that he was afraid to die and he fought desperately, but the rapid tide smothered his cries and dragged him down-to death.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000035_000001.wav|That done, she turned to the old man with a lovely smile on her face-such, he said, as he had never seen-and threw both arms about his neck.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000032_000001.wav|Pushing them aside, he went into the next room, calling little Nell's name softly as he went.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000040_000001.wav|So that his greatest misfortune turned out, after all, to be his greatest good.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000029_000003.wav|They told me afterward that the stones had cut and bruised them.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000025_000001.wav|All night and all the next day, they rode, and it was midnight before they came to the town where the two wanderers had taken refuge.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000005_000001.wav|But he remembered that his brother, little Nell's grandfather, could not be expected to know him after all the years he had been gone, and as for little Nell herself, she had never seen him, and he was afraid if they heard a strange man had come for them they would take fright and run away again.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000034_000001.wav|The schoolmaster told them of her last hours.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000033_000000.wav|They followed.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000039_000003.wav|Even the rough canal boatmen were not forgotten.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000020_000000.wav|He screamed in terror, but the water filled his throat and the knocking on the gates was so loud that no one heard him.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000028_000003.wav|He had a dress of little Nell's in his hand and smoothed and patted it as he muttered that she had been asleep-asleep a long time now, and was marble cold and would not wake.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000004_000005.wav|He had soon learned the story of their misfortune and how the fear of Quilp had driven them away.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000029_000001.wav|"And see here-these shoes-how worn they are!|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000019_000000.wav|It was a black, foggy night, and he could not see a foot before him.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000006_000002.wav|But Kit promised the Stranger that his mother should go in his place, and went to tell her at once.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000025_000000.wav|Snow began falling as the daylight wore away, and the coach wheels made no noise.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000002_000002.wav|Then he would light a lamp that stood under it, and in five minutes the egg would be cooked, the coffee boiled and the meat done-all ready to eat.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000011_000000.wav|One day, when Kit came to Brass's house to see the Stranger, who lodged up stairs, the lawyer cunningly hid a five pound note in the lad's hat and as soon as he left ran after him, seized him in the street and accused him of taking it from his office desk.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000004_000004.wav|He had come back now to England, a rich man, to find the other had vanished with little Nell, his grandchild.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000030_000000.wav|So he muttered on, and the cheeks of the others were wet with tears, for they had begun to understand the sad truth.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000039_000002.wav|Jarley of the waxwork, the Punch and Judy showmen, he found them all.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000031_000002.wav|Say that you had a brother, long forgotten, who now at last came back to you to be what you were then to him.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000014_000000.wav|One night, while this little drudge was prowling about above stairs, she overheard Brass telling his sister, Sally (who was his partner and colder and crueler and more wicked even than he was), the trick he was going to play.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000014_000001.wav|After Kit was arrested she ran away from Brass's house and told her story to Kit's employer, who had all along believed in his innocence.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000013_000000.wav|All might have gone wrong but for a little maid servant of Brass's, whom the lawyer had starved and mistreated for years.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000010_000000.wav|The part Kit had played in this made the dwarf hate him, if possible, more than ever, and he agreed to pay Brass, his rascally lawyer, to ruin the lad by making a false charge of theft against him.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000040_000000.wav|Kit's story got abroad and he found himself with hosts of friends, who gave him a good position and secured his mother from want.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000008_000000.wav|Now Quilp had all along suspected that Kit and his mother knew something of their whereabouts, and he had made it his business to watch either one or the other.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000019_000001.wav|He thought he could climb over the wall to the next wharf and so escape, but in his fright he missed his way and fell over the edge of the platform into the swift flowing river.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000037_000000.wav|One day he did not return at the usual hour and they went to look for him.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000031_000003.wav|Give me but one word, dear brother, to say you know me, and life will still be precious to us again."|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000004_000006.wav|After much inquiry he had discovered they had been seen with a Punch and Judy show and now he was trying to find the showmen.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000000_000002.wav|He soon learned that if Kit knew anything about it he would not tell, so he and his lawyer (a sleek, oily rascal named Brass) made many plans for finding them.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000029_000002.wav|You see where her feet went bare upon the ground.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000000_000003.wav|But for a long time Quilp could get no trace.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000026_000000.wav|The village was very still, and the air was frosty and cold.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000027_000002.wav|In the room an old man bent low over a fire crooning to himself, and Kit, seeing that it was his old master, opened the door, ran in, knelt by him and caught his hand.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000022_000000.wav|As for Kit, he found himself all at once not only free, but a hero.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000008_000001.wav|The dwarf, in fact, was in the church when Kit came for his mother, and he followed.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000027_000000.wav|They left the driver to take the horses to the inn and approached the building afoot.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000007_000001.wav|Kit took her home, packed her box and bundled her into the coach which the Stranger brought, and away they went to find the wanderers.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000029_000005.wav|No, no, God bless her!|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000035_000002.wav|They did not know at first that she was dead.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000012_000001.wav|The evidence seemed so strong that the poor fellow was quickly tried, found guilty and sentenced to prison for a long time.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000027_000001.wav|They went quite close and looked through the window.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000003_000000.wav|He was the queerest sort of boarder!|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000006_000000.wav|He was not long in hearing of Kit, who had found a situation as footman, and he gained his employer's leave to take the lad with him.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000001_000000.wav|Another who tried to find them was a curious lodger who roomed in Brass's house.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000024_000001.wav|A gentleman who lived in the village to which they were now bound, who had himself been kind to the child and to the old man whom the new schoolmaster had brought with him, had written of the pair to Kit's employer, and the letter had been the lost clue, so long sought, to their hiding place.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000038_000000.wav|They buried him beside the child he had loved, and there in the churchyard where they had often talked together they both lie side by side.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000028_000000.wav|The old grandfather did not recognize Kit.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000029_000004.wav|She never told me that.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000037_000001.wav|He was lying dead upon the stone.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000020_000001.wav|The water swept him close to a ship, but its keel was smooth and slippery and there was nothing to cling to.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000017_000001.wav|Here he had set up the battered figurehead of a wrecked ship and, imagining that its face resembled that of Kit whom he so fiendishly hated, he used to amuse himself by screwing gimlets into its breast, sticking forks into its eyes and beating it with a poker.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000036_000000.wav|They laid little Nell to rest the next day in the churchyard where she had so often sat|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000004_000003.wav|But he dreamed often of the days when they had been children and at last he forgot the thing that had driven them apart.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000034_000002.wav|They had read and talked to her a while, and then she had sunk peacefully to sleep.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000006_000001.wav|When Kit learned that The Stranger had discovered where little Nell was he was overjoyed; but he knew he himself was not the one to go, because before they disappeared she had told him he must never come to the Old Curiosity Shop again and that her grandfather blamed him as the cause of their misfortune.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000002_000000.wav|He kept in his room a big box like trunk, in which was a silver stove that he used to cook his meals.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000012_000000.wav|Kit was arrested, and the note, of course, was found on his person.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000013_000001.wav|He used to keep her locked in the moldy cellar and gave her so little to eat that she would creep into the office at night (she had found a key that fitted the door) to pick up the bits of bread that Dick Swiveller, Brass's clerk, had left when he ate his luncheon.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000035_000000.wav|Opening her eyes at last, she begged that they would kiss her once again.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000039_000001.wav|After the death of the old man, his brother, the Stranger who had sought them so long, traveled in the footsteps of the two wanderers to search out and reward all who had been kind to them-mrs|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000042_000000.wav|The fate of the others, whose wickedness has been a part of this story, was not so pleasant.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000008_000002.wav|When she left with the Stranger he took another coach and pursued, feeling certain he was on the right track.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000026_000001.wav|Only a single light was to be seen, coming from a window beside a church.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000021_000001.wav|And this was the end of Quilp, the dwarf.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000018_000002.wav|He tried to cover the light of the fire, but only succeeded in upsetting the stove.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000004_000002.wav|The younger had become a traveler in many countries and had never seen his brother since.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000029_000006.wav|And I have remembered since how she walked behind me, that I might not see how lame she was, but yet she had my hand in hers and seemed to lead me still."|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000017_000000.wav|Officers were sent at once to arrest Quilp at a dingy dwelling on a wharf in the river where he often slept with the object of terrifying his wife by his long absences.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000028_000002.wav|He was much changed, and it seemed as if some great blow or grief had crazed him.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113273/7933_113273_000041_000000.wav|The little maid whose evidence cleared Kit of the terrible charge against him lived to marry Dick Swiveller, the clerk of Brass, the lawyer, while meek mrs Quilp, after her husband's drowning, married a clever young man and lived a pleasant life on the dead dwarf's money.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000017_000000.wav|But it was easy to see that they were not ordinary beggars, and she was kind hearted and wanted to help them.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000038_000000.wav|The child's strength was almost gone, when they met a traveler who was reading in a book as he walked along.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000019_000000.wav|"This, ladies and gentlemen," little Nell learned to say, "is Jasper Packlemerton, who murdered fourteen wives by tickling the soles of their feet," or, "this is Queen Elizabeth's maid of honor, who died from pricking her finger while sewing on Sunday."|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000028_000002.wav|One, she saw, was her grandfather, and the others were the gamblers with whom he had played at the inn on the night of the storm.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000040_000000.wav|He had been appointed schoolmaster, he told her, in another town, to which he was then on his way, and he declared they should go with him and he would care for them.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000011_000004.wav|So they bade the schoolmaster good by and walked on.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000038_000003.wav|When she saw him little Nell shrieked and fell unconscious at his feet.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000030_000003.wav|She went to the old man's room and wakened him.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000025_000001.wav|She caught a view of his face and then she knew that the figure was her own grandfather, and that, crazed by the gambling scene, he himself had robbed her!|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000029_000001.wav|They were tempting the poor daft old man to steal the money from mrs Jarley's strong box, and while she listened he consented.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000009_000000.wav|It was the second day of the races before a chance came, and then, while the showmen's backs were turned, they slipped away in the crowd to the open fields again.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000010_000001.wav|He seemed to understand that he was not wholly in his right mind.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000036_000000.wav|The place to which they finally came was a town of wretched workmen who toiled all day in iron furnaces for little wages, and were almost as miserable and hungry as the wanderers themselves.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000003_000002.wav|That night they slept at a cottage where the people were kind to them, and all the next day they walked on and on.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000017_000002.wav|She explained that the child's duty would be to point out the wax figures to the visitors and tell their names, while her grandfather could help dust them.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000039_000001.wav|She told him all the story of their wanderings, and he heard it with astonishment and wonder to find such a great heart and heroism in a child.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000014_000002.wav|As the wheels rattled on the old man fell asleep, and the stout lady made little Nell sit by her and talk.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000043_000000.wav|They were very happy in this new home.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000038_000001.wav|He looked up as they came near.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000012_000001.wav|They had almost reached another village when they came to a tiny painted house on wheels with horses to draw it.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000020_000000.wav|She was quick to learn and soon became a great favorite with the visitors.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000004_000000.wav|At sunset they stopped to rest in a churchyard, where two men were sitting patching a Punch and Judy show booth, while the figures of Punch, the doctor, the executioner and the devil were lying on the grass waiting to be mended.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000046_000000.wav|So the weeks passed into winter, and though she came soon to know that she was not long for earth, she thought of death without regret and of heaven with joy.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000024_000003.wav|If she could get to her grandfather, she thought, she would be safe.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000039_000000.wav|The schoolmaster carried her to an inn near by, where she was put to bed and doctored under his care, for she was very weak.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000005_000000.wav|The men were mending the dolls very badly, so little Nell took a needle and sewed them all neatly.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000030_000001.wav|She tried to sleep, but could not.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000026_000001.wav|She knew, to be sure, that her grandfather was not a thief and that he did not know what he was doing when he stole her money; but she knew, too, that if people found out he was crazy they would take him away from her and shut him up where she could not be with him, and of this she could not bear to think.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000023_000002.wav|When she was abed she could not sleep for fear of the wicked men she had seen gambling.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000017_000001.wav|So, after much thought, she asked little Nell if they would take a situation with her.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000031_000003.wav|We must go."|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000037_000002.wav|They begged, but no one would help them.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000030_000000.wav|She ran home in terrible grief.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000011_000001.wav|The pale old schoolmaster sat smoking in the garden.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000011_000003.wav|He made them sleep in the school room that night, and he begged them to stay longer next day, but little Nell was anxious to get as far as possible from London and from the dwarf, who she was all the time in fear might find them.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000024_000002.wav|She was dreadfully afraid he might return to harm her.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000032_000001.wav|He dressed himself in fear, and with her little basket on her arm she led him out of the house, on, away from the town, into the country, far away from mrs Jarley, who had been so kind to them, and from the new home they had found.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000030_000002.wav|At last she could bear it no longer.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000029_000000.wav|Little Nell crept close.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000031_000001.wav|I can not stay!|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000027_000001.wav|This, she soon knew, he gambled away, for often he was out all night, and even seemed to shun her; so she was sad and took many long walks alone through the fields.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000018_000000.wav|They accepted this offer very thankfully (for almost all the money they had brought was now spent), and when the wagon arrived at the place of exhibition and the waxwork had been set up, mrs Jarley put a long wand in little Nell's hand and taught her to point out each figure and describe it:|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000010_000000.wav|These alarms and the exposure had begun to affect the old man.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000024_000000.wav|When at last she fell asleep she waked suddenly to see a figure in the room.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000023_000001.wav|This she had to change into silver and to pay a part for their lodging.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000002_000000.wav|THE WANDERERS|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000024_000001.wav|She was too frightened to scream, and lay very still and trembled. The robber searched her clothing, took the rest of the money and went out.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/113272/7933_113272_000022_000001.wav|He made her give him the money she had earned from the waxwork, joined the gamblers and in a few hours had lost it all.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000009_000000.wav|Harpers and timpanists were honoured in Ireland beyond all other musicians; and their rights and privileges were even laid down in the law. Kings had always harpers in their service, who resided in the palaces and were well paid for their services.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000010_000002.wav|The form in use was what we now call the Highland or Scotch pipes-slung from the shoulder: the bag inflated by the mouth.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000015_000000.wav|The music of ancient Ireland consisted wholly of short airs, each with two strains or parts-seldom more.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000003_000000.wav|Everywhere through the Records we find evidences that the ancient Irish, both high and low, were passionately fond of music.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000006_000001.wav|From that period, in spite of wars and troubles, music continued to be cultivated, and there was an unbroken succession of great professional harpers, till the end of the eighteenth century, when, for want of encouragement in the miserable condition of the country under the penal laws, the race died out.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000017_000006.wav|While ploughmen were at their work they whistled a sweet, slow, and sad strain, which had as powerful an effect in soothing the horses at their hard labour as the milking songs had on the cows: and these Plough whistles also were quite usual till about half a century ago.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000013_000002.wav|For war purposes, trumpeters had different calls for directing movements-for battle, for unyoking, for marching, for halting, for retiring to sleep, for going into council, and so forth.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000008_000001.wav|It had a body like a flat drum, to which at one side was attached a short neck: the strings were stretched across the flat face of the drum and along the neck: and were tuned and regulated by pins or keys and a bridge.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000018_000000.wav|Special airs and songs were used during working time by smiths, by weavers, and by boatmen.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000011_000002.wav|On many of the great stone crosses are sculptured harp players and pipe players, from which we learn a great deal about the shapes and sizes of the several instruments.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000014_000001.wav|The musical branch figures much in Irish romantic literature.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000005_000001.wav|At a later time it was quite common among the Welsh bards to come over to Ireland to receive instruction from the Irish harpers.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000007_000000.wav|The Harp is mentioned in the earliest Irish literature: it is constantly mixed up with our oldest legends; and it was in use from the remotest pagan times.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000017_000005.wav|The same custom was common in the Highlands of Scotland.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000016_000006.wav|Such airs are now known as lullabies, or nurse tunes, or cradle songs, of which numerous examples are preserved in collections of Irish music.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000013_000000.wav|Among the household of every king and chief there was a band of trumpeters-as there were harpers-who were assigned their proper places at feasts and meetings.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000007_000001.wav|The old Irish harps were of a medium size, or rather small, the average height being about thirty inches: and some were not much more than half that height.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000019_000000.wav|The Irish had numerous war marches, which the pipers played at the head of the clansmen when marching to battle, and which inspired them with courage and dash for the fight.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000020_000000.wav|The man who did most in modern times to draw attention to Irish music was Thomas Moore.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000017_000001.wav|There were special spinning wheel songs, which the women sang, with words, in chorus or in dialogue, when employed in spinning.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000012_000001.wav|In the National Museum in Dublin is a collection of twenty six ancient trumpets, varying in length from eight feet down to eighteen inches.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000005_000003.wav|Ireland was long the school for Scottish harpers also, who regularly came over, like those of Wales, to finish their musical education-a practice which continued down to about one hundred fifty years ago.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000002_000000.wav|From the very earliest ages Irish musicians were celebrated for their skill, not only in their own country but all over Europe.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000003_000002.wav|In the religious tales music is always one of the delights of heaven; and a chief function of the angels who attend on God is to chant music of ineffable sweetness to Him, which they generally do in the shape of beautiful white birds.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000002_000001.wav|Our native literature, whether referring to pagan or Christian times, is full of references to music and to skilful musicians, who are always spoken of in terms of the utmost respect.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000010_000001.wav|But the bagpipe was the great favourite of the common people.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000018_000003.wav|Examples of all the preceding classes of melodies will be found in the collections of Irish airs by Bunting, Petrie, and Joyce.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000001_000000.wav|HOW THE ANCIENT IRISH EXCELLED IN MUSIC.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000016_000007.wav|They were usually sung to put children to sleep.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000018_000002.wav|In most cases words suitable to the several occasions were sung with lullabies, laments, and occupation tunes.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000017_000002.wav|At milking time the girls were in the habit of chanting a particular sort of air, in a low gentle voice.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000007_000002.wav|They had strings of brass wire which were tuned by a key, not very different from the present tuning key.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000013_000001.wav|Trumpets were used for various purposes:--in war; in hunting; for signals during meetings and banquets; as a mark of honour on the arrival of distinguished visitors; and such like.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000021_000000.wav|Of the entire body of Irish airs that are preserved, we know the authors of only a very small proportion; and these were composed within the last two hundred years.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000017_000004.wav|This practice was common down to fifty or sixty years ago; and I well remember seeing cows grow restless when the song was interrupted, and become again quiet and placid when it was resumed.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7933/112597/7933_112597_000003_000001.wav|It was mixed up with their daily home life, and formed part of their amusements, meetings, and celebrations of every kind.|7933
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000009_000002.wav|Duty does not apply to the sovereign in the kingdom of ends, but it does to every member of it and to all in the same degree.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000004.wav|Nevertheless, although the system of nature is looked upon as a machine, yet so far as it has reference to rational beings as its ends, it is given on this account the name of a kingdom of nature.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000018_000000.wav|three.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000019_000001.wav|In the first case, the kingdom of ends is a theoretical idea, adopted to explain what actually is.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000020_000001.wav|That will is absolutely good which cannot be evil in other words, whose maxim, if made a universal law, could never contradict itself.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000028_000001.wav|The will in that case does not give itself the law, but it is given by the object through its relation to the will.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000009.wav|For this sole absolute lawgiver must, notwithstanding this, be always conceived as estimating the worth of rational beings only by their disinterested behaviour, as prescribed to themselves from that idea [the dignity of man] alone.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000020_000002.wav|This principle, then, is its supreme law: "Act always on such a maxim as thou canst at the same time will to be a universal law"; this is the sole condition under which a will can never contradict itself; and such an imperative is categorical.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000038_000002.wav|For the influence which the conception of an object within the reach of our faculties can exercise on the will of the subject, in consequence of its natural properties, depends on the nature of the subject, either the sensibility (inclination and taste), or the understanding and reason, the employment of which is by the peculiar constitution of their nature attended with satisfaction.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000005_000000.wav|By a kingdom I understand the union of different rational beings in a system by common laws.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000038_000003.wav|It follows that the law would be, properly speaking, given by nature, and, as such, it must be known and proved by experience and would consequently be contingent and therefore incapable of being an apodeictic practical rule, such as the moral rule must be.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000013.wav|A will whose maxims necessarily coincide with the laws of autonomy is a holy will, good absolutely. The dependence of a will not absolutely good on the principle of autonomy (moral necessitation) is obligation.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000014_000003.wav|Now the legislation itself which assigns the worth of everything must for that very reason possess dignity, that is an unconditional incomparable worth; and the word respect alone supplies a becoming expression for the esteem which a rational being must have for it.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000028_000000.wav|If the will seeks the law which is to determine it anywhere else than in the fitness of its maxims to be universal laws of its own dictation, consequently if it goes out of itself and seeks this law in the character of any of its objects, there always results heteronomy.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000003.wav|The formal principle of these maxims is: "So act as if thy maxim were to serve likewise as the universal law (of all rational beings)." A kingdom of ends is thus only possible on the analogy of a kingdom of nature, the former however only by maxims, that is self imposed rules, the latter only by the laws of efficient causes acting under necessitation from without.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000023_000002.wav|We have also shown above that neither fear nor inclination, but simply respect for the law, is the spring which can give actions a moral worth.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000032_000001.wav|The former, drawn from the principle of happiness, are built on physical or moral feelings; the latter, drawn from the principle of perfection, are built either on the rational conception of perfection as a possible effect, or on that of an independent perfection (the will of God) as the determining cause of our will.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000006_000000.wav|For all rational beings come under the law that each of them must treat itself and all others never merely as means, but in every case at the same time as ends in themselves.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000025_000002.wav|This matter, however, does not belong to the present section.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000029_000000.wav|Classification of all Principles of Morality which can be|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000023_000000.wav|From what has just been said, it is easy to see how it happens that, although the conception of duty implies subjection to the law, we yet ascribe a certain dignity and sublimity to the person who fulfils all his duties.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000020_000003.wav|Since the validity of the will as a universal law for possible actions is analogous to the universal connexion of the existence of things by general laws, which is the formal notion of nature in general, the categorical imperative can also be expressed thus: Act on maxims which can at the same time have for their object themselves as universal laws of nature.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000003_000004.wav|For men never elicited duty, but only a necessity of acting from a certain interest.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000001.wav|In this way a world of rational beings (mundus intelligibilis) is possible as a kingdom of ends, and this by virtue of the legislation proper to all persons as members.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000028_000003.wav|Thus, e g, I ought to endeavour to promote the happiness of others, not as if its realization involved any concern of mine (whether by immediate inclination or by any satisfaction indirectly gained through reason), but simply because a maxim which excludes it cannot be comprehended as a universal law in one and the same volition.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000039_000002.wav|Whoever then holds morality to be anything real, and not a chimerical idea without any truth, must likewise admit the principle of it that is here assigned.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000020_000000.wav|We can now end where we started at the beginning, namely, with the conception of a will unconditionally good.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000012.wav|An action that is consistent with the autonomy of the will is permitted; one that does not agree therewith is forbidden.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000018_000003.wav|In forming our moral judgement of actions, it is better to proceed always on the strict method and start from the general formula of the categorical imperative: Act according to a maxim which can at the same time make itself a universal law.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000010_000000.wav|The practical necessity of acting on this principle, i e, duty, does not rest at all on feelings, impulses, or inclinations, but solely on the relation of rational beings to one another, a relation in which the will of a rational being must always be regarded as legislative, since otherwise it could not be conceived as an end in itself.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000008_000001.wav|He cannot, however, maintain the latter position merely by the maxims of his will, but only in case he is a completely independent being without wants and with unrestricted power adequate to his will.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000020_000004.wav|Such then is the formula of an absolutely good will.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000024_000000.wav|The Autonomy of the Will as the Supreme Principle of Morality|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000016_000000.wav|one.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000027_000000.wav|of Morality|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000015_000001.wav|There is, however, a difference in them, but it is rather subjectively than objectively practical, intended namely to bring an idea of the reason nearer to intuition (by means of a certain analogy) and thereby nearer to feeling.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000013_000005.wav|This estimation therefore shows that the worth of such a disposition is dignity, and places it infinitely above all value, with which it cannot for a moment be brought into comparison or competition without as it were violating its sanctity.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000004_000000.wav|The conception of the will of every rational being as one which must consider itself as giving in all the maxims of its will universal laws, so as to judge itself and its actions from this point of view this conception leads to another which depends on it and is very fruitful, namely that of a kingdom of ends.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000021_000001.wav|This end would be the matter of every good will.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000014.wav|This, then, cannot be applied to a holy being.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000018_000001.wav|A complete characterization of all maxims by means of that formula, namely, that all maxims ought by their own legislation to harmonize with a possible kingdom of ends as with a kingdom of nature.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000005.wav|Now such a kingdom of ends would be actually realized by means of maxims conforming to the canon which the categorical imperative prescribes to all rational beings, if they were universally followed.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000021_000000.wav|Rational nature is distinguished from the rest of nature by this, that it sets before itself an end.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000025_000000.wav|Autonomy of the will is that property of it by which it is a law to itself (independently of any property of the objects of volition).|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000014_000004.wav|Autonomy then is the basis of the dignity of human and of every rational nature.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000003_000006.wav|I will therefore call this the principle of autonomy of the will, in contrast with every other which I accordingly reckon as heteronomy.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000003_000005.wav|Whether this interest was private or otherwise, in any case the imperative must be conditional and could not by any means be capable of being a moral command.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000022_000015.wav|The objective necessity of actions from obligation is called duty.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000013_000003.wav|Neither nature nor art contains anything which in default of these it could put in their place, for their worth consists not in the effects which spring from them, not in the use and advantage which they secure, but in the disposition of mind, that is, the maxims of the will which are ready to manifest themselves in such actions, even though they should not have the desired effect.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000013_000001.wav|Thus morality, and humanity as capable of it, is that which alone has dignity.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000014_000002.wav|For nothing has any worth except what the law assigns it.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000021_000004.wav|Now this end can be nothing but the subject of all possible ends, since this is also the subject of a possible absolutely good will; for such a will cannot without contradiction be postponed to any other object.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000003_000003.wav|Now by this necessary consequence all the labour spent in finding a supreme principle of duty was irrevocably lost.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/398/6555_398_000006_000001.wav|Hence results a systematic union of rational being by common objective laws, i e, a kingdom which may be called a kingdom of ends, since what these laws have in view is just the relation of these beings to one another as ends and means.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000013_000004.wav|Then I see at once that it could never hold as a universal law of nature, but would necessarily contradict itself.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000007_000000.wav|There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely, this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000009_000000.wav|Since the universality of the law according to which effects are produced constitutes what is properly called nature in the most general sense (as to form), that is the existence of things so far as it is determined by general laws, the imperative of duty may be expressed thus: Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000000_000003.wav|For it is always possible that fear of disgrace, perhaps also obscure dread of other dangers, may have a secret influence on the will.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000034_000002.wav|For the ends of any subject which is an end in himself ought as far as possible to be my ends also, if that conception is to have its full effect with me.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000030_000000.wav|Firstly, under the head of necessary duty to oneself: He who contemplates suicide should ask himself whether his action can be consistent with the idea of humanity as an end in itself.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000027_000004.wav|Accordingly the practical imperative will be as follows: So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000010_000000.wav|We will now enumerate a few duties, adopting the usual division of them into duties to ourselves and ourselves and to others, and into perfect and imperfect duties.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000015_000001.wav|A fourth, who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help them, thinks: "What concern is it of mine?|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000014_000003.wav|He asks, however, whether his maxim of neglect of his natural gifts, besides agreeing with his inclination to indulgence, agrees also with what is called duty.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000033_000000.wav|Thirdly, as regards contingent (meritorious) duties to oneself: It is not enough that the action does not violate humanity in our own person as an end in itself, it must also harmonize with it.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000030_000002.wav|But a man is not a thing, that is to say, something which can be used merely as means, but must in all his actions be always considered as an end in himself.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000017_000003.wav|Now, although this cannot be justified in our own impartial judgement, yet it proves that we do really recognise the validity of the categorical imperative and (with all respect for it) only allow ourselves a few exceptions, which we think unimportant and forced from us.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000024_000006.wav|Hence all these relative ends can give rise only to hypothetical imperatives.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000016_000002.wav|This is the canon of the moral appreciation of the action generally.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000024_000003.wav|On the other hand, that which merely contains the ground of possibility of the action of which the effect is the end, this is called the means.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000016_000003.wav|Some actions are of such a character that their maxim cannot without contradiction be even conceived as a universal law of nature, far from it being possible that we should will that it should be so.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000000_000000.wav|On the other hand, the question how the imperative of morality is possible, is undoubtedly one, the only one, demanding a solution, as this is not at all hypothetical, and the objective necessity which it presents cannot rest on any hypothesis, as is the case with the hypothetical imperatives.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000017_000001.wav|Consequently if we considered all cases from one and the same point of view, namely, that of reason, we should find a contradiction in our own will, namely, that a certain principle should be objectively necessary as a universal law, and yet subjectively should not be universal, but admit of exceptions.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000011_000001.wav|For the rest, I understand by a perfect duty one that admits no exception in favour of inclination and then I have not merely external but also internal perfect duties.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000019_000000.wav|With the view of attaining to this, it is of extreme importance to remember that we must not allow ourselves to think of deducing the reality of this principle from the particular attributes of human nature.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000025_000000.wav|Supposing, however, that there were something whose existence has in itself an absolute worth, something which, being an end in itself, could be a source of definite laws; then in this and this alone would lie the source of a possible categorical imperative, i e, a practical law.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000035_000001.wav|In fact the objective principle of all practical legislation lies (according to the first principle) in the rule and its form of universality which makes it capable of being a law (say, e.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000016_000005.wav|Thus it has been completely shown how all duties depend as regards the nature of the obligation (not the object of the action) on the same principle.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000024_000000.wav|The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000000_000001.wav|Only here we must never leave out of consideration that we cannot make out by any example, in other words empirically, whether there is such an imperative at all, but it is rather to be feared that all those which seem to be categorical may yet be at bottom hypothetical.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000020_000000.wav|Here then we see philosophy brought to a critical position, since it has to be firmly fixed, notwithstanding that it has nothing to support it in heaven or earth.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000024_000002.wav|Now that which serves the will as the objective ground of its self determination is the end, and, if this is assigned by reason alone, it must hold for all rational beings.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000016_000000.wav|These are a few of the many actual duties, or at least what we regard as such, which obviously fall into two classes on the one principle that we have laid down.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000031_000001.wav|For he whom I propose by such a promise to use for my own purposes cannot possibly assent to my mode of acting towards him and, therefore, cannot himself contain the end of this action. This violation of the principle of humanity in other men is more obvious if we take in examples of attacks on the freedom and property of others.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000034_000001.wav|Now humanity might indeed subsist, although no one should contribute anything to the happiness of others, provided he did not intentionally withdraw anything from it; but after all this would only harmonize negatively not positively with humanity as an end in itself, if every one does not also endeavour, as far as in him lies, to forward the ends of others.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000016_000004.wav|In others this intrinsic impossibility is not found, but still it is impossible to will that their maxim should be raised to the universality of a law of nature, since such a will would contradict itself It is easily seen that the former violate strict or rigorous (inflexible) duty; the latter only laxer (meritorious) duty.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000027_000000.wav|If then there is a supreme practical principle or, in respect of the human will, a categorical imperative, it must be one which, being drawn from the conception of that which is necessarily an end for everyone because it is an end in itself, constitutes an objective principle of will, and can therefore serve as a universal practical law.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000030_000001.wav|If he destroys himself in order to escape from painful circumstances, he uses a person merely as a mean to maintain a tolerable condition up to the end of life.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000033_000001.wav|Now there are in humanity capacities of greater perfection, which belong to the end that nature has in view in regard to humanity in ourselves as the subject: to neglect these might perhaps be consistent with the maintenance of humanity as an end in itself, but not with the advancement of this end.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000014_000002.wav|But he finds himself in comfortable circumstances and prefers to indulge in pleasure rather than to take pains in enlarging and improving his happy natural capacities.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000029_000000.wav|To abide by the previous examples:|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000030_000003.wav|I cannot, therefore, dispose in any way of a man in my own person so as to mutilate him, to damage or kill him. (It belongs to ethics proper to define this principle more precisely, so as to avoid all misunderstanding, e. g., as to the amputation of the limbs in order to preserve myself, as to exposing my life to danger with a view to preserve it, etc|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000005_000000.wav|When I conceive a hypothetical imperative, in general I do not know beforehand what it will contain until I am given the condition. But when I conceive a categorical imperative, I know at once what it contains.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000002_000000.wav|Secondly, in the case of this categorical imperative or law of morality, the difficulty (of discerning its possibility) is a very profound one.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000027_000001.wav|The foundation of this principle is: rational nature exists as an end in itself.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000014_000001.wav|A third finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in many respects.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000018_000000.wav|We have thus established at least this much, that if duty is a conception which is to have any import and real legislative authority for our actions, it can only be expressed in categorical and not at all in hypothetical imperatives.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000014_000000.wav|three.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000026_000002.wav|But the inclinations, themselves being sources of want, are so far from having an absolute worth for which they should be desired that on the contrary it must be the universal wish of every rational being to be wholly free from them.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000008_000000.wav|Now if all imperatives of duty can be deduced from this one imperative as from their principle, then, although it should remain undecided what is called duty is not merely a vain notion, yet at least we shall be able to show what we understand by it and what this notion means.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000031_000002.wav|For then it is clear that he who transgresses the rights of men intends to use the person of others merely as a means, without considering that as rational beings they ought always to be esteemed also as ends, that is, as beings who must be capable of containing in themselves the end of the very same action.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000037_000002.wav|This is done in the present (third) formula of the principle, namely, in the idea of the will of every rational being as a universally legislating will.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6555/397/6555_397_000037_000001.wav|But we could not prove independently that there are practical propositions which command categorically, nor can it be proved in this section; one thing, however, could be done, namely, to indicate in the imperative itself, by some determinate expression, that in the case of volition from duty all interest is renounced, which is the specific criterion of categorical as distinguished from hypothetical imperatives.|6555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8722/296473/8722_296473_000046_000000.wav|Again:--|8722
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8722/296473/8722_296473_000030_000000.wav|"The wandering Cat gets many a rap."|8722
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8722/296473/8722_296473_000020_000000.wav|"When candles are out, all Cats are grey." Otherwise, "Joan is as good as my Lady in the dark."|8722
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8722/296473/8722_296473_000017_000000.wav|"A Cat may look at a king."|8722
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/155520/2581_155520_000027_000000.wav|"Good!|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000069_000000.wav|"What the mischief is a last?" he inquired.|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000021_000000.wav|"I want to look at you," he confessed.|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000050_000002.wav|Am I right?"|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000067_000000.wav|"I'm with you," mr Raymond Greene chimed in.|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000028_000000.wav|"Well?"|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000052_000000.wav|"Of course you are!|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000016_000000.wav|"j l POTTS."|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000026_000001.wav|And the story itself.|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000024_000002.wav|This morning-why, surely they are brown?"|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000004_000001.wav|"The bathrooms are exactly opposite."|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000051_000000.wav|He laughed.|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000008_000002.wav|BEATRICE."|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000010_000000.wav|"Dear mr Romilly,|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000058_000002.wav|Paul Lawton of Brockton.|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000008_000001.wav|What am I to do?|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157858/2581_157858_000066_000001.wav|"What about luncheon?|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157857/2581_157857_000021_000000.wav|"No!|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157857/2581_157857_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157857/2581_157857_000003_000023.wav|It was time, indeed, that he helped himself.|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157857/2581_157857_000022_000000.wav|"Never see them again?" she repeated, puzzled.|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2581/157857/2581_157857_000044_000002.wav|Good night!"|2581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000009_000011.wav|In preglacial times the watershed of the Mississippi and of the great rivers east of the Alleghany Mountains, the Susquehanna and Hudson, extended probably farther north than it does to day.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000004.wav|This process has been hinted at in a former chapter, but we give it here as one of the kinds of lakes formed during the glacial period.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000005.wav|It is supposed, however, that this lake is entirely the product of glacial action, as there is no evidence of an old river bed in its bottom; besides, it is much shallower than the other lakes.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000018_000004.wav|Terraces were formed running up the Ohio and its tributaries corresponding to the level that the water must have risen to if the valley were filled up with ice.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000017_000003.wav|Of course such a lake could not be permanent, because, when the ice melted away, it again opened the channel and allowed the water to flow off.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000019_000001.wav|The ice did not stand with an even thickness over the surface of the glaciated area, but at some points it moved down in great lobes, which marked the lines of greatest pressure as well as the greatest accumulation.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000002.wav|Wherever these "kettle holes" are found large bodies of ice have become anchored, while the ice behind it has carried the drift until it is covered over and piled up at the sides.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000004_000002.wav|Before the glacial period the Wisconsin River made a detour some miles west of its present channel through the high hills in the region of Baraboo.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000018_000006.wav|The fact that in some places successive terraces are found does not disprove the theory, because it is more than likely that when the ice receded it did so in successive stages, remaining at different positions for a considerable length of time.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000021_000000.wav|We can imagine that during this period the water that flowed off through the great Mississippi must have been of enormous volume as compared to the present time.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000001.wav|These smaller inland lakes, so many of which are seen in northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, and Minnesota, are due almost entirely to the great deposits of glacial drift that have been transported with the ice.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000002.wav|Another glacier plowed down through Lake Michigan, widening it out to its present dimensions, while the glacial drift was deposited at what is now the head of the lake, filling up the old outlet and thus making a great dam.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000000.wav|There are hundreds and perhaps thousands of lakes that have been formed in one way or another through the power of glacial action.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty seven.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000002_000000.wav|GLACIAL AND PREGLACIAL LAKES AND RIVERS.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000007.wav|These lakes, however, are comparatively insignificant as compared with the great inland seas like Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, that undoubtedly owe their origin largely to the ice age.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000000.wav|There may have existed something of a lake in preglacial times, through which the river ran, but it undoubtedly owes its present width to the grinding action of the irresistible icebergs and the piling up of debris on the shores.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000007.wav|The same process filled up the Valley of the Mohawk to more than one hundred feet in depth and also raised the Valley of the Hudson.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000009_000000.wav|It is a fact well known that continents have periods of elevation and depression.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000005.wav|They are found everywhere that glacial action has prevailed.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000003_000001.wav|Even the imagination, that wonderful architect, with all its tendencies to exaggeration, palls in its attempt to give expression in measured quantities to the mighty power exerted by the great glacier or combination of glaciers that existed in comparatively recent times.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000023_000002.wav|When this great body of water was released it was to the northward.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000007_000001.wav|Those found in the "kettle holes" of the terminal or medial moraines, and those that are formed by the deposition of the glacial drift, as, for instance, Devil's Lake, and those that are caused by ice forming dams across the valley of a river that lasted only during the ice age.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000021_000002.wav|dr Wright-as we have before stated-has estimated that there are a million square miles of country that has been covered to an average depth of fifty feet with glacial drift.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000004_000004.wav|The river at that point passed between two of these hills.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000007_000000.wav|Glacial lakes may be divided into three classes.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000011.wav|At the same time it built great dams across the outlets which raised the surface of the water to a much higher level and caused them to form new outlets, thus changing the whole face of the country over which the ice drifted.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000009_000007.wav|The question naturally arises, Where did all the dirt come from to fill up these great river beds and change the whole topography of the northern half of the continent?|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000010_000001.wav|All of the lake bottoms of this great chain, with the exception of Lake Erie, are now below sea-level.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000020_000000.wav|All of the region about Winnipeg, in the Red River country, covering great areas of hundreds of miles in extent, is a level plain only lacking the coloring to give to one passing through it the effect of a great unruffled sea.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000005_000003.wav|When these ice mountains melted away depressions were left which in some cases have resulted in lakes, and in others simply dry kettle holes.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000004_000005.wav|When the ice flowed down it surrounded these hills, yet did not sweep over their tops, but left great piles of glacial drift, both at the points where the river channel entered the hills and where it emerges from them.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000009_000010.wav|Of the carrying power of these great glaciers we will speak more fully in a future chapter.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000009_000008.wav|dr Wright estimates that there is not less than one million square miles of territory in North America covered with glacial debris to an average depth of fifty feet.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000018_000007.wav|There is abundant proof of this in the successive moraines and also in the formation of successive terraces. Some of these terraces could have been formed from other causes.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000008_000000.wav|In order, however, that we may understand more fully the formation of these greater lakes it will be necessary for us to go back and examine the conditions that seem to have existed before the glacial period.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000006.wav|The same action that formed Lake Erie filled up the old river bed running through the province of Ontario, so that when the ice receded Lake Erie became the new channel for the old river.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000015_000004.wav|In a similar way Lake Erie was formed.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58776/6115_58776_000004_000007.wav|Therefore a deep basin was left, which is kept filled by the watershed furnished by the surrounding hills.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000009_000001.wav|But, oddslife, I'm not so minded.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000010_000000.wav|And as he spoke he drew the lad along.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000017_000000.wav|In the hall Crispin could now make out the figures of Colonel Pride and of three men who came with him.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000007_000002.wav|We must run the risk."|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000009_000000.wav|"Why, yes," returned Galliard sardonically, "we can linger here until we are taken.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000025_000003.wav|An instant later and the light had vanished, eclipsed by those who followed in the fellow's wake.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000029_000007.wav|Kenneth followed him mechanically, with white face and a feeling of suffocation in his throat.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000012_000000.wav|"Back!" growled Galliard.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000023_000001.wav|He ran his hand along until he caught the latch.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000023_000004.wav|He paused to look back.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000011_000000.wav|His foot was upon the topmost stair of the flight, when of a sudden the stillness of the house was broken by a loud knock upon the street door. Instantly-as though they had been awaiting it there was a stir of feet below and the bang of an overturned chair; then a shaft of yellow light fell athwart the darkness of the hall as the guardroom door was opened.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000028_000000.wav|He listened.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000028_000002.wav|He opened the door, partly at first, then wide.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000041_000006.wav|Hey! Have a care, boy.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000018_000001.wav|I would see them-leastways, one of them, before he dies.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000018_000004.wav|But, there lead on, fellow."|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000013_000002.wav|A bolt was drawn and a chain rattled, then followed the creak of hinges, and on the stone flags rang the footsteps and the jingling of spurs of those that entered.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000014_000000.wav|"Is all well?" came a voice, which Crispin recognized as Colonel Pride's, followed by an affirmative reply from one of the soldiers.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000023_000002.wav|Softly he tried it; it gave, and the door opened.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000038_000000.wav|Kenneth tugged at the skirts of his doublet.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000041_000000.wav|"Get in, Kenneth," Crispin commanded.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000023_000003.wav|Kenneth was by then beside him.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000021_000001.wav|Partly his eyes and partly his instinct told him that not six paces behind him there must be a door, and if Heaven pleased it should be unlocked, behind it they must look for shelter. It even crossed his mind in that second of crowding, galloping thought, that perchance the room might be occupied.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000012_000001.wav|"Back, man!"|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000007_000001.wav|"But pray God that it may not.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000032_000001.wav|Another step Galliard descended; then from the guardroom came a loud yawn, to send the boy cowering against the wall. It was followed by the sound of someone rising; a chair grated upon the floor, and there was a movement of feet within the chamber.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000029_000003.wav|But he did not pause.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten THE ESCAPE|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000007_000000.wav|"Someone will die," muttered Crispin back.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000027_000002.wav|Wait."|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000034_000005.wav|Slowly, step by step, they moved, and with every stride Crispin looked behind him, prepared to rush the moment he had sign they were discovered.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000006_000000.wav|But Kenneth laid his hand upon Galliard's sleeve.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000005_000000.wav|"The Fates are kind, Kenneth," he whispered.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000004_000003.wav|The faint grey of the dawn was the only light that penetrated the gloom of that pit.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000018_000000.wav|"Come, sirs," he heard him say, "light me to their garret.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000029_000002.wav|The guardroom door stood ajar, and he caught the murmurs of subdued conversation.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000019_000000.wav|"Oh, God!" gasped Kenneth, as the soldier set foot upon the stairs. Under his breath Crispin swore a terrific oath.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000027_000001.wav|"The drop is a long one, and we should but light in the streets, and be little better than we are here.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000034_000006.wav|But it was not needed.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000029_000004.wav|Had the door stood wide he would not have paused then.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000034_000004.wav|Then slowly-painfully slowly-to avoid their steps from ringing upon the stone floor, they crept across towards the door that meant safety to Sir Crispin.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000029_000006.wav|Cautiously, and leaning well upon the stout baluster, he began the descent.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000028_000001.wav|The footsteps had turned the corner leading to the floor above.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000034_000009.wav|Quietly he opened it, then with calm gallantry he motioned to his companion to go first, holding it for him as he passed in, and keeping watch with eye and ear the while.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58433/6115_58433_000030_000001.wav|Not more than a dozen steps were there; but at the bottom stood the guardroom door, and through the chink of its opening a shaft of light fell upon the nethermost step.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000007_000000.wav|There is abundant evidence that the earth sinks in some places and rises in others.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000002.wav|The world has never been exactly alike any two successive days from the time its foundations were laid to the present moment.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000003.wav|It seems to be a fundamental law of all life and growth, as well as of all decay, that there shall be a constant change.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000009.wav|Do we die?|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000004_000001.wav|The valley of the Ohio River will probably average a mile in width at its upper level and, deep as it is to day, it was much deeper in preglacial times.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000004_000003.wav|This has been determined by borings at different points to ascertain the depth of the drift that was lodged during the glacial period in the trough of the Ohio River.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000007.wav|Still, science teaches us that with all this turmoil and change nothing either of matter or energy is lost, but that it is simply undergoing one eternal round of change.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000008_000001.wav|This fact need not occasion any uneasiness on the part of those who are living to day or for millions of years to come.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000000.wav|The problem of building a world and then tearing it to pieces is a very complicated one.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000005_000000.wav|For many years the writer lived upon one of the rivers tributary to the Ohio and often made trips by steamboat up and down the Ohio River. Traveling along this river a close observer will be struck by the exactness of the stratifications in the rock and in the coal beds to be seen on each side of the river.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000006.wav|In the animal and vegetable world there is a period of life and growth, and a period of decay and death; and this seems to be the destiny of planets themselves as well as the things that live and grow upon them.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000006_000002.wav|Great bodies of salt are found at that low level, constantly dissolved by the water percolating through the sand and gravel of the glacial drift.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty nine.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000005_000003.wav|All the rivers that are tributary to the Ohio, such as the Monongahela, the Alleghany, the Muskingum, the Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Kentucky, the Wabash, the Miami, the Licking, the Scioto, the Big Sandy, the Kanawha, the Hocking, and the Great Beaver, besides numerous smaller streams, have their own valleys that have been worn away by the same process, and to a greater depth than they now appear to be.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000005_000006.wav|The great lakes, that were enlarged during the glacial period and in some cases wholly created-by the scooping out and damming up of the waterways and by piling glacial drift around their shores-have had some of their outlets raised to a higher level, and others have been created anew.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000004_000005.wav|These lands are exceedingly productive, owing to the great depth and richness of the soil.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000004_000002.wav|There is evidence that the whole bed of the river was from one hundred to one hundred fifty feet deeper than it is at present.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000005_000002.wav|What the water was doing while these coal beds were forming will be brought out in some future chapter.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000008.wav|Does this law apply to mind and soul?|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6115/58778/6115_58778_000009_000004.wav|There is no such thing as rest in nature.|6115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000016_000001.wav|Here they camped, and at the meal that was spread there was not a knife nor a fork to eat with but such as the guests had brought with them.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000032_000000.wav|Law rence did not gain in health, and ere his wife could join him he wrote her that he would start for home-"to his grave." He reached Mount Ver non in time to die 'neath his own roof, and with kind friends at his bed side.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000002_000004.wav|But as the time drew near, her heart, which had been so strong and brave and full of pride, gave way and she felt that she could not part with her dear boy.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000030_000000.wav|Law rence soon tired of this place, and longed for a change of scene. They had to ride out by the first dawn of day, for by the time the sun was half an hour high it was as hot as at mid day.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000014_000000.wav|When he had done, the one who could dance the best sprang up as if he had just been roused from sleep, and ran and jumped round the ring in a queer kind of way.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000029_000000.wav|They had been but two weeks in Bar ba does when George fell ill with small pox, and this for a time put an end to all their sports.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000006_000000.wav|These neat ways, formed in his youth, were kept up through all his life, and what seems strange is that day books, and such books as you will find in great use now a days were not known at that time.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000021_000000.wav|This rough kind of life, though he did not know it, was to fit him for the toils and ills of war, of which he may have dreamt in those days, as he still kept up his love for war like things.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000014_000001.wav|The rest soon joined him, and did just as he did. By this time the band made it self heard, and I shall have to tell you what a fine band it was.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000013_000002.wav|One of the men then made a grand speech in which he told them how they were to dance.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000022_000004.wav|He had steeds of fine breed, and hounds of keen scent, for he was fond of the chase, and the woods and hills were full of game.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000022_000001.wav|He lived on a knoll, in a small house not more than twelve feet square.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000016_000000.wav|Late in the day of march twenty sixth, they came to a place where dwelt a man named Hedge, who was in the pay of King George as justice of the peace.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000013_000001.wav|The red men cleared a large space, and built a fire in the midst of it, round which they all sat|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000015_000000.wav|There was a pot half full of water with a piece of deer skin stretched tight on the top, and a gourd with some shot in it, and a piece of horse's tail tied to it to make it look fine.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000009_000001.wav|He wrote down what was done from day to day, and by these notes we learn that he had quite a rough time of it, and yet found much that was to his taste.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000011_000000.wav|One night, writes George, when they had been hard at work all day, they came to the house where they were to be fed and lodged.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000017_000000.wav|On the night of the first of A pril the wind blew and the rain fell. The straw on which they lay took fire, and George was saved by one of the men, who woke him when it was in a blaze.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000002_000002.wav|He spoke to George a bout it, and the boy was wild with joy.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000004_000000.wav|So they gave up the scheme, and George was sent back to school.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000012_000004.wav|The men crossed in birch bark boats, and rode all the next day in a rain storm to a place two score miles from where they had set out that morn.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000001_000000.wav|YOUTH.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000029_000001.wav|But he had the best of care, and at the end of three weeks was so well that he could go out of doors.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000008_000003.wav|In fact he did not know their size or shape, but he had heard that men had sought out some of the best spots, and had built homes there, and laid out farms for which they paid no rent, and he thought it quite time to put a stop to such things.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000012_000002.wav|They made up their minds to stay there for a day or two; went to see the Warm Springs, and at night camped out in the field.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000025_000000.wav|A Dutch man, named Van Bra am, was one of these men, and he claimed to know a great deal of the art of war.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000013_000000.wav|On march twenty third, they fell in with a score or two of red men who had been off to war and brought home but one scalp, and they had a chance to see a war dance.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000023_000001.wav|This wise friend lent George good books which he took with him to the woods and read with great care, and in this way stored his mind with rich thoughts.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000027_000002.wav|At sea he kept a log book, took notes of the course of the winds, and if the days were fair or foul, and learned all he could of the ways of a ship and how to sail one.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000022_000003.wav|Red men, half breeds, and wood men thronged the place, where they were sure they would get a good meal.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295756/8635_295756_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER two.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000024_000005.wav|When some of them took to the trees, Brad dock stormed at them, and called them hard names, and struck them with the flat of his sword.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000001_000000.wav|Gold was placed in the Gov er nor's hands to use as he pleased.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000008_000001.wav|With them were White Thun der, who had charge of the "speech belts," and Sil ver Heels, who was swift of foot.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000003_000001.wav|Our men were full of joy, and thought the war would soon be at an end.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000020_000004.wav|It was his wish to join the troops in time for the great blow, and while yet too weak to mount his horse, he set off with his guards in a close cart, and reached Brad dock's camp on the eighth of Ju ly.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000023_000001.wav|Wild war whoops and fierce yells rent the air.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000011_000001.wav|They told Brad dock they would meet him on his march, but they did not keep their word.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000001_000003.wav|This, of course, was more than he could bear, so he left the ar my at once, and with a sad heart.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000026_000000.wav|The fight raged on.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000009_000000.wav|The red men had a camp to them selves, where they would sing, and dance, and howl and yell for half the night.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000024_000000.wav|Now and then one of the red men would dart out of the woods with a wild yell to scalp a red coat who had been shot down.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000033_000002.wav|But he was a proud man, and when he made up his mind to do a thing he would do it at all risks.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000005_000000.wav|He thought that this would make the troops look up to him, and would add much to his fame.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000030_000000.wav|"Brad dock is killed!"|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000025_000001.wav|He was in all parts of the field, a fine mark for the guns of the foe, and yet not a shot struck him to do him harm.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000028_000000.wav|At last a shot struck him in the right arm and went in to his lungs. He fell from his horse, and was borne from the field.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000027_000000.wav|Brad dock was on the field the whole day, and did his best to turn the tide.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000001_000001.wav|Our force was spread out in to ten bands, of one hundred men each.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000024_000002.wav|Those in the front rank were killed by those in the rear.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000026_000001.wav|Death swept through the ranks of the red coats. The men at the guns were seized with fright.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000004_000001.wav|He rode in a fine turn out that he had bought of Gov er nor Sharpe, which he soon found out was not meant for use on rough roads.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000007_000002.wav|When near the grave the guard formed two lines that stood face to face, let their guns rest on the ground, and leaned their heads on the butts.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000004_000002.wav|But he had fought with dukes, and men of high rank, and was fond of show, and liked to put on a great deal of style.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000013_000000.wav|The march was a hard one for man and beast.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000000_000001.wav|It would need gold to buy these things, as well as to pay for fresh troops.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000007_000004.wav|When the corpse was put in the ground, the guard fired their guns three times, and then all the troops marched back to camp.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000018_000000.wav|Brad dock looked on him with a gaze of scorn, and spoke to him in a way that roused the ire of Cap tain Jack.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000028_000001.wav|The troops took fright at once, and most of them fled.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000025_000002.wav|Four small shots went through his coat.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000018_000001.wav|He told his men what had been said, and the whole band turned their backs on the camp, and went through the woods to their old haunts where they were known and prized at their true worth.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000008_000002.wav|Half King was dead, and White Thun der reigned in his stead.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000010_000000.wav|In the day time the red men and their squaws, rigged up in their plumes and war paint, hung round Brad dock's camp, and gazed spell bound at the troops as they went through their drills.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000007_000003.wav|The corpse was borne twixt these two rows of men with the sword and sash on the top of the box in which he lay, and in the rear of it the men of rank marched two and two.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000024_000001.wav|Wild fear seized Brad dock's men, who fired and took no aim.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000015_000002.wav|They must push on at once.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000007_000001.wav|One of the head men who died while in camp, was borne to the grave in this style: A guard marched in front of the corpse, the cap tain of it in the rear. Each man held his gun up side down, as a sign that the dead would war no more, and the drums beat the dead march.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000020_000003.wav|By that time he could move, but not with out much pain, for he was still quite weak.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000026_000003.wav|But this act did not bring the men back to their guns.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000033_000003.wav|Through this fault he missed the fame he hoped to win, lost his life, and found a grave in a strange land.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000029_000000.wav|"All is lost!" they cried.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000011_000000.wav|But this state of things did not last long, and strife rose twixt the red and white men, and some of the red skins left the camp.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000007_000000.wav|All the rules and forms of camp life were kept up.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000017_000001.wav|Cap tain Jack stepped in front of his band and said that he and his men were used to rough work, and knew how to deal with the red men, and would be glad to join the force.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000016_000000.wav|While at this place Cap tain Jack, and his brave band of hunts men came in to camp.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000023_000000.wav|At one o'clock the whole force had crossed the ford north of the fort, and were on their way up the bank, when they were met by a fierce and sharp fire from foes they could not see.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295759/8635_295759_000017_000000.wav|Brad dock met them in a stiff sort of way.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000012_000003.wav|In this way he found out just how much work four men could do in the course of a day-and take their ease.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000024_000000.wav|The king next said that goods bought from Eng land must bear the king's stamp, for which a sum was to be paid more than the cost of the goods.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000023_000005.wav|They had come to this land to be free, and free they would be.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000024_000003.wav|They had not the means to pay this tax.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000022_000000.wav|Large tracts of wood land were laid waste; homes were burnt, and those who dwelt in them robbed and slain; and so sly and shrewd were the red skins that it was some time ere the white men could put a stop to their deeds of blood.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000026_000000.wav|In New York, the Act-in clear print-was borne through the streets on a pole, on top of which was a death's head.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000034_000001.wav|But what he said was of great weight as it came from a wise brain and a true heart.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000032_000001.wav|Each man wore a grave face.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000019_000003.wav|Nel lie was a frail child, and did not gain in strength, though she had the best of care.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000038_000000.wav|He told them that he thought there was but one thing to do.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000023_000001.wav|The trade was large, and in this way the king could add much to his wealth.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000019_000001.wav|They were five sweet years to him; full of peace, and rest, and joy.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000028_000000.wav|At night they took the form down, put it in a coach, and bore it back to Bow ling Green, where the whole thing-coach and all-was burnt right in range of the guns of the fort where the King's troops were.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000032_000004.wav|They are all thrown down."|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000037_000000.wav|It was of no use to plead with the king.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000035_000003.wav|George Fair fax-who had been his friend from boy hood-had gone to Eng land to live, and Bel voir took fire one night and was burnt to the ground.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000005_000000.wav|A man who had a bad name and paid no heed to the laws that were made, was wont to make his way to the grounds near Mount Ver non and shoot just what game he chose.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000019_000002.wav|He was fond of his home, and felt as much pride in Nel lie and john Parke Cus tis as if they had been his own boy and girl.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000032_000000.wav|The band met with closed doors.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000002_000001.wav|The house stood on a knoll, and near it were wild woods and deep dells, haunts of the fox and the deer, and bright streams where fish could be found at all times.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000006_000001.wav|He put spurs to his horse, dashed through bush and brake, and soon came up to the rogue who had just time to jump in his boat and push from shore.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000018_000001.wav|He was then thirty one years old.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000008_000001.wav|They had a large force of slaves, and made great feasts for their friends.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000024_000001.wav|This was known as the Stamp Act.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000011_000001.wav|He knew, too, just the kind of work each one was fit for, and which he could do the best.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000023_000006.wav|They would do with out tea and such things, and dress as well as they could in clothes made out of home-made goods.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000014_000000.wav|The cares of home and state made such calls on his time and thoughts, that he could not be said to live quite at his ease, and he left his mark-a high one-on all that he did.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000015_000000.wav|His crops were of the best, and he sought to cheat no one.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000008_000003.wav|This barge was rowed by six black men in check shirts and black vel vet caps.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000023_000002.wav|But the scheme did not work well.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000017_000001.wav|For these last he had to give size and height, name, and age, of those who were to wear them.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000003_000000.wav|His chief sport was the chase, and, at the right time of the year, he would go out two or three times a week, with dogs and horns and trained steeds, in search of the sly fox who would lead him and his friends a fine run.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8635/295761/8635_295761_000029_000001.wav|But he made it known that he felt it to be his right as their king to tax them as he chose, and this hurt the pride of those who wished to make their own laws, and be in bonds to no one.|8635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1536/137608/1536_137608_000016_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty.|1536
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1536/137608/1536_137608_000007_000000.wav|CHAPTER eighteen.|1536
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000028_000001.wav|'If I do', thought the lad, 'I shall look an awful fright'; but for all that, he did as he was told.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000066_000002.wav|Then the Princess gave her maid a wink, and this time she whisked off the wig; and there lay the lad so lovely, and white and red, just as the Princess had seen him in the morning sun|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000049_000002.wav|Whenever you need me, only come here and shake the bridle, and I'll come to you.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000087_000000.wav|'Why, where in all the world did you come from?' asked the king.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000088_000001.wav|He it was who threw this Troll's shape over me, and sold me to the Troll.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000044_000000.wav|And as soon as the lad did what the Horse said, up rose a great black hill of rock behind him.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000067_000000.wav|After that the lad slept every night in the Princess' bedroom.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000055_000002.wav|Under that he got some turf for his bed, and there he lay as well as he could.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000032_000000.wav|Oh yes! he could do that, and as for the sword, he brandished it like a feather.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000068_000003.wav|The King was only more wroth than ever.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000035_000000.wav|'I think I hear a noise; look round! can you see anything?'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000086_000001.wav|But as soon as ever he had cut off the head, there stood the loveliest Prince on the spot where the horse had stood.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000039_000000.wav|'Now throw your bramble bush rod behind you, over your shoulder', said the Horse; 'but mind you throw it a good way off my back.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000066_000001.wav|After that he lay down again, and began to snore.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000045_000000.wav|'Aye, aye', said the Horse, 'that's the Troll, and now he's got his whole band with him, so throw the pitcher of water behind you, but mind you don't spill any of it upon me.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000026_000000.wav|'Since you are so good at heart as to let me have some food, I'll set you free, that I will.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000023_000002.wav|But the man tore off the rag, and then he soon saw what was the matter with the finger.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000077_000000.wav|'Nay, nay', said the king's men; 'if he won't stick there till he's starved to death.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000068_000002.wav|All that she begged, and all that she prayed, for the lad and herself, was no good.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000074_000001.wav|So he began to shriek and to bewail; 'twas enough to break one's heart; and so the king threw his pocket handkerchief to him to bind his wound.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000025_000002.wav|Then the lad thought this all wrong, so he changed them about, and put the hay at his head.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000088_000002.wav|But now he is slain I get my own again, and you and I will be neighbour kings, but war we will never make on one another.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000043_000000.wav|'Aye, aye, that's the Troll and his crew', said the Horse; 'now he's got more to back him; but now throw down the stone, and mind you throw it far behind me.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000036_000000.wav|'Yes; there are ever so many coming after us, at least a score', said the lad.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000074_000000.wav|So when they went home at night, and saw the lad still sitting there on his hack, they burst out laughing at him again, and one of them shot an arrow at him and hit him in the leg.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000037_000000.wav|'Aye, aye, that's the Troll coming', said the Horse; 'now he's after us with his pack.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000050_000001.wav|Then he went up to the king's palace and begged first for leave to be in the kitchen, and bring in wood and water for the cook, but then the kitchen maid asked him:|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000023_000001.wav|So the lad scraped and scrubbed it, but the gilding wouldn't go off, so he bound a piece of rag round it; and when the man came back, and asked what was the matter with his finger, the lad said he'd given it such a bad cut.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000070_000001.wav|There he sat and dug his spurs in, and cried, 'Gee up, gee up!' to his hack. And all the rest had their fun out of this, and laughed, and made game of the lad as they rode past him.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000034_000000.wav|So when the lad had got on the horse, off they went at such a rate, he couldn't at all tell how they went.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000046_000000.wav|So the lad did that; but in spite of all the pains he took, he still spilt one drop on the horse's flank.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000018_000000.wav|Some time after the man set off again, and said he should be away fourteen days; but before he went he forbade the lad to go into any of the rooms he had not been in before; as for that he had been in, he might go into that, and welcome.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000049_000000.wav|'Now, strip off all your arms', said the Horse, 'and only put on your ragged clothes, and take the saddle off me, and let me loose, and hang all my clothing and your arms up inside that great hollow lime tree yonder.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000064_000001.wav|So he came into the Princess' bedroom, lay down, and began to snore at once.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000061_000001.wav|'Why they'd say next there was something between me and the Princess.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000073_000001.wav|Every one wondered what strange champion it could be that had helped them, but no one got so near him as to say a word to him; and no one guessed it could be the lad; that's easy to understand.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000054_000001.wav|'You'd best go down to the gardener', said he; 'you're best fit to go about and dig in the garden.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000041_000000.wav|'Look behind you! can you see anything now?'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000052_000000.wav|'No, I can't do that', said the lad; 'for I'm not quite right in my head.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000040_000000.wav|So the lad did that, and all at once a close, thick bramble wood grew up behind them.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000010_000001.wav|But when the man had been gone three or four days, the lad couldn't bear it any longer, but went into the first room, and when he got inside he looked round, but he saw nothing but a shelf over the door where a bramble bush rod lay.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000012_000000.wav|So when the eight days were out, the man came home, and the first thing he said was:|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000024_000001.wav|But before he went, he said to the lad, if he went into the fourth room he might give up all hope of saving his life.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000044_000002.wav|But still the Horse begged him to look behind him, and then he saw a troop like a whole army behind him, and they glistened in the sunbeams.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000061_000000.wav|'Do you think I'll do any such thing?' said the lad.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000049_000001.wav|Then make yourself a wig of fir moss, and go up to the king's palace, which lies close here, and ask for a place.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000017_000000.wav|Then the lad begged and prayed so hard that he got off with his life, but the man gave him a good thrashing.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000076_000000.wav|'Gee up! gee up!' he said to his hack.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000078_000000.wav|And then they rode on, and laughed at him till they were fit to fall from their horses.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000046_000002.wav|But when the Trolls came to the lake, they lay down to drink it dry; and so they swilled and swilled till they burst.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000019_000000.wav|But when the man came back, he asked if he had been into any of the rooms.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000069_000003.wav|So he got that, and an old broken down hack besides, which went upon three legs and dragged the fourth after it.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000033_000000.wav|'Now saddle me', said the Horse, 'and put on the coat of mail, and then take the bramble bush rod, and the stone, and the pitcher of water, and the pot of ointment, and then we'll be off as fast as we can.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000024_000000.wav|So after a while the man started off again, and this time he was to be away a month.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000083_000001.wav|So just take the sword, and cut my head off.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000064_000000.wav|So, when he was to go up the steps in the evening, he tramped and stamped so on the way, that they had to beg him to tread softly lest the King should come to know it.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000009_000001.wav|If you do, I'll take your life when I come back.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000078_000002.wav|This day he slew the enemy's king, and then the war was over at once.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000004_000000.wav|'Will you come and serve me?' said the man.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000023_000000.wav|'Well, I should just like to know if it's hot,' thought the lad, and stuck his finger down into the broth, and when he pulled it out again, lo! it was gilded all over.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000081_000000.wav|Then he took the pot of ointment and rubbed himself on the leg, and after that he rubbed all the wounded, and so they all got well again in a moment.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000070_000000.wav|Then they went out to meet the foe; but they hadn't got far from the palace before the lad got stuck fast in a bog with his hack.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000019_000001.wav|No, the lad hadn't done anything of the kind.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000026_000002.wav|But now you must go up to the room which lies just over this, and take a coat of mail out of those that hang there; and mind, whatever you do, don't take any of the bright ones, but the most rusty of all you see, that's the one to take; and sword and saddle you must choose for yourself just in the same way.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000028_000000.wav|When he came back, the Horse told him to pull off his clothes and get into the cauldron which stood and boiled in the other room, and bathe himself there.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000029_000000.wav|'Do you feel any change?' asked the Horse.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000078_000001.wav|When they were gone, he ran again to the lime, and came up to the battle just in the very nick of time.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000048_000000.wav|So when they had gone a long, long while, they came to a green patch in a wood.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000065_000000.wav|'Go gently, and just pull his wig off'; and she went up to him.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000055_000000.wav|So he got leave to be with the gardener, but none of the other servants would sleep with him, and so he had to sleep by himself under the steps of the summerhouse.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000028_000002.wav|So when he had taken his bath, he became so handsome and sleek, and as red and white as milk and blood, and much stronger than he had been before.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000022_000001.wav|Then after fourteen days the lad couldn't bear it, but crept into the room, but he saw nothing at all in there but a trap door on the floor; and when he lifted it up and looked down, there stood a great copper cauldron which bubbled and boiled away down there; but he saw no fire under it.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000046_000001.wav|So it became a great deep lake; and because of that one drop, the horse found himself far out in it, but still he swam safe to land.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000014_000000.wav|'No, no; that I haven't', said the lad.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000040_000002.wav|But at last, the Horse said again.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000026_000001.wav|For if the Troll comes back and finds you here, he'll kill you outright.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000083_000000.wav|'Now I have helped you on, and now I won't live any longer.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000071_000000.wav|But when the lad came up the battle had begun, and the king was in a sad pinch; but no sooner had the lad rushed into the thick of it than the foe was beaten back, and put to flight.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000031_000000.wav|'Try to lift me, then', said the Horse.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000042_000000.wav|'Yes, ever so many', said the lad, 'as many as would fill a large church.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163527/3119_163527_000018_000002.wav|In this room, too, he saw nothing but a shelf over the door, and a big stone, and a pitcher of water on it.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000031_000000.wav|'If you only turn this tap', she said; 'you'll get the finest drink of whatever kind you choose, both mead, and wine, and brandy; and this you shall have because you are so handsome.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000005_000000.wav|'Wherever we go', they said, 'we shall be treated as counts and kings; but you, you starveling wretch, who haven't a penny, and never will have one, who do you think will care a bit about you?'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000053_000000.wav|So when Boots came up to the palace, the Princess asked whether it were true he had a tap which could do such and such things?|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000033_000000.wav|But when Boots got over there, he just pulled out his scissors and began to snip and cut in the air; so the scissors cut out the finest clothes any one would wish to see; silk and satin both, and all the beggars on the island were soon dressed far finer than the king and all his guests in the palace.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000017_000000.wav|'I don't care a farthing for such a pack of rubbish', said the wife; 'if they don't like what they get they may lump it, and eat what they brought with them.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000028_000006.wav|What a darling!'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000037_000000.wav|'And as for the porridge and cheese we took, they wouldn't even taste them, so proud have they got', they said.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000047_000001.wav|The Princess must and would have the cloth of him, and offered him gold and green woods for it, but Boots wouldn't sell it at any price.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000032_000005.wav|Now Boots' brothers saw very well that the guard was rowing him over to the island, but they were glad to be rid of him, and didn't pay the least heed to him.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000049_000000.wav|Yes! the Princess agreed to this, so Boots lay down on the bench by the bed side, and the four men watched; but if the Princess hadn't much sleep the night before, she had much less this, for she could scarce get a wink of sleep; there she lay wide awake looking at the lovely lad the whole night through, and after all, the night seemed too short.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000003_000000.wav|But the youngest wished something better still.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000032_000004.wav|This the king had ordered, because he wouldn't have the mirth at the palace spoilt by those dirty blackguards; and thither, too, only just as much food as would keep body and soul together was sent over everyday.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000043_000000.wav|'No! sell them I won't', said Boots; 'but all the same, if I can get leave to sleep one night on the floor of the Princess' bedroom, close by the door, I'll give her the scissors.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000053_000001.wav|'Yes! he had such a tap in his waistcoat pocket', said Boots; but when the Princess wished with all her might to buy it, Boots said, as he had said twice before, he wouldn't sell it, even if the Princess bade half the kingdom for it.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000040_000001.wav|Well, she begged the king so long and hard, he was forced to send a messenger for the lad who owned the scissors; and when he came to the palace, the Princess asked him if it were true that he had such and such a pair of scissors, and if he would sell it to her.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000048_000000.wav|'But if I may have leave to lie on the bench by the Princess' bed side to night, she shall have the cloth; but if she's afraid, she is welcome to set four men to watch inside the room.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000052_000000.wav|So when the Princess heard that, she was all for getting the tap, and was nothing loath to strike a bargain with the owner either.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000030_000000.wav|So the wife had off to her custards as fast as she could, for she knew that her husband would stand no nonsense; but as she stood there over the fire she stole out into the yard, and gave Boots a tap.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000025_000001.wav|But Boots, he had to stand outside here too, and look after the things in the carriage.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000045_000002.wav|So when he got back to the palace, he wasn't long before he said:|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000039_000000.wav|'When he only snips with those scissors up in the air he snips and cuts out nothing but silk and satin', said he.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000033_000001.wav|After that, Boots pulled out his table cloth, and spread it out, and so they got food too, the poor beggars. Such a feast had never been seen at the king's palace, as was served that day at the Beggars' Isle.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000044_000001.wav|So Boots lay on the floor inside the Princess' bedroom that night, and two men stood watch there too; but the Princess didn't get much rest after all; for when she ought to have been asleep, she must open her eyes to look at Boots, and so it went on the whole night.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000004_000000.wav|So, when they had all wished their wishes, the two elder were for setting out to see the world; and Boots, their youngest brother, asked if he mightn't go along with them; but they wouldn't hear of such a thing.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000028_000001.wav|If they can't wait till the custards are baked, they may go without-that's all.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000028_000005.wav|Oh! what a darling!|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000054_000000.wav|'But all the same', said Boots; 'if I may have leave to sleep on the Princess' bed to night, outside the quilt, she shall have my tap. I'll not do her any harm; but, if she's afraid, she may set eight men to watch in her room.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000020_000000.wav|'Into the kitchen with you, and don't stand glowering after lads', he said.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000007_000000.wav|At last, after begging and praying, he got leave to go with them, if he would be their servant, else they wouldn't hear of it.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000050_000003.wav|So when he came back to the palace, he couldn't keep his mouth shut this time any more than before; he went about telling high and low about the tap, and how easy it was to draw all sorts of drink out of it.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000028_000000.wav|'Well! well!' she said, 'as for them, I don't care a pin.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000046_000000.wav|'Such hot joints and such custards I never saw the like of in the king's palace.'|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000038_000000.wav|One of them, too, had smelt out that the lad had a pair of scissors which he cut out the clothes with.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000045_000001.wav|But one of those who brought the food contrived to smell out that the lad who had owned the scissors owned also a table cloth, which he only needed to spread out, and it was covered with all the good things he could wish for.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3119/163519/3119_163519_000044_000000.wav|Yes! the Princess was glad enough to give him leave, for she was ready to grant him anything if she only got the scissors.|3119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000013.wav|I'll snatch the time somehow.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000017_000003.wav|Do me a great service, my dear boy.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000006.wav|But last year I just missed a purchaser who would have given twelve.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000029_000001.wav|I don't know.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000007.wav|I send you just because you are a clever fellow.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000003.wav|In the evening there was another trouble in store for Fyodor Pavlovitch; he was informed that Grigory, who had not been well for the last three days, was completely laid up by his lumbago.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000012_000000.wav|"Confound him!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000018_000000.wav|"I'm sorry, I can't.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000009_000001.wav|Meeting Fyodor Pavlovitch in the drawing room directly he went in, he shouted to him, waving his hands, "I am going upstairs to my room, not in to you.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000002.wav|I've done business with him a long time.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000007.wav|They found him at the bottom of the cellar steps, writhing in convulsions and foaming at the mouth.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000004.wav|Where are you going now-to Venice?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000001.wav|I shan't forget it.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000018_000002.wav|I can only just catch it."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000016.wav|He went into the station house, looked round, glanced at the overseer's wife, and suddenly went back to the entrance.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000012.wav|He says he will give me eleven thousand for the copse.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000024_000000.wav|"Oh, I can't spare the time.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000008.wav|Only when accompanying his son out on to the steps, the old man began to fuss about.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000003.wav|But here I ... it's not the time for me to go now....|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000036_000000.wav|"You see ...|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000002.wav|If I hadn't had something to keep me here, I would have run over myself long ago, for I've some business there in a hurry.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000036_000002.wav|Again, as the day before, the words seemed to drop of themselves, and he laughed, too, a peculiar, nervous laugh.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000021_000009.wav|So what you have to find out is whether he is lying or speaking the truth, when he says he wants to buy it and would give eleven thousand."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000021_000002.wav|He is a perfect treasure, I'd give him twenty thousand to take care of for me without a receipt; but he has no eye for business, he is a perfect child, a crow could deceive him. And yet he is a learned man, would you believe it?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000001.wav|He sat up late that night, till two o'clock.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000002.wav|But suddenly something happened which was very annoying and unpleasant for every one in the house, and completely upset Fyodor Pavlovitch's equanimity at once.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000009.wav|One has to take what they'll give, for no one here dare bid against them.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000021_000007.wav|He told me the year before last that his wife was dead and that he had married another, and would you believe it, there was not a word of truth in it?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000002.wav|To her master's bitter, though deserved, reproaches, Marfa Ignatyevna replied that the fowl was a very old one to begin with, and that she had never been trained as a cook.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000036_000003.wav|He remembered it long after.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000013.wav|Instead of doing so, he flew into a great flutter at the recollection of some important business of his own.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000005.wav|She did not see the fall, but heard his scream-the strange, peculiar scream, long familiar to her-the scream of the epileptic falling in a fit.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000015_000001.wav|And why he had done all this, why he was listening, he could not have said.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000010.wav|The priest at Ilyinskoe wrote to me last Thursday that a merchant called Gorstkin, a man I know, had turned up.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000003.wav|He tried to talk to the driver, and he felt intensely interested in an answer the peasant made him; but a minute later he realized that he was not catching anything, and that he had not really even taken in the peasant's answer.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000001.wav|Marfa Ignatyevna cooked the dinner, and the soup, compared with Smerdyakov's, was "no better than dish water," and the fowl was so dried up that it was impossible to masticate it.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000009.wav|A feeling of hatred was rankling in his heart, as though he meant to avenge himself on some one.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000009.wav|You know nothing about timber, but you've got an eye.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000005.wav|He was quite unmoved by the parting, and seemed, in fact, at a loss for something to say.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000018.wav|The invalid was taken to the lodge, to a room next to Grigory's and Marfa Ignatyevna's.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000009.wav|Dmitri might be on the watch for her somewhere, and when she knocked on the window (Smerdyakov had informed him two days before that he had told her where and how to knock) the door must be opened at once.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000004.wav|But if he strokes his beard with his left hand and grins-he is trying to cheat you.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000002.wav|A light lunch was brought in, with brandy.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000012.wav|Only let me know it's serious, and I'll run over and fix it up.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000042_000001.wav|Mitri here will."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000047_000004.wav|The train flew on, and only at daybreak, when he was approaching Moscow, he suddenly roused himself from his meditation.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000007.wav|There's no getting any one about here to buy it.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000008.wav|The Maslovs have it all their own way.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000006.wav|And his departure certainly was sudden.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000009_000005.wav|Receiving this amiable greeting, he stood still in silence and with an ironical air watched his son going upstairs, till he passed out of sight.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000009.wav|But it was difficult to get him out of the cellar.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000040_000000.wav|"We shall just do it.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000009_000004.wav|And the old man evidently wanted to tell him something at once and had come to meet him in the drawing room on purpose.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000017_000001.wav|Not to tell me yesterday!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000047_000002.wav|To a new life, new places and no looking back!" But instead of delight his soul was filled with such gloom, and his heart ached with such anguish, as he had never known in his life before.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000004.wav|Fortunately, Marfa Ignatyevna was in the yard and heard him in time.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000030_000003.wav|If you settle the matter, write me a line; give it to the priest and he'll send it on to me at once.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000012_000002.wav|Bring in the samovar, and get along with you.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000008.wav|You need only write: 'He's not lying.' Stand out for eleven thousand; one thousand you can knock off, but not more.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000011.wav|At moments he hated himself intensely.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000017_000005.wav|It's only to turn to the left from the station at Volovya, only another twelve versts and you come to Tchermashnya."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000010.wav|His father saw it at once, and instantly pulled himself up.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000015_000003.wav|For Fyodor Pavlovitch himself he felt no hatred at that moment, but was simply intensely curious to know how he was walking down there below and what he must be doing now. He wondered and imagined how he must be peeping out of the dark windows and stopping in the middle of the room, listening, listening-for some one to knock.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000005.wav|Your Venice will keep another two days.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000011.wav|What did he mean by that?"|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000003.wav|He jumped up at once and dressed quickly; then dragged out his trunk and began packing immediately.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000012.wav|He helped, evidently alarmed and upset.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000008_000000.wav|Chapter seven.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000017_000004.wav|Go to Tchermashnya on the way.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000006.wav|But if he had been asked why, he could not have given any exact reason, except perhaps that he loathed the valet as one who had insulted him more gravely than any one in the world.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000013_000001.wav|Half an hour later the house was locked, and the crazy old man was wandering along through the rooms in excited expectation of hearing every minute the five knocks agreed upon.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000014.wav|There was still ice in the cellar, and Marfa Ignatyevna had some brought up.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000008.wav|It was thought at first that he must have broken something-an arm or a leg-and hurt himself, but "God had preserved him," as Marfa Ignatyevna expressed it-nothing of the kind had happened.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000007.wav|He had received from Smerdyakov that morning an assurance "that she had promised to come without fail." The incorrigible old man's heart throbbed with excitement; he paced up and down his empty rooms listening.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000048_000000.wav|"I am a scoundrel," he whispered to himself.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000000.wav|The old man was quite delighted.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000010.wav|"Why is it worth while speaking to a clever man?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000009_000003.wav|Very possibly the old man was too hateful to him at that moment; but such an unceremonious display of hostility was a surprise even to Fyodor Pavlovitch.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000011.wav|Fyodor Pavlovitch himself was present at the whole ceremony.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000030_000000.wav|"Nonsense!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000008.wav|He had to be on the alert.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000012.wav|His father heard this announcement with no sign of surprise, and forgot in an unmannerly way to show regret at losing him.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000012_000003.wav|Look sharp!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000034_000001.wav|Don't be too hard on me!" the father called for the last time.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000006.wav|They could not tell whether the fit had come on him at the moment he was descending the steps, so that he must have fallen unconscious, or whether it was the fall and the shock that had caused the fit in Smerdyakov, who was known to be liable to them.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000008.wav|At last his trunk and bag were ready.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000020_000000.wav|"Well, you write to the priest; he'll make the bargain."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000000.wav|"You'll catch it to morrow or the day after, but to day turn off to Tchermashnya.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000021_000005.wav|He is a liar.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000002.wav|And all of a sudden he felt very happy.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000033_000000.wav|Ivan got into the carriage.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000015_000000.wav|Remembering that night long afterwards, Ivan recalled with peculiar repulsion how he had suddenly got up from the sofa and had stealthily, as though he were afraid of being watched, opened the door, gone out on the staircase and listened to Fyodor Pavlovitch stirring down below, had listened a long while-some five minutes-with a sort of strange curiosity, holding his breath while his heart throbbed.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000004.wav|He felt himself that he had lost his bearings.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000001.wav|For two hours afterwards he felt almost happy, and sat drinking brandy.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000005.wav|The Maslovs, an old merchant and his son, will give eight thousand for the timber.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000004.wav|Fyodor Pavlovitch finished his tea as early as possible and locked himself up alone in the house.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000012.wav|The thought seemed suddenly to clutch at his breathing.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000013.wav|"And why did I tell him I was going to Tchermashnya?" They reached Volovya station.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000021_000004.wav|That's the common complaint.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000004.wav|You see, I've two pieces of copse land there.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000014.wav|But what's the good of my galloping over, if it's all a notion of the priest's?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000011.wav|Fyodor Pavlovitch had much to think of, but never had his heart been steeped in such voluptuous hopes.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000002.wav|Opening his eyes, he was surprised to feel himself extraordinarily vigorous.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000005.wav|He was fretted, too, by all sorts of strange and almost surprising desires; for instance, after midnight he suddenly had an intense irresistible inclination to go down, open the door, go to the lodge and beat Smerdyakov.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000007.wav|On the other hand, he was more than once that night overcome by a sort of inexplicable humiliating terror, which he felt positively paralyzed his physical powers.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000028_000001.wav|I'll scribble the note for you at once."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000000.wav|Fyodor Pavlovitch remained well satisfied at having seen his son off.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000044_000001.wav|I've known Fyodor Pavlovitch a long time."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000002.wav|You've no heart, any of you-that's what it is?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000013.wav|The sick man did not regain consciousness; the convulsions ceased for a time, but then began again, and every one concluded that the same thing would happen, as had happened a year before, when he accidentally fell from the garret. They remembered that ice had been put on his head then.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000010.wav|He looked almost cheerful, but there was about him, about his words and gestures, something hurried and scattered.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000001.wav|It won't put you out much to humor your father!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000047_000001.wav|I've done with the old world for ever, and may I have no news, no echo, from it.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000040_000001.wav|Shall we get the carriage out?"|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000005.wav|He was in terrible excitement and suspense.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000047_000003.wav|He was thinking all the night.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000008.wav|"There's plenty of time for them," he thought.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000030_000006.wav|The priest will give you horses back to Volovya station."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000008_000001.wav|"It's Always Worth While Speaking To A Clever Man"|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000015.wav|Come, will you go?"|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000032_000003.wav|Well, Christ be with you!"|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000012_000001.wav|Let him be angry then.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000011.wav|Greeting his father affably, and even inquiring specially after his health, though he did not wait to hear his answer to the end, he announced that he was starting off in an hour to return to Moscow for good, and begged him to send for the horses.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000004.wav|He was silent, and it was pleasant even so.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000028_000000.wav|"Then you'll go, you'll go?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000016_000001.wav|And he did fall asleep at once, and slept soundly without dreams, but waked early, at seven o'clock, when it was broad daylight.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000009.wav|Just think!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000005.wav|Don't watch his eyes, you won't find out anything from his eyes, he is a deep one, a rogue-but watch his beard!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000029_000002.wav|I'll decide on the way."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000032_000000.wav|"Well, good luck to you, good luck to you!" he repeated from the steps. "You'll come again some time or other?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000000.wav|"Stay, wait a bit!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000017_000000.wav|"What a fellow you are!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000023_000003.wav|You see, you must watch his beard; he has a nasty, thin, red beard. If his beard shakes when he talks and he gets cross, it's all right, he is saying what he means, he wants to do business.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000042_000000.wav|"To be sure.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000011.wav|What makes him valuable is that he is not from these parts, so he is not afraid of the Maslovs.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000013_000002.wav|Now and then he peered out into the darkness, seeing nothing.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000046_000001.wav|"Thank you, sir.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000002.wav|But we will not give an account of his thoughts, and this is not the place to look into that soul-its turn will come.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000011_000001.wav|Who can tell?" the valet muttered evasively.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000017.wav|After careful examination, he concluded that the fit was a very violent one and might have serious consequences; that meanwhile he, Herzenstube, did not fully understand it, but that by to morrow morning, if the present remedies were unavailing, he would venture to try something else.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000018_000001.wav|It's eighty versts to the railway and the train starts for Moscow at seven o'clock to night.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000041_000000.wav|"At once.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000027_000000.wav|Fyodor Pavlovitch did not catch, or would not catch, the malignancy, but he caught the smile.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000024_000001.wav|You must excuse me."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000012.wav|Of Katerina Ivanovna he almost forgot to think, and wondered greatly at this afterwards, especially as he remembered perfectly that when he had protested so valiantly to Katerina Ivanovna that he would go away next day to Moscow, something had whispered in his heart, "That's nonsense, you are not going, and it won't be so easy to tear yourself away as you are boasting now."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000019_000014.wav|But he'll only be here, the priest writes, for a week altogether, so you must go at once and make a bargain with him."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000001.wav|He wrote the note, and sent for the horses.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000003.wav|Smerdyakov went to the cellar for something and fell down from the top of the steps.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000025_000011.wav|I tell you, watch his beard-if his beard shakes you know he is in earnest."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000030_000002.wav|My dear fellow, decide!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000010.wav|She must not be a second in the passage, for fear-which God forbid!--that she should be frightened and run away.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000031_000007.wav|"He must be bored with me," he thought.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000016.wav|He was a most estimable old man, and the most careful and conscientious doctor in the province.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000003.wav|And even if one tried, it would be very hard to give an account of them, for there were no thoughts in his brain, but something very vague, and, above all, intense excitement.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000030_000001.wav|Decide at once.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000007.wav|But he softly smiled, blew softly on the friendly phantoms, and they flew away.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000009_000002.wav|Good by!" and passed by, trying not even to look at his father.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000050_000000.wav|Then Fyodor Pavlovitch had one misfortune after another to put up with that day.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000049_000010.wav|They asked the neighbors to help and managed it somehow.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000038_000015.wav|He told them to harness the horses.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000014_000008.wav|His head ached and he was giddy.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/700/3869_700_000021_000000.wav|"He can't do it.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000016.wav|Well, those signals are known to Dmitri Fyodorovitch too, now."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000057_000001.wav|What did you mean by that?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000004_000003.wav|Is it the parting with Alyosha and the conversation I had with him?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000007.wav|If you miss her and don't let me know she's been-I'll kill you before any one.' When the night's over, in the morning, he, too, like Fyodor Pavlovitch, begins worrying me to death.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000002.wav|Here Fyodor Pavlovitch will get up directly and begin worrying me every minute, 'Has she come?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000042_000001.wav|Did you tell him?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000051_000002.wav|If he means to do anything, he'll do it; but if not, I shan't be thrusting him upon his father."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000014_000001.wav|"Why I smile you must understand of yourself, if you are a clever man," his screwed up left eye seemed to say.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000006.wav|It's as good as certain, so to say, that Agrafena Alexandrovna will force him, if only she cares to, to marry her-the master himself, I mean, Fyodor Pavlovitch-if only she cares to, and of course she may care to.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000008.wav|Grushenka had come on the scene, and there had been the scandals with his brother Dmitri-they discussed that, too.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000021_000001.wav|They did not speak for nearly a minute.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000009.wav|At first, two knocks, and then, after an interval, another much louder.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000046_000001.wav|How can you be so sure you are going to have a fit, confound you?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000007_000001.wav|It all dawned upon him suddenly and became clear.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000063_000000.wav|"That's the best thing you can do," he responded, as though he had expected to hear it; "except that you can always be telegraphed for from Moscow, if anything should happen here."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000007.wav|All I've said is that she won't come, but maybe she's looking for more than that-I mean to be mistress here.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000067_000000.wav|"From Tchermashnya, too ... you could be sent for," Smerdyakov muttered, almost in a whisper, looking disconcerted, but gazing intently into Ivan's eyes.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000028_000001.wav|What makes you say you will have one to morrow?" Ivan inquired, with a peculiar, irritable curiosity.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000004_000002.wav|No, it's not that either.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000004_000005.wav|No doubt that came in, that vexation, it must have done indeed; but yet that was not it, that was not it either.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000012_000001.wav|"I am surprised at you, sir," he added, after a pause, dropping his eyes affectedly, setting his right foot forward, and playing with the tip of his polished boot.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000021_000004.wav|At last he moved to get up.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000048_000001.wav|If you are laid up, Grigory will be on the watch.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000042_000000.wav|"How are they known?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000027_000002.wav|The struggling ceased and then began again, and for three days I couldn't come back to my senses.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000025_000001.wav|Though, indeed, I haven't meddled at all, if you want to know the truth of the matter.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000049_000003.wav|It's a very strange remedy of hers.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000012.wav|Besides, Dmitri Fyodorovitch might come, too, so I must let him know he is near.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000022_000001.wav|I don't know how to help myself," he said resolutely and distinctly, and at his last word he sighed.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000054_000001.wav|"Dmitri won't come to steal money and kill my father to do it.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000060_000001.wav|If I were in your place I should simply throw it all up ... rather than stay on in such a position," answered Smerdyakov, with the most candid air looking at Ivan's flashing eyes.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000002.wav|"He looks on that three thousand as his own, too.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000001.wav|"I am speaking of your parent and your brother Dmitri Fyodorovitch.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000000.wav|"I'm bound to admit the fact," Smerdyakov drawled with pedantic composure, "that I have a secret with Fyodor Pavlovitch in this business.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000012_000000.wav|"His honor is still asleep," he articulated deliberately ("You were the first to speak, not I," he seemed to say).|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000051_000000.wav|"How could I?...|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000009_000003.wav|With anger and repulsion he looked at Smerdyakov's emasculate, sickly face, with the little curls combed forward on his forehead.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000064_000003.wav|His face expressed attention and expectation, intent but timid and cringing.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000011_000001.wav|For an instant he felt almost frightened; he remembered it afterwards.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000027_000001.wav|I fell from the garret that time.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000046_000000.wav|"Hang it!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000013.wav|Dmitri Fyodorovitch knows all that very well."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000021_000005.wav|Smerdyakov seemed to seize the moment.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000036_000001.wav|All my brother Dmitri's threats are only hasty words and mean nothing.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000013.wav|He always spoke in a tone that suggested that those two had some kind of compact, some secret between them, that had at some time been expressed on both sides, only known to them and beyond the comprehension of those around them.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000018_000000.wav|"Damn you!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000011.wav|That's all in case Agrafena Alexandrovna can't come herself, but sends a message.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000064_000000.wav|Ivan stopped again, and again turned quickly to Smerdyakov.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000053_000000.wav|"You know yourself why he'll come.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000040_000000.wav|"What signals?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000002.wav|Then he had taken a marked interest in Smerdyakov, and had even thought him very original.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000006.wav|On the other side it's no better. As soon as it gets dark, or even before, your brother will appear with his gun in his hands: 'Look out, you rogue, you soup maker.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000033_000000.wav|"You are talking nonsense, I see, and I don't quite understand you," he said softly, but with a sort of menace.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000062_000000.wav|"I am going away to Moscow to morrow, if you care to know-early to morrow morning.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000049_000001.wav|And as for Grigory Vassilyevitch hearing him and not admitting him, he has been ill ever since yesterday, and Marfa Ignatyevna intends to give him medicine to morrow.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000007_000004.wav|"Is it possible that a miserable, contemptible creature like that can worry me so much?" he wondered, with insufferable irritation.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000009.wav|And she's got plenty of sense.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000009_000000.wav|With a feeling of disgust and irritation he tried to pass in at the gate without speaking or looking at Smerdyakov.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000010_000001.wav|"Get away, miserable idiot.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000001.wav|You don't know in what need he is," Smerdyakov explained, with perfect composure and remarkable distinctness.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000016_000000.wav|Smerdyakov was silent again.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000064_000002.wav|All his familiarity and carelessness had completely disappeared.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000060_000000.wav|"I spoke because I felt sorry for you.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000009_000004.wav|His left eye winked and he grinned as if to say, "Where are you going?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000010_000002.wav|What have I to do with you?" was on the tip of his tongue, but to his profound astonishment he heard himself say, "Is my father still asleep, or has he waked?"|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000054_000002.wav|He might have killed him yesterday on account of Grushenka, like the frantic, savage fool he is, but he won't steal."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000001.wav|As you know yourself (if only you do know it) he has for several days past locked himself in as soon as night or even evening comes on.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000061_000002.wav|Something strange followed.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000009_000005.wav|You won't pass by; you see that we two clever people have something to say to each other."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000047_000002.wav|I feel I am going to have a fit.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000017_000001.wav|"I put you off with a secondary reason," he seemed to suggest, "simply to say something."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000011_000002.wav|Smerdyakov stood facing him, his hands behind his back, looking at him with assurance and almost severity.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000047_000003.wav|I have a presentiment.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000005_000001.wav|What made his depression so vexatious and irritating was that it had a kind of casual, external character-he felt that.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000029_000000.wav|"That's just so.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000029_000001.wav|You can't tell beforehand."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000043_000003.wav|I'll break both your legs for you.' So I told him those secret signals that he might see my slavish devotion, and might be satisfied that I was not deceiving him, but was telling him all I could."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000061_000001.wav|He was about to pass straight through the gate, but he stopped short and turned to Smerdyakov.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000068_000000.wav|"Only Moscow is farther and Tchermashnya is nearer.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000031_000001.wav|I might fall from the garret again to morrow.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000056_000001.wav|He suddenly flushed.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000049_000006.wav|And when Grigory Vassilyevitch wakes up he is perfectly well after it, but Marfa Ignatyevna always has a headache from it.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000024_000001.wav|Why did you begin to spy for Dmitri Fyodorovitch?" said Ivan irritably.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000024_000000.wav|"And why have you meddled?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000012.wav|But if your father were to die now, there'd be some forty thousand for sure, even for Dmitri Fyodorovitch whom he hates so, for he's made no will....|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000010.wav|Then he will understand that something has happened suddenly and that I must see him, and he will open to me so that I can go and speak to him.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000047_000001.wav|I am in no laughing humor with this fear on me.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000053_000002.wav|His honor will come simply because he is in a rage or suspicious on account of my illness perhaps, and he'll dash in, as he did yesterday through impatience to search the rooms, to see whether she hasn't escaped him on the sly.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000052_000001.wav|"You say that yourself, and all the while I've been here, I've felt sure it was all the old man's fancy, and the creature won't come to him.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000064_000001.wav|But a change had passed over him, too.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000049_000004.wav|Marfa Ignatyevna knows of a preparation and always keeps it.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000011_000000.wav|He asked the question softly and meekly, to his own surprise, and at once, again to his own surprise, sat down on the bench.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000005.wav|When will she come?'--as though I were to blame for it.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000046_000002.wav|Are you laughing at me?"|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000003_000003.wav|He would again be as solitary as ever, and though he had great hopes, and great-too great-expectations from life, he could not have given any definite account of his hopes, his expectations, or even his desires.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000040_000001.wav|Whom did you tell?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000056_000000.wav|A sort of shudder passed over Ivan's face.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000004_000006.wav|"I feel sick with depression and yet I can't tell what I want.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000034_000000.wav|Smerdyakov, who was looking at the ground again, and playing with the toe of his right foot, set the foot down, moved the left one forward, and, grinning, articulated:|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000038_000000.wav|"Why should you be taken for an accomplice?"|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000048_000000.wav|"Confound it!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000003.wav|He said so to me himself.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000004.wav|That's the arrangement he made himself ever since this to do with Agrafena Alexandrovna began.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000025_000002.wav|I kept quiet from the very beginning, not daring to answer; but he pitched on me to be his servant. He has had only one thing to say since: 'I'll kill you, you scoundrel, if you miss her,' I feel certain, sir, that I shall have a long fit to morrow."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000025_000000.wav|"How could I help meddling?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000009.wav|Will she come soon?' And he, too, thinks me to blame because his lady hasn't come.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000059_000000.wav|"What do you mean by 'precisely so'?" Ivan questioned him, with a menacing light in his eyes, restraining himself with difficulty.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000055_000004.wav|'My father still owes me just three thousand,' he said.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000014.wav|So that the first signal of five knocks means Agrafena Alexandrovna has come, while the second signal of three knocks means 'something important to tell you.' His honor has shown me them several times and explained them.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000013.wav|His honor is awfully afraid of Dmitri Fyodorovitch, so that even if Agrafena Alexandrovna had come and were locked in with him, and Dmitri Fyodorovitch were to turn up anywhere near at the time, I should be bound to let him know at once, knocking three times.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000037_000001.wav|But even more than that, I am afraid I shall be taken for an accomplice of his when he does something crazy to his father."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000040_000002.wav|Confound you, speak more plainly."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000068_000001.wav|Is it to save my spending money on the fare, or to save my going so far out of my way, that you insist on Tchermashnya?"|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000049_000007.wav|So, if Marfa Ignatyevna carries out her intention to morrow, they won't hear anything and hinder Dmitri Fyodorovitch. They'll be asleep."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000031_000000.wav|"I climb up to the garret every day.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000031_000003.wav|I have to go into the cellar every day, too."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000050_000000.wav|"What a rigmarole!|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000041_000002.wav|Of late you've been going upstairs to your room early every evening, and yesterday you did not come down at all, and so perhaps you don't know how carefully he has begun to lock himself in at night, and even if Grigory Vassilyevitch comes to the door he won't open to him till he hears his voice.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000008.wav|'Why hasn't she come?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000023_000003.wav|Why hasn't she come?' and so on up till midnight and even after midnight.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000035_000002.wav|He'd be ashamed to."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000020_000000.wav|"Substantially nothing-but just by way of conversation."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000037_000000.wav|"He'd kill me first of all, like a fly.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000060_000002.wav|They were both silent.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000004_000007.wav|Better not think, perhaps."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000032_000000.wav|Ivan took a long look at him.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000027_000004.wav|I might have died."|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000011.wav|But what finally irritated Ivan most and confirmed his dislike for him was the peculiar, revolting familiarity which Smerdyakov began to show more and more markedly.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000058_000000.wav|"Precisely so," said Smerdyakov, softly and reasonably, watching Ivan intently, however.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000050_000001.wav|And it all seems to happen at once, as though it were planned.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000002_000001.wav|For Awhile A Very Obscure One|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000002_000000.wav|Chapter six.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000007_000003.wav|Afterwards, as he talked, Smerdyakov had been forgotten for the time; but still he had been in his mind, and as soon as Ivan parted with Alyosha and was walking home, the forgotten sensation began to obtrude itself again.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000043_000001.wav|How could I dare to keep it back from him?|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000006.wav|It had first given rise to his aversion.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000015_000000.wav|"Why should I go to Tchermashnya?" Ivan asked in surprise.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000042_000002.wav|How dared you tell him?"|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000008_000009.wav|But though Smerdyakov always talked of that with great excitement, it was impossible to discover what he desired to come of it.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000053_000003.wav|He is perfectly well aware, too, that Fyodor Pavlovitch has a big envelope with three thousand roubles in it, tied up with ribbon and sealed with three seals.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000033_000001.wav|"Do you mean to pretend to be ill to morrow for three days, eh?"|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3869/699/3869_699_000035_000000.wav|"If I were able to play such a trick, that is, pretend to have a fit-and it would not be difficult for a man accustomed to them-I should have a perfect right to use such a means to save myself from death.|3869
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000014_000002.wav|No, I've either got to stop Andy before the race, or not at all.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000008_000001.wav|That is, they need not bring them out until just before the races," he added.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000007_000001.wav|It was this:|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000003_000001.wav|It will meet at once, and I'll let you know what they say."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000044_000001.wav|Would it prove to be a copy of his speedy Humming Bird?|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000005_000001.wav|"Get the evidence against him, and we'll act quickly enough."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000060_000001.wav|But the smoke of it leaped into the air.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000048_000000.wav|Andy caught sight of Tom Swift.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000024_000001.wav|I wonder who could help it," mused poor Tom.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000024_000000.wav|"Don't worry!|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000049_000000.wav|"I'm going to beat you!" the bully boasted, "and I haven't a machine like yours, after all.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000023_000001.wav|"Poor night, but doctor thinks day will show improvement.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000023_000002.wav|Don't worry."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000030_000001.wav|However, he was more interested in what Andy Foger would turn out.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000046_000000.wav|He pushed his way through the crowd.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000016_000000.wav|Meanwhile he and mr Damon, together with their machinist, were kept busy.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000042_000000.wav|"Get ready to make your protest," advised mr Damon to the young inventor.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000035_000002.wav|Then came a flight for height; and while no records were broken, the crowd was well satisfied.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000061_000002.wav|His helper thrust the Humming Bird forward.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000062_000001.wav|He felt his craft soar upward.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000050_000000.wav|"So I see," stammered Tom, hardly knowing what to think.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000042_000003.wav|I hope you beat him!"|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000051_000000.wav|"I never had them!"|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000001_000000.wav|Chapter Twenty Three|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000057_000000.wav|"How much thrust?" cried Tom to his machinist.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000061_000003.wav|Over the smooth ground it rushed.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000059_000000.wav|"Good!"|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000056_000003.wav|Tom started the propeller.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100044/7538_100044_000014_000003.wav|I will try to think of a plan."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000018_000000.wav|"I'll catch him!" muttered Tom, and he opened the throttle a trifle wider, and went after Andy, passing him with ease.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000029_000003.wav|Eagerly Tom waited for the right signal.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000046_000005.wav|They were beaten. It did not seem possible.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000047_000003.wav|They could be no worse off than they were.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000008_000000.wav|"A good start!" shouted mr Damon in his ear.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000040_000001.wav|Tom looked down, and saw the signal put up which meant that there were but three miles more to go. He felt that he could do it.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000046_000004.wav|mr Damon gazed blankly forward.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000035_000002.wav|He would begin his final spurt, and if possible finish the hundred miles at his utmost speed, win the race and then hasten to his father's side.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000051_000002.wav|They tried to put on more speed, but it was impossible.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000047_000001.wav|If Tom shut off all power, coasted for a moment, and then, ere the propeller had ceased revolving, if he could start the motor on the spark, the silent cylinders might pick up, with the others, and begin again.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000049_000000.wav|He shut off the power.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000030_000001.wav|Quickly the young inventor clamped the receiver to his ear.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000010_000000.wav|"Where's the Slugger?" called Tom to his friend.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000004_000000.wav|"I don't believe he's going to make it," thought Tom.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000038_000001.wav|Tom flashed through the air so quickly that his speed was almost incredible.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000036_000002.wav|Tom opened up a big gap between his machine and the one nearest him, which, at that moment, was the Antoinette, with the Spaniard driving her.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000042_000001.wav|The motor of the Humming Bird suddenly slackened its speed, it missed explosions, and the trim little craft began to drop behind.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000048_000001.wav|"It's a long chance, but I'll take it."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000045_000002.wav|Tom cast a despairing look up at the motor.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000047_000000.wav|There was but a single chance.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000044_000001.wav|"We're done for, I guess."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000043_000000.wav|"What's the matter?" cried mr Damon.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000048_000000.wav|"A mile behind!" gasped Tom.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000021_000004.wav|He sends me word to go on and win, and I'll do it, too, only-"|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000020_000000.wav|"Well?" asked mr Damon, as Tom took off the receiver.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000051_000000.wav|Slowly he crept on them.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000036_000001.wav|She shot ahead like an eagle darting after his prey.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000023_000000.wav|"Of course you will!" cried mr Damon.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000039_000001.wav|But Tom and mr Damon could not hear them.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000041_000000.wav|"He's going to try to catch me!" exulted Tom.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000049_000004.wav|And such a roar as it was!|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000022_000000.wav|Tom paused, and choked back a sob.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000045_000001.wav|They saw the plight of the Humming Bird and determined to beat her.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000050_000000.wav|"We did it!" yelled Tom.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000021_000003.wav|But dad is game.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000046_000003.wav|His heart was like lead.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000026_000005.wav|There was twenty miles yet to go.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000045_000000.wav|On came the other machines, Andy in the lead, then the Santos Dumont, then the Farman, and lastly the Wright.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000028_000000.wav|"Yes, he has a good machine," conceded Tom.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000027_000000.wav|"Andy seems to be doing well," said mr Damon.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000040_000002.wav|He was half a lap ahead of them all now. But he saw Andy Foger's machine pulling away from the bunch.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000047_000002.wav|He would try it.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000037_000000.wav|"Now to win!" cried Tom, grimly.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000039_000002.wav|They only heard the powerful song of the motor.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000034_000001.wav|"My father has become unconscious, so mr Jackson says, but his last words were to me: 'Tell Tom to win the race!' And I'm going to do it!"|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000046_000001.wav|Then the Antoinette flashed by.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000031_000001.wav|There is little hope," translated Tom.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000035_000000.wav|Tom suddenly changed his plans.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000053_000000.wav|And he did.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000030_000002.wav|mr Damon saw him turn pale.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000001_000000.wav|Chapter Twenty Four|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000021_000000.wav|"Dad isn't quite so well," answered the lad.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000052_000000.wav|"I'll get him!" muttered Tom.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000026_000002.wav|He looked at the speed gage.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000026_000000.wav|Tom glanced at the barograph.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000029_000001.wav|Then another five.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000040_000000.wav|Faster and faster flew the Humming Bird.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000031_000000.wav|"dr Gladby says dad has a turn for the worse.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000033_000000.wav|Tom shook his head.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000032_000000.wav|"Will you-are you going to quit?" asked mr Damon.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000045_000004.wav|He could not reach it in mid-air.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000052_000001.wav|"I'll pass 'em all!"|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000026_000004.wav|He looked down at the signals.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000051_000001.wav|They looked back and saw him coming.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000005_000000.wav|He was right.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100045/7538_100045_000012_000000.wav|For a moment Tom's heart misgave him.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000008_000001.wav|Is that right?"|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000016_000000.wav|"Why not?" mr Swift spoke more strongly.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000013_000001.wav|Over a hundred, and the motor wasn't at its best."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000018_000008.wav|Now promise me you'll go in it and-and-win!"|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000023_000000.wav|"I-I promise!" exclaimed Tom, and the aged inventor sank back with a smile of satisfaction on his pale face.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000010_000001.wav|But tell me; did you go in-in the Humming Bird?"|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000024_000001.wav|"He has talked long enough. He must sleep now, and get up his strength."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000014_000000.wav|"That's good.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000009_000002.wav|You must get well and strong."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000048_000003.wav|He listened a moment.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000003_000000.wav|"I think he's going to get well," she whispered.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000047_000001.wav|Have you heard from home to day, Tom?"|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000026_000001.wav|"We have great hopes."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000018_000000.wav|"Nonsense, Tom!|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000007_000000.wav|"Yes, dad," was the eager answer|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000030_000000.wav|The doctor thought for a moment.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000046_000002.wav|It would be just like him."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000034_000003.wav|Unless dr Hendrix wants to go back in it," he added as an after thought.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000011_000000.wav|"Yes, dad."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000024_000000.wav|"Now you must go," said dr Gladby to Tom.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000052_000001.wav|His face looks very familiar!"|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000008_000000.wav|"They tell me you-you made a great trip to get dr Hendrix-broken bridge-came through the air with him.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000003_000002.wav|Tom's heart felt better.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000034_000002.wav|I'll take the Humming Bird apart at once, and ship it to Eagle Park.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000020_000000.wav|"I-I---," began Tom.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000030_000001.wav|Then he exclaimed:|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000028_000002.wav|If I were you I'd go in the race.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000017_000000.wav|"I-because-well, I don't want to."|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000018_000003.wav|But listen to me.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000034_000001.wav|"I will go to the meet.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000026_000000.wav|"We can't say for sure," was the answer.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000056_000000.wav|"Bless my elevation rudder!" cried mr Damon.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000056_000001.wav|"Andy's here at last!|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000005_000001.wav|He looked around feebly.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000035_000001.wav|By that time the bridge will have been repaired, and he can go back by train.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000009_000000.wav|"Yes, dad.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7538/100043/7538_100043_000021_000001.wav|dr Hendrix made a hasty move toward the bed.|7538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000047_000000.wav|In the mean time Captain Bramble had found an opportunity that afternoon to see Maud, and to learn from her that Captain Ratlin almost always slept on board his ship, departing soon after dark for the spot through the jungle.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000026_000002.wav|Where shall we meet?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000044_000001.wav|Captain Ratlin turned from that brief interview with a feeling he had never before experienced.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000046_000004.wav|Alas, I am not so blind, so foolish, so unreasonable, as to believe it for a moment." So once more the heart of the young commander was heavy within his breast.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000041_000000.wav|"The ship will probably be despatched within these two weeks, and then I will take any birth in legitimate commerce, where I may win an honorable name and reputation."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000035_000000.wav|"I will," answered the Quadroon, as she regarded the fine workmanship of the chain for a moment with idle and childlike pleasure, then turning from the spot, they both returned, though by different paths, from the jungle towards the dwelling of her father.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000024_000001.wav|These fellows are cunning," mused the officer.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000003_000002.wav|He felt that he had been overreached by Captain Ratlin, and also that he had good grounds of suspecting his successful rival of being either directly or indirectly engaged in the illegal trade of the coast, and, determined, if possible, to discover his secret, he again became a frequent visitor of Don Leonardo's house, where he was sure to meet him constantly.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000030_000000.wav|"The duel?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000044_000002.wav|The idea that Miss Huntington really cared for him beyond the ordinary interest, that the circumstances of their acquaintances had caused, had not thus far been entertained by him; had this been otherwise he would doubtless have differently interpreted many agreeable tokens which she had granted him, and to which his mind now went back eagerly to recall and consider under the new phase of feeling which actuated him.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000032_000000.wav|"It is strange.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000012_000000.wav|"I suspect that this Captain Ratlin is in some way connected with the trade."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000047_000003.wav|But all seemed now propitious, and he awaited the darkness with impatience, when he might disembark a couple of boat loads of sailors and marines, and with the Quadroon for guide follow the path through the jungle to where the "Sea Witch" lay.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000017_000000.wav|"I have reason to be," answered Maud, calming her feelings by an effort.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000031_000000.wav|"Yes."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000013_000000.wav|"He is, and but now awaits the gathering of a cargo in my father's barracoons, to sail with them to the West Indies.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000020_000000.wav|"Thus far, at all events, my good girl, we have mutual cause for hate, and we will work heartily together.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000026_000001.wav|I will be prepared.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000046_000000.wav|This was the bright tide of the picture which his imagination, aided by that gaudy painter and fancy colorer, Hope, had conjured up before his mind's eye, but the reverse side of the picture was at hand, and now he paused to ask himself seriously: "Can this be?|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000007_000000.wav|"Have I anything to gain by a lie?" responded Maud, with a curling lip.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000046_000003.wav|Is it likely that two such persons as I have considered should be joined by intimate friendship? can such barriers as these be broken down by love?|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000027_000000.wav|"At the end of the cape, where you and he met a few days since."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000044_000000.wav|How small a things will affect the whole tenor of a life time; trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of destiny.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000043_000001.wav|He was not repulsed, nor chided, but she delicately rose and turned to her mother's apartment.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000004_000003.wav|Indeed Maud, who had been a secret witness of the deed, already realized that Captain Bramble was the enemy of him whom she had once loved, and whom she now so bitterly despised.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000034_000001.wav|"Take this and wear it for my sake," he added, unloosing a fine gold chain from his watch and tossing it around her neck, "and be punctual at that spot to night after the last ray of twilight."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000014_000001.wav|he cannot go to sea without one," said the Englishman.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000046_000001.wav|Who am I? a poor unknown sailor, fortuneless, friendless, nameless.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000050_000001.wav|I don't exactly know about that.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000039_000001.wav|I have done with this trade, never more to engage in it."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000010_000000.wav|"True."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000038_000002.wav|In the presence of that fair and pure minded girl he was as a child, impressible, and ready to follow her simplest instructions.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000050_000000.wav|"Fortunate, my dear?|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000055_000000.wav|This conversation will explain to the reader in part, the reason why mrs Huntington and her daughter, English subjects and in distress upon the coast, had not at once gone on board the vessel of their sovereign which lay in the harbor, and been carried upon their destination.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000023_000000.wav|"Less than a league."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000019_000000.wav|"Yes, he loves the white woman whom he brought to my father's house."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000033_000001.wav|There I hoped to see him fall; but he was strangely preserved."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000011_000000.wav|"And have you suspected nothing since your vessel has been here?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000015_000001.wav|I will discover to you his ship if you swear to arrest him, seize the vessel, and if possible hang him!"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000002_000000.wav|THE HUES OF LOVE.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000004_000002.wav|Both now hated Captain Ratlin, and would gladly have been revenged in any way for the gratification of their feelings upon her whom he so fondly loved. With this similarity of sentiment it was not singular that they should ere long discover themselves and feelings to each other.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000021_000000.wav|"I do."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000009_000002.wav|You are an English officer, agent of your government, and sent here to suppress this vile traffic?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000014_000000.wav|"But where is his vessel?|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000045_000000.wav|How else could he interpret that tear but as springing from a heart that was full of kindly feeling towards him.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000008_000000.wav|"No, I presume not," he answered.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000004_000001.wav|We refer to Captain Bramble and Maud the Quadroon.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000013_000001.wav|It is not his first voyage, either."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000025_000000.wav|"To night."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000022_000000.wav|"Is it far from here?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000051_000000.wav|"Well, mother, Captain Bramble says he shall sail soon, and then we can go round to Sierra Leone, and from thence take passage direct for England."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000008_000003.wav|Something touching this Captain Ratlin?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000057_000000.wav|"Do I, mother?" she answered, vacantly.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000028_000001.wav|"How knew you of that?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000009_000001.wav|"It is of him I would speak.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000037_000000.wav|Captain Ratlin, on his part, was ever the same; he found that he must wait some weeks even yet before he could prosecute the purpose of his voyage, and indeed he seemed to have lost all interest in it.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000024_000000.wav|"Indeed!|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000036_000000.wav|Captain Bramble dined with Don Leonardo that day, and his good spirits and pleasant converse were afterwards the subject of comment, exhibiting him in a fair more favorable light than he had appeared in since his arrival at the factory.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000008_000001.wav|"I merely ask from ordinary precaution.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000003_000000.wav|CAPTAIN BRAMBLE did not long remain contented on board his ship.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000008_000002.wav|But what do you propose to reveal to me?|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000033_000000.wav|"He has moved in no direction since this woman has been here that I have not followed.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000029_000000.wav|"I saw it."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000050_000002.wav|Here we have been confined at this slave factory, little better than the slaves themselves, these four weeks."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000043_000000.wav|The young commander took the hand respectfully that waits extended to him, but when he raised his eyes to her face and detected that tear, a thought for a moment ran through his brain, a faint shadow of hope that perhaps she loved him, or might at some future time do so, and bending over the fair hand he held he pressed it gently to his lips.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000040_000000.wav|"That is honorable, noble in you, Captain Ratlin, so promptly to relinquish all connection with a calling, which though it affords fortune and command, can never permit you self respect."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5416/3448_5416_000024_000002.wav|"When will you guide me and a party of my people thither?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000021_000001.wav|Once more upon their deck, the hand to hand battle was short, bloody and decisive, until towards its close, Captain Bramble found himself driven into the forecastle with a number of his followers, and at the same moment saw the mate of the "Sea Witch," with those of his people that were left alive hastening to embark in a quarterboat, and pull away from the vessel's side with great speed.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000016_000000.wav|"It is not important," continued the Englishman, turning to his followers, and in a low voice bidding them look to their weapons, for the game was near at hand.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000043_000001.wav|Don Leonardo, who shrewdly suspected the truth, seemed satisfied at a single glance as to the state of affairs, and walking up to the young commander, and watching for a favorable opportunity, when not overheard, he asked, significantly: "Treachery?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000012_000000.wav|"Yes."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000027_000001.wav|"Stand back, I say!|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000049_000001.wav|And yet he did so; true, he did not actually importune Miss Huntington, but his attentions and services were all rendered under that guise and aspect which rendered them to her most repulsive.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000028_000000.wav|"Well, sir, what have you to offer?" said the English officer, positively quailing before the stern and manly front of the young commander.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000041_000001.wav|I forgive you though, poor girl; you are hardly to blame."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000008_000001.wav|Hark! those voices are not from the tongues of natives; that is English which they speak.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000014_000000.wav|"How many do they number?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000023_000001.wav|She realized the result of her treachery, but looked in vain for the object on whom she had hoped to reck the strength of her indignation and her hate. Where was he?|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000053_000000.wav|"Well," she answered, lifting her handsome face from her hands, where she often hid it.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000051_000002.wav|The English officer looked upon her with mingled feelings of admiration for her strange beauty, with contempt for her treachery, and with a thought that she might be made perhaps the subject of his pleasure by a little management by and by.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000045_000000.wav|"Whom?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000029_000000.wav|"That you accept my word of honor to obey your directions as a prisoner, but that you shall not bind my arms or confine me otherwise."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000007_000000.wav|On the whole body pressed in silence, through a tangled and narrow path, being more than once startled by the growl of some wild animal, whose haunts they disturbed.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000039_000000.wav|"And if I did, Maud, what wrong is that to thee?|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000037_000000.wav|"Maud, Maud! have I ever wronged you or your father?" asked Captain Ratlin, reproachfully.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000017_000003.wav|Voices were heard issuing from the fore hatch, and two or three petty officers were seated about the entrance to the cabin, smoking cigars and pipes, all unconscious of any danger.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000009_000000.wav|"Hist! hist!" whispered the Quadroon, "we are almost upon them!"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000017_000001.wav|The vessel was moored close to the shore, with which a portable gangway connected it.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000021_000000.wav|This division of his forces was the best manouvre he could possibly make, and succeeded admirably, since his own people outnumbered the slavers, and by dividing them he strengthened his own power and weakened theirs.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000035_000000.wav|"Maud," he said, in a low, but reproachful tone, "is it you who have betrayed us?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000051_000003.wav|It was natural for a heart so vile as his to couple every circumstance and connection in some such selfish spirit with himself; it was like him.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000018_000000.wav|"There is your prey!|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000056_000000.wav|"How would you like another?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000022_000001.wav|Scarcely had they gained the shade of the thick undergrowth, when a report like that of a score of cannons rang upon the night air, and high in the air soared a body of flame and wreck in terrific confusion.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000027_000002.wav|I carry the lives of six of you in this weapon, and I am not one to miss my aim, as your valiant leader yonder well knows.--Now, Captain Bramble, I will surrender to you, provided you accede to my terms, otherwise you cannot take me alive!"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000038_000000.wav|"Do you not love that white faced girl you brought hither?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000015_000000.wav|"I know not."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000044_000000.wav|"Yes."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000007_000001.wav|It was weary struggling by this path through the wood, but it was the only way to approach the desired point by land. Maud hesitated not, but stole or glided through the tangled undergrowth, as though she had passed her whole life time in the deep, tangled ways of the jungle.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000055_000000.wav|The girl only answered by a flashing glance of contempt.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000051_000000.wav|Maud kept by herself.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000031_000000.wav|"Do you promise me this, Captain Bramble?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000054_000000.wav|"You have lost one lover?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000046_000000.wav|"It matters not," was the magnanimous reply; for Captain Ratlin was too generous to betray the Quadroon to her father, though she had proved thus treacherous to him.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000039_000001.wav|Did I promise thee love?"|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000043_000000.wav|As they came upon the open spot where stand the barracoons and Don Leonardo's dwelling, they found the entire family aroused and on the watch, the heavy explosion of the "Sea Witch's" magazine having seemed to them like an earthquake.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000032_000000.wav|"I do."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000017_000000.wav|A few more steps brought the party to the skirts of the thicket, where it bordered on a small clearing, opening upon the river, and looking across which-while they were themselves screened by the jungle-they discovered the dark hull of the "Sea Witch," with her lower masts and their standing rigging.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000040_000000.wav|"Nay; I asked it not of you," said the angry girl.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000030_000000.wav|"Have your own way," replied the Englishman, doggedly; "but give up your weapons."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000058_000000.wav|"Me!" answered Captain Bramble.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000018_000001.wav|Spring upon it, and be quick, for they will fight like mad, and he will lay a dozen of you by the heels before you take the 'Sea Witch!'" said Maud.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000005_000000.wav|THE CONFLICT.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000047_000001.wav|They felt that his advice was good, as truly disinterested, and both agreed to abide strictly by it; but doubted not that as Captain Ratlin had not been engaged in any slave commerce, and indeed had not been in the late action at all, that he would be very soon liberated, and free to choose his own calling.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000013_000000.wav|"That is the river's bed, and they lie on board their craft, moored close to us."|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000034_000000.wav|As soon as Maud saw him, she sprang to her feet, and with all the bitterness of expression which her countenance was capable of, she scowled upon his upright figure and handsome features.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000060_000001.wav|Taking her lonely place in the cabin, after the conversation just referred to, she again hid her face in her hands, and remained with her head bowed in her lap for a long, long while, half dreaming, half waking.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000041_000000.wav|"But you have done me a great wrong, Maud; one that you do not yourself understand.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000010_000000.wav|"In which direction?" asked the English officer.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3448/5417/3448_5417_000057_000000.wav|"Who?" she said, sternly.|3448
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000018_000004.wav|Mimic Adonis gardens were cultivated by women.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000069_000000.wav|The two travellers then resumed their journey, performing religious acts from time to time; chanting dirges and holding feasts for the dead, and at length Gilgamesh returned to Erech.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000021_000002.wav|He was named Ea bani, which signifies "Ea is my creator".|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000002_000005.wav|As Vishnu, the Indian god, rides on the back of Garuda, so does Etana ride on the back of the Babylonian Eagle.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000082_000003.wav|When Bhima reaches the lotus lake he fights with demons.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000000_000001.wav|He may set forth in search of a fair lady who has been taken captive, or to obtain a magic herb or stone to relieve a sufferer, to cure diseases, and to prolong life.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000001_000004.wav|Certain folk tales, and the folk beliefs on which they were based, seem to have been of hoary antiquity before the close of the Late Stone Age.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000078_000006.wav|Apparently he assumed the colour of supernatural beings.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000087_000001.wav|This great bird, which resembles the Etana eagle, expressed the opinion that Sita was in Lanka (Ceylon), whither she must have been carried by Ravana.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000004_000003.wav|Then some disaster happens, for further onwards the broken tablet narrates that the Eagle is falling.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000064_000003.wav|What hast thou done unto thy servant?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000046_000000.wav|Jastrow contrasts the Babylonian poem with the following quotation from ecclesiastes:--|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000008_000002.wav|The hero died, but, curiously enough, remained conscious of what was happening.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000047_000000.wav|Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart....|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000036_000002.wav|Ea bani then defied her and threatened to deal with her as he had dealt with the bull, with the result that he was cursed by the goddess also.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000037_000000.wav|Gilgamesh dedicated the horns of the bull to Shamash and returned with his friend to Erech, where they were received with great rejoicings.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000026_000001.wav|Erech was thus freed from the oppression of its fierce enemy.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000043_000001.wav|The following quotations are from two separate versions:--|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000060_000001.wav|Sleep envelops him like to a black storm cloud."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000086_000002.wav|At length we beheld a great cavern.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000089_000000.wav|The tunnel may run from a castle to the seashore, from a cave on one side of a hill to a cave on the other, or from a seashore cave to a distant island.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000005_000004.wav|My wings were burnt, but those of my brother were not....|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000035_000000.wav|Ishtar's heart was filled with wrath when she heard the words which Gilgamesh had spoken, and she prevailed upon her father Anu to create a fierce bull which she sent against the lord of Erech.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000039_000001.wav|Then he cried upon the moon god, who took pity upon him, and under divine protection the hero pressed onward.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000088_000002.wav|The sound of the pipes is heard for a time; then the music ceases suddenly, and shortly afterwards the dog returns without a hair upon its body.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000002_000007.wav|His wife was about to become a mother, and was accordingly in need of magical aid.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000027_000001.wav|But in the hour of triumph a shadow falls.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000020_000003.wav|Ultimately the people prayed to the goddess Aruru to create a liberator.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000055_000002.wav|Nor could any man tell when his hour would come.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000086_000008.wav|And she gave us food and drink of various kinds.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000006_000002.wav|He, however, persisted in his design.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000000_000004.wav|The spirits are usually wild beasts or birds-the "fates" of immemorial folk belief-and they may either carry the hero on their backs, instruct him from time to time, or come to his aid when called upon.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000078_000014.wav|On the seashore Moses fell asleep, and the fish, which had been roasted, leapt out of the basket into the sea.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000006_000001.wav|Nimrod then built a tower so as to ascend to heaven "to see Abraham's god", and make war against Him, but the tower was overthrown.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000070_000000.wav|During the days which followed Gilgamesh sorrowed for his lost friend Ea bani, whose spirit was in the Underworld, the captive of the spirits of death.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000055_000003.wav|The god of destiny measured out the span of life: he fixed the day of death, but never revealed his secrets.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000008_000006.wav|The sun was enlivening me pretty well though I was dead." Afterwards the eagle bathed in a healing well, and as it splashed in the water, drops fell on the hero and he came to life.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000040_000009.wav|Passing many other wonderful trees, he came to a shoreland, and he knew that he was drawing nigh to the Sea of Death.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000019_000001.wav|He was apparently of great antiquity, so that it is impossible to identify him with any forerunner of Sargon of Akkad, or Alexander the Great.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000011_000000.wav|Birds were not only fates, from whose movements in flight omens were drawn, but also spirits of fertility.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000040_000000.wav|When Gilgamesh revived, he realized that the monsters regarded him with eyes of sympathy.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000009_000002.wav|Nin Girsu, the god of Lagash, who was identified with Tammuz, was depicted as a lion headed eagle.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000007_000001.wav|Among the myths attached to his memory in the Ethiopic "history" is one which explains how "he knew and comprehended the length and breadth of the earth", and how he obtained knowledge regarding the seas and mountains he would have to cross.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000016_000000.wav|They wasted o'er a scorching flame The marrow of his bones, But the miller used him worst of all, For he crushed him between two stones.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000002_000006.wav|In one fragmentary legend which was preserved in the tablet library of Ashur banipal, the Assyrian monarch, Etana obtained the assistance of the Eagle to go in quest of the Plant of Birth.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000053_000000.wav|p i r napishtim had perceived the vessel crossing the Sea of Death and marvelled greatly.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000007_000003.wav|"In the Country of Darkness" Alexander fed and tamed great birds which were larger than eagles.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000012_000004.wav|The burning of straw figures, representing gods of fertility, on May Day bonfires may have been a fertility rite, and perhaps explains the use of straw birth girdles.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000078_000008.wav|This fortunate man kept his secret.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000010_000001.wav|In Indian mythology Garuda, the eagle giant, which destroyed serpents like the Babylonian Etana eagle, issued from its egg like a flame of fire; its eyes flashed the lightning and its voice was the thunder.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000039_000004.wav|When Gilgamesh beheld them he swooned with terror.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000040_000003.wav|Gilgamesh, however, resolved to encounter any peril, for he was no longer afraid, and he was allowed to go forward.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000023_000002.wav|Then the temptress pleaded with him to go with her to Erech, where Anu and Ishtar had their temples, and the mighty Gilgamesh lived in his palace.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000086_000012.wav|We despaired of returning with our lives....|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000068_000000.wav|So Gilgamesh and Arad Ea went on their way together, nor paused until they came to a well of pure water.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000036_000001.wav|Ishtar cursed Gilgamesh.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000091_000000.wav|In Babylonia, as elsewhere, the priests utilized the floating material from which all mythologies were framed, and impressed upon it the stamp of their doctrines.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000015_000000.wav|They filled up a darksome pit With water to the brim, They heaved in john Barleycorn- There let him sink or swim.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000033_000001.wav|Gift thy strength unto me.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000066_000000.wav|Thereafter Gilgamesh prepared to return to his own land.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000010_000003.wav|It is also called "the steed necked incarnation of Vishnu", the "Preserver" of the Hindu trinity who rode on its back.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000059_000000.wav|Gilgamesh sat in the ship, and sleep enveloped him like to a black storm cloud.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000003_000000.wav|On this or another occasion Etana desired to ascend to highest heaven. He asked the Eagle to assist him, and the bird assented, saying: "Be glad, my friend.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000062_000000.wav|Then p i r napishtim addressed his wife, saying: "His sufferings make me sad.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000062_000001.wav|Prepare thou for him the magic food, and place it near his head."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000043_000000.wav|This is the philosophy of the Egyptian "Lay of the Harper".|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000058_000001.wav|When the narrative was ended, p i r napishtim spoke sympathetically and said: "Who among the gods will restore thee to health, O Gilgamesh?|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000068_000002.wav|Stricken with terror, Gilgamesh uttered a curse.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000079_000000.wav|The Well of Life is found in Fingalian legends.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000065_000002.wav|The blemished skin fell from him, and he was made whole.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000050_000002.wav|The way is full of peril.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000019_000005.wav|He travelled to distant places, and was informed regarding the flood and the primitive race which the gods destroyed; he also obtained the plant of life, which his enemy, the earth lion, in the form of a serpent or well demon, afterwards carried away.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000010_000004.wav|The hymn referred to lauds Garuda as "the bird of life, the presiding spirit of the animate and inanimate universe ... destroyer of all, creator of all".|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000061_000001.wav|Give him power to pass through the mighty door by which he entered."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000064_000000.wav|Gilgamesh spake unto p i r napishtim and said: "I was suddenly overcome by sleep....|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000082_000000.wav|The quest of the plant, flower, or fruit of life is referred to in many folk tales.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000075_000003.wav|His head is supported by his parents: beside him sits his wife.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000049_000001.wav|He asked her how he could reach p i r napishtim, his ancestor, saying he was prepared to cross the Sea of Death: if he could not cross it he would die of grief.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000032_000000.wav|I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide; And I awoke and found me here On the cold hill's side.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000052_000002.wav|When it was fixed on, the boat was launched and the voyage began.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000085_000001.wav|Other heroes kill treasure protecting dragons of various kinds.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000002_000003.wav|The floating legends with which they were associated were utilized and developed by the priests, when engaged in the process of systematizing and symbolizing religious beliefs, with purpose to unfold the secrets of creation and the Otherworld.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000078_000002.wav|In another part of the narrative Alexander and his army arrive at a place of darkness "where the blackness is not like the darkness of night, but is like unto the mists and clouds which descend at the break of day".|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000004_000000.wav|Here the text becomes fragmentary.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/61323/6458_61323_000033_000000.wav|The goddess Ishtar appeared as "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" before Gilgamesh and addressed him tenderly, saying: "Come, O Gilgamesh, and be my consort.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000043_000001.wav|The mischief was done in a moment!"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000124_000002.wav|"Let me get up," he said.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000004.wav|A love affair too-like yours.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000107_000002.wav|"I want to forget," he cried.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000108_000003.wav|My fee is high."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000103_000000.wav|"Dear," asked Elizabeth, clasping her hand, and too deeply moved to heed observation, "who was that man?|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000037_000000.wav|"Egyptians-very probably.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000073_000004.wav|To hide his fear from himself, he set to work to write sonnets for her when she should come again....|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000041_000000.wav|"No-not notes....|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000078_000001.wav|Elizabeth sat scarcely twenty yards away from him, looking straight at him.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000074_000002.wav|There followed a week of misery.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000087_000001.wav|She drew herself away from him.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000097_000000.wav|"But-" said Denton, and for a moment his miserably haggard face appealed against fate.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000052_000000.wav|"But the problem is to get her hypnotised.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000051_000000.wav|"Precisely."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000102_000000.wav|He made a strange gesture of appeal towards the remote glass roof of the public way, then turned and went plunging recklessly from one moving platform to another, and vanished amidst the swarms of people going to and fro thereon.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000085_000001.wav|Nothing but the fear of a strange man showed in her face.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000116_000000.wav|"Give whom?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000031_000001.wav|Well, you know I have given her-ah-every educational advantage.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000048_000002.wav|But if once she can be hypnotised-even by somebody else-the thing is done."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000091_000000.wav|"But-but ...|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000017_000001.wav|"The world did very well without us for some thousands of years.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000106_000001.wav|Do not trouble your mind about a thing like this."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000085_000000.wav|She turned in unfeigned astonishment.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000112_000002.wav|In that instant he knew.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000092_000005.wav|All I know is that I do not know him." Her face was a face of infinite distress.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000136_000003.wav|Then-"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000094_000001.wav|"Of that I am sure."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000020_000003.wav|No competition worth speaking of-no pressure.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000122_000003.wav|Overcoming the instinctive repugnance of one who had seen no act of violence in all his life before, he knelt down beside his antagonist and felt his heart.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000032_000001.wav|How old is she?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000100_000002.wav|"Oh, I do not know you!"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000124_000000.wav|The hypnotist did not speak.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000006_000000.wav|And, strange to tell, and much as mr Morris would have been angered if any one had foreshadowed it to him, all over the world there were scattered a multitude of people, filled with the breath of life, in whose veins the blood of mr Morris flowed.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000063_000000.wav|She loved the dream, but she feared the leap; and she put him off with "Some day, dearest one, some day," to all his pleading that it might be soon; and at last came a shrilling of whistles, and it was time for him to go back to his duties on the stage.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000026_000001.wav|They used it-for painless dentistry and things like that!|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000111_000000.wav|The young man came and sat beside the hypnotist.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000045_000002.wav|That is what I want to consult you about.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000082_000001.wav|For a space he feared he had lost them, and then he came upon Elizabeth and her chaperone again in one of the streets of moving platforms that intersected the city.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000010_000003.wav|The surface of the table, to judge by touch and eye, would have appeared to a nineteenth century person to be covered with fine white damask, but this was really an oxidised metallic surface, and could be cleaned instantly after a meal.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000121_000001.wav|For a space Denton stood over him irresolute, trembling.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000132_000000.wav|"We might be in the Stone Age," said the hypnotist.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000045_000000.wav|"Well-that's all.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000082_000000.wav|He sat as if incapable of action until the four figures were remote and small, and then he rose up possessed with the one idea of pursuit.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000147_000000.wav|"It's unprofessional."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000002.wav|I don't propose to respect your little fancies.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000067_000004.wav|Think!"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000075_000004.wav|At first he was energetic and headlong, taking time neither to eat nor sleep.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000008_000007.wav|On his head, which had been skilfully deprived of every scrap of hair, he adjusted a pleasant little cap of bright scarlet, held on by suction and inflated with hydrogen, and curiously like the comb of a cock.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000008_000004.wav|His legs he encased in pleasant pink and amber garments of an air tight material, which with the help of an ingenious little pump he distended so as to suggest enormous muscles.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000020_000005.wav|Then, you know, they clapped 'em away in what they called a lunatic asylum."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000095_000000.wav|"But, dear-the songs-the little verses-"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000071_000000.wav|The other two girls, encouraged by her enthusiasm, also placed themselves in the hands of the hypnotist and had plunges into the romantic past.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000059_000000.wav|It was a lengthy interview.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000083_000000.wav|He could not control himself to patience.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000044_000000.wav|"Yes?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000010_000002.wav|Instead were pastes and cakes of agreeable and variegated design, without any suggestion in colour or form of the unfortunate animals from which their substance and juices were derived. They appeared on little dishes sliding out upon a rail from a little box at one side of the table.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000020_000000.wav|The hypnotist shook his head.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000112_000003.wav|He stood up.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000023_000001.wav|Phonographs are good enough for me."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000106_000000.wav|"Never, dear.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000122_000004.wav|Then he peered at the wound.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000005.wav|But I will.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000137_000000.wav|"She will bring her chaperone."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000136_000001.wav|I telephoned.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000112_000004.wav|He seemed to dominate the seated figure by his side.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000003_000002.wav|His boys went to good solid schools, and were put to respectable professions; his girls, in spite of a fantastic protest or so, were all married to suitable, steady, oldish young men with good prospects.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000073_000000.wav|One day, when Denton went down to that quiet seat beneath the flying stage, Elizabeth was not in her wonted place.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000008_000001.wav|It is doubtful which would have been the more shocked and pained to find himself in the clothing of the other.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000143_000000.wav|"Well?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000096_000003.wav|You must not go on talking to us after that.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000073_000003.wav|He was afraid.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000149_000000.wav|"The chaperone will see you directly she comes-"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000001.wav|If I cannot have that girl I would rather die than not.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000017_000002.wav|Two hundred years ago even-not one!|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000081_000000.wav|For a moment Denton stood white and wild eyed; then came a terrible faintness, and he sat before one of the little tables.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000001_000002.wav|He was one of those people who do everything that is right and proper and sensible with inevitable regularity.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000139_000000.wav|"But what-?|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000064_000010.wav|Nowadays we have almost abolished wonder, we lead lives so trim and orderly that courage, endurance, faith, all the noble virtues seem fading from mankind."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000072_000000.wav|And so the mischief was done.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000089_000000.wav|"Do you know him, dear?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000107_000000.wav|And soon after this the celebrated hypnotist who dressed in green and yellow had another client.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000022_000002.wav|I like a good swaggering story before all things.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000002.wav|I've done much harder things. Quite recently.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000146_000000.wav|"And, pretending to do that, you will restore her memory of me."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000037_000002.wav|And she has got it into her head that she must marry for Love, and that poor little Bindon-"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000120_000003.wav|They fell together....|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000096_000000.wav|"She does not know you," said the chaperone.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000022_000000.wav|"I must confess I do," said the hypnotist.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000104_000000.wav|The chaperone raised her eyebrows.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000144_000000.wav|"You will tell that chaperone you are going to order the girl to marry that knobby little brute with the red hair and ferrety eyes.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000093_000001.wav|"You see?" she said, with the faint shadow of a smile.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000075_000005.wav|He sought for weeks and months, he went through every imaginable phase of fatigue and despair, over excitement and anger.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000038_000000.wav|"I've met similar cases," said the hypnotist.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000112_000000.wav|He stopped.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000005.wav|A girl.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000098_000000.wav|"You must not persist, young man," protested the chaperone.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000009_000005.wav|He nodded to an acquaintance-it was not in those days etiquette to talk before breakfast-and seated himself on one of these chairs, and in a few seconds he had been carried to the doors of a lift, by which he descended to the great and splendid hall in which his breakfast would be automatically served.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000096_000002.wav|You have made a mistake.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000111_000001.wav|His manner was a forced calm.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000003.wav|I hardly expected to do it: the thing was done against the will of the hypnotised person.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000102_000001.wav|The chaperone's eyes followed him, and then she looked at the curious faces about her.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000012_000000.wav|"I feared you would never come," he said.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000107_000001.wav|The young man paced his consulting room, pale and disordered.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000074_000003.wav|And then he knew she was the only thing on earth worth having, and that he must seek her, however hopeless the search, until she was found once more.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000064_000004.wav|"These pithy sentences," he said, "are admirable.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000140_000001.wav|It is an astonishing thing how few weapons there are nowadays.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000132_000001.wav|"Violence! Struggle!"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000038_000001.wav|"Who is the other young man?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000049_000000.wav|"You can-?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000101_000001.wav|Then he stood up and groaned aloud.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000041_000001.wav|Ah-poems."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000032_000000.wav|"Yes," said the hypnotist, "go on.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000066_000000.wav|At first Elizabeth did not join in the conversation, but after a time the subject became so interesting that she made a few shy interpolations.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000009_000003.wav|When his toilet was completed he went towards one of the two doors of his apartment-there were doors at opposite ends, each marked with a huge arrow pointing one one way and one the other-touched a stud to open it, and emerged on a wide passage, the centre of which bore chairs and was moving at a steady pace to the left.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000144_000001.wav|I believe that's how things stand?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000111_000002.wav|He looked into the hypnotist's eyes.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000151_000000.wav|The hypnotist thought.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000043_000000.wav|"Tripped coming down from the flying machine from Paris-and fell into his arms.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000113_000001.wav|"Give her me back!"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000022_000004.wav|I suppose you don't read books?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000030_000000.wav|The hypnotist turned an attentive eye upon him, and continued eating.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000122_000001.wav|He turned towards the door.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000138_000000.wav|"That is all right."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000001.wav|You wish it.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000145_000000.wav|"Yes-that's how things stand."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000096_000001.wav|"You must not....|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000050_000000.wav|"Oh, certainly!|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000021_000002.wav|I don't know if you attend to that rubbish."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000015_000000.wav|The hypnotist helped himself to some attractive amber coloured jelly.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000003.wav|If anything goes wrong you shall not live five minutes.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000115_000000.wav|"Give her me back."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000108_000000.wav|The hypnotist watched him with quiet eyes, studied his face and clothes and bearing.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000024_000000.wav|"Of course," said the hypnotist, "of course"; and surveyed the table for his next choice.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000064_000005.wav|They show at a glance those headlong, tumultuous times, when men and animals jostled in the filthy streets, and death might wait for one at every corner.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000057_000000.wav|"There's a sum-in fact, a considerable sum-invested in the Patent Road Company.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000020_000002.wav|Life was so easy going then.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000108_000002.wav|However, you know your own concern.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000003_000004.wav|His tomb was of marble, and, without any art nonsense or laudatory inscription, quietly imposing-such being the fashion of his time.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000120_000000.wav|In a moment the two men were locked in a clumsy wrestle.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000013_000002.wav|"I have been awake for forty hours."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000047_000000.wav|"Oh, precisely!|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000091_000002.wav|It is I-Denton.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000070_000000.wav|The chaperone was the first to be hypnotised, and the dream, she said, was wonderful, when she came to again.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000057_000001.wav|From her mother.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000040_000000.wav|"Notes?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000008_000006.wav|Over this he flung a scarlet cloak with its edge fantastically curved.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000131_000000.wav|There was another pause.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000078_000000.wav|He stood still, robbed of all power of motion, his eyes wide, his lips apart.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000101_000000.wav|For an instant Denton sat stunned.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000130_000000.wav|"You can go on sponging," said the hypnotist sulkily.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000122_000005.wav|He rose quietly and looked about him.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000091_000006.wav|The little seat in the open air?|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000022_000003.wav|Curious times they were, with their smutty railways and puffing old iron trains, their rum little houses and their horse vehicles.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000011_000002.wav|As this person, walking amidst the tables with measured steps, drew near, the pallid earnestness of his face and the unusual intensity of his eyes became apparent.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000017_000004.wav|Physicians by the thousand, of course-frightfully clumsy brutes for the most part, and following one another like sheep-but doctors of the mind, except a few empirical flounderers there were none."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000010_000000.wav|It was a very different meal from a Victorian breakfast.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000039_000006.wav|And instead of communicating by telephone, like sensible people, they write and deliver-what is it?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000140_000003.wav|I hit at last upon this lamp.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000112_000006.wav|For a time he could not find words.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000122_000006.wav|He began to see more of the situation.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000112_000005.wav|He gripped the shoulder of green and gold.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000128_000000.wav|There was an interval of thought.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000024_000001.wav|"You know," he said, helping himself to a dark blue confection that promised well, "in those days our business was scarcely thought of.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000064_000006.wav|Life was life then!|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000084_000001.wav|"Elizabeth?" he said.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000045_000001.wav|Things must be stopped.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000055_000001.wav|And, by the bye, is there any money in the affair?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000125_000000.wav|"Not yet," said Denton.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000039_000002.wav|"He is"--and his voice sank with shame-"a mere attendant upon the stage on which the flying machines from Paris alight.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000090_000001.wav|"No, I do not know him.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000000.wav|"Look here!|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000140_000005.wav|"With that I can quite easily smash your skull.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000005_000000.wav|It seemed quite impossible and quite uninteresting to imagine anything happening after he was dead.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000140_000000.wav|"I looked about for a weapon also.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000067_000001.wav|"It is practically an artificial dream.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000096_000004.wav|You must not annoy us on the public ways."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000126_000000.wav|"You have assaulted me, you scoundrel!"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000009_000001.wav|He lived in a vast hotel near that part of London called Seventh Way, and had very large and comfortable apartments on the seventeenth floor.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000077_000001.wav|He was hungry; he had paid the inclusive fee and had gone into one of the gigantic dining places of the city; he was pushing his way among the tables and scrutinising by mere force of habit every group he passed.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000139_000001.wav|I don't see.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000014_000001.wav|You hypnotists have your work to do."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000064_000002.wav|Among other things, he fell to praising a new historical romance that one of the great popular story tellers of the day had just put forth.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000083_000003.wav|His white face was convulsed with half hysterical excitement.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000123_000000.wav|When presently the hypnotist recovered his senses, his head ached severely, his back was against Denton's knees and Denton was sponging his face.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000083_000001.wav|He felt he must speak to her forthwith, or die.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000073_000002.wav|The next day she did not come, and the next also.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000000.wav|"That's easy enough with you.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000006.wav|It is unusual, I know, nowadays to do things like this-mainly because there is so little in life that is worth being violent about."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000052_000001.wav|Of course no sort of proposal or suggestion must come from you-because no doubt she already distrusts you in the matter."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000024_000002.wav|I daresay if any one had told them that in two hundred years' time a class of men would be entirely occupied in impressing things upon the memory, effacing unpleasant ideas, controlling and overcoming instinctive but undesirable impulses, and so forth, by means of hypnotism, they would have refused to believe the thing possible.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000035_000001.wav|Excessively.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000045_000006.wav|But you-?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000133_000000.wav|"In the Stone Age no man dared to come between man and woman," said Denton.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000122_000002.wav|"No," he said aloud, and came back to the middle of the room.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000042_000000.wav|The hypnotist raised his eyebrows.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000100_000001.wav|"I do not know you," she cried, hand to brow.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000092_000000.wav|"No," cried Elizabeth,--"no|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000013_000001.wav|"A prominent politician-ahem!--suffering from overwork." He glanced at the breakfast and seated himself.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000003_000003.wav|And when it was a fit and proper thing for him to do so, mr Morris died.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000148_000004.wav|This is a rude makeshift of a weapon, and it may quite conceivably be painful to kill you.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000008_000008.wav|So his toilet was complete; and, conscious of being soberly and becomingly attired, he was ready to face his fellow beings with a tranquil eye.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000046_000000.wav|"Hypnotism is not magic," said the man in green, putting both arms on the table.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000127_000000.wav|"We are alone," said Denton, "and the door is secure."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000118_000001.wav|Denton's grip tightened.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000081_000001.wav|He sat down with his back to her, and for a time he did not dare to look at her again. When at last he did, she and Bindon and two other people were standing up to go.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000004_000005.wav|He had grave doubts, indeed, if there was any future for mankind after he was dead.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000111_000005.wav|There was a girl.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000140_000004.wav|I have wrenched off the wires and things, and I hold it so." He extended it over the hypnotist's shoulders.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000073_000001.wav|He was disappointed, and a little angry.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000075_000003.wav|Even in Victorian days London was a maze, that little London with its poor four millions of people; but the London he explored, the London of the twenty second century, was a London of thirty million souls.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000092_000003.wav|There is something....|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000001_000000.wav|The excellent mr Morris was an Englishman, and he lived in the days of Queen Victoria the Good.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000091_000001.wav|Not know me!|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000111_000007.wav|Well ..."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000104_000001.wav|She spoke in a clear, audible voice. "Some half witted creature.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000017_000003.wav|In practice, that is.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000064_000001.wav|The chaperone had a visitor that day, a man in green and yellow, with a white face and vivid eyes, who talked amazingly.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000151_000001.wav|"You are a determined young man," he said, "and only half civilised.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000114_000000.wav|"What do you mean?" gasped the hypnotist.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000035_000003.wav|Filled her mind with unutterable nonsense about soldiers who fight-what is it?--Etruscans?"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000079_000000.wav|She looked at him for a moment, and then her gaze passed beyond him.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000118_000000.wav|The hypnotist tried to free himself; he rose to his feet.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000110_000006.wav|So rest assured."|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000084_000000.wav|He laid his hand on her wrist.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000037_000001.wav|Hack about with swords and revolvers and things-bloodshed galore-horrible!--and about young men on torpedo catchers who blow up-Spaniards, I fancy-and all sorts of irregular adventurers.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000048_000000.wav|"People cannot be hypnotised without their consent.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000109_000000.wav|"If only I can forget-"|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6458/232057/6458_232057_000063_000004.wav|But the sunlight of the flying stage was in her heart, and the wisdom of all the best lecturers in the world seemed folly in that light.|6458
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000028_000002.wav|On the contrary, I show you not only the censored evil dream wishes, but also the censor which suppresses them and renders them unrecognizable.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000012.wav|We don't get along and I haven't exchanged a word with her in years." We might perhaps ignore this sort of thing if the dreamers did not confirm or deny the tendencies ascribed to them; we could say that they are matters which the dreamers do not know about themselves.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000027_000002.wav|Do you really believe that a handful of conscienceless egoists and corruptionists could have succeeded in setting free all these evil spirits, if the millions of followers did not share in the guilt?|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000012_000002.wav|In these times you need not seek far.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000028_000001.wav|It is not our intention to deny the noble strivings of human nature, nor have we ever done anything to deprecate their value.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000004.wav|She turns with her proposal to a staff doctor who, after a few words, soon understands her.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000004.wav|The dreamer to be sure denies their validity, as we have seen in so many cases, even after he has learned of their existence by means of the interpretation.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000009.wav|The staff doctor puts his arm around her waist and says, 'Madame, let us assume that it really came to that ...' (murmurs).|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000002.wav|Let us take our time, the matter is not yet ripe for judgment.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000006_000003.wav|Let us describe the dream work and trace it back to the forces which work upon it.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000001.wav|You will not, I am sure, forget that the dream is charged with the harmless, indeed the useful function of guarding sleep from disturbance.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000003.wav|The first two objections raised against our work hold merely that the results of dream interpretation are not simple, and very unpleasant.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000007.wav|Either the dream is no psychic phenomenon after all, or there is no such thing as unconscious mental activity in the normal condition, or our technique has a gap in it somewhere.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000027_000000.wav|And now turn your attention from the individual case to the great war devastating Europe.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000005_000001.wav|Our next task is the investigation and the understanding of this dream distortion.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000012.wav|If you reject the unpleasant, you are repeating the mechanism of dream construction instead of understanding and mastering it.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000017_000000.wav|After these remarks concerning the effects of the dream censor, let us now turn to their dynamics.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000029_000003.wav|For the present, let us repeat: dream distortion is a consequence of the censorship practised by accredited tendencies of the ego against those wish impulses that are in any way shocking, impulses which stir in us nightly during sleep.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000013.wav|But that the dreamers should feel the exact opposite of the ascribed wish, and should be able to prove to us the dominance of the opposite tendency-this fact must finally disconcert us.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000001.wav|The pleasure striving-the libido, as we term it-chooses its objects without inhibitions, and indeed, prefers those that are forbidden.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000005.wav|A stronger argument is the fact that the dreamers to whom we ascribe such wish tendencies from the interpretation of their dreams reject the interpretations most emphatically, and with good reason. "What," says the one, "you want to prove to me by this dream that I begrudged the sums which I spent for my sister's trousseau and my brother's education?|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000016_000001.wav|The dream censorship itself is the author, or one of the authors, of the dream distortion whose investigation now occupies us.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000007.wav|The lady then continues, 'I know that our decision sounds strange, but we are in bitter earnest.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000003.wav|But instead of reaching the chief physician, she finds herself in a large somber room in which there are many officers and army doctors sitting and standing around a long table.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000015_000003.wav|In the latter, going to the theatre and getting the tickets were shoved into the foreground.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000002.wav|It is not at all difficult to "find a hitch" in it.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000006_000000.wav|Dream distortion is the thing which makes the dream seem strange and incomprehensible to us.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000007.wav|Why I work only for my sister, I have no interest in life but to fulfill my duties toward her, as being the oldest child, I promised our blessed mother I would." Or a woman says of her dream, "You mean to say that I wish my husband were dead!|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000002.wav|This evil content, then, does not lie in the nature of the dream.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000004_000002.wav|As to the others we know nothing as yet, nor do we understand them.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000005.wav|The situation is then repeated which we first encountered in the interpretation of the tongue slip "hiccough" where the toastmaster was outraged and assured us that neither then nor ever before had he been conscious of disrespectful impulse toward his chief.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000005.wav|But what is to be done when the results are what I have just pictured them to be?|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000000.wav|The ego which has been freed of all ethical restraints feels itself in accord with all the demands of the sexual striving, with those demands which have long since been condemned by our aesthetic rearing, demands of such a character that they resist all our moral demands for restraint.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000007_000001.wav|It was recorded by a lady of our profession, and according to her, originated with a highly cultivated and respected lady of advanced age.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000014_000001.wav|We say that the omitted dream speeches, which were disguised by a murmuring, were also sacrifices to a censorship.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000008.wav|On the one hand, the worse the censorable wish, the greater the distortion; on the other hand, however, the stricter the censor himself is at any particular time the greater the distortion will be also.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000015_000005.wav|This displacement of emphasis is a favorite device of the dream distortion and gives the dream that strangeness which makes the dreamer himself unwilling to recognize it as his own production.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000019_000001.wav|This question, which is fundamental to the understanding of the dream, indeed perhaps to human life, is easily answered if we look over a series of those dreams which have been analyzed.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000002.wav|We then began to feel that some sort of a resistance blocked our efforts to proceed from the dream element to the unconscious element for which the former is the substitute.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000014_000000.wav|Now let us keep to this parallel.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000013_000000.wav|In other places the censorship did not touch the completed sentence.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000008.wav|"That doesn't prevent them from existing," as I used to hear my teacher Charcot say in similar cases, when I was a young doctor.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000006_000002.wav|We can say at this point that dream distortion is the product of the dream work, that is, of the mental functioning of which the dream itself is the conscious symptom.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000001.wav|It is a simpler as well as a more satisfying conclusion, but not necessarily more correct for that reason.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000014_000003.wav|Wherever there are gaps in the manifest dream, it is the fault of the dream censor.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000017_000003.wav|This phrase does not prevent us from asking by what tendencies such influence is exerted and upon which tendencies it works; nor will we be surprised to discover that we have already encountered the dream censor before, perhaps without recognizing him.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000004.wav|If we had come to plausible results on the basis of these hypotheses, we would have been justified in concluding that the hypotheses were correct.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000006.wav|But indeed that can't be so.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000006_000001.wav|We want to know several things about it; firstly, whence it comes, its dynamics; secondly, what it does; and finally, how it does it.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000005.wav|But when the resistance is strong, then we must go through a long chain of associations, are taken far afield and must overcome all the difficulties which present themselves as critical objections to the association technique.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000004.wav|Desires which we believe to be far from human nature show themselves strong enough to arouse dreams.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000005.wav|To do so you must make up your mind to accept the fact of complicated relationships.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000019_000004.wav|Without having interpreted it, she considers her dream abominable, would have been still more outraged if our informant had told her anything about the indubitable meaning; and it is just on account of this condemnation that the shocking spots in her dream were replaced by a murmur.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000009.wav|It isn't only that we have the happiest possible married life, you probably won't believe me when I tell you so, but his death would deprive me of everything else that I own in the world." Or another will tell us, "You mean that I have sensual desires toward my sister?|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000006.wav|These censored wishes seem to arise from a veritable hell; no censorship seems too harsh to be applied against their waking interpretation.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000003.wav|But we can go beyond this and say that they are more than merely "at that time" unconscious.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000019_000003.wav|You may rest assured that when you reject an accurate interpretation of a dream of your own, you do so with the same motives with which the dream censor works, the motives with which it produces the dream distortion and makes the interpretation necessary. Recall the dream of our fifty year old lady.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000000.wav|For such was actually the case.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000020_000001.wav|One can say only that these tendencies are of an objectionable nature throughout, that they are shocking from an ethical, aesthetic and social point of view, that they are things one does not dare even to think, or thinks of only with abhorrence.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000003.wav|You know also that there are dreams which can be recognized as the satisfaction of justified wishes and urgent bodily needs.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000006.wav|Then it surely is natural to say, "These results are impossible, foolish, at least very improbable, hence there must have been something wrong with the hypotheses.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000004_000000.wav|We have learned to know the origin, nature and function of the dream from the study of children's dreams.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000010_000000.wav|This dream she repeats twice in the course of a few weeks, with-as the lady notices-quite insignificant and very senseless changes.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000011_000005.wav|For example, the phrase "services of love," and above all the bits of speech which immediately precede the murmurs, demand a completion which can have but one meaning. If we interpolate these, then the phantasy yields as its content the idea that the dreamer is ready, as an act of patriotic duty, to offer her person for the satisfaction of the erotic desires of the army, officers as well as troops.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000014_000004.wav|Indeed, we should go further, and recognize each time as a manifestation of the dream censor, those places at which a dream element is especially faint, indefinitely and doubtfully recalled among other, more clearly delineated portions.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000004_000003.wav|For the present, however, we have obtained a result whose significance we do not wish to under estimate.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000027_000003.wav|Do you dare under these circumstances to break a lance for the absence of evil from the psychic constitution of mankind?|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000007.wav|And will you also keep in mind the fact that the amount of dream distortion is proportional to two factors.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000008.wav|The soldier in the field is not asked either whether or not he wants to die.' A moment of painful silence follows.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000001.wav|The dream wishes which try to disturb our sleep are not known to us, in fact we learn of them first through the dream interpretation.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000015_000000.wav|For a third type of dream censorship I know of no parallel in the practice of newspaper censorship, yet it is just this type that I can demonstrate by the only dream example which we have so far analyzed.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000007_000000.wav|And now I shall ask you to listen to the following dream.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000007.wav|We are now prepared to conclude that there are processes and tendencies in the psychic life of which one knows nothing at all, has known nothing for some time, might, in fact, perhaps never have known anything.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000004.wav|In the latter case we need cross only a few intermediate steps in our work of interpretation.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000026_000002.wav|I will not discuss the question of how you may estimate yourselves, but have you found so much good will among your superiors and rivals, so much chivalry among your enemies, so little envy in their company, that you feel yourselves in duty bound to enter a protest against the part played by the evil of egoism in human nature?|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000011.wav|This prospect is too unpleasant." On the contrary, you will be silent until another physicist proves some error in the assumptions or calculations of the first.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000029_000004.wav|Why these wish impulses come just at night, and whence they come-these are questions which will bear considerable investigation.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000007.wav|The resistance to interpretation is nothing but the objectivation of the dream censor.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000004.wav|These, to be sure, undergo no dream distortion.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000026_000003.wav|Are you ignorant of how uncontrolled and undependable the average human being is in all the affairs of sex life?|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000012_000006.wav|You think that it is a pity, that it probably was the most interesting part, it was "the best part."|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000003.wav|Above all we can strengthen the criticism against our dream interpretation still further.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000012_000000.wav|I hope you will recognize the inevitability of the conclusion that it is the shocking character of these places in the dream that was the motive for their suppression.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000006.wav|That the idea is, however, correctly understood by those present she sees from the semi embarrassed, somewhat malicious expressions of the officers.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000009.wav|A young, strictly reared and prudish girl will, by reason of those factors, disfigure with an inexorable censorship those dream impulses which we physicians, for example, and which the dreamer herself ten years later, would recognize as permissible, harmless, libidinous desires.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000011_000001.wav|It has few gaps, and many of its individual points might have been elucidated as to content through inquiry, which, as you know, was omitted.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000009_000000.wav|"With the feeling that she is merely doing her duty, she goes up an endless staircase."|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000020_000003.wav|And indeed, the personal ego occurs in every dream to play the major part in each of them, even if it can successfully disguise itself in the manifest content.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000000.wav|Both, I answer.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000029_000002.wav|Perhaps we can approach their understanding later by another path.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000005.wav|They need none.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000008.wav|Is that not a simpler and more satisfying conclusion than the abominations which we pretend to have disclosed on the basis of our suppositions?"|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000002_000000.wav|THE DREAM|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000000.wav|But do not reproach the dream itself for this evil content.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000000.wav|It would be a mistake, however, to omit to mention, with fitting emphasis, another result of these investigations.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000019_000002.wav|The tendencies which the censorship exercises are those which are recognized by the waking judgment of the dreamer, those with which he feels himself in harmony.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000013_000001.wav|The author foresaw what parts might be expected to meet with the objection of the censor, and for that reason he softened them by way of prevention, modified them slightly, or contented himself with innuendo and allusion to what really wanted to flow from his pen.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000022_000006.wav|They can satisfy their function without offending the ethical and aesthetic tendencies of the ego.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000004_000004.wav|Every time a dream is completely comprehensible to us, it proves to be an hallucinated wish fulfillment.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000014.wav|Is it not time to lay aside the whole work of the dream interpretation as something whose results reduce it to absurdity?|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000028_000004.wav|When, however, we give up this one sided ethical estimate, we shall surely be able to find a more accurate formula for the relationship of the evil to the good in human nature.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000017_000001.wav|I hope you will not consider the expression too anthropomorphically, and picture the dream censor as a severe little manikin who lives in a little brain chamber and there performs his duties; nor should you attempt to localize him too much, to think of a brain center from which his censoring influence emanates, and which would cease with the injury or extirpation of this center.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000007_000002.wav|No analysis of this dream was made.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000001.wav|She stresses the word 'service,' so love services.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000003.wav|This resistance, we said, may be of varying strength, enormous at one time, quite negligible at another.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000001.wav|Assuming that there are unconscious tendencies in the psychic life, nothing is proved by the ability of the subject to show that their opposites dominate his conscious life.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000017_000002.wav|For the present, the term "dream censor" is no more than a very convenient phrase for a dynamic relationship.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000003.wav|Even the dream of our fifty year old lady is an incestuous one, its libido unmistakably directed toward her son.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000025_000004.wav|In answer to the first of these, one may say that for all your enthusiasm for the simple solution, you cannot thereby solve a single dream problem.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000026_000001.wav|But does your own experience justify you in saying that?|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000010.wav|That is ridiculous.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000011_000006.wav|That certainly is exceedingly shocking, it is an impudent libidinous phantasy, but-it does not occur in the dream at all.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000002.wav|It chooses not only the wife of another, but, above all, those incestuous objects declared sacred by the agreement of mankind-the mother and sister in the man's case, the father and brother in the woman's.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000012_000004.wav|You know that that is the work of the newspaper censor.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000020_000000.wav|The tendencies, however, against which the dream censor directs itself, must now be described from the standpoint of this instance.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000006.wav|This is repeated with every interpretation of a markedly distorted dream, and for that reason attains a significance for our conception.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000008.wav|Why, that is simply revolting, nonsense.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000021_000005.wav|Hate, too, expends itself without restraint. Revenge and murderous wishes toward those standing closest to the dreamer are not unusual, toward those best beloved in daily life, toward parents, brothers and sisters, toward one's spouse and one's own children.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000011_000002.wav|The conspicuous and interesting point for us, however, is that the dream shows several gaps, gaps not of recollection, but of original content. In three places the content is apparently obliterated, the speeches in which these gaps occur are interrupted by murmurs.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000001.wav|You will remember that we had a surprising experience when we began to apply our technique of free association.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000008_000005.wav|The words of her speech in the dream are, 'I and numerous other women and girls of Vienna are ready for the soldiers, troops, and officers, without distinction....' Here in the dream follows a murmuring.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000029_000001.wav|We need not give up the conclusions to which our labors in dream interpretation lead us even though we must consider those conclusions strange.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000012_000003.wav|Take up any political paper and you will find that the text is obliterated here and there, and that in its place shimmers the white of the paper.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000018_000008.wav|The latter proves to us that the force of the censor has not spent itself in causing the dream distortion, has not since been extinguished, but that this censorship continues as a permanent institution with the purpose of preserving the distortion.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000012_000001.wav|Yet where do you find a parallel for this state of affairs?|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000030_000002.wav|Therefore, they may be described as "at that time" unconscious in the sense above defined.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000027_000001.wav|Think of the amount of brutality, the cruelty and the lies allowed to spread over the civilized world.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000026_000004.wav|Or do you not know that all the immoralities and excesses of which we dream nightly are crimes committed daily by waking persons?|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000024_000004.wav|That its conclusions are so unpleasant and unpalatable is perhaps of secondary importance.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000011_000000.wav|This dream corresponds in its structure to a day dream.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000013_000002.wav|Thus the sheet, it is true, has no blank spaces, but from certain circumlocutions and obscurities of expression you will be able to guess that thoughts of the censorship were the restraining motive.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000004_000005.wav|This coincidence cannot be accidental, nor is it an unimportant matter.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8776/270778/8776_270778_000023_000003.wav|Our dream interpretations were made on the hypotheses we accepted a little while ago, that the dream has some meaning, that from the hypnotic to the normal sleep one may carry over the idea of the existence at such times of an unconscious psychic activity, and that all associations are predetermined.|8776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000009_000000.wav|"No," said Polly, "but I wish they were, mean old things; when I was going down to play a duet with Jasper!|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000028_000000.wav|"I haven't finished," said Polly, snipping away vigorously, and longing to get back to mamsie.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000025_000000.wav|"I didn't tease," said Percy indignantly, coming up to the sofa, boat in hand, to enforce his words.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000008_000001.wav|"Every one, Polly?"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000035_000000.wav|"Pre cisely," said Polly, with a pin in her mouth.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000003_000000.wav|Everything had gone wrong with Polly that day.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000006_000001.wav|"You haven't worn it out already, Polly?"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000021_000000.wav|"Where's Polly?" said Percy at last, coming with great dissatisfaction in his voice to the library door.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000012_000000.wav|When she got back with a very red face, she found Phronsie, who had crawled out of bed, sitting down on the floor in her little nightgown and examining the boot with profound interest.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000004_000000.wav|Of all things in the world that tried Polly's patience most were the troublesome little black buttons that originally adorned those useful parts of her clothing, and that were fondly supposed to be there when needed.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000010_000000.wav|"No," said mrs Pepper firmly, "there isn't any time but now.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000032_000000.wav|"Is it?" asked Percy, looking with more respect at the piece of cloth Polly was waving alluringly before him.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000018_000001.wav|There now, here they are.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000054_000000.wav|And so the sails were cut out, and the hems turned down and basted, and tucked away into Polly's little work basket ready for the sewing on the morrow.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000006_000000.wav|"What's the matter with it?" said mrs Pepper straightening the things on the bureau.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000040_000000.wav|"And I've been waiting," said Van, in a loud wrathful key, "and waiting-and waiting!"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000053_000000.wav|"Of course I did, Vanny," said Polly, smiling down into his eager face, "and we'll have a splendid pair in just-one-minute!" she sang.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000019_000002.wav|Which done, she flew at the rest of her preparations and tried to make up for lost time.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000035_000001.wav|"Just as like as two peas, Percy Whitney."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000028_000001.wav|"Wait till they're done; then they'll be good-as good as can be!"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000045_000001.wav|"I cut-all the keel-and the bow-and-"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000046_000001.wav|"Come, I'll tell you what I'll do, boys."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000046_000000.wav|"Oh dear!" said Polly, in extreme dismay, looking at Jasper.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000020_000000.wav|But 'twas all of no use.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000043_000000.wav|But this only proved fresh fuel for the fire of Van's indignation.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000052_000002.wav|"You did say so, Polly!|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000010_000001.wav|And piano playing isn't very nice when you've got to stick your toes under it to keep your shoes on."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000047_000001.wav|"What will you, Polly?"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000031_000000.wav|"Oh, that corner's coming off," cried Polly cheerfully, giving it a sharp cut that sent it flying on the floor.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000005_000000.wav|"Oh dear!" said Polly, sitting down on the floor, and pulling on her stockings.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000020_000001.wav|The day seemed to be always just racing ahead of her, and turning a corner, before she could catch up to it, and Ben and the other boys only caught dissolving views of her as she flitted through halls or over stairs.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000015_000000.wav|"Tisn't very cold," said Phronsie, tucking up her toes under the night gown, but Polly hurried her into bed, where she curled herself up under the clothes, watching her make a big knot.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000004_000003.wav|For one thing mrs Pepper was very strict about-and that was, Polly should do nothing else till the buttons were all on again, and the boots buttoned up firm and snug.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000030_000000.wav|"They're too big," said Percy, surveying them critically, and then looking at his boat.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000003_000001.wav|It began with her boots.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000007_000003.wav|I don't care! I wish they'd all go; they might as well!" she cried, tossing that boot on the floor in intense scorn, while she investigated the state of the other one.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000029_000000.wav|"And it's bad enough to have to make them," put in Jasper, flinging aside his book and rolling over to watch them, "without having to be found fault with every second, Percy."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000047_000000.wav|"What?" said Van, cooling off a little, and allowing Percy to edge into a corner with the beloved boat and one sail.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000032_000001.wav|"Just exactly like it, Polly?"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000026_000002.wav|Now, says I, for the sails." And she began to flap out a long white piece of cotton cloth on the table to trim into just the desired shape.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000037_000000.wav|"Oh now, that's too bad!" he cried, seeing Polly fold up the remaining bits of cloth, and pick up the scraps on the floor.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000004_000001.wav|But they never were.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000019_000000.wav|"Oh, mamsie!" cried Polly, ignoring for a moment the delights of the finished shoe to fling her arms around her mother's neck and give her a good hug.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000034_000000.wav|"And were theirs just like this?" asked Percy, laying his hand on the sail she had finished cutting out.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000031_000002.wav|There," as she held one up for inspection, "that's just the way I used to make Ben's and mine, when we sailed boats."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000039_000000.wav|"I forgot-" began Percy, "and she cut 'em so quick-and-"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000027_000000.wav|"That isn't the way," said Percy, crowding up, the brightness that had flashed over his face at Polly's appearance beginning to fade.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000017_000003.wav|I wish there wasn't such a thing as shoes in the world!" And she gave a flounce and sat up straight in front of her mother.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/3586/4967_3586_000042_000000.wav|"They're done and done beautifully, aren't they?" he said, holding up one.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000004_000004.wav|"This must be a letter. One time when the king, the great ruler of our country, held his court in the meadow close by, many people brought him letters and laid them at his feet.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000027_000002.wav|I always knew that hens were stupid little creatures but you are quite the stupidest little hen I ever saw in all my life."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000030_000003.wav|One pulled off the cover of the little brown basket.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000033_000002.wav|They couldn't get across without canoes.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000026_000004.wav|It had tiny holes in it where the fire had sat after he had turned himself into hot ashes.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000004_000005.wav|Now I, too, even I, the little white hen, have a letter. I am going to carry my letter to the king."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000002_000000.wav|How the Speckled Hen Got|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000004_000000.wav|Once upon a time, ages and ages ago, there was a little white hen.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000035_000002.wav|The chickens of the little white hen (who was now a little speckled hen) were all speckled too.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000004_000001.wav|One day she was busily engaged in scratching the soil to find worms and insects for her breakfast.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000031_000000.wav|Out sprang the fox from the little brown basket and in the twinkling of an eye he fell upon the fowls of the royal poultry yard.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000005_000003.wav|The little white hen had never been so far from home in all her life.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000026_000002.wav|There were marks of dirt upon it where the friendly fox's feet had rested.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000006_000002.wav|Once upon a time she had helped the fox to escape from a trap and the fox had never forgotten her kindness to him.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000015_000000.wav|The little white hen told the river that he might go with her and asked him to ride in the little brown basket.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000011_000001.wav|After the little white hen had gone on for some distance farther she met a river.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000028_000001.wav|I think we will have her for dinner to morrow."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000011_000005.wav|Always after that the river had been her friend.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000011_000004.wav|The little white hen had eaten them for him.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000001_000000.wav|seven|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000011_000002.wav|Once upon a time the little white hen had done the river a kindness.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000011_000003.wav|He had, with great difficulty, thrown some ugly worms upon the bank and he was afraid they would crawl back in again.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000016_000002.wav|The grass had given the fire new life and always after that he had been the friend of the little white hen.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000021_000000.wav|The little white hen journeyed on and on, and finally she arrived at the royal palace.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000011_000000.wav|The fox climbed into the little brown basket.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000009_000000.wav|"Indeed, little white hen," said the fox, "I should like to go with you.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26553/4967_26553_000015_000001.wav|So the river climbed into the little brown basket.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000057_000000.wav|"Go on, old fellow."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000071_000000.wav|"As for supposing that girls are to have what they wish, that is nonsense."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000049_000002.wav|Of all the griefs which weighed upon the Duke's mind, that in reference to his sister was the heaviest.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000029_000000.wav|"Certainly I do;--but I could not help his coming.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000078_000000.wav|"I have to examine myself, and find out whether I am guilty of the meanness which I might perhaps be too ready to impute to another. I have done so, and I am quite sure that I am not drawn to your sister by any desire for her money.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000017_000002.wav|mr Tregear is a gentleman.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000027_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000015_000000.wav|"Certainly; and that I-kissed him.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000016_000000.wav|"He will be very angry."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000072_000002.wav|Perhaps it might be my duty to retire from this affair, if by doing so I should sacrifice only myself.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000076_000000.wav|Silverbridge as he said this looked forward steadfastly on to the water, regretting much that cause for quarrel should have arisen, but thinking that Tregear would find himself obliged to quarrel. But Tregear, after a few moments' silence, having thought it out, determined that he would not quarrel.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000014_000000.wav|"That you met Tregear?"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000042_000003.wav|"Are you going to church?" asked the Duke.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000010_000000.wav|"But, Mary,--do ladies generally embrace their lovers in public?"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000065_000000.wav|"It can never lead to any good.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000033_000000.wav|"I only meant that of course they will stumble across each other in London."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000023_000002.wav|He understood also that the meeting had taken place in the presence of Silverbridge and of Lady Mabel.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000002.wav|He did not specially regret that, though he wished that he had been more reticent.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000034_000001.wav|He was silent for awhile, and then repeated his words.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000021_000002.wav|As this objectionable lover had either contrived a meeting, or had met her without contriving, it was necessary that the Duke should be informed.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000006_000002.wav|I think that you should have controlled yourself."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000075_000000.wav|"In that way you support each other.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000036_000000.wav|"Yes;--to live there.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000022_000003.wav|She knew that the Duke would be struck with horror as he read of such a tale, and she found herself almost struck with horror as she attempted to write it.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000018_000000.wav|On that night Mary told the whole of her story to Lady Cantrip.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000049_000003.wav|The money which Gerald owed at Cambridge would be nothing if that other sorrow could be conquered.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000004_000000.wav|Not a word was said in the cab as Lord Silverbridge took his sister to Carlton Terrace, and he was leaving her without any reference to the scene which had taken place, when an idea struck him that this would be cruel.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000028_000000.wav|"Do you not know what my wishes are?"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000010.wav|But then, if he were married, he might be sure that Tifto would be laid aside.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000020_000003.wav|Now I want you to tell papa all about it."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000011_000000.wav|"No;--nor should i I never did such a thing in my life before.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000047_000003.wav|And he had made these bets under the influence of Major Tifto.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000060_000000.wav|"With all my heart," said Tregear.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000058_000000.wav|"Or perhaps Major Tifto has made important revelations."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000034_000002.wav|"I think I will go abroad."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000066_000001.wav|When I see people unhappy I always pity them. What I would ask you to think of is this.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000072_000000.wav|"For young men I suppose equally so.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000070_000004.wav|I have no right to ask your father for a penny, and I will never do so.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000034_000000.wav|"I think I will go abroad," said the Duke.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000049_000000.wav|Then his mind ran away to a review of his father's affairs.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000054_000003.wav|Do you often come?"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000011_000002.wav|Do you think I should have done it if you all had not been there?" Then again she burst into tears.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000047_000006.wav|He had determined to sever himself from Tifto, and, in doing that, had intended to sever himself from affairs of the turf generally.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000066_000000.wav|"I dare say I should.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000068_000000.wav|"And so will your father."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000029_000001.wav|You do not suppose that anybody had planned it?"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000017_000003.wav|Why did he let him come?|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000041_000000.wav|"Not exactly, sir."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000018_000001.wav|There was nothing that she tried to conceal.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000070_000007.wav|We did meet, as you saw, the other day, by the merest chance.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000036_000001.wav|Why should I stay here?|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000043_000000.wav|"I was not thinking of doing so particularly."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000015_000001.wav|I will do nothing that I am ashamed to tell everybody."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000008.wav|No doubt there were objections to marriage.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000012_000000.wav|He did not quite know what to make of it.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000064_000000.wav|"Must be given up?"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000022_000005.wav|"I fear there was a good deal of warmth shown on both sides," she said, feeling that she was calumniating the man, as to whose warmth she had heard nothing.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000077_000000.wav|"Well then!"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000049_000004.wav|Nor had Tifto and his own extravagance caused the Duke any incurable wounds. If Tregear could be got out of the way, his father, he thought, might be reconciled to other things.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000054_000000.wav|"What on earth makes you sit there?|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000036_000002.wav|What good can I do here?|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000062_000000.wav|"That was kind."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000003.wav|"What a fool a man is to blurt out everything!" he said to himself.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000059_000000.wav|"D---- Major Tifto."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000008_000000.wav|"I think so."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000009_000000.wav|"No;--if you mean by controlling myself, holding my tongue.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000026_000000.wav|"And that friend of yours came in?"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000035_000000.wav|"Not for long, I hope, sir."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000022_000001.wav|It cannot in any circumstance be easy to write to a father as to his daughter's love for an objectionable lover; but the Duke's character added much to the severity of the task.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000017_000006.wav|The thing is settled.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000030_000000.wav|"I hope not."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000025_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000063_000000.wav|"And I was determined to go to you.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000022_000006.wav|"It is quite clear," she added, "that this is not a passing fancy on her part."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000056_000000.wav|"Questions to be asked in Parliament?|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000078_000001.wav|I did not seek her because she was a rich man's daughter, nor,--because she is a rich man's daughter,--will I give her up.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000050_000000.wav|He had wandered into saint James's Park, and had lighted by this time half a dozen cigarettes one after another, as he sat on one of the benches.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000063_000001.wav|All this about my sister must be given up."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000012_000003.wav|"I was thinking of the governor," he said.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000070_000008.wav|After that, do you think that your sister wishes me to give her up?"|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000039_000000.wav|"So much as that!|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000001.wav|He had so committed himself that the offer must now be made.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000005_000000.wav|"It was not my doing."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000047_000004.wav|It was the remembrance of this, after the promise made to his father, that annoyed him the most. He was imbued with a feeling that it behoved him as a man to "pull himself together," as he would have said himself, and to live in accordance with certain rules.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000031_000001.wav|Such an accident as must occur over and over again,--unless Mary is to be locked up."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000009_000001.wav|He is the man I love,--whom I have promised to marry."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000047_000001.wav|And there were various matters also which harassed him.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000013_000000.wav|"He shall be told everything."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000012.wav|It meant complete independence in money matters.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000023_000003.wav|"No doubt it was all an accident," Lady Cantrip wrote.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000042_000002.wav|As for your sister, I think she will break my heart." Silverbridge found it to be quite impossible to say anything in answer to this.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000069_000000.wav|"He has a right to have his own opinion on such a matter."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000048_000004.wav|A wife would be a good thing for him; and where could he possibly find a better wife than Mabel Grex?|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000050_000003.wav|He now sat with his legs stretched out, with his cane in his hands, looking down upon the water.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000024_000000.wav|"You had Mary up in town on Friday," he said to his son on the following Sunday morning.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000020_000000.wav|"No;--no!|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000046_000000.wav|"I had thought of going, but my mind is too much harassed.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000031_000000.wav|"It was simply an accident.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000055_000001.wav|I strolled in because I had things to think of."|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000023_000004.wav|How could it be an accident?|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000047_000005.wav|He could make the rules easily enough, but he had never yet succeeded in keeping any one of them.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000006_000000.wav|"I suppose it was nobody's doing.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000050_000006.wav|But the bench was hard and, upon the whole, he was not satisfied with his position.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/28868/4967_28868_000065_000001.wav|I mean that there never can be a marriage." Then he paused, but Tregear was determined to hear him out.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000002_000001.wav|Now Daniel and his kinsmen had resolved to use a severe diet, and to abstain from those kinds of food which came from the king's table, and entirely to forbear to eat of all living creatures.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000003_000006.wav|Accordingly, God, out of pity to those that were in danger, and out of regard to the wisdom of Daniel, made known to him the dream and its interpretation, that so the king might understand by him its signification also.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000000_000001.wav|Concerning Daniel And What Befell Him At Babylon.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000001_000003.wav|Now among these there were four of the family of Zedekiah, of most excellent dispositions, one of whom was called Daniel, another was called Ananias, another Misael, and the fourth Azarias; and the king of Babylon changed their names, and commanded that they should make use of other names.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000003_000008.wav|So when he had with them returned thanks to God, who had commiserated their youth, when it was day he came to Arioch, and desired him to bring him to the king, because he would discover to him that dream which he had seen the night before.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000001_000004.wav|Daniel he called Baltasar; Ananias, Shadrach; Misael, Meshach; and Azarias, Abednego. These the king had in esteem, and continued to love, because of the very excellent temper they were of, and because of their application to learning, and the profess they had made in wisdom.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000005_000003.wav|When therefore all the rest, upon the hearing of the sound of the trumpet, worshipped the image, they relate that Daniel's kinsmen did not do it, because they would not transgress the laws of their country.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4967/26520/4967_26520_000005_000006.wav|This it was which recommended them to the king as righteous men, and men beloved of God, on which account they continued in great esteem with him.|4967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000034_000002.wav|Light therefore is not a sensible quality.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000016_000004.wav|In its primary meaning it signifies that which makes manifest to the sense of sight; afterwards it was extended to that which makes manifest to cognition of any kind.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000027_000000.wav|Since, therefore, these things are repugnant, not only to reason, but to common sense, we must conclude that light cannot be a body.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000004.wav|Secondly, because light produces natural effects, for by the rays of the sun bodies are warmed, and natural changes cannot be brought about by mere intentions.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000034_000001.wav|But this is not the case with light since darkness is merely a privation of light.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000052_000000.wav|But mention is made of several kinds of formlessness, in regard to the corporeal creature.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000013_000002.wav|But such names are used in their proper sense in spiritual things.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000023_000002.wav|Therefore light is not a body.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000044_000002.wav|But qualities are accidents, and as such should have, not the first, but a subordinate place.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000038_000001.wav|A proof of this is that the rays of different stars produce different effects according to the diverse natures of bodies.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000002.wav|First, because light gives a name to the air, since by it the air becomes actually luminous.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000035_000002.wav|Light, then, is not a sensible quality, but rather a substantial or spiritual form.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000026_000002.wav|But unless we are to say that darkness is a body, this does not appear to be the case.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000053_000001.wav|And there is yet a fourth, already touched upon in the objections; that day cannot be unless light exists, which was made therefore on the first day.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000016_000006.wav|But if taken in its common and extended use, as applied to manifestation of every kind, it may properly be applied to spiritual things.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000011_000000.wav|Whether the Word "Light" Is Used in Its Proper Sense in Speaking of Spiritual Things?|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000023_000001.wav|But this is the case with light and air.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000008_000000.wav|(three) Whether light is a quality?|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000025_000004.wav|Yet as soon as the sun is at the horizon, the whole hemisphere is illuminated from end to end.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000020_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that light is a body.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000049_000003.wav|For a spiritual nature receives its form by the enlightenment whereby it is led to adhere to the Word of God.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000057_000002.wav|Thus, then, in the production of this light a triple distinction was made between light and darkness. First, as to the cause, forasmuch as in the substance of the sun we have the cause of light, and in the opaque nature of the earth the cause of darkness.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000004_000000.wav|We must consider next the work of distinction in itself.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000044_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the production of light is not fittingly assigned to the first day.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000026_000004.wav|Also it would be absurd to say that a body of so great a bulk is corrupted by the mere absence of the luminary.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000024_000001.wav|For the place of any one body is different from that of any other, nor is it possible, naturally speaking, for any two bodies of whatever nature, to exist simultaneously in the same place; since contiguity requires distinction of place.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000058_000006.wav|We hold, then, that the movement of the heavens is twofold.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000025_000001.wav|For if light were a body, its diffusion would be the local movement of a body.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000055_000002.wav|We cannot, then, say that what was made at that time afterwards ceased to exist.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000032_000000.wav|Whether Light Is a Quality?|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000025_000000.wav|The second reason is from movement.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000003_000000.wav|ON THE WORK OF DISTINCTION IN ITSELF (In Four Articles)|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000022_000003.wav|Therefore light is a body.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000052_000003.wav|The second reason is because light is a common quality.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000007_000000.wav|(two) Whether light, in corporeal things, is itself corporeal?|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000012_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that "light" is used in its proper sense in spiritual things.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000049_000002.wav|The forming, therefore, of this spiritual nature is signified by the production of light, that is to say, of spiritual light.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000039_000003.wav|But light is not produced by the transmutation of matter, as though matter were in receipt of a substantial form, and light were a certain inception of substantial form.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000044_000003.wav|The production of light, then, ought not to be assigned to the first day.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000026_000000.wav|The third reason is from generation and corruption.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000026_000003.wav|Neither does it appear from what matter a body can be daily generated large enough to fill the intervening hemisphere.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000046_000001.wav|But movement of this kind is an attribute of the firmament, and we read that the firmament was made on the second day.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000039_000004.wav|For this reason light disappears on the disappearance of its active cause.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000007.wav|In the second place, because it is impossible that what is the substantial form of one thing should be the accidental form of another; since substantial forms of their very nature constitute species: wherefore the substantial form always and everywhere accompanies the species.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000058_000010.wav|Thus it is, that in the account of the first day the distinction between day and night alone is mentioned; this distinction being brought about by the common movement of the heavens.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000058_000007.wav|Of these movements, one is common to the entire heaven, and is the cause of day and night.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000025_000006.wav|Hence it appears that the diffusion of light is not the local movement of a body.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000058_000009.wav|The other varies in proportion as it affects various bodies, and by its variations is the cause of the succession of days, months, and years.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000056_000003.wav|This, too, is impossible to those at least who believe that the sun is different in its nature from the four elements, and naturally incorruptible.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000005_000000.wav|Under the first head there are four points of inquiry:|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000005.wav|Others have said that light is the sun's substantial form, but this also seems impossible for two reasons.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000030_000002.wav|fifty five, we use terms belonging to local movement in speaking of alteration and movement of all kinds.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000026_000001.wav|For if light were a body, it would follow that whenever the air is darkened by the absence of the luminary, the body of light would be corrupted, and its matter would receive a new form.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000058_000008.wav|This, as it seems, had its beginning on the first day.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000009.wav|Hence it cannot be the substantial form of the sun|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000003.wav|But color does not do this, for we do not speak of the air as colored.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000048_000002.wav|Therefore light must have been made on the first day.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000043_000000.wav|Whether the Production of Light Is Fittingly Assigned to the First Day?|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000025_000002.wav|Now no local movement of a body can be instantaneous, as everything that moves from one place to another must pass through the intervening space before reaching the end: whereas the diffusion of light is instantaneous.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000016_000003.wav|And thus it is with the word light.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000013_000003.wav|Therefore light is used in its proper sense in spiritual matters.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000056_000004.wav|For in that case its matter cannot take on another form.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000052_000004.wav|For light is common to terrestrial and celestial bodies.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000025_000005.wav|It must also be borne in mind on the part of movement that whereas all bodies have their natural determinate movement, that of light is indifferent as regards direction, working equally in a circle as in a straight line.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000056_000002.wav|On this account it is held by some that the sun's body was made out of this nebula.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000047_000002.wav|Therefore the production of light ought not to be assigned to the first day.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000035_000001.wav|But the light of the heavenly bodies is a cause of substantial forms of earthly bodies, and also gives to colors their immaterial being, by making them actually visible.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000014_000001.wav|Therefore also does light.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000050_000000.wav|Other writers think that the production of spiritual creatures was purposely omitted by Moses, and give various reasons.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000004_000001.wav|First, the work of the first day; secondly, the work of the second day; thirdly the work of the third day.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000039_000001.wav|For when matter receives its form perfectly, the qualities consequent upon the form are firm and enduring; as when, for instance, water is converted into fire.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000002_000000.wav|QUESTION sixty seven|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000055_000001.wav|But this cannot well be maintained, as in the beginning of genesis Holy Scripture records the institution of that order of nature which henceforth is to endure.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000058_000003.wav|Nor does the nature of a luminous body seem to admit of the withdrawal of light, so long as the body is actually present; though this might be effected by a miracle.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000019_000000.wav|Whether Light Is a Body?|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000052_000008.wav|It was fitting, then, as an evidence of the Divine wisdom, that among the works of distinction the production of light should take first place, since light is a form of the primary body, and because it is more common quality.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000048_000001.wav|But there can be no day without light.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000045_000001.wav|Therefore the production of light could not have been on the first day.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000037_000001.wav|But this cannot be the case for two reasons.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000033_000002.wav|Therefore light is not a quality.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000033_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that light is not a quality.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6727/10344/6727_10344_000039_000002.wav|When, however, substantial form is received imperfectly, so as to be, as it were, in process of being received, rather than fully impressed, the consequent quality lasts for a time but is not permanent; as may be seen when water which has been heated returns in time to its natural state.|6727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000046_000000.wav|'See you here, Wulf the son of Ovida, and warriors all!|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000077_000000.wav|'The warriors are free men, my darling, and know what is proper.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000046_000003.wav|Don't look angry, Wulf.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000068_000003.wav|That's right, my Smid, don't use the knife!|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000007_000003.wav|The barbarians shouted with delight.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000091_000002.wav|He is craven!|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000044_000002.wav|I shall do as I threatened, and run away with Prince Wulf, if you are not good.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000043_000000.wav|'Who looks cross at you, my queen?' roared the Amal. 'Let me have him out here, and by Thor's hammer, I'll-'|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000042_000000.wav|'Don't look so cross at me, Prince Wulf; I'm sure it's not my fault; I could only say what the monk told me,' whispered poor Pelagia.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000091_000000.wav|'He shakes his head!|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000039_000000.wav|'Why should he not know as well as the prefect?|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000046_000009.wav|Let's go back; send over for any of the tribes; send to Spain for those Vandals-they have had enough of Adolf by now, curse him!--I'll warrant them; get together an army, and take Constantinople.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000088_000000.wav|And he lifted up the prostrate monk.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000085_000002.wav|Smid, give him to me.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000083_000000.wav|The Goths drew back.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000076_000002.wav|I cannot bear it!'|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER three: THE GOTHS|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000092_000004.wav|However, we may as well make him useful at once; so give him an oar.'|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000028_000004.wav|In Paradise-in Indian Aethiopia-in Aethiopian India.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000030_000000.wav|'As good as Thor's when he caught Snake Midgard with the bullock's head,' said Wulf.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000022_000000.wav|'Asgard?|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000005_000008.wav|True; but, he wished to convert the world.... was not that spiritual?|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000091_000003.wav|Let us have him!'|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000091_000001.wav|He does not like it!|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000077_000001.wav|And what can the life of such a brute be to you?'|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000056_000000.wav|'Can you answer that, Wulf?' shouted a dozen voices.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000046_000010.wav|I'll be Augustus, and Pelagia, Augusta; you and Smid here, the two Caesars; and we'll make the monk the chief of the eunuchs, eh?--anything you like for a quiet life; but up this accursed kennel of hot water I go no farther.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000035_000000.wav|'Curse the monk!' growled Wulf.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000086_000000.wav|'Give him us, Prince Wulf!|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000057_000001.wav|Did not Alaric the king love it well?|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000073_000000.wav|He spoke the heart of the crew; the sleeping wolf in them had been awakened by the struggle, and blood they would have; and not frantically, like Celts or Egyptians, but with the cool humorous cruelty of the Teuton, they rose altogether, and turning Philammon over on his back, deliberated by what death he should die.|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000028_000005.wav|Where were they?|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000085_000000.wav|'Go back, pretty woman!|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000005_000006.wav|'Was his call of the spirit or of the flesh?' How should he test that problem?|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000033_000000.wav|'Fresh beef cheap there, Prince Wulf, eh?' quoth Smid; 'I must look over the arrow heads.'|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000028_000002.wav|Where was the Caucasus?|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000046_000012.wav|Women are all prophetesses, every one of them.'|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000050_000003.wav|And did we not keep our oath?|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4044/9010/4044_9010_000068_000000.wav|'Not for worlds!|4044
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000019_000001.wav|I know that the shadows dance strangely, and hover and come near at hand, in those late hours of the night; but what then occurs I do not know.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000007_000002.wav|And as I gazed more intently the map took on color, and narrowed its semblance to that of a certain region.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000004.wav|The oak took pay in the vast shadows the fire made for it.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000023_000004.wav|Perhaps the grayer friend heard it, as he sat musing by the fire.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000002.wav|Ever, the oak knew, the gray figure would first bow and ask the blessing of God.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000008.wav|Each year, for many years, the same hand had laid the little fire, in the same place, and so given back to the oak its Past.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000014_000001.wav|Even, it seemed to me, I could note a faint, clear odor of innocent potency.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000018_000002.wav|All men know that, though you see the fire burned down, when you go into the tent you will some time in the night see the walls lit up by a sudden flash or so, now and then, from the fire which was thought to be dead.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000022_000002.wav|Man dies in three score years and ten; but he, too, is born again.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000023_000005.wav|He rose and looked about him, as one who had dreamed and was content.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000027_000002.wav|The squirrels have grown still, and even the oak is silent.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000017_000001.wav|In shadow, I could hear them talk.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000006_000003.wav|Behold it now!" It waved a tiny hand.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000020_000003.wav|God is good!"|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000005_000002.wav|Peace!' When the breeze is sharp it sighs and says: 'Pity!|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000017_000000.wav|I ask not what nor who were these two who had come each year to this place of the oaks, but surely they were friends.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000010_000000.wav|One oak, a mighty one, now resolved itself more prominently forth.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000027_000006.wav|It is the shadow of a shadow, the apparition of a soul!|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000004_000002.wav|"Do you know what the oak says?" it repeated.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000006.wav|So the fire, and the grass, and the oak, and the shadows of the Past were friends, and each year they met here.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000010_000001.wav|Did I not know it well?|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000022_000001.wav|The oak dies in centuries, but it is born again.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000028_000005.wav|Doubt not those words are heard this day.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000020_000002.wav|God is wise. Waken, waken!|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000028_000000.wav|The one at the table pauses, as was the wont before the beginning of a meal.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000001.wav|Those who built this fire here, so many times, so many years, each time first craved pardon of the green grass of that happy glade, for they would not harm the grass.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000027_000001.wav|Hush!|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000018_000001.wav|After they had gone, the fire did strange things.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000023_000006.wav|He looked up at the solemn stars unafraid, and so murmured to himself.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000014_000002.wav|I saw the table laid, not with gleam of snow and silver, but with plain vessels which, nevertheless, seemed now to have a radiance of their own. I knew all this.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000006_000001.wav|"Do you see the little lake?|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000001.wav|Every mealtime, every year, for many years, it had been thus.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000005_000001.wav|"When the wind is soft, the oak says: 'Peace!|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000013_000003.wav|One was gray and bowed somewhat, stooped as the oaks are, silvered as the oaks are in the winter days.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000000.wav|Now as I looked, the gray figure bowed its head, there, under the arm of the oak, and asked on the humble board the blessing of the God who made the oak, and gave the fire and spread the pleasant waters on the land.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000010_000002.wav|Could one forget the tortured but noble soul of this oak?|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000013_000002.wav|I saw them both.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000023_000002.wav|Grayer, grayer, more bent, more feeble-is it not so, Singing Mouse?|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000029_000001.wav|The glorious day sets on once more.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000025_000002.wav|The table is still spread for two.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000025_000004.wav|Yet why?|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000023_000003.wav|And now, this time, what was this gentle warning that the oak tried to whisper softly down?|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000007.wav|I will not scoff.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000025_000007.wav|The younger man is there, although now he has grown gray and stooped.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000004.wav|Let those jest who will.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000010_000005.wav|The oak had suffered somewhere.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000027_000003.wav|What is that opposite, across the table, at the seat long years held only by the elder of these two?|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000009.wav|Now, the Past is a very sad but tender thing.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000009.wav|We do not know all things.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000007.wav|It had been thus for many years.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000025_000001.wav|Here again is the little table, and here is the evening meal.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000028_000001.wav|He looks across the table to the shadow, as if the shadow were his friend.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000007_000000.wav|I gazed at the naked, cheerless wall, seamed and rent with cracks along its sallow width.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000020_000000.wav|In the night I have heard the oak sob.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000021_000000.wav|As pure shining beads upon a thread of gold I saw this small, dear picture, reiterant and unchanged, year after year, always with the same calm and pure surroundings.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000013_000001.wav|There were two forms at this small table.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000003_000000.wav|AT THE PLACE OF THE OAKS|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000006_000002.wav|Do you know this place of the oaks?|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000021_000001.wav|Only as year added itself to year, slipping forward on the golden string, I saw the gray figure grow more gray, more bowed, more feeble.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000021_000003.wav|Yet the years came, to the oaks and to the grasses and to the friends.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000003.wav|And each year the oak dropped down food enough for the little fire.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000022_000000.wav|The grass dies every year, but it is born again.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000010_000004.wav|One must suffer before one may comfort.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000025_000006.wav|At this table there is but one form now.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000013_000005.wav|Once the younger looked to the older for counsel, but now it seemed to me the bowed figure turned to the one that had become more strong.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000029_000002.wav|Doubt not, fear not, sorrow not, ye two.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000003.wav|And each time at the close the oak with rustling leaves pronounced distinct Amen!|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000018_000000.wav|These friends sat by the little fire a time before they went to rest in the tiny house of white.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000004_000004.wav|Do you hear the talking of the leaves?...|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000007_000003.wav|And as I gazed yet more eagerly the map faded quite away, and there lay in its stead the smiling face of an enchanted land.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000019_000000.wav|That is the business of the fire, and of the oaks and of the shadows.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000008_000005.wav|And there were the oaks. At the water's edge, near the lesser spring, the wild apple trees twisted, but upon the hills and over the great glades stood the reserved, mysterious oaks, tall and strong.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000019_000003.wav|They knew it was the secret of the night, and gave the oak its own request, in pay for its protection and consent.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000012_000005.wav|That was the way the oak saw the spirits of the Past, and when it saw them it sighed; but still it welcomed the shadows of the Past.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000017_000002.wav|In shadow, I could see them smile.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000019_000004.wav|They gave the oak its union with the sacred Past.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000013_000000.wav|Near by the little fire I saw a small table formed of straight laid boughs, and at either side of this were seats made cunningly in the workshop of the woods.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/31091/5029_31091_000015_000006.wav|I think perhaps the oak knows or it would not thus for years have whispered reverently its distinct Amen!|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/80197/5029_80197_000008_000000.wav|"I cannot exist without a cat!" she wept.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000057_000002.wav|Miriam seemed like a new creature then, and rapidly recovered her spirits.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000027_000000.wav|"'No, I did not say that.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000016_000000.wav|"Well, first tell me what you think of this.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000023_000004.wav|As for what Dick called her 'little queernesses'--well, we got used to them in time.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000043_000000.wav|"'But, Miriam, do you really think it is possible for ghosts-'|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000017_000004.wav|I'm sure you must think so too in your rational moments."|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000049_000001.wav|Then, as she looked at me strangely, I added hastily, 'You haven't been receiving any more unearthly messages, have you?|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000032_000000.wav|"'Don't look like that, Miriam!' I said, with a little shiver.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000017_000002.wav|But I've no belief in such theories.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000056_000001.wav|She grieved and fretted continually.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000066_000002.wav|I looked up, and he was standing between me and you.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000020_000001.wav|Her arrival was unexpected, and I was absent from home when she came.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000006.wav|And I don't think that everybody can see spirits either, provided they are to be seen.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000012_000001.wav|You would remain as sceptical as ever."|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000062_000000.wav|"Then she fell to the floor in a dead faint.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000006_000001.wav|It is a very commonplace story indeed.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000050_000005.wav|Sidney will write me that.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000057_000001.wav|The crisis was over and the doctor in attendance thought Sidney would recover.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000021_000003.wav|Her hair was gathered away from her face, and she had a high, pure, white forehead, and the straightest, finest, blackest brows.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000055_000001.wav|I tried to cheer her, but did not succeed.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000011_000003.wav|Something must have come under your observation to develop such theories in your practical head.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000058_000001.wav|One night we went to the opera to hear a celebrated prima donna.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000023_000002.wav|Everybody liked her.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000018_000002.wav|But there was simply something about the girl herself that gave a person strange impressions.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000047_000001.wav|After Dick went out, I asked her if anything were wrong.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000051_000000.wav|"'Aerial communication isn't perfected yet then?' I said mischievously.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000021_000002.wav|She was tall and extremely graceful, dark-at least her hair was dark, but her skin was wonderfully fair and clear.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000009_000000.wav|"Surely, Mary," I exclaimed, "you don't mean to say that you believe people ever do or can see spirits-ghosts, as the word goes?"|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000054_000001.wav|What shall I do?'|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000022_000000.wav|"I soon realized that Miriam was in some mysterious fashion different from other people.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000005_000000.wav|mrs Sefton nodded abstractedly above her fancywork.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000054_000000.wav|"'Sidney is ill-dangerously ill.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000065_000000.wav|"The doctor talked of some fearful shock, but I kept my own counsel. At dawn Miriam came back to life at last.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000050_000001.wav|'Belief or disbelief has nothing to do with it.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000011_000000.wav|"Well, yes, I think you are.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000018_000000.wav|"I dare say it is all nonsense," said mrs Sefton slowly, "but if you had lived a whole year in the same house with Miriam Gordon, you would have been tainted too.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000041_000001.wav|Miriam said nothing at the time, but when we were alone I asked her what she thought of it.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000004.wav|At least, people who you know wouldn't lie say so.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000026_000001.wav|'Do you mean to tell me you never hear from him at all?'|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000038_000000.wav|"'Sidney,' said Miriam simply.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000064_000001.wav|She seemed as one dead.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000046_000000.wav|"'I will tell you what I know.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000045_000000.wav|"'Well, spirits then-to return after death, or to appear to anyone apart from the flesh?'|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000019_000001.wav|Her father had died when she was a child. When Miriam was twenty her mother had married a second time and went to Europe with her husband.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000014_000003.wav|And when somebody else is intimately associated with that person and knows all the circumstances-well, he admits the possibility, at least.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000005.wav|Of course, they may be mistaken.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000003.wav|But you know queer things do happen at times-things you can't account for.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000053_000000.wav|"Miriam had been with us about eight months when one day she came into my room hurriedly.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000019_000002.wav|Miriam came to live with us while they were away.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000021_000004.wav|Her face was oval, with very large and dark eyes.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000001.wav|I never saw anything of the sort.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000027_000001.wav|I hear from him every day-every hour.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000016_000001.wav|Suppose two people, both sensitively organized individuals, loved each other with a love stronger than life.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000007.wav|It requires people of a certain organization-with a spiritual eye, as it were.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000004_000000.wav|"What utter nonsense!" I said.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000023_000001.wav|On the contrary, it was the very reverse.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000055_000002.wav|Two hours later she had a telegram from her lover's college chum, saying that mr Claxton was dangerously ill with typhoid fever.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000060_000001.wav|She rose to her feet and held out her hands.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000059_000000.wav|"Suddenly she sat straight up with a sort of convulsive shudder, and at the same time-you may laugh if you like-the most horrible feeling came over me.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000025_000000.wav|"'Sidney and I never write to each other.'|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000050_000000.wav|"'I know,' she answered quickly.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000069_000000.wav|"What do you think of it?" she queried as we rose.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000037_000002.wav|It makes people think there is something queer about you.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000014_000006.wav|Besides, in this particular instance the story isn't very exciting.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000048_000000.wav|"'Something has happened to Sidney,' she replied, 'some painful accident-I don't know what.'|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000034_000000.wav|"'How do you know but that I was?'|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000024_000003.wav|Then I made some teasing remark about her love letters-just for a joke, you know. Miriam looked at me with an odd little smile and said quickly:|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000017_000000.wav|"You're getting into too deep waters for me, Mary," I said, shaking my head.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000018_000004.wav|That feeling wore off after a while, but she never seemed like other people to me.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000067_000001.wav|Almost while we were talking a telegram came.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000049_000000.wav|"'How do you know?' I cried.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000066_000000.wav|"'Sidney is dead,' she said quietly.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000036_000000.wav|"'I wish you hadn't spoken to me just then,' she said.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000002_000000.wav|Miriam's Lover|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000022_000002.wav|Yet it was a feeling hard to define.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000064_000003.wav|She would come out of her faint for a moment, give us an unknowing stare and go shudderingly off again.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000017_000001.wav|"I'm not an authority on telepathy, or whatever you call it.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000013_000001.wav|Try me; I may be convinced."|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000042_000000.wav|"'I thought you were all merely talking against time,' she retorted evasively.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000031_000001.wav|I looked up and saw that Miriam's work had dropped on her knee and she was leaning forward, her lips apart, her eyes gazing upward with an unearthly expression.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000015_000000.wav|"You have excited my curiosity.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000015_000001.wav|You must tell me the story."|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000029_000000.wav|"But Miriam only gave another queer smile and made no answer at all. Whatever her beliefs or theories were, she would never discuss them.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000014_000000.wav|"No," returned mrs Sefton calmly.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000050_000002.wav|Yes, I have had a message.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000030_000002.wav|She would sit there, perhaps in the centre of a gay crowd, and gaze right out into space, not hearing or seeing a single thing that went on around her.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000021_000001.wav|I had known that before, though I think I hardly expected to see such wonderful loveliness.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000027_000003.wav|There are better means of communication between two souls that are in perfect accord with each other.'|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000006_000000.wav|"That is.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000051_000002.wav|You may be mistaken.'|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000024_000001.wav|I knew she loved him very deeply.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000024_000002.wav|When she showed me his photograph, I liked his appearance and said so.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000009.wav|I dare say you think I'm talking nonsense."|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000035_000000.wav|"She bent her head for a minute or two.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000036_000002.wav|I shall not get it at all now.'|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000019_000003.wav|Upon their return she was herself to be married.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000020_000003.wav|Talk about spirits!|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000060_000000.wav|"Miriam was gazing straight before her.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000058_000000.wav|"For a week reports continued favourable.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000030_000001.wav|No matter where she was, this, whatever it was, would come over her.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000010_000000.wav|"I didn't say I believed it.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000050_000003.wav|I know that some accident has happened to Sidney-painful and inconvenient but not particularly dangerous.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000014_000002.wav|When a person has once seen a spirit-or thinks he has-he thenceforth believes it.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000008_000000.wav|"We have no proof that they do not, my dear."|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000052_000000.wav|"Well, two days afterwards she got a note from her lover-the first I had ever known her to receive-in which he said he had been thrown from his horse and had broken his left arm.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000053_000001.wav|She was very pale.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000018_000003.wav|When I first met her I had the most uncanny feeling that she was all spirit-soul-what you will! no flesh, anyhow.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000018_000001.wav|Not that she had 'theories'--at least, she never aired them if she had.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000056_000000.wav|"I was quite alarmed about Miriam in the days that followed.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000056_000003.wav|Anyhow, she had to content herself with the means of communication used by ordinary mortals.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000061_000000.wav|"'Sidney!' she said.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000022_000001.wav|I think everyone who met her felt the same way.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000055_000000.wav|"I knew she must have had another of those abominable messages-or thought she had-and really, remembering the incident of the broken arm, I couldn't feel as sceptical as I pretended to.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000065_000001.wav|When she and I were left alone, she turned to me.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000067_000002.wav|He was dead-he had died at the very hour at which Miriam had seen him."|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000063_000000.wav|"I screamed for Dick, rang the bell and rushed to her.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000013_000000.wav|"Possibly not.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000020_000004.wav|For five seconds I thought I had seen one.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000057_000000.wav|"Sidney's mother, who had gone to nurse him, wrote every day, and at last good news came.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000014_000005.wav|But by the time it gets to the third person-the outsider-it loses power.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5029/30593/5029_30593_000003_000000.wav|I had been reading a ghost story to mrs Sefton, and I laid it down at the end with a little shrug of contempt.|5029
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000022_000002.wav|We will take you to the office of the Preceptress."|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000034_000006.wav|I don't want either."|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000008_000002.wav|Yet the suggestion attracted Helen, too.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000041_000000.wav|"We won't keep the older girls out of it, if they want to join," laughed Sarah.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000047_000001.wav|And the suggestion of a separate club for the Infants seemed to be well received.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000020_000001.wav|"We will lead the march."|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000038_000001.wav|I, for one, want to get into the real school society----"|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000014_000000.wav|Mary Cox pulled open the door and the first newcomer popped out as though she had been clinging to the handle when The Fox made the movement.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000035_000001.wav|"I think it would be nicer for us Infants, as they call us, to keep together.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000037_000000.wav|"Hear! hear!" cried Miss Fish.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000047_000000.wav|Most of the girls laughed at that.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000034_000004.wav|"Two of them came into our room at once-the girl they call The Fox, and Miss Steele.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000040_000001.wav|It would look silly," cried Helen.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000034_000000.wav|"Yes!" agreed Sarah Fish, one of the Infants just arrived.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/273050/8545_273050_000013_000000.wav|"Here we be!" he croaked.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000013.wav|She soon ordered me to come in to her.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000015.wav|I crossed my hands and she tied me to the bedstead.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000034.wav|Without means they lived as poor people commonly live, on small farms in the woods.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000009.wav|One day she beat me as bad as he did.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000018_000003.wav|He could tell all about how he was kidnapped, but could not find anybody to do anything for him, so he had to content himself.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000011.wav|I must go back by good rights to the beginning and tell all: Scott bought me first from a young man he met one day in the road, with a bundle in his arms.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000010.wav|She was a woman who would get very mad in a minute.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000002.wav|If such were her calculations she was greatly mistaken.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000010.wav|It was prior to her coming into the possession of Moore that Aunt Hannah had been made to drink the bitter waters of oppression.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000005.wav|The store keeper quickly made known her condition at the Anti slavery Office, and in double quick time j m|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000011.wav|One day she began scolding and said the kitchen wasn't kept clean.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000012.wav|Scott, wishing to know of the young man what he had in his bundle, was told that he had a baby.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000003.wav|After that he beat the cherry tree limb all to pieces over me.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000007.wav|I crept out of doors and throwed up blood; some days I was hardly able to creep. With this beating I was laid up several weeks.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000007.wav|Bethel Church, of Philadelphia, where she has walked, blameless and exemplary up to this day.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000022.wav|The cats about the place came and slept with me, and was all the company I had.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000018_000000.wav|"They wouldn't give you anything to eat hardly.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000001.wav|The half of what she passed through in the way of suffering has scarcely been hinted at in this sketch.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000013.wav|'What are you going to do with it?' said Scott.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000015_000000.wav|"AUNT HANNAH MOORE."|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000011.wav|The name of the recipient of the good Quaker friend's bounty and Aunt Hannah's companion, was Thomas Todd.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000003.wav|For although Aunt Hannah was destitute of book learning she was nevertheless a woman of thought and natural ability, and while she wisely kept her counsel from her mistress she took care to make her wants known to an abolitionist.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000007.wav|In the eyes of the mistress this procedure was so extraordinary that she became very much excited and for a moment threatened them with the "broomstick," but her raving had no effect on Messrs.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000006.wav|I was not born in Missouri but was born in Virginia.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000015.wav|Scott offered the young man a horse for it, and the young man took him up.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000021.wav|The little girl was not able to do it; mr McCaully then untied me himself.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000032.wav|After a few years they all became dissatisfied, and moved to Missouri.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000004.wav|My health remained bad for about four years, and I never got my health until Moore bought me. Moore took me for a debt.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000031.wav|I done my best to keep my mistress from suffering.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000002.wav|He was afraid I was going to die, or he would lose me, and I would not be of any service to him, so he took and traded me off for a wagon.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000030.wav|It was understood between my mistress, and her children, and her friends, who all met after master died, that I was to take care of mistress, and after mistress died I should not serve anybody else.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000022.wav|Both times that I was beat the blood run down from my head to my feet.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000027.wav|After I was twenty five years old they did not treat me so bad; they both professed to get religion about that time; and my master said he would never lay the weight of his finger on me again. Once after that mistress wanted him to whip me, but he didn't do it, nor never whipped me any more.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000023.wav|I had to work with the hoe in the field and help do everything in doors and out in all weathers.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000002.wav|One day in a rage he undertook to beat me with the limb of a cherry tree; he began at me and tried in the first place to snatch my clothes off, but he did not succeed.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000036.wav|Some of the heirs got dissatisfied, and sued for their rights or a settlement; then I was sold with my child, a boy."|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000026.wav|After I growed up to be a woman my master thought nothing of taking my clothes off, and would whip me until the blood would run down to the ground.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000029.wav|So I was kept for seven or eight years after his death.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000014.wav|I went in as she ordered me; she met me with a mule rope, and ordered me to cross my hands.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000003.wav|I was something better when he traded me off; well enough to be about.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000008.wav|Another time Mistress McCaully got very angry.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000019.wav|He said to his wife she has begged and begged and you have whipped her enough.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000035.wav|I still lived with my mistress.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000008.wav|McKim and Wise, who did not rest contented until Aunt Hannah was safely in their hands.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000016_000011.wav|From this point, therefore, we shall present some of the incidents of her life, from infancy, and very nearly word for word as she related them:|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000018.wav|Under Hackler I was treated more like a brute than a human being.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000000.wav|"Moore bought me from a man named McCaully, who owned me about a year.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000028.wav|After awhile my master died; if they had gone according to law I would have been hired out or sold, but my mistress wanted to keep me to carry on the place for her support.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000007.wav|From my earliest memory I was owned by Conrad Hackler; he lived in Grason County.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000016.wav|This is the way I was told that Scott came by me.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000019_000021.wav|A bed of straw and old rags was made for me in a big trough called the tan trough (a trough having been used for tanning purposes).|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000004.wav|Gillingham's), whose hearts had been in deep sympathy with the slave for many years.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000006.wav|Her mind was deeply imbued with religious feeling, and an unshaken confidence in God as her only trust; she connected herself with the a m e|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000020_000008.wav|Probably there is not a member in that large congregation whose simple faith and whose walk and conversation are more commendable than Aunt Hannah's.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8545/287671/8545_287671_000017_000001.wav|I fared dreadful bad under McCaully.|8545
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000025_000005.wav|You had no suspicion of me; neither had-had she," pointing to Dot, "until I whispered in her ear at that fireside, and she so nearly betrayed me."|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000081_000000.wav|Hark! how the Cricket joins the music with its Chirp, Chirp, Chirp; and how the kettle hums!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000010_000000.wav|All honour to the little creature for her transports!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000024_000001.wav|"This is worse than all."|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000021_000000.wav|"You must know that when I left here a boy," said Edward, "I was in love, and my love was returned.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000065_000000.wav|"mr|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000021_000002.wav|But I knew mine, and I had a passion for her."|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000026_000004.wav|And here's the Bride!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000015_000000.wav|"Edward!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000082_000000.wav|But what is this?|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000041_000003.wav|Oh! here she is!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000003_000000.wav|"Is it over?" cried Dot.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000025_000003.wav|It would be small comfort, but it would be some, I thought, and on I came.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000069_000000.wav|"mr|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000023_000002.wav|I have ever since believed she did, and now I am sure she did."|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000008_000000.wav|"If my boy in the Golden South Americas was alive----!" said Caleb, trembling.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000009_000001.wav|"Look at him!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000001_000003.wav|Very close!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000033_000000.wav|"No; keep there, please, john!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000026_000002.wav|And it WAS right, john!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139742/1974_139742_000001_000004.wav|And now you hear them stopping at the garden gate!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000094_000000.wav|"Father!" said Bertha, hesitating.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000034_000000.wav|"And you'll remember what I have said?"|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000036_000002.wav|I give you joy!"|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000084_000000.wav|"He is an old man, worn with care and work.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000028_000002.wav|Not quite yet.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000033_000000.wav|"Oh, quite!"|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000030_000000.wav|"No hand can make the clock which will strike again for me the hours that are gone," replied the Carrier with a faint smile.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000024_000000.wav|Staunch Cricket on the Hearth!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000011_000003.wav|Poor Dot!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000022_000000.wav|"Very much as if you meant it."|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000075_000000.wav|"Those presents that I took such care of; that came almost at my wish, and were so dearly welcome to me," she said, trembling; "where did they come from?|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000057_000000.wav|She turned her wonder stricken face towards him, and repeated "Cruel!"|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000015_000001.wav|"Oh!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000012_000000.wav|"She made a show of it," said Tackleton.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000076_000000.wav|"no"|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000027_000011.wav|Now, it's over!"|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000089_000000.wav|Caleb managed to articulate, "My Bertha!"|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000012_000001.wav|"She made such a show of it, that, to tell you the truth, it was the origin of my misgivings."|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000025_000003.wav|Last night she saw him, in the interview we witnessed. It was wrong.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000001_000000.wav|"I am a plain, rough man," pursued the Carrier "with very little to recommend me.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000051_000000.wav|"I knew it!" cried Bertha, proudly.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000048_000001.wav|Ah!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000040_000001.wav|"It's enough to dead and bury the Baby, so it is if you please."|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000099_000003.wav|Are they wheels?"|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000058_000001.wav|"You'll say so presently.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000054_000003.wav|I have a confession to make to you, my darling!"|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000073_000000.wav|"It is a poor place, Bertha; very poor and bare indeed.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000009_000003.wav|Never.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000054_000002.wav|Hear me kindly!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000084_000003.wav|But, Bertha, I have seen him many times before, and striving hard in many ways, for one great sacred object.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000099_000002.wav|You've a quick ear, Bertha.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000044_000000.wav|"Mary!" said Bertha.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000003_000000.wav|"I often thought that though I wasn't good enough for her, I should make her a kind husband, and perhaps know her value better than another; and in this way I reconciled it to myself, and came to think it might be possible that we should be married.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000054_000000.wav|"Bertha, my dear!" said Caleb.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000084_000001.wav|He is a spare, dejected, thoughtful, grey haired man.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000007_000001.wav|If, yesterday, I'd have struck that man down at a blow, who dared to breathe a word against her, to day I'd set my foot upon his face, if he was my brother!"|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000078_000000.wav|Dot saw she knew already, and was silent.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000010_000000.wav|The toy merchant gazed at him without winking.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000036_000000.wav|"The better for us both," returned the Carrier.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000055_000000.wav|"A confession, father?"|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000045_000000.wav|"I told her you would not be there, mum," whispered Caleb.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000081_000002.wav|Mary, look across the room to where we were just now-to where my father is-my father, so compassionate and loving to me-and tell me what you see."|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000027_000008.wav|She leaves me without blame, and she will live so I am sure.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000008_000000.wav|The toy merchant gazed at him in astonishment.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000011_000002.wav|Poor child!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000083_000001.wav|She will.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000069_000000.wav|Her afflicted father hung his head, and offered no reply but in his penitence and sorrow.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000006_000003.wav|All left out of sight!|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000029_000000.wav|She had entered shortly after Tackleton, and had remained there.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000029_000001.wav|She never looked at Tackleton, but fixed her eyes upon her husband.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000045_000001.wav|"I heard as much last night.|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000075_000001.wav|Did you send them?"|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1974/139741/1974_139741_000082_000001.wav|As if his child should comfort him, Bertha."|1974
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000025_000000.wav|As she entered the room, Grushenka only glanced for an instant at Mitya, who looked at her uneasily.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000062_000000.wav|And he felt that, though his questions were unreasonable and senseless, yet he wanted to ask just that, and he had to ask it just in that way.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000006.wav|Maybe he'd remember it...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000013_000002.wav|As far as he could see he "didn't know" how much money Mitya had in his hands.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000006.wav|Her grave air, her direct earnest look and quiet manner made a very favorable impression on every one.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000017_000000.wav|The prosecutor positively pounced on this piece of evidence.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000015_000002.wav|You can put that down.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000005.wav|Alas, all the evidence given by every one turned out to be against Mitya.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000058_000000.wav|"The babe's cold, its little clothes are frozen and don't warm it."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000002_000005.wav|He wasted a thousand, I daresay, on them alone."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000051_000000.wav|She went out.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000002.wav|Why are people poor?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000006.wav|Why are they so dark from black misery?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000046_000003.wav|He's telling the whole truth, you may believe it."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000005.wav|She was suffering from a slight feverish chill-the first symptom of the long illness which followed that night.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000038_000000.wav|"Once or several times?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000044_000000.wav|"Agrafena Alexandrovna!" Mitya got up from his chair, "have faith in God and in me.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000046_000002.wav|He'll say anything as a joke or from obstinacy, but he'll never deceive you against his conscience.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000003.wav|We will only note that the point principally insisted upon in the examination was the question of the three thousand roubles, that is, was the sum spent here, at Mokroe, by Mitya on the first occasion, a month before, three thousand or fifteen hundred?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000066_000001.wav|He went to the table and said that he would sign whatever they liked.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000000.wav|He was not kept long.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000000.wav|The Poles, too, were examined.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000064_000004.wav|He was suddenly struck by the fact that there was a pillow under his head, which hadn't been there when he had leant back, exhausted, on the chest.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000044_000001.wav|I am not guilty of my father's murder!"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000006_000004.wav|We can judge of amounts...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000020_000003.wav|Nikolay Parfenovitch was too well pleased with them, as it was, and did not want to worry them with trifles, moreover, it was nothing but a foolish, drunken quarrel over cards.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000026_000003.wav|"I had no thoughts for either of them all this last month.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000064_000000.wav|"What!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000020_000004.wav|There had been drinking and disorder enough, that night....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000053_000001.wav|He was cold, it was early in November, and the snow was falling in big wet flakes, melting as soon as it touched the earth.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000002_000002.wav|He had, on the contrary, an air of stern and severe indignation with the accused, which gave him an appearance of truthfulness and personal dignity.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000048_000001.wav|And to the question where he got the money, she said that he had told her that he had "stolen" it from Katerina Ivanovna, and that she had replied to that that he hadn't stolen it, and that he must pay the money back next day.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000040_000000.wav|"And did you believe he would do it?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000005.wav|Pan Vrublevsky turned out to be an uncertificated dentist.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000004.wav|Why don't they hug each other and kiss?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000002.wav|And so we will not dwell on how Nikolay Parfenovitch impressed on every witness called that he must give his evidence in accordance with truth and conscience, and that he would afterwards have to repeat his evidence on oath, how every witness was called upon to sign the protocol of his evidence, and so on.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000019_000000.wav|"He certainly would have accepted it," Mitya declared warmly.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000053_000002.wav|And the peasant drove him smartly, he had a fair, long beard.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000046_000000.wav|"As he has spoken now, believe it!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000001.wav|Though they had gone to bed in their room, they had not slept all night, and on the arrival of the police officers they hastily dressed and got ready, realizing that they would certainly be sent for.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000023_000002.wav|It was a very thick bundle, all rainbow colored notes.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000045_000001.wav|Grushenka stood up and crossed herself devoutly before the ikon.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000001.wav|At last it was Grushenka's turn.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000008_000000.wav|"Come now, is that so, Trifon Borissovitch?" replied Mitya.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000026_000005.wav|But I think," she said in conclusion, "that there's no need for you to inquire about that, nor for me to answer you, for that's my own affair."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000065_000001.wav|Who was so kind?" he cried, with a sort of ecstatic gratitude, and tears in his voice, as though some great kindness had been shown him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000013_000007.wav|At last they let the young man go, and he left the room with unconcealed indignation.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000026_000004.wav|I was expecting another man who had wronged me.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000053_000003.wav|He was not an old man, somewhere about fifty, and he had on a gray peasant's smock.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000001.wav|"Tell me why it is those poor mothers stand there?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000005.wav|Stepan and Semyon heard it, and Pyotr Fomitch Kalganov, too, was standing beside you at the time.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000047_000000.wav|"Thanks, Agrafena Alexandrovna, you've given me fresh courage," Mitya responded in a quivering voice.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000066_000000.wav|He never found out who this kind man was; perhaps one of the peasant witnesses, or Nikolay Parfenovitch's little secretary, had compassionately thought to put a pillow under his head; but his whole soul was quivering with tears.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000018_000000.wav|"And you imagine he would have accepted such a deed as a substitute for two thousand three hundred roubles in cash?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000051_000002.wav|He felt more and more oppressed by a strange physical weakness. His eyes were closing with fatigue.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000029_000000.wav|To which Grushenka replied that she had heard him say so before other people, and had heard him say so when they were alone.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000057_000000.wav|"But why is it weeping?" Mitya persisted stupidly, "why are its little arms bare?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000012_000000.wav|The psychological Ippolit Kirillovitch heard this with a subtle smile, and ended by recommending that these remarks as to where Dmitri Fyodorovitch would go should be "included in the case."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000063_000000.wav|"And I'm coming with you.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000006_000001.wav|"You flung it about at random and they picked it up. They were a rascally, thievish lot, horse stealers, they've been driven away from here, or maybe they'd bear witness themselves how much they got from you.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000003.wav|Why is the babe poor? Why is the steppe barren?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000064_000001.wav|Where?" he exclaimed opening his eyes, and sitting up on the chest, as though he had revived from a swoon, smiling brightly.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000000_000002.wav|The Babe|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000059_000001.wav|Why?" foolish Mitya still persisted.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000004.wav|She was very pale, she seemed to be cold, and wrapped herself closely in her magnificent black shawl.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000060_000000.wav|"Why, they're poor people, burnt out.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000013_000006.wav|In spite of the young man's obvious repugnance at giving evidence, Ippolit Kirillovitch examined him at great length, and only from him learnt all the details of what made up Mitya's "romance," so to say, on that night. Mitya did not once pull Kalganov up.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000000.wav|"You did say so, Dmitri Fyodorovitch.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000006.wav|There was not one in his favor, and some witnesses introduced new, almost crushing facts, in contradiction of his, Mitya's, story.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000032_000000.wav|"And did you never, once, hear that the money spent a month ago was not three thousand, but less, and that Dmitri Fyodorovitch had saved half that sum for his own use?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000026_000002.wav|She had never meant to go to Fyodor Pavlovitch, she had simply been laughing at him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000017_000002.wav|This would explain the circumstance, so baffling for the prosecution, that only eight hundred roubles were to be found in Mitya's hands.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000057_000001.wav|Why don't they wrap it up?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000004_000000.wav|Mitya was sitting sideways with his back to the curtains.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000043_000000.wav|"You can speak," Nikolay Parfenovitch assented.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000027_000000.wav|Nikolay Parfenovitch immediately acted upon this hint.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000021_000003.wav|So that she herself began trying to pacify and comfort him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000004_000001.wav|He listened gloomily, with a melancholy and exhausted air, as though he would say:|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000007.wav|Why don't they feed the babe?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000016_000001.wav|After sternly reprimanding Mitya, he cut short all further inquiry into the romantic aspect of the case, and hastened to pass to what was essential.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000023_000000.wav|"To be sure I have, not twenty, but seven, when my wife mortgaged my little property.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000060_000002.wav|They're begging because they've been burnt out."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000010_000001.wav|They were delighted with this new mode of reckoning; three and three made six, three thousand then and three now made six, that was clear.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000003_000001.wav|"It's a pity I didn't count the money at the time, but I was drunk...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000039_000000.wav|"He mentioned it several times, always in anger."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000002.wav|Andrey himself is still here.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000061_000005.wav|Why don't they sing songs of joy?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000051_000001.wav|Mitya was calm, and even looked more cheerful, but only for a moment.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000052_000000.wav|He had a strange dream, utterly out of keeping with the place and the time.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000004.wav|And again had he spent three thousand or fifteen hundred yesterday?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000003.wav|Send for him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000009.wav|Pan Mussyalovitch at once called attention to the word "scoundrel" and begged that it should be put down in the protocol. Mitya fumed with rage.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000003.wav|She entered with a stern and gloomy face, that looked almost composed and sat down quietly on the chair offered her by Nikolay Parfenovitch.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000013_000003.wav|He affirmed that the Poles had cheated at cards.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000006.wav|Although Nikolay Parfenovitch asked them questions on entering the room they both addressed their answers to Mihail Makarovitch, who was standing on one side, taking him in their ignorance for the most important person and in command, and addressed him at every word as "Pan Colonel." Only after several reproofs from Mihail Makarovitch himself, they grasped that they had to address their answers to Nikolay Parfenovitch only.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000053_000006.wav|And her breasts seemed so dried up that there was not a drop of milk in them.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000004.wav|And in the hall, when you were treating the chorus, you shouted straight out that you would leave your sixth thousand here-that is with what you spent before, we must understand.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000005_000001.wav|It makes no difference now."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000060_000001.wav|They've no bread.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000002_000003.wav|He spoke little, and with reserve, waited to be questioned, answered precisely and deliberately. Firmly and unhesitatingly he bore witness that the sum spent a month before could not have been less than three thousand, that all the peasants about here would testify that they had heard the sum of three thousand mentioned by Dmitri Fyodorovitch himself.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000004.wav|His name was Mussyalovitch.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000067_000000.wav|"I've had a good dream, gentlemen," he said in a strange voice, with a new light, as of joy, in his face.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000007_000000.wav|As for the sum spent yesterday he asserted that Dmitri Fyodorovitch had told him, as soon as he arrived, that he had brought three thousand with him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000034_000000.wav|It was explained further that Mitya had, on the contrary, often told her that he hadn't a farthing.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000003.wav|The little Pole turned out to be a retired official of the twelfth class, who had served in Siberia as a veterinary surgeon.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000011_000001.wav|The peasants and the driver unhesitatingly confirmed Trifon Borissovitch's evidence.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000041_000001.wav|"I had faith in his noble heart."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000035_000000.wav|"He was always expecting to get some from his father," said Grushenka in conclusion.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000063_000002.wav|And his heart glowed, and he struggled forward towards the light, and he longed to live, to live, to go on and on, towards the new, beckoning light, and to hasten, hasten, now, at once!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000008_000001.wav|"Surely I didn't declare so positively that I'd brought three thousand?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000008.wav|Of his relations with Grushenka, past and present, Pan Mussyalovitch spoke proudly and warmly, so that Mitya was roused at once and declared that he would not allow the "scoundrel" to speak like that in his presence!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000054_000001.wav|Why are they crying?" Mitya asked, as they dashed gayly by.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000015_000000.wav|"He's a scoundrel!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000005_000000.wav|"Oh, say what you like.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000008.wav|But this was received with positive indignation by the ladies, who immediately called him a "naughty man," to his great satisfaction.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000053_000005.wav|And in her arms was a little baby crying.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000001.wav|But we will not continue our story in such detail as before.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000065_000000.wav|"Who put that pillow under my head?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000011_000000.wav|They questioned all the peasants suggested by Trifon Borissovitch, Stepan and Semyon, the driver Andrey, and Kalganov.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000033_000000.wav|"No, I never heard that," answered Grushenka.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000031_000000.wav|Ippolit Kirillovitch was very well satisfied with this piece of evidence. Further examination elicited that Grushenka knew, too, where that money had come from, and that Dmitri Fyodorovitch had got it from Katerina Ivanovna.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000026_000000.wav|"He was an acquaintance.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000025_000001.wav|But her face reassured him at once.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000001_000000.wav|The examination of the witnesses began.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000063_000001.wav|I won't leave you now for the rest of my life, I'm coming with you," he heard close beside him Grushenka's tender voice, thrilling with emotion.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000020_000001.wav|Then they let the Poles go.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000021_000000.wav|Then old Maximov was summoned.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000024_000002.wav|Nikolay Parfenovitch was obviously apprehensive of the effect her appearance might have on Mitya, and he muttered a few words of admonition to him, but Mitya bowed his head in silence, giving him to understand "that he would not make a scene." Mihail Makarovitch himself led Grushenka in.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000046_000001.wav|I know him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000006_000000.wav|"More than a thousand went on them, Dmitri Fyodorovitch," retorted Trifon Borissovitch firmly.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000041_000000.wav|"No, I never believed it," she answered firmly.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000013_000001.wav|He began by saying that "he knew nothing about it and didn't want to." But it appeared that he had heard of the "sixth" thousand, and he admitted that he had been standing close by at the moment.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000009_000001.wav|You said it before Andrey.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000015_000003.wav|And put down, too, that, in spite of the protocol I still declare that he's a scoundrel!" he cried.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000014_000007.wav|It turned out that they could speak Russian quite correctly except for their accent in some words.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000059_000000.wav|"But why is it?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000022_000000.wav|"Have you ever seen so much as twenty thousand before, then?" inquired Nikolay Parfenovitch, with a smile.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000013_000004.wav|In reply to reiterated questions he stated that, after the Poles had been turned out, Mitya's position with Agrafena Alexandrovna had certainly improved, and that she had said that she loved him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000019_000002.wav|He would have put his lawyers, Poles and Jews, on to the job, and might have got, not three thousand, but the whole property out of the old man."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000002_000001.wav|He was not in the least abashed as he stood before the lawyers.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000019_000001.wav|"Why, look here, he might have grabbed not two thousand, but four or six, for it.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/723/3922_723_000064_000002.wav|Nikolay Parfenovitch was standing over him, suggesting that he should hear the protocol read aloud and sign it.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000002.wav|I don't care ... we'll work ... there's snow in Siberia....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000119_000002.wav|Yes ... a bell ...|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000001.wav|How I have loved him these five years, all that time!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000009.wav|God will forgive us.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000017.wav|If you love her, I shall strangle her....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000013.wav|Stay, wait, afterwards, I won't have that...." she suddenly thrust him away.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000069_000001.wav|He jumped up and ran back to the room-to her, to her, his queen for ever!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000089_000006.wav|I want to dance.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000007.wav|To morrow to the nunnery, but to day we'll dance.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000020_000002.wav|I'd give ten years of my life for him to get well, to know he was all right!"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000004.wav|The chorus were in the next room.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000030_000001.wav|It described how a gentleman came and tried his luck with the girls, to see whether they would love him:|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000005.wav|She was ashamed, and from her eyes he could see now whom she loved.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000024_000003.wav|And the dances were as bad.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000084_000002.wav|And aren't you drunk?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000007.wav|"O God! restore to life the man I knocked down at the fence!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000076_000003.wav|Mitya peeped behind the curtain-she was there.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000007_000004.wav|Only the girls were very eager for the champagne.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000007.wav|Folks like us are bound to waste money.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000034_000000.wav|Then a gypsy comes along and he, too, tries:|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000073_000000.wav|"It'll be three o'clock.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000079_000002.wav|"Listen, tell me who it is I love?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000000.wav|"Why Siberia?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000010.wav|We must work, do you hear?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000041_000000.wav|The merchant came to try the girls: Would they love him, would they not?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000010_000004.wav|Pointing to Kalganov, she said to Mitya:|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000008_000003.wav|He intervened in the nick of time, civilly and obsequiously persuading Mitya not to give away "cigars and Rhine wine," and, above all, money to the peasants as he had done before.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000015.wav|She must have changed him like that.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000134_000001.wav|"Mihail Makarovitch, Mihail Makarovitch, this won't do!...|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000026_000000.wav|The bears rolled on the ground at last in the most unseemly fashion, amid roars of laughter from the closely packed crowd of men and women.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000003.wav|I love driving in the snow ... and must have bells....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000005.wav|The room in which they had been sitting till that moment was too small, and was divided in two by cotton curtains, behind which was a huge bed with a puffy feather mattress and a pyramid of cotton pillows. In the four rooms for visitors there were beds.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000002.wav|Now one phantom, one terror at least was at an end: that first, rightful lover, that fateful figure had vanished, leaving no trace.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000139_000000.wav|He said something more, and the prosecutor, too, put in something, but though Mitya heard them he did not understand them.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000009.wav|I won't say it to day, but to morrow.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000008.wav|I drove here with Timofey, and all the way I was thinking how I should meet him, what I should say to him, how we should look at one another.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000098_000001.wav|He too was drunk.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000002.wav|From that moment everything whirled about him, as though he were delirious.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000014_000000.wav|"I didn't want to spoil your happiness!" Mitya faltered blissfully.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000010.wav|He ran up every minute to kiss her hands, "each little finger," and finally he danced another dance to an old song, which he sang himself.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000001.wav|No, you didn't steal it.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000010.wav|Do you forgive me or not?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000001.wav|He went outside to the wooden balcony which ran round the whole building on the inner side, overlooking the courtyard.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000124_000000.wav|"Here, come to us, come here," said a voice, speaking not loudly, but firmly and peremptorily.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000089_000003.wav|"Mitya, don't give me any more wine-if I ask you, don't give it to me.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000015.wav|Every one in the world is good.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000120_000000.wav|"Close to you," murmured Mitya, kissing her dress, her bosom, her hands. And suddenly he had a strange fancy: it seemed to him that she was looking straight before her, not at him, not into his face, but over his head, with an intent, almost uncanny fixity.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000131_000000.wav|And he sank, almost fell, on a chair close by, as though he had been mown down by a scythe.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000000.wav|"Give him something, Mitya," said Grushenka.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000132_000003.wav|Your father's blood cries out against you!" the old captain of police roared suddenly, stepping up to Mitya.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000093_000003.wav|Call them in, too, that were locked in....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000004_000001.wav|I want to be quite drunk, as we were before.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000008.wav|And this man-the inspector of police, Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, a man he knew well.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000058_000000.wav|"Yes, there's a heap of them on the table there.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000108_000005.wav|It's nasty here...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000075_000000.wav|"Don't mention it; it doesn't matter.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000079_000000.wav|"Mitya, darling, stay, don't go away.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000100_000003.wav|The chorus broke into "Ah, my porch, my new porch!" Grushenka flung back her head, half opened her lips, smiled, waved her handkerchief, and suddenly, with a violent lurch, stood still in the middle of the room, looking bewildered.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000112_000002.wav|Oh, I'd give my whole life for one year only to know about that blood!"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000008.wav|I want to play to day, good people, and what of it?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000076_000002.wav|She was not in the blue room either; there was no one but Kalganov asleep on the sofa.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000020_000000.wav|"Nothing....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000118_000001.wav|Mitya let his head sink on her breast.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000024_000004.wav|Two girls dressed up as bears, and a lively girl, called Stepanida, with a stick in her hand, acted the part of keeper, and began to "show them."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000016.wav|Every one-even the worst of them.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000090_000002.wav|Mitya ran to and fro, the girls were quiet, and got ready to break into a dancing song at the first signal.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000012_000000.wav|And Mitya, delighted, ran to kiss Kalganov and Maximov.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000009.wav|She was greatly amused by the "little old man," as she called Maximov.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000013_000004.wav|Did you really want to?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000101_000001.wav|"Forgive me....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000106_000001.wav|Mitya pounced on her, snatched her up in his arms, and carried the precious burden through the curtains.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000036_000000.wav|But they couldn't love the gypsy either:|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000002.wav|You came in and all grew bright.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000069_000000.wav|Yet there was a ray of light and hope in his darkness.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000122_000000.wav|Mitya turned, and saw that some one had, in fact, parted the curtains and seemed to be watching them.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000084_000003.wav|And why isn't Mitya drinking?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000064_000004.wav|Don't you want money?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000014.wav|And if she won't forgive us, we'll go, anyway.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000011.wav|He danced with special vigor to the refrain:|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000078_000000.wav|And again she burst into tears, but clung tight to Mitya's hand and did not let it go.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000084_000001.wav|"I'm drunk now, that's what it is....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000003.wav|Do you know, Mitya, I shall go into a nunnery.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000107_000002.wav|Mitya laid Grushenka on the bed and kissed her on the lips.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000007.wav|Now it's stopped."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000007.wav|Mitya set an easy chair for her.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000134_000000.wav|"This is impossible!" cried the small young man.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000017.wav|Oh, Mitya, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed for all my life.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000023_000001.wav|I see you're sad....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000013.wav|We'll go to the young lady and bow down to her together, so that she may forgive us, and then we'll go away.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000062_000000.wav|"So that's what you're after!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000000.wav|"You will forgive me for having tormented you?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000004.wav|I like such reckless fellows as you," she lisped, with a rather halting tongue.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000004.wav|Only one persistent burning sensation made itself felt continually, "like a red hot coal in his heart," he said afterwards.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000039_000000.wav|The soldier came to try the girls: Would they love him, would they not?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000008_000002.wav|This was probably why the landlord, Trifon Borissovitch, kept hovering about Mitya to protect him. He seemed to have given up all idea of going to bed that night; but he drank little, only one glass of punch, and kept a sharp look out on Mitya's interests after his own fashion.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000013.wav|Wicked as I've been, I want to pray.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000066_000000.wav|"All right, all right...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000012.wav|Do you love me?" She jumped up and held him with both hands on his shoulders.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000004.wav|It would never return.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000076_000000.wav|"What's the matter with him?" Mitya wondered for an instant, and he ran back to the room where the girls were dancing.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000114_000002.wav|But I've stolen money from Katya....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000001.wav|"Give him a present, he's poor, you know.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000054_000000.wav|"Thanks.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000119_000003.wav|I've been asleep and dreamt I was driving over the snow with bells, and I dozed.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000116_000000.wav|"I love you.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000129_000000.wav|"We have to make ... in brief, I beg you to come this way, this way to the sofa....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000118_000003.wav|Grushenka opened her eyes.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000093_000001.wav|Mitya, why don't they come?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000114_000001.wav|"Grusha, you wanted to be honest, but I'm a thief.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000130_000000.wav|"The old man!" cried Mitya frantically.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000002_000000.wav|Chapter eight.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000006.wav|There are people coming....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000007_000005.wav|The men preferred rum, brandy, and, above all, hot punch.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000005.wav|He went up to her, sat beside her, gazed at her, listened to her....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000006.wav|Even his face is not the same; he's different altogether.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000009.wav|My soul was faint, and all of a sudden it was just as though he had emptied a pail of dirty water over me.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000001.wav|So you meant to shoot yourself to morrow!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000022.wav|Come, why am I so good?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000007.wav|No, wait a little.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000006.wav|Grushenka settled herself just at the door.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000012_000004.wav|At last she suddenly gripped his hand and drew him vigorously to her.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000071_000000.wav|"No, sir." The landlord seemed disconcerted.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000102_000000.wav|She bowed to the chorus, and then began bowing in all directions.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000069_000005.wav|He thought he looked gloomy and worried, and fancied he had come to find him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000007_000001.wav|All sorts of people began coming into the room to look on, peasants and their women, who had been roused from sleep and attracted by the hopes of another marvelous entertainment such as they had enjoyed a month before.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000006.wav|But to day let us dance.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000037_000000.wav|He would be a thief, I fear, And would cause me many a tear.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000105_000000.wav|"The lady's drunk too much," Maximov explained to the girls, giggling.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000072_000003.wav|What's the time?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000111_000001.wav|"It must be honorable ... it shall be honorable for the future ... and let us be honest, let us be good, not brutes, but good ... take me away, take me far away, do you hear?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000051_000000.wav|"They taught me all those well bred, aristocratic dances when I was little...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000013_000002.wav|I was frightened.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000016.wav|Don't love her any more.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000015.wav|Mitya followed like a drunken man.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000114_000000.wav|"Nothing," muttered Mitya, through his teeth.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000033_000000.wav|He would beat me cruelly And such love won't do for me.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000010.wav|It's sweet to be a slave. Kiss me!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000106_000000.wav|"Mitya, lead me away ... take me," said Grushenka helplessly.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000004.wav|His scattered thoughts came together; his sensations blended into a whole and threw a sudden light into his mind.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000027_000002.wav|"When they do get a day to enjoy themselves, why shouldn't folks be happy?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000097_000001.wav|You're a little scoundrel, that's what you are."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000003.wav|And Mitya hastened to obey her.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000005.wav|He kissed me once, and now he draws back and looks and listens.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000120_000001.wav|An expression of wonder, almost of alarm, came suddenly into her face.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000072_000001.wav|You're not angry, are you?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000112_000001.wav|"I'll take you and we'll fly away....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000006.wav|Now he had everything to make life happy ... but he could not go on living, he could not; oh, damnation!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000000.wav|He drank off another glass, and-he thought it strange himself-that glass made him completely drunk.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000006.wav|We shall waste it anyway....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000050_000002.wav|His face was red, and his nose was crimson; his eyes were moist and mawkishly sweet.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000017_000001.wav|From whom did you first hear it?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000076_000005.wav|Bent forward, with her head and arms on the bed close by, she was crying bitterly, doing her utmost to stifle her sobs that she might not be heard.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000019_000000.wav|"What are you frowning at?" she asked.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000008.wav|Let this fearful cup pass from me!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000009.wav|I want to dig the earth with my own hands.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000108_000004.wav|He's here.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000002.wav|She was tremendously excited.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000071_000001.wav|"Why should I be looking for you?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000007.wav|It's me he's afraid of, I thought, only me.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000107_000000.wav|"Well, now I'll go," thought Kalganov, and walking out of the blue room, he closed the two halves of the door after him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000047_000001.wav|"I was combing his hair just now; his hair's like flax, and so thick...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000027_000001.wav|Let them!" said Grushenka sententiously, with an ecstatic expression on her face.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000010.wav|And those other two ... peasants.... And there at the door Kalganov with Trifon Borissovitch....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000015_000001.wav|"Don't cry, I'll call you back again."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000076_000006.wav|Seeing Mitya, she beckoned him to her, and when he ran to her, she grasped his hand tightly.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000029_000000.wav|"It's swinish, all this peasant foolery," he murmured, moving away; "it's the game they play when it's light all night in summer."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000007_000006.wav|Mitya had chocolate made for all the girls, and ordered that three samovars should be kept boiling all night to provide tea and punch for everyone to help himself.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000011.wav|Beat me, ill treat me, do what you will with me....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000049_000001.wav|"Stay with me a minute. Mitya, run and find his Maximov."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000023_000005.wav|I'm merry; you be merry, too.... I love somebody here.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000010.wav|But what, what if the old man's alive?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000074_000000.wav|"We'll leave off soon.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000113_000000.wav|"What blood?" asked Grushenka, bewildered.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000009.wav|But yet it was easier for him then.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000100_000002.wav|Why won't they make friends?" said Grushenka, and went forward to dance.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000018.wav|I'll put out both her eyes with a needle...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000007_000003.wav|He uncorked bottles and poured out wine for every one who presented himself.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000017.wav|The world's a nice place.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000010_000002.wav|Maximov, blissfully drunk, never left his side.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000123_000000.wav|He jumped up and walked quickly to the intruder.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000020_000001.wav|I left a man ill there.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000079_000004.wav|Who is that man?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000024_000001.wav|He was, in fact, drunk, and had dropped asleep for a moment, sitting on the sofa.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000010.wav|You'd like it to be to day? No, I don't want to to day.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000089_000007.wav|Let every one see how I dance ... let them see how beautifully I dance...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000005.wav|For you were frightened; you couldn't speak.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000048_000000.wav|And, bending over him tenderly, she kissed his forehead.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000084_000004.wav|Why don't you drink, Mitya?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000003_000000.wav|What followed was almost an orgy, a feast to which all were welcome. Grushenka was the first to call for wine.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000103_000000.wav|"I'm sorry....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000000.wav|But now?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000132_000000.wav|"You understand?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000099_000003.wav|Be quiet, my pretty boy, eat a sweetmeat."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000064_000000.wav|"Oh, all right, all right.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000023_000003.wav|"Though you keep kissing the peasants and shouting, I see something.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000108_000000.wav|"Don't touch me...." she faltered, in an imploring voice.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000057_000000.wav|"I'll just have a liqueur....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000001.wav|Tell them to dance, to make merry, 'let the stove and cottage dance'; as we had it last time," she kept exclaiming.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000057_000001.wav|Have you any chocolates?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000014.wav|It must have been his wife that ruined him; you know he threw me up to get married.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000018_000001.wav|He spoke strangely, often frowning, and stopping abruptly.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000094_000000.wav|Mitya walked with a drunken swagger to the locked door, and began knocking to the Poles with his fist.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000010.wav|He talked to me like a schoolmaster, all so grave and learned; he met me so solemnly that I was struck dumb.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000108_000002.wav|I've told you I'm yours, but don't touch me ... spare me....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000031_000000.wav|The master came to try the girls: Would they love him, would they not?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000093_000006.wav|Let them look on, too...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000089_000004.wav|Wine doesn't give peace.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000012.wav|And I do deserve to suffer.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000000.wav|Mitya's head was burning.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000043_000000.wav|The merchant will make gold for me And his queen I'll gladly be.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000007.wav|Kiss me, kiss me hard, that's right.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000005.wav|A fearful and terrible light!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000083_000000.wav|"Yes, come what may-whatever may happen now, for one minute I'd give the whole world," he thought.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000008_000000.wav|An absurd chaotic confusion followed, but Mitya was in his natural element, and the more foolish it became, the more his spirits rose.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000005.wav|And that "consumptive looking" trim dandy, "who always has such polished boots"--that was the deputy prosecutor.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000005_000000.wav|Mitya himself was almost delirious, feeling that his happiness was at hand.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000000.wav|"From Katya, from that young lady?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000007_000000.wav|Mitya bustled about.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000069_000003.wav|This wild question clutched at his heart.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000069_000002.wav|Was not one moment of her love worth all the rest of life, even in the agonies of disgrace?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000000.wav|Mitya passed to the other side of the curtain and stood stock still.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000003.wav|Why make a fuss?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000008.wav|To morrow I may have something to say to you....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000119_000000.wav|"What's the matter?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000009.wav|All the girls who had come had been there then; the Jewish band with fiddles and zithers had come, too, and at last the long expected cart had arrived with the wines and provisions.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000133_000000.wav|He was beside himself, crimson in the face and quivering all over.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000006.wav|"If I'm to shoot myself, why not now?" passed through his mind.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000032_000000.wav|But the girls could not love the master:|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000089_000000.wav|So Grushenka babbled on, getting more and more drunk.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000023_000004.wav|No, be merry.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000030_000000.wav|He particularly disliked one "new" song to a jaunty dance tune.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000002.wav|The fresh air revived him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000055_000000.wav|"A cigarette."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000018_000000.wav|And Mitya began telling her all about it, disconnectedly, incoherently, feverishly.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000052_000000.wav|"Go, go with him, Mitya, and I'll watch from here how he dances," said Grushenka.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000003.wav|He recognized all those people instantly.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000009_000001.wav|"I'd give them a kick, every one of them, and they'd take it as an honor-that's all they're worth!"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000012.wav|At first I thought he was ashamed to talk before his great big Pole.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000093_000002.wav|Let every one come ... to look on.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000022_000000.wav|Once, however, she called him, as it were, puzzled and uneasy.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000079_000003.wav|I love one man here.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000047_000000.wav|"Look how pretty he is," said Grushenka, taking Mitya up to him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000101_000002.wav|I'm weak, I can't....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000109_000000.wav|"I'll obey you!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000054_000003.wav|Would you like some sweets?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000009.wav|Do you forgive me, Mitya?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000089_000002.wav|She got up from her chair, staggering.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000050_000000.wav|Maximov, it appeared, could not tear himself away from the girls, only running away from time to time to pour himself out a glass of liqueur.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000012_000002.wav|She had said nothing yet, and seemed, indeed, purposely to refrain from speaking.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000018.wav|Curse it, curse it, curse those five years!"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000072_000002.wav|Wait a bit, you shall soon get to bed....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000090_000000.wav|She really meant it.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000122_000001.wav|And not one person alone, it seemed.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000119_000005.wav|And far, far away.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000073_000001.wav|Past three, it must be."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000007.wav|When the girl came up, she either kissed her, or made the sign of the cross over her.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000004_000000.wav|"I want to drink.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000045_000001.wav|"Who writes such things for them?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000079_000005.wav|That's what you must tell me."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000083_000002.wav|She sat down in the same chair as before, with a blissful smile on her face.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000020.wav|You know I am good.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000015_000000.wav|"Well, go and enjoy yourself ..." she sent him away once more.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000008.wav|But we'd better go and work the land.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000004_000002.wav|Do you remember, Mitya, do you remember how we made friends here last time!"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000101_000003.wav|I'm sorry."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000006_000008.wav|She had sat in the same place to watch the dancing and singing "the time before," when they had made merry there.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000008_000004.wav|He was very indignant, too, at the peasant girls drinking liqueur, and eating sweets.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000006.wav|It's not them he's afraid of-could you be frightened of any one?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000071_000002.wav|Where have you been?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000008_000001.wav|If the peasants had asked him for money at that moment, he would have pulled out his notes and given them away right and left.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000112_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, yes, it must be!" said Mitya, pressing her in his arms.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000003.wav|He stood alone in a dark corner, and suddenly clutched his head in both hands.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000111_000000.wav|"I know, though you're a brute, you're generous," Grushenka articulated with difficulty.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000117_000004.wav|Do you hear, there's a bell ringing?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000035_000000.wav|The gypsy came to try the girls: Would they love him, would they not?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000040_000000.wav|But the soldier is rejected with contempt, in two indecent lines, sung with absolute frankness and producing a furore in the audience.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000025_000000.wav|"Look alive, Marya, or you'll get the stick!"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000061_000000.wav|"I say," the old man bent down to whisper in Mitya's ear.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000046_000000.wav|And, almost as though it were a personal affront, he declared, on the spot, that he was bored, sat down on the sofa and immediately fell asleep. His pretty little face looked rather pale, as it fell back on the sofa cushion.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000050_000001.wav|He had drunk two cups of chocolate.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000027_000000.wav|"Well, let them!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000001.wav|Was it the same as then?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000003.wav|He walked, laughed, talked to everybody, without knowing what he was doing.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000001.wav|It was through spite I tormented you all.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000081_000001.wav|'Fool! that's the man you love!' That was what my heart whispered to me at once.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000010_000003.wav|Grushenka, too, was beginning to get drunk.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000062_000001.wav|No, brother, that won't do!"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000003.wav|No, him, him! It's a lie that it was my anger I loved and not him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000053_000002.wav|Maximov danced his dance.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000095_000003.wav|She calls you."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000005.wav|"So you would go any length for me, eh?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000006.wav|Why listen to me?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000104_000000.wav|"The lady's been drinking.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000099_000001.wav|If I call him a scoundrel, it doesn't mean that I called all Poland so.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000074_000001.wav|We'll leave off."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000093_000004.wav|Why did you lock them in?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000061_000002.wav|How would it be if you were to help me make friends with her?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000054_000001.wav|You're tired perhaps?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000005.wav|And now, O Lord, it's not the same man.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000108_000001.wav|"Don't touch me, till I'm yours....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000042_000000.wav|And it appears that he wins their love because:|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000001.wav|The room was filled with people, but not those who had been there before.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000006.wav|Did you really mean to shoot yourself to morrow, you stupid?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000083_000004.wav|Even Kalganov felt a stir at the heart and went up to her.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000009.wav|I'll be your slave now, your slave for the rest of my life.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000060_000000.wav|"No, brother, we've none of that special sort."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000076_000004.wav|She was sitting in the corner, on a trunk.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000011_000000.wav|"What a dear, charming boy he is!"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000099_000000.wav|"Be quiet, boy!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000103_000001.wav|Forgive me...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000134_000002.wav|I beg you'll allow me to speak.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000059_000000.wav|"I like one with vanilla ... for old people.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000077_000016.wav|Mitya, how shameful it is!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000116_000001.wav|I love only you.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000053_000005.wav|Kalganov did not like it at all, but Mitya kissed the dancer.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000109_000001.wav|I won't think of it ...|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000104_000001.wav|The pretty lady has been drinking," voices were heard saying.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000013_000003.wav|So you wanted to give me up to him, did you?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000084_000005.wav|I'm drunk, and you don't drink...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000085_000000.wav|"I am drunk!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000115_000012.wav|I won't be your mistress, I'll be faithful to you, I'll be your slave, I'll work for you.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000014.wav|Mitya, let them dance, don't stop them.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000136_000000.wav|"I beg you most earnestly, dear Mihail Makarovitch, to restrain your feelings," the prosecutor said in a rapid whisper to the old police captain, "or I shall be forced to resort to-"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000095_000002.wav|Come, she's going to dance.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000067_000007.wav|"Why not go for the pistols, bring them here, and here, in this dark dirty corner, make an end?" Almost a minute he stood, undecided.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000090_000003.wav|Maximov, hearing that Grushenka wanted to dance, squealed with delight, and ran skipping about in front of her, humming:|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000064_000001.wav|They only come here to dance and sing, you know, brother.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000010_000000.wav|Mitya remembered Andrey again, and ordered punch to be sent out to him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000045_000000.wav|"That's just a song of yesterday," he said aloud.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000002.wav|Ah, the poor, the insulted!...|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000005_000001.wav|But Grushenka was continually sending him away from her.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000126_000001.wav|What's this for, gentlemen?" began Mitya, but suddenly, as though beside himself, not knowing what he was doing, he cried aloud, at the top of his voice:|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000068_000009.wav|Lord, thou hast wrought miracles for such sinners as me!|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000086_000001.wav|He was suddenly drunk, although till that moment he had been quite sober, he remembered that.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000082_000002.wav|It was for spite I drove the old man out of his mind....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000093_000005.wav|Tell them I'm going to dance.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000084_000000.wav|"Did you feel how I kissed you when you were asleep just now?" she said thickly.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000070_000000.wav|"What is it, Trifon Borissovitch? are you looking for me?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000128_000000.wav|The young man in spectacles moved forward suddenly, and stepping up to Mitya, began with dignity, though hurriedly:|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000075_000001.wav|Keep it up as long as you like...."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000021_000003.wav|What for?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000088_000012.wav|I gave a little onion.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000101_000000.wav|"I'm weak...." she said in an exhausted voice.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000006.wav|"He has a chronometer worth four hundred roubles; he showed it to me." And that small young man in spectacles....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000013_000001.wav|Have you walked in!...|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000135_000000.wav|"This is delirium, gentlemen, raving delirium," cried the captain of police; "look at him: drunk, at this time of night, in the company of a disreputable woman, with the blood of his father on his hands....|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000072_000000.wav|"Why do you look so glum?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000053_000001.wav|They all went to look on.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000053_000000.wav|"No, no, I'm coming to look on, too," exclaimed Kalganov, brushing aside in the most naive way Grushenka's offer to sit with him.|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000125_000009.wav|And those fellows with the brass plates on, why are they here?|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000109_000002.wav|I worship you!" muttered Mitya. "Yes, it's nasty here, it's abominable."|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3922/715/3922_715_000054_000004.wav|A cigar, perhaps?"|3922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000041_000001.wav|There is the great snake that lives in the well, and he stays by you.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000043_000000.wav|Then the sultan asked him, "Why should this man invite you to his home and then speak ill of you?"|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000032_000001.wav|I'll take a drink of nice well water.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000032_000002.wav|Let me see if the water can be reached."|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000029_000001.wav|I want to repay with kindness to day the kindness you showed me on a former day."|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000030_000001.wav|Simba Kongway went away, but soon returned with some game he had caught, and then he brought some fire, and the young man cooked the game and ate it.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000028_000000.wav|And the youth answered, as dolefully as before, "I don't know; I'm lost."|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000038_000001.wav|But although he pretends to be a man, I know that he is a snake who has power to look like a man."|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000026_000001.wav|Is there anything else you want?|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000016_000004.wav|Save me from the rain to day, that I may be able to save you from the sun to morrow, if you should be in need of help."|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000035_000001.wav|I am Neeoka, whom you released from the trap.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000016_000001.wav|He started to the village to give the alarm, but the snake shouted: "Come back, son of Adam; don't call the people from the village to come and kill me.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000010_000000.wav|The fifth day he set up the remainder of the traps.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000032_000000.wav|When he came to the road leading to the principal city he saw a well, with a bucket standing near it, and he said to himself: "That's just what I want.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000013_000001.wav|Take me out of this trap and let me go.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000016_000002.wav|I am Neeo'ka, the snake.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000029_000000.wav|"Come, cheer up," said the very old lion, "and rest yourself here a little.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000045_000001.wav|As for this fellow, he deserves to be put in a sack and drowned in the sea.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000033_000001.wav|Don't you know me?"|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000031_000001.wav|Won't you make it?" But he answered: "My good woman, I am not a doctor, I am a hunter, and never used medicine in my life.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000004_000001.wav|He set traps, and we ate what he caught in them."|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000045_000000.wav|And the sultan said: "Although men are often ungrateful, they are not always so; only the bad ones.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000003_000001.wav|What work did my father do to support us?"|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000008_000000.wav|The third day he twisted cocoanut fiber into ropes.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000041_000002.wav|Tell him to go away."|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000005_000001.wav|I, too, will set traps, and see if we can't get enough to eat."|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000023_000001.wav|He was so wretched and tired that he felt he must lie down and die, when suddenly he heard some one calling him, and looking up he saw Neeanee, the ape, who said, "Son of Adam, where are you going?"|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000004_000000.wav|His mother replied: "Your father was a hunter.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000016_000003.wav|Let me out of this trap, I pray you.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000031_000002.wav|I can not help you."|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000025_000000.wav|"Well, well," said the ape; "don't worry.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000009_000000.wav|The fourth day he set up as many traps as time would permit.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000033_000000.wav|As he peeped over the edge of the well, to see if the water was high enough, what should he behold but a great big snake, which, directly it saw him, said, "Son of Adam, wait a moment." Then it came out of the well and said: "How?|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000035_000000.wav|"Well, well!" said the snake; "I could never forget you.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/101836/4848_101836_000036_000001.wav|Then they parted very cordially.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000014_000004.wav|For instance, call this waiter saint Louis.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000030_000002.wav|Open the letter-open it quick, and let's know all about it before we stir out of our places.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000012.wav|I reckon there's enough of that truck along in there on the line of the pocket knife, from Hail Columbia to Hark from the Tomb to fat up all the consumptives in all the hospitals from Halifax to the Holy Land.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000001_000002.wav|It was sad to see his name disappear from the newspapers; sadder still to see it resurrected at intervals, shorn of its aforetime gaudy gear of compliments and clothed on with rhetorical tar and feathers.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000008.wav|It's enough, I should judge. Now here we are at Napoleon.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000001.wav|It's a beautiful road, beautiful.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000016.wav|That railroad's fetching it.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000010.wav|That's all right-that will come.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000015.wav|And I'll fix that, you know.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000012_000002.wav|And I'll bring things all right yet, honey-cheer up and don't you fear.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000024_000000.wav|"And there we strike Columbus River-pass me two or three skeins of thread to stand for the river; the sugar bowl will do for Hawkeye, and the rat trap for Stone's Landing-Napoleon, I mean-and you can see how much better Napoleon is located than Hawkeye.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000010.wav|Next is the Bloody Run and Hail Columbia country-tobacco enough can be raised there to support two such railroads.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000002.wav|Polly, mark my words-in three years from this, Hawkeye'll be a howling wilderness. You'll see.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000010_000002.wav|Mere pocket money! Look at the railroad!|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000011.wav|And it's no bad country now for calmness and solitude, I can tell you-though there's no money in that, of course.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000021_000000.wav|"Then by the spoon to Bloody Run-thank you, the ink:|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000002_000001.wav|He was a cork that could not be kept under the water many moments at a time.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000010_000000.wav|"Bigger, child?--why, what's two hundred thousand dollars?|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000022_000000.wav|"Thence to Hail Columbia-snuffers, Polly, please move that cup and saucer close up, that's Hail Columbia:|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000014_000003.wav|Now just think for a moment-just figure up a little on the future dead moral certainties.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000009.wav|Then from Catfish to Babylon it's a little swampy, but there's dead loads of peat down under there somewhere.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000012_000003.wav|The railroad----"|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000015_000000.wav|"And we'll lay this fork (representing the railroad) from saint Louis to this potato, which is Slouchburg:|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000003.wav|And just look at that river-noblest stream that meanders over the thirsty earth!--calmest, gentlest artery that refreshes her weary bosom!|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000014.wav|And patriotic?--why they named it after Congress itself.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000027_000003.wav|Look at that, now.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000000.wav|And see where it leaves Hawkeye clear out in the cold, my dear, clear out in the cold.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000027_000004.wav|Perfectly straight line straight as the way to the grave.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000026_000000.wav|"But Beriah, dear-"|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000011.wav|Next is the sassparilla region.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000004.wav|I tell you, it'll make a stir when it gets along.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000010_000003.wav|Did you forget the railroad?|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000013_000000.wav|"Oh, I had forgotten the railroad, dear, but when a body gets blue, a body forgets everything.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000010_000006.wav|Just stop and fancy a moment-just think a little-don't anything suggest itself? Bless your heart, you dear women live right in the present all the time-but a man, why a man lives----|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000018_000000.wav|"Thence by the pipe to Belshazzar, which is the salt cellar:|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000016_000000.wav|"Then with this carving knife we'll continue the railroad from Slouchburg to Doodleville, shown by the black pepper:|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000011_000007.wav|I know you're doing all you can, and I don't want to seem repining and ungrateful-for I'm not, Beriah-you know I'm not, don't you?"|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000028_000020.wav|That's all right.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000010_000005.wav|Where'll it be by the middle of summer?|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000005.wav|Just see what a country it goes through.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000004_000001.wav|There's two hundred thousand dollars coming, and that will set things booming again: Harry seems to be having some difficulty, but that's to be expected-you can't move these big operations to the tune of Fisher's Hornpipe, you know.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000008_000000.wav|"Well, no-not that exactly; but you can't understand these things, Polly dear-women haven't much head for business, you know.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000008_000002.wav|Why bless you, let the appropriation lag, if it wants to-that's no great matter-there's a bigger thing than that."|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000007.wav|And now we come to the Brimstone region-cattle raised there till you can't rest-and corn, and all that sort of thing.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000027_000000.wav|"Don't interrupt me; Polly-I don't want you to lose the run of the map-well, take your toy horse, james Fitz james, if you must have it-and run along with you.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000003.wav|But ain't it a ripping road, though?|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/29108/4848_29108_000025_000000.wav|"Now then-there you are!|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000033_000000.wav|He shook his head mournfully.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000009_000002.wav|Of the planets, some, it was observed, seemed to be fading away in remote distance.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000013_000001.wav|Quick!|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000006_000002.wav|It might have been supposed that Servadac's previous experiences would have prepared him for the discovery that the catastrophe which had overwhelmed other sites had brought destruction to his own country as well.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000022_000002.wav|"Why, there's not a Russian could endure it!"|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000035_000000.wav|Servadac smiled faintly, and replied that he felt rather compelled to take up the despairing cry of Dante, "All hope abandon, ye who enter here."|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000027_000000.wav|The whole region appeared to consist of nothing but the same strange, uniform mineral conglomerate, crystallized into regular hexagonal prisms.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000024_000000.wav|As the explorers advanced, they seemed glad to pause from time to time, that they might recover their breath; for the air, becoming more and more rarefied, made respiration somewhat difficult and the ascent fatiguing.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000022_000000.wav|"Sixty!|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000014_000002.wav|Upon it might have been recognized some fragments of that agglutination of yellow limestone which is characteristic of the coast of Provence.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000021_000000.wav|"Fourier estimates that even in those vast unfathomable tracts, the temperature never descends lower than sixty degrees," said Procope.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000015_000000.wav|The narrow ravine was not only perfectly dry, but manifestly had never been the bed of any mountain torrent.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000005_000002.wav|Who shall reveal the burning anxiety with which he throbbed to see beyond that cruel wall?|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000025_000000.wav|Eagerly and anxiously did they look around.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000013_000000.wav|Count Timascheff and the lieutenant were scarcely less impatient than the captain, and little needed his urgent and repeated solicitations: "Come on!|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000007_000005.wav|By Heaven, I adjure you, let us disembark, and mount the summit and explore!|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000009_000004.wav|The inference was irresistible that Gallia was receding from the sun, and traveling far away across the planetary regions.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000005_000001.wav|Who shall paint the look of consternation with which he gazed upon the stony rampart-rising perpendicularly for a thousand feet-that had replaced the shores of the smiling south?|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000029_000002.wav|It proved to be a fragment of dis colored marble, on which several letters were inscribed, of which the only part at all decipherable was the syllable "Vil."|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000031_000002.wav|And did it not give in its sad and too convincing testimony that Antibes itself had been involved in the great destruction?|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000004_000002.wav|Yes, of France.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000022_000001.wav|Sixty degrees below zero!" cried the count.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000031_000003.wav|Servadac gazed upon the shattered marble, pensive and disheartened.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000026_000003.wav|His heart sank within him.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000031_000000.wav|What else could this fragment be but the sole surviving remnant of some sumptuous mansion that once had stood on this unrivaled site?|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000007_000003.wav|There is-there must be-something more behind that frowning rock.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000026_000001.wav|Where was his beloved France?|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000006_000000.wav|But there seemed no hope.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000020_000000.wav|"I do not say that, captain," answered the lieutenant; "for, however far our little world may be removed from the sun, I do not see why its temperature should fall below what prevails in those outlying regions beyond our system where sky and air are not." "And what temperature may that be?" inquired the captain with a shudder.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000014_000001.wav|The bit of strand was only a few square yards in area, quite a narrow strip.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000009_000000.wav|With her steam at high pressure, the yacht made rapid progress towards the east.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000026_000000.wav|Servadac could not suppress a cry of dismay.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000028_000001.wav|Silent and tearful, he stood upon an ice bound rock, straining his eyes across the boundless vista of the mysterious territory.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000004_000000.wav|Having rounded the great promontory that had barred her farther progress to the north, the schooner skirted its upper edge.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000026_000002.wav|Had he gained this arduous height only to behold the rocks carpeted with ice and snow, and reaching interminably to the far off horizon?|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000030_000000.wav|"Vil-Villa!" he cried out, in his excitement dropping the marble, which was broken into atoms by the fall.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000028_000002.wav|"It cannot be!" he exclaimed.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000006_000003.wav|But he had failed to realize how it might extend to France; and when now he was obliged with his own eyes to witness the waves of ocean rolling over what once had been the lovely shores of Provence, he was well nigh frantic with desperation.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000027_000003.wav|Of the vegetable kingdom, there was not a single representative; the most meager of Arctic plants, the most insignificant of lichens, could obtain no hold upon that stony waste.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000019_000000.wav|"So cold, do you think," asked Servadac, "that animal life must be extinct?"|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000023_000002.wav|When Captain Parry was on Melville Island, he knew the thermometer to fall to fifty six degrees," said Procope.|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4848/28247/4848_28247_000028_000005.wav|By all that's pitiful, I entreat you, come and explore the farthest verge of the ice bound track!"|4848
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000010_000003.wav|The idea of training tropical people for independence was thought to be idealistic and impracticable.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000011_000005.wav|There was practically no water system and disease and death lurked in almost every shadow.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000020_000000.wav|mr Stuntz said the whole thing seemed so strange to him that he was silent for a moment, when the man continued: "Sir, this is a very important question to us Filipinos.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000013_000002.wav|This prison covers seventeen acres of ground, making it one of the largest in the world. Many of its fifty buildings are built around a circle and in the tower at the center, watchmen, who can see the entire prison, stand night and day.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000011_000001.wav|The city contains an area of more than fifteen square miles and is more densely populated per mile of street than New York.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000015_000001.wav|It is the old, old capital city and its story is the story of the Philippines.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000009_000004.wav|With a dozen or more great hospitals and more than three hundred boards of health, great things have been accomplished.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000013_000000.wav|The great y m c a buildings were thronged as in no other city the writer ever visited.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000016_000004.wav|The child had never had even a glimpse of the sunlight.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000014_000005.wav|They mingle in companies in large sunny, clean, dormitories, where they visit, read and sing.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000005_000004.wav|Books soon become mildewed or unglued and the finest library will soon have the appearance of a secondhand bookshop.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000011_000004.wav|The river and dirty canals divided and subdivided the city.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000006_000001.wav|I drove out from Manila to the home of mr Lyon, who is a regular Burbank. He located on some of the worst soil to be found and undertook to demonstrate that anything that will grow on any spot on the earth will grow there and he practically succeeded.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000004_000000.wav|This is a land where the storms of winter never blow but where from month to month and age to age there is good old summer time.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000015_000003.wav|There were seven gates in this old wall and they were closed and opened by means of gigantic windlasses.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000004_000001.wav|Children are born, grow to manhood, old age, and die without ever seeing fire to keep them warm for they never need it.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000005_000003.wav|Then there is dampness everywhere.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000020_000004.wav|I want to know if it is safe."|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000004_000002.wav|A range of twenty degrees is about all that the spirits in the thermometer ever show, for the minimum is seventy two and the maximum ninety two degrees.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000012_000000.wav|Now the city is fast becoming one of the world's great cities and one of the most healthful cities on the globe.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000015_000002.wav|The old walls of this inner city were built some four hundred years ago and could they speak, the whole world would listen with amazement and horror.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000014_000000.wav|Through the kindness of the officials the writer was allowed to go into this tower one afternoon as the five thousand prisoners came from the shops, formed into companies and went through a thirty minute drill.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000014_000003.wav|They stood, knelt, touched hands, lay down, arose, walked and exercised, keeping time with the music in a way that was wonderful to behold.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000012_000002.wav|A water system brings pure water to almost every household and a great sewer system takes away the filth. The Manila Hotel is worth a million and a park or square on the water front covers hundreds of acres of ground.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000002_000000.wav|THE PEARL OF THE ORIENT-PHILIPPINES|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000009_000002.wav|The number of cases of small pox has been reduced from forty thousand to a few hundred per year.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000005_000002.wav|Table legs must be placed in jars of water and yet they find their way to the top of the tables.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000003_000000.wav|Of all the islands in the eastern seas, none are more interesting than our own Philippines.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000018_000001.wav|For a whole week they were afraid to venture from their homes.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000005_000001.wav|They find their way into everything.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000014_000001.wav|The band played throughout and as the men were formed into companies we from the tower could see each individual company although they were hidden from each other.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000008_000005.wav|This force is somewhat similar to the mounted police system of Saskatchewan in Canada and is a terror to evil doers.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000010_000002.wav|America was criticised and even ridiculed for her altruism in dealing with this problem.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000008_000000.wav|The transformation brought about since that memorable day is almost unbelievable.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/68344/3171_68344_000016_000002.wav|The stories that center around this old fort make one shudder to hear them. Possibly they are exaggerated, but there are many today who believe them.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000010_000004.wav|At these places at least, I say, it would seem as though transmundane energies, God, if you will, produced immediate effects within the natural world to which the rest of our experience belongs.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000012_000005.wav|Popular opinion, respectful to their authority, follows the example which they set.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000006.wav|It seems to me that it is eminently a case for facts to testify.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000002.wav|If there be different gods, each caring for his part, some portion of some of us might not be covered with divine protection, and our religious consolation would thus fail to be complete.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000002_000001.wav|I therefore add this epilogue, which must also be so brief as possibly to remedy but little the defect.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000009_000000.wav|I state the matter thus bluntly, because the current of thought in academic circles runs against me, and I feel like a man who must set his back against an open door quickly if he does not wish to see it closed and locked.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000001.wav|In the Absolute, and in the Absolute only, ALL is saved.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000010.wav|It appertains to a different "-ology," and inhabits a different dimension of being altogether from that in which existential propositions obtain.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000006_000005.wav|We should have spoken earlier, prayed for another world absolutely, before this world was born.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000013_000001.wav|All that the facts require is that the power should be both other and larger than our conscious selves.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000006.wav|Partial and conditional salvation is in fact a most familiar notion when taken in the abstract, the only difficulty being to determine the details.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000004_000002.wav|It takes the facts of physical science at their face value, and leaves the laws of life just as naturalism finds them, with no hope of remedy, in case their fruits are bad.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000006_000001.wav|We owe it to the Absolute that we have a world of fact at all.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000002.wav|God is the producer of immortality; and whoever has doubts of immortality is written down as an atheist without farther trial.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000003.wav|If not regular transcendental idealists, they at least obey the Kantian direction enough to bar out ideal entities from interfering causally in the course of phenomenal events.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000007.wav|Some men are even disinterested enough to be willing to be in the unsaved remnant as far as their persons go, if only they can be persuaded that their cause will prevail-all of us are willing, whenever our activity excitement rises sufficiently high.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000009.wav|I consequently leave the matter open, with this brief word to save the reader from a possible perplexity as to why immortality got no mention in the body of this book.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000007.wav|In this the refined supernaturalists think that it muddles disparate dimensions of existence.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000005_000001.wav|In this universalistic way of taking the ideal world, the essence of practical religion seems to me to evaporate.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000006_000003.wav|An entire world is the smallest unit with which the Absolute can work, whereas to our finite minds work for the better ought to be done within this world, setting in at single points.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000000.wav|The difference in natural "fact" which most of us would assign as the first difference which the existence of a God ought to make would, I imagine, be personal immortality.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000010_000003.wav|I am so impressed by the importance of these phenomena that I adopt the hypothesis which they so naturally suggest.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000008.wav|I think, in fact, that a final philosophy of religion will have to consider the pluralistic hypothesis more seriously than it has hitherto been willing to consider it.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000009.wav|The ideal world, for them, is not a world of facts, but only of the meaning of facts; it is a point of view for judging facts.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000006_000002.wav|"A world" of fact!--that exactly is the trouble.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000012_000002.wav|Nevertheless, in the interests of intellectual clearness, I feel bound to say that religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000011.wav|It cannot get down upon the flat level of experience and interpolate itself piecemeal between distinct portions of nature, as those who believe, for example, in divine aid coming in response to prayer, are bound to think it must.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000000.wav|Originality cannot be expected in a field like this, where all the attitudes and tempers that are possible have been exhibited in literature long ago, and where any new writer can immediately be classed under a familiar head.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000003_000008.wav|For them the world of the ideal has no efficient causality, and never bursts into the world of phenomena at particular points.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000012_000004.wav|Philosophy, with its passion for unity, and mysticism with its monoideistic bent, both "pass to the limit" and identify the something with a unique God who is the all inclusive soul of the world.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000000.wav|Upholders of the monistic view will say to such a polytheism (which, by the way, has always been the real religion of common people, and is so still to day) that unless there be one all inclusive God, our guarantee of security is left imperfect.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000008.wav|Myers, Hodgson, and Hyslop, and am somewhat impressed by their favorable conclusions.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000005.wav|Yet I sympathize with the urgent impulse to be present ourselves, and in the conflict of impulses, both of them so vague yet both of them noble, I know not how to decide.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000001_000000.wav|POSTSCRIPT|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000009.wav|For practical life at any rate, the CHANCE of salvation is enough. No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000011_000007.wav|Facts, I think, are yet lacking to prove "spirit return," though I have the highest respect for the patient labors of Messrs.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000005_000000.wav|It confines itself to sentiments about life as a whole, sentiments which may be admiring and adoring, but which need not be so, as the existence of systematic pessimism proves.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3171/7574/3171_7574_000015_000005.wav|The ordinary moralistic state of mind makes the salvation of the world conditional upon the success with which each unit does its part.|3171
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000014_000003.wav|So the tariff act in eighteen twenty eight, known at the time as "the bill of abominations," was resisted by Southern representatives, because it was the invasion of private rights in violation of the compact by which the States were united.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000003.wav|The law derived much of its support from the assurance that it was only a temporary measure, and intended to shield those whose patriotism had exposed them to danger, thus presenting the not uncommon occurrence of a good case making a bad precedent.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000013.wav|Is it doubtful that this would lead to extravagance, if not to corruption?|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000015.wav|When duties were imposed, not for revenue, but as a bounty to a particular industry, it was regarded both as unjust and without warrant, expressed or implied, in the Constitution.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000008.wav|In the Northern Atlantic States the highlands approached more nearly to the sea, and the rivers made their last leap near to harbors of commerce.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000011.wav|From this it followed that legislation for the benefit of manufacturers became a Northern policy.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000005.wav|In the law there was nothing which necessarily gave to it or in its terms violated the obligation that duties should be uniform throughout the United States.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000012.wav|When the money was obtained by indirect taxation, so that but few could see the source from which it was derived, it readily followed that a constituency would ask, not why the representative had voted for the expenditure of money, but how much he had got for his own district, and perhaps he might have to explain why he did not get more.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000009.wav|Water power being relied on before the steam engine had been made, and ships the medium of commerce before railroads and locomotives were introduced, it followed that the staples of the Southern plains were economically sent to the water power of the North to be manufactured.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000002.wav|Not so with the tariff law of eighteen sixteen: though sustained by men from all sections of the Union, and notably by so strict a constructionist as mr Calhoun, there were not wanting those who saw in it a departure from the limitation of the Constitution, and sternly opposed it as the usurpation of a power to legislate for the benefit of a class.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000009.wav|It was not found that the possession of power mitigated the injustice of its use by the North, and discontent therefore was steadily accumulating, and, as stated in the beginning of this chapter, I think was due to class legislation in the form of protective duties and its consequences more than to any or all other causes combined.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000006.wav|Now that direct taxes had in practice been so wholly abandoned as to be almost an obsolete idea, and now that the Treasury was supplied by the collection of duties upon imports, two golden streams flowed steadily to enrich the Northern and manufacturing region by the impoverishment of the Southern and agricultural section.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000011_000005.wav|These good intentions, if it be conceded that the danger was real which it was designed to avert, were most unfortunate as the beginning of a policy the end of which was fraught with the greatest evils that have ever befallen the Union.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000011_000001.wav|For a long time after the formation of the "more perfect Union," but little capital was invested in manufacturing establishments; and, though in the early part of the present century the amount had considerably increased, the products were yet quite insufficient for the necessary supplies of our armies in the War of eighteen twelve.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000004.wav|For the first time a tariff law had protection for its object, and for the first time it produced discontent.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000011_000000.wav|In the Convention which framed the Constitution for a "more perfect Union," one of the greatest difficulties in agreeing upon its terms was found in the different interests of the States, but, among the compromises which were made, there prominently appears the purpose of a strict equality in the burdens to be borne, as well as the blessings to be enjoyed, by the people of the several States.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000005.wav|As the Southern representatives were mainly those who denied the constitutional power to make such expenditures, it naturally resulted that the mass of those appropriations were made for Northern works.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000010_000000.wav|During the period of our colonial existence, the policy of the British Government had been to suppress the growth of manufacturing industry.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000014_000006.wav|Though the debates showed clearly enough the purpose to be to impose duties for protection, the phraseology of the law presented it as enacted to raise revenue, and therefore the victims of the discrimination were deprived of an appeal to the tribunal instituted to hear and decide on the constitutionality of a law.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000013.wav|This is shown by the fact that anterior to that time they had been the friends of manufacturing industry, without reference to its location.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000011_000002.wav|Government contracts, high prices, and to some extent, no doubt, patriotic impulses, led to the investment of capital in the articles required for the prosecution of the war.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000007.wav|The streams of the Southern Atlantic States ran over wide plains into the sea; their last falls were remote from ocean navigation; and their people, almost exclusively agricultural, resided principally on this plain, and as near to the seaboard as circumstances would permit.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000014_000002.wav|It was not the stamp duty nor the tea tax, but the principle involved in taxation without representation, against which our colonial fathers took up arms.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000010.wav|This remark, of course, applies to such articles as were not exported to foreign countries, and is intended to explain how the North became the seat of manufactures, and the South remained agricultural.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000006.wav|The fact that it affected the sections differently was due to physical causes-that is, geographical differences.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000015.wav|In the decline of the Roman Empire, the epoch in which the hopelessness of renovation was made manifest was that in which the people accepted corn from the public granaries: it preceded but a little the time when the post of emperor became a matter of purchase.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000000.wav|South Carolina, oppressed by onerous duties and stung by the injustice of a refusal to allow her the ordinary remedy against unconstitutional legislation, asserted the right, as a sovereign State, to nullify the law.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000014.wav|Nothing could be more fatal to the independence of the people and the liberties of the States than dependence for support upon the public Treasury, whether it be in the form of subsidies, of bounties, or restrictions on trade for the benefit of special interests.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000012.wav|It was not, as has been erroneously stated, because of the agricultural character of the Southern people, that they were opposed to the policy inaugurated by the tariff act of eighteen sixteen.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000013_000014.wav|As long as duties were imposed for revenue, so that the object was to supply the common Treasury, it had been cheerfully borne, and the agriculture of one section and the manufacturing of another were properly regarded as handmaids, and not unfrequently referred to as the means of strengthening and perpetuating the bonds by which the States were united.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000007.wav|In the train of wealth and demand for labor followed immigration and the more rapid increase of population in the Northern than in the Southern States.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000009_000001.wav|Its influence extended to and affected subjects with which it was not visibly connected, and finally assumed a form surely not contemplated in the original formation of the Union.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000009_000000.wav|We should not omit to refer once more to the most prolific source of sectional strife and alienation, which is believed to have been the question of the tariff, or duties upon imports.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000002.wav|Before an actual collision of arms occurred, Congress wisely adopted the compromise act of eighteen thirty three.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000014_000000.wav|Then arose the controversy, quadrennially renewed and with increasing provocation, in eighteen twenty, in eighteen twenty four, and in eighteen twenty eight--each stage intensifying the discontent, arising more from the injustice than the weight of the burden borne.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000008.wav|I do not deny the existence of other causes, such as the fertile region of the Northwest, the better harbors, the greater amount of shipping of the Northeastern States, and the prejudice of Europeans against contact with the negro race; but the causes I have first stated were, I think, the chief, and those only which are referable to the action of the General Government.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000014_000005.wav|Those who had passed the bill refused to allow the opportunity to test the validity of a tax imposed for the protection of a particular industry.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000010.wav|Turning from the consideration of this question in its sectional aspect, I now invite attention to its general effect upon the character of our institutions.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000015_000011.wav|If the common Treasury of the States had, as under the Confederation, been supplied by direct taxation, who can doubt that a rigid economy would have been the rule of the Government; that representatives would have returned to their tax paying constituents to justify appropriations for which they had voted by showing that they were required for the general welfare, and were authorized by the Constitution under which they were acting?|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000009_000002.wav|In the Articles of Confederation, the first Constitution of the United States, the theory was that of direct taxation, and the manner was to impose upon the States an amount which each was to furnish to the common Treasury to defray expenses for the common defense and general welfare.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276749/8786_276749_000011_000004.wav|The Congress of the United States, in eighteen sixteen, from motives at least to be commended for their generosity, enacted a law to protect from the threatened ruin those of their countrymen who had employed their capital for purposes demanded by the general welfare and common defense.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000010_000002.wav|The assertion is not only incorrect, in stating that force was employed by us, but also in declaring that it was for the destruction of the Government of the United States.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000005.wav|The administration of the affairs of a great people, at a most perilous period, is decided by the answer which it is assumed "the whole family of man" would give to a supposed condition of human affairs which did not exist and which could not exist.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000003.wav|That was the chart which he had just solemnly pledged himself to the country faithfully to follow.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000003_000002.wav|Though President Lincoln designated her as a "combination," it did not make her a combination.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000002_000003.wav|All were in favor of secession.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000007_000002.wav|He says, "So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government." That is the power to make war against foreign nations, for the Government has no other war power.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000000.wav|The answer to this question is very plain.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000011_000002.wav|In their efforts to subjugate us, the destruction of our commerce was regarded by the authorities at Washington as a most efficient measure.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000010.wav|Such must be the verdict of mankind.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000007_000001.wav|The answer which he seems to infer would be given "by the whole family of man" is that such a government as he supposes "can maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes." And, therefore, he concluded that he was right in the judgment of "the whole family of man" in commencing hostilities against us.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000000_000000.wav|If any further evidence had been required to show that it was the determination of the Northern people not only to make no concessions to the grievances of the Southern States, but to increase them to the last extremity, it was furnished by the proclamation of President Lincoln, issued on april fifteenth eighteen sixty one.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000000_000001.wav|This proclamation, which has already been mentioned, requires a further examination, as it was the official declaration, on the part of the Government of the United States, of the war which ensued.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000018_000001.wav|An act was also passed to provide revenue from imports; another, relative to prisoners of war; and such others as were necessary to complete the internal organization of the Government, and establish the administration of public affairs.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000017_000001.wav|This we will, we must, resist to the direst extremity.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000022_000000.wav|This property thus destroyed had been accumulated and constructed with laborious care and skillful ingenuity during a course of years to fulfill one of the objects of the Constitution, which was expressed in these words, "To provide for the common defense" (see Preamble of the Constitution).|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000020_000001.wav|Volunteers were ordered to be enrolled and held in readiness in every part of the State.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000012_000000.wav|The scheme of blockade was resorted to, and a falsehood was asserted on which to base it.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000010_000004.wav|Our separation did not involve its destruction.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000016_000003.wav|Finally, that the intent of the President of the United States, already developed, to invade our soil, capture our forts, blockade our ports, and wage war against us, rendered it necessary to raise means to a much larger amount than had been done, to defray the expenses of maintaining independence and repelling invasion.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000002.wav|It was only to that instrument mr Lincoln as President should have gone to learn his duties.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000007_000000.wav|But the question which mr Lincoln presents "to the whole family of man" deserves a further notice.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000022_000001.wav|It had belonged to all the States in common, and to each one equally with the others.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000008_000005.wav|Its authority consists solely of certain powers delegated to it, as a common agent, by an association of sovereign and independent States.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000012_000005.wav|But the Government of the United States could not consent to justify its blockade of our ports on this ground, as it would be an admission that the Confederate States were a separate and distinct sovereignty, and that the war was prosecuted only for subjugation.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000000_000003.wav|Seventy five thousand men organized and equipped are a powerful army, and, when raised to operate against these States, nothing else than war could be intended.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000000_000002.wav|In it the President called for seventy five thousand men to suppress "combinations" opposed to the laws, and obstructing their execution in seven sovereign States which had retired from the Union.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000007.wav|Where is the value of constitutional liberty?|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000002_000004.wav|The Convention assembled on december seventeenth, and on the twentieth passed "an ordinance to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled 'The Constitution of the United States of America.'" The ordinance began with these words: "We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain," etc|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000008.wav|No less absurd is President Lincoln's effort to dissever the sovereignty of the people from that of the State; as if there could be a State without a people, or a sovereign people without a State.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000008_000000.wav|Nothing could be more erroneous than such views.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000010_000006.wav|He now goes to the Constitution for the exercise of his war power, and here we have another fiction.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000010_000000.wav|"Here," he says, "no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government." For what purpose must he call out this war power?|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000004_000002.wav|For a State or union of States to attack with military force another State, is to make war.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000004_000000.wav|By designating the State as a "combination," and considering that under such a name it might be in a condition of insurrection, he assumed to have authority to raise a great military force and attack the State. Yet, even if the fact had been as assumed, if an insurrection had existed, the President could not lawfully have derived the power he exercised from such condition of affairs.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000019_000003.wav|The gravity of age and the zeal of youth rivaled each other in the desire to be foremost in the public defense.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000001.wav|When certain sovereign and independent States form a union with limited powers for some general purposes, and any one or more of them, in the progress of time, suffer unjust and oppressive grievances for which there is no redress but in a withdrawal from the association, is such withdrawal an insurrection?|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000002_000005.wav|The State authorities immediately conformed to this action of the Convention, and the laws and authority of the United States ceased to be obeyed within the limits of the State.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000008_000006.wav|These powers are to be exercised only for certain specified objects; and the purposes, declared in the beginning of the deed or instrument of delegation, were "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000004.wav|He soon deviated widely from it-and fatally erroneous was his course.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000008_000002.wav|The Government of the United States is like no other government.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000001.wav|In the nature of things, no union can be formed except by separate, independent, and distinct parties.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000006.wav|This is the ground upon which the rectitude of his cause was placed.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000015_000000.wav|To be prepared for self defense, I called Congress together at Montgomery on april twenty ninth, and, in the message of that date, thus spoke of the proclamation of the President of the United States: "Apparently contradictory as are the terms of this singular document, one point is unmistakably evident.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000008_000001.wav|The supposed case which he presents is entirely unlike the real case.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000004.wav|The ambitious and aggressive States obtain possession of the central authority which, having grown strong in the lapse of time, asserts its entire sovereignty over the States.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000010_000005.wav|To such fiction was mr Lincoln compelled to resort to give even apparent justice to his cause.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000005.wav|Any effort on the part of the others to force the seceding State to consent to come back is an attempt at subjugation.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000024_000000.wav|How unreasonable, how blind with rage must have been that administration of affairs which so quickly brought the Government to the necessity of destroying its own means of defense in order, as it publicly declared, "to maintain its life"!|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000002_000001.wav|On the next day an act was passed calling a State Convention to assemble on december seventeenth, to determine the question of the withdrawal of the State from the United States.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000000.wav|Was it an insurrection?|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000011_000001.wav|It further declared that all persons who should under their authority molest any vessel of the United States, or the persons or cargo on board, should be treated as pirates.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000017_000002.wav|The moment that this pretension is abandoned, the sword will drop from our grasp, and we shall be ready to enter into treaties of amity and commerce that can not but be mutually beneficial.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000014_000000.wav|Men do not fight to make a fraternal union, neither do nations.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000021_000004.wav|The great ship Pennsylvania was burned, and the frigates Merrimac and Columbus, and the Delaware, Raritan, Plymouth, and Germantown were sunk.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000012_000004.wav|This is decided to be justifiable.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000007.wav|A forced union is a political absurdity.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000002_000006.wav|About four months afterward, when the State, in union with others which had joined her, had possessed herself of the forts within her limits, which the United States Government had refused to evacuate, President Lincoln issued the above mentioned proclamation.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000007_000003.wav|Planting himself on this position, he commenced the devastation and bloodshed which followed to effect our subjugation.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000003_000004.wav|By assertion, he attempted to annihilate seven States; and the war which followed was to enforce the revolutionary edict, and to establish the supremacy of the General Government on the ruins of the blood bought independence of the States.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000002_000000.wav|On november sixth eighteen sixty, the Legislature of South Carolina assembled and gave the vote of the State for electors of a President of the United States.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000011_000003.wav|It was early seen that, although acts of Congress established ports of entry where commerce existed, they might be repealed, and the ports nominally closed or declared to be closed; yet such a declaration would be of no avail unless sustained by a naval force, as these ports were located in territory not subject to the United States.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000016_000000.wav|I then proceeded to say that I did not feel at liberty to disregard the fact that many of the States seemed quite content to submit to the exercise of the powers assumed by the President of the United States, and were actively engaged in levying troops for the purpose indicated in the proclamation.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000004.wav|A new union might subsequently be formed, but the original one could never by coercion be restored.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000003_000003.wav|Though he refused to recognize her as a State, it did not make her any less a State.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000021_000006.wav|The value of the property destroyed was estimated at several millions of dollars.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000011_000004.wav|An act was subsequently passed authorizing the President of the United States, in his discretion, to close our ports, but it was never executed.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000008_000004.wav|Neither is it a "government of the people by the same people"; but it is known and designated as "the Government of the United States." It is an anomaly among governments.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000021_000002.wav|In three minutes or less, both of the arsenal buildings, containing nearly fifteen thousand stand of arms, together with the carpenter's shop, which was at the upper end of a long and connected series of workshops of the armory proper, were in a blaze.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000021_000000.wav|Already the Northern officer in charge had evacuated Harper's Ferry, after having attempted to destroy the public buildings there.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000010_000003.wav|On the contrary, we wished to leave it alone.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000001.wav|All its powers are there expressed, defined, and limited.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000015_000001.wav|The President of the United States calls for an army of seventy five thousand men, whose first service is to be the capture of our forts.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000009_000007.wav|He says, "No choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government, and so to resist force employed for its destruction by force for its preservation."|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000005.wav|Whichever of them denies it and seeks to retire, is declared to be guilty of insurrection, its citizens are stigmatized as "rebels," as if they had revolted against a master, and a war of subjugation is begun.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000012_000006.wav|It, therefore, assumed that the withdrawal of the Southern States from the Union was an insurrection.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000013_000008.wav|What strength is there in bills of rights-in limitations of power?|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000006_000006.wav|It is a wrong which no lapse of time or combination of circumstances can ever make right.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000021_000001.wav|His report says: "I gave the order to apply the torch.|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8786/276735/8786_276735_000017_000003.wav|So long as this pretension is maintained, with a firm reliance on that Divine Power which covers with its protection the just cause, we must continue to struggle for our inherent right to freedom, independence, and self government."|8786
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000023_000000.wav|Ann took a dollar bill and went to a department store.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000020_000002.wav|How old will Ann's mother be when the book gets back?|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000023_000001.wav|She saved twenty cents for car fare and spent eighty cents for lunch.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000035_000000.wav|SALOON.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000040_000001.wav|What our friends think about us when our backs are turned.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000023_000002.wav|What were the clerks swearing at after Ann went out?|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000062_000000.wav|One evening I rode from Forty second Street to Fifty ninth without once touching the floor with my feet.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000006_000000.wav|RAKE.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000064_000000.wav|Some of our street cars lead a double life, because they are used all winter to act the part of a refrigerator.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000018_000000.wav|RIDDLE.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000050_000000.wav|--Oliver Goldsmith, page thirty four.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000007_000001.wav|The way you get roast beef when you order it well done.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000049_000000.wav|Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Riding down town on the "L." He jumped to his feet Gave a lady his seat- I'm a liar, but don't it sound well.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000078_000000.wav|We are a very nervous and careless people in America.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000039_000001.wav|A violent disease which breaks out all over people when the weather gets warm.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000025_000003.wav|What time does the dinner bell ring and who squares it with the grocer?|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000043_000000.wav|SUCKERS.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000008_000000.wav|REFORM.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000061_000000.wav|To get in some of the street cars about six o'clock is a problem, and to get out again is an assassination.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000036_000001.wav|A thirty dollar Panama hat on a thirty cent man.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000029_000000.wav|Some people's talk is too cheap at any price.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000071_000000.wav|The only difference is that the street cars have a sour taste like a lemon squeezer.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000041_000001.wav|Paying a nickle for a seat in a street car and then waiting till you get it.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000039_000002.wav|The cure costs anywhere from two dollars to fifteen dollars per day, according to the mood the landlord is in.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000009_000001.wav|A man who marries for money and finds it is all in Confederate bills.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000018_000001.wav|A question mark gone mad.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000058_000000.wav|Brave and strong men climb into a street car and they are full of health and life and vigor, but a few blocks up the road they fall out backwards and inquire feebly for a sanitarium.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000008_000001.wav|A bird which is always flying towards us but which never gets here.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000035_000001.wav|Something which can be opened on credit, but it takes cash to start a church.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000011_000001.wav|Something which is said to have wings, but I can't prove it, because they never flew my way.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000069_000000.wav|Often while riding in the street cars I have felt a germ rubbing against my ankle like a kitten, but being a gentleman, I did not reach down and kick it away because the law says we must not be disrespectful to the dumb brutes of the field.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000037_000000.wav|SATAN.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000043_000001.wav|The bait used by those who go fishing for compliments.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000022_000001.wav|james wrote two letters, one to his wife and one to his lady typewriter.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000005_000000.wav|RAG.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000070_000000.wav|Many of our street cars are made out of the same idea as a can of condensed milk.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000011_000000.wav|RICHES.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000038_000000.wav|SCEPTIC.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26853/4807_26853_000045_000001.wav|Failure kicked to pieces by hard work.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000071_000002.wav|It is constructed by making one stitch and forgetting seven. The Peekaboo is the only friend the mosquito has on earth.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000074_000000.wav|PLAN.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000016_000000.wav|No matter how many good things our friends say about us, we are never surprised.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000078_000000.wav|POLITICS.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000024_000000.wav|NECESSITY.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000042_000000.wav|OATS.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000005_000000.wav|MACARONI.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000070_000000.wav|PEACH.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000069_000000.wav|PATHOS.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000026_000000.wav|NECK.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000062_000000.wav|Perhaps you have met the man who is so wrapped up in himself that he thinks he is a warm baby.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000090_000000.wav|Quotation marks cover a multitude of plagiarists.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000070_000001.wav|A bit of domestic fruit, consisting of blonde tresses, a dimple, and three bows of pink ribbon.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000050_000000.wav|OPERA.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000022_000000.wav|NATION.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000081_000000.wav|POSTERITY.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000080_000000.wav|POPULARITY.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000053_000001.wav|A modern abbreviation of chloroform.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000028_000000.wav|NIT.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000081_000001.wav|A lot of people who will forget all about you before they are born.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000033_000000.wav|NODDLE.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000067_000001.wav|A disease that affects many women.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000064_000000.wav|Philosophers do not believe half the things they tell themselves.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000021_000001.wav|A man who can put on a new suit of clothes every fifteen minutes.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000075_000000.wav|PLEASURE.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000074_000001.wav|Something which any fool can lay, but it takes patience like a hen to hatch it.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000083_000000.wav|PREDICTION.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000017_000000.wav|Nothing is so astonishing to us as another man's success.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000032_000000.wav|NOISE.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000034_000000.wav|NOVEL.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000021_000000.wav|NABOB.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000024_000001.wav|The mother of many an empty stomach.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000043_000000.wav|OBEY.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000079_000000.wav|POLITICIAN.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000028_000001.wav|An abbreviation of Nix.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000000_000000.wav|Money cannot buy happiness, but most of us are willing to make the experiment.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000083_000002.wav|He says what he thinks it will be and then the weather is what it pleases.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000088_000000.wav|Quitters cannot be trained to quit quitting.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000006_000001.wav|That part of the human face which is visible above the collar.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000057_000001.wav|An attack of hysteria which broke out at a banquet and became epidemic in the newspapers.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000066_000002.wav|See the bartender.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000051_000000.wav|OPPORTUNITY.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000030_000000.wav|NOPE.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000010_000001.wav|The fellow who butts in and says you're not entitled to a medal.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000034_000001.wav|A book that sells better than it reads.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000047_000000.wav|OLD HEN.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000023_000000.wav|NATURE.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000066_000001.wav|A polite name for balloon juice.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000067_000000.wav|PALPITATION OF THE TONGUE.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000071_000000.wav|PEEKABOO.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000078_000001.wav|The place where a man gets it-sometimes in the neck, sometimes in the bank.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000063_000000.wav|Pleasure travels with a brass band, but Trouble sneaks in on rubber shoes.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000008_000000.wav|MARVEL.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000006_000000.wav|MAP.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000033_000001.wav|The place where some people think they think.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000082_000001.wav|When Nature makes a pink lobster look like a man.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000080_000001.wav|The cold storage house where the world sends her favorites before she forgets them.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000085_000000.wav|PROMISE.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000075_000001.wav|Fun you have to day so you can worry over it to morrow.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000048_000001.wav|A green grape dropped in a cocktail so the customer can pull it out with his fingers.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000082_000000.wav|PRACTICAL JOKE.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000046_000000.wav|OIL. See john d Rockerfeller-if you can.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000019_000000.wav|Nothing ventured nothing wonderful.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000022_000001.wav|A large principality ready to go to war at a moment's notice. For example: Carrie Nation.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000037_000000.wav|Oh, yes, the man with a jag can hold on to the fence, but he can't hold on to his reputation.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000052_000000.wav|ORIGINALITY.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000073_000001.wav|A man who can size himself up and forget the result.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000053_000000.wav|OSLER.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000066_000000.wav|PAINT.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000056_000001.wav|To pour chloroform over an old man's breakfast food and telephone for the undertaker.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000029_000000.wav|NIX.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000027_000001.wav|The battle cry in a barber shop before blood is shed.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000002_000000.wav|Money is the root of much friendship.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000048_000000.wav|OLIVE.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4807/26852/4807_26852_000069_000001.wav|A poor man laughing at his rich wife's poor joke.|4807
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000038_000000.wav|"What's that for?|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000018_000003.wav|It would be like living in a church.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000031_000002.wav|It is a white dog.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000045_000001.wav|They said it was very kind of him, and fell behind, and followed.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000030_000001.wav|Will the prized treasures of to day always be the cheap trifles of the day before?|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000017_000002.wav|But the room looks cheerful now.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000015_000000.wav|"Oak," he explained.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000050_000003.wav|That made Harris mad, and he produced his map, and explained his theory.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000056_000002.wav|It became so regular at length, that some of the people stopped there, and waited for the others to take a walk round, and come back to them.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000033_000001.wav|We are too familiar with it.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000051_000000.wav|"The map may be all right enough," said one of the party, "if you know whereabouts in it we are now."|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000043_000005.wav|He said:|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000014_000000.wav|From the stairs, they went into the drawing room, which was a large, bright room, decorated with a somewhat startling though cheerful paper of a blue ground.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000001_000000.wav|Kingston.--Instructive remarks on early English history.--Instructive observations on carved oak and life in general.--Sad case of Stivvings, junior.--Musings on antiquity.--I forget that I am steering.--Interesting result.--Hampton Court Maze.--Harris as a guide.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000012_000001.wav|It is a shop now, in the market place, but it was evidently once the mansion of some great personage.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000020_000002.wav|Rich old couples, with no one to leave their money to, die childless.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000014_000002.wav|The proprietor went up to the paper, and tapped it.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000023_000002.wav|I believe he really liked study.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000055_000000.wav|And three minutes later they were back in the centre again.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000043_000004.wav|It was a country cousin that Harris took in.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000013_000001.wav|My friend said he would, and the shopman, thereupon, took him through the shop, and up the staircase of the house.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000056_000003.wav|Harris drew out his map again, after a while, but the sight of it only infuriated the mob, and they told him to go and curl his hair with it.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000041_000000.wav|But, there, I don't suppose I should really care for it when it came to actual practice.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000054_000000.wav|Anyhow, they had got something to start from then.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000056_000001.wav|Whatever way they turned brought them back to the middle.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000036_000001.wav|I said, pleasantly enough:|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000025_000000.wav|They put him under laughing gas one year, poor lad, and drew all his teeth, and gave him a false set, because he suffered so terribly with toothache; and then it turned to neuralgia and ear ache.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000014_000003.wav|It gave forth a wooden sound.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000024_000000.wav|Well, that boy used to get ill about twice a week, so that he couldn't go to school.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000031_000007.wav|Thoughtless friends jeer at it, and even my landlady herself has no admiration for it, and excuses its presence by the circumstance that her aunt gave it to her.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000022_000000.wav|It does not do to dwell on these things; it makes one so sad.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000033_000003.wav|So it is with that china dog.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000010_000000.wav|Years later, to the crash of battle music, Saxon kings and Saxon revelry were buried side by side, and Kingston's greatness passed away for a time, to rise once more when Hampton Court became the palace of the Tudors and the Stuarts, and the royal barges strained at their moorings on the river's bank, and bright cloaked gallants swaggered down the water steps to cry: "What Ferry, ho!|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000008_000000.wav|Perhaps, from the casement, standing hand in hand, they were watching the calm moonlight on the river, while from the distant halls the boisterous revelry floated in broken bursts of faint heard din and tumult.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000046_000000.wav|They picked up various other people who wanted to get it over, as they went along, until they had absorbed all the persons in the maze.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000031_000003.wav|Its eyes blue.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000020_000000.wav|Married men have wives, and don't seem to want them; and young single fellows cry out that they can't get them.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000010_000001.wav|Gadzooks, gramercy."|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000038_000001.wav|Why-"|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/954/130627/954_130627_000012_000000.wav|Speaking of oak staircases reminds me that there is a magnificent carved oak staircase in one of the houses in Kingston.|954
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000097_000000.wav|"Quite possibly."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000034_000002.wav|I'm reading the four gospels now, and the 'Varieties of Religious Experience.'"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000007_000000.wav|"Why!"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000074_000000.wav|"I do-I believe Christ had great physical vigor."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000119_000000.wav|Burne was drawing farther and farther away from the world about him.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000043_000000.wav|"Well," continued Burne, "you may strike a few poems that are tiresome, but I mean the mass of his work.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000044_000001.wav|"I've read 'Anna Karenina' and the 'Kreutzer Sonata' of course, but Tolstoi is mostly in the original Russian as far as I'm concerned."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000011_000000.wav|"But this is the real thing?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000003_000000.wav|"no|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000125_000000.wav|"What's he trying to do-be excessively holy?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000132_000000.wav|"It's odd," Amory said to Tom one night when they had grown more amicable on the subject, "that the people who violently disapprove of Burne's radicalism are distinctly the Pharisee class-I mean they're the best educated men in college-the editors of the papers, like yourself and Ferrenby, the younger professors....|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000147_000000.wav|"Like this morning."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000035_000000.wav|"What chiefly started you?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000047_000001.wav|Being Burne was suddenly so much realler than being clever. Yet he sighed... here were other possible clay feet.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000137_000001.wav|Either I've misjudged him or he's suddenly become the world's worst radical."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000114_000000.wav|"He's evil, I think, yet he's strong and sane."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000105_000005.wav|No; I decided, it's better on the whole that I should lose a watch than that I should turn back-and I did go into them-not only followed the road through them, but walked into them until I wasn't frightened any more-did it until one night I sat down and dozed off in there; then I knew I was through being afraid of the dark."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000043_000002.wav|They both look things in the face, and, somehow, different as they are, stand for somewhat the same things."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000099_000000.wav|"Doesn't sound very appealing to me," admitted Amory reluctantly, "but let's go."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000053_000000.wav|"If you ask me," cried Phyllis quickly.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000136_000000.wav|"Going to flay him alive?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000148_000000.wav|"What the devil-that editorial was on the coaching system."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000149_000000.wav|"Yes, but that quotation-"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000105_000001.wav|That made it all right-as it always makes everything all right to project yourself completely into another's place.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000151_000000.wav|"What quotation?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000025_000000.wav|Burne turned to him quickly.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000016_000000.wav|"Wild, of course.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000083_000000.wav|"People unconsciously admit it," said Amory.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000016_000002.wav|It's the same at all the clubs; I've been the rounds.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000005_000000.wav|"What!"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000065_000001.wav|About a hundred juniors and seniors resigned from their clubs in a final fury of righteousness, and the clubs in helplessness turned upon Burne their finest weapon: ridicule.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000107_000000.wav|"Well," Burne said suddenly, after a few moments' silence, "we're half-way through, let's turn back."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000106_000002.wav|I'd have come out half-way, and the first time an automobile passed and made the dark thicker when its lamps disappeared, I'd have come in."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000031_000000.wav|"How about religion?" Amory asked him.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000092_000000.wav|"No! Call them remarkable looking or anything you want-but ugly they certainly are."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000062_000001.wav|She tried to walk a little ahead, she tried to walk a little behind-but they stayed close, that there should be no doubt whom she was with, talking in loud voices of their friends on the football team, until she could almost hear her acquaintances whispering:|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000034_000000.wav|"Everything.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000117_000000.wav|"I'm sure I'm not-and so I don't believe in imprisonment except for the insane."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000141_000000.wav|"I just read your editorial."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000012_000001.wav|I think it'll go through."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000028_000000.wav|The intense power Amory felt later in Burne Holiday differed from the admiration he had had for Humbird.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000143_000000.wav|"Jesse, you startled me."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000118_000001.wav|It seemed to him that life and history were rife with the strong criminal, keen, but often self deluding; in politics and business one found him and among the old statesmen and kings and generals; but Burne never agreed and their courses began to split on that point.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000153_000000.wav|"Well-what about it?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000091_000000.wav|Amory shook his head.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000150_000000.wav|Jesse sat up.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000115_000000.wav|"I've never met him.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000028_000003.wav|But that night Amory was struck by Burne's intense earnestness, a quality he was accustomed to associate only with the dread stupidity, and by the great enthusiasm that struck dead chords in his heart.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000060_000001.wav|There were Burne and Fred Sloane arrayed to the last dot like the lurid figures on college posters.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000009_000000.wav|"Well, what's the idea of the thing?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000046_000001.wav|Burne Holiday was so evidently developing-and Amory had considered that he was doing the same.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000070_000001.wav|I suppose I have it coming."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000128_000000.wav|"Have you talked to him lately?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000113_000000.wav|"Well?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000044_000000.wav|"You have me stumped, Burne," Amory admitted.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000133_000000.wav|The next morning he met Burne hurrying along McCosh walk after a recitation.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000013_000000.wav|"For Pete's sake, tell me more about it."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000018_000001.wav|Burne's a damn good talker, and so obviously sincere that you can't get anywhere with him.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000093_000000.wav|Unabashed, Burne ran his hand lovingly across the spacious foreheads, and piling up the pictures put them back in his desk.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000014_000002.wav|They had a 'discussion crowd' and the point of abolishing the clubs was brought up by some one-everybody there leaped at it-it had been in each one's mind, more or less, and it just needed a spark to bring it out."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000061_000000.wav|A good half of the station crowd was already staring at them, torn between horrified pity and riotous mirth, and as Phyllis, with her svelte jaw dropping, approached, the pair bent over and emitted a college cheer in loud, far carrying voices, thoughtfully adding the name "Phyllis" to the end.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000072_000000.wav|"Of course health counts-a healthy man has twice the chance of being good," he said.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000144_000000.wav|"How so?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000067_000000.wav|"Of course I don't.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000075_000000.wav|"Oh, no," Amory protested.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000126_000003.wav|He doesn't believe that public swimming pools and a kind word in time will right the wrongs of the world; moreover, he takes a drink whenever he feels like it."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000022_000001.wav|"Hello, Amory-hello, Tom."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000106_000000.wav|"Lordy," Amory breathed.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000027_000001.wav|Broad browed and strong chinned, with a fineness in the honest gray eyes that were like Kerry's, Burne was a man who gave an immediate impression of bigness and security-stubborn, that was evident, but his stubbornness wore no stolidity, and when he had talked for five minutes Amory knew that this keen enthusiasm had in it no quality of dilettantism.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000016_000003.wav|They get one of the radicals in the corner and fire questions at him."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000077_000000.wav|"Well, even granting that, I don't think health has anything to do with goodness; of course, it's valuable to a great saint to be able to stand enormous strains, but this fad of popular preachers rising on their toes in simulated virility, bellowing that calisthenics will save the world-no, Burne, I can't go that."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000116_000000.wav|"I've met him over and over and he's neither.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000054_000000.wav|"Of course I do," said Burne feebly.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000122_000000.wav|"It's a bad time to admit it-people are beginning to think he's odd."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000060_000000.wav|The blithesome Phyllis bore her twenty five summers gayly from the train, but on the platform a ghastly sight met her eyes.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000049_000002.wav|It took two expert mechanics half a day to dissemble it into its minutest parts and remove it, which only goes to prove the rare energy of sophomore humor under efficient leadership.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000030_000000.wav|Then Amory branched off and found that Burne was deep in other things as well.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000095_000000.wav|"I hate the dark," Amory objected.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000034_000001.wav|I have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things to make me think.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000118_000000.wav|On this point Amory could not agree.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000098_000000.wav|"We'll go east," Burne suggested, "and down that string of roads through the woods."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000126_000002.wav|He has no faith in that rot.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000075_000001.wav|"He worked too hard for that.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000010_000000.wav|"Oh, clubs injurious to Princeton democracy; cost a lot; draw social lines, take time; the regular line you get sometimes from disappointed sophomores.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000105_000003.wav|Then I thought of my watch.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000003_000001.wav|Somebody flunked out?|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000015_000000.wav|"Fine!|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000067_000001.wav|What's prestige, at best?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000103_000000.wav|"I used to come out here alone at night, oh, three months ago, and I always stopped at that cross road we just passed.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000119_000003.wav|Sometimes Amory would see him squirm in his seat; and his face would light up; he was on fire to debate a point.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000137_000000.wav|"No-but he's got me all balled up.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, moderately well.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000000_000001.wav|Narcissus Off Duty|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000108_000000.wav|On the return he launched into a discussion of will.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000102_000000.wav|"Go on," Amory urged eagerly.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000059_000000.wav|But Burne only shook his head and muttered threats which consisted largely of the phrase: "She'll see, she'll see!"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000111_000001.wav|If not, they're weak.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000003_000002.wav|Or another ship sunk?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000055_000001.wav|"This will be the last game she ever persuades any young innocent to take her to!"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000101_000001.wav|"And this very walking at night is one of the things I was afraid about.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000088_000000.wav|Amory tried politely to appreciate them, and gave up laughingly.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000054_000003.wav|Aside from loathing Phyllis, he had particularly wanted to stag that game and entertain some Harvard friends.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000026_000000.wav|"You probably know what I want to talk to Tom about, and it isn't a bit private.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000075_000002.wav|I imagine that when he died he was a broken down man-and the great saints haven't been strong."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000083_000002.wav|If a blond girl doesn't talk we call her a 'doll'; if a light haired man is silent he's considered stupid.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000012_000000.wav|"Absolutely.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000135_000001.wav|"He wrote this editorial."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000018_000003.wav|In fact, I believe Burne thought for a while that he'd converted me."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000040_000000.wav|"Yes; he's a definite ethical force."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000154_000000.wav|Jesse was puzzled but not alarmed.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000109_000002.wav|I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000018_000002.wav|It's so evident that resigning from his club means so much more to him than preventing it does to us that I felt futile when I argued; finally took a position that was brilliantly neutral.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000037_000000.wav|"Poetry?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000049_000001.wav|In the course of the altercation the dean remarked that he "might as well buy the taxicab." He paid and walked off, but next morning he entered his private office to find the taxicab itself in the space usually occupied by his desk, bearing a sign which read "Property of Dean Hollister. Bought and Paid for."...|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000032_000001.wav|I'm in a muddle about a lot of things-I've just discovered that I've a mind, and I'm starting to read."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000087_000000.wav|"Aren't they wonderful?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000036_000000.wav|"Wells, I guess, and Tolstoi, and a man named Edward Carpenter.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000042_000000.wav|Tom nodded sheepishly.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000014_000001.wav|I was talking to Burne awhile ago, and he claims that it's a logical result if an intelligent person thinks long enough about the social system.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000126_000000.wav|"No! not like anybody you've ever seen.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000103_000002.wav|Of course, I peopled the woods with everything ghastly, just like you do; don't you?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000010_000001.wav|Woodrow thought they should be abolished and all that."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000101_000002.wav|I'm going to tell you why I can walk anywhere now and not be afraid."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER four.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000064_000000.wav|That had been Burne, dynamically humorous, fundamentally serious.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000140_000000.wav|"Hello there, Savonarola."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000135_000000.wav|"Over to the Prince office to see Ferrenby," he waved a copy of the morning's Princetonian at Amory.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000017_000000.wav|"How do the radicals stand up?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000060_000002.wav|They had bought flaring suits with huge peg top trousers and gigantic padded shoulders.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000021_000000.wav|"Lord-who'd have thought it possible!"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000134_000000.wav|"Whither bound, Tsar?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000112_000000.wav|"Burne, I disagree with you altogether; how about the superman?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000110_000000.wav|"How about great criminals?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000073_000000.wav|"I don't agree with you-I don't believe in 'muscular Christianity.'"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000004_000000.wav|"Worse than that.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000039_000000.wav|"Whitman?"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000006_000000.wav|"Actual fact!"|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000138_000001.wav|Burne had come into the editor's sanctum displaying the paper cheerfully.|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/249/121331/249_121331_000095_000001.wav|"I didn't use to-except when I was particularly imaginative, but now, I really do-I'm a regular fool about it."|249
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000000.wav|Edgar Caswall tortured his brain for a long time unavailingly, to think of some means of getting rid of what he, as well as his neighbours, had come to regard as a plague of birds.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000014_000000.wav|After a few days, men began to grow desperate; their very words as well as their senses seemed to be in chains.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000014_000001.wav|Edgar Caswall again tortured his brain to find any antidote or palliative of this greater evil than before.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000015_000000.wav|It was strange indeed what influence that weird kite seemed to exercise. Even human beings were affected by it, as if both it and they were realities.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000001.wav|His eyes glowed with a fiery light.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000013.wav|Her face suddenly flamed, as if some divine light shone through it.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000016_000001.wav|Those who were interested took care to compare their information.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000017.wav|It was evidently intended to give some sign to the negro, for he came, in his usual stealthy way, quietly in by the hall door, which was open.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000015.wav|It was evident to me that he had come prepared for some sort of mesmeric or hypnotic battle.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000016_000003.wav|By nature he was not sensitive to, or afflicted by, nerves.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000029.wav|This time, to go on in sporting phrase, it was understood by all to be a 'fight to a finish,' and the mixed group did not slacken a moment or relax their efforts.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000012_000006.wav|Men seemed to have lost the power of expression of their thoughts.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000012_000005.wav|One and all, the faces of men and women seemed bereft of vitality, of interest, of thought, and, most of all, of hope.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000012_000001.wav|Not only did the birds cease song or chirp, but the lowing of the cattle ceased in the fields and the varied sounds of life died away.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000020.wav|This evidently made a difficulty for mr Caswall, for his efforts, without appearing to get feebler, seemed less effective.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000033.wav|A dozen times she seemed about to collapse in a faint, but each time, on catching sight of Mimi's eyes, she made a fresh struggle and pulled through.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000002.wav|The experience was of some years ago in China, far up country, towards the head waters of the Yang tze kiang, where the smaller tributaries spread out in a sort of natural irrigation scheme to supply the wilderness of paddy fields.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000016_000000.wav|Of course, some of those already drawn into the vortex noticed the effect on individuals.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000009_000005.wav|So monotonous it was, so cheerless, so disheartening, so melancholy, that all longed, but in vain, for any variety, no matter how terrible it might be.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000018_000003.wav|But as she could do nothing, she resolutely made up her mind to self restraint and patience.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000013.wav|All the birds were cowed; their sounds stopped. Neither song nor chirp was heard-silence seemed to have taken the place of the normal voices of bird life.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000014_000002.wav|He would gladly have destroyed the kite, or caused its flying to cease; but the instant it was pulled down, the birds rose up in even greater numbers; all those who depended in any way on agriculture sent pitiful protests to Castra Regis.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000007.wav|As for myself, the bonds of will which held me inactive seemed like bands of steel which numbed all my faculties, except sight and hearing.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000003.wav|His companions in the baleful work seemed to have taken on something of his feeling.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000022.wav|Then there was a diversion.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000009_000000.wav|The reports closer to home were even more disturbing.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000018_000001.wav|As time went on, her face became pinched, and her eyes dull with watching and crying.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000017.wav|The sound from the unseen source rose and rose as he retreated, till finally it swelled out in a triumphant peal, as she with a fierce sweep of her arm, seemed to hurl something at her foe, and he, moving his hands blindly before his face, appeared to be swept through the doorway and out into the open sunlight.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000024.wav|I had seen her coming through the great window.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000003_000002.wav|The old man summed up his appearance and manner thus: "Braced up for battle."|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000007_000001.wav|Even the figures of the baleful group were there, though dimly seen as through a veil-a shadowy veil.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000015_000002.wav|Lilla felt it most.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000011.wav|Mechanically it touched that of Lilla, and in that instant she was transformed.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000014.wav|However, the more nervous she grew, the harder mr Caswall stared.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000003_000001.wav|He was pale and upset, but otherwise looked strong and alert.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000009.wav|The experience of China was repeated.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000013_000001.wav|Everything was affected; gloom was the predominant note.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000016.wav|There was a sound as of the cooing sob of doves, which seemed to multiply and intensify with each second.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000013.wav|I could see that Lilla began to suffer from nervousness, as on the first occasion; but she carried herself bravely.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000006.wav|However, we got on very well.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000016_000004.wav|This alone would not have produced the seeming indifference, so they set their minds to discover the real cause.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000009_000002.wav|Each bird seemed to sound some note of fear or anger or seeking, and the whirring of wings never ceased nor lessened.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000014.wav|But that was not all.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000025.wav|Without a word she crossed the room and stood beside mr Caswall.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000002.wav|Miss Watford received me as kindly as before; Mimi, too, seemed glad to see me.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000017_000002.wav|mr Watford, mr Salton, and Sir Nathaniel were all concerned in the issue, partly from kindness of heart-for none of them could see suffering, even of wild birds, unmoved-and partly on account of their property, which had to be protected, or ruin would stare them in the face before long.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000012.wav|It was as if youth and strength entered afresh into something already dead to sensibility and intention. As if by inspiration, she grasped the other's band with a force which blenched the knuckles.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000009_000003.wav|The air was full of a muttered throb.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000027.wav|To us it was simply horrible.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000028.wav|But all that you can understand.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000003_000000.wav|He was home just as the clocks were striking six.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000015_000001.wav|As for the people at Mercy Farm, it was like a taste of actual death.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000010_000002.wav|And as yet it was only a warning of evil, not the evil accomplished; the ground began to look bare whenever some passing sound temporarily frightened the birds.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000018_000002.wav|Mimi suffered too on account of her cousin's suffering.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000007.wav|He talked pleasantly on all sorts of questions.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000018.wav|Then mr Caswall's efforts at staring became intensified, and poor Lilla's nervousness grew greater.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000009.wav|Something must happen, though the power of guessing was inactive.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000005.wav|The kite was shaped like a great hawk; and the moment it rose into the air the birds began to cower and seek protection-and then to disappear.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000004.wav|Lady Arabella looked like a soulless, pitiless being, not human, unless it revived old legends of transformed human beings who had lost their humanity in some transformation or in the sweep of natural savagery.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000002_000000.wav|On the following day, a little after four o'clock, Adam set out for Mercy.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000011.wav|Had it not been for the drawing down of the brows and the stern set of the jaws, I should not at first have noticed anything.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000008_000000.wav|By the next morning, daylight showed the actual danger which threatened. From every part of the eastern counties reports were received concerning the enormous immigration of birds.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000008.wav|Then he and his men, with a sufficiency of cord, began to fly it high overhead.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000012.wav|But the stare, when presently it began, increased in intensity.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000004.wav|He was followed closely by the negro, who was puffing hard as if he had been running-so it was probably he who watched.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000007_000000.wav|"All at once my own faculties were fully restored; I could see and hear everything, and be fully conscious of what was going on.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000017_000000.wav|Lady Arabella's cold nature rendered her immune to anything in the way of pain or trouble concerning others.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000005.wav|As for the negro-well, I can only say that it was solely due to the self restraint which you impressed on me that I did not wipe him out as he stood-without warning, without fair play-without a single one of the graces of life and death.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000026.wav|It really was very like a fight of a peculiar kind; and the longer it was sustained the more earnest-the fiercer-it grew. That combination of forces-the over lord, the white woman, and the black man-would have cost some-probably all of them-their lives in the Southern States of America.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000031.wav|She grew pale-a patchy pallor, which meant that her nerves were out of order.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000015.wav|The silence spread to all animals.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000004_000000.wav|"Now!" said Sir Nathaniel, and settled down to listen, looking at Adam steadily and listening attentively that he might miss nothing-even the inflection of a word.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000010_000000.wav|The second morning the reports from all the districts round were more alarming than ever.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000000.wav|"By now mr Caswall's face had lost its appearance of passivity.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000013_000002.wav|Joy appeared to have passed away as a factor of life, and this creative impulse had nothing to take its place.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000006_000006.wav|Lilla was silent in the helpless concentration of deadly fear; Mimi was all resolve and self forgetfulness, so intent on the soul struggle in which she was engaged that there was no possibility of any other thought.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000011_000010.wav|The moment the kite rose, the birds hid or sought shelter.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000012_000000.wav|The fear and restraint which brooded amongst the denizens of the air began to affect all life.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000016_000002.wav|Strangely enough, as it seemed to the others, the person who took the ghastly silence least to heart was the negro.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000005_000010.wav|True, they seemed to be very deep and earnest, but there was no offence in them.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000016_000006.wav|Thus the black had a never failing source of amusement.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/7622/4290_7622_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten-THE KITE|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000024_000001.wav|He never fully understood the causes of his defeat, and never excused it by pleading, as he might have done, the great superiority of his enemy.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000013_000008.wav|Captain Joseph Gilbert Totten, of New York, was chief engineer to General Izard at Plattsburg, where he directed the fortifications that stopped the advance of Prevost's great army.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000020_000000.wav|Hull could not expect to keep command of the Constitution.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000018_000008.wav|Hull expected capture, but the Belvidera could not approach nearer without bringing her boats under the Constitution's stern guns; and the wearied crews toiled on, towing and kedging, the ships barely out of gunshot, till another morning came.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000002_000003.wav|That incapacity in national politics should appear as a leading trait in American character was unexpected by Americans, but might naturally result from their conditions.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000018_000002.wav|Hull put out his boats to tow the Constitution; Broke summoned the boats of the squadron to tow the Shannon.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000005_000005.wav|Nothing showed that Nelson's line of battle ships, frigates, or sloops were, as a rule, better fought than the Macedonian and Java, the Avon and Reindeer.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000013_000005.wav|The lieutenant colonel in eighteen twelve was Walker Keith Armistead, of Virginia,--the third graduate, who planned the defenses of Norfolk.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000000_000000.wav|WHAT THE WAR OF eighteen twelve DEMONSTRATED|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000017_000001.wav|The next day it came on a richer prize.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000022_000003.wav|For about an hour the two ships wore and wore again, trying to get advantage of position; until at last, a few minutes before six o'clock, they came together side by side, within pistol shot, the wind almost astern, and running before it, they pounded each other with all their strength.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000010_000000.wav|The conclusion seemed incredible, but it was supported by the results of the naval battles.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000005_000003.wav|Every vestige of hostile fleets had been swept away, until, after the battle of Trafalgar, British frigates ceased practice with their guns.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000018_000007.wav|All night the British and American crews toiled on, and when morning came the Belvidera, proving to be the best sailer, got in advance of her consorts, working two kedge anchors, until at two o'clock in the afternoon she tried in her turn to reach the Constitution with her bow guns, but in vain.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000013_000003.wav|The number of graduates before the year eighteen twelve was very small; but at the outbreak of the war the corps of engineers was already efficient.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000009_000007.wav|Riall reported one hundred and forty eight killed; Scott reported sixty one.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000017_000003.wav|The Constitution, the best frigate in the United States service, sailed into the midst of Broke's five ships.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000023_000002.wav|In every respect, and in proportion of ten to seven, the Constitution was the better ship; her crew was more numerous in proportion of ten to six.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000009_000004.wav|According to the reports, the two infantry lines in the centre never came nearer than eighty yards. Major General Riall reported that then, owing to severe losses, his troops broke and could not be rallied.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4290/14526/4290_14526_000013_000006.wav|Major William McRee, of North Carolina, became chief engineer to General Brown and constructed the fortifications at Fort Erie, which cost the British General Gordon Drummond the loss of half his army, besides the mortification of defeat.|4290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13250/3389_13250_000008_000002.wav|But I've about made up my mind.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13250/3389_13250_000008_000001.wav|"That's harder to decide.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000057_000001.wav|Boys, count them out, and I'll buy them tonight."|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000015_000000.wav|"I don't think, Clark, that it ought to be printed, and that's the end of it," said Norman, looking up from his desk.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000024_000001.wav|I have decided not to do a thing in connection with the paper for a whole year that I honestly believe Jesus would not do."|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000033_000001.wav|It can't be done.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000062_000000.wav|He walked out of the office and went home.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000060_000000.wav|"Fair!|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000034_000000.wav|Norman did not reply at once.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000055_000000.wav|"What's the matter here, George?" he asked the clerk as he noted the unusual confusion.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000028_000008.wav|It will be a great mistake if you do, in my opinion."|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000009_000000.wav|He took the type written matter just as it came from the telegraph editor and ran over it carefully.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000006_000001.wav|It will make up three columns and a half.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000022_000000.wav|Clark came in and the two men faced each other alone.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000037_000000.wav|"It does not.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000003_000000.wav|He had come down to the office very early, and for a few minutes was by himself.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000019_000001.wav|All the other papers will print it.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000049_000001.wav|Look!"|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000028_000005.wav|The very best people in town are eager to read it.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000008_000000.wav|"Yes-no|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000052_000002.wav|But he couldn't tell why, and ran over to the NEWS office to find out.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000028_000007.wav|Surely, you can't afford to disregard the wishes of the public to such an extent.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000047_000002.wav|There's no prize fight here!|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000017_000000.wav|"Do you mean that the paper is to go to press without a word of the prize fight in it?"|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000029_000001.wav|Then he spoke gently but firmly.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000020_000000.wav|Norman looked at Clark thoughtfully.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000036_000001.wav|"The report does not go in?"|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000040_000000.wav|Clark walked out of the room to his own desk feeling as if the bottom had dropped out of everything.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000028_000003.wav|You can't make it pay. Just as sure as you live, if you shut out this prize fight report you will lose hundreds of subscribers.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000028_000000.wav|"I think it will simply ruin the paper," replied Clark promptly.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000036_000000.wav|Clark rose.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000030_000000.wav|"Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct?|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13247/3389_13247_000045_000005.wav|NEWS, sir?"|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/130127/3389_130127_000021_000006.wav|At this thought Passepartout tore his hair.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/130127/3389_130127_000018_000000.wav|"On the way to Yokohama?"|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000027_000000.wav|"Clark," said Norman, speaking slowly and carefully, "I have been looking at our advertising columns and have decided to dispense with some of the matter as soon as the contracts run out.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000001_000001.wav|Two or three of these letters may be of interest.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000039_000008.wav|It was a very unusual proceeding, but they all agreed that the paper was being run on new principles anyhow, and they all watched mr Norman carefully as he spoke.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000022_000000.wav|But the letter directed Norman's attention to the advertising phase of his paper.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000024_000006.wav|He was simply doing what every other business man in Raymond did.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000013_000002.wav|I know something of what it will cost you, but not all.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000029_000000.wav|"This will mean a great loss to the NEWS.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000040_000001.wav|I understand very well that some things I have already done are regarded by the men as very strange.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000040_000002.wav|I wish to state my motive in doing what I have done."|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000031_000001.wav|But what has that to do with us?|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000047_000000.wav|"It comes to this, then," said Clark frankly, "you will bankrupt the paper in thirty days.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000048_000000.wav|"I don't think we shall.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000039_000002.wav|He was sole proprietor of the paper; it was his to shape as he chose.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000020_000001.wav|He had been in the habit of inserting a column of conspicuous advertising and paying for it a very large price.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000036_000001.wav|He could not grasp the meaning of it all.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000043_000007.wav|The change itself is one that will take place.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000036_000010.wav|Was he going to bankrupt the whole business?|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000019_000000.wav|Very truly yours,-------|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000036_000000.wav|Clark went back to his desk feeling as if he had been in the presence of a very peculiar person.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000046_000005.wav|It would be difficult to fill his place.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000032_000000.wav|"Why not?" asked Norman quietly.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000011_000000.wav|Here followed the name of one of Norman's old friends, the editor of a daily in an adjoining town.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000046_000004.wav|Clark was a very valuable man.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000013_000001.wav|It is a splendid beginning and no one feels the value of it more than I do.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000050_000000.wav|"I don't know myself either, Clark.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000010_000000.wav|Yours,-------|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000012_000000.wav|My Dear mr Norman:|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000039_000003.wav|He had no board of directors to consult as to policy.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000021_000000.wav|Norman laid this letter down thoughtfully, and then after a moment he took up a copy of his paper and looked through the advertising columns.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000003_000000.wav|Dear Sir-I have been thinking for some time of changing my paper.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000018_000001.wav|I enclose check for payment in full and shall consider my account with your paper closed after date.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000046_000006.wav|But he was not able to give any reasons for continuing the Sunday paper that answered the question, "What would Jesus do?" by letting Jesus print that edition.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000044_000002.wav|Would Jesus do that?|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000035_000000.wav|"You may direct Marks to do as I have said.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000024_000004.wav|Why not?|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000013_000003.wav|Your pastor,|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000039_000000.wav|He was honestly perplexed by the question.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000024_000012.wav|"What would Jesus do?"|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000023_000000.wav|As he glanced over the columns he could not escape the conviction that his Master could not permit some of them in his paper.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000046_000000.wav|Clark came in and had a long, serious talk with his chief.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000007_000000.wav|Edward Norman,|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000014_000000.wav|HENRY MAXWELL.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000002_000000.wav|Editor of the News:|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000009_000003.wav|It's dangerous to experiment much along that line.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000024_000000.wav|What would He do with that other long advertisement of choice liquors and cigars?|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000045_000000.wav|He caught himself drawing almost away from the facts of typographical unions and office rules and reporters' enterprise and all the cold, businesslike methods that make a great daily successful.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000003_000001.wav|I want a journal that is up to the times, progressive and enterprising, supplying the public demand at all points.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000038_000001.wav|No matter whether it paid.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000022_000001.wav|He had not considered this before.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000033_000002.wav|"We shall certainly bankrupt the paper with this sort of business policy."|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000048_000001.wav|Will you stay by the NEWS until it is bankrupt?" asked Norman with a strange smile.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000033_000000.wav|"Why not?|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000024_000009.wav|Could it live?|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000043_000002.wav|In order to make up to the subscribers the amount of reading matter they may suppose themselves entitled to, we can issue a double number on Saturday, as is done by many evening papers that make no attempt at a Sunday edition.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000003_000002.wav|The recent freak of your paper in refusing to print the account of the famous contest at the Resort has decided me finally to change my paper.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000024_000002.wav|No one thought anything about it.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000009_000005.wav|The public wants prize fights and such.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000044_000001.wav|He was struck for the first time in his life with the fact that in all the years of his newspaper life he had never had the force of the paper together in this way.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000038_000003.wav|Besides, the regular subscribers had paid for a seven day paper.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000043_000008.wav|So far as I can see, the loss will fall on myself.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000036_000006.wav|It was downright idiocy.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3389/13248/3389_13248_000026_000001.wav|This was Thursday.|3389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000007_000022.wav|It would certainly occasion reconstruction.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000004_000013.wav|In seeking this measure, we have to avoid two extremes.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000023_000006.wav|Three typical historic philosophies of education were considered from this point of view. The Platonic was found to have an ideal formally quite similar to that stated, but which was compromised in its working out by making a class rather than an individual the social unit.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000015_000008.wav|In reality its chief interest was in progress and in social progress.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000008_000002.wav|The two elements in our criterion both point to democracy.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000005_000007.wav|Caution, circumspection, prudence, desire to foresee future events so as to avert what is harmful, these desirable traits are as much a product of calling the impulse of fear into play as is cowardice and abject submission.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000004_000016.wav|But, as we have just seen, the ideal cannot simply repeat the traits which are actually found.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000004_000012.wav|Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000006.wav|Much which has been said so far is borrowed from what Plato first consciously taught the world.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000015_000009.wav|The seeming antisocial philosophy was a somewhat transparent mask for an impetus toward a wider and freer society-toward cosmopolitanism.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000018_000001.wav|Education as National and as Social.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000004_000002.wav|In social philosophy, the former connotation is almost always uppermost.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000022_000021.wav|Otherwise a democratic criterion of education can only be inconsistently applied.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000009_000004.wav|But there is a deeper explanation.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000005_000011.wav|Instead of operating on their own account they are reduced to mere servants of attaining pleasure and avoiding pain.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000005_000008.wav|The real difficulty is that the appeal to fear is isolated.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000021_000009.wav|Two results should stand out from this brief historical survey.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000023_000000.wav|Summary.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000009_000001.wav|The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000001_000000.wav|Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000007_000021.wav|It springs from the fact that they have identified their experience with rigid adherence to their past customs. On such a basis it is wholly logical to fear intercourse with others, for such contact might dissolve custom.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000001.wav|The Platonic Educational Philosophy.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000018_000006.wav|Private individuals here and there could proclaim the gospel; they could not execute the work.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000007_000026.wav|Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000017_000003.wav|What was called social life, existing institutions, were too false and corrupt to be intrusted with this work.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000005_000010.wav|Or rather, they are affected, but in such a way as to pervert them.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000009_000003.wav|Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000018_000000.wav|five.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000027.wav|Each doing his own part, and never transgressing, the order and unity of the whole would be maintained.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000016_000002.wav|Such limitation was both distorting and corrupting.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000006_000008.wav|Their culture tends to be sterile, to be turned back to feed on itself; their art becomes a showy display and artificial; their wealth luxurious; their knowledge overspecialized; their manners fastidious rather than humane.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000014_000001.wav|Others reveal, upon education, that over and above appetites, they have a generous, outgoing, assertively courageous disposition. They become the citizen subjects of the state; its defenders in war; its internal guardians in peace.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000003_000000.wav|one.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000010.wav|If we do not know its end, we shall be at the mercy of accident and caprice.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000023.wav|We seem to be caught in a hopeless circle. However, Plato suggested a way out.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000000.wav|three.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000002_000004.wav|To make the general ideas set forth applicable to our own educational practice, it is, therefore, necessary to come to closer quarters with the nature of present social life.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000004_000009.wav|Gangs are marked by fraternal feeling, and narrow cliques by intense loyalty to their own codes.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000011_000004.wav|The first one to be considered is that of Plato.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000007_000012.wav|Intelligence is narrowed to the factors concerned with technical production and marketing of goods.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000014_000002.wav|But their limit is fixed by their lack of reason, which is a capacity to grasp the universal.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000008_000001.wav|The Democratic Ideal.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000004_000004.wav|The qualities which accompany this unity, praiseworthy community of purpose and welfare, loyalty to public ends, mutuality of sympathy, are emphasized.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000008_000005.wav|And these two traits are precisely what characterize the democratically constituted society.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7957/39967/7957_39967_000014_000012.wav|The final end of life is fixed; given a state framed with this end in view, not even minor details are to be altered.|7957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000006_000003.wav|The wound brought on lockjaw, of which he died.|4236
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000018_000000.wav|Tim was puzzled.|4236
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000004_000003.wav|There were also, as a class apart, the bruisers, which did not lacerate the flesh, but only crushed the bone.|4236
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000013_000000.wav|"What's that?" said Suke, starting up in bed.|4236
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000049_000001.wav|They went on together.|4236
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000033_000001.wav|Right and left of the narrow pass between the oaks were dense bushes; and now from behind these a female figure glided, whose appearance even in the gloom was, though graceful in outline, noticeably strange.|4236
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000024_000001.wav|Thus far it was according to Tim's conjecture.|4236
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000015_000002.wav|Hark!"|4236
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4236/8927/4236_8927_000029_000000.wav|The man trap was thrown; and between its jaws was part of a woman's clothing-a patterned silk skirt-gripped with such violence that the iron teeth had passed through it, skewering its tissue in a score of places.|4236
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000058_000003.wav|Now they obviously could not be both flat and concave; but yet they had the properties peculiar to both flatness and concavity.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000058_000001.wav|And here I met with a real poser.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000057_000008.wav|It was impossible to say.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000017_000002.wav|Much 'bliged frall your kindness"--here I turned him round-"no, really; m'feeling rather tired.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000003_000001.wav|Preoccupied as I was, by the condition of the patient, the professional habit of rapid and close observation caused me to direct a searching glance at the man before me.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000046_000000.wav|"Good bye, mr Graves!" I said.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000034_000002.wav|Yes.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000032_000000.wav|"Does your head ache, mr Graves?" I asked.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000014_000002.wav|But it was nearly always in profile.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000058_000009.wav|After puzzling over it for quite a long time, I had to give it up; which I did the less unwillingly inasmuch as the construction of mr Weiss's spectacles had no apparent bearing on the case.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000052_000000.wav|I lit my little pocket lamp and hung it on the back cushion.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000022_000002.wav|He doesn't want you to sleep any more just now."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000038_000000.wav|I looked doubtfully at the patient.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000007_000003.wav|If you will put him into his dressing gown we will walk him up and down the room for a while."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000036_000002.wav|I grasped his hand and shook it gently, on which he opened his eyes and looked at me sleepily.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000004_000000.wav|As mr Weiss stood, with his head slightly turned, I was able to look through one glass of his spectacles at the wall beyond.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000053_000004.wav|That he had taken the poison himself was incredible.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000012_000002.wav|In case I should not see you again I will say 'good night.' I hope you won't think me very unceremonious."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000053_000000.wav|Considered in leisurely retrospect, that visit offered quite a number of problems that called for elucidation.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000024_000002.wav|And you'd better not talk.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000014_000001.wav|As we walked, and especially as we turned, I caught frequent glimpses of the housekeeper's face.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000054_000007.wav|And yet he had gone away and left me with the patient and the housekeeper.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000059_000001.wav|Having made up a mixture for mr Graves and handed it to the coachman, I raked the ashes of the surgery fire together and sat down to smoke a final pipe while I reflected once more on the singular and suspicious case in which I had become involved.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000047_000002.wav|But I think you're mistak'n-"|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000009_000001.wav|"I will watch his pulse carefully.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000050_000000.wav|"Now it's of no use for you to ask a lot of questions," mrs Schallibaum said playfully; "we'll talk to you to morrow.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000022_000001.wav|You've been sleeping too much.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000029_000000.wav|"Don't you think he might lie down for a little while?" mrs Schallibaum asked.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000027_000002.wav|At length his intolerable longing for repose overcame his politeness and he returned to the attack.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000057_000000.wav|There were other points, too.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000004_000002.wav|The strange phenomenon was visible only for a moment or two, and as it passed out of my sight it passed also out of my mind.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000034_000003.wav|Head aches a good deal.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000007_000001.wav|I think we can pull him round if we persevere, but he must not be allowed to sink back into a state of coma.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000040_000001.wav|It had turned half past eleven.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000057_000003.wav|Physically it presented no mystery.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000005_000000.wav|"No," I said, replying to the last question; "I can think of no way in which he could have effectually hidden a store of morphine.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000051_000001.wav|The housekeeper held the candle over the balusters until I reached the bottom of the stairs, when I perceived through the open door along the passage a glimmer of light from the carriage lamps.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000019_000001.wav|Then he looked at me again and said:|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000020_000000.wav|"Thing, sir, you are mistake-mistaken me-mist-"|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000055_000003.wav|What was that something that he wanted to tell me?|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000008_000000.wav|"But is that safe?" mr Weiss asked anxiously.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000017_000000.wav|"S'quite s'fficient, thang you.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000053_000006.wav|It was practically certain that the poison had been administered by someone else, and, on mr Weiss's own showing, there was no one but himself and the housekeeper who could have administered it.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000038_000001.wav|I was loath to leave him, distrusting these people as I did.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000037_000001.wav|It is getting very late and you have a long way to go."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000022_000000.wav|"The doctor thinks it's good for you to walk about.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000041_000001.wav|You clearly understand that?"|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000035_000000.wav|"He says you are to keep awake.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000053_000003.wav|mr Graves was certainly under the influence of morphine, and the only doubtful question was how he had become so.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000044_000001.wav|"On that understanding I will go now; and I shall hope to find our friend quite recovered at my next visit."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000024_000000.wav|"But you mustn't lie down for a little while.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000009_000000.wav|"Quite safe," I answered.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000028_000002.wav|Am really.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000039_000000.wav|"I think I heard the carriage some time ago," mrs Schallibaum added.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000058_000005.wav|If I could see objects unaltered through them, so could mr Weiss.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000055_000000.wav|But when I came to think about it I remembered that mrs Schallibaum had shown some anxiety to prevent the patient from talking.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000025_000000.wav|"There's no harm in his talking," said I; "in fact it's good for him.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000042_000000.wav|"Yes, quite clearly.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000054_000004.wav|That departure coincided in time with the sick man's recovery of the power of speech.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000023_000000.wav|"Don't wanter sleep; wanter lie down," said the patient.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000058_000004.wav|And there was a further difficulty.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000012_000000.wav|"If you will excuse me, doctor," said he, "I will go now and attend to some rather important business that I have had to leave unfinished.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000035_000001.wav|You mustn't go to sleep again, and you are not to close your eyes."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000057_000001.wav|I recalled the word that sounded like "Pol'n," which mr Graves had used in speaking to the housekeeper. Apparently it was a Christian name of some kind; but why did mr Graves call the woman by her Christian name when mr Weiss addressed her formally as mrs Schallibaum?|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000044_000000.wav|"Very well," I said.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000019_000000.wav|He looked at me with a curious, dull surprise, and reflected awhile as if in some perplexity.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000014_000006.wav|It struck me, even at the time, as an odd affair, but I was too much concerned about my charge to give it much consideration.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000057_000002.wav|And, as to the woman herself: what was the meaning of that curious disappearing squint?|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000005_000001.wav|Judging by the symptoms, he has taken a large dose, and, if he has been in the habit of consuming large quantities, his stock would be pretty bulky.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000036_000001.wav|Keep'm open," and he proceeded forthwith to shut them with an air of infinite peacefulness.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000031_000000.wav|As soon as he was tucked in, I gave him a full cup of coffee, which he drank with some avidity as if thirsty.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000050_000001.wav|Good night, doctor.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000052_000003.wav|Accordingly I put away the notebook, filled and lighted my pipe, and settled myself to review the incidents attending my second visit to this rather uncanny house.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000024_000001.wav|You must walk about for a few minutes more.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000003_000004.wav|It was this:|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000006_000000.wav|"I suppose you consider him quite out of danger now?"|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000054_000006.wav|It looked rather like it.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000056_000002.wav|But perhaps there was nothing in this.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000058_000007.wav|If they leave the appearances unchanged they are useless.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000027_000001.wav|Apparently he took in the very broad hint contained in the concluding sentence, for he trudged wearily and unsteadily up and down the room for some time without speaking, though he continued to look at me from time to time as if something in my appearance puzzled him exceedingly.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000014_000000.wav|The melancholy progress up and down the room re commenced, and with it the mumbled protests from the patient.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000028_000001.wav|Feeling very tired.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000046_000001.wav|"I am sorry to have to disturb your repose so much; but you must keep awake, you know.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000055_000001.wav|She had interrupted him more than once, and had on two occasions broken in when he seemed to be about to ask me some question.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000003_000000.wav|Something of this kind must have happened to me now.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000030_000000.wav|I felt his pulse, and decided that he was really becoming fatigued, and that it would be wiser not to overdo the exercise while he was so weak. Accordingly, I consented to his returning to bed, and turned him round in that direction; whereupon he tottered gleefully towards his resting place like a tired horse heading for its stable.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000033_000000.wav|"The doctor says 'does your head ache?'" mrs Schallibaum squalled, so loudly that the patient started perceptibly.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000034_000001.wav|"Not deaf you know.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000007_000002.wav|We must keep him on the move until the effects of the drug have really passed off.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000040_000000.wav|I rose hesitatingly and looked at my watch.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000056_000001.wav|Germans are not usually tea drinkers and they do take coffee.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000055_000002.wav|I was "mistaken" about something.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000052_000002.wav|But it seemed rather unnecessary to take a fresh set of notes, and, to tell the truth, I rather shirked the labour, tired as I was after my late exertions; besides, I wanted to think over the events of the evening, while they were fresh in my memory.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/20410/4856_20410_000025_000001.wav|It will help to keep him awake."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000056_000000.wav|As Walcott bade Kate good night at a late hour he inquired, "What do you think of the little comedy I suggested to night for our future line of action?|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000050_000000.wav|"It was the only way for me, papa," Kate answered, gravely and decidedly.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000042_000001.wav|I suppose," he added, addressing Kate, at the same time producing a superb diamond ring, "you will not object to wearing this?"|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000032_000000.wav|"No, my child, no!"|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000036_000000.wav|She then turned, facing Walcott, who advanced slightly, while mr Underwood made a movement as though to place her hand in his.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000003_000000.wav|During the weeks immediately following Darrell's departure the daily routine of life at The Pines continued in the accustomed channels, but there was not a member of the family, including mr Underwood himself, to whom it did not seem strangely empty, as though some essential element were missing.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000057_000000.wav|She was quick to catch the significance of the question, and, looking him straight in the eyes, she replied, calmly,--|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000015_000000.wav|Kate made no reply, but the lines about her mouth deepened.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000017_000000.wav|"mr Walcott," said Kate, facing him with sudden hauteur of tone and manner, "you are correct.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000041_000001.wav|I cannot allow such absurdity;" but Walcott silenced him with a deprecatory wave of his hand, and, taking Kate's hand in his, replied, with smiling indifference,--|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000044_000000.wav|"Conventionality, I believe, would require that it be placed on your hand with a kiss and some appropriate bit of sentiment, but since that sort of thing is tabooed between us, we will have to dispense with that part of the ceremony."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000033_000000.wav|"Then I shall not attempt it at this late day.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000004_000001.wav|But she was learning the lesson that all must learn; that the world sweeps relentlessly onward with no pause for individual woe, and each must keep step in its ceaseless march, no matter how weary the brain or how heavy the heart.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000030_000000.wav|"It is; and I expect my child to be governed by my wishes in this matter rather than by her own feelings."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000027_000002.wav|Feeling now that I have given her abundance of time I have this evening asked her to become my wife, and insisted that I was entitled to a decision.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000023_000000.wav|She rose, drawing herself proudly to her full height.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000035_000000.wav|Kate smiled sadly.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000053_000000.wav|"Well," said mr Underwood, resignedly, "fix it up between you any way to suit yourselves; but for heaven's sake, don't do anything to cause comment or remarks!"|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000041_000000.wav|"Kate," interposed her father, sternly, "this is preposterous!|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000037_000000.wav|"Not yet, papa," she said, gently; then, addressing Walcott, she continued:|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000005_000000.wav|Walcott's visits continued with the same frequency, but he was less annoying in his attentions than formerly.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000040_000000.wav|"There can be no love between us, either in our engagement or our marriage, for, as I have told you, I can never love you, and you yourself are incapable of love in its best sense; you have not even the slightest knowledge of what it is.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000008_000001.wav|I have not seen him for three weeks or more, and his attentions to me were so marked I naturally miss them."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000054_000000.wav|"Papa, you can depend on me not to make myself conspicuous in any way," Kate replied, with dignity.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000017_000001.wav|If ever I consent to marry you I can tell you now as well as then my reason for doing so: it will be simply and solely for my dear father's sake, for the love I bear him, out of consideration for his wishes, and with no more thought of you than if you did not exist."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000029_000000.wav|Her voice was clear, her tones unfaltering, as she replied: "Before giving my answer I wanted to ask you, papa, for the last time, whether, knowing the circumstances as you do and how I regard mr Walcott, it is still your wish that I marry him?"|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000021_000000.wav|"After what I have just told you, mr Walcott, do you still ask me to be your wife?" Kate demanded, indignantly.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000028_000000.wav|"How is this, Kate?" her father asked, not unkindly; "I supposed you and I had settled this matter long ago."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000010_000000.wav|Walcott raised his eyebrows incredulously.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000056_000001.wav|Does it meet with your approval?"|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000035_000001.wav|"No home can ever seem to me like The Pines, papa, but I appreciate your kindness, and I want you to know that I am taking this step solely for your happiness."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000009_000000.wav|"Duke is at the mining camp," Kate answered, with a faint smile.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000002_000000.wav|FORGING THE FETTERS|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000051_000001.wav|That sort of thing, you know," he added, his lip curling just perceptibly, "is apt to get a little monotonous after a while."|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000045_000000.wav|Then turning to mr Underwood, who stood looking on frowningly, somewhat troubled by the turn matters had taken, Walcott added, playfully,--|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000024_000000.wav|"Take me to my father," she said, imperiously.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000040_000001.wav|For this reason any token of love between us would be only a mockery, a farce, and true wedded love is something too holy, too sacred, to be travestied in any such manner.|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4856/12103/4856_12103_000007_000001.wav|An hour or more passed pleasantly, and Walcott inquired, casually,--|4856
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000017_000000.wav|Yet in the drawing room, with the ladies, where mrs Fairford came and sat by her, the spirit of caution once more prevailed.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000004_000002.wav|She liked mrs Fairford, a small incisive woman, with a big nose and good teeth revealed by frequent smiles.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000006_000000.wav|Undine sat between mr Bowen and young Marvell, who struck her as very "sweet" (it was her word for friendliness), but even shyer than at the hotel dance.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000019_000001.wav|Undine found mrs Van Degen putting on her cloak.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000007_000004.wav|She took particular pains to give Undine her due part in the performance; but the girl's expansive impulses were always balanced by odd reactions of mistrust, and to night the latter prevailed.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000011_000002.wav|They're not pictures of mrs or Miss So and so, but simply of the impression Popple thinks he's made on them."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000018_000002.wav|This discovery resulted in her holding her vivid head very high, and answering "I couldn't really say," or "Is that so?" to all mr Fairford's ventures; and as these were neither numerous nor striking it was a relief to both when the rising of the elderly lady gave the signal for departure.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000021_000001.wav|I hope you'll come-"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000001_000000.wav|Though she would not for the world have owned it to her parents, Undine was disappointed in the Fairford dinner.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000003_000001.wav|Undine was too young to take note of culinary details, but she had expected to view the company through a bower of orchids and eat pretty coloured entrees in ruffled papers. Instead, there was only a low centre dish of ferns, and plain roasted and broiled meat that one could recognize-as if they'd been dyspeptics on a diet!|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000017_000005.wav|The conversation was revived for a moment by her recalling that she had seen Sarah Bernhard in a play she called "Leg long," and another which she pronounced "Fade"; but even this did not carry them far, as she had forgotten what both plays were about and had found the actress a good deal older than she expected.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000015_000000.wav|"I think he'll do you capitally-you must let me come and see some day soon." Marvell's tone was always so light, so unemphasized, that she could not be sure of its being as indifferent as it sounded.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000017_000003.wav|Undine did not even know that there were any pictures to be seen, much less that "people" went to see them; and she had read no new book but "When The Kissing Had to Stop," of which mrs Fairford seemed not to have heard.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000005_000001.wav|She had not expected much of mr Fairford, since married men were intrinsically uninteresting, and his baldness and grey moustache seemed naturally to relegate him to the background; but she had looked for some brilliant youths of her own age-in her inmost heart she had looked for mr Popple.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000008_000000.wav|This state of lucidity enabled her to take note of all that was being said.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000014_000000.wav|Something in her tone made all Undine's perceptions bristle, and she strained her ears for the answer.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000015_000001.wav|She looked down at the fruit on her plate and shot a side glance through her lashes at mrs peter Van Degen.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000022_000000.wav|"--TO DINE WITH ME TOO?" That must be what she was going to say, and Undine's heart gave a bound.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000016_000002.wav|She had turned on Marvell a gaze at once pleading and possessive; but whether betokening merely an inherited intimacy (Undine had noticed that they were all more or less cousins) or a more personal feeling, her observer was unable to decide; just as the tone of the young man's reply might have expressed the open avowal of good fellowship or the disguise of a different sentiment.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000002_000000.wav|The house, to begin with, was small and rather shabby.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000007_000002.wav|All the ladies in Apex City were more voluble than mrs Fairford, and had a larger vocabulary: the difference was that with mrs Fairford conversation seemed to be a concert and not a solo.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000024_000002.wav|He was going to "escort" her home, of course!|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000012_000000.wav|mrs Fairford smiled.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000004_000000.wav|But a glance about the table convinced her that mrs Fairford could not have meant to treat her other guests so lightly.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000024_000000.wav|Undine's face burned as she turned to receive her cloak.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000020_000002.wav|Then mrs Van Degen turned to her.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000009_000000.wav|"Yes-he's doing me," mrs peter Van Degen was saying, in her slightly drawling voice.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000004_000001.wav|They were only eight in number, but one was no less a person than young mrs peter Van Degen-the one who had been a Dagonet-and the consideration which this young lady, herself one of the choicest ornaments of the Society Column, displayed toward the rest of the company, convinced Undine that they must be more important than they looked.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000007_000001.wav|But though Undine thought silent people awkward she was not easily impressed by verbal fluency.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000020_000000.wav|"Ralphie, dear, you'll come to the opera with me on Friday?|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000016_000000.wav|mrs Van Degen was neither beautiful nor imposing: just a dark girlish looking creature with plaintive eyes and a fidgety frequent laugh.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000023_000000.wav|"--to see me some afternoon," mrs Van Degen ended, going down the steps to her motor, at the door of which a much furred footman waited with more furs on his arm.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000020_000001.wav|We'll dine together first-Peter's got a club dinner." They exchanged what seemed a smile of intelligence, and Undine heard the young man accept.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000004_000003.wav|In her dowdy black and antiquated ornaments she was not what Undine would have called "stylish"; but she had a droll kind way which reminded the girl of her father's manner when he was not tired or worried about money.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000009_000001.wav|"He's doing everybody this year, you know-"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000019_000000.wav|In the hall, where young Marvell had managed to precede her.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000016_000001.wav|But she was more elaborately dressed and jewelled than the other ladies, and her elegance and her restlessness made her seem less alien to Undine.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000021_000000.wav|"Good bye, Miss Spragg.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000011_000000.wav|"That delightful Popple-he paints so exactly as he talks!" the white haired lady took it up.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000003_000002.wav|With all the hints in the Sunday papers, she thought it dull of mrs Fairford not to have picked up something newer; and as the evening progressed she began to suspect that it wasn't a real "dinner party," and that they had just asked her in to share what they had when they were alone.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000017_000001.wav|She wanted to be noticed but she dreaded to be patronized, and here again her hostess's gradations of tone were confusing.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/148550/2230_148550_000007_000000.wav|mrs Fairford talked so well that the girl wondered why mrs Heeny had found her lacking in conversation.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000026_000000.wav|Strange, though, that he had said nothing to old Jonathan about his intention to call there.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000012_000002.wav|Scarcely had he done so ere he heard the clatter of horse's hoofs moving rapidly towards the gate from the northward.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000038_000001.wav|He explained the state of affairs to his interlocuter, who received the communication with his wonted stolidity, and proceeded to light his pipe, as much as to say that the affair was none of his funeral.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000005_000001.wav|You've had a long day of it in town.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000013.wav|And then, didn't he tell me about his row with Shuttleworth, and that he had the four hundred pounds in his pocket.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000003_000001.wav|The venerable gate keeper had conjectured right.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000020_000001.wav|When?"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000010_000001.wav|No more I shouldn't like to carry such a pot o' money home in the night time, even if nobody knew as I had it on me.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000023_000001.wav|Why, don't I tell you, not two minutes.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000012_000000.wav|The old man watched him as he sped away up the road, but could not keep him in view more than half a minute or so, as by this time the light of day had wholly departed.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000026_000001.wav|He had ridden off as though intent upon getting home without delay, and hiding his money away in a safe place for the night.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000017_000003.wav|Didn't you meet him just now?"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000017_000001.wav|On his way down!|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000007_000000.wav|The old man expressed his entire concurrence in Savareen's estimate of Shuttleworth's conduct.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000006.wav|Yes, one other thing might be done.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000005_000000.wav|"Yes, mr Savareen-a lovely night.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000030_000001.wav|I am Mister Lapierre."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000002.wav|Had he sunk into the bowels of the earth, or gone up, black mare and all, in a balloon?|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000004_000000.wav|"Well, Jonathan, a nice evening," remarked the young farmer.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000031_000001.wav|Been a warm day."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000006_000000.wav|"O, the money was there, right enough, and I've got it in my pocket.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000041_000004.wav|Depend upon it, mr Lapierre, you've missed him somehow in the darkness, and he's safe and sound at home by this time."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000010_000000.wav|"But all the same," he continued, "I shouldn't like to keep such a sum as four hundred pound about me, even for a single night.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000000.wav|Well, of course, the key to the situation was not hard to find. Savareen had left the toll gate and proceeded northward not more than two or three minutes before Lapierre, riding southward along the same road, had reached the same point.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000044_000000.wav|mrs Savareen was waiting there, on the look out for her husband.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000039_000001.wav|We hain't been out here more'n a minute or two. Nobody hain't passed since then."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000003_000002.wav|It was Savareen on his black mare.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000000_000001.wav|He was an inveterate old gossip, and was acquainted with the business of everybody in the neighborhood.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000006.wav|The explanation, consequently, was simple enough.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000030_000000.wav|"Don't you know me?|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000038_000000.wav|Lapierre was astounded.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000007.wav|He might return to the toll gate and ascertain whether Jonathan Perry was certain as to the identity of the man from whom he had parted a few minutes before.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000044_000001.wav|No, of course he had not got home.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000041_000002.wav|Lapierre cross examined her, and found that her report of the interview exactly corresponded with what he had already heard from old Jonathan.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000013_000000.wav|But this time he was out in his conjecture.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000011.wav|A moment's conference with him was sufficient to convince Lapierre that there could be no question of mistaken identity.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000021_000001.wav|He passed through here on his way home just before you came up."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000019_000000.wav|"Savareen."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000015_000000.wav|"O, good evening, mr Lapierre; I didn't know you till you spoke.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000003.wav|Of course it was all nonsense about the landlord having passed him on the road without seeing or hearing anything of him.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000004.wav|But the space of time which had elapsed was too brief to admit of the latter's having ridden more than a hundred yards or thereabouts.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000041_000001.wav|She had not only seen Savareen sitting on his black mare at the door, immediately after the town bell ceased ringing for eight o'clock; but she had listened to the conversation between him and her husband, and had heard pretty nearly every word.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000017_000000.wav|"Saw him!|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000032_000000.wav|"Yes.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000023_000000.wav|"How long!|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000015.wav|"Now," resumed the old man, "just tell mr Lapierre whether you saw mr Savareen talking to me a few minutes since, and whether you saw him ride off up the road just before mr Lapierre came down.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000005_000003.wav|Did you find the money all right, as you expected?"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000012_000004.wav|What's the matter now, I wonder?"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000008_000003.wav|There's never any housebreaking hereabouts."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000021_000000.wav|"Why, not two minutes ago.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000043_000000.wav|Lapierre couldn't see it.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000010.wav|The gatekeeper was still sitting smoking at the door.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000009.wav|A short trot brought him again to the toll house.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000015_000002.wav|Bound for town?"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000005.wav|The only outlet from the road within four times that distance was the gateway leading into Stolliver's house.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000007.wav|Savareen had called in at Stollivers.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000027_000002.wav|Lapierre, as he drew rein, saw the three figures on the fence, but could not in the darkness, distinguish one from, another.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000017_000002.wav|What are you talking about?|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000045_000000.wav|Even then, however, she did not give up the hope of her husband's arrival sometime during the night.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000028_000000.wav|"Is that Mister Stollifer?" he asked.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000005.wav|At any rate, there was nothing for Lapierre to do but ride back to Savareen's house and see if he had arrived there.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000002_000001.wav|I reckon his wife'll be apt to give him fits for being so late."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000007_000001.wav|"I have to pay the gate money into the bank on the first of every month," he remarked, "and that young feller always acts as if he felt too uppish to touch it.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000006_000001.wav|I had some words with that conceited puppy, Shuttleworth, at the bank. He's altogether too big for his place, and I can tell you he'll have the handling of no more money of mine." And then, for about the twentieth time within the last few hours, he recounted the particulars of his interview with the bank clerk.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000020_000000.wav|"Where?|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000005_000002.wav|They'll be anxious about you at home.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000037_000001.wav|Hain't seen him."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000003_000000.wav|In another moment the horseman drew up before him, but only to exchange a word of greeting, as the gate was thrown wide open, and there was nothing to bar his progress.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000001.wav|The two had not encountered each other.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000041_000000.wav|mrs Perry's answer was decisive, and at the same time conclusive as to the facts.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000001_000000.wav|While he sat there pondering, the first stroke of the town bell proclaiming the hour was borne upon his ear.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000001.wav|Where, then, was Savareen?|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000016_000003.wav|I suppose you saw him on his way down?"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000011_000001.wav|"I'll act upon it without more words.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000043_000002.wav|The facts, however, seemed to be wholly against him, as he bade the old couple a despondent good night and put Count Frontenac to his mettle.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000026_000003.wav|He had never had any business or social relations of any kind with Stolliver, and in fact the two had merely a nodding acquaintance.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000000.wav|This seemed incredible.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000026_000005.wav|However, there was no use raising difficult problems, which could doubt less be solved by a moment's explanation. It was absolutely certain that Savareen was at Stolliver's because he could not possibly have avoided meeting Lapierre if he had not called there.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000002_000000.wav|"Ah," said he to himself, "here he comes.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000002.wav|Therefore, one of them had deviated from the road.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000026_000006.wav|It was Lapierre's business to find him and take him home. Accordingly the landlord of the Royal Oak turned his horse's head and cantered back up the road till he reached the front of Stolliver's place.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000025_000008.wav|q e d|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000039_000000.wav|"Well," he remarked, with exasperating coolness, "I guess you must 'a' passed him on the road.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000008.wav|So Count Frontenac's head was once more turned southward.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000015_000001.wav|My eyesight's getting dimmer every day, I think.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000009_000000.wav|Jonathan responded by saying that, in so far as he knew, there hadn't been a burglary for many a year.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000012_000003.wav|"Why," said he to himself, "this must be Savareen coming back again.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000043_000004.wav|In five minutes he reached Savareen's front gate.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000040_000004.wav|But what other explanation did the circumstances admit of?|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000033_000000.wav|"Mister who?"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/124587/2230_124587_000044_000003.wav|You may be sure that her anxiety was not lessened when she heard the strange tale which Lapierre had to tell her.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000040_000003.wav|It wasn't much, to be sure, but I think Papa liked it.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000059_000003.wav|Where all the things to eat are gone to, I can't imagine!"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000044_000000.wav|"Oh, Papa!" cried Katy, in dismay, "must we have anybody?"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000033_000002.wav|Her worrying ways were all forgotten now.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000060_000002.wav|She would stand by the door with her pleasant red face drawn up into a pucker, while Katy read aloud some impossible sounding rule.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000015_000002.wav|Perhaps if you look in her room you'll find it."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000012_000000.wav|Katy laughed.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000066_000002.wav|But she bore her trials meekly, except for an occasional grumble when alone with Bridget.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000029_000002.wav|And I shall pick up the croquet balls and put them in the box every night."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000070_000002.wav|Month by month she learned how to manage a little better, and a little better still.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000037_000002.wav|And mrs Jackson's boy came for him before we were through."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000005_000003.wav|She could not help growing pale and thin however, and Papa saw with concern that, as the summer went on, she became too languid to read, or study, or sew, and just sat hour after hour, with folded hands, gazing wistfully out of the window.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000027_000001.wav|The three girls didn't know much about sickness, but Papa's grave face, and the hushed house, weighed upon their spirits, and they missed the children very much.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000045_000000.wav|"Why, how did you suppose we were going to arrange it?|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000066_000006.wav|Dorry, who was a sort of dr Livingstone where strange articles of food were concerned, usually made the first experiment, and if he said that it was good, the rest followed suit.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000070_000001.wav|Katy was too much in earnest not to improve.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000066_000003.wav|dr Carr had to eat a great many queer things in those days.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000042_000000.wav|"Oh, nothing, much," said Katy.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000004_000001.wav|Katy felt the heat very much.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000050_000003.wav|I've been thinking about it all day.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000031_000001.wav|Little people are apt to feel as if grown folks are so strong and so big, that nothing can possibly happen to them.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000018_000002.wav|I have told her that she had better lie still, and not try to get up this evening.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000050_000009.wav|Do let me try!|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000023_000000.wav|"We all want her," said dr Carr, who looked disturbed and anxious.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000018_000001.wav|She has some fever and a bad pain in her head.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000012_000004.wav|But as months go on, and everything grows an old story, and one day follows another day, all just alike and all tiresome, courage is apt to flag and spirits to grow dull.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000066_000000.wav|Poor Debby!|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000050_000002.wav|No, I'll tell you my plan.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000042_000001.wav|"I studied my French lesson this morning.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000070_000004.wav|Her cares ceased to fret her.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000063_000001.wav|It must be something quite common, for it's in almost all the recipes."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000033_000004.wav|How they wished that they had never teased her, never said sharp words about her to each other!|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000056_000001.wav|Katy had plenty of quiet thinking time for one thing.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000033_000005.wav|But it was no use to wish.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000068_000000.wav|"My dear, you are overdoing it sadly," he said, as Katy opened her book and prepared to explain her views; "I am glad to have the children eat simple food-but really, boiled rice five times in a week is too much."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000067_000000.wav|After a while Katy grew wiser.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000036_000000.wav|"Did Papa eat any dinner?" asked Katy, one afternoon.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000066_000005.wav|Dinner time became quite exciting, when nobody could tell exactly what any dish on the table was made of.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000069_000002.wav|She also fidgeted the children about wearing india rubbers, and keeping on their coats, and behaved altogether as if the cares of the world were on her shoulders.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000040_000001.wav|It seemed to her that it had grown older of late, and there was a sad look upon it, which made her heart ache.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000007_000002.wav|After a while she collected her books again, and tried to study as Cousin Helen had advised.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000064_000001.wav|Miss Carr never gave me no shell outs at all at all!"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000012_000002.wav|It is often so with sick people.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000007_000003.wav|But so many idle weeks made it seem harder work than ever.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000021_000001.wav|Blessings brighten as they take their flight.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000064_000000.wav|"No, Miss Katy, I never heard tell of it before.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000010_000000.wav|So the arrangement was made.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000035_000000.wav|For several days she saw almost nothing of her father.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000042_000002.wav|And after school, Elsie and john brought in their patchwork, and we had a 'Bee.' That's all."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000038_000003.wav|Oh, and ask Debby to make some cream toast for tea!|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000005_000002.wav|But Katy's long year of schooling had taught her self control, and, as a general thing, her discomforts were borne patiently.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000040_000000.wav|Katy studied his face anxiously.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000002_000001.wav|Dorry declared he wished there could be a Valentine's Day every week.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000058_000000.wav|As soon as breakfast was over, and the dishes were washed and put away, Debby would tie on a clean apron, and come up stairs for orders.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000045_000002.wav|And beside, she is at school all day."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000028_000000.wav|"Oh dear!" sighed Elsie.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000011_000001.wav|And if to hurt the back make you study, it would be well that some other of my young ladies shall do the same."|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000054_000001.wav|At the end of a month Katy was eager to go on. So he said,|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000033_000001.wav|For the first time, the three girls, sobbing in each other's arms, realized what a good friend Aunt Izzie had been to them.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000029_000000.wav|"We'll be real good to her when she does, won't we?" said Clover.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000035_000001.wav|Clover reported that he looked very tired and scarcely said a word.|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2230/132101/2230_132101_000062_000000.wav|"Please, Miss Katy, what's them?"|2230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000012_000003.wav|When she opened the door her eyes greeted him with a certain wistful expression that he had never seen in them before.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000041_000000.wav|On the first rise he stopped and looked back at the light which shone out from among the dripping cottonwoods.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000038_000004.wav|Say, the water has come up a lot, don't yuh think, Bud? If it raises much more Mona'll sure have a chance to 'cope with the situation.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000014_000003.wav|Instead he drew down his brows in a way not complimentary to Jack.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000038_000000.wav|"This is sure fierce," Park grumbled when they struck the lower ground. "Darn a man like Jack Stevens!|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000028_000001.wav|"You men," she remarked, "think women ought to be wrapped in pink cotton and put in a glass cabinet.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000035_000000.wav|"I guess we'll have to be going," Park said with some ceremony.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000033_000000.wav|They lingered till long after all good cowpunchers are supposed to be in their beds-unless they are standing night guard-but Jack failed to appear.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000023_000000.wav|"No, I can't." Mona's chin went up perversely.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000018_000000.wav|"Certainly not; aren't you two here?" Mona could be very pert when she tried.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000020_000000.wav|"The river's coming up pretty fast, Mona," he ventured.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000017_000000.wav|Thurston did know, but he passed over the subject.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000040_000001.wav|He cursed the conventions which forbade his staying and watching over the girl back there in the house which already stood upon an island, cut off from the safe, high land by a strip of backwater that was widening and deepening every minute, and, when it rose high enough to flow into the river below, would have a current that would make a nasty crossing.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000018_000002.wav|Jack went to town today to see some one.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000027_000001.wav|He did not like even Park to be too familiar with Mona, though he knew there was a girl in Shellanne whose name Park sometimes spoke in his sleep.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000022_000000.wav|"You can never tell what it might do," Park argued.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000003_000003.wav|A day later and we'd have had to hold the herd on the other side, no telling how long."|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000010_000000.wav|"Well, I'll go along, if you'll hold on a minute.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000023_000001.wav|"I'm no coward, I hope, even if there was any danger which there isn't."|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000038_000005.wav|It'd just about serve her right, too."|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000019_000002.wav|The "some one" whom Jack went oftenest to see was the bartender in the Palace saloon, but it was not necessary to tell her that.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000025_000000.wav|"Anyway," she added hurriedly, "Jack will be here; he's likely to come any minute now."|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000007_000000.wav|"There must be danger of it this year if ever," Thurston observed uneasily.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000043_000000.wav|There was common sense in the argument, and Thurston recognized it and rode on to camp.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000012_000004.wav|He was guilty of wishing that Park had stayed in camp.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000019_000001.wav|It was Park, still trying to be polite and not commit himself on the subject of Jack.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000022_000002.wav|This hot weather we've been having lately, and then the rain, will bring it a whooping.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000004_000000.wav|"It is higher than usual; I noticed that," Thurston agreed absently.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000002_000000.wav|It was nearing the middle of June, and it was getting to be a very hot June at that.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000014_000002.wav|But Thurston had no smile ready, polite or otherwise.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000005_000000.wav|From where they were camped upon a ridge which bounded a broad coulee on the east, he could look down upon the Stevens ranch nestling in the bottomland, the house half hidden among the cottonwoods.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000032_000000.wav|Whereupon Mona got upon her pedestal and smiled her unpleasant smile, against which even Park had no argument ready.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000038_000003.wav|But no-it'd be awful if Jack had to cook his own grub for a week.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000003_000001.wav|And I tell yuh, Bud, we didn't get across none too soon.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000002_000002.wav|Then the sky threatened for a day, and after that they plodded in the rain.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000020_000001.wav|"Don't yuh think yuh ought to pull out and go visiting?"|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000003_000000.wav|"Thank the Lord that's done with," sighed Park when he saw the last of the herd climb, all dripping, up the north bank of the Milk River. "To morrow we can turn 'em loose.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000012_000001.wav|When they galloped into the yard which sloped from the house gently down to the river fifty yards away, Mona's face appeared for a moment in the window.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000042_000002.wav|I don't suppose the water will get clear up to the house; it'll likely do things to the sheds and corrals, though, and serve Jack right.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000003_000002.wav|Yuh notice how the river's coming up?|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000012_000002.wav|Evidently she had been watching for some one, and Thurston's heart flopped in his chest as he wondered, fleetingly, if it could be himself.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000004_000003.wav|He could easily ride down there and find out. It wasn't far; not a quarter of a mile, but he assured himself that he wasn't going, and that he was not quite a fool, he hoped Even if she were at home, what good could that possibly do him?|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000042_000005.wav|She's got lots uh nerve; I guess she'll make out all right."|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000005_000001.wav|Through the last hours of the afternoon he watched it hungrily.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000009_000000.wav|"I'm going to ride down there," Thurston answered constrainedly.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000024_000003.wav|And that did not help matters or make her temper more yielding.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000036_000000.wav|"I don't see why not; I'm not the least bit afraid," Mona said.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000031_000000.wav|"No, and the Lazy Eight never had to work the Yellowstone range on spring roundup before either," Park told her meaningly.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000024_000002.wav|Probably she did not mean it; at any rate the blood flew consciously to her cheeks after she had spoken, and she caught her under lip sharply between her teeth.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000011_000001.wav|He had a poor opinion of Jack and resented even that slight relation to Mona.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000007_000001.wav|"The river is coming up pretty fast, it seems to me.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000037_000000.wav|So, there being nothing else that they could do, they said good night and took themselves off.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000010_000002.wav|I don't care if he is Mona's brother."|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000008_000002.wav|Where yuh going, Bud?"|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000016_000001.wav|"Aunt Mary has typhoid fever-there seems to be so much of that this spring and they sent for mamma.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000005_000002.wav|The big corral ran down to the water's edge, and he noted idly that three panels of the fence extended out into the river, and that the muddy water was creeping steadily up until at sundown the posts of the first panel barely showed above the water.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000021_000000.wav|"No, I don't." Mona's tone was very decided.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000015_000000.wav|"Where is your mother?" he asked, almost peremptorily.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000024_000000.wav|Thurston's chin went up also, and he sat a bit straighter.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000001_000001.wav|HIGH WATER|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000043_000001.wav|But instead of unsaddling, as he would naturally have done, he tied Sunfish to the bed wagon and threw his slicker over his back to protect him from the rain.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000019_000000.wav|"Um m yes, of course."|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000034_000000.wav|When the clock struck a wheezy nine Mona glanced at it significantly and smothered a yawn more than half affected.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000004_000005.wav|Such nights were not pleasant, nor were the thoughts that caused them.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000042_000003.wav|Come on, Bud.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000010_000001.wav|Jack ain't got a lick uh sense.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000036_000001.wav|Her tone was impersonal and had in it a note of dismissal.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000018_000001.wav|"Jack and I are holding down the ranch just now; the boys are all on roundup, of course.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000029_000003.wav|Then where'd yuh be at?"|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000028_000000.wav|She lifted the big glass lamp down from its place on the clock shelf and lighted it with fingers not quite steady.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000014_000001.wav|He was afraid it would not be polite to agree with her as emphatically as he would like to have done.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000039_000000.wav|Thurston did not think so, but he was in too dispirited a mood to argue the point.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000030_000000.wav|"It won't get up here, though," Mona asserted coolly.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000034_000001.wav|It was a hint which no man with an atom of self respect could overlook.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000041_000001.wav|Even then he was tempted to go back and brave her anger that he might feel assured of her safety.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101579/7705_101579_000024_000001.wav|Whether she meant it or not, he took her words as a covert stab at himself.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000017_000000.wav|"You didn't 'cope with the situation,' after all," he remarked while she was settling herself firmly in the saddle.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000011_000002.wav|A black, tar papered shack went scudding past, lodged upon a ridge where the water was shallower, and sat there swaying drunkenly.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000008_000000.wav|Down the hill they stopped at the edge of a raging torrent and strained their eyes to see what lay on the other side.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000030_000001.wav|"Stay?|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000036_000001.wav|The chances is yuh won't have no house in the morning, so Bud'll have to get busy and rustle one for yuh.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000034_000000.wav|Thurston turned joyfully toward him.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000002_000004.wav|He turned toward where the light had shone among the cottonwoods below; there was nothing but a great blot of shade that told him nothing.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000003_000003.wav|Was yuh thinking about riding down there?"|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000028_000000.wav|"Little girl-oh, little girl," he said softly, and stopped.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000027_000001.wav|"Are you all right?" he asked, and drew her toward a rock near at hand-for in truth, the knees of him were shaking.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000021_000001.wav|After that he could think of little else.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000002_000003.wav|He might almost have thought it the Missouri itself, it stretched so far from bank to bank; indeed, it seemed to know no banks but the hills themselves.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000025_000001.wav|"Park went down," he began, hardly knowing what it was he was saying.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000037_000002.wav|"I'm just glad it did get through."|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000037_000001.wav|"I don't care," she asserted with reddened cheeks.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000031_000000.wav|"You dear!" Mona snuggled close and learned how it feels to be kissed, if she had never known before.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000032_000000.wav|Sunfish, having scrambled ashore a few yards farther down, came up to them and stood waiting, as if to be forgiven for his failure to carry them safe to land, but Thurston, after the first inattentive glance, ungratefully took no heed of him.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000006_000001.wav|Thurston would have put Sunfish to a run, but Park checked him.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000026_000000.wav|And from somewhere down the river came a faint reassuring whoop.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000025_000002.wav|"Park-"|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000022_000003.wav|Thurston felt his laboring and clutched Mona still tighter.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000038_000000.wav|"Same here," said Thurston with much emphasis.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000003_000000.wav|A step sounded just behind.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000036_000000.wav|"Well, Mona, I see yuh was able to 'cope with the situation,' all right-but yuh needed Bud mighty bad, I reckon.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000006_000000.wav|They got upon their horses and headed down the trail to the Stevens place.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000010_000000.wav|"Come on back here, yuh chump!" Park roared.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000014_000003.wav|He could not have helped Park, and he could very easily have drowned himself.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000014_000004.wav|Though it was not thought of himself but of Mona that stayed his hand.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000015_000004.wav|And Mona's voice, shorn of its customary assurance, answered faintly from the loft.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000012_000000.wav|"That's old Dutch Henry's house," Park shouted above the roar.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000030_000003.wav|"Hank wanted to take me into the Lazy Eight, so now I'll buy an interest, and stay-always."|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000033_000000.wav|There was a sound of scrambling foot steps and Park came dripping up to them.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000027_000000.wav|"Thank the Lord!" gasped Thurston, and leaned against her for a second. Then he straightened.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000019_000000.wav|"Then what?" he demanded maliciously.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000015_000002.wav|The water was a foot deep on the porch.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000012_000001.wav|"I'll bet he's cussing things blue on some pinnacle up there." He laughed at the picture his imagination conjured, and rode out into the swirl.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000027_000002.wav|They sat down, and he looked more closely at her face and discovered that it was wet with something more than river water.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000008_000002.wav|Thurston caught his breath sharply.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000007_000000.wav|"Go easy," he admonished.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000037_000000.wav|Mona stood up, and her shining eyes were turned to Thurston.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000015_000003.wav|Thurston beat an imperative tattoo upon the door with the butt of his quirt, and shouted.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000001_000001.wav|By and by the rain ceased and he could tell by the dim whiteness of the tent roof that the clouds must have been swept away from before the moon, then just past the full.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000035_000000.wav|"Yuh better reform and quit being afraid," Park bantered.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000019_000001.wav|"Were you afraid?"|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000018_000000.wav|"I went to sleep and didn't notice the water till it was coming in at the door," she explained.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000015_000000.wav|They landed at the gate.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000004_000000.wav|"Yes," Thurston answered simply.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000033_000004.wav|I'll rout out the cook and make him boil us some coffee."|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000036_000002.wav|I guess you'll own up, now, that the water can get through the gate." He laughed in his teasing way.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000039_000000.wav|Then, with Mona once more in the saddle, and with Thurston leading Sunfish by the bridle rein, they trailed damply and happily up the long ridge to where the white tents of the roundup gleamed sharply against the sky line.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000025_000000.wav|He stood a minute with his arm still around her, and coughed his voice clear.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000023_000002.wav|And though the under current clutched him and the weight of Mona taxed his strength, he managed to keep them both afloat and to make a little headway until the deepest part lay behind them.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000008_000001.wav|While they looked, a light twinkled out from among the tree tops.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000027_000007.wav|He laid a hand tenderly against her cheek and wondered if he dared feel so happy.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000000_000001.wav|"I'll STAY-ALWAYS"|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000018_000001.wav|"And then-"|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000005_000000.wav|"Sure," Park assented.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000015_000001.wav|Sunfish scrambled with his feet for secure footing, found it and waded up to the front door.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000003_000001.wav|A hand, the hand of Park, rested upon his shoulder.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000025_000004.wav|"Park!|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000004_000001.wav|"Are you coming?"|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000009_000000.wav|"She's upstairs," he said, and his voice sounded strained and unnatural. "It's just a loft where they store stuff." He started to ride into the flood.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000002_000002.wav|He studied critically the wide sweep of the river.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101580/7705_101580_000034_000001.wav|"Park, old fellow, I was afraid."|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000004_000000.wav|That is really what kept Thurston at the Lazy Eight.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000021_000001.wav|He would help take the herd home, he told Park, and then he intended to hit the trail for little, old New York.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000019_000001.wav|When they met the cattle were bunched, and all stock which belonged on that range was cut out, leaving only those which had crossed the river during the storms of winter.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000014_000000.wav|"All right-suit yourself about it." Park walked off and left him peering into the view finder.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000020_000006.wav|He is a sturdy, self reliant little rascal, is the range bred calf.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000003_000000.wav|That sounded all right as far as it went, but unfortunately it did not go far.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000005_000001.wav|And since he was not a fool he realized the falling off and chafed against it and wondered why it was.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000016_000001.wav|At times like these, foremen such as Park and Deacon Smith were shorn of their accustomed power, and worked under orders as strict as those they gave their men.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000006_000000.wav|The wagons were out two weeks-which is quite long enough for a crisis to arise in the love affair of any man.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000008_000002.wav|This was distinctly unfair, because he had no quarrel with the masculine portion of the West.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000013_000000.wav|"I think you're loading me,"|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000012_000000.wav|Park came along, saw what he was doing and laughed.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000019_000000.wav|That meant day after day of "riding circle"--which is, being interpreted, riding out ten or twelve miles from camp, then turning and driving everything before them to a point near the center of the circle thus formed.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000007_000000.wav|He packed his trunk carefully with everything he would not need on the roundup, and his typewriter he put in the middle.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000006_000003.wav|His thoughts still ran to blue gray eyes and ripply hair, but he made no attempt to put them into a story.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000019_000002.wav|These were driven on to the next camping place and held, which meant constant day herding and night guarding work which cowboys hate more than anything else.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000010_000002.wav|Yellow throated meadow larks perched swaying in the top of gray sage bushes and sang to him that the world was good. Sober gray curlews circled over his head, their long, funny bills thrust out straight as if to point the way for their bodies to follow and cried, "Kor r eck, kor r eck!"--which means just what the meadow larks sang.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000012_000002.wav|"When yuh can stand on this little hill and count fifty or sixty outfits camped within two or three miles uh here, yuh might begin taking pictures."|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000020_000003.wav|But not all.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000016_000000.wav|For a day and a night the cowboys made merry in town while their foremen consulted and the captains appointed by the Association mapped out the different routes.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000013_000001.wav|Thurston retorted calmly, winding up the roll for another exposure.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000004_000002.wav|During the winter, when he did not see her, he could bring himself to think occasionally of other things; and it is a fact that the stories he wrote with no heroine at all hit the mark the straightest.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000003_000003.wav|The boys, it would seem, realized that it is against human nature for a man to declare openly to his fellows his intention of laying last, desperate siege to the heart of a girl who has already refused him three times, and to ask her for the fourth time if she will reconsider her former decisions and marry him.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000008_000000.wav|He wrote to Reeve Howard, the night before they were to start, and apologized gracefully for having neglected him during the past three weeks and told him he would certainly be home in another month.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000011_000001.wav|The rattle of mess wagons, driven by the camp cook and followed by the bed wagon, was heard from all directions.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000015_000001.wav|From Swift Current to the Cypress Hills the Canadian cattlemen sent their wagons to join the big meet.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000002_000000.wav|Thurston did not go on the horse roundup.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7705/101578/7705_101578_000008_000001.wav|He said that he was "in danger of being satiated with the Western tone" and would be glad to shake the hand of civilized man once more.|7705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000027_000001.wav|The ever retreating summit on the hill of our ambition.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000042_000000.wav|"Gentlemen of the Jury: The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000042_000002.wav|Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000034_000000.wav|The interest we receive from capital invested in good works.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000009.wav|To go a step further, if in ten sixty six the result of the Norman Conquest had been wired to some of these stars, the message would still be on its way.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000015_000000.wav|Two middle "nippers" you behold Before the colt is two weeks old, Before eight weeks will two more come; Eight months the "corners" cut the gum. The outside grooves will disappear From middle two in just one year. In two years, from the second pair; In three, the corners, too, are bare.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000028_000000.wav|The prize at the top of a greasy pole which is continually slipping from one's grasp.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000026_000000.wav|A "will o'-the wisp" which eludes us even when we grasp it.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000005_000000.wav|The Months.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000009_000000.wav|The lines refer to the days of the week as birthdays.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000039_000002.wav|Mizar, the middle star in the tail of the Great Bear, is forty times as heavy as the sun|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000018_000000.wav|A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000032_000000.wav|A wayside flower growing only by the path of duty.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000039_000000.wav|"The stars," though appearing small to us because of their immense distance, are in reality great and shining suns.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000042_000006.wav|The people who are prone to fall on their knees and do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our head.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000021_000000.wav|Rules for Riding.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000010_000000.wav|Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace; Wednesday's child is merry and glad, Thursday's child is sorry and sad; Friday's child is loving and giving; Saturday's child must work for its living; While the child that is born on the Sabbath day Is blithe and bonny and good and gay.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000022_000000.wav|Keep up your head and your heart, Your hands and your heels keep down, Press your knees close to your horse's side, And your elbows close to your own.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000043_000000.wav|"Gentlemen of the jury, A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and poverty, in health and in sickness.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000023_000000.wav|HAPPINESS DEFINED.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000033_000000.wav|A bright and beautiful butterfly, which many chase but few can take.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000035_000000.wav|The birthright of contentment.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000006.wav|In eight minutes a message would get to the sun, and allowing for a couple of minutes' delay, one could send a message to the sun and get an answer all within twenty minutes.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000004.wav|Let it be supposed that messages were sent off to the different heavenly bodies.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000043_000003.wav|He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000008.wav|If, when Wellington won the battle of Waterloo, in eighteen fifteen, the news had been telegraphed off immediately, there are some stars so remote that it would not yet have reached them.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000036_000000.wav|A treasure which we search for far and wide, though oft times it is lying at our feet.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000029_000000.wav|The only thing a man continues to search for after he has found it.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000003.wav|At the speed of an electric current, one hundred eighty thousand miles per second, a message to be sent from a point on the earth's surface would go seven times around the earth in one second.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000014_000000.wav|To tell the age of any horse, Inspect the lower jaw, of course; The six front teeth the tale will tell, And every doubt and fear dispel.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000031_000000.wav|The goal erected for the human race, which few reach, being too heavily handicapped.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000038_000000.wav|APPALLING DEPTHS OF SPACE. Distances that Stun the Mind and Baffle Comprehension.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000005.wav|To reach the moon at this rate it would take about one second.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000042_000004.wav|It flies away from him when he may need it most.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000030_000000.wav|The bull's eye on the target at which all the human race are shooting.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000042_000003.wav|The money that a man has he may lose.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000007_000000.wav|Birthdays.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000040_000000.wav|Cygni is the nearest star to us in this part of the sky.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000042_000007.wav|The one absolutely unselfish friend a man may have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is the dog.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000039_000003.wav|To the naked eye there are five or six thousand of these heavenly bodies visible.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000019_000000.wav|The Cuckoo.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000009_000001.wav|They are, in idea, the same as the more familiar lines:|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000041_000000.wav|SENATOR VEST'S EULOGY ON THE DOG.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000008_000000.wav|Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday best of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000020_000000.wav|May-sings all the day; June-changes his tune; July-prepares to fly; August-go he must.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/133239/597_133239_000039_000001.wav|If we were to escape from the earth into space, the moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and eventually the sun would become invisible.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000015.wav|At the age of ten, Fantine quitted the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000006.wav|One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, Mamemoiselle?" "no"|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000003_000004.wav|Oscar, I shall behold him! People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of Waterloo.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000011_000002.wav|We will confine ourselves to saying that the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000002.wav|Her father was an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, who went out to give lessons in spite of his age.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000006_000002.wav|These badly guarded souls listen.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000011.wav|Is it possible that irony is derived from it?|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000000.wav|Tholomyes was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on Mount Sainte Genevieve.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000003_000000.wav|These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that charming April which is called twenty years.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000004.wav|The result had been Favourite.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000003_000002.wav|Burn for him the perfumes of Araby! exclaimed romance.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000008.wav|At the epoch of her birth the Directory still existed.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000001.wav|Tholomyes was a fast man of thirty, and badly preserved.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000006.wav|Why Fantine?|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000003_000003.wav|Oscar advances.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000006_000001.wav|Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds and the other flatters, and the beautiful daughters of the people have both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000021_000000.wav|Thereupon, Tholomyes lowered his voice and articulated something so mirthful, that a vast and enthusiastic grin broke out upon the four mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea."|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000008.wav|This cross and pious old mother never spoke to Favourite, remained hours without uttering a word, breakfasted, dined, and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, where she spoke ill of her daughter.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000003.wav|His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked by a watering in one eye.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000009_000001.wav|Such loves are always accompanied by such friendships.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000003_000001.wav|They were four Oscars; for, at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000020_000001.wav|We have promised them solemnly that we would.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000004.wav|But in proportion as his youth disappeared, gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly. He was dilapidated but still in flower.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000001.wav|Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the unknown.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000004.wav|She had never known father or mother.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000023_000000.wav|The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four young girls.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000016_000000.wav|An amour for him; passion for her.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000006_000004.wav|They are overwhelmed with splendor of all that is immaculate and inaccessible.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000012_000000.wav|She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of them.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000003.wav|Who can say?|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000008_000001.wav|How could she make such nails work?|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000006.wav|He had had a piece rejected at the Vaudeville.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000009.wav|She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal name; the Church no longer existed.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000009.wav|Being thus ironical and bald, he was the leader.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000005.wav|His youth, which was packing up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER two-A DOUBLE QUARTETTE|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000005.wav|She met her father from time to time, and he bowed to her.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000014_000000.wav|She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000007.wav|"I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, and installed herself.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000007.wav|She had never borne any other name.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000008_000002.wav|She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. As for Zephine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing little way of saying "Yes, sir."|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000016.wav|At fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, and remained pure as long as she could.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000007_000003.wav|This professor, when he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000014.wav|This human creature had entered life in just this way.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000009_000000.wav|The young men were comrades; the young girls were friends.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000006_000003.wav|Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the stones which are thrown at them.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000022_000000.wav|A smoky tap room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000005_000002.wav|Not to conceal anything, the three first were more experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000012.wav|She was called little Fantine.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000018_000010.wav|Iron is an English word.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000010_000000.wav|Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this is that, after making all due allowances for these little irregular households, Favourite, Zephine, and Dahlia were philosophical young women, while Fantine was a good girl.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000013.wav|No one knew more than that.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000016_000004.wav|In short, the eclogue took place.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000013_000018.wav|She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/134789/597_134789_000005_000000.wav|Favourite, Dahlia, Zephine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, perfumed and radiant, still a little like working women, and not yet entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall in woman.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000006.wav|The cones are from five to eight inches long and about as large in thickness; rich chocolate brown in color and protected by strong, down curving nooks which terminate the scales.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000007.wav|The cones are about fifteen to eighteen inches long, and three in diameter; green, shaded with dark purple on their sunward sides.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000007_000011.wav|It appears, therefore, that the Sierra forests indicate the extent and positions of ancient moraines as well as they do belts of climate.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000002.wav|Full grown specimens are from forty to fifty feet in height and from two to three feet in diameter.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000013.wav|Branches also soon become fruitful.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000007_000008.wav|The cedar of Lebanon, said Sir Joseph Hooker, occurs upon one of the moraines of an ancient glacier.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000018.wav|They are the priests of pines and seem ever to be addressing the surrounding forest.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000015.wav|The cones are about four inches long and covered with a sort of varnish and gum, rendering them impervious to moisture.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000011.wav|The foliage is of the same peculiar gray green color as that of the nut pine, and is worn about as loosely, so that the body of the tree is scarcely obscured by it.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000004.wav|Their slender, grayish needles are from eight to twelve inches long, and inclined to droop, contrasting with the rigid, dark colored trunk and branches.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000000.wav|Of all the world's eighty or ninety species of pine trees, the Sugar Pine (Pinus Lambertiana) is king, surpassing all others, not merely in size but in lordly beauty and majesty.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000012.wav|It exudes from the heart wood where wounds have been made by forest fires or the ax, and forms irregular, crisp, candy like kernels of considerable size, something like clusters of resin beads. When fresh it is white, but because most of the wounds on which it is found have been made by fire the sap is stained and the hardened sugar becomes brown.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000000.wav|One will have no difficulty in knowing the Nut Pine (Pinus Sabiniana), for it is the first conifer met in ascending the Range from the west, springing up here and there among Douglas oaks and thickets of ceanothus and manzanita; its extreme upper limit being about four thousand feet above the sea, its lower about from five hundred to eight hundred feet.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000007_000001.wav|The different species are arranged in zones and sections, which brings the forest as a whole within the comprehension of every observer.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000003.wav|The trunk usually divides into three or four main branches about fifteen or twenty feet from the ground that, after bearing away from one another, shoot straight up and form separate summits.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000007_000004.wav|After advancing fifteen or twenty miles towards Yosemite and making an ascent of from two to three thousand feet you reach the lower margin of the main pine belt, composed of great sugar pine, yellow pine, incense cedar and sequoia.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000007_000009.wav|All the forests of the Sierra are growing upon moraines, but moraines vanish like the glaciers that make them.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000007.wav|Nevertheless the little Douglas Squirrel can open them.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000009.wav|The curious little Pinus attenuata is found at an elevation of from fifteen hundred to three thousand feet, growing in close groves and belts.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000004.wav|Toward the head of this magnificent column long branches sweep gracefully outward and downward, sometimes forming a palm like crown, but far more impressive than any palm crown I ever beheld.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000011_000013.wav|Indians are fond of it, but on account of its laxative properties only small quantities may be eaten.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000014.wav|The average size of the tree is about thirty or forty feet in height and twelve to fourteen inches in diameter.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000010.wav|It is exceedingly slender and graceful, although trees that chance to stand alone send out very long, curved branches, making a striking contrast to the ordinary grove form.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000009_000000.wav|No observer can fail to notice the admirable adaptation of this curious pine to the fire swept regions where alone it is found.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000008_000001.wav|It is remarkable for its loose, airy, wide branching habit and thin gray foliage.|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/597/127694/597_127694_000006_000000.wav|The Forest Trees in General|597
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000018_000000.wav|That child, Madam, shall never, while life is lent me, know the loss she has sustained.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000020_000000.wav|Even had Madame Duval merited the charge she claims, I fear my fortitude would have been unequal to such a parting; but being such as she is, not only my affection, but my humanity, recoils, at the barbarous idea of deserting the sacred trust reposed in me.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000013_000001.wav|How often have I since regretted that I did not accompany her thither!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000016_000000.wav|Every body believed her innocent, from the guiltless tenor of her unspotted youth, and from the known libertinism of her barbarous betrayer.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000013_000000.wav|At that period of her life we parted; her mother, then married to Monsieur Duval, sent for her to Paris.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000012_000002.wav|She loved me as her father; nor was mrs Villars less valued by her; while to me she became so dear, that her loss was little less afflicting than that which I have since sustained of mrs Villars herself.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000008_000002.wav|pity!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000010_000000.wav|mr Evelyn left to me a legacy of a thousand pounds, and the sole guardianship of his daughter's person till her eighteenth year; conjuring me, in the most affecting terms, to take the charge of her education till she was able to act with propriety for herself; but, in regard to fortune, he left her wholly dependent on her mother, to whose tenderness he earnestly recommended her.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000007_000000.wav|Your Ladyship may probably have heard, that I had the honour to accompany mr Evelyn, the grandfather of my young charge, when upon his travels, in the capacity of a tutor.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000013_000004.wav|And, when she found her power inadequate to her attempt, enraged at her non compliance, she treated her with the grossest unkindness, and threatened her with poverty and ruin.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000005_000003.wav|I can only regard her as an object of pity!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000005_000002.wav|I have long known that she has persuaded herself to harbour an aversion for me Unhappy woman!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000007_000002.wav|He survived this ill judged marriage but two years.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000019_000000.wav|Thus it has happened, that the education of the father, daughter, and grand daughter, has devolved on me.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000003_000001.wav|However, I ought rather to be thankful that I have so many years remained unmolested, than repine at my present embarrassment; since it proves, at least, that this wretched woman is at length awakened to remorse.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000005_000000.wav|Your Ladyship will not, I am sure, be surprised at this answer.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000004_000000.wav|In regard to my answer, I must humbly request your Ladyship to write to this effect: "That I would not, upon any account, intentionally offend Madame Duval; but that I have weighty, nay unanswerable reasons for detaining her grand daughter at present in England; the principal of which is, that it was the earnest desire of one to whose will she owes implicit duty.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000017_000000.wav|The rage of Madame Duval at her elopement, abated not while this injured victim of cruelty yet drew breath.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000005_000001.wav|Madame Duval is by no means a proper companion or guardian for a young woman: she is at once uneducated and unprincipled; ungentle in temper, and unamiable in her manners.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000017_000003.wav|But, from the time of her recovery to the date of her letter to your Ladyship, I had never heard that she manifested any desire to be made acquainted with the circumstances which attended the death of Lady Belmont, and the birth of her helpless child.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000019_000002.wav|Should the fate of the dear survivor be equally adverse, how wretched will be the end of my cares the end of my days!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000015_000001.wav|With what mixed transports of joy and anguish did I again see her!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000004_000001.wav|Madame Duval may be assured, that she meets with the utmost attention and tenderness; that her education, however short of my wishes, almost exceeds my abilities; and I flatter myself, when the time arrives that she shall pay her duty to her grand mother, Madame Duval will find no reason to be dissatisfied with what has been done for her."|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000014_000000.wav|Miss Evelyn, to whom wrath and violence had hitherto been strangers, soon grew weary of such usage; and rashly, and without a witness, consented to a private marriage with Sir john Belmont, a very profligate young man, who had but too successfully found means to insinuate himself into her favour.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000013_000003.wav|But, to be brief Madame Duval, at the instigation of her husband, earnestly, or rather tyrannically, endeavoured to effect a union between Miss Evelyn and one of his nephews.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000014_000001.wav|He promised to conduct her to England he did.-O, Madam, you know the rest!-Disappointed of the fortune he expected, by the inexorable rancour of the Duvals, he infamously burnt the certificate of their marriage, and denied that they had ever been united.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000019_000001.wav|What infinite misery have the two first caused me!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000007_000003.wav|Upon his death bed, with an unsteady hand, he wrote me the following note:|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000017_000002.wav|When she was informed of her death, I have been told, that the agonies of grief and remorse, with which she was seized, occasioned her a severe fit of illness.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000008_000003.wav|And relieve me!"|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154671/2427_154671_000009_000000.wav|Had my circumstances permitted me, I should have answered these words by an immediate journey to Paris; but I was obliged to act by the agency of a friend, who was upon the spot, and present at the opening of the will.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000013_000001.wav|She must be very much altered since she was last at Howard Grove.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000005_000000.wav|Thus far, Madam, I cheerfully submit to your desire.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000008_000000.wav|It seems, therefore, as if this deserted child, though legally heiress to two large fortunes, must owe all her rational expectations to adoption and friendship.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000004_000001.wav|In detaining my young charge thus long with myself in the country, I consulted not solely my own inclination.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000006_000002.wav|And while he continues to persevere in disavowing his marriage with Miss Evelyn, she shall never, at the expense of her mother's honour, receive a part of her right as the donation of his bounty.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000004_000006.wav|I commit her to the protection of your Ladyship, and only hope she may be found worthy half the goodness I am satisfied she will meet with at your hospitable mansion.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000008_000001.wav|Yet her income will be such as may make her happy, if she is disposed to be so in private life; though it will by no means allow her to enjoy the luxury of a London fine lady.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000005_000002.wav|Permit me to ask, for what end, or for what purpose?|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000006_000000.wav|Consider Madam, the peculiar cruelty of her situation.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000010_000000.wav|I hope this reasoning will be honoured with your approbation; and I have yet another motive which has some weight with me: I would not willingly give offence to any human being; and surely Madame Duval might accuse me of injustice, if, while I refuse to let her grand daughter wait upon her, I consent that she should join a party of pleasure to London.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000005_000003.wav|A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000011_000000.wav|In sending her to Howard Grove, not one of these scruples arise; and therefore mrs Clinton, a most worthy woman, formerly her nurse, and now my housekeeper, shall attend her thither next week.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154673/2427_154673_000004_000003.wav|The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation: it has been my study to guard her against their delusions, by preparing her to expect and to despise them.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000016_000000.wav|Never can I consent to have this dear and timid girl brought forward to the notice of the world by such a method; a method which will subject her to all the impertinence of curiosity, the sneers of conjecture, and the stings of ridicule.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000022_000000.wav|The views of the Branghtons, in suggesting this scheme, are obviously interested.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000006_000000.wav|You cannot, Madam, suppose that I found much difficulty in adhering to this promise, and forbearing to make any claim upon Sir john Belmont.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000011_000000.wav|So much for the time past.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000004_000001.wav|I am unwilling to oppose my opinion to that of your Ladyship; nor, indeed, can I, but by arguments which I believe will rather rank me as a hermit ignorant of the world, and fit only for my cell, than as a proper guardian, in an age such as this, for an accomplished young woman.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000004_000000.wav|YOUR letter, Madam, has opened a source of anxiety, to which I look forward with dread, and which, to see closed, I scarcely dare expect.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000010_000003.wav|My plan, therefore, was not merely to educate and to cherish her as my own, but to adopt her the heiress of my small fortune, and to bestow her upon some worthy man, with whom she might spend her days in tranquility, cheerfulness, and good humour, untainted by vice, folly, or ambition.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000010_000000.wav|During the childhood of Evelina, I suggested a thousand plans for the security of her birth right;-but I as many times rejected them.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000021_000001.wav|I, therefore, advise and hope, that you will yourself take the trouble of writing to him, in order to open the affair.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000006_000002.wav|Could I wish to deliver to him, who had so basely betrayed the mother, the helpless and innocent offspring, who, born in so much sorrow, seemed entitled to all the compassionate tenderness of pity?|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000009_000001.wav|And often would she say, "Should the poor babe have any feelings correspondent with its mother's, it will have no want while under your protection." Alas! she had no sooner quitted it herself, than she was plunged into a gulph of misery, that swallowed up her peace, reputation, and life.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000005_000001.wav|On the fatal day that her gentle soul left its mansion, and not many hours ere she ceased to breathe, I solemnly plighted my faith, That her child if it lived, should know no father but myself, or her acknowledged husband.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000020_000000.wav|She cannot do better herself than to remain quiet and inactive in the affair: the long and mutual animosity between her and Sir john will make her interference merely productive of debates and ill will.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000016_000002.wav|A child to appear against a father!-no, Madam, old and infirm as I am, I would even yet sooner convey her myself to some remote part of the world, though I were sure of dying in the expedition.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000013_000001.wav|As soon would I discuss the effect of sound with the deaf, or the nature of colours with the blind, as aim at illuminating with conviction a mind so warped by prejudice, so much the slave of unruly and illiberal passions.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000006_000001.wav|Could I feel an affection the most paternal for this poor sufferer, and not abominate her destroyer?|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000014_000000.wav|The law suit, therefore, I wholly and absolutely disapprove.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000020_000001.wav|Neither would I have Evelina appear till summoned.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000012_000002.wav|But why should I perplex your Ladyship with reasoning that can turn to so little account?|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000023_000000.wav|I have but one thing more to add, from which, however, I can by no means recede: my word so solemnly given to Lady Belmont, that her child should never be owned but with her self, must be inviolably adhered to.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000021_000000.wav|My opinion is, that he would pay more respect to a letter from your Ladyship upon this subject, than from any other person.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000011_000002.wav|It now remains to speak of the time to come.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000013_000003.wav|I yield, therefore, to the necessity which compels my reluctant acquiescence; and shall now turn all my thoughts upon considering of such methods for the conducting this enterprise, as may be most conducive to the happiness of my child and least liable to wound her sensibility.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000015_000001.wav|I am satisfied your Ladyship has not weighed this project.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000013_000000.wav|I will not, therefore, enter into a contest from which I have nothing to expect but altercation and impertinence.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000015_000002.wav|There was a time, indeed, when to assert the innocence of Lady Belmont, and to blazon to the world the wrongs, not guilt, by which she suffered, I proposed, nay attempted, a similar plan: but then all assistance and encouragement was denied.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000012_000003.wav|for, alas! what arguments, what persuasions, can I make use of, with any prospect of success, to such a woman as Madame Duval?|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000017_000001.wav|But even this last consolation was withheld from her!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000012_000000.wav|And here, indeed, I am sensible of difficulties which I almost despair of surmounting according to my wishes.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000003_000000.wav|MR VILLARS TO LADY HOWARD Berry Hill, may second.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000016_000001.wav|And for what?-the attainment of wealth which she does not want, and the gratification of vanity which she does not feel.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000015_000004.wav|She was deaf to the voice of Nature, though she has hearkened to that of Ambition.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000012_000004.wav|Her character and the violence of her disposition, intimidate me from making the attempt: she is too ignorant for instruction, too obstinate for intreaty, and too weak for reason.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000022_000001.wav|They hope, by securing to Evelina the fortune of her father, to induce Madame Duval to settle her own upon themselves.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154697/2427_154697_000008_000000.wav|You wish to be acquainted with my intentions.-I must acknowledge they were such as I now perceive would not be honoured with your Ladyship's approbation; for though I have sometimes thought of presenting Evelina to her father, and demanding the justice which is her due, yet, at other times, I have both disdained and feared the application; disdained lest it should be refused; and feared, lest it should be accepted!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000017_000002.wav|I will write to mrs Selwyn, and tell her how much I wish your return; and mrs Clinton can take sufficient care of you.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000010_000001.wav|How rapid was then my Evelina's progress through those regions of fancy and passion whither her new guide conducted her!-She saw Lord Orville at a ball,-and he was the most amiable of men!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000019_000000.wav|I am very glad to hear of mr Macartney's welfare.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000020_000001.wav|Heaven preserve and strengthen you!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000015_000002.wav|This effort may indeed be painful; but trust to my experience, when I assure you it is requisite.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000008_000000.wav|Long, and with the deepest regret, have I perceived the ascendancy which Lord Orville has gained upon your mind.-You will start at the mention of his name,-you will tremble every word you read;-I grieve to give pain to my gentle Evelina, but I dare not any longer spare her.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000016_000001.wav|Believe me, my beloved child, my heart aches for your suffering, while it dictates its necessity.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000005_000000.wav|Alas, my child!-that innocence, the first, best gift of Heaven, should, of all others, be the blindest to its own danger,-the most exposed to treachery,-and the least able to defend itself, in a world where it is little known, less valued, and perpetually deceived!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000007_000000.wav|Hitherto I have forborne to speak with you upon the most important of all concerns, the state of your heart:-alas, I need no information!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000004_000000.wav|DEAD to the world, and equally insensible to its pleasures or its pains, I long since bad adieu to all joy, and defiance to all sorrow, but what should spring from my Evelina,-sole source, to me, of all earthly felicity.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000015_000001.wav|Make a noble effort for the recovery of your peace, which now, with sorrow I see it, depends wholly upon the presence of Lord Orville.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000007_000001.wav|I have been silent, indeed, but I have not been blind.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000016_000000.wav|You must quit him!-his sight is baneful to your repose, his society is death to your future tranquillity!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000006_000000.wav|Would to Heaven you were here!-then, by degrees, and with gentleness, I might enter upon a subject too delicate for distant discussion.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000012_000000.wav|You flattered yourself that your partiality was the effect of esteem, founded upon a general love of merit, and a principle of justice; and your heart, which fell the sacrifice of your error, was totally gone ere you expected it was in danger.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000017_000001.wav|Your health, you tell me, is much mended:-Can you then consent to leave Bristol?-not abruptly, that I do not desire, but in a few days from the time you receive this?|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000014_000000.wav|But, now, since you have again met, and have become more intimate than ever, all my hope from silence and seeming ignorance is at an end.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000010_000002.wav|-She met him again at another,-and he had every virtue under Heaven!|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000018_000001.wav|This will at least be safe; and as to success,-we must leave it to time.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000018_000000.wav|I have meditated upon every possible expedient that might tend to your happiness, ere I fixed upon exacting from you a compliance which I am convinced will be most painful to you; but I can satisfy myself in none.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000003_000002.wav|Berry Hill, september twenty eighth.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000010_000000.wav|Young, animated, entirely off your guard, and thoughtless of consequences, Imagination took the reins; and Reason, slow paced, though sure footed, was unequal to the race of so eccentric and flighty a companion.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000003_000001.wav|VILLARS TO EVELINA.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2427/154736/2427_154736_000009_000000.wav|Your first meeting with Lord Orville was decisive.|2427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000020_000002.wav|He alone knew the amount of the large fortune of his sometime client, and his fervor was inevitably increased by the cupidity of greed, and by the consciousness that he wielded an enormous power, the power of life and death in the district.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000068_000001.wav|The conscript read the direction curiously.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000023_000000.wav|"If she were ill, she would have sent for the doctor," said gossip number one; "now the doctor has been playing chess in my house all day. He said to me, laughing, that in these days there is only one disease, and that, unluckily, it is incurable."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000037_000000.wav|She trembled.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000046_000000.wav|They found the Countess seated in a corner of the great chimney piece in her room, which was almost as modestly furnished as similar apartments in Carentan; for she had given up the enjoyment of luxuries to which she had formerly been accustomed, for fear of offending the narrow prejudices of her guests, and she had made no changes in her house.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000040_000001.wav|"Why did you buy provisions?"|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000036_000000.wav|"Why did I come but to share in your crime?" the old merchant said simply.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000013_000006.wav|Her great soul, strengthened by the cruel ordeals through which she had passed, seemed to set her too far above the ordinary level, and these men weighed themselves, and instinctively felt that they were found wanting.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000045_000000.wav|This tale had an immense success in Carentan.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000059_000006.wav|The moon shone on the pasture land about Carentan, but he had noticed great masses of white cloud that were about to scatter showers of snow over the country, and doubtless the fear of being overtaken by a storm had quickened his pace in spite of his weariness.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000030_000001.wav|The old merchant took a bolder step.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000054_000001.wav|He is still alive; I would stake my salvation on it; God cannot be mistaken."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000053_000000.wav|"Is that a certain sign?" the Countess asked.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000061_000000.wav|"What is your name?" asked the mayor, eying him shrewdly.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000027_000003.wav|Others voted for a noble escaped from the prisons of Paris.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000105_000002.wav|Once, for the Countess, there was an awful interval, when the battalion of conscripts entered the town, and the men went by, one by one, to their lodgings.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000047_000005.wav|Several times they put awkward questions, which the Countess answered with wonderful presence of mind. So brave is a mother's heart!|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000044_000002.wav|The Countess, he said, had lain in danger of her life for the past two days; but after carefully following out Tronchin's singular prescription, she was now sufficiently recovered to receive visitors that evening.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000050_000001.wav|A bright fire blazed on the hearth, the shutters were carefully closed, the furniture shone with cleanliness, the bed had been made after a fashion that showed that Brigitte and the Countess had given their minds to every trifling detail.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000086_000000.wav|"Madame, he is-" cried Brigitte, thinking that her mistress was alone. At the sight of the public prosecutor, the old servant's joy flushed countenance became haggard and impassive.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000058_000003.wav|She stared into the darkness, seeing her son in every shadow everywhere; but it was only for a moment.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000028_000000.wav|"If you spread reports about," he added, "I shall be obliged to take cognizance of the matter, and to search the house, and then!..."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000024_000004.wav|Brigitte had been seen in the market place betimes that morning, and, wonderful to relate, she had bought the one hare to be had.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000079_000000.wav|She looked at him, and the dull misery in her eyes would have softened a tiger.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000018_000007.wav|Yet, sustained by a mother's courage, she succeeded in winning the affection of the poor, ministering without distinction to everyone in trouble; and made herself necessary to the well to do, by providing amusements for them.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000052_000003.wav|"I put a key in the Bible and held it on my fingers while Cottin read the Gospel of saint John, and the key did not turn, madame."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000060_000000.wav|The wallet on his back was almost empty, and he carried a stick in his hand, cut from one of the high, thick box hedges that surround most of the farms in Lower Normandy.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000011_000002.wav|Her calculations, based on a thorough knowledge of the district, proved correct.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000012_000001.wav|Her figure was lissome and slender, her features delicate and clearly cut; the pale face seemed to light up and live when she spoke; but there was a quiet and devout look in the great dark eyes, for all their graciousness of expression-a look that seemed to say that the springs of her life lay without her own existence.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000014_000001.wav|All the happiness and joy that she had not known as a wife, she had found later in her boundless love for him.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000026_000001.wav|He was a retired merchant, a married man, a strictly honorable soul; everyone respected him, and the Countess held him in high regard.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000076_000002.wav|I have watched your character, your soul, your manner, too closely to share the error into which you have managed to lead your visitors to night.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000047_000004.wav|The public prosecutor and one of the judges of the Revolutionary Tribunal kept silence, however; noting the slightest change that flickered over her features, listening through the noisy talk to every sound in the house.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000077_000000.wav|The Countess made an involuntary sign of denial, but her face had grown white and drawn with the struggle to maintain the composure that she did not feel, and no tremor was lost on the merciless prosecutor.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000094_000000.wav|"Oh! it is not he!" she cried, shrinking away in terror, and she stood face to face with the conscript, gazing at him with haggard eyes.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000070_000002.wav|The card players settled their accounts, and everybody went out together, after the fashion of all little country towns.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000106_000001.wav|That must have killed her."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000081_000001.wav|A knock at the door rang through the house.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000025_000000.wav|Elderly gentlemen, taking their constitutional, noticed a sort of suppressed bustle in the Countess's house; the symptoms were the more apparent because the servants were at evident pains to conceal them. The man servant was beating a carpet in the garden.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000027_000005.wav|The public prosecutor, moreover, said, in a low voice, that they must hush the matter up, and try to save the unfortunate lady from the abyss toward which she was hastening.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000010_000004.wav|Many a one during the days of the Revolution has doubtless passed through a crisis as difficult as hers at that moment, and the sympathies of more than one reader will fill in all the coloring of the picture.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000052_000002.wav|I haven't a doubt that he is living and on his way," Brigitte answered.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000032_000000.wav|The Countess's face wore a strange look, that confirmed his suspicions. Deeply moved by the devotion so natural to women, but that always touches us, because all men are flattered by the sacrifices that any woman makes for any one of them, the merchant told the Countess of the gossip that was circulating in the town, and showed her the danger that she was running.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000069_000002.wav|God guide him!...|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000005.wav|Oh!|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000088_000000.wav|"A conscript that the mayor has sent here for a night's lodging," the woman replied, holding out the billet.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000070_000000.wav|The clocks in Carentan struck half past nine as he spoke.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000015_000002.wav|The child was all the dearer, because only with infinite care had she succeeded in rearing him to man's estate; medical science had predicted his death a score of times, but she had held fast to her presentiments and her hopes, and had known the inexpressible joy of watching him pass safely through the perils of infancy, of seeing his constitution strengthen in spite of the decrees of the Faculty.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000051_000000.wav|"Oh, Brigitte!..." cried the Countess, with a heart rending inflection in her voice.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000016_000000.wav|Thanks to her constant care, the boy had grown up and developed so favorably, that at twenty years of age he was regarded as one of the most accomplished gentlemen at the Court of Versailles.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000058_000000.wav|She was afraid that she had been too long in the room where she felt sure that her son was alive; all those preparations made for him meant that he was alive.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000071_000001.wav|And, as a matter of fact, that redoubtable functionary was alone with the Countess, who waited trembling till he should go.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000058_000005.wav|But from time to time she complained of feeling unwell, and went to sit in her great chair by the fireside.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000091_000000.wav|The Countess's need to believe in the faith of her sometime attorney was so great, that she dared not entertain any suspicion of him.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000069_000004.wav|Yes, but if somebody else had asked to see his papers it would have been all up with him!"|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000105_000000.wav|She still wavered between the fear that she had lost her son and the hope of seeing him once more.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000064_000000.wav|"From Paris."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000024_000002.wav|Next day the suspicions became malignant. Everyone lives in public in a small town, and the women kind were the first to find out that Brigitte had laid in an extra stock of provisions.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000069_000003.wav|He has an answer ready for everything.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000059_000003.wav|The young fellows went ahead of their company to the next halting place, or lagged behind it; it depended upon their fitness to bear the fatigues of a long march.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000038_000002.wav|The paper shook in the old man's hands.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000059_000005.wav|The young man's footsteps were still firm as he trudged along, and his bearing seemed to indicate that he was no stranger to the rough life of a soldier.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000042_000000.wav|"I am sure of my brother," the old merchant went on; "I will engage him in your interests."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000013_000007.wav|Such a nature demanded an exalted passion.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000022_000000.wav|To all these questions, Brigitte, the housekeeper, answered with the same formula: her mistress was keeping her room, and would see no one, not even her own servants.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000092_000000.wav|"Oh! my child! my child!" she sobbed, covering him with almost frenzied kisses.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000050_000000.wav|Once more she looked to see that everything was in order.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000030_000002.wav|He called that morning upon the lady.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000046_000003.wav|She even went so far as to affect avarice to recommend herself to these sordid natures; and had the ingenuity to make it appear that certain concessions to luxury had been made at the instance of others, to whom she had graciously yielded.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000055_000000.wav|"If only I could see him here in the house, in spite of the danger."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000105_000003.wav|Every footfall, every sound in the street, raised hopes to be disappointed; but it was not for long, the dreadful quiet succeeded again.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000084_000000.wav|"Lost!" she wailed.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000037_000001.wav|For the first time since she had come to the little town her soul found sympathy in another soul.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000069_000001.wav|"He is uncommonly bold!|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000025_000001.wav|Only yesterday no one would have remarked the fact, but to day everybody began to build romances upon that harmless piece of household stuff.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000011_000003.wav|The Revolution made little disturbance in Lower Normandy.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000003.wav|A few minutes more, and he will be here, for he is alive, I am sure that he is alive! my heart tells me so.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000043_000001.wav|Matching his shrewdness against Norman wits in the cross examination he underwent in every family as to the Countess's complaint, he succeeded in putting almost everyone who took an interest in the mysterious affair upon the wrong scent.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000078_000000.wav|"Very well," the Revolutionary official went on, "receive him; but do not let him stay under your roof after seven o'clock to morrow morning; for to morrow, as soon as it is light, I shall come with a denunciation that I will have made out, and-"|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000047_000001.wav|The old merchant's sympathetic glances sustained the mistress of the house through this ordeal; with wonderful strength of mind, she underwent the curious scrutiny of her guests, and bore with their trivial prosings.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000025_000002.wav|Everyone had a version.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000039_000001.wav|She sprang to her feet, took back the letter, and walked up and down.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000067_000001.wav|"All right, all right!" he added, with a wave of the hand, seeing that the young man was about to speak.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000026_000002.wav|There all the rich widows' suitors were fain to invent more or less probable fictions, each one thinking the while how to turn to his own advantage the secret that compelled her to compromise herself in such a manner.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000020_000001.wav|He was the most formidable of all her suitors.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000057_000000.wav|"And that is eight o'clock striking now!" cried the Countess in terror.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000082_000000.wav|"Oh!..." cried the terrified mother, falling upon her knees; "save him! save him!"|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000046_000001.wav|The floor was not even polished.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000018_000002.wav|With the one desire to look after her son's great fortune, she had denied herself the happiness of being with him; and when she read the rigorous laws in virtue of which the Republic was daily confiscating the property of Emigrants at Carentan, she congratulated herself on the courageous course that she had taken. Was she not keeping watch over the wealth of her son at the risk of her life?|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000013_000002.wav|She had been compelled to set constant restraint upon her frank impulses and emotions at an age when a woman feels rather than thinks, and the depths of passion in her heart had never been stirred.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000084_000001.wav|The prosecutor raised her politely.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000029_000000.wav|He said no more, but everyone understood what was left unsaid.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000054_000000.wav|"Why, yes, madame! everybody knows that.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000024_000003.wav|The thing could not be disputed.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000066_000000.wav|"I am three leagues ahead of the battalion."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000032_000001.wav|He wound up at last with saying that "if there are some of our public functionaries who are sufficiently ready to pardon a piece of heroism on your part so long as it is a priest that you wish to save, no one will show you any mercy if it is discovered that you are sacrificing yourself to the dictates of your heart."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000059_000004.wav|This particular wayfarer was some considerable way in advance of a company of conscripts on the way to Cherbourg, whom the mayor was expecting to arrive every hour, for it was his duty to distribute their billets.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000101_000000.wav|Brigitte said no more.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000035_000000.wav|She dropped as if exhausted into her armchair.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000059_000002.wav|The exigencies of the moment scarcely admitted of soldiers being equipped at once, and it was no uncommon thing to see the roads thronged with conscripts in their ordinary clothes.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000050_000003.wav|A dainty meal, the best of wine, clean linen, slippers-no necessary, no comfort, was lacking for the weary traveler, and all the delights of home heaped upon him should reveal his mother's love.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000015_000001.wav|So worldly ambitions and family considerations, as well as the noblest cravings of the soul, combined to heighten in the Countess a sentiment that is strong in every woman's heart.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000067_000002.wav|"We know where to send you.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000098_000000.wav|She went down to her own room, Brigitte and the old serving man half carrying her between them.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000047_000002.wav|Every time there was a knock at the door, at every sound of footsteps in the street, she hid her agitation by raising questions of absorbing interest to the countryside.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000099_000001.wav|Why, if they were to guillotine me for it, I-"|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000000.wav|"My good Brigitte, I cannot breathe down there!" she cried, brushing away the tears that sprang to her eyes that glittered with fever, sorrow, and impatience.--She had gone up to her son's room, and was looking round it.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000102_000000.wav|"Hold your tongue, chatterbox," said her husband, in a low voice; "do you want to kill madame?"|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000006.wav|I would give the rest of my life to know whether he is still in prison or tramping across the country.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000076_000003.wav|You are expecting your son, I could not doubt it."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000040_000000.wav|"You have set to work imprudently," the merchant remarked, addressing her.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000021_000000.wav|In spite of difficulties, the Countess had maintained her independence with considerable skill until the day when, by an inexplicable want of prudence, she took occasion to close her salon.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000065_000000.wav|"Your comrades must be a good way behind?" remarked the Norman in sarcastic tones.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000060_000003.wav|He was sent for, however, and confronted with that functionary, who scrutinized him closely.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000002.wav|"Here I can breathe and live.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000056_000000.wav|"Poor Monsieur Auguste!" cried Brigitte; "I expect he is tramping along the lanes!"|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000016_000002.wav|If they had not been bound to each other already by a natural and sacred tie, they would instinctively have felt for each other a friendship that is rarely met with between two men.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000097_000000.wav|"Ah! monsieur," she said, leaning on the arm of Brigitte's husband, feeling for the first time the full extent of a sorrow that had all but killed her at its first threatening; "ah! monsieur, I cannot stay to see you any longer ... permit my servants to supply my place, and to see that you have all that you want."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000105_000001.wav|That night was hideously silent.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000105_000004.wav|Toward morning the Countess was forced to return to her room. Brigitte, ever keeping watch over her mistress's movements, did not see her come out again; and when she went, she found the Countess lying there dead.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000013_000004.wav|She was reserved in her demeanor, but in her bearing and in the tones of her voice there was still something that told of girlish longings directed toward a vague future.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000018_000003.wav|Later, when news came of the horrible executions ordered by the Convention, she slept, happy in the knowledge that her own treasure was in safety, out of reach of peril, far from the scaffolds of the Revolution.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000075_000000.wav|"Nothing!" she answered, in amazement.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000018_000006.wav|Did she not tempt the scaffold by the very fact of going thither to take a prominent place?|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000052_000001.wav|He is not far off....|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000063_000000.wav|"From-?" queried the official, and an incredulous smile stole over his features.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000034_000000.wav|"Come in," she said, taking him by the hand to bring him to her room, and as soon as she had assured herself that they were alone, she drew a soiled, torn letter from her bodice.--"Read it!" she cried, with a violent effort to pronounce the words.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000080_000000.wav|"I will make it clear that the denunciation was false by making a thorough search," he went on in a gentle voice; "my report shall be such that you will be safe from any subsequent suspicion.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000071_000002.wav|There was something appalling in their long silence.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000041_000000.wav|"Why, he may come in dying of hunger, worn out with fatigue, and-" She broke off.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000074_000000.wav|"Have you nothing to tell me?"|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000018_000005.wav|She had foreseen the difficulties that would beset her at Carentan.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000015_000000.wav|The late Comte de Dey was the last of his race, and she, his wife, was the sole heiress and descendant of her house.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000089_000000.wav|"So it is," said the prosecutor, when he had read the slip of paper.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000018_000001.wav|She was rich, noble, and the mother of an Emigrant.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000004.wav|Do you hear nothing, Brigitte?|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000047_000003.wav|She led the conversation on to the burning topic of the quality of various ciders, and was so well seconded by her friend who shared her secret, that her guests almost forgot to watch her, and her face wore its wonted look; her self possession was unshaken.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000089_000001.wav|"A battalion is coming here to night."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000020_000004.wav|But, in despite of the danger of matching herself against Norman cunning, she used all the craft and inventiveness that Nature has bestowed on women to play off the rival suitors one against another.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000060_000002.wav|He met no one in the silent streets that rang with the echoes of his own footsteps, and was obliged to ask the way to the mayor's house of a weaver who was working late. The magistrate was not far to seek, and in a few minutes the conscript was sitting on a stone bench in the mayor's porch waiting for his billet.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000010_000003.wav|Her position in Carentan ought to be made clear, if the reader is to appreciate the expression of keen curiosity and cunning fanaticism on the countenances of these Norman citizens, and, what is of most importance, the part that the lady played among them.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000035_000001.wav|While the old merchant looked for his spectacles and wiped them, she raised her eyes, and for the first time looked at him with curiosity; then, in an uncertain voice, "I trust in you," she said softly.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000060_000004.wav|The foot soldier was a good looking young man, who appeared to be of gentle birth.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000031_000000.wav|"She has given refuge to her lover, no doubt," thought the old man, struck with pity for the charming woman before him.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000014_000003.wav|She was miserable when they were apart, and nervous about him while he was away; she could never see enough of him, and lived through and for him alone.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000091_000001.wav|She fled upstairs; she felt scarcely strength enough to stand; she opened the door, and sprang, half dead with fear, into her son's arms.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000020_000005.wav|She hoped, by gaining time, to emerge safe and sound from her difficulties at last; for at that time Royalists in the provinces flattered themselves with a hope, daily renewed, that the morrow would see the end of the Revolution-a conviction that proved fatal to many of them.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000090_000000.wav|And he went.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000037_000002.wav|A sudden light dawned meantime on the old merchant; he understood the Countess's joy and her prostration.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000001.wav|"He does not come," she said.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000087_000000.wav|"Who is it, Brigitte?" the prosecutor asked kindly, as if he too were in the secret of the household.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000049_000007.wav|I would rather not think."|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000012_000000.wav|She was about thirty eight years of age, and still preserved, not the fresh, high colored beauty of the Basse Normandes, but a fragile loveliness of what may be called an aristocratic type.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000058_000001.wav|She went down, but she lingered a moment in the peristyle for any sound that might waken the sleeping echoes of the town.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000013_000003.wav|In this lay the secret of her greatest charm, a youthfulness of the inmost soul, betrayed at times by her face, and a certain tinge of innocent wistfulness in her ideas.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000058_000002.wav|She smiled at Brigitte's husband, who was standing there on guard; the man's eyes looked stupid with the strain of listening to the faint sounds of the night.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000016_000001.wav|One final happiness that does not always crown a mother's efforts was hers-her son worshiped her; and between these two there was the deep sympathy of kindred souls.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000027_000001.wav|The mayor had a belief in a priest who had refused the oath, a refugee from La Vendee; but this left him not a little embarrassed how to account for the purchase of a hare on a Friday.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000048_000001.wav|She elicited a suggestion of loto, and saying that no one else knew where to find the game, she left the room.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000024_000001.wav|Women and men, elderly folk and young girls, forthwith betook themselves to the vast fields of conjecture. Everyone imagined that there was some secret in it, and every head was busy with the secret.|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3851/9210/3851_9210_000098_000001.wav|The housekeeper set her mistress in a chair, and broke out:|3851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000001.wav|A carriage at the gate, and Mortimer's man arrives, looking rather like a spurious Mephistopheles and an unacknowledged member of that gentleman's family.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000049_000001.wav|'The what?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000019_000004.wav|Thirdly, because Anastatia is a little superstitious on the subject and feels averse to my giving away anybody until baby is old enough to be married.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000110_000002.wav|Here I split my discourse (give me your arm, Sophronia), into three heads, to make it shorter and plainer.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000075_000000.wav|'But you asked somebody, too.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000059_000000.wav|After a little more walking and a little more silence, Mr Lammle breaks the latter.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000083_000001.wav|What do you pretend to believe?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000099_000000.wav|'You sought me out-'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000021_000000.wav|'My dear Mr Podsnap, it's very foolish I know, but I have an instinctive presentiment that if Hamilton gave away anybody else first, he would never give away baby.' Thus Mrs Veneering; with her open hands pressed together, and each of her eight aquiline fingers looking so very like her one aquiline nose that the bran new jewels on them seem necessary for distinction's sake.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000038_000002.wav|And this snort being regular in its reproduction, at length comes to be expected by the company, who make embarrassing pauses when it is falling due, and by waiting for it, render it more emphatic when it comes.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000008_000001.wav|Not, however, that he has the least notion of its being his own case.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000005.wav|Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000118_000004.wav|To wind up all:--You have shown temper today, Sophronia.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000002_000000.wav|A MARRIAGE CONTRACT|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000023_000000.wav|'Certainly!' From Podsnap.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000055_000000.wav|'What of it?' says Mr Lammle. 'Have you the face to utter the word to me?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000117_000001.wav|Agreed.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000072_000000.wav|Mr Lammle bestows a by no means loving look upon the partner of his joys and sorrows, and he mutters something; but checks himself.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000036_000000.wav|Ceremony performed, register signed, Lady Tippins escorted out of sacred edifice by Veneering, carriages rolling back to Stucconia, servants with favours and flowers, Veneering's house reached, drawing rooms most magnificent.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000010_000000.wav|('Oh!' thinks Twemlow, with his eyes on Podsnap, 'then there are only two of us, and he's the other.')|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000009_000000.wav|'Our friends, Alfred and Sophronia,' pursues Veneering the veiled prophet: 'our friends Alfred and Sophronia, you will be glad to hear, my dear fellows, are going to be married.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000015.wav|Perhaps he never of himself achieved success in anything, never originated anything, never produced anything?|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000114_000004.wav|So are you, my dear.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000009_000001.wav|As my wife and I make it a family affair the entire direction of which we take upon ourselves, of course our first step is to communicate the fact to our family friends.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000104_000001.wav|When I look back, I wonder how I can have been such a fool as to take you to so great an extent upon trust.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000022_000000.wav|'But, my dear Podsnap,' quoth Veneering, 'there IS a tried friend of our family who, I think and hope you will agree with me, Podsnap, is the friend on whom this agreeable duty almost naturally devolves.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000119_000000.wav|So, the happy pair, with this hopeful marriage contract thus signed, sealed, and delivered, repair homeward.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000081_000000.wav|With that, they walk again; she, making those angry spirts in the sand; he, dragging that dejected tail.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000110_000001.wav|A mutual understanding follows, and I think it may carry us through.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000036_000004.wav|Veneering launching himself upon this trustee as his oldest friend (which makes seven, Twemlow thought), and confidentially retiring with him into the conservatory, it is understood that Veneering is his co trustee, and that they are arranging about the fortune.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000117_000000.wav|She answers, after a little hesitation, 'I suppose so.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000005_000003.wav|Yet that can scarcely be, for they are older than himself. Veneering has been in their confidence throughout, and has done much to lure them to the altar.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000053_000001.wav|You did.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000011.wav|What are his tastes?|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000101_000000.wav|'Am I no one?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000002.wav|He invests his property.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000005_000006.wav|He has answered, 'Not exactly.' Whether Sophronia was adopted by his mother?|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000007.wav|Where does he come from?|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000003.wav|He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000090_000003.wav|Then she asks him, why, in the disappointment of his base speculation, he does not take her life with his own hand, under the present favourable circumstances.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000019_000002.wav|Firstly, because I couldn't take so much upon myself when I have respected family friends to remember.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000019_000000.wav|'My dear Podsnap, no|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000096_000003.wav|Get up.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000036_000007.wav|What time Mrs Veneering, carrying baby dressed as a bridesmaid, flits about among the company, emitting flashes of many coloured lightning from diamonds, emeralds, and rubies.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000054_000001.wav|And what of it?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000036_000006.wav|Pokey unknowns, amazed to find how intimately they know Veneering, pluck up spirit, fold their arms, and begin to contradict him before breakfast.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000011_000000.wav|'I did hope,' Veneering goes on, 'to have had Lady Tippins to meet you; but she is always in request, and is unfortunately engaged.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000086_000000.wav|'Was mine!' the bride repeats, and her parasol breaks in her angry hand.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000037_000003.wav|Splendid bracelet, produced by Veneering before going down, and clasped upon the arm of bride.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000096_000002.wav|Do you hear?|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000113_000001.wav|Agreed.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000037_000000.wav|The Analytical, in course of time achieving what he feels to be due to himself in bringing to a dignified conclusion several quarrels he has on hand with the pastrycook's men, announces breakfast.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000052_000000.wav|'What if I did?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000073_000000.wav|'Question for question.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000114_000000.wav|'We come smoothly to thirdly.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000000.wav|But, hark!|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000009.wav|Where is he going to?|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000108_000002.wav|I cannot get rid of you; you cannot get rid of me.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000103_000000.wav|'An injured figure!'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000030_000000.wav|'Mortimer, you wretch,' says Lady Tippins, turning the eyeglass about and about, 'where is your charge, the bridegroom?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000013_000000.wav|'Mortimer Lightwood,' resumes Veneering, 'whom you both know, is out of town; but he writes, in his whimsical manner, that as we ask him to be bridegroom's best man when the ceremony takes place, he will not refuse, though he doesn't see what he has to do with it.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000019_000003.wav|Secondly, because I am not so vain as to think that I look the part.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000105_000000.wav|'And when I look back-' the bride cries, interrupting.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000032_000001.wav|Is that the way you do your duty?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000104_000000.wav|'You are now cool enough, Sophronia, to see that you can't be injured without my being equally injured; and that therefore the mere word is not to the purpose.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000047_000000.wav|Mr Lammle falls silent again, and they walk as before.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000005_000004.wav|He has mentioned to Twemlow how he said to Mrs Veneering, 'Anastatia, this must be a match.' He has mentioned to Twemlow how he regards Sophronia Akershem (the mature young lady) in the light of a sister, and Alfred Lammle (the mature young gentleman) in the light of a brother.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000093_000000.wav|'Get up, I tell you.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000039_000000.wav|Another objectionable circumstance is, that the pokey unknowns support each other in being unimpressible.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000032_000000.wav|'Miserable!|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000014_000000.wav|('Oh!' thinks Twemlow, with his eyes rolling, 'then there are four of us, and HE'S the other.')|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000119_000001.wav|If, when those infernal finger marks were on the white and breathless countenance of Alfred Lammle, Esquire, they denoted that he conceived the purpose of subduing his dear wife Mrs Alfred Lammle, by at once divesting her of any lingering reality or pretence of self respect, the purpose would seem to have been presently executed.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000060_000001.wav|You claim a right to ask me do I mean to tell you.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000026_000002.wav|While perusing which composition, Twemlow makes some opaque approach to perceiving that if the Reverend Blank Blank and the Reverend Dash Dash fail, after this introduction, to become enrolled in the list of Veneering's dearest and oldest friends, they will have none but themselves to thank for it.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000008.wav|Attendant unknowns; pokey.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000071_000001.wav|I have no trustee, but the one you saw on the day when you fraudulently married me.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000056_000000.wav|'The face, too!' replied Mrs Lammle, staring at him with cold scorn. 'Pray, how dare you, sir, utter the word to me?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000088_000000.wav|'Throw it away,' he coolly recommends as to the parasol; 'you have made it useless; you look ridiculous with it.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000029_000004.wav|She has a large gold eye glass, has Lady Tippins, to survey the proceedings with.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000007.wav|Mrs Veneering; never saw such velvet, say two thousand pounds as she stands, absolute jeweller's window, father must have been a pawnbroker, or how could these people do it?|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000063_000000.wav|'Then you married me on false pretences?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000005_000002.wav|Wards of his, perhaps?|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000119_000002.wav|The mature young lady has mighty little need of powder, now, for her downcast face, as he escorts her in the light of the setting sun to their abode of bliss.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000038_000004.wav|Aware of her enemy, Lady Tippins tries a youthful sally or two, and tries the eye glass; but, from the impenetrable cap and snorting armour of the stoney aunt all weapons rebound powerless.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000016_000000.wav|('Then,' thinks Twemlow, with his eyes shut, 'there are si-' But here collapses and does not completely recover until dinner is over and the Analytical has been requested to withdraw.)|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000090_000001.wav|Then she says that if she had the courage to kill herself, she would do it.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000001_000000.wav|Chapter ten|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000022_000002.wav|That friend is Twemlow.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000017_000001.wav|Sophronia, having lost both father and mother, has no one to give her away.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000085_000001.wav|I have originated nothing.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000060_000002.wav|Do I mean to tell you what?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000012.wav|Shares. Has he any principles?|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000047_000001.wav|Mrs Lammle opens her nostrils and bites her under lip; Mr Lammle takes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and, bringing them together, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000065_000000.wav|'no'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000005.wav|Bridesmaids; kept down for fear of outshining bride, consequently not girls, twelve and sixpence a yard, Veneering's flowers, snub nosed one rather pretty but too conscious of her stockings, bonnets three pound ten.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000037_000002.wav|Splendid cake, covered with Cupids, silver, and true lovers' knots.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000042_000001.wav|But, there is another time to come, and it comes in about a fortnight, and it comes to Mr and Mrs Lammle on the sands at Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000090_000002.wav|Then she calls him vile impostor.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000005_000007.wav|He has answered, 'Not precisely so.' Twemlow's hand has gone to his forehead with a lost air.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000110_000004.wav|So we agree to keep the fact to ourselves.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000061_000000.wav|'That you are a man of property?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000080_000000.wav|'Neither will I,' returns the bridegroom.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000051_000000.wav|He is at her side again in a pace or two, and he retorts, 'That is not what you said.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000074_000000.wav|'You made me suppose you so.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000068_000000.wav|'I asked Veneering, and he told me you were rich.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000106_000000.wav|'And when you look back, you wonder how you can have been-you'll excuse the word?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000038_000000.wav|Another dismal circumstance is, that Veneering, having the captivating Tippins on one side of him and the bride's aunt on the other, finds it immensely difficult to keep the peace.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000114_000005.wav|So are many people.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000007_000000.wav|'My dear Twemlow,' says Veneering, 'your ready response to Anastatia's unceremonious invitation is truly kind, and like an old, old friend.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000118_000001.wav|Now, Sophronia, only half a dozen words more. We know one another perfectly.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000076_000000.wav|'I asked Veneering.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000022_000001.wav|That friend,' saying the words as if the company were about a hundred and fifty in number, 'is now among us.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000024_000000.wav|'That friend,' Veneering repeats with greater firmness, 'is our dear good Twemlow.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000034_000000.wav|Eugene is also in attendance, with a pervading air upon him of having presupposed the ceremony to be a funeral, and of being disappointed.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000029_000003.wav|Whereabout in the bonnet and drapery announced by her name, any fragment of the real woman may be concealed, is perhaps known to her maid; but you could easily buy all you see of her, in Bond Street; or you might scalp her, and peel her, and scrape her, and make two Lady Tippinses out of her, and yet not penetrate to the genuine article.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000102_000001.wav|You, too, are disappointed and cut a poor figure.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000040_000000.wav|In which state of affairs, the usual ceremonies rather droop and flag, and the splendid cake when cut by the fair hand of the bride has but an indigestible appearance.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000081_000004.wav|A taunting roar comes from the sea, and the far out rollers mount upon one another, to look at the entrapped impostors, and to join in impish and exultant gambols.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000014.wav|What squeezes him into Parliament? Shares.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000036_000001.wav|Here, the Podsnaps await the happy party; Mr Podsnap, with his hair brushes made the most of; that imperial rocking horse, Mrs Podsnap, majestically skittish.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000062_000000.wav|'no'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000045_000000.wav|Thus he begins after a long silence, when Sophronia flashes fiercely, and turns upon him.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000069_000000.wav|'Veneering!' with great contempt.' And what does Veneering know about me!'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000112_000001.wav|We have pretended well enough to one another.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000053_000000.wav|'There is no "if" in the case.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000098_000002.wav|In a nut shell, there's the state of the case.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000070_000000.wav|'Was he not your trustee?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000115_000000.wav|'What schemes?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000090_000004.wav|Then she cries again.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000094_000000.wav|Raising her head, she looks contemptuously in his face, and repeats, 'You tell me!|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000082_000000.wav|'Do you pretend to believe,' Mrs Lammle resumes, sternly, 'when you talk of my marrying you for worldly advantages, that it was within the bounds of reasonable probability that I would have married you for yourself?'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000090_000008.wav|Also his livid lips are parted at last, as if he were breathless with running. Yet he is not.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000042_000000.wav|All over, that is to say, for the time being.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000110_000003.wav|Firstly, it's enough to have been done, without the mortification of being known to have been done.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000029_000001.wav|Who, who, who? Why, why, why?') begins to be dyed and varnished for the interesting occasion.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000100_000005.wav|I am disappointed and cut a poor figure.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000112_000004.wav|Secondly, we owe the Veneerings a grudge, and we owe all other people the grudge of wishing them to be taken in, as we ourselves have been taken in.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000039_000002.wav|They even seem to unite in some vague utterance of the sentiment that the landlord and landlady will make a pretty good profit out of this, and they almost carry themselves like customers.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000094_000001.wav|Tell me, forsooth!'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000027_000001.wav|And after her, appears Alfred (whom Twemlow has seen once in his lifetime), to do the same and to make a pasty sort of glitter, as if he were constructed for candle light only, and had been let out into daylight by some grand mistake.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000057_000000.wav|'I never did.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000051_000001.wav|You said disingenuousness.'|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000089_000000.wav|Whereupon she calls him in her rage, 'A deliberate villain,' and so casts the broken thing from her as that it strikes him in falling.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000004_000008.wav|Shares.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000026_000001.wav|Also how the fair bride was married from the house of Hamilton Veneering, Esquire, of Stucconia, and was given away by Melvin Twemlow, Esquire, of Duke Street, saint James's, second cousin to Lord Snigsworth, of Snigsworthy Park.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000035_000004.wav|'Bride; five and forty if a day, thirty shillings a yard, veil fifteen pound, pocket handkerchief a present.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000039_000001.wav|They persist in not being frightened by the gold and silver camels, and they are banded together to defy the elaborately chased ice pails.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/500/125123/500_125123_000067_000000.wav|'If you were so dull a fortune hunter that you deceived yourself, or if you were so greedy and grasping that you were over willing to be deceived by appearances, is it my fault, you adventurer?' the lady demands, with great asperity.|500
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000013_000000.wav|w w|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000034_000001.wav|But the Marines were not the corps for him.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000032_000003.wav|One day they stopped when they heard the post horn blowing at the gate; and both of them became very much excited when George's father came out himself with a big official envelope marked 'On His Majesty's Service' and addressed to 'james Wolfe, Esquire.' Inside was a commission as second lieutenant in the Marines, signed by George the second and dated at saint James's Palace, november third seventeen forty one.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000020_000005.wav|Oliver Goldsmith himself was always very proud of being a cousin of the man who took Quebec.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000004.wav|The news was cried through the streets all night.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000021_000005.wav|But his spirit was made up of all their good points; and no braver ever lived in any healthy body than in his own sickly, lanky six foot three.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000024_000006.wav|His mother was a woman of much too fine a spirit to grudge anything for the service of her country; but she could not help being exceptionally anxious about the dangers of disease for a sickly boy in a far off land of pestilence and fever.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000019_000004.wav|Nor has the martial spirit deserted the descendants of the Wolfes in the generation now alive.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000020_000003.wav|Wolfe's father, however, was born in England; and, as there is no evidence that any of his ancestors in Ireland had married other than English Protestants, and as Wolfe's mother was also English, we may say that the victor of Quebec was a pure bred Englishman.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000032_000001.wav|But, though he tried his best to stick to his lessons, his heart was wild for the war.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000002.wav|Then the long pent rage of England suddenly burst in war with Spain.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000032_000004.wav|Eighteen years later, when the fame of the conquest of Canada was the talk of the kingdom, the Wardes had a stone monument built to mark the spot where Wolfe was standing when the squire handed him his first commission.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000032_000002.wav|He and George Warde used to go every day during the Christmas holidays behind the pigeon house at Squerryes Court and practise with their swords and pistols.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000011_000000.wav|AUTHOR'S NOTE|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000021_000001.wav|She was eighteen years younger than his father, and was very tall and handsome.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000032_000005.wav|And there it is to day; and on it are the verses ending,|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000020_000002.wav|Later still, in the fifteenth century, before America was discovered, they were living in Ireland.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000019_000000.wav|Wolfe was a soldier born.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000034_000005.wav|Within a month an army such as no one had seen since the days of Marlborough had been assembled at Blackheath. Infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers, they were all there when King George the second, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Cumberland came down to review them.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000011.wav|That was an old tale by this time; but the flames of anger threw it into lurid relief once more.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000009.wav|Among them was Wolfe's father, who was made adjutant general to the forces assembling in the Isle of Wight.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000031_000004.wav|The ship in which Wolfe was to sail had been lying idle for years; and her pestilential bilge water soon began to make the sailors and soldiers sicken and die.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000030_000000.wav|To mrs Wolfe, at her house in Greenwich, Kent.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000002.wav|One of these was his father's, a house more than two hundred years old when he was born.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000028_000003.wav|I am in a very good state of health, and am likely to continue so.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000024_000001.wav|Nothing could stop him.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000008.wav|Crowds were singing and cheering. First one boy's father and then another's was under orders for the front.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000009.wav|Warde lived to be an old man and actually did become a famous cavalry leader.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000025_000000.wav|Newport, Isle of Wight, august sixth seventeen forty.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000033_000000.wav|This spot so sacred will forever claim A proud alliance with its hero's name.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000007.wav|The other house is Squerryes Court, belonging then and now to the Warde family, the Wolfes' closest friends.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000021_000002.wav|Wolfe thought there was no one like her.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000005.wav|So, curiously enough, it appears that Wolfe, the soldier who won Canada for England in seventeen fifty nine, sat under the arms of the king in whose service the sailor Cabot hoisted the flag of England over Canadian soil in fourteen ninety seven.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000004.wav|Here Wolfe and his younger brother Edward used to sit in the winter evenings with their mother, while their veteran father told them the story of his long campaigns.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000024_000008.wav|But he, full of the stir and excitement of a big camp, had carried the letter in his pocket for two or three days before answering it.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000024_000000.wav|Wolfe was determined to go and fight.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000024_000007.wav|She had written to him the very day he left.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000003.wav|It was built in the reign of Henry the seventh, and the loyal subject who built it had the king's coat of arms carved over the big stone fireplace.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000026_000000.wav|I received my dearest Mamma's letter on Monday last, but could not answer it then, by reason I was at camp to see the regiments off to go on board, and was too late for the post; but am very sorry, dear Mamma, that you doubt my love, which I'm sure is as sincere as ever any son's was to his mother.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000028_000004.wav|Pray my love to my brother.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000034_000000.wav|Wolfe was at last an officer.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000012_000001.wav|But, since such treatment gives a totally false idea of his achievement, this little sketch, drawn straight from original sources, tries to show him as he really was, a co-worker with the British fleet in a war based entirely on naval strategy and inseparably connected with international affairs of world-wide significance. The only simplification attempted here is that of arrangement and expression.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000005_000000.wav|A Chronicle of Wolfe|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000029_000000.wav|J. Wolfe.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000018_000000.wav|CHAPTER one -- THE BOY, seventeen twenty seven to seventeen forty one|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000007.wav|Soldiers were marching into every English camp.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000020_000001.wav|Many hundreds of years ago their forefathers lived in England and later on in Wales.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000003.wav|The people went wild when the British fleet took Porto Bello, a Spanish port in Central America.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000001.wav|Two other houses in the little country town of Westerham are full of memories of Wolfe.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000028_000005.wav|Pray my service to Mr Streton and his family, to Mr and Mrs Weston, and to George Warde when you see him; and pray believe me to be, my dearest Mamma, your most dutiful, loving and affectionate son,|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000034_000002.wav|Their service companies were five thousand miles away, while war with France was breaking out much nearer home.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000024_000005.wav|So, one hot day in july seventeen forty, the lanky, red haired boy of thirteen and a half took his seat on the Portsmouth coach beside his father, the veteran soldier of fifty five.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000021_000003.wav|When he was a colonel, and had been through the wars and at court, he still believed she was 'a match for all the beauties.' He was not lucky enough to take after her in looks, except in her one weak feature, a cutaway chin.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000001.wav|Here he worked quietly enough till just before he entered on his 'teens.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000034_000003.wav|So what was his delight at receiving another commission, on march twenty fifth seventeen forty two, as an ensign in the twelfth Regiment of Foot!|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000028_000002.wav|I will, as sure as I live, if it is possible for me, let you know everything that has happened, by every ship; therefore pray, dearest Mamma, don't doubt about it.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000034_000004.wav|He was now fifteen, an officer, a soldier born and bred, eager to serve his country, and just appointed to a regiment ordered to the front!|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000022_000008.wav|Wolfe and George Warde were chums from the first day they met. Both wished to go into the Army; and both, of course, 'played soldiers,' like other virile boys.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000023_000006.wav|Ships were fitting out in English harbours.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000019_000002.wav|His father fought under the great Duke of Marlborough in the war against France at the beginning of the eighteenth century.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000031_000005.wav|Most fortunately, Wolfe was among the first to take ill; and so he was sent home in time to save him from the fevers of Spanish America.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000031_000001.wav|A long peace had made the country indifferent to the welfare of the Army and Navy.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000027_000000.wav|Papa and I are just going on board, but I believe shall not sail this fortnight; in which time, if I can get ashore at Portsmouth or any other town, I will certainly write to you, and, when we are gone, by every ship we meet, because I know it is my duty. Besides, if it is not, I would do it out of love, with pleasure.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000014_000000.wav|Quebec, april nineteen fourteen.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/159056/205_159056_000032_000000.wav|Wolfe was happy to see his mother again, to have his pony to ride and his dogs to play with.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000015_000004.wav|Oh yes, there are any number of them on the train every day.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000010_000000.wav|But if you have half forgotten Mariposa, and long since lost the way to it, you are only like the greater part of the men here in this Mausoleum Club in the city.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000022_000001.wav|You would know it anywhere by the broad, still, black water with hardly a ripple, and with the grip of the coming frost already on it.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000006_000000.wav|Naturally you don't know of the Mariposa train now.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000022_000000.wav|This is Lake Ossawippi surely enough.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000014_000002.wav|That crowd of suburban people going home on commutation tickets and sometimes standing thick in the aisles, those are, of course, not Mariposa people.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000014_000001.wav|All those people that are crowding into it with golf clubs, and wearing knickerbockers and flat caps, would deceive anybody.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000012_000001.wav|Ask him if he ever tasted duck that could for a moment be compared to the black ducks in the rice marsh along the Ossawippi.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000013_000001.wav|Hundreds of them know that there is a train that goes out at five o'clock, but they mistake it.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000006_000002.wav|The price of a ticket counted in those days, and though you knew of the train you couldn't take it, but sometimes from sheer homesickness you used to wander down to the station on a Friday afternoon after your work, and watch the Mariposa people getting on the train and wish that you could go.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000011_000000.wav|They all do.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000014_000005.wav|Ah yes, of course, that must be it.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000017_000001.wav|The stove is burning furiously at its sticks this autumn evening, for the air sets in chill as you get clear away from the city and are rising up to the higher ground of the country of the pines and the lakes.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000026_000004.wav|We must be close in now!|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000023_000004.wav|I don't care what it is.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000001_000002.wav|The Train to Mariposa|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000027_000002.wav|No, don't bother to look at the reflection of your face in the window pane shadowed by the night outside.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000006_000001.wav|Years ago, when you first came to the city as a boy with your way to make, you knew of it well enough, only too well.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000005_000000.wav|But of course "home" would hardly be the word you would apply to the little town, unless perhaps, late at night, when you'd been sitting reading in a quiet corner somewhere such a book as the present one.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000018_000003.wav|It must be comfortable there after the roar and clatter of the city, and only think of the still quiet of it.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000027_000005.wav|Perhaps if you had come back now and again, just at odd times, it wouldn't have been so.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000019_000000.wav|As you sit back half dreaming in the car, you keep wondering why it is that you never came up before in all these years.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000015_000002.wav|That clerical gentleman with the wide black hat, who is explaining to the man with him the marvellous mechanism of the new air brake (one of the most conspicuous illustrations of the divine structure of the physical universe), surely you have seen him before.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000018_000002.wav|There is a dull red light from the windows of the farmstead.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000023_000003.wav|Don't tell me that the speed is only twenty five miles an hour.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000015_000001.wav|That man with the two dollar panama and the glaring spectacles is one of the greatest judges that ever adorned the bench of Missinaba County.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000016_000001.wav|But wait a little, and you will see that when the city is well behind you, bit by bit the train changes its character.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000026_000003.wav|Hear the clatter as we pass the semaphores and switch lights!|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000026_000001.wav|Ah, then we must be nearing the town,--this big bush that we are passing through, you remember it surely as the great swamp just this side of the bridge over the Ossawippi?|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000002_000000.wav|It leaves the city every day about five o'clock in the evening, the train for Mariposa.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000016_000000.wav|But of course you hardly recognize them while the train is still passing through the suburbs and the golf district and the outlying parts of the city area.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000014_000004.wav|Here and there in the crowd those people with the clothes that are perfectly all right and yet look odd in some way, the women with the peculiar hats and the-what do you say?--last year's fashions?|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000003_000000.wav|Strange that you did not know of it, though you come from the little town-or did, long years ago.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000027_000001.wav|It must indeed.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000013_000000.wav|But no wonder they don't know about the five o'clock train for Mariposa. Very few people know about it.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000004_000000.wav|Odd that you never knew, in all these years, that the train was there every afternoon, puffing up steam in the city station, and that you might have boarded it any day and gone home.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000016_000003.wav|I suppose, very probably, you haven't seen one of these wood engines since you were a boy forty years ago,--the old engine with a wide top like a hat on its funnel, and with sparks enough to light up a suit for damages once in every mile.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000014_000000.wav|Of course you can't tell it just at first.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000013_000003.wav|Lots of people that take it every day think it's only the train to the golf grounds, but the joke is that after it passes out of the city and the suburbs and the golf grounds, it turns itself little by little into the Mariposa train, thundering and pounding towards the north with hemlock sparks pouring out into the darkness from the funnel of it.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000011_000001.wav|Only they're half ashamed to own it.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000020_000000.wav|It is almost night now.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000015_000003.wav|Mariposa people!|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000026_000000.wav|What is it now-nine thirty?|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000024_000000.wav|Yes, and the best too,--the most comfortable, the most reliable, the most luxurious and the speediest train that ever turned a wheel.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000013_000002.wav|Ever so many of them think it's just a suburban train.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000022_000002.wav|Such a great sheet of blackness it looks as the train thunders along the side, swinging the curve of the embankment at a breakneck speed as it rounds the corner of the lake.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000001_000000.wav|TWELVE.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/123882/205_123882_000018_000000.wav|Look from the window as you go.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000005_000002.wav|Olaf loved the birds, and the cheer of their vesper song and bedtime twitter comforted Alan.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000009_000006.wav|You've got to combine that with Bolshevism, the menace of blackest Russia.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000006_000007.wav|The next time he would know how to go about it, and he invited Alan to go with him.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000010_000006.wav|We can't take Alaska down to the States-we've got to bring them up to us.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000010_000000.wav|He stared into the fire, watching the embers flare up and die.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000003_000000.wav|That night, in Olaf's cabin, Alan put himself back on the old track again.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000010_000002.wav|"I can't be, after the ruin their unintelligent propaganda and legislation have brought upon Alaska.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000011_000003.wav|And that fight will take place right here-in Alaska-and not in Siberia.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/205/157088/205_157088_000010_000008.wav|We must bring a million of them up here before that danger flood we speak of comes beyond the Gulf of Anadyr.|205
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000010_000005.wav|He was there, she knew it.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000064_000002.wav|Colonel Quinnox was reading an official note from the princess when Marlanx strode angrily into the room.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000063_000000.wav|"I can but stand condemned, then, your highness, without a hearing.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000004.wav|It is no wonder that you look terrified.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000006_000001.wav|For a long time she stared at her face in the mirror.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000015_000001.wav|Then scorn and indignation rushed in to fill the place of astonishment.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty two|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000059_000001.wav|I would not have told what I saw last night."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000005.wav|In fact, I'm sure he won't.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000006_000000.wav|Turning up the light at her dressing table, she sat down in a state of sudden collapse.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000006.wav|What had he seen or heard?|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000001.wav|Instructions had come to him from General Marlanx, and he could not set them aside at will.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000052_000003.wav|I wish now that I had not humored you in your plan to bring him to the castle.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000066_000000.wav|"I regret to say that I have but this instant received a message from her highness, commanding me to send him to the castle," said Quinnox, with a smile.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000005.wav|Once more she stopped to listen.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000004.wav|It's useless to deny it.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000015_000000.wav|She stopped with a sharp exclamation of surprise.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000006.wav|You have lost the right to be called a man.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000003.wav|She has told me everything and I believe her.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000014_000000.wav|Full of these bitter sweet thoughts she came to the castle doors before she saw who was waiting for her upon the great verandah.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000053_000005.wav|What's the use worrying?"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000065_000000.wav|"Bring this fellow Baldos to me, Colonel Quinnox," he said, without greeting.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000046_000003.wav|"You may depend upon me to protect you from Marlanx.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000011.wav|Then she closed the blinds, shutting out the night completely.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000032_000001.wav|How dare you say such a thing to me?" she fiercely cried.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000002.wav|Stop, sir!|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000010.wav|I've had his word for it.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000069_000002.wav|It is more important than-"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000009.wav|You see, for a long, long time, I fancied he might be a prince, but he isn't at all.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000016.wav|Wouldn't that have surprised old Marlanx?" Beverly gave a merry laugh.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000005.wav|And to think that I have spared him from death to have it come to this!|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000011_000001.wav|Consumed by the fear that the window might open slowly at any moment, she reached forth and clutched the weapon.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000008.wav|I come to make terms with you.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000011.wav|One word from me, you are disgraced and Baldos dies.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000012_000005.wav|Her better judgment told her that she could be nothing to this debonair knight of the road, yet her heart stubbornly resisted all the arguments that her reason put forth.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000009.wav|You love him, I know, and there is but one way to save him.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000050_000000.wav|"Now, now,--don't be so high and mighty, dear.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000013.wav|Isn't he handsome, Yetive?|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000012.wav|Come, my fair lady, give me your promise, it's a good bargain for both."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000001.wav|I know I oughtn't to, but what is there to do when one can't help it?|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000031_000002.wav|Love's eyes are keen.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000004.wav|Down in her rebellious, insulted heart she was concocting all sorts of plans for revenge.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000053_000001.wav|I know how to take care of myself.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000022_000000.wav|"An involuntary observer, believe me-and a jealous one.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000001.wav|This is childish.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000005.wav|There is no need to discuss the matter further.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000052_000006.wav|Beverly kissed her rapturously.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000018_000001.wav|I came to have a talk with you-in private," he said meaningly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000005.wav|It is for you to say whether she is to know or not.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000008.wav|Take me and all that I can give you in his stead, and the world never shall know the truth.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000068_000000.wav|"Have a care, sir," said Quinnox stiffly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000049_000003.wav|I'll telegraph for my brother Dan to come over here and punch his head to pieces."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000003.wav|What will she say when she learns who was hostess to a common guardsman at the midnight hour?|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000003.wav|He was drawing the net with his own hands, he was spying with his own eyes.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000011_000002.wav|Then she shrank back in the bed, her eyes fixed upon the black space across the room.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000032_000004.wav|Take it back-take back every word of that lie!"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000038_000001.wav|"Oh, no|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000009.wav|As for Baldos, you are at liberty to prefer the charges.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000010.wav|Still, it gave her an immense amount of satisfaction to slam the windows loudly, as if in pure defiance.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000046_000000.wav|"I cannot prevent General Marlanx from preferring serious charges against Baldos, dear.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000006.wav|Her wide scope of vengeance even contemplated the destruction of Graustark if her end could be obtained in no other way.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000070_000001.wav|This note says that I am to disregard any command you may give until further notice."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000055_000001.wav|He understood that she was under certain obligations to Miss Calhoun and he wanted to be perfectly sure of his position before taking a step which now seemed imperative.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000002.wav|There could be but one answer, and the very thought of it almost suffocated her.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000055_000004.wav|Marlanx cited instances in which Baldos had been seen talking to a strange old man inside the grounds, and professed to have proof that he had gone so far as to steal away by night to meet men beyond the city walls.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000054_000000.wav|Nightfall brought General Marlanx in from the camps outside the gates.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000009.wav|Once she was inside, however, it did not seem so amusing.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000046_000005.wav|He has gone too far."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000059_000000.wav|"She has exposed herself to you?|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000028_000001.wav|I cannot let you off so easily.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000067_000000.wav|"The devil!|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000055_000005.wav|He was now ready to seize the guard, but would not do so until he had conferred with his sovereign.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000010_000002.wav|Something dreadful told her that Count Marlanx was on the balcony and at her window, notwithstanding the rain pour.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000007.wav|It was beyond the power of woman to keep from laughing.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000019_000000.wav|"It is sufficiently private here, Count Marlanx.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000001.wav|You have deceived those who love you best and trust you most.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000050_000002.wav|Whereupon the hot headed girl from Dixie suspended hostilities and became a very demure young woman.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000064_000001.wav|But a swift messenger from the castle reached the guard room ahead of him.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000018.wav|Yetive sat back and marvelled at the manner in which this blithe young American cast out the "blue devils."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000010.wav|Say the word and he goes free to the hills; decline and his life is not worth a breath of air."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000012_000002.wav|In her mind she was greatly troubled over the fate of the bold visitor of the night before.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000039_000004.wav|Don't you try to stop me!|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000044_000001.wav|Between sobs and feminine maledictions she poured the whole story, in all its ugliness, into the ears of the princess.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000011_000003.wav|For hours she shivered and waited for the window to open, dozing away time and again only to come back to wakefulness with a start.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000006.wav|I shan't give him a chance.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000003.wav|Baldos could not ride with her again until Marlanx withdrew the order which now obtained, Beverly swallowed her pride and resentment diplomatically, smiled her sweetest upon the distressed colonel, and marched defiantly back to the castle.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000012.wav|Only he doesn't look so ordinary.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000034_000000.wav|Beverly was trembling like a leaf.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000031_000003.wav|What occurred in your chamber I can only-"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000001.wav|The tread of a man impelled her to glance below once more before fleeing to her room.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000007.wav|For the present I have only to say that you shall be relieved of the command of my army.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000071_000000.wav|Marlanx fell back amazed and stunned.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000055_000000.wav|He proceeded, with irate coolness, to ask how far she believed herself bound to protect the person of Baldos, the guard.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000038_000002.wav|You are not the wife of Baldos," he added significantly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000071_000001.wav|At this juncture Baldos entered the room.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000037_000000.wav|"And pretending to believe this of me, you still ask me to be your wife.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000009.wav|A throb of thankfulness assailed her heart.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000008_000000.wav|She prepared for bed with frantic haste.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000001.wav|Marlanx, of all men! Why was he in the park at this hour of the night?|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000042_000000.wav|"You disgusting old fool," she hissed, turning upon him as she pulled the big brass knocker on the door.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000070_000000.wav|"Nevertheless, sir, he goes to the castle first.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000039_000000.wav|"Good God!" gasped Beverly, crushed by the brutality of it all.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000008.wav|The man who makes war on women is not fit to serve one.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000064_000000.wav|Ten minutes later Beverly was hearing everything from the lips of the princess, and Marlanx was cursing his way toward the barracks, vengeance in his heart.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000034_000002.wav|She was like a bird trying to avoid the charmed eye of the serpent.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000040_000000.wav|She was racing up the steps, flaming with anger and shame.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000017_000000.wav|"I thought the troops were massing this morning," she said coldly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000034_000001.wav|This phase of his villainy had not occurred to her.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000038_000000.wav|"My wife?" he said harshly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000063_000001.wav|My vindication will come, however.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000016_000000.wav|"Good morning," he said, extending his hand, which she did not see.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000032_000000.wav|"Stop!|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000041_000000.wav|"Remember, I can prove what I have said.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000039_000005.wav|I shall go to the princess myself.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000053_000004.wav|Marlanx won't do anything until he hears from me.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000050_000003.wav|Before long she was confessing timidly, then boldly, that she loved Baldos better than anything in all the world.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000017.wav|The troubles of the morning seemed to fade away under the warmth of her humor.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000018_000000.wav|"There is time enough for that, my dear.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000006.wav|You need not look so horrified.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000012_000001.wav|Her first act after breakfasting alone in her room was to seek out Colonel Quinnox, commander of the castle guard.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000007.wav|But if he does ask me I'll just keep putting him off.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000061_000000.wav|"Your highness, hear me," implored Marlanx, white to the roots of his hair.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000063_000004.wav|I have tried to save him for Miss Calhoun's sake-" But her hand was pointing to the door.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000046_000004.wav|He can make it very unpleasant for Baldos, but he shall pay dearly for this insult to you.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000028_000000.wav|"One moment, please.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000002.wav|There would be an awful row at home if I married him.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000032_000002.wav|"You miserable coward!|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000007.wav|Your secret is safe with me.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000004.wav|Maybe he won't.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000017_000001.wav|"Don't you mass, too?"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000010.wav|She was not thinking of her position, but of his.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000068_000001.wav|"It is of the princess you speak."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000014_000002.wav|The early hour was responsible for the bright solitude which marked the place.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000029_000000.wav|Beverly drew back in horror and bewilderment.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000008_000002.wav|The next she was at the windows and the slats were closed with a rattle like a volley of firearms.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000035_000003.wav|I have never wronged you-"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000002.wav|What will the princess say when she hears of last night's merry escapade?|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000053_000003.wav|"Now let's talk about the war.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000056_000000.wav|"Miss Calhoun tells me that you have made certain proposals to her, Count Marlanx," said Yetive coldly, her eyes upon his hawkish face.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000000.wav|"It has been a pretty game of love for you and the excellent Baldos.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000047_000000.wav|"I don't think he has any proof against Baldos," said Beverly, thinking only of the guardsman.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000002.wav|Her plea that he might once more be assigned to old time duties found the colonel regretfully obdurate.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000009_000001.wav|"I love to go to sleep with the rain pattering outside like that.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000041_000001.wav|Beware what you do.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000000.wav|"Bah!|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000001.wav|You will allow me to say, general, that you have behaved in a most outrageous manner in approaching my guest with such foul proposals.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000008_000003.wav|Then she jumped into bed.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000000.wav|She shrank back with a great dread in her heart.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000055_000003.wav|He had sufficient proof to warrant his arrest and execution; there were documents, and there was positive knowledge that he had conferred with strangers from time to time, even within the walls of the castle grounds.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000004.wav|For a full minute it seemed to her that her heart would stop beating.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000007_000000.wav|"Oh, what a fool you've been," she half sobbed, shrinking from the mirror as if it were an accuser.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000027_000001.wav|"Good bye, Count Marlanx."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000055_000002.wav|Baldos was a spy in the employ of Dawsbergen.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000023_000000.wav|"Well, you shouldn't have looked," she retorted, tossing her chin; and the red feather in her hat bobbed angrily.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000004.wav|I believe my own eyes.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000039_000001.wav|"I would sooner die.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000005_000003.wav|She fled swiftly, pausing at the window to lower the friendly but forgotten umbrella.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000041_000005.wav|It rests with you," he cried eagerly, following her to the door.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000035_000000.wav|"Oh, you-you miserable wretch!" she cried, hoarse with anger and despair.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000022_000002.wav|What I saw last night shocked me beyond expression."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000010_000001.wav|Vague fears began to take possession of her.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000003_000000.wav|A PROPOSAL|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000009_000002.wav|Oh, dear, I'm so sorry he has to walk all night In this rain. Poor fellow!|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000043_000000.wav|"I must have my answer to night, or you know what will happen," he snarled, but he felt in his heart that he had lost through his eagerness.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000025_000000.wav|"What do you mean?"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000000.wav|"Would it interest you to know that I saw everything that passed on the balcony last night?|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000052_000004.wav|I'm afraid I have done wrong.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000051_000011.wav|He's just an ordinary person-like-like-well, like I am.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000028_000003.wav|Answer me, Miss Calhoun."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000026_000000.wav|"I mean that I saw everything that occurred."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000041_000003.wav|Think well over it.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000008_000004.wav|She wondered if the windows were locked.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000039_000006.wav|She shall know what manner of beast you are."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000012_000000.wav|The next morning she confessed to herself that her fears had been silly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000069_000000.wav|"Bah!|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000054_000003.wav|Without a moment's hesitation he appealed for an audience with the princess, and it was granted.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000019_000001.wav|What have you to say to me?"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000031_000001.wav|I saw him come from your window, and I saw all that passed between you in the balcony.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000058_000000.wav|"You have threatened her, Count Marlanx."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000005.wav|Chief among them was the terrible overthrow of the Iron Count.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000030_000000.wav|"Into my room?" she gasped.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000010_000000.wav|But in spite of the rain she could not go to sleep.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000049_000001.wav|I was going back to Washington soon, Yetive, but I'll stay on now and see this thing to the end.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000012_000004.wav|Vagabond though he was, he had conquered where princes had failed.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000006_000002.wav|She saw the red of shame and embarrassment mount to her cheeks and then she covered her eyes with her hands.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000007.wav|You have lost Baldos.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000052_000000.wav|"You must not do anything foolish, Beverly," she cautioned, "Your parents would never forgive me if I allowed you to marry or even to fall in love with any Tom, Dick or Harry over here.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000071_000002.wav|Quinnox handed him an envelope, telling him that it was from the princess and that he was to repair at once to the castle, Baldos glanced at the handwriting, and his face lit up proudly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000010_000003.wav|The fear became oppressive, maddening.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000054_000002.wav|She promptly answered that she did not want to see him and would not.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000016_000001.wav|She was wondering how much he had seen and heard at midnight.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000009_000000.wav|"Now, I reckon I'm safe," she murmured a moment later, again getting into bed.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000013_000000.wav|Colonel Quinnox was pleasant, but he could give Beverly no promise of leniency in regard to Baldos.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000049_000000.wav|"He seems to think he can get wives as easily as he gets rid of them, I observe.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000041_000004.wav|Your honor and his life!|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000063_000003.wav|You may depose me, but you cannot ask me to neglect my duty to Graustark.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000039_000002.wav|Would to heaven my father were here, he would shoot you as he would a dog!|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000036_000006.wav|You can bind me to silence.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000060_000010.wav|He shall have a fair trial, rest assured."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000033_000010.wav|It's worth it to you.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000035_000004.wav|She was almost in tears, impotent with shame and fear.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000009_000004.wav|Goodness, it's raining cats and dogs!"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000004_000007.wav|Involuntarily she peered over the rail for a glimpse of Baldos.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000028_000002.wav|What right had you to take that man into your room, a place sacred in the palace of Graustark?|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6506/4356_6506_000032_000005.wav|She was white with passion, cold with terror.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000054_000001.wav|"I want to give you a lesson in-in lawn tennis."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000028_000004.wav|She and I have promised to play tennis with the princess at three o'clock." The count's glare of disappointment lasted but a moment. The diplomacy of egotism came to his relief, and he held back the gift for another day, but not for another woman.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000068_000000.wav|"You have no quarrel with us, Miss Calhoun," said Dangloss.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000087_000001.wav|And, Baldos-"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000039_000002.wav|Now, go!" commanded the count.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000040_000000.wav|"Wait a minute, Baldos.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000009.wav|It is on record that they were "love" sets, which goes to prove that Beverly took no chances.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000069_000000.wav|"If anything happens, then, I am to be blamed for it," she cried in deep distress.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000088_000000.wav|"Yes, your highness?"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000001.wav|What she taught him of tennis on the royal courts, in the presence of an amused audience, was as nothing to what he learned of strategy as it can be practiced by a whimsical girl.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000038_000001.wav|The shadow of a smile crossed the face of the guard.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000024_000000.wav|"I was saving it for an occasion, your highness," he said, his steely eyes glittering.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000011_000000.wav|"Yes, your highness, it certainly is interesting," he said, as he fell back into position beside Haddan.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000064_000000.wav|"--but he is in a position to give the most valuable information to an enemy.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000018_000003.wav|Count Marlanx's home was in the southeast corner of the enclosure, near the gates.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000003_000003.wav|The royal victoria was driven to the fortress, conveying the supposed princess and the Countess Dagmar to the home of Count Marlanx.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000069_000001.wav|"I brought him to Edelweiss, and I believe in him."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000016_000000.wav|"No, but I imagine it would have been preferable.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000024_000001.wav|"The glad hour has come when I can part with it for a recompense far greater than the baron's gold."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000006.wav|She considered for a moment and then, in a spirit of enthusiasm, accepted the proposition.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000007_000002.wav|The princess had flatly refused to accompany them on the visit to the fortress because of Baldos.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000015_000000.wav|"You didn't have him beaten?" cried Beverly, stopping short.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000031_000003.wav|He was drawing the hand to his lips when a shadow darkened the French window, and a saber rattled warningly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000005_000000.wav|"The Countess Dagmar, cousin to her highness.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000036_000000.wav|"He cannot come in half an hour," she cried quickly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000040_000001.wav|We are going out, too.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000003.wav|To his credit, the count was game.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000062_000002.wav|He went in an official capacity, it is true, but he was privileged to study the secrets of our defense with alarming freedom.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000072_000000.wav|"Yes, your highness, and as far as possible from the fortress."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000067_000000.wav|"Neither am I one of you," said Beverly stoutly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000066_000002.wav|Count Marlanx is not at all in sympathy with him, you are aware.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000076_000000.wav|Later in the day she called Baldos to her side as they were riding in the castle avenue.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000064_000001.wav|An officer has just informed me that Baldos missed not a detail in regard to the armament, or the location of vital spots in the construction of the fortress."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000003_000005.wav|Baldos was mildly surprised and puzzled by the homage paid the young American girl.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000031_000002.wav|His eyes for the moment held her spellbound.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000059_000002.wav|They were strolling leisurely about the beautiful grounds, safe in the shade of the trees from the heat of the July sun, when Baron Dangloss approached.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000073_000001.wav|Don't be angry, Beverly," the princess said gently.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000073_000003.wav|I am acting on the presumption that he is wholly innocent of any desire to betray us."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000049_000001.wav|A civilian or an equal might have run him through for it, your highness." A flush rose to his cheeks and his lips quivered ever so slightly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000062_000000.wav|"Yes, with your guard.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000035_000001.wav|"Report to me in half an hour.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000003_000006.wav|It struck him as preposterous that the entire population of Edelweiss could be in the game to deceive him.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000062_000005.wav|"I am not saying that he would betray us-"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000025_000000.wav|"Oh, isn't it lucky you kept it?" she cried.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000019_000003.wav|She hungered for a few minutes of the old time freedom with him.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000004.wav|He took the wager, knowing that he, in his ignorance, could not win from the blithe young expert in petticoats.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000081_000001.wav|"Have you studied all this out?"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000081_000000.wav|"Good heavens!" gasped poor Beverly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000049_000000.wav|"Well, he said things that a soldier must endure.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000070_000000.wav|"For his own sake, your highness, and Miss Calhoun, I suggest that no opportunity should be given him to communicate with the outside world.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000007_000001.wav|She even went so far as to whisper in Beverly's ear that he did not remember her face, and probably would not recognize Yetive as one of the eavesdroppers.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000021_000002.wav|The count's eyes followed the graceful curves of her white forearm with an eagerness that was annoying.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000080_000000.wav|"There are three vital points of weakness, your highness.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000038_000000.wav|"I fancy Baldos's must be even better, for he heard me," said Beverly, herself once more.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000032_000002.wav|Beverly drew her arm away spasmodically and took a step toward the window.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000019_000001.wav|He was patrolling the narrow piazza which fronted the house.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000009_000000.wav|"I am happy to have pleased your highness," he said steadily.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000002.wav|Almost before he knew it she had won exemption for Baldos, that being the stake for the first set of singles.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000073_000000.wav|"I think it is a wise precaution.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000013_000001.wav|His marked preference for the American girl did not escape attention.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000052_000003.wav|"Count Marlanx," she said, with entrancing dimples, "will you report to me at nine to morrow morning?"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000026_000000.wav|"The recompense of a sweet smile, a tender blush and the unguarded thanks of a pretty woman.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000078_000000.wav|"I could overthrow it after half an hour's bombardment, your highness," he answered, without thinking.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000087_000000.wav|"You may expect to be summoned then, so hold yourself in readiness.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000071_000000.wav|"You mean inside the city walls?" asked Yetive.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000057_000000.wav|"Now, don't scold," she pleaded, and the countess could go no further.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000062_000001.wav|Yesterday he visited the fortress.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000048_000002.wav|Tell me; I want to know."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000019_000002.wav|Toward the close of the rather trying luncheon she was almost unable to control the impulse to rush out and compel him to relax that imposing, machine like stride.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000047_000000.wav|"He coached me in ethics."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000059_000001.wav|Beverly, quite happy in her complete victory, enjoyed a nap of profound sweetness and then was ready for her walk with the princess.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000039_000000.wav|"He is impertinent, insolent, your highness.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000008.wav|Half an hour later an orderly was riding to the fort with instructions to return at once with Miss Calhoun's candlestick.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000007.wav|After all, she coveted the candlestick.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000063_000000.wav|"No, no!" protested Beverly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000013_000000.wav|Count Marlanx welcomed his visitors with a graciousness that awoke wonder in the minds of his staff.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000022_000002.wav|A German nobleman offered me a small fortune if I would part with it."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000007_000003.wav|Struck by a sudden impulse, Beverly called Baldos to the side of the vehicle.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000046_000000.wav|"Didn't he give you a talking to?"|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000032_000001.wav|Baldos stood at the window in an attitude of alert attention.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000000.wav|The following morning Count Marlanx reported at nine o'clock with much better grace than he had suspected himself capable of exercising.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000045_000000.wav|"He meant to alarm your highness."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000029_000001.wav|My afternoon is to be a dull one, unless you permit me to watch the tennis game," he said.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000073_000002.wav|"It is for his own sake, you see.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000052_000000.wav|"He will do nothing of the kind.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000075_000000.wav|"And it would be just like someone, too," agreed Beverly, her thoughts, with the others', going toward none but one man "high in power."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000037_000000.wav|"My ears are excellent," said Marlanx stiffly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000048_000000.wav|"You are evading the question, sir.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000084_000000.wav|"No one but your highness.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000062_000003.wav|It would not surprise me to find that this stranger has learned everything there is to know about the fort." His listeners were silent.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000003_000000.wav|That same afternoon Baldos, blissfully ignorant of the stir he had created in certain circles, rode out for the first time as a member of the Castle Guard.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000079_000001.wav|Are there so many weak points?" she went on, catching her breath.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000050_000001.wav|"You are not to report to him at nine tomorrow."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000027_000000.wav|Slowly Beverly Calhoun set the candlestick down upon the table her eyes meeting his with steady disdain.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000014_000002.wav|The new guard could not help hearing the sarcastic remark.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000029_000000.wav|"It grieves me to have you hurry away.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000043_000001.wav|For some time her mind had been struggling with what the count had said about "the lesson." It grew upon her that her friend had been bullied and humiliated, perhaps in the presence of spectators.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000054_000000.wav|"But you will break it, I am sure," she asserted confidently.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000018_000000.wav|The count provided a light luncheon in his quarters after the ladies had gone over the fortress.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000085_000002.wav|I mean about the weak spots."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000020_000002.wav|Servants came in to clear the tables, but the count harshly ordered them to wait until the guests had departed.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000079_000000.wav|"Is it possible?|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000056_000000.wav|"It is altogether contrary to custom, and-" but Beverly put her hand over the critical lips and smiled like a guilty child.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000043_000000.wav|She was disturbed by his threat to reprimand Baldos.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000002_000000.wav|A VISIT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000058_000005.wav|Then he offered to wager the brass candlestick against her bracelet.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000061_000000.wav|"It has to do with Baldos, I'll take oath," said Beverly, with conviction.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000018_000006.wav|Beverly thought him extremely silly and sentimental, much preferring him in the character of the harsh, implacable martinet.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000043_000003.wav|While the general was explaining one of the new gun carriages to the countess, Beverly walked deliberately over to where Baldos was standing.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000055_000000.wav|Later on, when the victoria was well away from the fort, Dagmar took her companion to task for holding in public friendly discourse with a member of the guard, whoever he might be.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000050_000000.wav|"That settles it," she said rigidly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000011_000001.wav|During the remainder of the ride he caught himself time after time gazing reflectively at the back of her proud little head, possessed of an almost uncontrollable desire to touch the soft brown hair.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000051_000000.wav|"But he will have me shot, your highness," said he gladly.|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4356/6498/4356_6498_000026_000001.wav|The candlestick is yours, Miss Calhoun,--if you will repay me for my sacrifice by accepting it without reservation."|4356
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/487/129440/487_129440_000018_000002.wav|On whom the Angel HAILE Bestowd, the holy salutation us'd Long after to blest MARIE, second EVE.|487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/487/129440/487_129440_000004_000001.wav|Awake My fairest, my espous'd, my latest found, Heav'ns last best gift, my ever new delight, Awake, the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us, we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended Plants, how blows the Citron Grove, What drops the Myrrhe, and what the balmie Reed, How Nature paints her colours, how the Bee Sits on the Bloom extracting liquid sweet.|487
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000040_000000.wav|But she had not seen that where the fire burnt brightest two sparks flew up, and, after floating in the air for a few moments, fell down into the great river that flows through the heart of the country.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000016_000000.wav|Now the emperor had a stepmother, and she had a daughter by her first husband, who lived with her in the palace.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000060_000002.wav|What boys are they?' said the emperor all in one breath.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000004_000000.wav|Well, once upon a time there lived an emperor who had half a world all to himself to rule over, and in this world dwelt an old herd and his wife and their three daughters, Anna, Stana, and Laptitza.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000028_000000.wav|It was some time before the bait took, but at length-even emperors are only men!|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000051_000000.wav|'No, while he is eating it,' said the second boy, stepping across the threshold.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000024_000001.wav|In the place where they had been buried there sprang up two beautiful young aspens, and the stepmother, who hated the sight of the trees, which reminded her of her crime, gave orders that they should be uprooted.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000062_000000.wav|The emperor, as he listened, grew red with anger.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000046_000000.wav|And when he came back, what do you think he saw?|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000026_000002.wav|What craft will not do soft words may attain, and if these do not succeed there still remains the resource of tears.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000063_000001.wav|'Set the dogs after them.'|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000037_000000.wav|By daybreak the empress had determined how to get rid of the beds.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000047_000001.wav|In every day they grew a year's growth, and in every night another year's growth, but at dawn, when the stars were fading, they grew three years' growth in the twinkling of an eye.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000020_000001.wav|No words were needed; he saw with his own eyes that Laptitza had not kept the promise she had made at the strawberry beds, and, though it nearly broke his heart, he must give orders for her punishment.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000054_000000.wav|'That is quite impossible,' replied the servant.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000029_000000.wav|'Well, well,' he said at last, 'have your way and cut down the trees; but out of one they shall make a bed for me, and out of the other, one for you!'|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000033_000000.wav|'Is it too heavy for you, little brother?' asked one of the beds.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000070_000002.wav|Where do you come from, and what do you want?'|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000016_000001.wav|The girl's mother had always believed that her daughter would be empress, and not the 'Milkwhite Maiden,' the child of a mere shepherd.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000065_000000.wav|'The emperor commands you to return,' panted he: 'the empress wishes to see you.'|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000010_000000.wav|'And if I,' said Stana, 'should be the one chosen, I would weave my husband a shirt which will keep him unscathed when he fights with dragons; when he goes through water he will never even be wet; or if through fire, it will not scorch him.'|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000037_000001.wav|She would have two others made exactly like them, and when the emperor had gone hunting they should be placed in his room.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000014_000000.wav|'And I will have you,' 'And I you,' exclaimed two of his friends, and they all rode back to the palace together.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000047_000002.wav|And they grew in other things besides height, too.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000072_000000.wav|And a second cushion fell down.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000071_000000.wav|'We are twins, two shoots from one stem, which has been broken, and half lies in the ground and half sits at the head of this table.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000047_000004.wav|And when three days and three nights had passed they were twelve years in age, twenty four in strength, and thirty six in wisdom.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000053_000000.wav|'We desire to enter,' said one of the princes sharply to a servant who stood near the door.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000043_000000.wav|'But what are we to do with you?' asked the fisherman.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000073_000000.wav|'Let them take their silliness home,' said the empress.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000015_000002.wav|And then more days and nights passed, and this rumour was succeeded by another one-that Stana had procured some flax, and had dried it, and combed it, and spun it into linen, and sewed it herself into the shirt of which she had spoken over the strawberry beds.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000018_000000.wav|At last, when everything else had failed, she managed to make her brother, who was king of the neighbouring country, declare war against the emperor, and besiege some of the frontier towns with a large army. This time her scheme was successful.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000032_000000.wav|When the emperor was fast asleep, the bed began to crack loudly, and to the empress each crack had a meaning.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000025_000001.wav|In each day they added a year's growth, and each night they added a year's growth, and at dawn, when the stars faded out of the sky, they grew three years' growth in the twinkling of an eye, and their boughs swept across the palace windows.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000022_000000.wav|Not many days after, the stepmother's wish was fulfilled.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000037_000002.wav|This was done and the aspen beds were burnt in a large fire, till only a little heap of ashes was left.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000030_000000.wav|And with this the empress was forced to be content.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000068_000000.wav|'Take off your caps,' said one of the courtiers.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/101283/7555_101283_000049_000001.wav|'We wish to speak with the emperor,' said one of the boys.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000025_000001.wav|Oh! what had happened?|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000056_000000.wav|"Pray heaven that the thread may not snap," he repeated, with his enigmatic smile.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000054_000003.wav|"Give me some hope, my little Chauvelin," she pleaded.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000005_000001.wav|Ah! had Armand's life not been at stake! . . .|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000011_000000.wav|"Thank you very much," she said mechanically, trying to collect her thoughts.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000025_000000.wav|But Lord Fancourt went, and still Chauvelin did not come.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000028_000000.wav|Lord Grenville himself came presently to tell her that her coach was ready, and that Sir Percy was already waiting for her-ribbons in hand.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000008_000000.wav|"I did find him at last," continued Lord Fancourt, "and gave him your message.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000054_000000.wav|Downstairs on the landing she was soon surrounded.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000035_000000.wav|"What has happened, dear lady?" he said, with affected surprise.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000003_000000.wav|Her mind conjured up before her the vision of what was, perhaps at this very moment, passing downstairs.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000040_000000.wav|"Nobody."|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000048_000001.wav|Surely at the present moment you must hope, as I do, that the enigmatical Scarlet Pimpernel will start for Calais to day-"|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000021_000001.wav|Had he failed?|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000002_000000.wav|Listlessly she sat in the small, still deserted boudoir, looking out through the curtained doorway on the dancing couples beyond: looking at them, yet seeing nothing, hearing the music, yet conscious of naught save a feeling of expectancy, of anxious, weary waiting.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000019_000000.wav|"I know not . . .|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000017_000000.wav|"Lord Fancourt, did you perceive who was in the dining room just now besides Sir Percy Blakeney?"|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000037_000000.wav|She spoke in a whisper, trusting that in the general hubbub of the crowd her words would remain unheeded by all, save the man at her side.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000006_000000.wav|"Faith! your ladyship must have thought me very remiss," said a voice suddenly, close to her elbow.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000053_000001.wav|But Chauvelin remained urbane, sarcastic, mysterious; not a line betrayed to the poor, anxious woman whether she need fear or whether she dared to hope.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000021_000002.wav|For one instant that possibility rose before as a hope-the hope that the Scarlet Pimpernel had been warned by Sir Andrew, and that Chauvelin's trap had failed to catch his bird; but that hope soon gave way to fear.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000018_000001.wav|"Why does your ladyship ask?"|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000036_000002.wav|What happened in the dining room at one o'clock just now?"|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000008_000001.wav|He said that he would give orders at once for the horses to be put to."|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000045_000000.wav|"Chauvelin, I worked for you, sincerely, earnestly . . . remember . . ."|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000047_000000.wav|"Which means that a brave man's blood will be on my hands," she said, with a shudder.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000021_000003.wav|Had he failed?|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000036_000000.wav|"You are torturing me, Chauvelin.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000021_000000.wav|But indeed her thoughts were not very far away: only one storey below, in this same house, in the dining room where sat Chauvelin still on the watch.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000020_000000.wav|"It must have been about five or ten minutes past one. . . .|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000033_000001.wav|The crowd was very great, some of the Minister's guests were departing, others were leaning against the banisters watching the throng as it filed up and down the wide staircase.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000020_000001.wav|I wonder what your ladyship is thinking about," he added, for evidently the fair lady's thoughts were very far away, and she had not been listening to his intellectual conversation.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000042_000000.wav|"Yes! we have failed-perhaps . . ."|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen DOUBT|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000016_000000.wav|Lord Fancourt was very attentive.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000016_000001.wav|She scarcely heard what he said, and suddenly startled him by asking abruptly,--|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000001_000000.wav|Marguerite Blakeney had watched the slight sable clad figure of Chauvelin, as he worked his way through the ball room.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000023_000000.wav|"Shall I find out if your ladyship's coach is ready," he said at last, tentatively.|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000019_000002.wav|Did you notice the time when you were there?"|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000050_000000.wav|"And that is?"|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000006_000001.wav|"I had a deal of difficulty in delivering your message, for I could not find Blakeney anywhere at first . . ."|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7555/105394/7555_105394_000035_000001.wav|"Where? When?"|7555
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000039_000001.wav|"Surely the king would reproach me with nothing, but he would laugh at me, while squandering my millions, and with good reason."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000058_000000.wav|"That is plain enough.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000021_000000.wav|"I felt assured that in consulting you, Colbert, I should have good advice," replied Mazarin, greatly delighted.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000014_000000.wav|"That is true, my lord.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000011_000001.wav|Can all this money be badly acquired?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000071_000001.wav|But my pains are returning, I shall faint.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000030_000001.wav|Your eminence is too skillful a politician not to know that, at this moment, the king does not possess a hundred and fifty thousand livres clear in his coffers."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000070_000001.wav|You appear to be much afraid that the king will accept; you have a deal more reason to fear that he will not accept."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000010_000000.wav|"Alas! yes, my lord."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000013_000000.wav|"In the first place, they commit the wrong of dying, Colbert."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000072_000004.wav|Whilst burning hot napkins, physic, revulsives, and Guenaud, who was recalled, were performing their functions with increased activity, Colbert, holding his great head in both his hands, to compress within it the fever of the projects engendered by the brain, was meditating the tenor of the donation he would make Mazarin write, at the first hour of respite his disease should afford him.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000068_000000.wav|"Then there would remain thirteen millions for your family, and that is a good round sum."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000023_000000.wav|"Oh! no; a snare?|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000037_000000.wav|"Yes, but you are ignorant of the principal details of the question."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000014_000002.wav|Against the king?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000029_000000.wav|"What, of all!|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000052_000000.wav|"Just so."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000072_000000.wav|Colbert started.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000023_000001.wav|What for?|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000011_000000.wav|"Can he be right?|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000063_000000.wav|"Well, but, after all, what advantage will that be to me?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000017_000000.wav|"Does it?|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000036_000000.wav|"I thought your eminence did me the honor to ask my advice?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000047_000000.wav|"Pride,--yes, you are right.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000041_000000.wav|"You said so, clearly, it seems to me, when you advised me to give it to him."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000050_000000.wav|"Because the king will not accept of the whole."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000058_000003.wav|All that does not proceed from himself, I predict, he will disdain."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000042_000000.wav|"Ah," replied Colbert, "that is because your eminence, absorbed as you are by your disease, entirely loses sight of the character of Louis the fourteenth."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000008_000000.wav|Colbert reappeared beneath the curtains.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000059_000000.wav|"And you will guarantee, that if I give my forty millions to the king-"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000060_000000.wav|"Saying certain things to him at the same time, I guarantee he will refuse them."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000007_000001.wav|The Donation.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000072_000001.wav|The cardinal was indeed very ill; large drops of sweat flowed down upon his bed of agony, and the frightful pallor of a face streaming with water was a spectacle which the most hardened practitioner could not have beheld without much compassion.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000012_000002.wav|People generally find they have been so,--when they die."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000072_000002.wav|Colbert was, without doubt, very much affected, for he quitted the chamber, calling Bernouin to attend to the dying man, and went into the corridor.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000045_000000.wav|"Go on-that is?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000016_000000.wav|"That admits of no contradiction, my lord."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000029_000002.wav|You speak just as the confessor did."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000025_000000.wav|"That is possible."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000035_000000.wav|"Monsieur Colbert!"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000062_000000.wav|"I will write them, if my lord will have the goodness to dictate them."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000073_000000.wav|"About to appear before God, the Master of mankind, I beg the king, who was my master on earth, to resume the wealth which his bounty has bestowed upon me, and which my family would be happy to see pass into such illustrious hands.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000072_000006.wav|Colbert resumed his place at Mazarin's pillow at the first interval of pain, and persuaded him to dictate a donation thus conceived.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000061_000000.wav|"But those things-what are they?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000034_000000.wav|"The legacy of a part would dishonor you and offend the king.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000040_000000.wav|"Your eminence has misunderstood me.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000055_000002.wav|I would prevent him!"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000024_000001.wav|Did I not hear him say-'Distinguish that which the king has given you from that which you have given yourself.' Recollect, my lord, if he did not say something a little like that to you?--that is quite a theatrical speech."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000048_000000.wav|"Well, my lord, if I have divined rightly, your eminence has but to give all your money to the king, and that immediately."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000019_000000.wav|"And I might fairly keep for my own family, which is so needy, a good fortune,--the whole, even, of which I have earned?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000047_000001.wav|Next?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000056_000000.wav|"Exactly: if the donation were made in a certain form he would refuse it."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000043_000000.wav|"How so?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000027_000000.wav|"To make restitution!" cried Mazarin, with great warmth.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000034_000001.wav|Leaving a part to his majesty, is to avow that that part has inspired you with doubts as to the lawfulness of the means of acquisition."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000054_000000.wav|"My lord!"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000007_000000.wav|Chapter forty six.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000046_000001.wav|Pardon me, my lord, haughtiness, nobleness; kings have no pride, that is a human passion."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000020_000000.wav|"I see no impediment to that, monseigneur."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000049_000000.wav|"But for what?" said Mazarin, quite bewildered.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000067_000000.wav|"But, if he should accept it; if he should even think of accepting it!"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000075_000000.wav|The cardinal sighed heavily as he signed this; Colbert sealed the packet, and carried it immediately to the Louvre, whither the king had returned.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000057_000000.wav|"Well; but how?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000055_000001.wav|Triple fool that I am!|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000046_000000.wav|"Pride!|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000055_000000.wav|"To inherit, yes, Colbert, yes; he is anxious for my death, in order to inherit.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000073_000001.wav|The particulars of my property will be found-they are drawn up-at the first requisition of his majesty, or at the last sigh of his most devoted servant,|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000030_000000.wav|"To make restitution of a part,--that is to say, his majesty's part; and that, monseigneur, may have its dangers.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39660/6300_39660_000018_000000.wav|"That is beyond doubt."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000035_000006.wav|"Thus, madame," he promptly said, "such horses are made for kings, not for subjects; for kings ought never to yield to any one in anything."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000046_000000.wav|During this speech, Louis was, unconsciously, folding and unfolding Mazarin's paper, upon which he had not cast his eyes.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000086_000000.wav|"I shall consider of it," replied he, looking at Fouquet.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000069_000000.wav|"Ah!" said the queen.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000082_000001.wav|"You are above reports and interpretations."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000023_000000.wav|"What have you there?" asked the king.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000071_000000.wav|"And why not?" asked the queen.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000029_000001.wav|He nodded, therefore, familiarly to Fouquet, whilst he continued to unfold the paper given to him by the usher.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000041_000000.wav|Louis started.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000084_000000.wav|"Thank you, mother," replied Louis, bowing respectfully to the queen. "Thank you Monsieur, Fouquet," said he, dismissing the superintendent civilly.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000064_000000.wav|"Accept, then, and thank him," insisted Anne of Austria.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000011_000000.wav|"What were you doing, then?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000070_000000.wav|"But do not accept," continued Fouquet.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000012_000000.wav|"I thought I was under the ferule of my professor, and developing a subject of amplification."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000013_000000.wav|"My son," replied Anne of Austria, shaking her head, "you are wrong not to trust my word; you are wrong not to grant me your confidence.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000044_000000.wav|Fouquet darted a haughty glance at the queen mother, who appeared to triumph at the false position in which the minister had placed himself, and replied:--|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000018_000000.wav|Louis listened with increased attention to the words which Anne of Austria, no doubt, pronounced with a view to console him.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000004_000002.wav|Louis the fourteenth., to whom his mother had taught this axiom, together with many others, understood at once that the cardinal must be very ill.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000010_000001.wav|I?|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000010_000000.wav|"Who!|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000080_000000.wav|"Yes, by oppressing the people," said the queen.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000046_000001.wav|At length he glanced upon it, and uttered a faint cry at reading the first line.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000018_000001.wav|"Madame," said he, looking earnestly at his mother, "one would almost say in truth that you had something else to announce to me."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000008_000002.wav|The king started, and advanced towards her. "I hope," said he, "your majesty has paid no attention to the vain declamations which the solitude and disgust familiar to kings suggest to the happiest dispositions?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000021_000001.wav|Is not that your opinion as well as mine, my son?" said the queen.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000055_000002.wav|this is very noble on the part of his eminence, and will silence all malicious rumors; forty millions scraped together slowly, coming back all in one heap to the treasury!|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000063_000000.wav|"That the present is worth the trouble?|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000056_000000.wav|"You must reply to it, my son," said Anne of Austria; "you must reply to it, and immediately."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000085_000000.wav|"Do you accept?" asked Anne of Austria, once more.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000009_000000.wav|"I only paid attention to one thing, my son, and that was, that you were complaining."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000025_000001.wav|But at the moment he was about to open it, there was a great noise in the gallery, the ante chamber, and the court.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000002.wav|He struck his brow with his open hand, crying,--"King of France! what a title!|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000055_000003.wav|It is the act of a faithful subject and a good Christian." And having once more cast her eyes over the act, she restored it to Louis the fourteenth., whom the announcement of the sum greatly agitated.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000008_000001.wav|The voice which had pronounced these words was that of Anne of Austria.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000031_000001.wav|I was at my country house of Vaux when the news reached me; and the affair seemed so pressing that I left at once."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000005.wav|Twenty! what do I say?|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000020_000000.wav|Louis looked at his mother, expecting some emotion in her voice, some sorrow in her countenance.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000004_000000.wav|But the minister had had, as we have said, an alarming attack of gout, and the tide of flattery was mounting towards the throne.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000017_000001.wav|It results, therefore, that the young gather the abundant harvest prepared for them by the old."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000055_000000.wav|"Forty millions," cried the queen.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000058_000000.wav|"By a visit to the cardinal."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000035_000005.wav|But Fouquet caught her thought.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000034_000000.wav|"An hour and a half!" said the king, still able to restrain his anger, but not to conceal his astonishment.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000081_000000.wav|"And were they not oppressed, madame," replied Fouquet, "when they were made to sweat the forty millions given by this deed?|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000014_000000.wav|"Your intention," continued the king, "was not, however, to cast blame upon the rich men of this age, was it?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000020_000001.wav|The face of Anne of Austria appeared a little changed, but that was from sufferings of quite a personal character. Perhaps the alteration was caused by the cancer which had begun to consume her breast.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000026_000002.wav|I was mistaken, there are two."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000055_000005.wav|The king looked at him, and held the paper out to him, in turn.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000078_000000.wav|"It ill becomes you, monsieur, to give your king a lesson," said Anne of Austria; "better procure for him forty millions to replace those you make him lose."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000083_000000.wav|"Refuse, sire," said Fouquet.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000079_000000.wav|"The king shall have them whenever he wishes," said the superintendent of finances, bowing.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000060_000000.wav|"Write, then, sire."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000019_000000.wav|"I have absolutely nothing, my son; only you cannot have failed to remark that his eminence the cardinal is very ill."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000022_000000.wav|"Yes, madame; yes, certainly, it would be a great loss for the kingdom," said Louis, coloring; "but the peril does not seem to me to be so great; besides, the cardinal is still young." The king had scarcely ceased speaking when an usher lifted the tapestry, and stood with a paper in his hand, waiting for the king to speak to him.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000045_000004.wav|But the king is silent, and consequently I am condemned."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000073_000000.wav|The king remained silent between these two contrary opinions.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000042_000001.wav|It was not so much a present that I permitted myself to offer, as the tribute I paid."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000005_000002.wav|when wilt thou be able to open, for any purpose but to sigh, or smile, lips condemned to the motionless stupidity of the marbles in thy gallery?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000047_000000.wav|"What is the matter, my son?" asked the queen, anxiously, and going towards the king.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000067_000000.wav|"Yes."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000003.wav|People of France! what a heap of creatures!|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000035_000002.wav|I received from England three pairs of very fast horses, as I had been assured.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000008.wav|Why, my good God! have not I, the king, the right to ask of you all that?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000068_000000.wav|"Thank him, sire-"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000038_000000.wav|"Truly not, madame; therefore the horses only await the orders of his majesty to enter the royal stables; and if I allowed myself to try them, it was only for fear of offering to the king anything that was not positively wonderful."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000029_000003.wav|Louis had opened the paper, and yet he did not read it.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000077_000000.wav|"It is precisely, madame, because these forty millions would be a fortune that I will say to the king, 'Sire, if it be not decent for a king to accept from a subject six horses, worth twenty thousand livres, it would be disgraceful for him to owe a fortune to another subject, more or less scrupulous in the choice of the materials which contributed to the building up of that fortune.'"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000048_000000.wav|"From the cardinal," replied the king, continuing to read; "yes, yes, it is really from him."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000013_000001.wav|A day will come, and perhaps quickly, wherein you will have occasion to remember that axiom:--'Gold is universal power; and they alone are kings who are all powerful.'"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000005_000001.wav|The young king then was, as we have seen, a prey to a double excitement; and he said to himself as he looked in a glass, "O king!--king by name, and not in fact;--phantom, vain phantom art thou!--inert statue, which has no other power than that of provoking salutations from courtiers, when wilt thou be able to raise thy velvet arm, or clench thy silken hand?|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000082_000000.wav|"Nonsense! accept, my son, accept," said Anne of Austria.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000036_000000.wav|The king looked up.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000057_000000.wav|"But how, madame?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000035_000004.wav|They really brought me from Vaux to the Louvre in an hour and a half, so your majesty sees I have not been cheated." The queen mother smiled with something like secret envy.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000010_000002.wav|Not at all," said Louis the fourteenth.; "no, in truth, you err, madame."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000053_000000.wav|"A gift?" repeated Fouquet.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000007_000000.wav|"Because," said a voice, replying to his, and which sounded from the other side of the door of the cabinet, "because at the Palais Royal lies all the gold,--that is to say, all the power of him who desires to reign."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000032_000000.wav|"You left Vaux this evening, monsieur?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000061_000000.wav|"Write!" said the young king, with evident repugnance.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000025_000000.wav|"Give it to me," said the king; and he took the paper.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000028_000000.wav|"He is not precisely a king, as you fancy," said Anne of Austria to her son; "he is only a man who is much too rich-that is all."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000015_000001.wav|That is what I mean to say by the words for which you reproach me."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000040_000000.wav|"You know, Monsieur Fouquet," said the queen, "that at the court of France it is not the custom for a subject to offer anything to his king."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000066_000000.wav|"Does your majesty wish to know my opinion?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000017_000000.wav|"Besides," continued Anne of Austria, "the Lord never gives the goods of this world but for a season; the Lord-as correctives to honor and riches-the Lord has placed sufferings, sickness, and death; and no one," added she, with a melancholy smile, which proved she made the application of the funeral precept to herself, "no man can take his wealth or greatness with him to the grave.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000039_000000.wav|The king became quite red.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000033_000000.wav|"An hour and a half ago, yes, your majesty," said Fouquet, consulting a watch, richly ornamented with diamonds.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000081_000001.wav|Furthermore, his majesty has asked my opinion, I have given it; if his majesty ask my concurrence, it will be the same."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000027_000002.wav|In addition to all this, a loud murmur was heard along his passage, which did not die away till some time after he had passed. It was this murmur which Louis the fourteenth. regretted so deeply not hearing as he passed, and dying away behind him.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000002_000000.wav|Chapter forty seven.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000049_000000.wav|"Is he worse, then?"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000043_000000.wav|"Thank you, Monsieur Fouquet," said the king politely, "and I am gratified by your intention, for I love good horses; but you know I am not very rich; you, who are my superintendent of finances, know it better than any one else.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000027_000000.wav|As he spoke or thought thus, the door opened, and the superintendent of finances, Fouquet, appeared before his nominal master.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000004_000001.wav|Courtiers have a marvelous instinct in scenting the turn of events; courtiers possess a supreme kind of science; they are diplomatists in throwing light upon the unraveling of complicated intrigues, captains in divining the issue of battles, and physicians in curing the sick.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000000.wav|Then, passing his hand over his brow, and feeling the want of air, he approached a window, and looking down, saw below some horsemen talking together, and groups of timid observers.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000026_000001.wav|"How could I say there was but one king in France!|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000045_000002.wav|Under the mild heat of this luxury of kings springs the luxury of individuals, a source of riches for the people.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000035_000001.wav|Your majesty doubts my word, and you have reason to do so; but I have really come in that time, though it is wonderful!|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000083_000001.wav|"As long as a king lives, he has no other measure but his conscience,--no other judge than his own desires; but when dead, he has posterity, which applauds or accuses."|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000074_000000.wav|"But forty millions!" said Anne of Austria, in the same tone as that in which, at a later period, poor Marie Antoinette replied, "You will tell me as much!"|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000052_000000.wav|"Oh! a regularly drawn up deed of gift," said she.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000004.wav|I have just returned to my Louvre; my horses, just unharnessed, are still smoking, and I have created interest enough to induce scarcely twenty persons to look at me as I passed.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000035_000003.wav|They were placed at distances of four leagues apart, and I tried them this evening.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6300/39661/6300_39661_000006_000001.wav|These horsemen were a fraction of the watch: the groups were busy portions of the people, to whom a king is always a curious thing, the same as a rhinoceros, a crocodile, or a serpent.|6300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000005_000001.wav|I call her peerless because she has no peer, whether it be in bodily stature or in the supremacy of rank and beauty.|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000037_000006.wav|As soon as he saw it he called out in a loud voice, "Make haste here, Sancho, and behold what thou art to see but not to believe; quick, my son, and learn what magic can do, and wizards and enchanters are capable of."|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000035_000000.wav|"To tell the truth," returned Sancho, "the monstrous nose of that squire has filled me with fear and terror, and I dare not stay near him."|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000023_000000.wav|"Very good," said he of the Grove; "God will send the dawn and we shall be all right."|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000018_000000.wav|"Body of my father!" said Sancho, "see what marten and sable, and pads of carded cotton he is putting into the bags, that our heads may not be broken and our bones beaten to jelly!|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000034_000000.wav|"It seems to me rather, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that thou wouldst mount a scaffold in order to see the bulls without danger."|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000010_000000.wav|"Calm yourself, sir knight," said Don Quixote, "and give ear to what I am about to say to you.|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000038_000000.wav|Sancho came up, and when he saw the countenance of the bachelor Carrasco, he fell to crossing himself a thousand times, and blessing himself as many more.|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000032_000000.wav|"That is understood," replied he of the Mirrors.|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen.|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000027_000000.wav|"Well then," said Don Quixote, "while we are mounting you can at least tell me if I am that Don Quixote whom you said you vanquished."|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000024_000003.wav|Don Quixote examined his adversary, and found that he already had his helmet on and visor lowered, so that he could not see his face; he observed, however, that he was a sturdily built man, but not very tall in stature.|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1801/138032/1801_138032_000037_000005.wav|He saw, the history says, the very countenance, the very face, the very look, the very physiognomy, the very effigy, the very image of the bachelor Samson Carrasco!|1801
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000004_000006.wav|The principal grass of these meadows is a delicate calamagrostis with very slender filiform leaves, and when it is in flower the ground seems to be covered with a faint purple mist, the stems of the panicles being so fine that they are almost invisible, and offer no appreciable resistance in walking through them.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000013_000001.wav|And it is all the more interesting since it is the highest and most enduring remnant of the great Tuolumne Glacier, whose traces are still distinct fifty miles away, and whose influence on the landscape was so profound.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000012_000002.wav|At one place near the summit careful climbing is necessary, but it is not so dangerous or difficult as to deter any one of ordinary skill, while the views are glorious.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000025_000000.wav|Another fine trip was up, bright and early, by Avalanche Canyon to Glacier Point, along the rugged south wall, tracing all its far outs and ins to the head of the Bridal Veil Fall, thence back home, bright and late, by a brushy, bouldery slope between Cathedral rocks and Cathedral spires and along the level Valley floor.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000002_000005.wav|The gray, picturesque Cathedral Range bounds it on the south; a similar range or spur, the highest peak of which is Mount Conness, on the north; the noble Mounts Dana, Gibbs, Mammoth, Lyell, McClure and others on the axis of the Range on the east; a heaving, billowing crowd of glacier polished rocks and Mount Hoffman on the west.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000004_000007.wav|Along the edges of the meadows beneath the pines and throughout the greater part of the Valley tall ribbon leaved grasses grow in abundance, chiefly bromus, triticum and agrostis.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000008_000007.wav|To the southward there is a well defined range of pale gray extinct volcanoes, and though the highest of them rises nearly two thousand feet above the lake, you can look down from here into their circular, cup like craters, from which a comparatively short time ago ashes and cinders were showered over the surrounding sage plains and glacier laden mountains.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000026_000008.wav|None of mine when I was exploring the Sierra cost over a dollar a week, most of them less.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000001_000000.wav|We come now to the grandest of all the Yosemite excursions, one that requires at least two or three weeks.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000016_000003.wav|Its falls and cascades are innumerable.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000016_000004.wav|The sheer falls, except when the snow is melting in early spring, are quite small in volume as compared with those of Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy; though in any other country many of them would be regarded as wonders.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000020_000000.wav|Other Trips From The Valley|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000016_000007.wav|For miles the river is one wild, exulting, on rushing mass of snowy purple bloom, spreading over glacial waves of granite without any definite channel, gliding in magnificent silver plumes, dashing and foaming through huge boulder dams, leaping high into the air in wheel like whirls, displaying glorious enthusiasm, tossing from side to side, doubling, glinting, singing in exuberance of mountain energy.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000016_000006.wav|The most showy and interesting of them are mostly in the upper part of the canyon, above the point of entrance of Cathedral Creek and Hoffman Creek.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000010_000000.wav|Some eight glaciers are in sight.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000012_000004.wav|These spurs like distinct ranges meet at your feet; therefore you look at them mostly in the direction of their extension, and their peaks seem to be massed and crowded against one another, while immense amphitheaters, canyons and subordinate ridges with their wealth of lakes, glaciers, and snow fields, maze and cluster between them.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000005_000000.wav|In October the nights are frosty, and then the meadows at sunrise, when every leaf is laden with crystals, are a fine sight.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000026_000007.wav|All the High Sierra excursions that I have sketched cost from a dollar a week to anything you like.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000004_000001.wav|Tracing the river, we find that it forks a mile above the Soda Springs, the main fork turning southward to Mount Lyell, the other eastward to Mount Dana and Mount Gibbs.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000002_000004.wav|It is in the heart of the High Sierra east of Yosemite, eight thousand five hundred to nine thousand feet above the level of the sea.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000009_000001.wav|Northward and southward the great snowy mountains, marshaled along the axis of the Range, are seen in all their glory, crowded together in some places like trees in groves, making landscapes of wild, extravagant, bewildering magnificence, yet calm and silent as the sky.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000012_000008.wav|A more interesting problem than a walk over a glacier thus sculptured and adorned is seldom presented to the mountaineer.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000001_000001.wav|The best time to make it is from about the middle of July.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000009_000000.wav|To the westward the landscape is made up of exceedingly strong, gray, glaciated domes and ridge waves, most of them comparatively low, but the largest high enough to be called mountains; separated by canyons and darkened with lines and fields of forest, Cathedral Peak and Mount Hoffman in the distance; small lakes and innumerable meadows in the foreground.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000008_000005.wav|To the eastward you gaze far out over the desert plains and mountains of the "Great Basin," range beyond range extending with soft outlines, blue and purple in the distance.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000026_000002.wav|The Tuolumne grove was passed on the Big Oak Flat road, the Merced grove by the Coulterville road and the Mariposa grove by the Raymond and Wawona road.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000002_000001.wav|Next morning climb Mount Hoffman; thence push on past Tenaya Lake into the Tuolumne Meadows and establish a central camp near the Soda Springs, from which glorious excursions can be made at your leisure.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000019_000001.wav|My own Sierra trip was ten years long.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000004_000002.wav|Along both forks strips of meadow extend almost to their heads.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000016_000000.wav|The canyon begins near the lower end of the meadows and extends to the Hetch Hetchy Valley, a distance of about eighteen miles, though it will seem much longer to any one who scrambles through it.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000016_000001.wav|It is from twelve hundred to about five thousand feet deep, and is comparatively narrow, but there are several roomy, park like openings in it, and throughout its whole extent Yosemite natures are displayed on a grand scale-domes, El Capitan rocks, gables, Sentinels, Royal Arches, Glacier Points, Cathedral Spires, etc|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000011_000002.wav|It is about eight miles long and from two thousand to three thousand feet deep.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127704/598_127704_000013_000002.wav|The McClure Glacier, once a tributary of the Lyell, is smaller.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000014_000000.wav|You should stop a while on a flat iron fenced rock a little below the head of the fall beside the enthusiastic throng of starry comet like waters to learn something of their strength, their marvelous variety of forms, and above all, their glorious music, gathered and composed from the snow storms, hail, rain and wind storms that have fallen on their glacier sculptured, domey, ridgy basin.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000026_000000.wav|A Three Day Excursion|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000013_000001.wav|From the foot of the Fall the trail zigzags up a narrow canyon between the fall and a plain mural cliff that is burnished here and there by glacial action.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000013.wav|You will find it a magnificent sky camp.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000011.wav|Northward lies Yosemite's wide basin with its domes and small lakes, shining like larger crystals; eastward the rocky, meadowy Tuolumne region, bounded by its snowy peaks in glorious array; southward Yosemite and westward the vast forest.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000014_000001.wav|Refreshed and exhilarated, you follow your trail way through silver fir and pine woods to Eagle Peak, where the most comprehensive of all the views to be had on the north wall heights are displayed.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000028_000003.wav|The walking is good and almost level and from the west end of Clouds' Rest take the Clouds' Rest Trail which will lead direct to the Valley by the Nevada and Vernal Falls.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000021_000000.wav|Two Day Excursions|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000020_000000.wav|With your heart aglow, spangling Lake Tenaya and Lake May will beckon you away for walks on their ice burnished shores.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000024_000014.wav|Climbing to the top of it, I discovered a very small but well characterized glacier swooping down from the shadowy cliffs of the mountain to its terminal moraine.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000024_000004.wav|Yet, strange to say, amid all this arctic repression the mountain pine on ledges and buttresses of Red Mountain seems to find the climate best suited to it.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000027_000001.wav|There instead of returning to the Valley, follow the Tioga road around the northwest side of the lake, over to the Tuolumne Meadows and up to the west base of Mount Dana.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000005.wav|Most of the broad summit is comparatively level and thick sown with crystals, quartz, mica, hornblende, feldspar, granite, zircon, tourmaline, etc, weathered out and strewn closely and loosely as if they had been sown broadcast.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000003.wav|Mount Hoffman is a mass of gray granite that rises almost in the center of the Yosemite Park, about eight or ten miles in a straight line from the Valley.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000024_000001.wav|The path of the vanished glacier shone in many places as if washed with silver, and pushing up the canyon on this bright road I passed lake after lake in solid basins of granite and many a meadow along the canyon stream that links them together.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000004.wav|Its southern slopes are low and easily climbed, and adorned here and there with castle like crumbling piles and long jagged crests that look like artificial masonry; but on the north side it is abruptly precipitous and banked with lasting snow.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000003_000000.wav|How Best to Spend One's Yosemite Time|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000008_000001.wav|Thence returning to the trail, follow it to the head of the Nevada Fall.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000002_000000.wav|Chapter twelve|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000023_000002.wav|Early next morning visit the small glacier on the north side of Merced Peak, the first of the sixty five that I discovered in the Sierra.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000024_000002.wav|The main lateral moraines that bound the view below the canyon are from a hundred to nearly two hundred feet high and wonderfully regular, like artificial embankments covered with a magnificent growth of silver fir and pine. But this garden and forest luxuriance is speedily left behind, and patches of bryanthus, cassiope and arctic willows begin to appear.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000024_000008.wav|Early next morning I set out to trace the ancient glacier to its head.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000016_000000.wav|Two Day Excursions|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000027_000000.wav|The best three day excursion, as far as I can see, is the same as the first of the two day trips until you reach Lake Tenaya.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000007.wav|At first sight only these radiant crystals are likely to be noticed, but looking closely you discover a multitude of very small gilias, phloxes, mimulus, etc, many of them with more petals than leaves.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000010_000000.wav|One Day Excursions|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000006_000004.wav|From Glacier Point you look down three thousand feet over the edge of its sheer face to the meadows and groves and innumerable yellow pine spires, with the meandering river sparkling and spangling through the midst of them.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000001.wav|As on the foregoing excursion, you leave the Valley by the Yosemite Falls trail and follow it to the Tioga wagon road, a short distance east of Porcupine Flat.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000002.wav|From that point push straight up to the summit.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000018_000000.wav|For a two day trip I would go straight to Mount Hoffman, spend the night on the summit, next morning go down by May Lake to Tenaya Lake and return to the Valley by Cloud's Rest and the Nevada and Vernal Falls.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000019_000000.wav|The most telling of all the wide Hoffman views is the basin of the Tuolumne with its meadows, forests and hundreds of smooth rock waves that appear to be coming rolling on towards you like high heaving waves ready to break, and beyond these the great mountains.|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/598/127703/598_127703_000004_000000.wav|One Day Excursions|598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000005_000003.wav|Now she leaves the scene, and our story henceforth concerns only one of these eggs.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000002_000000.wav|THE STORY OF A STONE|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000012_000000.wav|Well, the old ones died or swam away or were walled up, and new ones filled their places, and the colony thrived for a long time, and had accumulated quite a stock of lime.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000012_000003.wav|So the rock house they were making was tumbled about in the dirt, and the rolling pebbles knocked the corners off, and the mud worked its way into the cracks and destroyed its beautiful whiteness.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000008_000003.wav|So he made an opening in his upper side, and rigged for himself a mouth and a stomach, and put a whole row of feelers out, and began catching little worms and floating eggs and bits of jelly and bits of lime,--everything he could get,--and cramming them into his little stomach.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000008_000002.wav|Only, unlike Holger, he didn't go to sleep, but proceeded to make himself at home.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000022_000000.wav|Ages after, a farmer in Grand Chote, Michigan, plowing up his clover field, to sow for winter wheat, picked up a curious bit of "petrified honeycomb," and gave it to the schoolboys to take to their teacher, to hear what he would say about it.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000007_000000.wav|But none of these got the little fellow, else I should not have any story to tell.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000009_000001.wav|He kept taking them in and tried to wall himself up inside with them, as a person would stone a well or as though a man should swallow pebbles and stow them away in his feet and all around under the skin, till he had filled himself full.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000014_000000.wav|Then, the time of the first fishes came, and the other animals looked on them in awe and wonder as the Indians eyed Columbus.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000008_000000.wav|At last, having paddled about long enough, he thought of settling in life.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000014_000001.wav|They were like the gar pike in our Western rivers, only much larger,--as big as a stove pipe,--and with a crust as hard as a turtle's shell. Then there came sharks, of strange forms, savage and ferocious, with teeth like bowie knives.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000019_000000.wav|So it kept on for about a million years, until once when the spring came and the south winds blew, it began to thaw up.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000013_000001.wav|There it lay, imbedded in the rock for centuries and centuries.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000005_000002.wav|Then, one morning, down among the sea weeds, she laid a whole lot of tiny eggs, transparent as crab apple jelly and much smaller than a dew drop on the end of a pine leaf.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000003_000000.wav|By David Starr Jordan|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000008_000001.wav|So he looked around until he found a flat bit of shell that just suited him, when he sat down upon it, and grew fast, like old Holger Danske, in the Danish myth.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000018_000001.wav|Then it would thaw a little, and streams of water would run over the snow; then it would freeze again, and pack it into solid ice.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/275218/7867_275218_000012_000002.wav|They didn't like the taste of iron, so they all died; but we know that their house was not spoiled, for we have it here.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000005.wav|The stranger replied, "How can you deceive me so?|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000002.wav|Accordingly.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000018_000005.wav|As the appearance passed, he threw the stool at the horse, but heard nothing except the noise of the stool skipping across the bridge.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000006_000002.wav|In a few moments after, a respectable looking man in a chaise stopped at the door.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000018_000001.wav|The toll gatherer asserted that sometimes, on the darkest and most stormy nights, when no object could be discerned about the time Rugg was missing, a horse and wheelcarriage, with a noise equal to a troop, would at midnight, in utter contempt of the rates of toll, pass over the bridge.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000010.wav|"I have never known him to stop anywhere longer than to inquire the way to Boston; and, let him be where he may, he will tell you he cannot stay a moment, for he must reach Boston that night."|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000012_000000.wav|This was all the account of peter Rugg I could obtain from mrs Croft; but she directed me to an elderly man, mr james Felt, who lived near her, and who had kept a record of the principal occurrences for the last fifty years.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000016_000015.wav|Others, of a different opinion, shook their heads and said nothing.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000003_000002.wav|I was thus obliged either to wait a few hours or accept a seat with the driver, who civilly offered me that accommodation.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000013.wav|He lives in Royal Exchange Lane, near King Street."|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000010_000005.wav|I recollect now, I came over a bridge instead of a ferry.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000006_000001.wav|It was soon over, the cloud passing in the direction of the turnpike toward Providence.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000006.wav|He seemed dejected, and looked anxiously at the passengers, particularly at the stage driver and myself.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000009.wav|He went a long voyage; he is my kinsman. If I could see him, he could give me some account of mrs Rugg." "Sir," said mrs Croft, "I never heard of john Foy.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000005_000009.wav|It is a very common thing for the imagination to paint for the senses, both in the visible and invisible world.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000005.wav|For peter has already, to my knowledge, been more than twenty years travelling to that place." "But," said I, "does the man never stop anywhere, does he never converse with anyone?|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000008.wav|Has his appearance much altered in that time?"|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000004.wav|The stranger asked for mrs Rugg, and was informed that mrs Rugg had died, at a good old age, more than twenty years before that time.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000020.wav|But no such man as Hart has kept there these twenty years."|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000007.wav|Under which peter Rugg now labours I cannot say; therefore I am rather inclined to pity than to judge." "You speak like a humane man," said I, "and if you have known him so long, I pray you will give me some account of him.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000002_000001.wav|It is entirely owing to the humane interest you seemed to take in the report, that I have pursued the inquiry to the following result.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000011.wav|Are the streets gone? Orange Tree Lane is at the head of Hanover Street, near Pemberton's Hill." "There is no such lane now." "Madam! you cannot be serious.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000002.wav|Soon after a small speck appeared in the road.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000013.wav|It is cruel to deceive a traveller.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000011_000000.wav|It was evident that the generation to which peter Rugg belonged had passed away.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000006_000000.wav|In the meantime the distant thunder gave notice of a shower at hand, and just as we reached Polley's tavern the rain poured down in torrents.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000010.wav|Where did he live?" "Just above here, in Orange Tree Lane." "There is no such place in this neighbourhood." "What do you tell me!|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000002_000000.wav|Sir-Agreeably to my promise, I now relate to you all the particulars of the lost man and child which I have been able to collect.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000007.wav|Indeed, everything here seems to be misplaced.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000010_000004.wav|I know of no other Boston." "City of Boston it may be, but it is not the Boston where I live.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000014_000000.wav|If peter Rugg, thought I, has been travelling since the Boston Massacre, there is no reason why he should not travel to the end of time.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000005_000001.wav|"Do you look," said he, "in the direction whence the man came, that is the place to look; the storm never meets him, it follows him." We presently approached another hill, and when at the height, the driver pointed out in an eastern direction a little black speck as big as a hat.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000018.wav|I must find a resting place.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000006.wav|I saw the same man more than three years since, near Providence, and I heard a strange story about him. Pray, sir, give me some account of this man." "Sir," said the stranger, "those who know the most respecting that man say the least. I have heard it asserted that heaven sometimes sets a mark on a man, either for judgment or trial.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000006.wav|"In Middle Street." "When did you leave Boston?"|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000015.wav|His impatient horse leaped off, his hind flanks rising like wings-he seemed to devour all before him and to scorn all behind.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000011.wav|Is not this town Newburyport, and the river that I have been following the Merrimac?" "No, sir; this is Hartford, and the river the Connecticut." He wrung his hands and looked incredulous.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000003.wav|"There," said my companion, "comes the storm breeder; he always leaves a Scotch mist behind him.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000013_000000.wav|I took my leave of mrs Croft, and proceeded to my lodgings at the Marlborough Hotel.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000003.wav|I stepped into the street, and as the horse approached I made a feint of stopping him.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000016.wav|You may as well tell me there is no King George.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000006_000004.wav|He said he had met them; that the man seemed bewildered, and inquired the way to Boston; that he was driving at great speed, as though he expected to outstrip the tempest; that the moment he had passed him a thunderclap broke distinctly over the man's head and seemed to envelop both man and child, horse and carriage.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000004.wav|By many a wet jacket do I remember him.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000003.wav|mrs Croft, on coming to the door, perceived a stranger, with a child by his side, in an old, weather beaten carriage, with a black horse.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000018_000008.wav|And thus peter Rugg and his child, horse and carriage, remain a mystery to this day."|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000019_000000.wav|This, sir, is all that I could learn of peter Rugg in Boston....|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000005.wav|I suppose the poor fellow suffers much himself, much more than is known to the world." Presently a man with a child beside him, with a large black horse, and a weather beaten chair, once built for a chaise body, passed in great haste, apparently at the rate of twelve miles an hour. He seemed to grasp the reins of his horse with firmness, and appeared to anticipate his speed.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000004_000007.wav|In a moment after he passed us, the horses' ears were up and bent themselves forward so that they nearly met.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000015_000000.wav|In the course of the evening I related my adventure in Middle Street. "Ha!" said one of the company, smiling, "do you really think you have seen peter Rugg?|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000005_000004.wav|The appearance of this cloud attracted the notice of all the passengers; for after it had spread itself to a great bulk, it suddenly became more limited in circumference, grew more compact, dark, and consolidated.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000003_000003.wav|Accordingly I took my seat by his side, and soon found him intelligent and communicative.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000003_000001.wav|I sailed in the packet to Providence, and when I arrived there I learned that every seat in the stage was engaged.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000012_000005.wav|That peter Rugg is living is highly probable, as he was only ten years older than myself; and I was only eighty last March, and I am as likely to live twenty years longer as any man." Here I perceived that mr Felt was in his dotage, and I despaired of gaining any intelligence from him on which I could depend.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000012.wav|But you doubtless know my brother, William Rugg.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000003_000000.wav|You may remember that business called me to Boston in the summer of eighteen twenty.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000001.wav|Soon after I was enabled to collect the following particulars from mrs Croft, an aged lady in Middle Street, who has resided in Boston during the last twenty years.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000001.wav|"peter Rugg!" said I, "and who is peter Rugg?" "That," said the stranger, "is more than anyone can tell exactly.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000006_000006.wav|But that which excited his surprise most was the strange conduct of his horse, for that, long before he could distinguish the man in the chair, his own horse stood still in the road and flung back his ears.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000007_000004.wav|How long would it take, in that case, to send a letter to Boston?|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000010_000011.wav|It is a much finer city than the town of Boston.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000016_000003.wav|On Rugg's declining to stop, mr Cutter urged him vehemently.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000007.wav|"I cannot tell precisely; it seems a considerable time." "But how did you and your child become so wet?|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000005_000007.wav|But in truth I saw no such thing.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000005_000008.wav|The man's fancy was doubtless at fault.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000008_000012.wav|"Have the rivers, too, changed their courses as the cities have changed places?|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000010_000000.wav|Here the stranger seemed disconcerted, and muttered to himself quite audibly: "Strange mistake!|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000010_000001.wav|How much this looks like the town of Boston!|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110742/7867_110742_000009_000002.wav|Her narration is this: The last summer a person, just at twilight, stopped at the door of the late mrs Rugg.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000006_000000.wav|However, in spite of his blue beard this man had married several times, though what had become of his wives nobody could say.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000022_000000.wav|Not pausing an instant, she thrust the key into the lock, and the door sprang open.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000035_000001.wav|No!|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000026_000002.wav|Trembling, and white as a sheet, she was forced to give it into his hand.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000029_000000.wav|"Wretched woman!" shouted Bluebeard, "you have used this key, you have unlocked the door of that room at the end of the passage.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000014_000001.wav|Unlock rooms and chests and use freely what you will."|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000043_000001.wav|He swiftly fled, but they speedily followed, and for his many crimes slew him then and there.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000010_000000.wav|Most sumptuous was the entertainment provided for them.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000012_000000.wav|And so, not long afterwards, there was a grand wedding, and the widow's younger daughter became mrs Bluebeard.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000005_000000.wav|Of course had blue beards come into fashion his would have been considered beautiful beyond words, but, as far as we know, blue beards have never as yet been fashionable, nor are they likely to be so.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000030_000001.wav|"You shall die!" he cried again, more savagely than before.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000035_000002.wav|Nothing but the green grass, and the sun which shines upon it."|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000026_000000.wav|Next morning he called for the keys; his wife brought them to him, but not the little one; that she left behind.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000041_000000.wav|"I see two horsemen afar off," cried Sister Anne.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000033_000000.wav|The poor young woman hastened to a room at the foot of the turret stairs where was her Sister Anne, and called to her.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000043_000000.wav|He would not, however, give heed to her prayers, and was just brandishing his sword, so that it might come down straight and true upon her slender neck, when the door burst open and two young army officers came rushing in, whom Bluebeard recognised as the brothers of his wife.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000037_000001.wav|Her brothers, she knew, were to visit her that day-if only they would come in time!|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000023_000002.wav|She wiped it with her handkerchief, but alas! it was blood that would not be wiped away.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000009_000000.wav|Then Bluebeard invited the widow and her daughters to spend a week with him, and many of their neighbours he also invited.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000031_000000.wav|"Let me have a few moments alone, to prepare for death,"|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000030_000000.wav|In vain did his wife plead with him to spare her, kneeling before him with tears streaming from her eyes.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000038_000001.wav|"I see a cloud of dust, but it is only a flock of sheep on the road."|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000021_000000.wav|At last she could bear it no longer, but slipping away from her visitors, she ran along the passages and stairs, nearly falling down them, so great was her haste, until she came to that door at the end of the corridor.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000034_000001.wav|Can you see no one coming?" And Sister Anne, looking out, answered:|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000011_000000.wav|So well, indeed, did the younger sister enjoy this, that by the end of the week she had begun to think perhaps after all her host's beard was not so very blue, and that it would be a fine thing to be the mistress of such a magnificent mansion, and the wife of such a rich husband.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000035_000000.wav|"Alas!|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000013_000000.wav|About a month later, Bluebeard told his wife that he must leave her for several weeks, having to travel on business.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000023_000000.wav|At first she could distinguish nothing, for the room was dark and gloomy, but then, all of a sudden, she knew what had become of Bluebeard's other wives, for there they lay, in a long, straight row, all dead.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000019_000000.wav|They could not enough admire the magnificent apartments, and ran from one to another praising everything they beheld.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000008_000001.wav|The younger said, "I would not for a moment take away Sister Anne's chance of marrying such a wealthy man," while Sister Anne declared that, although the elder, she would much prefer to give way to her sister.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000023_000004.wav|For the key was enchanted.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000010_000001.wav|Hunting and fishing expeditions, picnics and balls went on from morning till night, and all the night through, so that there was not time even to think of sleep, only feasting and pleasure the whole week long.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000034_000000.wav|"Sister Anne, Sister Anne, look from the tower window.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000007_000000.wav|Now, not far from Bluebeard's house there dwelt a widow with two very lovely daughters, and one of these Bluebeard wished to marry, but which he did not mind, they might settle that between themselves.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000029_000001.wav|You shall die!!!"|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000018_000000.wav|As soon as mrs Bluebeard's friends and relations knew that her husband was away, they came flocking to visit her, for they longed to see all her splendid possessions, but had feared to come before.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000004_000000.wav|In the long ago times, in a splendid house, surrounded by fine gardens and a park, there lived a man who had riches in abundance, and everything to make him popular except one, and that was his beard, for his beard was neither black as a raven's wing, golden as the sunlight, nor just an ordinary every day colour, but it was blue, bright blue.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000026_000001.wav|Bluebeard noticed this directly and sent her to fetch it.|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000016_000001.wav|In fact, should you open that door, or even put this key into the lock, I should be dreadfully angry, indeed I should make you suffer for it in a terrible way."|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7867/110528/7867_110528_000003_000000.wav|BLUEBEARD|7867
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000007_000000.wav|"Then I will show you how," said Patricia, quickly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000018_000000.wav|"I have left him five thousand," said the woman.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000005_000000.wav|"Don't ask me to do that, aunt," replied the girl, firmly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000004.wav|Always I would think that if you had not been hard and miserly this same money would have saved my mother's life.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000054_000000.wav|"Tell him to draw up the paper right away, aunt!" begged Patricia, with sparkling eyes.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000064_000001.wav|"I promise it."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000064_000000.wav|"They shall be, aunt!" she cried.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000002_000000.wav|Aunt Jane had a bad night, as might have been expected after her trials of the previous day.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000039_000000.wav|"Not legally," returned the lawyer.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000008.wav|But don't you dare to will your selfish hoard to me."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000037_000002.wav|So, her natural cunning and determination to have her own way enhanced by her illness, the woman decided to deceive Patricia and enjoy her few remaining days in peace.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000056_000000.wav|"And, aunt, can't you spare a little more to Louise and Beth?|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000030_000000.wav|"Then I won't talk to you.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000046_000000.wav|Patricia thanked her aunt with eager words, and said, as indeed she felt, that she could almost love Aunt Jane for her final, if dilatory, act of justice.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000021_000000.wav|"The boy is nothing to me," she said.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000011_000002.wav|Don't you know what that is?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000048_000001.wav|Let him get the paper ready at once."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000002.wav|But not with your money, Aunt Jane.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000033_000001.wav|Always the girl pleaded for Kenneth to inherit, and declared she would not accept the money and Elmhurst; and always Aunt Jane stubbornly refused to consider the boy and tried to tempt the girl with pictures of the luxury and pleasure that riches would bring her.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000007_000001.wav|"You mustn't think me impertinent, aunt, for I don't mean to be so at all.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000013_000001.wav|"mr Bradley left you this property because he loved you, and love blinded him to all sense of justice. Such an estate should not have passed into the hands of aliens because of a lover's whim.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000045_000000.wav|"I mean exactly what I say, and now let us cease all bickerings, my dear, and my few remaining days will be peaceful and happy."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000035_000001.wav|With Patsy out of the field it was quite possible the estate would be divided between her cousins, or even go entire to one or the other of them; and this hope constantly buoyed their spirits and filled their days with interest as they watched the fight between their aunt and their cousin.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000011_000000.wav|"But that is quite wrong, aunt, and if you desire me to inherit your wealth you will be disappointed.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000058_000000.wav|"Can it all be ready to sign tonight?" asked Patsy, excitedly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000006_000000.wav|"I have made mistakes, I know," continued the woman feebly; "but I want to do the right thing, at last."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000062_000002.wav|All that I desire is to have my remaining days peaceful."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000019_000000.wav|"Not enough to educate him properly," replied Patsy, with a shake of her head.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000007.wav|Keep it or throw it to the dogs, if you won't give it to the boy it belongs to.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000006.wav|I loathe your money.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000020_000000.wav|Aunt Jane coughed, unsympathetically.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000036_000000.wav|Patricia never told them she was pleading so hard for the boy.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000010_000002.wav|I mean to leave my property according to my personal desire, and no one shall hinder me."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000012_000000.wav|"Perhaps you will tell me," said Aunt Jane, curiously.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000007_000002.wav|But tell me; why did you wish to leave me your money?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000059_000000.wav|"I'll try, my dear," replied the old lawyer, gravely.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000043_000000.wav|Patricia could scarcely believe her ears.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000033_000000.wav|This interview was but the beginning of a series that lasted during the next fortnight, during which time the invalid persisted in sending for Patricia and fighting the same fight over and over again.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000005_000001.wav|"My mind is fully made up."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000049_000000.wav|"There is no reason for haste," said Aunt Jane, meeting; the lawyer's questioning gaze with some embarrassment.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000022_000000.wav|"But he ought to have Elmhurst, at least," pleaded the girl.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000038_000001.wav|Can she refuse it?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000005.wav|No!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000053_000000.wav|The lawyer regarded her with amazement.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000008_000000.wav|"Because your nature is quite like my own, child, and I admire your independence and spirit."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000001_000000.wav|DUPLICITY.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000026_000001.wav|Also I'd like to go to a girl's college, like Smith or Wellesley, and get a proper education.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000047_000000.wav|mr Watson chanced to enter the room at that moment, and the girl cried out:|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000029_000000.wav|"no".|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000044_000000.wav|"Do you really mean it, aunt?" she asked, flushing red with pleasure.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000061_000000.wav|Patsy's heart suddenly sank.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000055_000000.wav|"As soon as you can, Silas," said the invalid.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER nineteen.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000059_000001.wav|Then he turned to Jane Merrick.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000051_000001.wav|So she answered his questioning look by saying:|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000041_000000.wav|Therefore, the very next time that the girl pleaded with her to make Kenneth her heir, she said, with a clever assumption of resignation:|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000034_000000.wav|The interviews were generally short and spirited, however, and during the intervals Patsy associated more than ever with her cousins, both of whom grew really fond of her.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000009_000000.wav|"But my cousins are much more deserving," said she, thoughtfully. "Louise is very sweet and amiable, and loves you more than I do, while Beth is the most sensible and practical girl I have ever known."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000027_000000.wav|"Let us change the subject, Patricia."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000016_000000.wav|"I won't," said Aunt Jane, angrily.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000028_000000.wav|"Will you change your will?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000051_000000.wav|Her recent questionings had prepared him for some act of duplicity, but he had by no means understood her present object, nor did she mean that he should.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000031_000000.wav|With these words she marched out of the room, her cheeks flaming, and Aunt Jane looked after her with admiring eyes.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000039_000001.wav|"It would remain in her name, but under my control, during her minority.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000015_000001.wav|"It would please me beyond measure to have you make your will in his favor, and you would be doing the right thing at last."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000050_000000.wav|Silas Watson was an honorable and upright man, and his client's frequent doubtful methods had in past years met his severe censure. Yet he had once promised his dead friend, Tom Bradley, that he would serve Jane Merrick faithfully.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000013_000002.wav|He should have considered his own flesh and blood."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000017_000000.wav|"It would also be considerate and just to the memory of mr Bradley," continued the girl.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000062_000000.wav|"Yes," was the reply.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000014_000002.wav|I have done so.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000038_000000.wav|"Suppose," she said to mr Watson, "my present will stands, and after my death the estate becomes the property of Patricia.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000053_000001.wav|Then his brow darkened, for he thought she was playing with the girl, and was not sincere.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000057_000000.wav|"Double the amount I had allowed to each of them," the woman commanded her lawyer.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000040_000000.wav|"By that time she will have gained more sense," declared Aunt Jane, much pleased with this aspect of the case, "and it isn't reasonable that having enjoyed a fortune for a time any girl would throw it away. I'll stick to my point, Silas, but I'll try to make Patricia believe she has won me over."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000024_000001.wav|"As a matter of justice, the place should never have been yours, and I won't accept a dollar of the money if I starve to death!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000023_000000.wav|"no"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000048_000000.wav|"Tell him, aunt!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000037_000000.wav|Aunt Jane was really worn out with the constant squabbling with her favorite niece.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000032_000000.wav|"She's right," she whispered to herself.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000010_000001.wav|I told you yesterday I should not try to be just.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000037_000001.wav|She had taken a turn for the worse, too, and began to decline rapidly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000013_000000.wav|"With pleasure," returned Patsy.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000056_000001.wav|It would make them so happy."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000062_000001.wav|"I am tired of opposing this child's wishes. What do I care what becomes of my money, when I am gone?|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000003_000000.wav|She sent for Patricia early in the forenoon, and when the girl arrived she was almost shocked by the change in her aunt's appearance.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/186232/2573_186232_000030_000001.wav|I'm angry and hurt, and if I stay here I'll say things I shall be sorry for."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000064_000004.wav|You see I'm a friend, or I couldn't do it.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000020_000003.wav|To morrow I'll be a day laborer."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000037_000002.wav|He's not kind.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000009_000001.wav|"Seems to me like I forgot to bring it home with me.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000025_000001.wav|I want to know."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000009_000003.wav|"What DID I do with it, now?|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000038_000002.wav|Read the Poet with a Punch!' no|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000066_000000.wav|"If I mean THAT much to you," she cried, "they can't harm you!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000070_000004.wav|"But all day long I'll send my thoughts to you.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000013_000001.wav|He spoke lightly, not sadly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000071_000001.wav|But all he could say was, huskily, "To think you're there-with me-standing beside the old zinc eater-"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000052_000002.wav|I-"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000005_000001.wav|"Did you ever see anybody improve the way that child has!" she exclaimed.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000055_000001.wav|She did not speak, but a soft rustling of her garments let him know that she had gone back to her chair again.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000065_000000.wav|And now Bibbs looked up.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000007_000001.wav|"I reckon if people lose things in this house and expect to get 'em back, they better get up as soon as I do."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000020_000001.wav|"This has been just the last flicker of revolt.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000039_000000.wav|"You could!" she said.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000029_000000.wav|He had kept his voice cheerful as he spoke, but he had grown a shade paler, and there was a latent anguish deep in his eyes.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000056_000001.wav|"If you think it has been-happy-to be friends with me-you'd want to-to make it last."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000024_000001.wav|They couldn't give me a heavier job because I wasn't good enough."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000022_000000.wav|"I get up at six," he said.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000021_000000.wav|"What is it like-exactly?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000054_000002.wav|Saying things is a new trick for me, and this-well, it's just this: I used to feel as if I hadn't ever had any sort of a life at all.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000035_000004.wav|I was a treat to the other workmen in that room; they'll be glad to see me back.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000064_000002.wav|There!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000005_000002.wav|"I declare, Bibbs, sometimes lately you look right handsome!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000017_000001.wav|I'm sure of it.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000047_000001.wav|"You're such an honest person, it's pleasant to have you gallant sometimes, by way of variety." She became grave again immediately.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000016_000000.wav|"You think my father's KIND?" And Bibbs stared at her.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000036_000001.wav|She was staring at the wall, and her eyes had a burning brightness in them.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000014_000001.wav|I've shirked and put off, but I can't shirk and put off any longer.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000028_000000.wav|Bibbs explained.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000037_000003.wav|He ought to be proud to help you to the leisure to write books; it should be his greatest privilege to have them published for you-"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000054_000004.wav|But now it's different-I'm still of no use to anybody, and I don't see any prospect of being useful, but I have had something for myself.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000022_000001.wav|"I have a lunch basket to carry with me, which is aristocratic and no advantage.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000003_000000.wav|Presently, however, he spoke effectively.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000015_000002.wav|He's too kind."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000053_000000.wav|"Go on.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000060_000000.wav|"But you make that kind of speech to me because you think it's over."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000068_000000.wav|"Every evening, dear Bibbs!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000014_000003.wav|He means what he says, and the time's come to serve my sentence. Hard labor for life, I think."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000065_000001.wav|She stood before him, straight and tall, splendid in generous strength, her eyes shining and wet.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000064_000000.wav|"Yes, you do think that!" She rose to her feet again and came and stood before him.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000052_000001.wav|"I want to say it, but-but I come to a dead balk when I try.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000047_000000.wav|"Ah, that's very pretty!" she laughed.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000044_000000.wav|Bibbs was dazzled; he drew a long, deep breath and did not speak.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000027_000000.wav|"But what is it?" she insisted.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000025_000000.wav|"But what will you do?|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000019_000001.wav|"It's going to be pretty hard for you, isn't it?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000035_000001.wav|"The others don't mind.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000003_000005.wav|Midas looks to me like he had the advantage there."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000053_000002.wav|"You wouldn't know how to say anything I shouldn't like."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000057_000000.wav|"Yes," said Bibbs, as faintly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000059_000000.wav|"Yes," he gulped.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000004_000000.wav|Bibbs retained enough presence of mind to transfer the capon breast to his plate without dropping it and to respond, "Yes-he crows over it."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000019_000000.wav|She looked at him gravely, earnest concern in her friendly eyes.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000037_000000.wav|"It doesn't seem possible any one could do that to you," she said, in a low voice.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000066_000001.wav|Go back to the shop-but come to me when your day's work is done.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000006_000000.wav|"He's got to be such a gadabout," Edith giggled.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000063_000000.wav|"No, no!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000061_000000.wav|He tried to evade her.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000009_000002.wav|I looked it over-thought probably it was something pretty important, belongin' to a busy man like him." He affected to search his pockets.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000070_000005.wav|You must keep remembering that your friend stands beside you.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000014_000002.wav|It's really my part to go to him-at least it would save my face.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000054_000001.wav|"You see, all my life-until I met you-if I ever felt like saying anything, I wrote it instead.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000049_000000.wav|"And the other time you did it-"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000069_000000.wav|He could only stare, bewildered.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000035_000003.wav|I have an idiotic way of flinching from the confounded thing-I flinch and duck a little every time the crash comes, and I couldn't get over it.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000003_000003.wav|"Midas can eat rooster, but rooster can't eat Midas.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000024_000000.wav|"It wasn't muscularly exhausting-not at all.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000040_000000.wav|"That's because you've never seen the poor little things I've tried to do."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000058_000000.wav|"You'd want to go on being my friend as long as we live, wouldn't you?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000011_000000.wav|Sheridan gave him a grin.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000070_000001.wav|I want you.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000071_000000.wav|Light seemed to glow from her; he was blinded by that radiance of kindness.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000043_000002.wav|Wouldn't you rather call me 'Mary'?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000062_000000.wav|"No," she interrupted, with a sudden sharpness.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000028_000002.wav|I feed long strips of zinc into a pair of steel jaws, and the jaws bite the zinc into little circles.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000054_000006.wav|That's all; it's your letting me be near you sometimes, as you have, this strange, beautiful, happy little while!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000070_000006.wav|And when the work is done-won't the night make up for the day?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000029_000001.wav|He may have known it and wished her not to see it, for he turned away.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000032_000000.wav|"How often is that?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000038_000004.wav|I've never written anything worth printing, and I never shall."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000014_000000.wav|"Yes, it's come.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000030_000003.wav|She broke off, and then, after a keen glance at his face, she said: "I should think you WOULD have been a 'bad hand at it'!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000054_000000.wav|"I doubt if you'd either like or dislike what I want to say," he returned, moving uncomfortably in his chair and looking at his feet-he seemed to feel awkward, thoroughly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000031_000001.wav|"I think it's the noise, though I'm ashamed to say it.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000018_000001.wav|"If that's what you mean by 'kind'!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER nineteen|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000022_000003.wav|I leave the house at six thirty, and I'm at work in my overalls at seven.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000043_000000.wav|She gave him a flashing glance, and it was as kind as he said she was. "That sounds wrong," she said, impulsively.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000038_000001.wav|"If he could understand what you're saying-and if you can imagine his taking such a notion, he'd have had r t Bloss put up posters all over the country: 'Read b Sheridan.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000022_000002.wav|The other workmen have tin buckets, and tin buckets are better.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000009_000004.wav|Oh yes!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000034_000000.wav|"And you're close to it?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000070_000003.wav|"If I could, I'd go and feed the strips of zinc to the machine with you," she said.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000038_000000.wav|"Can't you SEE him?" Bibbs interrupted, a faint ripple of hilarity in his voice.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000003_000002.wav|"Here's another difference between Midas and chicken," Sheridan remarked, grimly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000033_000000.wav|"The thing should make about sixty eight disks a minute-a little more than one a second."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000008_000000.wav|"What was it he lost?" asked Edith.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000050_000000.wav|"Just over it," said Bibbs.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000017_000003.wav|It's only that he has to be kind in his own way-because he can't understand any other way."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000035_000000.wav|"Oh, the workman has to sit in its lap," he said, turning to her more gaily.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000061_000001.wav|"Oh, a day laborer can't come in his overalls-"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000007_000000.wav|"I found something of his on the floor up stairs this morning, before anybody was up," said Sheridan.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000064_000005.wav|Well, if you meant what you said-and you did mean it, I know it!--you're not going to go back to the sanitarium. The shop sha'n't hurt you.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000067_000001.wav|"You say-" he gasped.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000038_000003.wav|It's just as well he never got the-But what's the use?|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000005_000000.wav|Having returned his antagonists's fire in this fashion, he blushed-for he could blush distinctly now-and his mother looked upon him with pleasure, thought the reference to Midas and roosters was of course jargon to her.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000037_000001.wav|"no|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000048_000000.wav|He nodded.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000072_000000.wav|And they laughed and looked at each other, and at last Bibbs found what it meant not to be alone in the world.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000053_000001.wav|Say it, whatever it is," she bade him.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000028_000001.wav|"It's very simple and very easy.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000023_000000.wav|"But the work itself?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000041_000000.wav|"You wouldn't let me, but I KNOW you could!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000050_000001.wav|"Two years.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000056_000000.wav|And yet, when Mary spoke at last, her voice was barely audible.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000042_000000.wav|"It isn't," said BIBBS, honestly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000015_000000.wav|Mary shook her head.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000011_000001.wav|"Perhaps pretty soon you'll be gettin' up early enough to find things before I do!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000015_000001.wav|"I don't think so.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000031_000000.wav|He laughed ruefully.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000047_000003.wav|It sounds like laughter on the eve of a great calamity." She got up restlessly, crossed the room and leaned against the wall, facing him.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000047_000002.wav|"I hear myself laughing as if it were some one else.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000064_000001.wav|"Or you think it's going to send you back to the sanitarium. Don't deny it, Bibbs.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178449/2573_178449_000047_000004.wav|"You've GOT to go back to that place?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000034_000000.wav|"Better do it," Roscoe assented, sullenly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000020_000002.wav|THEN what could I depend on to hold things together?|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000021_000004.wav|I don't believe he's even had a cold in five years.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000043_000000.wav|"No!" Sheridan cried.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000046_000000.wav|"See here!" said Sheridan.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000024_000000.wav|"Oh, do stop worryin' over such nonsense," mrs Sheridan interrupted, irritated into sharp wakefulness for the moment.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000045_000000.wav|"You can't straighten me out."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000010_000001.wav|"Why'n't you go to bed?|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000031_000000.wav|Roscoe sat|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000032_000002.wav|What about it?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000000.wav|He strode up and down the long room, gesticulating-little regarding the troubled and drowsy figure by the fireside.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000017.wav|They run like bugs on the bottom of a board-after any piece o' money they hear is loose.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000000.wav|The desolate and grim old man did not relax.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000011_000001.wav|"What's the matter?" she asked, sleep and anxiety striving sluggishly with each other in her voice.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000021_000002.wav|He's the strongest child we had.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000047_000001.wav|"I'm not drinking because I've got a thirst."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000010.wav|He didn't LIKE it!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000005.wav|And I ain't a goin' to tell him, either!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000051_000000.wav|Roscoe paused at the door.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000001_000003.wav|"When do I go back to the shop?|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000008.wav|Think you can get up in time?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000004.wav|Well, you got to it before I did-pretty close to the eleventh hour!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000021_000003.wav|I never did know anybody keep better health than he does.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000002.wav|I've seen too many estates hacked away in chunks, big and little.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000002.wav|I reckon it's about time! I just wanted to see if you'd have manhood enough not to make me take you over there by the collar.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000027_000001.wav|I will to morrow."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000001_000002.wav|"I'm cured, father," he said.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000001_000004.wav|I'm ready."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000050_000006.wav|You better be sure, because I'm going to send Abercrombie down to your office every little while, and he'll let me know."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000032_000000.wav|"Yes," said Roscoe.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000051_000001.wav|"You told Abercrombie about it?" he asked.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000008_000000.wav|"G'night!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000035_000000.wav|"When'd you begin this thing?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000025_000002.wav|"Let's go up." And he snapped off the electric light, leaving only the rosy glow of the fire.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000000.wav|Sheridan began cutting.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000015.wav|There's an awful ruction goin' on, and you got to keep hoppin' if you're goin' to keep your balance on the top of it.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000002.wav|I've had Ray Wills up from your office.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000012_000000.wav|"Nothin'."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000003_000000.wav|"Six o'clock," Bibbs responded, briskly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000010_000000.wav|"Papa!" she exclaimed, drowsily.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000001.wav|His throat rumbled thunderously; the words came with stormy bitterness.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000026_000000.wav|"Did you speak to Roscoe?" she yawned, rising lopsidedly in her drowsiness.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000047_000000.wav|"You needn't worry about that," said Roscoe, looking up with a faint resentment.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000028_000001.wav|He waited.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000025_000000.wav|Sheridan halted.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000020_000004.wav|A lummix that hasn't learned how to push a strip o' zinc along a groove!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000021_000005.wav|You better go up to bed, papa."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000050_000002.wav|You bring your wife to dinner to morrow.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000001.wav|You don't know what it means, keepin' property together these days-just keepin' it ALIVE, let alone makin' it grow the way I do.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000049_000002.wav|Nothing, I tell you."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000003.wav|Last night I made up my mind I'd give you just one more day.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000005.wav|You been leavin' your office for drinks every few hours for the last three weeks.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000042_000001.wav|"I can't stand very much talk about it, father," he said, pleadingly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000012.wav|This country's been fillin' up with it from all over the world for a good many years, and the old camp meetin' days are dead and done with.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000004_000000.wav|"That's YOUR lookout!" his father grunted.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000044_000000.wav|Roscoe shook his head helplessly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000007.wav|Your office is way behind.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000008.wav|You haven't done any work, to count, in a month."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000002.wav|"He'll go back to the machine he couldn't learn to tend properly in the six months he was there, and he'll stick to it till he DOES learn it!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000031_000001.wav|His father walked close to him, sniffed suspiciously, and then walked away, smiling bitterly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000020_000003.wav|A lummix!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000009.wav|I tell you this business life is no fool's job nowadays-a man's got to have eyes in the back of his head.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000000.wav|"Until he KNOWS something!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000004.wav|The sluggard is despoiled while he sleeps-yes, by George! if a man lays down they'll eat him before he wakes!--but the live man can build straight up till he touches the sky!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000009_000001.wav|But presently, as Sheridan sat staring angrily at the fire, the shuffling of a pair of slippers could be heard descending, and mrs Sheridan made her appearance, her oblique expression and the state of her toilette being those of a person who, after trying unsuccessfully to sleep on one side, has got up to look for burglars.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000001_000001.wav|Bibbs went in and stood before him.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000001.wav|"I was sittin' up to give you a last chance to say something like that.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000013.wav|Church ain't what it used to be.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000020_000001.wav|"THEN what'd I have to look forward to?|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000029_000000.wav|"They told me down stairs you'd left word you wanted to see me."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000033_000000.wav|"I reckon I better adopt some decent young man," his father returned. "I'd bring Bibbs up here and put him in your place if he was fit.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000036_000000.wav|"I always did drink a little.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000008.wav|And that's what my son Bibbs has been doin' all his life, and what he'd rather do now than go out and do his part by me.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000012.wav|I don't know what it is, but it's got to be worked out of him.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000040_000000.wav|"All right," said Roscoe, drooping under the torture.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000015_000000.wav|"Just the same as he did before?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000002_000005.wav|All right.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000004.wav|No!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000005_000002.wav|I meant-"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000008.wav|I sent him there to make him THOROUGH.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000050_000003.wav|You didn't come last Sunday-but you come to morrow.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000007_000001.wav|Good night, father."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000009.wav|And if anything happens to Roscoe-"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000040_000001.wav|"It's all true."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000003.wav|He didn't want to give you away, but I put the hooks into him, and he came through.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000025_000001.wav|"All right, mamma," he said, with a vast sigh.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000007_000000.wav|"I just wanted you to know.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000005_000001.wav|"That reminds me, I didn't mean YOU by 'Midas' in that nonsense I'd been writing.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000039_000004.wav|You were drunk twice before and couldn't work.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000020_000000.wav|"Suppose something happened to Roscoe," he said.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000023_000005.wav|This is the business man's day; it used to be the soldier's day and the statesman's day, but this is OURS!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000009_000000.wav|The sound of the young man's footsteps ascending the stairs became inaudible, and the house was quiet.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000030_000000.wav|"Sit down," said Sheridan, rising.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000036_000001.wav|Ever since I grew up, that is."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000038_000000.wav|"Well, I don't know as I ever had too much in office hours-until the other day."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000021_000001.wav|"You needn't worry about Roscoe, papa.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000033_000001.wav|I would!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000011_000003.wav|You got something new on your mind besides Jim's bein' taken away like he was.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000024_000002.wav|Aren't you EVER goin' to bed?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000031_000003.wav|"Still at it!"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000011_000004.wav|What's worryin' you now, papa?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000019_000000.wav|"I knew there was something else," said mrs Sheridan, blinking over a yawn.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000019.wav|You got to FIGHT to keep your money after you've made it.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000015.wav|That's what he did, and the balk's lasted close on to three years.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000004_000002.wav|You get nine dollars a week."|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000050_000000.wav|"We'll see about that!" said Sheridan, harshly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000049_000000.wav|"Nothing.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000052_000000.wav|"TOLD him!" And Sheridan laughed hideously.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000005.wav|I've seen a big fortune behave like an ash barrel in a cyclone-there wasn't even a dust heap left to tell where it stood!|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000042_000000.wav|Roscoe's head was sunk between his shoulders.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000003.wav|Do you suppose that lummix ever asked himself WHY I want him to learn it?|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000018_000013.wav|Now, labor ain't any more a simple question than what it was when we were young.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000049_000001.wav|Nothing you can do anything about.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000013_000000.wav|She jeered feebly.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000022_000004.wav|Carried off?|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000004_000001.wav|"They'll put you back on the clippin'-machine.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000028_000002.wav|Then, on the fourth day of the month, Roscoe walked into his father's office at nine in the morning, when Sheridan happened to be alone.|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2573/178450/2573_178450_000048_000000.wav|"Well, what have you got?"|2573
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000015_000000.wav|When they had come to within a short; distance of Lazarus's house, he said to the Draken: 'Stop here, in the meantime, for I must go on in front and tie up my children, lest they eat you.'|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000008_000001.wav|I will bring the entire spring home at once, and so we shall be freed from this burden.'|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000014_000000.wav|Thereupon Lazarus took the log, threw it away, and laid himself down in its stead.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000005_000002.wav|Then he went and ordered a sword to be made for him, on which he had written these words: 'With one blow I have slain forty.' When the sword was ready he took it and went out into the world, and when he was two days' journey from home he came to a spring, by which he laid himself down and slept.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000005_000001.wav|One day, as he ate some while he sat at work, the flies collected in such numbers that with one blow he killed forty.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000005_000000.wav|Once upon a time there was a cobbler called Lazarus, who was very fond of honey.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000012_000002.wav|In the night the Draken came, and each one hit the log a blow with his hatchet, till it flew in pieces.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000016_000000.wav|So he went and tied his children with strong ropes, and said to them: 'As soon as the Draken comes in sight, call out as loud as you can, "Drakenflesh!|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000014_000003.wav|He agreed willingly to this, but asked further that one of the Draken should go with him to carry the bag of gold.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000013_000000.wav|Then they believed their object was gained, and they lay down again.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000010_000002.wav|Because Lazarus could not imitate them in this, he went to the forest, tied all the trees together with a thick rope, and remained in the forest till evening.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000008_000000.wav|As Lazarus remained so long away, the Draken sent one of their number to see what had become of him, and when this one came to the spring, Lazarus said to him: 'We will no more plague ourselves by carrying water every day.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000017_000000.wav|So, when the Draken appeared, the children cried out: 'Drakenflesh! Drakenflesh!' and this so terrified the Draken that he let the bag fall and fled.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000007_000001.wav|After some days they told him that it was their custom to take it in turns to bring wood and water, and as he was now of their company, he must take his turn.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000018_000001.wav|But the fox laughed, and said: 'What! you were afraid of the children of Herr Lazarus?|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000012_000000.wav|When they had lived together some time, the Draken became weary of Lazarus, and agreed among themselves to kill him; each Draken, in the night while Lazarus slept, should strike him a blow with a hatchet.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000007_000004.wav|This Lazarus could only, with great difficulty, drag empty to the spring, and because he could not carry it back full, he did not fill it at all, but, instead, he dug up the ground all round the spring.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000014_000004.wav|They consented, and one was sent with him.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000019_000000.wav|The Draken then tied himself on to the fox's tail, and went back thus with it to Lazarus's house, in order to see what it would arrange.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000010_000000.wav|Next it comes to be Lazarus's turn to bring the wood.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000010_000001.wav|Now the Draken, when they fetched the wood, always took an entire tree on their shoulder, and so carried it home.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000012_000001.wav|But Lazarus heard of this scheme, and when the evening came, he took a log of wood, covered it with his cloak, laid it in the place where he usually slept, and then hid himself.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000007_000000.wav|Lazarus answered that he was willing, and after a priest had blessed the fellowship, they returned together to the other Draken, and Lazarus dwelt among them.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000006_000000.wav|Now in that country there dwelt Draken, one of whom came to the spring to draw water; there he found Lazarus sleeping, and read what was written on his sword.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000004_000000.wav|Herr Lazarus and the Draken|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41919/5583_41919_000006_000001.wav|Then he went back to his people and told them what he had seen, and they all advised him to make fellowship with this powerful stranger.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000008_000001.wav|Tell us I intreat you what is become of him?" "Yes, cold and insensible Nymph, (replied I) that luckless swain your Brother, is no more, and you may now glory in being the Heiress of Sir Edward's fortune."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000000.wav|At length, returning Day enabled me to behold the unprincipled Scoundrel who had so violently disturbed my feelings.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000001_000005.wav|I was most seriously alarmed by her illness which trifling as it may appear to you, a certain instinctive sensibility whispered me, would in the End be fatal to her.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000004.wav|Great as was my astonishment, it was yet increased, when on looking out of Windows, I beheld the Husband of Philippa, with Philippa by his side, on the Coachbox and when on looking behind I beheld, Philander and Gustavus in the Basket.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000011.wav|Beware of swoons Dear Laura....|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000014_000007.wav|Having thus arranged our Expences for two months (for we expected to make the nine Hundred Pounds last as long) we hastened to London and had the good luck to spend it in seven weeks and a Day which was six Days sooner than we had intended.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000010.wav|One fatal swoon has cost me my Life..|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000012.wav|A frenzy fit is not one quarter so pernicious; it is an exercise to the Body and if not too violent, is I dare say conducive to Health in its consequences-Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint-"|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000006.wav|Beware of fainting fits...|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000014_000012.wav|I did the THREE WITCHES and Philander acted ALL THE REST.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000002.wav|Her disorder turned to a galloping Consumption and in a few days carried her off.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000004_000000.wav|After having attended my lamented freind to her Early Grave, I immediately (tho' late at night) left the detested Village in which she died, and near which had expired my Husband and Augustus.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000018_000000.wav|I took up my Residence in a Romantic Village in the Highlands of Scotland where I have ever since continued, and where I can uninterrupted by unmeaning Visits, indulge in a melancholy solitude, my unceasing lamentations for the Death of my Father, my Mother, my Husband and my Freind.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000001_000003.wav|The morning after our arrival at the Cottage, Sophia complained of a violent pain in her delicate limbs, accompanied with a disagreable Head ake She attributed it to a cold caught by her continued faintings in the open air as the Dew was falling the Evening before.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000006_000002.wav|There is no crime too black for such a Character!" Thus reasoned I within myself, and doubtless such were the reflections of my fellow travellers.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000008.wav|My fate will teach you this..|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000000.wav|Alas! my fears were but too fully justified; she grew gradually worse-and I daily became more alarmed for her.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000022_000001.wav|Laura.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000005.wav|"Oh!|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000007.wav|"Oh! my Isabel (continued I throwing myself across Lady Dorothea into her arms) receive once more to your Bosom the unfortunate Laura.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000023_000000.wav|Finis|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000006.wav|Heavens, (exclaimed I) is it possible that I should so unexpectedly be surrounded by my nearest Relations and Connections?" These words roused the rest of the Party, and every eye was directed to the corner in which I sat|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000001.wav|It was Sir Edward the father of my Deceased Husband.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000014_000016.wav|You know how well it succeeded-.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000006_000001.wav|He must I am certain be capable of every bad action!|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000012_000000.wav|LETTER the fifteenth LAURA in continuation.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000000_000000.wav|LETTER the fourteenth LAURA in continuation|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000014_000002.wav|This is however of little consequence for as our Mothers were certainly never married to either of them it reflects no Dishonour on our Blood, which is of a most ancient and unpolluted kind.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000002_000004.wav|I had wept over her every Day-had bathed her sweet face with my tears and had pressed her fair Hands continually in mine-.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000022_000000.wav|Philippa has long paid the Debt of Nature, Her Husband however still continues to drive the Stage Coach from Edinburgh to Sterling:--Adeiu my Dearest Marianne.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000017_000001.wav|I graciously promised that I would, but could not help observing that the unsimpathetic Baronet offered it more on account of my being the Widow of Edward than in being the refined and amiable Laura.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000014_000011.wav|The Manager always played BANQUO himself, his Wife my LADY MACBETH.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000005_000000.wav|It was so dark when I entered the Coach that I could not distinguish the Number of my Fellow travellers; I could only perceive that they were many.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/41259/5583_41259_000007_000002.wav|By his side sate Augusta, and on the same seat with me were your Mother and Lady Dorothea.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000019_000000.wav|But the lad begged and prayed for himself again, and so this time too he got off with stripes; though he got as many as his skin would carry.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000048_000001.wav|Then he went up to the king's palace and begged first for leave to be in the kitchen, and bring in wood and water for the cook, but then the kitchen maid asked him:|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000026_000002.wav|So when he had taken his bath, he became so handsome and sleek, and as red and white as milk and blood, and much stronger than he had been before.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000084_000001.wav|So just take the sword, and cut my head off."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000069_000003.wav|So he got that, and an old broken down hack besides, which went upon three legs, and dragged the fourth after it.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000082_000000.wav|Then he took the pot of ointment and rubbed himself on the leg, and after that he rubbed all the wounded, and so they all got well again in a moment.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000049_000000.wav|"Why do you wear that ugly wig?|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000079_000000.wav|And then they rode on, and laughed at him till they were fit to fall from their horses.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000015_000002.wav|In this room, too, he saw nothing but a shelf over the door, and a big stone, and a pitcher of water on it.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000051_000001.wav|"Away with you to the coachman; you're best fit to go and clean the stable."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000003_000000.wav|"Well, you'll have a good place with me," said the man; "for you'll only have to keep me company, and do nothing at all else beside."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000065_000001.wav|After that he lay down again, and began to snore.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000079_000002.wav|This day he slew the enemy's king, and then the war was over at once.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000064_000000.wav|"Go gently, and just pull his wig off;" and she went up to him.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000039_000000.wav|"Yes, ever so many," said the lad, "as many as would fill a large church."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000079_000001.wav|When they were gone, he ran again to the lime, and came up to the battle just in the very nick of time.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000071_000001.wav|There he sat and dug his spurs in, and cried, "Gee up! gee up!" to his hack. And all the rest had their fun out of this, and laughed, and made game of the lad as they rode past him.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000071_000000.wav|Then they went out to meet the foe; but they hadn't got far from the palace before the lad got stuck fast in a bog with his hack.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000000_000000.wav|"Oh, I'm going out into the world to try and get a place," said the lad.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000033_000000.wav|"Yes; there are ever so many coming after us, at least a score," said the lad.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000014_000001.wav|And when it was over, they were as good friends as ever.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000054_000001.wav|It stood upon beams, and had a high staircase.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000054_000002.wav|Under that he got some turf for his bed, and there he lay as well as he could.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000072_000002.wav|When they went back, there sat the lad still in the bog, and dug his spurs into his three legged hack, and they all laughed again.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000024_000000.wav|"Since you are so good at heart as to let me have some food, I'll set you free, that I will.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000056_000001.wav|Then she asked the gardener why he lay out there under the steps.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000021_000001.wav|So the lad scraped and scrubbed it, but the gilding wouldn't go off, so he bound a piece of rag round it; and when the man came back, and asked what was the matter with his finger, the lad said he'd given it such a bad cut.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000044_000001.wav|So it became a great deep lake; and because of that one drop, the horse found himself far out in it, but still he swam safe to land.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000050_000000.wav|"No, I can't do that," said the lad; "for I'm not quite right in my head."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000075_000000.wav|So when they went home at night, and saw the lad still sitting there on his hack, they burst out laughing at him again, and one of them shot an arrow at him and hit him in the leg.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000053_000000.wav|"You'd best go down to the gardener," said he; "you're best fit to go about and dig in the garden."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000062_000000.wav|"Well, well," said the lad, "since it's her will, I suppose I must go."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000061_000000.wav|"Yes," said the gardener, "you've good reason to fear any such thing, you who are so handsome."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000020_000000.wav|So a while after the man was to take another journey, and now he said he should be away three weeks, and he forbade the lad anew to go into the third room, for if he went in there he might just make up his mind at once to lose his life.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000068_000001.wav|He didn't do that, however, but he threw him into the prison tower; and as for his daughter, he shut her up in her own room, whence she never got leave to stir day or night. All that she begged, and all that she prayed, for the lad and herself, was no good.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000077_000000.wav|"Gee up! gee up!" he said to his hack.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000065_000000.wav|But just as she was going to whisk it off, he caught hold of it with both hands, and said she should never have it.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000026_000001.wav|"If I do," thought the lad, "I shall look an awful fright;" but for all that, he did as he was told.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000019_000001.wav|But when he got sound and well again, he led just as easy a life as ever, and he and the man were just as good friends.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000057_000000.wav|"Oh," said the gardener, "none of his fellow servants will sleep with him; that's why."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000054_000000.wav|So he got leave to be with the gardener, but none of the other servants would sleep with him, and so he had to sleep by himself under the steps of the summer house.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000051_000000.wav|"Do you think then I'll have you in here about the food," cried the cook.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000016_000001.wav|No, the lad hadn't done anything of the kind.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000008_000000.wav|Well, indeed! thought the lad; a pretty thing to forbid my seeing this.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000030_000000.wav|Oh yes! he could do that, and as for the sword, he brandished it like a feather.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000081_000000.wav|"Here comes my own true love," she said.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000006_000000.wav|"Now, I'm going off for eight days, and that time you'll have to spend here all alone; but you must not go into any one of these four rooms here.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000047_000001.wav|Then make yourself a wig of fir moss, and go up to the king's palace, which lies close here, and ask for a place. Whenever you need me, only come here and shake the bridle, and I'll come to you."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000021_000000.wav|"Well, I should just like to know if it's hot," thought the lad, and struck his finger down into the broth, and when he pulled it out again, lo! it was gilded all over.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000074_000000.wav|The next day when they went out to battle, they saw the lad sitting there still, so they laughed again, and made game of him; but as soon as ever they had ridden by, the lad ran again to the lime tree, and all happened as on the first day.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000021_000002.wav|But the man tore off the rag, and then he soon saw what was the matter with the finger. First he wanted to kill the lad outright, but when he wept, and begged, he only gave him such a thrashing that he had to keep his bed three days.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000002_000000.wav|"Oh, yes; just as soon you as any one else," said the lad.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000004_000000.wav|So the lad stopped with him, and lived on the fat of the land, both in meat and drink, and had little or nothing to do; but he never saw a living soul in that man's house.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000025_000000.wav|So the lad did all that; but it was a heavy load for him to carry them all down at once.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000023_000000.wav|Well, the lad stood out for two or three weeks, but then he couldn't hold out any longer; he must and would go into that room, and so in he stole.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000023_000002.wav|Then the lad thought this all wrong, so he changed them about, and put the hay at his head.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000015_000003.wav|Well, after all, there's not much to be afraid of my seeing here, thought the lad.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000007_000001.wav|But when the man had been gone three or four days, the lad couldn't bear it any longer, but went into the first room, and when he got inside he looked round, but he saw nothing but a shelf over the door where a bramble bush rod lay.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000016_000000.wav|But when the man came back, he asked if he had been into any of the rooms.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000009_000000.wav|So when the eight days were out, the man came home, and the first thing he said was:|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000049_000002.wav|I won't have such a fright in here."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000037_000000.wav|So the lad did that, and all at once a close, thick bramblewood grew up behind them.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000020_000001.wav|Then after fourteen days the lad couldn't bear it, but crept into the room, but he saw nothing at all in there but a trap door on the floor; and when he lifted it up and looked down, there stood a great copper cauldron which bubbled up and boiled away down there; but he saw no fire under it.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000044_000000.wav|So the lad did that; but in spite of all the pains he took, he still spilt one drop on the horse's flank.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000006_000001.wav|If you do, I'll take your life when I come back."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000021_000003.wav|After that the man took down a pot from the wall, and rubbed him over with some stuff out of it, and so the lad was as sound and fresh as ever.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000060_000000.wav|"Do you think I'll do any such thing?" said the lad.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000001_000000.wav|"Will you come and serve me?" said the man.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000059_000000.wav|So the gardener told that to the lad.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000023_000001.wav|There stood a great black horse tied up in a stall by himself, with a manger of red hot coals at his head and a truss of hay at his tail.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000055_000000.wav|So, when he had been some time at the palace, it happened one morning, just as the sun rose, that the lad had taken off his wig, and stood and washed himself, and then he was so handsome, it was a joy to look at him.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000073_000000.wav|"No! only just look," they said; "there the fool sits still."|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5583/38026/5583_38026_000028_000000.wav|"Yes," said the lad.|5583
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000023_000002.wav|I am sure of having their opinions with me."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000030_000001.wav|I do not recommend matrimony at present to Emma, though I mean no slight to the state, I assure you."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000027_000004.wav|There is an anxiety, a curiosity in what one feels for Emma.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000006.wav|But on the other hand, as Emma wants to see her better informed, it will be an inducement to her to read more herself.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000003.wav|I hope, with all my heart, the young man may be a Weston in merit, and a Churchill in fortune.--But Harriet Smith-I have not half done about Harriet Smith.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000002.wav|Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000027_000003.wav|Isabella does not seem more my sister; has never excited a greater interest; perhaps hardly so great.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000012_000001.wav|There will be very little merit in making a good wife to such a man as mr Weston."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000024_000001.wav|Pray excuse me; but supposing any little inconvenience may be apprehended from the intimacy, it cannot be expected that Emma, accountable to nobody but her father, who perfectly approves the acquaintance, should put an end to it, so long as it is a source of pleasure to herself.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000019_000001.wav|But I am a partial old friend."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000001.wav|We were speaking of it only yesterday, and agreeing how fortunate it was for Emma, that there should be such a girl in Highbury for her to associate with.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000005.wav|She is not the superior young woman which Emma's friend ought to be.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000027_000000.wav|"Be satisfied," said he, "I will not raise any outcry.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000021_000000.wav|"I have not a fault to find with her person," he replied.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000029_000002.wav|It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a proper object.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000031_000001.wav|There were wishes at Randalls respecting Emma's destiny, but it was not desirable to have them suspected; and the quiet transition which mr Knightley soon afterwards made to "What does Weston think of the weather; shall we have rain?" convinced her that he had nothing more to say or surmise about Hartfield.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000005_000000.wav|"Perhaps you think I am come on purpose to quarrel with you, knowing Weston to be out, and that you must still fight your own battle."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000007.wav|How can Emma imagine she has any thing to learn herself, while Harriet is presenting such a delightful inferiority?|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000007.wav|She inherits her mother's talents, and must have been under subjection to her."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000025_000000.wav|"Not at all," cried he; "I am much obliged to you for it.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000010.wav|She will grow just refined enough to be uncomfortable with those among whom birth and circumstances have placed her home.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000002.wav|I do not pretend to Emma's genius for foretelling and guessing.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000012_000000.wav|"Thank you.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000004_000000.wav|"You surprize me!|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000004.wav|I can imagine your objection to Harriet Smith.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000004_000001.wav|Emma must do Harriet good: and by supplying her with a new object of interest, Harriet may be said to do Emma good.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000001.wav|I only name possibilities.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000009.wav|Hartfield will only put her out of conceit with all the other places she belongs to.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000013_000000.wav|"Why, to own the truth, I am afraid you are rather thrown away, and that with every disposition to bear, there will be nothing to be borne.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000001.wav|"But I," he soon added, "who have had no such charm thrown over my senses, must still see, hear, and remember.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000005.wav|She knows nothing herself, and looks upon Emma as knowing every thing.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000018_000000.wav|"Pretty! say beautiful rather.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000007_000003.wav|She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000021_000001.wav|"I think her all you describe.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000022_000000.wav|"And I, mr Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000000.wav|"mr Weston would undoubtedly support me, if he were here, for he thinks exactly as I do on the subject.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000004.wav|She was always quick and assured: Isabella slow and diffident.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000004.wav|I think her the very worst sort of companion that Emma could possibly have.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000021_000002.wav|I love to look at her; and I will add this praise, that I do not think her personally vain.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000023_000000.wav|"Very well; I will not plague you any more.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000003_000000.wav|"I think they will neither of them do the other any good."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000003.wav|You are so much used to live alone, that you do not know the value of a companion; and, perhaps no man can be a good judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex, after being used to it all her life.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000013_000001.wav|We will not despair, however.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000018_000001.wav|Can you imagine any thing nearer perfect beauty than Emma altogether-face and figure?"|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000007_000000.wav|"Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawing up at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through-and very good lists they were-very well chosen, and very neatly arranged-sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000017_000000.wav|"Oh! you would rather talk of her person than her mind, would you?|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000007_000001.wav|The list she drew up when only fourteen-I remember thinking it did her judgment so much credit, that I preserved it some time; and I dare say she may have made out a very good list now.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000023_000001.wav|Emma shall be an angel, and I will keep my spleen to myself till Christmas brings john and Isabella. john loves Emma with a reasonable and therefore not a blind affection, and Isabella always thinks as he does; except when he is not quite frightened enough about the children.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000001_000000.wav|"I do not know what your opinion may be, mrs Weston," said mr Knightley, "of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000005.wav|And ever since she was twelve, Emma has been mistress of the house and of you all.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000013_000002.wav|Weston may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his son may plague him."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000029_000004.wav|But there is nobody hereabouts to attach her; and she goes so seldom from home."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000002_000000.wav|"A bad thing!|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000029_000003.wav|I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of a return; it would do her good.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000017_000001.wav|Very well; I shall not attempt to deny Emma's being pretty."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000022_000002.wav|Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000020_000003.wav|mr Knightley, is not she?"|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000024_000002.wav|It has been so many years my province to give advice, that you cannot be surprized, mr Knightley, at this little remains of office."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000014_000001.wav|No, mr Knightley, do not foretell vexation from that quarter."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000029_000000.wav|"She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000000.wav|"Not I, indeed.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000019_000000.wav|"I do not know what I could imagine, but I confess that I have seldom seen a face or figure more pleasing to me than hers.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000016_000000.wav|"I either depend more upon Emma's good sense than you do, or am more anxious for her present comfort; for I cannot lament the acquaintance. How well she looked last night!"|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000011_000002.wav|But you were preparing yourself to be an excellent wife all the time you were at Hartfield.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000027_000005.wav|I wonder what will become of her!"|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000025_000001.wav|It is very good advice, and it shall have a better fate than your advice has often found; for it shall be attended to."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000021_000003.wav|Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied with it; her vanity lies another way.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000021_000004.wav|mrs Weston, I am not to be talked out of my dislike of Harriet Smith, or my dread of its doing them both harm."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000024_000000.wav|"I know that you all love her really too well to be unjust or unkind; but excuse me, mr Knightley, if I take the liberty (I consider myself, you know, as having somewhat of the privilege of speech that Emma's mother might have had) the liberty of hinting that I do not think any possible good can arise from Harriet Smith's intimacy being made a matter of much discussion among you.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000007_000004.wav|Where Miss Taylor failed to stimulate, I may safely affirm that Harriet Smith will do nothing.--You never could persuade her to read half so much as you wished.--You know you could not."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000015_000011.wav|I am much mistaken if Emma's doctrines give any strength of mind, or tend at all to make a girl adapt herself rationally to the varieties of her situation in life.--They only give a little polish."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000009_000003.wav|At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000004_000003.wav|How very differently we feel!--Not think they will do each other any good!|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000004_000002.wav|I have been seeing their intimacy with the greatest pleasure.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4733/209_4733_000006_000002.wav|mr Knightley, I shall not allow you to be a fair judge in this case.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000006_000002.wav|She wanted it to be prescribed, and felt as a duty.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000015_000001.wav|Mr Shepherd had once mentioned the word "advertise," but never dared approach it again.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000005_000000.wav|"If we can persuade your father to all this," said Lady Russell, looking over her paper, "much may be done.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000007_000003.wav|To live no longer with the decencies even of a private gentleman!|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000008_000001.wav|"Since the idea had been started in the very quarter which ought to dictate, he had no scruple," he said, "in confessing his judgement to be entirely on that side.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000004_000003.wav|She consulted, and in a degree was influenced by her in marking out the scheme of retrenchment which was at last submitted to Sir Walter.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000013_000000.wav|Lady Russell was fond of Bath, in short, and disposed to think it must suit them all; and as to her young friend's health, by passing all the warm months with her at Kellynch Lodge, every danger would be avoided; and it was in fact, a change which must do both health and spirits good.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000014_000000.wav|The undesirableness of any other house in the same neighbourhood for Sir Walter was certainly much strengthened by one part, and a very material part of the scheme, which had been happily engrafted on the beginning.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000005_000002.wav|What will he be doing, in fact, but what very many of our first families have done, or ought to do?|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000003_000004.wav|Herself the widow of only a knight, she gave the dignity of a baronet all its due; and Sir Walter, independent of his claims as an old acquaintance, an attentive neighbour, an obliging landlord, the husband of her very dear friend, the father of Anne and her sisters, was, as being Sir Walter, in her apprehension, entitled to a great deal of compassion and consideration under his present difficulties.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000014_000002.wav|Kellynch Hall was to be let.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000007_000004.wav|No, he would sooner quit Kellynch Hall at once, than remain in it on such disgraceful terms."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000004_000001.wav|But she was very anxious to have it done with the least possible pain to him and Elizabeth.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000006_000004.wav|Her knowledge of her father and Elizabeth inclined her to think that the sacrifice of one pair of horses would be hardly less painful than of both, and so on, through the whole list of Lady Russell's too gentle reductions.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000004_000002.wav|She drew up plans of economy, she made exact calculations, and she did what nobody else thought of doing: she consulted Anne, who never seemed considered by the others as having any interest in the question.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000010_000000.wav|There had been three alternatives, London, Bath, or another house in the country.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000004_000000.wav|They must retrench; that did not admit of a doubt.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000008_000002.wav|It did not appear to him that Sir Walter could materially alter his style of living in a house which had such a character of hospitality and ancient dignity to support.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000012_000001.wav|It would be too much to expect Sir Walter to descend into a small house in his own neighbourhood.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000008_000000.wav|"Quit Kellynch Hall." The hint was immediately taken up by Mr Shepherd, whose interest was involved in the reality of Sir Walter's retrenching, and who was perfectly persuaded that nothing would be done without a change of abode.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000009_000000.wav|Sir Walter would quit Kellynch Hall; and after a very few days more of doubt and indecision, the great question of whither he should go was settled, and the first outline of this important change made out.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000010_000004.wav|She disliked Bath, and did not think it agreed with her; and Bath was to be her home.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000011_000000.wav|Sir Walter had at first thought more of London; but Mr Shepherd felt that he could not be trusted in London, and had been skilful enough to dissuade him from it, and make Bath preferred.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000004_000005.wav|She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000001_000000.wav|Chapter two|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000003_000000.wav|Lady Russell was most anxiously zealous on the subject, and gave it much serious consideration.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000010_000002.wav|A small house in their own neighbourhood, where they might still have Lady Russell's society, still be near Mary, and still have the pleasure of sometimes seeing the lawns and groves of Kellynch, was the object of her ambition.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000014_000001.wav|He was not only to quit his home, but to see it in the hands of others; a trial of fortitude, which stronger heads than Sir Walter's have found too much.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000017_000000.wav|Lady Russell, indeed, had scarcely any influence with Elizabeth, and seemed to love her, rather because she would love her, than because Elizabeth deserved it.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000005_000005.wav|We must be serious and decided; for after all, the person who has contracted debts must pay them; and though a great deal is due to the feelings of the gentleman, and the head of a house, like your father, there is still more due to the character of an honest man."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000012_000003.wav|And with regard to Anne's dislike of Bath, she considered it as a prejudice and mistake arising, first, from the circumstance of her having been three years at school there, after her mother's death; and secondly, from her happening to be not in perfectly good spirits the only winter which she had afterwards spent there with herself.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000013_000004.wav|She wanted her to be more known.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000014_000003.wav|This, however, was a profound secret, not to be breathed beyond their own circle.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000016_000000.wav|How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000007_000001.wav|Lady Russell's had no success at all: could not be put up with, were not to be borne.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000008_000003.wav|In any other place Sir Walter might judge for himself; and would be looked up to, as regulating the modes of life in whatever way he might choose to model his household."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000007_000002.wav|"What! every comfort of life knocked off! Journeys, London, servants, horses, table-contractions and restrictions every where!|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000016_000002.wav|Elizabeth had been lately forming an intimacy, which she wished to see interrupted. It was with the daughter of Mr Shepherd, who had returned, after an unprosperous marriage, to her father's house, with the additional burden of two children.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000010_000001.wav|All Anne's wishes had been for the latter.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000013_000002.wav|Her spirits were not high.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000013_000003.wav|A larger society would improve them.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000003_000002.wav|She was a benevolent, charitable, good woman, and capable of strong attachments, most correct in her conduct, strict in her notions of decorum, and with manners that were held a standard of good breeding.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000007_000000.wav|How Anne's more rigid requisitions might have been taken is of little consequence.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/157830/209_157830_000011_000001.wav|It was a much safer place for a gentleman in his predicament: he might there be important at comparatively little expense.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000009.wav|She was a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited mr Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000014_000000.wav|Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say:|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000004_000000.wav|After these came a second set; among the most come at able of whom were mrs and Miss Bates, and mrs Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that mr Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either james or the horses.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000010_000000.wav|She was a very pretty girl, and her beauty happened to be of a sort which Emma particularly admired.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000007_000000.wav|These were the ladies whom Emma found herself very frequently able to collect; and happy was she, for her father's sake, in the power; though, as far as she was herself concerned, it was no remedy for the absence of mrs Weston.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000002.wav|Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married. Miss Bates stood in the very worst predicament in the world for having much of the public favour; and she had no intellectual superiority to make atonement to herself, or frighten those who might hate her into outward respect.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000008.wav|The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000007_000001.wav|She was delighted to see her father look comfortable, and very much pleased with herself for contriving things so well; but the quiet prosings of three such women made her feel that every evening so spent was indeed one of the long evenings she had fearfully anticipated.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000003_000000.wav|Real, long-standing regard brought the Westons and mr Knightley; and by mr Elton, a young man living alone without liking it, the privilege of exchanging any vacant evening of his own blank solitude for the elegancies and society of mr Woodhouse's drawing room, and the smiles of his lovely daughter, was in no danger of being thrown away.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000010_000001.wav|She was short, plump, and fair, with a fine bloom, blue eyes, light hair, regular features, and a look of great sweetness, and, before the end of the evening, Emma was as much pleased with her manners as her person, and quite determined to continue the acquaintance.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000008_000001.wav|A very gracious invitation was returned, and the evening no longer dreaded by the fair mistress of the mansion.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000001.wav|She lived with her single daughter in a very small way, and was considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady, under such untoward circumstances, can excite.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000015_000010.wav|I do not think it could disagree with you."|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000009_000000.wav|Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of somebody.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000016_000001.wav|The happiness of Miss Smith was quite equal to her intentions.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000006_000003.wav|She was a plain, motherly kind of woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional holiday of a tea visit; and having formerly owed much to mr Woodhouse's kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000006.wav|It was her own universal good will and contented temper which worked such wonders.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000011_000006.wav|It would be an interesting, and certainly a very kind undertaking; highly becoming her own situation in life, her leisure, and powers.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000015_000005.wav|Ours are all apple tarts.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000011_000002.wav|The acquaintance she had already formed were unworthy of her.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000011_000003.wav|The friends from whom she had just parted, though very good sort of people, must be doing her harm.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000015_000003.wav|I would not recommend an egg boiled by any body else; but you need not be afraid, they are very small, you see-one of our small eggs will not hurt you.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER three|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000015_000002.wav|Serle understands boiling an egg better than any body.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000007.wav|She loved every body, was interested in every body's happiness, quicksighted to every body's merits; thought herself a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother, and so many good neighbours and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000015_000000.wav|"mrs Bates, let me propose your venturing on one of these eggs.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000013_000000.wav|Upon such occasions poor mr Woodhouses feelings were in sad warfare. He loved to have the cloth laid, because it had been the fashion of his youth, but his conviction of suppers being very unwholesome made him rather sorry to see any thing put on it; and while his hospitality would have welcomed his visitors to every thing, his care for their health made him grieve that they would eat.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000002_000004.wav|Not unfrequently, through Emma's persuasion, he had some of the chosen and the best to dine with him: but evening parties were what he preferred; and, unless he fancied himself at any time unequal to company, there was scarcely an evening in the week in which Emma could not make up a card table for him.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000009_000002.wav|This was all that was generally known of her history. She had no visible friends but what had been acquired at Highbury, and was now just returned from a long visit in the country to some young ladies who had been at school there with her.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000006_000001.wav|mrs Goddard's school was in high repute-and very deservedly; for Highbury was reckoned a particularly healthy spot: she had an ample house and garden, gave the children plenty of wholesome food, let them run about a great deal in the summer, and in winter dressed their chilblains with her own hands.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000006_000002.wav|It was no wonder that a train of twenty young couple now walked after her to church.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000016_000000.wav|Emma allowed her father to talk-but supplied her visitors in a much more satisfactory style, and on the present evening had particular pleasure in sending them away happy.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000009_000001.wav|Somebody had placed her, several years back, at mrs Goddard's school, and somebody had lately raised her from the condition of scholar to that of parlour boarder.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000002_000002.wav|He had not much intercourse with any families beyond that circle; his horror of late hours, and large dinner parties, made him unfit for any acquaintance but such as would visit him on his own terms.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000015_000007.wav|I do not advise the custard.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000005.wav|And yet she was a happy woman, and a woman whom no one named without good will.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000004.wav|Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000003.wav|She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000002_000003.wav|Fortunately for him, Highbury, including Randalls in the same parish, and Donwell Abbey in the parish adjoining, the seat of mr Knightley, comprehended many such.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000005_000000.wav|mrs Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000008_000000.wav|As she sat one morning, looking forward to exactly such a close of the present day, a note was brought from mrs Goddard, requesting, in most respectful terms, to be allowed to bring Miss Smith with her; a most welcome request: for Miss Smith was a girl of seventeen, whom Emma knew very well by sight, and had long felt an interest in, on account of her beauty.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000004_000001.wav|Had it taken place only once a year, it would have been a grievance.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/209/4731/209_4731_000011_000001.wav|Those soft blue eyes, and all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the inferior society of Highbury and its connexions.|209
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000010_000010.wav|For what satisfactory guarantee could he give?|1316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000007_000002.wav|Three of these bodies consisted of Tories.|1316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000003_000004.wav|He importuned his priests for comfort, prayed, confessed, and communicated: but his faith was weak; and he owned that, in spite of all his devotions, the strong terrors of death were upon him.|1316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000004_000006.wav|He then withdrew, and left them to deliberate unrestrained by his presence.|1316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000011_000011.wav|james could not be King in effect: but he must still continue to be King in semblance.|1316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000008_000004.wav|His victory, by relieving the nation from the strong dread of Popish tyranny, had deprived him of half his influence.|1316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1316/132800/1316_132800_000010_000006.wav|Their old theory, sound or unsound, was at least complete and coherent.|1316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1316/132782/1316_132782_000012_000008.wav|I hardly see my way.|1316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000049_000002.wav|But I go on as I formerly did, designing to be some time or other both rich and wise; and yet cultivate neither mind nor fortune.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000022_000000.wav|'London, april ninth seventeen fifty seven.'|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000062_000001.wav|JOHNSON.'|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000069_000001.wav|The proposals you will disseminate as there shall be an opportunity.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000009_000000.wav|About this period he was offered a living of considerable value in Lincolnshire, if he were inclined to enter into holy orders.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000027_000001.wav|You might write to me now and then, if you were good for any thing.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000062_000000.wav|'SAM.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000041_000000.wav|'Your most obliged,|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000049_000004.wav|When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty nine, what I now am.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000027_000005.wav|I am,|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000036_000004.wav|Your's is the only letter of goodwill that I have received; though, indeed, I am promised something of that sort from Sweden.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000049_000000.wav|'I must indeed have slept very fast, not to have been awakened by your letter.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000021_000001.wav|JOHNSON.'|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000049_000003.wav|Do you take notice of my example, and learn the danger of delay.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000023_000001.wav|THOMAS WARTON.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000054_000001.wav|mrs Langton is as wise as Sibyl, and as good; and will live, if my wishes can prolong life, till she shall in time be as old.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000071_000001.wav|I have not the collection by me, and therefore cannot draw out a catalogue of my own parts, but will do it, and send it.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000061_000000.wav|'Your affectionate, humble servant,|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000018_000000.wav|'What relation there is between the Welch and Irish language, or between the language of Ireland and that of Biscay, deserves enquiry.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000049_000001.wav|None of your suspicions are true; I am not much richer than when you left me; and, what is worse, my omission of an answer to your first letter, will prove that I am not much wiser.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000018_000002.wav|I hope you will continue to cultivate this kind of learning, which has too long lain neglected, and which, if it be suffered to remain in oblivion for another century, may, perhaps, never be retrieved.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000064_000001.wav|BURNEY, AT LYNNE, NORFOLK.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000004_000002.wav|The reason (said he) why I wish for it, is this: when dr Madden came to London, he submitted that work to my castigation; and I remember I blotted a great many lines, and might have blotted many more, without making the poem worse.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000001_000001.wav|This Chronicle still subsists, and from what I observed, when I was abroad, has a more extensive circulation upon the Continent than any of the English newspapers.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000018_000001.wav|Of these provincial and unextended tongues, it seldom happens that more than one are understood by any one man; and, therefore, it seldom happens that a fair comparison can be made.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000024_000000.wav|'DEAR SIR,|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000063_000000.wav|'january ninth seventeen fifty eight.'|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000027_000000.wav|'I long to see you all, but cannot conveniently come yet.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000082_000001.wav|It has more variety of real life, and greater facility of language.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000043_000001.wav|JOHNSON.'|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000030_000000.wav|'[London,] june twenty first seventeen fifty seven.'|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000021_000000.wav|'SAM.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000029_000001.wav|JOHNSON.'|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000019_000000.wav|'Your most obliged,|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000065_000000.wav|'SIR,|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000050_000001.wav|You are busy in acquiring and in communicating knowledge, and while you are studying, enjoy the end of study, by making others wiser and happier.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000015_000000.wav|'SIR,|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000064_000000.wav|'TO mr|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000082_000004.wav|mr Langton having signified a wish to read it, 'Sir, (said he) you shall not do more than I have done myself.' He then folded it up and sent it off.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000050_000002.wav|I was much pleased with the tale that you told me of being tutour to your sisters.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000050_000004.wav|It sometimes, indeed, happens, that some supervenient cause of discord may overpower this original amity; but it seems to me more frequently thrown away with levity, or lost by negligence, than destroyed by injury or violence.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000039_000001.wav|May I enquire after her?|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000069_000000.wav|'I have, likewise, enclosed twelve receipts; not that I mean to impose upon you the trouble of pushing them, with more importunity than may seem proper, but that you may rather have more than fewer than you shall want.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000083_000003.wav|In this series of essays he exhibits admirable instances of grave humour, of which he had an uncommon share.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/136861/1271_136861_000050_000000.wav|'But you do not seem to need my admonition.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000004.wav|The facility with which journals can be established induces a multitude of individuals to take a part in them; but as the extent of competition precludes the possibility of considerable profit, the most distinguished classes of society are rarely led to engage in these undertakings.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000009.wav|The liberty of discourse must therefore be destroyed as well as the liberty of the press; this is the necessary term of your efforts; but if your object was to repress the abuses of liberty, they have brought you to the feet of a despot.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000019_000002.wav|He doubts as soon as he is assailed by the objections which his inquiries may have aroused.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000007_000002.wav|In America politics are discussed with animation and a varied activity, but they rarely touch those deep passions which are excited whenever the positive interest of a part of the community is impaired: but in the United States the interests of the community are in a most prosperous condition.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000008_000003.wav|It is an enemy with which a Government may sign an occasional truce, but which it is difficult to resist for any length of time.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000000.wav|In America there is scarcely a hamlet which has not its own newspaper. It may readily be imagined that neither discipline nor unity of design can be communicated to so multifarious a host, and each one is consequently led to fight under his own standard.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000001.wav|In America, as in France, it constitutes a singular power, so strangely composed of mingled good and evil that it is at the same time indispensable to the existence of freedom, and nearly incompatible with the maintenance of public order.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000006.wav|If you establish a censorship of the press, the tongue of the public speaker will still make itself heard, and you have only increased the mischief.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000014_000000.wav|The personal opinions of the editors have no kind of weight in the eyes of the public: the only use of a journal is, that it imparts the knowledge of certain facts, and it is only by altering or distorting those facts that a journalist can contribute to the support of his own views.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000012_000001.wav|It cannot be denied that the effects of this extreme license of the press tend indirectly to the maintenance of public order.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000008.wav|In this question, therefore, there is no medium between servitude and extreme license; in order to enjoy the inestimable benefits which the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils which it engenders.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000010.wav|You have been led from the extreme of independence to the extreme of subjection without meeting with a single tenable position for shelter or repose.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000009_000000.wav|Neither of these kinds of centralization exists in America.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000019_000003.wav|But he frequently succeeds in satisfying these doubts, and then he begins to believe afresh: he no longer lays hold on a truth in its most shadowy and uncertain form, but he sees it clearly before him, and he advances onwards by the light it gives him.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000007.wav|The will of the majority is the most general of laws, and it establishes certain habits which form the characteristics of each peculiar class of society; thus it dictates the etiquette practised at courts and the etiquette of the bar.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000017_000000.wav|The opinions established in the United States under the empire of the liberty of the press are frequently more firmly rooted than those which are formed elsewhere under the sanction of a censor.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000000.wav|If any one could point out an intermediate and yet a tenable position between the complete independence and the entire subjection of the public expression of opinion, I should perhaps be inclined to adopt it; but the difficulty is to discover this position.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000010_000001.wav|The most enlightened Americans attribute the subordinate influence of the press to this excessive dissemination; and it is adopted as an axiom of political science in that country that the only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000012_000000.wav|Nothing can be more deplorable than this abuse of the powers of thought; I shall have occasion to point out hereafter the influence of the newspapers upon the taste and the morality of the American people, but my present subject exclusively concerns the political world.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000009_000002.wav|These are circumstances which do not depend on human foresight; but it is owing to the laws of the Union that there are no licenses to be granted to printers, no securities demanded from editors as in France, and no stamp duty as in France and formerly in England.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000023_000002.wav|In countries where all the theories of social science have been contested in their turn, the citizens who have adopted one of them stick to it, not so much because they are assured of its excellence, as because they are not convinced of the superiority of any other.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000021_000001.wav|The human mind continues to discern but one point upon the whole intellectual horizon, and that point is in continual motion.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000001_000001.wav|For in certain countries which profess to enjoy the privileges of freedom every individual agent of the Government may violate the laws with impunity, since those whom he oppresses cannot prosecute him before the courts of justice.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000001_000002.wav|In this case the liberty of the press is not merely a guarantee, but it is the only guarantee, of their liberty and their security which the citizens possess.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000009_000003.wav|The consequence of this is that nothing is easier than to set up a newspaper, and a small number of readers suffices to defray the expenses of the editor.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000012_000002.wav|The individuals who are already in the possession of a high station in the esteem of their fellow citizens are afraid to write in the newspapers, and they are thus deprived of the most powerful instrument which they can use to excite the passions of the multitude to their own advantage.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000022_000000.wav|The circle of novel ideas is, however, soon terminated; the touch of experience is upon them, and the doubt and mistrust which their uncertainty produces become universal.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000018_000005.wav|The nations amongst which this liberty exists are as apt to cling to their opinions from pride as from conviction. They cherish them because they hold them to be just, and because they exercised their own free will in choosing them; and they maintain them not only because they are true, but because they are their own.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000015_000001.wav|It is the power which impels the circulation of political life through all the districts of that vast territory.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000002_000003.wav|The first newspaper over which I cast my eyes, upon my arrival in America, contained the following article:|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000022_000001.wav|We may rest assured that the majority of mankind will either believe they know not wherefore, or will not know what to believe.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000007_000003.wav|A single glance upon a French and an American newspaper is sufficient to show the difference which exists between the two nations on this head.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000023_000000.wav|It has been remarked that in times of great religious fervor men sometimes change their religious opinions; whereas in times of general scepticism everyone clings to his own persuasion.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000007_000005.wav|In America three quarters of the enormous sheet which is set before the reader are filled with advertisements, and the remainder is frequently occupied by political intelligence or trivial anecdotes: it is only from time to time that one finds a corner devoted to passionate discussions like those with which the journalists of France are wont to indulge their readers.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000008_000001.wav|In France the press combines a twofold centralization; almost all its power is centred in the same spot, and vested in the same hands, for its organs are far from numerous.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000005.wav|But such is the number of the public prints that, even if they were a source of wealth, writers of ability could not be found to direct them all.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000004.wav|It was never their intention to found a permanent state of things with elements which undergo daily modifications; and there is consequently nothing criminal in an attack upon the existing laws, provided it be not attended with a violent infraction of them.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000004_000001.wav|I am inclined to think that the above causes explain the reason of the extraordinary ascendency it has acquired over the nation, but that they do not exercise much influence upon the tone of its language.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000002.wav|Its power is certainly much greater in France than in the United States; though nothing is more rare in the latter country than to hear of a prosecution having been instituted against it.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000004_000000.wav|It is not uncommonly imagined in France that the virulence of the press originates in the uncertain social condition, in the political excitement, and the general sense of consequent evil which prevail in that country; and it is therefore supposed that as soon as society has resumed a certain degree of composure the press will abandon its present vehemence.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000007_000004.wav|In France the space allotted to commercial advertisements is very limited, and the intelligence is not considerable, but the most essential part of the journal is that which contains the discussion of the politics of the day.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000007_000001.wav|The Anglo Americans have enjoyed this liberty ever since the foundation of the settlements; moreover, the press cannot create human passions by its own power, however skillfully it may kindle them where they exist.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000001_000003.wav|If the rulers of these nations propose to abolish the independence of the press, the people would be justified in saying: Give us the right of prosecuting your offences before the ordinary tribunals, and perhaps we may then waive our right of appeal to the tribunal of public opinion.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000003.wav|The reason of this is perfectly simple: the Americans, having once admitted the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people, apply it with perfect consistency.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000018_000003.wav|The same tenacity of opinion has been observed in England, where, for the last century, greater freedom of conscience and more invincible prejudices have existed than in all the other countries of Europe.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000007.wav|Whosoever should have the power of creating and maintaining a tribunal of this kind would waste his time in prosecuting the liberty of the press; for he would be the supreme master of the whole community, and he would be as free to rid himself of the authors as of their writings.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000007.wav|The powers of thought do not rely, like the powers of physical strength, upon the number of their mechanical agents, nor can a host of authors be reckoned like the troops which compose an army; on the contrary, the authority of a principle is often increased by the smallness of the number of men by whom it is expressed.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000010_000000.wav|The number of periodical and occasional publications which appears in the United States actually surpasses belief.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000004_000002.wav|The periodical press appears to me to be actuated by passions and propensities independent of the circumstances in which it is placed, and the present position of America corroborates this opinion.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000006_000000.wav|The small influence of the American journals is attributable to several reasons, amongst which are the following:|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000019_000001.wav|A man believes implicitly, because he adopts a proposition without inquiry.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000015_000003.wav|When a great number of the organs of the press adopt the same line of conduct, their influence becomes irresistible; and public opinion, when it is perpetually assailed from the same side, eventually yields to the attack.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000009_000001.wav|The United States have no metropolis; the intelligence as well as the power of the country are dispersed abroad, and instead of radiating from a point, they cross each other in every direction; the Americans have established no central control over the expression of opinion, any more than over the conduct of business.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000002_000000.wav|But in the countries in which the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people ostensibly prevails, the censorship of the press is not only dangerous, but it is absurd.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000018_000002.wav|When once the Americans have taken up an idea, whether it be well or ill founded, nothing is more difficult than to eradicate it from their minds.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000003_000002.wav|He succeeded at the time, but the hour of retribution approaches, and he will be obliged to disgorge his winnings, to throw aside his false dice, and to end his days in some retirement, where he may curse his madness at his leisure; for repentance is a virtue with which his heart is likely to remain forever unacquainted.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000005.wav|They are moreover of opinion that courts of justice are unable to check the abuses of the press; and that as the subtilty of human language perpetually eludes the severity of judicial analysis, offences of this nature are apt to escape the hand which attempts to apprehend them.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000023_000001.wav|The same thing takes place in politics under the liberty of the press.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000003.wav|This division of the influence of the press produces a variety of other consequences which are scarcely less remarkable.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000021_000002.wav|Such are the symptoms of sudden revolutions, and of the misfortunes which are sure to befall those generations which abruptly adopt the unconditional freedom of the press.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000010_000003.wav|The Governments of Europe seem to treat the press with the courtesy of the knights of old; they are anxious to furnish it with the same central power which they have found to be so trusty a weapon, in order to enhance the glory of their resistance to its attacks.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000009.wav|To expect to acquire the former and to escape the latter is to cherish one of those illusions which commonly mislead nations in their times of sickness, when, tired with faction and exhausted by effort, they attempt to combine hostile opinions and contrary principles upon the same soil.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000008_000002.wav|The influence of a public press thus constituted, upon a sceptical nation, must be unbounded.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000001.wav|All the political journals of the United States are indeed arrayed on the side of the administration or against it; but they attack and defend in a thousand different ways.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000008_000000.wav|It has been demonstrated by observation, and discovered by the innate sagacity of the pettiest as well as the greatest of despots, that the influence of a power is increased in proportion as its direction is rendered more central.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000008.wav|The characteristics of the French journalist consist in a violent, but frequently an eloquent and lofty, manner of discussing the politics of the day; and the exceptions to this habitual practice are only occasional.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000018_000001.wav|But the general principles of the Government are more stable, and the opinions most prevalent in society are generally more durable than in many other countries.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000001_000000.wav|There are certain nations which have peculiar reasons for cherishing the liberty of the press, independently of the general motives which I have just pointed out.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000002_000001.wav|When the right of every citizen to co-operate in the government of society is acknowledged, every citizen must be presumed to possess the power of discriminating between the different opinions of his contemporaries, and of appreciating the different facts from which inferences may be drawn.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000011_000002.wav|They cannot succeed in forming those great currents of opinion which overwhelm the most solid obstacles.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000018_000006.wav|Several other reasons conduce to the same end.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000005_000006.wav|They hold that to act with efficacy upon the press it would be necessary to find a tribunal, not only devoted to the existing order of things, but capable of surmounting the influence of public opinion; a tribunal which should conduct its proceedings without publicity, which should pronounce its decrees without assigning its motives, and punish the intentions even more than the language of an author.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000002.wav|Too much and too little has therefore hitherto been done.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000005.wav|Too much has still been done to recede, too little to attain your end; you must therefore proceed.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/133279/1271_133279_000000_000001.wav|If it is your intention to correct the abuses of unlicensed printing and to restore the use of orderly language, you may in the first instance try the offender by a jury; but if the jury acquits him, the opinion which was that of a single individual becomes the opinion of the country at large.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000011.wav|In its place we have wild grief and terrible scorn, fierce rage and flame like passion. Such a sonnet as the following comes out of the very fire of heart and brain:|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000003_000000.wav|POETRY AND PRISON|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000009.wav|But the personality that they reveal has nothing petty or ignoble about it.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000007_000002.wav|And He is witness of my wrath, How it was kindled against murderers Who slew for gold, and how upon their path I met them.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000016_000001.wav|Literature is not much indebted to mr Balfour for his sophistical Defence of Philosophic Doubt which is one of the dullest books we know, but it must be admitted that by sending mr Blunt to gaol he has converted a clever rhymer into an earnest and deep thinking poet.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000013_000000.wav|is very fine; and this, written just after entering the gaol, is powerful:|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000006_000000.wav|God knows, 'twas not with a fore reasoned plan I left the easeful dwellings of my peace, And sought this combat with ungodly Man, And ceaseless still through years that do not cease Have warred with Powers and Principalities. My natural soul, ere yet these strifes began, Was as a sister diligent to please And loving all, and most the human clan.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000015_000000.wav|Within, what new life waits me!|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000008_000000.wav|And this sonnet has all the strange strength of that despair which is but the prelude to a larger hope:|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000004.wav|'Imprisonment,' says mr Blunt in his preface, 'is a reality of discipline most useful to the modern soul, lapped as it is in physical sloth and self indulgence.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000007_000000.wav|God knows it.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000012_000000.wav|A prison is a convent without God- Poverty, Chastity, Obedience Its precepts are:|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000009_000001.wav|And, when thus the fight Faltered and men once bold with faces white Turned this and that way in excuse to flee, I only stood, and by the foeman's might Was overborne and mangled cruelly.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000010.wav|The petulant cry of the shallow egoist which was the chief characteristic of the Love Sonnets of Proteus is not to be found here.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000007_000001.wav|And He knows how the world's tears Touched me.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000007_000003.wav|Since which day the World in arms Strikes at my life with angers and alarms.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000014_000001.wav|Nor shall I hear the vain Laughter and tears of those who love me still.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000005.wav|Like a sickness or a spiritual retreat it purifies and ennobles; and the soul emerges from it stronger and more self-contained.' To him, certainly, it has been a mode of purification.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000016_000002.wav|The narrow confines of the prison cell seem to suit the 'sonnet's scanty plot of ground,' and an unjust imprisonment for a noble cause strengthens as well as deepens the nature.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000004_000000.wav|(Pall Mall Gazette, january third eighteen eighty nine.)|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000009_000000.wav|I thought to do a deed of chivalry, An act of worth, which haply in her sight Who was my mistress should recorded be And of the nations.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000007.wav|They are, of course, intensely personal in expression.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000002.wav|Their subject was not of high or serious import.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000011_000000.wav|The sonnet beginning|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000015_000002.wav|Yet, Lord of Might, Still in Thy light my spirit shall see light.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1271/128145/1271_128145_000005_000000.wav|Prison has had an admirable effect on mr Wilfrid Blunt as a poet.|1271
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/170982/3340_170982_000020_000000.wav|Yes, he said; and they are fair and lasting.|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/170982/3340_170982_000018_000000.wav|Certainly, he said, what you say is true.|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/170982/3340_170982_000017_000004.wav|But will you let me assume, without reciting them, that these things are true?|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000029_000003.wav|He is too great for that.|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000036_000000.wav|Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000043_000003.wav|I do not think so.|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000039_000000.wav|Yours very truly,|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000022_000000.wav|october sixth eighteen ninety five.|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000015_000001.wav|This, this, coupled with our material prosperity, will bring into our beloved South a new heaven and a new earth.|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000040_000000.wav|d c Gilman|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000043_000000.wav|Let me illustrate my meaning.|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000038_000002.wav|A line by telegraph will be welcomed.|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000037_000000.wav|President's Office, september thirtieth eighteen ninety five.|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000034_000003.wav|If he is right, time will show it.|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000031_000003.wav|The picture painted was a rather black one-or, since I am black, shall I say "white"?|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000002_000002.wav|The following is the address which I delivered:--|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3340/169293/3340_169293_000026_000000.wav|Yours very truly,|3340
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000005_000004.wav|It would hurt him to be divided."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000041_000001.wav|"Why didn't he shout? He'd be sure to hear his self, 'cause he couldn't be far off, oo know."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000028_000000.wav|The children returned, slowly and thoughtfully, to report his answer. "Isn't he wise?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000092_000003.wav|You see I left off at a comma, and it's so awkward not knowing how the sentence finishes! Besides, you've got to go through Dogland first, and I'm always a little nervous about dogs.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000041_000000.wav|"And couldn't he find his self again?" said Bruno.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000057_000002.wav|This will have a double advantage.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000053_000001.wav|Do come and ask him, Professor dear!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000036_000000.wav|Bruno took a very small book out of the bookcase, opened it, and shook it in imitation of the Professor.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000008_000001.wav|"You'll cut your finger off, if you hold the knife so!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000067_000001.wav|"That's what makes the song so interesting."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000071_000000.wav|By this time we had come up to the Gardener, who was standing on one leg, as usual, and busily employed in watering a bed of flowers with an empty watering can.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000082_000000.wav|"That'll do it!" the Gardener shouted, as he hurled the watering can across the flower bed, and produced a handful of keys-one large one, and a number of small ones.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000083_000002.wav|We can go out with you."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000094_000003.wav|Good bye, Sir!" he added to my intense surprise, giving my hand an affectionate squeeze.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000031_000000.wav|Bruno looked puzzled.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000079_000000.wav|The Professor put the request, very humbly and courteously.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000031_000001.wav|"I never talks to nobody when he isn't here!" he replied.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000056_000000.wav|"He is indeed," said i But the Professor took no notice of my remark. He had put on a beautiful cap with a long tassel, and was selecting one of the Other Professor's walking sticks, from a stand in the corner of the room.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000087_000000.wav|The Professor shook his head.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000084_000000.wav|"True, dear child!" the Professor thankfully replied, as he replaced the coins in his pocket.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000073_000001.wav|"A lot of water in it makes one's arms ache." And he went on with his work, singing softly to himself,|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000047_000000.wav|"A little piece of a dead crow," was Bruno's mournful reply.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000035_000000.wav|"Anywhere!" shouted the excited Professor.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000084_000001.wav|"That saves two shillings!" And he took the children's hands, that they might all go out together when the door was opened.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000090_000000.wav|"I shall now return," said the Professor, when we had walked a few yards: "you see, it's impossible to read here, for all my books are in the house."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000060_000000.wav|Bruno carefully examined the hole.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000072_000000.wav|"It hasn't got no water in it!" Bruno explained to him, pulling his sleeve to attract his attention.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000015_000000.wav|"When I said it would hurt him, I was merely referring to the action of the nerves-"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000091_000001.wav|"Do come with us!" Sylvie entreated with tears in her eyes.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000013_000001.wav|"And the two bits would sink down in the sea!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000002_000001.wav|"The smaller animal ought to go to bed at once," he said with an air of authority.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000053_000000.wav|"Not for us," said Sylvie: "but I'm sure he would for you.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000035_000001.wav|"Only be quick about it!" And he began trotting round and round the room, lifting up the chairs, and shaking them.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000068_000000.wav|"He must have had a very curious life," said Sylvie.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000027_000000.wav|Never having considered the question in this light, I suggested that they had better ask the Professor; and they ran off in a moment to appeal to their old friend.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000021_000003.wav|Then it's all right."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000016_000000.wav|The Other Professor brightened up in a moment.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000021_000001.wav|"Sometimes, when I's too happy, I wants to be a little miserable.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000024_000000.wav|"Well, so am I!" said Bruno.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000056_000002.wav|"Come along, dear children!" And we all went out into the garden together.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000020_000001.wav|"But don't you always want to be happy, Bruno?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000065_000000.wav|"If it got very damp," Sylvie suggested, "it might stick to something, you know."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000057_000000.wav|"I shall address him, first of all," the Professor explained as we went along, "with a few playful remarks on the weather.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000026_000000.wav|"Well, what's the difference?" Bruno asked.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000003_000000.wav|"Why at once?" said the Professor.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000001_000001.wav|A MUSICAL GARDENER.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000032_000001.wav|"Then who are you talking to?" he said.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000064_000000.wav|"Would it be afraid of catching cold?" said Bruno.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000081_000000.wav|The Professor cautiously produced a couple of shillings.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000055_000001.wav|"Isn't he kind, Mister Sir?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000040_000000.wav|"Once before," said the Professor: "he once lost himself in a wood-"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000005_000002.wav|"Nobody else could have thought of the reason, so quick.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000088_000000.wav|The Gardener looked puzzled, and let us go out; but, as he locked the door behind us, we heard him singing thoughtfully to himself,|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000007_000000.wav|"It does very well on a diagram," said the Other Professor.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000050_000001.wav|"But what can I do?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000016_000001.wav|"The action of the nerves," he began eagerly, "is curiously slow in some people.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000032_000004.wav|Help to look for him!|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000078_000000.wav|"We asked him to let us through the garden door," said Sylvie: "but he wouldn't: but perhaps he would for you!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000022_000000.wav|"I'm sorry you don't like lessons," I said.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000066_000001.wav|"Suppose it was a cow!|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000048_000000.wav|"He means rook pie," Sylvie explained.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000032_000006.wav|He's got lost again!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000011_000000.wav|"It would be drownded," Bruno pronounced confidently.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000043_000000.wav|"What shall we shout?" said Sylvie.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000018_000002.wav|His grandchildren might."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000083_000000.wav|"But look here, Professor dear!" whispered Sylvie.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000019_000000.wav|"I wouldn't like to be the grandchild of a pinched grandfather, would you, Mister Sir?" Bruno whispered.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000075_000000.wav|"In digging things out of the ground which you probably do now and then," the Professor began in a loud voice; "in making things into heaps-which no doubt you often do; and in kicking things about with one heel-which you seem never to leave off doing; have you ever happened to notice another Professor something like me, but different?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000074_000000.wav|"The nights are very damp!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000070_000000.wav|"Of course she may!" cried Bruno.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000044_000000.wav|"On second thoughts, don't shout," the Professor replied.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000008_000000.wav|"Take care!" Sylvie anxiously exclaimed, as he began, rather clumsily, to point it.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000019_000001.wav|"It might come just when you wanted to be happy!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000030_000000.wav|"You appear to be talking to somebody-that isn't here," the Professor said, turning round to the children.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000080_000000.wav|"I wouldn't mind letting you out," said the Gardener.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000039_000000.wav|"Has he ever been lost before?" Sylvie enquired, turning up a corner of the hearth rug, and peeping under it.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000026_000001.wav|"Mister Sir, isn't the day as short as it's long?|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000045_000002.wav|"He is so cruel!" he sobbed.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000091_000000.wav|But the children still kept fast hold of his hands.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000080_000003.wav|Not for one and sixpence!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000044_000001.wav|"The Vice Warden might hear you.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000045_000000.wav|This reminded the poor children of all the troubles, about which they had come to their old friend.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000021_000000.wav|"Not always," Bruno said thoughtfully.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000076_000001.wav|"There ain't such a thing!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000057_000001.wav|I shall then question him about the Other Professor.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000092_000001.wav|"Perhaps I'll come after you, some day soon.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000055_000000.wav|Bruno sat up and dried his eyes.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000062_000000.wav|"He thought he saw an Albatross That fluttered round the lamp: He looked again, and found it was A Penny Postage Stamp. 'You'd best be getting home,' he said: 'The nights are very damp!'"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000013_000000.wav|"Why the bumble bee, of course!" said Bruno.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000032_000005.wav|Quick!|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000049_000003.wav|"It's all true, Professor dear!|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000069_000000.wav|"You may say that!" the Professor heartily rejoined.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000006_000001.wav|"I don't want to be divided," he said decisively.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000032_000000.wav|The Professor looked anxiously in my direction, and seemed to look through and through me without seeing me.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000073_000000.wav|"It's lighter to hold," said the Gardener.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000077_000000.wav|"We will try a less exciting topic," the Professor mildly remarked to the children.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000030_000001.wav|"Who is it?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000027_000001.wav|The Professor left off polishing his spectacles to consider.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000017_000000.wav|"And if you only pinched him?" queried Sylvie.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000044_000002.wav|He's getting awfully strict!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000014_000000.wav|Here the Professor interfered, as the Other Professor was evidently too much puzzled to go on with his diagram.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000094_000001.wav|You see, whatever fatigue one incurs by carrying, one saves by being carried!|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000012_000000.wav|The Other Professor gasped.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000029_000000.wav|Sylvie asked in an awestruck whisper.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000012_000001.wav|"What would be drownded?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000052_000000.wav|"Won't he open the door for you?" said the Professor.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000009_000001.wav|Bruno thoughtfully added.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000087_000002.wav|And now it's open, we are going out by Rule-the Rule of Three."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000059_000000.wav|"See!" said the Professor, pointing out a hole in the middle of the bull's eye.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000032_000003.wav|"Children!|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000018_000000.wav|"Then it would take ever so much longer, of course.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000034_000000.wav|"Where shall we look?" said Sylvie.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000092_000004.wav|But it'll be quite easy to come, as soon as I've completed my new invention-for carrying one's self, you know.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000038_000001.wav|"I should have shooked him out, if he'd been in there!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000058_000000.wav|On our way, we passed the target, at which Uggug had been made to shoot during the Ambassador's visit.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000049_000001.wav|"And there were a apple pudding-and Uggug ate it all-and I got nuffin but a crust!|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000059_000001.wav|"His Imperial Fatness had only one shot at it; and he went in just here!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000083_000001.wav|"He needn't open the door for us, at all.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000033_000000.wav|The children were on their feet in a moment.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000056_000001.wav|"A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful," he was saying to himself.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000077_000001.wav|"You were asking-"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000094_000000.wav|"Well, no, my child.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000066_000002.wav|Wouldn't it be dreadful for the other things!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000005_000000.wav|The Professor gently clapped his hands.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000036_000001.wav|"He isn't here," he said.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000089_000000.wav|"He thought he saw a Garden Door That opened with a key: He looked again, and found it was A Double Rule of Three: 'And all its mystery,' he said, 'Is clear as day to me!'"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000025_000001.wav|"You're as busy as the day is short!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000007_000001.wav|"I could show it you in a minute, only the chalk's a little blunt."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000026_000002.wav|I mean, isn't it the same length?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000045_000003.wav|"And he lets Uggug take away all my toys!|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000027_000002.wav|"My dears," he said after a minute, "the day is the same length as anything that is the same length as it." And he resumed his never ending task of polishing.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000004_000000.wav|"Because he can't go at twice," said the Other Professor.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000018_000001.wav|In fact, I doubt if the man himself would ever feel it, at all.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000006_000000.wav|This remark woke up Bruno, suddenly and completely.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/134149/4148_134149_000051_000000.wav|"We know the way to Fairyland-where Father's gone-quite well," said Sylvie: "if only the Gardener would let us out."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000043_000000.wav|Effie sprang past them, and Darrow took up the girl's challenge.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000059_000000.wav|"I've told her exactly nothing," he replied.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000036_000001.wav|There's been time, on both sides, to think them over since----"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000018_000001.wav|His first step must be to obtain from Miss Viner the chance of another and calmer talk; and he resolved to seek it at the earliest hour.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000020_000000.wav|The atmosphere was still and pale.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000058_000000.wav|She rushed the question out at him as if she expected to trip him up over it.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000067_000002.wav|Then she held out her hand.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000023_000000.wav|"Shall we sit down a minute?" he asked, as Effie trotted off.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000029_000000.wav|Her face instantly sharpened to distrust.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000044_000002.wav|It's true enough that I want to help you; but the wish isn't due to...to any past kindness on your part, but simply to my own interest in you.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000061_000000.wav|Darrow felt his blood rise at the thrust.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000063_000000.wav|"And not that you've ever seen me since?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000073_000000.wav|She walked on for a few yards, and then paused again and confronted him. "I've been odious to you-and not quite honest," she broke out suddenly.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000050_000005.wav|THEN you might think it your duty to tell mrs Leath."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000067_000001.wav|I didn't mean to ask you that." She halted, and again cast a rapid glance behind and ahead of her.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000012_000000.wav|She smiled, she bore a part in the talk, her eyes dwelt on Darrow's with their usual deep reliance; but beneath the surface of her serenity his tense perceptions detected a hidden stir.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000042_000000.wav|Darrow stood still in the path.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000072_000001.wav|"Oh, you'll hear about it soon...I must catch Effie now and drag her back to the blackboard."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000017_000002.wav|But the plain fact was that he hadn't spent a penny on it; which was no doubt the reason of the prodigious score it had since been rolling up.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000019_000000.wav|He had gathered that Effie's lessons were preceded by an early scamper in the park, and conjecturing that her governess might be with her he betook himself the next morning to the terrace, whence he wandered on to the gardens and the walks beyond.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000027_000002.wav|Then it occurred to him that there might have been something misleading in his so pointedly seeking her, and he felt a momentary constraint.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000013_000000.wav|He was sufficiently self possessed to tell himself that it was doubtless due to causes with which he was not directly concerned.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000017_000000.wav|The essential cheapness of the whole affair-as far as his share in it was concerned-came home to him with humiliating distinctness.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000079_000001.wav|Only-just what did it signify?|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000033_000003.wav|"If I did, it was because you so emphatically refused to let me help you to a start."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000021_000000.wav|The stillness was presently broken by joyful barks, and Darrow, tracking the sound, overtook Effie flying down one of the long alleys at the head of her pack.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000035_000000.wav|Darrow felt the blood in his cheek.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000016_000001.wav|This discrepancy, which at the time had seemed to simplify the incident, now turned out to be its most galling complication.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000025_000000.wav|"But it's barely ten minutes past.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000068_000002.wav|And you'll give me a chance to talk things over with you?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000014_000000.wav|This obscured, if it narrowed, the field of conjecture; and Darrow's gropings threw him back on the conclusion that he was probably reading too much significance into the moods of a lad he hardly knew, and who had been described to him as subject to sudden changes of humour.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000057_000000.wav|"And is THAT what you've told mrs Leath?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000015_000002.wav|On the score of that one, at least, his mind, if not easy, was relieved.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000079_000004.wav|Darrow, through the rapid flight of the shadows, could not seize on any specific indication of feeling: he merely perceived that the young man was unaccountably surprised at finding him with Miss Viner, and that the extent of his surprise might cover all manner of implications.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000050_000002.wav|You wouldn't: you'd hate it.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000079_000002.wav|Owen, like Sophy Viner, had the kind of face which seems less the stage on which emotions move than the very stuff they work in.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000039_000001.wav|"It's extremely friendly of you-I DO believe you mean it as a friend-but I don't quite understand why, finding me, as you say, so well placed here, you should show more anxiety about my future than at a time when I was actually, and rather desperately, adrift."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000016_000002.wav|The bare truth, indeed, was that he had hardly thought of her at all, either at the time or since, and that he was ashamed to base his judgement of her on his meagre memory of their adventure.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000037_000000.wav|She walked on beside him, her eyes on the ground.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000022_000002.wav|For the first time he saw in her again the sidelong grace that had charmed his eyes in Paris; but he saw it now as in a painted picture.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000045_000000.wav|She took a few hesitating steps and then paused again.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000069_000000.wav|She shook her head with a faint smile.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000030_000001.wav|"It's delightful: you couldn't be better placed.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000015_000007.wav|The fear that beset him was of another kind, and had a profounder source.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000050_000001.wav|"I don't say you'd LIKE to do it.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000026_000001.wav|"If you like," she said in a low voice, with one of her quick fluctuations of colour; but instead of taking the way he proposed she turned toward a narrow path which branched off obliquely through the trees.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000080_000002.wav|Presently he was struck by the fact that Owen Leath and the girl were silent also; and this gave a new turn to his thoughts.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000080_000000.wav|Darrow's first idea was that Owen, if he suspected that the conversation was not the result of an accidental encounter, might wonder at his step mother's suitor being engaged, at such an hour, in private talk with her little girl's governess.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000079_000000.wav|The change, for Darrow, was less definable; but, perhaps for that reason, it struck him as more sharply significant.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000032_000000.wav|"It's certainly natural that you should be less restless here than at mrs Murrett's; yet somehow I don't seem to see you permanently given up to forming the young."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000050_000000.wav|"Then you might naturally feel yourself justified in telling her that you don't think I'm the right person for Effie." He uttered a sound of protest, but she disregarded it.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000071_000000.wav|"You'll tell me about that, then-won't you?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000051_000000.wav|She laid the case before him with a cold lucidity.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000035_000004.wav|But he had a fixed purpose ahead and could only push on to it.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000013_000002.wav|But this, again, was negatived by the fact that, during the afternoon's shooting, young Leath had been in a mood of almost extravagant expansiveness, and that, from the moment of his late return to the house till just before dinner, there had been, to Darrow's certain knowledge, no possibility of a private talk between himself and his step mother.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000015_000005.wav|It had been his first business to convince the girl that their secret was safe with him; but it was far from easy to square this with the equally urgent obligation of safe guarding Anna's responsibility toward her child. Darrow was not much afraid of accidental disclosures.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000056_000001.wav|You're too various, too gifted, too personal, to tie yourself down, at your age, to the dismal drudgery of teaching."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000053_000000.wav|"And that's what you're trying to tell me now?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000038_000000.wav|"With all my heart!|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000072_000000.wav|Her smile flickered up.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000015_000006.wav|Both he and Sophy Viner had too much at stake not to be on their guard.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000024_000001.wav|"I'm afraid there's not much time; we must be back at lessons at half past nine."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000076_000001.wav|For the same space of time the past surged up in him confusedly; then a veil dropped between them.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000048_000000.wav|"She told me you were friends-great friends"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000011_000001.wav|Owen was still in the same state of moody abstraction as when Darrow had left him at the piano; and even Anna's face, to her friend's vigilant eye, revealed not, perhaps, a personal preoccupation, but a vague sense of impending disturbance.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000033_000000.wav|"What-exactly-DO you seem to see me permanently given up to?|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000017_000001.wav|He would have liked to be able to feel that, at the time at least, he had staked something more on it, and had somehow, in the sequel, had a more palpable loss to show.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000066_000000.wav|He uttered a protesting exclamation, and his flush reflected itself in the girl's cheek.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000062_000000.wav|"I've told her, simply, that I'd seen you once or twice at mrs Murrett's."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000022_000000.wav|The girl, coming forward at his approach, returned his greeting almost gaily.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000052_000000.wav|"I shouldn't feel justified in telling her, behind your back, if I thought you unsuited for the place; but I should certainly feel justified," he rejoined after a pause, "in telling YOU if I thought the place unsuited to you."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000038_000001.wav|If you'll only let me----"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000050_000004.wav|But supposing that failed, and you saw I was determined to stay?|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000069_000001.wav|"I'm not thinking of the stage. I've had another offer: that's all."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000076_000000.wav|Her colour rose in a bright wave, and her eyes clung to his for a swift instant of reminder and appeal.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000067_000000.wav|"Oh, I beg your pardon!|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000018_000000.wav|The night brought no aid to the solving of this problem; but it gave him, at any rate, the clear conviction that no time was to be lost.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000060_000000.wav|"And what-exactly-do you mean by 'nothing'?|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000075_000000.wav|"I mean, in seeming not to trust you.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000029_000001.wav|"I had to live," she said in an off hand tone.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000074_000000.wav|"Not quite honest?" he repeated, caught in a fresh wave of wonder.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000027_000000.wav|Darrow was struck, and vaguely troubled, by the change in her look and tone.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000047_000001.wav|"A long time-yes."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000036_000000.wav|"I hope, at any rate, you'll listen to my reasons.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000031_000000.wav|She waited for a moment before answering: "I suppose I'm less restless than I used to be."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000037_000001.wav|"Then I'm to understand-definitely-that you DO renew your offer?" she asked|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000027_000003.wav|To ease it he made an abrupt dash at the truth.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000024_000000.wav|The girl looked away from him.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000034_000000.wav|She stopped short and faced him "And you think I may let you now?"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000049_000000.wav|"Yes," he admitted, "we're great friends."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000070_000000.wav|The relief was hardly less great.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000025_000001.wav|Let's at least walk a little way toward the river."|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000040_000000.wav|"Oh, no, not more!"|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000028_000001.wav|I want to hear more about you-about your plans and prospects.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000033_000002.wav|Darrow considered his reply.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4148/183988/4148_183988_000078_000003.wav|Perhaps no one less familiar with her face than Darrow would have discerned the tension of the smile she transferred from himself to Owen Leath, or have remarked that her eyes had hardened from misty grey to a shining darkness.|4148
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000008.wav|I don't remember....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000008_000003.wav|What I say, I afterwards find disconcerting to recall. I want to alter it.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000000.wav|"Life didn't seem so complicated then," Sir Richmond mused.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000026_000000.wav|"I don't know," said the doctor.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000013_000000.wav|Section four|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000002.wav|After all, they probably only thought of death now and then.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000012.wav|I don't believe they know.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000008.wav|Were these hills covered by forests?|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000020_000000.wav|Though they wrestled mightily with the problem, neither Sir Richmond nor the doctor could throw a gleam of light upon the riddle why the ditch was inside and not outside the great wall.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000014_000003.wav|They left the car by the roadside and clambered to the top and were very learned and inconclusive about the exact purpose of this vast heap of chalk and earth, this heap that men had made before the temples at Karnak were built or Babylon had a name.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000000.wav|"Adults with the minds of thirteen year old children.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000006.wav|These walls of earth ought to tell what these people ate, what clothes they wore, what woods they used.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000015_000003.wav|There are drawings of Avebury before these things arose there, when it was a lonely wonder on the plain, but for the most part the destruction was already done before the MAYFLOWER sailed.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000032_000001.wav|And then I suppose that this ditch won't be the riddle it is now."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000005.wav|One thought too much of the stones of the Stone Age.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000003.wav|There was more sunshine then, more laughter perhaps, and blacker despair.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000034_000000.wav|Sir Richmond turned about.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000006.wav|Who would carve these lumps of quartzite when one could carve good oak?|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000012_000002.wav|Sir Richmond communicated hopeful news about his car, which was to arrive the next morning before ten-he'd just ring the fellow up presently to make sure-and dr Martineau retired early and went rather thoughtfully to bed.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000007.wav|Or beech-a most carvable wood. Especially when one's sharpest chisel was a flint.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000002.wav|We drifted from mood to mood and forgot.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000006_000003.wav|He was inclined to think that she and Sir Richmond were unduly obsessed by the idea that they had to stick together because of the child, because of the look of the thing and so forth, and that really each might be struggling against a very strong impulse indeed to break off the affair. It seemed evident to the doctor that they jarred upon and annoyed each other extremely.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000022_000001.wav|"None," he delivered judicially.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000024_000000.wav|"Intensely.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000014_000002.wav|They lunched in Marlborough and went on in the afternoon to Silbury Hill, that British pyramid, the largest artificial mound in Europe.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000011.wav|No such luck.... Now in Glastonbury marshes one found the life of the early iron age-half way to our own times-quite beautifully pickled."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000022_000002.wav|"If one were able to recall one's childhood-at the age of about twelve or thirteen-when the artistic impulse so often goes into abeyance and one begins to think in a troubled, monstrous way about God and Hell, one might get something like the mind of this place."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000027_000000.wav|"Very like children they must have been.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000004.wav|It was the very strangeness of stones here that had made them into sacred things.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000023_000002.wav|These people, you think, were religious?"|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000007_000001.wav|At the fifth Sir Richmond was suddenly conclusive.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000000.wav|"Archaeology is very like remembering," said Sir Richmond.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000027_000001.wav|The same unending days.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000010.wav|These archaeologists don't know.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000007_000002.wav|"It's no use," he said, "I can't fiddle about any more with my motives to day."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000021_000000.wav|"And what was our Mind like in those days?" said Sir Richmond.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000011_000000.wav|There was nothing for dr Martineau to say to that.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000009.wav|But I could easily persuade myself that I had been here before."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000026_000001.wav|"So little is known."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000027_000005.wav|When I was a child I believed that my father's garden had been there for ever....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000005.wav|So they used up their woods and kept goats to nibble and kill the new undergrowth.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000023_000000.wav|"Thirteen.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000003.wav|And they never thought of fuel.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000008_000002.wav|"I admit," he said, "that this expedition has already been a wonderfully good thing for me. These confessions have made me look into all sorts of things-squarely. But-I'm not used to talking about myself or even thinking directly about myself.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000000.wav|The doctor and Sir Richmond walked round the walls, surveyed the shadow cast by Silbury upon the river flats, strolled up the down to the northward to get a general view of the village, had tea and smoked round the walls again in the warm April sunset.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000005_000000.wav|In the evening after dinner dr Martineau sought, rather unsuccessfully, to go on with the analysis of Sir Richmond.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000015_000005.wav|Around this lonely place rise the Downs, now bare sheep pastures, in broad undulations, with a wart like barrow here and there, and from it radiate, creeping up to gain and hold the crests of the hills, the abandoned trackways of that forgotten world.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000010_000000.wav|"I want a rest anyhow...."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000010.wav|I can't remember...."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000006_000000.wav|But Sir Richmond was evidently a creature of moods.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000005.wav|It's over....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000003.wav|"Clumsy treasure hunting," Sir Richmond said.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000010.wav|"A peat bog here, even a few feet of clay, might have pickled some precious memoranda....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000002.wav|Both were inclined to find fault with the archaeological work that had been done on the place.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000009.wav|I don't know.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000006_000005.wav|Accordingly he framed his enquiries so as to make the revelation of a latent antipathy as easy as possible.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000012_000000.wav|The two gentlemen smoked for some time in a slightly uncomfortable silence.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000012_000003.wav|The spate of Sir Richmond's confidences, it was evident, was over.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000021_000001.wav|"That, I suppose, is what interests you.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000007.wav|And what like were those wooden gods of ours?|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000008.wav|"It's wood we ought to look for," said Sir Richmond.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000007_000000.wav|He made several not very well devised beginnings.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000006.wav|Those we brought with us out of the south where the stars are brighter.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000034_000001.wav|"I would like to dig up the bottom of this ditch here foot by foot-and dry the stuff and sift it-very carefully....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000017_000002.wav|But suppose one day someone were to find a potsherd here from early Knossos, or a fragment of glass from Pepi's Egypt."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000018_000000.wav|The place had stirred up his imagination.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000029_000000.wav|"The life we lived here," said the doctor, "has left its traces in traditions, in mental predispositions, in still unanalyzed fundamental ideas."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000011.wav|Or if they do they haven't told me, which is just as bad.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000004.wav|Despair like the despair of children that can weep itself to sleep....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000009_000000.wav|"Yes, but-"|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000008.wav|Or was it cattle pest?|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000006_000001.wav|Either he regretted the extent of his confidences or the slight irrational irritation that he felt at waiting for his car affected his attitude towards his companion, or dr Martineau's tentatives were ill chosen.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000012_000001.wav|dr Martineau cleared his throat twice and lit a second cigar. They then agreed to admire the bridge and think well of Maidenhead.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000030_000004.wav|We sowed our corn in blood here.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000004_000000.wav|Section three|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000022_000000.wav|The doctor pursed his lips.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000006.wav|Was it battle and massacre that ended that long afternoon here? Or did the woods catch fire some exceptionally dry summer, leaving black hills and famine?|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000006.wav|DID these people have goats?"|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000000.wav|The doctor had not realized before the boldness and liveliness of his companion's mind.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000003.wav|This use of stones here was a freak.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000016_000007.wav|Was this a sheep land then as it is now, or a cattle land?|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000008_000004.wav|I can feel myself wallowing into a mess of modifications and qualifications."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000028_000000.wav|"This is very like trying to remember some game one played when one was a child.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000019_000002.wav|These people must have done an enormous lot with wood.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000033_000007.wav|Or did strange men bring a sickness-measles, perhaps, or the black death?|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000025_000001.wav|Thirteen year old children with the strength of adults-and no one to slap them or tell them not to....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76043/5802_76043_000015_000006.wav|These trackways, these green roads of England, these roads already disused when the romans made their highway past Silbury Hill to Bath, can still be traced for scores of miles through the land, running to Salisbury and the English Channel, eastward to the crossing at the Straits and westward to Wales, to ferries over the Severn, and southwestward into Devon and Cornwall.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000001_000000.wav|"Let it rest then," said the doctor generously.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000052_000003.wav|Bast cloth.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000026_000001.wav|At the side of the road stood a travel stained middle class automobile, with a miscellany of dusty luggage, rugs and luncheon things therein-a family automobile with father no doubt at the wheel.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000019_000000.wav|"I can prescribe nothing better," said dr Martineau.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000002.wav|I guess this was covered in all right.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000038_000000.wav|"If you are looking for a small, resolute boy of six," said Sir Richmond, addressing himself to the lady on the rock rather than to the angry parent below, "he's perfectly safe and happy.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000003.wav|I stood with my feet upon the Stone Age and saw myself four thousand years away, and all my distresses as very little incidents in that perspective.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000004.wav|Beech stems, smooth, like pillars.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000023_000000.wav|Section one|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000042_000003.wav|But she insists on dates."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000033_000001.wav|The two gentlemen lingered at the turnstile for a moment or so to watch his proceedings.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000033_000004.wav|But motor cars are gods."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000003.wav|A dark hunched old place in a wood.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000009_000003.wav|Generally you are doing what you want to do-overdoing, in fact, what you want to do and getting simply tired."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000064_000000.wav|"Something horrid," said Anthony's younger sister to her elder in a stage whisper.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000035_000000.wav|"Reminds me of Martin's little girl," said Sir Richmond, as he and dr Martineau went on towards the circle.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000067_000002.wav|"Now why do you think they came in THERE?" he asked.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000018_000001.wav|But he did not open it.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000048_000000.wav|"I don't SEE the place," said the young lady on the stone.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000053_000001.wav|It's really a delightful idea;" said the father of the family, enjoying it.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000030_000000.wav|"It's only an old beach," said the small boy, with extreme conviction. "It's rocks like the seaside.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000004_000000.wav|"And for the first time my damned Committee has mattered scarcely a rap."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000066_000004.wav|Sir Richmond was evidently prepared to confirm it.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000033_000002.wav|"Modern child," said Sir Richmond.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000006_000003.wav|That I needn't bother about further....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000050_000000.wav|"It's just the bones of a place.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000051_000000.wav|"But what things?" asked Sir Richmond.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000055_000000.wav|"Or they may have used wicker," the young lady went on, undismayed.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000007_000000.wav|"I shouldn't say that-quite-yet," said the doctor.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000009.wav|One goes back to one's home unable to recover. Fighting it over again.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000054_000000.wav|"It's quite a possible one," said Sir Richmond.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000011_000005.wav|Your problems are problems of conscious conduct."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000057_000001.wav|"In which case it wouldn't have stood out.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000008.wav|The torches were put out and the priests did their mysteries.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000067_000001.wav|He smiled down at her.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000017_000000.wav|"But the dust chokes me," said Sir Richmond.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000060_000000.wav|"Which may have pointed to the midsummer sunrise," said dr Martineau, unheeded.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000040_000000.wav|The excitement about Master Anthony collapsed.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000012_000000.wav|"As I said."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000041_000001.wav|"How old do YOU think it is?"|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000009.wav|Until dawn broke.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000046_000000.wav|"Ah!" said the young lady, as who should say, 'This man at least talks sense.'|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000014_000000.wav|Sir Richmond did not answer that....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000005.wav|There is no past any longer, there is no future, there is only the rankling dispute.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000008_000003.wav|What you get is a quite open and recognized discord of two sets of motives."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000036_000003.wav|She was a black haired, sun burnt individual and she stood with her arms akimbo, quite frankly amused at the disappearance of Master Anthony, and offering no sort of help for his recovery.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000042_000002.wav|Before chronology existed....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000010.wav|All night sometimes....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000020_000000.wav|"I don't want to think of them," said Sir Richmond.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000001.wav|This day particularly has been a good day.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000010.wav|That is how they worked it."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000021_000000.wav|CHAPTER THE SIXTH|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000020_000002.wav|Until my skin has grown again."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000026_000002.wav|Sir Richmond left his own trim coupe at its tail.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000011_000004.wav|Practically open.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000062_000000.wav|"Well," said the young lady, "I guess there was some sort of show here anyhow.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000003_000000.wav|"The healing touch of history."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000052_000004.wav|Fibre of all sorts.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000033_000003.wav|"Old stones are just old stones to him.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000022_000000.wav|THE ENCOUNTER AT STONEHENGE|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000039_000001.wav|So THAT'S it!" said Papa.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000052_000000.wav|"Oh! they had things all right.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000063_000000.wav|"But even you can't tell what the show was, v v" said the lady in grey, who was standing now at dr Martineau's elbow.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000011_000000.wav|"Yes," said the doctor.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000042_000000.wav|The father of Anthony intervened, also with a shadow of controversy in his manner.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000050_000001.wav|They hung things round it.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000052_000002.wav|Mats of rushes.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000067_000000.wav|With a queer little twinge of infringed proprietorship, the doctor saw Sir Richmond step up on the prostrate megalith and stand beside her, the better to appreciate her point of view.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000020_000001.wav|"Let me get right away from everything.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000025_000003.wav|"It looks," Sir Richmond said, "as though some old giantess had left a discarded set of teeth on the hillside." Far more impressive than Stonehenge itself were the barrows that capped the neighbouring crests.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000050_000002.wav|They draped it."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000055_000002.wav|"Wicker IS likelier."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000018_000003.wav|"I do not think that I shall stir up my motives any more for a time.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000034_000000.wav|"You can hardly expect him to understand-at his age," said the custodian, jealous for the honor of Stonehenge....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000057_000002.wav|It doesn't stand out so very much even now."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000052_000001.wav|Skins perhaps.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000028_000000.wav|"She keeps on looking at it," said the small boy.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000041_000000.wav|"We were discussing the age of this old place," she said, smiling in the frankest and friendliest way.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000055_000001.wav|She seemed to concede a point.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000052_000005.wav|Wadded stuff."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000008_000001.wav|I'm not an overlaid sort of person.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000005_000000.wav|Sir Richmond stretched himself in his chair and blinked cheerfully at his cigar smoke.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000009_000000.wav|The doctor considered.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000012.wav|Martineau, how is one to get the Avebury frame of mind to Westminster?"|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000065_000001.wav|"SQUEALS!...."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000045_000000.wav|Sir Richmond sought a recognizable datum.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000029_000000.wav|"You won't SEE Stonehenge every day, young man," said the custodian, a little piqued.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000008.wav|At last one is reduced to a little, raw, bleeding, desperately fighting, pin point of SELF....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000006_000004.wav|So far as that goes, I think we have done all that there is to be done."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000025_000001.wav|Sir Richmond was frankly disappointed.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000048_000001.wav|"I can't imagine how they did it up-not one bit."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000015_000000.wav|"This pilgrimage of ours," he said, presently, "has made for magnanimity.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/76044/5802_76044_000039_000002.wav|"Winnie, go and tell Price he's gone back to the car....|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000010_000000.wav|"For example?" said the Doctor.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000013_000008.wav|A counter pain set in immediately.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000005_000001.wav|"And as for the music cure I don't know anything about it.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000015_000010.wav|Nothing in it?|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000015_000004.wav|If a baby has whooping cough, an anxious mother, instead of ringing up the Doctor, will go to the piano and give the child a dose of Hiawatha.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000011_000017.wav|I didn't wake up this time until nine o'clock the next day, the rest of the party having gone off without awakening me, as a sort of joke.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000003_000001.wav|"You ought to submit your tongue to some scientific student of dynamics.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000002_000004.wav|There's nothing but one quinine pill and a soda mint drop in it, and if there's anything in the music cure I don't think I'll have it filled again.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000011_000013.wav|That was one instance.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000020_000001.wav|"Because there are no more drugs must the physician walk?"|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000011_000010.wav|I rubbed my eyes and looked about me.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000021_000000.wav|"Not at all," said the Idiot.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000015_000003.wav|Scientific experiment will demonstrate before long what composition will cure specific ills.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000011_000011.wav|It was true, the great auditorium was empty, and was gradually darkening.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000020_000000.wav|"And why, pray?" asked the Doctor.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000015_000008.wav|People suffering from sleeplessness can dose themselves back to normal conditions again with Wagner the way I did.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000000_000000.wav|THE GENIAL IDIOT DISCUSSES THE MUSIC CURE|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000001_000000.wav|BY john KENDRICK BANGS|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000013_000000.wav|"That may be," said the Idiot.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000011_000012.wav|I put on my hat and walked out refreshed, having slept from five twenty until twelve, or six hours and forty minutes, straight.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000004_000000.wav|"I will consider your suggestion," replied the Idiot.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000007_000000.wav|"You'll have to go to somebody else for the information," said the Doctor.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000018_000000.wav|"And the Doctor?|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000008_000000.wav|"I have seen a reference to it somewhere," put in mr Whitechoker, coming to the Idiot's rescue.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000011_000003.wav|Suddenly somebody presented me with a couple of tickets for a performance of Parsifal and I went.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000018_000001.wav|And the Doctor's gig and all the appurtenances of his profession-what becomes of them?" demanded the Doctor.|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5802/66347/5802_66347_000017_000003.wav|This alone will serve to popularize sickness and instead of being driven out of business their trade will pick up."|5802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000014_000000.wav|ANSWER: But in the same sentence the doctor takes all this back by adding: "There are a great many things in his history that are not historical." If so, then we do not possess "a very distinctly outlined history," but at best a mixture of fact and fiction.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000038_000000.wav|three|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000040_000001.wav|Critics have discovered mistakes in Darwin and Haeckel, but are these mistakes of such a nature as to prove fatal to the theory of evolution?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000033_000001.wav|All church historians admit the existence of sects that denied the New Testament Jesus-the Gnostics, the Essenes, the Ebionites, the Marcionites, the Cerinthians, etc|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000051_000000.wav|"Paul tells us nothing of the kind.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000002_000001.wav|If the criticism is just, it prevents us from making the same mistake twice; if it is unjust, it gives us an opportunity to correct the error our critic has fallen into.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000010_000000.wav|Because Mohammed is historical, it does not follow that Moses is also historical.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000029_000000.wav|One instance, however, he is able to remember which "when it fell upon my ears," he writes, "it struck me with such amazement, that it completely drove from my mind a series of most astonishing statements of various sorts which had just preceded it."|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000030_000000.wav|We refrain from commenting on the excuse given to explain so significant a failure of memory.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000028_000000.wav|Invited by several people to prove these charges, the Reverend replies: "In the absence of any full report of what he (M.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000056_000001.wav|The editor promised to locate the responsibility for the contradiction.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000022_000000.wav|When Mosheim declares that "The prevalent opinion among early Christians was that Christ existed in appearance only," he could not have meant by 'Christ' only a title.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000042_000000.wav|To charge that we have said 'Gospel,' where we should have said 'Epistle,' or 'Trullum' instead of 'Trullo'; that it was not Barnabas, but Nicholas who denied the Gospel Jesus, and that there were variations of this denial, does not at all disprove the fact that, according to the Christian scriptures themselves, among the apostolic followers there were those to whom Jesus Christ was only a phantom.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000024_000001.wav|The Hebrew illusion said, Christ was coming; the Christian illusion says, Christ has come.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000018_000000.wav|REV. dr|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000002_000000.wav|Criticism is welcome.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000049_000002.wav|Our desire, in engaging in this argument, is to turn the thought and love of the world from a mythical being, to humanity, which is both real and present.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000020_000000.wav|But if the 'Christ' which the hebrews expected was "purely mythical," what makes the same 'Christ' in the supposed Tacitus passage historical?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000037_000000.wav|The gospel of john also hints at the existence in the primitive church of Christians who did not accept the reality of Jesus.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000048_000000.wav|john did not write the epistles, then, which the Christian church for two thousand years, and at a cost of millions of dollars, and at the greater sacrifice of truth and progress has been proclaiming to the world as the work of the inspired john!|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000003_000000.wav|FROM THE SUNDAY PROGRAMS|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000000_000000.wav|APPENDIX|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000057_000003.wav|It is a stock argument and not to the point."|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000002_000003.wav|But the question is, does a teacher suppress the facts?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000011_000000.wav|REV. dr|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000021_000003.wav|William Tell is a myth-not the name, but the man the name stands for.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000005_000000.wav|Now that the debate on one of the most vital questions of modern religious thought-The Historicity of Jesus-is in print, a few further reflections on some minor points in dr Crapsey's argument may add to the value of the published copy.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000057_000001.wav|But it is with pleasure that the Independent Religious Society gives Rabbi Hirsch this opportunity to explain his position.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000002_000002.wav|No one's knowledge is perfect.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000047_000001.wav|In his recent letter he denies that the apostle ever made such a complaint.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000035_000000.wav|Incidents like the above, however, should change every lukewarm rationalist into a devoted soldier of truth and honor.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000043_000001.wav|Was ever such a view entertained of Caesar, Socrates or of any other historical character?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000008_000000.wav|Religions, as well as their variations, appear as new branches do upon an old tree.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000055_000002.wav|But I have no proof for this beyond my feeling that the movement with which the name is associated could even for Paul not have taken its nomenclature without a personal substratum.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000057_000004.wav|This is extraordinary; and as the Rabbi does not question the statement, we infer that it is a correct report of what he said.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000013_000000.wav|REV. dr|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000041_000002.wav|It is the blow that disables which counts.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000050_000001.wav|Paul tells us that he lived in Jerusalem at a time when Jesus must have been holding the attention of the city; yet he never met him." To this the clergyman replies:|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000021_000005.wav|To answer that Jesus is historical, but The Anointed is not, is to evade the question.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000016_000004.wav|We know nothing of his childhood, nothing of his old age, if he lived to be old, and of his youth, we know just enough to fill up a year.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000036_000002.wav|As early as John's time, if he is the writer of the epistle, Jesus' historicity was questioned.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000016_000000.wav|ANSWER: How long was "the time from the opening of Jesus' public career until the time that it closed?"--One year!--according to the three gospels.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000016_000005.wav|Under the circumstances, there is no comparison between the public career of a Caesar or a Socrates covering from fifty to seventy years of time, and that of a Jesus of whose life only one brief year is thrown upon the canvas.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000009_000000.wav|But the popular imagination craves a Maker for the Universe, a founder for Rome, a first man for the human race, and a great chief as the starter of the tribe.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000036_000000.wav|To us, more important than anything presented on this subject, is this evidence of the existence of a very early dispute among the first disciples of Jesus on the question of whether he was real or merely an apparition.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000016_000001.wav|It sounds quite a period to speak of "following his public career" from beginning to end, especially when compared with Caesar's, until it is remembered that the entire public career of Jesus covers the space of only one year.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000032_000001.wav|Does it justify hasty language?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000055_000004.wav|The News reports the Rabbi as saying, "But we know through the Rabbinical Books that Jesus lived."|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000032_000000.wav|This is his most serious complaint.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000007_000001.wav|Mithraism is a variant religion, which at one time spread over the Roman Empire and came near outclassing Christianity.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000053_000000.wav|In other words, only those passages in the bible are authentic which the clergy quote; those which the rationalists quote are spurious.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000001_000002.wav|We shall present these together with our reply as they appeared on the Sunday Programs of the Independent Religious Society.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000031_000000.wav|And what was the statement which, while it crippled his memory, it did not moderate his zeal?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000016_000003.wav|With the exception of one year, his whole life is hid in impenetrable darkness.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000006_000000.wav|REV. dr|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000034_000000.wav|As the debate is now in print, further comment on this would not be necessary.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000051_000002.wav|john did not write the epistles, and Paul's speech in the Book of Acts was put into his mouth!|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000040_000000.wav|The strength of a given criticism is determined by asking: Does it in any way impair the soundness of the argument against which it is directed?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000002_000004.wav|Does he insist on remaining ignorant of the facts?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000055_000001.wav|I personally believe Jesus lived.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288043/1289_288043_000026_000000.wav|The minister of the South Congregational Church, who heard the debate, has publicly called your lecturer an "unscrupulous sophist," who "practices imposition upon a popular audience" and who "put forth sentence after sentence which every scholar present knew to be a perversion of the facts so outrageous as to be laughable."|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000051_000001.wav|Goldwin Smith to exclaim: "Jesus has flown.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000016_000001.wav|After two thousand years, it is still uncertain to whom we are indebted for the story of Jesus.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000055_000000.wav|Speaking in this city, Rev.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000020_000002.wav|It concedes all that higher criticism contends for.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000055_000002.wav|He mentioned the placing.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000007_000000.wav|The above reply, we are compelled to say, much to our regret, is not even honest.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000013_000001.wav|The clergyman's words, however, convey the impression that Paul knew Jesus in the flesh, but he valued that, knowledge "comparatively lightly," that is to say, he did not think much of it.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000055_000001.wav|w h Wray Boyle of Lake Forest, declared that unbelief was responsible for the worst crimes in history.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000048_000001.wav|But we are satisfied to rest the case on orthodox admissions alone.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000025_000002.wav|The date of your own letter nineteen o eight tells what?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000061_000000.wav|Hypatia was murdered in church, and by the clergy, because she was not orthodox.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000004_000000.wav|"mr Mangasarian," says dr Barton, "has not given evidence of his skill as a logician or of his accuracy in the use of history." Then he proceeds to apologize, in a way, for the character of his reply to our argument, by saying that "mr|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000033_000001.wav|Your own church began with Henry the Eighth in fifteen thirty four, with persecution and murder, when the king, his hands wet with the blood of his own wives and ministers, made himself the supreme head of the church in England.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000004_000001.wav|Mangasarian's arguments, fortunately, do not require to be taken very seriously, for they are not in themselves serious."|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000043_000001.wav|Let us see how much the church scholars themselves know about Paul:|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000019_000005.wav|Fiction is honest because it does not try to deceive.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000008_000000.wav|The Reverend debater attempts to belittle the Jerusalem career of Jesus, by suggesting that he was not there much, when according to the Gospels, it was in that city that his ministry began and culminated.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000005.wav|And which 'four' does the clergyman accept as doubtlessly "genuine?" Only yesterday all thirteen of Paul's letters were infallible, and they are so still wherever no questions are asked about them.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000019_000007.wav|If the Gospel was a novel, no one would object to its mythology, but pretending to be historical, it must square its claims with the facts, or be branded as a forgery.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000029_000000.wav|While this is amusing, we are going to deny ourselves the pleasure of laughing at it; we will do our best to give it a serious answer.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000031_000001.wav|The Catholics and the other sects do not believe that Anderson is a descendant of Jesus.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000007.wav|As honesty and culture increase, the number of inspired epistles decreases.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000041_000001.wav|Morton Culver Hartzell, in a letter, offers the same argument.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000065_000003.wav|The tired warrior fell asleep from great weariness. Then Jael picked a tent peg and with a hammer in her hand "walked softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground...So he died."|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000029_000001.wav|If the existence of such a country as Palestine proves that Jesus is real, the existence of Switzerland must prove that William Tell is historical; and the existence of an Athens must prove that Athene and Apollo really lived; and from the fact that there is an England, reverend Shayler would prove that Robin Hood and his band really lived in eleven sixty.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000018_000009.wav|How does the Reverend Barton like the conclusion to which his own reasoning leads him?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000002_000002.wav|He has recently expressed himself on the Mangasarian Crapsey Debate.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000025_000000.wav|"In answer to your query, which I received, I beg to give the following statement.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000019_000006.wav|Forgery is dishonest because its object is to deceive.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000020_000003.wav|We are not sure either of Jesus' words or of his character, intimates the Reverend preacher.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000019_000003.wav|The doctor admits the charge, except that he calls it by another name.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000063_000001.wav|For this act the clergy placed his portrait on the altar in the churches between two great lighted candle sticks.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000035_000000.wav|reverend Shayler concludes: "Haven't time to go deeper now," and he intimates that to deny his 'facts' is either to be a fool or a "liar." We will not comment on this.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000034_000003.wav|If Jesus rose at all, he rose on a certain day, and the apostles must have known the date.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000037_000001.wav|It went farther; it made its appearance in the pulpit.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000025_000003.wav|one thousand nine hundred eight years after what?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000002.wav|Only four?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000052_000001.wav|In other words, the church has proceeded on the theory that two uncertainties make a certainty.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000028_000000.wav|reverend Shayler continues: "The places where he was born, labored and died are still extant, and have no value apart from such testimony."|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000010_000001.wav|There is not a single miracle, parable or moral teaching attributed to Jesus in the Gospels of which Paul seems to possess any knowledge whatever.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000047_000001.wav|Edwin Hatch, d d, Vice Principal, saint Mary Hall, Oxford, England.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000012_000001.wav|To this the pastor of the First Congregational Church of Oak Park replies in the same we do not care to explain style.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000007_000002.wav|The question is not how often Jesus visited Jerusalem, but how conspicuous was the part he played there.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000002_000001.wav|w e Barton, of Oak Park, is one of the ablest Congregational ministers in the West.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000013_000002.wav|And dr Barton is one of the foremost divines of the country.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000012_000000.wav|Once more; we say that the only Jesus Paul knew was the one he met in a trance on his way to Damascus.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000003.wav|Paul has thirteen epistles in the bible, and of only four of them is dr Barton certain.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000060_000002.wav|She was murdered not by a crazed individual but by the orders of the bishop of Alexandria.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000021_000000.wav|In commenting on our remark that in the eighth century "Pope Hadrian called upon the Christian world to think of Jesus as a man," dr Barton replies with considerable temper: "To date people's right to think of Jesus as a man from that decree is not to be characterized by any polite term." Our neighbor, in the first place, misquotes us in his haste.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000023_000000.wav|seven|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000034_000004.wav|Why then is there a different date every year?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000018_000000.wav|three.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000005_000000.wav|Notwithstanding this protest, dr Barton proceeds to do his best to reply to our position.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000006_000001.wav|Yet Paul never seems to have met Jesus, or to have heard of his teachings or miracles.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000050_000000.wav|Jesus is historical because a man by the name of Paul says so, though we do not know much about Paul.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000011_000000.wav|Nor is it true that it is of no consequence that "Paul seldom quotes the words of Jesus." For it proves that the Gospel Jesus was unknown to Paul, and that he was created at a later date.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000038_000001.wav|"This, too, just as though Paul never bore testimony."|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000039_000001.wav|But one thing prevented him:--the lack of evidence.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000020_000004.wav|Precisely.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000003_000000.wav|The Reverend gentleman begins by an uncompromising denial of our statements, and ends by virtually admitting all that we contend for. This morning we will write of his denials; next Sunday, of his admissions.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000025_000001.wav|Facts, not theories.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000027_000003.wav|According to this clergyman, scientists, instead of studying the crust of the earth and making geological investigations to ascertain the probable age of the earth, ought to look at the date in the margin of the bible which tells exactly the world's age.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000051_000002.wav|I believe the legend of Jesus was made by many minds working under a great religious impulse-one man adding a parable, another an exhortation, another a miracle story;"--and George Eliot to write: "The materials for a real life of Christ do not exist."|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000025_000004.wav|The looking forward of the world to Him."|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000006.wav|It is only where there is intelligence and inquiry that "four of them" at least are reliable.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000012_000002.wav|He says: "Nor is it of consequence that Paul values comparatively lightly, having known him in the flesh."|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000031_000000.wav|"A line of apostles and bishops coming right down from him by his appointment to Anderson of Chicago," shows that Jesus is historical. It does, but only to Episcopalians.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000033_000003.wav|Gibbon writes of Constantine that "the same year of his reign in which he convened the council of Nice was polluted by the execution, or rather murder, of his eldest son."|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000019_000004.wav|The difference between fiction and forgery is this: the former is, what it claims to be; the latter is a lie parading as a truth.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000059_000000.wav|The story of a "nude woman," etc, is pure fiction, and that the two murders were caused by unbelief is mere assumption.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000036_000000.wav|eight|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000052_000000.wav|In the effort to untie the Jesus knot by Paul, the church has increased the number of knots to two.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000034_000000.wav|But our clerical neighbor from Oak Park has one more argument: "Why is Sunday observed instead of Saturday?" Well, why?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000037_000000.wav|One of our Sunday programs, the other day, found its way into a church.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000007_000001.wav|Without actually telling any untruths, it suggests indirectly two falsehoods: First, that Jesus was not much in Jerusalem-that he was there only on a few occasions; and that, therefore, it is not strange that Paul did not see him or hear of his preaching or miracles; and second, that Paul was absent from the city when Jesus was there.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000026_000001.wav|The ancient Greeks reckoned time by the Olympiads, which fact, according to this interesting clergyman, ought to prove that the Olympic games were instituted by the God Heracles or Hercules, son of Zeus; the Roman Chronology began with the building of Rome by Romulus, which by the same reasoning would prove that Romulus and Remus, born of Mars, and nursed by a she wolf, are historical.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000016_000002.wav|What, in dr Barton's opinion, could have influenced the framers of the life of Jesus to suppress their identity?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000065_000001.wav|Sisera, a heathen, having lost a battle, begged for shelter at the tent of Jael, a friendly woman, but of the Bible faith.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000026_000000.wav|reverend Shayler has an original way of proving the historicity of Jesus. Every time we date our letters, suggests the clergyman, we prove that Jesus lived.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000060_000001.wav|Her innocent blood stained the hands of the clergy, who also handle the Holy Sacraments.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000017_000004.wav|What are the remaining nine doing in the Holy Bible?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000063_000000.wav|three. james CLEMENT, a Catholic, assassinated Henry the third.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000041_000003.wav|The argument in a nutshell is this: Jesus is historical because he is guaranteed by Paul.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000059_000001.wav|To help his creed, the preacher resorts to fable.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000040_000000.wav|Therefore, after announcing the subject, he dismissed it, by remarking that Paul's testimony was enough.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000039_000000.wav|This gave the clergyman a splendid opportunity to present in clear and convincing form the evidence for the reality of Jesus.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000060_000003.wav|How does the true story of Hypatia compare with the fable of "a nude woman placed on a pedestal in the city of Paris?" The Reverend must answer, or never tell an untruth again.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000018_000004.wav|The good man controls his appetites and passions, but his flesh is not any different from anybody else's.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000018_000002.wav|We wonder how many kinds of flesh there are according to dr Barton.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000041_000002.wav|"Let mr Mangasarian first disprove Paul," he writes.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000018_000006.wav|Our point is, that if the New Testament is reliable, in the time of the apostles themselves, the Gnostics, an influential body of Christians, denied that Jesus was any more than an imaginary existence.|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1289/288044/1289_288044_000031_000002.wav|Did the priests of Baal or Moloch prove that these beings existed?|1289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000037_000000.wav|three.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000024_000002.wav|But should any difference arise between them they are to have recourse to law and oaths, according as may be agreed between the parties.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000036_000003.wav|This to be honestly, loyally, and without fraud.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000013_000002.wav|Upon hearing this he went up to look, and having done so, being unwilling to venture upon the decisive step of a battle before his reinforcements came up, and fancying that he would have time to retire, bid the retreat be sounded and sent orders to the men to effect it by moving on the left wing in the direction of Eion, which was indeed the only way practicable.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000013_000012.wav|The men who had taken up and rescued Brasidas, brought him into the town with the breath still in him: he lived to hear of the victory of his troops, and not long after expired.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000013_000013.wav|The rest of the army returning with Clearidas from the pursuit stripped the dead and set up a trophy.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000010_000004.wav|He never dreamed of any one coming out to fight him, but said that he was rather going up to view the place; and if he waited for his reinforcements, it was not in order to make victory secure in case he should be compelled to engage, but to be enabled to surround and storm the city.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000041_000001.wav|This completes the history of the first war, which occupied the whole of the ten years previously.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000010_000007.wav|Indeed, it seemed a mistake not to have brought down engines with him; he could then have taken the town, there being no one to defend it.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000039_000000.wav|five.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000012_000002.wav|I imagine it is the poor opinion that he has of us, and the fact that he has no idea of any one coming out to engage him, that has made the enemy march up to the place and carelessly look about him as he is doing, without noticing us.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000012_000001.wav|But the plan of attack that I propose to pursue, this it is as well to explain, in order that the fact of our adventuring with a part instead of with the whole of our forces may not damp your courage by the apparent disadvantage at which it places you.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000019_000004.wav|The smart of this accusation, and the reflection that in peace no disaster could occur, and that when Lacedaemon had recovered her men there would be nothing for his enemies to take hold of (whereas, while war lasted, the highest station must always bear the scandal of everything that went wrong), made him ardently desire a settlement.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000010_000006.wav|He thought to retire at pleasure without fighting, as there was no one to be seen upon the wall or coming out of the gates, all of which were shut.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000013_000008.wav|The result was that the Athenians, suddenly and unexpectedly attacked on both sides, fell into confusion; and their left towards Eion, which had already got on some distance, at once broke and fled.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000029_000002.wav|Every man shall swear by the most binding oath of his country, seventeen from each city.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000021_000000.wav|one.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000012_000007.wav|No cowardice then on your part, seeing the greatness of the issues at stake, and I will show that what I preach to others I can practise myself."|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000017_000005.wav|She also suspected some of the cities in Peloponnese of intending to go over to the enemy and that was indeed the case.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000023_000000.wav|three.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000016_000000.wav|With the beginning of the winter following, Ramphias and his companions penetrated as far as Pierium in Thessaly; but as the Thessalians opposed their further advance, and Brasidas whom they came to reinforce was dead, they turned back home, thinking that the moment had gone by, the Athenians being defeated and gone, and themselves not equal to the execution of Brasidas's designs.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000017_000000.wav|Indeed it so happened that directly after the battle of Amphipolis and the retreat of Ramphias from Thessaly, both sides ceased to prosecute the war and turned their attention to peace.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000014_000002.wav|They also gave the Athenians back their dead.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000029_000000.wav|nine.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000036_000002.wav|But if the invader be gone after plundering the country, that city shall be the enemy of Lacedaemon and Athens, and shall be chastised by both, and one shall not make peace without the other.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000007_000002.wav|These last were scattered in various directions; but the upper classes came to an agreement with the Syracusans, abandoned and laid waste their city, and went and lived at Syracuse, where they were made citizens.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000028_000000.wav|eight.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000012_000000.wav|"Peloponnesians, the character of the country from which we have come, one which has always owed its freedom to valour, and the fact that you are Dorians and the enemy you are about to fight Ionians, whom you are accustomed to beat, are things that do not need further comment.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000011_000001.wav|He did not venture to go out in regular order against the Athenians: he mistrusted his strength, and thought it inadequate to the attempt; not in numbers-these were not so unequal-but in quality, the flower of the Athenian army being in the field, with the best of the Lemnians and Imbrians.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000016_000001.wav|The main cause however of their return was because they knew that when they set out Lacedaemonian opinion was really in favour of peace.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000005_000000.wav|The next summer the truce for a year ended, after lasting until the Pythian games.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000037_000003.wav|This to be honestly, loyally, and without fraud.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000005_000001.wav|During the armistice the Athenians expelled the Delians from Delos, concluding that they must have been polluted by some old offence at the time of their consecration, and that this had been the omission in the previous purification of the island, which, as I have related, had been thought to have been duly accomplished by the removal of the graves of the dead.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000011_000004.wav|He accordingly picked out a hundred and fifty heavy infantry and, putting the rest under Clearidas, determined to attack suddenly before the Athenians retired; thinking that he should not have again such a chance of catching them alone, if their reinforcements were once allowed to come up; and so calling all his soldiers together in order to encourage them and explain his intention, spoke as follows:|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000025_000000.wav|five.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000026_000000.wav|six.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000015_000001.wav|While they delayed there, this battle took place and so the summer ended.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000008_000000.wav|During his voyage along the coast to and from Sicily, he treated with some cities in Italy on the subject of friendship with Athens, and also fell in with some Locrian settlers exiled from Messina, who had been sent thither when the Locrians were called in by one of the factions that divided Messina after the pacification of Sicily, and Messina came for a time into the hands of the Locrians.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000022_000001.wav|The temple and shrine of Apollo at Delphi and the Delphians shall be governed by their own laws, taxed by their own state, and judged by their own judges, the land and the people, according to the custom of their country.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126959/548_126959_000034_000002.wav|Accordingly, after conference with the Athenian ambassadors, an alliance was agreed upon and oaths were exchanged, upon the terms following:|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000009_000001.wav|As we think, at any rate, it is expedient-we speak as we are obliged, since you enjoin us to let right alone and talk only of interest-that you should not destroy what is our common protection, the privilege of being allowed in danger to invoke what is fair and right, and even to profit by arguments not strictly valid if they can be got to pass current.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000011_000001.wav|And how, pray, could it turn out as good for us to serve as for you to rule?|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000030_000004.wav|This, if you are well advised, you will guard against; and you will not think it dishonourable to submit to the greatest city in Hellas, when it makes you the moderate offer of becoming its tributary ally, without ceasing to enjoy the country that belongs to you; nor when you have the choice given you between war and security, will you be so blinded as to choose the worse.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000003_000002.wav|Make no set speech yourselves, but take us up at whatever you do not like, and settle that before going any farther.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000029_000001.wav|But they would have others to send.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000010_000002.wav|This, however, is a risk that we are content to take.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000004_000000.wav|The Melian commissioners answered:|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000033_000001.wav|Subsequently the Athenians returned with most of their army, leaving behind them a certain number of their own citizens and of the allies to keep guard by land and sea. The force thus left stayed on and besieged the place.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000014_000001.wav|No; for your hostility cannot so much hurt us as your friendship will be an argument to our subjects of our weakness, and your enmity of our power.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000030_000006.wav|Think over the matter, therefore, after our withdrawal, and reflect once and again that it is for your country that you are consulting, that you have not more than one, and that upon this one deliberation depends its prosperity or ruin.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000017_000002.wav|For here again if you debar us from talking about justice and invite us to obey your interest, we also must explain ours, and try to persuade you, if the two happen to coincide.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000006_000001.wav|If you have met to reason about presentiments of the future, or for anything else than to consult for the safety of your state upon the facts that you see before you, we will give over; otherwise we will go on.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000002_000003.wav|These the Melians did not bring before the people, but bade them state the object of their mission to the magistrates and the few; upon which the Athenian envoys spoke as follows:|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000003_000003.wav|And first tell us if this proposition of ours suits you.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000002_000002.wav|Cleomedes, son of Lycomedes, and Tisias, son of Tisimachus, the generals, encamping in their territory with the above armament, before doing any harm to their land, sent envoys to negotiate.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000017_000001.wav|But do you consider that there is no security in the policy which we indicate?|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000007_000002.wav|However, the question in this conference is, as you say, the safety of our country; and the discussion, if you please, can proceed in the way which you propose.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000031_000000.wav|The Athenians now withdrew from the conference; and the Melians, left to themselves, came to a decision corresponding with what they had maintained in the discussion, and answered: "Our resolution, Athenians, is the same as it was at first.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000028_000000.wav|Athenians.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000034_000001.wav|The Corinthians also commenced hostilities with the Athenians for private quarrels of their own; but the rest of the Peloponnesians stayed quiet.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER seventeen|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/548/126961/548_126961_000034_000002.wav|Meanwhile the Melians attacked by night and took the part of the Athenian lines over against the market, and killed some of the men, and brought in corn and all else that they could find useful to them, and so returned and kept quiet, while the Athenians took measures to keep better guard in future.|548
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000013.wav|Karl paid him every attention; and the old man, for he now looked much older than before, submitted to receive his services as well as those of Lilith.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000023_000003.wav|But this night likewise passed in peace; and before it was over, the old woman had taken to speculating in her own mind as to the best way of disposing of the body, seeing it was not at all likely to be troublesome.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000041_000000.wav|As it would not do for an earnest student like Heinrich to be away from his work very often, he had not asked to accompany Lottchen this time. And indeed Karl himself, a little anxious about the result of the scarecrow, greatly preferred going alone.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000000.wav|In a closet in the room hung a number of costumes, which Lilith had at different times worn for her father.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000023_000000.wav|The next night was passed much after the same fashion.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000015_000000.wav|He would have dragged it to the bottom of his garden, past which the Moldau flowed, and plunged it into the stream; but then, should the spectre continue to prove troublesome, it would be almost impossible to reach the body so as to destroy it by fire; besides which, he could not do it without assistance, and the probability of discovery.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000016_000000.wav|He resolved at last to convey the body for the meantime into a concealed cellar in the house, seeing something must be done before his daughter came down.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000020_000001.wav|Without a word spoken on the subject, the three remained together all night; the elders nodding and slumbering occasionally, and Lilith getting some share of repose on a couch.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000042_000006.wav|The delight she experienced at the discovery threw her into a mischievous humour.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000042_000000.wav|While she was waiting for what might happen, the conviction grew upon Lilith, as she reviewed all the past of the story, that these phenomena were the work of the real Karl, and of no vampire.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000012.wav|He was holding his light to look at her last work, and the expression of his face, even in regarding her handiwork, was enough to let her know that he loved her still.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000020_000003.wav|They heard no sound, saw no sight; and when the morning dawned, they separated, chilled and stupid, and for the time beyond fear, to seek repose in their private chambers.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000035_000006.wav|He rushed past her, able only to articulate:|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000005.wav|There he stood in the same spot, no doubt more full of bewilderment than ever, but it was not possible that his face should express more.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000019_000004.wav|But her mind was in a strange state of excitement, partly from the presence of a new sense of love, the pleasure of which all the atmosphere of grief into which it grew could not totally quench.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000035_000003.wav|But the two sat down to their supper, and by the time they had finished the wine, they thought they should like to go to bed.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000000.wav|Meantime, how fared it with Lilith?|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000042_000005.wav|Her suspicions were instantly confirmed: the substance employed was only a gummy wash over the paint.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000001.wav|He had been busy with a fresh embodiment of his favourite subject, into which he had sketched the form of the student as the sufferer.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000052_000004.wav|Before morning, too, the form of Lilith had dawned anew in every picture.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000035_000002.wav|Karl meant to remove this before he went, for it was too comical to fall in with the rest of his proceedings.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000042_000001.wav|In a few moments she was still more sure of this.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000011_000000.wav|To this proposal Karl agreed with hearty thanks, and soon all was arranged.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000004_000000.wav|"Perhaps you were not far wrong.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000013_000004.wav|Mould and model must go together.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000038_000002.wav|Reassured, he soon persuaded himself that the spectre in this case had been the offspring of his own terror haunted brain.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000008.wav|But would he care for her now?|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000045_000000.wav|"I have killed her!|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000048_000000.wav|His lips moved, but no sound came.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000023_000004.wav|But when the painter entered his studio in trepidation the next morning, he found that the form of the lovely Lilith was painted out of every picture in the room.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000008.wav|The discovery that his pictures were restored to their former condition aided, no doubt, in leading him to the same conclusion as the other facts, whatever that conclusion might be-probably that he had been the sport of some evil power, and had been for the greater part of a week utterly bewitched.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000036_000001.wav|The vampire!|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000009_000000.wav|Karl told him the whole story; and the mental process of regarding it for the sake of telling it, revealed to him pretty clearly some of the treatment of which he had been unconscious at the time.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000045_000001.wav|I have killed her!"|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000020_000002.wav|All night the shape of death might be somewhere about the house; but it did not disturb them.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000022_000002.wav|Watching the windows, he had chosen a safe time to enter, and had been hard at work all night on these alterations.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000006.wav|Will it be believed that the moment she was satisfied of this, she was seized by a terrible jealousy, lest Karl should have gone and bitten some one else?|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000006.wav|To see him once more was too great joy.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000019_000005.wav|It comforted her somehow, as a child may comfort when his father is away.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000019_000003.wav|As much as possible, however, they avoided alarming Lilith, who, knowing all they knew, was as silent as they.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000023_000005.wav|This could not be concealed; and Lilith and the servant became aware that the studio was the portion of the house in haunting which the vampire left the rest in peace.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000016_000001.wav|Proceeding to remove it, his consternation as greatly increased when he discovered how the body had grown in weight since he had thus disposed of it, leaving on his mind scarcely a hope that it could turn out not to be a vampire after all.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000011.wav|The shock had acted chiefly upon that part of his mental being which had been so absorbed.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000040_000000.wav|As soon, however, as the house was quite still, Lilith glided noiselessly down the stairs, went into the studio, where as yet there assuredly was no vampire, and concealed herself in a corner.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000001.wav|She too had no doubt that she had seen the body ghost of poor Karl, and that the vampire had, according to rule, paid her the first visit because he loved her best.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000011.wav|It was he sure enough, looking as handsome as ever.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000046_000000.wav|Lilith descended, and approached him noiselessly.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000007.wav|With trembling hands the painter removed the picture from the easel, and turned its face to the wall.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000038_000000.wav|She closed the door of the studio; in the strength of her new hope undressed the figure, put it in its place, concealed the garments-all the work of a few minutes; and then, finding her father just recovering from the worst of his fear, told him there was nothing in the studio but what ought to be there, and persuaded him to go and see.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000011_000001.wav|The only conclusion they could yet arrive at was, that somehow or other the old demon painter must be tamed.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000043_000000.wav|"I will see," she said to herself, "whether I cannot match Karl Wolkenlicht at this game."|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000009_000002.wav|And now the question was, what was to be done next?|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000006.wav|At last he went to his easel, and sat down with a long drawn sigh as if of relief.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000026_000002.wav|All right!|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000027_000000.wav|With a lamp in his hand, he led the way to the cellars, and after searching about a little they discovered it.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000024_000004.wav|But at length Heinrich could bear it no longer.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000019_000000.wav|Already Teufelsbuerst had begun to experience a kind of shrinking from the horrid faces in his own pictures, and to feel disgusted at the abortions of his own mind.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000052_000003.wav|Karl broke it into pieces, and with Lilith's help, who insisted on carrying her share, the whole was soon at the bottom of the Moldau and every trace of its ever having existed removed.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000058_000001.wav|And as soon as he had finished Karl, he began once more to paint Lilith; and when he had painted her, he composed a picture for the very purpose of introducing them together; and in this picture there was neither ugliness nor torture, but human feeling and human hope instead.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000038_000001.wav|He not only saw no one, but found that no further liberties had been taken with his pictures.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000052_000001.wav|Lilith shuddered when she saw it, stained as it was with the wine Heinrich had spilt over it, and almost believed herself the midnight companion of a vampire after all, visiting with him the terrible corpse in which he lived all day.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000052_000000.wav|The first thing they did was to go to the cellar where the plaster mass lay, Karl carrying with him a great axe used for cleaving wood.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000033_000000.wav|So he carried them with him to the studio.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000038_000004.wav|He wandered about the house, himself haunting it like a restless ghost.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000014_000000.wav|"Besides," thought he, with a shudder, "that would be to fix the vampire as a guest for ever."--And the horrors of the past night rushed back upon his imagination with renewed intensity.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000037_000000.wav|Far more courageous than he, because her conscience was more peaceful, Lilith passed on to the studio.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000001.wav|Among them was a large white drapery, which she easily disposed as a shroud.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000006.wav|Lilith had altogether vanished, and in her place stood the dim vampire reiteration of the body that lay extended on the table, staring greedily at the assembled company.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000013_000007.wav|Therefore it would be dangerous to bury it in the garden, or in the cellar.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000016_000002.wav|He could scarcely stir it, and there was but one whom he could call to his assistance-the old woman who acted as his housekeeper and servant.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000000_000000.wav|Karl soon found himself before the house in which his friend Hoellenrachen resided.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000013_000002.wav|What was to be done with it?|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000017_000001.wav|Devoted to her master for many years, and not quite so sensitive to fearful influences as when less experienced in horrors, she showed immediate readiness to render him assistance.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000026_000003.wav|Come along."|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000029_000001.wav|Being red wine, it had the effect Hoellenrachen desired.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000017_000000.wav|He went to her room, roused her, and told her the whole story.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000009.wav|Perhaps he had been quite cured of his longing for a hard heart like hers.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000017_000002.wav|Utterly unable, however, to lift the mass between them, they could only drag and push it along; and such a slow toil was it that there was no time to remove the traces of its track, before Lilith came down and saw a broad white line leading from the door of the studio down the cellarstairs.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000003.wav|At an open door he had painted Lilith passing, with her face buried in a bunch of sweet peas.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000005.wav|She fell fast asleep; and, when morning came, there was not, as far as she could judge, one of those triangular leech like perforations to be found upon her whole body.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000051_000002.wav|They managed at length to agree upon a plan of operation.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000042_000004.wav|She had not looked at it long, before she wetted the tip of her forefinger, and began to rub away at the obliteration.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000023_000001.wav|But the fear had begun to die away a little in the hearts of the women, who did not know what had taken place in the studio on the previous night.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000037_000004.wav|The absurdity next struck her; and with the absurdity flashed into her mind the conviction that this was not the doing of a vampire; for of all creatures under the moon, he could not be expected to be a humorist.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000007_000001.wav|"Vampires are cold, all but the blood."|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000005.wav|The face of this prince of torturers was that of Teufelsbuerst himself.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000039_000000.wav|When night came, Lilith retired to her own room.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000035_000001.wav|He next seated the creature at an easel with its back to the door, so that it should be the first thing the painter should see when he entered.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000003.wav|In a few moments he came up again.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000002_000000.wav|"From the grave, Heinrich, or next door to it."|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000042_000002.wav|Behind the screen where she had taken refuge, hung one of the pictures out of which her portrait had been painted the night before last.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000024_000003.wav|They sat very quiet for some time, for they knew that if they were seen, two vampires would not be so terrible as one, and might occasion discovery.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000034_000000.wav|"What are you about, Heinrich?"|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000053_000000.wav|When they had done, and Lilith, for all his entreaties, would remain with him no longer, Karl took his former clothes with him, and having spent the rest of the night in his old room, dressed in them in the morning.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000004_000001.wav|But get me a horn of ale, for even a vampire is thirsty, you know."|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000026_000000.wav|"I think I know.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000031_000000.wav|In a corner close by the plaster, they found the clothes Karl had worn.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000010.wav|She peeped.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000035_000005.wav|When Teufelsbuerst saw it, he turned and fled with a cry that brought his daughter to his help.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000022_000001.wav|When he left the house, he took with him the key of a small private door, which was so seldom used that, while it remained closed, the key would not be missed, perhaps for many months.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000016.wav|He looked up, evidently rather startled, and saw the face of Lilith in the air: He gave a stifled cry threw himself on his knees with his arms stretched towards her, and moaned-|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000037_000003.wav|It was a strange kind of shock that she experienced when she saw the face, disgusting from its inanity.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000000.wav|But when the painter approached his easel a few hours after, looking more pale and haggard still than he was wont, from the fears of the night, a new bewilderment took possession of him.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000002.wav|With the help of some chalk, she soon made herself ghastly enough, and then placing her lamp on the floor behind the screen, and setting a chair over it, so that it should throw no light in any direction, she waited once more for the vampire.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000000_000001.wav|Knowing his studious habits, he had hoped to see his light still burning, nor was he disappointed.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000007.wav|But though he sat at his easel, he painted none that day; and as often as Karl ventured a glance, he saw him still staring at him.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000046_000001.wav|He did not move.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000026_000001.wav|Stop; let me peep out.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000004.wav|She could not be certain that he had not bitten her, for she had been in such a strange condition of mind that she might not have felt it, but she believed that he had restrained the impulses of his vampire nature, and had left her, lest he should yet yield to them.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000051_000000.wav|Lilith had no idea how far her father had wronged Karl, and though, from thinking over the past, he had no doubt that the painter had drugged him, he did not wish to pain her by imparting this conviction.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000014.wav|At length, one morning, he said in a slow thoughtful tone-|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000003.wav|And then, though he had visited her, he had not, as far as she was aware, deprived her of a drop of blood.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000004.wav|Karl stole a glance at him.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000055_000010.wav|But when all was restored again to the old routine, it became evident that the peculiar direction of his art in which he had hitherto indulged had ceased to interest him.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000017_000003.wav|She knew in a moment what it meant; but not a word was uttered about the matter, and the name of Karl Wolkenlicht seemed to be entirely forgotten.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000013_000001.wav|There lay the awful white block, seeming to his eyes just the same as he had left it.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000014_000001.wav|What would it be to have the dead Karl crawling about his house for ever, now inside, now out, now sitting on the stairs, now staring in at the windows?|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000058_000002.wav|Then Karl knew that he might speak to him of Lilith; and he spoke, and was heard with a smile.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000000_000002.wav|He contrived to bring him to his window, and a moment after, the door was cautiously opened.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000038_000003.wav|But he had no spirit for painting now.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000018_000001.wav|So it was not surprising that the painter abandoned his studio early, and that the three found themselves together in the gorgeous room formerly described, as soon as twilight began to fall.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000013_000006.wav|If inquiry should be made after Wolkenlicht, and this were discovered anywhere on his premises, would it not be enough to bring him at once to the gallows?|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000037_000005.wav|A wild hope sprang up in her mind that Karl was not dead.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000037_000001.wav|She too recoiled a step or two when she saw the figure; but with the sight of the back of Karl, as she supposed it to be, came the longing to see the face that was on the other side. So she crept round and round by the wall, as far off as she could.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000057_000000.wav|"Certainly, sir," answered Karl, jumping up, "where would you like me to sit?"|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000012_000009.wav|They were very different causes, and the effects must be very different.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000004.wav|She soon heard a door move, the sound of which she hardly knew, and then the studio door opened.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000005_000000.wav|"A vampire!" exclaimed Heinrich, retreating a pace, and involuntarily putting himself upon his guard.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000052_000002.wav|But Karl soon reassured her; and a few good blows of the axe revealed a very different core to that which Teufelsbuerst supposed to be in it.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000053_000004.wav|He took his offered hand mechanically, his countenance utterly vacant with idiotic bewilderment. Karl said-|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000007.wav|Would she not make up to him for all her coldness!|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000009_000001.wav|Heinrich was quite sure that his suspicions were correct.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000005.wav|Her heart beat dreadfully, not with fear lest it should be a vampire after all, but with hope that it was Karl.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000054_000000.wav|"I was not well, and thought it better to pay a visit to a friend for a few days; but I shall soon make up for lost time, for I am all right now."|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000013.wav|If she had not seen this, she dared not have shown herself from her hiding place.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000022_000000.wav|Of course this was the work of Lottchen.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000033_000001.wav|There he got hold of the lay figure.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000044_000015.wav|She then made a slight noise to attract Karl's attention.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000013_000003.wav|He dared not open it.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000050_000000.wav|Karl sprang to his feet.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000051_000001.wav|But Lilith was afraid of a reaction of rage and hatred in her father after the terror was removed; and Karl saw that he might thus be deprived of all further intercourse with Lilith, and all chance of softening the old man's heart towards him; while Lilith would not hear of forsaking him who had banished all the human race but herself.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000039_000001.wav|The waters of fear had begun to subside in the house; but the painter and his old attendant did not yet follow her example.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000006_000000.wav|Karl laughed.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000022_000003.wav|Teufelsbuerst attributed them to the vampire, and left the picture as he found it, not daring to put brush to it again.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000035_000004.wav|So they got up and went home, and Karl forgot the lay figure, leaving it in busy motionlessness all night before the easel.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000024_000002.wav|So they took a couple of bottles of wine and some provisions with them, and before midnight found themselves snug in the studio.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000053_000003.wav|The healthy, sunshiny countenance of Karl, let him be ghost or goblin, could not fail to produce somewhat of a tranquillising effect on Teufelsbuerst.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000020_000000.wav|Bedtime came, and no one made a move to go.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000046_000002.wav|She came close to him and said-|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000021_000004.wav|But when he came to the picture, he found, to his astonishment and terror, that the face of one of the group was now turned towards that of the victim, regarding his revival with demoniac satisfaction, and taking pains to prevent the others from discovering it.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000053_000002.wav|The painter started, stared, rubbed his eyes, thought it was another spectral illusion, and was on the point of yielding to his terror, when Karl rose, and approached him with a smile.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000047_000000.wav|"Are you Karl Wolkenlicht?"|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000029_000000.wav|So he took a bottle from his pocket, and after they had had a glass apiece, he dropped a third in blots all over the plaster.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000007_000000.wav|"My hand was warm, was it not, old fellow?" he said.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000037_000006.wav|Of this she soon resolved to make herself sure.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000008_000000.wav|"What a fool I am!" rejoined Heinrich.|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5293/82020/5293_82020_000056_000000.wav|"Karl Wolkenlicht, I should like to paint you."|5293
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000013_000002.wav|The two rode side by side during the famous mooted up hill charge that was disputed so hotly at the time by the Spaniards and afterward by the Democrats.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000022_000001.wav|There were not many of them-perhaps a score-and there was wassail and things to eat, and speeches and the Spaniard was bearded again in recapitulation.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000010_000001.wav|It is a risky process, this love at first sight, before she has seen him in Bradstreet or he has seen her in curl papers.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000032_000003.wav|And he was acutely conscious of a pair of violet eyes that would have drawn Saint Pyrites from his iron pillar-or whatever the allusion is-and of the lady's smile and look-a little frightened, but a look that, with the ever coward heart of a true lover, he could not yet construe.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000023_000005.wav|The jig is up, I tell you."|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000039_000001.wav|The policeman was again a well set up, affable, cool young man who sat by the window smoking cigars.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000027_000001.wav|In a uniform two men who are unlike will look alike; two who somewhat resemble each other in feature and figure will appear as twin brothers.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000015_000000.wav|"Get me a job, Remsen," he said.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000027_000000.wav|Promptly on time the counterfeit presentment of Mounted Policeman O'Roon single footed into the Park on his chestnut steed.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000017_000003.wav|That would be about the ticket.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000036_000000.wav|Remsen touched his cap, looked between the chestnut's ears, and took refuge in vernacularity.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000022_000003.wav|But some remained upon the battlefield.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000016_000000.wav|"No trouble at all," said Remsen.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000018_000000.wav|Remsen was sure that he could.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000023_000004.wav|The jig is up, Remsen.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000000.wav|"Good old Remsen," he said, affably, "I know all about it.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000030_000001.wav|There was work cut out for the impersonator of Policeman O'Roon.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000026_000003.wav|How much alike are we?|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000018_000001.wav|And in a very short time he did.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000035_000000.wav|Who was he?|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000007.wav|Didn't lose my badge, did you, Remsen?|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000030_000002.wav|The chestnut ranged alongside the off bay thirty seconds after the chase began, rolled his eye back at Remsen, and said in the only manner open to policemen's horses:|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000037_000000.wav|"Don't mention it," he said stolidly.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000021_000001.wav|In the car was a chauffeur and an old gentleman with snowy side whiskers and a Scotch plaid cap which could not be worn while automobiling except by a personage. Not even a wine agent would dare do it.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000017_000000.wav|"Yes," said O'Roon, with a look of interest.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000009_000000.wav|THE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROON|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000028_000002.wav|In the vehicle sat an old gentleman with snowy side whiskers and a Scotch plaid cap which could not be worn while driving except by a personage.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000039_000000.wav|At the end of the day Remsen sent the chestnut to his stable and went to O'Roon's room.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000028_000000.wav|Along the driveway in the early morning spun a victoria drawn by a pair of fiery bays.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000026_000005.wav|With your badge, on your horse, in your uniform, will I charm nurse maids and prevent the grass from growing under people's feet in the Park this day.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000029_000003.wav|The bays had bolted.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000002.wav|There was a little row at home, you know, and I cut sticks just to show them.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000037_000001.wav|"We policemen are paid to do these things.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000017_000001.wav|"I took a walk in your Central Park this morning.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000017_000005.wav|I can ride a little and the fresh air suits me. Think you could land that for me?"|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000023_000000.wav|"I'm stewed, Remsen," said O'Roon to his friend.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000013_000001.wav|To this young man Remsen took an especial liking.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000014_000000.wav|After the war Remsen came back to his polo and shad.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000011_000001.wav|The Gentle Riders were recruited from the aristocracy of the wild men of the West and the wild men of the aristocracy of the East.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000033_000000.wav|A little thrill of satisfaction ran through Remsen, because he had a name to give which, without undue pride, was worthy of being spoken in high places, and a small fortune which, with due pride, he could leave at his end without disgrace.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000023_000003.wav|I've got to go on duty in three hours.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000011_000000.wav|During a certain war a troop calling itself the Gentle Riders rode into history and one or two ambuscades.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000016_000002.wav|Any particular line you fancy?"|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000028_000003.wav|At his side sat the lady of Remsen's heart-the lady who looked like pomegranate blossoms and the gibbous moon.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000022_000002.wav|And when daylight threatened them the survivors prepared to depart.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000026_000001.wav|"You see Mounted Policeman O'Roon.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000010_000000.wav|It cannot be denied that men and women have looked upon one another for the first time and become instantly enamored.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000005.wav|I'm going to buy him and take him back with me.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000021_000004.wav|He could have flung himself under the very wheels that conveyed her, but he knew that would be the last means of attracting the attention of those who ride in motor cars. Slowly the auto passed, and, if we place the poets above the autoists, carried the heart of Remsen with it.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000020_000000.wav|It came just as Remsen was strolling into Fifth avenue from his club a few doors away.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000023_000001.wav|"Why do they build hotels that go round and round like catherine wheels? They'll take away my shield and break me.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000022_000004.wav|One of these was Trooper O'Roon, who was not seasoned to potent liquids. His legs declined to fulfil the obligations they had sworn to the police department.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000032_000000.wav|The runaway team was tugged to an inglorious halt by Remsen's tough muscles.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000011_000002.wav|In khaki there is little telling them one from another, so they became good friends and comrades all around.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000031_000001.wav|You're not O'Roon, but it seems to me if you'd lean to the right you could reach the reins of that foolish slow running bay-ah! you're all right; O'Roon couldn't have done it more neatly!"|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000012_000001.wav|The war was a great lark to him, so that he scarcely regretted polo and planked shad.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000006.wav|Oh, yes, and I think my sister-Lady Angela, you know-wants particularly for you to come up to the hotel with me this evening.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000032_000005.wav|But the eloquent appeal was in the eyes of the lady.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000003.wav|I don't believe I told you that my Governor was the Earl of Ardsley. Funny you should bob against them in the Park.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000004.wav|If you damaged that horse of mine I'll never forgive you.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000019_000000.wav|And now at the extreme risk of wearying old gentlemen who carry leather fob chains, and elderly ladies who-but no! grandmother herself yet thrills at foolish, immortal Romeo-there must be a hint of love at first sight.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000034_000000.wav|He opened his lips to speak and closed them again.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000029_000000.wav|Remsen met them coming.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000014_000003.wav|But it seemed that his content was only apparent.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000041_000000.wav|O'Roon smiled with evident satisfaction.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000032_000004.wav|They were asking his name and bestowing upon him wellbred thanks for his heroic deed, and the Scotch cap was especially babbling and insistent.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000017_000002.wav|I'd like to be one of those bobbies on horseback.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000035_000004.wav|Off his beat, exposed, disgraced, discharged.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000035_000002.wav|The badge and the honor of his comrade were in his hands.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000021_000006.wav|Yet he hoped to see her again; for each one fancies that his romance has its own tutelary guardian and divinity.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000032_000001.wav|The driver released his hands from the wrapped reins, jumped from his seat and stood at the heads of the team. The chestnut, approving his new rider, danced and pranced, reviling equinely the subdued bays.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000028_000001.wav|There was something foreign about the affair, for the Park is rarely used in the morning except by unimportant people who love to be healthy, poor and wise.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000031_000000.wav|"Well, you duffer, are you going to do your share?|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000013_000000.wav|One of the troopers was a well set up, affable, cool young man, who called himself O'Roon.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000035_000001.wav|Mounted Policeman O'Roon.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000010_000002.wav|But these things do happen; and one instance must form a theme for this story-though not, thank Heaven, to the overshadowing of more vital and important subjects, such as drink, policemen, horses and earldoms.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000021_000002.wav|But these two were of no consequence-except, perhaps, for the guiding of the machine and the paying for it.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000026_000002.wav|Look at your face-no; you can't do that without a glass-but look at mine, and think of yours.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000027_000002.wav|So Remsen trotted down the bridle paths, enjoying himself hugely, so few real pleasures do ten millionaires have.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000026_000006.wav|I will have your badge and your honor, besides having the jolliest lark I've been blessed with since we licked Spain."|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000012_000000.wav|Ellsworth Remsen, whose old Knickerbocker descent atoned for his modest rating at only ten millions, ate his canned beef gayly by the campfires of the Gentle Riders.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000042_000001.wav|They trailed me down and cornered me here two hours ago.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132073/203_132073_000017_000004.wav|Besides, it's the only thing I could do.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000004_000004.wav|We had confidence in Cypher's sullenness and smouldering ferocity.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000012_000001.wav|"You do not think that Milly will begin to lace?"|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000028_000001.wav|He leaped up and pounded the Klondiker's back.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000026_000000.wav|And then Milly loomed up with a thousand dishes on her bare arm-loomed up big and white and pink and awful as Mount Saint Elias-with a smile like day breaking in a gulch.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000003_000003.wav|His theory was fixed around corned beef hash with poached egg.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000037_000002.wav|But of all the picture's admirers who stood before it, I believe I was the only one who longed for Boadicea to stalk from her frame, bringing me corned beef hash with poached egg.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000006_000004.wav|Her voice rang like a great silver bell; her smile was many toothed and frequent; she seemed like a yellow sunrise on mountain tops.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000018_000001.wav|Few things were less improbable.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000025_000003.wav|The stuff the niggers feed you on Pullmans don't count.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000021_000000.wav|It was our love of the Unerring Artistic Adjustment of Nature that inspired us.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000012_000000.wav|"Speak," I interrupted, much perturbed.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000009_000000.wav|"She will grow fat?" asked Judkins, fearsomely.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000007_000001.wav|It came up apropos, of course, of certain questions of art at which we were hammering.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000039_000000.wav|"I didn't know," I said to him.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000040_000000.wav|"We've bought a cottage in the Bronx with the money," said he.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000034_000000.wav|"He will never find Cypher's again," said Kraft.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000029_000002.wav|"She can eat out of my skillet the rest of her life.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000029_000001.wav|"That's the girl for my money," he declared.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000033_000001.wav|With his own guns we drove him from the field.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000033_000000.wav|Thus the work was accomplished.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000011_000000.wav|"It is this," said Kraft, punctuating in a puddle of spilled coffee with a stiff forefinger.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000034_000002.wav|And Milly-I mean the Natural Adjustment-is saved!"|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000037_000001.wav|The title was "Boadicea," and the figure seemed to fill all out of doors.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000005_000000.wav|But the chief thing at Cypher's was Milly.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000036_000000.wav|This, I say, happened three years ago.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000036_000001.wav|And about that time a little luck descended upon us three, and we were enabled to buy costlier and less wholesome food than Cypher's.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000008_000000.wav|"There is a certain fate hanging over Milly," said Kraft, "and if it overtakes her she is lost to Cypher's and to us."|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000018_000002.wav|Milly, like some vast virgin stretch of pine woods, was made to catch the lumberman's eye.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000003_000001.wav|The painter was a young scrub out of the West named Kraft, who had a favourite food and a pet theory.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000022_000001.wav|But Alaska and not Wisconsin bore the burden of the visitation.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000028_000000.wav|Kraft was the first to act.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000029_000005.wav|I guess she won't want to sling hash any more when she sees the pile of dust I've got."|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000003_000000.wav|In an art exhibition the other day I saw a painting that had been sold for five thousand dollars.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000006_000003.wav|Cypher's store of eatables she poured out upon us with royal indifference to price and quantity, as from a cornucopia that knew no exhaustion.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000030_000001.wav|"I thought you up country fellows were better sports."|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000028_000003.wav|"Drink first and eat afterward." Judkins seized one arm and I the other.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000023_000001.wav|We embraced him as a specimen, and in three minutes we had all but died for one another as friends.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000018_000000.wav|We agreed that the awful fate seemed to menace her.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000021_000001.wav|We could not give her over to a lumberman, doubly accursed by wealth and provincialism.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000028_000002.wav|"Come out and drink," he shouted.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000036_000002.wav|Our paths separated, and I saw Kraft no more and Judkins seldom.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000021_000004.wav|In Cypher's she belonged-in the bacon smoke, the cabbage perfume, the grand, Wagnerian chorus of hurled ironstone china and rattling casters.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000033_000002.wav|And then we had him carted to a distant small hotel and put to bed with his nuggets and baby seal skins stuffed around him.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000003_000005.wav|The idea of Kraft-but that is not the beginning of the story.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000004_000008.wav|Now and then we paid up back scores.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000006_000000.wav|Our Goddess of Grub was built on lines so majestic that they could be followed only with awe.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000010_000000.wav|"She will go to night school and become refined?" I ventured anxiously.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000035_000000.wav|And back to Cypher's went we three, and, finding customers scarce, we joined hands and did an Indian dance with Milly in the centre.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000005_000005.wav|You expected to see her colossal figure loom through that reeking blue cloud of smoke from frying fat just as you expect the Palisades to appear through a drifting Hudson River fog.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000027_000000.wav|At last the bollworm had attacked the cotton-the poison ivy was reaching out its tendrils to entwine the summer boarder-the millionaire lumberman, thinly disguised as the Alaskan miner, was about to engulf our Milly and upset Nature's adjustment.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000011_000001.wav|"Caesar had his Brutus-the cotton has its bollworm, the chorus girl has her Pittsburger, the summer boarder has his poison ivy, the hero has his Carnegie medal, art has its Morgan, the rose has its-"|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000024_000001.wav|He had just come off the "trail," he said, at one of the North River ferries.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000007_000000.wav|It was Kraft who first voiced the fear that each of us must have held latently.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000041_000000.wav|"Then," said I, "when you led us against the lumberman-the-Klondiker --it wasn't altogether on account of the Unerring Artistic Adjustment of Nature?"|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000004_000003.wav|We paid or we did not pay.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000018_000005.wav|Why, the alphabet itself connives.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000029_000000.wav|There he rumbled a roughly good humoured protest.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/126577/203_126577_000004_000001.wav|I say "took." When we had money, Cypher got it "off of" us, as he expressed it.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000026_000001.wav|A band slipped, a spring was touched, the gear was adjusted and the wheels revolve in their old orbit.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000013_000006.wav|Don't forget to write to the company about the gas meter, and your good socks are in the top drawer. I will write to morrow.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000011_000001.wav|No Katy was there with her affectionate, confectionate kiss.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000010_000000.wav|Of late such had been john Perkins's habit.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000004_000002.wav|The cattle cars of the Manhattan Elevated rattled away, and john Perkins drifted down the stairway of the station with the released flock.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000006_000003.wav|After dinner Katy would show him the new patch in her crazy quilt that the iceman had cut for her off the end of his four in hand. At half past seven they would spread newspapers over the furniture to catch the pieces of plastering that fell when the fat man in the flat overhead began to take his physical culture exercises.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000021_000006.wav|And I'll cut out the McCloskey gang right from this minute."|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000004_000000.wav|A flock of citizen sheep scrambled out and another flock scrambled aboard.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000025_000000.wav|"My! I'm glad to get back," said Katy.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000010.wav|What was life without her?|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000022_000002.wav|But no primrose way nor clicking cue could woo the remorseful soul of Perkins the bereft.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000010_000001.wav|At ten or eleven he would return.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000025_000004.wav|I'm just dying for a cup of coffee."|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000010_000003.wav|For these things Cupid will have to answer when he stands at the bar of justice with his victims from the Frogmore flats.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000012_000001.wav|It was a note from his wife running thus:|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000004.wav|A delicate but impelling odor of bluebells came from it.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000019_000000.wav|He did not care to smoke.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000002_000000.wav|THE PENDULUM|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000000.wav|Near the right hand of john Perkins stood a chair.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000021_000004.wav|I'm going to make it up for the little girl.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000003_000000.wav|"Eighty first street-let 'em out, please," yelled the shepherd in blue.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000020_000000.wav|john Perkins was not accustomed to analyzing his emotions.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000011_000000.wav|To night john Perkins encountered a tremendous upheaval of the commonplace when he reached his door.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000011_000004.wav|Shoes in the middle of the floor, curling tongs, hair bows, kimonos, powder box, jumbled together on dresser and chairs-this was not Katy's way.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000012_000000.wav|Hanging conspicuously to the gas jet by a string was a folded paper. john seized it.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000020_000002.wav|He knew now that Katy was necessary to his happiness.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000013_000002.wav|There is cold mutton in the ice box.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000027_000002.wav|He reached for his hat and walked to the door.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000024_000002.wav|john stared at her stupidly.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000019_000002.wav|The night was his.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000022_000003.wav|The thing that was his, lightly held and half scorned, had been taken away from him, and he wanted it.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000009.wav|He would make up for all his neglect.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000024_000000.wav|The door opened.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000018_000001.wav|Bright among withdrawn blessings now appeared to him the ghosts of pot roasts and the salad with tan polish dressing.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000028_000000.wav|"Now, where are you going, I'd like to know, john Perkins?" asked Katy, in a querulous tone.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000011_000005.wav|With a sinking heart john saw the comb with a curling cloud of her brown hair among its teeth.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000017_000005.wav|Of course it would be only for a few days, or at most a week or two, but it seemed to him as if the very hand of death had pointed a finger at his secure and uneventful home.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000010_000002.wav|Sometimes Katy would be asleep; sometimes waiting up, ready to melt in the crucible of her ire a little more gold plating from the wrought steel chains of matrimony.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000019_000003.wav|He might go forth unquestioned and thrum the strings of jollity as free as any gay bachelor there.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000008_000000.wav|"Now, where are you going, I'd like to know, john Perkins?"|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000017_000001.wav|When he touched her clothes a thrill of something like terror went through him.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000013_000004.wav|Pay the milkman fifty cents.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000013_000001.wav|Brother Sam is going to meet me at the depot there.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000005_000000.wav|john walked slowly toward his flat.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000004_000001.wav|Ding ding!|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000007_000001.wav|And he knew that at a quarter past eight he would summon his nerve and reach for his hat, and that his wife would deliver this speech in a querulous tone:|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000018_000003.wav|A quinzied mother in law had knocked his lares and penates sky high.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000020_000003.wav|His feeling for her, lulled into unconsciousness by the dull round of domesticity, had been sharply stirred by the loss of her presence.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000019_000006.wav|Katy was gone.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000015_000001.wav|john read the note over and over in a dumbfounded way.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000006_000001.wav|He would remove his coat, sit upon a macadamized lounge and read, in the evening paper, of Russians and Japs slaughtered by the deadly linotype.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000005.wav|john took it and looked long and soberly at the unresponsive grenadine.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000005_000002.wav|As he walked john Perkins prophesied to himself with gloomy and downtrodden cynicism the foregone conclusions of the monotonous day.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000019_000004.wav|He might carouse and wander and have his fling until dawn if he liked; and there would be no wrathful Katy waiting for him, bearing the chalice that held the dregs of his joy. He might play pool at McCloskey's with his roistering friends until Aurora dimmed the electric bulbs if he chose.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000017_000002.wav|He had never thought what existence would be without Katy.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000027_000000.wav|john Perkins looked at the clock.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000016_000001.wav|Her week day clothes had been tossed here and there in her haste.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000026_000000.wav|Nobody heard the click and rattle of the cog wheels as the third floor front of the Frogmore flats buzzed its machinery back into the Order of Things.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000013_000005.wav|She had it bad last spring.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000021_000000.wav|"I'm a double dyed dub," mused john Perkins, "the way I've been treating Katy.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000024_000001.wav|Katy walked in carrying a little hand satchel.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000014_000000.wav|Hastily, KATY.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000021_000002.wav|The poor girl here all alone with nothing to amuse her, and me acting that way!|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000025_000001.wav|"Ma wasn't sick to amount to anything.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000001.wav|On the back of it stood Katy's blue shirtwaist.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000006_000004.wav|Exactly at eight Hickey and Mooney, of the vaudeville team (unbooked) in the flat across the hall, would yield to the gentle influence of delirium tremens and begin to overturn chairs under the delusion that Hammerstein was pursuing them with a five hundred dollar a week contract.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000015_000000.wav|Never during their two years of matrimony had he and Katy been separated for a night.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000018_000002.wav|His home was dismantled.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000016_000002.wav|A little paper bag of her favorite butter scotch lay with its string yet unwound.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000007.wav|Tears:--yes, tears-came into john Perkins's eyes.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000011_000003.wav|All about lay her things in confusion.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000017_000003.wav|She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed-necessary but scarcely noticed.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000011_000002.wav|The three rooms seemed in portentous disorder.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000025_000003.wav|So I took the next train back.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000006_000000.wav|Katy would meet him at the door with a kiss flavored with cold cream and butter scotch.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000023_000002.wav|It still retained something of her contour.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000017_000004.wav|Now, without warning, she was gone, vanished, as completely absent as if she had never existed.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/203/132069/203_132069_000016_000003.wav|A daily paper sprawled on the floor, gaping rectangularly where a railroad time table had been clipped from it. Everything in the room spoke of a loss, of an essence gone, of its soul and life departed.|203
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000002_000005.wav|The fourth was too pale, and she called him 'Wallface.' The fifth was too red, so she called him 'Coxcomb.' The sixth was not straight enough; so she said he was like a green stick, that had been laid to dry over a baker's oven.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000006_000002.wav|Am not I good enough for you?'|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000002_000001.wav|Then the princess came in, and as she passed by them she had something spiteful to say to every one.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000007_000004.wav|When they had eaten a very scanty meal they went to bed; but the fiddler called her up very early in the morning to clean the house.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000012_000000.wav|Then the chamberlains came and brought her the most beautiful robes; and her father and his whole court were there already, and welcomed her home on her marriage.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000002_000002.wav|The first was too fat: 'He's as round as a tub,' said she.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000011_000007.wav|I have done all this only to cure you of your silly pride, and to show you the folly of your ill treatment of me.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000006_000000.wav|Then they came to a great city.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000008_000001.wav|At first the trade went well; for many people, seeing such a beautiful woman, went to buy her wares, and paid their money without thinking of taking away the goods.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000003_000000.wav|But the old king was very angry when he saw how his daughter behaved, and how she ill treated all his guests; and he vowed that, willing or unwilling, she should marry the first man, be he prince or beggar, that came to the door.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000005_000002.wav|'Whose are these beautiful green meadows?' said she.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000008_000000.wav|But her husband did not care for that, and said she must work, if she did not wish to die of hunger.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000009_000000.wav|Thus the princess became a kitchen maid, and helped the cook to do all the dirtiest work; but she was allowed to carry home some of the meat that was left, and on this they lived.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000010_000002.wav|Then she bitterly grieved for the pride and folly which had brought her so low.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000007_000006.wav|You must learn to weave baskets.' Then he went out and cut willows, and brought them home, and she began to weave; but it made her fingers very sore.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000012_000001.wav|Joy was in every face and every heart.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000002_000007.wav|'Look at him,' said she; 'his beard is like an old mop; he shall be called Grisly beard.' So the king got the nickname of Grisly beard.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000011_000008.wav|Now all is over: you have learnt wisdom, and it is time to hold our marriage feast.'|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000007_000000.wav|At last they came to a small cottage.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000002_000004.wav|The next was too short: 'What a dumpling!' said she.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000008_000004.wav|'Ah! what will become of me?' said she; 'what will my husband say?' So she ran home and told him all.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000010_000001.wav|Everything was ready, and all the pomp and brightness of the court was there.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000011_000005.wav|I brought you there because I really loved you.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000002_000003.wav|The next was too tall: 'What a maypole!' said she.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000011_000006.wav|I am also the soldier that overset your stall.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126336/480_126336_000011_000002.wav|Then everybody laughed and jeered at her; and she was so abashed, that she wished herself a thousand feet deep in the earth.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000042_000000.wav|To Stew Chickens or Birds.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000060_000000.wav|Beat together an egg, a glass of wine, and a spoonful of sugar; pour on it half a pint of hot water; stir all the time to keep it from curdling, and when you pour it in a tumbler, grate a little nutmeg over it.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000032_000001.wav|This is very nice for a sick person, and is easily made.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000012_000000.wav|Boil a handful of good raisins in a quart of water; toast a slice of bread and cut it up; beat two eggs with a spoonful of sugar, and mix it with the bread; when the raisins are done, pour them on the toast and eggs, stirring all the time; season to your taste with wine, nutmeg and butter.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000069_000000.wav|To make a cup of chocolate, grate a large tea spoonful in a mug, and pour a tea cup of boiling water on it; let it stand covered by the fire a few minutes, when you can put in sugar and cream.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000028_000001.wav|This is a very delicate way of cooking eggs.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000040_000000.wav|Cut a slice of ham into small pieces, and pour boiling water on it; let it soak a few minutes to extract the salt, and stew it in a little water; just before it is done, put in some cream and parsley.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000018_000001.wav|In cooking arrow root for children, it is a very good way to make it very thick, and thin it afterwards with milk.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000004_000000.wav|Few young persons understand cooking for the sick.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000003_000000.wav|Remarks on Preparing Food for the Sick.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000062_000001.wav|Toast water will allay thirst better than almost any thing else.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000071_000002.wav|Let it set by the fire to draw five or ten minutes.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000031_000000.wav|Calf's Foot Blancmange.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000071_000001.wav|Pat a tea spoonful in a pot that will hold about two cups, and pour boiling water on it.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000017_000000.wav|Arrow root.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000038_000001.wav|If it is preferred dry, it may be fried in butter alone.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000008_000000.wav|Panada.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000045_000002.wav|This is valuable in cases of dysentery and cholera morbus, particularly when made of old fowls.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000073_000001.wav|Four large spoonsful of rye flour mixed smooth in a little water, and stirred in a pint of boiling water; let it boil twenty minutes, stirring frequently.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000006_000000.wav|Boiled Custard.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000053_000000.wav|Wine Whey.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000038_000000.wav|Chip some beef very thin, pour hot water on it, and let it stand a minute or two, then drain it off, and stew it in a skillet with a little cream and butter.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000065_000000.wav|Tamarinds, currant or grape jelly, cranberries, or dried fruit of any kind, make a good drink.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000033_000000.wav|Cream Toast.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000004_000003.wav|It is well to have a stand or small table by the bed side, that you can set any thing on.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000061_000000.wav|Toast Water.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000062_000002.wav|If it is wanted to drink through the night, it should always be made early in the evening.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000067_000000.wav|Sick persons should have their coffee made separate from the family, as standing in the tin pot spoils the flavor.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000070_000000.wav|Black Tea.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000068_000000.wav|Chocolate.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000036_000001.wav|This is very good for sick persons, and can be eaten without much exertion. In making water toast, the butter should be melted in boiling water, and put on while hot.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000004_000001.wav|It is very important to know how to prepare their food in an inviting manner; every thing should be perfectly clean and nice.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000002_000000.wav|FOOD FOR THE SICK.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000015_000000.wav|Corn Gruel.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000010_000000.wav|If you have dried rusk, it is a quicker way to put the rusk in a bowl with some sugar, and pour boiling water on it out of the tea kettle. If the patient can take nothing but liquids, this makes a good drink when strained.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000027_000000.wav|To Poach Eggs.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000051_000000.wav|Mutton and Veal Broth.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000071_000000.wav|Black tea is much more suitable than green for sick persons, as it does not affect the nerves.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000019_000000.wav|Sago.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000055_000000.wav|Rennet Whey.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000052_000001.wav|Veal broth may be made in the same way, and is more delicate for sick persons.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000009_000000.wav|Put some crackers, crusts of dry bread or dried rusk, in a sauce pan with cold water, and a few raisins; after it has boiled half an hour, put in sugar, nutmeg, and half a glass of wine, if the patient has no fever.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000023_000000.wav|Milk Porridge.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000044_000000.wav|Chicken Water.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000021_000000.wav|Tapioca Jelly.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000066_000000.wav|Coffee.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000072_000000.wav|Rye Mush.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000037_000000.wav|To Stew Dried Beef.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000045_000000.wav|If you have a small chicken, it will take half of it to make a pint of chicken water.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/123176/480_123176_000013_000000.wav|Oat meal Gruel.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126292/480_126292_000002_000000.wav|'The nuts are quite ripe now,' said Chanticleer to his wife Partlet, 'suppose we go together to the mountains, and eat as many as we can, before the squirrel takes them all away.' 'With all my heart,' said Partlet, 'let us go and make a holiday of it together.'|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126292/480_126292_000003_000000.wav|So they went to the mountains; and as it was a lovely day, they stayed there till the evening.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/126292/480_126292_000006_000001.wav|However, the duck, who slept in the open air in the yard, heard them coming, and jumping into the brook which ran close by the inn, soon swam out of their reach.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000036_000002.wav|This was the first that Jim heard, the sound of the squire's shot not having reached him.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000036_000003.wav|Where the ball passed, not one of us precisely knew, but I fancy it must have been over our heads and that the wind of it may have contributed to our disaster.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000033_000001.wav|They had never so much as looked at their fallen comrade, though he was not dead, and I could see him trying to crawl away.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000004_000000.wav|"I cannot keep her head for the stockade, sir," said I to the captain. I was steering, while he and Redruth, two fresh men, were at the oars. "The tide keeps washing her down.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000016_000000.wav|"Israel was Flint's gunner," said Gray hoarsely.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000030_000004.wav|My lady's maid couldn't miss.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000012_000000.wav|"The gun!" said he.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000004_000001.wav|Could you pull a little stronger?"|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000023_000000.wav|"Now," cried the captain, "easy with that gun, sir, or you'll swamp the boat.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000038_000005.wav|The other three had gone down with the boat.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000001_000003.wav|Add to that the powder, pork, and bread bags.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000030_000003.wav|Carpet bowls!|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000031_000004.wav|The one source of danger was the gun.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000017_000001.wav|By this time we had got so far out of the run of the current that we kept steerage way even at our necessarily gentle rate of rowing, and I could keep her steady for the goal.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000032_000000.wav|"If I durst," said the captain, "I'd stop and pick off another man."|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000034_000000.wav|"Ready!" cried the squire.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000038_000000.wav|So far there was no great harm.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000040_000000.wav|With all this in our minds, we waded ashore as fast as we could, leaving behind us the poor jolly boat and a good half of all our powder and provisions.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000010_000000.wav|"Thank you, my man," said I, quite as if nothing had happened, for we had all quietly made up our minds to treat him like one of ourselves.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000019_000000.wav|"Who's the best shot?" asked the captain.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000028_000000.wav|"Give way, then," cried the captain.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000022_000001.wav|He looked to the priming of his gun.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000018_000000.wav|I could hear as well as see that brandy faced rascal Israel Hands plumping down a round shot on the deck.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000030_000002.wav|It's not them I mind; it's the round shot.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000014_000000.wav|"Look astern, doctor," replied the captain.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000013_000001.wav|"They could never get the gun ashore, and if they did, they could never haul it through the woods."|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000031_000003.wav|The ebb tide, which had so cruelly delayed us, was now making reparation and delaying our assailants.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000005_000001.wav|"You must bear up, sir, if you please-bear up until you see you're gaining."|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000007_000000.wav|"We'll never get ashore at this rate," said i|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000001_000002.wav|Five grown men, and three of them-Trelawney, Redruth, and the captain-over six feet high, was already more than she was meant to carry.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000031_000000.wav|In the meanwhile we had been making headway at a good pace for a boat so overloaded, and we had shipped but little water in the process.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000030_000000.wav|"They'll have a hot run, sir," returned the captain.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000038_000003.wav|Mine I had snatched from my knees and held over my head, by a sort of instinct.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000023_000001.wav|All hands stand by to trim her when he aims."|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000028_000002.wav|If we can't get ashore, all's up."|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000031_000002.wav|The gig was no longer to be feared; the little point had already concealed it from our eyes.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000006_000000.wav|I tried and found by experiment that the tide kept sweeping us westward until I had laid her head due east, or just about right angles to the way we ought to go.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000000_000000.wav|Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly boat's Last Trip|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000028_000001.wav|"We mustn't mind if we swamp her now.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000008_000000.wav|"If it's the only course that we can lie, sir, we must even lie it," returned the captain.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000001_000004.wav|The gunwale was lipping astern.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000035_000000.wav|"Hold!" cried the captain, quick as an echo.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000021_000000.wav|"mr Trelawney, will you please pick me off one of these men, sir? Hands, if possible," said the captain.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000025_000001.wav|However, we had no luck, for just as Trelawney fired, down he stooped, the ball whistled over him, and it was one of the other four who fell.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000015_000000.wav|We had entirely forgotten the long nine; and there, to our horror, were the five rogues busy about her, getting off her jacket, as they called the stout tarpaulin cover under which she sailed.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000003_000001.wav|Even the ripples were a danger to our overloaded craft, but the worst of it was that we were swept out of our true course and away from our proper landing place behind the point.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000026_000000.wav|The cry he gave was echoed not only by his companions on board but by a great number of voices from the shore, and looking in that direction I saw the other pirates trooping out from among the trees and tumbling into their places in the boats.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000036_000000.wav|And he and Redruth backed with a great heave that sent her stern bodily under water.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000002_000001.wav|All the same, we were afraid to breathe.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000001_000000.wav|THIS fifth trip was quite different from any of the others.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000001_000005.wav|Several times we shipped a little water, and my breeches and the tails of my coat were all soaking wet before we had gone a hundred yards.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000030_000005.wav|Tell us, squire, when you see the match, and we'll hold water."|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000011_000000.wav|Suddenly the captain spoke up again, and I thought his voice was a little changed.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000001_000001.wav|In the first place, the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000008_000001.wav|"We must keep upstream.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000030_000001.wav|"Jack ashore, you know.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000025_000000.wav|They had the gun, by this time, slewed round upon the swivel, and Hands, who was at the muzzle with the rammer, was in consequence the most exposed.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000033_000000.wav|But it was plain that they meant nothing should delay their shot.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/480/127525/480_127525_000031_000001.wav|We were now close in; thirty or forty strokes and we should beach her, for the ebb had already disclosed a narrow belt of sand below the clustering trees.|480
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000011_000002.wav|I wish you would forget it."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000034_000000.wav|"I think, Charles, poor mr Carton deserves more consideration and respect than you expressed for him to night."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000019_000000.wav|"Well!|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000019_000001.wav|At any rate you know me as a dissolute dog, who has never done any good, and never will."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000040_000000.wav|"My husband, it is so.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000004_000000.wav|"We are already friends, I hope."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000029_000000.wav|"Yes, dearest Charles," with her hands on his breast, and the inquiring and attentive expression fixed upon him; "we are rather thoughtful to night, for we have something on our mind to night."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000040_000001.wav|I fear he is not to be reclaimed; there is scarcely a hope that anything in his character or fortunes is reparable now.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000022_000000.wav|"Will you try?"|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000017_000001.wav|I have gone aside from my purpose; I was speaking about our being friends.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000024_000000.wav|"I think so, Carton, by this time."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000003_000000.wav|"mr Darnay," said Carton, "I wish we might be friends."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000032_000000.wav|"Will I promise?|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000018_000000.wav|"I prefer to form my own opinion, without the aid of his."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000025_000000.wav|They shook hands upon it, and Sydney turned away.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000023_000002.wav|I may use that freedom with your name?"|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000042_000000.wav|"And, O my dearest Love!" she urged, clinging nearer to him, laying her head upon his breast, and raising her eyes to his, "remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in his misery!"|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000013_000000.wav|"Fashion of speech again!|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000014_000002.wav|I declare to you, on the faith of a gentleman, that I have long dismissed it from my mind.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000035_000001.wav|Why so?"|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000012_000000.wav|"I forgot it long ago."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000038_000002.wav|My dear, I have seen it bleeding."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000013_000001.wav|But, mr Darnay, oblivion is not so easy to me, as you represent it to be to you.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000023_000001.wav|I thank you, Darnay.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000000_000001.wav|A Plea|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000023_000000.wav|"That is another way of saying that I am placed on the footing I have indicated.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000021_000000.wav|"But I do, and you must take my word for it.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000014_000003.wav|Good Heaven, what was there to dismiss!|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000005_000000.wav|"You are good enough to say so, as a fashion of speech; but, I don't mean any fashion of speech.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000001_000000.wav|When the newly married pair came home, the first person who appeared, to offer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000021_000001.wav|Well!|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000031_000000.wav|"Will you promise not to press one question on me, if I beg you not to ask it?"|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000044_000001.wav|If one forlorn wanderer then pacing the dark streets, could have heard her innocent disclosure, and could have seen the drops of pity kissed away by her husband from the soft blue eyes so loving of that husband, he might have cried to the night-and the words would not have parted from his lips for the first time-|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000017_000003.wav|If you doubt it, ask Stryver, and he'll tell you so."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000038_000001.wav|I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000039_000000.wav|"It is a painful reflection to me," said Charles Darnay, quite astounded, "that I should have done him any wrong.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000010_000000.wav|"I am not at all alarmed.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/128329/594_128329_000009_000002.wav|I hope it may be taken into account one day, when all days are at an end for me!|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000001_000000.wav|A LEGEND OF THE DAWN|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000005_000005.wav|But from far away the West Wind came with news of three grey travellers wrapt round with battered cloaks that carried away between them a golden ball.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000009_000000.wav|At last the cock cried out that he had seen it lying beneath the world. There Limpang Tung sought it and the cock called to him through the darkness as he went, until at last he found the golden ball.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000008_000003.wav|And the child cried and threw it upon the stairway and chipped and broke its edges and asked for the golden ball.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000006_000001.wav|And in the darkness underneath the world he met the three grey travellers and rushed upon them and drove them far before him, smiting them with his sword till their grey cloaks streamed with blood.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000014_000001.wav|When Inzana saw the Eclipse bearing her plaything away she cried aloud to the thunder, who burst from Pegana and fell howling upon the throat of the Eclipse, who dropped the golden ball and let it fall towards earth.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000005_000004.wav|And again the gods were sorry, and the South Wind came to tell her tales of most enchanted islands, to whom she listened not, nor yet to the tales of temples in lone lands that the East Wind told her, who had stood beside her when she flung her golden ball.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000017_000000.wav|At the entreaty of Their Dawnchild all the gods made Themselves stars for torches, and far away through all the sky followed the tracks of Night as far as he prowled abroad.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000004_000003.wav|All in the dark among the crags in a mighty cavern, guarded by two twin peaks, at last they found the golden ball for which the Dawnchild wept.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000018_000002.wav|And the child played all day long with the golden ball down in the little fields where the humans lived, and went to bed at evening and put it beneath his pillow, and went to sleep, and no one worked in all the world because the child was playing.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000019_000001.wav|And the hound, the thunder, shall chase the Eclipse and all the gods go seeking with Their stars, but never find the ball.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000016_000001.wav|And as the golden ball went through the sky to gleam on lands and cities, there came the Fog towards it, stooping as he walked with his dark brown cloak about him, and behind him slunk the Night.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000003_000001.wav|Then running down the stairway of the gods with tripping feet, chalcedony, onyx, chalcedony, onyx, step by step, she cast her golden ball across the sky.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000014_000004.wav|And then she cried because there was none to find it, for the thunder was far away chasing the Eclipse, and all the gods lamented when They saw her sorrow.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000015_000000.wav|And into the world he went till he came to the nether cliffs that stand by the inner mountains in the soul and heart of the earth where the Earthquake dwelleth alone, asleep but astir as he sleeps, breathing and moving his legs, and grunting aloud in the dark.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000008_000007.wav|A heron had seen it lying in a pond, but a wild duck in some reeds had seen it last as she came home across the hills, and then it was rolling very far away.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000018_000003.wav|And the light of the golden ball streamed up from under the pillow and out through the half shut door and shone in the western sky, and Yoharneth Lahai in the night time tip toed into the room, and took the ball gently (for he was a god) away from under the pillow and brought it back to the Dawnchild to gleam on an onyx step.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127732/594_127732_000020_000000.wav|These things be hidden even from the gods.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000017_000001.wav|And now, Tintaggon, thine ancient lords, the gods, are facing a new thing which overthrows the old.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000011_000007.wav|Then into every cleft that stood in the rocks Slid sent his hugest wave and others followed behind it, and Slid himself seized hold of huge rocks with his claws and tore them down and stamped them under his feet.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000006_000002.wav|But to the gods as They sat upon Their hilltops a new cry came crying over the green spaces that lay below the hills, and the gods said:|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000011_000003.wav|Then Slid sent some of his smaller waves to search out what stood against him, and the cliffs shattered them.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000022_000005.wav|Very calm the sea lies now about Tintaggon's feet, where he stands all black amid crumbled cliffs of white, with red rocks piled about his feet.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000011_000005.wav|And again Slid called up out of his deep a mighty array of waves and sent them roaring against the guardians of the gods, and the red rocks frowned and smote them.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000009_000001.wav|Then for a space Slid and the four winds struggled with one another till the strength of the winds was gone, and they limped back to the gods, their masters, and said:|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000022_000000.wav|And all the while that Slid sang his songs and played with the nautilus that sailed up and down he gathered his oceans together.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000005_000000.wav|Once there was no sea, and the gods went walking over the green plains of earth.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000022_000006.wav|And often the sea retreats far out along the shore, and often wave by wave comes marching in with the sound of the tramping of armies, that all may still remember the great fight that surged about Tintaggon once, when he guarded the gods and the green earth against Slid.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000011_000001.wav|Then from Their hills the gods sent down a great array of cliffs against hard, red rocks, and bade them march against Slid.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000007_000001.wav|What is this new cry that the gods have never commanded, yet which comes to the ears of the gods?"|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000019_000006.wav|Tintaggon, I have conquered all the stars, my song swells through all the space besides, I come victorious from Mahn and Khanagat on the furthest edge of the worlds, and thou and I are to be equal lords when the old gods are gone and the green earth knoweth Slid.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000014_000002.wav|And passing across the world they came at last to where the white cliffs stood, and, coming behind them, split them here and there and went through their broken ranks to Slid at last.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000007_000000.wav|"This is neither the cry of life nor yet the whisper of death.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000011_000008.wav|And when the tumult was over the sea had won, and over the broken remnants of those red cliffs the armies of Slid marched on and up the long green valley.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000008_000000.wav|And the gods together shouting made the cry of the south, calling the south wind to them.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000014_000003.wav|And the gods were angry with Their traitorous streams.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000017_000002.wav|Go therefore, thou, Tintaggon, and stand up against Slid, that the gods be still the gods and the earth still green."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000004_000000.wav|THE COMING OF THE SEA|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000019_000005.wav|And I will deck thee with all the robes of the sea, and all the plunder that I have taken in rare cities shall be piled before thy feet.|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/594/127731/594_127731_000010_000000.wav|"We have met this new thing that has come upon the earth and have striven against its armies, but could not drive them forth; and the new thing is beautiful but very angry, and is creeping towards the gods."|594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123048/362_123048_000012_000000.wav|"Can your horse do it, or can't he?" said the blustering man.|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123048/362_123048_000021_000001.wav|"I have no meadows to nurse sick horses in-he might get well or he might not; that sort of thing don't suit my business; my plan is to work 'em as long as they'll go, and then sell 'em for what they'll fetch, at the knacker's or elsewhere."|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123047/362_123047_000002_000003.wav|"'twas no use going twice when once would do, and he chose to get business forward."|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123047/362_123047_000020_000001.wav|You won't put that rein on again, will you?" for he was just going to hitch it up on the old plan.|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123047/362_123047_000011_000000.wav|"Pray, stop; I think I can help you if you will let me."|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123047/362_123047_000004_000003.wav|"Get on, you lazy fellow," he said, "or I'll make you."|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000003_000000.wav|The man at the gate said the river was rising fast, and he feared it would be a bad night.|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000013_000002.wav|stop!" he cried.|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000006_000000.wav|"Yes, sir," said john, "it would be rather awkward if one of these branches came down upon us."|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000010_000002.wav|I dare not go forward, and I made a dead stop.|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000002_000001.wav|I was put into the dog cart, and john went with his master.|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000005_000000.wav|"I wish we were well out of this wood," said my master.|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/362/123013/362_123013_000018_000002.wav|I have been so anxious, fancying all sorts of things.|362
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000009.wav|I'm just dying to hear her sing."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000009_000000.wav|"Am I? What have I done that is queer now, Rose?" asked the other, looking up suddenly and turning her head towards her sister.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000017_000001.wav|Rose yawned again, and then hummed a fragment of a popular song.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000027_000000.wav|Felicia sat down and instantly opened the letter, saying as she did so: "It's from Rachel."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000010_000000.wav|"Oh, giving those violets to that boy!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000026_000000.wav|"Here's a letter for you, Felicia," said mr Sterling, handing it to her.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000035_000003.wav|We learned telegraphy in the same office.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000017_000000.wav|Felicia colored slightly, but would not answer.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000028_000000.wav|"Well, what's the latest news from Raymond?" asked mr Sterling, taking his cigar out of his mouth and looking at Felicia with half shut eyes, as if he were studying her.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000016_000001.wav|I never saw a girl with so little critical taste."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000005.wav|You see if Rachel doesn't give it up soon.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000012_000002.wav|Therefore you will please not invite him or others like him to hot suppers because I suggested it.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000036_000001.wav|"Perhaps he will tell us something about it."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000037_000001.wav|Then Felicia said abruptly, as if she had gone on with a spoken thought to some invisible hearer: "And what if he should propose the same pledge to the Nazareth Avenue Church?"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000037_000000.wav|There was silence for a minute.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000018_000002.wav|You know we have a box with the Delanos tonight."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000008.wav|I'm going to write and urge her to come.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000025_000008.wav|There was that in Felicia that would easily endure any condition in life if only the liberty to act fully on her conscientious convictions were granted her.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000010_000001.wav|He looked as if he needed a good hot supper more than a bunch of violets.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000035_000002.wav|Alexander Powers used to be a friend of mine.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000021_000001.wav|"Felicia, you can never reform the world.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000025_000003.wav|She had been an invalid for several years.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000022_000000.wav|"Suppose Christ had gone on that principle," replied Felicia, with unusual persistence.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000045_000004.wav|She will feel hurt if you refuse."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000016_000000.wav|"You like anything.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000019_000000.wav|Felicia turned her face towards her sister.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000043_000002.wav|mrs Sterling had her meals served in her room.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000015_000000.wav|"I liked the music," answered Felicia quietly.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000045_000000.wav|"Oh, I don't know!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000012_000000.wav|"'Queer' isn't just the word, of course," replied Rose indifferently.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000041_000000.wav|"It's a very impracticable movement, to my mind," said mr Sterling shortly.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000006.wav|It's a great pity she doesn't come to Chicago and sing in the Auditorium concerts.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000035_000000.wav|"What pledge?" mr Sterling asked the question and then added hastily: "Oh, I know, yes!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000038_000001.wav|What are you talking about?" asked her father a little sharply.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000004.wav|People can't live at that concert pitch all the time.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000030_000000.wav|"What does Rachel say about herself?" asked Rose, who was lying on a couch almost buried under elegant cushions.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000018_000000.wav|"The 'Shadows of Chicago,'" murmured Felicia.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000038_000000.wav|"Who?|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000005_000000.wav|Two girls stepped out of the crowd towards the carriage.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000035_000008.wav|I must have a talk with him about it."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000019_000001.wav|Her great brown eyes were very expressive and not altogether free from a sparkle of luminous heat.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000045_000002.wav|mrs Delano will be here at half past seven.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000007.wav|She has received an offer.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000039_000000.wav|"About dr Bruce.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000006_000002.wav|I shall freeze to death!" called the voice from the carriage.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000002_000000.wav|"Master, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000012_000004.wav|I'm awfully tired."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000017_000003.wav|I hope the 'Shadows of London' will be exciting tonight."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000032_000001.wav|She ought not to throw away her voice in that railroad town upon all those people who don't appreciate her."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000010_000003.wav|I shouldn't have been surprised if you had.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000025_000004.wav|The two girls, Rose and Felicia, were the only children.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000029_000000.wav|"Rachel says dr Bruce has been staying in Raymond for two Sundays and has seemed very much interested in mr Maxwell's pledge in the First Church."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000020_000001.wav|What are the 'Shadows of London' on the stage to the shadows of London or Chicago as they really exist?|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000043_000003.wav|mr Sterling was preoccupied.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000042_000000.wav|"I understand from Rachel's letter that the Raymond church is going to make an attempt to extend the idea of the pledge to other churches.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000012_000001.wav|"It would be what Madam Blanc calls 'outre.' Decidedly.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000003_000000.wav|THE Saturday afternoon matinee at the Auditorium in Chicago was just over and the usual crowd was struggling to get to its carriage before any one else.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000021_000002.wav|What's the use?|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000046_000001.wav|I don't care about it.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000003.wav|Ever since Rachel Winslow has written about those queer doings in Raymond you have upset the whole family.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000014_000000.wav|"The concert was stupid and the violinist was simply a bore.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000047_000000.wav|"That's a doleful remark for a girl nineteen years old to make," replied Rose.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000004_000001.wav|r s" in gilt letters on the panel of the door.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000035_000005.wav|And he's back at his telegraph again.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000021_000005.wav|We ought to be thankful we're rich."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000007_000001.wav|He took them, with a look of astonishment and a "Thank ye, lady!" and instantly buried a very grimy face in the bunch of perfume.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000025_000006.wav|A very hard young lady to please, her father said, sometimes playfully, sometimes sternly.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000021_000000.wav|"Because the actual people are dirty and disagreeable and it's too much bother, I suppose," replied Rose carelessly.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000033_000001.wav|She might set Chicago wild with her voice if she sang in the Auditorium.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000045_000003.wav|I think you ought to go.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000033_000002.wav|And there she goes on throwing it away on people who don't know what they are hearing."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000043_000004.wav|He ate very little and excused himself early, and although it was Saturday night, he remarked as he went out that he should be down town on some special business.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000014_000001.wav|I don't see how you could sit so still through it all," Rose exclaimed a little impatiently.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000042_000001.wav|If it succeeds it will certainly make great changes in the churches and in people's lives," said Felicia.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000017_000002.wav|Then she exclaimed abruptly: "I'm sick of 'most everything.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000035_000006.wav|There have been queer doings in Raymond during the past year.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000034_000000.wav|"Rachel won't come here unless she can do it and keep her pledge at the same time," said Felicia, after a pause.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000020_000000.wav|"And yet we never weep over the real thing on the actual stage of life.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000036_000000.wav|"He is at home and will preach tomorrow," said Felicia.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000031_000000.wav|"She is still singing at the Rectangle.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000024_000002.wav|It was an elegant mansion of gray stone furnished like a palace, every corner of it warm with the luxury of paintings, sculpture, art and modern refinement.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000006_000000.wav|"Come, Felicia!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000023_000002.wav|I tell you, Felicia, there will always be poor and rich in spite of all we can do.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13265/4116_13265_000043_000000.wav|"Oh, well, let's have some tea first!" said Rose, walking into the dining room.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000039_000001.wav|Bark!'"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000038_000000.wav|"Be still," said Jappy warningly, while Phronsie stood surveying them all with grave eyes.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000056_000000.wav|"So her mother was willing?" asked his daughter, curiously.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000042_000001.wav|yes, pretty soon now?"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000049_000000.wav|But the chubby face didn't look up brightly, as usual: and the next moment, without a bit of warning, Phronsie sprang past them all, even Polly, and flung herself into mr King's arms, in a perfect torrent of sobs.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000024_000000.wav|"Aren't you glad I've come, Polly?" asked Phronsie, with her little face close to Polly's own.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000002_000001.wav|Polly was homesick.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000059_000000.wav|"So I hope," said mrs Whitney; "and father, I do believe they'll repay you; for I do think there's good blood there; these children have a look about them that shows them worthy to be trusted."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000032_000000.wav|"Isn't he splendid!" cried Jasper in intense pride, swelling up.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000001_000000.wav|POLLY IS COMFORTED|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000052_000001.wav|The fat, little arms unclasped their hold, and transferred themselves willingly to Polly's neck; and Phronsie hugged up comfortingly to Polly's heart, who poured into her ear all the loving words she had so longed to say.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000025_000001.wav|"Oh, Phronsie!" she cried, and strained her to her heart; while the boys crowded around, and plied her with sudden questions.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000034_000000.wav|"I know," gasped Polly, controlling her sobs; "I won't-only-I can't thank you!"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000015_000003.wav|"I shall have to give up!" she moaned.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000036_000001.wav|"What did he, Jasper?"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000055_000001.wav|"I wasn't coming without her, Marian, if it could possibly be managed.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000041_000000.wav|"Yes, all alone by himself," asserted Jasper, vehemently, and winking furiously to the others to stop their laughing; "he did now, truly, Phronsie."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000007_000000.wav|"Polly don't like us," at last said Van one day in despair.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000030_000000.wav|And to be sure, our Polly's face was a study to behold.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000036_000000.wav|"What?" asked Phronsie in intense interest slipping down out of Polly's arms, and crowding up close to Jasper's side.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000032_000001.wav|"Father knew how to do it."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000056_000003.wav|At last he came out of them, and wiped his face vigorously.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000011_000000.wav|"Well," said mrs Whitney, softly, "let's think what we can do for Polly; it makes me feel very badly to see her sad little face."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000014_000001.wav|So, with a great many chucklings and shruggings when no one was by, he had departed after breakfast one day, simply saying he shouldn't be back to lunch.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000019_000000.wav|Polly sat up very straight, and whisked off the tears quickly.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000002_000000.wav|Yes, it must be confessed.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000027_000000.wav|"Weren't you awfully surprised?" cried Percy; "say, Polly, awfully?"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000013_000000.wav|"I'm afraid those wouldn't quite answer the purpose," said his mamma, smiling-"especially the last; yet we must think of something."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000047_000000.wav|"Don't mind it, Polly," whispered Jasper; "twasn't her fault."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000005_000000.wav|Every chance she could steal after practice hours were over, and after the clamorous demands of the boys upon her time were fully satisfied, was seized to fly on the wings of the wind, to the flowers.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000054_000000.wav|"She's the cunningest little thing I ever saw," said mrs Whitney, enthusiastically, afterward, aside to mr King.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000015_000004.wav|"I can't bear it!" and over went her head on the music rack.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000022_000001.wav|I'm here, Polly!"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000028_000000.wav|"Is her name Phronsie," put in Dick, unwilling to be left out, and not thinking of anything else to ask.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000015_000002.wav|If she could only see Phronsie for just one moment!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000003_000000.wav|The only place, except in front of the grand piano, where Polly approached a state of comparative happiness, was in the greenhouse.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000023_000000.wav|But Polly couldn't speak; and if Jasper hadn't caught her just in time, she would have tumbled over backward from the stool, Phronsie and all!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000002_000002.wav|All her imaginations of her mother's hard work, increased by her absence, loomed up before her, till she was almost ready to fly home without a minute's warning.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000004_000000.wav|Here she would stay, comforted and soothed among the lovely plants and rich exotics, rejoicing the heart of Old Turner the gardener, who since Polly's first rapturous entrance, had taken her into his good graces for all time.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000048_000000.wav|"Phronsie," said mrs Whitney, smilingly, stooping over the child, "would you like to see a little pussy I have for you?"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000051_000002.wav|To think that Phronsie had left her for any one!--even good mr King!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000055_000000.wav|"I didn't have any fears, if I worked it rightly," said the old gentleman complacently.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000035_000000.wav|"Phronsie," said Jasper quickly, "what do you suppose Prince said the other day?"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000058_000000.wav|"Well, she's a nice child," he said, "a very nice child; and," straightening himself up to his fullest height, and looking so very handsome, that his daughter could not conceal her admiration, "I shall always take care of Phronsie Pepper, Marian!"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000019_000001.wav|Up came mr King with an enormous bundle in his arms; and he marched up to the piano, puffing with his exertions.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000026_000000.wav|"Now you'll stay," cried Van; "say, Polly, won't you."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, she's always at the piano," said Van.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000060_000000.wav|"So they have: so they have," assented mr King, and then the conversation dropped.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000020_000000.wav|"Here, Polly, hold your arms," he had only strength to gasp.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000002_000004.wav|It got to be noticed finally; and one and all redoubled their exertions to make everything twice as pleasant as ever!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000017_000001.wav|"She must be there now, somewhere," and then somebody laughed.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000033_000001.wav|"There, there," he said soothingly, patting her brown, fuzzy head. Something was going down the old gentleman's neck, that wet his collar, and made him whisper very tenderly in her ear, "don't give way now, Polly; Phronsie'll see you."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000051_000001.wav|All Jasper's frantic efforts at comfort, utterly failed.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/3582/4116_3582_000055_000003.wav|"So you see, I was just in time; in the very nick of time, in fact!"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000003.wav|That's where I belong!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000044_000001.wav|All this was contrary to her social code of conduct.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000027_000000.wav|The girl suddenly burst into tears.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000046_000002.wav|We can pay all the expenses.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000017_000001.wav|She did not say anything.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000014_000000.wav|When Virginia left the carriage and went up to Loreen she had no definite idea as to what she would do or what the result of her action would be.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000012_000000.wav|They were at that moment just opposite a notorious saloon and gambling house.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000033_000000.wav|Finally a thought possessed her that she could not escape.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000049_000002.wav|But in this matter I must act as I fully believe Jesus would in my place.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000019_000003.wav|One of the girls leaned a little out of the carriage.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000031_000000.wav|When they finally reached mr Gray's lodging place the woman who answered Virginia's knock said that both mr and mrs Gray were out somewhere and would not be back until six o'clock.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000003.wav|I know it even better than you do.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000007.wav|The crowd laughed.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000008.wav|Virginia stepped up to her and put her arm about her.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000005.wav|See him!" she exclaimed hoarsely.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000010_000004.wav|The girls felt that instead of seeing the Rectangle they were being made the objects of curiosity.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000022_000002.wav|Many faces in the crowd were sympathetic.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000037_000002.wav|Virginia stood there supporting Loreen, who stared stupidly at the rich magnificence of the furnishings around her.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000010.wav|Here is a poor, lost human creature without a home, slipping back into a life of misery and possibly eternal loss, and we have more than enough.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000000.wav|"I know very well.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000026_000002.wav|Come."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000050_000001.wav|She turned suddenly and walked to the end of the hall.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000012_000003.wav|It was the face of the girl who had kneeled sobbing, that night with Virginia kneeling beside her and praying for her.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000004.wav|The girls in the carriage were smitten into helpless astonishment.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000006.wav|And the Rectangle from its windows, its saloon steps, its filthy sidewalk, gutter and roadway, paused, and with undisguised wonder stared at the two girls.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000037_000001.wav|Hearing Virginia come in, she came into the hall.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000035_000003.wav|But her thought was directed more and more to the approaching scene with her grandmother.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000030_000003.wav|The event of Loreen's stumbling through the gutter dead drunk always made the Rectangle laugh and jest.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000049_000003.wav|I am willing to bear all that society may say or do.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000001.wav|She is an outcast.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000002.wav|Let me go to hell!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000046_000001.wav|You can send her to the asylum for helpless women.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000008_000000.wav|"Yes, he certainly is."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000032_000000.wav|Virginia had not planned anything farther than a possible appeal to the Grays, either to take charge of Loreen for a while or find some safe place for her until she was sober.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000009_000001.wav|Doesn't that seem funny?" said the girl with the red silk parasol.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000026_000001.wav|You do not belong to hell. You belong to Jesus and He will save you.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000022_000000.wav|The carriage moved on and Virginia was alone with her charge.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000035_000004.wav|What would Madam Page say?|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000050_000000.wav|"I shall not stay here, then!" said Madam Page.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000011_000000.wav|"Let's go back.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000032_000003.wav|Virginia eyed the miserable figure of the girl with a feeling that she was afraid would grow into disgust.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000038_000000.wav|"Grandmother," Virginia spoke without hesitation and very clearly, "I have brought one of my friends from the Rectangle.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000039_000000.wav|Madam Page glanced from her granddaughter to Loreen in astonishment.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000010_000005.wav|They were frightened and disgusted.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000009.wav|The concert had begun, and the fashion and wealth of Raymond were displaying themselves up town on the boulevard.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000020_000001.wav|Couldn't you-"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000028_000002.wav|A number of voices gave the direction.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000028_000000.wav|Virginia looked around again.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000010_000001.wav|The sights and smells and sounds which had become familiar to Virginia struck the senses of these refined, delicate society girls as something horrible.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000007.wav|Over the scene the warm sun of spring poured its mellow light.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000034_000002.wav|We will take the car here at the corner."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000005.wav|But she is also a child of God.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000044_000000.wav|Madam Page glared at Virginia and clenched her hands.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000036_000001.wav|But she was lapsing into a state of stupor.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000036_000002.wav|Virginia was obliged to hold fast to her arm.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000022_000001.wav|She looked up and around.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000005_000001.wav|"It really isn't safe down there, you know."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000004.wav|The devil is waiting for me.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000000.wav|"You shall not touch me!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000005.wav|The saloon keeper had come to the door of the saloon and was standing there looking on with his hands on his hips.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000048_000000.wav|"Then you can answer for the consequences!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000015_000000.wav|She looked around now as she stood close by Loreen, and the whole scene was cruelly vivid to her.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000046_000000.wav|"You shall not do this, Virginia!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000044_000005.wav|The loss of its good will was a loss more to be dreaded than anything except the loss of wealth itself.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000010_000003.wav|"Slumming" had never been a fad with Raymond society, and this was perhaps the first time that the two had come together in this way.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000018_000000.wav|The other girls seemed speechless.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000049_000004.wav|Society is not my God.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000008.wav|A faint breath of music from the band stand in the park floated into the Rectangle.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000021_000001.wav|"You cannot be of any help to me."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000041_000000.wav|"Yes, I said so." Virginia's face flushed, but she seemed to recall a verse that mr Gray had used for one of his recent sermons, "A friend of publicans and sinners." Surely, Jesus would do this that she was doing.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000048_000002.wav|Virginia stopped her before she could speak the next word.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000026_000000.wav|"Loreen," she said firmly, "come with me.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000019_000002.wav|The driver started the horses slowly.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000024_000000.wav|No one answered.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000050_000002.wav|She then came back, and going up to Virginia said, with an emphasis that revealed her intensive excitement of passion: "You can always remember that you have driven your grandmother out of your house in favor of a drunken woman;" then, without waiting for Virginia to reply, she turned again and went upstairs.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000009.wav|Grandmother, we call ourselves Christians.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000000.wav|"Stop!" cried Virginia, motioning to the driver who was looking around.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000006_000000.wav|"There's no danger," said Virginia briefly.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000045_000000.wav|She stood erect and stern and confronted Virginia, fully roused and determined.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000049_000000.wav|"Grandmother, this house is mine.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000043_000004.wav|She is drunk at this minute.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000021_000000.wav|"No, no!" exclaimed Virginia.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000036_000003.wav|Several times the girl lurched heavily against her, and as the two went up the avenue a curious crowd of so-called civilized people turned and gazed at them.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000033_000001.wav|What was to hinder her from taking Loreen home with her?|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000020_000000.wav|"Can't we-that is-do you want our help?|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000033_000005.wav|But that was not the question with Virginia just now.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000047_000000.wav|"Grandmother, I do not wish to do anything that is displeasing to you, but I must keep Loreen here tonight, and longer if it seems best."|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000032_000001.wav|She stood now at the door after the woman had spoken, and she was really at a loss to know what to do.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000027_000001.wav|She was only partly sobered by the shock of meeting Virginia.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000044_000004.wav|To Madam Page society represented more than the church or any other institution. It was a power to be feared and obeyed.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000033_000007.wav|That was what Virginia faced, and she finally answered it by touching the girl again.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000028_000001.wav|"Where does mr Gray live?" she asked. She knew that the evangelist boarded somewhere near the tent.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000035_000002.wav|Virginia was painfully conscious of the stare that greeted her and her companion as they entered.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000013_000001.wav|The carriage stopped, and in a moment she was out and had gone up to the girl and taken her by the arm.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000012_000002.wav|She was singing in a broken, drunken sob that seemed to indicate that she partly realized her awful condition, "Just as I am, without one plea"--and as the carriage rolled past she leered at it, raising her face so that Virginia saw it very close to her own.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000042_000000.wav|"Do you know what this girl is?" asked Madam Page, in an angry whisper, stepping near Virginia.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000017_000000.wav|The girl with the red parasol seemed to gasp at the word "friend," when Virginia spoke it.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000030_000005.wav|The Rectangle viewed it with soberness and more or less wondering admiration.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000050_000003.wav|Virginia called a servant and soon had Loreen cared for.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000034_000000.wav|"Loreen, come.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000019_000000.wav|"Go on.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000023_000000.wav|"Where does she live?" asked Virginia.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000045_000001.wav|Virginia placed her arm about Loreen and calmly looked her grandmother in the face.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000030_000001.wav|The sight seemed to impress the Rectangle seriously. It never took itself seriously when it was drunk, but this was different.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000007_000001.wav|It impressed her during the drive to the Rectangle that all three of her friends were regarding her with close attention as if she were peculiar.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000033_000006.wav|"What would Jesus do with Loreen?"|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000037_000000.wav|Madam Page was in the library.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000001.wav|Leave me!|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000025_000006.wav|She turned and pointed with a shaking finger at the saloon keeper.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4116/13256/4116_13256_000005_000000.wav|"HADN'T we better take a policeman along?" said one of the girls with a nervous laugh.|4116
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000013_000001.wav|Then a war began.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000033_000000.wav|But though Edward had fled, he was not discouraged.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000005_000002.wav|An armed troop was approaching.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000011_000001.wav|"Let us first ask for reform.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000013_000000.wav|The king paid no attention to it.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000003_000000.wav|The earl of Warwick, known as the "kingmaker," was the most famous man in England for many years after the death of Henry the fifth He lived in a great castle with two towers higher than most church spires. It is one of the handsomest dwellings in the world and is visited every year by thousands of people.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000041_000001.wav|But he was mistaken.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000044_000000.wav|Richard was a bad man, but he was brave, and he fought like a lion. However, it was all in vain.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000019_000001.wav|The duke of York was killed, and the queen ordered some of her men to cut off his head, put upon it a paper crown in mockery, and fix it over one of the gates of the city of York.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000026_000002.wav|I entrust him to your care."|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000001_000000.wav|LIVED FROM fourteen twenty eight to fourteen seventy one|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000010_000000.wav|"That is true, my cousin of Warwick," replied the duke of York, "but we must not plunge England into war."|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000014_000000.wav|Those who fought on the king's side were called Lancastrians, because Henry's ancestor, john of Gaunt, was the duke of Lancaster.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000024_000001.wav|She left London and the kingmaker entered the city in triumph.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000023_000000.wav|But the people were still discontented.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000009_000001.wav|His claim comes through his father only-yours through both your father and mother.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000008_000000.wav|The earl spoke the truth.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000013_000003.wav|It lasted for thirty years.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000040_000000.wav|But Richard was determined to make himself king.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000009_000000.wav|The earl of Warwick added: "You are the rightful heir to the throne. The claim of Henry the sixth comes through Lancaster, the fourth son of Edward the third-yours through Lionel, the second.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000009_000002.wav|It is a better claim and it is a double claim."|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000005_000005.wav|The gate was opened.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000040_000001.wav|So he put both the young princes in the Tower.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000006_000000.wav|Passing through it and on to the castle, the earl and his company were soon within its strong stone walls.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000000_000000.wav|WARWICK THE KINGMAKER|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000028_000000.wav|three|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000005_000004.wav|The earl himself was behind them.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000026_000001.wav|A robber met them, but Margaret, with wonderful courage, said to him, "I am your queen and this is your prince.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152282/2272_152282_000041_000002.wav|One person did claim it.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000020_000001.wav|Alfred himself was obliged to flee for his life.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000029_000002.wav|At last, Guth'rum, the commander of the Danes, ordered the minstrel to be brought to his tent.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000007_000000.wav|Alfred was the son of Ethelwulf, king of the West Saxons.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000027_000000.wav|three|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000019_000001.wav|They kept the people in constant alarm. Alfred therefore determined to meet the pirates on their own element, the sea.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000023_000000.wav|Once, when very hungry, he went into the house of a cowherd and asked for something to eat.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000017_000001.wav|Some great battles were fought, and Alfred's elder brother Ethelred, king of the West Saxons, was killed.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000008_000002.wav|Moreover, the art of making paper had not yet been invented.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000010_000000.wav|"Oh, what a lovely book!" exclaimed the boys.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000031_000001.wav|Guthrum was taken prisoner and brought before Alfred.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000014_000001.wav|It was a long and tiresome journey, made mostly on horseback.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000008_000000.wav|When Alfred was a boy there were no printed books.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152264/2272_152264_000002_000000.wav|ALFRED THE GREAT|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/150674/2272_150674_000009_000000.wav|In the connection of the church and state, I have considered the former as subservient only, and relative, to the latter; a salutary maxim, if in fact, as well as in narrative, it had ever been held sacred.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/150674/2272_150674_000011_000005.wav|The first introduction of a symbolic worship was in the veneration of the cross, and of relics.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/150674/2272_150674_000006_000000.wav|vol five|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/150674/2272_150674_000009_000002.wav|But I have reviewed, with diligence and pleasure, the objects of ecclesiastical history, by which the decline and fall of the Roman empire were materially affected, the propagation of Christianity, the constitution of the Catholic church, the ruin of Paganism, and the sects that arose from the mysterious controversies concerning the Trinity and incarnation.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/150674/2272_150674_000011_000011.wav|The most audacious pencil might tremble in the rash attempt of defining, by forms and colors, the infinite Spirit, the eternal Father, who pervades and sustains the universe.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/150674/2272_150674_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000002_000001.wav|As they were passing a deep mire they heard cries for help, and turning, saw a poor leper who was sinking in the mud.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000017_000004.wav|Wheat, barley and cheese were all so dear that none but the rich could buy them.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000004_000000.wav|The knight called for a light and searched, but in vain.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000009_000003.wav|Each was to choose a champion. The champions were to fight, and the king whose champion won was to have the city.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000015_000002.wav|He was determined to capture Toledo.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000003_000004.wav|This awakened the knight, who turned quickly in his bed and found that the leper was gone.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000003_000002.wav|If the knight had not done this, the leper would have been driven out of the town, with nothing to eat and no place in which to sleep.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000018_000000.wav|Then on the fifteenth of June, ten ninety four, the governor went to the camp of the Cid and delivered to him the keys of the city.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000020_000001.wav|They crossed from Africa to Spain and laid siege to Valencia.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000003_000001.wav|After supper the knight shared his own bed with the leper.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000005_000000.wav|With that the vision vanished.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000022_000000.wav|In time the Cid's health began to fail.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000006_000003.wav|The Saracens called him "The Cid," or Lord.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000012_000003.wav|Soon they reached the town of Alcocer, and after a siege captured it and lived in it.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000011_000001.wav|To this they gladly agreed.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000017_000003.wav|Food became very scarce in Valencia.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000014_000002.wav|Suddenly and swiftly they poured from the gate of Alcocer, and a terrible battle was fought.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152267/2272_152267_000003_000003.wav|At midnight, while the young man was fast asleep, the leper breathed upon his back.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000022_000000.wav|Soon after this a welcome message came to Egbert.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000022_000001.wav|The mind of the people in Wessex had changed and they had elected him king.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000016_000005.wav|"Angles," was the answer.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000016_000004.wav|He asked the dealer who they were.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000001_000000.wav|EGBERT|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000007_000001.wav|They learned much about Britain; for trading vessels, even at that early day, crossed the Channel.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000009_000000.wav|After the Roman legions had left Britain, the Jutes, led, it is said, by two great captains named Hengist and Horsa, landed upon the southeastern coast and made a settlement.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000020_000000.wav|Still, though both Angles and Saxons called themselves Christians, they were seldom at peace; and for more than two hundred years they frequently fought.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152262/2272_152262_000016_000001.wav|Aid came to them in a singular way.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000013_000001.wav|I cannot believe it.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000002_000000.wav|HENRY THE FOWLER|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000025_000003.wav|The infantry also were carefully drilled.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000009_000003.wav|Then they would swiftly dart at their prey and bear it to the ground.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000012_000001.wav|Then he exclaimed:|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000028_000001.wav|"Our truce is ended."|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000032_000001.wav|His son Otto succeeded him.|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2272/152265/2272_152265_000010_000002.wav|Kneeling at his feet, the messenger said:|2272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000063_000001.wav|As it was, he shivered, but more from nervousness than from the chill night air.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000025_000000.wav|It required no little courage for a boy alone in the mountains to walk up to a bear, not knowing whether the animal were dead or alive.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000018_000001.wav|Next he sought to gather some sticks with which to make a torch, but the only wood he was able to find was of oak and so green that it would not burn.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000011_000000.wav|The boy was satisfied, however, that by exerting all his strength he would be able to pull himself away before the beast could awaken, even, providing it were still alive.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000015_000001.wav|There he stood listening intently for several minutes.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000007_000001.wav|But what of the pressure on his chest?|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000046_000002.wav|The same impressive silence surrounded him.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000031_000000.wav|He waited, but could hear no sound.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER six|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000052_000000.wav|The panic of the lost seized him and Tad ran this way and that, plunging ahead for some distance, then swerving to the right or to the left in a desperate attempt to free himself from the endless thicket, bruising his body from contact with the trunks of the trees and cutting his hands as they struck the rocks violently when he fell.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000053_000002.wav|It was the feeling of being lost in an unknown forest.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000030_000000.wav|Thinking that the bear had moved under the blow, Tad whirled and ran tittering a loud "Oh!"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000061_000001.wav|He made a more practical application of them.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000062_000000.wav|"It's going to rain," he decided wisely, casting a glance above him at the sky, which was becoming rapidly overcast.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000055_000001.wav|"I'll sit down and wait for daylight.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000036_000002.wav|But where is that pony?"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000053_000000.wav|"Tad Butler, you stop this!" he commanded sternly, bringing himself up sharply.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000047_000001.wav|He changed his course and plodded on methodically again.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000009_000000.wav|Tad could scarce repress a yell.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000045_000000.wav|The lad struck out confidently.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000060_000000.wav|A gentle breeze now stirred the foliage above his head and all about him until the sound became a restless murmur, as if Nature were holding council over the lad's predicament.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000003_000000.wav|"Whoa, Pink eye!" muttered the lad, stirring restlessly.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000012_000002.wav|Undoubtedly it had fallen underneath the bear.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000063_000000.wav|Fortunately he had worn his coat when he left the camp, else he would now have suffered from the cold.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000007_000000.wav|No, he could feel the ground under him, and a rock that his right hand rested on, felt cold and chilling.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000045_000001.wav|He had been lost in the wilderness before, and though he felt a slight uneasiness he had no doubt of his ability to find the camp eventually.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000056_000001.wav|Tad remembered with a start that there were bears in the range.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000018_000000.wav|Tad searched his clothes for matches, finally finding his match safe.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000046_000000.wav|He walked vigorously for half an hour.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000040_000001.wav|The lad went through his pockets twice in search of it.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000036_000000.wav|"I know," he cried.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000059_000000.wav|Tad ensconced himself in a slight depression, and with a flat rock for a resting place, leaned back determined to make the best of his position.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000012_000000.wav|First he sought cautiously for his weapon, his fingers groping about over the ground at his right hand.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000038_000000.wav|Tad whistled and called, listening after each attempt without the slightest result.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000025_000001.wav|Yet when Tad Butler made up his mind to do a certain thing, he persisted until he had accomplished it.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000055_000002.wav|That's all I can do.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000058_000001.wav|Up this he clambered.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000062_000003.wav|I cannot well be any more so than I was last night.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000006_000000.wav|"It was the bear," he murmured.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000043_000000.wav|"I've got something to defend myself with, at least," he told himself.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000039_000000.wav|"He's gone.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000027_000001.wav|There seemed no other way to make certain except to stir the animal.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000026_000000.wav|He reached the side of the animal, that is, close enough so that he could get a good view of it.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000012_000001.wav|He could not find it.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000037_000000.wav|All at once the realization came to him that the pony had thrown him off.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000062_000004.wav|I'll bet the rainwater will be warmer than the waters in the East Fork.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000033_000000.wav|He did.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000004_000001.wav|The darkness about him was deep and impenetrable and he was conscious of a heavy weight on his chest.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000033_000002.wav|There was no movement other than a slight tremor caused by the impact of the kick.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000062_000001.wav|"And I haven't any umbrella," he added, grinning at his own feeble joke.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000054_000000.wav|Instead of being in the foothills as he had supposed, he was penetrating the fastnesses of the Rosebud Mountains themselves.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000017_000000.wav|"I wonder if he's dead," whispered the lad, almost afraid to trust his voice out loud.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000020_000000.wav|Lighting one he picked his way carefully toward the place where he had been lying, peering into the shadows ahead of him suspiciously as he went.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000016_000001.wav|The leaves of the trees hung limp and lifeless, for no breeze was stirring.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000005_000000.wav|All at once he recollected.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000040_000000.wav|The compass, however, was nowhere to be found.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000024_000000.wav|Mustering his courage, Tad continued his cautious approach, lighting match after match, shading the flame with his hands so that the light would not get into his eyes and prevent him from seeing anything ahead of him.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000042_000000.wav|Tad picked up the weapon joyfully.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000029_000000.wav|Cautiously lighting another match he drew back his left foot and administered a sound kick to the beast's side.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000022_000000.wav|He could faintly make out the figure of the bear lying half on its side as it had been before, the only difference being that the animal's head was stretched out on the ground instead of on the lad's chest.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000032_000002.wav|I'm going back this time and make sure."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000017_000001.wav|"Maybe that shot finished him.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000062_000002.wav|"Well, I've been wet before.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000055_000003.wav|I surely can find my way back to camp when the light comes again."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000061_000000.wav|The lost boy did not so interpret the sounds, however.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000027_000000.wav|The bear never moved and Tad drew closer, walking on his toes that he might make no sound.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000053_000001.wav|"I didn't think you were such a silly kid as to be afraid of the dark." But in his innermost heart the lad knew that it was not the shadows that had so upset him.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000058_000002.wav|It would give him a good view in the morning anyway, besides protecting him from any prowling animals that might chance in that part of the forest.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000008_000001.wav|His fingers lightly touched it.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/104637/7188_104637_000046_000001.wav|Then he halted.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000041_000000.wav|The Little Doctor, puzzled as well as piqued, went straight to the point.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000062_000000.wav|"I think you need a change of air, mr Bennett."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000008_000000.wav|And the Little Doctor answered him frankly and distinctly: "Oh, very well, considering all things.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000055_000001.wav|At the next hill the Little Doctor looked her companion over critically.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000008_000003.wav|I don't suppose-"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000068_000002.wav|I'm sorry I forced my presence upon you, and I promise you it won't occur again." She hesitated, and then fired a parting shot which certainly was spiteful in the extreme. "There's one good thing about it," she smiled, tartly, "I shall have something interesting to write to dr Cecil."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000027_000000.wav|"I expect she thinks I'll amuse her some more!" he thought, savagely, as they galloped away through the quivering sunlight.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000035_000000.wav|"I liked their playing so much.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000017_000002.wav|Hold on a minute!"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight. -- Prescriptions.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000058_000000.wav|"I'm not trying to add to my amusement."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000025_000000.wav|"Let me help you," begged Dunk, at her elbow, hoping till the last that she would invite him to go with them.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000070_000001.wav|He had been angry with the Little Doctor for coming, but it was nothing to the rage he felt when she turned back!|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000024_000001.wav|She was standing on the porch drawing on her gauntlets when Chip returned, leading Concho by the bridle.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000017_000003.wav|The Old Man stood waving his pipe in the doorway.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000065_000000.wav|"I think a few small doses of Eastern manners would improve you very much," she said, pointedly.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000049_000001.wav|"I like amiable young men."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000011_000001.wav|That's good!|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000010_000001.wav|As a matter of fact, it was the Densons, and the Pilgreens, and the Beckmans that were under discussion, and not the Flying U cowboys, as Chip believed.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000059_000000.wav|"No?"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000037_000001.wav|You know yourself, he plays beautifully."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000028_000002.wav|Then it was that Chip's native chivalry and self mastery were put to test.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000050_000000.wav|Silence.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000022_000001.wav|He felt that, if he met her eyes-with the laugh in them-he should do one of two undesirable things: he should either smile back at her, weakly overlooking the hypocrisy of her friendliness, or sneer in answer to her smile, which would be very rude and ungentlemanly.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000048_000000.wav|No answer from Chip.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000003_000002.wav|Down in the blacksmith shop Chip was putting new rowels into his spurs and whistling softly to himself while he worked.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000023_000000.wav|"If you had mentioned wanting a ride I should have been glad to accompany you," remarked Dunk, reproachfully, when Chip had ridden, somewhat sullenly, back to the stable.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000005_000001.wav|That was why he whistled.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000061_000001.wav|Such as Dick Brown."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000028_000000.wav|For the first two miles the road was level, and Chip set the pace-which was, as he intended it should be, too swift for much speech.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000038_000000.wav|"Cow punchers aren't expected to know all these things." Chip hated himself for replying so, but the temptation mastered him.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000047_000000.wav|"Yes, yes-YES!"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000056_000001.wav|Shall I prescribe for you?"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000008_000001.wav|They furnish me with some amusement, and I give them something quite new to talk about, so we are quits.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000068_000000.wav|"If you didn't want me to come, why in the world didn't you have the courage to say so at the start?|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000037_000000.wav|"Yes, of course.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000070_000002.wav|He did not own to himself that he wanted her beside him to taunt and to hurt with his rudeness, but it was a fact, for all that.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000032_000000.wav|Chip looked straight ahead.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000003_000000.wav|It was Sunday, the second day after the dance.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000040_000000.wav|Chip closed his lips tightly to keep in something impolite.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000013_000001.wav|She was tired of the platitudes of Dunk, who, trying to be both original and polished, fell far short of being either and only succeeded in being extremely tiresome.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000052_000001.wav|What does he expect to find?"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000039_000000.wav|"Aren't they?|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000067_000001.wav|She held Concho's rein so tight he almost stopped.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000016_000000.wav|"Oh, I wish I could go-I wonder if he'd care." The Little Doctor spoke impulsively as was her habit.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000056_000000.wav|"mr Bennett, you look positively bilious.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000060_000002.wav|I like-"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000030_000000.wav|She was talking reminiscently of the dance.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000010_000002.wav|He no longer smiled sympathetically.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000048_000001.wav|He could think of nothing to say that was not more or less profane.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000064_000000.wav|Miss Whitmore grew red as to cheeks and bright as to eyes.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000011_000004.wav|He struck the rivet such a blow that he snapped one shank of his spur short off. This meant ten or twelve dollars for a new pair-though the cost of it troubled him little, just then.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000019_000000.wav|"What?"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000006_000001.wav|As the voices drew nearer, the soft, smooth, hated tones of Dunk Whitaker untangled from the Little Doctor's laugh, and Chip stopped whistling.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000018_000000.wav|Chip jerked his horse to a stand still and half turned in the saddle.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000034_000000.wav|The Little Doctor gave him a quick, surprised look and went on.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000063_000000.wav|"Yes?|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000067_000000.wav|The Little Doctor grew white around the mouth.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000070_000000.wav|As Chip raced away over the prairie, he discovered a new and puzzling kink in his temper.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000066_000001.wav|They'd have to be small, because the supply is very limited."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000044_000000.wav|"Well, you-not exactly, but you implied that you did not."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000006_000002.wav|Dunk was making a good, long stay of it this time; usually he came one day and went the next, and no one grieved at his departure.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000009_000000.wav|The words trailed into an indistinct murmur, punctuated by Dunk's jarring cackle.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000008_000002.wav|They are a good hearted lot, you know-but SO ignorant!|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000004_000001.wav|And they had laughed together over the juvenile seven and the subsequent indignation of the mothers who, with the exception of "Mary," had bundled up their offspring and gone home mad.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000011_000005.wav|It was something tangible upon which to pour profanity, however, and the atmosphere grew sulphurous in the vicinity of the blacksmith shop and remained so for several minutes, after which a tall, irate cow puncher with his hat pulled low over angry eyes left the shop and strode up the path to the deserted bunk house.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000013_000000.wav|Della was looking from the window when Chip rode up the hill upon the "coulee trail," which passed close by the house.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000046_000000.wav|The Little Doctor gave the reins an impatient twitch.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000051_000000.wav|"He's going to come down here hunting next fall.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/82904/7188_82904_000053_000000.wav|"Why, whatever there is to hunt.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000011_000000.wav|When the sun went down he seemed no nearer to the object of his search than when he had set out at daybreak.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000085_000000.wav|"What!|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000077_000001.wav|He reasoned that he ought to reach the mining camp by four or five o'clock that afternoon.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000004.wav|At first this gave him some relief.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000088_000000.wav|"Reckon you'll have a long run, then.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000083_000000.wav|"Where's mr Munson-mr|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000011_000003.wav|Not a sign of smoke could he discover anywhere.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000039_000001.wav|Where is it?" asked Tad Butler.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000047_000001.wav|Much obliged for directing me, at least," said Tad, turning away and starting with compass in hand.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000011_000001.wav|The lad, after looking about, came upon a tree which he climbed in order to get an unobstructed view of the country.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000079_000004.wav|He told himself that he could not afford to try any experiment, however.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000058_000001.wav|Browsing hereabouts, I reckon.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000040_000001.wav|It's a peak that looks red when the sun shines on it."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000042_000000.wav|"Got a compass?"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000007_000001.wav|Hard as nails and spurred on by the need of his companions, the lad pushed on and on, blazing his trail as he went, not feeling any fatigue to speak of.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000023_000000.wav|Halfway down the slope was a shack and off beyond it stood a man with his back turned toward him.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000003.wav|He tried the experiment of chewing some leaves that he knew were harmless.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000017_000000.wav|Late that night, the boy awakened, finding the moon shining brightly.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000077_000002.wav|That would be in time for him to start back with food for the other boys, whom he had left in camp.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000072_000000.wav|"Well, here is twenty five cents.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000080_000000.wav|His judgment was verified, when, shortly after four o'clock he was gratified by sighting several pillars of black smoke.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000020_000000.wav|So he trudged on.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000076_000000.wav|"Thank you.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000001.wav|Hungry?|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000078_000000.wav|"My, but I'll bet Chunky is a walking skeleton by this time," smiled Tad, as the thought of his companion's appetite came humorously into his mind.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000024_000001.wav|The man down there, startled by the cry, wheeled suddenly and descrying the figure of Tad Butler racing toward him, ran to his cabin, appearing a moment later with a rifle in his hands.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000062_000001.wav|While she was nibbling at his offering, Tad patted her and after a time managed to quiet her sufficiently to enable him to get around to one side.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000011_000002.wav|He argued that camp fires would be lighted for the evening meal.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000013_000000.wav|"I've got to stay out all night," he muttered.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000029_000000.wav|"I want something to eat first of all.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000082_000000.wav|With clothes in a sad state of disorder, eyes red and sunken, Tad Butler burst into the Red Star mining camp.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000044_000001.wav|"Know anybody there?"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000034_000000.wav|"We're prospecting.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000049_000000.wav|"Hey, young feller, come back here."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000003_000000.wav|WINNING THROUGH PLUCK|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000077_000000.wav|The fifteen miles of rough traveling did not discourage him in the least.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000045_000000.wav|"mr Munson, Richard Munson."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000020_000001.wav|He did not run this time, for a little more care than he had been exercising was now necessary to avoid pitfalls in the shadows cast by rock and tree.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000059_000000.wav|"Thank you.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000034_000001.wav|I reckon we know our business best.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000085_000001.wav|Not here?"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000007_000002.wav|Now and then he would pause for a few moments to make sure that he was not straying from the river gorge, which occasional rocks and foliage hid from his view.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000051_000000.wav|"Sorry we can't give ye anything to eat.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000061_000000.wav|Tad sought the draw and after some search came upon the goat rather unexpectedly.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000082_000001.wav|His sudden entrance caused the few people about to pause and gaze at him in astonishment.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000088_000002.wav|That's a good twenty miles from here, I reckon."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000054_000000.wav|At first he thought they were joking, but Tad suddenly realized that the men were in earnest.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000014_000000.wav|There remaining about two hours before dark, he decided to push on as long as he could see.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000030_000000.wav|"Sorry, younker, but we ain't got more'n enough for ourselves.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000005.wav|After a little it made him sick, so he did not try the experiment again.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000053_000001.wav|The goat's our milk wagon-she gives milk for the outfit."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000009_000000.wav|"I must be getting near the place," he mused.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000087_000001.wav|I must find him," expostulated the lad.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000029_000001.wav|I'm half starved," he told them.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000012_000000.wav|Tad's heart sank.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000018_000002.wav|The light of the moon was so strong that he could make out the surroundings almost as well as in daylight.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000086_000000.wav|"no"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000065_000000.wav|He helped himself to another and still another cupful, until he felt that he could hold no more.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000016_000000.wav|Then he lay down to sleep, refusing to allow himself to think very long at a time of his lonely position.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000059_000001.wav|I'll try."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000053_000000.wav|"Yep.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000079_000001.wav|Reaching the draw that the miners had described, he recognized it at once, worked his way around it and came back.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000075_000000.wav|"As the eagle flies, 'bout twelve miles.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000039_000000.wav|"I don't know.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000025_000001.wav|Both men stood facing the lad, until, when he got near enough, they discovered that it was a boy; then they laughed and lowered their weapons.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000052_000000.wav|"The goat?"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000028_000000.wav|Tad explained as best he could between breaths, at which the men laughed more heartily than ever.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000027_000001.wav|What's the excitement about?" demanded the first of the two men.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000048_000000.wav|The men said something to each other in a low tone, but Tad paid no attention to them, hurrying away as fast as his weary limbs would carry him.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000041_000001.wav|Tell me how I can get to the mining camp, even if you won't let me have anything to eat," begged the boy. "My companions will starve before I can get back unless I get help to them soon."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000010_000000.wav|Still there was no trace of human habitation.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000073_000000.wav|"You're welcome, kid.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000072_000001.wav|I thank you very much," replied the lad, laying the money down in front of the door of the shack, because the miner refused to reach out his hand for it.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000031_000001.wav|I must have food right now," protested Tad.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000026_000000.wav|Tad fairly staggered up to them.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000008_000000.wav|At noon Tad sat down and ate another egg.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000015_000001.wav|Water there was none, so he had to do without it while he ate his last egg.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000041_000000.wav|"No, I didn't pass the place.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000030_000001.wav|It's a long ways to where we kin git more."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000018_000000.wav|He got up and looked about him.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000033_000000.wav|"Who are you?" demanded Tad indignantly.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000002.wav|Yes, Tad was actually faint for want of food.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000006_000001.wav|This he did, by stretching flat on his back, after having finished his scanty breakfast.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000032_000000.wav|"So must we."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000079_000003.wav|Tad realized this.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000004_000000.wav|Tad Butler had left the camp at daybreak.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000076_000002.wav|Hope I have a chance to return the favor some time," smiled Tad, swinging his hand in parting salute, as he started with renewed courage.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000066_000001.wav|Help yourself if you wish any more."|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000005_000000.wav|He had eaten no breakfast, having simply taken a cup of sulphur water, believing that he could make better time on an empty stomach. However, he now sat down and munched on one of the three hard boiled eggs he had taken with him.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000064_000001.wav|"I never knew goat's milk was anything like that.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000021_000000.wav|Daylight came, but still the weary boy kept on his way.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000019_000001.wav|"Perhaps I'll get somewhere in time for breakfast.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000069_000000.wav|Very much refreshed, the boy ran back to the miners' shack.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000007_000000.wav|Sharp on the half hour by his watch, Tad sprang up, greatly refreshed. Leaning well forward he dropped into a long, easy lope, which carried him over the ground rapidly.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000050_000000.wav|Tad did so reluctantly.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000025_000000.wav|A moment more a second man dashed out, he too carrying a gun.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000074_000001.wav|I do not feel hungry now," he smiled. "How far is it to the Red Star the way you have directed me?"|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000081_000000.wav|"That's the place.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7188/107627/7188_107627_000004_000001.wav|He started off at a slow trot which he kept up over the rough, uneven ground until some time after sunrise, all the time keeping the mountain gorge in sight so that he might not lose his way.|7188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39515/5401_39515_000018_000000.wav|THE BRITISH ISLES.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39515/5401_39515_000007_000000.wav|EASTERN NORTH AMERICA.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000010_000000.wav|Other factors, however, have played important parts.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000035_000000.wav|Many of the richest ore deposits are thus due to successive concentrations: the ores were leached originally from the rocks to a large extent by laterally seeping waters; they were concentrated in the ore deposits of the vein chiefly by ascending currents; they have been reconcentrated by descending waters in the way just mentioned.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000004_000004.wav|Sandstone may be converted into quartzite, and shale into ARGILLITE, a compact, massive clay rock.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000037_000001.wav|Thus in soluble rocks, such as limestones, joints enlarged by percolating water are sometimes filled with metalliferous deposits, as, for example, the lead and zinc deposits of the upper Mississippi valley.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000026_000001.wav|FLUORITE (calcium fluoride), a mineral harder than calcite and crystallizing in cubes of various colors, and BARITE (barium sulphate), a heavy white mineral, are abundant in many veins.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000013_000003.wav|Of this structure, called FOLIATION, we may distinguish two types,--a coarser feldspathic type, and a fine type in which other minerals than feldspar predominate.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000011_000000.wav|Early stages of metamorphism are seen in SLATE.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000013_000001.wav|Under still stronger pressure the whole structure of the rock is altered.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000005_000000.wav|In contact metamorphism, thin sheets of molten rock produce less effect than thicker ones.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000003_000000.wav|Under the action of internal agencies rocks of all kinds may be rendered harder, more firmly cemented, and more crystalline.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000020_000000.wav|These few examples must suffice of the great class of metamorphic rocks.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000033_000001.wav|The steaming water rises through fissures in volcanic rocks and is now depositing in the rifts a vein stone of quartz, with metallic ores of iron, mercury, lead, and other metals.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000015_000000.wav|THE CRYSTALLINE SCHISTS, representing the finer types of foliation, consist of thin, parallel, crystalline leaves, which are often remarkably crumpled.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000006_000000.wav|Which will be more strongly altered, the rocks about a closed dike in which lava began to cool as soon as it filled the fissure, or the rocks about a dike which opened on the surface and through which the molten rock flowed for some time?|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000028_000002.wav|How the gold came in the placers we may leave the pupil to suggest.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000024_000000.wav|MINERAL VEINS|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000021_000004.wav|The most thoroughly metamorphosed rocks may sometimes be traced out into unaltered sedimentary or igneous rocks, or among them may be found patches of little change where their history maybe read.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000004_000003.wav|Thus, next to a dike, bituminous coal may be baked to coke or anthracite, and chalk and limestone to crystalline marble.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000015_000001.wav|These folia can be distinguished from the laminae of sedimentary rocks by their lenticular form and lack of continuity, and especially by the fact that they consist of platy, crystalline grains, and not of particles rounded by wear.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000026_000000.wav|The most common vein stones are QUARTZ and CALCITE.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000030_000003.wav|Now fissures, wherever they occur, form the trunk channels of the underground circulation. Water descends from the surface along these rifts; it moves laterally from either side to the fissure plane, just as ground water seeps through the surrounding rocks from every direction to a well; and it ascends through these natural water ways as in an artesian well, whenever they intersect an aquifer in which water is under hydrostatic pressure.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000004_000002.wav|The adjacent strata may be changed only in color, hardness, and texture.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000011_000001.wav|Pressure has hardened the marine muds, the arkose, or the volcanic ash from which slates are derived, and has caused them to cleave by the rearrangement of their particles.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000004_000006.wav|In sedimentary rocks there may be produced crystals of mica and of GARNET (a mineral as hard as quartz, commonly occurring in red, twelve sided crystals).|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000031_000000.wav|The waters which deposit vein stones and ores are commonly hot, and in many cases they have derived their heat from intrusions of igneous rock still uncooled within the crust.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000023_000001.wav|Why do metamorphic rocks appear on the surface to day?|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000030_000000.wav|ORIGIN OF MINERAL VEINS.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000016_000003.wav|TALC SCHIST consists of quartz and TALC, a light colored magnesian mineral of greasy feel, and so soft that it can be scratched with the thumb nail.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000009_000000.wav|In these regions the rocks have yielded to immense pressure.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000016_000000.wav|MICA SCHIST, the most common of schists, and in fact of all metamorphic rocks, is composed of mica and quartz in alternating wavy folia.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000004_000000.wav|CONTACT METAMORPHISM.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000012_000001.wav|The same pressure which has caused the rock to cleave has set free some of its mineral constituents along the cleavage planes to crystallize there as mica.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000012_000000.wav|Under somewhat greater pressure, slate becomes PHYLLITE, a clay slate whose cleavage surfaces are lustrous with flat lying mica flakes.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000034_000003.wav|The minerals of veins are therefore constantly being dissolved along their upper portions and carried down the fissures by ground water to lower levels, where they are redeposited.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000002_000000.wav|METAMORPHISM AND MINERAL VEINS|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000008_000000.wav|REGIONAL METAMORPHISM.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000020_000002.wav|The fact of change is seen in their hardness arid cementation, their more or less complete recrystallization, and their foliation; but the change is often so complete that no trace of their original structure and mineral composition remains to tell whether the rocks from which they were derived were sedimentary or igneous, or to what variety of either of these classes they belonged.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000010_000002.wav|Thus chemical reactions are greatly quickened; minerals are dissolved and redeposited in new positions, or their chemical constituents may recombine in new minerals, entirely changing the nature of the rock, as when, for example, feldspar recrystallizes as quartz and mica.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000005_000001.wav|The strongest heat effects are naturally caused by bosses and regional intrusions, and the zone of change about them may be several miles in width.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000010_000001.wav|Rock crushing develops heat, and allows a freer circulation of heated waters and vapors.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/39508/5401_39508_000021_000002.wav|Schists may contain rolled out pebbles, showing their derivation from a conglomerate.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000004_000004.wav|The safety of the realm was entirely in the hands of its well paid and well disciplined national army, and anything that impaired the efficiency of the army was fraught with the deadliest peril.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000017_000005.wav|Though false, he was not cruel, and seven ex emperors and usurpers, living unharmed in Constantinople under his sceptre, bore witness to the mildness of his rule.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000002_000000.wav|The moment that the last of the Macedonian dynasty was gone, the elements of discord seemed unchained, and the double scourge of civil war and foreign invasion began to afflict the empire.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000008_000004.wav|Cappadocia was already desolated from end to end, and the Turkish raids had reached as far as Amorium, in Phrygia.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000016_000006.wav|At last a man of ability worked himself up to the surface. This was Alexius Comnenus, nephew of the emperor Isaac Comnenus, whose short reign we related in the opening paragraph of this chapter.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000008_000002.wav|Hence the Emperor was not unfrequently able to catch and slay off one of the minor divisions of the Turkish army.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000003_000001.wav|The aged Theodora had named as her successor on the throne Michael Stratioticus, a contemporary of her own who had been an able soldier twenty five years back.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000003.wav|During his captivity the conduct of affairs had fallen into the hands of john Ducas, uncle of the young emperor Michael.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000017_000000.wav|Alexius was a man of courage and ability, but he displayed one of the worst types of Byzantine character.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000007_000000.wav|Ducas died in ten sixty seven, leaving the throne to his son, Michael, a boy of fourteen years.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000009_000000.wav|In ten seventy one came the final disaster.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000006_000000.wav|The reign of Constantine Ducas was troubled by countless Seljouk invasions of the Armeniac, Anatolic, and Cappadocian themes.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000012_000004.wav|The Emperor's division was beset on all sides by the enemy, and broke up in the dusk.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000016_000003.wav|After the death of Romanus, every general in the empire seemed to think that the time had come for him to assume the purple buskins and proclaim himself emperor. History records the names of no less than six pretenders to the throne during the next nine years, besides several rebels who took up arms without assuming the imperial title.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000008_000003.wav|But some of them always contrived to elude him; his heavy cavalry could not come up with the light Seljouk horse bowmen, who generally escaped and rode back home by a long detour, burning and murdering as they went.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000005.wav|When the released captive reappeared, john had him seized and blinded.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000005_000002.wav|In ten fifty, they had penetrated to Bagdad, and their great chief, Togrul Beg, had declared himself "defender of the faith and protector of the Caliph." Armenia had next been overrun, and those portions of it which had not been annexed to the empire, and still obeyed independent princes, had been conquered by ten sixty four.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000016_000000.wav|After this fearful disaster Asia Minor was lost; there was no chief to take the place of Romanus, and the Seljouk hordes spread westward almost unopposed.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000003_000002.wav|But Michael the sixth. was grown aged and incompetent, and the empire was full of ambitious generals, who would not tolerate a dotard on the throne.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000012_000006.wav|The greater part of his men were cut to pieces.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000017_000002.wav|He was the most accomplished liar of his age, and, while winning and defending the imperial throne, committed enough acts of mean treachery, and swore enough false oaths to startle even the courtiers of Constantinople.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000002.wav|But after this humiliating ceremony the Emperor was treated with kindness, and allowed after some months to ransom himself and return home. He would have fared better, however, if he had remained the prisoner of the Turk.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000004.wav|The unscrupulous regent was determined that Romanus should not supersede him and mount the throne again.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000016_000001.wav|The next ten years were a time of chaos and disaster.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000005_000000.wav|The Seljouk Turks were now drawing near.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000017_000003.wav|He could fight when necessary, but he preferred to win by treason and perjury.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000012_000003.wav|Either from treachery or cowardice Andronicus Ducas, the officer who commanded the reserve, led his men off without fighting.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000007_000001.wav|The usual result followed.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000007_000003.wav|The new Emperor regent was Romanus Diogenes, an Asiatic noble, whose brilliant courage displayed in the Seljouk wars had dazzled the world, and caused it to forget that caution and ability are far more regal virtues than headlong valour.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000006_000003.wav|Wherever they passed they not merely plundered to right and left, but slew off the whole population.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000017_000004.wav|Yet as a ruler he had many virtues, and it will always be remembered to his credit that he dragged the empire out of the deepest slough of degradation and ruin that it had ever sunk into.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000000.wav|Alp Arslan showed himself more forbearing to his prisoner than might have been expected.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000006.wav|The cruel work was so roughly done that the unfortunate Romanus died a few days later.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000003_000003.wav|Before a year had passed a band of great Asiatic nobles entered into a conspiracy to overturn Michael, and replace him by Isaac Comnenus, the chief of one of the ancient Cappadocian houses, and the most popular general of the East.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000015_000001.wav|It is true that Romanus was led after his capture to the tent of the Sultan, and laid prostrate before him, that, after the Turkish custom, the conqueror might place his foot on the neck of his vanquished foe.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000004_000000.wav|Isaac Comnenus and his friends took arms, and dispossessed the aged Michael of his throne with little difficulty.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000007_000004.wav|Romanus took in hand with the greatest vigour the task of repelling the Turks, which his predecessor had so grievously neglected.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000003_000000.wav|Domestic troubles were the first inevitable consequence of the extinction of the Macedonian dynasty.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5401/102526/5401_102526_000006_000002.wav|But whether successful or unsuccessful, they displayed a reckless cruelty, far surpassing anything that the Saracens had ever shown.|5401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000019_000009.wav|But I may be mistaken; that may only be the part he assumes.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000017_000000.wav|"At first I said I would not take any message to you.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000020_000001.wav|"I shall always, always pray for her!|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000058_000000.wav|"Once for all, never ask me about anything.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000014_000001.wav|On no account!" cried Pulcheria Alexandrovna.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000054_000002.wav|I... perhaps I shall come... if I can.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000018_000001.wav|How did he strike you?"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000056_000002.wav|What's the matter with you?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000052_000002.wav|Don't you see it?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000044_000010.wav|Don't inquire about me.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132484/2113_132484_000017_000001.wav|Then he said that he would do his utmost to obtain an interview with you without my help. He assured me that his passion for you was a passing infatuation, now he has no feeling for you.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000150_000003.wav|She will see God."|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000109_000006.wav|And if she has not gone out of her mind... but who says she has not gone out of her mind?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000016.wav|And she picked out such dear little boots, for she has taste, you don't know.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000008.wav|Then she will be comforted again.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000061_000004.wav|Only last week!|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000012_000000.wav|"I am late....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000169_000000.wav|"She saith unto Him,"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000038_000007.wav|But where did you hear about them?" she added with some surprise.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000102_000004.wav|Why, I'm... dishonourable.... Ah, why did you say that?"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000207_000000.wav|"What's to be done?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000154_000000.wav|Sonia still hesitated.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000057_000000.wav|"I don't know....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000191_000000.wav|She could read no more, closed the book and got up from her chair quickly.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000106_000003.wav|What held her up-surely not depravity?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000079_000000.wav|"Oh, no...|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000134_000000.wav|"Find it and read it to me," he said.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000212_000006.wav|What for?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000140_000000.wav|"And haven't you heard it in church?"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000199_000000.wav|"How do I know?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000139_000002.wav|Read!"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000096_000000.wav|Sonia's face suddenly changed; a tremor passed over it.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000054_000001.wav|They were all on your hands before, though....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000205_000003.wav|What will happen, if you should really be taken to the hospital to morrow?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000054_000002.wav|And your father came to you to beg for drink.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000098_000007.wav|And certainly he looked like a madman.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000009_000002.wav|She felt sick and ashamed and happy, too....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000017_000000.wav|"Then you are not coming to Katerina Ivanovna to morrow?" Sonia's voice shook.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000207_000004.wav|Freedom and power, and above all, power!|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000043_000003.wav|I wanted to go to Katerina Ivanovna...."|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000050_000001.wav|Her pale cheeks flushed, there was a look of anguish in her eyes.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000066_000001.wav|Did you know her?" Sonia asked with some surprise.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000086_000000.wav|"And it didn't come off!|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000011.wav|One can't contradict her.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000061_000007.wav|And how often I've done it!|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000002.wav|And if she did beat me, what then?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000012.wav|She is good!"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000061_000006.wav|I was cruel!|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000006.wav|On the opposite wall near the acute angle stood a small plain wooden chest of drawers looking, as it were, lost in a desert.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000003_000004.wav|While he was wandering in the darkness, uncertain where to turn for Kapernaumov's door, a door opened three paces from him; he mechanically took hold of it.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000061_000000.wav|"And aren't you sorry for them?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000020_000000.wav|"Why are you standing?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000010.wav|And she kisses and hugs me, comforts me, and you know she has such faith, such faith in her fancies!|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000031_000000.wav|"They live there, through that door?"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000076_000000.wav|"How can you?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000185_000000.wav|"And I knew that Thou hearest Me always; but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that Thou hast sent Me.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000003_000001.wav|It was an old green house of three storeys.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000061_000001.wav|Aren't you sorry?" Sonia flew at him again.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000096_000001.wav|She looked at him with unutterable reproach, tried to say something, but could not speak and broke into bitter, bitter sobs, hiding her face in her hands.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000205_000006.wav|Haven't you seen children here at the street corners sent out by their mothers to beg?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000053_000000.wav|Sonia looked at him inquiringly.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000035_000000.wav|"I should be afraid in your room at night," he observed gloomily.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000014_000001.wav|"I may perhaps not see you again..."|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000212_000002.wav|It's awful!"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000056_000000.wav|"Will they stay there?"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000013_000002.wav|I heard it myself...."|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000110_000002.wav|He began looking more intently at her.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000001.wav|We are one, we live like one." Sonia was agitated again and even angry, as though a canary or some other little bird were to be angry.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000013_000001.wav|"My landlady's clock has just struck...|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000043_000001.wav|I was walking in the street, out there at the corner, about ten o'clock and he seemed to be walking in front.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000139_000001.wav|When I was at school.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000039_000001.wav|He told me all about you....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000009_000000.wav|A minute later Sonia, too, came in with the candle, set down the candlestick and, completely disconcerted, stood before him inexpressibly agitated and apparently frightened by his unexpected visit.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000064_000011.wav|'What use are they to you, Katerina Ivanovna?' I said.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000049_000002.wav|"Ah, you don't....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000095_000000.wav|"But, perhaps, there is no God at all," Raskolnikov answered with a sort of malignance, laughed and looked at her.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000003.wav|What of it?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000157_000001.wav|Her hands were shaking, her voice failed her.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000211_000000.wav|He went out.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000002.wav|A wall with three windows looking out on to the canal ran aslant so that one corner formed a very acute angle, and it was difficult to see in it without very strong light. The other corner was disproportionately obtuse.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000098_000003.wav|He put his two hands on her shoulders and looked straight into her tearful face.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000013.wav|She dragged the wash tub into the room with her feeble hands and sank on the bed, gasping for breath.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000109_000005.wav|"No, what has kept her from the canal till now is the idea of sin and they, the children....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000081_000000.wav|Raskolnikov got up and began to walk about the room.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000044_000000.wav|"You were walking in the streets?"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000203_000001.wav|Haven't you done the same?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000010.wav|There was every sign of poverty; even the bedstead had no curtain.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000064_000007.wav|They just reminded her of her old happy days.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000064_000000.wav|"Yes, I-I.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000072_000001.wav|What can you do except take them to live with you?"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000157_000000.wav|Sonia opened the book and found the place.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000141_000000.wav|"I... haven't been.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000179_000002.wav|He had expected it.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000054_000003.wav|Well, how will it be now?"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000189_000001.wav|Jesus saith unto them, Loose him and let him go.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000196_000002.wav|I've come to you, we are both accursed, let us go our way together!"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000015_000000.wav|"Are you... going away?"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000103_000002.wav|Isn't that fearful?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000082_000000.wav|"And can't you save?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000000.wav|It was a large but exceedingly low pitched room, the only one let by the Kapernaumovs, to whose rooms a closed door led in the wall on the left. In the opposite side on the right hand wall was another door, always kept locked.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000059_000004.wav|"And how she cried to day!|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000145_000001.wav|I was at church last week, too...|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000079_000001.wav|God will not let it be!" broke at last from Sonia's overburdened bosom.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000154_000001.wav|Her heart was throbbing.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000109_000000.wav|"But can that be true?" he cried to himself.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000076_000001.wav|That cannot be!"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000105_000002.wav|She had not even noticed the cruelty of his words.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000207_000009.wav|If I don't come to morrow, you'll hear of it all, and then remember these words.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000021_000000.wav|She sat down.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000037_000000.wav|"They all stammer, don't they?"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000006_000000.wav|On a broken chair stood a candle in a battered copper candlestick.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000004.wav|You know nothing, nothing about it....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000049_000004.wav|Her mind is quite unhinged, you see... from sorrow.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000109_000001.wav|"Can that creature who has still preserved the purity of her spirit be consciously drawn at last into that sink of filth and iniquity?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000158_000001.wav|There was a catch in her breath.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000008.wav|The yellow, scratched and shabby wall paper was black in the corners.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000003_000000.wav|Raskolnikov went straight to the house on the canal bank where Sonia lived.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000043_000000.wav|"Father.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000003.wav|There was scarcely any furniture in the big room: in the corner on the right was a bedstead, beside it, nearest the door, a chair.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000009.wav|And if you were to torture her, she wouldn't do wrong.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000066_000000.wav|"Yes....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000087_000001.wav|Another minute passed.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000072_000000.wav|"And the children?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000098_000005.wav|All at once he bent down quickly and dropping to the ground, kissed her foot.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000109_000009.wav|Does she expect a miracle?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000030_000000.wav|"Yes...."|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000099_000000.wav|"What are you doing to me?" she muttered, turning pale, and a sudden anguish clutched at her heart.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000006.wav|And ill....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000064_000010.wav|And I was sorry to give them.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000109_000010.wav|No doubt she does.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000212_000009.wav|What did he say to her?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000023_000001.wav|Sonia smiled faintly.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000022_000001.wav|What a hand!|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000011.wav|Like a child, like a child.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000064_000008.wav|She looked at herself in the glass, admired herself, and she has no clothes at all, no things of her own, hasn't had all these years! And she never asks anyone for anything; she is proud, she'd sooner give away everything.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000149_000000.wav|"Were you friends with Lizaveta?"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000212_000007.wav|What has happened?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000205_000009.wav|At seven the child is vicious and a thief.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000078_000002.wav|What will happen to them then?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000075_000000.wav|"And, what, if even now, while Katerina Ivanovna is alive, you get ill and are taken to the hospital, what will happen then?" he persisted pitilessly.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000212_000010.wav|He had kissed her foot and said... said (yes, he had said it clearly) that he could not live without her....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000008.wav|She has such faith that there must be righteousness everywhere and she expects it....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000204_000000.wav|"What for?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000179_000004.wav|Her voice rang out like a bell; triumph and joy gave it power.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000026_000000.wav|"Yes."|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000102_000003.wav|An honour!|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000036_000000.wav|"They are very good people, very kind," answered Sonia, who still seemed bewildered, "and all the furniture, everything... everything is theirs. And they are very kind and the children, too, often come to see me."|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000078_000003.wav|They will be in the street, all of them, she will cough and beg and knock her head against some wall, as she did to day, and the children will cry.... Then she will fall down, be taken to the police station and to the hospital, she will die, and the children..."|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000212_000004.wav|"Oh, he must be terribly unhappy!...|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000103_000005.wav|It would be better, a thousand times better and wiser to leap into the water and end it all!"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000051_000000.wav|"Beat me! how can you?|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000180_000001.wav|It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000092_000002.wav|"God would not allow anything so awful!"|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000061_000002.wav|"Why, I know, you gave your last penny yourself, though you'd seen nothing of it, and if you'd seen everything, oh dear!|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000010_000005.wav|Two rush bottom chairs stood by the table.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000103_000000.wav|"It was not because of your dishonour and your sin I said that of you, but because of your great suffering.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000100_000000.wav|He stood up at once.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000108_000000.wav|The last idea was the most revolting, but he was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel, and so he could not help believing that the last end was the most likely.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000098_000002.wav|At last he went up to her; his eyes glittered.|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000207_000003.wav|You'll understand later....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2113/132485/2113_132485_000144_000000.wav|"I understand....|2113
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000001.wav|It was a bright, clear day, and she wished that she had some other girl to walk with her. For when by herself she never ventured beyond the entrance to the park, although if her cousin or one of her school friends could go with her, her aunt had no objection to her walking in the park itself.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000007.wav|Out of town there are many more chances for fun for girls past sixteen than can possibly be found in town or the city.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000001_000003.wav|It was therefore not very often that she let her thoughts dwell too long on her own affairs.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000000.wav|On the very afternoon when Nora and Belle had their falling out, Julia, after finishing her practising, had gone for a walk.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000006.wav|At Roxbury, there were Ruth's ponies to drive, and in snowy weather a chance to coast down a quiet side street.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000011.wav|She was not fond of music, and she did not pretend to be.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000012.wav|The only matinee that she cared for was the theatre, and as her parent were decidedly opposed to her going often to the play, she could not indulge herself half as much as she wished.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000011_000009.wav|For I don't believe that the little thing was actually hiding, and you all three have come back with the report that it was impossible to find her."|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000001_000005.wav|Without realizing it she had walked some distance into the park, and pausing to admire a bit of distant view that she was able to get from a slightly elevated point, she lingered a moment or two longer to decide whether it was an animal or a child that she heard crying behind a small clump of bushes near by.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000021_000000.wav|"Perhaps she's repenting for the way she has neglected her grandchildren," interposed Brenda.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000024_000000.wav|Brenda.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000011_000004.wav|Fidessa probably jumped out of the carriage to take a walk herself.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000005.wav|It was hard to tell which was the pleasanter thing to do.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000011_000001.wav|She does not know her way about the city, and she is never supposed to go anywhere without her leash.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000001_000006.wav|When she found that there was no other way of satisfying herself, she walked up to the bushes, and there, standing forlornly on three legs, was a tiny Italian greyhound.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000026_000001.wav|I forget what I have heard about it myself, but I could make enquiries."|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000004_000000.wav|"Come, I am going to put you down on the ground for a minute to see whether you are hurt, or only pretending." So, suiting the action to the word, she stood the little dog on its feet.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000005_000005.wav|"O, if only it had no owner, what joy!" she thought, as she gazed into its dark eyes, "to keep it for myself!"|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000002.wav|One of the disadvantages of her friendship with ruth Roberts lay in the fact that they could seldom be together in the afternoons.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000007_000001.wav|Nevertheless, she rang the bell bravely, and was welcomed almost with open arms by the serious faced servant who opened the door.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000009_000004.wav|Her figure, though somewhat bent, gave the impression of stateliness.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000019_000004.wav|How did it strike you, Julia?"|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000005_000002.wav|In an instant, too, she remembered that she had seen this little animal, or one very like it, taking its exercise in front of the great, mysterious house.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000001_000002.wav|"To look up and not down, to look out and not in," had been one of the lessons which her father had been most careful to teach her.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000005_000001.wav|There to her surprise, she read in clear letters, "Fidessa, Madame du Launy." Now immediately Julia decided that the owner of the dog must be the mistress of the large house near the school, about which her friends were so curious.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000018_000010.wav|This when she opened proved to contain a delicately chased little envelope opener, shaped like a tiny scimitar.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000011_000000.wav|"That is an old trick of Fidessa," said her mistress smiling, "when she is at all unhappy she limps about on three legs as if really lame.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000018_000009.wav|The footman placed in her hand a little box "with Madame du Launy's compliments," he said.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000005_000000.wav|"Now let me see if your collar tells who your owner is," added Julia, and she bent down towards the dog.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000020_000000.wav|"Not that way, uncle, at all, not at all, though she seemed very sad."|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000000_000003.wav|Their homes were too far apart.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56175/6082_56175_000003_000001.wav|The greyhound showed great joy at the sound of a friendly voice, and looked up in Julia's face with an expression of confidence and gratitude.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000024_000002.wav|For she had twisted the front to the back, had added a deep blue bow to the trimming, and she believed that altogether she had accomplished wonders.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000042_000000.wav|"No," added Brenda, "it is not."|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000030_000001.wav|"Oh, no, but I think that I ought to be going.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000021_000000.wav|"You busy, Belle," cried Nora.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000026_000001.wav|I wish that I could trim hats."|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000015_000001.wav|Why, Edith, as for that you yourself never go down to the North End to see them."|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000032_000001.wav|As a matter of fact Belle was deeply offended, and she knew that if she had stayed much longer with her friends she would have been driven to express herself strongly.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000018_000000.wav|Edith looked so uncomfortable at this suggestion, that Nora, on whom usually fell the duty of taking up the cudgels, exclaimed,|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000047_000002.wav|But I say that we have had enough of this exchange of compliments for to day.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000046_000000.wav|"Why, Nora, I never heard of such a thing.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000014_000000.wav|"Oh, Belle!" cried Edith, looking shocked.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000046_000002.wav|Besides I thought that you always wanted to make every one comfortable in her feelings.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000007_000005.wav|To older people she seemed an especially well mannered girl, with a delightful vein of thoughtfulness that was not too often met in young girls.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000022_000000.wav|"Indeed I am not," was the answer.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000013_000000.wav|"Ah," said Belle, tossing her head, "you won't find me working myself to death over a Bazaar.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000020_000001.wav|So trimming her sails she said, "Why, how silly you are, Nora, you know that I was only in fun.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000007_000009.wav|For Edith had an uncomfortable habit of forgetting just what was to be kept secret, and though Philip had no very dark secrets, there were still little things that he preferred not to have told.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000007_000004.wav|Other persons did not find Julia peculiar.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000009_000002.wav|For even after these many weeks of work there was hardly a single finished article.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000029_000001.wav|"Oh, don't go; you're not mad at Nora, are you?"|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000044_000001.wav|"Don't let us bicker.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000039_000000.wav|"Oh, Edith," responded Nora, "you are altogether too fair.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000028_000000.wav|While Nora was talking Belle had been folding up her work, and in a moment more she was putting on her hat and coat.|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6082/56174/6082_56174_000037_000000.wav|"Better to her face than behind her back."|6082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2674/155968/2674_155968_000013_000007.wav|This change has been made."|2674
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2674/155968/2674_155968_000007_000002.wav|Then a curious thing happened.|2674
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000007_000000.wav|As I walked through this valley, I perceived it was strewed with diamonds, some of which were of surprising bigness.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000015_000004.wav|After the juice is thus drawn out, the tree withers and dies.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000005_000003.wav|In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000017_000000.wav|I pass over many other things peculiar to this island, lest I should weary you.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000012_000002.wav|He was much alarmed when he saw me; but recovering himself, instead of inquiring how I came thither, began to quarrel with me, and asked why I stole his goods?|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000006_000001.wav|This was a new perplexity; so that when I compared this place with the desert island from which the roc had brought me, I found that I had gained nothing by the change.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000005_000000.wav|By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000003_000005.wav|Not knowing what to do, I climbed up to the top of a lofty tree, from whence I looked about on all sides, to see if I could discover anything that could give me hopes.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000009_000000.wav|I had always regarded as fabulous what I had heard sailors and others relate of the valley of diamonds, and of the stratagems employed by merchants to obtain jewels from thence; but now I found that they had stated nothing but the truth.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000005_000001.wav|I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000003_000004.wav|At last I resigned myself to the will of God.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000013_000000.wav|They conducted me to their encampment; and there having opened my bag, they were surprised at the largeness of my diamonds, and confessed that they had never seen any of such size and perfection.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000004_000001.wav|I went round to see if it was open on any side, but saw it was not, and that there was no climbing up to the top, as it was so smooth.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000013_000001.wav|I prayed the merchant who owned the nest to which I had been carried (for every merchant had his own) to take as many for his share as he pleased.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000012_000003.wav|"You will treat me," replied I, "with more civility, when you know me better.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000003_000000.wav|In this sad condition, I was ready to die with grief.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000005_000004.wav|As I perceived her coming, I crept close to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000002_000001.wav|We embarked on board a good ship, and, after recommending ourselves to God, set sail.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000004_000002.wav|It was at least fifty paces round.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000015_000001.wav|We took shipping at the first port we reached, and touched at the isle of Roha, where the trees grow that yield camphire.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000015_000002.wav|This tree is so large, and its branches so thick, that one hundred men may easily sit under its shade.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000005_000005.wav|I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth; she afterward descended with so much rapidity that I lost my senses.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000017_000003.wav|There I immediately gave large presents to the poor, and lived honourably upon the vast riches I had brought, and gained with so much fatigue.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000016_000001.wav|It has a horn upon its nose, about a cubit in length; this horn is solid, and cleft through the middle.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000008_000006.wav|At last I sat down, and notwithstanding my apprehensions, not having closed my eyes during the night, fell asleep, after having eaten a little more of my provisions.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000010_000000.wav|I perceived in this device the means of my deliverance.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000008_000002.wav|I secured the entrance, which was low and narrow, with a great stone, to preserve me from the serpents; but not so far as to exclude the light.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000004_000000.wav|As I approached, I thought it to be a white dome, of a prodigious height and extent; and when I came up to it, I touched it, and found it to be very smooth.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000003_000001.wav|I cried out in agony, beat my head and breast, and threw myself upon the ground, where I lay some time in despair.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000002_000004.wav|We walked in the meadows, along the streams that watered them.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000017_000001.wav|Here I exchanged some of my diamonds for merchandise.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000002_000002.wav|We traded from island to island, and exchanged commodities with great profit.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000002_000007.wav|I cannot tell how long I slept, but when I awoke the ship was gone.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000002_000006.wav|I made a good meal, and afterward fell asleep.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000016_000000.wav|In this island is also found the rhinoceros, an animal less than the elephant, but larger than the buffalo.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000002_000003.wav|One day we landed on an island covered with several sorts of fruit trees, but we could see neither man nor animal.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/64717/5538_64717_000008_000008.wav|This was a large piece of raw meat; and at the same time I saw several others fall down from the rocks in different places.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000035_000002.wav|And maybe, as Alison says, we shall like her when we know her. Don't let us judge her too hardly beforehand."|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000042_000000.wav|"Yes.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000009_000004.wav|You may be able to change later, if you don't find her congenial.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000017_000000.wav|It was a fairly good sized room, containing two single beds, and a dresser, chair and small table for each girl.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000017_000002.wav|A glance showed Alison that Marcia had placed her dresser and table close to the window and strewn them with photographs and toilet articles in lavish profusion.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000013_000002.wav|She was about Alison's own age, rather tall and slight, with dark, sombre eyes and dark heavy hair worn low on her forehead.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000020_000000.wav|"Oh, Alison, you darling thing!|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000008_000001.wav|I was dreadfully afraid of it.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000009_000005.wav|You won't mind?"|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000042_000002.wav|As musical as ever.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000029_000003.wav|She doesn't look as if she would fit in."|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000038_000000.wav|"Well-did you know we have a new English teacher?"|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000023_000002.wav|Marcia, this is Joan Wentworth, who roomed with me last year."|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000017_000003.wav|Also, that she had taken the best chair.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000010_000000.wav|Alison did mind; but after the first pang of disappointment, she spoke cheerfully.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000007_000000.wav|"We are so glad to have you back, dear," Miss Harland said, kissing the girl affectionately.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000015_000000.wav|"Pretty, though it's not very large for two," said the girl nonchalantly.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000027_000002.wav|It was prettily furnished, and her pictures and rugs were better and more luxurious than most schoolgirls' rooms could boast.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000009_000003.wav|I really had no other place for her.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000037_000000.wav|Rachel changed the subject.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000040_000000.wav|"Miss Burnett-Cecil Burnett.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000008_000002.wav|I was so disappointed, I hardly realize yet that it is all right, and I am really here.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000022_000000.wav|SOME OF THE GIRLS|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000015_000002.wav|I've been unpacking."|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000041_000000.wav|"Are Helen Yorke and Brenda Thornton back?"|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000043_000002.wav|Please be nice to her, girls.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000036_000000.wav|"So charitable, Kathy always is," murmured Evelyn.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000019_000000.wav|"Oh, no, it's your room as well as mine," Alison answered good humoredly, and proceeded to open her own trunk, which had been brought up and placed in the hall, according to custom, and to arrange her part of the room.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000029_000002.wav|I don't believe you are going to like her a bit, Alison.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000023_000001.wav|I have another roommate, a new girl, Marcia West.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000011_000002.wav|Run up, then, and get acquainted with your new roommate. Marcia West, is her name.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000040_000002.wav|And she's to be at our table."|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000010_000002.wav|I'm so thankful to be here at all, I shan't grumble at anything.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000016_000000.wav|It was evident, as Alison entered and looked about her.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000004_000002.wav|These steps led down into wide shady gardens, where the girls walked up and down with arms intertwined, or sat and studied and talked on rustic seats under the trees on the shady lawns.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000042_000003.wav|Oh, is that the supper bell?|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000014_000000.wav|"Good evening.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000011_000003.wav|She looked homesick."|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000025_000002.wav|I'll look her up."|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000028_000000.wav|Alison's tap at the door was answered by a cordial "Come in," and she entered, to find Katherine and Joan curled up on the bed, talking vigorously, but both sprang up to greet her joyously.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000027_000003.wav|Nevertheless, she was known as "a good fellow," and was popular with the girls.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000004_000001.wav|There were wide, beautiful porches in front and back, and massive stone steps, ending in great stone urns overflowing with bright flowers at the foot of each flight.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000040_000001.wav|She's lovely.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000013_000003.wav|The heavy hair and the unsmiling eyes gave her face a lowering look that was not attractive at first sight.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000034_000000.wav|"It won't be the same thing at all," complained Polly, flinging herself back on the bed in a paroxysm of disappointment.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000018_000001.wav|You don't mind, do you?" she asked, watching Alison.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000015_000001.wav|"I came in this morning.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000013_000000.wav|She reached her door and tapped lightly.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000035_000001.wav|"You can meet here just as well.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000009_000002.wav|We have a very large school this year, and the dormitories are overflowing.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000024_000001.wav|"How do you do?" Marcia said briefly.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000026_000004.wav|She had come to school because she was made to, and she looked forward to nothing but getting through.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000033_000002.wav|Their favorite gathering place last year had been the room occupied by Alison and Joan, and consternation reigned when the news spread that the newcomer had usurped Joan's place.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000005_000000.wav|The other buildings, Briarley Hall, Elmtree Hall and Hillview, were devoted to class rooms and dormitories, each hall being presided over by a teacher.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000018_000000.wav|"I changed things a little.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000033_000001.wav|These with Alison, Katherine and Joan, made up the seven "Kindred Spirits," an informal little club of loyal friends.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000043_000000.wav|"It seems it can-for it is," said Alison, consulting her wrist watch and finding it correspond with the bell.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000004_000000.wav|The Main Building had originally been a handsome old dwelling house, whose spacious rooms were now used as parlors, library, offices and teachers' rooms.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000032_000000.wav|"And in the mean time, Joan is welcome with me as long as she likes. I'll ask for a cot for her.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000013_000004.wav|She merely stood there without speaking, until Alison said pleasantly,|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000011_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, I expect her this evening.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000030_000001.wav|"I didn't know there was a chance of your losing your place, or I would have spoken to Miss Harland and tried to get one of the old girls to change with her."|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000012_000002.wav|She was so happy to find herself here again; but then she was not a new girl, and she knew there were many freshmen lying on their beds at this moment and crying their eyes out for homesickness.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000010_000001.wav|"It's all right, Miss Harland.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000042_000001.wav|I saw them this morning.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000011_000001.wav|Her father is driving her through the country.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000033_000000.wav|They fell into an animated discussion of school matters, which was presently interrupted by a tumultuous rush outside, the door was opened without ceremony, and in flocked the rest of the "Kindred Spirit,"--Evelyn and Polly, boon companions, unlike as they were; studious Rachel; Rosalind, the school beauty, whose golden head and apple blossom face scarcely suggested books or scholarship.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000026_000000.wav|She was gone, leaving Alison and Marcia to shake down together as best they could.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000016_000001.wav|Marcia had unpacked her trunk, which stood open in the hall beside their door, and had strewed her belongings about as freely as though she had expected to occupy the room alone.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000012_000000.wav|Homesick at Briarwood!|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000029_000001.wav|"Here I came flying back to our old quarters like-like a homing pigeon, only to find my place taken by that cross looking thing.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000032_000001.wav|There's plenty of room," said Katherine hospitably.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000029_000000.wav|"I'm just too disappointed and cross for anything," she lamented.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000032_000002.wav|"We shall be close by and can get together whenever we like. So cheer up, Jo, it won't be so bad."|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000007_000001.wav|"I was rather afraid from what you wrote some time ago, that you might not return to us this year."|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000019_000003.wav|She had scarcely finished, and stood surveying the effect, when there was a rush of little feet in the corridor, the door was flung open, and a small, rosy faced curly haired girl rushed in to fling herself into Alison's arms.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000035_000000.wav|Katherine poured oil on the troubled waters.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000021_000000.wav|CHAPTER three|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000024_000000.wav|Joan shook back her light fluffy hair, looking rather taken aback for an instant, as Marcia emerged from the closet, where she had been invisible, arranging a rack of shoes.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000014_000002.wav|Miss Harland told me you were here.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000019_000002.wav|She placed a few favorite books between a pair of bronze bookends, her father's parting gift; laid her Bible beside them, and her pretty new portfolio her mother had given her; and finally set her cherished lamp on the dresser.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/224746/5538_224746_000006_000000.wav|In these pleasant courts of learning Alison Fair arrived on a golden September afternoon, and was warmly welcomed by Miss Harland, the Principal.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000014_000002.wav|His detachment from his kind was at first spasmodic, then exceptionally complete.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000014_000000.wav|It was his pride that he was unemotional.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000010_000002.wav|The last one was in his pocket now.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000016_000000.wav|Without so much as the quiver of an eyelash, Anthony Dexter could tell a man that within an hour his wife would be dead.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000027_000000.wav|Anthony Dexter had seen enough of the world to recognise cowardice when he saw it, even in himself.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000002_000000.wav|"From the Depths of his Love"|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000028_000001.wav|At night, the soul claims its own-its right to suffer for its secret sins, its shirking, its betrayals.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000013_000000.wav|Remembering the boyishness of it, Anthony Dexter smiled a little and took another satisfying look at the pictured face before him.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000036_000000.wav|He determined to vanquish the spectre that had reared itself before him, not perceiving that Remorse incarnate, in the shape of Evelina, had come back to haunt him until his dying day.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000004_000000.wav|He dressed leisurely, and was haunted by a vague feeling that something unpleasant had happened.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000009_000003.wav|He had not been at home since he entered the school, having undertaken to do in three years the work which usually required four.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000007_000001.wav|His dark eyes were sharp and penetrating.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000034_000002.wav|The other was a bent and broken woman in black, whose veil concealed the dreadful hideousness of her face.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000030_000001.wav|He flung the box far from him into the shrubbery, went back into the house, and slammed the door.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000031_000001.wav|The Past had come from its grave, veiled, like the ghost in the garden that he had seen yesterday.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000019_000003.wav|The laboratory, at the back of the wing, was well fitted with modern appliances for original research, and had, too, its own outside door.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000006_000002.wav|His features were regular and his skin clear.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000034_000001.wav|One was a girl of twenty, laughing, exquisitely lovely.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000013_000001.wav|Ralph's eyes were as his father's had been-frank and friendly and clear, with no hint of suspicion.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000008_000002.wav|He had thought seriously, at times, of seeking a wider field, but he liked the country and the open air, and his practice would give Ralph the opportunity he needed.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000007_000004.wav|It was not a hand that would tremble easily; it was powerful and, in a way, brutal.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000007_000000.wav|Someway, in looking at him, one got the impression of a machine, well nigh perfect of its kind.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000005_000000.wav|"It was subjective, purely," mused Anthony Dexter.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000030_000000.wav|The necklace slipped snakily over his hand-one of those white, firm hands which could guide the knife so well-and Anthony Dexter shuddered.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000021_000001.wav|The servant met him in the hall.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000019_000001.wav|One wing, at the right of the house, contained the Doctor's medical library, office, reception room, and laboratory.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000032_000000.wav|It was not an hallucination, then.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000025_000000.wav|Being unemotional, he experienced nothing at first, save natural surprise.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000013_000003.wav|Anthony Dexter saw all this-and a great deal more.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000032_000001.wav|Only one person in the world could have laid those discoloured pearls at his door in the dead of night. The black figure in the garden, with the chiffon fluttering about its head, was Evelina Grey-or what was left of her.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000011_000000.wav|"To think, Father," Ralph had written, "in three weeks more or less, I shall be at home with my sheepskin and a fine new shingle with 'dr Ralph Dexter' painted on it, all ready to hang up on the front of the house beside yours.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000017_000001.wav|No two men could have been more unlike, but friendship, like love, is often a matter of chemical affinity, wherein opposites rush together in obedience to a hidden law.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000003_000002.wav|In fact, the breakfast bell had rung before he was fully awake.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000003_000000.wav|At seven o'clock, precisely, Anthony Dexter's old housekeeper rang the rising bell.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000015_000000.wav|Over a nature which, at the beginning, was warmly human, Doctor Dexter had laid this glacial mask.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000029_000000.wav|It is not pleasant for a man to be branded, in his own consciousness, a coward.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000020_000001.wav|Doctor Dexter had some rough drawings under consideration, but wanted Ralph to order the plans in accordance with his own ideas.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000013_000002.wav|His chin was firm and his mouth determined, but the corners of it turned up decidedly, and the upper lip was short. The unprejudiced observer would have seen merely an honest, intelligent, manly young fellow, who looked as if he might be good company.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000034_000000.wav|Before his mental vision hovered two women.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000033_000000.wav|"Why?" he questioned uneasily of himself.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000031_000000.wav|He sat down at the table, but could not eat.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000021_000000.wav|The breakfast bell rang again, and Doctor Dexter went downstairs.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000016_000002.wav|The people feared him, respected him, and admired his skill, but no one loved him except his son.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000018_000001.wav|They exchanged visits frequently when the duties of both permitted, and the Doctor reflected that, when Ralph came, Thorpe would be lonely.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000019_000000.wav|The Dexter house was an old one but it had been kept in good repair. From time to time, wings had been added to the original structure, until now it sprawled lazily in every direction.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000029_000001.wav|Refusal to admit it by day does not change the hour of the night when life is at its lowest ebb, and, sleepless, man faces himself as he is.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000026_000002.wav|How he had loved her, in those dead yesterdays, and how she had loved him! The poignant sweetness of it came back, changed by some fatal alchemy into bitterness.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000010_000000.wav|He wrote frequently, however, and Doctor Dexter invariably went to the post office himself on the days Ralph's letters were expected.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000023_000000.wav|He opened the door for a breath of fresh air, and immediately perceived the small, purple velvet box at his feet.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000023_000001.wav|He picked it up, wonderingly, and opened it.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000006_000000.wav|He was strong and straight of body, finely muscular, and did not look over forty, though it was more than eight years ago that he had reached the fortieth milestone.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000028_000000.wav|Hard work and new love and daily wearying of the body to the point of exhaustion had banished those phantoms of earlier years, save in his dreams.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000025_000001.wav|He stood there, staring into vacancy, idly fingering the pearls.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000022_000000.wav|"All right," returned the Doctor, absently.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000012_000000.wav|"At first, I suppose, there won't be much for me to do.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000008_000000.wav|He was thoroughly self satisfied, as well he might be, for the entire countryside admitted his skill, and even in the operating rooms of the hospitals in the city not far distant.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000026_000001.wav|He had travelled far and seen many, but there had been none like Evelina.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000006_000001.wav|His hair was thinning a little at the temples and the rest of it was touched generously with grey.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000016_000001.wav|He could predict the death of a child, almost to the minute, without a change in his mask like expression, and feel a faint throb of professional pride when his prediction was precisely fulfilled.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000011_000002.wav|I've worked as His Satanic Majesty undoubtedly does when he receives word that a fresh batch of Mormons has hit the trail for the good intentions pavement.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000014_000003.wav|Excepting Ralph, his relation to the world was that of an unimpassioned critic.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000011_000001.wav|I'll be glad to get out of the grind for a while, I can tell you that.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000007_000002.wav|Once they had been sympathetic, but he had outgrown that. His hands were large, white, and well kept, his fingers knotted, and blunt at the tips.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000015_000002.wav|If an operation was necessary, he said so at once, not troubling himself to approach the subject gradually.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000025_000002.wav|By some evil magic of the moment, the hour seemed set back a full quarter of a century.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000020_000000.wav|When Ralph came home, the other wing, at the left of the house, was to be arranged in like manner for him if he so desired.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000015_000004.wav|He believed in the clean cut, sudden stroke, and conducted his life upon that basis.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000015_000001.wav|He did what he had to do with neatness and dispatch.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000025_000003.wav|As though it were yesterday, he saw Evelina before him.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000007_000003.wav|He had, pre eminently, the hand of the surgeon, capable of swiftness and strength, and yet of delicacy.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000014_000004.wav|He was so sure of his own ground that he thought he considered Ralph impersonally, also.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000009_000000.wav|At the thought of Ralph, the man's face softened a trifle and his keen eyes became a little less keen.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000009_000002.wav|Ralph was twenty three now and would finish in a few weeks at a famous medical school-Doctor Dexter's own alma mater.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000018_000000.wav|The broadly human creed of the minister included every living thing, and the man himself interested Doctor Dexter in much the same way that a new slide for his microscope might interest him.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000015_000003.wav|If there was doubt as to the outcome, he would cheerfully advise the patient to make a will first, but there was seldom doubt, for those white, blunt fingers were very sure.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000033_000001.wav|"Why?" He had repeatedly told himself that any other man, in his position, would do as he had done, yet it was as though some one had slipped a stiletto under his armour and found a vulnerable spot.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000004_000001.wav|At length he remembered that just before dusk, in the garden of Evelina Grey's old house, he had seen a ghost-a ghost who confronted him mutely with a thing he had long since forgotten.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000012_000002.wav|Finally, they'll let me vaccinate the kids and the rest will be pitifully easy.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000006_000003.wav|A full beard, closely cropped, hid the weakness of his chin, but did not entirely conceal those fine lines about the mouth which mean cruelty.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000021_000002.wav|"Breakfast is waiting, sir," she said.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5538/70919/5538_70919_000008_000001.wav|Doctor Dexter's name was well known.|5538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000057_000002.wav|But after awhile they stopped, and wondered; for there stood a great city on the shore, and temples and walls and gardens, and castles high in air upon the cliffs. And on either side they saw a harbour, with a narrow mouth, but wide within; and black ships without number, high and dry upon the shore.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000047_000000.wav|And they cried: "We will be men like Perseus, and we will dare and suffer to the last.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000047_000001.wav|Sing us his song again, brave Orpheus, that we may forget the Sirens and their spell."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000056_000001.wav|And they caught the ship, and guided her, and passed her on from hand to hand, and tossed her through the billows, as maidens toss the ball.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000009_000002.wav|But if you return without her, you shall die by the same death yourselves."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000057_000001.wav|And they searched till they found a harbour, and there rowed boldly in.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000066_000000.wav|At that Idas the rash would have struck them; but Jason held him back, till one of the merchant kings spoke to them, a tall and stately man.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000071_000003.wav|And within, against the walls, stood thrones on either side, down the whole length of the hall, strewn with rich glossy shawls; and on them the merchant kings of those crafty sea roving Phaeaces sat eating and drinking in pride, and feasting there all the year round.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000068_000000.wav|But Medeia hung back, and trembled, and whispered in Jason's ear, "We are betrayed, and are going to our ruin; for I see my countrymen among the crowd; dark eyed Colchi in steel mail shirts, such as they wear in my father's land."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000050_000000.wav|Then slowly rose up those three fair sisters, with a cruel smile upon their lips; and slowly they crept down toward him, like leopards who creep upon their prey; and their hands were like the talons of eagles, as they stept across the bones of their victims to enjoy their cruel feast.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000039_000000.wav|And all things stayed around and listened; the gulls sat in white lines along the rocks; on the beach great seals lay basking, and kept time with lazy heads; while silver shoals of fish came up to hearken, and whispered as they broke the shining calm.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000027_000002.wav|And they cried again: "We shall perish, for we know not where we are.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000040_000000.wav|And as the heroes listened, the oars fell from their hands, and their heads drooped on their breasts, and they closed their heavy eyes; and they dreamed of bright still gardens, and of slumbers under murmuring pines, till all their toil seemed foolishness, and they thought of their renown no more.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000027_000003.wav|We are lost in the dreary damp darkness, and cannot tell north from south."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000027_000001.wav|And away they drove twelve nights, on the wide wild western sea, through the foam, and over the rollers, while they saw neither sun nor stars.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000067_000001.wav|But we will treat you justly and kindly, for strangers and poor men come from God; and you seem no common sailors by your strength, and height, and weapons.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000069_000001.wav|And he spoke to the merchant king: "What country is this, good sir; and what is this new built town?"|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000041_000001.wav|Let us stay here and rest awhile." And another, "Let us row to the shore, and hear the words they sing." And another, "I care not for the words, but for the music.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000055_000003.wav|And never ship's crew boasted that they came safe by her rock; for she bends her long necks down to them, and every mouth takes up a man And who will help us now?|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000025_000001.wav|So raise up the mast, and set the sail, and face what comes like men."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000062_000001.wav|We keep our business to ourselves."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000063_000000.wav|But Jason answered gently, with many a flattering word, and praised their city and their harbour, and their fleet of gallant ships.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000010_000000.wav|So the Argonauts escaped for that time; but Father Zeus saw that foul crime; and out of the heavens he sent a storm, and swept the ship far from her course.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000036_000000.wav|Then a fair wind rose, and they sailed eastward, by Tartessus on the Iberian shore, till they came to the Pillars of Hercules, and the Mediterranean Sea.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000054_000000.wav|And while they struggled they saw near them, on the other side of the strait, a rock stand in the water, with a peak wrapt round in clouds; a rock which no man could climb, though he had twenty hands and feet, for the stone was smooth and slippery, as if polished by man's hand; and half way up a misty cave looked out toward the west.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000037_000000.wav|Then Orpheus spoke, the king of all minstrels: "Let them match their song against mine.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000026_000001.wav|Better so, than to wander forever, disgraced by the guilt of my princes; for the blood of Absyrtus still tracks me, and woe follows hard upon woe.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000065_000001.wav|And one said; "These fellows are but raw sailors; they look as if they had been sea sick all the day." And another: "Their legs have grown crooked with much rowing, till they waddle in their walk like ducks."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000036_000003.wav|But when Medeia heard it, she started, and cried: "Beware, all heroes, for these are the rocks of the Sirens.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000063_000002.wav|Give us but food and water, and we will go on our voyage in peace."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000033_000000.wav|And she came and looked at Medeia; and Medeia hid her face beneath her veil.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000070_000001.wav|Hither we came from Liburnia to escape the unrighteous Cyclopes; for they robbed us, peaceful merchants, of our hard earned wares and wealth.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000043_000000.wav|Then Medeia clapped her hands together, and cried, "Sing louder, Orpheus, sing a bolder strain; wake up these hapless sluggards, or none of them will see the land of Hellas more."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000070_000000.wav|"This is the land of the Phaeaces, beloved by all the Immortals; for they come hither and feast like friends with us, and sit by our side in the hall.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000017_000003.wav|But all these are but dreams and fables, and dim hints of unknown lands.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000053_000001.wav|And there Charybdis caught them in its fearful coils of wave, and rolled mast high about them, and spun them round and round; and they could go neither back nor forward, while the whirlpool sucked them in.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000046_000000.wav|So Orpheus sang, and the Sirens, answering each other across the golden sea, till Orpheus's voice drowned the Sirens, and the heroes caught their oars again.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000030_000000.wav|But Orpheus said: "Turn from them, for no living man can land there: there is no harbour on the coast, but steep walled cliffs all round."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000012_000000.wav|Then out and spoke the magic bough which stood upon the Argo's beak: "Because Father Zeus is angry, all this has fallen on you; for a cruel crime has been done on board, and the sacred ship is foul with blood."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000072_000001.wav|For the rich southwest wind fed them, till pear grew ripe on pear, fig on fig, and grape on grape, all the winter and the spring.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000071_000005.wav|And round the house sat fifty maid servants, some grinding the meal in the mill, some turning the spindle, some weaving at the loom, while their hands twinkled as they passed the shuttle, like quivering aspen leaves.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000036_000004.wav|You must pass close by them, for there is no other channel; but those who listen to that song are lost."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000045_000000.wav|And he sung the song of Perseus, how the Gods led him over land and sea, and how he slew the loathly Gorgon, and won himself a peerless bride; and how he sits now with the Gods upon Olympus, a shining star in the sky, immortal with his immortal bride, and honoured by all men below.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000006_000001.wav|And Lynceus the quick eyed saw him coming, while he was still many a mile away, and cried: "I see a hundred ships, like a flock of white swans, far in the east." And at that they rowed hard, like heroes; but the ships came nearer every hour.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000069_000000.wav|"It is too late to turn," said Jason.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000059_000000.wav|But Jason said: "They can be no savage people.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000072_000000.wav|And outside before the palace a great garden was walled round, filled full of stately fruit trees, with olives and sweet figs, and pomegranates, pears, and apples, which bore the whole year round.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000013_000000.wav|At that some of the heroes cried: "Medeia is the murderess.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000064_000001.wav|We are the children of Poseidon, and the masters of the sea; but come ashore to us, and you shall have the best that we can give."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000036_000001.wav|And thence they sailed on through the deeps of Sardinia, and past the Ausonian Islands, and the capes of the Tyrrhenian shore, till they came to a flowery island, upon a still, bright summer's eve.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000032_000001.wav|And as they went inland, Circe met them, coming down toward the ship; and they trembled when they saw her; for her hair, and face, and robes, shone like flame.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000057_000000.wav|After that they rowed on steadily for many a weary day, till they saw a long high island, and beyond it a mountain land.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000015_000001.wav|And some upbraided the dark witch woman, and some said: "Nay, we are her debtors still; without her we should never have won the fleece." But most of them bit their lips in silence, for they feared the witch's spells.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000071_000004.wav|And boys of molten gold stood each on a polished altar, and held torches in their hands, to give light all night to the guests.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000014_000001.wav|Vengeance waits for her, slow and sure; but she must live, for you need her still.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000019_000000.wav|But all say that they came to a place where they had to drag their ship across the land nine days with ropes and rollers, till they came into an unknown sea.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000056_000004.wav|Then Thetis and her nymphs sank down to their gardens of green and purple, where live flowers of bloom all the year round; while the heroes went on rejoicing, yet dreading what might come next.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000063_000001.wav|"Surely you are the children of Poseidon, and the masters of the sea; and we are but poor wandering mariners, worn out with thirst and toil.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000015_000000.wav|Then all the heroes wept aloud when they heard the sentence of the oak; for they knew that a dark journey lay before them, and years of bitter toil.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000039_000001.wav|The Wind overhead hushed his whistling, as he shepherded his clouds toward the west; and the clouds stood in mid blue, and listened dreaming, like a flock of golden sheep.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000048_000000.wav|And as Orpheus sang, they dashed their oars into the sea, and kept time to his music, as they fled fast away; and the Sirens' voices died behind them, in the hissing of the foam along their wake.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000009_000001.wav|But he sent on his sailors toward the westward, and bound them by a mighty curse: "Bring back to me that dark witch woman, that she may die a dreadful death.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000056_000000.wav|Then out of the depths came Thetis, Peleus's silver footed bride, for love of her gallant husband, and all her nymphs around her; and they played like snow white dolphins, diving on from wave to wave, before the ship, and in her wake, and beside her, as dolphins play.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000055_000002.wav|And from her cave she fishes for all things which pass by, for sharks, and seals, and dolphins, and all the herds of Amphitrite.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000059_000001.wav|We will go in and take our chance."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000041_000000.wav|Then one lifted his head suddenly, and cried, "What use in wandering forever?|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000036_000002.wav|And as they neared it, slowly and wearily, they heard sweet songs upon the shore.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000038_000001.wav|Slowly they sung and sleepily, with silver voices, mild and clear, which stole over the golden waters, and into the hearts of all the heroes, in spite of Orpheus's song.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000060_000001.wav|And they wondered at that mighty city, with its roofs of burnished brass, and long and lofty walls of marble, with strong palisades above.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000067_000000.wav|"Do not be angry, strangers; the sailor boys must have their jest.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000013_000001.wav|Let the witch woman bear her sin, and die!"|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000055_000001.wav|And "Little will it help to us," he cried, "to escape the jaws of the whirlpool; for in that cave lives Scylla, the sea hag with a young whelp's voice; my mother warned me of her ere we sailed away from Hellas; she has six heads, and six long necks, and hides in that dark cleft.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000058_000001.wav|I know all isles, and harbours, and the windings of all the seas; and this should be Corcyra, where a few wild goatherds dwell.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000014_000000.wav|And they seized Medeia, to hurl her into the sea and atone for the young boy's death; but the magic bough spoke again: "Let her live till her crimes are full.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000034_000001.wav|Where is your aged father, and the brother whom you killed? Little do I expect you to return in safety with these strangers whom you love.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116804/8193_116804_000041_000002.wav|They shall sing me to sleep, that I may rest."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000042_000000.wav|But when they came nearer to the island they saw a wondrous sight upon the cliffs.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000063_000001.wav|We went to fetch the golden fleece; and we have brought it, and grief therewith.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000039_000002.wav|And at last they touched the ground, and when daylight came they waded to the shore; and saw nothing round but sand, and desolate salt pools; for they had come to the quicksands of the Syrtis, and the dreary treeless flats, which lie between Numidia and Cyrene, on the burning shore of Africa.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000052_000000.wav|And when he saw the maiden alone, he stopped; and she looked boldly up into his face without moving, and began her magic song:|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000047_000000.wav|Then all the heroes cried, "What shall we do, wise Medeia?|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000053_000000.wav|"Life is short, though life is sweet; and even men of brass and fire must die.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000009_000000.wav|"We are the heroes of the Minuai," said Jason; "and this maiden has spoken truth.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000048_000000.wav|"I can face red hot brass, if the tale I hear be true.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000021_000000.wav|The herald went out, and fetched the harper, and led him in by the hand; and Alcinous cut him a piece of meat from the fattest of the haunch, and sent it to him, and said: "Sing to us, noble harper, and rejoice the heroes' hearts."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000024_000000.wav|"Such dancing we have never seen," said Orpheus; "and your singer is a happy man; for Phoebus himself must have taught him, or else he is the son of a Muse; as I am also, and have sung once or twice, though not so well as he."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000014_000001.wav|To night we will feast our guests, and hear the story of all their wanderings, and how they came hither out of the ocean."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000060_000001.wav|And there they offered sacrifices, and Orpheus purged them from their guilt.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000058_000000.wav|And she drew the nail out gently; but she poured no ichor in; and instead the liquid fire spouted forth, like a stream of red hot iron. And Talus tried to leap up, crying, "You have betrayed me, false witch maiden!"|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000013_000000.wav|"No guest of ours shall fight upon our island; and if you go outside, they will outnumber you.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000014_000000.wav|Then he turned to his kings, and said: "This may stand over till to morrow.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000041_000000.wav|At last they rowed away toward the northward, for many a weary day, till their water was spent, and their food eaten; and they were worn out with hunger and thirst.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000010_000000.wav|But Alcinous frowned, and stood deep in thought; and at last he spoke:|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000065_000000.wav|Then Jason went up with Medeia to the palace of his uncle Pelias.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000053_000001.wav|The brass must rust, the fire must cool, for time gnaws all things in their turn.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000059_000000.wav|So they came, and found the giant lying dead; and they fell down, and kissed Medeia's feet; and watered their ship, and took sheep and oxen, and so left that inhospitable shore.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000042_000004.wav|If you dare land here, you die."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000029_000001.wav|And she said: "The Gods will punish her, not we.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000055_000001.wav|I am Medeia the enchantress; my sister Circe gave me this, and said, 'Go and reward Talus the faithful servant, for his fame is gone out into all lands.' So come, and I will pour this into your veins, that you may live forever young."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000012_000000.wav|"Let them choose out their champions, and we will fight them, man for man."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000039_000003.wav|And there they wandered starving for many a weary day, ere they could launch their ship again, and gain the open sea.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000031_000002.wav|Which, then, of the two is it safer to offend, the men near us, or the men far off?"|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000040_000000.wav|And there, too, Mopsus died, the seer who knew the voices of all birds; but he could not foretell his own end, for he was bitten in the foot by a snake, one of those which sprang from the Gorgon's head when Perseus carried it across the sands.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000004_000001.wav|Do not send me back to my father, to die some dreadful death; but let me go my way, and bear my burden.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000035_000004.wav|And why return home at all, brave heroes, and face the long seas again, and the Bosphorus, and the stormy Euxine, and double all your toil?|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000060_000000.wav|At last, after many more adventures, they came to the Cape of Malea, at the southwest point of the Peloponnese.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000029_000003.wav|And who, too, dare part man and wife, after all they have endured together?"|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000035_000001.wav|Do you think that you can make her follow you, heroes of the Colchi?|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000038_000000.wav|So Jason kept the dark witch maiden to breed him woe and shame; and the Colchi went northward into the Adriatic, and settled, and built towns along the shore.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000046_000000.wav|But Medeia stood watching all, from under her steep black brows, with a cunning smile upon her lips, and a cunning plot within her heart.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000053_000002.wav|Life is short, though life is sweet; but sweeter to live forever; sweeter to live ever youthful like the Gods, who have ichor in their veins; ichor which gives life, and youth, and joy, and a bounding heart."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000031_000000.wav|So next morning he sent a herald, and called the kings into the square, and said: "This is a puzzling matter; remember but one thing.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000002_000000.wav|Then Alcinous rose, and welcomed them, and bade them sit and eat; and the servants brought them tables, and bread, and meat, and wine.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000027_000000.wav|Then he went on, and told their journey over the sluggish northern main, and through the shoreless outer ocean, to the fairy island of the West; and of the Sirens, and Scylla, and Charybdis, and all the wonders they had seen, till midnight passed, and the day dawned; but the kings never thought of sleep.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000022_000000.wav|So the harper played and sang, while the dancers danced strange figures; and after that the tumblers showed their tricks, till the heroes laughed again.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000009_000001.wav|We are the men who took the golden fleece, the men whose fame has run round every shore.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000058_000001.wav|But she lifted up her hands before him, and sang, till he sank beneath her spell.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000035_000000.wav|"I say," said the cunning Jason, "that they are come here on a bootless errand.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000051_000000.wav|So they left the witch maiden on the shore; and she stood there in her beauty all alone, till the giant strode back red hot from head to heel, while the grass hissed and smoked beneath his tread.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000015_000002.wav|And they washed off the sea salt from their limbs, and anointed themselves from head to foot with oil, and combed out their golden hair.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000035_000005.wav|There is many a fair land round these coasts, which waits for gallant men like you.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000030_000000.wav|And Alcinous smiled.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000044_000000.wav|"You are robbers, you are pirates all; I know you; and if you land, you shall die the death."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000027_000001.wav|Each man sat still and listened, with his chin upon his hand.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000037_000000.wav|Then Alcinous gave them food, and water, and garments, and rich presents of all sorts; and he gave the same to the Minuai, and sent them all away in peace.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000046_000001.wav|At last she spoke; "I know this giant.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000015_000001.wav|And they were glad when they saw the warm water, for it was long since they had bathed.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000036_000001.wav|Take her, since you are no wiser; and we will sail away toward the north."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000023_000001.wav|or heard such music and such singing?|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000005_000001.wav|and what is the meaning of your prayer?"|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000019_000000.wav|So they danced there and ran races, the jolly merchant kings, till the night fell, and all went in.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000023_000002.wav|We hold ours to be the best on earth."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000047_000002.wav|Flesh and blood we can face fairly; but who can face this red hot brass?"|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000005_000000.wav|"Who are you, strange maiden?|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000030_000001.wav|"The minstrel's song has charmed you; but I must remember what is right; for songs cannot alter justice; and I must be faithful to my name.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000050_000000.wav|And the heroes obeyed her unwillingly; for they were ashamed to leave her so alone; but Jason said, "She is dearer to me than to any of you, yet I will trust her freely on shore; she has more plots than we can dream of, in the windings of that fair and cunning head."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000066_000001.wav|And the old man stretched his hands out, and felt him, and said: "Do not mock me, young hero.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000045_000000.wav|Then he waved his arms again as a signal, and they saw the people flying inland, driving their flocks before them, while a great flame arose among the hills.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000066_000002.wav|My son Jason is dead long ago at sea."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000065_000001.wav|And when he came in, Pelias sat by the hearth, crippled and blind with age; while opposite him sat AEson, Jason's father, crippled and blind likewise; and the two old men's heads shook together, as they tried to warm themselves before the fire.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000032_000001.wav|Then Alcinous spoke: "Heroes of the Colchi, what is your errand about this lady?"|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000004_000000.wav|"I am your guest, fair queen, and I entreat you be Zeus from whom prayers come.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000039_000004.wav|And there Canthus was killed while he was trying to drive off sheep, by a stone which a herdsman threw.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000015_000004.wav|And each man said to his neighbour: "No wonder that these men won fame.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000032_000000.wav|The princes laughed, and praised his wisdom; and Alcinous called the heroes to the square, and the Colchi also; and they came and stood opposite each other; but Medeia stayed in the palace.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000048_000002.wav|But if I can get it once into these hands, you shall water your ship here in peace."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000046_000003.wav|Thrice a day he walks round the island, and never stops to sleep; and if strangers land he leaps into his furnace, which flames there among the hills; and when he is red hot he rushes on them, and burns them in his brazen hands."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000033_000000.wav|"To carry her home with us, that she may die a shameful death; but if we return without her, we must die the death she should have died."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000057_000000.wav|Then that simple Talus dipped himself in the sea, till it hissed, and roared, and smoked; and came and knelt before Medeia, and showed her the secret nail.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000049_000000.wav|Then she bade them put her on shore, and row off again, and wait what would befall.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000013_000001.wav|I will do justice between you; for I know and do what is right."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000039_000001.wav|And they rowed till they were spent with struggling, through the darkness and the blinding rain, but where they were they could not tell, and they gave up all hope of life.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000067_000001.wav|So now give me up the kingdom, Pelias my uncle, and fulfil your promise as I have fulfilled mine."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000016_000001.wav|Let us see whose feet are nimblest."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000018_000001.wav|For we care nothing here for boxing, or for shooting with the bow; but for feasts, and songs, and harping, and dancing, and running races, to stretch our limbs on shore."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000020_000000.wav|And then they ate and drank, and comforted their weary souls, till Alcinous called a herald, and bade him go and fetch the harper.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000043_000001.wav|We are all good men and true; and all we ask is food and water"; but the giant cried the more-|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000017_000001.wav|But do not think us cowards; if you wish to try our strength, we will shoot and box, and wrestle, against any men on earth."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000068_000000.wav|Then his father clung to him like a child, and wept, and would not let him go; and cried, "Now I shall not go down lonely to my grave.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000066_000000.wav|And Jason fell down at his father's knees, and wept, and called him by his name.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000045_000001.wav|Then the giant ran up a valley and vanished; and the heroes lay on their oars in fear.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000015_000003.wav|Then they came back again into the hall, while the merchant kings rose up to do them honour.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000042_000001.wav|For on a cape to the westward stood a giant, taller than any mountain pine; who glittered aloft against the sky like a tower of burnished brass.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000009_000003.wav|We went out many, and come back few, for many a noble comrade have we lost.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000061_000000.wav|And they ran the ship ashore; but they had no strength left to haul her up the beach; and they crawled out on the pebbles, and sat down, and wept till they could weep no more.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000016_000000.wav|Then they went out to the garden; and the merchant princes said: "Heroes, run races with us.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000018_000000.wav|And Alcinous smiled, and answered: "I believe you, gallant guests; with your long limbs and broad shoulders, we could never match you here.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000042_000003.wav|And when he came abreast of them he brandished his arms up and down, as a ship hoists and lowers her yards, and shouted with his brazen throat like a trumpet from off the hills: "You are pirates, you are robbers!|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000054_000000.wav|Then Talus said, "Who are you, strange maiden; and where is this ichor of youth?"|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000009_000004.wav|So let us go, as you should let your guests go, in peace; that the world may say, 'Alcinous is a just king.'"|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000042_000002.wav|He turned and looked on all sides round him, till he saw the Argo and her crew; and when he saw them he came toward them, more swiftly than the swiftest horse, leaping across the glens at a bound, and striding at one step from down to down.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000058_000002.wav|And as he sank, his brazen limbs clanked heavily, and the earth groaned beneath his weight; and the liquid fire ran from his heel, like a stream of lava to the sea; and Medeia laughed, and called to the heroes, "Come ashore, and water your ship in peace."|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000048_000001.wav|For they say that he has but one vein in all his body, filled with liquid fire; and that this vein is closed with a nail; but I know not where that nail is placed.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8193/116805/8193_116805_000029_000002.wav|After all, she is our guest and my suppliant, and prayers are the daughters of Zeus.|8193
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000006.wav|If there is a subject, it can have a relation to the patch of colour, namely, the sort of relation which we might call awareness.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000039_000004.wav|My friend reached the chair without coming in at the door in the usual way; subsequent inquiry will show that he was somewhere else at the moment.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000017_000003.wav|When we are listening for a faint sound-the striking of a distant clock, or a horse's hoofs on the road-we think we hear it many times before we really do, because expectation brings us the image, and we mistake it for sensation.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000038_000005.wav|The point is important, because what is called "thought" consists mainly (though I think not wholly) of inner speech.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000008_000002.wav|Thus, although it may be difficult to determine what exactly is sensation in any given experience, it is clear that there is sensation, unless, like Leibniz, we deny all action of the outer world upon us.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000002_000000.wav|"I make for myself an experience of blazing fire; I place it near my body; but it does not warm me in the least.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000014.wav|A patch of colour is certainly not knowledge, and therefore we cannot say that pure sensation is cognitive.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000002_000002.wav|I call up water, and pour it on the fire, and absolutely no difference ensues.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000014_000003.wav|It is a core in our actual experiences, never existing in isolation except possibly in very young infants.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000031_000000.wav|The whistle of a steam engine could hardly have a stronger effect than this.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000009.wav|It would seem to fit better with what we can immediately observe if we were to say that an image is occasioned, through association, by a sensation or another image, in other words that it has a mnemic cause-which does not prevent it from also having a physical cause.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000007.wav|In that case the sensation, as a mental event, will consist of awareness of the colour, while the colour itself will remain wholly physical, and may be called the sense datum, to distinguish it from the sensation. The subject, however, appears to be a logical fiction, like mathematical points and instants.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000000.wav|(three) This brings us to the third mode of distinguishing images from sensations, namely, by their causes and effects.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000039_000005.wav|If regarded as a sensation, my image has all the marks of the supernatural.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000036_000004.wav|All their effects, of whatever nature, follow mnemic laws.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000036_000000.wav|Images also differ from sensations as regards their effects.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000038_000002.wav|Whether this is the case or not might even be decided experimentally.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000008.wav|With this definition, we can define a sensation as the non mnemic elements in a perception.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000038_000006.wav|If Professor Watson is right as regards inner speech, this whole region is transferred from imagination to sensation.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000001.wav|Prima facie, everything is sensation that comes to us through the senses: the sights we see, the sounds we hear, the smells we smell, and so on; also such things as headache or the feeling of muscular strain.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000033_000001.wav|Images cannot be defined by the FEELING of unreality, because when we falsely believe an image to be a sensation, as in the case of dreams, it FEELS just as real as if it were a sensation.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000046_000000.wav|There are difficulties in establishing Hume's principles, and doubts as to whether it is exactly true.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000006.wav|It seems, therefore, that we are driven to a different kind of definition.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000006.wav|But it does not follow that the patch of colour is not also psychical, unless we assume that the physical and the psychical cannot overlap, which I no longer consider a valid assumption.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000031_000004.wav|I conclude therefore that the test of liveliness, however applicable in ordinary instances, cannot be used to define the differences between sensations and images.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000033_000002.wav|Our feeling of unreality results from our having already realized that we are dealing with an image, and cannot therefore be the definition of what we mean by an image.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000020_000000.wav|(one) By the less degree of vividness in images;|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000008.wav|It is introduced, not because observation reveals it, but because it is linguistically convenient and apparently demanded by grammar.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000031_000001.wav|A very intense emotion will often bring with it-especially where some future action or some undecided issue is involved-powerful compelling images which may determine the whole course of life, sweeping aside all contrary solicitations to the will by their capacity for exclusively possessing the mind.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000039_000009.wav|And it cannot, like inner speech, be regarded as a SMALL sensation, since it occupies just as large an area in my visual field as the actual sensation would do.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000028_000002.wav|It strikes the mind with varying degrees of force or liveliness according to the varying intensity of the stimulus.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000014_000002.wav|The essence of sensation, according to the view I am advocating, is its independence of past experience.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000004.wav|If we are so to regard it, we must distinguish the seeing from what is seen: we must say that, when we see a patch of colour of a certain shape, the patch of colour is one thing and our seeing of it is another.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000003.wav|It is of course undeniable that knowledge comes THROUGH the seeing, but I think it is a mistake to regard the mere seeing itself as knowledge.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000037_000000.wav|Professor Watson, as a logical carrying out of his behaviourist theory, denies altogether that there are any observable phenomena such as images are supposed to be.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000045_000001.wav|For the understanding of memory, and of knowledge generally, the recognizable resemblance of images and sensations is of fundamental importance.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000037_000005.wav|It seems to me that in this matter he has been betrayed into denying plain facts in the interests of a theory, namely, the supposed impossibility of introspection.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000002.wav|It is possible that, with fuller knowledge, it will be found to be no more ultimate than the distinction between the laws of gases and the laws of rigid bodies.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000005.wav|This view, however, demands the admission of the subject, or act, in the sense discussed in our first lecture.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000006.wav|In a foreign language, these inferences are more difficult, and we are more dependent upon actual sensation.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000029_000002.wav|But I believe that this criterion fails in very much the same instances as those in which Hume's criterion fails in its original form.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000012.wav|But when we do this, the possibility of distinguishing the sensation from the sense datum vanishes; at least I see no way of preserving the distinction.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000000.wav|When, following our definition, we try to decide what elements in our experience are of the nature of sensations, we find more difficulty than might have been expected.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000011_000000.wav|This is the view of William james, Professor Dewey, and the American realists.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000047_000000.wav|I am by no means confident that the distinction between images and sensations is ultimately valid, and I should be glad to be convinced that images can be reduced to sensations of a peculiar kind.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000038_000007.wav|But since the question is capable of experimental decision, it would be gratuitous rashness to offer an opinion while that decision is lacking.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000014.wav|Sensations, on the other hand, will only have physical causes.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000000_000001.wav|SENSATIONS AND IMAGES|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000025_000001.wav|Every one of himself will readily perceive the difference betwixt feeling and thinking.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000040_000001.wav|This view seems to me flatly to contradict experience.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000001_000001.wav|Nevertheless, we seem to find a certain dualism, perhaps not ultimate, within the world as we observe it.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000007.wav|If we admit-as I think we should-that the patch of colour may be both physical and psychical, the reason for distinguishing the sense datum from the sensation disappears, and we may say that the patch of colour and our sensation in seeing it are identical.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000002_000003.wav|I account for all such facts by calling this whole train of experiences unreal, a mental train.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000010.wav|He thought it was a pistol, and supported his opinion by maintaining that he had seen the flash.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000027_000000.wav|Professor Stout, in his "Manual of Psychology," after discussing various ways of distinguishing sensations and images, arrives at a view which is a modification of Hume's.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000032_000002.wav|What we call the "unreality" of images requires interpretation it cannot mean what would be expressed by saying "there's no such thing." Images are just as truly part of the actual world as sensations are.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000013.wav|And I think that, if we could regard as ultimately valid the difference between physical and mnemic causation, we could distinguish images from sensations as having mnemic causes, though they may also have physical causes.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000011.wav|But of course there had been no flash.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000001.wav|The kind of argument which formerly made me accept Brentano's view in this case was exceedingly simple.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000044_000000.wav|He next explains the difference between simple and complex ideas, and explains that a complex idea may occur without any similar complex impression.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000022_000000.wav|(three) By the fact that their causes and effects are different from those of sensations.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000028_000003.wav|This degree of force or liveliness is part of what we ordinarily mean by the intensity of a sensation.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000014_000004.wav|It is not itself knowledge, but it supplies the data for our knowledge of the physical world, including our own bodies.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000041_000003.wav|Bodily sensations are admitted by even the most severe critics of introspection, although, like images, they can only be observed by one observer.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000026_000003.wav|But so far we have seen no reason to think that the difference between sensations and images is only one of degree.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000016_000001.wav|When we shut our eyes and call up pictures of familiar scenes, we usually have no difficulty, so long as we remain awake, in discriminating between what we are imagining and what is really seen.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000041_000001.wav|In their intrinsic nature, though they often differ from sensations by being more dim or vague or faint, yet they do not always or universally differ from sensations in any way that can be used for defining them.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000004.wav|This argument, to me historically, was directed against idealism: the emphatic part of it was the assertion that the colour is physical, not psychical.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000042_000003.wav|On this subject Hume is the classic.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000039_000001.wav|Suppose, for example, that I am sitting in my room, in which there is an empty arm chair.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000005.wav|The law of habit, which is one of the most distinctive, may be fully explicable in terms of the peculiarities of nervous tissue, and these peculiarities, in turn, may be explicable by the laws of physics.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000005.wav|I shall not trouble you now with the grounds for holding as against Berkeley that the patch of colour is physical; I have set them forth before, and I see no reason to modify them.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000003.wav|It is caused by what we call a STIMULUS.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000045_000000.wav|It is this fact, that images resemble antecedent sensations, which enables us to call them images "of" this or that.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000021_000000.wav|(two) By our absence of belief in their "physical reality";|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000002.wav|When I see a patch of colour, it seemed to me that the colour is not psychical, but physical, while my seeing is not physical, but psychical.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000026_000001.wav|But by his own confession in the above passage, his criterion for distinguishing them is not always adequate.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000036_000003.wav|Images, on the contrary, though they MAY produce bodily movements, do so according to mnemic laws, not according to the laws of physics.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000004_000002.wav|For example, dreams, as Freud has shown, are just as much subject to laws as are the motions of the planets.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000008.wav|This is probably true, but it is an hypothesis, and for our purposes an unnecessary one.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000037_000001.wav|He replaces them all by faint sensations, and especially by pronunciation of words sotto voce.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000016_000002.wav|If we imagine some piece of music that we know, we can go through it in our mind from beginning to end without any discoverable tendency to suppose that we are really hearing it.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000031_000003.wav|The cases of dreams and fever delirium are as hard to adjust to Professor Stout's modified criterion as to Hume's.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000002_000001.wav|I lay a stick upon it and the stick either burns or remains green, as I please.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000002_000004.wav|Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mental fire....|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000000.wav|These definitions would have all the precision that could be desired if the distinction between physical and psychological causation were clear and sharp.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000009.wav|Nominal entities of this sort may or may not exist, but there is no good ground for assuming that they do.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000004_000004.wav|Such differences compel you to distinguish the world of dreams from the physical world.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000032_000005.wav|But this means that the so-called "unreality" of images consists merely in their not obeying the laws of physics, and thus brings us back to the causal distinction between images and sensations.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000010_000003.wav|Hence I concluded that the colour is something other than my seeing of the colour.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000005_000000.wav|If the two sorts of causal laws could be sharply distinguished, we could call an occurrence "physical" when it obeys causal laws appropriate to the physical world, and "mental" when it obeys causal laws appropriate to the mental world.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000016.wav|But in itself the pure sensation is not cognitive.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000034_000012.wav|When habit and past experience play this part, we are in the region of mnemic as opposed to ordinary physical causation.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000007.wav|If we found ourselves in a foreign world, where tables looked like cushions and cushions like tables, we should similarly discover how much of what we think we see is really inference.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000028_000001.wav|The percept has an aggressiveness which does not belong to the image.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000035_000000.wav|However this may be, the practically effective distinction between sensations and images is that in the causation of sensations, but not of images, the stimulation of nerves carrying an effect into the brain, usually from the surface of the body, plays an essential part.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000025_000002.wav|The common degrees of these are easily distinguished, though it is not impossible but in particular instances they may very nearly approach to each other.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000047_000001.wav|I think it is clear, however, that, at any rate in the case of auditory and visual images, they do differ from ordinary auditory and visual sensations, and therefore form a recognizable class of occurrences, even if it should prove that they can be regarded as a sub class of sensations.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000014_000000.wav|Sensations are what is common to the mental and physical worlds; they may be defined as the intersection of mind and matter.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000033_000003.wav|As soon as an image begins to deceive us as to its status, it also deceives us as to its correlations, which are what we mean by its "reality."|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000028_000000.wav|"Our conclusion is that at bottom the distinction between image and percept, as respectively faint and vivid states, is based on a difference of quality.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000001_000002.wav|The dualism is not primarily as to the stuff of the world, but as to causal laws.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000013_000002.wav|But this topic belongs to the philosophy of physics, and need not concern us in our present inquiry.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000038_000003.wav|If there were a delicate instrument for recording small movements in the mouth and throat, we might place such an instrument in a person's mouth and then tell him to recite a poem to himself, as far as possible only in imagination.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000016_000000.wav|The distinction between images and sensations might seem at first sight by no means difficult.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000007.wav|It is for this reason that it was necessary to develop the definition of perception.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000031_000002.wav|And in all cases where images, originally recognized as such, gradually pass into hallucinations, there must be just that "force or liveliness" which is supposed to be always absent from images.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000036_000001.wav|Sensations, as a rule, have both physical and mental effects.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000006_000001.wav|As a matter of fact, however, this distinction is, as yet, by no means sharp.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000035_000001.wav|And this accounts for the fact that images and sensations cannot always be distinguished by their intrinsic nature.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000009.wav|I remember in the early days of motor cars being with a friend when a tyre burst with a loud report.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000007_000008.wav|Every fairly familiar sensation is to us a sign of the things that usually go with it, and many of these things will seem to form part of the sensation.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000039_000007.wav|By saying that it is an event in me, we leave it possible that it may be PHYSIOLOGICALLY caused: its privacy may be only due to its connection with my body.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000041_000000.wav|I shall henceforth assume that the existence of images is admitted, and that they are to be distinguished from sensations by their causes, as well as, in a lesser degree, by their effects.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000001_000000.wav|The dualism of mind and matter, if we have been right so far, cannot be allowed as metaphysically valid.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000017_000002.wav|Hallucinations often begin as persistent images, and only gradually acquire that influence over belief that makes the patient regard them as sensations.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000001_000003.wav|On this subject we may again quote William james.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000004_000001.wav|This is, of course, not the case: they have their effects, just as much as physical phenomena do, but their effects follow different laws.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8824/279153/8824_279153_000009_000011.wav|If we are to avoid a perfectly gratuitous assumption, we must dispense with the subject as one of the actual ingredients of the world.|8824
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000024_000000.wav|"Numberless centuries," etc|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000028_000003.wav|The shingle was composed of slate, quartz, and granite, named in the order of abundance.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000006_000005.wav|All evinced eager desire to learn.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000027_000005.wav|In the discussions that followed much indignation and economy were brought to light.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000025_000004.wav|To load, they had only to sail up the fiord within a short distance of the front and drop anchor in the terminal moraine.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000014_000000.wav|"From snow that is heaped up every winter on the mountains."|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000040_000000.wav|In the mean time another excursion was being invented, one of small size and price.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000035_000010.wav|mr Young and I traced the glorious crystal wall, admiring its wonderful architecture, the play of light in the rifts and caverns, and the structure of the ice as displayed in the less fractured sections, finding fresh beauty everywhere and facts for study.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000025_000003.wav|It was to this glacier that the ships of the Alaska Ice Company resorted for the ice they carried to San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, and, I believe, also to China and Japan.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000045_000006.wav|For example, the first dwelling we visited was about forty feet square, with walls built of planks two feet wide and six inches thick.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000025_000000.wav|About the middle of the afternoon we were directly opposite a noble group of glaciers some ten in number, flowing from a chain of crater like snow fountains, guarded around their summits and well down their sides by jagged peaks and cols and curving mural ridges. From each of the larger clusters of fountains, a wide, sheer walled canyon opens down to the sea.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000049_000002.wav|This sacrilege came near causing trouble and would have cost us dear had the totem not chanced to belong to the Kadachan family, the representative of which is a member of the newly organized Wrangell Presbyterian Church.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000045_000013.wav|With the same tools not one in a thousand of our skilled mechanics could do as good work.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000001_000000.wav|Chapter five|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000036_000001.wav|Every feature glowed with intention, reflecting the plans of God.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000006_000001.wav|Every face glowed with natural love of wild beauty.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000029_000000.wav|The stream was bridged at short intervals with picturesque, moss embossed logs, and the trees on its banks, leaning over from side to side, made high embowering arches.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000027_000003.wav|The captain repeatedly called for more steam, which the engineer refused to furnish, cautiously keeping the pressure low because the salt water foamed in the boilers and some of it passed over into the cylinders, causing heavy thumping at the end of each piston stroke, and threatening to knock out the cylinder heads.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000046_000001.wav|The simplest of them consisted of a smooth, round post fifteen or twenty feet high and about eighteen inches in diameter, with the figure of some animal on top-a bear, porpoise, eagle, or raven, about life-size or larger.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000045_000009.wav|The pillars that had supported the ridgepole were still standing in some of the ruins.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000006_000004.wav|The earnest, childish wonderment with which this glorious page of Nature's Bible was contemplated was delightful to see.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000042_000001.wav|"We shall probably find stone axes and other curiosities.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000015_000000.wav|"And how, then, is the snow changed into ice?"|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000027_000007.wav|But at the present rate of speed it was found that the cost of the trip for each passenger would be five or ten dollars above the first estimate.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000009_000000.wav|"How deep is it?"|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000036_000000.wav|Along the sides of the glacier we saw the mighty flood grinding against the granite walls with tremendous pressure, rounding outswelling bosses, and deepening the retreating hollows into the forms they are destined to have when, in the fullness of appointed time, the huge ice tool shall be withdrawn by the sun|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000012_000000.wav|"It flows like water, though invisibly slow."|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000008_000000.wav|"Yes."|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000046_000000.wav|The carved totem pole monuments are the most striking of the objects displayed here.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000023_000000.wav|"How long have they been there?"|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000028_000004.wav|The first land plant met was a tall grass, nine feet high, forming a meadow like margin in front of the forest. Pushing my way well back into the forest, I found it composed almost entirely of spruce and two hemlocks (Picea sitchensis, Tsuga heterophylla and t mertensiana) with a few specimens of yellow cypress.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000035_000003.wav|Our next attempt, made nearer the middle of the valley, was successful, and we soon found ourselves on firm gravelly ground, and made haste to the huge ice wall, which seemed to recede as we advanced.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000046_000003.wav|The largest were thirty or forty feet high, carved from top to bottom into human and animal totem figures, one above another, with their limbs grotesquely doubled and folded.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000028_000002.wav|The tide was low, exposing a luxuriant growth of algae, which sent up a fine, fresh sea smell.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000006_000003.wav|But every eye was turned to the mountains. Forgotten now were the Chilcats and missions while the word of God was being read in these majestic hieroglyphics blazoned along the sky.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000028_000011.wav|One bird, a thrush, embroidered the silence with cheery notes, making the solitude familiar and sweet, while the solemn monotone of the stream sifting through the woods seemed like the very voice of God, humanized, terrestrialized, and entering one's heart as to a home prepared for it.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000028_000009.wav|As the twilight began to fall, I sat down on the mossy instep of a spruce.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000003_000002.wav|The main object of the missionaries was to ascertain the spiritual wants of the warlike Chilcat tribe, with a view to the establishment of a church and school in their principal village; the merchant and his party were bent on business and scenery; while my mind was on the mountains, glaciers, and forests.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000007_000000.wav|"Is that a glacier," they asked, "down in that canyon?|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000028_000007.wav|On the opener spots beneath the trees the ground is covered to a depth of two or three feet with mosses of indescribable freshness and beauty, a few dwarf conifers often planted on their rich furred bosses, together with pyrola, coptis, and Solomon's seal.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000011_000000.wav|"You say it flows.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000022_000000.wav|"The glaciers themselves, just as traveling animals make their own tracks."|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000046_000005.wav|But a telling display of family pride seemed to have been the prevailing motive. All the figures were more or less rude, and some were broadly grotesque, but there was never any feebleness or obscurity in the expression.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28462/5092_28462_000018_000000.wav|"Yes."|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000018_000002.wav|Do not look for me until I make my appearance on the river bank.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000001_000000.wav|Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000011_000000.wav|The return trip to the camp past the shelving cliff and through the weary devil's club jungle was made in a few hours.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000004_000005.wav|After wrapping myself in my blankets, I still gazed into the marvelous sky and made out to sleep only about two hours.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000002_000006.wav|I had my supper before leaving the steamer, so I had only to make a campfire, spread my blanket, and lie down.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000031_000002.wav|I then crossed to the south side, noting the forms of the huge blocks into which the glacier was broken in passing over the brow of the cataract, and how they were welded.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000007_000004.wav|It is made up of thin vertical or inclined sheets or slabs set on edge and welded together.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000026_000000.wav|As it was now getting late, I started back to the lakeside where I had left my bundle, and in trying to hold a direct course found the interlaced jungle still more difficult than it was along the bank of the torrent.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000007_000007.wav|Across the mouth of this abandoned part of its channel the main glacier flows, forming a dam which gives rise to a lake.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000017_000000.wav|"Well, but when will I come to look for you, if anything happens? Where are you going to try to go?|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000025_000001.wav|I attempted to ford it where it begins to break in rapids in passing over the moraine, but found it too deep and rough on the bottom.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000027_000004.wav|Running to the top of the moraine, I discovered that the tremendous noise was only the outcry of a newborn berg about fifty or sixty feet in diameter, rocking and wallowing in the waves it had raised as if enjoying its freedom after its long grinding work as part of the glacier.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000015_000000.wav|"When shall I expect you back?" inquired Choquette, when I bade him good bye.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000009_000000.wav|In the angle formed by the main glacier and the lake that gives rise to the river floods, there is a massive granite dome sparsely feathered with trees, and just beyond this yosemitic rock is a mountain, perhaps ten thousand feet high, laden with ice and snow which seemed pure pearly white in the morning light.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000007_000003.wav|The structure of the glacier was strikingly revealed on its melting surface.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000026_000002.wav|But everything was deliciously fresh, and I found new and old plant friends, and lessons on Nature's Alaska moraine landscape gardening that made everything bright and light.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000003_000000.wav|The Dirt Glacier is noted among the river men as being subject to violent flood outbursts once or twice a year, usually in the late summer.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000002_000000.wav|Next day I planned an excursion to the so-called Dirt Glacier, the most interesting to Indians and steamer men of all the Stickeen glaciers from its mysterious floods.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000027_000001.wav|The ground was desperately rocky.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000025_000000.wav|The outlet of the lake is a large stream, almost a river in size, one of the main draining streams of the glacier.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000025_000005.wav|But the force of the torrent, acting on the submerged branches and the slender end of the trunk, bent it like a bow and made it very unsteady, and after testing it by going out about a third of the way over, it seemed likely to be carried away when bent deeper into the current by my weight.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000021_000004.wav|All sorts of theories have been advanced for the formation of these kettles, so abundant in the drift over a great part of the United States, and I was glad to be able to set the question at rest, at least as far as I was concerned.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000027_000002.wav|I made out, however, to level down a strip large enough to lie on, and by means of slim alder stems bent over it and tied together soon had a home.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000012_000000.wav|The weather that morning, august twenty seventh, was dark and rainy, and I tried to persuade myself that I ought to rest a day before setting out on new ice work.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000002_000004.wav|Thirteen small glaciers were in sight and four waterfalls.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000032_000000.wav|The weather was now clear, opening views according to my own heart far into the high snowy fountains.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000011_000002.wav|The captain had called for me, and, after waiting three hours, departed for Wrangell without leaving any food, to make sure, I suppose, of a quick return of his Indians and canoe.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000033_000001.wav|Promptly at sight of the signal I made, the kind Frenchman came across for me in his canoe.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000025_000004.wav|Here I found a spruce tree which I felled for a bridge; it reached across, about ten feet of the top holding in the bank brush.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000011_000003.wav|This was no serious matter, however, for the swift current swept us down to Buck Station, some thirty five miles distant, by eight o'clock.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000002_000002.wav|The captain kindly loaned me his canoe and two of his Indian deck hands, who seemed much puzzled to know what the rare service required of them might mean, and on leaving bade a merry adieu to their companions.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000016_000001.wav|"I shall see as much as possible of the glacier, and I know not how long it will hold me."|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000005_000002.wav|It was too swift and rough to ford, and no bridge tree could be found, for the great floods had cleared everything out of their way.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000007_000005.wav|They represent, I think, the successive snowfalls from heavy storms on the tributaries.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000007_000006.wav|One of the tributaries on the right side, about three miles above the front, has been entirely melted off from the trunk and has receded two or three miles, forming an independent glacier.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000018_000000.wav|"Yes, I have," I said.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000027_000003.wav|While thus busily engaged I was startled by a thundering roar across the lake.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000027_000000.wav|It was now near dark, and I made haste to make up my flimsy little tent.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000021_000003.wav|The moraine material of course was falling in as the ice melted, and the sides maintained an angle as steep as the material would lie.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000018_000004.wav|I am used to caring for myself." And so, shouldering my bundle, I trudged off through the moraine boulders and thickets.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000006_000003.wav|Seedling trees and bushes also were growing among the flowers.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000004_000000.wav|Our camp was made on the south or lower side of the delta, below all the draining streams, so that I would not have to ford any of them on my way to the glacier.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000004_000002.wav|I had but little to say to my companions as they could speak no English, nor I much Thlinkit or Chinook.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000032_000002.wav|The greatest discovery was in methods of denudation displayed beneath the glacier.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000030_000004.wav|Fortunately this night it did not rain, but it was very cold.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000012_000002.wav|So grand an invitation displayed in characters so telling was of course irresistible, and body care and weather care vanished.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000028_000002.wav|The smell of the washed ground and vegetation made every breath a pleasure, and I found Calypso borealis, the first I had seen on this side of the continent, one of my darlings, worth any amount of hardship; and I saw one of my Douglas squirrels on the margin of a grassy pool.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000007_000000.wav|Altogether, I saw about fifteen or sixteen miles of the main trunk. The grade is almost regular, and the walls on either hand are about from two to three thousand feet high, sculptured like those of Yosemite Valley.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000009_000001.wav|Last evening as seen from camp it was adorned with a cloud streamer, and both the streamer and the peak were flushed in the alpenglow.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000004_000007.wav|The captain was to pick us up about noon at a woodpile about a mile from here; but if in the mean time the steamer should run aground and he should need his canoe, a three whistle signal would be given.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000029_000000.wav|In the gardens and forests of this wonderful moraine one might spend a whole joyful life.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000009_000002.wav|A mile or two above this mountain, on the opposite side of the glacier, there is a rock like the Yosemite Sentinel; and in general all the wall rocks as far as I saw them are more or less yosemitic in form and color and streaked with cascades.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000021_000000.wav|On the older portions of this moraine I discovered several kettles in process of formation and was pleased to find that they conformed in the most striking way with the theory I had already been led to make from observations on the old kettles which form so curious a feature of the drift covering Wisconsin and Minnesota and some of the larger moraines of the residual glaciers in the California Sierra.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5092/28465/5092_28465_000025_000006.wav|Fortunately, I discovered another larger tree well situated a little farther down, which I felled, and though a few feet in the middle was submerged, it seemed perfectly safe.|5092
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000023_000001.wav|Among women of the lowest class smoking was probably common enough.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000046_000002.wav|There are many colours in the rainbow; so there are many tastes in people.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000033_000006.wav|She had burned herself more than once before in performing the same operation; but her pipe she was bound to have, and so met her end.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000031_000003.wav|Nor has the practice by any means yet died out.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000033_000005.wav|Her death was caused by the accidental ignition of her clothes as she was lighting her pipe at the fire.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000014_000000.wav|"George Thresher kept a shoppe in Romford and sold tobacco there.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000042_000005.wav|However, he sent gifts in return to her Britannic Majesty, and among them were a West African state umbrella, a selection of highly coloured clothing materials, and some native pipes and tobacco for the Queen to smoke.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000005_000000.wav|There is a tradition that Queen Elizabeth herself once smoked-with unpleasant results.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000031_000005.wav|She said she had smoked it for twenty years, and "it always makes me giddy!" The writer, in august nineteen thirteen, saw a woman seated by the roadside in County Down, Ireland, calmly smoking a large briar pipe.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000038_000015.wav|Mother gave in soon-I think she only did it out of vanity.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000010_000000.wav|There is direct evidence, too, besides the story in the first paragraph of this chapter, that women disliked the prevalence of smoking.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000002_000000.wav|Ladies, when pipes are brought, affect to swoon; They love no smoke, except the smoke of Town.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000043_000000.wav|Many royal ladies of Europe, contemporaries of Queen Victoria and her son, have had the reputation of being confirmed smokers.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000030_000003.wav|On this occasion the passage though stormy was very quick, for it lasted only thirty four days.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000040_000004.wav|But this was satire and hardly had much relation to fact.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000038_000014.wav|She certainly smoked six or eight.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000038_000003.wav|She asked Dickens if he had ever "read such infernal trash" as mrs Gore's; and exclaimed "Oh God! what a sermon we had here, last Sunday." Dickens and his two daughters-"who were decidedly in the way, as we agreed afterwards"--dined by invitation with the mother and daughter.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000009_000003.wav|The woman is plainly a convivial soul; but there is no pipe for her, and such provision was no doubt unusual.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000045_000001.wav|We are informed in the usual style of such pages, that "the well dressed woman has begun to consider the little smoking jacket indispensable." This jacket, we are told "is a very different matter to the braided velvet coats which were donned by our masculine forbears in the days of long drooping cavalry moustaches, tightly buttoned frock coats, and flexible canes.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000038_000002.wav|The younger lady's conversation would have shocked the prim maids and matrons of that day.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000020_000002.wav|But what quite disgusted our visitor was "that when one drinks the health of any person in company, the custom of the country does not permit you to drink more than half the cup, which is filled up and presented to him or her whose health you have drunk.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000001_000000.wav|SMOKING BY WOMEN|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000033_000001.wav|mrs Garbutt had been twice married, her husbands having been sailors during the Napoleonic wars.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000040_000001.wav|In eighteen fifty one, steady going folk were alarmed and shocked at a sudden and short-lived outburst of "bloomerism," imported from the United States.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000030_000004.wav|The list of provisions taken is truly formidable.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000017_000003.wav|Possibly she was not a smoker at all, but needed the tobacco for some medicinal purpose.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000011_000000.wav|On the other hand, it is certain that from comparatively early in the seventeenth century there were to be found here and there women who smoked.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000020_000001.wav|He tells us that according to the custom of the country the landladies sup with strangers and passengers, and if they have daughters, these also are of the company to entertain the guests at table with pleasant conceits where they drink as much as the men.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000030_000000.wav|Even Quakeresses sometimes smoked.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000007_000003.wav|The cut, which is very rough, heads a bacchanalian ballad characteristic of the Elizabethan period, called "A Knotte of Good Fellows," and beginning:|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2652/157644/2652_157644_000038_000012.wav|But even this was not all.|2652
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000113_000001.wav|"How long have you lived with the Langmore family?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000128_000001.wav|The coroner gazed at the witness sternly.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000036_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000056_000000.wav|"Then why did yez bring me here, I dunno?|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000128_000000.wav|This reply was a surprise to all, including Raymond.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000117_000000.wav|"Then Miss Margaret was the only child home?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000091_000001.wav|Oi didn't look to the clock."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000130_000000.wav|"Oi'll not answer," was the stubborn return.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000056_000002.wav|It was with difficulty that she was quieted and made to tell what she knew.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000037_000000.wav|"They say, Miss Langmore, that you were not on good terms with your stepmother."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000012_000001.wav|I reckon she's coming now," and the chief of police nodded towards a side door of the courtroom.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000086_000001.wav|If you saw or heard anything, what was it?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000104_000001.wav|Hivin rest her sowl!"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000041_000000.wav|"It is said that you had violent quarrels," pursued the coroner.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000016_000003.wav|Don't tell me!"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000029_000001.wav|"I won't say another word."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000072_000000.wav|"Did Miss Margaret answer?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000127_000000.wav|"Oi have nothin' to say about that," she answered coldly.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000071_000000.wav|"Oi heard mrs Langmore walkin' around upstairs, an' Oi heard Miss Margaret walkin' around, too.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000116_000000.wav|"The first year there was the mister and missus an' Miss Jennie an' Miss Margaret.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000121_000000.wav|"Was Miss Margaret on good terms with mrs Langmore?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000045_000000.wav|"And you also quarreled with your father?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000103_000000.wav|"mrs Langmore was quite dead?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000129_000000.wav|"You must answer," he said.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000025_000000.wav|There was a final buzz and then the place became quiet, broken only by the ticking of a big round clock on the wall.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000006_000000.wav|The place was soon crowded with people, and another crowd gathered outside.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000076_000000.wav|"Did you see anybody come in or go out?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000068_000000.wav|The Irish girl scratched her head and shrugged her shoulders.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000021_000000.wav|"Courage, Margaret," he whispered.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000040_000000.wav|"It is true, sir," answered Margaret, after another pause, during which the eyes of all in the courtroom were fixed upon the girl.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000003_000001.wav|No such mystery as the double tragedy had occurred in that neighborhood before, and all of the inhabitants were anxious to hear the latest news and learn what the coroner and the police were going to do.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000101_000000.wav|"What was done with the body of mrs Langmore?" continued the coroner to the servant girl.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000044_000000.wav|"I do."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000123_000001.wav|Then you quarreled also?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000008_000000.wav|"Neither do I," answered the guardian of the law, with a shrug of his shoulders, as if it was none of his especial business,|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000088_000000.wav|"You didn't see anybody?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000089_000001.wav|As Oi said before, thim Leghorns that Pat Callahan gave me-"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000005_000002.wav|He felt that his own little office was altogether too small for the occasion and so arranged to bring off the affair in the general courtroom.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000063_000001.wav|You mean you were doing the housework, eh?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000052_000000.wav|"No, nothing," she answered, and dropped a veil over her face.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000031_000001.wav|Then the coroner swore her in as a witness and told her to relate her story.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000053_000002.wav|As soon as she was sworn in she burst into tears.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000002_000000.wav|AT THE CORONER'S INQUEST|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000097_000000.wav|"We all wint in the house, an' there we found poor mr Langmore dead in the library, in his chair.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000094_000000.wav|"What did you do then?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000004_000001.wav|"The law is all well enough, but this dastardly crime demands an object lesson."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000122_000000.wav|"She was not.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000125_000002.wav|When did they quarrel last?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000004_000000.wav|"Find him or her, and swing him or her to the nearest tree," was the verdict of many.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000006_000001.wav|The hour for opening the inquest was at hand and the majority of the witnesses were present.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000105_000000.wav|"And mr Langmore?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000042_000001.wav|Sometimes we did not speak to each other for days."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000074_000000.wav|"What else?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000125_000000.wav|"Wait! wait!|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000055_000000.wav|"Nobody said you did," answered the coroner dryly, while a general smile went around the courtroom.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000030_000000.wav|"Silence.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000007_000000.wav|"I don't see Miss Langmore."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000050_000000.wav|"That is all for the present," he added, and Margaret moved back to where she had been first sitting.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000028_000001.wav|"We must have silence!"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000080_000000.wav|"Did you hear anything after the slamming of the front door?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000011_000000.wav|"You have had her properly guarded?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000071_000001.wav|Then Oi heard mrs Langmore call to Miss Margaret."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000053_000000.wav|The next witness called was Mary Billings, the domestic employed at the Langmore mansion, and who had been about the place at the time of the tragedy.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000129_000001.wav|"It is my duty to get at the bottom of this awful affair."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000096_000000.wav|"What happened next?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000023_000000.wav|The coroner mounted the platform and rapped on a desk with his knuckles.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000033_000000.wav|"Everything," was Coroner Busby's answer.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000109_000000.wav|"There were no marks of violence?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000031_000002.wav|She could scarcely stand and Raymond brought her chair forward.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000090_000001.wav|After you heard the strange noise how long was it before you heard Miss Langmore scream?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000123_000000.wav|"Ah!|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000083_000002.wav|Me father!|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000126_000000.wav|At this question the domestic pursed up her lips and looked at Margaret.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000022_000001.wav|"They all think I am-" She could not finish, but had to bite her lip to keep the tears from flowing.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000102_000000.wav|"The docther said to lave it till you came."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000089_000000.wav|"No, sur.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000031_000000.wav|Margaret arose and bowed slightly.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000027_000000.wav|"That's so-an' we want plain facts," put in an old farmer, sitting well up front.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000111_000000.wav|"The victims had not been struck down?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000115_000000.wav|"How many of the family lived at home?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000029_000000.wav|"All right, Jack," replied the farmer.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000021_000001.wav|"It is bound to come out right in the end."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000086_000000.wav|"Never mind the Leghorns.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000006_000002.wav|The coroner, short, fat and bald headed, looked around anxiously and then turned to the chief of police, who was near at hand.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000019_000000.wav|"He must know, if he's as slick at tryin' folks as he is in a hoss dicker," returned an old farmer who had made a trade of steeds which had proved unprofitable for him.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000099_000000.wav|"Silence.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000059_000000.wav|"Were you in the kitchen first."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000010_000000.wav|"She'll be here, coroner, don't worry."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000047_000000.wav|"What, not at all?" queried Coroner Busby, elevating his eyes in surprise, either real or affected.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000084_000001.wav|Now-er-you remained in the barn until you heard her cry out. Did you hear or see anything from the barn while you were down there?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000014_000000.wav|"Mighty pale, ain't she?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000028_000000.wav|"Silence!" cried the coroner.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000124_000001.wav|If it hadn't been fer Miss Margaret Oi'd a lift me job long ago.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000038_000000.wav|"Who says so?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000030_000001.wav|We cannot go on if there is not silence.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000009_000000.wav|"Yes, but-ahem! you are-ahem! responsible-"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000035_000000.wav|"Is that all?" asked the coroner, after a painful pause.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000067_000000.wav|"Did you see or hear anything unusual going on while you were in the kitchen?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000012_000000.wav|"Yes.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000107_000000.wav|"Now, tell me, how do you think the two were killed?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000116_000001.wav|But Miss Jennie married an' moved away-she's travelin' now, they tell me."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000043_000000.wav|"Then you admit that you did quarrel?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000057_000000.wav|"Where were you from ten o'clock to twelve of the morning of the tragedy?" was the first question put to her.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000098_000000.wav|There was a general laugh throughout the courtroom, at which the coroner rapped loudly on the desk.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000022_000000.wav|"I can scarcely see a friendly face," she faltered, taking a shy look around.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000099_000002.wav|If this happens again I shall clear the courtroom."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000013_000001.wav|The crowd arose to gaze at the girl and to pass various comments.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000003_000002.wav|A hundred theories were afloat, all centering on the one object-to find the murderer.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000034_000000.wav|Pausing for a moment to collect her thoughts, she plunged into the recital, her tale being merely a repetition of that given to Adam Adams.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000099_000001.wav|Such-ahem! conduct at an inquest is not to be allowed.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000070_000000.wav|"What were they?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000026_000000.wav|"We are gathered here-ahem! to inquire into the mysterious deaths of mr and mrs Barry Langmore," went on the coroner.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000048_000000.wav|"We held different opinions upon certain questions, but we did not quarrel."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000013_000000.wav|There was a slight commotion, and Margaret entered, escorted by Raymond Case, and followed by one of the women and the policeman who had been on guard at the Langmore mansion.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000083_000000.wav|"Till Miss Margaret came scr'amin' from the house.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000005_000000.wav|Coroner Jack Busby, who was a dealer in horses, had never had a murder case before, and was uncertain as to the method of procedure.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71402/6701_71402_000034_000001.wav|When she came to tell how her father had been found her voice broke and it was fully a minute before she could go on.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000089_000000.wav|"mr|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000035_000000.wav|"I did not, but mrs Gaspard, who was in charge downstairs, did."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000083_000001.wav|Miss Langmore, you may have the ring back." It was passed out and Raymond took it and slipped it back on Margaret's hand, which was cold and nerveless.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000072_000000.wav|"Did you find anything unusual?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000094_000000.wav|"Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?" was the question put.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000053_000000.wav|"To merely say a thing does not prove it," came from the coroner.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000067_000000.wav|"Possibly, yes, although I did not see any traces."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000079_000001.wav|"There are enough around here."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000038_000000.wav|"It was this, mr Busby," and the woman held out a sheet of note paper. "I came across it on the stairs leading to Miss Langmore's room.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000073_000002.wav|We next looked under the stone and found there a substance which both of us are convinced is a bit of dried up blood."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000045_000000.wav|"A glass of water, quick!" cried the young man, and it was handed to him, and also a bottle of smelling salts.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000002_000000.wav|THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000033_000001.wav|"But if she says she did, she did," she added stoutly.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000051_000001.wav|She was a strong believer in Margaret's guilt.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000016_000000.wav|As she spoke the woman held up a small bottle.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000050_000001.wav|I am engaged to this young lady.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000076_000001.wav|When you say blood do you mean human blood?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000048_000000.wav|"It's an outrage!" exclaimed Raymond, his eyes flashing.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000053_000005.wav|He looked at Margaret and saw that she was trembling from head to foot.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000086_000000.wav|"We must wait for the finding of the jury, Margaret."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000071_000001.wav|We used a magnifying glass and made several tests."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000082_000001.wav|Here is the ring.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000056_000000.wav|"He said the two handwritings were exactly alike.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000050_000003.wav|It is preposterous to imagine that she would kill her own father.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000083_000000.wav|"Very well.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000047_000000.wav|"I am sorry, but that cannot be allowed," replied the coroner.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000053_000003.wav|I ain't going to shield anybody, rich or poor, high or low, known or unknown!|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000087_000000.wav|"How long will that take?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000101_000000.wav|Hardly was the verdict rendered than a wild cry rang out through the courtroom.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000018_000000.wav|"With the empty bottle I found the half of a big silk handkerchief.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000063_000000.wav|The recess had lasted but a few minutes, when Doctor Bardon reappeared. His face wore a knowing look that was almost triumphant.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000084_000000.wav|There was another pause and then, one after another, several minor witnesses were brought up and examined.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000085_000000.wav|"Is-is it over?" faltered Margaret.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000074_000000.wav|"You are sure it is blood?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000041_000001.wav|mrs Gaspard, do you know who wrote this note?" asked the latter.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000078_000000.wav|"I am not prepared to go as far as that.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000024_000000.wav|"About a week ago, on the parrot.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000052_000000.wav|"I know nothing about that.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000053_000002.wav|"I'm here to do my duty, regardless of you or anybody else.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000092_000000.wav|At this direct question, the young man gave an inward groan.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000092_000001.wav|"I don't know," he answered in an unnatural voice.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000021_000000.wav|"Yes."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000100_000000.wav|"We find that mr and mrs Barry Langmore came to their deaths either by being smothered, chloroformed, poisoned, or in some similar fashion, the direct means not yet being brought to light, and we find that the evidence points to Margaret Langmore as the one who committed the murders."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000023_000000.wav|"When did you do the chloroforming?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000080_000001.wav|"I am only stating the facts."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000080_000000.wav|"You may think as you please," said the young doctor.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000005_000000.wav|"A mr Adams.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000003_000001.wav|She said the girl had had only a few visitors, mentioning Raymond Case and a stranger from New York.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000095_000000.wav|"We have," was the unanimous answer.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000019_000000.wav|At this announcement there was a buzz of excitement.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000099_000001.wav|The courtroom became intensely silent.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000059_000000.wav|"Exactly the same," added another, and the rest nodded.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000081_000000.wav|"Have you anything else to say, doctor?" came from the coroner.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000061_000001.wav|"If not we'll take a brief recess until Doctor Bardon returns."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000028_000000.wav|"Did it take all you had for the birds?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000005_000001.wav|He's either a lawyer or a detective."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000013_000000.wav|"She does not seem to care much about her stepmother."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000058_000000.wav|"Pretty much the same thing," whispered one man.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000066_000000.wav|"Do you think it possible that mr and mrs Langmore could have been smothered in that way?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000052_000001.wav|It may be a forgery.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000034_000000.wav|"Now, mrs Morse, did you find anything else of value?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000017_000000.wav|"Anything else?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000019_000002.wav|The girl had thrown aside her veil once more, and was standing up, with a face as pale as death itself.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000089_000002.wav|I thought he would help us in some way."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000097_000000.wav|"mr Blackwell, our foreman."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000082_000002.wav|We have kept what we found under the stone."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000015_000000.wav|"Well, I don't know.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000007_000001.wav|"Wasn't that all right?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000091_000000.wav|"What do you think the jury will do?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000009_000001.wav|"You told me to do it."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000026_000000.wav|"Then you know all about using chloroform?" remarked the coroner dryly.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000044_000000.wav|"My father-never-never sent me-never wrote such a note-" she gasped, and then sank back and would have fallen had not Raymond supported her.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000077_000000.wav|At this the young physician shrugged his shoulders.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000078_000002.wav|The amount was so very small."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000073_000000.wav|"We did.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000064_000000.wav|"You will please take the stand again, doctor," was the request.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000068_000000.wav|"Would there have been traces?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000049_000000.wav|"Silence, young man, or I'll have you removed by an officer.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000082_000000.wav|"Nothing more.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000036_000000.wav|"Very well, you may step down.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000088_000000.wav|"I don't know."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000024_000001.wav|The canary I chloroformed when I obtained the drug."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000037_000000.wav|"mrs Morse says you found something of importance.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000083_000002.wav|The girl was sitting as motionless as a marble statue.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000042_000000.wav|"The handwriting is exactly like mr Langmore's.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000037_000001.wav|What was it?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000004_000000.wav|"Who was the stranger?" asked Coroner Busby.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000052_000002.wav|I know Miss Langmore is innocent."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000093_000000.wav|In less than an hour it was announced that the jury had arrived at a verdict.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000053_000004.wav|Now, you sit down, and let the inquest proceed." And Raymond sat down, but with a great and growing bitterness filling his heart.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000060_000000.wav|The coroner looked around the courtroom and then at the jury.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000073_000001.wav|In the first place two of the prongs which hold the diamond in place are bent out and up in such a fashion that each forms a sharp point.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000010_000000.wav|"Has Miss Langmore had anything to say about her father?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000056_000001.wav|Here is a letter written and signed by mr Langmore.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000078_000001.wav|We should have to make another test.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000022_000001.wav|Mary Billings saw me chloroform the parrot."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000076_000000.wav|"It will not be necessary just now.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000016_000001.wav|It was marked chloroform and was empty.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000050_000002.wav|I know she is innocent.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000039_000001.wav|You must either obey your mother that now is, and me, or leave this house.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000098_000000.wav|"Very well.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000045_000001.wav|In a moment more Margaret revived.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000003_000000.wav|The next witness called was mrs Morse, who told briefly how she had been placed in charge of the upper part of the Langmore mansion shortly after the tragedy, and how she had been watching Margaret.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000011_000000.wav|"She seems to be very sorry that he is dead."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000015_000001.wav|I have looked around a bit, and among other things I found this.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000075_000000.wav|"Yes.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000090_000000.wav|"He must have a good reason for staying away."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000050_000004.wav|They loved each other too much."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000049_000002.wav|I do not know what interest you have-"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000071_000000.wav|"I have, and so has Doctor Soper.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000064_000001.wav|"I wish to ask you if a person could be smothered by chloroform."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000062_000001.wav|Whatever the coroner did was sufficient for them.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000014_000000.wav|"Have you discovered anything unusual, mrs Morse, that had to do with this tragedy?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000049_000001.wav|You have interrupted the proceedings several times.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000039_000002.wav|I have had enough of your willfulness and I shall not put up with it any longer."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000006_000000.wav|"Oh!"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000031_000000.wav|"I threw it away, for I had no further use for it."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000084_000002.wav|Then the jurors filed out into a side room, the door to which was tightly closed.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000065_000000.wav|"Certainly, under certain conditions."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000038_000001.wav|Shall I read it?" And as the coroner nodded, the woman read as follows:|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000043_000001.wav|She had again arisen and was swaying from side to side.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000089_000001.wav|Adams did not show himself.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000084_000001.wav|At four o'clock the coroner began to sum up the evidence, to which the jury listened with close attention.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000009_000000.wav|"I have kept the best watch on Miss Langmore that I could," went on the woman.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000051_000000.wav|"Yes, but this note-" piped in mrs Gaspard.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000096_000000.wav|"Who will speak for you?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000062_000000.wav|One after another the jurors shook their heads.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000032_000001.wav|"Did you see her throw the chloroform away?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000015_000002.wav|It was in Miss Langmore's dressing case."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000030_000000.wav|"What did you do with what remained?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000027_000000.wav|"The druggist told me."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000043_000000.wav|Again all eyes were bent upon Margaret.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000036_000001.wav|mrs Gaspard!" And the other woman came forward to face the coroner and his jury, and was sworn.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000008_000000.wav|"Certainly-certainly," answered the coroner hastily.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000056_000002.wav|You can compare the two, if you wish."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000022_000000.wav|"I bought that chloroform a month ago and used it to put a sick canary and a sick parrot out of their misery.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000098_000002.wav|mr Blackwell, what is the verdict?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000054_000000.wav|There was an awkward pause.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000041_000000.wav|"Ahem!|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000040_000000.wav|As the woman finished reading she handed the paper to the coroner.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000025_000000.wav|"Sure, and that's roight, sur," broke in the servant girl.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000069_000000.wav|"Yes and no-it would depend on circumstances."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000057_000000.wav|The letter was passed over and not only the coroner, but also his jury, looked at both documents carefully.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000075_000001.wav|I can illustrate it scientifically, if you desire."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000070_000001.wav|Now about the diamond ring belonging to Miss Langmore, which I gave you a short while ago to examine?|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000007_000000.wav|"I brought mr Adams to see Miss Langmore," put in Raymond.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000039_000000.wav|"Since you refuse to open your room door to me, let me give you fair warning.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000012_000000.wav|"What did she say about mrs Langmore?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71404/6701_71404_000093_000002.wav|The excitement was subdued, but plainly at a white heat. The coroner took his place at the desk.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000070_000002.wav|"Isn't it all right, Uncle Adam?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000047_000000.wav|"Where did this come from, Letty?" he questioned.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000046_000001.wav|He glanced down at an envelope lying there, and started slightly.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000009_000003.wav|Any real dry powder would choke a person if he got a big dose of it.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000052_000000.wav|"Yes, Uncle Adam.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000016_000000.wav|"Evaporated?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000062_000003.wav|"Oh! don't you understand, Uncle Adam?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000060_000002.wav|I hope you'll approve, Uncle Adam."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000065_000002.wav|He caught the girl closer. Never had he loved his friend's daughter so much as now.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000025_000003.wav|Have another glass of wine?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000017_000001.wav|It was intense.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000020_000000.wav|"May I ask where you got the stuff?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000057_000001.wav|He was a bachelor, with only some distant relatives, and he thought a good deal of his protegee and her welfare.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000012_000000.wav|"What?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000066_000001.wav|"I-of course I didn't want to leave you-you've been so very good to me since papa and mamma died.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000070_000000.wav|"The invitation is for to night-he sent it last week.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000006_000001.wav|I mean a powder that could be held to a person's nose and mouth in the open, when it would make that person sick and give him cramps perhaps."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000066_000004.wav|He seems so miserable when I say wait."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000034_000000.wav|"And have I helped you?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000029_000001.wav|A faint odor was perceptible, the same odor he had detected in the carpet on the upper hallway of the Langmore mansion.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000068_000000.wav|"Yes."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000023_000003.wav|Both died in less than two minutes, and each with cramps.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000056_000003.wav|Don't you think he is-is rather nice?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000006_000000.wav|"No, not at all.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000008_000000.wav|"Yes."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000032_000002.wav|Now, what is it all about?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000031_000001.wav|I don't think it will affect me much."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000053_000001.wav|What's the young man's name, Letty?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000010_000000.wav|"Nothing in the shape of any foreign compound?|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000021_000000.wav|"It was imported into this country by a drug firm merely as a curiosity.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000058_000002.wav|I-I-don't you approve of him?" she went on hastily, searching his face for the smile that usually rested there when he spoke to her.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000065_000001.wav|He felt himself growing hot and cold by turns.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000032_000001.wav|We cannot afford to lose you.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000049_000000.wav|The girl glanced at the envelope and then at her employer and blushed deeply.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000064_000001.wav|Of course he hasn't much money, but I don't care for that.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000011_000004.wav|That would do it, that and that only."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000052_000001.wav|I met him last winter, at mrs Dally's reception. He is a traveling salesman for this house," she pointed to the notice on the envelope.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000026_000002.wav|Where can I get the stuff?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000072_000000.wav|"You-you know something?" she gasped.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000009_000001.wav|"That is a subject for speculation.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000009_000000.wav|The old doctor rubbed his hands in thought.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000038_000001.wav|"I was thinking you'd stay the day out.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000043_000001.wav|"And it may be that I'll not be back to morrow."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000027_000001.wav|I rather think they got afraid of it. Wait, I'll get the vial it was in.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000004_000000.wav|"Briefly put, doctor, the case is this," said Adam Adams.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000017_000002.wav|I held it at arms' length, yet it made me sick and I had cramps for over an hour afterwards."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000023_000001.wav|The firm was Alexander and Company, of Rochester, who stand very high in the trade.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000055_000000.wav|"Indeed!|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000046_000000.wav|As Adam Adams spoke he drew closer to the desk at which his assistant was sitting.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000070_000001.wav|He has been traveling out of town, but he said he would be back some time to day. I want you to meet him." She paused.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000039_000002.wav|They were old friends and had worked on many a case together.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000005_000000.wav|"A powder strong enough to kill a person?" The brow of the old physician contracted.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000045_000002.wav|The other record was destroyed."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000014_000000.wav|"And that powder, what did it look like?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000071_000001.wav|Then the look in his face made her draw back, slowly and uncertainly.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000060_000001.wav|I-I wanted to speak of this before, but I-well, I couldn't bring it around.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000064_000000.wav|"He is very nice-I know you'll like him when you get to really know him.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000009_000004.wav|I heard of a boy who came near dying as the result of breathing in a quantity of extra dry licorice powder. But he was smothered and did not have cramps."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000026_000000.wav|"No, I prefer to smoke, thanks just the same.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000044_000000.wav|"All right, Uncle Adam.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000071_000002.wav|At that moment he felt that the occupation of a detective was the most detestable in the world.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000028_000000.wav|"Thanks, but do you think I want to die?" queried the detective, and gave a laugh.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000066_000003.wav|He has asked me twice now and-and-I don't know how I am going to put him off.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000011_000002.wav|The doctor clapped his hands together.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000062_000000.wav|"Yes, and-and-"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000037_000000.wav|"I think we have struck a clue in this.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000061_000001.wav|Of your going out with him?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000060_000000.wav|"Yes, and he has taken me out, let me see, I guess it must be a dozen times all told.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000058_000000.wav|"I-I do, Uncle Adam.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000029_000000.wav|When the empty vial was produced he opened it and took a short sniff. Then he drew his breath in sharply.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000033_000001.wav|I don't feel like talking about it just yet.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000023_000000.wav|"I would not tell everybody, but I know I can trust you to keep a secret.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000013_000000.wav|"I had a sample of it given to me some six months ago.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000071_000000.wav|He did not answer, and she gazed at him curiously.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000023_000004.wav|But after death neither animal showed the least trace of the poison."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000056_000002.wav|I didn't dream of that.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000002_000000.wav|AN AFFAIR OF THE HEART|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000033_000002.wav|I'll give you the particulars some other time."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000052_000002.wav|"He wants me to go to the theatre with him, and I expect to go.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000037_000001.wav|But I must be going."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000058_000001.wav|He treats me so nicely.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000067_000000.wav|"Asked you to marry him?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000062_000001.wav|The girl hesitated again.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000044_000001.wav|What shall I tell mr Capes?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000030_000000.wav|"Do you smell it?" questioned the physician.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000007_000000.wav|"And kill him?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000056_000001.wav|Then you know him, Uncle Adam?|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000040_000000.wav|Once back in his office Adam Adams smiled grimly to himself.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000025_000002.wav|I told him I didn't want to get used to it.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000011_000001.wav|But I know of nothing- But hold!"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000059_000000.wav|"Why, I-er-I don't know him so well as all that, Letty." For the first time in his life he was visibly confused.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000057_000000.wav|"Evidently you think so." For some reason the detective could scarcely steady his voice.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000032_000000.wav|"I trust not, my dear Adams.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000039_000001.wav|When this case is settled, I'll come over and we'll make an evening of it." And then the detective had to fairly tear himself from the doctor and the house.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000066_000002.wav|But-but Tom doesn't seem to want to wait.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000054_000000.wav|"mr Tom Ostrello."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000038_000002.wav|We could chat over old times-I'll order an extra supper-"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000066_000000.wav|"I hoped you would approve," she went on, shyly.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000019_000000.wav|"Not the slightest doubt of it."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000027_000002.wav|Perhaps there is a whiff left in it."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000025_000001.wav|He said he was a bit used to it.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000055_000001.wav|And he has invited you to go to the theatre with him?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000045_000001.wav|He'll have to get those numbers if he possibly can.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000017_000000.wav|"You can call it that if you wish.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000038_000000.wav|"What, so soon!" Rudolph Calkey looked hurt.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000061_000000.wav|"Approve?|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000041_000001.wav|"You were seen around the place at the time of the murder by Cephas Carboy, you left the bit of paper in the library, you quarrelled at one time with mr Langmore and also quarrelled with your mother. The murder was committed by means of that deadly Chinese powder, and you are one of the few persons in this country who knew of the heathenish compound.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000053_000000.wav|"I know some parties connected with that firm.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000045_000000.wav|"Tell him that that bond matter must wait.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000021_000001.wav|They put it up in tiny vials which I suppose were sent around to different persons like myself.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000015_000000.wav|"It was blue at first but on contact with the air quickly changed to brownish white and lost itself, it was so fine."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000036_000000.wav|"Of course there are other powders-and there is chloroform-"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000059_000001.wav|"You say he has called on you a number of times?"|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000033_000000.wav|"Another case, that's all.|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6701/71401/6701_71401_000050_000000.wav|"Oh, why that-that is a note from a friend of mine."|6701
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000014_000002.wav|This is as true of earthly as of heavenly things.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000024_000001.wav|They are both equally unnatural and the result of mental disorder.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000020_000001.wav|Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is, and always was, justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000003_000000.wav|Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000014_000001.wav|The man who does not shrink from self crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000027_000000.wav|The proof of this truth is in every person, and it therefore admits of easy investigation by systematic introspection and self analysis. Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000023_000002.wav|Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000014_000003.wav|Even the man whose sole object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well poised life?|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000016_000003.wav|Such a man is totally unfit to have health, because he has not yet learned the first principles of a healthy life.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000002_000000.wav|Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000009_000001.wav|As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both by suffering and bliss.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000014_000000.wav|Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000030_000000.wav|Let a man cease from his sinful thoughts, and all the world will soften towards him, and be ready to help him; let him put away his weakly and sickly thoughts, and lo, opportunities will spring up on every hand to aid his strong resolves; let him encourage good thoughts, and no hard fate shall bind him down to wretchedness and shame.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000021_000000.wav|Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000017_000000.wav|Here is an employer of labour who adopts crooked measures to avoid paying the regulation wage, and, in the hope of making larger profits, reduces the wages of his workpeople.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000026_000001.wav|This being so, man has but to right himself to find that the universe is right; and during the process of putting himself right he will find that as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000021_000002.wav|Men understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world (though its operation there is just as simple and undeviating), and they, therefore, do not co-operate with it.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000008_000000.wav|Every thought seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000011_000003.wav|Even at birth the soul comes to its own and through every step of its earthly pilgrimage it attracts those combinations of conditions which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own purity and, impurity, its strength and weakness.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000028_000000.wav|A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000026_000000.wav|Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle in the universe; justice, not injustice, is the soul and substance of life; and righteousness, not corruption, is the moulding and moving force in the spiritual government of the world.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000013_000002.wav|That cause may take the form of a conscious vice or an unconscious weakness; but whatever it is, it stubbornly retards the efforts of its possessor, and thus calls aloud for remedy.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000023_000003.wav|A man may be cursed and rich; he may be blessed and poor.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000004_000000.wav|As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000032_000000.wav|"It masters time, it conquers space; It cowes that boastful trickster, Chance, And bids the tyrant Circumstance Uncrown, and fill a servant's place.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000023_000004.wav|Blessedness and riches are only joined together when the riches are rightly and wisely used; and the poor man only descends into wretchedness when he regards his lot as a burden unjustly imposed.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000019_000000.wav|Circumstances, however, are so complicated, thought is so deeply rooted, and the conditions of happiness vary so, vastly with individuals, that a man's entire soul condition (although it may be known to himself) cannot be judged by another from the external aspect of his life alone.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156015/2494_156015_000021_000001.wav|This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but corn, nothing from nettles but nettles.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000022_000000.wav|Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000019_000000.wav|THOUGHT AND CHARACTER|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000025_000001.wav|A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long cherished association with Godlike thoughts.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000025_000002.wav|An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the continued harbouring of grovelling thoughts.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000026_000002.wav|Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000026_000000.wav|Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000024_000000.wav|..If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow-sure."|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000028_000000.wav|As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which he may make himself what he wills.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156014/2494_156014_000027_000000.wav|Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this-that man is the master of thought, the moulder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000010_000000.wav|He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000002_000000.wav|They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self pityings, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000008_000002.wav|Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplished anything, and never can.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000003_000004.wav|This is the royal road to self control and true concentration of thought.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000010_000002.wav|His purposes are seasonably planted, and they bloom and bring forth fruit, which does not fall prematurely to the ground.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000008_000004.wav|Purpose, energy, power to do, and all strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000008_000003.wav|They always lead to failure.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000001_000000.wav|UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000000_000000.wav|THOUGHT AND PURPOSE|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000006_000000.wav|As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000003_000001.wav|He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000008_000001.wav|Doubts and fears should be rigorously excluded; they are disintegrating elements, which break up the straight line of effort, rendering it crooked, ineffectual, useless.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000003_000000.wav|A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000003_000002.wav|It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object, which he has set before him.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000007_000000.wav|To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000009_000001.wav|Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000001_000002.wav|Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000010_000001.wav|His every thought is allied with power, and all difficulties are bravely met and wisely overcome.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000004_000001.wav|Only in this way can the thoughts be gathered and focussed, and resolution and energy be developed, which being done, there is nothing which may not be accomplished.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156017/2494_156017_000001_000001.wav|With the majority the bark of thought is allowed to "drift" upon the ocean of life.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000005_000000.wav|The truth is that oppressor and slave are co operators in ignorance, and, while seeming to afflict each other, are in reality afflicting themselves.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000008_000002.wav|A man whose first thought is bestial indulgence could neither think clearly nor plan methodically; he could not find and develop his latent resources, and would fail in any undertaking.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000010_000001.wav|All the great Teachers of the ages have declared this in varying forms, and to prove and know it a man has but to persist in making himself more and more virtuous by lifting up his thoughts.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000008_000001.wav|He may not, in order to succeed, give up all animality and selfishness, by any means; but a portion of it must, at least, be sacrificed.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000002_000002.wav|A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man's; they are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000008_000000.wav|Before a man can achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must lift his thoughts above slavish animal indulgence.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000006_000000.wav|He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000006_000001.wav|He is free.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000008_000004.wav|He is not fit to act independently and stand alone.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000015_000000.wav|Victories attained by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000007_000000.wav|A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000002_000001.wav|In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000005_000001.wav|A perfect Knowledge perceives the action of law in the weakness of the oppressed and the misapplied power of the oppressor; a perfect Love, seeing the suffering, which both states entail, condemns neither; a perfect Compassion embraces both oppressor and oppressed.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000013_000001.wav|By the aid of self control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well directed thought a man ascends; by the aid of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confusion of thought a man descends.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000004_000000.wav|It has been usual for men to think and to say, "Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor." Now, however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, "One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves."|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000001_000000.wav|THE THOUGHT FACTOR IN ACHIEVEMENT|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000012_000001.wav|He who lives constantly in the conception of noble and lofty thoughts, who dwells upon all that is pure and unselfish, will, as surely as the sun reaches its zenith and the moon its full, become wise and noble in character, and rise into a position of influence and blessedness.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000003_000001.wav|None but himself can alter his condition.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000011_000000.wav|Intellectual achievements are the result of thought consecrated to the search for knowledge, or for the beautiful and true in life and nature.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156018/2494_156018_000002_000003.wav|His condition is also his own, and not another man's.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000009_000000.wav|The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000013_000001.wav|Chance is not.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000011_000003.wav|You may be driving sheep, and you shall wander to the city bucolic and open mouthed; shall wander under the intrepid guidance of the spirit into the studio of the master, and after a time he shall say, 'I have nothing more to teach you.' And now you have become the master, who did so recently dream of great things while driving sheep.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000008.wav|In his hands he holds the cords of gigantic responsibilities; he speaks, and lo, lives are changed; men and women hang upon his words and remould their characters, and, sunlike, he becomes the fixed and luminous centre round which innumerable destinies revolve.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000002_000000.wav|VISIONS AND IDEALS|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000006.wav|Years later we see this youth as a full grown man.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000009.wav|He has realized the Vision of his youth.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000005.wav|It has become so out of harmony with his mentality that it falls out of his life as a garment is cast aside, and, with the growth of opportunities, which fit the scope of his expanding powers, he passes out of it forever.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000002.wav|But he dreams of better things; he thinks of intelligence, of refinement, of grace and beauty.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000011_000000.wav|And you, too, youthful reader, will realize the Vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both, for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000012_000001.wav|Seeing a man grow rich, they say, "How lucky he is!" Observing another become intellectual, they exclaim, "How highly favoured he is!" And noting the saintly character and wide influence of another, they remark, "How chance aids him at every turn!"|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000006_000000.wav|Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all, heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000004_000001.wav|The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000010.wav|He has become one with his Ideal.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000007_000002.wav|Such is not the Law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive."|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000010_000000.wav|Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000011_000001.wav|Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000013_000002.wav|Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000009_000001.wav|The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2494/156019/2494_156019_000004_000000.wav|Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after world, the architects of heaven.|2494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000008_000005.wav|Kitty, who loved to play quite as much as any frolicsome Kitty of to day, had spent all her spare time in knitting a pair of thick woollen stockings, which seems a wonderful feat for a little girl only eight years old to perform!|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000008_000006.wav|Can you not see her sitting by the great chimney place, filled with its roaring, crackling logs, in her quaint, short waisted dress, knitting away steadily, and puckering up her rosy, dimpled face over the strange twists and turns of that old stocking?|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000007_000003.wav|Some of these little people never forgot the wonderful events of which they heard, and afterward related them to their children and grandchildren, which accounts for some of the interesting stories which you may still hear, if you are good children.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000022_000000.wav|Two little rosy faces lay fast asleep upon the pillow when the good old soul came dashing over the roof about one o'clock, and after filling each stocking with red apples, and leaving a cornucopia of sugar plums for each child, he turned for a moment to look at the sleeping faces, for saint Nicholas has a tender spot in his great big heart for a soldier's children.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000019_000000.wav|"Which side is he on?" asked Harry.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000005_000000.wav|ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000033_000001.wav|What a good time we'll have!|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000008_000002.wav|Thus you see that the British, in force, were between Washington's army and Bordentown, besides which there were some British and Hessian troops in the very town.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000010_000000.wav|"Oh, he'll come!|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000021_000000.wav|"The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that saint Nicholas soon would be there."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000032_000000.wav|"Pretty little Fido," said Kitty, taking the soft, curly creature in her arms; "I think it's the best present in the world, and to morrow is to be real Christmas, because you are home, papa."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000034_000000.wav|"What would become of our country if we should all do that, my little man?|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000024_000004.wav|In the evening there came a body of Hessians flying into the town, to say that General Washington had surprised the British at Trenton, early that morning, and completely routed them, which so frightened the Hessians in Bordentown that they left without the slightest ceremony.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000031_000001.wav|"His poor master was shot.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000018_000000.wav|"Yes," said her mother, "Santa Claus won't forget you, I am sure, although he has been kept pretty busy looking after the soldiers this winter."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000029_000000.wav|Into the room there sprang a beautiful little King Charles spaniel, white, with tan spots, and ears of the longest, softest, and silkiest.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000027_000001.wav|"What's that?" cried Harry.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000016_000001.wav|Christmas Eve came, but brought with it few rejoicings.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000024_000002.wav|Toward morning the good people in Bordentown were suddenly aroused by firing in the distance, which became more and more distinct as the day wore on.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000010_000002.wav|Instead she sees something very like tears in her mother's eyes.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000031_000000.wav|"From the battle of Trenton," said her father.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000006_000000.wav|"On Christmas day in Seventy six, Our gallant troops with bayonets fixed, To Trenton marched away."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000016_000000.wav|mrs Tracy looked anxiously each day for news of the husband and father only a few miles away, yet so separated by the river and the enemy's troops that they seemed like a hundred.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000031_000004.wav|The gentleman-for he was a real gentleman-gasped out, 'Take care of my poor Fido; good night,' and was gone.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000007_000001.wav|From many homes the fathers were absent, fighting bravely for the liberty which we now enjoy, while the mothers no less valiantly struggled against hardships and discomforts in order to keep a home for their children, whom you only know as your great grandfathers and great grandmothers, dignified gentlemen and beautiful ladies, whose painted portraits hang upon the walls in some of your homes.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000024_000001.wav|Kitty prayed that her "dear papa might not be out in the storm, and that he might come home and wear his beautiful blue stockings"; "And eat his turkey," said Harry's sleepy voice; after which they were soon in the land of dreams.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000020_000000.wav|"The right side, of course," said mrs Tracy, which was the most sensible answer she could possibly have given.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000007_000000.wav|Children, have any of you ever thought of what little people like you were doing in this country more than a hundred years ago, when the cruel tide of war swept over its bosom?|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000028_000001.wav|Open the door.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000022_000001.wav|Then, remembering many other small folks waiting for him all over the land, he sprang up the chimney and was away in a trice.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000027_000000.wav|Suddenly there was a sharp, quick bark outside the door.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000007_000002.wav|Merry, romping children they were in those far off times, yet their bright faces must have looked grave sometimes, when they heard the grown people talk of the great things that were happening around them.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000023_000000.wav|Santa Claus, in the form of mrs Tracy's farmer brother, brought her a splendid turkey; but because the Hessians were uncommonly fond of turkey, it came hidden under a load of wood.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000024_000003.wav|There was great excitement in the town; men and women gathered together in little groups in the streets to wonder what it was all about, and neighbours came dropping into mrs Tracy's parlour, all day long, one after the other, to say what they thought of the firing.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000010_000001.wav|Papa never stays away on Christmas," says Kitty, looking up into her mother's face for an echo to her words.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000026_000000.wav|Cold and tired Captain Tracy was, after a night's march in the streets and a day's fighting; but he was not too weary to smile at the dear faces around him, or to pat Kitty's head when she brought his warm stockings and would put them on the tired feet, herself.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000028_000002.wav|Here, Fido, Fido!"|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000024_000000.wav|The day passed and night came, cold with a steady fall of rain and sleet.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000015_000001.wav|The days of that cold winter of seventeen seventy six wore on; so cold it was that the sufferings of the soldiers were great, their bleeding feet often leaving marks on the pure white snow over which they marched.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000034_000001.wav|It was a good day's work that we did this Christmas, getting the army all across the river so quickly and quietly that we surprised the enemy, and gained a victory, with the loss of few men."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000014_000000.wav|"We'll let him come just the same, and if he brings anything for papa we can put it away for him."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000011_000000.wav|"Oh, mamma, don't you think he'll come?"|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97610/5740_97610_000025_000001.wav|Indeed, it seemed as if wonders would never cease that day, for while rejoicings were still loud, over the departure of the enemy, there came a knock at mrs Tracy's door, and while she was wondering whether she dared open it, it was pushed ajar, and a tall soldier entered.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000018_000001.wav|mr Ralston put the big basket he was carrying down on a bench in the corner.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000042_000000.wav|mrs Joseph's taffy was eaten too.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000033_000002.wav|When you and mrs Joseph come to town we shall hope to have a chance to return it.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000000.wav|Sister Mollie was the grand repository of these; all the little Josephs came to her for advice and assistance.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000037_000000.wav|There really seemed to be everything on that table that the hearts of children could desire-three pairs of skates, a fur cap and collar, a dainty workbasket, half a dozen gleaming new books, a writing desk, a roll of stuff that looked like a new dress, a pair of fur topped kid gloves just Mollie's size, and a china cup and saucer.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000041_000000.wav|I'm glad to be able to say, too, that even in the heyday of their delight and surprise over their wonderful presents, the little Josephs did not forget to appreciate the gifts they had prepared for each other.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000033_000003.wav|Good bye and a merry Christmas to you all."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000036_000000.wav|One look she gave, and then this funny little mother began to cry; but they were happy tears.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000039_000000.wav|"The children will go wild with delight," said his wife happily.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000004.wav|It was Mollie who put the finishing touches to most of the little gifts.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000010_000001.wav|Things will be better next Christmas, we'll hope. The children will not mind, bless their hearts.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000001_000000.wav|The Josephs' Christmas|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000040_000001.wav|Such a Christmas had never been known in the Joseph household before.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000006_000001.wav|The Josephs were poor at any time, but this winter they were poorer than ever.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000010_000004.wav|I did feel that I'd ask nothing better than to go in and buy all the lovely things I wanted, just for once, and give them to the children tomorrow morning.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000010_000005.wav|They've never had anything really nice for Christmas.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000030_000001.wav|Then the two of them, moving as stealthily as if engaged in a burglary, transferred the contents to the table.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000024_000000.wav|"Our Santa Claus is somewhat out of pocket this year," said mr Joseph frankly.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000002_000000.wav|The month before Christmas was always the most exciting and mysterious time in the Joseph household.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000042_000001.wav|Not a scrap of it was left.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000017_000000.wav|"Certainly, and welcome!" exclaimed mr Joseph heartily, "if you don't mind a shakedown by the kitchen fire for the night.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000024_000002.wav|They've been a month at it, and I'm always kind of relieved when Christmas is over and there are no more mysterious doings.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000034_000000.wav|When mrs Joseph went back to the kitchen her eyes fell on the heaped up table in the corner.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000007.wav|"Dead" secrecy was the keystone of all plans and confidences.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000011_000000.wav|mr Joseph nodded.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000040_000003.wav|And as for the big box of good things, why, everybody appreciated that.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000006.wav|It speaks volumes for her sagacity and skill that she never got things mixed up or made any such terrible mistake as letting one little Joseph find out what another was going to give him.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000025_000001.wav|mrs Ralston went over to the Christmas table and looked at the little gifts half tenderly and half pityingly.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000001.wav|It was Mollie who for troubled small brothers and sisters did such sums in division as this: How can I get a ten cent present for Emmy and a fifteen cent one for Jimmy out of eighteen cents?|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000010_000002.wav|Look at all the little knick knacks they've made for each other.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000025_000000.wav|A shakedown was spread in the kitchen for the unexpected guests, and presently the Ralstons found themselves alone.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000032_000001.wav|The dawn broke fine and clear over a vast white world.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000005.wav|In short, all through December Mollie was weighed down under an avalanche of responsibility.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000008_000000.wav|"I'm glad I'm not driving over the prairie tonight," said mr Joseph. "It's quite a storm.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000012_000000.wav|"That's so.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000004_000003.wav|The air was simply charged with secrets.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000013_000001.wav|It's all the 'Christmassy' I could give them.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000005_000002.wav|Or, how can seven sticks of candy be divided among eight people so that each shall have one?|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000016_000000.wav|"Late hour for callers, isn't it?" said mr Ralston.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000015_000000.wav|Two snowed up figures were standing on the porch.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000030_000000.wav|mrs Ralston untied the cover of the big basket.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000040_000004.wav|That Christmas was one to date from in that family.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000033_000001.wav|Much obliged for your kindness, mr Joseph.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000024_000003.wav|We're in such cramped quarters here that you can't move without stepping on somebody's secret."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000036_000001.wav|mr Joseph came too, and looked and whistled.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000017_000002.wav|This way, if you please."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000019_000002.wav|mrs Ralston packed this basket, and goodness knows what she put in it, but she half cleaned out my store. The eyes of the Lindsay youngsters will dance tomorrow-that is, if we ever get there."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000016_000003.wav|Can you take us in for the night, mr Joseph?"|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000033_000000.wav|"I expect the trail will be heavy," he said, "but I guess we'd get to Lindsay in time for dinner, anyway.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000017_000001.wav|My, mrs Ralston," as his wife helped her off with her things, "but you are snowed up! I'll see to putting your horse away, mr Ralston.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000027_000000.wav|"Just what I was thinking," returned her husband, "and I was thinking of something else, too.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000028_000001.wav|"Let's just leave them here, Edward.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000008_000001.wav|I hope it will be fine tomorrow, for the children's sake.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000016_000001.wav|"The fact is, our horse has about given out, and the storm is so bad that we can't proceed.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000032_000000.wav|It fell out as mrs Ralston had planned.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000010_000000.wav|"Never mind, john.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000010_000006.wav|But there!|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000006_000000.wav|During this particular December the planning and contriving had been more difficult and the results less satisfactory than usual.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/39910/5740_39910_000009_000000.wav|mrs Joseph sighed over Jimmy's worn jacket which she was mending. Then she smiled.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000067_000000.wav|"Why, it's my old crazy quilt, but it isn't crazy now!" cried Aunt Hannah, and her very spectacles seemed to glisten with amazement.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000009_000002.wav|But he was mistaken.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000018_000001.wav|I've got one for every bed in the house, and I've given four away.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000015_000001.wav|Don't ask silly questions."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000068_000002.wav|"It's my doll baby!" she cried, and snatched her up and kissed her.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000019_000002.wav|She carried her new doll baby smuggled up under her shawl.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000021_000000.wav|"Wish you the same," said Jimmy, but his voice was choked with sobs, and was also muffled, for his old hat had slipped down to his chin.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000054_000000.wav|Santa took his stylographic pen out of his pocket, went with his lantern close to one of the fence posts, and wrote these words upon it:|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000053_000001.wav|"Just wait a minute."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000007_000001.wav|Here I am!" he cried out, but Santa Claus did not hear him.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000024_000000.wav|"Yes, I will," said Jimmy Scarecrow, and he tried hard to bring one of his stiff, outstretched arms around to clasp the doll baby.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000006_000001.wav|Santa Claus had a large wax doll baby for her on his arm, tucked up against the fur collar of his coat.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000058_000000.wav|"The corn will be safe now," said Santa Claus, "get in." Jimmy got into the sledge and they flew away over the fields, out of sight, with merry halloos and a great clamour of bells.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000030_000000.wav|"Aunt Hannah wants to give it away if anybody wants it," she explained. "She's got so many crazy quilts in the house now she doesn't know what to do with them.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000044_000001.wav|"Let me see it!" And with that he pulled the doll baby out from under the Scarecrow's coat, and patted its back, and shook it a little, and it began to cry, and then to crow.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000055_000000.wav|NOTICE TO CROWS|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000023_000000.wav|"You're welcome," said she.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000015_000000.wav|"Because he's a Scarecrow.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000049_000002.wav|Why, if they found the Pole, there wouldn't be a piece an inch long left in a week's time, and the earth would cave in like an apple without a core!|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000066_000001.wav|Then she and Betsey had each a strange present.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000050_000001.wav|"First, I want to make a present to Aunt Hannah and Betsey, next Christmas."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000028_000000.wav|Jimmy Scarecrow stood in the corn stubble, with the doll baby under his coat and waited, and soon Betsey was back again with Aunt Hannah's crazy quilt trailing in the snow behind her.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000051_000001.wav|What else?"|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000022_000000.wav|"Thank you," said Jimmy Scarecrow faintly.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000006_000002.wav|He was afraid to trust it in the pack, lest it get broken.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000031_000001.wav|"I hope this quilt is harmless if it IS crazy," he said.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000044_000004.wav|It went through the measles, and the chicken pox, and the mumps, and the whooping cough, before it left the North Pole.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000038_000000.wav|"Jimmy Scarecrow!"|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000046_000000.wav|"Please, how long shall I stay?" asked Jimmy Scarecrow.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000023_000001.wav|"Keep her under your overcoat, so the snow won't wet her, and she won't catch cold, she's delicate."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000061_000000.wav|That was all Aunt Hannah had said.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000049_000001.wav|I can keep you in work for a thousand years, and scaring away Arctic Explorers from the North Pole is much more important than scaring away crows from corn.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000044_000002.wav|"It's all right," said Santa Claus.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000003_000001.wav|Jimmy's greatest grief was his lack of occupation.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000049_000000.wav|"No," answered Santa Claus, "but I don't want you to scare away crows. I want you to scare away Arctic Explorers.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000045_000000.wav|"Get in, Jimmy Scarecrow, and come with me to the North Pole!" he cried.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000017_000002.wav|Sometimes he almost vanished in the thick white storm.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000032_000001.wav|But after that the snow began to turn to rain, and the crazy quilt was soaked through and through: and not only that, but his coat and the poor doll baby.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000047_000000.wav|"Why, you are going to live with me," replied Santa Claus.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000011_000001.wav|Aunt Hannah was making a crazy patchwork quilt, and she frowned hard at a triangular piece of red silk and circular piece of pink, wondering how to fit them together.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000031_000002.wav|But the quilt was warm, and he dismissed his fears. Soon the doll baby whimpered, but he creaked his joints a little, and that amused it, and he heard it cooing inside his coat.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000017_000004.wav|Then she got up and spread it out over the sofa with an air of pride.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000011_000002.wav|"Well?" said she.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000011_000000.wav|"Aunt Hannah?" said she.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000039_000001.wav|"Have you been standing here ever since corn was ripe?" he asked pityingly, and Jimmy replied that he had.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000059_000001.wav|Betsey had told Aunt Hannah she had given away the crazy quilt and the doll baby, but had been scolded very little.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000056_000000.wav|Whichever crow shall hereafter hop, fly, or flop into this field during the absence of Jimmy Scarecrow, and therefrom purloin, steal, or abstract corn, shall be instantly, in a twinkling and a trice, turned snow white, and be ever after a disgrace, a byword and a reproach to his whole race.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000048_000000.wav|"Are there any crows to scare away at the North Pole?|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000013_000000.wav|"No, of course he didn't."|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000057_000000.wav|Per order of Santa Claus.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000020_000000.wav|"Wish you Merry Christmas!" she said to Jimmy Scarecrow.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000050_000000.wav|"I will go on two conditions," said Jimmy.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000044_000003.wav|"This is the doll baby I gave Betsey, and it is not at all delicate.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000004_000001.wav|He was a young Scarecrow, and this was his first one.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000009_000000.wav|Then Jimmy Scarecrow stood in the corn stubble and shook with sobs until his joints creaked.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000008_000000.wav|"Santa Claus, please give me a little present.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000004_000003.wav|Every morning, when the wintry sun peered like a hard yellow eye across the dry corn stubble, Jimmy felt sad, but at Christmas time his heart nearly broke.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000027_000000.wav|"You wait a minute," said Betsey, and was off across the field.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000033_000002.wav|It was after midnight, Christmas was over, and Santa was hastening home to the North Pole.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000003_000002.wav|He liked to be useful, and in winter he was absolutely of no use at all.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000044_000000.wav|"Nonsense!" cried Santa Claus.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000003_000000.wav|Jimmy Scarecrow led a sad life in the winter.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000029_000000.wav|"Here," said she, "here is something to keep you warm," and she folded the crazy quilt around the Scarecrow and pinned it.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000051_000000.wav|"You shall make them any present you choose.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000034_000000.wav|"Santa Claus! dear Santa Claus!" cried Jimmy Scarecrow with a great sob, and that time Santa Claus heard him and drew rein.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000021_000001.wav|Betsey looked pitifully at the old hat fringed with icicles, like frozen tears, and the old snow laden coat.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000062_000001.wav|john, the servant man, searched everywhere, but not a trace of them could he find.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000049_000003.wav|They would whittle it all to pieces, and carry it away in their pockets for souvenirs.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000005_000001.wav|He was on his way to the farmhouse where Betsey lived with her Aunt Hannah.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000031_000000.wav|The bright flash of colours under Jimmy's hat brim dazzled his eyes, and he felt a little alarmed.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000037_000000.wav|"Who's me?" shouted Santa Claus.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000040_000000.wav|"What's that over your shoulders?" Santa Claus continued, holding up his lantern.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5740/97593/5740_97593_000004_000000.wav|He wondered how many such miserable winters he would have to endure.|5740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000018_000003.wav|He was so sad himself that he had come to realize that sorrow is the only sincerity of life.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000023_000000.wav|Far and wide he had ridden over his estates, seeking so rare a sorrow; but as yet he had found no sorrow that could not be bought with a little bag of gold and silver coins.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000027_000001.wav|She was so beautiful that he forgot his ancient grief, and he thought that all his castles would be but a poor exchange for her face.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000009_000000.wav|Again the trumpet blew, and then the braver of the young men of the town hastened up the hill to learn its meaning.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000010_000000.wav|As they approached the horsemen, they perceived that the center of the three was a young man of great nobility of bearing, richly but somberly dressed, and with a dark, beautiful face filled with a proud melancholy. He kept his eyes on the fading sunset, sitting motionless upon his horse, apparently oblivious of the commotion his arrival had caused.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000017_000000.wav|Lord Mortimer of the Marches sat his horse with the same austere indifference, his melancholy profile against the fading sky.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000017_000001.wav|Only those who stood near to him noted a kindly ironic flicker of a smile in his eyes, as he saw, apparently seeing nothing, the poor little raked up sorrows of his village of Beethorpe.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000021_000000.wav|It was to find such a sorrow that Lord Mortimer thus fantastically rode from village to village of his estates, with herald and steward.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000018_000002.wav|Death and Pity were his closest friends.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000005_000001.wav|It stood in a hollow of the long smooth billows of pale pasture that suavely melted into the sky on every side. The evening was so still that the little river running across the threshold of the town, and encircling what remained of its old walls, was the noisiest thing to be heard, dominating with its talkative murmur the bedtime hum of the High Street.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000014_000000.wav|And when the herald had finished reading he blew again upon the trumpet three times; and the villagers looked at one another in bewilderment-but some ran down the hill to tell their neighbors of the strange proposal of their lord.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000005_000000.wav|Beethorpe was an ancient town, mysteriously sown, centuries ago, like a wandering thistle down of human life, amid the silence and the nibbling sheep of the great chalk downs.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000003_000000.wav|THE BUYER OF SORROWS|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000018_000005.wav|It was partly pity and partly an odd form of dilettanteism-for his own sad heart made him pitiful for and companionable with any other sad heart; but the sincerity of his sorrow made him jealous of the sanctity of sorrow, and at the same time sternly critical of, and sadly amused by, the hypocrisies of sorrow.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000011_000000.wav|When these had approached near enough the herald once more set the trumpet to his lips and blew; and then, unfolding a parchment scroll, read in a loud voice:|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000015_000000.wav|Never was such a sorrowful company.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000027_000000.wav|But, later, there came news to him that there was one real sorrow in Beethorpe; and he rode alone on horseback to the village, and found a beautiful girl laying flowers on a grave.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000012_000000.wav|"To the Folk of Beethorpe-Greeting from the High and Mighty Lord, Mortimer of the Marches:|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000014_000001.wav|Thus, presently, nearly all the village of Beethorpe was making its way up the hill to where those three horsemen loomed against the evening sky.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000029_000001.wav|This is not sorrow.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000024_000000.wav|So he sat his horse, while the villagers of Beethorpe were paid out of a great leathern bag by the steward-for the steward understood the mind of his master, and, without troubling him, paid each weeping and whimpering peasant as he thought fit.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000025_000000.wav|In another great bag the steward had collected the sorrows of the Village of Beethorpe; and, by this, the moon was rising, and, with another blast of trumpet by way of farewell, the three horsemen took the road again to Lord Mortimer's castle.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000004_000000.wav|On an evening of singular sunset, about the rich beginning of May, the little market town of Beethorpe was startled by the sound of a trumpet.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000026_000000.wav|When, out of the great leathern bag, in Lord Mortimer's cabinet they poured upon the table the sorrows of Beethorpe, the young lord smiled to himself, turning over one sorrow after the other, as though they had been precious stones-for there was not one genuine sorrow among them.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000018_000004.wav|Thus sorrow had become a kind of passion with him, even a kind of connoisseurship; and he had come, so to say, to be a collector of sorrows.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000029_000000.wav|And the girl looked up at him from the grave, with eyes of forget me not, and said: "My lord, you mistake.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000019_000000.wav|So, as he sat his horse and gazed at the sunset, he smiled sadly to himself as he heard, without seeming to hear, the small, insincere sorrows of his village of Beethorpe-sorrows forgotten long ago, but suddenly rediscovered in old drawers and unopened cupboards, at the sound of his lordship's trumpet and the promise of his strange proclamation.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000020_000000.wav|Was there a sorrow in the world that no money could buy?|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000018_000001.wav|His heart had been broken in a very strange way.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/114971/8097_114971_000015_000001.wav|Up the hill they came, carrying their sorrows in their hands-sorrows for which, in excited haste, they had rummaged old drawers and forgotten cupboards, and even ran hurriedly into the churchyard.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000008_000000.wav|Let us return to our temporal greatness, from which we are digressed.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000003_000006.wav|Forasmuch as ambition never comports itself better, according to itself, than when it proceeds by obscure and unfrequented ways.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000013_000006.wav|Evil to man is in its turn good, and good evil.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000009_000004.wav|Superiority and inferiority, dominion and subjection are bound to a natural envy and contest, and must of necessity perpetually intrench upon one another.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000002_000000.wav|OF THE INCONVENIENCE OF GREATNESS|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000012_000000.wav|running against Alexander, purposely missed his blow, and made a fault in his career; Alexander chid him for it, but he ought to have had him whipped.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000003_000004.wav|'tis, methinks, a virtue to which I, who am no conjuror, could without any great endeavour arrive.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000005_000000.wav|But if my heart be not great enough, 'tis open enough to make amends, at any one's request, freely to lay open its weakness.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000007_000000.wav|But if I was to compare them with my own, I should then also say that the first is as much according to my capacity, and from desire, which I conform to my capacity, as the second is far beyond it; that I could not approach the last but with veneration, the other I could readily attain by use.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/108005/8097_108005_000013_000007.wav|Neither is pain always to be shunned, nor pleasure always to be pursued.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000005_000001.wav|He had had experience with such birds before.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000007_000001.wav|He wanted to save at least some of his grain.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000006_000002.wav|They did not even hear the noise of stones whizzing through the air, and as for words, they would kill nobody.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000007_000002.wav|So he loaded his sling with stones and killed several of the Cranes.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000027_000001.wav|But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000007_000003.wav|This had the effect the Farmer wanted, for from that day the Cranes visited his field no more.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000010_000000.wav|THE FARMER AND HIS SONS|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000018_000000.wav|THE TWO POTS|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000003_000002.wav|It was their feast, they thought.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000025_000000.wav|THE GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGG|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000023_000000.wav|The Earthen Pot could not survive that sort of companionship very long.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000012_000004.wav|Spare no energy and leave no spot unturned in your search."|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000027_000002.wav|He was not getting rich fast enough.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000003_000000.wav|Some Cranes saw a farmer plowing a large field.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000026_000000.wav|There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000023_000001.wav|They had not gone ten paces before the Earthen Pot cracked, and at the next jolt he flew into a thousand pieces.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000006_000003.wav|At last they paid no attention whatever to the Farmer.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000012_000002.wav|Somewhere on it is hidden a rich treasure.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000019_000002.wav|But the Earthen Pot excused himself, saying that it would be wiser for him to stay in the corner by the fire.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000021_000000.wav|"Don't let that keep you at home," urged the Brass Pot.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000002_000000.wav|THE FARMER AND THE CRANES|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000028_000001.wav|But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000012_000003.wav|I do not know the exact spot, but it is there, and you will surely find it.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000028_000000.wav|Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000004_000000.wav|So, as soon as the Farmer had finished planting and had gone home, down they flew to the field, and began to eat as fast as they could.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000012_000001.wav|Do not on any account part with the estate that has belonged to our family for so many generations.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000013_000000.wav|The father died, and no sooner was he in his grave than the sons set to work digging with all their might, turning up every foot of ground with their spades, and going over the whole farm two or three times.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000005_000004.wav|He expected to scare the Cranes just by swinging the sling in the air, and shouting loudly at them.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000005_000003.wav|But he did not bring any stones with him.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000003_000001.wav|When the work of plowing was done, they patiently watched him sow the seed.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000021_000002.wav|If we should happen to meet anything hard I will step between and save you."|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8097/282406/8097_282406_000019_000000.wav|Two Pots, one of brass and the other of clay, stood together on the hearthstone.|8097
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000017_000005.wav|"Did you come here, sir, to see the telegraph?" he said.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000056_000001.wav|Why should I?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000019_000000.wav|"Oh, no," said the gardener; "not in the least, since there is no danger that anyone can possibly understand what we are saying."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000120_000000.wav|"Sir, my right-hand correspondent redoubles his signals; he is impatient."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000091_000000.wav|"The tenth of your income-that would be fine work."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000040_000000.wav|"Those are indeed holidays to me; I go into the garden, I plant, I prune, I trim, I kill the insects all day long."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000080_000000.wav|"True, the garden is not large."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000034_000001.wav|At first my neck was cramped with looking at it, but at the end of a year I became used to it; and then we have our hours of recreation, and our holidays."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000026_000000.wav|"I follow you." Monte Cristo entered the tower, which was divided into three stories.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000088_000000.wav|"Not having repeated them, through negligence, I should be fined."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000066_000000.wav|"Yes; it asks if I am ready."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000134_000000.wav|"But what is it?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000009_000000.wav|"Of course," said the gardener, "but that does not make it the less unpleasant.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000086_000000.wav|"I could not repeat the signals."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000140_000000.wav|"Listen, friend," said Monte Cristo.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000015_000003.wav|Last year I had four apricots-they stole one, I had one nectarine, only one-well, sir, they ate half of it on the wall; a splendid nectarine-I never ate a better."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000020_000000.wav|"I have been told," said the count, "that you do not always yourselves understand the signals you repeat."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000016_000000.wav|"You ate it?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000030_000000.wav|"A thousand francs, sir."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000052_000000.wav|"What was?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000127_000000.wav|"I think I can effectually force you;" and Monte Cristo drew another packet from his pocket.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000129_000000.wav|"And a thousand francs a year."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000001_000000.wav|Not on the same night, as he had intended, but the next morning, the Count of Monte Cristo went out by the Barrier d'Enfer, taking the road to Orleans.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000133_000000.wav|"Nothing very difficult."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000095_000000.wav|"Well, suppose you were to alter a signal, and substitute another?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000002_000003.wav|This path was formed in the shape of the figure of eight, thus, in its windings, making a walk of sixty feet in a garden of only twenty.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000015_000001.wav|They can't be nice, though they do say 'as fat as a dormouse.' It is not a wonder they are fat, sleeping all day, and only waking to eat all night.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000067_000000.wav|"And you reply?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000128_000000.wav|"A garden with two acres of land!"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000105_000000.wav|"Just so; fifteen thousand francs, do you understand?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000036_000000.wav|"Yes."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000146_000000.wav|"How do you know?" Debray shrugged his shoulders.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000017_000000.wav|"That is to say, the half that was left-you understand; it was exquisite, sir.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000136_000000.wav|"There, you see it will not take long."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000145_000000.wav|"Because Don Carlos has fled from Bourges, and has returned to Spain."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000142_000001.wav|He has six millions' worth."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000032_000000.wav|"No; but then we are lodged, as you perceive."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000004_000001.wav|He had twelve leaves and about as many strawberries, which, on rising suddenly, he let fall from his hand.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000078_000000.wav|"Badly enough; but yet I do live."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000124_000000.wav|"Oh, sir, what are you proposing?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000015_000002.wav|Listen.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000122_000000.wav|"I shall still have my place."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000082_000000.wav|"Ah, they are my scourges."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000034_000000.wav|"Yes.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000028_000000.wav|"The study does not take long; it was acting as a supernumerary that was so tedious."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000002_000002.wav|The garden was crossed by a path of red gravel, edged by a border of thick box, of many years' growth, and of a tone and color that would have delighted the heart of Delacroix, our modern Rubens.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000085_000000.wav|"Then what would happen?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000084_000000.wav|"I should not see him."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000089_000000.wav|"How much?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000033_000003.wav|"It is very interesting," he said, "but it must be very tedious for a lifetime."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000013_000001.wav|Did the romans eat them?" said the gardener-"ate dormice?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000137_000000.wav|"Yes; but"--|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000007_000002.wav|This is the reason that, instead of the sixteen I had last year, I have this year, you see, eleven, already plucked-twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000060_000000.wav|"They are always the same."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000031_000000.wav|"It is nothing."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000042_000000.wav|"Ten years, and five as a supernumerary make fifteen."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000094_000000.wav|"Once, sir, when I was grafting a rose tree."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000110_000000.wav|"Bank notes!"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000096_000000.wav|"Ah, that is another case; I should be turned off, and lose my pension."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000003_000000.wav|Never had Flora, the fresh and smiling goddess of gardeners, been honored with a purer or more scrupulous worship than that which was paid to her in this little enclosure.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000135_000000.wav|"To repeat these signs." Monte Cristo took a paper from his pocket, upon which were drawn three signs, with numbers to indicate the order in which they were to be worked.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000121_000000.wav|"Never mind-take these;" and the count placed the packet in the man's hands.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000113_000000.wav|"Yours, if you like."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000017_000002.wav|But this year," continued the horticulturist, "I'll take care it shall not happen, even if I should be forced to sit by the whole night to watch when the strawberries are ripe." Monte Cristo had seen enough.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000119_000000.wav|"That will cost you a hundred francs; you see it is your interest to take my bank notes."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000041_000000.wav|"How long have you been here?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000148_000001.wav|Those who had kept their shares, or bought those of Danglars, looked upon themselves as ruined, and passed a very bad night.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000026_000001.wav|The tower contained implements, such as spades, rakes, watering pots, hung against the wall; this was all the furniture.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000138_000001.wav|"Now you are rich," said Monte Cristo.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000065_000000.wav|"And what is it saying-anything you understand?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000033_000001.wav|They passed to the third story; it was the telegraph room.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000127_000001.wav|"Here are ten thousand more francs," he said, "with the fifteen thousand already in your pocket, they will make twenty five thousand.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000029_000000.wav|"And what is the pay?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000132_000000.wav|"What am I to do?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000063_000000.wav|"This is simple enough," said the count; "but look, is not your correspondent putting itself in motion?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000112_000000.wav|"And whose are they?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000054_000000.wav|"None at all."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000121_000001.wav|"Now this is not all," he said; "you cannot live upon your fifteen thousand francs."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000009_000001.wav|But, sir, once more I beg pardon; perhaps you are an officer that I am detaining here." And he glanced timidly at the count's blue coat.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000033_000000.wav|Monte Cristo looked at the room.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000102_000000.wav|"Sir, you alarm me."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000062_000000.wav|"Nothing new; You have an hour; or To morrow."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000079_000000.wav|"Yes; but you have a wretchedly small garden."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000013_000000.wav|"What?|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000033_000002.wav|Monte Cristo looked in turn at the two iron handles by which the machine was worked.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000050_000000.wav|"What did you say, sir?" asked the man.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000021_000000.wav|"That is true, sir, and that is what I like best," said the man, smiling.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000108_000000.wav|"What is it?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000024_000001.wav|That would spoil my plans."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000058_000000.wav|"Certainly."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000046_000000.wav|"Oh, sir, twenty five years."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000144_000000.wav|"Why?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000018_000000.wav|"Yes, if it isn't contrary to the rules."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000048_000000.wav|"A hundred crowns."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000053_000000.wav|"All you were showing me.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000022_000000.wav|"Why do you like that best?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000043_000000.wav|"You are-"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000010_000000.wav|"Calm yourself, my friend," said the count, with the smile which he made at will either terrible or benevolent, and which now expressed only the kindliest feeling; "I am not an inspector, but a traveller, brought here by a curiosity he half repents of, since he causes you to lose your time."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000005_000000.wav|"Excuse me, sir," replied the man, raising his hand to his cap; "I am not up there, I know, but I have only just come down."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000027_000000.wav|"Does it require much study to learn the art of telegraphing?" asked Monte Cristo.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000056_000000.wav|"Never.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000142_000000.wav|"I think so, indeed!|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000004_000002.wav|"You are gathering your crop, sir?" said Monte Cristo, smiling.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000090_000000.wav|"A hundred francs."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000114_000000.wav|"Mine?" exclaimed the man, half suffocated.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000047_000000.wav|"And how much is the pension?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000077_000000.wav|"You live badly on your thousand francs?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000117_000000.wav|"Let him signal."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000025_000001.wav|Will you go up with me?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000059_000000.wav|"And do you understand them?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000123_000000.wav|"No, you will lose it, for you are going to alter your correspondent's message."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000025_000000.wav|"Sir," said the gardener, glancing at the sun dial, "the ten minutes are almost up; I must return to my post.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000101_000000.wav|"Yes."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000075_000000.wav|"And you would be pleased to have, instead of this terrace of twenty feet, an enclosure of two acres?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000035_000000.wav|"Holidays?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000150_000001.wav|This, reckoning his loss, and what he had missed gaining, made the difference of a million to Danglars.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000087_000000.wav|"And then?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000076_000000.wav|"Sir, I should make a terrestrial paradise of it."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000097_000000.wav|"Three hundred francs?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000115_000000.wav|"Yes; yours-your own property."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000118_000000.wav|"Sir, you have distracted me; I shall be fined."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000107_000000.wav|"On the contrary, do not look at him, but at this."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000038_000000.wav|"When we have a fog."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000111_000000.wav|"Exactly; there are fifteen of them."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000012_000000.wav|"Indeed, I should think not," replied Monte Cristo; "dormice are bad neighbors for us who do not eat them preserved, as the romans did."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000044_000000.wav|"Fifty five years old."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000001_000001.wav|Leaving the village of Linas, without stopping at the telegraph, which flourished its great bony arms as he passed, the count reached the tower of Montlhery, situated, as every one knows, upon the highest point of the plain of that name.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000146_000002.wav|The baroness did not wait for a repetition; she ran to her husband, who immediately hastened to his agent, and ordered him to sell at any price.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121079/54_121079_000002_000000.wav|Monte Cristo looked for the entrance to the enclosure, and was not long in finding a little wooden gate, working on willow hinges, and fastened with a nail and string.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000015_000002.wav|The instant Debray had touched the ground, he was at the carriage door.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000005_000000.wav|The library was divided into two parts on either side of the wall, and contained upwards of two thousand volumes; one division was entirely devoted to novels, and even the volume which had been published but the day before was to be seen in its place in all the dignity of its red and gold binding.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000029_000000.wav|"Yes; it was proposed for the Museum."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000007_000003.wav|Julie and Emmanuel have a thousand things to tell you.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000054_000000.wav|"Not yet, I think.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000058_000000.wav|"How many covers?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000080_000001.wav|You are in a shocking hurry to be off-you forget one of my guests.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000024_000000.wav|"How so?--at what period can that have been?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000014_000000.wav|"Then they follow you?" asked Monte Cristo.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000062_000000.wav|Bertuccio glanced through the door, which was ajar.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000027_000000.wav|"Stay," said Debray; "I recognize this Hobbema."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000025_000000.wav|"I do not know; I have only heard that an emperor of China had an oven built expressly, and that in this oven twelve jars like this were successively baked.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000012_000000.wav|"I?|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000037_000001.wav|A black satin stock, fresh from the maker's hands, gray moustaches, a bold eye, a major's uniform, ornamented with three medals and five crosses-in fact, the thorough bearing of an old soldier-such was the appearance of Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, that tender father with whom we are already acquainted.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000021_000000.wav|"You see my position, madame," said Morrel, bestowing a grateful smile on Monte Cristo.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000039_000000.wav|"You are fastidious, Chateau Renaud," replied Debray; "those clothes are well cut and quite new."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000062_000002.wav|"Good heavens!" he exclaimed.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000054_000001.wav|More likely he has been speculating on the Bourse, and has lost money."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000037_000005.wav|"Cavalcanti!" said Debray.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000056_000000.wav|"Your excellency has not stated the number of guests."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000015_000003.wav|He offered his hand to the baroness, who, descending, took it with a peculiarity of manner imperceptible to every one but Monte Cristo.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000030_000000.wav|"Which, I believe, does not contain one?" said Monte Cristo.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000015_000001.wav|The carriage drove round, and stopped at the steps, followed by the horsemen.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000081_000001.wav|Five minutes afterwards the doors of the drawing room were thrown open, and Bertuccio appearing said, with a violent effort, "The dinner waits."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000042_000000.wav|"You heard-Cavalcanti."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000020_000001.wav|You understand now that if he were to get rid of the animal before the time named, he would not only lose his bet, but people would say he was afraid; and a brave captain of Spahis cannot risk this, even to gratify a pretty woman, which is, in my opinion, one of the most sacred obligations in the world."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000025_000001.wav|Two broke, from the heat of the fire; the other ten were sunk three hundred fathoms deep into the sea.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000007_000005.wav|But tell me, count, will your people take care of my horse?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000005_000006.wav|Monte Cristo descended into the courtyard, walked all over the house, without giving any sign of approbation or pleasure, until he entered his bedroom, situated on the opposite side to the closed room; then he approached a little piece of furniture, made of rosewood, which he had noticed at a previous visit.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000009_000000.wav|"I mean, because he wants petting.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000046_000000.wav|"An enormous one."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000079_000000.wav|"Eight!" repeated Bertuccio.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000002_000001.wav|Ghosts.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000053_000001.wav|"The baron appears thoughtful to day," said Monte Cristo to her; "are they going to put him in the ministry?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000059_000000.wav|"Count for yourself."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000053_000000.wav|"A fine idea that of his," said Danglars, shrugging his shoulders. Madame Danglars looked at her husband with an expression which, at any other time, would have indicated a storm, but for the second time she controlled herself.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000036_000000.wav|"I think not," replied Chateau Renaud.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000007_000001.wav|At precisely six o'clock the clatter of horses' hoofs was heard at the entrance door; it was our captain of Spahis, who had arrived on Medeah.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000061_000000.wav|"Yes."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000025_000006.wav|When he had finished with the orange tree, he began at the cactus; but this, not being so easily plucked as the orange tree, pricked him dreadfully.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000005_000001.wav|On the other side of the house, to match with the library, was the conservatory, ornamented with rare flowers, that bloomed in china jars; and in the midst of the greenhouse, marvellous alike to sight and smell, was a billiard table which looked as if it had been abandoned during the past hour by players who had left the balls on the cloth.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000043_000000.wav|"That tells me their name, and nothing else."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000050_000001.wav|You will find him quite enthusiastic."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000064_000000.wav|"That woman-that woman!"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000038_000000.wav|"Yes," said Chateau Renaud, "these Italians are well named and badly dressed."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000037_000003.wav|The three young people were talking together.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000070_000000.wav|"The woman of the garden!--she that was enciente-she who was walking while she waited for"--Bertuccio stood at the open door, with his eyes starting and his hair on end.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000062_000001.wav|The count watched him.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000007_000004.wav|Ah, really this is magnificent!|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000019_000000.wav|"How so?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000048_000003.wav|I will introduce you to them."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000015_000000.wav|"See, they are here." And at the same minute a carriage with smoking horses, accompanied by two mounted gentlemen, arrived at the gate, which opened before them.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000023_000001.wav|It is the work of another age, constructed by the genii of earth and water."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000047_000000.wav|"What do they do?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000082_000000.wav|The Count of Monte Cristo offered his arm to Madame de Villefort.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000041_000000.wav|"Who are those gentlemen?" asked Danglars of Monte Cristo.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000063_000000.wav|"What is the matter?" said the count.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000055_000004.wav|After a short time, the count saw Bertuccio, who, until then, had been occupied on the other side of the house, glide into an adjoining room.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000005_000007.wav|"That can only be to hold gloves," he said.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000002_000000.wav|Chapter sixty two.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000020_000000.wav|"He laid a wager he would tame Medeah in the space of six months.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000080_000000.wav|"Stop!|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000025_000004.wav|Divers descended in machines, made expressly on the discovery, into the bay where they were thrown; but of ten three only remained, the rest having been broken by the waves.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000078_000000.wav|"No; you see plainly he is not dead.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000012_000001.wav|Certainly not," replied the count.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000040_000001.wav|That gentleman appears to be well dressed for the first time in his life."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000003_000001.wav|The splendor was within.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000031_000000.wav|"No; and yet they refused to buy it."|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000015_000005.wav|After his wife the banker descended, as pale as though he had issued from his tomb instead of his carriage.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000016_000001.wav|The count understood him.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000005_000003.wav|Before this room, to which you could ascend by the grand, and go out by the back staircase, the servants passed with curiosity, and Bertuccio with terror.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000080_000002.wav|Lean a little to the left.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000045_000000.wav|"Have they any fortune?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000065_000000.wav|"Which?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000048_000000.wav|"Try to spend it all.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000022_000002.wav|The baroness was astonished. "Why," said she, "you could plant one of the chestnut trees in the Tuileries inside!|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000055_000005.wav|He went to him.|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/54/121080/54_121080_000072_000001.wav|Who?"|54
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000018_000000.wav|Soon thereafter "Old Trapper Greenwood" appeared in San Francisco, asking for assistance in fitting out a following to go to the mountains with himself and McCutchen, mr George Yount and others in and around Sonoma and Napa having recommended him as leader.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000015_000002.wav|Seven hundred dollars was subscribed before the meeting adjourned.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000007_000000.wav|Captain Kerns in charge at the Fort, pledged his aid, and influence to the cause of relief.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000018_000001.wav|Donations of horses, mules, beef, and flour had already been sent to his camp in Napa Valley.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000003_000000.wav|RELIEF MEASURES INAUGURATED IN CALIFORNIA-DISTURBED CONDITIONS BECAUSE OF MEXICAN WAR-GENEROUS SUBSCRIPTIONS-THREE PARTIES ORGANIZE-"FIRST RELIEF," UNDER RACINE TUCKER; "SECOND RELIEF" UNDER REED AND GREENWOOD; AND RELAY CAMP UNDER WOODWORTH-FIRST RELIEF PARTY CROSSES SNOW BELT AND REACHES DONNER LAKE.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000004_000001.wav|While the early sunlight of january nineteenth was flooding his room with cheer and warmth, he dictated a letter to mr john Sinclair, Alcalde of the Upper District of California, living near Sutter's Fort, in which he stated as briefly as possible the conditions and perils surrounding the snow bound travellers, and begged him to use every means in his power toward their immediate rescue.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000012_000001.wav|Most of the able bodied male emigrants had enlisted under Captain Fremont as soon as they reached the country, and were still on duty in the southern part of the province; and the non enlisted were deemed necessary for the protection of the colonies of American women and children encamped on the soil of the enemy.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000026_000002.wav|This caused a delay of thirty six hours, for everything had to be sun or fire dried before the party could resume travel.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000026_000000.wav|This party is generally known as the "First Relief." Their route to the snow belt lay through sections of country which had become so soft and oozy that the horses often sank in mire, flank deep; and the streams were so swollen that progress was alarmingly slow.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000020_000000.wav|The Governor General of California, after due form, and trusting to the generosity and humanity of the Government which he represented, appropriated four hundred dollars on Government account toward outfitting this relief party.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000011_000002.wav|Some of the listeners had parted from members of the Donner Party at the Little Sandy, when its prospects appeared so bright, and the misfortunes which had since befallen the party seemed incredible.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000025_000000.wav|Racine Tucker, Aguilla Glover, r s|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000015_000000.wav|A treasurer and two committees were appointed; the one to solicit subscriptions, and the other to purchase supplies.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000029_000001.wav|mr Tucker, fearing that others might become disheartened and do likewise, guaranteed each man who would persevere to the end, five dollars per diem, dating from the time the party entered the snow.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000024_000001.wav|When ready to mount, he shook hands with each man, and recorded the names in a note book as follows:|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000014_000000.wav|As a result of these appeals, Alcalde Bartlett called a public meeting; and so intense was the feeling that mr Dunleary, "the first speaker, had scarcely taken his seat on the platform when the people rushed to the chairman's table from all parts of the house with their hands full of silver dollars," and could hardly be induced to stay their generosity until the meeting was organized.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000012_000000.wav|Existing war between Mexico and the United States was keeping California in a disturbed condition.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000019_000002.wav|He had crossed the Sierras before, when the snow lay deep on the summit, and now proposed to drive over horses and kill them at the camps as provisions for the sufferers.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000022_000000.wav|Meanwhile, before Alcalde Sinclair's letter had time to reach San Francisco, he and Captain Sutter began outfitting the men destined to become the "First Relief." Aguilla Glover and r s|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000012_000002.wav|Moreover, all felt that each man who should attempt to cross the snow belt would do so at the peril of his life.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000023_000001.wav|Tucker, Johnson, Richey and others, who, being anxious to assist in the good work, had killed, and were fire drying, beef to take up the mountains.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000028_000000.wav|At Mule Springs, the party built a brush store house for the extra supplies and appointed George Tucker and William Coon camp keepers. Then they prepared packs containing jerked beef, flour, and bread, each weighing between forty and seventy five pounds, according to the temperament and strength of the respective carriers.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000027_000000.wav|Upon reaching Mule Springs, the party found the snow from three to four feet deep, and, contrary to expectations, saw that it would be impossible to proceed farther with the horses.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000005_000001.wav|He was ferried over the river on a raft formed of two logs lashed together with strips of rawhide.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000008_000000.wav|While Captain Kerns at Sutter's Fort was sending messengers to different points, and mrs Sinclair was collecting clothing to replace the tattered garments of the members of the Forlorn Hope, her husband despatched an open letter to the people of San Francisco, describing the arrival of the survivors of the Forlorn Hope, and the heart rending condition of those remaining in the mountains.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000023_000002.wav|Here two days were spent making pack saddles, driving in horses, and getting supplies in shape.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000028_000001.wav|The following morning ten men started on their toilsome march to Bear Valley, where they arrived on the thirteenth, and at once began searching for the abandoned wagon and provisions which Reed and McCutchen had cached the previous Autumn, after their fruitless attempt to scale the mountains. The wagon was found under snow ten feet in depth; but its supplies had been destroyed by wild beasts.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000019_000000.wav|Greenwood urged that he should have ten or twelve men on whom he could rely after reaching deep snow.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000027_000001.wav|mr Eddy was now ill of fever, and unfit to continue the climb; whereupon his companions promised to bring out his loved ones if he would return with Joe Varro, whom mr Johnson had sent along to bring the pack animals home after they should cease to be of use.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000023_000003.wav|Indians were kept at the handmill grinding wheat.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000011_000004.wav|All were ready and willing to do; but, alas, the obstacles which had prevented mr Reed getting men for the mountain work still remained to be overcome.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000019_000004.wav|Thornton says:|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000015_000001.wav|The Alcalde was requested to act with both committees.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000017_000000.wav|It was decided to fit out an expedition, under charge of Past Midshipman Woodworth, who had tendered his services for the purpose, he to act under instructions of the Military Governor and cooeperate with the committee aiding Reed.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000019_000001.wav|These, he said, he could secure if he had the ready money to make advances and to procure the necessary warm clothing and blankets.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000006_000000.wav|It was dark when he reached Sutter's Fort, nevertheless from house to house he spread the startling report: "Men, women, and little children are snow bound in the Sierras, and starving to death!"|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000011_000003.wav|Women left the room sobbing, and men called those passing, in from the street, to join the knots of earnest talkers.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000029_000002.wav|The remaining seven pushed ahead, and on the eighteenth, encamped on the summit overlooking the lake, where the snow was said to be forty feet in depth.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000023_000004.wav|Part of the flour was sacked, and part converted into bread by the women in the vicinity.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000019_000003.wav|If this scheme should fail, he and his sons with others would get food to the camp on snowshoes.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000008_000002.wav|Reed and McCutchen, who were known to be endeavoring to raise a second expedition.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000005_000000.wav|Bear River was running high, and the plain between it and Sutter's Fort seemed a vast quagmire, but john Rhodes volunteered to deliver the letter.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/156738/2481_156738_000013_000001.wav|Captain Mervine of the United States Navy, and mr Richardson, United States Collector, each subscribed fifty dollars to the cause on his own account.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000004.wav|He felt himself disgraced in the eyes of his father, but there was no help for it.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000022_000001.wav|Each of them turned her palace into an egg-for they were all enchantresses-and they taught him how to turn the eggs into palaces, and back again, and they handed over the eggs to him.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000009_000000.wav|'Who is going into the other world, to overcome the Norka?'|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000034_000003.wav|When the Princesses saw that the clothes were those which had been theirs in the other world, they guessed that Prince Ivan was in this world, so they exchanged glances with each other, but they held their peace.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000005.wav|The next day the second son went, and did just the same.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000021_000001.wav|The Prince crossed himself, went up to it, and smote it on the head with his sword.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000038_000001.wav|His brothers forbade us to say that he was alive, threatening to slay us if we did.'|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000003_000001.wav|They had three sons, two of them with their wits about them, but the third a simpleton.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000014_000004.wav|Presently there came in a lady, more beautiful than can be imagined anywhere but in a fairy tale, who said:|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000036_000000.wav|'Allow me, my father, to go and give alms to the beggars.'|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000025_000000.wav|'Make me a large vessel with a partition in the middle,' she said; 'catch all sorts of game, and put them into one half of it, and into the other half pour water; so that there may be meat and drink for me.'|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000033_000002.wav|Into each of these he entered, took the maidens' robes, went out again, turned the palaces back into eggs, and went home.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000034_000004.wav|And the master, having handed over the clothes, went home, but he no longer found his dear journeyman there.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000000.wav|Well, the eldest son undertook the task.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000012.wav|The Prince caught it up, and again gave it three wounds.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000024_000000.wav|'Then carry me into the other world,' he replied.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000016_000000.wav|Thereupon he came forth.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000003.wav|It fled back, and the Prince ran after it.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000026_000004.wav|So much the worse for wear was he, so thoroughly had he altered in appearance, that nobody would have suspected him of being a Prince.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000010.wav|Again the Prince gave the beast three wounds, and then he and the beast lay down again to rest.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000027_000000.wav|Having entered into the service of this master, the Prince began to ask what was going on in that country.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000000.wav|Presently the midnight hour sounded.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000033_000001.wav|The Prince arose, went out of the city into the fields, took out of his pocket the eggs which the maidens had given him, and, as they had taught him, turned them into three palaces.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000003_000004.wav|The King did all he could, but he was unable to destroy it. So at last he called his sons together and said, 'Whoever will destroy the Norka, to him will I give the half of my kingdom.'|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000029_000001.wav|I work for quite common folks,' says his master.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000007.wav|At last they were both utterly exhausted, so they lay down to take a short rest.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000010_000001.wav|Then he laughed at them for being such cowards, and said:|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000010_000000.wav|Neither of them offered to do so.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000007.wav|So he took off his coat and covered them over with it, and he himself sat down under the tree.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000007_000000.wav|The Prince went home, told his father all that had happened, and asked him to have a leather rope plaited, long enough to reach to the other world.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000013.wav|But all of a sudden, just as the Prince began chasing it for the fourth time, the beast fled to a great white stone, tilted it up, and escaped into the other world, crying out to the Prince: 'Then only will you overcome me, when you enter here.'|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000009.wav|It had been dark there before, but now it became darker still.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000034_000002.wav|He was delighted, and he seized them and carried them off to the King.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000014_000002.wav|In one of the rooms a dinner was laid out. He sat down and dined, and then went into a bedroom.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000030_000001.wav|I will answer for everything,' says the Prince.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000019_000000.wav|'That beast which thou wishest to overcome is my brother.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000008.wav|Presently there came flying a bird-such a big one that the light was blotted out by it.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000038_000000.wav|'Here is he who brought us out of the other world.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000002.wav|The Prince pulled himself together, leapt to his feet, crossed himself, and went straight at the beast.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000035_000000.wav|By the time the princely workman had gone the round of all the artificers, the Princesses had received what they had asked for; all their clothes were just like what they had been in the other world. Then they wept bitterly because the Prince had not come, and it was impossible for them to hold out any longer; it was necessary that they should be married.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000006.wav|He went up to a tree in order to take shelter under it, and on that tree he saw some young birds which were being thoroughly drenched.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000014_000001.wav|He entered the courtyard, tied up his horse, and went indoors.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000003_000002.wav|Now the King had a deer park in which were quantities of wild animals of different kinds.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000006.wav|Their father scolded them both soundly, and there was an end of it.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000021_000000.wav|And when the Prince came to the blue sea, he looked-there slept the Norka on a stone in the middle of the sea; and when it snored, the water was agitated for seven miles around.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000022_000006.wav|Perhaps he'll be killed; but then if he isn't, he'll never give us these beauties as wives.'|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000002_000000.wav|THE NORKA|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000011_000000.wav|'Well, brothers, farewell!|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000003.wav|When he came to his senses it was too late; the day had already dawned.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000029_000000.wav|'However can I undertake to make clothes of that sort?|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000026_000000.wav|All this the Prince did.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000001.wav|As soon as it was night, he took his weapons and set out.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000033_000000.wav|Midnight sounded.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000008.wav|But the moment the Prince closed his eyes, up jumped the beast and took to flight.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000027_000001.wav|And his master replied: 'Our two Princes-for the third one has disappeared-have brought away brides from the other world, and want to marry them, but those brides refuse. For they insist on having all their wedding clothes made for them first, exactly like those which they used to have in the other world, and that without being measured for them.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000011.wav|Thereupon away fled the beast as before.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000019_000002.wav|I bound up three of the wounds which thou didst give him.'|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000026_000003.wav|But he went to the house of a certain tailor, and engaged himself as his servant.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000016_000001.wav|And when she saw him she was delighted with him, and said:|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000037_000002.wav|So she seized him by the hand, and brought him into the hall, and said to the King:|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000005_000000.wav|Well, on the third day the youngest son undertook the task.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000005.wav|Presently he came up with the beast, and they began a fight.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000026_000002.wav|And after flying some distance she brought him to his journey's end, took leave of him, and flew away back.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000013_000000.wav|'Hail, Prince Ivan!|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000012_000000.wav|His brothers lowered him accordingly, and when he had reached the other world, underneath the earth, he went on his way.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000011.wav|Thanks!|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000002.wav|His brothers hoisted the stone to a great height, and then cut the rope.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000004.wav|Well, he walked and walked.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000015_000001.wav|If thou art an old man, thou shalt be my father; if a middle aged man, my brother; but if a young man, thou shalt be my husband dear.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000012.wav|In return, ask of me anything thou desirest.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000033_000003.wav|And when he got there he hung up the robes on the wall, and lay down to sleep.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000000.wav|So when they had agreed on this, they lowered the rope.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000039_000000.wav|Then the King was wroth with those sons, and punished them as he thought best.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000008_000000.wav|Neither of them could so much as stir it, but as soon as he touched it, away it flew to a distance, though it was ever so big-big as a hill. And when he had flung the stone aside, he spoke a second time to his brothers, saying:|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000018_000000.wav|Then he told her all that had happened, and she said:|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000015_000000.wav|'Thou who art in my house, name thyself!|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000014_000003.wav|There he found a bed, on which he lay down to rest.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000020_000000.wav|Well, after this they drank, and enjoyed themselves, and held sweet converse together, and then the Prince took leave of her, and went on to the second sister, the one who lived in the silver palace, and with her also he stayed awhile.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000006.wav|They fought and fought; the Prince gave the beast three wounds.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000035_000001.wav|But when they were ready for the wedding, the youngest bride said to the King:|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000007_000002.wav|When the rope was made, the Prince called for his brothers, and he and they, having taken servants with them, and everything that was needed for a whole year, set out for the place where the beast had disappeared under the stone.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000013_000001.wav|Long have I awaited thee!'|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000007_000003.wav|When they got there, they built a palace on the spot, and lived in it for some time. But when everything was ready, the youngest brother said to the others: 'Now, brothers, who is going to lift this stone?'|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000021_000002.wav|The head jumped off, saying the while, 'Well, I'm done for now!' and rolled far away into the sea.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000026_000001.wav|Then the bird-having taken the vessel on her back, with the Prince sitting in the middle of it-began to fly.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000022_000000.wav|After killing the beast, the Prince went back again, picking up all the three sisters by the way, with the intention of taking them out into the upper world: for they all loved him and would not be separated from him.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000007_000001.wav|His father ordered this to be done.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000001.wav|The earth began to shake, and the Norka came rushing up, and burst right through the fence into the park, so huge was it.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000006_000004.wav|But he soon saw that he couldn't catch it on foot, so he hastened to the stable, laid his hands on the best horse there, and set off in pursuit.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000022_000002.wav|And then they all went to the place from which they had to be hoisted into the upper world.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000019_000001.wav|He is staying just now with my second sister, who lives not far from here in a silver palace.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000003_000003.wav|Into that park there used to come a huge beast-Norka was its name-and do fearful mischief, devouring some of the animals every night.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000020_000002.wav|So he went on to the youngest sister, who lived in a golden palace.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000031_000000.wav|So the tailor went.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000005_000001.wav|They all laughed him to scorn, because he was so stupid, feeling sure he wouldn't do anything.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000004_000002.wav|But before he reached the park, he went into a traktir (or tavern), and there he spent the whole night in revelry.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000013.wav|I will do anything for thee.'|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000022_000005.wav|And when they had hauled it up, and had set eyes on the wondrous maidens, they went aside and said: 'Let's lower the rope, pull our brother part of the way up, and then cut the rope.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000022_000003.wav|And when they came to where the rope was, the Prince took hold of it and made the maidens fast to it.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/163597/2481_163597_000023_000001.wav|But their brother was no fool; he guessed what they were at, so he fastened the rope to a stone, and then gave it a pull.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000006.wav|Let the goods remain in it till cold; then hang them where they will dry; (they should not be wrung.) Boiling hot suds is the best thing to set the color of black silk-let it remain in it till cold.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000008.wav|They should be dyed when the weather is dry-if not dried quick, they will not look nice.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000000.wav|Allow a pound of logwood to each pound of goods that are to be dyed. Soak it over night in soft water, then boil it an hour, and strain the water in which it is boiled.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000009.wav|When perfectly dry, wash them in lukewarm suds, to keep the vitriol from injuring the texture of the cloth.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000002.wav|Dip the goods in-when saturated with it, turn the whole into the logwood dye.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000012.wav|It is too expensive a dye for bulky goods, but for faded fancy shawls and ribbons, it is quite worth the while to use it, as it gives a beautiful shade of pink.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000016_000004.wav|Let it boil a quarter of an hour, then take it from the fire.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000000_000000.wav|COMMON SIMPLE DYES.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000003.wav|If the goods are cotton, set the vessel on the fire, and let the goods boil ten or fifteen minutes, stirring them constantly to prevent their spotting.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000016_000003.wav|The succeeding day, separate it from the lye, and heat it over a slow fire.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000010_000000.wav|To make a good dark slate color, boil sugar loaf paper with vinegar, in an iron utensil-put in alum to set the color.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000018_000000.wav|To make the celebrated Windsor soap, nothing more is necessary than to slice the best white soap as thin as possible, and melt it over a slow fire.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000009.wav|The blossoms of the Balm of Gilead, steeped with fair water in a vessel, then strained, will dye silk a pretty red color.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000006_000001.wav|When dissolved, take it from the fire; when cool, put in the goods, which should previously be washed free from spots, and color; set them on a moderate fire, where they will keep hot, till the goods are of the shade you wish.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000020_000002.wav|This kind of soap is excellent for shaving, and chapped hands-it is also good for eruptions on the face.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000014_000003.wav|In the course of a week, fill the barrel with weak lye.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000016_000002.wav|Take it from the fire, stir in cold water till it grows thin, then put to each pailful of soap a pint of blown salt-stir it in well.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000000.wav|Madder makes a good durable red, but not a brilliant color.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000014_000004.wav|This method of making soap is much easier than to make a lye of your ashes, while it is as cheap, if you sell your ashes to the soap boiler.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000010_000004.wav|They should be boiled in it, and then hung where they will drain and dry.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000018_000001.wav|Take it from the fire when melted, and when it is just lukewarm, add enough of the oil of caraway to scent it.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000003.wav|For woollen goods, the East indigo will answer as well as the Spanish, and comes much lower.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000010_000001.wav|Tea grounds, set with copperas, makes a good slate color.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000010_000002.wav|To produce a light slate color, boil white maple bark in clear water, with a little alum-the bark should be boiled in a brass utensil.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000008.wav|Set the kettle on the fire, and let the water boil fifteen or twenty minutes; then put in sufficient cold water to make it lukewarm, put in the goods, and boil them an hour and a quarter-take them out without wringing, and dry them in a shady place.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000012_000001.wav|Turn it into a barrel, and fill it up with water.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000018_000003.wav|Turn it into moulds, and let it remain in a dry situation for five or six days.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000001.wav|To make a dye of it, allow for half a pound of it three ounces of alum, and one of cream of tartar, and six gallons of water.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000010.wav|The silk should be washed clean, and free from color, then rinsed in fair water, and boiled in the strained dye, with a small piece of alum.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000006_000004.wav|This dye will make a salmon or orange color, according to the strength of it, and the time the goods remain in.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000006_000007.wav|Peach leaves, fustic, and saffron, all make a good straw or lemon color, according to the strength of the dye.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000018_000004.wav|To make Castile soap, boil common soft soap in lamp oil three hours and a half.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000016_000001.wav|Heat twenty pounds of strained grease, then mix it with the dissolved potash, and boil them together till the whole becomes a thick jelly, which is ascertained by taking a little of it out to get cold.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000004.wav|When they have been scalding an hour, increase the fire till they boil.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000010.wav|If you wish for a lively bright green, mix a little of the above composition with yellow dye.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000006_000009.wav|When the dye stuff is strained, steep the articles in it.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000011.wav|To dye a fine delicate pink, use a carmine saucer-the directions for dyeing come with the saucers.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000000.wav|For green dye, take a pound of oil of vitriol, and turn it upon half an ounce of Spanish indigo, that has been reduced to a fine powder.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000002.wav|This proportion of ingredients will make sufficient dye for six or seven pounds of goods. Heat half of the water scalding hot, in a clean brass kettle, then put in the alum and cream of tartar, and let it dissolve.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000003.wav|When the water boils, stir the alum and tartar up in it, put in the goods, and let them boil a couple of hours; then rinse them in fair water-empty the kettle, and put in three gallons of water, and the madder; rub it fine in the water, then put in the goods, and set them where they will keep scalding hot for an hour, without boiling-stir them constantly.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000007.wav|Soaking black dyed goods in sour milk, is also good to set the color.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000004_000002.wav|Chemic blue is made in the same manner, only using half the quantity of vitriol.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000010_000003.wav|The dye for slate color should be strained before the goods are put into it.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000016_000005.wav|If you wish to have it a yellow color, put in a little palm oil, and turn it out into wooden vessels. When cold, separate it again from the lye, and cut, it in bars-let them remain in the sun several days to dry.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000014_000002.wav|Let the whole stand in the sun, stirring it frequently.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000002_000001.wav|For each pound of logwood, dissolve an ounce of blue vitriol in lukewarm water sufficient to wet the goods.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000006_000006.wav|Goods dyed in this manner should never be rinsed in clear water.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000014_000000.wav|Heat twenty six pounds of strained grease.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2481/12731/2481_12731_000008_000005.wav|Let them boil five minutes; then drain them out of the dye, and rinse them, without wringing, in fair water, and hang them in the shade, where they will dry.|2481
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000056_000003.wav|First, inasmuch as man possesses a natural aptitude for understanding and loving God; and this aptitude consists in the very nature of the mind, which is common to all men.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000026_000001.wav|Now a thing is said to be one not only numerically, specifically, or generically, but also according to a certain analogy or proportion.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000066_000003.wav|We must, therefore, say that in man there exists the image of God, both as regards the Divine Nature and as regards the Trinity of Persons; for also in God Himself there is one Nature in Three Persons.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000066_000001.wav|Now the mode of origin is not the same in all things, but in each thing is adapted to the nature thereof; animated things being produced in one way, and inanimate in another; animals in one way, and plants in another.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000018_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the image of God is not in man.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000023_000003.wav|Now it is manifest that in man there is some likeness to God, copied from God as from an exemplar; yet this likeness is not one of equality, for such an exemplar infinitely excels its copy. Therefore there is in man a likeness to God; not, indeed, a perfect likeness, but imperfect.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000057_000004.wav|So when the Apostle had said that "man is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man," he adds his reason for saying this: "For man is not of woman, but woman of man; and man was not created for woman, but woman for man."|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000034_000001.wav|For instance, a worm, though from man it may originate, cannot be called man's image, merely because of the generic likeness.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000054_000001.wav|But by sin man becomes unlike God.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000036_000001.wav|Therefore even what falls short of the nature of an image, so far as it possesses any sort of likeness to God, participates in some degree the nature of an image.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000057_000003.wav|But in a secondary sense the image of God is found in man, and not in woman: for man is the beginning and end of woman; as God is the beginning and end of every creature.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000034_000002.wav|Nor, if anything is made white like something else, can we say that it is the image of that thing; for whiteness is an accident belonging to many species.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000056_000004.wav|Secondly, inasmuch as man actually and habitually knows and loves God, though imperfectly; and this image consists in the conformity of grace.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000022_000002.wav|For an "image" is so called because it is produced as an imitation of something else; wherefore, for instance, an egg, however much like and equal to another egg, is not called an image of the other egg, because it is not copied from it.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000022_000001.wav|seventy four): "Where an image exists, there forthwith is likeness; but where there is likeness, there is not necessarily an image." Hence it is clear that likeness is essential to an image; and that an image adds something to likeness-namely, that it is copied from something else.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000046_000004.wav|Secondly, we may consider the image of God in man as regards its accidental qualities, so far as to observe in man a certain imitation of God, consisting in the fact that man proceeds from man, as God from God; and also in the fact that the whole human soul is in the whole body, and again, in every part, as God is in regard to the whole world.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000031_000002.wav|Therefore the whole universe is to the image of God, and not only man.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000046_000001.wav|First, we may consider in it that in which the image chiefly consists, that is, the intellectual nature.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000056_000001.wav|Now the intellectual nature imitates God chiefly in this, that God understands and loves Himself.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000010_000000.wav|(four) Whether the image of God is in every man?|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000035_000002.wav|fifty one) "approach so near to God in likeness, that among all creatures nothing comes nearer to Him." It is clear, therefore, that intellectual creatures alone, properly speaking, are made to God's image.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000066_000002.wav|Wherefore it is manifest that the distinction of the Divine Persons is suitable to the Divine Nature; and therefore to be to the image of God by imitation of the Divine Nature does not exclude being to the same image by the representation of the Divine Persons: but rather one follows from the other.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000008_000000.wav|(two) Whether the image of God is in irrational creatures?|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000023_000004.wav|And Scripture implies the same when it says that man was made "to" God's likeness; for the preposition "to" signifies a certain approach, as of something at a distance.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000042_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the angels are not more to the image of God than man is.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000067_000000.wav|Thus it is clear how to solve the first two objections.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000046_000007.wav|Therefore, as in their intellectual nature, the angels are more to the image of God than man is, we must grant that, absolutely speaking, the angels are more to the image of God than man is, but that in some respects man is more like to God.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000023_000002.wav|Yet this is of the essence of a perfect image; for in a perfect image nothing is wanting that is to be found in that of which it is a copy.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000004_000000.wav|QUESTION ninety three|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000012_000000.wav|(six) Whether the image of God is in man, as to his mind only?|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000043_000001.wav|fifty one), "man is so much to God's image that God did not make any creature to be between Him and man: and therefore nothing is more akin to Him." But a creature is called God's image so far as it is akin to God.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000034_000003.wav|But the nature of an image requires likeness in species; thus the image of the king exists in his son: or, at least, in some specific accident, and chiefly in the shape; thus, we speak of a man's image in copper. Whence Hilary says pointedly that "an image is of the same species."|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000059_000001.wav|five]|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000038_000001.wav|Or else we may say that a part is not rightly divided against the whole, but only against another part.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000052_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the image of God is not found in every man.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000035_000000.wav|Now it is manifest that specific likeness follows the ultimate difference.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000061_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the image of God does not exist in man as to the Trinity of Persons.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000069_000002.wav|First, because as the Son is like to the Father by a likeness of essence, it would follow of necessity if man were made in likeness to the Son, that he is made to the likeness of the Father.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000011_000000.wav|(five) Whether the image of God is in man by comparison with the Essence, or with all the Divine Persons, or with one of them?|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000052_000002.wav|Therefore, as woman is an individual of the human species, it is clear that every individual is not an image of God.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000029_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the image of God is to be found in irrational creatures.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000039_000001.wav|Thus every creature is an image of the exemplar type thereof in the Divine mind.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000053_000001.wav|Therefore all men have not the conformity of image.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245708/8742_245708_000046_000006.wav|But these do not of themselves belong to the nature of the Divine image in man, unless we presuppose the first likeness, which is in the intellectual nature; otherwise even brute animals would be to God's image.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000014_000005.wav|But man is yet further ordered to a still nobler vital action, and that is intellectual operation. Therefore there was greater reason for the distinction of these two forces in man; so that the female should be produced separately from the male; although they are carnally united for generation.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000020_000001.wav|For sex belongs both to man and animals.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000016_000002.wav|There is another kind of subjection which is called economic or civil, whereby the superior makes use of his subjects for their own benefit and good; and this kind of subjection existed even before sin.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000009_000000.wav|Whether the Woman Should Have Been Made in the First Production of Things?|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000006_000000.wav|(three) Whether of man's rib?|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000036_000000.wav|Wherefore, as no rarefaction is apparent in such multiplication of matter, we must admit an addition of matter: either by creation, or which is more probable, by conversion.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000024_000007.wav|Fourthly, there is a sacramental reason for this.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000016_000001.wav|One is servile, by virtue of which a superior makes use of a subject for his own benefit; and this kind of subjection began after sin.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000020_000002.wav|But in the other animals the female was not made from the male.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000005_000000.wav|(two) Whether the woman should have been made from man?|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000035_000001.wav|But this is quite impossible.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000041_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the woman was not formed immediately by God.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000030_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the woman should not have been formed from the rib of man.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000015_000003.wav|On the other hand, as regards human nature in general, woman is not misbegotten, but is included in nature's intention as directed to the work of generation.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000042_000002.wav|But the woman's body was formed from corporeal matter.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000026_000003.wav|On the other hand, the Divine Power, being infinite, can produce things of the same species out of any matter, such as a man from the slime of the earth, and a woman from out of man.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000031_000002.wav|So, if a rib was removed, his body remained imperfect; which is unreasonable to suppose.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000035_000004.wav|Wherefore multiplication of matter is quite unintelligible, as long as the matter itself remains the same without anything added to it; unless it receives greater dimensions.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000014_000003.wav|Among perfect animals the active power of generation belongs to the male sex, and the passive power to the female.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000024_000003.wav|Secondly, that man might love woman all the more, and cleave to her more closely, knowing her to be fashioned from himself.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000002_000000.wav|THE PRODUCTION OF THE WOMAN (In Four Articles)|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000004_000000.wav|(one) Whether the woman should have been made in that first production of things?|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000024_000010.wav|five thirty two): "This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the Church."|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000010_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the woman should not have been made in the first production of things.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000037_000001.wav|Much more, therefore, was it possible that by the Divine power the body of the woman should be produced from the man's rib.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000041_000003.wav|Therefore she was not made immediately by God.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000032_000001.wav|But there was no pain before sin.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000045_000003.wav|Now God alone, the Author of nature, can produce an effect into existence outside the ordinary course of nature.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000003_000001.wav|Under this head there are four points of inquiry:|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000035_000002.wav|For such an increase of matter would either be by a change of the very substance of the matter itself, or by a change of its dimensions.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000015_000004.wav|Now the general intention of nature depends on God, Who is the universal Author of nature.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000024_000006.wav|Wherefore it was suitable for the woman to be made out of man, as out of her principle.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000031_000001.wav|Therefore a rib of Adam belonged to the integrity of his body.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000012_000001.wav|But God foresaw that the woman would be an occasion of sin to man.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000003_000000.wav|We must next consider the production of the woman.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000024_000008.wav|For by this is signified that the Church takes her origin from Christ.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000015_000005.wav|Therefore, in producing nature, God formed not only the male but also the female.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8742/245707/8742_245707_000020_000003.wav|Therefore neither should it have been so with man.|8742
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000024_000000.wav|That there was also a poetical contest in which the Ionians went to contend, again is shown by the following, taken from the same hymn. After celebrating the Delian dance of the women, he ends his song of praise with these verses, in which he also alludes to himself:|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000003_000003.wav|At the same time took place the numerous earthquakes in Athens, Euboea, and Boeotia, particularly at Orchomenus in the last named country.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000003_000000.wav|Summer was now over.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000017_000000.wav|The same summer the Aetolians, who before the Athenian expedition had sent an embassy to Corinth and Lacedaemon, composed of Tolophus, an Ophionian, Boriades, an Eurytanian, and Tisander, an Apodotian, obtained that an army should be sent them against Naupactus, which had invited the Athenian invasion.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000011_000003.wav|These once subdued, the rest would easily come in.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000022_000002.wav|Nothing can be clearer on this point than the following verses of Homer, taken from a hymn to Apollo:|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000011_000002.wav|The plan which they recommended was to attack first the Apodotians, next the Ophionians, and after these the Eurytanians, who are the largest tribe in Aetolia, and speak, as is said, a language exceedingly difficult to understand, and eat their flesh raw.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000020_000001.wav|The winter ensuing, the Athenians in Sicily with their Hellenic allies, and such of the Sicel subjects or allies of Syracuse as had revolted from her and joined their army, marched against the Sicel town Inessa, the acropolis of which was held by the Syracusans, and after attacking it without being able to take it, retired.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000019_000000.wav|His preparations completed, Eurylochus lodged the hostages in Kytinium, in Doris, and advanced upon Naupactus through the country of the Locrians, taking upon his way Oeneon and Eupalium, two of their towns that refused to join him.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000003_000001.wav|The winter following, the plague a second time attacked the Athenians; for although it had never entirely left them, still there had been a notable abatement in its ravages.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000015_000004.wav|These were by far the best men in the city of Athens that fell during this war.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000004_000000.wav|The same winter the Athenians in Sicily and the Rhegians, with thirty ships, made an expedition against the islands of Aeolus; it being impossible to invade them in summer, owing to the want of water.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000008_000007.wav|The settlement effected, they fortified anew the city, now called Heraclea, distant about four miles and a half from Thermopylae and two miles and a quarter from the sea, and commenced building docks, closing the side towards Thermopylae just by the pass itself, in order that they might be easily defended.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000027_000002.wav|On their part, the Ambraciots at Olpae sent a messenger to their own city, to beg them to come with their whole levy to their assistance, fearing that the army of Eurylochus might not be able to pass through the Acarnanians, and that they might themselves be obliged to fight single handed, or be unable to retreat, if they wished it, without danger.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000029_000000.wav|Uniting here at daybreak, they sat down at the place called Metropolis, and encamped.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000029_000003.wav|Demosthenes led them near to Olpae and encamped, a great ravine separating the two armies. During five days they remained inactive; on the sixth both sides formed in order of battle.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000021_000001.wav|It had been purified before by Pisistratus the tyrant; not indeed the whole island, but as much of it as could be seen from the temple.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000021_000000.wav|The same winter the Athenians purified Delos, in compliance, it appears, with a certain oracle.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000006_000003.wav|This town afterwards also submitted upon the approach of the Athenians and their allies, and gave hostages and all other securities required.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126955/581_126955_000005_000005.wav|Without an earthquake I do not see how such an accident could happen.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000023_000000.wav|"So far as regards the Athenians, such are the great advantages proved inherent in a wise policy.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000006_000002.wav|After walling off this spot, the fleet sailed off home.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000004_000000.wav|Battus, one of the two generals present at the action, went with a company to defend the village of Solygia, which was unfortified; Lycophron remaining to give battle with the rest.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000005_000000.wav|After holding on for a long while without either giving way, the Athenians aided by their horse, of which the enemy had none, at length routed the Corinthians, who retired to the hill and, halting, remained quiet there, without coming down again.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000003_000004.wav|These last, however, gave them the slip by coming in the dark; and being informed by signals of the fact the Corinthians left half their number at Cenchreae, in case the Athenians should go against Crommyon, and marched in all haste to the rescue.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000020_000003.wav|But if both should happen to have chosen the wrong moment for acting in this way, advice to make peace would not be unserviceable; and this, if we did but see it, is just what we stand most in need of at the present juncture.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/581/126957/581_126957_000034_000005.wav|And so it turned out.|581
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7657/104717/7657_104717_000029_000012.wav|It almost seems a mistake, but it was not.|7657
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7657/104717/7657_104717_000011_000004.wav|It was filial tenderness that gave the name.|7657
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7657/104717/7657_104717_000015_000001.wav|I make but a poor figure at composition, my head is much too fickle, my thoughts are running after birds' eggs, play and trifles till I get vexed with myself.|7657
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7657/104717/7657_104717_000030_000004.wav|But still|7657
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000020_000001.wav|But there never had been a birthday cake with candles on it on the Appleton table.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000044_000001.wav|"I didn't know it.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000029_000001.wav|Davy's short fat legs could not climb from the board to the window sill, and since this little Mahomet could not come to the mountain, Betty had to carry the mountain to him.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000003_000001.wav|It wasn't much of a post office; only an old case of pigeon holes set up in one corner of a cross roads store.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000046_000000.wav|"Thank you, God," came in a happy whisper from the depths of a glad little heart.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000040_000000.wav|If Jake expected her to tear it open instantly and share the news with him before she had examined every inch of the big square envelope, he was disappointed.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000018_000002.wav|Once out of the house, she walked slowly along through the shady orchard, swinging her sunbonnet by the strings.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000027_000000.wav|The little dog eared books in the meeting house proved poor reading sometimes after such entertainment.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000016_000002.wav|It was two o'clock before her work was all done, and she had time to go up to her little room in the west gable.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000045_000001.wav|Then she walked slowly down the narrow aisle of the little meeting house, between its double rows of narrow straight backed pews.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000041_000001.wav|Her breath came short and her heart beat fast.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000016_000001.wav|There was the dinner table to set for the hungry farm hands, and after the dinner was over more dishes to wash. Then there were some towels to iron.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000022_000002.wav|But that was not their errand to day.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000014_000003.wav|It was two miles to the Appleton farm, down a hot, dusty road, and he took his time in going. Well for little Betty that she did not know what wonderful surprise was on its way to her, or she would have been in a fever of impatience for the letter to arrive.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000025_000001.wav|Betty guarded them like a little dragon.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000047_000001.wav|The next moment she had scrambled over the sill, pulled the window down after her, and walked down the slanting board to the ground.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000025_000005.wav|Eugene Field's poems had come in the last box, with Riley's "Songs of Childhood" and Kipling's jungle tales. Twelve beautiful books, all of mrs Sherman's giving, and they were like twelve great windows to Betty, opening into a new strange world, far away from the experiences of her every day life.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000010_000003.wav|Wish she'd happen down here.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000022_000003.wav|A little red bookcase inside the church was the attraction.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000025_000003.wav|Even Davy, when he was permitted to look at the wonderful pictures in her "Arabian Nights," or "Pilgrim's Progress," or "Mother Goose," had to sit with his hands behind his back while she carefully turned the leaves.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000047_000002.wav|Catching Davy by the hand, and swinging it back and forth as they ran, she went skipping across the road regardless of the dust.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000008_000003.wav|Any how, they're all she's got, and her father made some arrangement with them before he died.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000025_000000.wav|Excepting a few school books and some out of date census reports, they were the only books in the Appleton house.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000043_000001.wav|Then he set aside his usual custom and asked a question.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000041_000000.wav|Davy waited in silence, watching a flush spread over Betty's face as she read.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000020_000002.wav|It would have been considered a foolish waste of time and money, and birthdays came and went sometimes, without the children knowing that they had passed.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000013_000000.wav|"Reckon you might as well," answered the old man, giving a final close scrutiny before handing it to the boy.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000044_000000.wav|"Is there?" asked Betty, brushing it away with the back of her hand.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000018_000003.wav|After the orchard came the long leafy lane, with its double rows of cherry trees, and then the gate at the end, leading into the public highway.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000016_000000.wav|But she could not loiter long.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000005_000001.wav|He sat on the counter dangling his big bare feet against a nail keg, and catching flies in his sunburned hands, while he waited for the mail to be opened.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000031_000001.wav|Betty stopped reading to listen, and Davy sat up to look.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000045_000002.wav|As she reached the bench like altar, extending in front of the pulpit, she slipped to her knees a moment.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000009_000004.wav|It's Betty that 'pears to be bringin' up the little Appletons."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000010_000002.wav|Lloydsboro Valley it's postmarked.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000003_000000.wav|The letter for Jaynes's Post office reached the end of its journey first.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000030_000002.wav|Often he fell asleep in the middle of the most interesting part, and then Betty read on to herself, with nothing to break the stillness around her but the buzzing of the wasps, as they darted angrily in and out of the open window above her head.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000010_000004.wav|I'd ask her who it's from."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000037_000000.wav|At that, Betty leaned so far out of the window that she nearly lost her balance and toppled over.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000019_000002.wav|Betty's little lamb, they called him, and Betty's shadow, and Betty's sticking plaster, because everywhere she went there was Davy just at her heels.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000002_000000.wav|"ONE FLEW INTO THE CUCKOO'S NEST."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000023_000001.wav|Queer little books they were, time yellowed and musty smelling, but to story loving little Betty, hungry for something new, they seemed a veritable gold mine.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000007_000002.wav|The Appletons' Betty.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000017_000003.wav|Or if she stood on tiptoe so that she could see her plump round chin, dimpled cheeks, and white teeth, the eyes were left out, and she could see no more of her inquisitive little nose than lay below the big freckle in the middle of it.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000042_000001.wav|"What do you think? It is an invitation to a house party at Locust; Lloyd Sherman's house party.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000021_000002.wav|The two never tired of each other.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000043_000002.wav|"Why are you crying?" he demanded.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000011_000000.wav|Jake got up, dragged his bare feet across the floor, and leaned lazily on the counter as he reached for his paper.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000018_000001.wav|She was free now to do as she pleased until supper time.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000005_000000.wav|There was no one in the store to answer the question but an overgrown boy who had stopped to get his father's weekly paper.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000022_000001.wav|Betty led the way across the road to a plain little wooden church, set back in a grove of cedar trees. Behind the church was a graveyard, where they often strolled on summer afternoons, through the tangle of grass and weeds and myrtle vines, to read the names on the tombstones and smell the pinks and lilies that struggled up year after year above the neglected mounds.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000024_000002.wav|Underneath was always written: "From your loving godmother, Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000030_000000.wav|The reading was slow work sometimes.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000025_000002.wav|They were the only things she owned that the children were not allowed to touch.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000040_000002.wav|Then she spread the letter out on her knees, drawing a long breath of pleasure as the faintest odour of violets floated up from the paper with its dainty monogram at the top.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000034_000000.wav|"He's looking this way," said Davy, who had stood up for a better view, but squatted down again at Betty's command.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000042_000000.wav|"Oh, Davy," she exclaimed, in a low, wondering tone.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000027_000002.wav|At the end there was always the word MORAL, in big capital letters, as if the readers were supposed to be too blind to find it for themselves, and it had to be put directly across the path for them to stumble over.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000020_000000.wav|All the Appleton children were boys,--three younger and two older than Davy, whose last birthday cake should have had eight candles if there had been any celebration of the event.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000021_000000.wav|Davy was a queer little fellow.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000030_000001.wav|Davy's mind, like his legs, could not climb as far as Betty's, and she usually had to stop at the bottom of every page to explain something.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000015_000000.wav|It had been a tiresome day for the child.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000017_000001.wav|It was such a tiny mirror that she could see only a part of her face at a time.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000021_000004.wav|As he caught up with her at the gate, he did not even ask where she was going, knowing that he would find out in due time if he only followed far enough.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000019_000001.wav|It was Davy Appleton.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000015_000005.wav|Surely it must have learned a great many on its underground way among the roots of things, and all else that lies hidden in the earth.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000023_000000.wav|It held all that was left of a scattered Sunday school library, that had been in use two generations before.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000028_000000.wav|Betty laughed at them sometimes, but she touched the little books with reverent fingers, when she remembered how old they were, and how long ago their first childish readers laid them aside.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000015_000003.wav|But it was cool and pleasant down in the spring house with the water trickling out in a ceaseless drip drip on the cold stones.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000047_000003.wav|Down the lane they went, between the rows of cherry trees; across the orchard and up the path.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000022_000000.wav|He did not have to follow far to day.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000014_000002.wav|Jake mounted and rode off slowly, his bare feet dangling far below the stirrups.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000042_000005.wav|I shall be there a whole month, and she knew my mamma and was her dearest friend.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000007_000003.wav|Don't you know?|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER two.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000003_000003.wav|So few letters found their way into this, particular bag that Squire Jaynes, who kept the store and post office, felt a personal interest in every envelope that passed through his hands.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000021_000001.wav|He tagged along after Betty, switching at the grass with a whip he carried, never saying a word after that first eager call for her to wait.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000023_000003.wav|Here she came day after day, when her work was done, to pore over the musty old volumes of tales forgotten long ago.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000021_000003.wav|He was content to follow and ask no questions, for he had learned long ago to look twice before he spoke once.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000009_000000.wav|"That's the truth," said Jake; "she does.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000012_000002.wav|I'll take it up to her, squire, if you say so.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000019_000000.wav|As she slipped her hand around the post to unfasten the chain that held the gate, little bare feet came pattering behind her, and a shrill voice called: "Wait, Betty, wait a minute!"|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000038_000000.wav|"Here you are," he said, riding alongside the window and dropping the letter into her eager hands.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000024_000001.wav|They were twelve in all, and had come in several different Christmas boxes, and each one had Betty's name on the fly leaf, with the date of the Christmas on which it happened to be sent.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000029_000000.wav|Many an afternoon she had spent, perched in the high window, with her feet drawn up under her on the sill, reading aloud to Davy, who lay outside on the grass, staring up at the sky.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000024_000000.wav|In Betty's little room under the roof at home was a pile of handsomely bound books, lying on a chest beside her mother's Bible.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000009_000001.wav|Talk about bringin' up.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000007_000001.wav|"That's Betty.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000013_000001.wav|"It might lie here all week in case none of them happened to come to the store, and it looks as if it might be important."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000033_000001.wav|They might think it wasn't respectful."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58869/6139_58869_000003_000002.wav|A man riding over from the nearest town twice a week brought the mail bag on horseback.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000020_000000.wav|Under the blossoms rode the Little Colonel, all in white herself this May morning, except the little Napoleon hat of black velvet, set jauntily over her short light hair.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000042_000000.wav|"Eugenia is a sort of cousin of mine," explained Lloyd.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000018_000004.wav|Then she was only a spoiled baby of five; but now his pride in her was even greater, since she had grown into a womanly little maid of eleven.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000057_000000.wav|"One flew east and one flew west. And one flew into the cuckoo's nest."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000049_000000.wav|"Just Eugenia's age, I believe, and she must be an interestin' sort of girl, for she draws beautifully.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000015_000000.wav|Down the long avenue that led from the house to the great entrance gate came the Little Colonel on her pony.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000014_000000.wav|THE INVITATIONS ARE SENT.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000023_000003.wav|It balanced itself on the limb, leaning over and cocking its bright bead like eyes at her, as if admiring the sight.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000023_000000.wav|The wide white gate was standing open now, and she drew rein, peering anxiously in.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000044_000009.wav|I imagine she's stuck up, too.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000038_000002.wav|I'll be on hand every time you turn around, if you want me. Who all's coming?"|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000026_000001.wav|A twelve year old boy was riding toward her as fast as his big gray horse could carry him.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000037_000007.wav|We'll expect you at all the pahties and picnics and candy pullin's that we have.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000048_000000.wav|"How old is she?" interrupted Rob.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000058_000000.wav|Lloyd added, quickly:|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000064_000001.wav|Heads were thrust out of the windows as the two vanished up the dusty pike, and an old graybeard loafing in front of the corner grocery gave an amused chuckle.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000030_000001.wav|"You don't know how good it feels to get back to the country again, Lloyd.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000037_000001.wav|"I was eleven last week.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000026_000000.wav|She was turning slowly away when down the pike behind her came the quick beat of a horse's hoofs and a shrill whistle.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000022_000000.wav|As she spoke, she passed through the gate at the end of the avenue and turned into the public road, a wide pike with a railroad track on one side of it and a bridle path on the other.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000056_000000.wav|They had reached the post office by this time, and Rob held out his hand for the letters.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000016_000001.wav|"It is one of the prettiest places in all Kentucky," they were fond of saying, and every visitor to the Valley was taken past the great entrance gate to admire the long rows of stately old trees, and the great stone house at the end, whose pillars gleamed white through the Virginia creeper that nearly covered it.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000017_000002.wav|Some people called attention to him because he was an old Confederate soldier who had given his good right arm to the cause he loved, some because they thought he resembled Napoleon, and others because they had some amusing tale to tell of the eccentric things he had said or done.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000019_000003.wav|She's like Amanthis!|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000064_000002.wav|"Beats all how them two do get over the ground," he said.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000034_000002.wav|"You look like a boy.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000019_000004.wav|Like Amanthis!"|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000054_000000.wav|"And you don't know anything about this one?" questioned Rob.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000050_000001.wav|"Next!"|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000036_000000.wav|"When you were a little thing!" laughed Rob, teasingly.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000018_000003.wav|She had outgrown it somewhat since she had first been nicknamed the Little Colonel.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000018_000001.wav|He was proud of the fact that she had inherited his lordly manner, his hot temper, and imperious ways.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000045_000000.wav|"Number one doesn't sound very inviting," said Rob, with a sour grimace. "Who is your number two?" Lloyd held out the second envelope.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000050_000002.wav|The Little Colonel held out the third envelope.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000053_000006.wav|That's why she is named Elizabeth Lloyd.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000034_000000.wav|"I don't like it that way.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000032_000000.wav|As they jogged along, side by side, the Little Colonel chatting gaily of all that had happened since their last meeting, Rob kept casting curious glances at her.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000027_000001.wav|Lloyd," he called, "I was just going to your house."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000056_000001.wav|"I'll put them in for you," he said.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000023_000001.wav|She hoped for the sight of a familiar freckled face or the sound of a welcoming whoop.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000061_000000.wav|"I think so, too," agreed the Little Colonel, stooping to fasten the locust blossoms more securely behind the pony's ears.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000050_000000.wav|"Number two is all right," said Rob, with an approving nod.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000062_000001.wav|Come on, Tarbaby, and see if you can't beat Bobby Moore's old gray hawse so bad it will be ashamed to evah race again."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000042_000004.wav|She was dreadfully spoiled.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000018_000005.wav|He was proud of her delicate, flower like beauty, of her dainty ways, and all her little schoolgirl accomplishments.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000064_000000.wav|The dust flew, dogs barked, and chickens ran squawking across the road out of the way.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000024_000000.wav|What it saw was a slender girl of eleven, taller than most children of that age, and more graceful.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000035_000000.wav|"I don't care," answered Lloyd, her eyes flashing dangerously.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000018_000002.wav|It pleased him that people had given her his title of Colonel on account of the resemblance to himself.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000044_000010.wav|She used to be, and she's always had her own way about everything."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000038_000001.wav|Jolly for you!" before he answered more politely, "Thank you, Lloyd, you can count on me for my part.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000062_000000.wav|"Well, the invitations are off now.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000034_000001.wav|It isn't a bit becoming," said Rob, with the frankness of old comradeship.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000016_000000.wav|Everybody, in Lloydsboro Valley knew Locust.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000043_000000.wav|"Then what did you do?" asked Rob, with a grin.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000056_000002.wav|Then, dropping them into the box, one by one, he repeated the rhyme:|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000024_000001.wav|There was a colour in her cheek like the delicate pink of a wild rose, and the big hazel eyes had a roguish twinkle in them, as they looked out fearlessly on the world from under the little Napoleon hat with its nodding cockade of locust blossoms.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000047_000007.wav|Oh, it was just like a fairy tale, all the things that Joyce did when she was in Touraine."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000065_000000.wav|A little while later the three white envelopes were jogging sociably along, side by side in a mail bag, on their way to Louisville.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000041_000000.wav|"Well, who is she?" he asked, reading it aloud.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000051_000000.wav|"One flew east and one flew west, so I s'pose this will fly into the cuckoo's nest," said Rob, as he read the address:|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000035_000001.wav|"It's comfortable this way, and grandfathah likes it.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000033_000000.wav|"Don't you see?|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000043_000001.wav|He had experimented with Lloyd's temper himself in the past.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000029_000000.wav|"Come and go down to the post office with me.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000026_000003.wav|He snatched it off with a flourish as he came within speaking distance of the Little Colonel, his freckled face all ashine with pleasure.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000055_000000.wav|"Not a thing.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000028_000000.wav|"And I was looking for you, Bobby," she answered, as informally as if it were only yesterday they had parted, instead of eight months before.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000027_000000.wav|"Hello!|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000055_000001.wav|I shouldn't be su'prised if she's mighty countrified, for the farm is several miles from a railroad, and the people she lives with don't think of anything but work, yeah in and yeah out."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000020_000002.wav|"Tarbaby" she called him, partly because he was so black, and partly because that was the name of her favourite Uncle Remus story.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000019_000002.wav|She's like Amanthis,--sweet souled and starry eyed; we were here when you brought her home, a bride.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000044_000007.wav|He is always so busy there's no one to pay any attention to her but her maid.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000053_000008.wav|That's why she invited them."|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6139/58868/6139_58868_000065_000001.wav|But their course did not lie together long.|6139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4846/18524/4846_18524_000087_000000.wav|"Not a bit," said Tom.|4846
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4846/18524/4846_18524_000011_000000.wav|"Oh, it's so far up in the air," answered old mr King.|4846
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000025_000003.wav|He persists, then sees his mother in private, kills a courtier who was eavesdropping, and convicts his mother of her sin.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000026_000000.wav|All this is comprehensible and flows from Hamlet's character and position.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000019_000000.wav|"But Falstaff, the wonderful Falstaff," Shakespeare's eulogists will say, "of him, at all events, one can not say that he is not a living character, or that, having been taken from the comedy of an unknown author, it has been weakened."|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000006_000014.wav|Therefore, whatever the blind panegyrists of Shakespeare may say, in Shakespeare there is no expression of character.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000020_000002.wav|But afterward he was condemned and burned at the stake for his religious beliefs, which did not conform with Catholicism.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000004_000000.wav|This is asserted with such confidence and repeated by all as indisputable truth; but however much I endeavored to find confirmation of this in Shakespeare's dramas, I always found the opposite.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000021_000001.wav|And this character is natural and typical because, of all Shakespeare's characters, it alone speaks a language proper to itself. And it speaks thus because it speaks in that same Shakespearian language, full of mirthless jokes and unamusing puns which, being unnatural to all Shakespeare's other characters, is quite in harmony with the boastful, distorted, and depraved character of the drunken Falstaff.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000006_000011.wav|So that in Shakespeare there is no language of living individuals-that language which in the drama is the chief means of setting forth character.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000030_000001.wav|This peculiarity consists in the capacity of representative scenes expressing the play of emotion.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000010.wav|Then the pilgrim, still disguised, offers her his hand and heart and Cordelia confesses she loves the pilgrim and consents to marry him, notwithstanding the poverty that awaits her.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000004.wav|Shakespeare's Othello suffers from epilepsy, of which he has an attack on the stage; moreover, in Shakespeare's version, Desdemona's murder is preceded by the strange vow of the kneeling Othello.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000030_000005.wav|Such clever methods of expressing the development of feeling, giving good actors the possibility of demonstrating their powers, were, and are, often mistaken by many critics for the expression of character.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000001.wav|All these motives for Lear's conduct are absent in Shakespeare's play.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000008.wav|Othello perceives the escaping Cassio, and this, more than anything, confirms his suspicions. Shakespeare has not got this, and yet this casual incident explains Othello's jealousy more than anything else.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000007_000001.wav|But all these characters, as well as all the others, instead of belonging to Shakespeare, are taken by him from dramas, chronicles, and romances anterior to him.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000009.wav|With Shakespeare, this jealousy is founded entirely on Iago's persistent, successful machinations and treacherous words, which Othello blindly believes. Othello's monolog over the sleeping Desdemona, about his desiring her when killed to look as she is alive, about his going to love her even dead, and now wishing to smell her "balmy breath," etc, is utterly impossible.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000027_000001.wav|And lo! profound critics declare that in this drama, in the person of Hamlet, is expressed singularly powerful, perfectly novel, and deep personality, existing in this person having no character; and that precisely in this absence of character consists the genius of creating a deeply conceived character.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000013.wav|As in Shakespeare's drama, so also in the older drama, the courtiers, Perillus-Kent-who had interceded for Cordelia and was therefore banished-comes to Leir and assures him of his love, but under no disguise, but simply as a faithful old servant who does not abandon his king in a moment of need.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000026_000004.wav|There is no possibility of finding any explanation whatever of Hamlet's actions or words, and therefore no possibility of attributing any character to him.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000020.wav|She accepts the counsel and takes Leir into her house without disclosing herself to him, and nurses him.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000007_000002.wav|All these characters not only are not rendered more powerful by him, but, in most cases, they are weakened and spoilt.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000006_000009.wav|In the same way, also, it is Shakespeare alone who speaks for his villains: Richard, Edmund, Iago, Macbeth, expressing for them those vicious feelings which villains never express.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000010.wav|A man who is preparing for the murder of a beloved being, does not utter such phrases, still less after committing the murder would he speak about the necessity of an eclipse of sun and moon, and of the globe yawning; nor can he, negro tho he may be, address devils, inviting them to burn him in hot sulphur and so forth.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000004_000002.wav|This is absent from Shakespeare.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000006_000013.wav|Moreover, if the characters speak at random and in a random way, and all in one and the same diction, as is the case in Shakespeare's work, then even the action of gesticulation is wasted.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000002.wav|Then, when, according to the old drama, Leir asks his daughters about their love for him, Cordelia does not say, as Shakespeare has it, that she will not give her father all her love, but will love her husband, too, should she marry-which is quite unnatural-but simply says that she can not express her love in words, but hopes that her actions will prove it.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000021_000000.wav|Falstaff is, indeed, quite a natural and typical character; but then it is perhaps the only natural and typical character depicted by Shakespeare.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000003_000000.wav|But it is not enough that Shakespeare's characters are placed in tragic positions which are impossible, do not flow from the course of events, are inappropriate to time and space-these personages, besides this, act in a way which is out of keeping with their definite character, and is quite arbitrary.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000017_000000.wav|So it is with the chief character, Othello, but notwithstanding its alteration and the disadvantageous features which it is made thereby to present in comparison with the character from which it was taken in the romance, this character still remains a character, but all the other personages are completely spoiled by Shakespeare.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000010_000000.wav|"If from the first," says Leir, "I should relate the cause, I would make a heart of adamant to weep. And thou, poor soul, kind hearted as thou art, Dost weep already, ere I do begin."|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000007.wav|In that romance the reasons for Othello's jealousy are represented more naturally than in Shakespeare. In the romance, Cassio, knowing whose the handkerchief is, goes to Desdemona to return it, but, approaching the back door of Desdemona's house, sees Othello and flies from him.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000018_000002.wav|There are many motives, but they are all vague.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000026_000002.wav|During the whole of the drama, Hamlet is doing, not what he would really wish to do, but what is necessary for the author's plan.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000007_000004.wav|The characters of this drama, that of King Lear, and especially of Cordelia, not only were not created by Shakespeare, but have been strikingly weakened and deprived of force by him, as compared with their appearance in the older drama.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000015.wav|But Perillus-Kent-assures the King of his love toward him, and Leir, pacified, goes on to Regan.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000013_000000.wav|Is there anything approaching this exquisite scene in Shakespeare's drama?|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000030_000003.wav|Shakespeare, himself an actor, and an intelligent man, knew how to express by the means not only of speech, but of exclamation, gesture, and the repetition of words, states of mind and developments or changes of feeling taking place in the persons represented.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000003_000001.wav|It is generally asserted that in Shakespeare's dramas the characters are specially well expressed, that, notwithstanding their vividness, they are many sided, like those of living people; that, while exhibiting the characteristics of a given individual, they at the same time wear the features of man in general; it is usual to say that the delineation of character in Shakespeare is the height of perfection.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000017.wav|Turned out by his elder daughters, Leir, according to the older drama, as a last resource, goes with Perillus to Cordelia.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000018_000000.wav|Iago, according to Shakespeare, is an unmitigated villain, deceiver, and thief, a robber who robs Roderigo and always succeeds even in his most impossible designs, and therefore is a person quite apart from real life.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000006_000002.wav|They speak all alike.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000011_000000.wav|Cordelia: "For God's love tell it, and when you have done I'll tell the reason why I weep so soon."|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000026_000003.wav|One moment he is awe struck at his father's ghost, another moment he begins to chaff it, calling it "old mole"; one moment he loves Ophelia, another moment he teases her, and so forth.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000020_000000.wav|Falstaff, like all Shakespeare's characters, was taken from a drama or comedy by an unknown author, written on a really living person, Sir john Oldcastle, who had been the friend of some duke.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000021_000002.wav|For this reason alone does this figure truly represent a definite character.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000028_000000.wav|So that neither do the characters of Lear nor Othello nor Falstaff nor yet Hamlet in any way confirm the existing opinion that Shakespeare's power consists in the delineation of character.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000008.wav|She tells him the cause of her grief.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000021_000004.wav|Thus it is with Falstaff.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000018_000005.wav|Emilia, who says anything it may occur to the author to put into her mouth, has not even the slightest semblance of a live character.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000020_000001.wav|This Oldcastle had once been convicted of heresy, but had been saved by his friend the duke.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000016_000000.wav|Thus it is in the drama we are examining, which Shakespeare has borrowed from the drama "King Leir." So it is also with Othello, taken from an Italian romance, the same also with the famous Hamlet.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5337/37090/5337_37090_000009_000014.wav|Leir tells him what, according to Shakespeare, he tells Cordelia in the last scene, that, if the daughters whom he has benefited hate him, a retainer to whom he has done no good can not love him.|5337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/126539/227_126539_000017_000000.wav|Another day or two, and mr Yates was gone likewise.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/126539/227_126539_000016_000000.wav|With a purer spirit did Fanny rejoice in the intelligence.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/126539/227_126539_000016_000002.wav|By all the others it was mentioned with regret; and his merits honoured with due gradation of feeling-from the sincerity of Edmund's too partial regard, to the unconcern of his mother speaking entirely by rote.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/126539/227_126539_000017_000003.wav|Sir Thomas had been quite indifferent to mr Crawford's going or staying: but his good wishes for mr Yates's having a pleasant journey, as he walked with him to the hall door, were given with genuine satisfaction.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/126539/227_126539_000016_000001.wav|She heard it at dinner, and felt it a blessing.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000040_000002.wav|Has he been acting a part in his behaviour to your sister all this time?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000004_000000.wav|On their return from the park they found Willoughby's curricle and servant in waiting at the cottage, and mrs Dashwood was convinced that her conjecture had been just.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000015_000003.wav|mrs Dashwood first spoke.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000049_000000.wav|This violent oppression of spirits continued the whole evening.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000035_000000.wav|"I want no proof of their affection," said Elinor; "but of their engagement I do."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000004_000001.wav|So far it was all as she had foreseen; but on entering the house she beheld what no foresight had taught her to expect.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000028_000003.wav|He is, moreover, aware that she DOES disapprove the connection, he dares not therefore at present confess to her his engagement with Marianne, and he feels himself obliged, from his dependent situation, to give into her schemes, and absent himself from Devonshire for a while.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000038_000001.wav|Has not his behaviour to Marianne and to all of us, for at least the last fortnight, declared that he loved and considered her as his future wife, and that he felt for us the attachment of the nearest relation? Have we not perfectly understood each other?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000017_000000.wav|"My engagements at present," replied Willoughby, confusedly, "are of such a nature-that-I dare not flatter myself"--|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000003.wav|And last night he was with us so happy, so cheerful, so affectionate?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000026_000001.wav|He had not the power of accepting it.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000005.wav|You cannot doubt your sister's wishes.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000032_000001.wav|But you really do admit the justice of what I have said in his defence?--I am happy-and he is acquitted."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000002.wav|It seems but the work of a moment.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000030_000007.wav|To the possibility of motives unanswerable in themselves, though unavoidably secret for a while?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000008_000001.wav|mrs Smith has this morning exercised the privilege of riches upon a poor dependent cousin, by sending me on business to London.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000038_000002.wav|Has not my consent been daily asked by his looks, his manner, his attentive and affectionate respect?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000019_000000.wav|He then hastily took leave of them all and left the room.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000003.wav|But I require no such proof.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000046_000000.wav|"You speak very properly.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000046_000001.wav|Willoughby certainly does not deserve to be suspected.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000030_000002.wav|You had rather look out for misery for Marianne, and guilt for poor Willoughby, than an apology for the latter.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000043_000002.wav|If we find they correspond, every fear of mine will be removed."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000015_000001.wav|Elinor felt equal amazement.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000041_000000.wav|"No, I cannot think that.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000001.wav|If you were to see them at the altar, you would suppose they were going to be married.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000033_000001.wav|It may be proper to conceal their engagement (if they ARE engaged) from mrs Smith-and if that is the case, it must be highly expedient for Willoughby to be but little in Devonshire at present.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000008_000000.wav|"Yes, for I am unable to keep my engagement with you.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000018_000003.wav|I will not torment myself any longer by remaining among friends whose society it is impossible for me now to enjoy."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000019_000001.wav|They saw him step into his carriage, and in a minute it was out of sight.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000039_000000.wav|"I confess," replied Elinor, "that every circumstance except ONE is in favour of their engagement; but that ONE is the total silence of both on the subject, and with me it almost outweighs every other."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000028_000000.wav|"Yes.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000009_000000.wav|"To London!--and are you going this morning?"|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000010_000000.wav|"Almost this moment."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000007.wav|But why?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000021_000000.wav|Elinor's uneasiness was at least equal to her mother's.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000031_000001.wav|But suspicion of something unpleasant is the inevitable consequence of such an alteration as we just witnessed in him.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000026_000000.wav|"It was not inclination that he wanted, Elinor; I could plainly see THAT.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000031_000004.wav|Secrecy may be advisable; but still I cannot help wondering at its being practiced by him."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000045_000001.wav|"I love Willoughby, sincerely love him; and suspicion of his integrity cannot be more painful to yourself than to me.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000014_000000.wav|His colour increased; and with his eyes fixed on the ground he only replied, "You are too good."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000006.wav|It must be Willoughby therefore whom you suspect.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000049_000001.wav|She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000007.wav|Can they have quarrelled?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000015_000000.wav|mrs Dashwood looked at Elinor with surprise.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000021_000001.wav|She thought of what had just passed with anxiety and distrust.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000034_000000.wav|"Concealing it from us! my dear child, do you accuse Willoughby and Marianne of concealment?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000028_000005.wav|And now, Elinor, what have you to say?"|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000038_000003.wav|My Elinor, is it possible to doubt their engagement?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000047_000000.wav|They were interrupted by the entrance of Margaret; and Elinor was then at liberty to think over the representations of her mother, to acknowledge the probability of many, and hope for the justice of all.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000002.wav|Ungracious girl!|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000045_000004.wav|But all this may be explained by such a situation of his affairs as you have supposed.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000013_000002.wav|For shame, Willoughby, can you wait for an invitation here?"|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000012_000000.wav|He coloured as he replied, "You are very kind, but I have no idea of returning into Devonshire immediately.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000016_000000.wav|"I have only to add, my dear Willoughby, that at Barton cottage you will always be welcome; for I will not press you to return here immediately, because you only can judge how far THAT might be pleasing to mrs Smith; and on this head I shall be no more disposed to question your judgment than to doubt your inclination."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000040_000001.wav|You must think wretchedly indeed of Willoughby, if, after all that has openly passed between them, you can doubt the nature of the terms on which they are together.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000027_000000.wav|"Can you, indeed!"|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000041_000001.wav|He must and does love her I am sure."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000005.wav|He did not speak, he did not behave like himself.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000018_000001.wav|mrs Dashwood was too much astonished to speak, and another pause succeeded.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000004.wav|Nothing in my opinion has ever passed to justify doubt; no secrecy has been attempted; all has been uniformly open and unreserved.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000032_000000.wav|"Do not blame him, however, for departing from his character, where the deviation is necessary.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000008.wav|Is he not a man of honour and feeling?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000015_000002.wav|For a few moments every one was silent.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000004_000003.wav|He turned round on their coming in, and his countenance shewed that he strongly partook of the emotion which over powered Marianne.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000030_000005.wav|Are no probabilities to be accepted, merely because they are not certainties?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000037_000000.wav|"Yet not a syllable has been said to you on the subject, by either of them."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000038_000004.wav|How could such a thought occur to you?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000046_000003.wav|It is an engagement in some respects not prosperously begun, for their marriage must be at a very uncertain distance; and even secrecy, as far as it can be observed, may now be very advisable."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000021_000002.wav|Willoughby's behaviour in taking leave of them, his embarrassment, and affectation of cheerfulness, and, above all, his unwillingness to accept her mother's invitation, a backwardness so unlike a lover, so unlike himself, greatly disturbed her.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000007_000000.wav|"Disappointment?"|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000012_000001.wav|My visits to mrs Smith are never repeated within the twelvemonth."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000000.wav|"It is all very strange.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000011_000000.wav|"This is very unfortunate.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000031_000000.wav|"I can hardly tell myself.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000048_000001.wav|Her eyes were red and swollen; and it seemed as if her tears were even then restrained with difficulty.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000029_000000.wav|"Nothing, for you have anticipated my answer."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000038_000000.wav|"I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000018_000002.wav|This was broken by Willoughby, who said with a faint smile, "It is folly to linger in this manner.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000011_000001.wav|But mrs Smith must be obliged;--and her business will not detain you from us long I hope."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000022_000000.wav|But whatever might be the particulars of their separation, her sister's affliction was indubitable; and she thought with the tenderest compassion of that violent sorrow which Marianne was in all probability not merely giving way to as a relief, but feeding and encouraging as a duty.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000043_000001.wav|I have had my doubts, I confess; but they are fainter than they were, and they may soon be entirely done away.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000031_000002.wav|There is great truth, however, in what you have now urged of the allowances which ought to be made for him, and it is my wish to be candid in my judgment of every body.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000028_000002.wav|I am persuaded that mrs Smith suspects his regard for Marianne, disapproves of it, (perhaps because she has other views for him,) and on that account is eager to get him away;--and that the business which she sends him off to transact is invented as an excuse to dismiss him. This is what I believe to have happened.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000023_000000.wav|In about half an hour her mother returned, and though her eyes were red, her countenance was not uncheerful.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000045_000000.wav|"I hope not, I believe not," cried Elinor.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000006.wav|YOU must have seen the difference as well as i What can it be?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000008_000002.wav|I have just received my dispatches, and taken my farewell of Allenham; and by way of exhilaration I am now come to take my farewell of you."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000030_000008.wav|And, after all, what is it you suspect him of?"|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000048_000002.wav|She avoided the looks of them all, could neither eat nor speak, and after some time, on her mother's silently pressing her hand with tender compassion, her small degree of fortitude was quite overcome, she burst into tears and left the room.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000020_000000.wav|mrs Dashwood felt too much for speech, and instantly quitted the parlour to give way in solitude to the concern and alarm which this sudden departure occasioned.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000024_000000.wav|"Our dear Willoughby is now some miles from Barton, Elinor," said she, as she sat down to work, "and with how heavy a heart does he travel?"|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000045_000002.wav|It has been involuntary, and I will not encourage it.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000025_000001.wav|So suddenly to be gone!|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000040_000003.wav|Do you suppose him really indifferent to her?"|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000033_000002.wav|But this is no excuse for their concealing it from us."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000010.wav|can he be deceitful?"|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000036_000000.wav|"I am perfectly satisfied of both."|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000033_000000.wav|"Not entirely.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000030_000006.wav|Is nothing due to the man whom we have all such reason to love, and no reason in the world to think ill of?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000043_000000.wav|"You must remember, my dear mother, that I have never considered this matter as certain.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000044_000009.wav|Has there been any inconsistency on his side to create alarm?|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000018_000000.wav|He stopt.|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/227/129974/227_129974_000040_000000.wav|"How strange this is!|227
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000030_000002.wav|It came through the mail and was an honest confession of a wrong done him, also a check for one hundred dollars.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000025_000002.wav|I feel very sad as the anniversary of our darlings' departure draws near and I dread to think of any little ones suffering while we could so easily help them."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000013.wav|Here was her boat! a very large, old-fashioned, oblong tub.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000006_000004.wav|There was no way for the children to reach the roof, which was a very steep, inclined one.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000007_000004.wav|Say a prayer for sister, Rob.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000001.wav|"He came in so very quietly, closed the door gently and I think I even heard him go to the closet to hang up his books.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000027_000004.wav|Let us encourage benevolence and gentleness and if he wishes to go without the fur trimmed coat, why not do as he asks?" mrs Ellis kissed her husband and quietly left the room.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000006_000005.wav|It did not seem long before the water had very nearly risen to the top of the stairs leading from below.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000002_000000.wav|"LITTLE MOTHER"|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000014_000001.wav|Is he sick?" she asked anxiously.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000027_000002.wav|Remember also that we have one left, to live for, to train.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000020_000003.wav|The man had wonderful talents and might have a rich congregation and improve himself; but he is persistent in his ideas concerning this holiness movement, and of course a large church like ours wants something to attract and interest instead of such egotistical discourses.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000028_000000.wav|Long and late, Paul Ellis sat there and many things, ghosts of the past, rose before him.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000005.wav|Her feet touched something cold!|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000003_000001.wav|They called her so because of her quiet, matronly care of the younger Mayfields-that was the father's name.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000006_000001.wav|She lined the oblong tub with a blanket, and made ready bread and cold meat left from supper.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000016_000002.wav|Mama?"|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000028_000006.wav|Now, if Thou wilt only forgive and help me I will walk in the light as Thou sendest it, even consenting to be called a 'holiness crank.'"|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000016_000001.wav|As mother and son dried their tears, the child looked up with perfect confidence as he said, "The Lord will answer Robbie's prayer, won't he.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000019_000000.wav|"By the way, my dear," remarked mrs Ellis as they sat chatting at the tea table after Walter had retired, "what has become of that preacher Goodman who preached for us once on trial?"|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000009_000000.wav|The next day mr Mayfield, who, with his neighbors, scoured the broad lake of eddying water that represented the Mississippi, discovered the tub lodged in the branches of a sycamore with the children weeping and chilled, but safe.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000025_000001.wav|I know it has been an unusually hard year but the Lord has blessed us and He will hold us to an account.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000016_000000.wav|"Tonight, Mother," continued Walter, "he had an awful cold and coughed just like our Harry did last year," and the long pent up tears flowed from the child's eyes.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000003.wav|She put the little girls to bed and persuaded Rob to go; then seated herself by the table with her mother's work basket, in quaint imitation of mrs Mayfield's industry in the evening time.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000007_000001.wav|Bess paused a moment, drew a long breath, and kissed the children quietly.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000018_000000.wav|"Yes darling," said mrs Ellis; and sent the child off to the play room.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000007.wav|Today his usually merry face was very grave and he looked very thoughtful as he gave his mother her kiss and allowed himself to be drawn upon her lap.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000005.wav|Little Walter was all that remained of four beautiful children, who, only a year ago, romped gaily through the large halls.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000001.wav|Old Daddy Jim and Mammy had been detailed by mr Mayfield to keep an unsuspected watch on the little nestlings, and were to sleep at the house.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000028_000001.wav|As the midnight chimes rang out he knelt and prayed. "Oh, Lord, forgive me.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000027_000000.wav|"Paul, my dear husband, don't feel that way.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000020_000002.wav|He looked very needy.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000004_000001.wav|"Be mother's little woman, dear," said mrs Mayfield as she kissed the rosy face.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000004_000002.wav|Her husband added: "I leave the children in your care, Bess; be a little mother to them."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000006.wav|That dread disease, diphtheria, had stolen the older brother and laughing little sisters in one short week's time, so that now, as the sad anniversary came near to hand, mrs Ellis' heart ached for her lost birdlings and yearned more jealously than ever over her remaining little one.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000021_000000.wav|He had picked up a newspaper and was apparently absorbed, but mrs Ellis had not had her say, so she continued "Walter was telling me about the little boy.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000006_000003.wav|There was a single large window in the room, and they set the tub directly by it, so that when the water rose the tub would float out.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000007_000005.wav|If you ever see father and mother, tell them I took care of you." Then the water seized the insecure vessel, and out into the dark night it floated.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000003_000002.wav|Her own name was the beautiful one of Elizabeth, but they shortened it to Bess.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000007_000003.wav|"Goodbye, dears.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000020_000004.wav|I, for one, go to sleep under them." And mr Ellis drew himself up with a pompous air as he went into the library, whither his wife presently followed.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000012_000000.wav|ROBBIE GOODMAN'S PRAYER|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000028_000003.wav|I have been prejudiced.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000004.wav|But what was this?|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000026_000001.wav|When the house is so quiet and I think of those white graves in the cemetery I confess I feel very bitter."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000025_000000.wav|"They do give far beyond their means but the Lord calls on such as us to give.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000022_000003.wav|He wants me to give up buying him the fur trimmed overcoat and get a coat and shoes for Goodman's children, as they were praying so hard for them, but I have enough to do without clothing other people's children.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000007_000002.wav|She explained to Rob that he must guard the basket, and that they must sit still.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000030_000003.wav|One year later this church gave a unanimous call to Brother Goodman and the revival which broke out that winter was unprecedented in the annals of that church.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000015_000005.wav|Even that one is thin and patched.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000023_000000.wav|"But Paul," said mrs Ellis, "Surely you would not have mr Goodman sacrifice his convictions simply for money and praise, when you yourself, are convinced that his doctrines are sound?|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000022_000001.wav|The child's nerves were all wrought up, too.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000010_000001.wav|Ah, where was Bess, the "little mother," who in that brief moment resigned herself to death?|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000009.wav|What should she do?|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000006_000000.wav|Without frightening the children she got them dressed in the warmest clothes they had.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000000.wav|Bess waved her old sun bonnet vigorously, and held up the baby Rose, that she might watch them to the last.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000003_000000.wav|She was a clear eyed, fresh cheeked little maiden, living on the banks of the great Mississippi, the oldest of four children, and mother's "little woman" always.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000023_000001.wav|Besides he must be doing a good work down among the poor classes of the city as it appears the rich don't want him."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000030_000001.wav|His father also received a present.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000012.wav|"But there isn't anything of the sort on the place." She ran wildly out to look for Mammy; and stumbled over something sitting near the edge of the porch. A sudden inspiration took her.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000007.wav|A pool of water was spreading over the floor.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000011.wav|"Oh, if I had a boat!" she exclaimed.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000030_000000.wav|A few days afterward Robert Goodman received a large package from an unknown friend containing a warm overcoat and three pairs of shoes.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000014.wav|The water was now several inches deep on the porch and she contrived to half float, half row the tub into the room.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000000.wav|"What can be the matter with Walter," thought Mama Ellis as she sat sewing in her pleasant sitting room.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000005_000006.wav|She bent down and felt around with her hand.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000028_000004.wav|It was my influence which turned the tide against Robert Goodman.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000015_000000.wav|"No, Mother dear, I'm not sick, but I feel so sad at heart.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000015_000003.wav|After awhile he said, 'My, I am so cold,' and I said: 'Where's your overcoat?' Then he told me it was too small and his papa can't buy him any this winter so he is afraid he will have to stop school.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000006_000002.wav|With Rob's assistance she dragged the tub upstairs.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000007_000000.wav|Bess flung the window open, and made Rob get into their novel boat; then she lifted in Kate, and finally baby Rose, who began to cry, was given into Rob's arms, and now the little mother, taking the basket of food, made ready to enter, too; but, lo! there was no room for her with safety to the rest.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000002.wav|Oh! dear.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000022_000000.wav|"Oh, yes," interrupted her husband, "he met me in the hall and poured out the whole story.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290047/8066_290047_000013_000003.wav|I hope he isn't going to have another attack of 'Grippe,'" and mrs Ellis shivered as she glanced out at the snow covered landscape.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000004_000001.wav|But you must sit here and sew, hungry and cold.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000043_000002.wav|And here I am happy as anything again.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000002.wav|During little Ella's illness she manifested wonderful patience and told of her love for Jesus.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000014_000003.wav|And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000056_000004.wav|I want to help others find the Savior. I am especially burdened for others in the bondage of sin as I was.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000014_000001.wav|We have ourselves known of many children and older ones who had quite similar experiences.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000029_000000.wav|"Mother, I've seen the Lord, His hand in mine I felt, And, oh, I heard Him say, As by my chair I knelt-|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000028_000000.wav|Her little prayer was said, And from her chamber now She passed forth with the light Of heaven upon her brow.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000042_000001.wav|"He does help us bear our burdens in a wonderful way."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000006.wav|He suffered over my sins and came to the door to call me. I promised him to come up soon, but I continued on for some hours with the drunken crowd.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000036_000003.wav|And just as he was about to leave he remarked, "I did a strange thing early this morning.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000046_000000.wav|Apparently the new neighbor had only stunned the cat and she had dug her way out of the shallow hole and come home again.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000036_000006.wav|I'm not much of a hand to make way with things, but I felt so sorry for that poor old animal that I killed it."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000035_000001.wav|She never strays away of her own accord, and certainlv no one would steal an old blind cat."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000005.wav|Donald was then twelve years old.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000008.wav|The books were open on the bed.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000033_000000.wav|But Annette did not come.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000001.wav|He would pray and ask God's blessings at the table.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000003_000001.wav|He was only a little fellow but he had learned the lesson of trusting in God's promises.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000043_000000.wav|"I'll say he does.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000012.wav|When the song, "Lord, I'm coming home," was sung after the service I made my way to the altar.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000009_000001.wav|She agreed to go.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000040_000001.wav|He was out in the orchard on his knees.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000036_000005.wav|One ear was almost gone and it was blind.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000008_000001.wav|Before midnight he woke up, while his mother was still at work, and asked if the bread had come yet.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000009_000000.wav|In the morning, before Johnny was awake, a gentleman called who wanted his mother to come to his house and take charge of his two motherless children.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000007_000000.wav|When they got through he looked at his mother and said, "Now mother, do not be afraid.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000020_000000.wav|"Jesus, my eyes I close, Thy form I cannot see; If Thou art near me, Lord, I pray Thee to speak to me."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000056_000003.wav|I am thankful also for my little boy who never ceased to pray for his mother. Now, my life is in God's hands.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000004.wav|My room is full of angels and Jesus is here.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000003_000000.wav|Johnny did not cry when he heard this.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000023_000000.wav|"The path of life is dark, I would not go astray; Oh, let me have Thy hand To lead me in the way."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000032_000000.wav|Jimmy was lying on an old cot out in the orchard, getting some of the nice spring sunshine on his thin body.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000010.wav|On september fifteenth, following this experience I went to a mission.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000014.wav|It was Donald who was praying for his mother.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000056_000005.wav|But even more than that, I am burdened for children who have no opportunity of knowing Jesus as their personal Savior.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000007.wav|Then she kissed them and called for her little brother and sister and other friends.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000012_000000.wav|TRIUMPHANT DEATH OF A LITTLE CHILD|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000006.wav|As soon as they could control their feelings they made her the promise.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000015.wav|God heard my prayer to be saved.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000009_000003.wav|She went out at once to buy some things for breakfast; and when Johnny awoke, the bread was there, and all that he needed!|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000004_000002.wav|Poor mama!" he said, as he threw his arms around her neck and kissed her many times to comfort her.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000044_000000.wav|"She was very old, son.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000032_000002.wav|kitty!|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000000.wav|Some years ago we knew a Brother and Sister G----, who told of the remarkable experience of their little girl, only seven years old, who had a short time ago gone home to heaven.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000007_000002.wav|God is our Father.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000053_000002.wav|For ten years I never entered a church house except to attend my father's funeral.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000047_000000.wav|It was years before she really died, and long before she presented Jimmy with a very tiny kitten with two whole ears and two very bright eyes.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000010_000000.wav|Johnny is now a man, but he has never wanted bread from that day; and whenever he was afraid since then, he has remembered God's promises, and trusted in him.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000035_000000.wav|"I know, but she's an old cat.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000005_000001.wav|He stopped and looked at her, and repeated with his eyes full of tears.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000036_000001.wav|He introduced himself as the new neighbor who just moved across the little creek.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000000.wav|Donald learned much of the Scriptures.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000005_000002.wav|"Give us this day our daily bread."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000007.wav|When I did come up to our apartment I found Donald on his knees by his bed with his Testament and an old hymn book of my mother in law's.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000009.wav|He looked up through his tears and said, "Mother, I am praying for you." I looked at the Testament and hymnal which were wet with tears that he had shed for his ungodly mother.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000053_000001.wav|I knew better than to do the things I did, but sin is a miry clay pulling its victims down deeper and deeper.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000002.wav|In august nineteen thirty two we were living in Minneapolis.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000036_000004.wav|There was an old cat came over to my place.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000050_000000.wav|HOW GOD ANSWERED DONALD'S PRAYER|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000009.wav|That was a touching scene.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000003.wav|One evening in particular I shall not forget.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000036_000002.wav|He made inquiries as to where he could buy fresh vegetables and milk.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000001.wav|The parents were devoted Christians who had taught their children to love and honor God.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000011.wav|In the midst of many tears all promised her they would surely meet her in that bright and beautiful home to which she was going.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000003_000002.wav|He had great faith in the sweet words of Jesus when he said, "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he will give it you."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000043_000003.wav|And just because I took it all to Jesus.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000033_000001.wav|His mother came and reminded him that Annette was very old indeed, and it might be that she would never come again.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000005_000000.wav|Then he knelt down at his mother's knee to say his prayers after her. They said "Our Father," till they came to the petition, "Give us this day our daily bread." The way in which his mother said these words made Johnny's heart ache.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000043_000001.wav|This morning I felt so bad I didn't know what to do, and then when that man said-he had killed Annette-I thought I just could not stand it.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000053_000000.wav|As years went by, I went into sin and shared in the common sins of worldly people.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000013.wav|While kneeling there I felt someone very close to my side.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000045_000000.wav|But Jimmy was running swiftly across the field toward an old blind cat that was staggering in his direction.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000039_000000.wav|"When I saw it, I just banged it over the head with a stick and then buried it.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000041_000001.wav|"Mother, there's something funny about Annette. I've been praying and I feel all happy inside.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000014_000000.wav|Little Ella's death was glorious and she is not the only one that has left us such bright, joyous testimony.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000008.wav|She talked with each one in turn, telling them in substance, the same she had told her papa and mama, asking each one to make her the same promise, and kissing each one good bye.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000015_000000.wav|--Editor|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000002_000001.wav|As she kissed him the tears fell fast on his face, while she said, "Johnny, my dear, I have not a penny in the world. There is not a morsel of bread in the house, and I cannot give you any tonight."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000040_000000.wav|When he was gone, mother went out to find Jimmy and comfort him.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000009_000002.wav|He left some money with her.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000051_000001.wav|Little children not only have a deep faith but a childlike trust in believing that God answers their prayers.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000014_000002.wav|And though we may not all see, before we die, all that Ella saw, if we love Jesus and do what he asks us to, he will surely fulfill to each of us his promise: "I go to prepare a place for you.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000038_000001.wav|He was very sorry, but of course that did not bring the cat back.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000003.wav|The morning she died she called her papa and mama to her side and said: "I have been in heaven all night.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000019_000000.wav|Into her chamber went A little girl one day, And by a chair she knelt, And thus began to pray:--|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000056_000000.wav|God saved me for service.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000040_000002.wav|Quietly she went up and knelt beside him, slipping her arm about his shoulder.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000027_000000.wav|"Fear not, my child; whatever ill may come I'll not forsake thee till I bring thee home."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000026_000000.wav|"Oh, let my parents live Till I a woman grow; For if they die, what can A little orphan do?"|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000034_000000.wav|"She was here yesterday, Mother," he answered her, and the big tears came to his eyes "She felt perfectly fine then."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000056_000001.wav|I marvel at his grace and mercy toward me.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000010.wav|Those who were there said it seemed more like heaven than earth to be in her presence.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000021_000000.wav|A still, small voice she heard within her soul- "What is it child?|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000037_000000.wav|"Oh!" With a strangled sob Jimmy quickly left the room.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000041_000000.wav|He turned to her at once.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000025_000000.wav|"They tell me, Lord, that all The living pass away; The aged soon must die, And even children may.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000055_000016.wav|He was merciful and washed away my sins.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000001_000001.wav|His mother worked hard for their daily bread. "Please give me something to eat, for I am very hungry," he said to her one evening.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000008_000000.wav|Then he went to bed.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000002_000000.wav|His mother let the work that she was sewing fall upon her knees, and drew Johnny toward her.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/290901/8066_290901_000013_000005.wav|I'm going to heaven." Then she asked them to promise to meet her there.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000034_000004.wav|By a hair it saved him.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000036_000003.wav|He fought fast and furiously, striving to throw, to bend, to beat back the body of a man almost as strong as himself, and now a maniac in rage and fear.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000041_000000.wav|They both, still gripped, looked up the bank.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000012_000002.wav|They offer fifty thousand flat, and it's enough-more than enough.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000024_000004.wav|Well, he was not alone among men whose depths were loosed. Some time his hour might come.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000045_000001.wav|The rifle barrel to his last gaze became a small, round circle, large as a bottle top, and around it shone a fringed aura of red and purple light. That might have been the eye.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000023_000000.wav|And why not?|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000010_000002.wav|The spring snows uncovered a fortune for us, and you know it!"|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000023_000002.wav|Other men avoid him, knowing unconsciously what is in his soul, because of what is written on his face.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000005_000001.wav|Once light of mien, now he smiled never at all.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000003_000000.wav|THE KILLER KILLED|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000033_000000.wav|Half leaning, he raised the long rifle to its line and touched the trigger.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000035_000003.wav|He flung it down, reached for his heavy knife, raising an arm against the second piece of rock which Banion flung as he closed.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000018_000000.wav|He climbed down the side of the ravine, the little stones rattling under his feet, until he stood on the bared floor of the bed rock which had proved so unbelievably prolific in coarse gold.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000025_000000.wav|It had come!|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000041_000002.wav|The crooked arm of the rifleman was motionless, save as it just moved that deadly circle an inch this way, an inch back again.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000007_000000.wav|"Why?|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000032_000000.wav|He gave Banion that much chance to see that he was now to die.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000035_000002.wav|The rifle carried but the one shot.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000031_000000.wav|"Now, damn you, I've got you!"|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000027_000001.wav|He had studied the place before, and meant to take no chances.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000012_000001.wav|But if you'll agree, I'll sell this claim to the company below us and let them have the rest.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000020_000000.wav|And then fate, chance, the goddess of fortune which some men say does not exist, but which all wilderness goers know does exist, for one instant paused, with Will Banion's life and wealth and happiness lightly a balance in cold, disdainful fingers.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000034_000002.wav|It was not more than the piece of rotten quartz he had picked up and planned to examine later.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000021_000001.wav|Almost level with his own, he looked into the eyes of a crawling man who-stooped, one hand steadying himself against the slant of the ravine, the other below, carrying a rifle-was peering frowningly ahead.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000025_000002.wav|He at last had found him.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000017_000003.wav|Banion could not realize that now, young though he was, he was a rich man.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000019_000003.wav|He hastened to get view of the cause, whatever it might be.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000009_000000.wav|"Most does."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000039_000001.wav|Stand back!"|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000043_000000.wav|There was no place where he could run.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000024_000002.wav|His questions, his movements, his changes of locality showed that; and Woodhull was one of those who cannot avoid asseverance, needing it for their courage sake.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000035_000005.wav|And then once more, on the narrow bared floor that but now was patterned in parquetry traced in yellow, and soon must turn to red, it came to man and man between them-and it was free!|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000036_000001.wav|Banion knew he must keep the impounded hand back from the knife sheath or he was done.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000037_000004.wav|His moccasined feet made no sound.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000026_000000.wav|For one instant the two stood, staring into one another's eyes.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000025_000003.wav|Here stood his enemy, unarmed, delivered into his hands.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000017_000002.wav|The hillside now looked like any other hillside, innocent as a woman's eyes, yet covering how much!|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000037_000002.wav|His own long rifle he snatched from its pegs.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000023_000001.wav|When a man would do murder, when that has been his steady and premeditated purpose for a year, waiting only for opportunity to serve his purpose, that purpose itself changes his very lineaments, alters his whole cast of countenance.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000017_000000.wav|Here he and his partner had in a few months of strenuous labor taken from the narrow and unimportant rivulet more wealth than most could save in a lifetime of patient and thrifty toil.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000022_000002.wav|The appearance was that of strain, of nerves stretched in some purpose long sustained.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000036_000000.wav|They fell and stumbled so that neither could much damage the other at first.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000025_000001.wav|He stared now full into the face of his enemy!|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000038_000000.wav|The two struggling men grappled below him had no notion of how long they had fought.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000019_000002.wav|It might be some deer or other animal, he thought.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000010_000001.wav|The last month has been a crime.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000012_000003.wav|I want two things-to get Jim Bridger his share safe and sound; and I want to go to Oregon."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000028_000001.wav|At no time these last four hours had his opportunity been so close-or so poor-as precisely now!|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000007_000001.wav|What's eatin' ye, boy?|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000034_000003.wav|He flung it straight at Woodhull's face-an act of chance, of instinct.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000010_000000.wav|"We've got enough, Bill.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000019_000001.wav|As he stood, half musing, Will Banion heard, on the ravine side around the bend, the tinkle of a falling stone, lazily rolling from one impediment to another.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER forty three|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000024_000003.wav|Now morose and brooding, now loudly profane, now laughing or now aloof, his errand in these unknown hills was plain.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000037_000005.wav|He saw no one in the creek bed or at the long turn.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000026_000002.wav|Woodhull was taken as much unawares as he.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000041_000001.wav|The long barrel of a rifle, foreshortened to a black point, above it a cold eye, fronted and followed them as they swayed.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000005_000000.wav|That his companion, younger, bearded, dressed also in buckskins, was Will Banion it would have taken closer scrutiny even of a friend to determine, so much had the passing of these few months altered him in appearance and in manner.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000027_000002.wav|His shot must be sure.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000011_000003.wav|Why, rich?|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000022_000001.wav|The eyes were narrowed, the full lips drawn close, as though some tense emotion now approached its climax.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000016_000002.wav|Below him lay the ripped open slope where the little stream had been diverted.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000030_000003.wav|There was time even to exult, and that was much better in a long deferred matter such as this.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000021_000000.wav|He turned the corner.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000037_000007.wav|It was Will Banion's voice.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000005_000003.wav|He spoke at last to his ancient and faithful friend, kindly as ever, and with his own alertness and decision.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000030_000001.wav|He snarled, for he saw Banion stoop, unarmed.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000044_000001.wav|Sam Woodhull, look at me!"|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000015_000000.wav|"Well, go on and finish your meal in this plain fireplace of ours, Bill.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000016_000003.wav|Below again lay the bared bed of the exploited water course, floored with bowlders set in deep gravel, at times with seamy dams of flat rock lying under and across the gravel stretches; the bed rock, ages old, holding in its hidden fingers the rich secrets of immemorial time.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000035_000004.wav|He felt his wrist caught in an iron grip, felt the blood gush where his temple was cut by the last missile.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000028_000000.wav|But now, in his climbing on the steep hillside, his rifle was in his left hand, downhill, and his footing, caught as he was with one foot half raised, was insecure.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000006_000000.wav|"Let's make it our last meal on the Trinity, Bill.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000038_000001.wav|It seemed an age, and the denouement yet another age deferred.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000027_000000.wav|It had been Woodhull's purpose to get a stand above the sluices, hidden by the angle, where he could command the reach of the stream bed where Banion and Jackson last had been working.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000004_000000.wav|A rough low cabin of logs, hastily thrown together, housed through the winter months of the Sierra foothills the two men who now, in the warm days of early June, sat by the primitive fireplace cooking a midday meal.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000008_000000.wav|"Yes, I want to move."|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000042_000003.wav|For just one instant he looked up at the death staring down on him, then turned to run.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000040_000000.wav|It was Jackson.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000038_000002.wav|But to them came the sound of a voice:|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8066/114256/8066_114256_000037_000001.wav|To Jackson, shaving off bits of sweet meat between thumb and knife blade, it meant the presence of a stranger, friend or foe, for he knew Banion had carried no weapon with him.|8066
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000012_000004.wav|And about the tomb she let write: Here lieth Sir Hemison, slain by the hands of Sir Tristram de Liones.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000015_000004.wav|Then was there a damosel of Queen Morgan in a chamber by King Arthur, and when she heard King Arthur speak of that shield, then she spake openly unto King Arthur.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000008_000018.wav|And because she deemed that Sir Launcelot loved Queen Guenever paramour, and she him again, therefore Queen Morgan le Fay ordained that shield to put Sir Launcelot to a rebuke, to that intent that King Arthur might understand the love between them.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000004_000005.wav|Right so came in a damosel and said: Knights, be of good cheer, for ye are sure of your lives, and that I heard say my lord, Sir Darras.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000008_000002.wav|Jesu defend! said Sir Tristram, for I was but late a prisoner.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000015_000009.wav|Then Queen Guenever called to her Sir Ector de Maris, and there she made her complaint to him, and said: I wot well this shield was made by Morgan le Fay in despite of me and of Sir Launcelot, wherefore I dread me sore lest I should be destroyed.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000008_000015.wav|Who is that knight?|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000013_000000.wav|Now turn we unto Sir Tristram, that asked the knight his host if he saw late any knights adventurous.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000005_000015.wav|And because Sir Dinadan had the first adventure of him I will begin.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000005_000014.wav|Then Sir Tristram reposed him there till that he was amended of his sickness; and when he was big and strong they took their leave, and every knight took their horses, and so departed and rode together till they came to a cross way. Now fellows, said Sir Tristram, here will we depart in sundry ways.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000013_000007.wav|Thus they talked and bourded as long as them list, and then went to rest.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000005_000010.wav|And if I had slain them by treason or treachery I had been worthy to have died.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000015_000006.wav|And then anon that damosel picked her away privily, that no man wist where she was become.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000010_000013.wav|Then Sir Tristram turned to have done more with his sword, but he saw so much blood go from him that him seemed he was likely to die, and so he departed from him and came to a fair manor to an old knight, and there Sir Tristram lodged.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000012_000003.wav|When Morgan le Fay saw him dead she made great sorrow out of reason; and then she let despoil him unto his shirt, and so she let him put into a tomb.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000007_000002.wav|Let him come, said Sir Dinadan, and because of honour of all women I will do my part.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000010_000005.wav|Alas, my fair friend, ye shall find him the best knight that ever ye met withal, for I know him better than ye do.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000015_000005.wav|Sir King, wit ye well this shield was ordained for you, to warn you of your shame and dishonour, and that longeth to you and your queen.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000005_000006.wav|He said: Sir knight, me repenteth of thy sickness for thou art called a full noble knight, and so it seemeth by thee; and wit ye well it shall never be said that Sir Darras shall destroy such a noble knight as thou art in prison, howbeit that thou hast slain three of my sons whereby I was greatly aggrieved.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000010_000010.wav|And when he came nigh to Sir Tristram he cried on high: Sir knight, keep thee from me.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000007_000000.wav|SO as Sir Dinadan rode by a well he found a lady making great dole. What aileth you? said Sir Dinadan.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000012_000000.wav|NOW leave to speak of Sir Tristram, and speak we of the knight that was wounded to the death.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000007_000004.wav|And then he said: Sir knight, keep thee from me.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000016_000000.wav|Then ever Sir Tristram smote down knights wonderly to behold, what upon the right hand and upon the left hand, that unnethe no knight might withstand him.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000002_000004.wav|So sir Dinas smote him down, that with the fall he brake his leg and his arm.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000007_000003.wav|With this came Sir Breuse, and when he saw a knight with his lady he was wood wroth.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000004_000006.wav|Then were they glad all three, for daily they weened they should have died.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000002_000006.wav|Nay, said sir Dinas, I shall never trust them that once betrayed me, and therefore, as ye have begun, so end, for I will never meddle with you.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000012_000001.wav|Then his varlet alighted, and took off his helm, and then he asked his lord whether there were any life in him.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000006_000000.wav|CHAPTER forty one.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000016_000001.wav|And the King of Scots and the King of Ireland began to withdraw them.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000010_000012.wav|And Sir Tristram smote him harder, and bare him through the body, and he fell over his horse's croup.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137628/2256_137628_000013_000001.wav|Sir, he said, the last night here lodged with me Ector de Maris and a damosel with him, and that damosel told me that he was one of the best knights of the world.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000001.wav|And then he let call his nephew Sir Andred, and bade arm him and horse him lightly; and by that time it was midnight.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000002_000002.wav|But when men be hot in deeds of arms oft they hurt their friends as well as their foes.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000015.wav|With that he lashed at King Mark without saying any more, and covered him with his shield and defended him as he might.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000016.wav|And then Sir Kay lashed at Sir Andred, and therewithal King Mark yielded him unto Sir Gaheris.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000000.wav|So when Sir Tristram was come to his lodging there came a damosel that told Sir Darras that three of his sons were slain at that tournament, and two grievously wounded that they were never like to help themself. And all this was done by a noble knight that bare the black shield, and that was he that bare the prize.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000000.wav|The meanwhile King Mark within the castle of Tintagil avoided all his barons, and all other save such as were privy with him were avoided out of his chamber.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000013_000000.wav|THEN there came Sir Kay, the Seneschal, unto King Mark, and there he had good cheer showing outward.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000005_000005.wav|So Sir Daname came forth on horseback, and there they met together with spears, and Sir Lucan smote down Sir Daname over his horse's croup, and then he fled into that place, and Sir Lucan rode after him, and asked after him many times.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000005_000002.wav|Tell your lord that my name is Sir Lucan, the butler, a Knight of the Round Table.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000006_000006.wav|And when Sir Dinadan understood that Sir Tristram had hurt Sir Lucan he would have ridden after Sir Lucan for to have slain him, but Sir Tristram would not suffer him.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000006_000001.wav|Abide, said Sir Tristram, and I shall redress it.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000002_000005.wav|And as for me, said Sir Launcelot, I promise you upon this book that an I may meet with him, either with fairness or foulness I shall bring him to this court, or else I shall die therefore.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000006_000008.wav|And at that castle Sir Launcelot promised all his fellows to meet in the quest of Sir Tristram.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000010.wav|Right so did Sir Tristram when sickness had undertaken him, for then he took such sorrow that he had almost slain himself.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000001_000000.wav|AND when he came to the land he took off his harness, and sat roaring and crying as a man out of his mind.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000009_000013.wav|Then was the king wood wroth that he had no knights to answer him.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000013_000006.wav|Then said Sir Kay: I require you let us prove this adventure.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000001_000010.wav|Then was Sir Palomides ashamed.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000005_000000.wav|NOW will we speak of Sir Lucan the butler, that by fortune he came riding to the same place thereas was Sir Tristram, and in he came in none other intent but to ask harbour.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000015_000007.wav|Then they told Sir Launcelot word by word of their adventure.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000013_000003.wav|And Sir Gaheris said he would be avised for King Mark was ever full of treason: and therewithal Sir Gaheris departed and rode his way.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000015_000002.wav|And therewithal Sir Kay let him go.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000005_000003.wav|So the porter went unto Sir Darras, lord of the place, and told him who was there to ask harbour.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000007.wav|And as the French book saith, there came forty knights to Sir Darras that were of his own kin, and they would have slain Sir Tristram and his two fellows, but Sir Darras would not suffer that, but kept them in prison, and meat and drink they had.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000013_000005.wav|So within a while Sir Kay came riding that way, and then Sir Gaheris took his horse and met him, and said: Sir Kay, ye are not wise to ride at the request of King Mark, for he dealeth all with treason.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000003_000001.wav|So Sir Launcelot met with her and asked her why she fled.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000011_000005.wav|Fie on you false knight, said Sir Kay, for ye of Cornwall are nought worth.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000006.wav|But when Sir Palomides saw the falling of sickness of Sir Tristram, then was he heavy for him, and comforted him in all the best wise he could.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000010_000005.wav|Alas, he said, have I no knight that will encounter with yonder knight?|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000008_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty eight.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000010_000002.wav|Yet, said the king, for my love take upon thee to joust.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000006_000000.wav|Then Sir Dinadan said to Sir Tristram: It is shame to see the lord's cousin of this place defoiled.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000003.wav|Ah sir, said the damosel, that same is he that slew your three sons.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000013_000004.wav|And by the same way that Sir Kay should ride he laid him down to rest, charging his squire to wait upon Sir Kay; And warn me when he cometh.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000001.wav|Then came there one and told Sir Darras that the same knight was within, him that bare the black shield.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000013_000002.wav|Sir, said Sir Kay, I will prove it.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000017.wav|And then he kneeled adown, and made his oath upon the cross of the sword, that never while he lived he would be against errant knights.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000006.wav|Then Sir Gaheris was wroth that Sir Kay had a fall.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000012_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty nine.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000009_000017.wav|Then was King Mark sorry and wroth out of measure that he had no knight to revenge his nephew, Sir Andred.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000005_000001.wav|Then the porter asked what was his name.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000005.wav|And there at that jousts Sir Kay's horse fell down, for his horse was not so big as the king's horse, and Sir Kay's horse bruised him full sore.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000011_000000.wav|Then King Mark armed him, and took his horse and his spear, with a squire with him.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000002.wav|And so King Mark was armed in black, horse and all; and so at a privy postern they two issued out with their varlets with them, and rode till they came to that lake.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000018.wav|And also he sware to be good friend unto Sir Tristram if ever he came into Cornwall.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000001_000004.wav|It was indented with white and black, said the damosel.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000010_000001.wav|Sir, said Sir Dinas, I am full loath to have ado with any knight of the Round Table.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000013.wav|Save my life, said King Mark, and I will make amends; and consider that I am a king anointed.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000009_000009.wav|And therewithal the king smote down his head, and in his heart he feared sore that Sir Tristram should get him such worship in the realm of Logris wherethrough that he himself should not be able to withstand him.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000007_000008.wav|So Sir Tristram endured there great pain, for sickness had undertaken him, and that is the greatest pain a prisoner may have.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000010.wav|And then they yode both on foot to them, and bade them yield them, and tell their names outher they should die.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000015_000005.wav|And so within a little while they met with Sir Launcelot that always had Dame Bragwaine with him, to that intent he weened to have met the sooner with Sir Tristram; and Sir Launcelot asked what tidings in Cornwall, and whether they heard of Sir Tristram or not.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000014_000004.wav|And King Mark rode against him, and smote each other full hard, for the moon shone as the bright day.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000002_000001.wav|My lord Arthur, said Launcelot, ye put upon me that I should be cause of his departition; God knoweth it was against my will.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137627/2256_137627_000011_000008.wav|And so he departed.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000001_000002.wav|And now such grace God hath sent me, that I hate her as much as ever I loved her, thanked be our Lord Jesus!|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000016_000001.wav|And at that next feast Sir Pelleas and Sir Marhaus were made knights of the Table Round, for there were two sieges void, for two knights were slain that twelvemonth, and great joy had King Arthur of Sir Pelleas and of Sir Marhaus.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000016_000002.wav|But Pelleas loved never after Sir Gawaine, but as he spared him for the love of King Arthur; but ofttimes at jousts and tournaments Sir Pelleas quit Sir Gawaine, for so it rehearseth in the book of French.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000010_000004.wav|And as this knight was lodged with this lady she made her complaint to him of these two knights.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000007_000004.wav|So this earl made his complaint unto Sir Marhaus, that there was a giant by him that destroyed all his lands, and how he durst nowhere ride nor go for him.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000012_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty seven.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000001_000003.wav|Thank me, said the Damosel of the Lake.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000003_000007.wav|Let him in, said the lord, it may happen he shall repent that they took their lodging here.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000003_000003.wav|What adventure is that that I shall have for my lodging? said Sir Marhaus.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty four.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000004_000010.wav|That shall ye feel to morn, said the duke.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000016_000000.wav|Against the feast of Pentecost came the Damosel of the Lake and brought with her Sir Pelleas; and at that high feast there was great jousting of knights, and of all knights that were at that jousts, Sir Pelleas had the prize, and Sir Marhaus was named the next; but Sir Pelleas was so strong there might but few knights sit him a buffet with a spear.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000013_000011.wav|Then the lady was restored of all her lands, and Sir Hue was commanded to be at the court of King Arthur at the next feast of Pentecost.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000011_000002.wav|So on the morn the two knights were sent for, that they should come thither to speak with the Lady of the Rock, and wit ye well they failed not, for they came with an hundred horse.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000004_000011.wav|Shall I have ado with you? said Sir Marhaus.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000001_000004.wav|Anon Sir Pelleas armed him, and took his horse, and commanded his men to bring after his pavilions and his stuff where the Damosel of the Lake would assign.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000010_000003.wav|So there were in the country two knights that were brethren, and they were called two perilous knights, the one knight hight Sir Edward of the Red Castle, and the other Sir Hue of the Red Castle; and these two brethren had disherited the Lady of the Rock of a barony of lands by their extortion.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000014_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty eight.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000011_000001.wav|Gramercy said the lady, and thereas I may not acquit you, God shall.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000005_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty five.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000006_000001.wav|And all this while Sir Marhaus touched them not.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000003_000000.wav|NOW turn we unto Sir Marhaus, that rode with the damosel of thirty winter of age, southward.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000009_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty six.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000008_000000.wav|Then the giant fled and the knight after him, and so he drove him into a water, but the giant was so high that he might not wade after him.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000004_000007.wav|What is your name? said Sir Marhaus; I require you tell me, an it please you.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000017_000000.wav|Explicit liber quartus.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000015_000003.wav|And there was Sir Marhaus well known, for there were knights that he had matched aforetime, and he was named one of the best knights living.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000007_000009.wav|And there he was in great peril, for the giant was a wily fighter, but at last Sir Marhaus smote off his right arm above the elbow.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000001_000000.wav|SIR KNIGHT PELLEAS, said the Damosel of the Lake, take your horse and come forth with me out of this country, and ye shall love a lady that shall love you.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000008_000005.wav|So he departed to meet at his day aforeset.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000007_000005.wav|Sir, said the knight, whether useth he to fight on horseback or on foot?|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000007_000002.wav|And there Sir Marhaus did so nobly that he was renowned, and had sometime down forty knights, and so the circlet of gold was rewarded him.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000004_000001.wav|And then his horse was led into the stable, and he and the damosel were brought into the hall, and there stood a mighty duke and many goodly men about him.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000006_000005.wav|And then they helped up their father, and so by their cominal assent promised to Sir Marhaus never to be foes unto King Arthur, and thereupon at Whitsuntide after to come, he and his sons, and put them in the king's grace.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000007_000001.wav|And who that did best should have a rich circlet of gold worth a thousand besants.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000013_000010.wav|Then the Lady of the Rock was passing glad, and the other brother made great sorrow for his brother's death.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000003_000005.wav|Sir, what adventure so it be, bring me thither I pray thee, said Sir Marhaus; for I am weary, my damosel, and my horse.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000004_000000.wav|So Sir Marhaus was let in with torchlight, and there was a goodly sight of young men that welcomed him.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000015_000001.wav|And so within twelve days they came to Camelot, and the king was passing glad of their coming, and so was all the court.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000011_000005.wav|That will we not, said they, for an we do battle, we two will fight with one knight at once, and therefore if ye will fight so, we will be ready at what hour ye will assign.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000008_000002.wav|Then he returned to the Earl Fergus, the which thanked him greatly, and would have given him half his lands, but he would none take.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2256/137597/2256_137597_000015_000002.wav|Then the king made them to swear upon a book to tell him all their adventures that had befallen them that twelvemonth, and so they did.|2256
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000006_000000.wav|I was as pleased to see him, as may readily be believed, as the genial Irishman was to see me, I was sure, even without his telling me so.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000026_000001.wav|"What has become of that spiteful little beggar?"|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000011_000000.wav|"What! my sister Janet?"|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000024_000001.wav|I should think I did."|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000023_000000.wav|"Och, be jabbers!|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER TWENTY NINE.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000003_000000.wav|Fellows who knock about the world sailoring and so on, cannot help coming to the conclusion that its compass is narrower than stay at home folk might be inclined to believe, for you can hardly stir a step without knocking across some one whom you previously imagined to have been miles and miles away, separated, perhaps, by an ocean from yourself.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000035_000000.wav|My meeting with my dear mother and sister after so long an absence abroad can be well imagined, and so too my first interview with Elsie, whom I should hardly have known again, for how can I describe her beauty and grace, and though I had been prepared in some measure from accounts my mother had sent me, still they exceeded my expectations.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000034_000000.wav|With suchlike conversation my old mess mate and I beguiled our long railway journey to Liverpool, which we reached the same evening, but before we had quite exhausted our respective questions and answers respecting everybody we had ever met or known during the time he and I had been to sea together.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000020_000001.wav|"Is he still chief?"|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000018_000000.wav|After I had answered a lot of Garry O'Neil's questions concerning myself and the time I had passed in South America, speaking, too, of poor Colonel Vereker, whose death he had learnt from my mother, I began again, asking in my turn all about my old shipmates, and, of course, his own also.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000014_000001.wav|But, good looking as she was, he did not think her to be compared to my sister Janet, with whom he had evidently fallen in love at first sight and very deeply so, too!|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000023_000001.wav|he's a big man now.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000030_000000.wav|I asked after some of the other men belonging to my old ship, including Accra Prout, whom the colonel wished to accompany us to Venezuela, the mulatto refusing on the plea that, though he should always love his "old massa," he could not go with him for one insurmountable reason.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000013_000001.wav|"This is indeed a surprise!"|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000002_000000.wav|HOME AT LAST!|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000022_000000.wav|"What's become of Mr Fosset?"|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000015_000000.wav|On his subsequently declaring his passion, impetuous as usual, after a very short acquaintance, my mother insisted as a first step to entertaining his suit that he should leave the sea, as he had another profession by which he was quite capable of supporting a wife as well as himself, if he so pleased.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000019_000001.wav|Do you ricollict ould Stokes?"|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000025_000000.wav|"That same, alannah.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/230928/6099_230928_000020_000000.wav|"Of course I do," I said.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000027_000000.wav|The night lamp made shadowy ghosts of all it touched, and one gleam of light, escaping the paper shade, hung like an aureole above the head of Yuki Chan's mother as she knelt with clasped hands before the Buddha on the shelf.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000026_000004.wav|A moment more and the little maiden lay like a rose leaf in her bed.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000012_000002.wav|She drew close, and reaching down took her mother's hand, hard and cracked by labor, and laying her cheek against it said, with a voice sure of forgiveness and sweet desire for atonement:|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000018_000000.wav|There was nothing in the room to impede their progress.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000020_000004.wav|There was Jingo, too, who had won fame and lasting honor by her wonderful fighting, and was so great she had to sit by the emperors and look down on the other empresses.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000010_000000.wav|No matter how long the night, nor how bitter the struggle, morning always found her bright and cheerful, bending every effort to invent new diversions for her husband.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000016_000000.wav|The years of toil were telling on both father and mother, but they daily refreshed themselves at the overbrimming fountain of Yuki Chan's youth, and now, as they each took one of her hands to go in to see the dolls, they were so gay that the child suggested that instead of walking they should do the new one two three hop she had learned at the kindergarten.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000020_000003.wav|His hair was done in a curious fashion and his dress was of a wonderful brocade, while his hands clasped two fierce looking swords.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000009_000000.wav|In years gone by, night after night sleep had flown before the terror that another woman would be brought into the house that the family name might not die out.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000022_000000.wav|But her delight was in the miniature toilet articles of solid silver, costly gold lacquer, and porcelain, so tiny, so beautifully carved they must have meant the eyesight of some workman, only too glad to shut out the sunlight forever if he might produce just one perfect thing.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000028_000000.wav|Her moving lips had only one refrain: "The child, the child, the child."|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000009_000001.wav|Silently she would slip out to the little shrine and pour out passionate words of prayer that just one little soul might be permitted to live.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000005_000001.wav|The two old people sat on gay cushions with hands folded and feet crossed.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000002.wav|Yuki Chan listened very little, so concerned was she with her own comments, until she happened to see an anxious look creep into her mother's eyes.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000026_000003.wav|It was all getting unmanageable and very hazy, when her mother gathered her into her arms, and quickly casting aside her two garments laid her gently in a bath of caressing warmth.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000007.wav|The young birds in the old plum tree did not stir at the loving touch of the mother who, with a soft bill, searched and sought for the lost one.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000003.wav|It was something every little girl must know, and if Yuki Chan's honorable ears refused to open, how would she learn?|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000015_000000.wav|The father sat by, making no comment, his eyes bright and twinkling. Then he suggested that their Majesties, the dolls, had been waiting long on the shelf.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000020_000000.wav|Arranged in the best room in the house, on five long red covered shelves, were dolls.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000005_000000.wav|On the side of the porch toward the plum tree the child found her father and mother waiting.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000020_000001.wav|Big dolls and little dolls, thin ones and fat ones, each one to represent some royal man or woman of the long ago, and dressed in a fashion of a time almost forgotten.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000014_000000.wav|The mother, with a courtly but playful air, granted her pardon with a low salutation.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000010_000001.wav|She labored to anticipate every wish, and even though she did without, she provided him the best of comfort. Working far into the night, secretly disposing of her small personal treasures, acquiescing in his most trivial statements, she planned that no slightest gap in the domestic arrangement should suggest itself to him.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000003_000000.wav|Yuki Chan's house was typical.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000029_000001.wav|What funny things those shadows made, and, strangely enough, one more wonderful than all the rest grew into the shape of the boy, and his lips were saying, "Be good."|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000024_000000.wav|She pretended to feed the dolls with real food and wine, and actually played with the five court musicians, because they were partly servants and it did not matter.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000015_000001.wav|Was it not time they were receiving a visit?|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000004.wav|Then Yuki Chan nestled close, and gave little pats of love and tried to listen.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000003_000001.wav|The paper screens were carefully put away during the day, that the breezes might play unobstructed through the house.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000029_000000.wav|Yuki Chan watched the play of the light in the half dark room.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000011_000004.wav|From that time to this love had prevailed, and as Yuki Chan climbed on the porch, besmirching its shining surface with her muddy little feet, that had been guiltless of sandals all day, the faces of the two old people lighted up with sudden joy.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000011_000000.wav|The woman worked and prayed and waited.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000021_000002.wav|She might be turned into a lizard or a snake, just as the old lodge keeper had said.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000026_000001.wav|Her mother took from a small inclosure beneath a shelf many soft comforts with which she arranged the child's bed.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000011_000002.wav|In the wake of a great snow storm came the longed for child, and they called her Yuki, after the snow that had brought them their wish.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000008.wav|The plum blossoms lingered yet for a night as the air had grown chill.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000019_000000.wav|Half skipping, half hopping, and wholly undone with laughter and exertion, the three at last reached the place where, for six years, offerings had been made for the gift of the child who stood to these two for love.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000011_000001.wav|Then she triumphed.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000006_000000.wav|Each year the struggle of obsolete methods of business and the intricacies of progress plowed the furrows a little deeper in the man's face, and when his eyes, that in youth had blazed with ambition, grew wistful and troubled, he dropped them that his wife might not see.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000021_000001.wav|She could not be rude to an emperor, even though he had been dead hundreds of years. She was really not very afraid of the greatness of the old doll men and women who sat on the shelf, still it was well to be careful about handling them.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000013_000000.wav|"Go men nasai."|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000005.wav|THE shadows of the bamboo grew long and slim as the sun kissed them good night.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000014_000001.wav|Then with a rush of affection that no convention could stem, she folded the child to her heart and lived another moment of supreme joy.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000020_000005.wav|Such a lot of them!|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000007_000001.wav|When she came to him as a shy bride on trial, she knew no such word as love. Duty was her entire vocabulary, and she asked nothing and gave all.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000004_000000.wav|Binding the whole was a narrow porch, showing a floor polished like a mirror from the slipping and sliding of generations of feet.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000008_000000.wav|Many little souls had come to her, with hands all crimped and pink, like new blown cherry leaves, only to close their eyes and pass out to the good god Jizo, who is always waiting to help little children across the river of death.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000020_000006.wav|Some worthy to be remembered every day in the year, others the more quickly forgotten the better.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000006.wav|The sails skimmed homeward on a silver sea as the west covered its rosy pink in a veil of deepest blue.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000025_000001.wav|Her father and mother hovered around her, repeating the history of all those wonderful people.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/69550/6099_69550_000012_000000.wav|Yuki Chan looked ruefully at the muddy prints she had made and realized that she had been a most impolite little girl.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000021_000000.wav|"Father, when may we go to Fort Moultrie again?" she asked one morning a few days later, for she wanted very much to see mrs Carleton, and was quite sure that her father would be ready to sail down the harbor on any pleasant day, and his reply made her look up in surprise.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000034_000000.wav|After her father had left the house Sylvia and her mother went up to mrs Fulton's pleasant sitting room.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000048_000000.wav|Sylvia, feeling quite grown up, made her pretty curtsey, and smiled with delight at mr Waite's greeting, as he led her toward her mother and, with another polite bow, gave her the seat on the sofa.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000011_000000.wav|"Thank you, Grace.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000049_000002.wav|"She was kind enough to interest herself in behalf of one of my people, the little darky, Estralla.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000008_000000.wav|"Estralla!|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000032_000000.wav|"When shall we go to Boston?" Sylvia asked.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000027_000001.wav|"She has done lots of brave things for me.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000031_000001.wav|"Don't suggest such a thing to Aunt Connie, Sylvia."|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000027_000000.wav|"I can't go to Boston and leave Estralla!" she sobbed.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, Sylvia, I wish I had been with you," she exclaimed.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000017_000000.wav|Grace came running to meet Sylvia as they came near their home.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000011_000001.wav|I will start back to the fort as soon as I have talked with Sylvia's mother."|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000030_000000.wav|"Oh, Father!|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000038_000000.wav|The little colored girl had put the room in order; there was a bright fire in the grate, the morning sunshine filled the room, and Miss Molly and Polly, smiling as usual, were in the tiny chairs behind the little round table.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000051_000003.wav|But whatever it was she was very happy to think mr Robert Waite had remembered her.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000020_000000.wav|For several days Sylvia could think and talk only of her wanderings among the sand hills, and of her first sight of the guard boat.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000022_000003.wav|No one is allowed to go to the forts.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000047_000000.wav|"Miss Sylvia, I am glad to see you again," and he stepped forward to meet her.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000003_000000.wav|A CHRISTMAS PRESENT|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000009_000000.wav|"She ran off as soon as Sylvia was missed," Grace continued earnestly, "and she will find her.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000022_000004.wav|And unless Major Anderson takes possession of Fort Sumter the Confederates will."|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000037_000001.wav|It will not be a very gay Christmas for any of us this year," responded mrs Fulton, and Sylvia went slowly to her own room where Estralla was waiting for her.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000023_000000.wav|"And we are to start for Boston next week, dear child," Sylvia's mother added.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000010_000002.wav|I had not thought of it," and mr Fulton's voice had a new note of hope.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000044_000002.wav|The city is no longer a safe place for northern people. The conflict may begin at any moment."|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000025_000001.wav|But if they went to Boston and left Estralla behind Sylvia was sure that there would be nothing but trouble for the faithful little darky.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000055_000002.wav|Palmetto flags floated everywhere; the streets were filled with marching men.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000020_000001.wav|She began teaching Estralla on the very day of her return, and the little darky made rapid progress.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000022_000000.wav|"I do not know that we shall ever go to the forts again," her father had replied.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000051_000002.wav|She knew that she must not ask a question; questions were never polite, she remembered, especially about a gift.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000043_000000.wav|"Oh!" she whispered, as she stood in the open door.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000046_000000.wav|Just then mr Waite glanced toward the door and saw Sylvia.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000045_000001.wav|Probably it meant something dreadful, she thought, recalling the "question period" at Miss Rosalie's school.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000018_000001.wav|"That is twice you have been to Fort Sumter without meaning to go, isn't it?"|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000030_000002.wav|"Couldn't I buy Estralla and then make her free?|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000033_000000.wav|"Right away after Christmas, unless Fort Sumter is attacked before that time.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000006_000001.wav|They could see the dark line of the guard boat, but they were not molested and came into the wharf safely.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000049_000000.wav|"I was hoping to see Miss Sylvia," he said.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000029_000000.wav|"But Estralla would not want to leave her mammy," suggested mr Fulton.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000033_000001.wav|Washington ought to send troops and provisions for the forts at once!" replied mr Fulton.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000054_000000.wav|"Then, my dear, perhaps you will always remember that to do brave and gentle deeds with kindness is what 'chivalry' means," responded mrs Fulton.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000027_000002.wav|She wouldn't leave me to be a slave."|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000024_000001.wav|But Sylvia was not glad.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000005_000001.wav|She was supposed to be somewhere about the fort.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000030_000003.wav|I've got that gold money Grandma gave me."|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000052_000000.wav|They all went to the door with their friendly visitor, and stood there until he had reached the gate.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000051_000001.wav|She wondered if the envelope might not contain a picture of this kind friend.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000055_000003.wav|Major Anderson in Fort Moultrie watched Fort Sumter with anxious eyes, hoping for a word from Washington which would give him authority to occupy it before the Charleston men could turn its guns against him.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000013_000001.wav|"Orders, sir.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000019_000000.wav|"We will hope that her next visit will not be as dangerous as this one," said mr Fulton soberly.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000045_000000.wav|"'Conflict,'" Sylvia repeated the word to herself.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000026_000000.wav|"Why, Sylvia!|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000012_000001.wav|It was in vain that mr Fulton explained that his little daughter was lost, that he must be permitted to return to the fort.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000051_000000.wav|Sylvia promised and thanked him.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000039_000002.wav|Won't de Yankees come and set us free, Missy?"|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000004_000001.wav|He still hoped that his little girl might be found.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER seventeen|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000016_000002.wav|And Mother, too!" and in another moment her mother's arms were about her, and she was telling as rapidly as possible the story of her adventures, and of Estralla coming to her rescue.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000036_000000.wav|"Won't I see mrs Carleton again?" Sylvia asked anxiously.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000013_000000.wav|The sentry wasted no words.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000024_000002.wav|What would become of Estralla?|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000008_000001.wav|Why, I had entirely forgotten her," responded mr Fulton.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000049_000003.wav|And so I thought this would please you," and he smiled at Sylvia, who began to be sure that mr Waite and Santa Claus must be exactly alike.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000035_000000.wav|"We must begin to pack at once," declared Sylvia's mother, "and do not go outside the gate alone, Sylvia.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000044_000001.wav|And you had better leave Charleston immediately.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000028_000000.wav|mr and mrs Fulton looked at each other with puzzled eyes.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000049_000004.wav|As he spoke he handed Sylvia a long envelope.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000016_000000.wav|They landed at the wharf where the Butterfly was fastened, and before Captain Gerald had stepped on shore Sylvia called out: "Father!|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000006_000003.wav|Neither of them spoke until they reached the walk leading to the door of Grace's home, then Grace said:|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000053_000000.wav|"I think mr Robert Waite is just like the Knights in that book, 'The Age of Chivalry.' They always did exactly what was right, and so does he; and they were polite and so is he."|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000049_000001.wav|"I had meant to make her a little Christmas gift, with your permission," and he bowed again to mrs Fulton.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000040_000002.wav|Let's not talk about it," she replied.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000012_000000.wav|But on mr Fulton's return to the wharf he found a sentry on guard who refused him permission to go to the fort.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000037_000000.wav|"I do not know, dear child, but run away and give Estralla her lesson, as usual.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000013_000002.wav|Sorry," was the only response he could get, and at midnight mr Fulton was in his own house looking out over the harbor.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000043_000002.wav|They were all talking so earnestly that they did not notice the surprised little girl standing in the doorway, and Sylvia heard mr Waite say:|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000040_000001.wav|"I don't know, Estralla!|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000006_000000.wav|Grace, warmly wrapped in a thick shawl, sat beside mr Fulton as the Butterfly made its swift way across the dark harbor.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000014_000000.wav|He realized that in that case it would not be possible for his family to remain in Charleston.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000005_000000.wav|No one had given a thought to the little darky girl.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000004_000002.wav|A party of soldiers, headed by Captain Carleton, had started to search for her on Sullivan's Island, but this had not been determined upon until late in the evening, at about the time when Estralla and Sylvia were embarking upon their adventurous voyage to Fort Sumter.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6099/67860/6099_67860_000050_000000.wav|"Do not open it until to morrow, if you please," he added.|6099
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000011_000000.wav|But the good man drew the poor lad in, saying, with his friendly smile: "Shall not a Christian be as hospitable as a godless savage?|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000011_000001.wav|Come in, child, and be fed: you sorely need rest and shelter."|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000038_000001.wav|He goes; but he comes again to bring the boy, the little squaw."|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000052_000000.wav|These were the orders Reuben received, and, when he could compose himself, he went back to the wigwams, leaving his friend in the wood, while he told the good news to Eunice, and prepared her for the part she must play.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000013_000002.wav|See, he is smiling; that pleased him, and he wishes us to be his friends."|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000012_000000.wav|Leaving his face to express the gratitude he had no words to tell, the boy sat by the comfortable fire and ate like a famished wolf, while Becky muttered her forebodings and the children eyed the dark youth at a safe distance.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000048_000003.wav|Go and wait."|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000008_000000.wav|Long ago,--when hostile Indians haunted the great forests, and every settlement had its fort for the protection of the inhabitants,--in one of the towns on the Connecticut River, lived Parson Bain and his little son and daughter.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000029_000000.wav|The old woman was quickly extricated from her hiding place, and with much energy declared that she had seen Onawandah, disguised with war paint, among the Indians, and that he had torn away the children from her arms before she could fly from the house.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000087_000000.wav|All felt it, and even old Becky had a remorseful sigh for the boy who had kept his word so well and given back her darlings safe.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000014_000001.wav|Reuben hid his fears better, and resolved to watch while others slept; but was off as soon as his curly head touched the pillow, and dreamed of tomahawks and war whoops till morning.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000051_000001.wav|You watch her.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000055_000005.wav|Sometimes it was only a caress or a whisper of encouragement, that re assured the childish heart, and sent her to sleep with a comfortable sense of love and protection, like a sheltering wing over a motherless bird.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000034_000003.wav|Shaking off the hands that held him, he went to his good friend, saying with passionate earnestness:--|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000028_000000.wav|"I am here, betwixt the beds.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000062_000000.wav|The name echoed through the silent wood, and, though far away, the keen ear of the Indian heard it, his fleet feet brought him back in time, and his knowledge of wild roots and herbs made it possible to save the child when no other help was at hand.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000006_000000.wav|With this very short preface, Aunt Elinor began to read, in her best manner, the story of|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000078_000002.wav|Reuben watched him anxiously, for there was a look in his face that troubled the boy and filled him with alarm, as well as with remorse and love.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000051_000000.wav|"Little squaw betray me.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000019_000001.wav|Let him remember only kindness of us, and so we turn a foe into a friend," said Parson Bain, stroking the sleek, dark head, that always bowed before him, with a docile reverence shown to no other living creature.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000074_000001.wav|Onawandah heard him, and was there in time to receive the beast, as, mad with the pain of the wound, it sprung at Reuben.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000017_000002.wav|The children were soon his friends, for with them he was always gentle, trying in his soft language and expressive gestures to show his good will and gratitude; for they defended him against their ruder playmates, and, following their father's example, trusted and cherished the homeless youth.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000047_000000.wav|One day, when Reuben was snaring birds in the wood,--for the Indians had no fear of such young children venturing to escape,--he heard the cry of a quail, and followed it deeper and deeper into the forest, till it ceased, and, with a sudden rustle, Onawandah rose up from the brakes, his finger on his lips to prevent any exclamation that might betray him to other ears and eyes.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000020_000000.wav|Winter came, and the settlers fared hardly through the long months, when the drifts rose to the eaves of their low cabins, and the stores, carefully harvested, failed to supply even their simple wants.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000024_000000.wav|"I hope you mayn't find you've warmed a viper in your bosom, master."|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000081_000000.wav|At last they saw the smoke from the cabins on the hillside, and, hastily mooring the canoe, all sprang out, eager to be at home after their long and perilous wandering.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000065_000000.wav|"Eat, eat, while I make drink.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000073_000000.wav|It would have been wiser to hurry on and give the beast no time to spring; but the boy was over bold, and, fitting an arrow to the string, aimed at the bright eye ball and let fly.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000066_000000.wav|The boy was soon relieved, but for hours they hung over the girl, who suffered sadly, till she grew unconscious and lay as if dead.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000038_000000.wav|"Onawandah has no fear.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000018_000000.wav|When he was able to walk, he taught the boy to shoot and trap the wild creatures of the wood, to find fish where others failed, and to guide himself in the wilderness by star and sun, wind and water.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000042_000000.wav|"He will never do it, yet he is a brave lad for his years."|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000008_000003.wav|No man went to work without his gun near by.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000016_000000.wav|"When he is well, he may go whithersoever he will; but while he is too lame to walk, weak with hunger, and worn out with weariness, I will harbor him.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000035_000001.wav|Onawandah remembers!|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000059_000001.wav|At sunrise they hid in a thicket by a spring and rested, while waiting for the friendly night to come again.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000055_000003.wav|She lost appetite and color, and cast such appealing glances at Onawandah, that he could not seem quite indifferent, and gave her a soft word now and then, or did such acts of kindness as he could perform unsuspected.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000021_000001.wav|Why he stayed when he was well again, no one could tell, unless he waited for spring to make his way to his own people.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000017_000000.wav|But they kept a close watch upon Onawandah, when he went among them, silent and submissive, but with the proud air of a captive prince, and sometimes a fierce flash in his black eyes when the other lads taunted him with his red skin.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000077_000000.wav|Excited by his adventure, the boy slept lightly, and waking in the night, saw by the flicker of the fire Onawandah binding up a deep wound in his breast with wet moss and his own belt.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000051_000002.wav|Tell her not to cry out, not speak me any time.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000066_000002.wav|Even Onawandah lost hope for a while, and sat like a bronze statue of despair, with his eyes fixed on his Wild Rose, who seemed fading away too soon.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000061_000003.wav|Not knowing what to do, he could only rub her hands and call wildly for Onawandah.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000030_000001.wav|Spite of all my warnings, master trusted him, and this is the thanks we get. Oh, my poor master!|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000033_000000.wav|"The boy, the little squaw,--where gone?"|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000078_000003.wav|Eunice would not let him carry her as before, but trudged bravely behind him, though her feet ached and her breath often failed as she tried to keep up; and both children did all they could to comfort and sustain their friend, who seemed glad to give his life for them.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000081_000004.wav|He keep his promise."|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000041_000000.wav|Then the people drew a long breath, and muttered to one another:--|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000031_000001.wav|He had seen the smoke afar off, guessed the sad truth, and hurried on, to find his home in ruins, and to learn by his first glance at the faces around him that his children were gone.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000081_000002.wav|I cannot.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000081_000001.wav|But as his foot touched the land, Onawandah felt that he could do no more, and stretching his arms toward the parsonage, the windows of which glimmered as hospitably as they had done when he first saw them, he said, with a pathetic sort of triumph in his broken voice: "Go.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000088_000000.wav|They buried him where he lay; and for years the lonely mound under the great oak was kept green by loving hands.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000016_000002.wav|I shall do my duty, and leave the consequences to the Lord," answered the parson, with such pious firmness that the neighbors said no more.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000063_000001.wav|Keep warm.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000055_000001.wav|He was resting and slowly gathering strength for the hard task he had set himself, while he waited for a safe time to save the children.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000078_000000.wav|Next morning, they set out and pushed on as fast as Eunice's strength allowed.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000034_000001.wav|He bore it all in proud silence till they pointed to the poor father, whose dumb sorrow was more eloquent than all their wrath.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000035_000002.wav|Onawandah grateful! You believe?"|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000054_000000.wav|Not till the next day did Onawandah make his appearance, and then he came limping into the village, weary, lame, and half starved, after his long wandering in the wilderness.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000018_000001.wav|To Eunice he brought little offerings of bark and feathers; taught her to make moccasins of skin, belts of shells, or pouches gay with porcupine quills and colored grass.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000051_000003.wav|When I say come, we go-fast-in the night.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000045_000001.wav|Their captors were not cruel to them, for Reuben was a stout fellow, and, thanks to Onawandah, could hold his own with the boys who would have tormented him if he had been feeble or cowardly.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000050_000000.wav|Lying hidden in the tall brakes they talked in whispers, while one told of the capture, and the other of a plan of escape; for, though a friendly tribe, these Indians were not Onawandah's people, and they must not suspect that he knew the children, else they might be separated at once.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000005_000000.wav|"A story that will just suit you, I think.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000021_000000.wav|But he never joined in their games, and sat apart when the young folk made merry, as if he scorned such childish pastimes and longed to be a man in all things.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000039_000000.wav|Few words, but they were so solemnly spoken that the most unbelieving were impressed; for the youth laid one hand on the gray head bowed before him, and lifted the other toward heaven, as if calling the Great Spirit to hear his vow.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000065_000001.wav|All safe now," cried Onawandah, as he came leaping toward them with his hands full of green leaves, and his dark face shining with joy.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000067_000000.wav|Suddenly he rose, stretched his arms to the west, where the sun was setting splendidly, and in his own musical language prayed to the Great Spirit.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000008_000004.wav|On Sundays, when they trudged to the rude meeting house, all carried the trusty rifle on the shoulder; and while the pastor preached, a sentinel mounted guard at the door, to give warning if canoes came down the river or a dark face peered from the wood.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000019_000000.wav|"We can not tame an eagle as we can a barnyard fowl.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000059_000000.wav|Till dawn they hurried on, Onawandah carrying Eunice, whose strength soon failed, and Reuben manfully shouldering the hatchet and the pouch of food.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000043_000000.wav|"Only a shift to get off with a whole skin, I warrant you.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000013_000001.wav|Thou shalt love thine enemies, and share thy bread with the needy.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000070_000002.wav|Patient, loving, and grateful, it was a pleasure to serve her, and both the lads were faithful nurses.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000070_000000.wav|In the morning she was safe, and great was the rejoicing; but for two days the little invalid was not allowed to continue the journey, much as they longed to hurry on.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000031_000000.wav|There was no need to tell it; for, as Becky sat moaning and beating her breast on the fireless hearth, and the sympathizing neighbors stood about her, the sound of a horse's hoofs was heard, and the parson came down the hilly road like one riding for his life.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000010_000000.wav|"Send him away, master, or harm will come of it.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000070_000003.wav|Onawandah cooked birds for her to eat, and made a pleasant drink of the wild raspberry leaves to quench her thirst.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000018_000002.wav|He would not work for old Becky,--who plainly showed her distrust,--saying: "A brave does not grind corn and bring wood; that is squaw's work.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000009_000001.wav|In his broken way, he told how he had fallen ill, and been left to die by enemies who had taken him from his own people, months before; how he had wandered for days till almost sinking; and that he had come now to ask for help, led by the hospitable light in the parsonage window.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000082_000000.wav|Then he dropped upon the grass and lay as if dead, while Reuben, bidding Eunice keep watch, ran as fast as his tired legs could carry him to tell the tale and bring help.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000055_000004.wav|When she lay awake at night thinking of home, a cricket would chirp outside the wigwam, and a hand slip in a leaf full of berries, or a bark cup of fresh water for the feverish little mouth.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000030_000002.wav|How can I tell him this heavy news?"|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000032_000003.wav|Dropping his burden, he stood an instant looking with eyes that kindled fiercely; then he came bounding toward them, undaunted by the hatred, suspicion, and surprise plainly written on the countenances before him.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000069_000000.wav|All night Eunice lay peacefully sleeping, and the moon lighted Onawandah's lonely watch, for Reuben was worn out with suspense, and slept beside his sister.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000028_000001.wav|Pull me out, neighbors, for I am half dead with fright and smothering."|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000048_000001.wav|"I take you home.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000059_000002.wav|Then they pushed on, and fear gave wings to their feet, so that by another morning they were far enough away to venture to travel more slowly and sleep at night.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000030_000000.wav|"He chose his time well, when they were defenceless, dear lambs!|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000025_000001.wav|In terror and confusion the whites flew to the fort; and, while the men fought bravely, the women held blankets to catch arrows and bullets, or bound up the hurts of their defenders.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000075_000001.wav|But not before it had torn and bitten him more dangerously than he knew; for the dusk hid the wounds, and excitement kept him from feeling them at first.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000054_000001.wav|He was kindly welcomed, and his story believed; for he told only the first part, and said nothing of his life among the white men.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000073_000001.wav|A sharp snarl showed that some harm was done, and, rather daunted by the savage sound, Reuben raced away, meaning to come back next day for the prize he hoped he had secured.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000084_000000.wav|But poor Onawandah had waited too long; now he could only look up into the dear, loving, little face bent over him, and whisper wistfully: "Wild Rose will remember Onawandah?" as the light went out of his eyes, and his last breath was a smile for her.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000064_000000.wav|Then he was off again, scouring the woods like a hound on the scent, searching everywhere for the precious little herb that would counteract the poison.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000046_000002.wav|Their clothes grew ragged, their hair unkempt, their faces tanned by sun and wind.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000074_000000.wav|But soon he heard the creature bounding after him, and he uttered one ringing shout for help, feeling too late that he had been foolhardy. Fortunately, he was nearer camp than he thought.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000032_000004.wav|He missed his playmates, and asked but one question:--|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000072_000000.wav|"If I could only kill it alone, how proud Onawandah would be of me," thought Reuben, burning for the good opinion of his friend.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000018_000003.wav|Onawandah will hunt and fish and fight for you, but no more." And even the request of the parson could not win obedience in this, though the boy would have died for the good man.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000070_000001.wav|It was a pretty sight, the bed of hemlock boughs spread under a green tent of woven branches, and on the pillow of moss the pale child watching the flicker of sunshine through the leaves, listening to the babble of a brook close by, or sleeping tranquilly, lulled by the murmur of the pines.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000058_000003.wav|Not a broken twig, a careless step, or a whispered word betrayed them, and they vanished as swiftly and silently as hunted deer flying for their lives.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000040_000000.wav|A relenting murmur went through the crowd, but the boy paid no heed, as he turned away, and with no arms but his hunting knife and bow, no food but such as he could find, no guide but the sun by day, the stars by night, plunged into the pathless forest and was gone.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000070_000004.wav|Reuben snared rabbits, that she might have nourishing food, and longed to shoot a deer for provision, that she might not suffer hunger again on their journey.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000063_000002.wav|I soon come," he said, after hearing the story and examining Eunice, who could only lift her eyes to him, full of childish confidence and patience.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000043_000001.wav|These varlets are as cunning as foxes," added Becky, sourly.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000016_000001.wav|He cannot feign suffering and starvation like this.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000005_000001.wav|The hero is an Indian, and a brave one, as you will see.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000086_000001.wav|Let us imitate his virtues, and do honor to his memory," said the pastor, as he held his little daughter close and looked down at the pathetic figure at his feet, whose silence was more eloquent than any words.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000037_000001.wav|Go, you are no longer safe here, and I have no home to offer you," said the parson, sadly, feeling that he cared for none, unless his children were restored to him.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000026_000002.wav|Then it was discovered that Becky and the parson's children were gone, and great was the bewailing, for the good man was much beloved by all his flock.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000034_000002.wav|Onawandah looked at him, and the fire died out of his eyes as if quenched by the tears he would not shed.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000032_000000.wav|When he had heard all there was to tell, he sat down upon his door stone with his head in his hands, praying for strength to bear a grief too deep for words.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000061_000001.wav|Once, when he went in search of food, leaving Reuben to guard his sister, the children, being very hungry, ignorantly ate some poisonous berries which looked like wild cherries, and were deliciously sweet.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000032_000002.wav|Suddenly a stir went through the mournful group, as Onawandah came from the wood with a young deer upon his shoulders, and amazement in his face as he saw the desolation before him.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000009_000000.wav|One autumn night, when the first heavy rains were falling and a cold wind whistled through the valley, a knock came at the minister's door, and, opening it, he found an Indian boy, ragged, hungry, and foot sore, who begged for food and shelter.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000055_000002.wav|They understood, but the suspense proved too much for little Eunice, and she pined with impatience to be gone.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000057_000000.wav|At last, in the early autumn, all the men went off on the war path, leaving only boys and women behind.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000034_000000.wav|His answer was a rough one, for the men seized him and poured forth the tale, heaping reproaches upon him for such treachery and ingratitude.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000078_000001.wav|But it was evident that Onawandah suffered much, though he would not rest, forbade the children to speak of his wounds, and pressed on with feverish haste, as if he feared that his strength might not hold out.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000055_000000.wav|Onawandah took no further notice of them, but seemed to be very lame with the old wound in his foot, which prevented his being obliged to hunt with the men.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000061_000000.wav|Twice he saved their lives.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000068_000000.wav|"He hears! he hears!" cried Onawandah, and for the first time Reuben saw tears in his keen eyes, as the Indian boy turned his face to the sky, full of a gratitude that no words were sweet enough to tell.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000060_000001.wav|He never seemed to sleep, ate the poorest morsels, or went without any food when provision failed; let no danger daunt him, no hardship wring complaint from him, but went on through the wild forest, led by guides invisible to them, till they began to hope that home was near.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000015_000000.wav|Next day, neighbors came to see the waif, and one and all advised sending him away as soon as possible, since he was doubtless a spy, as Becky said, and would bring trouble of some sort.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000076_000000.wav|Onawandah made light of his scratches, as he called them, got their supper, and sent Reuben early to bed, for to morrow they were to start again.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000026_000000.wav|It was all over by daylight, and the red men sped away up the river, with several prisoners, and such booty as they could plunder from the deserted houses.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000085_000000.wav|When the parson and his people came hurrying up full of wonder, joy, and good will, they found Eunice weeping bitterly, and the Indian boy lying like a young warrior smiling at death.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000054_000002.wav|He hardly glanced at the children when they were pointed out to him by their captors, and scowled at poor Eunice, who forgot her part in her joy, and smiled as she met the dark eyes that till now had always looked kindly at her.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000057_000001.wav|Then Onawandah's eyes began to kindle, and Reuben's heart to beat fast, for both felt that their time for escape had come.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000060_000000.wav|If the children had learned to love and trust the Indian boy in happier times, they adored him now, and came to regard him as an earthly Providence; so faithful, brave, and tender was he,--so forgetful of himself, so bent on saving them.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000036_000000.wav|The poor parson looked up at him, and could not doubt his truth; for genuine love and sorrow ennobled the dark face, and he had never known the boy to lie.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000008_000002.wav|Even the friendly Indians, who sometimes came for food or powder, were regarded with suspicion by the people.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000045_000002.wav|Eunice also was a hardy creature for her years, and when her first fright and fatigue were over, made herself useful in many ways among the squaws, who did not let the pretty child suffer greatly; though she was neglected, because they knew no better.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000046_000000.wav|Life in a wigwam was not a life of ease, and fortunately the children were accustomed to simple habits and the hardships that all endured in those early times.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000058_000001.wav|A cricket chirped shrilly outside the tent where the children slept with one old squaw.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000070_000005.wav|This boyish desire led him deeper into the wood than it was wise for him to go alone, for it was near nightfall, and wild creatures haunted the forest in those days.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000066_000001.wav|Reuben's courage failed then, and he cried bitterly, thinking how hard it would be to leave the dear little creature under the pines and go home alone to father.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000063_000000.wav|"Make fire.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000013_000000.wav|"That was well done, little daughter.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000048_000000.wav|"I come for you and little Laroka" (the name he gave Eunice, meaning "Wild Rose").|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000012_000001.wav|Something in his pinched face, wounded foot, and eyes full of dumb pain and patience, touched the little girl's tender heart, and, yielding to a pitiful impulse, she brought her own basin of new milk and, setting it beside the stranger, ran to hide behind her father, suddenly remembering that this was one of the dreaded Indians.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000020_000001.wav|But the minister's family never lacked wild meat, for Onawandah proved himself a better hunter than any man in the town; and the boy of sixteen led the way on his snow shoes when they went to track a bear to its den, chase the deer for miles, or shoot the wolves that howled about their homes in the winter nights.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000010_000001.wav|He is a spy, and we shall all be scalped by the murdering Injuns who are waiting in the wood," said old Becky, harshly; while little Eunice hid in the old servant's ample skirts, and twelve year old Reuben laid his hand on his cross bow, ready to defend his sister if need be.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/103120/7789_103120_000081_000003.wav|Tell the good father, Onawandah not lie, not forget.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000015_000004.wav|The Caliph, hearing of his death, went in to her greatly troubled; and, when she saw him looking afflicted, she entered her chamber and doffing all that was upon her of rich raiment, donned mourning apparel and raised lament for her father.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000021_000000.wav|Quoth the second,|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000027_000002.wav|I ate of both and praised their fashion and would have ganged my gait; but she cried out, 'Sit down, O Asma'i!' Wherewith I raised my eyes to her and saw a rosy palm in a saffron sleeve, meseemed it was the full moon rising splendid in the cloudy East.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000017_000002.wav|I have heard great store of women's verses; but none pleased me save three sets of couplets I once heard from three girls."--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000023_000000.wav|Then said the youngest,|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000015_000007.wav|And a tale is also told of|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000002_000000.wav|"O thou who dost comprise all Beauty's boons!|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000011_000000.wav|Quoth the Caliph, "This also is stolen"; and quoth she, "Nay, 'tis my very own." He said, "If it be indeed thine own, change the rhyme again and keep the sense." So she recited the following,|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000001_000004.wav|Bring her to me!" So she came and he bade her sit, then said to her, "Sing." And she sang these verses,|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000015_000006.wav|The Caliph's eyes filled with tears and he condoled with her; but she ceased not to mourn for her father, till she followed him-Allah have mercy on the twain!|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000005_000001.wav|As he drew near, one of them turned to her fellows and improvised these lines,|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000007_000000.wav|The Caliph marvelled at her elegance and eloquence.--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000008_000000.wav|When it was the Six Hundred and Eighty sixth Night,|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000027_000000.wav|Then I gave scroll to the slave girl, who went upsatirs with it, and behold, I heard a noise of dancing and clapping of hands and Doomsday astir.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000001_000002.wav|Art thou content?"|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000001_000000.wav|She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Yunus the Scribe said to Walid, "Allah forbid I should repent over her!|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000000_000000.wav|When it was the Six Hundred and Eighty fifth Night,|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000027_000004.wav|And I have heard a tale concerning|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000004_000000.wav|HARUN AL RASHID AND THE ARAB GIRL.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000017_000000.wav|The Commander of the Faithful Harun Al Rashid was exceeding restless one night and rising from his bed, paced from chamber to chamber, but could not compose himself to sleep.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000018_000000.wav|When it was the Six Hundred and Eighty seventh Night,|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000001_000003.wav|"I am content," answered Yunus and kissed his hands, saying, "By Allah, thou hast filled my eyes and my hands and my heart!" Quoth Walid, "By Allah, I have as yet had no privacy of her nor have I taken my fill of her singing.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000013_000000.wav|Quoth Al Rashid, "This too is stolen"; and quoth she, "Not, so, 'tis mine." He said, "If thy words be true change the rhyme once more." And she recited,|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000029_000003.wav|I was greatly vexed at his coming in to me and thought to turn away the doorkeepers; but he saluted me after the goodliest fashion and I returned his greeting and bade him be seated.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000003_000001.wav|Then I abode with him in all content of case and rise of rank and mine affairs prospered and my wealth increased and goods and farms became mine, such as sufficed me and will suffice my heirs after me; nor did I cease to abide with Walid, till he was slain, the mercy of Almighty Allah be on him!" And men tell a tale concerning|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7789/258266/7789_258266_000019_000001.wav|However by looking right and left I came upon a porch swept and sprinkled, at the upper end whereof was a wooden bench under an open lattice window, whence exhaled a scent of musk.|7789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000027_000003.wav|He has only a few scratches on his face; which, said she, I suppose he got by grappling among the gravel at the bottom of the dam, to try to find a hole in the ground, to hide himself from the robbers.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000022_000003.wav|The gardener was in sight last time; so made me come up again.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000023_000002.wav|O how terrible every thing appears to me!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000036_000003.wav|Why, mrs Jewkes? said he: I am afraid I have somehow disobliged you.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000066_000000.wav|Saturday, Sunday.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000043_000001.wav|I hinted, that I would not have scrupled to have procured your deliverance by any means; and that I had proposed to you, as the only honourable one, marriage with me.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000047_000004.wav|May not john, who has been once a traitor, be so again?--Why need I be thus in doubt?--If I could have this horse, I would turn the reins on his neck, and trust to Providence to guide him for my safeguard!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000061_000005.wav|But, alas! my child, what can we do for you?--To partake our hard lot, and involve yourself into as hard a life, would not help us, but add to your afflictions.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000003.wav|mrs Jewkes, mrs Jewkes, this might have done with me, had he had any thing that he could have told you of.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000017_000003.wav|I have no money, if I should, to buy any body's civilities, or to pay for necessaries or lodgings.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000038_000001.wav|I put this in the usual place in the evening; and now wait with impatience for an answer.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000067_000002.wav|And she returned, The less, the better. Poor man! he has got but little by his openness, making mrs Jewkes his confidant, as she bragged, and would have had me to do likewise.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000015_000002.wav|Yet it will do so, while I stay here.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000014_000000.wav|The wicked brute fell a laughing, when she had read this letter, till her fat sides shook.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000027_000000.wav|So, mrs Jewkes is returned from her visit: Well, said she, I would have you set your heart at rest; for mr Williams will do very well again.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000065_000000.wav|But I will proceed with my hopeless story.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000007.wav|Persist, my dear daughter, in the same excellent course; and we shall not envy the highest estate, but defy them to produce such a daughter as ours.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000063_000004.wav|But I hope he will now reform.'|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000013_000003.wav|I will write a letter of thanks this night, if I am able, to my kind patron, for his inestimable goodness to me.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000036_000001.wav|He asked, If I would take a turn in the garden with mrs Jewkes and him.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000015_000001.wav|I knew not what to think of it!--But why should I let every accident break my peace?|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000047_000005.wav|For I would not endanger you, now just upon the edge of your preferment.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000027_000001.wav|He is not half so bad as he fancied.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000005.wav|To be sure, I shan't be able to stir out this day or two: for I am a frightful spectacle!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000002.wav|Blessed be the Divine goodness, which has enabled thee to withstand so many temptations!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000000.wav|'I have had a sore misfortune in going from you.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000043_000000.wav|'I was too free indeed with mrs Jewkes, led to it by her dissimulation, and by her pretended concern to make me happy with you.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000061_000001.wav|God bless him!--happy.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000032_000002.wav|She said, she thought that his letter to mr Williams was sufficient; and the least I could do was to thank him, if but in two lines.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000016_000002.wav|And she is gone without me.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000026_000000.wav|Monday afternoon.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000014_000001.wav|Said she, I can but think how the poor parson looked, after parting with his pretty mistress in such high spirits, when he found himself at the bottom of the dam!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000055_000000.wav|'I think you are too apprehensive by much; I am sorry for your uneasiness.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000017_000004.wav|But I'll go into the garden, and resolve afterwards----|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000017_000002.wav|But, alas for me!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000000.wav|'Our prayers are at length heard, and we are overwhelmed with joy.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000022_000002.wav|But I must resolve.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000060_000002.wav|But seeing your virtue, his heart is touched; and he has, no doubt, been awakened by your good example.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000043_000003.wav|But not a word of the back door key, etc'|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000019_000003.wav|If there be, I believe, in my heart, mrs Jewkes has got this bull of her side.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000023_000000.wav|Well, here I am, come back again!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000055_000002.wav|But I make no doubt of the London journey, nor of John's contrition and fidelity. I have just received, from my Gainsborough friend, this letter, as I suppose, from your good father, in a cover, directed for me, as I had desired.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000032_000003.wav|No need of it, said I; for I don't intend to have mr Williams: What then is that letter to me?|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000036_000002.wav|No, said she, I can't go. Said he, May not mrs Pamela take a walk?--No, said she; I desire she won't.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000013_000000.wav|'God be praised it is no worse!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000016_000000.wav|mrs Jewkes is mightily at me, to go with her in the chariot, to visit mr Williams.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000061_000007.wav|Amen, amen, say 'Your most indulgent parents.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000013_000002.wav|My fright, I believe, prevented me from catching cold: for I was not rightly myself for some hours, and know not how I got home.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000003.wav|We have not yet had leisure to read through your long accounts of all your hardships.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000001_000000.wav|We have just supped together, all three: and I cannot yet think that all must be right.--Only I am resolved not to marry, if I can help it; and I will give no encouragement, I am resolved, at least, till I am with you.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000023_000001.wav|frightened, like a fool, out of all my purposes!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000034_000003.wav|This cut me to the heart; and, at the same time, stopped my mouth.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000031_000001.wav|But I am sure he must have said more than he should.--And I am the more apprehensive all is not right, because she has now been actually, these two hours, shut up a writing; though she pretended she had given me up all her stores of papers, etc and that I should write for her.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000009_000000.wav|Alas a day! we have bad news from poor mr Williams.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000017_000000.wav|I have strange temptations to get away in her absence, for all these fine appearances.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000008.wav|How have you employed yourself in my absence?|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000040_000000.wav|I have the following answer:|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000006_000003.wav|I assured her, as I could do very safely, that there was not a man on earth I wished to have: and as to mr Williams, he might do better by far: and I had proposed so much happiness in living with my poor father and mother, that I could not think of any scheme of life with pleasure, till I had tried that.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000014_000002.wav|And what a figure he must cut in his tattered band and cassock, and without a hat and wig, when he got home.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000024_000001.wav|God forgive me, (but I had a sad lie at my tongue's end,) said I; Though mrs Jewkes is sometimes a little hard upon me, yet I know not where I am without her: I go up, and I come down to walk about in the garden; and, not having her, know scarcely what to do with myself.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000012_000000.wav|'Your most obliged humble servant.'|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000010_000001.wav|JEWKES,|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000003.wav|By good fortune, the letter mrs Pamela gave me was in my bosom, and so that escaped but they bruised my head and face, and cursing me for having no more money, tipped me into the dam, crying, be there, parson, till to morrow!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000032_000001.wav|Indeed, said I, I have no thanks to give, till I am with my father and mother: and besides, I sent a letter, as you know; but have had no answer to it.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000046_000000.wav|'SIR,|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000004.wav|I say long, because I wonder how you could find time and opportunity for them: but otherwise they are the delight of our spare hours; and we shall read them over and over, as long as we live, with thankfulness to God, who has given us so virtuous and so discreet a daughter.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000055_000005.wav|Things, I hope, must be better than you expect.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000042_000004.wav|But it is not, cannot be in him.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000009_000001.wav|He has had a sad mischance; fallen among rogues in his way home last night: but by good chance has saved my papers.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000042_000006.wav|This gives me a little pain; but I hope all will end well, and we shall soon hear, if it be necessary to pursue our former intentions.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000004.wav|But you know well enough, that had we been disposed, we had no opportunity for it, from your watchful care and circumspection.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000027_000005.wav|He says in his letter, he was a frightful spectacle: He might be so, indeed, when he first came in a doors; but he looks well enough now: and, only for a few groans now and then, when he thinks of his danger, I see nothing is the matter with him.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000045_000000.wav|I have just put under the tiles these lines inspired by my fears, which are indeed very strong; and, I doubt, not without reason.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000041_000000.wav|'DEAREST MADAM,|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000011.wav|I am, good mrs Jewkes,|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000059_000006.wav|O let none ever think children a burden to them; when the poorest circumstances can produce so much riches in a Pamela!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000023_000005.wav|And now I am gone, to be sure!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000063_000002.wav|He is a fine gentleman, and has wit at will.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000025_000000.wav|So here I am again, and here likely to be; for I have no courage to help myself any where else.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000008_000000.wav|Monday morning.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000000_000001.wav|mr Williams pointed at the sunflower, but I was forced to be very reserved to him; for the poor gentleman has no guard, no caution at all.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000006_000001.wav|I told her, I was resolved to give no encouragement, till I had talked to my father and mother.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000007.wav|My cassock is sadly torn, as is my band. To be sure, I was much frightened, for a robbery in these parts has not been known many years.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000042_000003.wav|I would expose him all the world over if he did.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000033_000002.wav|O what has this incautious man said!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000034_000000.wav|I will close this day's writing, with just saying, that she is mighty silent and reserved, to what she was: and says nothing but No, or Yes, to what I ask.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000006_000002.wav|She said, he fancied I thought of somebody else, or I could never be so insensible.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000067_000000.wav|mr Williams has been here both these days, as usual; but is very indifferently received still by mrs Jewkes; and, to avoid suspicion, I left them together, and went up to my closet, most of the time he was here.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000002.wav|They rummaged my pockets, and took from me my snuff box, my seal ring, and half a guinea, and some silver, and halfpence; also my handkerchief, and two or three letters I had in my pockets.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000056_000000.wav|'Your most faithful humble servant.'|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000042_000000.wav|'I am utterly confounded, and must plead guilty to all your just reproaches.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000047_000000.wav|'Every thing gives me additional disturbance.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000018_000002.wav|But if any thing should go bad afterwards, I should never forgive myself, for not taking this opportunity.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000062_000001.wav|Again we say, God bless him for ever!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000033_000003.wav|That, no doubt, is the subject of her long letter.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000008.wav|Diligent search is making after the rogues.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000021_000000.wav|Well, I have just now a sort of strange persuasion upon me, that I ought to try to get way, and leave the issue to Providence.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000048_000000.wav|'Were my life in question, instead of my honesty, I would not wish to involve you, or any body, in the least difficulty, for so worthless a poor creature.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000020_000001.wav|I will go down again, I think!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000006.wav|Come, come, said she, no more of these shams with me!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000060_000000.wav|'I said, we had not read through all yours in course.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000030_000000.wav|She was so earnest, that I mistrusted she did this to pump me; and I knew how, now, to account for her kindness to mr Williams in her visit to him; which was only to get out of him what she could.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000027_000006.wav|So, mrs Pamela, said she, I would have you be very easy about it.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000036_000004.wav|Not at all, replied she; but I suppose you will soon be at liberty to walk together as much as you please: and I have sent a messenger for my last instructions, about this and more weighty matters; and when they come I shall leave you to do as you both will; but, till then, it is no matter how little you are together.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000048_000001.wav|But, O sir! my soul is of equal importance with the soul of a princess; though my quality is inferior to that of the meanest slave.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000010_000000.wav|'GOOD mrs|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000020_000002.wav|But yet my heart misgives me, because of the difficulties before me, in escaping; and being so poor and so friendless!--O good God! the preserver of the innocent! direct me what to do!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000022_000001.wav|I have not the courage to go, neither can I think to stay.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000005.wav|No, said she, that's very true, mrs Pamela; not so much as for that declaration that he owned before me, he had found opportunity, for all my watchfulness, to make you.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000031_000002.wav|I begin to wish I had ventured every thing and gone off, when I might.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000015_000000.wav|I heeded not her reflections; but as I have been used to causes for mistrusts, I cannot help saying, that I don't like this thing: And their taking his letters most alarms me.--How happy it was they missed my packet!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000039_000000.wav|Thursday.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000033_000000.wav|I don't like all this.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000061_000006.wav|But it will be time enough to talk of these things, when we have the pleasure you now put us in hope of, of seeing you with us; which God grant.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000042_000007.wav|If it be, I will lose no time to provide a horse for you, and another for myself; for I can never do either God or myself better service, though I were to forego all my expectations for it here, I am 'Your most faithful humble servant.'|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000027_000007.wav|I am glad of it, said I, for all your jokes, to mrs Jewkes.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000004_000000.wav|MY DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER,|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000006_000000.wav|She pressed me, when she came to bed, very much, to give encouragement to mr Williams, and said many things in his behalf; and blamed my shyness to him.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000052_000000.wav|Friday.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000022_000006.wav|God direct my footsteps, and make smooth my path and my way to safety!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000006_000005.wav|All these things look well, as I said.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000010.wav|This did not hinder me in writing a letter, though with great pain, as I do this, (To be sure this good man can keep no secret!) and sending it away by a man and horse, this morning.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000063_000001.wav|God give us a happy meeting! We understand the 'squire is setting out for London.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000003_000000.wav|Your ever dutiful DAUGHTER.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000019_000002.wav|Nobody saw me, however.--Do you think there are such things as witches and spirits?|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000007_000001.wav|But pray don't encourage him, as I said; for he is much too heady and precipitate as to this matter, in my way of thinking; though, to be sure, he is a very good man, and I am much obliged to him.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000043_000002.wav|But I assured her, though she would hardly believe me, that you discouraged my application: which is too true!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000044_000001.wav|She watches me as close as ever, and pretends to wonder why I shun her company as I do.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000055_000001.wav|You may depend upon me, and all I can do.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000011_000004.wav|My shins and knees were bruised much in the fall against one of the stumps; and I had like to have been suffocated in water and mud.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000022_000005.wav|Once more I'll venture.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000068_000000.wav|I am more and more satisfied there is mischief brewing; and shall begin to hide my papers, and be circumspect.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000035_000000.wav|Tuesday, Wednesday.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000028_000000.wav|Well, said she, he talks of nothing but you: and when I told him I would fain have persuaded you to come with me, the man was out of his wits with his gratitude to me: and so has laid open all his heart to me, and told me all that has passed, and was contriving between you two.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000063_000000.wav|'O what a deal we have to say to you!|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000044_000000.wav|mrs Jewkes continues still sullen and ill natured, and I am almost afraid to speak to her.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000047_000003.wav|Are you sure, however, the London journey is not to be a Lincolnshire one?|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000019_000001.wav|So I got in again, for fear he should come at me.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000036_000005.wav|This alarmed us both; and he seemed quite struck of a heap, and put on, as I thought, a self accusing countenance.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000037_000000.wav|I left them both together, and retired to my closet to write a letter for the tiles; but having no time for a copy, I will give you the substance only.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000055_000003.wav|I hope it contains nothing to add to your uneasiness.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000006_000004.wav|I asked her for my money; and she said, it was above in her strong box, but that I should have it to morrow.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000067_000001.wav|He and she, I found by her, had a quarrel: and she seems quite out of humour with him: but I thought it best not to say any thing: and he said, he would very little trouble the house till he had an answer to his letter from mr B----.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000013_000001.wav|And I find I have got no cold, though miserably wet from top to toe.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000009_000002.wav|This is the account he gives of it to mrs Jewkes:|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3733/140718/3733_140718_000033_000001.wav|O my foolish fears of bulls and robbers!--For now all my uneasiness begins to double upon me.|3733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000013_000001.wav|All these soldier police were mounted and armed, and their snapping black eyes were filled with hatred for Apaches.|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000023_000000.wav|"Some tobacco?" the eagle's captor wailed.|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000030_000001.wav|He took out his pouch of gold.|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000035_000000.wav|"This way."|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000026_000000.wav|The amazed Apaches halted and gaped.|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000003_000003.wav|Their packs bore tanned skins, fruit of the saguaro cactus, edible roots of the mescal plant, and other trade goods.|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000020_000001.wav|"See, Senor Apache?|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000037_000003.wav|And two girl children.|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000016_000001.wav|You may enter."|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000021_000001.wav|The peddler called anxiously, "Will you give me some mescal?"|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000033_000000.wav|Geronimo dropped the still half filled pouch of gold into the dust and forgot it.|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284269/8490_284269_000018_000002.wav|His body was dirty.|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284268/8490_284268_000004_000001.wav|His knife was on his belt.|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284268/8490_284268_000014_000003.wav|He spoke again:|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284268/8490_284268_000015_000000.wav|"If you care not because some spoke against you, what is the trouble?|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284268/8490_284268_000026_000002.wav|Let us hope this is a good fight."|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8490/284268/8490_284268_000014_000000.wav|That was true.|8490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000122_000000.wav|'Stay to dinner, will you?' she said to Noakes.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000123_000002.wav|Besides, I shall take a half mile walk to night.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000008_000002.wav|He thought of each small laboratory as a potential inferno, each experimenter a bondman to ecstasy, the whole frenzied, gasping scheme a furtherance of the fame and power of Henry Maxineff, already world known, inventor of the deadliest high explosives.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000198_000000.wav|'I see,' Noakes said; 'like taking a tonic in midwinter to fend off spring fever.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000132_000000.wav|The great man's argument was advanced step by step.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000009.wav|The success which was to be the beginning of all good things was stolen.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000159_000000.wav|'You do not seem to be overjoyed.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000029_000000.wav|'I'm blown to pieces.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000104_000000.wav|A servant brought in buttered rusks, and served the men with tea.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000027_000001.wav|Max says you are confining yourself too closely.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000032_000001.wav|But see-'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000270_000003.wav|And let me think my love is not distasteful to you.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000199_000000.wav|'Then he has put her on a lower intellectual plane; he has withheld from her, as he might from a child.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000296_000000.wav|'Yes!'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000062_000000.wav|Noakes took the long, foreign stamped envelope.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000232_000000.wav|'I-don't, please; I know the way.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000243_000000.wav|'I thought-I was afraid you might add fresh danger by coming out so soon.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000067_000000.wav|'Well, I can't stay any longer.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000016.wav|The experiment was successful.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000288_000000.wav|'I know; that's all.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000308_000000.wav|'Noakes,' Becky said, 'I'll take care of the eyes.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000193_000000.wav|'I think he may.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000220_000004.wav|He trained his gaze into the void and succeeded only in augmenting the pain back of his eyes.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000022_000001.wav|In the moment's abstraction her presence seemed a manifestation of some psychic conduction which he tried lamely to understand-here, now, in a moment of danger of which she unknowingly was the moving force.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000090_000001.wav|But I think the trouble with you is that you have overreached yourself, Noakes.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000147_000000.wav|'No, duty has lost her voice at present.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000209_000000.wav|'If I were the girl,--' she began, and checked the speech with a faint laugh.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000000.wav|'I love you,' he said.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000008_000001.wav|Through it he saw shops, store houses, and small buildings similar to his own, all a part of the plant of Maxineff.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000253_000003.wav|'I came to say something else.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000302_000000.wav|'no|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000059_000000.wav|'Oh, I almost forgot-here's a letter for you.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000100_000000.wav|In a high gray and white room they found mrs Maxineff.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000148_000000.wav|She dropped into a big arm chair.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000052_000001.wav|'mr Max knows nothing about it-that is,' he continued hurriedly, 'it's the sort of thing- At any rate, I'll soon be through.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000254_000000.wav|He turned his head about impatiently, calling upon his bandaged eyes to perform their function.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000218_000005.wav|He bent closer to the tiny quantity of powder in the bottom of the vessel.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000189_000000.wav|'Noakes, you are disillusioning, and incorrect, and moreover traitorous to your kind.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000198_000001.wav|You forget,' he continued in a different tone, looking at her speculatively, 'that understanding may never come.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000160_000000.wav|'I am,' he said gently.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000030_000003.wav|He knew that in her were no dim angles of cross grained purpose, no shadowy intersections of the lines of good and evil.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000143_000002.wav|Noakes traversed less rapidly the curved driveway, pausing where it was cut by a paved way to the door.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000205_000002.wav|If, however, there were one big thing in his life that might influence her feeling toward him, he should tell it, and let her judge.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000105_000000.wav|'Orders!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000231_000001.wav|She turned and took a step toward the house, still holding his hand.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000058_000000.wav|Noakes looked doubtful.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000220_000002.wav|His eyes pained horribly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000186_000000.wav|'Good?' he asked doubtfully.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000098_000001.wav|I am inspecting this morning.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000166_000000.wav|'I have thought more or less.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000231_000000.wav|Becky took his hand and pressed it warmly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000105_000002.wav|Then you are easily immolate!'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000070_000001.wav|Excuse my untractableness, won't you?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000164_000000.wav|'Thanks, Miss Beck.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000015_000000.wav|How alike the cases were!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000289_000000.wav|'Don't go, please,' Becky said.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000209_000001.wav|'But we will not be dramatic, nor personal.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000172_000000.wav|'That you are to be married.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000307_000000.wav|As Noakes breathed deep in relief and gratitude, one of his hands engaged two of Becky's, and he found a different use for the other.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000062_000001.wav|The typed superscription was noncommittal, but at the Berlin postmark his eyes narrowed and the knuckles of the hand by his side whitened.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000253_000001.wav|I haven't the right.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000137_000000.wav|He dressed quickly, the while reading repeatedly his foreign letter. When dressed, he sat on the bed, chin in his palms, and looked at the blank bedroom wall.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000047_000000.wav|'But you are so quiet about it!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000018.wav|Last night, when I left you, I went back to repeat the experiment, intending to make a small quantity to be used in the test which would have taken place to morrow.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000027_000002.wav|I've been with her all morning.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000262_000000.wav|Noakes leaned forward, pressing his temples; then sat erect and turned his face toward her.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000002.wav|I could no more grow away from it than I could add a cubit to my stature by taking thought.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000256_000000.wav|'We are in the gloaming,' Becky answered softly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000170_000000.wav|'And to night I heard a queer thing about you.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000191_000000.wav|'But-let's be definite-you know he may be all-'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000058_000001.wav|She went down the steps and turned again.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000043_000002.wav|On her command I came to break up this seclusion of yours.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000057_000001.wav|mrs Max says you are to break out, break out with the measles if nothing else will interrupt you, and you are to have tea with her this afternoon.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000008.wav|Last night I thought I had reached the pinnacle of attainment; in reality I had fallen lower than ever before.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000054_000001.wav|mrs Max and Cornish and I shall be honored.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000009_000001.wav|'I shall take the chance; but having risked everything, I will go to her able and whole, offering it all without an apology.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000162_000000.wav|'I will; I wish-'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000010.wav|I robbed Maxineff of it.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000013.wav|I saw great possibilities in the experiment and determined to keep for myself the benefits of it. From that point I followed my own ideas, and called the thing mine.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000252_000000.wav|'Don't!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000107_000001.wav|Confess now, there is a reason for your-your application?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000073_000004.wav|He pushed back the lever, watched again, and waited.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000037_000000.wav|'To take you driving,' with an enticing smile.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000155_000000.wav|He leaned forward quickly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000287_000000.wav|'How do you know what I think?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000124_000002.wav|Max, dear,' she said, turning to her husband, 'I cannot hear that again.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000084_000001.wav|Noakes was glad there was too little of it to cause a suspicious deal of damage.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000012_000004.wav|The face vanished.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000224_000000.wav|Noakes stiffened.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000294_000000.wav|'Yes, Noakes?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000102_000001.wav|Immolation, you call it?' she continued, her hands moving quickly among the appurtenances of the tea table. 'That is what you prefer, my young mr Noakes.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000291_000000.wav|'But I don't want you to go,' she said softly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000220_000000.wav|It came as a burst of light taken up and radiated by clouds of fume and gas with which the air was instantly impregnated.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000185_000000.wav|'She does; and knowing it, she need not expect equal return-only part compensation.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000139_000001.wav|He might be there for weeks, from morning till night.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000016_000001.wav|Yet how alike- And Ewell was mad, injured gruesomely, living dead.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000088_000000.wav|'I'm beat,' he said.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000272_000001.wav|I want only the comparative peace of the assurance that those I have wronged understand now.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000116_000000.wav|'Do you remember the day we motored from Stoneham?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000271_000000.wav|He paused and listened.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000148_000001.wav|He turned his back to the light, and sat facing her.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000216_000000.wav|Alone in the silver splotched yard, the spell yet held him; but when the white road pointed a way back to what he had left behind, a fog of uncertainty encircled him, dissipating the glow of his dream, checking his anticipation, crushing his problem close to him in the narrow circle of his vision, so close that, although a thing solved and set aside, it loomed ominous and insistent.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000108_000000.wav|Noakes's attitude was uncompromising.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000007.wav|He would secure to her freedom from that possible pain by following the inevitable trend.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000119_000000.wav|'But, Max, another?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000228_000000.wav|'Afternoon, Miss Beck,' Noakes called.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000272_000006.wav|It is the only reason. I was thinking of you while I was making myself unfit for you to think of me.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000196_000000.wav|'He would be a cad,' Noakes said quickly, 'to tell her things that would pain her.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000000.wav|'Last night I thought the time was close at hand.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000118_000000.wav|'I'll be with you to morrow, and we shall see wherein is the difficulty.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000226_000000.wav|'Miss Hallam is on the porch, sir.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000134_000000.wav|Noakes rose, uttered a commonplace, and bade his chief good night.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000171_000000.wav|'What?' she asked in an engaging manner of invitation to confidence.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000157_000001.wav|mrs Max says it, you know; I am weak about taking on colloquialisms.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000068_000000.wav|Noakes pressed her hand.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000091_000001.wav|Sheer stupidity is my trouble, I think.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000219_000000.wav|Suddenly he stood erect and looked about him.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000054_000000.wav|'And then you will come out into the world again?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000073_000002.wav|Still he waited, fearfully wondering at the stability of this new thing.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000034_000004.wav|Maxineff himself could not be sure of this new mixture.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000069_000000.wav|'And, Cagliostro, when the puzzle's solved, come to see me.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000003.wav|If he encompassed it, he put it to the use for which it was intended.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000003_000001.wav|He held a steady hand on the lever, so that he might push it back instantly if he saw in the crucible too sudden a transformation.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000212_000000.wav|He sat beside her on the piano bench, and placed before her the songs he liked best.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000025_000000.wav|'There isn't an alkali in the shop; I won't endanger you,' he replied easily.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000015.wav|It was an excellent bargain I made-I put a high price on the betrayal of my benefactor!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000038_000000.wav|'Will you not go?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000005_000000.wav|His glance shifted to the control switch under his hand.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000219_000001.wav|His glance slowly circled the room, and fell to the hand on the switch lever.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000115_000000.wav|'A new explosive?' she interrupted.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000127_000000.wav|The older man's voice seemed far away, as it said, 'Each new explosive deals a blow at war,--war!'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000272_000005.wav|If, though, you should ask me why, I would say again, I love you.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000305_000000.wav|'What is it?' Noakes asked quickly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000139_000004.wav|He could duplicate it in an hour.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000017.wav|I was forced to destroy the result, why it is needless to say.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000113_000000.wav|'And you gave the orders, Max!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000177_000000.wav|'Married?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000108_000001.wav|He placed his cup on the table before he spoke.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000250_000002.wav|He thought that she felt with him the sting of being deprived of full knowledge of his condition, the hurt of their doubting his strength.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000072_000001.wav|Looking through the faint haze, he saw her pass down the straight path which led to the great gate of the Maxineff work yard.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000113_000001.wav|You are to be blamed for this display of energy.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000126_000000.wav|What to him was a policy of world peace?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000298_000000.wav|'You are brave!'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000280_000000.wav|'If you won't let me, I am afraid it will make no difference, because I cannot help it, you know.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000060_000000.wav|'Where-'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000076_000002.wav|He moved toward the door, stepping very gently, for he knew not how slight a vibration might shatter the delicate affinity in his discovery.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000076_000001.wav|The strain had been galling, and the madness of gratification consumed his strength.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000192_000000.wav|'And may not always have been; in which connection he may not be expected to enlighten the dreaming lady, may he?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000012_000001.wav|The filmy curves wafted toward him, bringing it close to his lips.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000047_000001.wav|What are the ideas?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000247_000000.wav|'But soon-some day, surely-'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000004.wav|To night I am confessing a wrong I have done you. That's what it is.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000206_000000.wav|'Not smooth over a disagreeable occurrence?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000267_000001.wav|He touched her face, started, and drew back.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000178_000000.wav|'Not necessarily.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000004.wav|He gave no thought to the extraneous influence it exerted on other phases upon which his life touched.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000214_000000.wav|With hands tight clasped between his knees, fearing to look at her, Noakes listened while she sang him into a half visualized dream, as obsessing as it was immanent, which he clung to and enjoyed to the full in order that he might ignore the longing then to speak his thought.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000056_000000.wav|He spoke the words with singular feeling.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000220_000005.wav|The darkness was impenetrable. He began to realize what had happened.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000184_000000.wav|'No, no!' Noakes spoke from a full heart.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000063_000000.wav|'Was mr Maxineff at home this morning?' he asked quietly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000088_000001.wav|'I've gone at it every way I know, and I have been consistently and finally unsuccessful.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000081_000001.wav|'The racket? Some half baked fulminate I put in the ditch out there an hour ago.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000213_000000.wav|Her voice was a pure soprano, of an expressive sweetness which affected Noakes as nothing else he had known.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000036_000000.wav|'Why have you come?' he said quickly, frowning at her.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000301_000000.wav|'As I did.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000061_000001.wav|mrs Max suggested my bringing it to you.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000142_000004.wav|His pack of problems dropped from him.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000275_000000.wav|'To what good?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000211_000000.wav|His regard was a compelling force with which he had lived and grown since he had known Becky.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000001.wav|I thought in a few days I could come to you, and ask you for your love.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000091_000000.wav|'Oh, no; the idea is a fine, tremendous one.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000169_000000.wav|'Steady!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000128_000000.wav|Noakes had heard the same thing when his chief concluded with the government an agreement which secured to it the exclusive use of his latest product.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000165_000000.wav|'Haven't you done anything but work these days?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000270_000001.wav|I know bitterly well; I see much now.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000090_000000.wav|'What's the trouble?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000140_000000.wav|'To night!' he said, and left the room with a firm step.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000027_000000.wav|'mrs|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000143_000000.wav|Her yard was a gnomish alternation of unsullied light and alluring shade.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000260_000000.wav|'Becky,' he continued, lingering over the word, thinking of the privilege of its use as an accolade conferred by her, 'you need not speak when I have finished; I'll go away then.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000284_000000.wav|'I'm going.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000012_000000.wav|He whispered to the face, and his breath made little swirls and eddies in the haze about it.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000271_000001.wav|He heard Becky's uneven breathing.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000046_000000.wav|'Oh-I've been working out some ideas.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000290_000000.wav|'Hadn't I better?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000097_000003.wav|I understood the fulminate was running low, and spent my morning blundering over making some.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000006.wav|With great danger to himself, he had followed a line of reasoning to its proximate end; the resulting discovery he would use to his individual advantage. He did not accord to himself the godlike privilege of casting discord among the nations, and he did not care what peaceful zoo the lion, the bear, and the various species of eagle found as common refuge.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000201_000000.wav|'Loved her so ill that he has deceived her from the beginning.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000163_000000.wav|'Well, certainly; "Noakes" it shall be.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000099_000000.wav|Five o'clock had passed when they emerged upon the New England town's stolid main street.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000045_000000.wav|'What are you doing?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000011.wav|He gave me an idea to work out.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000297_000000.wav|'You love me, and blind?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000125_000001.wav|Frequently he bent his head in acquiescence, and occasionally interjected a pertinent question under the guidance of his secondary mind; but his thoughts moved in a circle of smaller radius.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000221_000002.wav|He leaned back wearily and pulled a soft hat down over his bandaged eyes.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000281_000000.wav|For a moment neither of them spoke.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000236_000000.wav|'It's this way, Noakes,' she said gently, as she guided him into the room in which they were the night before.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000008_000003.wav|One of the buildings had been turned into a temporary hospital.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000276_000000.wav|'For the sake of the little good in me, which love of you will keep alive and growing.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000250_000000.wav|Her low, feeling tones brought a lump to Noakes's throat.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000244_000001.wav|'As for my eyes, the harm is done.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000238_000000.wav|They sat on a deep couch.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000002.wav|Success of a certain kind was about to crown an effort of a despicable kind.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000167_000000.wav|'Strange; what about?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000278_000000.wav|'There will be a constant joy in knowing that you permit me to care.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000175_000000.wav|'I am glad my family is not so anxious to thrust me off as my friends are.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000123_000000.wav|'Thanks, but I couldn't with propriety.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000008_000004.wav|He thought of the pitiful occupant-his face scarred, one socket eyeless-and shivered.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000003_000006.wav|He was as a man attuned to a tremendous hazard, anticipation and mental endurance taut, all his force focused on one throbbing desire.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000006.wav|It is as if a scroll were outspread before me, on which is a record of all my tendencies and crucial acts.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000214_000001.wav|His dream keyed him to a responsiveness which made his throat throb in sympathy with the vibration of her tones.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000136_000000.wav|From the exchange he dispatched a messenger to the house a half mile away.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000169_000001.wav|Spring has passed.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000009_000000.wav|'It isn't that I want to hedge,' he said.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000041_000000.wav|'And won't you come?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000218_000004.wav|He drew a deep breath that quivered through the room with startling distinctness.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000006_000001.wav|The thought burned before him like a live thing; and in the light of it he saw many pictures-heliographs of happenings in and about the laboratories: flame, smoke dense and turgid, splintered wood, metal hurtling through air, bleeding hands, lacerated breasts, sightless eyes.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000234_000001.wav|I didn't know there were so many.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000086_000000.wav|'What of your work?' he said.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000154_000000.wav|'Quite as well as if you had been with us, Noakes.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000161_000000.wav|'Don't be hilarious over it.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000190_000000.wav|'Not a bit of it; you overpraise my kind.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000142_000002.wav|The town, the plant, Maxineff, were all behind him. Ahead was a goal toward which he bore with increasing lightness of heart.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000003_000004.wav|No further change appeared.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000007.wav|I can see my failures at the crises of my life, and I can trace them back to causes, can see wherein a lightly taken determination has later borne bitter fruit.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000005.wav|O, Becky, the explosion last night took away my sight, made me a useless blind man, but it opened my eyes too!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000081_000000.wav|'Good morning, mr Maxineff,' said Noakes, turning slowly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000005.wav|To the last intoxicating drop he would drink, in reverent loving thankfulness for the draught vouchsafed him.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000034_000001.wav|Relieved from her direct gaze, he stepped quickly to the stand, and looked into the crucible.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000043_000001.wav|Max will be disappointed.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000076_000000.wav|As he straightened up he found himself suddenly weak.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000250_000001.wav|He felt the sympathy which quivered in her voice, and it nearly unmanned him; but he misunderstood her meaning.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000242_000000.wav|'I am fit, sound except for my eyes; that's the shame of it,' he said bitterly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000202_000000.wav|'To my mind there is something active in deception; this would be rather an omission.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000139_000003.wav|The proportions were finely calculated; the method could not be bettered.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000142_000000.wav|He took the path by the side of the road which led in the opposite direction from the Maxineff place.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000195_000001.wav|'Then he is a bit of a coward, I think.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000223_000000.wav|'At the gate,' the driver replied.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000295_000000.wav|'You don't-'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000089_000000.wav|In the ensuing pause Noakes realized that this was the first admission of failure he had ever made to his chief.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000011_000002.wav|Don't judge me yet!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000132_000001.wav|The light faded. Secure in the dusk, Noakes no longer maintained a semblance of attention.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000139_000000.wav|In the morning Maxineff would come to search for that which he had found.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000082_000000.wav|'So long since?' said the older man, advancing toward the window.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000095_000001.wav|She came to tell me that mrs Max will permit me to have tea with her this afternoon.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000117_000000.wav|'And I have made application to a home for the feeble minded, mrs Max,' Noakes said.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000065_000000.wav|'Oh!' he breathed.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000270_000005.wav|Won't you, Becky?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000085_000001.wav|His eyes wandered to the fine gray head of this tall, straight man.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000072_000000.wav|He watched her a moment, then strode rapidly to the stand.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000268_000000.wav|'And Becky, do you realize that it was after I left you last night that I went back?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000015_000002.wav|If the mixture there were properly prepared, added heat would metamorphose it calmly from its present harmlessness into something new, wonderful, deadly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000205_000001.wav|That would be tiresome.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000003_000002.wav|As he watched, the dull saffron powder took on a deeper hue about the edge, the body of it remaining unchanged.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000072_000002.wav|When she was close to it he grasped the switch lever with cramped fingers.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000008_000000.wav|He turned away from the stand and went to the single window that lit the room.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000002.wav|He exerted every power to attain it, and used the means at his disposal.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000004.wav|She had not asked it of him, and he would not face that which she might ask if he obeyed the weak voice which counseled a surrender to her judgment.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000102_000000.wav|'Ah, I see it: you will be a second Max-all science, all absence, and a woman waiting at home!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000286_000001.wav|I know what you-'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000302_000001.wav|He gave me a message for you.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000007_000000.wav|'That's the trouble with high explosives,' he half groaned.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000062_000002.wav|He drew a quick breath and looked keenly at the girl.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000024_000000.wav|Noakes warmed to the aura of light and cheer about her.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000117_000001.wav|'mr Max will never commission me again.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000124_000000.wav|'Lucky Becky!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000019.wav|Something went wrong with the unstable stuff,--and you know the rest.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000005.wav|He had made a great discovery-not a fortunate accident like that of the man who discovered nitro.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000061_000000.wav|'It came in the Maxineffs' mail this morning.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000052_000000.wav|'Indeed, no,' he said.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000095_000000.wav|'Yes?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000049_000000.wav|'We laity are hopeless, aren't we?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000044_000000.wav|'A week, seven days!'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000029_000001.wav|I drove Cornish this morning; he got by everything on the way.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000280_000001.wav|I don't want to help it; you don't mind my saying so?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000272_000003.wav|He was with me afterwards, when the pain-He hushed me far too gently, but he will not forget.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000097_000004.wav|I couldn't do that even, familiar as I am with the process.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000233_000001.wav|He heard Becky, at his side, draw a quick breath, as if about to speak.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000126_000002.wav|Maxineff's argument was not new to him; when he gave it serious attention he doubted its practicability.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000293_000000.wav|'Becky!'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000098_000002.wav|Be my secretary for a while.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000074_000001.wav|He had succeeded; he had created a thing new to the world, an explosive which would be more powerful than the deadliest in existence; he had perfected the work of a week's exquisite danger; he had won.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000261_000001.wav|'Tell me.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000261_000000.wav|'What is it?' Becky asked.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000010_000001.wav|In the thin haze above it a face seemed to shine.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000241_000000.wav|'mr Max told me-both he and the doctor telephoned me early this morning-that in spite of all they said to you, you insisted on coming.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000281_000001.wav|Noakes rose.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000306_000000.wav|'Your eyes-they will be well in time, if you are very careful.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000012.wav|I followed his instructions to a point where I knew a different treatment might bring about a fine result.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000213_000001.wav|It seemed to him that her clarity of soul found expression in her exquisitely pure singing tones.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000204_000000.wav|'Not at all!' Noakes spoke somewhat vehemently.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000217_000000.wav|He followed the road back to what he had left behind.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000285_000000.wav|She did not rise.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000043_000000.wav|'Well,' she said, with a little sigh, as she thrust in her hat pins, 'mrs|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000077_000000.wav|He remembered the foreign letter, and taking it from his pocket, tore open the envelope.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000138_000000.wav|'When?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000097_000000.wav|'Indeed, yes.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000112_000000.wav|'Of saving men,' Maxineff corrected, while his wife smiled as at the recurrence of a customary witticism.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000003.wav|Of that I must tell you.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000233_000000.wav|With the shuffling tread of the blind he ascended the walk, stopping uncertainly at the foot of the steps.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000152_000000.wav|'No, let's talk first.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000218_000001.wav|The room was still.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000015_000003.wav|It would become imbued with marvelous possibility, a thing for which royal military bureaus, imperial navies, would pay a great price.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000012_000005.wav|He started back, distraught.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000183_000000.wav|'A true one; she knows she cares more than he does.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000053_000000.wav|She stood in the doorway, outlined against the bright incoming mid daylight, her face turned back to him.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000092_000000.wav|His humility seemed real, and perhaps the unusualness of it brought a curious expression to Maxineff's face, and into his eyes a contemplative light that Noakes did not care to meet.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000153_000000.wav|'Well, how did Cornish behave on your way back?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000282_000000.wav|'I-Becky, I thank you for hearing me out.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000211_000001.wav|He had not spoken of it to her, silenced by the piteous bane of insufficient income; but now almost he was free. When he spoke, the breadth and depth of the thing it was would induce her assent.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000207_000001.wav|It would be cruel.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000019_000000.wav|His hand left the lever as if it pricked him.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000208_000000.wav|Noakes sat very still.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000274_000001.wav|May I keep on caring?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000221_000001.wav|To one the way seemed long.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000255_000000.wav|'Is it dark yet?' he asked.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000093_000000.wav|'I met Miss Hallam as I entered,' Maxineff said carelessly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000215_000000.wav|Presently he went away.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000035_000000.wav|'Well, Cagliostro!' she called.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000150_000000.wav|'Singing mostly.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000174_000000.wav|'So it is rumored in the village.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000237_000001.wav|It's a bit hard to be led,' Noakes said huskily.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000013_000000.wav|A rushing recollection of Maxineff's tragedies came to him, more vivid even than the face.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000002_000000.wav|BY ERNEST STARR|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000079_000000.wav|A tall man entered the gate and took the walk toward the laboratory. Noakes looked at him in a moment of amazement, almost of stupefaction. The necessity of instant action startled him to movement.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000004_000000.wav|'It shall!' Noakes breathed; and as if conning an oft repeated formula, he said, 'The entire mass should deepen in color, regularly and evenly. Heat!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000124_000001.wav|Then come again soon.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000017_000001.wav|He sought to flee the strain of the moment, to make it seem natural and like the smaller risks of his daily occupation.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000079_000001.wav|As quickly as he thought, he pushed the door three quarters shut, replaced the jars from which he had taken his materials, filled a second crucible with a harmless haphazard mixture, and placed it over a dead furnace in a stand in the corner behind the door.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000145_000000.wav|She came to the door to meet him.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000004.wav|Don't think of this as a bit of sordidness creeping in.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000111_000000.wav|'So! Science has made your dark skin white; love for this business of killing men has kept you hid a week.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000039_000000.wav|Her manner lost something of its verve.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000028_000000.wav|While she spoke she took off her hat and smoothed her hair.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000177_000002.wav|It is so very final, you know. A woman gives up everything.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000010_000000.wav|His gaze was drawn back to the crucible.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000034_000006.wav|The suspense was unbearable.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000220_000006.wav|With a low moan he crumpled and sank to the floor.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000279_000000.wav|Becky was silent.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000101_000000.wav|Moving to one end of the spindle legged sofa, she made place at her side for Maxineff, and motioned Noakes to a chair near them.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000185_000001.wav|But how good he ought to be!'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000157_000000.wav|'It slipped.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000142_000003.wav|Clearly defined decisions, unregretted, faded into the brightness of anticipation.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000021_000000.wav|'Am I a wraith?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000007.wav|I planned and worked for a time when I would be privileged to speak.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000211_000003.wav|His failure to anticipate such a chance was by no means due to an under estimation of her powers of will, determination, or selection; rather to the feeling which, with the beat of his heart, knocked for freedom to go out, out, about the world, and with its sweeping lines converged again, to enter and permeate a heart attuned to reception and response.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000034_000003.wav|He had expected none, but he could not be sure.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000016_000000.wav|A twist of the lever would do it.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000004_000001.wav|Heat!'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000116_000001.wav|I first thought of it then.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000265_000014.wav|I opened correspondence with the representatives of a foreign government. They agreed to buy the secret in case of a successful test.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000292_000000.wav|Something in her tone made Noakes turn sharply.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000272_000000.wav|'I don't offer any excuse; there is none to offer.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000034_000000.wav|She turned her back while she arranged her hair before the makeshift mirror.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000194_000000.wav|'But he may possess a certain masculine trait, a kind of secretiveness.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000253_000002.wav|You must pardon me.' He was silent a moment.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000248_000002.wav|I suppose he thinks I would go to pieces if he told me the truth.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000133_000000.wav|A servant clicked soft light from the wall, and removed the tea table.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000220_000003.wav|He heard a crescendo roaring as of a billow breaking on the shore; as suddenly as it had come, the light went out. He was in darkness.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000089_000001.wav|The surprise it called forth was grateful to him.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000005.wav|My love would not ask of you any sacrifice.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000268_000001.wav|After what you told me?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000304_000000.wav|'It was mr Max's notion that I should tell you.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000139_000005.wav|If only he could repeat the experiment before-|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000221_000000.wav|Late in the afternoon of the next day, behind a livery horse, two men were covering the roadway between town and the Hallam place.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000253_000000.wav|'I didn't intend to speak so to you.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000069_000001.wav|I'll sing away the worries, Good bye.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000013_000001.wav|Halsey, who jarred the nitro, had been annihilated. Ewell was mad from the violent termination of an experiment similar to that now in development.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000207_000000.wav|'Never!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000181_000000.wav|'From the right man she gets-a sort of compensation.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000227_000000.wav|The vehicle came to a stop.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000003.wav|I kept silent because I was poor.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000230_000000.wav|Grasping the side of the vehicle, he descended clumsily.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000124_000003.wav|I shall be on the porch.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000290_000001.wav|I'm tired, and the doctor-A last acknowledgment: I am afraid to hear you.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000085_000000.wav|Maxineff looked reflectively about the yard, while Noakes nervously eyed his chief's expressive profile.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000277_000000.wav|'You ask nothing of me.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000299_000000.wav|Her hands were in his when he sat by her side.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000268_000002.wav|O Becky, I am glad I cannot see you now!'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000269_000000.wav|His voice quivered off to a whisper.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000239_000001.wav|I am glad you are here, but won't it hurt you, retard your recovery?' Becky asked anxiously.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000303_000000.wav|'A message from the doctor?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000277_000001.wav|What will you find in caring for me?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000137_000002.wav|Later he sat before the shelves in his study, absently scanning the backs of the books.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000072_000003.wav|His face was colorless. He moved the lever forward with a jerk, and lifting his eyes, saw her pass out of the gate.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000259_000000.wav|'Yes,' she acquiesced quietly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000107_000000.wav|'You are practical, my friend.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000084_000000.wav|A hole several feet in diameter marked the spot where the crucible fell. The stuff had delayed not an instant in working its havoc.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000180_000000.wav|'And in return?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000173_000000.wav|'I?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000080_000000.wav|'What is that, mr Noakes?' came in deep, calm tones from the door.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000011_000000.wav|'Let me bring with an avowal all that you have now, more!--for in your life there can't be anything bigger than my love.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000234_000002.wav|Let's sit inside, if you don't mind.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000248_000001.wav|The doctor gives me banalities for answers.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000079_000004.wav|By a marvel of speed he had the sash lowered, and was behind the door, when the building was shaken by an explosion.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000156_000000.wav|'Do you know, that's the first time you've called me "Noakes"?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000272_000002.wav|I have talked with mr Maxineff.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000006.wav|He would care, not in fearful accumulation of credit against a day of reckoning, but in surrender to the brimming abundance of their store.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000003_000005.wav|He leaned closer over it, regardless of the thin choking haze that spread about his face. In his attitude there was a rigidity of controlled excitement out of keeping with the seeming harmlessness of the experiment.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000225_000000.wav|'Is-is any one in front?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000087_000000.wav|Noakes was glad those seeing eyes were not on him.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000267_000000.wav|He shifted his position, stretching out his hands toward her.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000205_000000.wav|'Don't think I mean,' she said, 'that there should be a detailed interchange of trivial confidence.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000172_000001.wav|I have it on the word of my landlady.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000120_000000.wav|'This will bring it nearer!' Maxineff said enthusiastically.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000066_000000.wav|He slipped the letter into his pocket.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000078_000001.wav|It was good to be alive, he thought, free, something accomplished, with leave to tell a girl-|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000179_000000.wav|'Oh, yes she does: freedom, family, associations.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000249_000000.wav|'Yes, perhaps he thinks you could not bear the truth,' Becky assented very gently.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000001.wav|He placed before himself a definite goal.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000114_000000.wav|'Don't scold, dear.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000020_000000.wav|'You!'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000057_000000.wav|'Truly, though, mr Noakes,' she said in a straightforward manner, 'you are too busy.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000270_000002.wav|I could not come to the weakest agreement with the self I want to be, until I had told you of the wrong I have done you.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000017_000000.wav|Again the blinking switch caught him, but he shrugged away its evil suggestiveness.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000258_000001.wav|'Let me call you "Becky" to day.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000006_000000.wav|He jerked back his head decisively; he would increase the current.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000079_000003.wav|With all his strength he hurled his priceless crucible.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000070_000000.wav|'Good bye, Miss Becky.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000001.wav|The understanding of which she had half seriously spoken must never come, and the only means of avoiding it was to night's silence, the silence of all the days to follow.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000099_000001.wav|They walked beneath the venerable flanking trees toward the Maxineff villa, which surmounted a wooded continuation of the street.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000257_000000.wav|Noakes shut his lips, taking counsel of his powers of control before he spoke.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000218_000000.wav|In the laboratory Noakes bent over a crucible.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000239_000000.wav|'Noakes, was it wise to come?|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000264_000000.wav|He heard an inarticulate sound at his side, and quickly continued:--|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000250_000003.wav|That Becky meant something far different, he might have known from her humble acquiescence, and the sudden touch of her hand on his arm.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000258_000000.wav|'Becky,' he began, and gave a tired little sigh.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000073_000000.wav|Beyond reach of time he waited.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000100_000001.wav|She touched a bell as she said in an odd manner of inflecting, 'But you are late!'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000042_000000.wav|'I cannot; not this morning.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000197_000001.wav|'It is better to become accustomed to a thing than have it come as a revelation.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000263_000006.wav|I could not give you the things you are accustomed to, so I said nothing.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000168_000000.wav|'You, of course.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000106_000000.wav|Over his cup Maxineff smiled encouragement to his wife.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000129_000002.wav|Granted then-'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000135_000000.wav|Soon he was descending the village street, keeping pace with his rapid thoughts.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000146_000000.wav|'Will duty call you back before you have been with me just a little while?' she asked as they entered the room.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000000.wav|Noakes told himself he had always known that this was her thought; she was too clear hearted to feel anything else.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000055_000000.wav|'Then I shall be free.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000210_000003.wav|Alive, aware of its possible fulfillment, he could not condemn himself to the sacrifice.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000300_000000.wav|'I talked with the doctor this morning,' she said.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000229_000000.wav|He tried to make it sound pleasant and commonplace, and knew that he failed.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000001_000000.wav|THE CLEARER SIGHT|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000017_000002.wav|He assumed a tottering bravado, and as he put his hand to the lever, he smiled crookedly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000240_000000.wav|'I had to come.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000003_000008.wav|The deepened hue touched only the edge, following regularly the contour of the vessel; it made no advance toward the centre of the substance.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000035_000001.wav|'You alchemists are capable of the utterest abstraction, aren't you?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000237_000000.wav|'Thank you.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000248_000000.wav|'no|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000083_000001.wav|I think the jarring of the wagon you see leaving the chemical house caused it.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000096_000000.wav|'You are coming, I hope?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000142_000005.wav|One day more and he could speak-one evening of companionable friendship.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000048_000000.wav|Noakes hesitated, and she laughed merrily as she went toward the door.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000079_000002.wav|He lifted the window sash.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000012_000002.wav|The lids fluttered.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000219_000002.wav|Then he advanced the lever.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000075_000000.wav|'I am glad, glad!' he said faintly.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000195_000000.wav|'Secretive,' she mused.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000234_000000.wav|'Do you know,' he said, as he paused at the top, 'I've never counted these steps before.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000130_000000.wav|Noakes was practical.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000005_000001.wav|Its metal knobs, marking the degrees of intensity of the current it controlled, caught the light and blinked like so many small, baleful eyes. Particularly one, that which would be capped next in the orbit of the lever, held him fascinated; the winking potentiality of it thralled him, as the troubled crystal devours the gaze of the Hindu magi.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000142_000001.wav|He lit his first pipe since morning. How good life was!|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000011_000001.wav|And it's that which makes the deal right.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000038_000001.wav|Please, at once?'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000050_000000.wav|'No, I wasn't, because I scarcely understand myself.'|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000270_000000.wav|'It is poor consolation that I know myself for what you judge me.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8699/291107/8699_291107_000222_000000.wav|'Where are we?' he asked.|8699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000070_000000.wav|twelve.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000065_000000.wav|seven.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000066_000001.wav|Read the selections on pages thirty and forty eight, emphasizing every word.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000035_000000.wav|In this chapter, however, we are considering only one form of emphasis: that of applying force to the important word and subordinating the unimportant words.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000025_000001.wav|The ideal speaker makes his big words stand out like mountain peaks; his unimportant words are submerged like stream beds.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000068_000003.wav|Why?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000065_000001.wav|What is the effect of a lack of emphasis?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000012_000003.wav|Not every word is of special importance-therefore only certain words demand emphasis.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000068_000000.wav|ten.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000063_000000.wav|five.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000038_000002.wav|If he wearies their attention with trifles they will have neither vivacity nor desire left when he reaches words of Wall Street and skyscraper importance.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000035_000001.wav|Do not forget: this is one of the main methods that you must continually employ in getting your effects.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000070_000003.wav|Why?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000051_000000.wav|When a great battle is reported in the papers, they do not keep emphasizing the same facts over and over again.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000064_000001.wav|Read some sentence repeatedly, emphasizing a different word each time, and show how the meaning is changed, as is done on page twenty two.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000051_000005.wav|Note how force is emphasized repeatedly.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000036_000000.wav|Let us not confound loudness with emphasis.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000051_000001.wav|They try to get new information, or a "new slant." The news that takes an important place in the morning edition will be relegated to a small space in the late afternoon edition.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000041_000000.wav|Now and then this principle should be applied to an emphatic sentence by stressing each word.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000061_000000.wav|three.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000037_000000.wav|Last night a speaker said: "The curse of this country is not a lack of education.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000038_000004.wav|Apply the correct method of everyday speech to the platform.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000068_000001.wav|Note the emphasis and subordination in some conversation or speech you have heard.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000019_000000.wav|As a public speaker you can assist this emphasis of contrast with your voice.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000051_000003.wav|This principle has a very important bearing in determining your emphasis.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000041_000002.wav|Patrick Henry's notable climax could be delivered in that manner very effectively: "Give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death." The italicized part of the following might also be delivered with this every word emphasis.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000053_000001.wav|"New stars and suns" are hardly as emphatic as the word "larger." Why?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000041_000001.wav|It is a good device for exciting special attention, and it furnishes a pleasing variety.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000044_000002.wav|The parenthetical expressions would really not be needed to supplement the emphatic words.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000012_000002.wav|The speaker that fires his force and emphasis at random into a sentence will not get results.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000024_000002.wav|"But," said mr Dana, "if you see a man bite a dog, hurry back to the office and write the story." Of course that is news; that is unusual.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000038_000003.wav|You do not dwell on these small words in your everyday conversation, because you are not a conversational bore.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000061_000001.wav|What relation does this have to the use of the voice?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000023_000001.wav|The average speaker will deliver the foregoing line on destiny with about the same amount of emphasis on each word.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000008_000000.wav|CHAPTER three|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000012_000001.wav|The same principle applies to speech.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000023_000000.wav|It would be a boon to speech making if speakers would conserve the attention of their audiences in the same way and emphasize only the words representing the important ideas.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000067_000000.wav|nine.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000063_000001.wav|Read the selections on pages fifty, fifty one, fifty two, fifty three and fifty four, devoting special attention to emphasizing the important words or phrases and subordinating the unimportant ones.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000038_000005.wav|As we have noted elsewhere, public speaking is very much like conversation enlarged.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000054_000001.wav|Are there any others you would emphasize?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000070_000001.wav|In the following passage, would you make any changes in the author's markings for emphasis?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000027_000001.wav|Note the following, printed in the same type as given here.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000036_000002.wav|The kind of force that we want applied to the emphatic word is not entirely physical.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000068_000002.wav|Were they well made?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000018_000001.wav|Obviously, the author has contrasted these ideas purposely, so that they might be more emphatic, and here we see that contrast is one of the very first devices to gain emphasis.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000034_000001.wav|To make a word emphatic, deliver it differently from the manner in which the words surrounding it are delivered.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000015_000000.wav|"Destiny is not a matter of chance.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000040_000000.wav|I ab so lute ly refuse to grant your demand.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000034_000003.wav|If you have been going fast, go very slow on the emphatic word.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000063_000003.wav|What is the effect?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000022_000003.wav|Size of type is his device to show emphasis in bold relief. He brings out sometimes even in red headlines the striking news of the day.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000058_000000.wav|QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000034_000000.wav|A Fifth Avenue bus would attract attention up at Minisink Ford, New York, while one of the ox teams that frequently pass there would attract attention on Fifth Avenue.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000036_000001.wav|To yell is not a sign of earnestness, intelligence, or feeling.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000011_000000.wav|--c s|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000042_000000.wav|Knowing the price we must pay, the sacrifice we must make, the burdens we must carry, the assaults we must endure-knowing full well the cost-yet we enlist, and we enlist for the war.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000033_000002.wav|Otherwise, it is justified."|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000069_000002.wav|Mark the passage for emphasis and bring it with you to class.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000051_000004.wav|Do not emphasize the same idea over and over again unless you desire to lay extra stress on it; Senator Thurston desired to put the maximum amount of emphasis on "force" in his speech on page fifty.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000057_000001.wav|One speaker will put one interpretation on a speech, another speaker will use different emphasis to bring out a different interpretation.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000025_000002.wav|His big thoughts stand like huge oaks; his ideas of no especial value are merely like the grass around the tree.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000053_000002.wav|Because we expect an astronomer to discover heavenly bodies rather than cooking recipes.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000069_000000.wav|eleven.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000059_000001.wav|What is emphasis?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000064_000000.wav|six.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000017_000000.wav|Speak it aloud and see.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000057_000004.wav|Here your own intelligence must guide-and greatly to your profit.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000031_000000.wav|He looked at her in angry astonishment.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000022_000001.wav|When you pick up the evening paper you can tell at a glance which are the important news articles.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000053_000006.wav|In like manner, "soil," "grain," "tools," are also emphatic.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000051_000002.wav|We are interested in new ideas and new facts.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000036_000004.wav|It must come from within, outward.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000063_000002.wav|Read again, changing emphasis slightly.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000054_000002.wav|Why?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000057_000002.wav|No one can say that one interpretation is right and the other wrong.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000062_000001.wav|Which words should be emphasized, which subordinated, in a sentence?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000070_000002.wav|Where?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000068_000004.wav|Can you suggest any improvement?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000033_000000.wav|"Did you expect me to give you a chance to destroy me and poison Jacqueline's mind?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000059_000000.wav|one.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000053_000005.wav|"New" is emphatic because it introduces a new idea.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000034_000004.wav|If you have been talking on a low pitch, jump to a high one on the emphatic word.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000012_000000.wav|The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000067_000001.wav|When is it permissible to emphasize every single word in a sentence?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000037_000004.wav|His emphasis was both correct and powerful.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000037_000002.wav|The other words were hurried over and thus given no comparative importance at all.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000052_000000.wav|In the following selection, "larger" is emphatic, for it is the new idea.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000020_000002.wav|These lines, then, would read like this:|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000038_000000.wav|What would you think of a guide who agreed to show New York to a stranger and then took up his time by visiting Chinese laundries and boot blacking "parlors" on the side streets?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000034_000005.wav|If you have been talking on a high pitch, take a low one on your emphatic ideas. Read the chapters on "Inflection," "Feeling," "Pause," "Change of Pitch," "Change of Tempo." Each of these will explain in detail how to get emphasis through the use of a certain principle.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000053_000003.wav|The words, "Republic needs" in the next sentence, are emphatic; they introduce a new and important idea.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000041_000003.wav|Of course, there are many ways of delivering it; this is only one of several good interpretations that might be chosen.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000020_000001.wav|It is the one word that positively defines the quality of the subject being discussed, and the author of those lines desired to bring it out emphatically, as he has shown by contrasting it with another idea.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000066_000000.wav|eight.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000060_000001.wav|Describe one method of destroying monotony of thought presentation.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000019_000002.wav|White, naturally, for that is the opposite of black.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000044_000000.wav|Strongly emphasizing a single word has a tendency to suggest its antithesis.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44577/5656_44577_000013_000002.wav|To some extent you do, in ordinary speech; but do you in public discourse?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000015_000005.wav|The dictionary defines "monotonous" as being synonymous with "wearisome." That is putting it mildly.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000001.wav|The laws that enable us to operate an automobile, produce moving pictures, or music on the Victrola, would have worked just as well then as they do today.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000021_000000.wav|When you have mastered the mechanics of speech outlined in the next few chapters you will no longer be troubled with monotony.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000013_000001.wav|Avoid it as you would shun a deadly dull bore. The "idle rich" can have half a dozen homes, command all the varieties of foods gathered from the four corners of the earth, and sail for Africa or Alaska at their pleasure; but the poverty stricken man must walk or take a street car-he does not have the choice of yacht, auto, or special train.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000007_000000.wav|The monotonous speaker not only drones along in the same volume and pitch of tone but uses always the same emphasis, the same speed, the same thoughts-or dispenses with thought altogether.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000020_000000.wav|It is useless to shoe a dead horse, and all the sound principles in Christendom will never make a live speech out of a dead one.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000015_000003.wav|Strike the same note on the piano over and over again.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000004_000000.wav|One day Ennui was born from Uniformity.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000020_000001.wav|So let it be understood that public speaking is not a matter of mastering a few dead rules; the most important law of public speech is the necessity for truth, force, feeling, and life.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000012_000002.wav|Lay a marble on the table and do nothing eighteen hours of the day but change that marble from one point to another and back again, and you will go insane if you continue long enough.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000015_000006.wav|It is maddening.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000010_000000.wav|To tell you that your speech is monotonous may mean very little to you, so let us look at the nature-and the curse-of monotony in other spheres of life, then we shall appreciate more fully how it will blight an otherwise good speech.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000014_000001.wav|Nature in her wealth gives us endless variety; man with his limitations is often monotonous.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000014_000002.wav|Get back to nature in your methods of speech making.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000023_000001.wav|To be natural may be to be monotonous.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000015_000002.wav|If you wish to teach or influence men, you must please them, first or last.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000031_000000.wav|seven.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000026_000001.wav|Cite some instances in nature.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000023_000004.wav|Be natural-but improve your natural gifts until you have approached the ideal, for we must strive after idealized nature, in fruit, tree, and speech.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000018_000000.wav|The carpenter has special implements with which to construct the several parts of a building.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000018_000003.wav|To give you a conception of these instruments, and practical help in learning to use them, are the purposes of the immediately following chapters.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000015_000004.wav|This will give you some idea of the displeasing, jarring effect monotony has on the ear.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000012_000000.wav|In its effect on its victim, monotony is actually deadly-it will drive the bloom from the cheek and the lustre from the eye as quickly as sin, and often leads to viciousness.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000017_000002.wav|We multiply our powers of speech by increasing our tools.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000015_000000.wav|The power of variety lies in its pleasure giving quality.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000011_000001.wav|If a speaker uses only a few of his powers, it points very plainly to the fact that the rest of his powers are not developed.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000012_000001.wav|The worst punishment that human ingenuity has ever been able to invent is extreme monotony-solitary confinement.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000021_000001.wav|The complete knowledge of these principles and the ability to apply them will give you great variety in your powers of expression.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000030_000002.wav|What difference do you notice in its rendition?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000022_000001.wav|They are all founded on the practices that good speakers and actors adopt-either naturally and unconsciously or under instruction-in getting their effects.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000011_000002.wav|Monotony reveals our limitations.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000020_000002.wav|Forget all else, but not this.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000011_000000.wav|If the Victrola in the adjoining apartment grinds out just three selections over and over again, it is pretty safe to assume that your neighbor has no other records.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000007.wav|They are the very foundations of successful speaking.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000025_000000.wav|one.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000003.wav|Many speakers still use ox cart methods in their speech instead of employing automobile or overland express methods.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000028_000001.wav|Describe some of the effects of monotony in both cases.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000029_000000.wav|five.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000027_000001.wav|Cite instances in man's daily life.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000017_000001.wav|We avoid monotony in speech by multiplying our powers of speech.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000030_000000.wav|six.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000002.wav|It was ignorance of law that for ages deprived humanity of our modern conveniences.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000027_000000.wav|three.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000006.wav|We cannot impress too thoroughly upon you the necessity for a real working mastery of these principles.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000031_000001.wav|Why is monotony one of the worst as well as one of the most common faults of speakers?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000017_000000.wav|We obviate monotony in dress by replenishing our wardrobes.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000025_000001.wav|What are the causes of monotony?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000023_000003.wav|The dwarfed oak on the rocky hillside is natural, but a poor thing compared with the beautiful tree found in the rich, moist bottom lands.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000013_000000.wav|So this thing that shortens life, and is used as the most cruel of punishments in our prisons, is the thing that will destroy all the life and force of a speech.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000013_000003.wav|Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000018_000002.wav|In like manner the speaker has certain instruments and tools at his command by which he builds his argument, plays on the feelings, and guides the beliefs of his audience.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000000.wav|Why did not the Children of Israel whirl through the desert in limousines, and why did not Noah have moving picture entertainments and talking machines on the Ark?|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000008_000000.wav|Monotony, the cardinal and most common sin of the public speaker, is not a transgression-it is rather a sin of omission, for it consists in living up to the confession of the Prayer Book: "We have left undone those things we ought to have done."|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000024_000000.wav|QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000030_000001.wav|Now repeat it after you have thoroughly assimilated its matter and spirit.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000013_000004.wav|Strive to increase the variety of your speech as the business man labors to augment his wealth.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000018_000001.wav|The organist has certain keys and stops which he manipulates to produce his harmonies and effects.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000023_000002.wav|The little strawberry up in the arctics with a few tiny seeds and an acid tang is a natural berry, but it is not to be compared with the improved variety that we enjoy here.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000003_000000.wav|THE SIN OF MONOTONY|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000013_000002.wav|He must spend the most of his life in labor and be content with the staples of the food market.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000023_000000.wav|It is useless to warn the student that he must be natural.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000006_000000.wav|Our English has changed with the years so that many words now connote more than they did originally.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000008.wav|"Get your principles right," said Napoleon, "and the rest is a matter of detail."|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000019_000004.wav|They are ignorant of laws that make for efficiency in speaking.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5656/44576/5656_44576_000029_000001.wav|Read aloud some speech without paying particular attention to its meaning or force.|5656
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000021_000011.wav|It is a determination not to tolerate others in doing what is permitted by their religion, because it is not permitted by the persecutor's religion.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000008.wav|We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavourable opinion of any one, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000022_000011.wav|If civilisation has got the better of barbarism when barbarism had the world to itself, it is too much to profess to be afraid lest barbarism, after having been fairly got under, should revive and conquer civilisation.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000003_000001.wav|To individuality should belong the part of life in which it is chiefly the individual that is interested; to society, the part which chiefly interests society.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000009_000003.wav|If he injures his property, he does harm to those who directly or indirectly derived support from it, and usually diminishes, by a greater or less amount, the general resources of the community.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000011.wav|The only tenable ground of condemnation would be, that with the personal tastes and self regarding concerns of individuals the public has no business to interfere.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000013_000008.wav|These teach that things are right because they are right; because we feel them to be so.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000010_000006.wav|There must be some length of time and amount of experience, after which a moral or prudential truth may be regarded as established: and it is merely desired to prevent generation after generation from falling over the same precipice which has been fatal to their predecessors.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000000.wav|As a first instance, consider the antipathies which men cherish on no better grounds than that persons whose religious opinions are different from theirs, do not practise their religious observances, especially their religious abstinences.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000010.wav|We have a right, and it may be our duty, to caution others against him, if we think his example or conversation likely to have a pernicious effect on those with whom he associates.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000018_000007.wav|And they employ a moral police, which occasionally becomes a physical one, to deter skilful workmen from receiving, and employers from giving, a larger remuneration for a more useful service.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000018_000000.wav|To imagine another contingency, perhaps more likely to be realised than the one last mentioned.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000004_000002.wav|These conditions society is justified in enforcing, at all costs to those who endeavour to withhold fulfilment.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000002_000000.wav|What, then, is the rightful limit to the sovereignty of the individual over himself?|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000021_000008.wav|It remains to be proved that society or any of its officers holds a commission from on high to avenge any supposed offence to Omnipotence, which is not also a wrong to our fellow creatures.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000012_000002.wav|But I cannot consent to argue the point as if society had no means of bringing its weaker members up to its ordinary standard of rational conduct, except waiting till they do something irrational, and then punishing them, legally or morally, for it.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000001_000000.wav|OF THE LIMITS TO THE AUTHORITY OF SOCIETY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000012_000005.wav|If society lets any considerable number of its members grow up mere children, incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motives, society has itself to blame for the consequences.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000016_000004.wav|or who can blame people for desiring to suppress what they regard as a scandal in the sight of God and man?|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000005.wav|But even education works by conviction and persuasion as well as by compulsion, and it is by the former only that, when the period of education is past, the self regarding virtues should be inculcated.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000010_000003.wav|And as a supplement to the unavoidable imperfections of law, ought not opinion at least to organise a powerful police against these vices, and visit rigidly with social penalties those who are known to practise them?|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000002_000002.wav|How much of human life should be assigned to individuality, and how much to society?|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000010_000004.wav|There is no question here (it may be said) about restricting individuality, or impeding the trial of new and original experiments in living.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000017_000002.wav|Wherever the Puritans have been sufficiently powerful, as in New England, and in Great Britain at the time of the Commonwealth, they have endeavoured, with considerable success, to put down all public, and nearly all private, amusements: especially music, dancing, public games, or other assemblages for purposes of diversion, and the theatre.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000004_000008.wav|In all such cases there should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000002.wav|But disinterested benevolence can find other instruments to persuade people to their good, than whips and scourges, either of the literal or the metaphorical sort.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000008_000004.wav|He may be to us an object of pity, perhaps of dislike, but not of anger or resentment; we shall not treat him like an enemy of society: the worst we shall think ourselves justified in doing is leaving him to himself, if we do not interfere benevolently by showing interest or concern for him.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000018_000001.wav|There is confessedly a strong tendency in the modern world towards a democratic constitution of society, accompanied or not by popular political institutions.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000003.wav|He is so much the nearer to the ideal perfection of human nature.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000011_000003.wav|George Barnwell murdered his uncle to get money for his mistress, but if he had done it to set himself up in business, he would equally have been hanged.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000008.wav|But neither one person, nor any number of persons, is warranted in saying to another human creature of ripe years, that he shall not do with his life for his own benefit what he chooses to do with it.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000001.wav|This is neither possible nor desirable.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000002.wav|There are few acts which Christians and Europeans regard with more unaffected disgust, than Mussulmans regard this particular mode of satisfying hunger.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000009_000000.wav|The distinction here pointed out between the part of a person's life which concerns only himself, and that which concerns others, many persons will refuse to admit.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000012_000007.wav|Nor is there anything which tends more to discredit and frustrate the better means of influencing conduct, than a resort to the worse.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000007_000004.wav|They may be proofs of any amount of folly, or want of personal dignity and self respect; but they are only a subject of moral reprobation when they involve a breach of duty to others, for whose sake the individual is bound to have care for himself.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000021_000004.wav|The operatives are perfectly right in thinking that if all worked on Sunday, seven days' work would have to be given for six days' wages: but so long as the great mass of employments are suspended, the small number who for the enjoyment of others must still work, obtain a proportional increase of earnings; and they are not obliged to follow those occupations, if they prefer leisure to emolument.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000020_000009.wav|It destroys my primary right of security, by constantly creating and stimulating social disorder.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000016_000001.wav|The people of all Southern Europe look upon a married clergy as not only irreligious, but unchaste, indecent, gross, disgusting.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000004_000007.wav|But there is no room for entertaining any such question when a person's conduct affects the interests of no persons besides himself, or needs not affect them unless they like (all the persons concerned being of full age, and the ordinary amount of understanding).|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000021_000002.wav|But this justification, grounded on the direct interest which others have in each individual's observance of the practice, does not apply to the self chosen occupations in which a person may think fit to employ his leisure; nor does it hold good, in the smallest degree, for legal restrictions on amusements.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000004.wav|It is equally the business of education to cultivate both.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000017_000005.wav|This is precisely what should be said to every government and every public, who have the pretension that no person shall enjoy any pleasure which they think wrong.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000013.wav|Considerations to aid his judgment, exhortations to strengthen his will, may be offered to him, even obtruded on him, by others; but he himself is the final judge.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000011.wav|In this department, therefore, of human affairs, Individuality has its proper field of action.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000014.wav|All errors which he is likely to commit against advice and warning, are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him to what they deem his good.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000007.wav|It would be well, indeed, if this good office were much more freely rendered than the common notions of politeness at present permit, and if one person could honestly point out to another that he thinks him in fault, without being considered unmannerly or presuming.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000018_000004.wav|We have only further to suppose a considerable diffusion of Socialist opinions, and it may become infamous in the eyes of the majority to possess more property than some very small amount, or any income not earned by manual labour.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000022_000010.wav|Let them send missionaries, if they please, to preach against it; and let them, by any fair means (of which silencing the teachers is not one), oppose the progress of similar doctrines among their own people.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000012_000001.wav|If grown persons are to be punished for not taking proper care of themselves, I would rather it were for their own sake, than under pretence of preventing them from impairing their capacity of rendering to society benefits which society does not pretend it has a right to exact.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000017_000001.wav|The next example, however, shall be taken from an interference with liberty which we have by no means passed all danger of.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000011.wav|We may give others a preference over him in optional good offices, except those which tend to his improvement.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000020_000004.wav|The organ of the Alliance, who would "deeply deplore the recognition of any principle which could be wrested to justify bigotry and persecution," undertakes to point out the "broad and impassable barrier" which divides such principles from those of the association.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000007_000006.wav|The term duty to oneself, when it means anything more than prudence, means self respect or self development; and for none of these is any one accountable to his fellow creatures, because for none of them is it for the good of mankind that he be held accountable to them.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000012_000000.wav|But with regard to the merely contingent, or, as it may be called, constructive injury which a person causes to society, by conduct which neither violates any specific duty to the public, nor occasions perceptible hurt to any assignable individual except himself; the inconvenience is one which society can afford to bear, for the sake of the greater good of human freedom.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000003_000000.wav|Each will receive its proper share, if each has that which more particularly concerns it.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000002.wav|If he is eminent in any of the qualities which conduce to his own good, he is, so far, a proper object of admiration.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000006_000012.wav|In these various modes a person may suffer very severe penalties at the hands of others, for faults which directly concern only himself; but he suffers these penalties only in so far as they are the natural, and, as it were, the spontaneous consequences of the faults themselves, not because they are purposely inflicted on him for the sake of punishment.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000003.wav|I am the last person to undervalue the self regarding virtues; they are only second in importance, if even second, to the social.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000010_000000.wav|And even (it will be added) if the consequences of misconduct could be confined to the vicious or thoughtless individual, ought society to abandon to their own guidance those who are manifestly unfit for it?|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000007_000005.wav|What are called duties to ourselves are not socially obligatory, unless circumstances render them at the same time duties to others.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000004.wav|Their aversion to the flesh of the "unclean beast" is, on the contrary, of that peculiar character, resembling an instinctive antipathy, which the idea of uncleanness, when once it thoroughly sinks into the feelings, seems always to excite even in those whose personal habits are anything but scrupulously cleanly, and of which the sentiment of religious impurity, so intense in the Hindoos, is a remarkable example.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000007.wav|The practice is really revolting to such a public.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000020_000010.wav|It invades my right of equality, by deriving a profit from the creation of a misery, I am taxed to support.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000017_000000.wav|The preceding instances may be objected to, although unreasonably, as drawn from contingencies impossible among us: opinion, in this country, not being likely to enforce abstinence from meats, or to interfere with people for worshipping, and for either marrying or not marrying, according to their creed or inclination.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000022_000012.wav|A civilisation that can thus succumb to its vanquished enemy, must first have become so degenerate, that neither its appointed priests and teachers, nor anybody else, has the capacity, or will take the trouble, to stand up for it.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000013_000004.wav|And a person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER four.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000009.wav|Neither could the prohibition be censured as religious persecution.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000016_000003.wav|Yet, if mankind are justified in interfering with each other's liberty in things which do not concern the interests of others, on what principle is it possible consistently to exclude these cases?|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000024_000003.wav|What was at first obedience to authority became a second nature, and the Parsees to this day abstain both from beef and pork.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000013_000000.wav|But the strongest of all the arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000011_000007.wav|No person ought to be punished simply for being drunk; but a soldier or a policeman should be punished for being drunk on duty.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000013_000003.wav|But there is no parity between the feeling of a person for his own opinion, and the feeling of another who is offended at his holding it; no more than between the desire of a thief to take a purse, and the desire of the right owner to keep it.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000015_000008.wav|They also sincerely think that it is forbidden and abhorred by the Deity.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000012_000003.wav|Society has had absolute power over them during all the early portion of their existence: it has had the whole period of childhood and nonage in which to try whether it could make them capable of rational conduct in life.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000014_000002.wav|That is too weighty a subject to be discussed parenthetically, and by way of illustration.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000013_000006.wav|But where has there been seen a public which set any such limit to its censorship? or when does the public trouble itself about universal experience?|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000014_000004.wav|And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000022_000013.wav|If this be so, the sooner such a civilisation receives notice to quit, the better. It can only go on from bad to worse, until destroyed and regenerated (like the Western Empire) by energetic barbarians.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000020_000006.wav|Selling fermented liquors, however, is trading, and trading is a social act.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000016_000002.wav|What do Protestants think of these perfectly sincere feelings, and of the attempt to enforce them against non Catholics?|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000021_000003.wav|It is true that the amusement of some is the day's work of others; but the pleasure, not to say the useful recreation, of many, is worth the labour of a few, provided the occupation is freely chosen, and can be freely resigned.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000022_000000.wav|I cannot refrain from adding to these examples of the little account commonly made of human liberty, the language of downright persecution which breaks out from the press of this country, whenever it feels called on to notice the remarkable phenomenon of Mormonism.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000005_000006.wav|Human beings owe to each other help to distinguish the better from the worse, and encouragement to choose the former and avoid the latter.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000020_000013.wav|The doctrine ascribes to all mankind a vested interest in each other's moral, intellectual, and even physical perfection, to be defined by each claimant according to his own standard.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/409/124990/409_124990_000008_000006.wav|The evil consequences of his acts do not then fall on himself, but on others; and society, as the protector of all its members, must retaliate on him; must inflict pain on him for the express purpose of punishment, and must take care that it be sufficiently severe.|409
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000137_000000.wav|ION: Yes.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000008_000000.wav|SOCRATES: Well done; and I hope that you will do the same for us at the Panathenaea.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000109_000000.wav|ION: The charioteer.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000168_000000.wav|SOCRATES: But you do say that he who is a good rhapsode is also a good general.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000073_000000.wav|ION: Precisely.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000155_000000.wav|ION: I am sure that I should know what a general ought to say.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000049_000000.wav|ION: Yes; and I am right in saying so.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000151_000000.wav|ION: no|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000136_000000.wav|SOCRATES: And you admitted that being different they would have different subjects of knowledge?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000094_000000.wav|SOCRATES: And every art is appointed by God to have knowledge of a certain work; for that which we know by the art of the pilot we do not know by the art of medicine?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000156_000001.wav|But suppose I were to ask you: By the help of which art, Ion, do you know whether horses are well managed, by your skill as a horseman or as a performer on the lyre-what would you answer?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000129_000000.wav|ION: And you are quite right, Socrates, in saying so.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000097_000000.wav|ION: Certainly not.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000173_000000.wav|ION: To be sure, Socrates; and Homer was my master.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000132_000000.wav|SOCRATES: Not all, Ion, surely.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000031_000000.wav|ION: Yes, in a far worse.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000068_000012.wav|For in this way the God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods by whom they are severally possessed.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000124_000001.wav|For there are many such passages, particularly in the Odyssee; as, for example, the passage in which Theoclymenus the prophet of the house of Melampus says to the suitors:--|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000051_000000.wav|ION: That is true.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000065_000000.wav|ION: No indeed; no more than the other.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000075_000000.wav|ION: That proof strikes home to me, Socrates.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000120_000000.wav|SOCRATES: And when Homer says,|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000115_000000.wav|ION: True.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000058_000002.wav|Let us consider this matter; is not the art of painting a whole?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000099_000000.wav|ION: Yes.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000105_000000.wav|ION: That is my opinion, Socrates.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000092_000000.wav|SOCRATES: And will the reason be that this is his art, or will there be any other reason?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000162_000001.wav|Do you mean to say that the art of the rhapsode and of the general is the same?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000154_000000.wav|SOCRATES: Well, but is the art of the rhapsode the art of the general?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000074_000001.wav|Are you not carried out of yourself, and does not your soul in an ecstasy seem to be among the persons or places of which you are speaking, whether they are in Ithaca or in Troy or whatever may be the scene of the poem?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000180_000000.wav|SOCRATES: Then, Ion, I shall assume the nobler alternative; and attribute to you in your praises of Homer inspiration, and not art.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000095_000000.wav|ION: Certainly not.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000070_000000.wav|SOCRATES: And you rhapsodists are the interpreters of the poets?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000030_000000.wav|SOCRATES: What, in a worse way?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000149_000000.wav|ION: No, he will not.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000178_000002.wav|Were not the ephesians originally Athenians, and Ephesus is no mean city?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000068_000007.wav|And this is true.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000056_000001.wav|Would you like me to explain my meaning, Ion?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000128_000000.wav|These are the sort of things which I should say that the prophet ought to consider and determine.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000178_000006.wav|But if, as I believe, you have no art, but speak all these beautiful words about Homer unconsciously under his inspiring influence, then I acquit you of dishonesty, and shall only say that you are inspired.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000068_000003.wav|In like manner the Muse first of all inspires men herself; and from these inspired persons a chain of other persons is suspended, who take the inspiration.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000102_000001.wav|For example, I know that here are five fingers, and you know the same.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000063_000000.wav|ION: No indeed, I have never known such a person.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000178_000001.wav|And will they not choose Ion the Ephesian to be their general, and honour him, if he prove himself worthy?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000055_000000.wav|ION: Yes.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000060_000000.wav|SOCRATES: And there are and have been many painters good and bad?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000178_000005.wav|And if you have art, then, as I was saying, in falsifying your promise that you would exhibit Homer, you are not dealing fairly with me.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000102_000002.wav|And if I were to ask whether I and you became acquainted with this fact by the help of the same art of arithmetic, you would acknowledge that we did?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000068_000001.wav|The gift which you possess of speaking excellently about Homer is not an art, but, as I was just saying, an inspiration; there is a divinity moving you, like that contained in the stone which Euripides calls a magnet, but which is commonly known as the stone of Heraclea.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000069_000000.wav|ION: Yes, indeed, Socrates, I feel that you are; for your words touch my soul, and I am persuaded that good poets by a divine inspiration interpret the things of the Gods to us.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000125_000000.wav|'Wretched men! what is happening to you?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000101_000000.wav|ION: Yes.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000096_000000.wav|SOCRATES: Nor do we know by the art of the carpenter that which we know by the art of medicine?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000047_000000.wav|ION: Yes.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000025_000000.wav|ION: Clearly.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000133_000000.wav|ION: Why, what am I forgetting?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000135_000000.wav|ION: Yes, I remember.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000068_000011.wav|And Tynnichus the Chalcidian affords a striking instance of what I am saying: he wrote nothing that any one would care to remember but the famous paean which is in every one's mouth, one of the finest poems ever written, simply an invention of the Muses, as he himself says.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000111_000000.wav|ION: Yes.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000116_000000.wav|SOCRATES: You know the passage in which Hecamede, the concubine of Nestor, is described as giving to the wounded Machaon a posset, as he says,|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000035_000000.wav|ION: Yes.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000162_000000.wav|SOCRATES: What do you mean?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000098_000000.wav|SOCRATES: And this is true of all the arts;--that which we know with one art we do not know with the other?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000164_000000.wav|SOCRATES: Then he who is a good rhapsode is also a good general?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000068_000004.wav|For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000159_000000.wav|ION: Yes.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000179_000000.wav|ION: There is a great difference, Socrates, between the two alternatives; and inspiration is by far the nobler.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000147_000000.wav|ION: Yes.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000178_000007.wav|Which do you prefer to be thought, dishonest or inspired?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000108_000000.wav|SOCRATES: Then which will be a better judge of the lines which you were reciting from Homer, you or the charioteer?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000139_000000.wav|ION: I should exclude certain things, Socrates.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000021_000000.wav|ION: Very true:|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000114_000000.wav|SOCRATES: And if a different knowledge, then a knowledge of different matters?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000089_000000.wav|ION: 'Bend gently,' he says, 'in the polished chariot to the left of them, and urge the horse on the right hand with whip and voice; and slacken the rein.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000176_000000.wav|SOCRATES: My good Ion, did you never hear of Apollodorus of Cyzicus?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000178_000004.wav|You have literally as many forms as Proteus; and now you go all manner of ways, twisting and turning, and, like Proteus, become all manner of people at once, and at last slip away from me in the disguise of a general, in order that you may escape exhibiting your Homeric lore.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000067_000001.wav|Nevertheless I am conscious in my own self, and the world agrees with me in thinking that I do speak better and have more to say about Homer than any other man.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000113_000000.wav|ION: Yes.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000001_000000.wav|PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Ion.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000171_000000.wav|ION: Far the best, Socrates.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000023_000000.wav|ION: A prophet.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000167_000000.wav|ION: No; I do not say that.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000090_000000.wav|SOCRATES: Enough.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000102_000000.wav|SOCRATES: Yes, surely; for if the subject of knowledge were the same, there would be no meaning in saying that the arts were different,--if they both gave the same knowledge.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000003_000000.wav|ION: No, Socrates; but from Epidaurus, where I attended the festival of Asclepius.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000061_000000.wav|ION: Yes.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000123_000000.wav|ION: Clearly, Socrates, the art of the fisherman.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000041_000000.wav|ION: Clearly the same.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000107_000000.wav|ION: Very true.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000059_000000.wav|ION: Yes.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000148_000000.wav|SOCRATES: Suppose the slave to be a cowherd; the rhapsode will know better than the cowherd what he ought to say in order to soothe the infuriated cows?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000029_000000.wav|ION: Yes, Socrates; but not in the same way as Homer.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000067_000000.wav|ION: I cannot deny what you say, Socrates.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000075_000001.wav|For I must frankly confess that at the tale of pity my eyes are filled with tears, and when I speak of horrors, my hair stands on end and my heart throbs.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000119_000000.wav|ION: The art of medicine.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140222/1513_140222_000122_000000.wav|will the art of the fisherman or of the rhapsode be better able to judge whether these lines are rightly expressed or not?|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140221/1513_140221_000000_000000.wav|This is a LibriVox recording.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140221/1513_140221_000010_000006.wav|Ion is compelled to admit that every man will judge of his own particular art better than the rhapsode.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140221/1513_140221_000010_000002.wav|Ion is confident that Socrates would never think him mad if he could only hear his embellishments of Homer.|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1513/140221/1513_140221_000008_000006.wav|The solution given by Socrates is as follows:--|1513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000027_000001.wav|Vesta is bigger than any of the others, being five hundred miles in diameter, and shines like a star of the sixth magnitude.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000019_000001.wav|He watched it anxiously for successive evenings, and by the twenty fourth of January he was quite sure he had got hold of some moving body, not a star: probably, he thought, a comet.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000022_000003.wav|He had invented but not published several powerful mathematical methods (one of them now known as "the method of least squares"), and he applied them to Piazzi's observations.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000032_000000.wav|Imagine a shell travelling in an elliptic orbit round the earth to suddenly explode: the centre of gravity of all its fragments would continue moving along precisely the same path as had been traversed by the centre of the shell before explosion, and would complete its orbit quite undisturbed.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000036_000001.wav|The waves thus formed absorb the effect of the mutual perturbations, and prevent an accumulation which would be dangerous to the persistence of the whole.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000033_000002.wav|It is probable that the asteroids were at one time not rigid, and hence it is difficult to say what may have happened to them; but there is not the least reason to believe that their present arrangement is derivable in any way from an explosion, and it is certain that an enormous time must have elapsed since such an event if it ever occurred.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000020_000002.wav|It would not be likely to be out again before September, and by that time it would be hopelessly lost again, and have just as much to be rediscovered as if it had never been seen.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000034_000004.wav|The mechanical behaviour of a system of rings, on different hypotheses as to their constitution, has been worked out with consummate skill by Clerk Maxwell; who finds that the only possible constitution for Saturn's assemblage of rings is a multitude of discrete particles each pursuing its independent orbit.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000030_000001.wav|Can they have been once a single planet broken up? or are they rather an abortive attempt at a planet never yet formed into one?|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000018_000000.wav|In eighteen hundred the preliminaries were settled: the heavens near the zodiac were divided into twenty four regions, each of which was intrusted to one observer to be swept.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000010_000000.wav|Those who have read the third lecture in Part one will remember the speculation in which Kepler indulged respecting the arrangements of the planets, the order in which they succeeded one another in space, and the law of their respective distances from the sun; and his fanciful guess about the five regular solids inscribed and circumscribed about their orbits.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000005_000001.wav|No more asteroids were discovered till eighteen forty five, but there are now several hundreds known.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000029_000001.wav|The whole of them together do not nearly equal the earth in bulk.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000022_000006.wav|Piazzi called it Ceres, after the tutelary goddess of Sicily.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000026_000001.wav|It was smaller than either, and was called Juno.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000032_000003.wav|But they have nothing of the kind; their orbits are scattered within a certain broad zone-a zone everywhere as broad as the earth's distance from the sun, ninety two million miles--with no sort of law indicating an origin of this kind.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000016_000000.wav|The gap between Mars and Jupiter, which had often been noticed, and which Kepler filled with a hypothetical planet too small to see, comes into great prominence by this law of Bode.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000021_000001.wav|It was like having to determine a curve from three points close together.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000033_000000.wav|It must be admitted, however, that the fragments of our supposed shell might in the course of ages, if left to themselves, mutually perturb each other into a different arrangement of orbits from that with which they began.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000011_000002.wav|And yet, if the nebular hypothesis or anything like it be true, there must be some law to be discovered hereafter, though it may be a very complicated one.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000019_000002.wav|It was very small, only of the eighth magnitude; and he wrote to two astronomers (one of them Bode himself) saying what he had observed.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000022_000004.wav|He was thus able to calculate an orbit, and to predict a place where, by the end of the year, the planet should be visible.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000016_000001.wav|So much so, that towards the end of last century an enthusiastic German, von Zach, after some search himself for the expected planet, arranged a committee of observing astronomers, or, as he termed it, a body of astronomical detective police, to begin a systematic search for this missing subject of the sun|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000018_000001.wav|Meanwhile, however, quite independently of these arrangements in Germany, and entirely unknown to this committee, a quiet astronomer in Sicily, Piazzi, was engaged in making a catalogue of the stars.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000006_000001.wav|It was first knowingly seen by Galle, of Berlin, on the twenty third of September, eighteen forty six.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000028_000000.wav|For many weary years Olbers kept up a patient and unremitting search for more of these small bodies, or fragments of the large planet as he thought them; but his patience went unrewarded, and he died in eighteen forty without seeing or knowing of any more.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000008_000000.wav|THE DISCOVERY OF THE ASTEROIDS|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000001_000000.wav|NOTES TO LECTURE thirteen|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000011_000001.wav|No thoroughly satisfactory law is known at the present day.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000028_000002.wav|Since then there seems no end to them; numbers have been discovered in America, where Professors Peters and Watson have made a specialty of them, and have themselves found something like a hundred.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000035_000001.wav|His paper constituted what is called "The Adams Prize Essay" for eighteen fifty six.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000005_000000.wav|Ceres was discovered on the first of January, eighteen o one, by Piazzi; Pallas in March, eighteen o two, by Olbers; Juno in eighteen o four, by Harding; and Vesta in eighteen o seven, by Olbers.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000022_000001.wav|It resulted in the discovery of one of the greatest mathematicians, perhaps the greatest, that Germany has ever produced-Gauss.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000007_000000.wav|LECTURE thirteen|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000029_000000.wav|Vesta is the largest-its area being about the same as that of Central Europe, without Russia or Spain-and the smallest known is about twenty miles in diameter, or with a surface about the size of Kent.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000020_000001.wav|But unfortunately he was unable to verify the guess, for the object, whatever it was, had now got too near the sun to be seen.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000028_000001.wav|In eighteen forty five another was found, however, in Germany, and a few weeks later two others by mr Hind in England.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000023_000000.wav|Its distance from the sun as determined by Gauss was two point seven six seven times the earth's distance.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000034_000006.wav|The nebular hypothesis lends itself readily to both.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000036_000000.wav|There are several distinct constituent rings in the entire Saturnian zone, and each perturbs the other, with the result that they ripple and pulse in concord.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000009_000001.wav|Since that time it has been divided, and a great part of our attention has been given to the more distant celestial bodies.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000018_000002.wav|His attention was directed to a certain region in Taurus by an error in a previous catalogue, which contained a star really non-existent.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000023_000002.wav|It was undoubtedly the missing planet.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000032_000002.wav|If the zone of asteroids had a common point through which they all successively passed, they could be unhesitatingly asserted to be the remains of an exploded planet.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000004_000000.wav|numbers which very fairly represent the distances of the then known planets from the sun in the order specified.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000034_000002.wav|But it is easy to show from the theory of gravitation, that a solid ring could not possibly be stable, but would before long get precipitated excentrically upon the body of the planet.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000019_000003.wav|He continued to observe till the eleventh of February, when he was attacked by illness and compelled to cease.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000024_000004.wav|This was called Pallas.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000034_000003.wav|Devices have been invented, such as artfully distributed irregularities calculated to act as satellites and maintain stability; but none of these things really work. Nor will it do to imagine the rings fluid; they too would destroy each other.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000009_000000.wav|Up to the time of Herschel, astronomical interest centred on the solar system.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000005_000002.wav|Their diameters range from five hundred to twenty miles.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000034_000000.wav|It is far more probable that they never constituted one body at all, but are the remains of a cloudy ring thrown off by the solar system in shrinking past that point: a small ring after the immense effort which produced Jupiter and his satellites: a ring which has aggregated into a multitude of little lumps instead of a few big ones.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000021_000000.wav|Mathematical astronomers tried to calculate a possible orbit for the body from the observations of Piazzi, but the observed places were so desperately few and close together.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000035_000002.wav|Sir George Airy, one of the adjudicators (recently Astronomer Royal), characterized it as "one of the most remarkable applications of mathematics to physics that I have ever seen."|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000024_000001.wav|Olbers, while searching for Ceres, had carefully mapped the part of the heavens where it was expected; and in March, eighteen o two, he saw in this place a star he had not previously noticed.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000024_000000.wav|Very soon, a more surprising discovery followed.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000030_000000.wav|The main interest of these bodies to us lies in the question, What is their history?|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000034_000005.wav|Saturn's ring is, in fact, a very concentrated zone of minor asteroids, and there is every reason to conclude that the origin of the solar asteroids cannot be very unlike the origin of the Saturnian ones.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000037_000000.wav|The only effect of gravitational perturbation and of collisions is gradually to broaden out the whole ring, enlarging its outer and diminishing its inner diameter.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000012_000000.wav|An empirical relation is, however, known: it was suggested by Tatius, and published by Bode, of Berlin, in seventeen seventy two.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000014_000001.wav|Neptune's distance, however, turns out to be more nearly thirty times the earth's distance than thirty eight point eight.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000027_000002.wav|Gauss by this time had become so practised in the difficult computations that he worked out the complete orbit of Vesta within ten hours of receiving the observational data from Olbers.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000021_000003.wav|All the calculations gave different results, and none were of the slightest use.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000027_000000.wav|In eighteen o seven the persevering search of Olbers resulted in the discovery of another, with a very oblique orbit, which Gauss named Vesta.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000019_000000.wav|In the course of his scrutiny, on the first of January, eighteen o one, he noticed a small star which next evening appeared to have shifted.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000011_000000.wav|The rude coincidences were, however, accidental, and he failed to discover any true law.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000024_000002.wav|In two hours he detected its motion, and in a month he sent his observations to Gauss, who returned as answer the calculated orbit.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000020_000000.wav|His letters did not reach their destination till the end of March. Directly Bode opened his letter he jumped to the conclusion that this must be the missing planet.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000026_000000.wav|In two years another was seen, in the course of charting the region of the heavens traversed by Ceres and Pallas.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19371/5261_19371_000025_000000.wav|Olbers at once surmised that these two planets were fragments of a larger one, and kept an eager look out for other fragments.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000033_000002.wav|Could this planet be inside the orbit of Uranus?|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000023_000001.wav|In January, eighteen forty three, he graduated as Senior Wrangler, and shortly afterwards he set to work.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000031_000001.wav|He introduced several fresh terms into these perturbations, but none of them of sufficient magnitude to do more than slightly lessen the unexplained perturbations.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000033_000004.wav|It must, therefore, be some planet outside the orbit of Uranus, and in all probability, according to Bode's empirical law, at nearly double the distance from the sun that Uranus is.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000015_000000.wav|ANCIENT OBSERVATIONS (casually made, as of a star).|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000039_000002.wav|We know that Uranus had been seen twenty times, and thought to be a star, before its true nature was by Herschel discovered; and Uranus is only about half as far away as Neptune is.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000029_000002.wav|His first published papers directed attention to his wonderful powers; and the official head of astronomy in France, the famous Arago, suggested to him the unexplained perturbations of Uranus as a worthy object for his fresh and well armed vigour.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000042_000001.wav|Its movements have been felt trembling along the far reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to ocular demonstration."|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000045_000000.wav|The wretched man thus actually saw the planet twice-on august fourth and august twelfth eighteen forty six--without knowing it.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000021_000000.wav|The ordinary problem of perturbation is difficult enough: Given a disturbing planet in such and such a position, to find the perturbations it produces.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000026_000002.wav|If he could, there might be something in his theory.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000011_000001.wav|Some cause was evidently at work on this distant planet, causing it to disagree with its motion as calculated according to the law of gravitation.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000045_000001.wav|If only he had had a map of the heavens containing telescopic stars down to the tenth magnitude, and if he had compared his observations with this map as they were made, the process would have been easy, and the discovery quick.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000020_000002.wav|Could it be an outer planet?|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000003_000003.wav|We have seen, for instance (coming to later times), how a gap between Mars and Jupiter caused a missing planet to be suspected and looked for, and to be found in a hundred pieces.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000005_000003.wav|It was seen once by Bradley also.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000003_000002.wav|And many other phenomena were capable of prediction by accumulated experience.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000028_000003.wav|mr Adams's communication was pigeon holed, and remained in seclusion for eight or nine months.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000032_000003.wav|Or was it due to a collision with some comet?|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000043_000000.wav|It was about time to begin to look for it.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000004_000004.wav|If a wrong entry were discovered, it might of course have been due to some clerical error, though that is hardly probable considering the care taken over these things, or it might have been some tailless comet or other, or it might have been the newly found planet.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000033_000005.wav|Lastly he proceeded to examine where this planet was, and what its orbit must be to produce the observed disturbances.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000022_000001.wav|Bessel made preparations for trying what he could do at it in eighteen forty, but he was prevented by fatal illness.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000004_000000.wav|In seventeen eighty one, Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000007_000001.wav|It was at first thought that this discrepancy must be due to inaccuracies in the older observations, and they were accordingly rejected, and tables prepared for the planet based on the newer and more accurate observations only.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000045_000005.wav|But in England this was not known.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000046_000000.wav|Meanwhile, mr Adams wrote to the Astronomer Royal several additional communications, making improvements in his theory, and giving what he considered nearer and nearer approximations for the place of the planet. He also now answered quite satisfactorily, but too late, the question about the radius vector sent to him months before.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000042_000000.wav|"The past year has given to us the new [minor] planet Astraea; it has done more-it has given us the probable prospect of another. We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000039_000000.wav|But a sweep for so distant a planet would be no easy matter.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000030_000003.wav|This part of the work he published in November, eighteen forty five.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000005_000002.wav|As it was, he missed it altogether.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000037_000000.wav|Without going into further detail, suffice it to say that in June, eighteen forty six, he published his last paper, and in it announced to the world his theoretical position for the planet.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000043_000001.wav|So the Astronomer Royal thought on reading Leverrier's paper.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000045_000002.wav|But he had no such map.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000026_000000.wav|Was it likely that a young and unknown man should have successfully solved so extremely difficult a problem?|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000005_000004.wav|Altogether it had been seen twenty times.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000030_000000.wav|At once he set to work in a thorough and systematic way.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000026_000006.wav|He did not answer Professor Airy's letter.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000005_000001.wav|If only he had reduced and compared his observations, he would have anticipated Herschel by twelve years.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000003_000007.wav|Mainly, the difference lies, first, in the grounds on which the prediction is based; second, on the difficulty of the investigation whereby it is accomplished; third, in the completeness and the accuracy with which it can be verified.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000032_000001.wav|Was it due to the presence of a resisting medium?|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000029_000000.wav|Meanwhile, and quite independently, something of the same sort was going on in France.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000017_000000.wav|MODERN OBSERVATIONS.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000013_000002.wav|A later stage still occurs when the theory has been actually and completely verified by agreement with observation.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000045_000004.wav|dr Bremiker had not, indeed, completed his great work-a chart of the whole zodiac down to stars of the tenth magnitude-but portions of it were completed, and the special region where the new planet was expected happened to be among the portions already just done.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000033_000000.wav|All these he examined and dismissed for various reasons one after the other.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000026_000001.wav|It was altogether unlikely. Still, he would test him: he would ask for further explanations concerning some of the perturbations which he himself had specially noticed, and see if mr Adams could explain these also by his hypothesis.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000028_000001.wav|I do not suppose that mr Adams himself could feel all that confidence in his attempted prediction.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000003_000000.wav|Prediction is no novelty in science; and in astronomy least of all is it a novelty.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000027_000001.wav|If observatories were conducted on these unsystematic and spasmodic principles, they would not be the calm, accurate, satisfactory places they are.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000028_000002.wav|So there the matter dropped.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000006_000000.wav|These old observations of Flamsteed and those of Le Monnier, combined with those made after Herschel's discovery, were very useful in determining an exact orbit for the new planet, and its motion was considered thoroughly known.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000026_000004.wav|The questions were not difficult. They concerned the error of the radius vector.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000020_000000.wav|Something was evidently the matter with the planet.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000047_000001.wav|This great man was likewise engaged in improving his theory and in considering how best the optical search could be conducted.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000039_000001.wav|When seen in a large telescope it would still only look like a star, and it would require considerable labour and watching to sift it out from the other stars surrounding it.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000036_000001.wav|This was, after all, the real tug of war.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000038_000001.wav|So striking a coincidence seemed sufficient to justify a Herschelian "sweep" for a week or two.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000007_000002.wav|But by eighteen thirty it became apparent that it would not accurately obey even these.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000022_000000.wav|But the inverse problem: Given the perturbations, to find the planet which causes them-such a problem had never yet been attacked, and by only a few had its possibility been conceived.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000036_000002.wav|So many unknown quantities: its mass, its distance, its excentricity, the obliquity of its orbit, its position at any time-nothing known, in fact, about the planet except the microscopic disturbance it caused in Uranus, some thousand million miles away from it.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000003_000001.wav|Thousands of years ago, Thales, and others whose very names we have forgotten, could predict eclipses with some certainty, though with only rough accuracy.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000033_000001.wav|It was due to some steady continuous cause-for instance, some unknown planet.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000011_000003.wav|Others surmised the presence of some foreign and unknown body, some comet, or some still more distant planet perhaps, whose gravitative attraction for Uranus was the cause of the whole difficulty-some perturbations, in fact, which had not been taken into account because of our ignorance of the existence of the body which caused them.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000007_000000.wav|For a time Uranus seemed to travel regularly and as expected, in the orbit which had been calculated for it; but early in the present century it began to be slightly refractory, and by eighteen twenty its actual place showed quite a distinct discrepancy from its position as calculated with the aid of the old observations.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000030_000001.wav|He first considered whether the discrepancies could be due to errors in the tables or errors in the old observations.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000033_000003.wav|No, for then it would perturb Saturn and Jupiter also, and they were not perturbed by it.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000013_000000.wav|It is perfectly right not to attach much importance to unelaborated guesses.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000045_000003.wav|Nevertheless one was in existence: it had just been completed in that country of enlightened method and industry-Germany.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000011_000002.wav|Some thought that the exact law of gravitation did not apply to so distant a body.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000044_000001.wav|He thus, without giving an excessive time to the business, accumulated a host of observations, which he intended afterwards to reduce and sift at his leisure.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000032_000000.wav|He next examined the various hypotheses that had been suggested to account for them:--Was it a failure in the law of gravitation?|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5261/19373/5261_19373_000029_000001.wav|A brilliant young mathematician, born in Normandy in eighteen eleven, had accepted the post of Astronomical Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, then recently founded by Napoleon.|5261
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000025_000000.wav|What were the effects of the Chicago fire and the San Francisco earthquake upon these cities?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000015_000003.wav|A sales manager of a prominent institution said lately that the chief difficulty that he had with his men was to make them always tell the truth.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000001.wav|Brilliancy of intellect, however important in many fields of activity, counts for relatively little in home and social life, if not accompanied by graciousness of manner, kindness of heart, uprightness of character.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000026_000000.wav|To what extent is the modern progress in sanitation due to natural calamities?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000030_000000.wav|(one) Flood Stories among Primitive Peoples.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000021_000001.wav|How do you explain the striking points of similarity between the flood stories of peoples far removed from each other?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000002_000002.wav|Is it possible that the prophetic and priestly historians found these stories on the lips of the people and sought in this heroic way to divest them of their polytheistic form and, in certain respects, immoral implications?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000028_000001.wav|How do circumstances affect the kind of act that will be successful?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000016_000002.wav|Otherwise their term of power is short.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000017_000002.wav|Pick out the leading statesmen of the last half century in England, Germany and Italy. Do they not all stand for unselfish, patriotic purpose in their actions, and in character for individual honor and integrity?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000003_000001.wav|In this respect the two variant Biblical narratives are in perfect agreement.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000000.wav|The same is true in our social intercourse.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000007_000001.wav|This was because they had grasped universal principles.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000034_000000.wav|Did these different methods under the special circumstances result in the survival of the fittest?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000004_000004.wav|In the poetic fancy of the ancient East even the resplendent rainbow, which proclaimed the return of the sun after the storm, was truly interpreted as evidence of God's fatherly love and care for his children.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000003_000004.wav|Hence in accord with the just laws of the universe their destruction was unavoidable, and it came even as effect follows cause.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000009_000000.wav|This principle, since that day, has been thoroughly worked out in practically all the important fields of both the plant and animal world.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000005.wav|Or, even there, would the adage, "There must be honor among thieves," hold, when it came to permanent organization?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000028_000006.wav|Would the same act tend equally to preserve the government in both countries?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000009_000002.wav|The principle is applied not only in the field of biology, but also in the realm of astronomy, where we study the evolution of worlds, and in psychology, history, social science, where we speak of the development of human traits and of the growth of economic, political and social institutions.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000008.wav|Generally common human nature is for the right.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000007.wav|With all the weakness of human nature found in every society, the growing success of the rule of the people throughout the world proves that fundamentally men and women are honest and true.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000028_000003.wav|Was such an act right?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000016_000001.wav|Even among our so-called "spoils" politicians and corrupt bosses, who hold their positions by playing upon the selfishness of their followers and the ignorance and apathy of the public, there must be rigid faithfulness to promises, and, at any rate, the appearance of promoting the public welfare.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000028_000004.wav|Was it necessary?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000003_000002.wav|The destruction of mankind came not as the fiat of an arbitrary Deity, but because of the purpose which God had before him in the work of creation, and because that purpose was good.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000004_000007.wav|Is it not evidence of superlative teaching skill to use that which is familiar and, therefore, of interest to those taught, in order to inculcate the deeper moral and religious truths of life?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000016_000000.wav|It may perhaps have been true in the days of Machiavelli that cruelty and treachery would aid the unscrupulous petty despot of Italy to secure and at times to maintain his dukedom; but certainly in modern days, when in all civilized countries permanently prosperous government is based ultimately upon the will of the people, the successful ruler can no longer be treacherous and cruel.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000004_000003.wav|To him are given the promises which God was eager to realize in the life of humanity.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000009.wav|Almost universally, if a mooted question touching morals can be put simply and squarely before the people, they will see and choose the right.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000015_000004.wav|For the sake of making an important sale they were often inclined to misrepresent his goods.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000028_000002.wav|During the Chinese revolution of nineteen twelve in Peking and Nanking, looting leaders of mobs and plundering soldiers when captured were promptly decapitated without trial.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000001_000000.wav|AIM OF THE BIBLICAL WRITERS IN RECOUNTING THE FLOOD STORY.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000034_000001.wav|The fittest morally?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000015_000002.wav|Business success in the long run, is so strongly based upon mutual confidence and trust, that, especially in these later days of credit organization, the dishonest man or even the tricky man cannot prosper long.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000026_000001.wav|What calamities?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000022_000000.wav|Is there geological evidence that the earth, during human history, has been completely inundated?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000004_000005.wav|In the light of these profound religious teachings may any one reasonably question the right of these stories to a place in the Bible?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000023_000000.wav|What do you mean by a calamity?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000011_000001.wav|It is, therefore, one of the most suggestive and interesting of the writings of the early Israelites.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000007_000000.wav|It is interesting and illuminating to note how the ancient Hebrew prophets in their religious teaching forecast the discoveries and scientific methods of our day.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000004_000002.wav|In both of the versions Noah in a very true sense represents the beginning of a new creation: he is the traditional father of a better race.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000003_000003.wav|Men by their sins and wilful failure to observe his benign laws were thwarting that purpose.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000004_000001.wav|The story as told is not merely an illustration of the truth that righteousness brings its just reward, but of the profounder principle that it is the morally fit who survive.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000003_000005.wav|On the other hand, these ancient teachers taught with inimitable skill that God would not destroy that which was worthy of preservation.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000018_000002.wav|It may sometimes seem that the brilliant rascal succeeds, that the unscrupulous business man becomes rich, and that the hypocrite prospers through his hypocrisy.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000017_000000.wav|If we look back through the history of modern times, we shall find that the statesmen who rank high among the successful rulers of their countries are men of unselfish patriotism, and almost invariably men of personal uprightness and morality, and usually of deep religious feeling.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000009_000001.wav|Moreover, the doctrine of evolution, dependent upon this principle, has exerted so great an influence upon the process of investigation and thinking in all fields of activity that the resulting change in method has amounted to a revolution.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156968/2999_156968_000027_000001.wav|What illustrations can you cite?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000029_000003.wav|Here the ship grounded.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000029_000004.wav|Then,|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000036_000005.wav|Many scholars believe, therefore, that Babylonia was the original home of the Biblical flood story.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000022_000000.wav|THE CORRESPONDING BABYLONIAN FLOOD STORIES.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000012_000000.wav|And without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing with God; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000036_000004.wav|The description of the construction of the ark in genesis chapter six verses fourteen to sixteen is not only closely parallel to that found in the Babylonian account, but the method-the smearing of the ark within and without with bitumen-is peculiar to the Tigris Euphrates valley.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000017_000000.wav|THE TWO BIBLICAL ACCOUNTS OF THE FLOOD.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000023_000005.wav|It was brought about by the Babylonian gods in order to destroy the city of Shurippak, situated on the banks of the Euphrates.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000037_000001.wav|Many of its details were doubtless suggested by the annual floods and fogs which inundate that famous valley and recall the primeval chaos so vividly pictured in the corresponding Babylonian story of the creation.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000019_000000.wav|These fundamental variations and the presence of duplicate versions of the same incidents point, some writers think, to two originally distinct accounts of the flood which have been closely woven together by the final editor of the book of genesis.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000019_000003.wav|It has the flowing, vivid, picturesque, literary style and the point of view of the prophetic teacher.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000033_000003.wav|Are these coincidences merely accidental or do they point possibly to a common tradition?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000020_000002.wav|In this account only two of each kind of beast and bird are taken into the ark.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000023_000001.wav|The older Babylonian account is found in the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh epic, which comes from the library of Asshurbanipal.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000037_000006.wav|Even in the temple at Jerusalem the Babylonians' gods, the host of heaven, were worshipped by certain of the hebrews.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000025_000001.wav|Its dimensions were one hundred and twenty cubits in each direction. It was built in six stories, each of which was divided into nine parts.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000029_000000.wav|For six days and nights the storm raged, but on the seventh day it subsided and the flood began to abate.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000032_000003.wav|Into this he took not only his family and provisions, but quadrupeds and birds of all kinds. When the flood began to recede, he sent out a bird, which quickly returned.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000027_000002.wav|The description of the tempest that follows is exceedingly vivid and picturesque.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000008_000000.wav|When Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every purpose in the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, it was a source of regret that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him to his heart.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000037_000000.wav|Its exact origin, however, is not so certain.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000033_000005.wav|What is the significance of these points of agreement?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000029_000001.wav|Of the race of mortals, however, every voice was hushed.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000019_000006.wav|Seven days the waters rose, and at intervals of seven days he sent out a raven and a dove.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000020_000003.wav|The flood lasts for over a year and is universal, covering even the tops of the highest mountains.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000037_000003.wav|In the earliest Hebrew records there is no trace of this tradition, although it may have been known to the Aramean ancestors of the hebrews.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000037_000002.wav|It may have been based on the remembrances of a great local inundation, possibly due to the subsidence of great areas of land.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000036_000000.wav|On the basis of the preceding comparisons some writers attempt to trace tentatively the history of the flood tradition current among the peoples of southwestern Asia.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000025_000000.wav|A detailed account then follows of the building of the ark.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000032_000007.wav|Disembarking, the Babylonian Noah kissed the earth and, after building an altar, offered a sacrifice to the gods.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000037_000007.wav|The few literary inscriptions which come from this period, those found in the mound at Gezer, are written in the Assyrian script and contain the names of Assyrian officials.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000013_000000.wav|Rare is the man who can look back over his life and not confess, at least to himself, that the things which have made him most a man are the very things from which he tried with all his soul to escape.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000020_000004.wav|No animals are sacrificed, for according to the priestly writer this custom was first instituted by Moses.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000036_000001.wav|A fragment of the Babylonian flood story, coming from at least as early as two thousand b c, has recently been discovered.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000032_000002.wav|At the command of the god he built a great ship fifteen stadia long and two in width.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000029_000002.wav|At last the ship approached the mountain Nisir which lay on the northern horizon, as viewed from the Tigris Euphrates valley.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000026_000000.wav|All the living creatures of all kinds I loaded on it. I brought on board my family and household; Cattle of the field, beasts of the field, the craftsmen, All of them I brought on board.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000033_000002.wav|In what details do they agree?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000020_000006.wav|This later account is dated by this group of modern Biblical scholars about four hundred b c|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000014_000000.wav|If we would attain happiness, We must first attain helpfulness.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000036_000002.wav|The probability is that the tradition goes back to the earliest beginnings of Babylonian history.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000032_000004.wav|After a few days he sent forth another bird, which returned with mud on its feet.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000035_000000.wav|HISTORY OF THE BIBLICAL FLOOD STORIES.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000025_000002.wav|Plentiful provisions were next carried on board and a great feast was held to commemorate the completion of the ark.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000019_000005.wav|Seven of each clean beast and bird are taken into the ark to provide food for Noah and his family.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000019_000007.wav|The flood from its beginning to the time when Noah disembarked continued sixty eight days.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000023_000004.wav|In response to Gilgamesh's question as to how he, a mortal, attained immortality the Babylonian Noah recounts the story of the flood.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000027_000000.wav|In the evening at the command of the god Shamash the rains began to descend.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000008_000001.wav|Therefore Jehovah said, I will destroy from the face of the ground man whom I have created, for I regret that I have made mankind.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000020_000001.wav|The style is that of a legal writer-formal, exact and repetitious.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000038_000000.wav|Later when the Jewish exiles were carried to Babylonia, they naturally came into contact again with the Babylonian account of the flood, but in its later form, as the comparisons already instituted clearly indicate.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000033_000004.wav|How far do the later Biblical and Babylonian accounts agree?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000019_000004.wav|In this account the number seven prevails.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000032_000005.wav|When the third bird failed to return, he took off the cover of the ship and found that it had stranded on a mountain of Armenia.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000033_000001.wav|Which Biblical account does the earliest Babylonian narrative resemble most closely?|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2999/156967/2999_156967_000032_000006.wav|The mountain in the Biblical account is identified with Mount Ararat.|2999
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000016_000001.wav|He has the same modelling of the forehead as Torp.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000026_000001.wav|Dick found a glass of liqueur brandy in his hand.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000005_000003.wav|'And mr Torpenhow's ten times a better man than you,' she concluded.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000075_000000.wav|He rose, tried to straighten his shoulders, and spoke to the face he could hardly see.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000046_000004.wav|'It's a humiliating exhibition,' he thought, 'and I'm glad Torp isn't here to see.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000030_000000.wav|'I really could not say.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000030_000003.wav|I really could not say?'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000025_000000.wav|'Can you give me anything to drink?'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000022_000000.wav|Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost To all eternity! Dick read and re read the verse till his turn came, and the doctor was bending above him seated in an arm chair.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000002.wav|After you went away I had some trouble with my eyes.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000047_000000.wav|Come here and let me pet you, Binkie.'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000034_000001.wav|Just as badly as we can get it. We'll go to the Park to think it out.'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000022_000003.wav|When the flame was removed, Dick saw the doctor's face, and the fear came upon him again.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000006_000001.wav|That's why he went away.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000022_000002.wav|The doctor's hand touched the scar of the sword cut on Dick's head, and Dick explained briefly how he had come by it.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000071_000000.wav|'Is this you?' said Torpenhow.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000041_000003.wav|We must do something.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000009.wav|I did not know I was drunk till I was told, but I must go on with my work.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000015_000000.wav|As he entered the dark hall that led to the consulting room a man cannoned against him.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000061_000001.wav|She used to shriek with rage when Dick stared at her between half closed eyes.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000049_000001.wav|Not quite so gentle as we could wish, but we'll discuss that later.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000049_000002.wav|I think I see my way to it now.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000005.wav|He said, "Scar on the head,--sword cut and optic nerve." Make a note of that.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000050_000001.wav|That's better than painting the thing merely to pique Maisie.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000062_000001.wav|An incoherent note heralded his return.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000017_000000.wav|Even as he thought, a great fear came upon Dick, a fear that made him hold his breath as he walked into the oculist's waiting room, with the heavy carved furniture, the dark green paper, and the sober hued prints on the wall.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000068_000000.wav|It was not long to wait.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000043_000002.wav|'What can I do?|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000016_000002.wav|He looks very sick.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000043_000003.wav|What can I do?|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000044_000001.wav|'You won't do, and you won't do,' he said, at each inspection.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000055_000000.wav|He threw himself without reservation into his work, and did not think of the doom that was to overtake him, for he was possessed with his notion, and the things of this world had no power upon him.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000027_000000.wav|'As far as I can gather,' he said, coughing above the spirit, 'you call it decay of the optic nerve, or something, and therefore hopeless.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000060_000003.wav|He could not tell her of his trouble, and he could not laugh at her accounts of her own Melancolia which was always going to be finished.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000004_000001.wav|'Torp's away; Bessie hates me; I can't get at the notion of the Melancolia; Maisie's letters are scrappy; and I believe I have indigestion.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000017_000001.wav|He recognised a reproduction of one of his own sketches.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000078_000000.wav|Bessie looked through the keyhole after a long pause, and saw the two walking up and down as usual, Torpenhow's hand on Dick's shoulder.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000069_000000.wav|'Drinking like a fish,' Bessie whispered.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000074_000000.wav|Torpenhow turned to his companions appealingly, and they left the room to find lunch elsewhere.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000046_000005.wav|The doctor said I was to avoid mental worry.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000028_000000.wav|'Perhaps one year.'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000023_000000.wav|'Verdict?' he said faintly.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000063_000000.wav|Dick showed Bessie the letter, and she abused him for that he had ever sent Torpenhow away and ruined her life.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000050_000005.wav|Come here.'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000036_000005.wav|Let's see how it feels to be blind.' Dick shut his eyes, and flaming commas and Catherine wheels floated inside the lids.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000046_000002.wav|His hands were shaking, and he prided himself on their steadiness; he could feel that his lips were quivering, and the sweat was running down his face.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000001.wav|He argued, in the loneliness of his studio, henceforward to be decorated with a film of gray gauze in one corner, that, if his fate were blindness, all the Torpenhows in the world could not save him.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000041_000000.wav|'We need to be calm, Binkie; we must be calm.' He talked aloud for the sake of distraction.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000014_000001.wav|Hence these spots before the eyes, Binkie.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000054_000000.wav|He fell to work, whistling softly, and was swallowed up in the clean, clear joy of creation, which does not come to man too often, lest he should consider himself the equal of his God, and so refuse to die at the appointed time.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000006.wav|Looking down, he saw that his life blood was going from him.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000023_000002.wav|What do you make of it?'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000041_000005.wav|I shouldn't have believed that this morning; but now things are different.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000066_000000.wav|'What d'you mean?' said Dick.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000050_000002.wav|I can do it now because I have it inside me.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000049_000003.wav|All those studies of Bessie's head were nonsense, and they nearly brought your master into a scrape.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000062_000002.wav|'News! great news!' he wrote.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000045_000001.wav|'Allah Almighty!' he cried despairingly, 'help me through the time of waiting, and I won't whine when my punishment comes.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000050_000000.wav|'Understand the speech and feel a stir Of fellowship in all disastrous fight. "In all disastrous fight"?|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000008.wav|I cannot see much now, but I can see best when I am drunk.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000029_000001.wav|And if I don't take care of myself?'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000040_000000.wav|'But I have a little more time allowed me,' he said.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000003.wav|I must pull through this business alone,' he said.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000040_000002.wav|It was as though a black shadow stood at his elbow and urged him to go forward; and there were only weaving circles and floating pin dots before his eyes.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000010_000001.wav|Binkie, we will go to a medicine man. We can't have our eyes interfered with, for by these we get our bread; also mutton chop bones for little dogs.'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000008.wav|Dick laughed again, remembering the horror.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000009_000001.wav|It is not pleasant to live in the company of a notion that will not work out, a fox terrier that cannot talk, and a woman who talks too much.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000014_000000.wav|'I've neglected the warnings of my lord the stomach too long.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000046_000003.wav|He was lashed by fear, driven forward by the desire to get to work at once and accomplish something, and maddened by the refusal of his brain to do more than repeat the news that he was about to go blind.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000059_000001.wav|There was a delightful sense of irresponsibility upon him, such as they feel who walking among their fellow men know that the death sentence of disease is upon them, and, seeing that fear is but waste of the little time left, are riotously happy.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000059_000002.wav|The days passed without event.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000009.wav|It seemed so exactly like his own case.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000031_000001.wav|If you will let me, I'll sit here for a minute, and then I'll go.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000070_000001.wav|The drink had been at work as steadily as Dick.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000074_000002.wav|After a time the culprit began to feel the need of a little self respect.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000062_000005.wav|Get lunch and clean your accoutrements.'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000022_000004.wav|The doctor wrapped himself in a mist of words.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000067_000000.wav|'Mean!|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000001.wav|'But I am right, too.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000007_000002.wav|I'd like to catch you!|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000009_000000.wav|Dick smiled wearily.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000021_000000.wav|The next good joy that Mary had, It was the joy of three, To see her good Son Jesus Christ Making the blind to see; Making the blind to see, good Lord, And happy we may be.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000070_000000.wav|They came into the studio, rejoicing, to be welcomed over effusively by a drawn, lined, shrunken, haggard wreck,--unshaven, blue white about the nostrils, stooping in the shoulders, and peering under his eyebrows nervously.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000037_000002.wav|If only Torp were back, now!'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000004.wav|He was lying on the sofa, eating his moustache and wondering what the darkness of the night would be like.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000013_000000.wav|Dick sought an oculist,--the best in London.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000046_000001.wav|Dick waited till he could regain some sort of control over himself.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000015_000001.wav|Dick saw the face as it hurried out into the street.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000065_000000.wav|'I don't know if that's any worse than sitting to a drunken beast in a studio.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000009_000002.wav|He would have answered, but at that moment there unrolled itself from one corner of the studio a veil, as it were, of the flimsiest gauze.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000044_000004.wav|Sudden death comes home too nearly, and this is battle and murder for me.'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000037_000001.wav|Let's go home.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000031_000000.wav|'I beg your pardon, but it has come without any warning.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000036_000006.wav|Yet when he looked across the Park the scope of his vision was not contracted.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000030_000002.wav|The scar is an old one, and-exposure to the strong light of the desert, did you say?--with excessive application to fine work?|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000004_000002.wav|What give a man pains across the head and spots before his eyes, Binkie?|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000060_000001.wav|The Melancolia began to flame on the canvas, in the likeness of a woman who had known all the sorrow in the world and was laughing at it.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000036_000007.wav|He could see perfectly, until a procession of slow wheeling fireworks defiled across his eyeballs.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000060_000004.wav|But the furious days of toil and the nights of wild dreams made amends for all, and the sideboard was his best friend on earth.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000005_000002.wav|She explained her enduring hatred for Dick, and made it clear to him that she only sat for the sake of his money.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000016_000003.wav|Probably heard something he didn't like.'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000042_000000.wav|Binkie smiled from ear to ear, as a well bred terrier should, but made no suggestion.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000054_000001.wav|He forgot Maisie, Torpenhow, and Binkie at his feet, but remembered to stir Bessie, who needed very little stirring, into a tremendous rage, that he might watch the smouldering lights in her eyes.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000060_000002.wav|It was true that the corners of the studio draped themselves in gray film and retired into the darkness, that the spots in his eyes and the pains across his head were very troublesome, and that Maisie's letters were hard to read and harder still to answer.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000069_000001.wav|'He's been at it for nearly a month.' She followed the men stealthily to hear judgment done.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000040_000001.wav|He paced up and down the room, quietly at first, but afterwards with the hurried feet of fear.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000037_000000.wav|'Little dorglums, we aren't at all well.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000068_000001.wav|Torpenhow met Bessie on the staircase without a sign of feeling.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000045_000002.wav|What can I do now, before the light goes?'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000011_000000.wav|The doctor was an affable local practitioner with white hair, and he said nothing till Dick began to describe the gray film in the studio.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000074_000004.wav|He would explain.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000004_000003.wav|Shall us take some liver pills?'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000002.wav|'I can't call him off his trip to sit down and sympathise with me.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000019_000000.wav|'That's idolatrous bad Art,' he said, drawing the book towards himself.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000053_000000.wav|Binkie went to his own chair, and as often as he looked saw Dick walking up and down, rubbing his hands and chuckling.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000014_000002.wav|I can see as well as I ever could.'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000012_000004.wav|A little patching and repairing from time to time is all we want.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000067_000001.wav|You'll see when mr Torpenhow comes back.'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000024_000000.wav|Again the whirl of words, but this time they conveyed a meaning.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000039_000007.wav|The stupid bewilderment on his face was so intensely comic that both Dick and Torpenhow, still panting and unstrung from a fight for life, had roared with laughter, in which the man seemed as if he would join, but, as his lips parted in a sheepish grin, the agony of death came upon him, and he pitched grunting at their feet.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000018_000002.wav|Little children came to that eye doctor, and they needed large type amusement.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000041_000004.wav|Our time is short.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000009_000003.wav|He rubbed his eyes, but the gray haze would not go.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000052_000000.wav|'Rather like holding a guinea pig; but you're a brave little dog, and you don't yelp when you're hung up.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000064_000000.wav|'Well,' said Dick, brutally, 'you're better as you are, instead of making love to some drunken beast in the street.' He felt that he had rescued Torpenhow from great temptation.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000035_000000.wav|They headed for a certain tree that Dick knew well, and they sat down to thin, because his legs were trembling under him and there was cold fear at the pit of his stomach.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000018_000000.wav|Many people were waiting their turn before him.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000051_000000.wav|Binkie swung head downward for a moment without speaking.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000004_000000.wav|--The Fight of Heriot's Ford. 'THIS is a cheerful life,' said Dick, some days later.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000036_000002.wav|It's the living death, Binkie.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000036_000004.wav|'Binkie, we must think.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000072_000002.wav|Binkie's quite well, and I've been doing some good work.' He reeled where he stood.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000036_000000.wav|'How could it have come without any warning?|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000074_000003.wav|He was quite sure that he had not in any way departed from virtue, and there were reasons, too, of which Torpenhow knew nothing.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000077_000000.wav|Torpenhow said nothing, and Dick began to whimper feebly, for joy at seeing Torpenhow again, for grief at misdeeds-if indeed they were misdeeds-that made Torpenhow remote and unsympathetic, and for childish vanity hurt, since Torpenhow had not given a word of praise to his wonderful picture.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000027_000001.wav|What is my time limit, avoiding all strain and worry?'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000012_000000.wav|'We all want a little patching and repairing from time to time,' he chirped.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000030_000001.wav|One cannot ascertain the exact amount of injury inflicted by the sword cut.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000012_000005.wav|An oculist, by all means.'|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000053_000002.wav|Not till morning did he remember that something might happen to him in the future.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000062_000004.wav|We're all back on Thursday.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000072_000000.wav|'All that's left of me.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000062_000003.wav|'The Nilghai knows, and so does the Keneu.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000056_000000.wav|'You're pleased to day,' said Bessie.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000076_000006.wav|So I am going blind.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000018_000001.wav|His eye was caught by a flaming red and gold Christmas carol book.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000072_000001.wav|Sit down.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000049_000005.wav|That's for myself.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000062_000000.wav|Torpenhow had been absent for six weeks.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000007_000001.wav|'To me!|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000053_000001.wav|That night Dick wrote a letter to Maisie full of the tenderest regard for her health, but saying very little about his own, and dreamed of the Melancolia to be born.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4425/14497/4425_14497_000046_000000.wav|There was no answer.|4425
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000002_000001.wav|When men have once allowed themselves to think no more of what is to befall them after life, they readily lapse into that complete and brutal indifference to futurity, which is but too conformable to some propensities of mankind.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000001_000004.wav|Religions give men a general habit of conducting themselves with a view to futurity: in this respect they are not less useful to happiness in this life than to felicity hereafter; and this is one of their chief political characteristics.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000004_000001.wav|Circumscribed by the character of his country and his age, the moralist must learn to vindicate his principles in that position.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000009_000000.wav|In democratic communities these two notions are, on the contrary, always palpably united.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000007_000001.wav|The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind on every side as the necessary, natural, and honest condition of human existence.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000009_000002.wav|Even those who are principally actuated by the love of fame are necessarily made familiar with the thought that they are not exclusively actuated by that motive; and they discover that the desire of getting a living is mingled in their minds with the desire of making life illustrious.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000006.wav|Their salary is an incident of which they think but little, and of which they always affect not to think at all.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000004_000000.wav|In those countries in which unhappily irreligion and democracy coexist, the most important duty of philosophers and of those in power is to be always striving to place the objects of human actions far beyond man's immediate range.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000010_000002.wav|No profession exists in which men do not work for money; and the remuneration which is common to them all gives them all an air of resemblance.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000007_000002.wav|Not only is labor not dishonorable amongst such a people, but it is held in honor: the prejudice is not against it, but in its favor. In the United States a wealthy man thinks that he owes it to public opinion to devote his leisure to some kind of industrial or commercial pursuit, or to public business.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000000.wav|Equality of conditions not only ennobles the notion of labor in men's estimation, but it raises the notion of labor as a source of profit.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000002_000000.wav|But in proportion as the light of faith grows dim, the range of man's sight is circumscribed, as if the end and aim of human actions appeared every day to be more within his reach.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000003.wav|Yet in aristocratic society it constantly happens that he who works for honor is not insensible to the attractions of profit.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000004.wav|But these two desires only intermingle in the innermost depths of his soul: he carefully hides from every eye the point at which they join; he would fain conceal it from himself.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000005_000003.wav|The sudden and undeserved promotion of a courtier produces only a transient impression in an aristocratic country, because the aggregate institutions and opinions of the nation habitually compel men to advance slowly in tracks which they cannot get out of.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000007_000004.wav|It is for the purpose of escaping this obligation to work, that so many rich Americans come to Europe, where they find some scattered remains of aristocratic society, amongst which idleness is still held in honor.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000007.wav|Thus the notion of profit is kept distinct from that of labor; however they may be united in point of fact, they are not thought of together.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000003_000000.wav|If the social condition of a people, under these circumstances, becomes democratic, the danger which I here point out is thereby increased.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000009_000001.wav|As the desire of well-being is universal-as fortunes are slender or fluctuating-as everyone wants either to increase his own resources, or to provide fresh ones for his progeny, men clearly see that it is profit which, if not wholly, at least partially, leads them to work.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000003_000002.wav|The instability of society itself fosters the natural instability of man's desires.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000000_000000.wav|Chapter seventeen: That In Times Marked By Equality Of Conditions And Sceptical Opinions, It Is Important To Remove To A Distance The Objects Of Human Actions|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000007_000003.wav|He would think himself in bad repute if he employed his life solely in living.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000010_000005.wav|He is paid for commanding, other men for obeying orders.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000004_000002.wav|He must constantly endeavor to show his contemporaries, that, even in the midst of the perpetual commotion around them, it is easier than they think to conceive and to execute protracted undertakings.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000001.wav|In aristocracies it is not exactly labor that is despised, but labor with a view to profit.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000001_000000.wav|In the ages of faith the final end of life is placed beyond life.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000005_000007.wav|When men have accustomed themselves to foresee from afar what is likely to befall in the world and to feed upon hopes, they can hardly confine their minds within the precise circumference of life, and they are ready to break the boundary and cast their looks beyond.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000008_000005.wav|In aristocratic countries there are few public officers who do not affect to serve their country without interested motives.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000003_000003.wav|In the midst of these perpetual fluctuations of his lot, the present grows upon his mind, until it conceals futurity from his sight, and his looks go no further than the morrow.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000005_000008.wav|I do not doubt that, by training the members of a community to think of their future condition in this world, they would be gradually and unconsciously brought nearer to religious convictions.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148529/2240_148529_000006_000000.wav|Chapter eighteen: That Amongst The Americans All Honest Callings Are Honorable|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000012_000005.wav|Egotism blights the germ of all virtue; individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but, in the long run, it attacks and destroys all others, and is at length absorbed in downright egotism.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000004_000004.wav|Several other combinations might be easily imagined, by which very great equality would be united to institutions more or less free, or even to institutions wholly without freedom. Although men cannot become absolutely equal unless they be entirely free, and consequently equality, pushed to its furthest extent, may be confounded with freedom, yet there is good reason for distinguishing the one from the other.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000010_000000.wav|I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000007_000004.wav|The evils which extreme equality may produce are slowly disclosed; they creep gradually into the social frame; they are only seen at intervals, and at the moment at which they become most violent habit already causes them to be no longer felt.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000009_000000.wav|What I have said is applicable to all democratic nations: what I am about to say concerns the French alone.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000002_000002.wav|Everybody has remarked that in our time, and especially in France, this passion for equality is every day gaining ground in the human heart.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000006_000003.wav|But political liberty is more easily lost; to neglect to hold it fast is to allow it to escape.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000011_000000.wav|Chapter two: Of Individualism In Democratic Countries|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000007_000000.wav|That political freedom may compromise in its excesses the tranquillity, the property, the lives of individuals, is obvious to the narrowest and most unthinking minds.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000001.wav|A man almost always knows his forefathers, and respects them: he thinks he already sees his remote descendants, and he loves them.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000007_000002.wav|They know that the calamities they apprehend are remote, and flatter themselves that they will only fall upon future generations, for which the present generation takes but little thought.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000003.wav|Aristocratic institutions have, moreover, the effect of closely binding every man to several of his fellow citizens.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000005.wav|As in aristocratic communities all the citizens occupy fixed positions, one above the other, the result is that each of them always sees a man above himself whose patronage is necessary to him, and below himself another man whose co-operation he may claim.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000008_000005.wav|Show them not freedom escaping from their grasp, whilst they are looking another way: they are blind-or rather, they can discern but one sole object to be desired in the universe.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000005_000002.wav|Freedom cannot, therefore, form the distinguishing characteristic of democratic ages.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000010_000001.wav|But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery. They will endure poverty, servitude, barbarism-but they will not endure aristocracy.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000010_000003.wav|In our age, freedom cannot be established without it, and despotism itself cannot reign without its support.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000003_000004.wav|Such is the completest form that equality can assume upon earth; but there are a thousand others which, without being equally perfect, are not less cherished by those nations.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000006.wav|Men living in aristocratic ages are therefore almost always closely attached to something placed out of their own sphere, and they are often disposed to forget themselves.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000006_000000.wav|But independently of this reason there are several others, which will at all times habitually lead men to prefer equality to freedom.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000001_000000.wav|Chapter one: Why Democratic Nations Show A More Ardent And Enduring Love Of Equality Than Of Liberty|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000007.wav|It is true that in those ages the notion of human fellowship is faint, and that men seldom think of sacrificing themselves for mankind; but they often sacrifice themselves for other men.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000012_000001.wav|Our fathers were only acquainted with egotism.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000004_000003.wav|A man may be the equal of all his countrymen save one, who is the master of all without distinction, and who selects equally from among them all the agents of his power.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000015_000001.wav|Those who went before are soon forgotten; of those who will come after no one has any idea: the interest of man is confined to those in close propinquity to himself.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000009_000002.wav|Absolute kings were the most efficient levellers of ranks amongst their subjects.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000008_000003.wav|The passion for equality penetrates on every side into men's hearts, expands there, and fills them entirely.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000012_000002.wav|Egotism is a passionate and exaggerated love of self, which leads a man to connect everything with his own person, and to prefer himself to everything in the world.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000003_000003.wav|To this ideal state democratic nations tend.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000008_000001.wav|This occurs at the moment when the old social system, long menaced, completes its own destruction after a last intestine struggle, and when the barriers of rank are at length thrown down.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000003_000002.wav|As none is different from his fellows, none can exercise a tyrannical power: men will be perfectly free, because they will all be entirely equal; and they will all be perfectly equal, because they will be entirely free.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000006_000002.wav|Its social condition must be modified, its laws abolished, its opinions superseded, its habits changed, its manners corrupted.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000007_000010.wav|Men cannot enjoy political liberty unpurchased by some sacrifices, and they never obtain it without great exertions.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000004_000000.wav|The principle of equality may be established in civil society, without prevailing in the political world.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000003_000000.wav|It is possible to imagine an extreme point at which freedom and equality would meet and be confounded together.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000015_000003.wav|Aristocracy had made a chain of all the members of the community, from the peasant to the king: democracy breaks that chain, and severs every link of it.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000007_000011.wav|But the pleasures of equality are self proffered: each of the petty incidents of life seems to occasion them, and in order to taste them nothing is required but to live.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000005_000004.wav|Ask not what singular charm the men of democratic ages find in being equal, or what special reasons they may have for clinging so tenaciously to equality rather than to the other advantages which society holds out to them: equality is the distinguishing characteristic of the age they live in; that, of itself, is enough to explain that they prefer it to all the rest.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000014_000008.wav|In democratic ages, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual to the race are much more clear, devoted service to any one man becomes more rare; the bond of human affection is extended, but it is relaxed.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000004_000002.wav|A kind of equality may even be established in the political world, though there should be no political freedom there.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000015_000002.wav|As each class approximates to other classes, and intermingles with them, its members become indifferent and as strangers to one another.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000008_000000.wav|Democratic nations are at all times fond of equality, but there are certain epochs at which the passion they entertain for it swells to the height of fury.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148521/2240_148521_000010_000002.wav|This is true at all times, and especially true in our own. All men and all powers seeking to cope with this irresistible passion, will be overthrown and destroyed by it.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000012_000000.wav|When the vices and weaknesses, frequently exhibited by those who govern in America, are closely examined, the prosperity of the people occasions-but improperly occasions-surprise.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000002_000000.wav|An aristocracy seldom yields without a protracted struggle, in the course of which implacable animosities are kindled between the different classes of society.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000010_000003.wav|This truth does not take root at once in the minds of the rich.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000012_000001.wav|Elected magistrates do not make the American democracy flourish; it flourishes because the magistrates are elective.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000004_000004.wav|Thus the vices which despotism engenders are precisely those which equality fosters.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000006_000002.wav|Men learn at such times to think of their fellow men from ambitious motives; and they frequently find it, in a manner, their interest to forget themselves.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000007_000001.wav|Such evils are doubtless great, but they are transient; whereas the benefits which attend them remain.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000004_000001.wav|No vice of the human heart is so acceptable to it as egotism: a despot easily forgives his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not love each other.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000004_000002.wav|He does not ask them to assist him in governing the State; it is enough that they do not aspire to govern it themselves.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000013_000003.wav|The free institutions which the inhabitants of the United States possess, and the political rights of which they make so much use, remind every citizen, and in a thousand ways, that he lives in society.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000002_000001.wav|These passions survive the victory, and traces of them may be observed in the midst of the democratic confusion which ensues.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000002_000003.wav|They look upon all those whom this state of society has made their equals as oppressors, whose destiny can excite no sympathy; they have lost sight of their former equals, and feel no longer bound by a common interest to their fate: each of them, standing aloof, thinks that he is reduced to care for himself alone.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000008_000002.wav|The plan was a wise one.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000001_000002.wav|They entertain a presumptuous confidence in their strength, and as they do not suppose that they can henceforward ever have occasion to claim the assistance of their fellow creatures, they do not scruple to show that they care for nobody but themselves.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000010_000001.wav|They know that the rich in democracies always stand in need of the poor; and that in democratic ages you attach a poor man to you more by your manner than by benefits conferred.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000004_000000.wav|Despotism, which is of a very timorous nature, is never more secure of continuance than when it can keep men asunder; and all is influence is commonly exerted for that purpose.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000003_000000.wav|Chapter four: That The Americans Combat The Effects Of Individualism By Free Institutions|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000006_000001.wav|Pride must be dissembled; disdain dares not break out; egotism fears its own self. Under a free government, as most public offices are elective, the men whose elevated minds or aspiring hopes are too closely circumscribed in private life, constantly feel that they cannot do without the population which surrounds them.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000013_000004.wav|They every instant impress upon his mind the notion that it is the duty, as well as the interest of men, to make themselves useful to their fellow creatures; and as he sees no particular ground of animosity to them, since he is never either their master or their slave, his heart readily leans to the side of kindness.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000004_000005.wav|These two things mutually and perniciously complete and assist each other.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000006_000000.wav|When the public is supreme, there is no man who does not feel the value of public goodwill, or who does not endeavor to court it by drawing to himself the esteem and affection of those amongst whom he is to live. Many of the passions which congeal and keep asunder human hearts, are then obliged to retire and hide below the surface.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000007_000003.wav|Freedom engenders private animosities, but despotism gives birth to general indifference.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000013_000002.wav|I must say that I have often seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and I have remarked a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to each other.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000010_000006.wav|They might spend fortunes thus without warming the hearts of the population around them;--that population does not ask them for the sacrifice of their money, but of their pride.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000010_000002.wav|The magnitude of such benefits, which sets off the difference of conditions, causes a secret irritation to those who reap advantage from them; but the charm of simplicity of manners is almost irresistible: their affability carries men away, and even their want of polish is not always displeasing.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000005_000002.wav|When the members of a community are forced to attend to public affairs, they are necessarily drawn from the circle of their own interests, and snatched at times from self observation.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000001_000000.wav|The period when the construction of democratic society upon the ruins of an aristocracy has just been completed, is especially that at which this separation of men from one another, and the egotism resulting from it, most forcibly strike the observation.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000001_000001.wav|Democratic communities not only contain a large number of independent citizens, but they are constantly filled with men who, having entered but yesterday upon their independent condition, are intoxicated with their new power.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000008_000000.wav|The Americans have combated by free institutions the tendency of equality to keep men asunder, and they have subdued it.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000002_000005.wav|It is, then, commonly at the outset of democratic society that citizens are most disposed to live apart.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2240/148522/2240_148522_000008_000003.wav|The general affairs of a country only engage the attention of leading politicians, who assemble from time to time in the same places; and as they often lose sight of each other afterwards, no lasting ties are established between them.|2240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000004.wav|New trade routes and new means of transportation add to the supplies available in the older countries as effectively as if their areas were increased.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000004.wav|Some replenishing agents will restore themselves if given time; the forest will grow up if left untouched by man; the field will recover its fertile quality if allowed to lie fallow.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000000.wav|two.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000002.wav|In the attempt to get some food products in greater quantity from a given area at a given time, increasing difficulty is met with at once.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000007.wav|Where the same agents have not been multiplied, substitutes have been found that are just as effective in meeting the economic need.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000003.wav|The water in the Western rivers long flowed on, undiminished by the uses made of it.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000005.wav|But, in our money economy, efforts are largely directed toward the increase of the capital sum.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000024_000005.wav|There are still great areas of fens, swamps, and marshlands, such as those on the Jersey coast in this country, which with moderate effort could be reclaimed.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000008.wav|Wealth looked at in the older way was valued for what it did immediately for its owner, for its concrete fruits; looked at in the modern way, it is valued as a marketable income bearer readily convertible into a multitude of other forms.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000004.wav|No money can buy that which to them is beyond price.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000028_000005.wav|When men crossed the ocean to settle on Manhattan Island, it was a wilderness; but the growth of commerce has caused the land in New York city to become more valuable than that in London.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER eighteen|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000018_000003.wav|The word supply means the amount that is available at the moment or during the period spoken of. The land in Greenland is not, and probably never can be, a part of the supply of land in England.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000015_000003.wav|The second part of the opening proposition expresses the view here held: the supply of no important class of goods is absolutely fixed, in any reasonable sense.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000015_000004.wav|Most, if not all, belong to the class that is increasable, although it may be with much difficulty. Even when the exact thing cannot be duplicated, as a bust by an ancient sculptor or an autograph of a dead author, many substitutes serving the same or closely related wants, affect and limit the demand, and thus increase the supply.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000000.wav|three.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000028_000004.wav|The growth of society may cause some of the poorer agents in time to become the best.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000026_000002.wav|This is recognized of late by writers that perhaps do not fully mark its significance to economic theory.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000008.wav|But it can now be seen that the law may apply ultimately, though in differing degrees, to every kind of economic goods.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000026_000001.wav|The pioneer annexes new areas to the economic world and to the market in which he has lived.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000018_000006.wav|The existence of coal mines in Venus or Mars is of no economic importance to us, but coal mines on the earth, yet undiscovered, present a potential supply that at any moment may be realized.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000004.wav|But progressing civilization required more water for cities, for mining, and for irrigation, and now states and corporations are going to law over these formerly undiminished free goods.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000007.wav|But the largest clay banks are limited in size; a large proportion of the places where bricks are needed are not near a supply of clay of good quality; and after a brick yard has been used for a time there is increasing difficulty in getting out the material.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000008.wav|It is the result, the gratification, that man seeks: any particular good is but the means to an end.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000015_000000.wav|four.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000028_000002.wav|Great areas on the edge of civilization still await the pioneer, the prospector, and the miner.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000009.wav|Thus investments come to be thought of in terms of general purchasing power, from which it is expected to realize an income of a given percentage.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000002.wav|But they are undiminished only in a relative sense and in reference to present need.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000020_000004.wav|Undeveloped areas will be opened to the world, and new geologic realms will be explored.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000030_000001.wav|Account must be taken of the fact that the number of bricks can be increased more easily than the amount of land; but there must not be overlooked the possibility of increase in any of these forms of wealth, nor the limits to the increase of any one of them.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000018_000000.wav|one.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000028_000006.wav|Changes are still in progress, for of late the smaller ports to the south have increased their trade at a more rapid pace than New York has.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000028_000000.wav|five.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000020_000005.wav|Yet the notion criticized above is found in all the older text books.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000030_000005.wav|Some natural resources belong at one end, and some at the other end of this scale.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000006.wav|Investment takes the form of putting in a sum of money in the hope of getting an income bearing a certain relation to it.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000030_000000.wav|The difference in increasableness of the various forms of wealth is of importance in considering various social questions such as the effects of an increase of population, and the kinds of taxation most equitable and most favorable to the progress of society.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000002.wav|Subsoil ploughing annexes to agricultural land new layers of soil that are just as important as new acres added to the surface.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000018_000004.wav|The land in America for centuries was not, but now has become, for some purposes, a part of the supply in the same market as the land of England.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000006.wav|Every country in Europe has repeatedly felt the shock of these great economic changes which have compelled the recapitalization on a lower plane, of nearly all kinds of their landed wealth.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000009.wav|Indeed, the principle just discussed is no more than one phase of the law of economic diminishing returns, which has a universal application to the realm of values.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000006.wav|How can bricks be limited in number, being made as they are from one of the commonest materials on the earth's surface?|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000011_000004.wav|Progress, population, prosperity, are not primarily conditioned on their amount; limitation will be felt far earlier elsewhere.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000008.wav|While, therefore, bricks are scarce and hard to get from the outset in some places, the scarcity grows more marked in many places at first well supplied.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000024_000000.wav|four.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000022_000005.wav|The building of railroads in western America had an effect on English rents identical in nature with that which would have been produced had an equal area of somewhat less fertile land touching England, risen out of the ocean.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000030_000002.wav|When one wishes to save or increase wealth, he turns to these great unappropriated fields, unused things or things imperfectly used, and tries to convert them into effective agents.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000000.wav|three.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000003.wav|Working on the soil that is at once their livelihood and their home, they do not consciously reckon the value of the labor they are putting upon it.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000006_000007.wav|The first thought is of the value of the wealth invested, which has been carefully measured and expressed in dollars and cents.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000011.wav|This is true of clay, stone, water, and the commonest kinds of labor.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000030_000003.wav|The different forms of wealth may be ranged on a scale according to the ease with which they can be increased by effort.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000009_000005.wav|Some kinds of goods are produced from such very common materials that it might seem possible, by the substitution of agents, to produce an unlimited supply.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000028_000003.wav|Here is a source of wealth and a field for enterprise.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000020_000000.wav|two.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258970/7825_258970_000013_000006.wav|Man therefore tries in other ways to force more uses out of goods, until checked by the increasing difficulty.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000010.wav|The conditions in the cities as regards health and morals are approaching those of agricultural communities.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000003.wav|There is a constant increase relatively, as well as absolutely, in the number employed in transportation, as each census shows; there are more railroad men relatively than there were stage drivers and teamsters before the day of railroads.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000003.wav|It is not yet clear what social effects great corporations will have on our democratic institutions.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000024_000000.wav|Because the extensive introduction of machinery in England was at first accompanied by the unhappy result of a lengthening of the hours of labor in factories, this result was deemed to be necessary in all other cases.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000008.wav|If the wages of unskilled labor are not depressed, it is because of the enterprise of others who rise to more skilled employments and thus reduce the competitors of the lowest rank.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000005.wav|But this iron man can do only automatic tasks; it is not capable of exercising judgment.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000017_000002.wav|The more skilled workman can hasten his pace and still earn a living wage in competition with a machine, while the less skilled can but drop out entirely, innocent victims of an economic change, sacrifices to the cause of industrial progress.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000009.wav|There is a general improvement along all the lines of intelligence, morals, and health.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000000.wav|one.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000004_000007.wav|The drag develops into the cart, a simple machine.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000008_000005.wav|Probably to day the total is four fold as great.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000017_000001.wav|The change crushes hardest the man at the margin of employment.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000026_000003.wav|A part of this benefit may appear in the form of higher money wages received, a part in the form of the lower price of things bought.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000007.wav|But the crude physical labor which can compete only on the plane of automatic machines, must find its field of employment more and more hedged in.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000026_000005.wav|The benefits resulting from greater abundance are diffused, and as goods are brought from the high, or scarcity, end of the scale of value down toward the level of free goods, everybody gains by the abundance and cheapness.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000010_000003.wav|Similar examples are found in the manufacture of shoes, and in all varieties of wood and iron work.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000008.wav|Even where the total employment increases, the individual sometimes suffers.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000004.wav|The sudden crowding together of people into new social relations is usually bad for morals.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000006.wav|Every intelligent laborer who can adjust, adapt, fit himself for more intelligent action will rise above the machine and profit by its presence.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000006_000002.wav|The great industrial changes in the Middle Ages generally grew out of political changes, or of changes of routes of trade whereby large industries were disturbed, or of changes in the use of land through new methods and the bringing into use of land in other places.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000006_000005.wav|The steam engine at the same time opened up the long line of mechanical inventions by which wood and iron are shaped and wrought, and the iron industry underwent notable developments.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000024_000002.wav|In all other countries of Europe and in America, where the introduction of machinery has been more gradual and normal, it has been followed immediately by a shortening of working hours, as eventually it was in England also.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000008_000004.wav|It is said that in the world, in eighteen seventy, three and one half million horse power was furnished by stationary engines, ten millions by locomotives.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000023_000002.wav|If the workers can do nothing but blindly pursue the same tasks, it is to be expected that the wages of hand labor will fall in a particular trade into which machinery is suddenly introduced.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000002.wav|Queen Elizabeth, who had a different dress for every day in the year, has many potential imitators.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000006.wav|Until of late, engineering science has not been able to deal with the problems that arise where population is densely crowded, and the early factories with their surroundings were most unsanitary. Under the degrading conditions that resulted in some places, especially in England, the effect of machinery on the intelligence of the workers was bad.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000008.wav|The alertness of the city dweller is due doubtless to social contact more than to the immediate work he does. This work may or may not be less thought awakening than work with simple tools.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000004_000008.wav|The spinning stick, a tool used in ancient times, developed into the Saxon spinning wheel of the sixteenth century, the form used when America was colonized.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000004_000009.wav|The use of power derived from nature, as that of wind and water and steam, while not the essential mark of machines, is the most characteristic feature of their modern development.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000002.wav|That portion of the work is being more and more shifted upon machines.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000008_000002.wav|It is especially adapted to the application of power.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000010_000002.wav|In eighteen forty a man's work in spinning cotton was three hundred and twenty times as effective as in seventeen sixty nine, in eighteen fifty five it was seven hundred times; and though the rate of improvement is diminishing, to day the productivity of such labor is still greater.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000017_000003.wav|Happily such pathetic incidents are relatively not numerous.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000012_000004.wav|The labor needed to produce food for one hundred people is a fraction of what it was one hundred years ago.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000008.wav|As it becomes possible to expend more for food, the change is made in quality, variety, flavor, rather than in quantity.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000006.wav|In part the change is, however, the effect of the use of machinery and other improvements in agricultural processes.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000011.wav|As the machines are expensive and cannot be worked properly by men not highly expert, men past thirty five years of age have not been allowed to learn their use.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000006.wav|It is rarely possible for a man past middle life to shift over into a new trade where his efficiency will be as great and his pay as high as in the old.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000007.wav|The benefits are unequally distributed, but nearly all share in them to some degree.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000007.wav|New methods of puddling iron sent many old men into the poorhouses of Pennsylvania only a few years ago.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000013_000001.wav|two. EFFECT OF MACHINERY ON THE WELFARE AND WAGES OF THE MASSES|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000019_000003.wav|The logical conclusion easily drawn is that every machine reduces wages.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000000.wav|The general, or average, gain is not to be judged by comparing the conditions of the lowest grade of society with those of fifty years ago, for while that grade may have been bettered only a little, it has been possible for large numbers to rise to higher grades because of the use of machinery.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000001_000000.wav|MACHINERY AND LABOR|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000026_000004.wav|Real wages are the essential thing, and as a consumer the laborer shares with every other member of society in the benefits of improved machinery.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000010_000000.wav|Machinery is applicable with especial advantage to industries that change the form of materials easily transported and widely used.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000003.wav|Factories compel great numbers of laborers to live near each other and to work together.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000017_000004.wav|Most machinery is introduced in commercial centers, and gradually spreads to other factories in such a way that most men can adapt themselves to the change.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000003.wav|It is important, though, to distinguish between classes of workers in judging of the benefits and evils of machines.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000026_000002.wav|The more perfect the economic environment, the higher the incomes even of those who own no part of the machinery.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000006_000006.wav|Since that time, have taken place in all Western countries that rapid expansion in the use of machines and those notable changes in industrial organization which distinguish our era from all others.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000001.wav|The physical tasks are to day much lighter than ever before, and a larger proportion of society is engaged in industries that require skill and thought rather than physical labor.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000000.wav|If extreme examples are taken, it may be made to appear either that an increase or that a decrease of employment results from machinery. Industries grade off from those that are capable of developing a greater and greater demand, to those at the other extreme that are capable of a very slight increase, as a result of a lowering of the price.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000000.wav|six.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000005.wav|The question in the old form, as to the effect of machinery on labor, is no longer open.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000023_000003.wav|When, as sometimes happens, employers introduce machines for the immediate purpose of breaking a strike, the workmen are convinced that machinery is the enemy of labor.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000007.wav|The amount of raw food products required for each hundred persons is quite inelastic.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000019_000004.wav|Few, however, would go on to the further conclusion that in the aggregate the existing machinery, like an enormous vampire, is sucking the life blood of the working people,--though traces of such a notion frequently appear.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000017_000005.wav|The effect of machinery must not be judged by the extreme cases.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000012_000002.wav|Despite this difficulty the methods of the farmer of to day contrast strongly with those of one hundred or fifty years ago.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000010_000004.wav|Machinery is most applicable where there is a compact plant; not so easily where the power has to be distributed over a wide area, unless a special track can be provided.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000004_000004.wav|In many cases there is a clearly marked distinction between tool and machine.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000023_000000.wav|three.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000028_000004.wav|A machine is "an iron man," it has been said, and comes into competition with other men to lower their wages by outworking and underbidding them.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000012_000000.wav|Machinery, therefore, has affected manufactures much more immediately and greatly than it has agriculture.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000012_000003.wav|Planters and seeders, reapers, harvesters, corn shellers, hay loaders, automatic unloading forks, elevators, water power, steam, and gasoline engines allow great economies.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000006_000003.wav|The industrial changes in England at the end of the eighteenth century on the contrary were due mainly to great mechanical inventions. The development of the textile machines for cotton and wool spinning and weaving mark the beginning of the movement.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000021_000004.wav|The number of people now engaged in printing books and papers is larger by far than in the days when all the books of the world were written by the old monks in their cloisters.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000004_000000.wav|one.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000009.wav|The increased demand resulting from the cheapening of a product may call for more workers than were employed before the new machinery came in, and yet some of the former workmen may be thrown out of employment.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000008_000000.wav|three.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000024_000001.wav|It was in fact quite abnormal, and has not been seen elsewhere. The owners of factories wished to keep their machines employed as many hours as possible; the laboring classes of England, being at the same time demoralized and depressed by industrial and social influences that had no logical connection with machinery, had no power to resist this movement.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000002.wav|It is not yet evident how many can own a share in great factories, but the control drifts into few hands.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000008_000003.wav|In the United States, in eighteen seventy, in manufactures alone, two and one third million horse power were used; in nineteen hundred, eleven and one third million, the increase being five fold.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000006.wav|It has been clearly answered by experience and explained by theory: the economic effect of machinery is to lift the productiveness and efficiency of the average man.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000005.wav|Men are moral under the eyes of their neighbors, acquaintances, and families; habits become adjusted to right standards, and the temptations in new conditions are always great.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000032_000004.wav|Many problems of large industry remain to be solved in the near future.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000000.wav|five.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000019_000002.wav|The notion is that there is exactly so much labor predetermined to be done; therefore, if machines are introduced, there is that much less for men to do.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000010_000001.wav|There must be a large output to justify the use of machinery.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000007.wav|Whether this is its natural result is debatable, but the factory worker in general does not appear to be less intelligent than the agricultural worker.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000012_000001.wav|It has not as yet, for example, been found practicable to apply steam to ploughing to any great extent. As the profitable use of most farm machinery requires a level surface and a large area given to a single crop, it cannot be used as well east of the Alleghany Mountains as in the Mississippi Valley, and it is still uneconomical in large portions of the civilized world.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000003.wav|Men cannot quickly change their methods of working or their place of work.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000030_000011.wav|While many factory districts are forlorn, there may be seen around many factories more happy conditions, better buildings, better sanitation, increased leisure for workers, workmen's clubs, educational agencies, and many other evidences of civic and social progress.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000015_000005.wav|If machines displace labor rapidly, men who cannot adjust themselves to the new conditions suffer, and there are always some who cannot adjust themselves, always some who suffer.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7825/258978/7825_258978_000006_000004.wav|Here for the first time were inventions in such numbers, of such a nature, and under such conditions, that they were rapidly and widely applied, affecting the lives of a great number of workers.|7825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000023_000000.wav|"Very good; I'll hunt him up.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000028_000000.wav|That speech pleased Uncle john, and as the hardware merchant bowed and turned away, mr Merrick said in his cheeriest tones: "He's quite right, my dears, and we're lucky to have found such a fine, roomy place for our establishment.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000015_000000.wav|"That is where I store my stock of farm machinery," he said.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000039_000002.wav|I've ordered a meter, as you asked me to do, and my men are now stringing the cables to make the connection."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000039_000000.wav|"I don't know just how much we need," answered Uncle john.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000021_000000.wav|"Thank you very much, sir!" exclaimed Uncle john.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000040_000002.wav|It stands for financial success, I understand; but I'll bet you never made your money doing such fool things as establishing newspapers in graveyards."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000036_000000.wav|They found the office a busy place.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000020_000002.wav|It won't make a bad newspaper office.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000033_000001.wav|This business being accomplished, he found Lon Taft at the hotel and instructed the carpenter to put rows of windows on both sides of the shed and to build partitions for an editorial office and a business office at the front.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000016_000001.wav|"That solves our problem.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000018_000003.wav|What do you say?"|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000038_000001.wav|I remember.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000024_000000.wav|The old merchant hesitated.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000039_000001.wav|"We want enough to run a newspaper plant at Millville, and will pay for whatever we use.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000042_000000.wav|"I shall refrain from criticising your conduct of this mill, mr Skeelty," he quietly observed, "nor shall I dictate what you may do with your money-provided you succeed in making any."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000019_000000.wav|West thought it over.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000005_000005.wav|He was an authority in the town, too, and a man of real importance.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000037_000002.wav|Skeelty interrupted his task of running up columns of impressive figures to ask his callers to be seated, and opened the interview with characteristic abruptness.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000009_000000.wav|"It's to be a daily paper, you know," continued mr Merrick, "and it seems there's a lot of machinery in the outfit.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000027_000002.wav|It is possible, young ladies-nay, quite probable, I should say-that your originality and genius will yet make Millville famous."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000018_000000.wav|"We can remedy that," declared Uncle john.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000041_000000.wav|Uncle john looked at the man attentively.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000007_000000.wav|"West," said he, "my girls are going to start a newspaper in Millville."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000035_000004.wav|The electric power plant was a building at the edge of Royal Waterfall, the low and persistent roar of which was scarcely drowned by the rumble of machinery.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000035_000002.wav|Adjoining the mill was the factory building where the pulp was rolled into print paper. Surrounding these huge buildings were some sixty small dwellings of the bungalow type, for the use of the workmen, built of rough boards, but neat and uniform in appearance.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000022_000001.wav|I suppose he is there now."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000022_000000.wav|"Playing billiards at the hotel, usually.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000025_000000.wav|"Whatever your charming and energetic nieces undertake, sir, will doubtless be well accomplished.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000012_000001.wav|"We'd never get it clean, I'm sure."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000034_000003.wav|He drove over with Arthur Weldon, in the buggy-four miles of hill climbing, over rough cobble stones, into the pine forest.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000044_000000.wav|"Give an' take, sir; that's my motto," he said.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000015_000002.wav|In fact, I'm pretty well cleaned out of all surplus stock.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000040_000000.wav|"Pah! a newspaper.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000043_000000.wav|The manager smiled broadly, as if the retort pleased him.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000016_000000.wav|"Good!" cried mr Merrick.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000035_000005.wav|Finally, at the edge of the clearing nearest the mills, stood the business office, and to this place mr Merrick and Arthur at once proceeded.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000046_000001.wav|"I'll take your paper, for instance-if it isn't too high priced."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000054_000000.wav|"Very well, mr Skeelty.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000036_000003.wav|It was evident he remembered meeting mr Merrick, for he smiled and returned the "nabob's" nod.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000015_000003.wav|But next spring I shall need the place again."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000005_000000.wav|When they reached the hardware store, opposite Cotting's, mr West, the proprietor, was standing on the broad platform in front of it.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000034_000000.wav|This was the beginning of a busy period, especially for poor Uncle john, who had many details to attend to personally.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000050_000000.wav|"It's a penny paper," said Uncle john.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000045_000000.wav|"But you prefer to take?"|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000004_000000.wav|Counting the dwellings there were exactly twelve buildings, and they all seemed occupied.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000048_000001.wav|Then he laughed.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000034_000002.wav|This rendered it necessary for mr Merrick to make a trip to Royal, to complete his arrangement with mr Skeelty, the manager.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000049_000005.wav|Don't appreciate the advantages of country life, you see, and I've an idea they'll begin to desert, pretty soon.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000026_000000.wav|"mr West," said Louise, with dignity, "we are depending chiefly on the literary merit of our newspaper to win recognition."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000023_000001.wav|What do you think of our newspaper scheme, West?"|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000020_000001.wav|All right, mr Merrick; I'll move the truck out and give you possession.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000037_000000.wav|mr Skeelty had a private enclosed office in a corner of the room.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000021_000001.wav|"I'll set Lon Taft at work at once.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000054_000002.wav|Get all you can, at that rate."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000033_000000.wav|Uncle john ordered everything he could think of and told his agent to add whatever the supply man thought might be needed.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000056_000000.wav|"That man," said Louise's young husband, referring to the manager of the paper mill, "is an unmitigated scoundrel, sir."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000020_000003.wav|But of course you are to fit up the place at your own expense."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000046_000000.wav|"I do," was the cheerful reply.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000049_000000.wav|"They're mostly foreigners, mr Merrick, who haven't yet fully mastered the English language.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000038_000002.wav|You want to buy power, and we have it to sell.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000053_000000.wav|"Well, I'll pay you twenty cents, and keep the balance for commission. That's fair enough."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000008_000000.wav|The merchant bowed gravely, perhaps to cover the trace of a smile he was unable to repress.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000009_000001.wav|It'll need quite a bit of room, in other words, and we're looking for a place to install it."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000010_000000.wav|West glanced along the street-up one side and down the other-and then shook his head negatively.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000052_000000.wav|"I suppose so."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000006_000000.wav|mr Merrick stopped his horse to speak with the hardware man, an old acquaintance.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000038_000000.wav|"You're Merrick, eh?|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000029_000000.wav|Over the long distance telephone mr Marvin reported that he had bought the required outfit and it was even then being loaded on the freight cars.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000032_000000.wav|"I understand, sir."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000055_000000.wav|After signing a contract for the supply of electrical power, whereby he was outrageously robbed but the supply was guaranteed, mr Merrick and Arthur returned to the farm.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000038_000003.wav|How much will you contract to take?"|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000017_000000.wav|"Yes; an excellent one; but only one small window."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000030_000003.wav|How about it, mr Merrick? have you plenty of competent printers and pressmen at Millville?"|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000057_000002.wav|No wonder the poor fellows get dissatisfied."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000040_000001.wav|How absurd," said mr Skeelty with scornful emphasis. "Your name, Merrick, is not unknown to me.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000036_000002.wav|The young fellow had improved in appearance, having discarded his frayed gray suit for one of plain brown khaki, such as many of the workmen wore, a supply being carried by the company's store. He was clean shaven and trim, and a gentlemanly bearing had replaced the careless, half defiant attitude of the former hobo.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000031_000002.wav|And, by the way, hire women or girls for every position they are competent to fill.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000011_000000.wav|"Plenty of land, but no buildings," said he.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000012_000000.wav|"It's too dusty and floury," said Patsy.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000050_000001.wav|"The subscription is only thirty cents a month."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000027_000000.wav|"Of course; of course!" said he hastily.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000030_000000.wav|"I've arranged for a special engine," he added, "and if all goes well the freight will be on the sidetrack at Chazy Junction on Monday morning.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000057_000000.wav|"I won't deny it," replied mr Merrick.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000018_000002.wav|If it is, we'll build a fine new building for it; if it don't seem to prosper, we'll give you back the shed.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000021_000002.wav|Where can he be found?"|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000024_000001.wav|Then he said slowly:|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000049_000001.wav|But," he added, thoughtfully, "a few among them might subscribe, if your country sheet contains any news of interest at all.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000027_000001.wav|"Put me down as a subscriber, please, and rely upon my support at all times.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000016_000002.wav|Has it a floor?"|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000030_000002.wav|But he asks if you have arranged for your workmen.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000025_000002.wav|Money is the keystone to success."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000037_000001.wav|Being admitted to this sanctum, the visitors found the manager to be a small, puffy individual about forty five years of age, with shrewd, beadlike black eyes and an insolent assumption of super importance.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000014_000000.wav|West turned and looked at the shed reflectively.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000048_000000.wav|mr Skeelty stared at him a moment.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000031_000000.wav|"There are none at all," was the reply.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000011_000001.wav|"You might buy the old mill and turn it into a newspaper office.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000002_000000.wav|The next morning they drove to town again, passing slowly up the street of the little village to examine each building that might be a possible location for a newspaper office.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000051_000000.wav|"Delivered?"|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/285314/1472_285314_000005_000001.wav|In many respects Bob West was the most important citizen of Millville.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000010_000001.wav|We will, however, forthwith treat on the most popular of our beverages, beginning with the one which makes "the cup that cheers but not inebriates."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000011_000002.wav|Pepys says, in his Diary,--"september twenty fifth sixteen sixty one.--I sent for a cup of tea (a China drink), of which I had never drunk before." Two years later it was so rare a commodity in England, that the English East India Company bought two pounds. two ounces. of it, as a present for his majesty.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000003.wav|The tea tree flourishes best in temperate regions; in China it is indigenous.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000015_000003.wav|Some of these are harmless, others are to a certain degree poisonous; as, for example, are the leaves of all the varieties of the plum and cherry tribe, to which the sloe belongs.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000002.wav|When the leaves of black and green tea are expanded by hot water, and examined by the botanist, though a difference of character is perceived, yet this is not sufficient to authorize considering them as distinct species.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000014_000006.wav|We have in tea, of many kinds, a beverage which contains the active constituents of the most powerful mineral springs, and, however small the amount of iron may be which we daily take in this form, it cannot be destitute of influence on the vital processes."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000014_000002.wav|The tannin is shown by its striking a black colour with sulphate of iron, and is the cause of the dark stain which is always formed when tea is spilt upon buff coloured cottons dyed with iron.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000019_000002.wav|This servant, under the patronage of Edwards, established the first coffee house in London, in George Yard, Lombard Street.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000020_000002.wav|Mocha coffee has a smaller and rounder bean than any other, and likewise a more agreeable smell and taste.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000004.wav|The part of China where the best tea is cultivated, is called by us the "tea country." The cultivation of the plant requires great care.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000022_000002.wav|Roasted coffee loses from twenty to thirty per cent, by sufficient roasting, and the powder suffers much by exposure to the air; but, while raw, it not only does not lose its flavour for a year or two, but improves by keeping.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000017_000001.wav|It would be impossible, in the space at our command, to enumerate the various modes adopted in different countries for "making coffee;" that is, the phrase commonly understood to mean the complete preparation of this delicious beverage for drinking.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000001.wav|Linnaeus was induced to think that there were two species of tea plant, one of which produced the black, and the other the green teas; but later observations do not confirm this.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000017_000002.wav|For performing this operation, such recipes or methods as we have found most practical will be inserted in their proper place; but the following facts connected with coffee will be found highly interesting.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000015_000002.wav|The leaves of the sloe, white thorn, ash, elder, and some others, have been employed for this purpose; such as the leaves of the speedwell, wild germander, black currants, syringa, purple spiked willow herb, sweet brier, and cherry tree.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000006.wav|They pluck the leaves, one selecting them according to the kinds of tea required; and, notwithstanding the tediousness of the operation, each labourer is able to gather from four to ten or fifteen pounds a day.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000005.wav|It is raised chiefly on the sides of hills; and, in order to increase the quantity and improve the quality of the leaves, the shrub is pruned, so as not to exceed the height of from two to three feet, much in the same manner as the vine is treated in France.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000005_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty six.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000016_000002.wav|The greatest care should be taken that it has not been exposed to the air, which destroys its flavour.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000024_000001.wav|With respect to the quantity of coffee used in making the decoction, much depends upon the taste of the consumer.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000023_000001.wav|To have coffee in perfection, it should be roasted and ground just before it is used, and more should not be ground at a time than is wanted for immediate use, or, if it be necessary to grind more, it should be kept closed from the air.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000008_000001.wav|Of the common class of beverages, consisting of water impregnated with carbonic acid gas, we may name soda water, single and double, ordinary effervescing draughts, and ginger beer.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000007_000005.wav|three.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000021_000001.wav|A considerable change takes place in the arrangement of the constituents of coffee by the application of heat in roasting it. Independently of one of the objects of roasting, namely, that of destroying its toughness and rendering it easily ground, its tannin and other principles are rendered partly soluble in water; and it is to the tannin that the brown colour of the decoction of coffee is owing.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000009_000001.wav|The beverages composed partly of fermented liquors, are hot spiced wines, bishop, egg flip, egg hot, ale posset, sack posset, punch, and spirits and water.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000013_000002.wav|There are about a dozen different kinds; but the principal are Bohea, Congou, and Souchong, and signify, respectively, inferior, middling, and superior.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000015_000004.wav|Adulteration by means of these leaves is by no means a new species of fraud; and several acts of parliament, from the time of George the second., have been passed, specifying severe penalties against those guilty of the offence, which, notwithstanding numerous convictions, continues to the present time.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000020_000001.wav|Of the various kinds of coffee the Arabian is considered the best. It is grown chiefly in the districts of Aden and Mocha; whence the name of our Mocha coffee.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000014_000001.wav|Tea, when chemically analyzed, is found to contain woody fibre, mucilage, a considerable quantity of the astringent principle, or tannin, a narcotic principle, which is, perhaps, connected with a peculiar aroma.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000007_000004.wav|Beverages, consisting of water, containing a considerable quantity of carbonic acid.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000007_000006.wav|Beverages composed partly of fermented liquors.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000012_000008.wav|Teas of the finest flavour consist of the youngest leaves; and as these are gathered at four different periods of the year, the younger the leaves the higher flavoured the tea, and the scarcer, and consequently the dearer, the article.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000022_000003.wav|If a cup of the best coffee be placed upon a table boiling hot, it will fill the room with its fragrance; but the coffee, when warmed again after being cold, will be found to have lost most of its flavour.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000022_000001.wav|The roasting of coffee in the best manner requires great nicety, and much of the qualities of the beverage depends upon the operation. The roasting of coffee for the dealers in London and Paris has now become a separate branch of business, and some of the roasters perform the operation on a great scale, with considerable skill.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/142848/1472_142848_000019_000001.wav|It appears that coffee was first introduced into England by Daniel Edwards, a Turkey merchant, whose servant, Pasqua, a Greek, understood the manner of roasting it.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000014_000002.wav|Everything is duly tested and proved to be a success by a corps of experts before it is given to the practicing fraternity. The government holds certain rights in experimenting that no physician or medical school would think of having in our world.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000007_000000.wav|Some of these worlds sustain a low order of human creatures, while on others there are races that have reached a high degree in the scale of advancement.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000019_000000.wav|"Ashes of wolf's skull, stag's horn, the heads of mice, the eyes of crabs, owl's brains, liver of frogs, viper's fat, grasshoppers, bats, etc, these supplied the alkalis which were prescribed.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000031_000001.wav|It is placed in sensitive connection with the optic nerve, on which images are thrown by the delicate mechanism of the false eye.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000018_000001.wav|Following is a list:|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000019_000004.wav|For colic, powdered horse's teeth, dung of swine, asses' kidneys, mice excretion made into a plaster, and other equally vile and unsavory compounds.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000014_000005.wav|The full graduates of these schools are only "the survival of the fittest." Others take a secondary degree and can act as assistants or retire from the list.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000022_000000.wav|Being interested in these things, I examined more closely into their past medical history, and saw more clearly the present folly of a certain part of our medicinal practice.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000027_000000.wav|A diseased body is looked upon as being in possession of a certain brood of microbes which are destroyed either by the blood filter or the "Vaccine bath, or injection." (I know no better name by which to call it.) A few diseases are treated by doses of medicines given in a manner similar to the prescription system of our country.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000014_000000.wav|There are no conflicting schools of medicines such as Allopathic, Homeopathic, Hydropathic, Eclectic and Osteopathic.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000031_000000.wav|The false eye is not of flesh but one of manufacture.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000009_000000.wav|I have named this world Dore lyn.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000030_000002.wav|It took three and one half thousand years of continual experimenting on this delicate creation before it was pronounced satisfactory.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000006_000002.wav|With abounding interest I visited all the inhabited worlds of this vast system.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000034_000001.wav|Fatty tissues are removed and other obstructions eradicated during the regular heart beats.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000019_000007.wav|Boiled snails and powdered bats were prescribed for intestinal disorders."|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000002_000000.wav|A World of High Medical Knowledge.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000019_000006.wav|For sore throat, snail slime was a favorite prescription, and mouse flesh was considered excellent for disease of the lungs.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000021_000001.wav|Alcohol is unknown to them, but they have had a two thousand year's battle against three liquids that affect them as opium affects us.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000016_000001.wav|A blood vessel is exposed and cut, and the two ends fastened to the delicate filter.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000014_000004.wav|Nothing is spared that money or talent can furnish.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000030_000000.wav|In performing operations, the experts of Dore lyn have reached a marvelous degree of perfection.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000006_000003.wav|How long it took I have no way of knowing.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1472/139797/1472_139797_000016_000000.wav|When a physician suspects that the blood is poisoned he at once proceeds to a chemical analysis, and if certain kinds of poison are found, the blood is filtered by the use of a fine instrument.|1472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000008_000003.wav|You go in the corner, and take turns lickin' the dish, while I see company," said Joe, disbanding his small troop, and shouldering the baby as if presenting arms in honor of his guest.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000004_000002.wav|How he managed with one arm to keep the baby from squirming on to the floor, the plate from upsetting, and to feed the hungry urchins who stood in a row with open mouths, like young birds, was past my comprehension.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000014_000000.wav|"No, ma'am!" he answered, with a look I never shall forget, it was so full of mingled patience, pride, and pain.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000010_000001.wav|But my orders ain't come yet, and I am doing the fust thing that come along.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000016_000000.wav|"I reckon not as I don't own any clothes but what I set in, except a couple of old shirts and them socks.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000014_000007.wav|God bless her!" and, as if to find a vent for the emotion that filled his eyes with grateful tears, Joe led off the cheer, which the children shrilly echoed, and I joined heartily.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000004_000003.wav|But he did, trotting baby gently, dealing out sweet morsels patiently, and whistling to himself, as if to beguile his labors cheerfully.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000002_000001.wav|I don't know much about him, except that he was in the army, has been very ill with rheumatic fever, and is friendless.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000003_000001.wav|I'll go and see him; I've a weakness for soldiers, sick or well."|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000014_000006.wav|Hooray for Biddy Flanagin!|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000012_000000.wav|"Really, ma'am?|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000013_000001.wav|You should have gone home to Woolwich, and let your friends help you," I said, feeling provoked with him for hiding himself.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000012_000002.wav|I see a piece in the paper describing it, and it sounded dreadful nice.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000006_000000.wav|For an instant I could not speak to him, and, encumbered with baby, dish, spoon, and children, he could only stare at me with a sudden brightening of the altered face that made it full of welcome before a word was uttered.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000018_000000.wav|There was such a beautiful absence of red tape about the new institution that it only needed a word in the right ear to set things going; and then, with a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together, Joe Collins was taken up and safely landed in the Home he so much needed and so well deserved.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000016_000001.wav|My hat's stoppin' up the winder, and my old coat is my bed cover.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000012_000001.wav|I used to lay and kind of dream about it when I couldn't stir without yellin' out; but I never thought it would ever come to happen.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000016_000002.wav|I'm awful shabby, ma'am, and that's one reason I don't go out more.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000015_000001.wav|It won't take you long to pack up, will it?" I asked, as we subsided with a general laugh.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159230/1944_159230_000002_000003.wav|He won't go to his own town, because there is nothing for him there but the almshouse, and he dreads a hospital; so struggles along, trying to earn his bread tending babies with his one arm.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000025_000000.wav|I kept that card among my other relics, and hoped to meet Joe again somewhere in the world.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000014_000000.wav|He must have been suffering terribly, but he thought of the women who loved him before himself, and, busy as I was, I snatched a moment to send a few words of hope to the old mother.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000007_000000.wav|"All that's left of me.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000004_000000.wav|"Eat!|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000018_000001.wav|'Pears to me I couldn't ask her to take care of three invalids for my sake.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000008_000000.wav|"What is the matter?|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000020_000000.wav|"All right, ma'am;" and Joe proved himself a good soldier by obeying orders, and falling asleep like a tired child, as the first step toward recovery.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000015_000000.wav|"He will have a hard time of it, but I think he will pull through, as he is a temperate fellow, with a splendid constitution," was the doctor's verdict, as he left us for the next man, who was past help, with a bullet through his lungs.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000009_000001.wav|Shot off as slick as a whistle.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159228/1944_159228_000010_000000.wav|"That is bad, but it might have been worse.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159227/1944_159227_000019_000000.wav|"You see, Jim went last year, and got pretty well used up; so I felt as if I'd ought to take my turn now.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159227/1944_159227_000024_000000.wav|As the inspiring music, the grand tramp, drew near, the old thrill went through the crowd, the old cheer broke out.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159227/1944_159227_000016_000001.wav|Do you leave a family?"|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159227/1944_159227_000023_000005.wav|There was just time for this, a hearty shake of the big hand, and a grateful "Good by, ma'am;" then the word was given, and they were off.|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1944/159227/1944_159227_000012_000000.wav|"Woolidge, ma'am."|1944
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000008_000001.wav|I forgive pussy with all my heart."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000100_000001.wav|"Your dress, as I consider, is a sort of disgrace to a Cavalier born, and the heir of Arnwood; why not, therefore, take its hat as well?|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000030_000001.wav|"I had no idea that poor Ratcliffe possessed so much ready money and jewels.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000042_000001.wav|You do not return till to morrow?|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000139_000000.wav|"Which did you like best-England or Spain?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000032_000003.wav|You will, of course, dine with us to day, and sleep here to night."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000015_000001.wav|What do you think?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000111_000001.wav|Certainly, when we think how we were left, by the death of old Jacob, to our own resources, we have much to thank God for, in having got on so well."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000040_000001.wav|"Perhaps I may," said Edward, although he felt that such would not be the case, having been accustomed to much better clothes when at Arnwood than what were usually worn by secretaries; and this remembrance brought back Arnwood in its train, and Edward became silent and pensive.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000029_000000.wav|"I thank you, sir, I have means, much more than sufficient," replied Edward, "although not quite so wealthy as little Clara appeared to be."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000035_000000.wav|"Yes, I could not refuse such kindness," replied Edward.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000146_000000.wav|"Suppose bring nothing home, first beat, and then not have to eat for one, two, three days.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000005_000000.wav|"Well, if pussy did, it didn't hurt you much; and what did I tell you this morning out of the Bible?--that you must forgive them who behave ill to you."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000001_000000.wav|"Edward," said Edith, "scold Pablo; he has been ill treating my poor cat; he is a cruel boy."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000010_000000.wav|"Well, I will this time; but if he kicks pussy again he must be put in the pitfall-mind that, Pablo."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000056_000000.wav|"Where did you?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000047_000001.wav|I call you Clara, because you are but a little girl; but I must not take that liberty with Mistress Heatherstone."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000147_000000.wav|"I should hope not," replied Humphrey, "although I have never been so severely punished: and I hope, Pablo, you will never steal any more."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000148_000004.wav|No, Master Humphrey, I never steal more, 'cause I have no reason why, and 'cause Missy Alice and Edith tell me how the good God up there say must not steal."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000127_000000.wav|"Were you born in Spain, Pablo?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000123_000001.wav|Pablo won't thank me for bringing this home," continued Humphrey, taking the long saw out of the cart; "he will have to go to the bottom of the pit again, as soon as the pit is made."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000131_000000.wav|"Did your mother never talk about him?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000123_000000.wav|"Nothing I like better, my dear girl.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000026_000000.wav|"Well, then, it is no use saying any more just now; you will have a chamber in this house, and you will live with me, and at my table altogether.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000097_000001.wav|I will soon ascertain that for you, from the landlord of the hostelry," replied Edward.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000007_000000.wav|"That's not forgiveness, is it, Edward?|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000119_000002.wav|Where's Pablo?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000150_000000.wav|"Like to hear Missy Alice talk; she talk grave.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000030_000002.wav|Well, then, this is Wednesday; can you come over next Monday?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000140_000000.wav|"When with my people, like Spain best; warm sun-warm night.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000106_000001.wav|Humphrey left Edward to put away these in the cart, while he went out a second time to see the goats; he made an agreement with the man who had them for sale, for a male and three females with two kids each at their sides, and ten more female kids which had just been weaned.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000024_000002.wav|You will therefore have to write chiefly what I shall dictate; but it is not only for that I require a person that I can confide in.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000135_000000.wav|"All mothers do that.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000044_000000.wav|"Why do you call her Mistress Patience, Edward?" said Clara.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000142_000000.wav|"Not steal every thing," replied Pablo, laughing; "sometimes take and no pay when nobody there; farmer look very sharp-have big dog."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000007_000001.wav|You should have forgiven it at once, and not kicked it at all."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000091_000005.wav|The next day, Edward and Humphrey set off for Lymington, with Billy in the cart.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000114_000001.wav|Indeed, I shall insist upon coming over to you once a fortnight; and I hardly think the intendant will refuse me-indeed, I am sure that he will not."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000150_000003.wav|Where we put them?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000041_000000.wav|Patience observed it, and after a time said-|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000128_000001.wav|First recollect myself in that country."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000112_000000.wav|"I agree with you, and also that it has pleased Heaven to grant us all such good health.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000011_000000.wav|"Yes, Missy Edith, I go into pitfall, and then you cry, and ask Master Edward to take me out.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000054_000000.wav|"Why, he never saw any thing like it before," said Clara.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000091_000004.wav|Alice and Edith did not quite so much approve of it, and a few tears were shed at the idea of Edward leaving the cottage.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000143_000000.wav|"Did you ever go out to steal?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000061_000001.wav|Edward smiled, and said-|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000089_000000.wav|Edward bade Oswald farewell, and returned to the intendant's, and found that Oswald was correct, as supper was being placed on the table.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000016_000001.wav|If you do not like it, you can only go back to the cottage again.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000087_000001.wav|Is not that fellow Corbould, who is leaning against the wall?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000055_000000.wav|"Yes I have, Clara," replied Edward.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000128_000000.wav|"Not sure, but I think so.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000038_000000.wav|"Why, what have you to get ready?" said Clara.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000144_000001.wav|Not bring back something, beat me very hard; suppose farmer catch me, beat hard too; nothing but beat, beat, beat."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000027_000000.wav|"I suppose, sir, I must change my attire?" replied Edward, looking at his forester's dress; "that will hardly accord with the office of secretary."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000146_000002.wav|I think you steal, after no victuals for three days!"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000104_000000.wav|"Here is the shop for the hat and for the sword belt."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000092_000001.wav|I will tell you: as many kids as I can, or goats and kids, I don't care which."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000076_000000.wav|"I am not yet eighteen, Clara, so that I can hardly be called a man."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000026_000002.wav|All that I require now is, to know the day that you will come, that every thing may be ready."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000150_000002.wav|Missy Edith like see kids very much.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000032_000001.wav|Patience and Clara are in the next room.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000057_000000.wav|"At Arnwood; the apartments were on a much larger scale."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000023_000000.wav|"I am very thankful to you for the offer, sir," replied Edward, "and will accept it if you think that I am fitting for it, and if I find that I am equal to it; I can but give it a trial, and leave if I find it too arduous or too irksome."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000024_000000.wav|"Too arduous it shall not be-that shall be my concern; and too irksome I hope you will not find it.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000088_000000.wav|"Yes; he is to be discharged as he can not walk well, and the surgeon says he will always limp.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000059_000000.wav|"So they say, Clara; but I was not there when it was burned."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000022_000001.wav|What is your reply?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000058_000001.wav|"Yes, it was burned down, and all the children burned to death!"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000006_000000.wav|"Yes, Missy Edith, you tell me all that, and so I do; I forgive pussy 'cause she bite me, but I kick her for it."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000107_000000.wav|"We have dipped somewhat into the bag to day, Edward," said Humphrey, "but the money is well spent."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000085_000000.wav|mr Heatherstone, as was usual at that time with the people to whose party he ostensibly belonged, said a grace before meat, of considerable length, and then they sat down to table.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000136_000000.wav|"I don't know, but I hear people say, plenty of money in England-plenty to eat-plenty to drink; bring plenty money back to Spain."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000045_000000.wav|"You forget that I am only a forester, Clara," replied Edward, with a grave smile.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000046_000000.wav|"No, you are a secretary now," replied Clara.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000138_000000.wav|"One, two, three year; yes, three year and a bit."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000119_000001.wav|As it is, look how poor Billy is loaded.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000044_000001.wav|"You call me Clara; why not call her Patience?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000039_000001.wav|I can wear that with a gun in my hand, but not with a pen: so I must go to Lymington and see what a tailor can do for me."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000036_000000.wav|"And when do you come?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000048_000000.wav|"Do you think so, Patience?" said Clara.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000034_000000.wav|"Then you have consented?" said Patience, inquiringly.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000144_000000.wav|"Make me go out.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000030_000000.wav|"Wealthy, indeed!" replied the intendant.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000017_000000.wav|"That I really believe," replied Edward; "and I have pretty well made up my mind to accept the office.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000141_000000.wav|"But when you were with the gipsies, they stole every thing, did they not?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000120_000001.wav|He has been working there all day, and Edith is with him."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000148_000002.wav|Now, I never hungry, always have plenty to eat; no one beat me now; sleep warm all night.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000028_000001.wav|"You can provide yourself with a suit at Lymington.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000051_000000.wav|"Yes, if he gave himself leave, Clara," said Patience.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000150_000001.wav|Missy Edith talk too, but she laugh very much; very fond Missy Edith, very happy little girl; jump about just like one of these kids we drive home; always merry. Hah! see cottage now; soon get home, Massa Humphrey.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000011_000001.wav|When you have me put in pitfall, then you not good Christian, 'cause you not forgive; when you cry and take me out, then you good Christian once more."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000064_000001.wav|I should indeed be difficult to please if an apartment like this did not suit me.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000093_000000.wav|"Why, have you not stock enough already?|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000073_000000.wav|"I hope you are hungry, Edward," said Clara; "dinner is almost ready."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000042_000002.wav|How did you come over?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000146_000001.wav|How you like that, Master Humphrey?|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000051_000001.wav|"But we will now show him his own room, Clara," continued Patience, wishing to change the subject of conversation.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000120_000000.wav|"In the garden.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000135_000001.wav|What made you come to England?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER eighteen.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000098_000000.wav|On their arrival at Lymington, they went straight to the hostelry, and found the landlord at home.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000026_000001.wav|Neither shall I say any thing just now about remuneration, as I am convinced that you will be satisfied.|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000129_000000.wav|"Do you recollect your father?"|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1825/135580/1825_135580_000140_000001.wav|England, little sun, cold night, much rain, snow, and air always cold; but now I live with you, have warm bed, plenty victuals, like England best."|1825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000034_000000.wav|"No, but I could go sleighing," responded Sylvia.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000005_000001.wav|"Nuffin', Missy.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000049_000001.wav|'Then to Sylvia let us sing,'" he hummed, beating time with his right hand.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000002_000001.wav|ROBERT WAITE|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000021_000000.wav|"I'll ask them right away after breakfast, before they start for school," Sylvia promised eagerly.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000004_000000.wav|"What's the matter, Estralla?" Sylvia called; for usually Estralla was all smiles, and had a good deal to say.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000030_000003.wav|That meant of course that the Fultons would have to return to Boston, if that were possible, but all communication with northern states might be prevented.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000063_000000.wav|Aunt Connie was as delighted as it was possible for a mother to be who knows that her youngest child is safe under the same roof with herself. She tried to thank Sylvia for protecting Estralla, but Sylvia was too happy over her success to listen to her.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000006_000000.wav|"Wait, Estralla!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000044_000000.wav|"A little white missy to see you, Massa Robert," he said, and in a moment Sylvia found herself standing before a smiling gentleman, whose red face and white whiskers made her think of the pictures of Santa Claus.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000055_000004.wav|I am greatly pleased to have made your acquaintance," and the polite gentleman escorted her to the door, where he bade her good bye with such an elegant bow that Sylvia nearly fell backward in her effort to make as low a curtsey as seemed necessary.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000040_000000.wav|Sylvia was sorry that Flora was going away, but that Philip should want the palmetto flag to take the place of the Stars and Stripes over Fort Sumter seemed a much greater misfortune.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000059_000001.wav|mr Waite says I may have you without paying him.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000050_000001.wav|And, if you please, mr Waite, would you let me pay you wages for Estralla?"|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000053_000008.wav|I must see that whatever you wish is carried out.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000012_000006.wav|"You can do whatever you please with it," was what Grandmother Fulton had said.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000033_000002.wav|Why, it is all ice and snow and cold weather up there, and here it is warm and pleasant.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000023_000000.wav|Sylvia ate her breakfast hurriedly, and ran upstairs for her cape and hat, to find Estralla waiting just inside the door of her room.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000048_000001.wav|There was a little silence, and then mr Waite took a seat near his little visitor and said:|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000005_000000.wav|Estralla shook her head.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000009_000001.wav|I 'spec' dar ain't nuffin' you kin do.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000030_000000.wav|"Poor little darky!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000035_000000.wav|As they came in sight of Flora's home they both exclaimed in surprise:|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000010_000000.wav|"Estralla, if you were earning wages for mr Robert Waite would he let you stay here?" Sylvia asked eagerly.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000014_000000.wav|Estralla's face had brightened instantly at Sylvia's promise.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000057_000000.wav|"Would he hire me out, Missy?" she asked eagerly.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000012_000005.wav|I'll go tell him so this very day," declared Sylvia, her face brightening, as she remembered the twenty dollars in gold which her Grandmother Fulton had given her when she had left Boston.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000055_000003.wav|And I hope you will come again, Miss Sylvia.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000062_000001.wav|But when Sylvia finished her story of mr Waite's kindness, declaring that he was just like Santa Claus, she did not reprove her for going on such an errand without permission, but agreed with her little daughter that mr Robert Waite was a very kind and generous gentleman.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000008_000001.wav|What can I do?" and Sylvia was out of bed in a second, standing close beside the little colored girl.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000029_000000.wav|mrs Fulton saw Sylvia, closely followed by Estralla, running across the garden toward the house where Grace Waite lived.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000041_000000.wav|"I'll have to run, or I'll be late for school," declared Grace.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000013_000004.wav|But even if they did not come for a long time the money would surely pay mr Waite wages for Estralla, so that he would not insist on selling her.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000055_000002.wav|Well!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000051_000001.wav|Now, of course, I ought to know all about Estralla.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000046_000000.wav|"I am Sylvia Fulton," she said, wondering why her voice sounded so faint.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000054_000001.wav|"I like Estralla."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000014_000001.wav|And when Sylvia explained that she had money of her very own, and even opened her writing desk and showed Estralla the shining gold pieces, the little darky's fears vanished.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000033_000001.wav|"Now, Sylvia, own up that you think Charleston is nicer than Boston.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000053_000010.wav|Yes, indeed!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000043_000000.wav|Sylvia went up the flight of stone steps which led to mr Waite's door a little fearfully.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000036_000000.wav|"Why, they are all going away!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000040_000001.wav|"When he knows it stands for slavery," she thought, wondering if he had entirely forgotten about Dinkie.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000053_000011.wav|Yes, indeed!" and mr Waite smiled and bowed, and seemed exactly like Santa Claus.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000052_000000.wav|"If you please, sir, she is Aunt Connie's little girl, and she lives with us, and I like her, and I thought-" began Sylvia, but mr Waite raised his hand, and she stopped suddenly.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000039_000001.wav|"Father thought it was best for the family to be out of the city.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000059_000003.wav|Oh, Estralla!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000030_000001.wav|What will she do when Sylvia goes north?" she thought.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000033_000000.wav|"I'll walk to Flora's with you," said Grace.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000013_000002.wav|Twenty dollars was a good deal of money, she reflected.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000009_000002.wav|But you has been mighty good to me," Estralla replied.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000022_000000.wav|It had seemed to mrs Fulton that her little daughter was tired, and not as well as usual, and she was glad that the sailing expedition would take her out for a long afternoon on the water.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000028_000000.wav|"I think I will take the money," Sylvia said, not answering Estralla's question; "then mr Waite will be sure that I can pay him."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000012_000000.wav|"You can't do that.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000002_000000.wav|mr|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000059_000000.wav|"Keep still, Estralla!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000005_000003.wav|My mammy says how nobody can."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000066_000000.wav|"Oh, that's just like Uncle Robert," she declared.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000013_000000.wav|Sylvia had thought that she would ask her mother to buy her a watch with the money, but she did not remember that now.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000048_000000.wav|"Yes, sir," said Sylvia meekly, wondering whether she would ever dare tell him her errand.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000016_000003.wav|And I please to pay it to mr Waite."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000045_000000.wav|"Won't you be seated, young lady?" he said, very politely, waving his hand toward a low cushioned chair, and bowing "as if I were really grown up," thought Sylvia.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000037_000001.wav|Philip, evidently giving some directions to the negroes who were loading trunks and boxes into a cart, rode down the driveway just as Grace and Sylvia reached the entrance.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000058_000001.wav|I knowed it."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000051_000000.wav|"For Estralla?|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000061_000000.wav|Sylvia hurried home, eager to tell her mother of her wonderful new friend, and of Flora's departure to the plantation.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000013_000003.wav|If the northern soldiers would only come quickly and set the slaves free!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000050_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, I was named for that song.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000016_000000.wav|"Yes," Sylvia responded.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000056_000000.wav|Estralla had hidden herself behind some shrubbery, and joined Sylvia at the gate.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000062_000000.wav|mrs Fulton listened in surprise.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000012_000001.wav|But don't be frightened, Estralla.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000053_000000.wav|"I see!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67857/6643_67857_000032_000000.wav|"The Christmas holidays will soon be here, so a half day out of school will not matter," mrs Waite said smilingly, and gave Grace a note for Miss Patten.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000016_000000.wav|"Yes, and if Sylvia understood how to steer by the compass she could steer the Butterfly as well at night as she can now."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000022_000000.wav|"Yes, indeed!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000024_000000.wav|"I'll call her," said Sylvia, and ran out on the veranda.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000011_000000.wav|mr Fulton came to meet them and helped them on board the boat.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000032_000000.wav|It was rather difficult walking.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000043_000000.wav|"Where is Sylvia?" echoed mrs Carleton, who came in at that moment. "Has she gone to the boat?"|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000028_000001.wav|But she found herself facing the open sea, and look which way she would there was only shore, sand heaps and blue water.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000014_000000.wav|"Of course she could if she had a compass and was familiar with the stars," said mr Fulton; and he called Grace's attention to the compass fastened securely near Sylvia's seat, and explained the rules of navigation.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000046_000000.wav|"Where is Sylvia?" asked mr Fulton, looking at his watch.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000020_000000.wav|mrs Carleton was in her pleasant sitting room and declared that she had been wishing for company, and held up some strips of red and white bunting.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000025_000000.wav|No response came to her calls, so she went down the steps and along the walk which led to the sand bars, past the houses and barracks on Sullivan's island.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000041_000000.wav|"Well, put on your things and run after them, that's a good girl," said mr Fulton.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000046_000001.wav|"We really ought to have started an hour ago." For a moment the little group looked at each other in silence.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000037_000001.wav|"Tell Sylvia I won't be gone long," she had said to Grace.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000023_000000.wav|While Grace and Sylvia were so pleasantly occupied Estralla had wandered out, crossed the bridge which connected the officers' quarters with the fort, and now found herself near the landing place, so that when mrs Carleton made the girls a cup of hot chocolate and looked about to give Estralla her share, the little colored girl was not to be seen.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000019_000001.wav|Sylvia wondered if she would have a chance to tell mrs Carleton that she had safely delivered the message.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000045_000003.wav|Perhaps I may not be permitted to have visitors much longer," said mrs Carleton, and she and Grace left the pleasant room and, followed closely by Estralla, made their way over the bridge to the landing place.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000041_000001.wav|"Why, here is Estralla now," he added, as the little colored girl appeared at the door.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000038_000003.wav|"The Adventures of Don Quixote," was the title of the book, and after Grace began to read she entirely forgot Sylvia, Estralla, and mrs Carleton.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000015_000000.wav|"Is that the way the big ships know how to find their harbors?" asked Grace, when mr Fulton told her of the stars, and how the pilots set their course.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000008_000001.wav|They were singing as they worked, and Sylvia resolved to remember the words of the song:|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000040_000002.wav|mrs Carleton has just gone to the next house."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000020_000001.wav|"I am making a new flag for Fort Sumter," she said.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000038_000000.wav|Grace did not mind being alone until Sylvia returned.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000026_000000.wav|"Oh, dear!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000022_000001.wav|One of the first stars on the flag was for South Carolina," replied mrs Carleton, "and this very fort was named for a defender of America's rights."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000048_000000.wav|"She must be somewhere about the fort," declared Captain Carleton.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000008_000000.wav|Negroes were at work on the wharf loading bales of cotton on a big ship.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000045_000001.wav|It was too bad to leave you.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000025_000002.wav|She climbed a small sand hill covered with stunted little trees and looked about, but could see no trace of the little darky.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000044_000002.wav|mr Fulton said for us to come right to the landing," said Grace, her thoughts still full of the faithful Sancho Panza of whom she had been reading.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000035_000003.wav|At last she began to call aloud: "Estralla!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000025_000003.wav|It had not occurred to Sylvia that Estralla would go back to the fort.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000049_000000.wav|"Oh, yes," agreed mr Fulton, "but we had best lose no time in finding her."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000040_000000.wav|"Oh!" exclaimed Grace, looking up in surprise.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000036_000000.wav|It was nearly dark before she gave up trying to find her way to the fort, and, shivering and half afraid, crawled under the scraggly branches of some stunted trees on a sheltered slope.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000038_000002.wav|The pictures were of a tall man on horseback, and a short, fat man on a donkey.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000044_000000.wav|"Why, I don't know.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000046_000002.wav|Then with a sudden cry Estralla darted off.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000025_000001.wav|No one was in sight whom she could ask if Estralla had passed that way.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000028_000000.wav|"Probably Estralla is there before this, and they will be looking for me," she thought, and climbed another sandy slope, expecting to see the houses and barracks directly in front of her.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000019_000000.wav|Captain Carleton seemed very glad to welcome them, and sent a soldier to escort the girls to the officers' quarters, while mr Fulton went in search of Major Anderson.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000034_000000.wav|"Of course I can't be lost, because I know exactly where I am.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000011_000001.wav|As the Butterfly made its way out into the channel the little girls looked back at the long water front, where lay many vessels from far off ports.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000026_000001.wav|I wonder where she can be," thought Sylvia, calling "Estralla!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000044_000001.wav|Perhaps she has.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000039_000000.wav|"All ready to start!" said mr Fulton, "and it will be dusk before we reach home.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000045_000000.wav|"I will go to the wharf with you.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000011_000002.wav|In the distance they could see the spire of saint Philip's, one of the historic churches of Charleston, and everywhere fluttered the palmetto flag.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000036_000001.wav|"My father will come and find me, I know he will," she said aloud, almost ready to cry. "I'll wait here, and keep calling 'Estralla,' so he will hear me."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000012_000000.wav|Sylvia sat in the stern beside her father, and very soon the tiller was in her hand and she was shaping the boat's course toward the forts. Grace watched her admiringly.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000050_000000.wav|While Captain Carleton questioned the soldiers, mr Fulton and mrs Carleton and Grace hastened back to the officers' quarters, and a thorough search for the little girl was begun at once.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000035_000002.wav|She thought of the little compass on board the Butterfly, and wondered if a compass would help anyone find her way on land as well as on the sea.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67858/6643_67858_000018_000000.wav|There had been many changes at Fort Moultrie since Sylvia's last visit. A deep ditch had been dug between the fort and the sand bars, and many workmen were busy in strengthening the defences, and Sylvia and Grace wondered why so many soldiers were stationed along the parapet.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000059_000004.wav|Run down and ask your mother to give us some little cakes."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000059_000003.wav|We will have a tea party for Molly and Polly, and you shall wait on them.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000039_000002.wav|"Flora dressed up in her mother's things, and then came up the stairs to our room.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000047_000000.wav|There was a little note of entreaty in Sylvia's voice, as if she were pleading with Grace not to blame Flora.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000056_000000.wav|"Don't, Grace!" Sylvia exclaimed.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000054_000000.wav|"Keep still, Estralla.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000039_000007.wav|The minute I saw that plumed hat I knew just the trick she had played.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000042_000001.wav|I wouldn't have believed that a Charleston girl would do such a mean trick," declared Grace.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000032_000001.wav|She told them about poor Dinkie, and what Philip had said: that Dinkie should not be sold away from her children, or whipped.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000017_000000.wav|"I didn't see it," said Grace.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000061_000001.wav|Sylvia and Grace were being entertained at tea by Misses Molly and Polly, while Estralla with shining eyes and a wide smile carried tiny cups and little cakes to the guests, and chuckled delightedly over the clever things which Sylvia and Grace declared Molly and Polly had said.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000035_000001.wav|"I can't think what you want to tell me that makes you look so sober."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000005_000001.wav|"Mammy doesn't seem to know just how it happened," she concluded.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000025_000000.wav|"I begin to think she did," Grace owned laughingly.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000037_000006.wav|They weren't there yesterday, for the door was open, just as it was to day."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000007_000000.wav|"The moon was shining right where she stood.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000013_000004.wav|Just about midnight," said Sylvia.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000037_000004.wav|Yes, it was!" she continued quickly.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000048_000000.wav|"I know one thing, Sylvia.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000053_000004.wav|I 'spec' now I'll get whipped."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000050_000000.wav|Before Sylvia could speak she heard the little wailing cry which Estralla always gave when in trouble, and then: "Don't be skeered, Missy!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000055_000000.wav|"You ought to tell her mother to whip her.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000024_000001.wav|"You must forgive me.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000033_000000.wav|mr Fulton seemed greatly pleased with Sylvia's account of her visit. He said Philip was a fine boy, and that there were many like him in South Carolina.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000031_000001.wav|I'll tell you after supper," Grace responded and ran on to her own home.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000055_000001.wav|She's no business up here," said Grace.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000041_000000.wav|"I don't think it was fair," she said slowly.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000057_000000.wav|Estralla had scrambled to her feet and now stood looking at the little white girls with a half frightened look in her big eyes.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000039_000005.wav|Of course it was Flora.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000065_000000.wav|Estralla, who was carefully putting the little table in order, heard Sylvia's defense of her, and for a moment she stood very straight, holding one of the tiny cups in each hand.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000001_000000.wav|A TWILIGHT TEA PARTY|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000038_000000.wav|"Well, what of that?" asked Sylvia.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000018_000000.wav|Flora sat up in bed suddenly.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000042_000000.wav|"Of course it wasn't fair.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000037_000003.wav|It was Flora herself!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000036_000000.wav|Grace looked all about the room and then closed the door, not seeing a little figure crouching in a shadowy corner.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000002_000000.wav|It was late when Grace and Sylvia awoke the following morning, but they were down stairs before the boys appeared.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000044_000000.wav|"Well, then why didn't she?" asked Grace.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000015_000002.wav|For it wore a big hat, like the one in the picture, and its dress trailed all about it," replied Sylvia.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000017_000001.wav|"And, truly, I believe Sylvia just dreamed it."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000049_000001.wav|As Grace spoke they both turned quickly, for there was a sudden noise of an overturned chair in the further corner of the room, and they could see a dark figure sprawling on the floor.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000022_000000.wav|Sylvia and Grace looked at each other in amazement.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000060_000000.wav|Estralla was off in an instant, and while she was away Sylvia and Grace spread the little table, brought cushions from the window seats and advised Molly and Polly to forgive the disturbance.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000039_000006.wav|Nobody seems to know how she got hurt.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000056_000001.wav|"We don't get whipped every time we make a mistake.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000046_000003.wav|Flora will tell us just as soon as we see her again."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000037_000000.wav|"I wouldn't want anybody else to hear.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000025_000001.wav|She had happened to look toward the open closet and had seen certain things which made her quite ready to own that Flora might be right.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000023_000000.wav|"It's because she is ill.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000028_000002.wav|Nevertheless she was glad when the carriage stopped in front of her own home, and she saw Estralla, smiling and happy in the pink gingham dress, waiting to welcome her.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000002_000001.wav|mrs Hayes greeted them smilingly, but she said that Flora was not well and that Mammy would take her breakfast to her up stairs.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000013_000000.wav|"Flora!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000007_000001.wav|I saw her just as plainly as I could see you when you sat up in bed," Sylvia declared.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000052_000001.wav|Grace lit the candles on Sylvia's bureau, while Sylvia picked up her treasured dolls, "Molly" and "Polly," which her Grandmother Fulton had sent her on her last birthday.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000003_000000.wav|"After breakfast you must go up and stay with her a little while," said mrs Hayes.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000061_000000.wav|When mrs Fulton came up stairs a little later to tell Grace that her black Mammy had come to take her home she found three very happy little girls.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000023_000001.wav|And she's disappointed because you didn't see Lady Caroline," Sylvia whispered.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000029_000000.wav|"Sylvia, I'm coming over to night.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000027_000000.wav|It was decided that Ralph and Philip should ride back to Charleston that afternoon when Uncle Chris drove the little visitors home, and that Flora should stay at the plantation with her mother for a day or two.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000012_000000.wav|Both the girls assured her that it was a good time just to be at the Hayes plantation.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000023_000002.wav|In a moment Flora looked up with a little smile.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000037_000002.wav|"I know all about it.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000019_000000.wav|"Sylvia did not dream it.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000039_000003.wav|She was determined to make us think she had a truly ghost in her house. Then when you called out, she got frightened and stumbled on the stairs.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000064_000001.wav|Not a bit," replied Sylvia laughingly.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000043_000001.wav|She thought it would make us laugh."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000056_000003.wav|Just think, your Uncle Robert can sell her away from her own mother.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000058_000000.wav|"Oh, Missy!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000020_000001.wav|But I didn't," and Grace laughed good naturedly; but Flora turned her face from them and began to cry.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000010_000000.wav|Flora was bolstered up in bed, and had on a dainty dressing gown of pink muslin tied with white ribbons.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000026_000000.wav|Of course Sylvia promised, but she was puzzled by Flora's request.|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000011_000001.wav|It's too bad that I can't help you to have a good time to day," she said, "and all because I was so clumsy."|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6643/67851/6643_67851_000011_000000.wav|"Oh, girls!|6643
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000009_000000.wav|They all got dinner then, together, with many a sigh and quick coming tear as everywhere they met some sad reminder of the gentle old hands that would never again minister to their comfort.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000042_000000.wav|"Why, Bertram, what's the matter?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000024_000000.wav|Later, however, after Bertram was asleep, Billy crept out of bed and got the book.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000008.wav|He had ignored them; and he expected that now she, too, would ignore them.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000016_000000.wav|Billy changed color and bit her lip.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000031_000000.wav|Bertram laughed and shrugged his shoulders.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000052_000000.wav|"I can't, dear.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000044_000001.wav|"Where shall I meet you?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000006.wav|He had not said he did not mean them.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000043_000005.wav|Billy, will you come?|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000004_000000.wav|The young husband's apologies were profuse and abject.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000010_000000.wav|It was a silent meal, and little, after all, was eaten, though brave attempts at cheerfulness and naturalness were made by all three. Bertram, especially, talked, and tried to make sure that the shadow on Billy's face was at least not the one his own conduct had brought there.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000033_000000.wav|"I didn't-want-to go," choked Billy, under her breath.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000034_000001.wav|You haven't done a thing with that for days, yet only last week you told me the publishers were hurrying you for that last song to complete the group."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000002.wav|In her heart she was wondering: could she ever forget what Bertram had said?|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000046_000001.wav|I'll be there," promised Billy, as she hung up the receiver.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000047_000000.wav|Quite forgetting the broom in the middle of the drawing room floor, Billy tripped up stairs to change her dress.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000025_000002.wav|Billy, however, attacked each new duty with a feverish eagerness that seemed to make the performance of it very like some glad penance done for past misdeeds.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000014_000000.wav|There was no answer.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000006_000000.wav|Naturally, after that, there could be no more dignified silences on the part of the injured wife.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000005.wav|And not once, in all Bertram's apologies, had he referred to them-those words he had uttered.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000004.wav|It seemed now that always, for evermore, they would ring in her ears; always, for evermore, they would burn deeper and deeper into her soul.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000003_000001.wav|AFTER THE STORM|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000000.wav|Billy made no response.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000043_000002.wav|Well, I've been to three of those intelligence offices-though why they call them that I can't imagine.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000041_000000.wav|"Billy, for heaven's sake, take pity on me.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000037_000001.wav|I want to-to tend to things," faltered Billy, with a half fearful glance into her husband's face.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000015_000001.wav|And you'll forget?" Bertram's voice was insistent, reproachful.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000030_000000.wav|"Couldn't I, indeed," she retorted.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000043_000001.wav|Holy smoke!|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000020_000001.wav|So, there!" he finished, with a smilingly determined "now everything is just as it was before" air.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000005_000004.wav|Bertram had her in his arms in a twinkling, while to the floor clattered and rolled a knife and a half peeled baked potato.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000017_000000.wav|"Billy!" cried the man, still more reproachfully.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000043_000007.wav|I'm sure you can!"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000005_000002.wav|But that her ears were only seemingly, and not really deaf, was shown very clearly a little later, when, at a particularly abject wail on the part of the babbling shadow at her heels, Billy choked into a little gasp, half laughter, half sob.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000011_000000.wav|"For you do-you surely do forgive me, don't you?" he begged, as he followed her into the kitchen after the sorry meal was over.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000007_000002.wav|With a little cry she broke away from her husband's arms.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000051_000000.wav|"Billy, dear," she called, "can't you come out?|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000044_000000.wav|"Why, of course I'll come," chirped Billy.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000043_000003.wav|If ever there was a place utterly devoid of intelligence but never mind!|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000046_000000.wav|"Good!|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000040_000000.wav|An hour later Billy, struggling with the broom and the drawing room carpet, was called to the telephone.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000039_000003.wav|I'll just step into one of those-what do you call 'em?--intelligence offices on my way down and send one up," he finished, as he gave his wife a good by kiss.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000028_000001.wav|As if you could!" scoffed Bertram.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000018_000000.wav|"But, Bertram, I can't forget-quite yet," faltered Billy.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000038_000001.wav|Indeed, he seemed never to have heard it-much less to have spoken it.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000005_000000.wav|At first Billy did not speak, or even vouchsafe a glance in his direction.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000001.wav|She turned hurriedly and began to busy herself with the dishes at the sink.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000049_000000.wav|Just as Billy was about to leave the house the telephone bell jangled again.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000032_000002.wav|There's the Carletons coming to dinner Monday, and my studio Tea to morrow, to say nothing of the Symphony and the opera, and the concerts you'd lose because you were too dead tired to go to them.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000036_000001.wav|"You've been too dead tired. And that's just what I say.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000030_000002.wav|How about those muffins you had this morning for breakfast, and that cake last night?|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000045_000000.wav|Bertram gave the street and number.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000043_000000.wav|"Matter?|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000047_000001.wav|On her lips was a gay little song.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000036_000000.wav|"Of course you haven't," triumphed Bertram.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000051_000002.wav|We want you. Will you come?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000030_000003.wav|And didn't you yourself say that you never ate a better pudding than that date puff yesterday noon?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000039_000002.wav|Anyhow, we're going to have one.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000012_000000.wav|"Why, yes, dear, yes," sighed Billy, trying to smile.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000037_000000.wav|"But I want to.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000025_000003.wav|And when-on the day after they had laid the old servant in his last resting place-a despairing message came from Eliza to the effect that now her mother was very ill, and would need her care, Billy promptly told Eliza to stay as long as was necessary; that they could get along all right without her.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000013_000000.wav|"And you'll forget?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000025_000001.wav|This, much to her distress, left many of the household tasks for her young mistress to perform.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000015_000000.wav|"Billy!|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000024_000001.wav|Under the carefully shaded lamp in the adjoining room she turned the pages softly till she came to the sentence: "Perhaps it would be hard to find a more utterly unreasonable, irritable, irresponsible creature than a hungry man." With a long sigh she began to read; and not until some minutes later did she close the book, turn off the light, and steal back to bed.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000047_000002.wav|In her heart was joy.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000005_000003.wav|It was all over then.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000050_000000.wav|It was Alice Greggory.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000052_000001.wav|Bertram wants me.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000021_000007.wav|He had not said he was sorry he spoke them.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000019_000000.wav|Bertram frowned.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000026_000001.wav|"We must have somebody!"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000025_000000.wav|During the next three days, until after the funeral at the shabby little South Boston house, Eliza spent only about half of each day at the Strata.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000007_000001.wav|She saw, too, at the same time, the empty, blazing gas stove burner, and the pile of half prepared potatoes, to warm which the burner had long since been lighted.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/61421/5717_61421_000007_000000.wav|Torn between his craving for food and his desire not to interfere with any possible peace making, William was obviously hesitating what to do, when Billy glanced up and saw him.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000060_000000.wav|With this he slammed down the lid of the chest, and the noise made them all wink.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000057_000002.wav|Did you ever sail a ship?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000024_000000.wav|"What I'd like," said Dorothy, "is to find some way to cross the desert to the Land of Oz and its Emerald City.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000036_000000.wav|At this they quickly whirled around to find a funny little man sitting on a big copper chest, puffing smoke from a long pipe.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000014_000000.wav|This didn't help to solve the problem, and they all fell silent and looked at one another questioningly.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000027_000001.wav|"I may not be able to do magic myself, but I can call to us a powerful friend who loves me because I own the Love Magnet, and this friend surely will be able to help us."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000013_000000.wav|"It's very good of you, Polly," said Dorothy; "but there are other things that would suit me better than dancing on rainbows.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000039_000000.wav|The shaggy man introduced Johnny Dooit to Dorothy and Toto and Button Bright and the Rainbow's Daughter, and told him the story of their adventures, adding that they were anxious now to reach the Emerald City in the Land of Oz, where Dorothy had friends who would take care of them and send them safe home again.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000002_000003.wav|Walking beyond the line of trees they saw before them a fearful, dismal desert, everywhere gray sand.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000021_000000.wav|"No dear," answered Polychrome, shaking her dainty head.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000012_000000.wav|"Don't want to dance," said Button Bright, sitting down wearily upon the soft grass.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000027_000000.wav|"Don't be too sure of that, my dear," spoke the shaggy man, a smile on his donkey face.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000049_000001.wav|He had in his chest a tool for everything he wanted to do, and these must have been magic tools because they did their work so fast and so well.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000047_000000.wav|"I'll make you one," said Johnny Dooit.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000053_000002.wav|He then nailed the boards together into the shape of a boat, about twelve feet long and four feet wide.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000024_000004.wav|You see it was magic that did it every time 'cept the first, and we can't 'spect a cyclone to happen along and take us to the Emerald City now."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000028_000000.wav|"Who is your friend?" asked Dorothy.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000024_000003.wav|Then Ozma took me over on her Magic Carpet, and the Nome King's Magic Belt took me home that time.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000005_000000.wav|LAND OF OZ|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000049_000000.wav|Johnny Dooit moved quickly now-so quickly that they were astonished at the work he was able to accomplish.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000026_000001.wav|"I'm sure I can't; and I'm sure Button Bright can't; and the only magic the shaggy man has is the Love Magnet, which won't help us much."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000030_000000.wav|"What can Johnny do?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000004_000000.wav|For the Deadly Sands will Turn Any Living Flesh to Dust in an instant.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000045_000001.wav|"That was the way the Magic Carpet took us across.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000053_000003.wav|He cut from another tree a long, slender pole which, when trimmed of its branches and fastened upright in the center of the boat, served as a mast.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000032_000000.wav|"Ask him to come," she exclaimed, eagerly.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000000_000001.wav|Johnny Dooit Does It|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000056_000000.wav|"We don't care how it looks," said the shaggy man, "if only it will take us across the desert."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000010_000000.wav|"I'm sure I don't know, either," added Dorothy, despondently.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000050_000001.wav|She thought the words were something like these:|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000002_000000.wav|Our travelers, hot and tired, ran forward on beholding this refreshing sight and were not long in coming to the trees.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000038_000000.wav|"I never waste time," said the newcomer, promptly.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000035_000000.wav|"Well, here I am," said a cheery little voice; "but you shouldn't say you need me bad, 'cause I'm always, ALWAYS, good."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000059_000000.wav|"Good.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000015_000001.wav|Button Bright got a stick and began to dig in the earth, and the others watched him for a while in deep thought.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000042_000000.wav|"You must ride," he said, briskly.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000026_000000.wav|"That's why I wanted to find out if you could do any magic," said the little Kansas girl.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000001_000002.wav|Indeed, all were hungry, and thirsty, too; for they had eaten nothing but the apples since breakfast; so their steps lagged and they grew silent and weary.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000002_000004.wav|At the edge of this awful waste was a large, white sign with black letters neatly painted upon it and the letters made these words:|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000045_000000.wav|"Good!" cried Dorothy, clapping her hands delightedly.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000057_000000.wav|"It will do that," declared Johnny Dooit.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000033_000000.wav|The shaggy man took the Love Magnet from his pocket and unwrapped the paper that surrounded it.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000038_000002.wav|Where did you get that donkey head?|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000054_000000.wav|Dorothy fairly gasped with wonder to see the thing grow so speedily before her eyes, and both Button Bright and Polly looked on with the same absorbed interest.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000022_000000.wav|"You ought to know SOME magic, being the Rainbow's Daughter," continued Dorothy, earnestly.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000055_000000.wav|"It ought to be painted," said Johnny Dooit, tossing his tools back into the chest, "for that would make it look prettier.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000015_000000.wav|"Really, I don't know what to do," muttered the shaggy man, gazing hard at Toto; and the little dog wagged his tail and said "Bow wow!" just as if he could not tell, either, what to do.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000009_000000.wav|"Don't know," said Button Bright.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000006_000000.wav|But no one can Reach that Beautiful Country because of these Destroying Sands|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000046_000000.wav|"But where is the sand boat?" asked the shaggy man, looking all around him.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000036_000003.wav|The little man's hands and arms were as hard and tough as the leather in his apron, and Dorothy thought Johnny Dooit looked as if he had done a lot of hard work in his lifetime.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000053_000000.wav|He seized an axe and in a couple of chops felled a tree.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000052_000000.wav|Whatever Johnny Dooit was singing he was certainly doing things, and they all stood by and watched him in amazement.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000003_000000.wav|ALL PERSONS ARE WARNED NOT TO VENTURE UPON THIS DESERT|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000019_000000.wav|In the bright morning sunshine, as they ate of the strawberries and sweet juicy pears, Dorothy said:|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000038_000003.wav|Really, I wouldn't have known you at all, Shaggy Man, if I hadn't looked at your feet."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000043_000000.wav|"What in?" asked the shaggy man.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000041_000000.wav|Johnny Dooit puffed his pipe and looked carefully at the dreadful desert in front of them-stretching so far away they could not see its end.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000011_000000.wav|"I wish father would come for me," sighed the pretty Rainbow's Daughter, "I would take you all to live upon the rainbow, where you could dance along its rays from morning till night, without a care or worry of any sort.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000001_000004.wav|An agreeable fragrance was wafted toward them.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000001_000003.wav|At last they slowly passed over the crest of a barren hill and saw before them a line of green trees with a strip of grass at their feet.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000031_000000.wav|"Anything," answered the shaggy man, with confidence.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000037_000000.wav|"Good morning, Johnny," said the shaggy man.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000016_000000.wav|"It's nearly evening, now; so we may as well sleep in this pretty place and get rested; perhaps by morning we can decide what is best to be done."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000038_000001.wav|"But what's happened to you?|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000020_000000.wav|"Polly, can you do any magic?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000044_000000.wav|"In a sand boat, which has runners like a sled and sails like a ship. The wind will blow you swiftly across the desert and the sand cannot touch your flesh to turn it into dust."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000034_000000.wav|"Dear Johnny Dooit, come to me. I need you bad as bad can be."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000002_000001.wav|Here they found a spring of pure bubbling water, around which the grass was full of wild strawberry plants, their pretty red berries ripe and ready to eat. Some of the trees bore yellow oranges and some russet pears, so the hungry adventurers suddenly found themselves provided with plenty to eat and to drink.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000036_000001.wav|His hair was grey, his whiskers were grey; and these whiskers were so long that he had wound the ends of them around his waist and tied them in a hard knot underneath the leather apron that reached from his chin nearly to his feet, and which was soiled and scratched as if it had been used a long time.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000001_000000.wav|"It's getting awful rough walking," said Dorothy, as they trudged along.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000036_000002.wav|His nose was broad, and stuck up a little; but his eyes were twinkling and merry.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000045_000002.wav|We didn't have to touch the horrid sand at all."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000053_000001.wav|Next he took a saw and in a few minutes sawed the tree trunk into broad, long boards.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000055_000001.wav|But 'though I can paint it for you in three seconds it would take an hour to dry, and that's a waste of time."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000060_000001.wav|While they were winking the workman disappeared, tools and all.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/94876/5717_94876_000025_000000.wav|"No indeed," returned Polly, with a shudder, "I hate cyclones, anyway."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000034_000003.wav|If you start at this moment and work continuously, you'll have a little under a second apiece for each slave."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000003_000002.wav|So Nikkolon made a speech, telling them at what a great moment in Adityan history they stood, and concluded by saying:|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000037_000000.wav|That was safe.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000051_000000.wav|"With money.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000043_000000.wav|Nikkolon and Javasan looked at each other.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000028_000001.wav|He was wondering how long it would take for Pyairr Ravney to make useful troops out of the newly surrendered slave soldiers, and where he was going to find contragravity to shift them expeditiously from trouble spot to trouble spot.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000027_000000.wav|Obray, Count Erskyll, was unhappy about it.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000035_000001.wav|So, he was happy to observe, did Count Erskyll.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000008_000000.wav|Then he came to Article Six.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000023_000002.wav|I believe, toward the last of those audio visuals, you saw some examples of Imperial intervention."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000006_000001.wav|The absolute powers of the Emperor.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000050_000001.wav|"Freedmen, I mean?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000029_000002.wav|By the time they retired for coffee and brandy to the parlor where the conference was to be held, the Lords ex Masters were almost friendly.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000054_000002.wav|Nobody carried money; wasn't Masterly.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000032_000001.wav|In about a hundred and fifty days, Nikkolon said.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000054_000003.wav|A Master never even touched the stuff; that was what slaves were for.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000026_000002.wav|Then, I would suggest that you set up some agency to handle all the details. And, as soon as you have enacted the abolition of slavery, which should be this afternoon, appoint a committee, say a dozen of you, to confer with Count Erskyll and myself.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000003_000000.wav|Somebody insisted that the question would have to be debated, which meant that everybody would have to make a speech, all two thousand of them.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000005.wav|Just free them. Commodore Vann Shatrak couldn't see much of a problem, either.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000007_000004.wav|Every sapient being shall be equally protected....|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000007_000001.wav|Only one sovereign government upon any planet, or within normal space travel distance....|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000044_000001.wav|"I must say they are much disturbed."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000050_000000.wav|"But ... but how can we pay slaves?" one of the committeemen at large asked.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000004_000002.wav|Then it is ordered so recorded."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000015_000000.wav|"You tricked us!" Nikkolon accused.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000023_000001.wav|But let me remind you that slavery is specifically prohibited by the Imperial Constitution; if you do not abolish it immediately, the Empire will be forced to intervene.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000008_000001.wav|He cleared his throat, raised his voice, and read:|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000048_000000.wav|"You mean, give them money?" Ranal Valdry, the Lord Provost Marshal demanded, incredulously.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000026_000005.wav|And let me point out, I hope for the last time, that we discuss matters directly, without intermediaries.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000047_000000.wav|"Yes, of course-chief freedmen, you'll have to call them, now.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000052_000000.wav|"Of course we have.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000006_000003.wav|The Emperor also to be Planetary King of Odin.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000010_000003.wav|The first inarticulate roar was followed by a babel of voices, like a tropical cloudburst on a prefab hut.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000046_000000.wav|"You mean, we can keep our chief slaves?" somebody cried.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000006_000000.wav|Section One: The universality of the Empire.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000054_000001.wav|The unit was the star piece, the stelly. When he asked to see some of it, they were indignant.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000023_000000.wav|"My dear Lord Javasan, that is the problem of the Adityan Mastership. They are your slaves; we have neither the intention nor the right to free them.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000031_000000.wav|"And when will that be?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000016_000000.wav|Other voices joined in:|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000001.wav|It meant, the basic, fundamental, question.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000053_000000.wav|"What kind of money?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000035_000000.wav|The Lords Master looked dismayed.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000038_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, of course," Rovard Javasan assured him.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000051_000001.wav|You do have money, haven't you?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000010_000002.wav|Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the doors slide apart and an airjeep, bristling with machine guns, float in and rise to the ceiling.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000034_000002.wav|A hundred and fifty days will pass quite rapidly, and you have twenty million slaves to deal with.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000044_000000.wav|"They know," Javasan said.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000026_000000.wav|"Well, the first thing will have to be an Act of Convocation, outlawing the ownership of one being by another.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000032_000000.wav|Aditya, he knew, had a three hundred and fifty eight day year; even if the Midyear Feasts were just past, they were giving themselves very little time.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000042_000000.wav|"Have you gentlemen informed your chief slaves that they are free, yet?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000049_000000.wav|"You idiot," somebody told him, "they aren't our slaves any more.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000003_000001.wav|He informed them that there was nothing to debate; they were confronted with an accomplished fact which they must accept.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000002.wav|Rovard Javasan, he suspected, had just asked the sixtifor.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000054_000005.wav|It seemed that the Mastership issued money to finance itself, and individual Masters issued money on their personal credit, and it was handled through the Mastership Banks.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000026_000006.wav|We don't want any more slaves, pardon, freedmen, coming aboard to talk for you, as happened yesterday."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000007.wav|Jurgen, Prince Trevannion, had no intention whatever of attempting to answer the sixtifor.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000005_000000.wav|Then he had to make another speech, to inform the representatives of his new sovereign of the fact.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000010_000001.wav|Then it blew up with a roar.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000004_000000.wav|"I take it that it is the unanimous will of this Convocation that the sovereignty of the Galactic Emperor be acknowledged, and that we, the 'Mastership of Aditya' do here proclaim our loyal allegiance to his Imperial Majesty, Rodrik the Third.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000054_000000.wav|Why, money; what did he think?|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000033_000000.wav|"Good heavens!" Erskyll began, indignantly.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000048_000001.wav|"Pay our own slaves?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000038_000001.wav|"That's your Management, isn't it, Sesar; Servile Affairs?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000002_000002.wav|As a matter of form, Lord Nikkolon, will you take a vote? His Imperial Majesty would be most gratified if it were unanimous."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000010_000004.wav|Olvir Nikkolon's mouth was working as he shouted unheard.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000004_000001.wav|Any dissent?|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000011_000001.wav|Out of the screen speaker a voice, as loud, by actual sound meter test, as an anti vehicle gun, thundered:|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000019_000001.wav|That's ridiculous.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000002_000001.wav|Good.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000007_000002.wav|All hyperspace ships, and all nuclear weapons....|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000029_000001.wav|They came aboard stiffly hostile-most understandably so, under the circumstances-and Prince Trevannion exerted all his copious charm to thaw them out, beginning with the pre dinner cocktails and continuing through the meal.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000037_000001.wav|They had a bureaucracy, and bureaucracies tend to have registrations of practically everything.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000005_000002.wav|Erskyll's charge d'affaires, Sharll Ernanday, produced the scroll of the Imperial Constitution, and Erskyll began to read.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000034_000000.wav|"I should say so, myself," he put in, cutting off anything else the new Proconsul might have said.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000019_000000.wav|"Look, you can't free slaves!|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000010_000000.wav|The Convocation Chamber was silent, like a bomb with a defective fuse, for all of thirty seconds.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000003.wav|Of course, Obray, Count Erskyll, Planetary Proconsul of Aditya, didn't realize that.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000027_000002.wav|Jurgen, Prince Trevannion was inclined to agree.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000030_000000.wav|"We've enacted the Emancipation Act," Olvir Nikkolon, who was ex officio chairman of the committee, reported.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000015_000002.wav|Why, our whole society is based on slavery!"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000028_000002.wav|Erskyll thought he was anticipating resistance on the part of the Masters, and for once he approved the use of force.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000028_000003.wav|Ordinarily, force was a Bad Thing, but this was a Good Cause, which justified any means.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000027_000001.wav|He did not think that the Lords Master were to be trusted to abolish slavery; he said so, on the launch, returning to the ship.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000014_000002.wav|What is this, a planetary parliament or a spaceport saloon?"|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000007_000000.wav|Section Two: Every planetary government to be sovereign in its own internal affairs....|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000015_000001.wav|"You didn't tell us about that article when we voted.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000054_000004.wav|He wanted to know how it was secured, and they didn't know what he meant, and when he tried to explain their incomprehension deepened.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000055_000001.wav|"I can't explain it, myself."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000006.wav|He would have answered, Just free them, and then shoot down the first two or three thousand who took it seriously.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000039_000000.wav|"Yes, we have complete data on every slave on the planet," Sesar Martwynn, the Chief of Servile Management, said.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000017_000000.wav|"That's all right for you people, you have robots...."|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000024_000000.wav|They had.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5717/100145/5717_100145_000022_000004.wav|He didn't even know what Javasan meant.|5717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000007_000003.wav|Vicious people, like wolves, would destroy the sheep of God.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000008_000002.wav|No, if Christ had known that a wolf had entered the fold and was about to destroy the sheep, most certainly He would have prevented it.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000006_000005.wav|The only difference is that one was committed first, the other later.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000009.wav|But if he injure me personally, I would forgive him.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000014_000003.wav|Why do not such savageries occur in Switzerland?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000006.wav|So punishment is one of the essential necessities for the safety of communities, but he who is oppressed by a transgressor has not the right to take vengeance.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000002.wav|Man has not the right to take vengeance, but the community has the right to punish the criminal; and this punishment is intended to warn and to prevent so that no other person will dare to commit a like crime.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000005.wav|But if criminals were entirely forgiven, the order of the world would be upset.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000009_000002.wav|The continuance of mankind depends upon justice and not upon forgiveness.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000007_000000.wav|But the community has the right of defense and of self protection; moreover, the community has no hatred nor animosity for the murderer: it imprisons or punishes him merely for the protection and security of others.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000005_000000.wav|We must speak of things that are possible of performance in this world. There are many theories and high ideas on this subject, but they are not practicable; consequently, we must speak of things that are feasible.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000012_000001.wav|They build prisons, make chains and fetters, arrange places of exile and banishment, and different kinds of hardships and tortures, and think by these means to discipline criminals, whereas, in reality, they are causing destruction of morals and perversion of characters.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000001.wav|Then what Christ meant by forgiveness and pardon is not that, when nations attack you, burn your homes, plunder your goods, assault your wives, children and relatives, and violate your honor, you should be submissive in the presence of these tyrannical foes and allow them to perform all their cruelties and oppressions.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000010_000001.wav|One of the tyrants of Persia killed his tutor merely for the sake of making merry, for mere fun and sport.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000008.wav|If I abandoned you to the Arab, that would not be justice but injustice.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000003.wav|This punishment is for the protection of man's rights, but it is not vengeance; vengeance appeases the anger of the heart by opposing one evil to another.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000006_000004.wav|This conduct is worthy of man: for what advantage does he gain by vengeance? The two actions are equivalent; if one action is reprehensible, both are reprehensible.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000014_000002.wav|Consider how often murder occurs among the barbarians of Africa; they even kill one another in order to eat each other's flesh and blood!|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000014_000004.wav|The reason is evident: it is because education and virtues prevent them.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000012_000004.wav|This has a demoralizing effect.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000014_000000.wav|It has been ascertained that among civilized peoples crime is less frequent than among uncivilized-that is to say, among those who have acquired the true civilization, which is divine civilization-the civilization of those who unite all the spiritual and material perfections.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000000.wav|To recapitulate: the constitution of the communities depends upon justice, not upon forgiveness.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000007.wav|On the contrary, he should forgive and pardon, for this is worthy of the world of man.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000001_000000.wav|seventy seven: THE RIGHT METHOD OF TREATING CRIMINALS|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000009_000000.wav|As forgiveness is one of the attributes of the Merciful One, so also justice is one of the attributes of the Lord.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000014_000001.wav|As ignorance is the cause of crimes, the more knowledge and science increases, the more crimes will diminish.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000004_000000.wav|The communities must punish the oppressor, the murderer, the malefactor, so as to warn and restrain others from committing like crimes.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000000.wav|Answer.--There are two sorts of retributory punishments.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000013_000000.wav|But if the community would endeavor to educate the masses, day by day knowledge and sciences would increase, the understanding would be broadened, the sensibilities developed, customs would become good, and morals normal; in one word, in all these classes of perfections there would be progress, and there would be fewer crimes.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000004_000001.wav|But the most essential thing is that the people must be educated in such a way that no crimes will be committed; for it is possible to educate the masses so effectively that they will avoid and shrink from perpetrating crimes, so that the crime itself will appear to them as the greatest chastisement, the utmost condemnation and torment.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000007.wav|If at this moment a wild Arab were to enter this place with a drawn sword, wishing to assault, wound and kill you, most assuredly I would prevent him.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000006_000000.wav|For example, if someone oppresses, injures and wrongs another, and the wronged man retaliates, this is vengeance and is censurable.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000007_000004.wav|The community has no ill will and rancor in the infliction of punishment, and it does not desire to appease the anger of the heart; its purpose is by punishment to protect others so that no atrocious actions may be committed.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000009_000004.wav|For example, if the governments of Europe had not withstood the notorious Attila, he would not have left a single living man.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000012_000002.wav|The community, on the contrary, ought day and night to strive and endeavor with the utmost zeal and effort to accomplish the education of men, to cause them day by day to progress and to increase in science and knowledge, to acquire virtues, to gain good morals and to avoid vices, so that crimes may not occur.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000009_000003.wav|So if, at present, the law of pardon were practiced in all countries, in a short time the world would be disordered, and the foundations of human life would crumble.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000009_000001.wav|The tent of existence is upheld upon the pillar of justice and not upon forgiveness.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000012_000000.wav|One thing remains to be said: it is that the communities are day and night occupied in making penal laws, and in preparing and organizing instruments and means of punishment.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000001.wav|One is vengeance, the other, chastisement.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000006_000003.wav|No, rather he must return good for evil, and not only forgive, but also, if possible, be of service to his oppressor.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000004_000002.wav|Therefore, no crimes which require punishment will be committed.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000012_000003.wav|At the present time the contrary prevails; the community is always thinking of enforcing the penal laws, and of preparing means of punishment, instruments of death and chastisement, places for imprisonment and banishment; and they expect crimes to be committed.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000004.wav|So if someone assaults, injures, oppresses and wounds me, I will offer no resistance, and I will forgive him.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000011_000003.wav|But the communities must protect the rights of man.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000003_000004.wav|This is not allowable, for man has not the right to take vengeance.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000007_000002.wav|If the community and the inheritors of the murdered one were to forgive and return good for evil, the cruel would be continually ill treating others, and assassinations would continually occur.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220980/7515_220980_000010_000000.wav|Some people are like bloodthirsty wolves: if they see no punishment forthcoming, they will kill men merely for pleasure and diversion.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000011_000000.wav|There may be other answers to the questions I have asked than the answers I have given, but it is no answer to ask me how the law can be administered without barristers.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000005_000000.wav|So many of one's acquaintances at some time or other have "eaten dinners" that one hardly dares to say anything against the profession.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000012.wav|It beckons to us.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000010.wav|We fail, but it is not because the profession is an ignoble one; we had our chances.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000012.wav|The whole teaching of the Bar is that he must not bother about justice, but only about his own victory. What ultimately, then, is he after?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000003.wav|What are his ideals? Never mind whether he fails more often or less often than others to attain them; I am not bothering about that.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000000.wav|Can he tell himself this?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000006_000001.wav|In the first place, certainly, we expect a living, but I think we want something more than that.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000003.wav|The artist, whatever his medium, is giving a message to the world, expressing the truth as he sees it; for his own profit, perhaps, but not for that alone.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000013.wav|What does the Bar offer its devotees-beyond material success?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000004_000003.wav|But there is no humorous comment to be made upon the barrister-unless it is to call him "my learned friend." He has much more right than the actor to claim to be a member of the profession.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000010.wav|A triumph for himself, but what has happened to the ideal?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000004_000005.wav|Perhaps it is because he walks about the Temple in a top hat.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000006_000002.wav|If we were offered a thousand a year to walk from Charing Cross to Barnet every day, reasons of poverty might compel us to accept the offer, but we should hardly be proud of our new profession.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000001.wav|Suppose we ask instead, What is the ideal barrister?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000001.wav|Is the barrister after anything other than his own advancement?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000004.wav|I only want to know what it is that he is after.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000006.wav|We tell ourselves that we will follow the light as it has been revealed to us; that our ideals shall never be lowered; that we will refuse to sacrifice our principles to our interests. We fail, of course.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000006_000005.wav|That is to say, he would have to persuade himself that he was walking, not only for himself, but also for the community.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000004_000001.wav|But so it is.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000006.wav|If a barrister ever has such a moment, what is his consolation?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000001.wav|A doctor collects fees from his patients, but he is aiming at something more than pounds, shillings, and pence; he is out to put an end to suffering.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000000.wav|Now what of the Bar?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000004.wav|But can there be an ideal barrister other than a successful barrister?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000003_000000.wav|Our Learned Friends|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000005.wav|Counsel is briefed for Smith.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000006.wav|If he does not see himself as Sir Edward Carson, it is only because he thinks that perhaps after all Sir john Simon's manner is the more effective.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000008.wav|The doctor neglects research and cultivates instead a bedside manner.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000002.wav|If one spoke loosely of an ideal doctor, one would not necessarily mean a titled gentleman in Harley Street.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000005_000002.wav|However, I shall take the risk, and put the barrister in the dock.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000000.wav|I asked just now what were a barrister's ideals.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000005_000001.wav|Besides, one never knows when one may not want to be defended.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000007.wav|Luckily, however, sentiment is on our side.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000009.wav|But he must do more than this.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000011.wav|Did he even think, "Of course I'm bound to do the best for my client, but he's in the wrong, and I hope we lose?" I imagine not.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000002.wav|A schoolmaster earns a living by teaching, but he does not feel that he is fighting only for himself; he is a crusader on behalf of education.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000005.wav|We enter them full of high resolves.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000004_000002.wav|A schoolmaster can be referred to contemptuously as an usher; a doctor is regarded humorously as a licensed murderer; a solicitor is always retiring to gaol for making away with trust funds, and, in any case, is merely an attorney; while a civil servant sleeps from ten to four every day, and is only waked up at sixty in order to be given a pension.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000011_000001.wav|I do not know; nor do I know how the roads can be swept without getting somebody to sweep them.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000000.wav|It seems to me, then, that a profession is a noble or an ignoble one, according as it offers or denies to him who practises it the opportunity of working for some other end than his own advancement.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000006.wav|After examining the case he tells himself in effect this: "As far as I can see, the Law is all on the other side.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000008.wav|Given an impressionable jury, there's just a chance that we might pull it off.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000006_000000.wav|Let us begin by asking ourselves what we expect from a profession.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000002.wav|His increased expertness will be of increased service to himself, of increased service to his clients, but no ideal will be the better served by reason of it.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000009.wav|The schoolmaster drops all his theories of education and conforms hastily to those of his employers.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000004_000000.wav|I do not know why the Bar has always seemed the most respectable of the professions, a profession which the hero of almost any novel could adopt without losing caste.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000003.wav|An ideal schoolmaster is not synonymous with the Headmaster of Eton or the owner of the most profitable preparatory school.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000005_000003.wav|"Gentlemen of the jury, observe this well dressed gentleman before you.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000011_000003.wav|So also I am entitled to my opinion about the Bar, which is this.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000008_000008.wav|If he is to be proud of his profession, and in that lonely moment tolerant of himself, he must feel that he is taking a noble part in the vindication of legal right, the punishment of legal wrong.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000006_000003.wav|We should prefer to earn a thousand a year by doing some more useful work.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000001.wav|I do not see how he can.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000005_000004.wav|What shall we say about him?"|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000007_000011.wav|Indeed, the light is still there for those who look.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000009_000009.wav|It's worth trying." He tries, and if he is sufficiently expert he pulls it off.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/100431/7515_100431_000010_000005.wav|The eager young writer, just beginning a literary career, might fix his eyes upon Francis Thompson rather than upon Sir Hall Caine; the eager young clergyman might dream dreams over the Life of Father Damien more often than over the Life of the Archbishop of Canterbury; but to what star can the eager young barrister hitch his wagon, save to the star of material success?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000004.wav|Darkness is the absence of light: when there is no light, there is darkness.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000019_000001.wav|This is worthy of admiration.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000005_000001.wav|Evil is simply their nonexistence.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000004.wav|In truth the two actions are the same: both are injuries; the only difference is that one occurred first, and the other afterward.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000006_000000.wav|In the same way, the sensible realities are absolutely good, and evil is due to their nonexistence-that is to say, blindness is the want of sight, deafness is the want of hearing, poverty is the want of wealth, illness is the want of health, death is the want of life, and weakness is the want of strength.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000007_000001.wav|Are they good or evil, for they are existing beings?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000012_000000.wav|The other kind of torment is gross-such as penalties, imprisonment, beating, expulsion and banishment.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000003_000001.wav|Know that beings are of two kinds: material and spiritual, those perceptible to the senses and those intellectual.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000003.wav|No, God forbid!|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000016_000002.wav|Every intelligent man comprehends that murder, theft, treachery, falsehood, hypocrisy and cruelty are evil and reprehensible; for if you prick a man with a thorn, he will cry out, complain and groan; so it is evident that he will understand that murder according to reason is evil and reprehensible.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000015_000002.wav|Thus they say that one of the commandments of the Pentateuch is that it is unlawful to partake of meat and butter together because it is taref, and taref in Hebrew means unclean, as kosher means clean.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000005_000003.wav|All these things have no real existence.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000004_000001.wav|Intellectual things are those which have no outward existence but are conceptions of the mind.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000014_000000.wav|Know that to do justice is to give to everyone according to his deserts. For example, when a workman labors from morning until evening, justice requires that he shall be paid his wages; but when he has done no work and taken no trouble, he is given a gift: this is bounty.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000006.wav|Wealth is an existing thing, but poverty is nonexisting.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000007_000003.wav|But as the elements of their poison do not agree with our elements-that is to say, as there is antagonism between these different elements, therefore, this antagonism is evil; but in reality as regards themselves they are good.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000005_000000.wav|Briefly, the intellectual realities, such as all the qualities and admirable perfections of man, are purely good, and exist.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000005.wav|Light is an existing thing, but darkness is nonexistent.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000001.wav|So if a man strikes another, and he who is struck takes revenge by returning the blow, what advantage will he gain?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000011_000001.wav|For example, ignorance itself is a torment, but it is a subtile torment; indifference to God is itself a torment; so also are falsehood, cruelty and treachery. All the imperfections are torments, but they are subtile torments. Certainly for an intelligent man death is better than sin, and a cut tongue is better than lying or calumny.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000012_000001.wav|But for the people of God separation from God is the greatest torment of all.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000017_000001.wav|Though they do not deserve mercy and beneficence, nevertheless, God treats them with mercy and forgives them.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000015_000000.wav|Now the question of the good or evil of things is determined by reason or by law.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000004_000002.wav|For example, mind itself is an intellectual thing which has no outward existence.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000001.wav|Then it is proved that there is no evil in existence; all that God created He created good.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000014_000002.wav|So Christ besought forgiveness for his murderers: this is called bounty.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000016_000003.wav|If he commits a murder, he will be responsible, whether the renown of the Prophet has reached him or not; for it is reason that formulates the reprehensible character of the action.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000000.wav|The epitome of this discourse is that it is possible that one thing in relation to another may be evil, and at the same time within the limits of its proper being it may not be evil.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000005.wav|Therefore, if he who is struck forgives, nay, if he acts in a manner contrary to that which has been used toward him, this is laudable. The law of the community will punish the aggressor but will not take revenge.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000009_000000.wav|Then it is evident that all evils return to nonexistence.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000006.wav|This punishment has for its end to warn, to protect and to oppose cruelty and transgression so that other men may not be tyrannical.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000014_000001.wav|If you give alms and gifts to a poor man although he has taken no trouble for you, nor done anything to deserve it, this is bounty.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000000.wav|Now vengeance, according to reason, is also blameworthy, because through vengeance no good result is gained by the avenger.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000003_000000.wav|The true explanation of this subject is very difficult.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000003.wav|When man no longer receives life, he dies.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000007_000000.wav|Nevertheless a doubt occurs to the mind-that is, scorpions and serpents are poisonous.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000005_000002.wav|So ignorance is the want of knowledge; error is the want of guidance; forgetfulness is the want of memory; stupidity is the want of good sense.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000007_000002.wav|Yes, a scorpion is evil in relation to man; a serpent is evil in relation to man; but in relation to themselves they are not evil, for their poison is their weapon, and by their sting they defend themselves.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000019_000000.wav|But if he who has been struck pardons and forgives, he shows the greatest mercy.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000008_000002.wav|This evil is nothingness; so death is the absence of life.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000016_000004.wav|When a man commits this bad action, he will surely be responsible.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000018_000002.wav|Will this be a balm for his wound or a remedy for his pain?|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000015_000003.wav|This, they say, is a question of law and not of reason.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000015_000001.wav|Some believe that it is determined by law; such are the Jews, who, believing all the commandments of the Pentateuch to be absolutely obligatory, regard them as matters of law, not of reason.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7515/220979/7515_220979_000004_000000.wav|Things which are sensible are those which are perceived by the five exterior senses; thus those outward existences which the eyes see are called sensible.|7515
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000088_000001.wav|Let her arm go."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000039_000005.wav|Nor could I control myself.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000111_000003.wav|Stand out of my way!"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000048_000000.wav|"I will go with you anywhere you think best.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000099_000000.wav|"Say on."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000051_000002.wav|Where can that little Judy be?|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000113_000001.wav|Mrs Oldcastle gave a scream, and sunk fainting on a chair.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000077_000001.wav|If you WILL leave the protection of your mother's roof, wait at least till tomorrow."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000093_000000.wav|"How dare you touch a woman?" she said.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000066_000001.wav|To you, Mrs Oldcastle, I would have answered, had you asked me, that I was waiting for Miss Oldcastle."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000058_000000.wav|"I beg your pardon, grannie, Mr Walton WAS wanted-very much wanted.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000029_000000.wav|"But, Judy,---"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000018_000000.wav|"I don't know what they are doing.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000038_000000.wav|I had not to wait long before the door opened behind me noiselessly, and I stepped into the dark house.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000117_000001.wav|The moon was shining from the edge of a vaporous mountain, which gradually drew away from her, leaving her alone in the midst of a lake of blue.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000068_000001.wav|Miss Oldcastle will be here presently," I said.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000060_000000.wav|"---and to be sitting in my room in the dark too!"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000111_000002.wav|I know that of you which, even on the code of the duellist, would justify any gentleman in refusing to meet you.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000073_000000.wav|"No, Mrs Oldcastle," I said.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000052_000001.wav|But I was helped out of the beginning into the middle of my difficulties, once more by that blessed little Judy.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000033_000000.wav|"But will she come to me?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000007_000000.wav|"But she will not let me do anything for her."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000051_000001.wav|"Sarah, bring candles, and tell Captain Everard, when he will join us, to come to the octagon room.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000052_000000.wav|I had been in great perplexity how to let her know that I was there; for to announce yourself to a lady by a voice out of the darkness of her boudoir, or to wait for candles to discover you where she thought she was quite alone-neither is a pleasant way of presenting yourself to her consciousness.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000069_000002.wav|She walked towards the door beside me.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000036_000001.wav|All my dubitation and distress were gone, for I had something to do, although what I could not yet tell.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000031_000000.wav|"Yes, I do; more than you can think."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000043_000000.wav|But ere I ceased came a revulsion of feeling.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000064_000001.wav|Knowing words to be but idle breath, I would not complicate matters by speech, but stood silent, regarding Mrs Oldcastle.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000003_000000.wav|"Why, Judy!" I said, "what IS the matter?" But the sobs would not allow her to answer.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000045_000000.wav|"But I am saved already," she interposed, "if you love me-for I love you."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000081_000001.wav|But now she answered nothing, only looked at me, and I understood her, of course.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000046_000001.wav|I stood holding her hand, conscious only of God and her.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000083_000002.wav|She made a spring at her daughter, and seized her by the arm.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000062_000000.wav|"Sarah," said Mrs Oldcastle, "ask Captain Everard to be kind enough to step this way."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000034_000000.wav|"I don't know.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000006_000000.wav|"You must find out, Mr Walton.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000053_000001.wav|"But I won't be taken in hand by you or any one else.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000080_000000.wav|Ethelwyn smiled.--She was now as collected as I was, seeming to have cast off all her weakness.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000085_000001.wav|How old are you, Ethelwyn?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000044_000001.wav|But, at least, it will make you sure that if all I am, all I have will save you-"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000108_000002.wav|Call me coward, and I will say nothing.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000091_000002.wav|I will hurt you then!"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000084_000000.wav|"Then I forbid it," she screamed; "and I WILL be obeyed.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000111_000001.wav|You know you dare not write to me.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000096_000000.wav|"The riot act ought to be read, I think.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000011_000000.wav|"Then how-what-what can I do!"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000039_000001.wav|Castle after castle I built up; castle after castle fell to pieces in my hands.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000004_000001.wav|She looks like a ghost already," said the child, again bursting into tears.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000049_000000.wav|"Put on your bonnet, then, and a warm cloak, and we will settle all about it as we go."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000036_000006.wav|As I have said before, she was clad in the mail of endurance, but was utterly without weapons.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000110_000000.wav|"I really am not sufficiently interested in the affair to oppose you. You may take the girl for me.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000087_000000.wav|"Twenty seven," answered Miss Oldcastle.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000080_000001.wav|My heart was uplifted more than I can say.--She knew her mother too well to be caught by the change in her tone.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000008_000001.wav|She says you promised to help her some day."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000020_000002.wav|Everybody is frightened at her but me, and I begin to be frightened too.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000070_000001.wav|That is the way to Miss Oldcastle's room.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000021_000000.wav|"But what can her mother do to her?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000070_000002.wav|I am here to protect her."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000028_000002.wav|I will take you to the little room up stairs-we call it the octagon.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000002_000000.wav|As I sat in my study, in the twilight of that same day, the door was hurriedly opened, and Judy entered.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000006_000001.wav|If you loved her as much as I do, you would find out what to do."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000028_000001.wav|I know how much I can do, and you must arrange the rest with her.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000047_000002.wav|Will you come home to my sister?|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000023_000000.wav|"Is he still at the Hall?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000035_000000.wav|"Very well.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000042_000000.wav|And she moved to go, but I held her.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000038_000003.wav|She led me to a seat at the farther end, and opening a door close beside me, left me in the dark.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000024_000001.wav|But I don't think it is altogether his fault.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000022_000000.wav|"I don't know.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000010_000000.wav|"no|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000038_000002.wav|There was no light.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000110_000002.wav|I do not like brawling where one cannot fight. You shall hear from me before long, Mr Walton."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000058_000001.wav|I went and fetched him."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000090_000000.wav|"You hurt me, mother," said Miss Oldcastle.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000028_000003.wav|That you know is just under auntie's room.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000020_000000.wav|"She is as white as a sheet, and will not leave her room.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000100_000000.wav|"This lady has jilted me."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000047_000003.wav|Or I will take you wherever you please."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000089_000000.wav|But she kept her grasp.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000117_000002.wav|But we had not gone many paces from the house when Miss Oldcastle began to tremble violently, and could scarcely get along with all the help I could give her.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000022_000002.wav|Then there is no one allowed to wait on her but Sarah, and I know the very sight of her is enough to turn auntie sick almost.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000022_000005.wav|Auntie can't eat what Sarah brings her, I am sure; else I should almost fancy she was starving herself to death to keep clear of that Captain Everard."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000013_000001.wav|I will go at once.--Shall I see her?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000084_000002.wav|Go to your room, you minx."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000113_000003.wav|Miss Oldcastle would have returned, but I would not permit her.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000036_000008.wav|In respect of this, I prayed heartily that I might help her.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000068_000000.wav|"That is quite unnecessary.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000091_000000.wav|"Hurt you?|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000002_000001.wav|She looked about the room with a quick glance to see that we were alone, then caught my hand in both of hers, and burst out crying.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000037_000002.wav|The moon was now quite obscured, and I was under no apprehension of discovery.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000053_000000.wav|"Here I am, grannie," said her voice.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000114_000000.wav|"No," I said; "she will be better without you.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000105_000000.wav|And he strode a pace nearer.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000038_000001.wav|Judy took me by the hand, and led me along a passage, and then up a stair into the little drawing room.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000051_000000.wav|"No lights here!" she said.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000030_000000.wav|"Don't you want to see her, Mr Walton?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000061_000000.wav|"That couldn't be helped, grannie.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000070_000000.wav|"Pardon me, Mrs Oldcastle.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000046_000002.wav|At last I said:|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000003_000001.wav|I was too frightened to put any more questions, and so stood silent-my chest feeling like an empty tomb that waited for death to fill it.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000027_000000.wav|"But, Judy, we must have some plan laid before we reach the Hall; else my coming will be of no use."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000053_000002.wav|I tell you that.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000097_000000.wav|"Well put, Captain Everard," I said.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000005_000000.wav|"Tell me, Judy, what CAN I do for her?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000004_000000.wav|"They are killing auntie.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000069_000001.wav|She was always white, as I have said: the change I can describe only by the word I have used, indicating a bluish darkening of the whiteness.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000112_000001.wav|He drew back; and we left the room.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000012_000003.wav|Do get your hat, Mr Walton."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000039_000004.wav|Still she did not come, and partly from weakness, partly from hope deferred, I found myself beginning to tremble all over.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000064_000004.wav|Whereupon she spoke, but to me.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000115_000001.wav|Then assuming the heroic, she added, "From this moment she is no daughter of mine.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000064_000000.wav|We could now see each other.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000032_000000.wav|"Then I will tell her so."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000072_000000.wav|"Miss Oldcastle, go to your room instantly, I COMMAND you," said her mother; and she approached as if to remove her hand from my arm.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000008_000000.wav|"Yes, she will.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000024_000000.wav|"Yes.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000065_000000.wav|"Mr Walton," she said, "will you explain to Captain Everard to what we owe the UNEXPECTED pleasure of a visit from you?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000024_000002.wav|Grannie won't let him go.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000046_000000.wav|And for some moments there were no words to speak.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000109_000001.wav|He turned on his heel.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000114_000001.wav|Judy, ring the bell for Sarah."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000036_000003.wav|This was what I hoped to strengthen her to do.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000034_000001.wav|We have to find that out."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000028_000000.wav|"Of course.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000040_000002.wav|Before I could speak, a voice said brokenly, in a half whisper:--|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000057_000000.wav|Here Judy interrupted her.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000092_000000.wav|But I took Mrs Oldcastle's arm in my hand, and she let go her hold.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000044_000000.wav|"Forgive me," I said, "I am selfishness itself to speak to you thus now, to take advantage of your misery to make you listen to mine.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000025_000000.wav|"Nothing can make her worth more than she is, Judy," I said, perhaps with some discontent in my tone.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000009_000000.wav|"Did she send you, then?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000053_000003.wav|So mind.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000020_000001.wav|Grannie must have frightened her dreadfully.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000108_000001.wav|Insult me as you will, and I will bear it.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000078_000001.wav|You have been a strange mother to me-and Dorothy too!"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000077_000000.wav|"At least," said that lady, "do not disgrace yourself, Ethelwyn, by leaving the house in this unaccountable manner at night and on foot.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000019_000000.wav|"Is she ill?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000016_000001.wav|It was a still night, with an odour of damp earth, and a hint of green buds in it.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000028_000005.wav|I will leave you there, and tell auntie that you want to see her."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000022_000003.wav|What has become of Jane I don't know.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000107_000000.wav|"You presume on your cloth, but-" he said, lifting his hand.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283242/8855_283242_000111_000000.wav|"No, Captain Everard, I shall not hear from you.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000043_000002.wav|And this child has just been telling me that I have taught her to try not to be selfish.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000038_000002.wav|There is One who can not only show you what is right, but can make you able to do and be what is right.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000019_000002.wav|But he's very nice.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000051_000005.wav|Just the match for auntie!"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000058_000000.wav|"Yes.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000017_000000.wav|"I don't know.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000048_000000.wav|"Never mind, Judy.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000046_000000.wav|"I will come if Dr Duncan will let me.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000019_000005.wav|I don't QUITE like him-not so well as you by a whole half, Mr Walton.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000022_000002.wav|Mr Walton, I hate that woman.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000010_000000.wav|"Mrs Pearson is a very kind woman, and an excellent nurse," I said; but she would not heed me.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000014_000000.wav|"As many as you please to tell me about."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000038_000000.wav|"I am very glad, Judy.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000055_000000.wav|"How were you able to get here to day?" I asked, as she rose to go.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000048_000001.wav|I shall manage somehow.--What is the name of the gentleman who was staying with you?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000006_000000.wav|I smiled as I thanked her.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000047_000003.wav|I wish I could send the carriage for you.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000054_000003.wav|Evidently she had inherited her father's fearlessness; and if only it should turn out that she had likewise inherited her mother's firmness, she might render the best possible service to her aunt against the oppression of her wilful mother.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000034_000002.wav|What good did I ever do you, Judy?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000041_000001.wav|Didn't you hear?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000013_000000.wav|"What, grannie, and the white wolf, and all?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000030_000000.wav|"I shall be careful.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000045_000002.wav|And then we shall see you too.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000004_000000.wav|One day when, having considerably recovered from my second attack, I was sitting reading in my study, who should be announced but my friend Judy!|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000053_000001.wav|It's nothing to anybody but auntie, and she must get used to it.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000016_000000.wav|"Why isn't she gracious to auntie?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000022_000001.wav|She's as white and as wolfy as ever.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000033_000001.wav|I believe that's just what auntie wanted.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000054_000001.wav|She certainly was a strange girl.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000035_000000.wav|"Do me!" she exclaimed, apparently half angry at the question.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000030_000001.wav|How is Mr Stoddart, then?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000003_000003.wav|And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven; that we have been compelled, as to the last remaining, so to the best, the only, the central help, the causing cause of all the helps to which we had turned aside as nearer and better.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000034_000001.wav|I fear it is not.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000036_000000.wav|And here the odd creature laughed, leaving me in absolute ignorance of how to interpret her.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000045_000000.wav|"I don't exactly remember.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000017_000001.wav|I only guess."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000042_000000.wav|"No," I answered, turning almost sick at the idea of having been away from church for so many Sundays while she was giving voice and expression to the dear asthmatic old pipes.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000012_000001.wav|I assure you. But now I want to hear how everybody is at the Hall."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000019_000007.wav|It would drive grannie out of her wits."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000045_000001.wav|But you will come and see him to morrow?|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000001_000001.wav|Possibly, being by nature gifted, as I have certainly discovered, with more of hope than is usually mingled with the other elements composing the temperament of humanity, I did not suffer quite so much as some would have suffered during such an illness.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000029_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, I told her.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000015_000000.wav|"Well, grannie is gracious to everybody but auntie."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000041_000000.wav|"Why, auntie, to be sure.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000054_000000.wav|It was only after she had gone that I thought how astounding it would have been to me to hear a girl of her age show such an acquaintance with worldliness and scheming, had I not been personally so much concerned about one of the objects of her remarks.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000007_000002.wav|I am so sorry for you!"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000024_000000.wav|At the same time, knowing what I knew now, and remembering that impressions can date from farther back than the memory can reach, I was not surprised to hear that Judy hated Sarah, though I could not believe that in such a child the hatred was of the most deadly description.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000056_000001.wav|Auntie wouldn't leave uncle."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000023_000001.wav|If you did, I think you would be so sorry for her, you could not hate her."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000037_000000.wav|"Mr Walton," she said, "I HAVE been trying not to be selfish.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000033_000002.wav|He won't like it at first, I daresay.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000005_000001.wav|"I haven't had a chance of coming to see you before; though we've always managed-I mean auntie and I-to hear about you.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000049_000001.wav|Captain George Everard.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000046_000001.wav|Perhaps he will take me in his carriage."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000027_000000.wav|"There now!|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000020_000000.wav|To stop the strange girl, and hide some confusion, I said:|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000001_000005.wav|Within was a labyrinth of passages in the walls, and "long sounding corridors," and sudden galleries, whence I looked down into the great church aching with silence.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000019_000006.wav|I wish you would marry auntie; but that would never do.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000042_000002.wav|Think of HER there, and me here!|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000051_000004.wav|But his second brother is dead, and the eldest something the worse for the wear, as grannie says; so that the captain comes just within sight of the coronet of an old uncle who ought to have been dead long ago.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000033_000000.wav|"Thank you.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000050_000000.wav|What a foolish pain, like a spear thrust, they sent through me-those words spoken in such a taken for granted way!|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000043_000003.wav|Certainly I should be ashamed of myself."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000029_000001.wav|Not grannie, you know.--You mustn't let it out."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000039_000000.wav|Judy did not answer, but sat looking fixedly at the carpet.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000022_000000.wav|"Sarah comes next.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000033_000004.wav|You do everybody good you come near."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000003_000002.wav|We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000040_000000.wav|"Who has played the organ, Judy, since your uncle was taken ill?" I asked, at length.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000039_000001.wav|She was thinking, though, I saw.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000057_000000.wav|"They have been a good deal in London of late, have they not?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000003_000000.wav|When all this vanished from me in the returning wave of health that spread through my weary brain, I was yet left anxious and thoughtful. There was no one from whom I could ask any information about the family at the Hall, so that I was just driven to the best thing-to try to cast my care upon Him who cared for my care.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000033_000003.wav|But he'll come to, and you'll do him good.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000036_000001.wav|But presently her eyes grew clearer, and I could see the slow film of a tear gathering.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000005_000002.wav|I would have come to nurse you, but it was no use thinking of it."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000044_000000.wav|"When was your uncle taken ill?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000021_000000.wav|"Now tell me about the rest of them."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000047_000002.wav|He never was ill in his life before, and he behaves to Dr Duncan just as if he had made him ill.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000019_000000.wav|"Yes, long ago.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000022_000004.wav|I am sure she is bad."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000047_000001.wav|Uncle can't bear doctors.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000031_000000.wav|"Not well at all.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000000_000001.wav|JUDY'S NEWS.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000026_000000.wav|"How is Mr Stoddart?"|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000051_000000.wav|"He's a relation-on grannie's side mostly, I believe.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000038_000001.wav|Don't forget who can do you ALL good.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000053_000002.wav|Nobody makes anything of her."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000053_000000.wav|"Oh! but you know that doesn't matter," returned Judy, with bitterness. "What will grannie care for that?|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000037_000001.wav|You have done me that much good."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/283228/8855_283228_000047_000004.wav|But I can't, you know."|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/302395/8855_302395_000013_000000.wav|Being the doggerel Itinerary of a Holiday in September, nineteen o eight|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/302395/8855_302395_000018_000001.wav|Where, oh! where?|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8855/302395/8855_302395_000020_000000.wav|When in other lands I roam And sing "There is no place like home." In this respect I must confess That no place has its ugliness. Here on my mother's granite breast We settled down and took our rest. On Saturday we ventured forth To push our journey to the North.|8855
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000011_000005.wav|We must open our hearts to our religion; we must have the inward soil broken up, freely and deeply its roots must penetrate our inner being.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000009.wav|Honest, that is, with itself, and with God and man about itself.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000010.wav|As David says in his so honest psalm, 'Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know wisdom.' And, indeed, all the preachers and writers in Scripture, and all Scriptural preachers and writers outside of Scripture, are at one in this: that all true wisdom begins at home, and that it all begins at the heart.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000015.wav|Let all public men tempted and afflicted with a facile, pliable, time serving heart have honest Brodie at their elbow.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000005_000004.wav|Our Lord had crowds of such men always running after Him, and He threw off this rapid portrait from hundreds of men and women who caused discredit to fall on His name and His work, and burdened His heart continually.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000004.wav|'Well said; and what else?|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000012_000002.wav|But Pliable had not knowledge enough of himself to make him ever despond.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000012.wav|And it is always found in the long run that the cross of Christ and its crucifixion of the human heart goes quite as hard with the gentlemanly mannered man, the civil and urbane man, as it does with the man of bad behaviour and of brutish manners.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000010.wav|When an onlooker says 'Don't revile,' we are too ready to set down that expression of civility as at least the first beginning of true religion.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000004.wav|'Without self knowledge,' says one of the greatest students of the human heart that ever lived, 'you have no real root in yourselves.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000018.wav|Come, good neighbour, let us be going.'|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000016.wav|They love their earthly home with that supreme satisfaction and that all absorbing affection that truly religious men entertain for their heavenly home.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000005_000002.wav|We call the text a parable, but our Lord's parables are all portraits-portraits and groups of portraits, rather than ordinary parables.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000004_000000.wav|'He hath not root in himself.'--Our Lord.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000021.wav|We sometimes see students destined for the Christian ministry also with all their religion so without root in themselves that a session in an unsympathetic class, a sceptical book, sometimes just a sneer or a scoff, will wither all the promise of their coming service.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000013.wav|But if tribulation and persecution arise, that is to say, if anything arises to vex or thwart or disappoint them with their church, they incontinently pull up their roots and their religion with it, and transplant both to any other church that for the time better pleases them, or to no church at all.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000000.wav|Our Lord's short preliminary description of Pliable goes, like all His descriptions, to the very bottom of the whole matter.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000006.wav|Let not self love, wit, craft, and timorousness corrupt his mind, but indue him with fortitude, patience, steadfastness, tenderness, mortification . . . Shall I expose myself and my family to danger at this time?|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000002.wav|All the great artists in this walk build up their best portraits from the inside of their subjects.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000018.wav|Other men's religion, again, and all their interest in it, is rooted in their shop; you can make them anything or nothing in religion, according as you do or do not do business in their shop.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000000.wav|So much, then,--not enough, nor good enough-for our Lord's swift stroke at the heart of His hearers.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000010.wav|They believe in their church.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000005.wav|This is excellent; and what else?' Christian could not tell Pliable fast enough about the glories of heaven. 'There we shall be with seraphim and cherubim, creatures that will dazzle your eyes to look on them.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000012_000004.wav|He had no burden on his back, and therefore no doubt in his heart.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000005.wav|Lord, he is unsound and double in his heart, politically crafty, selfish, not savouring nor discerning the things of God . . .|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000012_000005.wav|But Christian had enough of both for any ten men, and it was Christian's overflowing despondency and doubt at this point of the road that suddenly filled his own slough, and, I suppose, overflowed into a slough for Pliable also.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000005.wav|Pliable, at least, is a gentleman compared with Obstinate, and his gentlemanly feelings and his good manners make him at once take sides with Christian.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000010.wav|Came to Cuttiehillock.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000004.wav|His root, what he had of a root, was all in Christian's companionship and impassioned appeals, and then in those impressive passages of Scripture that Christian read to him.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000022.wav|And so on through the whole of human life.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000012_000001.wav|Christian was bound to fall sooner or later into a slough filled with his own despondency about himself, his past guilt, his present sinfulness, and his anxious future.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000006.wav|It is a deceit and a mischief to think that the Christian doctrines can either be understood or aright accepted by any outward means.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000005.wav|At your first attention to these things you would think that no possible root could be better planted than in the Bible and in earnest preaching.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000000.wav|And where this first and best of all wisdom is not, there, in our Lord's words, there is no deepness of earth, no root, and no fruit.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000012.wav|I am not rightly principled as to the time.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000004.wav|The Lord pity the proneness of his heart to comply with the men who have the power . . .|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000011.wav|I am neither cold nor hot.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000009.wav|And we are sometimes too apt to count all that love of common fairness, and that hatred of foul play, as a sure sign of some sympathy with the hated truth itself.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000001.wav|But let us now pass on to Pliable, as he so soon and so completely discovers himself to us under john Bunyan's so skilful hand.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000007.wav|Elders with golden crowns, and holy virgins with golden harps, and all clothed with immortality as with a garment.' 'The hearing of all this,' cried Pliable, 'is enough to ravish one's heart.' 'An overly faith,' says old Thomas Shepard, 'is easily wrought.'|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000020.wav|If they happen to fall in with godly lovers and friends, they are sincerely godly with them; but if their companions are indifferent or hostile to true religion, they gradually fall into the same temper and attitude.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000012_000006.wav|Had Pliable only had a genuine and original slough of his own to so sink and be bedaubed in, he would have got out of it at the right side of it, and been a tender stepping pilgrim all his days.--'Is this the happiness you have told me all this while of?|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000011.wav|But the religion of Jesus Christ cuts far deeper into the heart of man than to the dividing asunder of justice and injustice, civility and incivility, ribaldry and good manners.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000003.wav|And at home a magic lantern filled with the splendours of the New Jerusalem would carry multitudes of rootless hearts quite captive for a time.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000008.wav|But where that happened, all that was because such men's religion was all rooted outside of themselves; in the best things outside of themselves, indeed, but because, in our Lord's words, their religion was rooted in something outside of themselves and not inside, they were by and by offended, and threw off their faith.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000001.wav|No kind of book sells better among those of our people who have no root in themselves than just picture books about heaven.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000008.wav|Where men are in dead earnest about religion it always arouses the bad passions of bad men; and where earnest preachers and devoted workers are assailed with violence or with bad language, there is always enough love of fair play in the bystanders to compel them to take sides, for the time at least, with those who suffer for the truth.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000011.wav|And they all teach us that he is the wisest of men who has the worst opinion of his own heart, as he is the foolishest of men who does not know his own heart to be the worst heart that ever any man was cursed with in this world.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000006.wav|There also you shall meet with thousands and ten thousands who have gone before us to that place.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000003.wav|This poor creature had a certain slight root of something that looked like religion for a short season, but even that slight root was all outside of himself.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000006.wav|Obstinate's foul tongue has almost made Pliable a Christian.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000011_000001.wav|Come on, let us mend our pace.' This is delightful, this is perfect.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000002.wav|Look well at our author's speaking portrait of a well-known man in Bedford who had no root in himself, and who, as a consequence, was pliable to any influence, good or bad, that happened to come across him.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000013.wav|'Civil men,' says Thomas Goodwin, 'are this world's saints.' And poor Pliable was one of them.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000017.wav|Yes, I will cast in my lot with him.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000003.wav|'Don't revile,' are the first words that come from Pliable's lips, and they are not unpromising words.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000009_000002.wav|Our missionaries make use of lantern slides to bring home the scenes in the Gospels to the dull minds of their village hearers, and with good success.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000011_000002.wav|How often have we ourselves heard these very words of challenge and reproof from the pliable frequenters of emotional meetings, and from the emotional members of an emotional but rootless ministry.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000007.wav|We have perhaps all heard of men, and men of no small eminence, who were brought up to believe the teaching of the Bible and the pulpit, but who, when some of their inherited and external ideas about some things connected with the Bible began to be shaken, straightway felt as if all the grounds of their faith were shaken, and all the roots of their faith pulled up.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000011_000003.wav|Come on, let us mend our pace!|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000011.wav|They worship their church.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000023.wav|He that hath not the root of the matter in himself dureth for a while, but by and by, for one reason or another, he is sure to be offended.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000009.wav|There is another well known class of men all whose religion is rooted in their church, and in their church not as a member of the body of Christ, but as a social institution set up in this world.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000014.wav|'My heart really inclines to go with my neighbour,' said Pliable next.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000003_000000.wav|PLIABLE|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000016.wav|I really think I will go along with this good man.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000012_000008.wav|Let us go home thinking about that.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000007_000006.wav|But even the Bible, and, much more, the best preaching, is all really outside of a man till true religion once gets its piercing roots down into himself.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000010_000014.wav|Brodie's diary is one of the most humiliating, heart searching, and heart instructing books I ever read.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000006_000012.wav|'Here is wisdom': not to know the number of the beast, but to know his mark, and to read it written so indelibly in our own heart.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294554/8725_294554_000008_000015.wav|'Yes,' he said, 'I begin to come to a point.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000013.wav|Have you given Him the satisfaction to know that He is not making His providential dispositions around a stock or a stone, but that He has one under His hand who understands His hand, and responds to it, and rises up to meet and salute it?|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000015_000003.wav|we ask the sagacious bishop.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000004.wav|And those three foundation stones of our Lord's character settled deeper and grew stronger to bear and to suffer as He went on practising acts and speaking words of justice, goodness, and truth.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000005.wav|All Butler's prophetic burden is bound up in these three great words-acts, habits, character. Remember and ponder these three words, and you will in due time become a moral philosopher.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000002.wav|He learned obedience both by the things that He did, and the things that He suffered.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000016.wav|And yet so true is it that the world loves its own, that all men worship talent, and even bodily strength and bodily beauty, while only one here and one there either understands or values or pursues moral character, though it is the strength and the beauty and the sweetness of the soul.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000008.wav|For it is of the outstanding good or evil in a man that we think when we speak of his character.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000015_000000.wav|In seeking a solid bottom for our subject, then, we naturally turn to Butler.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000010.wav|As Butler says, there is 'a providential disposition of things' around every one of us, and it is as exactly suited to the flaws and excrescences, the faults and corruptions of our character as if Providence had had no other life to make a disposition of things for but one, and that one our own.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000004.wav|There are but three steps, says Butler, from earth to heaven, or, if you will, from earth to hell-acts, habits, character.|8725
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LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000007.wav|He carried back His humility, His meekness, His humanity, His approachableness, and His sympathy.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000008.wav|And, as He was, so are we in this world.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000010.wav|But, then, moral character is well worth achieving here and then carrying there, for it is nothing else and nothing less than the divine nature itself; it is the divine nature incarnate, incorporate, and made manifest in man.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000004.wav|But the last enemy, with all his malice and all his resistless power, cannot touch our moral character-unless it be in some way utterly mysterious to us that he is made under God to refine and perfect it.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000011.wav|He is indeed terrible, but it is with a terror that purifies the heart and keeps the life in the hour of temptation.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000002.wav|Do our characters come to be what they are by chance, or have we anything to do in the formation of our own characters, and if so, in what way?|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000012.wav|Paul sometimes arms himself with the same terror; only he composes in another style than that of Butler, and, with all his vivid intensity, he calls it the terror of the Lord.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000009.wav|Butler is one of the most terrible authors in the world.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000000_000000.wav|This is a LibriVox recording.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000003.wav|Butler says in one deep place, that benevolence and justice and veracity are the basis of all good character in God and in man, and thus also in the God man.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000015.wav|Character is an infinitely better thing than either of these, and it is of corresponding rarity.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000004.wav|Whatever other passing uses this present world, so full of trial and temptation and suffering, may have, this surely is the supreme and final use of it-to be a furnace, a graving house, a refining place for human character.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000007.wav|For acts, often repeated, gradually become habits, and habits, long enough continued, settle and harden and solidify into character.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000015_000009.wav|Christian and Christiana, Obstinate and Pliable, mr Fearing and mr Feeblemind, Temporary and Talkative, mr By ends and mr Facing both ways, Simple, Sloth, Presumption, that brisk lad Ignorance, and the genuine mr Brisk himself.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000002.wav|All else we possess and pursue shall fade and perish, our moral character shall alone survive.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000000.wav|The word 'character' occurs only once in the New Testament, and that is in the passage in the prologue of the Epistle to the hebrews, where the original word is translated 'express image' in our version.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000003.wav|And here, again, Butler steps forward at our call with his key to our own and to all Bunyan's characters in his hand, and in three familiar and fruitful words he answers our question and gives us food for thought and solemn reflection for a lifetime.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000014_000002.wav|Butler had not that splendid imagination which those two masters in character painting possessed, but he had very great gifts of his own, and he has done us very great service by means of his gifts.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000007.wav|This is the highest and best use to which our so expressive word 'character' has ever been put, and the use to which it is put when we speak of Bunyan's Characters partakes of the same high sense and usage.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000014_000001.wav|Butler's genius was not creative like Shakespeare's or Bunyan's.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000006.wav|The Word was made flesh.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000011.wav|A man's character does not have its seat or source in his body; character is not a physical thing: not even in his mind; it is not an intellectual thing.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000012.wav|Have you acknowledged to God that you have at last discovered the true key of your life?|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000013.wav|Paul and Bunyan are of the same school of moralists and stylists; Butler went to school to the Stoics, to Aristotle, and to Plato.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000014_000000.wav|We naturally turn to Bishop Butler when we think of moral character. Butler is an author who has drawn no characters of his own.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000009.wav|Abraham's character was not like David's, nor David's like Christ's, nor Christ's like Paul's.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000012_000002.wav|three.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000005.wav|The Express Image carried up to His Father's House, not only the divine life He had brought hither with Him when He came to obey and submit and suffer among us; He carried back more than He brought, for He carried back a human heart, a human life, a human character, which was and is a new wonder in heaven.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000006.wav|He carried up to heaven all the love to God and angels and men He had learned and practised on earth, with all the earthly fruits of it.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000005.wav|The Son is thus the Father's character stamped upon and set forth in human nature.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000001.wav|But let us ask in this introductory lecture if we can find out any law or principle upon which all our own characters, good or bad, are formed.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000008.wav|And we see to our salvation some of the uses to which those parts of His moral character are at this moment being put in His Father's House; and what we see not now of all the ends and uses and employments of our Lord's glorified humanity we shall, mayhap, see hereafter.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000010.wav|And thus it is that the adjective 'moral' usually accompanies our word 'character'--moral or immoral.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000001.wav|It is fit, surely, that the ephemeral should minister to the eternal, and time to eternity, and all else in this world to the only thing in this world that shall endure and survive this world.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000014_000004.wav|Butler will lie on our table all winter beside Bunyan; the bishop beside the tinker, the philosopher beside the poet, the moralist beside the evangelical minister.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000000.wav|It is not in the great tragedies of life only that character is tested and strengthened and consolidated.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000014_000003.wav|Bishop Butler has helped many men in the intelligent formation of their character, and what higher praise could be given to any author?|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000011_000000.wav|INTRODUCTORY|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000014.wav|There are more clever people than good people; character,--high, spotless, saintly character,--is a far rarer thing in this world than talent or even genius.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000003.wav|Riches, honours, possessions, pleasures of all kinds: death, with one stroke of his desolating hand, shall one day strip us bare to a winding sheet and a coffin of all the things we are so mad to possess.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000003.wav|And so of all the other forms and features of moral character; so of humility and meekness, so of purity and temperance, so of magnanimity and munificence, so of all self suppression and self extinction, and all corresponding exalting and magnifying and benefiting of other men.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000011.wav|Have you discovered that in your life, or any measure of that?|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000009.wav|And we also shall carry our moral character to heaven; it is the only thing we have worth carrying so far.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000001.wav|He was made perfect on this same principle.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000015_000001.wav|Bunyan will people the house for us once it is built, but Butler lays bare for us the naked rock on which men like Bunyan build and beautify and people the dwelling place of God and man.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000018_000008.wav|You do not put a pearl under the potter's wheel; you do not cast clay into a refining fire.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000019_000000.wav|And we cease to wonder so much at the care God takes of human character, and the cost He lays out upon it, when we think that it is the only work of His hands that shall last for ever.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000017_000009.wav|This world's evil and ill desert made it but the better arena and theatre for the development and the display of His moral character; and the same instruments that fashioned Him into the perfect and express image He was and is, are still, happily, in full operation. Take that divinest and noblest of all instruments for the carving out and refining of moral character, the will of God.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000008.wav|And thus it is that the severe and laconic bishop has so often made us shudder as he demonstrated it to us that we are all with our own hands shaping our character not only for this world, but much more for the world to come, by every act we perform, by every word we speak, almost by every breath we draw.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000016_000006.wav|Ponder and practise them, and you will become what is infinitely better-a moral man.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8725/294551/8725_294551_000013_000009.wav|It is really either of his likeness or unlikeness to Jesus Christ we speak, and then, through Him, his likeness or unlikeness to God Himself.|8725
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000024_000003.wav|Uncle Harry was no adventurer.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000003_000002.wav|He simply went on acting and thinking in her sight.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000026_000000.wav|He explained those things.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000020_000001.wav|She would.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000009_000000.wav|"It has killed him!" he said.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000024_000011.wav|He went to work in his own way because it seemed right, just as I feel I must lay hold of that mine."|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000016_000005.wav|That slight girl, with her little feet, little hands, little face attractively overweighted by great coils of hair; with a rather large mouth, whose mere parting seemed to breathe upon you the fragrance of frankness and generosity, had the fastidious soul of an experienced woman.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000016_000001.wav|Everywhere there were long shadows lying on the hills, on the roads, on the enclosed fields of olive trees; the shadows of poplars, of wide chestnuts, of farm buildings, of stone walls; and in mid-air the sound of a bell, thin and alert, was like the throbbing pulse of the sunset glow.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000027_000010.wav|Such were the-properly speaking-emotions of Charles Gould.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000018_000000.wav|After pronouncing these words with immense assurance, he glanced down at her, and at once fell a prey to distress, incertitude, and fear.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000003_000006.wav|Charles feared that mr Gould, senior, was wasting his strength and making himself ill by his efforts to get rid of the Concession.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000029_000001.wav|She jested most agreeably, they thought; and Charles Gould, besides knowing thoroughly what he was about, had shown himself a real hustler.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000007_000000.wav|"That's different.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000022_000003.wav|I am so glad poor father did get that house.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000020_000004.wav|When her feet touched the ground again, the bell was still ringing in the valley; she put her hands up to her hair, breathing quickly, and glanced up and down the stony lane.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000021_000000.wav|They turned back, and after she had slipped her hand on his arm, the first words he pronounced were-|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000017_000004.wav|But now I shall know how to grapple with this."|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000022_000001.wav|You've heard its name.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000006_000000.wav|He knew his answer.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000016_000000.wav|And then they stopped.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000012_000000.wav|"It has killed him!" he repeated.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000013_000001.wav|It was only when, turning suddenly to her, he blurted out twice, "I've come to you-I've come straight to you-," without being able to finish his phrase, that the great pitifulness of that lonely and tormented death in Costaguana came to her with the full force of its misery.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000012_000001.wav|"He ought to have had many years yet. We are a long lived family."|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000027_000012.wav|Not one of them could be aware beforehand what enormous changes the death of any given individual may produce in the very aspect of the world.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000001_000012.wav|Their desolation appealed to him like the sight of human misery, whose causes are varied and profound.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000027_000005.wav|Action is consolatory.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000024_000006.wav|He made use of the political cry of his time.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000029_000007.wav|Captain Mitchell had snatched at the occasion of leave taking to remark to mrs Gould, in a low, confidential mutter, "This marks an epoch."|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000020_000000.wav|She did.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000005_000001.wav|You were born there, too."|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000024_000007.wav|It was Federation.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000024_000008.wav|But he was no politician.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000026_000001.wav|It was late when they parted.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000030_000000.wav|mrs Gould loved the patio of her Spanish house.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000003_000005.wav|For this natural reason these discussions were precious to mrs Gould in her engaged state.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000001_000009.wav|He studied their peculiarities from a personal point of view, too, as one would study the varied characters of men.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000022_000006.wav|You shall be the new mistress of the Casa Gould."|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000001_000001.wav|It might have been an unfortunate affair for his poor dad, and the whole story threw a queer light upon the social and political life of Costaguana.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000029_000002.wav|These facts caused them to be well disposed towards his wife.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000028_000006.wav|The words it pronounces have the value of acts of integrity, tolerance, and compassion.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000001_000008.wav|Mines had acquired for him a dramatic interest.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4733/6398/4733_6398_000017_000002.wav|They corrupted him thoroughly, the poor old boy.|4733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000019_000000.wav|"My father is king's attorney," replied Andrea calmly.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000032_000000.wav|"The proofs?" said Benedetto, laughing; "do you want proofs?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000005_000005.wav|By the side of Andrea was stationed the lawyer who was to conduct his defence, and who had been appointed by the court, for Andrea disdained to pay any attention to those details, to which he appeared to attach no importance.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000007_000004.wav|"Your age?" said the president; "will you answer that question?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000007_000001.wav|I have an idea, which I will explain by and by, of making an exception to the usual form of accusation.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000007_000000.wav|"Accused," said the president, "your name and surname?" Andrea arose. "Excuse me, mr President," he said, in a clear voice, "but I see you are going to adopt a course of questions through which I cannot follow you.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000018_000001.wav|Not a whisper, not a breath, was heard in that vast assembly; every one waited anxiously.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000038_000002.wav|We need no proofs; everything relating to this young man is true." A dull, gloomy silence, like that which precedes some awful phenomenon of nature, pervaded the assembly, who shuddered in dismay.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000031_000000.wav|"My mother thought me dead; she is not guilty.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000024_000000.wav|"But," said the irritated president, "you called yourself Benedetto, declared yourself an orphan, and claimed Corsica as your country."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000022_000003.wav|During the scene of tumult, Andrea had turned his smiling face towards the assembly; then, leaning with one hand on the oaken rail of the dock, in the most graceful attitude possible, he said: "Gentlemen, I assure you I had no idea of insulting the court, or of making a useless disturbance in the presence of this honorable assembly.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000015_000000.wav|"Well," said the president; "your name?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000017_000000.wav|A painful giddiness overwhelmed Villefort; great drops of acrid sweat fell from his face upon the papers which he held in his convulsed hand.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000005_000006.wav|The lawyer was a young man with light hair whose face expressed a hundred times more emotion than that which characterized the prisoner.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000022_000007.wav|But though I cannot give my own name, not possessing one, I can tell them my father's.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000025_000000.wav|"I said anything I pleased, in order that the solemn declaration I have just made should not be withheld, which otherwise would certainly have been the case.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000005_000003.wav|His hands, gracefully placed, one upon his hat, the other in the opening of his white waistcoat, were not at all tremulous; his eye was calm and even brilliant.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000018_000000.wav|"Repeat your father's name," said the president.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000007_000003.wav|The whole assembly manifested great surprise, but Andrea appeared quite unmoved.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000003_000001.wav|Every one looked with astonishment on that grave and severe face, whose calm expression personal griefs had been unable to disturb, and the aspect of a man who was a stranger to all human emotions excited something very like terror.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000004_000000.wav|"Gendarmes," said the president, "lead in the accused."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000016_000000.wav|"I cannot tell you my name, since I do not know it; but I know my father's, and can tell it to you."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000013_000002.wav|"And now, prisoner, will you consent to tell your name?" said the president.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000012_000001.wav|The judges themselves appeared to be stupefied, and the jury manifested tokens of disgust for cynicism so unexpected in a man of fashion.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000022_000006.wav|They ask my name, I cannot give it, since my parents abandoned me.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000022_000004.wav|They ask my age; I tell it.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000005_000004.wav|Scarcely had he entered the hall when he glanced at the whole body of magistrates and assistants; his eye rested longer on the president, and still more so on the king's attorney.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000033_000000.wav|"Yes."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000044_000000.wav|"And moreover, it kills," said Beauchamp.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000011_000002.wav|"Your profession?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000027_000000.wav|"I will tell you, mr President.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000022_000001.wav|Order was re-established in the hall, except that a few people still moved about and whispered to one another.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000038_000005.wav|Come, recover."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000006_000004.wav|Benedetto was thus forever condemned in public opinion before the sentence of the law could be pronounced.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000021_000002.wav|In the midst of this tumult the voice of the president was heard to exclaim,--"Are you playing with justice, accused, and do you dare set your fellow citizens an example of disorder which even in these times has never been equalled?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000014_000001.wav|The public astonishment had reached its height.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000035_000002.wav|"Father," said Benedetto, "I am asked for proofs, do you wish me to give them?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000030_000000.wav|"But your mother?" asked the president.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000005_000002.wav|His features bore no sign of that deep emotion which stops the beating of the heart and blanches the cheek.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121130/70_121130_000013_000004.wav|You appear to consider this a point of honor, and it may be for this reason, that you have delayed acknowledging your name.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000057_000001.wav|"Do you think you have to do with galley slaves, or novices in the world?|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000007_000000.wav|"Of course-of course," said the prisoners;--"any one can see he's a gentleman!"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000044_000000.wav|"Well?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000001_000002.wav|It is a prison within a prison; the walls are double the thickness of the rest.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000033_000004.wav|Let us talk of those, if you please.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000001_000006.wav|There, crouched against the side of the wall which attracts and retains the most heat, they may be seen sometimes talking to one another, but more frequently alone, watching the door, which sometimes opens to call forth one from the gloomy assemblage, or to throw in another outcast from society.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000060_000001.wav|Just then the door opened, and the jailer, addressing himself to Bertuccio, said,--"Excuse me, sir, but the examining magistrate is waiting for the prisoner."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000058_000000.wav|"My father-I will know who my father is," said the obstinate youth; "I will perish if I must, but I will know it.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000033_000002.wav|I know all these things.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000026_000000.wav|"Oh," cried Andrea, leaping with joy.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000057_000002.wav|Benedetto, you are fallen into terrible hands; they are ready to open for you-make use of them.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000041_000000.wav|"You, sir?--you are my adopted father.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000057_000003.wav|Do not play with the thunderbolt they have laid aside for a moment, but which they can take up again instantly, if you attempt to intercept their movements."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000005_000007.wav|The keeper turned his back, and shrugged his shoulders; he did not even laugh at what would have caused any one else to do so; he had heard so many utter the same things,--indeed, he heard nothing else.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000050_000000.wav|"Do not let us jest," gravely replied Bertuccio, "and dare not to utter that name again as you have pronounced it."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000014_000005.wav|It was too soon for a visit from the examining magistrate, and too late for one from the director of the prison, or the doctor; it must, then, be the visitor he hoped for.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000017_000000.wav|"You-you?" said the young man, looking fearfully around him.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000031_000000.wav|"Oh, no|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000012_000003.wav|Some voices were heard to say that the gentleman was right; that he intended to be civil, in his way, and that they would set the example of liberty of conscience,--and the mob retired.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000032_000000.wav|"Well, be it so.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000005_000001.wav|And, then, to be here so young!|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000058_000003.wav|You great people always lose something by scandal, notwithstanding your millions.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000003_000003.wav|Some of the inmates of the "Lions' Den" were watching the operations of the prisoner's toilet with considerable interest.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000003_000001.wav|The cut of his clothes would have made him pass for an elegant man, if those clothes had not been torn to shreds; still they did not show signs of wear, and the fine cloth, beneath the careful hands of the prisoner, soon recovered its gloss in the parts which were still perfect, for the wearer tried his best to make it assume the appearance of a new coat.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000013_000008.wav|He has two means of extricating me from this dilemma,--the one by a mysterious escape, managed through bribery; the other by buying off my judges with gold.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000030_000000.wav|"You speak first."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000003_000002.wav|He bestowed the same attention upon the cambric front of a shirt, which had considerably changed in color since his entrance into the prison, and he polished his varnished boots with the corner of a handkerchief embroidered with initials surmounted by a coronet.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000058_000001.wav|What does scandal signify to me?|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000001_000003.wav|The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose herculean proportions and cold pitiless expression prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000035_000002.wav|Who sends you?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000003_000004.wav|"See, the prince is pluming himself," said one of the thieves.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000002_000001.wav|And yet, frightful though this spot may be, it is looked upon as a kind of paradise by the men whose days are numbered; it is so rare for them to leave the Lions' Den for any other place than the barrier Saint Jacques or the galleys!|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000060_000000.wav|"Ah," cried Benedetto, his eyes sparkling with joy.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000001_000001.wav|The prisoners, in their expressive language, have named it the "Lions' Den," probably because the captives possess teeth which frequently gnaw the bars, and sometimes the keepers also.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000032_000001.wav|You have continued your course of villany; you have robbed-you have assassinated."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000001_000000.wav|One division of La Force, in which the most dangerous and desperate prisoners are confined, is called the court of Saint Bernard.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000014_000002.wav|He had borne with the public prison, and with privations of all sorts; still, by degrees nature, or rather custom, had prevailed, and he suffered from being naked, dirty, and hungry.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000033_000005.wav|Who sent you?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000001_000005.wav|On this paved yard are to be seen,--pacing to and fro from morning till night, pale, careworn, and haggard, like so many shadows,--the men whom justice holds beneath the steel she is sharpening.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000014_000004.wav|Andrea felt his heart leap with joy.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000000_000000.wav|Chapter one hundred seven.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000012_000008.wav|The keeper relaxed his hold.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000003_000000.wav|In the court which we have attempted to describe, and from which a damp vapor was rising, a young man with his hands in his pockets, who had excited much curiosity among the inhabitants of the "Den," might be seen walking.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000054_000000.wav|"Oh, these are fine words."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000003_000005.wav|"He's a fine looking fellow," said another; "if he had only a comb and hair grease, he'd take the shine off the gentlemen in white kids."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000063_000001.wav|Gendarmes, I am at your service.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000058_000004.wav|Come, who is my father?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000063_000000.wav|"Good!|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000024_000000.wav|"What is that?" asked Andrea.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000012_000007.wav|"Benedetto!" exclaimed an inspector.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000048_000000.wav|"The Count of Monte Cristo?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000021_000000.wav|"Oh, yes."|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000019_000000.wav|"Silence,--be silent!" said Andrea, who knew the delicate sense of hearing possessed by the walls; "for heaven's sake, do not speak so loud!"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000008_000000.wav|"Well, then, lend him the twenty francs," said the keeper, leaning on the other shoulder; "surely you will not refuse a comrade!"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000040_000000.wav|"Who, then, am I?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000041_000002.wav|Come, speak, my worthy Corsican, speak!"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000006_000001.wav|The prisoners then approached and formed a circle.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000000_000001.wav|The Lions' Den.|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000064_000003.wav|"Can I be deceived?" he murmured, as he stepped into the oblong and grated vehicle which they call "the salad basket." "Never mind, we shall see!|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000037_000000.wav|"How did you know I was in prison?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/70/121127/70_121127_000042_000000.wav|"What do you wish me to say?"|70
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000024_000000.wav|It did not occur to Wingfold that people generally speak from the surfaces, not the depths of their minds, even when those depths are moved; nor yet that possibly mrs Ramshorn was not the best type of a Christian, even in his soft walking congregation!|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000021_000007.wav|We haven't the pluck of the old fellows, who, that they might look death himself in the face without dismay, accustomed themselves, even at their banquets, to the sight of his most loathsome handiwork, his most significant symbol-and enjoyed their wine the better for it!--your friend Horace, for instance."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000021_000002.wav|Religion itself is the same way: as much as you like about the church, but don't mention Christ!|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000031_000003.wav|He glanced at the church tower.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000017_000000.wav|"True; but of what sort?|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000032_000002.wav|But whatever my answer might be had I time to consider it, my silence must at least not be interpreted to mean that I do NOT believe as my profession indicates.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000011_000001.wav|"I like you," he went on, "for you seem reasonable; and besides, a man ought to speak out what he thinks.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000022_000001.wav|Nor do I allow that it is fair."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000008_000001.wav|"It must be some satisfaction, perhaps consolation to you."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000002_000005.wav|But aloft over its ridge the moon floated in the softest, loveliest blue, with just a cloud here and there to show how blue it was, and a sparkle where its blueness took fire in a star.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000005_000000.wav|"You have it," said his companion-rudely, indeed, but not quite offensively, and put his cigar in his mouth again.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000002_000008.wav|There was something in it all that made the curate feel there ought to be more-as if the night knew something he did not; and he yielded himself to its invasion.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000025_000001.wav|I am confident you have more good sense by a great deal."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000029_000000.wav|"Your silence is honesty, mr Wingfold, and I honour you for it," said Bascombe.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000019_000003.wav|You hardly know what your belief is.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000032_000003.wav|That, at all events, would be untrue."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000002_000000.wav|It was time the curate should take his leave.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000021_000006.wav|And that is why such things are not to be mentioned, because in their hearts they have no hope, and in their minds no courage to face the facts of existence.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000023_000000.wav|"My dear sir, if there is one thing I pride myself upon, it is fair play, and I grant you at once she would not.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000029_000001.wav|"It is an easy thing for a man in another profession to speak his mind, but silence such as yours, casting a shadow backward over your past, require courage: I honour you, sir."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000018_000000.wav|"If they had found out the right way, why change it?"|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000035_000001.wav|Good night, mr Wingfold."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000028_000000.wav|Wingfold held his peace.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000001_000000.wav|A STAGGERING QUESTION.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000031_000005.wav|It still made its own strong, clear mark on the eternal blue!|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000034_000000.wav|"I decline to place myself between the horns of any such dilemma," returned Wingfold, who was now more than a little annoyed at his persistency in forcing his way within the precincts of another's personality.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000027_000003.wav|But-come now-I do love open dealing-I am myself open as the day-did you not take to the church as a profession, in which you might eat a piece of bread-as somebody says in your own blessed Bible-dry enough bread it may be, for the old lady is not over generous to her younger children-still a gentlemanly sort of livelihood?"|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000032_000000.wav|"I must not allow you to mistake my silence, mr Bascombe," he answered the same moment.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000024_000001.wav|In fact, nothing came into his mind with which to meet what Bascombe said-the real force whereof he could not help feeling-and he answered nothing.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246893/7069_246893_000012_000000.wav|And he in his turn pointed in the direction of the great tower.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000009_000000.wav|HELEN LINGARD.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000019_000003.wav|So was the curate, but he did not count for much.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000014_000002.wav|For the author even knew it, only such was his reading of life, and such his theory of artistic duty, that what it was a disappointment to Helen to peruse, it seemed to have been a comfort to him to write.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000019_000005.wav|That, indeed, might be only a question of time, for the most complete egotist, Julius Caesar, or Napoleon Bonaparte, must at length get weary of his paltry self; but Helen, from the slow rate of her expansion, was not old enough yet.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000008_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000019_000006.wav|Nor was she in any special sense wrapt up in herself: it was only that she had never yet broken the shell which continues to shut in so many human chickens, long after they imagine themselves citizens of the real world.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000019_000004.wav|Neither was she weary of herself.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000012_000000.wav|The hours between luncheon and tea are confessedly dull, but dulness is not inimical to a certain kind of comfort, and Helen liked to be that way comfortable.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246889/7069_246889_000015_000002.wav|True, Helen supposed she could think-like other people, because the thoughts of other people had passed through her in tolerable plenty, leaving many a phantom conclusion behind; but this was THEIR thinking, not hers.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000003_000001.wav|He ate his dinner, quietly responding to Bascombe's sallies-which had usually more of vivacity than keenness, more of good spirits than wit-with a curious flickering smile, or a single word of agreement.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000033_000001.wav|They were his own, a fact he would probably have allowed to creep out, had they met with more sympathy.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000023_000003.wav|But common sense would be just as good in prose as in verse."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER four.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000024_000001.wav|How much more enticing acorns in the cup are!|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000011_000000.wav|"What!" returned Bascombe, "you think I could not plain my woes to the moon?|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000046_000000.wav|Helen sat down to the piano.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000008_000000.wav|"Or it may be only that it is their humour to be sad," said Wingfold. "But don't you think," he continued, "it is hardly worth while to be indignant with them?|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000023_000001.wav|But what I like in him is just his common sense.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000046_000003.wav|The music she chose was good of its kind, but had more to do with the instrument than the feelings, and was more dependent upon execution than expression. Bascombe yawned behind his handkerchief, and Wingfold gazed at the profile of the player, wondering how, with such fine features and complexion, with such a fine shaped and well set head?|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000015_000000.wav|He took a pull at the stout, laid his head on the table, and sobbed like a locomotive."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000013_000001.wav|I am not in love with decay.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000026_000002.wav|You do not object to music in church, for instance?"|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000003_000002.wav|It might have seemed that he was humouring a younger man, but the truth was, the curate had not yet seen cause for opposing him.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000013_000002.wav|I remember a fellow at Trinity, the merriest of all our set at a wine party, who, alone with his ink pot, was for ever enacting the part of the unheeded poet, complaining of the hard hearts and tuneless ears of his generation.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000011_000002.wav|I could roar you as 'twere any nightingale."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000042_000000.wav|"Don't you think so?"|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000023_000002.wav|He never cries over spilt milk, even if the jug be broken to the bargain.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000024_000000.wav|"Possibly; but what we have of it in Horace would never have reached us but for the forms into which he has cast it.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000046_000004.wav|her face should be so far short of interesting.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000043_000000.wav|"no|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000024_000002.wav|I was watching two children picking them up to day."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000010_000001.wav|"But," she added, with a smile, "would your silence be voluntary, or enforced?"|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000020_000000.wav|"Do you think poetry and common sense necessarily opposed to each other?" asked Wingfold.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000033_000002.wav|His voice was a full bass one, full of tone.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000017_000000.wav|"No, not bad at all-for absolute nonsense," said Bascombe.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000023_000000.wav|"Unfortunately for me, you have mentioned the one poet for whom I have any respect.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000046_000001.wav|Her time was perfect, and she never blundered a note.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246892/7069_246892_000007_000000.wav|"Ah, that is all you know of me, Miss Lingard!" returned Bascombe. "--And then," he resumed, turning again to Wingfold, "what is it they complain of?|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000003_000000.wav|THE ATTIC.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixteen.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000011_000000.wav|"But," he concluded, "since you set me about it, my judgment has capsized itself, and it now seems to me worse to use my uncle's sermons than to have used the bishop's, which anyone might discover to be what they are."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000022_000002.wav|In other words, if he has nothing new in his own treasure, let him bring something old out of another man's.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000016_000000.wav|Wingfold was silent, thoughtful, saying to himself-"How straight an honest bow can shoot!--But this involves something awful.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000016_000001.wav|To stand up in that pulpit and speak about myself!|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000024_000000.wav|"Yes, if he cannot do better.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000025_000002.wav|But the little man smiled-such a sweet smile of re assurance, that her face returned at once to its prevailing expression of content.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000021_000000.wav|"I do not now see well how you are leading me," said Wingfold, considerably astonished at both the aptness and fluency with which a man in his host's position was able to express himself.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000012_000001.wav|I believe some clergymen think the only evil lies in detection. I doubt if they ever escape it, and believe the amount of successful deception in that kind to be very small indeed.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000019_000000.wav|"No," answered Wingfold; "I have nothing, never had anything worth giving to another; and it would seem to me very unreasonable to subject a helpless congregation to the blundering attempts of such a fellow to put into the forms of reasonable speech things he really knows nothing about."|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000016_000005.wav|He can read the prayers well enough!"|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000020_000001.wav|"I cannot imagine that a man who looks things in the face as you do, the moment they confront you, has not lived at all, has never met with anything in his history which has taught him something other people need to be taught.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000012_000000.wav|"I see no harm in either," said Polwarth, "provided only it be above board.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000025_000000.wav|At this moment, Rachel entered with a small tea tray: she could carry only little things, and a few at a time.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000016_000003.wav|It's my office, is it-not me?|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000009_000000.wav|"It is a noble weakness, and far enough from common, I am sorry to think," returned Polwarth.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7069/246904/7069_246904_000008_000002.wav|But you must first hear my explanation, such as it is.|7069
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/148920/204_148920_000014_000005.wav|Help me up, boys."|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000032_000001.wav|But he was on his feet again in a second and made another dash, now utterly bewildered, right under the nearest of the coming horses.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000018_000000.wav|"It's these people of the inn-it's that boy.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000012_000000.wav|"The money's there."|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000014_000000.wav|"Flint's fist, I mean," he cried.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000023_000002.wav|They must be close by; they can't be far; you have your hands on it.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000006.wav|mr Dance stood there, as he said, "like a fish out of water," and all he could do was to dispatch a man to B---- to warn the cutter.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000008_000000.wav|"Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and get the chest," he cried.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000033_000001.wav|Down went Pew with a cry that rang high into the night; and the four hoofs trampled and spurned him and passed by.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000019_000000.wav|"Sure enough, they left their glim here," said the fellow from the window.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000025_000001.wav|You'd be as rich as kings if you could find it, and you know it's here, and you stand there skulking.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000028_000000.wav|Squalling was the word for it; Pew's anger rose so high at these objections till at last, his passion completely taking the upper hand, he struck at them right and left in his blindness and his stick sounded heavily on more than one.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000003_000000.wav|"Down with the door!" he cried.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000023_000004.wav|Oh, shiver my soul," he cried, "if I had eyes!"|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000031_000000.wav|Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight and swept at full gallop down the slope.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000005.wav|Soon after, the lugger doubled the point and disappeared.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000025_000005.wav|If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still."|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000040_000000.wav|"I thought perhaps dr Livesey-" I began.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000025_000000.wav|"You have your hands on thousands, you fools, and you hang a leg!|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000015_000000.wav|"We don't see it here nohow," returned the man.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000021_000000.wav|Then there followed a great to do through all our old inn, heavy feet pounding to and fro, furniture thrown over, doors kicked in, until the very rocks re echoed and the men came out again, one after another, on the road and declared that we were nowhere to be found.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000018_000001.wav|I wish I had put his eyes out!" cried the blind man, Pew.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000002_000000.wav|MY curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear, for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000022_000002.wav|We'll have to budge, mates."|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000024_000000.wav|This appeal seemed to produce some effect, for two of the fellows began to look here and there among the lumber, but half heartedly, I thought, and with half an eye to their own danger all the time, while the rest stood irresolute on the road.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000034_000001.wav|They were pulling up, at any rate, horrified at the accident; and I soon saw what they were.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000038_000000.wav|"No, sir; not money, I think," replied i "In fact, sir, I believe I have the thing in my breast pocket; and to tell you the truth, I should like to get it put in safety."|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000022_000001.wav|"Twice!|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000002_000002.wav|Three men ran together, hand in hand; and I made out, even through the mist, that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000037_000000.wav|"They got the money, you say?|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000009.wav|Only," he added, "I'm glad I trod on Master Pew's corns," for by this time he had heard my story.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000039_000000.wav|"To be sure, boy; quite right," said he.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000030_000001.wav|Almost at the same time a pistol shot, flash and report, came from the hedge side.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000006_000001.wav|There was a pause, then a cry of surprise, and then a voice shouting from the house, "Bill's dead."|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000027_000001.wav|"Take the Georges, Pew, and don't stand here squalling."|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000017_000000.wav|At that another fellow, probably him who had remained below to search the captain's body, came to the door of the inn.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000039_000001.wav|"I'll take it, if you like."|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000023_000000.wav|"Budge, you skulk!" cried Pew.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000022_000000.wav|"There's Dirk again," said one.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000002_000003.wav|The next moment his voice showed me that I was right.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000042_000000.wav|I thanked him heartily for the offer, and we walked back to the hamlet where the horses were.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000037_000002.wav|More money, I suppose?"|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000004_000000.wav|"Aye, aye, sir!" answered two or three; and a rush was made upon the Admiral Benbow, the lantern bearer following; and then I could see them pause, and hear speeches passed in a lower key, as if they were surprised to find the door open.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000025_000002.wav|There wasn't one of you dared face Bill, and I did it-a blind man!|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000027_000000.wav|"They might have hid the blessed thing," said another.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000005_000000.wav|"In, in, in!" he shouted, and cursed them for their delay.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000008.wav|They've got off clean, and there's an end.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000030_000000.wav|This quarrel was the saving of us, for while it was still raging, another sound came from the top of the hill on the side of the hamlet-the tramp of horses galloping.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000023_000003.wav|Scatter and look for them, dogs!|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000044_000000.wav|As soon as I was mounted, holding on to Dogger's belt, the supervisor gave the word, and the party struck out at a bouncing trot on the road to dr Livesey's house.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000009_000001.wav|Promptly afterwards, fresh sounds of astonishment arose; the window of the captain's room was thrown open with a slam and a jingle of broken glass, and a man leaned out into the moonlight, head and shoulders, and addressed the blind beggar on the road below him.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000030_000002.wav|And that was plainly the last signal of danger, for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000041_000001.wav|And, now I come to think of it, I might as well ride round there myself and report to him or squire.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000041_000002.wav|Master Pew's dead, when all's done; not that I regret it, but he's dead, you see, and people will make it out against an officer of his Majesty's revenue, if make it out they can.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000041_000000.wav|"Perfectly right," he interrupted very cheerily, "perfectly right-a gentleman and a magistrate.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000009_000000.wav|I could hear their feet rattling up our old stairs, so that the house must have shook with it.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000010_000000.wav|"Pew," he cried, "they've been before us.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000034_000003.wav|Some news of the lugger in Kitt's Hole had found its way to Supervisor Dance and set him forth that night in our direction, and to that circumstance my mother and I owed our preservation from death.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000006_000000.wav|Four or five of them obeyed at once, two remaining on the road with the formidable beggar.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000033_000002.wav|He fell on his side, then gently collapsed upon his face and moved no more.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000004_000001.wav|But the pause was brief, for the blind man again issued his commands.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000021_000002.wav|I had thought it to be the blind man's trumpet, so to speak, summoning his crew to the assault, but I now found that it was a signal from the hillside towards the hamlet, and from its effect upon the buccaneers, a signal to warn them of approaching danger.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000004.wav|A voice replied, telling him to keep out of the moonlight or he would get some lead in him, and at the same time a bullet whistled close by his arm.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000003.wav|He hailed her.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000002.wav|In the meantime the supervisor rode on, as fast as he could, to Kitt's Hole; but his men had to dismount and grope down the dingle, leading, and sometimes supporting, their horses, and in continual fear of ambushes; so it was no great matter for surprise that when they got down to the Hole the lugger was already under way, though still close in.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000007_000000.wav|But the blind man swore at them again for their delay.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000011_000000.wav|"Is it there?" roared Pew.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000036_000001.wav|mr Dance could make nothing of the scene.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000032_000000.wav|At this Pew saw his error, turned with a scream, and ran straight for the ditch, into which he rolled.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000041_000003.wav|Now, I'll tell you, Hawkins, if you like, I'll take you along."|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000030_000003.wav|Him they had deserted, whether in sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words and blows I know not; but there he remained behind, tapping up and down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000025_000003.wav|And I'm to lose my chance for you!|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000000.wav|Pew was dead, stone dead.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000016_000000.wav|"Here, you below there, is it on Bill?" cried the blind man again.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000025_000004.wav|I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000035_000007.wav|"And that," said he, "is just about as good as nothing.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/287139/204_287139_000026_000000.wav|"Hang it, Pew, we've got the doubloons!" grumbled one.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000020_000003.wav|See here!" she cried again-"I spit upon the ground, and crack my thumb at it!|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000022_000001.wav|The more I looked, the pleasanter that country side appeared; being all set with hawthorn bushes full of flowers; the fields dotted with sheep; a fine flight of rooks in the sky; and every sign of a kind soil and climate; and yet the barrack in the midst of it went sore against my fancy.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000017_000000.wav|"Hoot, hoot, hoot," said the barber, "nae kind of a man, nae kind of a man at all;" and began to ask me very shrewdly what my business was; but I was more than a match for him at that, and he went on to his next customer no wiser than he came.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000020_000004.wav|Black be its fall!|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000021_000002.wav|In those days folk still believed in witches and trembled at a curse; and this one, falling so pat, like a wayside omen, to arrest me ere I carried out my purpose, took the pith out of my legs.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000031_000000.wav|"I have come here with a letter," I said, "to mr Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000018_000002.wav|What kind of a great house was this, that all the parish should start and stare to be asked the way to it? or what sort of a gentleman, that his ill fame should be thus current on the wayside?|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000012_000000.wav|"What?" say I; "not mr Ebenezer?"|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000020_000002.wav|"Blood built it; blood stopped the building of it; blood shall bring it down.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000035_000000.wav|"I will do no such thing," I cried.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000031_000001.wav|Is he here?"|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000020_000001.wav|"That is the house of Shaws!" she cried.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000021_000000.wav|And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch sing song, turned with a skip, and was gone.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000036_000000.wav|"A what?" cried the voice, sharply.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000011_000000.wav|"Folk?" cried he.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000011_000001.wav|"Are ye daft?|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000023_000000.wav|Country folk went by from the fields as I sat there on the side of the ditch, but I lacked the spirit to give them a good e'en.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000024_000002.wav|Presently it brought me to stone uprights, with an unroofed lodge beside them, and coats of arms upon the top.|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/204/162375/204_162375_000007_000001.wav|"What for?"|204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000031_000002.wav|"I will, mamma.|6075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000014_000000.wav|"That's just it."|6075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000034_000000.wav|"My dear, my opinion is that we've made a mistake.|6075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000036_000000.wav|"You are determined then?"|6075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000004_000000.wav|"He should have put something in it to make it at any rate decent before we came in."|6075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000037_000000.wav|"I think I am.|6075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000033_000000.wav|"And Bragton is here.|6075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6075/57156/6075_57156_000057_000000.wav|"Nonsense, mamma!|6075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6075/57154/6075_57154_000024_000000.wav|"Oh;--that's part of the fun.|6075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6075/57154/6075_57154_000024_000003.wav|What's become of the rest of the men?"|6075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6075/57154/6075_57154_000021_000000.wav|"No, mr Gotobed; we couldn't catch him.|6075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000033_000004.wav|The squalid and withered person of this hag might well have obtained for her the character of possessing more than human cunning.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000025_000002.wav|The sudden and terrible interruption caused Duncan to start from his seat, unconscious of everything but the effect produced by so frightful a cry.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000005.wav|The heavy body in the rear pressed upon the women and children in front, and bore them to the earth.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000050_000002.wav|The woman was commencing a low and plaintive howl at the sad and shameful spectacle, when the chief put forth his hand and gently pushed her aside.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000047_000003.wav|The ominous sounds reached the outer door, and the women and children pressing into the throng, no gap had been left, between shoulder and shoulder, that was not now filled with the dark lineaments of some eager and curious human countenance.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000036_000005.wav|But the change of posture had permitted Duncan to exchange glances with the firm and piercing eyes of Uncas.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000004_000001.wav|It was, however, too late to appear to hesitate.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000026_000002.wav|One in front bore a short pole, on which, as it afterwards appeared, were suspended several human scalps.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000052_000002.wav|He arose to his feet, and baring his bosom, looked steadily on the keen, glittering knife, that was already upheld by his inexorable judge.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000034_000002.wav|The Huron girls shall make you petticoats, and we will find you a husband."|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000033_000001.wav|To all this the captive made no reply; but was content to preserve an attitude in which dignity was singularly blended with disdain.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000012.wav|Thought itself is not quicker than was the motion with which the latter profited by the advantage; he turned, gleamed like a meteor again before the eyes of Duncan, and, at the next moment, when the latter recovered his recollection, and gazed around in quest of the captive, he saw him quietly leaning against a small painted post, which stood before the door of the principal lodge.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000039_000003.wav|Instead of mingling with his tribe, however, he sat apart, a solitary being in a multitude, his form shrinking into a crouching and abject attitude, as if anxious to fill as little space as possible.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000000.wav|Large piles of brush lay scattered about the clearing, and a wary and aged squaw was occupied in firing as many as might serve to light the coming exhibition.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000027_000007.wav|Even the children would not be excluded; but boys, little able to wield the instruments, tore the tomahawks from the belts of their fathers, and stole into the ranks, apt imitators of the savage traits exhibited by their parents.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000030_000004.wav|Once more he tried the throng, as if seeking safety in its blindness, and then several moments succeeded, during which Duncan believed the active and courageous young stranger was lost.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000017_000002.wav|He sees the dead Yengeese, but no Huron.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000008_000002.wav|The latter shook his head, and made a gesture indicative of his inability to reply.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000011_000000.wav|"I should be grieved to think," continued Duncan, speaking slowly, and using the simplest French of which he was the master, "to believe that none of this wise and brave nation understand the language that the 'Grand Monarque' uses when he talks to his children.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000038_000002.wav|In the very center of the lodge, immediately under an opening that admitted the twinkling light of one or two stars, stood Uncas, calm, elevated, and collected.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000036_000002.wav|The effect of his indifference began to extend itself to the other spectators; and a youngster, who was just quitting the condition of a boy to enter the state of manhood, attempted to assist the termagant, by flourishing his tomahawk before their victim, and adding his empty boasts to the taunts of the women.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000018_000000.wav|"A great chief, like him, has more thoughts than tongues.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000027_000000.wav|When at the distance of a few hundred feet from the lodges the newly arrived warriors halted.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000008_000000.wav|At length one whose hair was beginning to be sprinkled with gray, but whose sinewy limbs and firm tread announced that he was still equal to the duties of manhood, advanced out of the gloom of a corner, whither he had probably posted himself to make his observations unseen, and spoke.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000003_000001.wav|But so soon as they were observed the whole of the juvenile pack raised, by common consent, a shrill and warning whoop; and then sank, as it were, by magic, from before the sight of their visitors.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000020_000001.wav|See; he has bid me, who am a man that knows the art of healing, to go to his children, the red Hurons of the great lakes, and ask if any are sick!"|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000033_000002.wav|Exasperated as much by his composure as by his good fortune, their words became unintelligible, and were succeeded by shrill, piercing yells.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000003.wav|Now and then Duncan caught a glimpse of a light form cleaving the air in some desperate bound, and he rather hoped than believed that the captive yet retained the command of his astonishing powers of activity.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000027_000005.wav|The warriors drew their knives, and flourishing them, they arranged themselves in two lines, forming a lane that extended from the war party to the lodges.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000010_000000.wav|Though more than one had turned, as if to catch the meaning of his words, they remained unanswered.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000004_000002.wav|The cry of the children had drawn a dozen warriors to the door of the nearest lodge, where they stood clustered in a dark and savage group, gravely awaiting the nearer approach of those who had unexpectedly come among them.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000012_000001.wav|Duncan, who knew that silence was a virtue among his hosts, gladly had recourse to the custom, in order to arrange his ideas.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000051_000001.wav|Your tongue is loud in the village, but in battle it is still.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000001.wav|Not a word was uttered that did not convey the meaning of the speaker, in the simplest and most energetic form.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000007.wav|At that moment, the withered squaw already mentioned moved into the circle, in a slow, sidling sort of a dance, holding the torch, and muttering the indistinct words of what might have been a species of incantation.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000008_000001.wav|He used the language of the Wyandots, or Hurons; his words were, consequently, unintelligible to Heyward, though they seemed, by the gestures that accompanied them, to be uttered more in courtesy than anger.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000002_000000.wav|It is unusual to find an encampment of the natives, like those of the more instructed whites, guarded by the presence of armed men.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000026_000003.wav|The startling sounds that Duncan had heard were what the whites have not inappropriately called the "death hallo"; and each repetition of the cry was intended to announce to the tribe the fate of an enemy.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000046_000000.wav|"He followed in the steps of a flying coward, and fell into a snare.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000004.wav|Suddenly the multitude rolled backward, and approached the spot where he himself stood.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000051_000005.wav|Your name will never be mentioned again in your tribe-it is already forgotten."|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000021_000001.wav|Every eye was simultaneously bent on his person, as if to inquire into the truth or falsehood of the declaration, with an intelligence and keenness that caused the subject of their scrutiny to tremble for the result.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000032_000005.wav|It was not difficult, however, to foretell the result, if any presage could be drawn from the feelings of those who crowded the place.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000026_000001.wav|Beneath one of them, a line of warriors issued from the woods, and advanced slowly toward the dwellings.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000002_000001.wav|Well informed of the approach of every danger, while it is yet at a distance, the Indian generally rests secure under his knowledge of the signs of the forest, and the long and difficult paths that separate him from those he has most reason to dread.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000020_000000.wav|"It cannot be.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000002.wav|The whole scene formed a striking picture, whose frame was composed of the dark and tall border of pines.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000008.wav|Of this the captive seemed conscious.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000049_000001.wav|The Mohican maintained his firm and haughty attitude; and his eyes, so far from deigning to meet her inquisitive look, dwelt steadily on the distance, as though it penetrated the obstacles which impeded the view and looked into futurity.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000034_000001.wav|Your squaws are the mothers of deer; but if a bear, or a wildcat, or a serpent were born among you, ye would flee.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000003_000002.wav|The naked, tawny bodies of the crouching urchins blended so nicely at that hour, with the withered herbage, that at first it seemed as if the earth had, in truth, swallowed up their forms; though when surprise permitted Duncan to bend his look more curiously about the spot, he found it everywhere met by dark, quick, and rolling eyeballs.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000003_000000.wav|When Duncan and David, therefore, found themselves in the center of the children, who played the antics already mentioned, it was without the least previous intimation of their approach.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000017_000003.wav|What can this mean?"|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000014_000000.wav|"He knows no difference in his children, whether the color of the skin be red, or black, or white," returned Duncan, evasively; "though chiefly is he satisfied with the brave Hurons."|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000018_000001.wav|He looks to see that no enemies are on his trail."|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000023_000001.wav|My brothers have given me paint and I wear it."|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000053_000000.wav|The squaw gave a loud and plaintive yell, dashed the torch to the earth, and buried everything in darkness.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000013.wav|The artifice was answered by a hundred voices raised in imprecations; and the whole of the excited multitude broke from their order, and spread themselves about the place in wild confusion.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000000.wav|In the meantime, the more aged chiefs, in the center, communed with each other in short and broken sentences.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000005_000003.wav|His blood curdled when he found himself in absolute contact with such fierce and implacable enemies; but he so far mastered his feelings as to pursue his way into the center of the lodge, with an exterior that did not betray the weakness.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000037_000002.wav|Just then a warrior forced his way into the exasperated crowd.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000024_000002.wav|Duncan began to breathe more freely, believing that the weight of his examination was past; and, as he had already prepared a simple and probable tale to support his pretended occupation, his hopes of ultimate success grew brighter.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000027_000006.wav|The squaws seized clubs, axes, or whatever weapon of offense first offered itself to their hands, and rushed eagerly to act their part in the cruel game that was at hand.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000035_000002.wav|His head was immovable; nor did he betray the slightest consciousness that any were present, except when his haughty eye rolled toward the dusky forms of the warriors, who stalked in the background silent and sullen observers of the scene.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000052_000001.wav|Shame, horror, and pride struggled in its lineaments. His eye, which was contracted with inward anguish, gleamed on the persons of those whose breath was his fame; and the latter emotion for an instant predominated.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000047_000002.wav|Every eye rolled sullenly toward the individual indicated by the simple gesture, and a low, threatening murmur passed through the crowd.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000015_000000.wav|"In what manner will he speak," demanded the wary chief, "when the runners count to him the scalps which five nights ago grew on the heads of the Yengeese?"|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000049_000000.wav|Approaching Uncas, she held the blazing brand in such a manner as to cast its red glare on his person, and to expose the slightest emotion of his countenance.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000026_000000.wav|There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens to exhibit those bright openings among the tree tops, where different paths left the clearing to enter the depths of the wilderness.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000024_000000.wav|A low murmur of applause announced that the compliment of the tribe was favorably received.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000046_000001.wav|The cunning beaver may be caught."|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000007_000001.wav|But his ingenuity availed him little, against the cold artifices of the people he had encountered. The chiefs in front scarce cast a glance at his person, keeping their eyes on the ground, with an air that might have been intended for respect, but which it was quite easy to construe into distrust.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000052_000003.wav|As the weapon passed slowly into his heart he even smiled, as if in joy at having found death less dreadful than he had anticipated, and fell heavily on his face, at the feet of the rigid and unyielding form of Uncas.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000005_000000.wav|David, in some measure familiarized to the scene, led the way with a steadiness that no slight obstacle was likely to disconcert, into this very building.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000005_000001.wav|It was the principal edifice of the village, though roughly constructed of the bark and branches of trees; being the lodge in which the tribe held its councils and public meetings during their temporary residence on the borders of the English province.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000013_000000.wav|"When our Great Father speaks to his people, is it with the tongue of a Huron?"|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000007.wav|Human power could not, however, much longer endure so severe a trial.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000032_000004.wav|His person was now protected by immemorial and sacred usage, until the tribe in council had deliberated and determined on his fate.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000008.wav|He watched his slightest movement, however, with eager eyes; and, as he traced the fine outline of his admirably proportioned and active frame, he endeavored to persuade himself, that, if the powers of man, seconded by such noble resolution, could bear one harmless through so severe a trial, the youthful captive before him might hope for success in the hazardous race he was about to run.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000032_000001.wav|He followed the crowd, which drew nigh the lodges, gloomy and sullen, like any other multitude that had been disappointed in an execution.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000017_000001.wav|Instead of looking forward to reward his Indians, his eyes are turned backward.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000005.wav|The silence was finally broken by the aged warrior so often named.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000010.wav|A tall and powerful Huron, who had husbanded his forces, pressed close upon his heels, and with an uplifted arm menaced a fatal blow.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000038_000003.wav|His high and haughty carriage was not lost on his captors, who often bent their looks on his person, with eyes which, while they lost none of their inflexibility of purpose, plainly betrayed their admiration of the stranger's daring.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000009.wav|Insensibly the young man drew nigher to the swarthy lines of the Hurons, and scarcely breathed, so intense became his interest in the spectacle.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000035_000000.wav|A burst of savage laughter succeeded this attack, during which the soft and musical merriment of the younger females strangely chimed with the cracked voice of their older and more malignant companion.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000036_000000.wav|Infuriated at the self command of the captive, the woman placed her arms akimbo; and, throwing herself into a posture of defiance, she broke out anew, in a torrent of words that no art of ours could commit successfully to paper.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000052_000000.wav|As the chief slowly uttered these words, pausing impressively between each sentence, the culprit raised his face, in deference to the other's rank and years.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000025_000006.wav|Though astounded, at first, by the uproar, Heyward was soon enabled to find its solution by the scene that followed.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000002.wav|Again, a long and deeply solemn pause took place.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000030_000003.wav|Here, too, he was met and turned by a few of the older and more subtle of the Hurons.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000012.wav|Instead of rushing through the hostile lines, as had been expected, he just entered the dangerous defile, and before time was given for a single blow, turned short, and leaping the heads of a row of children, he gained at once the exterior and safer side of the formidable array.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000025_000004.wav|Unable to command himself any longer, the youth broke from the place, and presently stood in the center of a disorderly throng, that included nearly everything having life, within the limits of the encampment.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000032_000003.wav|He found him, standing with one arm cast about the protecting post, and breathing thick and hard, after his exertions, but disdaining to permit a single sign of suffering to escape.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000003.wav|It was known, by all present, to be the brave precursor of a weighty and important judgment.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000036_000001.wav|Her breath was, however, expended in vain; for, although distinguished in her nation as a proficient in the art of abuse, she was permitted to work herself into such a fury as actually to foam at the mouth, without causing a muscle to vibrate in the motionless figure of the stranger.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000048_000006.wav|He arose from the earth, and moving past the immovable form of Uncas, placed himself in a dignified attitude before the offender.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000039_000002.wav|Heyward profited by the first opportunity to gaze in his face, secretly apprehensive he might find the features of another acquaintance; but they proved to be those of a stranger, and, what was still more inexplicable, of one who bore all the distinctive marks of a Huron warrior.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000033_000005.wav|Throwing back her light vestment, she stretched forth her long, skinny arm, in derision, and using the language of the Lenape, as more intelligible to the subject of her gibes, she commenced aloud:|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000004_000000.wav|Gathering no encouragement from this startling presage of the nature of the scrutiny he was likely to undergo from the more mature judgments of the men, there was an instant when the young soldier would have retreated.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000007_000003.wav|Duncan soon detected their searching, but stolen, looks which, in truth, scanned his person and attire inch by inch; leaving no emotion of the countenance, no gesture, no line of the paint, nor even the fashion of a garment, unheeded, and without comment.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000002.wav|The awful effect was heightened by the piercing shrieks of the women and the fierce yells of the warriors.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000023_000000.wav|"When an Indian chief comes among his white fathers," returned Duncan, with great steadiness, "he lays aside his buffalo robe, to carry the shirt that is offered him.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000044_000000.wav|A short and sullen pause succeeded this bold assertion.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000011.wav|The more abject of the two victims continued motionless; but the other bounded from the place at the cry, with the activity and swiftness of a deer.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000047_000000.wav|As Uncas thus replied, he pointed with his finger toward the solitary Huron, but without deigning to bestow any other notice on so unworthy an object.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000037_000000.wav|Breathless with amazement, and heavily oppressed with the critical situation of his friend, Heyward recoiled before the look, trembling lest its meaning might, in some unknown manner, hasten the prisoner's fate.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000036_000004.wav|At the next moment he resumed his quiet and reclining attitude against the post.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000030_000002.wav|Turning like a headed deer, he shot, with the swiftness of an arrow, through a pillar of forked flame, and passing the whole multitude harmless, he appeared on the opposite side of the clearing.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000006_000000.wav|So soon as their visitor had passed, the observant warriors fell back from the entrance, and arranging themselves about him, they seemed patiently to await the moment when it might comport with the dignity of the stranger to speak.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000032_000002.wav|Curiosity, or perhaps a better feeling, induced him to approach the stranger.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000012_000000.wav|A long and grave pause succeeded, during which no movement of a limb, nor any expression of an eye, betrayed the expression produced by his remark.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000040_000002.wav|Rest in peace till the morning sun, when our last words shall be spoken."|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000031_000006.wav|The stranger reappeared in the confusion.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000037_000003.wav|Motioning the women and children aside with a stern gesture, he took Uncas by the arm, and led him toward the door of the council lodge. Thither all the chiefs, and most of the distinguished warriors, followed; among whom the anxious Heyward found means to enter without attracting any dangerous attention to himself.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000003.wav|The warriors just arrived were the most distant figures.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000051_000004.wav|Three times have they called on you to come, and as often did you forget to answer.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000039_000004.wav|When each individual had taken his proper station, and silence reigned in the place, the gray haired chief already introduced to the reader, spoke aloud, in the language of the Lenni Lenape.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000028_000006.wav|While one stood erect and firm, prepared to meet his fate like a hero, the other bowed his head, as if palsied by terror or stricken with shame.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000049_000002.wav|Satisfied with her examination, she left him, with a slight expression of pleasure, and proceeded to practise the same trying experiment on her delinquent countryman.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000036_000003.wav|Then, indeed, the captive turned his face toward the light, and looked down on the stripling with an expression that was superior to contempt.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000017_000000.wav|"Our Canada father does not think it.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1446/122614/1446_122614_000033_000003.wav|Just then the crafty squaw, who had taken the necessary precaution to fire the piles, made her way through the throng, and cleared a place for herself in front of the captive.|1446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/134981/1182_134981_000016_000003.wav|Then she spoke:|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/134981/1182_134981_000027_000000.wav|"'Oh!|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/134981/1182_134981_000025_000000.wav|Then a puff of wind came and blew Curdken's hat far away, so that he had to run after it; and when he returned she had long finished putting up her golden locks, and he couldn't get any hair; so they watched the geese till it was dark.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/134981/1182_134981_000009_000004.wav|But Falada observed everything, and laid it all to heart.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000014_000000.wav|Presently, with a click, a little square wicket that pierced the door was opened, and a woman's face peered out through the iron bars.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000013_000000.wav|Rap tap tap!|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000037_000002.wav|Bang! the door was clapped to and away they scurried like a flock of frightened rabbits.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000009_000001.wav|"How shall I find the Baron Conrad to bear a message to him, when our Baron has been looking for him in vain for two days past?"|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000011_000000.wav|"I will have nothing to do with it!" said Fritz, and he got up from the wooden block whereon he was sitting and stumped out of the house.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000033_000000.wav|By and by footsteps sounded outside the door.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000037_000000.wav|Suddenly a shower of mortar came rattling down the chimney.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000015_000000.wav|The one eyed Hans whipped off his leathern cap.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000007_000000.wav|"And what good would that do?" said Fritz, the swineherd.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000011_000001.wav|But, then, Katherine had heard him talk in that way before, and knew, in spite of his saying "no," that, sooner or later, he would do as she wished.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000027_000001.wav|"It's thine," said he, "and now wilt thou not help me to a trade?"|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000026_000000.wav|"The necklace," said the girl, in a frightened whisper.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000030_000004.wav|Thou hussy!|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000020_000000.wav|Hans held up a necklace of blue and white beads that glistened like jewels in the sun, and from them hung a gorgeous filigree cross.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1182/133396/1182_133396_000032_000000.wav|He settled the cap more firmly upon his head, spat upon his hands, and once more stooping in the fireplace, gave a leap, and up the chimney he went with a rattle of loose mortar and a black trickle of soot.|1182
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000024_000000.wav|Norah flushed; but she was hardened to her mistress's manner.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000007.wav|Once, twice, she turned and shook her head at the ragged woman who followed her.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000054_000000.wav|"Hello!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000075_000003.wav|They say he is a millionaire. Well, he isn't even going to see the Flanton Dog."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000012.wav|Now I will begin."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000005.wav|The child's eyes caught sight of the dog on the sidewalk, and he hung back, watching to see what the young man would do to it.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000008.wav|Then, with a savage gesture at the two children, she disappeared beyond Miss Terry's straining eyes.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000048_000001.wav|A flare of light almost blinded her eyes.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000034_000003.wav|Well, it was what she wanted.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000002.wav|A time for shopkeepers to sell and for foolish folks to kill themselves in buying.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000034_000005.wav|If she had wished-|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000001.wav|Why think of Tom to night?|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000067_000004.wav|Now let's see what becomes of the next experiment."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000025_000002.wav|Fiddlestick!" retorted Miss Terry, poker in hand. "What decorations?|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000006.wav|Angrily she shook off the hand of the other woman, and clutching the box yet more firmly under her arm, she hurried away.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000060_000001.wav|I saw it first myself.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000053_000003.wav|They seemed to be Jewish lads of the newsboy class, and they eyed the display of candles appraisingly.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000007.wav|It is all foolishness, this craze for giving. Most things are better destroyed as soon as you are done with them.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000067_000001.wav|"It happened just about as I expected.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000041_000002.wav|She caught glimpses of glitter and tinsel, wheels and fragments of unidentifiable toys.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000081_000001.wav|The old Noah's ark," she said.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000027_000000.wav|"Fiddlestick!" again snarled her mistress.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000031_000003.wav|It was so this Christmas Eve; but she made her request with apparent calmness.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000074_000000.wav|Once more she lifted the window and tossed the dog to the sidewalk.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000009.wav|The baby across the street uttered a howl of anguish at the sight.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000005.wav|It is all humbug,--all selfishness, and worry; an unwholesome season of unnatural activities.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000019_000000.wav|"Yes'm," said Norah, as she set down the box with a thump.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000039_000002.wav|How like Tom!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000024_000001.wav|"Only to ask if I may go out for a little while to see the decorations and hear the singing."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000067_000000.wav|"So that is the end of experiment number one," quoth Miss Terry, smiling grimly.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000050_000002.wav|A long flight of steps, with iron railing at the side, led down from the front door, upon which a silver plate had for generations in decorous flourishes announced the name of Terry.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000000.wav|"What rubbish!" she said.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000006.wav|She took them up and examined them curiously one by one. Finally she selected a shapeless slate colored block from the mass.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000086_000004.wav|With this about her shoulders she was prepared to brave the December frost.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000001.wav|"What is our Christmas, anyway?|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000004.wav|No!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000092_000001.wav|And sure enough, she did.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000021_000002.wav|"I had quite forgotten it." Then as if it burned her fingers she thrust the little image back into the box and turned to Norah brusquely.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000037_000002.wav|Then she raised the cover.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000048_000002.wav|Every window opposite her along the block, as far as she could see, was illuminated with a row of lighted candles across the sash.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000093_000000.wav|Just then up came a second woman with two small boys hanging at her skirts. They were ragged and sick looking.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000056_000001.wav|Lemme look at it."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000071_000000.wav|"The Flanton Dog!" she said.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000072_000002.wav|One of the black beads which had served him for eyes was gone.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000000.wav|She lifted the cover, and turned out into her lap the long imprisoned animals and their round bodied chief.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000045_000000.wav|"I will try an experiment," she said.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000015_000001.wav|"Of course I would not see him," she said, pursing her lips into a hard line.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000070_000001.wav|Then with something like a chuckle she drew out a soft, pale creature with four wobbly legs.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000080_000000.wav|"Now, what comes next?" Miss Terry rummaged in the box until her fingers met something odd shaped, long, and smooth sided.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000010.wav|I'm glad I thought of it.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000088_000001.wav|"One would think they had something really important on hand.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000009.wav|It is a good time to begin clearing up for the new year.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000047_000000.wav|JACK IN THE BOX|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000051_000001.wav|It happened to be a wooden box, with a wire hasp for fastening the cover.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000035_000003.wav|Was there not a stalwart officer waiting for her on the nearest corner?|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000001.wav|"I can scarcely believe it.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000060_000002.wav|Hand it over, or I'll smash you!"|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000013.wav|Well, no one can say that I have added to the shameful waste."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000003.wav|Christmas spirit?|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000094_000000.wav|"Go away!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000083_000000.wav|Just then there was a noise outside.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000086_000005.wav|Down the steps she went, and deposited the ark discreetly at their foot; then returned to take up her position behind the curtains.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000072_000003.wav|His ears, which had originally stood up saucily on his head, now drooped in limp dejection.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000072_000000.wav|She stood the thing up on the table as well as his weak legs would allow, and inspected him critically.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000063_000000.wav|He started to run, but the bigger fellow was too quick for him.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000006.wav|But his mother drew him after her.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000073_000003.wav|This isn't going to bring out any Christmas spirit," she sneered.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000059_000003.wav|"I saw it first.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000073_000004.wav|"I will try it and see."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000094_000001.wav|This is my affair." Miss Terry read her expression and sniffed. "There is the Christmas spirit coming out again," she said to herself. "Look at her face!"|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000009.wav|Now, could any child ever have cared for so silly a thing?" She pulled out a faded jumping jack, and regarded it scornfully.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000086_000003.wav|She smiled with satisfaction, and trotted upstairs to find her red knit shawl.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000000.wav|She crowded the elephant with Noah and the rest of his charge back into the ark and closed the lid.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000091_000001.wav|Just then a woman approached.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000006.wav|I know better.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000010.wav|"Idiotic!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000004.wav|Land!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000046_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000093_000001.wav|There was something about the expression of even the tiny knot of hair at the back of the woman's head which told of anxious poverty.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000032_000000.wav|"Yes, go along," assented her mistress ungraciously.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000087_000001.wav|They were nearly all hurrying in one direction.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000045_000001.wav|"I will prove once for all my point about the 'Christmas spirit.' I will drop some of these old toys out on the sidewalk and see what happens.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000088_000002.wav|I suppose they are going to hear the singing.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000006.wav|The fire was hungry for them.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000050_000001.wav|But the sidewalks were neatly shoveled and swept clean, as became the eminently respectable part of the city where Miss Terry lived.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000010.wav|Miss Terry herself was surprised to feel a pang shoot through her as the car passed over the queer old toy.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000045_000002.wav|It may be interesting."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000086_000000.wav|She laid the Noah's ark on the table, and going to the closet tugged out several big logs, which she arranged geometrically.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000028_000001.wav|"It must sound so pretty!"|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000015_000000.wav|At the sound of footsteps along the hall Miss Terry looked up from the letter which she was reading for the sixth time.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000025_000000.wav|"Decorations?|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000059_000004.wav|You can't have it."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000014_000000.wav|THE PLAY BOX|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000092_000002.wav|She stopped at the doorstep, drew her skirts aside, and bent over to look at the strange shaped box at her feet.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000011.wav|She retreated from the window quickly.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000070_000000.wav|She returned to the play box by the fire, and rummaged for a few minutes among the tangled toys.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000017_000002.wav|I am going to look it over and burn up the rubbish this evening."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000083_000001.wav|An automobile honked past, and Miss Terry shuddered, recalling the pathetic end of the Flanton Dog, which had given her quite a turn.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000043_000000.wav|Miss Terry tossed the poor jumping jack on the fire, and eyed his last contortions with grim satisfaction.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000005.wav|But here were all these toys to be got rid of.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000053_000001.wav|Few persons passed on either side.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000087_000000.wav|There were a good many people passing, but they seemed too preoccupied to glance down at the sidewalk.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000008.wav|Why, nobody wants such truck as this.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000000.wav|"They really wanted it, that old Noah's ark!" exclaimed Miss Terry in amazement.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000081_000002.wav|"I wonder if all the animals are in there."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000011.wav|Such toys are demoralizing for children-weaken their minds.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000067_000002.wav|They will be fighting again as soon as they are out of sight.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000011.wav|Now I'll try this and see what happens to the ark on its last voyage."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000088_000003.wav|Fiddlestick!"|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000002.wav|She pointed to the Noah's ark, then to her two children.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000064_000001.wav|"Here's the first show of the beautiful Christmas spirit that is supposed to be abroad. Look at the little beasts fighting over something that neither of them really wants!"|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000039_000003.wav|This accounted for everything, even to his not being in his sister's house this very night. How unreasonable he had been!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000087_000002.wav|Some were running in the middle of the street.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000005.wav|Well, that is a happy spirit for Christmas time, I should say!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000007.wav|Just then an automobile came panting through the snow.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000077_000003.wav|But it looked so-so-" She hesitated for a word, and did not finish her sentence, but bit her lip and sniffed cynically.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000051_000000.wav|Miss Terry returned to the play box and drew out between thumb and finger the topmost toy.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000003.wav|I see!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000048_000000.wav|Miss Terry rose and crossed two rooms to the front window, looking out upon the street.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000071_000002.wav|I had forgotten all about him. It was Tom who coined the name for him because he was made of Canton flannel."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000005.wav|The fire's going out!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000011.wav|I've long threatened to get rid of the stuff that has been accumulating in that corner of the attic.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000009.wav|The poor woman and her boys followed forlornly at a distance.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000022_000001.wav|She hesitated.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000016_000000.wav|A bump on the library door, as from an opposing knee, did duty for a knock.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000090_000001.wav|"Are they all blind?" she fretted. "What is the matter with them?|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000037_000003.wav|It was a box full of children's battered toys, old-fashioned and quaint; the toys in vogue thirty-forty-fifty years earlier, when Miss Terry was a child.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000019_000004.wav|Who would think to find such a bit of frivolity in the house of Miss Terry!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000035_000004.wav|Even Norah could feel a simple childish pleasure in candles and carols and merriment, and the old, old superstition.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000053_000000.wav|The street was quiet.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000003.wav|I must take it out on the sidewalk.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000067_000003.wav|They are Jews; but that doesn't make any difference about the Christmas spirit.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000044_000001.wav|She was famous for eccentric ideas.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000092_000003.wav|Finally she lifted it But immediately she shivered and acted so strangely that Miss Terry thought she was about to break the toy in pieces on the steps or throw it into the street. Evidently she detested the sight of it.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000001.wav|mrs Noah and her sons had long since disappeared.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000002.wav|Years ago he had deliberately cut himself adrift from her interests.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000089_000000.wav|A man hastened by under the window; a woman; two children, a boy and a girl, running and gesticulating eagerly.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000052_000000.wav|"I always did hate that thing," she said.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000029_000001.wav|I believe people are losing their minds!"|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000052_000004.wav|Then closing the window and turning down the lights in the room behind her, Miss Terry hid in the folds of the curtain and watched to see what would happen to Jack.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000004.wav|To few of them the years had spared a tail.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000066_000000.wav|"Cop!" said a muffled voice from the pile of arms and legs, and in an instant two black shadows were flitting down the street; but not before the bigger boy had wrenched the box from the pocket of the little chap.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000051_000002.wav|Half unconsciously she pressed the spring, and a hideous Jack in the box sprang out to confront her with a squeak, a leering smile, and a red nose.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000052_000003.wav|She crossed to the window, which she opened quickly, and tossed out the box, so that it fell squarely in the middle of the sidewalk.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000004.wav|On the other side of the street a mother and her little boy were passing at the time.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000015_000002.wav|"Certainly not!"|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000049_000000.wav|"What a waste of candles!" scolded Miss Terry.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000074_000002.wav|Hardly had Miss Terry time to conceal herself behind the curtain when she saw a figure approaching, airily waving a stick.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000075_000000.wav|"No ragamuffin this time," she said.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000090_000002.wav|I wish somebody would find the thing.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000041_000001.wav|In one corner thrust up a doll's arm; in another, an animal's tail pointed heavenward.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000002.wav|But the ark builder, hatless and one armed, still presided over a menagerie of sorry beasts.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000091_000000.wav|She tapped the floor impatiently with her slipper.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000090_000000.wav|Miss Terry began to grow impatient.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000053_000002.wav|At last she spied two little ragamuffins approaching.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000002.wav|When he reached the spot in the sidewalk where the Flanton Dog lay, he paused a moment looking down.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000007.wav|Why not begin?|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000000.wav|"Stuff and nonsense!" mused Miss Terry scornfully.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000079_000000.wav|THE NOAH'S ARK|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000091_000002.wav|She was dressed in the most uncompromising of mourning, and she walked slowly, with bent head, never glancing at the lighted windows on either side.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000037_000004.wav|She gave a reminiscent sniff as she threw up the cover and saw on the under side of it a big label of pasteboard unevenly lettered.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000021_000001.wav|"The Christmas Angel!" she exclaimed under her breath.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000022_000000.wav|"Yes'm," answered the maid.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000040_000000.wav|Miss Terry shrugged impatiently.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000021_000003.wav|"There, that's all. You can go now, Norah," she said.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000017_000001.wav|"Set it down on the rug by the fire place.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000006.wav|Humph!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000013_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000049_000001.wav|"Folks are growing terribly extravagant."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000077_000002.wav|I might have expected something like that.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000002.wav|"They would spill.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000096_000002.wav|But why did that other creature keep the thing?|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000005.wav|Nonsense!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000019_000001.wav|She stooped once more to pick up something which had fallen out when the cover was jarred open.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000008.wav|I am quite independent; blessedly independent of the whole foolish business.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000002.wav|They are good for nothing else.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000030_000000.wav|"Please'm, may I go?" asked Norah again.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000007.wav|I am glad no one expects anything of me,--nor I of any one.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000065_000000.wav|Just then Miss Terry spied a blue coated figure leisurely approaching.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000025_000001.wav|Singing?|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000003.wav|Then he poked the object with his stick.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000050_000000.wav|The street was white with snow which had fallen a few hours earlier, piled in drifts along the curb of the little traveled terrace.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000093_000002.wav|With envious curiosity she hurried up to see what a luckier mortal had found, crowding to look over her shoulder.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000023_000000.wav|"Well, I believe so," snapped Miss Terry, who seemed to be in a particularly bad humor this evening.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000035_000001.wav|A bit of paper there was crumbling into ashes. Alone on Christmas Eve!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000065_000001.wav|At the same moment an instinct seemed to warn the struggling urchins.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000003.wav|Her eyes were beseeching.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000023_000001.wav|"What do you want?"|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000036_000006.wav|I am glad I am out of it.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000028_000000.wav|"And choir boys are going about the streets, they say, singing carols in front of the lighted houses," continued Norah enthusiastically.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000089_000001.wav|None of them noticed the Noah's ark lying at the foot of the steps.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000073_000001.wav|"I know there isn't a child in the city who wants such a looking thing.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000072_000005.wav|He was dirty and discolored, and his tail was gone.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000029_000000.wav|"They had much better be at home in bed.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000044_000000.wav|But as she watched, a quaint idea came to her.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000063_000001.wav|He pounced across the sidewalk, and soon the twain were struggling in the snowdrift, pummeling one another with might and main.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000008.wav|"I remember when Tom stepped on him and smashed his trunk.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000021_000000.wav|"What have you there?" she asked, frowning, as she took the object into her own hands.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000033_000000.wav|"Thank you, 'm," said the servant demurely, but with a brightening of her blue eyes.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000059_000002.wav|It's mine!" asserted the other, edging away along the curbstone.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000064_000000.wav|"I told you so!" commented Miss Terry from behind the curtain.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000086_000001.wav|About laying fires, as about most other things, Miss Terry had her own positive theories.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000053_000004.wav|The smaller boy first caught sight of the box in the middle of the sidewalk.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000086_000002.wav|Taking the bellows in hand she blew furiously, and was presently rewarded with a brisk blaze.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000031_000001.wav|Moreover she was young and warm and enthusiastic.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000034_000004.wav|It was of her own doing.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000005.wav|From their close resemblance in their misery, it was not hard to believe in the kinship of all animal life.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000090_000003.wav|I am tired of seeing it lying there."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000020_000000.wav|Her mistress looked up from the fire, where the bit of writing was writhing painfully, and caught the expression of Norah's face.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000076_000008.wav|With a quick movement Cooper picked up the dog on the end of his stick and tossed it into the street, under the wheels of the machine.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000075_000002.wav|It is that good for nothing young Cooper fellow from the next block.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000060_000000.wav|"Give it here.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000068_000000.wav|CHAPTER three|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000005.wav|But some wicked spirit seemed to have seized the finder of the ark.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000077_000001.wav|"I knew that fellow was a brute.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000093_000003.wav|The woman in black drew haughtily away and clutched the Noah's ark with a gesture of proprietorship.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000072_000006.wav|But still he smiled with his red thread mouth and seemed trying to make the best of things.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000052_000001.wav|"Tom was continually frightening me with it, I remember." As if to be rid of unwelcome memories she shut her mouth tight, even as she shut Jack back into his box, snapping the spring into place.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000025_000003.wav|What singing?"|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000074_000001.wav|He rolled upon his back and lay pathetically with crooked legs yearning upward, still smiling.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000003.wav|I suppose some folks would try to give them away, and bore a lot of people to death.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000041_000000.wav|Miss Terry stooped to poke over the contents of the box with lean, long fingers.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000037_000000.wav|She tugged the packing case an inch nearer the fire.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000080_000001.wav|With some difficulty she drew out the object, for it was of good size.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000033_000001.wav|And presently the area door banged behind her quick retreating footsteps.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000037_000001.wav|It was like Miss Terry to insist upon that nearer inch.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000022_000002.wav|"If you please'm, it's Christmas Eve."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000078_000000.wav|CHAPTER four|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000052_000002.wav|"This will do to begin with," she thought.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000001.wav|"I can't throw this out of the window," she reflected.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000034_000001.wav|Didn't take her long to get ready!" muttered Miss Terry, giving the fire a vicious poke.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000042_000001.wav|"Yes, I'll burn them all.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000051_000003.wav|Miss Terry eyed him with disfavor.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000082_000010.wav|Tom was always full of his jokes.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000018_000000.wav|She glanced once more at the letter in her hand, then with a sniff tossed it upon the fire.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000085_000006.wav|That girl doesn't know how to build fires so they will keep."|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000084_000000.wav|"I hate those horrid machines!" she exclaimed.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000059_000001.wav|You let it alone!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000088_000000.wav|"They are in a great hurry," sniffed Miss Terry disdainfully.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000095_000001.wav|But the second woman caught hold of her skirt and began to speak earnestly.|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1752/16632/1752_16632_000075_000001.wav|"Hello!|1752
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000037_000000.wav|The girl's reply, accompanied by a pretty inclination of her head toward the Frenchman, was lost in the accents of the first speaker-a strong and sonorous voice, in strange contrast with his ravaged appearance and distressing cough.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000087_000001.wav|Another ran bawling for the vestiaire.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000032_000000.wav|For some time Lanyard strained to catch something of the conversation that seemed to hold so much of interest for Roddy, but without success because of the hum of voices that filled the room.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000010.wav|He was frankly staring, with a slackened jaw and with stupefaction in his blank blue eyes.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000055_000000.wav|"no..."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000081_000000.wav|"Madame Omber-of course!" the American agreed thoughtfully.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000068_000000.wav|"But," the American persisted, "perhaps you can tell us how they got on his track?"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000050_000000.wav|"You might attract the attention of the Lone Wolf.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000052_000000.wav|The girl bent forward with a look of eager interest.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000073_000001.wav|I must continue?|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000106_000000.wav|Decidedly something must be done to silence this animal, should it turn out he really did know anything!|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000097_000003.wav|And if they were the first to fall, it was with an effect of curiosity sated, without hint of discomfiture....|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000077_000002.wav|From what little was known of this mysterious creature, one readily inferred he must be a bachelor, with no close friends.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000006_000002.wav|An accent of the fortuitous distinguished this second encounter too persuasively to excuse further misgivings.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000071_000001.wav|And yet-why not?|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000104_000000.wav|"It will be an honour," Lanyard returned formally....|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000058_000003.wav|"Have they picked up the scent-at last?"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000057_000000.wav|The girl breathed an incredulous exclamation.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000044_000001.wav|Accept, mademoiselle, my compliments.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000033_000000.wav|Under these conditions the talk between De Morbihan and the Americans became public property.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000031_000000.wav|But perhaps Lanyard was prejudiced by his partiality for Americans, a sentiment the outgrowth of the years spent in New York with Bourke.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000019_000000.wav|Despite the lateness of the hour, which had by now turned ten o'clock, the restaurant had a dozen tables or so in the service of guests pleasantly engaged in lengthening out an agreeable evening with dessert, coffee, liqueurs and cigarettes.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000056_000001.wav|Nobody knows anything definite about him, apparently, but he operates in a most individual way and keeps the police busy trying to guess where he'll strike next."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000089_000004.wav|You must know my friends....|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000036_000000.wav|"Plenty of time," said De Morbihan cheerfully.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000097_000002.wav|Her soft brown eyes met his candidly, with a look cool in its composure, straightforward in its enquiry, neither bold nor mock demure.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000049_000000.wav|"How so-too far?"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000086_000003.wav|One is sorry.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000032_000001.wav|In time, however, the gathering began to thin out, until at length there remained only this party of three, Lanyard enjoying a most delectable salad, and Roddy puffing a cigar (with such a show of enjoyment that Lanyard suspected him of the sin of smuggling) and slowly gulping down a second bottle of Bass.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000034_000000.wav|The first remark overheard by Lanyard came from the elderly American, following a pause and a consultation of his watch.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000092_000001.wav|Before it had finished with him, his sensitively coloured face was purple, and he was gasping, breathless-and infuriated.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000077_000001.wav|Well, then!|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000029_000001.wav|Lanyard, for one, wouldn't have thought him the properest company or the best Parisian cicerone for an ailing American gentleman blessed with independent means and an attractive daughter.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000100_000001.wav|You are very good, but I-"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000038_000001.wav|"Lucia's accustomed to keeping late hours with me; and who ever heard of a young and pretty woman being bored on the third day of her first visit to Paris?"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000102_000000.wav|"Really I cannot to night.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000046_000001.wav|"You fill us with envy: you have the souls of poets and the wealth of princes!"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000007_000000.wav|Furthermore, before quitting the lobby, Roddy paused long enough to instruct the vestiaire to have a fire laid in his room.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000103_000001.wav|"'Another time, perhaps'--his invariable excuse!|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000026_000000.wav|The name of Comte Remy de Morbihan, although unrecorded in the Almanach de Gotha, was one to conjure with in the Paris of his day and generation.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000073_000004.wav|He is cunning, that one!"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000087_000000.wav|A waiter conjured the bill from some recess of his waistcoat and served it on a clean plate to the American.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000048_000000.wav|"Take care, though, lest you go too far, Monsieur Bannon."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000077_000000.wav|"I can deny you nothing, mademoiselle....|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000066_000002.wav|Yet, among friends..."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000016_000001.wav|Humanly speaking, it can't be done.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000036_000001.wav|"That is," he amended, "if mademoiselle isn't bored ..."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000003.wav|Granted this line of reasoning, the Lone Wolf is of necessity not only unmarried but practically friendless.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000000.wav|"Impenetrable reticence," the Count expounded, sententious-and enjoying himself hugely-"isn't possible in the human relations.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000094_000000.wav|"It is nothing!" the American interposed brusquely between paroxysms.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000011_000003.wav|And with the new administration had come fresh decorations and furnishings as well as a complete change of personnel: not even one of the old waiters remained.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000065_000000.wav|"Who is he, then?"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000022_000001.wav|A demure, old-fashioned type; well poised but unassuming; fetchingly gowned and with sufficient individuality of taste but not conspicuously; a girl with soft brown hair and soft brown eyes; pretty, not extravagantly so when her face was in repose, but with a slow smile that rendered her little less than beautiful: in all (Lanyard thought) the kind of woman that is predestined to comfort mankind, whose strongest instinct is the maternal.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000063_000000.wav|"Known!" the American exclaimed.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000101_000000.wav|"Good!" De Morbihan exclaimed with violence.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000097_000000.wav|Lanyard murmured some conventional expression of sympathy.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000044_000002.wav|It is worthy even of you."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000002.wav|And a secret between two is-a prolific breeder of platitudes!|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000053_000001.wav|Who is that?"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000099_000001.wav|Well, it will be amusing to show him what changes have taken place in all that time.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000017_000000.wav|Where, then, was the object of this so sedulously dissembled interest?|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000005.wav|So far, good!|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000006_000001.wav|Again, embracing Lanyard, his glance seemed devoid of any sort of intelligible expression; and if its object needed all his self possession in that moment, it was to dissemble relief rather than dismay.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000025_000001.wav|If so, it would be a chase worth following-a diversion rendered the more exquisite to Lanyard by the spice of novelty, since for once he would figure as a dispassionate bystander.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000016_000000.wav|Now one doesn't read the Paris edition of the London Daily Mail with tense excitement.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000011_000002.wav|Papa Troyon was gone; Madame no longer occupied the desk of the caisse; enquiries, so discreetly worded as to be uncompromising, elicited from the maitre d'hotel the information that the house had been under new management these eighteen months; the old proprietor was dead, and his widow had sold out lock, stock and barrel, and retired to the country-it was not known exactly where.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000045_000000.wav|She flushed prettily as she nodded smiling acknowledgement.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000087_000002.wav|Roddy glued his gaze afresh to the Daily Mail.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000051_000001.wav|Lanyard's fingers tightened on his knife and fork; otherwise he made no sign.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000073_000003.wav|It was a feat.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000050_000001.wav|They say he's on the prowl once more."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000074_000000.wav|De Morbihan paused and shifted sideways in his chair, grinning like a mischievous child.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000058_000001.wav|"The rogue has had a wonderfully successful career, thanks to his dispensing with confederates and confining his depredations to jewels and similar valuables, portable and easy to convert into cash.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000069_000003.wav|And since he is my friend, I too was distressed on his behalf, and badgered my poor wits until they chanced upon an idea which led us to the light."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000087_000003.wav|The party rose.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000077_000003.wav|That is clear, I trust?"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000069_000002.wav|He had been annoyed and distressed, had even spoken of handing in his resignation because of his inability to cope with this gentleman, the Lone Wolf.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000058_000002.wav|Yet," he added, nodding sagely, "one isn't afraid to predict his race is almost run." "You don't tell me!" the older man exclaimed.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000086_000002.wav|But now we must adjourn.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000021_000000.wav|For the instant they seemed to explore Lanyard's very soul with a look of remote and impersonal curiosity; then they fell away; and when next the adventurer looked, the man had turned to attend to some observation of one of his companions.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000031_000002.wav|For all he knew he might himself be American...|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000099_000003.wav|But you, my friend-now if you would consent to make our third, it would be most amiable of you."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000099_000002.wav|One regrets mademoiselle is too fatigued to accompany us.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000095_000000.wav|"But our winter climate, monsieur-it is not fit for those in the prime of health-"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000011_000001.wav|But now it appeared he had procrastinated fatally: Time and Change had left little other than the shell of the Troyon's he remembered.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000103_000004.wav|"But should you change your mind-well, you'll have no trouble finding us.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000066_000001.wav|Indeed, I may be indiscreet in saying as much as I do.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000101_000004.wav|You will join us, surely?"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000005_000000.wav|A POINT OF INTERROGATION|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000038_000000.wav|"Don't let that worry you," he advised cheerfully.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000078_000000.wav|"Too deep for me, my friend," the elderly man confessed.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000105_000001.wav|What did he mean?|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000040_000000.wav|"To be sure," laughed the Frenchman; "one suspects it will be long before mademoiselle loses interest in the rue de la Paix."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000031_000001.wav|He even fancied that between his spirit and theirs existed some subtle bond of sympathy.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000089_000003.wav|But this is delightful, my friend-one grand pleasure!|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000035_000000.wav|"Quarter to eleven," he announced.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000026_000001.wav|He claimed the distinction of being at once the homeliest, one of the wealthiest, and the most liked man in France.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000076_000000.wav|"Do go on-please!" the girl begged prettily.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000108_000000.wav|It would never do to fix the doubts of the detective by going elsewhere that night.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000011_000000.wav|However impulsively, he hadn't resought Troyon's without definite intent, to wit, to gain some clue, however slender, to the mystery of that wretched child, Marcel.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000004_000000.wav|three|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000014_000000.wav|Other impressions, less ultimate, proved puzzling, disconcerting, and paradoxically reassuring.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000093_000000.wav|"Monsieur Bannon," De Morbihan explained disconnectedly-"it is most distressing-I tell him he should not stop in Paris at this season-"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000097_000001.wav|Through it all he was conscious of the regard of the girl.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000080_000002.wav|For by now the news of the Omber affair must have thrilled many a Continental telegraph wire....|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000091_000000.wav|"And you are American, too.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000009.wav|You have heard of Madame Omber, eh?" Now by Roddy's expression it was plain that, if Madame Omber's name wasn't strange in his hearing, at least he found this news about her most surprising.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000098_000000.wav|Between amusement and pique he continued to stare while the elderly American recovered his breath and De Morbihan jabbered on with unfailing vivacity; and he thought that this closer scrutiny discovered in her face contours suggesting maturity of thought beyond her apparent years-which were somewhat less than the sum of Lanyard's-and with this the suggestion of an elusive, provoking quality of wistful languor, a hint of patient melancholy....|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000102_000001.wav|Another time perhaps, if you'll excuse me."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000022_000000.wav|On his right sat a girl who might be his daughter; for not only was she, too, hall marked American, but she was far too young to be the other's wife.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000080_000000.wav|Lanyard gently pinched the small end of a cigar, dipped it into his coffee, and lighted it with not so much as a suspicion of tremor.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000089_000002.wav|"It is Monsieur Lanyard, who knows all about paintings!|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000069_000000.wav|"It wasn't difficult," said De Morbihan: "indeed, quite simple.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000105_000002.wav|How much did he know?|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000100_000000.wav|"I'm sorry," Lanyard excused himself; "but as you see, I am only just in from the railroad, a long and tiresome journey.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000079_000007.wav|Him they sedulously watched, shadowing him across Europe and back again.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000086_000004.wav|It has been so very pleasant...."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000054_000000.wav|"You don't know him in America, mademoiselle?"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000006_000000.wav|The man from Scotland Yard had just surrendered hat, coat, and umbrella to the vestiaire and was turning through swinging doors to the dining room.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000043_000000.wav|There followed silence for an instant, then an exclamation from the Frenchman:|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000105_000000.wav|In his heart he was pondering several most excruciating methods of murdering the man.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000019_000001.wav|The majority of these were in couples, but at a table one removed from Roddy's sat a party of three; and Lanyard noticed, or fancied, that the man from Scotland Yard turned his newspaper only during lulls in the conversation in this quarter.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000041_000000.wav|"You may well, when such beautiful things come from it," said the girl. "See what we found there to day."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000053_000000.wav|"The Lone Wolf?|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000073_000000.wav|"No?|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000015_000000.wav|Lanyard commanded a fair view of Roddy across the waist of the room. The detective had ordered a meal that matched his aspect well-both of true British simplicity.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000084_000000.wav|"Not precisely: but he left a clue-and London, to boot-with such haste as would seem to indicate he knew his cunning hand had, for once, slipped."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000092_000000.wav|The hand of the American, when Lanyard clasped it, was cold, as cold as ice; and as their eyes met that abominable cough laid hold of the man, as it were by the nape of his neck, and shook him viciously.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000081_000001.wav|"Everyone has heard of her wonderful jewels.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000071_000000.wav|"Perhaps I shouldn't.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000072_000000.wav|"You don't imagine we're going to let you stop there?"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000097_000004.wav|And somehow the adventurer felt himself measured, classified, filed away.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000064_000000.wav|"I didn't say that," De Morbihan laughed; "but the mystery is no more-in certain quarters."|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000010_000000.wav|This last disposed of; Lanyard surrendered himself to new impressions-of which the first proved a bit disheartening.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000047_000000.wav|"But we must come to Paris to find beautiful things for our women folk!"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000027_000000.wav|As to his looks, good or bad, they were said to prove infallibly fatal with women, while not a few men, perhaps for that reason, did their possessor the honour to imitate them.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000073_000002.wav|Very well: I confess to some little pride.|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7169/89735/7169_89735_000012_000000.wav|"'All, all are gone, the old familiar faces,'" Lanyard quoted in vindictive melancholy-"damn 'em!"|7169
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000035_000005.wav|The eccentric Lord Monboddo was the first to suggest the possible descent of man from the ape, about seventeen seventy four. In eighteen thirteen dr w c Wells first proposed to apply the principle of natural selection to the natural history of man, and in eighteen twenty two Professor Herbert first asserted the probable transmutation of species of plants.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000035_000012.wav|It is taken to be an established fact in nature, a valid induction from man's knowledge of natural order.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000033_000008.wav|Since the Christian era we may class among theosophists such sects as Neo Platonists, the Hesychasts of the Greek Church, the Mystics of mediaeval times, and, in later times, the disciples of Paracelsus, Thalhauser, Bohme, Swedenborg and others.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000037_000002.wav|In the latitude of New York and southward it hatches, as a rule, five or six broods in a season, with from four to six young in a brood.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000041_000000.wav|WHEN A MAN BECOMES OF AGE.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000036_000000.wav|THE ENGLISH SPARROW.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000038_000000.wav|FEMININE HEIGHT AND WEIGHT.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000032_000000.wav|THEOSOPHY.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000039_000000.wav|It is often asked how stout a woman ought to be in proportion to her height.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000035_000004.wav|The first writer to suggest the transmutation of species among animals was Buffon, about seventeen fifty, and other writers followed out the idea.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000033_000012.wav|It need hardly be said that the revelations they have claimed to receive have been, thus far, without element of benefit to the human race.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000035_000008.wav|But the two great apostles of the evolution theory were Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000035_000007.wav|The authorship of this book was never revealed until after the death of Robert Chambers, a few years since, it became known that this publisher, whom no one would ever have suspected of holding such heterodox theories, had actually written it.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/133227/224_133227_000037_000000.wav|The first English sparrow was brought to the United States in eighteen fifty, but it was not until eighteen seventy that the species can be said to have firmly established itself.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000033_000000.wav|one hundred twenty one.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000036_000001.wav|Vertical wrinkles in the brow show the number of husbands one will have.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000030_000000.wav|An almost identical variant is found in Prince Edward Island.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000037_000000.wav|HAIR.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000038_000000.wav|one hundred twenty four.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000013_000000.wav|EYES AND EYEBROWS.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000009_000001.wav|Small ears indicate that a person is stingy.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000065_000001.wav|A mole on the eyebrow denotes that one will be hanged.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000021_000000.wav|FINGER NAILS.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000006_000001.wav|A dimple in the chin is lucky.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000041_000001.wav|The color of the hair growing on the neck indicates the color of the hair of one's future husband.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000036_000000.wav|one hundred twenty three.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000050_000000.wav|one hundred thirty five.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000052_000001.wav|Put some of your hair in the fire.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000028_000000.wav|one hundred nineteen.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000018_000000.wav|one hundred twelve.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000043_000000.wav|one hundred twenty nine.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000031_000000.wav|FOOT.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000042_000000.wav|one hundred twenty eight.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000042_000001.wav|A single white hair means genius; it must not be pulled out.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000007_000000.wav|one hundred four.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000020_000000.wav|one hundred fourteen.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000041_000000.wav|one hundred twenty seven.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000063_000001.wav|If the ends of the fingers are capable of being bent far back, it indicates a thief.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000066_000001.wav|Mole above breath Means wealth.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000035_000000.wav|one hundred twenty two.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000010_000000.wav|one hundred six.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000004_000000.wav|DIMPLE.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000057_000001.wav|In clasping your own hand, you put uppermost either your right or your left thumb.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000034_000000.wav|FOREHEAD.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000052_000000.wav|one hundred thirty seven.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000005_000000.wav|one hundred two.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000011_000000.wav|one hundred seven.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000044_000000.wav|one hundred thirty.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000016_000000.wav|one hundred eleven.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000053_000000.wav|HAND.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000032_000000.wav|one hundred twenty.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000039_000000.wav|one hundred twenty five.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000028_000001.wav|Another formula:--|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000008_000000.wav|EARS.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000025_000001.wav|Count on finger nail spots:--|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000012_000000.wav|one hundred eight.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000061_000002.wav|If the left overlap, you were born at night.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000052_000002.wav|If it burns slowly you will have a long life.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000045_000000.wav|one hundred thirty one.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000061_000001.wav|Clasp your fingers, and if the right thumb lap over the left you were born in the daytime.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000022_000000.wav|one hundred fifteen.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000019_000000.wav|one hundred thirteen.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000006_000000.wav|one hundred three.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000023_000000.wav|one hundred sixteen.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000064_000000.wav|MOLES.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000016_000001.wav|A well-known children's rhyme runs:--|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000015_000000.wav|one hundred ten.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER three.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000051_000000.wav|one hundred thirty six.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000024_000000.wav|one hundred seventeen.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/128660/224_128660_000006_000002.wav|Some say "it shows you're no fool."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000020_000002.wav|Just as you, Don Diego, are my prisoner."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000020_000000.wav|"Oh, no, my name is Blood-Captain peter Blood.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000057_000000.wav|"Could I be guilty of that?" protested the Captain.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000058_000000.wav|Don Diego bowed his head upon his breast, and strode away in thought to the stern windows.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000035_000003.wav|"I confess," he admitted, "that there is much force in what you say."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000046_000000.wav|Captain Blood pursed his lips.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000043_000000.wav|Captain Blood bowed, went out, and locked the door.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000045_000001.wav|It is that you put us ashore on one of the islands of this pestilent archipelago, and leave us to shift for ourselves."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000027_000003.wav|The dice had fallen against him in this venture.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000045_000000.wav|"I have thought of an alternative, sir captain; but it depends upon your charity.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000053_000001.wav|I do desire to live; and even more do I desire that my son may live.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000010_000002.wav|And then, at last, the intrigued Spaniard spoke.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000052_000000.wav|"Then let me put it in another way-perhaps more happily: You do not desire to live?"|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000056_000000.wav|"To earn it?" said Don Diego, and the watchful blue eyes did not miss the quiver that ran through him.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000048_000000.wav|The light blue eyes played over him like points of steel.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000017_000002.wav|They scanned the cabin once again, scrutinizing each familiar object.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000058_000003.wav|Fourteen of them mattered little to him, but the remaining two were his own and his son's.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000011_000000.wav|"Are you a doctor?"|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000027_000005.wav|He accepted the situation with the fortitude of a fatalist.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000024_000001.wav|It was a narrative that painted red and white by turns the Spaniard's countenance.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000044_000000.wav|The Spaniard sighed, and sat upright to face the returning Captain Blood with the answer for which he came.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000046_000001.wav|"It has its difficulties," said he slowly.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000008_000001.wav|But he was too bewildered to make any answer.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000003_000004.wav|They might be sailing eastward, in which case the time of day would be late afternoon. That they were sailing he could feel from the gentle forward heave of the vessel under him.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000021_000000.wav|Startling as was the explanation, yet it proved soothing to Don Diego, being so much less startling than the things he was beginning to imagine.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000019_000001.wav|The Spaniard broke off.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000019_000003.wav|"Will you tell me also that you are Don Diego de Espinosa?"|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000017_000004.wav|"Surely this ship is the Cinco Llagas?"|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000043_000002.wav|And what time he watched, the lines in his lean brown face grew deeper.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000034_000002.wav|You and your ten surviving scoundrels are a menace on this ship. More than that, she is none so well found in water and provisions.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000004_000000.wav|His mind went back over the adventure of yesterday, if of yesterday it was.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000024_000002.wav|He put a hand to the back of his head, and there discovered, in confirmation of the story, a lump as large as a pigeon's egg.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000031_000001.wav|"But is that necessary?" he asked, without apparent perturbation.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000058_000002.wav|That was in one scale; in the other were the lives of sixteen men.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000023_000000.wav|"You flatter my Castilian accent.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000006_000001.wav|Seeing the wide, startled eyes of the Spaniard upon him, the gentleman lengthened his stride.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000012_000002.wav|"You've taken no great harm."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000054_000001.wav|As before he perched himself on the corner of the table.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten DON DIEGO|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000057_000004.wav|All day we have been sailing east before the wind with but one intent-to set as great a distance between Barbados and ourselves as possible.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000018_000000.wav|"The Cinco Llagas it is."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000020_000001.wav|This ship, like this handsome suit of clothes, is mine by right of conquest.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000009_000000.wav|The stranger's fingers touched the top of Don Diego's head, whereupon Don Diego winced and cried out in pain.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000035_000001.wav|He swung his legs from the couch, and sat now upon the edge of it, his elbows on his knees.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000028_000000.wav|With the utmost calm he enquired:|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000017_000000.wav|"Your ship?" quoth the other, aghast, and still more aghast he added: "Your clothes?|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000034_000004.wav|So that on every hand, you see, prudence suggests to us that we should deny ourselves the pleasure of your company, and, steeling our soft hearts to the inevitable, invite you to be so obliging as to step over the side."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000027_000001.wav|He composed himself.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000019_000000.wav|"Then...."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000012_000000.wav|"Among other things." The swarthy gentleman continued his study of the patient's pulse.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000027_000002.wav|After all, he possessed the stoicism proper to his desperate trade.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000031_000000.wav|"Ah!" Don Diego drew a deep breath.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000017_000001.wav|But... then...." Wildly his eyes looked about him.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000001_000001.wav|Then he uttered a moan, and closed his eyes again, impelled to this by the monstrous ache in his head.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000036_000000.wav|"You take a load from my mind," said Captain Blood.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000057_000001.wav|"I realize that even a pirate has his honour." And forthwith he propounded his offer.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000022_000001.wav|Are you not Spanish, then?"|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000034_000000.wav|Captain Blood perched himself on the edge of the long oak table.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000014_000001.wav|"And what the devil are you doing in my clothes and aboard my ship?"|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000003_000001.wav|And yet, stirrings of memory coming now to the assistance of reflection, compelled him uneasily to insist that here something was not as it should be.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000016_000001.wav|This is not your ship.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000004_000001.wav|He was clear on the matter of the easily successful raid upon the Island of Barbados; every detail stood vividly in his memory up to the moment at which, returning aboard, he had stepped on to his own deck again.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000035_000000.wav|"I see," said the Spaniard pensively.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000037_000000.wav|"But, my friend, I did not agree so much."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000041_000000.wav|Captain Blood stood up.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000003_000002.wav|The low position of the sun, flooding the cabin with golden light from those square ports astern, suggested to him at first that it was early morning, on the assumption that the vessel was headed westward.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000040_000001.wav|My head aches so damnably that I am incapable of thought.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000023_000003.wav|So it has-a miracle wrought by my genius, which is considerable."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000056_000001.wav|"To earn it, do you say?|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000016_000002.wav|This is my ship, and these are my clothes."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000017_000003.wav|"Am I mad?" he asked at last.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000047_000000.wav|"I feared it would be so." Don Diego sighed again, and stood up.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000056_000002.wav|Why, if the service you would propose is one that cannot hurt my honour...."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000057_000010.wav|Will you pledge me your honour, if I release you upon parole, that you will navigate us thither?|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000003_000003.wav|Then the alternative occurred to him.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000013_000000.wav|Don Diego struggled up into a sitting position on the red velvet couch.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000043_000003.wav|Punctually as the last grains ran out, the door reopened.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000032_000000.wav|Captain Blood's blue eyes approved his bearing.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000004_000002.wav|There memory abruptly and inexplicably ceased.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000051_000000.wav|"The question is offensive, sir."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000053_000002.wav|But the desire shall not make a coward of me for your amusement, master mocker." It was the first sign he had shown of the least heat or resentment.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000012_000001.wav|"Firm and regular," he announced at last, and dropped the wrist.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000022_000000.wav|"But...|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000025_000002.wav|"He was in the boat that brought me aboard."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000041_000001.wav|From a shelf he took a half hour glass, reversed it so that the bulb containing the red sand was uppermost, and stood it on the table.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000030_000001.wav|For it means that you'll be put to the trouble of dying all over again."|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000010_000001.wav|He took Don Diego's wrist between thumb and second finger.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000039_000000.wav|Don Diego stroked his pointed black beard.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000024_000003.wav|Lastly, he stared wild eyed at the sardonic Captain Blood.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/224/129790/224_129790_000034_000003.wav|True, we are fortunately a small number, but you and your party inconveniently increase it.|224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000013_000002.wav|Perishable provisions rest in notches of trees, where the cool evening breeze will strike them. Seated upon the "grub" box, I am writing up our log by aid of the lantern hung from a branch overhead, while W----, ever busy, sits by with her mending.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000008_000000.wav|By the middle of the afternoon we reached the boundary line (forty miles) between Pennsylvania on the east and Ohio and West Virginia on the west.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER three.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000004_000006.wav|Sometimes the little towns we see occupy a narrow and more or less rocky bench upon the hill side of the stream, but settlement is chiefly found upon the bottoms.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000002_000000.wav|Shingis Old Town-The dynamiter-Yellow Creek.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000007_000007.wav|Wouldn't the Doctor go into partnership with him?|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000013_000000.wav|The camp is gypsy like.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000005_000000.wav|Shippingsport (thirty two miles), on the left bank, where we stopped this noon for eggs, butter, and fresh water, is on a narrow hill bench-a dry, woe begone hamlet, side tracked from the path of the world's progress. While I was on shore, negotiating with the sleepy storekeeper, Pilgrim and her crew waited alongside the flatboat which serves as the town ferry.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000010_000000.wav|East Liverpool (forty four miles) and Wellsville (forty eight miles) are long stretches of pottery and tile making works, both of them on the Ohio shore. There is nothing there to lure us, however, and we determined to camp on the banks of Yellow Creek (fifty one miles), a peaceful little Ohio stream some two rods in width, its mouth crossed by two great iron spans, for railway and highway.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000003_000002.wav|But the smaller sister town of Beaver, on the lower side of the mouth,--or rather the western outskirts of Beaver a mile below the mouth,--has the most ancient history.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000012_000004.wav|There is a gentle tinkling of cowbells on the Ohio shore, and on both are human voices confused by distance.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000011_000001.wav|Over there at the mouth of Yellow Creek was, a hundred and twenty years ago, the camp of Logan, the Mingo chief; opposite, on the West Virginia shore, Baker's Bottom, where occurred the treacherous massacre of Logan's family.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000008_000002.wav|Two high iron towers supporting the cable of a current ferry add dignity to the twin settlements.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000006_000002.wav|The young fellow had the air of a self confident rustic, with little experience in the world. Indeed, it seemed from his elated manner as if this might be his first trip from home, and the blowing of oil wells an incidental speculation.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000003_000005.wav|During the French and Indian War, the place was prominent as a rendezvous for the enemies of American borderers; numerous bloody forays were planned here, and hither were brought to be adopted into the tribes, or to be cruelly tortured, according to savage whim, many of the captives whose tales have made lurid the history of the Ohio Valley.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000003_000001.wav|It was then the seat of Barney Curran, an Indian trader-the same Curran whom Washington, three years later, employed in the mission to Venango.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000011_000002.wav|The tragedy is interwoven with the history of the trans Alleghany border; and schoolboys have in many lands and tongues recited the pathetic defense of the poor Mingo, who, more sinned against than sinning, was crushed in the inevitable struggle between savagery and civilization. "Who is there to mourn for Logan?"|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000004_000001.wav|The wide uplands at once become more rustic, especially those of the left bank, which no longer is threaded by a railway, as heretofore all the way from Brownsville.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000004_000005.wav|Sycamores now begin to appear in the bottoms, although of less size than we shall meet below.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000004_000004.wav|On the "bottom side" of the river, the alluvial terrace presents a sheer wall of clay rising from eight to a dozen feet above the beach, which is often thick grown with willows, whose roots hold the soil from becoming too easy a prey to the encroaching current.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000009_000000.wav|For many days to come we are to have Ohio on the right bank and West Virginia on the left.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000012_000001.wav|Above, just out of sight, are moored a brace of steam pile drivers engaged in strengthening the dam which unites us with Baker's Bottom.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000011_000000.wav|It is storied ground, this neighborhood of ours.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000007_000006.wav|A hundred miles on the river was a great outing for this village lad; nine hundred was rather beyond his comprehension, although he finally compromised by "allowing" that we might be going as far as Cincinnati.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000009_000001.wav|There is no perceptible change, of course, in the contour of the rugged hills which hem us in; yet somehow it stirs the blood to reflect that quite within the recollection of all of us in Pilgrim's crew, save the Boy, that left bank was the house of bondage, and that right the land of freedom, and this river of ours the highway between.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000013_000001.wav|Our washing lies spread on bushes, where it will catch the first peep of morning sun|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000012_000005.wav|All pervading is the deep, sullen roar of a great wing dam, a half mile or so down stream.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000006_000000.wav|These cartridges, he explained, are dropped into oil or gas wells whose owners are desirous of accelerating the flow.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000004_000003.wav|When winding about such a base, there is at this stage of the water a sloping, stony beach, some ten to twenty yards in width, from which ascends the sharp steep, for the most part heavily tree clad-maples, birches, elms and oaks of goodly girth, the latter as yet in but half leaf.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000003_000003.wav|On account of a ford across the Beaver, about where is now a slack water dam, the neighborhood became of early importance to the French as a fur trading center.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000007_000005.wav|It was with some difficulty that he could comprehend the fact.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000004_000002.wav|The two ranges of undulating hills, some three hundred and fifty feet high, forming the rim of the basin, are about a half mile apart; while the river itself is perhaps a third of a mile in width, leaving narrow bottoms on alternate sides, as the stream in gentle curves rebounds from the rocky base of one hill to that of another.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/94108/7247_94108_000006_000001.wav|The cartridge, in exploding, enlarges the hole, and often the output of the well is at once increased by several hundred per cent.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000009_000001.wav|It may not be able to perform a surgical operation like that which is required for the removal of a leg, and I don't believe even Wagner ever composed a measure that could be counted on successfully to eliminate one's vermiform appendix from its chief sphere of usefulness; but for other things, like measles, mumps, the snuffles, or indigestion, it is said to be wonderfully efficacious.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000021_000000.wav|"And the doctor, and the doctor's gig, and all the appurtenances of his profession-what becomes of them?" demanded the Doctor.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000016.wav|Clearly Wagner, according to my way of thinking, then, deserves to rank among the most effective narcotics known to modern science.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000018_000000.wav|"It would seem so," said the Idiot.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000006.wav|I fell into a deep and refreshing slumber.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000007_000001.wav|"Meanwhile, let us consult harmoniously together on the original point.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000002.wav|I could not get two hours of consecutive sleep, and the effect of my sufferings was to make me nervous and irritable.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000008_000002.wav|What do you mean by the music cure?"|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000024_000000.wav|"Not at all," said the Idiot.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000009_000000.wav|"Why, the papers have been full of it lately," explained the Idiot. "The claim is made that in music lies the panacea for all human ills.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000018_000005.wav|Instead of dosing the kids with cod liver oil when they need a tonic, they will be set to work at a mechanical piano and braced up on 'Narcissus.' 'There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town To night' will become an effective remedy for a sudden chill.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000001.wav|For a number of years I suffered a great deal from insomnia.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000005_000003.wav|There's nothing but one quinine pill and a soda mint drop left in it, and if there's anything in the music cure, I don't think I'll have it filled again.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000010_000000.wav|"You'll have to go to somebody else for the information," said the Doctor.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000011_000001.wav|"As I recall the matter, some lady had been cured of a nervous affection by a scientific application of some musical poultice or other, and the general expectation seems to be that some day we shall find in music a cure for all our human ills, as the Idiot suggests."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000012.wav|I put on my hat and walked out refreshed, having slept from five twenty until twelve, or six hours and forty minutes straight.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000013_000001.wav|"Of course, we don't doubt your word; but when a man makes a statement based upon personal observation it is profitable to ask him what his precise experience has been, merely for the purpose of adding to our own knowledge."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000003.wav|Suddenly somebody presented me with a couple of tickets for a performance of 'Parsifal,' and I went.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000020_000003.wav|This alone will serve to popularize sickness, and, instead of being driven out of business, their trade will pick up."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000008_000001.wav|"And as for the music cure, I don't know anything about it; haven't heard everybody talking about it; and doubt the existence of any such thing outside of that mysterious realm which is bounded by the four corners of your own bright particular cerebellum.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000015.wav|I didn't wake up this time until nine o'clock the next day, the rest of the party having gone off without awakening me as a sort of joke.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000006_000001.wav|"You ought to submit your tongue to some scientific student of dynamics.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000019_000000.wav|"And the drug stores will be driven out of business, I presume," said the Doctor.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000020_000000.wav|"No," said the Idiot.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000006_000002.wav|I am inclined to think, from my own observation of its ways, that it contains the germ of perpetual motion."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000004_000000.wav|HE DISCUSSES THE MUSIC CURE|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000015_000001.wav|"The Wagner habit is a terrible thing to acquire, mr Idiot."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000004.wav|It began at five o'clock in the afternoon.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000012_000002.wav|I am surprised that dr Capsule has neither heard nor thought about it, for I should think it would prove to be a pleasant and profitable field for speculation. Even I, who am only a dabbler in medicine and know no more about it than the effects of certain remedies upon my own symptoms, have noticed that music of a certain sort is a sure emollient for nervous conditions."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000016_000002.wav|He had spent the day down at Asbury Park, and had eaten not wisely but too copiously.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000023_000001.wav|"Because there are no more drugs, must the physician walk?"|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000013_000000.wav|"For example?" said the Doctor.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000009_000002.wav|What I wanted to find out from you was just what composers were best for which specific troubles."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000000.wav|"Well," said the Idiot, "the first instance that I can recall is that of a Wagner opera and its effects upon me.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000003_000000.wav|thirteen|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000015_000000.wav|"You run a dreadful risk, however," said the Doctor, with a sarcastic smile.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000010.wav|I rubbed my eyes, and looked about me.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000018_000007.wav|Tchaikowsky, to be well shaken before taken, will be an effective remedy for a torpid liver, and the man or woman who suffers from lassitude will doubtless find in the lively airs of our two step composers an efficient tonic to bring their vitality up to a high standard of activity.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000011.wav|It was true-the great auditorium was empty, and was gradually darkening.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000018.wav|And, best of all, there was no reaction: no splitting headache or shaky hand the next day, but just the calm, quiet, contented feeling that goes with the sense of having got completely rested up."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000007_000000.wav|"I will consider your suggestion," replied the Idiot.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000016_000000.wav|"That may be," said the Idiot; "worse than the sulfonal habit by a great deal, I am told; but I am in no danger of becoming a victim to it while it costs from five to seven dollars a dose.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000011_000000.wav|"I have seen a reference to it somewhere," put in mr Whitechoker, coming to the Idiot's rescue.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000020_000001.wav|"They will substitute music for drugs, that is all.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000005_000001.wav|I've wanted for a long time to ask you about this music cure that everybody is talking about, and get you, if possible, to write me out a list of musical nostrums for every day use.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000023_000000.wav|"And why, pray?" asked the Doctor.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000012_000001.wav|"I saw that same item and several others besides, and I have only told the truth when I say that a large number of people are considering the possibilities of music as a substitute for drugs.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000014_000014.wav|The curtain had hardly risen before I retired to the little ante room of the box our party occupied and dozed off into a fathomless sleep.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000017_000000.wav|"And you reason from this that Sullivan's 'Lost Chord' is a cure for cholera morbus, eh?" sneered the Doctor.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000016_000008.wav|As the musician proceeded, the internal disorder yielded gradually to the external and finally passed away, entirely leaving him so far from prostrate that by one a m he was out of bed and actually girding himself with a shot gun and an Indian club to go up stairs for a physical encounter with the cornetist."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/77778/7247_77778_000016_000007.wav|At the second bar of the 'Lost Chord' the awful pain that was gradually gnawing away at his vitals seemed to lose its poignancy in the face of the greater suffering, and physical relief was instant.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000041_000002.wav|I never did quite like those settlement women, anyway, and only think what might happen with one in one's own family!"|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000025_000002.wav|She held her hands before her face and screamed if I so much as came into the room.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000023_000002.wav|As it chanced, none of us went to the wedding.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000039_000001.wav|Do you suppose that those two or three meetings were very illuminating?|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000012_000000.wav|Frank Spencer made an impatient gesture that showed how great was his perturbation.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000031_000002.wav|I found a grave eyed little miss who answered my questions with studied politeness, and who agreed without comment to the proposition that I place her in a school where she might remain until she was ready for college-should she elect to go to college."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000007_000005.wav|This was, indeed, typical of the Spencer code-the farther away they could get from the oil that made the machinery of life run easily and noiselessly, the better pleased they were.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000015_000000.wav|"The boy is right," interposed the low voice of the woman across the table.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000025_000004.wav|At five she was lost in New York City, and for four years she lived on the streets and in the sweat shops, enduring almost unbelievable poverty and hardships."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000024_000003.wav|She reasoned that if her mother had not married, there would have been no wedding journey; and if there had been no wedding journey there would have been no accident, and that her mother would then have been alive, and well.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000027_000001.wav|There was nothing for me to do but to leave the poor little thing where she was, particularly as there seemed to be no other place for her.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000024_000001.wav|The mere sight of me drove her almost into hysterics.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000010_000000.wav|"Yes.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000008.wav|You know all that I do." And Frank Spencer leaned back in his chair with a long sigh.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000015_000001.wav|"Ned doesn't know anything about her.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000033_000005.wav|She wrote me stiff little notes in which she informed me that she was to spend the holidays with some Blanche or Dorothy or Mabel of her acquaintance.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000011_000000.wav|"But, Frank, this is so-sudden," remonstrated the young fellow, laughing a little as he uttered the trite phrase.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000028_000003.wav|Margaret must be about twenty three now."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000006.wav|She thanks me, and will come next Tuesday.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000007_000001.wav|The house itself crowned the highest hill that overlooked the town, and its dining room windows and the veranda without, commanded a view of the river for miles, just where the valley was the greenest and the most beautiful.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000039_000006.wav|All her teachers, therefore, were instructed to keep from her all further knowledge of poverty and trouble; and particularly to instil into her mind the fact that there was really in the world a great deal of pleasure and happiness."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000023_000004.wav|mrs Kendall had a daughter, Margaret, about ten years old, who was at school somewhere in the Berkshires.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000004.wav|I had forgotten the fact until I received the little engraved invitation a week or two ago.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000041_000001.wav|"I do hope the child is well over those notions. I shouldn't want her to mix up here with the mill people.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000039_000000.wav|"Yes; and how?|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000022_000000.wav|Frank paused, and looked at the letter in his hand.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000037_000000.wav|"Neither do i"|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000025_000001.wav|She would not listen to me, or even see me.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000025_000000.wav|"Arguments, pleadings, and entreaties were in vain.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000040_000000.wav|Over across the table mrs Merideth shivered a little.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000023_000005.wav|It was to that school that I went when the terrible news came that Harry and his new wife had lost their lives in that awful railroad accident.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000016_000000.wav|"We certainly don't," sighed Frank Spencer; then he raised his head and squared his shoulders.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000022_000001.wav|After a minute he laid it gently down.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000007_000003.wav|It was said, to be sure, that old Jacob Spencer, who built the house, and who laid the foundations for the Spencer millions, had preferred the side that overlooked the town; and that he spent long hours gloating over the visible results of his thrift and enterprise.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000017_000001.wav|How does she look?" catechized Ned.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000005.wav|I thought of running down for it, but I couldn't get away very well, and-well, I didn't go, that's all. But I did write and ask her to make this house her home, and here is her reply.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000016_000002.wav|"I have offered the hospitality of this house to a homeless, orphan girl, and she has accepted it.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000015_000003.wav|For that matter, we don't know much about her ourselves."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000008_000000.wav|The dining room looked particularly pleasant this July evening.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000008_000001.wav|A gentle breeze stirred the curtains at the open windows, and the setting sun peeped through the vines outside and glistened on the old family plate. Three generations of Spencers looked down from the walls on the two men and the woman sitting at the great mahogany table.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000020_000001.wav|But, surely you have seen her!"|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000033_000003.wav|Some one of her teachers always looked out for her. They all pitied her, and naturally did everything they could for her, as did her mates at school.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000032_000000.wav|"But her vacations-did she never come then?" questioned Ned.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000010_000001.wav|Tuesday afternoon."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000022_000002.wav|When he spoke his voice was not quite steady.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000033_000001.wav|At first I did not ask her, of course.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000014_000000.wav|"Yes, but that is all I know," rejoined the young man, quietly.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000002.wav|So I still call myself her guardian.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000018_000000.wav|His brother shook his head.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000039_000005.wav|She even carried her distress over their condition to such an extent that her mother really feared for her reason.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000042_000003.wav|As near as I can judge, Miss Margaret Kendall does not resemble your dreaded 'settlement worker' in the least.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000016_000001.wav|"See here, good people, this will never do in the world," he asserted with sudden authority.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000013_000000.wav|"Come, come, Ned, don't be foolish," he protested.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000029_000000.wav|"And you've not seen her since?" There was keen reproach in Ned's voice.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000016_000003.wav|There is nothing for us to do now but to try to make her happy.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000023_000001.wav|You were twelve years old when he married a widow by the name of Kendall who lived in Houghtonsville where he had been practising.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000041_000000.wav|"Dear me!" she sighed.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000028_000001.wav|I was only twenty, you see; but, really, there was no one else to whom he could leave her.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000034_000002.wav|Even now, though, she would not come to my home. She was going abroad with friends.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000039_000003.wav|I've been told this, however," he added.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000006_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000034_000000.wav|"She was nineteen when I saw her again.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000001.wav|When she came of age she specially requested me to make no change in her affairs, but to regard herself as my ward for the present, just as she had been.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000033_000002.wav|It was out of the question, as she was feeling.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000020_000000.wav|"You don't know!|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000031_000000.wav|"Yes, I've seen her twice," he replied.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000026_000000.wav|"By Jove!" exclaimed Ned under his breath.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000030_000000.wav|Frank smiled.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000031_000001.wav|"And of course I've written to her many times, and have always kept in touch with those she was with. She stayed at the Berkshire school five years; then-with some fear and trembling, I own-I went to see her.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000015_000002.wav|He was a mere child himself when it all happened, and he's been away from home most of the time since.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000007.wav|There! now you have it.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000007_000000.wav|The great dining room at Hilcrest, the old Spencer homestead, was perhaps the pleasantest room in the house.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000033_000000.wav|"no|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000028_000000.wav|"As you know, poor Harry was conscious for some hours after the accident, long enough to make his will and dictate the letter to me, leaving Margaret to my care-boy though I was.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000042_000000.wav|"I don't think I should worry, sister sweet," laughed Frank.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000016_000004.wav|After all, we needn't worry-it may turn out that she will make us happy."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000023_000006.wav|That was the first time that I saw Margaret.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000008_000002.wav|The two men and the woman, however, were not looking at the sunlight, the vines, or the swaying curtains; they were looking at each other, and their eyes were troubled and questioning.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000019_000000.wav|"I don't know," he replied simply.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000042_000001.wav|"I haven't seen much of the young lady, but I think I have seen enough for that.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000027_000000.wav|"It was only seven or eight months before the wedding that she was found," went on Frank, "and of course the influence of the wild life she had led was still with her more or less, and made her not easily subject to control.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000039_000002.wav|no|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000034_000003.wav|The party included an irreproachable chaperon, so of course I had nothing to say; while as for money-she had all of her mother's not inconsiderable fortune besides everything that had been her stepfather's; so of course there was no question on that score.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000024_000000.wav|"The poor child was, of course, heartbroken and inconsolable; but her grief took a peculiar turn.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000009_000000.wav|"You say she is coming next week?" asked the younger man, glancing at the letter in the other's hand.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000025_000003.wav|She was nothing but a child, of course, and not even a normal one at that, for she had had a very strange life.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000034_000001.wav|I found now a charming, graceful girl, with peculiarly haunting blue eyes, and heavy coils of bronze gold hair that kinked and curled about her little pink ears in a most distracting fashion.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000035_000003.wav|This June was her graduation.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000013_000001.wav|"You know very well that your brother's stepdaughter has been my ward for a dozen years."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000024_000002.wav|She would have nothing whatever to do with me, or with any of her stepfather's people.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000027_000002.wav|She would not come with me, and she had no people of her own to whom she could turn for love and sympathy.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000023_000003.wav|You were taken suddenly ill, and neither Della nor myself would leave you, and father was in Bermuda that winter for his health.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000028_000002.wav|That was something over thirteen years ago.|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7247/101864/7247_101864_000038_000000.wav|"Oh, but you've seen her."|7247
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/434/132644/434_132644_000006_000001.wav|We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness."|434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000030_000001.wav|They only drink a great deal.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000012_000002.wav|There was also climbing Vesuvius. In this game the baby walks up you, and when he is standing on your shoulders, you shout as loud as you can, which is the rumbling of the burning mountain, and then tumble him gently on to the floor, and roll him there, which is the destruction of Pompeii.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000015_000000.wav|The Lamb came with his pretty hair all tumbled and his face all dusty from the destruction of Pompeii, and instantly became a baby snake, hissing and wriggling and creeping in Anthea's arms, as she said-|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000047_000001.wav|By four o'clock Jane was almost sure that several hairs were beginning to grow.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000060_000001.wav|Robert pretended that he was too cold to take off his great coat, and so sat sweltering through what would otherwise have been a most thrilling meal. He felt that he was a blot on the smart beauty of the family, and he hoped the Phoenix knew what he was suffering for its sake.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000120_000002.wav|Perhaps we'd better wash too.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000033_000002.wav|It's very magic indeed.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000063_000000.wav|Father's parting words were: 'Now, don't you stir out of this box, whatever you do.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000017_000001.wav|So Anthea went on-|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000133_000000.wav|Next day mother saw the burnt holes in the carpet.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000025_000000.wav|'But what about your words of wisdom?'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000087_000000.wav|'Fire!' cried every one, and made for the doors.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000004_000001.wav|Mother looked at them quickly, and said-|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000065_000001.wav|When the lights went up fully, the Phoenix, balancing itself on the gilded back of a chair, swayed in ecstasy.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000070_000001.wav|'What radiant rites!|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000043_000002.wav|Look!' She held it out, and the children, holding it by its yielding corners, read-|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000120_000001.wav|I suppose it can't help its nature.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000092_000000.wav|'Father said stay here,' said Anthea, very pale, and trying to speak in her ordinary voice.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000126_000002.wav|It wasn't a pigeon.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000128_000000.wav|So every one went there.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000007_000002.wav|It's simply dreadful now.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000123_000000.wav|'Are you all safe?' cried mother's voice; 'are you all safe?' and the next moment she was kneeling on the linoleum of the hall, trying to kiss four damp children at once, and laughing and crying by turns, while father stood looking on and saying he was blessed or something.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000006_000000.wav|'The boys helped too,' said the dears, honourably.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000132_000001.wav|As a matter of fact it had done none, for the Phoenix spent the night in putting things straight. How the management accounted for this, and how many of the theatre officials still believe that they were mad on that night will never be known.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000126_000001.wav|Or at least I thought so then.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000083_000001.wav|It was not in the least the fault of the theatre people, and no one could ever understand afterwards how it did happen.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000105_000000.wav|'Look here,' said Robert, 'I'm NOT frightened-no, I'm not.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000083_000004.wav|I mean the grey one with the red tail.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000088_000000.wav|'A magnificent idea!' said the Phoenix, complacently.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000117_000001.wav|Oh, how awful!|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000073_000000.wav|Little Tom on the stage stopped short in what he was saying.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000072_000000.wav|'Well done, my servants!|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000042_000001.wav|She did not know it was a magic carpet, and no one wants to be laughed at for trying to mend an ordinary carpet with lamp oil.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000070_000002.wav|And all to do honour to me!'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000096_000000.wav|They looked over the front of the box.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000066_000002.wav|Tell me, my Robert, is it not that this, THIS is my true temple, and the other was but a humble shrine frequented by outcasts?'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000119_000003.wav|Oh, I wish we'd never got to know that Phoenix.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000108_000001.wav|Alas! the Phoenix had unconsciously warmed to its subject, and in the unintentional heat of the moment had set fire to the paraffin with which that morning the children had anointed the carpet.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000126_000000.wav|'I said it was the bird that spoke,' said mother, 'and so it was.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000010_000001.wav|It was the work of a good many minutes and several persons to get the jam off him again, and this interesting work took people's minds off the carpet, and nothing more was said just then about its badness as a bargain and about what mother hoped for from coconut matting.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000079_000001.wav|It upsets the performance.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000063_000006.wav|Goodbye.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000011_000001.wav|Mother was very clever, but even she could not quite understand the cook's accounts.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000024_000000.wav|'I take your meaning,' said the Phoenix. 'I would fain see these calling themselves Sons of the Phoenix.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000017_000000.wav|'Crocky,' said the Lamb, and showed all his little teeth.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000053_000001.wav|Think of all the time that's before you.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000075_000000.wav|'It wasn't us, indeed it wasn't,' said Anthea, earnestly; 'it was the bird.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000064_000000.wav|He went, and Robert was at last able to remove his coat, mop his perspiring brow, and release the crushed and dishevelled Phoenix.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000021_000000.wav|'There is a society called that,' said Cyril.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000033_000003.wav|Don't you think, if we put Tatcho on it, and then gave it a rest, the magic part of it might grow, like hair is supposed to do?'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000125_000001.wav|We heard the Garrick was on fire, and of course we went straight there,' said father, briskly.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000043_000001.wav|'And now, away with melancholy! Father has sent a telegram.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000038_000001.wav|I expect it's the smell that does the good really-and the smell's exactly the same.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000074_000000.wav|Then the play went on, and an attendant presently came to the box and spoke wrathfully.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000042_000000.wav|It was no use telling mother what they had done to the carpet.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000033_000000.wav|'Look here,' said Anthea; 'I really have an idea.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000085_000002.wav|People whispered-then people shrieked.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000126_000004.wav|I don't care who it was that spoke.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000067_000001.wav|Hush! the music is beginning.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000047_000000.wav|Ironing the dresses and sewing the lace in occupied some time, and no one was dull, because there was the theatre to look forward to, and also the possible growth of hairs on the carpet, for which every one kept looking anxiously.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000007_000000.wav|'But, still-twenty two and ninepence!|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000132_000000.wav|That was why the papers said next day that the fire at the theatre had done less damage than had been anticipated.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000003_000000.wav|'Well, I MUST say,' mother said, looking at the wishing carpet as it lay, all darned and mended and backed with shiny American cloth, on the floor of the nursery-'I MUST say I've never in my life bought such a bad bargain as that carpet.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000029_000000.wav|"I love my little baby rabbit; But oh! he has a dreadful habit Of paddling out among the rocks And soaking both his bunny socks.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000052_000001.wav|I'm sure the palpitations I've had since I've known you are enough to blanch the feathers of any bird.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000122_000000.wav|All were partially clean, and Cyril was just plunging into his great coat to go and look for his parents-he, and not unjustly, called it looking for a needle in a bundle of hay-when the sound of father's latchkey in the front door sent every one bounding up the stairs.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000135_000000.wav|'I must get rid of that carpet at once,' said mother.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000040_000000.wav|'How often,' said mother, opening the door-'how often am I to tell you that you are NOT to play with paraffin?|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000111_000000.wav|Jane had to sit on Anthea's lap.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000095_000000.wav|But a fierce waft of smoke and hot air made him shut it again.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000106_000000.wav|'The Phoenix thanks you, O Robert,' said a golden voice at his feet, and there was the Phoenix itself, on the Wishing Carpet.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000102_000000.wav|The Phoenix was gone.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000054_000000.wav|'Time,' said the Phoenix, 'is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000031_000000.wav|'In your mind, perhaps,' said Jane; 'but it wouldn't be good in your body.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000130_000001.wav|Do not distress yourself. I, like my high priests in Lombard Street, can undo the work of flames. Kindly open the casement.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000063_000004.wav|No?|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000014_000000.wav|'Well, you talk and decide,' said Anthea; 'here, you lovely ducky Lamb. Come to Panther and play Noah's Ark.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000082_000000.wav|So now the Phoenix was quiet, but it kept whispering to the children.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000054_000007.wav|What is the show at the theatre to night?|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000108_000006.wav|Only the fabric of the old carpet was left-and that was full of holes.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000045_000001.wav|Run and get out your frocks.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000039_000001.wav|Then the flannel was burned. It made a gay flame, which delighted the Phoenix and the Lamb.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000091_000000.wav|'Oh, how COULD you!' cried Jane. 'Let's get out.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000071_000004.wav|It flapped its golden wings, and cried in a voice that could be heard all over the theatre:|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000121_000000.wav|No one had noticed the Phoenix since it had bidden them to step on the carpet.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000068_000000.wav|I am not going to tell you about the play.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000097_000000.wav|It would be possible, certainly; but would they be much better off?|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000067_000000.wav|'I don't know about outcasts,' said Robert, 'but you can call this your temple if you like.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000005_000000.wav|'Well, of course, I see you've mended it very nicely, and that was sweet of you, dears.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000131_000000.wav|It flew out.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000098_000000.wav|'Look at the people,' moaned Anthea; 'we couldn't get through.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000108_000000.wav|A sudden jet of flame stopped its words.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000035_000000.wav|But with all its faults Anthea's idea was something to do, and they did it.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000119_000001.wav|Only do wash your face first.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000018_000000.wav|'I love my little crocodile, I love his truthful toothful smile; It is so wonderful and wide, I like to see it-FROM OUTSIDE.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000119_000002.wav|Mother will be sure to think you are burnt to a cinder if she sees you as black as that, and she'll faint or be ill or something.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000086_000001.wav|Fire!' The curtain went down-the lights went up.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000037_000000.wav|'We mustn't take it all,' Jane said, 'in case father's hair began to come off suddenly.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000058_000001.wav|Do come, Phoenix, old chap; it will cheer you up.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000071_000001.wav|The choruses were choric songs in its praise.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000039_000000.wav|So a small teaspoonful of the Tatcho was put on the edges of the worst darn in the carpet and rubbed carefully into the roots of the hairs of it, and all the parts that there was not enough Tatcho for had paraffin rubbed into them with a piece of flannel.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000101_000000.wav|Even at that awful moment Robert looked round to see if the bird had overheard a speech which, however natural, was hardly polite or grateful.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000093_000001.wav|'No boys on burning decks for me, thank you.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000068_000001.wav|As I said before, one can't tell everything, and no doubt you saw 'The Water Babies' yourselves.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000054_000004.wav|I feel as if I ought to lay my egg, and lay me down to my fiery sleep.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000117_000003.wav|Oh, let's go this minute and tell them we aren't.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000044_000001.wav|Stalls for us, Haymarket.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000134_000000.wav|'It caught where it was paraffiny,' said Anthea.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000004_000000.wav|A soft 'Oh!' of contradiction sprang to the lips of Cyril, Robert, Jane, and Anthea.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000054_000002.wav|I have lived in these two months at a pace which generously counterbalances five hundred years of life in the desert.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000063_000005.wav|Well, then, I should say you were sickening for something-mumps or measles or thrush or teething.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000112_000001.wav|They were all on the carpet still, and the carpet was lying in its proper place on the nursery floor, as calm and unmoved as though it had never been to the theatre or taken part in a fire in its life.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000057_000001.wav|Wouldn't you like to come with us?'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000107_000000.wav|'Quick!' it said.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000019_000001.wav|Mother can't believe the real true truth about the carpet, and-'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000114_000000.wav|They presently found themselves all talking at once.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000073_000001.wav|A deep breath was drawn by hundreds of lungs, every eye in the house turned to the box where the luckless children cringed, and most people hissed, or said 'Shish!' or 'Turn them out!'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000020_000000.wav|'You speak sooth, O Cyril,' remarked the Phoenix, coming out from the cupboard where the blackbeetles lived, and the torn books, and the broken slates, and odd pieces of toys that had lost the rest of themselves.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000095_000001.wav|It was not possible to get out that way.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000126_000003.wav|It was an orange coloured cockatoo.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000046_000002.wav|You would have been specially interested in hearing about the tableau of the Princes in the Tower, when one of the pillows burst, and the youthful Princes were so covered with feathers that the picture might very well have been called 'Michaelmas Eve; or, Plucking the Geese'.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000012_000000.wav|The Lamb was very glad to have his brothers and sisters to play with him.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000044_000000.wav|'Box for kiddies at Garrick.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000033_000001.wav|This isn't like a common carpet.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000027_000000.wav|'Pretty Polly!' remarked the Lamb, reaching his hands towards the golden speaker.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000023_000000.wav|'It's a sort of joined together lot of people-a sort of brotherhood-a kind of-well, something very like your temple, you know, only quite different.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000083_000002.wav|No one, that is, except the guilty bird itself and the four children.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000076_000000.wav|The man said well, then, they must keep their bird very quiet. 'Disturbing every one like this,' he said.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000084_000000.wav|'No altar, no fire, no incense!' and then, before any of the children could even begin to think of stopping it, it spread its bright wings and swept round the theatre, brushing its gleaming feathers against delicate hangings and gilded woodwork.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000022_000001.wav|And what is a society?' asked the bird.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000043_000000.wav|'Well, don't do it again,' said mother.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000046_000001.wav|They were very nice tableaux, these, and I wish I could tell you about them; but one cannot tell everything in a story.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000050_000000.wav|'I am not sick,' replied the golden bird, with a gloomy shake of the head; 'but I am getting old.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000083_000005.wav|All eyes were on the stage, where the lobster was delighting the audience with that gem of a song, 'If you can't walk straight, walk sideways!' when the Phoenix murmured warmly-|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000034_000000.wav|'It might,' said Robert; 'but I should think paraffin would do as well-at any rate as far as the smell goes, and that seems to be the great thing about Tatcho.'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000026_000000.wav|'Wisdom is always welcome,' said the Phoenix.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000071_000002.wav|The electric lights, it said, were magic torches lighted for its sake, and it was so charmed with the footlights that the children could hardly persuade it to sit still.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000107_000001.wav|'Stand on those portions of the carpet which are truly antique and authentic-and-'|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000009_000000.wav|'No, dear, we can't help our boots,' said mother, cheerfully, 'but we might change them when we come in, perhaps.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000022_000000.wav|'Where is it?|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000012_000001.wav|He had not forgotten them a bit, and he made them play all the old exhausting games: 'Whirling Worlds', where you swing the baby round and round by his hands; and 'Leg and Wing', where you swing him from side to side by one ankle and one wrist.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000127_000000.wav|Mother began to cry again, and father said bed was a good place after the pleasures of the stage.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2570/157243/2570_157243_000030_000000.wav|'I don't think you'd care about the sons of the Phoenix, really,' said Robert. 'I have heard that they don't do anything fiery.|2570
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000007_000003.wav|Passepartout shook it, but with no perceptible effect; for neither shaking nor maledictions could prevail upon it to change its mind.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000032_000000.wav|"Go to the Carnatic, and engage three cabins."|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000017_000000.wav|"Yes, sir; but they had to repair one of her boilers, and so her departure was postponed till to morrow."|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000005_000001.wav|The storm greatly pleased him.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000027_000000.wav|Aouda at first said nothing.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000015_000000.wav|"The Carnatic."|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000027_000002.wav|Then, in her sweet, soft voice, she said: "What ought I to do, mr Fogg?"|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000006_000003.wav|The storm exasperated him, the gale made him furious, and he longed to lash the obstinate sea into obedience. Poor fellow!|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000006_000002.wav|Had the hour of adversity come? Passepartout was as much excited as if the twenty thousand pounds were to come from his own pocket.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000005_000000.wav|Fix did not look at the state of things in the same light.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000029_000000.wav|"But I cannot intrude-"|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131899/492_131899_000031_000000.wav|"Monsieur."|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131882/492_131882_000003_000000.wav|Chapter one|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131882/492_131882_000021_000002.wav|I've been an itinerant singer, a circus rider, when I used to vault like Leotard, and dance on a rope like Blondin.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131882/492_131882_000011_000000.wav|Had he travelled?|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131882/492_131882_000028_000000.wav|"You are four minutes too slow.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131882/492_131882_000004_000000.wav|IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER, THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000029_000000.wav|"No, it's my master's."|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000003_000000.wav|The steamer Mongolia, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, built of iron, of two thousand eight hundred tons burden, and five hundred horse power, was due at eleven o'clock a.m. on Wednesday, the ninth of October, at Suez.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000033_000000.wav|"Oh, is that necessary?"|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000002_000000.wav|The circumstances under which this telegraphic dispatch about Phileas Fogg was sent were as follows:|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000034_000000.wav|"Quite indispensable."|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000008_000000.wav|"Directly from Brindisi; she takes on the Indian mails there, and she left there Saturday at five p.m. Have patience, mr Fix; she will not be late.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000012_000001.wav|Fix," said the consul, "I like your way of talking, and hope you'll succeed; but I fear you will find it far from easy.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000005_000000.wav|"So you say, consul," asked he for the twentieth time, "that this steamer is never behind time?"|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131887/492_131887_000027_000000.wav|Fix took up a position, and carefully examined each face and figure which made its appearance.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000009_000000.wav|"Fix."|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000002_000004.wav|The best of fare was spread upon the cabin tables at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the eight o'clock supper, and the ladies scrupulously changed their toilets twice a day; and the hours were whirled away, when the sea was tranquil, with music, dancing, and games.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000007_000001.wav|I quite recognise you.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000020_000000.wav|"Quite well, and I too.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000011_000000.wav|"Like you, to Bombay."|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000022_000000.wav|"Never; he hasn't the least curiosity."|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000014_000000.wav|"Then you know India?"|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000007_000000.wav|"Ah!|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000000_000000.wav|Chapter nine|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000012_000000.wav|"That's capital!|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/492/131890/492_131890_000031_000000.wav|The Mongolia was due at Bombay on the twenty second; she arrived on the twentieth. This was a gain to Phileas Fogg of two days since his departure from London, and he calmly entered the fact in the itinerary, in the column of gains.|492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149881/2167_149881_000016_000006.wav|He would not argue, he would not talk freely.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149881/2167_149881_000030_000000.wav|"Just think of that!" said Jessica.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149881/2167_149881_000052_000000.wav|"Is it?" said mrs Hurstwood.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149881/2167_149881_000008_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000063_000002.wav|They looked about, and now the thing was sinking, and Minnie heard the low sip of the encroaching water.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000005_000000.wav|"What?" said Hanson.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000043_000000.wav|"You must be thinking," he said.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000025_000000.wav|"Say, that fits like a T, don't it?" he remarked, feeling the set of it at the waist and eyeing it from a few paces with real pleasure.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000042_000005.wav|She actually started.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000021_000004.wav|I won't hurt you."|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000023_000001.wav|Stick 'em out.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000026_000000.wav|Carrie put on her hat.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000025_000002.wav|Let's go to breakfast."|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000025_000001.wav|"What you need now is a new skirt.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000042_000002.wav|The latter looked, not quite sure, and then turned her head and looked.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000082_000000.wav|"We'll have a nice game of euchre."|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000054_000003.wav|He touched it now as he spoke of going.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000069_000001.wav|You're talking in your sleep."|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000067_000002.wav|Here, wake up," said Hanson, disturbed, and shaking her by the shoulder.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000024_000000.wav|Carrie obeyed.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2167/149880/2167_149880_000022_000000.wav|"I know you won't," she remarked, half truthfully.|2167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000014_000001.wav|With the last twenty or thirty feet of it a deadly nausea came upon me.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000007_000000.wav|'I was in an agony of discomfort.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000002_000001.wav|I felt a peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000003_000002.wav|I was oppressed with perplexity and doubt.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000005_000004.wav|At first she watched me in amazement.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000003_000010.wav|I don't know if you will understand my feeling, but I never felt quite safe at my back.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000010_000004.wav|The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous!|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000011_000002.wav|If only I had thought of a Kodak!|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000003_000003.wav|Once or twice I had a feeling of intense fear for which I could perceive no definite reason.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000006_000002.wav|And not simply fatigued!|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000002_000003.wav|And they were filthily cold to the touch.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000014_000006.wav|I fell upon my face.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000003_000007.wav|Yet I could not face the mystery.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/133440/1914_133440_000003_000000.wav|'The next night I did not sleep well.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000031_000000.wav|"Mistaken!" cried the queen, almost suffocated by emotion; "mistaken! what has happened, then?"|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000097_000000.wav|"Where?"|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000038_000002.wav|Oh, my God! my God! what has happened?"|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000027_000000.wav|"One moment, yes," answered the queen.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000057_000001.wav|"You know well that I don't like to leave things half finished."|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000083_000000.wav|"no"|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000059_000001.wav|Come and converse with us for just five minutes, sword in hand, upon this deserted terrace."|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000081_000000.wav|"For what reason is all this fume and fury?" asked Athos.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000029_000002.wav|I beg you to do so."|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000049_000002.wav|Our duty is fulfilled."|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000008_000000.wav|"What?|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000096_000001.wav|Come, come."|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121446/1914_121446_000073_000002.wav|Swear first, on your honor, not to inform him of our return."|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000067_000000.wav|"No, I thank you."|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000033_000000.wav|"Well, what has happened to them?"|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000001_000001.wav|The Road to Picardy.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000064_000000.wav|"To whom?"|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000040_000000.wav|"Where were they taken?" asked Athos.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000014_000000.wav|Aramis shook his head.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000018_000000.wav|Aramis stopped.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000037_000000.wav|"Arrested, were they?" inquired Athos; "is it known why?"|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000055_000002.wav|He could, like the king, touch the greatest of us on the head, and touching them make such heads shake on their shoulders.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000076_000000.wav|"For what purpose?"|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1914/121449/1914_121449_000020_000000.wav|They both alighted.|1914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000066_000000.wav|The patroness of the ex convict received this assurance indignantly.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000056_000000.wav|"I think not, Sir Ethelred, unless I were to enter into details which-"|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000052_000003.wav|Moreover, you must remember that he has got to think of the danger from his comrades too. He's there at his post.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000059_000003.wav|Nothing could be more characteristic of the respectable bond than that," went on, with a touch of grimness, the Assistant Commissioner, whose own wife too had refused to hear of going abroad.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000076_000002.wav|I had no idea this was such a grave affair."|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000052_000004.wav|How could he explain leaving it?|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000067_000000.wav|"Why?|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000061_000005.wav|But he shook it off before going out again to join his wife at the house of the great lady patroness of Michaelis.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000062_000000.wav|He knew he would be welcomed there.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000058_000001.wav|"And you say that this man has got a wife?"|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000060_000000.wav|The Assistant Commissioner laughed a little; but the great man's thoughts seemed to have wandered far away, perhaps to the questions of his country's domestic policy, the battle ground of his crusading valour against the paynim Cheeseman.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000067_000001.wav|Were your people stupid enough to connect him with-"|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000058_000000.wav|The great shadowy form seemed to shrink away as if in physical dread of details; then came forward, expanded, enormous, and weighty, offering a large hand.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000052_000005.wav|But even if there were no obstacles to his freedom of action he would do nothing.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000078_000000.wav|"I've no doubt that Mr Vladimir has a very precise notion of the true importance of this affair."|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000063_000000.wav|"I never hoped to see you here to night.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000062_000001.wav|On entering the smaller of the two drawing rooms he saw his wife in a small group near the piano.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000077_000000.wav|Mr Vladimir, affecting not to listen, leaned towards the couch, talking amiably in subdued tones, but he heard the Assistant Commissioner say:|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000060_000001.wav|The Assistant Commissioner withdrew quietly, unnoticed, as if already forgotten.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000071_000000.wav|Mr Vladimir and the Assistant Commissioner, introduced, acknowledged each other's existence with punctilious and guarded courtesy.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000069_000000.wav|A silence fell.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000068_000001.wav|"Clever enough-quite clever enough for that."|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000113_000000.wav|"Theoretically.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000059_000000.wav|"Yes, Sir Ethelred," said the Assistant Commissioner, pressing deferentially the extended hand.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000061_000003.wav|He walked all the way home.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000068_000000.wav|"Not stupid," interrupted the Assistant Commissioner, contradicting deferentially.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000052_000006.wav|At present he hasn't enough moral energy to take a resolution of any sort. Permit me also to point out that if I had detained him we would have been committed to a course of action on which I wished to know your precise intentions first."|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000076_000001.wav|It appears we all ought to quake in our shoes at what's coming if those people are not suppressed all over the world.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000054_000000.wav|"I'll see the Attorney General to night, and will send for you to morrow morning.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000061_000004.wav|Finding the drawing room dark, he went upstairs, and spent some time between the bedroom and the dressing room, changing his clothes, going to and fro with the air of a thoughtful somnambulist.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000054_000001.wav|Is there anything more you'd wish to tell me now?"|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000062_000004.wav|She extended her hand to the Assistant Commissioner.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000074_000000.wav|"Well, he tried to at least," amended the lady.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000064_000001.wav|I had no idea myself that my work would be over so soon."|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000064_000000.wav|"Yes.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000073_000000.wav|"You do not look frightened," he pronounced, after surveying her conscientiously with his tired and equable gaze.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000076_000000.wav|"He has been threatening society with all sorts of horrors," continued the lady, whose enunciation was caressing and slow, "apropos of this explosion in Greenwich Park.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000072_000001.wav|The Assistant Commissioner knew the lady.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000062_000003.wav|Behind the screen the great lady had only two persons with her: a man and a woman, who sat side by side on arm chairs at the foot of her couch.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000065_000000.wav|The Assistant Commissioner added in a low tone: "I am glad to tell you that Michaelis is altogether clear of this-"|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000061_000001.wav|This affair, which, in one way or another, disgusted Chief Inspector Heat, seemed to him a providentially given starting point for a crusade.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000061_000002.wav|He had it much at heart to begin. He walked slowly home, meditating that enterprise on the way, and thinking over Mr Verloc's psychology in a composite mood of repugnance and satisfaction.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000055_000000.wav|The Assistant Commissioner had stood up also, slender and flexible.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000063_000001.wav|Annie told me-"|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000069_000001.wav|The man at the foot of the couch had stopped speaking to the lady, and looked on with a faint smile.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000059_000004.wav|"Yes, a genuine wife.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000059_000006.wav|From a certain point of view we are here in the presence of a domestic drama."|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000059_000005.wav|And the victim was a genuine brother in law.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000053_000000.wav|The great personage rose heavily, an imposing shadowy form in the greenish gloom of the room.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/783/126739/783_126739_000075_000000.wav|"Force of habit perhaps," said the Assistant Commissioner, moved by an irresistible inspiration.|783
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000002_000001.wav|That thing which looked like an enormous key with three wheels was really a patent and very deadly revolver.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000029_000000.wav|"It sums up my whole allegory," said the professor.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000054_000000.wav|"No, the pretty things aren't here," said the demi god in buttons, caressingly.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000008.wav|At the highest crisis of some incurable anguish there will suddenly fall upon the man the stillness of an insane contentment. It is not hope, for hope is broken and romantic and concerned with the future; this is complete and of the present.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000002.wav|This mysterious mood lasted long enough to start him on his dreadful descent and to force him to continue it.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000018_000000.wav|Then a shriek indescribable broke out of him of a sudden, and he flung up his arms like a lost spirit.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000010_000000.wav|"Come, come," said the Professor, encouragingly, "I'll help you out.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000000.wav|"As I was observing," continued Michael, "this man also took the view that the symbol of Christianity was a symbol of savagery and all unreason.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000021_000000.wav|Professor Lucifer slapped his hand twice upon the surface of the great orb as if he were caressing some enormous animal.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000014.wav|He sat upon a chair and then started up from it for the cross bars of the carpentry repeated the intolerable image.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000061_000002.wav|They took the tall young man away to a magistrate, whither we shall follow him in an ensuing chapter.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000002_000003.wav|The thing which might have been mistaken for a tricycle turned upside-down was the inexpressibly important instrument to which the corkscrew was the key.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000027_000003.wav|The cross is a mere barbaric prop; the ball is perfection.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000005.wav|They should not move till they saw their own sweet and startling existence.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000016_000000.wav|"There seems," said Michael, timidly, "to be something sticking up in the middle of it."|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000004_000000.wav|"I have no intention, my good Michael," said Professor Lucifer, "of endeavouring to convert you by argument.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000005.wav|He had fancied that he would have to let himself vertically down the face of the whole building.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000017.wav|Michael felt almost as if he were a god, and all the voices were hurled at him.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000058_000000.wav|"Father, did you see what they said?" he cried, trembling.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000007.wav|He paused a little, panting in the gallery under the ball, and idly kicked his heels, moving a few yards along it.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000012.wav|For he hated the cross and every paling is a wall of crosses.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000010.wav|Above all the globe is at unity with itself; the cross is primarily and above all things at enmity with itself.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000041_000002.wav|At the same instant Lucifer drove down a lever and the ship shot up with him in it alone.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000007.wav|And of this ultimate resignation or certainty it is even less possible to write; it is something stranger than hell itself; it is perhaps the last of the secrets of God.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000003.wav|And if it is impossible to dogmatize about such states, it is still more impossible to describe them.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000039_000001.wav|"It is a parable.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000012.wav|For the clouds that belonged to London had closed over the heads of the voyagers sealing up the entrance of the upper air.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000039_000005.wav|When we meet you again you are saying that no one has any will to join it with.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000003_000003.wav|You could see nothing but his eyes, and he seemed to talk with them.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000009.wav|The fog and fire were mixed in a passionate vapour; you might say that the fog was drowning the flames; or you might say that the flames had set the fog on fire.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000002.wav|The new and childlike world which he had seen so suddenly, men had not seen at all.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000002.wav|Michael realized that the image of God in nickel buttons was asking him how he had come there.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000052_000002.wav|This beautiful man evidently felt as Michael did that the earth was a star and was set in heaven.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000008.wav|Perhaps if he had spoken there for an hour in his illumination he might have founded a religion on Ludgate Hill. But the heavy hand of his guide fell suddenly on his shoulder.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000011.wav|The cross is the conflict of two hostile lines, of irreconcilable direction.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000004.wav|On his giving this answer the demeanour of the image of God underwent a remarkable change.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000010.wav|Now, heaven is the hopeless thing, more hopeless than any hell.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000047_000001.wav|"I am going," he said, "to climb up into a star."|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000007.wav|It is a four legged animal, with one leg longer than the others.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000041_000001.wav|Michael, with as abrupt an agility, caught one of the beams of the cross and saved himself from falling.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000032_000000.wav|"I mean it would fall down," said the monk, looking wistfully into the void.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000048_000001.wav|Paradox of this kind is to be found in the saying of the dandy, in the decadent comedy, "Life is much too important to be taken seriously." Those who look at the matter a little more deeply or delicately see that paradox is a thing which especially belongs to all religions.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000003.wav|He felt suddenly happy and suddenly indescribably small.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000041_000000.wav|And with a herculean energy he forced the monk backwards out of the reeling car on to the upper part of the stone ball.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000045_000001.wav|"I shall mount up as much as you will."|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000008.wav|Through the dense London atmosphere they could see below them the flaming London lights; lights which lay beneath them in squares and oblongs of fire.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000060_000002.wav|Says he came in a flying ship.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000007.wav|Then one still summer evening as he was wending his way homewards, along a lane, the devil of his madness came upon him with a violence and transfiguration which changes the world.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000054_000001.wav|"The pretty things are downstairs.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000000.wav|"An entertaining retort, in the narrow and deductive manner of the Middle Ages," replied the Professor, calmly, "but even upon your own basis I will illustrate my point.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000006.wav|For a moment their eyes and nostrils were stopped with darkness and opaque cloud; then the darkness warmed into a kind of brown fog.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000044_000001.wav|I mount!|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000003.wav|Well, now you are in the sky, you know better.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000007.wav|He led him by the arm towards a door leading into the building itself, soothing him all the time.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000015.wav|In the gallery below the ball Father Michael had found that man who is the noblest and most divine and most lovable of all men, better than all the saints, greater than all the heroes-man Friday.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000010.wav|At one point a door opened.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000015.wav|The very shape of it is a contradiction in terms."|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000020_000001.wav|Above it the cross already draped in the dark mists of the borderland was shadowy and more awful in shape and size.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000001.wav|The whole peace of the world was pent up painfully in his heart.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000004.wav|Phrase it how you like, twist it how you like, you know that you know better.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000043_000000.wav|"For practical purposes of support," replied Michael grimly, "it is at any rate a great deal better than the ball.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000015_000002.wav|This star and not that other vulgar one shall be 'Lucifer, sun of the morning.' Here we will have no chartered lunacies, here we will have no gods.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000010.wav|He merely let his mind float in an endless felicity about the man.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000060_000000.wav|"This poor fellow is dotty," he said good humouredly to the crowd.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000001.wav|He felt with a sort of half witted lucidity that the cross was there, and the ball was there, and the dome was there, that he was going to climb down from them, and that he did not mind in the least whether he was killed or not.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000058_000001.wav|"Did you see what they dared to say?|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000058_000002.wav|I didn't understand it at first.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000056_000002.wav|And the police already had their hands on a very tall young man, with dark, lank hair and dark, dazed eyes, with a grey plaid over his shoulder, who had just smashed the shop window with a single blow of his stick.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000000.wav|Michael certainly could not have given any sort of rational account of this vast unmeaning satisfaction which soaked through him and filled him to the brim.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000003.wav|Here they were still at their old bewildering, pardonable, useless quarrels, with so much to be said on both sides, and so little that need be said at all.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000004_000002.wav|It is folly to talk of this or that demonstrating the rationalist philosophy.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000027_000002.wav|The ball should be on top of the cross.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000001.wav|As the flying ship swept towards it, this plain of cloud looked as dry and definite and rocky as any grey desert.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000014_000000.wav|Lucifer exploded with an oath and leapt erect, leaning hard upon the handle that acted as a helm to the vessel.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000035_000000.wav|"There is no man like me," cried Lucifer, with a violence that shook the ship.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000005.wav|You know what are a man's real feelings about the heavens, when he finds himself alone in the heavens, surrounded by the heavens.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000001_000003.wav|Every sort of tool or apparatus had, in consequence, to the full, that fantastic and distorted look which belongs to the miracles of science.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000001_000001.wav|That it was far above the earth was no expression for it; to the two men in it, it seemed to be far above the stars.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000004.wav|To this spasm of sanity and clarity in Michael's mind succeeded a spasm of the elemental terror; the terror of the animal in us which regards the whole universe as its enemy; which, when it is victorious, has no pity, and so, when it is defeated has no imaginable hope.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000006.wav|Finally in a height of frenzy he climbed the steeple of the Parish Church and tore down the cross, waving it in the air, and uttering wild soliloquies up there under the stars.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000009.wav|He happened to see in one shop which projected with a bulging bravery on to the pavement some square tins of potted meat, and it seemed like a hint of a hundred hilarious high teas in a hundred streets of the world.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000003_000001.wav|Him, also, by a curious coincidence, the professor had not invented, and him he had not even very greatly improved, though he had fished him up with a lasso out of his own back garden, in Western Bulgaria, with the pure object of improving him.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000017_000001.wav|"What can it be?|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000003.wav|And he felt as every man feels in the taut moment of such terror that his chief danger was terror itself; his only possible strength would be a coolness amounting to carelessness, a carelessness amounting almost to a suicidal swagger.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000031_000001.wav|"What would happen?"|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000002.wav|In your religion and all the religions, as far as I know (and I know everything), the sky is made the symbol of everything that is sacred and merciful.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000024_000004.wav|Every form of life is a struggle in flesh.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000008.wav|The globe is inevitable.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000034_000000.wav|"I once knew a man like you, Lucifer," he said, with a maddening monotony and slowness of articulation.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000040_000003.wav|Let it save you."|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000001_000004.wav|For the world of science and evolution is far more nameless and elusive and like a dream than the world of poetry and religion; since in the latter images and ideas remain themselves eternally, while it is the whole idea of evolution that identities melt into each other as they do in a nightmare.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000010.wav|He was, perhaps, the happiest of all the children of men.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000011_000000.wav|"Well, the truth is, I know I don't express it properly, but somehow it seemed to me that you always convey ideas of that kind with most eloquence, when-er-when----"|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000045_000000.wav|"How often have you told me, Professor, that there is really no up or down in space?" said the monk.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000001.wav|He had no notion where or at what level he was.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000024_000005.wav|The shape of the cross is irrational, just as the shape of the human animal is irrational.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000013.wav|But this was a dome of heaven made by man.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000047_000000.wav|The monk pointed downward at Ludgate Hill.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000002.wav|Hence it gave to the mind and body a sharp and unearthly sensation when the ship cut and sank into the cloud as into any common mist, a thing without resistance.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000057_000001.wav|Did you see what it said?|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000039_000004.wav|We leave you saying that nobody ought to join the Church against his will.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000040_000001.wav|"Ah," he screamed, "to every man his madness.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000058_000003.wav|I read it half through before I broke the window."|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000006.wav|If he were foolhardy he might escape; if he were wise he would stop where he was till he dropped from the cross like a stone.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000000.wav|Evidently the man in buttons did not feel like a god, so Michael made no attempt to explain his feelings to him, but followed him meekly enough down the trail of the serpentine staircase.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000052_000001.wav|He also seemed to be asking how Michael "got up" there.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000030_000001.wav|You would see, I think, that thing happen which is always the ultimate embodiment and logical outcome of your logical scheme."|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000010.wav|It is not knowledge, for the intellect seems to have no particular part in it.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000004.wav|By the time he had reached that place of safety he almost felt (as in some impossible fit of drunkenness) that he had two heads; one was calm, careless, and efficient; the other saw the danger like a deadly map, was wise, careful, and useless.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000004.wav|His one wild chance of coming out safely would be in not too desperately desiring to be safe.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000013.wav|Pah! that sacred symbol of yours has actually given its name to a description of desperation and muddle.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000002_000005.wav|This he had been born too late actually to inaugurate, but he believed at least, that he had considerably improved it.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000009.wav|You know that since our science has spoken, the bottom has fallen out of the Universe.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000015_000003.wav|Here man shall be as innocent as the daisies, as innocent and as cruel-here the intellect----"|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000024_000001.wav|"But we like contradictions in terms.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000021_000001.wav|"This is the fellow," he said, "this is the one for my money."|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000024_000002.wav|Man is a contradiction in terms; he is a beast whose superiority to other beasts consists in having fallen.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000024_000000.wav|"What you say is perfectly true," said Michael, with serenity.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000012.wav|That silent thing up there is essentially a collision, a crash, a struggle in stone.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000044_000000.wav|"Yes, yes.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000002.wav|It is also a perfect allegory of what happens to rationalists like yourself.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000028_000000.wav|"Oh!" said the monk, a wrinkle coming into his forehead, "so you think that in a rationalistic scheme of symbolism the ball should be on top of the cross?"|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000000.wav|Michael felt he knew not how.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000008.wav|And as he did so a thunderbolt struck his soul. A man, a heavy, ordinary man, with a composed indifferent face, and a prosaic sort of uniform, with a row of buttons, blocked his way.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000008.wav|Now he knew the truth that is known to all fighters, and hunters, and climbers of cliffs.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000000.wav|At length Michael sated himself with the mere sensual music of the voice of the man in buttons.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000003_000002.wav|He was an exceedingly holy man, almost entirely covered with white hair.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000006.wav|This globe is reasonable; that cross is unreasonable.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000000.wav|Father Michael in spite of his years, and in spite of his asceticism (or because of it, for all I know), was a very healthy and happy old gentleman.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000003.wav|Not like that scraggy individual, stretching his arms in stark weariness." And he pointed up to the cross, his face dark with a grin.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000013_000000.wav|"Well, in point of fact when your flying ship is just going to run into something.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000025_000001.wav|But surely the cross is the lower development and the sphere the higher.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000001_000002.wav|The professor had himself invented the flying machine, and had also invented nearly everything in it.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000039_000007.wav|We find you saying that there is no such place as Ireland.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000038_000000.wav|"Is that story really true?" he asked.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000009.wav|Michael followed him, however, if only out of politeness, down an apparently interminable spiral of staircase.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000017_000000.wav|"So there is," said the Professor, leaning over the side of the ship, his spectacles shining with intellectual excitement.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000012_000000.wav|"Oh! get on," cried Lucifer, boisterously.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000007.wav|And far, far below them the brown fog fell until it warmed into fire.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000000.wav|Some will think it improbable that a human soul swinging desperately in mid-air should think about philosophical inconsistencies.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000005.wav|Then he began to grow fiercer and more eccentric; he would batter the crosses by the roadside; for he lived in a Roman Catholic country.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000007_000000.wav|"I hope you will excuse my interrupting you," said Michael, with a slight cough, "but I have always noticed----"|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000012.wav|But he only wished to stand; to stand and stare. He had stepped as it were into another infinity, out under the dome of another heaven.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000003_000005.wav|They were really very plausible and thoughtful heresies, and it was really a creditable or even glorious circumstance, that the old monk had been intellectual enough to detect their fallacy; the only misfortune was that nobody in the modern world was intellectual enough even to understand their argument.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000046_000001.wav|"May I ask what you are going to do?"|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000001.wav|And as he swung on a bar above the sickening emptiness of air, he realized, with that sort of dead detachment which belongs to the brains of those in peril, the deathless and hopeless contradiction which is involved in the mere idea of courage.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000025_000002.wav|After all it is easy enough to see what is really wrong with Wren's architectural arrangement."|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000031_000000.wav|"What are you talking about?" asked Lucifer.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000013.wav|When he returned to his house he was a literal madman.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000039_000000.wav|"Oh, no," said Michael, airily.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000013.wav|A moment before he had been dying alone.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000004_000003.wav|Everything demonstrates it.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000053_000006.wav|He seemed particularly anxious to coax him away from the balustrade.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000009.wav|Not a light shifted, not a leaf stirred, but he saw as if by a sudden change in the eyesight that this paling was an army of innumerable crosses linked together over hill and dale.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000048_000003.wav|This kind of paradox may be clearly perceived by anybody who happens to be hanging in mid space, clinging to one arm of the Cross of saint Paul's.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000013_000001.wav|I thought you wouldn't mind my mentioning it, but it's running into something now."|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000005.wav|There might be footholds down that awful facade, if only he could not care whether they were footholds or no|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000044_000002.wav|I mount!" cried the professor in ungovernable excitement.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000011.wav|Nor is it (as the modern idiots would certainly say it is) a mere numbness or negative paralysis of the powers of grief.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000005.wav|Men who have escaped death by a hair have it, and men whose love is returned by a woman unexpectedly, and men whose sins are forgiven them.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000014_000002.wav|Now, through a sort of purple haze, could be seen comparatively near to them what seemed to be the upper part of a huge, dark orb or sphere, islanded in a sea of cloud.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000004.wav|It was as if they had cloven into ancient cliffs like so much butter.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000061_000001.wav|Two other constables attended to the tall young man in grey; a fourth concerned himself with the owner of the shop, who showed some tendency to be turbulent.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000040_000002.wav|You are mad on the cross.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000046_000000.wav|"Indeed," said Lucifer, leering over the side of the flying ship.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000011.wav|Or it was like some cyclopean sea beast sitting above London and letting down its tentacles bewilderingly on every side, a monstrosity in that starless heaven.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000003_000000.wav|There was, however, another man on board, so to speak, at the time.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000010.wav|And he whirled up his heavy stick and went at it as if at an army.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000006.wav|Everything his eye fell on it feasted on, not aesthetically, but with a plain, jolly appetite as of a boy eating buns.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000014_000003.wav|The Professor's eyes were blazing like a maniac's.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000060_000003.wav|Is there a constable to spare to take care of him?"|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000049_000002.wav|He was a happy and healthy old gentleman and therefore he was quite careless about it.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000037_000000.wav|Lucifer was looking at him with a bitten lip.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000051_000006.wav|When he dropped into the upper gallery he still felt as far from the terrestrial globe as if he had only dropped from the sun to the moon.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000008.wav|The lit squares of the shop windows excited him as the young are excited by the lit stage of some promising pantomime.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000007.wav|He relished the squareness of the houses; he liked their clean angles as if he had just cut them with a knife.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000005.wav|What could possibly express your philosophy and my philosophy better than the shape of that cross and the shape of this ball?|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000059_000006.wav|They should not go from that place till they went home embracing like brothers and shouting like men delivered.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000026_000000.wav|"And what is that, pray?" inquired Michael, meekly.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000014.wav|It seems almost as if there were some equality among things, some balance in all possible contingencies which we are not permitted to know lest we should learn indifference to good and evil, but which is sometimes shown to us for an instant as a last aid in our last agony.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000039_000008.wav|You start by hating the irrational and you come to hate everything, for everything is irrational and so----"|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000060_000001.wav|"I found him wandering in the Cathedral.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000061_000000.wav|There was a constable to spare.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000027_000000.wav|"The cross is on top of the ball," said Professor Lucifer, simply.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000012.wav|It is not negative in the least; it is as positive as good news.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000006_000001.wav|We are up in the sky.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000055_000011.wav|For in that unendurable instant when he hung, half slipping, to the ball of saint Paul's, the whole universe had been destroyed and re created.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000010.wav|Beside the ship and beneath it (for it swung just under the ball), the immeasurable dome itself shot out and down into the dark like a combination of voiceless cataracts.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000050_000001.wav|But such extreme states are dangerous things to dogmatize about.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000048_000000.wav|Those who look at the matter most superficially regard paradox as something which belongs to jesting and light journalism.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000003_000007.wav|And now that his luck had lifted him above all the mountains in the society of a wild physicist, he made himself happy still.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000023_000002.wav|So satisfied.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000019_000013.wav|They had broken through a roof and come into a temple of twilight.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000036_000011.wav|Mile after mile along his homeward path he broke it down and tore it up.|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2971/4275/2971_4275_000034_000001.wav|"He took this----"|2971
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000046_000000.wav|Meantime I sank aghast into the chair which she had vacated.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000017_000000.wav|"Eh bien! mon ami" she resumed with a certain empressment of manner that rather surprised me-"Eh bien! mon ami, you have earnestly besought of me a favor which you have been pleased to denominate priceless.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000002_000001.wav|I could scarcely restrain the excessive transport which possessed me.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000004_000002.wav|In the present instance, Eugenie, who for a few moments past had seemed to be searching for something in her bosom, at length let fall upon the grass a miniature, which I immediately picked up and presented to her.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000006.wav|Jupiter, and every one of the gods and goddesses, little and big!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000000.wav|This latter argument seemed finally to soften the rigor of her determination.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000013_000004.wav|I even went so far as to speak of a slightly hectic cough with which, at one time, I had been troubled-of a chronic rheumatism-of a twinge of hereditary gout-and, in conclusion, of the disagreeable and inconvenient, but hitherto carefully concealed, weakness of my eyes.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000007_000004.wav|I would have escorted her myself, but felt that, under the circumstances of my introduction to the house, I had better remain unobserved where I was.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000001.wav|She relented; but there was yet an obstacle, she said, which she felt assured I had not properly considered.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000007_000000.wav|The evening thus spent was unquestionably the most delicious of my life. Madame Lalande had not overrated the musical abilities of her friends; and the singing I here heard I had never heard excelled in any private circle out of Vienna.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000041_000000.wav|"Moissart?" I exclaimed, "and Voissart!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000050_000006.wav|When "Madame Lalande" was called upon to sing, the younger lady was intended; and it was she who arose to obey the call; my great, great, grandmother, to further the deception, arising at the same moment and accompanying her to the piano in the main drawing room.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000049_000003.wav|The information thus obtained induced her to renew her scrutiny; and this scrutiny it was which so emboldened me that I behaved in the absurd manner already detailed. She returned my bow, however, under the impression that, by some odd accident, I had discovered her identity.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000025_000002.wav|I handed my adored wife out, and ordered breakfast forthwith.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000017_000002.wav|Should I yield to your entreaties-and, I may add, to the pleadings of my own bosom-would I not be entitled to demand of you a very-a very little boon in return?"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000005_000000.wav|"Keep it!" she said, with one of her most ravishing smiles.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000006_000003.wav|In about an hour after my arrival, to be sure, a single shaded solar lamp was lit in the principal drawing room; and this apartment, I could thus see, was arranged with unusual good taste and even splendor; but two other rooms of the suite, and in which the company chiefly assembled, remained, during the whole evening, in a very agreeable shadow.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000034_000001.wav|Me not one single day more dan de eighty doo."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000008.wav|I dashed the spectacles violently to the ground, and, leaping to my feet, stood erect in the middle of the floor, confronting mrs Simpson, with my arms set a kimbo, and grinning and foaming, but, at the same time, utterly speechless with terror and with rage.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000000_000000.wav|I replied as best I could-as only a true lover can.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000047_000003.wav|In this respect, indeed, she might have been regarded as little less than the equal of the celebrated Ninon De L'Enclos.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000004.wav|Was I aware-was I fully aware of the discrepancy between us?|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000013_000000.wav|Our conversation was now long, earnest, uninterrupted, and totally unreserved.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000008_000005.wav|Her voice embraced three complete octaves, extending from the contralto D to the D upper soprano, and, though sufficiently powerful to have filled the San Carlos, executed, with the minutest precision, every difficulty of vocal composition ascending and descending scales, cadences, or fiorituri.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000007_000005.wav|I was thus deprived of the pleasure of seeing, although not of hearing, her sing.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000022_000002.wav|The soiree would scarcely break up before two; and by this hour the vehicle was to be at the door, when, in the confusion occasioned by the departure of the company, Madame l could easily enter it unobserved.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000022_000000.wav|Our conversation now turned upon the details of our arrangements for the morrow.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000005_000005.wav|I can promise you, too, some good singing.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000016_000001.wav|They formed a complex and magnificent toy, richly chased and filigreed, and gleaming with jewels, which, even in the deficient light, I could not help perceiving were of high value.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000027_000003.wav|Yes; full easily do I call to mind the precise words of the dear promise you made to Eugenie last night.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000006_000004.wav|This is a well conceived custom, giving the party at least a choice of light or shade, and one which our friends over the water could not do better than immediately adopt.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000003_000002.wav|But what then? The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000025_000001.wav|At four precisely, therefore, the carriage drew up at the door of the principal inn.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000005_000003.wav|In the meantime, you shall be my escort home to night.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000024_000001.wav|He professed excessive astonishment, of course, but congratulated me most cordially, and proffered every assistance in his power.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000006.wav|A discrepancy of this unnatural kind gave rise, too frequently, alas! to a life of unhappiness.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000043_000000.wav|"Froissart!" said I, beginning to faint, "why, surely you don't say Moissart, and Voissart, and Croissart, and Froissart?"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000046_000001.wav|"Moissart and Voissart!" I repeated, thoughtfully, as she cut one of her pigeon wings, and "Croissart and Froissart!" as she completed another-"Moissart and Voissart and Croissart and Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart!--why, you ineffable old serpent, that's me-that's me-d'ye hear?|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000019_000002.wav|For, this infirmity you virtually deny, in refusing to employ the customary means for its relief.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000026_000000.wav|It was now nearly if not altogether daylight; and, as I gazed, enraptured, at the angel by my side, the singular idea came, all at once, into my head, that this was really the very first moment since my acquaintance with the celebrated loveliness of Madame Lalande, that I had enjoyed a near inspection of that loveliness by daylight at all.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000051_000004.wav|I believe I shall be forced to call them both out.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000018_000000.wav|"Name it!" I exclaimed with an energy that had nearly drawn upon us the observation of the company, and restrained by their presence alone from throwing myself impetuously at her feet.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000002.wav|Could I believe my eyes?--could I?--that was the question.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000007_000002.wav|The vocalists were chiefly ladies, and no individual sang less than well.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000050_000003.wav|He purposely kept out of my way to avoid giving me the introduction.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000049_000001.wav|Thus interested, and knowing that the heir she sought was actually in the city, she made inquiries of her party respecting me.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000035_000000.wav|"Eighty two!" I ejaculated, staggering to the wall-"eighty two hundred thousand baboons!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000008_000000.wav|The impression she produced upon the company seemed electrical but the effect upon myself was something even more.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000003_000003.wav|To those who love as ourselves, in what respect differs a year from an hour?|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000003.wav|She alluded to the topic of age.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000015_000000.wav|As she spoke she twirled in her fingers the identical double eye glass which had so overwhelmed me with confusion at the opera.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000022_000001.wav|Talbot, I learned from my betrothed, had just arrived in town. I was to see him at once, and procure a carriage.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000007.wav|what-what-what-what had become of her teeth?|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000005_000006.wav|We French are not nearly so punctilious as you Americans, and I shall have no difficulty in smuggling you in, in the character of an old acquaintance."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000050_000010.wav|Its presentation afforded an opportunity for the lecture upon affectation with which I was so especially edified.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000005_000001.wav|"Keep it for my sake-for the sake of her whom it too flatteringly represents. Besides, upon the back of the trinket you may discover, perhaps, the very information you seem to desire.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000019_000006.wav|It is in the former mode, however, and habitually, that you have already consented to wear it for my sake."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000005_000002.wav|It is now, to be sure, growing rather dark-but you can examine it at your leisure in the morning.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000049_000000.wav|At the opera, my great, great, grandmother's attention was arrested by my notice; and, upon surveying me through her eye glass, she was struck with a certain family resemblance to herself.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000038_000000.wav|"Yes, Moissart," said she, mimicking my pronunciation, which, to speak the truth, was none of the best,--"and vat den?|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000007.wav|Now she was aware that my own age did not exceed two and twenty; and I, on the contrary, perhaps, was not aware that the years of my Eugenie extended very considerably beyond that sum.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000001.wav|What, in the name of everything hideous, did this mean?|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000013_000001.wav|She made me relate many of the earlier passages of my life, and listened with breathless attention to every word of the narrative.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000021_000002.wav|I sacrifice every feeling for your sake.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000021_000003.wav|To night I wear this dear eye glass, as an eye glass, and upon my heart; but with the earliest dawn of that morning which gives me the pleasure of calling you wife, I will place it upon my-upon my nose,--and there wear it ever afterward, in the less romantic, and less fashionable, but certainly in the more serviceable, form which you desire."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000023_000000.wav|Having planned all this, I immediately took leave, and went in search of Talbot, but, on the way, I could not refrain from stepping into a hotel, for the purpose of inspecting the miniature; and this I did by the powerful aid of the glasses.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000049_000004.wav|When, deceived by my weakness of vision, and the arts of the toilet, in respect to the age and charms of the strange lady, I demanded so enthusiastically of Talbot who she was, he concluded that I meant the younger beauty, as a matter of course, and so informed me, with perfect truth, that she was "the celebrated widow, Madame Lalande."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000000_000002.wav|In conclusion, I dwelt, with a convincing energy, upon the perils that encompass the course of love-that course of true love that never did run smooth-and thus deduced the manifest danger of rendering that course unnecessarily long.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000029_000000.wav|"Goodness gracious me!" I exclaimed, almost at the very instant that the rim of the spectacles had settled upon my nose-"My goodness gracious me!--why, what can be the matter with these glasses?" and taking them quickly off, I wiped them carefully with a silk handkerchief, and adjusted them again.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000052_000000.wav|Nevertheless, I am not the husband of my great, great, grandmother; and this is a reflection which affords me infinite relief,--but I am the husband of Madame Lalande-of Madame Stephanie Lalande-with whom my good old relative, besides making me her sole heir when she dies-if she ever does-has been at the trouble of concocting me a match.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000014_000001.wav|By the by," she continued, "have you any recollection " and here I fancied that a blush, even through the gloom of the apartment, became distinctly visible upon her cheek-"have you any recollection, mon cher ami of this little ocular assistant, which now depends from my neck?"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000024_000002.wav|In a word, we carried out our arrangement to the letter, and, at two in the morning, just ten minutes after the ceremony, I found myself in a close carriage with Madame Lalande-with mrs Simpson, I should say-and driving at a great rate out of town, in a direction Northeast by North, half North.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000002_000000.wav|About all this there was a nobility of soul-a dignity of candor-which delighted-which enchanted me-which eternally riveted my chains.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000012_000000.wav|Upon rising from the piano after these miracles of vocal execution, she resumed her seat by my side; when I expressed to her, in terms of the deepest enthusiasm, my delight at her performance.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000020_000001.wav|But the condition with which it was coupled rendered hesitation, of course, a matter altogether out of the question.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000036_000000.wav|"To be sure!--dat is so!--ver true! but den de portraite has been take for dese fifty five year.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000051_000001.wav|He was an excellent "whip," however; and having doffed his cassock to put on a great coat, he drove the hack which conveyed the "happy couple" out of town.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000025_000000.wav|It had been determined for us by Talbot, that, as we were to be up all night, we should make our first stop at C-, a village about twenty miles from the city, and there get an early breakfast and some repose, before proceeding upon our route.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000019_000003.wav|You will understand me to say, then, that I wish you to wear spectacles;--ah, hush!--you have already consented to wear them, for my sake.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000020_000000.wav|This request-must I confess it?--confused me in no little degree.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000033_000000.wav|"You wretch!" said I, catching my breath-"you-you-you villainous old hag!"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000047_000000.wav|Madame Eugenie Lalande, quasi Simpson-formerly Moissart-was, in sober fact, my great, great, grandmother.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000002.wav|This was a delicate point-for a woman to urge, especially so; in mentioning it, she saw that she must make a sacrifice of her feelings; still, for me, every sacrifice should be made.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000004_000000.wav|Here I paused for an instant, in the expectation that Madame Lalande would interrupt me by supplying her true age.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000000.wav|But if, in the first instance, there had occurred something which occasioned me surprise, in the second, this surprise became elevated into astonishment; and this astonishment was profound-was extreme-indeed I may say it was horrific.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000023_000002.wav|Those large luminous eyes!--that proud Grecian nose!--those dark luxuriant curls!--"Ah!" said I, exultingly to myself, "this is indeed the speaking image of my beloved!" I turned the reverse, and discovered the words-"Eugenie Lalande-aged twenty seven years and seven months."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000027_000004.wav|Listen!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000019_000001.wav|You shall conquer, for my sake, this affectation which leads you, as you yourself acknowledge, to the tacit or implied denial of your infirmity of vision.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000011_000000.wav|Here, in imitation of Malibran, she modified the original phrase of Bellini, so as to let her voice descend to the tenor G, when, by a rapid transition, she struck the G above the treble stave, springing over an interval of two octaves.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000027_000006.wav|I sacrifice every feeling for your sake.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000030_000003.wav|Was that-was that-was that rouge?|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000037_000000.wav|"Moissart!" said i|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000039_000000.wav|"Nothing, you old fright!--I know nothing about him at all; only I had an ancestor of that name, once upon a time."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000027_000005.wav|You spoke thus: 'It is done!--it is most cheerfully agreed!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000000_000001.wav|I spoke at length, and perseveringly of my devotion, of my passion-of her exceeding beauty, and of my own enthusiastic admiration.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000001_000005.wav|That the age of the husband, should surpass by a few years-even by fifteen or twenty-the age of the wife, was regarded by the world as admissible, and, indeed, as even proper, but she had always entertained the belief that the years of the wife should never exceed in number those of the husband.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000008_000001.wav|I know not how adequately to describe it.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000021_000000.wav|"It is done!" I cried, with all the enthusiasm that I could muster at the moment.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000051_000002.wav|Talbot took a seat at his side.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000027_000001.wav|Ah! let me see!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000018_000001.wav|"Name it, my beloved, my Eugenie, my own!--name it!--but, alas! it is already yielded ere named."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000007_000001.wav|The instrumental performers were many and of superior talents.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000047_000001.wav|In her youth she had been beautiful, and even at eighty two, retained the majestic height, the sculptural contour of head, the fine eyes and the Grecian nose of her girlhood.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000021_000001.wav|"It is done-it is most cheerfully agreed.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000046_000003.wav|I am Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart! and if I havn't married my great, great, grandmother, I wish I may be everlastingly confounded!"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000006_000000.wav|With this, she took my arm, and I attended her home.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000050_000009.wav|The eyeglass was presented by way of adding a reproof to the hoax-a sting to the epigram of the deception.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000003_000001.wav|Your years surpass in some measure my own.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000013_000002.wav|I concealed nothing-felt that I had a right to conceal nothing-from her confiding affection.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000051_000000.wav|The clergyman, who merely pretended to tie the fatal knot, was a boon companion of Talbot's, and no priest.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000050_000012.wav|They suited me, in fact, to a t|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000023_000001.wav|The countenance was a surpassingly beautiful one!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/108640/7754_108640_000008_000006.wav|In the final of the Somnambula, she brought about a most remarkable effect at the words:|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000023_000001.wav|You shame me, Mademoiselle," replied Sir Andrew; "though my life is at your service, I have been but a humble tool in the hands of our great leader, who organised and effected your escape."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000026_000000.wav|"Alas, Madame!" said Lord Antony, "that is impossible."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000032_000000.wav|"Yes, that is so," assented Lord Antony.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000029_000000.wav|"The Scarlet Pimpernel?" said Suzanne, with a merry laugh.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000063_000001.wav|Sir Percy Blakeney, her husband, is a very wealthy man, of high social position, the intimate friend of the Prince of Wales . . . and Lady Blakeney leads both fashion and society in London."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000025_000001.wav|"Ah! of course, you must have a leader.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000043_000000.wav|But the Comtesse shook her head, still incredulously.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000029_000002.wav|What is the Scarlet Pimpernel, Monsieur?"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000031_000001.wav|A little flower-red?--yes!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000001_000000.wav|They all looked a merry, even a happy party, as they sat round the table; Sir Andrew Ffoulkes and Lord Antony Dewhurst, two typical good looking, well born and well bred Englishmen of that year of grace seventeen ninety two, and the aristocratic French comtesse with her two children, who had just escaped from such dire perils, and found a safe retreat at last on the shores of protecting England.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000043_000002.wav|Their nationality, once they had set foot in France, would be no safeguard to them.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000062_000002.wav|I assure you there is no mistake. . . .|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000025_000003.wav|But tell me where is he?|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000003_000000.wav|Not one of those at the supper table had noticed this curious and silent manoeuvre, but when the stranger finally closed the door of the coffee room behind him, they all instinctively sighed a sigh of relief.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000046_000000.wav|The Comtesse looked round at the quaint, old-fashioned English inn, the peace of this land of civil and religious liberty, and she closed her eyes to shut out the haunting vision of that West Barricade, and of the mob retreating panic stricken when the old hag spoke of the plague.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000015_000000.wav|"Aye, Madame!" here interposed Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, "trust in God by all means, but believe also a little in your English friends, who have sworn to bring the Count safely across the Channel, even as they have brought you to day."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000030_000000.wav|She looked at Sir Andrew with eager curiosity.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000047_000000.wav|Every moment under that cart she expected recognition, arrest, herself and her children tried and condemned, and these young Englishmen, under the guidance of their brave and mysterious leader, had risked their lives to save them all, as they had already saved scores of other innocent people.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000025_000000.wav|"Your leader, Monsieur?" said the Comtesse, eagerly.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000006_000001.wav|God bless him for his hospitality to us all, poor exiles from France."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000068_000000.wav|Even as he spoke, a distant clatter was heard of an approaching coach; louder and louder it grew, one or two shouts became distinguishable, then the rattle of horses' hoofs on the uneven cobble stones, and the next moment a stable boy had thrown open the coffee room door and rushed in excitedly.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000006_000000.wav|"To His Majesty George Three of England.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000031_000003.wav|Yes?"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000069_000000.wav|"Sir Percy Blakeney and my lady," he shouted at the top of his voice, "they're just arriving."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000039_000000.wav|"But, tell me, why should your leader-why should you all-spend your money and risk your lives-for it is your lives you risk, Messieurs, when you set foot in France-and all for us French men and women, who are nothing to you?"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000065_000002.wav|As for Lord Antony, he looked extremely uncomfortable, and glanced once or twice apprehensively towards Jellyband, who looked just as uncomfortable as himself.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000048_000000.wav|And all only for sport?|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000002_000002.wav|The stranger then, with a loud "Good night," quietly walked out of the coffee room.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000023_000000.wav|"Nay!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000042_000000.wav|"Faith, Madame, I would like you to find it then . . . as for me, I vow, I love the game, for this is the finest sport I have yet encountered.--Hair breath escapes . . . the devil's own risks!--Tally ho!--and away we go!"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000050_000000.wav|"Twenty all told, Mademoiselle," he replied, "one to command, and nineteen to obey.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000002_000000.wav|In the corner the two strangers had apparently finished their game; one of them arose, and standing with his back to the merry company at the table, he adjusted with much deliberation his large triple caped coat. As he did so, he gave one quick glance all around him.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000018_000005.wav|I should not have left him . . .|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000018_000001.wav|I was torn between my duty to him, and to them.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000053_000000.wav|"It is wonderful to me, wonderful!--That you should all be so brave, so devoted to your fellowmen-yet you are English!--and in France treachery is rife-all in the name of liberty and fraternity."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000058_000001.wav|She was a leading actress of the Comedie Francaise, and she married an Englishman lately. You must know her-"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000030_000001.wav|The young man's face had become almost transfigured.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000024_000000.wav|He had spoken with so much warmth and vehemence that Suzanne's eyes fastened upon him in undisguised wonder.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000058_000000.wav|"Yes!" replied the Comtesse, "surely you know her.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000030_000002.wav|His eyes shone with enthusiasm; hero worship, love, admiration for his leader seemed literally to glow upon his face.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000067_000000.wav|"Any moment, my lord," whispered Jellyband in reply.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000020_000001.wav|There was no doubt that they felt deeply for her; their very silence testified to that-but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000025_000002.wav|And I did not think of that before!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000009_000001.wav|The fate of the unfortunate King of France, then a prisoner of his own people, seemed to cast a gloom even over mr Jellyband's pleasant countenance.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000061_000002.wav|Why should she have done such a thing?|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000050_000001.wav|All of us Englishmen, and all pledged to the same cause-to obey our leader and to rescue the innocent."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000022_000000.wav|This was said with so much confidence, such unuttered hope and belief, that it seemed as if by magic to dry the mother's eyes, and to bring a smile upon everybody's lips.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000061_000003.wav|Surely there must be some mistake-"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000043_000001.wav|To her it seemed preposterous that these young men and their great leader, all of them rich, probably wellborn, and young, should for no other motive than sport, run the terrible risks, which she knew they were constantly doing.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000007_000000.wav|"His Majesty the King!" echoed Lord Antony and Sir Andrew as they drank loyally to the toast.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000019_000001.wav|She was crying gently to herself, whilst Suzanne ran up to her and tried to kiss away her tears.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000035_000000.wav|"Oh!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000016_000002.wav|The way some of my own friends have escaped from the clutches of that awful revolutionary tribunal was nothing short of a miracle-and all done by you and your friends-"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000009_000000.wav|Everyone rose and drank this toast in silence.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000004_000000.wav|"Alone, at last!" said Lord Antony, jovially.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000033_000000.wav|"Then he will have received one such paper to day?"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000018_000003.wav|now that I am here-amongst you all-in this beautiful, free England-I think of him, flying for his life, hunted like a poor beast . . . in such peril . . .|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000034_000000.wav|"Undoubtedly."|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000062_000003.wav|You had not heard this story?"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000048_000001.wav|Impossible!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000018_000002.wav|They refused to go without me . . . and you and your friends assured me so solemnly that my husband would be safe. But, oh!|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000066_000000.wav|"At what time do you expect Sir Percy and Lady Blakeney?" he contrived to whisper unobserved, to mine host.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000043_000003.wav|Anyone found harbouring or assisting suspected royalists would be ruthlessly condemned and summarily executed, whatever his nationality might be.|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7754/105383/7754_105383_000038_000000.wav|"Why should you try, Madame?"|7754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000004_000003.wav|I told her whole crowds, as long as she kept the door shut, and the idea didn't seem to have struck her before; at least, she brooded over it for the rest of dinner.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000003_000009.wav|I suppose it's unlucky to bring peacock's feathers into a house; anyway, there was a blue pencilly look in my hostess's eye when I took my departure.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000004_000001.wav|She eventually finds her way to India and gets married, and comes home to admire the Royal Academy, and to imagine that an indifferent prawn curry is for ever an effective substitute for all that we have been taught to believe is luncheon.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000005_000003.wav|England must wake up, as the Duke of Devonshire said the other day; wasn't it?|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000002_000000.wav|There was a fellow I stayed with once in Warwickshire who farmed his own land, but was otherwise quite steady.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000003_000004.wav|And they tried to rag me in the smoking room about not being able to hit a bird at five yards, a sort of bovine ragging that suggested cows buzzing round a gadfly and thinking they were teasing it.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000003_000008.wav|I gathered afterwards that the meal was tinged with a very unchristian spirit.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000003_000000.wav|I suppose the same thing holds good with the hosts; they seldom have more than a superficial acquaintance with their guests, and so often just when they do get to know you a bit better, they leave off knowing you altogether.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000002_000003.wav|Still, that's better than a domestic scandal; a woman who leaves her cook never wholly recovers her position in Society.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125001/475_125001_000003_000007.wav|I breakfasted upstairs myself.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/124999/475_124999_000002_000000.wav|REGINALD'S CHOIR TREAT|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/124999/475_124999_000017_000006.wav|After all, he said, it is the spirit of the thing that counts.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/124999/475_124999_000017_000007.wav|Following the etiquette of dramatic authors on first nights, he remained discreetly in the background while the procession, with extreme diffidence and the goat, wound its way lugubriously towards the village.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/124999/475_124999_000014_000001.wav|A good life is infinitely preferable to good looks."|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/124999/475_124999_000006_000001.wav|The family ate porridge, and believed in everything, even the weather forecast.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000003_000000.wav|"Someone has observed that Providence is always on the side of the big dividends," remarked Reginald.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000006_000005.wav|And nowadays there are always the Johannesbourgeois, who bring a Cape to Cairo atmosphere with them-what may be called the Rand Manner, I suppose."|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000005_000000.wav|Reginald had left the selection of a feeding ground to her womanly intuition, but he chose the wine himself, knowing that womanly intuition stops short at claret.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000024_000001.wav|The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000026_000001.wav|There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the mediaeval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000006_000004.wav|You see that type of Briton very much in hotels abroad.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000010_000000.wav|"The people with what I call Tauchnitz morals," observed Reginald.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000008_000004.wav|How frightfully embarrassing to meet a whole shoal of whitebait you had last known at Prince's!|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000008_000000.wav|"And so silly.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000025_000000.wav|"After all," said the Duchess, "the disillusions of life may depend on our way of assessing it.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000017_000001.wav|By miles of frozen ocean, I was going to say. He explores ice floes and studies the movements of herrings, and has written a most interesting book on the home life of the Esquimaux; but naturally he has very little home life of his own."|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000020_000000.wav|"Trouble is not one of those fancies you can take up and drop at any moment; it's like a grouse moor or the opium habit-once you start it you've got to keep it up."|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000011_000000.wav|"A scandal, my dear Reginald, is as much to be avoided at Monaco or any of those places as at Exeter, let us say."|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000022_000000.wav|"There are different ways of taking disappointment.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000008_000007.wav|I know if I were served up at a cannibal feast I should be dreadfully annoyed if anyone found fault with me for not being tender enough, or having been kept too long."|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000019_000002.wav|Those people with her are the Whimples, very old acquaintances of mine; they're always having trouble, poor things."|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000002_000000.wav|"A most variable climate," said the Duchess; "and how unfortunate that we should have had that very cold weather at a time when coal was so dear! So distressing for the poor."|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000012_000000.wav|"Scandal, my dear Irene-I may call you Irene, mayn't I?"|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000007_000002.wav|Such a sweet woman"--|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000022_000003.wav|That's what I call being vindictive."|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000023_000001.wav|But that, my dear Reginald, becomes more difficult as one grows older."|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000023_000000.wav|"Life is full of its disappointments," observed the Duchess, "and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000005_000001.wav|A woman will cheerfully choose husbands for her less attractive friends, or take sides in a political controversy without the least knowledge of the issues involved-but no woman ever cheerfully chose a claret.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, nothing of that sort.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000010_000001.wav|"On the whole, I think they get the best of two very desirable worlds.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000021_000000.wav|"Their eldest son was such a disappointment to them; they wanted him to be a linguist, and spent no end of money on having him taught to speak-oh, dozens of languages!--and then he became a Trappist monk.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000008_000001.wav|In these days of the over education of women she's quite refreshing.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000006_000000.wav|"Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me," said Reginald: "they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through, wondering what the next course is going to be like-and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000025_000001.wav|In the minds of those who come after us we may be remembered for qualities and successes which we quite left out of the reckoning."|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000014_000003.wav|Tell me, who is the woman with the old lace at the table on our left?|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000008_000002.wav|They say some people went through the siege of Paris without knowing that France and Germany were at war; but the Beauwhistle aunt is credited with having passed the whole winter in Paris under the impression that the Humberts were a kind of bicycle . . .|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000024_000000.wav|"I think it's more generally practised than you imagine.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000021_000001.wav|And the youngest, who was intended for the American marriage market, has developed political tendencies, and writes pamphlets about the housing of the poor.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/125002/475_125002_000019_000001.wav|She collects postage stamps. Such a resource.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/124994/475_124994_000033_000001.wav|Never . . .|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/124994/475_124994_000016_000001.wav|He was debating what tie would go with which waistcoat.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/475/124994/475_124994_000030_000000.wav|There were symptoms of a stampede.|475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000010_000003.wav|It was the season of hunters with terrible guns.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000005_000000.wav|It is sad but true.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000009_000001.wav|It was even clutching at the hearts of Granny and Reddy Fox and of great, big Buster Bear.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000008_000001.wav|It wasn't fear of Reddy Fox, or Redtail the Hawk, or Hooty the Owl, or Old Man Coyote.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000008_000000.wav|But peter had no thought for the beauty of it all, for the Spirit of Fear had visited even the dear Old Briar patch, and peter was afraid.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000006_000001.wav|It peers into every hiding place and wherever it finds one of the little people it sends little cold chills over him, little chills which jolly, round, bright mr Sun cannot chase away, though he shine his brightest.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000010_000001.wav|peter jumped and shivered.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000009_000002.wav|It seemed to peter that no one was so big or so small that this terrible Spirit of Fear had not searched him out.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000003_000000.wav|When the days grow cold and the nights are clear, There stalks abroad the spirit of fear.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000007_000000.wav|peter Rabbit was thinking of this as he sat at the edge of the dear Old Briar patch, looking over to the Green Forest.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000006_000003.wav|It will not let them sleep.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000008_000003.wav|To be sure, they gave him sudden frights sometimes, when they happened to surprise him, but these frights lasted only until he reached the nearest bramble tangle or hollow log where they could not get at him.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000005_000006.wav|It is the season when food is plentiful, and every one is fat and is, or ought to be, care free.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000006_000000.wav|But instead of this, a grim, dark figure goes stalking over the Green Meadows and through the Green Forest, and it is called the Spirit of Fear.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000010_000002.wav|He knew that every one else who had heard that bang had jumped and shivered just as he had.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000010_000000.wav|Far in the distance sounded a sudden bang.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000008_000002.wav|They were forever trying to catch him, but they did not strike terror to his heart because he felt quite smart enough to keep out of their clutches.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000006_000004.wav|It will not let them eat in peace.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000005_000002.wav|But it shouldn't be.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000011_000000.wav|"I don't understand these men creatures," said peter to little mrs peter, as they stared fearfully out from the dear Old Briar patch.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000007_000003.wav|The Purple Hills were more softly purple than at any other season of the year.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000011_000001.wav|"They seem to find pleasure, actually find pleasure, in trying to kill us.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/282985/8152_282985_000006_000006.wav|It keeps them ever ready to fly or run at the slightest sound.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000003.wav|Some maintain that all that is needed to make workmen more efficient is to feed them well.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000035_000004.wav|The headings just given may serve, however, to suggest the leading phases of the subject.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000006_000000.wav|one.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000016_000002.wav|As population grows more dense, these things become more difficult to secure; men are brought into unnatural conditions, the evils of slum and factory life develop, and the housing problem appears.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000035_000002.wav|It is none too many, as every reason for the modern, as contrasted with the primitive, organization of industry should be included.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000002.wav|The question arises: which is cause, which effect?|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000013.wav|A moderate change in that direction cannot but increase rather than diminish the efficiency of labor.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000038_000004.wav|Unreasoning imitation, family traditions, parental wishes, class pride, social prejudice, childish whim, are often decisive of the life career.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000006_000002.wav|In part it depends on the physical and mental powers of men; in part on things outside of the worker that either stimulate and strengthen him, or give him more favorable conditions in which to work.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000005.wav|Sometimes a legislator from a country town goes to the state capital poor and returns rich.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000002.wav|It exists in some form throughout the world, and where it is not called by that name, the same caste spirit is at work.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000003_000000.wav|CONDITIONS FOR EFFICIENT LABOR|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000031_000007.wav|The worker finds division of labor existing as a social institution and, according as he adapts himself to it wisely or foolishly, it increases more or less his efficiency.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000033_000004.wav|The natural advantages in another district must be large to enable it to start successfully against these acquired economies, and territorial division of labor thus tends to continue for long periods when once established.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000002.wav|We are accustomed to the thought that in an Asiatic despotism a worker beginning a task is uncertain whether he will reap the reward, as public officials may at any moment seize upon the fruits of his labor.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000006.wav|Such things becoming generally known tend to break down the motives to industry.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000006_000003.wav|These are respectively the subjective and the objective factors of efficiency.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000026_000003.wav|To Western eyes already the young men in the older East seem to be trammeled by social conventions.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000007.wav|But if wages increase, it is by no means certain that more or better food will be bought or if it is that the workmen's powers will be increased.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000038_000002.wav|The world is filled with industrial misfits, "round men in square holes," good carpenters spoiled to make poor doctors.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000008_000005.wav|A certain part of the result is thought of as due to material agents, a certain part to labor.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000010.wav|The thought is paralyzing.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000000.wav|three.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000000.wav|four.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000008_000006.wav|"Efficiency of labor" is thought of in the narrower sense as the part of the product that is logically attributable to labor,--the laborer's contribution to the value of the product,--as apart from rent, the part attributable to material resources.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000031_000000.wav|one.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000038_000005.wav|Happily in some cases, before too late, the man "finds himself," but too often the poverty of the family and the obstacles to education preclude the exercise of intelligent choice.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000009.wav|There is some reason to believe that in America great numbers of our people, perhaps even many manual laborers, would be better off if they bought simpler and less costly food.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000035_000003.wav|The phrase division of labor is but a synonym for specialization, a word that expresses all that is most characteristic of our complex industrial society.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000011.wav|Individual preferences are still expressed, however, in irregularity of employment. In the South some manufacturers have found that on an average the negroes will work in a factory not more than five or six hours a day, working ten hours for four days and lying off two days a week.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000008_000003.wav|If resources were much more abundant than at present, many goods now scarce would become almost, or quite, free.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000003.wav|The answer is determined by the balance of utility and disutility.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000035_000009.wav|In fact this fuller economic use of machinery and plant where a large product is turned out at one place, is a prime factor in the advantages of large production, a subject to be treated elsewhere much more fully than is here possible.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000006.wav|The use made of spare time differs according to climate, race, and temperament.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000029_000001.wav|three. DIVISION OF LABOR|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000006_000004.wav|In its broader sense, therefore, the phrase "efficiency of labor" implies any and every influence that makes for a larger and better supply of goods.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000012_000003.wav|One group squealed more; another scratched more; another waxed fat faster.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000014_000001.wav|The cost of clothing enough for comfort is, however, comparatively small, the amount spent for ornament is comparatively high.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000035_000000.wav|three.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000012_000006.wav|They were given daily baths, special physical exercises, and were fed on a specially bountiful diet. Scientific philanthropy stopped there, but photographs "before and after," reproduced in the printed reports, show the great physical improvement that resulted, and a marked change occurred likewise in disposition and intelligence.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000033_000000.wav|two.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000005.wav|The Porto Ricans enlisted in the American regular army are reported to have increased at once in strength, weight, and vigor; the Filipino recruits, thanks to the American army rations, soon outgrew their uniforms.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000026_000005.wav|If it is true, as wise students declare, that the frontier has been the nursery of our democratic ideas, we may well ask what effect the closing of the frontier will have on our national sentiment and on our material prosperity.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000010.wav|In the modern larger organization of industry, working hours are much the same for all workers in the establishment.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000006.wav|Some employers in Europe pay their workmen an extra sum on condition that it is spent for meat.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000008_000004.wav|In the last chapter it was shown that an increase of the labor in a limited area or with a limited supply of indirect agents results in a decline in the relative bounty of the environment.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000035_000012.wav|The most complex machines have been developed gradually by combinations and adaptations of simple tools, and the more a process is subdivided, the greater is the chance of hitting upon a device to repeat mechanically the few simple movements.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000003.wav|But in our own country similar evils are not entirely lacking.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000004.wav|In some cases this is probably true.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000017_000002.wav|When the unsanitary conditions about each family are visited upon its neighbors, society must deal with them.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000012_000000.wav|A few years ago an experiment in the feeding of pigs was tried on the Cornell farm.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000012_000007.wav|Many laboratory experiments have been made of late to test the chemical nature and the physiological effects of foods.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000009.wav|The prudent man, in the old maxims, makes hay while the sun shines and ploughs deep while sluggards sleep.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000007.wav|In the tropics the margin is converted usually into loafing, in the temperate zones largely into objective forms of enjoyment.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000004.wav|Where slavery exists the master class at times feels its hardships.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000012_000008.wav|It is becoming more fully recognized that the quality and quantity of food, and the cooking of it, have a great influence on the economic quality of the worker.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000010.wav|The maximum of health and vigor may be attained with moderate outlay, and beyond that point richer food doubtless does more harm than good.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000004.wav|Assessments often are unfair, and justice sometimes is bought. Men in high executive positions are able to make or mar the fortunes of their followers.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000026_000004.wav|In an older community there is less of hopeful ambition; one's position depends more on what his fathers achieved; in the new community, more on what he does himself.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000028_000005.wav|Does the pain of toil repel more than its fruits attract?|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000006.wav|We are compelled not to make a living.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000038_000006.wav|It is of importance to society as well as to the individual that talent should be discovered in time, that tasks should be fitted to aptitudes, that each member of society should attain to his highest efficiency.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000011.wav|The race problem in America is in part one of caste sentiment, whatever can or cannot be done about it.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000000.wav|three.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000014_000002.wav|Even more important in its effects on efficiency is housing.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000022_000009.wav|Public corruption and commercial dishonesty alike entail on the industrious not only the immediate loss, but the far greater cost of weakened character, relaxed energy, and decreased efficiency of labor.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000005.wav|"It is not so hard to live," says the hungry Creole daughter in "The Grandissimes," "but it is hard to be ladies....|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000031_000002.wav|Its full discussion would cover the whole field of political economy, but only its most essential aspects can here be touched upon.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty two|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000012_000001.wav|Four groups of six pigs each were put in four different pens and fed four different rations.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000010_000011.wav|Poor judgment in the selection of food is shown in many workers' families, and there is no appreciation of its influence on health.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258974/8152_258974_000024_000007.wav|Look at me: I can cook, but I must not cook; I am skilful with the needle, but I must not take in sewing; I could keep accounts; I could nurse the sick; but I must not." Nowhere in the world is there less caste than in America, but it is here.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000023_000002.wav|The coin paid for the drink is the beginning of the expense; misery, disgrace, degeneracy, and bestialty too often are the unreckoned items.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000002.wav|The choice of recreation reacts upon the nature of the man.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000003.wav|Will he read a book or play billiards?|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000003.wav|Undoubtedly there is here a great economic force which an enlightened public opinion, even without a formal association, can make in large measure effective.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000025_000006.wav|The dress of the higher classes often is chosen because of its unsuitableness for an active worker.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000023_000000.wav|Drinking tempts some men not only by taste, but by the appeal to sociability; to other coarser natures the joys of Bacchus offer the one hope of exhilaration.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000014_000004.wav|A low grade of labor that performs only simple tasks, and those but badly, is injured if demand shifts to better products.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000032_000005.wav|But, in the broader view, the welfare of men as men is the subject most worthy of economic study.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000000.wav|Every buyer then determines in some degree the direction of industry. The market is a democracy where every penny gives a right of vote.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000005.wav|The best use of income forbids the purchase of an additional unit of any good unless it affords the highest gratification obtainable, at the moment, at an equal price.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000008_000003.wav|If there were no rich men, the demand for vineyards producing fine wines would be less.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000025_000001.wav|That was the historical order, and it is the logical order in most minds to day.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000019_000007.wav|In the struggle for existence the more efficient tribes survive, and those that develop many abnormal tastes must perish.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000011.wav|You cannot escape a choice even by burying the money, for that is either a demand for gold or a gift to the issuer of paper currency.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000006.wav|Various circumstances prevent the exact application of this rule.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000032_000006.wav|The workman's food is to gratify his hunger, primarily; not merely to make him a better working machine.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000004.wav|Every moment, therefore, the conditions of a choice are changing.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000040_000006.wav|That certain things "go together" is a fact that rests often in the nature of things. Complementary colors please the eye; well seasoned dishes please the palate.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000004_000004.wav|Food is consumed quickly, clothing more slowly, and houses wear out after many years.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000001_000000.wav|REACTION OF CONSUMPTION ON PRODUCTION|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000032_000003.wav|Too often, in economic reasoning, things are looked at from the employer's point of view.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000010.wav|Finally, the best economic adjustment must conform to the abiding physical and moral welfare of the user, not to a temporary impulse; and such a choice is far more difficult than that of the temporary good.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000006.wav|A ditch digger, looking at the question short sightedly, may deem "a good drunk" a very desirable form of enjoyment.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000009_000003.wav|This change was sudden, extreme, and temporary, and there has since been a gradual adjustment and a return to the former values.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000008.wav|The knowledge needed for a rational choice very often is lacking.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000006_000007.wav|Therefore, choosing vines or violets, pictures or pretzels, each with his nickel helps to determine what shall be produced.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000040_000005.wav|Combinations of complementary goods enhance the enjoyment; inharmonious combinations decrease it.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000007.wav|At the moment there may be as much pleasure in one as in the other (and one might add, in Hibernian phrase, "Yes, and more too.").|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000036_000006.wav|Wealth makes possible a new adjustment of life, a new character, both in the individual and in the society.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000002.wav|There are some moral qualities, however, that are closely connected with efficiency, while others are not.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000008_000004.wav|The very best qualities of goods take on the highest prices when there is a small, but very wealthy, class of purchasers.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000036_000004.wav|Ambition passes on to other and higher peaks.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000008_000000.wav|The distribution of wealth thus affects the value of agents.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000019_000008.wav|But the conditions of modern life are more complex, and temptations beset men on every side.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000030_000001.wav|three. EFFECTS ON THE ABIDING WELFARE OF THE CONSUMER|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000011.wav|It is said that "A man is what his work makes him," but it is equally true that a man's work tends to become what he is.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000009_000001.wav|The invention of the bicycle with pneumatic tires, coincident with the adoption of electric traction for street cars, reduced the price of horses between eighteen ninety and eighteen ninety five.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000003.wav|Character is a harmony of actions, a group of complementary deeds.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000003.wav|Utility varies not only according to the kinds of good, but according to the varying quantities of each.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000011_000005.wav|Rich land has been exhausted to get a few harvests.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000004.wav|There can be no harmony, without a central, simple, guiding principle.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000000.wav|three.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000008.wav|Does he enjoy music, the theater, or the cheaper attractions of Coney Island and the Bowery?|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000003.wav|Some individuals are corrupt in private personal relations, but "square" in business dealings.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000025_000005.wav|A mistake is made likewise by workers in physical tasks in imitating the dress of the wealthy and professional classes.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000009.wav|Appetites change, making unwise the old purchases, yet men go on buying the same things in the same proportions simply because a readjustment that would give greater gratification requires thought.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000011_000004.wav|Great herds of buffalo were slaughtered to get the hides, which were of comparatively slight value.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000005.wav|Liking realism, does he read Howells or the blood curdling serial entitled "Piping the Mystery"?|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000032_000008.wav|The use made of the income is itself a kind of production-its last stage.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000019_000000.wav|one.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000014_000005.wav|Back of the sweat shop shirt is the problem of the inefficient worker.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000007.wav|He has a dollar; will he go to the theater or buy ten dishes of ice cream?|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000010.wav|You may spend your monthly allowance as an agent of iniquity or of truth.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000005.wav|Will he read a yellow journal or a pink or a white one?|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000006_000003.wav|A change of taste affects the value of natural agents.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000004.wav|But usually there is some connection between the two, and under modern conditions this is becoming closer.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000004.wav|The harmony may rest on a still more complex social adjustment.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000040_000002.wav|An element added to the dress or to the diet heightens greatly the total gratification.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000004.wav|This subject, already touched upon in the sections on the efficiency of labor, deserves further notice.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000003.wav|The wide variety and greater choice now possible, even to the modest purse, make the chance of error much greater than in simpler conditions.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000000.wav|Wise consumption depends not alone on physical pleasures, but on the spiritual unity of the uses made of goods.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000007.wav|Expenditure is a matter of habit, in large measure, rather than a matter of judgment.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000001.wav|Happiness and character are akin in the qualities of simplicity and unity.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000004_000002.wav|To take away the prospect of the enjoyment of goods is to take away all their value.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000032_000009.wav|Is the process, on the whole, worth while? This can only be judged by finding whether, on the whole, the welfare of man has been furthered.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000004_000000.wav|one.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000036_000003.wav|Desire grows by what it feeds on.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000005.wav|Fitness for daily tasks is affected by the daily thoughts of the worker.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000040_000003.wav|The result is a unit. Think of a dinner without butter, or a cranberry pie without sugar, or a dress suit without a linen collar.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000012_000003.wav|The lender parts with his wealth and society uses it up.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000014_000002.wav|An influence also is exerted from the side of goods upon the price of labor.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000008.wav|Much cooking is still done in ways fit only for our grandfathers who had cast iron stomachs and worked in the open air. Culinary methods have not been adapted as yet to a sedentary life.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000003.wav|The young man must give up the piano or the game, or play both badly.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000019_000003.wav|In primitive society instinct and appetite must generally have been safe guides.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000007.wav|The results of the choice of goods are reflected in the health, intelligence, happiness, morality, and progress of society.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000009_000000.wav|Inventions often shift demand, and value follows.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000025_000007.wav|It serves thus to mark its wearer as one engaged in delicate tasks or as a person of leisure.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000012.wav|A man fit for a higher kind of work rises to it in the usual order of things; but no matter how humble the task, it partakes of the worth and wholesomeness of its doer.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000007.wav|Drink, gambling, fast living, unfit men for positions of trust, while many pastimes leave the moral nature cleaner and stronger.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000006_000002.wav|The control of purchasing power means the potential control of industry to that degree. It was necessary in discussing the enterpriser to recognize that the buyer eventually dictates the direction of industry; the enterpriser seeks to produce that for which there is most demand.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000002.wav|Happiness, so far as it depends on wealth, is a harmony of gratifications.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000002.wav|A piano player cannot be a base ball player: the one requires soft and supple hands, the other hard and callous ones.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000004.wav|In proper proportions both may be good, in excess both are evil.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000006.wav|When babies are fed on crackers dipped in coffee, or, as among the Italian immigrants, on stale bread dipped in sour wine, there is a poor foundation laid for a vigorous manhood.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000005.wav|The loss to the man whose life is in the main on a higher plane is greater if he descends occasionally to a lower.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000025_000008.wav|Possibly, therefore, because of their strong social ambitions, the manual workers in America more than elsewhere adopt a costume that is not sensible or sanitary.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000008_000001.wav|The wealthy spend relatively more for luxuries, the poor for food and other essentials.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000034_000002.wav|The choice lies among many thousands of articles.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000007.wav|Rich and poor cook too much for taste and too little for nutrition or digestion.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000038_000004.wav|Wealth, even in an economic view, is not the end of life, but merely the means to its realization.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000038_000001.wav|The highest fruits of production are in the lessons of sacrifice and discipline, and in its opportunities for experience and self expression.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000004_000005.wav|The using up is, in some cases, due to the forces of nature, and is not hastened by enjoyment.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000038_000000.wav|The thought that needs emphasis in this connection is that, while production and consumption are separable in thought and distinguishable in practice, they are not opposed in their ultimate purpose.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000021_000002.wav|Food values are not measured by the pleasure afforded the palate.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000011.wav|Much depends on the natural bent; some natures incline to the healthy as the plant grows toward the sun|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000043_000006.wav|Life is a unity.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000041_000001.wav|A farmer with his out of door life can use tobacco with far less danger than the sedentary worker.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000036_000000.wav|three.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000009.wav|Is his recreation permeated with a certain intellectual ambition?|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000016_000008.wav|He decides to buy a book, and more type and paper are made, and more printers are employed; he subscribes to foreign missions and Christian workers penetrate farther into Africa.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000019_000004.wav|Food not merely appeased hunger and gratified the palate, but it gave strength.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000023_000001.wav|The pleasure from alcoholic liquor may at the moment outweigh the cost in money, but a diseased appetite forbids any reckoning of the vast psychic cost that follows.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000029_000008.wav|Few can live a double life-honorable, conscientious, and exact in one part of the day, and corrupt in another.|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8152/258993/8152_258993_000027_000006.wav|Does he devote his spare hours to the "Scientific American" or to the "Police Gazette"?|8152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/803/139752/803_139752_000021_000000.wav|"Oh, no, my child" (for such a question is childish).|803
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/803/139752/803_139752_000015_000001.wav|They did not speak of it there, and elsewhere it is unheard of.|803
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/803/139752/803_139752_000005_000001.wav|mrs Eggins, the caretaker, glanced up the street, and then she let them in, and left them to wait in the drawing room amongst furniture all mysterious with sheets.|803
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/803/139752/803_139752_000001_000003.wav|His terms are moderate, so much cash down when the goods are delivered, so much in blackmail afterwards.|803
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/803/139752/803_139752_000010_000004.wav|Five minutes before midnight Tommy Tonker, instructed by mr Nuth, who waited outside, came away with one pocketful of rings and shirt studs.|803
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/803/139752/803_139752_000001_000008.wav|He has a way with tapestry; you would scarcely notice that the edges had been cut.|803
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/803/139753/803_139753_000008_000005.wav|With cobbled agates were its streets a glory.|803
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/803/139753/803_139753_000008_000007.wav|To them as they looked abroad the World far off seemed happy.|803
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/803/139753/803_139753_000008_000006.wav|Through small square panes of rose quartz the citizens looked from their houses.|803
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000014_000007.wav|Wilson and I pulled in front on ski, the remainder on foot.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000004.wav|Soon got to a steep grade, when the sledge overran and upset us one after another.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000018_000005.wav|Excellent march of nineteen and a half miles, ten point five before lunch.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000013_000004.wav|There was a good stiff breeze and plenty of drift, but the tracks held.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000011_000011.wav|I don't like the look of it.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000007_000006.wav|I thought we were climbing to day, but the barometer gives no change.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000003_000010.wav|It is everything now to keep up a good marching pace; I trust we shall be able to do so and catch the ship.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000014_000008.wav|It was very tricky work following the track, which pretty constantly disappeared, and in fact only showed itself by faint signs anywhere-a foot or two of raised sledge track, a dozen yards of the trail of the sledge meter wheel, or a spatter of hard snow flicks where feet had trodden.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000003_000004.wav|At first with full sail we went along at a great rate; then we got on to an extraordinary surface, the drifting snow lying in heaps; it clung to the ski, which could only be pushed forward with an effort.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000003_000005.wav|The pulling was really awful, but we went steadily on and camped a short way beyond our cairn of the fourteenth.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000004_000003.wav|now.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000018_000006.wav|Wind helping greatly, considerable drift; tracks for the most part very plain.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000023_000002.wav|Later, on soft snow, we picked up e Evans' return track, which we are now following.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000001.wav|R. sixteen.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000003_000000.wav|Night Camp r three.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000021_000006.wav|Wind light.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000009_000005.wav|Got the tent up with some difficulty, and now pretty cosy after good hoosh.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000011_000012.wav|Is the weather breaking up?|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000018_000007.wav|Some time before lunch we picked up the return track of the supporting party, so that there are now three distinct sledge impressions.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000017_000001.wav|We picked up the boots and mits on the track, and to night we found the pipe lying placidly in sight on the snow.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000011_000002.wav|Things beginning to look a little serious.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000002_000002.wav|This has brought us to our Southern Depot, and we pick up four days' food.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000017_000007.wav|We are pretty thin, especially Evans, but none of us are feeling worked out.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000010_000007.wav|Pray God we have something of a track to follow to the Three Degree Depot-once we pick that up we ought to be right.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000020_000007.wav|Wilson rested his leg as much as possible by walking quietly beside the sledge; the result has been good, and to night there is much less inflammation.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000008_000002.wav|Little wind and heavy marching at start.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000007_000001.wav|We are just about on the eighty ninth parallel.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000015_000003.wav|If we get to the next depot in a few marches (it is now less than sixty miles and we have a full week's food) we ought to be able to open out a little, but we can't look for a real feed till we get to the pony food depot.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000023_000001.wav|We lost the track.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000016_000007.wav|It is very difficult to say if we are going up or down hill; the barometer is quite different from outward readings.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000012.wav|We shall be lucky if we get through without serious injury.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000019_000005.wav|We have passed the last cairn before the depot, the track is clear ahead, the weather fair, the wind helpful, the gradient down-with any luck we should pick up our depot in the middle of the morning march.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000014_000006.wav|The forenoon march was over the belt of storm tossed sastrugi; it looked like a rough sea.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000023_000004.wav|The extra food is certainly helping us, but we are getting pretty hungry.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000009_000002.wav|Bowers hung on to the sledge, Evans and Oates had to lengthen out.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000007_000002.wav|To night Bowers got a rating sight.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000021_000008.wav|Started well in the afternoon and came down a steep slope in quick time; then the surface turned real bad-sandy drifts-very heavy pulling.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000010.wav|All went well till, in trying to keep the track at the same time as my feet, on a very slippery surface, I came an awful 'purler' on my shoulder.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000020_000006.wav|Ill luck that this should happen just when we have only four men to pull.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000008_000004.wav|The old tracks show so remarkably well that we can follow them without much difficulty-a great piece of luck.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000007.wav|We noticed a curious circumstance towards the end of the forenoon.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000019_000006.wav|This is the bright side; the reverse of the medal is serious.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000021_000011.wav|We have opened out on the one seventh increase and it makes a lot of difference.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000010_000003.wav|Oates gets cold feet.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000010_000006.wav|The weather seems to be breaking up.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000012_000014.wav|The tracks seem as good as ever so far, sometimes for thirty or forty yards we lose them under drifts, but then they reappear quite clearly raised above the surface.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000019_000008.wav|Of course, he is full of pluck over it, but I don't like the idea of such an accident here.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000011_000013.wav|If so, God help us, with the tremendous summit journey and scant food.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000003_000011.wav|Total march, eighteen and a half miles.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000012_000012.wav|Needless to say I shall sleep much better with our provision bag full again.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000014_000013.wav|Came on the cairn quite suddenly, marched past it, and camped for lunch at seven miles.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000023_000006.wav|It is time we were off the summit-Pray God another four days will see us pretty well clear of it.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000011_000006.wav|Bowers guided the sledge alone for the first hour, then both Oates and he remained alongside it; they had a fearful time trying to make the pace between the soft patches.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000014_000004.wav|Barometer low?|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000016_000009.wav|We are camped opposite our lunch cairn of the fourth, only half a day's march from the point at which the last supporting party left us.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000021_000012.wav|Wilson's leg much better.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000022_000009.wav|In the afternoon we soon came to a steep slope-the same on which we exchanged sledges on december twenty eighth.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000014_000012.wav|However, by hook or crook, we managed to stick on the old track.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000012_000015.wav|If the light is good there is not the least difficulty in following.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000018_000009.wav|Given a fine day to morrow we ought to get it without difficulty.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000004_000001.wav|ten thousand ten.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000000_000006.wav|Our old tracks are drifted up, deep in places, and toothed sastrugi have formed over them.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6556/3927_6556_000013_000006.wav|But beyond the camp we found the tracks completely wiped out.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000008.wav|Wind very strong and cold.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000008_000004.wav|It took us twenty seven days to reach the Pole and twenty one days back-in all forty eight days-nearly seven weeks in low temperature with almost incessant wind.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000000.wav|Marching in the afternoon, I kept more to the left, and closed the mountain till we fell on the stone moraines.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000010_000008.wav|The shortage is a full day's allowance.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000007_000005.wav|We went straight for mount Darwin, but in half an hour found ourselves amongst huge open chasms, unbridged, but not very deep, I think.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000022_000009.wav|After lunch we got on snow, with ice only occasionally showing through.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000003.wav|Yesterday was the worst experience of the trip and gave a horrid feeling of insecurity.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000016.wav|We decided to steer for the moraine under mount Buckley and, pulling with crampons, we crossed some very irregular steep slopes with big crevasses and slid down towards the rocks.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000010.wav|Every sign points to getting away off this plateau.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000014.wav|At length we saw a smoother slope towards the land, pushed for it, but knew it was a woefully long way from us.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000013.wav|Bowers is splendid, full of energy and bustle all the time.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000022.wav|To night Bill has got a specimen of limestone with archeo cyathus-the trouble is one cannot imagine where the stone comes from; it is evidently rare, as few specimens occur in the moraine.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000010_000007.wav|Bowers is dreadfully disturbed about it.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000014.wav|The ice crystals that first fell this afternoon were very large.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000018.wav|It has been extremely interesting.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000010.wav|The valley is gradually clearing.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000004.wav|Got off a good morning march in spite of keeping too far east and getting in rough, cracked ice.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000021.wav|In one place we saw the cast of small waves on the sand.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000007.wav|Did very well, especially towards end of march, covering in all eighteen point one.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000005_000006.wav|An hour after starting we came on huge pressures and great street crevasses partly open.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000016.wav|He showed every sign of complete collapse.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000025_000007.wav|We are on short rations with not very short food; spin out till to morrow night.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000008.wav|We have come down some hundreds of feet.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000001.wav|In a very critical situation.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000025.wav|Short sleep to night and off first thing, I hope.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000013.wav|Another night to make up arrears of sleep.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000003.wav|For my part these were increased by my visits outside the tent, when I saw the sky gradually closing over and snow beginning to fall.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000024_000005.wav|We don't know our distance from the depot, but imagine about twenty miles.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000004.wav|In the afternoon, refreshed by tea, we went forward, confident of covering the remaining distance, but by a fatal chance we kept too far to the left, and then we struck uphill and, tired and despondent, arrived in a horrid maze of crevasses and fissures.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000008.wav|Evans seems to have got mixed up with pressures like ourselves.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000009.wav|It's a tight place, but luckily we've been well fed up to the present.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000025_000004.wav|Evans has nearly broken down in brain, we think.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000009.wav|It promises to be a very fine day to morrow.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000011_000001.wav|The temperature is higher, but there is a cold wind to night.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000024_000007.wav|We are pulling for food and not very strong evidently.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000005.wav|In future food must be worked so that we do not run so short if the weather fails us.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000014.wav|Did pretty well in the afternoon, marching three and three quarters hours; the sledge meter is unshipped, so cannot tell distance traversed.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000011.wav|Then the whole place got smoother and we turned outward a little.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000024.wav|Altogether we have had a most interesting afternoon, and the relief of being out of the wind and in a warmer temperature is inexpressible.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000004.wav|Now we are right up, we must march.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000009.wav|Steered in for mount Darwin to visit rock.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000023_000003.wav|It delayed us on the march, when he had to have his crampon readjusted.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000010_000005.wav|First panic, certainty that biscuit box was short.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000015.wav|However, better things were to follow.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000008.wav|Meanwhile we are cheerful with an effort.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000013.wav|We could not manage our ski and pulled on foot, falling into crevasses every minute-most luckily no bad accident.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000024_000008.wav|In the afternoon it was overcast; land blotted out for a considerable interval.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000001.wav|Here Wilson detached himself and made a collection, whilst we pulled the sledge on.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000015.wav|The turmoil changed in character, irregular crevassed surface giving way to huge chasms, closely packed and most difficult to cross.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000028.wav|It is like going ashore after a sea voyage.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000002.wav|Last night we all slept well in spite of our grave anxieties.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000017.wav|Wilson, Bowers, and I went back for the sledge, whilst Oates remained with him.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000024_000001.wav|Lunch Temp.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000010_000004.wav|A wretched day with satisfactory ending.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000023_000007.wav|We are inclined to get slack and slow with our camping arrangements, and small delays increase.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000007.wav|We held a course for two and a half hours with difficulty, then the sun disappeared, and snow drove in our faces with northerly wind-very warm and impossible to steer, so camped.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000005.wav|About thirteen miles.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000003_000003.wav|The extra food is doing us all good, but we ought to have more sleep.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000006.wav|We mustn't get into a hole like this again.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000014.wav|It was an immense relief, and we were soon in possession of our three and a half days' food.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000007_000004.wav|Luckily it cleared just before we started.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000012.wav|Evans has no power to assist with camping work.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000022.wav|It is a terrible thing to lose a companion in this way, but calm reflection shows that there could not have been a better ending to the terrible anxieties of the past week.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000001.wav|eight thousand six hundred twenty feet.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000011.wav|He obtained several specimens, all of much the same type, a close grained granite rock which weathers red.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000019.wav|He died quietly at twelve thirty a m|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000005_000008.wav|Late in the march we turned more to the north and again encountered open crevasses across our track.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000023.wav|There is a good deal of pure white quartz.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000008_000000.wav|Food is low and weather uncertain, so that many hours of the day were anxious; but this evening, though we are not as far advanced as I expected, the outlook is much more promising.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000007_000006.wav|We turned to the north between two, but to our chagrin they converged into chaotic disturbance.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000019_000000.wav|[At this point the bearings of the mid glacier depot are given, but need not be quoted.]|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000003.wav|The worst day we have had during the trip and greatly owing to our own fault.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000006.wav|After lunch the land began to be obscured.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000003.wav|The surface was awful, the soft recently fallen snow clogging the ski and runners at every step, the sledge groaning, the sky overcast, and the land hazy.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000022_000010.wav|A poor start, but the gradient and wind improving, we did six and a half miles before night camp.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000009.wav|Abreast the Monument Rock we stopped, and seeing Evans a long way astern, I camped for lunch.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000007.wav|At nine we got up, deciding to have tea, and with one biscuit, no pemmican, so as to leave our scanty remaining meal for eventualities.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000010.wav|We have two full days' food left, and though our position is uncertain, we are certainly within two outward marches from the middle glacier depot.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000023_000006.wav|We can't risk opening out our food again, and as cook at present I am serving something under full allowance.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000012.wav|It is very trying.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000014.wav|Asked what was the matter, he replied with a slow speech that he didn't know, but thought he must have fainted.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000002.wav|We camped late, abreast the lower end of the mountain, and had nearly our usual satisfying supper.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000018.wav|When we returned he was practically unconscious, and when we got him into the tent quite comatose.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000004.wav|Just before lunch unexpectedly fell into crevasses, Evans and I together-a second fall for Evans, and I camped.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000012.wav|By this time we were alarmed, and all four started back on ski.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000022_000005.wav|At first I thought of going right, but soon, luckily, changed my mind and decided to follow the curving lines of the moraines.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000025_000008.wav|We cannot be more than ten or twelve miles from the depot, but the weather is all against us.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000009.wav|Too tired to write geological notes.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000015.wav|The relief to all is inexpressible; needless to say, we camped and had a meal.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000019.wav|We found ourselves under perpendicular cliffs of Beacon sandstone, weathering rapidly and carrying veritable coal seams.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000013.wav|The crevasses were much firmer than expected and we got down with some difficulty, found our night camp of december twentieth, and lunched an hour after.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000006.wav|Kept along the edge of moraine to the end of mount Buckley.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000009.wav|The fallen snow crystals are quite feathery like thistledown.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000002_000007.wav|To night we are near camp of december twenty sixth, but cannot see cairn.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000017.wav|It is remarkable to be able to stand outside the tent and sun oneself.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000022_000006.wav|This course has brought us well out on the glacier.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000001.wav|Lunch Temp.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000005_000003.wav|A good forenoon, few crevasses; we covered ten point two miles.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000001.wav|Height six thousand two hundred sixty.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000022.wav|We have come through well.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000020_000009.wav|Here the surface was much smoother and improved rapidly.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000010.wav|We all felt very slack this morning, partly rise of temperature, partly reaction, no doubt.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000021_000011.wav|Bowers has had a very bad attack of snow blindness, and Wilson another almost as bad.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000007_000010.wav|Towards the end of the march we realised the certainty of maintaining a more or less straight course to the depot, and estimate distance ten to fifteen miles.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000002.wav|Start Temp.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000006.wav|We went on ski over hard shiny descending surface.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000005_000004.wav|In the afternoon we soon got into difficulties.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000010.wav|Pray God we have fine weather to morrow.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000005.wav|After lunch saw disturbance ahead, and what I took for disturbance (land) to the right.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000025_000003.wav|A rather trying position.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000006.wav|He asked Bowers to lend him a piece of string.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000004_000009.wav|Half way in the march the land showed up splendidly, and I decided to make straight for mount Darwin, which we are rounding.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000025_000010.wav|Memory should hold the events of a very troublesome march with more troubles ahead.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000001.wav|Height five thousand two hundred ten feet.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000007_000003.wav|On turning out found sky overcast; a beastly position amidst crevasses.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000007.wav|We must get there to morrow.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000017.wav|We won through at ten p m and I write after twelve hours on the march.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000005_000007.wav|We had to steer more and more to the west, so that our course was very erratic.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000020.wav|On discussing the symptoms we think he began to get weaker just before we reached the Pole, and that his downward path was accelerated first by the shock of his frostbitten fingers, and later by falls during rough travelling on the glacier, further by his loss of all confidence in himself.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000024_000004.wav|Again we are running short of provision.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000023.wav|A good wind has come down the glacier which is clearing the sky and surface.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000020.wav|To morrow's lunch must serve for two if we do not make big progress.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000015_000007.wav|Stopped and geologised.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000023_000000.wav|There is no getting away from the fact that we are not going strong.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000002_000002.wav|Height nine thousand forty feet.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000025_000009.wav|After lunch we were enveloped in a snow sheet, land just looming.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000008.wav|We had to push on, and the remainder of us were forced to pull very hard, sweating heavily.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000015.wav|We got him on his feet, but after two or three steps he sank down again.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000023_000001.wav|Probably none of us: Wilson's leg still troubles him and he doesn't like to trust himself on ski; but the worst case is Evans, who is giving us serious anxiety.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000024_000009.wav|We have reduced food, also sleep; feeling rather done.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000026_000005.wav|Half an hour later he dropped out again on the same plea.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000013.wav|After he rejoined we skidded downhill pretty fast, leaders on ski, Oates and Wilson on foot alongside sledge-Evans detached.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000022_000004.wav|We started a little late and pulled on down the moraine.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000008_000002.wav|Things may mend for him on the glacier, and his wounds get some respite under warmer conditions.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000022_000008.wav|At lunch these were scraped and sand papered.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000012.wav|It got worse, harder, more icy and crevassed.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000014_000012.wav|Hence the pink limestone.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000019.wav|We had three pemmican meals left and decided to make them into four.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000018_000006.wav|After discussion we decided to camp, and here we are, after a very short supper and one meal only remaining in the food bag; the depot doubtful in locality.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000016_000011.wav|However, if the weather doesn't clear by to morrow, we must either march blindly on or reduce food.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000008_000001.wav|Evans is the chief anxiety now; his cuts and wounds suppurate, his nose looks very bad, and altogether he shows considerable signs of being played out.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3927/6557/3927_6557_000017_000007.wav|We went on for six hours, hoping to do a good distance, which in fact I suppose we did, but for the last hour or two we pressed on into a regular trap.|3927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000006_000000.wav|"Is there any thing new on the carpet?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000036_000000.wav|"Suppose it should be a serpent?|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000058_000000.wav|"A missionary, perhaps."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000003_000000.wav|The night came on very dark.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000047_000000.wav|"Wait!" said Kennedy.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000016_000000.wav|Was that the cry of an animal or of a night bird, or did it come from human lips?|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000055_000000.wav|"Did you hear that?" the doctor asked them.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000098_000000.wav|"That's plain enough."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000005_000000.wav|"Keep a sharp lookout, Dick!" was the doctor's good night injunction.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000042_000000.wav|"Very good!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000071_000000.wav|"Now, if I were to take advantage of the darkness to slip down to the poor fellow?" said Kennedy.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000090_000000.wav|"Perhaps we may," said the doctor, throwing considerable stress upon the words.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000094_000000.wav|The doctor kept silent for a few moments; he was thinking.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000062_000000.wav|"They are, doctor, and we are ready to obey you."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000096_000000.wav|"How do you expect to manage the balloon?" asked Kennedy.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000065_000000.wav|"It's quite clear to me, from the way in which they made off, that they are unacquainted with fire arms.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000065_000001.wav|We must, therefore, profit by their fears; but we shall await daylight before acting, and then we can form our plans of rescue according to circumstances."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000021_000001.wav|"Let us speak below our breath."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000086_000000.wav|"And how would you get him to know that?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000083_000000.wav|"Nothing more simple, doctor," said Kennedy.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000103_000001.wav|Take care to have all our weapons close at hand.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000066_000000.wav|"The poor captive cannot be far off," said Joe, "because-"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000097_000002.wav|Well, then, in throwing out this overplus of ballast at a given moment, I am certain to rise with great rapidity."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000067_000000.wav|"Help! help!" repeated the voice, but much more feebly this time.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000076_000000.wav|"But, think of that poor wretch, hoping for aid, waiting there, praying, calling aloud.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000050_000001.wav|"Fire!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000088_000000.wav|"Your plans are impracticable, my dear friends.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000078_000000.wav|A terrific howl from the savages responded to these words-no doubt drowning the prisoner's reply.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000073_000000.wav|"Pause, my friends-pause!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000023_000000.wav|"Yes, let us waken Joe."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000044_000000.wav|"The blacks!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000075_000000.wav|"Dick, I implore you, heed what I say.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000088_000003.wav|No! we must put ALL the chances on OUR side, and go to work differently."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000053_000000.wav|"Help! help!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000089_000000.wav|"But let us act at once!" said the hunter.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000075_000001.wav|I am acting for the common good; and if by any accident you should be taken by surprise, all would be lost."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000063_000000.wav|"Let us, then, lay our heads together to devise some plan, and in the morning we'll try to rescue him."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000046_000000.wav|Joe gently brought his rifle to his shoulder as he spoke.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000105_000000.wav|The sacks were placed as requested, and the arms were put in good order.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000101_000000.wav|"Let us work, then, and get these bags all arranged on the rim of the car, so that they may be thrown overboard at one movement."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000070_000001.wav|These savage tribes kill their captives in broad daylight; they must have the sunshine."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000077_000001.wav|Three friends are watching over you."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000079_000001.wav|We must act!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000103_000004.wav|Are you ready?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000004_000000.wav|As usual, he took the nine o'clock watch, and at midnight Dick relieved him.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000022_000000.wav|"Has any thing happened?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000030_000000.wav|"Let us go down, then!" said Joe.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000085_000001.wav|why, I'd act more prudently, maybe, by telling the prisoner to make his escape in a certain direction that we'd agree upon."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000074_000000.wav|"Why so?" asked Kennedy.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000002_000000.wav|Strange Sounds.--A Night Attack.--Kennedy and Joe in the Tree.--Two Shots.--"Help! help!"--Reply in French.--The Morning.--The Missionary.--The Plan of Rescue.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000056_000000.wav|"Undoubtedly, that supernatural cry, 'A moi! a moi!' comes from a Frenchman in the hands of these barbarians!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000050_000000.wav|"Attention!" said Kennedy.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000085_000000.wav|"I, master?|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000111_000000.wav|"Oh!" ejaculated the astonished friends.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000094_000002.wav|Ferguson at last resumed:|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000077_000000.wav|"We can reassure him, on that score," said dr Ferguson-and, standing erect, making a speaking trumpet of his hands, he shouted at the top of his voice, in French: "Whoever you are, be of good cheer!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000052_000000.wav|But, in the midst of these yells and howls, a strange, unexpected-nay what seemed an impossible-cry had been heard!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000106_000000.wav|"Very good!" said the doctor.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000106_000002.wav|Joe will see to throwing out the ballast, and Dick will carry off the prisoner; but let nothing be done until I give the word.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000099_000001.wav|Now, the gas is precious; but we must not haggle over it when the life of a fellow creature is at stake."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000069_000000.wav|"Do you hear, doctor," resumed Kennedy, seizing the doctor's hand. "Suppose they should kill him to night!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000108_000001.wav|He then took out the two perfectly isolated conducting wires, which served for the decomposition of the water, and, searching in his travelling sack, brought forth two pieces of charcoal, cut down to a sharp point, and fixed one at the end of each wire.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000070_000000.wav|"It is not at all likely, my friends.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000010_000000.wav|"I'll do so, doctor; rest easy."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000103_000000.wav|"It hides our preparations, and will be dispersed only when they are finished.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000041_000000.wav|"Keep watch on this side, and I'll take care of the other."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000097_000000.wav|"This is the idea, Dick: you will admit that if I can get to the prisoner, and throw out a quantity of ballast, equal to his weight, I shall have in nowise altered the equilibrium of the balloon.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000035_000000.wav|"Yes, and it's coming nearer."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000068_000000.wav|"The savage wretches!" exclaimed Joe, trembling with indignation. "Suppose they should kill him to night!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157054/2368_157054_000102_000000.wav|"But this darkness?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000049_000000.wav|"We must absolutely come to a halt," said he, "and even alight.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000045_000001.wav|We cannot be far away from the scene of our accident."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000020_000002.wav|All the dried meat had disappeared.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000021_000003.wav|The dilating apparatus appeared to be in good condition, and neither the battery nor the spiral had been injured.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000040_000000.wav|"Let us set out, then!" said the hunter.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000020_000001.wav|He found that there were still left some thirty pounds of pemmican, a supply of tea and coffee, about a gallon and a half of brandy, and one empty water tank.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000016_000000.wav|"Oh, he's just the lad to get safely out of the scrape, I repeat.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000052_000001.wav|One horrible thought glanced across the minds of both Kennedy and the doctor: caymans swarm in these waters!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000026_000000.wav|"At the first streak of day, the doctor aroused Kennedy.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000028_000001.wav|Speak!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000017_000000.wav|"I hope so.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157066/2368_157066_000008_000000.wav|"Perhaps Joe is not lost after all," he said.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000038_000000.wav|"Here, at last, is Africa, such as you pictured it to yourself, Joe!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000028_000002.wav|It took six thousand years to invent propellers and screws; so we have time enough yet."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000046_000000.wav|"And you, Kennedy?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000013_000001.wav|Barely a few dwarf plants could now be noticed, like those on the wild heaths of Scotland; then came the first tract of grayish sand and flint, with here and there a lentisk tree and brambles.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000047_000000.wav|"I, doctor, I'm not the man to despair; no one was less ignorant than I of the perils of the enterprise, but I did not want to see them, from the moment that you determined to brave them.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000021_000000.wav|At their evening meal, the water was strictly measured out, and the brandy was increased in quantity in the punch they drank.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000015_000000.wav|However, there was no going back; they must go forward; and, indeed, the doctor asked for nothing better; he would even have welcomed a tempest to carry him beyond this country.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000022_000001.wav|This circumstance gave the doctor some hope, since it recalled to his mind the conjectures of geographers concerning the existence of a vast stretch of water in the centre of Africa.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000038_000001.wav|Was I not right in saying, 'Wait a little?' eh?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000002_000001.wav|Ferguson's Anxieties.--The Situation flatly stated.--Energetic Replies of Kennedy and Joe.--One Night more.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000011_000001.wav|They conversed less, and were more wrapt in their own thoughts.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000012_000001.wav|He kept entirely silent, and gazed incessantly upon the stony fragments heaped up in the car-worthless to day, but of inestimable value to morrow.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000016_000003.wav|Two gallons only then remained to supply the cylinder.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000047_000002.wav|Besides, to return looks to me quite as perilous as the other course.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000045_000001.wav|Where he goes, there I'll go!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000007_000000.wav|"I hope so."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000004_000000.wav|Toward morning, the sky had resumed its brilliant purity and its heat. The balloon ascended, and, after several ineffectual attempts, fell into a current that, although not rapid, bore them toward the northwest.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000032_000000.wav|"You don't regret, though, what you did, doctor?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000016_000005.wav|Consequently, they could not keep on longer than fifty four hours-and all this was a mathematical calculation!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000047_000003.wav|So onward, then! you may count upon us!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157057/2368_157057_000052_000003.wav|It was the Desert!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000008_000001.wav|His breathing became difficult, and he asked for air.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000031_000000.wav|"No! what do you mean, doctor?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000025_000002.wav|The noonday sun poured down its rays perpendicularly into it.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000016_000000.wav|"Dead!" said the doctor, bending over him, "dead!" And with one common accord, the three friends knelt together in silent prayer.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000084_000001.wav|"Keep on throwing."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000051_000000.wav|"Very good!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000098_000000.wav|"Now, Joe," resumed the doctor, "there still remains a handsome fortune for you; and, if we can only keep the rest of this with us until the end of our trip, there you are-rich for the balance of your days!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000074_000000.wav|"I gave you leave to replace the ballast; that was all!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000030_000000.wav|"About a singular freak of Nature, a curious effect of chance.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000043_000000.wav|"We can't take any of it with us, indeed?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000038_000000.wav|"Keep cool, Joe," said his master.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000034_000001.wav|"Those blocks which you are trampling under foot, like worthless stones, contain gold ore of great purity."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000095_000000.wav|"It's going up; I'm sure."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000035_000001.wav|impossible!" repeated Joe.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000091_000000.wav|"Are you going up?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000065_000000.wav|Upon getting back to the car, he found it burdened with the quartz blocks that Joe's greed had heaped in it.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000076_000000.wav|"Do you want to stay forever in this desert?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000087_000000.wav|"Poor fellow!" said the doctor.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000065_000002.wav|Kennedy took his customary place, and Joe followed, but not without casting a covetous glance at the treasures in the ravine.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000079_000000.wav|"Then your cylinder don't work," said the obstinate fellow.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000022_000000.wav|As soon as the car touched the ground, the doctor shut the valve.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000075_000000.wav|"But-"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000055_000000.wav|"Perhaps! but at all events, here's what I'll do to console you."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000066_000000.wav|The doctor rekindled the light in the cylinder; the spiral became heated; the current of hydrogen came in a few minutes, and the gas dilated; but the balloon did not stir an inch.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000009_000001.wav|May God requite you, and bring you to your safe harbor!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000058_000001.wav|Let us fill our car with the precious mineral, and what remains at the end of the trip will be so much made."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000040_000000.wav|"What! a philosopher of your mettle-"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000004_000001.wav|"Poor young fellow-scarcely thirty years of age!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000014_000000.wav|His countenance shone.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000007_000000.wav|"Heaven has given him a lovely night, Joe-his last on earth, perhaps! He will suffer but little more after this, and his dying will be only a peaceful falling asleep."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000064_000003.wav|He had to feed his cylinder continually; and he even began to find that he had not enough to quench the thirst of his party.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000011_000001.wav|Let me look it in the face!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000023_000001.wav|The soil, in fact, was bestrewn with quartz and porphyritic rocks.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000025_000000.wav|In the mean while, Kennedy and Joe had strolled away a few paces, looking up a proper spot for the grave.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000044_000000.wav|"It's rather too heavy for our car!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000044_000001.wav|I even hesitated to tell you any thing about it, for fear of exciting your regret!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000011_000003.wav|Place me upon my knees, my brethren, I beseech you!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000073_000000.wav|"But, doctor, you gave me leave-"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000011_000000.wav|"Death is at hand," replied the missionary, "I know it!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000026_000000.wav|The first thing to be done was to clear the surface of the fragments of rock that encumbered it, and then a quite deep grave had to be dug, so that the wild animals should not be able to disinter the corpse.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000090_000000.wav|The brave fellow, heaving deep sighs, began at last to lighten the balloon; but, from time to time, he would stop, and ask:|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000087_000001.wav|"mr Kennedy, you and I weigh, unless I am mistaken, about four hundred pounds-so that you'll have to get rid of at least that weight, since it was put in here to make up for us."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000010_000000.wav|"You must still hope," replied Kennedy.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000029_000000.wav|"What are you thinking about, doctor?" asked Kennedy.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000070_000001.wav|Don't you hear me?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000046_000001.wav|Would you yield to the thirst for gold?|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000002_000000.wav|Joe in a Fit of Rage.--The Death of a Good Man.--The Night of watching by the Body.--Barrenness and Drought.--The Burial.--The Quartz Rocks.--Joe's Hallucinations.--A Precious Ballast.--A Survey of the Gold bearing Mountains.--The Beginning of Joe's Despair.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000037_000000.wav|Joe at once rushed like a crazy man among the scattered fragments, and Kennedy was not long in following his example.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000027_000000.wav|The body of the martyred missionary was then solemnly placed in it.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000096_000000.wav|"Keep on yet," said Kennedy.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000086_000000.wav|Joe got very pale.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000070_000000.wav|"Joe!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000083_000000.wav|"Humph!" said he; "we're not going up yet."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000030_000001.wav|Do you know, now, in what kind of soil that man of self denial, that poor one in spirit, has just been buried?"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000094_000000.wav|"Keep on!" replied the doctor.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000053_000000.wav|"Yes, my friend, this is a reservoir in which Nature has been heaping up her wealth for centuries!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000021_000001.wav|He therefore opened the valve of the outside balloon.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000072_000000.wav|"Do me the kindness to throw out some of that quartz!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000100_000003.wav|It is sad to think of it!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000100_000000.wav|"See, my dear Dick!" the doctor went on.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000042_000002.wav|What good would all this wealth do you?|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000067_000000.wav|Joe looked on uneasily, but kept silent.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000035_000000.wav|"Impossible!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000010_000001.wav|"This is but a passing fit of weakness.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000049_000000.wav|"The millions are rather heavy, you know," resumed the doctor, "and cannot very easily be put into one's pocket."|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000060_000000.wav|The doctor watched him with a smile; and, while Joe went on, he took the bearings, and found that the missionary's grave lay in twenty two degrees twenty three minutes east longitude, and four degrees fifty five minutes north latitude.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000063_000000.wav|"God will recognize it!" said Kennedy.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000047_000000.wav|"All that is true," replied Joe, "but gold!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000022_000001.wav|Joe leaped out, holding on the while to the rim of the car with one hand, and with the other gathering up a quantity of stones equal to his own weight.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000097_000000.wav|And Joe, picking up one more block, desperately tossed it out of the car.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000081_000002.wav|At last he threw it out.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000046_000000.wav|"Take care, my friend!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000013_000000.wav|"My God! my God!" exclaimed the dying apostle, "have pity on me!"|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000092_000000.wav|"No, not yet," was the invariable response.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000024_000000.wav|"This is a singular discovery!" said the doctor, mentally.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000042_000001.wav|Let us reflect a little.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000057_000000.wav|"Listen!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000034_000000.wav|"Yes, a gold mine," said the doctor, quietly.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000100_000001.wav|"Just see the power of this metal over the cleverest lad in the world!|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000081_000001.wav|It was a fragment of about three or four pounds.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000069_000000.wav|Joe made no reply.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000061_000000.wav|Then, casting one glance at the swelling of the soil, beneath which the body of the poor Frenchman reposed, he went back to his car.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000004_000000.wav|"He'll not get over it!" sighed Joe.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2368/157056/2368_157056_000085_000001.wav|Joe now threw out some ten pounds, but the balloon stood still.|2368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000030_000000.wav|When she learnt what had befallen him she called together all the sorceresses in the country in order that they should tell her where the eyes were.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000009_000002.wav|The brother and sister were quite pleased at this arrangement, and after the exchange was made they separated, and went their different ways.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000027_000000.wav|The travellers let a rope down and drew him up to daylight.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000019_000000.wav|The sister did as she was told, and next day Janni, taking his three dogs with him, went to get the pears.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000017_000005.wav|But he took the quinces and brought them back to his sister, who, when she had eaten them, declared herself better.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000022_000000.wav|So Janni plucked the pears and took them to his sister, who, when she had eaten them, declared she felt better.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000008_000000.wav|In the course of time Janni's parents died, and he and his sister were left alone in the world; soon affairs went badly with them, so they determined to wander away to seek their fortune.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000008_000001.wav|In packing up, the sister found a knife which the monk had left for his godson, and this she gave to her brother.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000007_000001.wav|He had a wife and one little girl, and after a long time his wife had another child.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000006_000000.wav|Janni and the Draken|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000012_000000.wav|One day, when he was away hunting, one of the Draken came up to get provisions, not knowing that there was anyone in the castle.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000009_000001.wav|After wandering for three days they met a man with three dogs who proposed that they should exchange animals, he taking the sheep, and they the dogs.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000011_000000.wav|So Janni found the castle deserted, and abode there with his sister, and every day went out to hunt with the weapons the Draken had left in the castle.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/41911/5389_41911_000014_000003.wav|But he plucked the cherries, and took them back to his sister.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000022_000000.wav|The Magician sat on a throne, a sparkling crown on his head; his eyes blazed like a green fire, and instead of hands he had claws.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000019_000003.wav|He has been expecting you for ages, but you need have no fear if you will only follow my advice.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000018_000007.wav|As soon as the duck perceived him, it cried in a human voice, 'Oh, dear Prince Milan, for the love of Heaven give me back my garment, and I will be so grateful to you.' The Prince lay the little garment on the bank beside her, and stepped back into the bushes.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000031_000000.wav|'Now, don't be so foolish, my dear Prince; but keep up your spirits, for there is no need to despair.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000063_000001.wav|Go, and I will await you here, but I will first change myself into a white milestone; only I pray you be very careful.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000018_000008.wav|In a few seconds a beautiful girl in a white robe stood before him, so fair and sweet and young that no pen could describe her.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000004_000005.wav|Before long he came to a well filled to the brim with water clear as crystal, and on the bosom of which a golden jug was floating.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000022_000003.wav|But the Prince, mindful of the counsel he had been given, wasn't the least afraid, and approached the throne still on his knees.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000071_000001.wav|She went straight to the King's kitchen, where the white aproned cooks were running about in great confusion.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000050_000000.wav|Then a wild chase began.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000066_000002.wav|Here he planted it in a pot, and watered and tended the little plant carefully.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000068_000002.wav|In great haste the old man sprang from his bed, and covered the flower with the cloth the old witch had given him, and in a moment the beautiful Princess Hyacinthia stood before him.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000031_000001.wav|Go to bed, and when you wake up to morrow morning the palace will be finished.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000074_000001.wav|Then he jumped up suddenly from the table and ran to the door, where he found the beautiful Hyacinthia waiting for him.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000017_000001.wav|The Queen hung a little cross round his neck, and after much weeping and lamentation the Prince bade them all farewell and set forth on his journey.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000022_000002.wav|The Magician stamped loudly with his feet, glared frightfully out of his green eyes, and cursed so loudly that the whole underworld shook.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000046_000000.wav|'Not so, dearest.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000063_000002.wav|The King and Queen of the town will come out to meet you, leading a little child with them.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000043_000002.wav|Before a candle which he has lit burns to the socket, I am to make a pair of boots.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000052_000002.wav|The Prince dismounted and put his ear to the ground.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000009_000003.wav|Days and months and years passed, and the Prince grew up into a beautiful youth, and at last the King himself forgot all about the incident that had happened so long ago.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000020_000000.wav|With these words the beautiful Hyacinthia stamped on the ground with her little foot, and the earth opened and they both sank down into the lower world.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000071_000002.wav|The Princess went up to the head cook, and said, 'Dear cook, please listen to my request, and let me make a wedding cake for Prince Milan.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000035_000000.wav|'Not so easy as you think,' cried the little bee, who was flying past. 'If I weren't to help you, you'd never guess.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000050_000002.wav|Milan sprang from the saddle, put his ear to the ground and listened.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000008_000005.wav|He took the child in his arms and kissed it tenderly; then laying it in its cradle, he determined to control his emotion and began to reign again as before.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000025_000001.wav|When it grew dark, a little bee flew by, and knocking at the window, it said, 'Open, and let me in.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000074_000002.wav|Outside stood his faithful charger, pawing the ground.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000050_000003.wav|'Yes,' he answered, 'they are pursuing us, and are quite close.' 'Then no time must be lost,' said Hyacinthia, and she immediately turned herself into a river, Prince Milan into an iron bridge, and the charger into a blackbird.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000015_000001.wav|The time has come when we must part,' and with a heavy heart he told the Prince what had happened at the time of his birth.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000008_000004.wav|All the courtiers standing round were much amazed at the King's grief, but no one dared to ask him the cause of it.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000036_000000.wav|'Then what am I to do?' asked Prince Milan.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000064_000003.wav|The child at once caressed the Prince, who, carried away by its beauty, bent down and kissed it on the cheek.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000043_000003.wav|But what does a prince know of shoemaking? If I can't do it, I lose my head.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000010_000000.wav|One day the Prince went out hunting, and going in pursuit of a wild boar he soon lost the other huntsmen, and found himself quite alone in the middle of a dark wood.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000055_000001.wav|But at the first church we come to his power ceases; he may chase us no further.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000034_000002.wav|Why, that is the easiest thing in the world.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000035_000001.wav|We are thirty sisters so exactly alike that our own father can hardly distinguish us apart.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000005_000002.wav|'Who's there?|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000031_000002.wav|Then you must go all round it, giving a tap here and there on the walls to look as if you had just finished it.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000049_000005.wav|Out of his mind with rage, the Magician ordered the Prince to be pursued.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000066_000006.wav|At first he was so surprised he didn't know what to think, but after a time he grew a little uncomfortable, and went to an old witch to ask for advice.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000004_000006.wav|King Kojata at once tried to seize the vessel, but though he endeavoured to grasp it with his right hand, and then with his left, the wretched thing always eluded his efforts and refused to let itself be caught.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000017_000000.wav|The King gave him a beautiful charger, with golden stirrups, and a sword.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000004_000004.wav|Suddenly a frightful thirst seized the King, and as he saw no water near, he mounted his horse, and rode through the neighbourhood looking for a spring.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000058_000000.wav|'Prince Milan and Princess Hyacinthia have just gone on this minute; they stopped for a few minutes in the church to say their prayers, and bade me light this wax candle for you, and give you their love.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000041_000002.wav|If they aren't finished in that time, off comes your head.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000040_000001.wav|But they were all so precisely alike that they looked like one face reflected in thirty mirrors, and the fly was nowhere to be seen; the second time he passed them he still saw nothing; but the third time he perceived a little fly stealing down one cheek, causing it to blush a faint pink. Then the Prince seized the girl's hand and cried out, 'This is the Princess Hyacinthia!'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000037_000001.wav|'You will recognise me by a tiny fly I shall have on my left cheek, but be careful for you might easily make a mistake.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000053_000001.wav|'Bring a horse at once; they shan't escape me.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000072_000000.wav|The busy cook was just going to refuse her demand and order her out of the kitchen, but the words died on his lips when he turned and beheld the beautiful Hyacinthia, and he answered politely, 'You have just come in the nick of time, fair maiden.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000045_000000.wav|'Well, what is there to be done?|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000052_000000.wav|Then the pursuit began afresh.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000009_000002.wav|However, time went on and nothing happened.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000019_000000.wav|'Many thanks, Prince Milan, for your courtesy.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000051_000000.wav|The Magician's servants hurried after the fresh tracks, but when they came to the bridge, they stood, not knowing which road to take, as the footprints stopped suddenly, and there were three paths for them to choose from.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000066_000004.wav|When he awoke in the morning he always found his room tidied and put into such beautiful order that not a speck of dust was to be found anywhere.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000032_000000.wav|And so it all turned out just as she had said.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000073_000001.wav|The invited guests were already thronging round the table, when the head cook entered the room, bearing a beautiful wedding cake on a silver dish, and laid it before Prince Milan.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000049_000001.wav|But when the Prince still did not appear, after a time he sent his servants a second time to bring him.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000008_000000.wav|The voice replied, 'Very well; but it will go ill with you if you fail to keep your promise.' Then the claws relaxed their hold, and the face disappeared in the depths.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000004_000001.wav|Three years had passed since his marriage, and he lived very happily with his wife, but Heaven granted him no heir, which grieved the King greatly.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000064_000000.wav|The Prince hurried to the town, but Hyacinthia remained behind disguised as a white milestone on the road.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000073_000002.wav|The guests were all lost in admiration, for the cake was quite a work of art.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000063_000004.wav|I will wait for you here for three days.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000022_000001.wav|As soon as Prince Milan entered he flung himself on his knees.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000044_000000.wav|'And what do you mean to do?' asked Hyacinthia.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000056_000000.wav|Prince Milan loosened from his neck the little gold cross his mother had given him, and as soon as Hyacinthia grasped it, she had changed herself into a church, Milan into a monk, and the horse into a belfry.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000019_000001.wav|I am the daughter of a wicked magician, and my name is Hyacinthia.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000066_000001.wav|He pulled it up carefully by the roots and carried it home.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000043_000001.wav|Your father has set me this time an impossible task.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000069_000000.wav|'What have you done?' she cried.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000041_000001.wav|Before this candle, which I shall light, burns to the socket, you must have made me a pair of boots reaching to my knees.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000004_000003.wav|As the day was very hot and sultry he commanded his servants to pitch tents in the open field, and there await the cool of the evening.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000009_000001.wav|In the constant dread that his child would be taken from him, poor Kojata knew no rest night or day.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000018_000000.wav|He rode straight on for two days, and on the third he came to a lake as smooth as glass and as clear as crystal.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000064_000001.wav|The first day passed, and then the second, and at last the third also, but Prince Milan did not return, for he had not taken Hyacinthia's advice.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000033_000002.wav|To morrow I will place the whole thirty in a row.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000026_000000.wav|Milan opened the window quickly, and as soon as the bee had entered, it changed into the beautiful Hyacinthia.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000007_000000.wav|'Yes, I promise that you shall have it.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000067_000000.wav|The witch said, 'Get up before the cock crows, and watch carefully till you see something move, and then throw this cloth quickly over it, and you'll see what will happen.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000063_000000.wav|'The town is easy to get into, but more difficult to get out of,' sighed Hyacinthia. 'But let it be as you wish.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000009_000000.wav|The secret of the King remained a secret, though his grave, careworn expression escaped no one's notice.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000066_000003.wav|And now the most extraordinary thing happened, for from this moment everything in the old man's house was changed.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000069_000001.wav|'Why have you called me back to life? For I have no desire to live since my bridegroom, the beautiful Prince Milan, has deserted me.'|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000019_000005.wav|Don't mind if he stamps furiously with his feet and curses and swears.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000052_000004.wav|At last they found themselves back at the same spot they had started from, and in despair they returned once more with empty hands to the Magician.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5389/4861/5389_4861_000005_000001.wav|But when he had satisfied his thirst, and wished to raise himself up, he couldn't lift his head, because someone held his beard fast in the water.|5389
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000121_000001.wav|That is clearly the remaining portion of our subject.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000074_000000.wav|In the next place our youth must be temperate?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000052_000000.wav|Or again:--|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000091_000000.wav|'When the tables are full of bread and meat, and the cup bearer carries round wine which he draws from the bowl and pours into the cups,'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000022_000000.wav|And,--|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000012_000000.wav|We must also expunge the verse, which tells us how Pluto feared,|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000102_000000.wav|Certainly not.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000100_000000.wav|Certainly, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000031_000000.wav|Clearly.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000104_000000.wav|'Gifts persuading gods, and persuading reverend kings.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000083_000000.wav|We shall.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000116_000000.wav|'the blood of deities yet flowing in their veins.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000107_000001.wav|As little can I believe the narrative of his insolence to Apollo, where he says,|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000039_000000.wav|True, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000067_000000.wav|Clearly not, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000124_000000.wav|Why not?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000078_000000.wav|Then we shall approve such language as that of Diomede in Homer,|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000044_000000.wav|Then we shall be right in getting rid of the lamentations of famous men, and making them over to women (and not even to women who are good for anything), or to men of a baser sort, that those who are being educated by us to be the defenders of their country may scorn to do the like.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000055_000000.wav|Yes, he said, that is most true.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000123_000000.wav|But we are not in a condition to answer this question at present, my friend.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000061_000000.wav|Still less of the gods, as you say, he replied.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000005_000000.wav|Certainly not, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000077_000000.wav|True.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000121_000000.wav|And what shall we say about men?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000019_000000.wav|'The soul flying from the limbs had gone to Hades, lamenting her fate, leaving manhood and youth.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000115_000000.wav|and who have|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000020_000000.wav|Again:--|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000103_000000.wav|Neither must we sing to them of|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000068_000000.wav|Then if any one at all is to have the privilege of lying, the rulers of the State should be the persons; and they, in their dealings either with enemies or with their own citizens, may be allowed to lie for the public good.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000042_000000.wav|And therefore he will be least likely to lament, and will bear with the greatest equanimity any misfortune of this sort which may befall him.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000004_000000.wav|But if they are to be courageous, must they not learn other lessons besides these, and lessons of such a kind as will take away the fear of death?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000025_000000.wav|Undoubtedly.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000026_000001.wav|I do not say that these horrible stories may not have a use of some kind; but there is a danger that the nerves of our guardians may be rendered too excitable and effeminate by them.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000108_000000.wav|'Thou hast wronged me, O far darter, most abominable of deities.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000095_000000.wav|'Without the knowledge of their parents;'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000112_000000.wav|Assuredly not.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000080_000000.wav|and the verses which follow,|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000008_000000.wav|Then we must assume a control over the narrators of this class of tales as well as over the others, and beg them not simply to revile but rather to commend the world below, intimating to them that their descriptions are untrue, and will do harm to our future warriors.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000126_000000.wav|To be sure we shall, he replied.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000097_000000.wav|Indeed, he said, I am strongly of opinion that they ought not to hear that sort of thing.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000029_000000.wav|True.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000056_000000.wav|Yes, I replied; but that surely is what ought not to be, as the argument has just proved to us; and by that proof we must abide until it is disproved by a better.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000033_000000.wav|They will go with the rest.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000016_000000.wav|Again of Tiresias:--|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000064_000000.wav|On your views, we must not admit them.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000023_000000.wav|'As bats in hollow of mystic cavern, whenever any of them has dropped out of the string and falls from the rock, fly shrilling and cling to one another, so did they with shrilling cry hold together as they moved.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000049_000000.wav|'Alas! my misery!|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000047_000000.wav|'Rolling in the dirt, calling each man loudly by his name.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000120_000000.wav|Very true.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000015_000000.wav|'O heavens! verily in the house of Hades there is soul and ghostly form but no mind at all!'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000017_000000.wav|'(To him even after death did Persephone grant mind,) that he alone should be wise; but the other souls are flitting shades.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000032_000000.wav|And shall we proceed to get rid of the weepings and wailings of famous men?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000035_000000.wav|Yes; that is our principle.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000089_000000.wav|Yes.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000071_000000.wav|'Any of the craftsmen, whether he be priest or physician or carpenter,'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000034_000001.wav|Reflect: our principle is that the good man will not consider death terrible to any other good man who is his comrade.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000128_000000.wav|I grant the truth of your inference.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000011_000000.wav|'I would rather be a serf on the land of a poor and portionless man than rule over all the dead who have come to nought.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000105_000001.wav|Neither will we believe or acknowledge Achilles himself to have been such a lover of money that he took Agamemnon's gifts, or that when he had received payment he restored the dead body of Hector, but that without payment he was unwilling to do so.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000113_000000.wav|And further they are likely to have a bad effect on those who hear them; for everybody will begin to excuse his own vices when he is convinced that similar wickednesses are always being perpetrated by-|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000036_000000.wav|And therefore he will not sorrow for his departed friend as though he had suffered anything terrible?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000110_000000.wav|You are quite right, he replied.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000130_000000.wav|Most true, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000040_000000.wav|And for this reason the loss of a son or brother, or the deprivation of fortune, is to him of all men least terrible.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000088_000000.wav|They may very possibly afford some amusement, but they do not conduce to temperance.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000057_000000.wav|It ought not to be.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000087_000000.wav|They are ill spoken.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000049_000001.wav|Alas! that I bore the bravest to my sorrow.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000072_000000.wav|he will punish him for introducing a practice which is equally subversive and destructive of ship or State.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000117_000000.wav|And therefore let us put an end to such tales, lest they engender laxity of morals among the young.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000096_000000.wav|or that other tale of how Hephaestus, because of similar goings on, cast a chain around Ares and Aphrodite?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000092_000000.wav|is it fit or conducive to temperance for a young man to hear such words? Or the verse|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000037_000000.wav|He will not.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000051_000000.wav|'O heavens! with my eyes verily I behold a dear friend of mine chased round and round the city, and my heart is sorrowful.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000084_000000.wav|What of this line,|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000014_000000.wav|And again:--|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000050_000000.wav|But if he must introduce the gods, at any rate let him not dare so completely to misrepresent the greatest of the gods, as to make him say-|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000018_000000.wav|Again:--|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000028_000000.wav|Then we must have no more of them.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000054_000001.wav|And instead of having any shame or self control, he will be always whining and lamenting on slight occasions.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000070_000000.wav|If, then, the ruler catches anybody beside himself lying in the State,|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000034_000000.wav|But shall we be right in getting rid of them?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000107_000000.wav|Loving Homer as I do, I hardly like to say that in attributing these feelings to Achilles, or in believing that they are truly attributed to him, he is guilty of downright impiety.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000129_000000.wav|That such things are or are not to be said about men is a question which we cannot determine until we have discovered what justice is, and how naturally advantageous to the possessor, whether he seem to be just or not.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000058_000000.wav|Neither ought our guardians to be given to laughter.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000003_000000.wav|Yes; and I think that our principles are right, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000002_000000.wav|Such then, I said, are our principles of theology-some tales are to be told, and others are not to be told to our disciples from their youth upwards, if we mean them to honour the gods and their parents, and to value friendship with one another.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000105_000000.wav|Neither is Phoenix, the tutor of Achilles, to be approved or deemed to have given his pupil good counsel when he told him that he should take the gifts of the Greeks and assist them; but that without a gift he should not lay aside his anger.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000009_000000.wav|That will be our duty, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000065_000000.wav|On my views, if you like to father them on me; that we must not admit them is certain.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000010_000000.wav|Then, I said, we shall have to obliterate many obnoxious passages, beginning with the verses,|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000090_000000.wav|And then, again, to make the wisest of men say that nothing in his opinion is more glorious than|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000106_000000.wav|Undoubtedly, he said, these are not sentiments which can be approved.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000059_000000.wav|So I believe.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000075_000000.wav|Certainly.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000058_000001.wav|For a fit of laughter which has been indulged to excess almost always produces a violent reaction.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000024_000000.wav|And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm of them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000060_000000.wav|Then persons of worth, even if only mortal men, must not be represented as overcome by laughter, and still less must such a representation of the gods be allowed.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000079_000000.wav|'Friend, sit still and obey my word,'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000041_000000.wav|Assuredly.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000081_000000.wav|'The Greeks marched breathing prowess, ...in silent awe of their leaders,'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000063_000000.wav|'Inextinguishable laughter arose among the blessed gods, when they saw Hephaestus bustling about the mansion.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170952/3368_170952_000027_000000.wav|There is a real danger, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000065_000000.wav|but that he to whom is given the cup of unmingled ill,|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000101_000000.wav|and let no one slander Proteus and Thetis, neither let any one, either in tragedy or in any other kind of poetry, introduce Here disguised in the likeness of a priestess asking an alms|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000107_000000.wav|Well, but can you imagine that God will be willing to lie, whether in word or deed, or to put forth a phantom of himself?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000122_000000.wav|That would be ridiculous, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000120_000000.wav|Very true, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000068_000000.wav|'Zeus, who is the dispenser of good and evil to us.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000067_000000.wav|And again-|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000123_000000.wav|Then the lying poet has no place in our idea of God?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000057_000000.wav|It follows therefore that the good is not the cause of all things, but of the good only?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000025_000000.wav|You may find a model of the lesser in the greater, I said; for they are necessarily of the same type, and there is the same spirit in both of them.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000047_000000.wav|And that which is not hurtful hurts not?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000083_000000.wav|And the same principle, as I should suppose, applies to all composite things-furniture, houses, garments: when good and well made, they are least altered by time and circumstances.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000005_000000.wav|And what shall be their education?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000129_000000.wav|Then no motive can be imagined why God should lie?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000103_000000.wav|--let us have no more lies of that sort.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000066_000000.wav|'Him wild hunger drives o'er the beauteous earth.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000005_000001.wav|Can we find a better than the traditional sort?--and this has two divisions, gymnastic for the body, and music for the soul.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000038_000000.wav|There you are right, he replied; but if any one asks where are such models to be found and of what tales are you speaking-how shall we answer him?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000010_000000.wav|I do.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000126_000000.wav|That is inconceivable.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000111_000000.wav|I mean that no one is willingly deceived in that which is the truest and highest part of himself, or about the truest and highest matters; there, above all, he is most afraid of a lie having possession of him.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000031_000000.wav|Whenever an erroneous representation is made of the nature of gods and heroes,--as when a painter paints a portrait not having the shadow of a likeness to the original.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000100_000000.wav|'The gods, taking the disguise of strangers from other lands, walk up and down cities in all sorts of forms;'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000026_000000.wav|Very likely, he replied; but I do not as yet know what you would term the greater.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000037_000002.wav|But the narrative of Hephaestus binding Here his mother, or how on another occasion Zeus sent him flying for taking her part when she was being beaten, and all the battles of the gods in Homer-these tales must not be admitted into our State, whether they are supposed to have an allegorical meaning or not.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000018_000000.wav|Quite right, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000023_000000.wav|Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorised ones only.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000091_000000.wav|But may he not change and transform himself?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000082_000000.wav|True.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000075_000000.wav|And what do you think of a second principle?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000008_000000.wav|By all means.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000009_000000.wav|And when you speak of music, do you include literature or not?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000095_000000.wav|Very true, Adeimantus; but then, would any one, whether God or man, desire to make himself worse?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000044_000000.wav|Certainly.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000078_000000.wav|Most certainly.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000041_000000.wav|Something of this kind, I replied:--God is always to be represented as he truly is, whatever be the sort of poetry, epic, lyric or tragic, in which the representation is given.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000110_000001.wav|he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000134_000000.wav|Your thoughts, he said, are the reflection of my own.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000029_000000.wav|A fault which is most serious, I said; the fault of telling a lie, and, what is more, a bad lie.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000110_000000.wav|What do you mean?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000093_000000.wav|And will he then change himself for the better and fairer, or for the worse and more unsightly?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000117_000000.wav|The true lie is hated not only by the gods, but also by men?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000106_000000.wav|Perhaps, he replied.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000059_000000.wav|Then God, if he be good, is not the author of all things, as the many assert, but he is the cause of a few things only, and not of most things that occur to men.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000073_000000.wav|Let this then be one of our rules and principles concerning the gods, to which our poets and reciters will be expected to conform,--that God is not the author of all things, but of good only.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000012_000000.wav|Yes.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000088_000000.wav|Of course they are.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000049_000000.wav|And that which hurts not does no evil?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000076_000000.wav|I cannot answer you, he said, without more thought.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000135_000001.wav|The gods are not magicians who transform themselves, neither do they deceive mankind in any way.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000006_000000.wav|True.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000042_000000.wav|Right.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000021_000000.wav|And shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000121_000000.wav|But can any of these reasons apply to God?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000007_000000.wav|Shall we begin education with music, and go on to gymnastic afterwards?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000043_000000.wav|And is he not truly good? and must he not be represented as such?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000020_000000.wav|Quite true.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000032_000000.wav|Yes, he said, that sort of thing is certainly very blameable; but what are the stories which you mean?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000055_000000.wav|And therefore the cause of well-being?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000054_000000.wav|Yes.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000074_000000.wav|That will do, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000062_000000.wav|'Lie at the threshold of Zeus, full of lots, one of good, the other of evil lots,'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000059_000001.wav|For few are the goods of human life, and many are the evils, and the good is to be attributed to God alone; of the evils the causes are to be sought elsewhere, and not in him.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000118_000000.wav|Yes.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000046_000000.wav|No, indeed.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000090_000000.wav|He cannot.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000081_000000.wav|And will not the bravest and wisest soul be least confused or deranged by any external influence?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000016_000000.wav|Very true.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000060_000000.wav|That appears to me to be most true, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000115_000001.wav|Am I not right?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000087_000000.wav|But surely God and the things of God are in every way perfect?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000050_000000.wav|no|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000079_000000.wav|And things which are at their best are also least liable to be altered or discomposed; for example, when healthiest and strongest, the human frame is least liable to be affected by meats and drinks, and the plant which is in the fullest vigour also suffers least from winds or the heat of the sun or any similar causes.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000097_000000.wav|Then it is impossible that God should ever be willing to change; being, as is supposed, the fairest and best that is conceivable, every God remains absolutely and for ever in his own form.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000017_000000.wav|That was my meaning when I said that we must teach music before gymnastics.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000108_000000.wav|I cannot say, he replied.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000051_000000.wav|And can that which does no evil be a cause of evil?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000072_000000.wav|I agree with you, he replied, and am ready to give my assent to the law.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000040_000000.wav|Very true, he said; but what are these forms of theology which you mean?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000084_000000.wav|Very true.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000131_000000.wav|Then the superhuman and divine is absolutely incapable of falsehood?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000138_000002.wav|And I thought that the word of Phoebus, being divine and full of prophecy, would not fail.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000058_000000.wav|Assuredly.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000085_000000.wav|Then everything which is good, whether made by art or nature, or both, is least liable to suffer change from without?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000121_000001.wav|Can we suppose that he is ignorant of antiquity, and therefore has recourse to invention?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000056_000000.wav|Yes.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000052_000000.wav|Impossible.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000045_000000.wav|And no good thing is hurtful?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000104_000000.wav|Heaven forbid, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000124_000000.wav|I should say not.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000092_000000.wav|Clearly, he said, that must be the case if he is changed at all.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000064_000000.wav|'Sometimes meets with evil fortune, at other times with good;'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000112_000000.wav|Still, he said, I do not comprehend you.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000138_000001.wav|And when he had spoken of my lot as in all things blessed of heaven he raised a note of triumph and cheered my soul.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000077_000000.wav|Well, I said; but if we suppose a change in anything, that change must be effected either by the thing itself, or by some other thing?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000133_000000.wav|Then is God perfectly simple and true both in word and deed; he changes not; he deceives not, either by sign or word, by dream or waking vision.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000048_000000.wav|Certainly not.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000135_000000.wav|You agree with me then, I said, that this is the second type or form in which we should write and speak about divine things.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000130_000000.wav|None whatever.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000114_000000.wav|There is nothing more hateful to them.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000014_000000.wav|I do not understand your meaning, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000070_000000.wav|'God plants guilt among men when he desires utterly to destroy a house.'|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000127_000000.wav|But he may have friends who are senseless or mad?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000037_000003.wav|For a young person cannot judge what is allegorical and what is literal; anything that he receives into his mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000116_000000.wav|Perfectly right.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000136_000000.wav|I grant that.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000011_000000.wav|And literature may be either true or false?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000022_000000.wav|We cannot.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000024_000001.wav|he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000138_000000.wav|'Was celebrating in song her fair progeny whose days were to be long, and to know no sickness.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000128_000000.wav|But no mad or senseless person can be a friend of God.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000096_000000.wav|Impossible.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000033_000000.wav|First of all, I said, there was that greatest of all lies in high places, which the poet told about Uranus, and which was a bad lie too,--I mean what Hesiod says that Uranus did, and how Cronus retaliated on him.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170951/3368_170951_000080_000000.wav|Of course.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000065_000001.wav|he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000084_000000.wav|And may we not say confidently of man also, that he who is likely to be gentle to his friends and acquaintances, must by nature be a lover of wisdom and knowledge?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000076_000001.wav|Did this never strike you as curious?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000034_000001.wav|Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000039_000000.wav|Certainly.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000090_000000.wav|Then, I said, my dear friend, the task must not be given up, even if somewhat long.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000076_000000.wav|Why, a dog, whenever he sees a stranger, is angry; when an acquaintance, he welcomes him, although the one has never done him any harm, nor the other any good.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000083_000000.wav|They are the same, he replied.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000059_000000.wav|True, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000069_000000.wav|Yes, I know.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000017_000000.wav|Much greater.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000004_000000.wav|Probably in the dealings of these citizens with one another.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000033_000000.wav|Quite true.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000003_000000.wav|Where, then, is justice, and where is injustice, and in what part of the State did they spring up?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000071_000000.wav|Certainly not.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000014_000001.wav|Now will the city have to fill and swell with a multitude of callings which are not required by any natural want; such as the whole tribe of hunters and actors, of whom one large class have to do with forms and colours; another will be the votaries of music-poets and their attendant train of rhapsodists, players, dancers, contractors; also makers of divers kinds of articles, including women's dresses.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000018_000000.wav|And the country which was enough to support the original inhabitants will be too small now, and not enough?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000091_000000.wav|Certainly not.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000037_000000.wav|No doubt, he replied.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000023_000000.wav|Most certainly, he replied.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000081_000000.wav|Most assuredly.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000073_000000.wav|I do not apprehend your meaning.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000046_000000.wav|I mean that both of them ought to be quick to see, and swift to overtake the enemy when they see him; and strong too if, when they have caught him, they have to fight with him.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000012_000001.wav|In my opinion the true and healthy constitution of the State is the one which I have described.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000060_000001.wav|I said; how shall we find a gentle nature which has also a great spirit, for the one is the contradiction of the other?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000004_000001.wav|I cannot imagine that they are more likely to be found any where else.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000020_000000.wav|Then a slice of our neighbours' land will be wanted by us for pasture and tillage, and they will want a slice of ours, if, like ourselves, they exceed the limit of necessity, and give themselves up to the unlimited accumulation of wealth?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000048_000000.wav|Well, and your guardian must be brave if he is to fight well?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000047_000000.wav|All these qualities, he replied, will certainly be required by them.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000089_000000.wav|Adeimantus thought that the enquiry would be of great service to us.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000087_000000.wav|Undoubtedly.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000013_000000.wav|True, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000036_000000.wav|And the higher the duties of the guardian, I said, the more time, and skill, and art, and application will be needed by him?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000041_000000.wav|It will.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000082_000000.wav|And is not the love of learning the love of wisdom, which is philosophy?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000043_000000.wav|We must.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000012_000000.wav|Yes, I said, now I understand: the question which you would have me consider is, not only how a State, but how a luxurious State is created; and possibly there is no harm in this, for in such a State we shall be more likely to see how justice and injustice originate.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000034_000003.wav|No tools will make a man a skilled workman, or master of defence, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them, and has never bestowed any attention upon them.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000079_000000.wav|Why?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000032_000000.wav|And an art requiring as much attention as shoemaking?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000009_000000.wav|Yes, Socrates, he said, and if you were providing for a city of pigs, how else would you feed the beasts?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000060_000000.wav|What is to be done then?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000027_000000.wav|Why? he said; are they not capable of defending themselves?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000080_000001.wav|And must not an animal be a lover of learning who determines what he likes and dislikes by the test of knowledge and ignorance?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000074_000000.wav|The trait of which I am speaking, I replied, may be also seen in the dog, and is remarkable in the animal.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000014_000004.wav|They must not be forgotten: and there will be animals of many other kinds, if people eat them.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000029_000000.wav|Very true, he said.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000040_000000.wav|Then it will be our duty to select, if we can, natures which are fitted for the task of guarding the city?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000080_000000.wav|Why, because he distinguishes the face of a friend and of an enemy only by the criterion of knowing and not knowing.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000007_000000.wav|But, said Glaucon, interposing, you have not given them a relish to their meal.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000038_000000.wav|Will he not also require natural aptitude for his calling?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000008_000001.wav|And with such a diet they may be expected to live in peace and health to a good old age, and bequeath a similar life to their children after them.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000063_000000.wav|I am afraid that what you say is true, he replied.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000016_000000.wav|And living in this way we shall have much greater need of physicians than before?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000044_000000.wav|Is not the noble youth very like a well bred dog in respect of guarding and watching?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000010_000001.wav|I replied.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000064_000000.wav|Here feeling perplexed I began to think over what had preceded.--My friend, I said, no wonder that we are in a perplexity; for we have lost sight of the image which we had before us.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000077_000000.wav|The matter never struck me before; but I quite recognise the truth of your remark.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000055_000000.wav|Yes.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000034_000002.wav|But is war an art so easily acquired that a man may be a warrior who is also a husbandman, or shoemaker, or other artisan; although no one in the world would be a good dice or draught player who merely took up the game as a recreation, and had not from his earliest years devoted himself to this and nothing else?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000057_000000.wav|A difficulty by no means easy to overcome, he replied.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000075_000000.wav|What trait?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000011_000000.wav|Why, he said, you should give them the ordinary conveniences of life. People who are to be comfortable are accustomed to lie on sofas, and dine off tables, and they should have sauces and sweets in the modern style.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000021_000000.wav|That, Socrates, will be inevitable.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000019_000000.wav|Quite true.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000061_000000.wav|True.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000042_000000.wav|And the selection will be no easy matter, I said; but we must be brave and do our best.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000005_000000.wav|I dare say that you are right in your suggestion, I said; we had better think the matter out, and not shrink from the enquiry.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000045_000000.wav|What do you mean?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000034_000004.wav|How then will he who takes up a shield or other implement of war become a good fighter all in a day, whether with heavy armed or any other kind of troops?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000050_000000.wav|And is he likely to be brave who has no spirit, whether horse or dog or any other animal?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000022_000001.wav|Shall we not?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000051_000000.wav|I have.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000053_000000.wav|True.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000085_000000.wav|That we may safely affirm.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000006_000005.wav|And they will take care that their families do not exceed their means; having an eye to poverty or war.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000068_000000.wav|Many animals, I replied, furnish examples of them; our friend the dog is a very good one: you know that well bred dogs are perfectly gentle to their familiars and acquaintances, and the reverse to strangers.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000015_000000.wav|Certainly.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000031_000000.wav|Certainly.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000030_000000.wav|But is not war an art?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000035_000000.wav|Yes, he said, the tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000078_000000.wav|And surely this instinct of the dog is very charming;--your dog is a true philosopher.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000088_000000.wav|Then we have found the desired natures; and now that we have found them, how are they to be reared and educated?|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3368/170950/3368_170950_000058_000000.wav|Whereas, I said, they ought to be dangerous to their enemies, and gentle to their friends; if not, they will destroy themselves without waiting for their enemies to destroy them.|3368
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000015_000002.wav|Then he returned to the flier.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000014_000000.wav|The other turned about quickly to gaze heavenward.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000008_000000.wav|"Go!|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000046_000000.wav|Beneath the second dial he found the steel pin severed as in the other, but the controlling mechanism had first been set for a point upon the western hemisphere.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000042_000000.wav|Quickly he unlocked the cover, turning it back upon its hinge.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000020_000000.wav|Presently came Carthoris, accompanied by but a handful of his gentlemen.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000040_000000.wav|What had happened?|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000050_000000.wav|The green man was hurrying his captive toward a huge thoat that browsed upon the ochre vegetation of the once scarlet gorgeous plaza.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000019_000000.wav|As quickly as possible he replaced the second dial cover, and resumed his place on guard.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000020_000002.wav|The fellow's thin, cruel lips, and the sword cut that ran from temple to mouth aroused the suggestion of an unpleasant memory within him.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000028_000000.wav|Now he saw that her reply was open to more than a single construction. It might, of course, mean that she did not love Kulan Tith; and so, by inference, be taken to mean that she loved another.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000032_000001.wav|His flier was rushing swiftly above a barren, ochre plain-the world old bottom of a long dead Martian sea.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000041_000003.wav|He would not believe it.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000005_000000.wav|In the council chamber of john Carter, Warlord of Mars, was Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium; Mors Kajak, his son, Jed of Lesser Helium; Carthoris, and a score of the great nobles of the empire.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000030_000003.wav|She had not been abducted-she had fled willingly with her lover.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000011_000000.wav|At last all was done.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000016_000000.wav|Drawing a cunningly wrought key from his pocket pouch, he removed the cover of the right-hand dial of the controlling destination compass.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000009_000000.wav|Carthoris left the council chamber, and hastened to his palace.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000037_000002.wav|Beside him, already, there should have been an air patrol.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000026_000000.wav|But sleep did not come at once at his bidding.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000011_000002.wav|In a moment darkness would envelop all.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000043_000000.wav|Who could have done the thing-and why?|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000018_000002.wav|Afterward he removed the cover of this dial also, and with keen tool cut the steel finger from the under side of the pointer.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000019_000001.wav|To all intents and purposes the compass was as efficient as before; but, as a matter of fact, the moving of the pointers upon the dials resulted now in no corresponding shift of the mechanism beneath-and the device was set, immovably, upon a destination of the slave's own choosing.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000049_000001.wav|Reaching for the control board, he sent his craft racing plummet like toward the ground.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000034_000000.wav|The countless dismal windows, vacant and forlorn, stared, sightless, from their marble walls; the whole sad city taking on the semblance of scattered mounds of dead men's sun bleached skulls-the casements having the appearance of eyeless sockets, the portals, grinning jaws.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000038_000000.wav|He gazed about in bewildered astonishment.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000017_000000.wav|A smile crossed his lips.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000024_000000.wav|With a word of farewell he touched the button which controlled the repulsive rays, and as the flier rose lightly into the air, the engine purred in answer to the touch of his finger upon a second button, the propellers whirred as his hand drew back the speed lever, and Carthoris, Prince of Helium, was off into the gorgeous Martian night beneath the hurtling moons and the million stars.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000027_000000.wav|Instead, his thoughts ran riot in his brain, driving sleep away. He recalled the words of Thuvia of Ptarth, words that had half assured him that she loved him; for when he had asked her if she loved Kulan Tith, she had answered only that she was promised to him.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000016_000002.wav|Then he returned the dial to its place, set the pointer, and removed it again to note the resultant change in the position of the parts affected by the act.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000014_000001.wav|Scarce was his back turned toward the giant than the short sword of the latter was plunged beneath his left shoulder blade, straight through his heart.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000037_000000.wav|Carthoris sprang to his feet.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000017_000002.wav|In other words, the eastern hemisphere dial was useless.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000045_000000.wav|If it had been the purpose of some enemy to delay him, he had succeeded well, thought Carthoris, as he unlocked the cover of the second dial the first having shown that its pointer had not been set at all.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000013_000000.wav|"What strange craft is that?" he asked.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000010_000000.wav|Here slaves were busy in a moment setting things to rights for the departure of their master.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000050_000001.wav|At the same instant a dozen red warriors leaped from the entrance of a nearby ersite palace, pursuing the abductor with naked swords and shouts of rageful warning.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000036_000000.wav|Above the central plaza it stopped, slowly settling Marsward. Within a hundred yards of the ground it came to rest, floating gently in the light air, and at the same instant an alarm sounded at the sleeper's ear.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000017_000001.wav|With a pair of cutters he snipped off the projection which extended through the dial from the external pointer-now the latter might be moved to any point upon the dial without affecting the mechanism below.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000007_000002.wav|Bear with you the authority of the Warlord of Barsoom, and of the Jeddak of Helium to offer every resource of the allied powers to assist Thuvan Dihn to recover his daughter and punish her abductors, whomsoever they may be.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000016_000001.wav|For a moment he studied the construction of the mechanism beneath.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000022_000000.wav|It could not have been he, thought Carthoris, for on the very night that Thuvia was taken Astok had been in Dusar, and yet-|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000049_000000.wav|Carthoris waited to see no more.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000015_000000.wav|Voiceless, the soldier sank in his tracks-stone dead.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000030_000001.wav|No, the fact was, she did not love him.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000029_000000.wav|But what assurance was there that the other was Carthoris of Helium?|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000008_000001.wav|I know that I do not need to urge upon you the necessity for haste."|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER three|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000012_000001.wav|When he had come quite close he spoke.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000039_000001.wav|Silent and empty lay the great city-empty and silent the surrounding air.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000044_000000.wav|Carthoris could not hazard even a faint guess.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000042_000001.wav|A single glance showed him the truth, or at least a part of it-the steel projection that communicated the movement of the pointer upon the dial to the heart of the mechanism beneath had been severed.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000031_000000.wav|With such pleasant thoughts filling him alternately with despair and rage, Carthoris at last dropped into the sleep of utter mental exhaustion.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000032_000000.wav|The breaking of the sudden dawn found him still asleep.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000020_000001.wav|He cast but a casual glance upon the single slave who stood guard.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000004_000000.wav|The day following the coming of Vas Kor to the palace of the Prince of Helium great excitement reigned throughout the twin cities, reaching its climax in the palace of Carthoris.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000007_000000.wav|"There is but one who may convince him, and that one be you.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000030_000000.wav|The more he thought upon it the more positive he became that not only was there no assurance in her words that she loved him, but none either in any act of hers.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000044_000001.wav|But the thing now was to learn in what portion of the world he was, and then take up his interrupted journey once more.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000030_000002.wav|She loved another.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000039_000000.wav|No patrol boat lay ready with its familiar challenge.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000015_000001.wav|Quickly the murderer dragged the corpse into the black shadows within the hangar.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000006_000001.wav|"That you are innocent of the charge that has been placed against you by insinuation, we well know; but Thuvan Dihn must know it well, too.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/157263/2562_157263_000041_000000.wav|Carthoris examined the dial of his compass.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000001.wav|So suddenly that she startled me.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000006.wav|I had in my possession a thing that was, perhaps, the best of all defences against the Morlocks-I had matches!|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000000.wav|'As the evening drew on, my interest waned.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000007.wav|I had the camphor in my pocket, too, if a blaze were needed.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000005_000000.wav|'Clearly we stood among the ruins of some latter day South Kensington!|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000008.wav|I turned to Weena.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000004.wav|As you went down the length, the ground came up against these windows, until at last there was a pit like the "area" of a London house before each, and only a narrow line of daylight at the top.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000001.wav|Yet, oddly enough, I found a far unlikelier substance, and that was camphor.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000002_000002.wav|It lay very high upon a turfy down, and looking north eastward before I entered it, I was surprised to see a large estuary, or even creek, where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000001.wav|Then, struck with a sudden idea, I left her and turned to a machine from which projected a lever not unlike those in a signal box.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000008.wav|But they must have been air tight to judge from the fair preservation of some of their contents.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000011.wav|Then we came to a gallery of simply colossal proportions, but singularly ill lit, the floor of it running downward at a slight angle from the end at which I entered.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000004.wav|Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000013_000005.wav|The most were masses of rust, but many were of some new metal, and still fairly sound.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000000.wav|'Within the big valves of the door-which were open and broken-we found, instead of the customary hall, a long gallery lit by many side windows.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000008.wav|As yet my iron crowbar was the most helpful thing I had chanced upon.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000013_000006.wav|But any cartridges or powder there may once have been had rotted into dust.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000008.wav|Only my disinclination to leave Weena, and a persuasion that if I began to slake my thirst for murder my Time Machine might suffer, restrained me from going straight down the gallery and killing the brutes I heard.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000008.wav|I really believe that had they not been so, I should have rushed off incontinently and blown Sphinx, bronze doors, and (as it proved) my chances of finding the Time Machine, all together into non existence.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000008.wav|It seemed to me that the best thing we could do would be to pass the night in the open, protected by a fire.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000002.wav|Except at one end where the roof had collapsed, this gallery was well preserved.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000007.wav|Going towards the side I found what appeared to be sloping shelves, and clearing away the thick dust, I found the old familiar glass cases of our own time.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000007.wav|I found no explosives, however, nor any means of breaking down the bronze doors.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000010_000001.wav|They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000005_000005.wav|The thick dust deadened our footsteps.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000003_000002.wav|She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000009.wav|In the morning there was the getting of the Time Machine.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000011.wav|And then down in the remote blackness of the gallery I heard a peculiar pattering, and the same odd noises I had heard down the well.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000004.wav|And at last, in one of the really air tight cases, I found a box of matches.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000011.wav|But now, with my growing knowledge, I felt very differently towards those bronze doors.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000009.wav|Nevertheless I left that gallery greatly elated.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000009.wav|"Dance," I cried to her in her own tongue.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000005.wav|I hesitated.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000001.wav|At the first glance I was reminded of a museum. The tiled floor was thick with dust, and a remarkable array of miscellaneous objects was shrouded in the same grey covering.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000002.wav|In one place I suddenly found myself near the model of a tin mine, and then by the merest accident I discovered, in an air tight case, two dynamite cartridges!|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000003.wav|Suddenly Weena, deserted in the central aisle, began to whimper.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000010.wav|For now I had a weapon indeed against the horrible creatures we feared.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000006.wav|As for the rest of the contents of that gallery, though on the whole they were the best preserved of all I saw, I had little interest.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000000.wav|'It was after that, I think, that we came to a little open court within the palace.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000013_000007.wav|One corner I saw was charred and shattered; perhaps, I thought, by an explosion among the specimens.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000014.wav|You know I have a certain weakness for mechanism, and I was inclined to linger among these; the more so as for the most part they had the interest of puzzles, and I could make only the vaguest guesses at what they were for.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000010_000000.wav|'Well, mace in one hand and Weena in the other, I went out of that gallery and into another and still larger one, which at the first glance reminded me of a military chapel hung with tattered flags. The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000006.wav|I was about to throw it away, but I remembered that it was inflammable and burned with a good bright flame-was, in fact, an excellent candle-and I put it in my pocket.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000005.wav|And I longed very much to kill a Morlock or so.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000006.wav|Then, selecting a little side gallery, I made my essay.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000013.wav|For I am naturally inventive, as you know.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000005.wav|Further in the gallery was the huge skeleton barrel of a Brontosaurus.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000006.wav|Very inhuman, you may think, to want to go killing one's own descendants!|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000013_000003.wav|I could not carry both, however, and my bar of iron promised best against the bronze gates.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000009.wav|My sense of the immediate presence of the Morlocks revived at that. I felt that I was wasting my time in the academic examination of machinery.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000000.wav|'Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a most strange, as for me it was a most fortunate thing.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000004.wav|Then came a doubt.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000010.wav|I was sorry for that, because I should have been glad to trace the patent readjustments by which the conquest of animated nature had been attained.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000008.wav|Further away towards the dimness, it appeared to be broken by a number of small narrow footprints.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000013.wav|Here I was more in my element, for rising on either side of me were the huge bulks of big machines, all greatly corroded and many broken down, but some still fairly complete.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000003_000001.wav|I thought, rather foolishly, that Weena might help me to interpret this, but I only learned that the bare idea of writing had never entered her head.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000013_000001.wav|It would require a great effort of memory to recall my explorations in at all the proper order.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000007.wav|But it was impossible, somehow, to feel any humanity in the things.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000003.wav|I went eagerly to every unbroken case.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000006.wav|They were perfectly good.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000002_000000.wav|'I found the Palace of Green Porcelain, when we approached it about noon, deserted and falling into ruin.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000010.wav|Towards that, as yet, I had only my iron mace.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000001.wav|I went through gallery after gallery, dusty, silent, often ruinous, the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite, sometimes fresher.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000000.wav|'I took Weena's hand.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000009_000002.wav|Clambering upon the stand, and grasping this lever in my hands, I put all my weight upon it sideways.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000006_000001.wav|Even my preoccupation about the Time Machine receded a little from my mind.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000003.wav|But I could find no saltpeter; indeed, no nitrates of any kind.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000003_000000.wav|'The material of the Palace proved on examination to be indeed porcelain, and along the face of it I saw an inscription in some unknown character.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000012_000004.wav|In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000006.wav|My museum hypothesis was confirmed.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000006.wav|Then I saw that the gallery ran down at last into a thick darkness.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000014_000007.wav|I never felt such a disappointment as I did in waiting five, ten, fifteen minutes for an explosion that never came. Of course the things were dummies, as I might have guessed from their presence.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000001.wav|To me, at least in my present circumstances, these would be vastly more interesting than this spectacle of oldtime geology in decay. Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000005.wav|Very eagerly I tried them.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000003.wav|Towards sunset I began to consider our position.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000005_000004.wav|The place was very silent.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000000.wav|'Then, going up a broad staircase, we came to what may once have been a gallery of technical chemistry.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000002.wav|Had it not been for her I do not think I should have noticed that the floor of the gallery sloped at all.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000000.wav|'To judge from the size of the place, this Palace of Green Porcelain had a great deal more in it than a Gallery of Palaeontology; possibly historical galleries; it might be, even a library!|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000004_000003.wav|I recognized by the oblique feet that it was some extinct creature after the fashion of the Megatherium.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000008_000000.wav|'Suddenly Weena came very close to my side.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000006_000000.wav|'And at first I was so much surprised by this ancient monument of an intellectual age, that I gave no thought to the possibilities it presented.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000012.wav|At intervals white globes hung from the ceiling-many of them cracked and smashed-which suggested that originally the place had been artificially lit.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000005_000006.wav|Weena, who had been rolling a sea urchin down the sloping glass of a case, presently came, as I stared about me, and very quietly took my hand and stood beside me.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000011_000001.wav|And here I had not a little hope of useful discoveries.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000001.wav|It was turfed, and had three fruit trees.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000015_000005.wav|But that troubled me very little now.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000010_000003.wav|Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000002.wav|This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000013_000002.wav|I remember a long gallery of rusting stands of arms, and how I hesitated between my crowbar and a hatchet or a sword.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2562/133442/2562_133442_000007_000008.wav|Apparently this section had been devoted to natural history, but everything had long since passed out of recognition.|2562
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000001_000000.wav|THE JUNE MOON|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000005_000001.wav|You're It!" just the same.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000013_000006.wav|The dances were just whirling and skipping and jumping, each dancer by himself, but all in a circle.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000007_000003.wav|Eric sprang for her.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000005_000000.wav|But he cried, "I spy!|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000013_000001.wav|He had never been to a dance before, and just at first he did not think there would be much fun in it.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000027_000001.wav|So at last he slipped out of the circle, and stumbling with weariness and sleepiness went to Tree Mother.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000009_000002.wav|She pinched Eric's arm with all her strength.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000006_000002.wav|But she was quicker than he.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000014_000000.wav|Late that afternoon Helma and Ivra and Eric gathered ferns and flowers to deck themselves for the evening.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000007_000004.wav|She dodged.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000006_000001.wav|And he sprang forward as he laughed.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000004_000002.wav|Her dress was a purple slip just to her knees, with a big rent in the skirt.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000010_000000.wav|"You'll play with us, won't you?" Eric asked.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000007_000005.wav|He sprang again.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000027_000002.wav|She picked him up in her arms, and the minute his head touched her shoulder he was sound asleep, the music at last hushed in his head.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000009_000000.wav|No girl, even a fairy, likes to have her hair pulled.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000015_000000.wav|Helma made a girdle of brakes for herself, and a dandelion wreath for her hair.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000013_000007.wav|Eric liked it as well as though it had been a new game.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000024_000000.wav|When the great moon hung just above them, and shadows were few and far between, the Tree Mother came walking through the Forest, quieter and more beautiful than the moon.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000015_000001.wav|She wove a dear little cap of star flowers for Ivra, and a chain of them for her neck.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000003_000000.wav|Hide and go seek was still the favorite game.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000009_000001.wav|So Wild Thyme was angry.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000015_000002.wav|Eric crowned himself with bloodroot and contrived grass sandals for his feet.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000011_000003.wav|Goody!|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000005_000002.wav|She did not lift her eyes.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000008_000001.wav|Instead of Wild Thyme and the sunny field, he was looking at the sea.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000023_000004.wav|Her face was sparkling with delight and she had utterly forgotten herself in the dance.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000028_000000.wav|When he woke it was summer dawn.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000012_000004.wav|"And all come-come when the moon rises."|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000027_000000.wav|But Eric, after all, was only an Earth Child, and his legs got very tired in spite of the music and the moonlight.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000028_000002.wav|He was alone, lying beneath a silver birch, his head among the star flowers.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000026_000000.wav|Wild Thyme jumped back into the dance and the Tree Mother stood alone. But although she stood as still as a moonbeam under the tree, she made Eric think of dancing more than all the others put together.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000023_000003.wav|And she was plotting no ill.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104398/7802_104398_000004_000001.wav|And that was strange, for when he first spied her he did not like her at all.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000021_000005.wav|They must keep happy and wait."|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000004_000004.wav|Eric and the Wind Creatures followed.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000007_000005.wav|That is why they did not know her at first, that and her very strange clothes.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000011_000003.wav|Did you expect them to do any thing else but bother?|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000011_000001.wav|"Your place is where you were born in a fine house and wearing clothes like other people.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000010_000002.wav|She was saying, "No, never, never, never, in a thousand days and years will I ever be happy here.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000019_000006.wav|So there!"|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000007_000004.wav|And behind them walked-Helma, with her gaze on the ground.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000023_000004.wav|There's to be strawberry ice to day,--and goose to begin with of course.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000019_000002.wav|For a minute she looked steadily at them without believing, and then it was as though her pale face suddenly burst into song.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000025_000004.wav|Soon she stopped and wiped her face on her sleeve.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000004_000001.wav|But Ivra did not stop to wonder.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000010_000004.wav|Oh, how these heels bother!"|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000007_000003.wav|Then came a young man in a stiff, funny hat, carrying a cane, beating up the snow flowers with it as he passed the flower beds.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000029_000001.wav|And almost before the end the little story teller had fallen asleep with her head tipped back against the Tree Man's chest.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000025_000003.wav|Eric and the Wind Children sat cross legged and waited.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104391/7802_104391_000016_000004.wav|Come, cheer up.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000018_000000.wav|By and by they played tag, just plain tag, and Eric liked that best of all.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000031_000004.wav|But she's queer just the same, and she can't fool us."|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000015_000003.wav|Whoop!" cried Eric, and dropped, landing among them.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000009_000003.wav|He looked even jollier than the girl.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000004_000000.wav|One afternoon Eric and Ivra started out for the Forest Children's moss village to play with them.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000022_000001.wav|"No, look!" He pointed with his finger.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000034_000000.wav|Nora was there knitting by a table, two big pans of cookies just out of the oven cooling in front of her.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000022_000005.wav|"Quick, help me open the window."|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000048_000000.wav|Nora laughed with them, and so after a minute Eric joined in.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000008_000004.wav|She sat up, saw Eric and stared.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000013_000001.wav|Come up.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000026_000003.wav|But father says it's nothing to mind.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000047_000001.wav|The children laughed at the top of their voices.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000008_000001.wav|Ahead of him were two stalls, with a horse in one.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000058_000008.wav|But they are awfully jolly.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000042_000000.wav|So Nora put down her knitting, and taking the cat on her lap, a great sleepy white fellow who had been purring by the stove, she began to tell them stories.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000028_000002.wav|But just now it was jolly and cozy here in the barn, and these Earth Children were good fun.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000033_000000.wav|So up they hopped, and without another look towards the shadow out on the snow by the white birch, jumped down the hole, and ran out of the barn into the kitchen.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000005_000000.wav|Ivra clapped her hands and bounded forward.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000027_000004.wav|She had not said so, but he had guessed it from her face when she told him.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000008_000002.wav|But Eric was most interested in the empty stall, for it was from there the laughter seemed to come.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000015_000000.wav|He found the hole in the stable ceiling and looked down.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000031_000000.wav|"Oh, yes," said the jolliest boy.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000022_000000.wav|Eric laughed.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000010_000000.wav|Before Eric had closed his mouth on his amazement, "Whoop!" and down came another boy.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000027_000001.wav|She was half fairy. People could see her if they looked hard enough.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000014_000001.wav|Eric followed.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000032_000000.wav|"Let's go in and get some cookies from her," said the other boy.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000036_000000.wav|"This boy, grandma," began the red headed girl.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000045_000001.wav|Finally he had to strain his eyes to see it at all.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000027_000003.wav|That was dreadful for her.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000039_000001.wav|"Her name is 'Ivra.' But of course you can't play with her.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000013_000000.wav|"Nora's grandchildren, of course.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000058_000007.wav|They don't think I'm real.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000005_000002.wav|He stood to watch.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000058_000002.wav|"Yes, play with them all you like!|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000017_000000.wav|Then they played hide and go seek in the hay country, and after that Blind Man's Buff in the barn below.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000004_000001.wav|But when they got there they found all the little houses deserted: not a Forest Child was to be found.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000004_000004.wav|Down in the pasture by the house half a dozen Snow Witches were dancing in a circle, now near, now far, all over the pasture, and sometimes right up to the farm house windows.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000012_000000.wav|"Eric,--who are you?"|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000027_000006.wav|These were Earth Children, with shadows in their eyes.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000035_000000.wav|How good they smelled!|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000052_000000.wav|"Oh, it was too cold.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000020_000004.wav|"Let's open the window and call to her to come up.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000015_000002.wav|"Look out down there!|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000039_000000.wav|"Don't say 'It,'" said Nora.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000031_000003.wav|And she tells the best stories.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000007_000004.wav|So Eric ran to the door.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000026_000000.wav|"Yes," said the jolliest of the boys.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000040_000000.wav|"But it doesn't make you cross," laughed the jolliest boy.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000020_000005.wav|She'll tell us stories."|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000053_000000.wav|"Did they laugh at me?"|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000029_000001.wav|"If you do,--better not.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000052_000001.wav|Nora's grandchildren are awfully good fun.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000047_000002.wav|"Yes, take some cookies to the fairy.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000054_000002.wav|They thought I was a funny boy."|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000025_000003.wav|Of course you see her!"|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000023_000000.wav|He could not find the catch.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000047_000000.wav|"Take her some cookies," said Nora, filling his pockets.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000020_000003.wav|"That is my playmate out there," he said.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000007_000005.wav|It was a big sliding door, and now stood open on a crack just large enough for a child to slip through.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000031_000002.wav|We love her, and she's a fine grandmother, I can tell you.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000039_000004.wav|So don't say anything about it to your father when he comes home to night.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000008_000006.wav|She had the jolliest, the nicest face in the world.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000035_000002.wav|He perched on the edge of the table and ate that one and many another before he was done.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000013_000002.wav|We're having sport."|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000051_000000.wav|"Why didn't you come, too?" she said|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000006_000001.wav|"We're going to slide on the brook below the cornfield."|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000014_000000.wav|The three children ran across the barn to a ladder and scrambled up and disappeared through a trap door at the top.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000009_000001.wav|This was a boy.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000010_000001.wav|This boy was red haired, freckle faced and snub nosed, and he looked jollier than the other two put together, if that were possible, for his red hair curled in saucy, tight little ringlets, and his mouth was wide with smiles.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000007_000002.wav|And just as Ivra and the Witches drifted out of sight, he thought he heard the Forest Children laughing.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000018_000001.wav|Back and forth across the great room they raced,--up the ladder, over the hay, through the hole into the stable, round and round, in and out, up and down until they were too tired and hot for any more.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000027_000000.wav|Then Eric remembered all that Ivra had told him.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000040_000001.wav|"And so won't you tell us some stories about it now.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000046_000006.wav|Yes.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000021_000001.wav|"But there's nobody there," they said.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000003_000000.wav|NORA'S GRANDCHILDREN|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000004_000002.wav|They must have gone into some other part of the forest to play.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000005_000001.wav|Eric did not follow.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000026_000002.wav|We've seen it before too,--a kind of a shadow on the snow.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000024_000000.wav|The little red headed girl put her hand on his arm.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000035_000001.wav|Eric had never tasted hot ginger cookies before, and when Nora gave him one, a big round one all for his own, he almost danced with delight.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000005_000004.wav|For a minute she was lost in a cloud of blown snow, and then there she was dancing in their circle back and forth across the pasture, and then away, away, away!|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000007_000006.wav|Eric went in.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000058_000001.wav|And it was like spring coming into winter.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000038_000000.wav|"Well, he saw It while we were looking out of the barn window!|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000055_000000.wav|"To have me for a playmate?"|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000007_000001.wav|He did not like the Snow Witches.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000049_000001.wav|He overtook her a long way in, walking rapidly.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000058_000009.wav|You play with them and when you tell me about it afterwards I'll pretend I was there playing too."|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000007_000000.wav|But Eric did not follow.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000032_000001.wav|"They must be done by now."|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000031_000001.wav|"But she is queer.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000037_000000.wav|"His name is Eric," interrupted Nora, handing him another cookie.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000024_000002.wav|"There's no one by the white birch.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000025_000001.wav|Of course she's there!" Eric was impatient.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000023_000001.wav|The window was draped with cobwebs and dusty with the dust of years.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000020_000002.wav|He pointed her out to the other children.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000022_000003.wav|Look!|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000008_000005.wav|She was a little girl about his own age, freckle faced, snub nosed and red haired.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000020_000001.wav|She must have heard their shouts and laughter.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000046_000004.wav|He liked them,--oh, so much!|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000019_000000.wav|Then they lay up in the hay where there was a little window, looking far out across the meadows.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000056_000000.wav|Then Eric began to think that Ivra was not very happy.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000039_000005.wav|It would make him cross."|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000039_000003.wav|She's a fairy.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7802/104394/7802_104394_000045_000000.wav|And all the time Eric had only to turn his head to see Ivra walking out there around in the field, looking at the farm house, waiting for him. But gradually, as the stories went on the little figure out there grew more and more to look like just a blue shadow on the snow, paler and paler.|7802
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000019_000001.wav|To resist would only provoke; submission seemed the wisest, if not the only course.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000010_000002.wav|Who could be better fitted to select those who were suitable for preferment?|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000025_000003.wav|"Come on," said Vincent; "our business lies in another direction." "Is it not strange," he said, smiling, a few moments later, as he tried to staunch the blood with his handkerchief, "to what lengths the affection of a mother for her son will go!"|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000017_000001.wav|Vincent, without the slightest allusion to this treatment, quietly escorted him downstairs and saw him into his carriage.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000001_000000.wav|Chapter eight AT COURT|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000003_000003.wav|She was a good-natured woman, quite ready to do right when it was not too inconvenient, and it was clear to her that of late years bishoprics and abbeys had been too often given to most unworthy persons.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000027_000001.wav|Anne of Austria's sudden spurt of energy-she was a thoroughly indolent woman by nature-began to die out as she became accustomed to her new responsibilities; she was only too glad to leave all matters of State to a man who declared that his only desire was to save her worry and trouble.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000003_000004.wav|In France the Crown was almost supreme in such matters; the Queen therefore determined to appoint a "Council of Conscience" consisting of five members, whose business it would be to help her with advice as to ecclesiastical preferment.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000022_000002.wav|The form is not drawn up at all!"|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000011_000000.wav|In the meantime it began to dawn upon the public that the Superior of st Lazare was for the moment a man of influence.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000015_000000.wav|"You are an old lunatic," said a young man who had been refused a benefice through Vincent's agency.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000003_000000.wav|Some remarks made by the King during his illness and certain other words of Vincent's were remembered by the Queen, Anne of Austria, who had been left Regent during the minority of her son.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000012_000001.wav|"God forbid!" he would cry indignantly.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000018_000004.wav|Vincent, aghast, begged her to sit down and talk the matter over, but Madame declined curtly.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000016_000000.wav|"You are quite right," was the only answer, accompanied by a good-natured smile.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000024_000001.wav|"Suppose you go and make my peace with her," she said pleasantly, despatching the unfortunate Vincent on this very disagreeable errand.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000010_000004.wav|Certain reforms on which Vincent insisted were not to his mind either, although he offered no opposition.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000026_000001.wav|As time went on he resolved at any cost to rid the Court of the presence of this man, whose simple, straightforward conduct baffled the wily and defeated their plans; but an attempt to get him ejected from the Council met with such stormy opposition that the Prime Minister determined to change his tactics.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000018_000001.wav|Catching her royal mistress in an unguarded moment, this lady succeeded in inducing the Queen to promise the bishopric of Poitiers to her son, a young man of very bad character.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000006_000000.wav|He went to Court in the old cassock in which he went about his daily work, and which was probably the only one he had.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000013_000000.wav|Some would come with a recommendation from the Queen herself, which made things doubly embarrassing; but in spite of everything Vincent remained faithful to his first determination to choose for bishoprics no priests save those worthy of the position by reason of their virtue and learning.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000017_000000.wav|Another day a gentleman who had come to recommend his son for a bishopric was so angry when Vincent explained that he did not see his way to grant his request that he answered the "impertinent peasant" with a blow.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000012_000000.wav|Vincent's reception of these proposals was disconcerting.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000027_000000.wav|But the summoning of the Council rested with Mazarin, and the intervals between its meetings became longer and longer.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000008_000002.wav|"A nice clodhopper you are!" he said amiably to his own reflection, and passed on, smiling.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000005_000004.wav|Well did Vincent know that he was no match for such a diplomatist; but having once realized that the duty must be undertaken, he determined that there should be no flinching.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000007_000000.wav|"Why not?" replied Vincent quietly; "it is neither stained nor torn."|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112061/7981_112061_000025_000000.wav|He was shown into the lady's presence and carried out his mission with the greatest possible tact, but the Duchess could not control her fury.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000016_000003.wav|The next day Vincent returned to the Hotel de Gondi, where he promised to remain during the lifetime of the Countess.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000019_000001.wav|Chained to their oars night and day, kept in order by cruel cuts of the lash on their bare shoulders, these men lived and died on the rowers' bench without spiritual help or assistance of any kind.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000016_000000.wav|Vincent was humble enough to believe that he might be in the wrong.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000023_000001.wav|The first advances were met with cursing and blasphemy, but Vincent was not to be discouraged.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000010_000001.wav|Some of them, moved by curiosity, went to see the new preacher, who, receiving them with his usual kindness and courtesy, drew a touching picture of the suffering and poverty that surrounded them and begged them to think sometimes of their less fortunate brothers and sisters.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000013_000000.wav|This, Vincent at once realized, was not practical.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000009_000000.wav|One by one he sold his estates to find the wherewithal for Vincent's schemes of charity, and he would have stripped himself of all that he had, had not Vincent himself forbidden it.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000020_000002.wav|Huddled together in damp and filthy prisons, crawling with vermin, covered with sores and ulcers, brawling, blaspheming and fighting, the galley slaves made a picture suggestive only of Hell.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000005_000003.wav|Who was this priest who had so suddenly come among them, so self forgetful, so simple, so unassuming, yet whose influence was so strong with all classes?|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000017_000001.wav|Confraternities of charity like that of Chatillon were established on all the de Gondi estates, Madame de Gondi herself setting the example of what a perfect Lady of Charity should be. Neither dirt, discourtesy nor risk of infection could discourage this earnest disciple of Vincent.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000011_000001.wav|They were the forerunners of those "Sisters of Charity" who were in after years to carry help and comfort among the poor of every country.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000005_000002.wav|Gradually his bad companions dropped away, until one day Chatillon suddenly awoke to the fact that this most rackety of individuals was taking life seriously-was, in fact, a changed man. The whole town was in a stir.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000003_000003.wav|Vincent's representations of what a priest's life ought to be astonished them at first and convinced them later-all the more so in that they saw in him the very ideal that he strove to set before them.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000013_000002.wav|There was no want of charity, but it needed organization.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000017_000002.wav|In spite of weak health she gave freely of her time, her energy and her money.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000019_000002.wav|The conditions of service were such that many prisoners took their own lives rather than face the torments of such an existence.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000022_000000.wav|"These are your people, Monseigneur!" he cried; "you will have to answer for them before God." The General was aghast; it had never occurred to him to think of the condition of the men who rowed his ships, and he gladly gave Vincent a free hand to do whatever he could to relieve them.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000023_000000.wav|Calling two other priests to his assistance, Vincent set to work at once to visit the convicts in the Paris prisons; but the men were so brutalized that it was difficult to know how to win them.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000020_000001.wav|What he saw filled him with horror.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000015_000000.wav|The de Gondis, in the meantime, had discovered the place of Vincent's retreat and had written him several letters, piteously urging him to return.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000026_000001.wav|Many of these earnest Christians gave their very lives for the galley slaves; for fevers, plague and contagious diseases of every kind raged in the filthy convict prisons, and many priests and lay helpers died of the infection.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000017_000000.wav|Delighted to have him back at any price, Vincent's noble patrons asked for nothing better than to further all his schemes for the welfare of the poor and infirm.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000023_000003.wav|Gradually they were softened and would listen while he spoke to them of the Saviour who had died to save their souls.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000012_000001.wav|So successful was his appeal that when he himself went a few hours later to see what could be done, he found the road thronged with people carrying food and necessaries.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000013_000001.wav|There would be far too much today and nothing tomorrow.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000004_000001.wav|He was, moreover, half a heretic, and Vincent had been warned to have nothing to do with him.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000006_000000.wav|It was a question that might well be asked in the light of what was yet to come.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000008_000002.wav|And he kept his word.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000023_000002.wav|With his own gentle charity he performed the lowest offices for these poor wretches to whom his heart went out with such an ardent pity; he cleansed them from the vermin which infested them and dressed their neglected sores.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000025_000002.wav|This strange new friend who went about among them, kissing their chains, sympathizing with their sufferings and attending to their lowest needs seemed to them like an Angel from Heaven; even the most hardened could not resist such treatment.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000014_000003.wav|The work developed quickly; confraternities of charity were soon adopted in nearly all the parishes of France and have since extended over the whole Christian world.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000004_000002.wav|But the new rector had his own ideas on the subject, and the ill assorted pair soon became very good friends.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000025_000000.wav|Here, where the conditions were perhaps even worse than in Paris, Vincent met them in the same spirit and conquered by the same means. The fact that he had once been a slave himself gave him an insight into the sufferings of the galley slaves and a wonderful influence over them.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000005_000001.wav|His first step was to be reconciled to the Church, his second to begin to interest himself in the poor.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000012_000000.wav|One day, as Vincent was about to say Mass, one of these ladies begged him to speak to the congregation in favor of a poor family whose members were sick and starving.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000020_000000.wav|As Vincent went about his works of charity in Paris it occurred to him to visit the dungeons where the men who had been condemned to the galleys were confined.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000009_000003.wav|He died the death of a saint a few years later, amid the blessings of all the people whom he had helped.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000009_000001.wav|His sword, which had served him in all his duels, and to which he was very much attached, he broke in pieces on a rock.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000024_000001.wav|This enabled Vincent to carry his mission farther afield, and he determined to visit all the convict prisons in the seaport towns, taking Marseilles as his first station.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000003_000002.wav|They were ignorant and easygoing men, for the most part, who thought a good deal more of their own amusement than of the needs of their flock, but they were not bad at heart.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112057/7981_112057_000026_000000.wav|In the meantime, through the generosity of Vincent's friends, hospitals were being built and men and women were offering themselves to help in any capacity in this work of charity.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000011_000000.wav|The Mission Priests did good wherever they went; everybody wanted them, and it was hard to satisfy the appeals for missions which came from all over the country.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000019_000000.wav|The Congregation of the Mission Priests was to inaugurate another good work for which there was an urgent necessity in the world of Vincent's day.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000007_000003.wav|Its growth, nevertheless, was slow; ten years after the foundation the Congregation only numbered thirty three members; but Vincent had no desire that it should be otherwise.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000014_000002.wav|It is by what they see of your lives that you will help them; if you yourselves are striving for perfection, God will use you to lead these gentlemen in the right way."|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000007_000004.wav|In sixteen fifty two it was recognized by Pope Urban the eighth under the name of the Congregation of the Mission.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000015_000001.wav|Many to whom they had been the turning point of a lifetime, felt the need of further help and instruction from the man who had awakened all that was noblest in their natures.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000023_000000.wav|Yet, in spite of all that such a vocation meant of self renunciation, year after year the Mission Priests increased in number.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000021_000001.wav|By twos and threes he would send out his sons to their labors, bidding them travel to their destination in the cheapest possible way.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000009_000001.wav|For "fine sermons" Vincent had the greatest contempt; he would use his merry wit to make fun of the pompous preachers whose only thought was to impress their audience with an idea of their own eloquence.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000006_000002.wav|Her broken hearted husband not only consented to Vincent's residence in the College des Bons Enfants, but shortly afterwards, leaving that world where he had shone so brilliantly, he himself became a postulant at the Oratory.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000014_000000.wav|The Mission Priests were to help in this work more by example than by precept; they were to preach by humility and simplicity.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000022_000003.wav|"Unless the Congregation of the Mission is humble," said Vincent, "and realizes that it can accomplish nothing of any value, but that it is more apt to mar than to make, it will never be of much effect; but when it has this spirit it will be fit for the purposes of God."|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000010_000000.wav|"Of what good is a display of rhetoric?" he would ask; "who is the better for it?|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000021_000004.wav|Two sermons were to be preached daily-simple instructions on the great truths-and those who had not yet made their First Communion were to be catechized.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000020_000007.wav|The most important point of all is that we should be in touch with Our Lord in prayer."|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000013_000003.wav|Here, in an atmosphere of prayer and recollection, those who were about to be ordained had every opportunity of realizing the greatness of the step that they were taking and of making resolutions for their future lives.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000004_000000.wav|The new Congregation was to consist of a few good priests who, renouncing all thought of honor and worldly advancement, were to devote their lives to preaching in the villages and small towns of France.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000020_000003.wav|"How can we lead souls to God?|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000005_000000.wav|In March, sixteen twenty five, the foundation was made, and Vincent de Paul was named the first superior.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000003_000001.wav|In every case some obstacle intervened, until the Countess was more than ever persuaded that her first instinct had been right.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000010_000001.wav|It serves no purpose but self advertisement."|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000020_000006.wav|Human energy will only hinder it unless directed by God.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000003_000003.wav|An old house called the College des Bons Enfants was at that moment vacant.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000013_000000.wav|To Vincent, with his high ideals of the priesthood, this was a terrible revelation.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000022_000001.wav|It meant self mastery, self renunciation, self forgetfulness total and complete.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000013_000001.wav|The old custom of giving a retreat to priests who were about to be ordained had fallen into disuse.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000000_000000.wav|Chapter five MISSION WORK|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000005_000002.wav|Vincent could hardly fail to realize how necessary it was that the superior of a new Congregation should be in residence in his own house, but he confided the little company to God and awaited the development of events.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000005_000001.wav|It was stipulated, however, that he should remain, as he had already promised, in the house of the founders, a condition which seemed likely to doom the enterprise to failure.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000018_000000.wav|The only difficulty was the expense entailed, for many of the retreatants could pay nothing toward their board and lodging, and Vincent would refuse nobody.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000021_000005.wav|The mission lasted ten or fourteen days, during which the Mission Priests were to have as much personal contact with the people as possible, visiting the sick and the infirm, reconciling enemies and showing themselves as the friends of all.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000007_000002.wav|Before setting out on their mission journeys they used to give the key of the house to a neighbor; but as there was nothing in it to steal, there was little cause for anxiety. In the course of their travels other priests, realizing the greatness of the work, asked to be enrolled in the little company.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000008_000000.wav|Vincent lavished the greatest care on the training of his priests. They were to be simple and frank in their relations with the poor, modest in manner, friendly and easy of access.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000021_000002.wav|They were to accept neither free quarters nor gifts of any kind.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000016_000000.wav|To meet this necessity Vincent inaugurated a kind of guild for young priests who desire to live worthy of their vocation.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000001_000001.wav|It seemed to her that there was need to multiply such missions among the country poor, and no sooner had Vincent returned to her house than she offered him a large sum of money to endow a band of priests who would devote their lives to evangelizing the peasantry on her estates.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000012_000002.wav|The religious wars had led to laxity and carelessness; drunkenness and vice were fearfully prevalent.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000003_000005.wav|There was no longer room for hesitation; the will of God seemed plain; indeed, Vincent's love of the poor had been for some time struggling with his humility.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000014_000001.wav|"It is not by knowledge that you will do them good," Vincent often repeated, "or by the fine things you say, for they are more learned than you-they have read or heard it all before.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000006_000000.wav|The solution was altogether unexpected.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000021_000000.wav|Dearest to his heart of all his undertakings was the first and chief work of the Congregation-the holding of missions for the poor.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000003_000002.wav|Knowing Vincent's loyalty to Holy Church and his obedience to authority, she determined to have recourse to her brother in law, the Archbishop of Paris.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000017_000002.wav|The work thrived beyond all expectation.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000020_000000.wav|So the work of the Congregation increased and multiplied until it seemed almost too much for human capacity.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112058/7981_112058_000016_000002.wav|It was not easy to belong to the "Conferences." Members were pledged to offer their lives completely to God and to renounce all self interest. Nevertheless, they increased rapidly in number, and the Conferences were attended by all the most influential priests in Paris.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000011_000000.wav|The Count, too, began to feel the effects of Vincent's presence in his household.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000020_000000.wav|Fearful of being caught in the snare of worldly honors, he resolved to seek safety in flight.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000007_000001.wav|Setting out from Clichy with his worldly goods on a hand barrow, he arrived at the Oratory, from whence he was to proceed to his new abode.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000013_000000.wav|Vincent waited till everyone had gone out, and then approached him softly.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000010_000002.wav|At Vincent's suggestion she soon afterwards undertook certain works of charity, which were destined to be the seed of a great enterprise.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000004_000000.wav|saint Francis de Sales, who made Vincent's acquaintance while he was with de Berulle, was of the same opinion.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000019_000003.wav|The "little demons" were as headstrong and violent as ever; it was only on their parents that he had been able to make any impression.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000015_000001.wav|The man was conscious, and Vincent-moved, no doubt, by the direct inspiration of God-urged him to make a General Confession.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000022_000003.wav|He shall live exactly as he likes if he will only come back.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000004_000001.wav|"He will be the holiest priest of his time," he said one day as he watched him.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000005_000001.wav|A friend of de Berulle's, cure of the country parish of Clichy, near Paris, announced his intention of entering the Oratory, and at de Berulle's request chose Vincent de Paul as his successor.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000022_000004.wav|Get de Berulle to persuade him.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000007_000000.wav|Although the prospect of such a post filled the humble parish priest with consternation, he owed too much to de Berulle to refuse.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000018_000001.wav|Next Sunday he preached a sermon in the parish church on the necessity of General Confession. It was the first of the famous mission sermons destined to do so much good in France.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000017_000002.wav|How many others might be in like case!|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000008_000002.wav|The de Gondi children, unfortunately, did not take after their parents, and the two boys whose education Vincent was to undertake and whose character he was to form were described by their aunt as "regular little demons." The youngest of the family, the famous, or rather infamous, Cardinal de Retz, was not yet born, but Vincent's hands were sufficiently full without him.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000009_000002.wav|With the servants, and there were many of every grade, he was always cordial and polite, losing no chance of winning their confidence, that he might influence them for good.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000017_000000.wav|The incident made a lasting impression on both Vincent and the Countess.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000005_000000.wav|At last Vincent's desire seemed about to be fulfilled.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000018_000002.wav|While he spoke, Madame de Gondi prayed, and the result far surpassed their expectations.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000013_000001.wav|"Monsieur," he said, "I know that you intend to fight a duel; and I tell you, as a message from my Saviour, before whom you kneel, that if you do not renounce this intention His judgment will fall on you and yours." The Count, after a moment's silence, promised to give up his project, and faithfully kept his word.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000020_000002.wav|His work as a tutor had been a failure, he told him; he could do nothing with his pupils, and he was receiving honor which he in no way deserved. He ended by begging to be allowed to work for the poor in some humble and lonely place, and de Berulle decided to grant his wish.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000019_000000.wav|The result of all this for the preacher, however, was a certain prestige, and his humility took alarm.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000017_000003.wav|It was a terrible thought.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000022_000000.wav|Only when he had been already established for some time in his new parish did it dawn on the de Gondis that his absence was not to be merely temporary.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000003_000000.wav|VINCENT remained two years in the house of Father de Berulle, in the hope of obtaining permanent work.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000018_000003.wav|So great were the crowds that flocked to Confession that Vincent was unable to cope with them and had to apply to the Jesuits at Amiens for help.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000002_000000.wav|Chapter three A GREAT HOUSEHOLD|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000008_000003.wav|"I should like my children to be saints rather than great noblemen," said Madame de Gondi when she presented the boys to their tutor, but the prospect seemed remote enough.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000006_000003.wav|De Berulle decided at once that Vincent de Paul was the man for the position and that, as he was evidently destined to do great work for God, it would be to his advantage to have powerful and influential friends.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000017_000005.wav|Can you do nothing to help them?"|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000022_000001.wav|They were in desperation.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000020_000003.wav|The country parish of Chatillon was in need of workers, was the answer; let him go there and exercise his zeal for souls.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000006_000001.wav|Nothing less than the resignation of his beloved Clichy was now asked of him by this friend to whom he owed so much.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000015_000000.wav|It happened one day that Vincent was sent to the bedside of a dying peasant who had always borne a good character and was considered an excellent Christian.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000017_000004.wav|"Ah, Monsieur Vincent," cried the great lady, "how many souls are being lost!|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000003_000002.wav|"This humble priest," he predicted one day to a friend, "will render great service to the Church and will work much for God's glory."|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000018_000004.wav|The other villages on the estate were visited in turn, with equal success. Vincent used to look back in later life to this first mission sermon as the beginning of his work for souls.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000005_000002.wav|Here, amidst his beloved poor, Vincent was completely happy.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7981/112056/7981_112056_000010_000001.wav|Knowing enough of his humility to be certain that he would refuse such a request, she applied to Father de Berulle to use his influence in the matter, and thus obtained her desire.|7981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000047_000000.wav|Far less.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000087_000000.wav|The only inference possible, he replied, is that pleasures which are approved by the lover of wisdom and reason are the truest.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000112_000000.wav|Again, when pleasure ceases, that sort of rest or cessation will be painful?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000143_000000.wav|No doubt.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000133_000000.wav|That is true.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000107_000000.wav|Yes, I know, he said.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000032_000000.wav|Then this, I said, will be our first proof; and there is another, which may also have some weight.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000101_000000.wav|There is.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000121_000000.wav|Yes.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000129_000000.wav|Most true, he said.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000124_000000.wav|This then is an appearance only and not a reality; that is to say, the rest is pleasure at the moment and in comparison of what is painful, and painful in comparison of what is pleasant; but all these representations, when tried by the test of true pleasure, are not real but a sort of imposition?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000066_000000.wav|Then, I said, reflect.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000005_000000.wav|Yes, that is the difference.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000122_000000.wav|How, then, can we be right in supposing that the absence of pain is pleasure, or that the absence of pleasure is pain?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000058_000001.wav|Will he not think that the pleasure of riches is vulgar, while the pleasure of learning, if it brings no distinction, is all smoke and nonsense to him?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000023_000000.wav|Very true, he said.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000095_000000.wav|Yes, the greatest; but will you explain yourself?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000011_000000.wav|Yes, he said, he will be in the utmost fear.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000131_000000.wav|no|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000141_000000.wav|To be sure, he said; how can he think otherwise?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000073_000000.wav|Far better.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000123_000000.wav|Impossible.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000049_000000.wav|Certainly.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000059_000000.wav|Very true.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000108_000000.wav|And when persons are suffering from acute pain, you must have heard them say that there is nothing pleasanter than to get rid of their pain?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000130_000000.wav|Let us not, then, be induced to believe that pure pleasure is the cessation of pain, or pain of pleasure.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000084_000000.wav|Or if honour or victory or courage, in that case the judgment of the ambitious or pugnacious would be the truest?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000103_000000.wav|Yes.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000066_000001.wav|Of the three individuals, which has the greatest experience of all the pleasures which we enumerated?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000094_000000.wav|Twice in succession, then, has the just man overthrown the unjust in this conflict; and now comes the third trial, which is dedicated to Olympian Zeus the saviour: a sage whispers in my ear that no pleasure except that of the wise is quite true and pure-all others are a shadow only; and surely this will prove the greatest and most decisive of falls?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000037_000000.wav|How do you mean?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000045_000000.wav|Extremely suitable.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000051_000000.wav|Yes.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000063_000000.wav|I cannot myself tell, he said.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000132_000000.wav|Still, the more numerous and violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000019_000000.wav|Yes, he said, the similitude is most exact.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000135_000000.wav|Yes.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000024_000000.wav|Moreover, as we were saying before, he grows worse from having power: he becomes and is of necessity more jealous, more faithless, more unjust, more friendless, more impious, than he was at first; he is the purveyor and cherisher of every sort of vice, and the consequence is that he is supremely miserable, and that he makes everybody else as miserable as himself.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000029_000000.wav|Make the proclamation yourself, he said.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000126_000000.wav|Look at the other class of pleasures which have no antecedent pains and you will no longer suppose, as you perhaps may at present, that pleasure is only the cessation of pain, or pain of pleasure.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000056_000000.wav|Now, if you examine the three classes of men, and ask of them in turn which of their lives is pleasantest, each will be found praising his own and depreciating that of others: the money maker will contrast the vanity of honour or of learning if they bring no money with the solid advantages of gold and silver?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000081_000000.wav|Certainly.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000117_000000.wav|I should say not.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000031_000000.wav|Let the words be added.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000014_000000.wav|And suppose the same god, who carried him away, to surround him with neighbours who will not suffer one man to be the master of another, and who, if they could catch the offender, would take his life?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000044_000000.wav|Suppose we call it the contentious or ambitious-would the term be suitable?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000119_000000.wav|Yes.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000033_000000.wav|What is that?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000092_000000.wav|Last comes the lover of gain?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000091_000000.wav|Clearly that of the soldier and lover of honour; who is nearer to himself than the money maker.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000016_000000.wav|And is not this the sort of prison in which the tyrant will be bound-he who being by nature such as we have described, is full of all sorts of fears and lusts?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000114_000000.wav|Then the intermediate state of rest will be pleasure and will also be pain?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000139_000000.wav|I should.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000111_000000.wav|Yes, he said; at the time they are pleased and well content to be at rest.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000079_000000.wav|Yes.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000067_000000.wav|The philosopher, he replied, has greatly the advantage; for he has of necessity always known the taste of the other pleasures from his childhood upwards: but the lover of gain in all his experience has not of necessity tasted-or, I should rather say, even had he desired, could hardly have tasted-the sweetness of learning and knowing truth.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000042_000000.wav|Again, is not the passionate element wholly set on ruling and conquering and getting fame?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000077_000000.wav|What faculty?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000048_000000.wav|'Lover of wisdom,' 'lover of knowledge,' are titles which we may fitly apply to that part of the soul?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000052_000000.wav|Then we may begin by assuming that there are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000090_000000.wav|And what does the judge affirm to be the life which is next, and the pleasure which is next?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000116_000000.wav|But can that which is neither become both?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000012_000000.wav|The time has arrived when he will be compelled to flatter divers of his slaves, and make many promises to them of freedom and other things, much against his will-he will have to cajole his own servants.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000083_000000.wav|Assuredly.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000089_000000.wav|Unquestionably, he said, the wise man speaks with authority when he approves of his own life.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000013_000000.wav|Yes, he said, that will be the only way of saving himself.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000075_000000.wav|Certainly.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000080_000000.wav|And reasoning is peculiarly his instrument?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000035_000000.wav|Of what nature?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000062_000000.wav|Since, then, the pleasures of each class and the life of each are in dispute, and the question is not which life is more or less honourable, or better or worse, but which is the more pleasant or painless-how shall we know who speaks truly?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000069_000000.wav|Yes, very great.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000034_000000.wav|The second proof is derived from the nature of the soul: seeing that the individual soul, like the State, has been divided by us into three principles, the division may, I think, furnish a new demonstration.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000036_000000.wav|It seems to me that to these three principles three pleasures correspond; also three desires and governing powers.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000064_000000.wav|Well, but what ought to be the criterion?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000106_000000.wav|That after all nothing is pleasanter than health.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000009_000000.wav|Yes; the reason is, that the whole city is leagued together for the protection of each individual.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000128_000000.wav|There are many of them: take as an example the pleasures of smell, which are very great and have no antecedent pains; they come in a moment, and when they depart leave no pain behind them.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000113_000000.wav|Doubtless, he said.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000127_000000.wav|What are they, he said, and where shall I find them?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000109_000000.wav|I have.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000065_000000.wav|There cannot be a better, he said.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000037_000001.wav|he said.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170977/3114_170977_000053_000000.wav|Exactly.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000113_000000.wav|Yes, indeed.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000025_000000.wav|I should not wonder.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000099_000000.wav|Yes, he said, I see that there are-a few; but the people, speaking generally, and the best of them are miserably degraded and enslaved.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000038_000000.wav|His revenues, if he has any, are soon spent.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000059_000000.wav|Yes, indeed, he said.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000127_000000.wav|Who is that?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000126_000000.wav|One of whom I am about to speak.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000067_000000.wav|Exactly.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000023_000000.wav|Yes, he said, that is the way in which the tyrannical man is generated.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000040_000000.wav|Then comes debt and the cutting down of his property.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000027_000000.wav|He has.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000130_000000.wav|Yes, I replied, but in this high argument you should be a little more certain, and should not conjecture only; for of all questions, this respecting good and evil is the greatest.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000074_000000.wav|Also they are utterly unjust, if we were right in our notion of justice?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000036_000000.wav|Yes; and every day and every night desires grow up many and formidable, and their demands are many.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000021_000000.wav|Yes, he said, that is the only adequate image of him.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000013_000000.wav|Yes, I agree.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000043_000000.wav|Yes, that is sure to be the case.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000082_000000.wav|And must not the tyrannical man be like the tyrannical State, and the democratical man like the democratical State; and the same of the others?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000032_000001.wav|And next, how does he live?|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000055_000000.wav|Yes, indeed, he said; I believe that he would.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000071_000000.wav|Certainly not.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3114/170976/3114_170976_000051_000000.wav|Yes, probably.|3114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000009_000001.wav|Then they had stopped by a fence near a field of young corn and George had taken off his coat and let it hang on his arm.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000009_000000.wav|The summer evening together that had left its mark on the memory of both the young man and woman had, when looked at quite sensibly, been rather stupidly spent. They had walked out of town along a country road.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000010.wav|She wanted to drive the instructor away, to get out of his presence.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000003_000000.wav|Pushing his way through the crowds in Main Street, young George Willard concealed himself in the stairway leading to Doctor Reefy's office and looked at the people.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000010_000001.wav|Perhaps I'd better quit talking."|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000004_000006.wav|To his mind his new sense of maturity set him apart, made of him a half tragic figure.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000011_000001.wav|His voice trembled.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000000.wav|As for Helen White, she also had come to a period of change.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000013_000005.wav|In a room above one of the stores, where a dance was to be held, the fiddlers tuned their instruments.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000007.wav|At the Fair she was glad to be seen in his company as he was well dressed and a stranger.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000011_000007.wav|You see the point.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000019_000010.wav|"Come on," he said and took hold of her hand.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000016.wav|He wants, most of all, understanding.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000006_000000.wav|When the moment of sophistication came to George Willard his mind turned to Helen White, the Winesburg banker's daughter.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000028_000003.wav|He squirmed and shouted.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000011.wav|While they sat together in the grand stand and while the eyes of former schoolmates were upon them, she paid so much attention to her escort that he grew interested.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000012_000003.wav|"I thought-I used to think-I had it in my mind you would marry Seth Richmond.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000022_000002.wav|Sensing his mood, Helen walked beside him filled with respect.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000003.wav|He is thinking of the future and of the figure he will cut in the world.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000004.wav|Ambitions and regrets awake within him.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000021_000000.wav|George and Helen climbed the hill to the Fair Ground, coming by the path past Waterworks Pond.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000003_000005.wav|Have I done all this waiting for nothing?" he muttered.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000003.wav|She had come home from Cleveland, where she was attending college, to spend a day at the Fair.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000019_000004.wav|"George!|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000013.wav|Already he hears death calling.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000008_000001.wav|She thought that the months she had spent in the city, the going to theaters and the seeing of great crowds wandering in lighted thoroughfares, had changed her profoundly.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000011_000002.wav|The two started to walk back along the road toward town.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000008.wav|She knew that the fact of his presence would create an impression.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000019_000012.wav|Dry leaves rustled under foot.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000009.wav|During the day she was happy, but when night came on she began to grow restless.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000014_000006.wav|"I wasn't afraid, I knew I had 'em beat all the time.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000004_000004.wav|He felt old and a little tired.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000006_000004.wav|He had tried to make her think of him as a man when he knew nothing of manhood and now he wanted to be with her and to try to make her feel the change he believed had taken place in his nature.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000005.wav|During the day she sat in the grand stand with a young man, one of the instructors from the college, who was a guest of her mother's.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000020_000002.wav|The Fair Ground stands on top of a low hill rising out of the valley of Wine Creek and from the grand stand one can see at night, over a cornfield, the lights of the town reflected against the sky.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000017_000007.wav|"There are people here in whom you are interested?" To the girl his voice sounded pompous and heavy.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000004_000007.wav|He wanted someone to understand the feeling that had taken possession of him after his mother's death.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000000.wav|There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000004_000002.wav|He was about to leave Winesburg to go away to some city where he hoped to get work on a city newspaper and he felt grown up.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000012_000004.wav|Now I know you won't," was all he could find to say as she went through the gate and toward the door of her house.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000028_000002.wav|Once, running swiftly forward, Helen tripped George and he fell.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000019_000001.wav|In the darkness she stopped and stood trembling.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000012.wav|The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000006.wav|From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000012.wav|"A scholar needs money. I should marry a woman with money," he mused.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000003_000002.wav|Thoughts kept coming into his head and he did not want to think.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000021_000002.wav|What he felt was reflected in her.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000008_000000.wav|Helen White was thinking of George Willard even as he wandered gloomily through the crowds thinking of her. She remembered the summer evening when they had walked together and wanted to walk with him again.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000020_000001.wav|It has never been painted and the boards are all warped out of shape.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000007_000002.wav|She was no longer a girl and hungered to reach into the grace and beauty of womanhood.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000006_000003.wav|He wanted to tell her of the new impulses that had come to him.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000009_000003.wav|"I've been reading books and I've been thinking.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000007.wav|If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000009_000002.wav|"Well, I've stayed here in Winesburg-yes-I've not yet gone away but I'm growing up," he had said.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000006_000002.wav|Now he wanted to see her for another purpose.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000010.wav|He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by the winds, a thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000012_000000.wav|The boy's voice failed and in silence the two came back into town and went along the street to Helen White's house.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000001_000000.wav|It was early evening of a day in the late fall and the Winesburg County Fair had brought crowds of country people into town.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000022_000000.wav|In youth there are always two forces fighting in people.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000005_000002.wav|The boy is walking through the street of his town.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000017_000006.wav|"Your life is still bound up with the life of this town?" he asked.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000019_000009.wav|He stopped and stared stupidly.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000010_000000.wav|"Well," he explained, "that isn't the point.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000013_000009.wav|He wanted to run away by himself and think.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000027_000010.wav|In some way chastened and purified by the mood they had been in, they became, not man and woman, not boy and girl, but excited little animals.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000001_000005.wav|The dust rolled away over the fields and the departing sun set it ablaze with colors.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000012_000002.wav|Speeches he had thought out came into his head, but they seemed utterly pointless.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000011_000003.wav|In his desperation George boasted, "I'm going to be a big man, the biggest that ever lived here in Winesburg," he declared.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000003_000003.wav|He stamped impatiently on the wooden steps and looked sharply about.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1060/134451/1060_134451_000019_000005.wav|Where are you, George?" she cried, filled with nervous excitement.|1060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000110_000001.wav|They saw it drag the sheet by one corner, and then it went down underground, and the sheet followed, as though sucked down in a vortex; fold on fold it descended, till the entire sheet had disappeared.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000005_000008.wav|But dancing, though denounced, still drew the more independent spirits together.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000114_000000.wav|Again the lean hand with long fingers appeared above the soil, and this was seen groping about the grass till it laid hold of the teapot.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000050_000003.wav|But she remembered that the old woman had at one time befriended her, and she was ready to forgive the harsh treatment to which she had finally been subjected.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000051_000003.wav|That was good enough to moulder in the grave.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000114_000001.wav|Then it groped again, and gathered up the spoons, that flashed in the moonbeams.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000094_000003.wav|Again sleep was impossible.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000079_000000.wav|Then they saw Aunt Joanna go to the cupboard, open it, and return with the silver spoons; she placed all six on the sheet, and with a lean finger counted them.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000076_000001.wav|The moonlight poured in through the broad, low window.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000050_000004.wav|In fact, she had repeatedly made overtures to her great aunt to be reconciled, but these overtures had been always rejected.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000071_000000.wav|"I reckon us had best go down together."|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000050_000002.wav|As far as she had been aware, Aunt Joanna had been extremely poor.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000005_000000.wav|The woman who lived in the cottage was called by the people of the neighbourhood Aunt Joanna.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000105_000000.wav|They walked timorously, and side by side, looking about them as they proceeded, and on reaching the churchyard gate they halted to pluck up courage before opening and venturing within.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000106_000000.wav|Together they heaped the articles that had belonged to Aunt Joanna upon the fresh grave, but as they did so the wind caught the linen and unfurled and flapped it, and they were forced to place stones upon it to hold it down.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000109_000000.wav|Elizabeth caught her husband by the arm and pointed.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000104_000001.wav|The night was dark and stormy, with scudding clouds, so dense as to make deep night, when they did not part and allow the moon to peer forth.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000073_000000.wav|"What?"|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000082_000002.wav|The first coin lodged at the further left hand corner and the second rested near it; and so on, the pieces were rolled, and ranged themselves in order, ten in a row.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000051_000006.wav|Aunt Joanna was given an elm, and not a mean deal board coffin, such as is provided for paupers; and a handsome escutcheon of white metal was put on the lid.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000082_000001.wav|The Hockins saw the glint of the metal, and the shadow cast by each piece of money as it rolled.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000017_000006.wav|It's my opinion us ought to go and see."|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000077_000001.wav|There could be no mistaking it-it was that of Aunt Joanna, clothed in the tattered sheet that Elizabeth Hockin had allowed for her grave clothes.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000107_000000.wav|Then, quaking with fear, they retreated to the church porch, and Jabez, uncorking the bottle, first took a long pull himself, and then presented it to his wife.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000074_000001.wav|She and her husband crept from bed, and, treading on tiptoe across the room, descended the stair.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000049_000000.wav|Rose sighed, and went away.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000075_000000.wav|There was no door at the bottom, but the staircase was boarded up at the side; it opened into the kitchen.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000050_000001.wav|She had never been allowed to look at the treasures in the oak chest.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000000_000000.wav|AUNT JOANNA|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000003_000001.wav|It was thatched with heather, and possessed but a single chimney that rose but little above the apex of the roof, and had two slates set on the top to protect the rising smoke from being blown down the chimney into the cottage when the wind was from the west or from the east.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000100_000000.wav|"What have it come to?"|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000063_000000.wav|During the night, at what time she did not know, mrs Hockin awoke with a start, and found that her husband was sitting up in bed listening. There was a moon that night, and no clouds in the sky.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000022_000000.wav|"I reckon it's the old lady be down," replied her husband, and, throwing open the bedroom door, he said: "Sure enough, and no mistake-there her be, dead as a dried pilchard."|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6673/72311/6673_72311_000094_000001.wav|The moon was obscured by thick clouds, and neither of the two had the courage to descend to the kitchen.|6673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000014_000001.wav|It was a pitifully small sum Raffer would advance upon the little farm; but it was sufficient to put Toby in the usurer's power.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000028_000002.wav|The roar of the freshet awoke Nan in her bed before daybreak.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000027_000004.wav|But reckless Rafe was considered, for his age, a very smart hand on a log drive.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000009_000000.wav|She tried not to think at all of Injun Pete.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000028_000003.wav|So she was not surprised to see the river in such a turmoil when, after a hasty breakfast, she and Uncle Henry walked beside the flood.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000033_000001.wav|She's just called that.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000013_000000.wav|Toby was still a vigorous man save when that bane of the woodsman, rheumatism, laid him by the heels.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000007_000000.wav|For instance, she was very careful of the lamps used in the house-she insisted upon cleaning and caring for them herself; she would not allow a candle to be used, because it might be overturned; and she saw to it herself that every fire, even the one in Nan's bedroom, was properly banked before the family retired at night.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000016_000002.wav|And, Nan thought, it seemed as though her parents never would even reach that far distant goal.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000002_000001.wav|Her adventure with the lynx she kept secret from her relatives, because of the reason given in the previous chapter.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000015_000003.wav|It was quite wonderful how much there proved to be to write about.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000021_000001.wav|In sheltered fence corners and nooks in the wood, the grass lifted new, green blades, and queer little Margaret Llewellen showed Nan where the first anemones and violets hid under last year's drifted leaves.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000017_000000.wav|They had taken a slow ship for Momsey's benefit and the expected re telegraphed cablegram was looked for at the Forks for a week before it possibly could come.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000026_000000.wav|Behind the drive floated the square bowed and square sterned chuck boat, which carried cook and provisions for the men.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000003_000001.wav|He had offered money to have mr Sherwood beaten up, and the ruffians he had bribed would doubtless be only too eager to earn the reward.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000001_000001.wav|SPRING IN THE BIG WOODS|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000032_000000.wav|"That bend in the river."|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000033_000002.wav|Many a man's lost his life there since I came into this part of the country, that's a fact.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000015_000001.wav|She had, too, to keep up her diary that she had begun for Bess Harley's particular benefit.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000011_000001.wav|Some advised an utter disregard of the law.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000008_000001.wav|But she certainly was desirous of knowing about that fire, so long ago, at Pale Lick, how it came about; if Aunt Kate had really got her great scar there; and if it was really true that two members of her uncle's family had met their death in the conflagration.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000013_000001.wav|He had a bit of a farm in the tamarack swamp.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000014_000003.wav|And Uncle Henry believed that Toby, with his old time knowledge of land boundaries, could tell, if he would, which was right in the present contention between mr Sherwood and Gedney Raffer.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000024_000000.wav|When the main body of the drive arrived, however, the logs were like herded cattle, milling in the eddies, stampeded by a cross current, bunching under the bridge arches like frightened steers in a chute.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000011_000000.wav|Many people were more or less interested in the case and they came to the Sherwood home and talked excitedly about it in the big kitchen.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000027_000002.wav|It was a fear compelling view the girl had of the river on one day when she went with Uncle Henry to see the first drive from Blackton's camp.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000016_000000.wav|This hope Nan shared.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000006_000000.wav|For, despite mrs Henry Sherwood's bruskness and masculine appearance, Nan learned that there were certain matters over which her aunt showed extreme nervousness.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000019_000001.wav|Her parents were safely over their voyage on the wintry ocean, so a part of her worry of mind was lifted.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000020_000000.wav|Meanwhile spring was stealing upon Pine Camp without Nan's being really aware of the fact.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000028_000001.wav|It was a boiling brown flood, covered with drifting foam and debris.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000029_000002.wav|There is no other drive betwixt us and Blackton's."|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000018_000002.wav|Momsey had been very ill a part of the way across the ocean, but went ashore in improved health.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000005_000000.wav|That Uncle Henry seemed quite to have forgotten the threat only made Nan more keenly alive to his danger.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000005_000001.wav|She dared not discuss the matter with Aunt Kate, for Nan feared to worry that good woman unnecessarily. Besides, having been used to hiding from her own mother all unpleasant things, the girl naturally displayed the same thoughtfulness for Aunt Kate.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000018_000000.wav|It was a gala day marked on Nan's calendar when Uncle Henry, coming home from the railroad station behind the roan ponies, called to her to come out and get the message.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000022_000001.wav|Nan went down to the long, high bridge which spanned the river and watched the flood carry the logs through.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000001_000000.wav|Chapter seventeen.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000011_000002.wav|Others were evidently minded to increase the trouble between Raffer and Uncle Henry by malicious tale bearing.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000026_000001.wav|A "boom", logs chained together, end to end, was thrown out from one shore of the wide stream at night, and anchored at its outer end.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000023_000000.wav|At first they came scatteringly, riding the foaming waves end on, and sometimes colliding with the stone piers of the bridge with sufficient force to split the unhewn timbers from end to end, some being laid open as neatly as though done with axe and wedge.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000008_000000.wav|Nan had always in mind what Uncle Henry said about mentioning fire to Aunt Kate; so the curious young girl kept her lips closed upon the subject.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000022_000000.wav|The river ice went out with a rush after it had rained a few hours; after that the "drives" of logs were soon started.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000002_000000.wav|That visit to the lumber camp was memorable for Nan Sherwood in more ways than one.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000029_000001.wav|We'll go up to Dead Man's Bend and watch her come down.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000018_000001.wav|Momsey and Papa Sherwood had sent it from Glasgow, and were on their way to Edinburgh before Nan received the word.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000029_000000.wav|"They started their drive last night," Uncle Henry said, "and boomed her just below the campsite.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000021_000000.wav|A rain lasting two days and a night washed the roads of snow and turned the fast disappearing drifts to a dirty yellow hue.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000015_000004.wav|Bess wrote back, enviously, that never did anything interesting, by any possibility, happen, now that Nan was away from Tillbury.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000015_000002.wav|Every week she sent off to Tillbury a bulky section of this report of her life in the Big woods.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000010_000000.wav|With all her heart, Nan wished she might do something that would really help Uncle Henry solve his problem regarding the timber rights on the Perkins Tract.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000013_000002.wav|Once, being laid up by his arch enemy, with his joints stiffened and muscles throbbing with pain, Toby had seen the gaunt wolf of starvation, more terrible than any timber wolf, waiting at his doorstone.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000009_000001.wav|That was too terrible!|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000031_000000.wav|"What, honey?" he responded.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000014_000002.wav|This was the story Nan learned regarding Toby.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000027_000001.wav|Sometimes an increasing current piled the logs up a good bit.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000030_000000.wav|"Why is it called by such a horrid name, Uncle?" asked Nan.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000025_000000.wav|Each drive was attended by its own crew, who guarded the logs on either bank, launching those that shoaled on the numerous sandbars or in the shallows, keeping them from piling up in coves and in the mouths of estuaries, or creeks, some going ahead at the bends to fend off and break up any formation of the drifting timbers that promised to become a jam.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000003_000000.wav|Nan thought that such a bad man as Raffer appeared to be would undoubtedly carry out his threat.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000015_000000.wav|These, and many other subjects of thought, kept the mind of Nan Sherwood occupied during the first few weeks of her sojourn at Pine Camp.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000024_000001.wav|And the drivers herded the logs with all the skill of cowboys on the range.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000015_000005.wav|The town was "as dull as ditch water." She, Bess, lived only in hopes of meeting her chum at Lakeview Hall the next September.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000028_000000.wav|The river had risen two feet at the Pine Camp bridge overnight.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000016_000001.wav|But it all lay with the result of Momsey's and Papa Sherwood's visit to Scotland and Emberon Castle.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000027_000000.wav|It was a sight long to be remembered, Nan thought, when the boom was broken in the morning.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000027_000003.wav|Tom was coming home with his team and was not engaged in the drive.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000020_000001.wav|Uncle Henry had said, back in Chicago, that "the back of winter was broken"; but the extreme cold weather and the deep snow she had found in the Big Woods made Nan forget that March was passing and timid April was treading on his heels.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000002_000002.wav|But there was another incident that marked the occasion to the girl's mind, and that was the threat of Gedney Raffer, reported to her Uncle Henry.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80656/7229_80656_000019_000000.wav|Nan was indeed happy at this juncture.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000043_000000.wav|Flame and smoke spurted out around the broad wheel.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000055_000002.wav|Sparks flew on the wings of the wind from out of the mouth of the hole.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000021_000000.wav|"Might be hollow clear through its length," Tom explained seriously. "The butt might be all rotted out.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000026_000002.wav|Nan had really never believed that rain could fall so hard.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000061_000001.wav|To lift him seemed a giant's task; but nevertheless she tried.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000001_000001.wav|BUFFETED BY THE ELEMENTS|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000005_000001.wav|That's this one," she agreed.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000036_000000.wav|They dragged the heavy cart unevenly.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000008_000003.wav|Where's the tree?"|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000025_000000.wav|In spite of the beating rain and wind she got to her knees, still clinging to her big cousin, and then stood upon the broad tongue of the wagon.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000011_000004.wav|Did it ever pelt one so before?"|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000057_000001.wav|As he came plunging back to the stalled wagon, suddenly his foot slumped into the yielding sawdust and he fell upon his face.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000056_000000.wav|It seemed to Nan impossible after the recent cloudburst that the fire could find anything to feed upon.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000029_000000.wav|"Cracky!|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000046_000000.wav|"Oh, Tommy!" cried Nan.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000044_000000.wav|"We're over an oven!" gasped Tom, and laid the whip solidly across the backs of the frightened horses.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000026_000003.wav|It almost took her breath.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000027_000001.wav|She thought of the fire at Pale Lick, of which she had received hints from several people.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000016_000002.wav|"Didn't I tell you I saw the smoke coming out of the top of a tree?|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000005_000002.wav|"But, it's awful."|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000023_000000.wav|"And you don't see the tree now?"|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000040_000003.wav|They seemed to be crossing a heated cauldron.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000046_000001.wav|"We'll be burned up!"|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000008_000001.wav|"But it'd put most anybody out, I allow.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000059_000001.wav|His right leg had gone into the yielding mass up to his hip, and despite his struggles he could not get it out. A long yellow flame shot out of the hole and almost licked his face.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000009_000002.wav|Of course, if there had been any fire in that tree top, this rain would put it out in about ten seconds. So Nan believed.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000053_000001.wav|He had seized his axe and was striding toward the edge of the forest.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000017_000000.wav|"Couldn't, heh?" returned Tom.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000015_000000.wav|"This sawdust is mighty hard packed, and feet deep," interrupted Tom. "The fire might be deep down."|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000011_000003.wav|Oh!|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000060_000000.wav|But Nan did not scream again.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000013_000001.wav|"Sometimes it smoulders for days and days, and weeks and weeks; then it bursts out like a hurricane."|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000040_000001.wav|Nan saw that her cousin's prophecy had been true; the ground actually smoked after the downpour.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000024_000000.wav|"Let me look!|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000012_000000.wav|Fortunately the rain was warm, and she was not much discomforted by being wet.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000010_000002.wav|If there's fire in this swamp."|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000029_000001.wav|Don't choke a fellow!" he coughed.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000051_000001.wav|Get toward home!" cried Tom, running around to the rear of the timber cart.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000022_000001.wav|I never thought of such a thing," gasped Nan.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000061_000000.wav|Nan rushed in, got behind him, and seized her cousin under the arms.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000013_000000.wav|"Fire's no funning, I tell you," he growled.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000054_000000.wav|At the edge of the forest he laid the axe to the root of a sapling about four inches through at the butt.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000049_000001.wav|"Run!"|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000017_000001.wav|"Dead tree, wasn't it?"|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000011_000000.wav|"Goodness, gracious!" snapped Nan.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000002_000001.wav|The falling water was like a drop curtain, swept across the stage of the open tract of sawdust.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000057_000003.wav|For the moment the girl felt as if her heart had stopped beating.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000030_000000.wav|"Oh, Tom!"|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000057_000002.wav|He cried out with surprise or pain. Nan, horrified, saw the flames and smoke shooting out of the hole into which her cousin had stepped.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000024_000001.wav|Let me look!" cried Nan, conscience stricken.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000057_000000.wav|Nan would not run away and Tom did not see her.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000022_000000.wav|"Oh, Tom!|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000027_000002.wav|That awful conflagration, in which she believed two children belonging to her uncle and aunt had lost their lives, had started in the sawdust.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000035_000001.wav|Veiled by the still falling water a straight stick rose high in the air ahead of them. Tom chirruped to the horses and made them, though unwilling, go forward.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000009_000001.wav|She really thought he was too stubborn.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000003_000000.wav|"Oh!" she gasped into Tom's ear.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000060_000001.wav|She needed her breath, all that she could get, for a more practical purpose.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000026_000000.wav|A sheer wall of water seemed to separate them from every object out upon the open land.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000043_000001.wav|Nan screamed. The wind suddenly swooped down upon them, and a ball of fire, flaming sawdust was shot into the air and was tossed twenty feet by a puff of wind.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000059_000002.wav|It, indeed, scorched his hair on one side of his head.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000002_000000.wav|Nan knew she had never seen it rain so hard before.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000031_000000.wav|"Well"|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000025_000001.wav|The horses stood still with their heads down, bearing the buffeting of the storm with the usual patience of dumb beasts.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000041_000001.wav|"It does seem as though there must be fire under this sawdust now."|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000019_000000.wav|"Hollow, too, of course?"|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000009_000000.wav|"I can't see it, Tom," declared Nan, with her eyes tightly closed.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000051_000000.wav|"To the road.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000027_000000.wav|Moreover, what Tom said about the smoking tree began to trouble the girl.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000050_000000.wav|"Where, where'll I run to?" gasped the girl, leaping off the tongue, too, and away from the horses' heels.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000053_000000.wav|But he did not hear that.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000045_000000.wav|They plunged.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000016_000003.wav|Fire couldn't be deep down in the sawdust and the smoke come out of the tree top."|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000040_000000.wav|The rain had almost ceased, an intermission which would not be of long duration.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000040_000002.wav|The sun heated sawdust steamed furiously.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000060_000002.wav|Her cousin waved her back feebly, and tried to tell her to avoid the fire.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000056_000001.wav|But underneath the packed surface of the sawdust, the heat of summer had been drying out the moisture for weeks.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000052_000001.wav|"I guess not, mr Tom!" she murmured.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000055_000001.wav|It was a smoking furnace down there, and soon the felloe and spokes would be injured by the flames and heat.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000005_000000.wav|"I know.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000036_000001.wav|Through the heavy downpour the trail was hard to follow, and once in a while a rear wheel bumped over a stump, and Nan was glad to drop down upon the tongue again, and cling more tightly than ever to her cousin's collar.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000012_000001.wav|Tom still clung to the idea that she had started in his slow mind.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000040_000004.wav|Clouds of steam rose all about the timber cart.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000045_000001.wav|Another geyser of fire and smoke spurted from the hole into which the rear wheel had slumped.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000002_000003.wav|Nan could not have been any wetter if she had gone in swimming.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000006_000000.wav|"Say!|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000026_000001.wav|Behind them the bulk of the forest loomed as another barrier.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000058_000001.wav|Oh, Tom!" she shrieked, and sprang toward him.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000001_000000.wav|Chapter twenty six.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000056_000003.wav|Perhaps for yards and yards around, the interior of the sawdust heap was a glowing furnace.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000016_000000.wav|"Why, Tom!|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000028_000000.wav|Suddenly she cried aloud and seized Tom more tightly.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000039_000000.wav|"I, don't, see, any, smoke," drawled Tom, with his head still raised.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000052_000000.wav|"And leave you here?" cried Nan.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000053_000003.wav|But that would not be like Tom Sherwood!|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000006_000001.wav|Can you point out that tree that smoked?" asked Tom.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000049_000000.wav|"Do as I say!" commanded Tom.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000014_000000.wav|"But the rain"|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000003_000001.wav|"It is the deluge!"|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000010_000001.wav|"This is no funning.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000041_000000.wav|"Why, Tommy!" Nan choked.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000032_000000.wav|"I think I see it."|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000008_000002.wav|Still, fire isn't so easy to quench.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000054_000001.wav|Three strokes, and the tree was down. In a minute he had lopped off the branches for twenty feet, then removed the top with a single blow.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000037_000000.wav|"Sure that's it?" queried Tom, craning his neck to look up into the tall, straight tree.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000034_000001.wav|There!"|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000056_000002.wav|And the fire had been smouldering for a long time.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7229/80665/7229_80665_000045_000002.wav|Again and again the big horses flung themselves into the collars in an endeavor to get the wheel out.|7229
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000028_000003.wav|When he saw Florence and the little boy he stopped barking, and wagged his tail feebly; then he crawled from under the table where he lay, dragged himself to Florence's feet and looked up pitifully in her face.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000025_000003.wav|Do everything but speak, he could, and went as near to that as a dumb beast could.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000035_000000.wav|The vicar nodded approval.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000026_000000.wav|While the old man lamented, Florence was looking eagerly in the face of the clergyman.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000021_000001.wav|I shall have to take a bit of cord and put an end to his misery."|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000024_000002.wav|Where is he?"|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000017_000001.wav|Yes; have patience! there is plenty of time.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000015_000004.wav|Here was another teacher.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000014_000000.wav|"Then look for it!" Florence would reply.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000008_000002.wav|These dolls were very unlucky, or else their mamma was very careless; you can call it whichever you like.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000028_000001.wav|The door was fastened, and when they tried to open it a furious barking was heard within.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000003_000000.wav|LITTLE FLORENCE.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000028_000004.wav|She knelt down by him, and soothed and petted and talked to him, while the good clergyman examined the injured leg.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000019_000001.wav|The sheep were scattered in twos and threes, straying hither and thither; and old Roger alone was trying to collect them, and apparently having a hard time of it.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000010_000001.wav|The little fingers grown so skillful by bandaging waxen and china arms and legs, were now to save a living, loving creature from death.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000031_000001.wav|"What is it?" she asked.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000006_000000.wav|There were a good many thousands of boys in England at that time, in the Twenties and Thirties, who might have been badly off when the terrible Fifties came, if Florence Nightingale had not played with her dolls. Read on, and see for yourselves!|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000015_000005.wav|I suppose everyone we know could teach us something good, if we were ready to learn.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000011_000000.wav|To every English child this story is a nursery tale.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000008_000000.wav|The truth is, Florence was born to be a nurse, and a sick doll was dearer to her than a strong and healthy one.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000025_000001.wav|Poor Cap's days is over.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000016_000003.wav|These are the white cliffs of England that you have so often read about.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000033_000002.wav|Florence looked all about the room, but could see nothing save Roger's clean smock frock which hung against the door.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000012_000000.wav|Much as Florence loved dolls, she loved animals better, and in her country homes she was surrounded by them.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000017_000000.wav|Am I never going on with the story?|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000009_000004.wav|These things were all good, and very good; without them she could not have accomplished all she did; but in the years that were to come all the other learning was going to help that wonderful learning that began with nursing the sick dolls.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000033_000000.wav|That was soon done, with the aid of the boy, who hovered about, interested, but ignorant of surgery.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000015_000002.wav|They had the same tastes and feelings.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000029_000002.wav|"No bones are broken.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000014_000001.wav|At this Peggy would sniff and snuff, and hunt round with her soft velvety nose till she found Florence's pocket, then delicately take out the apple and crunch it up, and whinny again, the second whinny meaning at once "Thank you!" and "More, please!" Horse language is a simple one compared to English, and has no grammar.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000029_000003.wav|There's no reason why Cap should not recover; all he needs is care and nursing."|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000016_000001.wav|They are great rounded hills, covered with close, thick turf, like a velvet carpet.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000012_000002.wav|"Good morning, Peggy!" Florence would say.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000011_000001.wav|No doubt it is to many American children also, yet it is one that no one can ever tire of hearing, so I shall tell it again.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000008_000003.wav|They were always tumbling down and breaking their heads, or losing arms and legs, or burning themselves at the nursery fire, or suffering from doll's consumption, that dreadful complaint otherwise known as loss of sawdust.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000032_000002.wav|The first thing is to light the fire."|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000019_000000.wav|But to day there seemed no order anywhere.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000016_000002.wav|They spread in long smooth green billows, miles and miles of them, the slopes so gentle that it is delightful to drive or ride on them; only you must be careful not to go near the edge, where the green breaks off suddenly, and a white chalk cliff goes down, down, hundreds of feet, to the blue sea tossing and tumbling below.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000028_000002.wav|A little boy came from the next cottage, bringing the key, which Roger had left there. They entered, and there lay Cap on the brick floor, helpless and weak, but still barking as hard as he could at what he supposed to be intruders.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000007_000000.wav|Florence Nightingale loved her dolls dearly, and took the greatest possible care of them; and yet they were always delicate and given to sudden and alarming illnesses.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000023_000000.wav|"Yes, Miss, it's broke sure enough.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000008_000004.wav|When these things happened, Aunt Florence was called in as a matter of course; and she set the fractures, and salved the burns, and stopped the flow of sawdust, and proved herself in every way a most skillful nursery surgeon and physician.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000020_000002.wav|"Where is your dog?"|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000034_000000.wav|"This will do!" she cried.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000009_000001.wav|She was having lessons, of course; arithmetic, and all the other proper things.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000030_000000.wav|Florence quietly laid down her riding whip and tucked up her sleeves. "What shall I do first?" she said.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000036_000000.wav|As the heat drew out the inflammation and pain, Cap looked up at the little helper, all his simple dog heart shining in his eyes; the look sank into the child's heart and deepened the tenderness already there. Another step, and a great one, was taken on the blessed road she was to travel.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000020_000001.wav|"What is the matter, Roger?" he asked kindly.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000009_000003.wav|Her mother, meantime, taught her all kinds of handiwork, and before she was twelve years old she could hemstitch, and seam and embroider.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000022_000000.wav|"Oh!" cried Florence, who had ridden up with the vicar.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000029_000001.wav|"No," said the vicar.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000022_000001.wav|"Poor Cap!|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000020_000000.wav|The vicar saw his trouble, and rode up to him.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000027_000000.wav|"We will go and see!" he said; and off they rode, leaving Roger shaking his head and calling to the sheep.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000007_000003.wav|The doll might feel very much better the next day, and think it was time to get up and put on the new frock again; but she was very apt to have a relapse and go back to bed and gruel again, once at least, before she was allowed to recover entirely.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000010_000000.wav|Soon she was to take another step in her profession.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000016_000000.wav|As I said, Florence and the vicar were riding along on the green downs; and here I must stop again a moment to tell you what the downs are, for when I was a child I used to wonder.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000007_000002.wav|Then Mamma Florence would wait upon her tenderly, smoothing her pillow, bathing her forehead or rubbing her poor back, and bringing her all kinds of good things in the doll house dishes.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000007_000001.wav|A doll never knew when she might be told that she was very ill, and undressed and put to bed, though she might but just have got on her new frock.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000022_000002.wav|Are you sure his leg is broken, Roger?"|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000013_000001.wav|You may try any other way that looks to you more natural.)|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000005_000001.wav|I advise you to read on, and see what came in this case of playing with dolls.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000005_000000.wav|Wait a moment, girls, and boys too!|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000032_000001.wav|Very simple, you see, Nurse Florence!|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000026_000001.wav|He met her look with a smile and nod.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000012_000003.wav|"Would you like an apple?"|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000023_000002.wav|Best put him out of his pain, I says."|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER two.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000031_000000.wav|"Well," said the vicar, "I think a hot compress is the thing." Florence looked puzzled; the dolls had never had hot compresses.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000028_000000.wav|They soon reached the cottage.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000018_000001.wav|It belonged to old Roger, a shepherd, who had often worked for her father.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000025_000002.wav|Ah; he were a good dog.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000009_000000.wav|So it was that unconsciously, and in play, Florence began her training for her life work.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/296078/8677_296078_000024_000001.wav|"Not till we have tried to help him.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000017_000001.wav|Britannia's issue, hail!|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000025_000000.wav|one hundred twenty five.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000009_000001.wav|THE BARD.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000009_000000.wav|one hundred twenty three.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000029_000001.wav|LAMENT FOR FLODDEN.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000004_000000.wav|Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000021_000000.wav|one hundred twenty four.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000020_000000.wav|T. GRAY.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000024_000000.wav|W. COLLINS.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000036_000000.wav|J. ELLIOTT.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000014_000001.wav|What terrors round him wait! Amazement in his van, with Flight combined, And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000025_000001.wav|LAMENT FOR CULLODEN.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000015_000001.wav|He rests among the dead. The swarm that in thy noon tide beam were born? --Gone to salute the rising morn. Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded Vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000030_000000.wav|I've heard them lilting at our ewe milking, Lasses a' lilting before dawn o' day; But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning- The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000022_000000.wav|How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their Country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000029_000000.wav|one hundred twenty six.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000028_000000.wav|R. BURNS.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000008_000000.wav|J. THOMSON.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/291953/8677_291953_000015_000000.wav|"Mighty Victor, mighty lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies. Is the sable warrior fled? Thy son is gone.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000002_000000.wav|The next day the curate called again on Leopold.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000016_000003.wav|It makes me so happy!' 'Come nearer still-come to my bosom, my child, and be yet happier.'--Talk not of public worship as divine service; it is a mockery.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000026_000000.wav|"Very few."|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000010_000007.wav|Shall I, to take a step farther, degrade the sanctity of the closet, hallowed in the words of Jesus, by shutting its door in the vain fancy of there doing something that God requires of me as a sacred OBSERVANCE?|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000002_000004.wav|He might make him turn monk, or Socinian, or latter day saint, for what she knew!|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000033_000000.wav|He sat down suddenly, and a deep silence filled the room.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000010_000000.wav|"Ah!|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000012_000000.wav|"Yes, doubtless; but what would you think of a child who said, 'I am very useful to my father, for when I ask him for anything, or tell him I love him, it gives him-oh, such pleasure!'?"|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000003_000000.wav|That same afternoon, Wingfold took the draper to see Polwarth.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000008_000000.wav|I shall attempt only a general impression of the result of their evening's intercourse, partly recording the utterances of Polwarth.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8677/246948/8677_246948_000007_000000.wav|It is not often in real life that such conversations occur.|8677
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000012_000005.wav|Now I am humbly and sincerely conscious that this is a demerit in me and not in Hamlet; and yet it would not do me any good to pretend that I like Hamlet as much as Macbeth when, as a matter of fact, I don't.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000011_000002.wav|It is all right for a man to amuse himself by composing a list of a hundred very good books; and if he is to go off for a year or so where he cannot get many books, it is an excellent thing to choose a five foot library of particular books which in that particular year and on that particular trip he would like to read.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000009_000007.wav|Each book was procured because some one of the family wished to read it.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000010_000003.wav|He ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000005_000002.wav|The big piazza is for the hot, still afternoons of summer.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000005_000013.wav|The discipline and the mutual respect are complementary, not antagonistic.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000010_000002.wav|If he cannot also enjoy the Hebrew prophets and the Greek dramatists, he should be sorry.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000011_000004.wav|Milton is best for one mood and Pope for another.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000009_000008.wav|We could never afford to take overmuch thought for the outsides of books; we were too much interested in their insides.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000013_000002.wav|But outside the members of my own family I have never met a human being who had even heard of it, and I don't suppose I ever shall meet one.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000007_000000.wav|The books are everywhere.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000005_000004.wav|Naturally, any man who has been President, and filled other positions, accumulates such things, with scant regard to his own personal merits.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000009_000002.wav|I suppose there must be many big game libraries in Continental Europe, and possibly in England, more extensive than mine, but I have not happened to come across any such library in this country.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000004_000009.wav|We love to hear the flickers call, and we readily pardon any one of their number which, as occasionally happens, is bold enough to wake us in the early morning by drumming on the shingles of the roof.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000008_000006.wav|Personally, granted that these books are decent and healthy, the one test to which I demand that they all submit is that of being interesting.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000008_000002.wav|Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what mr Edgar Allan Poe calls "the mad pride of intellectuality," taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000012_000000.wav|A book must be interesting to the particular reader at that particular time.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000008_000007.wav|If the book is not interesting to the reader, then in all but an infinitesimal number of cases it gives scant benefit to the reader.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000012_000007.wav|They must almost be AEschylus or Euripides, Goethe or Moliere, in order that I may not feel after finishing them a sense of virtuous pride in having achieved a task.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000005_000012.wav|I need scarcely add, but I will add for the benefit of those who do not know, that this attitude of self respecting identification of interest and purpose is not only compatible with but can only exist when there is fine and real discipline, as thorough and genuine as the discipline that has always obtained in the most formidable fighting fleets and armies.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000009_000003.wav|Some of the originals go back to the sixteenth century, and there are copies or reproductions of the two or three most famous hunting books of the Middle Ages, such as the Duke of York's translation of Gaston Phoebus, and the queer book of the Emperor Maximilian.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000005_000001.wav|We have great fireplaces, and in them the logs roar and crackle during the long winter evenings.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000011_000003.wav|But there is no such thing as a hundred books that are best for all men, or for the majority of men, or for one man at all times; and there is no such thing as a five foot library which will satisfy the needs of even one particular man on different occasions extending over a number of years.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000005_000000.wav|At Sagamore Hill we love a great many things-birds and trees and books, and all things beautiful, and horses and rifles and children and hard work and the joy of life.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000008_000004.wav|I am not speaking of these, for they are not properly "books" at all; they come in the category of time tables, telephone directories, and other useful agencies of civilized life.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000009_000001.wav|Now, I am very proud of my big game library.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000010_000000.wav|Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels-including short stories under the head of novels.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155972/2582_155972_000013_000001.wav|There is on our book shelves a little pre Victorian novel or tale called "The Semi Attached Couple." It is told with much humor; it is a story of gentlefolk who are really gentlefolk; and to me it is altogether delightful.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000017_000001.wav|If the tide was high there was an added thrill, for some of the contestants were sure to run into the water.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000001_000008.wav|There is a bit of homely philosophy, quoted by Squire Bill Widener, of Widener's Valley, Virginia, which sums up one's duty in life: "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are."|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000025_000005.wav|They have known and they will know joy and sorrow, triumph and temporary defeat.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000013_000001.wav|On one occasion I was holding a conversation with one of the leaders in Congress, Uncle Pete Hepburn, about the Railroad Rate Bill.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000014_000002.wav|They were never allowed to be disobedient or to shirk lessons or work; and they were encouraged to have all the fun possible.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000022_000003.wav|The children did not wish me to read the books they desired their mother to read, and I usually took some such book as "Hereward the Wake," or "Guy Mannering," or "The Last of the Mohicans" or else some story about a man eating tiger, or a man eating lion, from one of the hunting books in my library.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000011_000003.wav|Of course the children took much interest in the trophies I occasionally brought back from my hunts.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000015_000002.wav|Then there were flying squirrels, and kangaroo rats, gentle and trustful, and a badger whose temper was short but whose nature was fundamentally friendly.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000017_000000.wav|Another famous place for handicap races was Cooper's Bluff, a gigantic sand bank rising from the edge of the bay, a mile from the house.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000004_000005.wav|In the effort to keep the children that were well and those that were sick apart, their mother and I had to camp out in improvised fashion.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000006_000001.wav|"Brother, don't you sink my monitor!"|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000003_000000.wav|When their mother and I returned from a row, we would often see the children waiting for us, running like sand spiders along the beach.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000016_000005.wav|They rushed inside, clambered over or burrowed through the hay, as suited them best, dropped out of a place where a loose board had come off, got over, through, or under the three fences, and raced back to the starting point.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000025_000006.wav|But I believe they are all the better off because of their happy and healthy childhood.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000001_000000.wav|Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000010_000002.wav|My monitor always goes to bed at seven, and it's now quarter past.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000015_000010.wav|He would never let the other dogs fight, and he himself never fought unless circumstances imperatively demanded it; but he was a murderous animal when he did fight.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000008_000001.wav|"My monitor is not to sink!"|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000004_000010.wav|The small boy was convalescing, and was engaged in playing on the floor with some tin ships, together with two or three pasteboard monitors and rams of my own manufacture.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000018_000002.wav|She held together well for a season or two after having been cleared of everything down to the timbers, and this gave us the chance to make camping out trips in which the girls could also be included, for we put them to sleep in the wreck, while the boys slept on the shore; squaw picnics, the children called them.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000008_000000.wav|Little girl.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000024_000004.wav|Next morning dr Lambert rather enviously congratulated the boy on the fact that stones and roots evidently did not interfere with the soundness of his sleep; to which the boy responded, "Well, Doctor, you see it isn't very long since I used to take fourteen china animals to bed with me every night!"|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000002_000003.wav|One of these wagons, by the way, a gorgeous red one, had "Express" painted on it in gilt letters, and was known to the younger children as the "'spress" wagon.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000014_000009.wav|As he leaned over, his broad straw hat tilted on end, and pony Grant meditatively munched the brim; whereupon the small boy looked up with a wail of anguish, evidently thinking the pony had decided to treat him like a radish.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000001_000004.wav|It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000014_000001.wav|It was real country, and-speaking from the somewhat detached point of view of the masculine parent-I should say there was just the proper mixture of freedom and control in the management of the children.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000022_000001.wav|There was also much training that came as a by-product and was perhaps almost as valuable-not as a substitute but as an addition.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000014_000007.wav|They loved pony Grant.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000003_000001.wav|They always liked to swim in company with a grown up of buoyant temperament and inventive mind, and the float offered limitless opportunities for enjoyment while bathing.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000004_000006.wav|When the eldest small boy was getting well, and had recovered his spirits, I slept on a sofa beside his bed-the sofa being so short that my feet projected over anyhow.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000006_000000.wav|Little girl.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000003_000003.wav|Well, we used to play stage coach on the float while in swimming, and instead of tamely getting up and turning round, the child whose turn it was had to plunge overboard.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000012_000000.wav|Of course the children anthropomorphized-if that is the proper term-their friends of the animal world.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000004_000012.wav|My pasteboard rams and monitors were fascinating-if a naval architect may be allowed to praise his own work-and as property they were equally divided between the little girl and the small boy.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000016_000006.wav|When they were little, their respective fathers were expected also to take part in the obstacle race, and when with the advance of years the fathers finally refused to be contestants, there was a general feeling of pained regret among the children at such a decline in the sporting spirit.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000026_000002.wav|But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000013_000004.wav|He was holding it inside his coat, and it contrived to wiggle partly down the sleeve.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000001_000003.wav|There are many kinds of success in life worth having.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000015_000005.wav|"He bites legs sometimes, but he never bites faces," said the little boy.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000023_000000.wav|Besides profiting by the more canonical books on education, we profited by certain essays and articles of a less orthodox type.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000026_000000.wav|It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000007_000000.wav|Little boy (without heeding, and hurrying toward the climax).|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000007_000001.wav|"And the torpedo went at the monitor!"|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000013_000003.wav|He had been loaned a king snake, which, as all nature lovers know, is not only a useful but a beautiful snake, very friendly to human beings; and he came rushing home to show the treasure.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000004_000014.wav|The small boy was busily reciting the phases of the fight, which now approached its climax, and the little girl evidently suspected that her monitor was destined to play the part of victim.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000025_000000.wav|As the children grew up, Sagamore Hill remained delightful for them. There were picnics and riding parties, there were dances in the north room-sometimes fancy dress dances-and open air plays on the green tennis court of one of the cousin's houses.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000012_000001.wav|Among these friends at one period was the baker's horse, and on a very rainy day I heard the little girl, who was looking out of the window, say, with a melancholy shake of her head, "Oh!|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000005_000000.wav|Little boy.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000023_000001.wav|I wish to express my warmest gratitude for such books-not of avowedly didactic purpose-as Laura Richards's books, Josephine Dodge Daskam's "Madness of Philip," Palmer Cox's "Queer People," the melodies of Father Goose and Mother Wild Goose, Flandreau's "mrs White's," Myra Kelly's stories of her little East Side pupils, and Michelson's "Madigans." It is well to take duties, and life generally, seriously.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000021_000003.wav|However, the culprit was much impressed with a sense of shortcoming as to the obligations he had undertaken; so the result was as satisfactory as if the quotation had been from the right service.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000025_000004.wav|They have had their share of accidents and escapes; as I write, word comes from a far off land that one of them, whom Seth Bullock used to call "Kim" because he was the friend of all mankind, while bossing a dangerous but necessary steel structural job has had two ribs and two back teeth broken, and is back at work.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000002_000004.wav|They evidently associated the color with the term.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000026_000003.wav|There are many forms of success, many forms of triumph.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000013_000002.wav|The children were strictly trained not to interrupt business, but on this particular occasion the little boy's feelings overcame him.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000001_000002.wav|In the three houses there were at one time sixteen of these small cousins, all told, and once we ranged them in order of size and took their photograph.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000011_000005.wav|And will he bring me back a bear?" When, some five months later, I returned, of course in my uniform, this little boy was much puzzled as to my identity, although he greeted me affably with "Good afternoon, Colonel." Half an hour later somebody asked him, "Where's father?" to which he responded, "I don't know; but the Colonel is taking a bath."|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000010_000003.wav|My monitor was in bed and couldn't sink!"|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000001_000007.wav|And as for a life deliberately devoted to pleasure as an end-why, the greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000016_000003.wav|A favorite amusement used to be an obstacle race when the barn was full of hay.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000019_000001.wav|For nearly thirty years we have given the Christmas tree to the school.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000020_000000.wav|We had a sleigh for winter; but if, when there was much snow, the whole family desired to go somewhere, we would put the body of the farm wagon on runners and all bundle in together.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000024_000001.wav|Like other children, they were apt to take to bed with them treasures which they particularly esteemed.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000025_000001.wav|The children are no longer children now.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000002_000000.wav|The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000010_000000.wav|Little girl.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000016_000002.wav|It stood at the meeting spot of three fences.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000026_000001.wav|No father and mother can hope to escape sorrow and anxiety, and there are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000005_000001.wav|"And then they steamed bang into the monitor."|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000002_000006.wav|When we reached the store, we found to our dismay that the wagon which we had seen had been sold.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000021_000000.wav|When we were in Washington, the children usually went with their mother to the Episcopal church, while I went to the Dutch Reformed.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000010_000001.wav|"It didn't do any such thing.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2582/155973/2582_155973_000015_000011.wav|He was not only exceedingly fond of the water, as was to be expected, but passionately devoted to gunpowder in every form, for he loved firearms and fairly reveled in the Fourth of July celebrations-the latter being rather hazardous occasions, as the children strongly objected to any "safe and sane" element being injected into them, and had the normal number of close shaves with rockets, Roman candles, and firecrackers.|2582
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000038_000000.wav|TENTH CHARACTERISTIC|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000041_000000.wav|In communities distinguished for fraternal charity and the family spirit the conversation frequently turns on the dead.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000010_000001.wav|Several offend in giving because they do so with a bad grace; others in refusing do not offend because they know how to temper their refusal by sweetness of manner.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000021_000001.wav|It is most necessary for religious, as, not being able to seek comfort abroad, they are obliged to live in the same house, often in the same employment with characters less sympathetic than their own.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000005_000005.wav|It seeks to find in oneself the faults it notices in others, and perhaps greater ones, and tries to correct them.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000037_000000.wav|fifteen|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000010_000002.wav|Charity possesses this art in a high degree, and, besides, raises a mere worldly art into a virtue and fruit of the Holy Ghost.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000035_000000.wav|Alas! how many times are the sick and the old made to consider themselves as an inconvenient burden, or like a useless piece of furniture!|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000000.wav|CHARITY is generous; it does everything it can.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000042_000002.wav|Can there be anything more agreeable to God, more useful to the Church, or more meritorious, than to foster thus amongst the well beloved children of God peace, joy, love of vocation, together with union amongst themselves and with their superiors?|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000048_000000.wav|Charity, by uniting its good wishes and interest to the deeds of others, becomes associated at the same time in the merit.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000002.wav|It never lets slip an opportunity of comforting, helping, and taking the most painful part, after the example of its Divine Model, Who came to serve, not to be served.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000034_000001.wav|But religion is not an abstract matter; it is made up of individuals reciprocally bound together in and for each other.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000005_000007.wav|We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we mend not our own defects.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000003.wav|One religious, seemingly in pain, seeks comfort; another desires some book, instrument, etc; a third bends under a burden; while a fourth is afflicted.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000042_000001.wav|It expands pent up souls by consolations or advice; it dissipates prejudices which tend to weaken the spirit of obedience; it is, in fine, a sort of instinct which embraces all those things suggested by zeal and devotion.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000007.wav|Or does the traveller who finds a purse of gold on the road neglect to pick it up because others who preceded him took no notice of it?"|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000022_000000.wav|thirteen|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000033_000001.wav|Charity receives fraternally all guests and new comers, and makes us treat them as we would wish to be treated under similar circumstances. It also causes us to lavish testimonies of affection on those who are setting out, and warns us to be very careful of saying or doing anything that may in the least degree offend even the most susceptible.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000017_000000.wav|SEVENTH CHARACTERISTIC|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000031_000000.wav|CHARITY lavishes care on the sick and infirm, on the old, on guests and new comers.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000019_000000.wav|WE must pardon and do good for evil, as God has pardoned us and rendered good for evil in Jesus Christ.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000019_000002.wav|This is the image of charity.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000040_000001.wav|We try to change the discourse as if it were hurtful.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000005_000001.wav|It never asks for exceptions or privileges for fear of exciting jealousy.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000033_000000.wav|Charity pays honour to the aged in every respect, coincides with their sentiments, consults them, forestalls their desires, and attempts not to reform in them what cannot be reformed.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000002.wav|When in a room between two open doors through which a violent wind rushes and throws things in disorder, if you close one door the violence of the wind is checked and order is restored.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000012_000000.wav|SIXTH CHARACTERISTIC|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000021_000000.wav|Charity gives no occasion to others to suffer, but suffers all patiently, not once, but all through life, every day and almost every hour.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000004.wav|In all these cases charity comes to the aid by consoling the one, procuring little gratifications for the other, and helping another.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000016_000000.wav|twelve|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000054_000000.wav|By charity we store up in ourselves the gifts of grace enjoyed by every member of the community, in order to dispense them to all by a happy commerce and admirable exchange.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000043_000000.wav|sixteen|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000019_000001.wav|It is vain to trample the violet, as it never resists, and he who crushes it only becomes aware of the fact by the sweetness of its perfume.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000041_000001.wav|One talks of their virtues, another of their services, a third quotes some of their sayings, while a fourth adds some other edifying fact; and who is the religious that will not on such occasions breathe a silent prayer to God and apply some indulgence or other satisfactory work for the happy repose of their souls?|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000006.wav|If, unfortunately, you open yours, the storm will become furious, and no one can tell what the damage may be." If we have been guilty in this respect, let us humble ourselves before God.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000027_000000.wav|In order to keep ourselves and others in a state of moderation, we must remember that all persons have some fad, mania, or fixed ideas which they permit no one to gainsay.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000044_000000.wav|ELEVENTH CHARACTERISTIC|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000003_000000.wav|THEY who are animated by charity support patiently and in silence, in sentiments of humility and sweetness, as if they had neither eyes nor ears, the difficult, odd, and most inconstant humours of others, although they may find it very difficult at times to do so.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000046_000000.wav|RELIGIOUS who have the family spirit wish to know everything which concerns the well-being of the different houses.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000003.wav|So it is when you are attacked by anyone with a bad tongue.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000042_000000.wav|Charity also prays for those who want help most, and who are often known to God alone-those whose constancy is wavering, those who are led by violent temptations to the edge of the precipice.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000052_000000.wav|BE edified at the sight of your brethren's virtues, and edify them by your own.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000021_000002.wav|These little acts of charity count for little here below, and they are rather exacted than admired.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000020_000003.wav|This charity will have no small weight in the balance of Him Who weighs merit so exactly.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000046_000002.wav|They bless God when they hear good news, and grieve at bad news, losses by death, and, above all, scandalous losses of vocation.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000052_000001.wav|In other words, be alternately disciple and master.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000020_000002.wav|He adds that the humility and patience of the disciple was a lesson for the master.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000028_000000.wav|fourteen|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000010_000000.wav|There is an art of giving as well as of refusing.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000056_000000.wav|This spontaneity of virtues exercises on all the members a constant and sublime ministry of mutual edification and reciprocal sanctification.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000020_000001.wav|saint Gregory praises another religious, who, having been struck several times with a stool by his abbot, attributed it not to the passion of the abbot, but to his own fault.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000004_000001.wav|To be borne with, we must bear with others; to be loved, we must love; to be helped, we must help; to be joyful ourselves, we must make others so.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000005.wav|Close yours, and the storm ceases.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000020_000000.wav|Cassian makes mention of a religious who, having received a box on the ear from his abbot in presence of more than two hundred brethren, made no complaint, nor even changed colour.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000034_000000.wav|Religious must ever feel that they can bless, love, and thank religion as a good mother.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000046_000001.wav|They willingly take their pens to contribute to the edification and satisfy the lawful curiosity of their brethren.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000040_000000.wav|"WE do not remember often enough our dear dead, our departed brethren," says saint Francis de Sales, "and the proof of it is that we speak so little of them.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000008.wav|It would be a strange thing to find religious uselessly giving themselves to ardent desires of works of charity abroad, such as nursing in a hospital or carrying the Gospel into uncivilized lands, and at the same time in their own house and among their own brethren showing coldness, indifference, and want of condescension.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000005_000008.wav|We would have others strictly corrected, but are not fond of being corrected ourselves.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000050_000000.wav|TWELFTH CHARACTERISTIC|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000004_000002.wav|Surrounded as we are by so many different minds, characters, and interests, how can we live in peace for a single day if we are not condescending, accommodating, yielding, self denying, ready to renounce even a good project, and to take no notice of those faults and shortcomings which are beyond our power or duty to correct?|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000014_000002.wav|Would to God that this touching and edifying charity replaced the low and rampant vice of jealousy!|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000007_000000.wav|FIFTH CHARACTERISTIC|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000049_000000.wav|seventeen|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000029_000000.wav|NINTH CHARACTERISTIC|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000035_000001.wav|In reality what are they doing?|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000006.wav|"Does the hunter," says saint John Chrysostom, "who finds splendid game blame those who beat the brushwood before him?|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000009_000001.wav|When even it can do little, it wishes to be able to do more.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000000.wav|TELL TALES, nasty names, cold answers, lies, mockery, harsh words, etc, are all contrary to charity.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000004.wav|Your mouth and his are open doors.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000005_000009.wav|The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we do not wish to be denied anything we ask for.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000001_000000.wav|FOURTH CHARACTERISTIC|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/87508/6499_87508_000025_000001.wav|saint John Chrysostom says: "When anyone loads you with injuries, close your mouth, because if you open it you will only cause a tempest.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000001_000001.wav|The faculty of willing is the only one we possess as our own, the only one we can use freely and at all times.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000014_000000.wav|No, I am not indifferent, Thou knowest, O my God! that I am not indifferent to this Most Holy Sacrament which I approach unmoved by any sensible feeling: for Thou seest that although I find in Holy Communion neither relish nor consolation, I would yet make any sacrifice in order to receive it.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000001_000002.wav|Hence it follows that it is by the will alone that we can in reality acquire merit or commit sin.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000002_000005.wav|Thus we find Saint Francis de Sales, who possessed in such a high degree sensible love of God and all the natural virtues, making this positive declaration: "The greatest proof we can have in this life that we are in the grace of God, is not sensible love of Him, but the firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small."|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000020_000000.wav|If you have an ardent desire for the sensible love of God, a desire that cannot but be pleasing to Him provided you are at the same time resigned to be deprived of it, remember that according to Saint john Chrysostom it can be obtained only by fidelity to prayer.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000001_000005.wav|God has placed them at the disposal of our will as means to an end, and we can make a good or bad use of them just as we can of all God's other gifts.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000004_000000.wav|Act of Confidence.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000009_000000.wav|Act of Hope.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000015_000000.wav|Act of Contrition.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000002_000003.wav|They should, however, not give way to anxiety, nor exhaust themselves by vain efforts to excite in their hearts a sensibility that God has not given them.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000003_000000.wav|Pious persons can make use of the following prayers with profit when they are habitually or accidentally in the condition described above.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000007_000000.wav|Act of Faith.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000003_000001.wav|They will then see how the will alone, without the aid of feeling, can produce acts of all the christian virtues.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000013_000000.wav|Act of Desire.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000006_000007.wav|Faith, hope and charity seem to be extinct in my heart, but I know that Thou never withdrawest these virtues when we do not voluntarily renounce them.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000006_000001.wav|Misery and infirmity are claims for admission to Thy Feast, but nothing can dispense from the nuptial garment.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000000_000000.wav|ADDITIONS. FINAL ADVICE IN REGARD TO HOLY COMMUNION.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000002_000001.wav|These usually make the mistake of taking for granted the invariable existence of sentiment, and of addressing it exclusively.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000002_000000.wav|This explanation is intended to reassure such persons as are disposed to feel anxious when they find nothing in their hearts to correspond with the effusions of sensible love with which books of devotion abound in the preparation for Holy Communion.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000021_000000.wav|There are few prayers better calculated to dispose the soul to receive this great grace than the sixteen. and seventeen. chapters of the fourth.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000011_000000.wav|Act of Love.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000002_000002.wav|How many souls do we not see who in consequence grow alarmed about their condition, believing they are devoid of grace notwithstanding their firm will to shun sin and to please God!|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000006_000006.wav|I accept, O my God!--be it a well merited punishment or a salutary trial,--this privation of light and sensible devotion, this coldness and distraction, which accompany me even into Thy presence when all the faculties of my soul should be absorbed and confounded in sentiments of adoration and of love.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000020_000002.wav|Yes, this love is so great a good that God wishes to be the sole dispenser of it: He bestows it only in proportion as we ask it of Him, and ordinarily makes us wait for some time before He grants it.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/91098/6499_91098_000001_000003.wav|The natural virtues are gratuitous gifts of God.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000005_000000.wav|Ireland: nineteen homicides to the million of inhabitants France: thirty one England: four|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000014_000001.wav|And the same remark is applicable to Ireland.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000008_000005.wav|We frankly admit and heartily deplore the disorders which Catholics commit, but we deny that they are worse than their Protestant neighbors; and still more emphatically do we deny that the Church is responsible for their disorders.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000003_000000.wav|But is it true that crimes, especially murder and illegitimacy, are more prevalent in Catholic than in Protestant countries?|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000003_000001.wav|I utterly deny the assertion, and also appeal to statistics in support of the denial.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000017_000000.wav|It is worthy, too, of notice, that in the tabular statement above presented the percentage of illegitimacy in Holland and Switzerland, where there are large Catholic minorities, is lower than in any other Protestant country.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000004_000000.wav|reverend Mr. Seymour gives the following list of the number of murders in England, France and Ireland:|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000008_000000.wav|These figures, which are from authenticated sources, do not bear out our accusers in their assertion that murders are more prevalent in Catholic than in Protestant countries.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000016_000000.wav|"The proportion of illegitimate births to the total number of births is in Ireland three point eight per cent.; in England the proportion is six point four; in Scotland nine point nine; in other words, England is nearly twice, and Scotland nearly thrice worse, than Ireland.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000003_000002.wav|Whence do our opponents derive their information?|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000012_000000.wav|Protestant.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000001_000000.wav|It has been gravely asserted that the confession of sin and the doctrine of absolution tend to the spread of crime and immorality.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000008_000003.wav|Here again we shall meet statistics with counter statistics to refute unjust declarations.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000016_000006.wav|The sum of the whole matter is, that semi Presbyterian and semi Scotch Ulster is fully three times more immoral than wholly Popish and wholly Irish Connaught-which corresponds with wonderful accuracy to the more general fact that Scotland, as a whole, is three times more immoral than Ireland as a whole."|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000000_000001.wav|On The Relative Morality Of Catholic And Protestant Countries.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000019_000000.wav|But we are not disposed to parade these monstrous vices, no matter by whom committed.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000016_000005.wav|The division showing the highest proportion of illegitimacy is the north-eastern, which comprises, or almost consists of, the Province of Ulster, where the population is almost equally divided between Protestants and Roman Catholics, and where the great majority of Protestants are of Scotch blood and of the Presbyterian church.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000011_000000.wav|Percentage Of Illegitimacy In Protestant And Catholic Countries Of Europe.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000008_000001.wav|The statistics of this crime are limited, or they are not in very general circulation.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000002_000002.wav|It is a great mistake to suppose that the most ignorant Catholic believes he can procure the pardon of his sins by simply confessing them without being truly sorry for them.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000016_000001.wav|Something worse has to be added, from which no consolation can be derived.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000002_000004.wav|I maintain, therefore, that confession, far from being an incentive to sin, as our adversaries have the hardihood to affirm, is a most powerful check on the depravity of men and a most effectual preventive of their criminal excesses.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000003_000004.wav|M. Hobart Seymour's "Nights Among Romanists" and similar absolutely unreliable compilations, the false statements of which have been again and again refuted.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6499/57667/6499_57667_000019_000002.wav|We certainly do not wish to excuse or palliate the evil deeds of Catholics, who, with all the blessed aids which their religion affords, ought to be much better than they are.|6499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000009_000000.wav|Melbury sat with his hands resting on the familiar knobbed thorn walking stick, whose growing he had seen before he enjoyed its use. The scene to him was not the material environment of his person, but a tragic vision that travelled with him like an envelope.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000020_000001.wav|She might have begun to guess his meaning; but apart from that, she had such dread of contact with anything painful, harsh, or even earnest, that his preliminaries alone were enough to distress her.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000005_000000.wav|But Melbury would not even stop to hear him.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000019_000001.wav|He did not take a chair, and she also remained standing.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000015_000000.wav|"Do sit down, mr Melbury.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000019_000003.wav|And whatever mistakes I make in my manner of speaking upon it to you, madam, do me the justice to set 'em down to my want of practice, and not to my want of care."|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000003_000004.wav|Plodding thoughtfully onward, he crossed a glade lying between Little Hintock Woods and the plantation which abutted on the park; and the spot being open, he was discerned there by Winterborne from the copse on the next hill, where he and his men were working.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000034_000001.wav|She disliked the woods, but they had the advantage of being a place in which she could walk comparatively unobserved.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000022_000002.wav|Some monstrous calumnies are afloat-of which I have known nothing until now!"|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000003_000002.wav|He said nothing of his destination either to his wife or to Grace, fearing that they might entreat him to abandon so risky a project, and went out unobserved.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000013_000001.wav|She was not in her private sitting room when he reached it, but in a minute he heard her coming from the front staircase, and she entered where he stood.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000023_000000.wav|Melbury started, and looked at her simply.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000003_000000.wav|At nine o'clock the next morning Melbury dressed himself up in shining broadcloth, creased with folding and smelling of camphor, and started for Hintock House.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000028_000000.wav|"Certainly I would do her no harm-I-" Melbury's eye met hers.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000028_000005.wav|Now go away-go, go!"|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000024_000001.wav|"Will you leave me to myself?" she said, with a faintness which suggested a guilty conscience.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000015_000001.wav|You have felled all the trees that were to be purchased by you this season, except the oaks, I believe."|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000025_000002.wav|This gossip-"|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000028_000003.wav|How could you come to me like this!|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000006_000000.wav|Melbury rang at the tradesmen's door of the manor house, and was at once informed that the lady was not yet visible, as indeed he might have guessed had he been anybody but the man he was.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000032_000000.wav|While she sat, or rather crouched, unhinged by the interview, lunch time came, and then the early afternoon, almost without her consciousness.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000021_000000.wav|"I am an old man," said Melbury, "whom, somewhat late in life, God thought fit to bless with one child, and she a daughter.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000011_000000.wav|"What! haven't you told her before?" said Melbury.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000026_000001.wav|Tell me of it, I say."|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000021_000008.wav|But, ma'am, a fatal mistake was at the root of my reckoning.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000003_000003.wav|He had chosen his time with a view, as he supposed, of conveniently catching mrs Charmond when she had just finished her breakfast, before any other business people should be about, if any came.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000021_000004.wav|But I saw it was the law of nature that this should be, and that it was for the maid's happiness that she should have a home when I was gone; and I made up my mind without a murmur to help it on for her sake.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000008_000000.wav|But he walked about the paved court till he was tired, and still nobody came to him.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000008_000002.wav|They had heard of his arrival, but had not seen him enter, and, imagining him still in the court, discussed freely the possible reason of his calling.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000032_000001.wav|Then "a strange gentleman who says it is not necessary to give his name," was suddenly announced.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000021_000007.wav|Another man came and paid court to her-one her equal in breeding and accomplishments; in every way it seemed to me that he only could give her the home which her training had made a necessity almost. I urged her on, and she married him.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000017_000001.wav|It must be so charming to work in the woods just now!"|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000031_000001.wav|She had never so clearly perceived till now that her soul was being slowly invaded by a delirium which had brought about all this; that she was losing judgment and dignity under it, becoming an animated impulse only, a passion incarnate.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000028_000002.wav|"Oh, Melbury," she burst out, "you have made me so unhappy!|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000010_000002.wav|I am just going up to tell her you are here."|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000005_000001.wav|His mind was made up, the appeal was to be made; and Winterborne stood and watched him sadly till he entered the second plantation and disappeared.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000019_000002.wav|Resting upon his stick, he began: "mrs Charmond, I have called upon a more serious matter-at least to me-than tree throwing.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000004_000000.wav|"I have been thinking of this, sir," he said, "and I am of opinion that it would be best to put off your visit for the present."|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000021_000006.wav|Things came about which made me doubt if it would be for my daughter's happiness to do this, inasmuch as the young man was poor, and she was delicately reared.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000027_000003.wav|She loved you once, ma'am; you began by liking her.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000028_000004.wav|It is too dreadful!|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000009_000002.wav|He waited thus an hour, an hour and a half, two hours. He began to look pale and ill, whereupon the butler, who came in, asked him to have a glass of wine.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000012_000000.wav|"Oh no," said the other.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000024_000002.wav|"This is so utterly unexpected-you obtain admission to my presence by misrepresentation-"|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000023_000001.wav|"But surely, ma'am, you know the truth better than I?"|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000012_000001.wav|"You see you came so very early."|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000009_000003.wav|Melbury roused himself and said, "No, no Is she almost ready?"|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000018_000001.wav|Hence her words "very nice," "so charming," were uttered with a perfunctoriness that made them sound absurdly unreal.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000021_000001.wav|Her mother was a very dear wife to me, but she was taken away from us when the child was young, and the child became precious as the apple of my eye to me, for she was all I had left to love.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000016_000000.wav|"Yes," said Melbury.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000003_000005.wav|Knowing his mission, the younger man hastened down from the copse and managed to intercept the timber merchant.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000013_000000.wav|At last the bell rang: mrs Charmond could see him.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000029_000000.wav|"I will," he said, in a husky tone.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000024_000000.wav|Her features became a little pinched, and the touches of powder on her handsome face for the first time showed themselves as an extrinsic film.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000020_000002.wav|"Yes, what is it?" she said.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000027_000000.wav|"Tell you, ma'am-not i What the gossip is, no matter.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000033_000000.wav|"I cannot see him, whoever he may be.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000019_000000.wav|"Yes, yes," said Melbury, in a reverie.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000033_000001.wav|I am not at home to anybody."|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/8912/2149_8912_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty two.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2149/7235/2149_7235_000014_000000.wav|three.|2149
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000087_000002.wav|in gold, silver, or notes?"|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000083_000000.wav|"Oh, my dear count," exclaimed Danglars, "I never for an instant entertained such a feeling towards you."|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000010_000000.wav|"Then how comes it," said Monte Cristo with a frown, "that, when I desired you to purchase for me the finest pair of horses to be found in Paris, there is another pair, fully as fine as mine, not in my stables?" At the look of displeasure, added to the angry tone in which the count spoke, Ali turned pale and held down his head.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000008_000003.wav|Ali," cried he, striking at the same time on the brazen gong.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000040_000004.wav|I took the trouble this morning to call on the pretended count-if he were a real count he wouldn't be so rich. But, would you believe it, 'He was not receiving.' So the master of Monte Cristo gives himself airs befitting a great millionaire or a capricious beauty.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000015_000000.wav|"I beg your excellency's pardon," interposed the steward in a deprecating manner, "for venturing to observe that it is already two o'clock."|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000044_000000.wav|Danglars felt the irony and compressed his lips.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000053_000000.wav|"Indeed?"|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000000_000000.wav|Chapter forty six.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000008_000008.wav|"I did," replied the count.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000040_000009.wav|'They laugh best who laugh last!'"|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000087_000001.wav|"How would you like to have it?|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000070_000000.wav|"By what right, sir?"|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000031_000000.wav|"And the yacht."|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000034_000000.wav|"And the steamboat?"|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000014_000000.wav|"At five o'clock," replied the count.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000097_000000.wav|"And alone?"|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000045_000000.wav|"So much so," replied Monte Cristo, "that while you call yourself baron you are not willing to call anybody else count."|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000008_000004.wav|Ali appeared.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000012_000001.wav|Then offer him double that sum; a banker never loses an opportunity of doubling his capital."|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000040_000006.wav|But," pursued Danglars with one of his sinister smiles, "an order for unlimited credit calls for something like caution on the part of the banker to whom that order is given.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000081_000000.wav|"Whatever you say, my dear count; I am at your orders."|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000023_000006.wav|The steward entered.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000042_000000.wav|The count bowed.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000091_000003.wav|Not a modern picture among them.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000008_000005.wav|"Summon Bertuccio," said the count.|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1224/121064/1224_121064_000106_000000.wav|"Ah, ha, you are acquainted with the young viscount, are you?"|1224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000005.wav|It was not in the interest of good, efficient, and capable government; for that we already had.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000008_000001.wav|Republicans, sixty six; Democrats, forty nine.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000013_000002.wav|That they did not do so was due to the votes of the colored men in those States.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000014_000004.wav|Therefore, the Hayes administration represented "Negro Domination."|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000017_000000.wav|Again, in eighteen eighty eight, General Harrison, the Republican Presidential candidate, carried the State of New York by a plurality of about twenty thousand, which resulted in his election, which he would have lost but for the votes of the colored men in that State.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000013_000003.wav|Therefore Grant's first administration represented "Negro Domination."|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000016_000001.wav|It cannot and will not be denied that even at that early date the number of colored men that voted for mr Cleveland was far in excess of the plurality by which he carried the State.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000009_000005.wav|There was never, therefore, any ground for the alleged apprehension of negro domination as a result of a free, fair, and honest election in any one of the Southern or Reconstructed States.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000010_000001.wav|The answer that the average reader would give to that question would be that it means the actual, physical domination of the blacks over the whites.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000008_000000.wav|Total membership, one hundred and fifteen.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000007_000001.wav|No colored man in that State ever occupied a judicial position above that of Justice of the Peace and very few aspired to that position.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000010_000000.wav|And this brings us to a consideration of the question, What is meant by "Negro Domination?"|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000010_000003.wav|The definition given by that authority I have every reason to believe is the correct one, the generally accepted one.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000000.wav|The same is true of important elections in a number of States, districts and counties in which the colored vote proved to be potential and decisive.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000011_000001.wav|If this is the correct definition of that term,--and it is, no doubt, the generally accepted one,--then the friends and advocates of manhood suffrage will not deny that we have had in the past "Negro Domination," nationally as well as locally, and that we may have it in the future.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000013_000001.wav|For instance, in the Presidential election of eighteen sixty eight, General Grant, the Republican candidate, lost the important and pivotal State of New York, a loss which would have resulted in his defeat if the Southern States that took part in that election had all voted against him.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000008_000002.wav|Colored members, thirty eight.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000010_000002.wav|But, according to a high Democratic authority, that would be an incorrect answer.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000010_000004.wav|The authority referred to is the late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi, h h|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000009_000004.wav|There was, therefore, never a time when that class of white men known as Carpet baggers had absolute control of the State Government, or that of any district, county or municipality, or any branch or department thereof.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000011.wav|What was it?|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000010.wav|There must have been a strong, if not a justifiable, reason for it.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000004.wav|What was the motive, the incentive that caused it?|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000009.wav|Then, what was the cause of this sudden and unexpected uprising?|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000014_000000.wav|Again, in eighteen seventy six, Hayes was declared elected President by a majority of one vote in the electoral college.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000008.wav|It was not to prevent "Negro Domination" and to make sure the ascendency of the whites in the administration of the State and local governments; for that was then the recognized and established order of things, from which there was no apprehension of departure.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000008_000004.wav|White majority, thirty nine.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000014_000002.wav|But for the colored vote in those States there would have been no doubt, no dispute, no controversy.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000007_000006.wav|The composition of the lower house of the State Legislature that was elected in eighteen seventy one was as follows:|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000007_000003.wav|Of the two United States Senators and the seven members of the lower house of Congress not more than one colored man occupied a seat in each house at the same time.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000006_000000.wav|This claim is based upon the assumption that if the black vote were not suppressed in all such States, districts, and counties, black men would be supported and elected to office because they were black, and white men would be opposed and defeated because they were white.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000015_000002.wav|Therefore, the Garfield Arthur administration represented "Negro Domination."|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000017_000001.wav|Therefore, Harrison's administration represented "Negro Domination."|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000016_000002.wav|mr Cleveland's first administration, therefore, represented "Negro Domination." mr Cleveland did not hesitate to admit and appreciate the fact that colored men contributed largely to his success, hence he did not fail to give that element of his party appropriate and satisfactory official recognition.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000009_000003.wav|The State; district, county, and municipal governments were not only in control of white men, but white men who were to the manor born, or who were known as old citizens of the State-those who had lived in the State many years before the War of the Rebellion.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000005_000000.wav|It is claimed that in States, districts, and counties, in which the colored people are in the majority, the suppression of the colored vote is necessary to prevent "Negro Domination,"--to prevent the ascendency of the blacks over the whites in the administration of the State and local governments.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000007_000000.wav|Taking Mississippi for purposes of illustration, it will be seen that there has never been the slightest ground for such an apprehension.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000007_000004.wav|Of the thirty five members of the State Senate, and of the one hundred and fifteen members of the House,--which composed the total membership of the State Legislature prior to eighteen seventy four,--there were never more than about seven colored men in the Senate and forty in the lower house.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000003.wav|Why was this? What was the excuse for it?|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000009_000001.wav|There was a slight increase in the colored membership as a result of the election of eighteen seventy three, but the colored men never at any time had control of the State Government nor of any branch or department thereof, nor even that of any county or municipality.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000018_000006.wav|It was not on account of dishonesty, maladministration, misappropriation of public funds; for every dollar of the public funds had been faithfully accounted for.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000014_000001.wav|This was made possible by the result of the election in the States of Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida, about which there was much doubt and considerable dispute, and over which there was a bitter controversy.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000009_000000.wav|Of the sixty six Republicans thirty eight were colored and twenty eight, white.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000015_000000.wav|Again, in eighteen eighty, General Garfield, the Republican candidate for President, carried the State of New York by a plurality of about twenty thousand, without which he could not have been elected.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/42637/5319_42637_000008_000003.wav|White members, seventy seven.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000002_000001.wav|That he died in seventeen eighty eight, without leaving any legitimate offspring, is a fact equally well known; as also that his brother Henry Stuart, Cardinal York, who died in eighteen o seven, was the last of his ill fated race.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000005_000002.wav|He was taken into a gorgeous bedroom, where a lady who spoke English led him towards the bed, wherein he beheld the face of the lady he had seen in the carriage with Prince Charles, whilst by the bedside was a woman holding the newly born babe wrapped in a mantle.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000009_000001.wav|In his latter days, when separated from his wife, the Princess Louisa, Prince Charles sent for his illegitimate daughter by Miss Walkinshaw; created her Duchess of Albany, made her mistress of his household, and left her by will almost everything that he possessed, including such family jewels and plate as were still in his possession.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000006_000001.wav|A few days later he arrived at a certain seaport, and one night, soon after his arrival, he was strolling along the beach when his attention was attracted by an English looking vessel anchored off the coast.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000009_000000.wav|Even had not direct testimony been forthcoming, the circumstantial evidence against the allegation that Prince Charles had left a legitimate child is so strong that no amount of "Romance of History" could upset it.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000005_000000.wav|After the usual style of such mystic tales, dr Beaton was taken to a secluded palace, and after being led through the usual corridors and apartments of such abodes, had his mask removed, and was permitted to inspect the magnificent chamber into which he had been inducted.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000004_000002.wav|On the evening of the same day, whilst meditating on what he had seen, he was accosted by a man of military appearance, and asked whether he was dr Beaton, the Scotch physician.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000004_000003.wav|On replying in the affirmative, he was informed that his immediate attendance was required in a case of urgency, and all his questions as to the nature of the patient's malady were disposed of in a very unceremonious manner.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000005_000005.wav|Having performed his duties, the doctor was persuaded to take an oath on a crucifix, "never to speak of what he had seen, heard, or thought on that night, unless it should be in the service of his king-King Charles;" he was, also, desired to leave Tuscany that night, and then conducted from the dwelling in the same needlessly mysterious manner as he had been taken to it.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000006_000004.wav|His curiosity aroused by this singular coincidence, he stopped to watch what happened, and beheld a lady, bearing a babe in her arms, descend from the mysterious vehicle. This lady and her infantile charge were then conveyed on board the frigate, and no sooner had they got on board than the vessel hoisted sail and slowly disappeared.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000002_000002.wav|Notwithstanding the incontrovertible nature of these circumstances, attempts have been made within the last thirty or forty years to prove that Prince Charles did leave a legitimate son, the child of his wife the Princess Louisa; and that two brothers, who until quite recently were residing in London under the pseudonyms of "Counts d'Albanie," were the children of this unknown royal prince, and therefore grandchildren of "Charles the Third."|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000004_000004.wav|His reluctance to be blindfolded before entering a carriage that was in waiting was overcome by the intimation that it was on behalf of him whom both recognised as their royal chief, that is to say, Prince Charles.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000001_000000.wav|eighteen forty seven to eighteen eighty.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000006_000005.wav|The babe, it is implied, was the legitimate son and heir of Prince Charles, thus mysteriously smuggled off in order to preserve it from the machinations of the English government.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000004_000001.wav|On glancing into the conveyance he was still more startled by beholding the not to be forgotten countenance of his beloved "Prince Charlie," seated by a lady's side.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000006_000000.wav|The doctor obeyed his injunctions to the letter, and at once departed from the neighbourhood.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000005_000004.wav|The lady who had spoken English approached the table as if looking for something, and when Beaton looked again, the portrait had been turned on its face.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/84357/5319_84357_000002_000000.wav|The story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the "bonnie Prince Charlie" of song, is too well known to need recapitulation here.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000016_000003.wav|I saw from the very first day out that all that Pont needed was kind treatment and proper training to make a good help on the trap line.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000010_000000.wav|We went inside and the dog started to follow, when his master in a harsh voice said, "get out of here." I said, "where do you expect the dog to go?" I then took an old coat that was in the camp, placed it in the corner and called gently to Pont, patted the coat and told him to lay down on the coat, which he did.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000003.wav|I said, "What is the harm of Pont's going with me?" "All right, if you want him, I don't want any dog with me." I said, Am, (that was Pard's given name, for short) I don't believe the dog wants to go with you any more than you want him to.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER eighteen.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000000.wav|The next morning when we were about ready to start out on the trap line I asked Pard what he intended to do with Pont.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000004.wav|Am's reply was that he guessed he would go all right if he wanted him.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000017_000000.wav|I was careful to let him know what I was doing when setting a trap, and when he would go to smell at the bait after a trap had been set, I would speak to him in a firm voice and let him know that I did not approve of what he was doing.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000008_000000.wav|I have seen men training dogs for bird hunting, who would treat the dog most cruelly and claim that a dog could not be trained to work a bird successfully under any other treatment.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000017_000004.wav|Then all the time I was resetting the trap I would talk trap to him, and by action and word teach him the nature of the trap.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000007_000000.wav|Now those are the views and ideas of some trappers, while my experience has led me to see it otherwise.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000006.wav|Am, just for shucks, say nothing to the dog and see which one he will follow.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000008_000002.wav|I will say that one who cannot understand the wag of a dog's tail, the wistful gaze of the eye, the quick lifting of the ears, the cautious raising of a foot, and above all, treat his dog as a friend, need expect his dog to be but little else than a nuisance on the trap line.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000011_000001.wav|That was the end of that, Pont knew his place and took it without any further trouble.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000020_000000.wav|As soon as Am was gone I began to look about where the fox had been caught and search for his trail, and soon Pont began to wag his tail. I merely worked Pont's way and said, "Has he gone that way?" Pont gave me to understand that the fox had gone that way and that he knew what was wanted.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000010_000001.wav|I patted him saying that is a good place for Pont, and I can see that wistful gaze the dog gave me, now.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000017_000005.wav|mr Trapper, please do not persuade yourself to believe that the intelligent dog cannot understand if you go about it right.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000020_000002.wav|A little way up this we found where the fox had been fast in some bushes but had freed himself and left and gone up the hillside.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000000.wav|Several years ago I had a partner who had a dog, part stag hound and the other part just dog, I think.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000005.wav|I asked if the animal was any good and he replied that he did not know how good he was.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000000.wav|Not long after this Am came into camp at night and reported that a fox had broken the chain on a certain trap and gone off with the trap, saying that he would take Pont in the morning and see if he could find the fox.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000005.wav|I said.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000003.wav|Then Am lost his temper and wanted to break Pont's neck again.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000001.wav|He said that he would tie him to a tree that stood against the shanty close to the door.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000006.wav|I asked the name of the dog.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000015_000003.wav|He showed plainly the disgust he had for his master.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000007_000003.wav|I have seen other dogs that would take for the barn or any other place to get out of the way at the first sight or sound of their master.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000022_000000.wav|I have had many different dogs on the trap line with me, and I can say to any one who can understand dog's language, has a liking for a dog and has a reasonable amount of patience and is willing to use it, will find a well trained dog of much benefit on the trap line, and often a more genial companion than some partners one may fall in with.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000006_000000.wav|Now, we will say first that there is as much or more difference in the man who handles the dog as there is in the different breeds of dogs.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000013_000000.wav|I said, "Go on Am, and we will see who the dog will follow." He started off and the dog only looked at him.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000010_000002.wav|After we had our supper I asked my partner if he wasn't going to fix Pont some supper.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000001.wav|One day he (my partner) asked if I would object to his bringing the dog to camp, saying that his wife was going on a visit and he had no place to leave the dog.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000008.wav|He looked at me wistfully, wagging his tail.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000007.wav|So we stepped outside the shack and the dog stood close to me.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000002.wav|I told him that if he had a good dog I would be glad to have him in camp.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000009.wav|The look that dog gave me said to me as plainly as words that this was the first kind word he had ever heard.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000020_000004.wav|When I came up to Pont he was working in a hole in some shell rocks.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000012_000002.wav|We were going to take different lines of traps.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000021_000000.wav|Not unfrequently did Pont show me a 'coon den.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000018_000006.wav|After running a stick in the hole I soon discovered that the log was hollow.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000001.wav|In the morning when we were ready to go Am tried to have Pont follow him, but it was no go, Pont would not go with him.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000005.wav|When we came to the place where the fox had escaped with the trap Am at once began to slap his hands and hiss Pont on.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000007.wav|He said, "Oh, I call him Pont." I spoke to the dog, calling him by name.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000007_000001.wav|One who is so constituted that they must give a dog the growl or perhaps a kick every time they come in reach, will undoubtedly find a dog of but little use on the trap line.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000018_000005.wav|He soon raised his head and gave a long howl, as much as to say he is here and I want help.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000015_000002.wav|He jumped about and showed more ways than one how pleased he was, and from that day until we broke camp, Pont stayed with me.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000015_000001.wav|I spoke to Pont, patting him on the head and told him what a good dog he was.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000020_000003.wav|Pont soon began to get uneasy, and when I said hunt him out Pont, away he went and in a few minutes I heard Pont give a long howl and I knew that he had holed his game.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000018_000003.wav|I had not gone far up this when Pont took the trail of some animal and began working it up the side of the hill.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000018_000001.wav|The third day Pont was with me he found a 'coon that had escaped with a trap nearly two weeks before.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000004_000000.wav|THE DOG ON THE TRAP LINE.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000010_000003.wav|"Oh, after a while I will see if I can't find something for him." I took a biscuit from the table, spread some butter on it, called the dog to me, broke the biscuit in pieces, and gave it to the dog from my hand; then I found an old basin that chanced to be about the camp and fixed the dog a good supper.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000013_000001.wav|Am stopped and told the dog to come on.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000020_000006.wav|There was scarcely a week that Pont did not help us out on the trap line.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000017_000001.wav|When making blind sets, I took the same pains to show and give him to understand what I was doing.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000004.wav|I said that I did not like to have Pont abused and that I would go along with him.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000007_000002.wav|We have known some dogs to refuse to eat, and would lay out where they could watch in the direction in which their master had gone and piteously howl for hours, waiting the return of the master and friend.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000013_000002.wav|The dog got around behind me.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000017_000002.wav|I would sometimes, after giving him fair warning, let him put his foot into a trap.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000019_000002.wav|Then Am put a rope on to him and tried to lead him, but Pont would sulk and would not be led.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000009_000003.wav|In a day or two pard went home and brought in the dog.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000021_000001.wav|I had some difficulty in teaching Pont to let the porcupines alone, but after a time he learned that they were not the kind of game that he wanted, and he paid no more attention to them.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5319/64075/5319_64075_000018_000008.wav|Pont soon had the 'coon out, and when I saw it was the 'coon that had escaped with our trap, I gave Pont praise for what he had done, petting him and telling him of his good deed, and he seemed to understand it all.|5319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000009_000003.wav|The negatives so obtained are developed in the regular way, and the positive prints subsequently made from them are used for reproduction.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000010_000002.wav|The "taking" camera must have its parts enclosed in a light tight box, because of the undeveloped, sensitized film, but the projecting kinetoscope, using only a fully developed positive film, may, and, for purposes of convenient operation, must be accessibly open.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000003_000000.wav|There is nothing surprising in this, however, as the possibility of photographing and reproducing actual scenes of animate life are so thoroughly exemplified and rendered practicable by the apparatus and methods disclosed in the patents above cited, that these basic inventions in themselves practically constitute the art-its development proceeding mainly along the line of manufacturing details.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000010_000001.wav|In appearance it is somewhat different; indeed, it is in two parts, the one containing the lighting arrangements and condensing lens, and the other embracing the mechanism and objective lens.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000012_000000.wav|The positive film is moved intermittently but swiftly throughout its length between the objective lens and a beam of light coming through the condenser, being exposed by the shutter during the periods of rest.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000007_000001.wav|A full view of this shutter is also represented, with its opening, D, in the small illustration to the right.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000006_000000.wav|The mechanism of such a camera, as now used, consists of many parts assembled in such contiguous proximity to each other that an illustration from an actual machine would not help to clearness of explanation to the general reader.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000009_000002.wav|Still it is sufficient to bring the film to a momentary condition of complete rest, and to allow for a maximum time of exposure, comparatively speaking, thus providing means for taking clearly defined pictures.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000011_000000.wav|The philosophy of reproduction is very simple, and is illustrated diagrammatically in Fig. three, reference letters being the same as in Fig. one.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000012_000001.wav|This results in a projection of the photographs upon a screen in such rapid succession as to present an apparently continuous photograph of the successive positions of the moving objects, which, therefore, appear to the human eye to be in motion.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000013_000001.wav|It reads as follows:|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000011_000001.wav|As to the additional reference letters, I is a condenser J the source of light, and K a reflector.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000009_000001.wav|As in practice the pictures are taken at a rate of twenty or more per second, it will be quite obvious that each period of rest is infinitesimally brief, being generally one thirtieth of a second or less.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131748/2137_131748_000008_000003.wav|While the film is passing through the various parts of the machine it is guided and kept straight by various sets of rollers between which it runs, as indicated in the diagram.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000005_000000.wav|By noon the next day, Gawayne and his host Rode side by side along the perilous coast Of the gray Mere, from whose unquiet sleep Reverberating murmurs of the deep Startled the still December's listening air. The baron, shuddering, pointed seaward.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000006_000001.wav|"Well, my friend, I'll go no further with you.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000008_000006.wav|You're pressed for time?|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000004_000000.wav|CONCLUSION|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000008_000001.wav|You are punctual to the day; That's good!|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000008_000005.wav|Let me see;-- Suppose I brew a cup of hot green tea? You'ld rather not?|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000008_000008.wav|There, that's right; And now your helmet?|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/155944/2137_155944_000007_000000.wav|But Gawayne chose the lower road, and passed Along the desolate shore.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000007.wav|five.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000018_000001.wav|They are put together with a double lapped spiral seam to give expansion resisting qualities, and as an additional precaution small metal rings are slipped on the outside.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000017_000003.wav|Each negative contains twenty four pockets-a pocket being one half inch wide by three inches long, and having a maximum thickness of a little more than one eighth inch.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000016_000000.wav|The article then treats of Edison's investigations into means for supporting and making electrical connection with the active materials, showing some of the difficulties encountered and the various discoveries made in developing the perfected cell, after which the writer continues his description of the "A" type cell, as follows:|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000008.wav|Simplicity of care required.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000016.wav|eleven.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000017_000002.wav|five) has the familiar flat pocket construction.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000011.wav|Impossibility of "sulphation." eight.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000009_000000.wav|"The 'A' type Edison cell is the outcome of nine years of costly experimentation and persistent toil on the part of its inventor and his associates....|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000004_000004.wav|In strict terminology it is a "reversible" battery, as will be quite obvious if we glance briefly at its philosophy.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000021_000003.wav|It should be noted that the layers of flake nickel extend practically unbroken across the tube and make contact with the metal wall at both sides.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000006.wav|Impossibility of "buckling" and harmlessness of a dead short circuit.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000005_000001.wav|At that time, and all through the succeeding years, until about nineteen o five, there was only one type that was recognized as commercially practicable-namely, that known as the lead sulphuric acid cell, consisting of lead plates immersed in an electrolyte of dilute sulphuric acid.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000006_000003.wav|The tremendously complex nature of the chemical reactions which take place in the lead acid storage battery also renders it an easy prey to many troublesome diseases.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000011_000000.wav|"The principle on which the action of this new battery is based is the oxidation and reduction of metals in an electrolyte which does not combine with, and will not dissolve, either the metals or their oxides; and an electrolyte, furthermore, which, although decomposed by the action of the battery, is immediately re-formed in equal quantity; and therefore in effect is a CONSTANT element, not changing in density or in conductivity.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000021_000002.wav|The vertical bounding walls are edges of the perforated metal containing tube; the dark horizontal lines are layers of nickel flake, while the light colored thicker layers represent the nickel hydrate.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000004_000006.wav|Thus, the positive plate becomes oxidized, and the negative plate reduced.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000009.wav|six.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000010_000000.wav|"The Edison invention involves the use of an entirely new voltaic combination in an alkaline electrolyte, in place of the lead lead peroxide combination and acid electrolyte, characteristic of all other commercial storage batteries.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000002_000001.wav|EDISON'S NEW STORAGE BATTERY|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000012_000002.wav|Again, the active materials of the electrodes being insoluble in, and absolutely unaffected by, the electrolyte, are not liable to any sort of chemical deterioration by action of the electrolyte-no matter how long continued....|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000019_000000.wav|"It will be seen that the 'A' positive plate has been given the theoretically best design to prevent expansion and overcome trouble from that cause.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000002_000000.wav|eighteen.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000017_000005.wav|The frame is slit at the inner horizontal edges, and then folded in such a way as to make individual clamping jaws for each end flange. The clamping in is done at great pressure, and the resultant plate has great rigidity and strength.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000006_000001.wav|This type of cell, however, has many serious disadvantages inherent to its very nature.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000021_000000.wav|"An idea of the conditions inside a loaded tube can best be had by microscopic examination.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000005_000003.wav|Early in the eighties, at Menlo Park, he had given much thought to the lead type of storage battery, and during the course of three years had made a prodigious number of experiments in the direction of improving it, probably performing more experiments in that time than the aggregate of those of all other investigators.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000013.wav|nine.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000001.wav|No loss of active material, hence no sediment short circuits. two.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000012.wav|Entire absence of corrosive fumes.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000008_000000.wav|The essential technical details of this battery are fully described in an article written by one of Edison's laboratory staff, Walter e Holland, who for many years has been closely identified with the inventor's work on this cell The article was published in the Electrical World, New York, april twenty eighth nineteen ten; and the following extracts therefrom will afford an intelligent comprehension of this invention:|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000004.wav|Possibility of quick disconnection or replacement of any cell without employment of skilled labor.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000003_000002.wav|On closing the circuit of a primary battery an electric current is generated by reason of the chemical action which is set up between the electrolyte and the elements. This involves a gradual consumption of one of the elements and a corresponding exhaustion of the active properties of the electrolyte.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000004_000001.wav|To the lay mind a "storage" battery presents itself in the aspect of a device in which electric energy is STORED, just as compressed air is stored or accumulated in a tank.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000003_000003.wav|By reason of this, both the element and the electrolyte that have been used up must be renewed from time to time, in order to obtain a continued supply of electric current.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000002.wav|No jar breakage.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000018_000000.wav|"The perforated tubes into which the nickel active material is loaded are made of nickel plated steel of high quality.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000010.wav|Durability of materials and construction. seven.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000013_000000.wav|"The electrolyte of the Edison battery is a twenty one per cent. solution of potassium hydrate having, in addition, a small amount of lithium hydrate.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000014_000001.wav|four), are all made of nickel plated steel-a material in which lightness, durability and mechanical strength are most happily combined, and a material beyond suspicion as to corrosion in an alkaline electrolyte....|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000005_000000.wav|The storage battery, as a commercial article, was introduced into the market in the year eighteen eighty one.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000007_000003.wav|The soundness of his reasoning is amply justified by the perfection of results obtained in the new type of storage battery bearing his name, and now to be described.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000003_000000.wav|GENERICALLY considered, a "battery" is a device which generates electric current.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000005_000002.wav|In the year last named Edison first brought out his new form of nickel iron cell with alkaline electrolyte, as we have related in the preceding narrative.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000010_000001.wav|Experience has proven that this not only secures durability and greater output per unit weight of battery, but in addition there is eliminated a long list of troubles and diseases inherent in the lead acid combination....|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000015_000001.wav|It is only when specially prepared iron oxide of exceeding fineness, and nickel hydrate conforming to certain physical, as well as chemical, standards can be made that the alkaline battery is practicable.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000019_000001.wav|Actual tests, long continued under very severe conditions, have shown that the construction is right, and fulfils the most sanguine expectations."|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000004_000002.wav|This view, however, is not in accordance with facts.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000005_000004.wav|Even in those early days he arrived at the conclusion that the lead sulphuric acid combination was intrinsically wrong, and did not embrace the elements of a permanent commercial device.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000013_000001.wav|The active metals of the electrodes-which will oxidize and reduce in this electrolyte without dissolution or chemical deterioration-are nickel and iron.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000017_000000.wav|"It will be seen at once that the construction of the two kinds of plate is radically different.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000004_000003.wav|It is exactly like the primary battery in the fundamental circumstance that its ability for generating electric current depends upon chemical action.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000007_000001.wav|He said that the intimate and continued companionship of an acid and a metal was unnatural, and incompatible with the idea of durability and simplicity.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000003.wav|three.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131751/2137_131751_000022_000000.wav|In conclusion, the article enumerates the chief characteristics of the Edison storage battery which fit it preeminently for transportation service, as follows: one.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000008_000000.wav|"The amount of heat lost by a body is in proportion to the radiating surface of that body.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000015_000000.wav|An appeal was taken in the above suit to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and on october fourth eighteen ninety two, the decree of the lower court was affirmed.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000000_000001.wav|THE INCANDESCENT LAMP|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000005_000000.wav|It is interesting to note that these conceptions were in Edison's mind at an early period of his investigations, when the best expert opinion was that the subdivision of the electric current was an ignis fatuus. Hence we quote the following notes he made, november fifteenth eighteen seventy eight, in one of the laboratory note books:|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000012_000002.wav|Although very many of these inventions were of the utmost importance and value, we cannot attempt to offer a detailed exposition of them in this necessarily brief article, but must refer the reader, if interested, to the patents themselves, a full list being given at the end of this Appendix.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000003_000004.wav|Their efforts had been confined to low resistance burners of large radiating surface for their lamps, but he realized the utter futility of such devices.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000006_000000.wav|"A given straight wire having one ohm resistance and certain length is brought to a given degree of temperature by given battery.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000007_000000.wav|"This was actually determined by trial.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000009_000003.wav|To carry out this law to the best advantage in regard to platina, etc, then with a given length of wire to quadruple the heat we must lessen the radiating surface to one quarter, and to do this in a spiral, three quarters must be within the spiral and one quarter outside for radiating; hence, a square wire or other means, such as a spiral within a spiral, must be used.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000013_000003.wav|We shall offer a few brief extracts from some of these decisions.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000004_000001.wav|At the same time such a lamp must require a relatively small amount of current, in order that comparatively small conductors could be used, and its burner must be capable of withstanding the necessarily high temperatures without disintegration.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000001_000001.wav|This view would seem entirely justifiable when we consider the wonderful changes in the conditions of modern life that have been brought about by the wide spread employment of these inventions, and the gigantic industries that have grown up and been nourished by their world-wide application.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000009_000000.wav|"Hence, in the case of incandescent conductors, if the radiating surface be twelve inches and the temperature on each inch be one hundred, or twelve hundred for all, if it is so coiled or arranged that there is but one quarter, or three inches, of radiating surface, then the temperature on each inch will be four hundred.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000004_000000.wav|He was convinced from the first that the true solution of the problem lay in a lamp which should have as its illuminating body a strip of material which would offer such a resistance to the flow of electric current that it could be raised to a high temperature-incandescence-and be of such small cross section that it would radiate but little heat.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000014_000003.wav|It is impossible to resist the conclusion that the invention of the slender thread of carbon as a substitute for the burners previously employed opened the path to the practical subdivision of the electric light."|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000001_000000.wav|ALTHOUGH Edison's contributions to human comfort and progress are extensive in number and extraordinarily vast and comprehensive in scope and variety, the universal verdict of the world points to his incandescent lamp and system of distribution of electrical current as the central and crowning achievements of his life up to this time.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000009_000005.wav|Of course, when Light is radiated in great quantities not quite these temperatures would be reached.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000011_000000.wav|Proceeding logically upon these lines of thought and following them out through many ramifications, we have seen how he at length made a filament of carbon of high resistance and small radiating surface, and through a concurrent investigation of the phenomena of high vacua and occluded gases was able to produce a true incandescent lamp.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000013_000002.wav|And although the Edison interests had spent from first to last nearly two million dollars, and had only about three years left in the life of the fundamental patent, Edison was thoroughly sustained as to priority by the decisions in the various suits.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000014_000001.wav|He was the first to make a carbon of materials, and by a process which was especially designed to impart high specific resistance to it; the first to make a carbon in the special form for the special purpose of imparting to it high total resistance; and the first to combine such a burner with the necessary adjuncts of lamp construction to prevent its disintegration and give it sufficiently long life.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000003_000001.wav|He KNEW that he had reached the goal.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000006_000001.wav|If the same wire be coiled in such a manner that but one quarter of its surface radiates, its temperature will be increased four times with the same battery, or, one quarter of this battery will bring it to the temperature of straight wire.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000013_000001.wav|All of the technical, expert, and professional skill and knowledge that money could procure or experience devise were availed of in the bitter fights that raged in the courts for many years.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000012_000003.wav|The outline sketch will indicate the principal patents covering the basic features of the lamp.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000002_000003.wav|For a short while the world outside of Menlo Park held Edison's claims in derision. His lamp was pronounced a fake, a myth, possibly a momentary success magnified to the dignity of a permanent device by an overenthusiastic inventor.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2137/131742/2137_131742_000012_000000.wav|The work of Edison on incandescent lamps did not stop at this fundamental invention, but extended through more than eighteen years of a most intense portion of his busy life.|2137
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000089_000000.wav|"Yes, doubtless."|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000085_000000.wav|"no"|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000054_000002.wav|I went to work.|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000094_000001.wav|Do you keep a journal?"|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000080_000000.wav|"They lost her?"|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000033_000000.wav|"Well?"|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000050_000003.wav|I found the tenant.|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000079_000002.wav|They traced her to Chalons, and there they lost her."|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000081_000001.wav|"And this is all?" said she; "and you stopped there?"|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000047_000000.wav|"There!|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/121085/90_121085_000051_000007.wav|Night arrived; I allowed it to become quite dark.|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/130566/90_130566_000008_000002.wav|Then the headman was dumbfounded and reluctantly brought out five gold pieces and gave them to the woman.|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/130566/90_130566_000010_000002.wav|"Then," said the man, "make a petition for me also.|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/130566/90_130566_000010_000001.wav|On the way he met a man who asked him where he was going and he answered that he was going to make a petition to Singh Chando.|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/130566/90_130566_000006_000004.wav|You must have had witnesses in such a business." And they drove her out.|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/90/130566/90_130566_000006_000001.wav|So she took them to him and asked him to keep them till her child was born; and no one was present at the time but the headman's wife.|90
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000006_000001.wav|He looked out, astonished, and saw by the white enamelled walks twenty feet from the window that they were already in the tunnel.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000006_000002.wav|The stoppage might arise from many causes, and he was not greatly excited, nor did it seem that others in the carriage took it very seriously; he could hear, after a moment's silence, the talking recommence beyond the partition.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000003_000001.wav|The vast platform, sunk now nearly two hundred feet below the ground level, showed the double crowd of passengers entering and leaving town.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000011_000002.wav|Each car as it drew up discharged more and more men and women, who ran like ants towards the assembly of their fellows.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000005_000000.wav|He felt quiet now that he had actually started.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000012_000000.wav|"EASTERN CONVENTION DISPERSED.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000005_000001.wav|He had made his confession, just in order to make certain of his own soul, though scarcely expecting any definite danger, and sat now, his grey suit and straw hat in no way distinguishing him as a priest (for a general leave was given by the authorities to dress so for any adequate reason).|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000011_000004.wav|But after one look Percy looked no more at the people; for there, high up beneath the clock, on the Government signal board, flared out monstrous letters of fire, telling in Esperanto and English, the message for which England had grown sick.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000009_000000.wav|Twice the car stopped; each time it moved on again after a hoot or two, and at last drew up at the platform whence it had started, although a hundred yards further out.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000005.wav|There was a jerk-a smooth movement.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000006.wav|Percy staggered and fell into a seat, as the carriage in which he was seated itself began to move backwards.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000004_000000.wav|He arrived at last, walking in the soft light on the noiseless ribbed rubber, and stood by the door of the long car that ran straight through to the Junction.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000010_000001.wav|The instant he opened the door a great roar met his ears, and as he sprang on to the platform and looked up at the end of the station, he began to understand.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000003.wav|This must be looked into, thought Percy: something certainly was happening; so he got up and went across the empty compartment to the further window.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000010_000000.wav|Ah! there was no doubt that something had happened!|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000004.wav|Again came the crying of voices, again the signals, and once more a car whirled past, followed almost immediately by another.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000002.wav|He heard a window thrown up, and the next instant a car tore past, going back to the station although on the down line.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000001.wav|The talking in the carriage stopped.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000008_000001.wav|So he stood there, aware that they knew no more than himself, waiting for an explanation from some one.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000013_000000.wav|PEACE, NOT WAR.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000008_000000.wav|There was a clamour now in the next compartment, and Percy made his way there through the door, only to find half a dozen men with their heads thrust from the windows, who paid absolutely no attention to his inquiries.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000011_000003.wav|The noise was indescribable, the shouting of men, the screaming of women, the clang and hoot of the huge machines, and three or four times the brazen cry of a trumpet, as an emergency door was flung open overhead, and a small swirl of crowd poured through it towards the streets beyond.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000003_000002.wav|Those on the extreme left, towards whom Percy began to descend in the open glazed lift, were by far the most numerous, and the stream at the lift entrance made it necessary for him to move slowly.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000011_000000.wav|From right to left of the huge interior, across the platforms, swelling every instant, surged an enormous swaying, roaring crowd.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000011_000001.wav|The flight of steps, twenty yards broad, used only in cases of emergency, resembled a gigantic black cataract nearly two hundred feet in height.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000008_000002.wav|It was disgraceful, he told himself, that any misadventure should so disorganise the line.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000007_000000.wav|Then there came, echoed by the walls, the sound of shouting from far away, mingled with hoots and chords; it grew louder.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000004_000001.wav|It was the last of a series of a dozen or more, each of which slid off minute by minute.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000006_000000.wav|He was sliding along peaceably enough, fixing his eyes on the empty seat opposite, and trying to preserve complete collectedness when the car abruptly stopped.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43305/5935_43305_000005_000003.wav|He had only the violet thread in his pocket, such as was customary for sick calls.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000026_000000.wav|For coastal passages across shallow but rough water like the English Channel, the services of moving bridges will be called into requisition.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000014_000000.wav|Then, also, the sailless cargo slave, in the keen competition that must arise, will be fitted with such appliances as human ingenuity can in future devise, or has already tentatively suggested, for invoking the aid of natural powers in order to supplement the steam engine and effect a saving in fuel.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000008_000001.wav|The latter is, in this form of turbine, made in the shape of a paddle wheel of very small circumference but considerable length, the paddles being set at such an inclination as to obtain the greatest possible rotative impulse from the outward rushing steam.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000026_000003.wav|In this way passengers may be conveyed across straits like the Channel without the discomforts of sea sickness.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000004_000000.wav|For mails and passengers, on the other hand, steam must more and more decidedly assert its supremacy.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000003_000001.wav|The object aimed at by the owners of cargo boats will be to secure the greatest possible economy of working, combined with a moderately good rate of speed, such as may ensure shippers against having to stand out of their capital locked up in the cargo for too long a period.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000005_000005.wav|Very large tonnage being thus made a prime necessity, it followed that the space provided must be utilised, and this need has tended to perpetuate the combination of mail and passenger traffic with cargo carrying.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000005_000000.wav|The turbine engine will be the main factor in working the approaching revolution in mail steamer construction.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000008_000002.wav|The pipe must be turned true at intervals to enable it to carry a number of diminutive wheels upon which these long vanes are mounted, and a very strong connection must be made between these wheels and the shaft of the screw.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000004_000001.wav|Yet the mail packet of the twentieth century will be very different from packets which have "made the running" towards the close of the nineteenth.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000020_000003.wav|A considerable amount of cargo is stowed away in an inner hull, taking the shape of what is practically a gigantic cradle rocking upon semicircular lines of railway iron laid down in the form of ribs of the ship.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000014_000002.wav|The marine engines of the ordinary type will then be adapted to work with compressed air, and the true steam engine itself will be used for operating an air compressor on the system adopted in mines.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER six.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000001.wav|Steam, which for oversea trade made its entrance cautiously in the shape of a mere auxiliary to sail power, had taken up a much more self assertive position long before the close of the nineteenth century, and has driven its former ally almost out of the field in large departments of the shipping industry.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000018_000000.wav|The swinging pendulum, with connected apparatus for compressing air or, perhaps, for generating the electric current, seems to be the most controllable and therefore the safest of the various types of apparatus which are applicable to the utilisation of wave power for propulsion.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000010_000000.wav|In the case of the turbine steamer several of the forms of screw which were first proposed when that type of propeller was invented will again come up for examination, notably the Archimedean screw, wound round a fairly long piece of shafting.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000015_000000.wav|The pendulum apparatus, of course, is really a device for enabling a vessel to derive, from the power of the waves which raise her and roll her, an impetus in the desired direction of her course.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000018_000004.wav|Air tight joints in the pipes which lead to the compressed air reservoir are placed in the bearings of this mounting.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000005_000002.wav|With the ordinary reciprocating type of marine steam machinery it would be impossible to place, in a steamer of moderate tonnage, engines of a size suitable to enable it to attain a very high rate of speed, because the strain and vibration of the gigantic steel arms, pulling and pushing the huge cranks to turn the shafting, would knock the hull to pieces in a very short time.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000007_000000.wav|The steam turbine does not appear to have by any means reached finality in its form, such questions as the angle of impact which the jet should make with the surface of the vane, and the size of the orifice through which the steam should be ejected, being still debatable points.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000026_000001.wav|One of these has been at work at saint Malo on the French coast opposite Jersey, and another was more recently constructed on the English coast near Brighton.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000019_000001.wav|As the pendulum moves it throws one or more of these piston rod ends into contact with the inner surface of the ring, driving it into the compressing pump.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000010_000003.wav|Hence will arise a demand for accommodation for each screw in a tube forming part of the lower hull itself and open at the side for the taking in of water, while the stern part is equally free.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000006_000002.wav|A great increase in the smoothness of running was attained when the screw was invented-a propeller which was entirely sunk in the water and therefore exercised its force, not in shocks, but in gentle constant pressure upon the fluid around it.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000003_000003.wav|The sailing ship, and the economic and constructive lines upon which it is built and worked, will be carefully overhauled with a view to finding how its deficiencies may be supplemented and its good points turned to account.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000025_000002.wav|The principle of the miner's tool known as the "sand auger" may prove itself very useful in this connection.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000024_000000.wav|In the building of steel ships, as well as in the construction of bridges and other erections demanding much metal work, great economies will be introduced by the reduction of the extent to which riveting will be required when the full advantages of hydraulic pressure are realised.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000006_000003.wav|Such as the windmill is for wind and the turbine water wheel for water was the screw propeller, although adapted, not as a generator, but as an application of power. Having made the work and stress continuous, the next thing to be accomplished was to effect a similar reform in the engines supplying the power.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000005_000001.wav|The special reason for this will consist in the fact that only by its adoption can the conditions mentioned above be fulfilled.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000024_000002.wav|In putting the plates thus treated together to form the hull of a vessel the swollen side of one plate is inserted between the split portions of another and the latter parts are then clamped down by heavy hydraulic pressure.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000018_000002.wav|This may be effected, for instance, in the case of a pendulum working air compressors, by mounting the latter on bearings like those of the gun carriage in a field piece, and having two of them operating one at right angles to the other.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000024_000004.wav|Through this reform, and the further use of steel ribs for imparting strength and thus admitting of the employment of thinner steel plates for the actual shell, the cost of shipbuilding will be very greatly reduced.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000028_000001.wav|Already some owners and masters have begun to mitigate, to a certain extent, the embargo which the choice of a sea faring life has in times past been understood to place upon married men.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000018_000005.wav|We thus have the same kind of provision for taking advantage of a universal movement in space as is made in solid geometry by three co ordinates at right angles to one another for measuring such movements.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000022_000003.wav|The advantage of the wave power, however, would be seen mainly during the calm and desultory weather which has virtually been the means of forcing sail power to resign its supremacy to steam.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000009_000001.wav|Each screw requires a separate set of engines and the main object of the duplication is to lessen the risk of the vessel being left helpless in case of accident to one or other.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000009_000004.wav|Practically, therefore, it will be found best to build out a steel framework from each side of the stern for holding the bearings of each screw in connection with the twin water tight compartments holding the shafting; and thus will be evolved what will practically represent a twin, or double, stern.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000004.wav|For the owners of the smaller grade of craft it was a material point in recommendation of this movement that, having no boiler or other parts liable to explode and wreck the vessel, an oil engine may be worked without the attendance of a certificated engineer.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000026_000002.wav|For the longer and much more important service across the Channel submarine rails may be laid down as in the cases mentioned, but in addition it will be necessary to provide for static stability by fixing a flounder shaped pontoon just below the greatest depth of wave disturbance, and just sufficient in buoyancy to take the great bulk of the weight of the structure off the rails.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000018_000001.wav|In the construction of connecting machinery by which the movements of a pendulum hanging up from a universal joint may be transmitted to wheels or pistons operating compressors or dynamos, it is necessary to transform all motions passing in any direction through the spherical or bowl shaped figure traced out by the end of the pendulum in the course of its swinging.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000002_000000.wav|SHIPS.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000025_000001.wav|The grain elevator system is only the beginning of a revolution in this department which will not end until the loading and unloading of ships have become almost entirely the work of machinery.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000004_000003.wav|Nearly all her below deck capacity, indeed, will be filled with machinery and fuel.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000012_000001.wav|For ocean greyhounds carrying mails and passengers the prime necessity of high speed has to a large extent obliterated any such separating line between waste and economy.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000006_000001.wav|The latter means of propulsion caused shock and vibration not only owing to the thrusts of the piston rod from the steam engine itself, but also from the impact of the paddles upon the water one after the other.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000029_000001.wav|There will be the "Ship's Shop" and the "Ship's School," the "Ship's Church" and various other institutions and societies.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000021_000001.wav|But it is probable that fully eighty per cent. of the movements of a vessel during a long voyage-as indicated, say, by the direction and sweep of its mast heads-consists of the roll.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000012_000003.wav|The opposition presented by the water to the passage of a vessel increases by leaps and bounds as soon as the rate now adopted by the cargo steamer is passed, and thus presents a natural barrier beyond which it will not be economically feasible to advance much further.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000021_000003.wav|A cradle containing two hundred tons, as may therefore be imagined, can be made to afford very material assistance in helping forward a sailing ship during a calm.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000015_000002.wav|These undoubtedly are dangers which have to be provided against, and probably the occasional lack of care has been the cause of many an unreported loss, as well as of recorded mishaps from broken tail shafts and screws, or from explosions far out at sea.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000016_000001.wav|The swinging framework would then be steadied by the friction brake gripping it gradually.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000020_000004.wav|To the sides of these large rocking receptacles are connected the rods carrying, at their other ends, the pistons of large force pumps which draw the water in at one stroke and force it out to sternwards, below the water line, at the other.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000004_000006.wav|Indeed the probability is that, on the average, the twentieth century mail packets will be smaller, being built for speed rather than for magnificence or carrying capacity.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000017_000003.wav|No kind of floating appendage, moving independently of the vessel, could exercise any actual force by the uprising of a wave in lifting it without being to some extent sunk in the water; and, accordingly, when the waves were running high there would be imminent risk that heavy volumes of water would get upon the apparatus and prevent the ship from righting itself.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000028_000002.wav|Positions are found for women as stewardesses and in other capacities, and it is coming to be increasingly recognised that there is a large amount of women's work to be done on board a ship.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000019_000003.wav|This is the simplest, and in some respects the best, form.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000009_000002.wav|The advisability of placing each engine and shafting in a separate water tight compartment has therefore been seen.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000017_000004.wav|Many of the schemes that have been put forward, by patent and otherwise, for the automatic propulsion of ships have entirely failed to commend themselves by reason of their taking little or no account of the behaviour of a ship, fitted with the proposed inventions, during very rough and trying weather.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000019_000002.wav|At the top of the pendulum there is a double or universal pipe joint through which the air under pressure is driven to the reservoir, and by which the apparatus is also hung.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000005.wav|As soon as this legal question was settled a considerable impetus was given to the extension of the auxiliary principle for sailing ships.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000004_000004.wav|She will be in other respects more like a floating hotel than the old ideal of a ship, her cellars, so to speak, being crammed with coal and her upper stories fitted luxuriously for sitting and bed rooms and brilliant with the electric light.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000003_000004.wav|One result of this renewed attention will be to confirm, for some little time, the movement which showed itself during the past decade of the nineteenth century for an increase of sailing tonnage. Sooner or later, however, it will be recognised that sail power must be largely supplemented, even on the "sailer," if it is to hold its own against steam.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000003.wav|Trading schooners and barques used in these localities are often fitted with petroleum oil engines, which enable them to continue their voyages during calm or adverse weather.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000005_000003.wav|For this very reason, in fact, the marine architect and engineer have hitherto urged, with considerable force of argument, that high speed and large tonnage must go concomitantly.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000003_000002.wav|Hence cheap power will become increasingly a desideratum, and the possible applications of natural sources of energy will be keenly scrutinised with a view to turning any feasible plan to advantage.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000021_000000.wav|In this arrangement it is obvious that only the "roll" and not the "pitch" of the vessel can be utilised as the medium through which to obtain propulsive force.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000020_000000.wav|A very simple type of the wave power motor as applied to marine propulsion is based upon an idea taken from the mode of progression adopted by certain crustaceans, namely the possession of the means for drawing in and rapidly ejecting the water.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000002.wav|Yet a curious and interesting counter movement is now taking place on the Pacific Coast of America, as well as among the South Sea Islands and in several other places where coal is exceptionally dear.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000011_000000.wav|The final extermination of the sailing ship is popularly expected as one of the first developments of the twentieth century in maritime traffic.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000010_000004.wav|In this way there is evolved a kind of compromise between the two principles of marine propulsion, by a screw and by a jet of water thrown to sternward.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000025_000006.wav|For other classes of goods permanent packages and tramways will be provided in each ship, and trucks will be supplied at the wharf.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000006_000000.wav|The first step towards the revolution was taken many years ago when the screw propeller was substituted for the paddle wheel.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000025_000003.wav|From a heap of tailings the miner can select a sample, by boring into it with a thin tube, inside of which revolves a shaft carrying at its end a flat steel rotary scoop.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000004_000002.wav|She will carry little or no cargo excepting specie, and goods of exceptionally high value in proportion to their weight and bulk.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000013_000000.wav|If then we recognise clearly that steam cargo transport across the ocean can only be done remuneratively at about one half the speed now attained by the very fastest mail boats, we shall soon perceive also that the chances of the auxiliary principle, if wisely introduced, placing the "sailer" on a level with the cargo ship worked by steam alone, are by no means hopeless.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000027_000003.wav|As soon as the mechanical fuel shifter has been adopted, and the boilers have been properly insulated in order to prevent the overheating of the stoke hole, the stoker will be raised to the rank of a secondary engineer, and his work will cease to be looked upon as in any sense degrading.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000023_000001.wav|Wedge shaped pieces with rails attached may be driven down by screws upon the sides of the vessel, thus having the effect of gradually narrowing the amplitude of the rocking motion until a condition of stability with reference to the hull has been attained.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000027_000000.wav|The stoking difficulties on large ocean going steamers have become so acute that they now suggest the conclusion that, notwithstanding repeated failures, a really effective mechanical stoker will be so imperatively called for as to enforce the adoption of any reasonably good device.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000023_000000.wav|For checking the rocker in time of heavy weather special appliances are necessary, which, of course, must be easily operated from the deck.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000021_000002.wav|Each ton of goods moved through a vertical distance of one foot in relation to the hull of the vessel, has in it the potentiality of developing, when fourteen or fifteen movements occur per minute, about one horse power.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000009_000003.wav|At this point there presents itself for consideration the advisability of separating the two screws by as wide a distance as may be convenient and placing the rudder between the two.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000014_000001.wav|One of these will no doubt be the adoption of the heavy pendulum with universal joint movement in a special hold of the vessel so connected with an air compression plant that its movements may continually work to fill a reservoir of air at a high pressure.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000030_000000.wav|Thus in the twentieth century the sea will no longer be regarded, to the same extent as in the past, as the refuge for the ne'er do well of the land living populace; and this, more than perhaps anything else, will help to render travelling by the great ocean highways safe and comfortable.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000013_000001.wav|A type of vessel which can be trusted to make some ten or twelve knots regularly, and which can also take advantage of the power of the wind whenever it is in its favour, must inevitably possess a material advantage over the steam cargo slave in economy of working, while making almost the same average passages as its rival.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000024_000001.wav|The plates used in the building of a ship will be "knocked up" at one side and split at the other, with the object of making joints without the need for using rivets to anything like the extent at present required.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000025_000005.wav|On a somewhat similar principle the unloading of ships laden with grain, ore, coal, and all other articles which can be handled in bulk and divided, will be carried out by machines which, by rotary action, will work their way down to the bottom of the hull and will then be elevated by powerful lifting cranes.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000012_000002.wav|It is, however, a mistake to imagine that the cargo steamer of the future will be in any sense a replica of the mail boat of to day.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/55927/5935_55927_000006_000005.wav|Thus, while the screw outside of the hull is applying the force continuously, the steam in the inside is driving the shafting with equal evenness and regularity.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000023_000000.wav|Francis glanced at her husband.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000018_000000.wav|mr Francis closed the book on his finger, pushed his plate aside, and began to discourse.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000064_000002.wav|There is no Faith, as we used to call it: it is the vision of Facts that no one can doubt; and the incense declares the sole divinity of Life as well as its mystery."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000085_000002.wav|mr Snowford wants to see us both at once, mr Francis.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000051_000000.wav|"Yes, Oliver?" put in his wife, questioningly.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000022_000000.wav|"What kind of figure?" put in the girl.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000012_000000.wav|"It is important," he said, "that this should be done as soon as possible.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000084_000000.wav|He looked on the tube, touched the button again, and came back to them.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000061_000000.wav|Mabel clasped her hands suddenly.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000077_000000.wav|"I think it is the worst step he ever took-for himself, I mean.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000046_000001.wav|"I suppose mr Snowford will select."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000006.wav|But the main plan is magnificent.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000080_000000.wav|A bell rang sharply from the row of telephone labels.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000013_000002.wav|I suppose it is the deepest instinct in man."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000017_000001.wav|"Now give us a little lecture."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000024_000002.wav|Each is to represent its own feast.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000024_000001.wav|"He will design and execute them.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000019_000003.wav|The proper officials will conduct the rest....|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000027_000000.wav|"This one, I understand, is to be the naked figure of a man."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000057_000000.wav|Oliver nodded.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000000.wav|"Well, if not, I suppose the Minister of Public Worship will officiate. He with his supporters pass straight up to the foot of the altar. Remember that the figure is still veiled, and that the candles have been lighted during the approach of the procession.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000039_000000.wav|"We think so," said Oliver.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000043_000000.wav|To Mabel's mind even the previous ceremonies seemed easy enough.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000012_000002.wav|There are thousands who have the instinct of worship, without knowing how to satisfy it."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000052_000000.wav|"No-there is nothing-except ... except I hope the people will understand it."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000083_000000.wav|"Ah! that is certain, is it?|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000017_000000.wav|"That is right, sir," said the other.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000050_000003.wav|I do not see how it could be bettered...."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000044_000001.wav|The stupidity of people is prodigious.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000007.wav|It is simple, impressive, and, above all, it is unmistakable in its main lesson---"|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000044_000003.wav|Who is to deliver the discourse, mr Brand?"|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000031_000000.wav|"Scarcely," said Oliver, smiling.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000026_000000.wav|"Yes, mr Francis?"|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000066_000001.wav|It must be clay for the present.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000006.wav|Upon the sounding of a bell the curtains are drawn back, the officiant tenses the image in silence with four double swings, and, as he ceases the choir sings the appointed antiphon."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000077_000002.wav|Why do you ask?"|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000021_000002.wav|Behind the altar-extending almost to the old shrine of the Confessor-will stand the pedestal with the emblematic figure upon it; and-so far as I understand from the absence of directions-each such figure will remain in place until the eve of the next quarterly feast."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000059_000001.wav|It appears to me far more suggestive than the alternative plan-Citizenship, Labour, and so forth.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000030_000000.wav|"A new procession enters at this point, after the discourse," he said. "It is this that will need special marshalling.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000045_000000.wav|Oliver shook his head.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000056_000001.wav|Life itself is approached in spring, teeming, young, passionate.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000056_000000.wav|"I take it that it is homage offered to Life," said the other slowly. "Life under four aspects-Maternity corresponds to Christmas and the Christian fable; it is the feast of home, love, faithfulness.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000033_000000.wav|"I feared not.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000060_000000.wav|mr Francis spoke with an extraordinary suppressed enthusiasm, and the priestly look was more evident than ever.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000004_000000.wav|"Don't go, Mabel," said her husband, as she made a movement to rise. "You will like to hear about this, I expect.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000068_000000.wav|"It seems to me," she said, "that this is the last thing that we needed. It is so hard to keep our principles clear-we must have a body for them-some kind of expression---"|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000080_000001.wav|Oliver rose and went to it.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000071_000000.wav|"I do not mean," she went on, "that some cannot live without it, but many cannot.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000062_000000.wav|"I think it is beautiful," she said softly, "and-and it is so real."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000069_000000.wav|She paused.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000015_000001.wav|"I have had it interleaved, and have made a few notes."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000082_000001.wav|They heard a sentence or two from him that seemed significant.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000038_000002.wav|"Ah! that is the point.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000050_000001.wav|"There would not be such a cry for worship if it was not a real need.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000074_000000.wav|mr Francis turned on him abruptly.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000038_000000.wav|"The President of Europe---"|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000048_000000.wav|"What is your opinion of the whole affair, sir?" he said.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000059_000002.wav|These, after all, are subordinate to Life."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000083_000002.wav|Yes....|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000005_000000.wav|mr Francis smiled and bowed.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000019_000005.wav|The difficulties begin with the last quarter."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000032_000000.wav|The Master of Ceremonies sighed.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000059_000000.wav|"I take it so.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000075_000000.wav|"What do you think of the Pope's new Religious Order, sir?"|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000058_000001.wav|"And I suppose it will be the business of the speaker to explain all this."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000039_000001.wav|"He is to be approached."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000065_000000.wav|"What of the figures?" put in Oliver.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000019_000001.wav|Three quarters at least of the entire function will be occupied by that.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000007_000000.wav|"Why, certainly."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000066_000000.wav|"A stone image is impossible, of course.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000034_000000.wav|He indicated the chapel.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000060_000001.wav|It was plain that his heart at least demanded worship.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000024_000003.wav|This for Paternity---"|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000070_000000.wav|"Yes, Mabel?"|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000014_000001.wav|His eyes roved round a moment; then he dived into his breast pocket, and drew out a thin red covered book.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000001.wav|You must remember that.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000042_000001.wav|"We need not discuss that."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000072_000001.wav|He, too, seemed to be in a meditative mood.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000064_000000.wav|"Ah! yes, madam.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000000.wav|"My dear sir, worship involves a touch of mystery.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000002_000001.wav|Oliver had slept in town and telephoned about eleven o'clock that he would be home immediately, bringing a guest with him: and shortly before noon she heard their voices in the hall.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000029_000001.wav|mr Francis's voice moved on hastily.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000042_000000.wav|"The rest is easy," he said.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000056_000003.wav|I understand it was a German thought."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000004.wav|At the close of it-at the point, that is to say, marked here with a star, the thurifers will leave the chapel, four in number.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000012_000001.wav|It is very necessary to make a good impression.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000025_000000.wav|He paused again.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000009_000001.wav|"I want to hear everything."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000073_000000.wav|"Yes," he said.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000002.wav|It was the lack of that that made Empire Day fail in the last century.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000047_000000.wav|mr Francis looked at him doubtfully.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000010_000000.wav|It seemed that mr Francis had seen the new Minister of Public Worship that morning, and had received a definite commission from him to take charge of the ceremonies on the first of October.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000016_000000.wav|He began to turn the pages, and Mabel, with considerable excitement, drew her chair a little closer to listen.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000001.wav|There follow the Aspirations printed in the ritual with the responds.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000024_000000.wav|"I understand that mr Markenheim has been consulted," he said.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000083_000004.wav|Yes; he is here....|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000050_000000.wav|"I think it is necessary," he began.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000002.wav|These are sung by the choir, and will be most impressive, I think.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000072_000000.wav|Oliver nodded slowly.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000002_000000.wav|It was not until mid day breakfast on the following morning that husband and wife met again.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000019_000000.wav|"First," he said, "we must remember that this ritual is based almost entirely upon that of the Masons.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000081_000001.wav|"Snowford wants to-ah!"|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000033_000002.wav|That is what seems to me the best."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000014_000000.wav|"As to the ceremonies---" went on the other, with a slightly important air.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000011_000000.wav|Of course things would be somewhat sloppy at first, said mr Francis; but by the New Year it was hoped that all would be in order, at least in the cathedrals and principal towns.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000071_000001.wav|The unimaginative need concrete images.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000071_000003.wav|I cannot express myself!"|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000080_000002.wav|Mabel watched him as he touched a button-mentioned his name, and put his ear to the opening.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000013_000001.wav|"I have felt that for a long time.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000003_000000.wav|mr Francis, who was presently introduced to her, seemed a harmless kind of man, she thought, not interesting, though he seemed in earnest about this Bill.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000005.wav|I see many details at present undecided-the colour of the curtains, and so forth.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000008_000001.wav|She was conscious of a sudden interest as she heard this.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000008_000000.wav|Then she heard that he had been a Catholic priest a few months before, and that mr Snowford was in consultation with him as to the ceremonies in the Abbey.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000071_000002.wav|There must be some channel for their aspirations to flow through--- Ah!|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000040_000003.wav|Then the officiant ascends the altar alone, and, standing, declaims the Address, as it is called.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000013_000000.wav|"That is perfectly true," said Oliver.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000056_000002.wav|Sustenance in midsummer, abundance, comfort, plenty, and the rest, corresponding somewhat to the Catholic Corpus Christi; and Paternity, the protective, generative, masterful idea, as winter draws on....|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000081_000000.wav|"It is Snowford's secretary," he said abruptly to the two expectant faces.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000015_000000.wav|"Here is the Order of Worship for the Feast of Paternity," he said.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000004.wav|Of course much must depend on the manner in which it is presented.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000044_000002.wav|I foresee a great deal of hard work for us all....|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000058_000000.wav|"Yes," he said.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000004_000001.wav|My wife knows all that I know," he added.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000086_000000.wav|But though Mabel was herself disappointed, she thought he looked graver than the disappointment warranted.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000021_000001.wav|In the place of the reredos and Communion table there will be erected the large altar of which the ritual speaks, with the steps leading up to it from the floor.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000049_000000.wav|Oliver paused a moment.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000030_000001.wav|I suppose no rehearsal will be possible?"|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000029_000000.wav|Yes-that seemed all right, thought Mabel.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000063_000000.wav|mr Francis turned on her with a glow in his brown eyes.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000083_000005.wav|Indeed.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000050_000002.wav|I think too-yes, I think that on the whole the ritual is impressive.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000037_000000.wav|mr Francis permitted a slight grimace to appear on his face; he flushed a little.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000085_000003.wav|Markenheim is with him."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000038_000003.wav|Will the President take part?|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000079_000000.wav|"I should be sorry for the brawler."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000054_000003.wav|For myself, I think it is admirable.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000043_000001.wav|But she was undeceived.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000085_000000.wav|"I am sorry," he said.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000053_000000.wav|mr Francis broke in.|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000066_000003.wav|If the figures are approved they can then be executed in marble."|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5935/43322/5935_43322_000083_000003.wav|Oh! but that is better than nothing....|5935
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000030_000001.wav|He came with several friends directly from Rector's in a carriage.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000035_000000.wav|"Yes, indeed," said the manager.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000051_000001.wav|He has a brick yard, you know."|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000042_000000.wav|"Wife here?"|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000030_000000.wav|To night he was in his element.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000014_000000.wav|By the evening of the sixteenth the subtle hand of Hurstwood had made itself apparent.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000021_000002.wav|At times she wished that she had never gone into the affair; at others, she trembled lest she should be paralysed with fear and stand white and gasping, not knowing what to say and spoiling the entire performance.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000029_000009.wav|They were the lights of a certain circle-the circle of small fortunes and secret order distinctions.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000023_000002.wav|It's the spirit of the part, you know, that is difficult."|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000029_000007.wav|Among the latter was Drouet.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000063_000001.wav|Look at him any time within the half hour before the curtain was up, he was a member of an eminent group-a rounded company of five or more whose stout figures, large white bosoms, and shining pins bespoke the character of their success. The gentlemen who brought their wives called him out to shake hands. Seats clicked, ushers bowed while he looked blandly on.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000037_000001.wav|"I'm glad to see it."|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000027_000004.wav|This took her by the hand kindly, as one who says, "My dear, come in." It opened for her as if for its own.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000030_000002.wav|In the lobby he met Drouet, who was just returning from a trip for more cigars.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000012_000000.wav|CHAPTER eighteen|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000062_000001.wav|He was just asking for you a moment ago."|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000029_000005.wav|This was quite a card.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000032_000000.wav|"Why, how do you do, mr Hurstwood?" came from the first individual recognised.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000052_000001.wav|"Felt pretty sore, I suppose, over his defeat."|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000053_000000.wav|"Perhaps," said the other, winking shrewdly.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000029_000004.wav|The four boxes had been taken. dr Norman McNeill Hale and his wife were to occupy one.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000014_000001.wav|He had given the word among his friends-and they were many and influential-that here was something which they ought to attend, and, as a consequence, the sale of tickets by mr Quincel, acting for the lodge, had been large.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000058_000001.wav|Bother the show!"|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000029_000003.wav|It was to be a full dress affair.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000019_000002.wav|mr Harry Quincel was looked upon as quite a star for this sort of work.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/149890/2285_149890_000027_000000.wav|The flare of the gas jets, the open trunks, suggestive of travel and display, the scattered contents of the make-up box-rouge, pearl powder, whiting, burnt cork, India ink, pencils for the eyelids, wigs, scissors, looking glasses, drapery-in short, all the nameless paraphernalia of disguise, have a remarkable atmosphere of their own.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/163381/2285_163381_000006_000001.wav|Why, how you talk!|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/163381/2285_163381_000021_000000.wav|"Who?|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/163381/2285_163381_000021_000001.wav|Me? Go 'long.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000035_000000.wav|"What wreck?"|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000027_000000.wav|"They're  they're  are you the watchman of the boat?"|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000022_000000.wav|"Hello, what's up?|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000006_000001.wav|But Bill says:|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000022_000001.wav|Don't cry, bub.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000036_000000.wav|"Why, there ain't but one."|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2285/163380/2285_163380_000004_000001.wav|It was Packard.|2285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000017_000000.wav|Booth hesitated for an answer; indeed, he had heard some imperfect stories, not much to her advantage.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000023_000001.wav|One of the ladies, I remember, said to the other-"Did you ever see anything look so modest and so innocent as that girl over the way?|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000006_000000.wav|Eight or nine years had past since any interview between mr Booth and Miss Matthews; and their meeting now in so extraordinary a place affected both of them with an equal surprize.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000009_000000.wav|Here he hesitated; upon which, bursting into an agony of tears, she cried out, "O captain!|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000010_000000.wav|She then flung herself into her chair, where she gave a loose to her passion, whilst he, in the most affectionate and tender manner, endeavoured to soothe and comfort her; but passion itself did probably more for its own relief than all his friendly consolations.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000012_000001.wav|O, sir! you are a stranger to the cause of my sorrows."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000008_000000.wav|Booth made many handsome acknowledgments of her favour; and added that he very little wondered at the disorder of her spirits, concluding that he was heartily concerned at seeing her there; "but I hope, madam," said he-|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000010_000002.wav|I have disgraced him, mr Booth, I am unworthy the name of his daughter."--Here passion again stopped her words, and discharged itself in tears.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000018_000001.wav|Upon which, with very little previous ceremony, she began to relate what is written in the following chapter.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000017_000002.wav|If these circumstances raise your curiosity, I will satisfy it."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000013_000003.wav|perhaps the law calls it so.--Let it call it what it will, or punish me as it pleases.---Punish me!--no, no---that is not in the power of man-not of that monster man, mr Booth.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000009_000001.wav|captain! many extraordinary things have passed since last I saw you.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000013_000004.wav|I am undone, am revenged, and have now no more business for life; let them take it from me when they will."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000009_000002.wav|O gracious heaven! did I ever expect that this would be the next place of our meeting?"|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000016_000000.wav|"What do you hear?" reiterated she.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000011_000001.wav|To say the truth, these are, I believe, as critical discharges of nature as any of those which are so called by the physicians, and do more effectually relieve the mind than any remedies with which the whole materia medica of philosophy can supply it.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000016_000002.wav|You have heard, you say, of the murder; but do you know the cause, mr Booth?|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276908/7995_276908_000022_000000.wav|Or, if the critic be a Whig, and consequently dislikes such kind of similes, as being too favourable to Jacobitism, let him be contented with the following story:|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000006_000001.wav|On this occasion he presently missed that iron box which the methodist had so dexterously conveyed out of his pocket, as we mentioned in the last chapter.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000011_000002.wav|"Have I not heard you often say, the wickeder any man was the better, provided he was what you call a believer?" "You mistake me," cries Cooper (for that was the name of the methodist): "no man can be wicked after he is possessed by the spirit.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000006_000000.wav|The first thing after redemption of the coat, which mr Booth, hungry as he was, thought of, was to supply himself with snuff, which he had long, to his great sorrow, been without.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000007_000002.wav|Having, therefore, no doubt concerning the person of the thief, he eagerly sought him out, and very bluntly charged him with the fact.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000012_000001.wav|In the afternoon Booth indulged his friend with a game at cards; at first for halfpence and afterwards for shillings, when fortune so favoured Robinson that he did not leave the other a single shilling in his pocket.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000016_000000.wav|This poor gentleman had very little time to reflect on his own misery, or the rascality, as it appeared to him, of the other, when the same person who had the day before delivered him the guinea from the unknown hand, again accosted him, and told him a lady in the house (so he expressed himself) desired the favour of his company.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000011_000006.wav|"I care not," answered the other, "what an atheist believes.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000004_000002.wav|As there was no direction to the packet, nor a word of writing contained in it, he began to suspect that it was delivered to the wrong person; and being one of the most untainted honesty, he found out the man who gave it him, and again examined him concerning the person who brought it, and the message delivered with it.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000008_000001.wav|He that censures a stranger, as I am to you, without any cause, makes a worse compliment to himself than to the stranger.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000010_000000.wav|Robinson answered, "If that be the case, you have nothing more to do but to signify your intention in the prison, and I am well convinced you will not be long without regaining the possession of your snuff box."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000008_000004.wav|Look at my apparel, friend; do thieves and gamesters wear such cloaths as these? play is my folly, not my vice; it is my impulse, and I have been a martyr to it.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000005_000000.wav|The most scrupulous honesty would, perhaps, in such a situation, have been well enough satisfied in finding no owner for the guinea; especially when proclamation had been made in the prison that mr Booth had received a packet without any direction, to which, if any person had any claim, and would discover the contents, he was ready to deliver it to such claimant.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000003_000002.wav|Grief for some time banished the thoughts of food from his mind; but in the morning nature began to grow uneasy for want of her usual nourishment: for he had not eat a morsel during the last forty hours.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000012_000000.wav|Booth testified great compassion at this account; and, he having invited Robinson to dinner, they spent that day together.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000004_000003.wav|The man assured Booth that he had made no mistake; saying, "If your name is Booth, sir, I am positive you are the gentleman to whom the parcel I gave you belongs."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000003_000001.wav|He was destitute of the common necessaries of life, and consequently unable to subsist where he was; nor was there a single person in town to whom he could, with any reasonable hope, apply for his delivery.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000004_000000.wav|mr Booth now opened his packet, and, after unfolding several pieces of blank paper successively, at last discovered a guinea, wrapt with great care in the inmost paper.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000011_000003.wav|There is a wide difference between the days of sin and the days of grace.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000003_000003.wav|A penny loaf, which is, it seems, the ordinary allowance to the prisoners in Bridewell, was now delivered him; and while he was eating this a man brought him a little packet sealed up, informing him that it came by a messenger, who said it required no answer.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000014_000002.wav|And this experiments he thought, would confirm him either in a good or evil opinion of that gentleman.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000008_000003.wav|It is true, indeed, you heard me accused of being a cheat and a gamester; but who is my accuser?|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000013_000000.wav|A surprizing run of luck in a gamester is often mistaken for somewhat else by persons who are not over zealous believers in the divinity of fortune.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000013_000002.wav|And certain it is, that mr Booth, though of a temper very little inclined to suspicion, began to waver in his opinion whether the character given by mr Robinson of himself, or that which the others gave of him, was the truer.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000008_000000.wav|The gambler, whom I think we should now call the philosopher, received this charge without the least visible emotion either of mind or muscle. After a short pause of a few moments, he answered, with great solemnity, as follows: "Young man, I am entirely unconcerned at your groundless suspicion.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000015_000000.wav|To this demand Robinson answered, with great alacrity, that he should very gladly have complied, had not fortune played one of her jade tricks with him: "for since my winning of you," said he, "I have been stript not only of your money but my own." He was going to harangue farther; but Booth, with great indignation, turned from him.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000009_000000.wav|Booth was a little staggered at this defence.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000007_000001.wav|Though mr Booth was, as we have hinted, a man of a very sweet disposition, yet was he rather overwarm.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/276907/7995_276907_000004_000001.wav|He was vastly surprized at this sight, as he had few if any friends from whom he could expect such a favour, slight as it was; and not one of his friends, as he was apprized, knew of his confinement.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000031_000000.wav|Graham took the first opportunity of speaking with me alone.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000043_000001.wav|A dozen times he was on the point of speaking out.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000033_000003.wav|But there is something very strange.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000008_000000.wav|To know the world you must stand apart from it and above it; you must look down on it."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000003_000000.wav|Thus he had talked as we climbed the hill.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000013.wav|I can see how the illusions of love appear and vanish, and how men and women swear that their dreams are eternal, even while they fade.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000018_000001.wav|It was a vast rock, rising from the crest of the ridge, lifting its top above the sea of foliage.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000058_000000.wav|"Yes," he said, "it is Gunjab, the most powerful form of Hashish, the narcotic hemp of India.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000033_000008.wav|Are you satisfied?"|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000029_000001.wav|"Who can prove that it may not be curved, under certain conditions, or refracted in some places in a way that is not possible elsewhere?|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000004_000005.wav|How much darker, how much smaller, and therefore how much more interesting and wonderful.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000042_000003.wav|After our latest expedition Keene's dark mood returned upon him with sombre intensity. Dull, restless, indifferent, half contemptuous, he seemed to withdraw into himself, observing those around him with half veiled glances, as if he had nothing better to do and yet found it a tiresome pastime.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000012.wav|I simply could not throw it away.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000004_000007.wav|I might call it a 'Bionopsis.'"|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000016_000002.wav|Otherwise I should not recommend you to try it.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000030_000001.wav|He glowed like a piece of phosphorus that has been drenched with light.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000035_000000.wav|Our second expedition was appointed for the following Saturday.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000010_000000.wav|He stopped short and looked me full in the face.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000047_000002.wav|But of course you can do as you like about to day. Tomorrow or Saturday will answer just as well for our third walk together."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000046_000004.wav|You owe it to Dorothy Ward."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000002_000006.wav|There was nothing firm, nothing substantial in it.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000018_000000.wav|A few yards ahead of us, through the crowded trunks of the dwarf forest, I saw a gray mass, like the wall of a fortress, across our path.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000020_000005.wav|Every feature of the landscape seemed alive, quivering, pulsating with conscious beauty.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000014_000000.wav|By this time it was clear to me that I had to do with a case lying far outside of the common routine of life; something subtle, abnormal, hard to measure, in which a clear and careful estimate would be necessary.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000007.wav|Here, on Spy Rock, I have found it.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000045_000000.wav|"Let us take our walk to day.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000015_000000.wav|At once, as if relieved, he sprang up, and crying, "Come on, follow me!" began to make his way up the bed of the brook.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000047_000000.wav|"Owe it?" said he.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000000.wav|"I promised to give you an explanation to day-to take you on one of my long walks.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000017_000004.wav|The trees rose above our heads, about twice the height of a man, and so thick that we could not see beyond them.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000044_000001.wav|The intervening Thursday was Thanksgiving Day; most of the boys had gone home; the school had holiday.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000002.wav|Something irretrievable had fallen from our circle. But no one dared to name it.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000001.wav|The doctor climbed up with me, and we hurried to the spot where he was lying.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000002_000011.wav|To see the world, the whole world, as it is, to look behind the scenes, to read human life like a book, that was the glorious thing-most satisfying, divine.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000004.wav|All the stars were hidden.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000029_000003.wav|It is a seat of power-Nature's observatory.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000014.wav|I can see how poor people blind themselves and deceive each other, calling selfishness devotion, and bondage contentment.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000043_000004.wav|Her loyalty was strained to the breaking point.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000006.wav|The rain swept down in spiteful volleys, deepening at last into a fierce, steady discharge.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000057_000001.wav|There were two olive green pellets of a resinous paste in it.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000019_000006.wav|I thought so. Other people have heard of it, and imagine that they have found it-five miles east of us-on a lower ridge.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000014_000004.wav|I gave him the promise for which he asked.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000048_000002.wav|Then she stood up, with pale face and wide open eyes.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000035_000002.wav|Already a conviction in regard to it was pressing upon me, and I resolved to let him talk, this time, as freely as he would, without interruption or denial.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000017_000003.wav|Breasting a long slope, we reached the summit of a broad, smoothly rounding ridge covered with a dense growth of stunted spruce.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000036_000000.wav|When we clambered up on Spy Rock, he was more subdued and reserved than he had been the first time.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000002.wav|The surface of life is a mask.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000009.wav|It was the working out, in abnormal form, but with essential truth, of his chosen and cherished ideal of life.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000003.wav|His right hand and arm, the side of his neck and face were horribly swollen and livid.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000045_000002.wav|Come!|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000051_000001.wav|I feel the need of exercise. Absolutely I must go; good by-until the evening."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000002_000009.wav|Knowing did not come by speculating, theorising. Knowing came by seeing.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000042_000002.wav|But the matter was taken out of my hands.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000005.wav|The wind whimpered and then shouted.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000004_000002.wav|I am planning to write a book-a book of knowledge, in the true sense-a great book about human life.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000042_000006.wav|He responded to nothing.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000002_000003.wav|Most men were toiling at tasks which they did not like, by rules which they did not understand.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000015.wav|But you must judge fairly, without haste, without prejudice.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000007.wav|Nine o'clock, ten o'clock passed, and Keene did not return.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000018_000003.wav|One side of the rock was broken by a slanting gully.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000014_000003.wav|If there was some extraordinary, reality behind his mysterious hints, it would need patience and skill to test it.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000007.wav|And, look, what is this?"|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000055_000001.wav|There, on the back of it, with his right arm hanging over the edge, was the outline of Edward Keene's form.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000010.wav|The risk was worth while.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000039_000004.wav|I will follow you in a quarter of an hour.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000015_000003.wav|I could see, here and there, the track of his former journeys: broken branches of witch hazel and moose wood, ferns trampled down, a faint trail across some deeper bed of moss.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000000.wav|We called to him but there was no answer.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000001.wav|Everyone has something to hide.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000046_000001.wav|This is the home day.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000061_000001.wav|We have lost him."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000042_000000.wav|This was what perplexed and oppressed me.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000017_000000.wav|He rinsed his mouth again with water, and stood up, calling me to come on.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000029_000002.wav|I tell you there is something extraordinary about this Spy Rock.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000022_000001.wav|Your eyes are new to it.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000027_000002.wav|There is no reason why the power of sight should not be cultivated, enlarged, expanded indefinitely."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000007.wav|I have been doubtful, troubled, almost distracted.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000046_000002.wav|Stay here and be happy with us all.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000057_000002.wav|He lifted it to his face, and drew a long breath.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000051_000000.wav|"You will excuse me, Dorothy, I am sure.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000002.wav|But to me alone was the nature and seat of the disorder known.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000036_000002.wav|Then he began to tell me stories of the places that we could see-strange stories of domestic calamity, and social conflict, and eccentric passion, and hidden crime.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000002_000005.wav|The philosophical life was a spider's web-filmy threads of theory spun out of the inner consciousness-it touched the world only at certain chosen points of attachment.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000009_000000.wav|"Well, then," said I, "you will have to find some secret spring of inspiration, some point of vantage from which you can get your outlook and your insight."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000024_000001.wav|And beyond any that you would dream possible-See! Your sight reaches to that dim cloud of smoke in the south?|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000008.wav|I have learned how to look through the veil.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000053_000003.wav|She would bear no denial, declaring that it would be worse for her alone at home, than if we took her with us.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000005_000003.wav|You must be in the full current and feel its force.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000005_000000.wav|"But surely," said I, "you have chosen a strange place to write it-the Hilltop School-this quiet and secluded region!|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000016_000001.wav|But this tiny taste of bitter gum is a tonic; it spurs the courage and doubles the strength-if you are used to it.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000005.wav|But it is not impenetrable.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000043_000002.wav|But he restrained himself and played fair.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000046_000003.wav|You owe this to love and friendship.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000053_000001.wav|But we could send down to the village for men to organise a search party and to bring the doctor.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000005.wav|"See!" he cried, pointing to a great bruise on his wrist, with two tiny punctures in the middle of it from which a few drops of blood had oozed, "a rattlesnake has struck him.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000000.wav|How was this strange case to be dealt with so as to save all the actors, as far as possible, from needless suffering?|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000015_000004.wav|At mid day we rested for a half hour to eat lunch.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000047_000001.wav|"Speaking of debts, I think each man is his own preferred creditor.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000016.wav|I ask you to make me one promise.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000017_000005.wav|But, from glimpses here and there, and from the purity and lightness of the air, I judged that we were on far higher ground than any we had yet traversed, the central comb, perhaps, of the mountain system.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000006.wav|But on the other hand they might take it too lightly, as the result of overwork, or perhaps of the use of some narcotic.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000044_000000.wav|Keene's restlessness increased.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000001_000000.wav|three|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000005.wav|As yet, at least, he was no patient for a mad house: it would be unjust, probably it would be impossible to have him committed.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000033_000007.wav|Indeed, I have promised not to judge, not to speak of it, until a certain time.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000054_000001.wav|Graham watched the girl's every step, helping her over the difficult places, pushing aside the tangled branches, his eyes resting upon her as frankly, as tenderly as a mother looks at her child.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000006.wav|He must have fairly put his hand upon it, perhaps in the dark, when he was climbing.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000012_000001.wav|After a few minutes we came to a little stream, flowing through a grove of hemlocks.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000040_000001.wav|Yes, and then what must be done?|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000034_000001.wav|But I trust you, I agree to wait, though I am far from satisfied."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000043_000000.wav|Graham controlled his indignation by a constant effort.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000014_000002.wav|To wait a little would be prudent, for his sake as well as for the sake of others.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000011_000000.wav|"And that," cried he, "is precisely what I have found!"|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000002.wav|It is always the same.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000019_000005.wav|You have heard of it?|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000034_000000.wav|"This is a curious story," said he, "and I am puzzled by it.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000017.wav|You will suspend judgment, you will say nothing, you will keep my secret, until you have been with me three times at the place where I am now taking you."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000015_000006.wav|He swallowed it hastily, and stooping his face to the spring by which he had halted, drank long and eagerly.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000048_000001.wav|They talked together in low tones.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000042_000001.wav|I needed all the time until the next Saturday to think the question through, to decide what should be done.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000001.wav|That Keene's mind was disordered at least three of us suspected already.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000003.wav|How make the others understand it?|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000003_000001.wav|Now, as we came by the place where we had first met, a new eagerness sounded in his voice.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000032_000000.wav|"Well?" said he.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000038_000001.wav|"Stop, before you say what can never be unsaid. You know it is not true.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000041_000011.wav|The solitary trail that led thither was the symbol of his search for happiness-alone, forgetful of life's lowlier ties, looking down upon the world in the cold abstraction of scornful knowledge.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000049_000000.wav|"Do not go, Edward.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000002_000004.wav|They never looked beyond the edge of their work.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000060_000004.wav|There were tear marks on her face.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000019_000001.wav|The snakes are in their winter quarters now, almost dormant, but they can still strike if you tread on them.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000039_000000.wav|"I think not," said he, "but I will come.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000042_000005.wav|Nothing pleased him.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000018_000002.wav|At its base there were heaps of shattered stones, and deep crevices almost like caves.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000020_000006.wav|You could almost see the world breathe.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000006_000000.wav|"A mistake!" he cried.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000029_000005.wav|But come, we have little time left.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000008.wav|By midnight we were certain that some accident had befallen him.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000027_000000.wav|"It pleases you to call it so," he said, "but I only tell you my real experience.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000033_000006.wav|It will do no harm to be patient.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000021_000001.wav|"Most wonderful!|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000023_000000.wav|"Do you mean to say that you can look beyond it?"|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000052_000001.wav|There was a sense of disaster in the air.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000029_000004.wav|More things are visible here than anywhere else-more than I have told you yet.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000004.wav|The doctor stooped down and examined the hand carefully.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000019_000002.wav|Step here!|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000022_000002.wav|You have not learned the power of far sight, the secret of Spy Rock.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000016_000003.wav|Faugh! the flavour is vile."|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000033_000005.wav|We must wait a few days.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000056_000002.wav|His face was turned to the sky, his eyes blindly staring; there was no pulse, no breath; he was already cold in death.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000020_000002.wav|The horizon expanded as if by magic.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000020_000001.wav|It was like being lifted up so that we could look over the walls.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000020_000000.wav|The prospect was indeed magnificent; it was strange what a vast enlargement of vision resulted from the slight elevation above the surrounding peaks.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000054_000002.wav|In single file we marched through the gray morning, clearing cold after the storm, and the silence was seldom broken, for we had little heart to talk.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000019_000010.wav|This earth holds no more perfect view point.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000054_000000.wav|It was incredible how the path seemed to lengthen.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000024_000002.wav|And beneath it you can make out, perhaps, a vague blotch of shadow, or a tiny flash of brightness where the sun strikes it?|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000035_000001.wav|Keene was hungry for it, and I was almost as eager, desiring to penetrate as quickly as possible into the heart of the affair.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000019_000003.wav|Give me your hand-use that point of rock-hold fast by this bush; it is firmly rooted-so!|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000037_000003.wav|The substance of life is a secret.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000028_000000.wav|"And the straight rays of light?" I asked.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000013_000009.wav|But it could not be helped.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000017_000001.wav|The way, now tangled among the nameless peaks and ranges, bore steadily southward, rising all the time, in spite of many brief downward curves where a steep gorge must be crossed.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000057_000000.wav|He picked up a flat silver box, that lay open on the rock.|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7995/280250/7995_280250_000045_000003.wav|In this clear, frosty air, Spy Rock will be glorious!"|7995
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000063_000000.wav|And Susan, after a sharp glance into the man's half averted face, said no more.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000003_000001.wav|She wore the air of an injured martyr at breakfast.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000020_000000.wav|"I don't want one."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000040_000000.wav|"If you'll get my clothes, Susan, I'll get up," said Keith very quietly from the bed.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000010_000000.wav|And at ten o'clock mrs Colebrook went.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000015_000003.wav|She's gone."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000044_000000.wav|"I'm downstairs, Susan." The boy's voice challenged hers for coldness now.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000006_000001.wav|Hurrah!|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000024_000000.wav|Susan's face fell.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000021_000000.wav|"But there's all the other work, too."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000018_000001.wav|The color came back to Susan's face in a flood, and frank delight chased the terror from her eyes.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000045_000001.wav|"Good boy, Keith!|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000034_000001.wav|She had the air of one about to make a dreaded plunge.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000033_000001.wav|I don't want to, anyhow," sighed the boy with impatient weariness.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000049_000000.wav|"With me?|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000036_000000.wav|"Why not?|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000017_000000.wav|"Yes, she's gone home."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000016_000000.wav|"Gone-for good?"|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000015_000000.wav|"No, no, I don't mean the hash," interrupted the man irritably.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000005_000000.wav|Susan, in the kitchen, went doggedly about her work, singing, meanwhile, what Keith called her "mad" song.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000058_000000.wav|"What if it does?|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000050_000003.wav|"You know sometimes I-I don't get any food on my fork, when I eat, an' I have to-to feel for things, an' it-it must be disagreeable to see me.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000015_000002.wav|It's my sister, mrs Colebrook.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000052_000001.wav|A moment later she was in the studio.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000054_000000.wav|"Company?"|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000035_000000.wav|"No, I can't let you alone, Keith," she replied, voice and manner now coldly firm.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000062_000000.wav|"All right, Susan.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000049_000001.wav|Nonsense!|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000003_000000.wav|mrs Colebrook went home the next day.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000031_000002.wav|Drat her!|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000018_000000.wav|"Glory be!"|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000060_000000.wav|"Did Keith-do that?"|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000046_000003.wav|But when she saw him stop and finger the books on the little table by the window, she crept back to her kitchen-and rattled still more loudly the pots and pans in the sink.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000033_000000.wav|"All right, Susan, let it go that I can't.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000022_000000.wav|"Work!|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000030_000000.wav|But it was not to be so easy this time.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000057_000000.wav|"But, Susan, it breaks my heart," moaned the man, turning quite away.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000031_000001.wav|"You can't put a backbone into a jellyfish by jest showin' him the bone-an' that's what his aunt has made him-a flappy, transparallel jellyfish.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000026_000000.wav|"I'm glad your courage is still good, Susan; but I'm afraid the dear public is going to appreciate your poems about the way it does-my pictures," shrugged the man bitterly, as he turned and left the room.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000019_000000.wav|"I reckon you'll find you have to do something, Susan.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000018_000002.wav|"Now we can do somethin' worthwhile."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000059_000000.wav|The man wheeled sharply.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000011_000001.wav|Is anything the matter with Keith?" she faltered.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000014_000000.wav|"Done it-to Keith-ME?|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000030_000001.wav|Keith was not to be cajoled into getting up and dressing himself even to beat Susan's record. Steadfastly he resisted all efforts to stir him into interest or action; and a dismayed, disappointed Susan had to go downstairs in acknowledged defeat.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000027_000000.wav|Not waiting to finish setting her kitchen in order, Susan ran up the back stairs to Keith's room.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000014_000002.wav|Is Keith-worse?" chattered Susan, with dry lips.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000045_000000.wav|"Why, Keith, however in the world did you-" Then Susan pulled herself up.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000058_000001.wav|Ain't his broke, too?|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000015_000001.wav|"Keith is all right-that is, he is just as he has been.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000033_000002.wav|"Say, can't you let a fellow alone?"|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000002_000000.wav|NOT PATS BUT SCRATCHES|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000046_000002.wav|She watched him pause and move hesitating fingers down the backs of the chairs that he encountered.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000047_000000.wav|Just before the noon meal Keith appeared once more at the kitchen door.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000050_000002.wav|He'd like it, I'm sure," insisted the boy feverishly.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000046_000000.wav|But later, at least once every half hour through that long forenoon, Susan crept softly through the side hall to the half open living room door, where she could watch Keith.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000038_000000.wav|"Why, SUSAN!" There was incredulous, hurt amazement in the boy's voice; but Susan was visibly steeling herself against it.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000010_000001.wav|Five minutes later Daniel Burton entered the kitchen-a proceeding so extraordinary that Susan broke off her song in the middle of a "Hurrah" and grew actually pale.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000032_000001.wav|When he refused she tried coaxing, mildly, then more strenuously.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000011_000000.wav|"What is it?--KEITH?|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000055_000000.wav|"Yes.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000014_000001.wav|Why, mr Burton, what do you mean?|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000029_000001.wav|"How about gettin' up?|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000031_000000.wav|"But, land's sake, what could you expect?" she muttered to herself, after a sorrowful meditation before the kitchen fire.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000052_000000.wav|Keith had not disappeared down the hall, however, before Susan was halfway up the back stairs.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000034_000000.wav|Susan drew a long breath and held it suspended for a moment.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000009_000000.wav|Upstairs, Keith, wearily indifferent as to everything that was taking place about him, lay motionless as usual, his face turned toward the wall.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000058_000002.wav|Can't you think of him a little?|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000029_000003.wav|Such a lazy boy!|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000063_000001.wav|A moment later she had left the room.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000032_000000.wav|Susan did not attempt again that day to get Keith up and dressed; and she gave him his favorite "pop overs" for supper with a running fire of merry talk and jingles that contained never a reference to the unpleasant habit of putting on clothes, But the next morning, after she had given Keith his breakfast (not of toast and oatmeal) she suggested blithely that he get up and be dressed.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000062_000001.wav|I-I don't think you'll have to say-any more."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000003_000002.wav|She told her brother that, of course, if he preferred to have an ignorant servant girl take care of his poor afflicted son, she had nothing to say; but that certainly he could not expect HER to stay, too, especially after being insulted as she had been.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000013_000000.wav|"Well, Susan, this time you've done it," he ejaculated tersely.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000051_000000.wav|"Now, Keith Burton, you stop right where you are," interrupted Susan harshly.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000032_000002.wav|When this failed she tried to sting his pride by telling him she did not believe he could get up now, anyhow, and dress himself.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000012_000000.wav|Ignoring her question the man strode into the room.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000048_000000.wav|"Susan, would it bother you very much if I ate out here-with you?" he asked.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000045_000002.wav|That WILL make it lots easier," she said cheerfully, impersonally, turning away and making a great clatter of pans in the sink.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000055_000001.wav|Your son." "KEITH?"|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000050_000001.wav|It's dad.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/63095/5984_63095_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000005_000001.wav|The afternoon on which Montraville had visited her she had found herself languid and fatigued, and after making a very slight dinner had lain down to endeavour to recruit her exhausted spirits, and, contrary to her expectations, had fallen asleep.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000018_000001.wav|I would if I dared, if I thought I merited your attention-but no, I must not-honour forbids.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000015_000004.wav|Belcour drew mr Franklin on one side and entered into a political discourse: they walked faster than the young people, and Belcour by some means contrived entirely to lose sight of them.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000015_000006.wav|Julia was leaning on his arm: he took her hand in his, and pressing it tenderly, sighed deeply, but continued silent.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000014_000003.wav|I am a seducer, a mean, ungenerous seducer of unsuspecting innocence.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000015_000002.wav|the look! that was altogether irresistible.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000015_000001.wav|She curtseyed as she passed, and, with the bewitching smile of modest cheerfulness, cried-"Do you bury yourselves in the house this fine evening, gents?" There was something in the voice! the manner!|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000011_000001.wav|Had it not been for me, she had still been virtuous and happy in the affection and protection of her family."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty four.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000018_000000.wav|"Esteem, my lovely Julia," said he passionately, "is but a poor cold word.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000017_000000.wav|"Certainly," said she, "the service you have rendered me, the knowledge of your worth, all combine to make me esteem you."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000020_000001.wav|It had interrupted an interesting discourse.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000016_000001.wav|I am sure if you were as happy as you deserve, and as all your friends wish you-" She hesitated.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000020_000000.wav|Just then they were again joined by mr Franklin and Belcour.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000018_000002.wav|I am beneath your notice, Julia, I am miserable and cannot hope to be otherwise." "Alas!" said Julia, "I pity you."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000013_000002.wav|He paused.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000007_000000.wav|She then left him with precipitation, and retiring to her own apartment, threw herself on the bed, and gave vent to an agony of grief which it is impossible to describe.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000014_000004.wav|I dare not hope that purity like her's would stoop to unite itself with black, premeditated guilt: yet by heavens I swear, Belcour, I thought I loved the lost, abandoned Charlotte till I saw Julia-I thought I never could forsake her; but the heart is deceitful, and I now can plainly discriminate between the impulse of a youthful passion, and the pure flame of disinterested affection."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000013_000000.wav|"I wish I had never seen her," cried he passionately, and starting from his seat.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000004_000000.wav|MYSTERY DEVELOPED.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000008_000002.wav|His first business was to seek Montraville, and endeavour to convince him that what had happened would ultimately tend to his happiness: he found him in his apartment, solitary, pensive, and wrapped in disagreeable reflexions.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000015_000000.wav|At that instant Julia Franklin passed the window, leaning on her uncle's arm.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000005_000002.wav|She had not long been lain down, when Belcour arrived, for he took every opportunity of visiting her, and striving to awaken her resentment against Montraville.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000014_000001.wav|The name, like a sudden spark of electric fire, seemed for a moment to suspend his faculties-for a moment he was transfixed; but recovering, he caught Belcour's hand, and cried-"Stop! stop!|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000020_000002.wav|They found it impossible to converse on indifferent subjects, and proceeded home in silence.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000011_000000.wav|"True," said Montraville; "but she was innocent when I first knew her. It was I seduced her, Belcour.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000015_000007.wav|Julia was embarrassed; she wished to break a silence so unaccountable, but was unable; she loved Montraville, she saw he was unhappy, and wished to know the cause of his uneasiness, but that innate modesty, which nature has implanted in the female breast, prevented her enquiring.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000019_000001.wav|Indeed if you knew all, you would pity; but at the same time I fear you would despise me."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000010_000000.wav|"Belcour," said he, "you have injured me in a tender point." "Prithee, Jack," replied Belcour, "do not make a serious matter of it: how could I refuse the girl's advances? and thank heaven she is not your wife."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000016_000000.wav|"I am sorry," she replied, "that you have any cause of inquietude.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000014_000000.wav|"With Julia Franklin," said Belcour.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000009_000001.wav|Montraville started; a momentary flush of resentment crossed his cheek, but instantly gave place to a death like paleness, occasioned by painful remembrance remembrance awakened by that monitor, whom, though we may in vain endeavour, we can never entirely silence.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000008_000001.wav|He then left a polite, tender note for Charlotte, and returned to New York.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56837/5984_56837_000009_000000.wav|"Why how now, whining, pining lover?" said he, clapping him on the shoulder.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000017_000000.wav|At the word "attached" a death like paleness overspread the countenance of Charlotte, but she applied to some hartshorn which stood beside her, and Belcour proceeded.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000015_000000.wav|"Ah no," said she.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000020_000000.wav|"He addresses her publicly," said he, "and it was rumoured they were to be married before he sailed for Eustatia, whither his company is ordered."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000013_000000.wav|"Oh never!|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000014_000001.wav|Determined, therefore, to inform her of all that had happened, he again resumed his seat; and finding she began to be more composed, enquired if she had ever heard from Montraville since the unfortunate recontre in her bed chamber.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000019_000001.wav|Oh may she beware of his art, and not trust him too far as I have done."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000016_000000.wav|"I am greatly of your opinion," said Belcour, "for he has been for some time past greatly attached-"|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000006_000000.wav|"If she were here," she would cry, "she would certainly comfort me, and sooth the distraction of my soul."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty seven.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000014_000000.wav|Something like humanity was awakened in Belcour's breast by this pathetic speech: he arose and walked towards the window; but the selfish passion which had taken possession of his heart, soon stifled these finer emotions; and he thought if Charlotte was once convinced she had no longer any dependance on Montraville, she would more readily throw herself on his protection.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000007_000000.wav|She was sitting one afternoon, wrapped in these melancholy reflexions, when she was interrupted by the entrance of Belcour.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000005_000002.wav|Real anguish of heart had in a great measure faded her charms, her cheeks were pale from want of rest, and her eyes, by frequent, indeed almost continued weeping, were sunk and heavy.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000025_000000.wav|"Married-gone-say you?" cried she in a distracted accent, "what without a last farewell, without one thought on my unhappy situation! Oh Montraville, may God forgive your perfidy." She shrieked, and Belcour sprang forward just in time to prevent her falling to the floor.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000018_000000.wav|"He has been for some time past greatly attached to one Miss Franklin, a pleasing lively girl, with a large fortune."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000013_000001.wav|never!" cried Charlotte, emphatically: "the virtuous part of my sex will scorn me, and I will never associate with infamy.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000023_000000.wav|"Perhaps," cried she, eagerly interrupting him, "perhaps he is married already: come, let me know the worst," continued she with an affected look of composure: "you need not be afraid, I shall not send the fortunate lady a bowl of poison."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000010_000000.wav|"You are not happy, Charlotte," said he, with a look of well dissembled sorrow.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000024_000000.wav|"Well then, my dear girl," said he, deceived by her appearance, "they were married on Thursday, and yesterday morning they sailed for Eustatia."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000012_000001.wav|You are lonely here, my dear girl; give me leave to conduct you to New York, where the agreeable society of some ladies, to whom I will introduce you, will dispel these sad thoughts, and I shall again see returning cheerfulness animate those lovely features."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000009_000000.wav|"I am not well, mr Belcour," said she, "very far from it; but the pains and infirmities of the body I could easily bear, nay, submit to them with patience, were they not aggravated by the most insupportable anguish of my mind."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000026_000000.wav|Alarming faintings now succeeded each other, and she was conveyed to her bed, from whence she earnestly prayed she might never more arise. Belcour staid with her that night, and in the morning found her in a high fever.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000019_000000.wav|"She may be richer, may be handsomer," cried Charlotte, "but cannot love him so well.|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000008_000001.wav|"And how does my lovely Charlotte?" said he, taking her hand: "I fear you are not so well as I could wish."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5984/56840/5984_56840_000022_000000.wav|"I fear," said Belcour, "he can be that villain."|5984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000005_000002.wav|I understand that there's nothing else for you to do."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000022_000000.wav|"Forgive us too!" he heard two or three voices.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000000.wav|"Gentlemen, we're all cruel, we're all monsters, we all make men weep, and mothers, and babes at the breast, but of all, let it be settled here, now, of all I am the lowest reptile!|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000007.wav|But listen, for the last time, I am not guilty of my father's blood.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000020_000001.wav|At the gates there was a crowd of people, peasants, women and drivers.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000011_000000.wav|Nikolay Parfenovitch's little figure was positively majestic by the time he had finished speaking.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000036_000001.wav|The bell began ringing and Mitya was driven off.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000038_000002.wav|At that moment he had no desire to live.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000010.wav|I warn you of that. I'll fight it out with you to the end, and then God will decide.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000014.wav|Saying good by to you, I say it to all men."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000035_000001.wav|I shan't forget your generosity," he cried warmly.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000027_000000.wav|"I'll trouble you, sir, to learn how to speak to me if you've never been taught.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000016_000000.wav|"I have told you I am yours, and I will be yours.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000037_000001.wav|For a long while he sat like that, crying as though he were a little boy instead of a young man of twenty.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000037_000000.wav|Kalganov ran back, sat down in a corner, bent his head, hid his face in his hands, and burst out crying.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000039_000000.wav|"Is it worth it?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000025_000000.wav|"You see what our peasants are, Mavriky Mavrikyevitch.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000005.wav|I accept the torture of accusation, and my public shame, I want to suffer and by suffering I shall be purified.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000019_000001.wav|He was at once surrounded by men who kept a constant watch on him.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000033_000002.wav|He had no cap on.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000036_000000.wav|But the cart moved and their hands parted.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000033_000001.wav|Running up to the cart he held out his hand to Mitya.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000017_000000.wav|Her lips quivered, tears flowed from her eyes.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000026_000003.wav|What do we want an escort for?"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000016_000001.wav|I will follow you for ever, wherever they may send you.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000038_000000.wav|"What are these people?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000025_000004.wav|I'm simply surprised at your good nature, with our low peasants, Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, that's all I can say."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000025_000001.wav|They've no shame!" exclaimed Trifon Borissovitch.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000033_000000.wav|"Good by, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, good by!" he heard all at once the voice of Kalganov, who had suddenly darted out.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000016_000002.wav|Farewell; you are guiltless, though you've been your own undoing."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000010_000001.wav|"We will continue it in the town, and I, for my part, of course, am ready to wish you all success ... in your defense.... As a matter of fact, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, I've always been disposed to regard you as, so to speak, more unfortunate than guilty.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000006.wav|Perhaps I shall be purified, gentlemen?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000009_000002.wav|He let his outstretched hand fall at once.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000009_000001.wav|Mitya instantly noticed this, and started.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000037_000002.wav|Oh, he believed almost without doubt in Mitya's guilt.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000038_000001.wav|What can men be after this?" he exclaimed incoherently, in bitter despondency, almost despair.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000015_000001.wav|Grushenka made a deep bow to Mitya.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000008.wav|I accept my punishment, not because I killed him, but because I meant to kill him, and perhaps I really might have killed him.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000026_000001.wav|"Let's start with the one, Mavriky Mavrikyevitch.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000006_000000.wav|Nikolay Parfenovitch informed him gently that he would be escorted at once by the rural police officer, Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, who happened to be on the spot....|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000030_000001.wav|It is true that he was out of humor and greatly disliked the task that had been laid upon him.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000004_000000.wav|In brief, Mitya was informed that he was, from that moment, a prisoner, and that he would be driven at once to the town, and there shut up in a very unpleasant place.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000039_000001.wav|Is it worth it?" exclaimed the boy in his grief.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000026_000002.wav|I won't be unruly, I won't run away from you, old fellow.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000001.wav|I've sworn to amend, and every day I've done the same filthy things.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000009_000000.wav|His voice quivered and he stretched out his hand, but Nikolay Parfenovitch, who happened to stand nearest to him, with a sudden, almost nervous movement, hid his hands behind his back.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000024_000001.wav|He was, perhaps, too busy.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000027_000001.wav|I'm not 'old fellow' to you, and you can keep your advice for another time!" Mavriky Mavrikyevitch snapped out savagely, as though glad to vent his wrath.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000028_000001.wav|He flushed all over.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000019_000004.wav|He was shouting angrily.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000025_000003.wav|You've drunk it all and now you cry out.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000014_000000.wav|"Oh, well, if it must be so, it must!"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000030_000000.wav|At last Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, too, got into the cart, sat down heavily, and, as though without noticing it, squeezed Mitya into the corner.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000028_000002.wav|A moment later he felt suddenly very cold.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000031_000000.wav|"Good by, Trifon Borissovitch!" Mitya shouted again, and felt himself, that he had not called out this time from good nature, but involuntarily, from resentment.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000010_000002.wav|All of us here, if I may make bold to speak for all, we are all ready to recognize that you are, at bottom, a young man of honor, but, alas, one who has been carried away by certain passions to a somewhat excessive degree...."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000019_000003.wav|Mavriky Mavrikyevitch, a sturdy, thick set man with a wrinkled face, was annoyed about something, some sudden irregularity.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000009.wav|Still I mean to fight it out with you.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000021_000000.wav|"Forgive me at parting, good people!" Mitya shouted suddenly from the cart.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000024_000000.wav|But Trifon Borissovitch did not even turn round.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000024_000006.wav|The peasant persisted and besought them to wait.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000020_000003.wav|All stared at Mitya.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000013_000000.wav|"Certainly, but considering ... in fact, now it's impossible except in the presence of-"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000028_000003.wav|The rain had ceased, but the dull sky was still overcast with clouds, and a keen wind was blowing straight in his face.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000012.wav|Oh, I was still such a fool then....|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000024_000003.wav|It appeared that everything was not yet ready in the second cart, in which two constables were to accompany Mavriky Mavrikyevitch.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000018_000000.wav|"Forgive me, Grusha, for my love, for ruining you, too, with my love."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000019_000000.wav|Mitya would have said something more, but he broke off and went out.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000028_000000.wav|Mitya was reduced to silence.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000019_000005.wav|He asked Mitya to get into the cart with somewhat excessive surliness.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000029_000000.wav|"I've taken a chill," thought Mitya, twitching his shoulders.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000026_000000.wav|"But what do we want a second cart for?" Mitya put in.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000010_000000.wav|"The preliminary inquiry is not yet over," Nikolay Parfenovitch faltered, somewhat embarrassed.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000003.wav|Never, never should I have risen of myself!|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000005_000000.wav|"Well, gentlemen, I don't blame you.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000024_000002.wav|He, too, was shouting and fussing about something.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000008_000004.wav|But the thunderbolt has fallen.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/724/3370_724_000004_000001.wav|Mitya listened attentively, and only shrugged his shoulders.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000003.wav|Yes, I am a brute.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000006.wav|Oh, it's a long way off yet.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000001.wav|She sat and talked to him in the very room in which she had once received Grushenka.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000023.wav|I said that malicious thing on purpose to wound him again.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000006.wav|He realizes that he has injured you beyond all reckoning.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000004.wav|I've told you something already....|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000007_000001.wav|But this time he had specially urgent business, and he foresaw how difficult it would be to approach the subject, yet he was in great haste.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000021_000001.wav|Only think, he realizes for the first time how he has wounded you, the first time in his life; he had never grasped it before so fully.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000018_000000.wav|"Me?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000009.wav|That was when-do you remember?--you found us quarreling.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000002.wav|He had told me the main idea three days before, and we began quarreling about it at once and quarreled for three days.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000007_000002.wav|He had another engagement that could not be put off for that same morning, and there was need of haste.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000012_000003.wav|But he dreaded that moment and longed to spare her.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000019.wav|It's my character, my awful, unhappy character!|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000023_000001.wav|How will you live all your life, if you don't make up your mind to do it now?"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000030_000002.wav|I don't know yet-"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000002.wav|He must escape. That unhappy man, that hero of honor and principle-not he, not Dmitri Fyodorovitch, but the man lying the other side of that door, who has sacrificed himself for his brother," Katya added, with flashing eyes-"told me the whole plan of escape long ago.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000020.wav|Oh, you will see, I shall end by driving him, too, to abandon me for another with whom he can get on better, like Dmitri.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000006.wav|That is how our first quarrel began.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000008_000000.wav|They had been talking for a quarter of an hour.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000021_000008.wav|You ought to do it, you ought to!" Alyosha concluded, laying immense stress on the word "ought."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000028.wav|He wanted to show me that he was an honorable man, and that, even if I loved his brother, he would not ruin him for revenge or jealousy.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000029_000001.wav|"I'll go and tell him you will come directly."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000021_000007.wav|Go, greet him on his way into the darkness-stand at his door, that is all....|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000021.wav|But ... no, I could not bear it, I should kill myself.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000001.wav|"He needs you particularly just now.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000011.wav|Oh, he foresaw his illness!|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000007.wav|I would not give an explanation, I could not ask forgiveness.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000018.wav|Oh, I am unhappy!|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000012.wav|He told me that the envelope contained the details of the escape, and that if he died or was taken dangerously ill, I was to save Mitya alone.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000012_000004.wav|It made the commission on which he had come even more difficult.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000020_000000.wav|"It's so sudden...." faltered Katya.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000000.wav|"Of course he did not tell you.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000012_000001.wav|Oh, Alyosha knew another terrible reason of her present misery, though she had carefully concealed it from him during those days since the trial; but it would have been for some reason too painful to him if she had been brought so low as to speak to him now about that.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000011.wav|Do you know what we were quarreling about then?"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000006.wav|Varvinsky and Herzenstube were attending him.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000005.wav|He has agreed already: do you suppose he would give up that creature?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000000.wav|"It's all right, it's all right, don't be anxious about him!" she began again, sharply and stubbornly.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000022_000000.wav|"I ought to ... but I cannot...." Katya moaned.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000005.wav|"As soon as Ivan Fyodorovitch saw that I was furious about that woman, he instantly imagined I was jealous of Dmitri and that I still loved Dmitri.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000024_000000.wav|"Better suffer all my life."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000004_000000.wav|EPILOGUE|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000009.wav|It was only resentment against that creature that made me angry with him.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000002.wav|Brute!|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000002.wav|I would not have opened the subject and worried you, if it were not necessary.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000029_000000.wav|"Then you will come," said Alyosha firmly, seeing her tears.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000031_000001.wav|She gasped for breath.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000015_000000.wav|There was a note of hatred and contemptuous repulsion in her words.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000009.wav|She paused and smiled.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000023_000000.wav|"Your eyes ought to meet.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000029.wav|So he came to the court ...|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000021_000006.wav|For the sake of his infinite sufferings in the future visit him now.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000033_000000.wav|"That's just why you must go now, to avoid meeting any one.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000024.wav|He had never, never persuaded me that his brother was a murderer.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000000.wav|"It can and ought to be!" Alyosha began emphatically, growing more animated.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000017_000002.wav|She started, and drew back a little from him on the sofa.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000015.wav|Oh, that was a sacrifice!|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000000.wav|Very early, at nine o'clock in the morning, five days after the trial, Alyosha went to Katerina Ivanovna's to talk over a matter of great importance to both of them, and to give her a message.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000003.wav|Ivan Fyodorovitch will be well by that time and will manage it all himself, so that I shall have nothing to do with it.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000002.wav|In the next room Ivan Fyodorovitch lay unconscious in a high fever.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000008.wav|Though the doctors encouraged Katerina Ivanovna and Alyosha, it was evident that they could not yet give them positive hopes of recovery.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000008.wav|To morrow perhaps I will show you in detail the whole plan which Ivan Fyodorovitch left me on the eve of the trial in case of need....|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000033_000002.wav|We will expect you," he concluded emphatically, and went out of the room.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000001.wav|"All that is only momentary, I know him, I know his heart only too well.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000016_000000.wav|"I sent for you this morning to make you promise to persuade him yourself. Or do you, too, consider that to escape would be dishonorable, cowardly, or something ... unchristian, perhaps?" Katya added, even more defiantly.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000020_000002.wav|I knew he would ask me to come.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000012_000002.wav|She was suffering for her "treachery" at the trial, and Alyosha felt that her conscience was impelling her to confess it to him, to him, Alyosha, with tears and cries and hysterical writhings on the floor.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000027_000003.wav|I would not tell you a lie; have pity on him!"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000025.wav|On the contrary, it was I who persuaded him!|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000026_000001.wav|I can't leave our patient-"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000001.wav|It was about that plan of escape.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000026.wav|Oh, my vile temper was the cause of everything!|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000008_000001.wav|Katerina Ivanovna was pale and terribly fatigued, yet at the same time in a state of hysterical excitement.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000005_000000.wav|Chapter one Plans For Mitya's Escape|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000018_000001.wav|Can that be?" she faltered, turning pale.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, no I'll tell him everything," muttered Alyosha.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000005.wav|So much has happened to him since that day.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000030_000000.wav|"No, don't tell him so on any account," cried Katya in alarm.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000001.wav|And I heard his story and his tears with sneering disdain.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000016.wav|No, you cannot understand the greatness of such self sacrifice, Alexey Fyodorovitch.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000030_000001.wav|"I will come, but don't tell him beforehand, for perhaps I may go, but not go in....|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000005.wav|But if both had gone away, Katerina Ivanovna would have adhered to her resolution, and would have gone on nursing the sick man and sitting by him day and night.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000017.wav|I wanted to fall at his feet in reverence, but I thought at once that he would take it only for my joy at the thought of Mitya's being saved (and he certainly would have imagined that!), and I was so exasperated at the mere possibility of such an unjust thought on his part that I lost my temper again, and instead of kissing his feet, flew into a fury again!|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000010.wav|Three days later, on the evening you came, he brought me a sealed envelope, which I was to open at once, if anything happened to him.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000009_000010.wav|He had just gone down stairs, but seeing you I made him come back; do you remember?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000013.wav|Then he left me money, nearly ten thousand-those notes to which the prosecutor referred in his speech, having learnt from some one that he had sent them to be changed.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000027.wav|I paved the way to that hideous scene at the trial.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000026_000000.wav|"But why to day, why at once?...|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000003.wav|We quarreled because, when he told me that if Dmitri Fyodorovitch were convicted he would escape abroad with that creature, I felt furious at once-I can't tell you why, I don't know myself why....|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000015_000002.wav|"Perhaps because she feels how she's wronged him she hates him at moments," Alyosha thought to himself.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000002.wav|You may be sure he will consent to escape. It's not as though it would be immediately; he will have time to make up his mind to it.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000004.wav|It is not to be reconciled with you that he wants you, but only that you would go and show yourself at his door.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000007.wav|He does not ask your forgiveness-'It's impossible to forgive me,' he says himself-but only that you would show yourself in his doorway."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000007.wav|The famous doctor had gone back to Moscow, refusing to give an opinion as to the probable end of the illness.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000006.wav|And they won't let her go to him, so he is bound to escape.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000021_000004.wav|Think-you must visit him; though he is ruined, he is innocent," broke like a challenge from Alyosha.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000022_000001.wav|"He will look at me....|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000006_000003.wav|Katerina Ivanovna had immediately after the scene at the trial ordered the sick and unconscious man to be carried to her house, disregarding the inevitable gossip and general disapproval of the public.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000004.wav|I am responsible for his fever.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000022_000002.wav|I can't."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000000.wav|"He talks about some hymn," she went on again, "some cross he has to bear, some duty; I remember Ivan Fyodorovitch told me a great deal about it, and if you knew how he talked!" Katya cried suddenly, with feeling she could not repress, "if you knew how he loved that wretched man at the moment he told me, and how he hated him, perhaps, at the same moment.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000013_000007.wav|It's you he's most afraid of, he is afraid you won't approve of his escape on moral grounds.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000027_000000.wav|"You can for a moment.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000007_000000.wav|Alyosha came to see his sick brother twice a day.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000014_000006.wav|"Can such a man suffer?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000019_000003.wav|He is ill, he is beside himself, he keeps asking for you.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000011_000014.wav|I was tremendously impressed to find that Ivan Fyodorovitch had not given up his idea of saving his brother, and was confiding this plan of escape to me, though he was still jealous of me and still convinced that I loved Mitya.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/756/3370_756_000015_000001.wav|And yet it was she who had betrayed him.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000003_000000.wav|I says:|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000034_000000.wav|"Why, Buck, they might have scalped us all, you've been so slow in coming."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000017_000000.wav|"All ready."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000037_000000.wav|When we got up stairs to his room he got me a coarse shirt and a roundabout and pants of his, and I put them on.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000013_000001.wav|But don't try to budge; stand right where you are.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000030_000000.wav|"Ain't they no Shepherdsons around?"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000050_000000.wav|"I bet you can't spell my name," says i|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000003.wav|One was a big family Bible full of pictures.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000035_000000.wav|"Well, nobody come after me, and it ain't right I'm always kept down; I don't get no show."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000016_000000.wav|"Snatch that light away, Betsy, you old fool  ain't you got any sense? Put it on the floor behind the front door.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000065_000000.wav|Despised love struck not with woe That head of curly knots, Nor stomach troubles laid him low, Young Stephen Dowling Bots.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000002.wav|There was some books, too, piled up perfectly exact, on each corner of the table.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000002.wav|You got to stay always.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000059_000007.wav|Other times it was hid with a little curtain.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000043_000000.wav|"I don't know where he was," says I; "where was he?"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000004.wav|She warn't particular; she could write about anything you choose to give her to write about just so it was sadful. Every time a man died, or a woman died, or a child died, she would be on hand with her "tribute" before he was cold.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000020_000004.wav|If there's anybody with you, let him keep back  if he shows himself he'll be shot. Come along now.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000056_000000.wav|It was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000000.wav|"Why, blame it, it's a riddle, don't you see?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000051_000000.wav|"I bet you what you dare I can," says he.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000038_000000.wav|"Well, guess," he says.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000033_000000.wav|They all laughed, and Bob says:|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000042_000000.wav|"Why, any candle," he says.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000056_000006.wav|There was a clock on the middle of the mantelpiece, with a picture of a town painted on the bottom half of the glass front, and a round place in the middle of it for the sun, and you could see the pendulum swinging behind it.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000023_000001.wav|Come in."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000032_000000.wav|"Well," he says, "if they'd a ben some, I reckon I'd a got one."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000053_000000.wav|"G e o r g e J a x o n  there now," he says.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000008.wav|I liked all that family, dead ones and all, and warn't going to let anything come between us.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000056_000004.wav|There was a big fireplace that was bricked on the bottom, and the bricks was kept clean and red by pouring water on them and scrubbing them with another brick; sometimes they wash them over with red water paint that they call Spanish brown, same as they do in town.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000040_000000.wav|"But you can guess, can't you?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000056_000005.wav|They had big brass dog irons that could hold up a saw log.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000011_000001.wav|Strike a light there, somebody.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000010_000000.wav|"I warn't prowling around, sir, I fell overboard off of the steamboat."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000019_000000.wav|"No, sir; I never heard of them."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000012_000001.wav|I'm only a boy."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000024_000002.wav|So he didn't pry into my pockets, but only felt outside with his hands, and said it was all right.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000006.wav|She warn't ever the same after that; she never complained, but she kinder pined away and did not live long.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000002_000001.wav|Who's there?"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000009.wav|I reckon I'd better put 'em on, but I'd ruther not, it's so warm.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000021_000001.wav|I took one slow step at a time and there warn't a sound, only I thought I could hear my heart. The dogs were as still as the humans, but they followed a little behind me.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000026_000000.wav|"True for you, Rachel  I forgot."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000067_000000.wav|They got him out and emptied him; Alas it was too late; His spirit was gone for to sport aloft In the realms of the good and great.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000011_000000.wav|"Oh, you did, did you?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000009.wav|Poor Emmeline made poetry about all the dead people when she was alive, and it didn't seem right that there warn't nobody to make some about her now she was gone; so I tried to sweat out a verse or two myself, but I couldn't seem to make it go somehow.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000062_000000.wav|And did young Stephen sicken, And did young Stephen die?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000020_000001.wav|Now, all ready.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000009.wav|There was a hymn book, and a lot of other books.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000047_000000.wav|Cold corn pone, cold corn beef, butter and buttermilk  that is what they had for me down there, and there ain't nothing better that ever I've come across yet.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000013_000003.wav|George Jackson, is there anybody with you?"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000006.wav|Do you like to comb up Sundays, and all that kind of foolishness?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000060_000000.wav|This young girl kept a scrap book when she was alive, and used to paste obituaries and accidents and cases of patient suffering in it out of the Presbyterian Observer, and write poetry after them out of her own head. It was very good poetry.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000057_000000.wav|Well, there was a big outlandish parrot on each side of the clock, made out of something like chalk, and painted up gaudy.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000010.wav|Are you all ready?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000014_000000.wav|"No, sir, nobody."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000005_000000.wav|"Who's me?"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000001.wav|It come all the way from Philadelphia, they said.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000023_000000.wav|"There; I reckon it's all right.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000006.wav|The statements was interesting, but tough.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000028_000000.wav|"Betsy" (this was a nigger woman), "you fly around and get him something to eat as quick as you can, poor thing; and one of you girls go and wake up Buck and tell him  oh, here he is himself.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000007.wav|Another was Friendship's Offering, full of beautiful stuff and poetry; but I didn't read the poetry.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000059_000005.wav|She was at work on what they said was her greatest picture when she took sick, and every day and every night it was her prayer to be allowed to live till she got it done, but she never got the chance.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000008.wav|Another was Henry Clay's Speeches, and another was dr Gunn's Family Medicine, which told you all about what to do if a body was sick or dead.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000044_000001.wav|That's where he was!"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000064_000000.wav|No whooping cough did rack his frame, Nor measles drear with spots; Not these impaired the sacred name Of Stephen Dowling Bots.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000001.wav|Buck said she could rattle off poetry like nothing.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000029_000001.wav|He hadn't on anything but a shirt, and he was very frowzy headed.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000052_000000.wav|"All right," says I, "go ahead."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000047_000007.wav|So I laid there about an hour trying to think, and when Buck waked up I says:|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000045_000000.wav|"Well, if you knowed where he was, what did you ask me for?"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000070_000000.wav|It was a double house, and the big open place betwixt them was roofed and floored, and sometimes the table was set there in the middle of the day, and it was a cool, comfortable place.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000028_000001.wav|Buck, take this little stranger and get the wet clothes off from him and dress him up in some of yours that's dry."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000069_000002.wav|The walls of all the rooms was plastered, and most had carpets on the floors, and the whole house was whitewashed on the outside.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000059_000004.wav|But I reckoned that with her disposition she was having a better time in the graveyard.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000004.wav|One was Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000013_000000.wav|"Look here, if you're telling the truth you needn't be afraid  nobody'll hurt you.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000005.wav|She called them tributes. The neighbors said it was the doctor first, then Emmeline, then the undertaker  the undertaker never got in ahead of Emmeline but once, and then she hung fire on a rhyme for the dead person's name, which was Whistler.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000057_000002.wav|They squeaked through underneath.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000047_000002.wav|They all smoked and talked, and I eat and talked.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000018_000000.wav|"Now, George Jackson, do you know the Shepherdsons?"|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000068_000007.wav|Poor thing, many's the time I made myself go up to the little room that used to be hers and get out her poor old scrap book and read in it when her pictures had been aggravating me and I had soured on her a little.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000062_000001.wav|And did the sad hearts thicken, And did the mourners cry?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000012_000000.wav|"George Jackson, sir.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000011.wav|All right.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000049_000000.wav|"Yes," he says.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000069_000000.wav|Well, as I was saying about the parlor, there was beautiful curtains on the windows: white, with pictures painted on them of castles with vines all down the walls, and cattle coming down to drink.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000020_000002.wav|Step forward, George Jackson.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000058_000010.wav|And there was nice split bottom chairs, and perfectly sound, too  not bagged down in the middle and busted, like an old basket.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000015_000000.wav|I heard the people stirring around in the house now, and see a light. The man sung out:|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000024_000003.wav|He told me to make myself easy and at home, and tell all about myself; but the old lady says:|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000002_000000.wav|"Be done, boys!|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000016_000001.wav|Bob, if you and Tom are ready, take your places."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000046_000004.wav|Do you own a dog?|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000040_000001.wav|It's just as easy."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000021_000002.wav|When I got to the three log doorsteps I heard them unlocking and unbarring and unbolting.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000047_000003.wav|The young women had quilts around them, and their hair down their backs.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000029_000000.wav|Buck looked about as old as me  thirteen or fourteen or along there, though he was a little bigger than me.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000013_000002.wav|Rouse out Bob and Tom, some of you, and fetch the guns.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000006_000000.wav|"George Jackson, sir."|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000008_000000.wav|"I don't want nothing, sir.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000057_000003.wav|There was a couple of big wild turkey wing fans spread out behind those things.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000054_000000.wav|"Well," says I, "you done it, but I didn't think you could.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000056_000007.wav|It was beautiful to hear that clock tick; and sometimes when one of these peddlers had been along and scoured her up and got her in good shape, she would start in and strike a hundred and fifty before she got tuckered out.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3370/163384/3370_163384_000031_000000.wav|They said, no, 'twas a false alarm.|3370
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000013_000006.wav|Certain capacities and tendencies in the worshipper are brought to a focus by the hero's image, who is thereby first discovered and deputed to be a hero.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000006_000000.wav|[Sidenote: The medium must also be transparent.]|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000017_000000.wav|[Sidenote: Automatic idealisation of heroes.]|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000012_000000.wav|[Sidenote: Between master and disciple.]|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000002_000002.wav|Friends must desire to live as much as possible together and to share their work, thoughts, and pleasures. Good fellowship and sensuous affinity are indispensable to give spiritual communion a personal accent; otherwise men would be indifferent vehicles for such thoughts and powers as emanated from them, and attention would not be in any way arrested or refracted by the human medium through which it beheld the good.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000009_000003.wav|For friendship to flourish personal life would have to become more public and social life more simple and humane.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000011_000000.wav|The tie that in contemporary society most nearly resembles the ancient ideal of friendship is a well assorted marriage.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000013_000003.wav|Hero worship is an imaginative passion in which latent ideals assume picturesque shapes and take actual persons for their symbols.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000013_000000.wav|When the common ideal interests needed to give friendship a noble strain become altogether predominant, so that comradeship and personal liking may be dispensed with, friendship passes into more and more political fellowships.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000007_000003.wav|All these sentimental feelings are at any rate mere preludes, but preludes in fortunate cases to more discriminating and solid interests, which such a tremulous overture may possibly pitch on a higher key.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000005.wav|Such persons are his friends.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000008_000000.wav|[Sidenote: Common interests indispensable.]|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000013_000002.wav|Without claiming any share in the master's private life, perhaps without having ever seen him, we may enjoy communion with his mind and feel his support and guidance in following the ideal which links us together.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000013_000007.wav|He is an unmoved mover, like Aristotle's God and like every ideal to which thought or action is directed.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000018_000004.wav|A legend or fable lying in the mind and continually repeated gained insensibly at each recurrence some new eloquence, some fresh congruity with the emotion it had already awakened, and was destined to awake again.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000018_000001.wav|The more fruitful procedure is accordingly to idealise some historical figure or natural force, to ignore or minimise in it what does not seem acceptable, and to retain at the same time all the unobjectionable personal colour and all the graphic traits that can help to give that model a persuasive vitality.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000008.wav|Friendship might thus be called ideal sympathy refracted by a human medium, or comradeship and sensuous affinity colouring a spiritual light.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000004_000000.wav|No natural vehicle, however, is indifferent; no natural organ is or should be transparent.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000000.wav|A man is sometimes a coloured and sometimes a clear medium for the energies he exerts.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000010_000000.wav|[Sidenote: Friendship between man and wife.]|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000018_000002.wav|This poetic process is all the more successful for being automatic.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000002.wav|This is always the case when the master is dead; for if his reconstructed personality retains any charm, it is only as an explanation or conceived nexus for the work he performed.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000002_000001.wav|Recognition given to a man's talent or virtue is not properly friendship.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000018_000000.wav|A disembodied ideal, however, is unmanageable and vague; it cannot exercise the natural and material suasion proper to a model we are expected to imitate.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000016_000001.wav|Since the meaning they embody is ideal and radiates from within outward, and since the image to which that meaning is attributed is controlled by a real external object, meaning and image, as time goes on, will necessarily fall apart.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000001_000000.wav|[Sidenote: The refracting human medium for ideas.]|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000004.wav|That portion of a man's soul which he has not alienated and objectified is open only to those who know him otherwise than by his works and do not estimate him by his public attributions.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000004_000002.wav|In looking through a field glass I do not wish to perceive the lenses nor to see rainbows about their rim; yet I should not wish the eye itself to lose its pigments and add no dyes to the bulks it discerns.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000016_000000.wav|Discipleship and hero worship are not stable relations.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000001.wav|When a thought conveyed or a work done enters alone into the observer's experience, no friendship is possible.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000013_000004.wav|Such companionship, perhaps wholly imaginary, is a very clear and simple example of ideal society. The unconscious hero, to be sure, happens to exist, but his existence is irrelevant to his function, provided only he be present to the idealising mind.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000004_000001.wav|Transparency is a virtue only in artificial instruments, organs in which no blood flows and whose intrinsic operation is not itself a portion of human life.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000002_000000.wav|Friendship may indeed come to exist without sensuous liking or comradeship to pave the way; but unless intellectual sympathy and moral appreciation are powerful enough to react on natural instinct and to produce in the end the personal affection which at first was wanting, friendship does not arise.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000011_000001.wav|In spite of intellectual disparity and of divergence in occupation, man and wife are bound together by a common dwelling, common friends, common affection for children, and, what is of great importance, common financial interests.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000009_000000.wav|The necessity of backing personal attachment with ideal interests is what makes true friendship so rare.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000007_000000.wav|If we approach friendship from above and compare it with more ideal loyalties, its characteristic is its animal warmth and its basis in chance conjunctions; if we approach it from below and contrast it with mere comradeship or liking, its essence seems to be the presence of common ideal interests.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000011_000002.wav|These bonds often suffice for substantial and lasting unanimity, even when no ideal passion preceded; so that what is called a marriage of reason, if it is truly reasonable, may give a fair promise of happiness, since a normal married life can produce the sympathies it requires.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75362/7139_75362_000005_000007.wav|Estimation has been partly arrested at its medium and personal relations have added their homely accent to universal discourse.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000006_000000.wav|But Robin's father cared nothing for the cloth or the mules; he could only think of the bright happy little fellow whom he loved so well, and whom he wept for in secret at night when there was no one near to see.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000026_000000.wav|"But you will not be angry with me if I am wrong, Master Sheriff?"|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000044_000000.wav|"Yes, I can't take pay to lead anyone to fight against Robin Hood and his men."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000034_000000.wav|"Oh! yes, Master Sheriff, that I could, though they did bind a cloth over my face when they brought me away."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER seven|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000043_000000.wav|"Stop!|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000022_000000.wav|"Speak out," he said; "you did not come to tell me only that.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000053_000000.wav|"He said, master, that if you wanted the boy you must go and fetch him."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000033_000001.wav|"Could you find your way back to the outlaws' camp in the forest?"|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000045_000000.wav|"Those pieces were for the news you brought me," said the Sheriff. "Yes, take them, for you have behaved like an honest man."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000009_000001.wav|But the Sheriff would not see him, for he took no interest in anything now, and told his servant that the man must send word what his business was.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000038_000002.wav|What I say is, he's a noble kind hearted gentleman, and if it was my boy he had there, looking as happy as the day is long, I'd go to him without any fighting men."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000038_000001.wav|They tell me that Robin Hood's a noble earl who offended the King, and had to fly for his life.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000050_000000.wav|But a couple of days later he had the man to whom he had given the gold pieces found, and sent him to the outlaws' camp with a letter written upon parchment, in which he ordered Robin Hood, in the King's name, to give up the little prisoner he held there contrary to the law and against his own will.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000019_000002.wav|'Give him plenty to eat and drink,' he said, 'for two or three days, and then send him on his way.' Yes, Master Sheriff, that he did, and a fine jolly time I had.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000014_000000.wav|"You have come from the outlaws' camp?" he said with his voice trembling.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000007_000000.wav|Robin's aunt when she came and tried to comfort him used to shake her head and wipe her eyes.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000022_000002.wav|Why don't you speak?"|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000022_000001.wav|What is it you are keeping back?|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000029_000000.wav|"That made me think all the more, and one day I managed to follow him but among the trees to where I found him feeding one of the wild deer, which followed him about like a dog."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000051_000000.wav|It was many weary anxious days before the messenger came back, but without the little prisoner.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000030_000003.wav|'Yes,' he said, 'of course.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000011_000000.wav|"He says, sir, that he was taken prisoner by Robin Hood's men a week ago, and that he has just come from the camp under the greenwood tree, and has brought you news, master."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000018_000000.wav|"Yes, yes," cried the Sheriff, "and what did you say."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000056_000000.wav|"Where I ought to have gone at first," he said humbly; "into the forest to fetch my boy."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000041_000000.wav|"That will do," said the Sheriff.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000010_000000.wav|The servant went out, and came back directly.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000003_000000.wav|Robin was given into his charge to protect and take safely home to his father, and when the attack was made by the outlaw's men, instead of doing anything to protect the little fellow and save him from being injured by Robin Hood's people, he thought only of himself.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000031_000000.wav|The man stopped, for just then the Sheriff closed his eyes again and said something very softly, which Robin's aunt heard, and she sank upon her knees and covered her face with her hands.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000023_000000.wav|"Because, master," said the man softly, "I was afraid you couldn't bear it, for I was a father once and my son died, and though you never knew me, I knew you, and was sorry when the news came that your little boy was killed.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000049_000000.wav|In another month the Sheriff advanced again with a stronger force, but they were driven back more easily than the first, and the Sheriff was in despair.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000024_000000.wav|The Sheriff was silent for a few minutes, during which he closed his eyes and his lips moved, and he looked so strange that Robin's aunt crossed the room to where he sat, and took hold of his hand, as she whispered loving words.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000005_000001.wav|But they thought that he should have gathered together a number of fighting men and gone and punished Robin Hood and his outlaws for carrying off that valuable set of loads of cloth.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000057_000000.wav|"But you could never find your way," she said, sobbing.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000023_000001.wav|Can you bear to hear good news as well as bad?"|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000019_000003.wav|Why, I almost felt as if I should like to stay altogether."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000013_000000.wav|It was no beaten and wounded ruffian, but a hale and hearty fellow, who looked bright and happy, and before he could speak and tell his news the Sheriff began to question him.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000003_000001.wav|He threw his charge into the first bushes he came to, and galloped away, hardly stopping till he reached Nottingham town.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000038_000000.wav|"May be, Master Sheriff," said the man drily; "but I'm not going to fly at the throat of one who did nothing but good to me.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000047_000000.wav|So he gathered a strong body of crossbow men, and others with spears and swords, besides asking for the help of two gallant knights who came with their esquires mounted and in armour with their men.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000019_000001.wav|Then he laughed, and all his people laughed too, and he said I was a merry fellow.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000037_000000.wav|"What?" cried the Sheriff angrily.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000036_000000.wav|"I could, Master Sheriff," said the man, beginning slowly to lay the gold pieces back one by one upon the table; "but I can't do evil for good."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000030_000005.wav|'Then you go to my father,' he cried, 'and tell him to tell aunt that I'm quite well, and that some day I'm coming home."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000032_000000.wav|Then the Sheriff sprang to his feet, looking quite a different man.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000015_000000.wav|"Yes, Master Sheriff."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000005_000000.wav|And then months passed and a year had gone by, and people looked solemn and said that it seemed as if the Sheriff would never hold up his head again.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000030_000000.wav|"I waited a bit, and then stepped out to him, and what do you think he did?|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000009_000000.wav|For one day a man came to the Sheriff's house and wanted him.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000042_000000.wav|The man turned to leave the room, when the Sheriff said sharply:|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000041_000001.wav|"You can go."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/88748/7139_88748_000017_000000.wav|"Oh! no, Master Sheriff; they took me before Robin Hood, and he asked me what I was doing there, and whether I was not afraid to cross his forest, and I up and told him plainly that I wasn't. Then he said how was that when I must have heard what a terrible robber he was."|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000013_000005.wav|He will then say that all experience is really his own and that some inexplicable illusion has momentarily raised opaque partitions in his omniscient mind.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000004.wav|These figures all represent some circle of events or forces in the real world; but such representation, besides being mythical, is usually most inadequate.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000007_000005.wav|Every experience of victory, eloquence, or beauty is a momentary success of the same kind, and if repeated and sustained becomes a spiritual possession.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000007_000004.wav|Primary mathematical notions, for instance, are evidences of a successful reactive method attained in the organism and translated in consciousness into a stable grammar which has wide applicability and great persistence, so that it has come to be elaborated ideally into prodigious abstract systems of thought.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000016_000003.wav|A hostile word, by starting a contrary imaginative current, buffets them rudely and threatens to dissolve their being.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000003_000006.wav|Reason expresses purpose, purpose expresses impulse, and impulse expresses a natural body with self equilibrating powers.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000018_000003.wav|The direct object of this passion-that a name should survive in men's mouths to which no adequate idea of its original can be attached-seems a thin and fantastic satisfaction, especially when we consider how little we should probably sympathise with the creatures that are to remember us.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000004_000003.wav|And so they would always have remained in crude experience, if no cumulative reflection, no art, and no science had come to dominate and foreshorten that equable flow of substance, arresting it ideally in behalf of some rational interest.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000015_000003.wav|Interest in one's own social figure is to some extent a material interest, for other men's love or aversion is a principle read into their acts; and a social animal like man is dependent on other men's acts for his happiness.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000007_000002.wav|It sees even nature from the point of view of ideal interests, and measures the flux of things by ideal standards.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000002.wav|When most nearly material these personages are human souls-the ideal life of particular bodies-or floating mortal reputations-echoes of those ideal lives in one another.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000004_000002.wav|In themselves events are perfectly mechanical, steady, and fluid, not stopping where we see a goal nor avoiding what we call failures.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000009_000002.wav|These ideal affinities, although grounded like the others on material relations (for sympathy presupposes communication), do not have those relations for their theme but rest on them merely as on a pedestal from which they look away to their own realm, as music, while sustained by vibrating instruments, looks away from them to its own universe of sound.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000004_000000.wav|At the same time, natural growths may be called achievements only because, when formed, they support a joyful and liberal experience. Nature's works first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke; mechanical processes have interesting climaxes only from the point of view of the life that expresses them, in which their ebb and flow grows impassioned and vehement.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000007_000000.wav|Consciousness is not ideal merely in its highest phases; it is ideal through and through.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000018_000002.wav|The good opinion of posterity can have no possible effect on our fortunes, and the practical value which reputation may temporarily have is quite absent in posthumous fame.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000016_000002.wav|We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere; for however persistent and passionate such prejudices may be, we know too well that they are woven of thin air.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000018_000005.wav|Yet, beneath this desire for nominal longevity, apparently so inane, there may lurk an ideal ambition of which the ancients cannot have been unconscious when they set so high a value on fame.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000006_000000.wav|[Sidenote: All experience at bottom liberal.]|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000016_000001.wav|The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000005_000001.wav|Such an equilibrium maintains itself by virtue of the same necessity that produced it; without arresting the flux or introducing any miracle, it sustains in being an ideal form.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000012_000000.wav|[Sidenote: Romantic egotism.]|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000013_000000.wav|The more reflective and self conscious a man is the more completely will his experience be subsumed and absorbed in his perennial "I." If philosophy has come to reinforce this reflective egotism, he may even regard all nature as nothing but his half voluntary dream and encourage himself thereby to give even to the physical world a dramatic and sentimental colour.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000010_000000.wav|[Sidenote: The self an ideal.]|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000009_000001.wav|At first it establishes affections between beings naturally conjoined in the world; later it grows sensitive to free and spiritual affinities, to oneness of mind and sympathetic purposes.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000018_000001.wav|It is a passion easy to deride but hard to understand, and in men who live at all by imagination almost impossible to eradicate.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000015_000004.wav|An individual's concern for the attitude society takes toward him is therefore in the first instance concern for his own practical welfare.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000003_000001.wav|Natural society begins at home and radiates over the world, as more and more things become tributary to our personal being.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000002_000000.wav|[Sidenote: Primacy of nature over spirit.]|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000003_000002.wav|In marriage and the family, in industry, government, and war, attention is riveted on temporal existences, on the fortunes of particular bodies, natural or corporate.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000005.wav|The boundaries of that province which each spirit presides over are vaguely drawn, the spirit itself being correspondingly indefinite.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000015_000005.wav|But imagination here refines upon worldly interest. What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000000.wav|Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000013_000002.wav|For self is, after all, but one term in a primitive dichotomy and would lose its specific and intimate character were it no longer contrasted with anything else.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000015_000000.wav|Philosophers less pretentious and more worldly than these have sometimes felt, in their way, the absorbing force of self consciousness.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000018_000006.wav|They often identified fame with immortality, a subject on which they had far more rational sentiments than have since prevailed.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000013_000001.wav|But the more successful he is in stuffing everything into his self consciousness, the more desolate will the void become which surrounds him.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000004_000001.wav|Nature's values are imputed to her retroactively by spirit, which in its material dependence has a logical and moral primacy of its own.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000018_000004.wav|What comfort would it be to Virgil that boys still read him at school, or to Pindar that he is sometimes mentioned in a world from which everything he loved has departed?|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000003_000004.wav|Things could not be near or far, worse or better, unless a definite life were taken as a standard, a life lodged somewhere in space and time.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000005_000002.wav|This form is what consciousness corresponds to and raises to actual existence; so that significant thoughts are something which nature necessarily lingers upon and seems to serve.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000003.wav|From this relative substantiality they fade into notions of country, posterity, humanity, and the gods.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000008.wav|Or rather it is no memory, however eviscerated, that fulfils that office.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000007_000003.wav|It registers its own movement, like that of its objects, entirely in ideal terms, looking to fixed goals of its own imagining, and using nothing in the operation but concretions in discourse.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000014_000000.wav|[Sidenote: Vanity.]|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000006.wav|This ambiguity is most conspicuous, perhaps, in the most absorbing of the personages which a man constructs in this imaginative fashion-his idea of himself.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000005_000000.wav|Thus it comes to pass that rational interests have a certain ascendancy in the world, as well as an absolute authority over it; for they arise where an organic equilibrium has naturally established itself.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000001.wav|Its personages are all mythical, beginning with that brave protagonist who calls himself I and speaks all the soliloquies.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000011_000007.wav|"There is society where none intrudes;" and for most men sympathy with their imaginary selves is a powerful and dominant emotion. True memory offers but a meagre and interrupted vista of past experience, yet even that picture is far too rich a term for mental discourse to bandy about; a name with a few physical and social connotations is what must represent the man to his own thinkings.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000003_000005.wav|Reason is a principle of order appearing in a subject matter which in its subsistence and quantity must be an irrational datum.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000005_000005.wav|Noble ideas, although rare and difficult to attain, are not naturally fugitive.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7139/75360/7139_75360_000005_000004.wav|The mind spreads and soars in proportion as the body feeds on the surrounding world.|7139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000005.wav|The right to labor, and the principle of equal distribution of wealth, cannot give way to the anxieties of power.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000043_000001.wav|WILL IT BE COMMUNISM?|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000011_000000.wav|Gratitude fills people with adoration and enthusiasm.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000010.wav|Restitution should not be delayed. Justice, justice! recognition of right! reinstatement of the proletaire!--when these results are accomplished, then, judges and consuls, you may attend to your police, and provide a government for the Republic!|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000031_000004.wav|God can be regarded as just, equitable, and good, only to another God.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000043_000000.wav|WHEN PROPERTY IS ABOLISHED, WHAT WILL BE THE FORM OF SOCIETY!|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000023_000000.wav|From this several inferences may be drawn.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000017_000000.wav|This feeling does not spring from intelligence, which calculates, computes, and balances, but does not love; which sees, but does not feel.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000001.wav|To that fact history bears perpetual testimony, and the course of events reveals it to us.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000035_000001.wav|Still more; if, as some pretend, kings are public functionaries, the love which is due them is measured by their personal amiability; our obligation to obey them, by the wisdom of their commands; and their civil list, by the total social production divided by the number of citizens.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000025_000000.wav|By the same principle, inequality of wages cannot be admitted by law on the ground of inequality of talents; because the just distribution of wealth is the function of economy,--not of enthusiasm.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000036_000000.wav|Thus, jurisprudence, political economy, and psychology agree in admitting the law of equality.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000007_000001.wav|In the strong, it becomes the pleasure of generosity; among equals, frank and cordial friendship; in the weak, the pleasure of admiration and gratitude.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000012_000000.wav|But equality delights my heart.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000002.wav|I demand justice; it is not my business to execute the sentence.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000028_000002.wav|If Achilles and Ajax, instead of being associated, are themselves in the service of Agamemnon who pays them, there is no objection to Aristotle's method.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000033_000000.wav|If God should come down to earth, and dwell among us, we could not love him unless he became like us; nor give him any thing unless he produced something; nor listen to him unless he proved us mistaken; nor worship him unless he manifested his power.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000001.wav|In demonstrating the principle of equality, I have laid the foundation of the social structure I have done more.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000005_000000.wav|Society, among the animals, is SIMPLE; with man it is COMPLEX.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000042_000000.wav|But, since a destroyed error necessarily implies a counter truth, I will not finish this treatise without solving the first problem of political science,--that which receives the attention of all minds.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000041_000002.wav|The mysteries of the sanctuary of iniquity must be unveiled, the tables of the old alliance broken, and all the objects of the ancient faith thrown in a heap to the swine.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000002_000001.wav|We are all born poets, mathematicians, philosophers, artists, artisans, or farmers, but we are not born equally endowed; and between one man and another in society, or between one faculty and another in the same individual, there is an infinite difference.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000041_000005.wav|Well! of this charter and this code not one article shall be left standing upon another! The time has come for the wise to choose their course, and prepare for reconstruction.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000005.wav|The science of society-like all human sciences-will be for ever incomplete.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000030_000000.wav|Man must live in one of two states: either in society, or out of it. In society, conditions are necessarily equal, except in the degree of esteem and consideration which each one may receive.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000006.wav|The depth and variety of the questions which it embraces are infinite.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000026_000000.wav|Finally, as regards donations, wills, and inheritance, society, careful both of the personal affections and its own rights, must never permit love and partiality to destroy justice.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000008.wav|A certain philological society decided linguistic questions by a plurality of votes.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000029_000001.wav|What matters it that Achilles has a strength of four, while that of Ajax is only two? The latter may always answer that he is free; that if Achilles has a strength of four, five could kill him; finally, that in doing personal service he incurs as great a risk as Achilles.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000028_000004.wav|That is the law of despotism; the right of slavery.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000000.wav|Here my task should end.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000002.wav|I have given an example of the true method of solving political and legislative problems.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000013_000000.wav|Friendship is precious to the hearts of the children of men.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000031_000007.wav|Between man and beast there is no society, though there may be affection.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000009.wav|The legislator cannot plead ignorance as an excuse for upholding a glaring iniquity.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000028_000001.wav|Settle that, and you settle the whole question.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000041_000000.wav|For my part, I have sworn fidelity to my work of demolition, and I will not cease to pursue the truth through the ruins and rubbish.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000004.wav|Figures are the providence of history.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000008_000003.wav|Hercules destroying the monsters and punishing brigands for the safety of Greece, Orpheus teaching the rough and wild Pelasgians,--neither of them putting a price upon their services,--there we see the noblest creations of poetry, the loftiest expression of justice and virtue.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000041_000004.wav|A code has been written,--the pride of a conqueror, and the summary of ancient wisdom.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000006_000002.wav|The fields of benevolence and love extend far beyond; and when economy has adjusted its balance, the mind begins to benefit by its own justice, and the heart expands in the boundlessness of its affection.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000035_000000.wav|Now, if kings are images of God, and executors of his will, they cannot receive love, wealth, obedience, and glory from us, unless they consent to labor and associate with us-produce as much as they consume, reason with their subjects, and do wonderful things.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000007.wav|On the contrary, it is the duty of the civil and administrative power to reconstruct itself on the basis of political equality.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000006.wav|Property, acting by exclusion and encroachment, while population was increasing, has been the life principle and definitive cause of all revolutions.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000031_000006.wav|No: and if he saw fit to shear as much wool from a lamb six months old, as from a ram of two years; or, if he required as much work from a young dog as from an old one,--they would say, not that he was unjust, but that he was foolish.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000027_000001.wav|If the two persons were equal, their respective shares would be arithmetically equal: Achilles would have six, Ajax six.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000027_000004.wav|There is no arithmetical equality, but a proportional equality.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000009_000000.wav|The joys of self sacrifice are ineffable.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000004_000002.wav|Every discovery and act in society is necessary to him.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000004_000001.wav|Man continually exchanges with man ideas and feelings, products and services.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000019_000000.wav|That is why the force which oppresses while protecting is execrable; why the silly ignorance which views with the same eye the marvels of art, and the products of the rudest industry, excites unutterable contempt; why proud mediocrity, which glories in saying, "I have paid you-I owe you nothing," is especially odious.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000015_000000.wav|It is the just distribution of social sympathy and universal love.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000029_000005.wav|In no case wrong him, or impose upon him laws.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000004_000000.wav|Associated animals live side by side without any intellectual intercourse or intimate communication,--all doing the same things, having nothing to learn or to remember; they see, feel, and come in contact with each other, but never penetrate each other.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000012_000001.wav|Benevolence degenerates into tyranny, and admiration into servility.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000004_000003.wav|But of this immense quantity of products and ideas, that which each one has to produce and acquire for himself is but an atom in the sun|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000041_000001.wav|I hate to see a thing half done; and it will be believed without any assurance of mine, that, having dared to raise my hand against the Holy Ark, I shall not rest contented with the removal of the cover.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000005_000001.wav|Man is associated with man by the same instinct which associates animal with animal; but man is associated differently from the animal, and it is this difference in association which constitutes the difference in morality.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000031_000008.wav|Man loves the animals as THINGS,--as SENTIENT THINGS, if you will,--but not as PERSONS.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000029_000004.wav|If he is good for nothing, put him in the hospital.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000028_000003.wav|The slave owner, who controls his slaves, may give a double allowance of brandy to him who does double work.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000007.wav|Religious wars, and wars of conquest, when they have stopped short of the extermination of races, have been only accidental disturbances, soon repaired by the mathematical progression of the life of nations.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000022_000002.wav|Justice is sociability as manifested in the division of material things, susceptible of weight and measure; equite is justice accompanied by admiration and esteem,--things which cannot be measured.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000002.wav|Society advances from equation to equation.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000001.wav|I have proved the right of the poor; I have shown the usurpation of the rich.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000003_000000.wav|It is not so with societies of animals.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000008.wav|The downfall and death of societies are due to the power of accumulation possessed by property.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000037_000003.wav|To the eyes of the economist, the revolutions of empires seem now like the reduction of algebraical quantities, which are inter deducible; now like the discovery of unknown quantities, induced by the inevitable influence of time.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000003_000003.wav|No animal, when free and healthy, expects or requires the aid of his neighbor; who, in his turn, is equally independent.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000003.wav|If it should be argued-in order to prolong for a few years an illegitimate privilege-that it is not enough to demonstrate equality, that it is necessary also to organize it, and above all to establish it peacefully, I might reply: The welfare of the oppressed is of more importance than official composure.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000011.wav|Before talking of the science itself, it is necessary to ascertain its object, and discover its method and principle.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000012_000002.wav|Friendship is the daughter of equality. O my friends! may I live in your midst without emulation, and without glory; let equality bring us together, and fate assign us our places. May I die without knowing to whom among you I owe the most esteem!|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000004.wav|Many people cry, "Come to me, and I will teach you the truth!" These people mistake for the truth their cherished opinion and ardent conviction, which is usually any thing but the truth.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000039_000008.wav|An evil, when known, should be condemned and destroyed.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000012.wav|The ground must be cleared of the prejudices which encumber it.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000003.wav|Of the science itself, I confess that I know nothing more than its principle; and I know of no one at present who can boast of having penetrated deeper.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000013.wav|Such is the mission of the nineteenth century.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000007_000000.wav|The social sentiment then takes on a new character, which varies with different persons.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000016_000000.wav|Now, this feeling is unknown among the beasts, who love and cling to each other, and show their preferences, but who cannot conceive of esteem, and who are incapable of generosity, admiration, or politeness.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000024_000000.wav|one.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000018_000000.wav|This product-the third and last degree of human sociability-is determined by our complex mode of association; in which inequality, or rather the divergence of faculties, and the speciality of functions-tending of themselves to isolate laborers-demand a more active sociability.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000040_000000.wav|For the rest, I do not think that a single one of my readers accuses me of knowing how to destroy, but of not knowing how to construct.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6686/216563/6686_216563_000021_000000.wav|These three degrees of sociability support and imply each other.|6686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000021_000002.wav|But only what was really good in him was reflected in his wife, all that was not quite good was rejected.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000013_000000.wav|If the purpose of marriage is the family, the person who wishes to have many wives or husbands may perhaps obtain much pleasure, but in that case will not have a family.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000016_000002.wav|From the very first days of their married life Natasha had announced her demands.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000021_000003.wav|And this was not the result of logical reasoning but was a direct and mysterious reflection.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000007_000000.wav|The subject which wholly engrossed Natasha's attention was her family: that is, her husband whom she had to keep so that he should belong entirely to her and to the home, and the children whom she had to bear, bring into the world, nurse, and bring up.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000020_000000.wav|It very often happened that in a moment of irritation husband and wife would have a dispute, but long afterwards Pierre to his surprise and delight would find in his wife's ideas and actions the very thought against which she had argued, but divested of everything superfluous that in the excitement of the dispute he had added when expressing his opinion.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000004_000006.wav|She felt that her unity with her husband was not maintained by the poetic feelings that had attracted him to her, but by something else-indefinite but firm as the bond between her own body and soul.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000005_000001.wav|To adorn herself for others might perhaps have been agreeable-she did not know-but she had no time at all for it.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000014_000000.wav|If the purpose of food is nourishment and the purpose of marriage is the family, the whole question resolves itself into not eating more than one can digest, and not having more wives or husbands than are needed for the family-that is, one wife or one husband.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000010_000000.wav|These questions, then as now, existed only for those who see nothing in marriage but the pleasure married people get from one another, that is, only the beginnings of marriage and not its whole significance, which lies in the family.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000004_000002.wav|She gave it up just because it was so powerfully seductive.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000021_000000.wav|After seven years of marriage Pierre had the joyous and firm consciousness that he was not a bad man, and he felt this because he saw himself reflected in his wife.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000018_000002.wav|And she deduced the essentials of his wishes quite correctly, and having once arrived at them clung to them tenaciously.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000011_000000.wav|Discussions and questions of that kind, which are like the question of how to get the greatest gratification from one's dinner, did not then and do not now exist for those for whom the purpose of a dinner is the nourishment it affords; and the purpose of marriage is the family.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000021_000001.wav|He felt the good and bad within himself inextricably mingled and overlapping.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000017_000003.wav|Pierre had but to show a partiality for anything to get just what he liked done always.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000017_000004.wav|He had only to express a wish and Natasha would jump up and run to fulfill it.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000008_000000.wav|And the deeper she penetrated, not with her mind only but with her whole soul, her whole being, into the subject that absorbed her, the larger did that subject grow and the weaker and more inadequate did her powers appear, so that she concentrated them wholly on that one thing and yet was unable to accomplish all that she considered necessary.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000019_000000.wav|Thus in a time of trouble ever memorable to him after the birth of their first child who was delicate, when they had to change the wet nurse three times and Natasha fell ill from despair, Pierre one day told her of Rousseau's view, with which he quite agreed, that to have a wet nurse is unnatural and harmful.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000018_000000.wav|The entire household was governed according to Pierre's supposed orders, that is, by his wishes which Natasha tried to guess.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000004_000004.wav|She acted in contradiction to all those rules.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/26872/4592_26872_000017_000002.wav|At home Natasha placed herself in the position of a slave to her husband, and the whole household went on tiptoe when he was occupied-that is, was reading or writing in his study.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000032_000000.wav|It was three o'clock in the morning.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000047_000003.wav|That is why I told him...|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000047_000000.wav|"It did me so much good to tell all about it today.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000041_000001.wav|"Good night!|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000014_000000.wav|Pierre suddenly flushed crimson and for a long time tried not to look at Natasha.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000003_000003.wav|Stepan Stepanych also instructed me how I ought to tell of my experiences.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000036_000000.wav|Pierre looked intently at her.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000012_000005.wav|I am very, very sorry for her," he concluded, and was pleased to notice a look of glad approval on Natasha's face.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000022_000000.wav|Princess Mary with a gentle smile looked now at Pierre and now at Natasha.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000049_000000.wav|"Do you know, Mary..." Natasha suddenly said with a mischievous smile such as Princess Mary had not seen on her face for a long time, "he has somehow grown so clean, smooth, and fresh-as if he had just come out of a Russian bath; do you understand?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000048_000002.wav|What a splendid man he is!" said Princess Mary.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000003_000004.wav|In general I have noticed that it is very easy to be an interesting man (I am an interesting man now); people invite me out and tell me all about myself."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000004_000000.wav|Natasha smiled and was on the point of speaking.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000033_000003.wav|Princess Mary was silent.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000022_000001.wav|In the whole narrative she saw only Pierre and his goodness.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000043_000002.wav|Princess Mary did not express her opinion of Pierre nor did Natasha speak of him.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000038_000001.wav|"I am not to blame for being alive and wishing to live-nor you either."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000031_000001.wav|She saw the possibility of love and happiness between Natasha and Pierre, and the first thought of this filled her heart with gladness.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000037_000000.wav|"Yes, and nothing more," said Natasha.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000022_000002.wav|Natasha, leaning on her elbow, the expression of her face constantly changing with the narrative, watched Pierre with an attention that never wandered-evidently herself experiencing all that he described.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000050_000000.wav|"Yes," replied Princess Mary.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000017_000000.wav|"No, not once!|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000024_000000.wav|Pierre continued.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000048_000001.wav|Oh, yes.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000021_000000.wav|At first he spoke with the amused and mild irony now customary with him toward everybody and especially toward himself, but when he came to describe the horrors and sufferings he had witnessed he was unconsciously carried away and began speaking with the suppressed emotion of a man re experiencing in recollection strong impressions he has lived through.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000038_000000.wav|"It's not true, not true!" cried Pierre.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000042_000000.wav|Pierre rose and took his leave.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000027_000001.wav|"Where is he?"|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000045_000000.wav|Princess Mary sighed deeply and thereby acknowledged the justice of Natasha's remark, but she did not express agreement in words.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000034_000004.wav|I say this to you," he added, turning to Natasha.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000053_000000.wav|"Yes, and yet he is quite different.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000001_000001.wav|Natasha was calm, though a severe and grave expression had again settled on her face.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000044_000000.wav|"Well, good night, Mary!" said Natasha.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000025_000002.wav|Then he added:|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000030_000004.wav|She caught the unfinished word in its flight and took it straight into her open heart, divining the secret meaning of all Pierre's mental travail.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000006_000000.wav|"But I am three times as rich as before," returned Pierre.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000047_000002.wav|"I am sure he really loved him.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000013_000000.wav|"Yes, and so you are once more an eligible bachelor," said Princess Mary.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000051_000000.wav|"With a short coat and his hair cropped; just as if, well, just as if he had come straight from the bath... Papa used to..."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000005_000001.wav|Is that true?"|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000022_000006.wav|One was snatched out before my eyes... and there were women who had their things snatched off and their earrings torn out..." he flushed and grew confused.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000022_000004.wav|It was clear that she understood not only what he said but also what he wished to, but could not, express in words.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000039_000000.wav|Suddenly Natasha bent her head, covered her face with her hands, and began to cry.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000049_000001.wav|Out of a moral bath.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000001_000005.wav|The footmen drew back the chairs and pushed them up again.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000016_000000.wav|Pierre laughed.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000053_000001.wav|They say men are friends when they are quite different.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000034_000003.wav|There is much, much before us.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000001_000003.wav|It is impossible to go back to the same conversation, to talk of trifles is awkward, and yet the desire to speak is there and silence seems like affectation.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000028_000000.wav|"They killed him almost before my eyes."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000048_000000.wav|"To tell Pierre?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000005_000000.wav|"We have been told," Princess Mary interrupted her, "that you lost two millions in Moscow.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000041_000000.wav|"Nothing, nothing." She smiled at Pierre through her tears.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000033_000004.wav|It occurred to none of them that it was three o'clock and time to go to bed.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000003_000001.wav|"They even tell me wonders I myself never dreamed of!|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000047_000004.wav|Was it all right?" she added, suddenly blushing.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000029_000000.wav|And Pierre, his voice trembling continually, went on to tell of the last days of their retreat, of Karataev's illness and his death.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000043_000001.wav|They talked of what Pierre had told them.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000030_000000.wav|He told of his adventures as he had never yet recalled them.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000049_000002.wav|Isn't it true?"|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000040_000000.wav|"What is it, Natasha?" said Princess Mary.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000001_000002.wav|They all three of them now experienced that feeling of awkwardness which usually follows after a serious and heartfelt talk.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000024_000001.wav|When he spoke of the execution he wanted to pass over the horrible details, but Natasha insisted that he should not omit anything.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000033_000001.wav|Natasha continued to look at him intently with bright, attentive, and animated eyes, as if trying to understand something more which he had perhaps left untold.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000012_000002.wav|We were not an exemplary couple," he added quickly, glancing at Natasha and noticing on her face curiosity as to how he would speak of his wife, "but her death shocked me terribly.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000008_000000.wav|"What I have certainly gained is freedom," he began seriously, but did not continue, noticing that this theme was too egotistic.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000022_000003.wav|Not only her look, but her exclamations and the brief questions she put, showed Pierre that she understood just what he wished to convey.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000001_000000.wav|Pierre was shown into the large, brightly lit dining room; a few minutes later he heard footsteps and Princess Mary entered with Natasha.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000033_000002.wav|Pierre in shamefaced and happy confusion glanced occasionally at her, and tried to think what to say next to introduce a fresh subject.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000014_000001.wav|When he ventured to glance her way again her face was cold, stern, and he fancied even contemptuous.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000034_000002.wav|While there is life there is happiness.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000018_000000.wav|Supper was over, and Pierre who at first declined to speak about his captivity was gradually led on to do so.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000012_000000.wav|"No," answered Pierre, evidently not considering awkward the meaning Princess Mary had given to his words.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000053_000002.wav|That must be true.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22178/4592_22178_000025_000000.wav|Pierre began to tell about Karataev, but paused.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000059_000000.wav|Next day Pierre came to say good by.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000040_000000.wav|Natasha gave him her hand and went out.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000046_000001.wav|She was going to say that to speak of love was impossible, but she stopped because she had seen by the sudden change in Natasha two days before that she would not only not be hurt if Pierre spoke of his love, but that it was the very thing she wished for.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000010_000001.wav|What is Petersburg?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000044_000003.wav|Tell me, can I hope?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000033_000002.wav|She was in the same black dress with soft folds and her hair was done the same way as the day before, yet she was quite different.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000056_000000.wav|"No, it cannot be!|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000032_000001.wav|The picturesqueness of the chimney stacks and tumble down walls of the burned out quarters of the town, stretching out and concealing one another, reminded him of the Rhine and the Colosseum.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000050_000000.wav|Pierre was looking into Princess Mary's eyes.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000042_000004.wav|Princess, my dear friend, listen!|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000034_000001.wav|A bright questioning light shone in her eyes, and on her face was a friendly and strangely roguish expression.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000026_000001.wav|"Better not say anything to her either."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000028_000002.wav|And all for me!"|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000007.wav|But what a kind, pleasant face and how he smiles as he looks at me."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000058_000001.wav|Go there?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000007_000000.wav|"Well, what's to be done if it cannot be avoided?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000056_000001.wav|How happy I am!|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000056_000003.wav|How happy I am!|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000012_000001.wav|We lived under the late count-the kingdom of heaven be his!--and we have lived under you too, without ever being wronged."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000042_000001.wav|"Princess, help me!|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000044_000002.wav|I cannot propose to her at present, but the thought that perhaps she might someday be my wife and that I may be missing that possibility... that possibility... is terrible.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000008_000000.wav|"Strange and impossible as such happiness seems, I must do everything that she and I may be man and wife," he told himself.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000009_000000.wav|A few days previously Pierre had decided to go to Petersburg on the Friday.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000031_000000.wav|Pierre went to Princess Mary's to dinner.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000042_000007.wav|But I want to be a brother to her.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000054_000002.wav|You think...?"|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000005_000000.wav|It was a long time before Pierre could fall asleep that night.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000011_000000.wav|"Well, Savelich, do you still not wish to accept your freedom?" Pierre asked him.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000020_000001.wav|Natasha Rostova!"|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000052_000000.wav|"I know that she loves... will love you," Princess Mary corrected herself.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000036_000002.wav|He stayed so long that Princess Mary and Natasha exchanged glances, evidently wondering when he would go.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000057_000001.wav|And I will write to you," she said.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000017_000002.wav|Too soon or too late... it is terrible!"|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000060_000000.wav|When on saying good by he took her thin, slender hand, he could not help holding it a little longer in his own.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000062_000001.wav|"I shall look forward very much to your return," she added in a whisper.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000049_000001.wav|"I know..."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000015_000001.wav|"Supposing I suddenly marry... it might happen," he added with an involuntary smile.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000058_000000.wav|"To Petersburg?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000013_000000.wav|"And your children?"|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000020_000000.wav|At breakfast Pierre told the princess, his cousin, that he had been to see Princess Mary the day before and had there met-"Whom do you think?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000063_000001.wav|"'I shall look forward very much to your return....' Yes, yes, how did she say it?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000038_000000.wav|"So you are going to Petersburg tomorrow?" she asked.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000063_000003.wav|What is happening to me?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000006_000000.wav|He was thinking of Prince Andrew, of Natasha, and of their love, at one moment jealous of her past, then reproaching himself for that feeling.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000009_000001.wav|When he awoke on the Thursday, Savelich came to ask him about packing for the journey.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000002.wav|Fancy bothering about such trifles now!|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000029_000000.wav|On the same day the Chief of Police came to Pierre, inviting him to send a representative to the Faceted Palace to recover things that were to be returned to their owners that day.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000059_000002.wav|"Is it possible?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000044_000001.wav|"I don't know when I began to love her, but I have loved her and her alone all my life, and I love her so that I cannot imagine life without her.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000059_000001.wav|Natasha was less animated than she had been the day before; but that day as he looked at her Pierre sometimes felt as if he was vanishing and that neither he nor she existed any longer, that nothing existed but happiness.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000054_000001.wav|You think I may hope?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000054_000000.wav|"What makes you think so?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000043_000000.wav|He paused and rubbed his face and eyes with his hands.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000039_000003.wav|I will call round in case you have any commissions for me," said he, standing before Princess Mary and turning red, but not taking his departure.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000036_000003.wav|Pierre noticed this but could not go.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000051_000001.wav|Well?..." he said.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000039_000002.wav|Tomorrow-but I won't say good by yet.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000026_000000.wav|"No, she either doesn't understand or is pretending," thought Pierre.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000041_000001.wav|He quickly moved an armchair toward Princess Mary.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000014_000001.wav|With such masters one can live."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000015_000000.wav|"But what about my heirs?" said Pierre.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000012_000000.wav|"What's the good of freedom to me, your excellency?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000023_000000.wav|"I have seen the princess," she replied.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000053_000000.wav|Before her words were out, Pierre had sprung up and with a frightened expression seized Princess Mary's hand.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000042_000003.wav|Can I hope?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000028_000000.wav|"How kind they all are," thought Pierre.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000010_000004.wav|"Why?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000048_000000.wav|"But what am I to do?"|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000006_000001.wav|It was already six in the morning and he still paced up and down the room.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000041_000000.wav|When Natasha left the room Pierre's confusion and awkwardness immediately vanished and were replaced by eager excitement.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000056_000002.wav|But it can't be....|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000004.wav|What nonsense!|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000055_000001.wav|"Write to her parents, and leave it to me.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000036_000004.wav|He felt uneasy and embarrassed, but sat on because he simply could not get up and take his leave.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000006.wav|That's the way he was brought up, and everybody does it.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000035_000000.wav|Pierre dined with them and would have spent the whole evening there, but Princess Mary was going to vespers and Pierre left the house with her.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000039_000001.wav|"Yes... no.. to Petersburg?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000046_000000.wav|Princess Mary stopped.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000040_000002.wav|The weariness she had plainly shown before had now quite passed off.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000005.wav|Besides, why shouldn't he take bribes?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000010_000002.wav|Who is there in Petersburg?" he asked involuntarily, though only to himself.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000036_000000.wav|Next day he came early, dined, and stayed the whole evening.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000051_000000.wav|"Well?...|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000001.wav|"What a fine, good looking officer and how kind.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000032_000000.wav|As he drove through the streets past the houses that had been burned down, he was surprised by the beauty of those ruins.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000049_000000.wav|"Leave it to me," said Princess Mary.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000040_000001.wav|Princess Mary on the other hand instead of going away sank into an armchair, and looked sternly and intently at him with her deep, radiant eyes.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000058_000003.wav|But I may come again tomorrow?"|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000062_000000.wav|"Good bye, Count," she said aloud.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000037_000000.wav|Princess Mary, foreseeing no end to this, rose first, and complaining of a headache began to say good night.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000010_000006.wav|What a good fellow he is and how attentive, and how he remembers everything," he thought, looking at Savelich's old face, "and what a pleasant smile he has!"|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000010_000005.wav|But perhaps I shall go.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000045_000001.wav|"This is what I will say.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000063_000000.wav|And these simple words, her look, and the expression on her face which accompanied them, formed for two months the subject of inexhaustible memories, interpretations, and happy meditations for Pierre.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000044_000004.wav|Tell me what I am to do, dear princess!" he added after a pause, and touched her hand as she did not reply.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000003.wav|And they actually say he is not honest and takes bribes.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000019_000005.wav|"No, another time."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000010_000000.wav|"What, to Petersburg?|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000007_000002.wav|Evidently it has to be so," said he to himself, and hastily undressing he got into bed, happy and agitated but free from hesitation or indecision.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000032_000003.wav|Let's see what will come of it!"|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000019_000000.wav|"No, I'll put it off for a bit.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER eighteen|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000042_000008.wav|No, not that, I don't, I can't..."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000036_000001.wav|Though Princess Mary and Natasha were evidently glad to see their visitor and though all Pierre's interest was now centered in that house, by the evening they had talked over everything and the conversation passed from one trivial topic to another and repeatedly broke off.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000033_000003.wav|Had she been like this when he entered the day before he could not for a moment have failed to recognize her.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000025_000001.wav|It was a great pity."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000057_000000.wav|"Go to Petersburg, that will be best.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000056_000004.wav|No, it can't be!" Pierre kept saying as he kissed Princess Mary's hands.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000055_000003.wav|I wish it to happen and my heart tells me it will."|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4592/22179/4592_22179_000030_000000.wav|"And this man too," thought Pierre, looking into the face of the Chief of Police.|4592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291374/8619_291374_000011_000001.wav|Then laughed his heart; for the monster was minded, ere morn should dawn, savage, to sever the soul of each, life from body, since lusty banquet waited his will!|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291374/8619_291374_000011_000008.wav|Danes of the North with fear and frenzy were filled, each one, who from the wall that wailing heard, God's foe sounding his grisly song, cry of the conquered, clamorous pain from captive of hell.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291374/8619_291374_000005_000008.wav|Breca ne'er yet, not one of you pair, in the play of war such daring deed has done at all with bloody brand, -- I boast not of it!|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291374/8619_291374_000005_000013.wav|Lustily took he banquet and beaker, battle famed king.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291374/8619_291374_000006_000000.wav|Through the hall then went the Helmings' Lady, to younger and older everywhere carried the cup, till come the moment when the ring graced queen, the royal hearted, to Beowulf bore the beaker of mead. She greeted the Geats' lord, God she thanked, in wisdom's words, that her will was granted, that at last on a hero her hope could lean for comfort in terrors.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291379/8619_291379_000007_000006.wav|The wave roamer bode riding at anchor, its owner awaiting. As they hastened onward, Hrothgar's gift they lauded at length.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291379/8619_291379_000005_000000.wav|twenty six|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291379/8619_291379_000007_000007.wav|-- 'twas a lord unpeered, every way blameless, till age had broken -- it spareth no mortal -- his splendid might.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291379/8619_291379_000004_000005.wav|Be glad at banquet, warrior worthy!|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291379/8619_291379_000003_000000.wav|twenty five|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000002_000003.wav|Wealth of jewels, gold untold and gained in terror, treasure at last with his life obtained, all of that booty the brands shall take, fire shall eat it.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000000_000000.wav|thirty nine|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000005_000006.wav|Alive was he still, still wielding his wits.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000005_000014.wav|-- and the king was borne, hoary hero, to Hrones Ness.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000003_000003.wav|The fiery dragon, fearful fiend, with flame was scorched. Reckoned by feet, it was fifty measures in length as it lay.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000007_000001.wav|Wood smoke rose black over blaze, and blent was the roar of flame with weeping (the wind was still), till the fire had broken the frame of bones, hot at the heart.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000005_000013.wav|The dragon they cast, the worm, o'er the wall for the wave to take, and surges swallowed that shepherd of gems. Then the woven gold on a wain was laden -- countless quite!|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000002_000002.wav|No fragments merely shall burn with the warrior.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000005_000007.wav|The wise old man spake much in his sorrow, and sent you greetings and bade that ye build, when he breathed no more, on the place of his balefire a barrow high, memorial mighty.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000002_000001.wav|-- Now haste is best, that we go to gaze on our Geatish lord, and bear the bountiful breaker of rings to the funeral pyre.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291384/8619_291384_000002_000004.wav|No earl must carry memorial jewel.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000005_000008.wav|-- A good king he!|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000004_000000.wav|THEN the baleful fiend its fire belched out, and bright homes burned.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000007.wav|My brave are gone. And the helmet hard, all haughty with gold, shall part from its plating.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000006_000000.wav|thirty two|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000001.wav|At the awful sight tottered that guest, and terror seized him; yet the wretched fugitive rallied anon from fright and fear ere he fled away, and took the cup from that treasure hoard. Of such besides there was store enough, heirlooms old, the earth below, which some earl forgotten, in ancient years, left the last of his lofty race, heedfully there had hidden away, dearest treasure.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000021.wav|The barrow he entered, sought the cup, and discovered soon that some one of mortals had searched his treasure, his lordly gold.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000004_000004.wav|In its barrow it trusted, its battling and bulwarks: that boast was vain!|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000014.wav|His hoard of bliss that old ill doer open found, who, blazing at twilight the barrows haunteth, naked foe dragon flying by night folded in fire: the folk of earth dread him sore.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000003_000000.wav|thirty one|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000004.wav|Few words he spake: "Now hold thou, earth, since heroes may not, what earls have owned!|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000016.wav|So the barrow was plundered, borne off was booty.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8619/291381/8619_291381_000002_000018.wav|The stark heart found footprint of foe who so far had gone in his hidden craft by the creature's head.|8619
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000016_000002.wav|It seemed as though the ball, with its talk and its clatter, had suddenly become a thing remote-that the orchestra had withdrawn behind a hill, and the scene grown misty, like the carelessly painted in background of a picture.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000017_000002.wav|On perceiving an empty chair beside the mother and daughter, he hastened to occupy it, and though conversation at first hung fire, things gradually improved, and he acquired more confidence.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000031_000000.wav|Such were the unfavourable comments which Chichikov passed upon balls in general.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000026_000003.wav|You ought to be ashamed of yourself.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000006.wav|That some woman may not have to reproach her husband with the fact that, say, the Postmaster's wife is wearing a better dress than she is-a dress which has cost a thousand roubles!|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000010.wav|A grown, middle aged man-a man dressed in black, and looking as stiff as a poker-suddenly takes the floor and begins shuffling his feet about, while another man, even though conversing with a companion on important business, will, the while, keep capering to right and left like a billy goat!|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000004.wav|It is all done to provide wives-yes, may the pit swallow them up!--with fal lals.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000022_000002.wav|"I suppose your Excellency knows that this man traffics in dead peasants?" he bawled.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000024_000006.wav|Yes, by God, you are an utter swine!|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000024_000003.wav|And he wanted to bargain with me for my DEAD ones!|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000001.wav|In this province there exist want and scarcity everywhere: yet folk go in for balls!|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000013_000001.wav|"She is just fresh from school."|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000013.wav|At that moment she was drawing on a long glove and, doubtless, pining to be flying over the dancing floor, where, with clicking heels, four couples had now begun to thread the mazes of the mazurka.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000016.wav|Yet he approached them with great diffidence and none of his late mincing and prancing.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000019_000005.wav|This was unwise of him, since it never does to disregard ladies' opinions. Later but too late-he was destined to learn this to his cost.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000013_000000.wav|"I think that you have not met my daughter before?" said Madame.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000005_000010.wav|Next there followed a few reflections of a correctitude so remarkable that I have no choice but to quote them.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000026_000006.wav|Indeed, if you had stood there and said to me, 'Nozdrev, tell me on your honour which of the two you love best-your father or Chichikov?' I should have replied, 'Chichikov, by God!'" With that he tackled our hero again, "Come, come, my friend!" he urged.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000002_000014.wav|Very well.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000005_000015.wav|In conclusion, the writer gave way to unconcealed despair, and wound up with the following verses:|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000021_000004.wav|That is to say, he decided to vacate his present enviable position and make off with all possible speed, since he could see that an encounter with the newcomer would do him no good.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000028_000004.wav|But all was of no avail-matters kept going as awry as a badly bent hoop.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000033_000007.wav|We will reserve it for the ensuing chapter.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000025_000001.wav|The half tipsy Nozdrev, without noticing them, continued his harangue as before.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000002.wav|How absurd, too, were those overdressed women!|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000028_000001.wav|He felt much as does a man who, shod with well polished boots, has just stepped into a dirty, stinking puddle.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000000.wav|Chichikov stood rooted to the spot, like a man who, after issuing into the street for a pleasant walk, has suddenly come to a halt on remembering that something has been left behind him.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000012.wav|But Chichikov never even noticed him; he saw in the distance only the golden haired beauty.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000007_000000.wav|True, the last line did not scan, but that was a trifle, since the quatrain at least conformed to the mode then prevalent.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000024_000002.wav|For transferment, indeed!|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000031_000004.wav|Still more, on viewing the matter clearly, he felt vexed to think that he himself had been so largely the cause of the catastrophe.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000018_000000.wav|At this point I must reluctantly deviate to say that men of weight and high office are always a trifle ponderous when conversing with ladies. Young lieutenants-or, at all events, officers not above the rank of captain-are far more successful at the game.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000015.wav|However, Chichikov slipped past the mazurka dancers, and, almost treading on their heels, made his way towards the spot where Madame and her daughter were seated.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000016_000001.wav|Nevertheless, something strange, something which he could not altogether explain, had come upon him.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000026_000009.wav|No, do not resist me, Chichikov, but allow me to imprint at least one baiser upon your lily white cheek." And in his efforts to force upon Chichikov what he termed his "baisers" he came near to measuring his length upon the floor.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000007.wav|Every one of them had made up her mind to use upon him her every weapon, and to exhibit whatsoever might chance to constitute her best point.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000014_000000.wav|He replied that he HAD had the happiness of meeting Mademoiselle before, and under rather unexpected circumstances; but on his trying to say something further his tongue completely failed him.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000031_000001.wav|With it all, however, there went a second source of dissatisfaction.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000007.wav|'Balls and gaiety, balls and gaiety' is the constant cry.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000021_000003.wav|On sighting him in the distance, Chichikov at once decided to sacrifice himself.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000020_000000.wav|In short, dissatisfaction began to display itself on every feminine face.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000007_000001.wav|Neither signature nor date were appended to the document, but only a postscript expressing a conjecture that Chichikov's own heart would tell him who the writer was, and stating, in addition, that the said writer would be present at the Governor's ball on the following night.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000015_000008.wav|Yet the ladies' wiles proved useless, for Chichikov paid not the smallest attention to them, even when the dancing had begun, but kept raising himself on tiptoe to peer over people's heads and ascertain in which direction the bewitching maiden with the golden hair had gone.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000022_000001.wav|"Have you been doing much trade in departed souls lately?" With that he turned to the Governor.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000019.wav|Are, therefore, such functions right or wrong?|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000028_000002.wav|He tried to put away from him the occurrence, and to expand, and to enjoy himself once more.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000013.wav|No; a ball leaves one feeling that one has done a wrong thing-so much so that one does not care even to think of it.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000011.wav|Mimicry, sheer mimicry!|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000005.wav|And for what purpose?|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000024_000001.wav|And, behold, no sooner do I arrive here than I am told that he has bought three million roubles' worth of peasants for transferment!|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000022_000000.wav|"Ah, my fine landowner of Kherson!" he cried with a smile which set his fresh, spring rose pink cheeks a quiver.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000029_000001.wav|His heart ached with a dull, unpleasant sensation, with a sort of oppressive emptiness.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000003.wav|One of them must have had a thousand roubles on her back, and all acquired at the expense of the overtaxed peasant, or, worse still, at that of the conscience of her neighbour. Yes, we all know why bribes are accepted, and why men become crooked in soul.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000026_000007.wav|"Let me imprint upon your cheeks a baiser or two.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000008.wav|Yet what folly balls are!|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000023_000000.wav|Chichikov's discomfiture was complete.|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1987/144135/1987_144135_000030_000000.wav|"The devil take those who first invented balls!" was his reflection. "Who derives any real pleasure from them?|1987
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000012_000003.wav|She spoke of having a mother living in Hagerstown, by the name of Amarian Ballad, also three sisters who were slaves, and two who were free; she also had a brother in chains in Mississippi.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000018_000002.wav|In order to meet this demand he commonly resorted to oystering.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000009_000000.wav|Although these three passengers arrived in Philadelphia at the same time, they did not come from Maryland together.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000004_000002.wav|Never afterwards was Jack seen in that part of the country, at least as long as a fetter remained.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000021_000003.wav|In this sad case, the slaves could imagine no other fate than soon to be torn asunder and scattered. The fact was soon made known that the High Sheriff had administered on the estate of the late mistress; it was therefore obvious enough to William and the more intelligent slaves that the auction block was near at hand.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000025_000000.wav|Andrew was about twenty four years of age, very tall, quite black, and bore himself manfully.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000007_000000.wav|ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, eighteen fifty seven.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000022_000005.wav|William and one of the accommodating Captains running on the Richmond and Philadelphia Line, to the effect that he, William, should have a first class Underground Rail Road berth, so perfectly private that even the law officers could not find him.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000006_000003.wav|In defense of his course, Jack referred to the treatment which he had received while in servitude under his old master, in something like the following words: "I served under my young master's father, thirty five years, and from him received kind treatment.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000023_000003.wav|The separation from them was a trial such as rarely falls to the lot of mortals; but he nerved himself for the undertaking, and when the hour arrived his strength was sufficient for the occasion.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000006_000001.wav|His master evidently supposed that Jack would be mean enough to wish to see his wife, even in a free State, and that no slave, with such an unnatural desire, could be tolerated or trusted, that the sooner such "articles" were turned into cash the better.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000003_000001.wav|Until within two years of "Jack's" flight, the doctor "had been a very fine man," with whom Jack found no fault.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000018_000000.wav|William had been hired out almost his entire life.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000023_000002.wav|It was no light matter to bid them farewell forever.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000012_000001.wav|From a child, Amarian had been owned by mrs Elizabeth Key Scott, who resided near Braceville, but at the time of her flight she was living at Westminster, in the family of a man named "Boile," said to be the clerk of the court.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000014_000000.wav|WILLIAM CARNEY AND ANDREW ALLEN.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000021_000000.wav|In November, previous to William's escape, her long looked for dissolution took place.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000017_000003.wav|If a slave was maimed or killed under their correction, it was no loss of theirs.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000011_000003.wav|Whether they ever heard what became of their daughter is not known.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000016_000001.wav|Most of her slave property was kept on her plantation not far from Old Point Comfort.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000017_000005.wav|This system was organized and times were somewhat better.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000003_000003.wav|Nothing that Jack could do, met the approval of the doctor.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000013_000000.wav|ARRIVAL FROM norfolk virginia eighteen fifty seven.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000016_000000.wav|He belonged to the estate of the late mrs Sarah Twyne, who bore the reputation of being a lady of wealth, and owned one hundred and twelve slaves.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000022_000001.wav|Without stopping to consider the danger, he immediately made up his mind that he would make a struggle, cost what it might.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000003_000004.wav|Jack was constantly looked upon with suspicion.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000017_000002.wav|Having license to do as they pleased, they would of course carry their cruelties to the most extreme verge of punishment.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000016_000002.wav|According to William's testimony "of times mrs Twyne would meddle too freely with the cup, and when under its influence she was very desperate, and acted as though she wanted to kill some of the slaves."|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000012_000000.wav|Amarian was twenty one years of age, a person of light color, medium size, with a prepossessing countenance and smart; she could read, write, and play on the piano.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000012_000002.wav|In reference to treatment, Amarian said: "I have always been used very well; have had it good all my life, etc" This was a remarkable case, and, at first, somewhat staggered the faith of the Committee, but they could not dispute her testimony, consequently they gave her the benefit of the doubt.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000003_000002.wav|But suddenly his mode of treatment changed; he became very severe.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000004_000001.wav|"I dodged them," said Jack.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000011_000000.wav|Susan Jane came from New Market, near Georgetown Cross Roads, where she had been held to unrequited labor by Hezekiah Masten, a farmer.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000003_000000.wav|john fled from under the yoke of dr joshua r Nelson.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000020_000000.wav|With full faith in her promises year by year the slaves awaited her demise with as much patience as possible, and often prayed that her time might be shortened for the general good of the oppressed.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000006_000004.wav|I was his head man on the place, and had everything to look after."|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000017_000000.wav|After the evil spirit left her and she had regained her wonted composure, she would pretend that she loved her "negroes," and would make a great fuss over them.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/282977/8183_282977_000005_000000.wav|The day that he "dodged" he also took the Underground Rail Road, and although ignorant of letters, he battled his way out of Maryland, and succeeded in reaching Pennsylvania and the Committee.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000019_000000.wav|monday september twenty ninth fifty six.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000028_000000.wav|It cannot be denied that this is a most extraordinary occurrence.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000010_000005.wav|I will forward the money and a letter.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000006.wav|Please to let me know whether it would be convenient to you to go to New York if it is please let me know what is the expense.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000003.wav|Not a stone was left unturned until john was safely on the Underground Rail Road.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000010.wav|You will greatly oblige me by so doing.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000008.wav|As soon as the way opened for her, she followed him.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000010.wav|She was heart and soul with john in all his plans which looked Canada ward.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000005.wav|He was about thirty five years of age, light complexion-tall-rather handsome looking, intelligent, and of good manners.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000007_000000.wav|FIRST LETTER.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000005.wav|Please to let me know if the navigation between New York and Richmond is closed.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000010_000001.wav|If you can, I will pay the expense of the whole.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000020_000004.wav|You will please Direct the enclosed to mr w c|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000001.wav|From that time he had seen neither mother nor sister-they were sold separately.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000010_000006.wav|Please use your endeavors.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000011.wav|In this letter I have enclosed a trifle for postage which you will please to keep on account of my letters I hope you wont think hard of me but I simply send it because I know you have done enough, and are now doing more, without imposing in the matter I have done it a great many more of our people who you have done so much fore.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000002.wav|It was, however, a strange occurrence and very hard to understand.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000020_000006.wav|Let me know if you have heard anything of Willis Johnson mr and mrs Hill send their kind love to you, they are all well, no more at present from your affect.,|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000013_000000.wav|Direct yours to mr Hill.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000000.wav|It is very certain, that this Irish girl was not annoyed by the kinks in John's hair.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000015_000000.wav|HAMILTON, september fifteenth eighteen fifty six.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000023_000000.wav|FOURTH LETTER.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000011.wav|This it was that "sent him away."|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000004_000001.wav|john Hall arrived safely from richmond virginia, per schooner, (Captain B).|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000003.wav|I have been longing to hear some news from that part, you may think "Out of sight and out of mind," but I can assure you, no matter how far I may be, or in what distant land, I shall never forget you, if I can never reach you by letters you may be sure I shall always think of you.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000002.wav|For three or four years the desire to seek liberty had been fondly cherished, and nothing but the want of a favorable opportunity had deterred him from carrying out his designs.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000004.wav|I have found a great many friends in my life, but I must say you are the best one I ever met with, except one, you must know who that is, 'tis one who if I did not consider a friend, I could not consider any other person a friend, and that is mrs Hall.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000001.wav|As for your part that you done I will not attempt to tell you how thankful I am, but I hope that you can imagine what my feelings are to you.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000000.wav|DEAR SIR:--I am happy to inform you that we are both enjoying good health and hope you are the same.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000003.wav|He considered himself much "imposed upon" by his master, particularly as he was allowed "no choice about living" as he "desired." This was indeed ill treatment as john viewed the matter.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000005.wav|And when he was safe off, it is not too much to say, that john was not a whit more delighted than was his intended Irish lassie, Mary Weaver.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000018_000000.wav|THIRD LETTER.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000008.wav|The idea of having had a white father, in many instances, depreciated the pecuniary value of male slaves, if not of the other sex. john emphatically was one of this injured class; he evidently had blood in his veins which decidedly warred against submitting to the yoke.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000002_000000.wav|AN IRISH GIRL'S DEVOTION TO FREEDOM.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000011.wav|At least two or three of these letters, bearing on particular phases of their escape, etc, are too valuable not to be published in this connection:|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000001.wav|Nor was she overly fastidious about the small percentage of colored blood visible in John's complexion.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000008_000000.wav|HAMILTON, march twenty fifth eighteen fifty six.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000026_000000.wav|john HALL.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000004_000003.wav|john had been sold several times, in consequence of which, he had possessed very good opportunities of experiencing the effect of change of owners.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000020_000005.wav|Mayo, richmond virginia|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000009.wav|In addition to the influence which such rebellious blood exerted over him, together with a considerable amount of intelligence, he was also under the influence and advice of a daughter of old Ireland.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000004_000004.wav|Then, too, the personal examination made before sale, and the gratification afforded his master when he (john), brought a good price-left no very pleasing impressions on his mind.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000010_000002.wav|The person that I want the messenger to see is a white girl.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000021_000000.wav|john HALL|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000027_000000.wav|mr and mrs Hill desire their best respects to you and mrs Still.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000028_000003.wav|Probably there is not a state in the Union where such relations have not existed.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000002.wav|I suppose you have not heard from any of my friends at Richmond.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000025_000001.wav|I have been expecting a letter from you for some time but I suppose your business has prevented you from writing.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000028_000002.wav|It was, however, no uncommon thing for white men (slave holders) in the South to have colored wives and children whom, they did not hesitate to live with and acknowledge by their actions, with their means, and in their wills as the rightful heirs of their substance.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000006.wav|john had no sooner reached Canada than Mary's heart was there too.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000020_000003.wav|If any letters come for me please to send to me at Nortons Hotel, Please to let me know if you had a letter from me about twelve days ago.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000014_000000.wav|SECOND LETTER.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000004.wav|Doubtless she helped to earn the money which was paid for his passage.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000005.wav|He can be found out by seeing Fountain Tombs who belongs to mr Rutherford and if you should not see him, there is james Turner who lives at the Governors, Please to see Captain Bayliss and tell him to take these directions and go to john Hill, in Petersburgh, and he may find him.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000002.wav|I cannot find words sufficient to express my gratitude to you, I think the wedding will take place on Tuesday next, I have seen some of the bread from your house, and she says it is the best bread she has had since she has been in America.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000020_000002.wav|Mary desires you to give her love to mrs Still.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000008.wav|C. Mayo, and please to send it as directed.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000010_000000.wav|I have written to Virginia and have not received an answer yet. I want to know if you can get any one of your city to go to Richmond for me.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000011_000000.wav|Yours Respectfuliy,|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000006_000009.wav|It was quite manifest, that she had not let a single opportunity slide, but seized the first chance and arrived partly by means of the Underground Rail Road and partly by the regular train. Many difficulties were surmounted before and after leaving Richmond, by which they earned their merited success.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000009_000000.wav|mr Still:--Sir and Friend-I take the liberty of addressing you with these few lines hoping that you will attend to what I shall request of you.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000010_000003.wav|I expect you know who I allude to, it is the girl that sent me away.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000016_000000.wav|To mr Still, Dear Sir:--I take this opportunity of addressing these few lines to you hoping to find you in good health I am happy to inform you that Miss Weaver arrived here on Tuesday last, and I can assure you it was indeed a happy day.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000005_000000.wav|By one of his owners, named Burke, john alleged that he had been "cruelly used." When quite young, both he and his sister, together with their mother, were sold by Burke.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000004_000000.wav|"april twenty seventh eighteen fifty five.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000028_000001.wav|In some respects it is without a parallel.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118128/8183_118128_000020_000001.wav|I have told him not to pay for them but to send them to you so when you get them write me word what the cost of them are, and I will send you the money for them.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000020_000001.wav|A young woman with a little boy of seven years of age accompanied Rose Anna.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000004_000008.wav|The man whom Samuel was compelled to call master was named Hoyle.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000014_000006.wav|According to law he was entitled to his freedom at the age of twenty five.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000020_000000.wav|She fled from Isaac Tonnell of Georgetown, Delaware, in Christmas week, eighteen fifty three.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000011_000001.wav|The young couple were ready converts to the eloquent speech delivered to them by Hetty on Freedom, and were quite willing to accept her as their leader in the emergency.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000010_000002.wav|The motive which prompted them to escape was the fact that their master had "threatened to sell" them.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000004.wav|As Archer had been "sickly" most of the time, during the last year, he complained that there was "no reduction" in his hire on this account.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000004_000000.wav|This "piece of property" fled in the fall of eighteen fifty three.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000007.wav|He was near the Underground Rail Road, and was sure to find it, sooner or later.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000010.wav|Mary and her children were the only slaves owned by this Ennis, consequently her duties were that of "Jack of all trades;" sometimes in the field and sometimes in the barn, as well as in the kitchen, by which, it is needless to say, that her life was rendered servile to the last degree.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000008.wav|Until, however, she was convinced that her two children were to be sold, she could not quite muster courage to set out on the journey.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000008_000000.wav|Things went on favorably for about three months, when to their alarm "slave hunters were discovered in the neighborhood," and sufficient evidence was obtained to make it quite plain that, john, William and james were the identical persons, for whom the hunters were in "hot pursuit." When brought to the Committee, they were pretty thoroughly alarmed and felt very anxious to be safely off to Canada.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000003.wav|For their flight they chose the dead of Winter.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000004_000003.wav|For leaving, he gave the following reasons: "I found that I was working for my master, for his advantage, and when I was sick, I had to pay just as much as if I were well-seven dollars a month.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000000.wav|The mother was a woman of about thirty three years of age, quite tall, with a countenance and general appearance well fitted to awaken sympathy at first sight.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000014_000001.wav|Robert was about thirty years of age, dark color, quite tall, and in talking with him a little while, it was soon discovered that Slavery had not crushed all the brains out of his head by a good deal.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000005.wav|Probably the friends with whom they stopped thought the weather too inclement for a woman with children dependent on her support to travel.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000010.wav|For a number of years, he has been a citizen of Boston.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000001.wav|Her oldest child was a little girl seven years of age, named Lydia; the other was named Louisa Caroline, three years of age, both promising in appearance.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000000.wav|This passenger arrived from norfolk virginia in eighteen fifty three.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000002.wav|Archer declared that he had been "very badly treated" by the Doctor, which he urged as his reason for leaving.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000003.wav|But in the meantime he was growing very naturally in favor of the Underground Rail Road.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000004.wav|Hansel did not speak of his owner as being a hard man, but on the contrary he thought that he was about as "good" as the best that he was acquainted with.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000007_000001.wav|They procured employment in the neighborhood of Haddonfield, some six or eight miles from camden new jersey, and were succeeding, as they thought, very well.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000007.wav|She was ever watching for an opportunity, that would encourage her to hope for safety, when once the attempt should be made.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000020_000002.wav|Further than the simple fact of their having thus safely arrived, except the expense incurred by the Committee, no other particulars appear on the records.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000012_000003.wav|Here similar acts of charity were extended to them, and they were directed on to Canada.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000006_000000.wav|john SPENCER AND HIS SON WILLIAM, AND james ALBERT.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000009.wav|This threat to sell proved in multitudes of instances, "the last straw on the camel's back." When nothing else would start them this would.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000013_000000.wav|ROBERT FISHER.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000006.wav|When a slave reached this decision, he was in a very hopeful state.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000012_000002.wav|Thus safely, through the kind offices and aid of the friends at Quakertown, they were duly forwarded on to the Committee in Philadelphia.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000006.wav|Long before this mother escaped, thoughts of liberty filled her heart.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000008_000003.wav|The Committee procured their tickets, helped them to disguise themselves as much as possible, and admonished them not to stop short of Canada.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000007.wav|Nathan listened to the proposal, and was suddenly converted to freedom, and the two united during Christmas week, eighteen fifty four, and set out on the Underground Rail Road.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000014_000004.wav|The fact was, that he hated Slavery so decidedly and had such a clear common sense like view of the evils and misery of the system, that he declared he had as a matter of principle refrained from marrying, in order that he might have no reason to grieve over having added to the woes of slaves.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000014_000005.wav|Nor did he wish to be encumbered, if the opportunity offered to escape.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000009_000000.wav|HETTY SCOTT ALIAS MARGARET DUNCANS AND DAUGHTER PRISCILLA.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000011_000000.wav|She had three children of her own to bring, besides she was intimately acquainted with a young man and a young woman, both slaves, to whom she felt that it would be safe to confide her plans with a view of inviting them to accompany her.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000000.wav|But what right had a negro, which white slave holders were "bound to respect?" Many who had been willed free, were held just as firmly in Slavery, as if no will had ever been made.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000002.wav|This method, therefore, was considered out of the question.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000004.wav|From his experience Robert did not hesitate to say that his master was "mean," "a very hard man," who would work his servants early and late, without allowing them food and clothing sufficient to shield them from the cold and hunger.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000003.wav|Doubtless the mistress looked upon this course as a piece of the most highhanded stealing.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000005_000000.wav|The Committee's interview with Samuel was quite satisfactory, and they cheerfully accorded to him brotherly kindness and material aid at the same time.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000012_000001.wav|For prudential reasons it was deemed desirable to separate the party, to send some one way and some another.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000001.wav|While Hansel did not really own himself, he had the reputation of having a wife and six children.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000001.wav|Robert had too much sense to suppose that he could gain anything by seeking legal redress.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000009.wav|These they expected, but all were overcome, and they reached the Vigilance Committee, in Philadelphia safely, and were cordially welcomed.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000004_000001.wav|As a specimen of this article of commerce, he evinced considerable intelligence.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000016_000000.wav|HANSEL WAPLES.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000005.wav|While this was true, however, Hansel had quite good ground for believing that his master was about to sell him.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000007_000000.wav|These individuals escaped from the eastern shore of Maryland, in the Spring of eighteen fifty three, but were led to conclude that they could enjoy the freedom they had aimed to find, in New Jersey.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000010.wav|During the interview, a full interchange of thought resulted, the fugitives were well cared for, and in due time both were forwarded on, free of cost.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000004.wav|After leaving they made their way to West Chester, and there found friends and security for several weeks, up to the time they reached Philadelphia.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000009.wav|His arrival in Philadelphia, per one of the Richmond steamers, was greeted with joy by the Vigilance Committee, who extended to him the usual aid and care, and forwarded him on to freedom.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000023_000002.wav|They were the so called property of john Ennis, of Georgetown, Delaware.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000004_000002.wav|He was a man of dark color, although not totally free from the admixture of the "superior" southern blood in his veins; in stature, he was only ordinary.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000002.wav|In June, some six months prior to her husband's arrival, Hansel's wife had been allowed by her mistress to go out on a begging expedition, to raise money to buy herself; but contrary to the expectation of her mistress she never returned.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000000_000000.wav|FROM VIRGINIA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000008_000002.wav|But the dread of Slavery was strong in the minds of these fugitives, and they very fully realized their folly in stopping in New Jersey.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000014_000003.wav|Far from it.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000002_000001.wav|For the last four years previous to escaping, he had been under the yoke of dr George Wilson.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000014_000000.wav|THIS PASSENGER AVAILS HIMSELF OF HOLIDAY WEEK, BETWEEN CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S, TO MAKE HIS NORTHERN TRIP.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000008.wav|It is needless to say that they had trying difficulties to encounter.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000008_000001.wav|While the Committee always rendered in such cases immediate protection and aid, they nevertheless, felt, in view of the imminent dangers existing under the fugitive slave law, that persons disposed to thus stop by the way, should be very plainly given to understand, that if they were captured they would have themselves the most to blame.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000022_000000.wav|Mary arrived with her two children in the early Spring of eighteen fifty four.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000015_000005.wav|Robert certainly had unmistakable marks about him, of having been used roughly.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8183/118119/8183_118119_000017_000006.wav|Dreading this fate he made up his mind to go in pursuit of his wife to a Free state.|8183
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000019_000000.wav|With that, Katharine flounced out of the room by one door in a violent temper, and he, laughing, went out by the other.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000014_000000.wav|"How speed you with my daughter?"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000035_000000.wav|"Then," cried Katharine, losing patience, "let it be both, or one, or anything thou wilt."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000027_000000.wav|"What say you to a neat's foot?" said the servant.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000047_000001.wav|Contradicting again!|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000071_000000.wav|"What do you wish, sir?" she asked her husband.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000042_000000.wav|"It's nearly two," said Kate, but civilly enough, for she had grown to see that she could not bully her husband, as she had done her father and her sister; "it's nearly two, and it will be supper time before we get there."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000057_000001.wav|And Baptista said he was certain his daughter would come.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000056_000000.wav|"Content," cried the others.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000032_000000.wav|"But mustard is too hot."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000017_000000.wav|"I don't think," said Katharine, angrily, "you are acting a father's part in wishing me to marry this mad cap ruffian."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000057_000002.wav|But the servant coming back, said-|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000041_000000.wav|"Come, Kate, let's go to your father's, shabby as we are, for as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000057_000000.wav|Then Lucentio sent a message to the fair Bianca bidding her to come to him.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000024_000000.wav|So he welcomed her kindly to his house, but when supper was served he found fault with everything-the meat was burnt, he said, and ill served, and he loved her far too much to let her eat anything but the best.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000049_000002.wav|But Katharine answered with such spirit and such moderation, that she turned the laugh against the new bride.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000025_000000.wav|The next day, too, Katharine's food was all found fault with, and caught away before she could touch a mouthful, and she was sick and giddy for want of sleep.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000074_000000.wav|"Fetch them here."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000018_000000.wav|"Ah!" said Petruchio, "you and all the world would talk amiss of her. You should see how kind she is to me when we are alone.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000018_000001.wav|In short, I will go off to Venice to buy fine things for our wedding-for-kiss me, Kate! we will be married on Sunday."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000038_000000.wav|Just then Petruchio brought her some food-but she had scarcely begun to satisfy her hunger, before he called for the tailor to bring her new clothes, and the table was cleared, leaving her still hungry.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000076_000000.wav|"Here is a wonder!"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000012_000000.wav|"If you do that again, I'll cuff you," he said quietly; and still protested, with many compliments, that he would marry none but her.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000031_000000.wav|"I love it," said Kate.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000049_000000.wav|So they journeyed on to Baptista's house, and arriving there, they found all folks keeping Bianca's wedding feast, and that of another newly married couple, Hortensio and his wife.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000044_000000.wav|At last they started for her father's house.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000011_000000.wav|"Your wife!" cried Kate.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000039_000000.wav|"I will have them," cried Katharine.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000039_000001.wav|"All gentlewomen wear such caps as these-"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000026_000000.wav|"I pray thee go and get me some repast.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000040_000000.wav|"When you are gentle you shall have one too," he answered, "and not till then." When he had driven away the tailor with angry words-but privately asking his friend to see him paid-Petruchio said-|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000005_000001.wav|Much to their surprise he said yes, that was just the sort of wife for him, and if Katharine were handsome and rich, he himself would undertake soon to make her good tempered.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000079_000000.wav|"Well," said Baptista, "you have won the wager, and I will add another twenty thousand crowns to her dowry-another dowry for another daughter-for she is as changed as if she were someone else."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000043_000001.wav|Why, whatever I say or do, or think, you do nothing but contradict.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000068_000000.wav|They all began to laugh, saying they knew what her answer would be, and that she would not come.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000051_000000.wav|"You are wrong," said Petruchio, "let me prove it to you.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000067_000000.wav|"Better and better," cried Petruchio; "now go to your mistress and say I command her to come to me."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000047_000002.wav|It shall be sun or moon, or whatever I choose, or I won't take you to your father's."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000060_000000.wav|"You may think yourself fortunate if your wife does not send you a worse."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000069_000000.wav|Then suddenly Baptista cried-|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000028_000001.wav|Would she like tripe?|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000003_000000.wav|There lived in Padua a gentleman named Baptista, who had two fair daughters.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000026_000001.wav|I care not what."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000063_000000.wav|"Oh-if you entreat her," said Petruchio.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000034_000000.wav|"No," said the servant, "you must have the mustard, or you get no beef from me."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000077_000000.wav|"I wonder what it means," said Hortensio.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000009_000000.wav|"You've only heard half," said Katharine, rudely.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000038_000001.wav|Katharine was pleased with the pretty new dress and cap that the tailor had made for her, but Petruchio found fault with everything, flung the cap and gown on the floor vowing his dear wife should not wear any such foolish things.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000003_000002.wav|But Baptista said the elder daughter must marry first.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000015_000000.wav|"How should I speed but well," replied Petruchio-"how, but well?"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000033_000000.wav|"Why, then, the beef, and let the mustard go," cried Katharine, who was getting hungrier and hungrier.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000037_000000.wav|Then Katharine saw he was making fun of her, and boxed his ears.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000048_000000.wav|Then Katharine gave in, once and for all.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000041_000001.wav|It is about seven o'clock now.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000013_000000.wav|When Baptista came back, he asked at once-|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000020_000001.wav|His servant was dressed in the same shabby way, and the horses they rode were the sport of everyone they passed.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000061_000000.wav|"I hope, better," Petruchio answered.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000007_000000.wav|"Never mind," said Petruchio, "I love her better than ever, and long to have some chat with her."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000011_000001.wav|"Never!" She said some extremely disagreeable things to him, and, I am sorry to say, ended by boxing his ears.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000061_000001.wav|Then Hortensio said-|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000006_000001.wav|And just then her music master rushed in, complaining that the naughty girl had broken her lute over his head, because he told her she was not playing correctly.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000022_000000.wav|And his manner was so violent, and he behaved all through his wedding in so mad and dreadful a manner, that Katharine trembled and went with him. He mounted her on a stumbling, lean, old horse, and they journeyed by rough muddy ways to Petruchio's house, he scolding and snarling all the way.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000046_000000.wav|"It's the sun," said Katharine, and indeed it was.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000047_000000.wav|"I say it is the moon.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000030_000001.wav|"What do you say to a dish of beef and mustard?"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000016_000000.wav|"How now, daughter Katharine?" the father went on.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000048_000001.wav|"What you will have it named," she said, "it is, and so it shall be so for Katharine." And so it was, for from that moment Katharine felt that she had met her master, and never again showed her naughty tempers to him, or anyone else.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000062_000000.wav|"Go and entreat my wife to come to me at once."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000019_000001.wav|But whether she fell in love with Petruchio, or whether she was only glad to meet a man who was not afraid of her, or whether she was flattered that, in spite of her rough words and spiteful usage, he still desired her for his wife-she did indeed marry him on Sunday, as he had sworn she should.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000072_000000.wav|"Where are your sister and Hortensio's wife?"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000066_000000.wav|"She says you are playing some jest, she will not come."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000053_000000.wav|They proposed a wager of twenty crowns.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000005_000000.wav|A gentleman from Verona, named Petruchio, was the one they thought of, and, half in jest, they asked him if he would marry Katharine, the disagreeable scold.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000058_000000.wav|"Sir, my mistress is busy, and she cannot come."'|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000080_000000.wav|So Petruchio won his wager, and had in Katharine always a loving wife and true, and now he had broken her proud and angry spirit he loved her well, and there was nothing ever but love between those two.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000030_000000.wav|"I don't think that is good for hasty tempered people," said the servant.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148312/1851_148312_000024_000001.wav|At last Katharine, tired out with her journey, went supperless to bed.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000033_000000.wav|Still, half an hour's steady labour brought the little squad to the coveted point, and once again Professor Featherwit was almost literally stricken speechless,--for there, far below their present location, spread out in level expanse, lay the secret valley with all its marvels.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000006_000001.wav|"Not but that-I say, uncle Phaeton?"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000026_000000.wav|"Have we voyaged so far and seen so much, to rest content with so very little?" exclaimed the professor, hardly as precise of speech as under ordinary conditions.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000016_000001.wav|Not for us, especially, uncle, but for the aerostat?|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000017_000003.wav|The benighted world!|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000016_000002.wav|Even if these be not the people you imagine-"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000040_000000.wav|"Poor, ignorant devils!" sympathetically sighed the youngster.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000014_000000.wav|That question served to recall the professor to more material points, and, after a keen, sweeping look around, he nodded assent.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000039_000000.wav|"Or watching for the monster bird of prey, rather," suggested the elder Gillespie.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000025_000000.wav|"That's what's the matter with Hannah's cat!" cheerfully chipped in the irrepressible Waldo.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000012_000001.wav|Yet the gaze of Phaeton Featherwit as a rule kept turned towards that particular point, his eyes on fire, his lips twitching, his whole demeanour that of one who feels a discovery of tremendous importance lies just before him.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000024_000001.wav|We do not come as conquerors, weapons in hand, hearts filled with lust of blood.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000038_000001.wav|Flopping around like they hadn't any bigger business than to-Reckon they're looking for us to come back, Bruno?"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000013_000000.wav|"Are we going to land, uncle Phaeton?" queried Bruno, taking note of that preoccupation, which might easily prove dangerous under existing circumstances.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000017_000002.wav|Picture to yourselves what boundless fame and unlimited credit awaits our report to the outer world!|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000011_000000.wav|"Oh, you go to thunder, Bruno Gillespie!"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000010_000000.wav|"Both boys and girls galore, I expect, Kid; but you needn't borrow trouble on either score.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000017_000001.wav|Yonder lies the true Lost City, and we are-oh, try to comprehend all that statement means, my lads!|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000035_000000.wav|Numerous buildings stood in irregular array, for the most part of no great height, nor with many pretensions towards architectural beauty or grace of outline; but in the centre of the valley upreared its head a massive structure, pyramidal in shape, consisting of five comparatively narrow terraces, connected one with another only at each of the four corners, where stood a wide stepped flight of stones.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000036_000005.wav|Astounding!|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000036_000006.wav|Incredible-yet true!"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000040_000001.wav|"Well, we'll have to do a little missionary work in this quarter, before taking our departure, eh, uncle Phaeton?"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000007_000000.wav|"What is it now, Waldo?"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000036_000000.wav|"Behold!" huskily gasped the professor, intensely excited, yet still able to control the field glass through which he was eagerly scanning yonder marvels.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000026_000002.wav|Yonder lies the greatest discovery of the nineteenth century, and we are-Get a hustle on, boys! The day is waning, and with so much to see, to study, to-Come, I say!"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000004_000000.wav|The professor gave a great start at this almost reluctant suggestion, shrinking back with a look which fell not far short of being horrified. But then he rallied, forcing a laugh before speaking.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000028_000000.wav|The story told by Cooper Edgecombe, backed up by the articles taken from the person of the warrior whom he had slain in self defence, certainly had its weight; while the brief and imperfect glimpse which he had won of yonder valley helped to bear out that astounding belief.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000017_000005.wav|The-the-"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000044_000000.wav|"Look!|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000023_000001.wav|Then it was with gravely earnest speech which suitably affected his nephews.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000005_000002.wav|And, too; everything was so distinct and clearly outlined that one could-"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000025_000001.wav|"I say, uncle Phaeton, is it just a lie low here until yonder fellows grow tired of looking for what they can't find, then a flight on our part; or will we-"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000015_000001.wav|I wish to see more-I must secure a fairer view of the-of yonder place."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000036_000002.wav|And, yonder, the temple of sacrifice, unless my memory is-and look!|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000042_000001.wav|For one thing, he had long been a lover of the genial Prescott, and, now that his memory was freshened in part, was able to closely follow the course of that little lecture, noting each strong point made by the professor in bolstering up his delightful theory.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000008_000000.wav|"Reckon they're like any other people?|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000036_000003.wav|The people are-they wear just such garb as-Oh, marvellous!|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000024_000002.wav|To the contrary, we are on a peaceful mission, hoping to learn, trusting to enlighten, with malice towards none, but honest love for all those who may wear the human shape, be they of our own colour or-or-otherwise."|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000042_000000.wav|Bruno listened with greater interest than his brother could summon at will.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000016_000000.wav|"Will it not be too dangerous, though?|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000006_000000.wav|"Fairly feel those blessed bow arrows tickling a fellow in the short ribs," vigorously declared the younger Gillespie.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/151817/1851_151817_000019_000000.wav|"Time enough, lad, time enough, since we are going to land," coolly assured the professor, deftly manipulating the steering gear and still curying around those tree crowned hills.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000018_000000.wav|"Don't!|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000029_000011.wav|Are things ready?"|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000034_000003.wav|Is everything ready?" he added.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000032_000000.wav|"Oh yes, it is horribly stupid," said Pierre.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000025_000000.wav|"And do you feel quite calm?" Rostov asked.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000018_000001.wav|Don't!|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000018_000002.wav|What are you about?" whispered their frightened voices.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000016_000000.wav|"How dare you take it?" he shouted.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000029_000009.wav|Can't I go away from here, run away, bury myself somewhere?" passed through his mind.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000034_000000.wav|"No!|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000034_000002.wav|"It's all the same....|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000006_000000.wav|"What are you about?" shouted Rostov, looking at him in an ecstasy of exasperation.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000014_000000.wav|"Here's to the health of lovely women, Peterkin-and their lovers!" he added.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000022_000000.wav|"You...! you... scoundrel!|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1851/148962/1851_148962_000022_000001.wav|I challenge you!" he ejaculated, and, pushing back his chair, he rose from the table.|1851
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000024_000001.wav|Then school is out".|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000017_000001.wav|Then: "No, no, Birdie, don't touch!" in quite a different tone to Minnie, who laid loving hands on a box of raisins.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000040_000000.wav|Ester's lip curled a little.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000012_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000013_000000.wav|ESTER'S HOME.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000053_000000.wav|"O, yes; I'm better.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000020_000000.wav|Sadie Ried opened the door that led from the dining room to the kitchen, and peeped in a thoughtless young head, covered with bright brown curls:|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000059_000000.wav|"You wouldn't think so by to morrow evening," Ester said, shortly. "No, I can't go."|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000056_000000.wav|"Maggie is ironing."|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000022_000001.wav|Her pink gingham dress, and white, ruffled apron-yes, and the very school books which she swung by their strap, waking a smothered sigh in Ester's heart.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000055_000000.wav|"Can't Maggie do any of these things?"|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000025_000001.wav|"We've been down to the river since school."|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000053_000001.wav|Ester, you look dreadfully tired.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000043_000000.wav|"Which is a difficult thing to do, however," dr Van Anden said, speaking soberly too.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000014_000000.wav|She did not look very much as if she were asleep, nor acted as though she expected to get a chance to be very soon.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000040_000001.wav|mrs Holland had nothing in the world to do, from morning until night, but to keep herself cool.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000037_000002.wav|There was a moment's hush while mr Hammond asked a blessing on the food; then the merry talk went on.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000021_000000.wav|"How are you, Ester?"|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000054_000000.wav|"Only to trim the lamps, and make three beds that I had not time for this morning, and get things ready for breakfast, and finish Sadie's dress."|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000038_000001.wav|"It was as much as I could do to keep cool in the store, and we generally ARE well off for a breeze there."|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000038_000000.wav|"This has been one of the scorching days," mr Holland said.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000037_000000.wav|The tall clock in the dining room struck five, and the dining bell pealed out its prompt summons through the house.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000031_000000.wav|"Come, Birdie, Auntie Essie's cross, isn't she?|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000048_000000.wav|The household laughed, and Sadie came to the rescue.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000039_000001.wav|"I gave it up long ago in despair."|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000033_000000.wav|Back and forth, from dining room to pantry, from pantry to dining room, went the quick feet At last she spoke:|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000026_000000.wav|"Sadie, won't you come and cut the beef and cake, and make the tea?|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000057_000002.wav|Sadie, are you going to the lyceum tonight?"|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000046_000000.wav|Ester's cheeks glowed yet more.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000029_000001.wav|Go up stairs out of my way, and Alfred too. Sadie, take Minnie with you; I can't have her here another instant. You can afford to do that much, perhaps."|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000023_000000.wav|"O, my patience!" was her greeting.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000047_000001.wav|Were you, Auntie Essie?"|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000014_000001.wav|There was no end to the things which she had to do, for the kitchen was long and wide, and took many steps to set it in order, and it was drawing toward tea time of a Tuesday evening, and there were fifteen boarders who were, most of them, punctual to a minute.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000027_000000.wav|Sadie looked sober.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000030_000000.wav|"O, Ester, you're cross!" said Sadie, in a good humored tone, coming forward after the little girl.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000058_000000.wav|"Yes, ma'am.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000058_000002.wav|Ester, can't you go down?|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000032_000000.wav|And Minnie-Ester's darling, who never received other than loving words from her-went gleefully off, leaving another heartburn to the weary girl.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000026_000001.wav|I did not know it was so late, and I'm nearly tired to death."|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000046_000001.wav|She understood dr Van Anden, and she knew her face did not look very self controlled.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000022_000000.wav|And she emerged fully into the great warm kitchen, looking like a bright flower picked from the garden, and put out of place.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000060_000000.wav|The work was all done at last, and Ester betook herself to her room. How tired she was!|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000061_000000.wav|It was a pleasant little room, this one which she entered, with its low windows looking out toward the river, and its cosy furniture all neatly arranged by Sadie's tasteful fingers.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000042_000000.wav|"Something besides keeping cool," Ester answered soberly.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000041_000000.wav|"Miss Ester looks as though the heat had been too much for her cheeks," mrs Brookley said, laughing.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000060_000001.wav|Every nerve seemed to quiver with weariness.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000046_000002.wav|No one knows what prompted Minnie to speak just then.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000035_000000.wav|"I'm just ironing mr Holland's shirt," objected Maggie.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000045_000000.wav|"I have found trouble sometimes in keeping myself at the right temperature even in January."|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000016_000000.wav|So Ester hurried to and from the pantry, with quick, nervous movements, as the sun went toward the west, saying to Maggie who was ironing with all possible speed:|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000051_000000.wav|Sadie hovered around the pale, sad faced woman while she ate.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000044_000000.wav|"I don't know, sir; if I had nothing to do but that, I think I could manage it."|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000058_000003.wav|Never mind that dress; let it go to Guinea."|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000057_000000.wav|mrs Ried sighed.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/168062/3157_168062_000029_000000.wav|"Here, Julia"--to the ten year old newcomer-"Go away from that raisin box, this minute.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000019_000002.wav|Two hundred thousand tons per year have been taken from the lake and yet there is no hole to be seen.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000008_000003.wav|The sea is nearly always rough and the weather always hot.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000017_000003.wav|It is also used extensively for calking vessels, making waterproof roofs, lining cold storage plants, making varnishes as well as shoe blacking as well as in a hundred other ways.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000009_000003.wav|At the piers will be noticed bags of coffee and cocoa beans, great quantities of rubber and piles of hides.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000008_000000.wav|The main port or entrance to this country is La Guaira and sailors say it is about the worst port to enter in the world.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000005_000000.wav|It is surprising to know that Venezuela is as large as Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, the two Virginias, North and South Carolina and Georgia combined.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000007_000000.wav|We are not ashamed of our revolution in seventeen seventy six for its purpose was to gain our independence.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000010_000003.wav|The tracks cling to the mountain sides almost like vines cling to brick walls, and the curves are so short that one riding in the end coach can nearly reach the engineer.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000006_000003.wav|He robbed merchants of other countries who tried to do business with his government.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000007_000001.wav|During the past seventy or eighty years Venezuela has had more than a half hundred revolutions but generally they were gotten up to give an excuse for pillage and robbery rather than to make a better country or government.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000003_000000.wav|Years ago two miners worked together for months and finally came to know each other as Tom and Jack.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000019_000001.wav|The asphalt is dug from the edges of the lake, loaded on carts, hauled to the port and from there shipped to nearly every country on the globe.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000012_000001.wav|It was he who suggested that negroes be imported to labor in the fields and mines that the Indians might have an easier time. Brought from Africa to work that the Indians might rest, these black people became the slaves of all.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000009_000000.wav|All along this coast strip of Venezuela are plantations generally covered with cocoa trees.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000006_000004.wav|He imprisoned those who refused to assist him and ran things in a high handed way.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000018_000001.wav|This is the most noted deposit of asphalt known.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000024_000001.wav|This is the great need of many of the countries of South America today.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000003_000001.wav|One day Tom was not well and could not do much but watch Jack dig.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000021_000001.wav|Some believe that the two deposits are connected by a subterranean passage and supplied from the same source.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000008_000001.wav|This port city contains about fifteen thousand people and has but a single street.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000020_000002.wav|The heat is intense all around this lake.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000023_000000.wav|One reason why the people of this country have no ambition to lay up for the future or even get large herds of cattle has been because of the numerous revolutions of the past.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000016_000000.wav|It is rather strange that in this country with lovely and productive valleys whose irrigated orchards and gardens make a regular paradise, that the farming classes should be poor and ignorant, without ambition or education and be satisfied to live in comfortless, tumble down huts without furniture or any of the improvements that make life worth living.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000010_000001.wav|This city, Caracas, is about as large as Sioux city iowa, but to get to it is some job.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000006_000002.wav|Even the president of Venezuela was for years a criminal.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000010_000004.wav|One can look hundreds of feet into caverns and gorges that seem almost like the bottomless pit.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000004_000003.wav|Is it not about time we were getting acquainted and shaking hands with each other?|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000007_000002.wav|Things are better now, however, and a new day is dawning for these unhappy people.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000009_000001.wav|From the beans of this tree are made cocoa and chocolate.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000004_000001.wav|This country is nearer to Florida than New Orleans is to New York and yet we have lived side by side for four hundred years and hardly knew we were neighbors.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000014_000000.wav|In one of the large museums is a room in which are kept the great liberator's clothing, saddle, boots and spears and these things are as sacred to them as the Ark of the Covenant was to the Jews.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000005_000001.wav|It is a country that has a thousand rivers.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000018_000000.wav|At the mouth of the Orinoco river is the Island of Trinidad upon which is the famous pitch lake.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000003_000002.wav|After noting some movements of the body that seemed familiar he said: "Jack, where did you come from?" The two men sat down and talked of boyhood days and found that they were born in the same community and had played together when they were small boys.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000019_000000.wav|This material is of a dark green color and at the border is hard and strong enough to bear quite a heavy weight, but near the center it is almost like a boiling mass.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000008_000002.wav|The high mountains are so near the sea that there is only a narrow strip of land at the foot and on this narrow strip the city is built.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000020_000000.wav|The government of Trinidad has leased the asphalt lake to an American company and the income amounts to nearly a quarter of a million dollars per year.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000022_000002.wav|More than two million head of cattle feed, upon these llanos, but they are capable of feeding many times that number.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000025_000000.wav|It is therefore with pride that one can say that considering all the complex problems with which the American farmer has to grapple, he is a hundred times better off than his brother farmers in any country in the world.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000016_000003.wav|In his miserable home he has no lamp or candle, no books or papers of any sort.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000023_000001.wav|Every time they have succeeded in getting large herds of cattle or stores of grain a revolution would come and their property be seized and often destroyed.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000017_000002.wav|This makes the smoothest street paving of any material known.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000024_000000.wav|No people can be prosperous and happy without a stable government, schools and colleges and the influences that are uplifting.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000015_000001.wav|This great river system drains a territory of three hundred and sixty thousand square miles.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000012_000000.wav|Here lived Las Casas, a priest who was the Indian's greatest champion in the early days and who is said to be the father of African Slavery in the new world.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000006_000001.wav|Its treasury has been looted again and again.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000006_000005.wav|Business firms of other lands found this out and did not care to do business with such a country or help develop its resources in any way.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000021_000002.wav|It was from this inland lake of asphalt that the material was procured to protect the New York subway tunnels from moisture, so it is said.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000004_000002.wav|We might have been friends and greatly assisted each other all these years.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000009_000004.wav|As we are nearer to them than other foreign countries we now use much of their products.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000009_000005.wav|The population of this great country is only a little more than that of the state of Iowa.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000008_000004.wav|How people can endure such extreme heat all the time is a mystery.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000010_000002.wav|It is only about twenty five miles by rail and this railroad was about as difficult to build as any of our mountain railroads.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000016_000002.wav|Here where there are millions of coffee trees, fields of sugar cane and orchards of oranges, lemons and all kinds of tropical fruit, where the farmer could be happiest, he is about the most miserable creature that could be found.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000013_000001.wav|Even the coins of the old days were stamped with Bolivar's name and everywhere he is revered as the George Washington of that country.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000018_000002.wav|This lake is a mile and a half across and looks, from a distance, like a pond surrounded with trees.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000020_000001.wav|Nobody knows how deep the asphalt bed is for borings have been made a hundred feet or more deep and there was no bottom.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000015_000000.wav|Through this country runs one of the world's greatest rivers, the Orinoco, which with its tributaries furnishes more than four thousand miles of navigable rivers.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000002_000000.wav|A COUNTRY WITH A THOUSAND RIVERS-VENEZUELA|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000005_000003.wav|One writer says that of all the countries in the world Venezuela is the one for which God has done the most and man has done the least.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000022_000001.wav|The chief industry here is cattle raising.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000014_000001.wav|In this same room is a portrait of Washington upon which is the inscription: "This picture of the liberator of North America is sent by his adopted son to him who acquired equal glory in South America."|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000004_000000.wav|Venezuela is our nearest neighbor to the south.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER nineteen|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/68361/3157_68361_000017_000001.wav|This is asphalt, or mineral pitch as it is sometimes called.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000036_000000.wav|--If you are indoors, sit or stand against an inside wall (preferably in the basement), or in an inside doorway; or else take cover under a desk, table or bench (in case the wall or ceiling should fall).|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000006_000001.wav|If there isn't time to do this-or if you are walking-take cover and lie flat in the nearest depression, such as a ditch, culvert, excavation, or ravine.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000025_000000.wav|--Travel by daylight and use major highways if you can.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000038_000001.wav|Remain in the car until the disturbance subsides.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000018_000001.wav|Also, flashlights or lanterns would be needed.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000020_000001.wav|Avoid all unnecessary trips.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000037_000000.wav|--If you are outdoors, stay away from overhead electric wires, poles or anything else that might shake loose and fall (such as the cornices of tall buildings).|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000019_000000.wav|--Consult page seventy two of this handbook for other supplies and equipment that you may need if isolated at home.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000034_000001.wav|Don't run or panic.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000028_000004.wav|Set your directional lights to flashing, raise the hood of your car, or hang a cloth from the radio aerial or car window.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000028_000006.wav|If you run the engine to keep warm, remember to open a window enough to provide ventilation and protect you from carbon monoxide poisoning.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000015_000001.wav|If you live in a rural area, make sure you could survive at home for a week or two in case a storm isolated you and made it impossible for you to leave.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000004_000001.wav|If not, go to a corner of your home basement and take cover under a sturdy workbench or table (but not underneath heavy appliances on the floor above).|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000029_000000.wav|Wherever you are, if there is no house or other source of help in sight, do not leave your car to search for assistance, as you may become confused and get lost.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000027_000001.wav|Stop, turn back, or seek help if conditions threaten that may test your ability or endurance, rather than risk being stalled, lost or isolated.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000026_000001.wav|Don't try to save time by travelling faster than road and weather conditions permit.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000019_000001.wav|Be sure to keep on hand the simple tools and equipment needed to fight a fire.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000003_000003.wav|Your best protection is an underground shelter or cave, or a substantial steel framed or reinforced concrete building. But if none of these is available, there are other places where you can take refuge:|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000028_000001.wav|If your car breaks down during a storm, or if you become stalled or lost, don't panic.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000016_000000.wav|--Keep an adequate supply of heating fuel on hand and use it sparingly, as your regular supplies may be curtailed by storm conditions.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000017_000000.wav|--Stock an emergency supply of food and water, as well as emergency cooking equipment such as a camp stove.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000034_000002.wav|If you take the proper precautions, the chances are you will not be hurt.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000024_000001.wav|It also is good to have with you heavy gloves or mittens, overshoes, extra woolen socks, and winter headgear to cover your head and face.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000009_000000.wav|Here is advice that will help you protect yourself and your family against the hazards of winter storms-blizzards, heavy snows, ice storms, freezing rain, or sleet.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000039_000000.wav|AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000008_000000.wav|WINTER STORMS|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000032_000000.wav|EARTHQUAKES|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000025_000001.wav|Keep the car radio turned on for weather information and advice.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000007_000000.wav|CHAPTER four|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000027_000000.wav|--Don't be daring or foolhardy.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000035_000001.wav|If you are outdoors, stay outdoors; if indoors, stay indoors.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000018_000000.wav|--Make sure you have a battery powered radio and extra batteries on hand, so that if your electric power is cut off you could still hear weather forecasts, information and advice broadcast by local authorities.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000003_000001.wav|The warning means that a tornado has actually been sighted, and this (or other tornadoes) may strike in your vicinity.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000036_000001.wav|Stay away from windows and outside doors.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000030_000001.wav|Every winter many unnecessary deaths occur because people-especially older persons, but younger ones as well-engage in more strenuous physical activity than their bodies can stand.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000031_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000038_000002.wav|When you drive on, watch for hazards created by the earthquake, such as fallen or falling objects, downed electric wires, and broken or undermined roadways.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000022_000000.wav|--Take another person with you if possible.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000010_000003.wav|You should also understand the terms commonly used in weather forecasts:|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000035_000000.wav|--REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000016_000003.wav|This could be a camp stove with fuel, or a supply of wood or coal if you have a fireplace.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000020_000002.wav|If you must travel, use public transportation if possible.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000024_000000.wav|--Have emergency "winter storm supplies" in the car, such as a container of sand, shovel, windshield scraper, tow chain or rope, extra gasoline, and a flashlight.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000005_000001.wav|In a factory, go to a shelter area, or to the basement if there is one.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000028_000005.wav|Then stay in your car and wait for help to arrive.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000016_000001.wav|If necessary, conserve fuel by keeping the house cooler than usual, or by "closing off" some rooms temporarily.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000028_000002.wav|Think the problem through, decide what's the safest and best thing to do, and then do it slowly and carefully.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER three|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000030_000004.wav|In winter weather, and especially in winter storms, be aware of this danger, and avoid overexertion.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000035_000002.wav|In earthquakes, most injuries occur as people are entering or leaving buildings (from falling walls, electric wires, etc).|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000020_000003.wav|However, if you are forced to use your automobile for a trip of any distance, take these precautions:|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000019_000002.wav|Also, be certain that all family members know how to take precautions that would prevent fire at such a time, when the help of the fire department may not be available.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000028_000003.wav|If you are on a well traveled road, show a trouble signal.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000021_000000.wav|--Make sure your car is in good operating condition, properly serviced, and equipped with chains or snow tires.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000011_000001.wav|It combines cold air, heavy snow, and strong winds that blow the snow about and may reduce visibility to only a few yards.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000002_000002.wav|Also, keep watching the sky, especially to the south and southwest.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000023_000000.wav|--Make sure someone knows where you are going, your approximate schedule, and your estimated time of arrival at your destination.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000010_000001.wav|Use your radio, television and newspapers to keep informed of current weather conditions and forecasts in your area.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000004_000004.wav|Do not remain in a trailer or mobile home if a tornado is approaching; take cover elsewhere.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000033_000000.wav|If your area is one of the places in the United States where earthquakes occur, keep these points in mind:|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000026_000000.wav|--Drive with all possible caution.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000030_000003.wav|If you add to this physical exercise, especially exercise that you are not accustomed to-such as shovelling snow, pushing an automobile, or even walking fast or far-you are risking a heart attack, a stroke, or other damage to your body.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000004_000002.wav|If your home has no basement, take cover under heavy furniture on the ground floor in the center part of the house, or in a small room on the ground floor that is away from outside walls and windows.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000017_000001.wav|Some of this food should be of the type that does not require refrigeration or cooking.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000016_000004.wav|If your furnace is controlled by a thermostat and your electricity is cut off by a storm, the furnace probably would not operate and you would need emergency heat.|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3157/119295/3157_119295_000015_000002.wav|You should:|3157
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4071/39913/4071_39913_000060_000000.wav|"'Yes.|4071
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000010_000001.wav|"I'm the assistant sexton at saint Matthew's Church."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000023_000000.wav|"I do it," said Finnegan, "because I have to live.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000067_000002.wav|"But think of the people who are suffering-nobody spares them!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000019_000001.wav|I never touch the stuff myself."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000025_000004.wav|So what's a man to do?"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000052_000001.wav|Only realize it-right at this very moment there are people starving to death-and here in Lockmanville!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000018_000005.wav|It takes away their self control.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000030_000000.wav|"But it'd have to be a steady job," put in the other.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000030_000001.wav|"I can take no chances with the baby."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000046_000001.wav|And isn't that what I'm trying to do?"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000007_000002.wav|Why should he continue selling liquor?|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000061_000003.wav|And if it's a question of there not being enough food, look at what's wasted in a place like Master Albert's!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000039_000000.wav|There was a pause.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000025_000002.wav|I'm on the job all day and a good part of the night, and standing up all the time.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000053_000001.wav|It's because there is too much cloth already."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000035_000001.wav|I can't find employment for everyone in Lockmanville."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000016_000000.wav|"mr|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000061_000000.wav|"So much the better, doctor!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000054_000001.wav|"And it doesn't sound right to me.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000052_000002.wav|They want to work, and there is no work for them! I could take you to see them, sir-girls who want a job in mr Wygant's cotton mill, and he won't give it to them!"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000048_000000.wav|"Why, doctor, aren't you the head of the church?|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000011_000000.wav|"You don't say!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000007_000004.wav|He must help Finnegan.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000046_000000.wav|"And you told me that the only way to escape from that was to live for others-to serve them and help them.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000044_000001.wav|"Don't you see that, dr Vince?" he persisted.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000002_000003.wav|Truly, the church was a great institution-the solution of all the puzzles and problems of life.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000018_000006.wav|It makes them unfit for their work.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000018_000004.wav|Drink makes men cruel and selfish.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000015_000000.wav|The other stared at him.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000063_000001.wav|"Doctor!" he exclaimed.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000055_000001.wav|But they haven't money to buy the cloth---"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000066_000001.wav|The doctor winced visibly.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000044_000000.wav|The boy waited.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000041_000000.wav|"Yes," said the other, "but that's what Professor Stewart taught men. And you said it was wicked of him."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000015_000001.wav|"Gee!" he said, "are you going to take me up in your airship?"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000054_000002.wav|There are too many people who need good clothes.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000013_000001.wav|"What is it?"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000057_000001.wav|Why couldn't he let them make cloth for themselves?"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000068_000001.wav|dr Vince sat rigid, clutching the arms of his chair.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000045_000000.wav|"Yes, I see that," said the doctor.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000032_000001.wav|"Do you carry 'em round in your pockets?"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000036_000000.wav|"But, doctor!" protested Samuel, "I don't think you understand.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000057_000000.wav|There was no reply; and after a moment Samuel rushed on: "Surely it is selfish of mr Wygant to shut poor people out of his mill, just because they have no money.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000067_000003.wav|And how can you be silent, doctor-how can the shepherd of Christ be silent while some of his flock are living in luxury and others are starving to death?"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000024_000000.wav|"It seems such a terrible trade!" exclaimed the boy.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000034_000001.wav|He stated his case; and the other threw up his hands in despair.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000037_000000.wav|"I understand all that Samuel."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000043_000001.wav|"It puts you right back with Herbert Spencer!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000034_000000.wav|And so, forthwith, he made his way to the doctor's house, and was ushered into the presence of the unhappy clergyman.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000054_000000.wav|"I've been thinking about that," said Samuel earnestly.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000048_000001.wav|And the people come to you to be taught.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eighteen|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120318/7939_120318_000018_000002.wav|Think what drink does to men?|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000051_000004.wav|Plunderers of the public! Corrupters of the state!"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000031_000000.wav|"But why not, sir?|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000023_000001.wav|"Anybody can find out about these things if he wants to.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000061_000000.wav|"And what came of it?"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000012_000002.wav|And Samuel, seeing curiosity and interest in his look, sprang toward him.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000004_000000.wav|Then, as he waited, he saw an automobile draw up in front of the side entrance, and saw mr Wygant step out and enter.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000046_000000.wav|"I want the vestry to investigate these charges.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000021_000001.wav|"dr Vince, you know that I am telling the truth.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000036_000000.wav|"Hardly in that sense, Samuel," said the terrified doctor.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty five|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000031_000002.wav|They hold the church up to disgrace before all the world.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000004_000002.wav|There was the proud rich man, defiant and unpunished, seated in the place of authority; while Samuel, the Seeker, was turned out of the door!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000032_000000.wav|"But yours is not the way to go about it, boy!" exclaimed mr Hamerton-who was alarmed because Samuel kept looking at him.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000035_000000.wav|"Are we not taught to follow Christ's example, dr Vince?" asked the boy.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000046_000002.wav|And if it is true, I want you to drive such men from the church!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000062_000001.wav|"She was terribly unhappy.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000008_000000.wav|dr Vince sprang to his feet in terror.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000036_000002.wav|And we can hardly be expected-"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000009_000001.wav|"And I will not submit to it!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000066_000000.wav|"She scolded me!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000042_000001.wav|"It is blasphemy!"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000015_000002.wav|It's true, and you know it's true, and you don't dare to deny it!"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000051_000001.wav|But I tell you I will not give up without a fight.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000009_000002.wav|I have spoken the truth, and I will not permit the evil doers in saint Matthew's to silence me!"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000017_000000.wav|"I have talked with one of the men who got the money!" cried Samuel. "There was two thousand dollars paid to ten of the supervisors."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000039_000000.wav|"I may be an infidel, mr Curtis," replied the other, quickly; "but I never paid two hundred dollars to Slattery so that the police would let me block the sidewalks of the town."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000005_000004.wav|And he had a right to belong to it-and to speak the truth in it, too!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000026_000000.wav|"I told you nothing of the sort!" declared the man.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000031_000003.wav|And this is the church of Christ, sir!"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000018_000000.wav|"Who is this man?" cried the other furiously.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000012_000001.wav|This was mr Hamerton, a young lawyer, whose pleasant face Samuel had often noticed.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000010_000001.wav|"Boy," he commanded, "leave this room!"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000046_000006.wav|They are the enemies the church exists to fight-"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000024_000001.wav|"WHAT!" he shouted.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000029_000000.wav|"The poor people in this town are suffering and dying!" cried Samuel. "And they are being robbed and oppressed.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000066_000001.wav|She was very angry with me.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000058_000000.wav|"I went to see little Ethel," she replied.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000010_000000.wav|mr Hickman had sprung up.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000015_000001.wav|"You bribed it to beat the water bill!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000051_000003.wav|The people shall know you for what you are-cowards and hypocrites, faithless to your trust!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000028_000000.wav|"I submit that this is an outrage!" exclaimed mr Hickman.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000044_000001.wav|"mr Hamerton, won't you help me?"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000046_000003.wav|They have no place in the church, sir!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000004_000001.wav|The sight was like a blow in the face to him.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000013_000000.wav|"Don't let them turn me out without a hearing!" he cried.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000009_000000.wav|"I have been ordered out of the church!" proclaimed Samuel.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000051_000002.wav|I will expose you and denounce you to the world!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000053_000004.wav|You a Christian-you might be the Roman soldier who spat in Jesus' face!"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000008_000001.wav|"Samuel Prescott!" he exclaimed.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000016_000000.wav|mr Hickman was purple in the face with rage.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000005_000003.wav|The church was not their church-it was the church of God!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000003_000000.wav|Samuel rushed away into the darkness.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000036_000001.wav|"Christ was God.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000066_000002.wav|She said I had no right to fill the child's mind with falsehoods about her uncle.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000031_000001.wav|The guilty men are high in the councils of this church.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000037_000005.wav|And the rich men of His time despised Him and spit upon Him and crucified Him!"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000015_000000.wav|"You corrupted the city council!" shrilled Samuel.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000055_000000.wav|For at least a couple of hours Samuel paced the streets of Lockmanville, to let his rage and grief subside.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000011_000003.wav|I have spoken the truth, and nothing but the truth!"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000034_000001.wav|There was a pause after it, as if everyone were willing to let his neighbor speak first.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000043_000000.wav|"It must stop instantly," put in mr Wygant.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000020_000000.wav|"Aha!" laughed the other.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000053_000003.wav|I have been among the lowest-I have been with saloon keepers and criminals-with publicans and harlots and thieves-but never yet have I met a man as merciless and as hard as you!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000045_000000.wav|"What do you want us to do?" demanded mr Hamerton.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000012_000000.wav|"What is the boy talking about?" demanded another of the vestrymen.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000062_000000.wav|"She cried," said Sophie.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000025_000001.wav|"Didn't you tell me this very afternoon?"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000041_000005.wav|You are crucifying Him again every day!"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120325/7939_120325_000005_000002.wav|He would fight them-he would fight to the very end.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000014_000003.wav|And that we continue to hold a meeting every night thereafter until we have made good our right."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000025_000003.wav|And so I ask you to join with me in taking this pledge-that we will speak on the streets of Lockmanville next Saturday night, and that we will continue to speak there as often as need be until we have vindicated our rights as American citizens."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000028_000002.wav|But I will help."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000006_000005.wav|What would they think of him?|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000044_000000.wav|Masters, we left you a world to make, the planning was yours to do-|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000030_000002.wav|"But I will speak also!"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000019_000000.wav|"I am ready to do what I can," added the lawyer.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000006_000003.wav|Suppose he should not be able to make a speech after all!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000005_000002.wav|Most of them were working men, but there were several who appeared to be well to do shopkeepers and clerks.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000053_000000.wav|We come your dungeon walls to raze, your citadel to spoil!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000024_000003.wav|They were facing arrest and imprisonment, humiliation and disgrace-perhaps ruin and starvation. Only in this way could they reach the ears of the people.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000031_000002.wav|Will you let me help?"|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000032_000000.wav|"No one's help will be refused in a crisis like this," said Everley.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000010_000000.wav|"I took the liberty of ordering circulars," continued Everley.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000022_000000.wav|Samuel listened in breathless excitement to this discussion.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000036_000000.wav|Hark to the thunder, hark to the tramp-a myriad army comes!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000032_000001.wav|"We must stand by our guns, for if they can crush us this time, it may be years before we can be heard."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000007_000002.wav|And because he saw that these were people who understood, he found himself a case, and thinking no longer about himself.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000033_000001.wav|Others took it up, until the walls of the building shook with a mighty chant.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000011_000000.wav|"I second that motion," said mrs Barton.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000014_000000.wav|"Now," said Everley, "I suggest that the local make this the occasion of a contest for the right to hold street meetings in Lockmanville.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000005_000000.wav|The "local" met in an obscure hall, over a grocery shop.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000027_000001.wav|If I am arrested, I know that I will not get it.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000015_000004.wav|Now they must make a stand.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000033_000002.wav|"What is it?" whispered Samuel to Friedrich.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000051_000000.wav|We come in the right of our new born might to set the people free!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000008_000003.wav|If we do not take up this fight, we might just as well give up."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000005_000003.wav|Samuel noticed that they all called one another "comrade"; and several of them addressed him thus, which gave him a queer feeling.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000017_000000.wav|"I realize it," said Everley.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000016_000000.wav|"You realize that it will mean going to jail?" asked dr Barton.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000028_000000.wav|"And I am in Wygant's cotton mill," said another.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000015_000001.wav|Everley launched into an impassioned speech.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000006_000002.wav|The boy stood upon his feet-and suddenly a deadly terror seized hold upon him.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000008_000001.wav|"Comrades," he said, "for the past year I have been urging that the local must make a fight for free speech in this town.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000006_000007.wav|The poor were suffering, and the truth was crying out for vindication!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000054_000000.wav|Yours is the power of club and jail, yours is the axe and fire-|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000014_000001.wav|As you know, the police have refused permits ever since the strike.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000038_000000.wav|And overhead a portent new, a blood red banner see!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000009_000000.wav|"That's right," cried Beggs, the old carpenter.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000012_000001.wav|And our people ought to hear this story, as well as the members of the church."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000024_000002.wav|They knew what they were facing at this moment; not only Chief McCullagh with his policemen and their clubs; not only the subsidized "Express" with its falsehoods and ridicule: but all the political and business power of the Hickmans and Wygants.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000012_000000.wav|"It must be understood," added Everley, "that we can't expect help from the papers.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000010_000001.wav|"There was no time to be lost, and I felt sure that the comrades would back me. I now move that the local take charge of the meeting to morrow evening, and that the two thousand circulars I have here be given out secretly to night."|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000005_000001.wav|There were present those whom Samuel had met the night before, and about a score of others.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000043_000000.wav|We come in the right of our new born might to set the people free!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000023_000004.wav|Wherever Capitalism had come, there men were uniting against it; and every day their power grew-there was nothing that could stop them.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000004_000000.wav|After supper that evening came Everley with Friederich Bremer, to take Samuel to the meeting of the local, where he was to tell his story.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000007_000003.wav|He talked for nearly half an hour, and there was quite a sensation when he finished.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000017_000001.wav|"We shall probably have to go several times.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000057_000000.wav|Ours the host, the marching host-hark to our battle song!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000047_000000.wav|We have builded a temple with pillars white, ye have stained it with blood and tears!|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7939/120330/7939_120330_000014_000002.wav|And I move that beginning with Thursday evening, we hold a meeting on the corner of Market and Main streets, and tell this story to the public.|7939
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000074_000000.wav|"You don't think, then, that the keeper knows anything of it?" I asked.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000021_000001.wav|He carried a fowling piece slung at his back.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000055_000000.wav|"Did she not leave you?"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000003_000000.wav|The Donjon Inn was of no imposing appearance; but I like these buildings with their rafters blackened with age and the smoke of their hearths-these inns of the coaching days, crumbling erections that will soon exist in the memory only.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000060_000000.wav|Mother Angenoux planted herself in front of the forest keeper and struck the floor with her stick.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000004_000000.wav|I saw at once that the Donjon Inn was at least two centuries old-perhaps older.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000042_000000.wav|And she entered, followed by a cat, larger than any I had ever believed could exist.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000061_000001.wav|"But shall I tell you something?|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000042_000001.wav|The beast looked at us and gave so hopeless a miau that I shuddered.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000054_000002.wav|There was no one to care for me but the Bete du bon Dieu!"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000027_000001.wav|He's an upstart who must once have had a fortune of his own; and he forgives nobody because, in order to live, he has been compelled to become a servant.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000028_000000.wav|"Does he often come here?"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000008_000000.wav|I had made my friend understand by a sign that we should do better not to insist; but, being determined to enter the inn, he slipped by the man on the doorstep and was in the common room.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000054_000000.wav|"Yes, Monsieur keeper.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000071_000000.wav|"Now we'll grill our steak.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000029_000000.wav|"Too often.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000020_000002.wav|There was no need for me to draw Rouletabille's attention; he had already left our omelette and had joined the landlord at the window.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000010_000004.wav|On the mantelpiece was arrayed the innkeeper's collection of figured earthenware pots and stone jugs.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000012_000000.wav|"I know," said my friend slowly; "I know-We shall have to eat red meat-now."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000037_000000.wav|The innkeeper looked at him sideways and said gruffly:|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000005_000000.wav|When we were close to him, he deigned to see us and asked us, in a tone anything but engaging, whether we wanted anything.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000005_000001.wav|He was, no doubt, the not very amiable landlord of this charming dwelling place.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000007_000000.wav|"I'm not afraid of the police-I'm not afraid of anyone!" replied the man.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000033_000000.wav|"What does that prove?--But I don't want to mix myself up in other people's affairs."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000025_000001.wav|"Don't you know him?|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000009_000000.wav|"Come on," he said, "it is very comfortable here."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000064_000000.wav|He held out a packet to the old woman, who took it eagerly and went out by the door, closely followed by her cat.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000029_000001.wav|But I've made him understand that his face doesn't please me, and, for a month past, he hasn't been here.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000017_000000.wav|She disappeared.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000010_000001.wav|The room was a tolerably large one, furnished with two heavy tables, some stools, a counter decorated with rows of bottles of syrup and alcohol.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000045_000000.wav|As the Green Man entered, Daddy Mathieu had started violently; but visibly mastering himself he said:|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000076_000002.wav|He said only, "Ah!"--a word which, in his mouth, signified many things.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000071_000001.wav|How do you like the cider?--It's a little tart, but I like it."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000057_000000.wav|"Are you sure of that?"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000030_000000.wav|"The concierges of the chateau are honest people, then?"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000069_000000.wav|"I don't know who you are who tell me 'We shall have to eat red meat-now'; but if it will interest you to know it-that man is the murderer!"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000027_000004.wav|He'll not let a poor creature eat a morsel of bread on the grass his grass!"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000025_000003.wav|He is not an acquaintance to make.--Well, he is Monsieur Stangerson's forest keeper."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000067_000001.wav|Take yourself off."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000017_000002.wav|The landlord let us do our own cooking and set our table near one of the windows.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000021_000003.wav|He wore eye glasses and appeared to be about five and forty years of age.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000015_000000.wav|The innkeeper said to her roughly:|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000014_000000.wav|Meantime the man had pushed open a little side door and called to somebody to bring him half a dozen eggs and a piece of beefsteak.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000011_000001.wav|"We have no chicken-not even a wretched rabbit," said the landlord.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000077_000000.wav|We were about to take the road leading to the chateau, when a considerable stir at the park gate attracted our attention.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000061_000000.wav|"I don't know anything about it," she said.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000046_000000.wav|"I've no more cider; I served the last bottles to these gentlemen."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000061_000002.wav|There are no two cats in the world that cry like that.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000050_000000.wav|"Quite well, thank you."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000031_000000.wav|"Yes, they are, as true as my name's Mathieu, monsieur.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000010_000003.wav|A coloured advertisement lauded the many merits of a new vermouth.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000029_000004.wav|Why, the concierges of the chateau would turn their eyes away from a picture of him!"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000005_000002.wav|As we expressed a hope that he would be good enough to furnish us with a breakfast, he assured us that he had no provisions, regarding us, as he said this, with a look that was unmistakably suspicious.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000025_000002.wav|Then all the better for you.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000003_000002.wav|They make us think of the Road, of those days when highwaymen rode.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000062_000003.wav|The Green Man quickly rose and hurried to the door by the side of the fireplace; but it was opened by the landlord who appeared, and said to the keeper:|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000073_000000.wav|Rouletabille at once set off on a three mile walk round Professor Stangerson's estate.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000072_000000.wav|We saw no more of Daddy Mathieu that day, and absolute silence reigned in the inn when we left it, after placing five francs on the table in payment for our feast.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000061_000004.wav|I crossed myself when I heard that, as if I had heard the devil."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000023_000000.wav|"He has done well not to come in here to day!" he hissed.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000035_000000.wav|"Of the murder of poor Mademoiselle Stangerson?--A good girl much loved everywhere in the country.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000052_000001.wav|Mother Angenoux was still standing, leaning on her stick, the cat at her feet.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000075_000000.wav|"We shall see that, later," he replied.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000038_000000.wav|"Not even yours."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164328/3008_164328_000075_000002.wav|The landlord hates him.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000009_000000.wav|"That path is as you see, topped with gravel," he said; "the man must have passed along it going to the pavilion, since no traces of his steps have been found on the soft ground.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000039_000000.wav|"What makes you think that?" I asked, "since these footmarks are not continued on the path?"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000066_000000.wav|The great Fred spoke quite seriously.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000074_000000.wav|"I shall beat him!" he cried.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000012_000000.wav|I begged of him not to be angry; but he was too much irritated to listen to me and declared, ironically, that he admired the prudent doubt with which certain people approached the most simple problems, risking nothing by saying "that is so, or 'that is not so." Their intelligence would have produced about the same result if nature had forgotten to furnish their brain pan with a little grey matter.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000071_000000.wav|And laughing a little, in a slightly bantering tone, his hands in his pockets, Rouletabille fixed his cunning eyes on the great Fred.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000047_000000.wav|"Then there were two?"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000053_000000.wav|"No!" replied Monsieur Darzac.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000031_000001.wav|"Aha!" he said, rising.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000052_000000.wav|"If we had a bicycle here, we might demonstrate the correctness of the young man's reasoning, Monsieur Robert Darzac.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000066_000001.wav|However, I could not refrain from uttering an exclamation.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000044_000000.wav|Here, after looking at the marks of the bicycle, which followed, going and coming, the neat footprints, I thought I might intervene.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000050_000002.wav|If there had been a man on the bicycle, the wheels would have sunk deeply into the soil.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000060_000001.wav|"You'd make a wonderful detective-if you had a little more method-if you didn't follow your instincts and that bump on your forehead.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000051_000000.wav|"Bravo!--bravo!" cried Fred again, and coming suddenly towards us and, planting himself in front of Monsieur Robert Darzac, he said to him:|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000062_000002.wav|You are right, when you say that Mademoiselle Stangerson fired her revolver, but you are wrong when you say that she wounded the murderer in the hand."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000006_000000.wav|The three of us went back towards the pavilion.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000037_000001.wav|The great Fred may have seen us approaching, but we probably interested him very little, for he took hardly any notice of us and continued to be stirring with his cane something which we could not see.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000069_000001.wav|After a moment he said:|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000013_000004.wav|What do you say, Monsieur Darzac?"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000053_000001.wav|"There is not.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000056_000001.wav|There are no two ways of reasoning in this affair.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000045_000003.wav|It might be supposed that the murderer was working for the other."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000015_000000.wav|"Besides," he added, "at five o'clock Monsieur Stangerson went into the room to fetch his daughter's hat."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000058_000000.wav|"Yes, this afternoon.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000075_000000.wav|And he danced a double shuffle.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000056_000002.wav|I am waiting for the arrival of my chief before offering any explanation to the examining magistrate."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000068_000000.wav|"The man allowed the blood to flow into his hand and handkerchief, and dried his hand on the wall.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000036_000000.wav|A few minutes later we reached the lake.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000007_000000.wav|"That's where the murderer came from to get into the pavilion."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000070_000001.wav|You, already, have your idea about the murderer, Monsieur Fred.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000009_000001.wav|The man didn't have wings; he walked; but he walked on the gravel which left no impression of his tread.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000046_000002.wav|These are not the footmarks of the murderer!"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000005_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000050_000003.wav|No, no; there was but one man there, the murderer on foot."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000049_000000.wav|"Very good!--Very good!" cried Frederic Larsan.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000040_000001.wav|"See!"--and he called to Frederic Larsan.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000060_000000.wav|"Really-you are an extraordinary fellow-for your age!" replied the detective in a tone not wholly free from irony.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000021_000000.wav|"And what is your hypothesis?"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000025_000000.wav|I could not but observe that Monsieur Darzac was deeply moved; and I suspected that Rouletabille's confident assertion was not pleasing to him.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000010_000000.wav|"After all it is very possible," I said.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000057_000000.wav|"Ah!|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000072_000001.wav|Shrugging his shoulders, he bowed to us and moved quickly away, hitting the stones on his path with his stout cane.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000042_000001.wav|"You see, there are steps that come, and steps that go back."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000014_000000.wav|Monsieur Darzac shook his head and said he was sure of the chambermaid's fidelity, and that she was a thoroughly honest and devoted servant.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000076_000000.wav|We thought he was about to faint.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000043_000000.wav|"And the man had a bicycle!" cried the reporter.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000067_000000.wav|The reporter looked gravely at Fred, who looked gravely at him.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000017_000001.wav|It was an act which would necessarily draw the attention of those who had left it open."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000046_000001.wav|"I have expected to find these footmarks from the very beginning.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000076_000001.wav|His eyes, bulging with terror, avoided us, while his right hand, with a spasmodic movement, twitched at the beard that covered his honest, gentle, and now despairing face.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000074_000001.wav|"I shall beat the great Fred, clever as he is; I shall beat them all!"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000075_000002.wav|My eyes followed his gaze; they were fixed on Monsieur Robert Darzac, who was looking anxiously at the impression left by his feet side by side with the elegant footmarks.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000072_000000.wav|Frederic Larsan silently contemplated the young reporter who pretended to be as wise as himself.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000033_000001.wav|See, just in front of the little path leading to the lake, that was his nearest way to get out."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000058_000001.wav|He is going to summon, before the magistrate, in the laboratory, all those who have played any part in this tragedy.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000064_000000.wav|Fred, imperturbable, interrupted him:|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000045_000001.wav|"The murderer, with his rough boots, mounted a bicycle.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000013_000001.wav|So don't say a thing is possible, when it could not be otherwise.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000052_000001.wav|Do you know whether there is one at the chateau?"|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000012_000001.wav|As I appeared vexed, my young friend took me by the arm and admitted that he had not meant that for me; he thought more of me than that.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000040_000000.wav|"What makes me think that?--Why these footprints, which I expected to find!" he cried, pointing to the sharply outlined imprint of a neat boot.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000029_000000.wav|We were passing by the thicket, of which the young reporter had spoken to us a minute before.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000078_000002.wav|Then he fitted the new paper pattern with the one he had previously made-the two were exactly alike.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000045_000000.wav|"The bicycle explains the disappearance of the murderer's big foot prints," I said.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000055_000000.wav|"Yes," said my young friend; "I have an idea."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000078_000001.wav|From his pocket book he took a piece of white paper as I had seen him do before, and with his scissors, cut out the shape of the neat bootmarks that were on the ground.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000078_000000.wav|He, also, appeared to be deeply concerned.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000013_000000.wav|"If I did not reason as I do in regard to this gravel," he went on, "I should have to assume a balloon!--My dear fellow, the science of the aerostation of dirigible balloons is not yet developed enough for me to consider it and suppose that a murderer would drop from the clouds!|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000022_000000.wav|"You will never know if it does not turn out to be the truth.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000031_000000.wav|Having said this, he asked me for the paper pattern of the footprint which he had given me to take care of, and applied it to a very clear footmark behind the thicket.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000038_000001.wav|The man continued his flight to Paris."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000075_000001.wav|Suddenly he stopped.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000060_000004.wav|You have seen the stain on the wall, but I have only seen the handkerchief."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000013_000003.wav|The fact of the presence of the chambermaid-who had come to clean up The Yellow Room-in the laboratory, when Monsieur Stangerson and his daughter returned from their walk, at half past one, permits us to affirm that at half past one the murderer was not in the chamber under the bed, unless he was in collusion with the chambermaid.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000041_000000.wav|"Monsieur Fred, these neat footprints seem to have been made since the discovery of the crime."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000035_000001.wav|There must be some important marks there."|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3008/164327/3008_164327_000070_000000.wav|"There is something-a something, Monsieur Frederic Larsan, much graver than the misuse of logic the disposition of mind in some detectives which makes them, in perfect good faith, twist logic to the necessities of their preconceived ideas.|3008
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000015_000000.wav|mr Tebrick unlocked the door and they went in.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000025_000000.wav|And as he had now stayed on, contrary to what he had said, there would be further rumour.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000017_000000.wav|But we may conclude that mrs Tebrick was as sorry to see her old Nanny as her husband was glad.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000005_000004.wav|So he called out to her then:|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000028_000004.wav|To be sure there was little Polly, mrs Cork's granddaughter, but either mr Tebrick forgot her altogether, or else reckoned her as a mere baby and not to be thought of as a danger.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000034_000002.wav|His vixen was tired by then, as well as he, and they slept together, he in the bed and she under it, very contentedly.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000005_000001.wav|Then she ran hither and thither a stark naked vixen, and without giving a glance to her poor husband who stood silently now upon the bank, with despair and terror settled in his mind.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000000.wav|"Poor thing.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000033_000000.wav|He took down his precious hamper, unharnessed his two horses, covered them with rugs and gave them their corn.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000003_000002.wav|Luckily they were all swimming when she got there (for a stream running into the pond on the far side it was not frozen there).|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000005.wav|There is no exception to the rule that if a man drink heavily at night the next morning will show the other side to his nature.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000003.wav|It is a shame, and your own wife too.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000011_000002.wav|Then he recognised the intruder, it was his wife's old nurse.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000006.wav|Thus with mr Tebrick, for as he had been beastly, merry and a very dare devil the night before, so on his awakening was he ashamed, melancholic and a true penitent before his Creator.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000015_000003.wav|She would do it.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000031_000002.wav|mr Tebrick drove with the hamper beside him on the front seat, and spoke to her gently very often.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000015_000002.wav|They couldn't live like that, a gentleman must have somebody to look after him.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000015_000004.wav|He could trust her with the secret."|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000012_000000.wav|"What are you doing here, mrs Cork?" he asked her.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000013_000000.wav|mrs Cork answered him in these words:|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000015_000001.wav|When mrs Cork saw the house she exclaimed again and again: "The place was a pigstye.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000009.wav|Being in this mood you may imagine it hurt him to see his wife running about naked, but he reflected it would be a bad reformation that began with breaking faith.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000020_000000.wav|So it was time after time (for the old woman was used to having her own way) until mrs Cork would, I think, have tried punishing her if she had not been afraid of mrs Tebrick's rows of white teeth, which she often showed her, then laughing afterwards, as if to say it was only play.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000017_000001.wav|If we consider that she had been brought up strictly by her when she was a child, and was now again in her power, and that her old nurse could never be satisfied with her now whatever she did, but would always think her wicked to be a fox at all, there seems good reason for her dislike.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000000_000001.wav|Indeed at one time nothing but holding her by the scruff prevented her from getting away from him, but at last he achieved his object and she was washed, brushed, scented and dressed, although to be sure this left him better pleased than her, for she regarded her silk jacket with disfavour.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000022_000003.wav|But now that she had failed she bore her mistress a grudge for not being won over, or at the best was become indifferent to the business, so that she might very readily blab.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000026_000000.wav|Hearing this story of myself diverted me at the time, but I fully believe it has served me in good stead since.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000028_000001.wav|It was thirty miles away from Stokoe, which in the country means as far as Timbuctoo does to us in London.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000008_000001.wav|I see you glory in being so, but I shall not reproach you but shall stick to my side of the bargain, and you must stick to yours."|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000034_000000.wav|They drove on again and then the snow began to come down and that in earnest, so that he began to be afraid they would never cover the ground.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000001_000001.wav|Then his difficulties with her began for she would go out, but as he had his housework to do, he could not allow it.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000002.wav|It is a shame to let her run about like a dog.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000022_000002.wav|For he saw that vanity had kept her mouth shut if she had won over her mistress to better ways, and her love for her would have grown by getting her own way with her.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000016_000000.wav|Had the old woman come the day before it is likely enough that mr Tebrick would have sent her packing.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000034_000001.wav|But just after nightfall they got in, and he was content to leave unharnessing the horses and baiting them to Simon, mrs Cork's son.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000000.wav|He built a big fire when he came back to the house and took a glass or two of spirits also, to warm himself up, for he was chilled to the very bone.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000008_000000.wav|"Oh, Silvia, are you not wilful and cunning?|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000026_000001.wav|For it set me on my guard as perhaps nothing else would have done, against accepting for true all floating rumour and village gossip, so that now I am by second nature a true sceptic and scarcely believe anything unless the evidence for it is conclusive.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000023_000000.wav|For the moment all mr Tebrick could do was to keep her from going into Stokoe to the village, where she would meet all her old cronies and where there were certain to be any number of inquiries about what was going on at Rylands and so on.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000004.wav|To what lengths he went then in that drunken humour I shall not offend my readers by relating, but shall only say that he was so drunk and sottish that he had a very imperfect recollection of what had passed when he woke the next morning.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000005_000000.wav|Presently she turned on herself and began tearing off her clothes, and at last by biting got off her little jacket and taking it in her mouth stuffed it into a hole in the ice where he could not get it.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000006_000002.wav|If any dog came on you he would kill you."|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000007.wav|I couldn't sleep thinking of her.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000018_000000.wav|It is certain that whatever hopes mr Tebrick had of mrs Cork affecting his wife for the better were disappointed.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000033_000002.wav|She was quite beside herself with joy, running hither and thither, bouncing up on him, looking about her and even rolling over on the ground.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000017_000003.wav|We know her husband was always trying to bring her back to be a woman, or at any rate to get her to act like one, may she not have been hoping to get him to be like a beast himself or to act like one?|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000017_000004.wav|May she not have thought it easier to change him thus than ever to change herself back into being a woman?|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000033_000001.wav|Then he opened the basket and let his wife out.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000010_000004.wav|He took her through the fields by the most unfrequented ways, being much alarmed lest they should be seen by anyone.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000008.wav|So I've come back to look after her, as I have done all her life, sir," and she stooped down and took mrs Tebrick by the paw.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000008.wav|Then he got up and dressed but continued very melancholy for the whole of the morning.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000033_000003.wav|mr Tebrick took this to mean that she was glad at making this journey and rejoiced equally with her.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000007_000000.wav|Directly he had finished speaking she came to him joyously, began fawning on him and prancing round him so that in spite of his vexation with her, and being cold, he could not help stroking her.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000033_000004.wav|As for mrs Cork, she sat motionless on the back seat of the dogcart well wrapped up, eating her sandwiches, but would not speak a word.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000010_000000.wav|For the same reason, that is because he would stick to his side of the bargain, he did not require her to sit up at table, but gave her her breakfast on a dish in the corner, where to tell the truth she on her side ate it all up with great daintiness and propriety.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000021_000001.wav|On this, mr Tebrick, who had let the old woman have most of her management to see what she could make of her, took her back under his own control.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000005_000002.wav|She let him stay there most of the afternoon till he was chilled through and through and worn out with watching her.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000028_000003.wav|Nor did it mean imparting his secret to others, for there was only mrs Cork's son, a widower, who being out at work all day would be easily outwitted, the more so as he was stone deaf and of a slow and saturnine disposition.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000005_000003.wav|At last he reflected how she had just stripped herself and how in the morning she struggled against being dressed, and he thought perhaps he was too strict with her and if he let her have her own way they could manage to be happy somehow together even if she did eat off the floor.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000004.wav|But whatever she looks like, you should trust her the same as ever.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000032_000001.wav|He knew that any living creature in a hamper, even if it be only an old fowl, always draws attention; there would be several loafers most likely who would notice that he had a fox with him, and even if he left the hamper in the cart the dogs at the inn would be sure to sniff out her scent.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000017_000002.wav|And it is possible, too, that there may have been another cause as well, and that is jealousy.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000025_000003.wav|He had long grown a nuisance to his friends as an exorbitant sponge upon them, and the world was well rid of him.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000002_000002.wav|In the afternoon he took her out for her airing in the garden.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000003_000001.wav|No-there was only one thing for her now-the ducks, and she was off to them before he could stop her.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000029_000000.wav|He talked the thing over with mrs Cork, and they decided upon it out of hand.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000010_000006.wav|All the way his wife kept running on ahead of him, and then back to him to lick his hand and so on, and appeared delighted at taking exercise.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000003.wav|The long and the short of it is that by drinking he drowned all his sorrow; and then would be a beast too like his wife, though she was one through no fault of her own, and could not help it.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000021_000000.wav|Not content with tearing off the dresses that were fitted on her, one day Silvia slipped upstairs to her wardrobe and tore down all her old dresses and made havoc with them, not sparing her wedding dress either, but tearing and ripping them all up so that there was hardly a shred or rag left big enough to dress a doll in.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000002.wav|He got up to catch her then and finding himself unsteady on his legs, he went down on to all fours.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000017_000005.wav|If we think that she had had a success of this kind only the night before, when he got drunk, can we not conclude that this was indeed the case, and then we have another good reason why the poor lady should hate to see her old nurse?|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000003_000000.wav|She made no pretence now of enjoying the first snowdrops or the view from the terrace.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000031_000000.wav|The next morning they locked up the house and they departed, having first secured mrs Tebrick in a large wicker hamper where she would be tolerably comfortable.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000019_000000.wav|The first morning mrs Cork made her a new jacket, cutting down the sleeves of a blue silk one of mrs Tebrick's and trimming it with swan's down, and directly she had altered it, put it on her mistress, and fetching a mirror would have her admire the fit of it.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000006_000000.wav|"Silvia, come now, be good, you shan't wear any more clothes if you don't want to, and you needn't sit at table neither, I promise.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000026_000002.wav|Indeed I could never have got to the bottom of this history if I had believed one tenth part of what I was told, there was so much of it that was either manifestly false and absurd, or else contradictory to the ascertained facts.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000010_000002.wav|After lunch he took her out, and she never so much as offered to go near the ducks, but running before him led him on to take her a longer walk.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000016_000002.wav|Being in this mood the truth is he welcomed her.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000009_000010.wav|He had made a bargain and he would stick to it, and so he let her be, though sorely against his will.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000024_000000.wav|Since he had sent away his servants and the gardener, giving out a story of having received bad news and his wife going away to London where he would join her, their probably going out of England and so on, he knew well enough that there would be a great deal of talk in the neighbourhood.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000002_000000.wav|At first he tried coaxing her and wheedling, gave her cards to play patience and so on, but finding nothing would distract her from going out, his temper began to rise, and he told her plainly that she must wait his pleasure and that he had as much natural obstinacy as she had. But to all that he said she paid no heed whatever but only scratched the harder.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39478/5519_39478_000014_000006.wav|I saw her, sir, before I left, and I've had no peace of mind.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000024_000001.wav|Canon Fox had been alarmed by the letter, had not answered it, and thought that it was always better to let things be, and never to refer to anything unpleasant.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000017_000000.wav|"no|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000036_000002.wav|He could see that Silvia had been hunting with her cubs, and also that she had forgotten that he would come that morning, for she started when she saw him, and though she carelessly licked his hand, he could see that her thoughts were not with him.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000002_000000.wav|Thereafter he only brought them things which she could better enjoy, that is sugar, grapes, raisins, and butcher's meat.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000019_000001.wav|I ought to tell you that she has changed her shape.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000024_000003.wav|His eccentricities would never be noticed at Stokoe.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000016_000001.wav|I have heard she is not living with you any longer."|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000001_000001.wav|It was the same too with the cards.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000032_000005.wav|Here was the real father of his godchildren, who could be certain of their taking after him, and leading over again his wild and rakish life.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000037_000000.wav|Very soon she led her cubs into the earth, the dog fox had vanished and mr Tebrick was again alone.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000012_000000.wav|After some conversation on indifferent topics Canon Fox said to him:|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000006_000001.wav|After her in his affections came Selwyn, whom he soon saw was the most intelligent of the whole litter.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000000_000000.wav|One day he tried taking with him the stereoscope and a pack of cards.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000009_000001.wav|mr Tebrick went in and found that his visitor was waiting for him.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000035_000001.wav|And has he not reason for his pride?|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000024_000000.wav|"At any rate," he said to himself, "there will be no scandal." He was relieved also because mr Tebrick had said nothing about going abroad to disseminate the Gospel.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000032_000003.wav|It was the same dark beast with a large white tag to his brush.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000004_000000.wav|Sorel was a clumsy little beast of a cheery and indeed puppyish disposition; Kasper was fierce, the largest of the five, even in his play he would always bite, and gave his godfather many a sharp nip as time went on.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000008_000003.wav|But clever as he was, little Selwyn could never understand it, and if his mother remembered anything about watches it was a subject which she never attempted to explain to her children.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000024_000004.wav|Besides that, mr Tebrick had said he was happy.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000023_000001.wav|I quite understand-in the circumstances." Then the cleric shook him by the hand, got into his carriage and drove away.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000001_000003.wav|So it was evident that she had forgotten the nature of cards too.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000032_000001.wav|mr Tebrick saw instantly that it was not Silvia.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000007_000001.wav|He was not, however, above playing tricks on the others, and one day when mr Tebrick was by, he made believe that there was a mouse in a hole some little way off.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000035_000000.wav|"We would both of us give our lives for theirs," he said to himself as he reasoned upon it, "we both of us are happy chiefly in their company. What pride this fellow must feel to have such a wife, and such children taking after him.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000037_000001.wav|He did not wait longer but went home.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000001_000002.wav|For with them she was pleased enough, but only delighting to bite at them, and flip them about with her paws, and never considering for a moment whether they were diamonds or clubs, or hearts, or spades or whether the card was an ace or not.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000032_000000.wav|At last he must have dropped asleep, for he woke suddenly with all his senses alert, and opening his eyes found a full grown fox within six feet of him sitting on its haunches like a dog and watching his face with curiosity.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000014_000000.wav|mr Tebrick was silent for some time and then said:|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000018_000000.wav|"Indeed.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000026_000000.wav|"Not an affectionate disposition," then to his coachman: "No, that's all right.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000032_000004.wav|Now the secret was out and mr Tebrick could see his rival before him.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000038_000001.wav|A hundred times this poor gentleman bit his lip, drew down his torvous brows, and stamped his foot, and cursed himself bitterly, or called his lady bitch.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000035_000003.wav|For half the year he is hunted, everywhere dogs pursue him, men lay traps for him or menace him. He owes nothing to another."|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000028_000000.wav|"True happiness," he said to himself, "is to be found in bestowing love; there is no such happiness as that of the mother for her babe, unless I have attained it in mine for my vixen and her children."|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000009_000000.wav|One day mr Tebrick left the earth as usual and ran down the slope to the road, when he was surprised to find a carriage waiting before his house and a coachman walking about near his gate.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000008_000001.wav|On the next visit it was the same thing.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000022_000001.wav|You are the first person I have spoken to for months."|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000039_000000.wav|All that night he was in this mood, and in agony, as if he had broken in the crown of a tooth and bitten on the nerve.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000033_000000.wav|"By Gad! we two have been strangely brought together!"|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000020_000000.wav|The Rev.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000019_000002.wav|She is a fox."|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000022_000000.wav|"No-I never see anyone if I can avoid it.|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000017_000003.wav|I see her every day now."|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5519/39481/5519_39481_000018_000001.wav|Where does she live?"|5519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000116_000003.wav|Is it glass?"|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000088_000002.wav|That makes a popular song popular, and the time is coming when it will take the place of all other songs."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000012_000000.wav|So the Shaggy Man tried it, but pull as hard as he could he failed to get the hairs out of the Woozy's tail.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000010_000001.wav|"But perhaps I, who am big and strong, can pull those three hairs from the Woozy's tail."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000093_000001.wav|Toward evening they reached a crystal spring which gushed from a tall rock by the roadside and near this spring stood a deserted cabin.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000032_000000.wav|"He has a splendid castle in the Winkie Country, near to the palace of his friend the Tin Woodman, and he is often to be found in the Emerald City, where he visits Dorothy at the royal palace."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000075_000000.wav|"Then why was I ever invented?" demanded the machine, in a tone of indignant protest.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000049_000000.wav|"That will be very nice," said the boy, gratefully.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000101_000004.wav|Haven't time to be a public benefactor, so I'll just sing you this little song for your own amusement."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000002_000000.wav|Soon the entire party was gathered on the road of yellow bricks, quite beyond the reach of the beautiful but treacherous plants.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000023_000000.wav|"Do you know where one may be found?" inquired the Shaggy Man.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000062_000000.wav|"One should only eat to sustain life," replied the Shaggy Man, "and that tablet is equal to a peck of other food."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000088_000000.wav|"Yes.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000007_000001.wav|"But tell me something about yourselves."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000004_000000.wav|"Haven't you always lived in the Land of Oz?" asked the Munchkin boy.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000096_000001.wav|He also gave a portion to the Woozy.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000072_000000.wav|"Are you so broken up that you can't play?" asked Scraps.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000093_000000.wav|But this did not deter Ojo and his friends from trudging on, and they beguiled the journey with jokes and cheerful conversation.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000077_000000.wav|"I'd like to hear the phonograph play."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000116_000000.wav|"For goodness sake!" exclaimed Bungle, sitting up and looking interested.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000065_000000.wav|"Chewing isn't tiresome; it's fun," maintained the Woozy.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000076_000001.wav|Finally the Shaggy Man said:|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000053_000000.wav|"It is quite a distance from here to the Emerald City," remarked the Shaggy Man, "so we shall not get there to day, nor to morrow.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000035_000000.wav|"A drop of oil from a live man's body."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000076_000000.wav|They looked at one another inquiringly, but no one could answer such a puzzling question.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000044_000000.wav|"She's delightful, in her way," he said.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000053_000002.wav|I'm an old traveler and have found that I never gain anything by being in a hurry.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000052_000000.wav|"There's some sense in that," said Scraps, nodding her queer head in approval.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000005_000001.wav|But I came here once with Dorothy, and Ozma let me stay."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000123_000000.wav|"I'm solid now; solid glass."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000126_000002.wav|Advise you to purr soft and look humble-if you can.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000031_000000.wav|"Where does he live?" inquired Ojo.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000092_000001.wav|Even the fields were no longer cultivated and the country began to resemble a wilderness.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000091_000002.wav|When you are rested, friends, let us go on our way."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000008_000001.wav|Then he told how he had set out to find the five different things which the Magician needed to make a charm that would restore the marble figures to life, one requirement being three hairs from a Woozy's tail.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000063_000001.wav|I want something I can chew and taste," grumbled the Woozy.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000093_000002.wav|Said the Shaggy Man, halting here:|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000058_000001.wav|"Give me one, please."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000099_000000.wav|"I'm not good at stories," was the reply; "but I sing like a bird."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000080_000000.wav|"It's a popular song, sir.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000122_000001.wav|Tastes differ, you know," replied the Shaggy Man, yawning again.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000039_000000.wav|"There's cotton in mine," said Scraps, dancing a little jig.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000010_000000.wav|"I see," returned the Shaggy Man, who had listened with interest to the story.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000124_000000.wav|"You don't understand," rejoined the Shaggy Man, sleepily.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000079_000001.wav|But a little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000017_000000.wav|"For that you must go to the Winkie Country," the Shaggy Man declared. "I've never noticed any butterflies there, but that is the yellow country of Oz and it's ruled by a good friend of mine, the Tin Woodman."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000063_000000.wav|"I don't care for it.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000034_000000.wav|"But what else does this Crooked Magician want?" asked the Shaggy Man.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000111_000000.wav|Just search the whole world over-sail the seas from coast to coast- No other nation in creation queerer folk can boast; And now our rare museum will include a Cat of Glass, A Woozy, and-last but not least-a crazy Patchwork Lass."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000120_000000.wav|The Glass Cat seemed annoyed.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000095_000000.wav|They agreed to this and Ojo found some brushwood in the cabin and made a fire on the hearth.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000054_000001.wav|He offered a portion of the food to the Shaggy Man, who thanked him but refused it.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000003_000001.wav|Let us sit down a while, and have a talk and get acquainted."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000067_000001.wav|I may not be hungry, having eaten all those things you gave me, but I consider this eating business a matter of taste, and I like to realize what's going into me."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000122_000000.wav|"Can't say.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000013_000000.wav|"It doesn't matter.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000119_000002.wav|Great favorite at the royal palace," said the Shaggy Man, yawning.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000112_000000.wav|Ojo was so pleased with this song that he applauded the singer by clapping his hands, and Scraps followed suit by clapping her padded fingers together, although they made no noise.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000113_000000.wav|"I seldom sing in public, for fear they might want me to start an opera company," remarked the Shaggy Man, who was pleased to know his effort was appreciated.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000088_000001.wav|One that the feeble minded can remember the words of and those ignorant of music can whistle or sing.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000092_000000.wav|During the afternoon the travelers found themselves in a lonely and uninhabited part of the country.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000074_000000.wav|"That is too bad," remarked Ojo.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000021_000002.wav|"I've never heard of a dark well; have you?"|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000124_000002.wav|If the Pink Kitten despises you, look out for breakers."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000119_000001.wav|Name's Eureka.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000055_000001.wav|Think I'll indulge in one now, as long as we're stopping anyway."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000018_000001.wav|"He must be a wonderful man."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000091_000000.wav|The Shaggy Man sat down again and seemed well pleased.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000125_000000.wav|"Would anyone at the royal palace break a Glass Cat?"|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000115_000001.wav|I even forgot one thing: Dorothy's Pink Kitten."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000040_000002.wav|All you lack is dignity."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000101_000003.wav|Don't tell 'em I can sing, or they'd want me to make records for that awful phonograph.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000051_000000.wav|"Some are, and some are not," he answered; "but I never criticise my friends.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000014_000000.wav|"One," said Ojo, "is a six leaved clover."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000112_000001.wav|The cat pounded on the floor with her glass paws-gently, so as not to break them-and the Woozy, which had been asleep, woke up to ask what the row was about.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000037_000000.wav|"That is what I thought," replied Ojo; "but the Crooked Magician said it wouldn't be called for by the recipe if it couldn't be found, and therefore I must search until I find it."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000080_000001.wav|In all civilized lands the common people have gone wild over it."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000043_000000.wav|The Shaggy Man laughed.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000057_000001.wav|It contains soup, fish, roast meat, salad, apple dumplings, ice cream and chocolate drops, all boiled down to this small size, so it can be conveniently carried and swallowed when you are hungry and need a square meal."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000013_000002.wav|What are the other things you are to find?"|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000048_000000.wav|"No," said the other, "I wasn't going anywhere in particular.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000033_000000.wav|"Then we will ask him about the dark well," said Ojo.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000106_000000.wav|I'll not forget Nick Chopper, the Woodman made of Tin, Whose tender heart thinks killing time is quite a dreadful sin, Nor old Professor Woggle Bug, who's highly magnified And looks so big to everyone that he is filled with pride.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000011_000000.wav|"Try it, if you like," said the Woozy.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000126_000001.wav|You never can tell.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000053_000004.wav|If you can't take it easy, take it as easy as you can."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000045_000000.wav|"Yes," replied Ojo.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000060_000000.wav|"You have now had a six course dinner," declared the Shaggy Man.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000030_000001.wav|"If anyone knows where a dark well is, it's my friend the Scarecrow."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000094_000000.wav|"We may as well pass the night here, where there is shelter for our heads and good water to drink.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000040_000001.wav|"You're a regular comforter and as sweet as patchwork can be.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000021_000000.wav|"Indeed!|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000038_000001.wav|There's blood in a body, but no oil."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000026_000001.wav|But surely, sir, a scarecrow can't know anything."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000065_000002.wav|Give me some bread and cheese, Ojo."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000046_000000.wav|"I'll go with you," said the Shaggy Man, "and show you the way."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000044_000001.wav|"I'm sure Dorothy will be pleased with her, and the Scarecrow will dote on her.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000083_000001.wav|A strain of odd, jerky sounds was followed by these words, sung by a man through his nose with great vigor of expression:|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000009_000000.wav|"We found the Woozy," explained the boy, "and he agreed to give us the three hairs; but we couldn't pull them out.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000016_000001.wav|"The next thing is the left wing of a yellow butterfly."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000047_000001.wav|"I hope it won't put you out any."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000054_000000.wav|After walking some distance over the road of yellow bricks Ojo said he was hungry and would stop to eat some bread and cheese.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000087_000000.wav|"A popular song?"|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000026_000000.wav|"The Scarecrow!|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000090_000000.wav|But before he could say more the phonograph turned and dashed up the road as fast as its four table legs could carry it, and soon it had entirely disappeared from their view.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000007_000000.wav|"It's the finest country in all the world, even if it is a fairyland, and I'm happy every minute I live in it," said the Shaggy Man.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000020_000000.wav|"The next thing I must find," said the Munchkin boy, "is a gill of water from a dark well."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, I've heard of him!" exclaimed Ojo.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000024_000000.wav|"I can't imagine," said Ojo.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000027_000001.wav|"But this Scarecrow of whom I speak is very intelligent.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000081_000001.wav|Then it's dangerous."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000042_000000.wav|"She's just crazy," explained the Glass Cat.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000085_000000.wav|"Here-shut that off!" cried the Shaggy Man, springing to his feet. "What do you mean by such impertinence?"|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000096_000000.wav|For supper the Shaggy Man ate one of his tablets, but Ojo stuck to his bread and cheese as the most satisfying food.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000057_000000.wav|"That," announced the Shaggy Man, "is a square meal, in condensed form. Invention of the great Professor Woggle Bug, of the Royal College of Athletics.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000098_000000.wav|"Won't you tell us a story?"|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000002_000001.wav|The Shaggy Man, staring first at one and then at the other, seemed greatly pleased and interested.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000036_000000.wav|"Oh; but there isn't such a thing."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000100_000000.wav|"Raven, or crow?" asked the Glass Cat.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000101_000002.wav|I'll sing a song I composed myself. Don't tell anyone I'm a poet; they might want me to write a book.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000095_000001.wav|The fire delighted Scraps, who danced before it until Ojo warned her she might set fire to herself and burn up.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000027_000000.wav|"Most scarecrows don't, I admit," answered the Shaggy Man.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000126_000000.wav|"Might.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000117_000000.wav|"No; just ordinary kitten."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000094_000001.wav|Road beyond here is pretty bad; worst we shall have to travel; so let's wait until morning before we tackle it."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000118_000000.wav|"Then it can't amount to much.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000016_000000.wav|"Thank you," replied Ojo.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000041_000001.wav|"Half the fools and all the wise folks are dignified, and I'm neither the one nor the other."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000015_000001.wav|"There is a Law against picking six leaved clovers, but I think I can get Ozma to let you have one."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000109_000000.wav|There's Tik Tok-he's a clockwork man and quite a funny sight- He talks and walks mechanically, when he's wound up tight; And we've a Hungry Tiger who would babies love to eat But never does because we feed him other kinds of meat.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000083_000000.wav|Then the phonograph began to play.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000038_000000.wav|"I wish you good luck," said the Shaggy Man, shaking his head doubtfully; "but I imagine you'll have a hard job getting a drop of oil from a live man's body.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000092_000003.wav|Scrubby under brush grew on either side of the way, while huge rocks were scattered around in abundance.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000051_000001.wav|If they are really true friends, they may be anything they like, for all of me."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000059_000000.wav|So the Shaggy Man gave the Woozy a tablet from his bottle and the beast ate it in a twinkling.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000012_000001.wav|So he sat down again and wiped his shaggy face with a shaggy silk handkerchief and said:|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000048_000001.wav|I've been a rover all my life, and although Ozma has given me a suite of beautiful rooms in her palace I still get the wandering fever once in a while and start out to roam the country over.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000097_000000.wav|When darkness came on and they sat in a circle on the cabin floor, facing the firelight-there being no furniture of any sort in the place-Ojo said to the Shaggy Man:|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000074_000001.wav|"We've no objection to you as a machine, you know; but as a music maker we hate you."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000089_000000.wav|"That time won't come to us, just yet," said the Shaggy Man, sternly: "I'm something of a singer myself, and I don't intend to be throttled by any Lulus like your coal black one.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1189/5039_1189_000044_000002.wav|Did you say you were traveling toward the Emerald City?"|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000051_000000.wav|"All glass."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000058_000002.wav|The first leaf he cut down released Scraps, and on seeing her the Shaggy Man threw back his shaggy head, opened wide his mouth and laughed so shaggily and yet so merrily that Scraps liked him at once.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000036_000001.wav|He scrambled quickly to his feet and found that a strange man was standing before him-a man so curious in appearance that the boy stared with round eyes.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000058_000000.wav|"Of course," said the Shaggy Man, nodding his shaggy head.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000028_000002.wav|In a flash he was in the dark. Then he felt himself gently lifted until he was swaying in the air, with the folds of the leaf hugging him on all sides.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000018_000000.wav|"I'm not sure you have a heart," Ojo reminded her.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000003_000000.wav|Chapter Ten|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000011_000000.wav|"Have you ever been to the Emerald City?" asked Scraps.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000060_000000.wav|When he cut down the second leaf he rescued the Glass Cat, and Bungle was so frightened that she scampered away like a streak and soon had joined Ojo, when she sat beside him panting and trembling.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000033_000003.wav|His greatest fear at this time was that he would always remain imprisoned in the beautiful leaf and never see the light of day again.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000028_000001.wav|Half a dozen of the great leaves were bending toward him from different directions and as he stood hesitating one of them clutched him in its embrace.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000059_000000.wav|"My dear, you're a wonder.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000045_000000.wav|"You were very kind," said Ojo, "and I thank you.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000044_000001.wav|"Singing or whistling-it doesn't matter which-makes 'em behave, and nothing else will.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000033_000001.wav|Ojo wondered how long one could live in such a condition and if the leaf would gradually sap his strength and even his life, in order to feed itself.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000027_000001.wav|But the last leaf of the row of plants seized the beast even as he ran and instantly he disappeared from sight.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000049_000001.wav|She's alive and her name is Scraps.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000060_000001.wav|The last plant of all the row had captured the Woozy, and a big bunch in the center of the curled leaf showed plainly where he was.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000044_000005.wav|Lucky I passed by, wasn't it?"|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000019_000001.wav|"Do you think they are all fast colors, Ojo?" she asked anxiously.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000037_000003.wav|On his breast hung a medallion bearing a picture of Princess Dorothy of Oz, and in his hand, as he stood looking at Ojo, was a sharp knife shaped like a dagger.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000054_000000.wav|"What's a Woozy?" inquired the Shaggy Man.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000005_000001.wav|At once they hurried forward to see what this famous road looked like.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000036_000000.wav|Suddenly the whole leaf toppled and fell, carrying the boy with it, and while he sprawled at full length the folds slowly relaxed and set him free.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000014_000000.wav|"Me?|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000050_000000.wav|"Glass?" asked the Shaggy Man.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000046_000000.wav|"What companions?" asked the Shaggy Man.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000037_000002.wav|Rich but shaggy laces were at his throat; a coat with shaggy edges was decorated with diamond buttons; the velvet breeches had jeweled buckles at the knees and shags all around the bottoms.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000059_000001.wav|I must introduce you to my friend the Scarecrow."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000024_000000.wav|Suddenly a leaf bent lower than usual and touched the Patchwork Girl. Swiftly it enveloped her in its embrace, covering her completely in its thick folds, and then it swayed back upon its stem.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000041_000001.wav|But take care, or I shall have to rescue you again."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000031_000001.wav|"I'm Ojo the Unlucky, and something dreadful was sure to happen to me."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000005_000000.wav|They had not gone very far before Bungle, who had run on ahead, came bounding back to say that the road of yellow bricks was just before them.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000026_000000.wav|"Look out," cried the Woozy.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000006_000001.wav|All its length and breadth was paved with smooth bricks of a bright yellow color, so it was smooth and level except in a few places where the bricks had crumbled or been removed, leaving holes that might cause the unwary to stumble.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000055_000000.wav|"Why, I-I-can't describe it," answered the boy, greatly perplexed. "But it's a queer animal with three hairs on the tip of its tail that won't come out and-"|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000032_000000.wav|He pushed against the leaf that held him and found it to be soft, but thick and firm.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000017_000000.wav|"If anything should fade the colors of my lovely patches it would break my heart," said the Patchwork Girl.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000057_000000.wav|"The hairs won't come out.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000013_000000.wav|"Are you afraid of men?" inquired the Patchwork Girl.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000021_000000.wav|They were certainly pretty to look upon and the travelers hurried forward to observe them more closely.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000034_000003.wav|The sounds were low and sweet and, although they reached Ojo's ears very faintly, they were clear and harmonious.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000040_000000.wav|"Yes; I can see that," said the boy, nodding.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000009_000000.wav|"The Emerald City," he replied.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000044_000002.wav|I always whistle as I go by 'em and so they always let me alone.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000004_000000.wav|Shaggy Man to the Rescue|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000035_000000.wav|Could the leaf whistle, Ojo wondered?|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000037_000000.wav|He was a big man, with shaggy whiskers, shaggy eyebrows, shaggy hair-but kindly blue eyes that were gentle as those of a cow.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000030_000001.wav|Despair fell upon him when he remembered that all his little party had been captured, even as he was, and there was none to save them.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000033_000000.wav|The minutes passed and became hours.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000025_000001.wav|But, before he could think what he ought to do to save her, another leaf bent down and captured the Glass Cat, rolling around the little creature until she was completely hidden, and then straightening up again upon its stem.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000041_000000.wav|"None other, you may be sure.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000044_000004.wav|I cut down the leaf with my knife and-out you popped.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000006_000000.wav|It was a broad road, but not straight, for it wandered over hill and dale and picked out the easiest places to go.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000007_000000.wav|"I wonder," said Ojo, looking up and down the road, "which way to go."|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000014_000003.wav|I am not afraid of anything," declared the Woozy.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000032_000001.wav|It was like a great bandage all around him and he found it difficult to move his body or limbs in order to change their position.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000019_000000.wav|"Then it would break my cotton," persisted Scraps.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000030_000000.wav|Then Ojo quieted himself and tried to think.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000045_000001.wav|Will you please rescue my companions, also?"|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000023_000001.wav|But the most curious thing about the swaying leaves was their color.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000058_000001.wav|And then he walked back among the plants, still whistling, and found the three leaves which were curled around Ojo's traveling companions.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000044_000003.wav|To day as I went by, whistling, I saw a leaf curled and knew there must be something inside it.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000014_000001.wav|With my heart rending growl-my horrible, shudderful growl?|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000031_000000.wav|"I might have expected it," he sobbed, miserably.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5039/1188/5039_1188_000015_000000.wav|"I wish I could say the same," sighed Ojo.|5039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000019_000000.wav|Then Theseus stood astonished, as he looked across the broad bright sea, and saw the fair Attic shore, from Sunium to Hymettus and Pentelicus, and all the mountain peaks which girdle Athens round.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000013_000000.wav|'Do you see this land at our feet?'|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000007_000000.wav|Then she sighed, and said the same words again, and went down, and came again the next year; but Theseus could not lift the stone then, nor the year after; and he longed to ask his mother the meaning of that stone, and what might lie underneath it; but her face was so sad that he had not the heart to ask.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000002_000005.wav|And there she sighed, and said, 'Theseus, my son, go into that thicket and you will find at the plane tree foot a great flat stone; lift it, and bring me what lies underneath.'|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000020_000000.wav|Then his heart grew great within him, and he said, 'If I were king of such a land I would rule it wisely and well in wisdom and in might, that when I died all men might weep over my tomb, and cry, "Alas for the shepherd of his people!"'|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000023_000004.wav|Yet shall I be avenged, when the golden haired heroes sail against Troy, and sack the palaces of Ilium; then my son shall set me free from thraldom, and I shall hear the tale of Theseus' fame.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000021_000001.wav|Then show him the sword and the sandals, and take what the Gods shall send.'|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000002_000004.wav|And she led him to a tall plane tree, beneath whose shade grew arbutus, and lentisk, and purple heather bushes.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000010_000000.wav|And when he looked beneath it, on the ground lay a sword of bronze, with a hilt of glittering gold, and by it a pair of golden sandals; and he caught them up, and burst through the bushes like a wild boar, and leapt to his mother, holding them high above his head.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000003_000001.wav|And searching among their roots he found a great flat stone, all overgrown with ivy, and acanthus, and moss.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000012_000000.wav|Then they went outside the sacred wall, and looked down over the bright blue sea; and Aithra said-|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000004_000001.wav|Let it be for another year.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000011_000001.wav|And when she was tired of weeping, she lifted up her head, and laid her finger on her lips, and said, 'Hide them in your bosom, Theseus my son, and come with me where we can look down upon the sea.'|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000015_000001.wav|Do you see that land beyond?'|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000018_000002.wav|There are twelve towns well peopled, the homes of an ancient race, the children of Kekrops the serpent king, the son of Mother Earth, who wear gold cicalas among the tresses of their golden hair; for like the cicalas they sprang from the earth, and like the cicalas they sing all day, rejoicing in the genial sun|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000023_000005.wav|Yet beyond that I see new sorrows; but I can bear them as I have borne the past.'|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000022_000000.wav|But Theseus wept, 'Shall I leave you, O my mother?'|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000016_000000.wav|'Yes; that is Attica, where the Athenian people dwell.'|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000006_000000.wav|And when a full year was past she led Theseus up again to the temple, and bade him lift the stone; but he could not.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000005_000000.wav|Then she took him by the hand, and went into the temple and prayed, and came down again with Theseus to her home.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000002_000001.wav|She had one fair son, named Theseus, the bravest lad in all the land; and Aithra never smiled but when she looked at him, for her husband had forgotten her, and lived far away.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000018_000003.wav|What would you do, son Theseus, if you were king of such a land?'|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000021_000000.wav|And Aithra smiled, and said, 'Take, then, the sword and the sandals, and go to AEgeus, king of Athens, who lives on Pallas' hill; and say to him, "The stone is lifted, but whose is the pledge beneath it?"|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000011_000000.wav|But when she saw them she wept long in silence, hiding her fair face in her shawl; and Theseus stood by her wondering, and wept also, he knew not why.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000009_000001.wav|Then his spirit swelled within him, and he said, 'If I break my heart in my body, it shall up.' And he tugged at it once more, and lifted it, and rolled it over with a shout.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000023_000000.wav|But she answered, 'Weep not for me.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000002_000003.wav|And when Theseus was full fifteen years old she took him up with her to the temple, and into the thickets of the grove which grew in the temple yard.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000023_000001.wav|That which is fated must be; and grief is easy to those who do nought but grieve.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000003_000000.wav|Then Theseus pushed his way in through the thick bushes, and saw that they had not been moved for many a year.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000019_000001.wav|But Athens itself he could not see, for purple AEgina stood before it, midway across the sea.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000009_000000.wav|And when his eighteenth year was past, Aithra led him up again to the temple, and said, 'Theseus, lift the stone this day, or never know who you are.' And Theseus went into the thicket, and stood over the stone, and tugged at it; and it moved.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/147193/2074_147193_000003_000002.wav|He tried to lift it, but he could not.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000012_000002.wav|"I adored writing and used to pray for bad weather, so that I need not go out but could stay in and write." Her mother used to have early tea in bed; sometimes visitors came to the house, when there was talk of events in high society: there was mention of places called Hampton Court, the Gaiety Theatre and the "Crystale" Palace.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000015_000005.wav|Her mind is such a rich pocket that as she digs in it (her head to the side and her tongue well out) she sends up showers of nuggets.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000010_000000.wav|The manuscript is in pencil in a stout little note book (twopence), and there it has lain for years, for though the authoress was nine when she wrote it she is now a grown woman.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000021_000003.wav|This is perhaps the prettiest touch in the story and should make us all take off our hats to the innocent wondering mind that thought of it.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000013_000003.wav|Oh thank you my man said Mr Salteena rolling over in the costly bed.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000019_000004.wav|"She soon came to and looked up with a sickly smile.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000018_000001.wav|He decides "whilst imbibing his morning tea beneath the pink silken quilt," that to propose in London would not be the "correct idear." He springs out of bed and knocks at Ethel's door.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000014_000004.wav|For instance, she is careful to put it on to be proposed to; and again its first appearance is excused in words that should henceforth be serviceable in every boudoir.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000018_000003.wav|he called.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000022_000002.wav|However he recovered to an extent and married Another and had ten children, "five of each," none of them of course equal to Ethel's children, of whom in a remarkably short time there were seven, which the authoress evidently considers to be the right "idear."|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000019_000007.wav|Ethel felt better after a few drops of champaigne and began to tidy her hair while Bernard packed the remains of the food.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000015_000007.wav|The first line of the tale etches him for all time: "Mr Salteena was an elderly man of forty two and fond of asking people to stay with him." On the next page Salteena draws a touching picture of himself in a letter accepting an invitation: "I do hope I shall enjoy myself with you.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000009_000001.wav|"Effort," however, is an absurd word to use, as you may see by studying the triumphant countenance of the child herself, which is here reproduced as frontispiece to her sublime work.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000009_000006.wav|Fellow craftsmen will see that she is looking forward to this chapter all the time.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000002_000000.wav|BY|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000012_000001.wav|She read everything that came her way, including, as the context amply proves, the grown up novels of the period.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000009_000004.wav|It probably represents precisely how she looked when she finished a chapter.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000010_000005.wav|Chaperon seems to be one of the very few good words of which our authoress had never heard.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000015_000001.wav|The novelist will find the tale a model for his future work.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000009_000002.wav|This is no portrait of a writer who had to burn the oil at midnight (indeed there is documentary evidence that she was hauled off to bed every evening at six): it has an air of careless power; there is a complacency about it that by the severe might perhaps be called smugness.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000009_000003.wav|It needed no effort for that face to knock off a masterpiece.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000014_000002.wav|She was particularly curious about the articles on your dressing table, including the little box containing a reddish powder, and she never desisted from watching you till she caught you dabbing it on your cheeks.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000019_000008.wav|Then arm in arm they tottered to the boat, I trust you have not got an illness my darling murmured Bernard as he helped her in, Oh no I am very strong said Ethel I fainted from joy she added to explain matters.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000015_000003.wav|How cunningly throughout she keeps us on the hooks of suspense, jumping to Mr Salteena when we are in a quiver about Ethel, and turning to Ethel when we are quite uneasy about Mr Salteena.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000019_000009.wav|Oh I see said Bernard handing her a cushion well some people do he added kindly."|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000022_000000.wav|Poor Mr Salteena.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000019_000001.wav|Oh yes lets said Ethel." "Ethel he murmered in a trembly voice.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000022_000001.wav|He was at the wedding, dressed in black and crying into his handkerchief.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000012_000003.wav|This is almost all that is now remembered, but it was enough for the blazing child.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000017_000002.wav|Have you a couple of bedrooms for self and young lady he enquired in a lordly way." He is told that they have two beauties. "Thank you said Bernard we will go up if you have no objection.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000013_000000.wav|"Her mother used to have early tea in bed." Many authors must have had a similar experience, but they all missed the possibilities of it until this young woman came along.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000020_000000.wav|"So I will end my chapter," the authoress says; and we can picture her doing it complacently, and slowly pulling in her tongue.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000012_000004.wav|She sucked her thumb for a moment (this is guesswork), and sat down to her amazing tale.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000018_000000.wav|Bernard's proposal should be carried in the pocket of all future swains.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000004_000000.wav|WITH A PREFACE BY j m BARRIE|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/149033/2074_149033_000019_000003.wav|Ethel accepts him, faints and is brought back to life by a clever "idear" of Bernard's, who pours water on her.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000005.wav|But, at last, the King had the good fortune to surprise Master Puss while he was asleep, and trod upon his tail with all his weight.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000007.wav|A long tongue is still more insufferable than a large nose; and I remember, when I was young, that I was admired for not being a great talker; the Queen, my mother, used frequently to have it mentioned to her; for, such as you see me, I am a great king's daughter.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000008_000003.wav|With regard to himself, he did not say a word, but ate away as fast as he could. "Prince," said the fairy to him, when he began to be satisfied, "move a little I entreat you; your nose makes so large a shadow that it prevents me from seeing what is on my plate.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000006_000002.wav|The horse presently came to a large plain, which he traversed the whole day without seeing a single house.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000001.wav|He went to consult a fairy, to ascertain what he ought to do to make the Princess love him.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000009.wav|When he became old enough to understand it, he was instructed in history; and, whenever any great prince or handsome princess was mentioned to him, he or she was always spoken of as having a long nose.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000010_000000.wav|The old fairy, who wished to do him a service in spite of himself, determined to shut up Mignonetta in a crystal palace, and place this palace in the Prince's road.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000003.wav|He hastened to his mistress's palace; Master Puss came to meet him, very consequentially, as was his wont; the King lifted up his foot, but when he thought to have put it on the cat's tail, Puss turned round so quickly that he trod on nothing but the floor.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000010_000006.wav|In vain reason endeavors to unveil them to us; we can never perceive them until the same self love that blinds us to them finds them to be opposed to its interests." Desire, whose nose had become an ordinary nose, profited by this lesson.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000006.wav|The Queen, who loved her son to excess, was charmed with this discourse; and, by continually looking at Desire, his nose no longer appeared to be so very long.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000010_000005.wav|In this way self love conceals from us all the defects of our minds and bodies.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000006.wav|Puss awakened, mewing horribly, and immediately took the shape of a tall man, who, looking at the King with eyes full of anger, said to him: "You may now marry the Princess, since you have dissolved the enchantment which prevented you; but I will be revenged.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000006_000004.wav|She put on her spectacles to look at the Prince; but she was a long time adjusting them, for her nose was too short.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000009_000000.wav|Desire, who had finished his supper, grew so tired of the fairy's tedious prattle about his nose that he sprang on his horse and rode away from the cavern.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000000.wav|Although the King was frightened at the sight of this tall man, who was an enchanter, he could not help laughing at his threat.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000010_000001.wav|Desire, transported with joy, strove to break it; but he could not succeed: in despair, he wished to approach near it, so as at least to speak to the Princess, who, on her part, stretched her hand close to the crystal wall of the palace.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000010.wav|He checked himself, however, for he wanted something of the fairy, and said: "I know that the pleasure I should take in listening to you would make me forget my own hunger; but my horse, who will not understand you, is in need of some food." This compliment made the fairy blush prettily.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000000.wav|THERE was once upon a time a king who was passionately fond of a princess; but she could not be married, because she was enchanted.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000003.wav|Shortly after his death, the Queen gave birth to a young Prince, who was called Desire.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000006_000003.wav|Both horse and rider were ready to die with hunger; at last, as night was about to set in, they discovered a cave in which a light was burning. Desire entered, and saw a little old woman, who appeared to be more than a hundred years old.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000004.wav|I was saying, then, that I was your father's friend; at that time he frequently came to see me; and you must know that in those days I was very pretty; your father told me so.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000005_000001.wav|They had acquired such a habit of ridiculing small noses, that they sometimes could not forbear laughing at that of the Princess; but Desire would not suffer a jest on this subject; and he banished two courtiers from his presence, who dared to make insinuations against Mignonetta's nose.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000012.wav|One must be very stupid not to perceive one's own defects; that comes of her being born a princess: flatterers have spoiled her, and persuaded her that she is a little talker."|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000005.wav|The Queen was inconsolable when she saw this large nose; but the ladies who were with her told her that the nose was not so large as it appeared to her to be; that it was a Roman nose, and that history averred that all heroes had large noses.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000002.wav|However, he did not live long with her, for he died eight months after the wedding.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000012.wav|He was in raptures with that of Mignonetta, the daughter of a great king, and heiress to several kingdoms; of the kingdoms, however, Desire thought not at all, he was so much struck with her beauty.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000011.wav|When he had reached the age of twenty, it was thought expedient for him to marry; and the portraits of various princesses were submitted to him.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000002.wav|The fairy said to him, "You know that the Princess has a large cat, of which she is very fond; well, she can marry that person only who can succeed in treading on her cat's tail." The King said to himself, "That will not be very difficult to accomplish"; and he quitted the fairy, determined rather to crush the cat's tail than to fail in treading on it.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000010_000002.wav|He was very anxious to kiss her hand; but turn his head which way he would, he could not place his mouth near it, his nose constantly preventing him.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000008_000006.wav|In my time they used to go on the same day to the promenade, to the assembly, to the theater, to the ball-But how long your nose is!|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000008_000007.wav|I cannot grow used to it." "In truth, madam," answered Desire, "do not say any more about my nose; it is as it is, and in what does it concern you?|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000008_000000.wav|While that was passing in the Prince's mind, the servants laid the table; and the Prince wondered at the fairy, who kept asking them a thousand questions, solely to have the pleasure of talking: he was especially surprised at a waiting woman, who, in everything that she saw, praised her mistress for her discretion.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000007.wav|The Prince was brought up very carefully; and, as soon as he could speak, all kinds of shocking stories were told him of people who had short noses.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000005_000000.wav|The Princess Mignonetta, although he was thus charmed with her, had a little turned up nose which harmonized admirably with her other features, but which very much perplexed the courtiers.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000002.wav|I loved the King, your father, like my own brother; but he had a very handsome nose." "And what is there wanting in mine?" asked Desire.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000007.wav|You shall have a son who will always be unfortunate until the time when he shall become aware that his nose is too long; and, if you take any umbrage at what I threaten, you shall immediately be put to death."|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000000.wav|"With all my heart," answered the fairy.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000002_000004.wav|He was a week trying to tread on this fatal tail, which appeared to be full of quicksilver, for it was continually moving.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000007_000001.wav|"Although your nose is ridiculous, you are not the less the son of my best friend.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000004_000010.wav|The room was hung round with pictures in which all the figures had large noses; and Desire grew so accustomed to regard length of nose as an ornament, that he would not for an empire have parted with an atom of his.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2074/159371/2074_159371_000009_000001.wav|He continued his journey; and wherever he went, he thought that everybody was mad, for everybody talked about his nose; nevertheless, he had been so accustomed to hear it asserted that his nose was handsome, that he could not reconcile to himself the idea that it was too long.|2074
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000013_000000.wav|Thereupon she came forward, swinging her haunches and gracefully swaying a shape the handiwork of Him whose boons are hidden; and each of them stole one glance of the eyes that cost them a thousand sighs.|5767
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000007_000002.wav|Now he loveth her, but she loatheth him; and when he chanced to take an oath of triple divorcement and broke it, forthright she left him.|5767
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000018_000000.wav|When it was the Two Hundred and Fifty seventh Night,|5767
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000009_000000.wav|And when he heard her chant these lines he ended his recitation of the chapter, and began also to sing and repeated the following couplet,|5767
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000001_000004.wav|Now is thy time!" And behold, a scorpion stung the Badawi in the palm and he cried out, saying, "Help, O Arabs!|5767
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000005_000002.wav|The old man replied, "Did I not forbid thee, many a time, when the oath of divorce was always in thy mouth, as it were Holy Writ?"|5767
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000015_000000.wav|And when she drew near him, and there remained but two paces between them, he recited these two couplets,|5767
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000000_000000.wav|When it was the Two Hundred and Fifty fifth Night,|5767
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000005_000001.wav|Now one was an old man of comely face and the other a youth; and he heard the younger say to the elder, "O my uncle,, I conjure thee by Allah, give me back my cousin!"|5767
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5767/48579/5767_48579_000007_000000.wav|She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Ala al Din continued, "So he packed me fifty loads of goods and gave me ten thousand dinars, wherewith I set out for Baghdad; but when I reached the Lion's Copse, the wild Arabs came out against me and took all my goods and monies.|5767
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/78193/6446_78193_000014_000001.wav|Burke, keep still! He's a climbin' out now-Of all the things! What's he got on?|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/78193/6446_78193_000002_000000.wav|BY j t TROWBRIDGE|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000027_000000.wav|[The point of the following selection lies in the monotony of both narrative style and metre in Euripides's prologues, and especially his regular caesura after the fifth syllable of a line.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000012_000000.wav|SEMI CHORUS|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000008_000000.wav|Mighty Bacchus!|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000013_000000.wav|March! march! lead forth, Lead forth manfully, March in order all; Bustling, hustling, justling, As it may befall; Flocking, shouting, laughing, Mocking, flouting, quaffing, One and all; All have had a belly full Of breakfast brave and plentiful; Therefore Evermore With your voices and your bodies Serve the goddess, And raise Songs of praise; She shall save the country still, And save it against the traitor's will; So she says.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000053_000001.wav|I've lots of prologues where he can't work 'em in.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000014_000000.wav|SEMI CHORUS|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000020_000000.wav|SEMI CHORUS|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000027_000001.wav|The burlesque tag used by Aristophanes to demonstrate this effect could not be applied in the same way to any of the fourteen extant plays of Sophocles and AEschylus.]|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000018_000000.wav|SEMI CHORUS|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000017_000000.wav|Ceres, holy patroness, Condescend to mark and bless, With benevolent regard, Both the Chorus and the Bard; Grant them for the present day Many things to sing and say, Follies intermixed with sense; Folly, but without offense. Grant them with the present play To bear the prize of verse away.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000046_000001.wav|I'll fix him next time.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000063_000001.wav|Who filched them?|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000019_000000.wav|Now call again, and with a different measure, The power of mirth and pleasure; The florid, active Bacchus, bright and gay, To journey forth and join us on the way.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000022_000000.wav|A PARODY OF EURIPIDES'S LYRIC VERSE|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000003_000000.wav|Iacchus!|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000036_000001.wav|Recite another prologue to him and let me see.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000054_000000.wav|Pelops the Tantalid to Pisa coming With speedy coursers|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000003_000001.wav|Iacchus!|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000066_000001.wav|For those smelling salts fit your prologues like a kid glove.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000066_000002.wav|But go on and turn your attention to his lyrics.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000026_000000.wav|From 'The Frogs'|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000004_000000.wav|Iacchus!|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000030_000002.wav|I'll show you.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40571/6446_40571_000004_000001.wav|Iacchus!|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000008_000001.wav|The stranger perceived then The sword would not bite, her life would not injure, But the falchion failed the folk prince when straitened: Erst had it often onsets encountered, Oft cloven the helmet, the fated one's armor; 'twas the first time that ever the excellent jewel Had failed of its fame.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000006_000001.wav|Uncanny the place is: Thence upward ascendeth the surging of waters, Wan to the welkin, when the wind is stirring The weather unpleasing, till the air groweth gloomy, Then the heavens lower.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000009_000002.wav|His body is burned, and a barrow erected.]|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000004_000001.wav|He had come to them mysteriously, alone in a ship, when an infant.]|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000009_000000.wav|[Fifty years have elapsed.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000008_000004.wav|With furious grapple She gave him requital early thereafter, And stretched out to grab him; the strongest of warriors Faint mooded stumbled, till he fell in his traces, Foot going champion.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000007_000001.wav|He is seized by the monster and carried to her cavern, where the combat ensues.]|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/40544/6446_40544_000008_000002.wav|Firm mooded after, Not heedless of valor, but mindful of glory Was Higelac's kinsman; the hero chief angry Cast then his carved sword covered with jewels That it lay on the earth, hard and steel pointed; He hoped in his strength, his hand grapple sturdy. So any must act whenever he thinketh To gain him in battle glory unending, And is reckless of living.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000005_000003.wav|He built a stone palace for AEgeus, the young king of Athens, and beautified the Temple of Athena which stood on the great rocky hill in the middle of the city.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000024_000000.wav|So the wonderful artisan brought together his workmen, and they built a marvelous house with so many rooms in it and so many winding ways that no one who went far into it could ever find his way out again; and Daedalus called it the Labyrinth, and cunningly persuaded the Minotaur to go inside of it.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000030_000003.wav|They could not fly very far at first, but they did so well that they felt sure of doing much better in time.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000012_000001.wav|At first they were for punishing Daedalus with the death which he so richly deserved, but when they remembered what he had done to make their homes pleasanter and their lives easier, they allowed him to live; and yet they drove him out of Athens and bade him never return.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000015_000005.wav|So it was not hard for him to persuade Daedalus to make his home with him and be the chief of his artisans.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000015_000000.wav|Now the name of the King of Crete was Minos.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000005_000001.wav|It was he who taught the people how to build better houses and how to hang their doors on hinges and how to support the roofs with pillars and posts.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000016_000000.wav|And Daedalus built for King Minos a most wonderful palace with floors of marble and pillars of granite; and in the palace he set up golden statues which had tongues and could talk; and for splendor and beauty there was no other building in all the wide earth that could be compared with it.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000005_000000.wav|While Athens was still only a small city there lived within its walls a man named Daedalus who was the most skillful worker in wood and stone and metal that had ever been known.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000010_000000.wav|Poor Perdix fell headlong through the air, and he would have been dashed in pieces upon the stones at the foot of the cliff had not kind Athena seen him and taken pity upon him.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000020_000001.wav|"That would only bring greater misfortunes upon us."|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000009_000001.wav|One morning when the two were putting up an ornament on the outer wall of Athena's temple, Daedalus bade his nephew go out on a narrow scaffold which hung high over the edge of the rocky cliff whereon the temple stood.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000031_000004.wav|But they were not ready to undertake a long journey yet; and so, just before daybreak, they flew back home. Every fair night after that they practiced with their wings, and at the end of a month they felt as safe in the air as on the ground, and could skim over the hilltops like birds.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000021_000000.wav|"I will build a house for him then," said Daedalus, "and you can keep him in it as a prisoner."|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000026_000000.wav|Not long after this it happened that Daedalus was guilty of a deed which angered the king very greatly; and had not Minos wished him to build other buildings for him, he would have put him to death and no doubt have served him right.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000015_000002.wav|This elder Minos had been accounted the wisest of men-so wise, indeed, that Jupiter chose him to be one of the judges of the Lower World.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000006_000000.wav|Daedalus had a nephew named Perdix whom he had taken when a boy to teach the trade of builder.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000014_000000.wav|At last the famous Island of Crete was reached, and there Daedalus landed and made himself known; and the King of Crete, who had already heard of his wondrous skill, welcomed him to his kingdom, and gave him a home in his palace, and promised that he should be rewarded with great riches and honor if he would but stay and practice his craft there as he had done in Athens.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000034_000001.wav|Towards noon the sun shone very warm, and Daedalus called out to the boy who was a little behind and told him to keep his wings cool and not fly too high.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000007_000000.wav|Daedalus was not pleased when he saw that the lad was so apt and wise, so ready to learn, and so eager to do.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000028_000001.wav|But although the wonderful artisan was thus held as a prisoner, he did not build any more buildings for King Minos; he spent his time in planning how he might regain his freedom.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000013_000002.wav|It passed Troezen and the rocky coast of Argos, and then struck boldly out across the sea.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000009_000002.wav|Then, when the lad obeyed, it was easy enough, with a blow of a hammer, to knock the scaffold from its fastenings.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000006_000003.wav|Walking one day by the sea, he picked up the backbone of a great fish, and from it he invented the saw.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000017_000003.wav|He was the pest and terror of all the land. Where he was least expected, there he was sure to be; and almost every day some man, woman, or child was caught and devoured by him.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000029_000000.wav|"All my inventions," he said to his son Icarus, "have hitherto been made to please other people; now I will invent something to please myself."|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000036_000000.wav|So he flew up higher and higher, but his father who was in front did not see him.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000017_000002.wav|The people of Crete would not have killed him if they could; for they thought that the Mighty Folk who lived with Jupiter on the mountain top had sent him among them, and that these beings would be angry if any one should take his life.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000015_000001.wav|His grandfather, whose name was also Minos, was the son of Europa, a young princess whom a white bull, it was said, had brought on his back across the sea from distant Asia.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000013_000000.wav|There was a ship in the harbor just ready to start on a voyage across the sea, and in it Daedalus embarked with all his precious tools and his young son Icarus.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000010_000001.wav|While he was yet whirling through mid-air she changed him into a partridge, and he flitted away to the hills to live forever in the woods and fields which he loved so well.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000031_000003.wav|They flew up to the top of the king's palace, and then they sailed away over the walls of the city and alighted on the top of a hill.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000012_000000.wav|As for Daedalus, when the people of Athens heard of his dastardly deed, they were filled with grief and rage-grief for young Perdix, whom all had learned to love; rage towards the wicked uncle, who loved only himself.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000013_000001.wav|Day after day the little vessel sailed slowly southward, keeping the shore of the mainland always upon the right.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000036_000001.wav|Pretty soon, however, the heat of the sun began to melt the wax with which the boy's wings were fastened.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000006_000005.wav|Then he invented the wheel which potters use in molding clay; and he made of a forked stick the first pair of compasses for drawing circles; and he studied out many other curious and useful things.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000027_000000.wav|"Hitherto," said the king, "I have honored you for your skill and rewarded you for your labor.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000030_000001.wav|By and by he had made for himself a pair of strong wings, and for Icarus another pair of smaller ones; and then, one midnight, when everybody was asleep, the two went out to see if they could fly.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000009_000000.wav|Day after day, while at his work, Daedalus pondered over this matter, and soon his heart was filled with hatred towards young Perdix.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000030_000000.wav|So, all through the day he pretended to be planning some great work for the king, but every night he locked himself up in his chamber and wrought secretly by candle light.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000023_000000.wav|"He shall have plenty of room to roam about," said Daedalus; "and if you will only now and then feed one of your enemies to him, I promise you that he shall live and thrive."|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000006_000004.wav|Seeing how a certain bird carved holes in the trunks of trees, he learned how to make and use the chisel.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6446/57416/6446_57416_000017_000000.wav|There lived in those days among the hills of Crete a terrible monster called the Minotaur, the like of which has never been seen from that time until now.|6446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000021_000000.wav|'Is that a true story you told?' she demanded, with severity in her tone.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000032_000002.wav|I forget when I tell it how many it was; but she said she didn't believe a word!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000058_000000.wav|'What is her husband?' inquired Teddy's mother, as with work in hand she came out and took a seat in the old-fashioned porch.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000020_000000.wav|There was a round of applause at this, but the small maiden remained undaunted.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000053_000000.wav|'I'd rather tackle a man than a woman any day.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000053_000002.wav|And what have this young maid done to you?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000024_000001.wav|One of the bigger boys answered him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000048_000000.wav|'To fight?' asked his uncle.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000045_000000.wav|'Uncle Jake!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000017_000001.wav|She was not dressed as an ordinary village child, but in a little rough serge sailor suit, with a large hat to match, set well back on a quantity of loose dark hair.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000042_000000.wav|'Never, granny?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000042_000001.wav|Not when he was a boy?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000052_000001.wav|The boy continued in a slow, thoughtful tone, 'I saw some one to day that I feel might be an enemy, but she's a girl; men don't fight with women.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000046_000000.wav|A grunt was the only response; but that was sufficient.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000043_000000.wav|'Better begin now, then; bad habits, like weeds, grow apace!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000038_000000.wav|'Sorry,' was all he said as he slipped into the chair that was waiting for him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000035_000005.wav|Young mrs john, as she was called, was now her right hand, and the dairy work of the farm was made over entirely to her.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000030_000001.wav|'No, I couldn't have fought her, Sam, if she'd been a boy.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000049_000000.wav|'To carry on with, you know; he would lay traps for me, and I would for him, like David and Saul; we should have a fine time of it.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000008_000000.wav|He stood in the centre of a little crowd of village boys; his golden head was bare in the blazing sun, but the crop of curls seemed thick enough to protect him from its rays, and he was far too engrossed in his occupation to heed any discomfort from the heat.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000046_000001.wav|The two perfectly understood each other, and a minute after Teddy was perched on his knee.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000035_000003.wav|A sweet gentle faced young woman she was, with the same deep blue eyes as her little son; she bore no resemblance to the elder woman, and looked, as she indeed was, superior to her surroundings.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000009.wav|No; he gave a loud "Hurrah!" picked up his sword, and fought his way back, the enemy hard after him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000023_000000.wav|'Then I tell you, boy, I don't believe a word of it!' And with set determined lips she turned on her heel and walked away, having sown seeds of anger and resentment in more than one boyish breast.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000051_000001.wav|She made me learn this morning-"Blessed are the peacemakers!" but you must have an enemy to make peace with, and I haven't got one.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000032_000001.wav|I think it was six bullets and three sword cuts.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000059_000003.wav|She was maid to our squire's lady then, and went to foreign parts with her; but folks say she's steadied down now wonderful.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000030_000002.wav|I've promised my mother I won't fight again till she gives me leave.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000010.wav|It was a race for life, and he ran backwards the whole way; he wasn't going to turn his back to the enemy.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000051_000000.wav|'That's what mother says.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000013_000001.wav|That was something like a soldier!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000059_000000.wav|'A sailor.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000044_000001.wav|Then, whilst tea was being taken away by the women, he turned to his uncle, who, pulling out a pipe from his pocket, sat down by the open door to smoke.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000041_000001.wav|'Your father was never late for his meals,' the grandmother put in with asperity.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000013_000000.wav|The little orator paused as he sank his voice to a tragic whisper, then raising it again, he added triumphantly, 'And thirty bullets and six swords had gone through my father's body!|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000031_000001.wav|Besides, it was only Tom Larken, who set them on to try and get your button from you, and he's gone off to another part of the country now.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000003.wav|He cut and he slashed, and heads and arms and legs rolled off as quick as lightning, one after the other.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000033_000001.wav|Teddy was upon his feet in an instant, and with a wild whoop and shout he was scudding across the green, his curls flying in the wind, and his little feet hardly seeming to touch the ground.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000035_000000.wav|There was something very restful in the scene.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000007.wav|He was alone! The other soldiers had been beaten back.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000031_000000.wav|'I don't think there's any fellers left for you to fight with, so you're pretty safe.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000030_000000.wav|Teddy turned his face upwards to the speaker.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000024_000000.wav|'Who is she?' asked Teddy as, tired and exhausted by his recital, he threw himself on the grass to rest.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000009_000001.wav|They were dancing and flashing with excitement now, and his whole frame was quivering with enthusiasm; with head thrown back, and tongue, hand, and foot all in motion, he seemed to have his audience completely spell bound, and they listened with open eyes and mouths to his oration.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000030_000004.wav|I don't see if it is right for soldiers to fight, why it isn't right for boys!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000011.wav|He pressed on, shouting "Hurrah!" till he got to his own side again, and then he reached his colonel.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000042_000002.wav|I shall be always in time when I'm a soldier.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000017_000002.wav|A rosy cheeked square set little figure she was, and her brown eyes, fringed with long black lashes, looked straight at Teddy with something of defiance and scorn in their glance.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000006_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000059_000001.wav|Grace was always a roving nature herself.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000039_000000.wav|'What have you been doing, sonny?' asked the young mother, whose eyes had brightened at the sight of him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000016_000000.wav|'And did your father have only one button to his coat?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000030_000003.wav|You see, I fought four boys in one week last time, and she says she won't have it.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000057_000000.wav|'That must be Grace's child,' said old mrs Platt, coming up and joining in the conversation.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000054_000001.wav|And she laughed, and walked away.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000015_000000.wav|'And that's the story of my button,' pursued the boy, ignoring with scorn this last remark.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000010_000000.wav|With one hand he was fingering a large brass button, which figured conspicuously in the centre of his small waistcoat, and this button was the subject of his theme.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000050_000000.wav|'Fightin' ain't the only grand thing in this world; peace is grander,' was the slow response to this appeal.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000053_000001.wav|They be a powerful enemy sometimes, lad!|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000029_000000.wav|'Gals is no good, never!|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000035_000002.wav|Presiding at the tea tray was a stern, forbidding looking woman of sixty or more, opposite her was seated her son, the master of the farm, a heavy faced, sleepy looking man; and at his side, facing the door, sat Teddy's mother.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000036_000000.wav|'Late again, you young scamp!' was the stern greeting of his grandmother, as Teddy appeared on the scene.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000056_000000.wav|'She's a stranger; Sam said she's come to live with old Sol at the turnpike.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000033_000002.wav|There was none in the village so quick footed as Teddy, and for daring feats and downright pluck he held the foremost place.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000055_000000.wav|'That was coming it strong; and who is she, to talk so?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000022_000000.wav|'Of course it's true,' was the indignant shout of all.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000007_000000.wav|An Antagonist|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000002_000000.wav|TEDDY'S BUTTON|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000033_000000.wav|Five o'clock struck by the old church clock close by.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000037_000000.wav|The boy looked at her with a twinkle in his eye, put his little hand to his forehead, and gave her a military salute.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000025_000000.wav|'I seed her come yesterday in a cab from the town to old Sol at the turnpike-she and her mother, I reckon.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000014_000000.wav|'Oh, I say!' murmured a small sceptic from the crowd, 'it was twenty bullets last time; make it fifty, Teddy!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000035_000004.wav|Two years ago she had come with her child to make her home amongst her husband's people, and though at first her mother in law, mrs Platt, was inclined to look upon her contemptuously as a poor, delicate, useless creature, time proved to her that for steady, quiet work no one could eclipse her daughter in law.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000047_000000.wav|'I'm wondering if I can't get an enemy!' the boy proceeded, folding his small arms and looking up at his uncle steadily; 'all good people had enemies in the Bible, and I haven't one, I should like to have a good right down enemy!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000057_000002.wav|I suppose her husband is at sea again.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000049_000002.wav|Don't you think that would be nice?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000008.wav|But was he in a funk?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000052_000000.wav|There was silence; the uncle puffed away at his pipe; he was a good man, and had more brains than his appearance warranted, but Teddy's speeches were often a sore puzzle to him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000028_000000.wav|'She didn't believe me,' murmured Teddy, chewing a wisp of grass meditatively.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000004.wav|He got up to the colours, and with a shout he plunged his sword right through the enemy's body that had stolen them!|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000025_000001.wav|They had two carpet bags and a box and a poll parrot in a cage.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106965/7704_106965_000011_000005.wav|The enemy fell stone dead.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000023_000001.wav|'Now, my boy, come here.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000038_000001.wav|'I grant you, on the whole, they are better than they were, but the Service is no place for highly strung boys like this one.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000064_000001.wav|Is that wicked?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000049_000000.wav|'He's my own enemy; mr Upton told me about him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000005_000000.wav|'The master wants you to let the youngster come up with me now and speak to him.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000011_000000.wav|'No; their grub is something shocking, and they live like cattle!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000002_000000.wav|It was winter time, and Teddy was back at school, full of health and spirits, yet, through all his boyish mirth, the loss of his button was never forgotten.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000036_000005.wav|When I see a fresh drummer brought in, I wonder how long he will keep his innocence, and sometimes wish his friends could see the life he is subjected to.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000065_000000.wav|'Soldiers must never get tired of fighting, sonny, and you have your Captain to help you.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000067_000000.wav|'Yes, indeed I have, my boy.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000008_000001.wav|You're always like the soldiers when they stand at Attention.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000052_000000.wav|His mother knew already, so was prepared for his news, but she was not prepared for the handsome adornment now on her boy's coat, and his grandmother and uncle were equally pleased and gratified at the colonel's kindness.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000008_000000.wav|'I shall never be a footman,' he was asserting; 'I couldn't keep my legs so stiff.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000014_000000.wav|'Not he.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000015_000000.wav|Teddy stepped in upon the soft rugs almost on tiptoe, and the colonel himself came out into the hall to meet him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000014_000001.wav|Wipe your feet, and take your cap off.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000018_000000.wav|'This is our would be soldier,' said Colonel Graham-'the "button boy," as I hear he is called.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000028_000000.wav|And here the tears welled up in the blue eyes, and, utterly regardless of the place he was in, he flung himself down on the hearthrug and buried his head, face foremost, in his arms.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000039_000001.wav|They have a room to themselves, and the chaplains have classes for them.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000051_000001.wav|He flew down the avenue home as fast as he could go.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000008_000002.wav|Don't you never kick your legs out in the kitchen, or have you got stiff knees?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000018_000003.wav|A button isn't worth much sorrow after the first pang of its loss is over.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000044_000000.wav|'I don't want to be a drummer,' said Teddy earnestly; 'I'd rather wait and be a proper soldier-a soldier that fights.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000072_000000.wav|Teddy smiled.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000013_000000.wav|'I say, just tell me, is the colonel angry?' asked Teddy, as looking into the large, brightly lighted hall, he suddenly felt his diminutive size.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000035_000000.wav|'Why not?' asked mrs Graham.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000034_000000.wav|The major scanned the boy from head to foot, then answered emphatically, 'I wouldn't take a boy with a face like that for a good deal!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000064_000003.wav|He does trouble me a lot now'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000030_000002.wav|She told us of it, not recognising what a valuable treasure she had brought to light, and directly we saw it, we knew it was the redoubtable button that has been the means of causing such interest in our neighbourhood.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000054_000001.wav|I knew You would answer me, for You knew how dreadful it was to live without my button, and You knew how unhappy my heart was about it, though I tried to be brave, and not talk about it.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000036_000001.wav|I shall never forget a pretty boy we had once; he was called the "cherub," and had been a chorister-sang divinely.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000030_000001.wav|The other day I brought home a few fish, and in preparing one of these for table our cook discovered your button inside it-I wonder the fish had not come to an untimely end before from such an indigestible meal!|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000074_000000.wav|'But,' said Teddy, 'I mean to do both; and now, mother, just before I go to sleep, give me father's button to kiss!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000051_000002.wav|Snow was falling, but he heeded it not, and burst into the kitchen a little later in a breathless state of excitement.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000027_000001.wav|Oh, sir!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000033_000000.wav|'Now, major, what do you think of this youngster?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000021_000000.wav|'I don't know where it is, but God does, and I ask Him every day to send it back to me.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000042_000000.wav|'Do you think I'm too small to be a soldier?' he asked.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000025_000000.wav|'Open it, and tell me if you recognise the contents.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000056_000000.wav|'Yes, I thought I should; but as soon as I began to pray about it I knew it was coming back, and so I got better.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000055_000001.wav|She was quite as delighted as he was, but said, a few minutes after, 'Button boy, do you remember telling me you couldn't live without your button?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000050_000000.wav|There was silence on the little company for a minute, then Major Tracy said with a laugh, 'What an original little oddity it is!--quite a character!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000016_000000.wav|Teddy held his head erect as he followed the colonel into a bright, cheery room, where a group of ladies and gentlemen were round the fire enjoying their cup of five o'clock tea.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000049_000002.wav|He takes very little soldiers.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000017_000000.wav|mrs Graham came forward and gave him a kindly greeting.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000060_000000.wav|'And we'll always remember that soldiers and sailors are just as good as each other-they're quite even!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000066_000000.wav|'Yes; and I suppose when I get bigger and stronger it will be much easier, won't it?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000020_000000.wav|'But it's at the bottom of the river, isn't it?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000040_000000.wav|'That may be.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000019_000001.wav|I'd rather have it back than anything else in the world!|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000024_000000.wav|He was standing on the hearthrug with his back to the fire, and putting his hand into his pocket he drew out a small box and placed it in the child's hand.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000038_000003.wav|When they get older, and have sense and strength enough to stick to their principles, then let them enlist.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000028_000001.wav|He lay there so still for a moment that mrs Graham bent forward to touch him, fearing that the excitement might be too much for him, but he was only trying to hide his emotion from those looking on.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000066_000001.wav|Mother, do you have any fighting?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000030_000000.wav|'Now, my boy, I don't think you will ever guess how it came into our possession.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000031_000000.wav|Teddy listened eagerly.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000010_000000.wav|'Don't you think it's nicer to be a soldier?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000037_000000.wav|'But, Major Tracy, you are giving us a shocking idea of the morals in the Service,' said one lady.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000039_000000.wav|'But I have always heard,' said mrs Graham, 'that the drummer boys are well looked after now.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000041_000000.wav|Teddy did not understand this conversation, but he gathered from the major's tone that he did not approve of him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000049_000001.wav|You see, I belong to God's army.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000071_000000.wav|'No, darling; there will be no fighting with sin there.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000031_000002.wav|'It's like the fish that brought peter some money once.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000040_000002.wav|There are exceptions, I know, but precious few, as far as my experience goes.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000007_000000.wav|'He won't keep him long.' Then, as excited Teddy began pulling on his great coat, he whispered something into his mother's ear, which had the effect of completely reassuring her, and bringing a pleased smile about her lips.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000043_000001.wav|'Don't bother your head about your size,' he said; 'you'll grow, and there's plenty of time before you.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000046_000000.wav|'You have your father's blood in your veins,' said the colonel, laughing; 'meanwhile, I suppose you try your hand on the village boys, to content your fighting propensities.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000036_000002.wav|He was only four years in the regiment, and his case was brought to me before he was discharged.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000036_000000.wav|'Because it's the ruination of them.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000015_000001.wav|'Come in, my little man, and don't be frightened.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000003_000001.wav|Perhaps I shall find it in my stocking on Christmas morning,' he used to say to his mother; and she told him to pray on.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000028_000002.wav|In another minute he rose to his feet, and with a face perfectly radiant he turned to, the colonel, 'It's lovely, sir, it's lovely!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000031_000001.wav|'No wonder no one couldn't find it!' he said, fingering his adornment proudly.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000040_000001.wav|I would only ask you to watch a boy, as I have, from the start, and see what kind of a man he grows into after having spent most of his early youth in the Service.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000010_000001.wav|Wouldn't you like to be one?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000045_000000.wav|'A capital decision-stick to it, little chap, and you have my hearty approval.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000038_000000.wav|He shrugged his shoulders.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000006_000000.wav|'What about?' questioned mrs john, rather alarmed at this summons, and wondering if Teddy had been up to mischief.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000033_000001.wav|Would you like to take him as a drummer boy into your regiment?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000063_000000.wav|'And when you die, and I get the button, I shall wear it as a brooch!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000023_000000.wav|'"Fact is stranger than fiction," certainly,' said the colonel.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000054_000000.wav|'O God, I do thank You.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000068_000001.wav|You never do anything wrong!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000002_000001.wav|Daily he prayed for it to be found, and his hope and faith in God never failed him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000018_000001.wav|Some of you remember his story told in our schoolroom to the regiment passing through in the summer, and we weren't surprised to hear of his narrow escape from death from trying to regain his button.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000047_000000.wav|'No,' said Teddy, a grave look coming into his sunny blue eyes.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000043_000000.wav|The major laughed.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000066_000002.wav|Have you got an enemy like me?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000057_000001.wav|I would take great care of it.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000068_000000.wav|'But you're never beaten, are you?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000001_000000.wav|Found|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000061_000000.wav|'Yes,' nodded Nancy; 'sailors and soldiers are quite even, and my father is just as good as your father was!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000051_000000.wav|And then Teddy was dismissed.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000058_000000.wav|'I meant it to be buried with me,' said Teddy, considering, 'but I don't mind altering my mind about it, and if you promise not to give it to any one else, I will let you have it.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000038_000002.wav|The rougher, harder natures get on best.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106974/7704_106974_000070_000000.wav|Teddy pondered over this.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000037_000003.wav|You stay here and watch me.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000075_000000.wav|'Yes, sir,' said Teddy humbly.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000062_000001.wav|Grandfather read me about Nelson the other evening, and showed me a picture of sailors cutting the enemy's arms off, as they tried to scramble on board ship.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000028_000000.wav|Not long after this, Teddy and his schoolfellows were having a delightful afternoon in the woods.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000074_000001.wav|'Wasn't it you and some others who scared our dairymaid into fits one night last winter, by playing pranks, after dark, outside the dairy window?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000045_000000.wav|'It isn't right,' he said, after a long pause.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000010_000002.wav|Is thinking fighting?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000038_000001.wav|Dancing like an elf with the line in his hand, he spun round and round the tree till the line was wound round to its very last extremity, and the farmer looked like some big bluebottle fly entangled in the fine meshes of a spider's web.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000001_000000.wav|First Victories|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000006_000000.wav|'I want you to give me a name for my enemy, please, sir.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000047_000003.wav|When he discovered his condition he swore a round oath, and turned upon Teddy in great wrath, as he vainly tried to extricate himself.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000064_000000.wav|Teddy was the first to speak.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000036_000000.wav|'Hush!' said Teddy, in an excited whisper.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000016_000000.wav|'Will you give me a horrid, ugly name, please, sir?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000013_000000.wav|'Yes, my boy.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000053_000000.wav|'There are two of you, are there?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000020_000000.wav|'What funny names!|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000008_000002.wav|Granny was very angry with me because I had made Uncle Jake's best handkerchief into a banner of love.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000085_000000.wav|'I think you must wait a little, sonny.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000063_000000.wav|Their conversation was interrupted by voices and steps approaching, and in another moment two ladies and a gentleman appeared, evidently going home after a fishing excursion.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000009_000000.wav|'And then the fight began?' suggested the rector, as the boy paused.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000037_000000.wav|This was accomplished safely; but having passed him Teddy stood still, and the spirit of mischief seized hold of him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000007_000001.wav|'Have you had any battles with him yet?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000046_000000.wav|'Oh, you mustn't!' cried Nancy.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000044_000000.wav|The words were uttered almost in a whisper, and Nancy looked on with wonder.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000037_000002.wav|He's an enemy; I really think it's our duty to do it.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000079_000001.wav|May I tell you father's story?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000008_000005.wav|And when I got home granny was so angry that she took me by the collar and she locked me into the back kitchen; and mother was out, and I cried, I was so miserable.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000010_000001.wav|'I asked God to drive my enemy away, but I was an awful long time thinking it out.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000029_000000.wav|'What have we to do?' asked Nancy.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000057_000001.wav|'I feel shooken up dreadful, he's so awful strong; but I'm not very hurt, only I'm sorry, and I've been telling my Captain about it, and asking Him to forgive me.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000036_000001.wav|'If he wakes, all is up with us; now let's get past him on tiptoe.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000008_000003.wav|I didn't really think it was naughty.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000024_000001.wav|Will that be deserting to the enemy?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000053_000001.wav|Well, you shall share the same fate till I think fit to release you.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000032_000000.wav|'That's why I came down this way: there are always a lot of people fishing in the river.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000084_000001.wav|I'm not a very good soldier, am I? Do you think I ought to love old Farmer Green?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000046_000001.wav|'You'll wake him up, and then you'll catch it!|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000078_000001.wav|What regiment?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000066_000001.wav|'And who is the little girl?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000081_000003.wav|'What a sensitive, refined little face it is!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000071_000000.wav|'What made you go back, my boy?' asked mrs Graham gently.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000084_000000.wav|'It's dreadful difficult to remember in time, mother.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000008_000004.wav|I wrote "Love" in ink right across it; and I took such pains, for I wanted to show it to Nancy.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000042_000001.wav|'Have you got a pain?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000062_000000.wav|'Sailors fight, I know they do.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000082_000000.wav|'Too good to be spoilt by house service,' said Colonel Graham. 'His mother is a superior young woman, with a very good education, and the Platts are highly respected about here.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000054_000002.wav|I wish he'd left you tied up, I do!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000080_000001.wav|I remember now, though I'm not sure that I recollect the details,' said the colonel musingly.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000083_000000.wav|The children ran back to their playfellows considerably sobered by their experience, and Teddy very soon made his way home, and told his mother all that had befallen him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000049_000001.wav|You're the plague of the parish, and a good thrashing is what you will get, sure as my name's Jonathan Green!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000031_000000.wav|'And if we don't meet anybody?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000017_000000.wav|'I thought your enemy's name was Teddy.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000040_000000.wav|'Come on quick.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000058_000000.wav|'Shall we stay here all the evening and all the night?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000015_000001.wav|Don't shirk the hottest part of the field; that isn't being brave.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000008_000000.wav|'I think I had one yesterday.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000028_000001.wav|It was Saturday afternoon, and they were playing their favourite war game, Teddy, of course, being prime instigator of the whole affair.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000008_000008.wav|And I was very happy then, and I jumped right out, and then I remembered, but I didn't want to go back again.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000056_000000.wav|'Button boy, did he hurt you?' asked Nancy anxiously; for all this time Teddy had not said a word.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000018_000000.wav|'No, that's mine; I must have a name for him-a different one, you know.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000062_000004.wav|And if sailors fight, I can be a sailor for Jesus.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000028_000004.wav|At length Teddy announced his intention of going off on an expedition as a scout, and on Nancy's insisting that she should come too, the two children started, made their way out of the wood and down to the banks of the stream, which soon joined the river.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000077_000001.wav|'I'm a soldier's son.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000054_000001.wav|'Why, he was undoing you when you woke up, which was very kind of him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000059_000001.wav|It isn't fair on you, for you didn't do anything.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000042_000000.wav|'What's the matter?' asked Nancy.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000035_000001.wav|It was only a burly farmer, who was evidently making a day of it, for he sat under the shade of a tree with the remnants of a substantial lunch around him; his fishing rod was in his hand, but the line was out of the water, and he, with head thrown back and mouth wide open, was fast asleep.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000047_000000.wav|It seemed a harder business to untie the knots than to tie them, but at length it was done, and the unwinding process began.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000028_000003.wav|Her respect for Teddy was gradually increasing, though nothing seemed to quench her self assertion and independence of thought and action.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000046_000002.wav|Let him undo himself!' Teddy shook his head, and then stole softly back to the tree, Nancy following him at a respectful distance.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000015_000000.wav|'You will have plenty of fighting.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000062_000002.wav|I shan't never change to soldiers.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000066_000002.wav|she looks a regular little gipsy!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000060_000002.wav|You haven't told me ever what I asked you about Jesus' sailors.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000069_000000.wav|Having got his hands free, Teddy stood up bravely and told the story briefly and clearly, to the great amusement of his hearers.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000081_000001.wav|He told it as he always did, with enthusiastic effect, and when he offered to show the ladies his button they were charmed with him.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000037_000001.wav|Turning to Nancy, he said, with sparkling eyes, 'What fun to take him prisoner and tie him up to the tree with his own fishing line!|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000059_000000.wav|'Oh no! he'll come and let us go soon.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000065_000002.wav|You wouldn't think it to look at him, would you?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000085_000002.wav|You know it was very naughty of you to act so.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000053_000002.wav|I'll teach you to stop playing such impish tricks on decent folk.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000012_000001.wav|Was that being a soldier?'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000014_000000.wav|'And granny let me out soon after; and I kissed her and said I was sorry, but I told her how nearly I had run away, and asked her to see that the window was locked next time, so that I shouldn't have to fight so hard.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000035_000000.wav|And then suddenly, a short time after, they came upon a fisherman.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000073_000000.wav|'I went back when I remembered it was wrong to have done it,' he said simply.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000080_000002.wav|'Your father was john Platt, who enlisted in one of the line regiments-the twenty fourth, wasn't it?|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000061_000000.wav|'I did ask mother, and she said sailors were soldiers, they were sea soldiers.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000052_000000.wav|And in another few minutes he had bound the boy securely to the tree, tying his hands together with his handkerchief; then, as Nancy stepped forward, indignant at this severe treatment, he turned upon her.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000033_000000.wav|'But they won't.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000010_000000.wav|Teddy nodded.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000007_000000.wav|mr Upton looked amused.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000076_000000.wav|'And why didn't you run away when the old man woke?' asked Lady Helen.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000067_000000.wav|Neither of the children appreciated these remarks, but the colonel good naturedly put down his fishing basket and cut the piece of rope that bound them.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000070_000000.wav|'And he would never have been caught if he hadn't gone back to undo him,' put in Nancy; 'so he oughtn't to have been punished at all.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000039_000001.wav|What fun! how I should like to see him!'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000034_000000.wav|'You must make believe they will.' Teddy's tone was stern, and Nancy was too occupied in holding her hat on her head as they crept through some low bushes to advance any more sceptical opinions.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000060_000001.wav|But I don't care, it doesn't hurt.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000060_000000.wav|'I laughed at him, and I wanted you to leave him tied up.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000074_000000.wav|'But you are not such a paragon of goodness generally,' said the colonel.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000057_000000.wav|He turned his head and looked at her.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000004_000000.wav|He smiled when he saw the boy.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000030_000000.wav|'It's great fun.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000064_000001.wav|He recognised the newcomers to be the squire, Colonel Graham, and his wife, with a visitor staying with them. 'Please, sir, will you undo us?' he asked appealingly.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000047_000002.wav|Farmer Green's nap was over, and with a hasty start he was roused to the full use of his faculties.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000040_000001.wav|He's Farmer Green, and he's an awful angry man; he gave Sam such a thrashing for tying an old saucepan to one of his pigs' tails. He won't know who has done it, and I did tie the knots awful tight.'|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7704/106969/7704_106969_000079_000000.wav|'He's dead, sir.|7704
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000012_000003.wav|'Rachael,' Sissy whispered, 'I will go on a little by myself.'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000013_000001.wav|Before them, at their very feet, was the brink of a black ragged chasm hidden by the thick grass.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000069_000000.wav|'Bless thee!|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000007_000000.wav|She ran back, and caught her round the neck.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000007_000001.wav|Rachael had already started up.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000033_000001.wav|'Where's doctor?|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000003_000003.wav|Engines at pits' mouths, and lean old horses that had worn the circle of their daily labour into the ground, were alike quiet; wheels had ceased for a short space to turn; and the great wheel of earth seemed to revolve without the shocks and noises of another time.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000062_000000.wav|mr Gradgrind was troubled and asked how?|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000032_000000.wav|When he said 'Alive!' a great shout arose and many eyes had tears in them.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000061_000001.wav|This I leave to yo.'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000028_000000.wav|There being now people enough present to impede the work, the sobered man put himself at the head of the rest, or was put there by the general consent, and made a large ring round the Old Hell Shaft, and appointed men to keep it.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000053_000006.wav|But in our judgments, like as in our doins, we mun bear and forbear.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000004_000001.wav|They followed paths and tracks, however slight.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000050_000003.wav|He would'n ha' suspect'n me.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000009_000002.wav|Rachael took it up, shaking from head to foot.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000036_000004.wav|The Old Hell Shaft, the pitman said, with a curse upon it, was worthy of its bad name to the last; for though Stephen could speak now, he believed it would soon be found to have mangled the life out of him.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000006_000000.wav|As Sissy said it, her eyes were attracted by another of those rotten fragments of fence upon the ground.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000004_000000.wav|They walked on across the fields and down the shady lanes, sometimes getting over a fragment of a fence so rotten that it dropped at a touch of the foot, sometimes passing near a wreck of bricks and beams overgrown with grass, marking the site of deserted works.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000012_000000.wav|They were afraid to look; but they did examine it, and found no mark of violence, inside or out.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000069_000001.wav|Will soombody be pleased to coover my face!'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000009_000001.wav|There is a hat lying in the grass.' They went forward together.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000036_000002.wav|He had come straight away from his work, on being written to, and had walked the whole journey; and was on his way to mr Bounderby's country house after dark, when he fell.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000023_000001.wav|Don't stop for breath.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000017_000000.wav|'Rachael, Stephen may be living.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000011_000000.wav|'Is there—has the hat any blood upon it?' Sissy faltered.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000068_000000.wav|'I will hold thy hand, and keep beside thee, Stephen, all the way.'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000037_000004.wav|At length the signal was given, and all the ring leaned forward.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000015_000001.wav|Think of Stephen, think of Stephen, think of Stephen!'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000020_000003.wav|She did this, twenty, thirty times.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000005_000001.wav|They had seen no one, near or distant, for a long time; and the solitude remained unbroken.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000037_000003.wav|Every one waited with his grasp set, and his body bent down to the work, ready to reverse and wind in.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000039_000003.wav|That gently done, he called to him Rachael and Sissy.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000009_000000.wav|'I don't know.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000035_000004.wav|It was dark now, and torches were kindled.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000031_000001.wav|The sobered man was brought up and leaped out briskly on the grass.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000033_000000.wav|'But he's hurt very bad,' he added, as soon as he could make himself heard again.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000025_000001.wav|Then a horse was found; and she got another man to ride for life or death to the railroad, and send a message to Louisa, which she wrote and gave him.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000021_000001.wav|'Rachael, we must lose not a moment.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000010_000001.wav|He has been made away with.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000001_000000.wav|THE Sunday was a bright Sunday in autumn, clear and cool, when early in the morning Sissy and Rachael met, to walk in the country.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000060_000000.wav|Louisa returned with her father.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000027_000002.wav|In the midst of this, Rachael returned; and with her party there was a surgeon, who brought some wine and medicines.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000019_000000.wav|'Don't stir from here, for his sake!|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000018_000000.wav|'No, no, no!'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000021_000000.wav|The wide prospect, so beautiful in its stillness but a few minutes ago, almost carried despair to her brave heart, as she rose and looked all round her, seeing no help.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000016_000000.wav|By an earnest repetition of this entreaty, poured out in all the agony of such a moment, Sissy at last brought her to be silent, and to look at her with a tearless face of stone.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000067_000002.wav|We may walk toogether t'night, my dear!'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000050_000004.wav|But look up yonder, Rachael!|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000036_000000.wav|It appeared from the little this man said to those about him, which was quickly repeated all over the circle, that the lost man had fallen upon a mass of crumbled rubbish with which the pit was half choked up, and that his fall had been further broken by some jagged earth at the side.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000015_000000.wav|'Rachael, dear Rachael, good Rachael, for the love of Heaven, not these dreadful cries!|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000019_000001.wav|Let me go and listen.'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000033_000002.wav|He's hurt so very bad, sir, that we donno how to get him up.'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000029_000003.wav|The candle was brought up again, feebly burning, and then some water was cast in.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000031_000000.wav|The rope came in tight and strained; and ring after ring was coiled upon the barrel of the windlass, and all eyes were fastened on the pit.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000014_000002.wav|Down there!' At first this, and her terrific screams, were all that could be got from Rachael, by any tears, by any prayers, by any representations, by any means.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000006_000005.wav|Here are footsteps too.—O Rachael!'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000022_000000.wav|She knew by Rachael's face that she might trust her now.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000020_000000.wav|She shuddered to approach the pit; but she crept towards it on her hands and knees, and called to him as loud as she could call.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000010_000000.wav|'O the poor lad, the poor lad!|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000003_000000.wav|Though the green landscape was blotted here and there with heaps of coal, it was green elsewhere, and there were trees to see, and there were larks singing (though it was Sunday), and there were pleasant scents in the air, and all was over arched by a bright blue sky.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000017_000001.wav|You wouldn't leave him lying maimed at the bottom of this dreadful place, a moment, if you could bring help to him?'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000029_000002.wav|It was five o'clock in the afternoon of the bright autumnal Sunday, before a candle was sent down to try the air, while three or four rough faces stood crowded close together, attentively watching it: the man at the windlass lowering as they were told.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000024_000001.wav|One of the men was in a drunken slumber, but on his comrade's shouting to him that a man had fallen down the Old Hell Shaft, he started out to a pool of dirty water, put his head in it, and came back sober.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000035_000003.wav|As these were made, they were hung upon an arm of the pitman who had last come up, with instructions how to use them: and as he stood, shown by the light he carried, leaning his powerful loose hand upon one of the poles, and sometimes glancing down the pit, and sometimes glancing round upon the people, he was not the least conspicuous figure in the scene.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000013_000000.wav|She had unclasped her hand, and was in the act of stepping forward, when Rachael caught her in both arms with a scream that resounded over the wide landscape.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000006_000001.wav|She got up to look at it.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000050_000005.wav|Look aboove!'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000030_000001.wav|The signal was given and the windlass stopped, with abundant rope to spare.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000014_000000.wav|'O, my good Lord!|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000021_000005.wav|Think of Stephen, think of Stephen!'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000053_000000.wav|'It ha' shined upon me,' he said reverently, 'in my pain and trouble down below.|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000008_000000.wav|'What is the matter?'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1222/133834/1222_133834_000058_000001.wav|'Shall I bring him to you?'|1222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000006_000001.wav|And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his other sons, they hated him, and could not speak to him.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000033_000000.wav|In modern life as in the ancient story, the place usually seeks the man who is fitted to fill it.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000030_000003.wav|A certain Dudu (David) was one of the most trusted officials of this king.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000019_000001.wav|Do you accept George Eliot's definition of genius as "the capacity for unlimited work"? To what extent does a man's faith in God and in his fellow men determine his ability to win success?|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000008_000000.wav|And Jehovah was with Joseph and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison, so that the keeper of the prison gave to Joseph's charge all the prisoners who were in the prison, and for whatever they did he was responsible.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000030_000000.wav|Egypt, with its marvelous natural resources, its peculiar climate, its irrigation, which usually guarantees good crops, and its versatile people, has always been pre eminently the land of opportunity.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000030_000006.wav|This was perhaps the Joseph of the Biblical account.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000013_000000.wav|He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000031_000004.wav|Analyze his probable motives in detail.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000031_000000.wav|Is there any evidence that Joseph complained because of the injustice of his brothers?|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000009_000002.wav|Then they cried before him, Bow the knee!|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000021_000000.wav|THE LIMITATIONS AND TEMPTATIONS OF JOSEPH'S EARLY LIFE.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000033_000005.wav|If not, why not?|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000009_000000.wav|And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have appointed you over all the land of Egypt.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000025_000000.wav|In what ways did his father show his favoritism towards Joseph? The Hebrew word rendered in the older translations, "coat of many colors," means literally, "long sleeved tunic."|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000017_000003.wav|It concretely illustrates the fact that the first essential of success is the willingness to serve.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156973/3781_156973_000017_000000.wav|The late Samuel l Clemens (Mark Twain) advised a young man who desired to enter business to select the firm with which he wished to be associated, then ask that they give him work, without mentioning the subject of compensation.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000026_000004.wav|Parallel to these are deep, hot and for the most part waterless valleys.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000038_000003.wav|At night these glowing coals seem like a pillar of fire, telling of the presence of their leader and protector.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000026_000002.wav|They must be interpreted in the light of the peculiar background of the wilderness and of the nomadic life which flourishes there to day as it did in the past. The hebrews on escaping from Egypt entered the South Country, which extends seventy miles from the rocky hills of Judah southward until it merges into the barren desert.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000038_000000.wav|As later generations meditated on the perils of the wilderness through which their ancestors passed, they naturally felt that only under the immediate guidance of a divine power could they have escaped.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000025_000000.wav|THE WILDERNESS ENVIRONMENT.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000038_000001.wav|They were familiar with the way in which the caravans travel through the desert: in front of the leader is borne aloft a brazier filled with coals.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000027_000000.wav|The home of the hebrews at this time, like that of the modern Arabs, was the tent.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000032_000004.wav|Upon the complete devotion of each man to the interest of the tribe hung his fate, as well as that of the community as a whole.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000037_000003.wav|Hence, throughout their troubled career the hebrews have been conscious of the presence of God and have found in him their defender and personal friend as has no other people in human history.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000018_000000.wav|And when it rested, he would say,|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000017_000000.wav|Arise, O Jehovah, And let thine enemies be scattered, And let those who hate thee flee before thee.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156981/3781_156981_000027_000006.wav|Some scholars hold that this coarse food was the manna of the Biblical accounts.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000027_000003.wav|Among them the less disciplined, the less intelligently directed groups perish.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000021_000001.wav|Soon through his activities these almost instinctive habits, guided by rules, assume the nature of customs that have a sanction, often of religion, practically always of enforcement through the patriarch.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000024_000002.wav|Later, as the tribe enters the pastoral state, private property is established and laws for its care are made.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000018_000005.wav|They are largely negative.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000014_000000.wav|If chosen men could never be alone, In deep mid silence, open doored with God No greatness ever had been dreamed or done.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000017_000000.wav|THE NEEDS THAT GIVE RISE TO LAW.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000029_000001.wav|With every law, as Austin says, must go a penalty.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000018_000002.wav|Each separate group has its totem, its general rules with reference to the marriage relation, to hunting and fishing, to shelter and protection.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000018_000001.wav|According to the researches of the best anthropologists, savages live in very loosely organized groups, with no permanent ruler, no regular family law.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000010_000000.wav|Love is the fulfilling of the law.--saint Paul.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000009_000000.wav|And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3781/156977/3781_156977_000029_000000.wav|But as this sense of fear or right or justice or love, associated with a Being felt to be divine, is not universal, inasmuch as many members of society are found ready to act selfishly, taking the law into their own hands, force is needed in all stages of society to put the rules and laws into effect.|3781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000047_000000.wav|"God forbid!" said Otto, and then lay for a while with his hands clasped.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000035_000000.wav|"And do they never go out to fight other priests?"|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000026_000002.wav|I heard him tell my mother all about thee, and so I wanted to come here and see thee myself: Art thou sick?"|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000019_000001.wav|His face was paler and thinner than ever, and dark rings encircled his blue eyes.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000020_000000.wav|Since that dreadful day when Baron Henry had come to his cell, only two souls had visited Otto.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000020_000001.wav|One was the fellow who had come with the Baron that time; his name, Otto found, was Casper.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000009_000000.wav|"So?" said the Baron.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000002_000001.wav|Such was the little baron's prison in Trutz Drachen.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000055_000001.wav|Dear Pauline, canst thou not tell my father where I am, that he may come here and take me away before I die?"|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000004_000000.wav|Suddenly a door crashed without, and the footsteps of men were heard coming along the corridor.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000002_000002.wav|Fastened to a bolt and hanging against the walls, hung a pair of heavy chains with gaping fetters at the ends.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000006_000000.wav|The two stood for a moment looking into the room, and Otto, his pale face glimmering in the gloom, sat upon the edge of the heavy wooden bench or bed, looking back at them out of his great blue eyes.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000004_000002.wav|The rusty bolt was shot back with a screech, the door opened, and there stood Baron Henry, no longer in his armor, but clad in a long black robe that reached nearly to his feet, a broad leather belt was girdled about his waist, and from it dangled a short, heavy hunting sword.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000018_000000.wav|Baron Henry and the other came forth from the cell, carefully closing the wooden door behind them.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000037_000000.wav|"So!" said she.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000015_000000.wav|As the man in the mail shirt stepped toward little Otto, the boy leaped up from where he sat and caught the Baron about the knees.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000031_000000.wav|This was only the first visit of many from the little maid, for after that she often came to Otto's prison, who began to look for her coming from day to day as the one bright spot in the darkness and the gloom.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000014_000002.wav|Catch the boy, Casper, and hold him."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000021_000001.wav|At last the bolts grated back, there was a pause, and then the door opened a little way, and Otto thought that he could see someone peeping in from without. By and by the door opened further, there was another pause, and then a slender, elfish looking little girl, with straight black hair and shining black eyes, crept noiselessly into the room.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000046_000002.wav|There he had seen the Baron Conrad and six of his men, and that they were eating one of the swine that they had killed and roasted.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000030_000000.wav|Little Pauline stood looking seriously at him for a while.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000040_000001.wav|I saw her the night thy father hurt me so, for I could not sleep and my head felt as though it would break asunder.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000049_000000.wav|"Mayhap they are," said Otto, simply, "for I have often been told so before.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000028_000000.wav|"And did my father hurt thee?"|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000054_000001.wav|"If thy father takes thee away, thou canst not tell me any more stories."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000001_000001.wav|In the House of the Dragon Scorner.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000057_000000.wav|"And for my sake, wilt thou tell him, Pauline?" said Otto.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000027_000000.wav|"Yes," said Otto, "I am sick."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000059_000000.wav|"Yes," said Otto, very seriously, "I will promise."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000053_000000.wav|"Because," said he, "I am so sick, and I want my father to come and take me away from here."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000004_000001.wav|They stopped in front of Otto's cell; he heard the jingle of keys, and then a loud rattle of one thrust into the lock of the heavy oaken door.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000042_000000.wav|"From paradise, I think," said Otto, with that patient seriousness that he had caught from the monks, and that sat so quaintly upon him.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000046_000000.wav|One day little Pauline came bustling into Otto's cell, her head full of the news which she carried.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000001_000000.wav|eight.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000030_000002.wav|And then, at her childish pity, he began crying in earnest.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000036_000000.wav|"No," said Otto, "they know nothing of fighting."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000020_000003.wav|The other visitor was the leech or doctor, a thin, weasand little man, with a kindly, wrinkled face and a gossiping tongue, who, besides binding wounds, bleeding, and leeching, and administering his simple remedies to those who were taken sick in the castle, acted as the Baron's barber.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000023_000000.wav|She, seeing that he made no sign or motion, stepped a little nearer, and then, after a moment's pause, a little nearer still, until, at last, she stood within a few feet of where he lay.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000033_000001.wav|At last she drew a deep breath.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000022_000000.wav|She stood close by the door with her finger in her mouth, staring at the boy where he lay upon his couch, and Otto upon his part lay, full of wonder, gazing back upon the little elfin creature.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000045_000000.wav|"Mine hath often struck me," said Pauline.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000015_000001.wav|"Oh! dear Lord Baron," he cried, "do not harm me; I am only a little child, I have never done harm to thee; do not harm me."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000003_000001.wav|No sound from without was to be heard in that gloomy cell of stone, for the window pierced the outer wall, and the earth and its noises lay far below.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000002_000003.wav|They were thick with rust, and the red stain of the rust streaked the wall below where they hung like a smear of blood. Little Otto shuddered as he looked at them; can those be meant for me, he thought.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000052_000000.wav|"Why dost thou cry, Otto?" said she, after a while.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000047_000001.wav|"Dost thou love me, Pauline?" said he, after a while.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000008_000000.wav|"Nay," said Otto, "I know not."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000006_000001.wav|Then the two entered and closed the door behind them.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000019_000002.wav|He was looking toward the door, for there was a noise of someone fumbling with the lock without.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000041_000000.wav|"But where did she come from, Otto?" said the little girl.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000019_000000.wav|Otto lay upon the hard couch in his cell, covered with a shaggy bear skin.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000007_000000.wav|"Dost thou know why thou art here?" said the Baron, in his deep, harsh voice.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000034_000000.wav|"Yes," said Otto, "all are true."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000048_000000.wav|"Yes," said Pauline, "for thou art a good child, though my father says that thy wits are cracked."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000051_000000.wav|"Then listen, Pauline," said Otto; "if I go not away from here I shall surely die.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133395/1028_133395_000046_000003.wav|Maybe," said she, seating herself upon the edge of Otto's couch; "maybe my father will kill thy father, and they will bring him here and let him lie upon a black bed with bright candles burning around him, as they did my uncle Frederick when he was killed."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000029_000000.wav|At the doorway he met Mother Hilda.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000018_000000.wav|As he climbed the steep, stony steps to the door of the Baron's house, old Ursela came running down to meet him.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000043_000001.wav|Once he reached out his hand as though to stroke the boy's hair, but drew it back again.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000036_000002.wav|Then he cried out, in a sharp voice, "And is this truth that you tell me, Ursela? and did my father seek to rob the towns people of their goods?"|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000025_000000.wav|Again, at another time, going into the court yard, Otto had found the door of Melchior's tower standing invitingly open, for old Hilda, Schwartz Carl's wife, had come down below upon some business or other.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000046_000000.wav|Otto looked for a while into his father's face.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000028_000000.wav|Then Otto turned and crept down the stairs, frightened at the height to which he had climbed.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000014_000001.wav|But perhaps Otto's thought of fear and Baron Conrad's thought of fear were two very different matters.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000032_000001.wav|Suddenly Ursela broke the silence.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000023_000000.wav|It was the chapel into which Otto had made his way, now long since fallen out of use excepting as a burial place of the race.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000037_000005.wav|But there is one comfort in it all, and that is that our good Baron paid back the score he owed the Trutz Drachen people not only for that, but for all that they had done from the very first."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000015_000000.wav|The afternoon had passed by the time they had reached the end of their journey.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000007_000000.wav|"Aye," answered Otto, with an answering smile.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000026_000000.wav|Then upon the shaky wooden steps Otto ran without waiting for a second thought, for he had often gazed at those curious buildings hanging so far up in the air, and had wondered what they were like.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000024_000001.wav|There a flock of pigeons had made their roost, and flapped noisily out into the sunlight when he pushed open the door from below. Here he hunted among the mouldering things of the past until, oh, joy of joys! in an ancient oaken chest he found a great lot of worm eaten books, that had belonged to some old chaplain of the castle in days gone by.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000031_000000.wav|But one day it was a tale of a different sort that she told him, and one that opened his eyes to what he had never dreamed of before.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000030_000000.wav|Old Ursela seemed nearer to the boy than anyone else about the castle, excepting it was his father, and it was a newfound delight to Otto to sit beside her and listen to her quaint stories, so different from the monkish tales that he had heard and read at the monastery.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000037_000002.wav|Ah! me, those day's are all gone now." And she fetched a deep sigh.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000040_000000.wav|"Oh, father!" he cried, "oh, father!|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000016_000000.wav|The next moment they clattered over the drawbridge that spanned the narrow black gulph between the roadway and the wall, and the next were past the echoing arch of the great gateway and in the gray gloaming of the paved court yard within.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000024_000000.wav|At another time he clambered up into the loft under the high peaked roof, where lay numberless forgotten things covered with the dim dust of years.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000026_000002.wav|At last he reached a landing stage, and gazing over the edge and down, beheld the stone pavement far, far below, lit by a faint glimmer of light that entered through the arched doorway.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000045_000000.wav|That night the father and son sat together beside the roaring fire in the great ball.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000011_000000.wav|"Nay," said Otto; "we had no horse to ride, but only to bring in the harvest or the grapes from the further vineyards to the vintage."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000026_000001.wav|Round and round and up and up Otto climbed, until his head spun.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000018_000002.wav|"My little child," she cried, and then fell to sobbing as though her heart would break.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000002_000001.wav|Baron Conrad and his men at arms sat foot in stirrup, the milk white horse that had been brought for Otto stood waiting for him beside his father's great charger.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000013_000000.wav|"Nay," said Otto, with a smile, "I am not afeared."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000006_000000.wav|Then poor brother john came forward and took the boy's hand, and looked up into his face as he sat upon his horse.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000015_000001.wav|Up the steep, stony path they rode to the drawbridge and the great gaping gateway of Drachenhausen, where wall and tower and battlement looked darker and more forbidding than ever in the gray twilight of the coming night.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000026_000003.wav|Otto clutched tight hold of the wooden rail, he had no thought that he had climbed so far.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000036_000001.wav|For a moment or two after the old woman had ended her story, he sat staring silently at her.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000020_000000.wav|His new home was all very strange and wonderful to Otto; the armors, the trophies, the flags, the long galleries with their ranges of rooms, the great hall below with its vaulted roof and its great fireplace of grotesquely carved stone, and all the strange people with their lives and thoughts so different from what he had been used to know.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000041_000001.wav|But what of that, Otto?|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000004_000000.wav|"Farewell," answered Otto, in his simple, quiet way, and it brought a pang to the old man's heart that the child should seem to grieve so little at the leave taking.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000009_000000.wav|Down the steep winding pathway they rode, and out into the great wide world beyond, upon which Otto and brother john had gazed so often from the wooden belfry of the White Cross on the hill.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000032_000000.wav|The mellow sunlight fell through the window upon old Ursela, as she sat in the warmth with her distaff in her hands while Otto lay close to her feet upon a bear skin, silently thinking over the strange story of a brave knight and a fiery dragon that she had just told him.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000024_000002.wav|They were not precious and beautiful volumes, such as the Father Abbot had showed him, but all the same they had their quaint painted pictures of the blessed saints and angels.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000002_000000.wav|The gates of the Monastery stood wide open, the world lay beyond, and all was ready for departure.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000044_000000.wav|Turning angrily upon the old woman, "Ursela," said he, "thou must tell the child no more such stories as these; he knowest not at all of such things as yet.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000021_000000.wav|And it was a wonderful thing to explore all the strange places in the dark old castle; places where it seemed to Otto no one could have ever been before.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000034_000000.wav|"Nay," said Otto, "but tell me, Ursela, how it was."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000036_000000.wav|Otto listened with eyes that grew wider and wider, though not all with wonder; he no longer lay upon the bear skin, but sat up with his hands clasped.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000003_000000.wav|"Farewell, Otto," said the good old Abbot, as he stooped and kissed the boy's cheek.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000041_000000.wav|"Aye," said the Baron, grimly, "it is true enough, and I think me I have killed many more than one.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000017_000000.wav|Otto looked around upon the many faces gathered there to catch the first sight of the little baron; hard, rugged faces, seamed and weather beaten; very different from those of the gentle brethren among whom he had lived, and it seemed strange to him that there was none there whom he should know.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000015_000002.wav|Little Otto looked up with great, wondering, awe struck eyes at this grim new home of his.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000005_000000.wav|"Farewell, Otto," said the brethren that stood about, "farewell, farewell."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000039_000000.wav|Poor little Otto had never dreamed that such cruelty and wickedness could be.|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1028/133393/1028_133393_000006_000001.wav|"We will meet again," said he, with his strange, vacant smile, "but maybe it will be in Paradise, and there perhaps they will let us lie in the father's belfry, and look down upon the angels in the court yard below."|1028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000022_000000.wav|THE INDIANS|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000010_000001.wav|In its deep water the largest vessels might ride at anchor, but at the time of my story a lonelier place could scarcely be found.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000016_000001.wav|And the day comes at last, when, summoning all its waters to the attack, it makes a breach in the great earth wall, and in a strong, grand column, as high as this room, marches away towards the sea.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000015_000001.wav|For a moment the water leaps into the air, all foam and sparkle, as if it would jump over the barrier, and find its way to the sea at any rate.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000006_000002.wav|Sometimes they are sent to make a bridge over Niagara Falls, or to build a dam across a mountain torrent in an hour's time.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000000_000000.wav|WHAT THE FROST GIANTS DID TO NANNIE'S RUN|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000021_000001.wav|And this is what the Frost Giants did to Nannie's Run.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000004_000001.wav|Perhaps you will some day read about it all, but at present we have only to do with the Frost Giants; for I want to tell you, that, although no one now thinks of believing about the serpent or the flat earth or the rainbow bridge, yet the Frost Giants still live, and their home is really among the mountains.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000008_000000.wav|Now that you are introduced, you will perhaps like to join a Frost party that started out to work, one day in the early spring of eighteen sixty one, from their homes among the Olympic Mountains.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000023_000002.wav|But here is Nannie hundreds and thousands of miles away from any such help; for there are not only no railroads to travel upon, but not even common roads nor horses nor wagons; nevertheless, there are neighbors who will bring help.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000002_000000.wav|Do you believe in giants?|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000019_000001.wav|But, alas! here it stands, just in the path that the torrent will take, and we have no power to tell of the danger that is approaching.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000014_000000.wav|They have been working all winter, but not quite so busily as now; for since yesterday they have cracked that big rock in two, and dug the great cave under the hill, and now they are gathered in council on the mountain side that overlooks a dashing little stream.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000019_000000.wav|Oh, don't we wish the house had been built up on the cliff among the fir trees, safe above the reach of the water!|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000011_000000.wav|Three streams, straying from the far away mountains, and fed by their melted snows and hidden springs, find their way through the forest, leap and tumble over the cliff, and, passing through the little settlement, reach the sea.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000021_000000.wav|Five minutes afterwards, sitting breathless on the roots of an old tree, with her children safe beside her, she sees the whole shore covered with surging water, and the houses swept into the bay, tossing and drifting there like boats in a stormy sea.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000006_000003.wav|Now and then they have to rake off a steep mountain side as you might a garden bed; and sometimes to bury a whole village so quickly that the poor inhabitants do not know what strange hand brought such sudden destruction upon them.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000018_000000.wav|Peep in at the window, and see how Nannie stands at the kitchen table, cutting out little cakes from a bit of dough that her mother has given her; she is all absorbed in her play, and her mother has gone to look into the oven at the nicely browning loaves.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000016_000000.wav|Now, if you will stay and watch it day after day, you will see what good result will come from this waiting; for every hour more and more water is running to its aid, and, as its forces increase, we begin to feel sure, that, although it can neither pass over nor under, it will some day be strong enough to break through the Frost Giants' dam.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000010_000003.wav|It is indeed a very little settlement,--a few houses clustered together upon the sandy beach close to the blue water; behind the houses rises a cliff crowned with great fir trees, standing tall and dark in thick ranks, making a dense forest; and beyond this forest, cold, snow covered mountains lift their peaks against the sky,--a fitting home for the Frost Giants.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000010_000000.wav|Can you imagine a beautiful oval shaped bay, almost encircled by a long arm of sand stretching out from the mainland?|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000025_000000.wav|The Flatheads are Nannie's only neighbors, and perhaps you would consider them rather undesirable friends; but when I tell you how they came at once with blankets and food, and all sorts of friendly offers of shelter and help, you will think that some white people might well take a lesson from them.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000024_000000.wav|You remember reading in your history, how, when our great great grandfathers came to this country to live, they found it occupied by Indians.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000028_000000.wav|Before many weeks have passed, some of the tall fir trees are cut down, and a new house is built, this time safely perched on top of the cliff; and, so far as I know, the Frost Giants have never succeeded in touching it.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000011_000001.wav|The people who live here call these little streams RUNS, and one of them is Nannie's Run.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000023_000001.wav|Here in our New England towns it would seem hard enough to have one's house swept away before one's eyes; but then you know you could take the next train of cars, and go to your aunt in Boston, or your uncle in New York, to stay until a new house could be prepared for you.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000001_000000.wav|THE FROST GIANTS|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000012_000003.wav|Her father and mother came here to live when she was but a baby, and before there was a single house built in the place; and it is out of compliment to her that one of the streams has been named Nannie's Run.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000012_000001.wav|Why, Nannie is Nannie Dwight,--a little girl not yet five years old, who lives in the small square house standing under the cliff.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000009_000000.wav|NANNIE'S RUN|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000012_000000.wav|And, now, who is Nannie?|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000023_000000.wav|What will Nannie do now?|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000002_000002.wav|Well, listen to my story, which is a really true one, and then answer my question.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000014_000003.wav|We have not long to wait before we shall see, and hear too; for a great creaking and cracking begins, and, while we gaze astonished, the mountain side begins to slide, and presently, with a rush and a roar, dashes into the stream, and chokes it with a huge dam of earth and rocks and trees.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000006_000000.wav|Have you sometimes seen great boulder stones, as big as a small house, that stand alone by themselves in some field, or on some seashore, where no other rocks are near?|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/161166/707_161166_000006_000004.wav|Their deeds often seem to be cruel, and we cannot understand their meaning; but we shall some time know that the loving Father who sent them orders nothing for our hurt, but has always a loving purpose, though it may be hidden.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000005_000008.wav|She should learn,--nay, she had already learned from his own lips,--how perilous was his enterprise.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000018_000003.wav|But chance did not so decide, and the letter was put back upon the table at his elbow.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000026_000002.wav|Are you going to give him the money?"|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000014_000003.wav|I think you love me.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000002_000000.wav|Vavasor, as he sat alone in his room, after Fitzgerald had left him, began to think of the days in which he had before wished to assist his friend in his views with reference to Lady Glencora;--or rather he began to think of Alice's behaviour then, and of Alice's words. Alice had steadfastly refused to give any aid.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000005_000002.wav|He was still a poor man, having been once nearly a rich man; but still so much of the result of his nearly acquired riches remained to him, that on the strength of them he might probably find his way into Parliament.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000012_000001.wav|I am so anxious that you should think of it that I will not expect your reply till this day week.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000011_000000.wav|And now, once again, Alice,--dearest Alice, will you be my wife?|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000002_000005.wav|"That might have been a good reason for refusing his offer when he first made it; but it can be no excuse for untruth, now that she has told him that she loves him!"|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000010_000003.wav|Then personal love for each other was most in our thoughts.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000016_000000.wav|Yours, in any event, most affectionately,|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000028_000001.wav|"Do tell him to be punctual," said mr Magruin, when Vavasor took his leave.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000013_000001.wav|I have told her nothing of my purpose in writing this letter.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000020_000006.wav|Don't let that rogue off for less than a hundred and twenty.--Yours, b f" Vavasor, therefore, having nothing better to do, spent his Christmas morning in calling on mr Magruin.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000022_000000.wav|"Time and tide wait for no man, mr Magruin, and my friend wants his money to morrow."|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000003_000006.wav|The beasts of the field do not treat each other so badly.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000025_000000.wav|"But is the lady sure, mr Vavasor?" asked mr Magruin, anxiously.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000002_000003.wav|"He is a desperate spendthrift," Kate Vavasor had said to her.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000020_000003.wav|"I send the bill.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000006_000002.wav|"I needn't send it when it's written," he said to himself, "and the chances are that I won't." Then he took his paper, and wrote as follows:--|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000020_000002.wav|"This will be brought to you by Stickling," the note said; but who Stickling was Vavasor did not know.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000030_000003.wav|And the same dull monotony of his days was continued for a week, during which he waited, not impatiently, for an answer to his letter.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000030_000002.wav|He at any rate did not so dare;--and after dinner he wandered about through the streets, wondering within his mind how he would endure the restraints of married life.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000005_000005.wav|But how was he to bear the cost of this for the next year, or the next two years?|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000027_000000.wav|"Christmas day, mr Vavasor!|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000008_000001.wav|But you have found,--with a thorough honesty of purpose than which I know nothing greater,--that it has behoved you to withdraw that privilege also.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000010_000011.wav|I will hardly stoop to tell you that I do not ask you to be my wife for the sake of this aid;--but if you were to become my wife I should expect all your cooperation;--with your money, possibly, but certainly with your warmest spirit.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000029_000000.wav|"I think he is," said George Vavasor, as he went away.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000024_000000.wav|"Yes, to morrow.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000010_000010.wav|If you were my wife to morrow I should expect to use your money, if it were needed, in struggling to obtain a seat in Parliament and a hearing there.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000014_000004.wav|Your woman's pride towards me has been great and good and womanly; but it has had its way; and, if you love me, might now be taught to succumb.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000003_000003.wav|If he thoroughly respected any woman he respected her.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000007_000000.wav|DEAR ALICE,|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000019_000006.wav|Whereupon Jem, asking no question and thinking but little of the circumstances under which the command was given, did take the letter and did post it.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000019_000002.wav|"Jem," he said to the boy, "there's half a crown lying there on the looking glass." Jem looked and acknowledged the presence of the half crown.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000005_000003.wav|He had paid the cost of the last attempt, and might, in a great degree, carry on this present attempt on credit.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000005_000000.wav|And now, at this moment, what was his outlook into life generally?|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000002_000004.wav|"Then let her teach him to be otherwise," Alice had answered.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000014_000002.wav|But, oh, Alice! do not let it be adverse.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000003_000001.wav|There had grown upon him lately certain Bohemian propensities,--a love of absolute independence in his thoughts as well as actions,--which were antagonistic to marriage.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000010_000000.wav|But all this is nothing.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000013_000003.wav|He has misunderstood me and has ill used me. But I am ready to forgive that, if he will allow me to do so.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000019_000004.wav|Jem scrutinized the coin, and declared that the uppermost surface showed a tail.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000012_000002.wav|It can hardly be your desire to go through life unmarried.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000010_000007.wav|I run great risk of failing.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000008_000000.wav|The time was when the privilege was mine of beginning my letters to you with a warmer show of love than the above word contains,--when I might and did call you dearest; but I lost that privilege through my own folly, and since that it has been accorded to another.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000011_000002.wav|You cannot accuse my love.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000012_000006.wav|It is because I believe that in this respect we are fitted for each other, as man and woman seldom are fitted, that I once again ask you to be my wife.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000008_000002.wav|I need hardly say that I should not have written as I now write, had you not found it expedient to do as you have done.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000008_000005.wav|Indeed I do not think that you ever doubted my love.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000002_000001.wav|No less likely assistant for such a purpose could have been selected.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000019_000000.wav|The next morning was the morning of Christmas Eve.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000020_000005.wav|You're a trump; and will do the best you can.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000009_000005.wav|Whether you remember those few words I cannot tell; but certainly you would not have remembered them,--would not even have noticed them,--had your heart been at Nethercoats.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000015_000000.wav|Dear Alice, will you be my wife?|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000008_000003.wav|I now once again ask you to be my wife.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000009_000002.wav|Then came the episode of mr Grey; and bitter as have been my feelings whilst that engagement lasted, I never made any attempt to come between you and the life you had chosen.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000018_000006.wav|"Women are such out and out fools." Then he took his candle, and carrying his letter with him, went into his bedroom.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000019_000005.wav|"Then take that letter and post it," said George Vavasor.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000003_000004.wav|But that idea of tying himself down to a household was in itself distasteful to him.|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/707/138866/707_138866_000024_000001.wav|If time and tide won't wait, neither will love. Come, mr Magruin, out with your cheque book, and don't let's have any nonsense."|707
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000026_000000.wav|"All Israel now began to praise David.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000005_000002.wav|He had received a command from the Lord telling him to take a vial of oil and seek the house of Jesse.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000012_000001.wav|"His beautiful black eyes are looking out into the night and watching for danger.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000039_000001.wav|But he, too, was overpowered by the spirit of the Lord.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000040_000000.wav|"But David did not feel sure that Saul was a true friend.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000027_000002.wav|When he learned of David's power to play and sing, he often asked the young shepherd to quiet his angry feelings with the sweet music of his harp and voice.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000021_000004.wav|He said:|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000039_000002.wav|And what do you think happened?|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000062_000001.wav|'How brave he is!' all cried.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000052_000002.wav|You can imagine how bad David felt when he learned what had happened through his own deceit.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000010_000002.wav|Not so.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000005_000001.wav|This visitor was no other than the prophet Samuel.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000054_000004.wav|He felt such shame that he determined to do the young man no more harm.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000038_000000.wav|"Certainly," said his wife.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000048_000000.wav|"David prepared to flee at once.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000022_000000.wav|"'It would be better for me to carry only such weapons as I know.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000042_000002.wav|When he had come close to the place where his friend was hidden, he began to shoot.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000055_000000.wav|"David again showed him how generous he was.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000042_000003.wav|He spoke to the boy from time to time.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000017_000000.wav|"There was no one who felt able to say, 'I am not afraid; I accept your challenge.'|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000038_000001.wav|In her sweet, clear voice she made a picture of David hiding near Ramah.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000011_000000.wav|"He began to show power in other ways, too.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000061_000000.wav|"The Israelites were in a pitiful state.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000061_000004.wav|It was David, the hero, the Sweet Singer.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000012_000000.wav|"It seems as though I can see him guarding his flocks," said Solomon, as Levi stopped talking to rest for a moment.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000060_000001.wav|He mourned bitterly over the death of Jonathan.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000034_000001.wav|The king was now obliged to have David for a son in law. But he hated him as much as ever.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000021_000000.wav|"But when he heard what David said, he changed his mind.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000063_000002.wav|And now he went on and became great, for the Lord God of hosts was with him."|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000053_000003.wav|He might have killed Saul at this time, but he had too great a heart.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000023_000000.wav|"He was allowed to do as he chose.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000036_000002.wav|But Michal did not stop here.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000053_000000.wav|"One night while David was hiding in a cave, the king stopped to rest at that very spot.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000018_000002.wav|But when David saw this, he felt the spirit of the Lord stir within him.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000007_000000.wav|"Samuel hastened to obey.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000049_000003.wav|He also asked for five sacred loaves of shewbread, which no one dared to eat except the priests.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000004_000001.wav|Let us go back to the days of long ago, long, even, before the destruction of our beloved city.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000056_000001.wav|No one heard them as David stepped to the side of the sleeping Saul and seized his spear and cup; then away they sped till they reached the hilltop opposite the one where Saul had taken his stand.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000048_000002.wav|He must have both.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000051_000001.wav|He started at once to obey the prophet's command.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000004_000000.wav|"VERY well, then.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000020_000000.wav|"'It is of no use for this young shepherd to go out alone to meet the giant.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000024_000003.wav|As soon as David saw the success of his shot, he rushed to the giant's side, seized his sword, and cut off his head.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000019_000000.wav|"He was now led before Saul, and there, in the presence of the king, he said he had faith that God would save him from harm, even from the hand of the giant.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000019_000001.wav|At first, Saul thought:|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000042_000004.wav|He used such words as to let the listening David know that the king was no more his friend than ever."|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000061_000002.wav|A leader was needed.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000054_000001.wav|He held up the piece he had cut from Saul's cloak.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000050_000001.wav|He had one adventure after another.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000008_000000.wav|"'Arise, anoint him, for this is he.'|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000053_000002.wav|While he lay sleeping David crept to his side and cut off a piece of his cloak.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000018_000003.wav|He arose, saying, 'I will meet you.'|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000032_000000.wav|"'You may have Michal if you will first kill one hundred Philistines.' He only said this because he hoped David would be killed by the enemy."|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000056_000000.wav|"No one saw them as they stole along.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000033_000001.wav|"He went out and destroyed two hundred Philistines, instead of one hundred."|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000029_000003.wav|The Lord was protecting the future king of Israel.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000041_000002.wav|He must now let David know about it, and prevent his return to the palace.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000007_000004.wav|It said:|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000010_000005.wav|He now showed himself indeed the 'Sweet Singer of Israel.'|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000041_000001.wav|It did not take him long to learn that Saul was as much an enemy as ever.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000010_000004.wav|He learned to sing, and play upon the harp.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000058_000002.wav|They treated him with great kindness and their king became his true friend.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000057_000000.wav|"David now cried out in a loud voice to wake the sleeping army.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000036_000004.wav|In this way the bad men who came to kill him were deceived.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000058_000000.wav|"But David had learned not to trust him.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000052_000003.wav|But his mind was kept busy with plans to keep out of Saul's reach, for the king followed him from place to place.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000018_000000.wav|"'No one,' did I say?|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000042_000000.wav|"Instead of that, he started from the palace to go shooting.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000021_000001.wav|He got out a strong suit of armour, and even helped him to put it on.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000010_000001.wav|Did he go out into the world and declare himself the future king of Israel?|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000057_000003.wav|He was again filled with gratitude.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000016_000001.wav|David often went to the camp to visit his brothers.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000064_000000.wav|Rebecca bowed her head as she said these words.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000045_000000.wav|"He had agreed with Jonathan that certain words should mean certain things, my dear."|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000054_000002.wav|Then the king knew he had been in David's power.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000038_000003.wav|He sent men there to take him prisoner.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000033_000000.wav|"I know what David did," exclaimed Solomon, who could keep still no longer.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000029_000000.wav|"His anger was now turned against the brave shepherd.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000012_000003.wav|Then he hears the sound of foes drawing near and springs to meet them."|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000065_000001.wav|"It is a good way to end our afternoon."|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000055_000003.wav|Only a servant went with David on this dangerous trip.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000055_000001.wav|He crept into Saul's tent one night.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000024_000001.wav|He spoke in scornful words.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000044_000000.wav|"I don't see how David could understand what he meant," she said.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000014_000000.wav|Levi now went on with his story.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000026_000001.wav|Saul, too, was filled with delight.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000059_000001.wav|It was a sad day for the Israelites.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000026_000002.wav|He declared he was willing David should marry his elder daughter after a while.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000051_000000.wav|"While he was hiding in the cave of Adullam, the prophet of God came to him, telling him to go into the land of Judah.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000035_000004.wav|All his wicked feelings came back, and he hired some bad men to take David by surprise when he was asleep, and kill him.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000028_000001.wav|They said, 'Saul hath slain his thousands, but David his ten thousands.'|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000025_000001.wav|They began to flee. But Saul's army followed and overtook them and killed great numbers.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000047_000000.wav|Rebecca smiled pleasantly, and went on.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000004_000002.wav|Let us seek David on the hillsides, tending his flocks with loving care.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000052_000000.wav|"The son of the High Priest managed to escape.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000030_000000.wav|"Again he tried to kill David, and again he failed.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000022_000001.wav|Let me take my shepherd's staff and the sling I have used so often in meeting the wild beasts.'|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000060_000002.wav|But this could not be helped now, and there was much work to do for his people.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000066_000000.wav|Rebecca began the words of the beautiful twenty third psalm.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000016_000000.wav|"Three of David's brothers were fighting in Saul's army and went out to meet the Philistines.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000057_000001.wav|He showed the cup and spear he had taken away from Saul's tent.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000038_000005.wav|They were overcome by the spirit of the Lord, and they did not dare seize David.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000038_000004.wav|A strange thing happened on their way.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000024_000000.wav|"And what did the giant, Goliath, say when he saw the young shepherd draw near?|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000030_000001.wav|Saul must have thought that it was of no use, so now he sought to injure the young man in a different way.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000049_000000.wav|"He went to the house of the High Priest.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000015_000001.wav|They became more and more daring, until at last they gathered on the side of a mountain right here in Israel.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000003_000000.wav|THE SWEET SINGER OF ISRAEL|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000011_000002.wav|Many times David met and overpowered them with the strength given to him by the Lord."|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000035_000002.wav|He did all in his power to make his father feel more kindly toward him.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000039_000000.wav|"When Saul was told how they had failed, he went himself in search of David.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000042_000001.wav|He took a boy with him.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000016_000002.wav|He happened to be there once when a Philistine giant marched forth and dared any Israelite to fight with him.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000059_000002.wav|They were badly beaten and Saul's sons were killed.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000059_000004.wav|Saul was overcome with sorrow.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000048_000001.wav|But he had no arms or food.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000036_000003.wav|She made the shape of a man and placed it in David's bed.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000018_000001.wav|At first, this was true, for every one in Saul's army kept silent.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000051_000002.wav|Saul heard where he was and followed him. On his way, the king heard how David had been helped by the High Priest. He was so angry that he ordered not only the High Priest to be killed, but also his eighty five helpers, and all the people of the town in which he lived.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000025_000000.wav|"The watching Philistines were filled with fear.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000061_000001.wav|The Philistines had most of the country in their power.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000009_000001.wav|At the same time, they left King Saul, who did many foolish and bad deeds after this.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000005_000000.wav|"One day a visitor came to the house of Jesse, David's father.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000006_000000.wav|"'There,' said the Lord, 'you will find the new king who is to succeed Saul.'|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000049_000001.wav|When he had entered, he told him he had come with a message from the king.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000061_000003.wav|That leader was at hand.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000054_000000.wav|"The next day, just as the king was riding away in his chariot, David appeared in the mouth of the cave.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000007_000002.wav|One by one passed before him till the eighth son, David, appeared.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000035_000003.wav|He had almost succeeded, when Saul was seized with a new spirit of madness.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000029_000002.wav|It was when the lad was playing on his harp. But Saul failed to do what his wicked heart desired.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000007_000003.wav|Then the voice of the Lord again spoke to Samuel.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000041_000000.wav|"Jonathan was a true friend.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000046_000001.wav|Go on with the story, please."|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000021_000002.wav|David was not used to such things.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000011_000001.wav|Many times the fierce lions and savage bears came creeping upon his flocks.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000059_000005.wav|He threw himself upon his sword and died by his own hand.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000041_000003.wav|He knew where David was hiding, but he did not dare seek him out.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000037_000001.wav|"Won't you go on and tell the children about David's flight?"|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000010_000003.wav|He continued to live his peaceful, quiet life as a shepherd.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000055_000002.wav|The king's army was encamped all around him.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000015_000000.wav|"While David was still tending his flocks, King Saul was waging war upon the Philistines, the bitter enemies of our people.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000063_000001.wav|At first, he lived in Hebron, but afterward he went to Jerusalem, where a beautiful palace was built for him and his family.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000030_000002.wav|He gave the daughter he had promised David to another lover.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/293168/8506_293168_000052_000001.wav|He fled to David and told him the sad story.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000017_000004.wav|john was a man small of stature, dark, with homely features, but he was very determined to get away from oppression.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000017_000000.wav|john Brown, being at the beck of a man filling the situation of a common clerk (in the shoe store of McGrunders), became dissatisfied.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000022_000004.wav|Again, he was not in the secret of the Underground Rail Road movement; he knew that many got off, but how they managed it he was ignorant.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000007_000001.wav|He came from Middle Neck, Cecil county, where he had served under William Flintham, a farmer.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000018_000001.wav|john was the so-called property of joshua O'Bear, "a fractious, hard swearing man, and when mad would hit one of his slaves with anything he could get in his hands." john and his companion made the long journey on foot.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000027_000000.wav|The appearance of these young mothers at first produced a sudden degree of pleasure, but their story of suffering quite as suddenly caused the most painful reflections.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000011.wav|Lucinda entertained strong hopes that she might find her in Canada.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000003_000000.wav|james TAYLOR, ALBERT GROSS, AND john GRINAGE.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000022_000000.wav|Henry was left free by the will of his mistress (Elizabeth Mann), but the heirs were making desperate efforts to overturn this instrument.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000017_000003.wav|He left his father, mother and seven sisters and one brother, all slaves.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000019_000006.wav|He left his father and mother behind.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000019_000000.wav|Henry Smallwood saw that he was working every day for nothing, and thought that he would do better.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000027_000003.wav|Anna and Sarah were respectively twenty four and twenty five years of age; Anna was of a dark chestnut color, while Sarah was two shades lighter; both had good manners, and a fair share of intelligence, which afforded a hopeful future for them in freedom.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000022_000001.wav|Of this, there was so much danger with a Richmond court, that Henry feared that the chances were against him; that the court was not honest enough to do him justice.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000005.wav|These simple privations not being of a grave character, no serious fault was found with them; yet Lucinda was not without a strong ground of complaint.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000028_000008.wav|The last flogging I received from him, was about four weeks before last Christmas; he then tied me up to a locust tree standing before the door, and whipped me to his satisfaction."|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000018_000005.wav|Horsey was the name of the gentleman from whom it was said that he obtained the favor; so when the time was up for the payment to be made, the dr was not prepared. Horsey, therefore, claimed the collateral (the wife) and thus she had to meet the issue, or make a timely escape to Canada with her husband.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000023_000001.wav|He was a man of forty one years of age, spare made, with straight hair, and Indian complexion, with the Indian's aversion to Slavery.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000028_000003.wav|They had lived with Massey five years up to the last March prior to their escape, having been bought out of the Baltimore slave pen, with the understanding that they were to be free at the expiration of five years' service under him.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000002_000000.wav|ARRIVAL FROM VIRGINIA, eighteen fifty nine.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000003.wav|Once in a great while Lucinda was allowed to go to church, when she could be spared from her daily routine of cooking, washing, etc|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000018_000002.wav|The former had been trained to farm labor and the common drudgery of slave life.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000019_000005.wav|Henry was a fine representative for Canada; a tall, dark, and manly looking individual, thirty six years of age.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000019_000004.wav|He heard afterwards that two of them had been captured, but received no further tidings of the others.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000017_000002.wav|He found an agent and soon had matters all fixed.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000028_000001.wav|Elizabeth's child was a girl, nineteen months old, and named Sarah Catharine Young.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000005_000000.wav|james was only a little turned of twenty, of a yellow complexion, and intelligent.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000016_000000.wav|A woman with two children, one in her arms, and the other two years of age (names, etc, not recorded), came from the District of Columbia. Mother and children, appealed loudly for sympathy.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000024_000003.wav|Mosen, a lawyer, represented to be one of the first in the city, and a firm believer in Slavery.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000028_000006.wav|Threats and fears were so horrifying to them, that they could not stand it; this was what prompted them to flee.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000011_000000.wav|The above named passengers did not all come from the same place, or exactly at the same time; but for the sake of convenience they are thus embraced under a general head.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000021_000000.wav|HENRY JONES AND TURNER FOSTER.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000022_000005.wav|If he could settle these two points satisfactorily, he thought that he would be willing to endure any sacrifice for the sake of his freedom.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000005_000002.wav|He said that he had been used tolerable well, not so bad as many had been used.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000006.wav|Not long before escaping, she had been threatened with the auction block; this fate she felt bound to avert, if possible, and the way she aimed to do it was by escaping on the Underground Rail Road.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000012_000000.wav|james Andy Wilkins "gave the slip" to a farmer, by the name of George Biddle, who lived one mile from Cecil, Cecil county, Maryland.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000006_000002.wav|Albert testified that he was a bad man.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000007.wav|Charley, a bright little fellow only three years of age, was "contented and happy" enough. Lucinda left her father, Moses Edgar Wright, and two brothers, both slaves.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000022_000006.wav|He found an agent of the Underground Rail Road, and after surmounting various difficulties, this point was settled.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000018_000006.wav|No way but walking was open to them.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000028_000002.wav|Elizabeth had never been married.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000007_000000.wav|john Grinage was only twenty, a sprightly, active young man, of a brown color.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000005_000003.wav|james was learning the carpenter trade; but he was anxious to obtain his freedom, and finding his two companions true on the main question, in conjunction with them he contrived a plan of escape, and 'took out.' His father and mother, Harrison and Jane Taylor, were left at Fredericksburg to mourn the absence of their son.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000029_000001.wav|My clothing was all stripped off above my waist, and then he whipped me till the blood ran down to my heels." Her back was lacerated all over.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000004.wav|Twice a week she was permitted the special favor of seeing her husband.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000024_000004.wav|Turner differed widely with his master with reference to this question, although, for prudential reasons, he chose not to give his opinion to said Mosen.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000018_000004.wav|While it was a fact, that his wife had already been sold, as above stated, the change of ownership was not to take place for some months, consequently john "took out in a hurry." His wife was the property of dr Shipley, of Seaford, who had occasion to raise some money for which he gave security in the shape of this wife and mother.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000023_000000.wav|He encountered the usual suffering, and on his arrival experienced the wonted pleasure.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000009_000000.wav|AND OTHER PLACES.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000029_000000.wav|Sarah had fared no better than Elizabeth, according to her testimony. "Three times," said she, "I have been tied up; the last time was in planting corn time, this year.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000015_000001.wav|Owing to hard treatment, Charles was induced to fly to Canada for refuge.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000019_000003.wav|At this point Henry lost all trace of the rest.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000009.wav|Her mother, who was known by the name of Betsy Wright, escaped when she (Lucinda) was seven years of age.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000027_000004.wav|Each had a babe in her arms.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000010.wav|Of her whereabouts nothing further had ever been heard.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000012_000001.wav|While he hated Slavery, he took a favorable view of his master in some respects at least, as he said that he was a "moderate man in talk;" but "sly in action." His master provided him with two pairs of pantaloons in the summer, and one in the winter, also a winter jacket, no vest, no cap, or hat.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000010_000000.wav|james ANDY WILKINS, and wife LUCINDA, with their little boy, CHARLES, CHARLES HENRY GROSS, A WOMAN with her TWO CHILDREN-one in her arms-john BROWN, john ROACH, and wife LAMBY, and HENRY SMALLWOOD.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000014_000001.wav|She spoke of a man named George Ford as her owner.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000022_000007.wav|As good luck would have it, his wife, who was a free woman, although she heard the secret with great sorrow, had the good sense to regard his step for the best, and thus he was free to contend with all other dangers on the way.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000004_000000.wav|To see mere lads, not twenty one years of age, smart enough to outwit the very shrewdest and wisest slave holders of Virginia was very gratifying.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000027_000001.wav|It was hardly possible to listen to their tales of outrage and wrong with composure.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287660/8506_287660_000004_000001.wav|The young men composing this arrival were of this keen sighted order.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000010_000001.wav|He too belonged to Cain who, he said, was constantly talking about selling, etc|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000015_000000.wav|john Hillis was a tiller of the ground under a widow lady (mrs Louisa Le Count), of the New Market District, Maryland.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000030_000002.wav|Charles resolved that when his brothers crossed the line dividing Delaware and Pennsylvania, he would not be far behind.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000006_000002.wav|He was always blustering, you could never do enough for him no how.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000006_000001.wav|The night we left, he had a woman tied up-God knows what he done.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000005_000000.wav|Sam had been tied up and beat many times severely.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000028_000000.wav|EDWARD, john, AND CHARLES HALL.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000015_000003.wav|The name of the craft was "Majestic." The hopeful john endeavored to do his utmost to please, and was doubly happy when he learned that the "Majestic" was to make a trip to Philadelphia.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000022_000002.wav|"Sometimes she treated her slaves pretty well," was the testimony of Ansal.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000022_000001.wav|He escaped from Kitty Cannon, another widow, who owned nine chattels.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000021_000001.wav|He was the property of Mary Brown, a widow, firmly grounded in the love of Slavery; believing that a slave had no business to get tired or desire his freedom.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000026_000003.wav|Having heard of the Underground Rail Road running to Canada, he concluded to take a trip and see the country, for himself; so he arranged his affairs with this end in view, and left Henry Jones with one less to work for him for nothing.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000025_000001.wav|He was six feet three inches high, and in every respect, a man of bone, sinew and muscle.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000017_000004.wav|William was nineteen years of age, brown color, smart and good looking.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000003_000000.wav|JIM KELL, CHARLES HEATH, WILLIAM CARLISLE, CHARLES RINGGOLD, THOMAS MAXWELL, AND SAMUEL SMITH.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000021_000000.wav|john was a tall young man, of twenty seven years of age, of an active turn of mind and of a fine black color.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000026_000000.wav|Jim owed service to Henry Jones; at least he admitted that said Jones claimed him, and had hired him out to himself for seven dollars per month.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000012_000000.wav|SUNDRY ARRIVALS, eighteen fifty nine.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000014_000001.wav|He satisfied the Committee that he fully believed in freedom, and had proved his faith by his works, as he came in contact with pursuers, whom he put to flight by the use of an ugly looking knife, which he plunged into one of them, producing quite a panic; the result was that he was left to pursue his Underground Rail Road journey without further molestation.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000009_000002.wav|"He was not so bad, but his wife was said to be a 'stinger.'" Charles left his mother and father behind, also four sisters.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000006_000003.wav|First thing in the morning and last thing at night, you would hear him cussing-he would cuss in bed.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000002_000000.wav|ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, eighteen fifty nine.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000031_000003.wav|Edward, becoming satisfied that what they meant to do must be done quickly, took the lead, and off they started for a free State.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000024_000000.wav|james BROWN.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000015_000001.wav|He signified to the mistress, that he loved to follow the water, and that he would be just as safe on water as on land, and that he was discontented.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000010_000002.wav|He left his father and mother.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000025_000002.wav|For one who had enjoyed only a field hand's privileges for improvement, he was not to be despised.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000005_000001.wav|William had been stripped naked, and frequently and cruelly cowhided.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000014_000000.wav|john came from Maryland, and brought with him a good degree of pluck.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000021_000003.wav|She was a member of the Methodist church at East New Market.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000017_000003.wav|He left one brother and one sister; his mother was dead, and of his father's whereabouts he knew nothing.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000007_000000.wav|james left his mother, Nancy Kell, two brothers, Robert and Henry, and two sisters, Mary and Annie; all living in the neighborhood whence he fled.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000005_000004.wav|Charles had had five men on him at one time, with cowhides, his master in the lead.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000006_000006.wav|He was a savage, bluff, red face looking concern." Thus, in the most earnest, as well as in an intelligent manner, Charles described the man (Aquila Cain), who had hitherto held him under the yoke.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000007_000001.wav|Besides these, he had eight brothers and sisters living in Baltimore and elsewhere, under the yoke.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000008_000000.wav|William was also of unmixed blood, shrewd and wide awake for his years,--had been ground down under the heel of Aquila Cain.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000026_000005.wav|The number of fellow slaves left in the hands of his old master, was fifteen.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000021_000005.wav|He had a first rate corn field education, but no book learning.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000019_000000.wav|Cornelius Fuller, and his wife, Harriet, escaped together from Kent county, Maryland.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000022_000003.wav|He ran away because he did not get pay for his services.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000032_000001.wav|Seeing that slaves were treated no better than dogs and hogs, john thought that he was none too young to be taking steps to get away.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000031_000001.wav|It was owing to the fact that their mother had been freed that they entertained the vague notion that they too might be freed; but it was a well established fact that thousands lived and died in such a hope without ever realizing their expectations.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000005_000003.wav|Jim had been whipped with clubs and switches times without number.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000009_000001.wav|He fled from dr Jacob Preston, a member of the Episcopal Church, and a practical farmer with twenty head of slaves.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000013_000000.wav|john EDWARD LEE, john HILLIS, CHARLES ROSS, james RYAN, WILLIAM JOHNSTON, EDWARD WOOD, CORNELIUS FULLER AND HIS WIFE HARRIET, john PINKET, ANSAL CANNON, AND james BROWN.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000018_000002.wav|Slavery was crushing him hourly, and he felt that he could not submit any longer.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000009_000000.wav|Charles Ringgold was eighteen years of age; no white blood showed itself in the least in this individual.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000007_000002.wav|He was twenty four years of age, of a jet color, but of a manly turn.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000006_000005.wav|He had a good deal of money but not much character.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000016_000002.wav|Although he was only twenty three years of age, he had fully weighed the matter of his freedom, and appeared firmly set against Slavery.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000032_000000.wav|john was owned by one james b Rodgers, a farmer, and "a most every kind of man," as john expressed himself; in fact john thought that his owner was such a strange, wicked, and cross character that he couldn't tell himself what he was.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000015_000004.wav|On arriving John's eyes were opened to see that he owed mrs Le Count nothing, but that she was largely indebted to him for years of unrequited toil; he could not, therefore, consent to go back to her.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000029_000001.wav|They were young; the eldest being about twenty, the youngest not far from seventeen years of age.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000014_000002.wav|There was nothing in John's appearance which would lead one to suppose that he was a blood thirsty or bad man, although a man of uncommon muscular powers; six feet high, and quite black, with resolution stamped on his countenance.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000011_000000.wav|After being furnished with food, clothing, and free tickets, they were forwarded on in triumph and full of hope.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000015_000002.wav|The widow heard John's plausible story, and saw nothing amiss in it, so she consented that he should work on a schooner.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000031_000002.wav|The boys, more shrewd and wide awake than many others, did not hearken to such "stuff." The two younger heard the views of the elder brother, and expressed a willingness to follow him.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000027_000000.wav|ARRIVAL FROM DELAWARE, eighteen fifty nine.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000016_000001.wav|Very good reasons were given by Charles for the charge which he made against Rodgers, and it went far towards establishing the fact, that "colored men had no rights which white men were bound to respect," in Maryland.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000015_000005.wav|He was troubled to think of his poor wife and children, whom he had left in the hands of mrs Harriet Dean, three quarters of a mile from New Market; but it was easier for him to imagine plans by which he could get them off than to incur the hazard of going back to Maryland; therefore he remained in freedom.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000023_000000.wav|ARRIVAL FROM MARYLAND, eighteen fifty nine.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000031_000000.wav|The mother of these boys was freed at the age of twenty eight, and lived in wilmington delaware.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000021_000004.wav|From certain movements which looked very suspicious in John's eyes, he had been allotted to the Southern Market, he therefore resolved to look out for a habitation in Canada.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000026_000004.wav|The place that he fled from was called North Point, Baltimore county.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000006_000004.wav|He was a large farmer, all the time drunk.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000007_000004.wav|Charles Heath was twenty five years of age, medium size, full black, a very keen looking individual.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000008_000001.wav|He left his mother and two sisters.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8506/287659/8506_287659_000010_000000.wav|Thomas was of pure blood, with a very cheerful, healthy looking countenance,--twenty one years of age, and was to "come free" at twenty five, but he had too much good sense to rely upon the promises of slave holders in matters of this kind.|8506
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000057_000000.wav|"Yes; I showed it to him."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000016_000000.wav|"'Because a fortnight since I was questioned on the same subject.'|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000048_000000.wav|"I, indeed?|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000022_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, if it be true," cried the young man, "he shall pay me all I have suffered."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000056_000000.wav|"Does the count know what answer you received?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000012_000000.wav|"Say on."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000015_000000.wav|"'How, and why?'|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000060_000001.wav|Danglars defended himself with the baseness, but at the same time with the assurance, of a man who speaks the truth, at least in part, if not wholly-not for conscience' sake, but through fear. Besides, what was Morcerf seeking?|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000037_000001.wav|How came it known?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000036_000000.wav|"I?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000027_000008.wav|You appear to forget yourself sadly."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000053_000000.wav|"The Count of Monte Cristo told you to write to Yanina?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000002_000000.wav|"Then," continued Beauchamp, "I took advantage of the silence and the darkness to leave the house without being seen.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000021_000000.wav|"Make inquiries, Albert, but do not be angry without reason; make inquiries, and if it be true"--|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000040_000000.wav|"To Yanina?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000001_000001.wav|The Challenge.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000055_000000.wav|"I accuse no one, sir," said Danglars; "I relate, and I will repeat before the count what I have said to you."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000060_000007.wav|Lastly, he had taken Albert to Normandy when he knew the final blow was near.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000018_000000.wav|"'Whose name is'--|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000034_000000.wav|"Yes, miserable wretch!" cried Morcerf, "it is your fault." Danglars retreated a few steps.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000060_000003.wav|And, in addition to this, everything forgotten or unperceived before presented itself now to his recollection.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000027_000002.wav|Let us go immediately." They sent for a cabriolet.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000019_000000.wav|"'Danglars.'"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000049_000000.wav|"Who, then, urged you to write?|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000007_000000.wav|"Well, listen, Morcerf."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000005_000000.wav|"Be it so," said Beauchamp; "if you must have me descend to earth, I submit; and if you will seek your enemy, I will assist you, and I will engage to find him, my honor being almost as deeply interested as yours."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000026_000000.wav|"Oh, do not fear; besides, you will accompany me.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000010_000000.wav|"Tell me; satisfy my impatience."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000041_000000.wav|"Yes.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000001_000000.wav|Chapter eighty seven.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000003_000000.wav|"Contempt, my friend?|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000033_000001.wav|Is it my fault that your father has dishonored himself?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000038_000000.wav|"I suppose you read it in the paper in the account from Yanina?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000035_000001.wav|"No; it is not you who have directly made this exposure and brought this sorrow on us, but you hypocritically provoked it."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000044_000000.wav|"One only?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000049_000001.wav|Tell me."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000034_000003.wav|Have I travelled in that country?|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000025_000001.wav|Act prudently."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000060_000004.wav|Monte Cristo knew everything, as he had bought the daughter of Ali Pasha; and, knowing everything, he had advised Danglars to write to Yanina.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000059_000002.wav|In short, why should I have any more to do with the affair?|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000046_000000.wav|"I, doubtless, wrote.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000039_000000.wav|"Who wrote to Yanina?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000060_000009.wav|Albert took Beauchamp aside, and communicated these ideas to him.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121106/1241_121106_000028_000000.wav|"No, sir," said Albert, coldly; "there are circumstances in which one cannot, except through cowardice,--I offer you that refuge,--refuse to admit certain persons at least."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000016_000000.wav|"Yes."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000053_000000.wav|"Why do you ask me now?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000024_000002.wav|Acknowledge it, Beauchamp; your courage cannot be doubted."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000003_000004.wav|The baron adored Count Andrea Cavalcanti: not so Mademoiselle Eugenie Danglars.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000029_000001.wav|That French officer"--|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000048_000001.wav|Let no trace of emotion be visible on your countenance, bear your grief as the cloud bears within it ruin and death-a fatal secret, known only when the storm bursts. Go, my friend, reserve your strength for the moment when the crash shall come."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000005_000002.wav|He found Beauchamp pacing the room; on perceiving him Beauchamp stopped.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000028_000000.wav|"The paragraph was correct, my friend."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000001_000001.wav|Beauchamp.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000004_000003.wav|He cherished the thought of the duel, hoping to conceal its true cause even from his seconds.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000036_000004.wav|After a moment's mournful silence, his heart overflowed, and he gave way to a flood of tears.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000032_000000.wav|"Yes."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000026_000000.wav|Albert turned frightfully pale; he endeavored to speak, but the words died on his lips.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000003_000001.wav|It was expected that this wedding would shortly take place, as the young man was received at the banker's as the betrothed.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000009_000000.wav|"I will facilitate it by repeating the question, 'Will you, or will you not, retract?'"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000018_000001.wav|Will you believe the government of a republic, a kingdom, and an empire?" Albert cast his eyes on the passport, then raised them in astonishment to Beauchamp.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000023_000000.wav|"Yes,--I fear."|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000022_000000.wav|"You hesitate?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000020_000000.wav|"What circumlocution!|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000011_000000.wav|"What must then be done?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000031_000000.wav|"Fernand?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000002_000003.wav|Caderousse's knife, dark lantern, bunch of keys, and clothing, excepting the waistcoat, which could not be found, were deposited at the registry; the corpse was conveyed to the morgue.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000019_000001.wav|I took a week to go, another to return, four days of quarantine, and forty eight hours to stay there; that makes three weeks.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000027_000000.wav|"But what?"|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/121103/1241_121103_000029_000000.wav|"What?|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000006_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000020_000005.wav|Whereby ask ye it? said Sir Tristram.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000008_000004.wav|Then King Mark understood that and was jealous, for King Mark loved her passingly well.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000011_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000015_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000021_000002.wav|When Sir Sagramore saw his fellow have such a fall he marvelled what knight he might be.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000017_000001.wav|So when Bleoberis was gone with this lady, King Mark and all the court was wroth that she was away.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000009_000003.wav|And with this answer the dwarf departed.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000004_000002.wav|And therewithal she wept heartily.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000019_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixteen.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000021_000003.wav|And he dressed his spear with all his might, and Sir Tristram against him, and they came together as the thunder, and there Sir Tristram smote Sir Sagramore a strong buffet, that he bare his horse and him to the earth, and in the falling he brake his thigh.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000018_000001.wav|Then was King Mark heavy thereof, and all the court.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000003_000004.wav|I will well, said the king.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000005_000001.wav|And if there be any that will proffer me wrong, or say of me wrong or shame behind my back, say it now or never, and here is my body to make it good, body against body.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000003_000003.wav|Also I beseech your good grace that I may take my leave at my lady, your daughter, and at all the barons and knights.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1241/137614/1241_137614_000009_000005.wav|Now, said King Mark, go where thou wilt, and upon pain of death that thou say no word that thou spakest with me; so the dwarf departed from the king.|1241
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000016_000006.wav|What would we think of a football trainer who would try thus to account for the condition of his eleven at the end of a season?|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000020_000000.wav|"Nay, nay," retorted the Idiot.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000009_000002.wav|If you, like other young men of the age, burn the candle at both ends and in the middle, what can you expect?|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000020_000001.wav|"The shopping inebriate is too much of a factor in our commercial prosperity to make such a thing as that popular.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000004_000000.wav|seventeen|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000024_000001.wav|Why, how on earth do you train a football team except by practice?" demanded the Idiot.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000013_000001.wav|"I'm not afraid to tackle almost any kind of fever known to medical science, but the shopping fever-well, it is incurable.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000010_000003.wav|The cold and clammy touch of dissipation is not writing letters of burning condemnation proceedings on my brow. Excesses in any form are utterly unknown to me, and from one end of the Subway to the other you won't find another man of my age who in general takes better care of himself.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000027_000001.wav|"Think of the glory of winning a goal which sustains the football player through the toughest of fights.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000030_000001.wav|"That being the case, I will modify my suggestion somewhat and send the idea to President Taylor of Vassar and other heads of women's colleges.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000009_000003.wav|You push nature into a corner and then growl like all possessed because she rebels."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000024_000000.wav|"How?|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000014_000001.wav|There are lots of diseases that our forefathers used to regard as necessarily fatal that nowadays we look upon as mere trifles, because people can be put physically into such a condition that they are practically immune to their ravages."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000018_000000.wav|"Certainly," quoth the Idiot.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000008_000002.wav|Every bone in my body from the funny to the medulla aches like all possessed, and my joints creak like a new pair of shoes on a school boy in church, they are so stiff."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000016_000003.wav|You know as well as anybody else that from november fifteenth to december twenty fourth every year an epidemic of shopping is going to break out in our midst.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000017_000000.wav|"Perhaps that gigantic intellect of yours has something to suggest," sneered the Doctor.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000009_000001.wav|The pace that kills is bound to have some symptoms preliminary to dissolution.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000010_000001.wav|"mr Pedagog and the Poet and mr Bib may lead the strenuous life, but as for mine the simple life is the thing. I'm not striving after the unattainable.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000028_000003.wav|I really think, Doctor, there's a chance here for you and me to make a fortune.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000030_000000.wav|"Very well," said the Idiot.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000012_000002.wav|I sometimes wonder, Doctor, that you gentlemen, who have the public health more or less in your hands, don't take the initiative and stave off nervous prostration and other ills attendant upon a run down physical condition instead of waiting for a fully developed case and trying to cure it after the fact.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000023_000001.wav|"But how on earth can you train them? That's what I'd like to know."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000024_000003.wav|Take a couple of bargain counters for the goals.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000022_000002.wav|Why not have a shopnasium in which to teach what we might call shopnastics?|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000016_000007.wav|We'd bounce him, that's what."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000016_000000.wav|"Nonsense, Doctor.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000030_000003.wav|That is the only way I can see for us to build up a woman of the future who will be able to cope with the strenuous life that is involved to day in the purchase of a cake of soap to send to one's grandmother at Christmas.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000028_000004.wav|dr Capsule's Shopnasium, opened every September for the training and development of expert shoppers in all branches of shopnastics, under the medical direction of yourself and my business management would be a winner.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000011_000001.wav|"If this is all true, why on earth are you proclaiming yourself as a physical wreck?|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000027_000002.wav|The knowledge that the nation will ring with its plaudits of his gallant achievement is half the backing of your quarter back."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000011_000002.wav|There must be some cause for your condition."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000024_000004.wav|Place one at one end of the shopnasium and one at the other.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000006_000000.wav|"By Jingo!" said the Idiot, as he wearily took his place at the breakfast table the other morning, "but I'm just regularly tuckered out."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000015_000000.wav|"Maybe so-but if people will shop they are going to be knocked out by it.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000021_000000.wav|"A what?" roared the Doctor.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000008_000001.wav|"Matter of fact, I went to bed last night at half after seven and never waked until nine this morning. In spite of all that sleep and rest I feel now as if I'd been put through a threshing machine.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000010_000000.wav|"Not I," retorted the Idiot.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000025_000000.wav|"The women couldn't stand it," said the Doctor.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000019_000000.wav|"To eradicate the shopping evil?" laughed the Doctor.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000005_000000.wav|SUGGESTION TO CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000016_000005.wav|You know that the men and women in your care, unless they have properly trained for the exigencies of the epidemic period, will be prostrated physically and nervously, racked in bone and body, aching from tip to toe, their energy exhausted and their spines as limp as a rag, and yet you claim you can do nothing.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000011_000000.wav|"Well, then, what in thunder is the matter with you?" cried the Lawyer, irritated.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000029_000000.wav|"Oh, well," said the Doctor, "perhaps it isn't such a bad thing, after all; but I don't think I care to go into it.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000025_000001.wav|"They might as well be knocked out at the real thing as in the imitation."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000010_000005.wav|No mother could watch over her offspring more tenderly than I watch over me, and-"|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000026_000001.wav|"They wouldn't be knocked out if you gave them preliminary individual exercise with punching bags, dummies for tackle practice, and other things the football player uses to make himself tough and irresistible."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000016_000002.wav|"A college president might as well say that boys will play football, and that there's nothing they can do to stave off the inevitable consequences of playing the game to one who isn't prepared for it.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000008_000000.wav|"Not a late hour," returned the Idiot.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000028_000005.wav|Moreover, it would furnish a business opening for all those football players our colleges are turning out, for, as our institution grew and we established branches of it all over the country, we should, of course, have to have managers in every city, and who better to teach all these things than the expert footballist of the hour?"|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000028_000001.wav|I have known women so worn and weary that they couldn't get up for breakfast who had a lion's strength an hour later at a Monday marked down sale of laundry soap and Yeats's poems.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000023_000000.wav|"Very nice," said the Doctor.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000009_000000.wav|"Oh well," said the Doctor, "what of it?|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/77782/7314_77782_000028_000000.wav|"That's all right," said the Idiot, "but the make-up of the average woman is such that what pursuit of fame does for the gladiator, the chase after a bargain does for a woman.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000046_000001.wav|At the signal off they started, the motors making a great racket.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000052_000000.wav|Then came a puff of wind.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000043_000001.wav|"I will in circles go around you, up and down, zis side zen ze ozzer, and presto!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000025_000006.wav|Well, we'll have a try at it. Won't do us any harm to win a prize.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000015_000000.wav|"That's the stuff!" cried mr Sharp.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000056_000000.wav|Then, dropping down, mr Sharp allowed the monoplane to proceed under its own power, while he raced on to the finish mark, winning, of course, by a large margin.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000032_000000.wav|"It'll take him a day to repair that," commented the aeronaut dryly.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000025_000001.wav|We'll see how our craft shows up alongside of others.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000037_000001.wav|Zen I challenge you to a race.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000022_000000.wav|Work was started the next day on fitting up the car, or cabin, of the airship, so that several persons could live, eat and sleep in it for two weeks, if necessary.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000009_000000.wav|Although it was the first time mr Swift had ever been in an airship, he evinced no great astonishment.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000013_000000.wav|With the two propellers whirring at a tremendous speed, and all the gas out of the aluminum container, the Red Cloud shot forward, running over the level ground of the meadow, where a starting course had been laid out.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000042_000000.wav|As the carnival was a small one, no other craft in a class with the Red Cloud had been entered, so Tom and mr Sharp had to be content with the one race they won.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000051_000001.wav|We're winning!" yelled Tom, Ned joining in the shout.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000012_000000.wav|"We'll land in the meadow and try rising by the planes alone," he said. In this evolution it was deemed best for mr Swift and Ned to alight, as there was no telling just how the craft would behave.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000014_000000.wav|"Clear the track!" cried mr Sharp, as he saw the crowd closing up in front of him.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000039_000000.wav|"We'll race with him, after we get through with the club entries," decided the aeronaut.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000020_000000.wav|"Me?|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000018_000000.wav|"Now I'm ready to go on a long trip any time you are, Tom," said the aeronaut that night.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000058_000000.wav|"No, thanks," answered Tom.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000010_000001.wav|The young inventor was busy helping mr Sharp manage the machinery, rudders planes and motor.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000034_000000.wav|The exhibition opened the next day, but no flights were to be attempted until the day following.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000038_000000.wav|"Shall we take him up, mr Sharp?" asked Tom.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000060_000000.wav|At the request of the carnival committee, mr Sharp and Tom gave an exhibition of high and long flights the next day, and created no little astonishment by their daring feats.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000017_000005.wav|By means of the planes and rudders a perfect landing was made in the meadow, a short distance from where the start had been made.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000057_000001.wav|A trick!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000046_000002.wav|The monoplane with the little Frenchman in the seat got up first.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000017_000002.wav|The propellers were stopped, and the Red Cloud floated two thousand feet in the air, only a little distance below some fleecy, white masses from which she took her name.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000054_000000.wav|mr Sharp said nothing, but, with a queer smile on his face he sent the airship down toward the earth.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000022_000003.wav|The affair was designed to further interest in the sport, and also to demonstrate what progress had been made in the art of conquering the air.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000022_000001.wav|The third day after this task had been commenced the mail brought an unusual communication to Tom and mr Sharp.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000033_000001.wav|Tom's craft was easily the best one at the carnival, so far, though the managers said other machines were on the way.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000039_000003.wav|Racing for prizes is a different thing."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000059_000000.wav|The little Frenchman was a good loser, and paid over the money, which was given to the Blakeville Hospital, the institution receiving it gladly.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000006_000001.wav|"I must see if they did cut any of the wires."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000019_000000.wav|"We'll fit up the car and get ready," agreed the 'youth.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000030_000000.wav|"Yes, the same kind that was used to cross the English Channel," interjected mr Sharp.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000017_000003.wav|The demonstration was a great success.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000054_000003.wav|And, so swiftly did the Red Cloud fly along that it carried the monoplane with it, to the chagrin of the French navigator.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000058_000001.wav|"We've had enough.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000022_000002.wav|It was from an aero club of Blakeville, a city distant about a hundred miles, and stated that a competition for aeroplanes and dirigible balloons was to be held in the course of two weeks.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000031_000001.wav|He had to make a quick descent-so rapid was it, in fact, that the tips of one of his planes was smashed.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000008_000002.wav|The machine went about a thousand feet up in the air, and then was sent in various directions, to the no small delight of a large crowd that gathered in the meadow back of the Swift property; for it only required the sight of the airship looming its bulk above the fence and buildings, to attract a throng.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000025_000007.wav|Then for a long trip!"|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000030_000001.wav|"They're too uncertain for my purposes, though; they are all right under certain conditions."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000057_000000.wav|"Ha!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000034_000001.wav|Two more crafts arrived, a large triplane, and a dirigible balloon.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000026_000000.wav|As it was not necessary to have the car, or cabin, completely fitted up in order to compete for the prize, work in that direction was suspended for the time being, and more attention was paid to the engine, the planes and rudders.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000002_000000.wav|Winning a Prize|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000042_000001.wav|There were other contests among monoplanes and biplanes, and the little Frenchman won two races.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000051_000000.wav|"That's the stuff!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000037_000000.wav|"Ha! Sacre!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000034_000002.wav|There were many visitors to the ground, and Tom, Ned and mr Sharp were kept busy answering questions put by those who crowded into their tent.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000014_000002.wav|Through this shot the craft, and then, when sufficient momentum had been obtained, Tom, at a command from the aeronaut, pulled the lever of the elevation rudder.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000055_000001.wav|A trick!" he cried.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000052_000003.wav|Then mr Sharp opened up the Red Cloud's engine at full speed, and it was the big machine which now sailed around the other.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000044_000001.wav|But, though he showed much confidence he asked mr Sharp in private, just before the impromptu contest: "Do you think we can beat him?"|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000053_000000.wav|"I protest!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000001_000000.wav|Chapter eight|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000017_000000.wav|"Start the gas machine, and we'll come to rest in the air," said the balloonist, and Tom did so.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000052_000002.wav|Still the navigator was not going to give up. He flew along at a lower level.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000049_000000.wav|"Can't you speed her up any more?" inquired Tom of mr Sharp.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000004_000000.wav|"No, those fellows had all the excitement," declared Ned.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000031_000000.wav|Hardly had he spoken than a puff of wind caused the daring manipulator of the monoplane to swerve to one side.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000026_000001.wav|Some changes were made and, a week later the Red Cloud departed for Blakeville.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000024_000000.wav|"I'm willing if you are."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000047_000001.wav|Catch me if you can!"|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000020_000001.wav|Oh, well-er-that is, you see; well, I'll think about it," and mr Swift went to his own room, carrying with him a package of papers, containing intricate calculations.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000022_000004.wav|Prizes were to be given, and the inventors of the Red Cloud, the achievements of which the committee of arrangements had heard, were invited to compete.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000017_000004.wav|The gas was again allowed to escape, the propellers set in motion, and purely as an aeroplane, the ship was again sent forward.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000033_000000.wav|The Red Cloud created a sensation as she slowly settled down in front of the big tent assigned to her.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000044_000000.wav|"All right, wait and see," said Tom, easily.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000041_000002.wav|Ned Newton helped all he could. So much has appeared in the newspapers of the races at Blakeville that I will not devote much space here to them.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000005_000000.wav|"Tried to damage the airship, eh?" asked mr Sharp.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000025_000004.wav|Once I gave a balloon exhibition for them.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000004_000001.wav|"We had the fun." And the two lads proceeded to relate what had taken place.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000025_000002.wav|I know something of this club.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000047_000000.wav|"Ah, ha!" he cried gaily, "I leave you in ze rear!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000054_000002.wav|Then, quickly rising, he fairly caught the Frenchman's machine on top of a square platform of the gas container, the bicycle wheels of the monoplane resting on the flat surface.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000025_000000.wav|"Then let's do it.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000050_000001.wav|Like a flash the Red Cloud darted forward. But the Frenchman also increased his speed and did, actually, at first, circle around the bigger machine, for his affair was much lighter.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000021_000001.wav|He could not understand his father's conduct.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000016_000000.wav|Higher and higher it went, and then, coming to a level keel, the craft was sent here and there, darting about like a bird, and going about in huge circles.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000041_000000.wav|That night was spent in getting the Red Cloud in shape for the contests of the next day.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000053_000001.wav|I protest!" cried the Frenchman, above the explosions of his motor.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000009_000002.wav|Tom noticed the abstraction of his father, and shook his head.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000055_000000.wav|"A trick!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000062_000000.wav|"But wait until we go on our trip," added Tom, as he looked at the cup they had won.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000012_000001.wav|Tom's father was very willing to get out, but Ned would have remained in, only for the desire of his friend.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000058_000002.wav|I guess charity will be satisfied."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000014_000003.wav|Up into the air shot the nose of the Red Cloud as the wind struck the slanting surface of the planes, and, a moment later it was sailing high above the heads of the throng.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000045_000002.wav|And I think," he added, "that we're going to get a breeze."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000026_000002.wav|As the rules of the contest required three passengers, Ned Newton was taken along, mr Swift having arranged with the bank president so that the lad could have a few days off.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000008_000001.wav|The gas ascension was first used, and Ned and mr Swift were passengers with Tom and mr Sharp.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000046_000000.wav|It was arranged that the Red Cloud would start from the ground, without the use of the gas, so as to make the machines more even.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000008_000000.wav|A little later the airship was taken out of the shed, and made ready for a trip.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000053_000002.wav|"Ze wind is too strong for me!"|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000034_000003.wav|Toward the close of the day a fussy little Frenchman entered, and, making his way to where Tom stood, asked:|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000011_000000.wav|A flight of several miles was made, and Tom was wishing they might pay another visit to the Rocksmond Seminary, but mr Sharp, after completing several evolutions, designed to test the steering qualities of the craft, put back home.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000006_000000.wav|"I guess so," assented Tom.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000041_000004.wav|It was a closer contest with the large triplane, but Tom's airship won, and was given the prize, a fine silver cup.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000048_000000.wav|"Don't let him beat us," implored Ned.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000045_000001.wav|His machine certainly goes very fast, but too much wind will be the undoing of him, while it will only help us.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000054_000001.wav|A moment later he was directly under the monoplane.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000037_000002.wav|I have a monoplane zat is ze swiftest evaire!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000061_000001.wav|"We won the first contest we were ever in, and beat that speedy monoplane, which was no small thing to do, as they are very fast."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000045_000000.wav|"Well," said the aeronaut, shrugging his shoulders, "you can't tell much about the air.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000005_000001.wav|"I wish I'd caught them at it; the scoundrels!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93277/7314_93277_000028_000000.wav|"Look!" cried Ned excitedly.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000019_000001.wav|He got a half holiday from the bank, and, shortly after dinner went to Tom's house.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000051_000000.wav|"I'm blinded!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000033_000000.wav|"Why not?" declared Pete.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000008_000001.wav|"And I don't see much use of spending the money for a patent.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000018_000002.wav|We won't go very high to morrow.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000022_000000.wav|"Now we'll go down into the car or cabin," continued the young navigator of the air, "and I'll show you what we do when we're touring amid the clouds."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000060_000002.wav|He dug a mass of red paint from his left ear, removed a mass of soot from his right cheek, and, shaking his fist, which was alternately striped red and black, cried out in a rage:|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000052_000001.wav|"There's been an explosion.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000002.wav|But I'll want to learn more about managing the ship before I venture with her in it.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000053_000000.wav|At that moment the big doors of the shed were thrown open, and mr Sharp came in.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000046_000003.wav|We'll sweep the whole pile down on their heads, and make them wish they'd stayed away from this place."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000004.wav|There's Ned Newton, too.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000062_000000.wav|"You only got what was coming to you," retorted the young inventor. "The next time you come sneaking around this airship, trying to damage it, you'll get worse, and I'll have you arrested.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000048_000002.wav|The young inventor did the same thing, and for an instant the lower part of the shed looked as if a dirtstorm had taken place there.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000062_000001.wav|You've had your lesson, and don't forget it."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000041_000003.wav|Take out your knives and saw away at the wires.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000028_000002.wav|Wonder what they want?"|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000043_000000.wav|Tom hesitated.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000060_000000.wav|"Yes, and send us one," added Tom, joining his chum.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000011_000000.wav|It required several days' work on the Red Cloud before it was in shape for another trial.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000003.wav|It won't do to have any accidents then.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000054_000001.wav|Andy Foger!" cried Tom.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000024_000000.wav|"Guess that's mr Sharp coming," said Ned.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000018_000004.wav|Oh, yes, bring your friend along."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000044_000000.wav|"I have a better way," he said.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000030_000000.wav|The two lads on the loft listened intently.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000046_000002.wav|"It consists of a lot of shavings, sawdust and, what's more, a lot of soot and lampblack that we used in mixing some paint.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000048_000000.wav|The two lads in the loft peered down.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000045_000000.wav|"What is it?"|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000013_000000.wav|About a week after the accident at the school mr Sharp remarked to Tom one afternoon:|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000050_000000.wav|"Wow!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000016_000001.wav|He might be nervous, and, while the ship is new, I don't want any nervous passengers aboard.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000061_000000.wav|"I'll get even with you yet, Tom Swift!"|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000036_000001.wav|I'll punch your face if you say that again!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000011_000001.wav|During the hours when he was engaged in the big shed, helping mr Sharp, the young inventor spent many minutes calling to mind the memory of a certain fair face, and I think I need not mention any names to indicate whose face it was.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000023_000000.wav|As they started to descend the flight of steps from the loft platform, a noise on the ground below attracted their attention.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000047_000000.wav|"Good!" exclaimed Ned, chuckling.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000038_000000.wav|Tom shook his fist at the lads on the ground, but of course they did not see him.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000050_000001.wav|Who did that!"|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000031_000001.wav|"That will make them think they're not so smart as they pretend."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000017_000000.wav|"I was going to propose bringing a friend of mine over to see us make the trip to morrow," went on the young inventor.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000040_000000.wav|"What?" demanded his two cronies.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000010_000000.wav|Tom did so, and, not many years afterward he was glad that he had, as it brought him quite an income.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000004_000000.wav|Andy Tries a Trick|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000005_000000.wav|Without loss of time the young inventor and the aeronaut began to repair the damage done to the Red Cloud by colliding with the tower. The most important part to reconstruct was the propeller, and mr Sharp decided to make two, instead of one, in order to have an extra one in case of future accidents.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000041_000002.wav|They'll think the wires broke from the strain.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000057_000000.wav|"I have it!" cried Tom, and he caught up a bucket of red paint, that had been used to give the airship its brilliant hue.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000015_000002.wav|It's unusual, too, for he most generally tells me what he is engaged upon.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, I guess Ned's all right.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000058_000002.wav|They shed shavings, sawdust and lampblack at every step, and from their clothes and hands and faces dripped the carmine paint.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000052_000000.wav|"Run fellows, run!" screamed Andy.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000005.wav|I must take him for a skim in the clouds.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000020_000000.wav|"Come on out in the shed and take a look at the Red Cloud," proposed the young inventor.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000009_000002.wav|You get that device patented."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000015_000001.wav|"He seems much engrossed in something.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000006_000000.wav|Tom's task was to arrange the mechanism so that, hereafter, the rudder could not become jammed, and so prevent the airship from steering properly.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000036_000000.wav|"I am not!|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000007_000001.wav|"I advise you to take out papers on that."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000059_000000.wav|"Better have your pictures taken!" cried Ned, peering from an upper window.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000041_000001.wav|That will make the airship collapse.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000021_000000.wav|The big shed was deserted when the lads entered, and went to the loft where they were on a level with the big, red aluminum tank.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000039_000000.wav|"I have it!" came from Andy.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000016_000002.wav|I can't give them my attention and look after the running of the machinery."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000025_000000.wav|Tom leaned over and looked down.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000009_000000.wav|"You take my advice," insisted mr Sharp.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000017_000001.wav|"Ned Newton, you know him.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000000.wav|"She promised to go for a ride with me," mused the lad.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000058_000000.wav|"Here's another souvenir of your visit," shouted the young inventor, as he dashed the bucket of red paint down on the conspirators.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000042_000001.wav|"Come on down, and give 'em a trouncing."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000018_000001.wav|Let him come along.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000018_000003.wav|After a trial rise by means of the gas, I'm going to lower the ship to the ground, and try for an elevation by means of the planes.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000015_000003.wav|However, I guess he will say something about it when he gets ready."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000036_000002.wav|Besides the thing that holds the gas is made of aluminum, and we can't make a hole in it unless we take an axe, and that makes too much noise."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000006_000001.wav|This the lad accomplished by a simple but effective device which, when the balloonist saw it, caused him to compliment Tom.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000055_000001.wav|Sam and Pete were wildly trying to wipe the stuff from their faces, but only made matters worse.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000001.wav|"I hope she doesn't back out.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000063_000000.wav|The red haired bully, doubly red haired now, had nothing more to say. There was nothing he could say, and, accompanied by his companions, he made a bee line for the rear gate in the fence, and darted across the meadow.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000027_000000.wav|"Andy Foger!" exclaimed Ned, peering over the railing.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000048_000003.wav|The pile of refuse went straight down on the heads of the trio, and, as they were looking up, in order to see to cut the wires, they received considerable of it in their faces.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000051_000001.wav|The shed is falling down!"|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000043_000001.wav|He looked quickly about the loft, and then a smile replaced the frown of righteous anger on his face.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000048_000001.wav|The red headed, squint eyed bully and his chums had their knives out, and were about to cut some of the important guy wires, when, at a signal from Tom, Ned, with a sweep of his broom, sent a big pile of the dirt, sawdust and lampblack down upon the heads of the conspirators.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000030_000001.wav|Though the cronies on the ground below them did not speak loudly, their voices came plainly to the listeners.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000041_000000.wav|"We'll cut some of the guy wires from the planes and rudders.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000028_000001.wav|They sneaked in when I left the door open.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000060_000001.wav|Andy looked up at them.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000029_000002.wav|They're talking."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000026_000000.wav|"Take a look," whispered the young inventor.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000012_000006.wav|Guess I'll invite him over some afternoon, and give him a private view of the machine, when we get it in shape again."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000047_000002.wav|There's another one for you."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000008_000002.wav|Airships aren't likely to be so numerous that I could make anything off that patent."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000057_000001.wav|Running to the end of the loft Tom stood for an instant over the trio of lads who were threatening and imploring by 'turns.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000046_000000.wav|"See that pile of dirt?" and he pointed to some refuse that had been swept up from the floor of the loft.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000046_000001.wav|Ned nodded.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000042_000000.wav|"You're caught now," whispered Ned to Tom.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000035_000000.wav|"You're afraid," sneered Sam.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000056_000000.wav|"Wish we had some more stuff to put on 'em," remarked Ned, who was holding his sides that ached from laughter.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000031_000000.wav|"Let's poke a hole in their gas bag," proposed Sam.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000008_000000.wav|"It seems such a simple thing," answered the youth.|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7314/93276/7314_93276_000041_000004.wav|Hurry, too, or they may catch us."|7314
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000011.wav|Thus situated, my only resource was to drive before the wind.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000033_000001.wav|I then moved forward, and a murmuring sound arose from the crowd as they followed and surrounded me, when an ill looking man approaching tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Come, sir, you must follow me to mr Kirwin's to give an account of yourself."|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000007_000001.wav|A few fishing vessels alone specked the water, and now and then the gentle breeze wafted the sound of voices as the fishermen called to one another.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000000.wav|Between two and three in the morning the moon rose; and I then, putting my basket aboard a little skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000023_000003.wav|I had resolved in my own mind that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness, and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000000.wav|All was again silent, but his words rang in my ears.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000015.wav|I had already been out many hours and felt the torment of a burning thirst, a prelude to my other sufferings.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000027_000002.wav|I saw vessels near the shore and found myself suddenly transported back to the neighbourhood of civilized man.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000025_000000.wav|Some hours passed thus; but by degrees, as the sun declined towards the horizon, the wind died away into a gentle breeze and the sea became free from breakers.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000011_000001.wav|Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000008_000000.wav|In a few minutes after, I heard the creaking of my door, as if some one endeavoured to open it softly.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000013.wav|I had no compass with me and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world that the sun was of little benefit to me.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000007_000002.wav|I felt the silence, although I was hardly conscious of its extreme profundity, until my ear was suddenly arrested by the paddling of oars near the shore, and a person landed close to my house.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000012.wav|I confess that I felt a few sensations of terror.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000013_000002.wav|I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man!|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000014_000001.wav|Leave me; I am inexorable."|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000033_000000.wav|I inquired the way to the inn, but no one replied.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000010_000000.wav|"Begone!|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000021_000000.wav|I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved and miserable in the separation.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000022_000003.wav|He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000032_000000.wav|"I do not know," said the man, "what the custom of the English may be, but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains." While this strange dialogue continued, I perceived the crowd rapidly increase.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000002.wav|I felt as if I was about the commission of a dreadful crime and avoided with shuddering anxiety any encounter with my fellow creatures.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000002_000000.wav|Chapter twenty|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000017_000000.wav|I would have seized him, but he eluded me and quitted the house with precipitation.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000005.wav|I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000034_000000.wav|"Who is mr Kirwin?|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000004_000000.wav|I trembled and my heart failed within me, when, on looking up, I saw by the light of the moon the daemon at the casement.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000006.wav|Clouds hid the moon, everything was obscure, and I heard only the sound of the boat as its keel cut through the waves; the murmur lulled me, and in a short time I slept soundly.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000020_000000.wav|I desired that I might pass my life on that barren rock, wearily, it is true, but uninterrupted by any sudden shock of misery.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000016_000000.wav|I started forward and exclaimed, "Villain!|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000006.wav|And then I thought again of his words-"I WILL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING NIGHT." That, then, was the period fixed for the fulfilment of my destiny.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000022_000004.wav|This letter in a degree recalled me to life, and I determined to quit my island at the expiration of two days.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000014.wav|I might be driven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tortures of starvation or be swallowed up in the immeasurable waters that roared and buffeted around me.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000002.wav|I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000007_000000.wav|Several hours passed, and I remained near my window gazing on the sea; it was almost motionless, for the winds were hushed, and all nature reposed under the eye of the quiet moon.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000010_000001.wav|I do break my promise; never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness."|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000029_000002.wav|As it was, I merely remarked that they spoke English, and I therefore addressed them in that language.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000031_000001.wav|"Why do you answer me so roughly?" I replied.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000005_000001.wav|I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000003_000000.wav|I sat one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was just rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment, and I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should leave my labour for the night or hasten its conclusion by an unremitting attention to it.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000003_000006.wav|Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000025_000001.wav|But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high land towards the south.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000003_000002.wav|I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000005.wav|But it refreshed me and filled me with such agreeable sensations that I resolved to prolong my stay on the water, and fixing the rudder in a direct position, stretched myself at the bottom of the boat.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000011_000002.wav|You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!"|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000015_000001.wav|I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding night."|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000029_000000.wav|As I was occupied in fixing the boat and arranging the sails, several people crowded towards the spot.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000024_000004.wav|The sky became clouded, but the air was pure, although chilled by the northeast breeze that was then rising.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000029_000001.wav|They seemed much surprised at my appearance, but instead of offering me any assistance, whispered together with gestures that at any other time might have produced in me a slight sensation of alarm.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000027_000004.wav|Fortunately I had money with me.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000012_000003.wav|Begone!|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000032_000001.wav|Their faces expressed a mixture of curiosity and anger, which annoyed and in some degree alarmed me.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000013_000000.wav|The monster saw my determination in my face and gnashed his teeth in the impotence of anger.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000022_000005.wav|Yet, before I departed, there was a task to perform, on which I shuddered to reflect; I must pack up my chemical instruments, and for that purpose I must enter the room which had been the scene of my odious work, and I must handle those utensils the sight of which was sickening to me.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000004_000001.wav|A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000027_000001.wav|I constructed another sail with a part of my dress and eagerly steered my course towards the land. It had a wild and rocky appearance, but as I approached nearer I easily perceived the traces of cultivation.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000022_000008.wav|I paused to collect myself and then entered the chamber.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000005_000002.wav|The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000014_000000.wav|"Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000019_000000.wav|The night passed away, and the sun rose from the ocean; my feelings became calmer, if it may be called calmness when the violence of rage sinks into the depths of despair.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000036_000000.wav|This answer startled me, but I presently recovered myself.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000008_000002.wav|Presently I heard the sound of footsteps along the passage; the door opened, and the wretch whom I dreaded appeared.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000004.wav|But I had suffered him to depart, and he had directed his course towards the mainland.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000008.wav|The prospect did not move me to fear; yet when I thought of my beloved Elizabeth, of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000021_000002.wav|I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000005_000000.wav|As I looked on him, his countenance expressed the utmost extent of malice and treachery.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000017_000001.wav|In a few moments I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness and was soon lost amidst the waves.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000031_000002.wav|"Surely it is not the custom of Englishmen to receive strangers so inhospitably."|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000007.wav|In that hour I should die and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000013_000006.wav|You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains-revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food!|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000003.wav|Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife?|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000018_000001.wav|I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace and precipitate him into the ocean.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/366/731_366_000034_000001.wav|Why am I to give an account of myself?|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000018_000005.wav|As it was, I lived ungazed at and unmolested, hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which I gave, so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000019_000000.wav|In this retreat I devoted the morning to labour; but in the evening, when the weather permitted, I walked on the stony beach of the sea to listen to the waves as they roared and dashed at my feet.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000017_000000.wav|Having parted from my friend, I determined to visit some remote spot of Scotland and finish my work in solitude.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000021_000001.wav|Every moment I feared to meet my persecutor.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000010_000003.wav|The latter name made me tremble when pronounced by Henry, and I hastened to quit Matlock, with which that terrible scene was thus associated.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000021_000003.wav|I feared to wander from the sight of my fellow creatures lest when alone he should come to claim his companion.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000005_000005.wav|In this expedition we did not intend to follow the great road to Edinburgh, but to visit Windsor, Oxford, Matlock, and the Cumberland lakes, resolving to arrive at the completion of this tour about the end of July.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000016_000001.wav|He entreated me to write often.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000013_000000.wav|We had scarcely visited the various lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland and conceived an affection for some of the inhabitants when the period of our appointment with our Scotch friend approached, and we left them to travel on.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000005_000003.wav|We had arrived in England at the beginning of October, and it was now February.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000005_000001.wav|He mentioned the beauties of his native country and asked us if those were not sufficient allurements to induce us to prolong our journey as far north as Perth, where he resided.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000003_000003.wav|But busy, uninteresting, joyous faces brought back despair to my heart.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000013_000007.wav|I felt as if I had committed some great crime, the consciousness of which haunted me.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000013_000003.wav|He might remain in Switzerland and wreak his vengeance on my relatives.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000003_000001.wav|But a blight had come over my existence, and I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me on the subject in which my interest was so terribly profound.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000007_000000.wav|From thence we proceeded to Oxford.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000006_000000.wav|We quitted London on the twenty seventh of March and remained a few days at Windsor, rambling in its beautiful forest.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000011_000001.wav|I could now almost fancy myself among the Swiss mountains.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000017_000004.wav|The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000004_000008.wav|I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000017_000005.wav|Vegetables and bread, when they indulged in such luxuries, and even fresh water, was to be procured from the mainland, which was about five miles distant.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000010_000000.wav|We left Oxford with regret and proceeded to Matlock, which was our next place of rest.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000003_000002.wav|Company was irksome to me; when alone, I could fill my mind with the sights of heaven and earth; the voice of Henry soothed me, and I could thus cheat myself into a transitory peace.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000008_000003.wav|But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be-a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000020_000003.wav|During my first experiment, a kind of enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my employment; my mind was intently fixed on the consummation of my labour, and my eyes were shut to the horror of my proceedings.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000014_000003.wav|But I was impatient to arrive at the termination of my journey.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000013_000006.wav|Sometimes I thought that the fiend followed me and might expedite my remissness by murdering my companion. When these thoughts possessed me, I would not quit Henry for a moment, but followed him as his shadow, to protect him from the fancied rage of his destroyer.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000003_000000.wav|If this journey had taken place during my days of study and happiness, it would have afforded me inexpressible pleasure.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000020_000000.wav|In this manner I distributed my occupations when I first arrived, but as I proceeded in my labour, it became every day more horrible and irksome to me.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000019_000002.wav|I thought of Switzerland; it was far different from this desolate and appalling landscape.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000021_000000.wav|Thus situated, employed in the most detestable occupation, immersed in a solitude where nothing could for an instant call my attention from the actual scene in which I was engaged, my spirits became unequal; I grew restless and nervous.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000018_000003.wav|The thatch had fallen in, the walls were unplastered, and the door was off its hinges.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000020_000002.wav|It was, indeed, a filthy process in which I was engaged.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000013_000005.wav|I waited for my letters with feverish impatience; if they were delayed I was miserable and overcome by a thousand fears; and when they arrived and I saw the superscription of Elizabeth or my father, I hardly dared to read and ascertain my fate.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000015_000001.wav|"Do you," said I, "enjoy yourself, and let this be our rendezvous.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000006_000001.wav|This was a new scene to us mountaineers; the majestic oaks, the quantity of game, and the herds of stately deer were all novelties to us.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000004_000007.wav|I often refused to accompany him, alleging another engagement, that I might remain alone.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000004_000003.wav|His design was to visit India, in the belief that he had in his knowledge of its various languages, and in the views he had taken of its society, the means of materially assisting the progress of European colonization and trade.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000002_000000.wav|London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several months in this wonderful and celebrated city.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000004_000006.wav|I tried to conceal this as much as possible, that I might not debar him from the pleasures natural to one who was entering on a new scene of life, undisturbed by any care or bitter recollection.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000019_000001.wav|It was a monotonous yet ever changing scene.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000004_000004.wav|In Britain only could he further the execution of his plan.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000022_000000.wav|In the mean time I worked on, and my labour was already considerably advanced.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000008_000000.wav|I enjoyed this scene, and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past and the anticipation of the future.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000007_000005.wav|The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000020_000001.wav|Sometimes I could not prevail on myself to enter my laboratory for several days, and at other times I toiled day and night in order to complete my work.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000021_000002.wav|Sometimes I sat with my eyes fixed on the ground, fearing to raise them lest they should encounter the object which I so much dreaded to behold.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000007_000002.wav|It was here that Charles the first had collected his forces.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000014_000001.wav|Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford, for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000011_000000.wav|From Derby, still journeying northwards, we passed two months in Cumberland and Westmorland.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000009_000003.wav|For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000005_000004.wav|We accordingly determined to commence our journey towards the north at the expiration of another month.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000018_000004.wav|I ordered it to be repaired, bought some furniture, and took possession, an incident which would doubtless have occasioned some surprise had not all the senses of the cottagers been benumbed by want and squalid poverty.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000001_000000.wav|Chapter nineteen|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000008_000001.wav|I was formed for peaceful happiness.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000004_000001.wav|The difference of manners which he observed was to him an inexhaustible source of instruction and amusement.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000013_000002.wav|I had now neglected my promise for some time, and I feared the effects of the daemon's disappointment.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000011_000003.wav|Here also we made some acquaintances, who almost contrived to cheat me into happiness.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000019_000003.wav|Its hills are covered with vines, and its cottages are scattered thickly in the plains.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/731/365/731_365_000009_000004.wav|For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit, but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.|731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000005_000000.wav|For some time past some of the ponies have had great irritation of the skin.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000028_000000.wav|The snow is so hard blown that only the fiercest gusts raise the drifting particles-it is interesting to note the balance of nature whereby one evil is eliminated by the excess of another.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000035_000004.wav|Every few minutes the poor beast had been seized with a spasm of pain, had first dashed forward as though to escape it and then endeavoured to lie down.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000035_000001.wav|Oates called my attention to it, but we were neither much alarmed, remembering the speedy recovery of 'Jimmy Pigg' under similar circumstances.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000040_000002.wav|It can scarcely be coincidence that the two ponies which have suffered so far are those which are nearest the stove end of the stable.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000004_000000.wav|He seems in this predicament to have clung to the old idea of walking up wind, and it must be considered wholly providential that on this course he next struck Tent Island.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000023_000003.wav|It was so warm that I could have slept very comfortably.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000032_000000.wav|Science cannot be served by 'dilettante' methods, but demands a mind spurred by ambition or the satisfaction of ideals.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000055_000005.wav|We passed a quiet Sunday with the usual Service to break the week day routine.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000002_000000.wav|As I expected, some amendment of Atkinson's tale as written last night is necessary, partly due to some lack of coherency in the tale as first told and partly a reconsideration of the circumstances by Atkinson himself.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000004_000003.wav|The distance of Tent Island, four to five miles, partly accounts for the time he took in returning.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000031_000001.wav|Evans is constructing plans of the Dry Valley and Koettlitz Glacier with the help of the Western Party.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000055_000002.wav|higher.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000025_000000.wav|Tools, metal material, leather, straps and dozens of items are administered with the same spirit of jealous guardianship by Day, Lashly, Oates and Meares, while our main storekeeper Bowers even affects to bemoan imaginary shortages.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000042_000001.wav|'Bones' seems to be getting on well, though not yet quite so buckish as he was before his trouble.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000051_000004.wav|In both cases there was a flickering in the light and a change of colour from deep orange yellow to blood red, but the latter was dominant.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000010_000000.wav|I find it exceedingly difficult to settle down to solid work just at present and keep putting off the tasks which I have set myself.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000057_000000.wav|The light comes on apace.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000050_000005.wav|It is surprising to find such a big disturbance from what appears to be a simple cause.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000014_000001.wav|On our small heating stove stands a cylindrical ice melter which keeps up the supply of water necessary for the dark room and other scientific instruments.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000020_000000.wav|They are certain to have been caught by this gale, but I trust before it reached them they had managed to get up some sort of shelter.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000035_000002.wav|Later the pony was sent out for exercise with Crean.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000047_000004.wav|Anyway the return of the light should cure all ailments physical and mental.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000042_000003.wav|It is not easy to get over the alarm of Thursday night-the situation is altogether too critical.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000019_000005.wav|In those two days of really terrible weather our thoughts often turned to absentees at Cape Crozier with the devout hope that they may be safely housed.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000049_000000.wav|This fleeting hour of light is very pleasant, but of course dependent on a clear sky, very rare.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000024_000000.wav|I have been amused and pleased lately in observing the manners and customs of the persons in charge of our stores; quite a number of secret caches exist in which articles of value are hidden from public knowledge so that they may escape use until a real necessity arises.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000035_000000.wav|At noon yesterday one of the best ponies, 'Bones,' suddenly went off his feed-soon after it was evident that he was distressed and there could be no doubt that he was suffering from colic.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000009_000004.wav|I am very pleased with this arrangement.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000031_000000.wav|The work goes on very steadily-the men are making crampons and ski boots of the new style.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000019_000001.wav|It was my turn for duty on Saturday night, and on the occasions when I had to step out of doors I was struck with the impossibility of enduring such conditions for any length of time.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000022_000002.wav|This is the fourth day of gale; if one reflects on the quantity of transported air (nearly four thousand miles) one gets a conception of the transference which such a gale effects and must conclude that potentially warm upper currents are pouring into our polar area from more temperate sources.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000033_000000.wav|Our most popular game for evening recreation is chess; so many players have developed that our two sets of chessmen are inadequate.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000016_000000.wav|Apropos.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000044_000000.wav|Usual Sunday routine.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000008_000002.wav|Frostbiting weather!|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000014_000000.wav|I was the victim of a very curious illusion to day.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000029_000001.wav|Out for exercise at this time I was obliged to lean against the wind, my light overall clothes flapping wildly and almost dragged from me; later when the wind rose again it was quite an effort to stagger back to the hut against it.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000035_000011.wav|But as hour after hour passed without improvement, it was impossible not to realise that the poor beast was dangerously ill.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000059_000000.wav|The light, merry humour of our company has never been eclipsed, the good-natured, kindly chaff has never ceased since those early days of enthusiasm which inspired them-they have survived the winter days of stress and already renew themselves with the coming of spring.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000021_000000.wav|To day with the temperature at zero one can walk about outside without inconvenience in spite of a fifty-mile wind.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000024_000002.wav|For instance, Evans (p o), after thoroughly examining the purpose of some individual who is pleading for a piece of canvas, will admit that he may have a small piece somewhere which could be used for it, when, as a matter of fact, he possesses quite a number of rolls of that material.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000047_000003.wav|If we can get these people to run about at football all will be well.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000001_000001.wav|To night Ponting has photographed the hand.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000006_000001.wav|A dilute solution of carbolic is expected to rid the poor beasts of their pests, but meanwhile one or two of them have rubbed off patches of hair which they can ill afford to spare in this climate.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000024_000001.wav|The policy of every storekeeper is to have something up his sleeve for a rainy day.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000035_000003.wav|I passed him twice and seemed to gather that things were well, but Crean afterwards told me that he had had considerable trouble.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000037_000003.wav|Within three minutes it had drunk a bucket of water and had started to feed.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000051_000003.wav|Yesterday the planet Venus appeared under similar circumstances as a ship's side light or Japanese lantern.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4133/6541/4133_6541_000050_000003.wav|The course of events is not very clear, but it looks as though the gale pressed up the crack, raising broken pieces of the thin ice formed after recent opening movements.|4133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/82558/6553_82558_000005_000003.wav|'twas in truth an hour Of universal ferment; mildest men Were agitated; and commotions, strife Of passion and opinion, filled the walls Of peaceful houses with unquiet sounds.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/82558/6553_82558_000004_000002.wav|At that time, Moreover, the first storm was overblown, And the strong hand of outward violence Locked up in quiet.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/82558/6553_82558_000015_000000.wav|Oh, happy time of youthful lovers, (thus The story might begin).|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/82558/6553_82558_000010_000001.wav|A meeker man Than this lived never, nor a more benign, Meek though enthusiastic.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/82558/6553_82558_000014_000006.wav|But, these things set apart, Was not this single confidence enough To animate the mind that ever turned A thought to human welfare?|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/82558/6553_82558_000006_000000.wav|Such was the state of things.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000055_000000.wav|But he that was up in the palace felt it long that he was not getting word as to how matters were going on for those down in the house of the strangers.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000069_000000.wav|"What is the good of that?|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000010.wav|If you will not allow the bird that is being benumbed with cold, and done to death with hunger, to be let in, I do not think much of your language or your faith.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000031_000000.wav|When the king saw the woman that was before him that he had been in quest of, he thought he never saw in the course of the day nor in the dream of night a creature so fair as Deirdre and he gave his full heart's weight of love to her.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000031_000001.wav|Deirdre was raised on the topmost of the heroes' shoulders and she and her foster mother were brought to the Court of King Connachar of Ulster.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000034_000000.wav|By this time the end of the period came at which Deirdre had to marry Connachar, king of Ulster.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000006.wav|Deirdre was looking at the men that were coming, and wondering at them.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000003.wav|Deirdre was clever in maidenly duties and wifely understanding, and Connachar thought he never saw with bodily eye a creature that pleased him more.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000076_000002.wav|Now dry up the flood and let me see if I can behold Deirdre," said Connachar.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000076_000001.wav|I count it no loss what I spent in the schooling and teaching of you.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000011_000001.wav|And the three most famous heroes that ever were found will lose their heads on her account."|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000066_000001.wav|Greater by far do we prefer to go home to our father and tell the deeds of heroism we have done, than accept anything on these terms from you.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000010.wav|She girded up her raiment and went after the men that went past the base of the knoll, leaving her women attendants there.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000029_000000.wav|Connachar, king of Ulster, sent for his nearest kinsmen, and he told them of his intent.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000001.wav|There was not a blade of grass growing from root, nor a bird singing in the wood, nor a star shining from heaven but Deirdre had a name for it.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000009.wav|There is no shelter or house for them here." "O foster mother, the bird asked to get inside for the sake of the God of the Elements, and you yourself tell me that anything that is asked in His name we ought to do.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000074_000005.wav|Allen then cried out that he was getting faint and well nigh giving up.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000003_000003.wav|Whether it was that he was invited or that he came of himself, the soothsayer came to the house of Malcolm.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000069_000001.wav|that will not do yet," said Connachar. "They are off without bending of their feet or stopping of their step, without heed or respect to me, and I am without power to keep up to them, or opportunity to turn them back this night."|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000030_000000.wav|Connachar with his band of kinsfolk went down to the green knoll where Deirdre dwelt and he knocked at the door of the bothy.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000070_000000.wav|"I will try another plan on them," said the druid; and he placed before them a grey sea instead of a green plain.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000033_000001.wav|He reached the side of Loch Ness and made his habitation there.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000074_000002.wav|Then Arden cried that he was getting tired, and nearly giving over.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000002.wav|But one thing, she did not wish her to have either part or parley with any single living man of the rest of the world.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000014_000000.wav|Deirdre and her foster mother dwelt in the bothy mid the hills without the knowledge or the suspicion of any living person about them and without anything occurring, until Deirdre was sixteen years of age. Deirdre grew like the white sapling, straight and trim as the rash on the moss.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000074_000000.wav|"We shall try another method on them, since yon one did not stop them," said the druid.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000005_000000.wav|"Yes, I am doing a little.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000050_000001.wav|Deirdre wept tears in showers and she sang:|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000055_000001.wav|"Go you, Gelban Grednach, son of Lochlin's King, go you down and bring me information as to whether her former hue and complexion are on Deirdre.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000003_000001.wav|The man was a right good man, and he had a goodly share of this world's goods. He had a wife, but no family.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000003.wav|But on a gloomy winter night, with black, scowling clouds, a hunter of game was wearily travelling the hills, and what happened but that he missed the trail of the hunt, and lost his course and companions.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000043_000000.wav|I saw three grey hawks out of the South Come flying over the sea, And the red drops they bare in their mouth They were dearer than life to me.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000014.wav|"It isn't anything else but the wail of the wave swans of Connachar," said his brothers.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000034_000003.wav|He sent word far and wide through Erin to all his kinspeople to come to the feast.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000066_000000.wav|"Well, Connachar, we will not accept that offer from you, nor thank you for it.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000001_000000.wav|The Story of Deirdre|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000054_000002.wav|But there is a house down yonder where I keep strangers, and let them go down to it to day, and my house will be ready before them to morrow."|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000000.wav|With the love that Connachar had for her, he wanted to marry Deirdre right off there and then, will she nill she marry him.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000013_000002.wav|This was done.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000028_000000.wav|"Well, I will direct you, O king, although it is likely that this will not be what they want," said the hunter.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000076_000000.wav|"Blessings for that upon you and may the good results accrue to me, Duanan.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000013_000001.wav|He caused there a hillock, round and green, to be dug out of the middle, and the hole thus made to be covered carefully over, so that a little company could dwell there together.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000026_000000.wav|"Well, I did see her," said the hunter.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000006_000000.wav|"Well, I do not mind taking soothsaying from you, if you had soothsaying for me, and you would be willing to do it."|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000075_000000.wav|"They are gone," said Duanan Gacha Druid to the king, "and I have done what you desired me.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000060_000000.wav|Connachar ordered three hundred active heroes to go down to the abode of the strangers, and to take Deirdre up with them and kill the rest. "The pursuit is coming," said Deirdre.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000009_000000.wav|"Well, I am going out, and when I return I will tell you."|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000030_000001.wav|The nurse replied, "No less than a king's command and a king's army could put me out of my bothy to night.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000027_000000.wav|"And will you direct me to where she dwells? and the reward of your directing me will be as good as the reward of your message," said the king.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000017.wav|With the confusion that she was in, Deirdre went into a crimson blaze of fire, and her colour came and went as rapidly as the movement of the aspen by the stream side.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000032_000012.wav|They perceived the woman coming, and called on one another to hasten their step as they had a long distance to travel, and the dusk of night was coming on. They did so.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000041_000000.wav|There came three white doves out of the South Flying over the sea, And drops of honey were in their mouth From the hive of the honey bee.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000030_000002.wav|And I should be obliged to you, were you to tell who it is that wants me to open my bothy door." "It is I, Connachar, king of Ulster." When the poor woman heard who was at the door, she rose with haste and let in the king and all that could get in of his retinue.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000012.wav|She placed a seat in the place for sitting, food in the place for eating, and drink in the place for drinking for the man who came to the house.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000012_000001.wav|He did not allow a living being to come to his house, only himself and the nurse.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000067_000001.wav|Word came to the king that the company he was in pursuit of were gone.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000046_000000.wav|"The day that Connachar sent the invitation to his feast will be unlucky for us if we don't go, O Deirdre."|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000016_000000.wav|"What men are these you refer to?" said Deirdre.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000045_000000.wav|It is nought but the fear of woman's heart, And a dream of the night, Deirdre.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000015_000000.wav|The woman that had charge of her gave Deirdre every information and skill of which she herself had knowledge and skill.|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6553/86683/6553_86683_000072_000000.wav|"Though that be good, O Duanan, it will not make the heroes return," said Connachar; "they are gone without regard for me, and without honor to me, and without power on my part to pursue them, or to force them to return this night."|6553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000010_000000.wav|THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE FIRE.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000004_000003.wav|An associated Press reporter saw three of these thieves shot and fatally wounded, and doubtless others of them were similarly dealt with elsewhere.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000005_000002.wav|On every side the roar of explosions could be heard, and the crash of falling walls came to the ear, while people were forced to leave buildings which still stood, but which it was decided must be felled.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000025_000001.wav|With them they brought a ton and a half of guncotton.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000027_000003.wav|Not one charge failed.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000027_000004.wav|Not one building stood upon its foundation.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000011_000002.wav|They finally met in the North End Police Station, on Sacramento Street, and there entered actively upon their duties of seeking to check the progress of the flames, maintain order in the city and control and direct the host of fugitives, many of whom, still in a state of semi panic, were moving helplessly to and fro and sadly needed wise counsels and a helping hand.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000025_000003.wav|Captain MacBride was in charge of the squad, Chief Gunner Adamson placed the charges and the third gunner set them off.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000002_000000.wav|Fighting the Flames With Dynamite.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000008_000004.wav|In the early morning, when the fire reached the municipal building on Portsmouth Square, the nurses, with the aid of soldiers, got out fifty bodies which were in the temporary morgue and a number of patients from the receiving hospital. Just after they reached the street with their gruesome charge a building was blown up, and the flying bricks and splinters came falling upon them.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000025_000002.wav|The terrific power of the explosive was equal to the maniac determination of the fire.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000033_000002.wav|That spot is Alcatraz Island.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000030_000000.wav|Captain MacBride's dynamiting squad had realized that a stand was hopeless except on Van Ness Avenue, their decision thus coinciding with that of the authorities.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000020_000001.wav|They heroically responded to the demand of law and went bravely on their way, leaving their loved homes and trudging painfully over the pavements with the little they could carry away of their treasured possessions.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000028_000002.wav|From Golden Gate Avenue north the fire crossed the wide street in but one place.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000003_000002.wav|Water was not to be had; what was to take its place?|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000008_000000.wav|One instance of the peril they ran may be given.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER three.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000014_000001.wav|O God! no more dynamite!|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000031_000001.wav|Three men did this, and when their work was over and what stood of the city rested quietly for the first time, they departed as modestly as they had come.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000027_000002.wav|The whole east side of Van Ness Avenue, from the Golden Gate to Greenwich, a distance of twenty two blocks, or a mile and a half, was dynamited a block deep, though most of the structures as yet had stood untouched by spark or cinder.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000032_000000.wav|They stayed the march of the conflagration at that critical point, leaving it no channel to spread except along the wharf region, in which its final force was spent.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000029_000001.wav|Yet they made their way to the foundations, carrying their explosives, despite the furnace like heat.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000019_000003.wav|Here are located all of the finer homes of the well to do and wealthier classes, and the resolution to destroy them was the last resort of desperation.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000004_000000.wav|While the soldiers under General Funston took military charge of the city, squads of cavalry and troops of infantry patrolling the streets and guarding the sections that had not yet been touched by the flames, Mayor Schmitz and Chief of Police Dinan sprang into the breach and prepared to make a desperate charge against the platoons of the fire. This was not all that was needed to be done.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000022_000000.wav|"We are waiting for it to come.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000018_000000.wav|As the fire continued to spread in spite of the heroic work of the fighting corps, the Committee of Safety called a meeting at noon on Friday and decided to blow up all the residences on the east side of Van Ness Avenue, between Golden Gate and Pacific Avenues, a distance of one mile.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000021_000000.wav|The reply of a grizzled fire engineer standing at O'Farrell Street and Van Ness Avenue, beside a blackened engine, may not have been as terse as that of Hugo's guardsman at Waterloo, but the pathos of it must have been as great.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000025_000000.wav|When the burning city seemed doomed and the flames lit the sky farther and farther to the west, Admiral McCalla sent a trio of his most trusted men from Mare Island with orders to check the conflagration at any cost of property.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000008_000003.wav|While he was in the building the explosion took place, and he received injuries that seemed likely to prove fatal, his skull being fractured and several bones broken, while he was injured internally.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000013_000000.wav|"No more dynamite!|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000005_000001.wav|Cut off from the use of their accustomed engines and water streams, which might have been effective if brought into play at the beginning of the struggle, there was nothing to work with but the dynamite cartridge and the gunpowder mine, and they set bravely to work to do what they could with these.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000024_000002.wav|Three men saved San Francisco, so far as any San Francisco existed after the fire had worked its will, these three constituting the dynamite squad who faced and defied the demon at Van Ness Avenue.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000028_000003.wav|That was at the Claus Spreckels place, on the corner of California Street.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000031_000000.wav|The desolate waste straight through the heart of the city remained a mute witness to the most heroic and effective work of the whole calamity.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000012_000002.wav|The cloud of despair grew darker still as the report spread that the city's supply of dynamite had given out.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000014_000000.wav|"No more dynamite!|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000017_000003.wav|Hitherto much of the work had been ignorantly and carelessly done, and by the hasty and premature use of explosives more harm than good had been occasioned.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000006_000000.wav|FIGHTING THE FLAMES.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000022_000001.wav|When it gets here we will make one more stand.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000027_000001.wav|A million dollars' worth of property, noble residences and worthless shacks alike, were blown to drifting dust, but that destruction broke the fire and sent the raging flames back over their own charred path.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000022_000002.wav|If it crosses Van Ness Avenue the city is gone."|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000019_000002.wav|The district west of Van Ness Avenue and north of McAllister constitutes the finest part of the metropolis.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000033_000000.wav|In this connection it is well to put on record an interesting circumstance.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000029_000003.wav|But though the walls still stood, it was only an empty victory for the fire, as bare brick and smoking ruins are poor food for flames.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000012_000000.wav|The fire fighters meanwhile kept up their indefatigable work under the direction of the Mayor and the chief of their department.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000030_000001.wav|They could have forced their explosives farther in the burning section, but not a pound of guncotton could be or was wasted.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000015_000000.wav|A NEW SUPPLY OF EXPLOSIVES.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000009_000000.wav|The Southern Pacific Hospital, at Fourteenth and Missouri Streets, was among the buildings destroyed by dynamite, the patients having been removed to places of safety, and the Linda Vista and the Pleasanton, two large family hotels on Jones Street, in the better part of the city, were also among those blown up to stay the progress of the conflagration.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000017_000000.wav|Had all been like these the entire city would have been doomed, but there were those at the head of affairs who never for a moment gave up their resolution.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000032_000001.wav|One side of Van Ness Avenue was gone; the other remained, the fire leaping the broad open space only feebly in a few places, where it was easily extinguished.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000003_000003.wav|Nothing remained but to meet ruin with ruin, to make a desert in the path of the fire and thus seek to stop its march.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000028_000001.wav|Every pound of guncotton did its work, and though the ruins burned, it was but feebly.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000005_000003.wav|Frequently a crash of stone and brick, followed by a cloud of dust, gave warning to pedestrians that destruction was going on in the forefront of the flames, and that travel in such localities was unsafe.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000019_000001.wav|They declared that should the fire cross Van Ness Avenue and the wind continue its earlier direction toward the west, the destruction of San Francisco would be virtually complete.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000029_000002.wav|The charge had to be placed so swiftly and the fuse lit in such a hurry that the explosion was not quite successful from the trained viewpoint of the gunners.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000033_000001.wav|This is that there is one place within pistol shot of San Francisco that the earthquake did not touch, that did not lose a chimney or feel a tremor.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000003_000001.wav|What could be done to stay the fierce march of the flames which were sweeping resistlessly over palace and hovel alike, over stately hall and miserable hut?|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000024_000001.wav|Skilled engineers were needed, men used to the scientific handling of explosives, and it was men of this kind who finally saved what is left to day of the city.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000023_000000.wav|THE SAVERS OF THE CITY.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000004_000001.wav|From the "Barbary Coast," as the resort of the vicious and criminal classes was called, hordes of wretches poured out as soon as night fell, seeking to slip through the guards and loot stores and rob the dead in the burning section.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000005_000000.wav|A band of fire fighters was quickly organized by the Mayor and Chief of Police, and the devoted firemen put themselves in the face of the flames, determined to do their utmost to stay them in their course.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000003_000000.wav|Shaken by earthquake, swept by flames, the water supply cut off by the breaking of the mains, the authorities of the doomed city for a time stood appalled.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000003_000004.wav|They had dynamite, gunpowder and other explosives, and in the frightful exigency there was nothing else to be used.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000020_000000.wav|Hundreds of police, regiments of soldiers and scores of volunteers were sent into the doomed district to warn the people to flee.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000030_000002.wav|The ruined blocks of the wide thoroughfare formed a trench through the clustered structures that the conflagration, wild as it was, could not leap.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000031_000002.wav|They were ordered to save San Francisco, and they obeyed orders, and Captain MacBride and his two gunners made history on that dreadful night.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31603/5007_31603_000004_000002.wav|Orders were given to the soldiers to kill all who were engaged in such work, and these orders were carried out.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000023_000000.wav|Thus the ruinous work of the earthquake stretched over a broad track of prosperous, peaceful and happy country, embracing one of the best sections of California, laying waste not only the towns in its path, but doing much damage to ranch houses and country residences.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000010_000000.wav|The Leland Stanford junior, University, at Palo Alto (about thirty miles south of San Francisco), felt the full force of the earthquake and was badly wrecked.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000005_000000.wav|In Santa Rosa, sixty miles to the north of San Francisco, and one of the most beautiful towns of California, practically every building was destroyed or badly damaged.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000021_000000.wav|AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000008_000003.wav|The death list appears to have been small, but the property damage was not less than five million dollars.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000020_000002.wav|Another public edifice of importance and interest, in a different section of the State, the famous Lick Astronomical Observatory, was equally fortunate, no damage being done to the buildings or the instruments.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000022_000002.wav|During the succeeding week several other shocks of some strength were reported from this town.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000020_000001.wav|The University of California, situated here, was fortunate in escaping injury, it being reported that not a building was harmed in the slightest degree.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000001_000000.wav|Disaster Spreads Over the Golden State|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000022_000000.wav|Salinas, a town down the coast near Monterey, suffered severely, the place being to a large extent destroyed, with an estimated loss of over one million dollars.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000022_000001.wav|The Spreckels' sugar factory and a score of other buildings were reported ruined and a number of lives lost.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000010_000002.wav|The damage to the buildings is estimated by President Jordan to amount to about four million dollars.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000024_000001.wav|In fact, the ruinous effects of the earthquake immensely exceeded those of any similar catastrophe ever before known in the United States, and when the destruction done by the succeeding conflagration in San Francisco is taken into account the California earthquake of nineteen o six takes rank with the most destructive of those recorded in history.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000006_000002.wav|The money loss at this small city is estimated at three million dollars.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000006_000001.wav|From the ruins of the fallen houses fifty eight bodies were taken out and interred during the first few days, and the total of dead and injured was close to a hundred.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000005_000002.wav|The Court House, Hall of Records, the Occidental and Santa Rosa Hotels, the Athenaeum Theatre, the new Masonic Temple, Odd Fellows' Block, all the banks, everything went, and in all the city not one brick or stone building was left standing, except the California Northwestern Depot.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000002_000000.wav|The first news that the world received of the earthquake came direct from San Francisco and was confined largely to descriptions of the disaster which had overwhelmed that city.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000018_000000.wav|At Loma Prieta the earthquake caused a mine house to slip down the side of a mountain, ten men being buried in the ruins.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000011_000001.wav|A number of other buildings in the outer quadrangle and some of the small workshops were seriously damaged.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000020_000000.wav|The town of Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco, suffered considerable damage from twisted structures, fallen walls and broken chimneys, the greatest injury being in the collapse of the town hall and the ruin of the deaf and dumb asylum.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000023_000002.wav|Great rents in the earth were reported, and for many miles north from Los Angeles miniature geysers are said to have spouted volcano like streams of hot mud.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000010_000001.wav|Only two lives were lost as a result of the earthquake, one of a student, the other of a fireman, but eight students were injured more or less seriously.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000019_000000.wav|Fort Bragg, one of the principal lumbering towns in Mendocino County, was practically wiped out by fire following the earthquake, but out of a population of five thousand only one was killed, though scores were injured.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000016_000001.wav|Railroad tracks were twisted, and over six hundred feet of track of the Oakland Transit Company's railway sank four feet.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000024_000000.wav|Railroad tracks in some localities were badly injured, sinking or lifting, and being put out of service until repaired.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000009_000000.wav|THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000005_000001.wav|The brick and stone business blocks, together with the public buildings, were thrown down.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000016_000002.wav|The total damage done amounted to probably two hundred thousand dollars, but no lives were lost.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000008_000002.wav|Numbers of people were caught in the ruins and maimed or killed.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000017_000000.wav|At Los Panos several buildings were wrecked, causing damage to the extent of seventy five thousand dollars, but no lives were lost.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000012_000000.wav|Encina Hall and the inner quadrangle were practically uninjured, and the bulk of the books, collections and apparatus escaped damage.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000007_000001.wav|It was one of the show towns of California, and not only one of the most prosperous cities in the fine county of Sonoma, but one of the most picturesque in the State. Surrounding it there were miles of orchards, vineyards and corn fields. The beautiful drives of the city were adorned with bowers of roses, which everywhere were seen growing about the homes of the people.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000008_000000.wav|At San Jose, another very beautiful city of over twenty thousand population, not a single brick or stone building of two stories or over was left standing.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000004_000000.wav|THE DESTRUCTION OF SANTA ROSA.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000008_000004.wav|The Agnew State Insane Asylum, in the vicinity of San Jose, was entirely destroyed, more than half the inmates being killed or injured.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000015_000000.wav|THE EARTHQUAKE AT OTHER CITIES.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000011_000000.wav|The memorial church, with its twelve marble figures of the apostles, each weighing two tons, was badly injured by the fall of its Gothic spire, which crashed through the roof and demolished much of the interior; the great entrance archway was split in twain and wrecked; so, too, were the library, the gymnasium and the power house.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000016_000000.wav|At Alameda, on the bay opposite San Francisco, a score of chimneys were shaken down and other injuries done.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000002_000001.wav|It was so sudden, so appalling, so tragic in its nature, that for the time being it quite overshadowed the havoc and misery wrought in a number of other California towns of lesser note.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000007_000000.wav|The destruction of Santa Rosa gave rise to general sorrow among the residents of the interior of the State.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5007/31609/5007_31609_000007_000002.wav|In its vicinity are the famous gardens of Luther Burbank, the "California wizard," but these fortunately escaped injury.|5007
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000047_000000.wav|Dillon returned to Calcutta.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000041_000000.wav|I related to him what the final deeds of Captain Dumont d'Urville had brought to light, deeds described here in this heavily condensed summary of the whole matter.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000071_000001.wav|He opened it and I saw a bundle of papers, yellowed but still legible.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000033_000000.wav|"We already have, professor."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000069_000000.wav|"And how do you know all this?" I exclaimed.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000021_000001.wav|As the Roman playwright Seneca recommended, we opened them right at our table, then stuffed ourselves. These mollusks belonged to the species known by name as Ostrea lamellosa, whose members are quite common off Corsica.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000005_000002.wav|Thanks to the work of polyps, a slow but steady upheaval will someday connect these islands to each other. Later on, this new island will be fused to its neighboring island groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand and New Caledonia as far as the Marquesas Islands.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000016_000002.wav|Although the summer sun lavished its rays on us, we never suffered from the heat, because thirty or forty meters underwater, the temperature didn't go over ten degrees to twelve degrees centigrade.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000058_000002.wav|Nobody knew.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000051_000000.wav|But just then the renowned French explorer Captain Dumont d'Urville, unaware of Dillon's activities, had already set sail to search elsewhere for the site of the shipwreck.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000016_000001.wav|After touching the Tropic of Capricorn at longitude one hundred thirty five degrees, it headed west northwest, going back up the whole intertropical zone.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000028_000000.wav|"The Nautilus is bringing us to Vanikoro?" I asked.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000024_000000.wav|That day it was yuletide, and it struck me that Ned Land badly missed celebrating "Christmas," that genuine family holiday where Protestants are such zealots.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000058_000001.wav|Where?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000038_000000.wav|"What everybody knows, captain," I answered him.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000043_000000.wav|In seventeen ninety one, justly concerned about the fate of these two sloops of war, the French government fitted out two large cargo boats, the Search and the Hope, which left Brest on september twenty eighth under orders from Rear Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000021_000000.wav|This bay, repeatedly dredged, furnished a huge supply of excellent oysters.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000011_000000.wav|I could observe these strange walls quite closely: our sounding lines indicated that they dropped perpendicularly for more than three hundred meters, and our electric beams made the bright limestone positively sparkle.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000009_000001.wav|The tiny microscopic animals that secrete this polypary live by the billions in the depths of their cells. Their limestone deposits build up into rocks, reefs, islets, islands. In some places, they form atolls, a circular ring surrounding a lagoon or small inner lake that gaps place in contact with the sea.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000070_000000.wav|"Here's what I found at the very site of that final shipwreck!"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000035_000001.wav|Its shores seemed covered with greenery from its beaches to its summits inland, crowned by mount Kapogo, which is four hundred seventy six fathoms high.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000063_000000.wav|"So," he said to me, "the castaways built a third ship on Vanikoro Island, and to this day, nobody knows where it went and perished?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000062_000000.wav|This is the substance of the account I gave Captain Nemo.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000034_000000.wav|Followed by Captain Nemo, I climbed onto the platform, and from there my eyes eagerly scanned the horizon.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000031_000000.wav|"If you like, professor."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000020_000000.wav|It was the Dutch navigator Tasman who discovered this group in sixteen forty three, the same year the Italian physicist Torricelli invented the barometer and King Louis the fourteenth ascended the French throne.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000013_000000.wav|"Therefore," he said to me, "to build these walls, it took . . . ?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000064_000000.wav|"Nobody knows."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000025_000000.wav|I hadn't seen Captain Nemo for over a week, when, on the morning of the twenty seventh, he entered the main lounge, as usual acting as if he'd been gone for just five minutes.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000025_000002.wav|The captain approached, placed a finger over a position on the chart, and pronounced just one word:|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000015_000005.wav|In this way animal life developed, and drawn by the greenery and fertile soil, man appeared. And that's how these islands were formed, the immense achievement of microscopic animals.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000053_000000.wav|Pretty perplexed, Dumont d'Urville didn't know if he should give credence to these reports, which had been carried in some of the less reliable newspapers; nevertheless, he decided to start on Dillon's trail.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000006_000000.wav|The day I expounded this theory to Captain Nemo, he answered me coldly:|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000040_000000.wav|"Very easily."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000065_000001.wav|The Nautilus sank a few meters beneath the waves, and the panels opened.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000015_000002.wav|Its tree grew tall, catching steam off the water. A brook was born.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000015_000003.wav|Little by little, vegetation spread. Tiny animals-worms, insects-rode ashore on tree trunks snatched from islands to windward.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000018_000000.wav|The Nautilus had cleared eight thousand one hundred miles.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000014_000001.wav|What's more, the formation of coal- in other words, the petrification of forests swallowed by floods- and the cooling of basaltic rocks likewise call for a much longer period of time.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000003_000000.wav|Vanikoro|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000004_000000.wav|THIS DREADFUL SIGHT was the first of a whole series of maritime catastrophes that the Nautilus would encounter on its run. When it plied more heavily traveled seas, we often saw wrecked hulls rotting in midwater, and farther down, cannons, shells, anchors, chains, and a thousand other iron objects rusting away.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER nineteen|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000027_000001.wav|It was the name of those islets where vessels under the Count de La Pérouse had miscarried. I straightened suddenly.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000049_000000.wav|There Dillon collected many relics of the shipwreck: iron utensils, anchors, eyelets from pulleys, swivel guns, an eighteen pound shell, the remains of some astronomical instruments, a piece of sternrail, and a bronze bell bearing the inscription "Made by Bazin," the foundry mark at Brest Arsenal around seventeen eighty five. There could no longer be any doubt.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000010_000002.wav|These polyps grow exclusively in the agitated strata at the surface of the sea, and so it's in the upper reaches that they begin these substructures, which sink little by little together with the secreted rubble binding them.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000045_000000.wav|It was an old hand at the Pacific, the English adventurer Captain peter Dillon, who was the first to pick up the trail left by castaways from the wrecked vessels.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000007_000000.wav|"The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men!"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000037_000000.wav|Just then Captain Nemo asked me what I knew about the shipwreck of the Count de La Pérouse.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000039_000000.wav|"And could you kindly tell me what everybody knows?" he asked me in a gently ironic tone.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000067_000000.wav|And as I stared at this desolate wreckage, Captain Nemo told me in a solemn voice:|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/36633/6233_36633_000029_000000.wav|"Yes, professor," the captain replied.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000063_000000.wav|"I think as you about that."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000013_000001.wav|Look there!|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000059_000000.wav|"Yes.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000064_000002.wav|That's how I shed reckon it up.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000065_000000.wav|"Perhaps better not.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000047_000002.wav|They must have quarrelled afterwards."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000045_000000.wav|Before taking the back track, however, they had halted, and stayed some time in the same place-under the branches of a spreading cottonwood. The turf, much trampled around the trunk of the tree, was evidence of this.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000009_000000.wav|Through this jungle, directly opposite the Fort, there is an opening, through which passes a path-the shortest that leads to the head waters of the Nueces.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000065_000002.wav|It will at least fall lighter upon him if he find things out by piecemeal.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000049_000001.wav|It's simple enough.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000032_000001.wav|That's why I didn't wish him to come forward."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000065_000003.wav|Say nothing of what we've seen.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000040_000007.wav|Goin' west the mustang was foremost; you can tell that by the overlap.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000041_000001.wav|"I shall command the people to stay where they are."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000028_000000.wav|"You see that, major?" said he, pointing to the ground.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000040_000002.wav|As you see, both are shod; and they're the same that have come back again.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000017_000001.wav|They have gone up this openin' a bit, and come back again."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000050_000000.wav|The tracker, stooping as he spoke, picked up a brace of cigar stumps, and handed them to the major.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000023_000000.wav|"Blood, a regular pool of it-enough to have cleared out the carcass of a hull buffalo.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000036_000000.wav|"Not a bit of it," rejoined the scout, with an air of confidence.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000064_000000.wav|"And you may think so, major.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000058_000000.wav|"Mr Poindexter, you mean?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000041_000000.wav|"Let us proceed thither, then," said the major.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000052_000000.wav|"'tis very mysterious," remarked the major.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000025_000004.wav|He can only take me along with him."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000014_000000.wav|"The tracks of a horse."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000029_000000.wav|"I should be blind if I didn't," replied the officer.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000023_000002.wav|But," continued the scout in a muttered undertone, "if you wish me to follow up the sign as it ought to be done, you'll order the others to stay back-'specially them as are now nearest you."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000011_000000.wav|Shortly after entering among the trees, one of the latter, who had gone afoot in the advance, was seen standing by the edge of the thicket, as if waiting to announce some recently discovered fact.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000012_000000.wav|"What is it?" demanded the major, spurring ahead of the others, and riding up to the tracker.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000035_000000.wav|"How! by the Indians, of course?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000048_000000.wav|"If you are speaking the truth, Spangler, you must be a witch.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000030_000000.wav|"Dead!" pronounced the tracker.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000025_000001.wav|"Yes, Spangler, you shall have every facility for your work.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000061_000000.wav|"Spangler! have you any suspicion as to who the other may be?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000051_000003.wav|That it did come there can be no doubt.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000040_000006.wav|The other is the hoof of an American horse.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000057_000004.wav|We may as well go back, major.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000040_000010.wav|It can't be a great ways off."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000064_000004.wav|We must follow the trail, howsoever; and maybe it'll fetch us to some sensible concloosion.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000016_000001.wav|There are two."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000060_000001.wav|Only convinced that the horse the old gentleman is now riding is one of the two that's been over this ground last night-the States horse I feel sure.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000025_000000.wav|"By all means," replied the major.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000049_000003.wav|As for the time, they've taken long enough to smoke a cigar apiece-close to the teeth too.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000034_000001.wav|That's what is puzzling me."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000027_000000.wav|About fifty yards further on, Spangler came to a stand.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000060_000000.wav|"Oh, no; not so much as that comes to.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000062_000001.wav|If't hadn't been for the tale of Old Duffer I'd never have thought of Maurice the mustanger.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000012_000001.wav|"Sign?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000062_000004.wav|The young Irishman aint the man to stand nonsense from nobody; but as little air he the one to do a deed like this-that is, if it's been cold blooded killin'."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000006_000000.wav|There was reason.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000024_000000.wav|This observation appeared to be more particularly pointed at the planter and his nephew; as the tracker, on making it, glanced furtively towards both.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000048_000001.wav|How on earth can you know all that?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000020_000001.wav|Is there a dead body?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000042_000000.wav|Having issued the command, in a voice loud enough to be heard by his following, the major rode away from the bloodstained spot, preceded by the tracker.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000020_000000.wav|"What proof have you of what you say?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000057_000002.wav|We may make something out of that.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000062_000000.wav|"Not a spark, major.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000031_000000.wav|"Whose do you think it is, Spangler?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER THIRTY NINE.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000051_000000.wav|"By the same token," he continued, "I conclude that the two horsemen, whoever they were, while under this tree could not have had any very hostile feelins, the one to the tother.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000018_000000.wav|"Well, Spangler, my good fellow; what do you make of it?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000006_000002.wav|Scouts were sent out in advance; and professed "trackers" employed to pick up, and interpret the "sign."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000004_000000.wav|THE POOL OF BLOOD.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000009_000002.wav|It may be artificial: some old "war trail" of the Comanches, erst trodden by their expeditionary parties on the maraud to Tamaulipas, Coahuila, or New Leon.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000062_000003.wav|Surely it can't be?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000030_000001.wav|"Dead before that blood had turned purple-as it is now."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000056_000000.wav|"Most strange!" exclaimed the major, pronouncing the words with emphasis-"most mysterious!"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000007_000001.wav|The turf, hard and dry, only showed the tracks of a horse when going in a gallop.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000007_000000.wav|On the prairie, extending nearly ten miles to the westward of the Leona, no trail was discovered.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000046_000000.wav|The tracker got off his horse to examine it; and, stooping to the earth, carefully scrutinised the sign.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000022_000000.wav|"What then?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000021_000000.wav|"no|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000065_000001.wav|He knows enough already.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000010_000000.wav|The trackers knew that it conducted to the Alamo; and, therefore, guided the expedition into it.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000026_000001.wav|It was obeyed, however, just as if they had been; and one and all kept their places, while the officer, following his scout, rode away from the ground.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000055_000000.wav|"That's what purplexes me most of all.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000016_000000.wav|"True.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61743/6233_61743_000066_000001.wav|Give me ten minutes upon it, and then come on to my signal."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000019_000006.wav|Pluto!"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000029_000002.wav|Where can he have gone?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000012_000000.wav|"Where can the boy be?" asked his father, for the fourth time, in that tone of mild conjecture that scarce calls for reply.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000022_000000.wav|"He no dar, Mass' Woodley."|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000052_000000.wav|Nor did any one ask whose blood bedaubed the saddle flaps.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000015_000000.wav|What was it?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000030_000001.wav|He wouldn't go there," interposed Calhoun, who appeared as much mystified by the absence of Henry as was Poindexter himself.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000006_000001.wav|Only the conjecture: that he would shortly make his appearance.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000040_000003.wav|Or is it his tail that is missing?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000051_000001.wav|All present knew him to be the horse of Henry Poindexter.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000042_000003.wav|My son is too good a rider for that.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000019_000000.wav|"Very strange Henry not being here to his breakfast!" remarked the planter, for about the tenth time.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000053_000000.wav|The dark red spots on which they were distractedly gazing had spurted from the veins of Henry Poindexter.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000020_000000.wav|"Ho-ho!|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000019_000002.wav|No-no-he never lies so late.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000015_000001.wav|No one put the inquiry.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000049_000000.wav|From the prairies.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000003_000000.wav|The "field hands" labouring near had collected around the "quarter;" and in groups, squatted upon the grass, or seated upon stray logs, were discussing their diet-by no means spare-of "hog and hominy" corn bread and "corn coffee," with a jocosity that proclaimed a keen relish of these, their ordinary comestibles.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000007_000000.wav|As several minutes passed without his coming in, the planter quietly observed that it was rather strange of Henry to be behind time, and wonder where he could be.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000046_000001.wav|The animal wet with the dews of the night, and having been evidently uncared for in any stable, was snorting and stamping the ground, as if but lately escaped from some scene of excitement, in which he had been compelled to take part.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000031_000001.wav|"If not, it may still remain a secret between brother and myself.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000016_000000.wav|Ever since entering the room he had maintained a studied silence; keeping his eyes averted, instead of, according to his usual custom, constantly straying towards his cousin.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000042_000002.wav|Nonsense, Pluto!|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000035_000000.wav|"No, Mass' Woodley," replied the black, in a voice that betrayed a large measure of emotion, "he are not dar-Massa Henry am not.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000051_000000.wav|The question was not asked.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000009_000000.wav|This habit is exacted by a sort of necessity, arising out of the nature of some of the viands peculiar to the country; many of which, as "Virginia biscuit," "buckwheat cakes," and "waffles," are only relished coming fresh from, the fire: so that the hour when breakfast is being eaten in the dining room, is that in which the cook is broiling her skin in the kitchen.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000015_000002.wav|Her father did not notice anything odd in her look.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000038_000001.wav|And why, pray, do you grieve about that?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000010_000000.wav|As the laggard, or late riser, may have to put up with cold biscuit, and no waffles or buckwheat cakes, there are few such on a Southern plantation.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000031_000002.wav|I think I can manage Henry.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000013_000001.wav|Louise only gave expression to a similar conjecture.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000018_000000.wav|Beyond doubt he was under the influence of some extraordinary agitation.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000029_000001.wav|"Henry from home; and at night too.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000034_000000.wav|"Well!" cried his master, without waiting for him to speak, "is he there?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000033_000000.wav|It was interrupted by the reappearance of Pluto; whose important air, as he re-entered the room, proclaimed him the bearer of eventful tidings.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000048_000000.wav|Whence came that horse?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000045_000000.wav|A sight was there awaiting them, calculated to inspire all three with the most terrible apprehensions.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000038_000000.wav|"His horse at the gate?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000021_000000.wav|"Go to Henry's sleeping room.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000030_000000.wav|"Oh, no!|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000029_000006.wav|Not at the tavern, I hope?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000031_000004.wav|I've sate up all night waiting for him.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000042_000001.wav|Henry thrown from his horse?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000014_000000.wav|It could scarce be caused by the absence of her brother from the breakfast table?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000031_000003.wav|But why is he still absent?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000005_000000.wav|Henry was the absent one.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000031_000009.wav|There can be little harm in it: since he has gone astray in good company?"|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000049_000001.wav|The negro had caught him, on the outside plain, as, with the bridle trailing among his feet, he was instinctively straying towards the hacienda.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000029_000000.wav|"There's something strange in all this," pursued the planter, as Pluto shuffled out of the sala.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61741/6233_61741_000042_000000.wav|"What!|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000045_000000.wav|Did any one know where the horse hunter had his home?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000037_000001.wav|The landlord of the Rough and Ready, who had come uncalled to the council, after forcing his way through the crowd, proclaimed himself willing to communicate some facts worth their hearing-in short, the very facts they were endeavouring to find out: when Henry Poindexter had been last seen, and what the direction he had taken.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000025_000001.wav|The party must be kept together, or run the risk of being attacked, and perhaps cut off, in detail!|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000043_000000.wav|This was all Mr Oberdoffer knew of the matter; and all he could be expected to tell.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000040_000000.wav|Where he had procured the money "Gott" only knew, or why he left the hotel in such a hurry.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000019_000000.wav|These were the questions discussed by the mixed council of settlers and soldiers, hastily assembled at Port Inge, and presided over by the commandant of the Fort-the afflicted father standing speechless by his side.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000028_000000.wav|In what direction?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000027_000000.wav|It was decided that the searchers should proceed in a body.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000007_000000.wav|Calhoun, upon his own horse, followed close after.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000044_000002.wav|If the missing man had gone off with Maurice the mustanger, or after him, he should be looked for on the road the latter himself would be likely to have taken.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000029_000001.wav|Who last saw Henry Poindexter?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000032_000000.wav|The answer of Calhoun was less direct, and, perhaps, less satisfactory. He had conversed with his cousin at a later hour, and had bidden him good night, under the impression that he was retiring to his room.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000038_000000.wav|Oberdoffer's testimony, delivered in a semi Teutonic tongue, was to the effect: that Maurice the mustanger-who had been staying at his hotel ever since his fight with Captain Calhoun-had that night ridden out at a late hour, as he had done for several nights before.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000011_000000.wav|Among the horsemen, who came quickly together on the parade ground of Port Inge, no one doubted that the Comanches had done the deed.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000012_000004.wav|Of course it was the body of the rider as it slipped lifeless to the earth.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000009_000000.wav|The Indians were out, and near at hand, reaping their harvest of scalps! That of young Poindexter was the firstfruits of their sanguinary gleaning!|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000012_000000.wav|The blood drops pretty clearly, proclaimed the first.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000011_000001.wav|It was simply a question of how, when, and where.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000020_000000.wav|The last was of special importance.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000028_000001.wav|This still remained the subject of discussion.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000026_000000.wav|The argument was deemed conclusive.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000012_000001.wav|He who had shed them must have been shot, or speared, while sitting in his saddle.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000024_000001.wav|It was directly negatived by the major himself.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000010_000000.wav|Henry Poindexter-the noble generous youth who had not an enemy in all Texas!|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000042_000000.wav|What had all this to do with the question before the council?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000018_000000.wav|After that, where should the assassins be sought for?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000010_000002.wav|Only the Comanches could have been so cruel?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000012_000002.wav|They were mostly on the off side; where they presented an appearance, as if something had been slaked over them.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000006_000000.wav|Hastily-perhaps too truly-construing the sinister evidence, the half frantic father leaped into the bloody saddle, and galloped direct for the Fort.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000035_000000.wav|Whatever was the reason, the truth was shunned; and an answer given, the sincerity of which was suspected by more than one who listened to it.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000017_000001.wav|Where was the body to be found?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000044_000001.wav|It furnished a sort of clue to the direction they ought to take.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000010_000001.wav|Who but Indians could have spilled such innocent blood?|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000005_000000.wav|THE AVENGERS.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000041_000000.wav|On one of these the village Boniface supposed him to have gone.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6233/61742/6233_61742_000037_000000.wav|While the inquiry was going on, light came in from a quartet hitherto unthought of.|6233
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000036_000000.wav|Of course, we began by talking on business matters.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000062_000001.wav|But then the Frenchman is a marquis, and the cleverer of the two," remarked Polina imperturbably.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000029_000005.wav|Here it is now, if you care to see it,"--and I pulled out the document, and exhibited the Roman visa.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000005.wav|Indeed, on one occasion (this happened in Switzerland, when I was asleep in the train) I had spoken aloud to her, and set all my fellow travellers laughing.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000074_000000.wav|"That has nothing to do with it.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000064_000000.wav|"Yes; absolutely."|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000019_000002.wav|Interminably he discoursed on finance and Russian politics, and though, at times, the General made feints to contradict him, he did so humbly, and as though wishing not wholly to lose sight of his own dignity.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000055_000001.wav|Also, he is in love with you.--"|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000076_000003.wav|Well, it behoved me to divine them, and to probe them, and that as soon as possible.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000032_000004.wav|That man was then a boy of ten and his family are still residing in Moscow."|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000023_000000.wav|This I said in French.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000009.wav|Evidently this was not mere accident, and I felt that I must throw some light upon matters.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000013_000000.wav|"Let us calculate," he went on.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000057_000001.wav|In fact, what does the Frenchman possess?|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000066_000000.wav|"It amuses me to see you grow angry," she continued.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000009_000003.wav|Later, I was about to take Mischa and Nadia for a walk when a summons reached me from the staircase that I must attend the General. He began by deigning to inquire of me where I was going to take the children; and as he did so, I could see that he failed to look me in the eyes.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000072_000002.wav|Nothing further has transpired.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000013_000001.wav|"We must translate these roubles into thalers.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000070_000001.wav|Her tone had sounded very angry. Indeed, of late her talks with me had invariably ended on a note of temper and irritation-yes, of real temper.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000036_000001.wav|Polina seemed furious when I handed her only seven hundred gulden, for she had thought to receive from Paris, as the proceeds of the pledging of her diamonds, at least two thousand gulden, or even more.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000028_000001.wav|While he is engaged with a Cardinal?" screeched the sacristan, again shrinking back in horror.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000031_000000.wav|"What really saved you was the fact that you proclaimed yourself a heretic and a barbarian," remarked the Frenchman with a smile.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000009_000001.wav|So far as I could see, the party had already gained some notoriety in the place, which had come to look upon the General as a Russian nobleman of great wealth.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000001.wav|I received from them a welcome quite different to that which I had expected.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000000_000000.wav|This is a LibriVox recording.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000072_000001.wav|Blanche.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000070_000000.wav|Then she made a movement to rise.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000052_000000.wav|"Then he has only just begun his courting?|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000069_000003.wav|I hate you because I have allowed you to go to such lengths, and I also hate you and still more-because you are so necessary to me.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000065_000001.wav|But I took no notice of this.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000055_000000.wav|"He is very shy," I said, "and susceptible.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000068_000000.wav|Polina giggled.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000016_000000.wav|When returning home with the children before luncheon, I met a cavalcade of our party riding to view some ruins.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000028_000000.wav|"What?|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000051_000002.wav|I thought you ought to know that."|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000058_000000.wav|"Oh, no, there is no doubt about it.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000039_000003.wav|Every moment we are expecting to receive news of the end."|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000037_000000.wav|"Come what may, I MUST have money," she said.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000027_000008.wav|This made me very angry.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000043_000000.wav|"Yes, looking for it.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000010.wav|It was high time that I did so.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000065_000000.wav|Polina was not at all pleased at my questions; I could see that she was doing her best to irritate me with the brusquerie of her answers.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000058_000003.wav|NOW are you satisfied?"|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000069_000001.wav|Some day I may remind you of that saying, in order to see if you will be as good as your word.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000003.wav|It was clear that from SOMEWHERE money had been acquired.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000018_000005.wav|Also, he was delighted that I should sit next him at table, for he appeared to look upon me as his bosom friend.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000009_000004.wav|He WANTED to do so, but each time was met by me with such a fixed, disrespectful stare that he desisted in confusion.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000013_000003.wav|The rest will be safe in my hands."|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000015_000001.wav|"You are too touchy about these things.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000004_000000.wav|By|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000076_000000.wav|Still, she had charged me with a commission-to win what I could at roulette.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000047_000000.wav|"And why are you yourself so interested in them?" was her retort as she eyed me with dry grimness.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000057_000002.wav|To me it seems at least doubtful that he possesses anything at all."|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000058_000002.wav|Last night the General told me that for certain.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000034_000001.wav|"A very respected ex captain told me the story, and I myself could see the scar left on his cheek."|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000053_000000.wav|"You KNOW he has not," retorted Polina angrily.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000039_000002.wav|We had this from Timothy Petrovitch himself, and he is a reliable person.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000027_000003.wav|After listening politely, but with great reserve, to my account of myself, this sacristan asked me to wait a little.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000013.wav|Hitherto (I concluded) she had looked upon me in the same light that the old Empress did upon her servant-the Empress who hesitated not to unrobe herself before her slave, since she did not account a slave a man.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000018_000001.wav|To think, therefore, that I should suddenly encounter him again here, in Roulettenberg!|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000002.wav|Something had seemed to strike my brain when she told me to go and play roulette.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000042_000000.wav|"Looking for it?"|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000006.wav|Again, therefore, I put to myself the question: "Do I, or do I not love her?" and again I could return myself no answer or, rather, for the hundredth time I told myself that I detested her.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000011_000000.wav|"I have no money for gambling," I quietly replied.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000046_000001.wav|"That Marquis of yours," I said, "--is HE also familiar with your family secrets?"|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000056_000000.wav|"Yes, he is in love with me," she replied.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000000.wav|At length I returned from two weeks leave of absence to find that my patrons had arrived three days ago in Roulettenberg.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000058_000001.wav|He does possess some chateau or other.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000039_000001.wav|In the first place, my grandmother is very ill, and unlikely to last another couple of days.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000005_000000.wav|FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000069_000004.wav|For the time being I want you, so I must keep you."|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000062_000000.wav|"Yes?|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000034_000000.wav|"Nevertheless the incident was as I say," I replied.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000004.wav|I thought I could even detect a certain shamefacedness in the General's glance.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000018_000004.wav|How he had come to make the General's acquaintance I do not know, but, apparently, he was much struck with Polina.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000026_000000.wav|"To spit into it?" the General inquired with grave disapproval in his tone, and a stare, of astonishment, while the Frenchman looked at me unbelievingly.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000016_000003.wav|The passers by stopped to stare at them, for the effect was splendid-the General could not have improved upon it.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000018_000002.wav|Never in my life had I known a more retiring man, for he was shy to the pitch of imbecility, yet well aware of the fact (for he was no fool).|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000046_000000.wav|I answered this question with another one.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000008.wav|Then, without waiting for an answer, she departed.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000009_000000.wav|I was assigned a small room on the fourth floor of the hotel (for you must know that I belonged to the General's suite).|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000002.wav|The General eyed me coldly, greeted me in rather haughty fashion, and dismissed me to pay my respects to his sister.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000076_000001.wav|Yet all the time I could not help wondering WHY it was so necessary for her to win something, and what new schemes could have sprung to birth in her ever fertile brain.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000072_000004.wav|Blanche, with her mother and her cousin, the Marquis, know very well that, as things now stand, we are ruined."|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000027_000000.wav|"Just so," I replied.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000048_000000.wav|"Never mind.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000063_000000.wav|"Is that so?" I repeated.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000003_000000.wav|THE GAMBLER|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000010.wav|Yes, this I knew well.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000010_000000.wav|"I suppose you would like to take them to the Casino to play roulette? Well, excuse my speaking so plainly, but I know how addicted you are to gambling.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000049_000000.wav|"It may be so."|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000032_000001.wav|Why, when they settle here they dare not utter even a word-they are ready even to deny the fact that they are Russians!|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000044_000000.wav|"Yes, I believe that you WILL come in for a good deal," I said with some assurance.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000027_000006.wav|I ventured to remind the good man of my own business also; whereupon, with an expression of, if anything, increased dryness, he again asked me to wait.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000008_000007.wav|Polina Alexandrovna, on seeing me, inquired why I had been so long away.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000029_000002.wav|He looked at me with an air of infinite resentment.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000074_000001.wav|Listen to me.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000027_000010.wav|Upon this the sacristan shrunk back in astonishment.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000074_000002.wav|Take these seven hundred florins, and go and play roulette with them.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26894/4806_26894_000075_000000.wav|So saying, she called Nadia back to her side, and entered the Casino, where she joined the rest of our party.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000008_000000.wav|However, to me personally the scene DID seem to be worth undisguised contemplation-more especially in view of the fact that I had come there not only to look at, but also to number myself sincerely and wholeheartedly with, the mob.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000006.wav|Also, I wonder if any one has EVER approached a gaming table without falling an immediate prey to superstition?|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000008.wav|I had lost!|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000015_000000.wav|I said very seriously, "Yes," and then added: "Possibly my certainty about winning may seem to you ridiculous; yet, pray leave me in peace."|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000011_000003.wav|In his opinion, such conduct would greatly compromise him-especially if I were to lose much.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000000.wav|At first the proceedings were pure Greek to me.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000001_000003.wav|At first glance the scene irritated me.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000004.wav|It was an unpleasant sensation, and I tried hard to banish it.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000001_000002.wav|In fact, it almost upset my balance, and I entered the gaming rooms with an angry feeling at my heart.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000012.wav|Clutching my four hundred gulden, I placed two hundred of them on twelve figures, to see what would come of it.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000002_000007.wav|True, out of a hundred persons, only one can win; yet what business is that of yours or of mine?|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000005_000003.wav|As to the question whether stakes and winnings are, in themselves, immoral is another question altogether, and I wish to express no opinion upon it.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000017_000000.wav|"Well, absurd though it be, I place great hopes on your playing of roulette," she remarked musingly; "wherefore, you ought to play as my partner and on equal shares; wherefore, of course, you will do as I wish."|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000008_000004.wav|Another standard altogether has directed my life....|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000012_000000.wav|"Why not?" she asked excitedly.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000007_000004.wav|At the same time, to stare fixedly about one is unbecoming; for that, again, is ungentlemanly, seeing that no spectacle is worth an open stare-are no spectacles in the world which merit from a gentleman too pronounced an inspection.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000007_000002.wav|Of course, the SUPREMELY aristocratic thing is to be entirely oblivious of the mire of rabble, with its setting; but sometimes a reverse course may be aristocratic to remark, to scan, and even to gape at, the mob (for preference, through a lorgnette), even as though one were taking the crowd and its squalor for a sort of raree show which had been organised specially for a gentleman's diversion.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000002_000001.wav|For one thing, the crowd oppressed me.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000009_000002.wav|As for the crowd itself-well, it consisted mostly of Frenchmen.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000008_000001.wav|As for my secret moral views, I had no room for them amongst my actual, practical opinions.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000001_000005.wav|Those journalists are not paid for doing so: they write thus merely out of a spirit of disinterested complaisance.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000005.wav|I had a feeling that, once I had begun to play for Polina, I should wreck my own fortunes.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000006_000014.wav|Slowly he took out his money bags, and slowly extracted three hundred francs in gold, which he staked on the black, and won.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000007.wav|I began by pulling out fifty gulden, and staking them on "even." The wheel spun and stopped at thirteen.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000002_000004.wav|However ridiculous it may seem to you that I was expecting to win at roulette, I look upon the generally accepted opinion concerning the folly and the grossness of hoping to win at gambling as a thing even more absurd.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000001.wav|I could only divine and distinguish that stakes were hazarded on numbers, on "odd" or "even," and on colours.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000006_000004.wav|Herein, as said, I draw sharp distinctions.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000010_000011.wav|Again I staked the whole sum, and again the red turned up.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4806/26895/4806_26895_000006_000012.wav|In the same way, I saw our General once approach the table in a stolid, important manner.|4806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000019_000003.wav|What might YER name be, Mister?"|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000011_000001.wav|The lower hills were wrapped as in a winding sheet; dank and cold.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000031_000001.wav|"What is it?" he asked.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000029_000002.wav|Will mr Matthews keep me, do you think?"|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000046_000000.wav|As the stranger came in sight of the Lane cabin, a young woman on a brown pony rode out of the gate and up the trail before him; and when the man reached the open ground on the mountain above, and rounded the shoulder of the hill, he saw the pony, far ahead, loping easily along the little path.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000016_000002.wav|The boy looked at the speaker in wide eyed wonder; he had a queer feeling that he was in the presence of a superior being.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000041_000001.wav|Thank you, very much, for your assistance.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000047_000002.wav|In an old tree that leaned far out over the valley, a crow shook the wet from his plumage and dried himself in the warm light; while far below the mists rolled, and on the surface of that gray sea, the traveler saw a company of buzzards, wheeling and circling above some dead thing hidden in its depth.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000022_000000.wav|"Jim Lane lives up the trail 'bout half a quarter.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000039_000000.wav|"I did not cross the river.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000022_000001.wav|Ever hear tell o' Jim?"|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000018_000000.wav|"Where am I trying to get to?" As the man repeated Jed's question, he drew his hand wearily across his brow; "I-I-it doesn't much matter, boy.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000046_000001.wav|A moment he watched, and horse and rider passed from sight.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000039_000001.wav|How far is it to this Matthews place, and how do I go?"|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000012_000002.wav|It was a face marked deeply by pride; pride of birth, of intellect, of culture; the face of a scholar and poet; but it was more-it was the countenance of one fairly staggering under a burden of disappointment and grief.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000040_000000.wav|"Jest foller this Old Trail.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000012_000001.wav|His form stooped a little in the shoulders, perhaps with weariness, but he carried himself with the unconscious air of one long used to a position of conspicuous power and influence; and, while his well kept hair and beard were strongly touched with white, the brown, clear lighted eyes, that looked from under their shaggy brows, told of an intellect unclouded by the shadows of many years.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000008_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000037_000000.wav|Again Jed's question was ignored.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000020_000000.wav|The other, looking back over the way he had come, seemed not to hear Jed's question, and the native continued, "Mine's Holland. Pap an' Mam they come from Tennessee.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000034_000000.wav|"A hant, a ghost, some calls 'em," explained Jed.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000042_000003.wav|I heard tell they're mighty big towns."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000015_000000.wav|The man returned Jed's greeting cordially, and, resting his satchel on a rock beside the narrow path, added, "I am very glad to meet you.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000006_000000.wav|"That all with one consent praise new born gawds, Tho they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er dusted."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000028_000002.wav|You know the Matthews's, I reckon?"|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000021_000002.wav|"Very true, very true, indeed," he mused.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000011_000002.wav|The trees were dripping with moisture.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000041_000002.wav|I will go on, now, for I must hurry, or night will overtake me, and I shall not be able to find the path."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000007_000000.wav|TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000011_000003.wav|The stranger looked tired and wet.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000004_000000.wav|TO FRANCES, MY WIFE|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000015_000001.wav|I fear that I am lost."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000047_000000.wav|The clouds were drifting far away.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000026_000002.wav|Lemme hep you, Mister.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000024_000004.wav|I'll hep you hunt hit, if you want me to, Mister."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000038_000001.wav|They'll take anybody in.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000025_000000.wav|"No," said the other, "I am not looking for mines of lead or zinc; there is greater wealth in these hills and forests, young man."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000037_000001.wav|"You think then that mr Matthews will keep me?"|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000040_000003.wav|'bout three mile, I'd say.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000043_000000.wav|The stranger's only answer was a curt "Good by," as his form vanished in the mist.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000032_000001.wav|"Durned if I know, Mister.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000042_000002.wav|"Reckon you must be from Kansas City or Chicago?|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000018_000002.wav|Do you live near here?"|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000045_000000.wav|Slowly the old man toiled up the mountain; up from the mists of the lower ground to the ridge above; and, as he climbed, unseen by him, a shadowy form flitted from tree to tree in the dim, dripping forest.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000044_000001.wav|Must be from New York, sure!"|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000038_000002.wav|I know they're to home 'cause they was a fixin' t' leave the mill when I left 'bout an hour ago. Was the river up much when you come acrost?" As the native spoke he was still peering uneasily into the woods.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000010_000000.wav|It was corn planting time, when the stranger followed the Old Trail into the Mutton Hollow neighborhood.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000035_000000.wav|The other interrupted.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000019_000001.wav|Hit'll be plumb dark 'gin I git home.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000016_000000.wav|The voice was marvelously pure, deep, and musical, and, like the brown eyes, betrayed the real strength of the man, denied by his gray hair and bent form.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7943/3083_7943_000013_000000.wav|As the stranger walked, he looked searchingly into the mists on every hand, and paused frequently as if questioning the proper course.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000024_000000.wav|Just as the little company were seating themselves at the table, the dog in the yard barked loudly.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000021_000000.wav|When the girl was gone, the big fellow led the horse away to the stable, where he crossed his arms upon the saddle and hid his face from the light.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000012_000001.wav|I'm powerful hungry, though. You'd better put in another pan of corn bread." She turned her pony's head toward the barn.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000029_000000.wav|The grim face of the elder Matthews showed both pleasure and amusement.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000016_000005.wav|What!" And the little shrivelled up old hillsman, who keeps the ferry, removed his cob pipe long enough to reply, with all the emphasis possible to his squeaky voice, "She sure do, Ike. She sure do.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000029_000002.wav|I doubt if there's a man in the hills can match him to day; not excepting Wash Gibbs; an' he's a mighty good boy, too.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000008_000000.wav|Young Matt had not been chopping long when he heard, coming up the hill, the sound of a horse's feet on the Old Trail.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000028_000000.wav|"My name is Howitt, Daniel Howitt," the man said in answer to the host's question.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000016_000001.wav|When all this is written, those who knew Sammy will say, "'tis but a poor picture, for she is something more than all this." Uncle Ike, the postmaster at the Forks, did it much better when he said to "Preachin' Bill," the night of the "Doin's" at the Cove School, "Ba thundas!|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000031_000000.wav|The amused smile left the face of the old mountaineer, as he answered slowly, "There was six boys, sir; this one, Grant, is the youngest.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000004_000001.wav|Fully six feet four inches in height, with big bones, broad shoulders, and mighty muscles.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000032_000003.wav|The boy grew to be a man, and now he has left me." The deep voice faltered.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000027_000000.wav|While Young Matt was gone to the corral in the valley to see that the sheep were safely folded for the night, and the two women were busy in the house with their after supper work, mr Matthews and his guest sat on the front porch.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000019_000002.wav|I reckon she'll get over it alright, though," he added with a smile, as he raised his arms to assist the girl to dismount.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000045_000000.wav|The other shook his head; "I don't know-I don't know, sir; I always said I didn't believe, but some things is mighty queer." He seemed to be shaping his thought for further speech, when again the girl's laugh rang clear along the mountain side.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000023_000000.wav|"Then let's go to the house; Mother called supper some time ago."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000037_000003.wav|You can see a long way from here, of a clear day, Mister."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000035_000002.wav|"This is good for me; it somehow seems to help me know how big God is.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000047_000000.wav|"We've just naturally got to find somebody to stay with them sheep, Dad," said the son; "there ain't nobody there to night, and as near as I can make out there's three ewes and their lambs missing.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000016_000000.wav|But what is the use?|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000051_000000.wav|"Is the work so difficult?" mr Howitt asked.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000022_000000.wav|The elder man laid his hand on the broad shoulder of the lad so like him, and looked full into the clear eyes.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000032_000000.wav|The stranger glanced at the big man's face in quick sympathy.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000050_000002.wav|But with some a stayin' out on the range, an' not comin' in, an' the wolves a gettin' into the corral at night, we'll lose mighty nigh all the profits this year.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000036_000002.wav|I used to feel like you do, but I can't no more.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000033_000000.wav|There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionalities.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000028_000001.wav|But, as he spoke, there was in his manner a touch of embarrassment, and he continued quickly as if to prevent further question, "You have two remarkable children, sir; that boy is the finest specimen of manhood I have ever seen, and the girl is remarkable-remarkable, sir.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000050_000003.wav|The worst of it is, there ain't much show to get a man; unless that one over on Bear Creek will come.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000043_000002.wav|Do you reckon folks ever come back once they're dead and gone?"|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000018_000000.wav|"I've been a lookin' for you over," said Sammy, a teasing light in her eyes.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000012_000000.wav|The other returned with a gay laugh, "I was never sick a minute in my life that anybody ever heard tell.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000019_000001.wav|"Why didn't you tell me before?|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000011_000001.wav|mr Matthews 'lowed maybe you was sick."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000038_000000.wav|"Yes, indeed," replied mr Howitt, in an odd tone.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000014_000000.wav|Operations at the woodpile suddenly ceased and Young Matt was first at the barn yard gate.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000025_000000.wav|CHAPTER three.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000008_000001.wav|The horse stopped at the house and a voice, that stirred the blood in the young man's veins, called, "Howdy, Aunt Mollie."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000005_000001.wav|It was a countenance fearless and frank, but gentle and kind, and the eyes were honest eyes.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000036_000000.wav|The mountaineer puffed hard at his pipe for a while, then said gruffly, "Seems that way, Mister, to them that don't know.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000026_000000.wav|THE VOICE FROM OUT THE MISTS.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000050_000004.wav|I reckon, though, he'll be like the rest." He sat staring gloomily into the night.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000043_000001.wav|Howitt, you've got education; it's easy to see that; I've always wanted to ask somebody like you, do you believe in hants?|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000004_000000.wav|mr Matthews was a giant.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000007_000000.wav|When they reached the big log house that looks down upon the Hollow, the boy went at once with his axe to the woodpile, while the older man busied himself with the milking and other chores about the barn.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000036_000003.wav|They 'mind me now of him that blackened my life; he used to take on powerful about the beauty of the country and all the time he was a turnin' it into a hell for them that had to stay here after he was gone."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000018_000001.wav|"Didn't you know that Mandy was stoppin' with me?|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000044_000000.wav|The man from the city saw that his big host was terribly in earnest, and answered quietly, "No, I do not believe in such things, mr Matthews; but if it should be true, I do not see why we should fear the dead."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000050_000000.wav|"Yes, sir, we do," answered Old Matt.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000045_000001.wav|The young people were returning from the spring.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000042_000001.wav|It was a weird scene, almost supernatural in its beauty.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000034_000000.wav|The mountaineer's companion spoke again half to himself; "I wish that my dear ones had a resting place like that.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000021_000001.wav|mr Matthews coming quietly to the door a few minutes later saw the boy standing there, and the rugged face of the big mountaineer softened at the sight.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000021_000002.wav|Quietly he withdrew to the other side of the barn, to return later when the saddle and bridle had been removed, and the young man stood stroking the pony, as the little horse munched his generous feed of corn.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000039_000000.wav|"You live in the city, then, when you are at home?" asked mr Matthews, looking curiously at his guest.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000016_000003.wav|WHAT!|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000037_000000.wav|As he spoke, anger and hatred grew dark in the giant's face, and the stranger saw the big hands clench and the huge frame grow tense with passion.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000053_000000.wav|mr Howitt was wondering what staying at the ranch nights could have to do with the difficulty, when, up from the valley below, from out the darkness and the mists, came a strange sound; a sound as if someone were singing a song without words.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000006_000000.wav|Anyone meeting the pair, as they walked with the long swinging stride of the mountaineer up the steep mill road that gray afternoon, would have turned for a second look; such men are seldom seen.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000037_000002.wav|It'll fair up by morning, I reckon.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000049_000000.wav|"You find it hard to get help on the ranch?" inquired the stranger.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000041_000000.wav|Old Matt leaned forward in his chair as if to speak again; then paused; someone was coming up the hill; and soon they distinguished the stalwart form of the son.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000046_000000.wav|The mountaineer relighted his pipe, while Young Matt and Sammy seated themselves on the step, and mrs Matthews coming from the house joined the group.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000054_000001.wav|Young Matt rose to his feet and moved closer to the girl, who was also standing.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000035_000000.wav|For some time the stranger sat thus, while his host spoke no word. Then lifting his head, the man looked away over the ridges just touched with the lingering light, and the valley below wrapped in the shadowy mists.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000029_000003.wav|But the girl is a daughter of a neighbor, and no kin at all."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000020_000000.wav|The teasing light vanished as the young woman placed her hands on the powerful shoulders of the giant, and as she felt the play of the swelling muscles that swung her to the ground so easily, her face flushed with admiration.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000053_000001.wav|So wild and weird was the melody; so passionately sweet the voice, it seemed impossible that the music should come from human lips.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000041_000001.wav|Sammy coming from the house with an empty bucket met the young man at the gate, and the two went toward the spring together.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000009_000002.wav|How are you, honey?"|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000022_000001.wav|"Is it alright, son?" he asked gruffly; and the boy answered, as he returned his father's look, "It's alright, Dad."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER two.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000033_000001.wav|As the two men sat in the hush of the coming night, their faces turned toward the somber group of trees, they felt strongly drawn to one another.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000011_000000.wav|"It's about time you was a comin' over," replied the woman in the doorway; "I was a tellin' the menfolks this mornin' that you hadn't been nigh the whole blessed week.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000024_000001.wav|Young Matt went to the door. The stranger, whom Jed had met on the Old Trail, stood at the gate.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000004_000003.wav|And still, throughout the country side, the old folks tell with pride tales of the marvelous feats of strength performed in the days when "Old Matt" was young.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000005_000000.wav|Of the son, "Young Matt," the people called him, it is enough to say that he seemed made of the same metal and cast in the same mold as the father; a mighty frame, softened yet by young manhood's grace; a powerful neck and well poised head with wavy red brown hair; and blue eyes that had in them the calm of summer skies or the glint of battle steel.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000013_000000.wav|"Seems like you are always hungry," laughed the older woman, in return.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000047_000001.wav|There ain't a bit of use in us trying to depend on Pete."|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3083/7944/3083_7944_000031_000001.wav|The others lie over there." He pointed with his pipe to where a clump of pines, not far from the house, showed dark and tall, against the last red glow in the sky.|3083
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000025_000000.wav|As they walked along, Oliver glanced from time to time with much interest and curiosity at the new comer.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000051_000000.wav|'You will tell her I am here?' said Harry.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000053_000001.wav|You will not refuse to do this, mother?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000021_000000.wav|'I think you had better go on to my mother's in the chaise, Giles,' said he.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000056_000000.wav|'Have you shot anything particular, lately, Giles?' inquired the doctor, when he had concluded.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000021_000001.wav|'I would rather walk slowly on, so as to gain a little time before I see her.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000048_000001.wav|God bless you!'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000024_000000.wav|mr Giles, reminded of his unbecoming costume, snatched off and pocketed his nightcap; and substituted a hat, of grave and sober shape, which he took out of the chaise.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000008_000000.wav|As it dashed on, Oliver caught a glimpse of a man in a white nightcap, whose face seemed familiar to him, although his view was so brief that he could not identify the person.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000049_000000.wav|'I shall see you again to night?' said the young man, eagerly.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000039_000000.wav|'Let it rest with Rose, then,' interposed Harry.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty four|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000047_000000.wav|'What do you mean?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000063_000002.wav|At this, the two women servants lifted up their hands and eyes, and supposed that mr Giles, pulling out his shirt frill, replied, 'No, no'; and that if they observed that he was at all haughty to his inferiors, he would thank them to tell him so.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000006_000001.wav|Oliver felt stunned and stupefied by the unexpected intelligence; he could not weep, or speak, or rest.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000045_000000.wav|'How then?' urged the young man.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000022_000001.wav|It wouldn't be proper for the maids to see me in this state, sir; I should never have any more authority with them if they did.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000076_000000.wav|It was but an instant, a glance, a flash, before his eyes; and they were gone.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000017_000001.wav|There is no possibility of any mistake on your part, my boy, is there?' demanded the gentleman in a tremulous voice. 'Do not deceive me, by awakening hopes that are not to be fulfilled.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000032_000000.wav|'I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer,' said mrs Maylie; 'I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000007_000002.wav|Looking round, he saw that it was a post chaise, driven at great speed; and as the horses were galloping, and the road was narrow, he stood leaning against a gate until it should have passed him.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000012_000000.wav|'In a word!' cried the gentleman, 'Better or worse?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000025_000002.wav|Notwithstanding the difference between youth and age, he bore so strong a likeness to the old lady, that Oliver would have had no great difficulty in imagining their relationship, if he had not already spoken of her as his mother.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000015_000000.wav|'Quite, sir,' replied Oliver.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000060_000000.wav|'Well,' said the doctor, 'I am sorry to hear it, because you do that sort of thing admirably.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000068_000000.wav|The little room in which he was accustomed to sit, when busy at his books, was on the ground floor, at the back of the house.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000067_000000.wav|Nor did Oliver's time hang heavy on his hands, although the young lady had not yet left her chamber, and there were no evening walks, save now and then, for a short distance, with mrs Maylie.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000046_000000.wav|'No, indeed,' replied his mother; 'you have, or I mistake, too strong a hold on her affections already.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000039_000001.wav|'You will not press these overstrained opinions of yours, so far, as to throw any obstacle in my way?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000065_000005.wav|Men who look on nature, and their fellow men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000041_000001.wav|I have considered, ever since I have been capable of serious reflection.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000032_000001.wav|If I did not feel this, and know, besides, that a changed behaviour in one she loved would break her heart, I should not feel my task so difficult of performance, or have to encounter so many struggles in my own bosom, when I take what seems to me to be the strict line of duty.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000033_000000.wav|'This is unkind, mother,' said Harry. 'Do you still suppose that I am a boy ignorant of my own mind, and mistaking the impulses of my own soul?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000066_000002.wav|If Oliver were behindhand in these respects, he knew where the best were to be found; and morning after morning they scoured the country together, and brought home the fairest that blossomed.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000060_000001.wav|Pray, how is Brittles?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000015_000001.wav|'The change took place only a few hours ago; and mr Losberne says, that all danger is at an end.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000037_000003.wav|my heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000013_000000.wav|'Better-much better!' replied Oliver, hastily.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000067_000001.wav|He applied himself, with redoubled assiduity, to the instructions of the white headed old gentleman, and laboured so hard that his quick progress surprised even himself.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000035_000000.wav|'Mother,' said the young man, impatiently, 'he would be a selfish brute, unworthy alike of the name of man and of the woman you describe, who acted thus.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000073_000000.wav|'He!' the other man seemed to answer; 'could I mistake him, think you? If a crowd of ghosts were to put themselves into his exact shape, and he stood amongst them, there is something that would tell me how to point him out.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000017_000000.wav|'You are quite certain?|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000070_000000.wav|There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000055_000002.wav|The doctor then communicated, in reply to multifarious questions from his young friend, a precise account of his patient's situation; which was quite as consolatory and full of promise, as Oliver's statement had encouraged him to hope; and to the whole of which, mr Giles, who affected to be busy about the luggage, listened with greedy ears.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000066_000004.wav|Oliver could not help noticing that the withered flowers were never thrown away, although the little vase was regularly replenished; nor, could he help observing, that whenever the doctor came into the garden, he invariably cast his eyes up to that particular corner, and nodded his head most expressively, as he set forth on his morning's walk.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000062_000000.wav|'That's well,' said the doctor.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000055_000001.wav|The former now held out his hand to Harry Maylie; and hearty salutations were exchanged between them.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000066_000003.wav|The window of the young lady's chamber was opened now; for she loved to feel the rich summer air stream in, and revive her with its freshness; but there always stood in water, just inside the lattice, one particular little bunch, which was made up with great care, every morning.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000058_000000.wav|'Nor catching any thieves, nor identifying any house breakers?' said the doctor.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000006_000000.wav|It was almost too much happiness to bear.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000020_000000.wav|All this time, mr Giles, with the white nightcap on, had been sitting on the steps of the chaise, supporting an elbow on each knee, and wiping his eyes with a blue cotton pocket handkerchief dotted with white spots.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000037_000004.wav|I have no thought, no view, no hope in life, beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000021_000002.wav|You can say I am coming.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000025_000001.wav|He seemed about five and twenty years of age, and was of the middle height; his countenance was frank and handsome; and his demeanor easy and prepossessing.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000038_000001.wav|But we have said enough, and more than enough, on this matter, just now.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000052_000000.wav|'Of course,' replied mrs Maylie.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000065_000002.wav|The melancholy which had seemed to the sad eyes of the anxious boy to hang, for days past, over every object, beautiful as all were, was dispelled by magic.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000070_000002.wav|Nor is this, the most striking phenomenon incidental to such a state.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000068_000001.wav|It was quite a cottage room, with a lattice window: around which were clusters of jessamine and honeysuckle, that crept over the casement, and filled the place with their delicious perfume.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000023_000000.wav|'Well,' rejoined Harry Maylie, smiling, 'you can do as you like.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000018_000002.wav|I heard him say so.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000062_000001.wav|'Seeing you here, reminds me, mr Giles, that on the day before that on which I was called away so hurriedly, I executed, at the request of your good mistress, a small commission in your favour.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000068_000002.wav|It looked into a garden, whence a wicket gate opened into a small paddock; all beyond, was fine meadow land and wood.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000076_000001.wav|But they had recognised him, and he them; and their look was as firmly impressed upon his memory, as if it had been deeply carved in stone, and set before him from his birth.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000011_000000.wav|Giles popped out his nightcap again, preparatory to making some reply, when he was suddenly pulled back by a young gentleman who occupied the other corner of the chaise, and who eagerly demanded what was the news.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000037_000002.wav|On Rose, sweet, gentle girl!|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000009_000002.wav|Miss Rose!|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000065_000006.wav|The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000034_000000.wav|'I think, my dear son,' returned mrs Maylie, laying her hand upon his shoulder, 'that youth has many generous impulses which do not last; and that among them are some, which, being gratified, become only the more fleeting.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000009_000000.wav|'Here!' cried the voice.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000041_000002.wav|My feelings remain unchanged, as they ever will; and why should I suffer the pain of a delay in giving them vent, which can be productive of no earthly good?|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000045_000001.wav|'She has formed no other attachment?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000022_000000.wav|'I beg your pardon, mr Harry,' said Giles: giving a final polish to his ruffled countenance with the handkerchief; 'but if you would leave the postboy to say that, I should be very much obliged to you.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000072_000000.wav|'Hush, my dear!' he thought he heard the Jew say; 'it is he, sure enough.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000069_000000.wav|One beautiful evening, when the first shades of twilight were beginning to settle upon the earth, Oliver sat at this window, intent upon his books.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000037_000000.wav|'And ever will!' said the young man.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000008_000001.wav|In another second or two, the nightcap was thrust out of the chaise window, and a stentorian voice bellowed to the driver to stop: which he did, as soon as he could pull up his horses.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000069_000001.wav|He had been poring over them for some time; and, as the day had been uncommonly sultry, and he had exerted himself a great deal, it is no disparagement to the authors, whoever they may have been, to say, that gradually and by slow degrees, he fell asleep.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000057_000000.wav|'Nothing particular, sir,' replied mr Giles, colouring up to the eyes.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000028_000000.wav|'I did,' replied mrs Maylie; 'but, on reflection, I determined to keep back the letter until I had heard mr Losberne's opinion.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000038_000000.wav|'Harry,' said mrs Maylie, 'it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000048_000000.wav|'That I leave you to discover,' replied mrs Maylie. 'I must go back to her.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000018_000000.wav|'I would not for the world, sir,' replied Oliver. 'Indeed you may believe me.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000026_000001.wav|The meeting did not take place without great emotion on both sides.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000026_000000.wav|mrs Maylie was anxiously waiting to receive her son when he reached the cottage.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000068_000003.wav|There was no other dwelling near, in that direction; and the prospect it commanded was very extensive.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000014_000001.wav|'You are sure?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000041_000003.wav|No!|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000024_000001.wav|This done, the postboy drove off; Giles, mr Maylie, and Oliver, followed at their leisure.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000071_000000.wav|Oliver knew, perfectly well, that he was in his own little room; that his books were lying on the table before him; that the sweet air was stirring among the creeping plants outside.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000036_000000.wav|'You think so now, Harry,' replied his mother.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000066_000000.wav|It is worthy of remark, and Oliver did not fail to note it at the time, that his morning expeditions were no longer made alone.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000043_000000.wav|'There is something in your manner, which would almost imply that she will hear me coldly, mother,' said the young man.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000071_000001.wav|And yet he was asleep. Suddenly, the scene changed; the air became close and confined; and he thought, with a glow of terror, that he was in the Jew's house again. There sat the hideous old man, in his accustomed corner, pointing at him, and whispering to another man, with his face averted, who sat beside him.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000063_000003.wav|And then he made a great many other remarks, no less illustrative of his humility, which were received with equal favour and applause, and were, withal, as original and as much to the purpose, as the remarks of great men commonly are.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000040_000000.wav|'I will not,' rejoined mrs Maylie; 'but I would have you consider-'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000066_000005.wav|Pending these observations, the days were flying by; and Rose was rapidly recovering.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129317/114_129317_000014_000000.wav|'Thank Heaven!' exclaimed the gentleman.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000041_000001.wav|'This is great happiness to me, great happiness.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000021_000000.wav|'I believe,' interposed Miss Maylie, 'that at this period of our interview, I need not give that gentleman the trouble of going away. If I am correctly informed, he is cognizant of the business on which I wish to speak to you.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000011_000001.wav|'But what is this?--of whom do you speak?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000069_000002.wav|That can only be done by stratagem, and by catching him when he is not surrounded by these people.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000078_000000.wav|'We stay in town, of course,' said mrs Maylie, 'while there remains the slightest prospect of prosecuting this inquiry with a chance of success.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000045_000001.wav|'Don't be afraid.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000020_000002.wav|Grimwig, will you leave us for a few minutes?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000077_000000.wav|Rose blushed deeply, but she did not make any audible objection to this motion (possibly she felt in a hopeless minority); and Harry Maylie and mr Grimwig were accordingly added to the committee.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000056_000000.wav|Leaving her and Oliver to compare notes at leisure, mr Brownlow led the way into another room; and there, heard from Rose a full narration of her interview with Nancy, which occasioned him no little surprise and perplexity.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000046_000000.wav|In fact, as he threw himself at one dexterous dive into his former seat, mr Brownlow returned, accompanied by Oliver, whom mr Grimwig received very graciously; and if the gratification of that moment had been the only reward for all her anxiety and care in Oliver's behalf, Rose Maylie would have been well repaid.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000014_000002.wav|But Giles asked, for me, whether he lived there, and they said he did.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000059_000000.wav|'Not exactly that,' rejoined mr Brownlow, laughing; 'but we must proceed gently and with great care.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000079_000002.wav|Believe me, I make this request with good reason, for I might otherwise excite hopes destined never to be realised, and only increase difficulties and disappointments already quite numerous enough.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000064_000000.wav|'Ah!' said mr Losberne, cooling himself with his pocket handkerchief; 'I almost forgot that.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000043_000000.wav|'At this door!' cried the old gentleman.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000035_000000.wav|'He'll eat his head, if he doesn't,' growled mr Grimwig.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000071_000001.wav|'The promise shall be kept.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000012_000001.wav|Brownlow, that we have so often talked about.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000003_000001.wav|While she felt the most eager and burning desire to penetrate the mystery in which Oliver's history was enveloped, she could not but hold sacred the confidence which the miserable woman with whom she had just conversed, had reposed in her, as a young and guileless girl.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000016_000003.wav|I will only tell my aunt that we are going out for an hour, and be ready as soon as you are.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000055_000001.wav|'How well he looks, and how like a gentleman's son he is dressed again!|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000044_000000.wav|When the room door closed behind him, mr Grimwig lifted up his head, and converting one of the hind legs of his chair into a pivot, described three distinct circles with the assistance of his stick and the table; sitting in it all the time.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000019_000000.wav|'mr Brownlow, I believe, sir?' said Rose, glancing from the other gentleman to the one who had spoken.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000058_000001.wav|'Are we to pass a vote of thanks to all these vagabonds, male and female, and beg them to accept a hundred pounds, or so, apiece, as a trifling mark of our esteem, and some slight acknowledgment of their kindness to Oliver?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000018_000000.wav|'Dear me,' said the gentleman, in the bottle green coat, hastily rising with great politeness, 'I beg your pardon, young lady-I imagined it was some importunate person who-I beg you will excuse me.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000016_000002.wav|I will take you there directly, without a minute's loss of time.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000008_000000.wav|She had taken up the same pen, and laid it down again fifty times, and had considered and reconsidered the first line of her letter without writing the first word, when Oliver, who had been walking in the streets, with mr Giles for a body guard, entered the room in such breathless haste and violent agitation, as seemed to betoken some new cause of alarm.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000057_000000.wav|Rose had by no means overrated the measure of the good doctor's wrath. Nancy's history was no sooner unfolded to him, than he poured forth a shower of mingled threats and execrations; threatened to make her the first victim of the combined ingenuity of Messrs.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000022_000001.wav|mr Grimwig, who had made one very stiff bow, and risen from his chair, made another very stiff bow, and dropped into it again.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000005_000000.wav|mr Losberne was with them, and would be for the next two days; but Rose was too well acquainted with the excellent gentleman's impetuosity, and foresaw too clearly the wrath with which, in the first explosion of his indignation, he would regard the instrument of Oliver's recapture, to trust him with the secret, when her representations in the girl's behalf could be seconded by no experienced person.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000040_000000.wav|Rose, who had had time to collect her thoughts, at once related, in a few natural words, all that had befallen Oliver since he left mr Brownlow's house; reserving Nancy's information for that gentleman's private ear, and concluding with the assurance that his only sorrow, for some months past, had been not being able to meet with his former benefactor and friend.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000061_000000.wav|'Never mind where,' interposed mr Brownlow. 'But reflect whether sending them anywhere is likely to attain the object we have in view.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000020_000000.wav|'That is my name,' said the old gentleman.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000057_000002.wav|And, doubtless, he would, in this first outbreak, have carried the intention into effect without a moment's consideration of the consequences, if he had not been restrained, in part, by corresponding violence on the side of mr Brownlow, who was himself of an irascible temperament, and party by such arguments and representations as seemed best calculated to dissuade him from his hotbrained purpose.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000004_000003.wav|Or how could she postpone the journey without exciting suspicion?|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000050_000001.wav|'People's eyes, at my time of life, don't improve with age, sir.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000065_000000.wav|'You see,' pursued mr Brownlow; 'placing this poor girl entirely out of the question, and supposing it were possible to bring these scoundrels to justice without compromising her safety, what good should we bring about?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000056_000002.wav|The old gentleman considered that she had acted prudently, and readily undertook to hold solemn conference with the worthy doctor himself.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000066_000000.wav|'Hanging a few of them at least, in all probability,' suggested the doctor, 'and transporting the rest.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000045_000004.wav|Here they are!'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000011_000000.wav|'I never thought you had told us anything but the truth,' said Rose, soothing him.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000052_000000.wav|The old lady began to rummage in her pocket for her spectacles.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000048_000000.wav|The old housekeeper answered the summons with all dispatch; and dropping a curtsey at the door, waited for orders.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000004_000001.wav|It was now midnight of the first day.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000074_000000.wav|'I have no objection to your calling in your friend if I may call in mine,' said the doctor.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000078_000001.wav|I will spare neither trouble nor expense in behalf of the object in which we are all so deeply interested, and I am content to remain here, if it be for twelve months, so long as you assure me that any hope remains.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000080_000000.wav|With these words, the old gentleman gave his hand to mrs Maylie, and escorted her into the supper room.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000023_000000.wav|'I shall surprise you very much, I have no doubt,' said Rose, naturally embarrassed; 'but you once showed great benevolence and goodness to a very dear young friend of mine, and I am sure you will take an interest in hearing of him again.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000072_000000.wav|Although mr Losberne received with many wry faces a proposal involving a delay of five whole days, he was fain to admit that no better course occurred to him just then; and as both Rose and mrs Maylie sided very strongly with mr Brownlow, that gentleman's proposition was carried unanimously.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000071_000005.wav|I would suggest that in the meantime, we remain perfectly quiet, and keep these matters secret even from Oliver himself.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000050_000000.wav|'Well, that I do, sir,' replied the old lady.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000018_000001.wav|Be seated, pray.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000002_000000.wav|CONTAINING FRESH DISCOVERIES, AND SHOWING THAT SUPRISES, LIKE MISFORTUNES, SELDOM COME ALONE|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000032_000000.wav|'Do not heed my friend, Miss Maylie,' said mr Brownlow; 'he does not mean what he says.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000017_000002.wav|The servant soon returned, to beg that she would walk upstairs; and following him into an upper room, Miss Maylie was presented to an elderly gentleman of benevolent appearance, in a bottle green coat.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000017_000001.wav|When they arrived there, Rose left Oliver in the coach, under pretence of preparing the old gentleman to receive him; and sending up her card by the servant, requested to see mr Brownlow on very pressing business.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000060_000000.wav|'Gentleness and care,' exclaimed the doctor.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000015_000001.wav|She very soon determined upon turning the discovery to account.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000069_000003.wav|For, suppose he were apprehended, we have no proof against him.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000014_000004.wav|Oh, dear me, dear me!|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000038_000000.wav|Having gone thus far, the two old gentlemen severally took snuff, and afterwards shook hands, according to their invariable custom.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000027_000001.wav|He drew his chair nearer to Miss Maylie's, and said,|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000005_000002.wav|As to resorting to any legal adviser, even if she had known how to do so, it was scarcely to be thought of, for the same reason.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000013_000000.wav|'Where?' asked Rose.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000010_000001.wav|To think that I should see him at last, and you should be able to know that I have told you the truth!'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000041_000000.wav|'Thank God!' said the old gentleman.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000069_000005.wav|If he were not discharged, it is very unlikely that he could receive any further punishment than being committed to prison as a rogue and vagabond; and of course ever afterwards his mouth would be so obstinately closed that he might as well, for our purposes, be deaf, dumb, blind, and an idiot.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000005_000001.wav|These were all reasons for the greatest caution and most circumspect behaviour in communicating it to mrs Maylie, whose first impulse would infallibly be to hold a conference with the worthy doctor on the subject.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000016_000001.wav|'Tell them to fetch a hackney coach, and be ready to go with me.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000049_000000.wav|'Why, you get blinder every day, Bedwin,' said mr Brownlow, rather testily.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000069_000004.wav|He is not even (so far as we know, or as the facts appear to us) concerned with the gang in any of their robberies.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000017_000000.wav|Oliver needed no prompting to despatch, and in little more than five minutes they were on their way to Craven Street.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000014_000001.wav|I didn't speak to him-I couldn't speak to him, for he didn't see me, and I trembled so, that I was not able to go up to him.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000047_000001.wav|'Send mrs Bedwin here, if you please.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000063_000000.wav|'Simply, the discovery of Oliver's parentage, and regaining for him the inheritance of which, if this story be true, he has been fraudulently deprived.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000009_000000.wav|'What makes you look so flurried?' asked Rose, advancing to meet him.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000041_000002.wav|But you have not told me where he is now, Miss Maylie.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000045_000002.wav|I'm old enough to be your grandfather. You're a sweet girl.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000003_000002.wav|Her words and manner had touched Rose Maylie's heart; and, mingled with her love for her young charge, and scarcely less intense in its truth and fervour, was her fond wish to win the outcast back to repentance and hope.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000006_000000.wav|Disturbed by these different reflections; inclining now to one course and then to another, and again recoiling from all, as each successive consideration presented itself to her mind; Rose passed a sleepless and anxious night.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000031_000001.wav|'And, as the devil's in it if this Oliver is not twelve years old at least, I don't see the application of that remark.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000030_000000.wav|'He is a child of a noble nature and a warm heart,' said Rose, colouring; 'and that Power which has thought fit to try him beyond his years, has planted in his breast affections and feelings which would do honour to many who have numbered his days six times over.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000054_000000.wav|'My dear old nurse!' cried Oliver.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000045_000003.wav|I like you.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000004_000000.wav|They purposed remaining in London only three days, prior to departing for some weeks to a distant part of the coast.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000057_000001.wav|Blathers and Duff; and actually put on his hat preparatory to sallying forth to obtain the assistance of those worthies.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000024_000000.wav|'Indeed!' said mr Brownlow.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000075_000000.wav|'We must put it to the vote,' replied mr Brownlow, 'who may he be?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000044_000001.wav|After performing this evolution, he rose and limped as fast as he could up and down the room at least a dozen times, and then stopping suddenly before Rose, kissed her without the slightest preface.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000052_000001.wav|But Oliver's patience was not proof against this new trial; and yielding to his first impulse, he sprang into her arms.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000071_000002.wav|I don't think it will, in the slightest degree, interfere with our proceedings.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000020_000001.wav|'This is my friend, mr Grimwig.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000034_000000.wav|'No, he does not,' said mr Brownlow, obviously rising in wrath as he spoke.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000079_000003.wav|Come! Supper has been announced, and young Oliver, who is all alone in the next room, will have begun to think, by this time, that we have wearied of his company, and entered into some dark conspiracy to thrust him forth upon the world.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000056_000004.wav|These preliminaries adjusted, Rose and Oliver returned home.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000037_000000.wav|'And he'd uncommonly like to see any man offer to do it,' responded mr Grimwig, knocking his stick upon the floor.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000079_000000.wav|'Good!' rejoined mr Brownlow.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000007_000000.wav|'If it be painful to him,' she thought, 'to come back here, how painful it will be to me!|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000036_000000.wav|'He would deserve to have it knocked off, if he does,' said mr Brownlow.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000056_000003.wav|To afford him an early opportunity for the execution of this design, it was arranged that he should call at the hotel at eight o'clock that evening, and that in the meantime mrs Maylie should be cautiously informed of all that had occurred.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000028_000000.wav|'Do me the favour, my dear young lady, to leave entirely out of the question that goodness and benevolence of which you speak, and of which nobody else knows anything; and if you have it in your power to produce any evidence which will alter the unfavourable opinion I was once induced to entertain of that poor child, in Heaven's name put me in possession of it.'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000025_000000.wav|'Oliver Twist you knew him as,' replied Rose.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000047_000000.wav|'There is somebody else who should not be forgotten, by the bye,' said mr Brownlow, ringing the bell.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000012_000000.wav|'I have seen the gentleman,' replied Oliver, scarcely able to articulate, 'the gentleman who was so good to me-mr|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000014_000005.wav|What shall I do when I come to see him and hear him speak again!'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000033_000000.wav|'Yes, he does,' growled mr Grimwig.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000053_000000.wav|'God be good to me!' cried the old lady, embracing him; 'it is my innocent boy!'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000073_000000.wav|'I should like,' he said, 'to call in the aid of my friend Grimwig.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000017_000003.wav|At no great distance from whom, was seated another old gentleman, in nankeen breeches and gaiters; who did not look particularly benevolent, and who was sitting with his hands clasped on the top of a thick stick, and his chin propped thereupon.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000051_000000.wav|'I could have told you that,' rejoined mr Brownlow; 'but put on your glasses, and see if you can't find out what you were wanted for, will you?'|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000014_000000.wav|'Getting out of a coach,' replied Oliver, shedding tears of delight, 'and going into a house.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000010_000000.wav|'I hardly know how; I feel as if I should be choked,' replied the boy. 'Oh dear!|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000004_000002.wav|What course of action could she determine upon, which could be adopted in eight and forty hours?|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000062_000000.wav|'What object?' asked the doctor.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000055_000000.wav|'He would come back-I knew he would,' said the old lady, holding him in her arms.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000043_000001.wav|With which he hurried out of the room, down the stairs, up the coachsteps, and into the coach, without another word.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000031_000000.wav|'I'm only sixty one,' said mr Grimwig, with the same rigid face.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000007_000001.wav|But perhaps he will not come; he may write, or he may come himself, and studiously abstain from meeting me-he did when he went away.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000068_000000.wav|'How?' inquired the doctor.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/114/129324/114_129324_000016_000000.wav|'Quick!' she said.|114
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000029_000000.wav|"Greeting to you, fair sir," said the boy, looking up with eager eyes at the knight on his splendid horse, that stood so still when the knight bade it.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000018_000001.wav|He was a merry little fellow, with long fair curls and rosy cheeks; and when he saw the fine horses he clapped his hands with delight.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000043_000000.wav|"I have found a child whom you must see," he said, as soon as they came together.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000017_000001.wav|"You must hear him talk!|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000030_000000.wav|"What is your name?" asked the knight.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000061_000002.wav|Then they rode slowly, for they were sad because of their news; but the king rejoiced when he heard it, for he said: "Such a child, with such a mother, will grow into a knight at home."|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000001_000000.wav|MOTTO FOR THE MOTHER|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000063_000000.wav|Gauvain had a beautiful name of his own then, for he was called "Gauvain the Good"; and he was brave, happy, kind, pure, and true.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000018_000000.wav|So the knights followed him; and when they had reached the castle, Florimond ran to meet them.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000062_000000.wav|The king's words were true; for when the king was an old, old man, Gauvain rode to his court and was knighted.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000051_000000.wav|"I saw a lad at the spring near by," said Percival the Pure.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000017_000000.wav|"Oh! there is nothing he cannot do," cried the fat little man whose name was Puff.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000022_000001.wav|The baron and baroness and fat little Puff all begged them to stay, and Florimond cried again when they left him; but the knights did not care to stay with a child who was not good.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000050_000001.wav|I tarried all night at her cottage, and she told me of his kindness."|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000007_000000.wav|Sir Kenneth the Kind was the third knight, and he won his name by his tender heart.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000047_000000.wav|"And I," said Percival the Pure; and they looked at each other in astonishment.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000061_000001.wav|All day and all night they rode, and it was the peep of day when they came to the king's highway.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000041_000000.wav|Sir Tristram was so glad of this that he could scarcely wait for the time to come when he should meet his comrades under the oak tree.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000048_000000.wav|"I do not know the child's name," continued Gerald the Glad; "but as I was riding in the forest I heard some one singing the merriest song!|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000005_000001.wav|He had killed the great lion that came out of the forest to frighten the women and children, had slain a dragon, and had saved a princess from a burning castle; for he was afraid of nothing under the sun|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000014_000001.wav|Some of the parents said that their sons were beautiful; some said theirs were smart; but as the knights cared nothing for a child who was not good, they did not hurry to see these children.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000049_000000.wav|"I rode by the highway," said Sir Brian the Brave, "and I came suddenly upon a crowd of great, rough fellows who were trying to torment a small black dog; and just as I saw them, a little boy ran up, as brave as a knight, and took the dog in his arms, and covered it with his coat.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000058_000000.wav|Little Gauvain and his mother were greatly astonished.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000017_000002.wav|You must see him walk!"|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000057_000001.wav|The king, our wise ruler, has sent us here to see your good child; for a good child is more precious than a kingdom.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000057_000000.wav|"Greeting to you!|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000049_000001.wav|The rest ran away when I rode up; but the child stayed, and told me his name-Gauvain."|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000035_000000.wav|When they came there the little dog ran out to meet them, and the cat rubbed up against Gauvain, and the mother called from the kitchen:--|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000011_000001.wav|Only a good child can be chosen.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000016_000000.wav|He was a fat little man, with a fat little voice; and he told the knights that he had come to invite them to the castle of the Baron Borribald, whose son Florimond was the most wonderful child in the world.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000024_000000.wav|North, south, east, and west, they searched; and at last, one afternoon, they halted under an oak tree, to talk, and they decided to part company.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000053_000000.wav|"Come, and I will carry you to the child!" And when the knights followed him, he led them to the home where little Gauvain was working with his mother, as happy as a lark and as gentle as a dove.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000022_000000.wav|Then the knights saw that they were not wanted, and they hurried upstairs to prepare for their journey.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000045_000000.wav|"And I," exclaimed Kenneth the Kind.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000009_000000.wav|Tristram the True was the last knight, and he was leader of them all.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000006_000000.wav|The second knight was Gerald the Glad, who was so happy himself that he made everybody around him happy too; for his sweet smile and cheery words were so comforting that none could be sad or cross or angry when he was near.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000021_000000.wav|His mamma and papa were begging him to be quiet.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000008_000001.wav|He thought beautiful thoughts, said beautiful words, and did beautiful deeds, for he kept his whole life as lovely as a garden full of flowers without a single weed.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000005_000000.wav|The first knight was called Sir Brian the Brave.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000010_000000.wav|The king of the country trusted these five knights; and one morning in the early spring time he called them to him and said:--|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000008_000000.wav|The fourth knight had a face as beautiful as his name, and he was called Percival the Pure.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000018_000002.wav|The baron and baroness, too, were well pleased with their visitors, and made a feast in their honor; but early the next morning, the knights were startled by a most awful sound which seemed to come from the hall below.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000057_000002.wav|And the king offers him his love and favor if you will let him ride with us to live at the king's court and learn to be a knight."|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000014_000000.wav|The parents' messages were so full of praises of their children that the knights scarcely knew where to go.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000028_000000.wav|"Greeting to you, little boy," said he.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000032_000000.wav|"And can you prove a trusty guide, little Gauvain, and lead me to a pleasant place where I may rest to night?" asked the knight.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000019_000001.wav|It sounded something like the howling of a dog; but as they listened, it grew louder and louder, until it sounded like the roaring of a lion.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000007_000001.wav|Even the creatures of the wood knew and loved him, for he never hurt anything that God had made.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000011_000002.wav|A good child is worth more than a kingdom.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000011_000000.wav|"My trusty knights, I am growing old, and I long to see in my kingdom many knights like you to take care of my people; and so I will send you through all my kingdom to choose for me a little boy who may live at my court and learn from you those things which a knight must know.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000046_000000.wav|"And I," said Brian the Brave.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000060_000001.wav|The king's love is precious; but I love my child more than the whole world, and he is dearer to me than a thousand kingdoms."|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000015_000000.wav|On the second day, however, as they rode along, they met a company of men in very fine clothes, who bowed down before them; and while the knights drew rein in astonishment, a little man stepped in front of the others to speak to them.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000012_000000.wav|Now the knights were well pleased with the words of the king, and at the first peep of day they were ready for their journey, and rode down the king's highway with waving plumes and shining shields.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000060_000000.wav|"I cannot spare my good child from my home.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000036_000000.wav|"Is that my sunbeam coming home to roost?" which made Gauvain and the knight both laugh.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/117866/8011_117866_000011_000003.wav|And when you have found him, bring him, if he will come willingly, to me, and I shall be happy in my old age."|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000025_000000.wav|His honesty, good faith, and simplicity were generally acknowledged, and disarmed the political rancor of the strongest opponents.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000025_000002.wav|In person, Monroe was tall and well formed, with light complexion and blue eyes.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000002_000000.wav|In early youthhood Monroe received a good education, but left school to join the army and soon after was commissioned a lieutenant.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000025_000001.wav|Madison thought the country had never fully appreciated the robust understanding of Monroe.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000018_000000.wav|On this tour he wore the undress uniform of a continental officer.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000002_000001.wav|He took an active part in the campaign on the Hudson, and in the attack on Trenton, at the head of a small detachment, he captured one of the British batteries.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000011_000001.wav|In the midst of these negotiations he was directed to proceed to Madrid as Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to adjust the difficulties between the United States and Spain, in relation to the boundaries of the new purchase of Louisiana.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000006_000001.wav|In seventeen eighty five he married a daughter of peter Kortright, a lady of refinement and culture.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000002_000002.wav|On this occasion he received a ball in the shoulder, and was promoted to a captaincy.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000012_000001.wav|Monroe believed that the rejection of the treaty and the predilection expressed for his rival indicated hostility on the part of the retiring President, and a correspondence on the subject ensued.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000007_000003.wav|In the Senate he became a strong representative of the anti Federal party, and acted with it until his term expired in seventeen ninety four.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000003_000000.wav|Leaving the army, he returned to Virginia and commenced the study of law under Thomas Jefferson, then Governor of the State.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000024_000002.wav|He encouraged the army, increased the navy, augmented the national defences, protected commerce, approved of the United States Bank, and infused vigor into every department of the public service.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000005_000000.wav|The resolution was referred to a committee of which he was chairman, and a report was made in favor of the measure.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000000_000000.wav|james MONROE.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000001_000001.wav|Another strange incident:--Within sight of Blue Ridge in Virginia, lived three presidents of the United States, whose public career commenced in the revolutionary times and whose political faith was the same throughout a long series of years.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000001_000002.wav|These were Thomas Jefferson, james Madison and james Monroe.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000011_000003.wav|On the last day of that year a treaty was concluded, but because of the omission of any provision against the impressment of seamen, and its doubtfulness in relation to other leading points the president sent it back for revisal.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000015_000000.wav|His attention was also directed to the defence of New Orleans, and finding the public credit completely prostrated, he pledged his private means as subsidary to the credit of the Government, and enabled the city to successfully oppose the forces of the enemy.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000002_000003.wav|As aide de camp to Lord Sterling, with the rank of major, he served in the campaign of seventeen seventy seven and seventeen seventy eight, and distinguished himself in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000023_000000.wav|Although Monroe had received three hundred fifty thousand dollars for his public services alone, he was greatly harrassed with creditors toward the latter part of his life. Toward the last he made his home with his son in law, Samuel l Gouverneur of New York city, where he was originally buried, but in eighteen thirty he was removed to Richmond with great pomp and re interred in Holleywood Cemetery.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000022_000000.wav|He was chosen a justice of the peace, and as such sat in the county court.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000012_000000.wav|The time was approaching for the election of a president, and a considerable body of the Republican party had brought Monroe forward as their candidate, but the preference of Jefferson for Madison was well known and of course had its influence.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000016_000000.wav|In that year he succeeded to the Presidency himself, by an electoral vote of one hundred eighty three out of two hundred seventeen, as the candidate of the party now generally known as Democratic.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000001_000000.wav|The fifth president of the United States was a native of the grand Old Dominion, being born in Westmoreland county virginia, april twenty eighth seventeen fifty eight. Like his predecessor, Madison, he was the son of a planter.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000003_000001.wav|When the British appeared soon afterward in the State, Monroe exerted himself to the utmost in organizing the militia of the lower counties; and when the enemy proceeded southward, Jefferson sent him as military commissioner to the army in South Carolina.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/111754/8011_111754_000022_000001.wav|In eighteen twenty nine he became a member of the Virginia convention to revise the constitution, and was chosen to preside over the deliberations of that body but he was obliged, on account of ill health, to resign his position in that body and return to his home.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000007_000000.wav|"Nonsense, nonsense!|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000015_000003.wav|I walked away, looking back almost at every tenth step.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000011.wav|Some people are.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000014_000000.wav|"Well, I will go then," I said, looking at him timidly and inquiringly.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000019_000000.wav|I met m again that evening.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000010_000001.wav|Cross yourself!"|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000000.wav|Gradually I sank into forgetfulness and by degrees was lost in memories. During the whole course of my four years in prison I was continually recalling all my past, and seemed to live over again the whole of my life in recollection.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000004.wav|This was the second day of the "holidays" in the prison; the convicts were not taken out to work, there were numbers of men drunk, loud abuse and quarrelling was springing up continually in every corner.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000011.wav|Nut sticks make such fine whips, but they do not last; while birch twigs are just the opposite.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000002.wav|I sauntered behind the prison barracks.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000018_000001.wav|I walked about, looking into the faces that I met. That shaven peasant, branded on his face as a criminal, bawling his hoarse, drunken song, may be that very Marey; I cannot look into his heart.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000004_000000.wav|He flung up his head, and could not help looking round for an instant, almost believing me.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000007_000005.wav|He looked at me with an uneasy smile, evidently anxious and troubled over me.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000011_000000.wav|But I did not cross myself.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000006.wav|Of course any one would have reassured a child, but something quite different seemed to have happened in that solitary meeting; and if I had been his own son, he could not have looked at me with eyes shining with greater love.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000012_000001.wav|There; come, come!"|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000001.wav|These memories rose up of themselves, it was not often that of my own will I summoned them.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000002.wav|And in fact I soon forgot Marey.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000008.wav|And indeed I could never endure without repulsion the noise and disorder of drunken people, and especially in this place.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000002_000003.wav|He stopped his horse on hearing my cry, and when, breathless, I caught with one hand at his plough and with the other at his sleeve, he saw how frightened I was.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000015_000006.wav|With Voltchok I felt quite safe, and I turned round to Marey for the last time; I could not see his face distinctly, but I felt that he was still nodding and smiling affectionately to me.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000010.wav|I was busy, too; I was breaking off switches from the nut trees to whip the frogs with.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000005.wav|I remembered the month of August in our country house: a dry bright day but rather cold and windy; summer was waning and soon we should have to go to Moscow to be bored all the winter over French lessons, and I was so sorry to leave the country.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000016_000001.wav|I suddenly roused myself and sat up on the platform bed, and, I remember, found myself still smiling quietly at my memories.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000008.wav|He was our serf and I was his little master, after all.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000003.wav|When I met him now and then afterwards, I never even spoke to him about the wolf or anything else; and all at once now, twenty years afterwards in Siberia, I remembered this meeting with such distinctness to the smallest detail.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000007_000001.wav|A wolf?|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000016_000000.wav|All this I recalled all at once, I don't know why, but with extraordinary minuteness of detail.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000002_000000.wav|It was our peasant Marey.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000007.wav|And I plunged right into the midst of the bushes, and heard a peasant ploughing alone on the clearing about thirty paces away.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000018.wav|But why describe my impressions; I sometimes dream even now of those times at night, and I have no dreams more agonising.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000007_000003.wav|How could there be a wolf?" he muttered, reassuring me.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000013_000001.wav|Yet that shout had been so clear and distinct, but such shouts (not only about wolves) I had imagined once or twice before, and I was aware of that. (These hallucinations passed away later as I grew older.)|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000001.wav|And indeed it was hardly an adventure.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000011_000002.wav|He put out his thick, black nailed, earth stained finger and softly touched my twitching lips.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000014.wav|There were not many mushrooms there.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000012.wav|I was interested, too, in beetles and other insects; I used to collect them, some were very ornamental.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000011_000001.wav|The corners of my mouth were twitching, and I think that struck him particularly.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000007_000002.wav|Why, it was your fancy!|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000007_000004.wav|But I was trembling all over, and still kept tight hold of his smock frock, and I must have been quite pale.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000015_000002.wav|Come, run along then," and he made the sign of the cross over me and then over himself.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000008.wav|I knew that he was ploughing up the steep hill and the horse was moving with effort, and from time to time the peasant's call "come up!" floated upwards to me.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000003.wav|I used to analyse these impressions, give new features to what had happened long ago, and best of all, I used to correct it, correct it continually, that was my great amusement.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000007.wav|And what made him like that?|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000015_000000.wav|"Well, do, and I'll keep watch on you as you go.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000003_000000.wav|"There is a wolf!" I cried, panting.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000002_000001.wav|I don't know if there is such a name, but every one called him Marey-a thick set, rather well grown peasant of fifty, with a good many grey hairs in his dark brown, spreading beard.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000016_000002.wav|I brooded over them for another minute.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000014.wav|Now on returning I noticed on the bed in the furthest corner of the room Gazin lying unconscious, almost without sign of life.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000020.wav|I may add by the way that since then, very many persons have supposed, and even now maintain, that I was sent to penal servitude for the murder of my wife.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000007.wav|For these two days of holiday all this had been torturing me till it made me ill.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000010.wav|Was he, perhaps, very fond of little children?|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000000.wav|It was the second day in Easter week.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000009.wav|I knew almost all our peasants, but I did not know which it was ploughing now, and I did not care who it was, I was absorbed in my own affairs.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000009.wav|No one would know that he had been kind to me and reward him for it.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000000_000010.wav|At last a sudden fury flamed up in my heart.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000006.wav|I walked past the threshing floor and, going down the ravine, I went up to the dense thicket of bushes that covered the further side of the ravine as far as the copse.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000005_000000.wav|"Where is the wolf?"|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000017_000000.wav|When I got home that day I told no one of my "adventure" with Marey.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000001_000002.wav|It would begin from some point, some little thing, at times unnoticed, and then by degrees there would rise up a complete picture, some vivid and complete impression.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000009_000000.wav|He stretched out his hand, and all at once stroked my cheek.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000006_000000.wav|"A shout ... some one shouted: 'wolf' ..." I faltered out.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/280922/8011_280922_000008_000001.wav|"There, dear....|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000010_000002.wav|Shortly after the Peach War however, a restless spirit was observed among the New Amsterdammers, who began to cast wistful looks upon the wild lands of their Indian neighbors; for somehow or other wild Indian land always looks greener in the eyes of settlers than the land they occupy.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000010_000003.wav|It is hinted that Oloffe the Dreamer encouraged these notions; having, as has been shown, the inherent spirit of a land speculator, which had been wonderfully quickened and expanded since he had become a landholder.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000012_000000.wav|What was the consequence of these exploring expeditions?|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000006_000002.wav|The hunter still pitched his bower of skins and bark beside the rills that ran through the cool and shady glens, while here and there might be seen, on some sunny knoll, a group of Indian wigwams whose smoke arose above the neighboring trees, and floated in the transparent atmosphere.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000006_000001.wav|Hordes of painted savages, it is true, still lurked about the unsettled parts of the island.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000001_000000.wav|There is something exceedingly delusive in thus looking back, through the long vista of departed years, and catching a glimpse of the fairy realms of antiquity.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000002_000003.wav|I do not think poor human nature so sorry a piece of workmanship as they would make it out to be; and as far as I have observed, I am fully satisfied that man, if left to himself, would about as readily go right as wrong.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000011_000000.wav|The result of these dreams were certain exploring expeditions sent forth in various directions to "sow the seeds of empire," as it was said.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000011_000002.wav|He was accompanied by Mynheer Ten Breeches, as land measurer, in case of any dispute with the Indians.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000001_000001.wav|Like a landscape melting into distance, they receive a thousand charms from their very obscurity, and the fancy delights to fill up their outlines with graces and excellences of its own creation.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000005_000002.wav|As however, in spite of the most diligent search, I cannot lay my hands upon this little book, I must confess that I entertain considerable doubt on the subject.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000003_000001.wav|Thus, having quietly settled themselves down, and provided for their own comfort, they bethought themselves of testifying their gratitude to the great and good saint Nicholas, for his protecting care in guiding them to this delectable abode.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000006_000003.wav|A mutual good will, however, existed between these wandering beings and the burghers of New Amsterdam.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000014_000000.wav|But as this opens a new era in the fortunes of New Amsterdam I will here put an end to this second book of my history, and will treat of the maternal policy of the mother country in my next.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000010_000000.wav|I know not whether it was to this "Peach War," and the acquisitions of Indian land which may have grown out of it, that we may ascribe the first seeds of the spirit of "annexation" which now began to manifest themselves.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000006_000000.wav|Thus benignly fostered by the good saint Nicholas, the infant city thrived apace.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000003_000002.wav|To this end they built a fair and goodly chapel within the fort, which they consecrated to his name; whereupon he immediately took the town of New Amsterdam under his peculiar patronage, and he has even since been, and I devoutly hope will ever be, the tutelar saint of this excellent city.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000004_000000.wav|At this early period was instituted that pious ceremony, still religiously observed in all our ancient families of the right breed, of hanging up a stocking in the chimney on saint Nicholas Eve; which stocking is always found in the morning miraculously filled; for the good saint Nicholas has ever been a great giver of gifts, particularly to children.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000002_000002.wav|For my part, I have not so bad an opinion of mankind as many of my brother philosophers.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8011/291458/8011_291458_000009_000000.wav|The legend of this sylvan war was long current among the nurses, old wives, and other ancient chroniclers of the place; but time and improvement have almost obliterated both the tradition and the scene of battle; for what was once the blood stained valley is now in the center of this populous city, and known by the name of Dey Street.|8011
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/258263/8266_258263_000003_000013.wav|When it was night she lay down and said to him, "Come, do thy business." He replied, " 'tis well;" and, mounting on her breast, seized her by the neck and brake it, nor did he arise from her till life had left her.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/258263/8266_258263_000003_000011.wav|Then she called him to her one day and said to him, "Wilt thou hearken to me?" And he signed to her with his head, "Yes." So she rejoiced and freed him from the enchantment.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/258263/8266_258263_000007_000000.wav|She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the cause of this army coming upon Isbanir city was wondrous.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/258263/8266_258263_000003_000015.wav|As soon as it was morning, he went forth and stood at the gate of the palace.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/258263/8266_258263_000007_000011.wav|When he reached the age of fifteen, his spirit waxed big in him and he said to Fakhr Taj, "O my mamma, who is my papa?" She replied, "O my son, Gharib, King of Irak, is thy father and I am the King's daughter, of the Persians," and she told him her story.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/258263/8266_258263_000005_000005.wav|He abode Zalzal's guest six months, when he desired to depart; so Zalzal gave him rich presents and despatched three thousand Marids, who brought the spoils of Karaj city and added them to those of Jan Shah.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000056_000001.wav|Evidently the sentinel was satisfied that his fancy had been making merry with him, as he did not look further at the shadow, and Dick, after waiting two or three minutes, resumed his slow creeping.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000024_000002.wav|The terrible spell was upon her, too.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000001.wav|"At the point we see they will not yet rush forward.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000016_000002.wav|He must be making a speech.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000017_000000.wav|"What are the skirmishers doing, Colonel?"|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000007_000003.wav|If I am but an old hound, lying here while the pack is in full cry, I will nevertheless see the chase!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000043_000002.wav|Was it possible that Grant could not win?|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000023_000002.wav|But our batteries are raking them horribly.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000014_000001.wav|I will trust to the naked eye and your report."|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000015_000001.wav|If he looked he must tell to the others what he saw, and he wished to show neither exultation nor depression.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000012_000000.wav|The colonel leaned a little more heavily upon him, but Dick steadied himself.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000012_000002.wav|The hills shook with the thunder of the cannon, and the brilliant sun, piercing through the smoke, lighted up the vast battle line.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000035_000001.wav|The battle now died fast.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000031_000004.wav|The inner ring along its front of miles thundered incessantly on the outer ring, and repelled every attempt to crush it.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000028_000001.wav|Ah, you riflemen, your target is there!"|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000023_000003.wav|Their men are falling by the scores and hundreds."|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000032_000002.wav|they're retreating!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000050_000000.wav|While he remained in the path a deep boom came from the direction of the Union army and a huge shell burst over the town.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000005.wav|Two batteries of eight guns each have come nearer.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000035_000000.wav|He spoke wholly without animosity.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000000.wav|"The attack of the skirmishers grows hotter," said the old man.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000016_000000.wav|"The columns of infantry are getting up again," he said.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000031_000002.wav|The Southern army, posted in its defenses, was breaking the ring of steel that sought to crush it to death.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000004.wav|They are awaiting the word from other parts of the field, and it shows with certainty that a grand attack is coming.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000052_000000.wav|He had reckoned rightly.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000006.wav|Heavens, what a bombardment!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000051_000000.wav|Dick paused no longer, but ran rapidly along the path until he emerged upon the open plateau and proceeded toward the center of the town.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000005_000001.wav|And yet there was no blasphemy about it.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000008_000002.wav|Dick felt the hand upon his shoulder trembling with excitement.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000046_000005.wav|He was glad that he could repay a little at least.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000010_000000.wav|"What are our troops doing, father?" asked Miss Woodville.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000008_000004.wav|Miss Woodville stood just behind them, and a faint tinge of color appeared in her pale face.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000026_000003.wav|The smoke is in the way again and I can see nothing.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000031_000001.wav|He knew that the colonel's words were true.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000047_000004.wav|The colonel, with his strong loyalty to the South, might seek to hold him, at least as his personal prisoner, and now the trouble was avoided.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000048_000000.wav|He moved gently across the floor, and then passed toward the open door. How good that puff of fresh air and freedom felt on his face!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000030_000003.wav|It's slaughter!"|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000053_000001.wav|He had formed a clear plan at last, and he believed that it would succeed.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000008_000001.wav|Dick saw only the field of battle, dark lines and blurs, the red flare of cannon and rifle fire, and towers and banks of smoke, but the colonel saw individual human beings, and, with his trained military eye, he knew what the movements meant.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000054_000001.wav|Then, strengthening his resolution, he came from behind the ruins, flung himself almost flat on the ground, and crawled toward the river, pushing in front of him a board, which some Northern gun had shot from the warehouse.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000008_000003.wav|He was excited himself.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000045_000002.wav|His resolve to risk everything and go was strengthened.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000054_000000.wav|Southern batteries were not far away from him and he heard the men talking.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000038_000001.wav|"What I have seen rejoices me greatly, but I do not say it to taunt you.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000032_000001.wav|"The Northern fire has sunk at many points, and there! and there!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000029_000002.wav|Some reached shelves of the plateau almost at the mouths of the guns and hung there, their comrades falling dead or dying around them, but now the rebel yell began to swell along the vast line, and reached the ears of those in the ravine.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000020_000002.wav|There are gaps in the Yankee lines, but the men have closed up, and they come on at the double quick with their cannon still firing over their heads!"|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000006_000000.wav|They reached the door, the cut in the side of the ravine, and at once a wide portion of the battlefield sprang into the light, while the roar of the guns was redoubled.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000011_000000.wav|"Very little yet, and they should do little.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000005.wav|All the time the cannon are firing over their heads.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000049_000004.wav|He felt sorry, in truth, for all Vicksburg, because now that he was outside his fears for Grant disappeared, and he knew that he must win.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000053_000002.wav|Twisting and turning, always keeping in the shadows, he made good progress, descended the bluff, and at last stood behind the ruins of an old warehouse near the stream.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000033_000000.wav|"But Grant will come again," said Dick, speaking his opinion for the first time.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000047_000003.wav|Dick was glad of it.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000011_000002.wav|The defense should hold its fire until the enemy is well within range and that's what we're doing!"|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000042_000000.wav|"Then if you do go I wish you a speedy and safe journey, but I tell you to beware of one, Slade, who has a malicious heart and a long memory."|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000015_000000.wav|It was an odd feeling that made Dick decline the glasses.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000035_000005.wav|Johnston would come up, and Grant, having such heavy losses, would be unable to withstand the united Confederate armies.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000019_000001.wav|The shoulder upon which the colonel's hand rested shook a little, but it was from excitement.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000031_000003.wav|Groups of men in blue who had seized ground in the very front of the defenses either died there or were gradually driven back.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000051_000001.wav|He judged that in the hours following a great battle, while there was yet much confusion, he would find his best chance.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000043_000000.wav|Dick withdrew to his own cell, as he called it, and he passed bitter hours there.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000007_000002.wav|I will see!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000003.wav|But the woods and ravines are filled with their skirmishers, trying to clear the way.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000006.wav|I did not think it possible for the fire of their cannon to increase, but it has done so.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000029_000001.wav|Never flinching, the men of the west and northwest hurled themselves upon the powerful fortified positions.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000032_000003.wav|The attack has failed and the South has won a victory!"|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000047_000001.wav|The usual candle was burning on the table near his bed, but the great bald head lay motionless on the pillow, and the heavy white eyebrows drooped over closed lids.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000040_000001.wav|You are a good young man.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000003.wav|Now they stop and lie on their arms.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000001.wav|"The thickets blaze with the fire of their rifles.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000024_000001.wav|But she looked again in a few moments.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000021_000002.wav|Meanwhile he watched the combat with an eagerness fully equal to that of the old colonel.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000040_000002.wav|I'm glad I saved you from that scoundrel, Slade.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000006_000001.wav|Dick would have stepped back now, but Colonel Woodville's hand rested on his shoulder and his support was needed.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000025_000001.wav|His heart was with the assailants and theirs with the assailed, but he would not speak aloud against the hopes of Colonel Woodville and his daughter, since he was in their house, such as it was, and, in a measure, under their protection.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000049_000002.wav|How it filled one's lungs and brought with it life, courage and confidence! One had to live in a hole in a hill before he could appreciate fully the blessed winds that blew about the world.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000043_000003.wav|And if he could not win what terrible risks he would run in the heart of the Confederacy, with perhaps two armies to fight!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000026_000000.wav|"Their charge is splendid," continued the colonel, "and I hope Pemberton has made full use of the ground for defense!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000000.wav|"The Yankees are getting ready to charge," said the colonel.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000014_000000.wav|"I believe not, Colonel.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000048_000001.wav|He did not know that Colonel Woodville raised his head on the pillow, glanced after him, and then let his head sink back and his eyes close again.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000007.wav|That burnt them!"|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000003.wav|The masses of infantry are drawing together again.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000041_000001.wav|I may take a quick departure."|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000039_000000.wav|"May I help you back to your bed, sir?" asked Dick.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000019_000002.wav|He said nothing and Colonel Woodville continued:|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000035_000002.wav|The men in gray had been invincible.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000002.wav|They have made the prelude, and the importance of their role has passed.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000016_000004.wav|Now he is gone and other officers, colonels and majors are moving about."|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000043_000004.wav|He felt that only the Mississippi, that life line connecting him with the North, could save him.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000032_000000.wav|"They yield," said the colonel, after a long time.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000000.wav|"Their fire is not so hot.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000022_000001.wav|Then a wind slowly rolled the smoke away. The figures of the men began to appear like shadowy tracery, and then emerged, distinct and separate from the haze.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000037_000000.wav|When the last cannon shot echoed over the far hills Colonel Woodville turned away from the door of his hillside home.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000053_000000.wav|He had concluded that "the longest way around was the shortest way through," and he directed his steps toward the river.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000020_000000.wav|"The smoke is so heavy I can't see what damage was done!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000024_000000.wav|Miss Woodville uttered a deep sigh and turned her face away.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000005_000000.wav|Dick heard oaths, ripe and rich, entirely new to him, and he heard the old ones in new arrangements and with new inflections.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000019_000000.wav|There was a terrific crash much nearer, and Dick knew that it was the Southern batteries opening fire.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000004.wav|Now I see men on horseback with trumpets to their lips.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000046_000003.wav|He had several ten dollar gold pieces in his pocket, and he put one of them on the tiny table in his cell.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000026_000002.wav|Oh, to be out of the battle on such a day!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000025_000000.wav|Dick's nerves were quivering.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000015_000002.wav|The colonel, the duty of courtesy discharged, resumed his own position of witness and herald.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000055_000000.wav|He knew that his task was difficult and dangerous, though in the last resort he could rush to the water and spring in.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000016_000003.wav|No doubt he knows the desperate nature of the attack, and would inspire them.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000026_000006.wav|They must go back!"|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000007.wav|I've never before listened to its like!"|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000056_000000.wav|A hail came, and Dick flattened himself against the ground and lay perfectly still.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000021_000001.wav|Dick stood just behind him, shielded from the sight of any one who might be passing in the ravine, although there was little danger now from searchers with a great battle going on.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000016_000001.wav|"I see a man in what I take to be a general's uniform riding along their front.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000007_000000.wav|"My glasses, Margaret!" said the colonel.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000043_000001.wav|The repulse had struck him a hard blow.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000026_000001.wav|He will need all the help he can get!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000021_000000.wav|In his excitement he took his hand off Dick's shoulder and leaned forward a little farther, supporting himself now against the earthen wall.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000004_000001.wav|It was not the torrent of loud imprecation that Dick had heard in Jackson, but subdued, and all the more fierce because it was so like the ferocious whine of a powerful and hurt wild animal.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000047_000000.wav|Then he stepped lightly toward the larger chamber in which Colonel Woodville lay.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000044_000001.wav|She was as taciturn as ever, speaking scarcely a half dozen words.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000023_000000.wav|"They are nearer now," said the Colonel.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000034_000000.wav|"No doubt of it," said Colonel Woodville, "but likely he will come to the same fate."|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000040_000000.wav|"You may.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000044_000000.wav|But as dusk came gradually in the ravine he resolved that he would go. His supper, as usual, was brought to him by Miss Woodville.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000045_000000.wav|Dick was confident that nobody but Colonel Woodville, his daughter, and himself were in the cave home.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000022_000000.wav|The mighty crash of cannon and rifles together continued, but for a little while the smoke banked up in front so densely that the whole combat was hidden from them.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000041_000000.wav|"I was thinking, too, sir, that I ought to go.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000020_000001.wav|Now it has cleared away!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000030_000000.wav|"The omen of victory!" exclaimed the colonel exultantly.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000004_000000.wav|Colonel Woodville had begun to swear.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000009_000004.wav|I can see them in hundreds and hundreds, and their rifles make sheets of flame.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000046_000002.wav|He had surrendered his holster and pistols to Colonel Woodville, and so he must issue forth unarmed, but it could not be helped.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000030_000002.wav|Grant can't break through our line! Why doesn't he call off his men?|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000055_000001.wav|But he was almost at the edge before any sentinel saw the black shadow passing over the ground.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000049_000003.wav|He knew that the path ran in front of other hollows dug in the earth, and he felt sorry for the people who were compelled to burrow in them.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000045_000001.wav|It was but a small place, and new callous places on her hands indicated that she was doing the cooking and all other work.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000052_000001.wav|There was a great passing to and fro in Vicksburg, but its lights were dim.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000046_000004.wav|He knew that it would be most welcome, and he could not calculate how many hundreds in Confederacy currency it was worth.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000057_000000.wav|He reached the edge, shoved the board into it, and dropped gently into the water beside it, submerged to the head.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000026_000004.wav|Now it has passed and the enemy is still advancing, but our fire grows hotter and hotter!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000001.wav|They must be drawing back.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000047_000002.wav|Sound asleep!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000030_000001.wav|"Our brave lads feel that they're about to triumph!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000007_000001.wav|"I must see!|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000018_000005.wav|Yes, the charge is coming.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000007_000004.wav|And even if I am an old hound I could run with the best of them if that infernal Yankee bullet had not taken me in the leg!"|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/279363/8266_279363_000013_000007.wav|Young sir, would you care to look through the glasses?"|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8266/258262/8266_258262_000005_000010.wav|Then he fared on into the valley.--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.|8266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000020_000001.wav|Don't revive her to consciousness, while she only faints."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000023_000000.wav|"Before I go," he said, and paused-"I may kiss her?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000002_000001.wav|But, she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment it, that it quickly raised her, even from that shock.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000016_000002.wav|His arm trembled as it raised her, and supported her head. Yet, there was an air about him that was not all of pity-that had a flush of pride in it.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000045_000001.wav|He will perish: there is no real hope," echoed Carton.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000005_000000.wav|There was but a gaoler left, along with two of the four men who had taken him last night, and Barsad.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000041_000000.wav|"And so do i I heard the fall of the axe in that sound."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000032_000004.wav|I expect nothing!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000031_000000.wav|"I will go," said Doctor Manette, "to the Prosecutor and the President straight, and I will go to others whom it is better not to name.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000014_000000.wav|"It could not be otherwise," said the prisoner.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000040_000000.wav|"If any one of these men, or all of these men, were disposed to spare him-which is a large supposition; for what is his life, or any man's to them!--I doubt if they durst spare him after the demonstration in the court."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000005_000002.wav|Barsad proposed to the rest, "Let her embrace him then; it is but a moment." It was silently acquiesced in, and they passed her over the seats in the hall to a raised place, where he, by leaning over the dock, could fold her in his arms.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000026_000001.wav|These judges, and all the men in power, are very friendly to you, and very recognisant of your services; are they not?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000045_000000.wav|"Yes.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000021_000001.wav|"Now that you have come, I think you will do something to help mamma, something to save papa!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000017_000001.wav|I shall never feel her weight."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000017_000000.wav|"Shall I take her to a coach?|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000032_000001.wav|Well!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000024_000001.wav|The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000046_000000.wav|And walked with a settled step, down stairs.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000033_000001.wav|Within an hour or two from this."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000034_000002.wav|If I go to mr Lorry's at nine, shall I hear what you have done, either from our friend or from yourself?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000036_000000.wav|"May you prosper!"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000027_000000.wav|"Nothing connected with Charles was concealed from me.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000034_000001.wav|Let us stretch the hour or two.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000001_000001.wav|Dusk|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000020_000000.wav|"Don't recall her to herself," he said, softly, to the latter, "she is better so.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000032_000005.wav|When are you likely to have seen these dread powers, Doctor Manette?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000004_000000.wav|"If I might touch him!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000028_000000.wav|"Try them again.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000008_000000.wav|"I can bear it, dear Charles.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000030_000000.wav|"That's well.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000029_000000.wav|"I intend to try.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000009_000000.wav|"I send it to her by you.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000043_000000.wav|"Don't despond," said Carton, very gently; "don't grieve.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000026_000000.wav|"You had great influence but yesterday, Doctor Manette; let it at least be tried.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000018_000000.wav|He carried her lightly to the door, and laid her tenderly down in a coach.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000022_000000.wav|He bent over the child, and laid her blooming cheek against his face.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000039_000000.wav|"Nor have i"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000005_000001.wav|The people had all poured out to the show in the streets.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000018_000001.wav|Her father and their old friend got into it, and he took his seat beside the driver.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000009_000002.wav|I say farewell to her by you."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000034_000000.wav|"It will be dark soon after four.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000031_000001.wav|I will write too, and-But stay!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000030_000002.wav|But try!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000012_000004.wav|We thank you with all our hearts, and all our love and duty.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000012_000000.wav|"No, no! What have you done, what have you done, that you should kneel to us!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000032_000000.wav|"That's true.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000021_000002.wav|O, look at her, dear Carton!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000010_000003.wav|I feel that this will break my heart by and bye; but I will do my duty while I can, and when I leave her, God will raise up friends for her, as He did for me."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000012_000002.wav|We know, now what you underwent when you suspected my descent, and when you knew it.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000012_000005.wav|Heaven be with you!"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000009_000001.wav|I kiss her by you.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000014_000004.wav|Be comforted, and forgive me.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000037_000000.wav|mr Lorry followed Sydney to the outer door, and, touching him on the shoulder as he was going away, caused him to turn.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000033_000000.wav|"Immediately after dark, I should hope.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000019_000000.wav|When they arrived at the gateway where he had paused in the dark not many hours before, to picture to himself on which of the rough stones of the street her feet had trodden, he lifted her again, and carried her up the staircase to their rooms.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000010_000000.wav|"My husband.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000016_000001.wav|Only her father and mr Lorry were with her.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000014_000001.wav|"All things have worked together as they have fallen out.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000012_000003.wav|We know now, the natural antipathy you strove against, and conquered, for her dear sake.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128344/192_128344_000021_000000.wav|"Oh, Carton, Carton, dear Carton!" cried little Lucie, springing up and throwing her arms passionately round him, in a burst of grief.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000033_000003.wav|Let me but lift my finger-!" She seemed to raise it (the listener's eyes were always on his paper), and to let it fall with a rattle on the ledge before her, as if the axe had dropped.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000029_000001.wav|The Vengeance, also, highly approved.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000087_000000.wav|"I understand that I wait for you under all circumstances?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000031_000003.wav|Let him take care of his face!"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000010_000001.wav|"At Tellson's banking house at nine," he said, with a musing face.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000093_000001.wav|I hope to do my part faithfully."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000088_000000.wav|"You have my certificate in your hand with the rest, you know, and will reserve my place.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000010_000003.wav|I think so.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000071_000000.wav|"Keep it for me until to morrow.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000064_000002.wav|But, before you go, will you, for a moment, steadily attend to me?|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000063_000003.wav|Carton was the first to speak:|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000065_000001.wav|"Say on."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000052_000001.wav|The instant he entered the room, it was plain that all was lost.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000089_000000.wav|"Why, then," said mr Lorry, grasping his eager but so firm and steady hand, "it does not all depend on one old man, but I shall have a young and ardent man at my side."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000069_000002.wav|First," he put his hand in his coat, and took another paper from it, "that is the certificate which enables me to pass out of this city.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000074_000000.wav|"Yes!"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000049_000003.wav|Her father had not been seen, since he quitted the banking house towards four o'clock.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000078_000000.wav|"Heaven grant I may, Carton!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000011_000000.wav|Checking his steps which had begun to tend towards an object, he took a turn or two in the already darkening street, and traced the thought in his mind to its possible consequences.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000027_000001.wav|After all, the question is still where?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000084_000000.wav|"You are a noble heart.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000095_000000.wav|Though he said it with a grave smile of earnestness, and though he even put the old man's hand to his lips, he did not part from him then.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000038_000001.wav|Listen!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000011_000001.wav|His first impression was confirmed.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000047_000001.wav|Defarge, a weak minority, interposed a few words for the memory of the compassionate wife of the Marquis; but only elicited from his own wife a repetition of her last reply.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000095_000002.wav|He walked on the other side of it and protected it to the courtyard of the house where the afflicted heart-so happy in the memorable time when he had revealed his own desolate heart to it-outwatched the awful night.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000013_000002.wav|This done, he went on direct to Defarge's, and went in.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000029_000000.wav|"Magnificent!" croaked Jacques Three.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000015_000000.wav|As Carton walked in, took his seat and asked (in very indifferent French) for a small measure of wine, Madame Defarge cast a careless glance at him, and then a keener, and then a keener, and then advanced to him herself, and asked him what it was he had ordered.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000068_000000.wav|"What is it?" asked mr Lorry, eagerly.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000063_000000.wav|Affected, and impressed with terror as they both were, by this spectacle of ruin, it was not a time to yield to such emotions.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000075_000000.wav|"Perhaps he obtained it as his last and utmost precaution against evil, yesterday.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000075_000002.wav|But no matter; don't stay to look; put it up carefully with mine and your own.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000077_000002.wav|I know it from her own lips.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000077_000005.wav|He confirms me.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000054_000000.wav|"I cannot find it," said he, "and I must have it.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000062_000001.wav|He sank into the chair, and brooded over the embers, and shed tears.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000081_000002.wav|Early to morrow have your horses ready, so that they may be in starting trim at two o'clock in the afternoon."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000010_000005.wav|But care, care, care! Let me think it out!"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000084_000004.wav|Tell her that it was her husband's last arrangement.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000060_000000.wav|"Don't torture a poor forlorn wretch," he implored them, with a dreadful cry; "but give me my work!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000056_000001.wav|I have been looking everywhere for my bench, and I can't find it.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000023_000003.wav|I drink to the Republic."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000053_000001.wav|As he stood staring at them, they asked him no question, for his face told them everything.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000033_000001.wav|I have observed her to day, and I have observed her other days.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000079_000004.wav|She and her father would unquestionably be guilty of this crime, and this woman (the inveteracy of whose pursuit cannot be described) would wait to add that strength to her case, and make herself doubly sure.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000075_000005.wav|It is good, until recalled.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000026_000002.wav|There is great force in that.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000021_000000.wav|"How?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000064_000000.wav|"The last chance is gone: it was not much.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000012_000001.wav|It was not difficult for one who knew the city well, to find his house without asking any question.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000042_000000.wav|"That night, I tell him, when the paper is read through, and the lamp is burnt out, and the day is gleaming in above those shutters and between those iron bars, that I have now a secret to communicate.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000095_000001.wav|He helped him so far to arouse the rocking figure before the dying embers, as to get a cloak and hat put upon it, and to tempt it forth to find where the bench and work were hidden that it still moaningly besought to have.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000072_000000.wav|"Why not?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000054_000001.wav|Where is it?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000062_000000.wav|It was so clearly beyond hope to reason with him, or try to restore him, that-as if by agreement-they each put a hand upon his shoulder, and soothed him to sit down before the fire, with a promise that he should have his work presently.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000049_000005.wav|He had been more than five hours gone: where could he be?|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000037_000001.wav|"Not if to lift this glass would do it!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000026_000001.wav|"Why stop?|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000079_000005.wav|You follow me?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000094_000001.wav|Now, good bye!"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000069_000001.wav|Let me speak of it in its place.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000049_000002.wav|He said he had been with Lucie until just now, and had only left her for a few minutes, to come and keep his appointment.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000038_000003.wav|Ask my husband, is that so."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000031_000002.wav|I have observed his face to be not the face of a true friend of the Republic.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000091_000000.wav|"Nothing, Carton."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000014_000000.wav|There happened to be no customer in the shop but Jacques Three, of the restless fingers and the croaking voice.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000013_000001.wav|As he passed along towards Saint Antoine, he stopped at a shop window where there was a mirror, and slightly altered the disordered arrangement of his loose cravat, and his coat collar, and his wild hair.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000017_000000.wav|"English?" asked Madame Defarge, inquisitively raising her dark eyebrows.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000086_000001.wav|Quietly and steadily have all these arrangements made in the courtyard here, even to the taking of your own seat in the carriage. The moment I come to you, take me in, and drive away."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000010_000002.wav|"Shall I do well, in the mean time, to show myself?|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000077_000003.wav|I have overheard words of that woman's, to night, which have presented their danger to me in strong colours.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000088_000001.wav|Wait for nothing but to have my place occupied, and then for England!"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000062_000002.wav|As if all that had happened since the garret time were a momentary fancy, or a dream, mr Lorry saw him shrink into the exact figure that Defarge had had in keeping.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000047_000000.wav|Both her hearers derived a horrible enjoyment from the deadly nature of her wrath-the listener could feel how white she was, without seeing her-and both highly commended it.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000077_000000.wav|"They are in great danger.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000069_000004.wav|You see-Sydney Carton, an Englishman?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000078_000001.wav|But how?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000047_000002.wav|"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me!"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000051_000000.wav|He waited and waited, and the clock struck twelve; but Doctor Manette did not come back.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000069_000000.wav|"A moment!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000033_000002.wav|I have observed her in the court, and I have observed her in the street by the prison.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000056_000002.wav|What have they done with my work?|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000012_000000.wav|Defarge had described himself, that day, as the keeper of a wine shop in the Saint Antoine suburb.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000073_000003.wav|You see?"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000094_000000.wav|"And I hope to do mine.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000023_000002.wav|"Ah! and good wine.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000075_000001.wav|When is it dated?|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000022_000000.wav|"Good evening."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000073_000002.wav|It is a similar certificate, enabling him and his daughter and her child, at any time, to pass the barrier and the frontier!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000035_000000.wav|"She is an Angel!" said The Vengeance, and embraced her.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000044_000000.wav|"I communicate to him that secret.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000082_000000.wav|"It shall be done!"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000081_000001.wav|Your preparations have been completed for some days, to return to England.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000077_000008.wav|Don't look so horrified.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000063_000002.wav|Again, as if by agreement, they looked at one another with one meaning in their faces.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000013_000000.wav|It was as late as seven o'clock when he awoke refreshed, and went out into the streets again.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000069_000003.wav|Look at it.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000063_000001.wav|His lonely daughter, bereft of her final hope and reliance, appealed to them both too strongly.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000090_000001.wav|Promise me solemnly that nothing will influence you to alter the course on which we now stand pledged to one another."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000012_000002.wav|Having ascertained its situation, Carton came out of those closer streets again, and dined at a place of refreshment and fell sound asleep after dinner.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000046_000000.wav|"Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000067_000003.wav|"We should look at this!" he said.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000027_000000.wav|"Well, well," reasoned Defarge, "but one must stop somewhere.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000049_000000.wav|But, he went his way, and was soon swallowed up in the shadow of the prison wall.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000051_000002.wav|Where could he be?|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000073_000000.wav|"I don't know; I prefer not to do so.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000067_000004.wav|mr Lorry nodded his consent.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000070_000000.wav|mr Lorry held it open in his hand, gazing in his earnest face.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000079_000003.wav|You know it is a capital crime, to mourn for, or sympathise with, a victim of the Guillotine.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000048_000001.wav|The English customer paid for what he had had, perplexedly counted his change, and asked, as a stranger, to be directed towards the National Palace.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000020_000000.wav|Defarge brought him the wine, and gave him Good Evening.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000057_000000.wav|They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000040_000000.wav|"In the beginning of the great days, when the Bastille falls, he finds this paper of to day, and he brings it home, and in the middle of the night when this place is clear and shut, we read it, here on this spot, by the light of this lamp.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000037_000003.wav|I say, stop there."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000018_000002.wav|I am English!"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000018_000000.wav|After looking at her, as if the sound of even a single French word were slow to express itself to him, he answered, in his former strong foreign accent.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000030_000001.wav|But this Doctor has suffered much; you have seen him to day; you have observed his face when the paper was read."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000009_000000.wav|twelve. Darkness|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000010_000000.wav|Sydney Carton paused in the street, not quite decided where to go.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000086_000000.wav|"I thought so.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000065_000000.wav|"I do not doubt it," answered mr Lorry.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000083_000000.wav|His manner was so fervent and inspiring, that mr Lorry caught the flame, and was as quick as youth.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000023_000001.wav|Good evening, citizen," filling his glass.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000019_000000.wav|Madame Defarge returned to her counter to get the wine, and, as he took up a Jacobin journal and feigned to pore over it puzzling out its meaning, he heard her say, "I swear to you, like Evremonde!"|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000042_000001.wav|Ask him, is that so."|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/128345/192_128345_000023_000000.wav|"Oh!|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000005_000000.wav|Lemon Syrup.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000016_000000.wav|Vanilla beans, well bruised, half an ounce; French brandy, one gill; let it stand one week, and it will be fit for use.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000021_000000.wav|Take a bucket of ice and pound it fine; mix with it two quarts of salt; put your cream in a freezer; cover it close, and immerse it in the bucket; draw the ice round it, so as to touch every part; after it has been in a few minutes, put in a spoon, and stir it from the edge to the centre.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000011_000000.wav|Pine Apple Syrup.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000013_000000.wav|Almond Cream.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000016_000001.wav|Keep it corked tight. This article will keep any length of time, and is very convenient for seasoning ices.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000034_000000.wav|Calf's Foot Jelly.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000038_000000.wav|Make a syrup of half a pound of sugar to a pint of water, boil and skim it; put in five bunches of raisins, and let them boil twenty minutes; if you prefer, you can pick off the stems.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000018_000001.wav|If for vanilla cream; use a table spoonful of tincture of vanilla, two eggs beaten; mix well and freeze in the usual way.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000024_000000.wav|Ice Cream with Fruit.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000006_000002.wav|If you like the taste of oil of lemon, add a few drops.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000021_000001.wav|When the cream is put in a mould, close it and move it in the ice, as you cannot use a spoon without waste.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000026_000000.wav|Pokeberry Juice to Stain Ices.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000022_000000.wav|Ice Cream with Lemon.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000032_000000.wav|Blancmange of Jelly.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000028_000000.wav|Isinglass Jelly.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000027_000000.wav|Mash and strain ripe pokeberries; to each pint of juice put a pound of sugar; boil them together till it becomes a jelly; when cold put it in a jar and tie it close; use a small quantity of this to stain ice cream or jelly.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000037_000000.wav|Raisins in Syrup.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000015_000000.wav|Tincture of Vanilla.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000008_000000.wav|Pare the lemons very thin, and put the peel to boil in a quart of water; cover it, to keep in the flavor; put two pounds of loaf sugar to the peel of a dozen lemons, and boil it till it becomes a rich syrup; keep it corked up in a bottle, to season ice cream.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000041_000000.wav|Snow Cream.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000019_000000.wav|Coloring for ice cream, may be made in this way: take of powdered cochineal, cream of tartar and powdered alum, each two drachms; of salts of tartar, ten grains; pour upon the powders half a pint of boiling water; let it stand for two hours to settle, or filter through paper. Use as much of this infusion as will give the desired shade.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000031_000000.wav|Shave an ounce of isinglass, and dissolve it in boiling water; then boil it in a quart of new milk; strain it and sweeten it to your taste; season as you prefer, with rose water, cinnamon, or vanilla.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000018_000000.wav|One gallon of cream, two pounds rolled loaf sugar, one tea spoonful of oil of lemon.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/192/123167/192_123167_000020_000000.wav|Freezing Ice Cream.|192
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000047_000002.wav|At first, many years ago, when he played, he received no answer from the subterrane, but the murmur of gibbering voices.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000007.wav|Then up the road, by the awful thousands, vomiting out of hills, sprawling from caves, curling, huge fingers of beasts, around and about and down to the Man Cities.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000047_000001.wav|This Piper knows his music as a god knows his heaven. For twenty years he has composed his hymn of action and hate and finally, tonight perhaps, the finale will be reached.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000006_000002.wav|Stands up there piping on his music from sunset until dawn."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000016_000002.wav|They called him THE BRILLIANT.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000000.wav|"Men are savages.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000041_000000.wav|"More of the poem?" asked the boy.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000010_000000.wav|"From Venus." The old man took out his pipe and filled it.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000005.wav|He is immortal!" Now, hurrying, muttering up the road, the first cluster of black things reminiscent of men.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000034_000000.wav|"Wild eyed Piper on the hill, Crying out your rigadoons, Bring the savages to kill 'Neath the waning Martian moons!"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000024_000000.wav|"Why?|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000004.wav|Nightbirds sang no songs.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000042_000001.wav|I learned it in school."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000009_000000.wav|"Where did the Piper come from?" asked the Martian boy.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000014.wav|The return of Art to humanity!"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000055_000000.wav|Echoing, the old man's voice:|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000031_000000.wav|"I am glad I live here with you, alone." The boy's head nodded sleepily. "I do not like the men from Terra.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000018_000000.wav|The old man chuckled.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000017_000001.wav|"A dying world.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000004_000004.wav|"Old Piper again!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000004_000001.wav|HE'S THERE AGAIN!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000054_000000.wav|And finally, in the pale advancement of dawn, the memory, the echoing of the old man's voice.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000019_000000.wav|"Where do they live?|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000021_000000.wav|"Where do they live?"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000017_000000.wav|"Mars is a dying world," repeated the boy.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000003.wav|Music in many forms----music for peace, music for love-music for hate and music for death.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000030_000000.wav|"One is up the same cobbled road five miles, the third is further still by some five hundred miles."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000013_000002.wav|From the darkness, across the star jewelled horizon, came mysterious shapes, creeping, creeping.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000043_000001.wav|This music makes me angry.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000011.wav|Piper, pipe the song!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000036_000000.wav|"A poem," said the old man.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000028_000001.wav|"No culture, no art, no purpose.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000057_000000.wav|A new day dawned.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000013_000000.wav|A vague rustling sound came into existence.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000027_000000.wav|"Is that all?"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000008_000000.wav|The Piper was a tall, gaunt man, face as pale and wan as Martian moons, eyes electrical purple, standing against the soft of the dusking heaven, holding his pipe to his lips, playing.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000007.wav|They come to overrun the Earthlings, destroy their cities, take their projectiles.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000001.wav|I am ashamed of being a man," the old man said, tremblingly.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000016_000003.wav|He was the epitome of all Venerian culture until the Earthmen came with their greedy incorporations and licentious harlots. The Earthlings outlawed him, sent him here to Mars to live out his days."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000012.wav|"The Piper-The Brilliant One-He who has waited for years for this night.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000014_000001.wav|"Nothing ever happens of much gravity.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000016_000001.wav|"Something like a leper.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000047_000004.wav|Tonight, for the first time, the herd of black will spill over the trails toward our hovel, toward the road, toward the cities of man!"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000002.wav|Stars shuddered.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000052_000000.wav|Rockets across the sky!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000032_000004.wav|Someday----!" His voice rose high, in tempo and pitch with the Piper's wild music.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000010_000002.wav|I arrived on the same ship, coming from Earth, we shared a double seat together."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000032_000000.wav|"They have always been.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000008.wav|"Piper, pipe that song again!" cried the old man.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000058_000000.wav|The End|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000037_000001.wav|"What savages?"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000004.wav|Tonight is the end of the old, tomorrow begins the new!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000025_000000.wav|"Does Earth own Mars?"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000014.wav|Hurry!" And the child, crying, hurried to the small house and hid himself thru the night.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000047_000000.wav|"Music is the language of all things-intelligent or not, savage or educated civilian.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000000.wav|Music screaming, higher, faster, insanely, sending shock after macabre shock thru night air, loosening the stars from their riveted stations. The Piper stretched high, six feet or more, upon his hillock, swaying back and forth, his thin shape attired in brown cloth.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000056_000001.wav|So he piped, I wept to hear!"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000020_000000.wav|"You are young.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000042_000000.wav|"Not my poem-but a poem from Earth some seventy years ago.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000006_000001.wav|"He's crazy, that's what.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000004_000003.wav|LOOK!" the old man croaked, jabbing a calloused finger at the burial hill.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000036_000001.wav|"A poem I have written in the last few days. I feel something is going to happen very soon.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000015_000000.wav|The stars trembled like reflections in water, dancing with the music.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000023_000000.wav|"Why?"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000032_000002.wav|They have blasphemed enough, have they.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000053_000000.wav|Guns.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000008.wav|Then-in the ships of man-to Earth!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000008.wav|Sighing, leaping up, voices and destruction!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000011.wav|A new civilization! When monsters usurp men and men's greediness crumbles at his demise!" Shriller, faster, higher, insanely tempoed.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000001.wav|The black mass on the mountain came down like amoebic tentacles, met and coalesced, muttering and mumbling.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000026_000000.wav|"Yes, all of Mars.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000026_000005.wav|With their huge machines they rip open the bowels of our planet and dig out our precious life blood from the mineral arteries."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000022_000000.wav|"Out there, beyond the mountains, beyond the dead sea bottoms, over the horizon and to the north, in the caves, far back in the subterrane."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000004.wav|The Piper and his brood will set up a new cosmos.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000004_000006.wav|Every year that way!"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000012_000001.wav|I don't think I ever knew, really."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000053_000001.wav|Death.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000028_000002.wav|Greedy, hopeless Earthlings."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000056_000000.wav|"Piper, pipe that song again!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000024_000003.wav|But something happened to them, hybrided them.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000019_000001.wav|I have never seen them."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000024_000001.wav|Now that's hard to say.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000010.wav|Bring us love and art again!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000012.wav|I weep!" Then: "Hide, child, hide quickly!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000036_000003.wav|At first, twenty years ago, he played on only a few nights of every year, but now, for the last three years he has played until dawn every night of every autumn when the planet is dying."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000002.wav|"Yes, these creatures are savages, but they will learn-these brutes-with music.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000008_000001.wav|The Piper-a silhouette-a symbol-a melody.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000003.wav|"You are young, you must live to propagate the new Mars.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000020_000001.wav|You have much to see, much to learn."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000035_000000.wav|"What is that?" asked the boy.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000005.wav|It is death for the men of Earth!" Higher still and higher.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000031_000001.wav|They are despoilers."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000006.wav|"Death!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000014_000002.wav|The Piper, I believe, is an exile."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000043_000002.wav|Why?"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000050_000007.wav|The Piper, from his hillock, walking down the road, over the cobbles, to the city.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000007_000000.wav|The thin piping sounds squealed in the dusk, echoed back from the low hills, were lost in melancholy silence, fading.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000045_000000.wav|"What purpose?"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000054_000001.wav|And the little boy arose to start afresh a new world with a new mate.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000039_000000.wav|Along the star glimmered mountain tops a vast clustering herd of black, murmuring, advancing.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000044_000000.wav|"Because it is music with a purpose."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000033_000001.wav|Music to stir the savage into life.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000006_000000.wav|"Ah?" The old man's leathery face rumpled into a maze of wrinkles.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000010.wav|Revolution and Revenge!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000043_000000.wav|"Music is strange." The little boy's eyes were scintillant with thought. "It warms me inside.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000033_000002.wav|Music to effect man's destiny!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000011_000000.wav|"What is his name?" Again the boyish, eager voice.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000000.wav|Swirling, jumping, running, leaping, gamboling, crying-the new humanity surged to man's cities, his rockets, his mines.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000026_000004.wav|They are miners.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000051_000006.wav|The old man, caught in the whirlpool of ebon, was swept down, screaming.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000048_000009.wav|Turnabout!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000029_000000.wav|"And the other two cities----where are they?"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/117095/7967_117095_000049_000000.wav|"But they are savages, these unpure Martians," the boy cried.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000050_000003.wav|Her bag is in there almost packed.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000049_000000.wav|"Twenty months and such a darling!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000025_000000.wav|"Certainly; most happy."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000047_000000.wav|"The baby!|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000021_000000.wav|"It is calumny," fell from mrs Packard's lips as she watched him.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000043_000002.wav|Disorder reigned from one end of the room to the other, transcending any picture I may have formed in my own mind concerning its probable condition.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000011_000002.wav|Do you wonder that my happiness vanished before it?|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000005_000000.wav|"My darling!"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000015_000002.wav|And that won't kill me, whatever effect it may have on the party."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000038_000000.wav|"You are tired, mrs Packard," was my sympathetic observation.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000007_000001.wav|Her husband, with a soothing touch on her arm, brought her back to the present.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000031_000000.wav|I also noted that these shapes or characters, of which there were just seven, were written on the face of an empty envelope.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000003_000000.wav|"A specter," her husband repeated with a suggestive glance at the brilliant sunshine in which we all stood.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000050_000005.wav|That accounts-" Stopping, she cast a glance around the room, ending with a shake of the head and a shrug.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000032_000002.wav|As it caught fire and flared up, the characters started vividly into view.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000006_000005.wav|There was no mistaking their look.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000048_000002.wav|How old is she?"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000035_000000.wav|While I watched these cabalistic marks pass from red to black and finally vanish in a wild leap up the chimney, mrs Packard remarked:|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000041_000000.wav|"Possibly.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000028_000000.wav|This conclusion was brought back to me with fresh insistence a few minutes later, when, on hearing the front door shut, I stepped to the balustrade and looked over to see if mrs Packard was coming up.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000008_000000.wav|"You speak of a form," he said, "a shadowy outline.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000008_000002.wav|A man or a woman?"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000029_000002.wav|I saw that it was inscribed with Hebraic looking characters as unlike as possible to the scrawl of a little child.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000045_000002.wav|Here, there and everywhere above and below lay scraps of torn up paper; and on many, if not on all of them, could be seen the broken squares and inverted angles which had marked so curiously the surface of the envelope she had handed to mr Steele, and which I had afterward seen her burn.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000004_000000.wav|"Yes." The tone was one of utter conviction.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000014_000001.wav|One moment it was there and the next it was gone, and I found myself staring into vacancy.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000001_000001.wav|SCRAPS|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000039_000002.wav|Now that I feel better, now that I have relieved my mind, I must look over my letters and try to take up the old threads again."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000033_000001.wav|This is the way they looked.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000050_000000.wav|"What?" I demanded, hurrying to the closet, where Ellen stood bending over something invisible to me.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000004_000001.wav|"I had never believed in such things-never thought about them, but-it was a week ago-in the library-I have not seen a happy moment since-"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000029_000001.wav|This scrap of I knew not what, but which had been the occasion of the enigmatic scene I had witnessed at the breakfast table, necessarily interested me very much and I could not help giving it a look.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000050_000001.wav|"Oh, nothing," she answered, coming quickly out.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000006_000001.wav|I was sitting reading.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000049_000002.wav|Why, look at this!"|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000030_000000.wav|With no means of knowing whether they were legible or not, these characters made a surprising impression upon me, one, indeed, that was almost photographic.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000017_000000.wav|"I am ready to do my part," was his glad reply, "and as for the other people you mention, we shall soon bring them to book." Raising his voice, he called out his secretary's name.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000016_000002.wav|Perhaps you are right.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000043_000003.wav|mrs Packard must have forgotten all this disarray, or at least had supposed it to have yielded to the efforts of the maid, when she proposed my awaiting her there. There were bureau drawers with their contents half on the floor, boxes with their covers off, cupboard doors ajar and even the closet shelves showing every mark of a frenzied search among them.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000032_000000.wav|Carrying it back to mrs Packard, I handed it over with the remark that I had found it lying in the hall.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000033_000000.wav|This second glimpse of them, added to the one already given me, fixed the whole indelibly in my mind.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000047_000002.wav|She's too young."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000016_000000.wav|"Henry,"--her voice had changed to one more natural, also her manner. The confidence expressed in this outburst, the vitality, the masculine attitude he took were producing their effect.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000043_000000.wav|I was met at the door by Ellen.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000047_000001.wav|Oh, the baby never did that.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000013_000000.wav|"You saw this form between you and the lighted lamp.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000032_000001.wav|She cast a quick look at it, gave me another look and tossed the paper into the grate.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000040_000000.wav|"Can I help you?" I asked.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000036_000000.wav|"I wish I could destroy the memory of all my mistakes as completely as I can that old envelope."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000006_000006.wav|As it burned into and through me, everything which had given reality to my life faded and seemed as far away and as unsubstantial as a dream.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000042_000000.wav|I was glad to obey this order.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000019_000000.wav|"Find out who did that."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000038_000001.wav|"Will you not take a nap?|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000008_000001.wav|The form of what?|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000044_000000.wav|"It's as bad as the attic room up stairs.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000043_000001.wav|She wore a look of dismay which I felt fully accounted for when I looked inside.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000044_000003.wav|I have a whole morning's work before me."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000010_000000.wav|In spite of himself and the sympathy he undoubtedly felt for her, an ejaculation of impatience left her husband's lips.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000014_000000.wav|"I can not tell you.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000016_000003.wav|I am ready to acknowledge this; I will try to look upon it all as a freak of my imagination if you will promise to forget these dreadful days, and if people, other people, will leave me alone and not print such things about me."|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7967/104986/7967_104986_000012_000000.wav|The mayor was a practical man; he kept close to the subject.|7967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000021_000000.wav|The cousin was received with resignation, that was all.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000060_000001.wav|He looked to see if the dish of beans was still there; the dish of beans had disappeared.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000085_000000.wav|"Well, then!|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000089_000000.wav|"Then," continued he, "there is a horse for my lackey, and my valise.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000010_000000.wav|Porthos knocked with his hand.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000068_000001.wav|Coquenard.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000002_000000.wav|thirty two A PROCURATOR'S DINNER|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000100_000000.wav|Madame uttered fresh sighs.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000088_000000.wav|Porthos smiled.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122451/216_122451_000047_000000.wav|The time for wine came.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000007_000001.wav|As fast as they entered, they were placed in the grand saloon, on the platforms prepared for them.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000014_000002.wav|The queen entered the great hall; and it was remarked that, like the king, she looked dull and even weary.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000031_000001.wav|She wore a beaver hat with blue feathers, a surtout of gray pearl velvet, fastened with diamond clasps, and a petticoat of blue satin, embroidered with silver.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000052_000000.wav|D'Artagnan placed the ring on his finger, and again waited; it was evident that all was not yet over.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000047_000007.wav|The opening of this door disclosed a brilliant light, and she disappeared.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000004_000000.wav|At ten o'clock in the morning the Sieur de la Coste, ensign in the king's Guards, followed by two officers and several archers of that body, came to the city registrar, named Clement, and demanded of him all the keys of the rooms and offices of the hotel.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000024_000001.wav|On his part the king returned to his apartment.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000026_000002.wav|This was the costume that best became the king.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000032_000002.wav|The only question was, had she ten or twelve?|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000052_000001.wav|After the reward of his devotion, that of his love was to come.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000004_000001.wav|These keys were given up to him instantly.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000016_000001.wav|All at once the king appeared with the cardinal at one of the doors of the hall.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000014_000000.wav|Half an hour after the entrance of the king, fresh acclamations were heard; these announced the arrival of the queen.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000054_000000.wav|"You at last?" cried d'Artagnan.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000008_000000.wav|At nine o'clock Madame la Premiere Presidente arrived.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000040_000000.wav|The king called the cardinal.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000031_000002.wav|On her left shoulder sparkled the diamond studs, on a bow of the same color as the plumes and the petticoat.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000009_000000.wav|At ten o'clock, the king's collation, consisting of preserves and other delicacies, was prepared in the little room on the side of the church of saint Jean, in front of the silver buffet of the city, which was guarded by four archers.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000010_000000.wav|At midnight great cries and loud acclamations were heard.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000033_000000.wav|At that moment the violins sounded the signal for the ballet.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000039_000000.wav|In fact the king counted them, and the twelve studs were all on her Majesty's shoulder.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000052_000003.wav|Supper was to be served at three, and the clock of saint Jean had struck three quarters past two.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000016_000002.wav|The cardinal was speaking to him in a low voice, and the king was very pale.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000006_000000.wav|At three o'clock came two companies of the Guards, one French, the other Swiss.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000034_000001.wav|A cold sweat covered the brow of the cardinal.|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/216/122441/216_122441_000042_000000.wav|"This means, sire," replied the cardinal, "that I was desirous of presenting her Majesty with these two studs, and that not daring to offer them myself, I adopted this means of inducing her to accept them."|216
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000007.wav|EARS-The ears should be set on rather high, of moderate size, rather wide at the base, and gradually tapering to a round point.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000025.wav|WEIGHT-Dogs, fifty five pounds.; bitches, fifty pounds.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000018.wav|It should be spotted, the more profusely the better.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000006_000000.wav|In appearance the Dalmatian should be very similar to a Pointer except in head and marking.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000013.wav|The fore legs should be perfectly straight, strong, and heavy in bone; elbows close to the body; fore feet round, compact with well arched toes (cat footed), and round, tough, elastic pads.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000006.wav|THE RIM ROUND THE EYES in the black spotted variety should be black, in the liver spotted variety brown-never flesh colour in either.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000006_000004.wav|The density and pureness of colour, in both blacks and browns, is of great importance, but should not be permitted to outweigh the evenness of the distribution of spots on the body; no black patches, or even mingling of the spots, should meet with favour, any more than a ring tail or a clumsy looking, heavy shouldered dog should command attention.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000005_000006.wav|Berolina.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000003_000004.wav|On the contrary, he is capable of being trained into remarkable cleverness, as circus proprietors have discovered.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000003_000003.wav|Yet he is of friendly disposition, and it must be insisted that he is by no means so destitute of intelligence as he is often represented to be.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000006_000003.wav|Those which are flesh coloured in this particular should be discarded, however good they may be in other respects.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000023.wav|The spots should not intermingle, but be as round and well defined as possible, the more distinct the better; in size they should be from that of a sixpence to a florin.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000003.wav|MUZZLE-The muzzle should be long and powerful; the lips clean, fitting the jaws moderately close.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000012.wav|LEGS AND FEET-The legs and feet are of great importance.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000007_000003.wav|There should not be the shadow of a mark or spot on them.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000003_000002.wav|He appears almost to prefer equine to human companionship, and he is as fond of being among horses as the Collie is of being in the midst of sheep.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000017.wav|It should not be inserted too low down, but carried with a slight curve upwards, and never curled.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000016.wav|TAIL-The tail should not be too long, strong at the insertion, and gradually tapering towards the end, free from coarseness.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000008.wav|They should be carried close to the head, be thin and fine in texture, and always spotted-the more profusely the better. NOSE-The nose in the black spotted variety should always be black, in the liver spotted variety always brown.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000021.wav|The ground colour in both varieties should be pure white, very decided, and not intermixed.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000009_000000.wav|GENERAL APPEARANCE-The Dalmatian should represent a strong, muscular, and active dog, symmetrical in outline, and free from coarseness and lumber, capable of great endurance combined with a fair amount of speed.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000004_000001.wav|Of late years, however, these dogs have so far degenerated as to be looked upon simply as companions, or as exhibition dogs, for only very occasionally can it be found that any pains have been taken to train them systematically for gun work.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000008_000000.wav|The standard of points as laid down by the leading club is sufficiently explicit to be easily understood, and is as follows:--|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14897/4381_14897_000007_000004.wav|When about a fortnight old, however, they generally develop a dark ridge on the belly, and the spots will then begin to show themselves; first about the neck and ears, and afterwards along the back, until at about the sixteenth day the markings are distinct over the body, excepting only the tail, which frequently remains white for a few weeks longer.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000003.wav|They show a considerable amount of the haw. NOSE-The nose is large and well developed, the nostrils expanding. MUZZLE-The muzzle well protected from wiry hair.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000008_000008.wav|To be equal to such prey, the hound must have a Bulldog's courage, a Newfoundland's strength in water, a Pointer's nose, a Retriever's sagacity, the stamina of the Foxhound, the patience of a Beagle, the intelligence of a Collie.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000008.wav|BACK-The back is strong, wide and arched.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000006.wav|The dewlap is loose and folded.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000013.wav|COLOUR-Grey, or buff, or yellowish, or black, or rufus red, mixed with black or grey.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000011.wav|It is thick and well covered, to serve as a rudder.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000002_000001.wav|Why the breed was first called the Southern Hound, or when his use became practical in Great Britain, must be subjects of conjecture; but that there was a hound good enough to hold a line for many hours is accredited in history that goes very far back into past centuries.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000009.wav|SHOULDERS-The shoulders ought to be sloping, the arms and thighs substantial and muscular.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000007.wav|CHEST-The chest, deep and capacious, but not too wide.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000002_000002.wav|The hound required three centuries ago even was all the better esteemed for being slow and unswerving on a line of scent, and in many parts of the Kingdom, up to within half that period, the so-called Southern Hound had been especially employed.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000010.wav|FEET-The feet, fairly large and spreading, with firm pads and strong nails to resist sharp rocks. STERN-The stern when the hound is at work is carried gaily, like that of a rough Welsh Harrier.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000008_000002.wav|His holt can very well be passed, his delicious scent may be overrun; but the pure bred Otterhound is equal to all occasions.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4381/14904/4381_14904_000009_000001.wav|With a narrow forehead, ascending to a moderate peak.|4381
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000005_000002.wav|This man had said, "A wicked, unbelieving Pope who has gained the pontifical chair by bribery is not Christ's Vicar.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000007_000000.wav|That expectation rather than any spell from the accustomed wail of psalmody was what made silence and expectation seem to spread like a paling solemn light over the multitude of upturned faces, all now directed towards the empty pulpit.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000005_000000.wav|But the temporary wooden pulpit erected over the church door was still empty.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000004_000000.wav|The Piazza di San Marco was filled by a multitude who showed no other movement than that which proceeded from the pressure of new comers trying to force their way forward from all the openings: but the front ranks were already close serried and resisted the pressure.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000015_000001.wav|Every consciousness was chiefly possessed by the sense that Savonarola was praying, in a voice not loud, but distinctly audible in the wide stillness.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000008_000000.wav|The next instant the pulpit was no longer empty.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000019_000002.wav|It was but a moment that expanded itself in that prevision.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000014_000000.wav|"You remember, my children, three days ago I besought you, when I should hold this Sacrament in my hand in the face of you all, to pray fervently to the Most High that if this work of mine does not come from Him, He will send a fire and consume me, that I may vanish into the eternal darkness away from His light which I have hidden with my falsity.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000017_000001.wav|Every one else was motionless and silent too, while the sunlight, which for the last quarter of an hour had here and there been piercing the greyness, made fitful streaks across the convent wall, causing some awe stricken spectators to start timidly.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000015_000000.wav|It was a breathless moment: perhaps no man really prayed, if some in a spirit of devout obedience made the effort to pray.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000008_000002.wav|It seemed a weary time to the eager people while the black figure knelt and the monks chanted.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000019_000000.wav|The warm radiance thrilled through Savonarola's frame, and so did the shout.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000005_000003.wav|His curses are broken swords: he grasps a hilt without a blade.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000013_000001.wav|He had taken into his hands a crystal vessel, containing the consecrated Host, and was about to address the people.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000018_000000.wav|An instantaneous shout rang through the Piazza, "Behold the answer!"|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000003_000001.wav|It was the last morning of the Carnival, and every one knew there was a second Bonfire of Vanities being prepared in front of the Old Palace; but at this hour it was evident that the centre of popular interest lay elsewhere.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000012_000001.wav|Those great jets of emotion were a necessary part of his life; he himself had said to the people long ago, "Without preaching I cannot live." But it was a life that shattered him.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000002_000000.wav|THE BENEDICTION.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000008_000001.wav|A figure covered from head to foot in black cowl and mantle had entered it, and was kneeling with bent head and with face turned away.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000021_000001.wav|"Nevertheless it was a striking moment, eh, Messer Pietro?|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26987/5604_26987_000009_000000.wav|At last there was a vibration among the multitude, each seeming to give his neighbour a momentary aspen like touch, as when men who have been watching for something in the heavens see the expected presence silently disclosing itself.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000006_000006.wav|On the other hand, the Piagnoni of the popular party, who had the directness that belongs to energetic conviction, were the more inclined to credit Tito with sincerity in his political adhesion to them, because he affected no religious sympathies.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000005_000000.wav|WHY TITO WAS SAFE.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000011_000002.wav|There were sure to be immense efforts to save them; and it was to be wished (on public grounds) that the evidence against them should be of the strongest, so as to alarm all well affected men at the dangers of clemency.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000009_000000.wav|His reckoning had not deceived him.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000001.wav|He had that degree of self contemplation which necessarily accompanies the habit of acting on well considered reasons, of whatever quality; and if he could have chosen, he would have declined to see himself disapproved by men of the world.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000006.wav|His proffer of a little additional proof against them would probably have no influence on their fate; in fact, he felt convinced they would escape any extreme consequences; but if he had not given it, his own fortunes, which made a promising fabric, would have been utterly ruined.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000008_000003.wav|But his quick mind had soon traced out the course that would secure his own safety with the fewest unpleasant concomitants.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000007.wav|And what motive could any man really have, except his own interest?|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000010_000001.wav|Francesco Valori, as we have seen, was the head of the Piagnoni, a man with certain fine qualities that were not incompatible with violent partisanship, with an arrogant temper that alienated his friends, nor with bitter personal animosities-one of the bitterest being directed against Bernardo del Nero.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000011_000003.wav|The character of legal proceedings at that time implied that evidence was one of those desirable things which could only be come at by foul means.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000007_000002.wav|At present, the scale dipped in favour of Milan; and if within the year he could render certain services to Duke Ludovico Sforza, he had the prospect of a place at the Milanese court which outweighed the advantages of Rome.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000010.wav|Men did not really care about these things, except when their personal spleen was touched.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000011.wav|It was weakness only that was despised; power of any sort carried its immunity; and no man, unless by very rare good fortune, could mount high in the world without incurring a few unpleasant necessities which laid him open to enmity, and perhaps to a little hissing, when enmity wanted a pretext.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000002.wav|He had never meant to be disapproved; he had meant always to conduct himself so ably that if he acted in opposition to the standard of other men they should not be aware of it; and the barrier between himself and Romola had been raised by the impossibility of such concealment with her.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000017_000001.wav|His brilliant success at Florence had had some ugly flaws in it: he had fallen in love with the wrong woman, and Baldassarre had come back under incalculable circumstances. But as Tito galloped with a loose rein towards Siena, he saw a future before him in which he would no longer be haunted by those mistakes.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000008_000004.wav|It is agreeable to keep a whole skin; but the skin still remains an organ sensitive to the atmosphere.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000016_000000.wav|It was a faint prognostic of that hissing, gathered by Tito from certain indications when he was before the council, which gave his present conduct the character of an epoch to him, and made him dwell on it with argumentative vindication.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000003.wav|He shrank from condemnatory judgments as from a climate to which he could not adapt himself But things were not so plastic in the hands of cleverness as could be wished, and events had turned out inconveniently.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000015_000009.wav|Did not Pontanus, poet and philosopher of unrivalled Latinity, make the finest possible oration at Naples to welcome the French king, who had come to dethrone the learned orator's royal friend and patron? and still Pontanus held up his head and prospered.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26982/5604_26982_000007_000000.wav|By virtue of these conditions, the last three months had been a time of flattering success to Tito.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000002_000000.wav|FRUIT IS SEED.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000005_000002.wav|He spoke instead, in a light tone, as his pen still ran along.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000005_000001.wav|The attitude had been a frequent one, and Tito was accustomed, when he felt her hand there, to raise his head, throw himself a little backward, and look up at her. But he felt now as unable to raise his head as if her hand had been a leaden cowl.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000010_000007.wav|And Tito was feeling intensely at this moment that no devices could save him from pain in the impending collision with Romola; no persuasive blandness could cushion him against the shock towards which he was being driven like a timid animal urged to a desperate leap by the terror of the tooth and the claw that are close behind it.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000007_000000.wav|Romola, keenly sensitive to the absence of the usual response, took away her hand and said, "I am going, Tito."|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000022_000000.wav|"I don't know," said Bernardo.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000031_000001.wav|There was one thing that would have made the pang of disappointment in her husband harder to bear; it was, that any one should know he gave her cause for disappointment.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000022_000002.wav|Your father had a great deal of fire in his eyes when he was young.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000028_000000.wav|She felt the flush spread over her neck and face as she said, "He has been very much wanted; you know he speaks so well.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000011_000011.wav|He would have been equal to any sacrifice that was not unpleasant.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000022_000003.wav|It was what I could never understand, that he, with his fiery spirit, which seemed much more impatient than mine, could hang over the books and live with shadows all his life.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000017_000001.wav|The Cristianissimo was frightened at that thunder, and has given the order to move.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000008_000002.wav|Take Maso with you."|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000022_000001.wav|"I almost think I see Bardo as he was when he was young, better than that picture shows him to me as he was when he was old.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000009_000001.wav|Did the reason lie in herself? She might perhaps have thought so, if there had not been the facts of the armour and the picture to suggest some external event which was an entire mystery to her.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000011_000009.wav|Their pure light brought too near him the prospect of a coming struggle.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000030_000000.wav|"Assuredly."|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000016_000002.wav|Tito seemed to think yesterday that there was little prospect of the king's going soon."|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000015_000001.wav|"The French king moves off to morrow: not before it is high time.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000011_000008.wav|This was the leaden weight which had been too strong for his will, and kept him from raising his head to meet her eyes.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000010_000006.wav|Unscrupulousness gets rid of much, but not of toothache, or wounded vanity, or the sense of loneliness, against which, as the world at present stands, there is no security but a thoroughly healthy jaw, and a just, loving soul.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000008_000000.wav|"Farewell, my sweet one.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000014_000000.wav|"It is you, godfather!|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000020_000002.wav|Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off."|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000013_000000.wav|The next day Tito remained away from home until late at night.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000027_000001.wav|I see him everywhere but here," said Bernardo, willing to change the subject.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000012_000001.wav|Tito was only gay and chatty, pouring forth to her, as he had not done before, stories and descriptions of what he had witnessed during the French visit.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000010_000003.wav|He was about to take a step which he knew would arouse her deep indignation; he would have to encounter much that was unpleasant before he could win her forgiveness.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000019_000000.wav|"Don't you want your spectacles, godfather?" said Romola, in anxiety that he should see just what she saw.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000014_000001.wav|How I wish you had come sooner! it is getting a little dusk," said Romola, going towards him.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000009_000000.wav|Still Tito did not look up, and Romola went out without saying any more. Very slight things make Epochs in married life, and this morning for the first time she admitted to herself not only that Tito had changed, but that he had changed towards her.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000031_000000.wav|Poor Romola!|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000013_000002.wav|She had propped it against the back of his old chair, and had been looking at it for some time, when the door opened behind her, and Bernardo del Nero came in.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000011_000006.wav|It was not possible for him to make himself independent even of those Florentines who only greeted him with regard; still less was it possible for him to make himself independent of Romola.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000006_000000.wav|"The French are as ready to go from Florence as the wasps to leave a ripe pear when they have just fastened on it."|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000010_000004.wav|And Tito could never find it easy to face displeasure and anger; his nature was one of those most remote from defiance or impudence, and all his inclinations leaned towards preserving Romola's tenderness.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000022_000004.wav|However, he had put his heart into that."|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000010_000005.wav|He was not tormented by sentimental scruples which, as he had demonstrated to himself by a very rapid course of argument, had no relation to solid utility; but his freedom from scruples did not release him from the dread of what was disagreeable.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000004_000001.wav|Even you are getting tired, with all your patience, my Tito; confess it.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000025_000003.wav|I've taken care of that in my will."|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000013_000001.wav|It was a marked day to Romola, for Piero di Cosimo, stimulated to greater industry on her behalf by the fear that he might have been the cause of pain to her in the past week, had sent home her father's portrait.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000012_000000.wav|The rustling magnates came and went, the bargains had been concluded, and Romola returned home; but nothing grave was said that night.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000020_000000.wav|"No, child, no," said Bernardo, uncovering his grey head, as he seated himself with firm erectness.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000024_000000.wav|"And he was disappointed to the last," she said, involuntarily.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000031_000002.wav|This might be a woman's weakness, but it is closely allied to a woman's nobleness.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000028_000001.wav|I am glad to know that his value is understood."|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5604/26956/5604_26956_000025_000002.wav|Then, turning to her, and patting her cheek, said, "And you need not be afraid of my dying; my ghost will claim nothing.|5604
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000032_000003.wav|Then he dismounted, dropped the roan's reins, and proceeded on foot, stooping and silent, like an Indian.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000067_000000.wav|"It's funny," said the Kid, "how I feel.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000020_000001.wav|That sounded business like.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000039_000000.wav|"And then," said the girl, "you must bring your men here and kill him. If not, he will kill you."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000057_000004.wav|He might ruthlessly slay their husbands and brothers, but he could not have laid the weight of a finger in anger upon a woman. Wherefore many of that interesting division of humanity who had come under the spell of his politeness declared their disbelief in the stories circulated about mr Kid.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000038_000000.wav|"All right," said the stranger.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000067_000004.wav|The Guadalupe country is burning up about that old Dutchman I plugged down there."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000024_000001.wav|The roan whickered; for he had a sense of locality and direction equal to that of a belt line street car horse; and he knew he would soon be nibbling the rich mesquite grass at the end of a forty foot stake rope while Ulysses rested his head in Circe's straw roofed hut.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000033_000000.wav|The Kid crept noiselessly to the very edge of the pear thicket and reconnoitred between the leaves of a clump of cactus.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000056_000001.wav|"But if you'll run in, /chica/, and throw a pot of coffee together while I attend to the /caballo/, I'll be a good deal obliged."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000052_000002.wav|The Kid looked at her fondly.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000016_000003.wav|As for the humming bird part of her, that dwelt in her heart; you could not perceive it unless her bright red skirt and dark blue blouse gave you a symbolic hint of the vagarious bird.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000025_000001.wav|With dismal monotony and startling variety the uncanny and multiform shapes of the cacti lift their twisted trunks, and fat, bristly hands to encumber the way.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000028_000001.wav|He knew but one tune and sang it, as he knew but one code and lived it, and but one girl and loved her.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000012_000004.wav|I'm two seconds later in pulling a gun than I used to be, and the difference is worth thinking about.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000063_000000.wav|"I must go over to Fink's," said the Kid, rising, "for some tobacco.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000062_000000.wav|"Always the same, little one," said Tonia, her dark eyes lingering upon him.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000014.wav|An hour before daybreak this is to be.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000001_000000.wav|THE CABALLERO'S WAY|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000021_000002.wav|Thus he might bring down the kite and the humming bird with one stone.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000047_000001.wav|I'll get him by myself or not at all.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000058_000000.wav|Considering this extremely courteous idiosyncrasy of the Kid and the pride he took in it, one can perceive that the solution of the problem that was presented to him by what he saw and heard from his hiding place in the pear that afternoon (at least as to one of the actors) must have been obscured by difficulties.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000012_000007.wav|Maybe she-no, I don't suppose she would, but that /jacal/ would be a good place to watch, anyway."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000022_000000.wav|While the sunny haired ornithologist was pursuing his studies the Cisco Kid was also attending to his professional duties.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000029_000000.wav|Don't you monkey with my Lulu girl Or I'll tell you what I'll do-|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000063_000001.wav|I thought I had another sack in my coat.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000089_000000.wav|Just then all that Sandridge could think of to do was to go outside and throw himself face downward in the dust by the side of his humming bird, of whom not a feather fluttered.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000012_000003.wav|I have an idea you might run across him at-but I guess I don't keer to say, myself.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000017.wav|Knowing all, you should do that.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000052_000003.wav|His thick, black hair clung to his head like a wrinkled mat.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000052_000001.wav|He dismounted, and his girl sprang into his arms.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000016_000000.wav|As for Tonia, though she sends description to the poorhouse, let her make a millionaire of your fancy.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000019_000000.wav|Which leads to a suspicion that the Kid's fences needed repairing, and that the adjutant general's sarcasm had fallen upon unproductive soil.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000058_000001.wav|And yet one could not think of the Kid overlooking little matters of that kind.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000012_000002.wav|This /hombre/ they call the Kid-Goodall is his name, ain't it?--he's been in my store once or twice.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000049_000002.wav|No sound or movement disturbed the serenity of the dense pear thicket ten yards away.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000013_000002.wav|The goats were enclosed for the night in a brush corral near by.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000087_000001.wav|"Who wrote it?"|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000056_000000.wav|"Not if the court knows itself do I let a lady stake my horse for me," said he.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000057_000003.wav|He could not have spoken a harsh word to a woman.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000032_000000.wav|As though he were in a circus ring the speckled roan wheeled and danced through the labyrinth of pear until at length his rider knew by certain landmarks that the Lone Wolf Crossing was close at hand.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000013_000003.wav|A few kids walked the top of it, nibbling the chaparral leaves.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000091_000000.wav|Don't you monkey with my Lulu girl Or I'll tell you what I'll do-|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000053_000000.wav|"How's my girl?" he asked, holding her close.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000001.wav|Hardly had you ridden away when he came out of the pear.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000004.wav|Soon he said he must leave before daylight when it is dark and stillest.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000002.wav|When he first talked he said he would stay three days or more.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000015_000004.wav|Even the Kid, in spite of his achievements, was a stripling no larger than herself, with black, straight hair and a cold, marble face that chilled the noonday.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000050_000000.wav|When the form of Sandridge had disappeared, loping his big dun down the steep banks of the Frio crossing, the Kid crept back to his own horse, mounted him, and rode back along the tortuous trail he had come.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000079_000001.wav|"The girl's got him trapped.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000026_000000.wav|To be lost in the pear is to die almost the death of the thief on the cross, pierced by nails and with grotesque shapes of all the fiends hovering about.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000074_000001.wav|Sandridge and one or two others turned out to investigate the row.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000012.wav|This before he goes, so he can tell if I am true and if men are hidden to shoot him.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000080_000000.wav|Sandridge saddled his horse and rode to the Lone Wolf Crossing.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000054_000003.wav|But you are here, beloved one, and I will not scold.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000010.wav|To escape he says he will dress in my clothes, my red skirt and the blue waist I wear and the brown mantilla over the head, and thus ride away.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000059_000002.wav|Tonia washed the few dishes while the Kid dried them with the flour sacking towel. Her eyes shone; she chatted volubly of the inconsequent happenings of her small world since the Kid's last visit; it was as all his other home comings had been.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000079_000000.wav|"I'll get him easy enough," said the lieutenant.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000037_000001.wav|Soon he will be here.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000032_000002.wav|A few yards farther the Kid stopped the roan and gazed intently through the prickly openings.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000019.wav|It is dark in there.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000057_000001.wav|He was /muy caballero/, as the Mexicans express it, where the ladies were concerned.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000020_000003.wav|A six strand plait is hard to learn and easy to teach.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000083_000000.wav|"Throw up your hands," he ordered loudly, stepping out of the wagon shed with his Winchester at his shoulder.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000054_000001.wav|"My eyes are dim with always gazing into that devil's pincushion through which you come.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000016_000001.wav|Her blue black hair, smoothly divided in the middle and bound close to her head, and her large eyes full of the Latin melancholy, gave her the Madonna touch.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000090_000000.wav|A mile away the rider who had ridden past the wagon shed struck up a harsh, untuneful song, the words of which began:|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000089_000001.wav|He was not a /caballero/ by instinct, and he could not understand the niceties of revenge.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000051_000001.wav|He stopped and waited in the silent depths of the pear until half an hour had passed.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000010_000002.wav|One and all they lounged with upturned palms and shrugging shoulders, filling the air with "/quien sabes/" and denials of the Kid's acquaintance.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000041_000000.wav|"He must die," said the girl.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000079_000002.wav|And don't even think he'll get the drop on me."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000063_000002.wav|I'll be back in a quarter of an hour."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000037_000003.wav|When he is that near he always comes.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000016_000002.wav|Her motions and air spoke of the concealed fire and the desire to charm that she had inherited from the /gitanas/ of the Basque province.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000035_000001.wav|A gun scabbard will make that sound when one grasps the handle of a six shooter suddenly.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000047_000002.wav|The Cap wrote one or two things to me that make me want to do the trick without any help.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000046_000003.wav|And bring many men with thee, and have much care, oh, dear red one, for the rattlesnake is not quicker to strike than is '/El Chivato/,' as they call him, to send a ball from his /pistola/."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000023_000002.wav|He wanted her to call his bloodthirstiness bravery and his cruelty devotion.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000067_000002.wav|I never had mullygrubs like them before.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000080_000001.wav|He tied his big dun in a clump of brush on the arroyo, took his Winchester from its scabbard, and carefully approached the Perez /jacal/.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000059_000001.wav|Afterward, the ancestor, his flock corralled, smoked a cigarette and became a mummy in a grey blanket.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000071_000000.wav|The Kid looked keenly into the shadows up and down the arroyo and toward the dim lights of the Mexican village.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000015_000000.wav|Never before had Tonia seen such a man as this.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000003_000003.wav|He had escaped capture because he could shoot five sixths of a second sooner than any sheriff or ranger in the service, and because he rode a speckled roan horse that knew every cow path in the mesquite and pear thickets from San Antonio to Matamoras.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000064_000001.wav|Will you be gone again to morrow, leaving me to grieve, or will you be longer with your Tonia?"|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000040_000001.wav|"It's kill or be killed for the officer that goes up against mr Cisco Kid."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000020_000002.wav|Twice a week he rode over to the Lone Wolf Crossing of the Frio, and directed Tonia's slim, slightly lemon tinted fingers among the intricacies of the slowly growing lariata.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000015_000003.wav|The men she had known had been small and dark.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000043_000000.wav|Tonia dropped the lariat, twisted herself around, and curved a lemon tinted arm over the ranger's shoulder.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000074_000003.wav|Old Luisa, the /lavendera/, had persuaded him to bring it, he said, her son Gregorio being too ill of a fever to ride.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000044_000003.wav|Let him die; for then I will not be filled with fear by day and night lest he hurt thee or me."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000080_000002.wav|There was only the half of a high moon drifted over by ragged, milk white gulf clouds.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000074_000000.wav|At midnight a horseman rode into the rangers' camp, blazing his way by noisy "halloes" to indicate a pacific mission.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000014_000000.wav|The Cisco Kid was a vain person, as all eminent and successful assassins are, and his bosom would have been ruffled had he known that at a simple exchange of glances two persons, in whose minds he had been looming large, suddenly abandoned (at least for the time) all thought of him.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000036_000000.wav|And then, in the shadow of death, they began to talk of their love; and in the still July afternoon every word they uttered reached the ears of the Kid.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000013.wav|It is a terrible thing.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000007.wav|I swear to him that I love him, his own Tonia.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000022_000001.wav|He moodily shot up a saloon in a small cow village on Quintana Creek, killed the town marshal (plugging him neatly in the centre of his tin badge), and then rode away, morose and unsatisfied.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000084_000000.wav|There was a quick turn of the figure, but no movement to obey, so the ranger pumped in the bullets-one-two-three-and then twice more; for you never could be too sure of bringing down the Cisco Kid.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000048_000001.wav|"I knew you were braver than that small slayer of men who never smiles. How could I ever have thought I cared for him?"|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000081_000000.wav|The wagon shed was an excellent place for ambush; and the ranger got inside it safely.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000075_000000.wav|Sandridge lighted the camp lantern and read the letter.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000084_000001.wav|There was no danger of missing at ten paces, even in that half moonlight.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000061_000000.wav|"Do you love me just the same, old girl?" asked the Kid, hunting for his cigarette papers.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000006_000000.wav|The captain turned the colour of brick dust under his tan, and forwarded the letter, after adding a few comments, per ranger Private Bill Adamson, to ranger Lieutenant Sandridge, camped at a water hole on the Nueces with a squad of five men in preservation of law and order.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000035_000000.wav|Sandridge glanced quickly at the dark mass of pear when he heard a slight squeaking sound that was not altogether unfamiliar.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000008.wav|Last of all he said I must prove to him I am true.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000028_000003.wav|He had a voice like a coyote with bronchitis, but whenever he chose to sing his song he sang it.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000025_000002.wav|The demon plant, appearing to live without soil or rain, seems to taunt the parched traveller with its lush grey greenness.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000044_000000.wav|"But then," she murmured in liquid Spanish, "I had not beheld thee, thou great, red mountain of a man!|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000010_000001.wav|It had been one of the Kid's pastimes to shoot Mexicans "to see them kick": if he demanded from them moribund Terpsichorean feats, simply that he might be entertained, what terrible and extreme penalties would be certain to follow should they anger him!|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000046_000000.wav|"When he comes," said Tonia, "he remains two days, sometimes three. Gregorio, the small son of old Luisa, the /lavendera/, has a swift pony.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000057_000006.wav|When confronted by their indignant men folk with proof of the /caballero's/ deeds of infamy, they said maybe he had been driven to it, and that he knew how to treat a lady, anyhow.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000003_000000.wav|The Kid was twenty five, looked twenty; and a careful insurance company would have estimated the probable time of his demise at, say, twenty six.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000044_000001.wav|And thou art kind and good, as well as strong.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000017_000001.wav|Tonia brought it from the red jar hanging under the brush shelter.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000013_000001.wav|The sun was low, and the broad shade of the great pear thicket already covered the grass thatched hut.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000070_000000.wav|"Remain with your Tonia; no one will find you here."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000057_000000.wav|Besides his marksmanship the Kid had another attribute for which he admired himself greatly.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000069_000001.wav|Somebody might get hurt that oughtn't to."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000078_000000.wav|Sandridge quickly explained to his men the official part of the missive.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000075_000001.wav|These were its words:|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000048_000000.wav|"I will send you the message by the boy Gregorio," said the girl.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000035_000002.wav|But the sound was not repeated; and Tonia's fingers needed close attention.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000025_000003.wav|It warps itself a thousand times about what look to be open and inviting paths, only to lure the rider into blind and impassable spine defended "bottoms of the bag," leaving him to retreat, if he can, with the points of the compass whirling in his head.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000007_000000.wav|Lieutenant Sandridge turned a beautiful /couleur de rose/ through his ordinary strawberry complexion, tucked the letter in his hip pocket, and chewed off the ends of his gamboge moustache.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000012_000005.wav|But this Kid's got a half Mexican girl at the Crossing that he comes to see.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000057_000005.wav|One shouldn't believe everything one heard, they said.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000023_000003.wav|He wanted Tonia to bring him water from the red jar under the brush shelter, and tell him how the /chivo/ was thriving on the bottle.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000020.wav|He will wear my red skirt and blue waist and brown mantilla.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000037_000002.wav|A /vaquero/ at the /tienda/ said to day he saw him on the Guadalupe three days ago.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000076_000005.wav|And then he seemed to suspect that I be not true to him.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000082_000002.wav|Sandridge thought he would take his chance then before Tonia rode back.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000051_000000.wav|But not far.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000024_000000.wav|The Kid turned the speckled roan's head up the ten mile pear flat that stretches along the Arroyo Hondo until it ends at the Lone Wolf Crossing of the Frio.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000085_000000.wav|The old ancestor, asleep on his blanket, was awakened by the shots. Listening further, he heard a great cry from some man in mortal distress or anguish, and rose up grumbling at the disturbing ways of moderns.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000078_000001.wav|The rangers protested against his going alone.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000068_000000.wav|"You are not afraid-no one could make my brave little one fear."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000064_000000.wav|"Hasten," said Tonia, "and tell me-how long shall I call you my own this time?|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000034_000002.wav|But if all must be told, there is to be added that her head reposed against the broad and comfortable chest of a tall red and yellow man, and that his arm was about her, guiding her nimble fingers that required so many lessons at the intricate six strand plait.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000012_000001.wav|"They're afraid to tell.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000082_000001.wav|And then the other figure, in skirt, waist, and mantilla over its head, stepped out into the faint moonlight, gazing after the rider.|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000038_000001.wav|"And then what?"|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8404/282926/8404_282926_000065_000000.wav|"Oh, I might stay two or three days this trip," said the Kid, yawning. "I've been on the dodge for a month, and I'd like to rest up."|8404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000010_000000.wav|"Of course.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000031_000004.wav|Miss Bruce knows little, and cares less, about me; and beware how you say to the contrary!--And now for the plain fact.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000011.wav|If he is an honourable man, all may turn out well.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000013_000001.wav|Mr Hope must have justice, and you have no one to blame but yourself that justice must be done at your expense.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000008_000001.wav|We brought him with us last night; and he is to go at once into my mother's house.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000031_000005.wav|I am engaged elsewhere."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000028_000000.wav|"I said so, because it is true."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000044_000002.wav|I shall deny the engagement everywhere."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000041_000003.wav|I own, Priscilla, I would fain bestow on Margaret a sister whom she might respect rather than forgive."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000024_000000.wav|"You are very good: but I know what I am about, and I shall proceed in my own way.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000048_000001.wav|I was extremely glad to arrive when I did.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000027_000000.wav|"What I have to say is not finished.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000043_000000.wav|"Very few; for your sake, scarcely any.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000007_000000.wav|"Whose care?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000048_000003.wav|Now, if you have nothing more to say to me, I must go.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000030_000002.wav|I have set my heart upon your marrying, and upon your marrying Mary Bruce.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000036_000001.wav|Margaret Ibbotson!|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000030_000000.wav|"If not precisely true when I said it, it was sure to be so soon; which is just the same thing.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000022_000000.wav|"You take the tone of defiance, I see, Philip.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000029_000000.wav|The cool assurance with which she said this was too much for Enderby's gravity.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000004_000002.wav|He knocked at their door when breakfast was finished, and sent to request Mrs Rowland's presence in the drawing room.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000036_000000.wav|"I dare say you are?|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000014_000000.wav|"Do what you will, Philip.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000041_000001.wav|To what extent they forgive is between God and themselves.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000020_000000.wav|"Oh, pray do not disturb yourself about that.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000041_000002.wav|You lie under their forgiveness, whether you will or not.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000015_000000.wav|"Ignorant and stupid as Deerbrook is about many things, Priscilla, it is not so wicked as to thank any one for waging a cowardly war against the good, for disparaging the able and accomplished, and fabricating and circulating injurious stories against people too magnanimous for the slanderer to understand."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000049_000000.wav|Philip fixed his eyes upon her with an earnestness from which, for one moment, she shrank; but she instantly rallied, and returned him a stare which lasted till she reached the door.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000040_000000.wav|"Thank you.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000004.wav|You know, also, that my mother has entire confidence in him, and that it will go near to break her heart to have him dismissed for any one else.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000039_000002.wav|Why will you not throw off the restraint of bad feelings, and do magnanimous justice to this family, and, having thus opened and freed your mind, glory in their goodness- the next best thing to being as good as they?|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000007.wav|I shall speak to Mr Walcot at once, before his intention to settle here is known."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000020_000002.wav|I am not afraid."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000009_000000.wav|"And, pray, does Rowland know of your having brought this stranger here?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000004_000001.wav|He went straight to his room, at his mother's old house, and did not breakfast with the Rowlands.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000048_000002.wav|It satisfied me as to the necessity of getting rid of these people; and it proved to Mr Walcot, as I observed to him at the time, how much he was wanted here.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000003_000000.wav|COMING TO AN UNDERSTANDING.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000008_000003.wav|I think myself extremely fortunate in having secured him. The chief reason, however, of my inviting him here was, that my poor mother might be properly taken care of.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000005.wav|This is the meaning of what I say.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000006.wav|As for what I mean to do-it is this.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000020_000001.wav|Mr Walcot knows me very well.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000001.wav|You do not know that he and his wife are not happy.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000005_000000.wav|There was all due politeness in Enderby's way of inducing his sister to sit down, and of asking after the health of herself and her children.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000019_000000.wav|"So much the worse for you, Priscilla.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000006_000002.wav|Mr Walcot's care will be new life to us."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000009.wav|Now for Mr Walcot!|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000006.wav|She does not suffer from these things as she did.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000014_000001.wav|My first duty is to take care of the health of my parent and my children; and if, by the same means, Deerbrook is provided with a medical man worthy of its confidence, all Deerbrook will thank me."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000019_000001.wav|I shall explain the whole of Hope's case to Mr Walcot, avoiding, if possible, all exposure of you-."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000011_000001.wav|It is of a piece with the whole of your conduct, towards Mr Hope-conduct unpardonable for its untruthfulness, and hateful for its malice."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000046_000002.wav|Indeed, I think I have the majority with me now, as the events of last night pretty plainly show."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000024_000001.wav|I mean to get rid of these Hopes; and, perhaps, you may be surprised to see how soon I succeed."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000022_000001.wav|I have not the slightest objection.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000031_000002.wav|I will not have you take liberties with her name to me; and this is not the first time I have told you so.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000013_000002.wav|I give you fair notice that I shall discharge my duty fully, in the painful circumstances in which you have contrived to place all your family."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000011_000000.wav|"And now let me tell you, sister, that either Mr Walcot is not a man of honour, or you have misinformed him of the true state of affairs here: I suspect the latter to be the case.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000002.wav|Not the slightest compunction has she for having caused the misery she knows of: and not a whit would she relent, if she could become aware (which she never shall) of what she made Margaret suffer.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000021_000001.wav|If this gentleman be honourable, he will decline attending my mother, and go away more willingly than he came.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000010_000002.wav|As I tell you, he arrived with me, last night."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000046_000000.wav|"It will, when you are gone.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000039_000005.wav|Do but try-"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000047_000001.wav|Oh, Priscilla, I am unwilling to give you up!|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000008_000000.wav|"Mr Walcot's.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000043_000003.wav|You must now get out of the scrape in your own way."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000000.wav|"There is something almost sublime in audacity like this," thought he. "But it cannot last.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000039_000003.wav|You have power of mind to do this: the very force with which you persist in persecuting them shows that you have power for better things.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000047_000003.wav|Confide this to me now, and give yourself such ease as you yet can."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000006_000000.wav|"We are all wonderfully improved, thank you, brother.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000033_000000.wav|"Yes; I am."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER TWENTY NINE.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000039_000004.wav|Believe me, they are full of the spirit of forgiveness.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000025_000001.wav|I am sorry for you, if you cannot endure the presence of neighbours whose whole minds and conduct are noble and humane, and known by you to be so.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000041_000000.wav|"That is not for you to determine, happily.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000031_000000.wav|"Stop there!|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000008_000002.wav|He is a surgeon of the first degree of eminence.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000023_000002.wav|I give you peremptory warning, leaving you opportunity to retrieve yourself, to repair the mischief you have done, and to alleviate the misery which I see is coming upon you."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000039_000000.wav|"They will be happy with their greatness and loveliness, sister; for it is Heaven's decree that they should.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000045_000000.wav|"That will hardly avail against my testimony."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000008_000005.wav|Now that she will be in good hands, I shall feel that I have done my duty."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000038_000000.wav|"I hope you will all make yourselves happy with your greatness and your beauty: for these friends of yours seem likely to have little else left to comfort themselves with."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000005.wav|No; not the only comfort.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000016_000000.wav|"I do not know what you mean, Philip."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000018_000000.wav|"You are too late, my dear sir.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000040_000002.wav|If they forgive me for anything, it shall be for my power."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000010.wav|I must catch him as he comes out of church, and see what I can make of him.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000031_000003.wav|It is not true that she would like it-no more true than many other things that you have said: and if you were to repeat it till night, it would make no sort of impression upon me.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000048_000000.wav|"Thank you: but you are quite mistaken.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000017_000002.wav|You know that Hope is an able and most humane man in his profession, and that he does not steal dead bodies.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000030_000001.wav|I mean that it shall be true.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000025_000003.wav|I would have you look to it."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000025_000000.wav|"The Hopes shall remain as long as they wish to stay, if truth can prevail against falsehood.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000047_000002.wav|Let me hope, that the pride, the insane pride of this morning, is but the reaction of your internal suffering from witnessing the results of your influence in the outrages of last night.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000026_000000.wav|"Is your sermon ended?|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000050_000001.wav|It comes from internal torture-a thing as necessarily temporary as faith (the source of the other kind of strength) is durable.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/19665/4586_19665_000034_000000.wav|"You will marry no one but Mary Bruce at last, you will see, whatever you may think now."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000029_000000.wav|"Three days!|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000021_000002.wav|Have you nothing more to communicate?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000054_000000.wav|"Fits!" he exclaimed, with a triumphant gesticulation, "Dog goned if it don't!"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000009_000001.wav|Looked upon by the officers as a sort of privileged character, he had the entree at all times, and could go in without countersign, or any of the other formalities usually demanded from a stranger.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000004_000000.wav|It was the former he intended to reach-which he did in a ride of less than a quarter of an hour.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000005_000001.wav|The old mare could go fast enough when required-that is when Zeb required her and he had a mode of quickening her speed-known only to himself, and only employed upon extraordinary occasions.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000044_000000.wav|He looked round, as if in search of some one to answer the interrogatory.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000051_000000.wav|Nothing loth, the "critter" came to a stand; Zeb, at the same time, flinging himself out of the saddle.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000053_000001.wav|It fitted.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000033_000002.wav|Innocent or guilty, for that time he shall be protected."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000023_000000.wav|"So far as I am concerned, I'm quite contented to wait for your return; the more willingly that I know you are acting on the side of justice. But what would you have me do?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000035_000001.wav|Mr Stump, you may rely upon my pledged word."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000039_000000.wav|On reaching the outskirts of Poindexter's plantation, he left the low lands of the Leona bottom, and spurred his old mare 'gainst the steep slope ascending to the upper plain.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000015_000000.wav|"I have.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000007_000000.wav|On the present occasion there was no necessity for such excessive speed; and the Fort was reached after fifteen minutes' sharp trotting.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000021_000001.wav|You know it already.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000015_000001.wav|You speak quite truly about that, Mr Stump.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000028_000003.wav|Kin ye promise me three days?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000005_000000.wav|Commonly it took him three to accomplish this distance; but on this occasion he was in an unusual state of excitement, and he made speed to correspond.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000048_000000.wav|It was now nearly due west, and at right angles to the different trails going towards the Rio Grande.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000025_000001.wav|You know that it must come on according to the usual process in the Criminal Court.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000031_000004.wav|I shall undertake to do that."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000015_000002.wav|And as to the power, I have that, too, in a certain sense.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000031_000003.wav|Even if the judge of the Supreme Court should require him to be delivered up inside that time, I can make objections that will delay his being taken from the guard house.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000032_000003.wav|Don't ask me who.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000015_000004.wav|I can go so far as to hinder any open violation of the law; but I cannot go against the law itself."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000025_000000.wav|"How long?|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000011_000003.wav|From your quick return, I can almost say you have.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000019_000001.wav|You may speak your mind freely."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000047_000000.wav|Having advanced about a mile in the direction of the Nueces river, he abruptly changed his course; but with a coolness that told of a predetermined purpose.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000049_000001.wav|No longer looking listlessly around, he sate stooping forward, his eye carefully scanning the sward, over a wide space on both sides of the path he was pursuing.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000011_000001.wav|Glad to see you so soon.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000037_000000.wav|With this complimentary leave taking the hunter strode out of head quarters, and made his way back to the place where he had left his old mare.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000010_000000.wav|From his first words, the latter appeared to have been expecting him.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000013_000000.wav|"In welcome.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000017_000000.wav|"Who?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000011_000005.wav|What have you learnt?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000040_000000.wav|He reached it, at a point where the chapparal impinged upon the prairie, and there reined up under the shade of a mezquit tree.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000041_000009.wav|But it want.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000025_000003.wav|But there is a party, who are crying out for vengeance; and he may be ruled by them."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000021_000000.wav|"That's my own belief.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000013_000001.wav|What is it you have to say?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000009_000000.wav|The old hunter had no difficulty in obtaining an interview with the military chief of Fort Inge.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000029_000001.wav|For what?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000024_000001.wav|The rest will be all right."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000049_000000.wav|There was a simultaneous change in his bearing-in the expression of his features-and his attitude in the saddle.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000011_000002.wav|Have you made any discovery in this queer affair?|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000030_000000.wav|"Afore the trial kims on."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000053_000000.wav|Then drawing the piece of curved iron out of his capacious pocket, he applied it to a hoof print conspicuously outlined in the turf.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000052_000000.wav|Leaving the old mare to ruminate upon this eccentric proceeding, he advanced a pace or two, and dropped down upon his knees.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61776/4586_61776_000003_000000.wav|After getting clear of the enclosures of Casa del Corvo, the hunter headed his animal up stream-in the direction of the Port and town.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000053_000000.wav|It was the name of Louise's brother.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000015_000000.wav|The Galwegian, believing it so, began uttering a series of lugubrious cries-the "keen" of Connemara.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000045_000001.wav|But there were wild words upon his lips that forbade it-suggesting only serious thoughts.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000020_000001.wav|He had already noticed the Panama hat, that still adhered to the head of the mustanger; and a strange thought at seeing it there, had passed through his mind.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000005_000000.wav|Fortunate for Zeb, that the mustanger's knife had been left upon land. As it was, he came near being throttled; and only after throwing aside his rifle, and employing all his strength, was he able to protect himself against the unlooked for assault.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000006_000000.wav|A struggle ensued, which ended in Zeb flinging his colossal arms around the young Irishman, and bearing him bodily to the bank.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000023_000000.wav|It was not from any suspicion of its being honestly in possession of him now wearing it that the hunter stooped down, and took it off with the design to examine it.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000043_000000.wav|In strong but tender arms the wounded man was transferred from the stretcher to the skin couch, on which he had been accustomed to repose.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000016_000002.wav|He's no more dead than you air-only fented.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000052_000000.wav|But there was another name also often pronounced-with speeches less pleasant to his ear.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000007_000000.wav|It was not all over.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000016_000009.wav|They air more like the claws o' a tom cat.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000032_000004.wav|How air it to be done?|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000025_000000.wav|"HENRY POINDEXTER."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000044_000002.wav|He was experiencing an interval of calm.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000054_000000.wav|The speeches were disjointed-incongruous, and almost unintelligible.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000008_000002.wav|It was for that the mustanger was making!|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000019_000000.wav|Zeb took no notice of these grotesque demonstrations; but, once more bending over the prostrate form, proceeded to complete the examination already begun.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000039_000000.wav|The idea was not altogether original.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000028_000002.wav|By the 'tarnal thur's somethin' goed astray!|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000016_000007.wav|What kin they be?|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000031_000000.wav|The hunter seemed to cogitate on how he was to effect this purpose.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000008_000000.wav|The hunter suspected his intent.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000020_000000.wav|Becoming satisfied that there was no serious wound, he rose to his feet, and commenced taking stock of the odd articles around him.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000035_000000.wav|In the mode of using it, it more resembled the latter than the former: since he who was to be borne upon it, again deliriously raging, had to be strapped to the trestles!|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000028_000000.wav|"Hats, heads, an everythin'.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000033_000001.wav|Two saplings of at least ten feet in length were cut from the chapparal, and trimmed clear of twigs.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000001_000000.wav|He had arrived within sight, and fortunately within rifle range of the spot, at that critical moment when the jaguar was preparing to spring.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000008_000001.wav|Standing over six feet, he saw the bloody knife blade lying along the cloak.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000010_000000.wav|"Speel up thur, Pheelum!" shouted he.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000044_000000.wav|He was unconscious of where he was, and knew not the friendly faces bending over him.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000017_000000.wav|The hunter had all the talking to himself.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000036_000000.wav|Unlike the ordinary stretcher, it was not carried between two men; but a man and a mare-the mare at the head, the man bearing behind.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000026_000000.wav|The cloak now came under his notice.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000021_000002.wav|It was possible he might have seen fit to change the fashion.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000016_000004.wav|No," he continued, after stooping down and giving a short examination, "I kin see no wound worth makin' a muss about.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000048_000000.wav|It was not from any unfaithfulness on the part of the foster brother, that he seemed thus to disregard his duty; but simply because Zeb had requested him to lie down-telling him there was no occasion for both to remain awake.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000012_000000.wav|Still the struggle was not over.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/61758/4586_61758_000051_000000.wav|He heard speeches that surprised him, and names that did not.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000039_000000.wav|She was still bewildered.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000040_000000.wav|"You said-"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000020_000002.wav|I thought it only right that you should know."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000018_000002.wav|"I like it too well, boy."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000010_000001.wav|Then his boldness returned.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000028_000000.wav|"mr|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000043_000001.wav|What I learned gives me a great advantage over Powart; that's all I can say.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000047_000000.wav|Which Fort did, the very next day.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000015_000001.wav|Mona gave him a glance or two, and Billie could see a startling change come over him.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000052_000002.wav|Are the men entirely content with their treatment?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000017_000003.wav|After that it is up to me!"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000025_000002.wav|I take it"--evenly-"that you hope to accomplish something-big?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000013_000000.wav|Fort looked as though he would, with an ounce more provocation, take her in his arms and say something to get quick results.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000035_000005.wav|He trumped up this affair in order to make himself dictator!"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000012_000002.wav|You're too well satisfied with yourself.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000046_000002.wav|"Come again any time you like."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000023_000002.wav|"On second thoughts, however, you can't afford to be other than considerate.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000035_000002.wav|Fort!" sharply.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000027_000000.wav|For the first time Powart laughed.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000037_000001.wav|"I beg your pardon?" she inquired, vastly confused.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000037_000000.wav|The girl's manner had changed again.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000026_000000.wav|Fort bowed.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000041_000002.wav|You were temporarily possessed." He paused again.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000014_000002.wav|"I said nothing about-you."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000023_000000.wav|"Quite so!|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000020_000000.wav|"I have the honor to inform you," said Fort, coming straight to the point, "that Miss Mona has seen fit to encourage my suit.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000036_000001.wav|The athlete was astounded.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000032_000001.wav|"Hope I didn't rouse you out of bed."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000034_000002.wav|Good luck"--another yawn-"and good-"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000012_000000.wav|"I think-I rather think I like you too well to marry you.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000032_000000.wav|"Thought you'd like to know," he finished.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000024_000001.wav|However, he spoke with his usual coolness and certainty.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000018_000001.wav|He seemed a trifle ashamed, however, of his old lightheartedness; so much so that Mona warned him not to tamper too much with his disposition.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000029_000000.wav|Fort dropped his seriousness for an instant.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000004_000000.wav|THE REBEL|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000036_000000.wav|"What!"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000010_000003.wav|And now that I've done it-do you love me well enough to marry me, Mona?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000031_000001.wav|He did it by telephone.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000041_000000.wav|"Mona, you told me something which could have come only through a supernatural agency.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000016_000001.wav|There was a determined, purposeful ring about it which was altogether unlike his usual reckless tones.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000023_000003.wav|If anything happens to me now, Miss Mona will naturally think of you; for she knows I have come here!"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000039_000001.wav|"I do not!" Then gathering her poise again, "What did I say?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000009_000002.wav|Didn't she?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000041_000001.wav|I am sure of it, from your manner.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000035_000004.wav|Never mind how I happen to know; it is true; they are not planning to invade us at all!|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000042_000002.wav|I have heard of such things before.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000016_000000.wav|"This makes everything very different!" he declared; and even his voice was altered.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000022_000000.wav|"You are considerate," he stated with the faintest trace of sarcasm. "Let me call your attention to the fact that, because of the position which recent events have forced upon me, it is quite within my power to dispose of your opposition"--significantly.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000036_000002.wav|"Are you sure of this, Mona?"|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000042_000001.wav|"It is not impossible.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000035_000003.wav|"Powart's declaration of war on Alma is a frame up!|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000018_000000.wav|Next instant he had thrown off his seriousness, and for the remainder of the flight was his former jovial self.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000052_000000.wav|"Then you can tell me.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000029_000002.wav|Thanks for the exemption.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000034_000001.wav|"I was just about to retire.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000017_000001.wav|"Clearly, I should tell him myself.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000014_000001.wav|"It's only fair to say that I've given him an ultimatum, too." She hinted at what she had told the chairman.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000013_000002.wav|"I see," pretty soberly, for him.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000005_000001.wav|They proceeded to a near by park, where a game of aerial punt ball was already in progress.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000003_000000.wav|thirteen|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000035_000001.wav|"mr|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000008_000000.wav|Finally the conversation made an opening for him to say, "I asked your mother, Mona, what she thought of me as a prospective son in law."|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000042_000003.wav|I was sleepy, and-the point is, what did I say?" she demanded.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000007_000001.wav|But Fort was content for a while to merely watch Mona, who was driving.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000013_000004.wav|Like Powart?" suddenly.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000031_000000.wav|A few minutes later Billie, through Mona, knew that Fort was reporting progress.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4586/96498/4586_96498_000033_000000.wav|It was night in Mona's part of the world, and Billie had come upon the girl just as she was preparing for bed.|4586
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000025_000000.wav|Selina, tittering, would have cleared up the mistake; but Ireton, laughing yet more heartily, made her a sign to let it pass.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000010_000000.wav|'But I should like to know,' cried Gooch, the young farmer, 'whether it be true, of a reality, that they've got such numbers and numbers, and millions and millions of red coats there, all made into generals, in the twinkling, as one may say, of an eye?'|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000038_000001.wav|She could not refuse, but her compliance was without any sort of exertion, from a desire to avoid, not promote similar calls for exhibition.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000028_000000.wav|The stranger declared her utter inability to comply with such a request.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000039_000000.wav|Elinor remarked to Harleigh, how inadequate were her talents to such a character.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000036_000001.wav|The book, therefore, was brought to her, with writing implements, and she dedicated herself so diligently to copying, that the following morning, when Miss Arbe was expected, the part was prepared.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000016_000000.wav|Every one else, absorbed in his part and himself, in the hope of being best, or the shame of being worst; in the fear of being out, or the confusion of not understanding what next was to be done, was regardless of all else but his own fancied reputation of the hour.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000032_000000.wav|She opened it, and found ten bank notes, of ten pounds each.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000005_000001.wav|But example has no more force without sympathy, than precept had without opinion!|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000027_000000.wav|'Don't let that young person go,' cried Miss Arbe, who had now finished the labours of her theatrical presidency, 'till I have heard her play and sing.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000040_000000.wav|Elinor herself, now, would only call the stranger Miss Ellis, a name which, she said, she verily believed that Miss Bydel, with all her stupidity, had hit upon, and which therefore, henceforth, should be adopted.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000008_000001.wav|She requested to have the book of the play; but Elinor, engaged in arranging the entrances and exits, did not heed her.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000023_000000.wav|Ireton, who had hitherto appeared decided not to take any notice of her, now exclaimed, with a laugh, 'I will tell you what her name is, Miss Bydel; 'tis l s'|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000022_000000.wav|'Nay,' said Miss Bydel, 'your name, at least, can be no such great secret, for you must be called something or other.'|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000017_000000.wav|Harleigh, however, as the play proceeded, and the inaccuracy of the performers demanded greater aid, found the patience of his judgment recompensed, and its appreciation of her talents just.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000006_000002.wav|I have ample business upon my hands, between my companions of the buskin, and this pragmatical old aunt; for Harleigh himself refused to act against her approbation, till I threatened to make over Lord Townly to Sir Lyell Sycamore, a smart beau at Brighthelmstone, that all the mammas and aunts are afraid of.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000009_000000.wav|It preserved her not, nevertheless, from a volley of questions, with which she was instantly assailed from various quarters.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000005_000002.wav|However, I'll get you a licence from Aunt Maple in a minute.'|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000008_000002.wav|Harleigh, however, comprehending the relief which any occupation for the eyes and hands might afford her, presented it to her himself.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000027_000001.wav|If she is so clever, as you describe her, she shall perform between the acts.'|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000009_000003.wav|Nothing is very strict.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000013_000000.wav|While the Incognita hesitated, Miss Bydel, a collateral and uneducated successor to a large and unexpected fortune, said, 'Pray, first of all, young woman, what took you over to foreign parts?|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000009_000002.wav|A man's wife and daughters belong to any man who has a taste to them, as I am informed.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000014_000000.wav|Elinor, now, being ready, cut short all further investigation by beginning the rehearsal.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000013_000001.wav|I should like to know that.'|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000012_000001.wav|Pray who were your masters?'|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000017_000001.wav|Her voice, from seeming feeble and monotonous, became clear and penetrating: it was varied, with the nicest discrimination, for the expression of every character, changing its modulation from tones of softest sensibility, to those of archest humour; and from reasoning severity, to those of uncultured rusticity.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000021_000000.wav|The Incognita coloured at this abrupt demand, but remained silent.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000024_000000.wav|The stranger dropt her eyes, but Miss Bydel, not comprehending that Ireton meant two initial letters, said.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000006_000003.wav|And then poor aunty was fain, herself, to request Harleigh to take the part.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000003_000000.wav|Two days afterwards, Elinor came to summon her to the drawing room.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000005_000000.wav|Elinor, when she had formed a wish, never listened to an objection. 'What an old fashioned style you prose in!' she cried; 'who could believe you came so lately from France?|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000020_000000.wav|'In the first place, tell me, if you please, what's your name?'|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000036_000000.wav|The stranger answered that she should gladly be useful in any way that could be proposed.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000038_000000.wav|The stranger was now summoned not only as prompter, but to read the part of Lady Townly.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000009_000001.wav|'I find Ma'am, you are lately come from abroad,' said Mr Scope, a gentleman self dubbed a deep politician, and who, in the most sententious manner, uttered the most trivial observations: 'I have no very high notion, I own, of the morals of those foreigners at this period.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000006_000004.wav|I could manage matters no other way.'|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000007_000000.wav|Personal remonstrances were vain, and the stranger was forced down stairs to the theatrical group.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000006_000000.wav|She went down stairs, and, returning almost immediately, cried, 'Aunt Maple is quite contented.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000015_000000.wav|During the first scenes, the voice of the Incognita was hardly audible. The constraint of her forced attendance, and the insurmountable awkwardness of her situation, made all exertion difficult, and her tones were so languid, and her pronunciation was so inarticulate, that Elinor began seriously to believe that she must still have recourse to Mr Creek.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000035_000000.wav|She was surprised, soon afterwards, by the sight of Selina. 'I would not let Mr Ireton hinder me from coming to you this once,' she cried, 'do what he could; for we are all in such a fidget, that there's only you, I really believe, can help us.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000037_000000.wav|Miss Arbe, however, came not; a note arrived in her stead, stating that she had been so exceedingly fatigued the preceding day, in giving so many directions, that she begged they would let somebody read her part, and rehearse without her; and she hoped that she should find them more advanced when she joined them on Monday.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/78885/6188_78885_000019_000000.wav|The stranger stood still.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000017_000003.wav|That girl that Harry has in tow may perhaps keep him away for some time."|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000021_000000.wav|"She can't eat you.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000018_000000.wav|"I tell you what, Hugh, you might as well call with me the first time."|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000005.wav|He was wretched at this time-ill satisfied with himself and others-and was no fitting companion for Cecilia Burton.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000008.wav|An unamiable man he was, but one whose heir would probably not quarrel with him-if only he would die soon enough.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000019_000001.wav|No, Archie; if you're afraid to go alone, you'd better give it up."|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000000.wav|But there had been another reason why Harry had not gone to Bolton Street, though he had not acknowledged it to himself.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000007_000002.wav|That was the necessity of Sir Hugh's position, and he could not avoid it unless he made it worth his while to quarrel with his brother. Archie was obedient, ringing the bell when he was told, looking after the horses, spying about, and perhaps saving as much money as he cost. But the matter was very different in Berkeley Square.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000003_000005.wav|He was, however, driven to resolve that he must go direct to Sophie, as otherwise he could find no means of doing as he had promised.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000006.wav|He searched for cheap shops; and some men began to say of him that he had found a cheap establishment for such wines as he did not drink himself!|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000007_000007.wav|But there was Archie's room, and Sir Hugh felt this to be a hardship.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000013_000001.wav|"You say things that, for folly and absurdity, are beyond belief.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000006.wav|The world still looked askance at Lady Ongar, and Hugh did not wish to take up the armor of a paladin in her favor.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000022_000000.wav|Here was a prospect for Julia Brabazon-to be led to the same altar, at which she had married Lord Ongar, by Archie Clavering, twelve month's after her first husband's death, and little more than two years after her first wedding!|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000002.wav|He could do the work better, he thought; down at Clavering than in London.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000005_000005.wav|He went about the town very wretchedly, looking for the Count, and regarding himself as a man specially marked out for sorrow by the cruel hand of misfortune.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000009.wav|Had he been now a free man-free from those chains with which he had fettered himself at Stratton-he would again have asked this woman for her love, in spite of her past treachery; but it would have been for her love, and not for her money, that he would have sought her.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000007.wav|In playing cards and in betting, he was very careful, never playing high, never risking much, but hoping to turn something by the end of the year, and angry with himself if he had not done so.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000008_000001.wav|And if the business on which Captain Clavering was now intent could be brought to a successful issue, the standing in the world of that young man would be very much altered.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000008_000005.wav|The expulsion, therefore, was not to take place till Archie should have made his attempt upon Lady Ongar.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000014_000001.wav|Of course it's peculiar.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000004.wav|Though he had already asked his sister in law to Clavering, when the idea had first come up, he was glad that she had declined the visit.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000007_000004.wav|And yet, from his boyhood upward, Archie had made good his footing in Berkeley Square.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000005_000004.wav|Though he swore to himself that he would not touch the dram, he would not dash down the full glass that was held to his lips.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000017_000002.wav|You have this great advantage over every one, except him, that you can go to her at once without doing anything out of the way.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000005_000003.wav|But this he abstained from doing.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000015_000000.wav|"If it had been four days it need have made no difference.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000010.wav|Was it his fault that he had loved her, that she had been false to him, and that she had now come back and thrown herself before him?|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000010_000000.wav|"She has only been a widow, you know, four months," said Archie, pleading for delay.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000014_000000.wav|"She is peculiar, of course-having so much money, and that place near Guilford, all her own for her life.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000001.wav|Sir Hugh was a man who strained an income, that was handsome and sufficient for a country gentleman, to the very utmost, wanting to get out of it more than it could be made to give.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000007_000005.wav|In the matter of the breakfast, Sir Hugh had indeed, of late, got the better of him.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000003.wav|He felt when there as the accustomed but repentant dram drinker might feel, when, having resolved to abstain, he is called upon to sit with the full glass offered before his lips.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000015_000001.wav|A home, with some one to support her, is everything to her.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000005_000002.wav|Let him write to her, and mention the fact, bringing it up as some little immaterial accident, and she would understand what he meant.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000003_000006.wav|She probably might put him on the scent of her brother.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000003.wav|He was possessed of a worldly wisdom which kept him from that folly, and taught him to appreciate fully the value of independence.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000003_000004.wav|On both the occasions of Harry's calling in Mount Street, the servant had asked him to go up and see madame; but he had declined to do so, pleading that he was hurried.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000007_000000.wav|He was partly driven to this by a desire to shake off the burden of his brother.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000012.wav|The arrangement would make the difference of considerably more than a thousand a year to him.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000015_000002.wav|If you wait till lots of fellows are buzzing around her you won't have a chance.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000015.wav|But why keep up a house in Berkeley Square, as Lady Clavering did not use it?|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000020_000001.wav|I'm not afraid!"|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000015_000003.wav|You'll find that by this time next year she'll be the top of the fashion; and if not engaged to you, she will be to some one else.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000008_000002.wav|Then he would be a brother of whom Sir Hugh might be proud-a brother who would pay his way, and settle his points at whist if he lost them, even to a brother.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000010.wav|Lady Clavering had usually lived there during the season; or, as had latterly been the case, during only a part of the season.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000027_000000.wav|"Yes, that's true, to be sure," said Archie; and on that point he went forth satisfied.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000007.wav|If Archie married her, Archie would be the paladin; though, indeed, in that case, no paladin would be needed.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000008_000000.wav|The present was not the moment for actually driving forth the intruder, for Archie was now up in London, especially under his brother's auspices.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000026_000001.wav|Judge not, that you be not judged."|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000019_000000.wav|"So that I may quarrel with her, which I certainly should do-or, rather, she with me.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000006.wav|The world, he thought, had used him ill.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000025_000000.wav|"Because I shouldn't like-"|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000009.wav|He had always had a house in town-a moderate house in Berkeley Square, which belonged to him, and had belonged to his father before him.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000011_000001.wav|"I don't know whether there is much of delicacy in it at all."|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000013.wav|For himself, he would take lodgings.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000005.wav|He had a great eye to discount, and looked closely into his bills.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000000.wav|But Sir Hugh would admit of no delay, whereas Archie himself seemed to think that the iron was not yet quite hot enough for striking.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000006_000002.wav|He was not a man to be in debt, or indulge himself with present pleasures to be paid for out of the funds of future years.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000013_000000.wav|"Archie, you are a fool," said Sir Hugh; and Archie could see, by his brother's brow, that Hugh was angry.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000005_000001.wav|Let him but once communicate to Lady Ongar the fact of his engagement, and the danger would be over, though much, perhaps, of the misery might remain.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000008_000004.wav|He would have bells of his own, and stables, too, and perhaps some captain of his own to ring them and look after them.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000002.wav|He feared that he would be led on to betray himself and to betray Florence-to throw himself at Julia's feet and sacrifice his honesty, in spite of all his resolutions to the contrary.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000001.wav|It would be better, he had suggested, to postpone the work till Julia could be coaxed down to Clavering in the Autumn.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000003_000001.wav|He had professed to himself that his reason for not going there was the non performance of the commission which Lady Ongar had given him with reference to Count Pateroff.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000011_000000.wav|"Delicate!" said Sir Hugh.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000007_000001.wav|When Archie chose to go to Clavering, the house was open to him.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000003_000002.wav|He had not yet succeeded in catching the Count, though he had twice asked for him in Mount Street and twice at the club in Pall Mall. It appeared that the Count never went to Mount Street, and was very rarely seen at the club.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000001_000000.wav|Chapter eighteen|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000021_000004.wav|It couldn't be done, I suppose, till after a year; and in that case she shall be married at Clavering."|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000003.wav|But Sir Hugh was altogether of a different opinion.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000021_000002.wav|She knows what she is about, and will understand what she has to get as well as what she is expected to give.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000003_000003.wav|There was some other club which he frequented, and Harry did not know what club.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000008_000003.wav|If Archie could induce Lady Ongar to marry him, he would not be called upon any longer to ring the bells and look after the stable.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000013.wav|The world had been very cruel to him, and he could not go to Onslow Crescent, and behave there prettily, hearing the praises of Florence with all the ardor of a discreet lover.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000009_000005.wav|Her coming might be very well, if she accepted Archie; but he did not want to be troubled with any renewal of his responsibility respecting her, if, as was more probable, she should reject him.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000010_000001.wav|"It won't be delicate, will it?"|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000012_000001.wav|If you were to die, you'd think it very odd if any fellow came up to Hermy before the season was over.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000004_000008.wav|It was not for her money that he had regarded her.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6188/73024/6188_73024_000005_000006.wav|Lady Ongar, in the meantime, was expecting him, and was waxing angry and becoming bitter toward him because he came not.|6188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000062_000000.wav|"That is true," answered the marquis.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000009_000000.wav|"Marquise, marquise!" interposed the old nobleman who had proposed the toast, "let the young people alone; let me tell you, on one's wedding day there are more agreeable subjects of conversation than dry politics."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000076_000001.wav|Ample corroboration of this statement may be obtained by arresting the above mentioned Edmond Dantes, who either carries the letter for Paris about with him, or has it at his father's abode.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000012_000001.wav|"I forgive you.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000082_000000.wav|"And where is the unfortunate being?" asked Renee.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000084_000001.wav|You are the king's servant, and must go wherever that service calls you."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000008_000000.wav|"I beg your pardon, madame.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000021_000001.wav|Come, now, I have hopes of obtaining what I have been for years endeavoring to persuade the marquise to promise; namely, a perfect amnesty and forgetfulness of the past."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000014_000000.wav|"He!" cried the marquise: "Napoleon the type of equality!|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000008_000001.wav|I really must pray you to excuse me, but-in truth-I was not attending to the conversation."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000084_000000.wav|"Come, come, my friend," interrupted the marquise, "do not neglect your duty to linger with us.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000020_000001.wav|What avails recrimination over matters wholly past recall?|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000023_000001.wav|I have already successfully conducted several public prosecutions, and brought the offenders to merited punishment.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000017_000000.wav|"'tis true, madame," answered he, "that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king's death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000013_000000.wav|"They had, however, what supplied the place of those fine qualities," replied the young man, "and that was fanaticism.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000013_000001.wav|Napoleon is the Mahomet of the West, and is worshipped by his commonplace but ambitions followers, not only as a leader and lawgiver, but also as the personification of equality."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000041_000001.wav|'tis like a duel.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000043_000002.wav|Besides, one requires the excitement of being hateful in the eyes of the accused, in order to lash one's self into a state of sufficient vehemence and power. I would not choose to see the man against whom I pleaded smile, as though in mockery of my words.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000059_000002.wav|I should myself have recommended the match, had not the noble marquis anticipated my wishes by requesting my consent to it.'"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000036_000000.wav|"Then all he has got to do is to endeavor to repair it."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000054_000001.wav|Do you know I always felt a shudder at the idea of even a destroying angel?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000074_000000.wav|"Can I believe my ears?" cried the marquise.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000067_000002.wav|Renee regarded him with fond affection; and certainly his handsome features, lit up as they then were with more than usual fire and animation, seemed formed to excite the innocent admiration with which she gazed on her graceful and intelligent lover.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000019_000000.wav|"Dear mother," interposed Renee, "you know very well it was agreed that all these disagreeable reminiscences should forever be laid aside."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000025_000001.wav|Napoleon, in the Island of Elba, is too near France, and his proximity keeps up the hopes of his partisans. Marseilles is filled with half pay officers, who are daily, under one frivolous pretext or other, getting up quarrels with the royalists; from hence arise continual and fatal duels among the higher classes of persons, and assassinations in the lower."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000031_000000.wav|"So much the better.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000090_000000.wav|"Upon my word, child!" exclaimed the angry marquise, "your folly exceeds all bounds.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000073_000000.wav|"Why, if my information prove correct, a sort of Bonaparte conspiracy has just been discovered."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000005_000001.wav|It was not over the downfall of the man, but over the defeat of the Napoleonic idea, that they rejoiced, and in this they foresaw for themselves the bright and cheering prospect of a revivified political existence.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000039_000001.wav|The prisoner whom you there see pale, agitated, and alarmed, instead of-as is the case when a curtain falls on a tragedy-going home to sup peacefully with his family, and then retiring to rest, that he may recommence his mimic woes on the morrow,--is removed from your sight merely to be reconducted to his prison and delivered up to the executioner.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000064_000000.wav|"That is right," cried the marquise.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000022_000000.wav|"With all my heart," replied the marquise; "let the past be forever forgotten.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000029_000000.wav|"For heaven's sake, where is that?" asked the marquise.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000044_000000.wav|"Bravo!" cried one of the guests; "that is what I call talking to some purpose."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000068_000001.wav|Well, I at least resemble the disciples of Esculapius in one thing-that of not being able to call a day my own, not even that of my betrothal."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000078_000000.wav|"True; but that gentleman being absent, his secretary, by his orders, opened his letters; thinking this one of importance, he sent for me, but not finding me, took upon himself to give the necessary orders for arresting the accused party."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000030_000000.wav|"An island situated on the other side of the equator, at least two thousand leagues from here," replied the count.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000071_000000.wav|"How dreadful!" exclaimed Renee, turning pale.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000006_000003.wav|In a word, an almost poetical fervor prevailed.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000028_000000.wav|"To Saint Helena."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000037_000000.wav|"Nay, madame, the law is frequently powerless to effect this; all it can do is to avenge the wrong done."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000079_000000.wav|"Then the guilty person is absolutely in custody?" said the marquise.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000022_000001.wav|I promise you it affords me as little pleasure to revive it as it does you.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000063_000001.wav|What is there I would not do to evince my earnest gratitude!"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000089_000000.wav|"These are mournful auspices to accompany a betrothal," sighed poor Renee.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000005_000000.wav|The magistrates freely discussed their political views; the military part of the company talked unreservedly of Moscow and Leipsic, while the women commented on the divorce of Josephine.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000041_000000.wav|"What would you have?|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000024_000000.wav|"Do you, indeed, think so?" inquired the marquise.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000023_000002.wav|But we have not done with the thing yet."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000001_000000.wav|Chapter six.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000046_000001.wav|Upon my word, you killed him ere the executioner had laid his hand upon him."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000080_000001.wav|You know we cannot yet pronounce him guilty."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000086_000000.wav|The young man passed round to the side of the table where the fair pleader sat, and leaning over her chair said tenderly,--|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000066_000001.wav|If you wish to see me the king's attorney, you must desire for me some of those violent and dangerous diseases from the cure of which so much honor redounds to the physician."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000077_000000.wav|"But," said Renee, "this letter, which, after all, is but an anonymous scrawl, is not even addressed to you, but to the king's attorney."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000087_000000.wav|"To give you pleasure, my sweet Renee, I promise to show all the lenity in my power; but if the charges brought against this Bonapartist hero prove correct, why, then, you really must give me leave to order his head to be cut off." Renee shuddered.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000045_000000.wav|"Just the person we require at a time like the present," said a second.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000006_000002.wav|This toast, recalling at once the patient exile of Hartwell and the peace loving King of France, excited universal enthusiasm; glasses were elevated in the air a l'Anglais, and the ladies, snatching their bouquets from their fair bosoms, strewed the table with their floral treasures.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000039_000003.wav|Of this, however, be assured, that should any favorable opportunity present itself, I will not fail to offer you the choice of being present."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000090_000001.wav|I should be glad to know what connection there can possibly be between your sickly sentimentality and the affairs of the state!"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000015_000001.wav|The only difference consists in the opposite character of the equality advocated by these two men; one is the equality that elevates, the other is the equality that degrades; one brings a king within reach of the guillotine, the other elevates the people to a level with the throne.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000039_000000.wav|"Amusing, certainly," replied the young man, "inasmuch as, instead of shedding tears as at the fictitious tale of woe produced at a theatre, you behold in a law court a case of real and genuine distress-a drama of life.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000064_000001.wav|"I love to see you thus.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000041_000002.wav|I have already recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharpened, and only waiting a favorable opportunity to be buried in my heart?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000012_000000.wav|"Never mind, Renee," replied the marquise, with a look of tenderness that seemed out of keeping with her harsh dry features; but, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the desert of her heart, and that is the shrine of maternal love.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000048_000000.wav|"Why, that is the very worst offence they could possibly commit; for, don't you see, Renee, the king is the father of his people, and he who shall plot or contrive aught against the life and safety of the parent of thirty two millions of souls, is a parricide upon a fearfully great scale?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000063_000000.wav|"How much do I owe this gracious prince!|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000057_000000.wav|"And one which will go far to efface the recollection of his father's conduct," added the incorrigible marquise.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000070_000000.wav|"For a very serious matter, which bids fair to make work for the executioner."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000091_000000.wav|"O mother!" murmured Renee.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000043_000003.wav|No; my pride is to see the accused pale, agitated, and as though beaten out of all composure by the fire of my eloquence." Renee uttered a smothered exclamation.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000064_000002.wav|Now, then, were a conspirator to fall into your hands, he would be most welcome."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86710/7117_86710_000072_000000.wav|"Is it possible?" burst simultaneously from all who were near enough to the magistrate to hear his words.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000027_000000.wav|"Well, sir, I was educated at home by a poor devil of an abbe, who disappeared suddenly.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000023_000000.wav|"You keep the registers of entries and departures?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000082_000000.wav|As we have said, the inspector, from discretion, and that he might not disturb the Abbe Faria's pupil in his researches, had seated himself in a corner, and was reading Le Drapeau Blanc.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000063_000000.wav|"So can I," said the Englishman, and he laughed too; but he laughed as the English do, "at the end of his teeth."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000045_000000.wav|"This dangerous man's name was"--|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000078_000000.wav|Edmond Dantes.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000042_000002.wav|The Englishman smiled imperceptibly.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000026_000000.wav|"There are special reports on every prisoner."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000014_000001.wav|Our house," added the Englishman with a laugh, "does not do things in that way."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000046_000000.wav|"Edmond Dantes.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000071_000000.wav|"Oh, yes; and they may have the fact attested whenever they please."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000011_000000.wav|"You?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000034_000000.wav|"He pretended to know of an immense treasure, and offered vast sums to the government if they would liberate him."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000004_000002.wav|He has lost four or five vessels, and suffered by three or four bankruptcies; but it is not for me, although I am a creditor myself to the amount of ten thousand francs, to give any information as to the state of his finances.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000018_000002.wav|Whatever you say."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000046_000001.wav|It appears, sir, that this Edmond Dantes had procured tools, or made them, for they found a tunnel through which the prisoners held communication with one another."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000083_000000.wav|"Thanks," said the latter, closing the register with a slam, "I have all I want; now it is for me to perform my promise.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000069_000000.wav|"Yes, yes, the mortuary deposition.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000038_000000.wav|"I recollect this, because the poor devil's death was accompanied by a singular incident."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000021_000000.wav|"You are the inspector of prisons?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000074_000001.wav|For the story?|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000069_000001.wav|You understand, Dantes' relations, if he had any, might have some interest in knowing if he were dead or alive."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000065_000000.wav|"Unquestionably."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000022_000000.wav|"I have been so these fourteen years."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000057_000000.wav|"Well," observed the Englishman as if he were slow of comprehension.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000067_000000.wav|"Precisely."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000024_000000.wav|"I do."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000073_000001.wav|Excuse me."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000041_000000.wav|"Indeed!" said the Englishman.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000017_000000.wav|"That's no affair of mine," replied the Englishman, "that is the affair of the house of Thomson and French, in whose name I act.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000053_000000.wav|"How was that?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000074_000000.wav|"Excuse you for what?|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000035_000000.wav|"Poor devil!--and he is dead?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000014_000000.wav|"No, for two hundred thousand francs.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000029_000000.wav|"The Abbe Faria."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000003_000001.wav|"Sir," said he, "I am chief clerk of the house of Thomson and French, of Rome.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000012_000000.wav|"Yes, I!"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000009_000000.wav|"To tell you the truth, I consider it lost."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000008_000000.wav|The Englishman appeared to reflect a moment, and then said,--"From which it would appear, sir, that this credit inspires you with considerable apprehension?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000003_000004.wav|I have come, therefore, express from Rome, to ask you for information."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000077_000006.wav|Then he saw through the whole thing.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000036_000000.wav|"Yes, sir, five or six months ago-last February."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000013_000000.wav|"But at a tremendous discount, of course?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000054_000000.wav|"How?|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000073_000000.wav|"True, this story has diverted our attention from them.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000042_000001.wav|That man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his countenance!"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000060_000000.wav|"Yes, sir," continued the inspector of prisons.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000081_000000.wav|Beneath these lines was written in another hand: "See note above-nothing can be done." He compared the writing in the bracket with the writing of the certificate placed beneath Morrel's petition, and discovered that the note in the bracket was the same writing as the certificate-that is to say, was in Villefort's handwriting.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000004_000000.wav|"Sir," replied the mayor.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000059_000000.wav|"Really!" exclaimed the Englishman.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000066_000000.wav|"So that the governor got rid of the dangerous and the crazy prisoner at the same time?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000080_000000.wav|To be kept in strict solitary confinement, and to be closely watched and guarded.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000019_000000.wav|"Sir," replied the Englishman, laughing, "I am like my house, and do not do such things-no, the commission I ask is quite different."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000003_000003.wav|We have a hundred thousand francs or thereabouts loaned on their securities, and we are a little uneasy at reports that have reached us that the firm is on the brink of ruin.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000048_000000.wav|"No doubt; but unfortunately for the prisoners, the Abbe Faria had an attack of catalepsy, and died."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000060_000002.wav|I should like to have seen his face at that moment."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000002_000000.wav|Chapter twenty eight.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000043_000000.wav|"And you say, sir," he interposed, "that the two dungeons"--|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000052_000000.wav|"As I have already told you, sir, he was a very dangerous man; and, fortunately, by his own act disembarrassed the government of the fears it had on his account."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000049_000000.wav|"That must have cut short the projects of escape."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000028_000000.wav|"What was his name?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000003_000000.wav|The day after that in which the scene we have just described had taken place on the road between Bellegarde and Beaucaire, a man of about thirty or two and thirty, dressed in a bright blue frock coat, nankeen trousers, and a white waistcoat, having the appearance and accent of an Englishman, presented himself before the mayor of Marseilles.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000056_000000.wav|"The Chateau d'If has no cemetery, and they simply throw the dead into the sea, after fastening a thirty six pound cannon ball to their feet."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000006_000000.wav|"But," said the Englishman, "this looks very much like a suspension of payment."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000061_000000.wav|"That would have been difficult."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000077_000008.wav|He was no longer astonished when he searched on to find in the register this note, placed in a bracket against his name:--|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000033_000000.wav|"Very possibly; but what sort of madness was it?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000058_000000.wav|"Well, they fastened a thirty six pound ball to his feet, and threw him into the sea."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000047_000000.wav|"This tunnel was dug, no doubt, with an intention of escape?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000064_000000.wav|"And so," continued the Englishman who first gained his composure, "he was drowned?"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000020_000000.wav|"Name it, sir, I beg."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000015_000000.wav|"And you will pay"--|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000017_000001.wav|They have, perhaps, some motive to serve in hastening the ruin of a rival firm. But all I know, sir, is, that I am ready to hand you over this sum in exchange for your assignment of the debt.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000079_000000.wav|An inveterate Bonapartist; took an active part in the return from the Island of Elba.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000010_000000.wav|"Well, then, I will buy it of you!"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000002_000001.wav|The Prison Register.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000037_000000.wav|"You have a good memory, sir, to recollect dates so well."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000017_000002.wav|I only ask a brokerage."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000068_000000.wav|"But some official document was drawn up as to this affair, I suppose?" inquired the Englishman.|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000055_000000.wav|"no"|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7117/86732/7117_86732_000032_000000.wav|"Oh, he was, decidedly."|7117
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000009_000002.wav|The obedience of the Danes lasted no longer than the present terror. Provoked at the devastations of Edred, and even reduced by necessity to subsist on plunder, they broke into a new rebellion, and were again subdued; but the king, now instructed by experience, took greater precautions against their future revolt.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000023_000002.wav|The people were thrown into agitation; and few instances occur of more violent dissensions, excited by the most material differences in religion; or rather by the most frivolous; since it is a just remark, that the more affinity there is between theological parties, the greater commonly is their animosity.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000024_000000.wav|The progress of the monks, which was become considerable, was somewhat retarded by the death of Edred, their partisan, who expired after a reign of nine years.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000024_000001.wav|He left children; but as they were infants, his nephew Edwy, son of Edmund, was placed on the throne.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000019_000000.wav|Supported by the character obtained in his retreat, Dunstan appeared again in the world; and gained such an ascendent over Edred who had succeeded to the crown, as made him not only the director of that prince's conscience, but his counsellor in the most momentous affairs of government.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000023_000000.wav|The monks knew how to avail themselves of all these popular topics, and to set off their own character to the best advantage.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000009_000003.wav|He fixed English garrisons in their most considerable towns, and placed over them an English governor, who might watch all their motions, and suppress any insurrection on its first appearance.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000025_000000.wav|EDWY|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000020_000000.wav|The minds of men were already well prepared for this innovation.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000015_000000.wav|Dunstan was born of noble parents in the west of England; and being educated under his uncle Aldhelm, then archbishop of Canterbury, had betaken himself to the ecclesiastical life, and had acquired some character in the court of Edmund.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000030_000000.wav|As the austerity affected by the monks made them particularly violent on this occasion, Edwy entertained a strong prepossession against them; and seemed, on that account, determined not to second their project of expelling the seculars from all the convents, and of possessing themselves of those rich establishments.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000030_000005.wav|That amiable princess being cured of her wounds, and having even obliterated the scars with which Odo had hoped to deface her beauty, returned into England, and was flying to the embraces of the king, whom she still regarded as her husband; when she fell into the hands of a party whom the primate had sent to intercept her.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000011_000001.wav|But the monks had hitherto been a species of secular priests, who lived after the manner of the present canons or prebendaries, and were both intermingled, in some degree, with the world, and endeavored to render themselves useful to it.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/88007/6352_88007_000011_000000.wav|From the introduction of Christianity among the Saxons, there had been monasteries in England; and these establishments had extremely multiplied by the donations of the princes and nobles, whose superstition, derived from their ignorance and precarious life, and increased by remorses for the crimes into which they were so frequently betrayed, knew no other expedient for appeasing the Deity, than a profuse liberality towards the ecclesiastics.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000005_000001.wav|But a glance at the map ought to have been sufficient to undeceive those who imagined that the great antagonist of the House of Bourbon could be so weak as to lay the liberties of Europe at the feet of that house.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000010_000003.wav|He had no fleet; and it was therefore impossible for him even to attempt to possess himself of Castile, of Arragon, of Sicily, of the Indies, in opposition to the united navies of the three greatest maritime powers in the world.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000005_000017.wav|Was it not certain that the contest would be long and terrible?|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000007_000007.wav|It was, the Chancellor wrote, their duty to tell His Majesty that the recent elections had indicated the public feeling in a manner which had not been expected, but which could not be mistaken.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000006_000005.wav|If that opinion should be favourable, not a day must be lost.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000007_000001.wav|He roused himself, however, and promptly communicated by writing with Shrewsbury and Orford. Montague and Vernon came down to Tunbridge Wells, and conferred fully with him.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000004_000002.wav|It has often been maintained that she would have gained more by permanently annexing to herself Guipuscoa, Naples and Sicily than by sending the Duke of Anjou or the Duke of Berry to reign at the Escurial. On this point, however, if on any point, respect is due to the opinion of William.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000008_000002.wav|But Somers gently hinted that it would be proper to fill those blanks with the names of persons who were English by naturalisation, if not by birth, and who would therefore be responsible to Parliament.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000004_000001.wav|Whether those terms were or were not too favourable to France is quite another question.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000002_000003.wav|It was an assemblage of distinct bodies, none of which had any strong sympathy with the rest, and some of which had a positive antipathy for each other.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000007_000012.wav|They had their fears that Lewis might be playing false.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000005_000018.wav|And would not the English and Dutch think themselves most fortunate if, after many bloody and costly campaigns, the French King could be compelled to sign a treaty, the same, word for word, with that which he was ready uncompelled to sign now?|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000010_000007.wav|But they would have perceived that by resisting they were much more likely to lose the Indies than to preserve Guipuscoa.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000005_000006.wav|A French army sent to them by land would have to force its way through the passes of the Alps, through Piedmont, through Tuscany, and through the Pontifical States, in opposition probably to great German armies.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000009_000001.wav|The peculiarity of the Batavian polity threw some difficulties in his way; but every difficulty gelded to his authority and to the dexterous management of Heinsius.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000002_000000.wav|It has been said to have been unjust that three states should have combined to divide a fourth state without its own consent; and, in recent times, the partition of the Spanish monarchy which was meditated in sixteen ninety eight has been compared to the greatest political crime which stains the history of modern Europe, the partition of Poland.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000005_000012.wav|Guipuscoa, though a small, was doubtless a valuable province, and was in a military point of view highly important.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000001_000005.wav|If the whole Spanish monarchy should pass to the House of Bourbon, it was highly probable that in a few years England would cease to be great and free, and that Holland would be a mere province of France.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000004_000005.wav|The truth is that they were so, and were well known to be so both by William and by Lewis.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000002_000004.wav|The partition planned at Loo was therefore the very opposite of the partition of Poland.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000009_000004.wav|As to the blanks in the English powers, William had attended to his Chancellor's suggestion, and had inserted the names of Sir Joseph Williamson, minister at the Hague, a born Englishman, and of Portland, a naturalised Englishman.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000003_000000.wav|One wound the partition would undoubtedly have inflicted, a wound on the Castilian pride.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6352/83633/6352_83633_000007_000014.wav|But they had been reassured by the thought that their Sovereign thoroughly understood this department of politics, that he had fully considered all these things, that he had neglected no precaution, and that the concessions which he had made to France were the smallest which could have averted the calamities impending over Christendom.|6352
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000068_000003.wav|I will photograph the cadavers, of course, and perform the customary post mortem examinations for the record; but I know already what the findings will be.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000005_000001.wav|They had had many vitriolic arguments, but neither had made any motion toward his weapon.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000070_000000.wav|The girls-each of whom became joyously pregnant as soon as she could-kept house and helped their husbands whenever need or opportunity arose.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000035_000000.wav|"With the added attraction," Jones went on, coldly and steadily, "of having two extremely desirable female women for eleven months before killing them, too."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000001_000002.wav|The lifecraft were in their slots, but the five and the four still lived in them rather than in the vast and oppressive emptiness that the ship itself now was.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000057_000002.wav|The other pistol duel wasn't even close!|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000008_000000.wav|"For hell's sake, act your age!" Newman snorted in disgust.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000072_000002.wav|There are many extremely difficult problems involved, and I have less than a year to work on them.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000026_000001.wav|As soon as his job's done he'll wish he'd never been born.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000042_000000.wav|"Yes, but ...|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000039_000000.wav|"And he'll kill you," Jones said, flatly.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000008_000004.wav|Or I don't know where the heavy grease is at?|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000008_000003.wav|Or that them subspace Boy Scouts can be fixed?|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000036_000002.wav|This does.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000059_000000.wav|Barbara's hand to hand engagement took about one second longer.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000061_000000.wav|That ended it.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000010_000001.wav|I got to get back myself, don't I?|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000041_000002.wav|He's a professional-probably one of the fastest guns in space."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000022_000000.wav|"Not quite, Vince.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000070_000002.wav|For, if left to his own devices, he would never have exercised at all, would have grabbed a bite now and then, and would have slept only when he could no longer stay awake.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000023_000000.wav|"O.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000011_000000.wav|"You can have her.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000028_000001.wav|Why?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000048_000002.wav|In a for real battle I'd prefer ... chairs, I think.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000037_000000.wav|"Why?" Barbara asked.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000046_000000.wav|"I wouldn't know how to shoot one if I did," Bernice laughed.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000033_000000.wav|"Just a sec.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000080_000000.wav|"I don't know.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000045_000000.wav|"All my life.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000069_000004.wav|For Bernice and Jones, like Barbara and Deston, had for each other an infinite number of endless vistas of personality; the exploration of which was sheerest delight.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000007_000001.wav|"How come you aren't ticketed for subspace, then?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000029_000000.wav|"Too smoothly altogether.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000049_000001.wav|"If it's Blaine against Babe, it'll be Lopresto against Herc.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000021_000002.wav|The only thing is, when?|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000031_000000.wav|Jones' dark face did not lighten.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000055_000000.wav|It was o k, and the four-Adams was still hard at work in the lounge-went to bed.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000015_000001.wav|Ferdy will take Deston----"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000020_000001.wav|K., we'll let Ferdy have him.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000013_000001.wav|"You win, Newman, the way the cards lay.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000032_000002.wav|I'll buy that, but there wouldn't be enough plunder to----"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000029_000003.wav|There's going to be shooting for sure."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000021_000001.wav|I'll take Jones; you will gun the professor; Moose will grab the dames, one under each arm, and keep 'em out of the way until the shooting's over.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000061_000001.wav|The big man could very well have been dying on his feet. To make sure, however-or to keep the girl from knowing that she had killed a man?--Deston and Jones each put a bullet through the falling head before it struck the rug.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000038_000000.wav|"Uh uh.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000002_000000.wav|clean-up was going nicely, at the union rate of six hours on and eighteen hours off.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000043_000003.wav|Perhaps even more so."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000068_000004.wav|These four men died instantly of gunshot wounds."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000026_000004.wav|But Ferdy, any time he's behind me or out of sight, watch him like a hawk.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000056_000002.wav|But suddenly "BRAHMS!" rang out, with four voices in absolute unison; followed a moment later by Lopresto's stentorian "NOW!"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000047_000001.wav|He didn't know his new wife very well, either.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000051_000000.wav|"I always do." Barbara held out her hands.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000026_000005.wav|Shoot him through the right elbow if he makes one sour move."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000026_000002.wav|Until then, we'll let him think he's Top Dog.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000016_000000.wav|"No he won't!|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000006_000004.wav|In electronics I maybe ain't got the theory Pretty Boy has, but at building and repairing the stuff I've forgot more than he ever will know.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000047_000000.wav|"Huh?" Jones asked.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000025_000000.wav|"I don't like that ape, boss.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000001_000001.wav|The starship, now a mere spaceship, was on course at one gravity.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000062_000000.wav|Both girls flung themselves, sobbing, into their husband's arms.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000039_000001.wav|"So I think I'll blow his brains out tomorrow morning on sight."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000040_000001.wav|No ... much better to use their own trap----"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000048_000003.wav|Flying chairs are really hard to cope with.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000022_000003.wav|I'll tell you when."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000009_000000.wav|"I see." Lopresto forced his anger down.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000058_000001.wav|That fiercely but accurately sped missile knocked the half drawn pistol from Newman's hand and sent his body crashing to the floor, where Deston's second bullet made it certain that he would not recover consciousness.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000026_000003.wav|Let him rave.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000003_000000.wav|"Morning," "afternoon," "evening," and "night" were, of course, purely conventional terms.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000040_000000.wav|"And get killed yourself?|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000002_000002.wav|There was plenty of time.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000042_000001.wav|I've got a ...|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000002_000001.wav|Deston could have set any hours he pleased, but he didn't.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000029_000001.wav|That's why.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000033_000003.wav|With both of us dead, can you guess within ten million bucks of how much they'll collect?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000033_000001.wav|So he's a pretty good rule of thumb astrogator, too, and we're computing every element of the flight.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000044_000001.wav|"So you'll have plenty of warning?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000068_000001.wav|Judo techniques, however skillfully and powerfully applied, do not and can not kill instantly.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000048_000001.wav|"Baseballs, medicine balls, cannon balls, rocks, bricks, darts, discus, hammer, javelin-what have you.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000049_000002.wav|So you'll throw your chairs or whatever at that unspeakable oaf Newman."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000054_000000.wav|Barbara went on: "We should have a signal, in case one of us gets warning first.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000043_000000.wav|Bernice, grinning openly now, stopped Deston's floundering.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000076_000002.wav|From the facts: One, that in the absence of that field the subspace radio will function normally; and Two, that no subspace radio messages have ever been received from survivors; the conclusion seems inescapable that the discharge of this unknown field is in fact of extreme violence."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000068_000002.wav|Bullets through the brain do.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000026_000000.wav|"It'll be quite a while yet, but that's a promise, Moose.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000025_000001.wav|Before you gun him, let me work him over just a little bit, huh?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000006_000003.wav|I'm as good an astrogator as Jones is, and a damn sight better engineer.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000059_000001.wav|Moose Mordan was big and strong; and, for such a big man, was fairly fast physically.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000005_000000.wav|The two at the other table had been planning for days.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000056_000000.wav|And three days later, within an hour after the last flight datum had been "put in the tank," the four intended victims allowed themselves to be inveigled into the lounge.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000018_000000.wav|"But we're going to surprise 'em, ain't we?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000001_000003.wav|And socially, outside of working hours, the two groups did not mix.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000048_000000.wav|"Anything I can reach," she replied, confidently.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000004_000000.wav|One evening, then, four hard faced men sat at two small tables in the main room of Lifecraft Three.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000067_000001.wav|"Why, I did the foulest things possible, and as hard as I possibly could.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000069_000002.wav|The officers had plenty to do; operating the whole ship and rebuilding the mechanisms that were operating on jury rigging or on straight "bread board" hookups.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000021_000003.wav|The sooner the better. Tomorrow?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000045_000001.wav|The old alarm clock has never failed me yet.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000017_000002.wav|Can't you see the guy's chain lightning on ball bearings?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000038_000001.wav|The survivor would lock the ship in null G and it'd be like shooting fish in a barrel.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000034_000002.wav|That nails it down solid."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000023_000001.wav|K., and I'll give the signal.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000020_000002.wav|Me and you will match draws to see who----"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000011_000002.wav|I like the little yellowhead a lot better."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000004_000003.wav|Lithe and poised, he was the epitome of leashed and controlled action.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000002_000003.wav|Eleven months in deep space is a fearfully, a tremendously long time.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000014_000000.wav|"You do it, Vince," Newman said, grandly.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000036_000003.wav|Now, how will they figure the battle?|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000049_000000.wav|"I'll answer that," Barbara said, quietly.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000052_000002.wav|Really?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000071_000001.wav|"For a man that's actually as smart as you are, I swear you've got the least sense of anybody I know!"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000073_000001.wav|"Considering the enormous amounts of supplies carried; the scope, quantity, and quality of the safety devices employed; it is improbable that we are the first survivors of a subspace catastrophe to set course for a planet."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000057_000000.wav|It was a very good thing that Deston had had ample warning, for he was indeed competing out of his class.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000011_000001.wav|Too big.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000020_000000.wav|"O.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000013_000002.wav|Have you ever planned this kind of an operation or do you want me to?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000004_000002.wav|Ferdy was of medium size; compact rather than slender; built of rawhide and spring steel.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000066_000000.wav|"You didn't kill him, Barbara," Adams said.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000058_000000.wav|Bernice, even while shrieking the battle cry, leaped to her feet, hurled her chair, and reached for another; but one chair was enough.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000014_000001.wav|He had at least one of the qualities of a leader.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000070_000001.wav|Their biggest chore, however, was to see to it that Adams got sleep, food, and exercise.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000059_000002.wav|If he had had time to get his muscles ready, he might have had a chance.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000057_000001.wav|As it was, his bullet crashed through Blaine's head, while the gunman's went harmlessly into the carpet.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000024_000000.wav|Newman went to his cabin and the muscle called Moose spoke thoughtfully. That is, as nearly thoughtfully as his mental equipment would allow.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000077_000000.wav|"Good God!" Deston exclaimed.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000063_000000.wav|The whole battle had lasted only a few seconds.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000032_000001.wav|"In with a mob of normal space pirate smugglers.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000046_000001.wav|"I'll throw things I'm very good at that."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000043_000001.wav|"It's high time you fellows told each other the truth.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000036_000001.wav|I thought that was the main feature, but it didn't add up.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000003_000001.wav|The twenty four hour "day" measured off by the brute force machine that was their masterclock carried no guarantee, expressed or implied, as to either accuracy or uniformity.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000004_000001.wav|Two of them, Ferdy Blaine and Moose Mordan, were playing cards for small stakes.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000045_000002.wav|But the girls can't start packing pistols now."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000006_000000.wav|"Play it my way and we've got it made, I tell you!" Newman pounded the table with his fist.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000036_000004.wav|Both of us at once, of----"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000012_000002.wav|Chew on that a while, and you'll know who's boss."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000068_000000.wav|"By no means, my dear.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000053_000001.wav|I'm that good.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000067_000000.wav|"Huh?" She raised her head from Deston's shoulder; the contrast between her streaming eyes and the relief dawning over her whole face was almost funny.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000028_000000.wav|A couple of evenings later, in Lifecraft Two, Barbara said: "You're worried, Babe, and everything's going so smoothly.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000013_000000.wav|After just the right amount of holding back and objecting, Lopresto agreed.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000069_000001.wav|That routine, however, was in no sense dull.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000021_000000.wav|"I can draw twice to your once, but I suppose I'll have to prove it to you.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000031_000001.wav|"They could, and I'm very much afraid they intend to.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000027_000000.wav|"I get you, boss."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000022_000001.wav|Let 'em finish figuring course, time, distance, all that stuff.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000057_000003.wav|Lopresto's hand barely touched his gun.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000042_000002.wav|I mean I think I can----"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000074_000000.wav|After some argument, the officers agreed.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000069_000000.wav|With the four gangsters gone, life aboardship settled down quickly into a routine.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000056_000001.wav|Everything was peaceful; everyone was full of friendship and brotherly love.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000033_000002.wav|As for motive-salvage. With either of us alive, none.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000022_000002.wav|They can do it a lot faster and some better than I can.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000051_000001.wav|"Since they don't want to shoot us two-yet-these are all the weapons I'll need."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000038_000003.wav|Ferdy will probably draw on me----"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000053_000002.wav|Really," and both Joneses began to realize what Deston already knew-just how deadly those harmless seeming weapons could be.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000054_000001.wav|Something that wouldn't mean anything to them ... musical, say ...|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58845/6104_58845_000054_000003.wav|That's it.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000028_000003.wav|Deston leaned back in his bucket seat and lighted a cigarette. He didn't need to scan the board constantly now; any trouble signal would jump right out at him.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000032_000006.wav|Just walking across a stage, she'd bring down the house and stop the show cold in its tracks."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000053_000000.wav|He backed hastily out into the corridor, and as the door closed behind her they went naturally and wordlessly into each other's arms.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000016_000002.wav|I've been wondering, every time out, if I could do a thing, and now I'm going to find out."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000033_000004.wav|As usual."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000005.wav|Five ...|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000038_000000.wav|"Just the biggest on Earth, is all.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000031_000000.wav|"As the pit, Eddie.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000084_000000.wav|"Ouch!|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000031_000002.wav|"You've picked out your girl friend for the trip, I suppose?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000039_000000.wav|"Maybe he loves her.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000041_000000.wav|"I don't make passes."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000093_000001.wav|You'll live down here in the Middle with me, won't you, all the time you aren't actually on duty?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000035_000000.wav|"You'd play footsie with the Archangel Michael's sister if she'd let you; and she probably would.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000032_000005.wav|"Talk about poetry in motion!|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000004.wav|I got a tingle that went from the tips of my toes up and out through the very ends of my hair.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000047_000000.wav|And Deston, outside the door, grinned sardonically to himself.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000024_000001.wav|He plugged a jack into a socket below the one remaining green light and spoke:|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000060_000000.wav|"I made it a point to.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000099_000003.wav|All I can do at dowsing is find water, oil, coal, and gas.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000039_000001.wav|It happens, you know."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000097_000001.wav|All the time I've been touching you I've been learning about you.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000096_000001.wav|Oh, that witch stuff.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000064_000000.wav|"Anything else but.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000042_000001.wav|Only at books and tapes, even on ground leaves; more fool you.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000021_000002.wav|Just a little guy, as spacemen go. Although narrow waisted and, for his heft, broad shouldered, he was built for speed and maneuverability, not to haul freight.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000010_000005.wav|However, every ounce of her one hundred fifteen pounds was exactly where it should have been.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000037_000000.wav|"I think so." Deston thought for a moment.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000048_000000.wav|He himself never went down to the Middle, which was passenger territory. There was nothing there he wanted.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000007.wav|It's wonderful that you're so strongly psychic, too."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000071_000004.wav|I told him if I got married a thousand times I'd pick every one of my husbands myself, without the least bit of help from either him or her.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000059_000000.wav|"How do you know so much about me?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000014_000001.wav|Cabin two eight one."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000057_000003.wav|On the other, the signal doesn't carry much information.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000093_000000.wav|"And we'll love every second of it.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000074_000000.wav|"I got plenty of tingle without reading, believe me.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000038_000006.wav|Why else would he?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000071_000000.wav|He looked at her questioningly; she shrugged and went on: "We aren't what you'd call a happy family.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000040_000000.wav|"Huh?" Eddie snorted.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000079_000001.wav|And I'm a Newmartian, you know, so I teach a few courses----"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000072_000001.wav|The way she walked; poetry in motion ... the oil witch ... two empires ... more millions than he had dimes....|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000043_000000.wav|"Certainly, if I loved...." Deston paused, thought a moment, then went on: "Maybe I wouldn't, either.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000073_000000.wav|"Why, of course; but my friends call me 'Bobby'.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000003.wav|First Officer, Carlyle Deston.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000096_000002.wav|Of course not."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000014_000000.wav|"That's right, Barbara Warner.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000035_000001.wav|So who's Barbara Warner?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000006.wav|We both knew the truth, then.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000082_000003.wav|In?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000080_000000.wav|"Newmartian?|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000069_000003.wav|No, I'm done with space, as of now.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000055_000001.wav|You came aboard at exactly zero seven forty three."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000058_000005.wav|If you hadn't been as psychic as I am, you'd've jumped clear out into subspace when a perfectly strange girl attacked you."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000028_000000.wav|Perfect signal and zero noise.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000049_000001.wav|At cards, dice, or wheels he had always had hunches and he had always won.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000085_000002.wav|"Definitely I couldn't.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000069_000001.wav|"A man grows up.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000009_000001.wav|Then a girl stood up.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000063_000000.wav|"Well, is that bad?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000098_000000.wav|"Yes, but----"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000081_000000.wav|"By blood, yes; but I was born on Newmars.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000052_000001.wav|"I must go now." She tossed her cards down onto the table and walked straight toward him; eyes still holding eyes.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000051_000001.wav|She was playing bridge, and as eyes met eyes and she rose to her feet a shock wave swept through him that made him feel as though his every hair was standing straight on end.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000022_000000.wav|Watching a hundred lights and half that many instruments, listening to two phone circuits, one with each ear, and hands moving from switches to rheostats to buttons and levers, he was completely informed as to the instant by instant status of everything in his department.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000090_000000.wav|"Of course not.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000077_000001.wav|"I can tell."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000051_000000.wav|Entering the lounge, he did not have to look around.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000052_000000.wav|"Excuse me, please," she said to the other three at her table.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000025_000000.wav|"Procyon One to Control Six.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000032_000000.wav|"Not yet.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000062_000000.wav|"Uh huh." She nodded brightly.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000023_000001.wav|The only change was that at the word "Two" his right forefinger came to rest upon a red button and his eyes doubled their rate of scan.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000067_000002.wav|Even if they fire me for not waiting until we ground, there's lots of jobs.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000094_000000.wav|"I can't imagine doing anything else," and the two set out, arms around each other, to find a minister.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000069_000000.wav|"What difference does that make?" he asked, in honest surprise.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000057_000000.wav|"I don't know about that," he said, thoughtfully.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000065_000001.wav|How soon can we get married?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000053_000002.wav|It was not a passionate embrace-passion would come later-it was as though each of them, after endless years of bootless, fruitless longing, had come finally home.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000016_000001.wav|I won't fall.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000071_000001.wav|She's been trying to make me marry an old goat of a prince and I finally told her to go roll her hoop-to get a divorce and marry the foul old beast herself.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000043_000001.wav|She'd make me dress for dinner.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000079_000000.wav|"I majored in Physical Education and I love it.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000010_000002.wav|Her eyes were a deep, cool blue.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000004.wav|We lift in twenty seconds; I will count down the final five seconds....|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000005.wav|Nothing like when we actually saw each other, of course.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000058_000004.wav|"You're either psychic or the biggest wolf in the known universe, and I know you aren't a wolf.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000066_000003.wav|They'd fire you?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000013_000000.wav|She paused.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000040_000002.wav|Comet gas!|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000043_000003.wav|So I guess I wouldn't, at that."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000058_000001.wav|You've been fighting it.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000099_000004.wav|I'm no good at all on metals-I couldn't feel gold if I were perched right on the roof of Fort Knox; I couldn't feel radium if it were frying me to a crisp.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000020_000000.wav|"Oh, I didn't do that to show off!" Barbara Warner flushed hotly as she met the eyes of the nearby spectators.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000028_000002.wav|From now until Emergence-unless something happened-he might as well be a passenger. Everything was automatic, unless and until some robot or computer yelled for help.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000054_000000.wav|"Come with me, dear, where we can talk," she said, finally; eying with disfavor the half dozen highly interested spectators.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000080_000001.wav|I've heard-but you aren't a colonial; you're as Terran as I am."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000050_000004.wav|He didn't even think of it; the point four one automatic at his hip was as much a part of his uniform as his pants.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000084_000001.wav|So if you ever happen to accidentally get mad at me you'll tie me right up into a pretzel?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000048_000001.wav|He was too busy, had too many worthwhile things to do, to waste time that way ... but the hunch was getting stronger and stronger all the time.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000088_000000.wav|"That's spreading the good old oil, Bobby, but I'll never tangle with you if I can help it.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000097_000000.wav|"Listen, darling.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000066_000002.wav|Right now, or as soon as you can. You can't, without resigning, can you?|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000096_000000.wav|"Dowsing?|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000082_000001.wav|But go ahead.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000033_000000.wav|"O.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000072_000002.wav|"Oh, you're Barbara Warner, then."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000012_000004.wav|I must insist....|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000047_000001.wav|Before his next watch, Eddie would bring up one of the prettiest girls aboard for a gold badge; the token that would let her-under approved escort, of course-go through the Top.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000069_000002.wav|I couldn't have you with me in space, and I'd like that a lot less.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000070_000000.wav|"I thought at first I'd tell my parents first-they're both aboard-but I decided not to.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000019_000001.wav|"More!" "Keep it up, gal!" "Do it again!"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000074_000001.wav|However, I never expected to----"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000086_000001.wav|You've probably heard what they call me?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000024_000000.wav|And again, well out beyond the orbit of the moon, just before the starship's mighty Chaytor engines hurled her out of space as we know it into that unknowable something that is hyperspace, he poised a finger. But Immergence, too, was normal; all the green lights except one went out, needles dropped to zero, both phones went dead, all signals stopped.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000066_000000.wav|"I'd say right now, except...." She caught her lower lip between her teeth and thought.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000099_000000.wav|"No buts, buster.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000050_000001.wav|He had been resisting it for hours, because he had never visited the lounge and did not want to visit it now.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000002.wav|That was when I read your name in the list of officers on the board.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000037_000002.wav|In South America somewhere?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000038_000002.wav|He operates in all the systems for a hundred parsecs around, and he never sinks a dry hole.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000056_000001.wav|"A few minutes before that.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000075_000001.wav|"I know how you feel.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000025_000002.wav|Subspace Radio Test One.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000045_000000.wav|"You'll be raving about another one tomorrow," Deston said, unfeelingly, as he turned away.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000094_000001.wav|And as they strolled along:|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000081_000001.wav|Our actual and legal residence has always been there.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000030_000000.wav|"All black, Babe?" the newcomer asked.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000058_000000.wav|"Not necessarily.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000027_000000.wav|"Ten and zero.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000025_000003.wav|How do you read me, Control Six?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000010_000001.wav|Her hair was an artificial yellow.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000049_000003.wav|He was that kind of a man.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000012_000005.wav|Oh, you're Miss Warner...."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000033_000003.wav|So bring her up, next watch, and I'll give her a gold badge.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000026_000002.wav|How do you read me, Procyon One?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000026_000000.wav|"Control Six to Procyon One.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000075_000003.wav|So I'll tell you this." Her eyes looked steadily into his.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000037_000001.wav|"Found a big new field, didn't they?|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000003.wav|Prepare for take-off acceleration of one and one half gravities; that is, everyone will weigh one half again as much as his normal Earth weight for about fifteen minutes.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000092_000000.wav|"Some details, of course, but nothing of any importance and we'll have plenty of time to learn them."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000042_000000.wav|"That's right, you don't.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000073_000002.wav|If you did, you'd've got a tingle, too."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000002.wav|Any who are not seated will seat themselves at once.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000015_000000.wav|"But really, Miss Warner, it's regulations, and if you should fall...."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000028_000001.wav|That was that.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000085_000003.wav|A good big man can always take a good little one, you know."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000027_000001.wav|Out." Deston flipped a toggle and the solitary green light went out.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000064_000001.wav|That is, he thought it was terrible-outrageous-a betrayal of the whole officer caste-but to me it makes everything just absolutely perfect."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000068_000000.wav|"Oh, I know you can.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000081_000002.wav|The tax situation, you know."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000033_000002.wav|"I know. You'll love her undyingly; all this trip, maybe.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000026_000001.wav|I read you ten and zero.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000010_000004.wav|She was only about five feet three, and her build was not spectacular.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000073_000001.wav|Didn't you-but of course you didn't-you never read passenger lists.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000085_000000.wav|"I doubt it; very seriously.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000088_000002.wav|Or a rabbi?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000048_000002.wav|For the first time in all his three years of deep space service he felt an overpowering urge to go down into the very middle of the Middle; to the starship's main lounge.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000057_000005.wav|You know you have to pull over and stop, but that's all you know.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000053_000001.wav|Lips met lips in a kiss that lasted for a long, long time.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000032_000001.wav|I got sidetracked watching Bobby Warner.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000017_000001.wav|Then, silver slippers pointing motionlessly ceilingward, she got up onto her hands and walked twice around a vacant chair.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000083_000000.wav|"Oh, bars, trapeze, ground and lofty tumbling, acrobatics, aerialistics, high wire, muscle control, judo-all that kind of thing."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000040_000001.wav|"After twenty years of her?|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000067_000000.wav|"Don't worry about that," he grinned.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000067_000003.wav|I can support you, sweetheart."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000025_000001.wav|Flight Eight Four Nine.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000032_000002.wav|She was doing handstands and handwalks and forward and back flips in the lounge-under one point five gees yet.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000087_000001.wav|Besides, who wants a man a foot taller than she is and twice as big?|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000038_000005.wav|My guess is that his wife's an oil witch, which is why he lugs his whole family along wherever he goes.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000012_000002.wav|Very few people, and almost no stewardesses, either actually bustle in or really enjoy one point five gees.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000038_000003.wav|Every well he drills is a gusher that blows the rig clear up into the stratosphere.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000087_000000.wav|"Yes, and I'm going to call you 'Babe', too, and mean it the same way they do.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000009.wav|Lift!"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000049_000000.wav|He knew that his hunches were infallible.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000017_000000.wav|Jackknifing double, she put both forearms flat on the carpet and lifted both legs into the vertical.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000086_000000.wav|"But I'm not big; I'm just a little squirt.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000078_000000.wav|"I know you can, sweetheart." Then he had another thought, and with strong, deft fingers he explored the muscles of her arms and back.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000017_000002.wav|She then performed a series of flips that would have done credit to a professional acrobat; the finale of which left her sitting calmly in the previously empty seat.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000061_000000.wav|"That was Eddie Thompson."|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000057_000004.wav|More like hearing a siren when you're driving along a street.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000090_000001.wav|How could it?"|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000010_000003.wav|Her skin, what could be seen of it-she was wearing breeches and a long sleeved shirt-was lightly tanned.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000031_000001.wav|Take over." Eddie did so.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000006_000008.wav|One ...|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000036_000000.wav|Eddie Thompson gazed at his superior pityingly.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000067_000001.wav|"My record is good enough, I think, to get a good ground job.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6104/58843/6104_58843_000082_000002.wav|You teach a few courses.|6104
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000004_000004.wav|It appears to be a plain duty thrown in my path."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000036_000002.wav|Shall I ascertain particulars for you, Constance; touching salary and other matters?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000026_000000.wav|"Forgive me, William," she softly pleaded.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000069_000000.wav|Gaunt paused.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000046_000000.wav|"For good!" groaned Judith; "I should say for ill.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000007_000000.wav|"Let that carnation alone, Constance; give your attention to me.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000082_000000.wav|"We don't declare things upon suspicion, do we, mr Gaunt?" appealed Charles.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000020_000000.wav|She could not continue.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000069_000001.wav|"But that was not the act of the whole school, sir.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000009_000000.wav|"William, I must do my duty.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000005_000000.wav|"By yourself, Constance?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000052_000003.wav|Fare you well, my pretty sister.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000032_000002.wav|You must endeavour to train the girls to something better than they have been trained to yet, Constance."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000075_000001.wav|"A sneak! a coward!|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000085_000000.wav|"That's enough," said Gaunt.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000067_000000.wav|"What has the school done, sir?" respectfully asked Gaunt.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000070_000003.wav|Will you confess now?--he who did it?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000064_000002.wav|Gaunt entered, and the rest trooped in after him.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000030_000001.wav|"Unseemly anger on my lady's part, and rebellion on Carry's, forming, as usual, its chief features."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000065_000000.wav|"We have been up to the judges, as usual, for holiday, sir," replied Gaunt, in a tone of deprecation.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000066_000001.wav|"Holiday!" he repeated, with emphasis, as if disbelieving his own ears.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000075_000000.wav|"The fault lies in the boy, not in the master," interrupted Gaunt.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000008_000001.wav|mr Yorke followed and stood before her.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000016_000000.wav|"Constance, that is no answer."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000004_000002.wav|William, how could I reconcile it to my conscience not to help?" she continued.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000083_000001.wav|"You say you did not see the surplice damaged?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000066_000000.wav|"Holiday!" interrupted the master.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000079_000003.wav|Did you see this mischief done?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000024_000000.wav|"You will sanction the measure then?" she rejoined, her countenance lighting up.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000050_000000.wav|Judith, with a pettish movement, returned to her kitchen; and at that moment Hamish came downstairs.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000072_000003.wav|Prayers."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000072_000000.wav|"You may think-I speak now to the guilty boy, and let him take these words to himself-that you were quite alone when you did it; that no eye was watching.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000064_000005.wav|"You are three quarters of an hour behind your time."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000037_000000.wav|"If you please.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000051_000000.wav|"Are you going out to night, Hamish?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000027_000002.wav|Lady Augusta is looking out for a daily governess."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000059_000002.wav|The least they feared was, that the town had taken fire.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000002_000000.wav|mr Yorke was silent.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000033_000000.wav|"If I do go."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000040_000003.wav|It is a great blow to their prospects."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000028_000000.wav|"Is she?" exclaimed Constance.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000007_000001.wav|What if I do forbid it?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000070_000001.wav|"Boys, understand me.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000025_000004.wav|What could you be thinking of, child?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000004_000003.wav|"Think of papa! think of his strait!|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000076_000001.wav|"He saw it done!"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000014_000001.wav|Constance thought it a negative shake, and her hopes fell again.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000058_000000.wav|"Oh, ah, I recollect," cried his lordship-for it was not the first time he had been to Helstonleigh.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000052_000001.wav|"I promised, you know, Constance.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000022_000000.wav|"How did I bring it on myself?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000006_000000.wav|"Not by myself," she whispered, lifting for a moment her large blue eyes.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000018_000001.wav|Why will you not answer me?|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000021_000001.wav|"Though you brought it on yourself," he added, laughing, as he bent his face down.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000014_000000.wav|He looked at her with an expression she did not understand, and shook his head.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000029_000000.wav|Constance spoke hesitatingly.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000020_000001.wav|She turned away to hide her face from mr Yorke. He followed and obtained forcible view of it.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000070_000000.wav|"But, so long as that one does not confess, the whole school must bear it," returned the master, looking round on the assembly.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000062_000001.wav|"What do you mean?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000030_000000.wav|"I called there yesterday, and interrupted a 'scene' between Lady Augusta and Miss Caroline," he said.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000056_000000.wav|"College boys!" cried his lordship, winking and blinking, as other less majestic mortals do when awakened suddenly out of their morning sleep.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000001_000000.wav|"Annabel said the truth-that I do think of going out as daily governess," she replied, bending over a carnation to hide the blush which rose to her cheeks, a very rival to the blushing flower.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000014_000002.wav|"You did not answer my question," said mr Yorke.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000064_000000.wav|At this unexpected reply, the boys slunk away to the college schoolroom, their buoyant spirits sunk down to dust and ashes-figuratively speaking.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000079_000002.wav|The master has called the seniors to his aid, and I order you to speak.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000041_000001.wav|"You may be proud to have such children, mrs Channing."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000038_000000.wav|"Constance!" interrupted a voice at this juncture.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000055_000000.wav|Before seven o'clock, the whole school, choristers and king's scholars, assembled in the cloisters.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000081_000000.wav|"If he doesn't know, he suspects," persisted Hurst.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000015_000000.wav|"But it seems to be my duty," she urged from between her pale and parted lips.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000031_000000.wav|"But Lady Augusta is so indulgent to her children!" interrupted Constance.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000047_000000.wav|"It is not the Lord Chancellor's fault, Judith.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000077_000000.wav|"Who says he did?" quickly asked Tom Channing.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000081_000001.wav|"Come, Miss Channing."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000061_000000.wav|"Won't you catch it, gentlemen!|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000001_000003.wav|I must assume my share of the burden."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000084_000000.wav|"I did not; upon my word of honour."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000072_000002.wav|There will be no holiday to day.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000019_000001.wav|But, Oh, William, if you gave me up-"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000032_000001.wav|If you go there you will witness them occasionally, and I assure you they are not edifying.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000043_000000.wav|"True.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000062_000000.wav|"Gone into school!" repeated Gaunt, haughtily, resenting the familiarity, as well as the information.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000006_000003.wav|Strive to see it in the right light."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000012_000001.wav|"Was that what you were about to say, Constance?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000029_000002.wav|Probably the same doubt had made one of the "disadvantages" hinted at by mr Yorke.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000075_000002.wav|If he has a spark of manly honour in him, he'll speak up now."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000057_000002.wav|It's the holiday they are asking for."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000052_000000.wav|There was a stress on the word "to night," and Hamish marked it.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000046_000001.wav|Why does the Queen let there be a Lord Chancellor?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000059_000000.wav|Roberts did as he was bid-he also had been to Helstonleigh before with his master-and delivered the card and message to Gaunt.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000039_000000.wav|"He is here, mamma," replied Constance, walking forward to mrs Channing, mr Yorke attending her.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000068_000000.wav|"Your memory must be conveniently short," chafed the master.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000013_000000.wav|The rosy hue stole over her face again, and a sweet smile to her lips: "Oh, William, if you will only sanction it!|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000010_000000.wav|"A daily governess, I think you said?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000026_000001.wav|"But you looked so grave and were so silent."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000045_000001.wav|Gone for good."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000038_000001.wav|"Is mr Yorke there?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000050_000001.wav|He had changed his dress, and had a pair of new white gloves in his hand.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000063_000000.wav|"Why, I just mean that, sir," was the reply, upon which Gaunt felt uncommonly inclined to knock him down.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000059_000001.wav|The consequence of which was, the school tore through the streets in triumph, shouting "Holiday!" in tones to be heard a mile off, and bringing people in white garments, from their beds to the windows.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000032_000000.wav|"Perniciously indulgent, generally; and when the effects break out in insolence and disobedience, then there ensues a scene.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000086_000000.wav|"Suppose it should turn out to have been a senior, mr Gaunt?" spoke Bywater.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000040_000002.wav|The children have told you the tidings.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000068_000001.wav|"Have you forgotten the inked surplice?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000003_000000.wav|"Have you fully made up your mind?" he at length asked.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000085_000002.wav|When he gets found out, he had better not come within reach of the seniors; I warn him of that: they might not leave him a head on his shoulders, or a tooth in his mouth."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000013_000001.wav|I shall go about it then with the lightest heart!"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000058_000002.wav|My compliments to the head master, and I beg he will grant the boys a holiday."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, do not, do not!|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000002_000001.wav|Constance took it for granted that he was displeased.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000025_000003.wav|I shall not love my wife the less, because she has had the courage to turn her talents to account.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000014_000003.wav|"What if I forbid it?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000061_000001.wav|The head master's gone into school, and is waiting for you; marking you all late, of course."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000018_000002.wav|What would be your course if I forbade it?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000047_000001.wav|He only administers the law."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000066_000003.wav|A pretty senior you must be, if you do."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000045_000000.wav|"Gone entirely, Judith.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000066_000002.wav|"Do you consider that the school deserves it?|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000080_000000.wav|"No, I did not!" fearlessly replied little Channing.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000074_000000.wav|"Isn't it a stunning shame?" cried hot Tom Channing.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000041_000000.wav|"But they seem determined to bear it bravely," he answered, in a hearty tone.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000042_000001.wav|"Thankful!"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000078_000000.wav|"Some one said so; and that he was afraid to tell."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000064_000001.wav|They could not understand it; they had not the most distant idea what their offence could have been.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000060_000003.wav|The servant met them at the door, and grinned dreadfully at the crowd.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000020_000002.wav|It was wet with tears.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000012_000000.wav|"I would not spare you," he struck in, filling up her pause.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000023_000001.wav|I saw you doubted me at the first, when Annabel spoke of it in the study.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000002_000002.wav|He was of an excellent family, and she supposed he disliked the step she was about to take-deemed it would be derogatory to his future wife.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000069_000002.wav|It was probably the act of only one."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000006_000001.wav|"Oh, William, William, do not be displeased with me! do not forbid it!|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000000_000000.wav|"Now, Constance, that we have a moment alone, what is this about you?" began mr Yorke, as they stood together in the garden.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/262269/6937_262269_000018_000000.wav|"The temptation, as you call it, must be for a later consideration.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000025_000000.wav|And the old man told her what else to do, blessed her, and disappeared.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000008_000000.wav|The queen looked out of the window, to see in what direction they would fly, when she saw right under the window an old man, with a beard as white as snow.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000028_000001.wav|"Must I go back without my poor brothers?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000060_000000.wav|They gathered up the remains of the basilisk, and burnt them in a great fire in the courtyard, afterwards scattering the ashes to the four winds.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000011_000000.wav|"Then you saw it?"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000051_000000.wav|Having eaten this the bird recovered strength, and flew upwards faster than before; but after an hour or two he looked round once more.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000028_000000.wav|"But what am I to do?" she asked.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000031_000001.wav|Soon she heard the sound of wings over her head, and saw twelve eagles flying.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000019_000001.wav|I am grieving also for myself.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000027_000000.wav|"Stop, princess!" he said; "You can proceed no further, for you are not yet parted by death from your own world."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000014_000001.wav|The old man disappeared in a blaze of sunshine; and the queen, as she stood there, dumb with terror, was changed into a basilisk.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000047_000000.wav|So they went on steadily for two nights and days; but upon the third day, when they were hoping in a short time to view the summit of the precipice, and to land upon the borders of this world, the bird looked round as usual for a piece of the loaf.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000022_000000.wav|"How can I ever thank you enough!|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000005_000001.wav|He thought never to marry again; for he had promised his dying wife never to give her children a stepmother.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000057_000000.wav|The king was coming back victorious over his enemies, and on his way home had first heard of the sudden disappearance of his children and of the queen, and how his palace was tenanted only by a basilisk with a death dealing glance.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000004_000000.wav|There was once a king, who had lost his wife.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000040_000000.wav|"What are your commands, princess?" asked the bird.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000033_000000.wav|"Hence! ye enchanted princes!|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000030_000000.wav|The princess looked around her, and wept bitterly.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000048_000000.wav|The princess was just going to break off some to give him, when a sudden violent gust of wind from the bottom of the abyss snatched the loaf from her hand, and sent it whistling downwards.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000005_000000.wav|For twelve years after his wife's death the king grieved very much; he used to go daily to her tomb, and there weep, and pray, and give away alms to the poor.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000032_000001.wav|But Death only threatened them with his scythe, saying:|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000041_000000.wav|"Carry us from this threshold of eternity to our own world."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000017_000000.wav|Meanwhile the princess, who had been changed into a dove, flew after her brothers the eagles, but not being able to overtake them, she rested under a wayside cross, and began cooing mournfully.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000007_000000.wav|One day, when the king was far away, at war against his enemies, the queen went into her stepchildren's apartments, and pronounced some magical words-on which every one of the twelve princes flew away in the shape of an eagle, and the princess was changed into a dove.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000043_000000.wav|"I have an ever growing loaf, which will suffice both for you and ourselves," replied the princess.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000021_000000.wav|So saying he stroked the little dove, and she at once regained her natural shape.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000031_000000.wav|But remembering what the mysterious old man had said she took courage, and began to pray and weep, till she had filled the little bottle with her tears.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000050_000001.wav|In utter desperation she cut off a piece of her flesh, and gave it to him.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000006_000001.wav|But before long he found out that he had made a great mistake.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000024_000001.wav|Go towards the sunset, and weep your tears into this little bottle.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000056_000000.wav|The princess and her brothers resumed their journey, this time towards the sunrise, and at last arrived in their own country, where they met their father, returning from the wars.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000034_000001.wav|They came round her, and caressed her hands lovingly with their beaks.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000004_000001.wav|They had a family of thirteen-twelve gallant sons, and one daughter, who was exquisitely beautiful.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000045_000000.wav|The bird was so large that all the princes, and the princess in the midst of them, could easily find place on his back, and he began to fly upwards.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000015_000002.wav|And this once populous and happy royal residence quickly became an uninhabited ruin, which no one dared approach, for fear of the basilisk lurking in its underground vaults.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000037_000000.wav|But the princess knelt down and prayed:|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000049_000000.wav|Not having received his usual meal the bird became sensibly weaker, and looked round once more.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000035_000000.wav|She at once began to sprinkle them with her tears from the lachrymatory; and in one moment the twelve eagles were changed back into the twelve princes, and joyfully embraced their sister.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000055_000000.wav|The bird breathed upon her wounds; and the flesh at once healed over, and grew again as before.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000015_000001.wav|But her glance was so deadly, that it killed every one she looked at; so that all the people in the palace were soon dead, including her own son, whom she slew by merely looking at him.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000032_000000.wav|The eagles dashed themselves against the iron portal, beating their wings upon it, and imploring Death to open it to them.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000029_000000.wav|"Your brothers," said Death, "fly here every day in the guise of eagles. They want to reach the other side of this door, which leads into the other world; for they hate the one they live in; nevertheless they, and you also, must remain there, until your time be come.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000023_000000.wav|The old man gave her an ever growing loaf, and said:|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000010_000000.wav|"To be witness of your deed," he answered.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000042_000000.wav|"I will, but you must know, princess, that before I can reach the top of this precipice with you on my back, three days and nights must pass; and I must have food on the way, or my strength will fail me, and I shall fall down with you to the bottom, and we shall all perish."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000029_000002.wav|But how are you going to get back yourself?--look there!"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000034_000000.wav|The eagles were about to turn and fly, when all at once they perceived their sister.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000014_000000.wav|She whispered some magical words.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000050_000000.wav|The princess trembled with fear; she had nothing more to give him, and she felt that he was becoming exhausted.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000029_000001.wav|Therefore every day I must compel them to go back, which they can do, because they are eagles.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000039_000000.wav|And all at once there shot down from heaven to the depth of the abyss a ray of sunshine, on which descended a gigantic bird, with rainbow wings, a bright sparkling crest, and peacock's eyes all over his body, a golden tail, and silvery breast.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000033_000001.wav|you must fulfil your penance on earth, till I come for you myself."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000015_000000.wav|The basilisk ran off in fright; trying to hide herself underground.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000009_000000.wav|"What are you here for, old man?" she asked.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000024_000002.wav|And when it is full...."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000038_000000.wav|"Bird of heavenly pity here, By each labour, prayer and tear, Come in thine unvanquished power, Come and aid us in this hour!"|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000059_000001.wav|The basilisk saw herself reflected in this mirror, and her own glance slew her immediately.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000012_000000.wav|"I saw it."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000046_000000.wav|He flew higher and higher, and whenever he looked round at her, she gave him bits of the loaf, and he flew on, and upwards.|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000044_000000.wav|"Then climb upon my back, and whenever I look round, give me some bread to eat."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6937/112761/6937_112761_000053_000001.wav|I never ate anything so good before."|6937
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000092_000001.wav|I was in ecstacy.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000021_000000.wav|"Why an idiot?|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000060_000001.wav|He remained one month in C----, never going out but in the evening, and spending every night under my windows conversing with me.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000032_000001.wav|I went out to attend to my business (I ought to say to my pleasure), and as I did not return home till after midnight I went to bed without seeing my father. In the morning I said in his presence that I intended to call upon L'Abbadie to congratulate him upon his appointment.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000055_000000.wav|"Good God! where shall I go to night?"|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000084_000000.wav|I was struck by the words she had just uttered, and I felt that those words, as well as her looks, had found their way to my heart, besides enlisting my generous sympathy.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000053_000000.wav|"For God's sake take me to his house."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000016_000002.wav|It is therefore more prudent not to wait until then."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000016_000000.wav|"Never mind.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000024_000002.wav|As to Zawoiski, I did not tell him the story till I met him in Carlsbad, old and deaf, forty years later.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000077_000001.wav|She smiled when I answered that I could not understand how I had succeeded in giving her so great a confidence in my virtue, when I appeared before her with a mask on my face, in a costume which did not indicate a very virtuous character.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000048_000000.wav|"You have then some hope of recalling him to the path of duty?|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000004_000000.wav|Very much pleased with my new acquaintance, I called alone on the countess the next morning.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000031_000002.wav|Zawoiski came in as he was still apologizing, and I left them together.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000067_000000.wav|Very early the next morning I called upon her.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000049_000001.wav|The only favour I claim from your kindness is to take me to his house, to leave me there, and to keep my secret."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000047_000002.wav|I take off my mask, and out of politeness she must put down the hood of her mantle.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000030_000000.wav|"I doubt it, but I will try."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000032_000000.wav|It just happened that it was the very day on which the appointment of the inspectorship was to be brought before the senate.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000054_000000.wav|"I will do anything you wish; but have entire confidence in me, and be good enough to hear me.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000079_000001.wav|My brother, I hope, will avenge me."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000041_000000.wav|The Frenchman's resentment proved very useful to me, because he related the circumstance to everybody.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000054_000001.wav|I advise you not to go to his house.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000025_000001.wav|I had become acquainted, through Zawoiski, with a Frenchman called L'Abbadie, who was then soliciting from the Venetian Government the appointment of inspector of the armies of the Republic. The senate appointed, and I presented him to my protector, who promised him his vote; but the circumstance I am going to relate prevented him from fulfilling his promise.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000086_000000.wav|I called upon her the next day after dinner, which was not my usual time, having resolved on creating the opportunity myself.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000085_000003.wav|It seemed to me that the best way to thank me for my attentive kindness would have been to give me a specimen of her musical talent.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000068_000003.wav|Without giving her time to answer I told her all the particulars I had learned concerning her honourable family, which caused her real satisfaction.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000002_000001.wav|We called on her in the evening, and, after introducing me to her husband, Count Rinaldi, she invited us to remain and have supper.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000005_000011.wav|I felt that it gave new strength to my hopes, and that feeling prevented me from regretting my heavy loss, but grateful for the great generosity of my benefactor I was fully determined on keeping my promise.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000031_000004.wav|He merely remarked that the Frenchman was deficient in intelligence.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000020_000002.wav|The last says, 'I bet you do not guess,' while the first says, 'I bet I can guess.' Which is the fool, and which is the wise man?|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000073_000000.wav|"I am very fond of books and music; my harpsichord was my delight."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000048_000001.wav|I suppose he has promised you marriage?"|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000056_000000.wav|"To a respectable house, of course."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000069_000001.wav|I still hope that Steffani will return, and then I can take a decision."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000061_000002.wav|I prepared a small parcel, and waited for his coming, but in vain. Oh! what a cruel long night it was!|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000078_000000.wav|"It was easy for me, madam," I continued, "to guess that you were a beauty in distress, when I observed your youth, the nobleness of your countenance, and, more than all, your candour.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000050_000003.wav|Tell me his name."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000037_000003.wav|That refusal has cost him an important appointment and an income of three thousand crowns, which would now be his."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000004_000002.wav|She received me with graceful ease, and, her husband having left us alone, she had the art to let me hope for every favour, yet without committing herself; when I took leave of her, she invited me to supper for the evening.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000078_000002.wav|Your fault was that of a warm heart seduced by love, over which reason could have no sway, and your flight- the action of a soul crying for reparation or for revenge fully justifies you.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000054_000002.wav|He has already done you great injury, and, even supposing that you should happen to find him at home, he might be capable of receiving you badly; if he should not be at home, it is most likely that his mother would not exactly welcome you, if you should tell her who you are and what is your errand.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000076_000001.wav|That singular meeting, which gave me the useful opportunity of finding myself endowed with generous dispositions, stronger even than my love for pleasure, flattered my self love more than I could express.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000028_000000.wav|"I should not dare to do so, dear father."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000061_000000.wav|"I consented to be guilty of a crime which I believed would be atoned for within three days, and he left me, promising that the next night he would be again under my window, ready to receive me in his arms.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000013_000000.wav|"This evening, my dear, respected benefactor, I will have supper with you.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000074_000006.wav|Situated as she was, I could not suppose her heart susceptible of harbouring a new affection, and I would have despised myself if I had tried to seduce her by any means in my power.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000077_000000.wav|On the third day, in the midst of expressions of gratitude which I could not succeed in stopping she told me that she could not conceive why I shewed her so much sympathy, because I ought to have formed but a poor opinion of her in consequence of the readiness with which she had followed me into the cafe.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000061_000006.wav|I walked all night and nearly the whole day, without taking any food, until I got into the barge, which brought me here in twenty four hours. I travelled in the boat with five men and two women, but no one saw my face or heard my voice, I kept constantly sitting down in a corner, holding my head down, half asleep, and with this prayer book in my hands.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000004_000001.wav|The count, apologizing for his wife who was not up yet, took me to her room.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000081_000000.wav|As I was speaking, she put her hand in her pocket and drew forth, after a few moments' consideration, a stiletto six inches long, which she placed on the table.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000074_000002.wav|She had walked a long distance, her shoes were evidently worn out, her feet sore, and she appreciated the delicacy of my present. As I had no improper design with regard to her, I enjoyed her gratitude, and felt pleased at the idea she evidently entertained of my kind attentions.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000093_000000.wav|I took leave of her, smitten, full of love, and almost determined on declaring my passion.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000079_000000.wav|"Everything you say is true.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000022_000001.wav|Leave off playing, believe me, the very moment you see luck turning, even if you should, at that moment, win but one groat."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000070_000001.wav|"Will you allow me to have some breakfast with you?"|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000047_000000.wav|She hesitates, I insist, and she gives way.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000042_000001.wav|It was the converted Jew who had purchased for His Majesty the gallery of the Duke of Modena for one hundred thousand sequins. Guarienti and my brother left Venice for Rome, where Jean remained in the studio of the celebrated painter Raphael Mengs, whom we shall meet again hereafter.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000047_000003.wav|A large muslin head dress conceals half of her face, but her eyes, her nose, and her pretty mouth are enough to let me see on her features beauty, nobleness, sorrow, and that candour which gives youth such an undefinable charm.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000010_000002.wav|"COUNT RINALDI."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000009_000000.wav|I opened it, and found some forty sequins.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000064_000000.wav|We reached the widow's house.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000089_000001.wav|I feared she might be offended, and I assured her of my respect.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000091_000001.wav|Yet I felt my love taking such proportions that I did not know how to keep it a mystery any longer.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000084_000001.wav|I took the stiletto, and left her with so much agitation that I had to acknowledge the weakness of my heroism, which I was very near turning into ridicule; yet I had the wonderful strength to perform, at least by halves, the character of a Cato until the seventh day.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000071_000000.wav|"Do you suppose I could refuse you?"|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000005_000000.wav|I called again in the evening, and, after she had excused herself for not having been at home in the morning, the faro bank began, and I lost all my money, still having the countess for my partner.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000031_000000.wav|I called upon L'Abbadie on the following day, and after a short exchange of compliments I told him the service I expected from his friendship.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000080_000000.wav|"You are greatly mistaken if you imagine that Steffani will fight your brother; Steffani is a coward who will never expose himself to an honourable death."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000070_000000.wav|"I think you are quite right," I said.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000029_000000.wav|"Try him; I am certain that he will be glad to lend you that sum."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000092_000003.wav|I begged that she would allow me to kiss her hand, and she did not say yes, but when I took it and pressed my lips on it, she did not oppose any resistance; I had the courage to smother my ardent desires, and the kiss I imprinted on her lovely hand was a mixture of tenderness, respect, and admiration.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000012_000000.wav|"This evening," said my clever physician, "you can have a gay supper with the charming countess."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000060_000007.wav|He gave me the paper which you have read, and the following night I allowed him to come into my room through the window under which he was in the habit of conversing with me.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000088_000003.wav|He is two years older than I, and is an officer in the papal army."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000015_000000.wav|"But I should be dishonoured."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000083_000003.wav|I trust in your friendship, and I have an inward certainty that I shall be indebted to you for my honour as well as for my life."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000051_000000.wav|"Alas! sir, I give way to fate."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000074_000003.wav|I had no other purpose in view but to restore calm to her mind, and to obliterate the bad opinion which the unworthy Steffani had given her of men in general.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000086_000002.wav|I tendered my apologies for my sudden appearance at an unusual hour; she excused herself for not having completed her toilet, and the widow went on with her work.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000068_000000.wav|Her features bore the stamp of deep sorrow, but she looked calmer, and her complexion was no longer pale.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000063_000001.wav|I told her unsparingly that Steffani had seduced and abandoned her of malice aforethought, and that she ought to think of him only to be revenged of his perfidy.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000010_000001.wav|My wife begs to send him half of the gold which he has lost in cash.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000049_000000.wav|"He has engaged his faith to me in writing.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000052_000002.wav|When I have read the paper, I return it to her, saying that I knew the writer quite well, that he was connected with the chancellor's office, known as a great libertine, and deeply in debt, but that he would be rich after his mother's death.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000001_000003.wav|Zawoiski was honest, he had only a small dose of intelligence, but it was enough for his happiness.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000060_000004.wav|He would beg of me to make up my mind to run away with him, unknown to everybody, promising that my honour should not suffer from such a step, because, three days after my departure, everybody should receive notice of my being his wife, and he assured me that he would bring me back on a visit to my native place shortly after our marriage.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000083_000002.wav|Take away, I entreat you, this stiletto, which henceforth is useless to me.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000074_000001.wav|She blushed, and thanked me with great feeling.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000064_000002.wav|I then took an affectionate leave of her, promising to see her early in the morning.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000001_000005.wav|I will speak of him in another part of these Memoirs.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000036_000000.wav|"I am much surprised, for your excellency was not of that opinion the day before yesterday."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000008_000000.wav|"Here is a parcel for you."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000003_000000.wav|The count made a faro bank in the course of the evening, I punted with his wife as a partner, and won some fifty ducats.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000001_000002.wav|We soon became good friends, my purse was his, but, twenty years later, he assisted me to a far greater extent in Munich.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000060_000006.wav|Love blinded me; I fell into the abyss; I believed him; I agreed to everything.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000083_000001.wav|But you have opened my eyes.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000078_000003.wav|Your cowardly seducer must pay with his life the penalty due to his crime, and he ought never to receive, by marrying you, an unjust reward, for he is not worthy of possessing you after degrading himself by the vilest conduct."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000060_000005.wav|Alas, sir! what shall I say now?|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000005_000006.wav|He kindly encouraged me to confess my troubles to him.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000061_000001.wav|Could I possibly entertain any doubt after the fearful crime I had committed for him?|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000086_000004.wav|I remained in silent contemplation.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000083_000000.wav|"It is a weapon upon which I reckoned until now to use against myself in case I should not succeed in obtaining reparation for the crime I have committed.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000052_000000.wav|With these words, she takes out of her bosom a paper which she gives me; I recognize the handwriting of Zanetto Steffani.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000044_000000.wav|In the early part of October, seventeen forty six, the theatres being opened, I was walking about with my mask on when I perceived a woman, whose head was well enveloped in the hood of her mantle, getting out of the Ferrara barge which had just arrived.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000004_000003.wav|After supper I played, still in partnership with her, won again, and went away very much in love.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000013_000001.wav|You have given me a masterly lesson."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000020_000000.wav|"As slight as you please, but it will be on your side, and when the game is over you will find yourself a winner and not a loser.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000019_000000.wav|"Yes, but only a slight advantage."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000072_000000.wav|"I should be very sorry to disturb you in any way.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000085_000005.wav|But, unwilling to form a hasty judgment, I kept on my guard, with a firm determination to make good use of the first opportunity that might present itself to clear up my doubts.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000024_000001.wav|I did not think it necessary to undeceive him, but I did not go again to Count Rinaldi's, whom I saw sixteen years afterwards in Milan.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000050_000002.wav|Have entire confidence in me, for I already take a deep interest in all your concerns.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000087_000000.wav|I blushed for very shame, for I ought to have thought of that.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000085_000004.wav|Had she deceived me? If so, she would lose my esteem.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000067_000001.wav|She was still asleep.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000062_000002.wav|I am in your hands, and I feel certain that I shall have no cause to repent it."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000020_000001.wav|The punter is excited, the banker is calm.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000060_000000.wav|"I was unfortunate enough," she continued, "to inspire him with love, and he postponed his departure.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000018_000000.wav|"No doubt of it, for then you will save both your honour and your purse. But, as you are fond of games of chance, I advise you never to punt. Make the bank, and the advantage must be on your side."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000047_000004.wav|I need not say that, with such a good letter of introduction, the unknown at once captivated my warmest interest.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000090_000000.wav|"Ah, sir!" she answered, "in the situation in which I am placed, I must think of defending myself against my own self much more than against you."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000067_000002.wav|The widow told me that she had made a pretty good supper, but without speaking a single word, and that she had locked herself up in her room immediately afterwards.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000074_000004.wav|I never thought of inspiring her with love for me, and I had not the slightest idea that I could fall in love with her.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000033_000000.wav|"You may spare yourself that trouble; the senate has rejected his nomination."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000005_000003.wav|I went away in great sorrow.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000054_000003.wav|Trust to me, and be quite certain that God has sent me on your way to assist you.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000031_000001.wav|He excused himself in a very polite manner, drowning his refusal in that sea of commonplaces which people are sure to repeat when they cannot or will not oblige a friend.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000035_000001.wav|I have proved to the senate that a right policy forbade the government to trust such an important post to a foreigner."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000061_000004.wav|I adopted the only plan that despair could suggest, and that, of course, was not the right one.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000014_000000.wav|"The next time you lose money upon trust, you had better not pay it."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000062_000000.wav|"You know all now, sir; but I entreat you not to judge me too severely; I have been virtuous all through my life; one month ago I had never committed a fault which could call a blush upon my face, and the bitter tears which I shed every day will, I hope, wash out my crime in the eyes of God.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000034_000000.wav|"How so?|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000005_000004.wav|I was bound in honour to pay the next morning, and I did not possess a groat.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000021_000001.wav|Fortune is very fickle."|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000092_000002.wav|I entreated her to sing; after some little ceremony, she took one of the music books I had given her, and she sang at sight in a manner which fairly ravished me.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000005_000009.wav|I took an oath to that effect, and kissing his hand, I went out for a walk, relieved from a great load.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000062_000001.wav|I have been carefully brought up, but love and the want of experience have thrown me into the abyss.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000069_000000.wav|"I have no objection," she said, "to your going to C----, and I thank you for the generosity of your offer, but I beg you will postpone your journey.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000038_000000.wav|When I was taking my walk on the same day I met Zawoiski with L'Abbadie, and did not try to avoid them.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000035_000000.wav|"He was right then, for he would have been appointed if I had not made up my mind to speak against him.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000059_000001.wav|I persuade the young countess to follow me, and we take a gondola.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3230/137483/3230_137483_000059_000000.wav|I knew an honest widow who resided in a lane, and who had two furnished rooms.|3230
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/472/129994/472_129994_000032_000000.wav|"I think, Elinor," she presently added, "we must employ Edward to take care of us in our return to Barton.|472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000017_000000.wav|"My dear," said he to his lady, "it is very provoking that we should be so few.|472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000021_000000.wav|"My love you contradict every body," said his wife with her usual laugh.|472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000033_000003.wav|He declares he won't.|472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000010_000002.wav|Not above ten miles, I dare say."|472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000048_000000.wav|"But I do assure you it was so, for all that, and I will tell you how it happened.|472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000058_000002.wav|It is so delightful that you should live at the cottage!|472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000012_000001.wav|there is not much difference.|472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/472/129979/472_129979_000040_000000.wav|"Well-I am so glad you do.|472
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000019_000000.wav|None of this was conscious in his mind.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000005_000004.wav|This will be done only as a last resort."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000028_000002.wav|He needed facts to operate, to form an opinion.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000003.wav|Brion plodded closer, watching for any motion from the walls.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000007_000005.wav|Understood?"|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000045_000004.wav|Brion raised his foot and kicked the knife free, sending it spinning across the room.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000001.wav|There was still no one in sight.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000024_000004.wav|Any questions or statements they spoke would be superfluous, so they didn't speak.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000004_000000.wav|"Mine, not yours, so don't worry about it," Brion barked at him. "Your job is to remember your orders and keep them straight. Now-let's hear them again."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000028_000000.wav|The silence grew longer.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000030_000002.wav|The enemy is going to surrender!"|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000019_000001.wav|His fighter's reflexes bent his shoulders, curved his hands before him as he walked softly in balance, ready to spring in any direction.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000045_000002.wav|The knife was still locked in the fingers of the paralyzed hand.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000008_000003.wav|He put it aside.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000007_000003.wav|You are here as a rear guard and a base for me to get back to.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000051_000000.wav|Like a ruined tower of flesh, the Disan crumpled and fell.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000043_000002.wav|They had reached stasis, standing knee to knee, their faces only a few inches apart.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000023_000002.wav|Brion reached for other sensations, but there was nothing there to grasp.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000014_000002.wav|The walls rose sharply, the room being circular in cross section and growing narrower towards the top.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000016_000001.wav|There was no time to look closer.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000005.wav|The high walled, irregularly shaped construction sat in a ponderous silence.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000048_000002.wav|The engulfing cloth was thin and through it Brion could see the outlines of the Disan's abdomen and rib cage, the clear location of the great nerve ganglion.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000049_000002.wav|The stiffened hand moving forward in a sudden surge, all the weight and energy of his body concentrated in his joined fingertips.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000032_000004.wav|Because this was vital to his existence, Brion took the time to follow the thought through.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000032_000006.wav|He could be talking to robots or alien creatures, for all the human response he was receiving.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000028_000004.wav|Time stretched taut, and finally Lig magte spoke.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000047_000004.wav|Crawling, rolling, teeth bared, since they were the only remaining weapon.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000017_000000.wav|He had found the enemy.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000047_000002.wav|He would press the attack no matter what damage was done to him.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000022_000001.wav|The books are there-the words are not.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000053_000000.wav|Death filled the room.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000019_000003.wav|All the danger so far was nonphysical.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000043_000005.wav|A great puckered white scar covered one cheek and pulled up a corner of the mouth in a cheerless grimace.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000042_000001.wav|There was no science in it, just his greater strength from exercise and existence on a heavier planet.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000004.wav|At the other it ended in a hole that vanished in darkness below.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000024_000005.wav|The responsibility was his.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000008_000001.wav|It would be foolish to go in unarmed, but he had to.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000007_000001.wav|"If any guns go off without my permission you will pay for it, and pay with your necks.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000026_000001.wav|They still waited.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000031_000004.wav|Therefore Brion was bringing the message. If that was not the message Brion was bringing the men here were not interested.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000032_000005.wav|It made logical sense-and logic was all he could depend on now.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000047_000003.wav|Brion had an insane vision of him breaking the man's other arm, fracturing both his legs, and the limbless broken creature still coming forward.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000048_000001.wav|Brion feinted and the Lig magte's arm moved clear of his body.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000002.wav|The keep stood nearby, solitary, a massive pile of black rock.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000006.wav|Instead of having a courtyard inside it, the wall was the outer face of the structure, the domed roof rising from it.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000021_000002.wav|The empathetic is always aware of this constant and silent surge, whether he makes the effort to understand it or not.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000021_000003.wav|He is like a man glancing across the open pages of a tableful of books.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000028_000003.wav|Looking at the silent forms was telling him nothing.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000018_000003.wav|It had been nothing in itself.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000027_000002.wav|But what was right?|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000010_000004.wav|Brion looked unhappily at the slanting and broken ramp, then cupped his hands and shouted loudly.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000014_000001.wav|All the rooms, passageways and halls existed just to give form to this gigantic chamber.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000007_000002.wav|I want that clearly understood.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000004.wav|There was still no one in sight.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000011_000002.wav|I'm bringing the message from Nyjord that you have been waiting to hear." This was a slight bending of the truth without fracturing it.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000005.wav|He stood on an unevenly shaped wall that appeared to circle the building.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000038_000003.wav|Brion's foot lashed out and caught the other man's leg, sending him sprawling.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000021_000000.wav|From the group of silent men poured a frost white wave of unemotion. An empathetic shares what other men feel.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000019_000008.wav|They were so muffled and wrapped in cloth that only their eyes were exposed.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000043_000006.wav|It was false; there was still no expression here, even when the pain must be growing more intense.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000035_000000.wav|"Yes," Brion said.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000041_000003.wav|They clamped down hard, grinding shut, compressing with the tightening intensity of a closing vise.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000046_000000.wav|Lig magte made a fist of his good hand and crashed it into Brion's groin.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000050_000000.wav|Killing, not by accident or in sudden anger.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000050_000001.wav|Killing because this was the only way the battle could possibly end.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000025_000001.wav|Who is he?" Brion didn't like the tiny sound his voice made in the immense room.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000042_000003.wav|Nothing else mattered-neither the frightening force of the knees that thudded into his body nor the hooked fingers that reached for his eyes to tear them out.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000044_000000.wav|Brion was winning-if none of the watchers broke the impasse. His greater weight and strength counted now.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000021_000004.wav|He can see that the type, words, paragraphs, thoughts are there, even without focusing his attention to understand any of it.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000040_000003.wav|There could be only one end to this unequal contest if Brion stayed on the defensive. The man with the knife had to win.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000014_000000.wav|This was the heart of the strange structure.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000018_000000.wav|Everything that had happened to him so far on Dis had been preparation for this moment.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000043_000004.wav|No flicker of emotion crossed the harsh planes of the other man's face.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000020_000004.wav|All this Brion knew in an instant of time, without words being spoken.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000022_000000.wav|Then how does the man feel when he glances at the open books and sees only blank pages?|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000046_000005.wav|It's impossible." He called to the other men who were watching the unequal battle with expressionless immobility.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000001.wav|Stretching away to the horizon in every direction was the eternal desert of sand.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000038_000002.wav|Lig magte plunged by him, turning and bringing the knife down at the same time.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000020_000006.wav|There could be no doubt, not to an empathetic.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000011_000003.wav|There was no answer-just the hiss of wind blown sand against the rock and the mutter of the car in the background.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000011_000004.wav|He started to climb.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000038_000000.wav|There had been no time to tense his muscles and jump, just the space of time to relax them and fall to one side.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000002.wav|The room inside was something out of a madman's funhouse. It was higher than it was wide, irregular in shape, and more like a hallway than a room.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000000.wav|Stooping, he went through the nearest door.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000048_000000.wav|There was only one way to end it.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000041_000001.wav|He leaped inside the thrust, clutching for the knife arm.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000041_000000.wav|With the next charge Brion changed tactics.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000032_000000.wav|This was the vital fact.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000036_000003.wav|This, combined with the reflexes of a Winner of the Twenties, was barely enough to enable him to survive.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000027_000000.wav|"I have a message for you," Brion said, speaking slowly to fill the silence of the room and the emptiness of his thoughts.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000000.wav|The rock underfoot was crumbling and he had to watch where he put his feet.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000026_000000.wav|One of the men gave a slight motion to draw attention to himself. None of the others moved.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000008_000005.wav|He took off his coat, threw open the door and stepped out into the searing brilliance of the Disan noon.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000036_000002.wav|But even the suspicion had put him on his guard.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000010_000003.wav|A complete circuit proved that it was.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000020_000001.wav|In spite of muffled cloth and silence, he knew them for what they were.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000031_000002.wav|It had intellectual connotations, but these could only be gained from past knowledge, not from the sound of the words.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000045_000000.wav|A dull, hideous snap jerked through the Disan's body and the arm hung limp and dead.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000011_000001.wav|Your radio doesn't work any more.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000019_000004.wav|When he did give conscious thought to the situation he stopped, startled.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000037_000000.wav|From frozen mobility Lig magte had catapulted into headlong attack. As he leaped forward he drew a curved, double edged blade from under his robes.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000042_000000.wav|It was all he could do simply to hold on.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000006.wav|Brion was sweating now, only partially from the heat.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000011_000000.wav|"I'm coming up.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000005.wav|Light of sorts filtered in through slots and holes drilled into the thick stone wall.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000005_000003.wav|Unless you call on the radio, in which case we come in with the automatics going and shoot the place up, and it doesn't matter who we hit.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000003_000000.wav|"It's suicide," the taller guard grumbled.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000044_000001.wav|The Disan would have to drop the knife before his arm was dislocated at the shoulder. He didn't do it.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000033_000006.wav|Do you realize what that means-"|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000020_000005.wav|Between the time he lifted one foot and walked a step he understood what he had to face.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000040_000000.wav|Only by the merest fractional margin did Brion evade the attack for the second time.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000006_000000.wav|"See if you can't arrange that last resort thing," the other guard said, patting the heavy blue barrel of his weapon.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000046_000003.wav|"Stop it," he said.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000033_000004.wav|They have pushed the deadline closer by an entire day.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000039_000000.wav|They were both on their feet at the same instant, facing each other. Brion now had his hands clasped before him in the unarmed man's best defense against a knife, the two arms protecting the body, the two hands joined to beat aside the knife arm from whichever direction it came.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000023_000001.wav|Nothing more.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000020_000003.wav|They could look on life, death, and the rending of flesh with the same lack of interest and compassion.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000022_000002.wav|He turns the pages of one, of the others, flipping the pages, searching for meaning.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000042_000002.wav|All of this strength went to his clutching hand, because he held his own life in that hand, forcing away the knife that wanted to terminate it forever.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000036_000000.wav|Two things saved his life then.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000014_000003.wav|It was a truncated cone, since there was no ceiling; a hot blue disk of sky cast light on the floor below.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000046_000001.wav|He was still fighting, as if nothing had changed.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000024_000003.wav|But he had come to them and now they waited to find out why.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000004.wav|Nothing stirred.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000007.wav|At varying intervals dark openings gave access to the interior.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000018_000001.wav|The attack in the desert, the escape, the dreadful heat of sun and sand.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000036_000001.wav|He had guessed what would happen as soon as they had his message, though he hadn't been sure.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000042_000006.wav|His life depended on the grasp of the fingers of his right hand.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000008.wav|When Brion looked down, the sand car was just a dun colored bump in the desert, already far behind him.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000031_000000.wav|With a rising inflection on the end it would have been a question. "Are they going to surrender?" It was neither of these.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000010_000002.wav|A slanting cleft in the stone could be climbed easily, but it seemed incredible that this might be the only entrance.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000040_000001.wav|Lig magte fought with utter violence.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000037_000001.wav|It plunged unerringly through the spot where Brion's body had been an instant before.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000011.wav|The light ahead grew stronger, and the last passageway opened and swelled out until it led into the large central chamber.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000039_000001.wav|The Disan hunched low, flipped the knife quickly from hand to hand, then thrust it again at Brion's midriff.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000042_000004.wav|He protected his face as well as he could, while the nails tore furrows through his flesh and the cut on his arm bled freely.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000003.wav|When he reached the top of the wall he was breathing hard; sweat moistened his body.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000012_000002.wav|Nothing happened.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000023_000003.wav|Either these men were without emotions, or they were able to block them from his detection; it was impossible to tell which.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000024_000001.wav|The knot of men still looked at him, silent and unmoving.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000024_000000.wav|Very little time had passed while Brion made these discoveries.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000033_000000.wav|"You can't win this war-all you can do is hurry your own deaths." He said this with as much conviction as he could, realizing at the same time that it was wasted effort.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000030_000003.wav|This wasn't the meaning.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000006.wav|Everything was built of the same crumble textured but strong rock.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000003.wav|At one end it merged into an incline that became a stairwell.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000021_000001.wav|He gets his knowledge of their reaction by sensing lightly their emotions, the surges of interest, hate, love, fear, desire, the sweep of large and small sensations that accompany all thought and action.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000032_000003.wav|Therefore he would be killed.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000033_000003.wav|They can't take any more chances.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000046_000006.wav|No one answered him.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000009.wav|There was food, metal, even artifacts of the unusual Disan design in the different rooms he passed through.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000005_000000.wav|The guard rolled his eyes up in silent rebellion and repeated in a toneless voice: "We stay here in the car and keep the motor running while you go inside the stone pile there.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000009_000000.wav|There was only the desert silence, broken by the steady throb of the car's motor behind him.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000022_000003.wav|There is no meaning.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000027_000003.wav|"I'm from the Foundation in the city, as you undoubtedly know.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000008.wav|After a number of blind passages and wrong turns he saw a stronger light ahead, and went on.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000013_000010.wav|Yet no people.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000016_000000.wav|Out of the corner of his eyes, and with the very periphery of his consciousness, he was aware of the rest of the room-barrels, stores, machinery, a radio transceiver, various bundles and heaps that made no sense at first glance.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000020_000002.wav|The eyes were empty of expression and unmoving, yet were filled with the same negative emptiness as those of a bird of prey.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000008_000000.wav|He waited until all three men had nodded in agreement, then checked the charge on his gun-it was fully loaded.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141240/2404_141240_000005_000002.wav|We don't come in, no matter what happens or what it looks like, but wait for you here.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000004_000001.wav|"What do you have there?" Brion asked.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000006.wav|The world's overcrowded.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000016_000006.wav|So don't look forward to too much efficiency."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000040_000006.wav|But most women have an emotional bias towards having their husband's children.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000033_000003.wav|Bring me together two of these hypothetical individuals and tell me what happens."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000034_000008.wav|You accept and give hospitality without qualification.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000020_000000.wav|It was a stolen moment of peace on a world at the brink of destruction.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000025_000001.wav|"Did you ever think of going to Earth?"|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000038_000001.wav|"The same damn way they get made any place else!|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000030_000001.wav|We aren't organized that way at all.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000036_000001.wav|Otherwise she can go wherever she wishes and be welcomed as another individual.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000013_000000.wav|"The world's falling apart.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000014_000000.wav|"Considering her shape, she's fine.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000011.wav|At parties there are always a couple of hot breaths of passion fanning your neck.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000040_000001.wav|That's up to the girl.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000034_000007.wav|We don't even have locks on our doors.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000002.wav|The reverse of your system, and going full blast all the time.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000013_000001.wav|How is Lea doing?"|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000008.wav|And all of the physically mature ones seem to be involved in the Great Game of Love.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000030_000005.wav|I suppose you might call it an inbred survival trait."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000036_000000.wav|"Only if she wants to.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000015_000000.wav|"Are you that worried, Doctor?"|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000038_000002.wav|But it's not just a reflexive process like a couple of rabbits that happen to meet under the same bush.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000019_000000.wav|He should have gone then; instead, he sat down in the chair placed next to the head of the bed.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000035_000001.wav|Life must be dull for a single girl on your iceberg planet.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000042_000002.wav|Therefore the woman does the choosing.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000034_000003.wav|Since I like cross-country skiing I make my home in this big house our family has, right at the edge of the Broken Hills.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000026_000002.wav|There couldn't possibly be a connection though.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000050_000006.wav|Something she had been wanting to do for a long time.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000004.wav|Birth control came late and is still being fought-if you can possibly imagine that.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000026_000001.wav|This was too close to his own thoughts about planetary backgrounds.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000012_000004.wav|They're falling apart."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000016_000005.wav|And if you want to be let in on a public secret-the rest of your staff feels the same way.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000018_000004.wav|A night's sleep now would do as much good as all the medication.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000009_000002.wav|It was just what he had expected.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000010_000000.wav|Outside the sky was darkening.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000031_000001.wav|"Carry that sort of thing too far and you end up with no population at all. A certain amount of proximity is necessary for that."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000026_000003.wav|"Never," he told her.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000022_000000.wav|"Is the boss man looking after the serfs, to see if they're fit for the treadmills in the morning?" she asked.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000042_000005.wav|It's a lot different from other planets, but so is our planet Anvhar.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000051_000001.wav|"Because I thought so much of you, I couldn't have done anything to insult you.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000012.wav|A girl has to keep her spike heels filed sharp."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000031_000000.wav|"Up to a point," she said, biting delicately into the apple.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000016_000001.wav|I'm just as prone to the weakness of the flesh as the rest of you.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000020_000001.wav|He was grateful for it.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000020_000003.wav|Her hand was outside of the covers and he took it in his own, obeying a sudden impulse.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000003_000007.wav|After a careful look into the interior he disconnected one wire and shorted it to another.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000032_000001.wav|And there must be some form of recognized relationship or control-that or complete promiscuity.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000016_000004.wav|The only skin that I really feel emotionally concerned about right now is my own.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000010.wav|Not physically-at least not often-and women take the most outrageous kinds of flattery for granted.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000035_000000.wav|"I get the drift.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000024_000003.wav|My mouth tastes like an old boot heel.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000034_000009.wav|Whoever comes.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000024_000004.wav|I wonder how fresh fruit ever got here.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000009.wav|The male is always the aggressor.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000029_000000.wav|"Any exobiologists there?" Lea asked, with a woman's eternal ability to make any general topic personal.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000011_000002.wav|Her microscope was hooded and she was gone.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000045_000001.wav|Meaning you fight back all the time, if you don't want to be washed under by the flood."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000011_000001.wav|It froze and shattered instantly.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000003_000000.wav|On Brion's desk when he came in, were two neat piles of paper.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000048_000000.wav|"I'm being a fool," she said.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000012_000000.wav|"Of course she's here!" dr Stine grumbled.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000033_000002.wav|You know-whenever this happens with you, I get the distinct impression that you are trying to cover up something. For Occam's sake, be specific!|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000022_000002.wav|And she was smiling.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000008_000001.wav|"Well, it's all filed."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000050_000003.wav|Waiting for a sign from me.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000022_000001.wav|It was the kind of remark she had used with such frequency in the ship, though it didn't sound quite as harsh now.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000050_000001.wav|"All the time I thought you were being a frigid and hard hearted lump of ice, you were really being very sweet.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000019_000001.wav|The guards knew where he was-he could wait here just as well as any place else.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000022_000003.wav|Yet it reminded him too well of her superior attitude towards rubes from the stellar sticks. Here he might be the director, but on ancient Earth he would be only one more gaping, lead footed yokel.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000012_000001.wav|"Where else should a girl in her condition be?|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000042_000000.wav|"Of course.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000028_000000.wav|"Nothing like that.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000010_000001.wav|The front entrance guard had been told to let in anyone who came asking for the director.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000024_000000.wav|"Terrible.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000009_000000.wav|One by one the progress reports followed the first stack into the basket, until the desk was clear.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000045_000000.wav|"A figure of speech, Brion.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000003_000006.wav|Brion kicked at the cover plate until it buckled, then bent it aside.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000043_000007.wav|Men, women, children, a boiling mob wherever you look.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000009_000004.wav|They hadn't; they were all too busy specializing.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000012_000003.wav|I've been handing out tranquilizers like aspirin all day.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000054_000000.wav|"Gently ..." she whispered.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000052_000003.wav|But I'm still not sure of all the rules.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000014_000002.wav|I have other patients to look at."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000048_000001.wav|"You weren't speaking generally at all!|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000016_000000.wav|"Of course I am!|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000034_000010.wav|Male ... female ... in groups or just traveling alone...."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000047_000002.wav|Sociologically speaking...." She stopped and looked at Brion's straight back and almost rigid posture.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000016_000002.wav|We're sitting on a ticking bomb and I don't like it.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000034_000002.wav|"Well-take a bachelor like myself.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000042_000006.wav|It works well for us, which is the only test that applies."|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000047_000000.wav|"From your point of view, it would be.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000026_000000.wav|Brion was startled.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000018_000002.wav|Walking quietly, he went over to the bed.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000003_000001.wav|As he sat down and reached for them he was conscious of an arctic coldness in the air, a frigid blast.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000032_000002.wav|On Anvhar the emphasis is on personal responsibility, and that seems to take care of the problem.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2404/141242/2404_141242_000051_000002.wav|Such as forcing my attentions on you.|2404
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000021_000000.wav|The chief ghost said to them, "Now pity this son in law of yours.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000012_000000.wav|Other wise words she spoke to him, telling him what he should do; also she gave him a bundle of mysterious things which would help him on his journey.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000021_000001.wav|He is looking for his wife.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000023_000000.wav|Now, after the third night the chief ghost called together all the people, and they came, and with them came the man's wife.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000011_000003.wav|You may not be able to get your wife back, but I have great power and I will do for you all that I can.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000015_000003.wav|My little boy too keeps crying for his mother.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000028_000001.wav|That pipe belongs to the band of Piegans known as the Worm People.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000021_000003.wav|You can see how tender hearted he is.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000013_000000.wav|She went on to say, "You stay here for a time and I will go over there to the ghosts' camp and try to bring back some of your relations who are there.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000015_000004.wav|They have offered to give me other wives, but I do not want them.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000013_000002.wav|If you should open them and look about you, you would die.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000006_000000.wav|The young man replied, "I am mourning day and night, crying all the while.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000009_000002.wav|Go to her and she will give you power to continue your journey.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000002_000001.wav|He felt badly, and he did not know what to do.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000013_000001.wav|If it is possible for me to bring them back, you may return there with them, but on the way you must shut your eyes.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000015_000005.wav|I want the one for whom I am searching."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000018_000001.wav|You will die here in this very place."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000027_000004.wav|The man told them where he had been and how he had managed to get his wife back, and that the pipe hanging over the doorway was a medicine pipe-the Worm Pipe-presented to him by his ghost father in law.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000009_000003.wav|You could not reach the place you are seeking without help.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000020_000000.wav|Now when these invited ghosts had reached the lodge they did not like to go in.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000005_000001.wav|On the fourth night of his journeying he had a dream.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000010_000001.wav|It took him a long summer's day to get there, but he found there no lodge, so he lay down and slept.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000008_000002.wav|I am looking for her."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000010_000000.wav|The next morning the young man awoke and went on toward the next butte.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000015_000001.wav|The young man said, "I am looking for my dead wife.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000000.wav|Before the man went away his father in law spoke to him and said, "When you get near home you must not go at once into the camp.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000027_000000.wav|When they drew near to the camp the woman went on ahead and sat down on a butte.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000001_000002.wav|Some time after that the woman grew sick and did not get well.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000023_000001.wav|One of the ghosts was beating a drum, and following him was another who carried the Worm Pipe, which they gave to him.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000001_000001.wav|After they had been married for a time they had a little boy.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000029_000000.wav|Not long after this, once in the night, this man told his wife to do something, and when she did not begin at once he picked up a brand from the fire and raised it-not that he intended to strike her with it, but he made as if he would-when all at once she vanished and was never seen again.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000002_000000.wav|For a few days after this, the man used to take his baby on his back and travel out away from the camp, walking over the hills, crying and mourning.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000005_000000.wav|When he left the camp, he travelled toward the Sand Hills.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000005_000002.wav|He dreamed that he went into a little lodge in which was an old woman.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000027_000001.wav|Then some curious persons came out to see who this might be.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000010_000004.wav|He went into the lodge, and she spoke to him.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000001_000006.wav|At last she died.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000028_000000.wav|That is how the people came to possess the Worm Pipe.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000001_000005.wav|Doctoring did not seem to do her any good.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000004.wav|It can only be removed by a thorough sweat.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000010_000002.wav|Again he dreamed.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000009_000004.wav|Beyond the next butte from her lodge you will find the camp of the ghosts."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000003_000001.wav|I shall go away and try to find your mother and bring her back."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000026_000000.wav|They left the ghost country to go home, and on the fourth day the wife said to her husband, "Open your eyes." He looked about him and saw that those who had been with them had disappeared, and he found that they were standing in front of the old woman's lodge by the butte.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000010_000003.wav|In his dream he saw a little lodge, and saw an old woman come to the door and heard her call to him.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000020_000001.wav|They said to each other, "There is a person here"; it seemed as if they did not like the smell of a human being.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000014_000001.wav|He went with this relation to the ghosts' camp. When they came to the large lodge some one called out and asked the man what he was doing there, and he answered as the old woman had told him.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000022_000000.wav|The ghosts talked among themselves, and one of them said to the man, "Yes; you shall stay here for four nights, and then we will give you a medicine pipe-the Worm Pipe-and we will give you back your wife and you may return to your home."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000015_000002.wav|I mourn for her so much that I cannot rest.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000007_000000.wav|"Well," asked the old woman, "for whom are you mourning?"|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000003.wav|There is something about the ghosts that it is difficult to remove.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000011_000000.wav|"My son, you are very unhappy.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000016_000000.wav|The ghost said, "It is a fearful thing that you have come here; it is very likely that you will never go away.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000008_000000.wav|The young man answered, "I am mourning for my wife.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000006.wav|Do not whip your wife, nor strike her with a knife, nor hit her with fire. If you do, she will vanish before your eyes and return here."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000009_000001.wav|I myself have no great power to help you, but over by that far butte beyond, lives another old woman.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000001.wav|Let some of your relations know that you have come, and ask them to build a sweat house for you.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000002.wav|Go into that sweat house and wash your body thoroughly, leaving no part of it, however small, uncleansed. If you fail in this, you will die.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000024_000003.wav|Your wife is not now a person.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000004_000000.wav|He took the baby to his mother's lodge and asked her to take care of it and left it with her.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000024_000004.wav|But in the middle of the fourth day you will be told to look, and when you have opened your eyes you will see that your wife has become a person, and that your ghost relations have disappeared."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000013_000003.wav|Then you would never come back.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000013_000004.wav|When you come to the camp you will pass by a big lodge and they will ask you, 'Where are you going and who told you to come here?' You must answer, 'My grandmother, who is standing out here with me, told me to come.' They will try to scare you; they will make fearful noises and you will see strange and terrible things, but do not be afraid."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000009_000000.wav|"Oh, I saw her," said the old woman; "she passed this way.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000001_000003.wav|She was sick for a long time. The young man loved his wife so much that he did not wish to take a second woman.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000021_000002.wav|Neither the great distance that he has come nor the fearful sights that he has seen here have weakened his heart.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000016_000001.wav|Never before has there been a person here."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000025_000005.wav|Take care now that you do what I tell you.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000008_000001.wav|She died some time ago.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000018_000000.wav|This chief ghost said to him, "You shall stay here for four nights and you shall see your wife, but you must be very careful or you will never go back.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000011_000004.wav|If you act as I advise, you may succeed."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000017_000000.wav|The ghost asked him to come into his lodge, and he entered.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000001_000000.wav|There was once a man who loved his wife dearly.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000015_000000.wav|Presently he came to another lodge, and the man who owned it came out and spoke to him, asking where he was going.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000026_000001.wav|She came out of her lodge and said to them, "Stop; give me back those mysterious medicines of mine, whose power helped you to do what you wished." The man returned them to her, and then once more became really a living person.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000027_000002.wav|As they approached the woman called out to them, "Do not come any nearer.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/155646/1923_155646_000021_000004.wav|He not only mourns because he has lost his wife, but he mourns because his little boy is now alone, with no mother; so pity him and give him back his wife."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000003_000001.wav|His hat was on the back of his head, his eyes shining, his whole face aglow with boyish mischief.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000007_000000.wav|But it's simply impossible for me to gush.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000037_000001.wav|Then, too, the remembrance of Dicky's happy face when he thought he was surprising me tugged at my heart.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000009_000001.wav|He had touched a sore spot.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000012_000002.wav|Wait and I'll fix up some eggs for you."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000004_000000.wav|"It's for you, my first housekeeping present, that is needed in every well regulated family," he burlesqued boastfully, "but you are not to see it until we have something to eat, and you have guessed what it is."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000040_000001.wav|"You're not the only one who is sorry, I made up my mind before you came back not only to keep this cat, but to learn to like her."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000002_000000.wav|THE FIRST QUARREL|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000006_000001.wav|I knew what he expected-enthusiastic curiosity and a demand for the immediate opening of the parcel, I can imagine the pretty enthusiasm, the caresses with which almost any other woman would have greeted a bridegroom of two weeks with his first present.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000022_000000.wav|"Don't believe I want any dessert today.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000026_000002.wav|I pushed her away gently with my foot as I replied:|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000045_000001.wav|Impulsively, I started toward him to remonstrate against the extravagance, but stopped as I heard the patter of rain against the windows.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000028_000002.wav|Besides, this cat is a thoroughbred, never been outside the home where she was born till now.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000043_000001.wav|"Can you dress in half an hour? We have only that."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000016_000001.wav|"Smells scrumptious," he announced.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000015_000003.wav|Come on, let's eat the thing um bob.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000034_000001.wav|What was I to do with her?|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000038_000000.wav|"If he wants a cat, a cat he shall have," I said to myself, and calling my unwelcome guest to me with a resolute determination to do my duty by the beast, no matter how distasteful the task, I was just putting a saucer of milk in front of her when the door opened and Dicky came in like a whirlwind.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000012_000001.wav|"Don't eat it.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000033_000001.wav|Our first quarrel had come!|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000039_000004.wav|I'll take the beast back tomorrow."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000028_000000.wav|"Oh, get out of it, Madge," Dicky interrupted.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000042_000000.wav|"Your what?" I was mystified.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000023_000002.wav|"Why, Dicky, you don't mean-"|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000045_000000.wav|As I closed the door of my room I heard Dicky ask for the number of the taxicab company where he kept an account.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000039_000001.wav|"If you've got any in the house bring 'em along and I'll put them on.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000043_000000.wav|"Evening clothes, goose." Dicky threw the words over his shoulder as he took down the telephone receiver.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000005_000001.wav|It is getting cold."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000015_000000.wav|Then he bent and kissed me.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000039_000000.wav|"How do you wear sackcloth and ashes?" he cried, catching me in his arms as he made the query.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000012_000000.wav|"Dicky, you surely do not think I would use meat that was doubtful, do you?" I asked, horror stricken.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000034_000002.wav|There is no cure for a quarrel like loneliness and reflection.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000026_000001.wav|He set the cat down on the floor and she walked over to me.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000023_000000.wav|"Whatever in the world?" I began as Dicky lifted the lid and revealed a big Angora cat.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000039_000003.wav|No nice thing getting angry at your bride, because she doesn't like cats.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000014_000000.wav|"Absolute depression where the bump called 'sense of humor' ought to be.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000028_000004.wav|A cool two hundred, that's all.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000018_000000.wav|For I was fast lapsing into one of the moods which my little mother used to call my "morbid streaks" and which she had vainly tried to cure ever since I was a tiny girl.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000019_000002.wav|Dicky was disappointed in the way I received the announcement of his present! Probably he soon would find me wanting in other things.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000021_000000.wav|When I brought on the baked apples which I had prepared with especial care for dessert, Dick gave them one glance which to my oversensitive mind looked disparaging.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000011_000000.wav|"Casserole is usually my pet aversion," Dicky said solemnly.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000007_000005.wav|There is something inside me that makes it an absolute impossibility.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000037_000000.wav|But I also had the common sense to see that there would be real issues in our lives without wasting our ammunition over a cat.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000014_000002.wav|Pretty creature, too.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000021_000001.wav|Then he pushed back his chair.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000003_000000.wav|"I'll give you three guesses, Madge." Dicky stood just inside the door of the living room, holding an immense parcel carefully wrapped.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000029_000000.wav|Dicky's voice held a note of appeal, but I chose to ignore it.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000014_000003.wav|Cause her lots of trouble, in the days to come," he chanted solemnly.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000041_000000.wav|Dicky kissed me.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000008_000001.wav|The beef again?"|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000035_000001.wav|I could see that Dicky was accustomed to having his own way unquestioned.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000040_000000.wav|"Indeed, you'll do no such thing," I protested.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000019_000000.wav|Dicky didn't like my cooking!|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000030_000000.wav|"I am sorry," I said coldly, "but really, I do not see why it is any more incumbent on me to try to overcome my very real aversion to cats than it is for you to try to do without their society."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000026_000000.wav|"Why not?" Dicky's tone was sharper than I had ever heard it.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000007_000002.wav|I worshipped my mother, but I rarely kissed her or expressed my love for her in words.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000016_000002.wav|"What's in the other? Potatoes au gratin?" as he took off the cover of the other serving dish.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000016_000004.wav|One of my favorites."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000015_000001.wav|"Don't be a goose, Madge," he admonished, "and never, never take me seriously.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000016_000003.wav|"Good!|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000014_000001.wav|Too bad!|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000033_000000.wav|Back in the living room, huddled up in the big chair which is the chief pride of the woman who rents us the furnished apartment, I sat, as angry as Dicky, and heartsick besides.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000007_000004.wav|Respond to his caresses, yes! but offer them of my own volition, never!|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000008_000000.wav|"What's the menu, Madge?|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000007_000003.wav|My love for Dicky terrifies me sometimes, it is so strong, but I cannot go up to him and offer him an unsolicited kiss or caress.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000044_000000.wav|"I'll be ready."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000010_000001.wav|"Besides, it's a casserole, with rice, and I defy you to detect whether the chief ingredient be fish, flesh or fowl."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000005_000000.wav|"I know it is something lovely, dear," I replied sedately, "but come to your dinner.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000034_000000.wav|But the cat remained.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000006_000000.wav|Dicky looked a trifle hurt as he followed me to the dining room.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000009_000002.wav|The butcher had brought me a huge slab of meat for my first dinner when I had timidly ordered "rib roast," and with the aid of my mother's cook book and my own smattering of cooking, my sole housewifely accomplishment, I had been trying to disguise it for subsequent meals.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000011_000002.wav|Too much like Spanish steak and the other good chances for ptomaines.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000023_000001.wav|Then my voice changed.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000011_000001.wav|Look not on the casserole when it is table d'hote, is one of the pet little proverbs in my immediate set.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000032_000000.wav|Then Dicky slammed the living room door behind him to emphasize his words, went down the hall, slammed the apartment door and ran down the steps.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000023_000003.wav|But Dicky was absorbed in lifting the cat out.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000010_000000.wav|"This is positively its last appearance on any stage," I assured him, trying to be gay.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000031_000001.wav|"If you feel that way about it, there is nothing more to be said."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000029_000001.wav|My particular little devil must have sat at my elbow.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000015_000002.wav|I don't know the meaning of the word.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000019_000001.wav|He was only pretending!|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000041_000001.wav|"You're a brick, sweetheart," he said heartily, "and I've got a reward for you, a peace offering.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000016_000000.wav|He uncovered the casserole and regarded the steaming contents critically.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000013_000000.wav|Dicky rose stiffly, walked slowly around to my side of the table, and gravely tapped my head in imitation of a phrenologist.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000009_000000.wav|Dicky's tone was mildly quizzical, his smile mischievous, but I flushed hotly.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000028_000001.wav|"Forget that scientific foolishness you absorbed when you were school ma'aming.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000034_000003.wav|Dicky had not been gone a half hour after our disagreement over the cat before I was wondering how we both could have been so silly.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000017_000001.wav|He ate heartily of both dishes, ignoring or not noticing that I scarcely touched either dish.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000035_000000.wav|I thought it out carefully.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161972/1923_161972_000031_000000.wav|"Very well," Dicky exclaimed angrily, turning toward the door.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000042_000002.wav|I carried them to the kitchen and put them in Dicky's hands.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000007_000002.wav|Was that the reason?|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000000.wav|I could not get the letter without attracting his attention.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000032_000002.wav|Five minutes earlier I would have explained to him fully. I resolved now to put my friendship for Jack upon the same basis as his for mrs Underwood.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000035_000001.wav|"I give you full permission."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000049_000000.wav|Was this marriage-heights of happiness, depths of despair, with the humdrum of petty differences between?|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000002.wav|I heard the rustling of the newspaper; then a sudden silence told me his attention had been arrested by something.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000031_000001.wav|Always Jack."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000041_000002.wav|What does he look like?"|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000007_000001.wav|I sat upright in bed as a thought flashed across my brain.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000033_000001.wav|"Have you read the letter?" I asked quietly.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000006_000000.wav|I locked the door of my room, pulled down the shade and, exchanging my house dress for a comfortable negligee, lay down upon my bed to think things out.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000001.wav|I waited, every nerve tense, listening to the sounds in the next room.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000022_000001.wav|How I hated these glimpses of the intimate friendship which must exist between my husband and this woman!|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000024_000001.wav|I'll look them over for a little.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000042_000000.wav|Dicky fairly shot the questions at me.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000020_000001.wav|Where did you see her." I prided myself on my careless tone, but Dicky gave me a shrewd glance.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000047_000002.wav|My account looked pretty discouraging.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000042_000001.wav|I turned and went into my room. There I rummaged in a box of old photographs until I found two fairly good likenesses of Jack.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000010_000000.wav|For a moment I could not understand how I came to be in bed.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000026_000002.wav|It was not quite the letter for a bridegroom to find without expectation.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000038_000000.wav|"No," I returned demurely.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000026_000003.wav|I realized that.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000045_000000.wav|Dicky stared at me a long, long look as if he had just discovered me. Then he turned on his heel.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000026_000000.wav|I had forgotten all about the letter.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000018_000001.wav|Joy was the stronger, however.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000005_000000.wav|I addressed the envelopes properly, inserted the answers in the envelopes, sealed and stamped them, then ran out to the post box on the corner with them.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000009_000000.wav|A loud ringing at the doorbell awakened me.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000036_000000.wav|I could have laughed at Dicky, if I had been less angry.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000010_000005.wav|It had been forwarded from my old boarding house.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000042_000003.wav|He glared at them, then threw them on the table.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000004_000001.wav|Then I wrote beneath each one: "Please call Thursday or Friday.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000037_000000.wav|"You have no brother.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000012_000000.wav|I opened the letter slowly.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000019_000001.wav|She's planning a frolic for the crowd some night at your convenience."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000018_000005.wav|Reading it I realized that the memory of Jack had been so pushed into the background during the past six months that I never had thought to tell Dicky about him.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000028_000000.wav|How would Dicky take it?|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000047_000001.wav|It isn't a bad idea at times to "loaf and invite your soul," and then cast up account with it.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000032_000000.wav|Dicky's face was not a pleasant sight.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000012_000001.wav|It bore a New Orleans heading, and a date three days before.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000004.wav|I did not think so.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000014_000002.wav|I wrote you twice, but have no hope that the letters ever reached you.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000007_000003.wav|Were his objections to this plan of mine what he pretended they were?|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000037_000001.wav|Is this man a relative?"|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000010_000003.wav|The afternoon newspapers lay upon the floor.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000018_000003.wav|I had my marriage to explain to Jack, and Jack to explain to Dicky.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000048_000000.wav|Dicky and I had been married a little over two weeks.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000047_000000.wav|I sat down to a humiliating half hour's thought.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000021_000002.wav|Atwood and Barker and she and I are all on one floor, and we often have a dish of tea together when we are not rushed."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000015_000004.wav|I do hope you have been well and as cheerful as possible.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000018_000004.wav|Nothing but this letter could have so revealed to me the strength of the infatuation for Dicky which had swept me off my feet and resulted in my marriage after only a six months' acquaintance.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000018_000002.wav|Dear old Jack was safe at home. But there were adjustments which I must make.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000020_000000.wav|"That is awfully kind of her.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000007_000004.wav|Did he really fear that I might have unpleasant publicity thrust upon me, and that some of our pleasure plans might be spoiled by the weekly lecture engagement?|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000034_000000.wav|"You know I have not read the letter." he snarled.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000024_000002.wav|Whistle when you're ready and I'll wipe the dishes for you."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000046_000000.wav|"Well, I'll be-" I did not find out what he would be, for he went out and slammed the door.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000011_000000.wav|"Miss Margaret Spencer," and then, in the crabbed handwriting of my dear old landlady, "care of mrs Richard Graham."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000028_000003.wav|I Heard him crush the paper in his hand, then come quickly to the kitchen.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000034_000002.wav|I could not help but see this-this-whatever it is," he finished lamely, "and I have come straight to you for an explanation."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000029_000000.wav|"What does this mean?"|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000017_000000.wav|"JACK."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000035_000000.wav|"Better read the letter," I advised quietly.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000004_000002.wav|Ask for mrs Richard Graham, Apartment four, forty six East Twenty ninth street."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000010_000002.wav|The ring had been the postman's.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000040_000001.wav|"He will be surprised certainly," I answered, "but as he never was my lover, I don't think it will be any blow to him."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000015_000000.wav|"I shall be in New York two weeks from today, the twenty fourth.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000043_000001.wav|Looks like a gorilla with the mumps," he growled.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000032_000001.wav|It repulsed and disgusted me. Subconsciously I was contrasting the way in which he calmly expected me to accept his friendship for Lillian Gale, and his behavior over this letter.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000004_000000.wav|I clipped the advertisements and fastened each neatly to a sheet of notepaper.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000007_000005.wav|Or was he the type of man who could not bear his wife to have money or plans or even thoughts which did not originate with him?|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000030_000000.wav|The last words of Jack's letter danced before my eyes, Dicky's hand was shaking so.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000026_000001.wav|I had meant to show it to Dicky after I had explained about Jack.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000039_000000.wav|"An old lover then, I suppose a confident one, I should judge by the tone of the letter.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000003_000001.wav|Then, finding the want advertisements of the Sunday papers, I looked carefully through the columns headed "Situations Wanted, Female."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000015_000003.wav|I am looking forward to a real dinner, at a real restaurant, with the realest girl in the world opposite me the first day I strike New York, so get ready for me.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000013_000000.wav|"Dear little girl:|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000021_000000.wav|"Why, at the studio, of course.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000005.wav|I knew his sense of honor was too keen for that, but I remembered that the last page with its signature was at the top of the sheets as I laid them down.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000023_000000.wav|"I suppose we ought to have them all over some night," I said at last, "but I'll have to add a few things to our equipment, and wait until I get a maid."|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000024_000000.wav|"That will be fine," Dicky assented cordially, pushing back his chair. "Did the papers come?|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000025_000000.wav|He strolled into the living room, and I suddenly remembered that I had laid my letter from Jack on the table, with its pages scattered so that any one picking them up could not help seeing them.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000005_000001.wav|I walked back very slowly, for there was nothing more that needed to be done, and I could put off no longer the settling of my problem.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000027_000006.wav|That was enough to make any loving husband reflect a bit.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1923/161975/1923_161975_000014_000003.wav|But now I am back in God's country, or shall be when I get North, and of course, my first line is to you.|1923
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000001.wav|God was there, close around them, hearing her father's whispered words.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000060_000000.wav|'You don't think her worse to day,' said mr Hale, turning hastily.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000006.wav|He was climbing up some tree of fabulous height to reach the branch whereon was slung her bonnet: he was falling, and she was struggling to save him, but held back by some invisible powerful hand.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000029_000001.wav|'Poor papa!'--trying to divert her mother's thoughts into compassionate sympathy for all her father had gone through.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000057_000006.wav|For he came home every evening more and more depressed, after the necessary leave taking which he had resolved to have with every individual parishioner.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000076_000004.wav|The breadth of one of your fingers does not give me a very clear idea of distance.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000022_000001.wav|They were close to a garden bench.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000004.wav|Mary Domville's little crippled boy would crawl in vain to the door and look for her coming through the forest.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000057_000008.wav|The cook and Charlotte worked away with willing arms and stout hearts at all the moving and packing; and as far as that went, Margaret's admirable sense enabled her to see what was best, and to direct how it should be done.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000019_000002.wav|Her eye caught on a bee entering a deep belled flower: when that bee flew forth with his spoil she would begin-that should be the sign.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000053_000004.wav|You have made a strange mistake, and one that I am sure your own good feeling will make you sorry for when you think about it.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000039_000000.wav|'Yes,' said mrs Hale, almost indignantly, 'but, at any rate, the Gormans made carriages for half the gentry of the county, and were brought into some kind of intercourse with them; but these factory people, who on earth wears cotton that can afford linen?'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000078_000000.wav|'Not in distance, but in-.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000056_000002.wav|She said it was because she was so like poor Master Frederick; but the truth was, that Dixon, as do many others, liked to feel herself ruled by a powerful and decided nature.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000052_000001.wav|To hear her father talked of in this way by a servant to her face!|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000062_000000.wav|mr Hale looked infinitely distressed.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000029_000002.wav|mrs Hale raised her head.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000057_000012.wav|He answered:|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000016_000001.wav|She talked on, planning village kindnesses, unheeding the silence of her husband and the monosyllabic answers of Margaret. Before the things were cleared away, mr Hale got up; he leaned one hand on the table, as if to support himself:|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000004.wav|If the world was full of perplexing problems she would trust, and only ask to see the one step needful for the hour.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000070_000002.wav|Suddenly she took a candle and went into her father's study for a great atlas, and lugging it back into the drawing room, she began to pore over the map of England.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000000.wav|mr Hale and Margaret knelt by the window seat-he looking up, she bowed down in humble shame.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000051_000006.wav|he never liked your marrying mr Hale, but if he could have known it would have come to this, he would have sworn worse oaths than ever, if that was possible!"'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000020_000000.wav|'Mamma!|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000008_000002.wav|But I am tired: it surely must be near bedtime.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000032_000000.wav|'I'm afraid not,' said Margaret.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000008_000001.wav|It smells of the freshest, purest fragrance, after the smokiness of Harley Street.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000019_000001.wav|mrs Hale spoke-said something-Margaret could not tell what.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000037_000001.wav|Next to the serious vital anxiety as to the nature of her father's doubts, this was the one circumstance of the case that gave Margaret the most pain.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000050_000001.wav|I did not hear you come into the room!' said Margaret, resuming her trembling self restraint. 'Is it very late?' continued she, lifting herself languidly off the bed, yet letting her feet touch the ground without fairly standing down, as she shaded her wet ruffled hair off her face, and tried to look as though nothing were the matter; as if she had only been asleep.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000017_000002.wav|I shall be back to tea at seven.' He did not look at either of them, but Margaret knew what he meant.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000069_000001.wav|She felt that it was a great weight suddenly thrown upon her shoulders.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000068_000001.wav|Do what you think best.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000040_000000.wav|'Well, mamma, I give up the cotton spinners; I am not standing up for them, any more than for any other trades people.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000057_000010.wav|Straight to Milton, or where?|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000033_000002.wav|'He has doubts, you say, and gives up his living, and all without consulting me.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000015_000003.wav|It all came back upon her; not merely the sorrow, but the terrible discord in the sorrow.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000061_000000.wav|'I'm sure I can't say, sir.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000054_000001.wav|Margaret repeated, 'You may leave me, Dixon.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000079_000000.wav|This was a great step.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000002.wav|By the time the frost had set in, they should be far away from Helstone.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000076_000002.wav|I am resigned.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000075_000000.wav|'To be sure she does, papa,' replied Margaret; 'and if she has to put up with a different style of living, we shall have to put up with her airs, which will be worse.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000009_000002.wav|I will come and see you as soon as you are in bed.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000051_000003.wav|When Charlotte told me just now you were sobbing, Miss Hale, I thought, no wonder, poor thing!|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000057_000009.wav|But where were they to go to? In a week they must be gone.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000012_000003.wav|He came to her and touched her shoulder before she was aware that he was there.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000003.wav|She spoke not a word, but stole to bed after her father had left her, like a child ashamed of its fault.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000008.wav|And yet, with a shifting of the scene, she was once more in the Harley Street drawing room, talking to him as of old, and still with a consciousness all the time that she had seen him killed by that terrible fall.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000024_000002.wav|He has also consulted mr Bell-Frederick's godfather, you know, mamma; and it is arranged that we go to live in Milton Northern.' mrs Hale looked up in Margaret's face all the time she was speaking these words: the shadow on her countenance told that she, at least, believed in the truth of what she said.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000040_000001.wav|Only we shall have little enough to do with them.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000061_000001.wav|It's not for me to judge.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000036_000001.wav|Fancy living in the middle of factories, and factory people!|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000041_000000.wav|'Why on earth has your father fixed on Milton Northern to live in?'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000017_000004.wav|mr Hale would have delayed making it till half past six, but Margaret was of different stuff.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000065_000003.wav|She has never expressed any wish in any way, and only thinks of what can't be helped.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000051_000005.wav|I had a cousin, miss, who turned Methodist preacher after he was fifty years of age, and a tailor all his life; but then he had never been able to make a pair of trousers to fit, for as long as he had been in the trade, so it was no wonder; but for master! as I said to missus, "What would poor Sir john have said?|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000066_000001.wav|'I suppose we must go into lodgings, and look about for a house.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000017_000007.wav|She came down ready equipped, in a brisker mood than usual.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000065_000002.wav|And I think, papa, that I could get mamma to help me in planning, if you could tell me what to plan for.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000036_000005.wav|It is well he is not alive to see what your father has come to!|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000015_000000.wav|Miserable, unresting night!|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000017_000006.wav|But while she stood by the window, thinking how to begin, and waiting for the servant to have left the room, her mother had gone up stairs to put on her things to go to the school.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000047_000000.wav|Margaret was inexpressibly relieved to find that her mother's anxiety and distress was lowered to this point, so insignificant to herself, and on which she could do so much to help.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000045_000000.wav|mrs Hale was silent for some time, quietly crying.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000007_000000.wav|'Do you feel ill, my darling?' asked mrs Hale, anxiously, misunderstanding Margaret's hint of the uncertainty of their stay at Helstone. 'You look pale and tired.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000033_000000.wav|'In a fortnight!' exclaimed mrs Hale, 'I do think this is very strange-not at all right.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000063_000000.wav|'You had better take mamma her tea while it is hot, Dixon,' said Margaret, in a tone of quiet authority.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000017_000001.wav|I am going to Bracy Common, and will ask Farmer Dobson to give me something for dinner.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000003.wav|Old Simon's rheumatism might be bad and his eyesight worse; there would be no one to go and read to him, and comfort him with little porringers of broth and good red flannel: or if there was, it would be a stranger, and the old man would watch in vain for her.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000058_000001.wav|I have really had too much to think about to settle this.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000068_000002.wav|Only remember, we shall have much less money to spend.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000071_000001.wav|Look here-in Darkshire, hardly the breadth of my finger from Milton, is Heston, which I have often heard of from people living in the north as such a pleasant little bathing place.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000011_000000.wav|Margaret went upstairs.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000047_000006.wav|She went to him, and threw herself on his breast, crying out-|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000070_000000.wav|Her father went up after tea to sit with his wife.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000024_000001.wav|Papa has written to the bishop, saying that he has such doubts that he cannot conscientiously remain a priest of the Church of England, and that he must give up Helstone.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000029_000000.wav|'Yesterday, only yesterday,' replied Margaret, detecting the jealousy which prompted the inquiry.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000069_000006.wav|Now, since that day when mr Lennox came, and startled her into a decision, every day brought some question, momentous to her, and to those whom she loved, to be settled.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000073_000000.wav|'Oh, yes!' said Margaret. 'Dixon quite intends it, and I don't know what mamma would do without her.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000068_000000.wav|'I suppose so.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000079_000001.wav|Now Margaret could work, and act, and plan in good earnest.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000058_000003.wav|What does she wish?|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000009_000000.wav|'Not far off-it is half past nine.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000069_000005.wav|Once a year, there was a long discussion between her aunt and Edith as to whether they should go to the Isle of Wight, abroad, or to Scotland; but at such times Margaret herself was secure of drifting, without any exertion of her own, into the quiet harbour of home.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000071_000000.wav|'I have hit upon such a beautiful plan.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000048_000000.wav|'Oh! Richard, Richard, you should have told me sooner!'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000036_000002.wav|Though, of course, if your father leaves the Church, we shall not be admitted into society anywhere.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000056_000000.wav|'No! not to night, thank you.' And Margaret gravely lighted her out of the room, and bolted the door.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000034_000000.wav|Mistaken as Margaret felt her father's conduct to have been, she could not bear to hear it blamed by her mother.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000014_000007.wav|He was dead.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000043_000000.wav|'Private tutor in Milton!|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000038_000001.wav|The Gormans, who are our nearest neighbours (to call society-and we hardly ever see them), have been in trade just as much as these Milton Northern people.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000027_000000.wav|'Dear, darling mamma! we were so afraid of giving you pain.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000051_000000.wav|'I hardly can tell what time it is,' replied Dixon, in an aggrieved tone of voice.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000047_000004.wav|She dared not go to meet him, and tell him what she had done all day, for fear of her mother's jealous annoyance. She heard him linger, as if awaiting her, or some sign of her; and she dared not stir; she saw by her mother's twitching lips, and changing colour, that she too was aware that her husband had returned.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000050_000000.wav|'Oh, Dixon!|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000013_000001.wav|I could not help coming in to ask you to pray with me-to say the Lord's Prayer; that will do good to both of us.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000019_000000.wav|They passed through the open window.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000015_000001.wav|Ill preparation for the coming day!|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000011_000006.wav|This evening-sixteen hours at most had past by-she sat down, too full of sorrow to cry, but with a dull cold pain, which seemed to have pressed the youth and buoyancy out of her heart, never to return.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000044_000001.wav|He is leaving the Church on account of his opinions-his doubts would do him no good at Oxford.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000019_000003.wav|Out he came.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000036_000006.wav|Every day after dinner, when I was a girl, living with your aunt Shaw, at Beresford Court, Sir john used to give for the first toast-"Church and King, and down with the Rump."'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000017_000005.wav|She could not bear the impending weight on her mind all the day long: better get the worst over; the day would be too short to comfort her mother.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000075_000001.wav|But she really loves us all, and would be miserable to leave us, I am sure-especially in this change; so, for mamma's sake, and for the sake of her faithfulness, I do think she must go.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000051_000001.wav|'Since your mamma told me this terrible news, when I dressed her for tea, I've lost all count of time.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000059_000000.wav|He met with an echo even louder than his sigh.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000032_000001.wav|'But I did not ask.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000069_000003.wav|Nor was the household in which she lived one that called for much decision.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000049_000002.wav|In consequence of this, Margaret felt herself touched, and started up into a sitting posture; she saw the accustomed room, the figure of Dixon in shadow, as the latter stood holding the candle a little behind her, for fear of the effect on Miss Hale's startled eyes, swollen and blinded as they were.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000078_000002.wav|If you really think it will do your mother good, let it be fixed so.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000006.wav|'Papa has always spent the income he derived from his living in the parish.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000054_000000.wav|Dixon hung irresolutely about the room for a minute or two.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000058_000002.wav|What does your mother say?|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000028_000000.wav|'When did he tell you, Margaret?'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000038_000000.wav|'You know, we have very little society here, mamma.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000020_000002.wav|'He's going to leave the Church, and live in Milton Northern.' There were the three hard facts hardly spoken.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000005.wav|These poor friends would never understand why she had forsaken them; and there were many others besides.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000026_000000.wav|It came strongly upon Margaret's mind that her mother ought to have been told: that whatever her faults of discontent and repining might have been, it was an error in her father to have left her to learn his change of opinion, and his approaching change of life, from her better informed child.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000059_000001.wav|Dixon had just come into the room for another cup of tea for mrs Hale, and catching mr Hale's last words, and protected by his presence from Margaret's upbraiding eyes, made bold to say, 'My poor mistress!'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000012_000000.wav|She looked out upon the dark gray lines of the church tower, square and straight in the centre of the view, cutting against the deep blue transparent depths beyond, into which she gazed, and felt that she might gaze for ever, seeing at every moment some farther distance, and yet no sign of God!|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000031_000000.wav|'Can't the bishop set him right?' asked mrs Hale, half impatiently.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000056_000001.wav|From henceforth Dixon obeyed and admired Margaret.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000047_000001.wav|She planned and promised, and led her mother on to arrange fully as much as could be fixed before they knew somewhat more definitively what mr Hale intended to do.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000011_000005.wav|That morning when she had looked out, her heart had danced at seeing the bright clear lights on the church tower, which foretold a fine and sunny day.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000043_000001.wav|Why can't he go to Oxford, and be a tutor to gentlemen?'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000058_000000.wav|'My dear!|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000069_000000.wav|They had never had much superfluity, as Margaret knew.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000013_000000.wav|'Margaret, I heard you were up.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000018_000000.wav|'Mother, come round the garden with me this morning; just one turn,' said Margaret, putting her arm round mrs Hale's waist.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000053_000001.wav|'Dixon! you forget to whom you are speaking.' She stood upright and firm on her feet now, confronting the waiting maid, and fixing her with her steady discerning eye.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000071_000003.wav|She would get a breath of sea air to set her up for the winter, and be spared all the fatigue, and Dixon would enjoy taking care of her.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000011_000007.wav|mr Henry Lennox's visit-his offer-was like a dream, a thing beside her actual life.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000044_000000.wav|'You forget, mamma!|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000015_000004.wav|Where, to what distance apart, had her father wandered, led by doubts which were to her temptations of the Evil One?|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000034_000001.wav|She knew that his very reserve had originated in a tenderness for her, which might be cowardly, but was not unfeeling.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000032_000005.wav|I am not sure if he did not say he had sent in his deed of resignation.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000057_000003.wav|Dixon, true to her post of body guard, attended most faithfully to her mistress, and only emerged from mrs Hale's bed room to shake her head, and murmur to herself in a manner which Margaret did not choose to hear.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000015_000002.wav|She awoke with a start, unrefreshed, and conscious of some reality worse even than her feverish dreams.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000042_000000.wav|'Partly,' said Margaret, sighing, 'because it is so very different from Helstone-partly because mr Bell says there is an opening there for a private tutor.'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000009_000001.wav|You had better go to bed at once dear. Ask Dixon for some gruel.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000067_000000.wav|'And pack up the furniture so that it can be left at the railway station, till we have met with one?'|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000069_000002.wav|Four months ago, all the decisions she needed to make were what dress she would wear for dinner, and to help Edith to draw out the lists of who should take down whom in the dinner parties at home.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000036_000000.wav|'You can't think the smoky air of a manufacturing town, all chimneys and dirt like Milton Northern, would be better than this air, which is pure and sweet, if it is too soft and relaxing.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000065_000000.wav|'Papa!' said Margaret, 'it is this suspense that is bad for you both.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000005_000001.wav|She could not help listening, though each new project was a stab to her heart.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000051_000004.wav|And master thinking of turning Dissenter at his time of life, when, if it is not to be said he's done well in the Church, he's not done badly after all.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1678/142279/1678_142279_000053_000002.wav|'I am mr Hale's daughter.|1678
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1734/142311/1734_142311_000048_000000.wav|'I've reckoned for that.|1734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1734/142311/1734_142311_000017_000008.wav|He kept saying, 'I quite expected to have seen mr Thornton.|1734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1734/142311/1734_142311_000004_000000.wav|LOOKING SOUTH|1734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1734/142311/1734_142311_000038_000003.wav|I'm a poor black feckless sheep-childer may clem for aught I can do, unless, parson, yo'd help me?'|1734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000024_000000.wav|"Pray hear me out, mr Sherwin: you will not condemn my conduct, I think, if you hear all I have to say."|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000002_000001.wav|He wore a white cravat, and an absurdly high shirt collar.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000072_000000.wav|"Certainly."|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000045_000000.wav|"He has expressed no disapproval, mr Sherwin."|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000007_000000.wav|"Indeed!"|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000053_000000.wav|"There might be many chances.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000016_000000.wav|"My daughter!|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000000_000002.wav|Never was a richly furnished room more thoroughly comfortless than this-the eye ached at looking round it.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000042_000003.wav|My dear Sir, I emphatically repeat it, your father's convictions do him honour; I respect them as much as I respect him; I do, indeed."|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000064_000000.wav|"May I ask who mr Mannion is?"|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000040_000000.wav|"Very proper-a very proper way of putting it.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000059_000000.wav|"Certainly! most decidedly so!|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000050_000001.wav|Good gracious, I don't at all see my way-"|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000062_000000.wav|"Permit me to assure you, mr Sherwin-"|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000071_000000.wav|"Without fail, depend upon it.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000042_000000.wav|"Quite so-most natural; most becoming, indeed, on the part of your respected father.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000052_000001.wav|Chance! what chance would there be, after what you have told me?"|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000000_000006.wav|All surrounding objects seemed startlingly near to the eye; much nearer than they really were.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000044_000000.wav|"He disapproves of it, of course-strongly, perhaps.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000003_000001.wav|This done, he coughed, and begged to know what he could do for me.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000058_000001.wav|I speak in all our interests, when I say that a private marriage gives us a chance for the future, as opportunities arise of gradually disclosing it.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000052_000000.wav|"But I tell you, Sir, I can't see my way through it at all.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000061_000002.wav|No duchess has had a better education than my Margaret!--"|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000047_000000.wav|"I have not given him an opportunity.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000000_000003.wav|There was no repose anywhere.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000074_000000.wav|"I promise not, mr Sherwin-because I believe that your answer will be favourable."|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000060_000000.wav|"I am sure, mr Sherwin-"|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000002_000007.wav|But he was Margaret's father; and I was determined to be pleased with him.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000036_000002.wav|She would do nothing without my authority, of course?"|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000057_000001.wav|There's something in that, certainly."|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000038_000000.wav|"Ah! she said that, did she?|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54666/5606_54666_000002_000005.wav|His lips were thin and colourless, the lines about them being numerous and strongly marked.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000014_000000.wav|There was a pause.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000020_000000.wav|mrs Sherwin coughed-a very weak, small cough, half stifled in its birth.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000062_000005.wav|Once more, all my doubts, all my self upbraidings vanished, and gave place to the exquisite sense of happiness, the glow of joy and hope and love which seemed to rush over my heart, the moment I looked at her.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000001_000001.wav|When I entered the house, this reluctance increased to something almost like dread.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000007_000000.wav|The oppression was still on my spirits.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000011_000003.wav|A happy woman imperceptibly diffuses her happiness around her; she has an influence that is something akin to the influence of a sunshiny day. So, again, the melancholy of a melancholy woman is invariably, though silently, infectious; and mrs Sherwin was one of this latter order.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000006_000001.wav|I reached London in the afternoon; and got to North Villa-without going home first-about five o'clock.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000029_000000.wav|By this time (in spite of all my efforts to preserve some respect for him, as Margaret's father) he had sunk to his proper place in my estimation.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000035_000003.wav|Would it not be the dearest of privileges to be able to see Margaret, perhaps every day, perhaps for hours at a time?|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000010_000000.wav|His wife rose in a hurry, and curtseyed, leaving the knife sticking in the cake; upon which mr Sherwin, with a stern look at her, ostentatiously pulled it out, and set it down rather violently on the dish.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000030_000005.wav|I think that's fair enough-Eh?"|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000005_000006.wav|It was not his delay in accepting my proposals, but the burden of deceit, the fetters of concealment forced on me by the proposals themselves, which now hung heavy on my heart.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000034_000004.wav|Well: the upshot of this is, that I could not give my consent to Margaret's marrying, until another year is out-say a year from this time.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000003_000004.wav|The animal took the direction which he had been oftenest used to take during my residence in London-the northern road.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000035_000000.wav|A year to wait!|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000013_000000.wav|"Delightful weather, mrs Sherwin.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000002_000003.wav|Clara had got the book she wanted, and was taking it up to her own sitting room.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000024_000001.wav|Her husband's quick glance turned on her, however, immediately, with anything but an expression of sympathy.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000053_000006.wav|Well, what do you say?|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000064_000002.wav|She spoke but little; yet even that little it was a new delight to hear.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000065_000001.wav|I saw that I had stayed long enough, and that we were not to be left together again, that night.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000063_000001.wav|mrs Sherwin still kept her place; but she said nothing, and hardly turned to look round at us more than once or twice. Perhaps she was occupied by her own thoughts; perhaps, from a motive of delicacy, she abstained even from an appearance of watching her daughter or watching me.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000012_000001.wav|"Very beautiful weather to be sure," continued the poor woman, as timidly as if she had become a little child again, and had been ordered to say her first lesson in a stranger's presence.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000054_000004.wav|When mr Sherwin had ceased speaking, I replied at once:|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000002_000002.wav|I instantly drew back, and half closed my own door again.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000056_000000.wav|He was hardly prepared for so complete and so sudden an acquiescence in his proposal, and looked absolutely startled by it, at first.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000039_000000.wav|"Pray explain yourself, mr Sherwin.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000026_000001.wav|I sincerely felt for her; but could say nothing.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000047_000005.wav|That's the point-that's the point precisely."|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000026_000003.wav|The action added so much to her embarrassment that she kicked her foot against a chair, and uttered a suppressed exclamation of pain as she went out.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000048_000000.wav|"But the case could not happen-I am astonished you can imagine it possible.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000026_000002.wav|In the impulse of the moment, I rose to open the door for her; and immediately repented having done so.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000016_000000.wav|"Oh dear me!|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000043_000000.wav|"I must confess I do not."|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000025_000001.wav|"What is there to cry about?|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000035_000001.wav|At first, this seemed a long trial to endure, a trial that ought not to be imposed on me.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000023_000000.wav|"Well, Sir, the evening after you left me, I had what you may call an explanation with my dear girl.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000032_000001.wav|Now, in the first place, my daughter is too young to be married yet.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000004_000002.wav|To follow the favourite road which I had so often followed with Clara; to stop perhaps at some place where I had often stopped with her, was more than I had the courage or the insensibility to do at that moment.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000056_000001.wav|But soon resuming his self possession-his wily, "business like" self possession-he started up, and shook me vehemently by the hand.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000041_000000.wav|"Certainly not."|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000003_000002.wav|I simply felt resolved to pass my two days' ordeal of suspense away from home-far enough away to keep me faithful to my promise not to see Margaret.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000008_000003.wav|The poor woman's weak white fingers trembled as they moved the knife under conjugal inspection.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000002_000006.wav|As I thought on what I had done, I felt a sense of humiliation which was almost punishment enough for the meanness of which I had been guilty.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000025_000000.wav|"Good God, mrs s! what's the use of going on in that way?" he said, indignantly.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000053_000008.wav|He stopped, out of breath from the extraordinary volubility of his long harangue.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000051_000006.wav|There! what do you say to that-eh?"|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000005_000003.wav|I could only endeavour to alleviate it by keeping incessantly in action; by walking or riding, hour after hour, in the vain attempt to quiet the mind by wearying out the body.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000063_000000.wav|After staying in the room about five minutes, mr Sherwin whispered to his wife, and left us.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000017_000001.wav|His wife (to whom he offered nothing) looked at him all the time with the most reverential attention.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000063_000002.wav|Whatever feelings influenced her, I cared not to speculate on them.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000040_000001.wav|Now, you must promise me not to be huffed-offended, I should say-at what I am going to propose."|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000031_000000.wav|"Quite fair, mr Sherwin."|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000036_000000.wav|"It will be some trial," I said, "to my patience, though none to my constancy, none to the strength of my affection-I will wait the year."|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000006_000000.wav|That evening I left Ewell, and rode towards home again, as far as Richmond, where I remained for the night and the forepart of the next day.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000062_000000.wav|This apartment was furnished with less luxury, but with more bad taste (if possible) than the room we had just left.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000001_000003.wav|It was a relief to me to hear that my father was not at home.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000051_000002.wav|Now, pray compose yourself!" (I was looking at him in speechless astonishment.) "Take it easy; pray take it easy!|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000032_000000.wav|"Just so.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000008_000001.wav|On the table was the sherry which had been so perseveringly pressed on me at the last interview, and by it a new pound cake.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000057_000000.wav|"Delighted-most delighted, my dear Sir, to find how soon we understand each other, and that we pull together so well.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5606/54667/5606_54667_000034_000002.wav|However, that's not the point.|5606
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000049_000002.wav|Then he took a half crown from his pocket.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000093_000000.wav|Major Flint gave a loud, choking guffaw and beat his fat leg.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000044_000001.wav|But it had to come to earth sometime, and it fell like Lucifer, son of the morning, in the middle of the same bunker. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000002_000003.wav|The jacket and skirt had already gone to the dyer's, and would be back in a day or two, white no longer, but of a rich purple hue, and by that time she would have hundreds of these little pink roses ready to be tacked on.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000017_000002.wav|There was the wool in the shop.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000071_000001.wav|Meet you there?|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000089_000001.wav|The two had clearly indicated a mutual suspicion of each other's industrious habits after dinner. . . . They had never got quite so far as this before: some quarrel had congealed the surface again.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000092_000006.wav|Tiresome to go into long explanations.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000083_000001.wav|Think of old times a bit over my diaries."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000092_000000.wav|"Just so.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000066_000004.wav|Puffin naturally saw it in another light.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000003_000003.wav|It was odd to go to your grocer's every day like that: groceries twice a week was sufficient for most people.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000030_000000.wav|There was a perfectly perceptible pause, during which Miss Mapp noticed that there were no curtains over the window.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000066_000007.wav|But he was so excessively pleased with himself over the adroitness with which he had claimed the last hole, that he quite overstepped the bounds of his habitual parsimony.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000010_000001.wav|She was quite aware that Miss Mapp said "pop" in crude inverted commas, so to speak, for purposes of mockery, and so she said it herself more than ever.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000001_000001.wav|So, since they refused to pay for their mending any more she was preparing to make them pay, pretty smartly too, in other ways.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000041_000000.wav|Thanks to this pleasant plan, there was not much opportunity for Withers and Mary to be idle. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000048_000000.wav|"Hit you, I think," said Captain Puffin.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000004_000005.wav|She only knew that they were little pink roses, and that they had fluttered out of Diva's window. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000100_000001.wav|Let's have an end to such unsociable arrangements, old friend; you lining your Roman roads and the bottle to lay the dust over to me one night, and I'll bring my diaries and my peg over to you the next.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000010_000002.wav|"I'll tell my maid to pop down and open the door."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000017_000003.wav|I bought it."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000054_000000.wav|Puffin gave his alto cackling laugh.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000095_000000.wav|Puffin added his falsetto cackle to this merriment.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000071_000003.wav|Bridge afterwards I suppose."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000008.wav|Often she's talked to you, too, I bet my hat, about sitting up late and exhausting the nervous faculties."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000052_000000.wav|Thirst is a great leveller.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000000.wav|"And I never kept a diary in my life!" he cried.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000002_000000.wav|The hot weather had continued late into September and showed no signs of breaking yet, and it would be agreeable to her and acutely painful to others that just at the end of the summer she should appear in a perfectly new costume, before the days of jumpers and heavy skirts and large woollen scarves came in.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000059_000001.wav|"Now where's that soda water you offered me just now?" he shouted to the steward.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000028_000006.wav|You naughty thing: I believe that great cupboard is full of sardines and biscuits and Bovril."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000012_000000.wav|"I thought I would just pop across from the grocer's," she said. "What a pretty scarf, dear!|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000001_000002.wav|The pattern was of little bunches of pink roses peeping out through trellis work, and it was these which she had just begun to cut out.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000076_000001.wav|"There's old Mapp.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000003_000004.wav|From here on the floor above the street she could easily look into Elizabeth's basket, and she certainly was carrying nothing away with her from the grocer's, for the only thing there was a small bottle done up in white paper with sealing wax, which, Diva had no need to be told, certainly came from the chemist's, and was no doubt connected with too many plums.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000034_000003.wav|For what garish purpose could she want to use bunches of roses cut out of chintz curtains?|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000075_000000.wav|"Bless them, the funny little fairies," said the Major.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000028_000003.wav|Food hoarding, too.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000042_000000.wav|Just about the time that this harmonious party began their work, a far from harmonious couple were being just as industrious in the grand spacious bunker in front of the tee to the last hole on the golf links.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000094_000000.wav|"Well, if that's not the best joke I've heard for many a long day," he said.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000092_000002.wav|"I sit in my chair, you understand, and perhaps doze for a bit after my supper, and then I'll get my maps out, and have them handy beside me.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000085_000001.wav|"Perhaps a hundred years hence-the date I have named in my will for their publication- someone may think them not so uninteresting.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000043_000002.wav|Give me the hole?"|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000051_000006.wav|This seemed to do him little good.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000047_000000.wav|"We shall miss the tram," said the Major, and, with the intention of giving annoyance, he sat down in the bunker with his back to Captain Puffin, and lit a cigarette.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000011_000000.wav|While this was being done, Diva bundled her chintz curtains together and stored them and the roses she had cut out into her work cupboard, for secrecy was an essential to the construction of these decorations.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000017_000001.wav|"Upset you a bit.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000020_000001.wav|"They can take away every atom of coal you've got, if so, and fine you I don't know what for every hundredweight of it."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000009_000000.wav|"May I pop up for a moment, dear?" said Miss Mapp.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000040_000003.wav|I shall be at home to nobody, Withers, this afternoon, even if the Prince of Wales came and sat on my doorstep again.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000072_000000.wav|"Sure to be.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000026_000000.wav|Diva did remember something about hoarding; there had surely been dreadful exposures of prudent housekeepers in the papers which were very uncomfortable reading.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000066_000002.wav|This casual drink did not constitute the usual drink stood by the winner, and paid for with cash over the counter.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000051_000003.wav|There was lemonade and stone ginger beer. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000070_000000.wav|"Lunching at the Poppit's to morrow?" asked Major Flint.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000007.wav|That's a queer time of day to recommend an old campaigner to be awake at!|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000035_000001.wav|Diva was very ingenious: she used up all sorts of odds and ends in a way that did credit to her undoubtedly parsimonious qualities.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000066_000005.wav|He had paid for the whisky which Major Flink had drunk (or owed for it) in his wine merchant's bill.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000025_000002.wav|I just took the trouble to come and warn you."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000003_000001.wav|Though she worked with zealous diligence, she had an eye to the movements in the street outside, for it was shopping hour, and there were many observations to be made.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000061_000000.wav|Major Flint in his eagerness had put most of his moustache into the life giving tumbler, and dried it on his handkerchief.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000014_000000.wav|"Couldn't say, I'm sure," she said.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000027_000000.wav|"But all these orders were only for the period of the war," she said.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000019_000000.wav|"Got a cellar full," said Diva.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000044_000003.wav|Then it was the Navy's turn, and the Navy had to lie on its keel above the boards of the bunker, in order to reach its ball at all, and missed it twice.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000007_000000.wav|Diva's head looked out like a cuckoo in a clock preparing to chime the hour.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000047_000001.wav|At his third attempt nothing happened; at the fourth the ball flew against the boards, rebounded briskly again into the bunker, trickled down the steep, sandy slope and hit the Major's boot.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000076_000000.wav|"Well, what I tell you is true, Major," said Puffin.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000064_000000.wav|"Help yourself, Major," he said.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000006.wav|Six and eight in the morning!|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000085_000000.wav|"No, sir, I am not," said Major Flint.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000002_000001.wav|She was preparing, therefore, to take the light white jacket which she wore over her blouse, and cover the broad collar and cuffs of it with these pretty roses.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000074_000001.wav|"A woman will lick up half a bottle of brandy if it's called plum pudding, and ask for more, whereas if you offered her a small brandy and soda, she would think you were insulting her."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000029_000001.wav|"You shall see for yourself"--and then she suddenly remembered that the cupboard was full of chintz curtains and little bunches of pink roses, neatly cut out of them, and a pair of nail scissors.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000048_000002.wav|So it's my hole, Major!"|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000004_000002.wav|Diva managed to beat most of them down again, but two fluttered out of the window.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000034_000000.wav|As soon as Miss Mapp had gained her garden room, she examined the mysterious treasures in her left hand glove.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000090_000000.wav|"Yes, that's true enough," said Puffin.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000049_000000.wav|Major Flint had a short fit of aphasia.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000004_000000.wav|Miss Mapp crossed the street to the pavement below Diva's house, and precisely as she reached it, Diva's maid opened the door into the drawing room, bringing in the second post, or rather not bringing in the second post, but the announcement that there wasn't any second post.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000028_000004.wav|Twemlow-such a civil man- tells me that he thinks we shall have plenty of food, or anyhow sufficient for everybody for quite a long time, provided that there's no hoarding.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000004_000004.wav|Her trained faculties were all on the alert, and she thrust them both inside her glove for future consideration, without stopping to examine them just then.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000034_000001.wav|Without the smallest doubt Diva had taken down her curtains (and high time too, for they were sadly shabby), and was cutting the roses out of them.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000015_000000.wav|Miss Mapp appeared to recollect, and smiled as far back as her wisdom teeth. (Diva couldn't do that.)|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000020_000000.wav|"Diva, you've not been hoarding, have you?" asked Miss Mapp with great anxiety.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000013_000000.wav|This was clearly ironical, and had best be answered by irony.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000002.wav|You and I, you know, the students of Tilling!|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000066_000006.wav|That was money just as much as a florin pushed across the counter.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000092_000001.wav|Brain work's an exhausting process; requires a little stimulant now and again," said Puffin.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000062_000000.wav|"After all, it was a most amusing incident," he said.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000013_000001.wav|Diva was no coward.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000089_000000.wav|The ice was not broken, but it was cracking in all directions under this unexampled thaw.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000060_000001.wav|This one had been a shade more acute than most, and the drop into amity again was a shade more precipitous.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000039_000001.wav|"Poppies in the corn," said Miss Mapp over and over to herself, remembering some sweet verses she had once read by Bernard Shaw or Clement Shorter or somebody like that about a garden of sleep somewhere in Norfolk. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000016_000001.wav|"It was the wool I ordered at Heynes's, and then he sold it you, and I couldn't get any more."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000004_000003.wav|Precisely then, and at no other time, Miss Mapp looked up, and one settled on her face, the other fell into her basket.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000008_000001.wav|"Want me?"|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000005.wav|Recommended me to get earlier to bed, and do my work between six and eight in the morning!|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000057_000000.wav|"Have a drink, old chap?"|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000062_000003.wav|I'll serve you with the same spoon some day, at least I would if I thought it sportsmanlike.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000009_000001.wav|"That's to say if you're not very busy."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000081_000002.wav|Dear me, my wound's going to trouble me to night."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000051_000007.wav|His forced abstemiousness was rendered the more intolerable by the fact that Captain Puffin, hobbling in immediately afterwards, fetched from his locker a large flask of the required elixir, and proceeded to mix himself a long, strong tumblerful. After the Major's rudeness in the matter of the half crown, it was impossible for any sailor of spirit to take the first step towards reconciliation.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000065_000003.wav|Upon my word, I've half a mind to telephone for a taxi."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000071_000002.wav|Good.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000091_000000.wav|"Unless you washed the dust down just once in a while," said Major Flint.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000003_000000.wav|She let the circumcised roses fall on to the window seat, and from time to time, when they grew numerous, swept them into a cardboard box.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000100_000007.wav|But no more solitary confinement of an evening for Benjamin Flint, as long as you're agreeable."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000051_000000.wav|Weak and trembling from passion, Major Flint found that after a few tottering steps in the direction of Tilling he would be totally unable to get there unless fortified by some strong stimulant, and turned back to the club house to obtain it.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000101_000000.wav|The advent of the taxi was announced, and arm in arm they limped down the steep path together to the road.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000030_000004.wav|She got up.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000094_000002.wav|Fine thing to be an enthusiastic archæologist like that.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000030_000003.wav|That she humbly hoped that she had accomplished.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000055_000001.wav|"I know it's awfully hard to lose like a gentleman."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000049_000001.wav|He opened and shut his mouth and foamed.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000094_000001.wav|"There I've been in the house opposite you these last two years, seeing your light burning late night after night, and thinking to myself: 'There's my friend Puffin still at it!|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000074_000000.wav|"Camouflage for the fair sex," he said.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000100_000000.wav|"And you sitting up one side of the street," he gasped, "pretending to be interested in Roman roads, and me on the other pulling a long face over my diaries, and neither of us with a Roman road or a diary to our names.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000066_000003.wav|A drink (or two) from a flask was not the same thing. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000090_000001.wav|"Long roads they were, and dry roads at that, and if I stuck to them from after my supper every evening till midnight or more I should be smothered in dust."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000028_000005.wav|Not been hoarding food, too, dear Diva?|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000098_000001.wav|"Why there's enough cream in this situation to make a dishful of meringues.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000040_000001.wav|I want you to sew my lovely poppies over the collar and facings of the jacket, just spacing them a little and making a dainty irregularity.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000038_000000.wav|"Then say I will have the tongue as well, Withers," said Miss Mapp. "Just a tongue-and then I shall want you and Mary to do some cutting out for me."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000025_000000.wav|"Oh, quite a little: enough to go on with.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000040_000004.wav|We'll all work together in the garden, shall we, and you and Mary must scold me if you think I'm not working hard enough.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000037_000000.wav|Withers had answered the telephone, and came to announce that Twemlow the grocer regretted he had only two large tins of corned beef, but-|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000045_000001.wav|"Unplayable."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000077_000002.wav|Said good bye to us on her doorstep as if she thought she was a perfect Venus Ana-Ana something."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000101_000001.wav|A little way off to the left was the great bunker which, primarily, was the cause of their present amity.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000033_000001.wav|"Diva would have sent the cover of the window seat too, if that was the case. Liar," she thought again as she kissed her hand to Diva, who was looking gloomily out of the window.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000097_000000.wav|The Major's laughter boomed out again.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000044_000002.wav|So the Army played three more, and, sweating profusely, got out.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000022_000000.wav|"Yes, love, pooh by all means, if you like poohing!" said Miss Mapp.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000033_000000.wav|"Liar," thought Miss Mapp, as she tripped downstairs.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000081_000001.wav|"I'm not a marrying man any more than you are. Better if I had been perhaps, more years ago than I care to think about.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000024_000000.wav|"But how much do they allow you to have?" she asked.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000028_000000.wav|"No doubt you're right, dear," said Miss Mapp brightly.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000062_000002.wav|I must remember that.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000011_000003.wav|Her eye fell on it the moment she entered the room, and she tucked the two chintz roses more securely into her glove.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000002_000004.wav|Perhaps a piece of the chintz, trellis and all, could be sewn over the belt, but she was determined to have single little bunches of roses peppered all over the collar and cuffs of the jacket, and, if possible, round the edge of the skirt.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000036_000001.wav|There was one-it had once adorned the sofa in the garden room-covered with red poppies (very easy to cut out), and Miss Mapp dragged it dustily from its corner, setting in motion a perfect cascade of cardboard lids and some door handles.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000031_000001.wav|"Such a lovely little chat!|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000052_000002.wav|He hated saying he was sorry (no man more) and he wouldn't have been sorry if he had been able to get a drink.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000051_000002.wav|Summoning his last remaining strength Major Flint roared for whisky, and was told that, according to regulation, he could not be served until six.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000058_000000.wav|Major Flint flew to his feet.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000053_000001.wav|"A man's no business to let a game ruffle him."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000034_000002.wav|But what on earth was she doing that for?|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000031_000002.wav|But what has happened to your pretty curtains?"|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000051_000005.wav|Even the threat that he would instantly resign his membership unless provided with drink produced no effect on a polite steward, and he sat down to recover as best he might with an old volume of Punch.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000045_000000.wav|"Better give it up, old chap," said Major Flint.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000002_000006.wav|When carefully sewn on they looked as if they were a design in the stuff.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000048_000001.wav|"Ha!|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000030_000001.wav|There certainly used to be, and they matched with the chintz cover of the window seat, which was decorated with little bunches of pink roses peeping through trellis.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000044_000000.wav|This insolent question needed no answer, and Major Flint drove, skying the ball to a prodigious height.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000031_000000.wav|"Must be going," she said.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000081_000000.wav|"Now none of your sailor talk ashore, Captain," said the Major, in high good humour.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000092_000007.wav|In fact," added Puffin in a burst of confidence, "the study I've done on Roman roads these last six months wouldn't cover a threepenny piece."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000068_000000.wav|"Done with you," said the other.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000040_000000.wav|"No one can work as neatly as you, Withers," she said gaily, "and I shall ask you to do the most difficult part.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000039_000000.wav|The three went to work with feverish energy, for Diva had got a start, and by four o'clock that afternoon there were enough poppies cut out to furnish, when in seed, a whole street of opium dens. The dress selected for decoration was, apart from a few mildew spots, the colour of ripe corn, which was superbly appropriate for September.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000099_000000.wav|Major Flint choked and laughed and inhaled tobacco smoke till he got purple in the face.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000050_000000.wav|"Give that to the Captain," he said to his caddie, and without looking round, walked away in the direction of the tram.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000077_000000.wav|"So she was," said the Major.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000018_000000.wav|"Yes, dear; I see you did.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000043_000001.wav|That about settles it," said Major Flint boisterously. "Bad place to top a ball!|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164187/2853_164187_000052_000001.wav|By the time the refreshed Puffin had penetrated half-way down his glass, the Major found it impossible to be proud and proper any longer.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000025_000005.wav|"Tongue" led to a new train of thought, and presently she paused in her work, and pulling the card table away from the deceptive book case, she pressed the concealed catch of the door, and peeped in.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000014_000002.wav|"Got any big tins of corned beef?|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000047_000002.wav|Her head was in a whirl at the brazenness of mankind, especially womankind.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000027_000003.wav|Farther down the street was quaint Irene lounging at the door of her new studio (a converted coach house), smoking a cigarette and dressed like a jockey.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000008.wav|But she would now cross him-dear man-and his late habits, out of the list of riddles about Tilling which awaited solution.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000043_000003.wav|He had little bathing drawers on. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000046_000000.wav|"Good morning, Hopkins," she said.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000046_000001.wav|"Well, Irene darling, I must be trotting, and leave you to your-" she hardly knew what to call it- "to your work."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000047_000003.wav|How had Irene started the overtures that led to this?|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000011.wav|She could allow herself to wonder with a little more definiteness, now that the Major's lights were out and he was abed, what it could be which rendered Captain Puffin so oblivious to the passage of time, when he was investigating Roman roads.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000045_000000.wav|Miss Mapp had not imagined that Time and Eternity combined could hold so embarrassing a moment.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000038_000000.wav|"Yes, but don't go behind it, Mapp," said Irene, "or you'll see my model undressing."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000039_000001.wav|Terrible though it all was, she was conscious of an unbridled curiosity to know who Adam was.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000029_000001.wav|But she never could summon up sufficient nerve to be rude to so awful a mimic. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000006_000001.wav|It was not etiquette to disclose the affairs of one client to another, but if there was a cantankerous customer, one who was never satisfied with prices and quality, that client was Miss Mapp. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000010_000000.wav|By degrees she calmed down, for it was no use attempting to plan revenge with a brain at fever heat.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000003_000002.wav|"But we've had a good supply all the summer," added agreeable mr Wootten, "and all my customers have got their cellars well stocked."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000015_000000.wav|"Very sorry, ma'am.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000004.wav|But there was a light in Captain Puffin's house: he had a less impressionable nature than the Major and was in so many ways far inferior.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000028_000004.wav|Bridge party!"|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000044_000000.wav|"Hullo, Hopkins, are you ready," said Irene.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000042_000002.wav|Legs and things!|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000003.wav|The window of his bedroom was dark too: he must have already put out his light, and Miss Mapp made haste over her little tidyings so that she might not be found a transgressor to her own precepts.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000007_000000.wav|He allowed a broad grin to overspread his agreeable face.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000021_000002.wav|Then there was the big cupboard under the stairs, but that could scarcely be the site of this prodigious cache, for it was full of cardboard and curtains and carpets and all the rubbishy accumulations which Elizabeth could not bear to part with.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000043_000001.wav|The screen fell flat on the ground and within a yard of her stood mr Hopkins, the proprietor of the fish shop just up the street.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000006_000000.wav|mr Wootten turned up his ledger.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000031_000001.wav|There was a German stove in the corner made of pink porcelain, the rafters and roof were painted scarlet, the walls were of magenta distemper and the floor was blue.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000006.wav|She would see about that now, for, busy though she was, she could not miss the shopping parade.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000022_000002.wav|It lay embedded in the wall of the garden room, cloaked and concealed behind the shelves of a false book case, which contained no more than the simulacra of books, just books with titles that had never yet appeared on any honest book.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000009_000003.wav|And all because of a wretched piece of rose madder worsted. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000010_000002.wav|As the cooling process went on she began to wonder whether it was worsted alone that had prompted her friend's diabolical suggestion.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000031_000003.wav|The walls were hung with specimens of Irene's art, there was a stout female with no clothes on at all, whom it was impossible not to recognize as being Lucy; there were studies of fat legs and ample bosoms, and on the easel was a picture, evidently in process of completion, which represented a man.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000002.wav|This with considerable exertion she transferred to a high shelf in the cupboard, instead of allowing it to remain standing on the floor, for Withers had informed her of an unpleasant rumour about a mouse, which Mary had observed, lost in thought in front of the cupboard.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000013_000001.wav|Very good.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000005_000000.wav|"Oh, but, mr Wootten," she said, "Miss Mapp popped-dropped in to see me just now.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000028_000002.wav|You haven't seen it yet.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000036_000000.wav|Miss Mapp moved towards the screen.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000016_000001.wav|"Will you send it round immediately?"|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000047_000000.wav|She tripped from the room, which seemed to be entirely full of unclothed limbs, and redder than one of mr Hopkins's boiled lobsters hurried down the street.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000025_000004.wav|Sometimes in moments of gallantry he called her "Miss Elizabeth", and she meant, when she had got accustomed to it by practice, to say "Major Benjy" to him by accident, and he would, no doubt, beg her to make a habit of that friendly slip of the tongue. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000031_000002.wav|In the corner was a very large orange coloured screen.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000034_000000.wav|"And what a lovely idea to have a blue floor, dear," she said. "How original you are.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000013_000000.wav|"Tongue as well.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000005.wav|There was tea and coffee in abundance, jars of jam filled the kitchen shelves, and if this morning she laid in a moderate supply of dried fruits, there was no reason to face the future with anything but fortitude.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000009_000001.wav|Had she not been so prudent as to make inquiries, as likely as not she would have sent a ton of coal that very day to the hospital, so strongly had Elizabeth's perfidious warning inflamed her imagination as to the fate of hoarders, and all the time Elizabeth's own cellars were glutted, though she had asserted that she was almost fuelless.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000019_000000.wav|Having refreshed himself he turned up the steep street.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000013_000002.wav|I'll send them up at once," he added, and came forward into the shop.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000006.wav|Miss Mapp sincerely hoped that he did, and that it was nothing else of less pure and innocent allurement that kept him up. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000014_000001.wav|Her voice was tremulous with anxiety and investigation.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000005_000001.wav|Told me she had hardly got any."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000016_000000.wav|"A small pot of ginger then, please," said Diva recklessly.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000033_000000.wav|Miss Mapp naturally guessed that the gentleman who was almost in the same costume was Adam, and turned completely away from him.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000008_000000.wav|"Well, ma'am, if in a month's time I'm short of coal, there are friends of yours in Tilling who can let you have plenty," he permitted himself to say. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000017_000001.wav|The boy's just going out."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000018_000002.wav|This was a favourite place for observation, for you appeared to be quite taken up by the topics of the day, and kept an oblique eye on the true object of your scrutiny. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000020_000001.wav|He had no errand to the Major's house or to the Captain's.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000045_000002.wav|But (wherever she looked) she could not be unaware that Hopkins raised his large bare arm and touched the place where his cap would have been, if he had had one.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000011_000001.wav|He spoke in a lucid telephone voice.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000012_000001.wav|But she could only hear little hollow quacks from the other end.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000042_000003.wav|But when you have your bridge party, won't you perhaps cover some of them up, or turn them to the wall?|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000003.wav|"So mousie shall only find tins on the floor now," thought Miss Mapp.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000025_000001.wav|It was certainly very odd that, having gone to bed at so respectable an hour last night, he should be calling for his porridge only now, but with an impulse of unusual optimism, she figured him as having been at work on his diaries before breakfast, and in that absorbing occupation having forgotten how late it was growing.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000043_000002.wav|Often and often had Miss Mapp had pleasant little conversations with him, with a view to bringing down the price of flounders.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000012_000000.wav|"We've only two of the big tins of corned beef," he said; and there was a pause, during which, to a psychic, Diva's ears might have seemed to grow as pointed with attention as a satyr's.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000023_000000.wav|She attacked her chintz curtains again with her appetite for the pink roses agreeably whetted.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000010_000003.wav|It seemed more likely that another motive (one strangely Elizabethan) was the cause of it.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000021_000001.wav|She could not keep them in the coal cellar, for that was already bursting with coal, and Diva, who had assisted her (the base one) in making a prodigious quantity of jam that year from her well stocked garden, was aware that the kitchen cupboards were like to be as replete as the coal cellar, before those hoardings of dead oxen began.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000043_000000.wav|They were approaching the corner of the room where the screen stood, when a movement there as if Adam had hit it with his elbow made Miss Mapp turn round.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000027_000001.wav|That made it clear that he was still at breakfast, and that if he had been working at his diaries in the fresh morning hours and forgetting the time, early rising, in spite of his early retirement last night, could not be supposed to suit his Oriental temper.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000030_000000.wav|"Good morning, dear one," she said sycophantically.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000014_000003.wav|The ones that contain six pounds."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000044_000001.wav|"You know Miss Mapp, don't you?"|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000042_000001.wav|"How clever!|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000009.wav|Whatever it had been (diaries or what not) that used to keep him up, he had broken the habit now, whereas Captain Puffin had not.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000002_000010.wav|She took her poppy bordered skirt over her arm, and smiled her thankful way to bed.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000023_000001.wav|Another hour's work would give her sufficient bunches for her purpose, and unless the dyer was as perfidious as Elizabeth, her now purple jacket and skirt would arrive that afternoon.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000035_000000.wav|"Not a bit: they stimulate your sense of colour."|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000014_000000.wav|"Good morning," said Diva.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000045_000001.wav|She did not know where to look, but wherever she looked, it should not be at Hopkins.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000029_000000.wav|Miss Mapp tried to steel herself for the hundredth time to appear quite unconscious that she was being addressed when Irene said "Mapp" in that odious manner.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000030_000001.wav|"Shall I peep in for a moment?"|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000034_000001.wav|And that pretty scarlet ceiling.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000025_000002.wav|That, no doubt, was the explanation, though it would be nice to know for certain, if the information positively forced itself on her notice. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000009.wav|That would be fun!|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000000.wav|There was still room for further small precautions against starvation owing to the impending coal strike, and she took stock of her provisions.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000020_000004.wav|He put the basket on his head and came down the street again, shrilly whistling.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000026_000004.wav|"Mousie shall try his teeth on tins." . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000039_000002.wav|It was dreadful to think that there could be any man in Tilling so depraved as to stand to be looked at with so little on. . . .|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2853/164188/2853_164188_000018_000000.wav|That was luck.|2853
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000005.wav|But Florence was sticking on to the proprietor of the home of her ancestors.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000003.wav|I could quite confidently say that, though we four had been about together in all sorts of places, for all that length of time, I had not, for my part, one single complaint to make of either of them.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000002.wav|Leonora wanted to keep him for-what shall I say-for the good of her church, as it were, to show that Catholic women do not lose their men.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000013_000001.wav|The filthy toad... .|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000011_000000.wav|"I wish you would go with those two.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000003.wav|Let it go at that, for the moment.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000012_000002.wav|The man called Bagshawe had been reading The Times on the other side of the room, but then he moved over to me with some trifling question as a prelude to suggesting an acquaintance.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000017_000005.wav|You saw her recognize me." He was standing on his feet, looking down at me.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000000.wav|She proposed to tell me all, secure a divorce from me, and go with Edward and settle in California....|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000009_000002.wav|For the coming of that dear girl only added to it all.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000010_000003.wav|Florence, I remember, had said at first that she would remain with Leonora, and me, and Edward and the girl had gone off alone.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000009_000001.wav|Let me come to the fourth of August, nineteen thirteen, the last day of my absolute ignorance-and, I assure you, of my perfect happiness.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000011_000002.wav|I think the time has come." So Florence, with her light step, had slipped out after them.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000001.wav|He must have had a hell of a time.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000006_000004.wav|Florence called for more and more attentions from him as the time went on.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000006_000002.wav|But there he had Leonora to deal with. And Leonora assured him that, if the minutest fragment of the real situation ever got through to my senses, she would wreak upon him the most terrible vengeance that she could think of.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000004_000004.wav|In nineteen o six we spent the best part of six weeks together at Mentone, and Edward stayed with us in Paris on his way back to London.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000017_000003.wav|"The last time I saw that girl she was coming out of the bedroom of a young man called Jimmy at five o'clock in the morning.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000018_000001.wav|She had not locked the door-for the first time of our married life.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000012_000004.wav|He was that sort of person.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000005.wav|She saw me and opened her lips.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000003.wav|Besides she had got it into her head that Leonora, who was as sound as a roach, was consumptive.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000007.wav|But I am convinced that he was sick of Florence within three years of even interrupted companionship and the life that she led him....|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000004.wav|She looked round that place of rush chairs, cane tables and newspapers.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000013_000000.wav|Well, he was an unmistakable man, with a military figure, rather exaggerated, with bulbous eyes that avoided your own, and a pallid complexion that suggested vices practised in secret along with an uneasy desire for making acquaintance at whatever cost....|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000000.wav|LET me think where we were.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000000.wav|The fact was that in Florence the poor wretch had got hold of a Tartar, compared with whom Leonora was a sucking kid.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000005.wav|You are not to imagine that it was only at Nauheim that we met.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000014_000000.wav|He began by telling me that he came from Ludlow Manor, near Ledbury. The name had a slightly familiar sound, though I could not fix it in my mind.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000016_000000.wav|I could not move; I could not stir a finger.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000006.wav|No doubt he was also a very passionate lover.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000010_000004.wav|And then Leonora had said to Florence with perfect calmness:|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000004_000001.wav|He made another short visit to us in December of that year-the first year of our acquaintance.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000014_000001.wav|Then he began to talk about a duty on hops, about Californian hops, about Los Angeles, where he had been.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000001.wav|Oh, yes... that conversation took place on the fourth of August, nineteen thirteen.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000002.wav|I tell you, my own heart stood still; I tell you I could not move.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000000.wav|And then, quite suddenly, in the bright light of the street, I saw Florence running.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000001.wav|It was like that-I saw Florence running with a face whiter than paper and her hand on the black stuff over her heart.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000004.wav|And I added, that that was an unusual record for people who had been so much together.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000004_000003.wav|I daresay Florence had asked him to come over for that purpose. In nineteen o five he was in Paris three times-once with Leonora, who wanted some frocks.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000018_000003.wav|She had a little phial that rightly should have contained nitrate of amyl, in her right hand.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000004_000002.wav|It must have been during this visit that he knocked Mr Jimmy's teeth down his throat.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000018_000002.wav|She was lying, quite respectably arranged, unlike Mrs Maidan, on her bed.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000006.wav|She saw the man who was talking to me.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000006.wav|That would not have suited Florence.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000004_000005.wav|That was how it went.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000010.wav|She was determined to spare my feelings.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000005_000004.wav|I will write more about her motives later, perhaps.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000017_000002.wav|"Do you know who that is?" he asked.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000007.wav|She stuck her hands over her face as if she wished to push her eyes out.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000008.wav|And she could have made it pretty hot for him in ten or a dozen different ways.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000014_000002.wav|He fencing for a topic with which he might gain my affection.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000017_000007.wav|At any rate, he gave a sort of gurgle and then stuttered:|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000006_000006.wav|Oh, yes, it was a difficult job for him.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000005.wav|But, none the less, poor Edward seems to have believed in her determination to carry him off.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000015_000003.wav|She rushed in at the swing doors.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000011_000001.wav|I think the girl ought to have the appearance of being chaperoned with Edward in these places.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000017_000000.wav|"By Jove: Florry Hurlbird." He turned upon me with an oily and uneasy sound meant for a laugh.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000011_000004.wav|Americans are particular in those matters.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000007_000000.wav|For Florence, if you please, gaining in time a more composed view of nature, and overcome by her habits of garrulity, arrived at a frame of mind in which she found it almost necessary to tell me all about it-nothing less than that.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000003_000002.wav|I remember saying to her that, on that day, exactly nine years before, I had made their acquaintance, so that it had seemed quite appropriate and like a birthday speech to utter my little testimonial to my friend Edward.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/890/3945_890_000008_000004.wav|She was always begging Leonora, before me, to go and see a doctor.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000036_000001.wav|It was a small room, with a stove in the middle, set in a long shallow box of sand, for the benefit of the "spitters," a bar across one end-a mere counter with a sliding glass case behind it containing a few bottles having ambitious labels, and a wash sink in one corner.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000031_000001.wav|He confessed that neither he nor any citizen had a right to consult his own feelings or conscience in a case where a law of the land had been violated before his own eyes.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000015_000000.wav|He recovered himself, reached the bell rope, "Damn you, I'll learn you," stepped to the door and called a couple of brakemen, and then, as the speed slackened; roared out,|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000009_000000.wav|"Come, I've got no time to talk.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000033_000003.wav|Philip examined his ugly visage and strong crooked fore arm, as he was waiting admittance, having pounded upon the door.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000000_000000.wav|On the last day of the journey as the railway train Philip was on was leaving a large city, a lady timidly entered the drawing room car, and hesitatingly took a chair that was at the moment unoccupied.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000038_000002.wav|Behind the hotel, and across the brawling brook, was another level topped, wooded range exactly like it.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000042_000001.wav|By their help he built a log hut, and established a camp on the land, and then began his explorations, mapping down his survey as he went along, noting the timber, and the lay of the land, and making superficial observations as to the prospect of coal.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000037_000001.wav|Philip managed to complete his toilet by the use of his pocket handkerchief, and declining the hospitality of the landlord, implied in the remark, "You won'd dake notin'?" he went into the open air to wait for breakfast.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000040_000000.wav|The dining room was long, low and narrow, and a narrow table extended its whole length.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000031_000000.wav|Still Philip's conscience told him that it was his plain duty to carry the matter into the courts, even with the certainty of defeat.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000011_000000.wav|The conductor was still there, taking his tickets, and growling something about imposition.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000028_000000.wav|"Do you think any thing can be done, sir?"|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000010_000003.wav|She would inevitably have gone down under the wheels, if Philip, who had swiftly followed her, had not caught her arm and drawn her up.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000032_000000.wav|The result of this little adventure was that Philip did not reach Ilium till daylight the next morning, when he descended sleepy and sore, from a way train, and looked about him.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000003_000002.wav|You'll have to leave."|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000027_000000.wav|"Dum 'em," said he, when he had heard the story.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000018_000002.wav|The men seized him, wrenched him from his seat, dragged him along the aisle, tearing his clothes, thrust him from the car, and, then flung his carpet bag, overcoat and umbrella after him. And the train went on.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000014_000000.wav|Philip's reply was a blow, given so suddenly and planted so squarely in the conductor's face, that it sent him reeling over a fat passenger, who was looking up in mild wonder that any one should dare to dispute with a conductor, and against the side of the car.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000035_000000.wav|"Morgen!|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000000.wav|"We learn that as the down noon express was leaving H---- yesterday a lady! (God save the mark) attempted to force herself into the already full palatial car.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000041_000001.wav|A corner of it touched the railroad, but the rest was pretty much an unbroken wilderness, eight or ten thousand acres of rough country, most of it such a mountain range as he saw at Ilium.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000000.wav|But as he got cooler, that did not seem to him a project worthy of a gentleman exactly.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000038_000001.wav|The mountain before him might be eight hundred feet high, and was only a portion of a long unbroken range, savagely wooded, which followed the stream.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000043_000002.wav|He spent a month in traveling over the land and making calculations; and made up his mind that a fine vein of coal ran through the mountain about a mile from the railroad, and that the place to run in a tunnel was half way towards its summit.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000041_000000.wav|The land that Philip had come to look at was at least five miles distant from Ilium station.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000024_000003.wav|But then it occurred to him that he did not know the name of a witness he could summon, and that a personal fight against a railway corporation was about the most hopeless in the world. He then thought he would seek out that conductor, lie in wait for him at some station, and thrash him, or get thrashed himself.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000005.wav|Here was he, Philip Sterling, calling himself a gentleman, in a brawl with a vulgar conductor, about a woman he had never seen before.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000002.wav|And when he came to this point, he began to ask himself, if he had not acted very much like a fool.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000009.wav|And, now!|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000018_000000.wav|"We'll see," said the conductor, advancing with the brakemen.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000006.wav|Why should he have put himself in such a ridiculous position?|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000009_000001.wav|You must go now."|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000020_000000.wav|The next morning the Hooverville Patriot and Clarion had this "item":--|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000033_000001.wav|It did not stir, however, and he soon found that it was only a stuffed skin.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000002.wav|Thereupon a young sprig, from the East, blustered like a Shanghai rooster, and began to sass the conductor with his chin music. That gentleman delivered the young aspirant for a muss one of his elegant little left handers, which so astonished him that he began to feel for his shooter.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000039_000000.wav|Philip was recalled from the contemplation of Ilium by the rolling and growling of the gong within the hotel, the din and clamor increasing till the house was apparently unable to contain it; when it burst out of the front door and informed the world that breakfast was on the table.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000003.wav|Whereupon mr Slum gently raised the youth, carried him forth, and set him down just outside the car to cool off. Whether the young blood has yet made his way out of Bascom's swamp, we have not learned.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000044_000000.wav|Acting with his usual promptness, Philip, with the consent of mr Bolton, broke ground there at once, and, before snow came, had some rude buildings up, and was ready for active operations in the spring.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000003_000001.wav|Car's full.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000008.wav|Suppose he had simply said to the conductor, "Sir, your conduct is brutal, I shall report you." The passengers, who saw the affair, might have joined in a report against the conductor, and he might really have accomplished something.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000001_000002.wav|Go into the other car."|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000012_000000.wav|"You are a brute, an infernal brute, to treat a woman that way."|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000033_000000.wav|As Philip approached the hotel he saw what appeared to be a wild beast crouching on the piazza.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000042_000000.wav|His first step was to hire three woodsmen to accompany him.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000011_000001.wav|Philip marched up to him, and burst out with,|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000038_000000.wav|The country he saw was wild but not picturesque.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000007.wav|Wasn't it enough to have offered the lady his seat, to have rescued her from an accident, perhaps from death?|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000010_000004.wav|He then assisted her across, found her a seat, received her bewildered thanks, and returned to his car.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000007_000000.wav|"The lady can have my seat," cried Philip, springing up.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000001_000001.wav|That seat's taken.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000023_000004.wav|In the scuffle, his railway check had disappeared, and he grimly wondered, as he noticed the loss, if the company would permit him to walk over their track if they should know he hadn't a ticket.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000006_000000.wav|"The train is going very fast, let me stand here till we stop."|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000001_000000.wav|"Now you can't sit there.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000016_000000.wav|"Get off this train."|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000006.wav|It spares no effort for the comfort of the traveling public."|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000010_000001.wav|The train was swinging along at a rapid rate, jarring from side to side; the step was a long one between the cars and there was no protecting grating.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000018_000001.wav|The passengers protested, and some of them said to each other, "That's too bad," as they always do in such cases, but none of them offered to take a hand with Philip.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000005.wav|We learn that the company have put a new engine on the seven o'clock train, and newly upholstered the drawing room car throughout.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000040_000006.wav|He begged for a glass of milk, after trying that green hued compound called coffee, and made his breakfast out of that and some hard crackers which seemed to have been imported into Ilium before the introduction of the iron horse, and to have withstood a ten years siege of regular boarders, Greeks and others.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000013_000000.wav|"Perhaps you'd like to make a fuss about it," sneered the conductor.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000017_000000.wav|"I shall not get off.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000030_000000.wav|When next morning, he read the humorous account in the Patriot and Clarion, he saw still more clearly what chance he would have had before the public in a fight with the railroad company.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000001.wav|Conductor Slum, who is too old a bird to be caught with chaff, courteously informed her that the car was full, and when she insisted on remaining, he persuaded her to go into the car where she belonged.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000032_000003.wav|P. Dusenheimer," a sawmill further down the stream, a blacksmith shop, and a store, and three or four unpainted dwellings of the slab variety.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000004.wav|But, after all, was that the best way?|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000019_000000.wav|The conductor, red in the face and puffing from his exertion, swaggered through the car, muttering "Puppy, I'll learn him." The passengers, when he had gone, were loud in their indignation, and talked about signing a protest, but they did nothing more than talk.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000036_000000.wav|Philip was shown into a dirty bar room.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000024_000002.wav|He would make it pay roundly.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000008_000000.wav|The conductor turned towards Philip, and coolly and deliberately surveyed him from head to foot, with contempt in every line of his face, turned his back upon him without a word, and said to the lady,|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000005_000000.wav|"Can't help what you thought-you must go into the other car."|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000003_000000.wav|"There aint any.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000026_000001.wav|He was a kindly sort of man, and seemed very much interested.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000023_000002.wav|He was somewhat bruised, but he was too angry to mind that.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000022_000004.wav|Conductor Slum is one of the most gentlemanly and efficient officers on the road; but he ain't trifled with, not much.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000003.wav|He didn't regret striking the fellow-he hoped he had left a mark on him.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000004_000000.wav|"But, sir," said the lady, appealingly, "I thought-"|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000025_000010.wav|Philip looked at his torn clothes, and thought with disgust of his haste in getting into a fight with such an autocrat.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000032_000002.wav|It consisted of the plank platform on which he stood, a wooden house, half painted, with a dirty piazza (unroofed) in front, and a sign board hung on a slanting pole-bearing the legend, "Hotel.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000010_000000.wav|The lady, entirely disconcerted by such rudeness, and frightened, moved towards the door, opened it and stepped out.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000024_000001.wav|He would sue it.|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3945/29110/3945_29110_000010_000002.wav|The lady attempted it, but lost her balance, in the wind and the motion of the car, and fell!|3945
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6690/73075/6690_73075_000006_000002.wav|At times they display a divine simplicity.|6690
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6690/73073/6690_73073_000002_000000.wav|one.|6690
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6690/73073/6690_73073_000012_000002.wav|Rutinius explains that it was not written down for a long time, but transmitted orally, kept secret, and used as a sort of password among the elect.|6690
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000070_000002.wav|Where to find him?--Oh, God! grant me light."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000068_000000.wav|"That's enough.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000083_000000.wav|He would help her where she needed help; her coach was ready.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000024_000003.wav|Had he already laid his plans for catching the daring plotter, red handed, in France, and sending him to the guillotine without compunction or delay?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000021_000000.wav|Armand's peril, Chauvelin's threat, his cruel "Either-or-" which she had accepted.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000060_000001.wav|She kissed Marguerite tenderly and obeyed without a word; the child was overawed by the terrible, nameless misery in her friend's face.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000049_000000.wav|Marguerite took the letter mechanically, and turned it over in her trembling fingers.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000019_000002.wav|the Comte de Tournay!--one of those whose life would be jeopardised if Chauvelin succeeded in establishing the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000059_000002.wav|I fear that I must send you home, child.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000016_000002.wav|Do you remember?--some we did not even confide to Sister Theresa of the Holy Angels-though she was such a dear."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000015_000001.wav|I ought to be happy-oughtn't I, sweet one?" said Marguerite, with a wistful little sigh.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000005_000003.wav|He might easily have done that . . . yes . . . quite easily . . . and . . . besides . . . what connection could there be between her exquisite dandy of a husband, with his fine clothes and refined, lazy ways, and the daring plotter who rescued French victims from beneath the very eyes of the leaders of a bloodthirsty revolution?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000030_000002.wav|He has gone, CHERIE . . . actually gone . . ." added Suzanne excitedly, "he was in London this morning; he will be in Calais, perhaps, to morrow . . . where he will meet papa . . . and then . . . and then . . ."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000041_000001.wav|I must be alone a minute-and-dear one . . .|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000005_000000.wav|Did she herself wear it embroidered on her gowns?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000038_000001.wav|"Are you ill, Marguerite?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000078_000000.wav|Unfortunately, she could not do all this quite alone.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000035_000001.wav|No wonder that Chauvelin's spies had failed to detect, in the apparently brainless nincompoop, the man whose reckless daring and resourceful ingenuity had baffled the keenest French spies, both in France and in England.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000036_000000.wav|Had his astute mind guessed the secret, then?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000027_000001.wav|"I love to hear you talking . . . and your happiness makes me so very glad. . . .|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000063_000000.wav|"A gentleman, my lady," replied the man, "at 'The Rose and Thistle' inn opposite Charing Cross.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000075_000000.wav|Percy had started for Calais, utterly unconscious of the fact that his most relentless enemy was on his heels.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000045_000002.wav|Suzanne instinctively turned back; her heart told her that here perhaps was further ill news for her friend, and she felt that poor Margot was not in a fit state to bear any more.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000052_000000.wav|Marguerite tore open the envelope.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000027_000000.wav|"Yes, yes, darling-indeed I am," said Marguerite with an effort, forcing herself to smile.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000040_000001.wav|You frighten me. . . ."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000018_000001.wav|I think maman will consent," she added thoughtfully, "and I shall be-oh! so happy-but, of course, nothing is to be thought of until papa is safe. . . ."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000079_000001.wav|But if he were warned, he might form new plans, be more wary, more prudent.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000071_000003.wav|She ought to have known! she ought to have known!|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000071_000001.wav|She had done-unwittingly-an awful and terrible thing-the very worst crime, in her eyes, that woman ever committed-she saw it in all its horror.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000031_000000.wav|The blow had fallen.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000083_000001.wav|A change of raiment, and a farewell to little Suzanne, and she could be on her way.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000066_000000.wav|"The coach?"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000045_000001.wav|He carried a sealed letter in his hand.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000072_000001.wav|She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn it from his face, whenever they were alone together.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000042_000003.wav|My maid, Lucile, has not yet gone . . . we will go back together . . . don't think of me."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000028_000000.wav|"Oh!" said Suzanne with mad glee, "the best we could possibly hear.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000032_000001.wav|Percy . . . her husband . . . the Scarlet Pimpernel . . .|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000024_000002.wav|Had he discovered something then?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000028_000001.wav|My Lord Hastings came to see maman early this morning.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000005_000001.wav|set in gems and enamel in her hair?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000082_000003.wav|She would go and find Sir Andrew Ffoulkes first; he was Percy's best friend, and Marguerite remembered, with a thrill, with what blind enthusiasm the young man always spoke of his mysterious leader.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000056_000000.wav|"Bring that runner here to me," she said to the servant, with much calm. "He has not gone?"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000027_000003.wav|Sir Andrew Ffoulkes is a noble English gentleman; he has money and position, the Comtesse will not refuse her consent. . . . But . . . now, little one . . . tell me . . . what is the latest news about your father?"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000081_000002.wav|Her eyes lost their fixed look; they glowed with inward fire at the thought of meeting him again so soon, in the very midst of most deadly perils; they sparkled with the joy of sharing these dangers with him-of helping him perhaps-of being with him at the last-if she failed.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000081_000000.wav|Her whole body stiffened as with a great and firm resolution.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000048_000000.wav|"Just come by runner, my lady."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER nineteen THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000075_000002.wav|Provided he had a favourable wind, he would no doubt be in France within twenty four hours; no doubt he had reckoned on the wind and chosen this route.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000030_000001.wav|You don't know, CHERIE, that that great and noble Scarlet Pimpernel himself has gone to save papa.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000006_000000.wav|Her thoughts were in a whirl-her mind a blank . . .|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000002_000000.wav|At what particular moment the strange doubt first crept into Marguerite's mind, she could not herself have said.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000072_000000.wav|How could she imagine that a man who could love with so much intensity as Percy Blakeney had loved her from the first-how could such a man be the brainless idiot he chose to appear?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000057_000000.wav|"No, my lady."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000070_000000.wav|"What's to be done?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000061_000000.wav|A minute later the groom returned, followed by the runner who had brought the letter.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000013_000000.wav|The two young girls had linked their arms in one another's and began wandering round the garden.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000060_000000.wav|Suzanne made no reply.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000059_000001.wav|Tell Lucile to get ready.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000039_000002.wav|You said . . . the Scarlet Pimpernel had gone today . . . ?"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000067_000002.wav|I understood from his man that he was posting straight to Dover."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000075_000001.wav|He had set sail early that morning from London Bridge.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000023_000000.wav|Since then she had heard nothing from Chauvelin.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000067_000000.wav|"Yes, my lady.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000076_000000.wav|Chauvelin, on the other hand, would post to Dover, charter a vessel there, and undoubtedly reach Calais much about the same time.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000010_000001.wav|You won't be bored?"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000082_000000.wav|The childlike sweet face had become hard and set, the curved mouth was closed tightly over her clenched teeth.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000019_000000.wav|Marguerite started.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000018_000000.wav|"Indeed, CHERIE, I am not ashamed," rejoined Suzanne, softly; "and it makes me very, very proud to hear you speak so well of him.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000050_000000.wav|"Who sent it?" she said.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000076_000001.wav|Once in Calais, Percy would meet all those who were eagerly waiting for the noble and brave Scarlet Pimpernel, who had come to rescue them from horrible and unmerited death.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000065_000000.wav|"He was waiting for the coach, your ladyship, which he had ordered."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000051_000000.wav|"The runner said, my lady," replied the groom, "that his orders were to deliver this, and that your ladyship would understand from whom it came."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000011_000001.wav|Margot, how CAN you say such a wicked thing.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000064_000000.wav|"At 'The Rose and Thistle'?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000074_000001.wav|By her own blindness she had sinned; now she must repay, not by empty remorse, but by prompt and useful action.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000067_000001.wav|A special coach he had ordered.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000047_000000.wav|"What is that?" asked Marguerite.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000068_000001.wav|You may go." Then she turned to the groom: "My coach and the four swiftest horses in the stables, to be ready at once."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000023_000001.wav|She had concluded that he had failed, and yet, she had not felt anxious about Armand, because her husband had promised her that Armand would be safe.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000004_000002.wav|Had not everybody about town recently made a point of affecting the device of that mysterious and heroic Scarlet Pimpernel?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000052_000001.wav|Already her instinct told her what it contained, and her eyes only glanced at it mechanically.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000081_000001.wav|This she meant to do, if God gave her wits and strength.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000055_000000.wav|Marguerite's senses reeled, her very soul seemed to be leaving her body; she tottered, and would have fallen but for Suzanne's arm round her waist.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000030_000000.wav|"Oh, we have no fear now!|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000043_000001.wav|Child as she was, she felt the poignancy of her friend's grief, and with the infinite tact of her girlish tenderness, she did not try to pry into it, but was ready to efface herself.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000059_000000.wav|"And you, child, run within.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000045_000000.wav|Just as little Suzanne was about to mount the terrace steps, a groom came running round the house towards his mistress.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000038_000000.wav|"But what is it, CHERIE?" said little Suzanne, now genuinely alarmed, for Marguerite's colour had become dull and ashen.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000079_000000.wav|She knew enough about him by now to understand that he would never abandon those who trusted in him, that he would not turn his back from danger, and leave the Comte de Tournay to fall into the bloodthirsty hands that knew of no mercy.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000036_000001.wav|Here lay the whole awful, horrible, amazing puzzle.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000024_000001.wav|Chauvelin had told her nothing, it was true; but she remembered how sarcastic and evil he looked when she took final leave of him after the ball.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000028_000002.wav|He said that all is now well with dear papa, and we may safely expect him here in England in less than four days."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000079_000002.wav|Unconsciously, he might fall into a cunning trap, but-once warned-he might yet succeed.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000005_000002.wav|What was there strange in the fact that Sir Percy should have chosen to use the device as a seal ring?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000062_000000.wav|"Who gave you this packet?" asked Marguerite.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000074_000000.wav|But there was no time now to go over the past.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000082_000002.wav|A frown, which spoke of an iron will and unbending resolution, appeared between the two straight brows; already her plans were formed.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000078_000002.wav|Above every thing, she wished to warn Percy.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000044_000001.wav|Marguerite did not move, she remained there, thinking . . . wondering what was to be done.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000011_000000.wav|"Oh! bored!|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000022_000000.wav|And then her own work in the matter, which should have culminated at one o'clock in Lord Grenville's dining room, when the relentless agent of the French Government would finally learn who was this mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, who so openly defied an army of spies and placed himself so boldly, and for mere sport, on the side of the enemies of France.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000025_000000.wav|Marguerite turned sick with horror, and her hand convulsively clutched the ring in her dress.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000017_000001.wav|"Faith, there's naught to be ashamed of!|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000026_000000.wav|"You are not listening, CHERIE," said Suzanne, reproachfully, as she paused in her long, highly interesting narrative.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000024_000000.wav|But now, suddenly, as Suzanne prattled merrily along, an awful horror came upon her for what she had done.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000029_000000.wav|"Yes," said Marguerite, whose glowing eyes were fastened on Suzanne's lips, as she continued merrily:|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000031_000003.wav|Percy Blakeney . . . her husband . . . whom she had betrayed last night to Chauvelin.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000070_000001.wav|What's to be done?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000082_000001.wav|She meant to do or die, with him and for his sake.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000042_000002.wav|Don't think of me.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000038_000002.wav|What is it?"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000003_000000.wav|Stupidly, senselessly, now, sitting beneath the shade of an overhanging sycamore, she was looking at the plain gold shield, with the star shaped little flower engraved upon it.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000032_000002.wav|Oh! how could she have been so blind?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000069_000002.wav|Her graceful figure was as rigid as a statue, her eyes were fixed, her hands were tightly clasped across her breast; her lips moved as they murmured with pathetic heart breaking persistence,--|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000016_000000.wav|"How sadly you say it, CHERIE. . . .|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000036_000002.wav|In betraying a nameless stranger to his fate in order to save her brother, had Marguerite Blakeney sent her husband to his death?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000063_000001.wav|He said you would understand."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000039_000000.wav|"Nothing, nothing, child," she murmured, as in a dream.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000008_000001.wav|You did not expect me quite so soon, did you, my darling little Margot CHERIE?"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000012_000000.wav|"And to talk secrets."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000058_000000.wav|The groom went, and Marguerite turned to Suzanne.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000041_000003.wav|I may have to go away-you'll understand?"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000042_000000.wav|"I understand that something has happened, CHERIE, and that you want to be alone.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000055_000001.wav|With superhuman effort she regained control over herself-there was yet much to be done.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000031_000002.wav|He had gone to Calais, had been in London this morning . . . he . . . the Scarlet Pimpernel . . .|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000069_000001.wav|Marguerite remained standing for a moment on the lawn quite alone.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000032_000000.wav|Percy . . .|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000014_000000.wav|"Oh! how lovely your home is, Margot, darling," said little Suzanne, enthusiastically, "and how happy you must be!"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000010_000000.wav|"Indeed, sweet one," she said with a smile, "it is delightful to have you all to myself, and for a nice whole long day. . . .|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105398/3728_105398_000033_000000.wav|And all for the sheer sport and devilry of course!--saving men, women and children from death, as other men destroy and kill animals for the excitement, the love of the thing.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000029_000001.wav|Listen, dear, I have not spoken of these things to you before; something always seemed to stop me when I wished to question you.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000043_000005.wav|Armand could not see her face, but presently it seemed to him that something which glittered for a moment in the golden evening light, fell from her eyes onto her dainty fichu of lace.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000010_000000.wav|"Half an hour," she said, looking wistfully out to sea, "half an hour more and you'll be far from me, Armand!|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000014_000000.wav|"Our own beautiful country, Marguerite," said Armand, who seemed to have divined her thoughts.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000028_000001.wav|Percy is very good . . ."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000015_000000.wav|"They are going too far, Armand," she said vehemently.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000044_000001.wav|He knew her strange, passionate nature so well, and knew that reserve which lurked behind her frank, open ways.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000040_000000.wav|"Loved me?--Well, Armand, I thought at one time that he did, or I should not have married him.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000010_000001.wav|Oh!|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER seven THE SECRET ORCHARD|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000045_000000.wav|This was his first visit to England since her marriage, and the few months of separation had already seemed to have built up a slight, thin partition between brother and sister; the same deep, intense love was still there, on both sides, but each now seemed to have a secret orchard, into which the other dared not penetrate.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000043_000000.wav|Yet even now, his own sister puzzled him.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000040_000006.wav|I thought that a fool would worship, and think of nothing else.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000030_000000.wav|"What is it?" she asked simply.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000021_000000.wav|"Oh! Armand!" she said quaintly, "I sometimes wish you had not so many lofty virtues. . . .|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000040_000004.wav|But it has always seemed to me that it MUST be HEAVENLY to be loved blindly, passionately, wholly . . . worshipped, in fact-and the very fact that Percy was slow and stupid was an attraction for me, as I thought he would love me all the more.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000031_000001.wav|I mean, does he know the part you played in the arrest of the Marquis de st Cyr?"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000022_000000.wav|"As far as possible . . .|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000040_000007.wav|And I was ready to respond, Armand; I would have allowed myself to be worshipped, and given infinite tenderness in return. . . ."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000024_000000.wav|"Nay, sweet one, you have other interests now.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000035_000001.wav|I could no longer plead extenuating circumstances: I could not demean myself by trying to explain-"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000026_000000.wav|"He did . . . once . . ."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000005_000000.wav|"Armand!" said Marguerite Blakeney, as soon as she saw him approaching from the distance, and a happy smile shone on her sweet face, even through the tears.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000022_000001.wav|I promise you."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000027_000000.wav|"But surely . . ."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000040_000001.wav|I daresay," she added, speaking very rapidly, as if she were about to lay down a heavy burden, which had oppressed her for months, "I daresay that even you thought-as everybody else did-that I married Sir Percy because of his wealth-but I assure you, dear, that it was not so.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000010_000002.wav|I can't believe that you are going, dear!|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000016_000000.wav|"Hush!--" said Armand, instinctively, as he threw a quick, apprehensive glance around him.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000002_000001.wav|She heaved a deep sigh, like one who had long been oppressed with the heavy weight of constant self control, and she allowed a few tears to fall unheeded down her cheeks.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000037_000000.wav|"And now I have the satisfaction, Armand, of knowing that the biggest fool in England has the most complete contempt for his wife."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000039_000000.wav|"But Sir Percy loved you, Margot," he repeated gently.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000018_000000.wav|Her voice was choked in sobs, her eyes, tender, blue and loving, gazed appealingly at the young man, who in his turn looked steadfastly into hers.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000002_000000.wav|Once outside the noisy coffee room, alone in the dimly lighted passage, Marguerite Blakeney seemed to breathe more freely.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000013_000000.wav|They had reached the edge of the cliff.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000025_000000.wav|A look of strange wistfulness crept into her eyes as she murmured,--|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000040_000003.wav|I had never loved any one before, as you know, and I was four and twenty then-so I naturally thought that it was not in my nature to love.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000029_000002.wav|But, somehow, I feel as if I could not go away and leave you now without asking you one question. . . .|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000021_000001.wav|I assure you little sins are far less dangerous and uncomfortable.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000033_000001.wav|Yes, he does know. . . . .|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000029_000000.wav|"Nay!" he interrupted energetically, "I will distress myself on your account, my Margot.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000044_000000.wav|But he could not broach that subject with her.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000012_000000.wav|"Nay, 'tis not the distance, Armand-but that awful Paris . . . just now . . ."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000046_000001.wav|And Marguerite could not speak to her brother about the secrets of her heart; she hardly understood them herself, she only knew that, in the midst of luxury, she felt lonely and unhappy.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000033_000002.wav|I told him after I married him. . . ."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000047_000001.wav|She would not spoil these last few sadly sweet moments by speaking about herself.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000036_000000.wav|"And?"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000024_000001.wav|Percy cares for you . . ."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000021_000002.wav|But you WILL be prudent?" she added earnestly.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000043_000002.wav|Could it be that with the waning of her husband's love, Marguerite's heart had awakened with love for him?|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000043_000004.wav|Marguerite was gazing out towards the sunset.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000034_000000.wav|"You told him all the circumstances-which so completely exonerated you from any blame?"|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000032_000000.wav|She laughed-a mirthless, bitter, contemptuous laugh, which was like a jarring chord in the music of her voice.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000042_000002.wav|She had been young, misguided, ill advised perhaps.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000019_000000.wav|"You would in any case be my own brave sister," he said gently, "who would remember that, when France is in peril, it is not for her sons to turn their backs on her."|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000003_000000.wav|Outside the rain had ceased, and through the swiftly passing clouds, the pale rays of an after storm sun shone upon the beautiful white coast of Kent and the quaint, irregular houses that clustered round the Admiralty Pier.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3728/105386/3728_105386_000028_000000.wav|"There, there, dear, don't distress yourself on my account.|3728
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000019_000001.wav|She was never forward, but never bashful.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000021_000009.wav|She would take up your subject, whatever it was, and make it her own.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000019_000015.wav|It was quite an understood thing in the family that Lord Fawn must marry money.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000022_000010.wav|She coveted no man's possessions,--and no woman's; but she was minded to hold by her own.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000021_000003.wav|As hair it was very well, but it had no speciality.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000008.wav|Lady Fawn, however, had-not complained, but just said a word.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000018_000017.wav|But then Lady Fawn hated Lady Linlithgow as only two old women can hate each other;--and she had not heard the story of the diamond necklace.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000003.wav|A man with a wooden leg may stump about through much action, and may enjoy the keenest pleasures of humanity.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000008_000001.wav|Well;--and what is her position mother?"|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000027_000000.wav|"He is not going to prove a false knight?" asked Lady Eustace, in her lowest whisper.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000011.wav|A governess should make up her mind to do without a lover.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000003_000001.wav|In the meantime, let it be understood that poor little Lucy Morris was a governess in the house of old Lady Fawn, when our beautiful young widow established herself in Mount Street.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000009.wav|Our organist is about as good a teacher as there is in England.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000010.wav|Lady Fawn, she thought, was right.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000010.wav|Lucy did not much regard the word spoken to herself; but when she reflected that a word must also have been spoken to mr Greystock,--otherwise how should it have been that he never came again?--that she did not like.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000001.wav|The proposed engagement with Lady Fawn was thought to be a great thing for her.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000004.wav|Of all men he was the last who could afford to marry a governess.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000007.wav|"It's not over at all," said the dean.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000021_000002.wav|Her light brown hair was soft and smooth and pretty.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000020_000003.wav|Lord Fawn was pompous, slow, dull, and careful; but even he had given way to it at once.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000002.wav|Lady Fawn was known as a miracle of Virtue, Benevolence, and Persistency.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000001_000000.wav|Lucy Morris|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000021_000004.wav|Her mouth was somewhat large, but full of ever varying expression.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000010_000000.wav|"I don't see that at all."|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000022_000005.wav|A most unselfish little creature she was, but one who had a well formed idea of her own identity.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000003.wav|Frank was becoming a man of mark,--but was becoming a man of mark without much money.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000004.wav|He has his eyes left to him, and his ears, and his intellect.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000007_000000.wav|"Remember her position," said mrs Dean to her son.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000019_000014.wav|There was no fear that his feelings towards the governess would become too warm;--nor was it likely that Miss Morris should encounter danger in regard to him.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000008.wav|"You've got four months.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000019_000010.wav|They were good-natured, plain, unattractive girls, who spoke of her to her face as one who could easily do anything to which she might put her hand. Lady Fawn did really love her.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000008.wav|Eyes, ears, and intellect were left to her.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000020_000005.wav|Of course Lucy would be made over to the Hittaways, whose mother lived in Warwick Square, and whose father was Chairman of the Board of Civil Appeals.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000018_000010.wav|She was very fond of Lucy Morris, and treated her dependent with affectionate consideration;--but she did not approve of visits from mr Frank Greystock.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000015_000000.wav|"Of course it would be a hope."|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000021_000010.wav|There was forward just then a question as to whether the Sawab of Mygawb should have twenty millions of rupees paid to him and be placed upon a throne, or whether he should be kept in prison all his life.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000007.wav|She would still stump about and be very active.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000014_000001.wav|I don't suppose I can afford to marry Lucy Morris. At any rate, mother, I will never say a word to raise a hope in her,--if it would be a hope-"|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000005.wav|He will not break his heart for the loss of that leg.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000018_000000.wav|mrs Dean was a very good woman, but she had aspirations in the direction of filthy lucre on behalf of her children, or at least on behalf of this special child, and she did think it would be very nice if Frank would marry an heiress.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000006_000006.wav|This one was Frank Greystock, the barrister.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000004_000004.wav|Lucy, who was a year younger than Lizzie, had at that time been an orphan for the last four years.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000012.wav|She had given away her heart, and yet she would do without a lover.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000006.wav|And so it was with Lucy Morris.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000004_000008.wav|They were in no way connected with her by blood.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000004_000007.wav|The dean and the dean's wife and the dean's daughters had been her best friends, but they were not friends on whom she could be dependent.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000006.wav|"Then it's all over," said Lucy to the dean with her pretty smile,--that smile which caused all the old and middle aged men to fall in love with her.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, Frank, it would be impossible!" said mrs Dean.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000021_000000.wav|She was but a little thing;--and it cannot be said of her, as of Lady Eustace, that she was a beauty.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000022_000000.wav|What else can be said of her face or personal appearance that will interest a reader?|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000007.wav|Seeing that there had been friendship between the families for so many years, who could complain of that?|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000005.wav|She must be able to teach music up to a certain point.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000009.wav|A word in season, how good is it?|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000005_000010.wav|You are clever and quick, and he shall teach you." So Lucy went to Bobsborough, and was afterwards accepted by Lady Fawn.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000022_000011.wav|Of present advantages or disadvantages,--whether she had the one or suffered from the other,--she thought not at all.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000012_000002.wav|Who can hinder it?"|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000018_000007.wav|A governess, if she were given to falling in love, could hardly perform her duties in life.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000004_000000.wav|Lady Eustace and Lucy Morris had known each other for many years,--had indeed been children together,--there having been some old family friendship between the Greystocks and the Morrises.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000029_000000.wav|"Nonsense, my dear; as if I didn't know.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000006_000000.wav|While she was at the deanery there sprung up a renewed friendship between her and Lizzie.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000022_000004.wav|She was a little, thin, quick, graceful creature, whom it was impossible that you should see without wishing to have near you.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000018_000011.wav|Lucy, blushing up to the eyes, had once declared that she desired to have no personal visitors at Lady Fawn's house; but that, as regarded her own friendships, the matter was one for her own bosom.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000006_000004.wav|Now Lucy did not like to hear the Greystocks abused, and would say so.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000022_000007.wav|She was the humblest little thing in the world in regard to any possible putting of herself forward or needful putting of herself back; and yet, to herself, nobody was her superior.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000004_000002.wav|She had often been a guest at the deanery.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000023_000001.wav|She had given her heart,--for good and all, as she owned to herself,--to Frank Greystock.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000024_000001.wav|It is a great nuisance, a loss that maims the whole life,--a misfortune to be much regretted.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000019_000013.wav|Lord Fawn had suffered a disappointment in love, but he had consoled himself with blue books, and mastered his passion by incessant attendance at the India Board. The lady he had loved had been rich, and Lord Fawn was poor; but nevertheless he had mastered his passion.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000014_000000.wav|"Yes-I do; well.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2654/158744/2654_158744_000020_000004.wav|Lady Fawn, too, was very careful, but she had owned to herself long since that she could not bear to look forward to any permanent severance.|2654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1296/138074/1296_138074_000064_000000.wav|"What is it?"|1296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1296/138074/1296_138074_000066_000000.wav|"Why shouldn't she?"|1296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1296/138074/1296_138074_000083_000000.wav|"Really?"|1296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132537/957_132537_000010_000000.wav|When her mind had recovered from the first shock of affliction, perceiving the danger of yielding to indolence, and that activity alone could restore its tone, she scrupulously endeavoured to pass all her hours in employment.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132537/957_132537_000009_000000.wav|Several weeks passed away in quiet retirement, and Emily's affliction began to soften into melancholy.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132537/957_132537_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000009_000002.wav|It moved away, and then, by a gleam of lightning, she perceived some person on the terrace.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000020_000000.wav|'He knows not so much as that, lady.'|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000009_000000.wav|Emily, looking again upon the rampart, perceived the flame she had seen before; it moved onward; and, soon after, she thought she heard a footstep.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000017_000000.wav|'How does your comrade account for it?' said Emily.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000033_000001.wav|With Annette alone, therefore, whom she encouraged by her own example, she performed some of the last solemn offices for the dead, and compelled herself to watch during the night, by the body of her deceased aunt.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000006_000004.wav|Afterwards, however, she recovered her speech, and, being somewhat restored by a cordial, conversed for a considerable time, on the subject of her estates in France, with clearness and precision.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000027_000000.wav|She had continued thus for a considerable time, when, amidst the uproar of the storm, she thought she heard a voice, and, raising herself to listen, saw the chamber door open, and Annette enter with a countenance of wild affright.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000009_000001.wav|The light appeared and disappeared frequently, while, as she watched, it glided under her casements, and, at the same instant, she was certain, that a footstep passed, but the darkness did not permit her to distinguish any object except the flame.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000029_000001.wav|When she entered, her aunt appeared to have fainted, for she was quite still, and insensible; and Emily with a strength of mind, that refused to yield to grief, while any duty required her activity, applied every means that seemed likely to restore her.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000032_000001.wav|She had no doubt but that the violent change in the air, which the tempest produced, had effected this fatal one, on the exhausted frame of Madame Montoni.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000006_000003.wav|At length, she revived, and, looking feebly up at her niece, whose tears were falling over her, made an effort to speak, but her words were unintelligible, and Emily again apprehended she was dying.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000008_000002.wav|It was in one of these moments of obscurity, that she observed a small and lambent flame, moving at some distance on the terrace.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000009_000005.wav|Emily wished to speak, to end her doubts, whether this figure were human or supernatural; but her courage failed as often as she attempted utterance, till the light moved again under the casement, and she faintly demanded, who passed.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000025_000000.wav|When he was gone, she opened it again, listened with a gloomy pleasure to the distant thunder, that began to murmur among the mountains, and watched the arrowy lightnings, which broke over the remoter scene.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000023_000002.wav|Strange stories, too, have long been told of this castle, but it is no business of mine to repeat them; and, for my part, I have no reason to complain; our Chief does nobly by us.'|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000014_000000.wav|'This light, lady,' said the soldier, 'has appeared to night as you see it, on the point of my lance, ever since I have been on watch; but what it means I cannot tell.'|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000030_000000.wav|When Emily perceived, that all her efforts were ineffectual, she interrogated the terrified Annette, and learned, that Madame Montoni had fallen into a doze soon after Emily's departure, in which she had continued, until a few minutes before her death.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000019_000000.wav|'And what harm can it bode?' rejoined Emily.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000032_000000.wav|Emily, at this recital, shed tears.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000009_000004.wav|This person advanced, and the playing flame alternately appeared and vanished.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000025_000001.wav|The pealing thunder rolled onward, and then, reverbed by the mountains, other thunder seemed to answer from the opposite horizon; while the accumulating clouds, entirely concealing the moon, assumed a red sulphureous tinge, that foretold a violent storm.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/132568/957_132568_000023_000001.wav|There are amongst us, who believe strange things.|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/957/130588/957_130588_000071_000000.wav|"Manning!"|957
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000003.wav|The reason therefore why Socrates understands is not because he is moved by his intellect, but rather, contrariwise, he is moved by his intellect because he understands.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000032_000002.wav|For this reason the human soul retains its own existence after the dissolution of the body; whereas it is not so with other forms.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000027_000004.wav|This power is called the intellect.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000001_000000.wav|QUESTION seventy six|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000040_000001.wav|It seems, therefore, that the same individual knowledge which is in the master is communicated to the disciple; which cannot be, unless there is one intellect in both.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000066_000002.wav|And so the difference of corruptible and incorruptible which is on the part of the forms does not involve a generic difference between man and the other animals.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000022_000000.wav|But if anyone says that the intellectual soul is not the form of the body he must first explain how it is that this action of understanding is the action of this particular man; for each one is conscious that it is himself who understands.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000004_000000.wav|(one) Whether the intellectual principle is united to the body as its form?|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000064_000004.wav|Thus the intellectual soul contains virtually whatever belongs to the sensitive soul of brute animals, and to the nutritive souls of plants.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000046_000003.wav|Therefore, if there were one intellect for all men, the diversity of phantasms which are in this one and that one would not cause a diversity of intellectual operation in this man and that man.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000055_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that besides the intellectual soul there are in man other souls essentially different from one another, such as the sensitive soul and the nutritive soul.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000002.wav|If, on the contrary, we suppose one instrument and several principal agents, we might say that there are several agents, but one act; for example, if there be many drawing a ship by means of a rope; there will be many drawing, but one pull.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000020_000002.wav|Therefore the intellectual principle is the form of man.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000040_000002.wav|Seemingly, therefore, the intellect of the disciple and master is but one; and, consequently, the same applies to all men.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000023_000005.wav|Therefore, as the species of colors are in the sight, so are the species of phantasms in the possible intellect. Now it is clear that because the colors, the images of which are in the sight, are on a wall, the action of seeing is not attributed to the wall: for we do not say that the wall sees, but rather that it is seen.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000021_000005.wav|Therefore this principle by which we primarily understand, whether it be called the intellect or the intellectual soul, is the form of the body.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000025_000000.wav|There remains, therefore, no other explanation than that given by Aristotle-namely, that this particular man understands, because the intellectual principle is his form.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000005.wav|Therefore, if we suppose two men to have several intellects and one sense-for instance, if two men had one eye-there would be several seers, but one sight.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000026_000006.wav|It follows therefore that the intellectual principle is the proper form of man.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000016_000002.wav|Therefore the intellect is not united to the body as its form.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000026_000002.wav|Whence Aristotle concludes (Ethic.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000020_000001.wav|But the difference which constitutes man is "rational," which is applied to man on account of his intellectual principle.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000043_000001.wav|This is clear if, as Plato maintained, man is the intellect itself.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000025_000001.wav|Thus from the very operation of the intellect it is made clear that the intellectual principle is united to the body as its form.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000050_000001.wav|Yet it is the stone which is understood, not the likeness of the stone; except by a reflection of the intellect on itself: otherwise, the objects of sciences would not be things, but only intelligible species.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000009_000000.wav|(six) Whether it be united to such a body by means of another body?|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000019_000001.wav|But to be united to matter belongs to the form by reason of its nature; because form is the act of matter, not by an accidental quality, but by its own essence; otherwise matter and form would not make a thing substantially one, but only accidentally one. Therefore a form cannot be without its own proper matter.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000042_000001.wav|But it is impossible that a soul, one in species, should belong to animals of different species. Therefore it is impossible that one individual intellectual soul should belong to several individuals.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000049_000003.wav|But if the species be abstracted from the conditions of individual matter, there will be a likeness of the nature without those things which make it distinct and multiplied; thus there will be knowledge of the universal.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000066_000001.wav|Now man is corruptible like other animals.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000018_000002.wav|Therefore it is not united to the body as its form.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000028_000000.wav|It is well to remark that if anyone holds that the soul is composed of matter and form, it would follow that in no way could the soul be the form of the body.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000027_000002.wav|Now the human soul is the highest and noblest of forms.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000059_000001.wav|Now this would not be the case if the various principles of the soul's operations were essentially different, and distributed in the various parts of the body.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000005.wav|Whereas the act of intellect remains in the agent, and does not pass into something else, as does the action of heating. Therefore the action of understanding cannot be attributed to Socrates for the reason that he is moved by his intellect.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000057_000003.wav|Therefore in man the intellectual soul is not essentially the same as the sensitive soul, but presupposes it as a material subject.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000002.wav|First, because the intellect does not move the body except through the appetite, the movement of which presupposes the operation of the intellect.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000019_000003.wav|Therefore the intellectual principle is not united to the body as its form.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000064_000000.wav|We must therefore conclude that in man the sensitive soul, the intellectual soul, and the nutritive soul are numerically one soul. This can easily be explained, if we consider the differences of species and forms.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000035_000000.wav|Whether the Intellectual Principle Is Multiplied According to the Number of Bodies?|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000060_000002.wav|This can be made clear by three different reasons.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000039_000003.wav|It seems, therefore, to follow that there is one intellect in all men.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000057_000002.wav|Therefore the intellectual soul may be compared to the body animated by a sensitive soul, as form to matter.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000062_000000.wav|Secondly, this is proved to be impossible by the manner in which one thing is predicated of another.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000036_000005.wav|Therefore there is but one intellect in all men.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000007.wav|Therefore if understanding is attributed to Socrates, as the action of what moves him, it follows that it is attributed to him as to an instrument.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000036_000001.wav|For an immaterial substance is not multiplied in number within one species.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000021_000004.wav|For the soul is the primary principle of our nourishment, sensation, and local movement; and likewise of our understanding.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000036_000003.wav|Therefore there are not many human souls in one species.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000061_000004.wav|It cannot be said that they are united by the one body; because rather does the soul contain the body and make it one, than the reverse.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000026_000004.wav|Man must therefore derive his species from that which is the principle of this operation.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000010_000000.wav|(seven) Whether by means of an accident?|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000016_000001.wav|But the form of the thing understood is not received into the intellect materially and individually, but rather immaterially and universally: otherwise the intellect would not be capable of the knowledge of immaterial and universal objects, but only of individuals, like the senses.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000065_000001.wav|When, therefore, a soul is sensitive only, it is corruptible; but when with sensibility it has also intellectuality, it is incorruptible.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000054_000000.wav|Whether Besides the Intellectual Soul There Are in Man Other Souls Essentially Different from One Another?|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000055_000001.wav|For corruptible and incorruptible are not of the same substance.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000046_000001.wav|But the phantasm itself is not a form of the possible intellect; it is the intelligible species abstracted from the phantasm that is a form.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000000.wav|Some, however, tried to maintain that the intellect is united to the body as its motor; and hence that the intellect and body form one thing so that the act of the intellect could be attributed to the whole.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000001.wav|This is, however, absurd for many reasons.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000005_000000.wav|(two) Whether the intellectual principle is multiplied numerically according to the number of bodies; or is there one intelligence for all men?|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000006_000000.wav|(three) Whether in the body the form of which is an intellectual principle, there is some other soul?|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000038_000001.wav|Now whatever is received into anything must be received according to the condition of the receiver.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000022_000005.wav|But one cannot sense without a body: therefore the body must be some part of man.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000026_000001.wav|Now the proper operation of man as man is to understand; because he thereby surpasses all other animals.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000022_000003.wav|We must therefore say either that Socrates understands by virtue of his whole self, as Plato maintained, holding that man is an intellectual soul; or that intelligence is a part of Socrates.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000023_000002.wav|But this link or union does not sufficiently explain the fact, that the act of the intellect is the act of Socrates.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000021_000001.wav|For that whereby primarily anything acts is a form of the thing to which the act is to be attributed: for instance, that whereby a body is primarily healed is health, and that whereby the soul knows primarily is knowledge; hence health is a form of the body, and knowledge is a form of the soul.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000039_000002.wav|But this is contrary to the nature of the intellect; for then the intellect would seem not to be distinct from the imagination.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000043_000003.wav|The distinction between Socrates and Plato would be no other than that of one man with a tunic and another with a cloak; which is quite absurd.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000050_000007.wav|But, according to the opinion of Plato, the thing understood exists outside the soul in the same condition as those under which it is understood; for he supposed that the natures of things exist separate from matter.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000064_000001.wav|For we observe that the species and forms of things differ from one another, as the perfect and imperfect; as in the order of things, the animate are more perfect than the inanimate, and animals more perfect than plants, and man than brute animals; and in each of these genera there are various degrees.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000028_000001.wav|For since the form is an act, and matter is only in potentiality, that which is composed of matter and form cannot be the form of another by virtue of itself as a whole.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000006.wav|But if there is one intellect, no matter how diverse may be all those things of which the intellect makes use as instruments, in no way is it possible to say that Socrates and Plato are otherwise than one understanding man.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000014_000000.wav|Objection one: It seems that the intellectual principle is not united to the body as its form.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000059_000002.wav|But with regard to the intellectual part, he seems to leave it in doubt whether it be "only logically" distinct from the other parts of the soul, "or also locally."|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000050_000003.wav|And since knowledge is begotten according to the assimilation of the knower to the thing known, it follows that the same thing may happen to be known by several knowers; as is apparent in regard to the senses; for several see the same color, according to different likenesses.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000003.wav|If, however, there is one principal agent, and one instrument, we say that there is one agent and one action, as when the smith strikes with one hammer, there is one striker and one stroke.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000013_000000.wav|Whether the Intellectual Principle Is United to the Body As Its Form?|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000023_000000.wav|The Commentator held that this union is through the intelligible species, as having a double subject, in the possible intellect, and in the phantasms which are in the corporeal organs.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000037_000002.wav|This is heretical; for it would do away with the distinction of rewards and punishments.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000038_000002.wav|Therefore the species of things would be received individually into my intellect, and also into yours: which is contrary to the nature of the intellect which knows universals.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000068_000001.wav|Therefore since, as we have said, the intellectual soul contains virtually what belongs to the sensitive soul, and something more, reason can consider separately what belongs to the power of the sensitive soul, as something imperfect and material.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000062_000002.wav|But both of these consequences are clearly false: because "animal" is predicated of man essentially and not accidentally; and man is not part of the definition of an animal, but the other way about. Therefore of necessity by the same form a thing is animal and man; otherwise man would not really be the thing which is an animal, so that animal can be essentially predicated of man.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000063_000000.wav|Thirdly, this is shown to be impossible by the fact that when one operation of the soul is intense it impedes another, which could never be the case unless the principle of action were essentially one.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000000.wav|Again, this is clearly impossible, whatever one may hold as to the manner of the union of the intellect to this or that man.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000008_000000.wav|(five) Of the qualities required in the body of which the intellectual principle is the form?|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000024_000006.wav|Thirdly, because the action of a motor is never attributed to the thing moved, except as to an instrument; as the action of a carpenter to a saw.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000065_000002.wav|For although sensibility does not give incorruptibility, yet it cannot deprive intellectuality of its incorruptibility.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000030_000000.wav|From this it is clear how to answer the Second and Third objections: since, in order that man may be able to understand all things by means of his intellect, and that his intellect may understand immaterial things and universals, it is sufficient that the intellectual power be not the act of the body.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000023_000001.wav|Thus through the intelligible species the possible intellect is linked to the body of this or that particular man.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000007_000000.wav|(four) Whether in the body there is any other substantial form?|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000039_000001.wav|If, therefore, my intellect is distinct from yours, what is understood by me must be distinct from what is understood by you; and consequently it will be reckoned as something individual, and be only potentially something understood; so that the common intention will have to be abstracted from both; since from things diverse something intelligible common to them may be abstracted.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000056_000001.wav|But the sensitive soul in the horse, the lion, and other brute animals, is corruptible.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000049_000001.wav|But the materiality of the knower, and of the species whereby it knows, impedes the knowledge of the universal.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000046_000004.wav|It follows, therefore, that it is altogether impossible and unreasonable to maintain that there exists one intellect for all men.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000015_000002.wav|Therefore the intellect is not united to the body as its form.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000031_000001.wav|Therefore there is nothing to prevent some power thereof not being the act of the body, although the soul is essentially the form of the body.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000045_000007.wav|And if to this we add that to understand, which is the act of the intellect, is not affected by any organ other than the intellect itself; it will further follow that there is but one agent and one action: that is to say that all men are but one "understander," and have but one act of understanding, in regard, that is, of one intelligible object.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000050_000006.wav|For the common nature is understood as apart from the individuating principles; whereas such is not its mode of existence outside the soul.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000032_000001.wav|This is not the case with other non subsistent forms.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000060_000001.wav|If we suppose, however, that the soul is united to the body as its form, it is quite impossible for several essentially different souls to be in one body.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000003_000000.wav|We now consider the union of the soul with the body; and concerning this there are eight points of inquiry:|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000057_000001.wav|But "rational," which is the difference constituting man, is taken from the intellectual soul; while he is called "animal" by reason of his having a body animated by a sensitive soul.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000029_000001.wav|He proves this from the fact that "man and the sun generate man from matter." It is separate indeed according to its intellectual power, because the intellectual power does not belong to a corporeal organ, as the power of seeing is the act of the eye; for understanding is an act which cannot be performed by a corporeal organ, like the act of seeing.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000061_000000.wav|In the first place, an animal would not be absolutely one, in which there were several souls.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7956/245687/7956_245687_000043_000002.wav|For it would follow that Socrates and Plato are one man; and that they are not distinct from each other, except by something outside the essence of each.|7956
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000021_000002.wav|That scandal is, we think, over,--and for ever.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000010_000000.wav|THE SECOND THUNDERBOLT.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000016_000010.wav|And with it all he had an assurance in his own position,--a knowledge of the strength derived from his intellect, his industry, his rank, and his wealth,--which made him altogether fearless of others.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000016_000013.wav|But at last the little dog took the big dog by the ear, and then the big dog put out his paw and knocked the little dog over.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000022_000003.wav|We should not be at all surprised if, as the result of this disgraceful manoeuvring, mr Bonteen found himself at the head of the Liberal party before the Session be over. If so, evil would have worked to good.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000017_000002.wav|Palliser had become quite useless,--so mr Bonteen said,--since his accession to the dukedom, and was quite unfit to deal with decimal coinage.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000009_000000.wav|CHAPTER forty three.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000011_000002.wav|There was the personal phase,--which had reference to the direct altercation that had taken place between the two gentlemen, and to the correspondence between them which had followed, as to which phase it may be said that though there were many rumours abroad, very little was known.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000016_000011.wav|When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000011_000007.wav|mr Gresham, the Prime Minister, was supposed to be very much concerned in this matter.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000017_000001.wav|He had not chosen to throw mr Gresham over at once, or to make difficulties at the moment;--but he would not continue to hold his present position or to support the Government without a seat in the Cabinet.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000018_000001.wav|The People's Banner was the organ, and mr Quintus Slide was, of course, the organist.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000021_000004.wav|But we cannot say that we are as yet satisfied in this matter, or that we believe that the public has got to the bottom of it,--as it has a right to do in reference to all matters affecting the public service.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000021_000000.wav|One piece of advice which we ventured to give mr Gresham in our former article he has been wise enough to follow. We took upon ourselves to tell him that if, after what has occurred, he ventured to place the member for Tankerville again in office, the country would not stand it;--and he has abstained.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000011_000005.wav|And there was a third, --which may perhaps be called the general social phase, and which unfortunately dealt with the name of Lady Laura Kennedy.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000012_000000.wav|No doubt general opinion was adverse to poor Phineas Finn, but he was not without his party in the matter.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000021_000005.wav|We have never yet learned why it is that mr Bonteen, after having been nominated Chancellor of the Exchequer,--for the appointment to that office was declared in the House of Commons by the head of his party,--was afterwards excluded from the Cabinet, and placed in an office made peculiarly subordinate by the fact of that exclusion.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000016_000012.wav|mr Bonteen snarled a good deal, and the new Lord Privy Seal thought that the new President of the Board of Trade was not comfortable within himself.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000019_000004.wav|We are far from imputing evil motives, or even indiscretion, to that functionary; but we are of opinion that the moral feeling of the country would have been served by the publication, and we are sure that undue steps were taken by the member for Tankerville to procure that injunction.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000020_000001.wav|We think that we need hardly answer that question.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000016_000007.wav|Contradiction he would take for simple argument.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000011_000012.wav|This murder had been nearly accomplished in the centre of the metropolis,--by daylight, as if that made it worse,--on a Sunday, which added infinitely to the delightful horror of the catastrophe; and yet no public notice had been taken of it!|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174960/3876_174960_000014_000002.wav|I don't quite believe it all,--it would be too delicious; but a great many do." Madame Goesler, however, was strong in her opinion that the report in reference to Lady Laura was scandalous.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000008_000008.wav|His fate,--and what a fate it was!--would then be absolutely in the hands of mr Gresham.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000016_000005.wav|But now he did not say a word of his position, nor did Lord Cantrip allude to it.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000004_000006.wav|He sat doggedly still, at the end of a bench behind mr Gresham, and close to the gangway.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000004_000007.wav|When mr Gresham entered the House he was received with much cheering; but Phineas did not join in the cheer.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000017_000001.wav|This was much higher than any man had expected.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000003_000005.wav|But he knew also that it would behove him to abstain from speaking of himself unless he could do so in close reference to some point specially in dispute between the two parties.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000019.wav|But unfortunately the whole country was convinced that the Conservative party as a body was supporting this measure, unwillingly, and at the bidding of one man;--and, for himself, he was bound to say that he agreed with the country.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000003_000000.wav|After a late breakfast he walked out far away, into the Regent's Park, and there, wandering among the uninteresting paths, he devised triumphs of oratory for himself.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000005_000002.wav|But the prospect of an explanation,--or otherwise of a fight,--between two leading politicians will fill the House; and any allusion to our Eastern Empire will certainly empty it.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000004_000000.wav|He entered the House with the Speaker at four o'clock, and took his seat without uttering a word to any man.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000007_000003.wav|And he did not doubt that he would hereafter be found to have been equally practical in the view that he had expressed on the hustings at Tankerville, for he was convinced that before long the anomaly of which he had spoken would cease to exist under the influence of a Government that would really believe in the work it was doing.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000003_000002.wav|Dim ideas of a definition of political honesty crossed his brain, bringing with him, however, a conviction that his thought must be much more clearly worked out than it could be on that day before he might venture to give it birth in the House of Commons.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000015_000000.wav|"Exactly.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000008_000003.wav|But in reading the general barometer of the party as regarded himself, he did not find that the mercury went up.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000012.wav|But a speaker who can certainly be made amenable to authority for vilipending in debate the heart of any specified opponent, may with safety attribute all manner of ill to the agglomerated hearts of a party.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000004_000005.wav|He did not doubt but that Bonteen had shown the correspondence to his friends, and that the Ratlers and Erles had conceded that he, Phineas, was put out of court by it.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000001_000000.wav|SEVENTY TWO.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000002.wav|But on this occasion there was no failure.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000008_000010.wav|He had given up everything in the world with the view of getting into office; and now that the opportunity had come,--an opportunity which if allowed to slip could hardly return again in time to be of service to him,--the prize was to elude his grasp!|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000014_000000.wav|"He may publish them at Charing Cross if he likes."|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000008.wav|That such a measure should be carried by the gentlemen opposite, in their own teeth, at the bidding of the right honourable gentleman who led them, he thought to be impossible.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000002_000001.wav|He could not now go to Lord Cantrip, as the hours were too precious to him, and, as he felt, too short.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000002_000004.wav|There should be nothing written; he had tried that before in old days, and had broken down with the effort.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000001.wav|Let a man doubt ever so much his own capacity for some public exhibition which he has undertaken; yet he will always prefer to fail,--if fail he must,--before a large audience.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000009_000001.wav|He told his friend that a correspondence had taken place between himself and mr Bonteen, in which he thought that he had been ill used, and as to which he was quite anxious to ask His Lordship's advice.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000005_000003.wav|An aptitude for such encounters is almost a necessary qualification for a popular leader in Parliament, as is a capacity for speaking for three hours to the reporters, and to the reporters only,--a necessary qualification for an under-secretary of State for India.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000009_000002.wav|"I heard that you and he had been tilting at each other," said Lord Cantrip, smiling.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000016_000003.wav|They two, Lord Cantrip and Phineas, had at one period been on most intimate terms together;--had worked in the same office, and had thoroughly trusted each other.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000015.wav|It might probably have been mr Daubeny's for choice, had any real cutting of a throat been possible.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000016_000004.wav|The elder of the two,--for Lord Cantrip was about ten years senior to Phineas,--had frequently expressed the most lively interest in the prospects of the other; and Phineas had felt that in any emergency he could tell his friend all his hopes and fears.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000006_000013.wav|To have told any individual Conservative,--Sir Orlando Drought for instance,--that he was abandoning all the convictions of his life, because he was a creature at the command of mr Daubeny, would have been an insult that would have moved even the Speaker from his serenity; but you can hardly be personal to a whole bench of Conservatives,--to bench above bench of Conservatives.|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3876/174953/3876_174953_000013_000000.wav|"You can't quarrel with Bonteen for showing them to Fawn, if you intend to show them to me."|3876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000009.wav|The girl's father would have qualified this as rank treachery; and indeed Isabel knew that if Pansy should display the smallest germ of a disposition to encourage Lord Warburton her own duty was to hold her tongue.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000001.wav|That knowledge was very present to her as she went to her cousin's hotel the day after she had invited Lord Warburton to give a tangible proof of his sincerity; and at this moment, as at others, she had a sufficient perception of the sources of Osmond's opposition.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000005_000000.wav|"Very possibly you guess it.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000012.wav|How could poor Ralph depart?|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000087_000001.wav|She stood there a moment with her small hands unclasped and then quavered out: "Well, I hope no one will ask me!"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000079_000005.wav|She felt no bitterness toward her father; there was no bitterness in her heart; there was only the sweetness of fidelity to Edward Rosier, and a strange, exquisite intimation that she could prove it better by remaining single than even by marrying him.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000084_000001.wav|"To remember all the pleasure it's in your power to give your father."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000000.wav|But she made no reply; she only pulled her hand out of his own, which he tried still to hold, and rapidly withdrew from the room.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000100_000000.wav|There was a conviction in the way she said this, and a felicity in her believing it, which conduced to Isabel's awkwardness.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000006.wav|She was afraid even of looking too grave, or at least too stern; she was afraid of causing alarm.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000082_000000.wav|"Your having so little is a reason for looking for more." With which Isabel was grateful for the dimness of the room; she felt as if her face were hideously insincere.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000091_000001.wav|Then he wasn't ready!"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000079_000003.wav|She appeared to have accepted the idea of eternal singleness; but Isabel of course was free to reflect that she had no conception of its meaning. She was perfectly sincere; she was prepared to give up her lover.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000071_000000.wav|"You think of those who think of you," she said with a faint smile.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000009.wav|Such a ceremony would be odious and monstrous; she tried to shut her eyes to it meanwhile.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000037_000002.wav|She cares for another person, and it's cruel to attempt to bribe her by magnificent offers to give him up."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000024_000000.wav|"I ought to tell you indeed," Ralph went on, "that to me he has denied it."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000058_000000.wav|"It's difficult for me to advise you," Isabel returned.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000099_000001.wav|"There's no danger-no danger!" she declared at last.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000055_000000.wav|She blushed red and threw back her head.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000038_000000.wav|"Cruel to the other person perhaps-the one she cares for.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000020.wav|For them there could be no condonement, no compromise, no easy forgetfulness, no formal readjustment.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000009_000001.wav|That's not his nature."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000086_000001.wav|"Yes-to marry some one else."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000091_000000.wav|"If he had been sure?|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000048_000003.wav|"But I'm rather nervous lest your husband should think you haven't pushed him enough."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000012_000000.wav|"Very much, I think.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000014_000000.wav|Ralph looked at her as if his mild hilarity had been touched with mystification.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000022_000000.wav|"Of course it is.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000071_000001.wav|"I know mr Rosier thinks of me."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000019.wav|That appeared to make the whole future hideous. To break with Osmond once would be to break for ever; any open acknowledgement of irreconcilable needs would be an admission that their whole attempt had proved a failure.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000058_000002.wav|That's for your father; you must get his advice and, above all, you must act on it."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000082_000002.wav|Pansy's solemn eyes, fixed on her own, almost embarrassed her; she was ashamed to think she had made so light of the girl's preference.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000109_000000.wav|"Your father takes for granted at least that you would like to marry a nobleman."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000008_000001.wav|But think how he must dissimulate!"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000080_000000.wav|"Your father would like you to make a better marriage," said Isabel. "mr|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000107_000000.wav|"Perhaps not; but it will be good for me that he should.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000003_000000.wav|She came very soon to what she wished to speak of.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000098_000001.wav|Your father must tell you that."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000103_000003.wav|It's as if he said to me: 'I like you very much, but if it doesn't please you I'll never say it again.' I think that's very kind, very noble," Pansy went on with deepening positiveness.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000087_000000.wav|The child's eyes grew more penetrating; Isabel believed she was doubting her sincerity, and the impression took force from her slowly getting up from her cushion.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000011_000000.wav|"To a certain extent-yes.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000066_000000.wav|"Before I say yes I must know what such things are."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000041_000001.wav|Fortunately, however, he has not said a word to disturb her.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000020_000001.wav|"That he cared for you, mrs Osmond."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000018_000000.wav|"Ah, for Pansy, no!" cried Ralph very positively.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000026_000000.wav|"He has spoken very well of her-very properly.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000000.wav|Her mask had dropped for an instant, but she had put it on again, to Ralph's infinite disappointment.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000034_000001.wav|You know, however, how that always surprised me.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000006.wav|It little mattered that Isabel would know much better; it was for his own satisfaction more than for hers that he longed to show her he was not deceived.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000079_000001.wav|At this Pansy stopped her with the assurance that she would never disobey him, would never marry without his consent.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000021.wav|They had attempted only one thing, but that one thing was to have been exquisite.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000052_000000.wav|Ralph took an inward resolution that she shouldn't leave him without his letting her know that he knew everything: it seemed too great an opportunity to lose.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000072_000001.wav|"Your father has expressly requested he shouldn't."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000017_000005.wav|Is it your belief that he really cares for her?"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000099_000000.wav|Pansy said nothing for a moment; she only continued to smile as if she were in possession of a bright assurance.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000032_000000.wav|"He ought to succeed easily," said Ralph.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000030_000002.wav|It was this that made him exclaim in a moment: "How unhappy you must be!"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000081_000000.wav|"How do you mean better-if that would be good enough?|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000086_000000.wav|For a moment Isabel's answer caused itself to be waited for; then she heard herself utter it in the stillness that Pansy's attention seemed to make.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000059_000000.wav|At this Pansy dropped her eyes; for a moment she said nothing.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000083_000000.wav|"What should you like me to do?" her companion softly demanded.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000026_000001.wav|He has let me know, of course, that he thinks she would do very well at Lockleigh."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000076_000000.wav|"I should be very sorry to attempt it," said the Madonna with unusual frigidity.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000009.wav|What had she come for then, and why did she seem almost to offer him a chance to violate their tacit convention? Why did she ask him his advice if she gave him no liberty to answer her? How could they talk of her domestic embarrassments, as it pleased her humorously to designate them, if the principal factor was not to be mentioned?|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000045_000000.wav|"It was natural that as an old friend of Lord Warburton's-an older friend, that is, than Gilbert-I should take an interest in his intentions."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000023_000000.wav|"That would be very tiresome." She spoke, as she flattered herself, with much subtlety.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000015_000000.wav|Isabel got up, slowly smoothing her gloves and eyeing them thoughtfully. "It's after all no business of mine."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000012.wav|And as she answered nothing, looking as if she scarce understood, "You'll find yourselves thinking very differently," he continued.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000008_000000.wav|"Very true.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000039_000003.wav|He has the merit-for Pansy-of being in love with Pansy.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000003_000002.wav|It's about Lord Warburton."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000043_000000.wav|"Not at all; and he may be right in not liking it.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000058_000001.wav|"I don't know how I can undertake that.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000051_000002.wav|That's very natural.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000006_000000.wav|"Oh, I don't say I can do that."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000048_000002.wav|It makes such a very queer relation to you!" said Ralph, smiling.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000049_000003.wav|I'm not afraid I shall not be able to justify myself!" she said lightly.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000016_000000.wav|"You're very philosophic," said her cousin.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000053_000000.wav|"To jealousy?"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000092_000000.wav|Isabel thought this rather sharp; she also got up and stood a moment looking into the fire.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000004.wav|It could only take the meanest and cruellest.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000030_000000.wav|It was the first time she had alluded to the need for help, and the words shook her cousin with their violence.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000010.wav|Osmond would do nothing to help it by beginning first; he would put that burden upon her to the end.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000067_000002.wav|Now her papa wouldn't allow it.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000017_000002.wav|Lord Warburton tells me he wants, of all things in the world, to marry Pansy.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000005.wav|She felt bitter and angry, but she warned herself against betraying this heat.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000051_000001.wav|"It's a matter we can hardly quarrel about, however," she added; "for almost all the interest is on his side.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000028_000000.wav|"Ah, what Warburton really thinks-!" said Ralph.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000077_000000.wav|"No one can think of me as mr Rosier does; no one has the right."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000014.wav|She could perfectly understand her husband's wish for the event; she didn't, to be just, see how he COULD like her to be with her cousin.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000079_000002.wav|And she announced, in the serenest, simplest tone, that, though she might never marry mr Rosier, she would never cease to think of him.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000029_000000.wav|Isabel fell to smoothing her gloves again; they were long, loose gloves on which she could freely expend herself.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000035_000000.wav|"It will come from him, rather.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000067_000000.wav|Pansy presently told her that the only thing she wanted in life was to marry mr Rosier.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000073_000000.wav|"He can't help it, because he knows I think of HIM."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000104_000000.wav|Isabel was touched with wonder at the depths of perception of which this submissive little person was capable; she felt afraid of Pansy's wisdom-began almost to retreat before it.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000019_000000.wav|"But you said just now he did."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000033_000000.wav|Isabel debated.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000093_000000.wav|"He has been very kind to me, and I like him very much.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000043_000001.wav|Only he must obtain satisfaction himself."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000052_000001.wav|"Do you know what his interest will make him say?" he asked as he took her hand.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000061_000001.wav|"A lady can advise a young girl better than a man."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000039_000000.wav|"No, cruel to her," said Isabel.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000002.wav|He wished her to have no freedom of mind, and he knew perfectly well that Ralph was an apostle of freedom.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000093_000001.wav|But if you mean that he'll propose for me I think you're mistaken."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000080_000001.wav|Rosier's fortune is not at all large."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000010.wav|It was difficult to interrogate without appearing to suggest; Pansy's supreme simplicity, an innocence even more complete than Isabel had yet judged it, gave to the most tentative enquiry something of the effect of an admonition.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000034_000002.wav|Is Miss Osmond capable of giving us a surprise?"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000017_000003.wav|I've told you that before, without eliciting a comment from you.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000034_000000.wav|"Very true.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000070_000000.wav|"You must think of something else then," Isabel went on; but Pansy, sighing at this, told her that she had attempted that feat without the least success.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000047_000002.wav|Are you pleading his cause?"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000003.wav|Ralph was certain that this was her situation; he knew by instinct, in advance, the form that in such an event Osmond's displeasure would take.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000007_000000.wav|"You're intimate with him," she said; "you've a great deal of observation of him."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000094_000001.wav|But your father would like it extremely."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000017_000004.wav|You might risk one this morning, I think.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000085_000000.wav|"To marry some one else, you mean-if he should ask me?"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000013_000000.wav|"Ah!" said Isabel with a certain dryness.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000104_000001.wav|"You must tell your father that," she remarked reservedly.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000101_000000.wav|"Yes, he has been very kind," Pansy answered.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000022.wav|Once they missed it nothing else would do; there was no conceivable substitute for that success.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000088_000001.wav|Some one else would have been ready to ask you."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000047_000001.wav|"Let me understand.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000038_000001.wav|But Warburton isn't obliged to mind that."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000023.wav|For the moment, Isabel went to the Hotel de Paris as often as she thought well; the measure of propriety was in the canon of taste, and there couldn't have been a better proof that morality was, so to speak, a matter of earnest appreciation.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000103_000005.wav|And he doesn't care for me either.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000008.wav|What Isabel wished to do was to hear from her own lips that her mind was not occupied with Lord Warburton; but if she desired the assurance she felt herself by no means at liberty to provoke it.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000105_000000.wav|"I think I'd rather not," Pansy unreservedly answered.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000047_000000.wav|Isabel hesitated, frowning a little.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000106_000000.wav|"You oughtn't to let him have false hopes."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000097_000000.wav|"How can I encourage him?"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000001.wav|She made up her mind to speak to Pansy, and she took an occasion on the same day, going to the girl's room before dinner.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000065_000000.wav|Pansy stared, and then very quickly, "Will you do everything I want?" she asked.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000021_000000.wav|Isabel shook her head gravely.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000018.wav|And it was of no use that, when catching herself in this state of mind, she called herself a feeble spirit, a coward. It was not that she loved Ralph less, but that almost anything seemed preferable to repudiating the most serious act-the single sacred act-of her life.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000003.wav|It was just because he was this, Isabel said to herself, that it was a refreshment to go and see him.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000024.wav|Isabel's application of that measure had been particularly free to day, for in addition to the general truth that she couldn't leave Ralph to die alone she had something important to ask of him.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000008.wav|But it scarcely mattered, for he only failed.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000013.wav|The weather as yet made it impossible.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000044_000000.wav|"Has he commissioned you to obtain it?" Ralph ventured to ask.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000025.wav|This indeed was Gilbert's business as well as her own.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000100_000003.wav|But she didn't; she only said-in her embarrassment rather wide of the mark-that he surely had been most kind, most friendly.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000031_000000.wav|He had no sooner spoken than she recovered her self possession, and the first use she made of it was to pretend she had not heard him.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000049_000000.wav|Isabel found herself able to smile as well as he.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000108_000001.wav|It relieved this friend of a heavy responsibility. Pansy had a sufficient illumination of her own, and Isabel felt that she herself just now had no light to spare from her small stock. Nevertheless it still clung to her that she must be loyal to Osmond, that she was on her honour in dealing with his daughter.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000092_000001.wav|"Lord Warburton has shown you great attention," she resumed; "of course you know it's of him I speak." She found herself, against her expectation, almost placed in the position of justifying herself; which led her to introduce this nobleman more crudely than she had intended.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000016.wav|If he should positively interpose, if he should put forth his authority, she would have to decide, and that wouldn't be easy.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000004.wav|It will be perceived that she partook of this refreshment in spite of her husband's aversion to it, that is partook of it, as she flattered herself, discreetly.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000052_000002.wav|She shook her head, rather dryly-not discouragingly-and he went on.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000108_000002.wav|Under the influence of this sentiment she threw out another suggestion before she retired-a suggestion with which it seemed to her that she should have done her utmost.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000003_000001.wav|"I want you to answer me a question.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000022_000001.wav|But the nonsense is Warburton's, not mine."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000035_000001.wav|I seem to see that after all he'll let the matter drop."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000005.wav|She had not as yet undertaken to act in direct opposition to his wishes; he was her appointed and inscribed master; she gazed at moments with a sort of incredulous blankness at this fact.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000103_000004.wav|"That is all we've said to each other.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000079_000004.wav|This might seem an important step toward taking another, but for Pansy, evidently, it failed to lead in that direction.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000020_000000.wav|Ralph waited a moment.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000049_000001.wav|"He knows me well enough not to have expected me to push.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000064_000000.wav|"But if I speak to you now about your getting married it's not for your own sake, it's for mine," Isabel went on.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000090_000000.wav|"It would appear so if he had been sure he'd succeed."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000046_000000.wav|"Take an interest in his renouncing them, you mean?"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000042_000000.wav|"How would your husband like that?"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000079_000000.wav|Pansy only gazed at her, evidently much puzzled; and Isabel, taking advantage of it, began to represent to her the wretched consequences of disobeying her father.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000107_000001.wav|So long as he believes that Lord Warburton intends anything of the kind you say, papa won't propose any one else.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000041_000000.wav|"He has been good to her already.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000051_000003.wav|Pansy's after all his daughter-not mine." And she put out her hand to wish him goodbye.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000102_000000.wav|"Why then is the difficulty so great?"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000096_000000.wav|"Your father would like you to encourage him," Isabel went on mechanically.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000108_000000.wav|There was something brilliant in her lucidity, and it made her companion draw a long breath.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000055_000001.wav|"You're not kind," she said in a voice that he had never heard on her lips.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000072_000000.wav|"He ought not to," said Isabel loftily.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000068_000000.wav|"Very well then, it's impossible," Isabel pronounced.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000062_000000.wav|"I advise you then to pay the greatest respect to your father's wishes."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000084_000000.wav|The question was a terrible one, and Isabel took refuge in timorous vagueness.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000082_000001.wav|It was what she was doing for Osmond; it was what one had to do for Osmond!|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000081_000001.wav|And I have myself so little money; why should I look for a fortune?"|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000052_000003.wav|"It will make him say that your want of zeal is owing to jealousy." He stopped a moment; her face made him afraid.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000005.wav|He would have liked to warn Isabel of it-to let her see at least how he judged for her and how he knew.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000004.wav|Isabel had a difficult task-the only thing was to perform it as simply as possible.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000012_000001.wav|I can make that out."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000051_000000.wav|"That may easily happen, among the most united couples!" She took up her parasol; he saw she was nervous, afraid of what he might say.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000094_000000.wav|"Perhaps I am.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000103_000002.wav|That's the meaning of his kindness.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000100_000001.wav|She felt accused of dishonesty, and the idea was disgusting.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000098_000000.wav|"I don't know.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000011.wav|He had not yet formally forbidden her to call upon Ralph; but she felt sure that unless Ralph should very soon depart this prohibition would come.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000054_000000.wav|"To jealousy of his daughter."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000033_000001.wav|"Yes-but he has not always succeeded."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000036_000000.wav|"He'll do nothing dishonourable," said Ralph.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000110_000000.wav|Pansy stood in the open doorway; she had drawn back the curtain for Isabel to pass.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000078_000000.wav|"Ah, but I don't admit mr Rosier's right!" Isabel hypocritically cried.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000011.wav|"You'll be decidedly at variance, all the same," he said in a moment.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000069_000000.wav|"Yes, it's impossible," said Pansy without a sigh and with the same extreme attention in her clear little face.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000067_000001.wav|He had asked her and she had told him she would do so if her papa would allow it.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000050_000007.wav|He tried and tried again to make her betray Osmond; he felt cold blooded, cruel, dishonourable almost, in doing so.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000039_000004.wav|She can see at a glance that Lord Warburton isn't."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000100_000002.wav|To repair her self respect she was on the point of saying that Lord Warburton had let her know that there was a danger.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000048_000000.wav|"Not in the least.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000060_000001.wav|"I love you very much, but your father loves you better."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000002_000015.wav|Ralph never said a word against him, but Osmond's sore, mute protest was none the less founded.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000089_000000.wav|"I don't think he can have been ready," said Pansy.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000005_000001.wav|Please then answer it."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER forty five|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000107_000002.wav|And that will be an advantage for me," said the child very lucidly.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000057_000011.wav|As she knelt there in the vague firelight, with her pretty dress dimly shining, her hands folded half in appeal and half in submission, her soft eyes, raised and fixed, full of the seriousness of the situation, she looked to Isabel like a childish martyr decked out for sacrifice and scarcely presuming even to hope to avert it.|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000064_000001.wav|"If I try to learn from you what you expect, what you desire, it's only that I may act accordingly."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2056/143893/2056_143893_000021_000001.wav|"That's nonsense, you know."|2056
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000043_000001.wav|"I'll be slipping off now before your Revenue cutter comes.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000077_000006.wav|The women wore long eared caps and handkerchiefs.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000000.wav|'I rubbed my eyes, and fetched 'em out of the "Buck" stables.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000051_000001.wav|"You've missed it all.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000004.wav|They always called him Big Hand, for he was a large fisted man, and he was all of their notion of a white chief.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000005.wav|One of the gentlemen said to me, "Is that a genuine cap o' Liberty you're wearing?" 'twas Aunt Cecile's red one, and pretty near wore out.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000024_000003.wav|She was an Aurette, of course.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000076_000000.wav|'Apothecary Tobias Hirte,' Pharaoh replied.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000077_000000.wav|'Then why did he keep her in Davy Jones's locker?' Dan asked.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000024.wav|I must have looked a sore scrattel.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000056_000001.wav|The fat man went back to his fiddling.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000004_000000.wav|It is gone, gone, gone with lost Atlantis (Never say I didn't give you warning). In Seventeen Ninety three 'twas there for all to see, But it's not in Philadelphia this morning.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000003.wav|And there's a smell of wild grape vine growing in damp hollows which you drop into, after long rides in the heat, which is beyond compare for sweetness.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000081_000000.wav|'I'd have liked that!' said Dan.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000108_000001.wav|"Our ships will be searched-our citizens will be pressed, but-"|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000111_000001.wav|"The feeling in Philadelphia alone is at fever heat."|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000109_000000.wav|'"Then what about the Declaration of Independence?" says one.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000003.wav|Little houses and bursting big barns, fat cattle, fat women, and all as peaceful as Heaven might be if they farmed there.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000032_000000.wav|'There was never a Lee to Warminghurst That wasn't a gipsy last and first.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000106_000001.wav|"Oh, General, you mistake us entirely!" they says.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000005.wav|Him and his long hilted umberell was as well known as the stage coaches.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000072_000002.wav|Boy, go down to the bakery and tell them you are young Gert Schwankfelder that was.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000061_000000.wav|'"You should have said that first," said Toby.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000077_000003.wav|I looked after the horses when I wasn't rolling pills on top of the old spinet, while he played his fiddle and Red Jacket sang hymns. I liked it.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000004.wav|I wanted to get out from that crunch of swords and petticoats and sit in a field.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000012_000001.wav|'The edges are the sorrowful parts.'|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000116_000001.wav|'Why it's what you-what we-it's the Sachems' way of sprinkling the sacred corn meal in front of-oh! it's a piece of Indian compliment really, and it signifies that you are a very big chief.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000034_000001.wav|'Admettin' that's true,' he said, 'my gipsy blood must be wore pretty thin, for I've made and kept a worldly fortune.'|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000092_000000.wav|'"Get off," says Toby.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000093_000002.wav|I was scared, for I was fond of Toby.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000006_000000.wav|It is gone, gone, gone with Thebes the Golden (Never say I didn't give you warning). In Seventeen Ninety four 'twas a famous dancing floor- But it's not in Philadelphia this morning.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000099_000005.wav|Where did we go?|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000121_000000.wav|'"Surely," says he.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000022.wav|Hearing what the price was I was going to have some too, but the Indian asked me in English if I was hungry.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000002_000000.wav|Philadelphia|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000014.wav|The newspaper said men was burning Guy Fawkes images of General Washington and yelling after him in the streets of Philadelphia.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000044_000003.wav|Then come more, which I reckoned was Captain Giddens in the Revenue cutter.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000090_000001.wav|Toby had cured me of asking questions. He stopped my fiddling if I did.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000009.wav|Cornplanter used to meet him at Epply's-the great dancing place in the city before District Marshal William Nichols bought it.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000102_000002.wav|No gentleman!|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000071_000001.wav|"This boy is good."|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000084_000003.wav|They gave me a side name which means "Two Tongues," because, d'ye see, I talked French and English.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000011.wav|I came at it by degrees, after I was adopted into the tribe.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000011_000002.wav|The Coastguard cottages are a little farther on, and an old ship's figurehead of a Turk in a turban stared at them over the wall.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000044_000000.wav|'Presently I heard guns.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000006.wav|"Oh yes!" I says, "straight from France." "I'll give you a shilling for it," he says, and with that money in my hand and my fiddle under my arm I squeezed past the entry port and went ashore.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000044_000006.wav|I hadn't time to call or think.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000001.wav|The frigate was crowded with fine gentlemen and ladies pouring in and out.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000017_000001.wav|A dark, thin faced man in very neat brown clothes and broad toed shoes came up, followed by Puck.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000089_000000.wav|'"Good!" says Red Jacket, looking at the sun|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000107_000000.wav|'"At any price?" says the man with the rook's voice.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000093_000003.wav|We never said much to each other, but we fiddled together, and music's as good as talking to them that understand.'|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000088_000001.wav|"I will go to the Church which is in Philadelphia.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000013.wav|Toby wanted peace so as he could go about the Reservation buying his oils. But most of the white men wished for war, and they was angry because the President wouldn't give the sign for it.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000095_000000.wav|'Not him!|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000013.wav|They lived on a Reservation by themselves away off by their lake.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000022_000000.wav|'Oh, but it is, though,' said Una quickly.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000099_000004.wav|We had evening hymn singing every night after they'd blown their pipe smoke to the quarters of heaven.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000064_000000.wav|'"Calomel," I says.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000029.wav|The Indian never moved an eyelid.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000041_000003.wav|You look out for yours."|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000048_000000.wav|'"What!|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000001_000000.wav|BROTHER SQUARE TOES|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000072_000001.wav|"Now I shall play my fiddle and you shall sing your hymn, brother.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000099_000006.wav|I'll tell you, but don't blame me if you're no wiser.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000127_000000.wav|IF-|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000049_000011.wav|I always helped drink any healths that was proposed-specially Citizen Danton's who'd cut off King Louis' head.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000125_000002.wav|That Shoreham smack's thinking of her supper.' The children looked across the darkening Channel.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000013_000000.wav|Cordery, the coastguard, came out of the cottage, levelled his telescope at some fishing boats, shut it with a click and walked away.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000053_000001.wav|They're all gone mad on these coasts-French and American together.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000103_000007.wav|They wouldn't say whether that was right or wrong; they only wanted Big Hand to turn it over in his mind.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000024_000004.wav|We Lees mostly marry Aurettes.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000095_000001.wav|There's justice left in the world still.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000041_000000.wav|'"Me too, I wish that," says Uncle Aurette.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000073_000001.wav|He wasn't at all surprised when I told him I was young Gert Schwankfelder that was.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000003.wav|They shouted, "Down with England!"--"Down with Washington!"--"Hurrah for France and the Republic!" I couldn't make sense of it.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000047_000007.wav|They had been up all night clearing for action on account of hearing guns in the fog.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000076_000001.wav|'One Hundred and Eighteen, Second Street-the famous Seneca Oil man, that lived half of every year among the Indians.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000110_000000.wav|'"Deal with facts, not fancies," says Big Hand.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000073_000002.wav|He knew Toby.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000077_000008.wav|I carried Toby's fiddle, and he played pretty much as he chose all against the organ and the singing.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000111_000000.wav|'"But think of public opinion," another one starts up.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000069_000003.wav|Now look at this boy and say what you think."|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000072_000000.wav|'"Good, then," says Toby.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000010.wav|They all was the fashion in the city.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000014_000002.wav|He says if coastguards were done away with, smuggling would start up at once.'|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000120_000000.wav|'His gentlemen were waiting, so they didn't delay him, only Cornplanter says, using his old side name, "Big Hand, did you see us among the timber just now?"|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000077_000002.wav|He kept her under David Jones's hat shop in the "Buck" tavern yard, and his Indian friends kept their ponies there when they visited him.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000065_000000.wav|'"Right," he says.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000128_000000.wav|If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000070_000001.wav|He looked me over all the while they did it.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000124_000000.wav|'Yes,' said Puck, rising too.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000059_000000.wav|'"I don't know," I said.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000013.wav|He was a horseback behaving as if the place belonged to him-and commanding all and sundry to fight the British.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000086_000000.wav|'I hate politics, too,' said Una, and Pharaoh laughed.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000113_000000.wav|'"At any price?" the actor like chap keeps on croaking.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000095_000017.wav|Besides, I wasn't exactly dressed for it.'|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000035_000001.wav|'No, in the tobacco trade.'|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000095_000004.wav|Down at heart all Indians reckon digging a squaw's business, and neither him nor Cornplanter, when he relieved watch, was a hard task Master.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000087_000003.wav|Of a sudden Toby drops his Aurora.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000055_000001.wav|Pick up the pills!" the fat man screeches.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000007.wav|It was like a dream-meadows, trees, flowers, birds, houses, and people all different!|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000003_000000.wav|If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning, You mustn't take my stories for a guide. There's little left indeed of the city you will read of, And all the folk I write about have died. Now few will understand if you mention Talleyrand, Or remember what his cunning and his skill did. And the cabmen at the wharf do not know Count Zinnendorf, Nor the Church in Philadelphia he builded.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000019.wav|A man told me he was a real Red Indian called Red Jacket, and I followed him into an alley way off Race Street by Second Street, where there was a fiddle playing.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000053_000000.wav|'"If that's your trouble," says old Pierre, "you go straight ashore. None'll hinder you.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000090_000000.wav|'I went to pack the saddle bags.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000069_000001.wav|"I think this is the hand of Providence!|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000112_000001.wav|"Gentlemen," he says-slow he spoke, but his voice carried far-"I have to think of our country.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000123_000000.wav|Pharaoh stood up as though he had finished.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000072_000004.wav|If you ask any questions you shall hear from me."|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000044_000002.wav|He didn't go naked about the seas after dark.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000044_000004.wav|He was open handed with his compliments, but he would lay his guns himself.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000008.wav|And so we jogged 'into dozy little Lebanon by the Blue Mountains, where Toby had a cottage and a garden of all fruits.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000106_000003.wav|"But I know my duty.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000047_000003.wav|I rolled on to a pile of dunnage in the dark and I went to sleep.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000029_000000.wav|'Then where did you live?' said Una.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000002.wav|So we went travelling. It's a kindly, softly country there, back of Philadelphia among the German towns, Lancaster way.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000092_000003.wav|I wish He hadn't."|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000062_000001.wav|"No," I says.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000060_000001.wav|Christians always feed the hungry.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000108_000000.wav|'"At any price," says he, word by word.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000010_000001.wav|They had turned themselves out of doors while their trunks were being packed, and strolled over the Downs towards the dull evening sea.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000105_000002.wav|He asked them half a dozen times over whether the United States had enough armed ships for any shape or sort of war with any one.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000046_000000.wav|'Didn't anybody see you come in?' said Dan.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000011_000004.wav|'I hate the sea!'|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000105_000000.wav|'No, nor yet was it what you might call swearing.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000014.wav|Toby took me up there, and they treated me as if I was their own blood brother.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000014_000001.wav|'Then he'll meet the Newhaven coastguard and turn back.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000038_000000.wav|'A scant mile,' said Puck after a quick look.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000060_000002.wav|So I bring him."|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000058_000005.wav|Why are you not Gert Schwankfelder?"|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000097_000000.wav|Pharaoh looked a little abashed.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000112_000002.wav|Let me assure you that the treaty with Great Britain will be made though every city in the Union burn me in effigy."|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000088_000000.wav|'"I am an oldish man, too fond of my own comforts," he says.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000073_000003.wav|His wife she walked me into the back yard without a word, and she washed me and she cut my hair to the edge of a basin, and she put me to bed, and oh! how I slept-how I slept in that little room behind the oven looking on the flower garden!|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000079_000005.wav|As soon as the dancing clock struck midnight that Sunday-I was lying under the spinet-I heard Toby's fiddle.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000099_000003.wav|My silly head was banged often enough by low branches, but they slipped through like running elk.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000079_000000.wav|Pharaoh's eyes twinkled.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000011_000000.wav|They walked to The Gap, where the cliff is only a few feet high.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000065_000002.wav|You like to fiddle?" he says.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000117_000001.wav|First he says quite softly, "My brothers know it is not easy to be a chief." Then his voice grew.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000074_000000.wav|'I like Toby,' said Una.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000125_000004.wav|When they turned round The Gap was empty behind them.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000047_000002.wav|The crew was standing by their guns up above.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000012.wav|The Senecas are a seemly, quiet people, and they'd had trouble enough from white men-American and English-during the wars, to keep 'em in that walk.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000079_000007.wav|Liberty and Independence for Ever!|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000077_000001.wav|'That was his joke.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000017.wav|Toby used to read the Aurora newspaper.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000096_000000.wav|'D'you mean you were dressed like an Indian?'Dan demanded.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000095_000008.wav|'But it's best,' he went on suddenly, 'after the first frosts.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000069_000000.wav|'"My brother," he says to the Indian.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000000.wav|'My legs was pretty tottly, but I made shift to go on deck, which it was like a fair.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000015_000000.wav|A voice on the beach under the cliff began to sing:|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000103_000000.wav|'The others all assembled round Big Hand then, and, in their way, they said pretty much what Genet had said.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000125_000001.wav|'Look! it's later than I thought.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000011_000003.wav|'This time tomorrow we shall be at home, thank goodness,' said Una.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000098_000001.wav|'Go on, Brother Square toes.'|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000049_000002.wav|Bompard, he liked it.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000057_000001.wav|"I brought the boy to be fed, not hit."|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000099_000009.wav|From Williams Ferry, across the Shanedore, over the Blue Mountains, through Ashby's Gap, and so south-east by south from there, till we found the President at the back of his own plantations.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000070_000000.wav|'The Indian looked me over whole minutes-there was a musical clock on the wall and dolls came out and hopped while the hour struck.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000006.wav|He took orders for that famous Seneca Oil which he had the secret of from Red Jacket's Indians, and he slept in friends' farmhouses, but he would shut all the windows; so Red Jacket and me slept outside.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000010_000000.wav|It was almost the end of their visit to the seaside.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000089_000001.wav|"My brother shall be there.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000094_000000.wav|'Did Toby die of yellow fever?'Una asked.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000087_000002.wav|One hot evening late in August, Toby was reading the newspaper on the stoop and Red Jacket was smoking under a peach tree and I was fiddling.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000014_000000.wav|'half-way to Newhaven,'said Dan.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000106_000004.wav|We must have peace with England."|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000103_000004.wav|His gentlemen put this very clear to Big Hand.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000060_000000.wav|'Says the Indian, "He is hungry, Toby.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000079_000003.wav|Being a boy, it seemed to me it had lasted for ever, and was going on for ever.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000031_000001.wav|'I remember a piece about the Lees at Warminghurst, I do:|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000040_000001.wav|"Why can't King George's men and King Louis' men do on their uniforms and fight it out over our heads?"|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000062_000000.wav|'"You like pills-eh?" says Toby.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000020.wav|I'm fond o' fiddling.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000007.wav|There's nothing to hurt except snakes-and they slip away quick enough if you thrash in the bushes.'|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000095_000006.wav|When I found Toby didn't die the minute he reached town, why, boylike, I took him off my mind and went with my Indians again.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000124_000001.wav|'And what came out of it in the long run?'|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000002.wav|He's something to listen to.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000101_000000.wav|'"Citizen-citizen!" the fellow spits in.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000088_000002.wav|My brother, lend me a spare pony.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000080_000001.wav|Red Jacket was there saddling his, and when I'd packed the saddle bags we three rode up Race Street to the Ferry by starlight.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000106_000000.wav|'Everybody laughed except him.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000114_000000.wav|'"The treaty must be made on Great Britain's own terms.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000023_000000.wav|'Aren't you English?' said Dan.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000112_000000.wav|'He held up one of his big hands.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000015.wav|Red Jacket said the mark of my bare feet in the dust was just like an Indian's and my style of walking was similar.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000103_000008.wav|He did-for a while.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000020_000002.wav|But his dark beady brown eyes still twinkled merrily in his lean face, and the children felt that they did not suit the straight, plain, snuffy brown coat, brown knee breeches, and broad brimmed hat.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000084_000000.wav|'Sometimes I think it did,' Pharaoh went on.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000058_000001.wav|"Himmel!" he says.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000126_000000.wav|'I expect they've packed our trunks by now,' said Dan. 'This time tomorrow we'll be home.'|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000093_000001.wav|When I picked up the paper to wrap his fiddle strings in, I spelled out a piece about the yellow fever being in Philadelphia so dreadful every one was running away.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000014.wav|But I'd heard that before.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000010_000002.wav|The tide was dead low under the chalk cliffs, and the little wrinkled waves grieved along the sands up the coast to Newhaven and down the coast to long, grey Brighton, whose smoke trailed out across the Channel.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000075_000000.wav|'Who was he?' said Puck.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000082_000000.wav|'I'd no fault to find with those days.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000031_000000.wav|'Ah!' said Puck, squatted by the windlass.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000054_000026.wav|We walked into a dirty little room full of flutes and fiddles and a fat man fiddling by the window, in a smell of cheese and medicines fit to knock you down.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000017_000000.wav|Feet scrabbled on the flinty path.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000071_000000.wav|'"Good," he says at last.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000063_000001.wav|"What's those?"|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000099_000010.wav|I'd hate to be trailed by Indians in earnest.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000121_000001.wav|"You taught me to look behind trees when we were both young." And with that he cantered off.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000044_000008.wav|I kicked back on our gunwale as it went under and slipped through that port into the French ship-me and my fiddle.'|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000040_000000.wav|'"That means war again, when we was only just getting used to the peace," says Dad.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000078_000000.wav|'How very queer!' said Una.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000085_000015.wav|You'd have been astonished what those two fine old chiefs knew of the ins and outs of such matters.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000125_000000.wav|'Let me get at my story my own way,'was the answer.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000043_000004.wav|By the time we'd fished up the kegs the fog came down so thick Dad judged it risky for me to row 'em ashore, even though we could hear the ponies stamping on the beach.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1093/132891/1093_132891_000039_000001.wav|It's seven fathom under her-clean sand.|1093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000021.wav|He did not know that that machine, when the wires were connected, could stop his engine.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000016.wav|The landlord kept going among his tenants and finally discovered the dynamo.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000007.wav|'Where is the steamer that goes across the Channel?' 'This is the boat.' There had been a storm in the North Sea that had carried away some of the boats on the German steamer, and it certainly looked awful tough outside.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000011.wav|We started out of the little inlet and got into the Channel, and that boat went in seventeen directions simultaneously.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000005.wav|He had neither sought nor expected the medal; and if the delegate didn't care to leave it he could take it away.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000032_000003.wav|That he has had the usual experience in running machines will be evidenced by the following little story from mr Mallory: "About three years ago I had a motor car of a make of which mr Edison had already two cars; and when the car was received I made inquiry as to whether any repair parts were carried by any of the various garages in Easton, Pennsylvania, near our cement works.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000002.wav|There were a lot of representatives from the East, and a private car was hired.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000008_000002.wav|As I could not understand or speak a word of French, I went to see our minister, mr Whitelaw Reid, and got him to send a deputy to answer for me, which he did, with my grateful thanks.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000001.wav|"I have often been surprised at Edison's wonderful capacity for the instant visual perception of differences in materials that were invisible to others until he would patiently point them out.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000018.wav|mr Bergmann, now I know where my power goes to,' pointing to the dynamo.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000008.wav|Little Bergmann hadn't much lung power.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000026_000002.wav|One day this drier got blocked, and the ore would not run down.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000007.wav|We could make some very good pyrotechnics there, so we determined to give the Indians a scare.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000007.wav|I said to Sadler: 'What is that?' 'I don't know,' he said, and we paid no attention.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000005.wav|At present we want engineers, industrial men, good business like managers, and railroad men." It is hardly to be marvelled at that such views should elicit warm protest, summed up in the comment: "mr|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000009.wav|A modification of this was afterward used on the French Atlantic lines for making an artificial horizon to take observations for position at sea.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000006.wav|At last Edison was overpersuaded, and, all dirty and perspiring as he was, received the medal rather than cause the visitor to come again. On one occasion, receiving a medal in New York, Edison forgot it on the ferry boat and left it behind him.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000005.wav|I took them to railroad buildings, electric light plants, fire departments, and showed them a great variety of things.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000013.wav|One evening, Robert l Cutting, of New York, brought her out to see the light.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000007.wav|A large cabinet contains awards, decorations, and medals presented to Edison, accumulating in the course of a long career, some of which may be seen in the illustration opposite.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000019.wav|But I kept mostly in the smoking room.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000012.wav|From now until I am seventy five years of age, I expect to keep more or less busy with my regular work, not, however, working as many hours or as hard as I have in the past.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000032_000009.wav|He awoke at once, smiling, jumped up, was instantly himself as usual, and advanced and greeted the visitor.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000020_000007.wav|Then he said: 'Well, Epstein, good bye, I've got to go down to Wall Street.' Epstein and his assistant then attempted to lift the boxes to carry them out, but couldn't; and then discovered that calculations as to quantity had been thrown out because the boxes had all been screwed down to the floor and mostly filled with boards with a veneer of brass chips.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000003.wav|When such a fit is on him the word is quickly passed around, and but few of his associates find it necessary to consult with him at the time.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000015_000002.wav|At any rate the people invited to dinner were very much interested, and they questioned me as to what I thought of the proposition.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000008.wav|Chicago!|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000014.wav|By and by the fun began.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000002.wav|My father came there when he was eighty years of age.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000026_000000.wav|"In my experimental plant for concentrating iron ore in the northern part of New Jersey, we had a vertical drier, a column about nine feet square and eighty feet high.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000000.wav|Among the more distinguished visitors of the electric lighting period was President Diaz, with whom Edison became quite intimate.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000006.wav|It was only during the past summer (nineteen ten) that one of the writers spent a Sunday with him riding over the beautiful New Jersey roads in an automobile, Edison in the highest spirits and pointing out with the keenest enjoyment the many beautiful views of valley and wood.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000006.wav|We had the private car of mr Roberts, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000042_000000.wav|If the authors were asked, after having written the foregoing pages, to explain here the reason for Edison's success, based upon their observations so far made, they would first answer that he combines with a vigorous and normal physical structure a mind capable of clear and logical thinking, and an imagination of unusual activity.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000008.wav|After a year or so, Bergmann got enough money to start a small shop in Wooster Street, New York, and it was at this shop that the first phonographs were made for sale.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000000.wav|Edison never sought Society; but "Society" has never ceased to seek him, and to day, as ever, the pressure upon him to give up his work and receive honors, meet distinguished people, or attend public functions, is intense.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000003.wav|I had used ammonia and bromine.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000027_000001.wav|In the early days of work on the incandescent lamp, also, there was considerable trouble with mercury.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000002.wav|At other times the unsettled condition persists, and his spleen is vented not only on the original instigator but upon others who may have occasion to see him, sometimes hours afterward.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000007_000006.wav|In this instance it was not occupied, and I was given the position in the prompter's seat, and saw the whole ballet at close range.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000008.wav|But in this respect he is singularly free, and his spells of anger are really few.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000016_000003.wav|The net result of both financial operations was, however, to detach Edison from the special field of invention to which he had given so many of his most fruitful years; and to close very definitely that chapter of his life, leaving him free to develop other ideas and interests as set forth in these volumes.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000008.wav|There is always too much danger of neglecting thoughts for things, ideas for machinery.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000009.wav|The old man said to him, one day: 'Let's run up stairs.' Bergmann agreed and ran up.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000003.wav|They aren't filled up with Latin, philosophy, and the rest of that ninny stuff." A further remark of his is: "What the country needs now is the practical skilled engineer, who is capable of doing everything.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000032_000010.wav|His very first question was: 'Well, Colonel, how did you come out on that experiment?'--referring to some suggestions he had made at their last meeting a year before.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000011_000004.wav|I found several beautiful diamonds, but they seemed a little light weight to me when I was picking them out.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000010.wav|Finally came the electric light.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000002.wav|This had puzzled me for years, but one day I was unexpectedly let into part of the secret.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000019.wav|Bergmann gave him a withering look of scorn, and said, 'Come here and I will show you.' Throwing off the belt and disconnecting the wires, he spun the armature around by hand.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000041_000001.wav|One would be startled to see him with a bright tie, a loud checked suit, or a fancy waistcoat, and yet there is a curious sense of fastidiousness about the plain things he delights in.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000006.wav|I think it was five and one half inches.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000042_000003.wav|What other factors are there to be taken into consideration to explain this phenomenon?|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000001.wav|I had been over the ocean three times and did not know what seasickness was, so far as I was concerned myself.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000018_000004.wav|This shop was very successful both scientifically and financially.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000001.wav|As noted already, the latter part of each winter is spent at Fort Myers, Florida, where Edison has, on the banks of the Calahoutchie River, a plantation home that is in many ways a miniature copy of the home and laboratory up North.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000047_000000.wav|One very cold winter's day he entered the laboratory library in fine spirits, "doing" the decayed dandy, with imaginary cane under his arm, struggling to put on a pair of tattered imaginary gloves, with a self satisfied smirk and leer that would have done credit to a real comedian.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000018_000001.wav|Here were made all the small things used on the electric lighting system, such as sockets, chandeliers, switches, meters, etc|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000009.wav|I never could understand that."|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000009.wav|At the close of the Exposition Edison was created a Commander of the Legion of Honor.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000016.wav|There must have been one hundred people aboard.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000003.wav|"Bergmann came to work for me as a boy," says Edison.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000027_000006.wav|In a short time he became salivated, and his teeth got loose.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000011.wav|While in Paris, in eighteen eighty nine, he wore the decoration of the Legion of Honor whenever occasion required, but at all other times turned the badge under his lapel "because he hated to have fellow Americans think he was showing off." And any one who knows Edison will bear testimony to his utter absence of ostentation.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000008.wav|Near by may be noticed a bronze replica of the Edison gold medal which was founded in the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the first award of which was made to Elihu Thomson during the present year (nineteen ten).|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000001.wav|Edison has been seen sometimes almost beside himself with anger at a stupid mistake or inexcusable oversight on the part of an assistant, his voice raised to a high pitch, sneeringly expressing his feelings of contempt for the offender; and yet when the culprit, like a bad school boy, has left the room, Edison has immediately returned to his normal poise, and the incident is a thing of the past.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000010.wav|When they got there Bergmann was all done up, but my father never showed a sign of it.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000007.wav|Bergmann had won all the money, and when the porter came in and said 'Chicago,' Bergmann jumped up and said: 'What!|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000014.wav|She was a terrific 'rubberneck.' She jumped all over the machinery, and I had one man especially to guard her dress.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000028_000001.wav|I thereupon started to heat it.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000023_000005.wav|I poured in a beakerful of water, and the whole thing exploded and threw a lot of it into my eyes.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000027_000000.wav|Such incidents brought out in narration the fact that many of the men working with him had been less fortunate, particularly those who had experimented with the Roentgen X ray, whose ravages, like those of leprosy, were responsible for the mutilation and death of at least one expert assistant.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000008_000003.wav|Then the telephone company gave me a dinner, and the engineers of France; and I attended the dinner celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of photography.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000023_000001.wav|He has confronted many a serious physical risk, and counts himself lucky to have come through without a scratch or scar.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000014_000003.wav|Finally I made him a promise that I would go to his country house at Foot's Cray, near London.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000045_000001.wav|Any one having these capacities developed to the same extent, with the same opportunities for use, would probably accomplish as much.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000004.wav|Bergmann was induced to enter the game.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000014.wav|If the visitor persists until Edison has seen both sides of the controversy, he is always willing to frankly admit that his own views may be unsound and that his opponent is right.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000020.wav|'There,' said Bergmann, 'you see it's not here that you must look for your loss.' This satisfied the landlord, and he started off to his other tenants.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000016.wav|She would speak in French, and Cutting would translate into English.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000006.wav|He contrived so many little tools to cheapen the work that he made lots of money.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000004.wav|I did not know it at the time, but I had made bromide of nitrogen.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000013.wav|Nobody was there.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000034_000002.wav|"After years of watching the processes of nature," he says, "I can no more doubt the existence of an Intelligence that is running things than I do of the existence of myself.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000016_000000.wav|Incidentally it may be noted here that during the same year (eighteen eighty nine) the various manufacturing Edison lighting interests in America were brought together, under the leadership of mr Henry Villard, and consolidated in the Edison General Electric Company with a capital of no less than twelve million dollars on an eight per cent.-dividend basis.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000034_000005.wav|Ice, I say, doesn't, and it is rather lucky for us mortals, for if it had done so, we would all be dead.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000032_000005.wav|I asked his advice as to what I should order, to which he replied: 'I don't think it will be necessary to order an extra top.'" Since that episode, which will probably be appreciated by most automobilists, Edison has taken up the electric automobile, and is now using it as well as developing it.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000018_000000.wav|"Soon after, the business had grown so large that e h Johnson and I went in as partners, and Bergmann rented an immense factory building at the corner of Avenue B and East Seventeenth Street, New York, six stories high and covering a quarter of a block.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000008_000004.wav|Then they sent to Reid my decoration, and they tried to put a sash on me, but I could not stand for that.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000034_000006.wav|Why?|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000031_000003.wav|Edison says: "I get a suit that fits me; then I compel the tailors to use that as a jig or pattern or blue print to make others by.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000007_000003.wav|When I came into the box, the orchestra played the 'Star Spangled Banner,' and all the people in the house arose; whereupon I was very much embarrassed.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000005.wav|When Sir William Thomson (Kelvin) came in the room, he was introduced to me, and had a number of friends with him. He said: 'What have you here?' I told him briefly what it was.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000025_000000.wav|"At another time, I had a briquetting machine for briquetting iron ore. I had a lever held down by a powerful spring, and a rod one inch in diameter and four feet long.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000042_000005.wav|No better illustration of this characteristic can be found than in the development of the nickel pocket for the storage battery, an element the size of a short lead pencil, on which upward of five years were spent in experiments, costing over a million dollars, day after day, always apparently with the same tubes but with small variations carefully tabulated in the note books.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000011.wav|One of the ladies had a little poodle led by a string.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000017.wav|I didn't see a single exception except the waiters and myself.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000031_000001.wav|It rather bores him.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000049_000000.wav|"Sire, how is it that your judgment is not affected by your great rage?" asked one of his courtiers.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000007.wav|He had the grand dining room for his laboratory.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000012_000000.wav|This did not altogether complete the European trip of eighteen eighty nine, for Edison wished to see Helmholtz.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000015_000006.wav|I thought that commercially the thing was too ambitious, that Ferranti's ideas were too big, just then; that he ought to have started a little smaller until he was sure.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000010.wav|He must be a remarkable man in some walk of life.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000051_000002.wav|In private life they show him to be a good citizen, a good family man, absolutely moral, temperate in all things, and of great charitableness to all mankind.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000006.wav|They could find no praise warm enough for the man who had "organized the echoes" and "tamed the lightning," and whose career was so picturesque with eventful and romantic development.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000012.wav|We learned a great deal.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000048_000002.wav|Anger with him, however, is a good deal like the story attributed to Napoleon:|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000008.wav|He showed me a gyroscope he had got up which made the incredible number of four thousand revolutions in a second.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000018.wav|Bernhardt gave me two pictures, painted by herself, which she sent me from Paris."|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000012_000004.wav|When I started from Berlin on the trip, I began to tell American stories. Siemens was very fond of these stories and would laugh immensely at them, and could see the points and the humor, by his imagination; but Helmholtz could not see one of them.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000005.wav|I don't live with the past; I am living for to day and to morrow.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000021_000001.wav|Bergmann thought it real, and never after that would he permit the whistle to blow."|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000018.wav|I asked one of the waiters concerning the boat itself, and was taken to see the engineer, and went down to look at the engines, and saw the captain.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000005.wav|Nature at another point had outstripped him, yet he had broadened his own sum of knowledge to a prodigious extent.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000011_000005.wav|They were diamonds for exhibition purposes --probably glass."|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000001.wav|Edison naturally met many of the celebrities of France: "I visited the Eiffel Tower at the invitation of Eiffel.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000012.wav|The belt was running so smoothly and evenly, the poodle did not notice the difference between it and the floor, and got into the belt before we could do anything.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000012_000001.wav|"After leaving Paris we went to Berlin.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000023_000002.wav|Four instances of personal danger may be noted in his own language: "When I started at Menlo, I had an electric furnace for welding rare metals that I did not know about very clearly.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000006.wav|As a general rule, Edison does not get genuinely angry at mistakes and other human weaknesses of his subordinates; at best he merely simulates anger.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000014.wav|It was the first linguistic concourse since Babel times.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000010.wav|The moment my family got in the room with the French lady's maid and the rest, they commenced to get sick, so I felt pretty sure I was in for it.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000017.wav|She stayed there about an hour and a half.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000007.wav|I get all the proceedings of the scientific societies, the principal scientific and trade journals, and read them.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000000.wav|Another glimpse of the "social side" is afforded in the following little series of pen pictures of the same place and time: "I had my laboratory at the top of the Bergmann works, after moving from Menlo Park.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000000.wav|It might be expected that Edison would have extreme and even radical ideas on the subject of education-and he has, as well as a perfect readiness to express them, because he considers that time is wasted on things that are not essential: "What we need," he has said, "are men capable of doing work.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000011_000000.wav|Edison has no opinion to offer as an expert on art, but has his own standard of taste: "Of course I visited the Louvre and saw the Old Masters, which I could not enjoy.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000012.wav|Being asked whether he did not get imposed upon with bad bank bills, he replied that he subscribed to a bank note detector and consulted it closely whenever a note of any size fell into his hands.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000045_000004.wav|It was taken home to Glenmont.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000003.wav|But the contrast was none the less striking and effective.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000006.wav|The lounging room on the ground floor is more or less of an Edison museum, for it is littered with souvenirs from great people, and with mementos of travel, all related to some event or episode.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000000_000002.wav|Then the caller, no matter how important or what his mission, is likely to realize his utter insignificance and be sent away without accomplishing his object.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000007.wav|But woe betide the one who has committed an act of bad faith, treachery, dishonesty, or ingratitude; THEN Edison can show what it is for a strong man to get downright mad.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000002.wav|I was told that while a man might not get seasick on the ocean, if he met a good storm on the Channel it would do for him.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000006.wav|We spent a day at Meudon, an old palace given by the government to Jansen, the astronomer. He occupied three rooms, and there were three hundred.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000014_000004.wav|So I went there, and spent two or three days telling him stories.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000000.wav|Another and second characteristic of Edison's personality contributing so strongly to his achievements is an intense, not to say courageous, optimism in which no thought of failure can enter, an optimism born of self confidence, and becoming-after forty or fifty years of experience more and more a sense of certainty in the accomplishment of success.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000044_000003.wav|At that occasion it was pointed out to him that he should make every possible sacrifice to go, that the compliment was great, and that but few Americans had been so recognized.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000013.wav|Upon this platform he was going to mount a telescope to observe an eclipse off the Gold Coast of Africa.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000011.wav|He wanted to make a gigantic gyroscope weighing several tons, to be run by an electric motor and put on a sailing ship.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000048_000001.wav|Often he is in the highest spirits, with all the spontaneity of youth, and again he is depressed, moody, and violently angry.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000026_000004.wav|After we got in, the ore did come down and there were fourteen tons of it above us.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000013.wav|Power was supplied from a fifty horse power engine to other tenants on the several floors.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000008.wav|The exuberant wit and fancy of the feuilletonists seized upon his various inventions evolving from them others of the most extraordinary nature with which to bedazzle and bewilder the reader.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000032_000006.wav|One of the cars equipped with his battery is the Bailey, and mr Bee tells the following story in regard to it: "One day Colonel Bailey, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, who was visiting the Automobile Show in New York, came out to the laboratory to see mr Edison, as the latter had expressed a desire to talk with him on his next visit to the metropolis.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000012.wav|Several instruments were provided, and every day, all day long, while the Exposition lasted, queues of eager visitors from every quarter of the globe were waiting to hear the little machine talk and sing and reproduce their own voices.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000003.wav|For some little time past mr Edison had noticed that he was bothered somewhat in reading print, and I asked him to have an oculist give him reading glasses.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000007.wav|Invention does not smooth the way for the practical men and make them possible.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000010.wav|One day one of the directors brought in three or four ladies to the works to see the new electric light system.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000032_000008.wav|As a rule we never wake mr Edison from sleep, but as he wanted to see Colonel Bailey, who had to go, I felt that an exception should be made, so I went and tapped him on the shoulder.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000004.wav|The genuine anger can generally be distinguished from the imitation article by those who know him intimately by the fact that when really enraged his forehead between the eyes partakes of a curious rotary movement that cannot be adequately described in words.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000002.wav|Glenmont is a rather elaborate and florid building in Queen Anne English style, of brick, stone, and wooden beams showing on the exterior, with an abundance of gables and balconies.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000006_000001.wav|As I had no intention of offering to sell anything I was showing, and was pushing no companies, the whole exhibition was made for honor, and without any hope of profit.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000000.wav|A very interesting period, on the social side, was the visit paid by Edison and his family to Europe in eighteen eighty nine, when he had made a splendid exhibit of his inventions and apparatus at the great Paris Centennial Exposition of that year, to the extreme delight of the French, who welcomed him with open arms.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000003.wav|At the conclusion of the ore milling experiments, when practically his entire fortune was sunk in an enterprise that had to be considered an impossibility, when at the age of fifty he looked back upon five or six years of intense activity expended apparently for naught, when everything seemed most black and the financial clouds were quickly gathering on the horizon, not the slightest idea of repining entered his mind.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000004.wav|It was suggested that the secret of it might be that he did not live in the past, but was always looking forward to a greater future, to which he replied: "Yes, that's it.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000015_000000.wav|"While at Foot's Cray, I met some of the backers of Ferranti, then putting up a gigantic alternating current dynamo near London to send ten or fifteen thousand volts up into the main district of the city for electric lighting.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000000.wav|For over a score of years, dating from his marriage to Miss Miller, Edison's happy and perfect domestic life has been spent at Glenmont, a beautiful property acquired at that time in Llewellyn Park, on the higher slopes of Orange Mountain, New Jersey, within easy walking distance of the laboratory at the foot of the hill in West Orange.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000004.wav|"He started in on stock quotation printers.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000025_000002.wav|That was 'within an inch of your life,' as they say.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000007_000004.wav|After I had been an hour at the play, the manager came around and asked me to go underneath the stage, as they were putting on a ballet of three hundred girls, the finest ballet in Europe.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000003.wav|At Jersey City a poker game was started by one of the delegates.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000013.wav|He was then less than fourteen years old.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000010.wav|The reason why those little preliminary explosions took place was that a little had spattered out on the edge of the filter paper, and had dried first and exploded.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000046_000009.wav|The sanctimonious hypocrite, the sleek speculator, and others whom he has probably encountered in life are done "to the queen's taste."|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000010.wav|In connection with this a gentleman came to me a number of years afterward, and I got out a part of some plans for him.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000045_000005.wav|Edison had a few minor corrections to make, probably not more than a dozen all told.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000005.wav|As he was a rapid workman and paid no attention to the clock, I took a fancy to him, and gave him piece work.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000046_000002.wav|His sense of humor is intense, but not of the hothouse, overdeveloped variety.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000012.wav|I waited awhile to see what was going to occur, and then went into the smoking compartment.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000031_000004.wav|For many years a suit was used as a measurement; once or twice they took fresh measurements, but these didn't fit and they had to go back.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000010.wav|People who come in contact with him and who may have occasion to oppose his views, may leave with the impression that he is hot tempered; nothing could be further from the truth.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000020_000002.wav|One day Epstein appeared and said: 'Good morning, mr Bergmann, have you any chips to day?' 'No,' said Bergmann, 'I have none.' 'That's strange, mr Bergmann; won't you look?' No, he wouldn't look; he knew he had none.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000001.wav|Some dinners he had to attend, but a man who ate little and heard less could derive practically no pleasure from them.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000005.wav|I put the large bulk of it in three filters, and after it had been washed and all the water had come through the filter, I opened the three filters and laid them on a hot steam plate to dry with the stuff.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000007_000000.wav|"While at the Exposition I visited the Opera House.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000008.wav|Nobody knew where it was; hours passed before it could be found; and when at last the accompanying letter was produced, it had an office date stamp right over the signature of the royal president.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000048_000000.wav|If one could divorce Edison from the idea of work, and could regard him separate and apart from his embodiment as an inventor and man of science, it might truly be asserted that his temperament is essentially mercurial.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000027_000008.wav|I was fortunately absent, and she was mollified somehow by my other assistants.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000021.wav|The English Channel is a holy terror, all right, but it didn't affect me.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000023_000003.wav|I was in the dark room, where I had a lot of chloride of sulphur, a very corrosive liquid.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000028_000000.wav|"When the first lamp works were started at Menlo Park, one of my experiments seemed to show that hot mercury gave a better vacuum in the lamp than cold mercury.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000031_000006.wav|He said that some twenty years ago a suit was sent to him from Orange, and measurements were made from it, and that every suit since had been made from these measurements.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000005.wav|I walked out and tried to find the boat.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000004.wav|I did not care about eating, and did not go to the restaurant, but my family did.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000014_000000.wav|While in Paris, Edison had met Sir john Pender, the English "cable king," and had received an invitation from him to make a visit to his country residence: "Sir john Pender, the master of the cable system of the world at that time, I met in Paris.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000010_000004.wav|He had been bitten in the face, and was taking the treatment.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000003.wav|They both took a deep interest in all they saw.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000011.wav|Had the main body exploded there would have been nothing left of the laboratory I was working in.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000011_000002.wav|To my mind, the Old Masters are not art, and I suspect that many others are of the same opinion; and that their value is in their scarcity and in the variety of men with lots of money." Somewhat akin to this is a shrewd comment on one feature of the Exposition: "I spent several days in the Exposition at Paris.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000023_000004.wav|I did not know that it would decompose by water.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000047_000002.wav|For protection he varies the number of his suits of underclothing, sometimes wearing three or four sets, according to the thermometer.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000001.wav|"President Diaz, of Mexico, visited this country with mrs Diaz, a highly educated and beautiful woman.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000000_000001.wav|In a sense this is true, for no one is more impatient or intolerant of interruption when deeply engaged in some line of experiment.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000038_000002.wav|One of the most conspicuous features of the room is a phonograph equipment on which the latest and best productions by the greatest singers and musicians can always be heard, but which Edison himself is everlastingly experimenting with, under the incurable delusion that this domestic retreat is but an extension of his laboratory.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000007.wav|He did so very conscientiously, and it was an interesting experience, for he was kept busy answering mr Edison's numerous questions.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000015.wav|Sounds of all kinds and varieties were heard in every direction. They were all sick.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000006.wav|Going along the dock I saw two small smokestacks sticking up, and looking down saw a little boat.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000010_000003.wav|His father was with him.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000008.wav|But it didn't work. We had an arc there of a most terrifying character, but they never moved a muscle." Another episode at Goerck Street did not find the visitors quite so stoical.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000012_000008.wav|At Heidelberg, my assistant, mr Wangemann, an accomplished German American, showed the phonograph before the Association."|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000011.wav|Hard work, nothing to divert my thought, clear air and simple food made my life very pleasant.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000005.wav|We stayed a couple of hours, and Gounod sang and played for us.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000046_000000.wav|Undoubtedly in the days to come Edison will not only be recognized as an intellectual prodigy, but as a prodigy of industry-of hard work.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000005.wav|It is no exaggeration to say that Edison was greeted with the enthusiastic homage of the whole French people.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000027_000004.wav|Along the length of the pipe were outlets to which thick rubber tubing was connected, each tube to a pump.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000015.wav|We must let Edison tell the story of some of his experiences:|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000008.wav|When I came back to the depot, mr Roberts was there, and insisted on carrying my satchel for me.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000000.wav|Reference has already been made to the callers upon Edison; and to give simply the names of persons of distinction would fill many pages of this record.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000040_000001.wav|His hair has whitened, but is still thick and abundant, and though he uses glasses for certain work, his gray blue eyes are as keen and bright and deeply lustrous as ever, with the direct, searching look in them that they have ever worn.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000016_000002.wav|A few years later came the consolidation with the Thomson Houston interests in the General Electric Company, which under the brilliant and vigorous management of President c a Coffin has become one of the greatest manufacturing institutions of the country, with an output of apparatus reaching toward seventy five million dollars annually.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000005.wav|It is as if the storm clouds within are moving like a whirling cyclone.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000001.wav|Some were mere consumers of time; others were gladly welcomed, like Lord Kelvin, the greatest physicist of the last century, with whom Edison was always in friendly communication.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000037_000004.wav|It would be difficult to imagine Edison in a stiffly formal house, and this big, cozy, three story, rambling mansion has an easy freedom about it, without and within, quite in keeping with the genius of the inventor, but revealing at every turn traces of feminine taste and culture.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000041_000004.wav|No one ever goes away from Edison in doubt as to what he thinks or means, but he is ever shy and diffident to a degree if the talk turns on himself rather than on his work.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000046_000003.wav|One of his favorite jokes is to enter the legal department with an air of great humility and apply for a job as an inventor!|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000007.wav|In fact, for weeks together it seemed as though no Parisian paper was considered complete and up to date without an article on Edison.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000002.wav|"The first time I saw Lord Kelvin, he came to my laboratory at Menlo Park in eighteen seventy six." (He reported most favorably on Edison's automatic telegraph system at the Philadelphia Exposition of eighteen seventy six.) "I was then experimenting with sending eight messages simultaneously over a wire by means of synchronizing tuning forks.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000026_000001.wav|At the bottom there was a space where two men could go through a hole; and then all the rest of the column was filled with baffle plates.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000003.wav|For instance, he had gone to bed the night before exactly at twelve and had arisen at four thirty a m to read some New York law reports.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000009_000004.wav|When my wife and I arrived at the top, we found that Gounod, the composer, was there.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000033_000009.wav|No theory of education that aggravates this danger is consistent with national well-being."|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000026_000003.wav|So I and the vice president of the company, mr Mallory, crowded through the manhole to see why the ore would not come down.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000005.wav|It was for me to meet mr Joseph Chamberlain.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000015.wav|To stop meant not only to pocket a great loss already incurred, facing a dark and uncertain future, but to most men animated by ordinary human feelings, it meant more than anything else, an injury to personal pride.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000027_000003.wav|The main pipe, which was full of mercury, was about seven and one half feet from the floor.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000006.wav|I had gotten them immune to it.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000044_000001.wav|There are many individuals who derive an intense and not improper pleasure in regalia or military garments, with plenty of gold braid and brass buttons, and thus arrayed, in appearing before their friends and neighbors.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000044_000005.wav|Before him was something real-work to be accomplished-a problem to be solved.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000001_000004.wav|At that moment Edison, stripped pretty nearly down to the buff, was at the very crisis of an important experiment, and refused absolutely to be interrupted.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000020_000001.wav|This hurt his pride, and he determined to get even.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000009.wav|I thought it was only Philadelphia!'"|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000023_000007.wav|But it was two weeks before I could see.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000018_000003.wav|Over fifteen hundred men were finally employed.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000007.wav|We had one of those celebrated dinners that only mr Childs could give, and I heard speeches from Charles Francis Adams and different people.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000007.wav|Quite a different exhibition was given two weeks later by another well-known Englishman, also an electrician, who came in with his friends, and I was trying for two hours to explain it to him and failed."|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000002.wav|I made about a pound of it.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000004.wav|It was felt that, after all, that which the great exposition exemplified at its best-the triumph of genius over matter, over ignorance, over superstition-met with its due recognition when Edison came to participate, and to felicitate a noble nation that could show so much in the victories of civilization and the arts, despite its long trials and its long struggle for liberty.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000013.wav|This constant interruption is taken by many to mean that Edison has a small opinion of any arguments that oppose him; but he is only intensely in earnest in presenting his own side.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000045_000009.wav|How can such a trait-and scores of similar experiences could be given-be explained except by the fact that, evidently, he felt the need of special schooling in industry-that under no circumstances must he allow a thought of indolence to enter his mind?|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000017.wav|'Oh!|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000011.wav|To which he replied laughingly: "I already have a schedule worked out.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000016.wav|Pride?|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000004.wav|In fact, when I was examined by the Mutual Life Insurance Company, in eighteen seventy three, my lung expansion was taken by the doctor, and the old gentleman was there at the time.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000006.wav|I am interested in every department of science, arts, and manufacture. I read all the time on astronomy, chemistry, biology, physics, music, metaphysics, mechanics, and other branches-political economy, electricity, and, in fact, all things that are making for progress in the world.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000002.wav|It was not, of course, by way of theatrical antithesis that Edison appeared in Paris at such a time.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000014_000002.wav|He had the faculty of understanding and quickly seeing the point of the stories; and for three days after I could not get rid of him.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000003.wav|I would take a wire with similar apparatus at both ends, and would throw it over on one set of instruments, take it away, and get it back so quickly that you would not miss it, thereby taking advantage of the rapidity of electricity to perform operations.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000012.wav|Before the visitor can fully explain his side of the matter some point is brought up that starts Edison off again, and new arguments from his viewpoint are poured forth.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000003.wav|I seldom went to dinners.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000007.wav|The wanderings led to the old ore milling plant at Edison, now practically a mass of deserted buildings all going to decay. It was a depressing sight, marking such titanic but futile struggles with nature.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000002.wav|Some of the stories were told for this volume.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000005_000010.wav|His own exhibit, made at a personal expense of over one hundred thousand dollars, covered several thousand square feet in the vast Machinery Hall, and was centred around a huge Edison lamp built of myriads of smaller lamps of the ordinary size.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000000_000004.wav|Man is a social animal, and that describes Edison; but it does not describe accurately the inventor asking to be let alone.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000008.wav|When the oculist finished, he turned to me and said: 'I have been many years in the business, but have never seen an optic nerve like that of this gentleman.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000003_000004.wav|He insisted I should go-that a special car would leave New York.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000039_000000.wav|The big library-semi boudoir-up stairs is also very expressive of the home life of Edison, but again typical of his nature and disposition, for it is difficult to overlay his many technical books and scientific periodicals with a sufficiently thick crust of popular magazines or current literature to prevent their outcropping into evidence.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000002_000006.wav|He then turned around, and to my great surprise explained the whole thing to his friends.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000013_000009.wav|The managing director of the English railroad owning this line was Forbes, who heard I was coming over, and placed the private saloon at my disposal.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000000.wav|One need not wonder at Edison's reminiscent remark that, "In any trade any of my 'boys' made with Bergmann he always got the best of them, no matter what it was.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000029_000009.wav|An ordinary optic nerve is about the thickness of a thread, but his is like a cord.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000030_000010.wav|I have spilt lots of it, and while I have always felt it for a few days, it is quickly forgotten, and I turn again to the future." During another talk on kindred affairs it was suggested to Edison that, as he had worked so hard all his life, it was about time for him to think somewhat of the pleasures of travel and the social side of life.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000011_000001.wav|And I attended the Luxembourg, with modern masters, which I enjoyed greatly.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000000.wav|It might appear strange on the surface, but one of the reasons that most influenced Edison to regrets in connection with the "big trade" of eighteen eighty nine was that it separated him from his old friend and ally, Bergmann, who, on selling out, saw a great future for himself in Germany, went there, and realized it.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000024_000001.wav|I was making some stuff to squirt into filaments for the incandescent lamp.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000050_000015.wav|In fact, after such a controversy, both parties going after each other hammer and tongs, the arguments TO HIM being carried on at the very top of one's voice to enable him to hear, and FROM HIM being equally loud in the excitement of the discussion, he has often said: "I see now that my position was absolutely rotten."|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000017_000007.wav|I even helped him get up tools until it occurred to me that this was too rapid a process of getting rid of my money, as I hadn't the heart to cut the price when it was originally fair.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000022_000007.wav|There were only three or four could beat it.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000043_000018.wav|He has often said that time meant very little to him, that he had but a small realization of its passage, and that ten or twenty years were as nothing when considering the development of a vital invention.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000004_000002.wav|She spoke very good English.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000012_000002.wav|The French papers then came out and attacked me because I went to Germany; and said I was now going over to the enemy.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000019_000005.wav|This was played right through to Chicago without any sleep, but the boys didn't mind that.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2204/131732/2204_131732_000020_000000.wav|But perhaps this further story is a better indication of developed humor and shrewdness: "A man by the name of Epstein had been in the habit of buying brass chips and trimmings from the lathes, and in some way Bergmann found out that he had been cheated.|2204
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000009_000001.wav|Moderation in the affections and passions, self control, and calm deliberation are not only good in many respects, but even seem to constitute part of the intrinsic worth of the person; but they are far from deserving to be called good without qualification, although they have been so unconditionally praised by the ancients.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000029_000004.wav|Hence there arises a natural dialectic, i e, a disposition, to argue against these strict laws of duty and to question their validity, or at least their purity and strictness; and, if possible, to make them more accordant with our wishes and inclinations, that is to say, to corrupt them at their very source, and entirely to destroy their worth a thing which even common practical reason cannot ultimately call good.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000028_000000.wav|Thus, then, without quitting the moral knowledge of common human reason, we have arrived at its principle.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000016_000000.wav|I omit here all actions which are already recognized as inconsistent with duty, although they may be useful for this or that purpose, for with these the question whether they are done from duty cannot arise at all, since they even conflict with it.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000020_000000.wav|It is in this manner, undoubtedly, that we are to understand those passages of Scripture also in which we are commanded to love our neighbour, even our enemy.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000024_000003.wav|This is a good which is already present in the person who acts accordingly, and we have not to wait for it to appear first in the result.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000028_000005.wav|In the latter, if common reason ventures to depart from the laws of experience and from the perceptions of the senses, it falls into mere inconceivabilities and self contradictions, at least into a chaos of uncertainty, obscurity, and instability.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000025_000007.wav|Respect for a person is properly only respect for the law (of honesty, etc) of which he gives us an example.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000025_000005.wav|As a law, we are subjected too it without consulting self love; as imposed by us on ourselves, it is a result of our will.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000029_000000.wav|Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; only, on the other hand, it is very sad that it cannot well maintain itself and is easily seduced.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000014_000003.wav|Nay, it may even reduce it to nothing, without nature thereby failing of her purpose.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000024_000002.wav|The pre-eminent good which we call moral can therefore consist in nothing else than the conception of law in itself, which certainly is only possible in a rational being, in so far as this conception, and not the expected effect, determines the will.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000008_000001.wav|It is the same with the gifts of fortune.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000005_000000.wav|FIRST SECTION|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000014_000004.wav|For reason recognizes the establishment of a good will as its highest practical destination, and in attaining this purpose is capable only of a satisfaction of its own proper kind, namely that from the attainment of an end, which end again is determined by reason only, notwithstanding that this may involve many a disappointment to the ends of inclination.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000021_000001.wav|It is clear from what precedes that the purposes which we may have in view in our actions, or their effects regarded as ends and springs of the will, cannot give to actions any unconditional or moral worth.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000012_000000.wav|In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it as a fundamental principle that no organ for any purpose will be found but what is also the fittest and best adapted for that purpose.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000008.wav|But it is soon clear to me that such a maxim will still only be based on the fear of consequences.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000025_000004.wav|The object of respect is the law only, and that the law which we impose on ourselves and yet recognise as necessary in itself.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000002.wav|Here, now, it is the simple conformity to law in general, without assuming any particular law applicable to certain actions, that serves the will as its principle and must so serve it, if duty is not to be a vain delusion and a chimerical notion.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000010.wav|In the first case, the very notion of the action already implies a law for me; in the second case, I must first look about elsewhere to see what results may be combined with it which would affect myself.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000015_000001.wav|In order to do this, we will take the notion of duty, which includes that of a good will, although implying certain subjective restrictions and hindrances.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000012_000005.wav|Nature would not only have taken on herself the choice of the ends, but also of the means, and with wise foresight would have entrusted both to instinct.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000025_000006.wav|In the former aspect it has an analogy to fear, in the latter to inclination.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000010_000002.wav|Its usefulness or fruitlessness can neither add nor take away anything from this value.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000019_000001.wav|But here again, without looking to duty, all men have already the strongest and most intimate inclination to happiness, because it is just in this idea that all inclinations are combined in one total.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000016_000001.wav|I also set aside those actions which really conform to duty, but to which men have no direct inclination, performing them because they are impelled thereto by some other inclination.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000007_000000.wav|OF MORALITY TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000021_000002.wav|In what, then, can their worth lie, if it is not to consist in the will and in reference to its expected effect?|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000015_000002.wav|These, however, far from concealing it, or rendering it unrecognizable, rather bring it out by contrast and make it shine forth so much the brighter.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000011.wav|For to deviate from the principle of duty is beyond all doubt wicked; but to be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000025_000003.wav|Accordingly it is something which is considered neither as an object of inclination nor of fear, although it has something analogous to both.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000018_000002.wav|For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000009_000002.wav|For without the principles of a good will, they may become extremely bad, and the coolness of a villain not only makes him far more dangerous, but also directly makes him more abominable in our eyes than he would have been without it.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000016_000006.wav|Accordingly the action was done neither from duty nor from direct inclination, but merely with a selfish view.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000015.wav|Hence my maxim, as soon as it should be made a universal law, would necessarily destroy itself.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000012_000004.wav|In a word, nature would have taken care that reason should not break forth into practical exercise, nor have the presumption, with its weak insight, to think out for itself the plan of happiness, and of the means of attaining it.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000028_000006.wav|But in the practical sphere it is just when the common understanding excludes all sensible springs from practical laws that its power of judgement begins to show itself to advantage.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000020_000002.wav|This is practical love and not pathological a love which is seated in the will, and not in the propensions of sense in principles of action and not of tender sympathy; and it is this love alone which can be commanded.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000015_000000.wav|We have then to develop the notion of a will which deserves to be highly esteemed for itself and is good without a view to anything further, a notion which exists already in the sound natural understanding, requiring rather to be cleared up than to be taught, and which in estimating the value of our actions always takes the first place and constitutes the condition of all the rest.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000019_000004.wav|But even in this case, if the general desire for happiness did not influence his will, and supposing that in his particular case health was not a necessary element in this calculation, there yet remains in this, as in all other cases, this law, namely, that he should promote his happiness not from inclination but from duty, and by this would his conduct first acquire true moral worth.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000029_000003.wav|Now reason issues its commands unyieldingly, without promising anything to the inclinations, and, as it were, with disregard and contempt for these claims, which are so impetuous, and at the same time so plausible, and which will not allow themselves to be suppressed by any command.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000003.wav|The common reason of men in its practical judgements perfectly coincides with this and always has in view the principle here suggested.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000021_000000.wav|The second proposition is: That an action done from duty derives its moral worth, not from the purpose which is to be attained by it, but from the maxim by which it is determined, and therefore does not depend on the realization of the object of the action, but merely on the principle of volition by which the action has taken place, without regard to any object of desire.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000028_000008.wav|Nay, it is almost more sure of doing so, because the philosopher cannot have any other principle, while he may easily perplex his judgement by a multitude of considerations foreign to the matter, and so turn aside from the right way.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000016_000002.wav|For in this case we can readily distinguish whether the action which agrees with duty is done from duty, or from a selfish view.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000020_000001.wav|For love, as an affection, cannot be commanded, but beneficence for duty's sake may; even though we are not impelled to it by any inclination nay, are even repelled by a natural and unconquerable aversion.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000014_000001.wav|This will then, though not indeed the sole and complete good, must be the supreme good and the condition of every other, even of the desire of happiness.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000029_000002.wav|Against all the commands of duty which reason represents to man as so deserving of respect, he feels in himself a powerful counterpoise in his wants and inclinations, the entire satisfaction of which he sums up under the name of happiness.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000001.wav|As I have deprived the will of every impulse which could arise to it from obedience to any law, there remains nothing but the universal conformity of its actions to law in general, which alone is to serve the will as a principle, i e, I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000022_000002.wav|It is only what is connected with my will as a principle, by no means as an effect what does not subserve my inclination, but overpowers it, or at least in case of choice excludes it from its calculation in other words, simply the law of itself, which can be an object of respect, and hence a command.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000010_000000.wav|A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some proposed end, but simply by virtue of the volition; that is, it is good in itself, and considered by itself is to be esteemed much higher than all that can be brought about by it in favour of any inclination, nay even of the sum total of all inclinations.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000022_000000.wav|The third proposition, which is a consequence of the two preceding, I would express thus Duty is the necessity of acting from respect for the law.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1724/395/1724_395_000026_000009.wav|Now it is a wholly different thing to be truthful from duty and to be so from apprehension of injurious consequences.|1724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000127_000000.wav|Pulkovo.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000128_000002.wav|Kerensky is retreating, we are advancing.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000057_000003.wav|No one must be on the streets after eight in the evening, except the regular guards.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000125_000002.wav|Kerensky is smashed!|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000007.wav|Pigs!" shrilled the girls, indignantly putting on their coats and hats.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000027_000000.wav|Citizens of Petrograd, we, the Bolshevik Municipal Councillors elected by you-we want you to know that the Right Socialist Revolutionaries and the Cadets are engaged in counter revolutionary action, have forgotten their duty, and are leading the population to famine, to civil war.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000067_000000.wav|Meanwhile all was not well on the revolutionary front.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000009.wav|If they had waited for the Constituent Assembly-"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000085_000001.wav|The city had again settled down to normal-shop shutters up, lights shining, and on the streets great crowds of people slowly moving up and down and arguing....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000086_000004.wav|They were delighted to meet an American reporter.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000080_000000.wav|"The notice posted in the streets under the heading 'To the Pillory,' which calls upon the people to destroy the Mensheviki and Socialist Revolutionaries," said Nazariev, "is a crime which you, Bolsheviki, will not be able to wash away.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000005.wav|From now on all that will be changed.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000100_000000.wav|"In a week the Bolshevik Government will go to pieces; if the Socialist Revolutionaries could only stand aside and wait, the Government would fall into their hands.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000043_000003.wav|Colonel Polkovnikov was in command of their forces, and the orders were signed by Gotz, former member of the Provisional Government, allowed at liberty on his word of honour....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000111_000000.wav|"But Lenin has issued an order to dynamite the State Bank vaults, and there is a Decree just out, ordering the private banks to open to morrow, or we will open them ourselves!"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000033_000000.wav|We ridicule these coalitions with political parties whose most prominent members are petty journalists of doubtful reputation; our "coalition" is that of the proletariat and the revolutionary Army with the poor peasants...|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000129_000004.wav|The Pulkovo detachment by its valorous blow has strengthened the cause of the Workers' and Peasants's Revolution.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000107_000003.wav|If not, perhaps we shall be forced to...."|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000070_000005.wav|The result waited on the word from Petrograd....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000110_000000.wav|Worst of all, however, was the strike in the banks.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000013_000002.wav|A Commissar from Smolny named Kirilov tried to halt it; he was threatened with lynching.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000000.wav|"Our programme?" said the officer.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000120_000003.wav|To make the soldiers continue the war.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000072_000001.wav|The peaceful population recognises this fact; the foreign Embassies recognise only such documents as are signed by the Mayor of the town.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000005.wav|The Bolsheviki cannot keep their promises to the masses, even in the country itself.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000057_000002.wav|"No drinking, comrades!|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000119_000000.wav|Kameniev now spoke, describing the proceedings of the reconciliation conference.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000006.wav|We won't let them....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000084_000000.wav|A Socialist Revolutionary friend of mine drew me aside.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000119_000001.wav|The armistice conditions proposed by the Mensheviki, he said, had been contemptuously rejected.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000042_000000.wav|On the top floor the Military Revolutionary Committee was in full blast, striking and slacking not.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000054_000001.wav|"The decisive step has been taken.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000077_000000.wav|"The Mayor," he continued, "tells us that we must not make political meetings out of the Duma.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000091_000005.wav|The Cadets think they are using us; but it is really we who are using the Cadets.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000093_000001.wav|"That's a problem," he admitted.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000079_000000.wav|Then two Mensheviki Internationalists, declaring that the Appeal of the Bolshevik Councillors was a direct incitement to massacre.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000083_000006.wav|It's only a few hours more, now. Even if Kerensky wouldn't come they haven't the men to run a Government.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000009.wav|These were just common workmen, peasants, "Dark People."...|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000000.wav|The Commissar of the Military Revolutionary Committee, little Vishniak, tried to persuade the girls to remain.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000125_000000.wav|"It's all right!" he shouted, grabbing my hands.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000057_000001.wav|Many cases of drunkenness had been remarked the last two days.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000026_000000.wav|At this dangerous hour, when the Municipal Duma ought to use every means to calm the population, to assure it bread and other necessities, the Right Socialist Revolutionaries and the Cadets, forgetting their duty, have turned the Duma into a counter revolutionary meeting, trying to raise part of the population against the rest, so as to facilitate the victory of Kornilov Kerensky.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000089_000005.wav|Realising that they can only last a few days, we have decided to come to the aid of the strongest force opposed to them-Kerensky-and help to restore order."|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000008.wav|That is dishonest.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000073_000000.wav|"We are perfectly neutral.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000120_000005.wav|To make the peasants forget about the land...."|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000064_000000.wav|Revolutionary law and order.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000077_000002.wav|But this shall not be, for we respect the Duma.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000066_000000.wav|"The Bolsheviki," said Trupp, "will be conquered by moral force, and not by bayonets....."|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000067_000005.wav|A Committee of five soldiers was elected to serve as General Staff, and in the small hours of the morning the regiments left their barracks in full battle array.... Going home I saw them pass, swinging along with the regular tread of veterans, bayonets in perfect alignment, through the deserted streets of the conquered city....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000020_000008.wav|Wait till the Cossacks come!"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000060_000001.wav|The Duma brilliantly illuminated and great crowds pouring in.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000120_000001.wav|To surrender the power.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000103_000000.wav|During this talk people were constantly entering and leaving-most of them officers, their shoulder straps torn off.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000005.wav|The sailors and Red Guards were embarrassed.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000001_000000.wav|Chapter eight|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000064_000001.wav|A proclamation of the Finland Regiment, in December, nineteen seventeen, announcing desperate remedies for "wine pogroms." For translation see Appendix five.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000107_000001.wav|"You will see in a few days.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000110_000001.wav|"Without money," said Menzhinsky, "we are helpless.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000078_000000.wav|Followed him Shingariov, Cadet, who said that there could be no common language with those who were liable to be brought before the Attorney General for indictment, and who must be tried on the charge of treason....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000045_000004.wav|Street fighting was slowly gathering way; all attempts at compromise had failed....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000042_000001.wav|Men went in, fresh and vigorous; night and day and night and day they threw themselves into the terrible machine; and came out limp, blind with fatigue, hoarse and filthy, to fall on the floor and sleep....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000002.wav|Frightened, they huddled in the corners, and then, finding themselves safe, gave vent to their spite.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000122_000002.wav|It is good enough for us...."|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000129_000006.wav|Before us are struggles, obstacles and sacrifices.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000102_000007.wav|We remain neutral.'"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000123_000002.wav|From time to time men came in, yelling for the members of such and such a detachment, to go to the front; others, relieved, wounded, or coming to Smolny for arms and equipment, poured in....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000097_000000.wav|"But didn't it amount to that anyway?"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000049_000000.wav|Kameniev answered discreetly.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000040_000002.wav|Our branch has demanded an All Russian Convention, and they refuse to call it...."|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000102_000006.wav|There is no danger to us.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000101_000000.wav|"How about the Cossacks?"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000102_000003.wav|They said moreover that they had their men with Kerensky, and that they were doing their part....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000007.wav|As members of the working class you should be happy-"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000010_000002.wav|Even the moving picture shows, all outside lights dark, played to crowded houses.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000068_000001.wav|Abramovitch, for the centre Mensheviki, said that there should be neither conquerors nor conquered-that bygones should be bygones. ...In this were agreed all the left wing parties.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000002.wav|"You have been badly treated," he said.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000021_000001.wav|On the almost deserted Nevsky, swept by a bitter wind, a crowd had gathered before the Kazan Cathedral, continuing the endless debate; a few workmen, some soldiers and the rest shop keepers, clerks and the like.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000029_000002.wav|One after another the Commissars reported-capture of the Telephone Exchange, street fighting, the taking of the Vladimir school....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000070_000002.wav|In Moscow a truce had been declared; both sides parleyed, awaiting the result in the capital.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000054_000000.wav|"Our debates are now in the streets," he cried.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000038_000000.wav|Smolny thrilled with the boundless vitality of inexhaustible humanity in action.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000094_000000.wav|"And then, too," said the officer, "that brings up the question of admitting the Cadets into the new Government-and for the same reasons.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000107_000000.wav|The two men looked at one another.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000086_000002.wav|There was a sound of scuffling; an inside door slammed; then the front door opened a crack and a woman's face appeared.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000109_000002.wav|For instance, the Council of People's Commissars had promised to publish the Secret Treaties; but Neratov, the functionary in charge, had disappeared, taking the documents with him.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000098_000000.wav|"Yes, but how were we to know?|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000029_000003.wav|"The Duma," said Trupp, "is on the side of the democracy in its struggle against arbitrary violence; but in any case, whichever side wins, the Duma will always be against lynchings and torture...."|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000031_000003.wav|A courier reported that the Committee of Welcome sent to meet Kerensky at the railway station had been arrested.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000091_000000.wav|The pseudo workman smiled frankly.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000020_000006.wav|Late in the afternoon word of it spread through the city, and hundreds of bourgeois called up to scream, "Fools! Devils!|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000014_000003.wav|The rest, about two hundred, were taken to Peter Paul under escort, in small groups so as to avoid notice.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000008_000001.wav|The French Embassy promptly denied this, but one of the City Councillors told me that he himself had procured the officer's release from prison....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000046_000002.wav|Smolny was almost deserted, except for the guards, who were busy at the hall windows, setting up machine guns to command the flanks of the building.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000114_000002.wav|The result depends upon Petrograd.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000053_000000.wav|The Menshevik Yoffe tried to read his party's declaration, but Trotzky refused to allow "a debate about principle."|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000078_000002.wav|This was tabled, however, for there were no personal charges against the members, and they were active in the Municipal administration.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000125_000003.wav|Look at this!"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000023_000003.wav|To hell with Kerensky!|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000020_000003.wav|The six girls scurried backward and forward, instructing, helping, scolding....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000052_000001.wav|But now that blood has been spilled there is only one way-pitiless struggle.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000007_000005.wav|In the archway where Miss Bryant stood seven people were shot dead, among them two little boys.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000123_000000.wav|So the meeting roared on, leader after leader explaining, exhorting, arguing, soldier after soldier, workman after workman, standing up to speak his mind and his heart....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000016_000003.wav|Williams offered to mediate if Antonov were released.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000079_000002.wav|The Bolsheviki are depending upon the passions of the unbridled masses; we have nothing but moral force. We will protest against massacres and violence from both sides, as our task is to find a peaceful issue."|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000096_000000.wav|"Oh, Kerensky is guilty of the sins of the Provisional Government," answered the other man.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000102_000000.wav|The officer sighed.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000049_000002.wav|The centre of gravity, however, lay not in composition of such a Government, but in its acceptance of the programme of the Congress of Soviets.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000031_000005.wav|Still Kerensky did not come...|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000083_000007.wav|Absurd!|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000093_000000.wav|He scratched his head.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000115_000001.wav|Kerensky is flooding the trenches with tales of Petrograd burning and bloody, of women and children massacred by the Bolsheviki.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000000.wav|Tired, bloody, triumphant, the sailors and workers swarmed into the switchboard room, and finding so many pretty girls, fell back in an embarrassed way and fumbled with awkward feet.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000074_000000.wav|At this there was ironic laughter from the Bolshevik benches, and imprecations from the right.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000004_000006.wav|A few minutes later Cossack artillery opened fire on the barracks, killing eight men.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000031_000001.wav|The counter revolution was being put down.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000060_000004.wav|The gold and red epaulettes of officers were conspicuous, the familiar faces of the Menshevik and Socialist Revolutionary intellectuals, the hard eyes and bulky magnificence of bankers and diplomats, officials of the old regime, and well dressed women....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000061_000001.wav|Girl after girl came to the tribune-over dressed, fashion aping little girls, with pinched faces and leaky shoes.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000001.wav|Not a girl was injured, not one insulted.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000036_000000.wav|Red Guards are incapable of handling a complicated business like the railways; as for the Provisional Government, it has shown itself incapable of holding the power...|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000007_000003.wav|Some sailors ambushed behind wood piles began shooting.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000052_000005.wav|We've won the power; now we must keep it!"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000001.wav|"This is it.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000089_000004.wav|Russia is not a city, but a whole country....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000095_000000.wav|"What do you think of Kerensky?" I asked.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000088_000000.wav|Without taking offence the officer replied, "Yes, I know; but what can we do?" He shrugged.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000006_000000.wav|Albert Rhys Williams was in the Telephone Exchange.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000006.wav|The Government intends to put the telephones under control of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. Your wages will be immediately raised to one hundred and fifty rubles, and your working hours reduced.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000089_000003.wav|The Ministries won't work....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000120_000004.wav|three.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000001.wav|He was effusively polite.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000061_000000.wav|The telephone girls were testifying.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000003_000002.wav|From the top of a little hill outside the town could be seen the golden spires and many coloured cupolas, the sprawling grey immensity of the capital spread along the dreary plain, and beyond, the steely Gulf of Finland.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000091_000002.wav|We have no following-now.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000032_000001.wav|The Socialist Revolutionary paper demanded a Cabinet without either Cadets or Bolsheviki.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000047_000001.wav|We have sent a committee to Kerensky to say that if he continues to march on Petrograd we will break his lines of communication...."|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000071_000000.wav|Smolny was almost empty, but the Duma was thronged and noisy.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000035_000000.wav|The conquerors of these riots, the saviours of the wreck of our country, these will be neither the Bolsheviki, nor the Committee for Salvation, nor the troops of Kerensky-but we, the Union of Railwaymen...|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000018_000004.wav|You are paid sixty rubles a month, and have to work ten hours and more....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000062_000001.wav|The Mayor said hopefully that the Petrograd regiments were ashamed of their actions; propaganda was making headway.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000089_000000.wav|The other man interrupted.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000004_000000.wav|There was no battle.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000102_000001.wav|"They did not move.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000129_000005.wav|There is no return to the past.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000120_000000.wav|"Now that we've won the power and are sweeping all Russia," he declared, "all they ask of us are three little things: one.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000109_000000.wav|Meshkovsky, a neat, frail little man, was coming down the hall, looking worried.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000103_000003.wav|I recognised Colonel Polkovnikov, former commandant of Petrograd, for whose arrest the Military Revolutionary Committee would have paid a fortune.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000094_000003.wav|You Americans are born politicians; you have had politics all your lives.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000052_000004.wav|Everybody must cooperate with the Military Revolutionary Committee, report where there are stores of barbed wire, benzine, guns....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000080_000002.wav|I have always tried to reconcile you with the other parties, but at present I feel for you nothing but contempt!"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000059_000000.wav|"For each revolutionist killed," said Trotzky, "we shall kill five counter revolutionists!"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000084_000002.wav|"Do you want to go and talk with them?"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000037_000000.wav|We refuse to lend our services to any party which does not act by authority of ... a Government based on the confidence of all the democracy....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000125_000001.wav|"Telegram from the front.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000013_000000.wav|Frenzied by defeat and their heaps of dead, the Soviet troops opened a tornado of steel and flame against the battered building.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000003.wav|"Ugh! The dirty, ignorant people!|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000090_000001.wav|"But why do you combine with the Cadets?"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000123_000001.wav|The audience flowed, changing and renewed continually.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000105_000002.wav|Kerensky made the great mistake.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000114_000000.wav|"From Moscow, bad news.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000057_000000.wav|"The petty bourgeoisie, in order to defeat the workers, soldiers and peasants, would combine with the devil himself!" he said once.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000086_000006.wav|They would not give me their names, but both were Socialist Revolutionaries....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000118_000000.wav|"I'm going now!" answered Trotzky, and left the platform.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000024_000001.wav|One read:|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000079_000001.wav|"If everything that is against the Bolsheviki is counter revolutionary," said Pinkevitch, "then I do not know the difference between revolution and anarchy....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000045_000001.wav|The Soviet forces complied, and as they were leaving the Kremlin, were set upon and shot down.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000089_000002.wav|They have no intellectuals....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000052_000003.wav|The moment is decisive.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000113_000002.wav|All available forces must be hurried there....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000090_000000.wav|"That is all very well," I said.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000128_000001.wav|The attempt of Kerensky to move counter revolutionary troops against the capital of the Revolution has been decisively repulsed.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000031_000000.wav|Here there was doubt and depression.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000083_000002.wav|They don't dare arrest the Duma!|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000020_000000.wav|The employees of the building, the line men and labourers-they stayed.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000087_000000.wav|"Why," I asked, "do you publish such lies in your newspapers?"|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000020_000001.wav|But the switch boards must be operated-the telephone was vital....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000056_000000.wav|Then Trotzky again, fiery, indefatigable, giving orders, answering questions.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000128_000004.wav|The bourgeoisie tried to isolate the revolutionary army.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000085_000000.wav|By this time it was dusk.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000015_000002.wav|Several did not come back....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000089_000001.wav|"This is merely an adventure on the part of the Bolsheviki.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000005_000004.wav|Occasionally an automobile passed in and out, flying the Red Cross flag.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000040_000001.wav|They tried to send a mission to the Stavka, but we arrested them at Minsk....|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000026_000001.wav|Instead of doing their duty, the Right Socialist Revolutionaries and the Cadets have transformed the Duma into an arena of political attack upon the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies, against the revolutionary Government of peace, bread and liberty.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000017_000006.wav|"Brutes!|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000029_000000.wav|In the Nicolai Hall the Duma session was coming to an end.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000028_000000.wav|Far away still sounded occasional shots, but the city lay quiet, cold, as if exhausted by the violent spasms which had torn it.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000004_000001.wav|But Kerensky made a fatal blunder.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000013_000003.wav|The Red Guards' blood was up.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000104_000002.wav|Land to be turned over to the Land Committees.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000128_000006.wav|Both plans met a pitiful defeat.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000069_000000.wav|All that night the commission wrangled, and all the next day, and the next night.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6981/70843/6981_70843_000032_000002.wav|Gorky was hopeful; Smolny had made concessions.|6981
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000003_000009.wav|But who is so simple as to be surprised at it? for were it in our power, we should do just the same to them, or even worse.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000006_000002.wav|There still remained another difficulty, which, depending on circumstances beyond the reach of their influence, created more doubts and uneasiness than the former; the count would not consent to pass the Po, and the Venetians refused to accept him on any other condition.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000003_000012.wav|He restored our liberty; it is reasonable to expect he will defend it.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000008_000002.wav|He concluded by saying, that if the count and the duke were to unite their forces, they (the Venetians) might return to the sea, and the Florentines would have to fight for their liberty.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000008_000001.wav|To induce the Venetians to retain the count in the command, Cosmo de' Medici went to Venice, hoping his influence would prevail with them, and discussed the subject at great length before the senate, pointing out the condition of the Italian states, the disposition of their armies, and the great preponderance possessed by the duke.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000009_000000.wav|The Florentines used the weightiest arguments they could adopt to prevent the count from quitting the service of the League, a course he was himself reluctant to follow, but his desire to conclude the marriage so embarrassed him, that any trivial accident would have been sufficient to determine his course, as indeed shortly happened.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000005_000000.wav|It was soon known in Florence that the duke was preparing to send forces into Tuscany.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000006_000004.wav|To the Venetians, on the other hand, they averred that this private letter was sufficiently binding, and therefore they ought to be content; for if they could save the count from breaking with his father in law, it was well to do so, and that it could be of no advantage either to themselves or the Venetians to publish it without some manifest necessity.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000007_000001.wav|The prospect of this connection had great influence with the count, for, as the duke had no sons, it gave him hope of becoming sovereign of Milan.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000010_000005.wav|Difficulties arising, the patriarch attacked the Casentino, took Prato Vecchio, and Romena, and offered them also to the Florentines, who refused them likewise, unless the pope would consent they should restore them to the count, to which, after much hesitation, he acceded, on condition that the Florentines should prevail with the Count di Poppi to restore the Borgo to him.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000008_000005.wav|Cosmo returned without having effected any part of his object.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000010_000001.wav|As before observed, Niccolo Fortebraccio was dead.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000010_000003.wav|Claiming them as his daughter's portion, he refused to give them up to the pope, who demanded them as property held of the church, and who, upon his refusal, sent the patriarch with forces to take possession of them.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000003_000006.wav|You are well acquainted with the ancient enmity of the Florentines against you, which is not occasioned by any injuries you have done them, or by fear on their part, but by our weakness and their own ambition; for the one gives them hope of being able to oppress us, and the other incites them to attempt it.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000010_000004.wav|The count, finding himself unable to sustain the attack, offered them to the Florentines, who declined them; but the pope having returned to Florence, they interceded with him in the count's behalf.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000003_000001.wav|Then, entering the Lucchese territory, they besieged Camaiore, the inhabitants of which, although faithful to their rulers, being influenced more by immediate danger than by attachment to their distant friends, surrendered.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000003_000011.wav|You know, that without the aid of some powerful ally we are incapable of self defense, and that none can render us this service more powerfully or faithfully than the duke.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000004_000004.wav|The duke, influenced by his inveterate hostility against the Florentines, his new obligation to the Lucchese, and, above all, by his desire to prevent so great an acquisition from falling into the hands of his ancient enemies, determined either to send a strong force into Tuscany, or vigorously to assail the Venetians, so as to compel the Florentines to give up their enterprise and go to their relief.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000010_000002.wav|He had married a daughter of the Count di Poppi, who, at the decease of his son in law, held the Borgo San Sepolcro, and other fortresses of that district, and while Niccolo lived, governed them in his name.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000003_000015.wav|We have often been deprived of every hope, except in God and the casualties which time might produce, and both have proved our friends.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/176270/3446_176270_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER three|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000021_000006.wav|God big fella marster belong white man, He scratch 'm head belong Him.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000007_000008.wav|Sing sing is a song.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000008_000000.wav|Savvee or catchee are practically the only words which have been introduced straight from pigeon English.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000006_000000.wav|Too much, by the way, does not indicate anything excessive.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000026_000000.wav|"So Adam Eve these two fella go along scrub.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000016_000001.wav|It all depends on how it is uttered.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000007.wav|He possessed a trade box full of calico, beads, porpoise teeth, and tobacco.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000011_000003.wav|I like him six tin biscuit, four bag rice, twenty four tin bullamacow.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000021_000004.wav|Him fella Adam all the same sick; he no savvee kai kai; he walk about all the time.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000016_000002.wav|It may mean: What is your business?|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000014.wav|"That fella belong you?" the captain asked the recruit, referring to the thief.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000009_000001.wav|Harry, the schooner captain, started to write the letter, but was stopped by peter at the end of the second sentence.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000011_000001.wav|He hereby wants twelve pounds." (At this point peter began dictation).|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000002_000001.wav|The potentate was on deck.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000017.wav|God's wrath, when He sent the Flood, was merely a case of being cross along mankind.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000022_000004.wav|This fella tree belong apple.'|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000021_000008.wav|Me no savvee what name this fella Adam he want.'|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000024_000002.wav|My word!|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000024_000003.wav|And God He sing out, 'Adam!' And Adam he speak, 'You call 'm me?' God He speak, 'Me call 'm you too much.' Adam he speak, 'Me sleep strong fella too much.' And God He speak, 'You been eat 'm this fella apple.' Adam he speak, 'No, me no been eat 'm.' God He speak.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000021_000007.wav|God say: 'What name?|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000016_000005.wav|What is the thing you are after?|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000008_000004.wav|My word, as an exclamation with a thousand significances, could have arrived from nowhere else than Old England.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000007_000005.wav|The white men were all seamen, and so capsize and sing out were introduced into the lingo.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000004_000011.wav|You fella bring me fella small fella clam—kai kai he stop."|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000021_000002.wav|He name belong him.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000006.wav|On his head was a top hat.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000007_000006.wav|One would not tell a Melanesian cook to empty the dish water, but he would tell him to capsize it.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000004_000004.wav|Everything is related.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000024_000001.wav|He too much fright.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000023_000002.wav|What name?|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000004_000010.wav|My instruction to the natives finally ripened into the following "You fella bring me fella big fella clam—kai kai he no stop, he walk about.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000011.wav|Another confiscated the strings of beads from around his neck.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000020_000001.wav|God big fella marster belong white man, him fella He make 'm altogether.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000005_000001.wav|Walk about is a quaint phrase.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000022_000001.wav|He call him this fella Mary, Eve.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000012_000000.wav|"peter."|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000016.wav|"Then why in Jericho do you let him take the box?" the captain demanded indignantly. Quoth the recruit, "Me speak along him, say bokkis he stop, that fella he cross along me"—which was the recruit's way of saying that the other man would murder him.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000015_000013.wav|Finally, one of them took his trade box, which represented three years' toil, and dropped it into a canoe alongside.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000007_000007.wav|To sing out is to cry loudly, to call out, or merely to speak.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000004_000008.wav|I wanted two or three pairs of the large clam shells (measuring three feet across), but I did not want the meat inside.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000023_000006.wav|When they finish eat 'm, my word, they fright like hell, and they go hide along scrub.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000022_000003.wav|One fella tree he tambo (taboo) along you altogether.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000008_000001.wav|Of course, pickaninny has happened along, but some of its uses are delicious.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000024_000000.wav|"And God He come walk about along garden, and He sing out, 'Adam!' Adam he no speak.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000020_000000.wav|"Before long time altogether no place he stop.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144019/3446_144019_000003_000007.wav|Bêche de mer was purely fortuitous, but it was fortuitous in the deterministic way.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000027_000004.wav|Mate fever.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000007_000004.wav|Still further, I reasoned that in my own climate of California I had always maintained a stable nervous equilibrium.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000009_000002.wav|It comes, they know not how.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000006_000005.wav|It extended from my hands to my feet so that at times I was as helpless as a child.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000004_000004.wav|When one young man returned home to continue at college, it was reported that I was a regular Wolf Larsen, and that my whole crew had deserted because I had beaten it to a pulp.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000009_000003.wav|It is, they know not what. It goes, they know not why.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000023_000002.wav|Heavy squalls during the night.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000032_000000.wav|At sea, saturday march twenty first nineteen o eight.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000019_000002.wav|Mate down with fever.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000004_000003.wav|When I discharged an incompetent captain, they said I had beaten him to a pulp.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000027_000000.wav|Big sea.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000030_000000.wav|At sea, friday march twentieth nineteen o eight.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000007_000000.wav|The Australian specialists agreed that the malady was non parasitic, and that, therefore, it must be nervous.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000022_000000.wav|At sea, monday march sixteenth nineteen o eight.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000021_000001.wav|He was about fourteen days sick.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000012_000000.wav|FOOTNOTES|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000001_000002.wav|There were six feet of head room below, and she was crown decked and flush decked.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000002_000005.wav|She steered easily, and she could run day and night, without steering, close by, full and by, and with the wind abeam.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000010_000000.wav|A last word: the test of the voyage.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000009_000000.wav|In passing, I may mention that among the other afflictions that jointly compelled the abandonment of the voyage, was one that is variously called the healthy man's disease, European Leprosy, and Biblical Leprosy. Unlike True Leprosy, nothing is known of this mysterious malady.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000001_000005.wav|A five horse power engine ran the pumps when it was in order, and on two occasions proved capable of furnishing juice for the search light.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000021_000000.wav|At daybreak found that the boy Bagua had died during the night, on dysentery.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000026_000000.wav|At sea, wednesday march eighteenth nineteen o eight.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000018_000000.wav|Ulava, saturday march fourteenth nineteen o eight.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000023_000000.wav|Set course for Sikiana at four p m|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000003_000005.wav|As it was, partly built, she cost four times what she ought to have cost.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000003_000003.wav|Six months overdue in the building, I sailed the shell of her to Hawaii to be finished, the engine lashed to the bottom, building materials lashed on deck.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000006_000004.wav|No case like it had ever been reported.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000029_000001.wav|Blowing a gale all the time.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000033_000000.wav|Turned back from Sikiana.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000024_000000.wav|At sea, tuesday march seventeenth nineteen o eight.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000004_000002.wav|To save themselves, the newspapers could not tell the truth about her.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000008_000005.wav|Himself an Army surgeon, seventeen Army surgeons sat on his case in the Philippines, and, like the Australian specialists, confessed themselves beaten.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000009_000005.wav|The only hope the doctors had held out to me was a spontaneous cure, and such a cure was mine.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000008_000004.wav|Later, I met Colonel Woodruff, and learned that he had been similarly afflicted.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000016_000000.wav|Ulava, friday march thirteenth nineteen o eight.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000029_000000.wav|Too thick to see anything.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000025_000001.wav|Mate fever.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000007_000001.wav|It did not mend, and it was impossible for me to continue the voyage.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000007_000005.wav|So back I came.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000003_000002.wav|Then came anarchy.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000028_000000.wav|At sea, thursday march nineteenth nineteen o eight.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000017_000001.wav|Mate and skipper down with fever.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000014_000000.wav|Ulava, thursday march twelfth nineteen o eight.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000023_000001.wav|Wind broke off.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3446/144021/3446_144021_000008_000003.wav|Then I knew.|3446
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000013_000000.wav|One day, which was neither washing day, nor cleaning day nor marketing day, nor Saturday, nor Monday-upon which consequently Diamond could be spared from the baby-his father took him on his own cab.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000025_000001.wav|"It's a lucky day which I see you once more upon it."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000007_000000.wav|I won't vouch for what the old horse was thinking, for it is very difficult to find out what any old horse is thinking.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000018_000001.wav|He got hold of the broom at her end and pulled along with her.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000014_000001.wav|To be sure it's the law; but mayhap they may get more law than they like some day themselves."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000030_000000.wav|Diamond lifted his cap, and answered politely.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000018_000006.wav|The girl thanked Diamond, and began sweeping as if nothing had happened, while his father led him away.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000001_000001.wav|DIAMOND GOES ON|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000014_000000.wav|"Though, to be sure," said Diamond's father-with what truth I cannot say, but he believed what he said-"some ladies is very hard, and keeps you to the bare sixpence a mile, when every one knows that ain't enough to keep a family and a cab upon.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000020_000000.wav|"Certainly not, Diamond," said his father, quite pleased, for Diamond's father was a gentleman.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER seventeen.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000037_000000.wav|It was a long time now since Diamond had seen North Wind, or even thought much about her.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000002_000001.wav|Some may think it was not the best place in the world for him to be brought up in; but it must have been, for there he was.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000002_000002.wav|At first, he heard a good many rough and bad words; but he did not like them, and so they did him little harm.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000002_000006.wav|At first, because his face was so quiet and sweet, with a smile always either awake or asleep in his eyes, and because he never heeded their ugly words and rough jokes, they said he wasn't all there, meaning that he was half an idiot, whereas he was a great deal more there than they had the sense to see.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000015_000001.wav|He left Diamond on the box.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000028_000000.wav|The two ladies went near to pat the horse, and then they noticed Diamond on the box.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000008_000000.wav|"Oh dear!" said Diamond when he had done, "I'm so tired!"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000012_000002.wav|For one thing he never got frightened, and consequently was never in too great a hurry.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000010_000002.wav|And if ever there was a boy who had a chance of being a prodigy at cab driving, Diamond was that boy, for the strife came to be who should have him out with him on the box.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000005_000001.wav|He sat on his withers, and reaching forward as he ate his hay, he curried and he brushed, first at one side of his neck, and then at the other.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000024_000000.wav|"Why, Joseph! can it be you?"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000018_000004.wav|He had to look twice, however, before he could be sure that that was his boy in the middle of the tumult.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000032_000000.wav|"Well, he must come and see us, now you've found us out.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000017_000000.wav|There was a crossing near the cab stand, where a girl was sweeping.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000034_000000.wav|"And what's your fare, Joseph?"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000023_000000.wav|When they reached the house, Diamond's father got down and rang the bell.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000037_000004.wav|Only he had been to the back of the north wind since-there could be no doubt of that; for when he woke every morning, he always knew that he had been there again.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000038_000000.wav|That night the father and mother had a great deal to talk about.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000002_000003.wav|He did not know in the least what they meant, but there was something in the very sound of them, and in the tone of voice in which they were said, which Diamond felt to be ugly.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000018_000000.wav|Diamond was off his box in a moment, and running to the help of the girl.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000043_000001.wav|What has that to do with it?"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000026_000003.wav|But to think we should have fallen upon you, of all the cabmen in London!|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000005_000004.wav|Then he sat on his croup, and did his back and sides; then he turned around like a monkey, and attacked his hind quarters, and combed his tail.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000022_000000.wav|Diamond's father turned instantly, for he was the foremost in the rank, and followed the girl.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000009_000000.wav|And he laid himself down at full length on old Diamond's back.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000035_000000.wav|"No, thank you, ma'am," said Joseph.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000031_000000.wav|"He'll be fit to drive himself before long," said his father, proudly. "The old horse is a teaching of him."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000010_000001.wav|One of them lifted him down, and from that time he was a greater favourite than before.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000022_000003.wav|They did not look at the cabman, however.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000037_000008.wav|Diamond's father turned, and made for Charing Cross.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000026_000000.wav|"Who would have thought it?" said mrs Coleman.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000049_000001.wav|No, thank Heaven! she's not come to that."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000002_000005.wav|He never took any notice of them, and his face shone pure and good in the middle of them, like a primrose in a hailstorm.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000032_000001.wav|Where do you live?"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000037_000005.wav|And as he thought and thought, he recalled another thing that had happened that morning, which, although it seemed a mere accident, might have something to do with what had happened since.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000019_000000.wav|"I couldn't let them behave so to a poor girl-could I, father?" he said.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000033_000000.wav|Diamond's father gave the ladies a ticket with his name and address printed on it; and then mrs Coleman took out her purse, saying:|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000029_000000.wav|"Why, you've got both Diamonds with you," said Miss Coleman.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000013_000001.wav|After a stray job or two by the way, they drew up in the row upon the stand between Cockspur Street and Pall Mall.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000011_000001.wav|Also his father liked to have him himself when he could; so that he was more desired than enjoyed among the cabmen.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000045_000001.wav|"Really, Diamond, a body would need to mind what they say to you."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000018_000007.wav|With the help of old Tom, the waterman, he was soon washed into decency, and his father set him on the box again, perfectly satisfied with the account he gave of the cause of his being in a fray.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000023_000002.wav|The ladies both stared for a moment, and then exclaimed together:|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000016_000000.wav|A sudden noise got up, and Diamond looked round to see what was the matter.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000017_000001.wav|Some rough young imps had picked a quarrel with her, and were now hauling at her broom to get it away from her.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000022_000002.wav|When they reached the curbstone-who should it be waiting for the cab but mrs and Miss Coleman!|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000029_000001.wav|"How do you do, Diamond?"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000002_000009.wav|When they talked to him nicely he had always a good answer, sometimes a smart one, ready, and that helped much to make them change their minds about him.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000035_000001.wav|"It was your own old horse as took you; and me you paid long ago."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000005_000007.wav|All the time the old horse went on eating his hay, and, but with an occasional whisk of his tail when Diamond tickled or scratched him, took no notice of the proceeding. But that was all a pretence, for he knew very well who it was that was perched on his back, and rubbing away at him with the comb and the brush.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000050_000000.wav|"Is it a great disgrace to be poor?" asked Diamond, because of the tone in which his mother had spoken.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000026_000002.wav|Indeed we meant to walk a bit first before we took a cab, but just at the corner, for as hot as the sun was, a cold wind came down the street, and I saw that Miss Coleman must not face it.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000005_000006.wav|But Jack fetched it again, and Diamond began once more, and did not leave off until he had done the whole business fairly well, if not in a first rate, experienced fashion.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000005_000002.wav|When that was done he asked for a dressing comb, and combed his mane thoroughly.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000026_000001.wav|"It's changed times for both of us, Joseph, and it's not very often we can have a cab even; but you see my daughter is still very poorly, and she can't bear the motion of the omnibuses.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000018_000003.wav|But presently his father came back, and missing Diamond, looked about.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000036_000000.wav|He jumped on his box before she could say another word, and with a parting salute drove off, leaving them on the pavement, with the maid holding the door for them.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000039_000000.wav|"Poor things!" said the mother.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000026_000004.wav|I didn't know you had got a cab."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/131203/207_131203_000037_000006.wav|His father had intended going on the stand at King's Cross that morning, and had turned into Gray's Inn Lane to drive there, when they found the way blocked up, and upon inquiry were informed that a stack of chimneys had been blown down in the night, and had fallen across the road.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000050_000001.wav|"I am leaving that part to you."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000041_000002.wav|We've only got started.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000035_000003.wav|Then the villagers come back.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000075_000002.wav|What does it mean?|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000016_000000.wav|"Look out!" yelled Ned.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000043_000001.wav|"This," and he pointed to the nose leaves, "is the sucking apparatus.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000060_000000.wav|Tom took quick aim and pulled the trigger.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000010_000000.wav|"Nonsense!"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000024_000004.wav|Then get a club and come on.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000047_000001.wav|"How much longer does your water trip take, Professor?"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000021_000000.wav|"It is a raid by vampire bats!" was all Tom and Ned could distinguish. "We shall have to light fires to keep them away, if we can succeed. Every one grab up a club and strike hard!"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000075_000001.wav|"You don't say so!|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000053_000002.wav|Finally the scientist said:|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000045_000001.wav|Though if a sufficient number of these bats attacked a man at the same time, he would have small chance to escape alive.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000049_000001.wav|From then on we travel by land until-well until you get to the place where you are going.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000055_000000.wav|"Huh!" grunted Jacinto, and then he called to the paddlers to increase their strokes.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000016_000001.wav|"If it's a vampire it'll----"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000052_000001.wav|"You have mentioned buried cities.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000026_000001.wav|The two men had clubs and were striking about in the half darkness, for now the Indians had set several fires aglow. And in the gleams, constantly growing brighter as more fuel was piled on, the young inventor and his chum saw a weird sight.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000057_000000.wav|Tom turned in time to see the poor fellow's struggles, and at the same time there was a swirl in the water and a black object shot forward.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000072_000000.wav|"I rather think they've gone back," was the professor's dry comment.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000037_000001.wav|"Bless my skin!|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000070_000002.wav|The canoes were not on the river bank.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000031_000000.wav|"They may-there is no telling."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000014_000001.wav|"That isn't a shadow.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000036_000002.wav|We have killed too many of them," and he looked about on the ground where many of the uncanny creatures were still twitching in the death struggle.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000006_000002.wav|"What has happened, Ned?"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000014_000002.wav|It's substance. It's a monster bat, and here goes for a strike at it!"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000066_000000.wav|"I suppose that is so."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000075_000000.wav|"Bless my time table!" cried mr Damon.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000024_000002.wav|Here, you have a light like mine.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000026_000000.wav|Out of the tents rushed the young men to find Professor Bumper and mr Damon before them.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000070_000003.wav|There was not an Indian in sight, and no evidence of Jacinto.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000051_000000.wav|"Oh, I have a map, showing where I want to begin some excavations," was the answer.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000029_000000.wav|"We are safe-for the present!" exclaimed Jacinto with a sigh of relief.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000009_000000.wav|"Yes.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000063_000000.wav|Aside from being caught in a drenching storm and one or two minor accidents, nothing else of moment marked the remainder of the river journey, and at the end of the third day the canoes pulled to shore and a night camp was made.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000053_000000.wav|For a moment none of the professor's companions spoke.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000065_000002.wav|No use to go there at night when all is dark."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000017_000002.wav|"What's the row?"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000024_000001.wav|If there's a fight I want to be in it, bats or anything else.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000070_000000.wav|"Nor i Wonder if we're the only lazy birds." He looked from the tent in time to see mr Damon and the professor emerging.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000040_000002.wav|If this is a sample of the wilds of Honduras, give me the tameness of Shopton."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000043_000000.wav|"This is a true blood sucking bat," went on the professor.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000061_000000.wav|There was a wild scream of agony and then a dark arm shot up above the red foam.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000009_000003.wav|I stuck my head out just now and I felt that same sort of shadow I felt this evening when we were down near the river."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000013_000001.wav|That's the shadow!|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000039_000000.wav|Tom and Ned kicked outside the bat the former had killed in their tent, and then both went back to their cots.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000068_000000.wav|"Hello!" cried Tom, awakening the next morning to find the sun streaming into his tent.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000040_000001.wav|"That was some night!|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000041_000003.wav|I guess we're a bit soft, Ned, though we had hard enough work in that tunnel digging."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000035_000001.wav|Though they might if they got the chance," was the answer of the Spanish guide.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000048_000000.wav|"I hardly know," and Professor Bumper looked to Jacinto to answer.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000013_000002.wav|Look out!" and he held up his hands instinctively to shield his face.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000014_000000.wav|"Shadow!" yelled Tom, unconsciously adding to the din that seemed to pervade every part of the camp.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000005_000000.wav|A FALSE FRIEND|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000036_000001.wav|I do not think this lot will come back.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000030_000000.wav|"Do you think they will come back?" asked Tom.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000027_000001.wav|Great bats they were, and a dangerous species, if Jacinto was to be believed.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000061_000002.wav|Tom fired bullet after bullet from his wonderful rifle into the spot, but though he killed some of the alligators this did not save the man's life.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000043_000002.wav|The bat makes an opening in the skin with its sharp teeth and proceeds to extract the blood.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000062_000001.wav|Professor Bumper announced that he would see to it that the man's family did not want, and this seemed to give general satisfaction, especially to a brother who was with the party.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000073_000000.wav|"Gone back?"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000006_000000.wav|"What is it?|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000049_000000.wav|"We go two more days in the canoes," the guide answered, "and then we shall find the mules waiting for us at a place called Hidjio.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000020_000000.wav|Mingled with them were calls of Jacinto, partly in Spanish, partly in the Indian tongue and partly in English.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000060_000001.wav|The explosive electric bullet went true to its mark, and the great animal turned over in a death struggle.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000047_000000.wav|"Well, we're on our way once more," remarked Tom as again they were in the canoes being paddled up the river.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000009_000001.wav|Big bats.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000035_000000.wav|"Not quite.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000025_000001.wav|His lamp and Ned's had small hooks on them, so they could be carried in the upper coat pocket, showing a gleam of light and leaving the hands free for use.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000065_000001.wav|We shall march there in the morning.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000019_000000.wav|"Oshtoo!|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000042_000000.wav|After breakfast, while the Indians were making ready the canoes, Professor Bumper, who, in a previous visit to Central America, had become interested in the subject, made a brief examination of some of the dead bats.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000037_000003.wav|I've had enough of bats-and mosquitoes," he added, as he slapped at his face and neck.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000056_000000.wav|The journey up the river was not very eventful.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000045_000002.wav|Their bites, too, may be poisonous for all I know."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000062_000000.wav|The accident cast a little damper over the party, and there was a feeling of gloom among the Indians.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000012_000000.wav|At that instant Tom flashed a pocket electric lamp he had taken from beneath his pillow and in the gleam of it he and Ned saw fluttering about the tent some dark, shadow like form, at the sight of which Tom's chum cried:|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000065_000000.wav|"In the next village.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000019_000001.wav|Oshtoo!"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000068_000001.wav|"We must have overslept, Ned.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000067_000000.wav|The Indians made camp as usual, the goods being brought from the canoes and piled up near the tents.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000069_000000.wav|"I didn't hear any one call us," remarked Ned.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000052_000002.wav|Have you thought what may be in them-great heathen temples, idols, perhaps?"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000064_000000.wav|"But where are the mules we are to use in traveling to morrow?" asked the professor of Jacinto.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000061_000003.wav|His body was not seen again, though search was made for it.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000007_000000.wav|"I don't know, but Jacinto is yelling something about vampires!"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000044_000000.wav|"And a man, too?" asked Ned.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000051_000002.wav|After that-well, we shall trust to luck for what we shall find."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000009_000002.wav|And he's warning us to be careful.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000075_000003.wav|What has becomes of our friend Jacinto?"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000017_000000.wav|"It won't do anything to me!" shouted Tom, as he struck the creature, knocking it into the corner of the tent with a thud that told it must be completely stunned, if not killed.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000070_000001.wav|Then Tom noticed something queer.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000045_000000.wav|"Well a man has hands with which to use weapons, but a helpless quadruped has not.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000046_000003.wav|The blood sucking bats were comparatively few, and the migratory sort fewer still.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000056_000002.wav|Toward the close of the third day's travel there was a cry from one of the rear boats, and an alarm of a man having fallen overboard was given.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000028_000003.wav|But the increasing lights, and the attacks made by the Indians and the white travelers turned the tide of battle, and, with silent flappings of their soft, velvety wings, the bats flew back to the jungle whence they had emerged.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000033_000000.wav|"The alligators aren't much worse," asserted Jacinto with a visible shiver.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000067_000001.wav|Then night settled down.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000074_000000.wav|"Yes.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000046_000000.wav|The Indians seemed glad to leave the "place of the bats," as they called the camp site.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000041_000001.wav|"It's all in the day's work.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000023_000000.wav|"You're not going out there, are you?" asked Ned.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000054_000002.wav|But we shall take whatever antiquities we find."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/143321/207_143321_000025_000000.wav|Tom's plan seemed to be a good one.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000018_000000.wav|Was it that which people had heard?|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000023_000003.wav|He is the son of a king!"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000015_000001.wav|It was so thick, and the foliage so dense, that it was quite fatiguing to proceed.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000025_000000.wav|The sun now set: the atmosphere glowed like fire.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000007_000000.wav|THE BELL|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000012_000001.wav|The clergyman had spoken so touchingly, the children who were confirmed had been greatly moved; it was an eventful day for them; from children they become all at once grown up persons; it was as if their infant souls were now to fly all at once into persons with more understanding.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000024_000005.wav|He thought the bell sounded from the depths of these still lakes; but then he remarked again that the tone proceeded not from there, but farther off, from out the depths of the forest.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000026_000002.wav|The sea-the great, the glorious sea, that dashed its long waves against the coast-was stretched out before him.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000016_000001.wav|"This must be looked to." So he remained, and let the others go on without him.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000015_000003.wav|Large blocks of stone lay there, overgrown with moss of every color; the fresh spring bubbled forth, and made a strange gurgling sound.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000026_000001.wav|How magnificent was the sight from this height!|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000015_000000.wav|At the same moment the bell sounded deep in the wood, so clear and solemnly that five or six determined to penetrate somewhat further.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000020_000001.wav|But the poor child that had been confirmed was quite ashamed; he looked at his wooden shoes, pulled at the short sleeves of his jacket, and said that he was afraid he could not walk so fast; besides, he thought that the bell must be looked for to the right; for that was the place where all sorts of beautiful things were to be found.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000026_000003.wav|And yonder, where sea and sky meet, stood the sun, like a large shining altar, all melted together in the most glowing colors.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000016_000000.wav|"That surely cannot be the bell," said one of the children, lying down and listening.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000011_000002.wav|But whether the sound came from his head or from the hollow tree, that no one could say with certainty.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000023_000000.wav|The ugly apes sat upon the trees, and grinned.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000010_000000.wav|A long time passed, and people said to each other-"I wonder if there is a church out in the wood?|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000009_000000.wav|Those persons who were walking outside the town, where the houses were farther apart, with gardens or little fields between them, could see the evening sky still better, and heard the sound of the bell much more distinctly.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000024_000003.wav|And there were large calm lakes there too, in which white swans were swimming, and beat the air with their wings.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000014_000001.wav|In reality the bell does not exist; it is only a fancy that people have taken into their heads!"|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000024_000002.wav|Around the nicest green meads, where the deer were playing in the grass, grew magnificent oaks and beeches; and if the bark of one of the trees was cracked, there grass and long creeping plants grew in the crevices.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000024_000004.wav|The King's Son often stood still and listened.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000011_000001.wav|However, he said that the sound proceeded from a very large owl, in a hollow tree; a sort of learned owl, that continually knocked its head against the branches.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000024_000000.wav|But on he went, without being disheartened, deeper and deeper into the wood, where the most wonderful flowers were growing.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000019_000001.wav|A rustling was heard in the bushes, and a little boy stood before the King's Son, a boy in wooden shoes, and with so short a jacket that one could see what long wrists he had.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000026_000006.wav|He had followed his own path, and had reached the spot just as soon as the son of the king had done.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000025_000001.wav|It was still in the woods, so very still; and he fell on his knees, sung his evening hymn, and said: "I cannot find what I seek; the sun is going down, and night is coming-the dark, dark night.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000010_000006.wav|The king of the country was also observant of it, and vowed that he who could discover whence the sounds proceeded, should have the title of "Universal Bell ringer," even if it were not really a bell.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000012_000003.wav|They all immediately felt a wish to go thither; all except three.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000017_000000.wav|They afterwards came to a little house, made of branches and the bark of trees; a large wild apple tree bent over it, as if it would shower down all its blessings on the roof, where roses were blooming.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000019_000003.wav|This he had done, and was now going on in wooden shoes and in his humble dress, for the bell sounded with so deep a tone, and with such strange power, that proceed he must.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000015_000002.wav|Woodroof and anemonies grew almost too high; blooming convolvuluses and blackberry bushes hung in long garlands from tree to tree, where the nightingale sang and the sunbeams were playing: it was very beautiful, but it was no place for girls to go; their clothes would get so torn.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000011_000003.wav|So now he got the place of "Universal Bell ringer," and wrote yearly a short treatise "On the Owl"; but everybody was just as wise as before.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000025_000003.wav|I will climb up yonder rock."|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000010_000002.wav|The confectioner of the town came out, and set up his booth there; and soon after came another confectioner, who hung a bell over his stand, as a sign or ornament, but it had no clapper, and it was tarred over to preserve it from the rain.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000019_000002.wav|Both knew each other: the boy was that one among the children who could not come because he had to go home and return his jacket and boots to the innkeeper's son.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000014_000000.wav|But two of the youngest soon grew tired, and both returned to town; two little girls sat down, and twined garlands, so they did not go either; and when the others reached the willow tree, where the confectioner was, they said, "Now we are there!|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/207/122801/207_122801_000012_000000.wav|It was the day of confirmation.|207
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000011_000000.wav|When Mohammed was twenty five years old there befell a change in his fortunes.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000031_000002.wav|And in Medinah, as it was later called, Mohammed spent the rest of his life.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000028_000002.wav|This was done, but the first Mohammedan mosque was a very simple affair indeed and the roof was supported by trees that were not removed from the earth where they had been growing.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000046_000001.wav|With one of his followers he had partaken of a dish that had been prepared for him by a Jewish girl who hated him and all of his sect.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000040_000004.wav|They found, however, that from that mercy they could expect nothing, for all the men were put to death, and the women and children were sold into slavery.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000029_000001.wav|They must all face toward Mecca as they pray, for that is the sacred city; and Mohammed so considered it because of the mysterious temple or Kaabah that was in it, and because, before the days of the idolaters, this temple had been connected with the religion of Abraham.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000019_000000.wav|In many ways, however, the Mohammedan faith was not so pure as the Christian faith, for the Heaven that Mohammed believed in was a place of feasting and merriment, but little else, and Mohammed also believed that it was right to teach his religion by the sword.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000038_000003.wav|So they returned to Mecca.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000020_000001.wav|This book was called the Koran.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000008_000001.wav|This child was named Mohammed, and he was born five hundred and seventy years after the death of Christ.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000034_000000.wav|It was a wild fight, for the battle was fought in a furious storm of rain and wind that beat like whips upon the faces of the soldiers as they dashed against each other.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000030_000005.wav|There is no god but the Lord."|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000038_000001.wav|The Meccans rallied and attacked him in front and the rear at the same time, and the day was lost.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000006_000001.wav|As the years passed, however, they began to turn away from the old beliefs and to worship stone idols. These idols were set up in their principal cities and villages, notably in the city of Mecca, where there also remained a temple, built in the time of the older religion, that the Arabs still held to be sacred.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000011_000001.wav|In this year he entered the service of a rich widow, whose name was Kadijah, and went with her to the great fairs and bazaars on which journeys, perhaps, he acted as her camel driver.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000034_000001.wav|It was desperate, too, and lasted nearly all day-and it was one of the important battles of the world, although the numbers engaged in it were not large.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000030_000004.wav|God is great.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000015_000002.wav|Kadijah was a true and faithful wife and loved Mohammed better than herself.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000013_000000.wav|When he was forty years old he went one day to a mountain called Hira which was not far from Mecca.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000046_000002.wav|The food was poisoned, and while Mohammed discovered it at once and ate but a single mouthful, the poison remained in his body.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000028_000001.wav|And when he had a large following he desired to put up a house of prayer, or a temple which he called a mosque.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000018_000001.wav|That is, it was much more like the religion of Christ than the worship of idols or the belief of the romans and Greeks in gods and goddesses, or the worship of fire or the stars.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000025_000001.wav|But a great misfortune fell upon him, for his faithful wife Kadijah, whom he had loved deeply, and who was the first person to believe in him as a prophet, died, and left him inconsolable.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000038_000002.wav|However, the Meccans were too exhausted to pursue his men for a time and they believed that Mohammed himself had been slain, which was the first of their desires.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000023_000004.wav|Mohammed, however, indignantly refused, and went on preaching, and his uncle continued to protect him.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000018_000004.wav|And there were a great many things in Mohammed's religion that any one would do well to follow, for he preached that God was merciful and his people on earth must be merciful also, that cleanliness was next to Godliness and that all his followers must wash themselves before they prayed.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000010_000001.wav|When he grew old enough, he watched the flocks of the people of Mecca, and gained a meager livelihood by doing this.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000040_000002.wav|So, when the fight was over, he took a large number of soldiers and advanced against this tribe which had taken refuge in a stronghold in the mountains.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000042_000000.wav|This was considered by Mohammed as a great triumph for his cause. Determined now to spread his faith to the uttermost ends of the earth, he sent messengers to the rulers of all the civilized kingdoms that he knew.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000018_000003.wav|If you died and had led a righteous life you went to Paradise; if you had been wicked you went to the lower regions to undergo eternal punishment.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000017_000001.wav|He then thought that Allah called upon him to go forth publicly and preach his new belief to the entire world.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000042_000001.wav|One went to Heraclius, Emperor of the romans, who was in Syria at the time; one to the Roman Governor of Egypt, one to the King of Abyssinia and one to each of the provinces of Gassan and Yamam that were also under Roman control.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000027_000001.wav|This flight was called the "Hegira," and the date of it is very important to the Mohammedans, for their calendar dates from it, and for them is practically the beginning of time.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000009_000002.wav|When he was six years old his mother died and he was brought up by his grandfather, Abd al Muttalib, a poor man, but one who was greatly respected by everybody that knew him.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000011_000005.wav|He and Kadijah had six children, four girls and two boys, but both of the boys died in their infancy.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000046_000000.wav|Soon after this one desert tribe after another came under Mohammed's power, and finally all of Arabia had acknowledged him as God's prophet. He was planning to extend his religion still farther when a misfortune fell upon him that probably caused his death.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000016_000000.wav|At first Mohammed did not try to preach his new faith to the people of Mecca, but contented himself with teaching the word of Allah to his nearest relatives.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000008_000002.wav|His father, Abdallah, died soon after he was born, and Mohammed's mother, according to custom, gave the baby into the charge of a nurse who might rear him in the free, open air of the desert where Arabs believed that children became strong and vigorous.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000026_000003.wav|And these spirits listened attentively to what Mohammed said and did him reverence.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000006_000000.wav|Thousands of years ago the Arabs had a religion that was not entirely different from that of the Jews.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000011_000003.wav|By marrying Kadijah Mohammed became rich.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000034_000003.wav|Everywhere Mohammed himself might have been seen, encouraging his followers and urging them to greater efforts. Then, when it seemed as if his forces were breaking and that nothing could be done to hold them together any longer, he stooped to the ground and picking up a handful of gravel, hurled it against his foes.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000028_000000.wav|In Yathrib the faith of Mohammed spread quickly and he received attention and reverence wherever he went.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000034_000002.wav|At first the fray went badly for the Mohammedans, for the enemy with their superior numbers forced them back.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000023_000001.wav|So it came to pass that the poor men who were Mohammedans, particularly the slaves, were made to suffer dreadful tortures.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000024_000000.wav|At last Mohammed's enemies became so afraid of the success he was gaining that they decided they must have his life at all costs, and a plot was hatched against him.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000030_000002.wav|Come unto prayer!|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000020_000000.wav|To spread the faith Mohammed set about preparing a great book which was to be the bible of those who believed in his religion.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000017_000000.wav|After four years of teaching Mohammed had only converted to the new belief forty people, who were mostly men of low degree or slaves.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000015_000000.wav|Mohammed went back to Kadijah and told her what he had seen.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000018_000002.wav|Mohammed preached that there was one God only, and that this God was greater than all things.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000004_000000.wav|MOHAMMED|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/92915/7525_92915_000020_000003.wav|It is thought, however, that he was helped in preparing the Koran by one of his disciples who could read and write.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000025_000004.wav|'When my daughter,' said the queen, 'is ten years old, you are to hand it over to her, but warn her solemnly that her whole future happiness depends on the way she guards it.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000016_000004.wav|The boy you will bring up yourself, but you must entrust the little girl to a nurse.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000016_000005.wav|When the time comes to have them christened you will invite me to be godmother to the princess, and this is how you must send the invitation.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000037_000001.wav|'When better times come,' her protectress said cheerfully, 'and you want to look like yourself again, you have only to whisper the words I have taught you into the basket, and say you would like to have your own face once more, and it will be all right in a moment.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000033_000000.wav|About this time a terrible war broke out, and the king and his army were beaten back and back, till at length they had to retire into the town, and make ready for a siege.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000047_000002.wav|Go back and fetch it, lest some ill fortune should befall her, or enter the palace and trust to chance that nothing evil would happen?|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000036_000001.wav|The queen had already met her death from a spear carelessly thrown.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000004.wav|I know that your stepmother is very unkind to you, but be brave and patient, and better days will come.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000026_000002.wav|But if they ever strayed across the path of the queen, she would kick them out of her sight like dogs.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000047_000003.wav|But before she could decide, a little swallow flew up with the basket in its beak, and the girl was happy again.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000011_000000.wav|The queen held out her hand, and the old woman examined its lines closely.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000050_000001.wav|She is not your sister at all, but the daughter of the king of a neighbouring country, who was given to your mother to bring up, to save her from the hands of a wizard.'|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000048_000001.wav|Their hopes faded as they gazed, but their mothers whispered together, saying, 'Surely this is our lost princess!'|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000024_000002.wav|At length she told the queen what she had seen, but they determined to keep it as a secret between themselves.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000028_000004.wav|Very much disappointed, she lifted the wool, and there lay the goose's wing.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000035_000000.wav|'Do not cry so, dear child,' said the godmother.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000018_000001.wav|At this proof that the old woman had spoken truth, the queen's heart bounded, for she now had fresh hopes that the rest of the prophecy might be fulfilled.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000001.wav|'Do not be afraid,' said the lady, stroking Dotterine's head.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000050_000000.wav|'This,' she said, turning to the king, 'is the girl whom you have always believed to be your sister, and who vanished during the siege.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000025_000000.wav|The twins were by this time nearly two years old, when the queen was taken suddenly ill.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000028_000005.wav|'What old rubbish,' said the child to herself, and, turning, threw the wing out of the open window.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000046_000002.wav|She put it on with fingers that trembled with joy, and, looking in the glass, was struck dumb at her own beauty. She went downstairs, and in front of the door stood a fine carriage, into which she stepped and was driven away like the wind.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000024_000001.wav|Every day the little girl seemed to grow prettier, and people used to say she would soon be as beautiful as her godmother, but no one knew, except the nurse, that at night, when the child slept, a strange and lovely lady bent over her.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000031_000001.wav|When they had finished eating, the godmother led the child back, and on the way taught her the words she must say to the basket when she wanted it to give her something.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000025_000003.wav|To her, as her most faithful servant, she gave the lucky basket in charge, and besought her to treasure it carefully.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000035_000001.wav|'I will carry you away from all this, but the others I must leave to take their chance.' Then, bidding Dotterine follow her, she passed through the gates of the town, and through the army outside, and nobody stopped them, or seemed to see them.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000028_000002.wav|Her nurse was not there, but suddenly, as she stood weeping, her eyes fell upon the golden case in which lay the precious basket.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000040_000000.wav|'Would you not like to come and enter my service?' she asked.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000000.wav|In a moment a beautiful lady stood beside her.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000022_000003.wav|The boy was called Willem.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000021_000001.wav|Next she sent for the king, who nearly went mad with joy at the sight of the children.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000011_000004.wav|Your happiness is spoilt because you have no children.' At these words the queen became scarlet, and tried to draw away her hand, but the old woman said:|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000038_000001.wav|At first the work she had to do seemed very difficult, but either she was wonderfully quick in learning, or else the basket may have secretly helped her.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000016_000001.wav|She held it out to the queen, saying, 'In the basket you will find a bird's egg.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000033_000001.wav|It lasted so long that food began to fail, and even in the palace there was not enough to eat.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000049_000002.wav|A thick cloud suddenly filled the hall, so that for a moment all was dark. Then the mist suddenly grew bright, and Dotterine's godmother was seen standing there.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000003.wav|Your red eyes tell me that you are unhappy.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000025_000001.wav|All the best doctors in the country were sent for, but it was no use, for there is no cure for death.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000014_000000.wav|'Never mind my name,' answered she, 'but rejoice that it is permitted to me to show you a way to lessen your grief.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000010_000000.wav|'Under rough bark lies smooth wood and sweet kernel,' replied the old woman.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000028_000003.wav|She thought it might contain something to amuse her, and looked eagerly inside, but nothing was there save a handful of wool and two empty eggshells.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000028_000000.wav|Two more years slipped by, when one day during the king's absence the stepmother found Dotterine sitting under a lime tree.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000049_000001.wav|And at midnight a strange thing happened.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000002.wav|'I am your godmother, and have come to pay you a visit.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000013_000000.wav|'But who are you?' asked the queen, 'for you seem to be able to read my heart.'|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000023_000001.wav|As long as you do that, no evil can come to her; so guard this treasure as the apple of your eye, and teach your daughter to do so likewise.' Then, kissing the baby three times, she mounted her coach and drove away.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000027_000000.wav|On Dotterine's tenth birthday her nurse handed her over the cradle, and repeated to her her mother's dying words; but the child was too young to understand the value of such a gift, and at first thought little about it.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000007.wav|Now come into the garden, that I may talk to you under the lime trees, where no one can hear us.'|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000020_000001.wav|The next morning she went to look at it, and the first thing she saw was the broken eggshell, and a little doll lying among the pieces. Then she felt happy at last, and leaving the doll in peace to grow, waited, as she had been told, for a baby of her own to lay beside it.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000045_000001.wav|Then she seemed to hear a voice whisper to her, 'Look in your basket, and you will find in it everything that you need.'|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000016_000006.wav|Hidden in the cradle, you will find a goose's wing: throw this out of the window, and I will be with you directly; but be sure you tell no one of all the things that have befallen you.'|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000026_000000.wav|After some years the king married again, but he did not love his second wife as he had done his first, and had only married her for reasons of ambition.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000008_000000.wav|When she had quenched her thirst, she came straight up to the queen, and said to her: 'Do not take it evil, noble lady, that I dare to speak to you, and do not be afraid of me, for it may be that I shall bring you good luck.'|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000041_000000.wav|'Very much,' replied Dotterine, 'if my present mistress will allow me.'|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000025_000005.wav|About my son, I have no fears.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000047_000001.wav|She was just going to alight, when she suddenly remembered she had left her basket behind her. What was she to do?|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000029_000006.wav|But if you should happen to find yourself in any difficulty, and cannot tell what to do, take the goose's wing from the basket, and throw it out of the window, and in a moment I will come to help you.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000023_000000.wav|After the feast was over and the guests were going away, the godmother laid the baby in the cradle, and said to the queen, 'Whenever the baby goes to sleep, be sure you lay the basket beside her, and leave the eggshells in it.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000044_000002.wav|The girl was clever with her fingers, and was occupied all day with getting ready their smart clothes, but at night when she went to bed she always dreamed that her godmother bent over her and said, 'Dress your young ladies for the feast, and when they have started follow them yourself.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000046_000001.wav|Up she jumped, seized her basket, and repeated the magic words, and behold! there lay a dress on the bed, shining as a star.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7525/101265/7525_101265_000017_000001.wav|Feeling a different being from the poor sad woman who had wandered into the garden so short a time before, she hastened to her room, and felt carefully in the basket for the egg. There it was, a tiny thing of soft blue with little green spots, and she took it out and kept it in her bosom, which was the warmest place she could think of.|7525
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000000.wav|Over night Calliope had hung out signals of approaching low spirits. He had kicked his own dog on the porch of the Occidental Hotel, and refused to apologise.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000008_000000.wav|Down the street went Calliope, shooting right and left.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000005.wav|Only once did Calliope make demonstration.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000011_000004.wav|It's up to Calliope to turn up his toes this time, I reckon.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000008_000002.wav|The din was perforated at intervals by the /staccato/ of the Terror's guns, and was drowned periodically by the brazen screech that Quicksand knew so well.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000044_000000.wav|"Shut up," said Buck.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000038_000003.wav|I wouldn't have nothin' happen to them jars for a red apple."|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000027_000002.wav|I can stay a whole week on it, and then it'll take me back again.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000013_000002.wav|At the same time the rest of the posse, divided, shelled him from two side streets up which they were cautiously manoeuvring from a well executed detour.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000025_000000.wav|"There now, great, big, strong man!|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000019_000003.wav|It played bad tunes.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000012_000001.wav|The plan was to accomplish the downfall of the Quicksand Terror without loss to the attacking party, if possible.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000025_000008.wav|You don't know me, I reckon, and 'tain't surprisin' that you shouldn't.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000027_000001.wav|One of my nephews, Elkanah Price, he's a conductor on one of them railroads and he got me a pass to come out here.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000003_000000.wav|At this stage Calliope generally began to drink.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000028_000000.wav|"I think I'll sit up now," said the concussion patient.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000035_000002.wav|You promise to be good and he won't do you no harm.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000042_000000.wav|"Easy there!" said Buck Patterson.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000006_000005.wav|A yellow dog, the personal property of Colonel Swazey, the proprietor of the Occidental, fell feet upward in the dust with one farewell yelp.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000019_000000.wav|The city marshal was resolved.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000009_000004.wav|Providing that the lives of the more useful citizens were not recklessly squandered, or too much property needlessly laid waste, the community sentiment was against a too strict enforcement of the law. But Calliope had raised the limit.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000030_000004.wav|A officer has got to take up for the law-it's his duty-and them that acts bad and lives wrong has to suffer.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000025_000012.wav|This is my son, sir."|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000003_000001.wav|Finally, about midnight, he was seen going homeward, saluting those whom he met with exaggerated but inoffensive courtesy.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000026_000001.wav|She reached out one veined and calloused hand and took one of her son's.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000008.wav|No loss resulted on either side.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000019_000001.wav|He had decided that Calliope Catesby should no more wake the echoes of Quicksand with his strident whoop. He had so announced.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000029_000000.wav|He sat, somewhat weakly yet, leaning against the wall.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000030_000002.wav|Don't you take it as meddlesome fer an old woman with a son as big as you to talk about it.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000001.wav|It stood by a shed full of sacked wool, a consignment from one of the sheep ranches.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000002.wav|On this truck the marshal and his men piled three heavy sacks of wool.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000016_000001.wav|Windows were in each of its walls.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000001_000003.wav|Overtaken by the megrims, the philosopher may seek relief in soliloquy; my lady find solace in tears; the flaccid Easterner scold at the millinery bills of his women folk.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000004_000000.wav|A quiet, amiable man was Calliope Catesby at other times-quiet to indolence, and amiable to worthlessness.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000007_000000.wav|The artillery was in trim.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000018_000001.wav|In the station was an unterrified desperado who was an excellent shot and carried an abundance of ammunition.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000017_000000.wav|Calliope made a bold and rapid spurt for it, the marshal's crowd "smoking" him as he ran.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000009_000002.wav|The patience of that official, often strained in extending leniency toward the disturber's misdeeds, had been overtaxed.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000034_000005.wav|So help me God!' That's what I'd say to you if you was marshal and I was in your place."|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000004_000002.wav|His ostensible occupation was something subordinate in the real estate line; he drove the beguiled Easterner in buckboards out to look over lots and ranch property.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000001_000004.wav|Such recourse was insufficient to the denizens of Quicksand.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000003_000004.wav|More magnanimous than Nero, he would thus give musical warning of the forthcoming municipal upheaval that Quicksand was scheduled to endure.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000003.wav|That was always an ominous act.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000030_000007.wav|Won't you let me advise you, sir, not to do so no more?|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000030_000006.wav|He's always been a good boy-good when he was growin' up, and kind and 'bedient and well behaved.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000015_000002.wav|With rare cunning the opposing force in that direction-one of the deputies and two of the valorous volunteers- waited, concealed by beer barrels, until Calliope had passed their retreat, and then peppered him from the rear.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000042_000002.wav|Don't you dare to take it off till the day your mother leaves this town.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000004_000001.wav|At best he was a loafer and a nuisance; at worst he was the Terror of Quicksand.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000006.wav|He fired from a window, and some tufts of wool spurted from the marshal's trustworthy bulwark.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000011_000001.wav|"Don't have no talk, but shoot as soon as you can get a show.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000014_000001.wav|Feeling braced up by this unexpected tonic to his spiritual depression, Calliope executed a fortissimo note from his upper register, and returned the fire like an echo.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000032_000000.wav|"What does the marshal say?" he asked.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000015_000004.wav|His eye fell upon a structure that seemed to hold out this promise, providing he could reach it.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000013_000000.wav|The splenetic Calliope, unconscious of retributive plots, was steaming down the channel, cannonading on either side, when he suddenly became aware of breakers ahead.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000021_000000.wav|The marshal was too deeply engrossed in steering his protected battleship to be aware of the approach of the morning train until he was within a few feet of the platform.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000009_000000.wav|But some four squares farther down lively preparations were being made to minister to mr Catesby's love for interchange of compliments and repartee.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000031_000000.wav|The black mitted hand of the old pleader gently touched the breast of the man she addressed.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000022_000001.wav|The members of the posse heard one shot fired inside, and then there was silence.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000021_000004.wav|He had only to step out the other door, mount the train, and away.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000030_000005.wav|Don't blame my son any, sir-'tain't his fault.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000001.wav|He had become capricious and fault finding in conversation.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000013_000001.wav|The city marshal and one of the deputies rose up behind some dry goods boxes half a square to the front and opened fire.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000004.wav|The posse, scattering broadly, stood ready to nip the besieged in case he should show himself in an effort to repel the juggernaut of justice that was creeping upon him.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000004.wav|Another symptom alarming to those who were familiar with the different stages of his doldrums was his increasing politeness and a tendency to use formal phrases.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000042_000001.wav|"You keep that badge right where it is, Calliope Catesby.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000027_000013.wav|He met me at the door, and squeezes me 'most to death.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000002.wav|While strolling about he reached often for twigs of mesquite and chewed the leaves fiercely.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000040_000005.wav|The idea struck me sudden, and I just took your badge off and fastened it onto myself, and I fastened my reputation onto you.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000006.wav|A dangerous courtesy marked his manners.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000016_000000.wav|Not far away was the little railroad station, its building a strong box house, ten by twenty feet, resting upon a platform four feet above ground.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000034_000004.wav|I'll be a good citizen and go to work and quit my foolishness.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000034_000003.wav|I'll drop the tanglefoot and the gun play, and won't play hoss no more.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000000.wav|Standing near was a hand truck used in the manipulation of small freight.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000032_000002.wav|Suppose the marshal speaks up and says if the talk's all right?"|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000035_000001.wav|"Hear him, sir.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000035_000000.wav|"Hear my son talkin'," said the old woman softly.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000030_000008.wav|Be a good man, and leave liquor alone and live peaceably and goodly.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000017_000001.wav|He reached the haven in safety, the station agent leaving the building by a window, like a flying squirrel, as the garrison entered the door.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000006_000001.wav|Inspired by his own barbarous melodies and the contents of his jug, he was ready primed to gather fresh laurels from the diffident brow of Quicksand.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000024_000005.wav|He was trying to get these facts fixed in his mind and connected with past events, when the old woman began to talk.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000027_000007.wav|But, laws!|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000004_000003.wav|Originally he came from one of the Gulf States, his lank six feet, slurring rhythm of speech, and sectional idioms giving evidence of his birthplace.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000006_000002.wav|Encircled and criss crossed with cartridge belts, abundantly garnished with revolvers, and copiously drunk, he poured forth into Quicksand's main street.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000026_000000.wav|Half turning, the old woman looked up at the standing man, her worn face lighting with a proud and wonderful smile.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000002_000007.wav|Later, his smile became crooked, the left side of his mouth slanting upward, and Quicksand got ready to stand from under.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000024_000004.wav|A little old woman in black, with a wrinkled face and sparkling black eyes, was holding a wet handkerchief against one of his temples.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000009_000005.wav|His outbursts had been too frequent and too violent to come within the classification of a normal and sanitary relaxation of spirit.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000033_000001.wav|He fingered the badge on his breast for a moment, and then he put an arm around the old woman and drew her close to him.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000015_000001.wav|Choosing with a rapid eye the street from which the weakest and least accurate fire had come, he invaded it at a double quick, abandoning the unprotected middle of the street.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000040_000007.wav|You can take your badge back now, Buck."|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000020_000007.wav|The return shots from the posse pattered against the window frame of the fort.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000012_000000.wav|Buck Patterson, tall, muscular, and solemn faced, with his bright "City Marshal" badge shining on the breast of his blue flannel shirt, gave his posse directions for the onslaught upon Calliope.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000028_000001.wav|"I'm feeling pretty fair by this time."|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000011_000000.wav|"Gather that fellow in," said Buck Patterson, setting forth the lines of the campaign.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000010_000000.wav|Buck Patterson had been expecting and awaiting in his little ten by twelve frame office that preliminary yell announcing that Calliope was feeling blue.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000024_000003.wav|A tall man with a perplexed countenance, wearing a big badge with "City Marshal" engraved upon it, stood over him.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000001_000001.wav|Ennui was upon him.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000029_000001.wav|He was a rugged man, big boned and straight.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000024_000001.wav|After a blank space he again could see and hear and feel and think.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8464/282934/8464_282934_000001_000005.wav|Calliope, especially, was wont to express his ennui according to his lights.|8464
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000003.wav|We have refused to tell the tale till it is written by you, for fear lest we shall not be believed.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000032_000004.wav|He told me that since he had been home he hadn't seen a woman to touch her, either as regards her figure or the sweetness of her expression.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000026_000000.wav|p s--Just as I had written the last word, a Kafir came up my avenue of orange trees, carrying a letter in a cleft stick, which he had brought from the post.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000004.wav|If you start on receipt of this you will reach here by Christmas, and I book you to stay with me for that.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000024_000002.wav|But we did accomplish it somehow, and to give its details would only be to reproduce much of what happened to us on the former occasion.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000039_000000.wav|ALLAN QUATERMAIN.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000001.wav|You have done your day's work, and have lots of money now, and there is a place for sale quite close which would suit you admirably.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000029_000001.wav|We got off the boat at Southampton, and went up to town.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000021_000000.wav|"By Jove!" said George Curtis, when I showed him some of the diamonds: "well, at least you have got something for your pains, besides my worthless self."|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000002_000000.wav|And now I come to perhaps the strangest adventure that happened to us in all this strange business, and one which shows how wonderfully things are brought about.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000022_000000.wav|Sir Henry laughed.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000036_000002.wav|Don't lose poor Foulata's basket in which you brought away the diamonds.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000038_000000.wav|To day is Tuesday.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000017_000002.wav|As for the note I had sent him by Jim, that worthy lost it, and he had never heard of it till to day.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000031_000003.wav|They offer, however, a hundred and eighty thousand for a very small portion of them.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000000.wav|I want you to come home, my dear old comrade, and to buy a house near here.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000017_000000.wav|That evening, over the camp fire, George Curtis told us his story, which, in its way, was almost as eventful as our own, and, put shortly, amounted to this.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000032_000002.wav|His time is too much occupied in shaving, and other matters connected with the vain adorning of the body.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000017_000006.wav|In so doing he loosened a great boulder of rock, which fell upon George Curtis's right leg, crushing it frightfully.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000003_000001.wav|There, not twenty yards in front of me, placed in a charming situation, under the shade of a species of fig tree, and facing to the stream, was a cosy hut, built more or less on the Kafir principle with grass and withes, but having a full length door instead of a bee hole.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000037_000000.wav|h c|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000006_000001.wav|When he was close he fell down in a sort of faint.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000004_000002.wav|It was impossible.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000004_000005.wav|I stared and stared, and so did the other man, and just at that juncture Sir Henry and Good walked up.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000036_000001.wav|I wish that we could have managed to bring away the coats of chain armour.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000020_000000.wav|Then Sir Henry set to work, and told him the main facts of our adventures, sitting till late into the night to do it.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000013_000000.wav|"My dear old fellow," burst out Sir Henry at last, "I thought you were dead.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000023_000001.wav|Finally, we prevailed upon him to consent to this arrangement, but George Curtis did not know of it until some time afterwards.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000010_000001.wav|I'm Jim the hunter. I lost the note you gave me to give to the Baas, and we have been here nearly two years." And the fellow fell at my feet, and rolled over and over, weeping for joy.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000015_000000.wav|Then I came up.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000017_000004.wav|In the desert he and Jim had suffered great hardships, but finally they reached this oasis, where a terrible accident befell George Curtis.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000007_000000.wav|With a spring Sir Henry was by his side.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000017_000003.wav|But, acting upon information he had received from the natives, he headed not for Sheba's Breasts, but for the ladder like descent of the mountains down which we had just come, which is clearly a better route than that marked out in old Dom Silvestra's plan.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000019_000001.wav|He was to go to morrow, but I had little hope of ever seeing him back again.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000006.wav|I have had him down for a week's shooting, and like him.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000034_000000.wav|Good bye, old boy; I can't say any more, but I know that you will come, if it is only to oblige|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000002.wav|Do come; the sooner the better; you can finish writing the story of our adventures on board ship.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000005_000000.wav|"Look here, you fellows," I said, "is that a white man, or am I mad?"|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000018_000000.wav|As for food, however, they got on pretty well, for they had a good supply of ammunition, and the oasis was frequented, especially at night, by large quantities of game, which came thither for water.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000031_000000.wav|To come to business, Good and I took the diamonds to Streeter's to be valued, as we arranged, and really I am afraid to tell you what they put them at, it seems so enormous.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000010_000000.wav|"Macumazahn," he halloed, "don't you know me, Baas?|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000004_000001.wav|I thought that I must have got a touch of the sun|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000017_000005.wav|On the day of their arrival he was sitting by the stream, and Jim was extracting the honey from the nest of a stingless bee which is to be found in the desert, on the top of a bank immediately above him.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000003_000000.wav|I was walking along quietly, some way in front of the other two, down the banks of the stream which runs from the oasis till it is swallowed up in the hungry desert sands, when suddenly I stopped and rubbed my eyes, as well I might.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000007.wav|He is a cool young hand; he shot me in the leg, cut out the pellets, and then remarked upon the advantages of having a medical student with every shooting party!|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000023_000000.wav|This remark set me thinking, and having spoken to Good, I told Sir Henry that it was our joint wish that he should take a third portion of the diamonds, or, if he would not, that his share should be handed to his brother, who had suffered even more than ourselves on the chance of getting them.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000033_000005.wav|Good is coming, and George; and so, by the way, is your boy Harry (there's a bribe for you).|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000036_000000.wav|p s--The tusks of the great bull that killed poor Khiva have now been put up in the hall here, over the pair of buffalo horns you gave me, and look magnificent; and the axe with which I chopped off Twala's head is fixed above my writing table.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000006_000000.wav|Sir Henry looked, and Good looked, and then all of a sudden the lame white man with a black beard uttered a great cry, and began hobbling towards us.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000018_000001.wav|These they shot, or trapped in pitfalls, using the flesh for food, and, after their clothes wore out, the hides for clothing.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000009_000000.wav|At the sound of this disturbance, another figure, also clad in skins, emerged from the hut, a gun in his hand, and ran towards us.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000004_000003.wav|No hunter ever came to such a place as this.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000022_000001.wav|"They belong to Quatermain and Good.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000016_000002.wav|It is all so very strange, and, when a man has ceased to hope, so very happy!"|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000030_000000.wav|He is furious, especially as some ill natured person has printed it in a Society paper.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000026_000001.wav|It turned out to be from Sir Henry, and as it speaks for itself I give it in full.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000019_000000.wav|"And so," George Curtis ended, "we have lived for nearly two years, like a second Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday, hoping against hope that some natives might come here to help us away, but none have come. Only last night we settled that Jim should leave me, and try to reach Sitanda's Kraal to get assistance.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/128761/359_128761_000019_000003.wav|It is the most wonderful thing that I have ever heard of, and the most merciful too."|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000015_000002.wav|On all the four walls of this vestibule were placed pairs of horns-about a hundred pairs altogether, all of which I had shot myself.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000013_000003.wav|They looked very white upon the black cloth!|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000018_000006.wav|In a savage land they do not exist. Besides, the question will arise: How many of these blessings are due to Christianity as distinct from civilization?|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000010_000002.wav|Who am I that I should complain?|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000017_000002.wav|A great gulf fixed?|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000021_000000.wav|So, when the heart is stricken, and the head is humbled in the dust, civilization fails us utterly.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000017_000005.wav|It is a depressing conclusion, but in all essentials the savage and the child of civilization are identical.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000022_000002.wav|I would go again where the wild game was, back to the land whereof none know the history, back to the savages, whom I love, although some of them are almost as merciless as Political Economy.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000011_000001.wav|He was doing so well at the hospital, he had passed his last examination with honours, and I was proud of them, much prouder than he was, I think.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000015_000003.wav|They are beautiful specimens, as I never keep any horns which are not in every way perfect, unless it may be now and again on account of the associations connected with them.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000004_000000.wav|By h Rider Haggard|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000019_000001.wav|It seems to me very desirable that we should sometimes try to understand the limitations of our nature, so that we may not be carried away by the pride of knowledge.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000011_000004.wav|I might have saved him, too-I have money enough for both of us, and much more than enough-King Solomon's Mines provided me with that; but I said, "No, let the boy earn his living, let him labour that he may enjoy rest." But the rest has come to him before the labour.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000017_000000.wav|Ah! this civilization, what does it all come to?|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000013_000004.wav|There was a little hitch about getting the coffin down into the grave-the necessary ropes had been forgotten: so we drew back from it, and waited in silence watching the big flakes fall gently one by one like heavenly benedictions, and melt in tears on Harry's pall.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000017_000006.wav|I dare say that the highly civilized lady reading this will smile at an old fool of a hunter's simplicity when she thinks of her black bead bedecked sister; and so will the superfine cultured idler scientifically eating a dinner at his club, the cost of which would keep a starving family for a week.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000013_000002.wav|The coffin was put down by the grave, and a few big flakes lit upon it.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000015_000008.wav|And many an elephant have I shot with that old gun.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000010_000004.wav|We do not prostrate ourselves before it like the poor Indians; we fly hither and thither-we cry for mercy; but it is of no use, the black Fate thunders on and in its season reduces us to powder.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000012_000000.wav|'I am like the man in the Bible who laid up much goods and builded barns-goods for my boy and barns for him to store them in; and now his soul has been required of him, and I am left desolate.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000019_000002.wav|Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000018_000002.wav|A vainglory is it, and like a northern light, comes but to fade and leave the sky more dark.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000022_000000.wav|And so in my trouble, as I walked up and down the oak panelled vestibule of my house there in Yorkshire, I longed once more to throw myself into the arms of Nature.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000018_000005.wav|Of course they have great advantages-hospitals for instance; but then, remember, we breed the sickly people who fill them.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000020_000001.wav|It is on the nineteen rough serviceable savage portions that we fall back on emergencies, not on the polished but unsubstantial twentieth.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000016_000002.wav|Yes, as I walked, I began to long to see the moonlight gleaming silvery white over the wide veldt and mysterious sea of bush, and watch the lines of game travelling down the ridges to the water.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000020_000002.wav|Civilization should wipe away our tears, and yet we weep and cannot be comforted.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000010_000000.wav|'I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000018_000000.wav|There, I might go on for ever, but what is the good?|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000013_000000.wav|'We buried him this afternoon under the shadow of the grey and ancient tower of the church of this village where my house is.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000019_000000.wav|I make no apology for this digression, especially as this is an introduction which all young people and those who never like to think (and it is a bad habit) will naturally skip.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000014_000000.wav|The above, signed 'Allan Quatermain', is an extract from my diary written two years and more ago.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000014_000001.wav|I copy it down here because it seems to me that it is the fittest beginning to the history that I am about to write, if it please God to spare me to finish it.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000009_000000.wav|december twenty third|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000019_000004.wav|It is the one fixed unchangeable thing-fixed as the stars, more enduring than the mountains, as unalterable as the way of the Eternal.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000010_000003.wav|The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late-it does not matter when, in the end, it crushes us all.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000011_000002.wav|And then he must needs go to that smallpox hospital.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000013_000005.wav|But that was not all. A robin redbreast came as bold as could be and lit upon the coffin and began to sing.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000000_000000.wav|This is a LibriVox recording.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000018_000004.wav|Do not let me, however, be understood as decrying our modern institutions, representing as they do the gathered experience of humanity applied for the good of all.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000011_000003.wav|He wrote to me that he was not afraid of smallpox and wanted to gain the experience; and now the disease has killed him, and I, old and grey and withered, am left to mourn over him, without a chick or child to comfort me.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000019_000006.wav|But the composing elements remain the same, nor will there be one more bit of coloured glass nor one less for ever and ever.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000016_000004.wav|But, independently of my trouble, no man who has for forty years lived the life I have, can with impunity go coop himself in this prim English country, with its trim hedgerows and cultivated fields, its stiff formal manners, and its well dressed crowds.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/359/133630/359_133630_000015_000005.wav|Some of them I have had for forty years, old muzzle loaders that nobody would look at nowadays.|359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000008_000001.wav|The case is the same with the probability of causes, as with that of chance.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000008_000009.wav|Here then it seems evident, that, when we transfer the past to the future, in order to determine the effect, which will result from any cause, we transfer all the different events, in the same proportion as they have appeared in the past, and conceive one to have existed a hundred times, for instance, another ten times, and another once.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000008_000007.wav|Though we give the preference to that which has been found most usual, and believe that this effect will exist, we must not overlook the other effects, but must assign to each of them a particular weight and authority, in proportion as we have found it to be more or less frequent.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000007_000000.wav|It seems evident, that, when the mind looks forward to discover the event, which may result from the throw of such a dye, it considers the turning up of each particular side as alike probable; and this is the very nature of chance, to render all the particular events, comprehended in it, entirely equal.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000007_000003.wav|If we allow, that belief is nothing but a firmer and stronger conception of an object than what attends the mere fictions of the imagination, this operation may, perhaps, in some measure, be accounted for.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000008_000002.wav|There are some causes, which are entirely uniform and constant in producing a particular effect; and no instance has ever yet been found of any failure or irregularity in their operation.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000007_000004.wav|The concurrence of these several views or glimpses imprints the idea more strongly on the imagination; gives it superior force and vigour; renders its influence on the passions and affections more sensible; and in a word, begets that reliance or security, which constitutes the nature of belief and opinion.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135654/1392_135654_000008_000011.wav|Let any one try to account for this operation of the mind upon any of the received systems of philosophy, and he will be sensible of the difficulty.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000003_000002.wav|Where the causes are entirely similar, the analogy is perfect, and the inference, drawn from it, is regarded as certain and conclusive: nor does any man ever entertain a doubt, where he sees a piece of iron, that it will have weight and cohesion of parts; as in all other instances, which have ever fallen under his observation.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000005_000001.wav|Is it not experience, which renders a dog apprehensive of pain, when you menace him, or lift up the whip to beat him?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000004_000003.wav|The ignorance and inexperience of the young are here plainly distinguishable from the cunning and sagacity of the old, who have learned, by long observation, to avoid what hurt them, and to pursue what gave ease or pleasure.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000010_000003.wav|It is therefore considered as a matter of great importance to observe the consequences of things; and as one man may very much surpass another in attention and memory and observation, this will make a very great difference in their reasoning.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000015_000001.wav|The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000019_000000.wav|It would be easy to discover many other circumstances that make a difference in the understandings of men.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000012_000001.wav|One man is able to carry on a chain of consequences to a greater length than another.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000003_000001.wav|All our reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on a species of Analogy, which leads us to expect from any cause the same events, which we have observed to result from similar causes.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000018_000001.wav|After we have acquired a confidence in human testimony, books and conversation enlarge much more the sphere of one man's experience and thought than those of another.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000007_000002.wav|For if there be in reality any arguments of this nature, they surely lie too abstruse for the observation of such imperfect understandings; since it may well employ the utmost care and attention of a philosophic genius to discover and observe them.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000011_000001.wav|Where there is a complication of causes to produce any effect, one mind may be much larger than another, and better able to comprehend the whole system of objects, and to infer justly their consequences.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000020_000002.wav|These we denominate Instincts, and are so apt to admire as something very extraordinary, and inexplicable by all the disquisitions of human understanding.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000004_000004.wav|A horse, that has been accustomed to the field, becomes acquainted with the proper height which he can leap, and will never attempt what exceeds his force and ability.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000005_000002.wav|Is it not even experience, which makes him answer to his name, and infer, from such an arbitrary sound, that you mean him rather than any of his fellows, and intend to call him, when you pronounce it in a certain manner, and with a certain tone and accent?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000010_000002.wav|By means of this general habitual principle, we regard even one experiment as the foundation of reasoning, and expect a similar event with some degree of certainty, where the experiment has been made accurately, and free from all foreign circumstances.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000003_000005.wav|We shall make trial of this, with regard to the hypothesis, by which we have, in the foregoing discourse, endeavoured to account for all experimental reasonings; and it is hoped, that this new point of view will serve to confirm all our former observations.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000014_000002.wav|The separation of it often requires great attention, accuracy, and subtilty.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000016_000001.wav|When we reason from analogies, the man, who has the greater experience or the greater promptitude of suggesting analogies, will be the better reasoner.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000013_000001.wav|Few men can think long without running into a confusion of ideas, and mistaking one for another; and there are various degrees of this infirmity.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000010_000001.wav|When we have lived any time, and have been accustomed to the uniformity of nature, we acquire a general habit, by which we always transfer the known to the unknown, and conceive the latter to resemble the former.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000004_000005.wav|An old greyhound will trust the more fatiguing part of the chace to the younger, and will place himself so as to meet the hare in her doubles; nor are the conjectures, which he forms on this occasion, founded in any thing but his observation and experience.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000003_000003.wav|But where the objects have not so exact a similarity, the analogy is less perfect, and the inference is less conclusive; though still it has some force, in proportion to the degree of similarity and resemblance.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/135659/1392_135659_000009_000000.wav|We shall here endeavour briefly to explain the great difference in human understandings: After which the reason of the difference between men and animals will easily be comprehended.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000055_000001.wav|There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000044_000001.wav|As the impurity which springs from the iron, when it springs from it, destroys it; thus do a transgressor's own works lead him to the evil path.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000008_000001.wav|The sight of the elect (Arya) is good, to live with them is always happiness; if a man does not see fools, he will be truly happy.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000039_000001.wav|Thou art now like a sear leaf, the messengers of death (Yama) have come near to thee; thou standest at the door of thy departure, and thou hast no provision for thy journey.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000013_000001.wav|Let no man ever look for what is pleasant, or what is unpleasant. Not to see what is pleasant is pain, and it is pain to see what is unpleasant.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000047_000001.wav|But there is a taint worse than all taints,--ignorance is the greatest taint.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000034_000002.wav|Leave the sins of the body, and with thy body practise virtue!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000024_000000.wav|Chapter seventeen.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000049_000001.wav|But life is hard to live for a modest man, who always looks for what is pure, who is disinterested, quiet, spotless, and intelligent.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000025_000002.wav|No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name and form, and who calls nothing his own.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000011_000001.wav|Pleasure|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000048_000001.wav|Life is easy to live for a man who is without shame, a crow hero, a mischief maker, an insulting, bold, and wretched fellow.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000004_000001.wav|There is no fire like passion; there is no losing throw like hatred; there is no pain like this body; there is no happiness higher than rest.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000052_000001.wav|O man, know this, that the unrestrained are in a bad state; take care that greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief for a long time!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000038_000001.wav|Impurity|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000034_000001.wav|Beware of bodily anger, and control thy body!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000002_000001.wav|Let us live happily then, though we call nothing our own!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000035_000002.wav|Leave the sins of the tongue, and practise virtue with thy tongue!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000009_000001.wav|He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000011_000000.wav|Chapter sixteen.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000020_000001.wav|He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold dear.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000024_000001.wav|Anger|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000040_000001.wav|Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000014_000001.wav|Let, therefore, no man love anything; loss of the beloved is evil. Those who love nothing and hate nothing, have no fetters.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000015_000001.wav|From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear; he who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000026_000001.wav|He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000041_000001.wav|Thy life has come to an end, thou art come near to death (Yama), there is no resting place for thee on the road, and thou hast no provision for thy journey.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000037_000001.wav|The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000007_000001.wav|He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquillity, is free from fear and free from sin, while he tastes the sweetness of drinking in the law.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000025_000001.wav|Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000003_000001.wav|Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000042_000002.wav|When thy impurities are blown away, and thou art free from guilt, thou wilt not enter again into birth and decay.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000051_000001.wav|And the man who gives himself to drinking intoxicating liquors, he, even in this world, digs up his own root.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000012_000001.wav|He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000006_000001.wav|Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best riches; trust is the best of relationships, Nirvana the highest happiness.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000042_000001.wav|Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000038_000000.wav|Chapter eighteen.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000047_000002.wav|O mendicants! throw off that taint, and become taintless!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/140654/1392_140654_000023_000001.wav|In like manner his good works receive him who has done good, and has gone from this world to the other;--as kinsmen receive a friend on his return.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000011_000000.wav|Alas! there are so many great thoughts that do nothing more than the bellows: they inflate, and make emptier than ever.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000015_000000.wav|Canst thou give unto thyself thy bad and thy good, and set up thy will as a law over thee?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000036_000000.wav|To create, desireth the loving one, because he despiseth!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000005_000002.wav|And long didst thou belong to the herd.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000009_000001.wav|A first motion?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000005_000000.wav|"He who seeketh may easily get lost himself.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000021_000000.wav|Hast thou ever known, my brother, the word "disdain"?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000027_000001.wav|All is unholy to it that is not simple; fain, likewise, would it play with the fire-of the fagot and stake.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000013_000001.wav|Many a one hath cast away his final worth when he hath cast away his servitude.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000012_000000.wav|Free, dost thou call thyself?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000006_000000.wav|The voice of the herd will still echo in thee.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000012_000001.wav|Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000004_000002.wav|Tarry yet a little and hearken unto me.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000034_000000.wav|Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way of the creating one: a God wilt thou create for thyself out of thy seven devils!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000030_000000.wav|But the worst enemy thou canst meet, wilt thou thyself always be; thou waylayest thyself in caverns and forests.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000023_000000.wav|Thou goest beyond them: but the higher thou risest, the smaller doth the eye of envy see thee.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000038_000001.wav|I love him who seeketh to create beyond himself, and thus succumbeth.--|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000003_000000.wav|seventeen.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000024_000000.wav|"How could ye be just unto me!"--must thou say-"I choose your injustice as my allotted portion."|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000005_000001.wav|All isolation is wrong": so say the herd.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000020_000001.wav|But art thou capable of it-to be a murderer?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000010_000000.wav|Alas! there is so much lusting for loftiness!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000016_000000.wav|Terrible is aloneness with the judge and avenger of one's own law. Thus is a star projected into desert space, and into the icy breath of aloneness.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000032_000000.wav|A heretic wilt thou be to thyself, and a wizard and a sooth sayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000023_000001.wav|Most of all, however, is the flying one hated.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000013_000000.wav|Art thou one ENTITLED to escape from a yoke?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000020_000000.wav|There are feelings which seek to slay the lonesome one; if they do not succeed, then must they themselves die!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000036_000001.wav|What knoweth he of love who hath not been obliged to despise just what he loved!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000028_000000.wav|And be on thy guard, also, against the assaults of thy love!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000010_000002.wav|Show me that thou art not a lusting and ambitious one!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000015_000001.wav|Canst thou be judge for thyself, and avenger of thy law?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000014_000000.wav|Free from what?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000026_000000.wav|And be on thy guard against the good and just!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000031_000000.wav|Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way to thyself!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000025_000000.wav|Injustice and filth cast they at the lonesome one: but, my brother, if thou wouldst be a star, thou must shine for them none the less on that account!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000006_000001.wav|And when thou sayest, "I have no longer a conscience in common with you," then will it be a plaint and a pain.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000021_000001.wav|And the anguish of thy justice in being just to those that disdain thee?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000007_000000.wav|Lo, that pain itself did the same conscience produce; and the last gleam of that conscience still gloweth on thine affliction.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000022_000000.wav|Thou forcest many to think differently about thee; that, charge they heavily to thine account.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000031_000001.wav|And past thyself and thy seven devils leadeth thy way!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000022_000001.wav|Thou camest nigh unto them, and yet wentest past: for that they never forgive thee.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000038_000000.wav|With my tears, go into thine isolation, my brother.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000009_000000.wav|Art thou a new strength and a new authority?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000039_000000.wav|Thus spake Zarathustra.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000028_000001.wav|Too readily doth the recluse reach his hand to any one who meeteth him.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000009_000003.wav|Canst thou also compel stars to revolve around thee?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000010_000001.wav|There are so many convulsions of the ambitions!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000009_000002.wav|A self rolling wheel?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000026_000001.wav|They would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue-they hate the lonesome ones.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128240/1392_128240_000014_000002.wav|Clearly, however, shall thine eye show unto me: free FOR WHAT?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000037_000000.wav|Hearken rather, my brethren, to the voice of the healthy body; it is a more upright and pure voice.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000014_000000.wav|To me the convalescent would it now be suffering and torment to believe in such phantoms: suffering would it now be to me, and humiliation.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000033_000001.wav|Raving of the reason was likeness to God, and doubt was sin.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000016_000000.wav|Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000033_000000.wav|Backward they always gaze toward dark ages: then, indeed, were delusion and faith something different.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000036_000000.wav|But it is a sickly thing to them, and gladly would they get out of their skin.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000020_000000.wav|But that "other world" is well concealed from man, that dehumanised, inhuman world, which is a celestial naught; and the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000034_000000.wav|Too well do I know those godlike ones: they insist on being believed in, and that doubt is sin.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000029_000000.wav|Beyond the sphere of their body and this earth they now fancied themselves transported, these ungrateful ones.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000019_000000.wav|And then it sought to get through the ultimate walls with its head-and not with its head only-into "the other world."|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000007_000000.wav|Good and evil, and joy and woe, and I and thou-coloured vapours did they seem to me before creative eyes.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000036_000001.wav|Therefore hearken they to the preachers of death, and themselves preach backworlds.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000011_000000.wav|Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000003_000000.wav|Thus spake Zarathustra.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000030_000000.wav|Gentle is Zarathustra to the sickly.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000013_000002.wav|And lo!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000018_000000.wav|Believe me, my brethren!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000027_000000.wav|The sick and perishing-it was they who despised the body and the earth, and invented the heavenly world, and the redeeming blood drops; but even those sweet and sad poisons they borrowed from the body and the earth!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000030_000002.wav|May they become convalescents and overcomers, and create higher bodies for themselves!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000018_000001.wav|It was the body which despaired of the earth-it heard the bowels of existence speaking unto it.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000017_000001.wav|It was the body which despaired of the body-it groped with the fingers of the infatuated spirit at the ultimate walls.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000034_000001.wav|Too well, also, do I know what they themselves most believe in.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000007_000001.wav|The creator wished to look away from himself,--thereupon he created the world.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000028_000001.wav|Then they sighed: "O that there were heavenly paths by which to steal into another existence and into happiness!" Then they contrived for themselves their by paths and bloody draughts!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000021_000000.wav|Verily, it is difficult to prove all being, and hard to make it speak. Tell me, ye brethren, is not the strangest of all things best proved?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000029_000002.wav|To their body and this earth.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000012_000002.wav|And verily, it came not unto me from the beyond!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000008_000001.wav|Intoxicating joy and self forgetting, did the world once seem to me.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000028_000000.wav|From their misery they sought escape, and the stars were too remote for them.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000029_000001.wav|But to what did they owe the convulsion and rapture of their transport?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000013_000003.wav|Thereupon the phantom WITHDREW from me!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000031_000000.wav|Neither is Zarathustra indignant at a convalescent who looketh tenderly on his delusions, and at midnight stealeth round the grave of his God; but sickness and a sick frame remain even in his tears.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000032_000000.wav|Many sickly ones have there always been among those who muse, and languish for God; violently they hate the discerning ones, and the latest of virtues, which is uprightness.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000025_000000.wav|A new pride taught me mine ego, and that teach I unto men: no longer to thrust one's head into the sand of celestial things, but to carry it freely, a terrestrial head, which giveth meaning to the earth!|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000005_000001.wav|The work of a suffering and tortured God, did the world then seem to me.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000013_000000.wav|What happened, my brethren?|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000009_000000.wav|This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image-an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator:--thus did the world once seem to me.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000013_000001.wav|I surpassed myself, the suffering one; I carried mine own ashes to the mountain; a brighter flame I contrived for myself.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000006_000000.wav|The dream-and diction-of a God, did the world then seem to me; coloured vapours before the eyes of a divinely dissatisfied one.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000035_000000.wav|Verily, not in backworlds and redeeming blood drops: but in the body do they also believe most; and their own body is for them the thing in itself.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000012_000000.wav|A man was he, and only a poor fragment of a man and ego.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000010_000000.wav|Thus, once on a time, did I also cast my fancy beyond man, like all backworldsmen.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000022_000000.wav|Yea, this ego, with its contradiction and perplexity, speaketh most uprightly of its being-this creating, willing, evaluing ego, which is the measure and value of things.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000039_000000.wav|Thus spake Zarathustra.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1392/128226/1392_128226_000005_000000.wav|Once on a time, Zarathustra also cast his fancy beyond man, like all backworldsmen.|1392
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000036_000000.wav|Thus, with never failing persistence and patience, coupled with intense thought and hard work, Edison met and conquered, one by one, the complex difficulties that confronted him.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000030_000001.wav|Here again Edison reversed prior practice by discarding rotary screens and devising a form of tower screen, which, besides having a very large working capacity by gravity, eliminated all power except that required to elevate the material.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000010_000000.wav|Reduced to its barest, crudest terms, the proposition of magnetic separation is simplicity itself.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000000.wav|The financial aspect of these enterprises is often overlooked and forgotten.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000001.wav|In this instance it was of more than usual import and seriousness, as Edison was virtually his own "backer," putting into the company almost the whole of all the fortune his inventions had brought him.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000002_000000.wav|DURING the Hudson Fulton celebration of October, nineteen o nine, Burgomaster Van Leeuwen, of Amsterdam, member of the delegation sent officially from Holland to escort the Half Moon and participate in the functions of the anniversary, paid a visit to the Edison laboratory at Orange to see the inventor, who may be regarded as pre-eminent among those of Dutch descent in this country.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000031_000005.wav|Obviously, at each step the percentage of felspar and phosphorus is less and less until in the final concentrates the percentage of iron oxide is ninety one to ninety three per cent.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000007_000003.wav|Hence the elimination of the worthless "gangue" by concentration of the iron particles associated with it, seemed to be the only solution of the problem.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000013_000001.wav|His genius as an inventor is revealed in many details of the great concentrating plant....|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000008.wav|In other words, it was the kinetic energy of the rolls that crumbled up the rocks with pile driver effect.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000042_000000.wav|"The richness of the ore and its purity of course affect the limestone consumption.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000034_000000.wav|This was the final process requisite for the making of a completed commercial product.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000020_000005.wav|He reasoned that the advantages thus obtained would be fourfold: a minimum of machinery and parts; greater compactness; a saving of power; and greater economy in mining.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000027_000000.wav|A brief description of this remarkable machine will probably interest the reader.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000004.wav|The space between these two rolls allowed pieces of rock measuring less than fourteen inches to descend to other smaller rolls placed below.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000003.wav|The rolls were set face to face fourteen inches apart, in a heavy frame, and the total weight was one hundred and thirty tons, of which seventy tons were in moving parts.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000004.wav|It must be hard enough to bear transportation, and to carry the furnace burden without crumbling to pieces.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000011_000000.wav|Simple though the principle appears, it was in its application to vast masses of material and in the solving of great engineering problems connected therewith that Edison's originality made itself manifest in the concentrating works that he established in New Jersey, early in the nineties.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000025_000001.wav|At the time this adjunct to the plant was required, the best dryer on the market was of a rotary type, which had a capacity of only twenty tons per hour, with the expenditure of considerable power.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000008.wav|These severe requirements were staggering, but mr Edison's courage did not falter. Although it seemed a well nigh hopeless task, he entered upon the investigation with his usual optimism and vim.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000003.wav|It is an absolute fact that the great electrical inventors and the men who stood behind them have had little return for their foresight and courage.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000030_000000.wav|The rocks having thus been reduced to fine powder, the mass was ready for screening on its way to the magnetic separators.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000001.wav|The faith that "moves mountains" had a new opportunity.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000043_000001.wav|It is regarded as possible that Eastern furnaces will be able to use a smaller proportion of the costlier coke and correspondingly increase in anthracite coal, which is a cheaper fuel in that section.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000020_000006.wav|As this last named operation precedes the crushing, let us first consider it as it was projected and carried on by him.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000010.wav|The steam shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. When the skips arrived at the giant rolls, their contents were dumped automatically into a superimposed hopper.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000044_000005.wav|I am willing to help you.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000019_000000.wav|It is hardly necessary to devote space to the beginnings of the enterprise, although they are full of interest.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000009_000001.wav|His first patent on the subject was applied for and issued early in eighteen eighty.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000016_000000.wav|"The amount of ore disclosed by this survey was simply fabulous.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000015_000004.wav|Thus we advanced all the way to North Carolina, varying our cross-country march from two to twenty five miles, according to geological formation.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000049_000002.wav|In the patient solving of tremendous problems he had toiled up the mountain side of success-scaling its topmost peak and obtaining a view of the boundless prospect.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000031_000002.wav|This batch of material goes back for another crushing, so that everything is subjected to an equality of refining.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000041_000000.wav|"These figures prove that the yield of the furnace is considerably increased.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000049_000003.wav|But, alas!|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000025_000000.wav|This method of drying was original with Edison.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000005_000004.wav|During the twenty eight years that have intervened it has never come back." This incident was really the prelude to the development set forth in this chapter.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000024_000002.wav|The whole crushing operation of reduction from massive boulders to small pebbly pieces having been done in less time than the telling has occupied, the product was conveyed to the "Dryer," a tower nine feet square and fifty feet high, heated from below by great open furnace fires.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000018_000000.wav|Edison realized from the start that the true solution of this problem lay in the continuous treatment of the material, with the maximum employment of natural forces and the minimum of manual labor and generated power.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000056_000000.wav|It will have been gathered that the funds for this great experiment were furnished largely by Edison.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000045_000003.wav|Interesting as it might be to follow at length the numerous phases of ingenious and resourceful development that took place during those busy years, the limit of present space forbids their relation.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000043_000002.wav|So far as foundry iron is concerned, the experience at Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, brief as it has been, shows that a stronger and tougher metal is made."|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000049_000006.wav|At the former price he could have supplied the market and earned a liberal profit on his investment, but at three dollars and fifty cents per ton he was left without a reasonable chance of competition.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000047_000001.wav|During some of these waits mr Edison had seen me play billiards.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000002.wav|The problem to be solved was to market an agglomerated material so as to avoid the drawbacks of fine ore.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000049_000007.wav|Thus was swept away the possibility of reaping the reward so richly earned by years of incessant thought, labor, and care.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000001.wav|To the faces of these rolls were bolted a series of heavy, chilled iron plates containing a number of projecting knobs two inches high.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000051_000001.wav|For five years he had lived and worked steadily at Edison, leaving there only on Saturday night to spend Sunday at his home in Orange, and returning to the plant by an early train on Monday morning.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000031_000000.wav|In a narrative not intended to be strictly technical, it would probably tire the reader to follow this material in detail through the numerous steps attending the magnetic separation.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000011.wav|The rolls were well named, for with ear splitting noise they broke up in a few seconds the great pieces of rock tossed in from the skips.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000008_000003.wav|At the time he took up the matter, however, no one seems to have realized the full meaning of the tremendous problems involved.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000010.wav|The act of breaking and crushing would naturally decrease the tremendous momentum, but after the rock was reduced and the pieces had passed through, the belt would again come into play, and once more speed up the rolls for a repetition of their regular prize fighter duty.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000025_000002.wav|As Edison had determined upon treating two hundred and fifty tons or more per hour, he decided to devise an entirely new type of great capacity, requiring a minimum of power (for elevating the material), and depending upon the force of gravity for handling it during the drying process.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000004_000001.wav|In other words, mr Edison was at least a quarter of a century ahead of the times in the work now to be considered.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000047_000002.wav|At the particular time this incident happened, mrs Edison and her family were away for the summer, and I was staying at the Glenmont home on the Orange Mountains.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000009_000005.wav|It may be stated as broadly true that Edison engineered to handle immense masses of stuff automatically, while his predecessors aimed chiefly at close separation.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000006.wav|Previous to the dumping of a skip, the rolls were speeded up to a circumferential velocity of nearly a mile a minute, thus imparting to them the terrific momentum that would break up easily in a few seconds boulders weighing five or six tons each.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000001.wav|Furnacemen object to more than a very small proportion of fine ore in their mixtures, particularly when the ore is magnetic, not easily reduced.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000010_000004.wav|Thus a complete separation is effected.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000048_000004.wav|mr Edison attempted to make the shot, but missed it and said 'Put the balls back.' So I put them back in the same position and he missed it the second time.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000011_000002.wav|These are too numerous to specify in detail, as they extended throughout the various ramifications of the plant, but the principal ones are worthy of mention, such as:|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000015_000000.wav|"I knew it was a commercial problem to produce high grade Bessemer ore from these deposits, and took steps to acquire a large amount of the property.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000027_000005.wav|In operation the material passed first through the upper and middle rolls, and then between the middle and lowest rolls.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000048_000005.wav|I continued at his request to put the balls back in the same position for the next fifteen minutes, until he could make the shot every time-then he said: 'I don't want to play any more.'"|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000016_000003.wav|These few acres alone contained sufficient ore to supply the whole United States iron trade, including exports, for seventy years."|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000056_000004.wav|mr Edison then asked: 'If I hadn't sold any of mine, what would it be worth to day?' and after some figuring I replied: 'Over four million dollars.' When mr Edison is thinking seriously over a problem he is in the habit of pulling his right eyebrow, which he did now for fifteen or twenty seconds.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000001_000000.wav|MAGNETIC ORE MILLING WORK|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000026_000003.wav|His nature revolted at such an immense loss of power, especially as he proposed the crushing of vast quantities of ore.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000048_000003.wav|After making two or three shots I missed, and a long carom shot was left for mr Edison, the cue ball and object ball being within about twelve inches of each other, and the other ball a distance of nearly the length of the table.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000030_000002.wav|The screening process allowed the finest part of the crushed rock to pass on, by conveyor belts, to the magnetic separators, while the coarser particles were in like manner automatically returned to the rolls for further reduction.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000024_000001.wav|These latter rolls were also face lined with chilled iron plates; but, unlike the larger ones, were positively driven, reducing the rock to pieces of about one half inch size, or smaller.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000051_000000.wav|This iron ore concentrating project had lain close to Edison's heart and ambition-indeed, it had permeated his whole being to the exclusion of almost all other investigations or inventions for a while.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000004.wav|Hence, he believed that only the minimum of work should be done with the costly explosive; and, therefore, planned to use dynamite merely to dislodge great masses of rock, and depended upon the steam shovel, operated by coal under the boiler, to displace, handle, and remove the rock in detail.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000010.wav|When I reported to mr Edison he said: 'That's all right.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000007.wav|The blast would dislodge thirty to thirty five thousand tons of rock, which was scooped up by great steam shovels and loaded on to skips carried by a line of cars on a narrow gauge railroad running to and from the crushing mill.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000020_000001.wav|Existing machinery for this purpose had been designed on the basis of mining methods then in vogue, by which the rock was thoroughly shattered by means of high explosives and reduced to pieces of one hundred pounds or less.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000043_000000.wav|"Finally, the fuel consumption is reduced, which in the case of the Eastern plants, with their relatively costly coke, is a very important consideration.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000005.wav|Let mr Mallory give an instance: "During the latter part of the panic of eighteen ninety three there came a period when we were very hard up for ready cash, due largely to the panicky conditions; and a large pay roll had been raised with considerable difficulty.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000019_000001.wav|They served, however, to convince Edison that if he ever expected to carry out his scheme on the extensive scale planned, he could not depend upon the market to supply suitable machinery for important operations, but would be obliged to devise and build it himself.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000045_000000.wav|The Edison concentrating plant has been sketched in the briefest outline with a view of affording merely a bare idea of the great work of its projector.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000044_000002.wav|They saw I was very anxious to sell it, and they would take advantage of my necessity.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000046_000004.wav|Three days' advertisements brought in over six hundred and fifty applications, and afterward Edison had no trouble in obtaining all the first-class men he required, as settlers in the artificial Yosemite he was creating.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000054_000002.wav|So these two lines of work were taken up by mr Edison with just as much enthusiasm and energy as is usual with him, the commercial failure of the concentrating plant seeming not to affect his spirits in any way.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000044_000006.wav|I mix a little sentiment with business, and I will give you an order for one hundred thousand tons.' And he sat right down and gave me the order."|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000009.wav|Also say to him that I shall not ask them to make the amount good.' This was done; the bank admitting its liability and being much pleased with this action.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000041_000002.wav|This increase in output, of course, means a reduction in the cost of labor and of general expenses.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000007_000002.wav|To pay railroad charges on ores carrying perhaps eighty to ninety per cent. of useless material would be prohibitive.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000014_000000.wav|A cursory glance at these problems will reveal their import.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000008.wav|Go and see the president of the bank which paid the forged checks. Get him to admit the bank's liability, and then say to him that mr Edison does not think the bank should suffer because he happened to have a dishonest clerk in his employ.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000009_000000.wav|From eighteen eighty to eighteen eighty five, while still very busy in the development of his electric light system, Edison found opportunity to plan crushing and separating machinery.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000044_000004.wav|They ought to help you, for it will help us out.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000056_000001.wav|In fact, over two million dollars were spent in the attempt.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000045_000006.wav|The second item was the ingenious and varied forms of conveyor belt, devised and used by Edison at the concentrating works, and subsequently developed into a separate and extensive business by an engineer to whom he gave permission to use his plans and patterns.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000015_000006.wav|We also knew the width, length, and approximate depth of every one of these deposits, which were enormous.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000015_000002.wav|I had a number of men survey a strip reaching from Lower Canada to North Carolina.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000006.wav|In many respects the attainment of these somewhat conflicting ends was the most perplexing of the problems which confronted mr Edison.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000051_000004.wav|Even the scenery is austere.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000050_000007.wav|When I had finished he said: 'It is too bad the money is gone, but I will tell you what to do.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000042_000001.wav|In the case of the Crane trial there was a reduction from thirty per cent. to twelve per cent. of the ore charge.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000005.wav|This was the plan that was subsequently put into practice in the great works at edison new jersey.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000020_000002.wav|These pieces were then crushed by power directly applied.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000037_000000.wav|"The furnace at which the test was made produces from one hundred to one hundred and ten tons per day when running on the ordinary mixture.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000007.wav|The agglomeration of the concentrates having been decided upon, two other considerations, not mentioned above, were of primary importance-first, to find a suitable cheap binding material; and, second, its nature must be such that very little would be necessary per ton of concentrates.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000021_000009.wav|The problem included handling and crushing the "run of the mine," without selection.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000010_000003.wav|The non magnetic gangue descends in a straight line to the other side of the partition.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000049_000008.wav|This great and notable plant, representing a very large outlay of money, brought to completion, ready for business, and embracing some of the most brilliant and remarkable of Edison's inventions and methods, must be abandoned by force of circumstances over which he had no control, and with it must die the high hopes that his progressive, conquering march to success had legitimately engendered.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000015_000001.wav|I also planned a great magnetic survey of the East, and I believe it remains the most comprehensive of its kind yet performed.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000020_000000.wav|No such departure was as radical as that of the method of crushing the ore.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000006_000002.wav|Hence the iron and steel mills east of the Alleghanies-compelled to rely on limited local deposits of Bessemer ore, and upon foreign ores which were constantly rising in value-began to sustain a serious competition with Western mills, even in Eastern markets.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000006_000001.wav|This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000033_000009.wav|After many months of unremitting toil and research, and the trial of thousands of experiments, the goal was reached in the completion of a successful formula for agglomerating the fine ore and pressing it into briquettes by special machinery."|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000032_000000.wav|This sand was transported automatically by belt conveyors to the rear of the works to be stored and sold.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000023_000005.wav|The giant rolls were belt driven, in opposite directions, through friction clutches, although the belt was not depended upon for the actual crushing.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000046_000000.wav|Edison's native shrewdness and knowledge of human nature was put to practical use in the busy days of plant construction.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000054_000000.wav|"In the discussion that followed he suggested several kinds of work which he had in his mind, and which might prove profitable.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000056_000003.wav|When we arrived at Dover, New Jersey, we got a New York newspaper, and I called his attention to the quotation of that day on General Electric.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000022_000000.wav|It is not easy to appreciate to the full the daring exemplified in these great crushing rolls, or rather "rock crackers," without having watched them in operation delivering their "solar plexus" blows.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000024_000000.wav|On leaving the giant rolls the rocks, having been reduced to pieces not larger than fourteen inches, passed into the series of "Intermediate Rolls" of similar construction and operation, by which they were still further reduced, and again passed on to three other sets of rolls of smaller dimensions.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000027_000001.wav|In the two end pieces of a heavy iron frame were set three rolls, or cylinders-one in the centre, another below, and the other above-all three being in a vertical line.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000009_000003.wav|It was his opinion that it was cheaper to quarry and concentrate lean ore in a big way than to attempt to mine, under adverse circumstances, limited bodies of high grade ore.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000008_000000.wav|Many attempts had been made in by gone days to concentrate the iron in such ores by water processes, but with only a partial degree of success. The impossibility of obtaining a uniform concentrate was a most serious objection, had there not indeed been other difficulties which rendered this method commercially impracticable.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000024_000004.wav|The crushed rock, being delivered at the top, would fall down from plate to plate, constantly exposing different surfaces to the heat, until it landed completely dried in the lower portion of the tower, where it fell into conveyors which took it up to the stock house.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000037_000002.wav|The following is the record of the results:|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000015_000003.wav|The only instrument we used was the special magnetic needle. We started in Lower Canada and travelled across the line of march twenty five miles; then advanced south one thousand feet; then back across the line of march again twenty five miles; then south another thousand feet, across again, and so on.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000028_000000.wav|This pressure was applied in a most ingenious manner.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000037_000001.wav|The charging of briquettes was begun with a percentage of twenty five per cent., and was carried up to one hundred per cent.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2774/131722/2774_131722_000046_000001.wav|It was found impossible to keep mechanics on account of indifferent residential accommodations afforded by the tiny village, remote from civilization, among the central mountains of New Jersey.|2774
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000034_000001.wav|"Why, I'm not doing any hinting, Virgil."|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000035_000000.wav|"What did you say about my finding 'something good to get into?'" he asked, sharply.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000030_000000.wav|"Oh, I will?"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000033_000001.wav|"That's what you're hinting at."|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000009_000000.wav|"Oh, I guess your GRANDmother thought so, mr Adams!|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000014_000001.wav|Oh, CERTAINLY, thank you!"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000014_000000.wav|"Sleep?|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000041_000001.wav|"Virgil, you WON'T go back to that hole?"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000038_000000.wav|"'Old hole?' That's what you call it, is it?"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000044_000000.wav|He looked up at her fiercely.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000025_000000.wav|"Oh, you're better again!|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000029_000000.wav|"No doubt in the world!" she exclaimed.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000006_000006.wav|'Keep out of the night air.'"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000010_000000.wav|"Sleep?" he said.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000034_000000.wav|"'Hinting?'" mrs Adams looked surprised and indulgent.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000042_000000.wav|"That's a nice word to use to me!" he said.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000018_000000.wav|"Sleep?|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000046_000000.wav|"And give us our daily bread!" he added, meaning that his wife's little performance was no novelty.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000045_000002.wav|"Fine way to cure a sick man!|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000031_000001.wav|"Of course you will," she repeated, absently. "You'll be as strong as you ever were; maybe stronger." She paused for a moment, not looking at him, then added, cheerfully, "So that you can fly around and find something really good to get into."|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000033_000000.wav|"So that's it," he said.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000004_000000.wav|By Booth Tarkington|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000010_000001.wav|"Likely!"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000040_000000.wav|"Don't tell me what I know, please!"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000008_000001.wav|My grandmother----"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000017_000005.wav|Listen to the darn brute!|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000045_000001.wav|"Fine!" he repeated, with husky indignation.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/175390/3546_175390_000016_000001.wav|They "pressed on his nerves," as he put it; and so did almost everything else, for that matter.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000011_000001.wav|"Listen!|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000022_000000.wav|Georgie addressed the members.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000022_000001.wav|"I'd like to know who got up this thing in the first place," he said.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000022_000011.wav|"I guess all I better do is-resign!"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000010_000000.wav|But Georgie was disposed to be informal.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000013_000000.wav|"Oh, you are, are you?" said George skeptically.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000034_000003.wav|Did I tell you the nickname they gave me-'King'?|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000022_000003.wav|Who got this room rent free?|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000034_000002.wav|"It's vulgar to do any other way.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000022_000008.wav|Well, if that's what you want, you can have it.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000020_000002.wav|Now we'll hold another election."|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000003_000001.wav|See here, bub, does your mother know you're out?"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000020_000000.wav|"All right," said Georgie.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000011_000000.wav|"Well-" said Charlie Johnson uneasily.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000007_000000.wav|"Welcome, Friend of the Ace."|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000022_000004.wav|Who got the janitor to let us have most of this furniture?|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9321/3546_9321_000034_000001.wav|"I let them get in with me, Charlie," he said in a tone of gentle explanation.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000042_000000.wav|"He didn't say."|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000016_000001.wav|"How do you do, George," he said.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000034_000000.wav|"Yes."|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000030_000000.wav|"Why, Georgie!"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000033_000000.wav|"Did you have plenty to eat?"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000039_000000.wav|"Another one?" Isabel said, surprised.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000003_000004.wav|Of course.. ..|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000003_000003.wav|Indeed I should!...|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000043_000002.wav|"You have been investing!" and as she came across the room for a closer view, "Is it-is it Lucy?" she asked half timidly, half archly.|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3546/9342/3546_9342_000026_000001.wav|"Or try the side door-or the kitchen!"|3546
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000039_000001.wav|"Don't go to the missionary meeting to night."|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000011_000000.wav|I don't think she did.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000054_000000.wav|"I'd like to be a missionary and have adventures like that," said Felix.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000061_000002.wav|I guess the Presbyterians can get along without it, and look after their own heathen."|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000044_000003.wav|The Story Girl slipped over home, and when she came back we gasped.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000059_000000.wav|Two cents more a week out of Cecily's egg money, meant something of a sacrifice.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000007_000000.wav|"Oh, do you suppose she caught them at the magic lantern show?" she said miserably.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000039_000000.wav|"I've thought of a great penance," said Cecily eagerly.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000003_000001.wav|I had read the story before, and it had been my opinion that it was "rot." No king, I felt certain, would ever marry a beggar maid when he had princesses galore from whom to choose.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000020_000001.wav|I never thought of that.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000037_000002.wav|So it doesn't matter what you do, whether it's useful or not, so long as it's nasty.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000000.wav|"I thought of that myself-but I CAN'T stay home, Cecily.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000008_000000.wav|"Where else could she have caught them?" said Felicity mercilessly.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000061_000001.wav|"Before that, they're just plain heathen. But if you want your money to go to a Methodist missionary you can give it to the Methodist minister at Markdale.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000062_000001.wav|"Her roses are all out and that bed of Sweet William is a sight by daylight."|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000005.wav|No, I must go, but I'll tell you what I'll do.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000043_000003.wav|Felicity ate two in her very presence, and then brought the rest out to us in the orchard.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000043_000007.wav|Pat came over, but his most seductive purrs won no notice from his mistress, who refused herself the pleasure of even patting him.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000023_000003.wav|So I'm going to do penance all day.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000002.wav|I MUST hear that missionary speak.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000005_000000.wav|"Sara is real sick," she said, with regret, and something that was not regret mingled in her voice.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000046_000001.wav|I want to mortify the flesh-"|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000006.wav|I'll wear my school dress and hat.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000064_000001.wav|"You could see through it."|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000030_000002.wav|She would wear holes in her stockings, and might seriously bruise her feet."|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000027_000000.wav|"There isn't any; I used the last in the soup yesterday."|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000043_000002.wav|The smell of raisin pies is something to tempt an anchorite; and the Story Girl was exceedingly fond of them.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000059_000001.wav|It inspired the rest of us.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000047_000001.wav|Go right home and dress yourself decently-or eat your supper in the kitchen."|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000028_000001.wav|"Then I suppose I'll have to do without.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000040_000000.wav|The Story Girl looked piteous.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000018_000000.wav|But the rest of us rather looked with favour on the Story Girl's idea. We felt sure that she would do penance as picturesquely and thoroughly as she did everything else.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000015_000000.wav|"He can see it anyhow, without your doing anything," said Cecily.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000032_000002.wav|You'd find that penance enough."|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000014_000001.wav|I'm going to deny myself everything I like, and do everything I can think of that I don't like, just to punish myself for being so wicked.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000005_000001.wav|"She has a cold and sore throat, and she is feverish.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000011.wav|It's such dreadful tasting stuff-but it's a good blood purifier, so Aunt Janet can't object to it."|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000005_000002.wav|mrs Ray says if she isn't better by the morning she's going to send for the doctor.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000023_000000.wav|"no|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000037_000000.wav|"It isn't any good.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000043_000005.wav|But she worked on at her buttonholes.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000023_000004.wav|You don't mind, do you?"|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000033_000000.wav|The Story Girl was crimson with indignation.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000014_000002.wav|And if any of you think of anything I don't, just mention it to me.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000053_000003.wav|"In fact, I'll begin to night.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000060_000007.wav|I s'pose I ought to give my box to them, rather than to Presbyterian heathen."|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000042_000001.wav|All day she sat in the kitchen and worked buttonholes, subsisting on bread and water and Mexican Tea.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000021_000002.wav|We felt WE could never do it.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000030_000001.wav|"Sara must not do penance in that way.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000025_000000.wav|"Not if you don't go too far with your nonsense," she said tolerantly.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000064_000000.wav|"It wouldn't do," said Felicity decidedly.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000034_000001.wav|But the Story Girl would not come.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000011_000002.wav|But, for all that, there was a certain exhilaration about her.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000049_000001.wav|And she had tied her hair with a snuff brown ribbon which was very unbecoming to her.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000009.wav|I hate it so.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000032_000000.wav|"I wouldn't SAY anything," retorted Aunt Janet.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000012_000000.wav|"I'm going to do penance all day for coaxing Sara to disobey her mother," she announced with chastened triumph.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000060_000006.wav|Are there any Methodist heathen?|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000020_000002.wav|I'll get some after breakfast. I'm not going to eat a single thing all day, except bread and water-and not much of that!"|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000060_000002.wav|I won't be able to give much.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000014_000000.wav|"Yes.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000053_000000.wav|"Oh, I don't know.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000009_000001.wav|The Story Girl was not to be comforted.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000013_000000.wav|"Penance?" we murmured in bewilderment.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000053_000005.wav|Wasn't the missionary splendid?|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000021_000001.wav|To sit down to one of Aunt Janet's meals, in ordinary health and appetite, and eat nothing but bread and water-that would be penance with a vengeance!|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000014_000003.wav|I thought it out last night.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000000_000001.wav|THE STORY GIRL DOES PENANCE|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000041_000007.wav|THAT will be penance.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000016_000000.wav|"Well, my conscience will feel better."|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000003_000002.wav|But now I understood it all.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000061_000000.wav|"No, it's only after they're converted that they're anything in particular," said Felicity.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000053_000002.wav|But I'm going to make up for it to morrow," said the Story Girl energetically.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000053_000006.wav|That cannibal story was simply grand.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000050_000000.wav|The first person we saw in the church porch was mrs Ray.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126826/451_126826_000053_000001.wav|I feel better since I punished myself.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126829/451_126829_000035_000000.wav|"Shut up," he said.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126829/451_126829_000016_000000.wav|"Hush!|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126829/451_126829_000007_000001.wav|The mince pie was to blame for THAT wish.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126829/451_126829_000042_000001.wav|"Felicity, put on the kettle.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/451/126829/451_126829_000002_000004.wav|Aunt Janet had forgotten to warn Uncle Roger to keep an eye on our bedtime snacks, and we ate what seemed good unto us.|451
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000019_000005.wav|They were strong enough to rise once in their might and say they would not have slavery among them.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000005.wav|The way in which the contest was decided affords a curious illustration of the moral sense of the advocates of slavery.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000014_000003.wav|At that time there was a considerable emigration setting through the State from Kentucky and Tennessee to Missouri.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000018_000007.wav|Every town had its one or two abolitionists, who were regarded as harmless or dangerous lunatics, according to the energy with which they made their views known.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000025_000003.wav|A long and dragging debate ensued of which no record has been preserved; the resolutions, after numberless amendments had been voted upon, were finally passed, in the Senate, unanimously, in the House with none but Lincoln and five others in the negative.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000018_000006.wav|Any mention of the subject of slavery was thought in the worst possible taste, and no one could avow himself opposed to it without the risk of social ostracism.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000019_000006.wav|But in the petty details of every day, in their ordinary talk, and in their routine legislation, their sympathies were still with the slave holders.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000008.wav|His intimate friends, those whom he loved and honored, were Browning, Butler, Logan, and Stuart-Kentuckians all, and strongly averse to any discussion of the question of slavery. The public opinion of his county, which was then little less than the breath of his life, was all the same way.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000014_000007.wav|Governor Edwards, complaining so late as eighteen twenty nine of the superior mail facilities afforded to Missouri, says: "I can conceive of no reason for this preference, unless it be supposed that because the people of Missouri have negroes to work for them they are to be considered as gentlefolks entitled to higher consideration than us plain 'free State' folks who have to work for ourselves."|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000011.wav|The preacher met them with an undaunted front and told them he must do his duty as it appeared to him; that he was amenable to law, but nothing else; he even spoke in condemnation of mobs.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000010.wav|A committee appointed itself to wait upon him; for this sort of outrage is usually accomplished with a curious formality which makes it seem to the participants legal and orderly.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000016_000006.wav|The convention was beaten by eighteen hundred majority, in a total vote of eleven thousand six hundred twelve, and the State saved forever from slavery.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000007.wav|But mr Lovejoy was a predestined martyr.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000003_000001.wav|It was the authentic record of the beginning of a great and momentous career.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000004.wav|He wrote his protest, saying not one word he was not ready to stand by then and thereafter, wasting not a syllable in rhetoric or feeling, keeping close to law and truth and justice.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000001.wav|He had done his work at this session in effecting the removal of the capital.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000012.wav|Such language "from a minister of the gospel" shocked and infuriated the committee and those whom they represented. "The people assembled," says Governor Ford, "and quietly took the press and types and threw them into the river." We venture to say that the word "quietly" never before found itself in such company.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000000.wav|Their readiness to do what came to be called later, in a famous speech, the "dirty work" of the South was seen in the tragic death of Rev.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000016_000002.wav|They established three newspapers, and sustained them with money and contributions.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000013.wav|It is not worth while to give the details of the bloody drama that now rapidly ran to its close.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000014_000002.wav|Some of the leading politicians, exaggerating the extent of this desire, imagined they saw in it a means of personal advancement, and began to agitate the question of a convention to amend the Constitution.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000019_000007.wav|They would not enlist with them, but they would fight their battles in their own way.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000027_000000.wav|He had many years of growth and development before him.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000014_000000.wav|But this quasi toleration of the institution was not enough for the advocates of slavery.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000006.wav|The risk was too great for the rest to run.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000004.wav|The seat was claimed by john Shaw and Nicholas Hansen, of Pike County.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000021_000000.wav|These events took place in the autumn of eighteen thirty seven, but they indicate sufficiently the temper of the people of the State in the earlier part of the year.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000000.wav|The vehemence with which the early antislavery apostles were conducting their agitation in the East naturally roused a corresponding violence of expression in every other part of the country.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000018_000000.wav|But these supreme efforts of the advocates of public morals, uninfluenced by considerations of personal advantage, are of rare occurrence, and necessarily do not survive the exigencies that call them forth.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000010_000000.wav|It may seem strange to those who shall read these pages that a protest so mild and cautious as this should ever have been considered either necessary or remarkable.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000018_000002.wav|In the reaction which succeeded the triumph of the antislavery party, it seemed as if there had never been any antislavery sentiment in the State.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000019_000004.wav|The taint of slavery, the contagion of a plague they had not quite escaped, was on the people of Illinois.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000004.wav|Having thus expressed their determination to vindicate the law, they held a meeting, and cited him before it to declare his intentions.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000009.wav|But all these considerations could not withhold him from performing a simple duty-a duty which no one could have blamed him for leaving undone.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000016.wav|They were there besieged by the infuriated crowd, and after a short interchange of shots Lovejoy was killed, his friends dispersed, and the press once more-and this time finally-thrown into the turbid flood.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000006.wav|Petitions to Congress, which were met by gag laws, constantly increasing in severity, brought the dreaded discussion more and more before the public.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000016_000005.wav|They spent their money mostly in printer's ink and in the payment of active and zealous colporteurs. The result was a decisive defeat for the slave party.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000009.wav|He wrote and published what was in his heart to say, and Alton was again vehemently moved.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000025_000000.wav|There was no sympathy with nor even toleration for any public expression of hostility to slavery.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000004_000000.wav|Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000002.wav|He had only to shrug his shoulders at the violence and untruthfulness of the majority, vote against them, and go back to his admiring constituents, to his dinners and his toasts.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000019_000002.wav|Senator james a McDougall once told us that although he made no pretense of concealing his Eastern nativity, he never could keep his ardent friends in Pike County from denying the fact and fighting any one who asserted it.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000005.wav|He said they were altogether peaceful and legal; that he intended to publish a religious newspaper and not to meddle with politics.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000016_000000.wav|They considered their success already assured; but they left out of view the value of the moral forces called into being by their insolent challenge.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000004.wav|The Georgia Legislature offered a reward of five thousand dollars to any one who should kidnap Garrison, or who should bring to conviction any one circulating the "Liberator" in the State.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000002.wav|Oliver Johnson attacked the national sin and wrong, in the "Standard," with zeal and energy equally hot and untiring.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000027_000001.wav|There was a long distance to be traversed between the guarded utterances of this protest and the heroic audacity which launched the proclamation of emancipation.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000008_000000.wav|The difference between these opinions and those contained in the above resolutions is their reason for entering this protest.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000008.wav|Shaw would vote for the convention, but not for Thomas, their candidate for senator.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000000.wav|There was no reason that Abraham Lincoln should take especial notice of these resolutions, more than another.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000006.wav|They wanted at this session to elect a senator and provide for the convention.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000014_000006.wav|The early Illinoisans were perplexed with a secret and singular sense of inferiority to even so new and raw a community as Missouri, because of its possession of slavery.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000003_000000.wav|On the third of March, the day before the Legislature adjourned, mr Lincoln caused to be entered upon its records a paper which excited but little interest at the time, but which will probably be remembered long after the good and evil actions of the Vandalia Assembly have faded away from the minds of men.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000016_000003.wav|The Governor gave his entire salary for four years to the expenses of this contest, in which he had no personal interest whatever.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000010_000001.wav|We have gone so far away from the habits of thought and feeling prevalent at that time that it is difficult to appreciate such acts at their true value.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000014.wav|There was a fruitless effort at compromise, which to Lovejoy meant merely surrender, and which he firmly rejected. The threats of the mob were answered by defiance; from the little band that surrounded the abolitionist.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000001.wav|Elijah p Lovejoy, in this very year of eighteen thirty seven.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000001_000000.wav|THE LINCOLN STONE PROTEST|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000003.wav|But his conscience and his reason forbade him to be silent; he felt a word must be said on the other side to redress the distorted balance.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000019_000000.wav|From this arose a singular prejudice against New England people.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000001.wav|William Lloyd Garrison, the boldest and most aggressive non resistant that ever lived, had, since eighteen thirty one, been pouring forth once a week in the "Liberator" his earnest and eloquent denunciations of slavery, taking no account of the expedient or the possible, but demanding with all the fervor of an ancient prophet the immediate removal of the cause of offense.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000010_000002.wav|But if we look a little carefully into the state of politics and public opinion in Illinois in the first half of this century, we shall see how much of inflexible conscience and reason there was in this simple protest.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000026_000007.wav|Lincoln was twenty eight years old; after a youth, of singular privations and struggles he had arrived at an enviable position in the politics and the society of the State.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000008.wav|He felt there was a "woe" upon him if he held his peace against the wickedness across the river.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000018_000001.wav|The apologists of slavery, beaten in the canvass, were more successful in the field of social opinion.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000007.wav|Hansen would vote for their senator and not for the convention.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000003.wav|In the House of Representatives there was a contest for a seat upon the result of which the two thirds majority depended.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000015_000011.wav|They were not more magnanimous in their victory than scrupulous in the means by which they had gained it.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000007_000000.wav|They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised, unless at the request of the people of the District.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000013_000000.wav|The whole of the north-west territory had, it is true, been dedicated to freedom by the ordinance of seventeen eighty seven, but in spite of that famous prohibition, slavery existed in a modified form throughout that vast territory wherever there was any considerable population.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000005_000000.wav|They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000020_000002.wav|He had for some years been publishing a religious newspaper in saint Louis, but finding the atmosphere of that city becoming dangerous to him on account of the freedom of his comments upon Southern institutions, he moved to Alton, in Illinois, twenty five miles further up the river.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000006_000000.wav|They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000003.wav|Their words stung the slave holding States to something like frenzy.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102238/7833_102238_000023_000007.wav|But there was as yet little or no antislavery agitation in Illinois.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000023_000000.wav|first.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000010_000001.wav|The richness of the soil was seen in the mud of the streets, black as ink, and of an unfathomable depth in time of thaw.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000005_000003.wav|Scarcely a perceptible trace of color, one would say, yet we find in the Springfield paper a leading article beginning with the startling announcement, "Our State is threatened to be overrun with free negroes." The county was one of the richest in Illinois, possessed of a soil of inexhaustible fertility, and divided to the best advantage between prairie and forest.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000018_000002.wav|The Whigs, who were defending the banks, wished to prevent the adjournment of the special session until the regular session should begin, during the course of which they expected to renew the lease of life now held under sufferance by the banks-in which, it may be here said, they were finally successful.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000006.wav|During the first year or two he is principally remembered in Springfield as an excellent talker, the life and soul of the little gatherings about the county offices, a story teller of the first rank, a good-natured, friendly fellow whom everybody liked and trusted.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000009.wav|They acted as might have been expected: complied with the former suggestion, but flatly refused to touch their masterpiece.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000025_000001.wav|It is a measure not asked for or wished for by the people.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000015.wav|We exported nothing," says Governor Ford, "and everything from abroad was paid for by the borrowed money expended among us." Not only upon the railroads, but on the canal as well, the work was begun on a magnificent scale.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000029_000001.wav|It is a party measure for party purposes from which no practical good to the people can possibly arise, but which may be the source of immeasurable evils.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000002.wav|His campaigns were carried on almost entirely without expense.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000027_000000.wav|fifth.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000006_000003.wav|With a population like this, the town had, from the beginning, a more settled and orderly type than was usual in the South and West.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000014_000001.wav|The debt of the State, issued at a continually increasing discount, had already attained enormous proportions; the delirium of the last few years was ending, and sensible people began to be greatly disquieted.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000005_000002.wav|It had a population of fifteen hundred. The county contained nearly eighteen thousand souls, of whom seventy eight were free negroes, twenty registered indentured servants, and six slaves.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000020_000001.wav|There are those who can see only envy and jealousy in that strong dislike and disapproval with which mr Lincoln always regarded his famous rival.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000017_000000.wav|Many were the schemes devised for meeting these oppressive obligations without unduly taxing the voters; one of them, not especially wiser than the rest, was contributed by mr Lincoln.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000032_000002.wav|Many and most of the judges have had great personal popularity-so much so as to create complaint of so many of them being elected or appointed to other offices.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000027_000001.wav|It will give our courts a political and partisan character, thereby impairing public confidence in their decisions.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000014_000004.wav|Lincoln was a member of this body, and, being by that time the unquestioned leader of the Whig minority, was nominated for Speaker, and came within one vote of an election.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000021_000002.wav|The best lawyers in the State were Whigs, and so it happened that most of the judges were of that complexion.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000003.wav|joshua Speed told the writers that on one occasion some of the Whigs contributed a purse of two hundred dollars which Speed handed to Lincoln to pay his personal expenses in the canvass.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000024_000001.wav|It is a fatal blow at the independence of the judges and the constitutional term of their offices.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000014_000006.wav|It refused to modify it in the least, and voted, as if in bravado, another eight hundred thousand dollars to extend it.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000020_000007.wav|In eighteen forty he was engaged in another scheme to which we will give a moment's attention, as it resulted in giving him a seat on the Supreme Bench of the State, which he used merely as a perch from which to get into Congress.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000004.wav|His paramount interest in these canvasses necessarily prevented him from setting to his junior partner the example which Lincoln so greatly needed, of close and steady devotion to their profession.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000023_000001.wav|It violates the principles of free government by subjecting the Judiciary to the Legislature.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000005_000000.wav|In this way began mr Lincoln's residence in Springfield, where he was to remain until called to one of the highest of destinies intrusted to men, and where his ashes were to rest forever in monumental marble.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000015_000000.wav|But this was the last paroxysm of a fever that was burnt out.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000021_000004.wav|This case was to come on at the June term in eighteen forty, and the Democratic counsel, chief among whom was mr Douglas, were in some anxiety, as an unfavorable decision would lose them about ten thousand alien votes in the Presidential election in November.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000000.wav|Lincoln did not gain any immediate eminence at the bar.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000017_000002.wav|He supported his bill in a perfectly characteristic speech, making no effort to evade his share of the responsibility for the crisis, and submitting his views with diffidence to the approval of the Assembly.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000000.wav|Lincoln was not yet done with Vandalia, its dinners of game, and its political intrigue.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000022_000001.wav|There was no resource but a protest, and here again Lincoln uttered the voice of the conscience of the party.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000002.wav|He had been a candidate for Congress the year before, and had been defeated by w l May.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000022_000002.wav|He was joined on this occasion by Edward d Baker [Footnote: Afterwards senator from Oregon, and as colonel of the seventy first Pennsylvania (called the first California) killed at Ball's Bluff.] and some others, who protested against the act because|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000009_000000.wav|The taste for civilization had sometimes a whimsical manifestation. mr Stuart said the members of the Legislature bitterly complained of the amount of game-venison and grouse of the most delicious quality- which was served them at the taverns in Vandalia; they clamored for bacon-they were starving, they said, "for something civilized." There was plenty of civilized nourishment in Springfield.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000015_000001.wav|The market was glutted with Illinois bonds; one banker and one broker after another, to whose hands they had been recklessly confided in New York and London, failed, or made away with the proceeds of sales.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000026_000000.wav|fourth.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000015_000004.wav|It was a dismal and disheartening task.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000026_000001.wav|It will greatly increase the expense of our courts or else greatly diminish their utility.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000006_000000.wav|There had been very little of what might be called pioneer life in Springfield.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000017_000004.wav|There was even an undercurrent of sentiment in favor of repudiation.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000020_000006.wav|He held this place as a means of being nominated for Congress the next year; he was nominated and defeated.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000006.wav|"I made the canvass on my own horse; my entertainment, being at the houses of friends, cost me nothing; and my only outlay was seventy five cents for a barrel of cider, which some farm hands insisted I should treat them to." He was called down to Vandalia in the summer of eighteen thirty seven, by a special session of the Legislature.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000018_000000.wav|This session of the Legislature was enlivened by a singular contest between the Whigs and Democrats in relation to the State banks.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000010.wav|They had been glorifying their work too energetically to destroy it in its infancy.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000002_000000.wav|mr Lincoln had made thus far very little money-nothing more, in fact, than a subsistence of the most modest character.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000017_000006.wav|Bonds were sold for this purpose at a heavy loss.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000020_000004.wav|He held it only long enough to secure a nomination to the Legislature in eighteen thirty six.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000015_000003.wav|This work taxed the energies of the Legislature in eighteen thirty nine, and for some years after.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000014.wav|Money was as plenty as dirt. Industry, instead of being stimulated, actually languished.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000002_000001.wav|But he had made some warm friends, and this meant much among the early Illinoisans.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000021_000001.wav|As the aliens were nearly all Democrats, that party insisted on their voting, and the Whigs objected.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000010_000000.wav|The town was built on the edge of the woods, the north side touching the timber, the south encroaching on the prairie.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000018_000004.wav|"I think," says mr Joseph Gillespie, who was one of those who performed this feat of acrobatic politics, "mr Lincoln always regretted it, as he deprecated everything that savored of the revolutionary."|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000014_000005.wav|The Legislature was still stiff necked and perverse in regard to the system.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000009_000001.wav|Wheat was fifty cents a bushel, rye thirty three; corn and oats were twenty five, potatoes twenty five; butter was eight cents a pound, and eggs were eight cents a dozen; pork was two and a half cents a pound.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000028_000001.wav|It will impair our standing with other States and the world.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000001.wav|His preliminary studies had been cursory and slight, and Stuart was then too much engrossed in politics to pay the unremitting attention to the law which that jealous mistress requires.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000021_000007.wav|The circuit judges were turned out of office, and five new judges were added to the Supreme Court, who were to perform circuit duty also.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000004.wav|After the election was over, the successful candidate handed Speed one hundred ninety nine dollars and twenty five cents, with the request that he return it to the subscribers.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000005_000004.wav|It was settled early in the history of the State, and the country was held in high esteem by the aborigines.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000006_000001.wav|Civilization came in with a reasonably full equipment at the beginning.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000030_000000.wav|The undersigned are well aware that this protest will be altogether unavailing with the majority of this body.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000001_000000.wav|COLLAPSE OF THE SYSTEM|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000016.wav|Nine millions of dollars were thought to be a mere trifle in view of the colossal sum expected to be realized from the sale of canal lands, three hundred thousand acres of which had been given by the general Government.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000003.wav|He was a candidate again in eighteen thirty eight, and was elected over so agile an adversary as Stephen Arnold Douglas.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000008.wav|The banks throughout the United States had suspended specie payments in the spring, and as the State banks in Illinois were the fiscal agents of the railroads and canals, the Governor called upon the law makers to revise their own work, to legalize the suspension, and bring their improvement system within possible bounds.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000011_000005.wav|It was several years later that Lincoln found with Judge Logan the companionship and inspiration which he required, and began to be really a lawyer.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000001.wav|The archives of the State were not removed to Springfield until eighteen thirty nine, and Lincoln remained a member of the Legislature by successive reelections from eighteen thirty four to eighteen forty two.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000028_000000.wav|sixth.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000014_000000.wav|But a year of baleful experience destroyed a great many illusions, and in the election of eighteen thirty eight the subject of internal improvements was treated with much more reserve by candidates.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000017_000001.wav|It provided for the issue of bonds for the payment of the interest due by the State, and for the appropriation of a special portion of State taxes to meet the obligations thus incurred.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000013.wav|The whole State was excited to the highest pitch of frenzy and expectation.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000022_000000.wav|It was useless for the Whigs to try to prevent this degradation of the bench.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000014_000002.wav|Nevertheless, mr Cyrus Edwards boldly made his canvass for Governor as a supporter of the system of internal improvements, and his opponent, Thomas Carlin, was careful not to commit himself strongly on the other side.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000019_000001.wav|Nothing was left of the brilliant schemes of the historic Legislature of eighteen thirty six but a load of debt which crippled for many years the energies of the people, a few miles of embankments which the grass hastened to cover, and a few abutments which stood for years by the sides of leafy rivers, waiting for their long delaying bridges and trains.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000005.wav|"I did not need the money," he said.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7833/102239/7833_102239_000012_000007.wav|The magnificent schemes of the foregoing winter required some repairing.|7833
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000004_000000.wav|HUME.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000009_000001.wav|She saw her husband led to execution, and, having given him from the window some token of remembrance, she waited with tranquillity till her own appointed hour should bring her to a like fate.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000009_000003.wav|Sir john Gage, constable of the Tower, when he led her to execution, desired her to bestow on him some small present which he might keep as a perpetual memorial of her.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000007_000001.wav|All the councillors were obliged to attend her to that fortress, and by this means became in reality prisoners in the hands of Northumberland, whose will they were necessitated to obey. Orders were given by the council to proclaim Jane throughout the kingdom, but their orders were executed only in London and the neighbourhood.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000002_000000.wav|LADY JANE GREY.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000003_000001.wav|DIED fifteen fifty four.]|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000007_000003.wav|The people heard the proclamation with silence and concern; some even expressed their scorn and contempt; and one Pot, a vintner's apprentice, was severely punished for this offence.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000007_000002.wav|No applause ensued.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000006_000001.wav|She even refused to accept of the present; pleaded the preferable title of the two princesses; expressed her dread of the consequences attending an enterprise so dangerous, not to say criminal; and desired to remain in the private station in which she was born.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000006_000002.wav|Overcome at length by the entreaties rather than the reasons of her father and father in law, and above all of her husband, she submitted to their will, and was prevailed on to relinquish her own judgment.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000008_000001.wav|The queen's zeal, under colour of tender mercy to the prisoner's soul, induced her to send divines, who harassed her with perpetual disputations; and even a reprieve for three days was granted, in hopes that she should be persuaded during that time to pay, by a timely conversion, some regard to her eternal welfare.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000007_000004.wav|The Protestant teachers themselves, who were employed to convince the people of Jane's title, found their eloquence fruitless; and Ridley, Bishop of London, preached a sermon to that purpose, which wrought no effect upon his audience.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000007_000000.wav|It was then usual for the kings of England, after their accession, to pass their first days in the Tower, and Northumberland thither conveyed the new sovereign.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000006_000000.wav|Her heart, full of this passion for literature and the elegant arts, and of tenderness towards her husband [Lord Guildford], who was deserving of her affections, had never opened itself to the flattering allurements of ambition, and the intelligence of her elevation to the throne was nowise agreeable to her.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000008_000002.wav|The Lady Jane had presence of mind in those melancholy circumstances not only to defend her religion by all the topics then in use, but also to write a letter to her sister in the Greek language, in which, besides sending her a copy of the Scriptures in that tongue, she exhorted her to maintain in every feature a like steady perseverance.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99122/7498_99122_000009_000000.wav|It had been intended to execute the Lady Jane and Lord Guildford together on the same scaffold at Tower Hill; but the council, dreading the compassion of the people for their youth, beauty, innocence, and noble birth, changed their orders, and gave directions that she should be beheaded within the verge of the Tower.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000007_000000.wav|With regard to the queen's person, a circumstance not to be omitted in writing the history of a female reign, all contemporary authors agree in ascribing to Mary the utmost beauty of countenance and elegance of shape of which the human form is capable.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000000.wav|To all the charms of beauty and the utmost elegance of external form, Mary added those accomplishments which render their impression irresistible.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000006_000001.wav|Mary's sufferings exceed, both in degree and duration, those tragical distresses which fancy has feigned to excite sorrow and commiseration; and while we survey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties: we think of her faults with less indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were shed for a person who had attained much nearer to pure virtue.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000004.wav|No stranger, on some occasions, to dissimulation, which in that perfidious court where she received her education was reckoned among the necessary arts of government.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000007_000001.wav|Her hair was black, although, according to the fashion of that age, she frequently wore borrowed locks, and of different colours.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000003.wav|Impatient of contradiction, because she had been accustomed from her infancy to be treated as a queen.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000003_000001.wav|DIED fifteen eighty seven.]|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000004_000000.wav|ROBERTSON.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000001.wav|Polite, affable, insinuating, sprightly, and capable of speaking and writing with equal ease and dignity.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000008.wav|Even the manners of the age, licentious as they were, are no apology for this unhappy passion; nor can they induce us to look on that tragical and infamous scene which followed upon it with less abhorrence.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000005.wav|Not insensible to flattery, or unconscious of that pleasure with which almost every woman beholds the influence of her own beauty. Formed with the qualities which we love, not with the talents that we admire, she was an agreeable woman rather than an illustrious queen.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000002.wav|Sudden, however, and violent in all her attachments, because her heart was warm and unsuspicious.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000007_000003.wav|Her stature was of an height that rose to the majestic.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000007_000002.wav|Her eyes were a dark grey, her complexion was exquisitely fine, and her hands and arms remarkably delicate, both as to shape and colour.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000007_000004.wav|She danced, walked, and rode with equal grace. Her taste for music was just; and she both sung and played upon the lute with uncommon skill.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000006_000000.wav|Humanity will draw a veil over this part of her character which it cannot approve, and may perhaps prompt some to impute her actions to her situation more than to her dispositions; and to lament the unhappiness of the former, rather than accuse the perverseness of the latter.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000007.wav|Her passion for Darnley was rash, youthful, and excessive; and though the sudden transition to the opposite extreme was the natural effect of her ill requited love, and of his ingratitude, insolence, and brutality, yet neither these nor Bothwell's artful address and important services can justify her attachments to that nobleman.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000003_000000.wav|[BORN fifteen forty two.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99124/7498_99124_000005_000006.wav|The vivacity of her spirit, not sufficiently tempered with sound judgment, and the warmth of her heart, which was not at all times under the restraint of discretion, betrayed her both into errors and into crimes. To say that she was always unfortunate will not account for that long and almost uninterrupted succession of calamities which befell her; we must likewise add, that she was often imprudent.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000003_000000.wav|[seventeen twenty.]|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000004.wav|He had studied medicine under the famous Boerhaave, and, in travelling over the Continent, had lived in the best society, and had acquired an extensive knowledge of the modern languages.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000007.wav|Amongst those who were honoured in patronising her labour of piety was Mr Rand of the Botanical Garden at Chelsea.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000002.wav|She had in her girlish days practised the drawing and colouring of flowers, a suitable and amiable accomplishment of her sex.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000002.wav|The first event of her life which is now known, was her secret marriage with Alexander Blackwell, and her elopement with him to London.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000007.wav|He then set up a printing establishment in the Strand, but became involved in debt, and was thrown into prison.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000006.wav|She also received the kindest countenance from Mr Philip Miller, a well-known writer on horticulture.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000007_000003.wav|The profits which Mrs Blackwell received from this work enabled her to relieve her husband from prison.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000005.wav|Having submitted her first drawings to Sir Hans Sloane and Dr Mead, these eminent physicians encouraged her to proceed with the work.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000009.wav|Of these she made drawings, which she engraved on copper, and coloured with her own hands.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000001.wav|Elizabeth Blackwell was the daughter of a stocking merchant in Aberdeen, where she was born about the beginning of last century.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000007_000002.wav|Blackwell."|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000000.wav|It was this circumstance that brought into practice the talents and virtues of Mrs Blackwell.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000002_000000.wav|ELIZABETH BLACKWELL.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000004.wav|She now engaged in a labour which is at once a noble and marvellous monument of her enthusiastic and untiring conjugal affection, and interesting evidence of the elegant and truly womanly nature of her own mind.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000010.wav|Her husband supplied the Latin names and the descriptions of the plants, which were taken principally from Miller's "Botanicum Officinale," with the author's permission.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000007_000009.wav|A conspiracy against the constitution of Sweden was formed by Count Tessin; and Blackwell, it is believed innocently, was suspected of being concerned in the plot.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000007_000006.wav|He went there, leaving his wife in England.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000005.wav|He was, however, unsuccessful in his endeavours to secure a comfortable livelihood.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000003.wav|He had received a finished education, and was an accurate Greek and Latin scholar.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000004_000000.wav|james BRUCE.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000001.wav|She resolved, by an unexampled labour for a woman, to effect the delivery of her husband.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000005_000006.wav|After having in vain attempted to get into practice as a physician, and having now a wife also to provide for, he applied for the situation of corrector of the press to a printer of the name of Wilkins, and for some time continued in that employment.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000007_000007.wav|He was received with honour at the court of Stockholm, where he lived with the prime minister, in the enjoyment of a salary from the government. During this period of prosperity he had continued to send large sums of money to his wife, who was now making arrangements to leave England with her only child and join her husband.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99157/7498_99157_000006_000008.wav|By his advice Mrs Blackwell took lodgings in the neighbourhood of this garden, from which she was furnished with all the flowers and plants which she required for her work.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000014.wav|I could not speak.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000008_000001.wav|Writing again in the beginning of May, she thus sketches the life they led together: "It will be a delightful occupation for me to make you more acquainted with my husband's poem.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000002.wav|And love shall be all what I will tell you in this letter.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000008_000004.wav|You may think that persons who love as we do have no need of two chambers; we are always in the same.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000017.wav|At this time, knowing Klopstock, she loves him as her lifely son, and thanks God that she has not persisted.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000010_000003.wav|It is remarkable that she seems to have had more than a mere apprehension, almost an assured foreboding, of what awaited her.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000002_000000.wav|META MOLLER.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000005_000001.wav|In a letter to one of his friends, written soon after this, he describes her as mistress of the French, English, and Italian languages, and even conversant with Greek and Latin literature.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000011.wav|I must confess that, though greatly prepossessed of his qualities, I never thought him the amiable youth whom I found him.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000009_000000.wav|With this we may compare what Klopstock says, writing of her: "How perfect was her taste! how exquisitely fine her feelings! she observed everything even to the slightest turn of the thought.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000000.wav|"You will know all what concerns me.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000013.wav|We saw; we were friends; we loved; and we believed that we loved; and a short time after I could even tell Klopstock that I loved.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000009_000001.wav|I had only to look at her, and could see in her face when even a syllable pleased or displeased her; and when I led her to explain the reason of her remarks, no demonstration could be more true, more accurate, or more appropriate to the subject.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000003_000000.wav|[seventeen fifty.]|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000006.wav|I rallied them again, and said that they must have a very friendshipless heart if they had no idea of friendship to a man as well as to a woman.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000008.wav|I wrote immediately to the same friend, for procuring, by his means, that I might see the author of the 'Messiah' when in Hamburg.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000007.wav|But I had no hopes ever to see him, when quite unexpectedly I heard that he should pass through Hamburg.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000015.wav|I could not play.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000012.wav|This he did a year after we had seen one another for the first time.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000008_000000.wav|This was written in march seventeen fifty eight, after they had been about four years married.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000001.wav|Love, dear sir, is all what me concerns.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000002.wav|He wrote soon after, and from that time our correspondence began to be a very diligent one.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000010.wav|Klopstock came, and came to me.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000007.wav|Thus it continued eight months, in which time my friends found as much love in Klopstock's letters as in mine.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000010_000002.wav|It was the first time that they had been separated.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000003.wav|I sincerely believed my love to be friendship.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000009_000002.wav|But, in general, this gave us very little trouble, for we understood each other when we had scarcely began to explain our ideas."|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000008_000002.wav|Nobody can do it better than I, being the person who knows the most of that which is not yet published, being always present at the birth of the young verses, which begin always by fragments here and there of a subject of which his soul is just then filled.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000009.wav|At the last, Klopstock said plainly that he loved; and I startled as for a wrong thing.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000008.wav|I perceived it likewise, but I would not believe it.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000005.wav|I believe I fell immediately in love with him.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000010_000000.wav|But all this happiness, too bright for earth, or for long endurance, was about to be suddenly extinguished.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000016.wav|I could marry then without her consentment, as by the death of my father my fortune depended not upon her; but this was an horrible idea for me, and thank heaven I have prevailed by prayers.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000014.wav|But we were obliged to part again, and wait two years for our wedding.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000005_000004.wav|Here is Meta's own narrative of the rise and course of their true love, given in one of her letters to Richardson, a narrative which will bear a hundred readings, and a hundred more after that, and still be as fresh and as touching as ever:--|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000010_000006.wav|From that place poor Meta was never to return.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000010_000005.wav|The two following months they spent together at Hamburg.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000012.wav|This made its effect.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000000.wav|"I saw him the next day, and the following, and we were very seriously friends.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000018.wav|We married, and I am the happiest wife in the world."|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000004.wav|I spoke to my friends of nothing but Klopstock, and showed his letters.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000008_000005.wav|I, with my little work, still only regarding sometimes my husband's sweet face, which is so venerable at that time with tears of devotion and all the sublimity of the subject, my husband reading me the young verses and suffering my criticism."|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000013.wav|After having seen him for two hours I was obliged to pass the evening in a company which never had been so wearisome to me.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000010.wav|I answered that it was no love, but friendship, as it was what I felt for him; we had not seen one another enough to love (as if love must have more time than friendship).|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000001.wav|But the fourth day he departed!|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000008_000003.wav|He has many great fragments of the whole work ready.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000007_000005.wav|They rallied me, and said I was in love.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000006.wav|At the least, my thoughts were ever with him filled, especially because his friend told me very much of his character.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000005_000000.wav|Klopstock first beheld Meta Moeller in passing through Hamburg in april seventeen fifty one.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000005_000003.wav|Their marriage took place about three years afterwards.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7498/99156/7498_99156_000006_000003.wav|In one happy night I read my husband's poem, 'The Messiah.' I was extremely touched with it.|7498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000014_000001.wav|Reproach me.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000019_000000.wav|"And you dare come with her, here, and tell me of it, here and mock me with it!|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000011_000000.wav|"You thought I was dead?|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000021_000001.wav|think!|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000028_000000.wav|Laura thought this, believed it; because she desired to believe it.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000019_000003.wav|You think I am as powerless as that day I fell dead at your feet?"|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/29120/5123_29120_000010_000002.wav|I thought you were-"|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000011_000003.wav|Their coaches, which you can hear grinding the wheels two leagues off, are illuminated, carved, and hung with ribbons.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000018_000004.wav|They had just taken refuge in the anchorage of Portland-a sign of bad weather expected and danger out at sea.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000002.wav|It figured in the Armada.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000005_000006.wav|This thick ice lasted two months.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000020_000004.wav|They were sketches in the night.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000011_000007.wav|Vivacity profound and superb!|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000009_000000.wav|This was, especially in winter, a lucky exception.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000011.wav|The hooker was primitive, just like the praam and the canoe; was kindred to the praam in stability, and to the canoe in swiftness; and, like all vessels born of the instinct of the pirate and fisherman, it had remarkable sea qualities: it was equally well suited to landlocked and to open waters.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000014_000004.wav|The pick bites meanly, the wave grandly; hence a diminution of beauty.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000015_000000.wav|The creek, walled in on all sides by precipices higher than its width, was minute by minute becoming more overshadowed by evening.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000004_000000.wav|PORTLAND BILL.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000011_000016.wav|Two harvests a year; villages resonant and gay; a stately poverty; all Sunday the sound of guitars, dancing, castanets, love making; houses clean and bright; storks in the belfries.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000014_000002.wav|Since that period what is called Roman cement has been made of the Portland stone-a useful industry, enriching the district, and disfiguring the bay.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000020_000002.wav|To distinguish one from another was difficult; impossible to tell whether they were old or young.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000016_000000.wav|It was less cold in the creek than out at sea, thanks to the screen of rock rising over the north of the basin, which did not, however, prevent the people from shivering.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000020_000003.wav|The indistinctness of evening intermixed and blurred them; the mask of shadow was over their faces.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000009_000003.wav|They are hazardous to enter, fearful to leave.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000009_000002.wav|These little ports (ports more in appearance than fact) are of small advantage.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000008_000002.wav|With no wind from the sea, the water of the creek was calm.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000012_000000.wav|Let us return to Portland-that rugged mountain in the sea.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000004.wav|But the merchant and contraband hookers were very feeble specimens.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000015_000004.wav|A plank thrown from on board on to a low and level projection of the cliff, the only point on which a landing could be made, placed the vessel in communication with the land.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000011_000000.wav|These Biscay hookers, even to the poorest, were gilt and painted. Tattooing is part of the genius of those charming people, savages to some degree.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000005_000003.wav|The Thames was frozen over-a thing which does not happen once in a century, as the ice forms on it with difficulty owing to the action of the sea.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000007_000003.wav|Any one approaching the vessel's moorings would have recognized a Biscayan hooker.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000014_000000.wav|Portland, greatly to the sacrifice of its wildness, exists now but for trade.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000009_000001.wav|Almost all the Portland creeks have sand bars; and in heavy weather the sea becomes very rough, and, to pass in safety, much skill and practice are necessary.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000014_000006.wav|These measured strokes have worked away the creek where the Biscay hooker was moored.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000009.wav|The compass was well housed in a case perfectly square, and well balanced by its two copper frames placed horizontally, one in the other, on little bolts, as in Cardan's lamps.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000020_000001.wav|They formed a busy and confused group, in rapid movement on the shore.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000013.wav|It could sail round a lake, and sail round the world-a strange craft with two objects, good for a pond and good for a storm.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000005_000000.wav|An obstinate north wind blew without ceasing over the mainland of Europe, and yet more roughly over England, during all the month of December, sixteen eighty nine, and all the month of January, sixteen ninety.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000005_000005.wav|An ox was roasted whole on the ice.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000013_000000.wav|The peninsula of Portland, looked at geometrically, presents the appearance of a bird's head, of which the bill is turned towards the ocean, the back of the head towards Weymouth; the isthmus is its neck.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000017_000000.wav|The twisting of the pathway could be distinguished vaguely in the relief of the cliff.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000005_000001.wav|Hence the disastrous cold weather, which caused that winter to be noted as "memorable to the poor," on the margin of the old Bible in the Presbyterian chapel of the Nonjurors in London.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000005.wav|Sea folk held them at their true value, and esteemed the model a very sorry one, The rigging of the hooker was made of hemp, sometimes with wire inside, which was probably intended as a means, however unscientific, of obtaining indications, in the case of magnetic tension.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000011_000012.wav|Biscay is Pyrenean grace as Savoy is Alpine grace.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000017_000002.wav|The pathway of this creek, full of knots and angles, almost perpendicular, and better adapted for goats than men, terminated on the platform where the plank was placed.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000015_000005.wav|Dark figures were crossing and recrossing each other on this tottering gangway, and in the shadow some people were embarking.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000018_000001.wav|At the other side of the roads, at the entrance of Ringstead Bay, you could just perceive a flotilla of shark fishing boats, which were evidently out of their reckoning.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000010_000008.wav|Two wheels in two pulleys at the end of the rudder corrected this defect, and compensated, to some extent, for the loss of strength.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000008_000001.wav|There was beginning to be felt that deep and sombrous melancholy which might be called anxiety for the absent sun|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000017_000003.wav|The pathways of cliffs ordinarily imply a not very inviting declivity; they offer themselves less as a road than as a fall; they sink rather than incline.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5123/34572/5123_34572_000011_000006.wav|They do not mend their rags, but they embroider them.|5123
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000010_000002.wav|In the special case of this young martyred queen, this doom of exile which has befallen her, and many other queens, must be a far more exquisite torture, added to all the other evils endured, for a crushing fatality has come and separated her for ever from all who were once her own people, even from that noble woman, all devotion and charity, who was her mother.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000009_000000.wav|King Albert of Belgium, dispossessed to day of his all and banished to a hamlet-what tribute of admiration and homage can we offer him worthy of his acceptance and sufficiently enduring?|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000010_000005.wav|And she is by the side of the poor who have lost their all by pillage or fire; by the side of the wounded who are suffering or dying; to them, too, she is a companion, comforting the lowliest with her adorable simplicity, shedding on all the increasing bounty of her exquisite compassion.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000009_000001.wav|Upon tablets of flawless marble let us carve his name in deep letters so that it may be well insured against the fugitiveness of our French memories, which, alas! have sometimes proved a little untrustworthy, at least in face of the age long infamies of Germany.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000005_000001.wav|In the midst of these appalling horrors, time, it seems, has hastened still more in its bewildered flight, and already we have reached the anniversary of that foul deed, the blackest that has ever defiled the history of the human race.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000010_000000.wav|As for Queen Elizabeth, let each one of us dedicate to her a shrine in his soul.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000010_000001.wav|One of the most dreaded duties that falls almost invariably to the lot of queens is having to reign over adopted countries while exiled from their own.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000002_000000.wav|fifteen|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000005_000002.wav|This crime was committed after long, hypocritical premeditation, and no pang of remorse, no vestige of shame, caused those myriads of accomplices to stay their hands.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000010_000006.wav|Oh, may she be blest, reverenced, and glorified!|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59234/6037_59234_000005_000005.wav|There were certain dastardly deeds, certain acts of profanation, certain lies, at which those hordes that came to us from Asia hesitated; an instinctive reverence still restrained them; and, moreover, in those times they did not destroy with such impudent cynicism, invoking the God of Christians in a burlesque pathos of prayer!|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000009_000003.wav|It was very gloomy in that cemetery, under an overcast sky, whence fell a semi darkness already wintry in aspect.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000012_000002.wav|In spite of the simplicity of these little wooden crosses, almost all alike, nowhere are they cared for and honoured so well as at the front; in no other place could they receive such touching homage, such tribute of flowers, of prayers, of tears.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000006_000002.wav|And in the bitter autumn wind they flutter almost gaily, unceasingly, all these strips of bunting, they wanton in the air, intermingle, and their bright colours shine out more conspicuously.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000012_000001.wav|Oh let them take comfort!|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000005_000002.wav|Each grave is decked with at least four fine tricolours, their flagstaffs planted in the ground, two at the head, two at the foot, and an infinite number of flowers and wreaths tied with ribbons.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000007_000001.wav|During these days of festival, the rest of the cemetery is also very full of flowers, but it looks dull and colourless compared with that corner sacred to our soldiers.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000011_000002.wav|And again, as on the day of the funerals, all the little graves were blessed.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000003_000000.wav|ALL SOULS' DAY WITH THE ARMIES AT THE FRONT|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000011_000000.wav|They sang this morning, these improvised choristers, with a solemn transport.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000010_000001.wav|All the little churches-those at least that the barbarians have not destroyed-had been decorated that day with all that the villages could muster in the way of flags, banners, tapers and wreaths.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000010_000005.wav|Indeed what could better prepare them for the supreme sacrifice and for a death nobly met than these prayers, this music and even these flowers?|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000010_000003.wav|There were officers, soldiers, civil population, women mostly in mourning, whose eyes under their veils were reddened with secret tears.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6037/59239/6037_59239_000006_000001.wav|There are fifteen of these graves, each with its four flags, making sixty flags in all.|6037
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000005_000001.wav|I'll go out with the mowers and mow, and you shall mind the house at home."|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000006_000000.wav|Yes, the husband thought that would do very well.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000009_000003.wav|Now their house lay close up against a steep down, and he thought if he laid a plank across to the thatch at the back he'd easily get the cow up.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000012_000001.wav|There he stuck fast; and as for the cow, she hung half-way down the wall, swinging between heaven and earth, for she could neither get down nor up.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000011_000002.wav|So he got up on the house to tie her up.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000008_000003.wav|He caught it, too, just as it ran out of doors, and gave it such a kick that piggy lay for dead on the spot.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000011_000001.wav|When he had done that, he thought the cow might perhaps fall off the thatch and break her legs or her neck.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000008_000004.wav|Then all at once he remembered he had the tap in his hand; but when he got down to the cellar, every drop of ale had run out of the cask.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160949/2823_160949_000006_000001.wav|He was quite willing, he said.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000010_000000.wav|"Ah, but you, Red comb," replied the ass, "rather come away with us. We are going to Bremen, to find there something better than death; you have a good voice, and if we make music together it will have full play."|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000007_000002.wav|But now good advice is dear, and I do not know what to do."|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000008_000000.wav|"Go with us to Bremen.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000011_000000.wav|The cock consented to this plan, and so all four traveled on together. They could not, however, reach Bremen in one day, and at evening they came into a forest, where they meant to pass the night.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000012_000000.wav|"That would be the right sort of thing for us," said the cock.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000013_000001.wav|Then these animals took counsel together how they should contrive to drive away the robbers, and at last they thought of a way.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000008_000002.wav|The three vagabonds soon came near a farmyard, where, upon the barn door, the cock was sitting crowing with all his might.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000011_000001.wav|The ass and the dog laid themselves down under a large tree, the cat and the cock climbed up into the branches, but the latter flew right to the top, where he was most safe.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000011_000005.wav|"What do you see, Gray horse?" asked the cock.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000009_000000.wav|"That is the way I prophesy fine weather," said the cock; "but because grand guests are coming for the Sunday, the housewife has no pity, and has told the cook maid to make me into soup for the morrow; and this evening my head will be cut off.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160953/2823_160953_000015_000001.wav|The messenger, finding all still, went into the kitchen to strike a light, and, taking the glistening, fiery eyes of the cat for live coals, he held a lucifer match to them, expecting it to take fire.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000009_000001.wav|And they had rakes, and brooms, and pitchforks, reaching into the pond; and the gentleman asked what was the matter. "Why," they say, "matter enough!|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000004_000002.wav|Suppose you and our daughter was to be married, and was to have a son, and he was to grow up, and was to come down into the cellar to draw the beer, and the mallet was to fall on his head and kill him!" And then they all started crying worse than before.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000002_000001.wav|Every evening he used to come and see her, and stop to supper at the farmhouse, and the daughter used to be sent down into the cellar to draw the beer for supper.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000002_000000.wav|Once upon a time there was a farmer and his wife who had one daughter, and she was courted by a gentleman.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000000_000000.wav|THE THREE SILLIES|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000002_000002.wav|So one evening she had gone down to draw the beer, and she happened to look up at the ceiling while she was drawing, and she saw a mallet stuck in one of the beams.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000007_000004.wav|I can't think who could have invented such things.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000007_000002.wav|At last he stopped and wiped his face with his handkerchief.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000003_000005.wav|Then after a bit the father began to wonder that they didn't come back, and he went down into the cellar to look after them himself, and there they two sat crying, and the beer running all over the floor.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000010_000001.wav|So the gentleman turned back home again and married the farmer's daughter, and if they didn't live happy for ever after, that's nothing to do with you or me.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000002_000003.wav|It must have been there a long, long time, but somehow or other she had never noticed it before, and she began a thinking.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000005_000002.wav|So the gentleman asked the woman what she was doing.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000003_000004.wav|what a dreadful thing it would be!" said the mother, and she sat her down beside the daughter and started crying too.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000004_000001.wav|And he ran straight and turned the tap. Then he said: "Whatever are you three doing, sitting there crying, and letting the beer run all over the floor?" "Oh!" says the father, "look at that horrid mallet!|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000003_000002.wav|"Oh, mother!" says she, "look at that horrid mallet!|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000005_000006.wav|And the gentleman went on his way, but he hadn't gone far when the cow tumbled off the roof, and hung by the string tied round her neck, and it strangled her.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000007_000005.wav|It takes me the best part of an hour to get into mine every morning, and I get so hot!|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000005_000001.wav|And the woman was trying to get her cow to go up a ladder to the grass, and the poor thing durst not go.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000006_000000.wav|Well, that was one big silly.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2823/160964/2823_160964_000005_000000.wav|Well, he set out, and he traveled a long way, and at last he came to a woman's cottage that had some grass growing on the roof.|2823
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000008_000002.wav|The change must be one of will and conduct-a radical change of life on the part of the man: he must repent-that is, change his mind-not to a different opinion, not even to a mere betterment of his conduct-not to anything less than a sending away of his sins.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000012_000000.wav|They could not rid themselves of their sins, but they could set about sending them away; they could quarrel with them, and proceed to turn them out of the house: the Lord was on his way to do his part in their final banishment.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000013_000001.wav|It is the man's one preparation for receiving the power to overcome them, the baptism of fire.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000011.wav|Send away the bad things out of it.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000009.wav|Let God throne himself in you, that his liberty be your life, and you free men.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000005_000001.wav|I would not even suggest a mistranslation; but the idea intended by the word has been so misunderstood and therefore mistaught, that it requires some consideration of the word itself to get at a right recognition of the moral fact it represents.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000015_000000.wav|For indeed in this region there is no great or small.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000015_000001.wav|'Be content with your wages,' said the Baptist to the soldiers.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000007.wav|To the many, the spirit of the prophet cries, 'Turn ye, and change your way!|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000006_000004.wav|I think that here the same word is used for man's dismission of his sins, as is elsewhere used for God's dismission or remission of them.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000010.wav|That he may enter, clear the house for him.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000012_000002.wav|The operant will to get rid of them would be baptized with a fire that should burn them up.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000006_000005.wav|In both uses, it is a sending away of sins, with the difference of meaning that comes from the differing sources of the action.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000016_000002.wav|What is there for us when we discover that we are out of the way, but to bethink ourselves and turn?|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000011_000000.wav|Note also, that, when the multitudes came to the prophet, and all, with the classes most obnoxious to the rest, the publicans and the soldiers, asked what he would have them do-thus plainly recognizing that something was required of them-his instruction was throughout in the same direction: they must send away their sins; and each must begin with the fault that lay next him.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000006_000006.wav|Both God and man send away sins, but in the one case God sends away the sins of the man, and in the other the man sends away his own sins.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000000.wav|Not seldom, what comes in the name of the gospel of Jesus Christ, must seem, even to one not far from the kingdom of heaven, no good news at all.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000008_000001.wav|The kind and scope of the repentance or change, and not any end to be gained by it, appears intended.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000008_000003.wav|This interpretation of the preaching of the Baptist seems to me, I repeat, the more direct, the fuller of meaning, the more logical.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000007_000000.wav|That the phrase here intends repentance unto the ceasing from sin, the giving up of what is wrong, I will try to show at least probable.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000010_000000.wav|Again, observe that, when the Pharisees came to john, he said to them, 'Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:' is not this the same as, 'Repent unto the sending away of your sins'?|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000009_000001.wav|They must cleanse, not the streets of their cities, not their houses or their garments or even their persons, but their hearts and their doings.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000012_000001.wav|Those who had repented to the sending away of their sins, he would baptize with a holy power to send them away indeed.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000014_000012.wav|Depart from evil, and do good.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/177234/2589_177234_000013_000000.wav|I think, then, that the part of the repentant man, and not the part of God, in the sending away of sins, is intended here.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000015_000000.wav|CHAPTER one DOROTHY AND RICHARD.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000042_000002.wav|To judge by the tokens the wise man gives us, the mourners are already going about my streets.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000048_000000.wav|Even as she said the words, the setting sun broke through the mass of grey cloud, and poured over the earth a level flood of radiance, in which the red wheat glowed, and the drops that hung on every ear flashed like diamonds.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000052_000000.wav|But when Dorothy Vaughan had passed a corner of the house to another garden more ancient in aspect, and in some things quaint even to grotesqueness, she was in front of a portion of the house which indicated a far statelier past-closed and done with, like the rooms within those shuttered windows.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000035_000002.wav|At the opposite corner of the great low arched chimney sat a lady past the prime of life, but still beautiful, though the beauty was all but merged in the loveliness that rises from the heart to the face of such as have taken the greatest step in life-that is, as the old proverb says, the step out of doors.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000050_000005.wav|A flame burned as upon an altar on the top of every tree, and the very pools that lay on the distant road had their message of light to give to the hopeless earth.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000039_000000.wav|'Be it far from me to presume to set forth the ways of Providence!' returned her guest.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000036_000001.wav|The execution of lord Strafford was news that had not yet begun to 'hiss the speaker.'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000034_000000.wav|It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000046_000000.wav|'We shall leave behind us strong hearts and sound heads too,' said mr Herbert. 'And I bethink me there will be none stronger or sounder than those of your young cousins, my late pupils, of whom I hear brave things from Oxford, and in whose affection my spirit constantly rejoices.'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000009_000000.wav|BY GEORGE MACDONALD|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000050_000006.wav|As she gazed, another hue than that of the sunset, yet rosy too, gradually flushed the face of the maiden. She turned suddenly from the window, and left the room, shaking a shower of diamonds from the honeysuckle as she passed out through the porch upon the gravel walk.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000038_000000.wav|'But tell me, master Herbert,' said the lady, 'why comes it in this our day?|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000053_000001.wav|Strongly attached to the English church, and recoiling with disgust from the practices of the puritans-as much, perhaps, from refinement of taste as abhorrence of schism-he had never yet fallen into such a passion for episcopacy as to feel any cordiality towards the schemes of the archbishop.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000035_000000.wav|The room to which the window having this prospect belonged was large and low, with a dark floor of uncarpeted oak.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000047_000000.wav|'You will be glad to hear such good news of your relatives, Dorothy,' said the lady, addressing her daughter.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000050_000003.wav|The ordered shocks upon twenty fields sent their long purple shadows across the flush; and the evening wind, like the sighing that follows departed tears, was shaking the jewels from their feathery tops.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000035_000004.wav|Her hair was cut short above her forehead, and frizzed out in bunches of little curls on each side.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000040_000001.wav|that such times of fierce ungodly tempest must ever follow upon seasons of peace and comfort?--even as your cousin of holy memory, in his verses concerning the church militant, writes:|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000042_000003.wav|The almond tree flourisheth at least.'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000052_000002.wav|Such, however, was the character of lady Vaughan, that, although she mingled little with the great families in the neighbourhood, she was so much respected, that she would have been a welcome visitor to most of them.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000041_000000.wav|"Thus also sin and darkness follow still The church and sun, with all their power and skill."'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000037_000001.wav|'The world has seldom seen its like.'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000044_000000.wav|'But think of those whom we must leave behind us, master Herbert. How will it fare with them?' said the lady in troubled tone, and glancing in the direction of the window.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000053_000000.wav|The reverend mr matthew Herbert was a clergyman from the Welsh border, a man of some note and influence, who had been the personal friend both of his late relative George Herbert and of the famous dr Donne.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000053_000002.wav|To those who knew him his silence concerning it was a louder protest against the policy of Laud than the fiercest denunciations of the puritans.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000050_000001.wav|But the girl rose, and, turning again to the window, stood for a moment rapt in the transfiguration passing upon the world.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000035_000003.wav|She was plainly yet rather richly dressed, in garments of an old-fashioned and well preserved look.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000039_000003.wav|Alas!' he went on, with a new suggestion from the image he had been using, 'if the beginning of strife be as the letting out of water, what shall be the end of that strife whose beginning is the letting out of blood?'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000050_000002.wav|The vault of grey was utterly shattered, but, gathering glory from ruin, was hurrying in rosy masses away from under the loftier vault of blue.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000035_000006.wav|Close round her neck was a string of amber beads, that gave a soft harmonious light to her complexion.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000045_000000.wav|In the window sat a girl, gazing from it with the look of a child who had uttered all her incantations, and could imagine no abatement in the steady rain pour.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000048_000001.wav|The girl's hair caught it as she turned her face to answer her mother, and an aureole of brown tinted gold gleamed for a moment about her head.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22574/2589_22574_000051_000000.wav|Possibly her elders found her departure a relief, for although they took no notice of it, their talk became more confidential, and was soon mingled with many names both of rank and note, with a familiarity which to a stranger might have seemed out of keeping with the humbler character of their surroundings.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000025_000001.wav|It was here that the most was wanted; and the next few days were chiefly spent in surveying these works, and drawing plans for their extension, strengthening, and connection-especially about the stables, armourer's shop, and smithy, where the building of new defences was almost immediately set on foot.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000005_000001.wav|This visit of search, let it have originated how it might, and be as despicable in itself as it was ludicrous in its result, showed but too clearly how strong the current of popular feeling was setting against all the mounds of social distinction, and not kingly prerogative alone.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000007.wav|Faithful catholic as he was, the brave old man was English to the backbone.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000003_000001.wav|The household had looked for a merry time on the occasion of the wedding, but had not expected such a full cup of delight as had been pressed out for them betwixt the self importance of the overweening yokels and the inventive faculties of Tom Fool.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000001.wav|For he knew that, in some shape or other, and that certainly not the true one, the affair would be spread over the country, where now prejudice against the Catholics was strong and dangerous in proportion to the unreason of those who cherished it.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000028_000001.wav|The dry larder, which lay under the court, between the kitchen and buttery, was by degrees filled with gammons and flitches of bacon, well dried and smoked. Wheat, barley, oats, and pease were stored in the granary, and potatoes in a pit dug in the orchard.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000008_000000.wav|They sat silent for a while, and the younger said:|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000028_000000.wav|The stock of provisions began to increase.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000017_000001.wav|And so I fear will his majesty find-if it conies to the worst.'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000017_000000.wav|'I thank your lordship, for much depends upon both.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000009_000000.wav|'I fear you are fatigued, my lord.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000005_000002.wav|What preparations might be needful, must be prudent.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000012_000001.wav|Be sure, Herbert, I shall not render the keep for the taking of the outworks.'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000007_000001.wav|Behind them was a long dim line of portraits, broken only by the great chimney piece supported by human figures, all of carved stone, and before them, nearly as dim, was the moon massed landscape-a lovely view of the woodland, pasture, and red tilth to the northward of the castle.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000004.wav|For what were the puritans but the lawfully begotten children of the so called reformation, whose spirit they inherited, and in whose footsteps they so closely followed?|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000023_000003.wav|We must go the round again to morrow-with the sun to hold as a candle.'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000022_000000.wav|'So long as you still keep wherewithal to give, I shall be content, my lord.'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER six.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000023_000002.wav|I will to bed.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000005.wav|In the midst of such reflections, dawned slowly in the mind of the devout old man the enchanting hope that perhaps he might be made the messenger of God to lead back to the true fold the wandering feet of his king.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000003.wav|The king was a protestant, but no less the king; and not this man, but his parents, had sinned in forsaking the church-of which sin their offspring had now to bear the penalty, reaping the whirlwind sprung from the stormy seeds by them sown.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000027_000003.wav|The earl, however, although he yielded, maintained that the flying of the wall when struck was a more than counterbalancing danger.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000027_000001.wav|Some of them drove into the paved court, for here and there a buttress was wanted inside, and of the battlements not a few were weather beaten and out of repair.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000020_000000.wav|'My father is pleased to say so.'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000006.wav|But, fail or speed in any result, so long as his castle held together, it should stand for the king.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000006_000001.wav|At length one of them, whom the others called Caspar, retired, and the earl was left with his son Edward, lord Herbert, the only person in the castle who had gone to neither window nor door to delight himself with the discomfiture of the parliamentary commissioners.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000004_000002.wav|Now, also, it was becoming pretty plain that except the king yielded every prerogative, and became the puppet which the mingled pride and apprehension of the Parliament would have him, their differences must ere long be referred to the arbitration of the sword, in which case there was no shadow of doubt in the mind of the earl as to the part befitting a peer of the realm.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000026_000002.wav|At length, to conclude the inspection, lord Herbert and the master of the armoury held consultation with the head armourer, and the mighty accumulation of weapons of all sorts was passed under the most rigid scrutiny; many of them were sent to the forge, and others carried to the ground floor of the keep.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000024_000000.wav|The next day the same party made a similar circuit three times-in the morning, at noon, and in the evening-that the full light might uncover what the shadows had hid, and that the shadows might show what a perpendicular light could not reveal.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000025_000000.wav|After this came a review of the outer fortifications-if, indeed, they were worthy of the name-enclosing the gardens, the old tilting yard, now used as a bowling green, the home farmyard, and other such outlying portions under the stewardship of sir Ralph Blackstone and the governorship of Charles Somerset, the earl's youngest son.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000018_000000.wav|A brief pause followed.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000014_000001.wav|'Do not let us forecast evil, only prepare for it.'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000016_000000.wav|'You shall lack nothing, Herbert, that either counsel or purse of mine may reach unto.'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000011_000000.wav|'Were it not for villanous saltpetre, my lord, the castle would hold out well enough.'|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000010_000001.wav|But therein lies the comfort-it cannot last.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000007_000000.wav|They entered the long picture gallery, faintly lighted from its large windows to the court, but chiefly from the oriel which formed the northern end of it, where they now sat down, the earl being, for the second time that night, weary.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000003_000000.wav|Great was the merriment in Raglan Castle over the discomfiture of the bumpkins, and many were the compliments Tom received in parlour, nursery, kitchen, guard room, everywhere, on the success of his hastily formed scheme for the chastisement of their presumption.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2589/22581/2589_22581_000029_000000.wav|Strange faces in the guard room caused wonderings and questions amongst the women.|2589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000011.wav|Get rid of the dust. eight.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000009_000000.wav|The whole affair goes safely in the pocket; the quill acting as a sheath to the sharp pricker.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000012_000000.wav|Gunpowder.--To carry Gunpowder.--Wrap it up in flannel or leather, not in paper, cotton, or linen; because these will catch fire, or smoulder like tinder, whilst the former will do neither the one nor the other. Gunpowder carried in a goat skin bag, travels very safely.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000001_000000.wav|Powder flask.--The flask that is carried in the pocket may be small, if roomy; a large one, in reserve, being kept in a bag, at the front of the saddle.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000014_000002.wav|Each of the three materials must be pounded into powder separately, and then all mixed together most thoroughly.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000011_000003.wav|It takes nearly a minute for a practised workman to make one gun flint.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000013_000001.wav|Many of the negroes of Africa, make it for themselves-burning the charcoal, gathering saltpetre from salt pans, and buying the sulphur from trading caravans: they grind the materials on a stone.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000014_000001.wav|These proportions should be followed as accurately as possible.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000017_000001.wav|It should be made with the greatest care, and used as soon as possible afterwards: it is the most important ingredient in gunpowder.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000027_000000.wav|Recovering Bullets.--When ammunition is scarce, make a practice of recovering the bullets that may have been shot into a beast; if they are of spelter, they will be found to have been very little knocked out of shape, and may often be used again without recasting.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000024_000004.wav|He says, "This is superior to all [other] mixtures for that purpose, as it combines hardness with extra weight; the lead must be melted in a pot by itself to a red heat, and the proportion of quicksilver must be added a ladleful at a time, and stirred quickly with a piece of iron just in sufficient quantity to make three or four bullets.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000003.wav|Mix them.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000002_000001.wav|The grain will swell, at first slowly and then very rapidly, and the flask will resume its former dimensions, or burst if it is not watched.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000002_000002.wav|Peas do not begin to swell for a couple of hours or more.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000020_000001.wav|Or, in other words, of nitre, sixteen parts; charcoal seven parts; sulphur, four parts.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000019_000001.wav|Saltpetre exists in the ashes of many plants, of which tobacco is one; it is also found copiously on the ground in many places, in saltpans, or simply as an effloresence.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000004.wav|three. Add a little water, and knead the mass.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000009_000001.wav|Now, when powder has to be pricked down the nipple, the "broad ring" is slipped off the quill and put on the nipple, which it fits; powder is poured into it, and the required operation is easily completed.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000005_000000.wav|To protect Caps from the Rain.--Before stalking, or watching at night in rainy weather, wax or grease the edge of the cap as it rests on the nipple: it will thus become proof against water and damp air.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000006_000000.wav|Substitute for Caps.--When the revolution in Spain in eighteen fifty four began, "there was a great want of percussion caps; this the insurgents supplied by cutting off the heads of lucifer matches and sticking them into the nipples.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000006.wav|Press it.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000003_000000.wav|Powder horn, to make.--Saw off the required length from an ox's horn, flatten it somewhat by heat (see "Horn"), fit a wooden bottom into it, caulk it well, and sew raw hide round the edge to keep all tight.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000020_000002.wav|It must not be forgotten that when rockets are charged with the composition, a hollow tube must be left down their middle.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000007.wav|five.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000029_000002.wav|If the shot turns out to be lens shaped, there has been too much arsenic; if hollow, flattened, or tailed, there has been too little. Pewter or tin is bad, as it makes tailed shot.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000024_000005.wav|If the quicksilver is subjected to red heat in the large leadpot, it will evaporate." Proper alloy, or spelter, had best be ordered at a gun maker's shop, and taken from England instead of lead: different alloys of spelter vary considerably in their degree of hardness, and therefore more than one specimen should be tried.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000001.wav|Pound the ingredients separately.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000004_000004.wav|Spring cap holders are, I am sure, too delicate for rough travel.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000020_000000.wav|Rocket Composition consists of gunpowder sixteen parts, by Weight; charcoal, three parts.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000014_000005.wav|Next, the cake is squeezed and worked against a sieve made of parchment, in which the holes have been burnt with a red hot wire, and through which the cake is squeezed in grains.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000025_000001.wav|Whether elongated iron bullets would succeed, remains to be Tried.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000008.wav|Rub the mass through a sieve.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000007_000000.wav|Gun pricker.--I am indebted for the following plan, both for clearing the touchhole, and also for the rather awkward operation of pricking down fresh gunpowder into it, to an old sportsman in the Orkney Island of Sanday.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000012.wav|Dry the grains.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000015_000010.wav|Shake up the grains in a box. seven.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000016_000000.wav|The ingredients should be used as pure as they can be obtained.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000025_000000.wav|Shape of Bullets.--Round iron bullets are worthless, except at very close quarters, on account of the lightness of the metal: for the resistance of the air checks their force extremely.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000028_000003.wav|If birds are to be killed for stuffing, dust shot will also be wanted; otherwise, it is undoubtedly better to take only one size of shot.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000019_000003.wav|(It is made by the action of the air on the potash contained in the earths.) The taste, which is that of gunpowder, is the best test of its presence.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000024_000001.wav|A mixture of very little tin, or pewter (which is lead and tin), with lead, hardens it: we read of sportsmen melting up their spoons and dishes for this purpose.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000018_000002.wav|Flower of sulphur is quite pure.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000005_000001.wav|Some persons carry a piece of grease with them, when shooting in wet weather, and with it they smear the top of the nipple after each loading, before putting on the fresh cap.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000016_000001.wav|For making a few charges of coarse powder, the sieve may be dispensed with: in this case, roll the dough into long pieces of the thickness of a pin; lay several of these side by side, and mince the whole into small grains; dust with powder, to prevent their sticking together: and then proceed as already described.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000005_000004.wav|A broad leaf wrapped loosely round the lock of a gun, will protect it during a heavy shower.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000010_000000.wav|Wadding.--The bush affords few materials from which wadding can be made; some birds' nests are excellent for the purpose.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000019_000000.wav|Saltpetre.--Dissolve the saltpetre that you wish to purify, in an equal measure of boiling water; a cupful of one to a cupful of the other. Strain this solution, and, letting it cool gradually, somewhat less than three fourths of the nitre will separate in regular crystals.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000019_000002.wav|Rubbish, such as old mud huts, and mortar, generally abounds with it.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000013_000000.wav|To make Gunpowder.--It is difficult to make good gunpowder, but there is no skill required in making powder that will shoot and kill.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000007_000002.wav|Next, he cuts a wooden plug to fit the quill; into the plug, the pricker is fixed.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000011_000002.wav|The stone is chipped by the hammer alone into pieces of the required thickness, which are fashioned by being laid upon the fixed chisel, and hammered against it.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000018_000001.wav|When this has taken place, the bottom part must be broken off and put aside as unfit for making gunpowder, and the top part alone used.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000024_000002.wav|A little quicksilver has the same effect.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000000_000000.wav|GUN FITTINGS AND AMMUNITION.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000019_000004.wav|To extract it, pour hot water on the mass, then evaporate and purify, as mentioned above.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000025_000003.wav|Some good sportsmen insist on the advantage, for shooting at very close quarters, of cleaving a conical bullet nearly down to its base, into four parts; these partly separate, and make a fearful wound.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000026_000000.wav|Bullets, to carry.--Bullets should be carried sewn up in their patches, for the convenience of loading, and they should not fit too tight: a few may be carried bare, for the sake of rapid loading.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000009_000002.wav|This little contrivance, which is so simple and Light, lasts for months, and is perfectly effective.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000009_000003.wav|I have tried metal holders, but I much prefer the simple quill, on account of its elasticity and lightness. A little binding with waxed thread, may be put on, as shown in the sketch, to prevent the quill from splitting.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000025_000002.wav|Some savages-as, for instance, those of Timor-when in want of bullets, use stones two or three inches long.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000011_000001.wav|Gun flints are made with a hammer, and a chisel of steel that is not hardened.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000004_000000.wav|Percussion Caps.--Caps may be carried very conveniently by means of a ring, with two dozen nipple shaped beads, made of some metal, strung upon it; each bead being intended to be covered by a percussion cap.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000004_000002.wav|It is very Difficult, without this contrivance, to keep caps free from sand, crumbs, and dirt, yet always at hand when required.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000014_000007.wav|The fine dust that is then found mixed with the grains, must be winnowed away; lastly the grains are dried.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000014_000006.wav|These grains are now put into a box, which is well shaken about, and in this way the grains run each other smooth.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000003_000001.wav|The mouth must be secured by a plug, which may be hollowed to make a charger. Pieces of cane of large diameter, and old gunpowder canisters, sewn up in hide, make useful powder flasks.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000006_000001.wav|The plan was found to answer perfectly." (Times, july thirty first.)|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000030_000000.wav|Slugs are wanted both for night shooting and also in case of a hostile attack.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52087/5914_52087_000002_000000.wav|To reduce bulges in a metal powder flask, fill it up with Indian corn, or dry peas, of any other sort of hard grain; then pour water into it, and screw down the lid tightly.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000027_000001.wav|Small teeth are wrapped up in skins and secured with rope." (Mungo Park.)|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000023_000001.wav|Gilby says, speaking of Egypt, "I killed several crocodiles by digging pits on the sand islands and sleeping a part of the night in them; a dry shred of palm branch, the colour of the sand, round the hole, formed a screen to put the gun through.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000026_000000.wav|To float carcases of Game across a river.--Sir s Baker recommends stripping off the skin of the animal, as though it were intended to make a water skin of it: putting a stone up the neck end of the skin; thus forming a water tight sack, open at one end only.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000000.wav|The rush of an enraged Animal is far more easily avoided than is usually supposed.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000000.wav|"Remove the sear, or tie up the trigger.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000042_000000.wav|Pocket knife.--If a traveller wants a pocket knife full of all kinds of tools, he had best order a very light one of two and three quarters inches long, in a tortoise shell handle, without the usual turnscrew at the end.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000004.wav|Stick the end of the stake slightly in the ground, and let it rest upright against the lock projection, the black line being fastened nearly at that height.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000019_000002.wav|Leaving a handkerchief or a short to flutter from a tree, will scare animals of prey for a short time.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000009.wav|The catcher can play with it as he likes; he has even time to turn after it, if thrown wide.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000025_000001.wav|Cut a thick pole of wood and a stout wooden skewer eight inches long.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000004_000000.wav|On Water.--Boat shooting.--A landing net should be taken in the boat, as Colonel Hawker well advises, to pick up the dead birds as they float on the water, while the boat passes quickly by them.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000025_000003.wav|Lastly run the pole between the animal's legs and its body, and let two men carry it on their shoulders, one at each end of the pole; or, if a beast of burden be at hand, the carcase is in a very convenient shape for being packed.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000020_000000.wav|Tying up your Horse.--You may tie your horse, on a bare plain, to the horns of an animal that you have shot, while you are skinning him, but it is better to hobble the horse with a stirrup leather. (See "Shooting horse.")|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000007_000004.wav|If, however, after a weary day's journey, he could be awakened, and were to look out about the moonlight glade or scrub, or if he were to set traps by night, he would probably be surprised to find how great a number of interesting forms of mammalian animals were to Be met with, in places where there was not the slightest appearance of them in the daytime."|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000025_000004.wav|In animals whose back sinew is not very prominent, it is best to cross the legs as above, and to lash them together.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000015_000002.wav|The pan is filled with burning pine knots, which, being saturated with turpentine, shed a brilliant and constant light all around; shining into the eyes of any deer that may come in that direction, and making them look like two balls of fire.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000017_000001.wav|If followed by a blow on the nose, as the brute is falling, the result will be sooner attained."|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000026_000001.wav|All the flesh is now to be cut off the bones, and packed into the sack; which is then to be inflated, and secured by tying up the open end.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000001_000001.wav|It is easy to load in this way with cartridges.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000042_000004.wav|Between the tortoise shell part of the handle and the metal frame of the knife, should be a space to contain three flat thin pieces of steel, turning on the same pivot.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000011_000001.wav|Loops are sewn in different places, through which sticks are passed, to stretch the curves into shape: a stake, planted in the ground serves as a buttress to support the apparatus: at a proper height, there is a loophole to fire through.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000029_000001.wav|The stock is firmly lashed to a tree, and the muzzle to a stake planted in the ground.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000018_000001.wav|The dog then contents himself with barking and keeping guard until his master arrives.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000005_000000.wav|Shooting over Water.--When shooting from a river bank without boat or dog, take a long light string with a stick tied to one end of it, the other being held in the hand: by throwing The stick beyond the floating bird, it can gradually be drawn in.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000007.wav|Raise the hammer carefully, and pass the short end of the lever stick, from the inner to the outer side, over the comb, and let the long end of the lever rest against the stake: the pressure of the hammer will keep the lever steady against the stake.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000042_000005.wav|The ends of these are to be ground to form turnscrews of brass instruments: when this excellent contrivance is used, it must be opened out like the letter T, the foot of which represents the turnscrew in use and the horizontal part represents the other two turnscrews, which serve as the handle.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000022_000005.wav|An artificial island may be made to attract ducks, when there is no real one.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000010.wav|But the speed of a springing animal is undeniably the same as that of a ball, thrown so as to make a flight of equal length and height in the air.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000023_000004.wav|Their sight and hearing were good, but their scent indifferent.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000038_000002.wav|The breast than catches the string, and the push releases the hammer when the muzzle is in line with the chest.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000029_000002.wav|A "lever stick," eight inches long, is bound across the grip of the gun so as to stand upright; but it is not bound so tightly as to prevent a slight degree of movement.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000043_000001.wav|A swimmer can easily carry a knife in this way; otherwise he holds it between his teeth.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000022_000003.wav|A lady suggests to me, that if the sportsman took a bottle of hot water to put under his feet, it would be a great comfort to him, and in this I quite agree; I would take a keg of hot water, when about it.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000003.wav|Fasten the other end to a stake, long enough to stand higher than the hammer.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000006.wav|It is not rapid at all: it is a slow movement, as must be evident from The following consideration.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000011.wav|The corollary to all this is, that, if charged, you must keep cool and watchful, and your chance of escape is far greater than non sportsmen would imagine.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000040_000000.wav|Bow and Arrow set for Beasts.--The Chinese have some equivalent contrivance with bows and arrows.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000042_000001.wav|It should have a light "picker" to shut over its back; this will act as a strike light, and a file also, if its under surface be properly roughened.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000015_000000.wav|Pan hunting (used at salt licks).--"Pan hunting is a method of hunting deer at night.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000045_000000.wav|Night glass.--Opera glasses are invaluable as night glasses, for, by their aid, the sight of man is raised nearly to a par with that of night roving animals; therefore, a sportsman would find them of great service when watching for game at night.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000013_000001.wav|Colonel Hawker made a contrivance upon wheels which he pushed before him.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000023_000003.wav|The difficulty of shooting them was, that the falcons and spurwing plovers would hover round the pit, when the crocodiles invariably took to the water.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000023_000000.wav|Crocodile shooting.--mr|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000007_000000.wav|Nocturnal Animals.--There are a large number of night feeding animals, upon whose flesh a traveller might easily support himself, but of whose existence he would have few indications by daylight observation only.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000002.wav|Opposite the muzzle of the gun, or at such distance to the right, or left, as may be required, fasted the end of a black string, or line made of horsehair or fibre, and pass it across the path to the gun.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000022_000001.wav|They should be anchored in the water, or made fast to a frame attached to the shooting punt, and dressed with sedge.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000029_000003.wav|The bottom of the "lever stick" is tied to the trigger, and the top of it to a long, fine, dark coloured string, which is passed through the empty ramrod tubes, and is fixed to a tree on the other side of the pathway.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000042_000003.wav|The front of the knife should contain a long, narrow pen blade of soft steel; a cobbler's awl, slightly bent; and a packing needle with a large eye, to push thongs and twine through holes in leather.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000033_000000.wav|third Method.--I am indebted to Captain j Meaden for the following account of the plan used in Ceylon for setting a spring gun for leopards:--|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000005_000001.wav|The stick should be one and a half or two feet long, two inches in diameter, and notched at either end, and attached to the hand line by a couple of strings, each six feet long, tied round either notch.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000015_000003.wav|The effect is most curious to those unaccumstomed to it.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000006_000002.wav|By this means, the paper is not entirely lost sight of at the moment when the aim is being taken.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000022_000000.wav|Duck shooting.--Wooden ducks, ballasted with lead, and painted, may be used at night as decoy ducks; or the skins of birds already shot, may be stuffed and employed for the same purpose.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000040_000003.wav|They use spring guns, and used to have spring bows in Sweden, and in many other countries.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000006.wav|Take a piece of stick six or eight inches long, pass through the loop, and twist tourniquet fashion until the loop is reduced to the required length.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000043_000000.wav|Sheath Knives, to carry.--They are easily carried by half naked, pocketless savages, by attaching the sheaths to a leather loop, through which the left forearm and elbow are to be passed.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000031_000001.wav|The fault of the previous plan, is the trouble of tying the string to the trigger; since the curvature is usually such as to make it a matter of some painstaking to fix it securely.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000009_000000.wav|Scarecrows.--A string with feathers tied to it at intervals, like the tail of a boy's kite, will scare most animals of the deer tribe, by their fluttering; and, in want of a sufficient force of men, passes may be closed by this contrivance.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000011_000000.wav|Stalking horses.--Artificial.--A stalking horse, or cow, is made by cutting out a piece of strong canvas into the shape of the animal, and painting it properly.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000024_000001.wav|This is the manner in which spoor should at all times be sought for." (Cumming's 'Life in South Africa.') To know if a burrow be tenanted, go to work on the same principle; but, if the ground be hard, sprinkle sand over it, in order to show the tracks more clearly.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000037_000001.wav|The stakes to be connected above and below the gun, by cross sticks.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000029_000004.wav|It is evident that when a beast breasts this string, the trigger of the gun will be pulled.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000021_000000.wav|Division of Game.--Some rules are necessary in these matters, to avoid disputes, especially between whites and natives; and therefore the custom of the country must be attended to.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000038_000000.wav|"The carcase or live bait must be hedged round, and means adopted to guide the leopard across the string, by running out a short hedge on one side.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000041_000000.wav|Knives.--Hunting knife.--A great hunting knife is a useless encumbrance: no old sportsman or traveller cares to encumber himself with one; but a butcher's knife, carried in a sheath, is excellent, both from its efficient shape, the soft quality of The steel, its lightness, and the strong way in which the blade is set in the haft.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000044_000002.wav|A fragment of flint or obsidian may be made fast to a handle, to be used as a carpenter cuts paper With a chisel; namely, by holding it dagger fashion, and drawing it over the skin or flesh which he wishes to cut.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000011_000002.wav|It packs up into a roll of canvas and a bundle of five or six sticks.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000023_000005.wav|I generally got a shot or two at daybreak after sleeping in the pit."|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000027_000000.wav|"To carry Ivory on pack animals, the North African traders use nets, slinging two large teeth on each side of an ass.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000007.wav|No wild animal can leap ten yards, and they all make a high trajectory in their leaps.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000031_000003.wav|If D admit of any yielding movement, on C being pulled, the gun will not go off, either readily or surely; as will easily be seen, on making experiment.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000006_000000.wav|Night shooting.--Tie a band of white paper round the muzzle of the gun, behind the sight.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000040_000002.wav|These machines are planted in caves of sepulture, to guard them from pillage.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000044_000000.wav|Substitutes for Knives.--Steel is no doubt vastly better than iron, but it is not essential for the ordinary purposes of life; indeed, most ancient civilized nations had nothing better than iron.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000019_000000.wav|Hiding Game.--In hiding game from birds of prey, brush it over, and they will seldom find it out; birds cannot smell well, but they have keen eyes.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000031_000002.wav|A, B, C, is the "lever stick." Notch it deeply at A, where it is to receive the trigger; notch it also at B, half an inch from A; and at C, five inches or so from b In lashing B to the grip of the stock at D, the firmer you make the lashing, the better.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000013_000002.wav|The Esquimaux shoot seals by pushing a white screen before them over the ice, on a sledge.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000025_000005.wav|Always take the bowels out of game, before carrying it; it is so much weight saved.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000001.wav|The way the Spanish bull fighters play with the bull, is well known: any man can avoid a mere headlong charge.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000026_000002.wav|The skin of a large antelope thus inflated, will not only float the whole of the flesh, but will also support several swimmers.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000005.wav|The buffalo is an exception; he regularly hunts a man, and is therefore peculiarly dangerous. Unthinking persons talk of the fearful rapidity of a lion or tiger's spring.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000007_000003.wav|With regard to most of the other Australian forms of marsupial animals, they are most strictly nocturnal; so that, if a traveller were not aware of that peculiarity, he might fancy himself traversing a country destitute of the mammalian grade of animal life.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000008.wav|To prevent the lower end of the stake flying out, from the pressure of the lever on the upper part, place a log or stone against the foot.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000035_000000.wav|"An animal pushing against the black string, draws the upper end of the stake towards the muzzle, until the lever is disengaged and releases the hammer.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000001.wav|Load the gun, and secure it at the proper height from the ground.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000006_000003.wav|mr Andersson also pinches the paper into a ridge along the middle of the gun, to ensure a more defined foresight.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000015_000001.wav|An iron pan attached to a long stick, serving as a handle, is carried in the left hand over the left shoulder; near where the hand grasps the handle, in a small projecting stick, forming a fork on which to rest the rifle, when firing.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000034_000005.wav|Pass round the small of the stock a loop of single or double string.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000023_000002.wav|Their flesh was most excellent eating-half-way between meat and fish: I had it several times.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000022_000002.wav|It is convenient to sink a large barrel into the flat marsh or mud, as a dry place to stand or sit in, when waiting for the birds to come.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000000_000000.wav|HINTS ON SHOOTING.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000007_000001.wav|The following remarks of Professor Owen, in respect to Australia are very suggestive:--"All the marsupial animals-and it is one of their curious peculiarities-are nocturnal.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000006_000001.wav|mr Andersson, who has had very great experience, ties the paper, not round the smooth barrel, but over the sight and all; and, if the sight does not happen to be a large one, he ties a piece of thick string round the barrel, or uses other similar contrivance, to tilt up the fore end of the paper.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000024_000000.wav|Tracks.--When the neighbourhood of a drinking place is trodden down with tracks, "describe a circle a little distance From it, to ascertain if it be much frequented.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000016_000004.wav|Few animals turn, if the rush be unsuccessful.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000025_000002.wav|Now thrust the right fore leg through the slit in the left hind one, and then the left fore leg through the slit in the right hind one, and holding these firmly in their places, push the skewer right through the left fore leg, so as to peg it from drawing back.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000025_000000.wav|Carrying Game.--To carry small Game, as Fallow Deer.--Make a long slit with your knife between the back sinew and the bone of both of the hind legs.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000010_000000.wav|mr Lloyd tells us of a peasant who, when walking without a gun, saw a glutton up in a tree.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5914/52088/5914_52088_000017_000000.wav|Dogs kept at bay.--A correspondent assures me that "a dog flying at a man may be successfully repelled by means of a stout stick held horizontally, a hand at each end, and used to thrust the dog backwards over, by meeting him across the throat or breast.|5914
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000021.wav|Victory!" And he blessed Sahim and bade him arouse Ajib.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000013_000010.wav|But an thou obey not my bidding, behold, I will hasten to thee and cut off thy head and lay waste thy dominions.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000013_000014.wav|Ajib and his men also took horse and host charged down upon host.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000017.wav|After this they went forth and took all the arms of the guards and Sahim said to them, "Go to your own camp;" while he re entered Ajib's pavilion and, wrapping him in his cloak, lifted him up and made for the Moslem encampment.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000006.wav|Who is for fighting? Let no faintheart come forth to me to day nor weakling." And there rushed upon him a Champion of the Infidels, as he were a flame of fire, and drove at him, but Sa'adan charged home at him and dealt him with his club a blow which broke his ribs and cast him lifeless to the earth.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000005.wav|Who is for jousting?|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000014.wav|So he cried out at the guards, saying, "Woe to you!|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000014_000000.wav|When it was the Six Hundred and Thirty eighth Night,|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000007.wav|Then a second came forth and he slew him also, and a third and he tare him in twain, and a fourth and he did him to death; nor did they cease sallying out to him and he left not slaying them, till it was noon, by which time he had laid low two hundred braves.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000000_000000.wav|This is a LibriVox recording.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000006.wav|Let no sluggard come out nor weakling!" Whereupon there rushed at him a horseman of the Kafirs, as he were a flame of fire; but Sahim let him not stand long before him ere he overthrew him with a thrust.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000012_000000.wav|When it was the Six Hundred and Thirty seventh Night,|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000013_000015.wav|-- And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000019.wav|If we prove the victors, we shall have power to him and, if we be beaten, his being alive in our hands will be a strength to us." And the Emirs said, "The Minister speaketh sooth"!|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000012.wav|So he entered and going up to the candles which burnt in the tent snuffed them and sprinkled levigated henbane on the wicks; after which he withdrew and waited without the marquee, till the smoke of the burning henbane reached Ajib and his Princes and they fell to the ground like dead men.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000016_000000.wav|When it was the Six Hundred and Thirty ninth Night,|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000013_000006.wav|Peace on Abraham the Friend await!|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000013_000011.wav|Verily, I give thee good counsel, and the Peace be on those who pace the path of salvation and obey the Most High King!" When Ajib read these words and knew the threat they contained, his eyes sank into the crown of his head and he gnashed his teeth and flew into a furious rage.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000001.wav|Then ruled the Kazi of Battle, in whose ordinance is no wrong, for a seal is on his lips and he speaketh not; and the blood railed in rills and purfled earth with curious embroidery; heads grew gray and hotter waxed battle and fiercer.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000002.wav|Then dashed out the Ghul of the Mountain, with a club on his shoulder, two hundred pounds in weight, and wheeled and careered, saying, "Ho, worshippers of idols, come ye out and renown it this day, for 'tis a day of onslaught!|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000016.wav|Thereupon he loosed their bonds and collars, and when they saw him, they blessed him and rejoiced In him.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000008.wav|Then Ajib cried to his men, "Charge once more," and sturdy host on sturdy host down bore and great was the clash of arms and battle roar.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000012.wav|And it was thus.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000003.wav|Whoso knoweth me hath enough of my mischief and whoso knoweth me not, I will make myself known to him.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000005.wav|Who is for jousting?|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000017_000022.wav|So he made him smell the vinegar mixed with incense, and he opened his eyes and, finding himself bound and shackled, hung down his head earth wards.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/258250/7832_258250_000015_000020.wav|--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000012_000006.wav|I wish I could divine what is in the mind of those two men, Lee and Jackson. They surely have a plan of some kind, but what is it?"|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000001_000001.wav|The sun was setting once more over the Virginia hills destined to be scarred so deeply by battle, but attack and defense went on.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000054_000000.wav|"Fortunately.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000014_000001.wav|But little ever escapes him, and he says that the whole Southern army is up.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000016_000000.wav|But Colonel Winchester shook his head.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000027_000002.wav|Jackson with his forces was marching up his side of the Rappahannock and the great brain under the old slouch hat was working hard.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000062_000000.wav|"Then you lead us.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000043_000000.wav|Sergeant Whitley was standing near them regarding the cloud attentively.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000032_000005.wav|They're attacking one of the fords now!"|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000050_000000.wav|"What is this place, Sulphur Springs?" asked Colonel Winchester of Shattuck.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000005_000001.wav|He had become so much used to such sounds that he would have slept on had not the crashes been so irregular.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000029_000004.wav|Yet he was sure that Lee and Jackson would attempt to force a passage higher up, where the drought had made good fords.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000025_000002.wav|But he could only stare into the darkness and guess and guess.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000029_000003.wav|The hostile scouts and sharpshooters had become too vigilant.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000044_000000.wav|"Yes, mr Pennington," he replied.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000051_000002.wav|But I guess them people have gone away.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000045_000001.wav|Nor was he one to underrate weather effects upon movements in war.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000018_000000.wav|"It will be done, sir," said Dick, almost in the tone of a young prophet.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000014_000000.wav|"Shepard came in this morning.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000011_000000.wav|The note of anxiety in his voice did not escape Dick.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000026_000001.wav|It was full of sinister omens.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000003_000003.wav|The North with its great numbers, its fine courage and its splendid patriotism should never be retreating.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000000.wav|"It's simple enough.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000048_000001.wav|Colonel Winchester's anxiety increased fast.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000028_000001.wav|They would leave McClellan and the Army of the Potomac nearer to Richmond, their own capital, than they were.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000044_000001.wav|"I was out there a long time and I'd rather be there now fighting the Indians, instead of fighting our own people, although no other choice was left me.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000001_000002.wav|As night came the thudding of cannon added to the tumult, and then the three boys saw the Rappahannock, a deep and wide stream flowing between high banks crested with timber.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000003_000001.wav|They were retreating before an army not exceeding their own, in numbers, perhaps less.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000021_000000.wav|Under cover of a great artillery fire Stuart's cavalry dashed into the ford, and drove off the infantry and a battery posted to defend it.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000019_000000.wav|"It's my own feeling, Dick.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000051_000000.wav|"Some big sulphur springs spout out of the bank and run down to the river.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000023_000000.wav|Then came a silence and a great looking back and forth.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000039_000001.wav|It was also late in the afternoon and Dick was quite sure that they would not reach Sulphur Springs before nightfall.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000037_000001.wav|In truth his division commander thought his purpose useless, but yielded to the insistence of Winchester who was known to be an officer of great merit.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000032_000004.wav|Hear that booming ahead!|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000008_000000.wav|Colonel Winchester himself came a moment or two later and joined them as they gazed at the two armies and the river between.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000005_000004.wav|The firing, so far as he could determine, was merely to feel out or annoy the Northern army.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000008_000001.wav|Both he and the boys used their glasses and they distinctly saw the Southern masses.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000037_000002.wav|It seemed to the Union generals that they must defend the fords where the Southern army lay massed before them.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000045_000000.wav|Dick smiled a little at the sergeant's solemn tone, and formal words, but he saw that he was very much in earnest.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000023_000001.wav|The threatening armies stared at each other across the water, but throughout the afternoon they lay idle.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000006_000000.wav|It was a strange sight to Dick, one that is not looked upon often, two great armies gazing across a river at each other, and, sure to meet, sooner or later, in mortal combat.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000038_000001.wav|He divined at once that Colonel Winchester had that ford in mind, and he was glad to be with him on the march to it.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000007.wav|You've been out in my country."|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000001_000003.wav|Ahead of them Pope's army was crossing on the bridge and in boats, and masses of infantry supported by heavy batteries had turned to protect the crossing.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000027_000001.wav|The Confederate commanders did have a plan and the omens which seemed sinister to him were sinister in fact.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000029_000001.wav|The enemy was in plain view beyond the stream, and Shepard and the other spies reported that the Southern army showed no signs of retiring.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000001.wav|The sign may not be so strong here, but it applies just as it does on the great plains.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000032_000001.wav|They have every reason to strike before the Army of the Potomac can come.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000036_000001.wav|And we must meet them there, with my regiment only, if we can obtain no other men."|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000054_000001.wav|But can't we go a little faster, boys?"|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000024_000000.wav|Dick went down into a little creek, emptying into the Rappahannock, and bathed his face and hands.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000058_000003.wav|They say that Stonewall Jackson never sleeps, and they make no mistake, when they call his infantry foot cavalry!"|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000029_000002.wav|But Shepard had said also that he would not be able to cross the river again.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000002_000000.wav|Dick felt a mixture of chagrin and satisfaction as he crossed the river, chagrin that this great army should draw back, as McClellan's had been forced to draw back at the Seven Days, and satisfaction that they were safe for the time being and could prepare for a new start.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000012_000004.wav|But, Dick, I'm afraid.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000017_000004.wav|Remember, Dick, my boy, that this republic is the hope of the world, and that we must save it."|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000033_000003.wav|He confided at last to his favorite aide his belief that what lay behind the cannonade was more important than the cannonade itself.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000032_000002.wav|Besides, it is in accord with the character of their generals.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000014_000003.wav|He says that they are all flushed with confidence in their own courage and fighting powers and the ability of their leaders.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000004_000000.wav|Long after darkness came the firing continued between skirmishers across the stream, but finally it, too, waned and Dick was permitted to throw himself upon the ground and sleep with the sleeping thousands.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000028_000002.wav|Nevertheless Lee, full of daring despite his years, followed, and the dangers were growing thicker every hour around Pope.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000056_000000.wav|"I'm afraid, sir," he said to Colonel Winchester, "that they're already across."|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000012_000003.wav|It gave us two chances, when we had but one before.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000034_000000.wav|"It must be a feint or a blind," he said.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000035_000000.wav|"Then what do you think they're up to, sir?"|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000007_000002.wav|There had been a long drought, and at some points the Rappahannock could be forded, but not in the face of such a defence as the North here offered.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000003_000002.wav|They had another great force, the Army of the Potomac, which should have been there, and then they could have bade defiance to Lee and Jackson.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000046_000000.wav|"What will it mean to the two armies, sergeant?" he asked.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000062_000003.wav|All of you have hunted the 'coon and 'possum at night, and you should know how to step without making noise."|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000022_000002.wav|They charged with so much impetuosity that Stuart's cavalry abandoned such dangerous ground.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000005_000003.wav|He saw from the crest of a hill great numbers of Confederate troops on the other side of the river, the August sun glittering over thousands of bayonets and rifle barrels, and along the somber batteries of great guns.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000017_000003.wav|And these things would injure us in ways that we cannot afford.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000051_000001.wav|They are fine and healthy to drink an' there's a lot of cottages built up by people who come there to stay a while.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000012_000000.wav|"Yes, Dick.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000051_000003.wav|It ain't no place for health just at this time."|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000060_000000.wav|"mr Shattuck," said Colonel Winchester, "how near do you think we can approach without being seen?"|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000005_000002.wav|He stood up, rubbed his eyes and then looked in the direction whence came the cannonade.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000010_000002.wav|McClellan is landing his army at Aquia Creek, whence it can march in two days to a junction with us, when we would become overwhelming and irresistible. But I wish it didn't take so long to disembark an army!"|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000004.wav|See that cloud edging itself over the horizon.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000055_000000.wav|There was a well defined road and Shattuck now led them at a gallop. As they approached the springs they checked their speed, owing to the increasing darkness.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000018_000002.wav|No matter how many defeats are inflicted upon us by our own brethren we'll triumph in the end."|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000024_000002.wav|The water brought a great relief.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000010_000001.wav|Meanwhile, Dick, my boy, every day's delay is a fresh card in our hand.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000015_000000.wav|"Don't you think we could do it, sir?|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000034_000001.wav|"They fire a great deal, but they don't make any dash for the stream.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000052_000000.wav|"That's a certainty," said Colonel Winchester.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000062_000002.wav|Now follow softly, lads!|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000058_000000.wav|"You're right, Dick," said Colonel Winchester, bitter mortification showing in his tone.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000018_000001.wav|"I know the spirit of the men.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000049_000001.wav|A West Virginian named Shattuck knew something of the country, and led them.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000007_000000.wav|Warner and Pennington joined him on the height where he stood, and they saw that in the early hours before dawn the Northern generals had not been idle.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000019_000001.wav|It cannot, it must not be any other way!"|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000014_000004.wav|Oh, if only the Army of the Potomac would come!|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000038_000000.wav|Dick learned that there was a little place called Sulphur Springs some miles ahead, and that the river there was spanned by a bridge which the Union cavalry had wrecked the day before.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000026_000000.wav|The night seemed portentous to him.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000029_000000.wav|Dick, with his regiment, moved the next morning up the river.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000007_000001.wav|The whole army of Pope was massed along the left bank of the river and every high point was crowned with heavy batteries of artillery.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000011_000001.wav|"You wish then to be sure of the junction between our two armies before Lee and Jackson strike?"|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000063_000000.wav|Shattuck advanced with certainty, and the others, true to their training, came behind him in single file, and without noise.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000036_000000.wav|"They must be sending a heavy force higher up the river to cross where there is no resistance.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000064_000000.wav|"There must be seven or eight thousand men here," said Dick, who did not miss the full significance of the fact.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000006_000001.wav|It was thrilling, awe inspiring, but it made his heart miss a beat or two at the thought of the wounds and death to come, all the more terrible because those who fought together were of the same blood, and the same nation.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000020_000000.wav|Dick remained upborne by a confidence in the future rather than in the present, and throughout the morning he remained with his comrades, under arms, but doing little, save to hear the fitful firing which ran along a front of several miles.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000002.wav|It means that a storm is coming. Anybody could tell that.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000001_000000.wav|The evening was now at hand.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000017_000001.wav|"All Europe, eager to see the Union split, would then help the Confederacy in every possible manner.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000013_000000.wav|"Have we any definite news from the other side, sir?"|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000063_000001.wav|But as they advanced the sounds of an army ahead of them increased, and when they reached the edge of the covert they saw a great Confederate division on their side of the stream, in full possession of the cottages and occupying all the ground about them.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000041_000000.wav|"Tell your sign, old weather sharp," said Warner.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000042_000005.wav|Things will turn loose to night.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000009_000000.wav|"Will they try to cross, sir?" asked Dick of the colonel.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000010_000000.wav|"I don't think so, but if they do we ought to beat them back.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000048_000000.wav|The sun now darkened and the clouds gathered heavily on the Western horizon.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000048_000002.wav|It became evident that the regiment could not reach Sulphur Springs until far into the night, and, still full of alarms, he resolved to take a small detachment, chiefly of his staff, and ride forward at the utmost speed.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000025_000001.wav|He believed that two such redoubtable commanders must have formed a plan by this time, and, perhaps in the end, it would be worth a hundred thousand men to know it.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000037_000000.wav|The colonel obtained leave to go up the Rappahannock until nightfall, but only his own regiment, now reduced to less than four hundred men, was allotted to him.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000032_000000.wav|"Beyond a doubt.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000059_000000.wav|Dick was silent.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000058_000002.wav|Oh, we might have known it!|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000001_000004.wav|The Southern vanguard could not assail such a powerful force, and before the night was over the whole Union army passed to the Northern side of the Rappahannock.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000027_000000.wav|Dick was not wrong.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000003_000000.wav|But the feeling of exultation soon passed and gave way wholly to chagrin.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000017_000002.wav|The old monarchies would say that despite our superior numbers we're not able to maintain ourselves outside the defenses of Washington.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000030_000000.wav|"It's well that we're showing vigilance," said Colonel Winchester to Dick.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000044_000002.wav|I've seen some terrible hurricanes on the plains, winds that would cut the earth as if it was done with a ploughshare, and these armies are going to be rained on mighty hard to night."|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000014_000005.wav|If we could only stave off battle long enough for it to reach us!"|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000020_000001.wav|But later in the day a heavy crash came from a ford further up the stream.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000047_000002.wav|This, I take it, is the end of the drought, and a flood will come tumbling down from the mountains."|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000005_000000.wav|Dick was awakened next morning by the booming of cannon.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000047_000000.wav|"Depends upon what happens before she busts.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000025_000000.wav|He remembered Colonel Winchester's words earlier in the day, and, as the darkness came, he began to wonder what Lee and Jackson were thinking.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000055_000002.wav|He heard faintly the sound of voices, and the clank and rattle which many men with weapons cannot keep from making now and then.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000040_000001.wav|It makes your lungs work twice as hard as usual, and it's also a sign."|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000049_000000.wav|He chose about twenty men, including Dick, Warner, Pennington, Sergeant Whitley, and another veteran who were mounted on the horses of junior officers left behind, and pressed forward with speed.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000058_000001.wav|"They're there, and they're on our side of the river.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7832/114468/7832_114468_000024_000003.wav|Then he went back to Colonel Winchester and his comrades, and waited patiently with them until evening.|7832
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000011_000001.wav|"But I say Mister, what has them papers to do with a sperit communication?"|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000040_000000.wav|"BROTHER SAMUEL:--Will you communicate with me through this medium? WILLIAM FRANKLIN."|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000006_000002.wav|Supposing the names written were Mary, Joseph, and Samuel, being, respectively, the investigator's mother, father, and brother.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000012_000000.wav|"You will see, directly," replied the medium.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000003_000000.wav|THE "BALLOT TEST."--THE OLD GENTLEMAN AND HIS "DISEASED" RELATIVES.--A "HUNGRY SPIRIT."--"PALMING" A BALLOT.--REVELATIONS ON STRIPS OF PAPER.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000039_000001.wav|For instance:|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000038_000001.wav|His terms are only five dollars an hour.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000005_000001.wav|His mode of operating was "the ballot test," and was as follows:|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000034_000000.wav|"That paper," says he to the investigator, "probably contains the name of the spirit who rapped; please hold it in your hand."|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000023_000000.wav|The reply was, an emphatic affirmative.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000028_000000.wav|Dropping that and taking another:|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/185488/4226_185488_000014_000003.wav|Your loving wife, BETSEY."|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000004.wav|Allow fifteen minutes boiling to each pound of meat.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000008_000002.wav|When the bones get well heated through, turn the meat, and keep a brisk fire-baste it frequently while roasting.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000006.wav|Heat the platter very hot that the steak is to be put on, lay the butter on it, take up the steak, salt and pepper it on both sides.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000001.wav|A little rice boiled with it, improves the looks of it.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000033_000000.wav|fifteen.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000003.wav|It should be kept in a cool, airy place, away from the flies, and if there is any danger of its spoiling, a little salt should be rubbed over it.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000001.wav|If the beef is not very tender, it should be laid on a board and pounded, before broiling or frying it.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000005.wav|For boiling or roasting mutton, allow a quarter of an hour to each pound of meat.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000007.wav|The dressing is made of soaked bread, a little butter, salt, and pepper, and a couple of eggs.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000032_000001.wav|When it boils, take off the scum, put in two or three onions, a blade of mace, a little salt and pepper.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000004.wav|It takes from fifteen to twenty minutes to broil a steak.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000002.wav|Mutton for roasting, should have a little butter rubbed on it, and a little salt and pepper sprinkled on it-some people like cloves and allspice.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000006.wav|Boiling is the cheapest way of cooking meat, provided you make a soup of the liquor; if not, it is the dearest, as most of the gelatine is extracted by the process of boiling, which is the most nourishing part, and if not used for soup, is completely lost.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000008.wav|Add wine and spices if you like.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000008.wav|When it is put down to roast, there should be a little water in the dripping pan.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000020_000001.wav|The breast and rack are good roasted.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000028_000001.wav|If you wish for gravy for them, when you have taken them up, stir a little flour into the fat they were fried in; season it with salt, pepper, and mace.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000011.wav|Fry a few slices of salt pork, brown, then take them up and put in the beef.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000023_000000.wav|ten.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000009.wav|Lamb is very apt to spoil in warm weather.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000009_000000.wav|three.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000016_000007.wav|In very hot weather, it is difficult to corn beef in cold brine before it spoils.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000036_000000.wav|Cut off the shank of a leg of veal, and cut gashes in the remainder. Make a dressing of bread, soaked soft in cold water, and mashed; season it with salt, pepper, and sweet herbs; chop a little raw pork fine, put it in the dressing, and if you have not pork, use a little butter instead.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000034_000003.wav|A little curry powder in this, converts it into a curry dish.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000015_000000.wav|six.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000002.wav|If the weather is hot, it will keep but a short time.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000029_000000.wav|thirteen.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000034_000002.wav|Put in a piece of butter, of the size of a hen's egg; season it with salt, pepper, and sweet herbs if you like; stew it gently till the rice is tender, and the water nearly stewed away.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000013_000000.wav|five.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000017_000000.wav|seven.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000016_000008.wav|On this account it is good to corn it in the pot when boiled.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000035_000000.wav|sixteen.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000013.wav|The joints of the brisket should be separated, the sharp ends of the ribs sawed off, the outside rubbed over with a little piece of butter-salt it, and put it in a bake pan, with a pint of water.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000006.wav|The leg is good cut in gashes, and filled with a dressing, and baked.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000036_000003.wav|A leg of veal is nice prepared in this manner, and roasted.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000000.wav|The tender loin is the best piece for broiling-a steak from the round or shoulder clod is good and comes cheaper.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000016.wav|The neck of mutton makes a good soup.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000004.wav|The liquor that the calf's head is boiled in, makes a good soup, seasoned in a plain way like any other veal soup, or seasoned turtle fashion.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000003.wav|The leg is also good, cooked in the same manner; but it is better boiled with a pound of salt pork.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000010.wav|It is good corned a few days, and then boiled.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000009.wav|There should always be a trough to catch the juices of the meat when broiled.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000000.wav|Boil the head two hours, together with the lights and feet.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000016_000000.wav|To every gallon of cold water, put a quart of rock salt, an ounce of salt petre, quarter of a pound of brown sugar-(some people use molasses, but it is not as good)--no boiling is necessary.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000001.wav|Sprinkle salt and pepper on the lamb, turn the bony side towards the fire first; if not fat, rub a little butter on it, and put a little in the dripping pan; baste it frequently.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000011_000000.wav|four.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000009.wav|Serve it up as a dressing for the head.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000011.wav|It should not be put with pork, as fresh meat is apt to injure it.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000020_000006.wav|The fillet is good baked, the bone should be cut out, and the place filled with a dressing, made of bread soaked soft in cold water, a little salt, pepper, a couple of eggs, and a table spoonful of melted butter put in-then sew it up, put it in your bake pan, with about a pint of water, cover the top of the meat with some of the dressing.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000021_000000.wav|nine.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000003.wav|If broiled slow, it will not be good.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000032_000000.wav|Cut part of a leg of veal into pieces, three or four inches broad-sprinkle flour on them, fry them in butter until brown, then turn in water enough to cover the veal.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000010.wav|Calf's head is also good, baked.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000015.wav|When the meat is sufficiently fried, take it up, remove the frying pan from the fire to cool; when so, turn in a little cold water for the gravy, put it on the fire-when it boils, stir in a little mixed flour and water, let it boil, then turn it over the meat.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000004.wav|The bony side should be turned towards the fire first, and roasted.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000017.wav|Parsely or celery heads are a pretty garnish for mutton.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000010.wav|The same pieces that are good broiled are good for frying.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000014.wav|If you wish to fry meat, cut a small piece of pork into slices, and fry them a light brown, then take them up and put in your meat, which should be perfectly dry.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000000.wav|The saddle is the best part to roast-the shoulder and leg are good roasted; but the best mode to cook the latter, is to boil it with a piece of salt pork.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000037_000000.wav|seventeen.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000030_000001.wav|Some people like the liver stuffed and baked.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000026_000001.wav|Do them up into balls about the size of half an egg, and fry them brown.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000020_000002.wav|The breast also is good made into a pot pie, and the rack cut into small pieces and broiled.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000030_000000.wav|Are good, broiled or fried.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000022_000006.wav|It takes about an hour to cook this dish.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000010.wav|The bars of the gridiron should be concave, and terminate in a trough, to catch the juices, or they will drop in the fire and smoke the meat.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000007.wav|Warm up the brains with a little water, butter, salt, and pepper.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000019_000000.wav|eight.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000003.wav|Some people prefer part of the liver and feet for dressing-they are prepared like the brains.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000014_000000.wav|Liver is very good fried, but the best way to cook it, is to broil it ten minutes, with four or five slices of salt pork.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000027_000000.wav|twelve.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000010_000005.wav|For seven or eight pounds of beef, cut up about a quarter of a pound of butter.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000002.wav|These pieces are good stuffed like a fillet of veal, and roasted.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000014_000001.wav|Then take it, cut it into small strips together with the pork, put it in a stew pan, with a little water, butter, and pepper.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000032_000002.wav|When stewed tender, take up the meat, thicken the gravy with flour and water, mixed smoothly together, squeeze in the juice of half a lemon, then turn it over the collops.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000022_000003.wav|When the veal is fried brown, dip it into the batter, then put it back into the fat, and fry it until brown again.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000016_000001.wav|Put the beef in the brine.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000014.wav|When done, take it up, and thicken the gravy with a little flour and water, and put in a small piece of butter.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000022_000005.wav|Thicken the gravy and turn it over the whole.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000016_000004.wav|When a piece of beef is put in the brine, rub a little salt over it.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000006_000013.wav|The dish should be very hot on which broiled meat is put, and it should not be seasoned till taken up.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000034_000001.wav|Take it up, cut it into strips three or four inches long, put it back into the pot, with the liquor it was boiled in, with a tea cup of rice to three pounds of veal.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000002.wav|Before the head is done, tie the brains in a bag, and boil them with it; when the brains are done, take them up, season them with salt, pepper, butter, and sweet herbs, or spices if you like-use this as a dressing for the head.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000008_000000.wav|The tender loin and first and second cuts off the rack are the best roasting pieces-the third and fourth cuts are good.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000034_000000.wav|Boil a piece of lean veal till tender.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000025_000000.wav|eleven.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000012_000002.wav|When it has stewed a couple of hours, turn the reserved dressing on top of the meat, heat the bake pan lid hot enough to brown the dressing, stew it an hour and a half longer.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000008.wav|A little salt, pepper, and butter, should be put on it when you take it up.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000011.wav|The rack is good for broiling-it should be divided, each bone by itself, broiled quick, and buttered, salted and peppered.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000006.wav|If you wish to have your calf's head look brown, take it up when tender, rub a little butter over it, sprinkle on salt, pepper, and allspice-sprinkle flour over it, and put before the fire, with a Dutch oven over it, or in a brick oven where it will brown quick.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000022_000007.wav|If the meat is tough, it will be better to stew it half an hour before frying it.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000008_000004.wav|If it is a thick piece, allow fifteen minutes to each pound to roast it in-if thin, less time will be required.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000038_000010.wav|If you wish to keep a leg several days, put it in brine.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000018_000009.wav|The leg is also good, cut into slices and broiled.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000032_000003.wav|Garnish them with a lemon cut in thin slices.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000031_000000.wav|fourteen.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000028_000000.wav|Boil them with the head, until tender, then split and lay them round the head, or dredge them with flour after they have been boiled tender, and fry them brown.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4226/12707/4226_12707_000024_000012.wav|Bake it in a quick oven, and garnish it with slices of lemon, or force meat balls.|4226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000015_000000.wav|He spoke with the bitterness that always characterised his statements of the injustice of the grown up world.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000092_000000.wav|Nothing loth, Ginger selected an ornate pyramid of icing.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000074_000001.wav|We knew our parts, anyway."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000016_000000.wav|"All right," said Ginger.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000040_000002.wav|Like lightning the gallant pair made for the road.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000097_000000.wav|"He's got out," he said reproachfully.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000050_000000.wav|"Golly!" murmured William.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000079_000000.wav|"Well, I don't know whether you'd find the place.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000077_000002.wav|He said he'd come straight back.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000081_000000.wav|He stopped.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000081_000002.wav|Miss Greene sank back into her chair, suddenly white. One of the young men let a cup of tea fall neatly from his fingers on to the floor and there crash into fragments.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000095_000000.wav|"An abominable attack ... utterly unprovoked ... dastardly ruffians!"|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000060_000000.wav|"Here!" came an angry shout from inside.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000076_000001.wav|And it loves a melodrama."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000080_000000.wav|"I'll go-"|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000053_000000.wav|"Will you kill him?" said the awed squire.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000042_000001.wav|William's spirits rose.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000045_000000.wav|William, ready for all contingencies, marshalled his forces.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000087_000001.wav|He looks mad.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000013_000000.wav|William considered.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000054_000001.wav|Could you see?" said William the discreet.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000014_000001.wav|It'll be three weeks off 'cause they're takin' the next two weeks to pay for an ole window wot my ball slipped into by mistake."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000001_000000.wav|"A knight," said Miss Drew, who was struggling to inspire her class with enthusiasm for Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," "a knight was a person who spent his time going round succouring the oppressed."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000074_000000.wav|"Oh, quite well.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000081_000004.wav|Then at the open French window appeared a small boy holding a bugle, purple faced with the effort of his performance.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000040_000000.wav|"Well, I will, then!" said William with reckless bravado, and advanced boldly upon the animal.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000043_000002.wav|It looks like a place where there might be someone to rescue."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000004_000000.wav|"How much did he get for it?" asked William.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000002_000000.wav|"Suckin' wot?" said William, bewildered.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000090_000000.wav|"It's all right now," he said.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000023_000000.wav|William was loth to give up his treasure.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000075_000000.wav|"I think the village will enjoy it."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000086_000000.wav|Ginger remembered the pangs of hunger, of which excitement had momentarily rendered him oblivious, and, deciding that there was no time like the present, took a cake from the stand and began to consume it in silence.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000055_000001.wav|Great big face he had, too, with a beard."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000058_000001.wav|William quivered with excitement.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000019_000001.wav|Anyway she said we could still be knights an' help people, di'n't she?|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000078_000000.wav|"Oh, let me go, Miss Greene," said one of the youths ardently.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000093_000000.wav|At this point there came a bellowing and crashing and tramping outside and Miss Priscilla's father, roaring fury and threats of vengeance, hurled himself into the room.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000006_000000.wav|William's respect for the knight rose.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000035_000000.wav|"No, I'm not squire.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000084_000000.wav|Miss Greene began to laugh hysterically.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000055_000000.wav|"He was ever so big.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000085_000000.wav|"Do have some tea now you've come," she said to Ginger.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000091_000004.wav|Have another cake, darling boy," she said in a tone of honeyed sweetness.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000020_000000.wav|William's bugle had just returned to public life after one of its periodic terms of retirement into his father's keeping.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000060_000002.wav|What the devil----"|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000066_000003.wav|Do you hear?"|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000044_000004.wav|And she was speaking fast and passionately.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000018_000002.wav|Well, let's set off."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000062_000000.wav|"Who the deuce----?" exploded the voice.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000005_000000.wav|"Nothing, of course," said Miss Drew, appalled by the base commercialism of the twentieth century.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000046_000000.wav|"Follow me!" he whispered and crept on all fours nearer the window. They could see a man now, an elderly man with white hair and a white beard.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000103_000001.wav|Then he brightened.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000087_000002.wav|He had a very mad look, I thought, when he was standing at the window."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000042_000000.wav|They walked on down the road till they came to a pair of iron gates and a drive that led up to a big house.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000090_000002.wav|He's shut up.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000073_000000.wav|"How did it go off?"|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000066_000001.wav|What's this tomfool trick?|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000011_000000.wav|"Well," said William after a pause, "let's be squires in turn.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000025_000000.wav|They walked along for about a mile without meeting anyone.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000042_000002.wav|His hunger was forgotten.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000033_000000.wav|"You might go an' milk that," suggested William.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000061_000000.wav|"You low ole caitiff!" said William through the keyhole.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000076_000000.wav|"Anyway, it's never very critical, is it?|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000066_000000.wav|"Who the deuce are you?|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000019_000002.wav|Anyway, I'll get my bugle.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000067_000000.wav|A resounding kick shook the door.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000028_000002.wav|You're not much of a squire not to have brought sumthin' for me to eat."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000017_000000.wav|"I won't forget about the drink of ginger ale."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000081_000003.wav|The young lady visitor emitted a scream that would have done credit to a factory siren.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000037_000001.wav|She turned her eyes upon them sadly.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000090_000003.wav|Me an' William shut him up."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000083_000000.wav|"Did you make that horrible noise?"|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000048_000000.wav|"Crumbs!" ejaculated William.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000009_000001.wav|Suckin'--I mean helpin' people an' fightin' an' all that.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000077_000000.wav|"Yes.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000070_000001.wav|Go an' blow the bugle at the front door, then they'll know something's happened," he added simply.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000088_000001.wav|I can't think why father doesn't come."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000079_000001.wav|It's a shed in the garden that he uses.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000038_000000.wav|"Go on!" said the knight to his reluctant squire.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000077_000003.wav|Perhaps I'd better go and find him."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000011_000001.wav|You first," he added hastily.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000065_000000.wav|"You mean ole oppressor!"|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000005_000002.wav|He had a lot of adventures and fighting and he helped beautiful, persecuted damsels."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4654/2598_4654_000035_000001.wav|I bet squires did the milkin'.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000050_000004.wav|Phrases floated to him through the summer air.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000057_000000.wav|Now his thoughts were going over some of its most exquisite moments-the moments when the pea and the gardener's head met and rebounded with such satisfactory force; the moment when he swung along the high road, monarch of a caravan and a mule and the whole wide world; the moment when the scarecrow hunched up and collapsed so realistically; the cat covered with green paint....|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000052_000001.wav|There was a small blue bruise on his shining head.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000000.wav|School, of course, was impossible.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000016_000003.wav|He was so enthralled that he received absent mindedly, and without gratitude, the mountainous bull's eye passed to him from Ginger, and only gave a half hearted smile when a well aimed pellet from Henry's hand sent one of the prophetess's cherries swinging high in the air.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000039_000001.wav|She screamed at him furiously in reply. Then along the road could be seen the figure of a fat man carrying a fishing rod.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000045_000001.wav|But the fat man was very fat, and the fat woman was very fat, and the donkey man was very old, and William was young and very fleet, so in less than ten minutes they gave up the pursuit and returned panting and quarrelling to the road.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000008_000000.wav|"'E's got conversion," she said to William.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000035_000004.wav|In the distance was a little gipsy's donkey cart full of pots and pans.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000000.wav|But the mule refused to be warned.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000024_000003.wav|There were, in short, whole fields of crime entirely unexplored.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000013.wav|The pea did not embed itself deeply into the gardener's skull as William had sometimes thought it would. It bounced back.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000055_000000.wav|William crept round to the back of the house beneath the bushes.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000044_000003.wav|To William it was like some ghastly nightmare after an evening's entertainment at the cinematograph.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000021_000000.wav|William drew a deep breath.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000020_000001.wav|I'll help you," she added sweetly.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000002.wav|From within the caravan came inhuman female yells of fear and anger.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000003.wav|No one seemed to be near it. William looked through the windows.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000000.wav|Dusk was falling.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000011_000001.wav|She was like some prophetess of old.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000010.wav|Never, in his future life of noble merit, would he be able to annex a caravan.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000027_000000.wav|"Very well," she said at last reluctantly, "day after to morrow."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000057_000002.wav|He saw himself from to morrow onward leading a quiet and blameless life, walking sedately to school, working at high pressure in school, doing his homework conscientiously in the evening, being exquisitely polite to his family and instructors-and the vision failed utterly to attract.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000007_000000.wav|To William the idea of reform was new and startling and not wholly unattractive.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000045_000005.wav|But he felt also in need of bodily sustenance, so he purchased a bun and a bottle of lemonade at a neighbouring shop and sat by the roadside to recover.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000057_000001.wav|After all it was his last day.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000001.wav|He neatly escaped the donkey cart himself, but he crashed the caravan into it with such force that the caravan broke a shaft and overturned completely on to the donkey cart, scattering pots and pans far and wide.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000024_000001.wav|There were several things that he had wanted to do for some time, but hadn't managed to do yet.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000012.wav|He took up his pea shooter and aimed carefully.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000026_000000.wav|She considered this for a minute.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000014_000002.wav|But to day, meeting her serious eye, he looked away hastily.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000023.wav|It was the last day of his old life.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000013_000000.wav|William's fascinated eye wandered from the cherries to the distant view out of the window.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000017_000000.wav|After the class the pink checked girl (whose name most appropriately was Deborah) stalked William for several yards and finally cornered him.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000003.wav|The wickedness of a lifetime was somehow or other to be crowded into this day.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000000.wav|William did not know how to drive, but it did not seem to matter.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000009_000000.wav|William was deeply interested.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000005.wav|What ultimately he was going to do with his caravan he neither knew nor cared.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000001.wav|William arose with a distinct sense that something important had happened.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000006.wav|After all, it had been a very tiring day.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000021.wav|It did not trouble William.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000005.wav|The mule was standing meekly by and smiling to himself.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000018.wav|The question as to what exactly would happen when the pea met the baldness was now for ever solved.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000015.wav|The reins dropped from William's hands; he clung for dear life on to his seat, as the caravan, swaying and jolting along the uneven road, seemed to be doing its utmost to fling him off.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000055_000003.wav|Soon he was contemplating with a satisfied smile a green and enraged cat and a green and enraged hen.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000053_000000.wav|A small boy came down the road and saw William hesitating at the open gateway.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000003.wav|He was driving a caravan.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000014.wav|It bounced back quite hard.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000009_000002.wav|William's family had no real faith in the Sunday school as a corrective to William's inherent wickedness, but they knew that no Sabbath peace or calm was humanly possible while William was in the house.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000008.wav|Otherwise she, too, had escaped undamaged.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000004.wav|To morrow it would all be impossible.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000008.wav|The gardener had a perfectly bald head.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000046_000004.wav|Certainly by this time the gardener would have complained to his father, probably the schoolmistress would have sent a note. Also-someone had been scratched by the cat.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000031_000003.wav|Hearing, therefore, a heavy step on the stairs, he seized several pieces of toast and fled.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000004.wav|There was a kind of dresser with crockery hanging from it, a small table and a little oil stove.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000025_000001.wav|"Say day after to morrow."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000055_000002.wav|He went quietly round to the tool shed.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000006_000000.wav|THE REFORM OF WILLIAM|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000020_000000.wav|"William, I think you ought to turn.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000011_000000.wav|But this Sunday the tall, pale lady who, for her sins, essayed to lead William and his friends along the straight and narrow path of virtue, was almost inspired.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000007.wav|He skirted the school by a field path in case any of those narrow souls paid to employ so aimlessly the precious hours of his youth might be there. They would certainly be tactless enough to question him as he passed the door.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000016_000001.wav|He was to be converted.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000017.wav|He hid the pea shooter, assumed his famous expression of innocence, and felt distinctly cheered.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000011.wav|It was his last chance.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000006.wav|Then out of the window of the caravan climbed a woman-a fat, angry woman, shaking her fist at the world in general.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000052_000002.wav|William judged from the smile that he had laid his formal complaint before authority.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000024_000004.wav|All these things-and others-must be done before the reformation.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000010.wav|Carelessly he flicked the mule with the whip.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000055_000004.wav|Then, bracing himself for the effort, he delivered himself up to justice.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000002.wav|He was reviewing his day.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000011_000002.wav|She was so emphatic that the red cherries that hung coquettishly over the edge of her hat rattled against it as though in applause.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000007_000001.wav|It originated with the housemaid whose brother was a reformed burglar now employed in a grocer's shop.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000004.wav|He was driving a caravan. The very telegraph posts seemed to gape with envy and admiration as he passed.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000035_000000.wav|William's hair stood on end.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000016.wav|But William had discreetly retired.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000031_000000.wav|He surveyed the scene with a deep sigh of satisfaction.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000011.wav|There are several explanations of what happened then.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000022_000000.wav|She heaved a sigh of relief.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000014_000000.wav|Opposite him sat a small girl in a pink and white checked frock.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000013.wav|Mules are notoriously accessible to wandering demons.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000009_000001.wav|The point was all innocently driven in later by the Sunday school mistress.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000031_000005.wav|The kitten, a mass of fury and lust for revenge, came flying through the window. William hid behind a laurel bush till it had passed, then set off down the road.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000047_000000.wav|William decided that all things considered it was best to make a day of it.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000010.wav|Before there had been a lifetime of experiment before him, and he had put off this one idly in favour of something more pressing.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000055_000001.wav|He felt that the time had come to give himself up to justice, but he wanted, as the popular saying is, to be sure of "getting his money's worth." There was the tin half full of green paint in the tool shed. He'd had his eye on it for some time.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000007.wav|It appeared to be a mule-a mule with a jaundiced view of life.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000002.wav|He was driving a caravan.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000013_000001.wav|He thought suddenly of the noble burglar who had turned his back upon the mysterious, nefarious tools of his trade and now dispensed margarine to his former victims.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000009.wav|William had sometimes idly imagined the impact of a pea sent violently from a pea shooter with the gardener's bald head.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000000.wav|The next day dawned bright and fair.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000001.wav|The precious hours of such a day as this could not be wasted in school.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000005.wav|In the immediate future, however, there were various quite important things to be done.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000014.wav|Whatever the explanation, the mule suddenly started forward and galloped at full speed down the hill.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000046_000003.wav|William wandered round the neighbourhood experiencing all the thrill of the outlaw.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000035_000001.wav|He almost forgot to cling to the seat. For not one scream came but many.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000004.wav|mr Brown's rhetoric had been rather lost on William, because its pearls of sarcasm had been so far above his head.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000030_000000.wav|No one else was in the dining room.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000000.wav|The main road was empty except for a caravan-a caravan gaily painted in red and yellow.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000041_000002.wav|Then one of them pointed to William, who sat, feeling still slightly shaken, upon the bank.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000007.wav|Her hair and face were covered with sugar and a fork was embedded in the front of her dress.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000020.wav|Later in the day the gardener might lay his formal complaint before authority, but later in the day was later in the day.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000008.wav|He was intoxicated with pride.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000039_000002.wav|He began to run wildly towards the caravan.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000049_000002.wav|Followed-an exciting chase by an angry farmer.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000021_000001.wav|"All right, I will," he said.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000055_000005.wav|When all was said and done no punishment could be really adequate to a day like that.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000001.wav|It had little lace curtains at the window.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000043_000000.wav|With one wild glance at the scene of devastation and anger, William turned and fled through the wood.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000018.wav|It was a female scream.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000045_000004.wav|It was quite a suitable adventure for his last day of unregeneration.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000014_000001.wav|He often whiled away the dullest hours of Sunday school by putting out his tongue at her or throwing paper pellets at her (manufactured previously for the purpose).|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000030_000001.wav|It was the work of a few minutes to remove the bacon from beneath the big pewter cover and substitute the kitten, to put a tablespoonful of salt into the coffee, and to put a two days'-old paper in place of that morning's.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000005.wav|To morrow began the blameless life.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000050_000002.wav|He could see through the trees the fat caravan owner gesticulating at the door.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000008.wav|Then he joined the main road.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000044_000002.wav|The fat woman and the donkey man joined the pursuit.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000052_000000.wav|He could see the gardener smiling in the distance.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000046_000000.wav|He felt reluctant to return home.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000009.wav|William gazed upon caravan and steed fascinated.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000005.wav|And William had not been really loth to retire at once to bed.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000016_000000.wav|Determined and eager was the eye that the small girl turned upon William, and William realised that his time had come.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000049_000001.wav|His aim was fairly good, and he succeeded in knocking off the hat and finally prostrating the wooden framework.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000035_000003.wav|The mule continued his mad career down the hill, his reins trailing in the dust.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000045_000003.wav|He felt on the whole exhilarated by the adventure.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000050_000001.wav|His spirits sank a little as he approached the gate.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000022.wav|He dressed briskly and went down to breakfast with a frown of concentration upon his face.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000008.wav|It rolled a sad eye towards William, then with a deep sigh returned to its contemplation of the landscape.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000002.wav|He went down the road full of his noble purpose.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000041_000001.wav|The air was rent by their angry shouts. A group of highly appreciative villagers collected round them.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000046_000002.wav|A return in the afternoon is ignominious and humiliating.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000002.wav|Then he thought of the reformation.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000005_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000030_000002.wav|They were all things that he had at one time or another vaguely thought of doing, but for which he had never yet seemed to have time or opportunity.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000001.wav|William gazed pensively from his bedroom window.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000032_000006.wav|It must all be worked off to day.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000004.wav|He saw all this, and the picture was far from unattractive-in the distance.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000046_000001.wav|It is always well to follow a morning's absence from school by an afternoon's absence from school.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000045_000002.wav|William sat on the further outskirts of the wood and panted.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000006.wav|There was a whole normal lifetime of crime to be crowded into one day.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000015.wav|The gardener also bounced back with a yell of anger, shaking his fist at William's window.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000024_000000.wav|William considered.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000054_000001.wav|"They've wrote to say you wasn't in school."|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000003.wav|He saw himself leading a quiet and blameless life, walking sedately to school, working at high pressure in school, doing his homework conscientiously in the evening, being exquisitely polite to his family, his instructors, and the various foolish people who visited his home for the sole purpose (apparently) of making inane remarks to him.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000035_000002.wav|They rent the still summer air, mingled with the sound of breaking glass and crockery.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000052_000003.wav|William noticed that his father looked pale and harassed.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000056_000003.wav|He had almost forgotten the stormy and decidedly unpleasant scene with his father.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000033_000002.wav|It was altogether a most fascinating caravan.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000038_000004.wav|He was discovering, to his amazement, that he was still alive and practically unhurt.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000016.wav|There came a rattle of crockery from within.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000010_000000.wav|Fortunately for William, most of his friends' parents were inspired by the same zeal, so that he met his old cronies of the week days-Henry, Ginger, Douglas and all the rest-and together they beguiled the monotony of the Sabbath.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000034_000006.wav|All that mattered was, it was a bright sunny morning, and all the others were in school, and he was driving a red and yellow caravan along the high road.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2598/4662/2598_4662_000028_000019.wav|The gardener retired grumbling to the potting shed, so, for the present, all was well.|2598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000038_000001.wav|"It ain't for me to say what I think.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000046_000002.wav|The struggling figures reeled out of the radiance and Lucian heard a faint cry.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000047_000001.wav|Almost before the sound died away the light in the room was extinguished, and he could see nothing more.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000004_000001.wav|She pinched her waist, dyed her hair, powdered her face, and affected juvenile dress of the white frock and blue sash kind.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000032_000002.wav|On two occasions I've asked the day policeman, and he says no one passed."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000027_000000.wav|"Well! well!|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000010_000001.wav|"Of course I do, mr Denzil.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000004_000002.wav|In the distance she looked a girlish twenty; close at hand various artifices aided her to pass for thirty; and it was only in the solitude of her own room that her real age was apparent.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000012_000000.wav|"No; nor nothing half so respectable.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000018_000000.wav|This question also puzzled the landlady, as she had no reasonable grounds for her wild statements.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000008_000000.wav|On the morning after his meeting with Berwin, the young barrister sat at breakfast, with Miss Greeb in anxious attendance.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000041_000000.wav|Nevertheless, he held that he had no right to pry into the secrets of the stranger, and honourably strove to dismiss the tenant of no thirteen and his tantalising environments from his mind.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000002_000000.wav|SHADOWS ON THE BLIND|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000047_000000.wav|Thinking that something was wrong, he rushed up the steps and rang the bell violently.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000032_000001.wav|"I thought of that myself, and as my duty to the square I have inquired-that I have.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000014_000001.wav|He's full of secrets and underhand goings on.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000043_000001.wav|But on both occasions he was unsuccessful.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000013_000000.wav|"In what way is he a mystery?" demanded Denzil, approaching the matter with more particularity.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000042_000000.wav|For the next week Lucian resolutely banished the subject from his thoughts, and declined to discuss the matter further with Miss Greeb. That little woman, all on fire with curiosity, made various inquiries of her gossips regarding the doings of mr Berwin, and in default of reporting the same to her lodger, occupied herself in discussing them with her neighbours.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000045_000003.wav|Curious to see the end of this shadow pantomime, Lucian stood still and looked intently at the window.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000027_000001.wav|What of that?" said Denzil impatiently.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000030_000000.wav|Again Miss Greeb shook her head.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000004_000000.wav|At present, Miss Julia Greeb was an unwedded damsel of forty summers, who, with the aid of art, was making desperate but ineffectual efforts to detain the youth which was slipping from her.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000024_000000.wav|"Perhaps not, mr Denzil; but where do those he sees come from?"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000028_000000.wav|"This much, mr Denzil, that Blinders has gone round the square, after seeing mr Berwin, and has seen shadows-two or three of them-on the sitting room blind.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000005_000000.wav|But this was the worst and most frivolous side of her character, for she was really a good hearted, cheery little woman, with a brisk manner, and a flow of talk unequalled in Geneva Square.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000020_000001.wav|"There's only two rooms of that large house furnished, and all the rest is given up to dust and ghosts.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000046_000000.wav|The two figures seemed to be arguing, for their heads nodded violently and their arms waved constantly.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000008_000003.wav|His first word made Miss Greeb flutter back to the table like a dove to its nest.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000038_000000.wav|"Oh, I don't know," cried Miss Greeb, tossing her head and gliding towards the door.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000036_000000.wav|"Just because I don't," replied the landlady, with feminine logic.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000037_000000.wav|"Such as-"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000007_000001.wav|Miss Greeb attended to his needs herself, and brought up his breakfast with her own fair hands, happy for the day if her admired lodger conversed with her for a few moments before reading the morning paper.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000029_000000.wav|"Perhaps by the back," conjectured Lucian.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000045_000001.wav|Even as he looked, two shadows darkened the white surface-the shadows of a man and a woman.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000038_000002.wav|I am the last person in the world to meddle with what don't concern me-that I am." And thus ending the conversation, Miss Greeb vanished, with significant look and pursed up lips.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000007_000005.wav|She was one of the world's unknown martyrs, and her fate merits tears rather than laughter.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000010_000003.wav|Ghosts and vampires and crawling spectres live in it-that they do."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000007_000004.wav|Poor brainless, silly, pitiful Miss Greeb; she would have made a good wife and a fond mother, but by some irony of fate she was destined to be neither; and the comedy of her husband hunting youth was now changing into the lonely tragedy of disappointed spinsterhood.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000019_000000.wav|"Why not?|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000044_000000.wav|On the third evening he was more fortunate, for having worked at his law books until late at night, he went out for a brisk walk before retiring to rest.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000046_000001.wav|They retreated out of the sphere of light, and again came into it, still continuing their furious gestures. Unexpectedly the male shadow seized the female by the throat and swung her like a feather to and fro.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000045_000000.wav|On coming to the house of Berwin, the barrister saw that the sitting room was lighted up and the curtains undrawn, so that the window presented a square of illuminated blind.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000030_000001.wav|"I know the back of no thirteen as well as I know my own face," she declared.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000022_000000.wav|Miss Greeb still shook her head.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000005_000003.wav|Nevertheless, she continued to keep boarders, and to make attempts to captivate the hearts of such bachelors as she judged weak in character.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000041_000001.wav|But such dismissal of unworthy curiosity was more difficult to effect than he expected.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000020_000003.wav|Then he has his meals sent in from the Nelson Hotel round the corner, and eats them all alone.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000006_000001.wav|He was her god, her ideal of manhood, and to him she offered worship, and burnt incense after the manner of her kind.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/231834/6519_231834_000020_000000.wav|"He has no right to behave so, in a respectable square," replied Miss Greeb, shaking her head.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000014_000000.wav|Bela!|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000019_000003.wav|No single arm could have knocked down Bela.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000011_000001.wav|He seemed to be trying to adjust himself to some mental experience he could neither share with others nor explain to himself.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000020_000002.wav|"You were not-quite-quite yourself," she softly explained, wondering at her own composure.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000013_000000.wav|"How dared you!|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000013_000002.wav|They are never open.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000027_000002.wav|Evidently this intrusive little body did not know Bela or his story, or-|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000023_000000.wav|"I must have had an attack of some kind," he calmly remarked.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000024_000001.wav|But before she could begin her story, he added this searching question:|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000004_000000.wav|"AND WHERE WAS I WHEN ALL THIS HAPPENED?"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000024_000000.wav|Then she saw that his faculties were now fully restored, and came a step forward.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000020_000003.wav|Then quickly, as she saw his thoughts revert to the dead friend at his feet, "Bela was not hurt here. He was down town when it happened; but he managed to struggle home and gain this place, which he tried to hold against the men who followed him.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000020_000004.wav|He thought you were dead, you sat there so rigid and so white, and, before he quite gave up, he asked us all to promise not to let any one enter this room till your son Oliver came."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000008_000000.wav|"She stood there! the woman stood there and I saw her!|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000013_000003.wav|Bela sees to that."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000026_000003.wav|A pebble had done it all,--a pebble placed in the gateway by Bela's hands.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000009_000004.wav|We did not like the looks of her, and so followed her in to prevent mischief."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000016_000000.wav|Dead!|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000026_000000.wav|Miss Weeks sighed and betrayed fluster.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000012_000002.wav|Stopping short, he gazed down from his great height upon the trembling little body of whose identity he had but a vague idea, and thundered out in great indignation:|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000005_000001.wav|With one accord, and without stopping to pick their way, they made for the open doorway, knocking the smaller pieces of furniture about and creating havoc generally.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000012_000000.wav|"She was here, then?--a woman with a little child?|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000008_000001.wav|Where is she now?"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000028_000000.wav|Why should interruption come then?|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000025_000001.wav|Was it he who unlocked my gates?"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69411/6519_69411_000019_000000.wav|Was that a sob?|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000018_000004.wav|He was a man in a thousand.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000039_000000.wav|"For a hideous and wholly unprovoked crime.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000035_000000.wav|"The one where-"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000021_000000.wav|"Enough," said he; "tread softly when you go by the sofa on which he lies.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000007.wav|I can describe her, and will, if you will consent to look for her.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000037_000001.wav|He waited respectfully for the judge's next words.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000040_000002.wav|The proprietor's name is Yardley.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000003_000002.wav|Perhaps the man who sat there in company with the judge regretted this.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000037_000000.wav|A gesture had stopped him.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000023_000000.wav|"Not if my watch is to be effective to night," he smiled, and rose to depart.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000050_000001.wav|"This is an unaccustomed effort for me.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000020_000000.wav|A spasm of grief or unavailing regret crossed the judge's face as his head sank back again against the high back of his chair.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000052_000000.wav|The sergeant was so occupied by the mystery of the man and the mystery of the house that they had passed the first gate (which the judge had unlocked without much difficulty) before he realised that there still remained something of interest for him to see and to talk about later. The two dark openings on either side, raised questions which the most unimaginative mind would feel glad to hear explained.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000026_000000.wav|"Let me hear her description, your honour." The judge, who had withdrawn into the shadow, considered for a moment, then said:|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000045_000001.wav|For he felt absolutely sure that he would never be allowed to enter this room again.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000017_000000.wav|"Judge, I will be one of the men.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000027_000002.wav|She wore purple; not an old woman's purple, but a soft shade which did not take from her youth.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000041_000001.wav|Is she a mother?"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000016_000003.wav|I want to feel that these men of yours would no more climb my fence than they would burst into my house without a warrant."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000005.wav|She was in this room.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000050_000000.wav|"I shall miss Bela at every turn," remarked the judge, turning with a sad smile as he finally pulled the door open.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000040_000004.wav|But it harbours a boarder, a permanent one, I believe, who has occasioned no little comment.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000012_000000.wav|"no|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000008_000000.wav|The judge showed small satisfaction.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000022_000000.wav|The sergeant declined.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000044_000001.wav|After you hear from me again.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000045_000000.wav|The sergeant, who had sprung to his feet at the same instant as the judge, cast a last look about him, curiosity burning in his heart and a sort of desperate desire to get all he could out of his present opportunity.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000038_000000.wav|They came quickly and with stern and solemn emphasis.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000009_000001.wav|Couldn't I have three?|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000044_000003.wav|Let me feel that all your energies are devoted to securing my privacy."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000032_000000.wav|"Do you think you can find her with such insufficient data?|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000034_000000.wav|The judge sat quiet, but the sergeant who dared not peer too closely, noticed a sudden constriction in the fingers of the hand with which his host fingered a paper cutter lying on the table between them.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000049_000000.wav|Many years had passed since Judge Ostrander had played the host; but he had not lost a sense of its obligations.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000011_000002.wav|That might do the business better than a dozen out."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000019_000000.wav|"He was a very powerfully built man.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000016_000000.wav|"It would be a breach of trust which would greatly disturb me.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000014_000000.wav|"They are human, are they not?|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000008_000002.wav|This surprised Sergeant Doolittle and led him to attempt to read its cause in his host's countenance.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000036_000000.wav|"I respect your hesitation, judge.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000046_000000.wav|But the arrangement of light was such as to hold in shadow all but the central portion of the room; and this central portion held nothing out of the common-nothing to explain the mysteries of the dwelling or the apprehensions of its suspicious owner.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000019_000001.wav|It took a sixty horse power racing machine, going at a high rate of speed, to kill him."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000003_000000.wav|The library again! but how changed!|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000050_000002.wav|Excuse my awkwardness."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000016_000002.wav|Has not my long life of solitude within these walls sufficiently proved this?|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000001.wav|"You were not at the inquiry this afternoon, and may not know that just as Bela and the crowd about him turned this corner, they ran into a woman leading a small child, who stopped the whole throng in order to address him.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000040_000007.wav|Perhaps she's your visitor of to day. Hadn't I better find out?"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000030_000000.wav|"It's not the same but another one; that's all."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000011_000001.wav|Do you want one of them to stay inside?|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000018_000003.wav|But I shall always suffer from regret that I was not in a condition to receive his last sigh.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000031_000000.wav|Inconsequent words, but the sergeant meant to remember them, for with their utterance, a change passed over the judge; and his manner, which had been constrained and hurried during his attempted description, became at once more natural, and therefore more courteous.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000008_000003.wav|But the shade of the lamp intervened too completely, and he had to be content to wait till the judge chose to speak, which he presently did, though not in the exact tones the Sergeant expected.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000018_000000.wav|"Thank you, sergeant; I appreciate the favour.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000029_000000.wav|No, or if he had been witness to something of the kind, it was for a moment only; for the eyes which had gone blank had turned his way again, and only a disconnected expression which fell from the judge's lips, showed that his mind had been wandering.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000006.wav|She came as far as that open space just inside the doorway.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000027_000000.wav|"I cannot describe her features, for she was heavily veiled; neither can I describe her figure except to say that she is tall and slender.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000004.wav|She was in this house.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000007_000000.wav|"Two men are already detailed for the job, your honour.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000043_000000.wav|The judge's hand withdrew from the table and for an instant the room was so quiet that you could hear some far off clock ticking out the minutes. Then Judge Ostrander rose and in a peremptory tone said:|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000027_000007.wav|In age it appeared to be about six-or that was the impression I received before-"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000005_000000.wav|These were slow in coming, and they were unexpected when they came.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000040_000005.wav|No one has ever seen her face; unless it is the landlord's wife.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000052_000001.wav|Ere the second gate swung open and he found himself again in the street, he had built up more than one theory in explanation of this freak of parallel fences with the strip of gloom between.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000012_000004.wav|Only, who is to protect me against your men?"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000027_000004.wav|The child did not seem to belong to her, though she held her tightly by the hand.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000032_000001.wav|A woman dressed in purple, leading a little child without any hat?"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000049_000001.wav|It was for him to shoot the bolts and lift the bars; but he went about it so clumsily and with such evident aversion to the task, that the sergeant instinctively sprang to help him.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000002.wav|No one heard what she said; and no one could give any information as to who she was or in what direction she vanished.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000010_000000.wav|The sergeant hesitated; he felt an emotion of wonder-a sense of something more nearly approaching the uncanny than was usual to his matter of fact mind.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000044_000002.wav|Make no move to night.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000047_000003.wav|He was led front; and, entering an old-fashioned hall dimly lighted, passed a staircase and two closed doors, both of which gave him the impression of having been shut upon a past it had pleasured no one to revive in many years.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000006_000000.wav|"Sergeant, I have lost a faithful servant under circumstances which have called an unfortunate attention to my house.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000040_000003.wav|We have nothing against him; the place is highly respectable.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000006_000001.wav|I should like to have this place guarded-carefully guarded, you understand-from any and all intrusion till I can look about me and secure protection of my own.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000012_000002.wav|When he is buried, I may call upon you for a special to watch my room door.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000027_000003.wav|There was something floating round her shoulders of the same colour, and on her arms were long gloves such as you see our young ladies wear.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000024_000000.wav|The judge, grown suddenly thoughtful, rapped with his finger tips on the table edge.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000013_000000.wav|"What do you mean by that, your honour?"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000007_000001.wav|I heard the order given just as I left Headquarters."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000027_000001.wav|But her dress I remember to the last detail, though I am not usually so observant.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000047_000002.wav|Unexpectedly to himself, the judge's intentions were in the direction of his own wishes.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000044_000000.wav|"To morrow.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000021_000001.wav|Will you fill your glass again, sergeant?"|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000025_000008.wav|It is to be a money transaction, sergeant, and if she is found and no stir made and no talk started among the Force, I will pay all that you think it right to demand."|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000003_000001.wav|Evening light now instead of blazing sunshine; and evening light so shaded that the corners seemed far and the many articles of furniture, cumbering the spaces between, larger for the shadows in which they stood hidden.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000040_000000.wav|"Because of something I have lately heard in its connection.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000014_000001.wav|They have instincts of curiosity like the rest of us.|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6519/69412/6519_69412_000033_000001.wav|Do you remember the old tavern on the Rushville road?|6519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1001/134708/1001_134708_000013_000000.wav|For man of you, your characteristic race, Here may he hardy, sweet, gigantic grow, here tower proportionate to Nature, Here climb the vast pure spaces unconfined, uncheck'd by wall or roof, Here laugh with storm or sun, here joy, here patiently inure, Here heed himself, unfold himself, (not others' formulas heed,) here fill his time, To duly fall, to aid, unreck'd at last, To disappear, to serve.|1001
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000009_000000.wav|A mode of escape was now presented to me, but how was I to avail myself of it?|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000012_000001.wav|About midnight, as I imagined, I arose and drew the slide.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000005_000001.wav|My heart sunk within me, when in his broken English he answered me that it could never be effected.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000019_000003.wav|Even now, amidst all the bustle and stir of the proud and busy city in which I am dwelling, the image of those three trees seems to come as vividly before my eyes as if they were actually present, and I still feel the soothing quiet pleasure which I then had in watching hour after hour their topmost boughs waving gracefully in the breeze.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000005_000000.wav|At once it struck me that, could I but reach that valley under his protection, I might easily from thence reach Nukuheva by water; and animated by the prospect which this plan held, out I disclosed it in a few brief words to the stranger, and asked him how it could be best accomplished.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000004_000001.wav|It soon appeared however, that on this occasion he had not any intelligence of importance to communicate.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000011_000002.wav|On re entering I would purposely omit closing the passage after me, and trusting that the indolence of the savages would prevent them from repairing my neglect, would return to my mat, and waiting patiently until all were again asleep, I would then steal forth, and at once take the route to Pueearka.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000005_000007.wav|All white men afraid Typee, so no white men come.'|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000010_000001.wav|This passage, for no conceivable reason that I could devise, was always closed after the household had retired to rest, by drawing a heavy slide across it, composed of a dozen or more bits of wood, ingeniously fastened together by seizings of sinnate.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000010_000000.wav|The entrance to Marheyo's habitation was through a low narrow opening in its wicker work front.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000012_000003.wav|On hearing my reply they sank back again, and in a minute or two I returned to my mat, anxiously awaiting the result of the experiment.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER THIRTY THREE|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000007_000000.wav|It would have been idle for me to have attempted resuming the interview so peremptorily terminated by Marnoo, who was evidently little disposed to compromise his own safety by any rash endeavour to ensure mine. But the plan he had suggested struck me as one which might possibly be accomplished, and I resolved to act upon it as speedily as possible.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000015_000000.wav|Shortly after Marnoo's visit I was reduced to such a state that it was with extreme difficulty I could walk, even with the assistance of a spear, and Kory Kory, as formerly, was obliged to carry me daily to the stream.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000019_000002.wav|It is strange how inanimate objects will twine themselves into our affections, especially in the hour of affliction.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000004_000000.wav|As he drew near, I remembered with many misgivings the inauspicious termination of our former interview, and when he entered the house, I watched with intense anxiety the reception he met with from its inmates. To my joy, his appearance was hailed with the liveliest pleasure; and accosting me kindly, he seated himself by my side, and entered into conversation with the natives around him.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000004_000003.wav|He replied from Pueearka, his native valley, and that he intended to return to it the same day.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000009_000003.wav|It was also by night alone that I could hope to accomplish my object, and then only by adopting the utmost precaution.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000011_000000.wav|The difficulty thus placed in my way I, determined to obviate in the following manner.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000005_000002.wav|'Kanaka no let you go nowhere,' he said; 'you taboo.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000013_000002.wav|Several times after I repeated the same manoeuvre, but with as little success as before. As my pretence for withdrawing from the house was to allay my thirst, Kory Kory either suspecting some design on my part, or else prompted by a desire to please me, regularly every evening placed a calabash of water by my side.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000012_000000.wav|The very night which followed Marnoo's departure, I proceeded to put this project into execution.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000010_000002.wav|When any of the inmates chose to go outside, the noise occasioned by the removing of this rude door awakened every body else; and on more than one occasion I had remarked that the islanders were nearly as irritable as more civilized beings under similar circumstances.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000018_000001.wav|All alone during the stillness of the tropical mid day, he would pursue his quiet work, sitting in the shade and weaving together the leaflets of his cocoanut branches, or rolling upon his knee the twisted fibres of bark to form the cords with which he tied together the thatching of his tiny house.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000014_000001.wav|For the present, therefore, I was obliged to abandon the attempt; but I endeavoured to console myself with the idea that by this mode I might yet effect my escape.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127597/637_127597_000013_000001.wav|This was a sad blow to me; but as it might have aroused the suspicions of the islanders to have made another attempt that night, I was reluctantly obliged to defer it until the next.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000013_000002.wav|As soon as it cools the rind drops off, and you then have the soft round pulp in its purest and most delicious state.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000009_000000.wav|The leaves of the bread fruit are of great size, and their edges are cut and scolloped as fantastically as those of a lady's lace collar.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000022_000002.wav|This is the form in which the 'Tutao' is generally consumed.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000003_000001.wav|After a whole day spent in this employment, he would return about nightfall with several cocoanut shells filled with different descriptions of kelp.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000005_000002.wav|This precious commodity they brought to the house, enveloped in multitudinous folds of leaves; and as a special mark of the esteem in which they held me, would spread an immense leaf on the ground, and dropping one by one a few minute particles of the salt upon it, invite me to taste them.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000001.wav|This is then divided into separate parcels, which, after being made up into stout packages, enveloped in successive folds of leaves, and bound round with thongs of bark, are stored away in large receptacles hollowed in the earth, from whence they are drawn as occasion may require.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000007_000000.wav|The celebrity of the bread fruit tree, and the conspicuous place it occupies in a Typee bill of fare, induces me to give at some length a general description of the tree, and the various modes in which the fruit is prepared.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000015_000000.wav|There is one form, however, in which the fruit is occasionally served, that renders it a dish fit for a king.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000004.wav|A primitive oven is scooped in the ground, and its bottom being loosely covered with stones, a large fire is kindled within it.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000012_000000.wav|The bread fruit, however, is never used, and is indeed altogether unfit to be eaten, until submitted in one form or other to the action of fire.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000008_000000.wav|The bread fruit tree, in its glorious prime, is a grand and towering object, forming the same feature in a Marquesan landscape that the patriarchal elm does in New England scenery.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000004_000000.wav|The first time he submitted one of these saline salads to my critical attention I naturally thought that anything collected at such pains must possess peculiar merits; but one mouthful was a complete dose; and great was the consternation of the old warrior at the rapidity with which I ejected his Epicurean treat.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000006_000000.wav|From the extravagant value placed upon the article, I verily believe, that with a bushel of common Liverpool salt all the real estate in Typee might have been purchased.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000008_000001.wav|The latter tree it not a little resembles in height, in the wide spread of its stalwart branches, and in its venerable and imposing aspect.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000003_000002.wav|In preparing these for use he manifested all the ostentation of a professed cook, although the chief mystery of the affair appeared to consist in pouring water in judicious quantities upon the slimy contents of his cocoanut shells.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000003.wav|Before it is fit to be eaten, however, it has to undergo an additional process.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000014_000000.wav|Sometimes after having been roasted in the fire, the natives snatch it briskly from the embers, and permitting it to slip out of the yielding rind into a vessel of cold water, stir up the mixture, which they call 'bo a sho'.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000015_000001.wav|As soon as it is taken from the fire the exterior is removed, the core extracted, and the remaining part is placed in a sort of shallow stone mortar, and briskly worked with a pestle of the same substance.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000005_000000.wav|How true it is, that the rarity of any particular article enhances its value amazingly.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000009_000002.wav|The autumnal tints of our American forests, glorious as they are, sink into nothing in comparison with this tree.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000014_000001.wav|I never could endure this compound, and indeed the preparation is not greatly in vogue among the more polite Typees.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000000.wav|The trees are stripped of their nodding burdens, which, easily freed from the rind and core, are gathered together in capacious wooden vessels, where the pulpy fruit is soon worked by a stone pestle, vigorously applied, into a blended mass of a doughy consistency, called by the natives 'Tutao'.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000016_000002.wav|The delicious liquid soon bubbles round the fruit, and leaves it at last just peeping above its surface.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000024_000000.wav|This stately tree, which is rarely met with upon the Sandwich Islands, and then only of a very inferior quality, and at Tahiti does not abound to a degree that renders its fruit the principal article of food, attains its greatest excellence in the genial climate of the Marquesan group, where it grows to an enormous magnitude, and flourishes in the utmost abundance.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000017_000001.wav|The hobby horse and the pestle and mortar were in great requisition during the time I remained in the house of Marheyo, and Kory Kory had frequent occasion to show his skill in their use.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000016_000001.wav|Having obtained a quantity sufficient for his purpose, he places it in a bag made of the net like fibrous substance attached to all cocoanut trees, and compressing it over the bread fruit, which being now sufficiently pounded, is put into a wooden bowl-extracts a thick creamy milk.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000005_000001.wav|In some part of the valley-I know not where, but probably in the neighbourhood of the sea-the girls were sometimes in the habit of procuring small quantities of salt, a thimble full or so being the result of the united labours of a party of five or six employed for the greater part of the day.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000005.wav|As soon as the requisite degree of heat is attained, the embers are removed, and the surface of the stones being covered with thick layers of leaves, one of the large packages of Tutao is deposited upon them and overspread with another layer of leaves.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000002_000000.wav|ALL the inhabitants of the valley treated me with great kindness; but as to the household of Marheyo, with whom I was now permanently domiciled, nothing could surpass their efforts to minister to my comfort.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000013_000001.wav|After the lapse of ten or fifteen minutes, the green rind embrowns and cracks, showing through the fissures in its sides the milk white interior.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000022_000001.wav|The Amar is placed in a vessel, and mixed with water until it gains a proper pudding like consistency, when, without further preparation, it is in readiness for use.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000020_000002.wav|In this condition the Tutao sometimes remains for years, and even is thought to improve by age.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000011_000001.wav|Its surface is dotted all over with little conical prominences, looking not unlike the knobs, on an antiquated church door.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000015_000004.wav|The stick is sometimes a grotesquely formed limb of a tree, with three or four branches twisting from its body like so many shapeless legs, and sustaining it two or three feet from the ground.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000010_000000.wav|The leaf, in one particular stage, when nearly all the prismatic colours are blended on its surface, is often converted by the natives into a superb and striking head dress.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127579/637_127579_000013_000003.wav|Thus eaten, it has a mild and pleasing flavour.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000000.wav|One day, in company with Kory Kory, I had repaired to the stream for the purpose of bathing, when I observed a woman sitting upon a rock in the midst of the current, and watching with the liveliest interest the gambols of something, which at first I took to be an uncommonly large species of frog that was sporting in the water near her.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000003_000000.wav|SADLY discursive as I have already been, I must still further entreat the reader's patience, as I am about to string together, without any attempt at order, a few odds and ends of things not hitherto mentioned, but which are either curious in themselves or peculiar to the Typees.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000022_000001.wav|A fine head of hair is the pride and joy of every woman's heart.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000015_000002.wav|The other nostril being closed by a peculiar movement of the muscles about the nose, the breath is forced into the tube, and produces a soft dulcet sound which is varied by the fingers running at random over the stops.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000024_000006.wav|Its merits as a preparation for the hair are undeniable-it imparts to it a superb gloss and a silky fineness.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000012_000004.wav|At his solicitation I sang it again and again, and nothing could be more ludicrous than his vain attempts to catch the air and the words.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000008_000000.wav|To savages generally is imputed a guttural articulation.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000008.wav|And yet in civilized communities how many able bodied individuals die, like so many drowning kittens, from the occurrence of the most trivial accidents!|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER THIRTY ONE|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000012_000003.wav|The King was delighted with the verse; but the chorus fairly transported him.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000006.wav|No wonder that the South Sea Islanders are so amphibious a race, when they are thus launched into the water as soon as they see the light.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000006_000000.wav|What was the meaning or purpose of this custom, whether it was practiced merely as a diversion, or whether it was a religious exercise, a sort of family prayers, I never could discover.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000008_000002.wav|The labial melody with which the Typee girls carry on an ordinary conversation, giving a musical prolongation to the final syllable of every sentence, and chirping out some of the words with a liquid, bird like accent, was singularly pleasing.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000015_000000.wav|Besides the sticks and the drums, there are no other musical instruments among the Typees, except one which might appropriately be denominated a nasal flute.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000024_000001.wav|As the oleaginous matter exudes, it falls in drops through the apertures into a wide mouthed calabash placed underneath.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000024_000003.wav|These nuts are then hermetically sealed with a resinous gum, and the vegetable fragrance of their green rind soon imparts to the oil a delightful odour.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000004_000000.wav|There was one singular custom observed in old Marheyo's domestic establishment, which often excited my surprise.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000012_000002.wav|His Typeean majesty, with all his court, gazed upon me in amazement, as if I had displayed some preternatural faculty which Heaven had denied to them.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000015_000004.wav|Awkward as such an instrument may appear, it was, in Fayaway's delicate little hands, one of the most graceful I have ever seen.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000012_000005.wav|The royal savage seemed to think that by screwing all the features of his face into the end of his nose he might possibly succeed in the undertaking, but it failed to answer the purpose; and in the end he gave it up, and consoled himself by listening to my repetition of the sounds fifty times over.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000007.wav|I am convinced that it is as natural for a human being to swim as it is for a duck.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000024_000005.wav|This elegant little odorous globe would not be out of place even upon the toilette of a queen.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000017_000003.wav|Sometimes when this sorely battered shadow retreated precipitately towards a group of the savages, and, following him up, I rushed among them dealing my blows right and left, they would disperse in all directions much to the enjoyment of Mehevi, the chiefs, and themselves.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000009_000000.wav|The men however, are not quite so harmonious in their utterance, and when excited upon any subject, would work themselves up into a sort of wordy paroxysm, during which all descriptions of rough sided sounds were projected from their mouths, with a force and rapidity which was absolutely astonishing.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000023_000001.wav|After bathing, as they sometimes do five or six times every day, the hair is carefully dried, and if they have been in the sea, invariably washed in fresh water, and anointed with a highly scented oil extracted from the meat of the cocoanut.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000001.wav|Attracted by the novelty of the sight, I waded towards the spot where she sat, and could hardly credit the evidence of my senses when I beheld a little infant, the period of whose birth could not have extended back many days, paddling about as if it had just risen to the surface, after being hatched into existence at the bottom.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000024_000004.wav|After the lapse of a few weeks the exterior shell of the nuts becomes quite dry and hard, and assumes a beautiful carnation tint; and when opened they are found to be about two thirds full of an ointment of a light yellow colour and diffusing the sweetest perfume.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000022_000000.wav|The long luxuriant and glossy tresses of the Typee damsels often attracted my admiration.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000004.wav|At such times however, the mother snatched it up and by a process scarcely to be mentioned obliged it to eject the fluid.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000007_000000.wav|The sounds produced by the natives on these occasions were of a most singular description; and had I not actually been present, I never would have believed that such curious noises could have been produced by human beings.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000015_000005.wav|A young lady, in the act of tormenting a guitar strung about her neck by a couple of yards of blue ribbon, is not half so engaging.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000024_000000.wav|A large vessel of wood, with holes perforated in the bottom, is filled with the pounded meat, and exposed to the rays of the sun|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000012_000001.wav|It was a stanza from the 'Bavarian broom seller'.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000015_000003.wav|This is a favourite recreation with the females and one in which Fayaway greatly excelled.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000023_000000.wav|The Typee girls devote much of their time to the dressing of their fair and redundant locks.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/637/127595/637_127595_000020_000005.wav|For several weeks afterwards I observed this woman bringing her child down to the stream regularly every day, in the cool of the morning and evening and treating it to a bath.|637
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000002.wav|I heard quick, heavy pantings, as of some great living thing; and with this there came the noise of regular movements in the water, and the foaming and gurgling of waves.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000011_000000.wav|I loaded the empty barrel and waited.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000025.wav|In that case there might be no sudden plunge, after all.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000006_000002.wav|As I knelt there the boat drew nearer, the black mass grew blacker.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000006.wav|Death seemed certain, and my chief thought now was as to the moment when it would come.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000009_000000.wav|There was no possible way of forming any estimate as to speed.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000011_000001.wav|The flash of light had revealed nothing, yet it had distracted my thoughts, and the work of reloading was an additional distraction.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000006.wav|Would it be well, I thought, to wait for such a fate, and experience such a death agony?|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000003.wav|At length I rose from my knees and sank down upon the seat of the boat, and tried to peer through the gloom.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000007.wav|I was prepared.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000001.wav|It was faint glow that at first caught my gaze; and, on turning to see it better, I saw a round red spot glowing like fire.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000023.wav|These, I knew, were only the creations of fiction; yet, after all, it seemed possible that the earth might contain vast hollow spaces in its interior-realms of eternal darkness, caverns in comparison with which the hugest caves on the surface were but the tiniest cells.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000021.wav|I knew some scientific men held the opinion that the earth's interior is a mass of molten rock and pent up fire, and that the earth itself had once been a burning orb, which had cooled down at the surface; yet, after all, this was only a theory, and there were other theories which were totally different.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000001.wav|The light given by the aurora and the low moon seemed to grow fainter; and as I looked behind I saw that the distant glow from the volcanic fires had become more brilliant in the increasing darkness.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000006_000006.wav|Suddenly all grew dark-dark beyond all expression; the sky above was in a moment snatched from view; I had been flung into some tremendous cavern; and there, on my knees, with terror in my heart, I waited for death.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000009_000002.wav|At the opening it had been contracted and narrow; but here it might have expanded itself to miles, and its vaulted top might reach almost to the summit of the lofty mountains.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000005.wav|This new fear aroused me to action.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000010_000007.wav|I saw a wide expanse of water, black as ink-a Stygian pool; but no rocks were visible, and it seemed as though I had been carried into a subterranean sea.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000004.wav|Here I drifted helplessly, and saw the gloomy, rocky cliffs sweep past me as I was hurled onward on the breast of the tremendous flood.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000007.wav|I listened, but heard nothing save a deep, dull, droning sound, which seemed to fill all the air and make it all tremulous with its vibrations.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000002.wav|I had not seen this before.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000020.wav|But the old theory of the flow of water through the earth had taken hold of me and could not be shaken off.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000008.wav|I tried to collect my thoughts.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000005.wav|I was in despair. The fate of Agnew had prepared me for my own, and I was only thankful that my fate, since it was inevitable, would be less appalling.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000009.wav|They had come nearer.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000007.wav|Would it not be better for me to take my own life before I should know the worst?|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000009_000003.wav|While sight thus failed me, sound was equally unavailing, for it was always the same-a sustained and unintermittent roar, a low, droning sound, deep and terrible, with no variations of dashing breakers or rushing rapids or falling cataracts.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000011_000003.wav|I did not wish to waste my ammunition, yet I thought that an occasional shot might serve some good purpose, if it was only to afford me some relief from despair.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000003.wav|It was as though some living, breathing creature were here, not far away, moving through these midnight waters; and with this discovery there came a new fear-the fear of pursuit.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000006_000000.wav|This, then, I thought, is the end.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000000.wav|The boat drifted on.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000013.wav|For there full before me I saw, though but for an instant, a tremendous sight.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000014.wav|All the time it continued to grow fainter, and it seemed certain that I was moving away from it rather than toward it.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000010_000004.wav|I loaded both barrels of the rifle, keeping my pistol for another purpose, and then fired one of them.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000006_000004.wav|There were no breakers; there was no phosphorescent sparkle of seething waters, and no whiteness of foam.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000024.wav|I was now being borne on to these.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000018.wav|From this it seemed plainly evident that the waters had borne me into some vast cavern of unknown extent, which went under the mountains-a subterranean channel, whose issue I could not conjecture.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000011_000002.wav|Anything was better than inaction.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000002.wav|The waters seemed still, the boat motionless. It was borne upon the surface of a vast stream as smooth as glass; but who could tell how deep that stream was, or how wide?|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000010_000005.wav|There was a tremendous report, that rang in my ears like a hundred thunder volleys, and rolled and reverberated far along, and died away in endless echoes.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000010_000001.wav|I struck a match.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000002.wav|The sides of the channel grew steeper, until at last they became rocky precipices, rising to an unknown height.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000005.wav|Nothing was visible.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000010.wav|They were immediately in front.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000008.wav|The sounds arose more plainly.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000014.wav|It was a vast monster, moving in the waters against the stream and toward the boat.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000009.wav|So I sat, holding my pistol, prepared to use it, watching the light, and awaiting the time when the glowing fires should make all further hope impossible.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000006_000005.wav|I thought that I was on the brink of some tremendous cataract a thousand times deeper than Niagara; some fall where the waters plunged into the depths of the earth; and where, gathering for the terrific descent, all other movements-all dashings and writhings and twistings-were obliterated and lost in the one overwhelming onward rush.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000005_000001.wav|I was floating at the bottom of a vast chasm, where the sides seemed to rise precipitously for thousands of feet, where neither watery flood nor rocky wall was visible, and where, far above, I could see the line of sky between the summits of the cliffs, and watch the glowing stars.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000009_000001.wav|All was dark, and even the glow behind was fading away; nor could I make any conjecture whatever as to the size of the channel.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000005_000003.wav|So I thought; and with these thoughts I drifted on, I cannot tell how long, until at length there appeared a vast black mass, where the open sky above me terminated, and where the lustre of the stars and the light of the heavens were all swallowed up in utter darkness.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000009_000006.wav|That seemed to me to be my last sight of earthly things. After this nothing was left.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000010.wav|But time passed, and the light grew no brighter; on the contrary, it seemed to grow fainter.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000004_000003.wav|The channel itself grew narrower, till from a width of two miles it had contracted to a tenth of those dimensions; but with this lessening width the waters seemed to rush far more swiftly.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000005_000000.wav|As I went on, the precipices rose higher and seemed to overhang, the channel grew narrower, the light grew fainter, until at last all around me grew dark.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000003.wav|It looked like the moon when it rises from behind clouds, and glows red and lurid from the horizon; and so this glowed, but not with the steady light of the moon, for the light was fitful, and sometimes flashed into a baleful brightness, which soon subsided into a dimmer lustre.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000009_000004.wav|Vague thoughts of final escape came and went; but in such a situation hope could not be sustained.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000008.wav|I took my pistol and loaded it, so as to be prepared, but hesitated to use it until my fate should be more apparent.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000007_000001.wav|The awful plunge was still put off; and though I remained on my knees and waited long, still the end came not.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000000.wav|And now, as I sat with the rifle in my hands, I was aware of a sound-new, exciting, different altogether from the murmur of innumerable waters that filled my ears, and in sharp contrast with the droning echoes of the rushing flood.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000005.wav|This, then, I thought, was to be the end of my voyage; this was my goal-a pit of fire, into which I should be hurled!|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000012_000011.wav|I raised my rifle and took aim.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135220/1165_135220_000008_000017.wav|I saw that I was still moving on away from that light as before, and that its changing position was due to the turning of the boat as the water drifted it along, now stern foremost, now sidewise, and again bow foremost.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000059_000000.wav|"If you can't make it out, then shake it out," said Oxenden.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000004_000002.wav|"What for?"|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000056_000003.wav|Then Featherstone produced a knife which was used to open sardine boxes, but after a faithful trial this proved useless. At length Melick, who had gone off in search of something more effective, made his appearance armed with an axe.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000015_000002.wav|There were four of them, and they were made of different colors, namely, red, green, yellow, and white.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000006_000000.wav|"By Jove!" exclaimed Featherstone again, raising himself higher in his hammock, "that's not a bad idea.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000076_000000.wav|"It looks like Egyptian papyrus," said the doctor.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000020_000001.wav|"Probably the spar of some ship."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000073_000000.wav|"This other package must be the manuscript," said Oxenden, "and it'll tell all about it."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000035_000000.wav|"It looks like a can of preserved meat," said the doctor.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000036_000000.wav|"It certainly is a can," said Melick, "for it's made of metal; but as to preserved meat, I have my doubts."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000074_000000.wav|"Such a manuscript'll be better than meat," said the doctor, sententiously.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000034_000003.wav|A second time he grasped at it, and with both hands. This time he caught it, and then lifted it out of the water into the boat.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000053_000001.wav|It was copper.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000070_000000.wav|"Sir,--I am an Englishman, and have been carried by a series of incredible events to a land from which escape is as impossible as from the grave.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000054_000000.wav|"It's foreign work," said Melick.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000018_000000.wav|"There's a black speck out there," said Oxenden.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000006_000002.wav|By Jove! glowious! glowious!|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000046_000001.wav|"I'm certain of that. It has come in good time.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000063_000001.wav|"Let's make a bet on it.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000048_000000.wav|"Meat cans," said Melick, "are never so large as that."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000029_000003.wav|An animated discussion arose about this.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000030_000002.wav|It doesn't look to me like a spar."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000019_000001.wav|"That'll do.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000044_000001.wav|Let's go back to the yacht and open it."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000016_000001.wav|But first let us see if there is anything that can be taken as a point of arrival.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000010_000002.wav|So we can.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000062_000003.wav|This Melick seized and began to open.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000037_000000.wav|The article in question was made of metal and was cylindrical in shape.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000001_000004.wav|The fourth member of the party, Melick, was seated near the mainmast, folding some papers in a peculiar way.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000047_000000.wav|"You may have my share, then," said Oxenden.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000010_000003.wav|Do you know, Melick, old chap, I think that's a wegular piece of inspiration. A wegatta! and we can bet on the best boat."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000031_000002.wav|The boat drew nearer.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000038_000002.wav|They pot all sorts of things now."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000066_000001.wav|"Why, this is English!"|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000043_000001.wav|It's odd, too.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000022_000000.wav|"Oh, it's a spar," said Melick.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000054_000001.wav|"In England we make tin cans for everything.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000060_000001.wav|This served to loosen the contents, which seemed tightly packed, but came gradually down until at length they could be seen and drawn forth. Melick drew them forth, and the contents of the mysterious copper cylinder resolved themselves into two packages.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000003_000000.wav|"Paper boats," said Melick, in a business like tone.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000028_000003.wav|The excitement grew intense; the betting changed its form, but was still kept up, until at last the two paper boats seemed blended together in one dim spot which gradually faded out of sight.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000061_000001.wav|What could they be?|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000038_000001.wav|"Perhaps something good-game, I dare say-yes, Yorkshire game pie.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000034_000001.wav|He failed to get it, and did no more than touch it.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000071_000000.wav|"ADAM MORE."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000054_000002.wav|It may be something that's drifted out from Mogadore or some port in Morocco."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000024_000001.wav|After this the four stood watching the little fleet in silence.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000033_000000.wav|"It's not a spar," said Melick, who was at the bow.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000031_000001.wav|The men pulled.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000044_000000.wav|"By Jove!" cried Featherstone, "this is getting exciting.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000029_000005.wav|In the midst of this, Featherstone's attention was drawn to the dark spot already mentioned as the goal of the race.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000029_000001.wav|The four were soon embarked, and the men rowed out toward the point which had been chosen as the end of the race.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000031_000000.wav|The others, always on the lookout for some new object of interest, were attracted by these words, and looked closely at the thing in question.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000076_000001.wav|"That was the common paper of antiquity."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000028_000001.wav|All took part in this; the excitement rose high and the betting went on merrily.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000002_000002.wav|What are you doing?"|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000070_000002.wav|Oh, unknown friend! whoever you are.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000015_000001.wav|By this time Melick had finished his paper boats.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000037_000001.wav|It was soldered tight and evidently contained something.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000075_000001.wav|He saw a great collection of leaves, just like those of the letter, of some vegetable substance, smooth as paper, and covered with writing.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000017_000000.wav|Saying this, he went to the side, followed by the others, and all looked out carefully over the water.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000012_000001.wav|For you see if there was a wind we should be going on ourselves, and the regatta couldn't come off; but, as it is, the water is just right. You pick out your boat, and lay your bet on her to race to some given point."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000067_000001.wav|There were three sheets, all covered with writing-one in English, another in French, and a third in German.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000029_000004.wav|Some of the bets were off, but others remained an open question, and each side insisted upon a different view of the case.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000062_000001.wav|It was enclosed in wrappers made of some coarse kind of felt, bound tight with strong cords.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000014_000000.wav|"Oh, easily enough; something or anything-a bubble'll do, or we can pitch out a bit of wood."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000022_000001.wav|"It's one end of it, the rest is under water."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000013_000000.wav|"A given point?|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000001_000001.wav|Forward were the crew; some asleep, others smoking, others playing cards.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000038_000000.wav|"It's some kind of preserved meat," said the doctor.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000070_000003.wav|I entreat you to let this message be made known in some way to my father, Henry More, Keswick, Cumberland, England, so that he may learn the fate of his son.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000053_000000.wav|They all looked, and could see, where the knife had cut into the vessel, that it was as he said.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000030_000001.wav|"Pull up, lads, a little; let's see what it is.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000016_000000.wav|"I'll put these in the water," said Melick, "and then we can lay our bets on them as we choose.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000062_000000.wav|One of the packages was very much larger than the other.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000049_000000.wav|"Oh, I don't know about that," said the doctor, "they make up pretty large packages of pemmican for the arctic expeditions."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000028_000002.wav|At length it was noticed that the white was overhauling the red.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000009_000000.wav|At this Featherstone sat upright, with his legs dangling out of the hammock.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000064_000000.wav|"Done," said Oxenden.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000056_000002.wav|Search was made for a cold chisel, but to no purpose.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000005_000001.wav|"Anything to kill time, you know."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000056_000000.wav|By this time they had reached the yacht and hurried aboard.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000015_000000.wav|Upon this Featherstone descended from his perch, and came near to examine the proceedings, while the other two, eager to take advantage of the new excitement, soon joined him.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000012_000000.wav|"Well, you know, that's the fun of it," said Melick, who went solemnly on as he spoke, folding his paper boats; "that's the fun of it.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000051_000001.wav|"Is it copper?"|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000051_000000.wav|"Copper!" exclaimed Oxenden.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000023_000000.wav|The spot thus chosen was a dark, circular object, about a hundred yards away, and certainly did look very much like the extremity of some spar, the rest of which was under water.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000060_000000.wav|Upon this Melick took the cylinder, turned it upside down, shook it smartly, and then lifted it and pounded it against the deck.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000008_000000.wav|"Oh, I mean a race with these paper boats.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000039_000002.wav|It must have been floating for ages."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000063_000000.wav|"Wait a minute," said Featherstone.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000058_000000.wav|"Something," said Melick, "but I can't quite make it out."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000010_000000.wav|"By Jove!" he exclaimed again.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000057_000000.wav|"What do you see?" asked Featherstone.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000065_000003.wav|These sheets were covered with writing.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000070_000001.wav|I have written this and committed it to the sea, in the hope that the ocean currents may bear it within the reach of civilized man.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000004_000000.wav|"Paper boats!|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000043_000003.wav|I never saw anything like it before.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000034_000002.wav|It moved easily and sank, but soon came up again.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000019_000002.wav|I wonder what it is?"|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000037_000003.wav|The nature of the metal was not easily perceptible, for it was coated with slime, and covered over about half its surface with barnacles and sea weed.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000034_000004.wav|These proceedings had been watched with the deepest interest; and now, as this curious floating thing made its appearance among them, they all crowded around it in eager excitement.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000001_000005.wav|His occupation at length attracted the roving eyes of Featherstone, who poked forth his head from his hammock, and said in a sleepy voice:|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000056_000005.wav|Then he looked in.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000052_000000.wav|"Look for yourselves," said Melick, quietly.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000065_000001.wav|It was not paper, however, but some vegetable product which was used for the same purpose.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000006_000003.wav|I say, Oxenden, did you hear that?"|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000040_000001.wav|So come, let's open it, and see what sort of diet the antediluvians had."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000024_000003.wav|Gradually they drew apart, the green one drifting astern, the yellow one remaining under the vessel, while the red and the white were carried out in the direction where they were expected to go, with about a foot of space between them.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000025_000000.wav|"Two to one on the red!" cried Featherstone, betting on the one which had gained the lead.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000056_000004.wav|With this he attacked the copper cylinder, and by means of a few dexterous blows succeeded in cutting it open.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000065_000000.wav|Melick opened the package, and it was seen that Featherstone had lost. There were no jewels, but one or two sheets of something that looked like paper.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000077_000001.wav|"Let's have the contents of the manuscript.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000042_000000.wav|Melick shook his head.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000027_000000.wav|Oxenden made the same bet, which was taken by Melick and the doctor.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000016_000002.wav|If there isn't anything, I can pitch out a bit of wood, in any direction which may seem best."|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000075_000000.wav|Melick said nothing, but, opening his knife, he cut the cords and unfolded the wrapper.|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1165/135216/1165_135216_000068_000000.wav|It was as follows:|1165
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000027_000000.wav|three.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000002_000000.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000025_000002.wav|All pervading is the Great Tao!|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000038_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000020_000000.wav|three.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000007_000002.wav|If any one should wish to get the kingdom for himself, and to effect this by what he does, I see that he will not succeed.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000007_000003.wav|The kingdom is a spirit like thing, and cannot be got by active doing.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000017_000002.wav|The second in command of the army has his place on the left; the general commanding in chief has his on the right;--his place, that is, is assigned to him as in the rites of mourning.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000025_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000011_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000022_000000.wav|five.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000017_000000.wav|three.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000018_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000028_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126929/593_126929_000007_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000012_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000021_000000.wav|Misery!--happiness is to be found by its side!|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000024_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000017_000001.wav|Therefore a sage has said, 'I will do nothing (of purpose), and the people will be transformed of themselves; I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000015_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000019_000000.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000012_000002.wav|He who knows (the Tao) does not (care to) speak (about it); he who is (ever ready to) speak about it does not know it.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000021_000001.wav|Happiness!--misery lurks beneath it!|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126932/593_126932_000040_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000025_000004.wav|Therefore the Tao is great; Heaven is great; Earth is great; and the (sage) king is also great.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000025_000002.wav|Passing on, it becomes remote.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000008_000000.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000023_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000027_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000029_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000013_000000.wav|twenty one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000022_000001.wav|He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk (easily). (So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self conceited has no superiority allowed to him.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000019_000005.wav|To Heaven and Earth.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000004_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000016_000002.wav|The partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty, full; the worn out, new.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000025_000001.wav|Great, it passes on (in constant flow).|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000021_000000.wav|three.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000026_000001.wav|Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000011_000003.wav|I am like an infant which has not yet smiled.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/593/126928/593_126928_000016_000001.wav|one.|593
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000023_000000.wav|The fox was surprised to find the trout lying scattered about the grass, some of them bitten and mangled.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000013_000003.wav|Thereupon-for the mink lacks the fox's hair splitting astuteness, and does not take long to make up its mind-it clambered nimbly up through one of the wheels and fell straightway upon the fish basket.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000021_000002.wav|He saw the basket lying on the ground, and the angry owl clawing at it.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000026_000004.wav|There is no peace counsellor like a contented belly.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000020_000000.wav|It was just at this point in the mink's adventure that the fox returned to the clearing.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000022_000002.wav|To the bird on the basket the coming of those velvet footsteps were like the scamper of a frightened sheep.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000027_000000.wav|The fox, having swallowed as much as he could hold, stood up, stretched himself, and licked his chaps.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000021_000005.wav|This particular kind of owl, as he knew, was a most formidable antagonist; but with his substantial weight and his long, punishing jaws, he felt himself much more than a match for her.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000025_000001.wav|But never for an instant did he take his eyes off that slightly moving lid. He lay with his feet gathered under him, every muscle ready for action, expecting each moment to find himself involved in a desperate battle for the prize he was enjoying.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000021_000001.wav|He halted to take it in thoroughly.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000010_000003.wav|Half a dozen of the finest fish he took out and strung upon a forked twig.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000029_000004.wav|At a deliberate pace, quite unlike his usual eager and darting movements, he made off down the clearing toward the water.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000020_000002.wav|Something of an expert in dealing with traps, he made up his mind that he would try to circumvent this one.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000029_000005.wav|Beneath the bank was an old musquash hole which he was well acquainted with.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000015_000001.wav|Selecting a fish to his taste, he ate it at great leisure, leaving the head and the tail upon the grass.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000010_000004.wav|This he did not regard as stealing, but merely as the exaction of a small and reasonable tribute from a Society which had of late neglected to feed him any too well.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000006_000001.wav|It seemed easy enough to get them.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000014_000001.wav|The mink was puzzled.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000021_000004.wav|He concluded that they were still in the basket, and that the owl was trying to get at them.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000025_000002.wav|He could not imagine a fiery tempered personage like the mink tamely submitting to the rape of his banquet.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000024_000001.wav|But the fox did not want him to come out.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000008_000001.wav|He might have feasted to his heart's content, and incurred no penalty more serious than the disapproval of the tethered horse, had he not been quite so amazingly clever.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000008_000000.wav|But it was just here that the red prowler's cunning overreached itself. The basket in the wagon was full of trout, and there was no trap to be feared.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000027_000002.wav|There were still some trout left, but he wanted to get away.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000023_000001.wav|What, then, was in the basket?|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000016_000001.wav|He did not take time to look up and see what it was.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000014_000002.wav|The hole in the top of the basket, though he might have squeezed his head through it, was not large enough to let him reach the fish.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000005_000003.wav|At length he stepped forth mincingly into full view, trotted up, and sniffed inquisitively.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000027_000003.wav|He snatched up the two biggest fish in his jaws and trotted off with them to the woods, glancing back over his shoulder as he went.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000007_000005.wav|He was not to be caught again, not he.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000012_000004.wav|Seeing nothing to take alarm at, it made a wide circuit, ran behind the cabin, and reappeared, as the fox had done, at the corner nearest the wagon.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000028_000002.wav|But the fox had no thought of returning.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000009_000000.wav|The trout were there in the basket simply because the fishing had been so good.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000022_000001.wav|They can catch the squeak of a mouse at a distance which, for ordinary ears, would make the sharp clucking of a chipmunk inaudible.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000002_000000.wav|A Basket of Fish|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000006_000005.wav|But what did he care for the disapproval of the sorrel horse?|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000017_000001.wav|As her talons clawed at the wickerwork, feeling for a hold, the head of the mink, on its long, snaky neck, darted forth, reached up, and struck its fine white fangs into her thigh.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000006_000003.wav|Why should he not climb up and help himself?|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000006_000009.wav|He settled himself back upon his haunches to spring into the wagon.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000006_000008.wav|And, anyhow, he saw that the horse was tethered to the tree.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000027_000001.wav|The look which he kept upon the basket was no less vigilant than before, but there was now a tinge of scorn in it.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000006_000002.wav|He shifted his fore paws to the back of the wagon, and studied the situation.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000029_000000.wav|The mink stuffed himself till he could not get another mouthful down. There were still a couple of trout untouched.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000023_000002.wav|What was the great owl trying to get at, when the precious fish were all spread out before her?|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000007_000004.wav|He had once been nipped.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000011_000003.wav|In any case, the attraction seldom fails.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000024_000003.wav|By all means, let the mink stay in there.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000016_000003.wav|He simply shot from his place, at such speed that the eye could not distinguish how he did it, and in the minutest fraction of a second was curled within the empty fishing basket, which still lay on its side, half open.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/88086/7061_88086_000018_000000.wav|But the great owl's armor of feathers, though it looked so soft and fluffy, was in fact amazingly resistant.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000018_000000.wav|Then the hunters came tearing up on their foaming horses.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000010_000002.wav|So he screamed and struggled to get away from the big hunter, and he called to the wolves in their own language to come and help him.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000011_000000.wav|But the hunter carried little Ailbe home with him on the horse's back. And he found a new mother there to receive him.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000021_000000.wav|And so it was.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000003_000000.wav|ABBIE FARWELL BROWN|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000021_000004.wav|But the child she loved best was none of those in furry coats and fine whiskers that looked like her; it was the blue eyed Saint at the top of the table in his robes of purple and white.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000009_000002.wav|At first he thought it was a rabbit; but it was too big for a rabbit, and besides, it did not hop.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000014_000001.wav|But the Bishop himself was not with them.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000021_000003.wav|And there, with her five children about her in a happy circle, the kind wolf mother sat and ate the good things which the Bishop's friends had sent him.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000015_000005.wav|It was Ailbe's wolf mother.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000016_000004.wav|And the good Bishop was true to her.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000011_000002.wav|His second mother was the kind wolf.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000018_000003.wav|He forbade them to touch the wolf.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85640/7061_85640_000010_000006.wav|So after following them for miles, the five wolves gradually dropped farther and farther behind.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000085_000000.wav|"Grandpapa does too, you can believe."|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000074_000004.wav|She had covered her face with both hands, and sat peeping at him through her fingers.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000037_000001.wav|"What has become of the goat?"|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000091_000002.wav|Oeyvind and Marit also folded their hands, but they could not sing.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000077_000000.wav|"Yes, just like this; I have a goat now," she said.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000033_000001.wav|How could that happen?"|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000087_000000.wav|"Grandpapa knows one about a dance.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000045_000000.wav|"Is it you who have come with it?"|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000067_000000.wav|says the cock."|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000028_000000.wav|His mother came up humming from the beach, with wooden pans which she had scoured; she saw the boy sitting with his legs crossed under him on the grass, crying, and she went up to him.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000016_000001.wav|He looked up at the girl.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000034_000000.wav|He would not confess immediately.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000020_000000.wav|The boy stopped with the last bit in his mouth, the girl lay and laughed, and the goat stood by her side, with white breast and dark brown hair, looking sideways down.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000071_000000.wav|And she told him what they all said, down to the ant who crawled in the moss, and the worm who worked in the bark.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000088_000000.wav|"Yes, very much."|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000058_000000.wav|"Oh, nothing to thank for!" she answered, but drew a long sigh, and walked on.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000005_000000.wav|Oeyvind did not see him when he came out after dinner, and thought immediately of the fox.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000053_000000.wav|"Come, make haste!" said grandpapa, up on the hill; and Marit rose, and walked with reluctant feet upwards.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000013_000000.wav|"I have taken such a fancy to the goat.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000007_000000.wav|But beside the goat there kneeled a little girl.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000018_000001.wav|He gathered up every bit with the utmost care; he could not help tasting the very smallest, and that was so good he had to taste another, and, before he knew it himself, he had eaten up the whole cake.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000057_000000.wav|"Thank you!"|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000017_000001.wav|"Here it is," she said, and threw it down.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000080_000000.wav|"Why don't you come oftener up on the cliff?" said he.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000030_000000.wav|"Oh, the goat, the goat!"|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000047_000000.wav|"They would not let me keep it; grandfather is sitting up there, waiting."|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000076_000000.wav|"Is it always like this here?" he whispered to Marit.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000054_000000.wav|"You are not forgetting your garter?" Oeyvind cried after her.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000003_000004.wav|One fine day the goat leaped down, and away to the cliff; he went straight up, and came where he never had been before.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000065_000000.wav|But then came the cock, with all the hens.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000022_000001.wav|Oeyvind looked up. She got up, and began pulling at the goat.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000043_000000.wav|"What! have you got back?"|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7061/85635/7061_85635_000091_000001.wav|All the children stood with folded hands and sang.|7061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000005_000000.wav|Millville waited in agonized suspense for three days for tangible evidence that "the nabob was in their midst," as Nib Corkins poetically expressed it; but the city folks seemed glued to the farm and no one of them had yet appeared in the village.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000034_000000.wav|Uncle john seemed thoughtful, but asked no more questions, and McNutt appeared to be relieved that he refrained.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000058_000000.wav|"Yes, dear; but I wouldn't give him the satisfaction of knowing I realized it."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000051_000002.wav|There seems to be a hundred and forty dollars my due, remaining from the five hundred I sent you."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000049_000001.wav|I'm glad to have them.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000053_000000.wav|Uncle john took the money.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000037_000000.wav|"It's-it's-a-'count of what I spent out," he stammered.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000042_000001.wav|Extry fine stock.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000060_000003.wav|Romances don't grow in parts like these."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000055_000000.wav|The agent was thoroughly ashamed of himself.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000049_000000.wav|"Very good.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000008_000002.wav|He had learned from the liveryman at the Junction that mr Merrick had paid five dollars for a trip that was usually made for two, and also that the extravagant man had paid seventy five cents more to Lucky Todd, the hotel keeper, than his bill came to.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000054_000001.wav|"I hadn't expected a dollar back, for folks usually take advantage of a stranger if he gives them half a chance.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000008_000004.wav|Also he charged a round commission on the wages of Lon Taft and Ned Long, and doubled the liveryman's bill for hauling the goods over from the Junction.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000055_000002.wav|A hundred and forty dollars; When would he have a chance to get such a windfall again?|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000060_000002.wav|You've been readin' too many novels.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000004_000000.wav|PEGGY PRESENTS HIS BILL.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000061_000001.wav|A retired sea captain hides inland, with no companions but a grinning sailor and his blind housekeeper --except his pale wife, of course; and she is described as sad and unhappy.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000005_000002.wav|Old Hucks could go out before breakfast and bring in an ample supply of speckled beauties for Mary to fry; but Uncle John's splendid outfit seemed scorned by the finny folk, and after getting her dress torn in sundry places and a hook in the fleshy part of her arm Patsy learned to seek shelter behind a tree whenever her uncle cast his fly.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000066_000002.wav|Want to saddle my new farm with a murder, do you?|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000014_000001.wav|The boys don't seem to wanter do nuthin' without big pay."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000064_000000.wav|"And that finished the romance, Louise."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000010_000000.wav|McNutt was reassured.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000015_000001.wav|Adequately paid labor is the foundation of all prosperity."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000054_000000.wav|"You are an honest fellow, McNutt," said he.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000066_000004.wav|Joe Wegg ran away from here to get busy in the world. Major Doyle helped him with my money, in exchange for this farm, which the boy was sensible to get rid of-although I'm glad it's now mine.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000021_000002.wav|As it was now too late to add it to the bill he replied, grudgingly:|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000066_000001.wav|You're getting theatric-and so early in the morning, too!|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000008_000007.wav|By the time Uncle john came out to him, smiling and cordial, he had not thoroughly made up his mind which account to present.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000045_000000.wav|"Here's an item: 'Twelve Plymouth Rocks, twelve dollars;' and farther down: 'Twelve Plymouth Rocks, eighteen dollars.'"|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000014_000000.wav|"Most things is high in Millville," he faltered, "an' wages has gone up jest terr'ble.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000063_000000.wav|"I'm sure it does.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000059_000000.wav|"That was what I thought.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000066_000005.wav|The Major liked Joe Wegg, and says he's a clean cut, fine young feller.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000049_000002.wav|The cow seems reasonably priced, for a Jersey."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000012_000001.wav|"I hope you kept your expenditures well within bounds?"|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000016_000000.wav|Peggy smiled cheerfully.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000024_000001.wav|She carried a book, but did not open it.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000065_000002.wav|His stern, sulky old father died suddenly.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000015_000000.wav|"That is the case everywhere," responded mr Merrick, thoughtfully; "and between us, McNutt, I'm glad wages are better in these prosperous times. The man who works by the day should be well paid, for he has to pay well for his living.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000050_000000.wav|"It is.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000061_000000.wav|"But I think this is where they are most likely to grow, Uncle," persisted the girl, "just consider.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000060_000000.wav|"Mystery!" cried Uncle john.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000042_000000.wav|"Thoroughbreds, sir.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000042_000002.wav|I raised 'em myself."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000032_000000.wav|"Nice boy?" asked Uncle john.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000036_000000.wav|This was said so sternly that it sent McNutt into an ague of terror.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000025_000000.wav|"Ain't much to tell, sir, 'bout them folks," replied the agent.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000065_000001.wav|The boy grew up in this dismal place and brooded on his mother's wrongs.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000051_000001.wav|I am very much pleased.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000008_000006.wav|When the bill was made out and figured up it left him a magnificent surplus for his private account; but at the last his heart failed him, and he made out another bill more modest in its extortions. He had brought them both along, though, one in each pocket, vacillating between them as he thought first of the Merrick millions and then of the righteous anger he might incur.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000054_000002.wav|So I thank you for your honesty as well as for your services.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000041_000000.wav|"Hens at a dollar apiece?"|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000008_000001.wav|During that time he tried to decide which of the two statements of accounts that he had prepared he was most justified in presenting.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000008_000000.wav|Although the agent had been late in starting from Millville and Nick Thorne's sorrel mare had walked every step of the way, Peggy was obliged to wait in the yard a good half hour for the "nabob" to finish his breakfast.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000066_000006.wav|He's an inventor, too, even if an unlucky one, and I've no doubt he'll make his way in the world and become a good citizen."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000005_000001.wav|As a matter of fact, Patsy and Uncle john were enthusiastically fishing in the Little Bill, far up in the pine woods, and having "the time of their lives" in spite of their scant success in capturing trout.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000013_000001.wav|Even millionaires do not allow themselves to be swindled, if they can help it.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000006_000003.wav|But occasionally, when Louise tired of her novel and her cushions in the hammock, the two girls would play tennis or croquet together-Beth invariably winning.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000063_000003.wav|Even the fine house the Captain built failed to interest her.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000047_000000.wav|"Are they here?"|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000063_000001.wav|It is the key to the whole mystery.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000011_000000.wav|"I tried fer to do my best, sir," he said.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000006_000002.wav|Here she practiced persistently, shooting at sixty yards with much skill.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000039_000000.wav|"What are Plymouth Rocks?" he demanded.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000062_000000.wav|"I don't think," said Uncle john, smiling and patting the fair check of his niece.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000018_000000.wav|"I suppose they overcharged you because a city man wanted the animals. But of course you would not allow me to be robbed."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000043_000001.wav|You've charged them twice."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/30101/5246_30101_000007_000000.wav|Such delightful laziness could brook no interference for the first days of their arrival, and it was not until Peggy McNutt ventured over on Monday morning for a settlement with mr Merrick that any from the little world around them dared intrude upon the dwellers at the Wegg farm.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000033_000003.wav|Bred to the church, but in no hurry to take orders."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000009_000000.wav|The fox, hard run, and nearly spent, first made his appearance from the copse which clothed the right-hand side of the valley.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000046_000000.wav|"That's very politely said-though, perhaps, I ought not to understand in what sense it was meant," replied Miss Vernon; "but you will see a better apology for a little negligence when you meet the Orsons you are to live amongst, whose forms no toilette could improve.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000017_000000.wav|"Read whom, ma'am?--I do not even remember the author's name."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000028_000000.wav|I felt I was by this time on a very intimate footing with my beautiful apparition, and therefore replied, in a confidential under tone-"Indeed, my dear Miss Vernon, I might have considered it as a sacrifice to be a temporary resident in Osbaldistone Hall, the inmates being such as you describe them; but I am convinced there is one exception that will make amends for all deficiencies."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000047_000001.wav|I was left awkwardly enough stationed in the centre of the court of the old hall, mounted on one horse, and holding another in my hand.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000011_000000.wav|"I see," she replied,--"I see; but make no noise about it: if Phoebe," she said, patting the neck of the beautiful animal on which she rode, "had not got among the cliffs, you would have had little cause for boasting."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000049_000001.wav|This venerable apartment, which had witnessed the feasts of several generations of the Osbaldistone family, bore also evidence of their success in field sports. Huge antlers of deer, which might have been trophies of the hunting of Chevy Chace, were ranged around the walls, interspersed with the stuffed skins of badgers, otters, martins, and other animals of the chase.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000007_000002.wav|This he employed (as I was given to understand by some inquiries which I made on the road) in maintaining the prodigal hospitality of a northern squire of the period, which he deemed essential to his family dignity.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000048_000000.wav|The building afforded little to interest a stranger, had I been disposed to consider it attentively; the sides of the quadrangle were of various architecture, and with their stone shafted latticed windows, projecting turrets, and massive architraves, resembled the inside of a convent, or of one of the older and less splendid colleges of Oxford.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000012_000000.wav|They met as she spoke, and I observed them both look at me, and converse a moment in an under tone, the young lady apparently pressing the sportsman to do something which he declined shyly, and with a sort of sheepish sullenness.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000045_000002.wav|If he could find out a blind mistress, never man would be so secure of conquest; but the eye breaks the spell that enchants the ear.--But here we are in the court of the old hall, which looks as wild and old-fashioned as any of its inmates.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000045_000005.wav|I could not help saying, "that, judging of the family from what I saw, I should suppose the toilette a very unnecessary care."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000049_000003.wav|A few old pictures, dimmed with smoke, and stained with March beer, hung on the walls, representing knights and ladies, honoured, doubtless, and renowned in their day; those frowning fearfully from huge bushes of wig and of beard; and these looking delightfully with all their might at the roses which they brandished in their hands.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000000.wav|It was a young lady, the loveliness of whose very striking features was enhanced by the animation of the chase and the glow of the exercise, mounted on a beautiful horse, jet black, unless where he was flecked by spots of the snow white foam which embossed his bridle.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000008.wav|There was, however, no cause for alarm; it was not a stumble, nor a false step; and, if it had, the fair Amazon had too much self possession to have been deranged by it.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000044_000000.wav|"They are like imprisoned singing birds," replied I, "condemned to wear out their lives in confinement, which they try to beguile by the exercise of accomplishments which would have adorned society had they been left at large."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000020_000000.wav|"And do you not blush to own it?" said Miss Vernon.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000031_000001.wav|But, seriously, I deserve your exception, for I am the only conversable being about the Hall, except the old priest and Rashleigh."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000027_000002.wav|"There are hopes of you yet," she said.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000019_000000.wav|"I am, indeed, Miss Vernon."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000052_000000.wav|The hubbub among the servants rather increased than diminished as this crisis approached.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000027_000003.wav|"I was afraid you had been a very degenerate Osbaldistone.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000012.wav|dead!"--and the corresponding flourish of the French horn, soon announced to us that there was no more occasion for haste, since the chase was at a close.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000043_000001.wav|what do they resemble? especially, what do they resemble, if they are born to enjoy life, and feel its blessings?"|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000045_000001.wav|But to return to Rashleigh," said she, in a more lively tone, "you will think him the pleasantest man you ever saw in your life, mr Osbaldistone,--that is, for a week at least.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000022_000000.wav|"Incredible carelessness!--And you cannot shoe a horse, or cut his mane and tail; or worm a dog, or crop his ears, or cut his dew claws; or reclaim a hawk, or give him his casting stones, or direct his diet when he is sealed; or"--|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000033_000000.wav|"Rashleigh is one who would fain have every one like him for his own sake.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000010.wav|The clamour of "Whoop!|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000009.wav|She thanked my good intentions, however, by a smile, and I felt encouraged to put my horse to the same pace, and to keep in her immediate neighbourhood.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000008_000002.wav|I paused, therefore, on a rising ground, and, not unmoved by the sense of interest which that species of silvan sport is so much calculated to inspire (although my mind was not at the moment very accessible to impressions of this nature), I expected with some eagerness the appearance of the huntsmen.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000007.wav|It served as an apology for me to ride close up to her, as if to her assistance.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000038_000000.wav|"For nearly four years."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000004.wav|Some very broken ground, through which she guided her horse with the most admirable address and presence of mind, retarded her course, and brought her closer to me than any of the other riders had passed.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000006_000001.wav|No longer interrupted by the babble of my companion, I could now remark the difference which the country exhibited from that through which I had hitherto travelled.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000016_000000.wav|"There he goes," said the young lady, following him with eyes in which disdain was admirably painted-"the prince of grooms and cock fighters, and blackguard horse coursers.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000027_000004.wav|But what on earth brings you to Cub Castle?--for so the neighbours have christened this hunting hall of ours.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000025_000000.wav|"Very little to the purpose, Miss Vernon; something, however, I can pretend to-When my groom has dressed my horse I can ride him, and when my hawk is in the field, I can fly him."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000016_000001.wav|But there is not one of them to mend another.--Have you read Markham?" said Miss Vernon.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000033_000002.wav|But nature has given him a mouthful of common sense, and the priest has added a bushelful of learning; he is what we call a very clever man in this country, where clever men are scarce.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000050_000003.wav|All tramped, kicked, plunged, shouldered, and jostled, doing as little service with as much tumult as could well be imagined.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000036_000000.wav|"I must not deny the charge."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000027_000001.wav|I was bound in point of honour to follow, and was in a moment again at her side.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000007_000000.wav|The abode of my fathers, which I was now approaching, was situated in a glen, or narrow valley, which ran up among those hills.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000005_000000.wav|How melts my beating heart as I behold Each lovely nymph, our island's boast and pride, Push on the generous steed, that sweeps along O'er rough, o'er smooth, nor heeds the steepy hill, Nor falters in the extended vale below! The Chase.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000035_000001.wav|"But I forgot-they told me you are a heretic.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000015_000001.wav|My knowledge of life was sufficient to enable me to take up a corresponding tone as I expressed my gratitude to her for her condescension, and my extreme pleasure at having met with them.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000049_000000.wav|We did, however, at length reach a long vaulted room, floored with stone, where a range of oaken tables, of a weight and size too massive ever to be moved aside, were already covered for dinner.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000037_000000.wav|"And yet you have been abroad, and in Catholic countries?"|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000042_000001.wav|Those who have adopted a life of seclusion from sudden and overstrained enthusiasm, or in hasty resentment of some disappointment or mortification, are very miserable. The quickness of sensation soon returns, and like the wilder animals in a menagerie, they are restless under confinement, while others muse or fatten in cells of no larger dimensions than theirs."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000001.wav|She wore, what was then somewhat unusual, a coat, vest, and hat, resembling those of a man, which fashion has since called a riding habit.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000013_000000.wav|I was too happy to acknowledge myself to be the party inquired after, and to express my thanks for the obliging inquiries of the young lady.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000002.wav|The mode had been introduced while I was in France, and was perfectly new to me.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000049_000002.wav|Amidst some remnants of old armour, which had, perhaps, served against the Scotch, hung the more valued weapons of silvan war, cross bows, guns of various device and construction, nets, fishing rods, otter spears, hunting poles, with many other singular devices, and engines for taking or killing game.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000045_000004.wav|If there was any coquetry in the action, it was well disguised by the careless indifference of her manner.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000043_000000.wav|"And what," continued Miss Vernon, "becomes of those victims who are condemned to a convent by the will of others?|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000030_000000.wav|"Indeed I do not; I was thinking-forgive me-of some person much nearer me."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000005.wav|I had, therefore, a full view of her uncommonly fine face and person, to which an inexpressible charm was added by the wild gaiety of the scene, and the romance of her singular dress and unexpected appearance.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000050_000000.wav|I had just time to give a glance at these matters, when about twelve blue coated servants burst into the hall with much tumult and talk, each rather employed in directing his comrades than in discharging his own duty.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000035_000002.wav|Is that true, mr Osbaldistone?"|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000009_000001.wav|His drooping brush, his soiled appearance, and jaded trot, proclaimed his fate impending; and the carrion crow, which hovered over him, already considered poor Reynard as soon to be his prey.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000039_000000.wav|"You have seen convents?"|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000046_000002.wav|So do you hold my palfrey, like a duteous knight, until I send some more humble squire to relieve you of the charge."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000031_000000.wav|"I suppose it would be proper not to understand your civility?--But that is not my way-I don't make a courtesy for it because I am sitting on horseback.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000006_000000.wav|I approached my native north, for such I esteemed it, with that enthusiasm which romantic and wild scenery inspires in the lovers of nature.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000035_000000.wav|"The Catholic Church? what Church else?" said the young lady.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000015_000002.wav|To say the truth, the compliment was so expressed, that the lady might easily appropriate the greater share of it, for Thorncliff seemed an arrant country bumpkin, awkward, shy, and somewhat sulky withal.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000009_000003.wav|The dogs pursued the trace of Reynard with unerring instinct; and the hunters followed with reckless haste, regardless of the broken and difficult nature of the ground.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000048_000002.wav|This service he performed with much such grace and good will, as a peasant who is compelled to act as guide to a hostile patrol; and in the same manner I was obliged to guard against his deserting me in the labyrinth of low vaulted passages which conducted to "Stun Hall," as he called it, where I was to be introduced to the gracious presence of my uncle.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000015_000003.wav|He shook hands with me, however, and then intimated his intention of leaving me that he might help the huntsman and his brothers to couple up the hounds,--a purpose which he rather communicated by way of information to Miss Vernon than as apology to me.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000015_000000.wav|There was a mixture of boldness, satire, and simplicity in the manner in which Miss Vernon pronounced these words.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000011.wav|dead!|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000021_000000.wav|"I confess I trust all these matters to an ostler, or to my groom."|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000003.wav|Her long black hair streamed on the breeze, having in the hurry of the chase escaped from the ribbon which bound it.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000020_000001.wav|"Why, we must forswear your alliance.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000010_000006.wav|As she passed me, her horse made, in his impetuosity, an irregular movement, just while, coming once more upon open ground, she was again putting him to his speed.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5246/5084/5246_5084_000026_000000.wav|"Can you do this?" said the young lady, putting her horse to a canter.|5246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/75365/1025_75365_000002_000002.wav|A king has a great opportunity to make himself loved.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000006_000001.wav|It was a diverting thought to him that he was wealthy enough to buy every one of those close ranged, bulky, window lit mansions that faced him, if he chose.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000006_000006.wav|For he had tasted of the fruit of the tree of life, and, finding it bitter in his mouth, had stepped out of Eden for a time to seek distraction close to the unarmoured, beating heart of the world.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000024_000000.wav|"Your Royal Highness, I will," he said, in tones of mock deference.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000034_000001.wav|"Come to me when your marriage day is set and I will give you a cheque for the money."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000000.wav|"Wait," he said solemnly, "till the clock strikes.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000024_000003.wav|I had been doing wrong, my dear Prince-I had been a naughty boy, and she had heard of it.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000001.wav|'There is one thing certain; I will either fully forgive you, or I will never see your face again. There will be no half-way business.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000002.wav|Stay by me until then.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000000.wav|"'I want time to think it over,' said she.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000046_000001.wav|"He hits the pipe every night.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000028_000000.wav|Prince Michael smiled his enigmatic, gentle, comprehending smile and caught the coat sleeve of the other.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000014_000001.wav|He was often rebuffed but never offensively.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000001.wav|"You don't know Marian-of course.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000008_000002.wav|The comings and goings of people in hurry and dread, controlled by the little metal moving hands of a clock, always made him sad.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000017_000002.wav|There are few mortal misfortunes that I cannot alleviate or overcome.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000017_000004.wav|I beg of you to accept my advice or aid.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000046_000002.wav|Park bum for twenty years.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000045_000002.wav|They stopped and gazed upon it.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000022_000002.wav|If you will so far confide in me I would ask you to relate to me your story."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000015_000001.wav|I have observed you looking persistently at that clock.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000046_000000.wav|"It's Dopy Mike," said one.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000037_000001.wav|The young man sighed again, turned his face for one last look at the house of his relinquished hopes-and cried aloud profane words of holy rapture.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000024_000004.wav|I wanted to be forgiven, of course-we are always wanting women to forgive us, aren't we, Prince?"|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000007.wav|And above the trees shone the great, round, shining face of an illuminated clock in the tower of an antique public building.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000031_000000.wav|He glanced again at the clock in the tower.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000003_000000.wav|THE CALIPH, CUPID AND THE CLOCK|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000007.wav|The jig's up.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000007_000002.wav|He found in altruism more pleasure than his riches, his station and all the grosser sweets of life had given him.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000036_000002.wav|The young man lifted it, placed it over the frowsy face and moved one of the grotesquely relaxed limbs into a more comfortable position.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000026_000001.wav|Clocks are an evil, women a blessing.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000037_000000.wav|Sonorous and startling came the stroke of nine from the clock tower.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000043_000000.wav|"By George! that clock's half an hour fast!|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000001.wav|I have wealth and power and knowledge above most men, but when the clock strikes I am afraid.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000013_000000.wav|"Glad to meet you, Prince," he said, good humouredly.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000020_000000.wav|"Remain!" commanded Prince Michael, in so potent a voice that the disturbed one wheeled around with a somewhat chagrined laugh.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000008.wav|I'll try Jack's ranch awhile and top off with the Klondike and whiskey.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000036_000001.wav|His battered hat rolled from the bench to the ground.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000011_000000.wav|"I beg your pardon for addressing you," he said, "but I perceive that you are disturbed in mind.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000007.wav|Do you agree to that?"|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000002.wav|She's always on time, to the minute.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000018_000002.wav|The shades were drawn, and the lights in many rooms shone dimly through them.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000022_000000.wav|"Sit down," said the Prince calmly.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000047_000000.wav|The other policeman stooped and looked at something crumpled and crisp in the hand of the sleeper.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000007.wav|Do you wonder that I am a little disturbed, my Prince of Rags and Whiskers?"|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000048_000001.wav|"He's doped out a fifty dollar bill, anyway.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000048_000002.wav|Wish I knew the brand of hop that he smokes."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000035_000001.wav|"It doesn't look as if I would need that palace on the Hudson, but I appreciate your offer, just the same."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000005.wav|A hand organ-Philomel by the grace of our stage carpenter, Fancy-fluted and droned in a side street.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000004.wav|I've got the mitten instead of the scarf.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000042_000000.wav|And then, from habit, he glanced at the clock in the tower, and made further oration.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000008_000000.wav|And as Prince Michael's eye rested upon the glowing face of the great clock in the tower, his smile, altruistic as it was, became slightly tinged with contempt.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000032_000000.wav|"I think," said Prince Michael, "that I will sleep a little.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000014_000002.wav|His courteous manner and words forbade that.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000004.wav|You will know by that that all is as was before, and you may come to me.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000003.wav|That was the first thing about her that attracted me.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000027_000000.wav|"Never, on your principality!" exclaimed the young man, hopelessly.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000031_000001.wav|The hands stood at three minutes to nine.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000000.wav|Prince Michael, of the Electorate of Valleluna, sat on his favourite bench in the park.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000011_000002.wav|I appear incognito, of course, as you may gather from my appearance.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000001.wav|The coolness of the September night quickened the life in him like a rare, tonic wine.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000003.wav|This woman shall be yours.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000041_000000.wav|"Twenty nine and a half minutes past eight, sir."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000016_000001.wav|"I carry a watch except when I've got my radiant rags on."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000007_000003.wav|It was his chief solace and satisfaction to alleviate individual distress, to confer favours upon worthy ones who had need of succour, to dazzle unfortunates by unexpected and bewildering gifts of truly royal magnificence, bestowed, however, with wisdom and judiciousness.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000011_000003.wav|It is a fancy of mine to render aid to others whom I think worthy of it.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000032_000001.wav|The day has been fatiguing."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000024_000001.wav|"Do you see yonder house-the one with three upper windows lighted?|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000012_000000.wav|The young man looked up brightly at the Prince.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000003.wav|The moon was just clearing the roofs of the range of dwellings that bounded the quadrangle on the east. Children laughed and played about the fine sprayed fountain.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000026_000000.wav|"Let me repeat to you," said Prince Michael, in his even, well modulated tones, "that women are the natural enemies of clocks.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000002.wav|At half past eight,' she said, 'at exactly half past eight you may be watching the middle upper window of the top floor.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000017_000001.wav|"I am a master of philosophy, a graduate in art, and I hold the purse of a Fortunatus.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000012_000003.wav|But he accepted the momentary diversion.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000007_000000.wav|These thoughts strayed dreamily through the mind of Prince Michael, as he smiled under the stubble of his polychromatic beard.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000003.wav|If I decide to forgive I will hang out of that window a white silk scarf.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000012_000002.wav|He laughed, and even then it did not.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000004_000004.wav|In the shadowed spots fauns and hamadryads wooed, unconscious of the gaze of mortal eyes.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000004.wav|You have the word of the hereditary Prince of Valleluna.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000045_000001.wav|The park was deserted save for one dilapidated figure that sprawled, asleep, on a bench.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000043_000002.wav|This watch of mine never varies a-"|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000018_000000.wav|The young man glanced at the clock again and frowned darkly.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000023_000000.wav|The young man threw himself upon the bench with a reckless laugh.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000006_000000.wav|Prince Michael sat on his favourite bench and smiled.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000029_000006.wav|But there must be no clocks in that palace-they measure our follies and limit our pleasures.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92820/1025_92820_000025_000006.wav|The time for the signal to appear has passed twenty three minutes ago.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000018_000000.wav|mr McGowan smiled.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000037_000002.wav|mr Riddle was a stout man, brick dusty of complexion and sudden in action.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000008_000000.wav|The Blue Light Drug Store is downtown, between the Bowery and First Avenue, where the distance between the two streets is the shortest.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000017_000002.wav|I have many times told you those Dagoes would do you up."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000033_000006.wav|It's all dead easy if Rosy don't balk when the flag drops.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000033_000003.wav|At nine old Parvenzano lets me through to his back yard, where there's a board off Riddle's fence, next door.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000026_000001.wav|"I must make a prescription that is to be called for soon."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000022_000001.wav|He made a patent medicine almanac into a roll and fitted it with unprofitable carefulness about his finger.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000020_000002.wav|One day she says she will; the same evenin' she says nixy.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000044_000001.wav|I sat down at the supper table last night at Riddle's, and I looked at Rosy, and I says to myself, 'Chunk, if you get the girl get her on the square-don't try any hocus pocus with a thoroughbred like her.' And I keeps the paper you give me in my pocket.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000020_000004.wav|But it's five hours yet till the time, and I'm afraid she'll stand me up when it comes to the scratch."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000011_000002.wav|The circumlocution has been in vain-you must have guessed it-Ikey adored Rosy.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000028_000000.wav|Ikey's lip beneath his nose curled with the scorn of superior enlightenment; but before he could answer, McGowan continued:|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000029_000002.wav|They was married in less than two weeks."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000036_000003.wav|Taken by an adult this powder would insure several hours of heavy slumber without danger to the sleeper. This he handed to Chunk McGowan, telling him to administer it in a liquid if possible, and received the hearty thanks of the backyard Lochinvar.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000019_000000.wav|Ikey's left forefinger was doubled over the edge of the mortar, holding it steady.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000033_000002.wav|At eight Rosy goes to bed with a headache.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000029_000000.wav|"Tim Lacy told me he got some once from a croaker uptown and fed 'em to his girl in soda water.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000009_000001.wav|It macerates its opium and percolates its own laudanum and paregoric. To this day pills are made behind its tall prescription desk-pills rolled out on its own pill tile, divided with a spatula, rolled with the finger and thumb, dusted with calcined magnesia and delivered in little round pasteboard pill boxes.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000018_000003.wav|But you've located the diagnosis all right enough-it's under my coat, near the ribs.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000025_000001.wav|"For a week he hasn't let Rosy step outside the door with me.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000020_000003.wav|We've agreed on to night, and Rosy's stuck to the affirmative this time for two whole days.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000024_000000.wav|"I don't see then yet," said Ikey, shortly, "what makes it that you talk of drugs, or what I can be doing about it."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000030_000000.wav|Strong and simple was Chunk McGowan.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000018_000002.wav|"Not any Dagoes.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000022_000000.wav|mr McGowan looked ill at ease and harassed-a condition opposed to his usual line of demeanour.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000038_000002.wav|My own room's just above Rosy's.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000038_000003.wav|I'll just go up there myself after supper and load the shot gun and wait.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000038_000000.wav|"Much obliged," he said, briefly, to Ikey.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000043_000000.wav|"The-the-powder?" stammered Ikey.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000036_000001.wav|There he crushed to a powder two soluble tablets, each containing a quarter of a grain of morphia.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000023_000005.wav|McGowan ceased, a prey to his doubts.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000008_000001.wav|The Blue Light does not consider that pharmacy is a thing of bric a brac, scent and ice cream soda.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000013_000001.wav|But he was no outfielder as Ikey was; he picked them off the bat. At the same time he was Ikey's friend and customer, and often dropped in at the Blue Light Drug Store to have a bruise painted with iodine or get a cut rubber plastered after a pleasant evening spent along the Bowery.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000042_000003.wav|You must pace up some day, Ikey, and feed with us.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000042_000004.wav|I've got a job down near the bridge, and that's where I'm heading for now."|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000042_000002.wav|She's up at the flat-she cooked eggs this mornin' in a blue kimono-Lord! how lucky I am!|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000011_000000.wav|Ikey roomed and breakfasted at mrs Riddle's two squares away.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000026_000000.wav|"You will excuse me, Chunk," said Ikey.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000033_000007.wav|Can you fix me one of them powders, Ikey?"|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000009_000002.wav|The store is on a corner about which coveys of ragged plumed, hilarious children play and become candidates for the cough drops and soothing syrups that wait for them inside.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000017_000001.wav|"I guess already that you have been stuck in the ribs with a knife.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000012_000000.wav|The fly in Ikey's ointment (thrice welcome, pat trope!) was Chunk McGowan.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000035_000001.wav|To you alone of my acquaintance would I intrust a powder like that.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000038_000001.wav|"The lazy Irish loafer!|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000035_000000.wav|"Chunk," said he, "it is of drugs of that nature that pharmaceutists must have much carefulness.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1025/92814/1025_92814_000044_000000.wav|"Oh, that stuff you gave me!" said Chunk, broadening his grin; "well, it was this way.|1025
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000007_000002.wav|Paquette continued her trade wherever she went, but made nothing of it.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000006_000001.wav|Candide did not quite agree to that, but he affirmed nothing.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000031_000001.wav|Their little plot of land produced plentiful crops.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000017_000000.wav|"Hold your tongue," answered the Dervish.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000034_000000.wav|"All that is very well," answered Candide, "but let us cultivate our garden."|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133217/543_133217_000005_000000.wav|"It is a great question," said Candide.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133211/543_133211_000015_000006.wav|The consequences were terrible.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133211/543_133211_000023_000003.wav|Jealousy, discord, and fury, dwell in the convent.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133212/543_133212_000010_000001.wav|Music, to day, is only the art of executing difficult things, and that which is only difficult cannot please long.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133212/543_133212_000004_000002.wav|The palace was beautifully built.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133212/543_133212_000030_000004.wav|For the matter of that I say what I think, and I care very little whether others think as I do."|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133212/543_133212_000012_000000.wav|They sat down to table, and after an excellent dinner they went into the library.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/133212/543_133212_000033_000000.wav|"There would not be much harm in that," said Martin.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000003_000002.wav|The future has been filled with fear, stained and polluted by the heartless past.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000009_000007.wav|Speech can not contain our love.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000008_000003.wav|While yet in love with life and raptured with the world, he passed to silence and pathetic dust.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000003_000006.wav|We do not know which is the greatest blessing, life or death.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000008_000010.wav|He loved the beautiful and was with color, form and music touched to tears.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000003_000008.wav|Every cradle asks us "Whence?" and every coffin "Whither?"|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000004_000001.wav|The largest and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000003_000004.wav|Why should we fear that which will come to all that is?|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000008_000002.wav|He had not passed on life's highway the stone that marks the highest point, but being weary for a moment he lay down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down his eyelids still.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000008_000000.wav|My Friends: I am going to do that which the dead often promised he would do for me.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/543/137106/543_137106_000003_000005.wav|We cannot tell.|543
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000019_000002.wav|'You could do anything with those boys.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000005.wav|We all learned to respect and like him.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000003.wav|He was quiet, unobtrusive in his opinions, but when asked he always went to the meat of a question in a few words.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000028_000002.wav|This regiment was sent immediately to Santiago, and took part in the short but spirited fighting at El Caney and San Juan hill-where a certain Colonel of the Rough Riders was in evidence.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000033_000000.wav|"When was that?|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000007.wav|Took part in Spanish American War. nineteen o one.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000052_000000.wav|"I will do my duty, sir," he said.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000023_000000.wav|As he gradually got his group of officers licked into shape, he found less to do personally.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000020_000000.wav|"And he proceeded to do so.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000024_000000.wav|"After a moment's stupefaction (the Lieut. was then doing five times the work that any officer before him had ever done) the Chancellor burst into a great laugh and suggested that the Lieut. should take the law course in the law school of the University.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000012.wav|Lost his wife and three children in a fire. nineteen fifteen.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000049_000001.wav|It was a thankless job at best, and full of hardship and danger.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000035_000000.wav|There was a general laugh in which Roosevelt joined.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000034_000000.wav|"Since there are ladies here, I can't repeat just what you said, mr President."|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000003_000001.wav|He was successively at Fort Bayard, Fort Stanton, and Fort Wingate, all in New Mexico, in the center of troubled country.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000000.wav|"In those days, when a youngster joined a regiment, he was not expected to express himself on military matters until he had some little experience.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000037_000001.wav|The night was pitch black and it was raining torrents.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000001_000000.wav|While Pershing was still in West Point, the Indian chief Geronimo was making trouble in the Southwest.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000047_000000.wav|It was not until nineteen fourteen that he was recalled from the Philippines, and then very shortly was sent across the Mexican border in the pursuit of Villa.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000042_000001.wav|In the interval between his first and second assignments, the latter being as Governor of the Moros, he returned to America to serve on the General Staff, and also to act as special military observer in the Russo Japanese War.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000051_000003.wav|He saluted.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000011_000000.wav|The outlaws laughed noisily and swore by way of reply.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000029_000000.wav|We would like to fancy these two intrepid soldiers as recognizing each other here in the din of battle.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000036_000000.wav|"Tell me the circumstances, then."|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000044_000001.wav|The step he now took was not a piece of favoritism toward Pershing-it arose from a desire to have the most efficient men at the head of the army.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000004.wav|Entered u s Military Academy, West Point. eighteen eighty six.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000046_000002.wav|The little brown men found in this big Americano a man with whom they could not trifle, and also one on whose word they could rely.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000049_000002.wav|A day's march of thirty miles across an alkali desert, under a blazing sun, is hardly a pleasure jaunt.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000018_000000.wav|It was the general belief that the students in these Western colleges, many of them farmers' sons, could never be taught the West Point idea. "But the Lieutenant who had just arrived from Lincoln received an impression startlingly in contrast to the general one.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000001_000001.wav|For several years he led a band of outlaw braves, who terrorized the Southern border.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000050_000000.wav|Then, one day, came a quiet message from Washington, asking General Pershing to report to the President.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000037_000000.wav|"Why, I had gone back with a mule team to Siboney, to get supplies for the men.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000003_000000.wav|Thereafter, for the next five years, Pershing's life was that of a plainsman.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000008_000000.wav|Word was sent of their predicament to the nearest fort, and Lieutenant Pershing was sent with a small detachment to their rescue.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000015.wav|Appointment of general made permanent. nineteen twenty four.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000004_000002.wav|He was finding himself, and learning something of the inner art of military science that he was later to put to such good use.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000009_000000.wav|A single false move on his part would probably have ended him, but he did not waver.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000037_000006.wav|I suggested that the best thing to do, was to take my mules and pull your wagon out, and then get your mules out.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000045_000002.wav|The President, by his action, had "jumped" the new General eight hundred and sixty two orders.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000037_000007.wav|This was done, and we saluted and parted."|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000043_000002.wav|And Pershing was "making good." He had turned forty, before he was Captain.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000026_000000.wav|Of course he graduated, and was thus entitled to write another title after his name-that of Bachelor of Arts.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000044_000000.wav|It all hinged upon that luncheon with Roosevelt, about which we have already told, and the fact that Roosevelt had a characteristic way of doing things.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000025_000000.wav|"During the next two years he ate up the law course with a fiery haste which raised the degree of class work to fever heat.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000004_000001.wav|But it was an exceedingly valuable period of training to the young officer.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000053_000000.wav|IMPORTANT DATES IN PERSHING'S LIFE|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000032_000000.wav|"Yes, mr President, just once."|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000016_000000.wav|The next duty which fell to Lieutenant Pershing was quite different. From chasing Indians and outlaws on the plains, he was assigned to the task of putting some "half baked" cadets through their paces.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000049_000000.wav|The punitive expedition into Mexico was a case in point.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000043_000004.wav|Now advancement was to follow with a startling jump.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000011.wav|Recalled from Philippines. nineteen fifteen.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000013_000001.wav|They wouldn't budge otherwise.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000051_000002.wav|Every line of his upstanding figure denoted confidence-a confidence that was to inspire all America, and then the world itself, in this choice of leader.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000021_000004.wav|To his face they called him 'sir,' a title of respect which they had never thought to give to any man alive.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000050_000002.wav|The Great War in Europe was demanding the intervention of America.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000033_000001.wav|What did I say?"|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000001_000002.wav|General Crook was sent in pursuit of him, and afterwards General Miles took up the chase. Finally in August, eighteen eighty six, the chief and his followers were rounded up.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000019_000001.wav|I've got the finest material in the world,'" he told the Chancellor, his steel like eyes alight with enthusiasm.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000002_000002.wav|But the next year in the special maneuvers he was personally complimented by the General for "marching his troops with a pack train of one hundred forty mules in forty six hours and bringing in every animal in good condition." Doubtless his early experience with the Missouri brand of mule aided him.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000007.wav|No matter what the work or what the play, he always took a willing and leading part.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000004.wav|From the first he had responsible duties thrown on him.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000003_000003.wav|The next year he was stationed at Fort Niobrara, in Nebraska, in command of the Sioux Indian Scouts.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000003_000002.wav|In eighteen ninety he was shifted north to take the field against the Sioux Indians, in South Dakota, and in the Battle of Wounded Knee he had a considerable taste of burnt powder, where the tribe that had massacred General Custer and his band was practically wiped out.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000003.wav|Entered Highland Military Academy, New York. eighteen eighty two.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000026_000001.wav|About this time, also, he was promoted to a first lieutenancy, the first official recognition for his many long months of work.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000006.wav|He was genial and full of fun.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000009.wav|Married Frances Warren. nineteen o six.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000002_000000.wav|Pershing graduated in the spring of this year, with the usual rank given to graduates, second lieutenant, and was immediately assigned to duty under Miles.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000050_000004.wav|The Government needed a man upon whom it could absolutely rely to be Commander in chief of the Expeditionary Forces.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000051_000000.wav|The veteran of thirty years of constant campaigning stiffened to attention.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000008.wav|He worked hard and he played hard; but whenever he had work to do, he never let play interfere with it."|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000031_000000.wav|"Captain Pershing," said the President, when the party was seated at the table, "did I ever meet you in the Santiago campaign?"|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000015_000000.wav|And they did.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000019_000003.wav|They've got the stuff in them!|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000021_000002.wav|He was universally called 'the Lieut.' (pronounced 'Loot,' of course, in the real American accent), as though there were but one lieutenant in the world.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000001.wav|But there was a certain something in Pershing's appearance and manner which made him an exception to the rule.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000027_000001.wav|It was almost like getting back home, to see these loved hills, the mighty river, and the familiar barracks again.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000006.wav|Professor, military tactics, University of Nebraska. eighteen ninety eight.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000049_000003.wav|And there were many such during those troubled months of nineteen sixteen.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000018_000001.wav|He looked over the big crowd of powerful young men, and, himself a storehouse and radiating center of energy and forcefulness, recognized the same qualities when he saw them.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000050_000003.wav|Our troops were to be sent across the seas to Europe for the first time in history.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000021_000003.wav|This he was called behind his back, of course.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000046_000000.wav|On his return to the Philippines, as Governor of the Moro Province, he performed an invaluable service in bringing peace to this troubled district.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000048_000000.wav|The Fates had indeed been shaping Pershing from boyhood for a supreme task.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000023_000001.wav|So he promptly complained to the Chancellor, to this effect, and asked, like Oliver Twist, for more.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000043_000003.wav|Out in the Philippines he worked up to a Major.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000040_000002.wav|Whether or not he won promotion through the slow moving machinery of the war office, his energetic spirit demanded action.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000051_000001.wav|The eager look of battle-battle for the right-shone in his eye.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000050_000001.wav|The results of that interview were momentous.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000008.wav|Captain, first Cavalry, Philippines. nineteen o five.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000012_000000.wav|"You might as well come along," he went on, without raising his voice. "My men are posted all around this cabin."|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000006_000002.wav|Within a very short time after he came to the post, a senior officer would turn to him, and say: 'Pershing, what do you think of this?' and his opinion was such that we always listened to it.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000027_000000.wav|Next came a welcome command to take the position of Assistant Instructor of Tactics, at West Point.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000019_000000.wav|"'By George!|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000005.wav|Graduated from West Point, senior cadet captain. Sent to southwest as second lieutenant, sixth cavalry. eighteen ninety one.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000022_000000.wav|"By the end of that first academic year every man under him would have followed 'the Lieut.' straight into a prairie fire, and would have kept step while doing it."|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000019_000004.wav|Watch me get it out!'|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000054_000014.wav|Sent to France as commander in chief of American Expeditionary Force. nineteen nineteen.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57837/6098_57837_000024_000001.wav|He added that if two men's work was not enough for him, he might do three men's, and teach some of the classes in the Department of Mathematics.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000026_000000.wav|About this time Pershing's father added to his other ventures the purchase of a farm near Laclede, and the family moved out there.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000009_000003.wav|They had the pioneer spirit of their ancestors.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000032_000003.wav|He wanted to get a better education.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000015_000001.wav|john f Pershing was the Sunday School superintendent of the Methodist Church all the years he lived here.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000028_000003.wav|A former pupil of his writes:|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000040_000000.wav|"No one can ever forget his first guard tour with all its preparation and perspiration.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000037_000002.wav|Four happy years were spent there-and while he didn't shine, being number thirty in a class of seventy seven, his all around qualities made him many friends among both faculty and students.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000018_000003.wav|One of his boyhood chums writes:|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000005_000001.wav|America was at last repaying to France her debt of gratitude, for aid received nearly a century and a half earlier.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000013_000003.wav|A neighbor pays him this tribute:|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000004_000004.wav|The alert poise of the man showed a nature constantly on guard against surprise-the typical soldier in action.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000018_000000.wav|The close of the War found the younger john a stocky boy of five.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000031_000000.wav|"The farmer got down and john stripped off his coat.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000004_000003.wav|The well formed legs betrayed the old time calvalryman.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000040_000003.wav|A few minutes after taps, ghosts of all sorts began to appear from all directions.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000026_000003.wav|john, however, kept doggedly at it, and managed to get a fair, common school education.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000019_000005.wav|He was not a big talker.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000027_000002.wav|john was sober and studious, and besides was so well grown for his age that they banked on his ability to "lick" any negro boy that got obstreperous.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000019_000003.wav|He attended strictly to his own business.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000013_000000.wav|After the line of railroad was completed upon which the father had worked, he came to Laclede and invested his savings in a small general store.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000032_000001.wav|One of his sisters went with him.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000028_000000.wav|He succeeded sufficiently in this venture, to cause him to take up teaching regularly, in white schools, with a view to paying for his education.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000007_000001.wav|The eyes of the whole world were upon him, when he reached France.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000025_000001.wav|He knew, too, where the coolest and deepest swimming pools in the Locust, Muddy, or Turkey creeks were. Many a time we went swimming together in Pratt's Pond."|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000010_000000.wav|At length, john f Pershing, a grandson of Daniel, the first immigrant, went to the Middle West, to work on building railroads.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000009_000000.wav|The original family name was Pfirsching, but was soon shortened to its present form.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000021_000000.wav|"'Pretty stubborn.'|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000040_000001.wav|I got along all right during the day, but at night on the color line my troubles began.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000017_000000.wav|At times during the War, he was entrusted with funds by various other families, and acted as a sort of local bank.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000012_000001.wav|His mother had come of a race quite as good as that of his father.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000014_000000.wav|"john f Pershing was a man of commanding presence.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000039_000000.wav|"This brings up a period of West Point life whose vivid impressions will be the last to fade.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000029_000001.wav|One day, at Prairie Mound, at the noon hour a big farmer with red sideburns rode up to the schoolhouse with a revolver in his hand.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000037_000001.wav|He found the soldier life awakening in him, along with his desire for a good education.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000034_000002.wav|If there isn't, I'll study law, but I want an education, and now I see how I can get it."|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000017_000001.wav|After the War he was postmaster.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000003_000000.wav|As the steamer slowly approached the dock, a small group of officers might be discerned, looking as eagerly landward as the men on shore had sought them out.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000041_000001.wav|From the very day we entered, the class as a unit has always stood for the very best traditions of West Point."|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000006_000000.wav|"Lafayette, we come!"|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000019_000006.wav|He said a lot in a few words, and didn't try to cut any swell. He was a hard student.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000040_000002.wav|Of course, I was scared beyond the point of properly applying any of my orders.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000010_000002.wav|Young Pershing had early caught the fever, and had worked with construction gangs in Kentucky and Tennessee.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000002_000003.wav|For three years they had been hoping and praying that the Americans would come-and here they were at last!|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000020_000000.wav|"'john, how are you coming?'|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000029_000000.wav|"Though he never sought a quarrel, young Pershing was known as 'a game fighter,' who never acknowledged defeat.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000015_000000.wav|"The Pershing family were zealous church people.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000031_000002.wav|And I have hated red sideburns ever since."|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000010_000001.wav|These were the days, just before the Civil War, when railroads were being thrown forward everywhere.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000019_000007.wav|He was not brilliant, but firm, solid, and would hang on to the very last.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000040_000005.wav|When I promptly said: 'Halt, who sits there?' . . .|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000002_000002.wav|They were not dress parade soldiers nor smart cadets-only battle scarred veterans home from the trenches, with the tired look of war in their eyes.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000023_000000.wav|"'No, Charley, I'm going to work this out.'"|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000004_000002.wav|He was full six feet in height, straight, broad shouldered, and muscular.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000003_000003.wav|America was sending a seasoned soldier, one tried out as by fire.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000033_000001.wav|The soldiering side did not appeal to him, but the school side did.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000022_000000.wav|"'Better go to bed, hadn't we?'|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000010_000003.wav|Now as the railroads pushed still further West, he went with them as section foreman-after first persuading an attractive Nashville girl, Ann Thompson, to go with him as his wife.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000009_000002.wav|As the clan multiplied the sons and grandsons began to scatter.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000035_000001.wav|If she could have looked ahead to his future career, and final part in the greatest war the world has ever known-one wonders what her emotions would have been!|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000002_000001.wav|On the landing stage at the French harbor of Boulogne was drawn up a company of French soldiers, who looked eagerly at the approaching steamer.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000007_000002.wav|His was a task of tremendous difficulties, and a single slip on his part would have brought shame upon his country, no less than upon himself.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000032_000002.wav|He remained there for two terms, doing his usual good steady work, but was still dissatisfied.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000002_000000.wav|It was a historic moment, on that June day, in the third year of the World War.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000024_000000.wav|Another schoolmate gives us a more human picture:|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000016_000001.wav|He had one or two close calls from the "bushwhackers," as roving rangers were called, but his family escaped harm.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000030_000001.wav|We peeked over the edge, though, and heard Pershing tell the farmer to put up his gun, get down off his horse, and fight like a man.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000018_000002.wav|There was always plenty to do, whether of work or play.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000028_000001.wav|He wanted to study law, and his parents encouraged the idea.|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6098/57836/6098_57836_000019_000009.wav|About nine thirty or ten o'clock, I'd say:|6098
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000012_000002.wav|Popularly, a woman found out.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000084_000001.wav|In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000001_000000.wav|M|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000036_000002.wav|When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000022_000000.wav|Opoline Jones|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000023_000001.wav|The state and title of a king.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000102_000001.wav|A child of two races, ashamed of both.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000061_000001.wav|Addicted to rhetoric.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000035_000002.wav|They were in a state of dull discomfort until the bodies from which they had exhaled were buried and burned; and they seem not to have been particularly happy afterward.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000015_000001.wav|Something acting upon a magnet.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000040_000002.wav|Important.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000014_000001.wav|Something acted upon by magnetism.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000019_000001.wav|A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000045_000002.wav|The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000002_000001.wav|A staff of office signifying authority.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000070_000001.wav|Less objectionable.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000103_000005.wav|Whence comes it?|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000063_000001.wav|An attribute beloved of detected offenders.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/708/129393/708_129393_000080_000006.wav|The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion.|708
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000047_000001.wav|All went out.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000017_000003.wav|Besides, the couroucous which had been reserved had disappeared.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000120_000000.wav|Smoke was escaping and curling up among the rocks.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000100_000000.wav|"Top has found something!" cried Neb, who ran towards a thicket, in the midst of which the dog had disappeared, barking.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000086_000000.wav|This time, the hunters, instead of following the course of the river, plunged straight into the heart of the forest.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000070_000002.wav|If the direction has been maintained from the northeast to the southwest, we have traversed the States of North Carolina, of South Carolina, of Georgia, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, itself, in its narrow part, then a part of the Pacific Ocean.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000118_000000.wav|But the sailor had not gone fifty paces when he stopped, and again uttering a tremendous hurrah, pointed towards the angle of the cliff,--|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000065_000000.wav|The seaman looked at Spilett in a way which seemed to say, "If it depended upon you to do it, we wouldn't taste roast meat very soon"; but he was silent.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000023_000000.wav|After working an hour, Pencroft, who was in a complete state of perspiration, threw down the pieces of wood in disgust.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000037_000000.wav|"I feel dreadfully weak," replied Harding.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000019_000002.wav|The engineer's condition would, therefore, have been bad enough, if his companions had not carefully covered him with their coats and waistcoats.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000018_000000.wav|First of all, Cyrus Harding was carried into the central passage.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000061_000000.wav|"Yes," replied Spilett, "a mountain which must be rather high-"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000001_000001.wav|This accident, which appeared so very serious to Pencroft, produced different effects on the companions of the honest sailor.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000098_000000.wav|"We mustn't complain," said Herbert.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000033_000000.wav|"You don't know yet?"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000100_000001.wav|With Top's barking were mingled curious gruntings.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000101_000001.wav|If there was game there this was not the time to discuss how it was to be cooked, but rather, how they were to get hold of it.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000014_000000.wav|"With nothing."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000081_000000.wav|"If, on my return, I find a fire at the house, I shall believe that the thunder itself came to light it." All three climbed the bank; and arrived at the angle made by the river, the sailor, stopping, said to his two companions,--|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000096_000001.wav|The exploration, therefore, continued, and was usefully marked by a discovery which Herbert made of a tree whose fruit was edible.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000042_000000.wav|"Well?" asked the sailor.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000011_000000.wav|"Isn't Cyrus here?" replied the reporter.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000063_000000.wav|"Yes, fire!" said the obstinate sailor again.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000013_000000.wav|"With what?"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000086_000001.wav|There were still the same trees, belonging, for the most part, to the pine family.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000103_000002.wav|Perhaps it saw men for the first time.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000057_000000.wav|"What?"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000070_000004.wav|If the last hypothesis is correct, it will be easy enough to get home again.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000019_000000.wav|Night had closed in, and the temperature, which had modified when the wind shifted to the northwest, again became extremely cold.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000043_000000.wav|"Well, we will make matches.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000059_000000.wav|"We will make it, Pencroft," replied Harding.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000021_000002.wav|The experiment, therefore, did not succeed.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000064_000000.wav|"But he will make us a fire!" replied Gideon Spilett, "only have a little patience, Pencroft!"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000000_000000.wav|Chapter nine|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000099_000000.wav|"I am not complaining, my boy," replied Pencroft, "only I repeat, that meat is a little too much economized in this sort of meal."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000072_000000.wav|"Better to put things at the worst at first," replied the engineer, "and reserve the best for a surprise."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000056_000000.wav|"Yes," replied Pencroft.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000031_000001.wav|This was his uppermost thought.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000107_000001.wav|Top plunged into the water, but the capybara, hidden at the bottom of the pond, did not appear.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000106_000000.wav|All three directly darted after Top, but at the moment when they joined him the animal had disappeared under the waters of a large pond shaded by venerable pines.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000112_000003.wav|An instant later the capybara, dragged to the bank, was killed by a blow from Neb's stick.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000102_000000.wav|The hunters had scarcely entered the bushes when they saw Top engaged in a struggle with an animal which he was holding by the ear.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000071_000000.wav|"Never?" cried the reporter.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000045_000000.wav|"Chemicals!"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000010_000000.wav|"But I say, mr Spilett-"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000006_000000.wav|"But, I repeat, that we haven't any fire!"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000066_000002.wav|For a few minutes he remained absorbed in thought; then again speaking,--|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000039_000000.wav|"Alas! we have no fire," said Pencroft, "or rather, captain, we have it no longer!"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000107_000000.wav|Neb, Herbert, and Pencroft stopped, motionless.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000024_000001.wav|"I could sooner light my arms by rubbing them against each other!"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000016_000000.wav|"Cyrus is here!"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000103_000001.wav|It stupidly rolled its eyes, deeply buried in a thick bed of fat.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000104_000000.wav|However, Neb having tightened his grasp on his stick, was just going to fell the pig, when the latter, tearing itself from Top's teeth, by which it was only held by the tip of its ear, uttered a vigorous grunt, rushed upon Herbert, almost overthrew him, and disappeared in the wood.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000117_000000.wav|Pencroft soon made a raft of wood, as he had done before, though if there was no fire it would be a useless task, and the raft following the current, they returned towards the Chimneys.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000017_000001.wav|The supper must necessarily be very meager.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000054_000000.wav|"No, captain," replied the boy.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000004_000000.wav|As to the reporter, he simply replied,--|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000094_000000.wav|"It will blaze, since my master has said so."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000119_000000.wav|"Herbert!|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62516/6510_62516_000108_000000.wav|"Let us wait," said the boy, "for he will soon come to the surface to breathe."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000069_000001.wav|I must go."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000072_000002.wav|Would they not, on the contrary, by employing the cart leave every arm free? Was it impossible to place the mattress on which Herbert was lying in it, and to advance with so much care that any jolt should be avoided?|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000002_000004.wav|There, on the contrary, in the middle of that impregnable and inaccessible cliff, they would have nothing to fear, and any attack on their persons would certainly fail.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000086_000000.wav|They approached the plateau.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000004_000002.wav|Since Ayrton's disappearance they were only four against five, for Herbert could not yet be counted, and this was not the least care of the brave boy, who well understood the trouble of which he was the cause.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000017_000000.wav|"If only Ayrton was still one of us!" said Gideon Spilett.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000007_000001.wav|"I believe we're not fellows to be afraid of a bullet, and as for me, if Captain Harding approves, I'm ready to dash into the forest!|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000028_000000.wav|Eight days!|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000001_000000.wav|Chapter nine|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000083_000001.wav|However, it was not probable that the convicts would have yet left the plateau of Prospect Heights.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000088_000000.wav|At that moment Pencroft stopped the onager, and in a hoarse voice,--|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000038_000000.wav|"No, captain," answered the sailor, "and I repented of my suspicion a long time ago!|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000036_000001.wav|There it was examined by the colonists, who found that it was a fragment of Ayrton's waistcoat, a piece of that felt, manufactured solely by the Granite House factory.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000006_000000.wav|"My friends," said the reporter, after they had talked of Neb and of the impossibility of communicating with him, "I think,--like you, that to venture on the road to the corral would be to risk receiving a gunshot without being able to return it.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000062_000001.wav|At Jup's neck hung a small bag, and in this bag was found a little note traced by Neb's hand.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000005_000000.wav|The question of knowing how, in their condition, they were to act against the pirates, was thoroughly discussed on the twenty ninth of November by Cyrus Harding, Gideon Spilett, and Pencroft, at a moment when Herbert was asleep and could not hear them.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000075_000001.wav|The engineer and Pencroft, each armed with a double barreled gun, and Gideon Spilett carrying his rifle, had nothing to do but start.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000035_000000.wav|Nearly five minutes passed thus, Top rummaging, the reporter following him prudently when, all at once, the dog rushed towards a thick bush, and drew out a rag.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000054_000000.wav|"Neb, perhaps?"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000062_000000.wav|Cyrus Harding was not mistaken.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000027_000001.wav|But his convalescence is progressing, and if he continues to gain strength, in eight days from now-well, we shall see."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000028_000003.wav|The weather was fine, and the heat began to be great.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000041_000000.wav|"Perhaps, indeed," replied the engineer, who remained thoughtful.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000046_000000.wav|Pencroft had become a thorough farmer, heartily attached to his crops. But it must be said that Herbert was more anxious than any to return to Granite House, for he knew how much the presence of the settlers was needed there.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000038_000001.wav|But it seems to me that something may be learned from the incident."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000070_000000.wav|Gideon Spilett approached Herbert; then, having looked at him,--|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000027_000000.wav|"That is difficult to say, Cyrus," answered the reporter, "for any imprudence might involve terrible consequences.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000034_000000.wav|Gideon Spilett followed Top, encouraged him, excited him by his voice, while keeping a sharp look out, his gun ready to fire, and sheltering himself behind the trees.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000018_000000.wav|"If he is dead," added Pencroft, in a peculiar tone.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000010_000000.wav|"My dear Spilett, and you, Pencroft," answered Harding, "let us reason coolly.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000009_000000.wav|"I will join Pencroft," said the reporter, "and both of us, well armed and accompanied by Top-"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000067_000002.wav|The convicts on Prospect Heights! that was disaster, devastation, ruin.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000012_000000.wav|"That which struck Herbert did not miss, Pencroft," replied the engineer.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000024_000000.wav|"And I also," added the reporter quickly.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000084_000002.wav|They would, therefore, be safe at that time, and if there was any occasion for firing, it would probably not be until they were in the neighborhood of Granite House. However, the colonists kept a strict watch.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000010_000001.wav|If the convicts were hid in one spot of the island, if we knew that spot, and had only to dislodge them, I would undertake a direct attack; but is there not occasion to fear, on the contrary, that they are sure to fire the first shot?"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000002_000002.wav|However well built and supplied the corral house was, it could not be so comfortable as the healthy granite dwelling.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000086_000002.wav|Cyrus Harding expected to find it in its place; supposing that the convicts would have crossed it, and that, after having passed one of the streams which enclosed the plateau, they would have taken the precaution to lower it again, so as to keep open a retreat.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000013_000000.wav|"You are right, captain," replied Pencroft, his chest swelling with sullen anger.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000011_000000.wav|"Well, captain," cried Pencroft, "a bullet does not always reach its mark."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000071_000000.wav|"Let us go, then!" said he.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000008_000000.wav|"But is he equal to five?" asked the engineer.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000033_000000.wav|However, on his second sortie, on the twenty seventh of November, Gideon Spilett, who had ventured a quarter of a mile into the woods, towards the south of the mountain, remarked that Top scented something.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000039_000000.wav|"What is that?" asked the reporter.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000030_000000.wav|But if they were compelled to bow before necessity, they did not do so without impatience.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000085_000001.wav|It had left the corral at half past seven.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000066_000000.wav|"Neb."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000092_000001.wav|He heard, and ran to meet them.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000095_000000.wav|Gideon Spilett returned to the cart.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000040_000002.wav|Therefore, perhaps, he is still living!"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000043_000000.wav|This incident was, therefore, favorably interpreted at the corral, and it no longer appeared impossible that they should find Ayrton again. On his side, if he was only a prisoner, Ayrton would no doubt do all he could to escape from the hands of the villains, and this would be a powerful aid to the settlers!|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000012_000002.wav|Do you imagine that the convicts will not see you leave it, that they will not allow you to enter the forest, and that they will not attack it during your absence, knowing that there is no one here but a wounded boy and a man?"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000055_000000.wav|"Or Ayrton?"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000081_000000.wav|The gate of the corral was opened.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000032_000000.wav|He met with no misadventure and found no suspicious traces.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000082_000000.wav|Certainly, it would have been safer to have taken a different road than that which led straight from the corral to Granite House, but the cart would have met with great difficulties in moving under the trees.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000052_000000.wav|"Yes."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000004_000000.wav|They waited, therefore, although they were anxious to be reunited at Granite House.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000017_000001.wav|"Poor fellow! his return to social life will have been but of short duration."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000020_000000.wav|"Yes, if they had any interest in doing so."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000042_000002.wav|But if the convicts had not killed him at first, if they had brought him living to another part of the island, might it not be admitted that he was still their prisoner? Perhaps, even, one of them had found in Ayrton his old Australian companion Ben Joyce, the chief of the escaped convicts.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000013_000001.wav|"You are right; they will do all they can to retake the corral, which they know to be well stored; and alone you could not hold it against them."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000042_000000.wav|This was a hope, to which Ayrton's companions could still hold.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000034_000001.wav|It was not probable that Top scented the presence of man, for in that case, he would have announced it by half uttered, sullen, angry barks.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000028_000004.wav|The forests of the island were in full leaf, and the time was approaching when the usual crops ought to be gathered.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000042_000001.wav|Indeed, they had before believed that, surprised in the corral, Ayrton had fallen by a bullet, as Herbert had fallen.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000079_000000.wav|The engineer felt his heart sink painfully.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000015_000002.wav|But we are at the corral, and it is best to stay here until we can leave it together."|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000073_000000.wav|The cart was brought.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000014_000000.wav|"Oh, if we were only at Granite House!"|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000073_000003.wav|The weather was fine.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000007_000000.wav|"That is just what I was thinking," answered Pencroft.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000073_000001.wav|Pencroft harnessed the onager.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000047_000000.wav|Several times he pressed Gideon Spilett, but the latter, fearing, with good reason, that Herbert's wounds, half healed, might reopen on the way, did not give the order to start.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000094_000000.wav|"And mr Herbert?" asked Neb.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6510/62558/6510_62558_000002_000003.wav|Besides, it did not offer the same security, and its tenants, notwithstanding their watchfulness, were here always in fear of some shot from the convicts.|6510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000008.wav|I call her impudent, for my part!"|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000048_000003.wav|If he does, he's a fool; that's all I've got to say.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000043_000001.wav|Almost she thought she had made an impression.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000023_000000.wav|Across the road behind her parlor curtains mrs Perkins was keeping lookout, and remarking to a neighbor who had run in:|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000005.wav|What do they need of learning?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000031_000004.wav|You know I couldn't think of coming to live on you and Herbert.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000049_000002.wav|But I'm sorry if you feel it that way, and I'm sure I'll write to you and try to do little things for the children often, now that I shall have something to do with." But her kindly feeling was cut short by Ellen interrupting her.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000020_000005.wav|We'll take good care of her. But isn't he a dear?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000047_000002.wav|She was resolutely putting out of her mind the things her sister had just said, and refusing altogether to think of Herbert.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000050_000001.wav|We can look after the children ourselves.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000026_000005.wav|She watched him out o' sight!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000006_000000.wav|mr Luddington gazed after her a second; and then, taking his glasses off and wiping them energetically, he remarked:|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000048_000004.wav|But I suppose nothing short of getting caught in a trap will make you see it; so I better save my breath.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000040_000001.wav|She looked at her angrily.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000047_000001.wav|She had finished her part of the argument.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000036_000001.wav|Affection between them even when Ellen was a child had been quite one sided; for Ellen had always been a selfish, spoiled little thing, and Julia had looked in vain for any signs of tenderness.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000003_000005.wav|However, it could not be helped now; and a glance at the kind, strong face of the white haired man gave her courage.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000032_000000.wav|Ellen sat up bristling.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000002_000000.wav|They had a rollicking time at breakfast, for Guardy Lud was delighted with the crisp brown sausages, fried potatoes, and buckwheats with real maple syrup; and he laughed, and ate, and told stories with the children, and kept the old dining room walls ringing with joy as they had not resounded within the memory of Julia Cloud.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000027_000000.wav|Julia Cloud went slowly back to the dining room, where Ellen was seated on the couch, waiting like a visitor.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000020_000001.wav|Altogether too much married for comfort.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000003.wav|What do they do it for?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000016_000000.wav|Julia Cloud took the pen eagerly, tremblingly, a sense of wonder in her pounding heart, and signed her name just as Ellen's heavy footsteps could be heard pounding down the back stairs.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000028_000001.wav|"I suppose you think you've done something smart now, don't you, getting that old snob here and fixing things all up without consulting any of your relatives?"|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000030_000005.wav|I can't see you put the halter around your neck to hang yourself without doing everything I can to stop it.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000041_000003.wav|You'll fool away a little while there, and find out how mistaken you were; and then you'll come back to Herbert to be taken care of.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000031_000005.wav|It was kind of you to suggest it, and I am grateful and all that; but I know how it would be to have some one else, even a sister, come into the home, and I couldn't think of it.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000011_000000.wav|Julia Cloud was quite overwhelmed.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000050_000000.wav|"Oh, you needn't trouble yourself!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000015_000006.wav|Only give me a chance to look after these youngsters properly."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000037_000001.wav|I'm not to be a worker, nor even a housekeeper.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000020_000003.wav|But he doesn't intend to live anywhere near us. His home is off in California, and he's going back next week.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000031_000000.wav|"Why, Ellen, dear!" said Julia Cloud eagerly, sitting down beside her sister.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000030_000006.wav|My own sister!"|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000018_000001.wav|Because, if he isn't, I don't think it's respectable for you to go and live near him!" declared Ellen in a penetrating voice to the intense distress of Julia Cloud, who was happily hurrying the dishes from the breakfast table.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000049_000000.wav|"Well, Ellen," said Julia Cloud, looking at her speculatively, "I'm sure I never dreamed you cared about having me away from here.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000041_000001.wav|Nobody can stop you.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000012_000001.wav|"I would rather do it for love, you know."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000031_000003.wav|I'm sorry I had to spring it on you so suddenly and give you such a wrong impression.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000040_000000.wav|There was a quiet finality in her tone that impressed her sister.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000008_000000.wav|Julia Cloud smiled understandingly, and ushered them into the little parlor ablaze with fall sunshine, its windows wreathed about with crimsoning woodbine; and, as she caught the glow and glint from the window, she remembered the gray evening when she had looked out across into her future as she supposed it would be.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000034_000004.wav|And you oughtn't to call them snobs.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000014_000000.wav|"And you to dismiss me if I do not prove capable for the position," suggested Julia Cloud, lifting meek and honest eyes to meet his gaze.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000031_000001.wav|"You don't understand.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000001_000003.wav|He would have loved to take them to his heart and his home; but his wife was not so minded, and that ended it.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000005_000001.wav|"I'm just going up to look over some of my mother's things." And she turned to the back stairway, and went up, closing the door behind her.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000026_000004.wav|There goes Julia in.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000007_000003.wav|Those certainly were good buckwheats, Miss Cloud.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000041_000005.wav|They won't want you then."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000020_000006.wav|He was my Grandfather Leslie's best friend."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000015_000004.wav|Are you willing to sign it?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000025_000001.wav|She acknowledged it with a bow and a smile which mrs Perkins pounced on and analyzed audibly.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000024_000004.wav|Seems to me I did hear there was somebody died or something before we came here to live, but she must have been awful young."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000029_000001.wav|"But it did not seem likely that you would object, for you suggested yourself that I rent the house, and you said you did not want me to stay here alone.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000043_000000.wav|Ellen was watching her silently.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000034_000000.wav|"O Ellen!" said Julia pleadingly.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000015_000002.wav|And I'm quite satisfied.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000001_000001.wav|The very pictures on the walls rested him, they reminded him so much of the rooms in his boyhood home.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000024_000002.wav|Now, doesn't that beat all?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000035_000003.wav|Mother! fiddlesticks! You'll slave all right.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000035_000000.wav|"Own brother's children, nothing!" sneered Ellen.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000028_000000.wav|"Well!" she said as Julia began to gather up more dishes from the breakfast table.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000046_000000.wav|"Perhaps it would be just as well for you to read this," she said with dignity, and put the paper into Ellen's hands, going back to her clearing of the table.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000037_000004.wav|But mr Luddington quite insisted there should be servants, and that no work of any sort should fall upon me.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000042_000000.wav|Julia arose and went to the window to get calmed.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000022_000003.wav|She was looking off to the hills that had been her strength all the years through so many trials, and gathering strength now to go in and meet her sister in final combat.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000043_000002.wav|Perhaps this was the time to repeat Herbert's threat.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000013_000001.wav|You see what you are going to undertake means work, and it means sticking to it; and you deserve pay for it, and we're not going to accept several of the best years out of your life for nothing.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000003_000001.wav|How had she forgotten Ellen?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000022_000004.wav|She knew that there would be a scene; that was inevitable.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000003_000007.wav|He felt that the arrangement was good, and with him to back her she felt she could stand out against any arguments her sister might bring forth.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000044_000002.wav|He said he wanted you to understand thoroughly."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000002.wav|I think it's all nonsense for 'em to go.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000044_000001.wav|He can't be responsible for you if you take this step.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000044_000000.wav|"Herbert feels," she began, "that if you refuse his offer now he can't promise to keep it open.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000047_000003.wav|She knew in her heart just how Herbert had looked when he had said those things, even to the snarl at the corner of his nose. She knew, too, that Ellen had probably not reported the message even so disagreeably as the original, and she knew that it would be better to forget.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000048_000000.wav|"Well," said Ellen, rising after a long perusal, laying the paper on the table, "that sounds all very well in writing.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000030_000002.wav|You call that providential, do you?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000019_000000.wav|But Leslie came to the rescue.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000026_000000.wav|"Well, there's no fool like an old fool, as the saying is!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000026_000006.wav|Well, I wonder what her mother would think."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000007.wav|That girl thinks she's too smart to live.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000004.wav|They've got money, and don't have to teach or anything.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000038_000000.wav|"That's ridiculous!" put in Ellen.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000008_000002.wav|As she sat down to enter into the contract that was to bind her to a new and wonderful life with great responsibilities and large possibilities, her heart, accustomed to look upward, sent a whisper of thanksgiving heavenward.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000007_000004.wav|I shan't forget them very soon.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000007_000001.wav|It must be getting late!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000003_000000.wav|Dismay filled Julia Cloud's heart for an instant, and brought a pallor to her cheek.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000029_000002.wav|This seemed quite providential."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000042_000002.wav|The thought of Herbert's having to take care of her ever was intolerable.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000007_000006.wav|Could we just go into the other room there, and close the door for a few minutes, not to be interrupted?" and he cast an anxious glance toward the stair door again.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000013_000000.wav|"Love's all right!" said the old man, smiling; "but this thing has got to be on a business basis, or the terms of the will will not allow me to agree to it.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000015_000001.wav|"But, however that is, this is the contract I've made out.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000013_000002.wav|Besides, you've got to feel free to give up the job if it proves too burdensome for you."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000045_000000.wav|Julia Cloud turned and walked with swift step to the little parlor where lay the paper she and mr Luddington had just signed, and a copy of which he had taken with him.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000015_000003.wav|So are the children.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000034_000005.wav|They are your own brother's children."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000048_000001.wav|The thing is to see how it comes out.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14958/6206_14958_000026_000001.wav|Just watch her smirk!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000078_000003.wav|It wasn't sensible for her to talk that way.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000019_000001.wav|She came with a cup in her hand to ask for some baking powder, and Julia Cloud gave her the whole box.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000009_000001.wav|Dear!" said that good woman when she could get her breath to speak.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000002.wav|She had me fix up the things several months ago.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000070_000000.wav|The cover fell off at last, and the tissue paper blew up in a great fluff; and out of it rolled a beautiful long, soft, thick gray cloak of finest texture and silken lining, with a great puffy collar and cuffs of deep, soft silver gray fox.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000020_000001.wav|"I shall not need it. I've rented the house, and am going away for a while." mrs Perkins was so astonished that she actually went home without finding out where Julia Cloud was going, and had to come back to see whether there was anything she could do to help, in order to get a chance to ask.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000026_000002.wav|Maybe it will make you feel bad."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000030_000007.wav|I like bright, happy things.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000021_000002.wav|The rooms had assumed that cleared up, ready look that rests the tired worker just to look around and see what has been accomplished.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000027_000000.wav|"Not a bit, deary; what is it?"|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000035_000002.wav|There were not many people eating, for it was past one o'clock.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000038_000003.wav|Just a tongue sandwich.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000007_000002.wav|And, besides, it isn't in the least necessary."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000053_000003.wav|Or don't you like movies?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000046_000000.wav|Allison landed them at a big department store, and guided his aunt to the trunk department with instructions to stay there until he and Leslie came back.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000007.wav|You might do that."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000028_000003.wav|Are you very mad at me for saying it?"|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000039_000002.wav|If you can't find enough you like among what I order, why, I'll get you a tongue sandwich, too; but you've been feeding us out of the cooky jar, and I guess I'll get the finest I can find to pay you back. I told you this was my time.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000008_000002.wav|"See what Guardy Lud gave me!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000046_000001.wav|Then they went off with great glee and many whisperings.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000066_000000.wav|"Open it, Cloudy.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000078_000005.wav|And, besides, weren't these things quite sensible and practical?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000078_000004.wav|That was being too humble.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000051_000001.wav|Then Allison thoughtfully suggested a handsome leather wallet for Uncle Herbert, and Julia Cloud lingered by the handkerchief counter, and selected half a dozen new fine handkerchiefs.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000030_000004.wav|But I put on these things to please Ellen.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000030_000001.wav|I'm not mad, and I don't care for black myself.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000012_000000.wav|"Visiting, nothing!" declared Allison; "we're having the time of our lives.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000015_000001.wav|They'll need to be dusted and put in boxes.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000039_000001.wav|This goes under the head of expenses.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000039_000003.wav|When we get settled, you can order things; but now I'm going to see that you get enough to eat while you're working so hard."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000007_000001.wav|But, dear, that would cost a lot!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000031_000001.wav|"That makes the day just perfect."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000076_000001.wav|Like them!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000007.wav|That will rest you. We'll get lunch at a tea room, and shop all the afternoon.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000008_000001.wav|Look!" and Leslie flourished a handful of bills.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000001.wav|That has your grandmother's things in it, and is in perfect order.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000006.wav|But we need to get the rest of the bed clothes out on the line for an airing before I pack them away in the chest up stairs.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000075_000000.wav|"Like them!"|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000005.wav|Now we'll work till twelve; that's long enough for to day, because you got too tired yesterday; and, besides, we've got some other things to attend to.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000047_000001.wav|Allison and Leslie were back within the time they had set, looking very meek and satisfied.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000001.wav|"See!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000038_000002.wav|A sandwich is all I need.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000056_000001.wav|But you know I've never been able to get away, even if they had been all about me. Besides, I suppose I should have been considered crazy if I had gone, me, an oldish woman!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000079_000000.wav|And so at last they said "Good night," and went to their beds; but long after the children were asleep Julia Cloud lay awake and thought it out.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000010.wav|Now isn't that perfectly spick and span for a plan?"|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000003.wav|Everything is tied up and labelled.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000063_000000.wav|Allison picked up the top package, a big, square box.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000009_000000.wav|"But child!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000041_000000.wav|"That's all right, Cloudy.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000050_000000.wav|"O you dear children!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000004.wav|That isn't bad.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000004.wav|I don't think we need to disturb it.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000016_000000.wav|Allison went whistling up stairs, and began taking down the pictures; but anybody could see by the set of his shoulders that he meant to get the books out of the way too before noon.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000033_000001.wav|"That's all right, Cloudy.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000066_000001.wav|I want to see what's in it."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000012_000003.wav|Come now, don't let's waste any time.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000008_000006.wav|Oh, we're going to run you to beat the band!" laughed Leslie, and jumped down from her perch to hug and squeeze the breath out of Julia Cloud.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000008_000000.wav|"Cost has nothing to do with it.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000014_000001.wav|What are you going to do with the books?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000003.wav|I woke up early, and thought it all out. Let's see," consulting her wee wrist watch, "it's nine o'clock.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000053_000002.wav|I saw it as we came by.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000043_000002.wav|How about you, Cloudy?"|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000008_000003.wav|And Allison has another just like it.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000061_000000.wav|Then after a good dinner they went up to their rooms, and there was Julia Cloud's shining new trunk that had to be looked over; and there on the floor beside it stood two packages, big boxes, both of them.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000005_000001.wav|"You crazy children!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000055_000002.wav|"Why, how did it happen? Don't they have moving pictures in your town?"|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000026_000001.wav|But I'm afraid to say it.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000005_000000.wav|"We ought to have left the kitchen till last," she added with a troubled look.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000044_000000.wav|"I must buy a trunk," said Julia Cloud thoughtfully, "and a hand bag and some gloves.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000002_000002.wav|Still, there were cookies and wonderful apples from the big tree in the back yard for dessert.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000053_000005.wav|I suppose you are maybe worn out.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000024_000000.wav|"What is it, dear?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000028_000000.wav|"Well, then, Cloudy, do you think Grandmother would care very much if you didn't wear black?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000049_000001.wav|It seemed fit for a queen, yet was plain and quiet enough on the outside for a dove to carry.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000064_000002.wav|Open it!"|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000008.wav|We'll go to a hotel for dinner, and stay all night.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000050_000001.wav|How you are going to spoil me!|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000005_000006.wav|I don't see how we can get along."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000015_000000.wav|"No, I won't take any of those books.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000043_000000.wav|"Now," said Leslie as the meal drew to a close, "we must get to work. It's half past two, and the stores close at half past five.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000037_000000.wav|"Creamed chicken on toast, fruit salad, toasted muffins, and ice cream with hot chocolate sauce," ordered Allison after studying the menu card for a moment.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000051_000002.wav|It all seemed just like a play to her, it was so very long since she had been shopping herself.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000048_000002.wav|If you don't like it, we can give it to Aunt Ellen or some one."|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000006_000006.wav|Then we'll hustle into the car, and get to town, and do some shopping ready for our trip.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000005_000002.wav|Didn't you know we had to eat?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000012_000004.wav|What can I do first?|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000047_000002.wav|Leslie carried a small package, which she laid in Julia Cloud's lap.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000018_000000.wav|"No, dear.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6206/14960/6206_14960_000040_000000.wav|Leslie's eyes danced with her dimples as Julia Cloud appealed to her to stop this extravagance.|6206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000003.wav|Burdened with a family as he was, the father of Francis Drake found himself obliged from necessity to allow his son to embrace the maritime profession, for which he had an ardent longing, and to serve as cabin boy on board a coasting vessel which traded with Holland.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000013_000000.wav|After quitting this richly endowed island, Drake landed at Greater Java, where he was very warmly welcomed by the five kings amongst whom the island was partitioned, and by the inhabitants.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000011_000007.wav|On his neck there hung a fine gold chain many times doubled, and formed of broad links.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000002.wav|His poverty was only equalled by the respect which was felt for his character.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000021_000001.wav|A party of thirty musketeers advanced into the country and met with oxen, cows, wild horses, hares, and partridges in abundance.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000012.wav|It was this last alternative, as being the safest of the three, which was adopted by Drake.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000014_000000.wav|The reception which awaited him in England was at first extremely cold.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000014.wav|It was now the month of June, the temperature was very low, and the ground covered with snow.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000013.wav|He therefore put out to sea, reached the thirty eight degrees of north latitude, and landed on the shore of the Bay of San Francisco, which had been discovered three years previously by Bodega.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000012.wav|Was his guilt thoroughly proved?|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000006.wav|For this there is more than one good reason.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000010_000001.wav|We would draw the reader's attention here, to that custom of long harangues which the traveller especially remarks, just as Cartier had observed upon it forty years earlier, and which is so noticeable amongst the Canadian Indians at the present day.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000019_000003.wav|Its inhabitants, who had been completely prevented by the continual attacks of the savages from gathering in their harvests, had died of hunger, or had perished in endeavouring to reach the Spanish settlements in Chili.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000004.wav|During a descent upon the island of Mocha, the English had two men killed and several wounded, while Drake himself, hit by two arrows on the head, found himself utterly unable to punish the Indians for their perfidy.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000003_000004.wav|Hawkins, doubtless by the advice of Drake, captured the town of Rio de la Hacha; after which he reached saint Jean d'Ulloa, having encountered a fearful storm.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000010_000002.wav|Drake did not advance farther north and gave up his project of returning by the Frozen Sea.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000004.wav|Industrious, active, self reliant, and saving, the young Francis Drake had soon acquired all the theoretical knowledge needed for the direction of a vessel.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000011_000003.wav|On the morrow, some of the sailors who had landed, were present at a council.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000014_000002.wav|For five months the Queen herself, under the pressure of diplomatic proprieties, pretended to be ignorant of his return.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000001.wav|Edmund Drake his father, was one of those clergy who devote themselves to the education of the people.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000011.wav|For this, there were three different routes open to him: he might again pass the Strait of Magellan, or he might cross the Southern Sea, and doubling the Cape of Good Hope might so return to the Atlantic Ocean, or he could sail up the coast of China and return by the Frozen Sea and the North Cape.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000022_000001.wav|Assailed by fearful hurricanes in the Strait of Magellan, Cavendish was obliged to go back, after having seen himself deserted by three of his ships. The want of fresh provisions, the cold, and the privations of all kinds which he underwent, and which had decimated his crew, forced him to return northwards along the coast of Brazil, where the Portuguese opposed every attempt at landing.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000000.wav|On the twentieth of August, the fleet, now reduced to three vessels-two of the ships having been so much damaged that they were at once destroyed by the admiral-entered the strait, which had not been traversed since the time of Magellan.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000017_000004.wav|It was he who inaugurated that privateering warfare by which the English, and later on the Dutch, were destined to inflict much injury upon the Spaniards.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000017_000001.wav|He also ascended the coast of North America to a point higher than any his predecessors had attained, and he discovered several islands and archipelagos.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000011_000006.wav|He wore as an ornament upon the head, a kind of turban made of the same stuff, all worked in fine gold and enriched with jewels and tufts.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000017_000000.wav|To him pertains the honour of having been the second to pass through the Strait of Magellan, and to have visited Tierra del Fuego as far as the parts about Cape Horn.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000009_000000.wav|"The first time they came their women remained in the same place, and scratched and tore the skin and flesh of their cheeks, lamenting themselves in a wonderful manner, whereat we were much astonished. But we have since learnt that it was a kind of sacrifice which they offered to us."|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000017_000003.wav|If there are but very few discoveries due to him, this is probably either because he neglected to record them in his journal, or because he often mentions them in so inaccurate a manner that it is scarcely possible to recognize the places.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000008_000000.wav|"As long as we remained, they continued to come and visit us, sometimes bringing us beautiful plumes made of feathers of divers colours, and sometimes petun (tobacco) which is a herb in general use among the Indians.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000006.wav|At Coquimbo, the people were forewarned of his approach, so that he found there a strong force, which obliged him to re embark.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000019_000002.wav|Cavendish could discern the fortress, then deserted and already falling into ruins.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000006.wav|Setting sail on the twenty second of july fifteen eighty six, he passed by the Canaries, and landed at Sierra Leone, which town he attacked and plundered; then, sailing again, he crossed the Atlantic, sighted Cape Sebastian in Brazil, sailed along the coast of Patagonia, and arrived on the twenty seventh of november at Port Desire.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000016_000000.wav|From this period Drake's part as a discoverer is ended, and his after life as a warrior and as the implacable enemy of the Spaniards does not concern us.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000009.wav|In this very secure harbour, the ships were drawn up on shore to be repaired. During his stay at this place Cavendish had some skirmishes with the Patagonians,--"men of gigantic size, and having feet eighteen inches long"--who wounded two of the sailors with arrows tipped with sharpened flints.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000000.wav|Francis Drake started from Plymouth on the fifteenth of november fifteen seventy seven.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000003_000001.wav|Drake was in command of a ship of fifty tons.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000003.wav|Having in fifteen eighty five obtained letters of mark, he made a cruise to the East Indies and returned with considerable booty.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000003_000003.wav|Then they besieged La Mina, where some more negroes were taken, which they sold at the Antilles.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000011_000004.wav|"When the king arrived, a rich umbrella or parasol all embroidered in gold was borne before him.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000010_000000.wav|The facts given by Drake with regard to the Indians of California are almost the only ones which he furnishes upon the manners and customs of the nations which he visited.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000017_000002.wav|Being a very clever navigator, he made the transit through the Strait of Magellan with great rapidity.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000005.wav|When he had realized a small sum, which was increased by the sale of a vessel bequeathed to him by his first master, he made more extended voyages; he visited the Bay of Biscay and the Gulf of Guinea, and laid out all his capital in purchasing a cargo which he hoped to sell in the West Indies.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000003_000005.wav|But the harbour contained a numerous fleet, and was defended by formidable artillery. The English fleet was defeated, and Drake had much difficulty in regaining the English coast in January, fifteen sixty eight.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000007.wav|He found there an immense quantity of dog fish, very large, and so strong that four men could with difficulty kill them, and numbers of birds, which, having no wings, could not fly, and which fed upon fish.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000004_000005.wav|But we will not dwell upon the scenes of piracy and barbarity which are only too frequently met with in the sixteenth century.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000019_000006.wav|Not far from thence a fine river fell into the sea, on the banks of which dwelt the anthropophagi who had fought so fiercely with the Spaniards, and who endeavoured, but in vain, to entice the Englishmen into the interior of the country.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000021_000004.wav|Then, "victorious and contented," Cavendish wished to secure the great spoils which he was conveying against any chance of danger.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000019_000001.wav|This town, which had been built to bar the passage through the strait, had possessed no fewer than four forts as well as several churches.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000020_000003.wav|This country, rich in gold and silver, had hitherto successfully resisted all Spanish attempts to subjugate it, and its inhabitants, fully determined to maintain their liberty, repulsed by force of arms every attempt to land.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000005.wav|In the harbour of Valparaiso he captured a vessel richly laden with the wines of Chili, and with ingots of gold valued at thirty seven thousand ducats; afterwards he pillaged the town, which had been precipitately abandoned by its inhabitants.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000009.wav|On the following day he reached the harbour of saint Julian, where he found a gibbet erected of yore by Magellan for the punishment of some rebellious members of his crew.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000001.wav|Cavendish joined the English marine service at a very early age; and passed a most stormy youth, during which he rapidly dissipated his modest fortune.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000003_000000.wav|In fifteen sixty seven, two years after this adventure, a small fleet of six vessels, of which the largest was of seven hundred tons' burden, left Plymouth with the sanction of the Queen, to make an expedition to the Coasts of Mexico.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000014_000003.wav|But at the end of that time, either because circumstances had altered, or because she did not wish to show herself any longer severe towards the skilful sailor, she repaired to Deptford where Drake's ship was moored, went on board, and conferred the honour of knighthood upon the navigator.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000014_000001.wav|His having fallen by surprise both upon Spanish towns and ships, at a time when the two nations were at peace, rightly caused him to be regarded by a portion of society as a pirate, who tramples under foot the rights of nations.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000004_000002.wav|The two vessels had as crew seventy three jack tars, who could be thoroughly depended on.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000008.wav|They are classed under the general names of auks and penguins.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000011_000008.wav|On his fingers, he had six rings of very valuable stones, and his feet were encased in shoes of morocco leather."|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000005_000000.wav|After assisting in the suppression of the rebellion in Ireland, Drake, whose name was beginning to be well known, was presented to Queen Elizabeth.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000007.wav|There exists in Patagonia more than one tribe, and the description here given by Drake of the savages whom he met, does not at all resemble that given by Pigafetta of the Patagonians of Port saint Julian.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000000.wav|Among all those who took example by Drake, the most illustrious was undoubtedly Thomas Cavendish or Candish.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000002_000007.wav|He vowed to avenge himself for such a piece of injustice, and he kept his word.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000004_000000.wav|Drake afterwards made two expeditions to the West Indies for the purpose of studying the country.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000019_000004.wav|The Admiral, upon hearing this lamentable tale, changed the name of Philippeville into that of Port Famine, under which appellation the place is known at the present day.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000013.wav|If Drake were accused upon his return to England-in spite of the moderation which he always evinced towards his men,--of having taken advantage of the opportunity to get rid of a rival whom he dreaded, it is difficult to conceive that the forty judges who pronounced the sentence should have concerted together to further the secret designs of their admiral and condemn an innocent man.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000007_000015.wav|The details given by Drake of his reception by the natives, are curious enough: "When we arrived, the savages manifested great admiration at the sight of us, and thinking that we were gods, they received us with great humanity and reverence."|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000008_000002.wav|Then they made a long discourse after the manner of a harangue, and when they had finished, they laid aside their bows and arrows in that place, and approached us to offer their presents."|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000018_000002.wav|That which play had robbed him of, he resolved to recover from the Spaniards.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000004_000004.wav|Unfortunately these enterprises were not carried out without much cruelty and many acts of violence which would make men of the present day blush.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000020_000004.wav|It was necessary therefore to go to the island of saint Maria, where the Indians, who took the Englishmen for Spaniards, furnished them with abundance of maize, fowls, sweet potatoes, pigs, and other provisions.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000021_000006.wav|At the end of two years after his return, of all the great fortune which he had brought back with him, there remained only a sum sufficient for the fitting out of a third, and as it proved, a last expedition.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000006_000004.wav|They also had the face painted and diversified by several kinds of colours, and they each held a bow in the hand, from which every time they drew it, they discharged two arrows.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000017_000005.wav|And the large profits accruing to him from it, encouraged his contemporaries, and gave birth in their minds to the love for long and hazardous voyages.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254948/7926_254948_000021_000002.wav|The little troop was attacked by the Spaniards, and Cavendish was obliged to return to his ships after losing twelve of his men.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000001.wav|This man is Sir Walter Raleigh.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000000_000002.wav|His second in command and vice admiral was Jacob Claaz d'Ulpenda, and as pilot there was a certain Melis, a skilful sailor of English origin.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000014.wav|He gives up and sells his patent as soon as he perceives the inutility of his efforts, while he does not forget to reserve for himself the fifth part of any profit arising eventually from the colony.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000005.wav|The island of Trinidad was at that time governed by Don Antonio de Berreo, who, it is said, had obtained accurate information concerning Guiana.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000002.wav|If he have any claim to a place in this portrait gallery of great sailors, it is neither as founder of any English colony nor as a sailor; it is as a discoverer, and what we have to say of him is not to his credit.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000006.wav|The practice of agriculture was undergoing a transformation; in all directions grazing was being substituted for tillage, and the number of agricultural labourers was greatly reduced by the change.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000003_000006.wav|Nevertheless, could anything be more cruel than to abandon a man in a desert country, without arms and without provisions, to put him on shore in a country peopled by ferocious cannibals, prepared to make a repast on his flesh; what was it but condemning him to a horrible death?|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000008.wav|At the same time, to long wars succeeds a peace, destined to endure throughout the reign of Elizabeth, so that a great number of adventurers know not how to find indulgence for their love of violent emotions.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000000_000004.wav|For this object, De Noort was to show his countrymen the route inaugurated by Magellan, and on the way to inflict as much injury as he could upon the Spaniards and Portuguese.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000004_000008.wav|One of them, having succeeded in climbing along a part of the rigging, had the audacity to enter a cabin and seize upon a sword, with which he threw himself into the sea.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000004_000000.wav|On the twenty ninth of February, sixteen hundred, De Noort, after having been ninety nine days in passing through the strait, came out on to the Pacific Ocean.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000007.wav|Raleigh, forewarned, determined to be beforehand with him.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000009.wav|At this moment, therefore, arises the necessity for such an emigration as may relieve the country of its population, may permit all the miserable people dying of hunger to provide for their own wants in a new country, and by that means may increase the influence and prosperity of the mother country.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000013.wav|"There is no winter there," he says; "a soil dry and fertile, with game, and birds of every species in great abundance, who filled the air with hitherto unknown notes; it was a real concert for us.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000001_000010.wav|The flag ship struck upon a rock with so much violence that had the sea been a little rougher, she must have been lost.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000001_000007.wav|De Noort had scarcely cast anchor in the Bay of Rio Janeiro before he sent some sailors on shore to obtain water and buy provisions from the natives; but the Portuguese opposed the landing, and killed eleven men.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000012_000000.wav|If we put on one side all these figments of an imagination run mad, what gain has been derived for geography?|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000009_000006.wav|Was he thoroughly convinced himself, or did he not yield to the illusions of a mind eager for glory?|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000003_000001.wav|Captain Jacob Jansz Huy de Cooper, died during the stay at this place, and was interred at Port Desire.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000004_000002.wav|As for De Noort, who had now with him only one yacht besides his own vessel, he cast anchor at the island of Mocha, and, unlike the experience of his predecessors, he was very well received by the natives.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000012.wav|He says that some Spaniards who had seen the town of Manoa, called El Dorado, told him that this town exceeds in size and wealth all the towns in the world, and everything which the "conquistadores" had seen in America.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000006.wav|The arrival of the English did not please him, and he immediately despatched emissaries to Cumana and to Margarita, with orders to gather together the troops to attack the Englishmen, while at the same time he forbade any Indians or Spaniards to hold intercourse with them under pain of death.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000005.wav|At this period England was passing through a very grave economic crisis.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000009_000004.wav|"They are," says this great traveller, "rocks of micaceous slate, and of sparkling talc, which are resplendent in the midst of a sheet of water, which acts as a reflector beneath the burning tropical sun" So are explained those massive domes of gold, those obelisks of silver, and all those marvels of which the boastful and enthusiastic minds of the Spaniards afforded them a glimpse.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000004.wav|Having waited for him in vain for eighty days, Raleigh sailed for Trinidad, where he met Whiddon.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000011.wav|But it is to the last named that belongs the credit of indicating the locality suitable for the establishing of colonies.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000001_000004.wav|De Noort, who was furious over this foul play, landed from his ships one hundred twenty men; but he found the Portuguese so well entrenched, that after a brisk skirmish in which seventeen more of his men were either killed or wounded, he was obliged to weigh anchor without having been able to avenge the wicked and cowardly perfidy to which his brother and twelve of his companions had fallen victims.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000001_000009.wav|The putting into port at this place was marked by several disagreeable events.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000009.wav|At the same time arrived Captains Gifford and Knynin, from whom he had been separated upon the Spanish Coasts.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000011.wav|The account which Raleigh gives of his campaign is so fabulous, with the coolness of a Gascon transported to the banks of the Thames, he so heaps one falsehood upon the top of another, that one is almost tempted to class his narrative amongst the number of imaginary voyages.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000018.wav|He depicted these people as much civilized, as wearing clothes, and possessing great riches, especially in plates of gold; finally, he spoke to him of a mountain of pure gold.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000003.wav|After stopping four days at Fortaventura, one of the Canaries, to take in wood and water there, he reached Teneriffe, where Captain Brereton ought to have rejoined him.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000004_000004.wav|After ravaging, plundering, and burning several towns on the Peruvian coast, after sinking all the vessels that he met with, and amassing a considerable booty, De Noort, hearing that a squadron commanded by the brother of the viceroy, Don Luis de Velasco, had been sent in pursuit of him, judged it time to make for the Ladrone Islands, where he anchored on the sixteenth of September.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000000_000006.wav|The route which was the least frequented by the enemy's ships was that by the Strait of Magellan, and this was the one which De Noort was ordered to follow.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000001.wav|What he took good care, however, not to confide to the public, was that all the information he received from his emissary was unfavourable to the enterprise.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000000.wav|We have now to speak of a man who, endowed with eminent qualities and with at least equal defects, carried on his life's work in divers, sometimes even in opposing directions, and who after having reached the highest summit of honour to which a gentleman could aspire, at last laid his head upon a scaffold, accused of treason and felony.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000012.wav|Raleigh only joined with his brothers in the scheme, following their lead, but he neither conceived nor began the carrying into execution-as he has been too often credited with doing-of this fruitful project, the colonization of the American shores of the Atlantic.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000019.wav|Raleigh relates that he wished to approach this mountain, but, sad mischance, it was at that moment half submerged. "It had the form of a tower, and appeared to me rather white than yellow.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000020.wav|A torrent which precipitated itself from the mountain, swollen by the rains, made a tremendous noise, which could be heard at the distance of many miles, and which deafened our people.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000004_000003.wav|Afterwards he sailed along the coast of Chili, where he was able to obtain provisions in abundance in exchange for Nuremberg knives, hatchets, shirts, hats, and other articles of no great value.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000009_000002.wav|To his mind, this is a gigantic enterprise of which the marvellous results are destined to draw upon him the attention of the whole world, and to restore to him the favour of his sovereign.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000001_000012.wav|The invalids, of whom there were many on board the fleet, were brought on shore, and nearly all were cured by the end of a fortnight.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000016.wav|Whiddon and Milechappe, our surgeon, brought back several stones which resembled sapphires.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000000_000001.wav|The commander in chief of this squadron was Oliver de Noort, a man at that time about thirty or thereabouts, and well known as having made several long cruising voyages.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000001_000011.wav|There were also some bloody and barbarous executions of mutinous sailors, notably that of a poor man, who having wounded a pilot with a knife thrust, was condemned to have his hand nailed to the mainmast.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000003_000000.wav|The Dutch saw also, but at too great a distance to shoot them, buffalos, stags, and ostriches, and from a single nest they obtained ten ostrich eggs.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000007_000007.wav|From thence arose general distress, and also such a surplussage of population as was fast becoming a matter of anxious concern.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7926/254949/7926_254949_000011_000014.wav|My captain, sent to search for mines, perceived veins both of gold and silver; but as he had no tool but his sword, he was unable to detach these metals to examine them in detail; however, he carried away several bits of them which he reserved for future examination.|7926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000020_000000.wav|Aristotle recognises between these two logical correlatives a difference in rank.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000023_000000.wav|These views are too close to those I have myself just set forth for it to be necessary to dwell on their resemblance.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000017_000002.wav|Thereby is understood, if I mistake not, an action from cause to effect, produced between two terms which enjoy a certain independence with regard to each other.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000025_000000.wav|There remains to us to review the principal types of metaphysical systems.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000017_000003.wav|This interpretation is indubitably close to ours, though not to be confused with it.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000011_000002.wav|We have had to acknowledge the exactness of certain facts, and we are bound to admit their consequences.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000011.wav|Can it survive the death of the brain?|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000018_000003.wav|A few details on this subject will not be out of place.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000004.wav|All this is physical or chemical, and therefore material.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000013_000000.wav|Let us not hesitate to denounce as false this proposition which is presented to us as an axiom.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000002.wav|I have a sensation, and I have consciousness of it.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000006.wav|This is thought, consciousness, emotion.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000004_000000.wav|THE MIND HAS AN INCOMPLETE LIFE|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000013_000001.wav|On looking closely into it, we shall perceive that the principle of heterogeneity does not contain the consequences it is sought to ascribe to it.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000007_000000.wav|The question is to know how this union of the body with the consciousness is to be explained, it being assumed that the two terms of this union present a great difference in their nature.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000012_000001.wav|No philosopher has more clearly formulated it, and more logically deduced its consequences, than Flournoy.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000001_000000.wav|BOOK three|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000020_000003.wav|This difference in rank is so strongly marked, that these two correlations are likewise conceived in a different form-that of the potential and the actual.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000014_000001.wav|The consciousness is not sufficient for itself; as we have said, it cannot exist by itself.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000007_000001.wav|The easier it seems to demonstrate that this union exists, the more difficult it appears to explain how it is realised; and the proof of this difficulty is the number of divergent interpretations given to it. Were it a simple question of fact, the perpetual discussions and controversies upon it would not arise.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000014_000003.wav|Mind and matter brought down to the essential, to the consciousness and its object, form a natural whole, and the difficulty does not consist in uniting but in separating them.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000001.wav|They can only be separated by analysis, and a scrupulous mind might even ask whether one has the right to separate them.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000021_000005.wav|Each has its formal side which concerns the soul, and its material side which concerns the body.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000007.wav|They are as inseparable as motion and the object that moves; and this comparison, though far fetched, is really very convenient.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000005.wav|If I am judging an assortment of stuffs, this assortment, or the sensation I have of them, is a particle of matter, a material state, and my judgment on this sensation is the psychical phenomenon.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000009.wav|In the same way, sensation may exist without the consciousness; but the converse proposition, consciousness without sensation, without an object, an empty consciousness or a "pure thought," cannot be understood.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000006.wav|We can neither believe, nor desire, nor do any act of our intelligence without realising this welding together of mind and matter.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000018_000000.wav|If we had to seek paternity for ideas I would much rather turn to Aristotle.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000010_000001.wav|Some of the best known of these solutions bear the names of spiritualism, materialism, parallelism, and monism.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000017_000004.wav|My personal interpretation sets aside the idea of all independence of the mind, since it attributes to the mind an incomplete and, as it were, a virtual existence.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000011_000000.wav|Before beginning our critical statement, let us recall some of the results of our previous analyses which here intrude themselves, to use the ambitious language of Kant, as the prolegomena to every future solution which claims the title of science.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000010.wav|Can the mind enjoy an existence independent of the brain?|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000018_000001.wav|It was not without some surprise that I was able to convince myself that the above theory of the relations between the soul and the body is to be found almost in its entirety in the great philosopher.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000019_000002.wav|We may name a substance without troubling ourselves as to the form it possesses, and we may name the form without regard to the substance that it clothes.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000011_000003.wav|Notably, the definition of psychical phenomena at which we arrived, not without some trouble, will henceforth play a rather large part in our discussion.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000008.wav|What is the nature of the link between them?|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000009_000005.wav|Does it exercise any action on the centrifugal currents which go to the motor nerves?|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000016_000003.wav|Or, rather, we do not even perceive their union until the moment when, by a process of analysis, we succeed in convincing ourselves that that which we at first considered single is really double, or, if you like, can be made into two by the reason, without being so in reality.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000018_000002.wav|It is true that it is mixed up with many accessory ideas which are out of date and which we now reject; but the essential of the theory is there very clearly formulated, and that is the important point.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000005.wav|Then at a given moment, after this mechanical process, a quite different phenomenon emerges.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000023_000001.wav|The latter would become still stronger if we separated from the thought of Aristotle a few developments which are not essential, though he allowed them great importance: I refer to the continual comparison he makes with the form and matter of corporeal objects.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000006_000001.wav|This is daily demonstrated by thousands upon thousands of observations.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000001.wav|The first is that of the genesis or origin of the consciousness.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000003.wav|In general, one begins by supposing that the material phenomena are produced first; they consist, for instance, in the working of the nervous centres.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000015_000004.wav|Now, sensation is matter and my consciousness is mind.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000024_000002.wav|The form of thought, or the category, is nothing without the matter of cognition, and the latter is nothing without the application of form. "Thoughts without content given by sensation are empty; intuitions without concept furnished by the understanding are blind." There is nothing astonishing in finding here the same illustration, since there is throughout a question of describing the same phenomenon,--the relation of mind to matter.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000005_000000.wav|The problem of the union of the mind and the body is not one of those which present themselves in pure speculation; it has its roots in experimental facts, and is forced upon us by the necessity of explaining observations such as those we are about to quote.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000021_000002.wav|The soul is form, the actual. By uniting with the body it constitutes the living subject.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000009_000007.wav|or is it deprived of all power of creating effect?|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000009_000004.wav|Does it exercise any action on these intra cerebral functions?|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000016_000002.wav|It is observation which reveals to us the union and the fusion of the two terms into one.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000016_000004.wav|Thus it happens that we bring this big problem in metaphysics on to the field of observation.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000009_000006.wav|Is it capable of exciting a movement?|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000020_000005.wav|Form is the actual, the energy, the entelechy which actualises the potential and determines the final compound.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000018_000004.wav|I give them, not from the original source, which I am not erudite enough to consult direct, but from the learned treatise which Bain has published on the psychology of Aristotle, as an appendix to his work on the Senses and the Intelligence.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000014_000005.wav|This is the coupling of two things-a sensation and a cognition.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000008_000009.wav|Is it a relation of cause to effect, of genesis? or a coincidence? or the interaction of two distinct forces? Is this relation constant or necessary?|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000020_000004.wav|Matter is the potential, imperfect, roughly outlined element which is not yet actual, and may perhaps never become so.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000017_000001.wav|There are many authors who maintain that the soul can act directly on the body and modify it, and this is what is called inter actionism.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000011_000004.wav|It will force us to question a great metaphysical principle which, up till now, has been almost universally considered as governing the problem of the union of the mind with the body.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000021_000000.wav|These few definitions will make clear the singularly ingenious idea of Aristotle on the nature of the body, the soul, and of their union.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000009_000000.wav|The second question is that of knowing what is the role, the utility, and the efficacity of the psychical phenomenon.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000013_000002.wav|It seems to me it should be split up into two propositions of very unequal value: one, the mind and body are heterogeneous; two, by virtue of this heterogeneity it is not possible to understand any direct relation between the two.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000022_000002.wav|The soul actualises the body, and becomes, as he said, its entelechy.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000014_000004.wav|Consider the following fact: "I experience a sensation, and I have consciousness of it."|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000019_000000.wav|The whole metaphysics of Aristotle is dominated by the distinction between form and matter.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1779/142733/1779_142733_000016_000001.wav|We describe it after nature.|1779
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000064_000002.wav|I forgot you've not had time to find out."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000025_000001.wav|"If there's an Almighty, He must move in a common sense way; otherwise the whole of this planet would have busted up long ago.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000084_000003.wav|You must forgive me."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000011_000000.wav|The same old cry.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000049_000000.wav|Paul looked at the headline indicated by the man.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000041_000000.wav|"It was the merest of suggestions, mr Savelli.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000064_000000.wav|"No, no," came the voice, now curiously tearful.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000003_000005.wav|It was he who, in a way, had cast her off.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000030_000000.wav|"That's it.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000078_000001.wav|"None of our people would resort to a dirty trick like that."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000018_000000.wav|Paul smiled at the curiously stilted phrase.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000074_000005.wav|Now I've got an idea."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000074_000003.wav|An ex convict-it's enough to damn any candidate.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000069_000000.wav|"It's all that's damnable.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000041_000002.wav|But-you'll pardon my mentioning it-you began this discussion by asking me whether the Almighty had common sense."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000000.wav|It was Paul's turn to start forward.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000069_000001.wav|It's tragic.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000027_000000.wav|"Then if God supported it, it wouldn't be common sense on His part.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000071_000000.wav|"You were right about the divine common sensicality," said he.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000005_000000.wav|"They want stirring up a bit," said the Conservative agent despondently.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000015.wav|He tore the photograph from its frame and threw it into the fire and watched it burn.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000081_000000.wav|"I can't see much difference," said Paul.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000057_000001.wav|The chairman then put a vote of confidence in the candidate, which was carried by acclamation, and the meeting broke up.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000085_000000.wav|"I don't blame you, my boy," said Colonel Winwood.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000063_000000.wav|"I?|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000075_000001.wav|"I'll have no capital made out of it whatsoever.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000007_000000.wav|Once on coming out of his headquarters he met Silas, who was walking up the street with two or three of his committee men.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000070_000001.wav|Almost immediately Wilson was announced.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000056_000000.wav|"It is for you, electors of Hickney Heath, to judge me."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000083_000002.wav|He went downstairs, and found the Colonel and Miss Winwood in the dining room.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000078_000000.wav|"He did it on his own," Wilson replied warmly.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000015_000000.wav|"Very well."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000058_000000.wav|Such were the essential facts in the somewhat highly coloured newspaper story which Paul read in stupefied horror.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000013_000000.wav|"That is true, my son," said Silas.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000009_000001.wav|"I see you're putting up an excellent fight."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000026_000000.wav|"Certainly not," said the agent, fervently.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000074_000000.wav|Wilson opened his eyes.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000004_000005.wav|He swept the multitude.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000045_000002.wav|It would have been a counter blaze to that lit by his opponent, which flamed in all the effulgence of a reckless reformer's promise, revealing a Utopia in which there would be no drunkenness, no crime, no poverty, and in which the rich, apparently, would have to work very hard in order to support the poor in comfortable idleness.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000014_000000.wav|"Jane is well?" Paul asked, after an instant's pause, breaking off the profitless discussion.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000084_000002.wav|I didn't tell you.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000003.wav|Not a little tuppenny damn. What the devil does it matter to me whether I get into Parliament or not?|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000011_000001.wav|Through sheer repetition, Paul began almost to believe in it.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000030_000006.wav|By George! you can get him in the neck if you like."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000080_000000.wav|"That's quite a different matter."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000004.wav|Each had made his way from the slum, each had been guided by an inner light-was Silas Finn's fantastic belief less of an ignis fatuus than his own?--each had sought to get away from a past, each was a child of Ishmael, each, in his own way, had lived romantically.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000073_000000.wav|"I would give anything for it not to have happened," he said.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000050_000001.wav|Liberal Candidate's Confession.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000005.wav|Not a tuppenny damn.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000068_000002.wav|He spoke so simply and with such sorrowful dignity.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000002.wav|I don't care a damn about myself.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000010_000001.wav|If it weren't, do you think I would not let you win?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000037_000000.wav|"If it does," said Paul, "it will be associated with the immediate retirement of the Conservative candidate."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000008.wav|He saw him bowed down under the blow, and he clenched his hands in a torture of anger and indignation.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000058_000002.wav|Jane's voice met his ear.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000040_000000.wav|The agent watched the workings of his candidate's dark clear cut face. He was very proud of his candidate, and found it difficult to realize that there were presumably sane people who would not vote for him on sight.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000011.wav|"But while I'm candidate everything I say I mean.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000054_000002.wav|Is that all you have against me?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000051_000002.wav|The spectre of the prison had risen up against him.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000045_000001.wav|The awakener of England could have captivated hearts by glowing pictures of a great and glorious future.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000047_000000.wav|The servant who woke him brought a newspaper to the bedside.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000059_000003.wav|How is my father?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000077_000000.wav|"There's nothing to be done, except to find out who put up the man to make the announcement."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000006_000000.wav|"I do my best," said Paul coldly, but the reproach cut deep.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000048_000000.wav|"Something to interest you, sir."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000028_000001.wav|"Our opponent undoubtedly has been making free with the name of the Almighty in his speeches.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000052_000003.wav|There was an angry tumult, and the interrupter would have fared badly, but for Silas Finn holding up his hand and imploring silence.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000046_000003.wav|He drove home exhausted, and going straight to bed slept like a dog till morning.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000083_000000.wav|In the midst of these fine thoughts it occurred to him that he had hidden the prison episode in his father's career from the Winwoods as well as from the Princess.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000007_000002.wav|This was the first time they had come together since the afternoon of revelation, and there was a moment of constraint during which Silas tugged at his streaked beard and looked with mournful wistfulness at his son.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000003_000004.wav|Paul could not plead.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000075_000000.wav|Paul turned on him angrily.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000004_000001.wav|He had been chosen for his youth, his joyousness, his magnetism, his radiant promise of great things to come.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000004_000008.wav|But hope reigned among his official supporters, whereas depression began to descend over Paul's brilliant host.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000020_000002.wav|It was but the final artistic touch to this comedy of mockery of which he had been the victim....|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000087_000001.wav|He thanked them simply.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000019.wav|He had far sterner things to do than shriek his heart out over a woman in an alien star.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000046_000002.wav|By a supreme effort he regained some of his former fire and eloquence.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000020_000000.wav|They shook hands again, and Paul drove off in the motor car that had been placed at his disposal during the election, and Silas continued his sober walk with his committee men up the muddy street.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000019_000000.wav|"Tell him from me not to do it.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000052_000001.wav|"What about your own past life?|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000006.wav|You can't understand.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000050_000000.wav|"Hickney Heath Election.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000042_000000.wav|"Well, has He or not?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000028_000004.wav|It's all damned hypocrisy.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000040_000001.wav|A lingering memory of grammar school days flashed on him when he told his wife later of the conversation, and he likened Paul to a wrathful Apollo.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000023_000000.wav|The agent, not being versed in speculations regarding the attributes of the Deity, stared; then, disinclined to commit himself, took refuge in platitude.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000053_000000.wav|"I challenge the candidate to deny," said the man, as soon as he could be heard, "that his real name is Silas Kegworthy, and that he underwent three years' penal servitude for murderously assaulting his wife."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000033_000000.wav|"It's the difference between dirt and cleanliness," said Paul. "Besides, as I told you at the outset, mr Finn and I are close personal friends, and I have the highest regard for his character.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000068_000001.wav|Oh, Paul, it was splendid to see him face the audience.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000085_000002.wav|You had no right to tell us."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000074_000004.wav|But we want to make sure.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000011.wav|Suddenly he remembered that he had not told her of this incident in his family history.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000025_000000.wav|"That's rot," said Paul.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000001.wav|But he could not eat.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000027_000001.wav|It would be merely mysterious?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000004_000000.wav|As in his first speech, so in his campaign, he failed.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000004_000002.wav|He went about the constituency an anxious, haggard man, working himself to death without being able to awaken a spark of emotion in the heart of anybody.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000059_000000.wav|"It's Paul speaking," he replied.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000010.wav|He walked about the room in despair, and at last halted before the mantelpiece on which still stood the photograph of the Princess in its silver frame.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000083_000004.wav|He came to them with outstretched arms-a familiar gesture, one doubtless inherited from his Sicilian ancestry.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000083_000003.wav|Their faces were grave.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000089_000000.wav|"I quite agree with you," said the Colonel.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000028_000005.wav|There's a chap in the old French play-what's his name?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000058_000001.wav|He dressed quickly and went to his sitting room, where he rang up his father's house on the telephone.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000088_000001.wav|It's loathsome." He shuddered.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000012_000000.wav|"That's the advantage of a belief in the Almighty's personal interest," he answered, with a touch of irony: "whatever happens, one is not easily disillusioned."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000062_000000.wav|"no Don't you?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000064_000001.wav|"I didn't mean that.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000002.wav|He was both stricken with shame and moved to the depths by immense pity.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000004_000004.wav|On the other hand, Silas Finn, with his enthusiasms, and his aspect of an inspired prophet, made alarming progress.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000005_000002.wav|They nearly raised the roof off last night.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000036_000001.wav|That's a devilish good catch phrase," he added, starting forward in the joy of his newborn epigram: "Devilish good.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000054_000001.wav|I have sought absolution for a moment of mad anger under awful provocation in unremitting prayer and in trying to save the souls and raise the fortunes of my fellow men.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000072_000000.wav|He was a chubby little man of forty, with coarse black hair and scrubby moustache, not of the type that readily appreciates the delicacies of a situation.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000030_000005.wav|I never thought of it before.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000028_000002.wav|As a matter of fact he's rather crazy on the subject.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000010_000000.wav|"It's the Lord's battle.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000043_000000.wav|"Of course," said Wilson.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000045_000004.wav|So, all through the wintry days of the campaign, Silas Finn carried his fiery cross through the constituency, winning frenzied adherents, while Paul found it hard to rally the faithful round the drooping standard of saint George.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000091_000002.wav|A little while later they drove off with him to his committee room in the motor car gay with his colours.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000089_000001.wav|"But in politics one has often to put up with hateful things in order to serve one's country. That's the sacrifice a high minded man is called upon to make."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000045_000000.wav|If he could have met enthusiasm with enthusiasm, all would have been well.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000020_000001.wav|Whereupon Paul conceived a sudden hatred for the car.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000070_000000.wav|He rang off.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000041_000001.wav|Heaven knows we don't want to descend to personalities, and your retirement would be an unqualifiable disaster.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000030_000004.wav|You can score tremendously.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000035_000000.wav|"It wasn't with mr Finn's cognizance.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000088_000000.wav|"It's hateful," said he, "to think I may win the election on account of this.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000060_000002.wav|Oh, it was a cruel, cowardly blow."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000068_000004.wav|But it has broken him.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000004.wav|Nothing.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000045_000003.wav|But beyond proving fallacies, Paul could do nothing-and even then, has there ever been a mob since the world began susceptible to logical argument?|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000019_000001.wav|My love to them both."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000028_000003.wav|I don't think it would be a bad move to make a special reference to it.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000060_000000.wav|"He's greatly upset," came the voice.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000046_000001.wav|Paul addressed his last meeting on the eve of the poll.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000013.wav|He saw her proud lips curl.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000068_000000.wav|"Yes.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000003_000009.wav|He could do nothing-not even beg his dearest lady to plead for him.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000057_000000.wav|He sat down amid tumultuous cheers, and the man who had interrupted him, after some rough handling, managed to make his escape.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000075_000002.wav|It's a foul thing to bring such an accusation up against a man who has lived a spotless life for thirty years.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000031_000000.wav|"But I don't like," said Paul.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000016_000000.wav|"And Barney Bill?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000063_000001.wav|Does either of you think that I-?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000011_000003.wav|In his father's eyes he recognized, with a pang, the glow of a faith which he had lost.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000036_000002.wav|'The spoiled minion of the Almighty's ante chamber.' It'll become historical."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000021_000000.wav|He turned suddenly to his companion, the Conservative agent.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000003_000008.wav|It was final, as far as he was concerned.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000054_000000.wav|Then the candidate braced himself and said: "The bare facts are true. But I have lived stainlessly in the fear of God and in the service of humanity for thirty years.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000067_000000.wav|"Were you at the meeting?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000008.wav|For myself, personally, the whole thing can go to blazes.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000017_000000.wav|"He upbraids me bitterly for what I have said."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000039_000001.wav|"My dear Wilson," said he, "if you or anybody else thinks I'm a man to talk through his hat, I'll retire at once.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000070_000002.wav|He came into the room radiant.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000055_000000.wav|"That's all," said the man.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000090_000001.wav|All the papers say that the vote of confidence was passed amid scenes of enthusiasm."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000091_000001.wav|They understood.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000006.wav|He was very near him.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/81881/7594_81881_000082_000007.wav|The shame of the prison struck him as it had struck the old man.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000020_000000.wav|When they arrived at the great calabash tree they climbed up with their straw, smoked out the bees, sat down, and began to eat.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000039_000000.wav|So he persuaded her, and she went back; but he kept on, following the footmarks, and saw-as he had suspected-that they went into his house.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000006_000000.wav|Of course Bookoo jumped at the offer, and he and the hare started off immediately.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000017_000000.wav|"Whose honey?" inquired Kobay, cautiously.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000023_000000.wav|So, when the lion asked again, "Who are you?" he answered, "It's only us." The lion said, "Come down, then;" and the tortoise answered, "We're coming."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000005_000000.wav|As he was passing the house of Boo'koo, the big rat, that worthy gentleman invited him in.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000025_000002.wav|He can't hurt you, you know."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000005_000001.wav|So he went in, sat down, and remarked: "My father has died, and has left me a hive of honey.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000036_000001.wav|Stopping at once, he said to mrs Soongoora: "You go back, my dear.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000033_000000.wav|Immediately on hearing this, Simba carried Kobay to the water, placed him in the mud, and began, as he supposed, to rub his back; but the tortoise had slipped away, and the lion continued rubbing on a piece of rock until his paws were raw.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000009_000002.wav|This made Bookoo so scared that he blurted out, "It's only us!"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000009_000001.wav|Speak, I tell you!"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000026_000000.wav|"All right," said Kobay; but while he was wrapping the hare up he said to himself: "This fellow wants to run away, and leave me to bear the lion's anger.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000008_000000.wav|In the midst of the feast, who should appear at the foot of the tree but Sim'ba, the lion?|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000037_000000.wav|But she replied, "I will not go back; I will follow you, my husband."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000019_000000.wav|"Oh, all right; I'm with you," said the tortoise, eagerly; and away they went.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000014_000001.wav|Didn't you see him when I threw him down?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000010_000000.wav|Upon this the hare said to him: "You just wrap me up in this straw, call to the lion to keep out of the way, and then throw me down.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000008_000001.wav|Looking up, and seeing them eating, he asked, "Who are you?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000038_000001.wav|Go back."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000030_000000.wav|Angry and disappointed, he turned to the tree and called to Kobay, "You come down, too."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000015_000000.wav|"Of course I didn't see him," replied the lion, in an incredulous tone, and, without wasting further time, he ate the big rat, and then searched around for the hare, but could not find him.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000021_000000.wav|Just then mr Simba, who owned the honey, came out again, and, looking up, inquired, "Who are you, up there?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000035_000000.wav|Without loss of time the lion climbed the mountain, and soon arrived at the place indicated, only to find that there was no one at home.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000025_000001.wav|I'll wait for you below.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000012_000000.wav|After waiting a minute or two, Simba roared out, "Well, come down, I say!" and, there being no help for it, the big rat came down.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000013_000000.wav|As soon as he was within reach, the lion caught hold of him, and asked, "Who was up there with you?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000033_000001.wav|When he glanced down at them he saw they were bleeding, and, realizing that he had again been outwitted, he said, "Well, the hare has done me to day, but I'll go hunting now until I find him."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000032_000000.wav|"Oh, that's easy," laughed Kobay; "just put me in the mud and rub my back with your paw until my shell comes off."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000036_000002.wav|Simba, the lion, has passed this way, and I think he must be looking for me."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000029_000000.wav|So the lion, being deceived, took him by the tail and whirled him around, but just as he was going to knock him on the ground he slipped out of his grasp and ran away, and Simba had the mortification of losing him again.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000040_000001.wav|Lion is inside, is he?" Then, cautiously going back a little way, he called out: "How d'ye do, house?|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000044_000000.wav|"Oh, I think you'll have to do the waiting," cried the hare; and then he ran away, the lion following.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000031_000000.wav|When the tortoise reached the ground, the lion said, "You're pretty hard; what can I do to make you eatable?"|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000005_000002.wav|I would like you to come and help me to eat it."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/101832/7594_101832_000042_000000.wav|Then Soongoora burst out laughing, and shouted: "Oho, mr Simba!|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000012_000000.wav|This brings us to Hector Berlioz, the famous French symphonist, the exponent par excellence of programme music, that is, music intended to illustrate a special story.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000012_000002.wav|He was the first to impress on the world the idea of music as a definite language. His recurrent themes, called "fixed ideas," prefigured Wagner's "leading motives." His skill in combining instruments added new lustre to orchestration.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000015_000001.wav|One Titanic spirit, Johannes Brahms, (eighteen thirty three to eighteen ninety seven) who succeeded in striking the dominant note of musical sublimity amid modern unrest, is reserved for our final consideration.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000009_000001.wav|His profoundly poetic musical nature, with its high capacity for joy and sorrow and infinite longing, was reflected in all that he wrote.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000008_000004.wav|His symphonies recall the fairy tale, with its sparkling "once upon a time," and yet like it are not without their mysterious shadows.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000007_000000.wav|A German critic has jocosely remarked that the early writers meant the sonata to show first what they could do, second what they could feel, and third how glad they were to have finished.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000010_000000.wav|Beethoven further advanced the technique of the symphony, and proved its power to "strike fire from the soul of man." Varying his themes while repeating them, adding spice to his episodes and working out his entire scheme with consummate skill, he was able to construct from a motive of a few notes a mighty epic tone poem.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000014_000003.wav|A strong national flavor is also felt in the work of Christian Sinding, the Norwegian, whose D minor symphony has been styled "a piece born of the gloomy romanticism of the North." Edward Grieg, known as the incarnation of the strong, vigorous, breezy spirit of the land of the midnight sun, has put some of his most characteristic work into symphonic poems and orchestral suites.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000004_000001.wav|As the vocal aria was the result of the simple folk song combined with the intense craving of song's master molders for individual expression, so instrumental music striving to walk alone, without support from words, gained vital elements through the discovery that various phases of mental disposition might be indicated by alternating dance tunes differing in rhythm and movement, according to Nature's own law of contrasts.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000013_000000.wav|From programme music came the symphonic poem of which Franz Liszt was the creator.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000014_000000.wav|Camille Saint Saens, without doubt the most original and intellectual modern French composer, who at sixty seven years of age is still in the midst of his activity, and who has made his own the spirit of the classic composers, owes to the symphonic poem a great part of his reputation, and has also written symphonies of great value.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000015_000004.wav|Truly a wonderfully gifted nature that was able to absorb such a fulness of great gifts and still not lose the best of gifts-the strong individuality which makes the master."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000010_000001.wav|He translated into superb orchestral pages the dreams of the human heart, the soul's longing for liberty and all the holiest aspirations of the inner being.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000008_000003.wav|Grace and spirit, originality of invention, joyous abandon, a fancy controlled by a studious mind, a profusion of quaint humor and a proper division of light and shade, combine to give the dominant note to his music.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000002_000000.wav|Symphony and Symphonic Poem|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000016_000000.wav|Wonderful is the power of instrumental music, absolute music without words, that may convey impressions, deep and lasting, no words could give.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000009_000002.wav|By means of a generous employment of free counterpoint, in other words a kind of polyphony in which the various voices use different melodies in harmonious combination, he gained a potent auxiliary in his cunning workmanship, and emphasized the folly of rejecting the contrapuntal experiences, of, for instance, a Sebastian Bach. Musical instruments, as well as musical materials, were his servants in developing the glowing fancies of his marvelously constructive brain.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000012_000005.wav|The programme (which is indispensable to the perfect comprehension of the work) ought therefore to be considered in the light of the spoken text of an opera, serving to lead up to the piece of music, and indicate the character and expression."|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000010_000003.wav|His conflicts never fail to end in triumph.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000011_000000.wav|Twenty six years younger than Beethoven Schubert lived but a year after he had passed away and died in eighteen twenty eight, two years later than Weber, and felt the glow of the spirit of romanticism.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000015_000003.wav|dr Riemann writes of him, "From Bach he inherited the depth, from Haydn, the humor, from Mozart, the charm, from Beethoven, the strength, from Schubert, the intimateness of his art.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000008_000001.wav|His thirty years of musical service to the house of Esterhazy, with an orchestra increasing from sixteen to twenty four pieces to experiment on, as the solo virtuoso experiments on piano or violin, brought him wholly under the spell of the instruments.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000007_000002.wav|Two subjects, a melody in the tonic, another usually in the dominant, came to set forth the exposition of the opening movement, leading to a free development, with various episodes, and an assured return to the original statement.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000004_000002.wav|That unity of purpose was essential to the effectiveness of the diversity was instinctively discerned.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000011_000001.wav|From the perennial fount of song within his breast there streamed fresh melodious strains through his symphonies, the ninth and last of which, the C major, ranks him with the great symphonists.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000005_000004.wav|Absolute music was set once for all on the right path by them.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000014_000004.wav|The first composer to convey a message from the North in tones to the European world was Gade, the Dane, known as the Symphony Master of the North, who was born in eighteen seventeen and died in eighteen ninety.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000008_000002.wav|Their individual characteristics afforded him continually new suggestions in regard to tone coloring, and he rose often to audacity, for his time, in his harmonic devices.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000003_000002.wav|The prelude developed into the operatic overture whose business it became to prepare the spectator for what followed.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000015_000000.wav|It is impossible to mention in a brief essay all the great workers in symphonic forms.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000012_000001.wav|He lived from eighteen o three to eighteen sixty nine, and because of his audacity in using new and startling tonal effects was called the most flagrant musical heretic of the nineteenth century.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000003_000000.wav|That adventurous spirit, Claudio Monteverde, who nearly three hundred years ago made himself responsible for the first feeble utterances of an orchestra that tried to say something for itself, divined the possibilities of expression in varying combinations of tone quality and gave vigorous impulse to the germ of the symphony already existing in the formless instrumental preludes and interludes of his predecessors among opera makers.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000009_000003.wav|The crowning glory of his graceful perfection of outline and detail is the noble spirit of serenity which illumines all its beauty.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000001_000000.wav|twelve|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000009_000000.wav|With Mozart, whose life work began after, but ended before that of Haydn, influencing and being influenced by the latter, the symphony broadened in scope and grew richer in warmth of melodious expression, definiteness of plan and completeness of form.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000011_000004.wav|Ultra romanticism was foreign to the nature and repulsive to the tastes of the refined, elegant Mendelssohn, yet in spite of himself its influence crept gently into his polished works.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000005_000001.wav|These compositions were usually written for the harpsichord and perhaps three instruments of the viol order, the master himself playing the leading melody on the violin.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000007_000001.wav|Time vastly increased its importance.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000014_000001.wav|His orchestration is distinguished by its clarity, power and exquisite coloring.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000010_000002.wav|He discussed in tones problems of man's life and destiny, ever displaying sublime faith that Fate, however cruel, is powerless to crush the spiritual being, the real individuality.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000006_000001.wav|It ceased to be a mere grouping of dances, the name suite being applied to that, and struck out into independent excursions in the domain of fancy.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7594/91192/7594_91192_000012_000004.wav|His four famous symphonic works are: "Fantastic Symphony," "Grand Funeral and Triumphal Symphony," "Harold in Italy" and "Romeo and Juliet." In a preface to the first he thus explains his ideas: "The plan of a musical drama without words, requires to be explained beforehand.|7594
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000062_000000.wav|"Bless you!|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000030_000000.wav|But listen to what happened.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000043_000003.wav|Then the smith let him go, and off he marched in a huff.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000064_000003.wav|You must have been dreaming!|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000069_000000.wav|Down the stairs stumped the doctor with Babo at his heels.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000023_000000.wav|The stone?|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000028_000003.wav|At last they came to a great wide plain, where neither stock nor stone was to be seen, but only a gallows tree, upon which one poor wight hung dancing upon nothing at all, and there night caught them again.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000017_000000.wav|"Not I," said Babo; "I will carry no stone with me.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000049_000001.wav|"Help!|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000049_000000.wav|"Help!" bawled Babo.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000023_000003.wav|"Give me a piece of your bread, master," said he.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000051_000000.wav|"Stop, friend," said he to the smith, "let the simpleton go; this is not past mending yet."|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000014_000001.wav|If you will go along with me I will make your fortune also."|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000025_000000.wav|The next morning off they started again bright and early, and before long they came to just such another field of stones as they left behind them the day before.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000073_000000.wav|"Very well," said the cook, and he counted out the two hundred pennies, and Babo slipped them into his pocket.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000049_000002.wav|Murder!"|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000112_000001.wav|When Babo came the next morning the king gave him ten chests full of money, and that made the simpleton richer than anybody in all that land.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000100_000000.wav|For a piece of advice!|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000069_000001.wav|There stood the cook waiting for them.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000062_000001.wav|Bless you!" said the rich man.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000099_000000.wav|"I got it for a piece of advice," said Babo.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000080_000001.wav|And then, besides, how about the fortune you promised me?"|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000064_000004.wav|See, here are two hundred silver pennies, and that is enough and more than enough for six drops of medicine."|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000102_000001.wav|"I got it for a piece of advice," said he.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54016/5940_54016_000026_000001.wav|We may need something more to eat before the day is over."|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000053_000000.wav|"God be praised," she cried presently, "they are my brothers; I am beckoning to them, as well as I can, for them to make haste."|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000029_000000.wav|"You must die, Madam," said he, "and that presently."|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000023_000000.wav|"Fail not," said Blue Beard, "to bring it me presently."|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000048_000000.wav|"Alas! no, my dear sister, I see a flock of sheep."|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000021_000000.wav|"What," said he, "is not the key of my closet among the rest?"|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000052_000000.wav|"I see," said she, "two horsemen coming, but they are yet a great way off."|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000043_000000.wav|"Come down quickly," cried Blue Beard, "or I will come up to you."|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000049_000000.wav|"Will you not come down?" cried Blue Beard.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000047_000000.wav|"Are they my brothers?"|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000033_000000.wav|"Sister Anne" (for that was her name), "go up I beg you, upon the top of the tower, and look if my brothers are not coming; they promised me that they would come to day, and if you see them, give them a sign to make haste."|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000025_000000.wav|"How comes this blood upon the key?"|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000011_000001.wav|There was nothing then to be seen but parties of pleasure, hunting, fishing, dancing, mirth and feasting. Nobody went to bed, but all passed the night in playing tricks upon each other.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000010_000000.wav|One of his neighbours, a lady of quality, had two daughters who were perfect beauties.|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5940/54613/5940_54613_000046_000000.wav|"I see," replied sister Anne, "a great dust that comes this way."|5940
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000014_000001.wav|They are in three distinct colourings-full rich crimson, crimson rose, and pale pink changing to dull white.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000004_000005.wav|Moreover, as there is necessarily less wood in a flat wall tree than in a round bush, and as the front shoots must be pruned close back, it follows that much more strength is thrown into the remaining wood, and the blooms are much larger.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000014_000002.wav|These are the earliest to flower, and with them it is convenient, from the garden point of view, to class some of the desirable species.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000010_000001.wav|This is probably the reason why they are so difficult to establish, and so slow to grow, especially on light soils, even when their beds have been made deep and liberally enriched with what one judges to be the most gratifying comfort.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000016_000000.wav|All Paeonies are strong feeders.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000003_000002.wav|This must be understood to apply to the two classes of plants of the hardy kinds, as commonly grown in gardens.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000010_000002.wav|Every now and then, just before blooming time, a plant goes off all at once, smitten with sudden death.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000019_000000.wav|one.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000011_000002.wav|Of those I have, the kinds I like best are-|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000021_000000.wav|three.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000005_000001.wav|The two flower at the same time, their growths mingling in friendly fashion, while their unlikeness of habit makes the companionship all the more interesting.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000011_000001.wav|Though among these, as is the case with all the kinds, there is a preponderance of pink or rose crimson colouring of a decidedly rank quality, yet the number of varieties is so great, that among the minority of really good colouring there are plenty to choose from, including a good number of beautiful whites and whites tinged with yellow.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000003_000001.wav|Though both enjoy a moist peat soil, and have a near botanical relationship, they are incongruous in appearance, and impossible to group together for colour.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000003_000003.wav|There are tender kinds of the East Indian families that are quite harmonious, but those now in question are the ordinary varieties of so-called Ghent Azaleas, and the hardy hybrid Rhododendrons.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000002_000003.wav|The plantation is long in shape, straggling over a space of about half an acre, the largest and strongest coloured group being in an open clearing about midway in the length.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000010_000005.wav|Many of the plants therefore had to be shifted into better groups for colour after their first blooming, a matter the more to be regretted as Paeonies dislike being moved.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000004_000000.wav|I always think it desirable to group together flowers that bloom at the same time.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000006_000003.wav|Above all is the same white Clematis, some of its abundant growth having been trained over the south side, so that this one plant plays a somewhat important part in two garden scenes.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000015_000001.wav|I wished to have them, not for the sake of making a collection, but in order to see which were the ones I should like best to grow as garden flowers.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000005_000003.wav|The Clematis meets it with an exactly opposite way of growth, swinging down its great swags of many flowered garland masses into the head of its companion, with here and there a single flowering streamer making a tiny wreath on its own account.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000004_000003.wav|The old Guelder Rose or Snowball tree is beautiful anywhere, but I think it best of all on the cold side of a wall.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000003_000004.wav|In the case of small gardens, where there is only room for one bed or clump of peat plants, it would be better to have a group of either one or the other of these plants, rather than spoil the effect by the inharmonious mixture of both.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000013_000000.wav|Many of the lovely flowers in this class have a rather strong, sweet smell, something like a mixture of the scents of Rose and Tulip.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000004_000001.wav|It is impossible, and even undesirable, to have a garden in blossom all over, and groups of flower beauty are all the more enjoyable for being more or less isolated by stretches of intervening greenery.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000007_000006.wav|The Tree Paeonies are also beautiful in leaf; the individual leaves are large and important, and so carried that they are well displayed.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000010_000003.wav|At the time of making my collection I was unable to visit the French nurseries where these plants are so admirably grown, and whence most of the best kinds have come.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000015_000002.wav|In due time they grew into strong plants and flowered.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000022_000001.wav|They are in a wide border on the north side of the high wall and partly shaded by it.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000007_000004.wav|For an immense hardy flower of beautiful colouring what can equal the salmon rose Moutan Reine Elizabeth?|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000002_000001.wav|Any of them may be planted in company, for all their colours harmonise.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000018_000000.wav|Broadly, and for garden purposes, one may put them into three classes-|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73957/4434_73957_000006_000001.wav|Buttresses flank the doorway on this side, dying away into the general thickness of the wall above the arch by a kind of roofing of broad flat stones that lay back at an easy pitch.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000011_000004.wav|June is here-June is here; thank God for lovely June!|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000015_000002.wav|It is just as good grown as a "fountain," giving it a free space where it can spread at will with no training or support whatever.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000012_000000.wav|And June is the time of Roses.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000030_000004.wav|Many other spring flowering plants may with advantage be divided now, such as Aubrietia, Arabis, Auricula, Tiarella, and Saxifrage.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000021_000002.wav|Far beyond all others is Madame Lambard, good alike early and late, and beautiful at all times.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000032_000003.wav|Both are excellent plants on poor soils.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000021_000001.wav|If I were planting again I should grow a still larger proportion of the kinds I have now found to do best.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000027_000002.wav|A few ripen on the plant, but most of them fall while green, and then ripen in a few days while lying on the ground.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000022_000001.wav|In these the last year's growth is cut back in March to within two to five eyes from where it leaves the main branch, according to the strength of the kind.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000011_000000.wav|What is one to say about June-the time of perfect young summer, the fulfilment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade?|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000009_000000.wav|JUNE|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000018_000005.wav|The leaves turn a brilliant yellow in autumn, and after they have fallen the bushes are still bright with the coloured stems and the large clusters of bright red hips.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000015_000000.wav|What a fine thing, among the cluster Roses, is the old Dundee Rambler!|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000032_000006.wav|The Mullein moth is sure to find them out, and it behoves the careful gardener to look for and destroy the caterpillars, or he may some day find, instead of his stately Mulleins, tall stems only clothed with unsightly grey rags.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000011_000003.wav|The lizards run in and out of the heathy tufts in the hot sunshine, and as the long day darkens the night jar trolls out his strange song, so welcome because it is the prelude to the perfect summer night; here and there a glowworm shows its little lamp.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000011_000002.wav|It is the offering of the Hymn of Praise!|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000022_000004.wav|But it is well, towards the end of July or beginning of August, to cut back the ends of soft summer shoots in order to give them a chance of ripening what is left. When an old Tea looks worn out, if cut right down in March or April it will often throw out vigorous young growth, and quite renew its life.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000026_000004.wav|They look just right, and are, moreover, every year loaded with their useful fruit.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000012_000007.wav|It was there that I recognised my old friend, and learned its name.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000026_000001.wav|It is a sociable sort of thing; it seems to like to grow near human habitations.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000025_000001.wav|They are very much stronger than those sown in spring.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000021_000000.wav|But the Tea Roses are more accommodating, and do fairly well, though, of course, not so well as in a stiffer soil.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000017_000001.wav|I have them on an east fence, where they yield a large quantity of bloom for cutting; indeed, they have been so useful in this way that I have planted several more, but this time for training down to an oak trellis, like the one that supports the row of Bouquet d'Or, in order to bring the flowers within easier reach.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000025_000000.wav|Within the first days of June we can generally pick some Sweet Peas from the rows sown in the second week of September.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000032_000007.wav|The caterpillars are easily caught when quite small or when rather large; but midway in their growth, when three quarters of an inch long, they are wary, and at the approach of the avenging gardener they will give a sudden wriggling jump, and roll down into the lower depths of the large foliage, where they are difficult to find.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000022_000000.wav|The pruning of Tea Roses is quite different from the pruning required for the Hybrid Perpetuals.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000014_000000.wav|I have also learnt from cottage gardens how pretty are some of the old Roses grown as standards.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000018_000006.wav|It is the saint Mark's Rose of Venice, where it is usually in flower on saint Mark's Day, april twenty fifth.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000032_000005.wav|It does well in any waste spaces of poor soil, where, by having plants of all ages, there will be some to flower every year.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000000.wav|Towards the end of June the bracken that covers the greater part of the ground of the copse is in full beauty.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000004.wav|Now such tracts of natural wild beauty, clothed with stretches of Heath and Fern and Whortleberry, with beds of Sphagnum Moss, and little natural wild gardens of curious and beautiful sub aquatic plants in the marshy hollows and undrained wastes, are treasured as such places deserve to be, especially when they still remain within fifty miles of a vast city.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000012_000006.wav|A few years ago this pretty old Rose found its way to one of the meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society, where it gained much praise.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000026_000005.wav|This is ripe quite early in September, and is made into Elder wine, to be drunk hot in winter, a comfort by no means to be despised.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000002.wav|In the early part of the present century, William Cobbett, in his delightful book, "Rural Rides," speaking of the heathy headlands and vast hollow of Hindhead, in Surrey, calls it "certainly the most villainous spot God ever made."|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000027_000003.wav|I shake the seeds carefully out, and leave them lying round the parent plant; a week later, when they will be ripe, they are lightly scratched into the ground.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000022_000002.wav|This must not be done with the Teas.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000003.wav|This gives expression to his view, as farmer and political economist, of such places as were incapable of cultivation, and of the general feeling of the time about lonely roads in waste places, as the fields for the lawless labours of smuggler and highwayman.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000016_000000.wav|The newer Crimson Rambler is a noble plant for the same use, in sunlight gorgeous of bloom, and always brilliant with its glossy bright green foliage.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000025_000002.wav|By November they are four inches high, and seem to gain strength and sturdiness during the winter; for as soon as spring comes they shoot up with great vigour, and we know that the spray used to support them must be two feet higher than for those that are spring sown.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000005.wav|The height to which the bracken grows is a sure guide to the depth of soil.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000018_000003.wav|The hips are large and handsome, black and glossy, and the whole plant in late autumn assumes a fine bronzy colouring between ashy black and dusky red. Other small old garden Roses are coming into bloom.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000025_000005.wav|A few doses of liquid manure are a great help when they are getting towards blooming strength.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000016_000001.wav|Of the many good plants from Japan, this is the best that has reached us of late years.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000020_000000.wav|After many years of fruitless effort I have to allow that I am beaten in the attempt to grow the Grand Roses in the Hybrid Perpetual class.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000013_000001.wav|How seldom one sees these Roses except in cottage gardens; but what good taste it shows on the cottager's part, for what Rose is so perfectly at home upon the modest little wayside porch?|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000016_000006.wav|Directly the flower is over it throws up rods of young growth eighteen to twenty feet long; as they mature they arch over, and next year their many short lateral shoots will be smothered with bloom.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000032_000002.wav|Both are seen at their best either quite early in the morning, or in the evening, or in half shade, as, like all their kind, they do not expand their bloom in bright sunshine.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000022_000003.wav|With these the oldest wood is cut right out from the base, and the blooming shoots left full length.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000018_000002.wav|The rather dusky foliage sets off the lemon white of the wild, and the clear white, pink, rose, and pale yellow of the double garden kinds.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000021_000003.wav|In this garden it yields quite three times as much bloom as any other; nothing else can approach it either for beauty or bounty.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000012_000004.wav|The white is a creamy white, the outsides of the outer petals are stained with red, first showing clearly in the bud.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000025_000003.wav|The flower stalks are a foot long, and many have four flowers on a stalk.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000006.wav|On the poorest, thinnest ground it only reaches a foot or two; but in hollow places where leaf mould accumulates and surface soil has washed in and made a better depth, it grows from six feet to eight feet high, and when straggling up through bushes to get to the light a frond will sometimes measure as much as twelve feet.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000027_000004.wav|Some young plants of last year's growth I mark with a bit of stick, in case of wanting some later to plant elsewhere, or to send away; the plant dies away completely, leaving no trace above ground, so that if not marked it would be difficult to find what is wanted.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000012_000002.wav|I do not know the origin of this charming Rose, but by its appearance it should be related to the Damask.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000027_000001.wav|Now is the time to look out for the seeds.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000032_000008.wav|But by going round the plants twice a day for about a week they can all be discovered.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000030_000003.wav|I cut off the whole mass of old root about an inch below the crown, when it can easily be divided into nice little bits for replanting.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000015_000001.wav|I trained one to go up a rather upright green Holly about twenty five feet high, and now it has rushed up and tumbles out at the top and sides in masses of its pretty bloom.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000016_000004.wav|One of the bushes in this garden covers a space thirty four feet across-more than a hundred feet round.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000034_000001.wav|No other manner of undergrowth gives to woodland in so great a degree the true forest like character. This most ancient plant speaks of the old, untouched land of which large stretches still remain in the south of England-land too poor to have been worth cultivating, and that has therefore for centuries endured human contempt.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000015_000005.wav|The Garland Rose, another old sort, is just as suitable for this kind of growth as Dundee Rambler, and the individual flowers, of a tender blush colour, changing to white, are even more delicate and pretty.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000012_000005.wav|The scent is delicate and delightful, with a faint suspicion of Magnolia.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000030_000002.wav|Two year old plants come up with thick clumps of matted root that is now useless.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000015_000003.wav|These two ways I think are much the best for growing the free, rambling Roses.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000020_000001.wav|They plainly show their dislike to our dry hill, even when their beds are as well enriched as I can contrive or afford to make them.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4434/73958/4434_73958_000018_000001.wav|The wild plant is widely distributed in England, though somewhat local. It grows on moors in Scotland, and on Beachy Head in Sussex, and near Tenby in South Wales, favouring wild places within smell of the sea.|4434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000082_000006.wav|As soon as he saw Anna he came towards her.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000067_000003.wav|The price of admission had been reduced to threepence, in order that the artisan might enter and spend his wages in an excellent cause.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000003.wav|He did not precisely anticipate trouble, but the fact had not escaped him that Ephraim still held the whole of Anna's securities.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000011_000000.wav|'Oh!' Beatrice replied, without any hesitation, 'a couple of hundred at least.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000058_000003.wav|The auditor would detect it in a minute.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000009_000000.wav|Just then Beatrice entered the room.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000086_000002.wav|Such futility, she reflected, self scorning, was of a piece with her life.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000069_000000.wav|'See that, Anna?|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000055_000000.wav|Later in the evening he disclosed, perfunctorily, the matter which had been a serious weight on his mind when he entered the house, but which this revelation of vast wealth had diminished to a trifle.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000083_000000.wav|'Well, good bye, Miss Tellwright,' he said jauntily.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000051_000001.wav|His countenance shone with delight.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000020_000000.wav|'Yes, father, it is.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000001.wav|The arrangements for their married life were planned on a scale which ignored the fifty thousand pounds.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000041_000000.wav|'Why not?' he inquired.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000007_000003.wav|As soon as a girl passed her fifteenth birthday, she began to sew for the "bottom drawer." But all those things change so, I dare say it's different now.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000002_000001.wav|mrs Sutton, organiser of the Sunday school stall, pressed all her friends into the service, and a fortnight after the death of Sarah Vodrey, Anna and even Agnes gave much of their spare time to the work, which was carried on under pressure increasing daily as the final moments approached.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000032_000001.wav|'I'm asking you for my own money.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000072_000000.wav|'But you must take that to the flower stall, my pet,' said mrs Sutton.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000066_000004.wav|Beyond these the scandalous secret was not to go.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000005_000000.wav|'Yes,' said mrs Sutton; 'but possibly you've been getting forward with them on the quiet.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000086_000004.wav|He hasn't really gone,' she kept repeating, and yet knew well that he had gone.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000089_000000.wav|'They say old titus Price embezzled fifty pounds from the building fund, and Henry made it up, privately, so that there shouldn't be a scandal.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000014_000001.wav|She had not spoken to him, save under necessity, since the evening spent at the Suttons'.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000094_000000.wav|There was clapping of hands, which died out suddenly.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000076_000000.wav|'I'll try to,' said mrs Sutton doubtfully-not in the secret.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000067_000005.wav|Bouquets were sold at a shilling each, and at the refreshment stall a glass of milk cost sixpence.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000090_000001.wav|She looked round the room, and saw it in every face.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000002_000000.wav|The Wesleyan Bazaar, the greatest undertaking of its kind ever known in Bursley, gradually became a cloud which filled the entire social horizon.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000004_000000.wav|'My things!' Anna repeated idly; and then she remembered Mynors' phrase, on the hill, 'Can you be ready by that time?'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000010_000001.wav|What do you say?'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000003_000000.wav|'My dear,' she said, 'I am very much obliged to you for all this industry.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000055_000001.wav|titus Price had been the treasurer of the building fund which the bazaar was designed to assist.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000049_000002.wav|Still, if your father says nothing, it is not for me to say anything.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000089_000001.wav|Just fancy!|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000045_000001.wav|'Couldn't be better.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000062_000001.wav|'The thing is bound to be kept quiet-it would create such a frightful scandal. Poor old chap!' he added, carelessly, 'I suppose he was hard run, and meant to put it back-as they all do mean.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000044_000000.wav|'Of course.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000062_000000.wav|'If you like,' he urged, smiling faintly at her eagerness.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000002_000002.wav|This was well for Anna, in that it diverted her thoughts by keeping her energies fully engaged.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000025_000002.wav|I mean it.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000060_000001.wav|It was a peddling sum to him now.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000040_000000.wav|'It was about money.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000049_000000.wav|'Yes, of course; I will do that, dear.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000059_000001.wav|Tell them that you will make it good.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000091_000000.wav|'Who says?' Anna demanded fiercely.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000067_000000.wav|The bazaar was a triumphant and unparalleled success, and, of the seven stalls, the Sunday school stall stood first each night in the nightly returns.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000082_000004.wav|His ship sailed on the Monday, but steerage passengers had to be aboard on Sunday, and he was saying good bye to a few acquaintances.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000002.wav|For both their sakes he wished to avoid all friction with the miser, at any rate until his status as Anna's husband would enable him to enforce her rights, if that should be necessary, with dignity and effectiveness.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000083_000002.wav|Wish me luck.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000008_000000.wav|'How much will it cost to buy everything, do you think?' Anna asked.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000029_000000.wav|'But you needn't give it me all at once,' she pursued.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000068_000001.wav|But shortly afterwards she hurried back breathless to her place.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000082_000003.wav|During this episode Anna, who had been left alone in the stall, first noticed Willie Price in the room.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000069_000001.wav|It will be reckoned in our returns,' she said, exhibiting a piece of paper.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000007_000000.wav|'It was in my day; but those things alter so.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000000.wav|It was characteristic of Mynors' cautious prudence that, the first intoxication having passed, he made no further reference of any kind to Anna's fortune.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000002_000003.wav|One morning, however, it occurred to mrs Sutton to reflect that Anna, at such a period of life, should be otherwise employed.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000067_000006.wav|The noise rivalled that of a fair; there was no quiet anywhere, save in the farthest recess of each stall, where the lady in supreme charge of it, like a spider in the middle of its web, watched customers and cash box with equal cupidity.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000035_000001.wav|Jumping up from his chair, he stamped out of the room, and she heard him strike a match in his office.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000067_000001.wav|The scene in the town hall, on the fourth and final night, a Saturday, was as delirious and gay as a carnival.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000070_000001.wav|'Why have I never found it?'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000017_000003.wav|A few pounds will cover them.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000079_000000.wav|'A couple of sovereigns.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000073_000000.wav|'Can't I give it to you?' the child pleaded.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000015_000000.wav|'What's afoot now?' he questioned savagely.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000066_000005.wav|But Anna wondered whether a secret shared by five persons could long remain a secret.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000047_000001.wav|'A very tidy bit,' he said; 'something over two hundred and fifty pounds.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000045_000000.wav|Henry's face broke into a laugh, and Anna was obliged to smile. 'Capital!' he said.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000081_000000.wav|He paid the money, and requested Anna to keep the plate for him.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000067_000002.wav|Four hundred and twenty pounds had been raised up to tea time, and it was the impassioned desire of everyone to achieve five hundred.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000037_000002.wav|It was a cold night in November, yet the miser, wrathfully sullen, chose to sit in his office without a fire.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000097_000000.wav|The town hall keeper extinguished some of the lights.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000080_000000.wav|'Make it guineas.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000026_000001.wav|What?'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000039_000000.wav|'Not about the wedding, I hope,' he said.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000066_000001.wav|But she never slept without thinking of Willie Price, and hoping that no further disaster might overtake him.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000095_000001.wav|Good night, mrs Sutton; good night, Bee.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000074_000000.wav|Mynors arrived next, with something concealed in tissue paper.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000088_000000.wav|'no What?' said Anna; and in the same moment guessed.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000048_000000.wav|'Draw me a cheque for twenty pounds,' she said; and then, while he wrote: 'Henry, after we're married, I shall want you to take charge of all this.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000082_000005.wav|He seemed quite cheerful, as he walked about with his hands in his pockets, chatting with this one and that; it was the false and hysterical gaiety that precedes a final separation.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000017_000002.wav|What clothes dost want?|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000012_000000.wav|mrs Sutton, reading Anna's face, smiled reassuringly.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000005.wav|He knew that there were twenty four hours in every day, three hundred and sixty five days in every year, and thirty good years in life still left to him; and therefore that there would be ample time, after the wedding, for the execution of his purposes in regard to that fifty thousand pounds.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000030_000000.wav|He gazed at her, glowering.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000059_000002.wav|I will write a cheque at once.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000064_000001.wav|She prayed wildly that he might never learn the full depth of his father's fall.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000007_000001.wav|The bride took all the house linen to her husband, and as many clothes for herself as would last a year; that was the rule.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000035_000000.wav|Her calm insistence maddened him.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000024_000000.wav|That evening, when Agnes had gone to bed, she resumed the struggle.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000057_000002.wav|You must enter it in the books and say nothing.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000085_000003.wav|Her glance followed him like a beneficent influence.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000071_000000.wav|Then Agnes, in a new white frock, came up with three shillings, proceeds of bouquets.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000027_000000.wav|'I mean I must have a hundred pounds.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000023_000000.wav|'What business an' ye for go blabbing thy affairs all over Bosley?|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000073_000001.wav|'I want your stall to be the best.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000096_000000.wav|Mynors was still occupied on the platform.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000003_000001.wav|But I've been thinking that as you are to be married in February you ought to be preparing your things.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000095_000000.wav|'Now Agnes,' Anna called, 'come along, quick; you're as white as a sheet.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000006_000000.wav|'Tell me,' said Anna, with an air of interest; 'I've meant to ask you before: Is it the bride's place to provide all the house linen, and that sort of thing?'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000061_000000.wav|'Let me pay half, then,' she asked.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000060_000000.wav|'I had meant to find the fifty myself,' he said.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000007.wav|His method was to buy a piece at a time, always second-hand, but always good.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000064_000002.wav|The miserable robbery of Sarah's wages was buried for evermore, and this new delinquency, which all would regard as flagrant sacrilege, must be buried also.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000065_000009.wav|It was decided between them that every article should be bought ready made and seamed, and that the first week of the New Year, if indeed mrs Sutton survived the bazaar, should be entirely and absolutely devoted to Anna's business.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000086_000001.wav|Now the last chance was lost, and she had not even attempted this difficult feat of charity.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000037_000001.wav|She observed that his face had a grave look, but intent on her own difficulties she did not remark on it, and proceeded at once to do what she resolved to do.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000002_000004.wav|Anna had called at the Suttons' to deliver some finished garments.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000023_000002.wav|Go and get dinner.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000070_000000.wav|'She has the secret of persuading him,' thought Anna.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000012_000001.wav|'Nonsense, Bee! I dare say you could do it on a hundred with care, Anna.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000058_000001.wav|'I can't alter the accounts.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000007_000002.wav|We used to stitch everything at home in those days-everything; and we had what we called a "bottom drawer" to store them in.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000052_000000.wav|'Surely not!' he protested formally.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000084_000000.wav|Nothing more; no word, no accent, to recall the terrible but sublime past.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000066_000003.wav|He had acquainted the minister with the facts, and mr Banks had decided that the two circuit stewards must be informed.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000078_000000.wav|'Well,' she laughed, 'what will you give?'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000082_000001.wav|A licensed auctioneer was brought, and the sale commenced.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000059_000000.wav|'But you can urge them to say nothing.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000042_000000.wav|'I've my own things to get,' she said, 'and I've all the house linen to buy.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000001_000000.wav|THE BAZAAR|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000085_000001.wav|They shook hands.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000058_000002.wav|At least I can't alter the bank book and the vouchers.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000047_000002.wav|So you can draw cheques at your ease.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000043_000001.wav|You buy the house linen, do you?' She saw that he was relieved by that information.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000058_000005.wav|He, at any rate, must know, and perhaps the stewards.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000092_000001.wav|Miss Dickinson told me.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000082_000000.wav|At nine o'clock it was announced that, though raffling was forbidden, the bazaar would be enlivened by an auction.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000037_000000.wav|The next evening Henry came up.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000090_000000.wav|The secret was abroad.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000089_000002.wav|Do you believe it?'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000025_000000.wav|'Father, I must have that hundred pounds.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000085_000002.wav|Others approaching, he drifted away.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000056_000000.wav|'It's a dreadful thing for Willie, if it gets about,' he said; 'a tale of that sort would follow him to Australia.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000032_000000.wav|'Father, it isn't.' Her voice broke, but only for an instant.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000066_000002.wav|The incident of the embezzled fifty pounds had been closed, and she had given a cheque for twenty five pounds to Mynors.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11243/666_11243_000035_000003.wav|The deposit book she had always kept herself for convenience of paying into the bank.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11244/666_11244_000029_000001.wav|'You are not your father.'|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/666/11244/666_11244_000036_000003.wav|Nothing else was possible.|666
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000018_000001.wav|The camp was defended by a rampart and by a double ditch, but on went the assaulting soldiers over all the obstacles, pushing their way with their bayonets, and carrying all before them.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000010_000002.wav|He also calculated that when Narva was in his hands the way would be open for him to advance on Riga.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000016_000000.wav|General Croy had been many weeks before Narva at the time when the King of Sweden arrived at Riga, but he had made little progress in taking the town.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000021_000000.wav|The number of prisoners was so very great that it was not possible for the Swedes to retain them, on account of the expense and trouble of feeding them, and keeping them warm at that season of the year; so they determined to detain the officers only, and to send the men away.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000023_000001.wav|He said that he expected to be beaten at first by the Swedes.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000012_000000.wav|The news, too, of this war occasioned great dissatisfaction among the governments of western Europe.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000010_000003.wav|Indeed, at the same time while he was commencing the siege of Narva, his ally, the King of Poland, advanced from his own dominions to Riga, and was now prepared to attack that city at the same time that the Czar was besieging Narva.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000006_000000.wav|So he set a train of negotiations on foot for making a long truce with the Turks, not wishing to have two wars on his hands at the same time. When he had accomplished this object, he formed a league with the kingdoms of Poland and Denmark to make war upon Sweden.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000017_000003.wav|The advanced posts were driven in, and the Swedes pressed on, the Russians flying before them, and carrying confusion to the posts in the rear.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000015_000004.wav|His name was General Croy.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000013_000001.wav|Augustus, for that was the name of the King of Poland, finding that now, since so great a force had arrived to succor and strengthen the place, there was no hope for success in any of his operations against it, concluded to make a virtue of necessity, and so he drew off his army, and sent word to the Dutch government that he did so in compliance with their wishes.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000011_000001.wav|The only cause of quarrel which peter pretended to have against the king was the uncivil treatment which he had received at the hands of the Governor of Riga in refusing to allow him to see the fortifications when he passed through that city on his tour.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000016_000001.wav|The place was strongly fortified, and the garrison, though comparatively weak, defended it with great bravery.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000019_000001.wav|Indeed, the officers do not wish to arrest them until it is sure that the enemy is so completely overwhelmed that their rallying again is utterly impossible.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000018_000002.wav|The Russians were entirely defeated and put to flight.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000011_000006.wav|The preparations were made with great dispatch, and the fleet sailed for Riga.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000014_000000.wav|The King of Sweden had, of course, nothing now to do but to advance from Riga to Narva and attack the army of the Czar.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000017_000002.wav|It was in the dead of winter, and the roads which he followed, besides being rough and intricate, were obstructed with snow, and the Russians had thought little of them, so that at last, when the Swedish army arrived at their advanced posts, they were taken entirely by surprise.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000010_000000.wav|Narva, as appears by the map, is situated on the sea coast, near the frontier-much nearer than Riga.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000024_000001.wav|He set about raising recruits in all parts of the empire.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000017_000004.wav|The surprise of the Russians, and the confusion consequent upon it, were greatly increased by the state of the weather; for there was a violent snow storm at the time, and the snow, blowing into the Russians' faces, prevented their seeing what the numbers were of the enemy so suddenly assaulting them, or taking any effectual measures to restore their own ranks to order when once deranged.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000017_000001.wav|Although his army was very much smaller than that of the Russians, he immediately set out on his march to Narva; but, instead of moving along the regular roads, and so falling into the ambuscade which the Russians had laid for him, he turned off into back and circuitous by ways, so as to avoid the snare altogether.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000023_000002.wav|"They have beaten us once," said he, "and they may beat us again; but they will teach us in time to beat them."|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000007_000000.wav|The King of Sweden at this time was Charles the twelfth.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000012_000001.wav|The government of Holland was particularly displeased, on account of the interference and interruption which the war would occasion to all their commerce in the Baltic.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000006_000001.wav|So exactly were all his plans laid, that the war with Sweden was declared on the very next day after the truce of the Turks was concluded.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000019_000002.wav|In this case twenty thousand of the Russian soldiers were left dead upon the field.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000011_000003.wav|Still, the negotiations had not been closed, and the government of Sweden had no idea that the misunderstanding would lead to war.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000015_000003.wav|The person whom the Czar had made commander in chief at the siege of Narva was a German officer.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000012_000004.wav|Riga was a very important commercial port, and there were a great many wealthy Dutch merchants there, whose interests the Dutch government were very anxious to protect.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000021_000002.wav|They cut their clothes in such a manner that they could only be prevented from falling off by being held together by both hands; and the weather was so cold-the ground, moreover, being covered with snow-that the men could only save themselves from perishing by keeping their clothes around them.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000020_000000.wav|Besides those who were killed, immense numbers were taken prisoners. General Croy, and all the other principal generals in command, were among the prisoners.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141270/1226_141270_000022_000000.wav|In this pitiful plight the whole body of prisoners were driven off, like a flock of sheep, by a small body of Swedish soldiery, for a distance of about a league on the road toward Russia, and then left to find the rest of the way themselves.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000019_000000.wav|About two thousand of the Guards were beheaded.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000011_000004.wav|It is not that they are really opposed to improvement itself for its own sake, but that they are so afraid of change.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000024_000000.wav|Of course, all her ambitious aspirations were now forever extinguished, and the last gleam of earthly hope faded away from her mind.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000007_000002.wav|Many of the leading families, anticipating serious trouble, moved away.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000009_000003.wav|They were determined, they said, to march to Moscow.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000017_000012.wav|This story is almost too horrible to be believed, but, unfortunately, it comports too well with the general character which peter has always sustained in the opinion of mankind in respect to the desperate and reckless cruelty to which he could be aroused under the influence of intoxication and anger.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000023_000002.wav|The name that she assumed was Marpha.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000019_000003.wav|Here they were allowed to lie all the remainder of the winter, as long, in fact, as the flesh continued frozen, and then, when the spring came on, they were thrown together into a deep ditch, dug to receive them, and thus were buried.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000010_000000.wav|In civil commotions of this kind occurring in any of the ancient non Protestant countries in Europe, it is always a question of the utmost moment which side the Church and the clergy espouse.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000014_000001.wav|General Gordon, as is usual in such cases, ordered a battery of artillery which he had brought up in the road before the Guards to fire, but he directed that the guns should be pointed so high that the balls should go over the heads of the enemy. His object was to intimidate them.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000011_000007.wav|Now, if a thing is good, it is better, of course, to preserve it; but, on the other hand, if it is bad, it is better that it should be pulled down.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000007_000001.wav|The whole city was thrown into a state of consternation.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000003_000005.wav|The ugly aspect which his countenance and demeanor exhibited at such times was greatly aggravated by a nervous affection of the head and face which attacked him, particularly when he was in a passion, and which produced convulsive twitches of the muscles that drew his head by jerks to one side, and distorted his face in a manner that was dreadful to behold.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000006_000000.wav|In executing this plan, negotiations were first cautiously opened with the Guards, and they readily acceded to the proposals made to them.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000022_000000.wav|Such were the horrible means by which peter attempted to strike terror into his subjects, and to put down the spirit of conspiracy and rebellion.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000014_000005.wav|They were fighting for the honor of his cause and for the defense of his holy religion, and they might rely upon it that he would not suffer them to be harmed.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000014_000000.wav|The two armies approached each other.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000017_000000.wav|It was in this state of the affair that the tidings of what had occurred reached peter in Vienna, as is related in the last chapter.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000003_000004.wav|At such times he would utter most dreadful imprecations against those who should dare to oppose him, and would work himself up into such a fury as to give those who conversed with him an exceedingly unfavorable opinion of his temper and character.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000023_000000.wav|The Princess Sophia, worn out with the agitations and dangers through which she had passed, and crushed in spirit by the dreadful scenes to which her brother had exposed her, now determined to withdraw wholly from the scene.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000011_000010.wav|If it is bad, let it be destroyed.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000017_000008.wav|It is said that peter took such a savage delight in these punishments, that he executed many of the victims with his own hands.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000021_000000.wav|As for the Princess Sophia, she was still in the convent where peter had placed her, the conspirators not having reached the point of liberating her before their plot was discovered.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000003_000007.wav|However this may have been, the affection seemed to increase as he grew older, and as the attacks of it were most decided and violent when he was in a passion, they had the effect, in connection with his coarse and dreadful language and violent demeanor, to make him appear at such times more like some ugly monster of fiction than like a man.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000010_000004.wav|But if they have the Church and the clergy on their side, this state of things is quite changed.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000005_000001.wav|Their plan was, first, to take possession of the city by means of the Guards, who were to be recalled for this purpose from their distant posts, and by their assistance to murder all the foreigners.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000011_000005.wav|They call themselves Conservatives, and wish to preserve every thing as it is.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000010_000005.wav|The sanction of religion-the thought that they are fighting in the cause of God and of duty, nerves their arms, and gives them that confidence in the result which is almost essential to victory.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000007_000004.wav|The government, too, though not yet suspecting the real design of the Guards in the movement which they were making, were greatly alarmed.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000007_000003.wav|Others packed up and concealed their valuables.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000006_000006.wav|The number of men was about ten thousand.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000009_000004.wav|They wished to ascertain for themselves whether peter was dead or alive, and if alive, what had become of him.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000017_000010.wav|He took a drink of brandy after each execution while the officers were bringing forward the next man.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000002_000000.wav|It will be recollected by the reader that peter, before he set out on his tour, took every possible precaution to guard against the danger of disturbances in his dominions during his absence.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000015_000003.wav|Two or three thousand of them were killed, and all the rest were surrounded and made prisoners.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000009_000002.wav|But the Guards refused to be satisfied.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000011_000006.wav|They hate the process of pulling down.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000017_000001.wav|He immediately set out on his return to Moscow in a state of rage and fury against the rebels that it would be impossible to describe.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000006_000007.wav|They pretended that they were only going to the city to represent their case themselves directly to the government, and then to march back again in a peaceable manner.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000019_000002.wav|They covered more than an acre of ground.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000015_000002.wav|A furious battle followed, in which the Guards were entirely defeated.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000007_000000.wav|The deputies returned with all speed to Moscow, and reported that the Guards were on their march in full strength toward the city.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000009_000005.wav|They therefore were going on, and, if General Gordon and his troops attempted to oppose them, they would fight it out and see which was the strongest.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000021_000001.wav|peter, however, caused the three authors of the address, which was to have been made to Sophia, calling upon her to assume the crown, to be sent to the convent, and there hung before Sophia's windows.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000004_000001.wav|After he had been gone away for some months they began to conspire against him.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000003_000000.wav|But, notwithstanding all these precautions, peter did not feel entirely safe.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000013_000000.wav|It was this sympathy on the part of the clergy which gave the officers and soldiers of the Guards their courage and confidence in daring to persist in their march to Moscow in defiance of the army of General Gordon, brought out to oppose them.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000006_000009.wav|They could not depend upon the rumors which came to them at so great a distance, and they were determined to inform themselves on the spot whether he were alive or dead, and when he was coming home.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000008_000000.wav|General Gordon came up with the rebels about forty miles from Moscow.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000017_000003.wav|From the agony of these sufferers he extorted the names of innumerable victims, who, as fast as they were named, were seized and put to death.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000015_000000.wav|But these assurances of the priests proved, unfortunately for the poor Guards, to be entirely unfounded.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000004_000000.wav|The result, in respect to the conduct of his enemies during his absence, was what he feared.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000006_000004.wav|The Guards insisted that they would go with their complaints to Moscow.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000014_000002.wav|But the effect was the contrary.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000012_000000.wav|In the case of Peter's proposed improvements and reforms the Church and the clergy were Conservatives of the most determined character.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000023_000001.wav|She took the veil in the convent where she was confined, and went as a nun into the cloisters with the other sisters.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000002_000003.wav|Moscow itself was garrisoned with troops selected expressly with reference to their supposed fidelity to his interests, and the men who were to command them, as well as the great civil officers to whom the administration of the government was committed during his absence, were appointed on the same principle.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000006_000003.wav|The government-that is, the regency that peter had left in charge-sent out deputies, who attempted to pacify them, but could not succeed.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000022_000003.wav|The rebellion was completely suppressed, and all open opposition to the progress of the Czar's proposed improvements and reforms ceased.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000002_000001.wav|The Princess Sophia was closely confined in her convent.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000016_000002.wav|After enduring their tortures as long as human nature could bear them, they confessed that the movement was a concerted one, made in connection with a conspiracy within the city, and that the object was to subvert the present government, and to liberate the Princess Sophia and place her upon the throne.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141268/1226_141268_000010_000001.wav|It is true that the Church and the clergy do not fight themselves, and so do not add any thing to the physical strength of the party which they befriend, but they add enormously to its moral strength, that is, to its confidence and courage.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000020_000003.wav|At length, when the naval power of the empire was firmly established, peter conceived the idea of removing this skiff from Moscow to Petersburg, and consecrating it solemnly there as a sort of souvenir to be preserved forever in commemoration of the small beginnings from which all the naval greatness of the empire had sprung.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000006_000000.wav|It is said that on this occasion peter shut himself up alone for three days and three nights in his own chamber, where he lay stretched on the ground in anguish and agony, and would not allow any body to come in.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000007_000003.wav|He had no farther serious difficulty with the opponents of his policy, though he was always under apprehensions that difficulties might arise after his death.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000005_000003.wav|He could not endure it, for the sight of her renewed so vividly the anguish that he felt for the loss of their child, that it made the convulsions and the suffering worse than before.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000014_000001.wav|Every window was filled, and the house tops, wherever there was space for a footing, were crowded.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000016_000002.wav|His death took place on the twenty eighth of January, seventeen twenty five.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000006_000003.wav|At length the Czar allowed the door to be opened, and the minister, with all the senators, came together into the room.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000009_000000.wav|This declaration, printed forms of which were sent all over the kingdom, was signed by the people very readily.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000020_000000.wav|It was only two years before his death that a striking instance of this occurred.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000004_000002.wav|His apprehensions proved to be well founded, for about a year after the unhappy death of Alexis he also died.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000009_000002.wav|It was generally supposed that a certain Prince Naraskin would be appointed to the succession.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000020_000004.wav|The name which he had given to the skiff was The Little Grandfather, the name denoting that the little craft, frail and insignificant as it was, was the parent and progenitor of all the great frigates and ships of the line which were then at anchor in the Roads about Cronstadt and off the mouth of the Neva.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000020_000002.wav|This skiff was built at Moscow, where it remained for twenty or thirty years, an object all this time, in Peter's mind, of special affection and regard.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000007_000005.wav|And now, since both his sons were dead, his mind revolved anxiously the question what provision he should make for the government of the empire after his decease.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000022_000006.wav|In this way the skiff rowed to and fro over the sea, and then passed along the fleet, saluted every where by the shouts of the crews upon the yards and in the rigging, and by the guns of the ships. Three thousand guns were discharged by the ships in these salvos in honor of their humble progenitor.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000013_000001.wav|This platform, with the steps leading to it, was carpeted with crimson velvet, and it was surmounted by a splendid canopy made of silk, embroidered with gold.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000013_000002.wav|The canopy was ornamented, too, on every side with fringes, ribbons, tufts, tassels, and gold lace, in the richest manner.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000022_000002.wav|The emperor went on board of it.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000022_000003.wav|He was accompanied by the admirals and vice admirals of the fleet, who were to serve as crew.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000014_000002.wav|There were troops of guards mounted on horseback and splendidly caparisoned-there were bands of music, and heralds, and great officers of state, bearing successively, on cushions ornamented with gold and jewels, the imperial mantle, the globe, the sceptre, and the crown.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000021_000000.wav|A grand ceremony was accordingly arranged for the "consecration of the Little Grandfather." The little vessel was brought in triumph from Moscow to Petersburg, where it was put on board a sort of barge or galliot to be taken to Cronstadt.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000004_000001.wav|This child was now about three years old, but he was of a very weak and sickly constitution, and the Czar watched him with fear and trembling.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000010_000001.wav|In this proclamation peter cited many instances from history in which great sovereigns had raised their consorts to a seat on the throne beside them, and then he recapitulated the great services which Catharine had rendered to him and to the state, which made her peculiarly deserving of such an honor.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000012_000003.wav|The steps of the altar, and all that part of the pavement of the church over which the Czarina would have to walk in the performance of the ceremonies, were covered with rich tapestry embroidered with gold, and the seats on which the bishops and other ecclesiastical dignitaries were to sit were covered with crimson cloth.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000006_000004.wav|The sudden appearance of so many persons, and the boldness of the minister in taking this decided step, made such an impression on the mind of the Czar as to divert his mind for the moment from his grief, and he allowed himself to be led forth and to be persuaded to take some food.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000004_000000.wav|At the time of the death of Alexis the Czar's hopes in respect to a successor fell upon his little son, peter Petrowitz, the child of Catharine, who was born about the time of the death of Alexis's wife, when the difficulties between himself and Alexis were first beginning to assume an alarming form.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000005_000002.wav|In ordinary attacks of this kind Catharine had power to soothe and allay the spasmodic action of the muscles, and gradually release her husband from the terrible gripe of the disease, but now he would not suffer her to come near him.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000010_000005.wav|He therefore declared his intention of joining her with himself in the supreme power, and to celebrate this event by a solemn coronation.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000018_000000.wav|Thus was brought to an end the earthly personal career of peter the Great.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000022_000005.wav|These grand officials were not required, however, to do much hard work at rowing, for there were two shallops provided, manned by strong men, to tow the skiff.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000005_000000.wav|peter was entirely overwhelmed with grief at this new calamity.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000021_000001.wav|All the great officers of state and all the foreign ministers were invited to be present at the consecration. The company embarked on board yachts provided for them, and went down the river following the Little Grandfather, which was borne on its galliot in the van-drums beating, trumpets sounding, and banners waving all the way.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000005_000001.wav|He was seized with the convulsions to which he was subject when under any strong excitement, his face was distorted, and his neck was twisted and stiffened in a most frightful manner.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000022_000004.wav|The admiral stationed himself at the helm to steer, and the vice admirals took the oars.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000007_000006.wav|He finally concluded to leave it in the hands of Catharine herself, and, to prepare the way for this, he resolved to cause her to be solemnly crowned empress during his lifetime.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000022_000000.wav|The next day the whole fleet, which had been collected in the bay for this purpose, was arranged in the form of an amphitheatre.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1226/141279/1226_141279_000019_000000.wav|Notwithstanding the stern severity of Peter's character, the terrible violence of his passions, and the sort of savage grandeur which marked all his great determinations and plans, there was a certain vein of playfulness running through his mind; and, when he was in a jocose or merry humor, no one could be more jocose and merry than he.|1226
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000002.wav|The nature of water is fluidity; it flows without will or intelligence.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000002_000000.wav|Nature is that condition, that reality, which in appearance consists in life and death, or, in other words, in the composition and decomposition of all things.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000011_000004.wav|However perfect the picture may be, in comparison with the painter it is in the utmost degree of imperfection.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000014_000001.wav|Because a characteristic of contingent beings is dependency, and this dependency is an essential necessity, therefore, there must be an independent being whose independence is essential.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000033_000001.wav|If He does not show forth such a holy power, He will not be able to educate, for if He be imperfect, how can He give a perfect education?|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000010_000000.wav|It is certain and indisputable that the creator of man is not like man because a powerless creature cannot create another being.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000005_000000.wav|Now, when you behold in existence such organizations, arrangements and laws, can you say that all these are the effect of Nature, though Nature has neither intelligence nor perception?|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000019_000000.wav|These obvious arguments are adduced for weak souls; but if the inner perception be open, a hundred thousand clear proofs become visible.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000020_000000.wav|three: THE NEED OF AN EDUCATOR|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000010_000001.wav|The maker, the creator, has to possess all perfections in order that he may create.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000017_000001.wav|For instance, this piece of bread proves that it has a maker.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000000.wav|But when you look at Nature itself, you see that it has no intelligence, no will.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000033_000002.wav|If He be ignorant, how can He make others wise?|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000030_000000.wav|He must also impart spiritual education, so that intelligence and comprehension may penetrate the metaphysical world, and may receive benefit from the sanctifying breeze of the Holy Spirit, and may enter into relationship with the Supreme Concourse.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000005.wav|Thus it is clear that the natural movements of all things are compelled; there are no voluntary movements except those of animals and, above all, those of man.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000011_000002.wav|For it is his art and his creation.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000011_000000.wav|Can the creation be perfect and the creator imperfect?|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000022_000001.wav|It is evident, therefore, that the soil needs the cultivation of the farmer.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000028_000000.wav|Now we need an educator who will be at the same time a material, human and spiritual educator, and whose authority will be effective in all conditions.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000032_000001.wav|Can this be done by human power?|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000003.wav|The nature of the sun is radiance; it shines without will or intelligence.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000006_000000.wav|One of the things which has appeared in the world of existence, and which is one of the requirements of Nature, is human life.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000013_000004.wav|In the contingent world there is ignorance; necessarily knowledge exists, because ignorance is found; for if there were no knowledge, neither would there be ignorance.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000033_000004.wav|If He be earthly, how can He make others heavenly?|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000033_000003.wav|If He be unjust, how can He make others just?|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000025_000000.wav|But education is of three kinds: material, human and spiritual.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000017_000000.wav|Throughout the world of existence it is the same; the smallest created thing proves that there is a creator.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000012_000001.wav|The imperfections of the contingent world are in themselves a proof of the perfections of God.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000031_000004.wav|We ought to consider this with justice, for this is the office of justice.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000001.wav|For instance, the nature of fire is to burn; it burns without will or intelligence.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000035_000000.wav|Therefore, it must be our task to prove to the thoughtful by reasonable arguments the prophethood of Moses, of Christ and of the other Divine Manifestations.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000004_000007.wav|For example, he invented the telegraph, which is the means of communication between the East and the West.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000009_000000.wav|One of the proofs and demonstrations of the existence of God is the fact that man did not create himself: nay, his creator and designer is another than himself.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000024_000002.wav|If a man be left alone in a wilderness where he sees none of his own kind, he will undoubtedly become a mere brute; it is then clear that an educator is needed.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000021_000000.wav|When we consider existence, we see that the mineral, vegetable, animal and human worlds are all in need of an educator.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000013_000000.wav|For example, when you look at man, you see that he is weak.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000018_000000.wav|Praise be to God! the least change produced in the form of the smallest thing proves the existence of a creator: then can this great universe, which is endless, be self created and come into existence from the action of matter and the elements?|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000005_000001.wav|If not, it becomes evident that this Nature, which has neither perception nor intelligence, is in the grasp of Almighty God, Who is the Ruler of the world of Nature; whatever He wishes, He causes Nature to manifest.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000022_000000.wav|If the earth is not cultivated, it becomes a jungle where useless weeds grow; but if a cultivator comes and tills the ground, it produces crops which nourish living creatures.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000011_000003.wav|Moreover, the picture cannot be like the painter; otherwise, the painting would have created itself.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000032_000002.wav|No, in the name of God!|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000031_000001.wav|How can one solitary person without help and without support lay the foundations of such a noble construction?|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220951/4734_220951_000022_000003.wav|These are rational proofs; in this age the peoples of the world need the arguments of reason.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000004_000008.wav|See what a power it is that enabled a Man Who was a fugitive from His country to found such a family, to establish such a faith, and to promulgate such teachings.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000013_000004.wav|How is it that a shepherd could acquire all of this knowledge?|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000008_000000.wav|Moses was for a long time a shepherd in the wilderness.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000019_000001.wav|Moreover, He brought to humanity the glad tidings of universal peace, and spread abroad teachings which were not for Israel alone but were for the general happiness of the whole human race.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000010_000001.wav|They were captive; they became free.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000012_000000.wav|Now, how could a Man Who was a stammerer, Who had been brought up in the house of Pharaoh, Who was known among men as a murderer, Who through fear had for a long time remained in concealment, and Who had become a shepherd, establish so great a Cause, when the wisest philosophers on earth have not displayed one thousandth part of this influence?|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000013_000000.wav|A Man Who had a stammering tongue, Who could not even converse correctly, succeeded in sustaining this great Cause!|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000018_000001.wav|Moreover, in the days of Christ the morals of the whole world and the condition of the Israelites had become completely confused and corrupted, and Israel had fallen into a state of the utmost degradation, misery and bondage.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000002_000002.wav|Alone and without help He resisted a powerful tribe, a task which is neither simple nor easy.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000019_000000.wav|This young Man, Christ, by the help of a supernatural power, abrogated the ancient Mosaic Law, reformed the general morals, and once again laid the foundation of eternal glory for the Israelites.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000017_000000.wav|Afterward Christ came, saying, "I am born of the Holy Spirit." Though it is now easy for the Christians to believe this assertion, at that time it was very difficult.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000007_000000.wav|five: MOSES|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000004_000004.wav|In consequence of His exile a Moses and a being like Christ were manifested from His posterity, and Hagar was found from whom Ishmael was born, one of whose descendants was Muhammad.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000004_000010.wav|We must be just: was this Man an Educator or not?|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000003_000002.wav|In reality they banished Him in order that He might be crushed and destroyed, and that no trace of Him might be left.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000012_000001.wav|This is indeed a prodigy.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000001_000000.wav|four: ABRAHAM|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000020_000002.wav|At last they crowned Him with the crown of thorns and crucified Him.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000004_000006.wav|And so it will continue for ever and ever.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000004_000003.wav|As a result the teachings of Abraham were spread abroad, a Jacob appeared among His posterity, and a Joseph who became ruler in Egypt.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000010_000000.wav|This people from the depths of degradation were lifted up to the height of glory.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000021_000000.wav|But this is opposed to all the rules of human reason.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000016_000000.wav|six: CHRIST|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000011_000002.wav|Later the people of Greece rose in opposition to him, accused him of impiety, arraigned him before the Areopagus, and condemned him to death by poison.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000020_000001.wav|To all outward appearances they overcame Him and brought Him into direst distress.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000018_000000.wav|Briefly, this Man, Who, apparently, and in the eyes of all, was lowly, arose with such great power that He abolished a religion that had lasted fifteen hundred years, at a time when the slightest deviation from it exposed the offender to danger or to death.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000002_000001.wav|He opposed His own nation and people, and even His own family, by rejecting all their gods.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000010_000002.wav|They were the most ignorant of peoples; they became the most wise.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000014_000001.wav|To prevent an act of cruelty, Moses struck down an Egyptian and afterward became known among men as a murderer, more notably because the man He had killed was of the ruling nation.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000014_000002.wav|Then He fled, and it was after that that He was raised to the rank of a Prophet!|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000013_000005.wav|It is beyond doubt that He must have been assisted by an omnipotent power.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000014_000000.wav|Consider also what trials and difficulties arise for people.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4734/220952/4734_220952_000009_000000.wav|It was such a Man as this that freed a great nation from the chains of captivity, made them contented, brought them out from Egypt, and led them to the Holy Land.|4734
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000012_000014.wav|A great number of fine and capable persons must be failing to develop, failing to tell, under the shadow of this too prepotent monarchy.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000010_000001.wav|She will be an Ireland without emigration, a place for famines.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000015_000000.wav|Moreover, before Germany can unify to the East she must fight the Russian, and to unify to the West she must fight the French and perhaps the English, and she may have to fight a combination of these powers.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000012_000022.wav|That, after all, is the vital question, and not whether her policy is wise or foolish, or her commercial development inflated or sound.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000015_000011.wav|She will fight for Switzerland or Luxembourg, or the mouth of the Rhine.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000008_000002.wav|These are all deliberate and justifiable suggestions, and they all aim to sacrifice minor differences in order to link like to like in greater matters, and so secure, if not physical predominance in the world, at least an effective defensive strength for their racial, moral, customary, or linguistic differences against the aggressions of other possible coalescences.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000012_000010.wav|The intellectual development of the Germans is defined to a very large extent by a court directed officialdom.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000006_000005.wav|Against all these old isolations, these obsolescent particularisms, the forces of mechanical and scientific development fight, and fight irresistibly; and upon the general recognition of this conflict, upon the intelligence and courage with which its inflexible conditions are negotiated, depends very largely the amount of bloodshed and avoidable misery the coming years will hold.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000006_000003.wav|The nations and boundaries of to day do no more than mark claims to exemptions, privileges, and corners in the market-claims valid enough to those whose minds and souls are turned towards the past, but absurdities to those who look to the future as the end and justification of our present stresses.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000015_000002.wav|Upon this matter m Bloch should be read.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000005_000000.wav|THE LARGER SYNTHESIS|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000008_000001.wav|Under the outrageous treatment of the white peoples an idea of unifying the "Yellow" peoples is pretty certain to become audibly and visibly operative before many years.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000008_000000.wav|Already the need of some synthesis at least ampler than existing national organizations is so apparent in the world, that at least five spacious movements of coalescence exist to day; there is the movement called Anglo Saxonism, the allied but finally very different movement of British Imperialism, the Pan Germanic movement, Pan Slavism, and the conception of a great union of the "Latin" peoples.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000007_000002.wav|We may cherish animosities, we may declare imperishable distances, we may plot and counter plot, make war and "fight to a finish;" the net tightens for all that.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000009_000004.wav|Its realization is enormously hampered by the division of its languages, and the fact that in the Bohemian language, in Polish and in Russian, there exist distinct literatures, almost equally splendid in achievement, but equally insufficient in quantity and range to establish a claim to replace all other Slavonic dialects.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000011_000000.wav|So much for the Pan Slavic synthesis.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000008_000007.wav|The greater the social organism the more complex and varied its parts, the more intricate and varied the interplay of culture and breed and character within it.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000015_000012.wav|She will fight with the gravity of remembered humiliations, with the whole awakened Slav race at the back of her antagonist, and very probably with the support of the English speaking peoples.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000017_000004.wav|Europe will have her Irelands as well as her Scotlands, her Irelands of unforgettable wrongs, kicking, squalling, bawling most desolatingly, for nothing that any one can understand. There will be great scope for the shareholding dilettanti, great opportunities for literary quacks, in "national" movements, language leagues, picturesque plotting, and the invention of such "national" costumes as the world has never seen.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000006_000000.wav|We have seen that the essential process arising out of the growth of science and mechanism, and more particularly out of the still developing new facilities of locomotion and communication science has afforded, is the deliquescence of the social organizations of the past, and the synthesis of ampler and still ampler and more complicated and still more complicated social unities.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/85685/2929_85685_000006_000004.wav|The claim to political liberty amounts, as a rule, to no more than the claim of a man to live in a parish without observing sanitary precautions or paying rates because he had an excellent great grandfather.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000022_000000.wav|"I do."|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000026_000005.wav|Perhaps my heart was weaker than the hearts of most men, and I suffered more than they would have done in my place; that is all." The countess stopped for a moment, as if gasping for breath.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000009_000000.wav|A long silence followed; the peach, like the grapes, fell to the ground.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000017_000000.wav|"My present happiness equals my past misery," said the count.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000031_000000.wav|"Yes; Malta."|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000050_000001.wav|"Do not my mother and you agree?" asked Albert, astonished.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000012_000004.wav|And they walked on again.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000033_000000.wav|"I think so."|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000049_000000.wav|"We are friends; are we not?" she asked.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000029_000000.wav|"I never returned to the country where she lived."|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000006.wav|Monte Cristo remained as unmoved as if the reproach had not been addressed to him.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000050_000000.wav|"Oh, madame, I do not presume to call myself your friend, but at all times I am your most respectful servant." The countess left with an indescribable pang in her heart, and before she had taken ten steps the count saw her raise her handkerchief to her eyes.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000028_000000.wav|"Never?"|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000008_000003.wav|"Take this peach, then," she said.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000018_000000.wav|"Are you not married?" asked the countess.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000007_000004.wav|"Pray excuse me, madame," replied Monte Cristo, "but I never eat Muscatel grapes."|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000015_000000.wav|"Doubtless," replied the count, "since no one hears me complain."|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000016_000000.wav|"And your present happiness, has it softened your heart?"|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000023_000000.wav|"You have no sister-no son-no father?"|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000018_000001.wav|"I, married?" exclaimed Monte Cristo, shuddering; "who could have told you so?"|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000048_000000.wav|"Albert, Albert," said Madame de Morcerf, in a tone of mild reproof, "what are you saying?|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000000_000001.wav|Bread and Salt.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000024_000000.wav|"I have no one."|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000007_000001.wav|They reached the building, ornamented with magnificent fruits, which ripen at the beginning of July in the artificial temperature which takes the place of the sun, so frequently absent in our climate.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000003_000001.wav|"But you," he said, "with that light dress, and without anything to cover you but that gauze scarf, perhaps you feel cold?"|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000020_000000.wav|"She is a slave whom I bought at Constantinople, madame, the daughter of a prince.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000004_000000.wav|"Do you know where I am leading you?" said the countess, without replying to the question.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000011_000000.wav|"But," said the countess, breathlessly, with her eyes fixed on Monte Cristo, whose arm she convulsively pressed with both hands, "we are friends, are we not?"|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000038_000000.wav|"What?|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000002.wav|The countess placed herself before Monte Cristo, still holding in her hand a portion of the perfumed grapes.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000051_000000.wav|"On the contrary," replied the count, "did you not hear her declare that we were friends?"|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000008.wav|"Oh, mother," he exclaimed, "such a misfortune has happened!"|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000051_000001.wav|They re-entered the drawing room, which Valentine and Madame de Villefort had just quitted.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000007.wav|Albert at this moment ran in.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000027_000000.wav|"Never."|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000046_000000.wav|"Ah, indeed?"|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000012_000003.wav|"Thank you," she said.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000038_000001.wav|What has happened?" asked the countess, as though awakening from a sleep to the realities of life; "did you say a misfortune?|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000007_000000.wav|The count looked at Mercedes as if to interrogate her, but she continued to walk on in silence, and he refrained from speaking.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000026_000004.wav|This is the history of most men who have passed twenty years of age.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000032_000000.wav|"She is, then, now at Malta?"|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000008_000002.wav|Mercedes drew near, and plucked the fruit.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000026_000002.wav|I thought she loved me well enough to wait for me, and even to remain faithful to my memory.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000005_000000.wav|"No, madame," replied Monte Cristo; "but you see I make no resistance."|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000038_000002.wav|Indeed, I should expect misfortunes."|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000035_000000.wav|"Her,--yes."|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000012_000000.wav|The count became pale as death, the blood rushed to his heart, and then again rising, dyed his cheeks with crimson; his eyes swam like those of a man suddenly dazzled.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000000.wav|"I hate them?|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000003.wav|"Take some," she said.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000037_000004.wav|"Madame, I never eat Muscatel grapes," replied Monte Cristo, as if the subject had not been mentioned before. The countess dashed the grapes into the nearest thicket, with a gesture of despair.|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2929/86777/2929_86777_000030_000000.wav|"To Malta?"|2929
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000051_000000.wav|"Well," said I, "I trust we shall not fall in with him again.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000013_000000.wav|I may as well state here, that for the economisation of space the buoy for floating out anchor was an india rubber ball, made of the same materials as an ordinary air cushion, and distended in the same way. This was enclosed in a strong net of three strand sinnet, which net was attached to the buoy rope.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000027_000000.wav|She was not a large vessel; about two hundred tons or thereabouts, apparently; painted all black down to her copper, excepting a narrow red ribbon which marked the line of her sheer.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000064_000000.wav|We sat long over this one, therefore, prolonging it to its utmost extent; and when it was over, we both turned to and cleared up the wreck.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000025_000007.wav|Jump up, Harry; quick, boy! we are in a mess here, and no mistake.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000002_000000.wav|We stood on to the southward and westward during the remainder of that day, the wind continuing still to freshen, and the sea getting up with most fearful rapidity.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000033_000001.wav|"Honest going merchant ships ain't so plaguy careful of their spars as that chap-leastways, not such small fry as he is.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000028_000000.wav|She was hove to on the port tack under a storm staysail, and her topgallant masts were down on deck.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000037_000001.wav|"Our bit of a windlass and the mast breaks the force of it before it reaches the skylight.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000025_000006.wav|Now, what lubber comes here with his eyes sealed up instead of looking before him?|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000009_000000.wav|This floating anchor I will describe for the benefit of those who may not have seen such a thing, for it is a most useful affair, and no small craft should undertake a long cruise without one.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000045_000000.wav|But he was quite of my opinion.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000005_000000.wav|Bob stood by my side watching the wild scene I have so feebly described, and as the sun disappeared, he turned to me and remarked:|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000094_000000.wav|About four p.m.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000060_000000.wav|It looked half inclined to break away two or three times during the morning; but as mid day approached it became as bad as ever, and I had the vexation of seeing noon pass by without so much as a momentary glimpse of the sun|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000001_000000.wav|A CAPE HORN GALE.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000037_000000.wav|"Never fear," returned Bob confidently.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000077_000000.wav|She was fearfully close, but appeared to be at the moment sheering away from us.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000011_000000.wav|As soon as the bars were spread open, and the swifter passed and set up, a square sheet of the stoutest canvas, painted, was spread over them, the edges laced to the swifter with a stout lacing, and the crowfoot toggled through the intermediate holes in the bars and corresponding holes in the canvas.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000067_000000.wav|"Look here, Harry; what d'ye think of this?"|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000083_000001.wav|She rolled completely bottom upwards, and then disappeared.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000061_000001.wav|There was nothing in sight, and with this I was obliged to rest satisfied.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000063_000000.wav|We had found the day dreadfully tedious, cooped up as we were in our low cabin, and a meal was a most welcome break in the monotony.|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5776/46889/5776_46889_000006_000000.wav|"My eyes, Harry! what d'ye think of that, lad?|5776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000000.wav|We have named it Cain.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000010_000000.wav|Next Year|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000005.wav|She asked me if I had made one just at the time of the catastrophe.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000010.wav|Sometimes she carries the fish in her arms half the night when it complains and wants to get to the water.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000003.wav|That is what she thinks, but this is an error, in my judgment.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000011.wav|At such times the water comes out of the places in her face that she looks out of, and she pats the fish on the back and makes soft sounds with her mouth to soothe it, and betrays sorrow and solicitude in a hundred ways.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000004.wav|I turned pale at that, for I have made many jokes to pass the weary time, and some of them could have been of that sort, though I had honestly supposed that they were new when I made them.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000000.wav|I have had a variegated time.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000003.wav|I knew what it meant-Eve had eaten that fruit, and death was come into the world....|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000006.wav|Found me out, and has named the place Tonawanda-says it looks like that.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000002.wav|I said I was innocent, then, for I had not eaten any chestnuts.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000005.wav|I found this place, outside the Park, and was fairly comfortable for a few days, but she has found me out.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000005.wav|I still think it is a fish, but she is indifferent about what it is, and will not let me have it to try.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000006_000000.wav|Wednesday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000001.wav|I escaped that night, and rode a horse all night as fast as he could go, hoping to get clear out of the Park and hide in some other country before the trouble should begin; but it was not to be.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000015.wav|She did it, and after this we crept down to where the wild beast battle had been, and collected some skins, and I made her patch together a couple of suits proper for public occasions.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000008.wav|I was obliged to eat them, I was so hungry.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000001.wav|She says, with apparent sincerity and truth, that the Serpent assured her that the forbidden fruit was not apples, it was chestnuts.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000016.wav|They are uncomfortable, it is true, but stylish, and that is the main point about clothes. ...|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000013.wav|She used to carry the young tigers around so, and play with them, before we lost our property; but it was only play; she never took on about them like this when their dinner disagreed with them.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000007_000020.wav|I will superintend.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000000.wav|She accuses me of being the cause of our disaster!|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000007.wav|It was this.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000009.wav|Her mind is disordered-everything shows it.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000009_000003.wav|She said the Serpent informed her that "chestnut" was a figurative term meaning an aged and mouldy joke.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130227/272_130227_000011_000006.wav|I do not understand this.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000013_000004.wav|Blessed be the chestnut that brought us near together and taught me to know the goodness of her heart and the sweetness of her spirit!|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000005_000002.wav|It has no tail yet.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000005_000004.wav|I have moved out.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000004_000000.wav|A Fortnight Later|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000005_000001.wav|There is no danger yet; it has only one tooth.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000001_000007.wav|I wanted to let it go, but she wouldn't hear of it.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000012_000000.wav|Ten Years Later|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000011_000004.wav|I shall be astonished if it turns out to be a new kind of parrot, and yet I ought not to be astonished, for it has already been everything else it could think of, since those first days when it was a fish.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000003_000000.wav|It is not a kangaroo.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000006_000000.wav|Four Months Later|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000007_000003.wav|This resemblance to words may be purely accidental, of course, and may have no purpose or meaning; but even in that case it is still extraordinary, and is a thing which no other bear can do.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000003_000004.wav|Bears are dangerous-since our catastrophe-and I shall not be satisfied to have this one prowling about the place much longer without a muzzle on.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000001_000008.wav|That seemed cruel and not like her; and yet she may be right.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000011_000001.wav|I was going to stuff one of them for my collection, but she is prejudiced against it for some reason or other; so I have relinquished the idea, though I think it is a mistake.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000003_000006.wav|She was not like this before she lost her mind.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000013_000000.wav|They are boys; we found it out long ago.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000011_000002.wav|It would be an irreparable loss to science if they should get away.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000005_000000.wav|I examined its mouth.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000001_000009.wav|It might be lonelier than ever; for since I cannot find another one, how could it?|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000003_000002.wav|It is probably some kind of a bear; and yet it has no tail-as yet-and no fur, except on its head.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000007_000001.wav|Meantime the bear has learned to paddle around all by itself on its hind legs, and says "poppa" and "momma."|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000003_000001.wav|No, for it supports itself by holding to her finger, and thus goes a few steps on its hind legs, and then falls down.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000001_000001.wav|I never knew one to be so long getting its growth. It has fur on its head now; not like kangaroo fur, but exactly like our hair, except that it is much finer and softer, and instead of being black is red.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000001_000005.wav|If I could tame it-but that is out of the question; the more I try, the worse I seem to make it.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000003_000005.wav|I have offered to get her a kangaroo if she would let this one go, but it did no good-she is determined to run us into all sorts of foolish risks, I think.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000011_000003.wav|The old one is tamer than it was, and can laugh and talk like the parrot, having learned this, no doubt, from being with the parrot so much, and having the imitative faculty in a highly developed degree.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000011_000006.wav|She calls it Abel.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000001_000000.wav|The kangaroo still continues to grow, which is very strange and perplexing.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130229/272_130229_000005_000003.wav|It makes more noise now than it ever did before-and mainly at night.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000012_000006.wav|And this new sound is so close to me; it is right at my shoulder, right at my ear, first on one side and then on the other, and I am used only to sounds that are more or less distant from me.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000001.wav|We are going to run short, most likely.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000002.wav|"We" again-that is its word; mine too, now, from hearing it so much.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000007_000000.wav|Monday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000022_000001.wav|That is all right, I have no objections.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000012_000003.wav|I wish it would not talk; it is always talking.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000008_000001.wav|I don't like this; I am not used to company.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000003.wav|Says it looks like Niagara Falls.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000000.wav|The new creature eats too much fruit.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000003.wav|Good deal of fog this morning.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000003_000000.wav|EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000013_000000.wav|Friday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000014_000002.wav|Privately, I continue to call it that, but not any longer publicly.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000012_000000.wav|Built me a shelter against the rain, but could not have it to myself in peace.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000020_000003.wav|This morning found the new creature trying to clod apples out of that forbidden tree.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000004.wav|I do not go out in the fog myself.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000014_000005.wav|This is sufficiently high handed, it seems to me.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000021_000000.wav|Monday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000014_000001.wav|I had a very good name for the estate, and it was musical and pretty --GARDEN OF EDEN.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000020_000002.wav|I already had six of them per week, before.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000006.wav|The new creature names everything that comes along, before I can get in a protest.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000022_000005.wav|This is probably doubtful; yet it is all one to me; what she is were nothing to me if she would but go by herself and not talk.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000014_000003.wav|The new creature says it is all woods and rocks and scenery, and therefore has no resemblance to a garden. Says it looks like a park, and does not look like anything but a park.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000002.wav|The new creature calls it Niagara Falls-why, I am sure I do not know.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000009_000000.wav|Tuesday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000006_000001.wav|Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam's hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication.--M.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000020_000001.wav|This day is getting to be more and more trying. It was selected and set apart last November as a day of rest.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000022_000003.wav|The word evidently raised me in its respect; and indeed it is a large, good word, and will bear repetition.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000012_000005.wav|I have never heard the human voice before, and any new and strange sound intruding itself here upon the solemn hush of these dreaming solitudes offends my ear and seems a false note.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000019_000000.wav|Sunday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000001.wav|It is the finest thing on the estate, I think.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000012_000004.wav|That sounds like a cheap fling at the poor creature, a slur; but I do not mean it so.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000020_000000.wav|Pulled through.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000008_000005.wav|I remember now --the new creature uses it.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000005.wav|The new creature does.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000005_000000.wav|by Mark Twain|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000007.wav|And always that same pretext is offered-it looks like the thing.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000000_000000.wav|This is a LibriVox recording.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000008_000004.wav|Where did I get that word?...|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000022_000002.wav|Says it is to call it by when I want it to come. I said it was superfluous, then.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000011.wav|Dodo!|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000011_000000.wav|Wednesday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000009.wav|Says the moment one looks at it one sees at a glance that it "looks like a dodo." It will have to keep that name, no doubt.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000008_000002.wav|I wish it would stay with the other animals.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000012.wav|It looks no more like a dodo than I do.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000015_000000.wav|KEEP OFF THE GRASS|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000022_000004.wav|It says it is not an It, it is a She.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000010_000005.wav|I get no chance to name anything myself.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000022_000000.wav|The new creature says its name is Eve.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000012_000001.wav|The new creature intruded.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000017_000000.wav|Saturday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000018_000007.wav|And talks. It used to be so pleasant and quiet here.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000006_000002.wav|T.]|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000014_000004.wav|Consequently, without consulting me, it has been new named --NIAGARA FALLS PARK.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130225/272_130225_000016_000000.wav|My life is not as happy as it was.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000004.wav|She said nobody was looking.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000016_000001.wav|This is at least doubtful, if not more than that.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000021_000000.wav|Tuesday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000016_000003.wav|She is in much trouble about the buzzard; says grass does not agree with it; is afraid she can't raise it; thinks it was intended to live on decayed flesh.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000005_000002.wav|What is a summer resort?|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000022_000000.wav|She has taken up with a snake now.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000008_000002.wav|Swam the Whirlpool and the Rapids in a fig leaf suit.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000022_000001.wav|The other animals are glad, for she was always experimenting with them and bothering them; and I am glad, because the snake talks, and this enables me to get a rest.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000009_000000.wav|Saturday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000024_000002.wav|That was a mistake-it had been better to keep the remark to myself; it only gave her an idea-she could save the sick buzzard, and furnish fresh meat to the despondent lions and tigers.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000002.wav|Says it makes her shudder.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000008_000001.wav|Went over in a tub-still not satisfactory.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000006.wav|Told her that. The word justification moved her admiration-and envy too, I thought.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000008_000000.wav|I went over the Falls in a barrel-not satisfactory to her.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000005_000003.wav|But it is best not to ask her, she has such a rage for explaining.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000024_000000.wav|She says the snake advises her to try the fruit of that tree, and says the result will be a great and fine and noble education.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000016_000004.wav|The buzzard must get along the best it can with what is provided.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000002_000000.wav|THIS WAY TO THE WHIRLPOOL.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000019_000000.wav|Sunday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000018_000003.wav|When night comes I shall throw them out doors.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000011_000000.wav|Sunday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000016_000002.wav|I have not missed any rib....|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000002.wav|She has been climbing that tree again.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000016_000000.wav|She told me she was made out of a rib taken from my body.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000016_000005.wav|We cannot overturn the whole scheme to accommodate the buzzard.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000012_000000.wav|Pulled through.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000001_000000.wav|She has littered the whole estate with execrable names and offensive signs:|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000003.wav|Clodded her out of it.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000013_000000.wav|Monday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000024_000005.wav|I foresee trouble.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000023_000000.wav|Friday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000024_000006.wav|Will emigrate.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000001.wav|What harm does it do?|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000017_000000.wav|Saturday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000008_000003.wav|It got much damaged.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000006.wav|They have no other use that I can see, and they must have been made for something.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000003_000000.wav|THIS WAY TO GOAT ISLAND.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000000.wav|She has taken to beseeching me to stop going over the Falls.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000005.wav|Seems to consider that a sufficient justification for chancing any dangerous thing.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000008_000004.wav|Hence, tedious complaints about my extravagance.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000005_000001.wav|Summer resort-another invention of hers-just words, without any meaning.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000000_000000.wav|Tuesday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000015_000000.wav|Thursday|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000007.wav|She says they were only made for scenery-like the rhinoceros and the mastodon.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000010_000001.wav|She engages herself in many foolish things: among others, trying to study out why the animals called lions and tigers live on grass and flowers, when, as she says, the sort of teeth they wear would indicate that they were intended to eat each other.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000005_000000.wav|She says this park would make a tidy summer resort, if there was any custom for it.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000001.wav|It seems a good idea....|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000010_000002.wav|This is foolish, because to do that would be to kill each other, and that would introduce what, as I understand it, is called "death;" and death, as I have been told, has not yet entered the Park.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000024_000001.wav|I told her there would be another result, too-it would introduce death into the world.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000014_000007.wav|It is a good word.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/272/130226/272_130226_000007_000003.wav|I wonder why.|272
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000019_000001.wav|I saw a squaw looking at you and saying 'heap dam dood,' so if you want to keep your station in society you've got to dance." Haskins was again worrying them.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000022_000000.wav|George went and invited her to be his partner.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000040_000002.wav|No-the question was too serious.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000006_000002.wav|The three friends crowded into the room and stood with their backs against the wall.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000034_000000.wav|"Too much police-too much law and order; you can never have a real live mining camp in Canada."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000013_000000.wav|"On the next!"--again brought the men facing outwards, the ladies inwards-and so on.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000040_000004.wav|He felt called upon to answer,|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000026_000000.wav|The squaw in the corner was keeping her eye on George with evident dislike.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000044_000002.wav|Now, say!|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000050_000001.wav|The Bible says there is a God; and God sees best not to explain His schemes and why He makes man and animals suffer.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000008_000000.wav|"A la main left." All stood to attention.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000026_000001.wav|As john noticed this he recommended their departure; so George and he went back to bed.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000021_000001.wav|She it was who had said "Heap dam dood."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000027_000001.wav|Well-you'll get the worst of it.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000041_000000.wav|"Yes, I do."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000010_000001.wav|This movement brought them opposite, and so they were in a circle, at which they balanced, the men facing outwards, the women inwards.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000050_000000.wav|"The Bible tells a story of the origin of man, which we may or may not believe.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000009_000001.wav|The ladies turned to the right.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000052_000000.wav|"Say! stranger, when I first saw you I sized you up along with the Siwashes as a 'heap dam dood,' though I didn't like to say it serious like; but that's a pretty good talk of yours, and, sure, sounds natural.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000015_000001.wav|The music was weird and discordant.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000037_000000.wav|Frank chuckled; and then, as the prospect of an international argument did not seem good, went on another tack.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000003_000001.wav|Then dance!|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000014_000000.wav|"Promenade all Around the hall, And seat your ladies at the ball."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000020_000001.wav|Who will I ask to dance?" George was ready.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000046_000000.wav|Frank Corte was working at his bread again, his face twitching with a smile.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000006_000001.wav|Squaws, who had not yet learned the dance, sat on boxes.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000016_000000.wav|"Say! why don't you fellows get in and dance?"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000045_000006.wav|He did not know what to say; he said nothing.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000004_000002.wav|On went the dance; and through the atmosphere-thick with tobacco smoke-the native women were guided, their bronzed faces speaking excitement.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000045_000001.wav|He had, it is true, discussed doctrine at college with his class mates.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000011_000000.wav|"On to the next!"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000008_000001.wav|"First gent swing the left hand lady, with the left hand round."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000003_000000.wav|"Are you all set?|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000043_000000.wav|"Well, partner, I don't.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000020_000000.wav|"All right.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000051_000000.wav|john paused, and would have added something; but Frank, his face half flushed in confusion, his voice less rasping than usual, broke in,|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000048_000000.wav|Frank Corte returned to the kneading, while john Berwick thoughtfully watched the sun flooded landscape.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/61356/5968_61356_000002_000000.wav|THE DANCE|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000015_000001.wav|It is, I suppose, the restless nature of the devil that is in me; but, be it what it may, I will speak to you, but to you only, for the present, at least, to you alone."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000005_000000.wav|We must now follow mr Marston in his solitary expedition to Chester. When he took his place in the stagecoach he had the whole interior of the vehicle to himself, and thus continued to be its solitary occupant for several miles.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000032_000000.wav|The doctor bowed with a still deeper inclination, and paused for a continuance of the communication thus auspiciously commenced.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000013_000006.wav|I recollected myself before I had disclosed the grotesque and infernal chimera that haunts me."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000006_000000.wav|The journey, though in point of space a mere trifle, was, in those slowcoach days, a matter of fully five hours' duration; and before it was completed the sun had set, and darkness began to close.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000022_000003.wav|The sense of solitude under this aggressive and tremendous delusion was agony, hourly death to my soul.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000027_000001.wav|Well, we shall see."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000023_000001.wav|A few minutes more, and the coach having reached its destination, they bid one another farewell, and parted.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000011_000003.wav|My mind; sir, is beginning to play me tricks; my guide mocks and terrifies me."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000020_000002.wav|Sir, this is a monstrous and hideous extravagance, a delusion, but, after all, no more than a trick of the imagination; the reason, the judgment, is untouched.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000006_000001.wav|Whether it was that the descending twilight dispelled the painful constraint under which Marston had seemed to labor, or that some more purely spiritual and genial influence had gradually dissipated the repulsion and distrust with which, at first, he had shrunk from a renewal of intercourse with dr Danvers, he suddenly accosted him thus.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000013_000005.wav|I kept my pleasant secret for a long time, but at last I let it slip, and committed myself fortunately, to but one person, and that my daughter; and, even so, I hardly think she understood me.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000013_000003.wav|I do not think any mortal suspects it, except, maybe, my daughter Rhoda.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000013_000002.wav|It comes at intervals.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000011_000002.wav|It is a fear of nothing mortal, but of the immortal tenant of this body.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000019_000000.wav|"No, sir, there is no comfort from that quarter either," said Marston, bitterly; "you but cast your seeds, as the parable terms your teaching, upon the barren sea, in wasting them on me.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000022_000000.wav|"It must seem strange to you, Doctor, that I should trust this cursed secret to your keeping," he said; "and, truth to say, it seems so to myself.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000017_000000.wav|"The human mind, I take it, must have either comfort in the past or hope in the future," he continued, "otherwise it is in danger.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000013_000000.wav|"You are a gentleman, sir, and a Christian clergyman; what I have said and shall say is confided to your honor; to be held sacred as the confession of misery, and hidden from the coarse gaze of the world.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000026_000000.wav|"No, sir," replied the man; "he is in the study, sir."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000037_000000.wav|"Can you," said Marston, with the same slow and stern articulation, and after a considerable pause-"can you prevent the malady you profess to cure?--can you meet and defeat the enemy halfway?--can you scare away the spirit of madness before it takes actual possession, and while it is still only hovering about its threatened victim?"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000035_000000.wav|"Doctor," demanded Marston, fixing his eye upon him sternly, and significantly tapping his own forehead, "can you stay execution?"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000036_000000.wav|The physician looked puzzled, hesitated, and at last requested his visitor to be more explicit.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000005_000001.wav|The coach, however, was eventually hailed, brought to, and the door being opened, dr Danvers got in, and took his place opposite to the passenger already established there.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000014_000002.wav|A silence ensued, which was interrupted by Marston, who once more resumed.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000011_000001.wav|I did not define it, nor do I think you suspect its nature.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000034_000000.wav|"Your most obedient, humble servant, sir," replied he, with the polite formality of the day, and another grave bow.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000010_000000.wav|He put the question with obvious difficulty, and at last seemed to overcome his own reluctance with a sort of angry and excited self contempt and impatience.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000021_000000.wav|They were now entering the suburbs of Chester, and Doctor Danvers, pained and shocked beyond measure by this unlooked for disclosure, and not knowing what remark or comfort to offer, relieved his temporary embarrassment by looking from the window, as though attracted by the flash of the lamps, among which the vehicle was now moving.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000013_000004.wav|It comes and disappears, and comes again.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000005_000004.wav|Embarrassing as each felt the situation to be, there was, however, no avoiding it, and, after a recognition and a few forced attempts at conversation, they became, by mutual consent, silent and uncommunicative.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000025_000000.wav|"A gentleman," he repeated; "you have seen him before-eh?"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000012_000000.wav|There was a perceptible tinge of horror in the look of astonishment with which dr Danvers listened.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000014_000001.wav|He was stooped forward, and looking upon the floor of the vehicle, so that his companion could not see his countenance.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000027_000000.wav|"Ha! a professional call.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000024_000001.wav|It was about the second day after the conversation we have just sketched, that this little gentleman, having visited, according to his custom, all his domestic patients, was about to take his accustomed walk in his somewhat restricted pleasure grounds, when his servant announced a visitor.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000020_000003.wav|I cannot choose but see all the damned phantasmagoria, but I do not believe it real, and this is the difference between my case and-and-madness!"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000031_000000.wav|"My name, sir, is Marston; I have come to give you a patient."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000022_000004.wav|That is the secret of my talkativeness; my sole excuse for plaguing you with the dreams of a wretched hypochondriac."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000009_000000.wav|"Pray, Doctor Danvers, have you heard any stories of an odd kind; any surmises-I don't mean of a moral sort, for those I hold very cheap-to my prejudice?|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000001_000001.wav|Marston's manner was changed towards her; he seemed shy, cowed, and uneasy in her presence, and thenceforth she saw less than ever of him.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000007_000000.wav|"dr Danvers, I have been fifty times on the point of speaking to you-confidentially of course-while sitting here opposite to you, what I believe I could scarcely bring myself to hint to any other man living; yet I must tell it, and soon, too, or I fear it will have told itself."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/71320/5968_71320_000014_000000.wav|Marston paused.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000048_000000.wav|"You see," explained Bertram, jauntily, to Arkwright, whose eyes were slightly puzzled, "Cyril never plays unless the piano and the pedals and the weather and your ears and my watch and his fingers are just right!"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000025_000005.wav|Oh, it was so funny!"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000049_000001.wav|"I don't feel like playing to night; that's all."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000045_000000.wav|Bertram twinkled and glanced at Billy.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000031_000000.wav|"Yes."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000055_000001.wav|"Can you-without your notes?|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000058_000000.wav|Cyril's chin had lifted at the first tone.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000024_000000.wav|Billy began to laugh again, yet she was plainly trying to control herself.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000025_000001.wav|I must tell you.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000008_000003.wav|He's expected always to remove her quietly but effectually, whenever he sees that she is likely to interrupt a tete a tete.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000058_000006.wav|She seemed scarcely to move or to breathe till the song's completion; then there came a low "Oh, how beautiful!" through her parted lips.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000011_000000.wav|"All you can stand?"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000043_000000.wav|After dinner somebody suggested music.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000073_000001.wav|Oh, yes, he sings all right," said Bertram's tongue.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000063_000003.wav|Next followed a duet.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000019_000000.wav|Three masculine forms sat suddenly erect.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000036_000000.wav|"But, see here, Billy, he isn't going to live here-now?" Bertram's voice was almost savage.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000066_000000.wav|At this point the duet came to an end, and Billy and her guest left the piano.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000039_000001.wav|The situation, for a moment, threatened embarrassed misery for all concerned; but Arkwright, with a cheery smile, advanced straight toward Bertram, and held out a friendly hand.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000071_000002.wav|What an absurd name!"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000051_000000.wav|"I see," bowed Arkwright with quiet amusement.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000052_000000.wav|"I believe-mr|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000038_000000.wav|"mr--Arkwright!" breathed Billy, confusedly.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000063_000004.wav|Billy did not consider herself much of a singer, but her voice was sweet and true, and not without training. It blended very prettily with the clear, pure tenor.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000067_000000.wav|William went home then, and Aunt Hannah went up stairs.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000041_000000.wav|Naturally, after this, there could be nothing stiff or embarrassing. Billy laughed in relief, and motioned mr Arkwright to a seat near her. William said "Of course, of course!" and shook hands again.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000035_000000.wav|"Joke!" scoffed Cyril.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000056_000000.wav|For a moment-but only a moment-Arkwright hesitated; then he rose and went to the piano.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000054_000000.wav|Everybody laughed.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000049_000000.wav|"Nonsense!" scorned Cyril, dropping his book and walking back to his chair.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000050_000000.wav|"You see," nodded Bertram again.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000060_000001.wav|"I wish I could sing like that!"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000070_000000.wav|Bertram wished then he had not asked the question; but all he said was:|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000072_000000.wav|"But doesn't he sing beautifully?"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000014_000000.wav|Billy dropped her hands and lifted her head.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000063_000002.wav|Then came Nevin again, Billy still playing the accompaniment.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000071_000000.wav|"'mr|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000004_000001.wav|Billy wished, sometimes, that she did not so often seem to Bertram-a picture.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000009_000001.wav|She dropped into a chair and raised both her hands, palms outward.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000005_000000.wav|She turned to Cyril with outstretched hand.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000068_000000.wav|"Billy, how long does it take-to learn to sing?"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000044_000000.wav|Cyril frowned, and got up abruptly.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000010_000001.wav|I've had all I can stand, already."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000025_000000.wav|"I'll tell you.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000058_000001.wav|He was listening now with very obvious pleasure.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000058_000002.wav|Bertram, too, was showing by his attitude the keenest appreciation.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000034_000001.wav|He thought it was too good a joke."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000059_000000.wav|Bertram, looking at her, was conscious of a vague irritation.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000013_000001.wav|This last was from Bertram, spoken softly, and with a hurried glance toward the hall.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000037_000000.wav|"Oh, no, he isn't going to live here-now," interposed smooth tones from the doorway.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000062_000002.wav|There, here it is.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000012_000000.wav|"What do you mean?"|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000014_000001.wav|By heroic effort she pulled her face into sobriety-all but her eyes-and announced:|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000003_000000.wav|"Jove!|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000055_000002.wav|I have lots of songs if you want them."|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000041_000001.wav|Bertram and Cyril laughed shamefacedly and sat down.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000066_000001.wav|Almost at once, after this, Arkwright made his very graceful adieus, and went off with his suit case to the hotel where, as he had informed Aunt Hannah, his room was already engaged.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000062_000003.wav|Just let me play it for you." And she slipped into the place the singer had just left.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000025_000003.wav|"But it was so funny, when I expected a girl, you know, to see him with his brown beard, and he was so tall and big!|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000041_000002.wav|Somebody said: "But what does the 'M.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000039_000000.wav|Three crimson faced men sprang to their feet.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5968/55202/5968_55202_000065_000004.wav|He wondered how long it took to teach a man to sing, anyhow; and he wondered if a man could sing-who never had sung.|5968
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000018_000001.wav|We will dig a nice little bed just at the side of the house, and you shall plant your flowers and care for them yourself."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000050_000000.wav|"Oh, Squire!" sobbed Mary, "I am in great trouble "Each dingle bell I loved so well Before my eyes is dying, And much I fear my brother dear In sickness now is lying!"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000045_000000.wav|"Oh, mamma," she called, "come quick!|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000046_000001.wav|If you had planted them at the side of the house, as I wished you to, the wind would not have killed them."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000028_000001.wav|And in the end she planted the dingle bells all in one straight row, and the cockle shells in another straight row the length of the bed, and she finished by planting the cowslips in another long row at the back.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000044_000000.wav|The very next day, to Mary's great surprise and grief; she found the leaves of the dingle bells curling and beginning to wither.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000018_000000.wav|"Yes, Mary, you may have the flower garden, if you wish.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000061_000000.wav|"Pray tell me, dear, though much I fear The answer sad I know, How grow the sturdy cockle shells And cowslips, all in a row?"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000058_000000.wav|Mary's mother knew that the harsh winds had killed the flowers before their time, but she did not like to disappoint her darling, so she only said, with a sigh,|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000078_000000.wav|"What 's the matter, little one?" asked the Squire in his kind, bluff voice.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000053_000000.wav|The weather now began to change, and the cold sea winds blew each night over Mary's garden.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000020_000000.wav|"But why?" enquired her mother; "they will be better sheltered at the side."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000082_000001.wav|And when it came nearer and had grown larger, both she and her mother saw that it was the "Skylark" come home again, and you can imagine how pleased and happy the sight of the pretty little ship made them.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000026_000000.wav|So Mary made a long, narrow bed at the front of the house, and then she prepared to plant her flowers.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000057_000000.wav|"Because the cockle shells and cowslips are both fading away and dying, just as the dingle bells did, and papa said when they faded and withered he and the boys would come back to us."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000087_000000.wav|"To be sure I did," answered her father, with a happy laugh; "and I must have spoken truly, sweetheart, for God in His goodness was willing, and here I am!"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000070_000000.wav|And Mary exclaimed,|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000031_000000.wav|She was filled with joy when one morning she ran out to her flower garden after breakfast and found the dingle bells and cowslips were actually blossoming, while even the cockle shells were showing their white buds.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000017_000000.wav|And her mother, who had heard what the sailor had said to his little girl, knew at once what Mary meant; so she kissed her daughter and replied,|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000036_000000.wav|And Mary, being a sharp little girl, and knowing the Squire's queer ways, replied to him likewise in rhyme, saying,|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000031_000001.wav|They looked rather comical, all standing in stiff, straight rows, one after the other; but Mary did not mind that.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000011_000001.wav|But tell me, papa, what have the flowers to do with your coming home?"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000066_000000.wav|"Then reach up your hand.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000048_000000.wav|While she sat thus the Squire rode up, and called to her|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000006_000001.wav|Do you know the cowslips that grow in the pastures, Mary?"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000004_000000.wav|One spring, just as the grasses began to grow green upon the cliff and the trees were dressing their stiff, barren branches in robes of delicate foliage, the father and brothers bade good bye to Mary and her mother, for they were starting upon a voyage to the Black Sea.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000054_000000.wav|One day Mary came into the house where her mother was at work and said, gleefully,|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000049_000000.wav|"Fie, Mary, fie!|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000081_000000.wav|Mary dried her eyes and thanked the kindly old Squire, and after that she visited the fields each day and watched the flowers grow.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000033_000000.wav|Now, when she looked up and saw him coming toward her flower garden, she nodded and smiled to him, and the big bluff Squire rode up to her side, and looked down with a smile at her flowers.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000002_000000.wav|Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With dingle bells and cockle shells And cowslips, all in a row.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000011_000000.wav|"Them also I know," said Mary eagerly, for she was glad her father should find her so well acquainted with the field flowers; "there is nothing prettier than the big white flowers of the cockle shells.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000014_000000.wav|"Mamma, may I make a flower garden?"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000051_000002.wav|Dingle bells are delicate.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000062_000000.wav|And Mary looked up at him with her bright smile and answered,|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000080_000000.wav|"You must be patient, my child," replied her friend; "and surely you would not have been thus disappointed had you not tried to make the field flowers grow where they do not belong.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000047_000000.wav|Mary did not reply to this, but sat down and began to weep, feeling at the same time that her mother was right and it was her own fault for being so contrary.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000074_000000.wav|And so it was, for as they rode through the pastures the cowslips bloomed on every hand, and Mary's eyes grew bigger and bigger as she thought of her poor garden with its dead flowers.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000077_000000.wav|This was indeed true, and as Mary saw them she suddenly dropped her head and began to weep.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000043_000000.wav|"Oh, that 's the idea, is it?" asked the big bluff Squire, forgetting his poetry.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000032_000000.wav|While she was working she heard the tramp of a horse's hoofs, and looking up saw the big bluff Squire riding toward her.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000072_000000.wav|The Squire now clucked to his nag, and as they rode away he said,|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000012_000002.wav|So one more kiss, sweetheart, and then we must go, for our time is up."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000019_000000.wav|"I think I 'd rather have the flowers at the front of the house," said Mary.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000071_000000.wav|"A dingle bell, and truth to tell In full bloom, I declare!"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000016_000000.wav|"I want to plant in it the cockle shells and the cowslips and the dingle bells," she answered.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000040_000000.wav|"That is a long story, Squire," said Mary; "but this much I may tell you,|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000053_000001.wav|She did not know this, for she was always lying snugly tucked up in her bed, and the warm morning sun usually drove away the winds; but her mother knew it, and feared Mary's garden would suffer.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000078_000001.wav|And Mary answered,|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000030_000002.wav|And now I feel as if the flowers were really my dear ones, and I must be very careful that they come to no harm!"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000027_000000.wav|"If you scatter the seeds," said her mother, "the flower bed will look very pretty."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000034_000000.wav|Then he said to her in rhyme (for it was a way of speaking the jolly Squire had),|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000023_000000.wav|"But I do n't want you to help," said Mary, "for this is to be my own little flower garden, and I want to do all the work myself."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000013_000000.wav|The next morning, when Mary and her mother had dried their eyes, which had been wet with grief at the departure of their loved ones, the little girl asked earnestly,|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000021_000000.wav|"I want them in front," persisted Mary, "for the sun shines stronger there."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000043_000002.wav|I shall come and see you again, little one, and watch the garden grow." And then he said "gee up" to his gray mare, and rode away.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000068_000001.wav|Then said the Squire,|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000046_000000.wav|"The dingle bells are dying," said her mother, after looking carefully at the flowers; "but the reason is that the cold winds from the sea swept right over your garden last night, and dingle bells are delicate flowers and grow best where they are sheltered by the woods.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000051_000000.wav|"Nonsense!" said the Squire; "because you named the flowers after your brother Hobart is no reason he should be affected by the fading of the dingle bells.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000086_000001.wav|And did you not say that, God willing, when this happened you would come back to us?"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000006_000000.wav|"How long?" he repeated, stroking her curls tenderly as he spoke; "well, well, my darling, it will be a long time indeed!|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000024_000001.wav|She was inclined to be a bit contrary, and put her own opinions and ideas before those of her elders.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000008_000000.wav|"And do you know the dingle bells that grow near the edge of the wood?" he asked again.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000005_000000.wav|"And how long will you be gone, papa?" asked Mary, who was perched upon her father's knee, where she could nestle her soft cheek against his bushy whiskers.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000075_000000.wav|And then the Squire took her toward the little brook that wandered through the meadows, flowing over the pebbles with a soft, gurgling sound that was very nearly as sweet as music; and when they reached it the big Squire said,|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000007_000000.wav|"Oh, yes; I watch for them every spring," she answered.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000080_000002.wav|Your father meant you to watch the flowers in the field; and if you will come and visit them each day, you will find the time waiting very short indeed."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000030_000000.wav|"When they have grown up big and strong," said Mary one morning, as she weeded the bed, "and when they have budded and blossomed and faded away again, then papa and my brothers will come home.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000024_000000.wav|Now I must tell you that this little girl, although very sweet in many ways, had one serious fault.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000049_000001.wav|Why do you cry; And blind your eyes to knowing How dingle bells and cockle shells And cowslips all are growing?"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000079_000000.wav|"Although the flowers I much admire, You know papa did say He won't be home again, Squire, Till all have passed away."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000045_000001.wav|Something is surely the matter with brother Hobart!"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000064_000001.wav|See here, Mary, how would you like a little ride with me on my nag?"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000073_000000.wav|"Now come with me and you shall see A field with cowslips bright And not a garden in the land Can show so fair a sight."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000056_000000.wav|"Why do you think so?" asked her mother.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000029_000000.wav|Her mother smiled, but said nothing; and now, as the days passed by, Mary watered and tended her garden with great care; and when the flowers began to sprout she plucked all the weeds that grew among them, and so in the mild spring weather the plants grew finely.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000084_000000.wav|"I knew you were coming soon, papa."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000085_000000.wav|"And how did you know, sweetheart?" he asked, giving her an extra kiss.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000037_000000.wav|"I thank you, Squire, that you enquire How well the flowers are growing; The dingle bells and cockle shells And cowslips all are blowing!"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000032_000001.wav|The big Squire was very fond of children, and whenever he rode near the little white cottage he stopped to have a word with Mary.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000010_000000.wav|"And how about the cockle shells?"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000059_000000.wav|"I hope you are right, Mary, for we both shall be glad to welcome our dear ones home again."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/121658/98_121658_000035_000000.wav|"Mistress Mary, so contrary, How does your garden grow? With dingle bells and cockle shells And cowslips all in a row!"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000006.wav|Catherine too made some purchases herself, and when all these matters were arranged, the important evening came which was to usher her into the Upper Rooms.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000012_000000.wav|They were not long able, however, to enjoy the repose of the eminence they had so laboriously gained.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000029_000001.wav|Every five minutes, by removing some of the crowd, gave greater openings for her charms.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000021_000002.wav|But I think we had better sit still, for one gets so tumbled in such a crowd!|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000023_000002.wav|I should be so glad to have you dance.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000023_000006.wav|Look at the back."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000029_000004.wav|Yet Catherine was in very good looks, and had the company only seen her three years before, they would now have thought her exceedingly handsome.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000007_000000.wav|They arrived at Bath.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000003.wav|In one respect she was admirably fitted to introduce a young lady into public, being as fond of going everywhere and seeing everything herself as any young lady could be.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000016_000000.wav|"What shall we do?|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000011_000001.wav|The season was full, the room crowded, and the two ladies squeezed in as well as they could.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000011_000005.wav|Still they moved on-something better was yet in view; and by a continued exertion of strength and ingenuity they found themselves at last in the passage behind the highest bench.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000019_000000.wav|"Very true, my dear; and if we knew anybody we would join them directly. The Skinners were here last year-I wish they were here now."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000006_000002.wav|Neither robbers nor tempests befriended them, nor one lucky overturn to introduce them to the hero.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000011_000004.wav|But this was far from being the case, and though by unwearied diligence they gained even the top of the room, their situation was just the same; they saw nothing of the dancers but the high feathers of some of the ladies.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000004.wav|Dress was her passion.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000005_000000.wav|Sally, or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as far as she can?), must from situation be at this time the intimate friend and confidante of her sister.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000006_000000.wav|Under these unpromising auspices, the parting took place, and the journey began.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000023_000001.wav|I wish I had a large acquaintance here with all my heart, and then I should get you a partner.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000025_000000.wav|"Well, Miss Morland," said he, directly, "I hope you have had an agreeable ball."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000022_000000.wav|"No, indeed, it looks very nice.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000001.wav|She had neither beauty, genius, accomplishment, nor manner.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000022_000002.wav|I think you must know somebody."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000023_000005.wav|How old-fashioned it is!|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000007_000002.wav|She was come to be happy, and she felt happy already.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000020_000001.wav|Here are no tea things for us, you see."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000005_000001.wav|It is remarkable, however, that she neither insisted on Catherine's writing by every post, nor exacted her promise of transmitting the character of every new acquaintance, nor a detail of every interesting conversation that Bath might produce.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000024_000000.wav|After some time they received an offer of tea from one of their neighbours; it was thankfully accepted, and this introduced a light conversation with the gentleman who offered it, which was the only time that anybody spoke to them during the evening, till they were discovered and joined by mr Allen when the dance was over.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000007_000001.wav|Catherine was all eager delight-her eyes were here, there, everywhere, as they approached its fine and striking environs, and afterwards drove through those streets which conducted them to the hotel.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000026_000000.wav|"Very agreeable indeed," she replied, vainly endeavouring to hide a great yawn.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000007.wav|Her hair was cut and dressed by the best hand, her clothes put on with care, and both mrs Allen and her maid declared she looked quite as she should do.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000004_000004.wav|But mrs Morland knew so little of lords and baronets, that she entertained no notion of their general mischievousness, and was wholly unsuspicious of danger to her daughter from their machinations.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000011_000008.wav|mrs Allen did all that she could do in such a case by saying very placidly, every now and then, "I wish you could dance, my dear-I wish you could get a partner." For some time her young friend felt obliged to her for these wishes; but they were repeated so often, and proved so totally ineffectual, that Catherine grew tired at last, and would thank her no more.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000021_000001.wav|How very provoking!|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000004_000002.wav|Cautions against the violence of such noblemen and baronets as delight in forcing young ladies away to some remote farm house, must, at such a moment, relieve the fulness of her heart.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000013_000000.wav|mrs Allen congratulated herself, as soon as they were seated, on having preserved her gown from injury.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000029_000003.wav|Not one, however, started with rapturous wonder on beholding her, no whisper of eager inquiry ran round the room, nor was she once called a divinity by anybody.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000004_000000.wav|When the hour of departure drew near, the maternal anxiety of mrs Morland will be naturally supposed to be most severe.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000006_000001.wav|It was performed with suitable quietness and uneventful safety.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000017_000000.wav|"Aye, so we do.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000017_000002.wav|I wish we had a large acquaintance here."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000018_000000.wav|"I wish we had any-it would be somebody to go to."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000021_000000.wav|"No more there are, indeed.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000023_000000.wav|"I don't, upon my word-I wish I did.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000011_000007.wav|It was a splendid sight, and she began, for the first time that evening, to feel herself at a ball: she longed to dance, but she had not an acquaintance in the room.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000008.wav|With such encouragement, Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000028_000000.wav|"We shall do better another evening I hope," was mr Allen's consolation.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000012_000003.wav|They saw nothing of mr Allen; and after looking about them in vain for a more eligible situation, were obliged to sit down at the end of a table, at which a large party were already placed, without having anything to do there, or anybody to speak to, except each other.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000029_000002.wav|She was now seen by many young men who had not been near her before.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000009.wav|As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000004_000005.wav|Her cautions were confined to the following points.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000016_000001.wav|The gentlemen and ladies at this table look as if they wondered why we came here-we seem forcing ourselves into their party."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000027_000001.wav|I have been saying how glad I should be if the Skinners were here this winter instead of last; or if the Parrys had come, as they talked of once, she might have danced with George Parry.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000030_000000.wav|She was looked at, however, and with some admiration; for, in her own hearing, two gentlemen pronounced her to be a pretty girl.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000005_000002.wav|Everything indeed relative to this important journey was done, on the part of the Morlands, with a degree of moderation and composure, which seemed rather consistent with the common feelings of common life, than with the refined susceptibilities, the tender emotions which the first separation of a heroine from her family ought always to excite.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000021_000004.wav|Somebody gave me a push that has hurt it, I am afraid."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000027_000002.wav|I am so sorry she has not had a partner!"|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000004_000003.wav|Who would not think so?|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000000.wav|mrs Allen was one of that numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000015_000000.wav|"Yes, my dear," replied mrs Allen, with perfect serenity, "it is very uncomfortable indeed."|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/98/199/98_199_000010_000002.wav|The air of a gentlewoman, a great deal of quiet, inactive good temper, and a trifling turn of mind were all that could account for her being the choice of a sensible, intelligent man like mr Allen.|98
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000006.wav|I received your kind letter from Falmouth, in which you gave me notice of your departure for Lisbon, and another from Lisbon, in which you told me, that you were to leave Portugal in a few days.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000030_000005.wav|I can conceive this kind of fraud to be very easily practised with successful effrontery.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000001.wav|I have not, since the day of our separation, suffered or done any thing considerable.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000007.wav|I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000004_000000.wav|"It has now been fashionable, for near half a century, to defame and vilify the house of Stuart and, to exalt and magnify the reign of Elizabeth.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000042_000002.wav|They please themselves much with the multitude of spectators, and imagine that the English School will rise in reputation. Reynolds is without a rival, and continues to add thousands to thousands, which he deserves, among other excellencies, by retaining his kindness for Baretti.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000041_000004.wav|He has been long in the hands of the Scots, and has already favoured them more than the English will contentedly endure. But, perhaps, he scarcely knows whom he has distinguished, or whom he has disgusted.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000042_000001.wav|This year was the second Exhibition.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000038_000002.wav|I would have you happy wherever you are: yet I would have you wish to return to England.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000028_000015.wav|Several instances of such literary fraud have been detected.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000017_000000.wav|'You that travel about the world, have more materials for letters, than I who stay at home; and should, therefore, write with frequency equal to your opportunities.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000040_000001.wav|His relations will thank you for any such gratuitous attention: at least they will not blame you for any evil that may happen, whether they thank you or not for any good.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000038_000006.wav|Yet I shall not wonder if all our invitations should be rejected: for there is a pleasure in being considerable at home, which is not easily resisted.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000000.wav|'You reproach me very often with parsimony of writing: but you may discover by the extent of my paper, that I design to recompence rarity by length.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000021_000002.wav|He has, I think, no power of assuming either that dignity or elegance which some men, who have little of either in common life, can exhibit on the stage.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000026_000000.wav|'october eighteenth seventeen sixty.'|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000004_000001.wav|The Stuarts have found few apologists, for the dead cannot pay for praise; and who will, without reward, oppose the tide of popularity?|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000008.wav|I have had a third from Turin, complaining that I have not answered the former.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000021_000001.wav|He had more company the second than the first night, and will make, I believe, a good figure in the whole, though his faults seem to be very many; some of natural deficience, and some of laborious affectation.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000030_000003.wav|He had been at the pains to transcribe the whole book, with blottings, interlineations, and corrections, that it might be shewn to several people as an original.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000007_000001.wav|For instance, we are told that on the arrival of the news of the unfortunate battle of Fontenoy, every heart beat, and every eye was in tears.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000028_000012.wav|Rolt went over to Dublin, published an edition of it, and put his own name to it.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000005_000002.wav|His majestick expression would have carried down to the latest posterity the glorious achievements of his country with the same fervent glow which they produced on the mind of the time.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000017_000003.wav|While you have been riding and running, and seeing the tombs of the learned, and the camps of the valiant, I have only staid at home, and intended to do great things, which I have not done.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000002.wav|The only change in my way of life is, that I have frequented the theatre more than in former seasons.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000004.wav|The silent changes made by time are not always perceived; and if they are not perceived, cannot be recounted.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000003.wav|But I have gone thither only to escape from myself.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000017_000001.wav|I should be glad to have all England surveyed by you, if you would impart your observations in narratives as agreeable as your last.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000000.wav|'I know my Baretti will not be satisfied with a letter in which I give him no account of myself: yet what account shall I give him?|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000013_000004.wav|mr Murphy then waited upon Johnson, to explain this curious incident.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000041_000003.wav|The young man is hitherto blameless; but it would be unreasonable to expect much from the immaturity of juvenile years, and the ignorance of princely education.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000013_000000.wav|I take this opportunity to relate the manner in which an acquaintance first commenced between dr Johnson and mr Murphy.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000042_000003.wav|This Exhibition has filled the heads of the Artists and lovers of art.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000001.wav|A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation;--a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000030_000001.wav|They were, at length, very much surprised to see a pompous edition of it in folio, dedicated to the Princess Dowager of Wales, by a dr Douglas, as his own.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000028_000005.wav|'Sir, (said he) I never saw the man, and never read the book.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000005.wav|I am digressing from myself to the play house; but a barren plan must be filled with episodes.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000010.wav|With vigour your genius will supply it; but its purity must be continued by close attention.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000011.wav|Those who have endeavoured to teach us to die well, have taught few to die willingly: yet I cannot but hope that a good life might end at last in a contented death.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000045_000006.wav|Of myself I have nothing to say, but that I have hitherto lived without the concurrence of my own judgment; yet I continue to flatter myself, that, when you return, you will find me mended.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000009.wav|Your English style still continues in its purity and vigour.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000005_000003.wav|He would have been under no temptation to deviate in any degree from truth, which he held very sacred, or to take a licence, which a learned divine told me he once seemed, in a conversation, jocularly to allow to historians.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000016_000000.wav|'DEAR SIR,|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000007_000000.wav|'There are (said he) inexcusable lies, and consecrated lies.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000038_000000.wav|'I know not whether I can heartily rejoice at the kind reception which you have found, or at the popularity to which you are exalted.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000028_000010.wav|But he gave a more eminent proof of it in our sister kingdom, as dr Johnson informed me.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000002.wav|Yet it must be remembered, that he who continues the same course of life in the same place, will have little to tell.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000046_000000.wav|'You see to what a train of thought I am drawn by the mention of myself. Let me now turn my attention upon you.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000037_000007.wav|To either of these how could any answer be returned?|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000011_000000.wav|Again, towards the conclusion:|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000021_000003.wav|His voice when strained is unpleasing, and when low is not always heard.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000018_000002.wav|This notion deserves to be considered; I doubt whether it be universally true; but if it be true in some cases, and those cases can be distinguished, it may save a long and uncomfortable delay.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000041_000000.wav|'You know that we have a new King and a new Parliament.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000038_000003.wav|If ever you visit us again, you will find the kindness of your friends undiminished.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000018_000001.wav|mr Sharpe is of opinion that the tedious maturation of the cataract is a vulgar errour, and that it may be removed as soon as it is formed.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000025_000000.wav|'SAM.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1885/136863/1885_136863_000028_000014.wav|Akenside having been informed of this imposition, vindicated his right by publishing the poem with its real authour's name.|1885
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000055_000005.wav|From this imprisonment the wicked old man was never freed. Thus did he meet with punishment at last for all his evil doings.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000010_000002.wav|Where are they? Where?|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000013_000006.wav|Then he returned to the house, telling no one, not even his wife, what he had done.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000050_000000.wav|"Yes, my Lord!"|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000036_000001.wav|I shall look on."|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000013_000004.wav|He seized his spade, and with all his strength struck Shiro and killed him on the spot.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000055_000002.wav|But all to no effect.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000023_000003.wav|Now please give me the ashes of the mortar, as I wish to keep them in remembrance of my dog."|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000028_000001.wav|This Knight told him that he was a retainer of a great Daimio (Earl); that one of the favorite cherry trees in this nobleman's garden had withered, and that though every one in his service had tried all manner of means to revive it, none took effect. The Knight was sore perplexed when he saw what great displeasure the loss of his favorite cherry tree caused the Daimio.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000051_000000.wav|"That is strange!" said the Daimio.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000040_000005.wav|The Daimio ordered that henceforth the old man should call himself by the name of Hana Saka Jijii, or "The Old Man who makes the Trees to Blossom," and that henceforth all were to recognize him by this name, and he sent him home with great honor.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000002_000003.wav|Indeed, they loved him so much that whenever they had anything nice to eat they denied themselves to give it to Shiro.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000052_000000.wav|"I am the true Hana Saka Jijii.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000017_000001.wav|They tasted the cakes and found them nicer than any other food.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000002_000004.wav|Now Shiro means "white," and he was so called because of his color.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000005_000001.wav|He ran back to the house, fetched his spade and began to dig the ground at that spot.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000009_000001.wav|He then took his spade and hastened to his own field, forcing the unwilling Shiro to follow him.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000010_000003.wav|Where?"|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000055_000000.wav|But not only did the tree not burst into flower, but not even a bud came forth.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000015_000001.wav|Out of the trunk he made a mortar.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000003_000001.wav|Sure enough, Shiro was waiting for his master and the evening tit bit.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000010_000001.wav|You must find them for me!|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/139612/596_139612_000029_000000.wav|"And," added the Knight, "I shall be very much obliged if you will come at once."|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000014_000000.wav|The Upper Canyons|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000026_000000.wav|Down The Yosemite Creek|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000021_000000.wav|Natural Features Near The Valley|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000024_000001.wav|In the basin of the Illilouette there are sixteen, in the Tenaya basin and its branches thirteen, in the Yosemite Creek basin fourteen, and in the Pohono or Bridal Veil one, making a grand total of one hundred and eleven lakes whose waters come to sing at Yosemite.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000028_000004.wav|The total descent made by the stream from its highest sources to its confluence with the Merced in the Valley is about six thousand feet, while the distance is only about ten miles, an average fall of six hundred feet per mile.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000002_000000.wav|The First View: The Bridal Veil|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000016_000000.wav|In the south branch, a mile or two from the main Valley, is the Illilouette Fall, six hundred feet high, one of the most beautiful of all the Yosemite choir, but to most people inaccessible as yet on account of its rough, steep, boulder choked canyon.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000007_000000.wav|General Features Of The Valley|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/596/127685/596_127685_000020_000001.wav|For all these the beautiful meadows near the Soda Springs form a delightful center.|596
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/820/123133/820_123133_000014_000001.wav|I transcribe it word for word:|820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000017_000000.wav|"But, father, you have not heard my story yet."|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000040_000000.wav|"What can I do to make up for it?" I sobbed.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000042_000000.wav|Thereupon Turkey and I walked away, I to school, he to his cattle.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000022_000000.wav|She had nothing to reply beyond asserting that Turkey and I had always hated and persecuted her, and had now told a pack of lies which we had agreed upon, to ruin her, a poor lone woman, with no friends to take her part.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000037_000000.wav|"You may be right, Turkey-I dare say you are right.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000008_000000.wav|"I like her," whimpered little Davie.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000019_000003.wav|Both were out of breath with running.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000003.wav|When Turkey left the room, she would have gone too.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000034_000000.wav|"I confess I yielded to temptation then, for I knew it could do no good.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000014_000000.wav|I was not too much abashed to take notice that the Kelpie bridled at this.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000005.wav|Several times she broke out, accusing me of telling a pack of wicked lies, but my father told her she should have an opportunity of defending herself, and she must not interrupt me.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000039_000004.wav|But it is a very dreadful thing to throw difficulties in the way of repentance and turning from evil works."|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000009_000001.wav|"Are these things true?"|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000035_000003.wav|I will try to show you the wrong you have done.--Had you told me without doing anything yourselves, then I might have succeeded in bringing mrs Mitchell to repentance.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000019_000000.wav|I began with trembling voice.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000043_000003.wav|I think she must have hid it in some outhouse, and fetched it the next night.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000024_000002.wav|I will leave the house this very day."|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000043_000001.wav|But the Kelpie frustrated whatever he may have resolved upon with regard to her: before he returned she had disappeared.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000010_000000.wav|"Yes, father," I answered.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000027_000000.wav|"And why?" asked my father.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000028_000000.wav|She made no answer.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000001_000000.wav|A Double Exposure|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000029_000000.wav|"I must get at the truth of it," said my father.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000000.wav|My father stopped me, and ordered Turkey away until I should have finished.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000015_000000.wav|"I can't say I'm sorry for what I've done to her," I said.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000005_000001.wav|Tell him to come directly."|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000007_000001.wav|"None of us like her."|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000009_000000.wav|"Silence, sir!" said my father, very sternly.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000007.wav|I need hardly say that, although he questioned us closely, he found no discrepancy between our accounts.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000007_000000.wav|"Let her go, father," I said.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000039_000002.wav|It is to her, not to me, you have done the wrong.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000018_000002.wav|But nothing can justify such conduct."|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000004_000001.wav|I whispered to Allister-|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000036_000000.wav|"Please, sir," interrupted Turkey, "I don't think after all she did it for herself.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000033_000000.wav|"I have no doubt of it, but equally unjustifiable.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000026_000000.wav|"They all hate me," said the Kelpie.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000001.wav|I ventured to look up at the Kelpie once or twice.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000011_000000.wav|"You have confessed to the truth of what she alleges," said my father.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000002_000001.wav|When she had set our porridge on the table, she stood up, and, with her fists in her sides, addressed my father:|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000036_000001.wav|I do believe," he went on, and my father listened, "that Wandering Willie is some relation of hers.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000045_000001.wav|It was more his own affection than her kindness that had attached him to her.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000006_000002.wav|The Kelpie looked suspicious as he left the room, but she had no pretext for interference.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000020_000002.wav|She had grown white, and grew whiter.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000018_000000.wav|"Well-go on.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000035_000004.wav|I could have reasoned with her on the matter, and shown her that she was not merely a thief, but a thief of the worst kind, a Judas who robbed the poor, and so robbed God.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000021_000000.wav|"Now, mrs Mitchell!" he said.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000030_000000.wav|She left the room without another word, and my father turned to Turkey.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000016_000000.wav|"Really, Ranald, you are impertinent.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121766/612_121766_000016_000001.wav|I would send you out of the room at once, but you must beg mrs Mitchell's pardon first, and after that there will be something more to say, I fear."|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000003.wav|I made Missy slacken her speed, and rode on more gently, in better harmony with the night.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000011_000002.wav|It's all waste to be frightened before you know whether the thing is worth it."|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000008_000001.wav|Thereupon, rendered more communicative by the trial I had gone through, I told him the whole story, what I had intended and how I had been frustrated.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000009.wav|The rapidity of the motion and the darkness together-for it seemed darkness now-I confess made me frightened.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000007.wav|If there was any truth in the story, it is easily accounted for by the fact that the poor old woman had been a little out of her mind for many years,--and no wonder, for she was nearly a hundred, they said.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000017.wav|Shaken with terror, and afraid to dismount and be next the ground, I called upon Andrew as well as my fear would permit; but my voice was nearly unmanageable, and I could do little more than howl with it.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000015.wav|It was mortifying to find myself there instead of under john Adam's hayloft, the rescuer of Jamie Duff.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000014_000000.wav|"How should I tell?" returned Andrew.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000012_000001.wav|I was still seated on Missy.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000003_000004.wav|At all events I am certain that it was hard for him to believe that so much wise affection should have been created to be again uncreated.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000001.wav|Everything seemed thinking about me, but nothing would tell me what it thought.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000004_000005.wav|I should not, however, feel alone with Missy under me, for she and I were on the best of terms, although sometimes she would take a fit of obstinacy, and refuse to go in any other than the direction she pleased.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000001.wav|She was still alive, however, very old, and bedridden.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000002.wav|Not feeling, however, that I was doing wrong, I was only awed not frightened by the stillness.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000003_000001.wav|Indeed, I had great liberty with regard to her, and took her out for a trot and a gallop as often as I pleased.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000005.wav|I did not like the noise she made, and got upon the grass, for here there was no fence.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000004_000002.wav|It was a lovely night. A kind of grey peace filled earth and air and sky.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000002_000000.wav|Knight Errantry|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000016_000002.wav|Thus armed, and mounted with my feet in the stirrups, and therefore a good pull on Missy's mouth, I found my courage once more equal to the task before me.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000003_000003.wav|I believe he was never quite without a hope that somehow or other he should find her again in the next world.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000016.wav|She avoided it, and galloped past, but bore me to a far more frightful goal, suddenly dropping into a canter, and then standing stock still.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000014_000001.wav|"The old woman has a very queer cock, I know, that always roosts on the top of her bed, and crows like no cock I ever heard crow.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000012_000002.wav|To go home having done nothing for Jamie, and therefore nothing for Elsie, after all my grand ideas of rescue and restoration, was too mortifying.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000016.wav|But I did not think of that for a while.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000008.wav|Neither is it any wonder that when Missy stopped almost suddenly, with her fore feet and her neck stretched forward, and her nose pointed straight for the door of the cottage at a few yards' distance, I should have felt very queer indeed.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000004_000004.wav|I was fond of being out at night, but I had never before contemplated going so far alone.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000008_000000.wav|In a few minutes, to me a time of awful duration-for who could tell what might be following me up from the hollow?--Andrew appeared half dressed, and not in the best of tempers, remarking it was an odd thing to go out riding when honest people were in their beds, except, he added, I meant to take to the highway.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000006_000011.wav|In a minute I had lost my reckoning, and could not tell where I was in the field, which was a pretty large one; but soon finding that we were galloping down a hill so steep that I had trouble in retaining my seat, I began, not at all to my comfort, to surmise in what direction the mare was carrying me.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000007_000014.wav|There she had to stop, for I had shut it when I brought her out.|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000012_000006.wav|When he reappeared, I asked him:|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/612/121760/612_121760_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty three|612
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000027_000001.wav|When will you bring me Holy Communion?"|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000045_000001.wav|Her face seemed to fall away in a kind of emotion, half cunning, half fear.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000007_000000.wav|Well, he was here at last, dishevelled, hatless and exhausted, looking up at the dark windows.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000022_000001.wav|Yes; this was genuine enough.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000047_000003.wav|I am a Catholic-?"|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000070_000001.wav|"Who is that?"|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000059_000006.wav|Father---"|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000058_000002.wav|Well, at least, this is what I dreamt.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000032_000000.wav|"I don't know, father.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000004_000000.wav|three|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000019_000002.wav|You are a priest, father?"|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000012_000000.wav|She babbled out a question at him.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000034_000001.wav|Father, ought I to tell him?"|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000054_000001.wav|"You have been dreaming.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000056_000000.wav|"The door is shut, father?|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000041_000000.wav|"Father, I must not keep you; but tell me this-Who is this man?"|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000077_000001.wav|Come in, Oliver, but softly."|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000066_000000.wav|"Very well, listen, father....|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000019_000000.wav|"Oh! thank God!|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000042_000000.wav|"Felsenburgh?"|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000066_000002.wav|Nearer, father."|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000028_000000.wav|He hesitated.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000052_000001.wav|What do you know of Felsenburgh? You have been dreaming."|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000043_000000.wav|"Yes."|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43306/5723_43306_000031_000000.wav|"Tell me, are you very ill?"|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000004.wav|Therefore he appointed a certain day for this judgment.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000001.wav|He repaired straightway to the Court, and, seeking out the King, required of him his fair daughter in marriage, promising, for his part, that were she given him, he would bear her in his arms to the summit of the mount.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000010_000003.wav|The squire set forth at a great pace, and climbed briskly till he was halfway up the mount. Because of the joy he had in clasping his burthen, he gave no thought to the potion.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000003.wav|He smiled rather at his folly, for how should one so young and slender succeed in a business wherein so many mighty men had failed.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000006_000000.wav|Now in this country lived a squire, son to a certain count of that realm, seemly of semblance and courteous, and right desirous to win that prize, which was so coveted of all.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000008_000005.wav|When the dame had read these letters with him, line by line, she charged him to lodge with her awhile, till she might do according to his wish.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000001_000000.wav|seven|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000017_000004.wav|For many saving herbs have been found there since that day by the simple folk of that country, which from the magic philtre derived all their virtue.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000019_000002.wav|After his speech had returned to him, he was passing heavy, and lamented their doleful case, and thus did all his people with him.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000008_000007.wav|Such virtue had this medicine, directly it were drunken.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000006_000005.wav|This thing was very grievous to them, but the damoiseau thought within himself that it were good to bear the pains he knew, rather than to seek out others that might prove sharper still.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000006_000006.wav|Yet in the end, altogether distraught by love, this prudent varlet sought his friend, and showed her his case, saying that he urgently required of her that she would flee with him, for no longer could he endure the weariness of his days.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000017_000001.wav|She kneeled hastily at his side, and put the enchanted brewage to his lips, but he could neither drink nor speak, for he was dead, as I have told you.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000007_000005.wav|Doubt not that she will discover some cunning simple, that will strengthen your body, as well as comfort your heart.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000009.wav|Ever was it fast day and fleshless day with her, so that by any means she might lighten the burthen that her friend must carry in his arms.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000020_000002.wav|Then they departed from them, and left them together, alone.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000007_000003.wav|I have kindred in Salerno, of rich estate.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000014_000000.wav|But when two thirds of the course was won, the grasshopper would have tripped him off his feet.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000006_000001.wav|He was a welcome guest at the Court, and the King talked with him very willingly.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000018_000001.wav|She kissed his eyes and mouth, and falling upon his body, took him in her arms, and pressed him closely to her breast.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000004_000001.wav|The town yet endures, with its towers and houses, to bear witness to the truth; moreover the country thereabouts is known to us all as the Valley of Pistres.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000020_000001.wav|On the third day they sealed them fast in a goodly coffin of marble, and by the counsel of all men, laid them softly to rest on that mountain where they died.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000010_000002.wav|The varlet took the maiden in his arms, but first he gave her the flask with the precious brewage to carry, since for pride he might not endure to drink therefrom, save at utmost peril.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000016_000001.wav|A mighty anguish filled his bosom.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000017_000000.wav|When the maiden saw her lover's piteous plight, she deemed that he had swooned by reason of his pain.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000010_000000.wav|Now on the appointed day this young dansellon came very early to the appointed place, bringing the flacket with him.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000006_000002.wav|This squire had set his heart upon the daughter of the King, and many a time spoke in her ear, praying her to give him again the love he had bestowed upon her.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000017_000002.wav|She bewailed his evil lot, with many shrill cries, and flung the useless flacket far away.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000008_000002.wav|So with a little company of men, mounted on swift palfreys, and most privy to his mind, he arrived at Salerno.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000007_000002.wav|Hearken well.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000005.wav|Moreover he caused letters to be written to his vassals and his friends-passing none by-bidding them to see the end of this adventure.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000016_000004.wav|He reeled and fell, nor could he rise again, for the heart had burst within his breast.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000021_000000.wav|Since this adventure of the Two Children this hill is known as the Mountain of the Two Lovers, and their story being bruited abroad, the Breton folk have made a Lay thereof, even as I have rehearsed before you.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000016_000002.wav|He climbed upon the summit of the mountain, and pained himself grievously to bring his journey to an end.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000003_000001.wav|The story of their love was bruited so abroad, that the Bretons made a song in their own tongue, and named this song the Lay of the Two Lovers.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000016_000003.wav|This he might not do.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000005_000003.wav|So then, that none should carry off his child, he caused it to be proclaimed, both far and near, by script and trumpet, that he alone should wed the maid, who would bear her in his arms, to the pinnacle of the great and perilous mountain, and that without rest or stay.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000006_000003.wav|So seeing him brave and courteous, she esteemed him for the gifts which gained him the favour of the King, and they loved together in their youth.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000007_000004.wav|For more than thirty years my aunt has studied there the art of medicine, and knows the secret gift of every root and herb. If you hasten to her, bearing letters from me, and show her your adventure, certainly she will find counsel and cure.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000008.wav|But for her part the fair maiden did all that she was able to bring her love to a good end.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000008_000006.wav|So by her sorceries, and for the love of her maid, she brewed such a potion that no man, however wearied and outworn, but by drinking this philtre, would not be refreshed in heart and blood and bones.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000003_000000.wav|Once upon a time there lived in Normandy two lovers, who were passing fond, and were brought by Love to Death.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000007_000007.wav|He will deem you but a stripling, and set forth the terms of his bargain, that to him alone shall I be given who knows how to climb the perilous mountain, without pause or rest, bearing his lady between his arms."|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000005_000004.wav|When this news was noised about the country, many came upon the quest.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000002.wav|The King was no wise wrath at his presumption.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000016_000000.wav|But he would neither hear, nor give credence to her words.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000009_000007.wav|And from every region round about men came to learn the issue of this thing.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000007_000006.wav|Then return to this realm with your potion, and ask me at my father's hand.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000020_000000.wav|Three days they kept the bodies of these two fair children from earth, with uncovered face.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/49750/5723_49750_000010_000001.wav|When the great company were fully met together, the King led forth his daughter before them; and all might see that she was arrayed in nothing but her smock.|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5723/43296/5723_43296_000012_000000.wav|"That they are pig headed?|5723
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000057_000002.wav|What do you want?"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000049_000003.wav|But if he's too strong for you, why, stay here," and he started up the ladder.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000028_000000.wav|"Well," I asked, at last, "what now?"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000078_000000.wav|"Come on!" he said.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000070_000000.wav|"If they're found, they'll suspect-they'll know ..."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000045_000002.wav|And now come ahead."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000014_000000.wav|"I don't know.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000061_000001.wav|Godfrey?"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000019_000000.wav|"Up the ladder.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000004_000001.wav|It was half past eleven.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000047_000000.wav|"Look here, Godfrey," I said, "do you realise that what we're about to do is pretty serious?|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000016_000000.wav|"I have it!" he said.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000045_000000.wav|"You'd better keep it in your hand," he added, "ready for action.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000043_000001.wav|"And here's an electric torch. Do you feel the button?"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000001_000000.wav|THE SCREAM IN THE NIGHT|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000072_000000.wav|"Very well," Godfrey agreed, at last.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000009_000001.wav|"Well, what are they?"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000008_000001.wav|"I've got something to tell you."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000006_000000.wav|I stood up with a gasp of thankfulness.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000040_000000.wav|"Then we'll start from there and take a quiet look for him.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000032_000000.wav|"Still," I pointed out, "that may have nothing to do with Swain."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000002_000002.wav|It was too late now to hesitate or turn back; we must press forward.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000069_000000.wav|"Why not?"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000035_000000.wav|"If he's back," I said, "he'll have taken the ladders down from the wall."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000075_000001.wav|The next instant, the figure poised itself on the coping of the wall and then plunged forward out of sight.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000019_000003.wav|If it doesn't ..."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000068_000000.wav|"Wait!" Swain called after him, with unexpected vigour.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000025_000000.wav|"It must be long past midnight," I whispered.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000057_000001.wav|"Who is it?|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000060_000000.wav|"No; this is mr Godfrey."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000057_000000.wav|"Stand back!" he cried, hoarsely.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000031_000000.wav|"I don't know what I fear; but there's something wrong over there. This is the first night for a week that that light hasn't appeared."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000058_000000.wav|"It's Lester," I said, and Godfrey flashed his torch into my face, then back to Swain's.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER six|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000022_000001.wav|Then Godfrey's voice spoke again.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000053_000000.wav|I felt Godfrey press me back, and descended cautiously.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000068_000001.wav|"We must take down the ladders.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000067_000001.wav|"You're right-that cut must be attended to," and he started toward the house.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000049_000000.wav|"You remind me of Tartarin," he said; "the adventurer Tartarin urging you on, the lawyer Tartarin holding you back.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000037_000000.wav|"The other ladder is still there," he said, and took off his cap and rubbed his head perplexedly.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000023_000000.wav|"It's three minutes of twelve," he said.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/109507/5304_109507_000066_000000.wav|"I want to wash," he said, thickly.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000039_000003.wav|And now, without the slightest warning, comes this peremptory dismissal from p Maloney. Who is p Maloney?|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000018_000001.wav|There were five men in the room.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000047_000000.wav|"Where's this fellow Maloney?|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000055_000002.wav|Shortly after I joined this journal, he started out on a vacation, by his doctor's orders, and left no address.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000040_000003.wav|Where was mr Renshaw?|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000058_000000.wav|Smith bowed.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000007_000000.wav|"De whole bunch of dem."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000059_000007.wav|But-"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000027_000000.wav|"I should like a few moments' conversation."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000061_000004.wav|The thing comes on you as a surprise.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000011_000000.wav|A faint smile appeared upon Smith's face.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000068_000002.wav|I see no further obstacle in our path.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000022_000000.wav|The words broke the spell.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000012_000005.wav|In about t'ree minutes along comes another gazebo.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000021_000001.wav|I am observed!" he murmured.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000030_000000.wav|"Are you mr Maloney, may I ask?" enquired the favored one.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000067_000003.wav|He cannot brook interference.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000015_000000.wav|"Dreadfully," attested Betty.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000042_000000.wav|Smith nodded.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000023_000000.wav|"Are you the acting editor of this paper?"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000040_000002.wav|Who was p Maloney?|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000064_000000.wav|"Ten weeks!"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000034_000003.wav|I am on the editorial staff of this paper."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000043_000000.wav|"I know, yours has always seemed to me work which the world will not willingly let die."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000061_000005.wav|The cry goes round New York, 'Comrades Asher, Waterman, Philpotts, and others have been taken unawares.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000019_000005.wav|Not a word was spoken as he paced, wrapped in thought, to the editorial chair.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000063_000000.wav|"Nothing, I fear, except to wait.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000024_000000.wav|"I wish to have a word with you, sir."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000053_000001.wav|The circumstances, as you will admit when you have heard all, are peculiar. You have asked me where mr Renshaw is.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000068_000004.wav|We must clench our teeth and face them manfully.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000040_000000.wav|The chorus burst forth.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000044_000000.wav|The Reverend Edwin's frosty face thawed into a bleak smile.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000004_000000.wav|"mr Smith," began Betty.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000018_000000.wav|Master Maloney's statement that "about 'steen" visitors had arrived proved to be a little exaggerated.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000053_000002.wav|I don't know."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000012_000002.wav|'I'll go in and wait,' says he.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000067_000001.wav|"I speak in your best interests.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000063_000001.wav|It may be that when mr Renshaw, having dodged the bears and eluded the wildcat, returns to his post, he will decide not to continue the paper on the lines at present mapped out.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000012_000014.wav|I can't be boddered!'"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000065_000000.wav|"Till then, the only thing to do is to wait.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000013_000000.wav|"And what more could you have said?" agreed Smith approvingly.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000010_000000.wav|"mr|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000061_000000.wav|"In this life," said Smith, shaking his head, "we must be prepared for every emergency.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000016_000000.wav|"As I suspected," said Smith, "but we must not repine.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000055_000006.wav|Possibly racing down some rugged slope in the Rockies with two grizzlies and a wildcat in earnest pursuit.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000039_000004.wav|Where is mr Renshaw?"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000062_000000.wav|"But what is to be done?" cried mr Asher.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000021_000000.wav|"Ha!|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000045_000000.wav|"And yet," continued Smith, "I gather that p Maloney, on the other hand, actually wishes to hurry on its decease.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000063_000002.wav|He should be back in about ten weeks."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000067_000007.wav|And now, gentlemen, as I have a good deal of work to get through-|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000034_000001.wav|Ah, well, never mind.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000016_000001.wav|These trifling contretemps are the penalties we pay for our high journalistic aims.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000033_000000.wav|Smith looked across at Betty, who had seated herself in her place by the typewriter.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000066_000000.wav|"All the same, I should like to see this p Maloney," said mr Asher.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000054_000000.wav|"You don't know!" exclaimed mr Asher.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000013_000001.wav|"Tell me, did these gentlemen appear to be gay and light-hearted, or did they seem to be looking for someone with a hatchet?"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000059_000006.wav|A rapid fire impression of a glove fight, a spine shaking word picture of a railway smash, or something on those lines, would be welcomed.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000065_000003.wav|Smith is keeping a watchful eye on our interests.'"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000022_000001.wav|Instantly the five visitors burst simultaneously into speech.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000012_000011.wav|I says, 'Well, gent,' I says, 'it's up to youse.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000040_000001.wav|It seemed that that was what they all wanted to know.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000008_000001.wav|"Can you give me any particulars?" he asked patiently.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000010_000001.wav|Asher," said Betty, "and mr Philpotts, and all the rest of them." She struggled for a moment, but, unable to resist the temptation, added, "I told you so."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000031_000002.wav|"My name is Smith."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000031_000001.wav|Smith shook his head.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000049_000003.wav|See here-"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000053_000000.wav|"Gentlemen," he said, reseating himself, "this is a painful case.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000026_000000.wav|"Pardon me!"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000037_000002.wav|We are both at a loss to make head or tail of it."|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000061_000003.wav|You are unprepared.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000039_000000.wav|"It's an outrage.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000025_000000.wav|"mr Maloney, I presume?"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000020_000000.wav|This accomplished, he looked up and started.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000052_000001.wav|He stood up and shook mr Asher reverently by the hand.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000055_000004.wav|He was to enjoy complete rest.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000055_000008.wav|Who can tell?"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000037_000001.wav|"My wife," he went on, "has received this extraordinary communication from a man signing himself p Maloney.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000006_000000.wav|"Who, exactly?" asked Smith.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000031_000000.wav|The others paused for the reply.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000051_000002.wav|I write 'Moments of Mirth.'"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000068_000000.wav|"All very disturbing to the man of culture and refinement," said Smith, as the door closed behind the last of the malcontents.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000056_000000.wav|Silent consternation prevailed among his audience.|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000067_000005.wav|He would be the first to regret any violent action, when once he had cooled off, but- Of course, if you wish it I could arrange a meeting. No?|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5304/55856/5304_55856_000045_000001.wav|Strange!"|5304
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000026_000002.wav|Then one of the magter came in the entrance, but Brion hesitated before shooting.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000047_000002.wav|"When it was a matter of war and killing, my planet could never agree on an intelligent course. War is so alien to our philosophy that it couldn't even be considered correctly.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000000_000000.wav|eighteen|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000013_000000.wav|Brion's shots crashed into the control board, shorting and destroying it, removing the menace to Nyjord for all time.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000015_000000.wav|With this realization came the painful knowledge that the planet and the people that had produced this understanding were dead.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000039_000009.wav|After that it was just a matter of following tracks-and the transmitter you planted."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000033_000000.wav|The realization was almost impossible to accept.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000033_000001.wav|Brion had heard the bombs fall.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000018_000000.wav|They retreated into the darkness, still firing.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000001_000001.wav|The magter knocked him down and beat him into silence.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000010_000004.wav|And beyond that to life of all kinds.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000025_000000.wav|It was not long in coming.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000046_000000.wav|"Of course," Professor Krafft said, astonished at Brion's lack of understanding.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000046_000002.wav|The magter are sick!"|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000041_000007.wav|It worked like a charm.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000051_000001.wav|"We are civilized, after all. You can't expect us to fight a war-and you surely can't expect us to ignore the plight of sick neighbors?"|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000022_000002.wav|Once inside, they found cover behind a ridge and waited. The end was certain.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000041_000004.wav|Enough to kill the guards without bringing the roof down.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000041_000006.wav|And they did.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000035_000000.wav|More soldiers crowded into the cave, and Professor Commander Krafft came in behind them.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000007_000003.wav|Should he? Should he save the lives of his killers?|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000002_000000.wav|As the technicians worked, their attitude changed from shocked numbness to anger.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000007_000001.wav|In spite of everything he had done to prevent it, Nyjord had dropped the bombs. And this act alone may have destroyed their own planet.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000010_000001.wav|The caveman first had this feeling for his mate, then for his family.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000028_000001.wav|As the magter turned, Ulv's breath pulsed once and death stung the back of the other man's hand. He collapsed into a crumpled heap.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000047_000007.wav|Your mind parasite drew us back from the brink."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000041_000008.wav|We came in quietly and took them by surprise. Made a clean sweep-killed the ones we couldn't capture."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000031_000000.wav|The man in the light wore a protective helmet, thick boots and a pouch hung uniform.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000011_000002.wav|He pulled his gun out, and as he did he wondered what Ulv's answer might be.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000049_000000.wav|"A simple matter of definition.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000007_000005.wav|He literally had to do nothing.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000046_000001.wav|"What else could we do?|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000002_000001.wav|Right and wrong were forgotten.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000002_000003.wav|Swiftly they brought their work to completion, with a speed and precision they had concealed before.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000012_000001.wav|It struck one of the technicians, who gasped and fell to the floor.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000017_000004.wav|A believer in life, he destroyed the anti life.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000051_000000.wav|"Exactly so," Professor Krafft said.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000014_000001.wav|A life form that cooperates and aids other life forms.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000007_000006.wav|The score would be even, and his and the Disans' death avenged.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000034_000000.wav|"Would you keep a hold on his arm, sir, just in case," the soldier said, glancing warily at Ulv's blowpipe.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000041_000001.wav|"Not only you, but the magter in this cave.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000021_000000.wav|"Let's go!"|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000023_000001.wav|The beam passed over the two hidden men, and at the same instant Brion fired.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000039_000001.wav|The bent form of the leader of the rebel Nyjord army pushed through the crowd of taller men until he stood next to Krafft.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000024_000002.wav|They waited for the attack.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000019_000001.wav|Let's find a spot we can defend and settle into it."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000037_000000.wav|"Would you kindly explain what is going on?" Brion said thickly.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000032_000000.wav|He was a Nyjorder.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000047_000004.wav|You're easy prey for the first one that lands on your back.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000014_000002.wav|It may kill in self defense, but it is essentially not a killer or destroyer.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000025_000001.wav|Two magter rushed in, and died.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000029_000000.wav|"Don't shoot," a voice called from outside the cave, and a man stepped through the swirling dust and smoke to stand in the beam from the light.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000001_000003.wav|Even if all life on the surface of the planet was dead, this would have no effect on the magter. They would go ahead as planned, without emotion or imagination enough to alter their set course.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141248/2194_141248_000004_000002.wav|They pushed it over to the latticework of the jump field.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000029_000007.wav|Particularly since I plan to drop some H bombs on Dis myself-if we can't turn off the war."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000009_000004.wav|I don't know the exact details, but the reports are very enthusiastic about symbiotic relationships.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000013_000003.wav|They demand unconditional surrender, or else.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000013_000009.wav|That is what we must stop."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000035_000000.wav|"Don't be smug.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000020_000002.wav|I'm an exobiologist, with a supplementary degree in anthropology.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000006_000000.wav|"He looks as if he wanted to kill the photographer," she said.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000008.wav|You can survive there just by pulling fruit off a tree.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000024_000003.wav|Don't call me; I'll call you when I want breakfast."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000023_000003.wav|If we can find out why these people are so hell bent on suicide we might be able to change the reasons.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000035_000004.wav|Now get below and study your Disan and read the reports.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000001.wav|I want to save the Nyjorders.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000014_000002.wav|A bulky, ragged length of cloth around the waist was the only garment.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000029_000005.wav|If she joins up, there'll be time enough to tell her.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000012_000003.wav|Why?|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000016_000001.wav|"They are paying our Cultural Relationships Foundation a good sum to try and prevent this war.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000029_000002.wav|Build up the strength.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000018.wav|Physically they'll live on, as just one more dog eat dog planet with an A bomb for any of the competition who drop behind."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000018_000000.wav|"When is that deadline?" Lea asked.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000008_000000.wav|"Apparently there were large scale mining operations carried on there once; the world is rich enough in minerals and mining them is very simple.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000026_000001.wav|"The top of her head is below my chin."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000009_000000.wav|"Their descendants are still there, completely adapted to the environment.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000023_000002.wav|Everything has a beginning.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000012_000002.wav|Wipe out this fascinating genetic pool?|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000021_000006.wav|He was a good man, but I think he went at this problem the wrong way.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000031_000001.wav|Don't bulge your eyes and look moronic. As a last resort I'll drop the bombs myself rather than let the Nyjorders do it.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000013_000002.wav|Nothing said or done can convince them differently.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000015.wav|But we've fallen down on the job.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000029_000006.wav|But I doubt if she will like the way we operate.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000011_000002.wav|If you can keep notes perhaps you might write a book about it some time.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000021_000001.wav|"My faith in our recruiters is restored," he said.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000010_000000.wav|"Wonderful!" Lea exclaimed.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000012_000000.wav|"Going to do what!" Lea gasped.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000015_000002.wav|I don't see how his kind can be any real threat to another planet."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000021_000007.wav|I think it is a cultural one, not a physical one."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000007_000000.wav|"He almost did-just after the picture was taken.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000028_000000.wav|"Why did you lie to her about the Foundation?"|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000023_000001.wav|Like Newton and the falling apple, Levy and the hysteresis in the warp field.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000031_000002.wav|That might save them."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000030_000000.wav|"I don't believe it!"|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000000.wav|"Not the Disans.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000022_000000.wav|"Run it through again with the power turned up," Lea said, frowning. "All I hear is static."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000019_000000.wav|"In ten more days.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000029_000001.wav|"Better eat something.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000032_000000.wav|"Save them-they'd all be radiated and dead!" Brion's voice rose in anger.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000027_000002.wav|Weak backs, vermiform appendixes, bad eyes.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000013_000005.wav|They have tried every kind of compromise but none of them works.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000017_000004.wav|While essentially a peaceful and happy people, the Nyjorders were justifiably annoyed at this and convinced the tramp's captain to give them some more information. It's all here.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000016.wav|Nonviolence is essential to these people-they have vitality without needing destruction.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000009.wav|The population was small, educated, intelligent.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000021_000005.wav|Our foundation has had six people killed-including my late predecessor in charge of the project.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000014_000001.wav|Bare, horny feet.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000007_000002.wav|Not without good reason, though.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000031_000000.wav|"You heard me correctly.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000014_000004.wav|From a plaited belt were suspended a number of odd devices made of hand beaten metal, drilled stone and looped leather.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000024_000001.wav|"You can count on me for complete cooperation.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000011_000003.wav|But I'm not interested.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000027_000000.wav|"That's the norm.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000017_000001.wav|"Dis has some spacers as well as the cobalt bombs-though these aren't the real threat.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000014_000003.wav|What looked like a piece of green vine was hooked over one shoulder.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000020_000000.wav|"What am I supposed to do?" Lea asked, flipping the pages of the report.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000008_000005.wav|What happened to the people there is a tribute to the adaptation possibilities of homo sapiens. Individuals died, usually in enormous pain, but the race lived. Changed a good deal, but still human.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000021_000003.wav|"No more bickering.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000003.wav|It's delicious.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000005.wav|They have a planet blessed by the laws of chance.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000004.wav|The Nyjorders are all that counts here.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000027_000003.wav|If they didn't have the universities and the trained people we need I would never use them."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000019_000003.wav|But they will drop the bombs in order to assure their own survival."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000008_000004.wav|Dis was on its own.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000008_000007.wav|They couldn't do it mechanically, but by the time the last machine collapsed, enough people were adjusted to the environment to keep the race going.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000012_000001.wav|"Destroy them?|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000027_000001.wav|Earth is a reservoir of tired genes.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000011_000001.wav|"Perhaps from the abstract scientific point of view.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000033_000017.wav|But if they are forced to blow up Dis for their own survival-against every one of their basic tenets-their philosophy won't endure.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000008_000001.wav|But water came only from expensive extraction processes and I imagine most of the food came from offworld.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000004_000009.wav|So are the people.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000011_000006.wav|We must either find out what makes these people tick-or we are going to have to stand by and watch the whole lot blown up!"|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000013_000001.wav|They want to light the fuse and drop these bombs on Nyjord, the next planet.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000013_000006.wav|The Disans are out to commit racial suicide.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/141235/2194_141235_000023_000004.wav|Not that I intend to stop looking for the bombs or the jump space generator either. We are going to try anything that will avert this planetary murder."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000038_000000.wav|"But I never said a word about the Emperor!" said the officer, justifying himself, and unable to understand Rostov's outburst, except on the supposition that he was drunk.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000020_000000.wav|Officious hands, Russian and French, immediately seized the cross and fastened it to the uniform.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000030_000001.wav|On his way back, he noticed Rostov standing by the corner of a house.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000019_000000.wav|Napoleon slightly turned his head, and put his plump little hand out behind him as if to take something.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000031_000000.wav|"Rostov!|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000007_000001.wav|Alexander listened attentively to what was said to him and, bending his head, smiled pleasantly.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000003_000005.wav|The battalions shouted "Hurrah!" and "Vive l'Empereur!" Napoleon said something to Alexander, and both Emperors dismounted and took each other's hands.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000014_000000.wav|"But we must give him an answer."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000040_000001.wav|"If we are ordered to die, we must die.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000034_000000.wav|"Yes, I will."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000028_000001.wav|First rate!"|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000003_000001.wav|It could be no one else.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000029_000003.wav|It has to be done.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000026_000000.wav|"Yes, but what luck for Lazarev!|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000036_000007.wav|Nicholas ate and drank (chiefly the latter) in silence.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000033_000000.wav|"You'll call round?"|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000039_000000.wav|But Rostov did not listen to him.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000023_000000.wav|"What d'you think of the treat?|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000003_000003.wav|He was riding a very fine thoroughbred gray Arab horse with a crimson gold embroidered saddlecloth.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000035_000000.wav|Rostov stood at that corner for a long time, watching the feast from a distance.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000032_000000.wav|"Nothing, nothing," replied Rostov.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000029_000004.wav|He must respond in kind."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000019_000005.wav|Napoleon merely laid the cross on Lazarev's breast and, dropping his hand, turned toward Alexander as though sure that the cross would adhere there.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000035_000008.wav|He caught himself harboring such strange thoughts that he was frightened.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000005_000001.wav|The crowd unexpectedly found itself so close to the Emperors that Rostov, standing in the front row, was afraid he might be recognized.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000025_000000.wav|"Tomorrow, I hear, the Preobrazhenskis will give them a dinner."|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000019_000006.wav|And it really did.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000021_000001.wav|The Preobrazhensk battalion, breaking rank, mingled with the French Guards and sat down at the tables prepared for them.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000030_000000.wav|Boris, too, with his friend Zhilinski, came to see the Preobrazhensk banquet.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000040_000004.wav|If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000006_000000.wav|"Sire, I ask your permission to present the Legion of Honor to the bravest of your soldiers," said a sharp, precise voice, articulating every letter.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000040_000002.wav|If we're punished, it means that we have deserved it, it's not for us to judge.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000017_000000.wav|"Lazarev!" the colonel called, with a frown, and Lazarev, the first soldier in the rank, stepped briskly forward.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000027_000000.wav|"Here's a cap, lads!" shouted a Preobrazhensk soldier, donning a shaggy French cap.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000019_000002.wav|Napoleon, without looking, pressed two fingers together and the badge was between them.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000022_000004.wav|Two officers with flushed faces, looking cheerful and happy, passed by Rostov.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2194/150469/2194_150469_000043_000000.wav|"Yes, and to drink," assented Nicholas.|2194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000014_000000.wav|The meaning of this doggrel, which is somewhat broad, may be rendered-"He dines well who escapes without paying a penny, and who bids farewell to the innkeeper by wiping his nose on the tablecloth."|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000011_000003.wav|On this account they were looked upon with the utmost horror by the infidels, who dreaded more their savage ferocity than the valour of the Crusaders.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000012_000001.wav|He was killed before Sandwich, in twelve seventeen.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000008_000007.wav|They asserted that these treasures could not be discovered without danger, except by means of fastings and offerings, which they and their brethren could alone make, in consideration of which they entered into a bargain, and received a certain sum of money from the owners.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000005_000004.wav|When they had executed their work badly, he ordered them to be punished, either corporally or pecuniarily, according to the gravity of their offences.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000008_000014.wav|In giving a description, therefore, of the mendicity practised in these two countries during the Middle Ages, we are sure to be representing what it was in other parts of Europe.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000005_000005.wav|When he had not himself properly governed his people, he was dethroned, and a successor was appointed by acclamation.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000016_000000.wav|Brantome relates that King Charles the ninth. had the curiosity to wish to "know how the cut purses performed their arts with so much skill and dexterity," and begged Captain La Chambre to introduce to him, on the occasion of a banquet and a ball, the cleverest cut purses, giving them full liberty to exhibit their skill.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000008_000003.wav|We will therefore only mention those which were more especially Italian.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176854/4260_176854_000005_000003.wav|Some came and paid him the tribute which was required of them by the statutes of the craft; others rendered him an account of what they had done, and what they had earned during the year.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000010_000009.wav|What was worse, either by magic, by Satanic agency, or by sleight of hand, they managed to empty people's purses whilst talking to them....|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000007_000005.wav|So many robberies were committed in this way, that the magistrates of the town and the ecclesiastical authorities forbad the inhabitants from visiting the Egyptians' camp, or from having any intercourse with them, under penalty of excommunication and of a fine of fifty livres.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000015_000000.wav|In fifteen thirty two, at Pleinpalais, a suburb of Geneva, some rascals from among a band of gipsies, consisting of upwards of three hundred in number, fell upon several of the officers who were stationed to prevent their entering the town.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000014_000002.wav|During their unwilling retreat, they were pursued by many of the inhabitants of the town, one of whom killed a gipsy named Martin de la Barre: the murderer, however, obtained the King's pardon.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000019_000002.wav|In this difficulty, they pretended that one of them had committed a crime, and had been condemned to be hung a quarter of a league from the village, where they betook themselves with all their goods.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000025_000004.wav|Themselves adepts in all sorts of bad practices, they were not slow to form an alliance with profligate characters who sometimes worked in concert with them, and sometimes alone, and who always framed the model for their own organization from that of the gipsies."|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000025_000002.wav|The answer seems to us to be clear.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000010_000000.wav|Five years later we find them in the neighbourhood of Paris.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000015_000002.wav|The gipsies retired to the monastery of the Augustin friars, in which they fortified themselves: the bourgeois besieged them, and would have committed summary justice on them, but the authorities interfered, and some twenty of the vagrants were arrested, but they sued for mercy, and were discharged.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000013_000001.wav|Suffice it to say that their quarrels with the authorities, or the inhabitants of the countries which had the misfortune to be periodically visited by them, have left numerous traces in history.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000019_000007.wav|I expected he would appeal." Immediately they packed up, secured the prisoner, and were far enough away from the scene before the cure re-entered his house.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000020_000000.wav|Tallemant relates another good trick.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000006_000003.wav|However, whether because a considerable number remained on the road, or because they had been reinforced by others of the same tribe during the year, a troop of fifty men, accompanied by a number of hideous women and filthy children, made their appearance in the neighbourhood of Augsburg.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000010_000012.wav|He went to them with a Franciscan friar, called Le Petit Jacobin, who, by the bishop's order, delivered an earnest address to them, and excommunicated all those who had anything to do with them, or who had their fortunes told.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000005.wav|If they find a sum of money they give notice to the captain, and make a rapid flight from the place.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000010_000013.wav|He further advised the gipsies to go away, and, on the festival of Notre Dame, they departed for Pontoise."|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000009_000001.wav|They also modified their original tale, and stated that they were descendants of the Egyptians who refused hospitality to the Holy Virgin and to saint Joseph during their flight into Egypt: they also declared that, in consequence of this crime, God had doomed their race to perpetual misery and exile.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000025_000003.wav|Receiving into their ranks all those whom crime, the fear of punishment, an uneasy conscience, or the charm of a roaming life, continually threw in their path, they made use of them either to find their way into countries of which they were ignorant, or to commit robberies which would otherwise have been impracticable.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000010_000011.wav|At last accounts respecting them reached the ears of the Bishop of Paris.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000004.wav|When they take up their quarters in any village they steal very little in its immediate vicinity, but in the neighbouring parishes they rob and plunder in the most daring manner.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000010_000010.wav|So, at least, every one said.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000004_000005.wav|They encamped in the fields at night, because the habit they indulged in of stealing everything for which they had a fancy, caused them to fear being disturbed in the towns.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000017_000001.wav|The whole of them were killed, with the exception of their chief, who was taken prisoner and brought before the Parliament of Bordeaux, and ordered to be hung.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000018_000000.wav|It was not often that the gipsies used violence or openly resisted authority; they more frequently had recourse to artifice and cunning in order to attain their end.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000024_000001.wav|In fifteen forty five, a gipsy who had infringed the sentence of banishment was condemned by the Court of Utrecht to be flogged till the blood appeared, to have his nostrils slit, his hair removed, his beard shaved off, and to be banished for life.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000020_000002.wav|The butcher then went away; whereupon the gipsy pulled the sheep from a sack into which he had put it, and substituted for it a child belonging to his tribe.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000014_000000.wav|On the seventh of November, fourteen fifty three, from sixty to eighty gipsies, coming from Courtisolles, arrived at the entrance of the town of Cheppe, near Chalons sur Marne.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000003.wav|Those who are well armed and mounted he sends off with a good almanac, on which are marked all the fairs, and they continually change their dress and their horses.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000024_000000.wav|After having forbidden them, with a threat of six years at the galleys, to sojourn in Spain, Charles the fifth ordered them to leave Flanders under penalty of death.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000017_000003.wav|On the twenty first of July, sixteen twenty two, the same magistrates ordered the gipsies to leave the parish of Eysines within twenty four hours, under penalty of the lash.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000019_000004.wav|He, at first, refused to go, but his parishioners compelled him.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000009.wav|In harvest time all doors are shut against them; nevertheless they contrive, by means of picklocks and other instruments, to effect an entrance into houses, when they steal linen, cloaks, silver, and any other movable article which they can lay their hands on.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000004_000006.wav|It was not long, however, before many of them were arrested and put to death for theft, when the rest speedily decamped.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000019_000003.wav|The man, at the foot of the gibbet, asked for a confessor, and they went to fetch the cure.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000008.wav|When they buy food they pay for it in good money the first time, as they are held in such distrust; but, when they are about to leave a neighbourhood, they again buy something, for which they tender false coin, receiving the change in good money.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000006.wav|They coin counterfeit money, and put it into circulation.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000021_000010.wav|They give a strict account of everything to their captain, who takes his share of all they get, except of what they earn by fortune telling.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000020_000005.wav|"Never was a poor man so thoroughly hoaxed as this butcher," says Tallemant des Reaux.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000007_000003.wav|Few men, however, left the house of the so-called Duke of Egypt without having their purses stolen, and but few women escaped without having the skirts of their dresses cut.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000007_000004.wav|The Egyptian women walked about the town in groups of six or seven, and whilst some were talking to the townspeople, telling them their fortunes, or bartering in shops, one of their number would lay her hands on anything which was within reach.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000006_000004.wav|These vagabonds gave out that they were exiles from Lower Egypt, and pretended to know the art of predicting coming events.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000020_000003.wav|He then ran after the butcher, and said, "Give me five livres, and you shall have the sack into the bargain." The butcher paid him the money, and went away.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4260/176853/4260_176853_000020_000004.wav|When he got home he opened the sack, and was much astonished when he saw a little boy jump out of it, who, in an instant, caught up the sack and ran off.|4260
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000064_000001.wav|A gigantic shadow appeared above the poor diver. It was a shark of huge size, moving in diagonally, eyes ablaze, jaws wide open!|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000084_000000.wav|"Tit for tat, captain," Ned Land replied.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000047_000000.wav|Just then a huge cave opened up in our path, hollowed from a picturesque pile of rocks whose smooth heights were completely hung with underwater flora.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000074_000000.wav|The waves were saturated with masses of blood.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000055_000000.wav|I then understood Captain Nemo's intent.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000038_000002.wav|The ease with which I could move increased my confidence, and the many strange sights captivated my imagination.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000087_000000.wav|The longboat flew over the waves.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000075_000000.wav|Meanwhile Ned Land pulled the captain clear.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000010_000000.wav|Captain Nemo was waiting for me.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000057_000001.wav|For my part, I was no longer worried about those dangers my imagination had so ridiculously exaggerated. The shallows drew noticeably closer to the surface of the sea, and soon, walking in only a meter of water, my head passed well above the level of the ocean.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000020_000000.wav|The skiff headed southward.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000058_000002.wav|no|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000062_000000.wav|So he went up and down several times.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000043_000000.wav|Near seven o'clock we finally surveyed the bank of shellfish, where pearl oysters reproduce by the millions.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000014_000000.wav|"What about my companions, captain?"|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000034_000003.wav|Here's a sturdy blade. Slip it under your belt and let's be off."|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000011_000000.wav|"Professor Aronnax," he said to me, "are you ready to start?"|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000039_000001.wav|After ten minutes of walking, we were in five meters of water, and the terrain had become almost flat.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000007_000000.wav|A Pearl Worth Ten Million|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000067_000000.wav|This scene lasted barely a few seconds.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000030_000002.wav|Their brightness might unexpectedly attract certain dangerous occupants of these waterways."|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000057_000000.wav|We walked by ourselves, genuine loiterers stopping or straying as our fancies dictated.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000086_000000.wav|"To the Nautilus," he said.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000072_000001.wav|But I was transfixed with horror, unable to move.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000083_000000.wav|"Thank you, mr Land," he told him.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000056_000000.wav|Our visit to this opulent giant clam came to an end. Captain Nemo left the cave, and we climbed back up the bank of shellfish in the midst of these clear waters not yet disturbed by divers at work.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000058_000000.wav|Ten minutes later, Captain Nemo stopped suddenly.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000046_000000.wav|But we couldn't stop.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000093_000000.wav|When I shared these impressions with him, he answered me in a tone touched with emotion:|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000018_000002.wav|Oars in position, five of the Nautilus's sailors were waiting for us aboard the skiff, which was moored alongside.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000021_000000.wav|We were silent.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000077_000002.wav|But that stroke from the shark's tail could have been his deathblow.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000020_000001.wav|The oarsmen took their time. I watched their strokes vigorously catch the water, and they always waited ten seconds before rowing again, following the practice used in most navies.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000016_000000.wav|"Aren't we going to put on our diving suits?" I asked.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000057_000003.wav|I think I've now earned the right to dub it that.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000049_000000.wav|After going down a fairly steep slope, our feet trod the floor of a sort of circular pit.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000033_000001.wav|"Our rifles?"|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000037_000001.wav|We followed him down a gentle slope and disappeared under the waves.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000034_000000.wav|"Rifles!|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000038_000001.wav|I became surprisingly calm again.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000035_000000.wav|I stared at my companions.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000087_000001.wav|A few minutes later we encountered the shark's corpse again, floating.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000052_000001.wav|I was mistaken.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000077_000000.wav|Captain Nemo's first concern was to revive this unfortunate man. I wasn't sure he would succeed.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000048_000001.wav|We followed him.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000085_000000.wav|The ghost of a smile glided across the captain's lips, and that was all.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000070_000000.wav|The shark bellowed, so to speak.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000062_000001.wav|He gathered only about ten shellfish per dive, because he had to tear them from the banks where each clung with its tough mass of filaments. And how many of these oysters for which he risked his life would have no pearl in them!|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000008_000000.wav|NIGHT FELL.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000031_000000.wav|As Captain Nemo pronounced these words, I turned to Conseil and Ned Land.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000082_000000.wav|Captain Nemo's first words were spoken to the Canadian.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000079_000002.wav|His bewildered eyes indicated that he didn't know to what superhuman creatures he owed both his life and his fortune.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000077_000001.wav|I hoped so, since the poor devil hadn't been under very long.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000022_000002.wav|Profound solitude reigned over this gathering place of pearl fishermen.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000081_000000.wav|Back on board, the sailors helped divest us of our heavy copper carapaces.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000076_000000.wav|The three of us followed him, and a few moments later, miraculously safe, we reached the fisherman's longboat.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000047_000001.wav|At first this cave looked pitch black to me.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000051_000001.wav|Its mass of filaments attached it to a table of granite, and there it grew by itself in the midst of the cave's calm waters.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000070_000001.wav|Blood was pouring into the waves from its wounds.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000021_000001.wav|What was Captain Nemo thinking?|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000009_000000.wav|The next day at four o'clock in the morning, I was awakened by the steward whom Captain Nemo had placed expressly at my service. I got up quickly, dressed, and went into the lounge.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000069_000000.wav|I can see Captain Nemo's bearing to this day.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000015_000000.wav|"They've been alerted and are waiting for us."|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000060_000000.wav|It was a man, a living man, a black Indian fisherman, a poor devil who no doubt had come to gather what he could before harvest time. I saw the bottom of his dinghy, moored a few feet above his head. He would dive and go back up in quick succession.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000072_000000.wav|I wanted to run to the captain's rescue.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000051_000000.wav|I approached this phenomenal mollusk.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000008_000002.wav|I slept pretty poorly.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000025_000000.wav|The skiff advanced toward Mannar Island, which curved to the south. Captain Nemo stood up from his thwart and studied the sea.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000030_000000.wav|"Our lighting equipment would be useless to us," the captain answered me. "We won't be going very deep, and the sun's rays will be sufficient to light our way.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000008_000001.wav|I went to bed.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000057_000002.wav|Conseil rejoined me, and gluing his huge copper capsule to mine, his eyes gave me a friendly greeting. But this lofty plateau measured only a few fathoms, and soon we reentered Our Element.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000027_000001.wav|A month from now in this very place, the numerous fishing boats of the harvesters will gather, and these are the waters their divers will ransack so daringly. This bay is felicitously laid out for their type of fishing. It's sheltered from the strongest winds, and the sea is never very turbulent here, highly favorable conditions for diving work. Now let's put on our underwater suits, and we'll begin our stroll."|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000036_000000.wav|Then, following the captain's example, I let myself be crowned with my heavy copper sphere, and our air tanks immediately went into action.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000063_000000.wav|I observed him with great care.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000084_000001.wav|"I owed it to you."|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000019_000000.wav|Captain Nemo, Conseil, Ned Land, and I found seats in the stern of the skiff.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000073_000002.wav|Then the shark's jaws opened astoundingly wide, like a pair of industrial shears, and that would have been the finish of Captain Nemo had not Ned Land, quick as thought, rushed forward with his harpoon and driven its dreadful point into the shark's underside.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000074_000002.wav|Ned Land hadn't missed his target. This was the monster's death rattle.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000018_000000.wav|Captain Nemo took me to the central companionway whose steps led to the platform.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000061_000000.wav|This diver didn't see us.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000088_000001.wav|It was more than twenty five feet long; its enormous mouth occupied a third of its body. It was an adult, as could be seen from the six rows of teeth forming an isosceles triangle in its upper jaw.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000055_000003.wav|Perhaps, following the examples of oyster farmers in China and India, he had even predetermined the creation of this pearl by sticking under the mollusk's folds some piece of glass or metal that was gradually covered with mother of pearl. In any case, comparing this pearl to others I already knew about, and to those shimmering in the captain's collection, I estimated that it was worth at least ten million francs.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000038_000000.wav|There the obsessive fears in my brain left me.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000044_000002.wav|The others had rugged black surfaces, measured up to fifteen centimeters in width, and were ten or more years old.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000048_000003.wav|I distinguished the unpredictably contoured springings of a vault, supported by natural pillars firmly based on a granite foundation, like the weighty columns of Tuscan architecture. Why had our incomprehensible guide taken us into the depths of this underwater crypt?|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000023_000000.wav|At six o'clock the day broke suddenly, with that speed unique to tropical regions, which experience no real dawn or dusk. The sun's rays pierced the cloud curtain gathered on the easterly horizon, and the radiant orb rose swiftly.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000013_000000.wav|"Kindly follow me."|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000074_000003.wav|Pierced to the heart, it was struggling with dreadful spasms whose aftershocks knocked Conseil off his feet.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000092_000002.wav|In spite of everything, this strange man hadn't yet succeeded in completely stifling his heart.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000053_000000.wav|The mollusk's two valves were partly open.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000048_000004.wav|I would soon find out.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000033_000000.wav|"What about our weapons?" I asked him.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000017_000000.wav|"Not yet.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000064_000000.wav|I understood his fear.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000078_000001.wav|How startled he must have felt, how frightened even, at seeing four huge, copper craniums leaning over him!|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000092_000000.wav|There I fell to thinking about the incidents that marked our excursion over the Mannar oysterbank.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000051_000002.wav|I estimated the weight of this giant clam at three hundred kilograms.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000052_000002.wav|Captain Nemo had an explicit personal interest in checking on the current condition of this giant clam.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000039_000000.wav|The sun was already sending sufficient light under these waves. The tiniest objects remained visible.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6235/36641/6235_36641_000031_000001.wav|But my two friends had already encased their craniums in their metal headgear, and they could neither hear nor reply.|6235
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000037_000000.wav|"In this cup, which I drink on behalf of the nation, I pledge you, my people."|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000008_000001.wav|Hearken, you Children of Umsuka, Shaker of the Earth!|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000027_000003.wav|Here, at some whispered word or sign, she seemed to recover herself, and again resuming the character of a proud offended beauty, she curtseyed to Umsuka, and spoke:--|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000026_000001.wav|Her breast heaved and her white teeth bit upon her lip.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000011_000000.wav|"A boon, King!"|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000041_000000.wav|"Hearken, Councillors and Captains, and you, my people, hearken.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000035_000000.wav|Although he had been unable to see him drop the poison into the cup, a glance at Hafela told Owen that it was there; for though he kept his face under control, he could not prevent his hands from twitching or the sweat from starting upon his brow and breast.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000042_000000.wav|At this point the king began to grow confused.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000024_000001.wav|"Then it would seem that I have lost favour in the eyes of my lord the prince, or that some fairer woman has found it."|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000008_000000.wav|"Hearken, you Sons of Fire!|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000010_000000.wav|When all had done, the Prince Hafela came forward, lifted his spear, and cried:--|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000007_000000.wav|A herald stood forward and cried:--|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000021_000001.wav|"What of it, O King?"|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000026_000003.wav|Hokosa fixed his calm eyes upon her with a strange intensity of gaze, and while he gazed his form quivered with a suppressed excitement, much as a snake quivers that is about to strike its prey. To the careless eye there was nothing remarkable about his look and attitude; to the observer it was evident that both were full of extraordinary purpose.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000023_000000.wav|Noma started, and her face grew hard.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000013_000003.wav|King, my heart is changed towards that woman; I no longer desire to take her to wife, and I pray that you will order that she shall now be handed back to Hokosa her guardian."|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000022_000000.wav|"This, girl: the prince who was pleased to honour you is now pleased to dishonour you.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000018_000006.wav|And yet the face was haughty, a face that upon occasion might even become cruel.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000013_000002.wav|She passed into the House of the Royal Women, and, by your command, King, it was fixed that I should marry her according to our customs to morrow, after the feast of the first fruits is ended.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000017_000003.wav|Let the Lady Noma be summoned."|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000014_000001.wav|What have you to say to this demand, Hokosa?"|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000039_000005.wav|To act now would be madness, his time had not yet come.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000015_000001.wav|His dress, like that of his companions, was simple, but in its way striking.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000013_000001.wav|"A while ago I named a certain woman, Noma, the ward of Hokosa the wizard, and she was sealed to me to fill the place of my first wife, the queen that is to be.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35926/5242_35926_000017_000000.wav|"You do well, Hokosa," answered Umsuka, "to leave this to me.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000040_000000.wav|Owen started.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000027_000004.wav|Ho! there, lead forth that evil one.'|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000017_000000.wav|"What is the matter?" asked Owen.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000020_000000.wav|"Yes, viewed from a distance.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000033_000004.wav|This is the sentence of the king, I speak it who am the king's mouth: That you, White Man, who have spoken to us and cheated us these two weary days, be put to death, and that you, his companion who have been silent, be driven from the land.'|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000011_000001.wav|He preached extemporarily, with the aid of notes; and it cannot be said that his discourse was remarkable for interest, at any rate in its beginning.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000024_000000.wav|"Who can say?" he answered.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000027_000003.wav|Therefore we will put you to the proof.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000007_000001.wav|It was a beautiful church, ancient and spacious; moreover, it had recently been restored at great cost.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000008_000006.wav|Hence his disappointment.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000003_000000.wav|THE DEPUTATION|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000033_000003.wav|Choose which horn of the bull you will, you hang to one of them, and it shall pierce you.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000035_000002.wav|Tell them that they desire to hear more of this matter, and if one can be sent to them who has no false tongue; who in all things fulfills the promises of his lips, that they will hearken to him and treat him well, but that for such as you they keep a spear.'"|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000031_000000.wav|"'Now, followers of the new God,' said Hokosa, 'raise him from the dead as your Master did!'|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000008_000003.wav|The Rev.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000029_000000.wav|"'Kill him!' said Hokosa.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000035_000000.wav|"'Go back, White Man, to those who sent you, and tell them the words of the Sons of Fire: That they have listened to the message of peace, and though they are a people of warriors, yet they thank them for that message, for in itself it sounds good and beautiful in their ears, if it be true.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5242/35921/5242_35921_000039_000000.wav|"Then perhaps you would like to undertake the mission, mr Owen," said the Deputation briskly; for the reflection stung him, unintentional as it was.|5242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000013_000000.wav|has, of course, an archaeological interest, but has no artistic value at all.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000008_000003.wav|The sonnet on Shelley's room at University College would be admirable but for the unmusical character of the last line.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000011_000001.wav|To throw away the natural grace of rhyme from a modern song is, as mr Swinburne once remarked, a wilful abdication of half the power and half the charm of verse, and we cannot say that mr Todhunter has given us much that consoles us for its loss.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000004_000000.wav|Yes-like a bubble filled with smoke- The curd white moon upswimming broke The vacancy of space;|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000016_000001.wav|The opening lines of The Vendetta also deserve mention:|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000021_000000.wav|The 'literary culture' that produced these lines is, we fear, not of a very high order.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000014_000000.wav|mr Peacock is an American poet, and Professor Thomas Danleigh Supplee, a m, p h d, f r s, who has written a preface to his Poems of the Plains and Songs of the Solitudes, tells us that he is entitled to be called the Laureate of the West.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000028_000000.wav|(six) Poems.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000022_000002.wav|They are often distinguished by a grave and chastened beauty of style, and their solemn cadences have something of the 'grand manner' about them.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000014_000005.wav|The Maniac, The Bandit Chief, and The Outlaw can hardly be called light reading, but we strongly recommend the poem on Chicago:|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000015_000000.wav|Chicago! great city of the West! All that wealth, all that power invest; Thou sprang like magic from the sand, As touched by the magician's wand.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000027_000000.wav|(five) Holiday Recreations and Other Poems.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000003_000002.wav|In the course of the chase a little child is drowned, a Brahmin maiden murdered, and an aged peasant severely wounded, but the hunter cares for none of these things and will not hear of stopping to render any assistance.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000007_000005.wav|The volume is nicely printed, but mr Strang's frontispiece is not a great success, and most of the tail pieces seem to have been designed without any reference to the size of the page.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000018_000000.wav|The first line is certainly a masterpiece, and, indeed, the whole volume is full of gems of this kind.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000003_000001.wav|Hadji is a wonderful Arab horse that a reckless hunter rides to death in the pursuit of a wild boar, and the moral of the poem-for there is a moral-seems to be that an absorbing passion is a very dangerous thing and blunts the human sympathies.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000013_000001.wav|Indeed, from the point of view of art, the few little poems at the end of the volume are worth all the ambitious pseudo epics that mr Todhunter has tried to construct out of Celtic lore.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000003_000000.wav|mr Ian Hamilton's Ballad of Hadji is undeniably clever.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000011_000003.wav|It is an interesting specimen of poetic writing but it is not a perfect work of art.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000014_000004.wav|The preface is the most amusing part of the book, but the poems also are worth studying.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000011_000000.wav|are the first and last stanzas of mr Todhunter's poem The Banshee.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000007_000001.wav|All through the volume we find the same curious mixture of good and bad.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000005_000000.wav|but such lines as the following, which occur in the description of the fight with the boar-|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000003_000003.wav|Some of the stanzas are very graceful, notably one beginning|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000013_000002.wav|A Bacchic Day is charming, and the sonnet on the open air performance of The Faithfull Shepherdesse is most gracefully phrased and most happy in conception.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000014_000001.wav|Though a staunch Republican, mr Peacock, according to the enthusiastic Professor, is not ashamed of his ancestor King William of Holland, nor of his relatives Lord and Lady Peacock who, it seems, are natives of Scotland.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000007_000003.wav|mr Ian Hamilton should prune.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000007_000002.wav|To say that the sun kisses the earth 'with flame moustachoed lip' is awkward and uncouth, and yet the poem in which the expression occurs has some pretty lines.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000019_000001.wav|He has a placid, pleasant way of writing, and, indeed, his verses cannot do any harm, though he really should not publish such attempts at metrical versions of the Psalms as the following:|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000007_000000.wav|are dreadful, and 'his brains festooned the thorn' is not a very happy way of telling the reader how the boar died.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000018_000001.wav|The Professor remarks in his elaborate preface that mr Peacock 'frequently rises to the sublime,' and the two passages quoted above show how keenly critical is his taste in these matters and how well the poet deserves his panegyric.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000024_000000.wav|(two) Poems in the Modern Spirit, with The Secret of Content.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000008_000002.wav|In the rest of the volume, where mr Catty does not take himself quite so seriously, there are some rather pleasing things.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000014_000003.wav|His poems seem to be extremely popular, and have been highly praised, the Professor informs us, by Victor Hugo, the Saturday Review and the Commercial Advertiser.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128138/1112_128138_000009_000000.wav|Green in the wizard arms Of the foam bearded Atlantic, An isle of old enchantment, A melancholy isle, Enchanted and dreaming lies; And there, by Shannon's flowing In the moonlight, spectre thin, The spectre Erin sits.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000034_000000.wav|"Warner," I called, "come back here.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000044_000000.wav|It was true enough.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000025_000000.wav|"I-I think he's in bed, ma'm."|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000019_000005.wav|If the fugitive had come from outside the house, how did he get in?|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000005_000003.wav|When he stood up his face was exultant.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000005_000000.wav|But the key was not in it.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000044_000003.wav|The basket had been overturned, but that was all.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000020_000000.wav|I tried to put the thought away, but it would not go.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000004_000000.wav|"That's the door," she said sulkily.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000013_000000.wav|"There's somebody locked in the laundry," I panted.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000020_000006.wav|And yet, every way I turned I seemed to find something that pointed to such a connection.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000044_000004.wav|mr Jamieson examined the windows: one was unlocked, and offered an easy escape. The window or the door?|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000001_000000.wav|"It's kept in the door," Liddy snapped.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000020_000004.wav|The mystery seemed to deepen constantly.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000037_000000.wav|To Thomas!|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000041_000006.wav|Without the slightest difficulty the door opened, revealing the blackness of the drying room beyond!|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000043_000002.wav|I might have known."|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000000_000001.wav|"Where's the laundry key kept?"|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000019_000000.wav|As I went down the drive, my thoughts were busy.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000004_000001.wav|"The key's in it."|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000043_000000.wav|"Gone!" he said.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000020_000001.wav|If Gertrude had been on the circular staircase that night, why had she fled from mr Jamieson?|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000034_000001.wav|Whose bag is this?"|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000030_000002.wav|How did it get there?|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000044_000005.wav|Which way had the fugitive escaped?|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000017_000000.wav|"I fell over the carriage block," she explained.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000033_000000.wav|He was in the doorway by this time, and he pretended not to hear.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000019_000009.wav|Gertrude and her injured ankle!|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000044_000001.wav|We got the lights on finally and looked all through the three rooms that constituted this wing of the basement. Everything was quiet and empty.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000026_000000.wav|"Get him up," I said, "and for goodness' sake open the door, Thomas. I'll wait for Warner."|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000006_000000.wav|"It's locked on the inside," he said in a low tone.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000008_000000.wav|"Liddy," I called, "go through the house at once and see who is missing, or if any one is.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000001_000001.wav|"That whole end of the cellar is kept locked, so nobody can get at the clothes, and then the key's left in the door?|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000029_000002.wav|But my attention was busy with the room below.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000041_000004.wav|At the door he was to force, Warner put down his tools and looked at it.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000030_000001.wav|It was filled with gold topped bottles and brushes, and it breathed opulence, luxury, femininity from every inch of surface.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000015_000002.wav|If you came out for air, you'd better put on your overshoes." And then I noticed that Gertrude was limping-not much, but sufficiently to make her progress very slow, and seemingly painful.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000041_000005.wav|Then he turned the handle.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000032_000002.wav|Warner, whose bag is this?"|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000036_000000.wav|"It's-it belongs to Thomas," he said, and fled up the drive.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000014_000002.wav|What have you locked in the laundry?"|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000001_000002.wav|so that unless a thief was as blind as-as some detectives, he could walk right in."|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000037_000002.wav|However, I put the bag in the back of my mind, which was fast becoming stored with anomalous and apparently irreconcilable facts, and followed Warner to the house.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000007_000000.wav|"Lord have mercy!" gasped Liddy, and turned to run.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/1043/1112_1043_000005_000001.wav|mr Jamieson shook it, but it was a heavy door, well locked.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000039_000000.wav|(six) The Story of the Cross.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000021_000001.wav|Here is the opening:|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000021_000000.wav|The Wind, by mr james Ross, is a rather gusty ode, written apparently without any definite scheme of metre, and not very impressive as it lacks both the strength of the blizzard and the sweetness of Zephyr.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000034_000001.wav|By Alfred Hayes, m a|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000027_000003.wav|If Theology desires to move us, she must re write her formulas.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000025_000000.wav|Saul of Tarsus, silently, With a silent company, To Damascus' gates drew nigh.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000013_000003.wav|Some of his descriptive touches of nature, such as|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000030_000000.wav|and can speak of Longfellow as a 'mighty Titan.' Reckless panegyrics of this kind show a kindly nature and a good heart, and mr Mackenzie's Highland Daydreams could not possibly offend any one.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000027_000001.wav|The rest of the volume, however, is disappointing.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000020_000000.wav|We do not care for 'palely fair' in the first line, and the repetition of the word 'strikes' is not very felicitous, but the grace of movement and delicacy of touch are pleasing.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000018_000000.wav|are excessively tedious.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000007_000003.wav|The hero of the poem is a young clergyman of the muscular Christian school:|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000012_000000.wav|As if we lacked reminding of brute force, As if we never felt the clumsy hoof, As if the bulk of twenty million whales Were worth one pleading soul, or all the laws That rule the lifeless suns could soothe the sense Of outrage in a loving human heart! Sublime? majestic?|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000014_000000.wav|In meeting woods, whereon a film of mist Slept like the bloom upon the purple grape,|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000010_000000.wav|A gallant fish, all flashing in the sun In silver mail inlaid with scarlet gems, His back thick sprinkled as a leopard's hide With rich brown spots, and belly of bright gold.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000027_000002.wav|Ordinary theology has long since converted its gold into lead, and words and phrases that once touched the heart of the world have become wearisome and meaningless through repetition.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000038_000000.wav|(five) Highland Daydreams.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000031_000001.wav|mr Nash, who styles himself 'a humble soldier in the army of Faith,' expresses a hope that his book may 'invigorate devotional feeling, especially among the young, to whom verse is perhaps more attractive than to their elders,' but we should be sorry to think that people of any age could admire such a paraphrase as the following:|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000030_000001.wav|It must be admitted that they are rather old-fashioned, but this is usually the case with natural spontaneous verse.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000028_000000.wav|There is something very pleasant in coming across a poet who can apostrophise Byron as|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000023_000002.wav|Immortality, even in the nineteenth century, is not granted to those who rhyme 'awe' and 'war' together.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000026_000000.wav|And his eyes, too, and his mien Were, as are the eagles, keen; All the man was aquiline-|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000018_000001.wav|But when mr Rodd leaves the problem of the Unconditioned to take care of itself, and makes no attempt to solve the mysteries of the Ego and the non Ego, he is very pleasant reading indeed. A Mazurka of Chopin is charming, in spite of the awkwardness of the fifth line, and so are the verses on Assisi, and those on San Servolo at Venice.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000023_000001.wav|The ode is followed by some sonnets which are destined, we fear, to be ludibria ventis.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000011_000004.wav|He finds no comfort in contemplating Leviathan:|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000013_000000.wav|mr Hayes states the problem of life extremely well, but his solution is sadly inadequate both from a psychological and from a dramatic point of view.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000007_000001.wav|It is somewhat lacking in actuality, and the picturesque style in which it is written rather contributes to this effect, lending the story beauty but robbing it of truth.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000013_000002.wav|However, in spite of this commonplace conclusion there is a great deal in mr Hayes's poem that is strong and fine, and he undoubtedly possesses a fair ear for music and a remarkable faculty of poetical expression.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000023_000000.wav|Nothing could be much worse than this, and if the line 'Where fierce hyaenas seek their awful feast' is intended to frighten us, it entirely misses its effect.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000018_000003.wav|The prettiest thing in the whole volume is this little lyric on Spring:|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000024_000000.wav|mr Isaac Sharp's Saul of Tarsus is an interesting, and, in some respects, a fine poem.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000011_000000.wav|They naturally fall in love with each other and marry, and for many years David Westren leads a perfectly happy life.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000027_000000.wav|are two strong, simple verses, and indeed the spirit of the whole poem is dignified and stately.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000017_000000.wav|Lift thee o'er thy 'here' and 'now,' Look beyond thine 'I' and 'thou,'|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000032_000000.wav|Foxes have holes, in which to slink for rest, The birds of air find shelter in the nest; But He, the Son of Man and Lord of all, Has no abiding place His own to call.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000013_000001.wav|David Westren ultimately becomes a mild Unitarian, a sort of pastoral Stopford Brooke with leanings towards Positivism, and we leave him preaching platitudes to a village congregation.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000015_000000.wav|are very graceful and suggestive, and he will probably make his mark in literature.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000011_000001.wav|Suddenly calamity comes upon him, his wife and children die and he finds himself alone and desolate. Then begins his struggle.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1112/128136/1112_128136_000031_000000.wav|The Story of the Cross, an attempt to versify the Gospel narratives, is a strange survival of the Tate and Brady school of poetry.|1112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000024_000003.wav|The only thing he could do was to keep out of sight as much as possible.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000000.wav|"Of course mr Turtle heard just what he said, and he blessed the piece of bark which had hidden him from mr Fisher's sight.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000007_000000.wav|"I mean, where is your house?" returned peter.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000017_000002.wav|For a long time he had had a great deal of respect for Grandfather Frog, who, as you know, is very old and very wise, but now peter felt almost afraid of him.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000001_000000.wav|fifteen|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000019_000000.wav|"Never mind how I knew.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000002.wav|When he did go on, he took the greatest care not to shake off that piece of bark, for he didn't know but that any minute he might want to hide under it again.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000022_000005.wav|Everybody who lives in the Smiling Pool knows that it is the best place in the world, anyway."|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000021_000004.wav|He was very quiet and bashful, was mr Turtle, and he never meddled with any one's business, because he believed that the best way of keeping out of trouble was to attend strictly to his own affairs.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000012_000000.wav|"Of course it is," replied Spotty, putting nothing but his head out, "You will always find me at home whenever you call, peter, and that is more than you can say of most other people."|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000020_000000.wav|peter wondered if he meant him, for you know peter is a great gossip. But he didn't say anything, because he didn't know just what to say, and in a minute Grandfather Frog began the story peter so much wanted.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000024_000004.wav|So he learned to swim with only his head out of water, and sometimes with only the end of his nose out of water.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000024_000002.wav|He was too slow and awkward to run or to fight.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000022_000001.wav|If he had had, he would have been saved a great deal of trouble and worry. For a long time everybody lived at peace with everybody else.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000014_000008.wav|I never thought of that before. Why, that is the handiest thing I ever heard of."|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000008_000001.wav|Just now it is right here," said Spotty.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000021_000002.wav|Almost everything to day is the result of things that happened in those long ago days.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000003_000004.wav|A sudden thought struck peter.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000024_000001.wav|"He had two or three very narrow escapes, and these set him to thinking.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000006.wav|Wherever he went he carried the piece of bark so as to have it handy to hide under.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000007_000001.wav|"Of course I know you live in the Smiling Pool, but where is your house?|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000006_000001.wav|Where else should I live?" he replied.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000016_000002.wav|I don't like to be kept waiting.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000021_000001.wav|And of course you know that that reason is because of something that happened a long time ago, way back in the days when the world was young.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000028_000000.wav|"Now all this time Old Mother Nature had been watching mr Turtle, and it pleased her to see that he was smart enough to think of such a clever way of fooling his enemies.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000022_000004.wav|He had nothing to worry about on that score.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000018_000001.wav|Truly I didn't," stammered peter. "If I had, I would have been here long ago.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000014_000001.wav|"No wonder he is so slow.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000028_000001.wav|So she began to study how she could help mr Turtle.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000011_000002.wav|That's a great idea!" shouted peter.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000014_000004.wav|Still, when he is in a hurry to get away from an enemy, it must be very awkward to have to carry his house on his back.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000003_000001.wav|He had sat that way for the longest time without once moving.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000005_000001.wav|There was a twinkle in his eyes, though peter didn't see it.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000010_000000.wav|With that Spotty disappeared.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000014_000007.wav|All he has got to do is to go inside his house and stay there until the danger is past!|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000032_000000.wav|"'By doing as you always have done, attending wholly to your own affairs,' replied Old Mother Nature.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000024_000000.wav|"But presently mr Turtle discovered that the big people were eating the little people whenever they could catch them, and that he wasn't safe a minute when on shore, and not always safe in the water," continued Grandfather Frog.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000019_000001.wav|I know a great deal that I don't tell, which is more than some folks can say," replied Grandfather Frog.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000010_000003.wav|Then he began to laugh, for it came to him that what Spotty had said was true.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000007_000002.wav|Is it in the bank or down under water?"|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000014_000006.wav|He doesn't have to run away at all!|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000003_000002.wav|peter Rabbit had seen him when he went by on his way to the Laughing Brook and the Green Forest to look for some one to pass the time of day with.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000004.wav|Thereafter, when he wanted to go on land, he would first make sure that no one was watching.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000011_000000.wav|"That's a great idea!|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000023_000000.wav|Grandfather Frog winked at Jerry Muskrat, who was listening, and Jerry nodded his head.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000010_000004.wav|His house was with him, and now he had simply retired inside.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000018_000000.wav|"I-I didn't know you were waiting.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000004_000000.wav|"Hi, Spotty!" he shouted.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000010_000002.wav|peter stared very hard.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000030_000000.wav|"mr Turtle did as he was told to do, and there he was in the very best and safest kind of a house, perfectly hidden from all his enemies!|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000008_000000.wav|"It is just wherever I happen to be.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000010_000001.wav|That is to say, his head and legs and tail disappeared.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000005_000000.wav|Spotty slowly turned his head and looked up at peter.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000013_000000.wav|All the way to his own home in the dear Old Briar patch, peter thought about Spotty and how queer it was that he should carry his house around with him.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000003.wav|At last he reached the Smiling Pool and slipped into the water, leaving the piece of bark on the bank.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000017_000003.wav|You see, it seemed to peter as if Grandfather Frog had read his very thoughts.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000015_000002.wav|As usual, Grandfather Frog was sitting on his big green lily pad.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000022_000002.wav|Then came the trying time, of which you already know, when those who lived on the Green Meadows and in the Green Forest had the very hardest kind of work to find enough to eat, and were hungry most of the time.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000025_000002.wav|At first he was annoyed and started to shake it off.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000029_000001.wav|Then she touched the skin of his stomach and turned that into hard shell.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000017_000000.wav|peter was so surprised that he couldn't find his tongue.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000026_000000.wav|"'I believe,' said mr Fisher, talking out loud to himself, 'that I'll have a look around the Smiling Pool and see if I can catch that slow moving Turtle who lives there.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000027_000005.wav|Then he would crawl under the piece of bark and get it on his back.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000015_000000.wav|Now peter knew that there must be a good story about Spotty and his house, and you know peter dearly loves a good story.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000026_000001.wav|I believe he'll make me a good dinner.'|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000028_000003.wav|The piece of bark was uncomfortable and scratched his back, 'I wish,' said he, talking to himself, for he didn't know that any one else was near, 'I wish that I had a house of my own that I could carry on my back all the time and be perfectly safe when I was inside of it.'|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000031_000000.wav|"'Oh, Mother Nature, how can I ever thank you?' he cried.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000003_000003.wav|Spotty was still there when peter returned a long time after, and he didn't look as if he had moved.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000015_000003.wav|No sooner did peter pop his head above the edge of the bank of the Smiling Pool than Grandfather Frog exclaimed:|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000025_000005.wav|He looked at the piece of bark under which mr Turtle was hiding, but all he saw was the bark, because, you know, mr Turtle had drawn himself wholly under.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000029_000000.wav|"'You shall have,' said Old Mother Nature, and reaching out, she touched his back and turned the skin into hard shell.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000014_000000.wav|"I wonder how it happens that he does it," thought he.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000017_000001.wav|He hadn't said a word to any one about Spotty, so how could Grandfather Frog know what he had come for?|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000025_000004.wav|It was mr Fisher, and he was very hungry and fierce.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000018_000002.wav|If you please, how did you know that I was coming and what I was coming for?"|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000016_000003.wav|If you wanted to know about Spotty the Turtle, why didn't you come earlier?" All the time there was a twinkle in the big, goggly eyes of Grandfather Frog.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000022_000003.wav|Now mr Turtle, living in the Smiling Pool, had plenty to eat.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000015_000001.wav|So at the very first opportunity the next day, he hurried over to the Smiling Pool to ask Grandfather Frog about it.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000021_000003.wav|The great great ever so great grandfather of Spotty the Turtle lived then, and unlike Spotty, whom you know, he had no house.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000002_000000.wav|WHY SPOTTY THE TURTLE CARRIES HIS HOUSE WITH HIM|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000029_000002.wav|'Now draw in your head and your legs and your tail,' said she.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000028_000002.wav|One day she came up behind him just as he sat down to rest.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182402/3989_182402_000016_000001.wav|You've kept me waiting a long time, peter Rabbit.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000029_000000.wav|"'Mercy me!' exclaimed Old Mother Nature, throwing up her hands as she saw the tumble down house almost hidden by the brambles and weeds. 'Can it be possible that any one really lives here?'|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000016_000000.wav|"Now mr Rabbit was lazy.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000016_000004.wav|You see, he was so busy minding other people's business that he didn't have time to attend to his own. So his brown and gray coat always was rumpled and tumbled and dirty. His house was a tumble down affair in which no one but mr Rabbit would ever have thought of living, and his garden-oh, dear me, such a garden you never did see!|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000023_000000.wav|"Instead of hurrying home and getting to work himself, mr Rabbit stopped a while after each call and sat with his arms folded, watching the one he was calling on work.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000027_000000.wav|"Finally mr Rabbit had made the round of all his friends and neighbors, and he once more reached his tumble down house.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000012_000000.wav|And this is how it happens that Grandfather Frog told this story to the little meadow and forest people gathered around him on the bank of the Smiling Pool.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000016_000003.wav|The very sight of work scared old mr Rabbit.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000001_000000.wav|WHY peter RABBIT CANNOT FOLD HIS HANDS|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000002_000000.wav|Happy Jack Squirrel sat with his hands folded across his white waistcoat.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000028_000000.wav|"Now Old Mother Nature likes to take people by surprise, and it happened that she chose this very day to make her promised visit.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000020_000000.wav|"Now mr Woodchuck was a worker and very, very neat.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000022_000002.wav|So mr Rabbit called on mr Skunk and mr Coon and mr Mink and mr Squirrel and mr Chipmunk, and all the rest of his neighbors, telling them of his trouble and asking them to help.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000010_000000.wav|"Why not?" asked Happy Jack.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000002_000003.wav|Happy Jack noticed it.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000020_000001.wav|He meant to have his home looking just as fine as he could make it.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000013_000004.wav|It seemed that he was just born to be curious and so, of course, to get into trouble.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000030_000000.wav|Then, peering through the tangle of brambles, she spied old mr Rabbit sitting on his broken down doorstep with his arms folded and fast asleep.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000008_000000.wav|"He can't, and none of his family can," said a gruff voice.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000016_000005.wav|It was all weeds and brambles.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000017_000000.wav|"Now when old mr Rabbit heard that Old Mother Nature was coming, his heart sank way, way down, for he knew just how angry she would be when she saw his house, his garden and his shabby suit.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000018_000001.wav|Oh, dear!|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000011_000000.wav|"Ask Grandfather Frog; he knows," replied Old mr Toad, and started on about his business.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000027_000002.wav|It will be a lot easier to work when all my friends are here to help,' So he sighed once more and folded his arms, instead of beginning work as he should have done.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000015_000001.wav|Old King Bear put on his blackest coat.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000025_000000.wav|"'That's right, mr Skunk!|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000002_000002.wav|peter was sitting up very straight, but his hands dropped right down in front.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000002_000001.wav|He is very fond of sitting with his hands folded that way. A little way from him sat peter Rabbit.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000018_000000.wav|"'Oh, dear!|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000005_000000.wav|"You mean you can't!" jeered Happy Jack.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000013_000003.wav|It was all because he was so dreadfully curious about other people's business, just as peter Rabbit is now.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000022_000000.wav|"That gave mr Rabbit an idea.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000020_000002.wav|He brought up some clean yellow sand from deep down in the ground and sprinkled it smoothly over his doorstep.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000023_000002.wav|It was very comfortable.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000028_000001.wav|She was greatly pleased with all she saw as she went along, until she came to the home of mr Rabbit.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000024_000000.wav|"'If you want the rest of us to help you, you'd better get things started yourself,' said old mr Skunk, carefully combing out his big, plumy tail.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000007_000000.wav|"I really believe he can't fold his hands," said Happy Jack to himself, but speaking aloud.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182389/3989_182389_000031_000003.wav|The fact is, Old Mother Nature was like all the rest of mr Rabbit's neighbors-she just couldn't help loving happy go lucky mr Rabbit in spite of all his faults.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000002_000003.wav|But then, Jerry Muskrat is a funny fellow.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000021_000000.wav|peter nodded.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000009_000000.wav|"Chug a rum!" exclaimed Grandfather Frog and dived head first into the water.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000018_000000.wav|peter nudged Johnny Chuck.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000000_000000.wav|"Probably he is taking a nap in that big house of his," said Johnny Chuck, "and if he is we'll have to sit here until he wakes up, or else go back home and visit him some other time."|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000020_000003.wav|Some could swim as long as they could keep their heads above water, but as soon as they put their heads under water they were likely to drown.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000013_000001.wav|"Oh, Grandfather Frog, do tell us why it is that Jerry Muskrat builds his house in the water.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000012_000002.wav|What do you mean by frightening an old fellow like me this way?"|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000011_000000.wav|At first Grandfather Frog was angry, very angry indeed.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000005_000002.wav|Johnny tried again, and still no reply.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000028_000000.wav|"So from that day to this, the Muskrats have built their houses in the water, and have been among the most industrious, contented, and happy of all the animals.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000002_000005.wav|That seems funny to me.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000003_000000.wav|peter Rabbit suddenly brightened up.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000026_000000.wav|"mr Muskrat hesitated.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000017_000001.wav|"A long, long time ago, when the world was young, there was very little dry land, and most of the animals lived in the water.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000002_000000.wav|Johnny Chuck scratched his head thoughtfully.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000019_000001.wav|Then some of the animals began to spend most of their time on the land.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000007_000001.wav|He wasn't so sure that that was a real nap.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000018_000001.wav|"He means himself and his family," he whispered with a chuckle.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000002_000001.wav|"It does seem a funny place," he admitted.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000015_000000.wav|"Goody!" cried peter and Johnny Chuck together, sitting down side by side on the very edge of the bank.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000001_000001.wav|"I don't see what he has his house in the water for, anyway.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000001_000003.wav|Funny place to build a house, isn't it?"|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000001.wav|Now just at that place on the bank was growing a toadstool.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000013_000002.wav|Please do!"|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000019_000003.wav|Now Old Mother Nature had been keeping a sharp watch, as she always does, and when she found that they were foolish enough to like the land best, she did all that she could to make things comfortable for them.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000002.wav|peter looked over at Johnny Chuck and winked.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000005_000001.wav|Grandfather Frog didn't answer.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000027_000002.wav|But with all his pride he never forgot that it was a reward for trying to be content with his surroundings and making the best of them.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000004_000000.wav|Grandfather Frog saw them coming, and he guessed right away that they were coming for a story.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000006_000000.wav|"He's asleep," said Johnny, looking dreadfully disappointed, "and I guess we'd better not disturb him, for he might wake up cross, and of course we wouldn't get a story if he did."|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000027_000001.wav|None of his friends on land had such a big, fine house, and mr Muskrat was very proud of it.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000003_000003.wav|Let's go ask him why Jerry Muskrat builds his house in the water."|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000007_000003.wav|"You sit here a minute," he whispered in Johnny Chuck's ear.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000004_000001.wav|He grinned to himself and pretended to go to sleep.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000014_000000.wav|"I have a mind not to, just to get even with you," said Grandfather Frog, settling himself comfortably, "but I believe I will, to show you that there are some folks who can take a joke without losing their temper."|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000016_000000.wav|Grandfather Frog folded his hands across his white and yellow waistcoat and half closed his eyes, as if looking way, way back into the past.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000011_000002.wav|So presently he climbed back on to his big green lily pad, blinking his great, goggly eyes and looking just a wee bit foolish.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000020_000001.wav|At first they only laughed, but after a while they found that quite often there were times when it would be very nice to be at home in the water as they once had been.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000023_000000.wav|"'What's the matter, mr Muskrat?' she asked.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000001_000000.wav|"That's so," replied peter.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000019_000000.wav|"After a time," continued Grandfather Frog, "there began to be more land and still more.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000017_000000.wav|"Chug a rum!" he began.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000007_000000.wav|peter looked at Grandfather Frog sharply.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000005_000000.wav|"Good morning, Grandfather Frog," said Johnny Chuck.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000006.wav|Of course he didn't see it coming, and of course it gave him a great start.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000017_000002.wav|Yes, Sir, most of the animals lived in the water, as sensible animals do to day."|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000002_000002.wav|"It certainly does seem a funny place.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000005.wav|When peter kicked it it flew out into the air and landed with a great splash in the Smiling Pool, close beside the big green lily pad on which Grandfather Frog was sitting.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000007_000002.wav|It seemed to him that there was just the least little hint of a smile in the corners of Grandfather Frog's big mouth.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000000.wav|So Johnny Chuck sat down where he was, which was right where Grandfather Frog could see him by lifting one eyelid just the teeniest bit, and peter hopped along the bank until he was right behind Grandfather Frog.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000008_000003.wav|Then he turned around, and with one of his long hind feet, he kicked the toadstool with all his might.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3989/182394/3989_182394_000013_000000.wav|"Just trying to get even with you for trying to fool us into thinking that you were asleep when you were wide awake," replied peter.|3989
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000006_000001.wav|They will not be wanted, I can tell them that, and will fare worse than we did if they do find it.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000081_000003.wav|Save us!|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000099_000002.wav|These are just women, and mothers, and where there's motherhood you don't find sisterhood-not much."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000084_000001.wav|I think he thought that country-if there was one-was just blossoming with roses and babies and canaries and tidies, and all that sort of thing.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000119_000005.wav|If we don't, why, we're not the first explorers to get lost in the shuffle.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000082_000000.wav|"Not much!" said Terry grimly.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000048_000000.wav|We scrambled along the steep banks and got close to the pool that foamed and boiled beneath the falling water.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000009_000003.wav|He filled in well enough-he had a lot of talents-great on mechanics and electricity.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000007_000001.wav|There were three of us, classmates and friends-Terry o Nicholson (we used to call him the Old Nick, with good reason), Jeff Margrave, and I, Vandyck Jennings.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000061_000003.wav|Then there's Montenegro-splendid little state-you could lose a dozen Montenegroes up and down these great ranges."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000077_000001.wav|"If the ladies do eat us we must make reprisals."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000119_000003.wav|No, sir-we've got to take our chances.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000028_000000.wav|Yes, he pointed to the river, and then to the southwestward. "River-good water-red and blue."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000109_000001.wav|I always liked Terry.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000081_000004.wav|What headlines!"|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000022_000002.wav|I knew the stuff that savage dreams are made of.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000061_000001.wav|What's that old republic up in the Pyrenees somewhere-Andorra?|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000123_000000.wav|"Let's make the first trip geographical," I suggested.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000047_000000.wav|"Chemicals of some sort-I can't tell on the spot.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000034_000000.wav|The man indicated a short journey; I judged about two hours, maybe three.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000025_000000.wav|I happened to speak of that river to our last guide, a rather superior fellow with quick, bright eyes.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000126_000000.wav|"That's not a bad little kingdom," we agreed when it was roughly drawn and measured.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000021_000001.wav|Yes-a good many-but they never came back.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000145_000001.wav|But we were three young men.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000076_000000.wav|"We'll leave papers with our consul where the yacht stays," Terry planned.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000039_000001.wav|Our guide told us that boats could go from there to our camp-but "long way-all day."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000020_000002.wav|But there were tales of long ago, when some brave investigator had seen it-a Big Country, Big Houses, Plenty People-All Women.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000008_000001.wav|All of us were interested in science.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000132_000000.wav|"Mighty lucky piece of land, I call it," Terry pursued.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000054_000001.wav|No place for men?|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000126_000001.wav|We could tell the size fairly by our speed.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000052_000001.wav|"Woman Country-up there."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000053_000002.wav|He could tell us only what the others had-a land of women-no men-babies, but all girls.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000037_000000.wav|It was early yet; we had just breakfasted; and leaving word that we'd be back before night, we got away quietly, not wishing to be thought too gullible if we failed, and secretly hoping to have some nice little discovery all to ourselves.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000024_000000.wav|The main encampment was on a spit of land running out into the main stream, or what we thought was the main stream.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000142_000000.wav|"There's a fine landing place right there where we came over," he insisted, and it was an excellent one-a wide, flat topped rock, overlooking the lake, and quite out of sight from the interior.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000127_000001.wav|It appeared to be well forested about the edges, but in the interior there were wide plains, and everywhere parklike meadows and open places.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000052_000000.wav|"Come down," he said, pointing to the cataract.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000131_000001.wav|Is that what you call little?" I asked.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000097_000001.wav|"It will be like a nunnery under an abbess-a peaceful, harmonious sisterhood."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000117_000000.wav|There was some talk, even then, of skirting the rock wall and seeking a possible footway up, but the marshy jungle made that method look not only difficult but dangerous.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000011_000000.wav|Jeff Margrave was born to be a poet, a botanist-or both-but his folks persuaded him to be a doctor instead.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000126_000002.wav|And from what we could see of the sides-and that icy ridge at the back end-"It's a pretty enterprising savage who would manage to get into it," Jeff said.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000130_000001.wav|Looks like a first rate climate.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000076_000001.wav|"If we don't come back in-say a month-they can send a relief party after us."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000017_000001.wav|I'm quick at languages, know a good many, and pick them up readily.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000054_000004.wav|But the guide would not hear of going up, even if there had been any possible method of scaling that sheer cliff, and we had to get back to our party before night.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000068_000001.wav|"We'll start our flier from the lake and leave the boat as a base to come back to."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000102_000000.wav|"Oh, cloth!|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000007_000000.wav|It began this way.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000062_000002.wav|We discussed it after that, still only among ourselves, while Terry was making his arrangements.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000106_000000.wav|"Couldn't risk it," he asserted solemnly.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000138_000000.wav|"Only women there-and children," Jeff urged excitedly.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000014_000001.wav|They needed a doctor, and that gave Jeff an excuse for dropping his just opening practice; they needed Terry's experience, his machine, and his money; and as for me, I got in through Terry's influence.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000004_000000.wav|This is written from memory, unfortunately.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000103_000000.wav|We joked Terry about his modest impression that he would be warmly received, but he held his ground.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000080_000001.wav|If three valuable American citizens are lost up there, they will follow somehow-to say nothing of the glittering attractions of that fair land-let's call it 'Feminisia,'" he broke off.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000013_000001.wav|There are few things that don't.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000091_000001.wav|Women of that stage of culture are quite able to defend themselves and have no welcome for unseasonable visitors."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000056_000002.wav|"This is our find.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000071_000000.wav|"We're not so sure about those ladies, you know," drawled Jeff.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000115_000000.wav|It was not hard to find the river, just poking along that side till we came to it, and it was navigable as far as the lake.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000020_000001.wav|It was dangerous, deadly, they said, for any man to go there.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000062_000000.wav|We discussed it hotly all the way back to camp.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000068_000000.wav|"Those natives can't get into it, or hurt it, or move it," Terry explained proudly.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000036_000000.wav|"May be indigo," Jeff suggested, with his lazy smile.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000133_000000.wav|So we sailed low, crossing back and forth, quartering the country as we went, and studying it.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000053_000003.wav|No place for men-dangerous.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000133_000001.wav|We saw-I can't remember now how much of this we noted then and how much was supplemented by our later knowledge, but we could not help seeing this much, even on that excited day-a land in a state of perfect cultivation, where even the forests looked as if they were cared for; a land that looked like an enormous park, only it was even more evidently an enormous garden.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000054_000002.wav|Dangerous?|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000087_000003.wav|This is a condition known to have existed-here's just a survival.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000109_000002.wav|He was a man's man, very much so, generous and brave and clever; but I don't think any of us in college days was quite pleased to have him with our sisters.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000023_000000.wav|But when we had reached our farthest point, just the day before we all had to turn around and start for home again, as the best of expeditions must in time, we three made a discovery.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000048_000001.wav|Here we searched the border and found traces of color beyond dispute.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000119_000002.wav|It might take months-we haven't got the provisions.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000043_000001.wav|We could see where it poured down a narrow vertical cataract from an opening in the face of the cliff.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000082_000002.wav|We're going to find that place alone."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000143_000001.wav|"Come on, boys-there were some good lookers in that bunch."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000016_000000.wav|But this story is not about that expedition.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000065_000001.wav|His previous experience stood him in good stead there.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000011_000001.wav|He was a good one, for his age, but his real interest was in what he loved to call "the wonders of science."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000041_000002.wav|They crop out like that."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000143_000000.wav|"They won't find this in a hurry," he asserted, as we scrambled with the utmost difficulty down to safer footing.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000049_000001.wav|But it was a well woven fabric, with a pattern, and of a clear scarlet that the water had not faded.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000112_000000.wav|But I got out of patience with Jeff, too.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000046_000000.wav|Terry got out his magnifying glass and squatted down to investigate.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000096_000001.wav|"Women always do. We mustn't look to find any sort of order and organization."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000057_000000.wav|We looked at him, much impressed.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000047_000002.wav|Let's get nearer," he urged, "up there by the fall."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000125_000000.wav|So we made a long skirting voyage, turned the point of the cape which was close by, ran up one side of the triangle at our best speed, crossed over the base where it left the higher mountains, and so back to our lake by moonlight.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000039_000000.wav|We came after a while to a sort of marshy lake, very big, so that the circling forest looked quite low and dim across it.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000019_000000.wav|"Up yonder," "Over there,"|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000073_000001.wav|You'll have to get an injunction to stop me!" Both Jeff and I were sure about that.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000043_000002.wav|It was sweet water. The guide drank eagerly and so did we.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000038_000003.wav|But there was one, and I could see Terry, with compass and notebook, marking directions and trying to place landmarks.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000109_000004.wav|But Terry was "the limit." Later on-why, of course a man's life is his own, we held, and asked no questions.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000017_000000.wav|My interest was first roused by talk among our guides.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000118_000000.wav|Terry dismissed the plan sharply.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000053_000000.wav|Then we were interested.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000092_000000.wav|We talked and talked.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000134_000000.wav|"I don't see any cattle," I suggested, but Terry was silent.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000009_000002.wav|He used to make all kinds of a row because there was nothing left to explore now, only patchwork and filling in, he said.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000022_000000.wav|I told the boys about these stories, and they laughed at them.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000003_000001.wav|A Not Unnatural Enterprise|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000135_000001.wav|We had our glasses out; even Terry, setting his machine for a spiral glide, clapped the binoculars to his eyes.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000102_000002.wav|But there they stop-you'll see."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000079_000000.wav|"Yes, but how will they get up?" asked Jeff.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000123_000002.wav|With your tremendous speed we can reach that range and back all right.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000065_000002.wav|It was a very complete little outfit.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000108_000003.wav|And he was a good boy; he lived up to his ideals.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000065_000000.wav|We had provisions and preventives and all manner of supplies.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000134_000001.wav|We were approaching a village.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000132_000001.wav|"Now for the folks-I've had enough scenery."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000081_000000.wav|"You're right, Terry.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000121_000000.wav|Up and up and up we sailed, way up at first, to get "the lay of the land" and make note of it.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000136_000002.wav|We stared and stared until it was almost too late to catch the levers, sweep off and rise again; and then we held our peace for a long run upward.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000047_000001.wav|Look to me like dyestuffs.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000056_000001.wav|"Look here, fellows," he said.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000071_000001.wav|"There may be a contingent of gentlemen with poisoned arrows or something."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000128_000001.wav|It looked-well, it looked like any other country-a civilized one, I mean.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000056_000000.wav|But Terry stopped in his tracks.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000120_000000.wav|So we got the big biplane together and loaded it with our scientifically compressed baggage: the camera, of course; the glasses; a supply of concentrated food.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000005_000002.wav|But it's got to be done somehow; the rest of the world needs to know about that country.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000059_000000.wav|"There is no such cloth made by any of these local tribes," I announced, examining those rags with great care.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000018_000000.wav|And as we got farther and farther upstream, in a dark tangle of rivers, lakes, morasses, and dense forests, with here and there an unexpected long spur running out from the big mountains beyond, I noticed that more and more of these savages had a story about a strange and terrible Woman Land in the high distance.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000120_000001.wav|Our pockets were magazines of small necessities, and we had our guns, of course-there was no knowing what might happen.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000072_000000.wav|"You don't need to go if you don't want to," Terry remarked drily.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000136_000000.wav|They heard our whirring screw.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000082_000001.wav|"This is our party.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000016_000001.wav|That was only the merest starter for ours.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000042_000001.wav|We heard running water before we reached it, and the guide pointed proudly to his river.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000123_000003.wav|Then we can leave a sort of map on board-for that relief expedition."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000086_000000.wav|But I thought-then-that I could form a far clearer idea of what was before us than either of them.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000045_000002.wav|He hunted about a little and showed us a quiet marginal pool where there were smears of red along the border; yes, and of blue.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000054_000003.wav|He looked as if he might shin up the waterfall on the spot.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000069_000000.wav|"If we come back," I suggested cheerfully.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000070_000000.wav|"'Fraid the ladies will eat you?" he scoffed.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000119_000001.wav|We've decided that.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000031_000000.wav|I told him.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000087_000004.wav|They've got some peculiarly isolated valley or tableland up there, and their primeval customs have survived. That's all there is to it."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000081_000001.wav|Once the story gets out, the river will crawl with expeditions and the airships rise like a swarm of mosquitoes." I laughed as I thought of it.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000049_000000.wav|It was only a rag, a long, raveled fragment of cloth.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000004_000003.wav|We had some bird's eyes of the cities and parks; a lot of lovely views of streets, of buildings, outside and in, and some of those gorgeous gardens, and, most important of all, of the women themselves.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000019_000001.wav|"Way up"--was all the direction they could offer, but their legends all agreed on the main point-that there was this strange country where no men lived-only women and girl children.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000043_000000.wav|It was short.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000129_000000.wav|We had to sleep after that long sweep through the air, but we turned out early enough next day, and again we rose softly up the height till we could top the crowning trees and see the broad fair land at our pleasure.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000137_000000.wav|"Gosh!" said Terry, after a while.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000045_000000.wav|But as to being red and blue-it was greenish in tint.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000001_000000.wav|HERLAND|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000022_000001.wav|Naturally I did myself.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000122_000001.wav|It ran back on either side, apparently, to the far off white crowned peaks in the distance, themselves probably inaccessible.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000119_000004.wav|If we get back safe-all right.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000044_000001.wav|"Must come from way back in the hills."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000038_000000.wav|It was a long two hours, nearer three.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000013_000000.wav|Terry was strong on facts-geography and meteorology and those; Jeff could beat him any time on biology, and I didn't care what it was they talked about, so long as it connected with human life, somehow.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000045_000001.wav|The guide seemed not at all surprised.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000130_000000.wav|"Semitropical.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000087_000000.wav|"You're all off, boys," I insisted.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132717/339_132717_000026_000000.wav|He told me that there was another river-"over there, short river, sweet water, red and blue."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000061_000000.wav|Nothing could induce him to stay out, however, so we walked on.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000028_000000.wav|Then Terry, wholly in his element, made a polite speech, with explanatory gestures, and proceeded to introduce us, with pointing finger.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000019_000003.wav|Look, boys!"|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER two.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000103_000001.wav|Terry soon found that it was useless, tore himself loose for a moment, pulled his revolver, and fired upward.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000053_000000.wav|Presently there lay before us at the foot of a long hill the town or village we were aiming for.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000009_000003.wav|It's a truck farm!"|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000098_000000.wav|The leader gave some word of command and beckoned us on, and the surrounding mass moved a step nearer.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000052_000000.wav|Here was evidently a people highly skilled, efficient, caring for their country as a florist cares for his costliest orchids.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000034_000002.wav|This was Alima, a tall long limbed lass, well knit and evidently both strong and agile. Her eyes were splendid, wide, fearless, as free from suspicion as a child's who has never been rebuked.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000040_000002.wav|Women like to be run after.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000057_000001.wav|But no men?|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000045_000004.wav|This country suits me all right.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000033_000002.wav|He held it up, swung it, glittering in the sun, offered it first to one, then to another, holding it out as far as he could reach toward the girl nearest him.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000033_000000.wav|"Have to use bait," grinned Terry.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000058_000002.wav|"It's too pretty to be true." "Plenty of palaces, but where are the homes?" "Oh there are little ones enough-but-." It certainly was different from any towns we had ever seen.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000062_000001.wav|As we neared the center of the town the houses stood thicker, ran together as it were, grew into rambling palaces grouped among parks and open squares, something as college buildings stand in their quiet greens.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000017_000002.wav|There's someone up that tree, I believe."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000035_000002.wav|I could already see it happen-the dropped necklace, the sudden clutching hand, the girl's sharp cry as he seized her and drew her in.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000090_000000.wav|We held a consultation.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000069_000001.wav|Then he produced another tribute, a broad soft scarf of filmy texture, rich in color and pattern, a lovely thing, even to my eye, and offered it with a deep bow to the tall unsmiling woman who seemed to head the ranks before him.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000010_000001.wav|"Sure there are no medicinal ones?|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000017_000001.wav|"There are short stumps of branches left to climb on.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000019_000002.wav|"Gee!|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000077_000000.wav|Six of them stepped forward now, one on either side of each of us, and indicated that we were to go with them.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000013_000001.wav|"MUST be men here.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000085_000001.wav|Even a peaceful detention was not to our minds, and when we named it imprisonment it looked even worse.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000030_000000.wav|Again they laughed delightedly, and the one nearest me followed his tactics.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000054_000000.wav|Jeff drew a long breath.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000082_000001.wav|Terry, with his clear decided practical theories that there were two kinds of women-those he wanted and those he didn't; Desirable and Undesirable was his demarcation.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000021_000000.wav|We paused uncertain.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000045_000002.wav|"Mother of Mike, boys-what Gorgeous Girls!|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000009_000000.wav|"Food bearing, practically all of them," they announced returning.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000056_000004.wav|It was built mostly of a sort of dull rose colored stone, with here and there some clear white houses; and it lay abroad among the green groves and gardens like a broken rosary of pink coral.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000059_000001.wav|"There's no smoke," he added after a little.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000064_000002.wav|We went on-there seemed no other way to go-and presently found ourselves quite surrounded by this close massed multitude, women, all of them, but-|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000075_000000.wav|For terror, perhaps-there was none.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000067_000002.wav|They had no weapons, and we had, but we had no wish to shoot.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000087_000000.wav|This we admitted.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000086_000001.wav|One of them came forward with a sketch of our flier, asking by signs if we were the aerial visitors they had seen.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000100_000001.wav|But we were two to one against him and he loyally stood by us.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000001_000001.wav|Rash Advances|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000038_000000.wav|"Inhabitants evidently arboreal," I grimly suggested.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000052_000001.wav|Under the soft brilliant blue of that clear sky, in the pleasant shade of those endless rows of trees, we walked unharmed, the placid silence broken only by the birds.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000066_000002.wav|But Terry showed no such consciousness.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000068_000003.wav|Terry had come armed with a theory.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000015_000000.wav|"It couldn't have been far off," said Terry excitedly.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000065_000002.wav|They were not, in the girl sense, beautiful.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000005_000001.wav|And though by dress we could not be sure of all the grown persons, still there had not been one man that we were certain of.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000092_000001.wav|"They're all women, in spite of their nondescript clothes; nice women, too; good strong sensible faces.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000014_000000.wav|We had heard something: something not in the least like a birdsong, and very much like a suppressed whisper of laughter-a little happy sound, instantly smothered.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000055_000000.wav|"They've got architects and landscape gardeners in plenty, that's sure," agreed Terry.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000049_000000.wav|This was Jeff, always an enthusiast; but we could agree with him fully.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000073_000002.wav|But these good ladies were very much on the stage, and yet any one of them might have been a grandmother.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000084_000000.wav|We all thought hard just then.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000016_000001.wav|It was trimmed underneath some twenty feet up, and stood there like a huge umbrella, with circling seats beneath.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000018_000000.wav|We stole near, cautiously.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000024_000000.wav|They were girls, of course, no boys could ever have shown that sparkling beauty, and yet none of us was certain at first.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000041_000002.wav|The broad green fields and closely cultivated gardens sloped away at our feet, a long easy slant, with good roads winding pleasantly here and there, and narrower paths besides.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000065_000005.wav|It was that sense of being hopelessly in the wrong that I had so often felt in early youth when my short legs' utmost effort failed to overcome the fact that I was late to school.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000005_000000.wav|We had all seen babies, children big and little, everywhere that we had come near enough to distinguish the people.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000093_000002.wav|Look at those faces!"|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000080_000001.wav|We began to explain, to make signs pointing away toward the big forest-indicating that we would go back to it-at once.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000042_000000.wav|"Look at that!" cried Jeff suddenly.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000086_000000.wav|So we made a stand, trying to make clear that we preferred the open country.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000101_000000.wav|"Now for a rush, boys!" Terry said.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000010_000000.wav|"Good thing to have a botanist on hand," I agreed.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000004_000001.wav|But there are men somewhere-didn't you see the babies?"|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000094_000000.wav|They had stood at ease, waiting while we conferred together, but never relaxing their close attention.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000037_000002.wav|My word!|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000002_000000.wav|Not more than ten or fifteen miles we judged it from our landing rock to that last village.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000085_000000.wav|But once inside that building, there was no knowing what these determined ladies might do to us.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000069_000000.wav|He stepped forward, with his brilliant ingratiating smile, and made low obeisance to the women before him.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000044_000002.wav|But through the glasses we could identify our pretty tree climbers quite plainly, at least by costume.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000056_000003.wav|But this place!|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000034_000001.wav|Then, softly and slowly, she drew nearer.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000088_000000.wav|They pointed to it again, and to the outlying country, in different directions-but we pretended we did not know where it was, and in truth we were not quite sure and gave a rather wild indication of its whereabouts.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000073_000000.wav|"Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000097_000000.wav|We observed pretty closely just then, for all of us felt that it was a crucial moment.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000014_000001.wav|We stood like so many pointers, and then used our glasses, swiftly, carefully.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000070_000002.wav|Again his gift was accepted and, as before, passed out of sight.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000078_000000.wav|A large building opened before us, a very heavy thick walled impressive place, big, and old looking; of gray stone, not like the rest of the town.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000067_000000.wav|Yet they were not old women.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000100_000000.wav|"I vote to go in," Jeff urged.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000079_000000.wav|"This won't do!" said Terry to us, quickly.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000010_000002.wav|Or any for pure ornament?"|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000021_000002.wav|We might shake them off, perhaps, but none of us was so inclined.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000070_000000.wav|He tried again, this time bringing out a circlet of rhinestones, a glittering crown that should have pleased any woman on earth.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000027_000000.wav|We met their laughter cordially, and doffed our hats to them, at which they laughed again, delightedly.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000058_000000.wav|The place had an odd look, more impressive as we approached.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000026_000000.wav|Then there was a torrent of soft talk tossed back and forth; no savage sing song, but clear musical fluent speech.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000092_000002.wav|I guess we'll have to go in."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000064_000001.wav|The street behind was closed by another band, marching steadily, shoulder to shoulder.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000013_000000.wav|"They don't kill birds, and apparently they do kill cats," Terry declared.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000028_000002.wav|"mr Vandyck Jennings"--I also tried to make an effective salute and nearly lost my balance.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000057_000002.wav|Boys, it behooves us to go forward most politely."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000037_000000.wav|"No use," gasped Terry.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000040_000001.wav|"They expected it.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000069_000002.wav|She took it with a gracious nod of acknowledgment, and passed it on to those behind her.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000056_000000.wav|I was astonished myself.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000079_000002.wav|All together, now-"|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000013_000002.wav|Hark!"|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000033_000003.wav|He stood braced in the fork, held firmly by one hand-the other, swinging his bright temptation, reached far out along the bough, but not quite to his full stretch.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000025_000000.wav|We saw short hair, hatless, loose, and shining; a suit of some light firm stuff, the closest of tunics and kneebreeches, met by trim gaiters. As bright and smooth as parrots and as unaware of danger, they swung there before us, wholly at ease, staring as we stared, till first one, and then all of them burst into peals of delighted laughter.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000035_000003.wav|But it didn't happen.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000041_000001.wav|There it was, about four miles off, the same town, we concluded, unless, as Jeff ventured, they all had pink houses.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000068_000002.wav|They seem to mean business." But in spite of that businesslike aspect, he determined to try his favorite tactics.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000003_000000.wav|Even Terry's ardor was held in check by his firm conviction that there were men to be met, and we saw to it that each of us had a good stock of cartridges.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000048_000002.wav|See the flowers, will you?"|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000032_000002.wav|He suggested, by signs, that we all go down together; but again they shook their heads, still merrily.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000011_000000.wav|As a matter of fact they were quite right.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000045_000001.wav|Then he put down his glass and turned to us, drawing a long breath.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000045_000003.wav|To climb like that! to run like that! and afraid of nothing.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000020_000003.wav|By the time we had reached about as far as three men together dared push, they had left the main trunk and moved outward, each one balanced on a long branch that dipped and swayed beneath the weight.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000048_000001.wav|What a heavenly country!|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000037_000003.wav|The men of this country must be good sprinters!"|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000047_000000.wav|We set forth in the open, walking briskly.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000095_000000.wav|Their attitude was not the rigid discipline of soldiers; there was no sense of compulsion about them.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000007_000000.wav|"Talk of civilization," he cried softly in restrained enthusiasm.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000074_000000.wav|We looked for nervousness-there was none.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000081_000001.wav|We seemed to think that if there were men we could fight them, and if there were only women-why, they would be no obstacles at all.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000099_000000.wav|"We've got to decide quick," said Terry.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000036_000001.wav|They dropped from the ends of the big boughs to those below, fairly pouring themselves off the tree, while we climbed downward as swiftly as we could.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000009_000002.wav|Call this a forest?|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000084_000001.wav|It had not seemed wise to object to going with them, even if we could have; our one chance was friendliness-a civilized attitude on both sides.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000064_000000.wav|We stopped a moment and looked back.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000035_000000.wav|The others moved a bit farther out, holding firmly, watching.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000057_000000.wav|"Those big white ones are public buildings evidently," Terry declared. "This is no savage country, my friend.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000038_000001.wav|"Civilized and still arboreal-peculiar people."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000065_000001.wav|They were not old.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000089_000001.wav|All around us and behind they were massed solidly-there was simply nothing to do but go forward-or fight.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000083_000000.wav|And now here they were, in great numbers, evidently indifferent to what he might think, evidently determined on some purpose of their own regarding him, and apparently well able to enforce their purpose.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000092_000000.wav|"We can't fight them, of course," Jeff urged.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000065_000000.wav|They were not young.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000060_000000.wav|"There's no noise," I offered; but Terry snubbed me-"That's because they are laying low for us; we'd better be careful how we go in there."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000103_000002.wav|As they caught at it, he fired again-we heard a cry-.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000019_000001.wav|"In my heart, more likely," he answered.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000021_000001.wav|If we pursued further, the boughs would break under the double burden.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000009_000001.wav|"The rest, splendid hardwood.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000095_000002.wav|They had just the aspect of sturdy burghers, gathered hastily to meet some common need or peril, all moved by precisely the same feelings, to the same end.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000044_000001.wav|It can't be the same ones," I urged.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000062_000000.wav|Everything was beauty, order, perfect cleanness, and the pleasantest sense of home over it all.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000048_000000.wav|"What a perfect road!|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000011_000001.wav|These towering trees were under as careful cultivation as so many cabbages.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000042_000001.wav|"There they go!"|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000031_000000.wav|"Celis," she said distinctly, pointing to the one in blue; "Alima"--the one in rose; then, with a vivid imitation of Terry's impressive manner, she laid a firm delicate hand on her gold green jerkin-"Ellador." This was pleasant, but we got no nearer.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000063_000000.wav|And then, turning a corner, we came into a broad paved space and saw before us a band of women standing close together in even order, evidently waiting for us.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000058_000001.wav|"It's like an exposition."|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000056_000001.wav|You see, I come from California, and there's no country lovelier, but when it comes to towns-!|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000104_000000.wav|Instantly each of us was seized by five women, each holding arm or leg or head; we were lifted like children, straddling helpless children, and borne onward, wriggling indeed, but most ineffectually.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000002_000001.wav|For all our eagerness we thought it wise to keep to the woods and go carefully.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000106_000000.wav|So carried and so held, we came into a high inner hall, gray and bare, and were brought before a majestic gray haired woman who seemed to hold a judicial position.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000006_000001.wav|Terry studied it as we progressed.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000068_000001.wav|"What do they want with us anyhow?|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/339/132718/339_132718_000045_000000.wav|Terry watched them, we all did for that matter, till they disappeared among the houses.|339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000011_000002.wav|Lay the apples on them, and close the crust tight over them-tie them up in small pieces of thick cloth, that has been well floured-put the dumplings in a pot of boiling water, and boil them an hour without any intermission-if allowed to stop boiling, they will be heavy.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000003_000000.wav|Stir a quart of milk gradually into a quart of flour-put in a tea spoonful of salt, and seven beaten eggs.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000017_000000.wav|Procure nice, high vine blackberries, that are perfectly ripe-the low vine blackberries will not answer for syrup, as they do not possess the medicinal properties of the high vine blackberries.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000016_000000.wav|three hundred.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000003_000001.wav|Drop them by the large spoonful into hot lard, and fry them till a very light brown color.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000011_000000.wav|Pare tart, mellow apples-take out the cores with a small knife, and fill the holes with sugar.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000003_000002.wav|They are the lightest fried in a great deal of fat, but less greasy if fried in just fat enough to keep them from sticking to the frying pan.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000019_000003.wav|This is an excellent remedy for a tight cough.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000003_000003.wav|Serve them up with liquid pudding sauce.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000017_000002.wav|Boil the whole together fifteen minutes-strain it, and when cool, add to each pint of syrup a wine glass of French brandy. Bottle, cork, and seal it-keep it in a cool place.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000013_000000.wav|Pare thin the rind of fresh lemons, squeeze out the juice, and to a pint of it, when strained, put a pound and three quarters of sugar, and the rind of the lemons.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000015_000000.wav|Squeeze out the juice of fresh oranges, and strain it.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000017_000004.wav|It is also a very pleasant summer beverage.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000005_000001.wav|Make a batter of a quart of milk, a quart of flour, eight eggs-grate in the rind of two lemons, and the juice and apples.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000019_000000.wav|Wash and strain the berries, which should be perfectly ripe.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000023_000003.wav|This operation repeat till the syrup is clear-put in the fruit when the syrup is cold.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000015_000002.wav|The bag should not be squeezed while the syrup is passing through it, or it will not be clear.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000023_000000.wav|Put your sugar into the preserving kettle, turn in the quantity of cold water that you think will be sufficient to cover the fruit that is to be preserved in it.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000021_000002.wav|When lukewarm, put in the beaten whites of a couple of eggs, and put it on the fire.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000017_000003.wav|This, mixed with cold water, in the proportion of a wine glass of syrup to two thirds of a tumbler of water, is an excellent remedy for the dysentery, and similar complaints.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000023_000002.wav|As soon as it boils up well, take it from the fire, let it remain for a minute, then take off the scum-set it back on the fire, and let it boil a minute, then take it off, and skim it again.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000021_000001.wav|Boil the whole together twenty minutes, then strain it through a flannel bag.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000021_000000.wav|Mix eight pounds of light sugar house or New Orleans molasses, eight pounds of water, one pound of powdered charcoal.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000011_000003.wav|Serve them up with pudding sauce, or butter and sugar.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000015_000001.wav|To a pint of the juice, put a pound and a half of sugar-set it on a moderate fire-when the sugar has dissolved, put in the peel of the oranges, and set the syrup where it will boil slowly for six or eight minutes-then strain it, till clear, through a flannel bag.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000021_000003.wav|As soon as it boils, take it from the fire, and skim it till clear-then put it on the fire, and let it boil till it becomes a thick syrup-strain it for use.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000011_000001.wav|Make good pie crust-roll it out about two thirds of an inch thick, cut it into pieces just large enough to enclose one apple.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000015_000003.wav|Bottle, cork, and seal it tight.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000013_000002.wav|When cool, bottle, cork, and seal it tight, and keep it in a cool place.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000019_000001.wav|To a pint of juice, put a pint of molasses.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/12723/4289_12723_000023_000001.wav|Beat the whites of eggs to a froth, allowing one white of an egg to three pounds of sugar-mix the whites of the eggs with the sugar and water, set it on a slow fire, and let the sugar dissolve, then stir the whole up well together, and set it where it will boil.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000011.wav|They all knew how she could work, and what she could give if she chose; while that she had stood at the altar and been baptized, meant that something not customary with the Bates family was taking place in her heart.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000046_000003.wav|Kate looked up to see Robert coming across the churchyard with his arms full of greenhouse roses.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000027_000001.wav|Usually it's sickness, and sorrow, and losing their friends that bring people to the consolations of the church.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000032_000000.wav|"Kate?" cried a sharp voice.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000046_000000.wav|She and her mother had agreed that there was "something." Now Kate tried as never before to understand what, and where, and why, that "something" was.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000020_000000.wav|Kate studied the picture.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000003.wav|He seemed too stunned to think.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000002.wav|Robert said nothing.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000010_000000.wav|"That's too far to walk and carry this great big woman," he said, snuggling his face in the baby's neck, while she patted his cheeks and pulled his hair.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000024_000001.wav|"We just loved doing it, didn't we, Little Poll?|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000054_000003.wav|We see material evidence in increase that man is not defeated in his desire to reproduce himself; we have advanced to something better than tom toms and pow wows for music and dance; these desires are fulfilled before us, now tell me why the very strongest of all, the most deeply rooted, the belief in after life, should come to nothing.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000005_000000.wav|THE WINGED VICTORY|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000056_000001.wav|"I never heard any one else say these things, but I think them, and they are provable.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000061_000002.wav|Kate sat looking straight before her until time to help with the evening work, and prepare supper, then she arose.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000011_000000.wav|Kate looked at him speculatively.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000019_000000.wav|"They just came," said Nancy Ellen rather breathlessly.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000052_000000.wav|"Oh, yes," said Kate.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000014_000001.wav|She was shocked speechless.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000006.wav|She would join in whatever effort the church was making to hold and increase its membership among the young people, and to raise funds to keep up the organization.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000039_000004.wav|You know where her things are, and how to feed her.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000037_000000.wav|"O God!" said Kate.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000014_000006.wav|I think it's a fine stand for a man to take."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000058_000002.wav|Man LEARNS to fight in self defense, and to acquire what he covets.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000060_000000.wav|Kate glanced at the sun and shook her head.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000054_000002.wav|This belief is as much a PART of any man, ever born in any location, as his hands and his feet. Whether he believes his soul enters a cat and works back to man again after long transmigration, or goes to a Happy Hunting Ground as our Indians, makes no difference with the fact that he enters this world with belief in after life of some kind.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000052_000001.wav|"If there is any such thing in science as a self evident fact, that is one.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000049_000000.wav|Robert glanced upward and asked: "Isn't there room enough up there, Kate?"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000043_000004.wav|Oh, my God, have mercy!"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000015_000000.wav|"Maybe that would be better," he said.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000024_000003.wav|At least he is willing.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000039_000006.wav|Baby knows Milly; she will be good for her and for you.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000056_000003.wav|She stood in full evening light, I looked straight in her face, and Robert, you know I'm no creature of fancies and delusions, I tell you I SAW HER SOUL PASS.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000061_000003.wav|She stood looking down a long time; finally she picked up a fine specimen of each of the roses and slowly dropped them on her father's grave.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000043_000001.wav|She WAS drunk, drunken with joy. She had a picture of the most beautiful little baby girl.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000054_000001.wav|They all reproduce themselves, they all make something intended for music, they all express a feeling in their hearts by the exercise we call dance, they all believe in the after life of the soul.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000052_000002.wav|THAT is provable."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000038_000000.wav|Kate called dr Gray's office.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000009.wav|Every Sabbath, and often during the week, her feet carried her to the cemetery, where she sat in the deep grass and looked at those three long mounds and tried to understand life; deeper still, to fathom death.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000017_000004.wav|She had done as her heart dictated. She did not know that she put the minister into a most uncomfortable position, when he followed her request to baptize her and the child. She had never thought of probations, and examinations, and catechisms. She had read the Bible, as was the custom, every morning before her school.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000004.wav|She would be a better sister to all her family.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000009_000000.wav|Kate nodded and dropped into a chair.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000055_000000.wav|"I don't think it is," said Robert.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000031_000002.wav|She sat on the porch a few minutes talking to Little Poll, then she went inside to answer the phone.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000062_000001.wav|You may have that many," she said.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000039_000007.wav|You'll be careful?"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000019_000001.wav|"I was wild for that little darling at once.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000027_000002.wav|You bore those things like a stoic.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000043_000002.wav|They were to start to Chicago after her to night.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000031_000000.wav|Kate went slowly up the walk.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000003.wav|She would make heroic effort to help him to clean, unashamed manhood.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000024_000000.wav|"If that is joining church, it's the easiest thing in the world," said Kate.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000056_000000.wav|"It's my biggest self evident fact," said Kate, conclusively.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000034_000000.wav|"Did Nancy Ellen just leave your house?" came a breathless query.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000027_000004.wav|Kate, you make me think of the 'Winged Victory,' this afternoon. If I get this darling little girl, will she make me big, and splendid, and fine, like you?"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000051_000000.wav|"I don't know," said Robert; "and in spite of the fact that I do know what a man CANNOT do, I still believe in the immortality of the soul."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000058_000001.wav|"Air to breathe and food to sustain are presupposed.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000023_000002.wav|I can't imagine a Bates joining church."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000041_000000.wav|He called her attention to the road.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000042_000001.wav|"Was she sick?|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000058_000004.wav|He learns the desire for the chase in food hunting; I think four are plenty to start with."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000042_000002.wav|She might have been drunk, from them."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000017_000001.wav|She sang, she laughed, she was unspeakably happy.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000014_000002.wav|Again she had followed an impulse, without thinking of any one besides herself. Usually she could talk, but in that instant she had nothing to say. Then a carriage drew into the line of her vision, stopped at York's gate, and mr York alighted and swung to the ground a slim girlish figure and then helped his wife.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000014_000004.wav|"But you would want to wait a little and join with Milly, wouldn't you?" she asked.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000014_000000.wav|Kate sat staring down the road.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000058_000003.wav|He learns to covet by seeing stronger men, in better locations, surpass his achievements, so if he is strong enough he goes and robs them by force.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000022_000000.wav|Nancy Ellen looked at Kate and smiled peculiarly.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000024_000004.wav|I don't know what it is that I am to do, but I suppose they will give me my work soon."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000039_000001.wav|Kate was at the little garage they had built, and had the door open.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000025_000004.wav|I used to say I'd rather die than come back here to live, but lately it has been growing so attractive, I've been here about half my time, and wished I were the other half."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000018_000001.wav|She carried photographs of several small children, one of them a girl so like Little Poll that she might have been the original of the picture.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000062_000000.wav|"There!|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000058_000000.wav|"Oh, I don't know," said Kate.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000021_000000.wav|"She's charming!" she said.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000000.wav|KATE turned and placing the baby on the front seat, she knelt and put her arms around the little thing, but her lips only repeated the words: "Praise the Lord for this precious baby!" Her heart was filled with high resolve.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000002.wav|She would be more careful with Adam.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000008.wav|Kate arose with the benediction, picked up the baby, and started down the aisle among the people she had known all her life.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000019_000002.wav|I had Robert telegraph them to hold her until we could get there.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000042_000000.wav|"Look at those tracks," he said.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000005.wav|She had some very black ones.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000060_000002.wav|I don't mind the walk.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000053_000000.wav|Robert looked at her eager face.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000044_000001.wav|As their car stopped, Kate kissed the baby mechanically, handed her to Adam, and ran into the house where she dragged a couch to the middle of the first room she entered, found a pillow, and brought a bucket of water and a towel from the kitchen.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000009.wav|On every side strong hands stretched out to greet and welcome her.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000030_000000.wav|Nancy Ellen stood intently studying the picture she held in her hand. Then she looked at Kate, smiling with misty eyes: "I think, Kate, I'm very close, if I am not really where you are this minute," she said. Then she started her car; but she looked back, waving and smiling until the car swerved so that Kate called after her: "Do drive carefully, Nancy Ellen!"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000017_000003.wav|It never occurred to Kate that she had done an unprecedented thing.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000015_000001.wav|"I didn't think of Milly.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000028_000000.wav|Kate suddenly drew Nancy Ellen to her and kissed her a long, hard kiss on the lips.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000018_000000.wav|The middle of the week Nancy Ellen came flying up the walk on winged feet, herself.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000060_000001.wav|"I can stay half an hour longer.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000007.wav|She merely went on with life, as she always had lived it, to the best of her ability when she was so numbed with grief she scarcely knew what she was doing.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000060_000004.wav|Good bye!"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000010_000001.wav|"Why didn't you tell me you wanted to go, and let me get out the car?"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000029_000001.wav|Good bye and good luck to you, and remember me to Robert."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000046_000006.wav|Then she sat where she had been, and looked at him.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000007_000000.wav|Slowly she walked home and as she reached the veranda, Adam took the baby.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000044_000000.wav|They had come to deep grooves in loose gravel, then the cut in the embankment, then they could see the wrecked car standing on the engine and lying against a big tree, near the water, while two men and a woman were carrying a limp form across the meadow toward the house.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000035_000000.wav|"Yes," said Kate again.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000015_000002.wav|I only thought I'd like to have been with you and Little Poll."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000001.wav|Then they began trying to face the problem of life without her.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000059_000001.wav|"I must go now. Shall I take you home?"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000061_000000.wav|As he started his car he glanced back.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000025_000000.wav|"You bet they'll give you work soon, and enough," said Nancy Ellen, laughing.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000036_000000.wav|"I just saw a car that looked like hers slip in the fresh sand at the river levee, and it went down, and two or three times over."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000019_000004.wav|I'm hungry for a baby all of my own."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000025_000003.wav|Kate, you are making this place look fine.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000026_000000.wav|Kate slipped her arm around Nancy Ellen as they walked to the gate.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000039_000005.wav|Don't you dare let them change any way I do.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000048_000001.wav|Polly had a clear case of uric poison, while I'd stake my life Nancy Ellen was gloating over the picture she carried when she ran into that loose sand.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000046_000005.wav|Kate knelt up and taking her flowers, she moved them lower, and silently helped Robert place those he had brought.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000017_000000.wav|She was a very substantial woman, but for the remainder of that day she felt that she was moving with winged feet.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000013_000001.wav|"Why didn't you let me go with you?"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000046_000004.wav|He carried a big bunch of deep red for her mother, white for Polly, and a large sheaf of warm pink for Nancy Ellen.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000038_000003.wav|Rush him!"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000054_000004.wav|Why should the others be real, and that a dream?"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000056_000006.wav|That I know."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000056_000005.wav|I saw her body stand erect, long enough for me to reach her, and pick her up, after its passing.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000024_000002.wav|Adam and Milly are going to come in soon, I'm almost sure.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000050_000000.wav|"Too much!" said Kate.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000050_000001.wav|"And what IS the soul, and HOW can it bridge the vortex lying between us and other worlds, that man never can, because of the lack of air to breathe, and support him?"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000019_000003.wav|We're going to start on the evening train and if her blood seems good, and her ancestors respectable, and she looks like that picture, we're going to bring her back with us. Oh, Kate, I can scarcely wait to get my fingers on her.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000033_000000.wav|"Yes," said Kate, recognizing a neighbour, living a few miles down the road.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000039_000002.wav|She told him what she had heard, ran to get the baby, and met him at the gate.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000053_000001.wav|"How would you go about proving it, Kate?" he asked.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000001.wav|She would rear the baby with such care.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000047_000000.wav|Finally he asked: "Still hunting the 'why,' Kate?"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000048_000003.wav|The thing that holds me, and fascinates me, and that I have such a time being sure of, is 'where.'"|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000012.wav|So they welcomed her, and praised the beauty and sweetness of the baby until Kate went out into the sunshine, her face glowing.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000025_000002.wav|You'll just put it through, as you do things out here.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000045_000000.wav|Two days later they laid Nancy Ellen beside her mother.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000017_000005.wav|In that book, when a man wanted to follow Jesus, he followed; Jesus accepted him; and that was all there was to it, with Kate.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000031_000001.wav|She stopped several times to examine the shrubs and bushes closely, to wish for rain for the flowers.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000048_000002.wav|In each of their cases I am satisfied as to 'why,' as well as about Father.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty six|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000008_000000.wav|"Been to the cemetery?" he asked.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000046_000002.wav|One day after she had arranged the fall roses she had grown, and some roadside asters she had gathered in passing, she sat in deep thought, when a car stopped on the road.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000060_000003.wav|I need exercise to keep me in condition.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000012_000002.wav|I'm going to church as often as I can after this, and I'm going to help with the work of running it."|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000040_000000.wav|"Of course, Mother," said Adam.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4289/21393/4289_21393_000006_000005.wav|She would be friendlier, and have more patience with the neighbours.|4289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000004_000002.wav|At which festival a great multitude was gotten together of the principal persons, and such as were of dignity through his province.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000008_000002.wav|And when Caesar was informed that Agrippa was dead, and that the inhabitants of Sebaste and Cesarea had abused him, he was sorry for the first news, and was displeased with the ingratitude of those cities.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000004.wav|All these he treated with agreeable entertainments, and after an obliging manner, and so as to exhibit the greatness of his mind, and so as to appear worthy of those respects which the kings paid to him, by coming thus to see him.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000004_000005.wav|A severe pain also arose in his belly, and began in a most violent manner.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000010.wav|And now he took the high priesthood away from Matthias, and made Elioneus, the son of Cantheras, high priest in his stead.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000007.wav|But Marcus had a suspicion what the meaning could be of so great a friendship of these kings one with another, and did not think so close an agreement of so many potentates to be for the interest of the romans.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000001.wav|When Agrippa had finished what I have above related at Berytus, he removed to Tiberias, a city of Galilee.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000008.wav|He therefore sent some of his domestics to every one of them, and enjoined them to go their ways home without further delay.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000008_000001.wav|Now Agrippa, the son of the deceased, was at Rome, and brought up with Claudius Caesar.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000006_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000009.wav|This was very ill taken by Agrippa, who after that became his enemy.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000006.wav|So the king, in order to preserve the respect that was due to the romans, went out of the city to meet him, as far as seven furlongs. But this proved to be the beginning of a difference between him and Marcus; for he took with him in his chariot those other kings as his assessors.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000005_000001.wav|But before the multitude were made acquainted with Agrippa's being expired, Herod the king of Chalcis, and Helcias the master of his horse, and the king's friend, sent Aristo, one of the king's most faithful servants, and slew Silas, who had been their enemy, as if it had been done by the king's own command.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000006_000001.wav|What Things Were Done After The Death Of Agrippa; And How Claudius, On Account Of The Youth And Unskilfulness Of Agrippa, Junior, Sent Cuspius Fadus To Be Procurator Of Judea, And Of The Entire Kingdom.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000003.wav|Accordingly there came to him Antiochus, king of Commalena, Sampsigeratnus, king of Emesa, and Cotys, who was king of the Lesser Armenia, and Polemo, who was king of Pontus, as also Herod his brother, who was king of Chalcis.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000005.wav|However, while these kings staid with him, Marcus, the president of Syria, came thither.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000002_000001.wav|What Other Acts Were Done By Agrippa Until His Death; And After What Manner He Died.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000003_000002.wav|Now he was in great esteem among other kings.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000004_000010.wav|All places were also full of mourning and lamentation. Now the king rested in a high chamber, and as he saw them below lying prostrate on the ground, he could not himself forbear weeping.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000004_000012.wav|The revenues that he received out of them were very great, no less than twelve millions of drachme.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000008_000003.wav|He was therefore disposed to send Agrippa, junior, away presently to succeed his father in the kingdom, and was willing to confirm him in it by his oath.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/48377/5093_48377_000004_000008.wav|Accordingly he was carried into the palace, and the rumor went abroad every where, that he would certainly die in a little time.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000043_000001.wav|It is owing to a neglect of the doctrines, that there is such a fearful falling away in the country.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000048_000001.wav|Perhaps Laura enjoyed his torment, but she soothed him with blandishments that increased his ardor, and she smiled to herself to think that he had, with all his protestations of love, never spoken of marriage.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000030_000003.wav|You see by the map.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000004_000002.wav|All parties are flattered by it and politics are forgotten in the presence of one so distinguished among his fellows.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000007_000002.wav|Boswell.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000021_000001.wav|The good opinion of my fellow citizens of all sections is the sweetest solace in all my anxieties.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000020_000000.wav|This not being an edition of the Congressional Globe it is impossible to give Senator Dilworthy's speech in full.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000025_000002.wav|It was a plan that the Senator could understand without a great deal of explanation, for he seemed to be familiar with the like improvements elsewhere.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000012_000002.wav|"They are a speculating race, sir, disinclined to work for white folks without security, planning how to live by only working for themselves.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000019_000004.wav|Boswell.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000037_000002.wav|But you can reckon upon my humble services."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000009_000000.wav|Senator Dilworthy was large and portly, though not tall-a pleasant spoken man, a popular man with the people.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000026_000000.wav|"Is this Napoleon?"|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000028_000000.wav|"Ah, I see.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000045_000003.wav|That meek young lady so commended herself to him in the short walk, that he announced his intentions of paying his respects to her the next day, an intention which Harry received glumly; and when the Senator was out of hearing he called him "an old fool."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000049_000000.wav|Laura bade him good bye with tender regret, which, however, did not disturb her peace or interfere with her plans.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000022_000003.wav|As I was saying, when I can lay down the cares of office and retire to the sweets of private life in some such sweet, peaceful, intelligent, wide awake and patriotic place as Hawkeye (applause).|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000032_000000.wav|"I should say a million; is that your figure mr Brierly."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000010_000000.wav|He took a lively interest in the town and all the surrounding country, and made many inquiries as to the progress of agriculture, of education, and of religion, and especially as to the condition of the emancipated race.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000048_000004.wav|But there was no telling to what desperate lengths his passion might not carry him.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000043_000002.wav|I wish that we might have you in Washington-as chaplain, now, in the senate."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000025_000003.wav|When, however, they reached Stone's Landing the Senator looked about him and inquired,|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000027_000000.wav|"This is the nucleus, the nucleus," said the Colonel, unrolling his map. "Here is the deepo, the church, the City Hall and so on."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000019_000005.wav|The occasion was one to call out his finest powers of personal appearance, and one he long dwelt on with pleasure.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000007_000003.wav|But you will mingle with our people, and you will see here developments that will surprise you."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000022_000002.wav|I see that he is a victim of that evil which is swallowing up public virtue and sapping the foundation of society.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000030_000004.wav|Columbus River.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000045_000000.wav|Laura was at church alone that day, and mr Brierly walked home with her.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000043_000000.wav|"I am glad to see, my dear sir," said the Senator, "that you give them the doctrines.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000047_000001.wav|He saw Laura again and again during his stay, and felt more and more the subtle influence of her feminine beauty, which every man felt who came near her.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000012_000003.wav|Idle, sir, there's my garden just a ruin of weeds.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000019_000000.wav|Of course one of the entertainments offered the Senator was a public reception, held in the court house, at which he made a speech to his fellow citizens.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000048_000003.wav|At any rate when he at length went away from Hawkeye he was no nearer it.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000011_000000.wav|"Providence," he said, "has placed them in our hands, and although you and I, General, might have chosen a different destiny for them, under the Constitution, yet Providence knows best."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000044_000000.wav|The good man could not but be a little flattered, and if sometimes, thereafter, in his discouraging work, he allowed the thought that he might perhaps be called to Washington as chaplain of the Senate, to cheer him, who can wonder.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000022_000004.wav|I have traveled much, I have seen all parts of our glorious union, but I have never seen a lovelier village than yours, or one that has more signs of commercial and industrial and religious prosperity-(more applause)."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000016_000001.wav|He would only have a wider scope to injure himself. A niggro has no grasp, sir.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000048_000002.wav|Probably the vivacious fellow never had thought of it.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000020_000001.wav|He began somewhat as follows:|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000025_000001.wav|He and mr Brierly took the Senator over to Napoleon and opened to him their plan.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000046_000002.wav|He said you were a young man of great promise."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000042_000001.wav|He cheered the heart of the worthy and zealous minister by an expression of his sympathy in his labors, and by many inquiries in regard to the religious state of the region.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000030_000002.wav|It's got to be enlarged, deepened.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000030_000000.wav|"Yes, sir," the Colonel hastened to explain, "in the old records Columbus River is called Goose Run.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000006_000002.wav|Sellers for the unreserved hospitalities of the town.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000038_000000.wav|This aspect of the subject was not again alluded to.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000044_000001.wav|The Senator's commendation at least did one service for him, it elevated him in the opinion of Hawkeye.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000037_000001.wav|It will require a portion of the appropriation for necessary expenses, and I am sorry to say that there are members who will have to be seen.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000035_000000.wav|The Senator, himself, to do him justice, was not very much interested in the country or the stream, but he favored the appropriation, and he gave the Colonel and mr Brierly to understand that he would endeavor to get it through.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000014_000001.wav|If he won't stick to any industry except for himself now, what will he do then?"|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000037_000000.wav|"You will offend me by repeating such an observation," he said. "Whatever I do will be for the public interest.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000042_000000.wav|The Senator spent Sunday in Hawkeye and attended church.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000033_000000.wav|"According to our surveys," said Harry, "a million would do it; a million spent on the river would make Napoleon worth two millions at least."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000021_000003.wav|Cries of "put him out."]|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000022_000000.wav|"My friends, do not remove him.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000023_000000.wav|The Senator then launched into a sketch of our great country, and dwelt for an hour or more upon its prosperity and the dangers which threatened it.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000004_000001.wav|When a Senator, whose place is in Washington moving among the Great and guiding the destinies of the nation, condescends to mingle among the people and accept the hospitalities of such a place as Hawkeye, the honor is not considered a light one.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000028_000001.wav|How far from here is Columbus River?|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000005_000001.wav|Sellers, who had been a confederate and had not thriven by it, should give him the cold shoulder?|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000041_000000.wav|The result of several conferences with Washington was that the Senator proposed that he should go to Washington with him and become his private secretary and the secretary of his committee; a proposal which was eagerly accepted.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000034_000002.wav|You can begin to sell town lots on that appropriation you know."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000017_000000.wav|"Still," replied the Senator, "granting that he might injure himself in a worldly point of view, his elevation through education would multiply his chances for the hereafter-which is the important thing after all, Colonel.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000004_000000.wav|The visit of Senator Abner Dilworthy was an event in Hawkeye.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000042_000002.wav|It was not a very promising state, and the good man felt how much lighter his task would be, if he had the aid of such a man as Senator Dilworthy.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000006_000003.wav|It was the large hearted Colonel who, in a manner, gave him the freedom of the city.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000021_000000.wav|"Fellow citizens: It gives me great pleasure to thus meet and mingle with you, to lay aside for a moment the heavy duties of an official and burdensome station, and confer in familiar converse with my friends in your great state.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000045_000001.wav|A part of their way lay with that of General Boswell and Senator Dilworthy, and introductions were made.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000035_000001.wav|Harry, who thought he was shrewd and understood Washington, suggested an interest.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000036_000000.wav|But he saw that the Senator was wounded by the suggestion.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000045_000002.wav|Laura had her own reasons for wishing to know the Senator, and the Senator was not a man who could be called indifferent to charms such as hers.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000040_000001.wav|And he did not doubt that this was an opportunity of that kind.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000016_000002.wav|Now, a white man can conceive great operations, and carry them out; a niggro can't."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000015_000000.wav|"But, Colonel, the negro when educated will be more able to make his speculations fruitful."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000029_000000.wav|"That, why, that's Goose Run.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000008_000001.wav|He did, in fact, press him to dine upon the morning of the day the Senator was going away.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000016_000000.wav|"Never, sir, never.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000030_000001.wav|You see how it sweeps round the town-forty nine miles to the Missouri; sloop navigation all the way pretty much drains this whole country; when it's improved steamboats will run right up here.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000030_000005.wav|This country must have water communication!"|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000018_000000.wav|"I'd elevate his soul," promptly responded the Colonel; "that's just it; you can't make his soul too immortal, but I wouldn't touch him, himself. Yes, sir! make his soul immortal, but don't disturb the niggro as he is."|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000031_000001.wav|Sellers.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/29101/5093_29101_000039_000000.wav|It was on this visit also that the Senator made the acquaintance of mr Washington Hawkins, and was greatly taken with his innocence, his guileless manner and perhaps with his ready adaptability to enter upon any plan proposed.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000008_000000.wav|King Antiochus To Zeuxis His Father, Sendeth Greeting.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000007_000003.wav|Nor let any flesh of horses, or of mules, or of asses, he brought into the city, whether they be wild or tame; nor that of leopards, or foxes, or hares; and, in general, that of any animal which is forbidden for the Jews to eat.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000007_000004.wav|Nor let their skins be brought into it; nor let any such animal be bred up in the city.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000001_000001.wav|How The Kings Of Asia Honored The Nation Of The Jews And Made Them Citizens Of Those Cities Which They Built.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER three.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000003_000005.wav|But I will now return to that part of my history whence I made the present digression.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000006_000006.wav|We also discharge them for the future from a third part of their taxes, that the losses they have sustained may be repaired.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000007_000001.wav|And these were the contents of this epistle.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000004_000003.wav|Yet was it not long afterward when Antiochus overcame Scopas, in a battle fought at the fountains of Jordan, and destroyed a great part of his army.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000003_000004.wav|But one may well be astonished at the generosity of Vespasian and titus, that after so great wars and contests which they had from us, they should use such moderation.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000005_000000.wav|King Antiochus To Ptolemy, Sendeth Greeting.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000007_000007.wav|The epistle was this:|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000004_000005.wav|Wherefore Antiochus thought it but just to requite the Jews' diligence and zeal in his service.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000006_000005.wav|And that the city may the sooner recover its inhabitants, I grant a discharge from taxes for three years to its present inhabitants, and to such as shall come to it, until the month Hyperheretus.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000004_000004.wav|But afterward, when Antiochus subdued those cities of Celesyria which Scopas had gotten into his possession, and Samaria with them, the Jews, of their own accord, went over to him, and received him into the city [Jerusalem], and gave plentiful provision to all his army, and to his elephants, and readily assisted him when he besieged the garrison which was in the citadel of Jerusalem.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000007_000005.wav|Let them only be permitted to use the sacrifices derived from their forefathers, with which they have been obliged to make acceptable atonements to God.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000006_000003.wav|I would also have the work about the temple finished, and the cloisters, and if there be any thing else that ought to be rebuilt.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000006_000002.wav|And these payments I would have fully paid them, as I have sent orders to you.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/39749/5093_39749_000003_000003.wav|Now as to this determination of Agrippa, it is not so much to be admired, for at that time our nation had not made war against the romans.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000012.wav|Whereupon the damsel cried out, and said, "Nay, brother, do not force me, nor be so wicked as to transgress the laws, and bring upon thyself the utmost confusion.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000016.wav|And when she said that this was a more injurious treatment than the former, if, now he had forced her, he would not let her stay with him till the evening, but bid her go away in the day-time, and while it was light, that she might meet with people that would be witnesses of her shame,--he commanded his servant to turn her out of his house.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000008.wav|When his father came, and inquired how he did, he begged of him to send his sister to him.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000006.wav|So Jenadab suggested to him by what method and contrivance he might obtain his desires; for he persuaded him to pretend sickness, and bade him, when his father should come to him, to beg of him that his sister might come and minister to him; for if that were done, he should be better, and should quickly recover from his distemper.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000003_000003.wav|Then Absalom charged his own servants, that when they should see Amnon disordered and drowsy with wine, and he should give them a signal, they should fear nobody, but kill him.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000005.wav|Amnon confessed his passion, that he was in love with a sister of his, who had the same father with himself.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000010.wav|So she kneaded the flour in the sight of her brother, and made him cakes, and baked them in a pan, and brought them to him; but at that time he would not taste them, but gave order to his servants to send all that were there out of his chamber, because he had a mind to repose himself, free from tumult and disturbance.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000004_000005.wav|So their father met them as they were in their grief, and he himself grieved with them; but it was more than he expected to see those his sons again, whom he had a little before heard to have perished.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000001_000001.wav|How Absalom Murdered Amnon, Who Had Forced His Own Sister; And How He Was Banished And Afterwards Recalled By David.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000015.wav|But he would not yield to her; but, inflamed with love and blinded with the vehemency of his passion, he forced his sister: but as soon as Amnon had satisfied his lust, he hated her immediately, and giving her reproachful words, bade her rise up and be gone.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000006_000001.wav|However, the king sent a message to his son beforehand, as he was coming, and commanded him to retire to his own house, for he was not yet in such a disposition as to think fit at present to see him. Accordingly, upon the father's command, he avoided coming into his presence, and contented himself with the respects paid him by his own family only.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000004_000004.wav|In the mean time, a great noise of horses, and a tumult of some people that were coming, turned their attention to them; they were the king's sons, who were fled away from the feast.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000014.wav|This she said, as desirous to avoid her brother's violent passion at present.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000019.wav|So she yielded to his advice, and left off her crying out, and discovering the force offered her to the multitude; and she continued as a widow with her brother Absalom a long time.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000011.wav|As soon as what he had commanded was done, he desired his sister to bring his supper to him into the inner parlor; which, when the damsel had done, he took hold of her, and endeavored to persuade her to lie with him.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000013.wav|Curb this thy unrighteous and impure lust, from which our house will get nothing but reproach and disgrace." She also advised him to speak to his father about this affair; for he would permit him [to marry her].|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000003_000001.wav|When David his father knew this, he was grieved at the actions of Amnon; but because he had an extraordinary affection for him, for he was his eldest son, he was compelled not to afflict him; but Absalom watched for a fit opportunity of revenging this crime upon him, for he thoroughly hated him.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000006_000004.wav|But Absalom sent to Joab, and desired him to pacify his father entirely towards him; and to beseech him to give him leave to come to him to see him, and speak with him.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000002.wav|Now Amnon, David's eldest son, fell in love with her, and being not able to obtain his desires, on account of her virginity, and the custody she was under, was so much out of order, nay, his grief so eat up his body, that he grew lean, and his color was changed.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000002_000004.wav|When, therefore, he saw that every morning Amnon was not in body as he ought to be, he came to him, and desired him to tell him what was the cause of it: however, he said that he guessed that it arose from the passion of love.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5093/26496/5093_26496_000004_000006.wav|However, their were tears on both sides; they lamenting their brother who was killed, and the king lamenting his son, who was killed also; but Absalom fled to Geshur, to his grandfather by his mother's side, who was king of that country, and he remained with him three whole years.|5093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18005/4590_18005_000012_000009.wav|The terror of the sudden charge had proved too much for Mahina, and both he and the carbine were by this time well on their way up a tree.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18005/4590_18005_000012_000008.wav|To my dismay, however, it was not there.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18005/4590_18005_000010_000007.wav|It was the man eater, cautiously stalking us.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000008_000007.wav|As far as I could make out, he kept dodging in and out through the broken wall of the goat house; but in a short time my shots evidently told, as his struggles ceased and all was still.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000005_000005.wav|On it came, and with it an additional bank of stormy looking water.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000009_000003.wav|He was a fine looking beast, bigger than a collie, with jet black hair and a white tipped bushy tail.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000007_000002.wav|One particularly dark night we were startled by a tremendous commotion in this shed, but as this was before the man eaters were killed, no one dared stir out to investigate the cause of the disturbance.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000009_000000.wav|Wild dogs are also very destructive, and often caused great losses among our sheep and goats.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000005_000000.wav|Curiously enough, only a day or so after the bridge had been completed and the intermediate cribs cleared away, a tremendous rain storm broke over the country.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000006_000001.wav|These animals did a great deal of damage to the herds of sheep and goats which were kept to supply the commissariat, and there was always great rejoicing when a capture was made in one of the many traps that were laid for them.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000003_000003.wav|These were bolted together at the top, while the other ends were fixed at a distance of about ten feet apart in a large block of wood. This contrivance acted capitally, and by manipulation of ropes and pulleys the heavy stones were swung into position quickly and without difficulty, so that in a very short time the masonry of the bridge was completed.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000007_000006.wav|He had not eaten one of the flock, but had killed them all out of pure love of destruction.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000008_000005.wav|As we approached the shed, the leopard made a frantic spring in our direction as far as the chain would allow him, and this so frightened the chaukidar that he fled in terror, leaving me in utter darkness.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000004_000003.wav|It was next "jacked" up from the trucks, which were hauled away empty, the temporary bridge was dismantled, and the girder finally lowered gently into position.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000004_000004.wav|When the last girder was thus successfully placed, no time was lost in linking up the permanent way, and very soon I had the satisfaction of seeing the first train cross the finished work.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000008_000013.wav|I of course assented to this proposal, and in a very few minutes the skin had been neatly taken off, and the famishing natives began a ravenous meal on the raw flesh.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000008_000006.wav|The night was as black as had been the previous one, and I could see absolutely nothing; but I knew the general direction in which to fire and accordingly emptied my magazine at the beast.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000008_000010.wav|Whereupon he levelled his revolver at the dead leopard, and shutting his eyes tightly, fired four shots in rapid succession.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000008_000008.wav|I called out that he was dead, and at once everyone in the boma turned out, bringing all the lanterns in the place.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000005_000010.wav|I confess that I witnessed the whole occurrence with a thrill of pride.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4590/18006/4590_18006_000003_000001.wav|As the piers and abutments progressed in height, the question of how to lift the large stones into their positions had to be solved.|4590
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000027_000000.wav|"This fish belongs to an extinct family, of which only fossil traces are found in the devonian formations."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000007_000001.wav|He took the tiller, and unmoored; the sail was set, and we were soon afloat.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000005_000001.wav|We were now to begin to adopt a mode of travelling both more expeditious and less fatiguing than hitherto.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000028_000000.wav|"What!" I cried.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000023_000000.wav|At noon Hans prepared a hook at the end of a line.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000047_000000.wav|"Do you feel ill?" my uncle asked.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000036_000001.wav|Though awake I fell into a dream.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000040_000000.wav|But is it not a dream?|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000006_000000.wav|A mast was made of two poles spliced together, a yard was made of a third, a blanket borrowed from our coverings made a tolerable sail. There was no want of cordage for the rigging, and everything was well and firmly made.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000040_000003.wav|I have forgotten everything that surrounds me.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000035_000003.wav|I survey the whole space that stretches overhead; it is as desert as the shore was.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000011_000000.wav|The wind was from the north-west.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000039_000000.wav|And I myself am floating with wild caprice in the midst of this nebulous mass of fourteen hundred thousand times the volume of the earth into which it will one day be condensed, and carried forward amongst the planetary bodies.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000035_000000.wav|I gaze upward in the air.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000013_000004.wav|Soon we entirely lost sight of land; no object was left for the eye to judge by, and but for the frothy track of the raft, I might have thought we were standing still.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000032_000003.wav|This unhoped for catch recruited our stock of provisions.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000040_000004.wav|The Professor, the guide, the raft-are all gone out of my ken.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000022_000004.wav|Intensity of light the same.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000011_000002.wav|The dense atmosphere acted with great force and impelled us swiftly on.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000024_000000.wav|"A sturgeon," I cried; "a small sturgeon."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000012_000001.wav|At this rate, he said, we shall make thirty leagues in twenty four hours, and we shall soon come in sight of the opposite shore.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000018_000000.wav|After supper I laid myself down at the foot of the mast, and fell asleep in the midst of fantastic reveries.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000007_000000.wav|The provisions, the baggage, the instruments, the guns, and a good quantity of fresh water from the rocks around, all found their proper places on board; and at six the Professor gave the signal to embark. Hans had fitted up a rudder to steer his vessel.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000048_000001.wav|Is all going on right?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000033_000000.wav|Thus it is evident that this sea contains none but species known to us in their fossil state, in which fishes as well as reptiles are the less perfectly and completely organised the farther back their date of creation.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000022_000005.wav|Weather fine; that is to say, that the clouds are flying high, are light, and bathed in a white atmosphere resembling silver in a state of fusion.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000045_000000.wav|"Is he mad?" cried the Professor.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000014_000001.wav|I was aware of the great powers of vegetation that characterise these plants, which grow at a depth of twelve thousand feet, reproduce themselves under a pressure of four hundred atmospheres, and sometimes form barriers strong enough to impede the course of a ship.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000032_000001.wav|But supposing it might be a solitary case, we baited afresh, and threw out our line.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000017_000000.wav|Evening came, and, as on the previous day, I perceived no change in the luminous condition of the air.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000013_000002.wav|The eastern and western strands spread wide as if to bid us farewell.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000023_000005.wav|Hans draws it in and brings out a struggling fish.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000036_000008.wav|In the uppermost regions of the air immense birds, more powerful than the cassowary, and larger than the ostrich, spread their vast breadth of wings and strike with their heads the granite vault that bounds the sky.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000025_000000.wav|The Professor eyes the creature attentively, and his opinion differs from mine.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000039_000001.wav|My body is no longer firm and terrestrial; it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000037_000007.wav|Vegetation becomes accelerated.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000042_000000.wav|My staring eyes are fixed vacantly upon him.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000026_000001.wav|The animal belonged to the same order as the sturgeon, but differed from that fish in many essential particulars.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000029_000001.wav|To have in one's possession a living specimen is a happy event for a naturalist."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000041_000000.wav|"What is the matter?" my uncle breaks in.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000013_000003.wav|Before our eyes lay far and wide a vast sea; shadows of great clouds swept heavily over its silver grey surface; the glistening bluish rays of electric light, here and there reflected by the dancing drops of spray, shot out little sheaves of light from the track we left in our rear.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000013_000000.wav|I made no answer, but went and sat forward.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000040_000001.wav|Whither is it carrying me?|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000037_000004.wav|Then the zoophytes of the transition period also return to nothing.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000008_000000.wav|"But I have a better to propose," I said: "Grauben.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000011_000001.wav|We went with it at a high rate of speed.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000046_000000.wav|"What is it all about?" at last I cried, returning to myself.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000021_000000.wav|I shall therefore reproduce here these daily notes, written, so to speak, as the course of events directed, in order to furnish an exact narrative of our passage.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000040_000002.wav|My feverish hand has vainly attempted to describe upon paper its strange and wonderful details.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000023_000002.wav|For two hours nothing was caught.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000035_000002.wav|There are sufficient fish for their support.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000044_000000.wav|At that moment I felt the sinewy hand of Hans seizing me vigorously. But for him, carried away by my dream, I should have thrown myself into the sea.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000031_000001.wav|But this one displays a peculiarity confined to all fishes that inhabit subterranean waters.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000030_000000.wav|"But to what family does it belong?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000037_000001.wav|I return to the scriptural periods or ages of the world, conventionally called 'days,' long before the appearance of man, when the unfinished world was as yet unfitted for his support.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000007_000002.wav|At the moment of leaving the harbour, my uncle, who was tenaciously fond of naming his new discoveries, wanted to give it a name, and proposed mine amongst others.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000005_000000.wav|On the thirteenth of August we awoke early.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000017_000001.wav|It was a constant condition, the permanency of which might be relied upon.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty two.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000023_000004.wav|No, there's a pull at the line.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000019_000000.wav|Hans, keeping fast by the helm, let the raft run on, which, after all, needed no steering, the wind blowing directly aft.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000036_000006.wav|Higher up, the protopitheca-the first monkey that appeared on the globe-is climbing up the steep ascents.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000022_000003.wav|Nothing in sight before us.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123285/724_123285_000034_000000.wav|Perhaps we may yet meet with some of those saurians which science has reconstructed out of a bit of bone or cartilage.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000039_000000.wav|"But how are we to get down below this liquid surface?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000047_000001.wav|Don't you hear the hammer at work?|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000034_000000.wav|"We are thirty five leagues below the surface."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000058_000000.wav|By next evening, thanks to the industry and skill of our guide, the raft was made.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000033_000000.wav|"What depth have we now reached?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000051_000000.wav|"Uncle, what wood is this?" I cried.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000030_000001.wav|Therefore that mysterious centre of attraction is at no great depth."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000022_000000.wav|"We will try, Axel, for we must penetrate all secrets of these newly discovered regions."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000008_000003.wav|And in spite of the heavy atmospheric pressure on the surface, you will see it rise like the Atlantic itself."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000032_000000.wav|"Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000005_000000.wav|I came back to breakfast with a good appetite.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000007_000001.wav|"Can the influence of the sun and moon be felt down here?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000044_000000.wav|"Set sail, shall we?|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000026_000000.wav|"I am sure of not being a mile out of my reckoning."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000004_000000.wav|The next morning I awoke feeling perfectly well.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000005_000001.wav|Hans was a good caterer for our little household; he had water and fire at his disposal, so that he was able to vary our bill of fare now and then. For dessert he gave us a few cups of coffee, and never was coffee so delicious.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000056_000000.wav|"Are you convinced?" said my uncle.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000057_000000.wav|"I am quite convinced, although it is incredible!"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000041_000000.wav|"How long do you suppose this sea to be?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000037_000002.wav|Are you not thinking of returning to the surface now?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000024_000000.wav|"Horizontally, three hundred and fifty leagues from Iceland."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000015_000000.wav|"Well," replied my uncle, "is there any scientific reason against it?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000008_000002.wav|This mass of water cannot escape the general law.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000046_000000.wav|"Why," I said, "a raft would be just as hard to make as a boat, and I don't see-"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000040_000001.wav|But if all oceans are properly speaking but lakes, since they are encompassed by land, of course this internal sea will be surrounded by a coast of granite, and on the opposite shores we shall find fresh passages opening."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000020_000000.wav|"At any rate," he replied, "we have not seen any yet."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000044_000001.wav|But I should like to see my boat first."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000055_000000.wav|The bit of wood, after disappearing, returned to the surface and oscillated to and fro with the waves.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000052_000001.wav|It is called surturbrand, a variety of brown coal or lignite, found chiefly in Iceland."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000029_000000.wav|"Would you then conclude," I said, "that the magnetic pole is somewhere between the surface of the globe and the point where we are?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000036_000003.wav|What are the finest arches of bridges and the arcades of cathedrals, compared with this far reaching vault, with a radius of three leagues, beneath which a wide and tempest tossed ocean may flow at its ease?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000010_000000.wav|"Here is the tide rising," I cried.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000036_000000.wav|"Yes," answered the Professor laughing.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000008_000000.wav|"Why not?|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000036_000002.wav|The great Architect has built it of the best materials; and never could man have given it so wide a stretch.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000054_000001.wav|Just look," added my uncle, throwing into the sea one of those precious waifs.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000047_000000.wav|"I know you don't see; but you might hear if you would listen.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000025_000000.wav|"So much as that?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000040_000000.wav|"Oh, I am not going to dive head foremost.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000050_000002.wav|To my great surprise a half finished raft was already lying on the sand, made of a peculiar kind of wood, and a great number of planks, straight and bent, and of frames, were covering the ground, enough almost for a little fleet.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000052_000000.wav|"It is fir, pine, or birch, and other northern coniferae, mineralised by the action of the sea.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000014_000001.wav|Who would ever have imagined, under this terrestrial crust, an ocean with ebbing and flowing tides, with winds and storms?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000030_000000.wav|"Exactly so; and it is likely enough that if we were to reach the spot beneath the polar regions, about that seventy first degree where Sir james Ross has discovered the magnetic pole to be situated, we should see the needle point straight up.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty one.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000050_000001.wav|In a few more steps I was at his side.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000019_000000.wav|"To be sure," said I; "and why should not these waters yield to us fishes of unknown species?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000049_000001.wav|Come, and you will see for yourself."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000031_000000.wav|I remarked: "It is so; and here is a fact which science has scarcely suspected."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000012_000000.wav|"This is wonderful," I said.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000006_000000.wav|"Now," said my uncle, "now is the time for high tide, and we must not lose the opportunity to study this phenomenon."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000027_000000.wav|"And does the compass still show south-east?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000050_000000.wav|After half an hour's walking, on the other side of the promontory which formed the little natural harbour, I perceived Hans at work.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000023_000000.wav|"But where are we, uncle? for I have not yet asked you that question, and your instruments must be able to furnish the answer."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000007_000000.wav|"What! the tide!" I cried.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000045_000000.wav|"It will not be a boat at all, but a good, well made raft."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000037_000000.wav|"Oh, I am not afraid that it will fall down upon my head.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123284/724_123284_000037_000001.wav|But now what are your plans?|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000051_000006.wav|Where did it lead to?|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000028_000002.wav|It was composed of trees of moderate height, formed like umbrellas, with exact geometrical outlines.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000040_000000.wav|I had rushed upon these remains, formed of indestructible phosphates of lime, and without hesitation I named these monstrous bones, which lay scattered about like decayed trunks of trees.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000047_000000.wav|"No doubt; and there is a geological explanation of the fact.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000041_000004.wav|Here are entire skeletons.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000029_000003.wav|No; when we arrived under their shade my surprise turned into admiration.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000022_000000.wav|"Well, take my arm, Axel, and let us follow the windings of the shore."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000034_000001.wav|"Here is the entire flora of the second period of the world-the transition period.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000011_000003.wav|Where this vault rested upon its granite base no eye could tell; but there was a cloud hanging far above, the height of which we estimated at twelve thousand feet, a greater height than that of any terrestrial vapour, and no doubt due to the great density of the air.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000008_000001.wav|It was not the light of the sun, with his dazzling shafts of brightness and the splendour of his rays; nor was it the pale and uncertain shimmer of the moonbeams, the dim reflection of a nobler body of light.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000025_000000.wav|"We shall see it no more," I said, with a sigh.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000013_000001.wav|Had the cooling of the globe produced it?|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000023_000000.wav|I eagerly accepted, and we began to coast along this new sea.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000031_000004.wav|No light could penetrate between their huge cones, and complete darkness reigned beneath those giants; they formed settlements of domes placed in close array like the round, thatched roofs of a central African city.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000011_000002.wav|As for its height, it must have been several leagues.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000005_000000.wav|"Yes," my uncle replied, "the Liedenbrock Sea; and I don't suppose any other discoverer will ever dispute my claim to name it after myself as its first discoverer."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000034_000004.wav|Never had botanist such a feast as this!"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000006_000005.wav|Farther on the eye discerned their massive outline sharply defined against the hazy distant horizon.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000014_000003.wav|My imagination fell powerless before such immensity.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000013_000000.wav|Besides I could not tell upon what geological theory to account for the existence of such an excavation.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000041_000005.wav|And yet I cannot understand the appearance of these quadrupeds in a granite cavern."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000047_000002.wav|Probably there were subsidences of the outer crust, when a portion of the sedimentary deposits was carried down sudden openings."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000028_000003.wav|The currents of wind seemed to have had no effect upon their shape, and in the midst of the windy blasts they stood unmoved and firm, just like a clump of petrified cedars.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000023_000001.wav|On the left huge pyramids of rock, piled one upon another, produced a prodigious titanic effect.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000044_000000.wav|"Because animal life existed upon the earth only in the secondary period, when a sediment of soil had been deposited by the rivers, and taken the place of the incandescent rocks of the primitive period."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000051_000000.wav|But this illusion lasted a very short time.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000033_000000.wav|But the subterranean vegetation was not confined to these fungi. Farther on rose groups of tall trees of colourless foliage and easy to recognise.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000017_000000.wav|It will be easily conceived that after an imprisonment of forty seven days in a narrow gallery it was the height of physical enjoyment to breathe a moist air impregnated with saline particles.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000009_000001.wav|I should have thought that under so powerful a pressure of the atmosphere there could be no evaporation; and yet, under a law unknown to me, there were broad tracts of vapour suspended in the air.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000009_000005.wav|The general effect was sad, supremely melancholy.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000029_000001.wav|I could not give any name to these singular creations.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000007_000000.wav|It was quite an ocean, with the irregular shores of earth, but desert and frightfully wild in appearance.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000012_000000.wav|The word cavern does not convey any idea of this immense space; words of human tongue are inadequate to describe the discoveries of him who ventures into the deep abysses of earth.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000003_000000.wav|At first I could hardly see anything.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000048_000000.wav|"That may be," I replied; "but if there have been creatures now extinct in these underground regions, why may not some of those monsters be now roaming through these gloomy forests, or hidden behind the steep crags?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000024_000000.wav|Amongst these streams I recognised our faithful travelling companion, the Hansbach, coming to lose its little volume quietly in the mighty sea, just as if it had done nothing else since the beginning of the world.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000006_000001.wav|The deeply indented shore was lined with a breadth of fine shining sand, softly lapped by the waves, and strewn with the small shells which had been inhabited by the first of created beings.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000029_000002.wav|Were they some of the two hundred thousand species of vegetables known hitherto, and did they claim a place of their own in the lacustrine flora?|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000052_000000.wav|My uncle made no doubt about it at all; I both desired and feared.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000041_000001.wav|"These are the molar teeth of the deinotherium; this femur must have belonged to the greatest of those beasts, the megatherium.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000036_000000.wav|"It is a conservatory, Axel; but is it not also a menagerie?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000004_000000.wav|"The sea!" I cried.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000035_000001.wav|Providence seems to have preserved in this immense conservatory the antediluvian plants which the wisdom of philosophers has so sagaciously put together again."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000034_000000.wav|"Wonderful, magnificent, splendid!" cried my uncle.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000043_000000.wav|"Why?"|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000028_000001.wav|At a distance of five hundred paces, at the turn of a high promontory, appeared a high, tufted, dense forest.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000015_000002.wav|I felt as if I was in some distant planet Uranus or Neptune-and in the presence of phenomena of which my terrestrial experience gave me no cognisance.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000028_000000.wav|But at that moment my attention was drawn to an unexpected sight.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000009_000000.wav|The vault that spanned the space above, the sky, if it could be called so, seemed composed of vast plains of cloud, shifting and variable vapours, which by their condensation must at certain times fall in torrents of rain.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000009_000003.wav|Deep shadows reposed upon their lower wreaths; and often, between two separated fields of cloud, there glided down a ray of unspeakable lustre.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000033_000001.wav|They were lowly shrubs of earth, here attaining gigantic size; lycopodiums, a hundred feet high; the huge sigillaria, found in our coal mines; tree ferns, as tall as our fir trees in northern latitudes; lepidodendra, with cylindrical forked stems, terminated by long leaves, and bristling with rough hairs like those of the cactus.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000029_000004.wav|There stood before me productions of earth, but of gigantic stature, which my uncle immediately named.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000030_000000.wav|"It is only a forest of mushrooms," said he.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000050_000000.wav|I felt rather tired, and went to sit down at the end of a promontory, at the foot of which the waves came and beat themselves into spray. Thence my eye could sweep every part of the bay; within its extremity a little harbour was formed between the pyramidal cliffs, where the still waters slept untouched by the boisterous winds.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000049_000000.wav|And as this unpleasant notion got hold of me, I surveyed with anxious scrutiny the open spaces before me; but no living creature appeared upon the barren strand.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000051_000002.wav|When the wind lulled, a deeper silence than that of the deserts fell upon the arid, naked rocks, and weighed upon the surface of the ocean.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000019_000001.wav|My uncle, already familiar with these wonders, had ceased to feel surprise.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000006_000003.wav|A light foam flew over the waves before the breath of a moderate breeze, and some of the spray fell upon my face. On this slightly inclining shore, about a hundred fathoms from the limit of the waves, came down the foot of a huge wall of vast cliffs, which rose majestically to an enormous height.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000041_000002.wav|It certainly is a menagerie, for these remains were not brought here by a deluge.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000003_000002.wav|When I was able to reopen them, I stood more stupefied even than surprised.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000034_000002.wav|These, humble garden plants with us, were tall trees in the early ages.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000031_000003.wav|There they stood in thousands.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000051_000004.wav|Anxious queries arose to my lips.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000014_000002.wav|But what were these cavities compared to that in which I stood with wonder and admiration, with its sky of luminous vapours, its bursts of electric light, and a vast sea filling its bed?|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000015_000001.wav|Words failed me to express my feelings.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000038_000001.wav|Look at that dust under your feet; see the bones scattered on the ground."|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000008_000000.wav|If my eyes were able to range afar over this great sea, it was because a peculiar light brought to view every detail of it.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000032_000000.wav|Yet I wanted to penetrate farther underneath, though a chill fell upon me as soon as I came under those cellular vaults.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000031_000000.wav|And he was right.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000003_000001.wav|My eyes, unaccustomed to the light, quickly closed.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000008_000003.wav|It was like an aurora borealis, a continuous cosmical phenomenon, filling a cavern of sufficient extent to contain an ocean.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000050_000002.wav|I almost fancied I should presently see some ship issue from it, full sail, and take to the open sea under the southern breeze.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000038_000000.wav|"Yes; no doubt of it.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/724/123283/724_123283_000006_000002.wav|The waves broke on this shore with the hollow echoing murmur peculiar to vast inclosed spaces.|724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000020_000000.wav|It should not be forgotten that a disposition in the State governments to encroach upon the rights of the Union is quite as probable as a disposition in the Union to encroach upon the rights of the State governments.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000020_000004.wav|Every thing beyond this must be left to the prudence and firmness of the people; who, as they will hold the scales in their own hands, it is to be hoped, will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the general and the State governments.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000017_000001.wav|It may therefore be satisfactory to analyze the arguments with which they combat it.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000009.wav|If the proposed construction of the federal government be found, upon an impartial examination of it, to be such as to afford, to a proper extent, the same species of security, all apprehensions on the score of usurpation ought to be discarded.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000018_000002.wav|It is, therefore, as necessary that the State governments should be able to command the means of supplying their wants, as that the national government should possess the like faculty in respect to the wants of the Union.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000010_000001.wav|The INFINITE DIVISIBILITY of matter, or, in other words, the INFINITE divisibility of a FINITE thing, extending even to the minutest atom, is a point agreed among geometricians, though not less incomprehensible to common sense than any of those mysteries in religion, against which the batteries of infidelity have been so industriously leveled.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000005.wav|I repeat here what I have observed in substance in another place, that all observations founded upon the danger of usurpation ought to be referred to the composition and structure of the government, not to the nature or extent of its powers.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000020_000003.wav|But it is evident that all conjectures of this kind must be extremely vague and fallible: and that it is by far the safest course to lay them altogether aside, and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and extent of the powers as they are delineated in the Constitution.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000002.wav|The moment we launch into conjectures about the usurpations of the federal government, we get into an unfathomable abyss, and fairly put ourselves out of the reach of all reasoning.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000018_000006.wav|And thus all the resources of taxation might by degrees become the subjects of federal monopoly, to the entire exclusion and destruction of the State governments."|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000004.wav|Whatever may be the limits or modifications of the powers of the Union, it is easy to imagine an endless train of possible dangers; and by indulging an excess of jealousy and timidity, we may bring ourselves to a state of absolute scepticism and irresolution.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000018_000005.wav|It might allege a necessity of doing this in order to give efficacy to the national revenues.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000018_000003.wav|But an indefinite power of taxation in the LATTER might, and probably would in time, deprive the FORMER of the means of providing for their own necessities; and would subject them entirely to the mercy of the national legislature.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000018_000001.wav|Revenue is as requisite to the purposes of the local administrations as to those of the Union; and the former are at least of equal importance with the latter to the happiness of the people.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000015_000000.wav|As revenue is the essential engine by which the means of answering the national exigencies must be procured, the power of procuring that article in its full extent must necessarily be comprehended in that of providing for those exigencies.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000003.wav|Imagination may range at pleasure till it gets bewildered amidst the labyrinths of an enchanted castle, and knows not on which side to turn to extricate itself from the perplexities into which it has so rashly adventured.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000011_000003.wav|But this untractableness may be carried too far, and may degenerate into obstinacy, perverseness, or disingenuity. Though it cannot be pretended that the principles of moral and political knowledge have, in general, the same degree of certainty with those of the mathematics, yet they have much better claims in this respect than, to judge from the conduct of men in particular situations, we should be disposed to allow them.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000009_000001.wav|Where it produces not this effect, it must proceed either from some defect or disorder in the organs of perception, or from the influence of some strong interest, or passion, or prejudice.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000008.wav|Doubtless in the manner of their formation, and in a due dependence of those who are to administer them upon the people.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000011_000005.wav|Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle themselves in words and confound themselves in subtleties.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000016_000000.wav|As theory and practice conspire to prove that the power of procuring revenue is unavailing when exercised over the States in their collective capacities, the federal government must of necessity be invested with an unqualified power of taxation in the ordinary modes.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000007.wav|In what does our security consist against usurpation from that quarter?|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000011_000004.wav|The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000020_000001.wav|What side would be likely to prevail in such a conflict, must depend on the means which the contending parties could employ toward insuring success.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000012_000001.wav|They are in substance as follows:|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000007_000000.wav|HAMILTON|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000000.wav|This mode of reasoning appears sometimes to turn upon the supposition of usurpation in the national government; at other times it seems to be designed only as a deduction from the constitutional operation of its intended powers.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000019_000006.wav|The State governments, by their original constitutions, are invested with complete sovereignty.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000014_000000.wav|As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000009_000000.wav|IN DISQUISITIONS of every kind, there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasonings must depend. These contain an internal evidence which, antecedent to all reflection or combination, commands the assent of the mind.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000011_000000.wav|But in the sciences of morals and politics, men are found far less tractable.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000013_000000.wav|A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000009_000003.wav|And there are other truths in the two latter sciences which, if they cannot pretend to rank in the class of axioms, are yet such direct inferences from them, and so obvious in themselves, and so agreeable to the natural and unsophisticated dictates of common sense, that they challenge the assent of a sound and unbiased mind, with a degree of force and conviction almost equally irresistible.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131004/850_131004_000018_000000.wav|Those of them which have been most labored with that view, seem in substance to amount to this: "It is not true, because the exigencies of the Union may not be susceptible of limitation, that its power of laying taxes ought to be unconfined.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000012_000003.wav|Who can pretend that commercial imposts are, or would be, alone equal to the present and future exigencies of the Union?|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000011_000000.wav|What remedy can there be for this situation, but in a change of the system which has produced it in a change of the fallacious and delusive system of quotas and requisitions?|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000003.wav|What would be the probable conduct of the government in such an emergency? Taught by experience that proper dependence could not be placed on the success of requisitions, unable by its own authority to lay hold of fresh resources, and urged by considerations of national danger, would it not be driven to the expedient of diverting the funds already appropriated from their proper objects to the defense of the State?|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000007.wav|How can its administration be any thing else than a succession of expedients temporizing, impotent, disgraceful?|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000016_000000.wav|The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000009.wav|How can it undertake or execute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good?|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000015_000000.wav|It may perhaps be imagined that, from the scantiness of the resources of the country, the necessity of diverting the established funds in the case supposed would exist, though the national government should possess an unrestrained power of taxation.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000009_000001.wav|The consequence is that he permits the bashaws or governors of provinces to pillage the people without mercy; and, in turn, squeezes out of them the sums of which he stands in need, to satisfy his own exigencies and those of the state.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000001.wav|We will presume, for argument's sake, that the revenue arising from the impost duties answers the purposes of a provision for the public debt and of a peace establishment for the Union.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000006.wav|How can it ever possess either energy or stability, dignity or credit, confidence at home or respectability abroad?|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000007_000003.wav|The conclusion is, that there must be interwoven, in the frame of the government, a general power of taxation, in one shape or another.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000006.wav|In the modern system of war, nations the most wealthy are obliged to have recourse to large loans.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000007_000001.wav|But these are not the only objects to which the jurisdiction of the Union, in respect to revenue, must necessarily be empowered to extend.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000008_000000.wav|Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000010_000000.wav|The present Confederation, feeble as it is intended to repose in the United States, an unlimited power of providing for the pecuniary wants of the Union.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000009_000000.wav|In the Ottoman or Turkish empire, the sovereign, though in other respects absolute master of the lives and fortunes of his subjects, has no right to impose a new tax.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000012_000001.wav|The former they would reserve to the State governments; the latter, which they explain into commercial imposts, or rather duties on imported articles, they declare themselves willing to concede to the federal head.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000002.wav|Thus circumstanced, a war breaks out.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000004.wav|It is not easy to see how a step of this kind could be avoided; and if it should be taken, it is evident that it would prove the destruction of public credit at the very moment that it was becoming essential to the public safety.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000000.wav|To say that deficiencies may be provided for by requisitions upon the States, is on the one hand to acknowledge that this system cannot be depended upon, and on the other hand to depend upon it for every thing beyond a certain limit.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000001.wav|Those who have carefully attended to its vices and deformities as they have been exhibited by experience or delineated in the course of these papers, must feel invincible repugnancy to trusting the national interests in any degree to its operation.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000005_000000.wav|HAMILTON|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000012_000000.wav|The more intelligent adversaries of the new Constitution admit the force of this reasoning; but they qualify their admission by a distinction between what they call INTERNAL and EXTERNAL taxation.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000012_000005.wav|I believe it may be regarded as a position warranted by the history of mankind, that, IN THE USUAL PROGRESS OF THINGS, THE NECESSITIES OF A NATION, IN EVERY STAGE OF ITS EXISTENCE, WILL BE FOUND AT LEAST EQUAL TO ITS RESOURCES.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000009_000003.wav|Who can doubt, that the happiness of the people in both countries would be promoted by competent authorities in the proper hands, to provide the revenues which the necessities of the public might require?|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000008.wav|But who would lend to a government that prefaced its overtures for borrowing by an act which demonstrated that no reliance could be placed on the steadiness of its measures for paying?|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000003_000000.wav|Concerning the General Power of Taxation|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000005.wav|To imagine that at such a crisis credit might be dispensed with, would be the extreme of infatuation.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000007_000000.wav|IT HAS been already observed that the federal government ought to possess the power of providing for the support of the national forces; in which proposition was intended to be included the expense of raising troops, of building and equipping fleets, and all other expenses in any wise connected with military arrangements and operations.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000010_000004.wav|It is this which has chiefly contributed to reduce us to a situation, which affords ample cause both of mortification to ourselves, and of triumph to our enemies.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000012_000002.wav|This distinction, however, would violate the maxim of good sense and sound policy, which dictates that every POWER ought to be in proportion to its OBJECT; and would still leave the general government in a kind of tutelage to the State governments, inconsistent with every idea of vigor or efficiency.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000007.wav|A country so little opulent as ours must feel this necessity in a much stronger degree.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000014_000009.wav|The loans it might be able to procure would be as limited in their extent as burdensome in their conditions.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000008_000001.wav|A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of it, as far as the resources of the community will permit, may be regarded as an indispensable ingredient in every constitution.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000003.wav|It ought to be recollected that if less will be required from the States, they will have proportionably less means to answer the demand.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000013_000002.wav|Its inevitable tendency, whenever it is brought into activity, must be to enfeeble the Union, and sow the seeds of discord and contention between the federal head and its members, and between the members themselves. Can it be expected that the deficiencies would be better supplied in this mode than the total wants of the Union have heretofore been supplied in the same mode?|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000006_000000.wav|To the People of the State of New York:|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000017_000000.wav|Reflections of this kind may have trifling weight with men who hope to see realized in America the halcyon scenes of the poetic or fabulous age; but to those who believe we are likely to experience a common portion of the vicissitudes and calamities which have fallen to the lot of other nations, they must appear entitled to serious attention.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000009_000002.wav|In America, from a like cause, the government of the Union has gradually dwindled into a state of decay, approaching nearly to annihilation.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/850/131003/850_131003_000007_000002.wav|It must embrace a provision for the support of the national civil list; for the payment of the national debts contracted, or that may be contracted; and, in general, for all those matters which will call for disbursements out of the national treasury.|850
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000009_000002.wav|He handed me a neatly typed new set of way bills.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000057_000000.wav|We ordered coffee, thick black stuff like treacle, which peter anathematized.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000063_000000.wav|'All the same I would like to have another look at it,' I said, and I slipped an English sovereign into his hand.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000047_000002.wav|I had to wait about three hours while he was checking the stuff with the invoices, and then he gave me a receipt which I still possess.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000005.wav|It wasn't the first time I had tackled that kind of business, and I hadn't much to learn about steam cranes.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000044_000000.wav|He had put up a bluff-a poor one-and I had called it.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000064_000000.wav|He glanced at it in surprise and his manner changed.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000056_000001.wav|There was a lamp burning inside, and two or three men smoking at small wooden tables.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000002.wav|For my back had fairly got stiffened about these munitions, and I was going to take any risk to see them safely delivered to their proper owner.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000051_000000.wav|peter had paddled along at my side like a faithful dog, not saying a word, but clearly not approving of this wet and dirty metropolis.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000043_000002.wav|If you dare to come aboard I will shoot you.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000062_000000.wav|He put his finger to his lip and looked incredibly sly.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000049_000000.wav|So it came about that at five past three on the sixteenth day of January, with only the clothes we stood up in, peter and I entered Constantinople.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000047_000003.wav|I told him about Rasta, and he agreed that I had done right.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000005.wav|But then, this wasn't the line of Peter's profession, and his pride was not at stake.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000017_000001.wav|'If you try to bribe me, you infernal little haberdasher, I'll have you off that horse and chuck you in the river.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000028_000004.wav|I still think you would have been wiser to humour Rasta Bey.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000047_000005.wav|It was only that the wretched Turks had to pay twice for the lot of it.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000020_000002.wav|I told him it wasn't my habit to proceed with cooked documents.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000000.wav|I whistled and showed it to peter.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000032_000002.wav|It was Rasta, with half a dozen Turkish gendarmes.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000060_000000.wav|'The Signor is mistaken.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000004_000000.wav|I worked about the hardest twenty four hours of my life getting the stuff ashore.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000043_000004.wav|I'll fire this stuff, and I reckon they'll be picking up the bits of you and your regiment off the Gallipoli Peninsula.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000013_000003.wav|This struck me as rather steep even for Oriental methods of doing business.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000030_000005.wav|It was from some official at Regensburg, asking him to put under arrest and send back by the first boat a man called Brandt, who was believed to have come aboard at Absthafen on the thirtieth of December.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000011.wav|All but the soldiers, Turk and German, who seemed well set-up fellows.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000024_000000.wav|The man shrugged his shoulders.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000026_000001.wav|I am going to see them safe at Chataldja, or whatever they call the artillery depot.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000039_000000.wav|'I'll obey the Government right enough,' I said; 'but if you're the Government I could make a better one with a bib and a rattle.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000076_000001.wav|Walk straight through the cafe and one will be there to unlock the door.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000055_000000.wav|The street corkscrewed endlessly.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000068_000000.wav|'That is the old place,' I observed with feeling.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000020_000001.wav|I said it was my business, as representing the German Government, to see the stuff delivered to the consignee at Constantinople ship shape and Bristol fashion.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000033_000000.wav|I called peter, and we clambered into the truck next our horse box.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000070_000006.wav|Only a few of my patrons know.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000045_000000.wav|'Good bye, sir,' he said.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000042_000001.wav|'I can order up a regiment in five minutes.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000052_000000.wav|'Do you know that we are being followed, Cornelis?' he said suddenly, 'ever since we came into this evil smelling dorp.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000004.wav|He still hankered after a grand destruction of the lot somewhere down the railway.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000022_000000.wav|'I have authority from the Committee to receive the stores,' he said sullenly.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000048_000003.wav|Finally he lent us a car to take us the few miles to the city.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000006.wav|I told him I was going on to Constantinople and would take peter with me, and he was agreeable.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000010.wav|I saw one old fellow who looked like my notion of a Turk, but most of the population had the appearance of London old clothes men.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000002.wav|I had forgotten that winter is pretty much the same everywhere.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000027_000000.wav|I said a good deal more, but that is an abbreviated translation of my remarks.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000007_000000.wav|'Look here, I want these back,' I said.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000014_000002.wav|But a correct list I have, or the stuff stays here till Doomsday.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000076_000003.wav|Take the advice of Angelo Kuprasso and avoid the streets after nightfall. Stamboul is no safe place nowadays for quiet men.' I asked him to name a hotel, and he rattled off a list from which I chose one that sounded modest and in keeping with our get up.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000018_000001.wav|He began to curse and threaten, but I cut him short.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000025_000001.wav|'You've offended his Lordship, and he is a bad enemy.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000054_000001.wav|He pointed up a steep street which ran past a high block of warehouses with every window broken.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000006.wav|I saw what I took to be mosques and minarets, and they were about as impressive as factory chimneys.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000014_000001.wav|If you won't give me them, I will have every item out of the trucks and make a new list.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000060_000001.wav|I have no garden house.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000047_000004.wav|It didn't make him as mad as I expected, because, you see, he got his stuff safe in any case.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000004.wav|So I got his ship's papers, and the manifests of cargo, and undertook to see to the trans shipment.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000043_000000.wav|'Maybe you can,' I said; 'but observe the situation.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000028_000002.wav|They may hold you up all the same.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000066_000000.wav|We were looking into a mean little yard, with on one side a high curving wall, evidently of great age, with bushes growing in the cracks of it.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000016_000000.wav|'I offer you enough,' he said, again stretching out his hand.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000005_000000.wav|But the big trouble came the next morning when I had got nearly all the stuff aboard the trucks.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000058_000000.wav|He was a fat, oldish fellow with a long nose, very like the Greek traders you see on the Zanzibar coast.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000059_000001.wav|'I wanted to show this place to my friend.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000034_000002.wav|'I take over from you here.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000055_000003.wav|To find a house in that murk was no easy job, and by the time we had gone a quarter of a mile I began to fear we had missed it.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000001.wav|Something had gone wrong with the unloading arrangements, or more likely with the railway behind them, and we were kept swinging all day well out in the turbid river.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000025_000002.wav|All those damned Comitadjis are.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000006_000003.wav|I gave him them and he looked carefully through them, marking certain items with a blue pencil.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000057_000002.wav|He paid no attention, so I shouted louder at him, and the noise brought a man out of the back parts.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000054_000000.wav|I found the ferry of Ratchik by asking a soldier and a German sailor there told me where the Kurdish Bazaar was.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000070_000004.wav|The police approve-but not often, for this is no time for too much gaiety.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000066_000002.wav|At one end was a wooden building like a dissenting chapel, but painted a dingy scarlet.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000076_000000.wav|'Then the fourth hour after midday.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000036_000000.wav|'It is the end of your affair,' he said haughtily.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000054_000002.wav|Sandy had said the left hand side coming down, so it must be the right-hand side going up.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000007.wav|It was bad enough in Bulgaria, but when we crossed the frontier at a place called Mustafa Pasha we struck the real supineness of the East.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000011_000001.wav|In it I saw a roll of money.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000001.wav|I don't quite know what I had expected-a sort of fairyland Eastern city, all white marble and blue water, and stately Turks in surplices, and veiled houris, and roses and nightingales, and some sort of string band discoursing sweet music.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000036_000001.wav|'Quick, or it will be the worse for you.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000079_000001.wav|I could see in the waning light a crowd of people who seemed to be moving towards us.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000013_000000.wav|It was the first time anyone had ever tried to bribe me, and it made me boil up like a geyser.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000000.wav|We reached Rustchuk on january tenth, but by no means landed on that day.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000070_000007.wav|Who, think you, will be here?'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000023_000000.wav|'Those are not my instructions,' was the answer.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000066_000001.wav|Some scraggy myrtles stood in broken pots, and nettles flourished in a corner.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000017_000000.wav|At that I fairly roared.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000059_000002.wav|He has heard of your garden house and the fun there.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000019_000000.wav|'Come along to the commandant, my boy,' I said, and I marched away, tearing up his typewritten sheets as I went and strewing them behind me like a paper chase.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000068_000001.wav|'What times I've seen there!|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000077_000000.wav|When we left his door the night had begun to drop.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000041_000002.wav|Besides, I and my friend can shoot a bit.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000071_000000.wav|He bent his head closer and said in a whisper-|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000068_000002.wav|Tell me, Mr Kuprasso, do you ever open it now?'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000075_000001.wav|'Both of us.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000030_000002.wav|Presently I remembered Schenk's telegram, which still reposed in my pocket.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000065_000001.wav|Then he unlocked a door and with a swirl the wind caught it and blew it back on us.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000007.wav|By and by we crossed a bridge, and paid a penny for the privilege.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000012_000001.wav|'It is the usual custom.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000012_000000.wav|'For yourself,' he said.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000048_000000.wav|He gave peter and me luncheon, and was altogether very civil and inclined to talk about the war.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000026_000000.wav|'And have that blighter in the red hat loot the trucks on the road? No, thank you.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000007.wav|He would have to wait at Rustchuk to get his return cargo, and could easily inspan a fresh engineer.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000009_000000.wav|I said nothing, reflecting that the stuff was for the Turks and they naturally had to have some say in its handling.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000003.wav|It was a drizzling day, with a south-east wind blowing, and the streets were long troughs of mud.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000038_000000.wav|'You are in Turkey,' he cried, 'and will obey the Turkish Government.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000003.wav|peter couldn't understand me at all.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000029_000000.wav|As I was leaving he gave me a telegram.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000043_000003.wav|If you call in your regiment I will tell you what I'll do.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000078_000000.wav|'We are being followed close, Cornelis,' he said calmly.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000075_000000.wav|'Sure,' I said.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000054_000003.wav|We plunged into it, and it was the filthiest place of all.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000031_000006.wav|We had a mortally slow journey.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000010_000001.wav|'Give me back the right set.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000076_000004.wav|It was not far off, only a hundred yards to the right at the top of the hill.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER TEN|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000041_000001.wav|'There are twelve armed guards in this train who will take their orders from me.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000070_000005.wav|I will tell you a secret. Tomorrow afternoon there will be dancing-wonderful dancing!|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000027_000002.wav|But I didn't see that at the time.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000027_000003.wav|My professional pride was up in arms, and I couldn't bear to have a hand in a crooked deal.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000054_000004.wav|The wind whistled up it and stirred the garbage.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000009.wav|Then we came into busier streets, where ramshackle cabs drawn by lean horses spluttered through the mud.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000044_000001.wav|He saw I meant what I said, and became silken.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000041_000000.wav|'Please don't begin shooting,' I said.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000076_000002.wav|You are new comers here?|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000013_000001.wav|I saw his game clearly enough.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000050_000008.wav|If I had known it was the famous Golden Horn I would have looked at it with more interest, but I saw nothing save a lot of moth eaten barges and some queer little boats like gondolas.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000014_000000.wav|'Now look here, Sir,' I said, 'I don't stir from this place till I get the correct way bills.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000034_000000.wav|The Turk swaggered up and addressed us.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000020_000003.wav|He couldn't but agree with me, but there was that wrathful Oriental with his face as fixed as a Buddha.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000004_000001.wav|The landing officer was a Bulgarian, quite a competent man if he could have made the railways give him the trucks he needed. There was a collection of hungry German transport officers always putting in their oars, and being infernally insolent to everybody.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000077_000001.wav|We hadn't gone twenty yards before peter drew very near to me and kept turning his head like a hunted stag.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000053_000000.wav|peter was infallible in a thing like that.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000013_000002.wav|Turkey would pay for the lot to Germany: probably had already paid the bill: but she would pay double for the things not on the way bills, and pay to this fellow and his friends.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000075_000002.wav|We're all for the rosy hours.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000046_000000.wav|He strutted away and it was all I could do to keep from running after him.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000028_000001.wav|'You will have a guard for the trucks, of course, and I will pick you good men.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000061_000000.wav|'Rot,' I said; 'I've been here before, my boy.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000034_000001.wav|'You can get back to Rustchuk,' he said.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000030_000003.wav|I took it out and opened it, meaning to wire it from the first station we stopped at.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000034_000003.wav|Hand me the papers.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000061_000001.wav|I recall your shanty at the back and many merry nights there.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000011_000000.wav|For answer he winked gently, smiled like a dusky seraph, and held out his hand.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000030_000000.wav|Schenk was pretty sick, so I left a note for him.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000010_000000.wav|'Here, this won't do,' I cried.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000055_000002.wav|Often it was almost pitch dark; then would come a greyish twilight where it opened out to the width of a decent lane.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000035_000000.wav|'Is this Chataldja?' I asked innocently.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000070_000001.wav|It is sometimes open-not often.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000069_000000.wav|He put his thick lips to my ear.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000061_000002.wav|What was it you called it?|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000015_000000.wav|He was a slim, foppish fellow, and he looked more puzzled than angry.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000062_000003.wav|The people here are too poor to dance and sing.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000042_000000.wav|'Fool!' he cried, getting very angry.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000003_000003.wav|He had done me well, and I reckoned I would stand by him.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000045_000001.wav|'You have had a fair chance and rejected it. We shall meet again soon, and you will be sorry for your insolence.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134463/1463_134463_000047_000001.wav|He was the regular gunner officer, not thinking about anything except his guns and shells.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000025_000007.wav|Germany's like a scorpion: her sting's in her tail, and that tail stretches way down into Asia.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000012_000000.wav|'My men,' said Sandy. 'We have a bit of a graft here, and it wasn't difficult to manage it.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000010_000002.wav|When Germany begins to trouble about that Dutchman she will find difficulty in getting the body; but such are the languid ways of an Oriental despotism.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000002.wav|That parable about fits my case.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000030_000002.wav|You saw a bit of one of our dances this afternoon, Dick-pretty good, wasn't it?|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000006_000000.wav|'It was the only way, Dick.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000034_000000.wav|'Tommy spotted me in a second.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000063_000002.wav|I asked where she lived.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000031_000003.wav|That was after Anzac and Suvla had been evacuated, but I could hear the guns going hard at Cape Helles.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000060_000004.wav|I reckon they wouldn't stand up against what we could show them in the U nited States.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000013.wav|They aren't taking in more than they can help on the ground floor.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000001.wav|There's a great stirring in Islam, something moving on the face of the waters.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000010.wav|So I guess I've no contribution to make to quieting Sir Walter Bullivant's mind, except that he's dead right.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000032_000002.wav|She gave us ten minutes to take to the boats, and then sent the blighted old packet and a fine cargo of six-inch shells to the bottom.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000012_000001.wav|Old Moellendorff will be nosing after the business tomorrow, but he will find the mystery too deep for him.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000013_000002.wav|It was still a nightmare world, but the dream was getting pleasanter.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000065_000002.wav|Dick, you and peter must go to bed at once.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000056_000002.wav|Who and where is she? for if we find her we have done the trick.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000004.wav|I had the wrong stunt, Major.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000006.wav|If I asked one of the highbrows he looked wise and spoke of the might of German arms and German organization and German staff work.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000008_000000.wav|'You may call it my humble home'--it was Blenkiron's sleek voice that spoke.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000030_000006.wav|It would have been as much as the life of the Committee or its German masters was worth to lay a hand on us, for we clung together like leeches and we were not in the habit of sticking at trifles.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000032_000000.wav|'It must have been about the last effort of a British submarine in those waters.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000022_000001.wav|I have to confess to you, gentlemen, that I have failed.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000060_000000.wav|'I don't like it, gentlemen,' he said.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000060_000003.wav|They haven't much to them.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000021_000000.wav|He gave peter and me cigars, and we sat ourselves in armchairs in front of the blaze.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000004.wav|I tried to find out, but they gave me nothing but eyewash.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000028_000001.wav|He filled his pipe again, and pushed back his skin cap from his brows.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000035_000002.wav|And now for business.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000007.wav|All the orthodox believers have them by heart.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000027_000000.wav|His tone was quite melancholy, and I was mean enough to feel rather glad.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000062_000001.wav|She was a great excavator of Babylonish and Hittite ruins, and she married a diplomat who went to glory three years back.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000019_000000.wav|'That's all right,' said Sandy.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000033_000001.wav|As we bumped past him, I started the "Flowers of the Forest"--the old version-on the antique stringed instrument I carried, and I sang the words very plain. Tommy's eyes bulged out of his head, and he shouted at me in English to know who the devil I was.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000052_000000.wav|'Write down Harry Bullivant's third word.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000009.wav|In that kind of society they don't get drunk and blab after their tenth cocktail.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000039_000001.wav|That puzzled me dreadfully, for no one used the phrase.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000012_000004.wav|If Rasta had got you, or the Germans had had the job of lifting you, your goose would have been jolly well cooked.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000065_000001.wav|Meantime, I've got to clear, for my day's work isn't finished.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000015_000000.wav|'You boys must be hungry,' he said.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000043_000000.wav|'Now how on earth did you find out that?' he cried.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000066_000001.wav|Sandy spoke like a medical adviser.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000006.wav|I've been processing through Europe like Barnum's Circus, and living with generals and transparencies.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000029_000000.wav|'I went straight to Smyrna,' he said.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000010_000004.wav|He will have ceased upon the midnight without pain, as your poet sings.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000031_000005.wav|And there an uncommon funny thing happened-I got torpedoed.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000003.wav|Those religious revivals come in cycles, and one was due about now.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000002.wav|You arrived this afternoon from Constanza, and I met you at the packet.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000046_000003.wav|If we can stick it out here we must hit the trail ...|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000005.wav|We're not here on a joy ride, Major, so I reckon we'll leave out the dime novel adventures.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000012_000005.wav|I had some unquiet hours this morning.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000028_000000.wav|I looked at Sandy.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000000.wav|'Sir Walter was right, as Blenkiron has told us.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000062_000000.wav|'Why, that is just what I can't tell you.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000027_000002.wav|It would be a good joke if the amateur succeeded where the expert failed.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000063_000000.wav|Blenkiron's respect did not depress me.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000025_000000.wav|Blenkiron stopped to light a fresh cigar.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000031_000004.wav|From Panderma I started to cross to Thrace in a coasting steamer.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000019_000005.wav|He was pretty certain you'd get here, but he was also certain that you'd arrive in a hurry with a good many inquirers behind you.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000017_000002.wav|We're in luck, Dick, old man.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000058_000000.wav|Both Sandy and I began to laugh.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000030_000000.wav|'You can imagine that this was the very kind of crowd for my purpose. I knew of old its little ways, for with all its orthodoxy it dabbled a good deal in magic, and owed half its power to its atmosphere of the uncanny.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000000.wav|'I got that clear, and I also made out that it wasn't going to be dead easy for her to keep that tail healthy.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000068_000000.wav|'You've a queer taste in souvenirs,' I said.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000008.wav|But the thing I was after wasn't to be found on my beat, for those that knew it weren't going to tell.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000006_000004.wav|Make yourselves at home, my children.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000047_000000.wav|Sandy's eyes were very bright and I had an audience on wires.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000005.wav|I had to pretend to be satisfied, for the position of john s wasn't so strong as to allow him to take liberties.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000029_000004.wav|But I found out that the Company of the Rosy Hours was not what I had known it in nineteen ten.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000042_000000.wav|Sandy scrambled to his feet, letting his pipe drop in the fireplace.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000003.wav|The clothes for the part are in your bedroom next door.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000010_000000.wav|'Mr Pienaar,' said Blenkiron, 'pleased to meet you.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000021_000001.wav|Sandy squatted cross legged on the hearthrug and lit a foul old briar pipe, which he extricated from some pouch among his skins.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000012_000003.wav|But, by Jove, Dick, we hadn't any time to spare.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000015_000001.wav|'My duo denum has been giving me hell as usual, and I don't eat no more than a squirrel.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000067_000000.wav|'Because I want your clothes-the things you've got on now.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000035_000001.wav|The rest you know.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000027_000001.wav|He had been the professional with the best chance.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000013_000003.wav|peter said not a word, but I could see his eyes heavy with his own thoughts.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000013_000001.wav|I looked at Blenkiron, shuffling his Patience cards with his old sleepy smile, and Sandy, dressed like some bandit in melodrama, his lean face as brown as a nut, his bare arms all tattooed with crimson rings, and the fox pelt drawn tight over brow and ears.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000046_000001.wav|'But on the other hand it is obvious that the thing must come east, and sooner rather than later.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000018_000000.wav|I never ate a more welcome meal, for we had starved in that dirty hotel.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000040_000001.wav|Every creed has an esoteric side which is kept from the common herd.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000037_000001.wav|They are unpopular and unorthodox, and no true Turks. But Germany has.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000015_000002.wav|But I laid in some stores, for I guessed you would want to stoke up some after your travels.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000033_000000.wav|'I gave Tommy the surprise of his life.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000034_000003.wav|He never much approved of my wanderings, and thought I was safely anchored in the battalion.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000040_000007.wav|The prophet, too, is not called Emerald.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000004.wav|But I guess all that can wait, for I'm anxious to get to business.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000004_000000.wav|A spasm of incredulity, a vast relief, and that sharp joy which comes of reaction chased each other across my mind.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000001.wav|And still less would you want to get a bird's eye view in an aeroplane.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000038_000005.wav|All that I could learn was that he and his followers were coming from the West.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000007.wav|I want to know how our mutual inquiries have prospered.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000069_000001.wav|The current in the Bosporus is pretty strong, and these sad relics of two misguided Dutchmen will be washed up tomorrow about Seraglio Point.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000029_000008.wav|But it was uncommon powerful in the provinces, and Enver and Talaat daren't meddle with it.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000009.wav|They believe they are on the eve of a great deliverance.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000056_000000.wav|'Good old Harry,' said Sandy softly.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000011.wav|Yes, Sir, he has hit the spot and rung the bell.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000046_000002.wav|I take it they can't afford to delay too long before they deliver the goods.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000040_000004.wav|That tale tells of the coming of a prophet, and I found that the select of the faith spoke of the new revelation in terms of it.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000037_000002.wav|How, I don't know, but I could see quite plainly that in some subtle way Germany was regarded as a collaborator in the movement.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000041_000000.wav|'I know,' I said; 'he is called Greenmantle.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000046_000004.wav|I've got another bit of evidence.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000050_000001.wav|I can give you her name.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000069_000000.wav|'Say rather the Turkish police.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000058_000001.wav|It was too comic to have stumbled across Europe and lighted on the very headquarters of the puzzle we had set out to unriddle.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000006_000001.wav|If I hadn't come mewing like a tom cat at your heels yesterday, Rasta would have had you long before you got to your hotel.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000002.wav|But Germany thinks she can manage it, and I won't say she can't.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000040_000000.wav|'But by and by I discovered that there was an inner and an outer circle in this mystery.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000006_000003.wav|However, that is all over now.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000017_000000.wav|'Fizz,' said Sandy rapturously.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000013_000000.wav|The thing was too deep for me.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000000.wav|'If you were looking for something in the root of the hedge, you wouldn't want to scour the road in a high-speed automobile.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000019_000006.wav|So he arranged that you should leak away and start fresh.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000045_000002.wav|The secret's in Germany. Dick, you should not have crossed the Danube.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000029_000010.wav|It just bided its time and took notes.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000001.wav|One of our brightest mining engineers, and the apple of Guggenheim's eye.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000029_000001.wav|'It wasn't difficult, for you see I had laid down a good many lines in former travels.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000038_000000.wav|'They talk about the thing quite openly.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000012.wav|There is a mighty miracle working proposition being floated in these parts, but the promoters are keeping it to themselves.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000018_000001.wav|But I had still the old feeling of the hunted, and before I began I asked about the door.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000007.wav|Not that I haven't picked up a lot of noos, and got some very interesting sidelights on high politics.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER TWELVE|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000065_000000.wav|'I can find that out,' said Sandy. 'That's the advantage of having a push like mine.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000005_000000.wav|'Sandy,' I said, as soon as I got my breath, 'you're an incarnate devil.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000040_000006.wav|That is the point of the tale, and it is partly a jest, but mainly a religious mystery.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000062_000002.wav|It isn't what she has been, but what she is, and that's a mighty clever woman.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000030_000001.wav|The Companions could dance the heart out of the ordinary Turk.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000044_000000.wav|Then I told them of Stumm and Gaudian and the whispered words I had not been meant to hear.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000024_000005.wav|I was too high up and refined.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000030_000003.wav|They could go anywhere, and no questions asked.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000004_000002.wav|I dropped into the nearest chair and tried to grapple with something far beyond words.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000057_000001.wav|'I reckon I can put you wise on that, gentlemen,' he said.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000022_000000.wav|'If I presume to begin,' said Blenkiron, 'it's because I reckon my story is the shortest.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000025_000004.wav|That is what your statesmen don't figure enough on. She'll give up Belgium and Alsace Lorraine and Poland, but by God! she'll never give up the road to Mesopotamia till you have her by the throat and make her drop it.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000060_000001.wav|'I would rather you had mentioned any other name on God's earth.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000001.wav|Turkey's a bit of an anxiety, as you'll soon discover.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000025_000006.wav|If the worst happens, Kaiser will fling overboard a lot of ballast in Europe, and it will look like a big victory for the Allies, but he won't be beaten if he has the road to the East safe.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000016_000000.wav|He brought out a couple of Strassburg pies, a cheese, a cold chicken, a loaf, and three bottles of champagne.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000060_000006.wav|The man that will understand her has got to take a biggish size in hats.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000040_000005.wav|The curious thing is that in that tale the prophet is aided by one of the few women who play much part in the hagiology of Islam.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000000.wav|'Your name is Richard Hanau,' Blenkiron said, 'born in cleveland ohio, of German parentage on both sides.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000017_000001.wav|'And a dry Heidsieck too!|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000019_000004.wav|Blenkiron's the man you've got to thank for that.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000020_000006.wav|I'm just dying to hear them, but they'll keep.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000008_000001.wav|'We've been preparing for you, Major, but it was only yesterday I heard of your friend.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000031_000002.wav|I travelled from Smyrna by the new railway to Panderma on the Marmora, and got there just before Christmas.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000051_000000.wav|I fetched a piece of paper and a pencil from Blenkiron's desk and handed it to Sandy.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000029_000009.wav|The dangerous thing about it was that it said nothing and apparently did nothing.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000021_000002.wav|And so began that conversation which had never been out of my thoughts for four hectic weeks.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000036_000002.wav|They make no secret of it.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000059_000000.wav|But Blenkiron did not laugh.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000014_000000.wav|Blenkiron hove himself from the sofa and waddled to a cupboard.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000067_000001.wav|I'll take them off with me and you'll never see them again.'|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1463/134465/1463_134465_000026_000007.wav|I used to nod my head and get enthusiastic about these stunts, but it was all soft soap.|1463
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000055_000002.wav|But I have my depths; ha, and even my great depths!|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000064_000004.wav|He did not covet the post relatively to the farm: in relation to herself, as beloved by him and unmarried to another, he had coveted it.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000028_000005.wav|Gabriel theorized, not without truth, that in quiet discussion of any matter within reach of the speakers' eyes, these are usually fixed upon it.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000030_000001.wav|The animal plunged; Bathsheba instantly gazed towards it, and saw the blood.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000064_000007.wav|Far from coquetting with Boldwood, she had trifled with himself in thus feigning that she had trifled with another.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000058_000000.wav|"Weak as water!|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000064_000006.wav|His lecture to her was, he thought, one of the absurdest mistakes.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000047_000000.wav|"Yes; and I would have said it, had death and salvation overtook me for it.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000036_000000.wav|The horses' heads were put about, and they trotted away.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000035_000001.wav|Take my place in the barn, Gabriel, and keep the men carefully to their work."|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000050_000000.wav|"What a lie!" said Gabriel.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000046_000000.wav|"Passably well put."|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000007_000001.wav|Every green was young, every pore was open, and every stalk was swollen with racing currents of juice. God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000064_000011.wav|He adored Bathsheba just the same.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000064_000010.wav|This was mere exclamation-the froth of the storm.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000011_000005.wav|In these Wessex nooks the busy outsider's ancient times are only old; his old times are still new; his present is futurity.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000049_000003.wav|However, let her marry an she will.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000059_000000.wav|"Nobody," said Joseph Poorgrass.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000056_000003.wav|Weren't I stale in wedlock afore ye were out of arms?|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000045_000000.wav|"So I said, 'Mistress Everdene, there's places empty, and there's gifted men willing; but the spite'--no, not the spite-I didn't say spite-'but the villainy of the contrarikind,' I said (meaning womankind), 'keeps 'em out.' That wasn't too strong for her, say?"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000040_000000.wav|"Well, better wed over the mixen than over the moor," said Laban Tall, turning his sheep.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000033_000000.wav|"Bottle!" he shouted, in an unmoved voice of routine.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000061_000000.wav|"'Ithout doubt you was-'ithout doubt."|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000023_000000.wav|"Cain Ball!"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000026_000003.wav|Boldwood always carried with him a social atmosphere of his own, which everybody felt who came near him; and the talk, which Bathsheba's presence had somewhat suppressed, was now totally suspended.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000028_000003.wav|Concerning the flock?|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000011_000004.wav|Five decades hardly modified the cut of a gaiter, the embroidery of a smock frock, by the breadth of a hair. Ten generations failed to alter the turn of a single phrase.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000049_000000.wav|"You see the artfulness?|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000051_000000.wav|"Ah, neighbour Oak-how'st know?" said, Henery, mildly.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000028_000000.wav|What they conversed about was not audible to Gabriel, who was too independent to get near, though too concerned to disregard.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000055_000004.wav|But no-O no!"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000053_000003.wav|However, I look round upon life quite cool.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000056_000004.wav|'tis a poor thing to be sixty, when there's people far past four score-a boast weak as water."|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000049_000004.wav|Perhaps 'tis high time.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000024_000000.wav|"Yes, Mister Oak; here I be!"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000049_000002.wav|That was my depth! ...|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000025_000000.wav|Cainy now runs forward with the tar pot.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138290/1460_138290_000028_000004.wav|Apparently not.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000043_000000.wav|All then stalked off in consternation, to get somebody as directed, without any idea of who it was to be.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000066_000000.wav|The men looked grave, as if they suppressed opinion.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000008_000000.wav|"Seventy!" said Moon.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000062_000000.wav|"What!" said the young farmer, opening her eyes and drawing in her breath for an outburst.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000054_000004.wav|Bathsheba walked up and down.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000051_000000.wav|"Across the valley at Nest Cottage!"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000067_000001.wav|The strait she was in through pride and shrewishness could not be disguised longer: she burst out crying bitterly; they all saw it; and she attempted no further concealment.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000038_000001.wav|"I told you never to allude to him, nor shall you if you stay with me. Ah!" she added, brightening, "Farmer Boldwood knows!"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000054_000006.wav|Nothing availed.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000050_000000.wav|"Where is Oak staying?"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000035_000000.wav|"Shepherd Oak," said matthew.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000028_000001.wav|Tell me quick!"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000071_000000.wav|"DO NOT DESERT ME, GABRIEL!"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000079_000000.wav|Gabriel was already among the turgid, prostrate forms.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000064_000002.wav|Who am I, then, to be treated like that?|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000046_000000.wav|Bathsheba went up to it.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000039_000004.wav|Isn't it, Joseph?"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000045_000001.wav|The leap was an astonishing one.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000055_000003.wav|It was Tall.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000055_000001.wav|The horse was seen descending the hill, and the wearisome series had to be repeated in reverse order: Whitepits, Springmead, Cappel's Piece, The Flats, Middle Field, Sheeplands, Sixteen Acres.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000034_000001.wav|Let's get him!"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000030_000001.wav|Can I?"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000056_000000.wav|"Oh, what folly!" said Bathsheba.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000072_000001.wav|The note was despatched as the message had been, and Bathsheba waited indoors for the result.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000047_000002.wav|No, I won't!"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000015_000000.wav|"That they be," said Joseph.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000080_000002.wav|Four had died; three recovered without an operation.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000062_000001.wav|Joseph Poorgrass retired a few steps behind a hurdle.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000078_000001.wav|She knew from the look which sentence in her note had brought him.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000069_000002.wav|"And he drives me to do what I wouldn't; yes, he does!--Tall, come indoors."|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000068_000001.wav|"Why not ask him softer like?|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000030_000000.wav|"Can you do it?|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000011_000000.wav|"--And got into a field of young clover," said Tall.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000012_000000.wav|"--Young clover!" said Moon.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000004_000000.wav|TROUBLES IN THE FOLD-A MESSAGE|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000052_000000.wav|"Jump on the bay mare, and ride across, and say he must return instantly-that I say so."|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000053_000001.wav|He diminished down the hill.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000078_000002.wav|Bathsheba followed to the field.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000033_000001.wav|"He could cure 'em all if he were here."|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000031_000004.wav|Not even a shepherd can do it, as a rule."|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000019_000000.wav|With Bathsheba it was a moment when thought was speech and speech exclamation.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000040_000001.wav|"That's what 'tis."|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000080_000000.wav|It has been said that mere ease after torment is delight for a time; and the countenances of these poor creatures expressed it now. Forty nine operations were successfully performed.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000028_000000.wav|"What way?|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000013_000000.wav|"--Clover!" said Joseph Poorgrass.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000007_000000.wav|"Sixty!" said Joseph Poorgrass.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000068_000003.wav|Gable is a true man in that way."|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000064_000000.wav|"Oh, oh, that's his answer!|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000042_000001.wav|Get somebody to cure the sheep instantly!"|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000082_000000.wav|"Gabriel, will you stay on with me?" she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips quite together again at the end, because there was going to be another smile soon.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000049_000001.wav|Laban answered to her signal.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000061_000000.wav|"He says BEGGARS MUSTN'T BE CHOOSERS," replied Laban.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000057_000000.wav|Gabriel was not visible anywhere.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000034_000000.wav|"Who is he?|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000075_000002.wav|Gabriel looked at her.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1460/138289/1460_138289_000046_000001.wav|The sheep was dead.|1460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000015_000001.wav|On Sundays I am pretty good, and always seem to start afresh; but on week days I am drawn along with those about me.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000001.wav|Mother had lost sight of her for some years, and had just heard that she was sick and in great want. We found her in bed; there was no furniture in the room, and three little half naked children sat with their bare feet in some ashes where there had been a little fire.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000002.wav|All of a sudden I was aware, as by a magnetic influence, that a great lumbering man in the next seat was looking at me out of two of the blackest eyes I ever saw, and evidently listening to what I was saying.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000033_000004.wav|I should have been greatly elated by these compliments, but for the display I made of myself to Maria Perry on Sunday.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000029_000000.wav|Oh, your seat is changed," said she.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000039_000001.wav|I may not have done her any good; but I have given her a pleasure, and so have you."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000042_000000.wav|I confess this did not seem a privilege to be coveted.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000007.wav|Those few visits used up the very time I usually spend in drawing.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000003.wav|I was disconcerted at first, then angry.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000031_000002.wav|mr Williams said he had no doubt you would be glad to divide your class with me, as it is so large; and I doubt if you gain anything by speaking to him.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000009_000000.wav|may sixth.-Last evening Clara Ray had a little party and I was there.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000012_000002.wav|My prayers are dull and short, and full of wandering thoughts.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000046_000003.wav|They get in her eyes, and make her neck cold; see, they are dripping with water, and the child is all in a shiver."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000039_000000.wav|"Why the poor creature likes to show off her bright carpet and nice bed, her chairs, her vases and her knick knacks, and she likes to talk about her beloved money, and her bank stock.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000028_000001.wav|But on reaching my seat, what was my horror to find Maria Perry there!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000004_000000.wav|I have taken it at last.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000033_000000.wav|august ninth.-mr|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000035_000004.wav|I do not see how she could.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000038_000001.wav|After we came away, I asked mother how she could listen to such a rigmarole in patience, and what good she supposed she had done by her visit.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000017_000006.wav|I want to walk humbly and softly before Him, and I want to go where I shall be admired and applauded.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000015_000003.wav|But these things distract me; they absorb me; they make religious duties irksome.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000017_000009.wav|Or to myself?|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000024_000002.wav|But ,pray without ceasing, that you may sing from pure benevolence and not from pure self love."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000030_000001.wav|I shall speak to mr Williams about it directly."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000006_000003.wav|How much work, badly done, I am now having to undo.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000004.wav|What impertinence.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000027_000000.wav|I looked at his little finger, but saw no signs of its becoming schismatic.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000024_000001.wav|"No child, go on singing; God has given you this power of entertaining and, gratifying your friends.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000046_000001.wav|"She looks, to me, like a very ordinary line of prose.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000002.wav|Three such disconsolate faces I never saw.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000021_000000.wav|"Oh," I said, "I suppose there may be a sprinkling of desire to entertain and please, mixed with the love of display."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000046_000002.wav|A slice of bread and butter and a piece of gingerbread mean more to her than these elaborate ringlets possibly can.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000005_000000.wav|april thirteenth.-Sunday has come again, and with it my darling little class! dr Cabot has preached delightfully all day, and I feel that I begin to understand his preaching better, and that it must do me good.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000004_000005.wav|When I get them all about me, and their sweet innocent faces look up into mine, I am so happy that I can hardly help stopping every now and then to kiss them.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000016_000001.wav|The wonder is that anybody gets there with so much to oppose--- so little to help one!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000017_000000.wav|july twenty ninth.-It is high time to stop and think.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000004_000003.wav|There are twelve dear little things in it, of all ages between eight and nine.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000010_000000.wav|I sang several songs, and so did Clara, but they all said my voice was finer and in better training than hers.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000033_000001.wav|Williams called this evening to say that I am to have my old seat and all the children again.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000041_000000.wav|"Yes, but your mere presence gratified her.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000036_000002.wav|It looked bright and cheerful.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000006_000002.wav|But I know, and whenever I am conscious of not practicing what I preach, I am bitterly ashamed and grieved.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000012_000003.wav|I am brimful of vivacity and good humor in company, and as soon as I get home am stupid and peevish.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000029_000002.wav|I suppose you don't care?"|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000036_000001.wav|She had made a carpet for her room by sewing together little bits of pieces given her, I suppose, by persons for whom she works, for she goes about fitting and making carpets.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000013_000000.wav|july twenty fourth.-Clara Ray says the girls think me reckless and imprudent in speech.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000001.wav|They left their seats and got close to me in a circle, leaning on my lap and drinking in every word.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000020_000000.wav|"Are you sure it is all you do it for?" he returned.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000008.wav|Perhaps it was a little above their comprehension, but it showed a good deal of thought and earnestness. I meant to ask who he was, but forgot it.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000008_000000.wav|This has been a delightful Sunday.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000009.wav|Besides, one must either stop reading the Bible altogether, or else leave off spending one's whole time in just doing easy pleasant things one likes to do.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000025_000000.wav|"Why, do people pray about such things as that?" I cried.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000019_000000.wav|"Is it right for me to sing and play in company when all I do it for is to be admired?"|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000006.wav|I am sure he must have seen my displeasure in my face, for he got up what I suppose he meant for a blush, that is he turned several shades darker than he was before, giving one the idea that he is full of black rather than red blood.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000006_000001.wav|It is true they do not, most of them, know how I spend my time, nor how I act.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000035_000000.wav|We went first to see old Jacob Stone.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000040_000000.wav|"Why, I hardly spoke a word."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000046_000000.wav|"You foolish, romantic child!" quoth mother.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000029_000001.wav|"I am to have half your class, and I like this seat better than those higher up.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000001_000000.wav|Chapter five|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000007.wav|I should not have remembered it, however by it I mean his impertinence-if he had not shortly after made a really excellent address to the children.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000013_000002.wav|I am afraid I have been a good deal dazzled by the attentions I have received of late; and now comes this blow at my vanity.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000005.wav|What rudeness!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000032_000003.wav|I am sure Maria Perry has no gift at teaching little children, and I feel quite vexed and disappointed.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000028_000000.wav|august third.-This morning I took great delight in praying for my little scholars, and went to Sunday school as on wings.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000031_000001.wav|"It is just as pleasant to me to have pretty children to teach as it is to you.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000047_000000.wav|So saying, mother folded a towel round its neck, to catch the falling drops, and went for bread and butter, of which the child consumed a quantity that, was absolutely appalling.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000034_000001.wav|That sounds very old, yet I feel pretty much as I did before.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000006_000004.wav|If I had begun in earnest to serve God when I was as young as these children are, how many wrong habits I should have avoided; habits that entangle me now, as in so many nets.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000022_000000.wav|"Do you suppose that your love of display, allowing you have it, would be forever slain by your merely refusing to sing in company?"|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000034_000003.wav|As a general rule, I do not think poor people are very interesting, and they are always ungrateful.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000008.wav|But on the whole I am glad I went with mother, because it has gratified her.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000017_000003.wav|I feel restless and ill at ease.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000032_000001.wav|I went to my new seat with great disgust, and found it very inconvenient.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000045_000000.wav|"Look at the dear little thing, mother!" I cried; "doesn't she look like a line of poetry?"|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000017_000005.wav|I want Him but I want to have my own way, too.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000016_000000.wav|The truth is, the journey heavenward is all up hill I have to force myself to keep on.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000008_000003.wav|I do wish I positively knew that God had forgiven and accepted me.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000000.wav|We went next to see Bridget Shannon.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000006_000000.wav|april twentieth.-Now that I have these twelve little ones to instruct, I am more than ever in earnest about setting them a good example through the week.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000007_000000.wav|april twenty seventh.-This morning I had my little flock about me, and talked to them out of the very bottom of my heart about Jesus.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000041_000001.wav|And if she ever gets into trouble, she will feel kindly towards us for the sake of our sympathy with her pleasures, and will let us sympathize with her sorrows."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000026_000001.wav|Why, I would pray about my little finger, if my little finger went astray."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000015_000004.wav|I almost wish I could shut myself up in a cell, and so get out of the reach of temptation.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000043_000004.wav|I am going to cut up one or two old dresses to make the poor things something to cover them.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000033_000005.wav|Oh, that I could learn to bridle my unlucky tongue!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000011_000001.wav|I was rather tired, but had an invitation to a concert this evening which I could not resist.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000035_000003.wav|He seemed in great distress of mind, and begged mother to pray with him.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000042_000001.wav|She is not nice at all, and takes snuff.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000010_000001.wav|It is delightful to be with cultivated, agreeable people.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000004_000002.wav|My class is perfectly delightful.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000035_000006.wav|How tenderly she prayed for him!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000017_000008.wav|To God?|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000032_000002.wav|The children could not cluster around me as they did before, and I got on with the lesson very badly.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000010_000002.wav|I could have stayed all night, but mother sent for me before any one else had thought of going.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000004_000006.wav|They ask the very strangest questions I mean to spend a great deal of time in preparing the lesson, and in hunting up stories to illustrate it.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000026_000000.wav|"Of course they do.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000013_000001.wav|I've a good mind not to go with her set any more.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000006_000006.wav|Poor Johnny Ross is not so docile as they are, and tries my patience to the last degree.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000011_000000.wav|may seventh.-I have been on a charming excursion to day with Clara Ray and all her set.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000037_000000.wav|"Mercy on us!" she cried out, "it ain't to sleep in!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32639/4899_32639_000008_000002.wav|But I am satisfied that there is something in religion I do not yet comprehend.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000054_000000.wav|"Oh, you may as well finish it!" I cried.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000034_000002.wav|Nobody ever said such nice things to me.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000008.wav|Then she sent for me and talked beautifully, and I behaved abominably.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000013_000000.wav|And I really think I must have, for Jenny's brother, who has come here for the sake of being near her, seems to like me very much. Nobody ever liked me so much before, not even Amelia.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000047_000001.wav|A nice little headache or two would be so convenient to us!"|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000045_000000.wav|At last she said she would put us on one year's probation.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000034_000000.wav|"He likes me," I got out, "he likes me ever so much.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000007_000001.wav|"On the whole, I haven't got much so far."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000024_000000.wav|I took it, and read these words:|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000025_000002.wav|You must love me in the same way."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000033_000000.wav|I began to cry.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000004.wav|Then Jenny came with her pretty ways, and cried, and told mother what a darling brother Charley was.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000060_000002.wav|He has not one honest desire to please because it is right to be pleasing.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000064_000001.wav|But being engaged is not half so nice as I expected it would be.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000030_000003.wav|mrs Gordon says-"|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000015_000001.wav|He walked home with me this afternoon.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000031_000000.wav|"mrs Gordon!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000003_000001.wav|I have come off with flying colors, and mother is pleased at my success.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000026_000002.wav|I shall have to tell mother, and what will she say?|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000042_000001.wav|Mother said what she had to say, and then I came to you, my dear old Journal.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000046_000000.wav|october second.-Charley is not at all pleased with mother's terms, but no one would guess it from his manner to her.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000014_000003.wav|He gave me an account of his mother's death, and how he and Jenny nursed her day and night.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000030_000001.wav|I wish the whole thing stopped.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000022_000002.wav|Jenny idled over her lessons, and at last took a book and began to read.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000006.wav|If it were not for mother I should read nothing else.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000001_000000.wav|three|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000039_000000.wav|"The child actually keeps his birthdays!" cried mother.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000064_000002.wav|I suppose it is owing to my being obliged to defy mother's judgment in order to gratify my own.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000005.wav|She made a good deal, too, out of his having lost both father and mother, and needing my affection so much.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000003.wav|Then, as he could not prevail, his uncle wrote, told her it would be the making of Charley to be settled down on one young lady instead of hovering from flower to flower, as he was doing now.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000021_000002.wav|So he stayed after I left.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000019_000005.wav|It is perfectly delightful.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000045_000003.wav|If, at the end of the year, we were both as eager for it as we are now, she would consent to our engagement. Of course we shall be, so I consider myself as good as engaged now. Dear me!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000056_000000.wav|"Oh, my child," she said, "before it is too late, do be persuaded by me to give up this whole thing.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000009_000001.wav|According to her, he is exactly like the heroes I most admire in books.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000017_000001.wav|I suppose mother would say my head was turned by my good fortune, but it is not.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000020_000000.wav|september first.-Somehow I forgot to tell mother that mr Underhill was to be our teacher.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000021_000000.wav|september nineteenth.-The class met at Amelia's to night.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000061_000000.wav|I felt very angry.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000006_000000.wav|"And so I do," she said, quietly.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000059_000000.wav|"Oh mother!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000003_000000.wav|My school days are over!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000065_000002.wav|I dare say I shall be coughing all winter, and instead of going out with Charley, be shut up at home.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000028_000001.wav|At your age, with your judgment quite unformed, it is not proper that you should spend so much time with a young man.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000009_000005.wav|Amelia says it is because I say just what I think.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000002.wav|However, I find Jenny quite nice.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000028_000000.wav|"Kate, I do not like these lessons of yours.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000009_000002.wav|She says she knows he would like me if we should meet.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000014_000004.wav|He has a great deal of feeling.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000016_000001.wav|How can old people always try to make young people feel uncomfortable, and as if things couldn't last?|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000000.wav|october first.-I never can write down all the things that have happened.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000057_000000.wav|"Marriage!" I fairly shrieked out.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000055_000000.wav|Then mother burst out,|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000043_000000.wav|Yes, he likes me and I like him.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000058_000000.wav|"Yes, marriage!" mother repeated.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000020_000002.wav|I told her she could stay and watch us, and then she would see for herself that we all behaved ourselves.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000015_000000.wav|sunday august fifth.-Jenny's brother has been at our church all day.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000026_000001.wav|But I pretended to laugh, and said I could not translate Greek.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000045_000004.wav|how funny it seems.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000014_000001.wav|He has the most perfect manners I ever saw.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000019_000002.wav|She and her brother are so much alike!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000013_000001.wav|But how foolish to write that down!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000059_000002.wav|His whole study seems to be to please others."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000007_000000.wav|"I am sure I hope so," I returned.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000059_000001.wav|How can you be so unjust?|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000017_000003.wav|It is a great thing to be-to be-well-liked.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000058_000003.wav|You are captivated by what girls of your age call beauty, regular features, a fair complexion and soft eyes.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000058_000005.wav|You do not see that he is shallow, and conceited, and selfish and "|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000050_000003.wav|He says he entered into no contract not to write, and keeps slipping little notes into my hand; but I don't think that quite right.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000065_000000.wav|october tenth.-I have taken a dreadful cold.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000025_000001.wav|And I love you more than tongue can tell.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000064_000003.wav|People say she has great insight into character, and sees, at a glance, what others only learn after much study.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000012_000000.wav|"Dear me!" I said, "so then I have some virtues after all!"|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000065_000001.wav|It is too bad.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000015_000002.wav|Mother, after being up all night with mrs Jones and her baby, was not able to go out.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000054_000001.wav|"I know you think him a fool."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000058_000004.wav|His flatteries delude, and his professions of affection gratify you.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000005.wav|And I wish I were not so fond of novels; but I am.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000001.wav|The very day after I wrote that mother had forbidden my going to the class, Charley came to see her, and they had a regular fight together.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000002_000000.wav|july sixteenth.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000014_000000.wav|Thursday.-Jenny's brother has been here all evening.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000036_000000.wav|I kept on crying.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000060_000001.wav|"His ruling passion is love of admiration; the little pleasing acts that attract you are so many traps set to catch the attention and the favorable opinion of those about him.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000017_000002.wav|I am getting quite sober and serious.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000062_000000.wav|"I thought the Bible forbade back biting," I said.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000025_000000.wav|"You are the brightest, prettiest, most warm hearted little thing in the world.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000016_000000.wav|Dr Cabot preaches as if we had all got to die pretty soon, or else have something almost as bad happen to us.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000046_000001.wav|His coming is always the signal for her trotting down stairs; he goes to meet her and offers her a chair, as if he was delighted to see her.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000063_000001.wav|And then I came up here and wrote some poetry, which was very good (for me), though I don't suppose she would think so.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000007.wav|And I am sure I often feel quite stirred up by a really good novel, and admire and want to imitate every high minded, noble character it describes.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000046_000003.wav|For instance, last night Charley wrote:|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000020_000001.wav|So when it came my turn to have the class meet here, she was not quite pleased.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000043_000003.wav|You are just a little bit too late, mother.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000018_000000.wav|Perhaps mother would think I ought not to put such things into my journal.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000045_000001.wav|Charley might spend one evening here every two weeks, when she should always be present.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000000.wav|Amelia is now on such terms with Jenny Underhill that I can hardly see one without seeing the other After the way in which I have loved her, this seems rather hard.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000004_000000.wav|"You will not find your heart content with either," she said.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000003_000002.wav|I said to her today that I should now have time to draw and practice to my heart's content.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000022_000003.wav|I studied awhile with mr Underhill.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000022_000004.wav|At last he said, scribbling something on a bit of paper:|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000022_000000.wav|september twenty eighth-We met at Jenny's this evening.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000014_000005.wav|I was going to tell him about my father's death, sorrow seems to bring people together so, but I could not.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000019_000003.wav|The plan is for us three girls, Jenny, Amelia and myself, to form ourselves into a little class to read and to study together.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000038_000000.wav|"He is not a boy," I said.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000008_000004.wav|I wish I liked more solid reading; but I don't.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000058_000002.wav|How can you fail to see, what I see, oh! so plainly, that Charley Underhill can never, never meet the requirements of your soul.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000032_000001.wav|But I do not believe it.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000009_000003.wav|But that is not probable.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000009_000000.wav|Jenny has a miniature of her brother "Charley" in a locket, which she always wears, and often shows me.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000050_000000.wav|january fifteenth eighteen thirty three.-I have been trying to think whether I am any happier today than I was at this time a year ago.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000056_000001.wav|I shrink from paining or offending you, but it is my duty, as your mother, to warn you against a marriage that will make shipwreck of your happiness."'|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000050_000001.wav|If I am not, I suppose it is the tantalizing way in which I am placed in regard to Charley.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000051_000000.wav|"I would not argue with him, if I were you.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000014_000002.wav|I am sure that mother, who thinks so much of such things, would be charmed with him but she happened to be out, mrs Jones having sent for her to see about her baby.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000043_000001.wav|Come now, let's out with it once for all.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000023_000000.wav|"Here is a sentence I hope you can translate."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000051_000001.wav|He never will yield."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000060_000000.wav|"Seems to be-that is true," she replied.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000030_000000.wav|"That makes no difference.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000049_000000.wav|"You dear old horrid thing How can you be so selfish?"|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000017_000005.wav|I could not like a man who did not possess such sentiments as his.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000045_000002.wav|We were never to be seen together in public, nor would she allow us to correspond.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000042_000000.wav|This time my mouth shut itself up, and no mortal force could open it. I stopped crying, and sat with folded arms.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000057_000002.wav|I felt a chill creep over me.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000009_000004.wav|Very few like me.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000005_000000.wav|"Why, mother!" I cried, "I thought you liked to see me happy!"|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000046_000002.wav|We go on with the lessons, as this gives us a chance to sit pretty close together, and when I am writing my exercises and he corrects them, I rather think a few little things get on to the paper that sound nicely to us, but would not strike mother very agreeably.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000044_000006.wav|Mother shut herself up, and I have no doubt prayed over it.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000021_000001.wav|Mother insisted on sending for me, though mr Underhill had proposed to see me home himself.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32637/4899_32637_000029_000000.wav|"Jenny is always there, and Amelia," I replied.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000009_000000.wav|Ernest did not receive his "favorite" with any special warmth; but invited her out to lunch and gallanted her to the table we had just left.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000029_000000.wav|What this child is to me I cannot tell And yet, if the skillful and kind Gardener should house this delicate plant before frosts come, should I dare to complain?|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000010_000002.wav|I gave Helen an account of my morning; she laughed heartily, and it did me good to hear that musical sound once more.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000023_000001.wav|Our dear dr Cabot has gone to his eternal home, and left us as sheep without a shepherd.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000009_000001.wav|Just like a man!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000011.wav|Bridget had let the milk I was going to use boil over, and finally burn up.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000003_000002.wav|My mind was somewhat distracted with these cares, and I found it a little difficult to keep on with my morning devotions in spite of them.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000008_000000.wav|Mary had to get ready for these unexpected guests, whose appetites proved equal to a raid on a good many things besides bread and butter.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000001.wav|It is very sweet to follow Fenelon's counsel and give oneself to Christ in all these interruptions; but this time I said, "oh, dear!" before I thought.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000001_000000.wav|twenty four.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000015_000000.wav|"And yet you said that outrageous thing about my reading about nothing but murders!" I said.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000027_000003.wav|But what then!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000016.wav|So I humbled my pride and asked Bridget to go for the milk, which she did, in a lofty way of her own.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000027_000002.wav|Only those who have suffered thus can appreciate the heart soreness through which, no matter how outwardly cheerful I may be, I am always passing.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000028_000004.wav|I am sure that the boys are truly blessed by having a sister always at home to welcome them, and that their best manliness is appealed to by her helplessness.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000011_000002.wav|Who is the better for my being in the world since six o'clock this morning?"|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000009_000002.wav|Poor Mary! she had to fly round and get up what she could; mrs Winthrop devoted herself to Ernest with a persistent ignoring of me that I thought rude and unwomanly.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000008_000001.wav|mrs Fry said, after she had devoured nearly half a loaf of cake, that she would really try to eat a morsel more, which Ernest remarked, dryly, was a great triumph of mind over matter.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000024_000004.wav|But she bears this sorrow like one who has long felt herself a pilgrim and a stranger on earth.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000019_000000.wav|After all, one must take life as it comes, its homely details are so mixed up with its sweet charities, and loves, and friendships that one is forced to believe that God has joined them together and does not will that they should be put asunder.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000008_000004.wav|Winthrop, from Brooklyn, one of Ernest's patients a few years ago, when she lived here.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000027_000004.wav|Have I not ten thousand times made this my prayer, that in the words of Leighton, my will might become, identical with God's will."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000009.wav|Aunty wanted the children to come to an early dinner.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000003.wav|I told her that I could do no more for her; she answered me rudely, and kept urging her claims.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000013_000000.wav|At the dinner table Ernest complimented me on my good housekeeping.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000024_000002.wav|Poor mrs Cabot!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000024_000003.wav|She is left very desolate, for all their children are married and settled at a distance.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000007_000000.wav|This speech sufficed to shut my mouth.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000008_000005.wav|She professed herself greatly indebted to him, and said she had come at this hour because she should make sure of seeing him.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000012_000001.wav|Your and Ernest's hospitality is always graceful.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000005_000000.wav|At last I got through with the kitchen, the Sunday dinner being well under way, and ran upstairs to put away the host of little garments the children had left when they took their flight, and to make myself presentable at lunch.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000009_000005.wav|"But she contrives to read the reports of all the murders, of which the newspapers are full."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000010_000001.wav|Helen came home, and Mary went.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000022_000000.wav|Oh, I am glad I have got this written down!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000024_000005.wav|How strange that we ever forget that we are all such!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000018_000001.wav|"If you could have seen the contrast between you two in my eyes!"|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000026_000002.wav|But it is not for me to choose.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000002.wav|Then I wished I hadn't, and went up, with a cheerful face at any rate, to my unwelcome visitor, who proved to be one of my aggravating poor folks a great giant of a woman, in perfect health, and with a husband to support her if he will.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000018.wav|Ernest had sent home some apples, which plainly said, "I want some apple pie, Katy." I looked nervously at the clock, and undertook to gratify him.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000024_000000.wav|His death was sudden at the last and found us all unprepared for it. But my tears of sorrow are mingled with tears of joy.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000016_000000.wav|"Oh, well, you understood it," he said, laughingly.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000018_000000.wav|"What do we care for mrs Winthrop?" he returned.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000012_000000.wav|"I am for one," she said, kissing my hot cheeks; "and you have given a great deal of pleasure to several persons.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000020_000001.wav|It must, be delightful to feel well and strong while one's children are young, there is so much to do for them.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000017.wav|While she was gone the marketing came home, and I had everything to dispose of.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000020_000006.wav|Was I indulging the children too much, or what was it?|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000008.wav|Work resumed; door bell again.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000011_000001.wav|It isn't living to live so.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000017_000000.wav|"But that dreadful mrs Winthrop took it literally."|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000012.wav|I was annoyed and irritated, and already tired,. and did not see how I was to get more, as Mary was cleaning the silver (to be sure, there is not much of it), and had other extra Saturday work to do.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000019_000001.wav|It is something that my husband has been satisfied with his wife and his home to day; that does me good.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000000.wav|I went down into the kitchen, put on my large baking apron, and began my labors; of course the door bell rang, and a poor woman was announced.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000028_000001.wav|Something seemed to say, this captive sings in his cage because it has never known liberty, and cannot regret a lost freedom.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000005_000002.wav|I ran joyfully to meet him, very glad now that I had something good to give him.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000005_000001.wav|Then I began to be uneasy lest Ernest should not be punctual, and Mary be delayed; but he came just as the clock struck one.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000025_000000.wav|april sixteenth.-The desolate pilgrimage was not long.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000003_000003.wav|But I have learned, at least, to face and fight such distractions, instead of running away from them as I used to do.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000007.wav|Off came my apron, and up two pairs of stairs I ran; after a long search it came to light.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000005.wav|At last she went off, abusing me in a way that chilled my heart.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000003_000001.wav|I had a busy day before me; the usual Saturday baking and Sunday dinner to oversee, the children's lessons for to morrow to superintend and hear them repeat, their clean clothes to lay out, and a basket of stockings to mend.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000008_000002.wav|As they talked and 'laughed and ate leisurely on, Mary stood looking the picture of despair.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000003_000004.wav|My faith in prayer, my resort to it, becomes more and more the foundation of my life, and I believe, with one wiser and better than myself, that nothing but prayer stands between my soul and the best gifts of God; in other words, that I can and shall get what I ask for.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000006_000000.wav|"Now be bright and animated, and like yourself," she whispered, "for I have brought these girls here on purpose to hear you talk, and they are prepared to fall in love with you on the spot"|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000026_000001.wav|I find it hard not to wish and pray that I may as speedily follow my precious husband, should God call him away first.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000020_000004.wav|As I sat with this precious little group about me, Ernest opened the door, looked in, gravely and without a word, and instantly disappeared.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000005_000005.wav|She had a fashionable young lady with her, a stranger to me, as well as a Miss Somebody else, from Albany, whose name I did not catch.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000023_000000.wav|april first.-This has been a sad day to our church.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000020_000002.wav|I do it; but no one can tell the effort, it costs me. What a contrast there is between their vitality and the languor under which I suffer!|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000002_000000.wav|march twentieth.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4899/32658/4899_32658_000004_000015.wav|It isn't good for him, and how much precious time is wasted over just this one thing?" However, I reflected, that arbitrarily refusing to indulge him in this respect is not exactly my mission as his wife; he is perfectly well, and likes his little luxuries as well as other people do.|4899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000042_000006.wav|Our work seemed to please the trustees of this fund, as they soon began increasing their annual grant.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000041_000000.wav|This speaking of small gifts reminds me to say that very few Tuskegee graduates fail to send us an annual contribution.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000034_000001.wav|All of the work for the building, such as brickmaking, brick masonry, carpentry, blacksmithing, etc, would be done by the students.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000027_000002.wav|The first time I saw him, ten years ago, he seemed to take but little interest in our school, but I was determined to show him that we were worthy of his help.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000007_000005.wav|First, always to do my whole duty regarding making our work known to individuals and organizations; and, second, not to worry about the results.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000016_000002.wav|After some difficulty I succeeded in securing an interview with him.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000001_000001.wav|But the number of students, of both sexes, continued to increase.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000002_000003.wav|We decided to call the proposed building Alabama Hall, in honour of the state in which we were labouring.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000022_000001.wav|No, it was not luck.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000019_000001.wav|If the institution had been officered by white persons, and had failed, it would have injured the cause of Negro education; but I knew that the failure of our institution, officered by Negroes, would not only mean the loss of a school, but would cause people, in a large degree, to lose faith in the ability of the entire race.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000012_000002.wav|It also has its compensations in giving one an opportunity to meet some of the best people in the world-to be more correct, I think I should say the best people in the world.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000032_000000.wav|We have over twelve thousand books, periodicals, etc, gifts from our friends, but we have no suitable place for them, and we have no suitable reading room.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000005_000001.wav|He said: "Give them an idea for every word." I think it would be hard to improve upon this advice; and it might be made to apply to all public speaking.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000002_000005.wav|They responded willingly, in proportion to their means. The students, as in the case of our first building, Porter Hall, began digging out the dirt in order to allow the laying of the foundations.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000006_000001.wav|At these meetings an especial effort was made to secure help for the building of Alabama Hall, as well as to introduce the school to the attention of the general public.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000019_000000.wav|In our case I felt a double responsibility, and this made the anxiety all the more intense.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000006_000002.wav|In both these respects the meetings proved successful.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000011_000001.wav|I have usually proceeded on the principle that persons who possess sense enough to earn money have sense enough to know how to give it away, and that the mere making known of the facts regarding Tuskegee, and especially the facts regarding the work of the graduates, has been more effective than outright begging.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000021_000002.wav|Between these two gifts there were others of generous proportions which came every year from both mr and mrs Huntington.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000042_000004.wav|Foster, the member of the Legislature from Tuskegee.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000008_000000.wav|In order to be successful in any kind of undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000005_000002.wav|From that time to the present I have always tried to keep his advice in mind.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000012_000001.wav|Such work gives one a rare opportunity to study human nature.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000027_000001.wav|It required ten years of work before I was able to secure mr Carnegie's interest and help.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000035_000000.wav|If you wish further information, I shall be glad to furnish it.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000042_000001.wav|First, the State Legislature of Alabama increased its annual appropriation from two thousand dollars to three thousand dollars; I might add that still later it increased this sum to four thousand five hundred dollars a year.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000009_000002.wav|I know wealthy people who receive as much as twenty calls a day for help.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000039_000001.wav|It has been my constant aim at Tuskegee to carry out, in our financial and other operations, such business methods as would be approved of by any New York banking house.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000022_000007.wav|Never did I meet an individual who took a more kindly and sympathetic interest in our school than did mr Huntington.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000044_000000.wav|mr Morris k Jessup, the treasurer of the Slater Fund, I refer to because I know of no man of wealth and large and complicated business responsibilities who gives not only money but his time and thought to the subject of the proper method of elevating the Negro to the extent that is true of mr Jessup.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000022_000003.wav|Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000043_000002.wav|j l m Curry, of Washington, who is the general agent for these two funds, and mr Morris k Jessup, of New York.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000033_000000.wav|Our graduates go to work in every section of the South, and whatever knowledge might be obtained in the library would serve to assist in the elevation of the whole Negro race.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000040_000001.wav|In my efforts to get money I have often been surprised at the patience and deep interest of the ministers, who are besieged on every hand and at all hours of the day for help.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000003_000000.wav|When we seemed at the end of our resources, so far as securing money was concerned, something occurred which showed the greatness of General Armstrong-something which proved how far he was above the ordinary individual.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000003_000003.wav|On arriving there I found that the General had decided to take a quartette of singers through the North, and hold meetings for a month in important cities, at which meetings he and I were to speak.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000023_000003.wav|In crossing the street to see a lady from whom I hoped to get some money, I found a bright new twenty five cent piece in the middle of the street track.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000042_000005.wav|Second, we received one thousand dollars from the john f Slater Fund.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000022_000008.wav|He not only gave money to us, but took time in which to advise me, as a father would a son, about the general conduct of the school.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000007_000004.wav|As far as the science of what is called begging can be reduced to rules, I would say that I have had but two rules.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000021_000000.wav|The first time I ever saw the late Collis p Huntington, the great railroad man, he gave me two dollars for our school.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000006_000000.wav|Meetings were held in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, and other large cities, and at all of these meetings General Armstrong pleased, together with myself, for help, not for Hampton, but for Tuskegee.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000040_000003.wav|In a large degree it has been the pennies, the nickels, and the dimes which have come from the Sunday schools, the Christian Endeavour societies, and the missionary societies, as well as from the church proper, that have helped to elevate the Negro at so rapid a rate.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000027_000000.wav|A short time ago we received twenty thousand dollars from mr Andrew Carnegie, to be used for the purpose of erecting a new library building. Our first library and reading room were in a corner of a shanty, and the whole thing occupied a space about five by twelve feet.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000017_000002.wav|I recall with pleasure your visit to me two years ago."|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000020_000000.wav|From the beginning of our work to the present I have always had the feeling, and lose no opportunity to impress our teachers with the same idea, that the school will always be supported in proportion as the inside of the institution is kept clean and pure and wholesome.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000043_000006.wav|I had heard much about him.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000004_000001.wav|A weak and narrow man would have reasoned that all the money which came to Tuskegee in this way would be just so much taken from the Hampton Institute; but none of these selfish or short sighted feelings ever entered the breast of General Armstrong.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000009_000003.wav|More than once when I have gone into the offices of rich men, I have found half a dozen persons waiting to see them, and all come for the same purpose, that of securing money.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000010_000000.wav|As an example of this, there are two ladies in New York, whose names rarely appear in print, but who, in a quiet way, have given us the means with which to erect three large and important buildings during the last eight years.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000003_000001.wav|When we were in the midst of great anxiety as to where and how we were to get funds for the new building, I received a telegram from General Armstrong asking me if I could spend a month travelling with him through the North, and asking me, if I could do so, to come to Hampton at once.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000043_000007.wav|When I first went into his presence, trembling because of my youth and inexperience, he took me by the hand so cordially, and spoke such encouraging words, and gave me such helpful advice regarding the proper course to pursue, that I came to know him then, as I have known him ever since, as a high example of one who is constantly and unselfishly at work for the betterment of humanity.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000013_000004.wav|It is a privilege to have a share in it.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000043_000004.wav|I shall never forget the first time I met him.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000037_000000.wav|Booker t Washington, Principal.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000024_000000.wav|At one of our Commencements I was bold enough to invite the Rev. e Winchester Donald, d d, rector of Trinity Church, Boston, to preach the Commencement sermon.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000002_000004.wav|Again Miss Davidson began making efforts to enlist the interest and help of the coloured and white people in and near Tuskegee.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000018_000001.wav|It was by far the largest single donation which up to that time the school had ever received.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000023_000000.wav|More than once I have found myself in some pretty tight places while collecting money in the North.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000042_000000.wav|Soon after beginning our third year's work we were surprised to receive money from three special sources, and up to the present time we have continued to receive help from them.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000026_000000.wav|It was not very long before the rain ceased and dr Donald finished his sermon; and an excellent sermon it was, too, in spite of the weather. After he had gone to his room, and had gotten the wet threads of his clothes dry, dr Donald ventured the remark that a large chapel at Tuskegee would not be out of place.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000041_000001.wav|These contributions range from twenty five cents up to ten dollars.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000009_000004.wav|And all these calls in person, to say nothing of the applications received through the mails. Very few people have any idea of the amount of money given away by persons who never permit their names to be known.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000042_000009.wav|This was at first five hundred dollars, but it has since been increased to fifteen hundred dollars.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000040_000000.wav|I have spoken of several large gifts to the school; but by far the greater proportion of the money that has built up the institution has come in the form of small donations from persons of moderate means. It is upon these small gifts, which carry with them the interest of hundreds of donors, that any philanthropic work must depend largely for its support.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000019_000002.wav|The receipt of this draft for ten thousand dollars, under all these circumstances, partially lifted a burden that had been pressing down upon me for days.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000017_000000.wav|Two years after this visit a letter came to Tuskegee from this man, which read like this: "Enclosed I send you a New York draft for ten thousand dollars, to be used in furtherance of your work.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000039_000000.wav|I have found that strict business methods go a long way in securing the interest of rich people.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000004_000002.wav|He was too big to be little, too good to be mean.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000003_000004.wav|Imagine my surprise when the General told me, further, that these meetings were to be held, not in the interests of Hampton, but in the interests of Tuskegee, and that the Hampton Institute was to be responsible for all the expenses.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000001_000004.wav|As a result, we finally decided to undertake the construction of a still larger building-a building that would contain rooms for the girls and boarding accommodations for all.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000010_000002.wav|And they not only help Tuskegee, but they are constantly seeking opportunities to help other worthy causes.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000023_000002.wav|One morning I found myself in providence rhode island, without a cent of money with which to buy breakfast.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3258/169291/3258_169291_000004_000004.wav|The General knew, too, that the way to strengthen Hampton was to make it a centre of unselfish power in the working out of the whole Southern problem.|3258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000015_000000.wav|"Little goat, when you're able, Remove my nice table."|3001
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000008_000000.wav|"'Little goat, if you're able, Pray deck out my table,'|3001
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000010_000000.wav|"'Little goat, when you're able, Remove my nice table,'|3001
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000037_000000.wav|On saying this the wise woman vanished.|3001
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000024_000000.wav|"Little goat, when you are able, Come and clear away my table."|3001
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000013_000000.wav|"Little goat, if you're able, Come and deck my pretty table."|3001
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3001/160952/3001_160952_000044_000000.wav|"Three Eyes," said the mother, "climb up, and try what you can do; perhaps you will be able to see better with your three eyes than One Eye can."|3001
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000015_000000.wav|"Come, my friend," said Danglars, seeing that he made no impression on Peppino, "you will not refuse me a glass of wine?"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000063_000000.wav|From this time the prisoner resolved to suffer no longer, but to have everything he wanted.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000034_000002.wav|If you deprive me of that, take away my life also."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000063_000005.wav|Sometimes he was delirious, and fancied he saw an old man stretched on a pallet; he, also, was dying of hunger.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000051_000000.wav|"Come, come, calm yourself.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000020_000000.wav|"Twenty five thousand francs a bottle."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000009_000005.wav|He thought it would be better to transact business with his old acquaintance, so he sent for Peppino.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000034_000000.wav|"Merely the five million you have about you." Danglars felt a dreadful spasm dart through his heart.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000082_000004.wav|And now eat and drink; I will entertain you to night.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000063_000001.wav|At the end of twelve days, after having made a splendid dinner, he reckoned his accounts, and found that he had only fifty thousand francs left.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000065_000002.wav|Oh, my former friends, my former friends!" he murmured, and fell with his face to the ground.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000059_000000.wav|"Ah, that is a different thing."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000061_000000.wav|"As your excellency pleases," said Vampa, as he left the cell.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000065_000000.wav|"Are you not a Christian?" he said, falling on his knees.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000082_000006.wav|According to the count's directions, Danglars was waited on by Vampa, who brought him the best wine and fruits of Italy; then, having conducted him to the road, and pointed to the post chaise, left him leaning against a tree.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000024_000000.wav|"The master?--who is he?"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000063_000004.wav|Three days passed thus, during which his prayers were frequent, if not heartfelt.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000051_000002.wav|Be more economical."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000023_000000.wav|"It is possible such may be the master's intention."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000045_000000.wav|"Probably."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000009_000003.wav|He struggled against his thirst till his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth; then, no longer able to resist, he called out.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000061_000001.wav|Danglars, raving, threw himself on the goat skin.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000032_000001.wav|What then?"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000061_000007.wav|For the first time in his life, Danglars contemplated death with a mixture of dread and desire; the time had come when the implacable spectre, which exists in the mind of every human creature, arrested his attention and called out with every pulsation of his heart, "Thou shalt die!"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000051_000001.wav|You will excite your blood, and that would produce an appetite it would require a million a day to satisfy.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000047_000000.wav|"no"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000073_000002.wav|"Yes," he said, "there have been some who have suffered more than I have, but then they must have been martyrs at least."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000048_000000.wav|"Two millions?--three?--four?|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000009_000001.wav|The prisoner expected that he would be at no expense that day, for like an economical man he had concealed half of his fowl and a piece of the bread in the corner of his cell.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000082_000005.wav|Vampa, when this man is satisfied, let him be free." Danglars remained prostrate while the count withdrew; when he raised his head he saw disappearing down the passage nothing but a shadow, before which the bandits bowed.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000027_000000.wav|"Here."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000072_000000.wav|"Yes; those who have died of hunger."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000064_000003.wav|But Peppino did not answer.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000057_000000.wav|"no"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000066_000000.wav|"Here I am," said Vampa, instantly appearing; "what do you want?"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000050_000000.wav|"Take all, then-take all, I tell you, and kill me!"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000067_000000.wav|"Take my last gold," muttered Danglars, holding out his pocket book, "and let me live here; I ask no more for liberty-I only ask to live!"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000069_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, yes, cruelly!"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000018_000000.wav|"They are all the same price."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000061_000006.wav|But to die?|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000061_000004.wav|What could be his intentions towards him?|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000033_000000.wav|"How much do you require for my ransom?"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000064_000004.wav|On the fifth day he dragged himself to the door of the cell.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000009_000007.wav|"What do you want?"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000053_000000.wav|"Then you must suffer hunger."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000035_000000.wav|"We are forbidden to shed your blood."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000075_000000.wav|"Of what must I repent?" stammered Danglars.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000063_000003.wav|He who for so long a time had forgotten God, began to think that miracles were possible-that the accursed cavern might be discovered by the officers of the Papal States, who would release him; that then he would have fifty thousand remaining, which would be sufficient to save him from starvation; and finally he prayed that this sum might be preserved to him, and as he prayed he wept.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000031_000000.wav|"Are you, sir, the chief of the people who brought me here?"|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000030_000000.wav|"You sent for me?" he said to the prisoner.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000048_000001.wav|Come, four?|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000039_000000.wav|"Yes, a chief."|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/289242/1053_289242_000009_000004.wav|The sentinel opened the door; it was a new face.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000015_000001.wav|So they set out in a coach which was big enough to hold them, and had not gone very far when the hoodie suddenly said:|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000009_000000.wav|'Indeed I will wed thee; a pretty creature is the hoodie,' answered she, and on the morrow they were married.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000019_000007.wav|And when the sun rose she got up, and left the house, in search of the hoodie.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000007_000001.wav|However, after a night's rest he was in a better temper, and thought that he might be more lucky the third time, so back he went to the old place.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000030_000002.wav|Still, at last they were over, and they went back the way she had come, and stopped at the three houses in order to take their little sons to their own home.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000008_000000.wav|'Wilt thou wed me, farmer's daughter?' he said to the youngest.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000013_000001.wav|But in the night soft music was heard stealing close towards the house, and every man slept, and the mother slept also.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000013_000000.wav|By and bye they had a son, and very pleased they both were.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000028_000000.wav|'Who has cooked this feast?' asked he, and the real cook, who had come back from the race, was brought before him.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000006_000000.wav|'Wilt thou wed me, farmer's daughter?'|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132850/1053_132850_000027_000000.wav|With the first spoonful he took up the ring, and a thrill ran through him; in the second he beheld the feather and rose from his chair.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000020_000004.wav|But at length, breathless and exhausted, he reached her side, and gasped out:|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000042_000001.wav|Now I must tell you who I am, and what befell to cause me to take the shape of an old woman.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000017_000001.wav|Oh, no, it is quite impossible.'|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000025_000004.wav|And now, if your highness will permit me, I will speak of myself.'|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000007_000000.wav|'Yes, sire, he had arms; he always carries a dagger in his belt.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000033_000000.wav|Therefore one by one they all knelt before him and took the oath, and a message was sent to the false prince, forbidding him ever again to appear at court, though a handsome pension was granted him.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000008_000001.wav|Then he came back, his face white and stern.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000012_000001.wav|He wandered on hardly knowing where he went, and his face was so white and desperate that none of his companions dared speak to him.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000023_000002.wav|With a low bow the youth made answer in a clear voice:|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000016_000000.wav|'You will not need to do that,' answered the old woman, 'you have only got to marry me, and you will soon be free.'|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000004_000000.wav|'Sire, this morning we were all playing tennis in the court, the prince and this gentleman with the rest, when there broke out some dispute about the game.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000010_000000.wav|The young man raised his head as if to reply, but the king would not listen, and commanded his guards to put him under arrest, adding, however, that if the prisoner wished to visit any part of the city, he was at liberty to do so properly guarded, and in fifteen days he would be brought to trial before the highest judges in the land.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000018_000001.wav|However, all she said was:|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000025_000002.wav|At length, when you were away fighting in distant countries, she decided what she would do, and adopted in secret the baby of a poor quarryman, sending a messenger to tell you that you had a son.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000023_000001.wav|The king inquired if he had any excuse to plead for the high treason he had committed by striking the heir to the throne, and, if so, to be quick in setting it forth.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000046_000000.wav|'That is my history, and now you must beg the king to send messengers at once to Granada, to inform my father of our marriage, and I think,' she added with a smile, 'that he will not refuse us his blessing.'|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000011_000001.wav|By their advice he spent the fourteen days that remained to him going about to seek counsel from wise men of all sorts, as to how he might escape death, but no one could help him, for none could find any excuse for the blow he had given to the prince.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000029_000002.wav|That, sire, I can now tell you,' and the young man paused and looked at the king, who coloured deeply.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000027_000004.wav|She only thought you a poor knight, and agreed that as you wished it, the marriage should be kept secret.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000027_000001.wav|You were in a part of the country which you did not know, so seeing an orchard all pink and white with apple blossoms, and a girl tossing a ball in one corner, you went up to her to ask your way.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000018_000000.wav|He spoke without thinking, but the flash of anger which darted from her eyes made him feel uncomfortable.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000039_000000.wav|For the next few weeks little was seen of the prince, who spent all his days in hunting, and trying to forget the old wife at home.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000012_000000.wav|The fourteenth night had come, and in despair the prisoner went out to take his last walk through the city.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000044_000003.wav|To this he replied that as my misfortune resulted from a spell, this was rather difficult, but he would do his best, and at any rate he could promise that before my fifteenth birthday I should be freed from the enchantment if I could get a man who would swear to marry me as I was.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000013_000001.wav|But there is none that can answer that question save only I myself, if you will promise to do all I ask.'|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000003_000001.wav|He had dressed himself in cool white clothes, and was passing through the hall on his way to the council chamber, when a number of young nobles suddenly appeared before him, and one amongst them stepped forward and spoke.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000021_000000.wav|'Madam, pardon me for my hasty words just now; I was wrong, and will thankfully accept the offer you made me.'|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1053/132821/1053_132821_000023_000000.wav|The hall was full to overflowing when the prisoner entered it, and all marvelled at the brightness of his face.|1053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000046_000000.wav|"But don't forget that there is still a possibility of recuperation; while there's life there's hope."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000040_000000.wav|"dr King," and the blue eyes looked up calmly and steadily into the physician's face, "please tell me exactly what you think of my case.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000023_000001.wav|In addition to the corn meal and meat, we had a half pint of peas full of bugs."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000041_000000.wav|"You may improve very much: I think you will when you get home; and, though there is little hope of the entire recovery of your former health and strength, you may live for years."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000049_000000.wav|"See!" she cried joyously, holding up a package; "letters from home, and Naples too.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000056_000001.wav|My husband and I are growing quite patriarchal.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000073_000000.wav|"Dinsmore and I were together almost constantly during the last six months of his life, and became very intimate.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000067_000000.wav|"Then it is, it must be the same family," said the latter, half to himself, half to Harold.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000039_000000.wav|"But you are not going to die just yet," returned the doctor, with assumed gayety; "and home and mother will do wonders for you."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000066_000000.wav|"Yes; knew and loved him!" exclaimed Harold, raising himself on his elbow, and turning a keenly interested, questioning gaze upon the stranger.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000055_000001.wav|Our family is growing; we have another grandson who arrived about two weeks ago; Harold Allison Travilla by name.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, no, certainly not!"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000074_000000.wav|It was brought, opened, and a small package taken from it and given to Harold.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000052_000001.wav|I always like to keep the best till the last."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000015_000001.wav|"Many a whiter hand is not half so shapely or so useful.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000059_000000.wav|"Are you not pleased?" asked May, pausing to look up at him.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000048_000001.wav|But not for long; they were presently broken in upon by the appearance of May with a very bright face.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000005_000000.wav|But the sentence was left unfinished; for at that instant Harold reeled, and would have fallen but for the strong arm of another officer quickly outstretched to save him.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000013_000002.wav|"Miss Lottie, I'm almost tempted to say it pays to be ill or wounded, that one may be tended by fair ladies' hands."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000024_000000.wav|"Oh! you poor creatures!|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000036_000000.wav|A familiar step drew near, and dr King laid his hand on the young man's shoulder.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000026_000000.wav|"Is it jest; or earnest?" asked Lottie, appealing to Harold.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000042_000001.wav|do not be afraid to say so: I should rather welcome the news.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000063_000000.wav|"Excuse me, sir, but I could not help hearing some parts of the letter read aloud by the lady-your sister, I believe----"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000052_000000.wav|"Can wait its turn.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER TWENTY SEVENTH.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000048_000000.wav|The doctor passed on to another patient, and Harold was again left to the companionship of his own thoughts.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000031_000000.wav|By the last of March this ardent desire was granted, and he hurried away in fine spirits, leaving May pale and tearful, but with a ring on her finger that had not been there before.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000029_000000.wav|"Oh, yes; that made no difference."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000011_000001.wav|In the meantime Richard had returned to camp, and Harry Duncan, wounded in a late battle, now occupied his deserted bed in the hospital.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000049_000001.wav|Rose writes to mamma, and she has enclosed the letter for our benefit."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000020_000001.wav|But do tell me.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000064_000000.wav|"Yes.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000024_000001.wav|I hope it was a little better the alternate week."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000006_000000.wav|They made a litter and carried him into camp, where restoratives were immediately applied.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000062_000000.wav|May had left the room, and Harold lay languid and weak upon his cot.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000017_000001.wav|I presume it would not be necessary for me even to be at the trouble of dictating them?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000065_000000.wav|"But there is something else.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000068_000000.wav|"Same as what, sir?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000008_000000.wav|How they all wept over him-reduced almost to a skeleton, so wan, so weak, so aged, in those few short months.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000042_000000.wav|"But it is likely I shall not live another year?|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000072_000000.wav|"Yes; the uncle a trifle younger than the niece."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000022_000000.wav|"Hunger?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000053_000000.wav|Harold hardly acknowledged to himself that he was very eager to hear news from Elsie; even more than to read the loving words from his mother's pen.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000003_000000.wav|"Escaped prisoners from Andersonville, eh?" queried the guard gathering about them.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000057_000000.wav|"Elsie is the loveliest and the best of mothers, perfectly devoted to her children; so patient and so tender, so loving and gentle, and yet so firm. mr Travilla and she are of one mind in regard to their training, requiring as prompt and cheerful obedience as Horace always has; yet exceedingly indulgent wherever indulgence can do no harm.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000064_000002.wav|"So no need for apologies."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000034_000000.wav|"And won't Aunt Wealthy rejoice over you as over a mine of gold!"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000062_000001.wav|A Confederate officer, occupying the next, addressed him, rousing him out of the reverie into which he had fallen.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000073_000001.wav|My haversack, Smith, if you please," addressing a nurse.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000015_000000.wav|"None the less beautiful, Miss King," returned Duncan gallantly.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000028_000000.wav|"No matter what ailed you?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000069_000002.wav|Will you, sir, take charge of it, and see that it reaches the lady's hands?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000020_000000.wav|"With pleasure; especially as I can tell her your wound is not a dangerous one, and you will not lose a limb.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000030_000000.wav|To Harry's impatience the winter wore slowly away while he was confined within the hospital walls; yet the daily, almost hourly sight of May Allison's sweet face, and the sound of her musical voice, went far to reconcile him to this life of inactivity and "inglorious ease," as he termed it in his moments of restless longing to be again in the field.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000012_000000.wav|Harry was suffering, but in excellent spirits.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000040_000001.wav|Is there any hope of recovery?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000025_000000.wav|"Just the same, except, in lieu of the corn meal, we had three square inches of corn bread."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000050_000002.wav|My eyes are rather weak, you know, and I see the ink is pale."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000027_000000.wav|"Dead earnest, Miss King; and for medicine we had sumac and white oak bark."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000051_000000.wav|"But mamma's note to you?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000058_000000.wav|"Tell our Harold-my poor dear brother-that we hope his name child will be an honor to him."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000045_000000.wav|A moment's silence, and Harold said, "Thank you.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000043_000000.wav|"Yes; I-I think you are nearing home, my dear boy; the land where 'the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick.'"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000019_000000.wav|"Joking aside, I shall be greatly obliged if you will write to Aunt Wealthy to day for me."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000010_000000.wav|Slowly, very slowly, medical skill and tender, careful nursing told upon his exhausted frame till at length he seemed to awake to new life, began to notice what was going on about him, was able to take part in a cheerful chat now and then, and became eager for news from home and of the progress of the war.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000009_000000.wav|He recognized his brother and sister with a faint smile, a murmured word or two, then sank into a state of semi stupor, from which he roused only when spoken to, relapsing into it again immediately.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000007_000000.wav|He soon recovered from his faintness, but was found to be totally unfit for duty, and sent to the hospital at Washington, where he was placed in a bed adjoining that of his brother Richard, and allowed to share with him in the attentions of dr King, Miss Lottie, and his own sister May.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000020_000002.wav|What did you poor fellows get to eat at Andersonville?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000011_000000.wav|Months had passed away.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000004_000000.wav|"Yes; and more than half starved; especially my friend here, Captain Allison of the----"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000050_000000.wav|"Then let us enjoy it together.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000002_000000.wav|"In peace, love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green; Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love." --SCOTT.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72212/7140_72212_000023_000000.wav|"Yes; we'd plenty of that always.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000028_000003.wav|"Poor, dear Uncle Wal is killed," she sobbed; "and Uncle Art too, and I don't want all my uncles to die or to be killed."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000015_000000.wav|Lucy was, like many others who had strong ties in both sections and their armies, well nigh distracted with grief and fear.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000036_000003.wav|But I am sorely troubled to know what has, or will become of them.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000035_000000.wav|"Perhaps you don't reflect that it takes a good deal out of our pockets," remarked her father.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000034_000000.wav|"Nor I," said Elsie.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000016_000001.wav|Then they heard that Enna had been married again to another Confederate officer, about a year after her first husband's death; that Walter had fallen at Shiloh, that Arthur was killed in the battle of Luka, and that his mother, hearing of it just as she was convalescing from an attack of fever, had a relapse and died a few days after.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000012_000002.wav|I should like to show this pretty one to Walter.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000036_000004.wav|It is more than two years now, since we have heard a word from Viamede."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000025_000000.wav|"What is it, mamma?" asked Elsie.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000014_000001.wav|Richard Allison had recovered from his wound, and was again in the field.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000003_000000.wav|"Liberty!|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000046_000000.wav|"'And what will you do with your liberty, Uncle Joe?' I asked; then he looked half frightened.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000031_000000.wav|"What news?" queried both ladies in a breath.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000042_000000.wav|"No, son; your sister is still very wealthy, and we all have comfortable incomes."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000048_000000.wav|"Certainly; I told him they were free to go or stay as they liked, and as long as they were with, or near us, we would see that they were made comfortable.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000013_000000.wav|Ah, though she knew it not, he was then lying cold in death upon the bloody field of Shiloh.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000012_000000.wav|"And He has promised wisdom to those who ask it.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000036_000002.wav|If I were only sure it would add to the happiness of my poor people, I should rejoice over it.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000020_000000.wav|"Papa," said Horace, "how can it be that good Christian men are fighting and killing each other?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000052_000000.wav|Chloe slid to her knees, and taking the soft white hand in both of hers, covered it with kisses and tears, while her whole frame shook with her bitter weeping.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000023_000002.wav|She will be company for our May.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000028_000002.wav|"I hope the doctors will sew up the place quick 'fore it does fall out," she added, with a look of deep concern.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000041_000000.wav|"Are we poor now, papa?" asked Horace anxiously.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000021_000001.wav|They do not see alike, and each is defending what he believes a righteous cause."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000003_000001.wav|Freedom! tyranny is dead! --Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets." --SHAKESPEARE'S JULIUS CAESAR.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000012_000003.wav|Where is he now, I wonder, poor fellow?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000018_000001.wav|But surely we may rejoice in the hope that he was; since we have offered so much united prayer for him."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000033_000000.wav|There was a momentary pause: then Rose said, "If it puts an end to this dreadful war, I shall not be sorry."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000023_000003.wav|Don't worry about Ritchie; May writes that he is getting better fast."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000014_000002.wav|Edward was with the army also; Harold, too, and Philip Ross.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000012_000001.wav|What a comfort.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000023_000000.wav|"Richard is ill in the hospital at Washington, and May has gone on to nurse him.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000021_000000.wav|"It is a very strange thing, my son; yet undoubtedly true that there are many true Christians on both sides.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000047_000000.wav|"Well, dear, I hope you assured him that he had nothing to fear on that score."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000036_000000.wav|"Yes, papa, I know; but we will not be very poor.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000030_000001.wav|They returned with faces full of excitement.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000018_000000.wav|"Oh," cried Elsie, as she wept over Walter's loss, "what would I not give to know that he was ready for death!|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000016_000000.wav|From their relatives in the South the last news received had been that of the death of Dick Percival, nor did any further news reach there until the next November.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000028_000001.wav|did they shoot a hole so it might drop out?" queried Rosebud in wide eyed wonder.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000019_000000.wav|"Yes," returned her father, "for 'If two of you shall agree on earth, as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven'; and God's promises are all 'yea and amen in Christ Jesus.'"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000045_000000.wav|"Yes, and it threw him into a transport of joy.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000011_000000.wav|"Our sufficiency is of God!"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000045_000002.wav|Bress de Lord!|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000053_000000.wav|"Mammy, dear mammy, what is it?" Elsie asked in real alarm, quite forgetting for the moment the news of the morning, which indeed she could never have expected to cause such distress.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72210/7140_72210_000029_000000.wav|"We will ask God to take care of them, dear daughter," said Rose, caressing the little weeper, "and we know that He is able to do it."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000049_000000.wav|"Mamma?|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER TWENTIETH.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000014_000000.wav|"Horace, for your father, if you like."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000012_000000.wav|"What do you intend to call your son?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000031_000000.wav|"Look, mother's darling," Elsie said with a glad smile, exposing to view the tiny face by her side.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000004_000000.wav|It was not easy to learn to live without the dear mother; they missed her constantly.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000029_000000.wav|He complied under protest, in which mr Dinsmore joined, that he feared it would be too much for her; and the soft baby hands patted the wan cheeks, the tiny rosebud mouth was pressed again and again to the pale lips with rapturous cooings, "Mamma, mamma!"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000022_000000.wav|mr Dinsmore came softly in, kissed very tenderly the pale face on the pillow, then took a long look at the tiny pink one nestling to her side.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000025_000000.wav|"I will, papa; and don't trouble about me.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000042_000002.wav|I'd like to start this minute.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000017_000000.wav|"But he may never come to claim it," she said, laughing.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000005_000001.wav|Nor did they suffer gloom to gather in their hearts or cloud their faces.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000053_000000.wav|"May Elsie, mamma?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000013_000000.wav|"What do you?" she asked, smiling up at him.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000015_000000.wav|"And I had thought of Edward, for his father and yours.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000046_000000.wav|"Thank you, mother's darling," Elsie said, accepting the gift and tenderly caressing the giver; "you and papa, too.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000041_000000.wav|"Then, dearest, come home to your father's house and stay there as long as you can; bring babies and nurses and come.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000050_000000.wav|"Oh, yes; yes indeed, mamma and papa too."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000057_000000.wav|"Papa proposes taking me at once."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000025_000001.wav|You know I am in good hands. Ah, stay a moment! here is Edward bringing wee bit Elsie to take her first peep at her little brother."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000020_000000.wav|"Can you bear the excitement?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000035_000000.wav|"Elsie's little brother," said her mamma, tenderly.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000043_000002.wav|Where is Travilla?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000042_000001.wav|"I shall go, if Edward doesn't object.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000028_000000.wav|"But she shall kiss her mamma, dear, precious little pet," Elsie said. "Please hold her close for a minute, papa, and let her kiss her mother."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000030_000000.wav|"There, pet, that will do," said her father.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000034_000000.wav|The child availed herself of the permission, then gently patting the newcomer, repeated her glad cry, "Baby, pretty baby."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000051_000000.wav|"Baby?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000040_000000.wav|"I think I do, papa," she answered, brightening.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000032_000000.wav|"Baby!" cried the little girl, with a joyous shout, clapping her chubby hands, "pretty baby Elsie take"; and the small arms were held out entreatingly.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000037_000001.wav|One more kiss, papa, before you go, and then I'll try to sleep."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000065_000000.wav|They formed but one family here as at the Oaks; each couple having their own private suite of apartments, while all other rooms were used in common and their meals taken together; an arrangement preferred by all; mr Dinsmore and his daughter especially rejoicing in it, as giving them almost as much of each other's society as before her marriage.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000016_000001.wav|But Edward would do for the next."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000015_000001.wav|Horace Edward. Will that do?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000017_000001.wav|"Is papa in the house?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000046_000001.wav|But see who is here?"|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000008_000000.wav|"Yes," he said, in moved tones.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000040_000001.wav|"Edward took me for a short drive yesterday, and I felt better for it."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000038_000000.wav|Elsie did not recover so speedily and entirely as before, after the birth of her first babe; and those to whom she was so dear grew anxious and troubled about her.|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000019_000000.wav|"Oh, bring him here and let me see the first meeting between them."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7140/72205/7140_72205_000024_000001.wav|But now I must leave you to rest and sleep. Try, my darling, for all our sakes, to be very prudent, very calm and quiet."|7140
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000006_000000.wav|William james Conner, his wife, child, and four brothers came next.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000012_000001.wav|To Joe's great joy he heard the sound of the Underground Rail Road bell in Richmond,--had a satisfactory interview with the conductor,--received a favorable response, and was soon a traveler on his way to Canada.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000005_000001.wav|Previous to being sold he was under a master by the name of Jonathan Bailey, who followed farming in the neighborhood of Laurel, Delaware, and, as a master, was considered a moderate man-was also well to do in the world; but the new master he could not endure, as he had already let the secret out that Levin was to be sent South.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000002_000001.wav|She stated that she had been very cruelly treated, that she was owned by a man named Joseph O'Neil, "a tax collector and a very bad man." Under said O'Neil she had been required to chop wood, curry horses, work in the field like a man, and all one winter she had been compelled to go barefooted.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000017_000007.wav|I believed that God would assist me if I would try.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000010_000005.wav|This candidate for Canada was twenty one years of age, and a likely looking boy.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000010_000003.wav|He suffered greatly under the said Barnes, and finally his eyes were open to see that there was an Underground Rail Road for the benefit of all such slavery sick souls as himself.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000000_000000.wav|SUNDRY ARRIVALS IN eighteen fifty nine.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000017_000008.wav|I then made up my mind to put my case in the hands of God, and start for the Underground Rail Road.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000008_000002.wav|He gave Smith credit for being a tolerable fair kind of a slave holder, but added, that "his wife was a notoriously hard woman;" she had made a very deep impression on Richard's mind by her treatment of him.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000004.wav|My mistress, mrs Mary f Price, had lately put me in charge of her brother, Samuel m Bailey, a tobacco merchant of Richmond.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000013_000000.wav|ARRIVAL FROM RICHMOND, eighteen fifty nine.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000012_000002.wav|He left his mother, a free woman, and two sisters in chains.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000005.wav|Both believed in nothing as they did in Slavery; they would sooner see a black man dead than free.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000011_000001.wav|The spirit of freedom in this passenger was truly the "one idea" notion.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000011_000003.wav|Joseph was a fair specimen of a man physically and mentally, could read and write, and thereby keep the run of matters of interest on the Slavery question.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000014_000001.wav|FACE CANADA WARD FOR YEARS.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000002_000003.wav|According to Sarah's testimony the mistress was no better than her husband.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000008_000003.wav|In finding himself on free ground, however, with cheering prospects ahead, he did not stop to brood over the ills that he had suffered, but rejoiced heartily.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000017_000010.wav|But to bid good bye to my old mother in chains, was no easy job, and if my desire for freedom had not been as strong as my desire for life itself, I could never have stood it; but I felt that I could do her no good; could not help her if I staid.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000010_000002.wav|Henry could find no justification for such treatment.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000017_000002.wav|He promised to take care of her in her old age, and not compel her to labor, so she is only required to cook and wash for a dozen slaves.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000007_000001.wav|Eight had been sold by him some time before this party escaped (two of them to Georgia); besides William james had been sold and barely found opportunity to escape.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000012.wav|If they did not get well as soon as he thought they should, he would order them to their work, and if they did not go he would beat them.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000003.wav|"Within the last four or five years, times have gone pretty hard with me.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000012_000003.wav|He had been sold twice, but he never meant to be sold again.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000008_000000.wav|Richard Williams gave a full account of himself, but only a meagre report was recorded.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000007_000000.wav|No very serious charges were made against Lewis, but on the contrary they said, that he had been looked upon as a "moderate slave holder;" they also said, that "he had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for fifty years, and stood high in that body." Furthermore they stated, that he sold slaves occasionally.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000009.wav|On Christmas week he allowed me no board money, but made me a present of seventy five cents; my mistress added twenty five cents, which was the extent of their liberality.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000015_000001.wav|He gave his experience of Slavery pretty fully, and the Committee enlightened him as to the workings of the Underground Rail Road, the value of freedom, and the safety of Canada as a refuge.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000002_000002.wav|Three weeks before Sarah fled, her mistress was called away by death; nevertheless Sarah could not forget how badly she had been treated by her while living.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000008_000001.wav|He said that he came from Richmond, and left because he was on the point of being sold by john a Smith, who owned him.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000017_000011.wav|As I was often threatened by my master, with the auction block, I felt I must give up all and escape for my life."|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000004_000005.wav|Fortunately, Caroline was a single woman.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000012_000000.wav|james Thomas junior, a tobacco merchant, in Richmond, had Joe down in his ledger as a marketable piece of property, or a handy machine to save labor, and make money.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000011_000000.wav|Joseph Henry Hill.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000004_000001.wav|She was of a dark chestnut color, well formed, with a large and high forehead, indicative of intellect.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000017_000001.wav|My mother is now old, but is still in the service of Bailey.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000015_000000.wav|Quite an agreeable interview took place between Cornelius and the Committee.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000016_000015.wav|She let on to be very good."|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000008_000004.wav|He left his wife, Julia, who was free.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/287657/8138_287657_000010_000004.wav|So he got a ticket as soon as possible, and came through without accident, leaving amos Barnes to do the best he could for a living.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000010_000000.wav|"All right.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000028_000003.wav|It wasn't writing poems and passing resolutions that was wanted; it wasn't even men who would refuse to put on the uniform, but men who would take the guns that were offered to them, and drill themselves, and at the proper time face about and use the guns in the other direction.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000022_000002.wav|peter walked the streets all day and a part of the night, thinking about Nell, and thrilling over the half promises she had made him.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000024_000002.wav|What peter must do was to work up something of his own, and get the real money, and make himself one of the big fellows.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000020_000002.wav|She named a spot in the city park which would be easy to find, and yet sufficiently remote for a quiet conference.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000019_000001.wav|"He'd cut my throat, and yours too, if he knew I was here.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000015_000001.wav|Could it be that Nell had any sympathy for these Reds?|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000025_000001.wav|She had hit on old "Nelse" Ackerman, the banker. Ackerman was enormously and incredibly wealthy; he was called the financial king of American City.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000008_000000.wav|peter offered to follow the young man to his home city, and find some way to lure him back into McGivney's power.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000026_000001.wav|Or was he a "piker"; a little fellow, the victim of his own fears and vanities?|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000002_000001.wav|He had done his best, he declared; he had inquired at the desk, and waited and waited, but the hotel people had failed to notify him of Lackman's arrival.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000022_000000.wav|peter had been made so bold by Nell's flattery and what she had said about his importance, that he did not go back to McGivney to take his second scolding about the Lackman case.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000004_000001.wav|"They'll get him at his home city."|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000028_000001.wav|He was the boldest and most defiant of all the Reds that peter had yet come upon.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000007_000000.wav|The rat faced man hadn't intended to tell peter so much, but in his rage he let it out.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000009_000000.wav|peter read this news, and knew that he was in for another stormy hour with his boss.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000002_000002.wav|All this was strictly true; but it did not pacify McGivney, who was in a black fury.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000018_000000.wav|Peter's heart leaped.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000011_000000.wav|So here was peter dressed in his best clothes, as for his temporary honeymoon with the grass widow, and on the way to the rendezvous an hour ahead of time.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000002_000004.wav|"He's the biggest fish we'll ever get on our hook."|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000003_000000.wav|"Won't he come again?" asked grief stricken peter.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000026_000004.wav|So he said all right, he would go in on that plan; and proceeded to discuss with Nell the various personalities he might use.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000016_000000.wav|"I mean," she answered, "that he'd have been worth more to you than all the rest put together."|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000021_000000.wav|Section forty|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000015_000000.wav|"How do you mean?" asked peter, a little puzzled.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000012_000002.wav|Nell wanted to know forthwith what was he doing; he answered that he could not tell, it was a secret of the most desperate import; he was under oath.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000027_000002.wav|Also "Mac" was Peter's personal enemy; "Mac" had just returned from his organizing trip in the oil fields, and had been denouncing peter and gossiping about him in the various radical groups.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000014_000000.wav|He told about the sums he had been making and was expecting to make; he told about Lackman, and showed Nell the newspaper with pictures of the young millionaire and his school.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000023_000001.wav|No one was following them, and they found a solitary place, and Nell let him kiss her several times, and in between the kisses she unfolded to him a terrifying plan.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000020_000001.wav|She would meet peter again the next day, and in a more private place than here.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000017_000002.wav|They're getting the swag, and just giving you tips.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000027_000001.wav|"Mac," with his grim, set face and his silent, secretive habits, fitted perfectly to Peter's conception of a dynamiter.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000024_000003.wav|peter had the facts, he knew the people; he had watched in the Goober case exactly how a "frame up" was made, and now he must make one for himself, and one that would pay.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000023_000000.wav|They met next day in the park.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000002_000003.wav|"It might have been worth thousands of dollars to you!" he declared.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000025_000000.wav|Nell had spent the night figuring over it, trying to pick out the right person.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000019_000002.wav|But I'll try to get myself free, and then maybe-I won't promise, but I'll think over your problem, peter, and I'll certainly try to help, so that McGivney and Guffey and those fellows can't play you for a sucker any longer."|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000007_000001.wav|He and a couple of his friends had planned to "get something" on this young millionaire, and scare the wits out of him, with the idea that he would put up a good many thousand dollars to be let off.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000027_000004.wav|He must surely be one of the dynamiters!|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000026_000000.wav|If peter had stood alone, would he have dared so perilous a dream as this?|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000001_000000.wav|Section thirty nine|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000004_000000.wav|"No," declared the other.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000010_000001.wav|Meet me in the waiting room of Guggenheim's Department Store at two o'clock this afternoon.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293531/8138_293531_000006_000000.wav|"You damned fool!" was McGivney's response.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000018_000000.wav|"But will he pay any attention to me?" demanded peter.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000002_000002.wav|Congress had voted a huge loan, a country wide machine of propaganda was being organized, and the oratory of Four Minute Men was echoing from Maine to California.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000019_000001.wav|"That's the point-you've been in jail, you've really done something as a pacifist.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000012_000004.wav|They were his creatures of dreams, belonging to a world above reality, above pain and inconvenience.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000020_000002.wav|peter had walked by the vast white structure, and seen the bronze doors swing outward, and the favored ones of the earth emerging to their magic chariots; but never had it occurred to him that he might pass thru those bronze doors, and gaze upon those hidden mysteries!|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000003_000002.wav|They were noisy in their fervors, and repelled peter as much as the Holy Rollers.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000003_000000.wav|The Reds had a religion, as you might call it; but this religion had failed to attract peter.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000016_000000.wav|And now he was to meet one; it was to be a part of his job to cultivate one!|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000010_000000.wav|"Well," said McGivney one day, "I've got something interesting for you now.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000008_000000.wav|Yes, peter had come to take it as a personal affront that these radicals should go on denouncing the cause which peter had espoused. They all thought of peter as a comrade, they were most friendly to him; but peter had the knowledge of how they would regard him when they knew the real truth, and this imagined contempt burned him like an acid.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000022_000001.wav|However, he would try it; McGivney must be right, for it was the same thing mrs james had impressed upon him many times.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000022_000003.wav|All life was a gigantic bluff, and you encouraged yourself in your bluffing by the certainty that everybody else was bluffing just as hard.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000006_000002.wav|peter would ask this question of McGivney again and again, and McGivney would answer: "Keep your shirt on.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000001_000000.wav|Section thirty five|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000016_000002.wav|peter had met "Parlor Reds" at the home of the Todd sisters; the large shining ladies who came in large shining cars to hear him tell of his jail experiences.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000013_000003.wav|The world had changed much since then, and for the worse; those who had power must take it as their task to restore beauty and splendor to the world, and to develop the gracious possibilities of being.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000006_000003.wav|You're getting your pay every week.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000015_000000.wav|Now since peter had come to know the Reds, who wanted to blow up the palaces of the millionaires, he was more than ever on the side of his gods and goddesses.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000006_000004.wav|What's the matter with you?"|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000005_000000.wav|It was the fashion these days for orators and public men to vie with one another in expressing the extremes of patriotism, and peter would read these phrases, and cherish them; they came to seem a part of him, he felt as if he had invented them.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000005_000005.wav|It was a famous clergyman who achieved it for him-saying that if he could have his way he would take all the Reds, and put them in a ship of stone with sails of lead, and send them forth with hell for their destination.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000003_000001.wav|In the first place it was low; its devotees were wholly lacking in the graces of life, in prestige, and that ease which comes with assurance of power.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000005_000003.wav|peter was so much of an American that the very sight of a foreigner filled him with a fighting impulse.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000002_000001.wav|The huge military machine was getting under way, the storm of public feeling was rising.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000008_000001.wav|Sometimes there would be talk about spies and informers, and then these people would exhaust their vocabulary of abuse, and peter, of course, would apply every word of it to himself and become wild with anger.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000015_000001.wav|His fervors for them increased every time he heard them assailed; he wanted to meet some of them, and passionately, yet respectfully, pour out to them his allegiance.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000005_000004.wav|As for the Reds-well, peter groped for quite a time before he finally came upon a formula which expressed his feelings.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000012_000000.wav|So peter was to meet a millionaire!|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000017_000000.wav|But young Lackman was a real millionaire, McGivney positively assured him; and so peter was free to admire him in spite of all his freak ideas, which the rat faced man explained with intense amusement.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000007_000000.wav|"The matter is, I'm tired of listening to these fellows ranting," peter would say.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000020_000000.wav|The address of young Lackman was the Hotel de Soto; and as he heard this, Peter's heart gave a leap.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000012_000001.wav|peter had never known one of these fortunate beings, but he was for them-he had always been for them.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000012_000003.wav|He had read these stories as a child reads fairy tales.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000017_000002.wav|peter must pretend to be interested in this kind of "education," said McGivney, and he must learn at least the names of Lackman's books.|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8138/293529/8138_293529_000007_000001.wav|"I want to stop their mouths."|8138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000035_000001.wav|Silently he had slipped from his chair and disappeared.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000026_000002.wav|When is the next one coming?"|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000007_000000.wav|Poor Billy!|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000003.wav|She had not been fit to marry Bertram.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000040_000001.wav|She was a good maid-until she found out how little her mistress knew; then-well, you know what it was then.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000011_000003.wav|She stayed a week.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000000.wav|And so it had come.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000030_000000.wav|"Yes," she nodded brightly, "that's just what I mean.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000032_000002.wav|"Besides, 'twon't be half so bad as you think.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000003.wav|Jennie could not even boil a potato properly, much less cook a dinner.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000007.wav|Vera sang-when she wasn't whistling-and as she was generally off the key, and always off the tune, her almost frantic mistress dismissed her before twenty four hours had passed.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000010_000001.wav|Nora was a blue eyed, black haired Irish girl, the sixth that the despairing Billy had interviewed on that fateful morning when Bertram had summoned her to his aid.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000032_000004.wav|Didn't you both come back for more?|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000031_000000.wav|"Nonsense!" exploded Bertram, wrathfully.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000004.wav|Sarah (colored) was willing and pleasant, but insufferably untidy.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000006_000001.wav|It was, indeed, a chaos, as none knew better than did Bertram's wife.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000002.wav|Mary was impertinent and lazy.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000010_000002.wav|Nora stayed two days.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000030_000001.wav|I'm the next one."|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000026_000000.wav|"Gone, so soon?" groaned Bertram, as William passed his plate, with a smiling nod.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000039_000000.wav|"But if you'd get a maid-a good maid," persisted Bertram, feebly.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000008.wav|Then came Mary Ellen.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000011_000000.wav|Olga came next.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000005_000000.wav|"Every stratum was aquiver with apprehension," he declared; "and there was never any telling when the next grand upheaval would rock the whole structure to its foundations."|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000014_000007.wav|No wonder that William pushed back his plate almost every meal with his food scarcely touched, and then wandered about the house with that hungry, homesick, homeless look that nearly broke her heart.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000025_000000.wav|"I'm not standing it.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000031_000001.wav|"Oh, come, Billy, we've been all over this before.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000027_000000.wav|"She's already here."|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000038_000000.wav|"That's exactly it, Bertram.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000024_000000.wav|Billy tossed her head airily, though she shook in her shoes.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000013_000000.wav|Mary Ellen began well.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000007_000001.wav|Sorry indeed were these days for Billy; and, as if to make her cup of woe full to overflowing, there were Sister Kate's epistolary "I told you so," and Aunt Hannah's ever recurring lament: "If only, Billy, you were a practical housekeeper yourself, they wouldn't impose on you so!"|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000024_000001.wav|Billy had been dreading this moment.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000014_000002.wav|Nowhere was there comfort, rest, or peacefulness.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000032_000005.wav|Well, I made it."|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000032_000000.wav|"Yes, you can.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000026_000001.wav|"Oh, well," went on Bertram, resignedly, "she stayed longer than the last one.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000034_000000.wav|"Yes, I know it does," dimpled Billy, "and I've got mrs Durgin for that part.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000013_000002.wav|Matters and things were very different then.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000010_000003.wav|During her reign the entire Strata echoed to banged doors, dropped china, and slammed furniture.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000018_000002.wav|But she did not falter; and very systematically she set about making her plans.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000032_000003.wav|Wasn't that a good pudding to night?|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000001.wav|Christine knew only four words of English: salt, good by, no, and yes; and Billy found need occasionally of using other words.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000017_000001.wav|She would tend to her husband and her home.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000022_000000.wav|"My lady is waiting on you," smiled Billy.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000033_000000.wav|"Puddings!" ejaculated Bertram, with an impatient gesture.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000011_000002.wav|She was low voiced, gentle eyed, and a good cook.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000038_000001.wav|I don't know how-but I'm going to learn.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000018_000000.wav|Billy was well aware now that housekeeping was a matter of more than muffins and date puffs.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000020_000000.wav|So chaotic and erratic had been the household service, and so quietly did Billy slip into her new role, that it was not until the second meal after the maid's departure that the master of the house discovered what had happened.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000014_000004.wav|Noise, confusion, meals poorly cooked and worse served, dust, disorder, and uncertainty.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000011_000004.wav|By that time the growing frequency of the disappearance of sundry small articles of value and convenience led to Billy's making a reluctant search of Olga's room-and to Olga's departure; for the room was, indeed, a treasure house, the Treasure having gathered unto itself other treasures.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000016_000000.wav|Billy clenched her small hands and set her round chin squarely.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000031_000002.wav|You know I can't have it."|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixteen.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000034_000001.wav|She's coming twice a week, and more, if I need her.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000004_000000.wav|Bertram told a friend afterwards that he never knew the meaning of the word "chaos" until he had seen the Strata during the weeks immediately following the laying away of his old servant.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000008_000000.wav|Aunt Hannah, to be sure, offered Rosa, and Kate, by letter, offered advice-plenty of it.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000013_000001.wav|She was neat, capable, and obliging; but it did not take her long to discover just how much-and how little-her mistress really knew of practical housekeeping.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000038_000002.wav|I haven't had experience-but I'm going to get it.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000014_000001.wav|The maids came and the maids went, and, to Billy, each one seemed a little worse than the one before.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000020_000001.wav|Then, as his wife rose to get some forgotten article, he questioned, with uplifted eyebrows:|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000006.wav|Had not Bertram already declared that if she would tend to her husband and her home a little more-|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000011_000001.wav|Olga was a Treasure.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000023_000001.wav|Great Scott, Billy, how long are you going to stand this?"|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000014_000008.wav|No wonder, indeed!|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000019_000002.wav|Meanwhile, all the time, she could be learning, and in due course she would reach that shining goal of Housekeeping Efficiency, short of which-according to Aunt Hannah and the "Talk to Young Wives"--no woman need hope for a waneless honeymoon.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000028_000000.wav|Bertram frowned.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000006_000000.wav|Nor was Bertram so far from being right.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000003_000001.wav|INTO TRAINING FOR MARY ELLEN|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000013_000005.wav|Billy, in weary despair, submitted to this bullying for almost a week; then, in a sudden accession of outraged dignity that left Mary Ellen gasping with surprise, she told the girl to go.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000029_000001.wav|But-you served the dessert, and-" At something in Billy's face, a quick suspicion came into his own.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000035_000004.wav|This was one of the times.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000002.wav|Aunt Hannah and Kate and the "Talk to Young Wives" were right.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000005.wav|Bridget was neatness itself, but she had no conception of the value of time.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000025_000002.wav|"Uncle William, sha'n't I give you some more pudding?"|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000008_000001.wav|But Billy, stung beyond all endurance, and fairly radiating hurt pride and dogged determination, disdained all assistance, and, with head held high, declared she was getting along very well, very well indeed!|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000009_000000.wav|And this was the way she "got along."|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000010_000000.wav|First came Nora.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000036_000000.wav|"But, Billy, dear," still argued Bertram, irritably, "how can you?|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000037_000002.wav|She was no longer airily playful.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000021_000000.wav|"Too good to wait upon us, is my lady now, eh?"|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000000.wav|Following Olga came a period of what Bertram called "one night stands," so frequently were the dramatis personae below stairs changed. Gretchen drank.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000012_000006.wav|Her meals were always from thirty to sixty minutes late, and half cooked at that.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000004.wav|She had not been fit to marry anybody.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000036_000001.wav|You don't know how.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000037_000001.wav|An ominous light came to her eyes.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000032_000001.wav|You've got to have it," retorted Billy, still with that disarming, airy cheerfulness.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000014_000006.wav|No wonder that Bertram telephoned more and more frequently that he had met a friend, and was dining in town.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000025_000001.wav|She's gone," responded Billy, cheerfully, resuming her seat.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000001.wav|It was true.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000015_000005.wav|Her honeymoon was not only waning, but going into a total eclipse.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000033_000001.wav|"Billy, as I've said before, it takes something besides puddings to run this house."|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000017_000000.wav|Very well, she would show them.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000034_000002.wav|Why, dearie, you don't know anything about how comfortable you're going to be!|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000040_000002.wav|Do you think I'd let that thing happen to me again?|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000040_000003.wav|No, sir!|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000035_000002.wav|Uncle William, it might be mentioned in passing, had never quite forgotten Aunt Hannah's fateful call with its dire revelations concerning a certain unwanted, superfluous, third-party husband's brother.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000035_000000.wav|But Uncle William had gone.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000036_000002.wav|You've had no experience."|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000035_000003.wav|Remembering this, there were times when he thought absence was both safest and best.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5139/61422/5139_61422_000019_000000.wav|With a good stout woman to come in twice a week for the heavier work, she believed she could manage by herself very well until Eliza could come back.|5139
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000013_000001.wav|For what is principally intended by God in creatures is good, and this consists in assimilation to God Himself.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000037_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the angels are not in great numbers. For number is a species of quantity, and follows the division of a continuous body.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000021_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that an angel is composed of matter and form.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000000_000000.wav|Their substance we consider absolutely and in relation to corporeal things.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000021_000005.wav|Therefore he is composed of matter and form.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000044_000005.wav|Hence it is reasonable to conclude that the immaterial substances as it were incomparably exceed material substances as to multitude.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000051_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the angels do not differ in species. For since the "difference" is nobler than the 'genus,' all things which agree in what is noblest in them, agree likewise in their ultimate constitutive difference; and so they are the same according to species.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000032_000006.wav|And such a kind of composition is understood to be in the angels; and this is what some say, that an angel is composed of, "whereby he is," and "what is," or "existence," and "what is," as Boethius says.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000028_000003.wav|For a thing is understood according to its degree of immateriality; because forms that exist in matter are individual forms which the intellect cannot apprehend as such.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000029_000000.wav|But things distinguished by the intellect are not necessarily distinguished in reality; because the intellect does not apprehend things according to their mode, but according to its own mode.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000047_000003.wav|But it is not true that the immaterial substances exist on account of the corporeal, because the end is nobler than the means to the end.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000015_000000.wav|But the very fact that intellect is above sense is a reasonable proof that there are some incorporeal things comprehensible by the intellect alone.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000029_000001.wav|Hence material things which are below our intellect exist in our intellect in a simpler mode than they exist in themselves.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000016_000001.wav|Now the medium compared to one extreme appears to be the other extreme, as what is tepid compared to heat seems to be cold; and thus it is said that angels, compared to God, are material and corporeal, not, however, as if anything corporeal existed in them.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000013_000005.wav|Now intelligence cannot be the action of a body, nor of any corporeal faculty; for every body is limited to "here" and "now." Hence the perfection of the universe requires the existence of an incorporeal creature.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000013_000002.wav|And the perfect assimilation of an effect to a cause is accomplished when the effect imitates the cause according to that whereby the cause produces the effect; as heat makes heat.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000024_000002.wav|But the form of an angel is not infinite, for every creature is finite.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000032_000003.wav|Such a composite nature is not its own existence but existence is its act.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000028_000004.wav|Hence it must be that every individual substance is altogether immaterial.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000047_000006.wav|He was forced to make use of this argument, since only through sensible things can we come to know intelligible ones.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000047_000002.wav|For thus the immaterial substances would exist to no purpose, unless some movement from them were to appear in corporeal things.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000044_000000.wav|Hence it must be said that the angels, even inasmuch as they are immaterial substances, exist in exceeding great number, far beyond all material multitude.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000033_000002.wav|Material creatures are infinite on the part of matter, but finite in their form, which is limited by the matter which receives it.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000051_000001.wav|But all angels agree in what is noblest in them-that is to say, in intellectuality.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000036_000000.wav|Whether the Angels Exist in Any Great Number?|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000020_000000.wav|Whether an Angel Is Composed of Matter and Form?|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000057_000000.wav|But this is impossible.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000028_000000.wav|It is, further, impossible for an intellectual substance to have any kind of matter.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000060_000001.wav|Hence it is much better for the species to be multiplied in the angels than for individuals to be multiplied in the one species.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000054_000001.wav|But this would not be so if there were but one individual under one species.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000027_000001.wav|For it is not possible that a spiritual and a corporeal form should be received into the same part of matter, otherwise one and the same thing would be corporeal and spiritual.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000052_000002.wav|Therefore the angels do not differ specifically.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000037_000002.wav|Therefore the angels cannot exist in any great number.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000039_000002.wav|Therefore the angels are not in greater number than the movements of the heavenly bodies.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000066_000001.wav|Therefore, since the angels were made by God, it would appear that they are corruptible of their own nature.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000043_000001.wav|It is, however, quite foreign to the custom of the Scriptures for the powers of irrational things to be designated as angels.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000017_000001.wav|Therefore an angel is called an ever mobile substance, because he is ever actually intelligent, and not as if he were sometimes actually and sometimes potentially, as we are.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000024_000001.wav|So the form which is not in matter is an infinite form.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000072_000002.wav|Therefore, when it is said that all things, even the angels, would lapse into nothing, unless preserved by God, it is not to be gathered therefrom that there is any principle of corruption in the angels; but that the nature of the angels is dependent upon God as its cause.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000027_000005.wav|Therefore it is impossible that corporeal and spiritual things should have the same matter.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000044_000004.wav|We see, in fact, that incorruptible bodies, exceed corruptible bodies almost incomparably in magnitude; for the entire sphere of things active and passive is something very small in comparison with the heavenly bodies.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000027_000000.wav|But one glance is enough to show that there cannot be one matter of spiritual and of corporeal things.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000057_000001.wav|For such things as agree in species but differ in number, agree in form, but are distinguished materially.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000027_000004.wav|Therefore it would follow that the matter of spiritual things is subject to quantity; which cannot be.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000011_000002.wav|Therefore, every creature is corporeal.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000026_000001.wav|Now as regards incorporeal substance, the intellect apprehends that which distinguishes it from corporeal substance, and that which it has in common with it.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000014_000000.wav|The ancients, however, not properly realizing the force of intelligence, and failing to make a proper distinction between sense and intellect, thought that nothing existed in the world but what could be apprehended by sense and imagination.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000027_000002.wav|Hence it would follow that one part of matter receives the corporeal form, and another receives the spiritual form.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000068_000001.wav|The reason for this is, that nothing is corrupted except by its form being separated from the matter.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000022_000002.wav|Therefore an angel is composed of matter and form.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000068_000003.wav|For what belongs to anything considered in itself can never be separated from it; but what belongs to a thing, considered in relation to something else, can be separated, when that something else is taken away, in view of which it belonged to it.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000021_000001.wav|For everything which is contained under any genus is composed of the genus, and of the difference which added to the genus makes the species.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000052_000001.wav|But the angels seem to differ only from one another according to more and less-namely, as one is simpler than another, and of keener intellect.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000013_000004.wav|Hence the perfection of the universe requires that there should be intellectual creatures.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000009_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that an angel is not entirely incorporeal. For what is incorporeal only as regards ourselves, and not in relation to God, is not absolutely incorporeal.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000023_000001.wav|So what is form only is pure act.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000069_000001.wav|Now the species and nature of the operation is understood from the object.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000028_000002.wav|Now to understand is an altogether immaterial operation, as appears from its object, whence any act receives its species and nature.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000026_000003.wav|Therefore, he asserts the universal matter of spiritual and corporeal things is the same; so that it must be understood that the form of incorporeal substance is impressed in the matter of spiritual things, in the same way as the form of quantity is impressed in the matter of corporeal things.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000026_000002.wav|Hence he concludes that what distinguishes incorporeal from corporeal substance is a kind of form to it, and whatever is subject to this distinguishing form, as it were something common, is its matter.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000030_000003.wav|Nevertheless, this differs in our mode of conception; for, inasmuch as our intellect considers it as indeterminate, it derives the idea of their genus; and inasmuch as it considers it determinately, it derives the idea of their "difference."|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000032_000001.wav|And this can be made evident if we consider the nature of material things which contain a twofold composition.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000033_000001.wav|But there is nothing against a creature being considered relatively infinite.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000063_000000.wav|Whether the Angels Are Incorruptible?|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000068_000005.wav|Now to be belongs to a form considered in itself; for everything is an actual being according to its form: whereas matter is an actual being by the form.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000024_000003.wav|Therefore the form of an angel is in matter.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000032_000002.wav|The first is that of form and matter, whereby the nature is constituted.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000068_000004.wav|Roundness can never be taken from the circle, because it belongs to it of itself; but a bronze circle can lose roundness, if the bronze be deprived of its circular shape.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000031_000001.wav|But this is clearly false. For matter receives the form, that thereby it may be constituted in some species, either of air, or of fire, or of something else.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000023_000002.wav|But an angel is not pure act, for this belongs to God alone.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000040_000003.wav|Therefore it seems that the multiplication of intellectual substances can only be according to the requirements of the first bodies-that is, of the heavenly ones, so that in some way the shedding form of the aforesaid rays may be terminated in them; and hence the same conclusion is to be drawn as before.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000032_000004.wav|Hence the nature itself is related to its own existence as potentiality to act.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000021_000003.wav|Therefore everything which is in a genus is composed of matter and form.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000069_000002.wav|But an intelligible object, being above time, is everlasting.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000038_000001.wav|But among other created natures the angelic nature approaches nearest to God. Therefore since God is supremely one, it seems that there is the least possible number in the angelic nature.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000039_000001.wav|But the movements of the heavenly bodies fall within some small determined number, which we can apprehend.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000033_000003.wav|But immaterial created substances are finite in their being; whereas they are infinite in the sense that their forms are not received in anything else; as if we were to say, for example, that whiteness existing separate is infinite as regards the nature of whiteness, forasmuch as it is not contracted to any one subject; while its "being" is finite as determined to some one special nature.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000001_000000.wav|Concerning their substance absolutely considered, there are five points of inquiry:|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10327/3009_10327_000057_000003.wav|For it would be necessary for matter to be the principle of distinction of one from the other, not, indeed, according to the division of quantity, since they are incorporeal, but according to the diversity of their powers; and such diversity of matter causes diversity not merely of species, but of genus.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000019_000003.wav|Therefore an angel does not assume a body.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000023_000002.wav|Yet Divine Scripture from time to time introduces angels so apparent as to be seen commonly by all; just as the angels who appeared to Abraham were seen by him and by his whole family, by Lot, and by the citizens of Sodom; in like manner the angel who appeared to Tobias was seen by all present.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000035_000001.wav|Therefore they cannot exercise functions of life through assumed bodies.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000009_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that angels have bodies naturally united to them.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000037_000001.wav|For the bodies are assumed merely for this purpose, that the spiritual properties and works of the angels may be manifested by the properties of man and of his works.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000019_000001.wav|For there is nothing superfluous in the work of an angel, as there is nothing of the kind in the work of nature.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000019_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that angels do not assume bodies.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000013_000006.wav|Consequently not all intellectual substances are united to bodies; but some are quite separated from bodies, and these we call angels.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000044_000002.wav|Hence it is folly to deny it.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000030_000002.wav|Consequently, the angel perceives by the assumed body; and this is the most special function of life.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000039_000002.wav|Accordingly, although God is not moved when the things are moved in which He exists, since He is everywhere; yet the angels are moved accidentally according to the movement of the bodies assumed.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000000_000000.wav|QUESTION fifty one|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000023_000004.wav|Now by such a vision only a body can be beheld.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000032_000001.wav|But it is evident from many passages of Sacred Scripture that angels spoke in assumed bodies.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000002_000000.wav|We next inquire about the angels in comparison with corporeal things; and in the first place about their comparison with bodies; secondly, of the angels in comparison with corporeal places; and, thirdly, of their comparison with local movement.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000029_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the angels exercise functions of life in assumed bodies.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000037_000002.wav|This could not so fittingly be done if they were to assume true men; because the properties of such men would lead us to men, and not to angels.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000039_000001.wav|Yet the angels are moved accidentally, when such bodies are moved, since they are in them as movers are in the moved; and they are here in such a way as not to be elsewhere, which cannot be said of God.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000032_000002.wav|Therefore in their assumed bodies they exercise functions of life.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000013_000001.wav|For whatever belongs to any nature as an accident is not found universally in that nature; thus, for instance, to have wings, because it is not of the essence of an animal, does not belong to every animal.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000018_000000.wav|Whether Angels Assume Bodies?|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000009_000004.wav|Therefore angels have bodies naturally united to them.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000042_000001.wav|But the food taken by angels was neither changed into the assumed body, nor was the body of such a nature that food could be changed into it; consequently, it was not a true eating, but figurative of spiritual eating.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000024_000001.wav|Moreover that angels assumed bodies under the Old Law was a figurative indication that the Word of God would take a human body; because all the apparitions in the Old Testament were ordained to that one whereby the Son of God appeared in the flesh.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000029_000001.wav|For pretence is unbecoming in angels of truth.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000038_000001.wav|Consequently it can in no way be said that the angels perceive through the organs of their assumed bodies.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3009/10328/3009_10328_000044_000004.wav|Hence by the sons of God are to be understood the sons of Seth, who were good; while by the daughters of men the Scripture designates those who sprang from the race of Cain.|3009
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000029_000001.wav|He had a bright future before him, sir, and that's why my child went mad when he ruined his life for her sake."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000045_000003.wav|Don't worry, please.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000045_000002.wav|We're going right to work, and everything possible shall be done to trace your daughter.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000049_000001.wav|"Who will employ a bookkeeper, or even a clerk who has been guilty of forgery?"|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000002.wav|I put all the past behind me, and told Will Rogers I would marry him and be a faithful wife; but that my heart was dead.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000045_000001.wav|"I'm sure she is alive, and that we shall find her.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000009.wav|But he lost all hope of being loved as he loved me, and the disappointment broke him down.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000054_000000.wav|"The world forgets these things sooner than you suppose," he answered. "I need a secretary, and in that position Tom Gates will quickly be able to live down this unfortunate affair.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000059_000000.wav|"I really need him, Beth," said the boy.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000007.wav|My mother had passed on long before, and there was nothing to keep me at home.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000012.wav|But now I am helpless, and my husband devotes all his time to me, although I beg him to work the farm and try to earn some money.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000063_000000.wav|"But the girl!|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000003.wav|Then I fell in love with a young man who, after obtaining my promise to marry him, found some one he loved better and carelessly discarded me.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000007_000000.wav|So Kenneth and Beth entered at the half open porch door and advanced into the room.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000020_000000.wav|"With poor Tom in prison for years-and just for trying to help her."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000024_000000.wav|The woman sat silent for a time.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000025_000000.wav|"You have done this, mr Forbes?"|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000005_000000.wav|Suddenly she paused in her work, her head turned slightly to one side to listen.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000006_000000.wav|"Come in, sir," she called in a soft but distinct voice; "come in, miss."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000063_000001.wav|It's Lucy-I'm sure it's Lucy!|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000044_000000.wav|"I've been looking at the picture," said Kenneth.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000059_000001.wav|"There is getting to be too much correspondence for mr Watson to attend to, and I ought to relieve him of many other details.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000011.wav|I used to take in sewing before the accident to my eyes, and that helped a good deal to pay expenses.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000016_000000.wav|Her voice broke.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000056_000001.wav|You must know how grateful we are to you."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000061_000001.wav|Did you see that?"|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000013_000001.wav|Will you please find seats?|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000018_000002.wav|Will told you, didn't he?"|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000004.wav|Then he lost courage, and became careless and reckless.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000071_000000.wav|"That's true," answered the girl, thoughtfully.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000010_000001.wav|I am Elizabeth DeGraf."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000060_000000.wav|They had almost reached Elmhurst when they met the Honorable Erastus Hopkins driving along the road.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000047_000003.wav|I know what she suffers, for I suffered, myself; and life isn't worth living when despair and disappointment fills it."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000002.wav|We lived in Baltimore.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000014_000001.wav|"We have come to ask if you have heard anything of your daughter."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000031_000002.wav|But she is very sensitive-she inherited that from me, I think-and Tom's action drove her distracted.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000055_000001.wav|When they left her she promised to be as cheerful as possible and to look on the bright side of life.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000062_000000.wav|"Yes; it's my respected adversary."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000008.wav|I came west and secured a position to teach school in this county, and for a time I was quite contented and succeeded in living down my disappointment.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000006.wav|Lucy drew Will and me a little closer together, but he never recovered his youthful ambition.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000031_000001.wav|"Lucy was a sensible girl, and until this thing happened she was as bright and cheerful as the day is long.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000000.wav|"I am the wife of a poor farmer," began the woman, speaking softly and with some hesitation, but gaining strength as she proceeded.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000056_000000.wav|"I can't thank you," she said, "so I won't try.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000045_000000.wav|"And you mustn't think of her as dead, mrs Rogers," said Beth, pleadingly.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000070_000000.wav|"Any companion of mr Hopkins can be easily traced."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000032_000000.wav|"Let us hope for the best, mrs Rogers," said Beth.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000021_000001.wav|"He has been released."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000009.wav|I heard but once from my father.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000042_000000.wav|"Was Lucy like you, or did she resemble her father?" asked Beth.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000064_000001.wav|"It can't be."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000037_000010.wav|He had married again and disinherited me. He forbade me to ever communicate with him again.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000050_000000.wav|"I think I shall give him employment," replied Kenneth.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000027_000001.wav|"He's honest and true, mr Forbes-he is, indeed!"|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000063_000003.wav|Stop-stop-and let's go back!"|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000004_000002.wav|She wore a simple calico gown, neat and well fitting, and her face bore traces of much beauty that time and care had been unable wholly to efface.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000023_000001.wav|His fault has been forgiven, and he is now free."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000057_000000.wav|As Beth and Kenneth drove back to Elmhurst they were both rather silent, for they had been strongly affected by the scene at the farm house.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000052_000000.wav|"Yes.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000004_000001.wav|Her feet were stretched out toward a small fire that smouldered in an open hearth.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000048_000000.wav|"I cannot see why Lucy shouldn't yet be happy," protested Beth.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000010.wav|He became an old man early in life, and his lack of energy kept us very poor.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000003.wav|He accepted me on that condition, and it was not until after we were married some time that my husband realized how impossible it would ever be to arouse my affection.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000068_000000.wav|"And she wasn't unhappy a bit.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000068_000002.wav|And there's another thing."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000011_000000.wav|"And your companion-is it mr Forbes?" the woman asked.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000045_000004.wav|Be as cheerful as you can, and leave the search to us."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000033_000000.wav|"Have you?" asked the woman, earnestly.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000007.wav|He was a disappointed man, and went from bad to worse.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000005.wav|When our child came-our Lucy-Will was devoted to her, and the baby wakened in me all the old passionate capacity to love.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000040_000001.wav|It was hard to realize that a refined, beautiful and educated girl had made so sad a mistake of her life and suffered so many afflictions as a consequence.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000023_000000.wav|"Last evening.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000052_000001.wav|I'm not afraid of a boy who became a criminal to save the girl he loved."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000065_000001.wav|I'm sure it is!"|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000048_000001.wav|"Tom Gates is now free, and can begin life anew."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000039_000001.wav|I have had to bear so much in my life that I could even bear my child's death.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000038_000001.wav|He was desperately in love with me, and at this period, when I seemed completely cut off from my old life and the future contained no promise, I thought it best to wear out the remainder of my existence in the seclusion of a farm house.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000021_000000.wav|"Tom isn't in prison, you know, any more," said Beth quietly.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000040_000000.wav|Kenneth and Beth remained silent for a time after mrs Rogers had finished her tragic story, for their hearts were full of sympathy for the poor woman.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000036_000000.wav|"I shall be glad to know whatever you care to tell me," said Beth, simply.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000059_000002.wav|It's a good arrangement, and I'm glad I thought of it."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000066_000001.wav|"She was laughing gaily and talking with the Honorable Erastus.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000054_000002.wav|So now nothing remains but to find your girl, and we'll try to do that, I assure you."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000047_000001.wav|"He can't sleep or rest till he finds her, for my husband loves her as well as I do.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000055_000000.wav|mrs Rogers was crying softly by this time, but it was from joy and relief.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000008_000000.wav|"Is this mrs Rogers?" asked Beth, looking at the woman curiously.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000030_000000.wav|"Was she mad, do you think?" asked Beth, softly.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000054_000001.wav|And if he turns out as well as I expect, he will soon be able to marry Lucy and give her a comfortable home.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000040_000003.wav|The fault was not his.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000019_000001.wav|But it wasn't so bad, mrs Rogers; it wasn't a desperate condition, by any means."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/68770/6828_68770_000060_000001.wav|On the seat beside him was a young girl, and as the vehicles passed each other Beth gave a start and clung to the boy's arm.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000006.wav|They went every day to balls, plays, and public walks, and always made game of their youngest sister for spending her time in reading, or other useful employments.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000007.wav|You shall die in a quarter of an hour." The merchant fell on his knees to the beast, and clasping his hands, said, "My lord, I humbly beg your pardon.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000010_000005.wav|She opened the library, and saw these verses written in letters of gold on the back of one of the books:|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000014_000011.wav|When she awoke in the morning, she found herself in her father's cottage.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000009.wav|The two eldest sisters now began to shed tears, and to lay the blame upon Beauty, who they said would be the cause of her father's death "See," said they, "what happens from the pride of the little wretch.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000002.wav|The three daughters were all handsome, but particularly the youngest: indeed she was so very beautiful that in her childhood every one called her the Little Beauty, and being still the same when she was grown up, nobody called her by any other name, which made her sisters very jealous of her.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000001.wav|In the morning she with joy found herself in the palace of the beast.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000002.wav|When they found that their father must take a journey to the ship, the two eldest begged he would not fail to bring them back some new gowns, caps, rings, and all sorts of trinkets.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000000.wav|The merchant was so grieved at the thoughts of losing his child, that he never once thought of the chest filled with gold; but at night, to his great surprise, he found it standing by his bedside.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000001.wav|"To be sure," said he to himself, "this place belongs to some good fairy, who has taken pity on my ill luck." He looked out of the window, and, instead of snow, he saw the most charming arbours covered with all kinds of flowers.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000001.wav|This news made the two eldest sisters almost mad with joy; for they thought they should now leave the cottage, and have all their finery again.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000018_000003.wav|Though this young prince deserved all her notice, she could not help asking him what was become of the beast.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000010.wav|He walked faster, and soon reached the gates, which he opened, and was very much surprised that he did not see a single person or creature in any of the yards.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000000.wav|After they had lived in this manner about a year, the merchant received a letter, which informed him that one of the richest ships, which he thought was lost, had just come into port.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000010_000002.wav|What made her wonder more than all the rest was a large library filled with books, a harpsichord, and many other pieces of music.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000001.wav|He said nothing about his riches to his eldest daughters, for he knew very well it would at once make them want to return to town; but he told Beauty his secret, and she then said, that while he was away, two gentlemen had been on a visit to their cottage, who had fallen in love with her two sisters.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000005.wav|There was only Beauty who did not, for she thought that this would only make the matter worse.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000004.wav|But at supper, when she was going to seat herself at table, she heard the noise of the beast, and could not help trembling with fear.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000002.wav|She dressed herself very finely, that she might please him the better, and thought she had never known a day pass away so slow.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000014_000004.wav|"I would promise you, with all my heart," said she, "never to leave you quite; but I long so much to see my father, that if you do not give me leave to visit him I shall die with grief."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000004.wav|At the same moment he heard a most shocking noise, and saw such a frightful beast coming towards him, that he was ready to drop with fear.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000006.wav|The horse took a path across the forest of his own accord, and in a few hours they reached the merchant's house.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000016_000000.wav|When the week was ended, the two sisters began to pretend so much grief at the thoughts of her leaving them, that she agreed to stay a week more; but all that time Beauty could not help fretting for the sorrow that she knew her staying would give her poor beast; for she tenderly loved him, and much wished for his company again.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000013.wav|I myself am old, and cannot expect to live much longer; so I shall but give up a few years of my life, and shall only grieve for the sake of my children." "Never, father," cried Beauty, "shall you go to the palace without me; for you cannot hinder my going after you.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000019_000001.wav|You shall become two statues; but under that form you shall still keep your reason, and shall be fixed at the gates of your sister's palace; and I will not pass any worse sentence on you than to see her happy.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000008.wav|Beauty had quite as many offers as her sisters, but she always answered with the greatest civility, that she was much obliged to her lovers, but would rather live some years longer with her father, as she thought herself too young to marry.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000010.wav|Go; and if your daughters should refuse, promise me that you yourself will return in three months."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000001.wav|As he was himself a man of great sense, he spared no expense for their education, but provided them with all sorts of masters for their improvement.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000012.wav|I am charmed with the kindness of Beauty, but I will not suffer her life to be lost.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000005.wav|She ran from room to room all over the palace, calling out his name, but still she saw nothing of him.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000008.wav|I did not think it would offend you to gather a rose for one of my daughters, who wished to have one." "I am not a lord, but a beast," replied the monster; "I do not like false compliments, but that people should say what they think: so do not fancy that you can coax me by any such ways.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000016.wav|He sat till the clock struck twelve, but did not see a single creature.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000003.wav|While Beauty was dressing herself, a servant brought word to her that her sisters were come with their husbands to pay her a visit.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000004_000001.wav|Beauty also did her part, for she got up by four o'clock every morning, lighted the fires, cleaned the house, and got the breakfast for the whole family.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000008.wav|All the kindness that she showed them was of no use; for they were vexed more than ever, when she told them how happy she lived at the palace of the beast.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000010_000004.wav|She then thought that it was not likely such things would have been got ready for her, if she had but one day to live; and began to hope all would not turn out so bad as she and her father had feared.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000013_000001.wav|At length she said, "No, beast." The beast made no reply, but sighed deeply, and went away.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000006.wav|But you shall make amends for your fault with your life.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000008.wav|He held in his hand the bunch of roses, which he gave to Beauty, saying: "Take these roses, Beauty; but little do you think how dear they have cost your poor father;" and then he gave them an account of all that he had seen or heard in the palace of the beast.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000009.wav|You tell me that you have daughters; now I will pardon you, if one of them will agree to come and die instead of you.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000006.wav|"Not in the least," said the beast; "you alone command in this place.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000001.wav|Her sisters came out to meet him, but for all they tried to look sorry, it was easy to see that in their hearts they were very glad.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000007.wav|She threw herself upon his body, thinking nothing at all of his ugliness; and finding his heart still beat, she ran and fetched some water from a pond in the garden, and threw it on his face.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000014_000005.wav|"I would rather die myself, Beauty," answered the beast, "than make you fret; I will send you to your father's cottage, you shall stay there, and your poor beast shall die of sorrow." "No," said Beauty, crying, "I love you too well to be the cause of your death; I promise to return in a week.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000001.wav|She then told the servant to put the rest away with a great deal of care, for she intended to give them to her sisters; but as soon as she had spoken these words the chest was gone out of sight in a moment.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000007.wav|His children came running round him as he got off his horse; but the merchant, instead of kissing them with joy, could not help crying as he looked at them.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000020_000001.wav|He married Beauty, and passed a long and happy life with her, because they still kept in the same course of goodness from which they had never departed.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000006.wav|The second had married a man of great learning; but he made no use of it, only to torment and affront all his friends, and his wife more than any of them.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000013_000003.wav|"Dear!" said she, "what a sad thing it is that he should be so very frightful, since he is so good tempered!"|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000004_000000.wav|When they had removed to their cottage, the merchant and his three sons employed themselves in ploughing and sowing the fields, and working in the garden.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000003.wav|When the three months were past, the merchant and Beauty got ready to set out for the palace of the beast.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000007.wav|If you should not like my company, you need only to say so, and I will leave you that moment.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000004.wav|Beauty then thought to be sure she had been the cause of his death in earnest.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000018_000005.wav|A wicked fairy had condemned me to keep the form of a beast till a beautiful young lady should agree to marry me, and ordered me, on pain of death, not to show that I had any sense.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000014_000002.wav|I shall always be your friend; so try to let that make you easy."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000012.wav|His master then tied him up, and walked towards the house, which he entered, but still without seeing a living creature.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000002.wav|He returned to the hall, where he had supped, and found a breakfast table, with some chocolate got ready for him.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000010.wav|When Beauty first saw his frightful form, she could not help being afraid; but she tried to hide her fear as much as she could.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000018_000000.wav|The moment Beauty had spoken these words, the palace was suddenly lighted up, and music, fireworks, and all kinds of rejoicings, appeared round about them.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000014_000000.wav|Beauty lived three months in this palace, very well pleased.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000008.wav|The beast then opened his eyes, and said: "You have forgot your promise, Beauty.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000005.wav|"Beauty," said he, "will you give me leave to see you sup?" "That is as you please," answered she, very much afraid.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000011.wav|His horse had followed him, and finding a stable with the door open, went into it at once; and here the poor beast, being nearly starved, helped himself to a good meal of oats and hay.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000020_000000.wav|At the same moment, the fairy, with a stroke of her wand, removed all who were present to the young prince's country, where he was received with the greatest joy by his subjects.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000008.wav|But tell me, Beauty, do you not think me very ugly?" "Why, yes," said she, "for I cannot tell a story; but then I think you are very good." "You are right," replied the beast; "and, besides being ugly, I am also very stupid: I know very well enough that I am but a beast."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000003.wav|This youngest daughter was not only more handsome than her sisters, but was also better tempered.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000007.wav|The merchant and Beauty walked towards the large hall, where they found a table covered with every dainty, and two plates laid ready.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000002.wav|Her father then said, perhaps the beast chose for her to keep them all for herself; and as soon as he had said this, they saw the chest standing again in the same place.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000014_000009.wav|Good bye, Beauty!"|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000017_000009.wav|My grief for the loss of you has made me resolve to starve myself to death; but I shall die content, since I have had the pleasure of seeing you once more." "No, dear beast," replied Beauty, "you shall not die; you shall live to be my husband: from this moment I offer to marry you, and will be only yours. Oh!|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000011_000000.wav|"Beauteous lady, dry your tears, Here's no cause for sighs or fears; Command as freely as you may, Enjoyment still shall mark your sway."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000008.wav|All at once, he now cast his eyes towards a long row of trees, and saw a light at the end of them, but it seemed a great way off.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000013_000002.wav|When Beauty found herself alone, she began to feel pity for the poor beast.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000012_000000.wav|"Alas!" said she, sighing, "there is nothing I so much desire as to see my poor father and to know what he is doing at this moment," She said this to herself; but just then by chance, she cast her eyes on a looking glass that stood near her, and in the glass she saw her home, and her father riding up to the cottage in the deepest sorrow.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000014.wav|As the snow and rain had wetted him to the skin, he went up to the fire to dry himself.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000005.wav|The husband of the eldest was very handsome; but was so very proud of this, that he thought of nothing else from morning till night, and did not attend to the beauty of his wife.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000009.wav|The spiteful creatures went by themselves into the garden, where they cried to think of her good fortune.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000002.wav|"But," said the beast, "I do not wish you to go back empty handed.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000010_000001.wav|She opened it in haste, and her eyes were all at once dazzled at the grandeur of the inside of the room.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000015_000007.wav|The two sisters were ready to burst with spite when they saw Beauty dressed like a princess, and look so very charming.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000004.wav|The two eldest were vain of being rich, and spoke with pride to those they thought below them.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000013.wav|He went on to a large hall, where he found a good fire, and a table covered with some very nice dishes, and only one plate with a knife and fork.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000003_000002.wav|At first Beauty could not help sometimes crying in secret for the hardships she was now obliged to suffer; but in a very short time she said to herself, "All the crying in the world will do me no good, so I will try to be happy without a fortune."|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000006_000005.wav|"Ungrateful man!" said the beast, in a terrible voice, "I have saved your life by letting you into my palace, and in return you steal my roses, which I value more than any thing else that belongs to me.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000002_000000.wav|There was once a very rich merchant, who had six children, three boys and three girls.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000008_000006.wav|They reached the palace in a very few hours, and the horse, without bidding, went into the same stable as before.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000007_000004.wav|When the beast had said this, he went away; and the good merchant said to himself, "If I must die, yet I shall now have the comfort of leaving my children some riches," He returned to the room he had slept in, and found a great many pieces of gold.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6828/64738/6828_64738_000005_000009.wav|He made the best of his way towards it, and found that it came from a fine palace, lighted all over.|6828
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000013_000002.wav|Should he, the proudest, most magnificent of cardinals, be compelled to go seeking a mate like any common bird?|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000025_000004.wav|Looks as if you might be stayin' round these parts!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000020_000000.wav|"Bosh!" exclaimed Maria.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000015_000002.wav|He caught up his own rolling echoes and changed and varied them.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000023_000001.wav|"I don't jest rightly s'pose I should go; but I'm free to admit I'd as lief be dead as not to answer when I get a call, an' the fact is, I'm CALLED down beside the river."|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000034_000011.wav|Most anything you can name, you can find it 'long this ole Wabash, if you only know where to hunt for it.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000058_000002.wav|The females scattered for cover with all their might.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000056_000000.wav|He flared his crest high, swelled his throat with rolling notes, and appeared so big and brilliant that among the many cardinals that had gathered to hear, there was not one to compare with him.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000068_000003.wav|From there she glided through the bushes and underbrush, trembling and quaking, yet pushing stoutly onward, straining her ears for some note of the brilliant stranger's.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000061_000000.wav|She cried pitifully, and was almost dead when a brown faced, barefoot boy, with a fishing pole on his shoulder, passed and heard her.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000008_000002.wav|He pitied himself as he wondered if fate had in store for him the trials he saw others suffering.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000052_000003.wav|The mist and shimmer of early spring were in the air.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000004_000002.wav|He had little trouble with the robins.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000036_000000.wav|Abram set a foot on the third rail and leaned his elbows on the top. The Cardinal chipped delightedly and hopped and tilted closer.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000006.wav|Who will fly to me for protection?|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000009.wav|No doubt she devoutly wished her plain pudgy husband wore a scarlet coat.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000012_000004.wav|With care and deliberation the brown thrush selected the most attractive, and she followed him to the thicket as if charmed.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000058_000001.wav|In turn the Cardinal struck him like a flashing rocket, and then red war waged in Rainbow Bottom.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000058_000000.wav|The Cardinal, with a royal flourish, sprang in air to seek her; but her outraged mate was ahead of him, and with a scream she fled, leaving a tuft of feathers in her mate's beak.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000005_000000.wav|The Cardinal was left boasting and strutting in the sumac, but in his heart he found it lonesome business.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000070_000003.wav|Yet no one had come to seek him.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000011_000000.wav|For several days he had boasted, he had bantered, he had challenged, he had on this last day almost condescended to coaxing, but not one little bright eyed cardinal female had come to offer herself.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000007.wav|You needn't even 'rastle for grubs if you don't want to.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000004.wav|Have you any to equal my grace?|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000059_000001.wav|The newly mated pair finally made up; the females speedily resumed their coquetting, and forgot the captivating stranger-all save the poor little one that had been kissed by accident.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000070_000007.wav|Wet year!"|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000047_000002.wav|Early next morning he was abroad and in fine toilet, and with a full voice from the top of the sumac greeted the day-"Wet year!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000043_000000.wav|"Here!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000013.wav|Yes, I have, too!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000050_000000.wav|He rounded curve after curve, and frequently stopping on a conspicuous perch, flung a ringing challenge in the face of the morning.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000005.wav|Who can whistle so loud, so clear, so compelling a note?|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000006.wav|By this time he confidently had expected results.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000049_000001.wav|Following the channel, he winged his flight for miles over the cool sparkling water, between the tangle of foliage bordering the banks.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000030_000000.wav|Leaning toward Abram, the Cardinal turned his head from side to side, and peered, "chipped," and waited for an answering "Chip" from a little golden haired child, but there was no way for the man to know that.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000069_000001.wav|She sprang into air, and fled a mile before she realized that she was flying.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000065_000000.wav|All the tribulations of birdland fell to her lot.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000009.wav|Land's sake!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000026_000000.wav|Abram went peering and dodging beside the fence, peeping into the bushes, searching for the bird.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000066_000000.wav|She was such a shy, fearsome little body, the females all flouted her; and the males never seemed to notice that there was material in her for a very fine mate.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000043_000002.wav|Here!" whistled the Cardinal.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000058_000003.wav|The Cardinal worked in a kiss on one poor little bird, too frightened to escape him; then the males closed in, and serious business began.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000015_000001.wav|He poured out a tumultuous cry vibrant with every passion raging in him.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000005_000002.wav|He almost strained his voice trying to rival the love song of a skylark that hung among the clouds above a meadow across the river, and poured down to his mate a story of adoring love and sympathy.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000065_000001.wav|She was so frail and weak she lost her family in migration, and followed with some strangers that were none too kind.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000050_000002.wav|The river bed was limestone, and the swiftly flowing water, clear and limpid.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000047_000001.wav|The Cardinal went to the top rail and feasted on the sweet grains of corn until his craw was full, and then nestled in the sumac and went to sleep.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000049_000000.wav|He decided to prospect in the opposite direction, and taking wing, he started up the river.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000048_000001.wav|He located them, but it was only several staid old couples, a long time mated, and busy with their nest building.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000032_000000.wav|Abram lifted his old hat, and the raindrops glistened on his white hair.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000062_000001.wav|"I know what I'll do with you.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000033_000005.wav|Well, you never was more welcome any place in your life.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000025_000000.wav|"Thanky, old fellow!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000044_000005.wav|But then you WARNED me, didn't you, old fellow?|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000029_000007.wav|Cage never touched you!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000015.wav|he's fat as a young shoat now.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000004.wav|Well, you struck it all right, mr Redbird.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000006_000003.wav|He pestered her with caresses and cooed over his love song until every chipmunk on the line fence was familiar with his story.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000041_000005.wav|It's a dratted shame!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000019_000003.wav|I'm really curious to set eyes on him.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000020_000004.wav|I've knowed that for forty year.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000002_000004.wav|He knew he would appear brighter when it was past, and he seemed to know, too, that every day of sunshine and shower would bring nearer his heart's desire.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000002_000002.wav|Old Mother Nature verified his wisdom by sending a dashing shower, but he cared not at all for a wetting.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000062_000002.wav|I'll take you over and set you in the bushes where I heard those other redbirds, and then your ma will feed you."|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000065_000002.wav|Life in the South had been full of trouble. Once a bullet grazed her so closely she lost two of her wing quills, and that made her more timid than ever.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000033_000007.wav|How do you like it?|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000004.wav|No bird beside the shining river had plumed, paraded, or made more music than he.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000005.wav|Was it all to be wasted?|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000005.wav|Feed you?|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000012_000000.wav|The performance of a brown thrush drove him wild with envy.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000044_000000.wav|"Well, I'm mighty glad if you're sayin' you'll stay!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000008_000004.wav|How they coquetted!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000020_000002.wav|It's jest the old Wabash rollin' up the echoes.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000008_000006.wav|How they sleeked and flattened their plumage, and with half open beaks and sparkling eyes, hopped closer and closer as if charmed.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000067_000003.wav|All day she hid and waited, and the following days were filled with longing, but he never came again.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000064_000002.wav|She was left so badly frightened that she could not move for a long time.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000015_000004.wav|Wet year!"|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000014_000000.wav|He went to the river to bathe.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000047_000003.wav|Wet year!"|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000010.wav|But it is praise from one's own sex that is praise indeed, and only an hour ago the lark had reported that from his lookout above cloud he saw no other singer anywhere so splendid as the Cardinal of the sumac.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000005_000003.wav|He screamed a "Chip" of such savage jealousy at a pair of killdeer lovers that he sent them scampering down the river bank without knowing that the crime of which they stood convicted was that of being mated when he was not.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000046_000001.wav|Wet year!" called the Cardinal after his retreating figure.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000017_000000.wav|"Hear that, Maria!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000001.wav|Man!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000051_000002.wav|Startled, the Cardinal took wing.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000069_000002.wav|Then she stopped and listened, and rolling with the river, she heard those bold true tones.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000016_000000.wav|He whistled and whistled until all birdland and even mankind heard, for the farmer paused at his kitchen door, with his pails of foaming milk, and called to his wife:|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000057_000000.wav|Black envy filled their hearts.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000007.wav|Who will come and be my mate?"|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000066_000002.wav|Now she had been kissed by this magnificent stranger!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000066_000001.wav|Every other female cardinal in Rainbow Bottom had several males courting her, but this poor, frightened, lonely one had never a suitor; and she needed love so badly!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000004_000000.wav|He was compelled almost hourly to wage battles for his location, for there was something fine about the old stag sumac that attracted homestead seekers.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000013_000003.wav|Perish the thought!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000045_000000.wav|Abram straightened and touched his hat brim in a trim half military salute.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000013_000000.wav|It was the Cardinal's dream materialized for another before his very eyes, and it filled him with envy.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000003_000004.wav|Crowded around it were thickets of papaw, wild grape vines, thorn, dogwood, and red haw, that attracted bug and insect; and just across the old snake fence was a field of mellow mould sloping to the river, that soon would be plowed for corn, turning out numberless big fat grubs.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000021_000000.wav|As Abram opened the door, "Wet year!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000064_000000.wav|So her troubles continued.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000068_000001.wav|For miles she sneaked through the underbrush, and watched and listened; until at last night came, and she returned to Rainbow Bottom.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000008_000003.wav|Those dreadful feathered females!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000012_000001.wav|The thrush came gliding up the river bank, a rusty coated, sneaking thing of the underbrush, and taking possession of a thorn bush just opposite the sumac, he sang for an hour in the open.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000017_000002.wav|I swanny, if that bird doesn't stop predictin' wet weather, I'll get so scared I won't durst put in my corn afore June.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000057_000002.wav|There were many unmated cardinals in Rainbow Bottom, and many jealous males.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000040_000008.wav|Look at that topknot a wavin' in the wind!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000044_000003.wav|You're foolish if you go!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000029_000001.wav|"Big as a blackbird, red as a live coal, an' a comin' right at me.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000002_000001.wav|He perched on a limb, and between dressing his plumage and pecking at last year's sour dried berries, he sent abroad his prediction.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000052_000005.wav|Scattered around were mighty trees, but conspicuous above any, in the very center, was a giant sycamore, split at its base into three large trees, whose waving branches seemed to sweep the face of heaven, and whose roots, like miserly fingers, clutched deep into the black muck of Rainbow Bottom.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000002.wav|It was not an endurable thought.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000044_000002.wav|Lord! the Limberlost ain't to be compared with the river, mr Redbird.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000025_000001.wav|Glad to hear you!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000029_000003.wav|Settin' on a sawed stick in a little wire house takes all the ginger out of any bird, an' their feathers are always mussy.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000060_000004.wav|Hunger driven, she climbed to the edge and exercised her wings until she managed some sort of flight to a neighbouring bush. She missed the twig and fell to the ground, where she lay cold and shivering.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000045_000005.wav|See you in the mornin', right after breakfast, no count taken o' the weather."|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000062_000000.wav|"Poor little thing, you are almost dead," he said.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000015_000000.wav|On the tip top antler of the old stag sumac, he perched and strained until his jetty whiskers appeared stubby.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000053_000000.wav|It was in this lovely spot that the rainbow at last materialized, and at its base, free to all humanity who cared to seek, the Great Alchemist had left His rarest treasures-the gold of sunshine, diamond water drops, emerald foliage, and sapphire sky.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000028_000000.wav|But it came nearer being a scared man than a frightened bird, for the Cardinal flashed straight toward him until only a few yards away, and then, swaying on a bush, it chipped, cheered, peeked, whistled broken notes, and manifested perfect delight at the sight of the white haired old man.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000070_000000.wav|High in the sumac the Cardinal had sung until his throat was parched, and the fountain of hope was almost dry.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000006_000001.wav|The dove had no dignity; he was so effusive he was a nuisance.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000060_000000.wav|She had been hatched from a fifth egg to begin with; and every one knows the disadvantage of beginning life with four sturdy older birds on top of one.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000034_000002.wav|Look at the grass a creepin' right down till it's a trailin' in the water!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000012_000002.wav|There was no way to improve that music.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000038_000006.wav|You bet I will!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000039_000000.wav|Abram took out his jack knife, and dotting a row of grains along the top rail, he split and shaved them down as fine as possible; and as he reached one end of the rail, the Cardinal, with a spasmodic "Chip!" dashed down and snatched a particle from the other, and flashed back to the bush, tested, approved, and chipped his thanks.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000006_000004.wav|The Cardinal's temper was worn to such a fine edge that he darted at the dove one day and pulled a big tuft of feathers from his back.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000024_000001.wav|Wet year!" rolled the Cardinal's prediction.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000019_000001.wav|"I'm willin' to call it the bird if you are, Maria.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000007_000000.wav|Every morning brought new arrivals-trim young females fresh from their long holiday, and big boastful males appearing their brightest and bravest, each singer almost splitting his throat in the effort to captivate the mate he coveted.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000006_000002.wav|He kept his dignified Quaker mate stuffed to discomfort; he clung to the side of the nest trying to help brood until he almost crowded her from the eggs.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000058_000004.wav|The Cardinal would have enjoyed a fight vastly with two or three opponents; but a half dozen made discretion better than valour.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000002_000000.wav|The sumac seemed to fill his idea of a perfect location from the very first.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000008_000000.wav|The heart of the Cardinal sank as he watched.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000045_000001.wav|"Well, good bye, mr Redbird.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000003_000001.wav|From morning until night he bathed, dressed his feathers, sunned himself, fluffed and flirted. He strutted and "chipped" incessantly.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000007.wav|Only that morning he had swelled with pride as he heard mrs Jay tell her quarrelsome husband that she wished she could exchange him for the Cardinal.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000060_000001.wav|It was a meager egg, and a feeble baby that pipped its shell.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000011.wav|Because of these things he held fast to his conviction that he was a prince indeed; and he decided to remain in his chosen location and with his physical and vocal attractions compel the finest little cardinal in the fields to seek him.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000050_000001.wav|With every mile the way he followed grew more beautiful.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000058_000005.wav|He darted among them, scattering them right and left, and made for the sycamore.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000052_000000.wav|The river circled in one great curve.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000040_000004.wav|Well!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000054_000001.wav|Above all, the sycamore waved its majestic head.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000001.wav|Look this way!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000009_000000.wav|The Cardinal flew to the very top of the highest sycamore and looked across country toward the Limberlost.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000037_000004.wav|I've hung on to it like grim death, for it's jest that much o' Paradise I'm plumb sure of.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000052_000001.wav|The Cardinal mounted to the tip top limb of the ash and looked around him.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000003_000000.wav|He was a very Beau Brummel while he waited.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000003_000002.wav|He claimed that sumac for his very own, and stoutly battled for possession with many intruders.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000067_000001.wav|He had intended it for the bold creature that had answered his challenge, but since it came to her, it was hers, in a way, after all.|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8195/117382/8195_117382_000055_000002.wav|Behold me!|8195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000022_000006.wav|So they arrived at last at the little old house, but when they stepped inside it turned into a large castle.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000016_000000.wav|'Little green toad whose leg doth twist, Go to the corner of which you wist, And bring to me the large old kist.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000018_000001.wav|At last she came to a great lake, and, when she had crossed that, arrived at a beautiful castle.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000012_000001.wav|The old King was frightened, and his daughter wept.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000012_000005.wav|And say to her that what I foretell shall come to pass, and if she does not come everything in the kingdom shall fall into ruin, and not one stone shall be left upon another.' When the Princess heard this she began to cry, but it was no good; she had to keep her word.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000010_000004.wav|So they consulted together, and determined that the miller's daughter, who was very beautiful, should take her place.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000015_000000.wav|Then the old toad said:|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000012_000006.wav|She took leave of her father, put a knife in her belt, and went to the iron stove in the wood.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000012_000004.wav|Go away at once, and let the King's daughter come.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000017_000003.wav|She would have need of them, for she had to cross a high glass mountain, three cutting swords, and a great lake.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000022_000004.wav|You are mine, and I am thine.' Though it was still night, he got into a carriage with her, and they took the false bride's clothes away, so that she could not follow them.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000019_000006.wav|When it was evening she said to her bridegroom, 'That stupid maid wants to sleep by your door.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000022_000000.wav|And when she had washed up on the third night she bit the third nut, and there was a still more beautiful dress inside that was made of pure gold.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000019_000000.wav|In the evening, when she had washed up and was ready, she felt in her pocket and found the three nuts which the old toad had given her.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000022_000009.wav|But because the old man did not like being left alone, they went and fetched him.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000010_000006.wav|She scraped for twenty four hours, but did not make the least impression.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000013_000000.wav|'Little green toad with leg like crook, Open wide the door, and look Who it was the latch that shook.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000010_000003.wav|I should never have come home again out of the great wild wood if I had not come to an iron stove, to whom I have had to promise that I will go back to free him and marry him!' The old King was so frightened that he nearly fainted, for she was his only daughter.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000017_000000.wav|And the little toad went and brought out a great chest.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000017_000005.wav|So she was given three large needles, a plough wheel, and three nuts, which she was to take great care of.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000020_000000.wav|'If you are contented, I am,' he said.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145701/1859_145701_000012_000003.wav|As soon as the day broke the voice from the stove called out, 'It seems to be daylight outside.' Then she answered, 'It seems so to me too; I think I hear my father blowing his horn.' 'So you are a swineherd's daughter!|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000046_000000.wav|But he changed his mind, and said, 'Keep it; it makes no difference, for I will take you to be my own dear true wife.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000004_000001.wav|It is just as the old woman said'; and he took his gun on his shoulder, pulled the trigger, and shot into the midst of them, so that their feathers flew about.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000022_000000.wav|The giants came up, and the first pushed him with his foot, and said, 'What sort of an earthworm is that?'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000042_000000.wav|The miller replied, 'Why not?|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000015_000001.wav|I have a great longing to go there, so that when I think of it I am very sad.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000025_000008.wav|At last he got hold of another kind of cabbage, but scarcely had swallowed it when he felt another change, and he once more regained his human form.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000004_000005.wav|But when he lifted up his pillow, there sparkled the gold piece, and the next morning he found another, and so on every time he got up.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000019_000001.wav|As soon as he was sound asleep she unfastened the cloak from his shoulders, threw it on her own, left the granite and stones, and wished herself home again.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000012_000000.wav|The old witch grew angry, and said, 'Such a cloak is a wonderful thing, it is seldom to be had in the world, and have it I must and will.' She beat the maiden, and said that if she did not obey it would go ill with her.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000004_000002.wav|Then the flock took flight with much screaming, but one fell dead, and the cloak fluttered down.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000002_000000.wav|THE DONKEY CABBAGE|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000017_000001.wav|The precious stones sparkled so brightly on all sides that it was a pleasure to see them, and they collected the most beautiful and costly together. But now the old witch had through her caused the Hunter's eyes to become heavy.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000003_000006.wav|Then take aim with your gun and shoot in the middle of them; they will let the cloak fall, but one of the birds will be hit and will drop down dead.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000031_000000.wav|'Why not?' he answered; 'I have brought two heads with me, and will give you one.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000026_000001.wav|When he awoke the next morning he broke off a head of the bad and a head of the good cabbage, thinking, 'This will help me to regain my own, and to punish faithlessness.' Then he put the heads in his pockets, climbed the wall, and started off to seek the castle of his love.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000024_000000.wav|But the third said contemptuously, 'It is not worth the trouble!|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000027_000000.wav|'I am so tired,' he said, 'I can go no farther.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000034_000000.wav|Then thought the Hunter, 'The cabbage must have already begun to work.' And he said, 'I will go to the kitchen and fetch it myself.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000015_000002.wav|For who can fetch them? Only the birds who fly; a man, never.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000009_000000.wav|'Drink to me now, my dearest,' she said.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000025_000004.wav|The Hunter then looked about him, saying, 'If only I had something to eat!|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000014_000000.wav|'Why are you standing there looking so sad?' asked the Hunter.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000016_000000.wav|'If you have no other trouble,' said the Hunter, 'that one I can easily remove from your heart.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000023_000000.wav|The second said, 'Crush him dead.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000044_000002.wav|'The two others,' he added, 'are certainly not dead, and get their three meals every day, but they are so sad that they cannot last much longer.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000042_000001.wav|What shall I do with them?'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000028_000000.wav|The witch asked, 'Countryman, who are you, and what is your business?'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000033_000000.wav|Now the servant came into the kitchen, and when she saw the salad standing there ready cooked she was about to carry it up, but on the way, according to her old habit, she tasted it and ate a couple of leaves.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000020_000000.wav|But when the Hunter had finished his sleep and awoke, he found that his love had betrayed him and left him alone on the wild mountain.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000004_000003.wav|Then the Hunter did as the old woman had told him: he cut open the bird, found its heart, swallowed it, and took the cloak home with him.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000045_000000.wav|Then the Hunter took pity on them, laid aside his anger, and told the miller to drive them back again.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145703/1859_145703_000009_000001.wav|Then he took the goblet, and when he had swallowed the drink the bird heart came out of his mouth. The maiden had to get hold of it secretly and then swallow it herself, for the old witch wanted to have it.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000026_000000.wav|The Princess did so, and brought him what he desired.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000040_000001.wav|The old man did so, and when they came to the palace he hid her behind the great picture and advised her to keep quite still, and he placed himself behind the picture also.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000035_000003.wav|He did not overtake the dog, but found himself above a staircase, which he descended.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000010_000000.wav|When her husband came home and they sat down to dinner, they presently heard the Crab's little voice saying, 'Give me some too.' They were all very much surprised, but they gave him something to eat.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000034_000001.wav|Then the poor Princess cried bitterly, but it was of no use; her husband did not come back.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000022_000003.wav|No sooner had he said this than he shook himself, and immediately became a handsome youth, but the next morning he was forced to creep back again into his crab shell.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000027_000002.wav|Take it in your hand, but if they ask you who I am, say that you do not know.' So saying, he kissed her, repeated his warning once more, and went away.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000040_000003.wav|The youths seated themselves at the table; and now the Prince said again, while he took up the cup of wine:|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000017_000000.wav|Then the old woman went back to the King and said to him, 'Your Majesty's orders have been fulfilled.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000014_000000.wav|Then the Crab gave her a golden rod, and said, 'Go and strike with this rod three times upon the ground on the place which the King showed you, and to morrow morning the wall will be there.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000022_000007.wav|Thus a year passed away, and the Princess had a son, whom she called Benjamin.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000005_000001.wav|Schmidt.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000039_000000.wav|'Yes,' he answered, 'certainly.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000038_000003.wav|No sooner had he finished than the Princess asked him whether he could find the way to that palace.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000010_000001.wav|When the old man came to take away the plate which had contained the Crab's dinner, he found it full of gold, and as the same thing happened every day he soon became very fond of the Crab.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000007_000000.wav|'Let down, let down thy petticoat That lets thy feet be seen.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000028_000002.wav|But her father was much surprised that she did not seem to care about any of the Princes; he therefore appointed a second tournament.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000027_000001.wav|For if you do this evil will come of it. Place yourself at the window with your sisters; I will ride by and throw you the silver apple.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000020_000001.wav|Answer him thus: ''Your master, the King, has sent me to tell you that you must send him his golden garment that is like the sun'' Make him give you, besides, the queenly robes of gold and precious stones which are like the flowery meadows, and bring them both to me.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000022_000006.wav|They suspected some secret, but though they spied and spied, they could not discover it.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000043_000001.wav|But all that bad time is past.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000015_000000.wav|The old woman did so and went away again.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000030_000001.wav|He then repeated his warning and went away.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000006_000001.wav|Every morning he used to go out fishing, and whatever fish he caught he sold to the King.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000043_000002.wav|Now listen to me: I must still remain enchanted for three months.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000009_000001.wav|You can speak, can you, you ridiculous crab?' she said, for she was not quite pleased at the Crab's remarks.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000028_000000.wav|The Princess went with her sisters to the window and looked on at the tournament.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000008_000000.wav|She turned round in surprise, and then she saw the little creature, the Golden Crab.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000016_000000.wav|The next morning, when the King awoke, what do you think he saw?|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000012_000001.wav|He said, therefore, to the fisherman's wife, 'Go, old woman, and tell the Crab I will give him my daughter if by to morrow morning he can build a wall in front of my castle much higher than my tower, upon which all the flowers of the world must grow and bloom.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000036_000000.wav|'A health to my dearest lady, Long may she live and well! But a curse on the cruel mother That burnt my golden shell!'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000018_000000.wav|'That is all very well,' said the King, 'but I cannot give away my daughter until there stands in front of my palace a garden in which there are three fountains, of which the first must play gold, the second diamonds, and the third brilliants.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000009_000000.wav|'What!|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000032_000000.wav|Then her mother flew into a passion, gave her a box on the ear, and cried out, 'Does not even that prince please you, you fool?'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000035_000002.wav|The old man ran after him, but the dog reached a door, pushed it open, and ran in, the old man following him.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000016_000001.wav|The wall stood there before his eyes, exactly as he had bespoken it!|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000044_000000.wav|So the Princess stayed with him, and said to the old man, 'Go back to the castle and tell my parents that I am staying here.'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000035_000007.wav|At this sight his fear became still greater.|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1859/145700/1859_145700_000041_000000.wav|'A health to my dearest lady, Long may she live and well! But a curse on the cruel mother That burnt my golden shell!'|1859
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139710/1629_139710_000008_000008.wav|He was completely broken.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139710/1629_139710_000006_000000.wav|Argyle was the first to act upon this contract.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139710/1629_139710_000015_000003.wav|He flourished Father Petre before the eyes of the people on all possible occasions.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139710/1629_139710_000022_000006.wav|There, he died.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139710/1629_139710_000020_000006.wav|This was on the night of the ninth of December.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000012_000010.wav|Seven of the judges said that was quite true, and mr Hampden was bound to pay: five of the judges said that was quite false, and mr Hampden was not bound to pay.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000041_000003.wav|But they came to nothing.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000043_000002.wav|He, too, was buried in Westminster Abbey, with great state.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000005_000004.wav|This happened in his hall.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000004_000000.wav|For all this, it became necessary to call another Parliament.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000033_000005.wav|When the Earl of Pembroke asked him whether he would not give way on that question for a time, he said, 'By God! not for one hour!' and upon this he and the Parliament went to war.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000032_000001.wav|They were taken by water.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000012_000013.wav|But O! it would have been well for the King if he had let them go!|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000027_000000.wav|Not so soon, though, but that there was a great opposition in the Parliament to a celebrated paper put forth by Pym and Hampden and the rest, called 'THE REMONSTRANCE,' which set forth all the illegal acts that the King had ever done, but politely laid the blame of them on his bad advisers.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000044_000000.wav|FOURTH PART|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000021_000004.wav|They were profoundly quiet.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000016_000000.wav|SECOND PART|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000024_000004.wav|Some think that he went to get proofs against the Parliamentary leaders in England of their having treasonably invited the Scottish people to come and help them. With whatever object he went to Scotland, he did little good by going.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000001_000001.wav|You are also to understand, that even in pursuit of this wrong idea (enough in itself to have ruined any king) he never took a straight course, but always took a crooked one.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000017_000003.wav|He was immediately taken into custody and fell from his proud height.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000012_000018.wav|At first the King tried force, then treaty, then a Scottish Parliament which did not answer at all.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000055_000002.wav|john BRADSHAW, serjeant at law, was appointed president.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000026_000002.wav|It would take a good many Lord Mayors, however, to make a people, and the King soon found himself mistaken.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000013_000003.wav|It is called the Short Parliament, for it lasted a very little while.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000030_000004.wav|No one speaks, and then he calls john Pym by name. No one speaks, and then he calls Denzil Hollis by name.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000057_000001.wav|It was granted.|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1629/139707/1629_139707_000036_000000.wav|THIRD PART|1629
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000005_000002.wav|For instance, the reason for the non-existence of a square circle is indicated in its nature, namely, because it would involve a contradiction.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000007_000001.wav|If such a reason or cause should be given, it must either be drawn from the very nature of God, or be external to him-that is, drawn from another substance of another nature.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000031_000001.wav|I answer, that quantity is conceived by us in two ways; in the abstract and superficially, as we imagine it; or as substance, as we conceive it solely by the intellect.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000007_000000.wav|If, then, no cause or reason can be given, which prevents the existence of God, or which destroys his existence, we must certainly conclude that he necessarily does exist.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000025_000000.wav|Extended substance, in so far as it is substance, consists, as they think, in parts, wherefore they deny that it can be infinite, or consequently, that it can appertain to God.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000011_000001.wav|Things which are produced by external causes, whether they consist of many parts or few, owe whatsoever perfection or reality they possess solely to the efficacy of their external cause; and therefore their existence arises solely from the perfection of their external cause, not from their own.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000015_000000.wav|Proof.--If it could be divided, the parts into which it was divided would either retain the nature of absolutely infinite substance, or they would not.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000032_000003.wav|Wherefore it can in nowise be said, that God is passive in respect to anything other than himself, or that extended substance is unworthy of the Divine nature, even if it be supposed divisible, so long as it is granted to be infinite and eternal.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000024_000010.wav|Hence we drew the conclusion that extended substance is one of the infinite attributes of God.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000031_000003.wav|This will be plain enough to all who make a distinction between the intellect and the imagination, especially if it be remembered, that matter is everywhere the same, that its parts are not distinguishable, except in so far as we conceive matter as diversely modified, whence its parts are distinguished, not really, but modally.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000008_000001.wav|To make such an affirmation about a being absolutely infinite and supremely perfect is absurd; therefore, neither in the nature of God, nor externally to his nature, can a cause or reason be assigned which would annul his existence.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000026_000000.wav|Further, if an infinite line be measured out in foot lengths, it will consist of an infinite number of such parts; it would equally consist of an infinite number of parts, if each part measured only an inch: therefore, one infinity would be twelve times as great as the other.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000011_000003.wav|Thus, the perfection of a thing does not annul its existence, but, on the contrary, asserts it. Imperfection, on the other hand, does annul it; therefore we cannot be more certain of the existence of anything, than of the existence of a being absolutely infinite or perfect-that is, of God.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000005_000001.wav|This reason or cause must either be contained in the nature of the thing in question, or be external to it.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000009_000000.wav|Another proof.--The potentiality of non-existence is a negation of power, and contrariwise the potentiality of existence is a power, as is obvious.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000014_000001.wav|Substance absolutely infinite is indivisible.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000030_000005.wav|Surely in the case of things, which are really distinct one from the other, one can exist without the other, and can remain in its original condition.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000032_000000.wav|I think I have now answered the second argument; it is, in fact, founded on the same assumption as the first-namely, that matter, in so far as it is substance, is divisible, and composed of parts.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000031_000004.wav|For instance, water, in so far as it is water, we conceive to be divided, and its parts to be separated one from the other; but not in so far as it is extended substance; from this point of view it is neither separated nor divisible.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000024_000011.wav|However, in order to explain more fully, I will refute the arguments of my adversaries, which all start from the following points:----|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000032_000002.wav|All things, I repeat, are in God, and all things which come to pass, come to pass solely through the laws of the infinite nature of God, and follow (as I will shortly show) from the necessity of his essence.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000024_000000.wav|Note.--Some assert that God, like a man, consists of body and mind, and is susceptible of passions.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000006_000001.wav|From the latter it must follow, either that a triangle necessarily exists, or that it is impossible that it should exist.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000028_000002.wav|It follows, therefore, that extended substance does not appertain to the essence of God.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000022_000001.wav|Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000029_000007.wav|If, from this absurdity of theirs, they persist in drawing the conclusion that extended substance must be finite, they will in good sooth be acting like a man who asserts that circles have the properties of squares, and, finding himself thereby landed in absurdities, proceeds to deny that circles have any center, from which all lines drawn to the circumference are equal.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000007_000002.wav|For if it were of the same nature, God, by that very fact, would be admitted to exist.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000025_000004.wav|If the latter, then one infinite will be twice as large as another infinite, which is also absurd.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000009_000001.wav|If, then, that which necessarily exists is nothing but finite beings, such finite beings are more powerful than a being absolutely infinite, which is obviously absurd; therefore, either nothing exists, or else a being absolutely infinite necessarily exists also.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000019_000001.wav|If it could be conceived, it would necessarily have to be conceived as existent; but this (by the first part of this proof) is absurd.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000030_000006.wav|As, then, there does not exist a vacuum in nature (of which anon), but all parts are bound to come together to prevent it, it follows from this that the parts cannot really be distinguished, and that extended substance in so far as it is substance cannot be divided.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000027_000001.wav|As these absurdities follow, it is said, from considering quantity as infinite, the conclusion is drawn, that extended substance must necessarily be finite, and, consequently, cannot appertain to the nature of God.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000024_000005.wav|But meanwhile by other reasons with which they try to prove their point, they show that they think corporeal or extended substance wholly apart from the divine nature, and say it was created by God.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000010_000000.wav|Note.--In this last proof, I have purposely shown God's existence a posteriori, so that the proof might be more easily followed, not because, from the same premises, God's existence does not follow a priori.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000010_000003.wav|Perhaps there will be many who will be unable to see the force of this proof, inasmuch as they are accustomed only to consider those things which flow from external causes.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000021_000000.wav|Corollary two.--It follows: two.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000011_000002.wav|Contrariwise, whatsoever perfection is possessed by substance is due to no external cause; wherefore the existence of substance must arise solely from its own nature, which is nothing else but its essence.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000030_000003.wav|For if extended substance could be so divided that its parts were really separate, why should not one part admit of being destroyed, the others remaining joined together as before?|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000024_000002.wav|But these I pass over.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000005_000003.wav|On the other hand, the existence of substance follows also solely from its nature, inasmuch as its nature involves existence.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000010_000001.wav|For, as the potentiality of existence is a power, it follows that, in proportion as reality increases in the nature of a thing, so also will it increase its strength for existence.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000025_000002.wav|If extended substance, they say, is infinite, let it be conceived to be divided into two parts; each part will then be either finite or infinite.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000025_000003.wav|If the former, then infinite substance is composed of two finite parts, which is absurd.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000016_000000.wav|Corollary.--It follows, that no substance, and consequently no extended substance, in so far as it is substance, is divisible.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000027_000000.wav|Lastly, if from a single point there be conceived to be drawn two diverging lines which at first are at a definite distance apart, but are produced to infinity, it is certain that the distance between the two lines will be continually increased, until at length it changes from definite to indefinable.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000006_000002.wav|So much is self-evident.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000010_000004.wav|Of such things, they see that those which quickly come to pass-that is, quickly come into existence-quickly also disappear; whereas they regard as more difficult of accomplishment-that is, not so easily brought into existence-those things which they conceive as more complicated.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24731/4854_24731_000031_000000.wav|If anyone asks me the further question, Why are we naturally so prone to divide quantity?|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000010_000001.wav|I know that there are many who think that they can show, that supreme intellect and free will do appertain to God's nature; for they say they know of nothing more perfect, which they can attribute to God, than that which is the highest perfection in ourselves.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000004_000000.wav|Corollary three.--It follows, thirdly, that God is the absolutely first cause.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000011_000007.wav|As, therefore, God's intellect is the sole cause of things, namely, both of their essence and existence, it must necessarily differ from them in respect to its essence, and in respect to its existence.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000014_000003.wav|God, therefore, is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000009_000000.wav|Note.--Others think that God is a free cause, because he can, as they think, bring it about, that those things which we have said follow from his nature-that is, which are in his power, should not come to pass, or should not be produced by him.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000010_000008.wav|Wherefore, in order to establish that God is perfect, we should be reduced to establishing at the same time, that he cannot bring to pass everything over which his power extends; this seems to be a hypothesis most absurd, and most repugnant to God's omnipotence.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000008_000001.wav|That God is the sole free cause.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000019_000001.wav|Therefore the same attributes of God which explain his eternal essence, explain at the same time his eternal existence-in other words, that which constitutes God's essence constitutes at the same time his existence.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000017_000002.wav|of my "Principles of the Cartesian Philosophy"), I have proved the eternity of God, in another manner, which I need not here repeat.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000011_000002.wav|This I will prove as follows.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000021_000002.wav|For if they could be changed in respect to existence, they must also be able to be changed in respect to essence-that is, obviously, be changed from true to false, which is absurd.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000009_000001.wav|But this is the same as if they said, that God could bring it about, that it should follow from the nature of a triangle that its three interior angles should not be equal to two right angles; or that from a given cause no effect should follow, which is absurd.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000015_000001.wav|God, and all the attributes of God, are eternal.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000010_000006.wav|This manner of treating the question attributes to God an omnipotence, in my opinion, far more perfect.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000011_000000.wav|Further (to say a word here concerning the intellect and the will which we attribute to God), if intellect and will appertain to the eternal essence of God, we must take these words in some significance quite different from those they usually bear.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000010_000000.wav|Moreover, I will show below, without the aid of this proposition, that neither intellect nor will appertain to God's nature.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000011_000006.wav|This seems to have been recognized by those who have asserted, that God's intellect, God's will, and God's power, are one and the same.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000011_000001.wav|For intellect and will, which should constitute the essence of God, would perforce be as far apart as the poles from the human intellect and will, in fact, would have nothing in common with them but the name; there would be about as much correspondence between the two as there is between the Dog, the heavenly constellation, and a dog, an animal that barks.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000003_000000.wav|Corollary two.--It also follows that God is a cause in himself, and not through an accident of his nature.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000018_000001.wav|The existence of God and his essence are one and the same.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000014_000002.wav|This is our second point.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000011_000008.wav|For a cause differs from a thing it causes, precisely in the quality which the latter gains from the former.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000010_000002.wav|Further, although they conceive God as actually supremely intelligent, they yet do not believe that he can bring into existence everything which he actually understands, for they think that they would thus destroy God's power.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4854/24732/4854_24732_000010_000007.wav|For, otherwise, we are compelled to confess that God understands an infinite number of creatable things, which he will never be able to create, for, if he created all that he understands, he would, according to this showing, exhaust his omnipotence, and render himself imperfect.|4854
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000011_000007.wav|But the types of these pioneer ironclads, which had demonstrated such unprecedented fighting qualities, were continued.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000015_000002.wav|The first division of his fleet, eight vessels, led by Captain Bailey, successfully passed the barrier.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000017_000001.wav|The city was promptly evacuated by the Confederate General Lovell.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000016_000001.wav|Farragut's flag ship was for a short while in great danger.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000006.wav|He might not come back; but New Orleans would be won.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000000.wav|The first obstacle to be overcome was the fire from the twin forts Jackson and saint Philip, situated nearly opposite each other at a bend of the Mississippi twenty five miles above the mouth of the river, while the city of New Orleans itself lies seventy five miles farther up the stream.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000004_000002.wav|The second was an expedition of nineteen ships, which, within a few days during the month of March, without serious resistance, occupied the whole remaining Atlantic coast southward as far as saint Augustine.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000018_000001.wav|None of the important cities on its banks below Vicksburg had yet been fortified, and, without serious opposition, they surrendered as the Union ships successively reached them.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000021_000001.wav|Neither a bombardment from Porter's mortar sloops, nor the running of Farragut's ships past the batteries, where they were joined by the Union gunboat flotilla from above, sufficed to bring the Confederates to a surrender.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000010_000001.wav|When the unwieldy rebel turtleback, with her slow, awkward movement, tried to ram the pointed raft that carried the cheese box, the little vessel, obedient to her rudder, easily glided out of the line of direct impact.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000006_000003.wav|Naval experts at once recognized that her sea going qualities were bad; but compensation was thought to exist in the belief that her iron turret would resist shot and shell, and that the thin edge of her flat deck would offer only a minimum mark to an enemy's guns: in other words, that she was no cruiser, but would prove a formidable floating battery; and this belief she abundantly justified.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000011_000001.wav|At that point the battle ended by mutual consent.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000002.wav|They also had auxiliary defenses: first, of a strong river barrier of log rafts and other obstructions connected by powerful chains, half a mile below the forts; second, of an improvised fleet of sixteen rebel gunboats and a formidable floating battery.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000015_000000.wav|Porter's flotilla of nineteen schooners carrying two mortars each, anchored below the forts, maintained a heavy bombardment for five days, and then Farragut decided to try his ships.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000015_000003.wav|The second division of nine ships was not quite so fortunate.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000016_000000.wav|The starlit night was quickly obscured by the smoke of the general cannonade from both ships and forts; but the heavy batteries of the latter had little effect on the passing fleet.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000013_000002.wav|With him were Commander David d Porter, in charge of a mortar flotilla of nineteen schooners and six armed steamships, and General Benjamin f Butler, at the head of an army contingent of six thousand men, soon to be followed by considerable reinforcements.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000004_000001.wav|Here not only the difficulties of approach, but the apparently insurmountable obstacle of making the soft, unctuous mud sustain heavy batteries, was overcome, and the fort compelled to surrender on april eleventh, after an effective bombardment.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000019_000001.wav|All the events would have favored an expedition of this kind.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000020_000002.wav|Neither help nor promise of help came from Halleck's army, and Farragut could therefore do nothing but turn his vessels down stream and return to New Orleans.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000001.wav|These were formidable forts of masonry, with an armament together of over a hundred guns, and garrisons of about six hundred men each.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000020_000000.wav|This left Vicksburg as the single barrier to the complete opening of the Mississippi, and that barrier was defended by only six batteries and a garrison of six Confederate regiments at the date of Farragut's arrival before it.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000021_000003.wav|But on july fourteenth he reported definitely that it would be impossible for him to render the expected aid.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000009_000002.wav|The Union officers who had witnessed the day's events with dismay, and were filled with gloomy forebodings for the morrow, while welcoming this providential reinforcement, were by no means reassured.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000007.wav|In his hazardous undertaking his faith was based largely on the skill and courage of his subordinate commanders of ships, and this faith was fully sustained by their gallantry and devotion.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000004_000000.wav|While the gradual occupation of the North Carolina coast was going on, two other expeditions of a similar nature were making steady progress. One of them, under the direction of General Quincy a Gillmore, carried on a remarkable siege operation against Fort Pulaski, standing on an isolated sea marsh at the mouth of the Savannah River.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000016_000006.wav|Aside from this, the Union fleet sustained much miscellaneous damage, but no serious injury in the furious battle of an hour and a half.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000002_000002.wav|Before the larger vessels could effect their entrance through Hatteras Inlet, captured in the previous August, a furious storm set in, which delayed the expedition nearly a month.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000006_000001.wav|His invention may be most quickly described as having a small, very low hull, covered by a much longer and wider flat deck only a foot or two above the water line, upon which was placed a revolving iron turret twenty feet in diameter, nine feet high, and eight inches thick, on the inside of which were two eleven inch guns trained side by side and revolving with the turret.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000005_000002.wav|In due time she was raised by the Confederates, covered with a sloping roof of railroad iron, provided with a huge wedge shaped prow of cast iron, and armed with a formidable battery of ten guns.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000014_000004.wav|He had, from the beginning of the undertaking, maintained the theory that a wooden fleet, properly handled, could successfully pass the batteries of the forts.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000020_000001.wav|But Farragut had with his expedition only two regiments of troops, and the rebel batteries were situated at such an elevation that the guns of the Union fleet could not be raised sufficiently to silence them.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000006_000000.wav|The particular one of these three especially intended for this peculiar emergency was a ship of entirely novel design, made by the celebrated inventor john Ericsson, a Swede by birth, but American by adoption-a man who combined great original genius with long scientific study and experience.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000017_000002.wav|Meanwhile, General Butler was busy moving his transports and troops around outside by sea to Quarantine; and, having occupied that point in force, Forts Jackson and saint Philip capitulated on april twenty eighth.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000007_000003.wav|These saw the uncouth monster coming and prepared for action.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000006_000002.wav|This unique naval structure was promptly nicknamed "a cheese box on a raft," and the designation was not at all inapt.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000018_000000.wav|Farragut immediately despatched an advance section of his fleet up the Mississippi.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000016_000004.wav|Immediately above the forts, the fleet of rebel gunboats joined in the battle, which now resolved itself into a series of conflicts between single vessels or small groups.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/156474/2673_156474_000012_000001.wav|Various preparations had been made and various plans discussed for an effective attempt against some prominent point on the Gulf coast.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000002.wav|But there is an advantage, too, in keeping to the high points.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000003.wav|It is not to a multiplicity of details that one must trust in a case like this.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000005.wav|And I do not believe that the American people have got so far away from their fundamentals that such recognition will be denied when the case is clearly put before them.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000000.wav|To the exposition of those fundamental issues this little book has been almost exclusively confined.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000004_000001.wav|But I do not wish to wind up on that note.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000004.wav|What is needed above all is a clear and wholehearted recognition of fundamentals.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000007.wav|Now an Amendment repealing the Eighteenth Amendment but at the same time conferring upon Congress the power to make laws concerning the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors, would make it possible for Congress to pass a Volstead act, or a beer and wine act, or no Liquor act at all, just as its own judgment or desire might dictate.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000009.wav|And it would have, I think, an incomparably more favorable reception, from the start, than would a proposal of simple repeal.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000006_000004.wav|To shake off this tyranny is one of the worthiest objects to which good Americans can devote themselves.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000002.wav|Towards that end many earnest and patriotic citizens are working; but of course they realize the stupendous difficulty of the task they have undertaken.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000013.wav|So far from settling the matter once for all, the Eighteenth Amendment has been a frightful breeder of unsettlement and contention, which bids fair to continue indefinitely.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000001.wav|It has left untouched a score of aspects of the question of drink, and of the prohibition of drink, which it would have been interesting to discuss, and the discussion of which would, I feel sure, have added to the strength of the argument I have endeavored to present.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000004_000002.wav|The right solution-a solution incomparably better than this which I have suggested on account of its apparently better chance of acceptance-is the outright repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000004_000000.wav|I have offered this suggestion for what it may be worth as a practical proposal; it seems certainly deserving of discussion, and I could not refrain from putting it forward as a possible means of relief from an intolerable situation.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000006_000006.wav|If it is allowed to stand, there is no telling in what quarter the next invasion of liberty will be made by fanatics possessed with the itch for perfection.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000006_000009.wav|To do that will be a splendid victory for all that we used to think of as American-for liberty, for individuality, for the freedom of each man to conduct his own life in his own way so long as he does not violate the rights of others, for the responsibility of each man for the evils he brings upon himself by the abuse of that freedom.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000006.wav|That Amendment imbeds Prohibition in the organic law of the country, and thus not only imposes it upon the individual States regardless of what their desires may be, but takes away from the nation itself the right to legislate upon the subject by the ordinary processes of law making.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000001_000000.wav|IS THERE ANY WAY OUT?|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000001.wav|The right means, and the only entirely satisfactory means, of escape from it is through the undoing of the error which brought it about-that is, through the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000006.wav|There is one and only one thing that could justify such a violation of liberty and of the cardinal principles of rational government as is embodied in the Eighteenth Amendment.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000008.wav|It would give the Federal Government a power which I think it would be far more wholesome to reserve to the States; but it would get rid of the worst part of the Eighteenth Amendment.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000006_000001.wav|It is unnecessary to appeal to statistics.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000007_000000.wav|THE END|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000005_000007.wav|In the face of desperate necessity, there may be justification for the most desperate remedy.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2673/162130/2673_162130_000003_000005.wav|A possible plan exists, however, which is not open to this objection, and yet the execution of which would not present such terrific difficulty as would the proposal of a simple repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.|2673
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000043_000000.wav|Even so, ten o'clock was about to strike.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000052_000000.wav|"Let's go, let's go!" I exclaimed.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000029_000004.wav|And yet . . . !|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000005_000000.wav|At eleven o'clock the electric lights came back on.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000038_000001.wav|I listened at the door to his stateroom. I heard the sound of footsteps.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000005_000001.wav|I went into the lounge.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000009_000001.wav|I couldn't sleep.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000029_000002.wav|No!|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000042_000000.wav|Then a sudden thought terrified me.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000062_000001.wav|We were rocking frightfully.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000005_000002.wav|It was deserted.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000046_000001.wav|I opened it gently. The lounge was plunged in profound darkness.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000017_000000.wav|"When?" I asked.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000058_000000.wav|"Maelstrom!|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000032_000000.wav|At six thirty Ned Land entered my stateroom.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000029_000003.wav|It was best not to meet him face to face! Best to try and forget him!|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000033_000001.wav|At ten o'clock the moon won't be up yet.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000015_000000.wav|"We're going to escape!"|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000023_000001.wav|We'll escape tonight even if the sea swallows us up!"|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000021_000000.wav|"What land is it?"|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000063_000000.wav|"We've got to hold on tight," Ned said, "and screw the nuts down again! If we can stay attached to the Nautilus, we can still make it . . . !"|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000009_000000.wav|I repaired to my stateroom.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000055_000001.wav|What was it? Had they spotted our escape?|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000032_000001.wav|He told me:|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000049_000002.wav|Enough!"|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000010_000001.wav|Always at incalculable speed! Always amid the High Arctic mists!|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000059_000000.wav|The Maelstrom!|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000016_000000.wav|I sat up.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000018_000000.wav|"Tonight.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000057_000000.wav|The Canadian paused in his work.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000026_000000.wav|"What's more," the Canadian added, "if they catch me, I'll defend myself, I'll fight to the death."|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000053_000000.wav|"Right away!" the Canadian replied.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000049_000000.wav|"O almighty God!|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000008_000000.wav|By evening we had cleared two hundred leagues up the Atlantic.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000019_000001.wav|Where are we?"|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000040_000003.wav|I no longer wanted to think. A half hour still to wait!|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000062_000003.wav|Its steel muscles were cracking. Sometimes it stood on end, the three of us along with it!|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000058_000001.wav|Maelstrom!" they were shouting.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000033_000002.wav|We'll take advantage of the darkness. Come to the skiff.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000031_000000.wav|At six o'clock I ate supper, but I had no appetite.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000028_000002.wav|I went out on the platform, where I could barely stand upright against the jolts of the billows. The skies were threatening, but land lay inside those dense mists, and we had to escape.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000062_000000.wav|What a predicament!|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000042_000002.wav|He would see me, perhaps speak to me!|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000038_000000.wav|What was he doing just then?|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000027_000000.wav|"Then we'll die together, Ned my friend."|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000042_000001.wav|Captain Nemo had left his stateroom. He was in the same lounge I had to cross in order to escape. There I would encounter him one last time.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000037_000002.wav|My heart was pounding mightily. I couldn't curb its pulsations.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/130900/836_130900_000019_000000.wav|"Yes.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000021_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty nine.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000015_000005.wav|I was confounded and said, 'Let some one else pilot the ship;' withdrawing myself from any further agency in their wickedness.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000015_000000.wav|"Then Bacchus (for it was indeed he), as if shaking off his drowsiness, exclaimed, 'What are you doing with me?|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000014_000007.wav|I said to my men, 'What god there is concealed in that form I know not, but some one there certainly is.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000009.wav|Then she made known her request.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000006.wav|That will put the matter beyond a doubt." Semele was persuaded to try the experiment.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000015_000003.wav|Where are you going to carry me?' One of them replied, 'Fear nothing; tell us where you wish to go and we will take you there.' 'Naxos is my home,' said Bacchus; 'take me there and you shall be well rewarded.' They promised so to do, and told me to pilot the ship to Naxos.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000025_000000.wav|The island where Ariadne was left was the favorite island of Bacchus, the same that he wished the Tyrrhenian mariners to carry him to, when they so treacherously attempted to make prize of him. As Ariadne sat lamenting her fate, Bacchus found her, consoled her, and made her his wife.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000015_000002.wav|Who brought me here?|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000016_000016.wav|'Fear not,' said he; 'steer towards Naxos.' I obeyed, and when we arrived there, I kindled the altars and celebrated the sacred rites of Bacchus."|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000016_000000.wav|"Then the god, pretending that he had just become aware of their treachery, looked out over the sea and said in a voice of weeping, 'Sailors, these are not the shores you promised to take me to; yonder island is not my home.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000016_000015.wav|Trembling with fear, the god cheered me.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000007_000001.wav|When Bacchus grew up he discovered the culture of the vine and the mode of extracting its precious juice; but Juno struck him with madness, and drove him forth a wanderer through various parts of the earth.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000013_000002.wav|Pentheus, beholding him with wrathful countenance, said, "Fellow! you shall speedily be put to death, that your fate may be a warning to others; but though I grudge the delay of your punishment, speak, tell us who you are, and what are these new rites you presume to celebrate."|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000015.wav|She was consumed to ashes.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000018_000008.wav|Autonoe seized one arm, Ino the other, and between them he was torn to pieces, while his mother shouted, "Victory!|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000008_000001.wav|But when it was known that Bacchus was advancing, men and women, but chiefly the latter, young and old, poured forth to meet him and to join his triumphal march.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000002.wav|Heaving a sigh, she said, "I hope it will turn out so, but I can't help being afraid.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000018_000009.wav|Victory! we have done it; the glory is ours!"|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty one|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000011.wav|The words escaped, and he could neither unsay his promise nor her request.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000007_000004.wav|Returning in triumph, he undertook to introduce his worship into Greece, but was opposed by some princes, who dreaded its introduction on account of the disorders and madness it brought with it.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000014.wav|Arrayed in this, he entered the chamber of Semele. Her mortal frame could not endure the splendors of the immortal radiance.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000004.wav|If he is indeed Jove, make him give some proof of it.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000017_000000.wav|Pentheus here exclaimed, "We have wasted time enough on this silly story.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000015_000001.wav|What is this fighting about?|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000015_000006.wav|They cursed me, and one of them, exclaiming, 'Don't flatter yourself that we depend on you for our safety;' took any place as pilot, and bore away from Naxos.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000004_000000.wav|BACCHUS-ARIADNE|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000006_000010.wav|The god would have stopped her as she spake, but she was too quick for him.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000016_000003.wav|All at once-strange as it may seem, it is true,--the vessel stopped, in the mid sea, as fast as if it was fixed on the ground.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000009_000000.wav|mr Longfellow in his "Drinking Song" thus describes the march of Bacchus:|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/836/131106/836_131106_000018_000007.wav|In vain he cries to his aunts to protect him from his mother.|836
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000009_000000.wav|Amidships was the conning tower, with its four searchlights, so arranged as to be capable of being used singly or together.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000016_000004.wav|He tacitly accepted them both, the one as a power for evil, the other as a power for good.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000026_000001.wav|"Blair and john Dene represent two epochs: Blair is the British Empire that was, john Dene is the British Empire that is to be.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000032_000003.wav|At the same moment the curtain of spray that screened the on coming chaser died down, her fine and sinister lines becoming discernible.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000022_000000.wav|Sir Lyster had been inclined to expostulate with his colleague upon the manner in which he gave way to john Dene's demands.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000039_000001.wav|As they reached her the two men nimbly climbed up the side and, Quinton leading, dived below to the office of works.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000030_000000.wav|Without a word the man with the boat hook pushed off, the motor was started and the boat throbbed her way to the entrance to the little harbour.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000004_000003.wav|They were his men, and this was their boat.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000004_000004.wav|Every time john Dene wrote to Blake, there was always a message for "the boys." "I know the boys will show these Britishers what Canada can do," he would write, or, "see that the boys get all they want and plenty to smoke." Remembering was john Dene's long suit; and his men would do anything for "the Boss."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000010_000000.wav|Abaft the conning tower were the engines, a switchboard, and finally the berths of the engine room staff.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000034_000000.wav|Grant and Quinton continued to talk in undertones, Grant asking questions, Quinton answering with great economy of words and prodigious salivation.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000010_000003.wav|She possessed an endurance of fifteen hundred miles, and as for the most part she held a watching brief, this would mean that she could remain at sea for a month or more.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000008_000000.wav|These projectiles were rendered additionally deadly by the fact that their heads became automatically magnetic as they sped through the water.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000001_000001.wav|His most acute emotion he expressed by fingering the right-hand side of his ragged beard, whilst his eyes seemed to smoulder as his thoughts slowly took shape.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000009_000001.wav|Thus it was possible to illuminate the waters for half a mile in every direction.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000038_000000.wav|"Jim there?"|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000027_000000.wav|"He is certainly a remarkable man," Sir Lyster had admitted conventionally, referring to john Dene.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000023_000001.wav|I think the effect would be salutary."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000008_000002.wav|They were fitted with small gyroscopes to keep them straight until the magnetic heads began to exert a dominating influence.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000024_000003.wav|There you see the results of the process.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000024_000005.wav|Now he goes about with a hunted look in his eyes, and a prayer in his heart that he may get through the day without being gingered up by the unspeakable john Dene."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000021_000000.wav|"When," he remarked, "I have to choose between giving john Dene his head and being gingered up, I prefer the first.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000032_000000.wav|A few minutes later a cloud of white spray indicated the approach of a small craft travelling at a high rate of speed.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000007_000008.wav|They had sufficient power to penetrate the plates of a submarine, and were furnished with an automatic detonator, which caused the bursting charge to explode three seconds after impact.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000007_000005.wav|guns; but these were in the nature of an auxiliary armament.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000044_000000.wav|From his pocket Grant drew a map, which he proceeded to unfold upon the table.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000032_000001.wav|Quinton continued to watch the approaching boat until the humped shoulders of a submarine chaser were distinguishable through the spume.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000007_000003.wav|amidships, tapering to a point fore and aft.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000041_000000.wav|"Sure," replied Blake.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000020_000007.wav|This was largely due to Sir Bridgman North's wise counsels.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000026_000002.wav|It's like one of Nelson's old three deckers against a super dreadnought, and Blair ain't the dreadnought."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000005_000002.wav|He seemed never to sleep or rest.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000011_000001.wav|She could then recharge her compressed air chambers without coming to the surface by means of a tube, through which fresh air could be sucked from the surface, and the foul discharged.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000030_000003.wav|From time to time Quinton gazed ahead through a pair of binoculars.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000036_000000.wav|"Ready for the trial trip?" he enquired of Quinton.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000040_000000.wav|"Through with everything?" he enquired, as he seated himself, and Quinton threw himself on a locker.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000005_000000.wav|Blake had not spared himself.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000011_000000.wav|Her speed submerged was fourteen knots, which gave her a superiority over the fastest German craft, and she could remain submerged for two days.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000034_000001.wav|The chaser, steering a south westerly course, was soon out of sight.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000020_000005.wav|He would represent the Admiralty.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000007_000007.wav|These fired small arrow headed missiles, rather like miniature torpedoes fitted with lance heads for cutting through nets.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000037_000000.wav|"Sure," was the reply as he spat over the side.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000002_000003.wav|Nothing else mattered, because nothing else was.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000032_000002.wav|As the boats neared each other he gave a quick command to the engineer, and the speed of the motor boat decreased.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000039_000003.wav|At the sight of Grant his eyes seemed to flash; but he made no movement except to hold out his hand, which Grant gripped.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000008_000001.wav|Thus the target against which they were launched achieved its own destination.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000029_000001.wav|Presently Blake took from his pocket a large silver watch, gazed at it with deliberation, then raising his eyes nodded to his companion.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000024_000002.wav|Look at poor Blair.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000011_000002.wav|These were weighted and floated in various parts in such a manner that they could be thrown out in a diagonal direction.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000001_000000.wav|Blake was a man upon whom silence had descended as a blight; heavy of build, slow of thought, ponderous of movement, he absorbed all and apparently gave out nothing.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000004_000002.wav|It was "the Boss" for whom they worked.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000021_000001.wav|It's infinitely less painful."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000005_000001.wav|When not engaged in the work of overseeing, he had thrown off his coat and worked with the most vigorous.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000016_000003.wav|He no more meant reproach to the Hun than to john Dene.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000004_000000.wav|As he puffed clouds of smoke for the breeze to pick up and scurry off with to the west, he thought lovingly of the work of the last two years, of the last month in particular.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000019_000000.wav|Blake gazed upon the unprepossessing features of his subordinate, and tugging a cigar from his pocket, handed it to him.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000028_000002.wav|Ginger or no ginger, john Dene's a man worth meeting, Grayne, on my soul he is."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000020_000002.wav|The two men turned and made their way to the cabin allotted to them as a sort of office of works.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000024_000000.wav|"For us, undoubtedly," Sir Bridgman had said drily.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000016_000001.wav|If he were forced to speech, he built up his phrases upon the foundation of a single word, "ruddy"; but apparently with entire unconsciousness that it had its uses as an oath.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000013_000002.wav|Under water there were only two dangers capable of threatening her-mines and depth charges.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000044_000001.wav|Quinton walked across and the three bent over, studying it with absorbed interest.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000002_000006.wav|It was to be her setting, just as a stage is the setting for a play.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000042_000000.wav|"I----" began Grant, then breaking off cast a swift look over his shoulder.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000039_000002.wav|As they entered Blake was sitting exactly as Quinton had left him an hour and a half previously.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000005_000005.wav|He had them merely for reference.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000043_000000.wav|Blake nodded his head comprehendingly, whilst Quinton spat in the direction of the door as if to defy eavesdroppers.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000006_000000.wav|And now all was ready.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84122/7128_84122_000024_000004.wav|He ceased to be an Imperialist within twenty four hours of john Dene's coming upon the scene.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000126_000001.wav|If he trusted anyone, he did it implicitly; if he distrusted anyone, he did it uncompromisingly.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000128_000000.wav|It was all very strange and very puzzling, she told herself.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000018_000001.wav|I don't like being trailed in this fashion, so if it's any of your boys just you whistle 'em off."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000134_000002.wav|She felt at the point of tears when he bade her good night and left the office, just as Big Ben was booming out the hour.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000122_000001.wav|"I haven't been ill."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000052_000000.wav|"You mustn't judge the whole British Navy by mr Blair," she said, looking up from her note book with a smile.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000095_000003.wav|He was just her employer, and in a few months he would go back to Canada, and she would never see him again.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000105_000000.wav|Apparently he sensed what was passing through her mind, for he turned to her again and said:|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000037_000001.wav|Why?"|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000117_000000.wav|"Oh, I just said what you told me.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000054_000000.wav|"So that if I prove a fool," continued Dorothy quietly, "it convicts you of being a fool also."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000069_000001.wav|He'll dance soon; but, my dear, his boots," and the comical grimace that had accompanied the remark had caused Dorothy to laugh in spite of herself.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000006_000000.wav|"Here, I'm being trailed."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000073_000000.wav|"Did you?"|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000046_000001.wav|How blind British statesmen were to the fact that the eyes of many Canadians were turned anxiously towards the great republic upon their borders; how in the rapid growth of the u s a they saw a convincing argument in favour of a tightening of the bonds that bound the Dominion to the Old Country.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000057_000001.wav|Presently he stopped in the middle of a letter.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000108_000003.wav|Had he been drugged?|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000049_000002.wav|He was a small eater, seeming to regard meals as a waste of time, and he seldom drank anything but water.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000129_000002.wav|Her sense of humour had deserted her, and she arrived at the office and left it very much upon her dignity.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000121_000002.wav|When he had signed the last letter she bluntly enquired if he felt better.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000119_000000.wav|Dorothy had expected him to make some remark about these enquiries. She knew that john Dene had no friends in London, and the questions as to when he was going away had struck her as strange.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000132_000001.wav|She seemed suddenly to have become imbued with all the qualities of the perfect secretary.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000078_000000.wav|"Well," nonchalantly, "I just said that at the Admiralty men always kept their secretaries well supplied with flowers and chocolates."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000059_000001.wav|At times he seemed unaware of her existence; at others she would, on looking up from her work, find him regarding her intently.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000092_000001.wav|It's not complimentary when I'm there," she added.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000032_000000.wav|"Apparently he objected to being called a dancing lizard, and told to quit his funny work." Sir Lyster smiled as if finding consolation in the fact that another had suffered at the hands of john Dene.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000025_000000.wav|Ten minutes later Sir Bridgman North found the First Lord sitting at his table, apparently deep in thought.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000055_000000.wav|"But that's another transaction," he objected.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000065_000000.wav|"Without hitching," laughed Dorothy.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000108_000004.wav|The thought caused her to pause in her work and glance up at him.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000051_000002.wav|He had just been expressing his unmeasured contempt for mr Blair.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000068_000005.wav|She was touched by the way in which he always looked after her mother, his gentleness and solicitude.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000063_000000.wav|"You see, what john Dene wants is managing," continued Dorothy sagely, "and no one understands how to do it except Sir Bridgman and me.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000094_000004.wav|No; john Dene is a very remarkable man; but he'd be very trying as a husband."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000092_000000.wav|"Well, he'll sit sometimes for an hour looking at nothing.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000131_000003.wav|That evening, Dorothy was always paid on the Friday evening, she held her head very high when she left the office.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000070_000000.wav|"If ever I marry a man," continued Marjorie, "it will be because of his boots.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000016_000000.wav|"Whether it's some of your boys, or the other lot."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000136_000002.wav|Impulsively she started forward, just as the taxi started and a moment later whizzed swiftly past her.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000067_000000.wav|"Now, mother, no poaching," cried Dorothy.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000081_000003.wav|When at last he spoke, it was to enquire of Dorothy if she liked men in uniform.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000011_000000.wav|mr Blair merely shook his head.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000111_000000.wav|At twelve o'clock lunch arrived, and Dorothy had to confess to herself that it was a lonely and unsatisfactory meal.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000135_000004.wav|No, he was looking in the opposite direction, apparently deep in thought.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000018_000000.wav|"Well, you might suggest that it doesn't please me mightily.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000064_000000.wav|"Stand without what, dear," asked mrs West.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000135_000002.wav|For a moment she thrilled.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000042_000000.wav|The quality about john Dene that had most impressed Dorothy was his power of concentration.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000099_000000.wav|She made no remark, however, merely seating herself in her customary place and waited for letters.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000120_000002.wav|Again lunch was brought for her, which she ate alone, and at five o'clock he came in and signed the letters.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000129_000001.wav|From that time her attitude was that of the injured woman, yet perfect secretary.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000075_000000.wav|"You didn't, Marjorie." There was incredulity in Dorothy's voice.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000132_000003.wav|She worked harder than ever and, when she had finished the tasks john Dene set her, she manufactured others so that her time should be fully occupied.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000060_000002.wav|Indents for stores and equipment had to be prepared for the Admiralty, reports from Blake read and replied to, requisitions for materials required had to be confirmed, samples obtained, examined, and finally passed, and instructions sent to Blake.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000081_000002.wav|Instead of appearing elated at the near approach of the fruition of his schemes, he sat at his table for fully half an hour looking straight in front of him.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000136_000000.wav|For a moment john Dene seemed to hesitate, then with a word to the driver he opened the door and got in.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000047_000002.wav|To him a Canada lost to the British Empire meant a British Empire lost to itself.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000071_000000.wav|"Marjorie, you're a little idiot," cried Dorothy.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000030_000001.wav|It----" Sir Lyster paused; then, seeing that he was expected to finish his sentence, he added, "It will really be something of a relief.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000023_000000.wav|"Sir Goliath Maggie has appointed Commander Ryles," said Sir Lyster.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000104_000001.wav|There was something in the glance and the brusque tone that puzzled her.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000068_000001.wav|The picnic had proved a great success, and Dorothy had been surprised at the change in john Dene's manner.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000129_000000.wav|It was at this period of her reasoning that Dorothy discovered her dignity.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000101_000001.wav|Several times she glanced at him, and noted that he appeared to be reading from the manuscript rather than dictating; but she decided that he had probably written out rough drafts in order to assure accuracy.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000086_000000.wav|As Dorothy left the office a few minutes after six he called her back.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000126_000002.wav|Where he liked, he liked to excess; where he disliked, he disliked to the elimination of all good qualities.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000033_000000.wav|"It's nothing to what he did to poor old Rayner," laughed Sir Bridgman. "A dear old chap, you know, but rather of the old blue water school."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000135_000006.wav|The driver, a little man with a grey moustache, Dorothy remembered to have seen him several times "crawling" about on the look out for fares.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000050_000000.wav|At the end of the day Dorothy would feel more tired than she had ever felt before; but she had caught something of john Dene's enthusiasm, which seemed to carry her along and defy the fatigues of the body.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000109_000003.wav|Dorothy was now convinced that something was wrong.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000091_000000.wav|"How do you mean, dear?" queried mrs West.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000109_000001.wav|To her surprise he picked up his hat and announced that he would not be back until five o'clock to sign the letters.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000037_000000.wav|"Don't like him!|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000087_000000.wav|"If I've forgotten anything you'd best remind me."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000022_000002.wav|One of my boys'll pick him up, Jim Grant's his name."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000108_000000.wav|"No, I'm afraid that's what it was," he acknowledged Dorothy's eyes opened just a little in surprise.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000122_000000.wav|"Better?" he interrogated.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000136_000003.wav|john Dene was evidently in a hurry.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000036_000001.wav|"Frankly, I don't like john Dene."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000110_000000.wav|Once or twice she caught him looking at her furtively; but immediately she raised her eyes, he hastily shifted his, as if caught in some doubtful act.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000124_000002.wav|Still she had to confess to herself that the old pleasure in her work had departed.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000137_000000.wav|Slowly Dorothy turned and pursued her way up Regent Street.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000041_000000.wav|During his absence, Dorothy was to be at the office each day until lunch time to attend to any matters that might crop up.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000089_000000.wav|"Is he, dear?" said mrs West non committally.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000104_000002.wav|Both were so unlike john Dene.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000113_000000.wav|"When are you going away, mr Dene?" asked Dorothy.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000022_000001.wav|"Your man had better be ready on Friday.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000104_000000.wav|Dorothy was startled.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000074_000000.wav|"Yes, and I stopped him."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000101_000002.wav|His voice was very strange.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000095_000000.wav|Dorothy spoke lightly; but during the last few days she had been asking herself what she would do when john Dene was gone.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000014_000002.wav|"Someone's following me around again," he announced, "and I want to know whether it's you or them."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000103_000000.wav|"Sleep well," he repeated, looking up at her, "I always sleep well."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000120_000001.wav|A few letters were dictated, a sheaf of documents handed to her to copy, and john Dene disappeared.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000115_000000.wav|"I merely asked because two people on the telephone enquired when you were going away."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000043_000000.wav|His quickness of decision and amazing vitality Dorothy found bewildering, accustomed as she was to the more methodical procedure of a Government department.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000077_000001.wav|The downrightness of Marjorie Rogers was both notorious and embarrassing.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000015_000000.wav|"Me or who?" queried Sir Lyster.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000057_000000.wav|For some time john Dene had continued to dictate.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000079_000001.wav|"I should like to slap you."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000029_000002.wav|They'll probably appreciate him there.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000135_000008.wav|Dorothy stood and watched.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000047_000000.wav|When on the subject he would stride restlessly up and down the room, snapping out short, sharp sentences of protest and criticism.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000013_000000.wav|"He's-he's rather busy," began mr Blair.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000031_000001.wav|"What happened?"|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000065_000001.wav|"That's one of his phrases.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000024_000003.wav|Don't forget to call off your boys;" and with that john Dene was gone.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000128_000003.wav|His whole bearing seemed to have changed, as if he had decided to regard her merely as a piece of mechanism, just as he did the typewriter, or his office chair.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000067_000001.wav|"john Dene is mine for keeps, and if I let you come out with us and play gooseberry, you mustn't try and cut me out, because," looking critically at her mother, "you could if you liked.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000114_000000.wav|"I don't know," he responded gruffly.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000097_000001.wav|She was a little puzzled.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000049_000000.wav|There were times when she felt, as she expressed it to her mother, as if she had been dining off beef essence and oxygen.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000135_000005.wav|She saw a taxi draw up beside him.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000019_000000.wav|"I doubt if you would be aware of the fact if we were having you shadowed, mr Dene," said Sir Lyster quietly, "and in any case it would be for your own safety."|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000060_000000.wav|For week after week they worked incessantly.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000042_000002.wav|A question addressed to him that was unrelated to what was in hand he would ignore, appearing not to have heard it; on the other hand a remark germane to the trend of his thoughts would produce an instant reply.|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7128/84121/7128_84121_000106_000000.wav|"I'm not feeling very well this morning, Miss West, I----"|7128
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000019_000001.wav|After dining and taking rather too much of the Hungarian wine, Nicholas- having exchanged kisses with the landowner, with whom he was already on the friendliest terms-galloped back over abominable roads, in the brightest frame of mind, continually urging on the driver so as to be in time for the governor's party.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000018_000000.wav|The landowner to whom Nicholas went was a bachelor, an old cavalryman, a horse fancier, a sportsman, the possessor of some century old brandy and some old Hungarian wine, who had a snuggery where he smoked, and who owned some splendid horses.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000025_000003.wav|Among these was the governor's wife herself, who welcomed Rostov as a near relative and called him "Nicholas."|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000020_000000.wav|When he had changed, poured water over his head, and scented himself, Nicholas arrived at the governor's rather late, but with the phrase "better late than never" on his lips.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000026_000002.wav|Nicholas was himself rather surprised at the way he danced that evening.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000017_000000.wav|Immediately on leaving the governor's, Nicholas hired post horses and, taking his squadron quartermaster with him, drove at a gallop to the landowner, fourteen miles away, who had the stud.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000016_000001.wav|My wife was a great friend of your mother's.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000009_000000.wav|As the war had caught him in the service, Nicholas Rostov took a close and prolonged part in the defense of his country, but did so casually, without any aim at self sacrifice, and he therefore looked at what was going on in Russia without despair and without dismally racking his brains over it.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000016_000000.wav|"You are Count Ilya Rostov's son?|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000027_000000.wav|All the evening Nicholas paid attention to a blue eyed, plump and pleasing little blonde, the wife of one of the provincial officials.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000015_000002.wav|He indicated the stud farms at which Nicholas might procure horses, recommended to him a horse dealer in the town and a landowner fourteen miles out of town who had the best horses, and promised to assist him in every way.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000012_000001.wav|When-free from soldiers, wagons, and the filthy traces of a camp-he saw villages with peasants and peasant women, gentlemen's country houses, fields where cattle were grazing, posthouses with stationmasters asleep in them, he rejoiced as though seeing all this for the first time.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000024_000002.wav|The Italian was, as it were, a war trophy.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000007_000004.wav|If he tries to realize it his efforts are fruitless.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000014_000002.wav|Nicholas was in such good spirits that this merely amused him.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000007_000003.wav|Only unconscious action bears fruit, and he who plays a part in an historic event never understands its significance.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000019_000000.wav|In very few words Nicholas bought seventeen picked stallions for six thousand rubles-to serve, as he said, as samples of his remounts.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000024_000001.wav|Among the men was an Italian prisoner, an officer of the French army; and Nicholas felt that the presence of that prisoner enhanced his own importance as a Russian hero.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000026_000001.wav|His particularly free manner of dancing even surprised them all.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000006_000001.wav|The tales and descriptions of that time without exception speak only of the self sacrifice, patriotic devotion, despair, grief, and the heroism of the Russians.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000026_000003.wav|He had never danced like that in Moscow and would even have considered such a very free and easy manner improper and in bad form, but here he felt it incumbent on him to astonish them all by something unusual, something they would have to accept as the regular thing in the capital though new to them in the provinces.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000014_000001.wav|He received Nicholas brusquely (imagining this to be characteristically military) and questioned him with an important air, as if considering the general progress of affairs and approving and disapproving with full right to do so.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000026_000000.wav|Catherine Petrovna did actually play valses and the ecossaise, and dancing began in which Nicholas still further captivated the provincial society by his agility.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000025_000001.wav|At posting stations, at inns, and in the landowner's snuggery, maidservants had been flattered by his notice, and here too at the governor's party there were (as it seemed to Nicholas) an inexhaustible number of pretty young women, married and unmarried, impatiently awaiting his notice.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000006_000003.wav|It appears so to us because we see only the general historic interest of that time and do not see all the personal human interests that people had.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000024_000003.wav|Nicholas felt this, it seemed to him that everyone regarded the Italian in the same light, and he treated him cordially though with dignity and restraint.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000008_000000.wav|The more closely a man was engaged in the events then taking place in Russia the less did he realize their significance.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000012_000002.wav|What for a long while specially surprised and delighted him were the women, young and healthy, without a dozen officers making up to each of them; women, too, who were pleased and flattered that a passing officer should joke with them.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000015_000000.wav|From the commander of the militia he drove to the governor.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000007_000002.wav|In historic events the rule forbidding us to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is specially applicable.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000006_000002.wav|But it was not really so.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000007_000001.wav|Even those, fond of intellectual talk and of expressing their feelings, who discussed Russia's position at the time involuntarily introduced into their conversation either a shade of pretense and falsehood or useless condemnation and anger directed against people accused of actions no one could possibly be guilty of.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000006_000004.wav|Yet in reality those personal interests of the moment so much transcend the general interests that they always prevent the public interest from being felt or even noticed.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178030/3835_178030_000015_000001.wav|The governor was a brisk little man, very simple and affable.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000024_000001.wav|"You set me at ease, Colonel."|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000019_000001.wav|"Conceal nothing from me, I wish to know absolutely how things are."|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000031_000000.wav|"Sire!" said he, "Your Majesty is at this moment signing the glory of the nation and the salvation of Europe!"|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000013_000000.wav|"Yes, sire, and Moscow is now in ashes.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000016_000000.wav|"I see, Colonel, from all that is happening, that Providence requires great sacrifices of us...|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000015_000001.wav|He suddenly frowned, as if blaming himself for his weakness, and raising his head addressed Michaud in a firm voice:|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000019_000000.wav|"Colonel, I always require it," replied the Emperor.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000013_000001.wav|I left it all in flames," replied Michaud in a decided tone, but glancing at the Emperor he was frightened by what he had done.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000021_000001.wav|"Would misfortune make my Russians lose heart?...|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000028_000002.wav|I have learned to know him, and he will not deceive me any more...."|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000014_000000.wav|The Emperor began to breathe heavily and rapidly, his lower lip trembled, and tears instantly appeared in his fine blue eyes.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000021_000000.wav|"How is that?" the Emperor interrupted him, frowning sternly.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000029_000000.wav|And the Emperor paused, with a frown.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000007_000000.wav|"Have you brought me sad news, Colonel?"|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000027_000002.wav|The Emperor's mild and handsome face was flushed and his eyes gleamed with resolution and anger.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000028_000001.wav|"We can no longer both reign together.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000021_000002.wav|Never!"|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000008_000001.wav|"The abandonment of Moscow."|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000022_000000.wav|Michaud had only waited for this to bring out the phrase he had prepared.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000008_000000.wav|"Very sad, sire," replied Michaud, lowering his eyes with a sigh.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000012_000000.wav|"Has the enemy entered the city?" he asked.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000001_000000.wav|Nine days after the abandonment of Moscow, a messenger from Kutuzov reached Petersburg with the official announcement of that event.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000032_000000.wav|With an inclination of the head the Emperor dismissed him.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000023_000000.wav|"Sire," he said, with respectful playfulness, "they are only afraid lest Your Majesty, in the goodness of your heart, should allow yourself to be persuaded to make peace.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000026_000000.wav|"Well, then, go back to the army," he said, drawing himself up to his full height and addressing Michaud with a gracious and majestic gesture, "and tell our brave men and all my good subjects wherever you go that when I have not a soldier left I shall put myself at the head of my beloved nobility and my good peasants and so use the last resources of my empire.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000011_000000.wav|The Emperor listened in silence, not looking at Michaud.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178029/3835_178029_000016_000002.wav|Did you not notice discouragement?..."|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000005_000001.wav|"I always said he was the only man capable of defeating Napoleon."|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000013_000000.wav|On receiving this dispatch the Emperor sent Prince Volkonski to Kutuzov with the following rescript:|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000012_000003.wav|Kutuzov's action decides the fate of the capital and of your empire!|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000009_000001.wav|This was terrible!|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000003_000001.wav|General events involuntarily group themselves around some particular incident.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000007_000005.wav|It was said that Prince Vasili and the old count had turned upon the Italian, but the latter had produced such letters from the unfortunate deceased that they had immediately let the matter drop.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000006_000001.wav|The courtiers suffered because of the suffering the suspense occasioned the Emperor.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000001_000004.wav|It followed that there must have been a victory.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000009_000000.wav|On the third day after Kutuzov's report a country gentleman arrived from Moscow, and news of the surrender of Moscow to the French spread through the whole town.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000004_000000.wav|"What a wonderful coincidence!|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000012_000002.wav|Sire!|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000007_000002.wav|Moreover, toward evening, as if everything conspired to make Petersburg society anxious and uneasy, a terrible piece of news was added.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000003_000000.wav|It is very difficult for events to be reflected in their real strength and completeness amid the conditions of court life and far from the scene of action.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000010_000000.wav|"I only wonder that the fate of Russia could have been entrusted to such a man."|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000007_000003.wav|Countess Helene Bezukhova had suddenly died of that terrible malady it had been so agreeable to mention.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000007_000001.wav|That day Prince Vasili no longer boasted of his protege Kutuzov, but remained silent when the commander in chief was mentioned.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000014_000002.wav|You can yourself imagine the effect this news has had on me, and your silence increases my astonishment.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000012_000006.wav|I have had everything removed, and it only remains for me to weep over the fate of my fatherland.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000003_000005.wav|In the Petersburg world this sad side of the affair again involuntarily centered round a single incident: Kutaysov's death.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000001_000002.wav|It was Kutuzov's report, written from Tatarinova on the day of the battle.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000002_000000.wav|Anna Pavlovna's presentiment was justified, and all that morning a joyously festive mood reigned in the city.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000007_000000.wav|"Fancy the Emperor's position!" said they, and instead of extolling Kutuzov as they had done the day before, they condemned him as the cause of the Emperor's anxiety.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000004_000003.wav|How sorry I am!"|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000003_000003.wav|It was like a successfully arranged surprise.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000005_000000.wav|"What did I tell about Kutuzov?" Prince Vasili now said with a prophet's pride.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000001_000001.wav|Next day during the service at the palace church in honor of the Emperor's birthday, Prince Volkonski was called out of the church and received a dispatch from Prince Kutuzov.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000001_000005.wav|And at once, without leaving the church, thanks were rendered to the Creator for His help and for the victory.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000014_000000.wav|Prince Michael Ilarionovich!|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000004_000001.wav|Just during the service.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000003_000007.wav|That day everyone met with the words:|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000003_000006.wav|Everybody knew him, the Emperor liked him, and he was young and interesting.|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3835/178028/3835_178028_000009_000002.wav|What a position for the Emperor to be in!|3835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000027_000002.wav|Not for a moment did I think there was anything in the purse till my brother said: "You foolish girl, why don't you open it?" I opened the purse, and found it contained a check for fifty dollars!|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000022_000000.wav|The time came when two diverse paths lay before me-one to England, as an artist; one to China, as a missionary.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000022_000001.wav|Circumstances made a definite decision most difficult.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000007_000002.wav|Soon all were joining in the chase after the bird, which flew or hopped in front or just above, and sometimes on the ground almost within reach.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000017_000004.wav|This unexpected and timely draft proved to be a bonus, which did not occur again.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000001_000000.wav|EARLY LESSONS IN THE LIFE OF FAITH|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000026_000002.wav|But I was kept back from doing so; and though I had a week or more of severe testing, peace of mind and the assurance that God would supply my need, came at length.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000025_000002.wav|The incidents related impressed me deeply.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000026_000000.wav|It was my first experience of trusting quite alone for money.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000025_000001.wav|In "China's Spiritual Needs and Claims" the writer told many instances of God's gracious provision in answer to prayer.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000015_000000.wav|It was as if God spoke the words directly to me.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304534/7730_304534_000025_000004.wav|The thought came-if you cannot trust God for this, when Hudson Taylor could trust for so much more, are you worthy to be a missionary?|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000033_000000.wav|one.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000023_000000.wav|one.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000005_000004.wav|We decided on the latter course.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000008_000000.wav|Tears stood in her eyes as my daughter gave the letter back, saying: "Mother, we don't trust God half enough!"|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000002_000000.wav|TO HIS PRAISE!|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000013_000003.wav|Just before they were to leave he was again sent for from Headquarters, and told he was to go to the Canadian Base in France as adjutant.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000003_000000.wav|"They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness."|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000011_000000.wav|"There is nothing too great for his power, And nothing too small for his love!"|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000009_000000.wav|Were I to attempt to write the history of the months that followed, a long chapter would be required; but my testimony along this line is surely sufficient.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000015_000001.wav|The request was a complicated one, including several definite details.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000016_000005.wav|And before we reached the station the assurance had come that we would get a place.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000006_000001.wav|The day came when this child and myself took possession of our new home.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000032_000000.wav|Causes of Failure in Prayer|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000013_000001.wav|Months later a call came for volunteers, to fill the great gaps made at the time of the first use of gas.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000020_000000.wav|As the past has been reviewed, and God's wonderful faithfulness recalled, there has come a great sense of regret that I have not trusted God more, and asked more of him, both for my family and the Chinese. Yes, it is truly wonderful!|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000022_000000.wav|Conditions of Prevailing Prayer|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000015_000003.wav|She wrote joyously, telling that she had received just what I had asked for, and in every detail as I had prayed.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000019_000000.wav|I am now writing these closing words in our God given home, built on this beautiful site, one of the most lovely spots to be found in China. So from this quiet mountain retreat, a monument of what God can give in answer to prayer, this little book of Prayer Testimonies is sent forth.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000005_000001.wav|Only two ways seemed open to us.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000010_000006.wav|Praise his name!|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000017_000001.wav|I'll ask them to give it to you."|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000016_000002.wav|On going there to get a site for our home, though we looked for more than a week, we could find no place.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000035_000000.wav|three.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000013_000006.wav|He had begun making arrangements for this step, when he had a fall from his horse, which caused him to be invalided home to Canada, where he was kept till the close of the war.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000010_000005.wav|That is, so that I could stand up before an audience and not bring discredit to my Master.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304541/7730_304541_000012_000002.wav|My boy did not know of this prayer.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000038_000000.wav|During our fourth year in China, when we were spending the hot season at the coast, our little son, eighteen months old, was taken very ill with dysentery.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000018_000003.wav|His coming at such an opportune moment filled the hearts of their heathen enemies with fear.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000026_000000.wav|The first was Wang Feng ao, who came with us into Honan as mr Goforth's personal teacher.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000036_000003.wav|But, as I remembered dr Corbett's testimony, and my own clear call, I felt that to go back would be to go against my own conscience.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000012_000000.wav|Some hours later he returned, his face beaming with joy.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000021_000003.wav|The people did not know what he could do, and moreover they were afraid to trust themselves into his hands.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000024_000001.wav|We had heard of missionaries in India, China, and elsewhere, who had worked for many years without gaining converts; but we did not believe that this was God's will for us.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000036_000002.wav|And as I lay there ill and weak, the temptation came to yield.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000016_000003.wav|They found themselves at last left alone, their lives spared, but everything gone.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000036_000004.wav|I therefore determined to do as dr Corbett had done-leave myself in the Lord's hands-whether for life or for death. This happened more than twenty years ago, and since then I have had very little trouble from that dread disease.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000018_000004.wav|Money and goods were returned, and from that time the violent opposition of the people ceased.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000034_000002.wav|So what could I do?|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000040_000001.wav|Thinking my darling was gone, I hastened for a light, for it was dark; but on examining the child's face I found that he had sunk into a deep, sound, natural sleep, which lasted most of the night. The following day he was practically well of the dysentery.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000025_000000.wav|Space permits the mention of but two of these earliest converts.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000024_000004.wav|The experience of thirty years has confirmed this belief.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000001_000000.wav|three|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000029_000001.wav|For many years his business had been that of a public story teller; but when mr Goforth came across him he was reduced to an utter wreck through opium smoking. He accepted the Gospel, but for a long time seemed too weak to break off the opium habit.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000038_000001.wav|After several days' fight for the child's life came the realization, one evening, that the angel of death was at hand.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7730/304535/7730_304535_000029_000002.wav|Again and again he tried to do so, but failed hopelessly each time.|7730
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000007_000000.wav|'Her death presents to us a great and awful lesson,' continued the abbess; 'let us read it, and profit by it; let it teach us to prepare ourselves for the change, that awaits us all!|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixteen|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000004_000000.wav|Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. More needs she the divine, than the physician. MACBETH|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000017_000004.wav|Hah! there again!|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000071_000010.wav|Bonnac, if it had been possible for him to forget the benevolent Valancourt, would have wished that Emily might accept the just Du Pont.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000064_000002.wav|He succeeded; the heavy debt, that oppressed me, was discharged; and, when I would have expressed my sense of the obligation I had received, my benefactor was fled from my search.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000053_000002.wav|What!|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000053_000003.wav|Blood-blood too!--There was no blood-thou canst not say it!--Nay, do not smile,--do not smile so piteously!'|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000056_000005.wav|Du Pont to invite him to the chateau.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000063_000001.wav|Du Pont he recited some particulars of his late sufferings, when it appeared, that he had been confined for several months in one of the prisons of Paris, with little hope of release, and without the comfort of seeing his wife, who had been absent in the country, endeavouring, though in vain, to procure assistance from his friends.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000064_000004.wav|Amiable and unfortunate Valancourt!'|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000035_000010.wav|I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge-but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000035_000007.wav|What are riches-grandeur-health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul;--and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair-to the anguish of an afflicted one!|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000027_000002.wav|When she had finished, she returned the miniature to Emily. 'Keep it,' said she, 'I bequeath it to you, for I must believe it is your right.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132601/3379_132601_000006_000000.wav|Emily expressed her sincere concern.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000047_000000.wav|'That is an odd remark,' said Frances.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000033_000001.wav|Your services have already awakened her gratitude, and your sufferings her pity; and trust me, my friend, in a heart so sensible as hers, gratitude and pity lead to love.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000024_000000.wav|'No,' replied Frances, 'the evening service is passed.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000011_000000.wav|In the evening, the Count called, as he had promised, at the convent, and Emily was surprised to perceive a mixture of playful ridicule and of reserve in his mention of the north apartment.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000046_000000.wav|Emily did not appear to notice this question, but remained thoughtful, for a few moments, and then said, 'It was about that same period that the Marchioness de Villeroi expired.'|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000022_000002.wav|I see them now-now!'|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000023_000005.wav|Was not that the vesper bell?'|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000017_000001.wav|I mean you are yet innocent of any great crime!--But you have passions in your heart,--scorpions; they sleep now-beware how you awaken them!--they will sting you, even unto death!'|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000001_000000.wav|Give thy thoughts no tongue. SHAKESPEARE|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000039_000001.wav|At first, she was frantic and melancholy by quick alternatives; then, she sunk into a deep and settled melancholy, which still, however, has, at times, been interrupted by fits of wildness, and, of late, these have again been frequent.'|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000020_000001.wav|'We are taught to hope, that prayer and penitence will work our salvation.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000002_000003.wav|I do not scruple to tell you, that I am unhappy, and that the watch of the last night has not assisted me to discover Ludovico; upon every occurrence of the night you must excuse my reserve.'|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000012_000000.wav|Soon after, he took leave, and, when Emily joined some of the nuns, she was surprised to find them acquainted with a circumstance, which she had carefully avoided to mention, and expressing their admiration of his intrepidity in having dared to pass a night in the apartment, whence Ludovico had disappeared; for she had not considered with what rapidity a tale of wonder circulates.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000025_000000.wav|'You are right,' replied sister Agnes, 'I shall be better there.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000015_000000.wav|'The guilty cannot claim that protection!' said sister Agnes, 'let the Count look to his conduct, that he do not forfeit his claim!|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000020_000002.wav|There is hope for all who repent!'|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3379/132592/3379_132592_000037_000003.wav|By what means he did this, I never could learn; but he secreted her in this convent, where he afterwards prevailed with her to take the veil, while a report was circulated in the world, that she was dead, and the father, to save his daughter, assisted the rumour, and employed such means as induced her husband to believe she had become a victim to his jealousy.|3379
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000092_000003.wav|For the sake of argument, let us say I am a Rogue.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000029_000006.wav|In the meantime, the first consideration was to be beforehand with the messenger from London, and to lay hands securely on the young lady herself.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000081_000000.wav|"Granted with all my heart-a hit, a palpable hit.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000061_000002.wav|We all inherit our hot blood from my maternal grandfather."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000045_000000.wav|Magdalen frowned, and drew back a step.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000007.wav|Possible, certainly; but no more.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000075_000000.wav|"Suppose I choose to depend on nobody, and to act for myself?" said Magdalen.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000098_000000.wav|She followed him a few steps, and suddenly stopped.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000029_000003.wav|The second course was to deserve the gratitude of the young lady's friends, rated at fifty pounds.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000012.wav|We are within five minutes' walk of my present address.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000004.wav|Doubtful, considering that she was entirely by herself.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000036_000003.wav|The captain glanced doubtfully at the darkening sky, and walked on.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000096_000007.wav|Nobody's child must sleep under Somebody's roof-and why not yours?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000036_000001.wav|He paused at this place-where the central activity of a great railway enterprise beats, with all the pulses of its loud clanging life, side by side with the dead majesty of the past, deep under the old historic stones which tell of fortified York and the sieges of two centuries since-he stood on this spot, and searched for her again, and searched in vain.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000092_000002.wav|Well, I waive my privilege of setting you right on that point for a fitter time.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000035_000002.wav|Had this noble prospect tempted the lost girl to linger and look at it?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000006_000004.wav|After a moment's hesitation, the captain sauntered after the cabs.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000072_000001.wav|"It has just occurred to my mind that you might actually have spoken in earnest. My poor child! how can I earn the fifty pounds before the reward is offered to me?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000038_000001.wav|He advanced with eager eyes and quickened step; for he saw before him the lonely figure of a woman, standing by the parapet of the wall, with her face set toward the westward view.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000015.wav|You distrust me?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000096_000000.wav|"There is some truth in that," she said.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000005_000001.wav|The railway mania of that famous year had attacked even the wary Wragge; had withdrawn him from his customary pursuits; and had left him prostrate in the end, like many a better man.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000002_000003.wav|Very little light enters it; very few people live in it; the floating population of Skeldergate passes it by; and visitors to the Walk on the Walls, who use it as the way up or the way down, get out of the dreary little passage as fast as they can.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000047_000001.wav|He instantly met the attempt by raising both hands, and displaying a pair of darned black gloves outspread in polite protest.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000058_000002.wav|"Is the mark on my neck described all over York?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000073_000000.wav|"Never!" said Magdalen, firing at the bare suggestion, exactly as the captain had intended she should.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000065_000003.wav|Having, on this rare occasion, nothing to gain by concealment, he departed from his ordinary habits, and, with the utmost amazement at the novelty of his own situation, permitted himself to tell the unmitigated truth.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000009.wav|Or to Messrs.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000024_000000.wav|"Any name, sir?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000069_000000.wav|Those plain words so completely staggered Captain Wragge that for the moment he stood speechless.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000003.wav|Personal appearance-hair of a very light brown; eyebrows and eyelashes darker; eyes light gray; complexion strikingly pale; lower part of her face large and full; tall upright figure; walks with remarkable grace and ease; speaks with openness and resolution; has the manners and habits of a refined, cultivated lady.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000027_000000.wav|On this occasion Captain Wragge made no attempt to follow him.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000062_000000.wav|"How did you come by it?" she asked, suddenly.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000054_000001.wav|Before I enter upon the personal statement which your flattering inquiry claims from me, pray bestow a moment's attention on this Document."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000014.wav|Where next?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000039_000001.wav|As she slowly turned her face and looked at him, he raised his hat, with the nearest approach to respect which a long life of unblushing audacity had left him capable of making.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000084_000001.wav|What is to prevent my sending the ticket for it?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000031_000003.wav|But if the inference which the handbill suggested was correct-if she was really alone at that moment in the city of York-where was she likely to be?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000037_000000.wav|He stopped again where the postern of Micklegate still stands, and still strengthens the city wall as of old.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000007_000003.wav|Dozens of different people were trying to attain dozens of different objects, in dozens of different directions, all starting from the same common point and all equally deprived of the means of information.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000078_000000.wav|Those words decided the only doubt which now remained in the captain's mind-the doubt whether the course was clear before him.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000055_000002.wav|No tender consideration had prepared her for the shock, no kind word softened it to her when it came.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000006.wav|Pray observe, I say nothing about to morrow-I leave to morrow to you, and confine myself exclusively to the night.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000066_000002.wav|She looked him steadily in the face; and all she said, when he had neatly rounded his last sentence, was-"Go on."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000007_000002.wav|The customary disturbance was rising to its climax as Captain Wragge approached the platform.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000043_000002.wav|I presented myself on that memorable occasion to an honored preceptress in your late father's family.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000010_000000.wav|"FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000072_000002.wav|Those handbills may not be publicly posted for a week to come.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000025_000001.wav|I am a stranger in York; will you kindly tell me which is the way to Coney Street?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000015_000000.wav|"Does mr Huxtable live here?" asked the traveler.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000007_000000.wav|He reached the platform a few minutes after the train had arrived. That entire incapability of devising administrative measures for the management of large crowds, which is one of the characteristics of Englishmen in authority, is nowhere more strikingly exemplified than at York.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000053_000001.wav|He immediately replied, to the best practical purpose, by producing the handbill from his pocket.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000005_000008.wav|He paced the streets of York, a man superior to clothes and circumstances-his vagabond varnish as bright on him as ever.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000004.wav|Personal marks-two little moles, close together, on the left side of the neck.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000034_000003.wav|The sun had set more than half an hour since; the red light lay broad and low in the cloudless western heaven; all visible objects were softening in the tender twilight, but were not darkening yet.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000012_000001.wav|The traveler was less observant; his whole attention was fixed on the opposite bank of the river, and he left the boat hastily the moment it touched the landing place.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000081_000001.wav|Now for my turn.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000079_000002.wav|But (excuse the bold assertion), to walk on a way of your own, you must first have a way to walk on.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000034_000000.wav|In ten minutes more Captain Wragge was exploring the new field of search.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000035_000000.wav|On his right hand, as he set forth, stretched the open country beyond the walls-the rich green meadows, the boundary trees dividing them, the broad windings of the river in the distance, the scattered buildings nearer to view; all wrapped in the evening stillness, all made beautiful by the evening peace.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000005.wav|In a pastry cook's shop? Far more likely.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000044_000000.wav|By this time he had recovered complete possession of his own impudence; his party colored eyes twinkled cheerfully, and he accompanied his modest announcement of himself with a dancing master's bow.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000097_000000.wav|"This way," said the captain, dexterously profiting by the sudden change in her humor, and cunningly refraining from exasperating it by saying more himself.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000045_000003.wav|"W, R, A, double G, E-Wragge," said the captain, ticking off the letters persuasively on his fingers.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000090_000000.wav|She answered him with a woman's desperate disregard of consequences when she is driven to bay-she answered him instantly,|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000029_000001.wav|The first course was to do nothing in the matter at all.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000000.wav|Not in the crowded thoroughfares, to begin with.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000010.wav|Wyatt, Pendril, and Gwilt, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, London."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000035_000003.wav|No; thus far, not a sign of her.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000005.wav|Can anything be more satisfactory, under all the circumstances?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000022_000001.wav|The young lady told me she would come back at eight o'clock."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000021_000000.wav|"Exactly; I come on the same business.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000072_000006.wav|There is a train to London at nine forty five to night.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000031_000000.wav|Where was the adopted relative at that moment?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000102_000000.wav|"Not with Norah," she said, sadly.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000026_000000.wav|The woman gave the required information, the door closed, and the stranger hastened away in the direction of Coney Street.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000012_000002.wav|Captain Wragge recovered himself, pocketed the handbill, and followed his leader for the second time.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000072_000005.wav|Very good. Button them up in spite of me with your own fair fingers.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000007_000001.wav|Three different lines of railway assemble three passenger mobs, from morning to night, under one roof; and leave them to raise a traveler's riot, with all the assistance which the bewildered servants of the company can render to increase the confusion.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000075_000001.wav|"What then?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000053_000000.wav|The captain's curly lip took a new twist upward.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000073_000002.wav|I forgive Norah," she added, turning away and speaking to herself, "but not mr Pendril, and not Miss Garth."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000099_000001.wav|"Who has any authority over me?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000035_000001.wav|On his left hand, the majestic west front of York Minster soared over the city and caught the last brightest light of heaven on the summits of its lofty towers.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000074_000007.wav|You are young, you are inexperienced, you are in imminent danger.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000083_000000.wav|"Excellent hotels for large families; excellent hotels for single gentlemen.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000042_000000.wav|"You are mistaken," she said, quietly.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000103_000000.wav|"This way," repeated Captain Wragge.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000016_000000.wav|"Yes, sir," was the answer, in a woman's voice.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000006.wav|Had, when she left London, one black box, and no other luggage.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000066_000001.wav|She was not startled; she was not irritated; she showed no disposition to cast herself on his mercy, and to seek his advice.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000010.wav|These are topics for the future.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000058_000001.wav|"Is this thing shown publicly?" she asked, stamping her foot on it.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000074_000002.wav|I should have done the same myself at your age.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000070_000000.wav|"Smart," said the captain, laughing indulgently, and drumming with his umbrella on the pavement.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000033_000001.wav|"The quietest place in York; and the place that every stranger goes to see."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000006.wav|Driving about in a cab?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000076_000001.wav|Trap the first, at mr Huxtable's house; trap the second, at all the hotels; trap the third, at the railway station; trap the fourth, at the theater.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000008_000002.wav|When a man happens not to be possessed of fifty pence in his own pocket, if his heart is in the right place, it bounds; if his mouth is properly constituted, it waters, at the sight of another man who carries about with him a printed offer of fifty pounds sterling, addressed to his fellow creatures.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000042_000001.wav|"You are a perfect stranger to me."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000002_000002.wav|This place is called Rosemary Lane.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000009_000003.wav|With his back carefully turned on the traveler, Captain Wragge now possessed his mind of the following lines:|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000034_000004.wav|The first few lamps lit in the street below looked like faint little specks of yellow light, as the captain started on his walk through one of the most striking scenes which England can show.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000002.wav|Dress-deep mourning.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000041_000000.wav|She looked at him with a cold surprise.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000079_000000.wav|"I respect independence of character wherever I find it," he said, with an air of virtuous severity.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000049_000000.wav|"Why not?" she asked haughtily.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000055_000000.wav|She took the handbill from him.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000102_000002.wav|Not with Norah."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000100_000000.wav|"Can you trust your courage with your sister?" whispered the captain, who had not forgotten the references to Norah which had twice escaped her already.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000046_000000.wav|"I remember your name," said Magdalen.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000035_000004.wav|The captain looked round him attentively, and walked on.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000022_000000.wav|"No, sir; he has been away all day.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000085_000005.wav|Here is night coming on as fast as it can.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000096_000002.wav|I have my end to gain-and who am I, to pick and choose the way of getting to it?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000078_000003.wav|"She's worth more than fifty pounds to me in her present situation, or she isn't.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000021_000001.wav|Did she see mr Huxtable?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000015.wav|The captain stopped, looked across the river, brightened under the influence of a new idea, and suddenly hastened back to the ferry.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000019_000000.wav|"I think a young lady called here early in the day, did she not?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000085_000001.wav|Think; pray think!|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000065_000002.wav|Briefly thus." Here Captain Wragge entered on his personal statement; taking his customary vocal exercise through the longest words of the English language, with the highest elocutionary relish.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000005_000002.wav|He had lost his clerical appearance-he had faded with the autumn leaves.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000025_000000.wav|"No; say a gentleman called on theatrical business-that will be enough. Wait one minute, if you please.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000008.wav|Loitering away the time in some quiet locality, out of doors? Likely enough, again, on that fine autumn evening.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000081_000002.wav|To get to to morrow (excuse the bold assertion, once more), you must first pass through to night.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000092_000004.wav|What is mr Huxtable?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000074_000003.wav|It runs in the blood.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000052_000001.wav|"What do you mean by mentioning him to me?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000096_000006.wav|We know better than that, don't we, Captain Wragge? You are quite right.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000074_000000.wav|"Quite right!" said Captain Wragge.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000064_000000.wav|"How did you come by that handbill?" she repeated, passionately.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000055_000004.wav|The bill dropped from her hand; her face flushed deeply.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000043_000004.wav|My name is Wragge."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000065_000000.wav|"I beg ten thousand pardons!|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000079_000004.wav|mr Huxtable is out of the question, to begin with."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000014.wav|No? You hesitate?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000011_000005.wav|Mark on the under clothing-'Magdalen Vanstone.' Is supposed to have joined, or attempted to join, under an assumed name, a theatrical company now performing at York.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000099_000002.wav|Who can take me back, if I don't choose to go?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000067_000001.wav|"Shocked to disappoint you, I am sure; but the fact is, I have done."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000074_000004.wav|Hark! there goes the clock again-half past seven.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000093_000000.wav|"A respectable man, or I should not have seen him in the house where we first met."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000095_000000.wav|Magdalen laughed, bitterly.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000089_000002.wav|In the plainest terms, now, what have you heard?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000069_000001.wav|But he had faced awkward truths of all sorts far too often to be permanently disconcerted by them.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000068_000000.wav|"No, you have not," she rejoined; "you have left out the end of your story.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000072_000007.wav|Submit yourself to your friend's wishes and go back by it."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000103_000001.wav|She roused herself; looked up at the darkening heaven, looked round at the darkening view.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000059_000002.wav|Allow me to pick it up."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000099_000003.wav|If they all find me to morrow, what then?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000032_000012.wav|Where?|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000077_000001.wav|"If you knew me better, you would know that I depend on nobody but myself."|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000013.wav|Allow me to offer you my arm.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000078_000001.wav|The motive of her flight from home was evidently what the handbills assumed it to be-a reckless fancy for going on the stage.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000088_000000.wav|"Quite possible," said Magdalen, without a moment's flinching from the answer.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000004_000001.wav|He bore the external appearance of respectable poverty; he carried a gingham umbrella, preserved in an oilskin case; he picked his steps, with the neatest avoidance of all dirty places on the pavement; and he surveyed the scene around him with eyes of two different colors-a bilious brown eye on the lookout for employment, and a bilious green eye in a similar predicament.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000006_000006.wav|Captain Wragge gleaned the human field, and on that unoccupied afternoon the York terminus was as likely a corner to look about in as any other.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000101_000001.wav|She shivered as if the cold night air had struck her, and leaned back wearily against the parapet of the wall.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000005_000003.wav|His crape hat band had put itself in brown mourning for its own bereavement of black.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000059_000000.wav|"Pray compose yourself," pleaded the persuasive Wragge.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000038_000005.wav|There she stood-not three months since the spoiled darling of her parents; the priceless treasure of the household, never left unprotected, never trusted alone-there she stood in the lovely dawn of her womanhood, a castaway in a strange city, wrecked on the world!|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000089_000001.wav|"Don't spare my feelings; oblige me by speaking out.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000008_000000.wav|Offering his assistance in this emergency, with the polite alacrity which marked his character, Captain Wragge observed the three startling words, "Fifty Pounds Reward," printed in capital letters on the bills which he assisted in recovering; and instantly secreted one of them, to be more closely examined at the first convenient opportunity.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000051_000000.wav|In the ungovernable astonishment of hearing his reply she suddenly bent forward, and for the first time looked him close in the face. He sustained her suspicious scrutiny with every appearance of feeling highly gratified by it.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000099_000004.wav|Can't I say No to mr Pendril? Can't I trust my own courage with Miss Garth?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000081_000003.wav|Where are you to sleep?"|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000046_000001.wav|"Excuse me for leaving you abruptly.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000004_000002.wav|In plainer terms, the stranger from Rosemary Lane was no other than-Captain Wragge.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2638/10172/2638_10172_000087_000011.wav|For the present, I confine myself within my strict range of duty.|2638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000010_000001.wav|Most of these are born, not with an active tuberculosis, but some as yet imperfectly understood tendency, a defect in their protoplasmic make-up that renders them an easy prey to the tubercle bacillus if they are exposed to it.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000002_000000.wav|THE PERSISTENCE OF RELIGION|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000015_000004.wav|This will be shown in the subsequent chapters.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000008_000000.wav|LLEWELYN POWYS.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000016_000003.wav|Having gotten enormous tracts of the best land into their hands, so that the people were starving, they were willing to throw a bone occasionally to the latter.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000016_000000.wav|"We are told by the Church apologists that during the Middle Ages the priests and monks kept up the torch of learning, that, being the only literate people, they brought back the study of the classics. Historically speaking, this is about the most impudent statement that one could imagine.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000010_000002.wav|Similarly, generations of men have been born with a weakened mental vitality towards superstition; a weakened mental capacity that renders their minds an easy prey to that fear which manifests itself in superstition, creed, religion-the God idea.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000012_000000.wav|Most men have to accept their religions ready made.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000012_000002.wav|The toil for bread is incessant, there is not sufficient leisure to verify the sources of their religious beliefs.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000011_000002.wav|The force of repetition is great; it is, in fact, taken by a vast majority of men as the equivalent of proof.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000016_000005.wav|They built enormous monasteries with well filled cellars, and lived on the fat of the land, while the people lived in wretched hovels, working their lives away for a crust of bread. The beasts, the domestic animals lived a more comfortable life than did the men, women, and children of the people.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000010_000003.wav|It was Karl Marx who remarked that, "The tradition of all the generations of the past weighs down like an Alp upon the brain of the living."|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000013_000002.wav|It is much easier and much more pleasant to give oneself passively to that delusion of grandeur, that delusion that pleasantly drugs the mind with the assumption that there is a supreme being who is personally interested in our well-being; a providence who, like a school master, at his pleasure dispenses rewards and punishments; as immortality, Heaven and Hell.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88483/7095_88483_000012_000003.wav|Moreover, the ecclesiastic's answers to the riddles of life are easier, by far, to grasp than the answers of science.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000007_000001.wav|The theological faculty of the Sorbonne dismissed him from his high position and forced him to print a recantation stating, "I declare that I had no intention to contradict the text of the Scripture; that I believe most firmly all therein related about the creation, both as to order of time and matter of fact.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000010_000000.wav|When the Egyptologists, Assyriologists, archeologists, and anthropologists showed that man had reached a far advanced stage of civilization long before the six thousand years given as the age of the earth, their efforts were ridiculed by the clergy, and these scientists were forced to bring their findings before the world in the face of the well known methods of ecclesiastical opposition.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000011_000002.wav|The diversity of language was firmly held to be explained by the story of the Tower of Babel; and since the writers of the Bible were merely pens in the hand of God the conclusion was reached that not only the sense, but the words, letters, and even the punctuation proceeded from the Holy Spirit.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000002_000000.wav|RELIGION AND GEOLOGY, PHILOLOGY AND EVOLUTION|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000006_000001.wav|Tertullian asserted that fossils resulted from the flood of Noah.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000004_000000.wav|LLEWELYN POWYS.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000016_000000.wav|Darwinism, which at first was declared by the clergy to be brutal, degrading, atheistic, and anti Christian, is now included as part of the Bible teaching.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000021_000002.wav|There have been futile experiments without number; highly successful achievements have been thrown aside; one type of life after another has arisen and has pushed up a blind alley to extinction.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000013_000001.wav|Babel thus takes its place quietly among the other myths of the Bible.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000018_000000.wav|In eighteen seventy seven, an eminent French Catholic physician, dr Constantin james, published an elaborate answer to Darwin's book.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000017_000000.wav|In a similar manner, the Copernican theory, the theory of gravitation, the nebular hypothesis, the theory of uniformity in geology, and every scientific advance has been opposed on the same grounds; that is, that these are against the teachings of the Christian Church.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000007_000000.wav|In the middle of the eighteenth century Buffon, in France, produced a thesis attempting to state simple geological truths.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000011_000001.wav|Language was considered God given and complete.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000006_000003.wav|The theological faculty of Paris protested against the scientific doctrine as unscriptural, destroyed their treatises, and banished their authors from Paris.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000019_000003.wav|dr Duffield, both leading authorities at Princeton University.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000014_000001.wav|From the earliest period the whole weight of the Church was brought to bear against the taking of interest for money.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000021_000004.wav|In this maelstrom, the human species, as Thomas Huxley said-'plashed and floundered amid the general stream of evolution, keeping its head above water as best it might, and thinking neither of whence nor whither.' Many volumes have been written to give a purposive interpretation of the rise and evolutionary ramifications of living forms.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000021_000005.wav|The course of evolution itself is their refutation."|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88489/7095_88489_000021_000000.wav|dr Max Carl Otto, considering the implications of evolution, calls attention to the following: "Take the evolution of living forms.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000002_000000.wav|RELIGION AND SCIENCE|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER six|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000007_000001.wav|We, therefore, pronounce false every assertion which is contrary to the enlightened truth of faith....|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000014_000000.wav|"Science does not justify by faith, but by works.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000006_000000.wav|HORACE m KALLEN, "Why Religion?"|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000016_000000.wav|The two rival divisions of the Christian Church, Protestant and Catholic, have always been in accord on one point, that is, to tolerate no science except such as they considered to be agreeable to the Scriptures.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000011_000000.wav|Truth to the scientific mind is something provisional, a hypothesis that for the present moment best conforms to the recognized tests.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000012_000001.wav|To the religionist, knowledge is something that is contained in an infallible and supernatural statement or insight. Religion exalts the transcendental; science manipulates only the material.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000009_000003.wav|It was this myth which had stultified the mind of man for one thousand five hundred years (during the period in which the Church was dominant); it was this that had killed the urge to search and seek for the truth, which is the goal of all science, the means by which humanity is set on the road to progress.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000019_000001.wav|The attitude of the Church on geography was hostile to the truth, as witness the persecutions of those who dared to venture that the earth was round. Botany, mathematics, and geometry, as well as the natural sciences, slumbered.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000018_000001.wav|Thus declared the Church.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000018_000002.wav|We understand why it was that Copernicus did not permit his book to be published until he was dying.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000010_000004.wav|The true scientist is the man with the open mind, one who will discard the worthless and accept only the proven good.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000011_000003.wav|If the theory is adopted it must account for the facts known.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000007_000000.wav|Some sixty years ago in the "Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith," the Church stated, "But never can reason be rendered capable of thoroughly understanding mysteries as it does those truths which form its proper subject.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000007_000003.wav|Let him be anathema....|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000007_000002.wav|Hence, all the Christian faithful are not only forbidden to defend as legitimate conclusions of science those opinions which are known to be contrary to the doctrine of faith, especially when condemned by the Church, but are rather absolutely bound to hold them for errors wearing the deceitful appearance of truth.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000018_000005.wav|Bruno was burnt at the stake.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000010_000002.wav|Science, on the other hand, does not hesitate to tear down old conceptions, and has only one motive, the ultimate truth.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000014_000002.wav|It renounces authority, cuts athwart custom, violates the sacred, rejects the myths.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000009_000001.wav|And only sixty years ago!|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000010_000006.wav|Religion teaches the individual to place all hope, all desire, in a problematical hereafter. The stay on earth is so short compared to the everlasting life to come, that of what interest is this life; all things are vain.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000010_000005.wav|The religionist closes his mind to all facts which he is unwilling to believe, everything which will endanger his creed.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000009_000002.wav|It is but the restatement of what the Church has uttered so many times and for so long-that all knowledge, material as well as spiritual, is to be found in the Bible as interpreted by the Church.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000019_000002.wav|Geology, which proved that the earth was more than six thousand years old, was anathematized; archeologists had the greatest difficulty to expound the truth concerning the antiquity of the human race.|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000013_000005.wav|Science is the embodiment of the sense of control, religion yields the control to that power which moves in the shadow of the woods by night, and the glory of the morning hills....|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7095/88484/7095_88484_000004_000000.wav|MAYNARD SHIPLEY, "The War on Modern Science."|7095
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000070_000001.wav|'I'm in that way myself, and I like you for it.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000052_000000.wav|'Pockets, women's ridicules, houses, mail coaches, banks!' said mr Claypole, rising with the porter.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000009_000000.wav|'Much farther!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000054_000000.wav|'I shall look out to get into company with them as can,' replied Noah. 'They'll be able to make us useful some way or another.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER forty two|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000009_000002.wav|'Look there!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000042_000000.wav|'Strangers!' repeated the old man in a whisper.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000013_000000.wav|'Where do you mean to stop for the night, Noah?' she asked, after they had walked a few hundred yards.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000028_000000.wav|Through these streets, Noah Claypole walked, dragging Charlotte after him; now stepping into the kennel to embrace at a glance the whole external character of some small public house; now jogging on again, as some fancied appearance induced him to believe it too public for his purpose.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000109_000001.wav|Ha! ha!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000103_000000.wav|'That's true!' observed the Jew, ruminating or pretending to ruminate. 'No, it might not.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000067_000000.wav|mr Claypole no sooner heard this extract from his own remarks than he fell back in his chair, and looked from the Jew to Charlotte with a countenance of ashy paleness and excessive terror.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000027_000000.wav|In pursuance of this cautious plan, mr Claypole went on, without halting, until he arrived at the Angel at Islington, where he wisely judged, from the crowd of passengers and numbers of vehicles, that London began in earnest.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000007_000004.wav|Well, if yer ain't enough to tire anybody's patience out, I don't know what is!'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000005_000001.wav|What a lazybones yer are, Charlotte.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000068_000000.wav|'Don't mind me, my dear,' said Fagin, drawing his chair closer.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000033_000000.wav|If Noah had been attired in his charity boy's dress, there might have been some reason for the Jew opening his eyes so wide; but as he had discarded the coat and badge, and wore a short smock frock over his leathers, there seemed no particular reason for his appearance exciting so much attention in a public house.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000020_000003.wav|And serve yer right for being a fool.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000007_000002.wav|What are yer made for?' rejoined the male traveller, changing his own little bundle as he spoke, to the other shoulder.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000094_000000.wav|'Here.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000090_000003.wav|It's not worth much to him.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000107_000001.wav|'The kinchin lay.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000044_000000.wav|Fagin appeared to receive this communication with great interest.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000109_000000.wav|'The kinchins, my dear,' said Fagin, 'is the young children that's sent on errands by their mothers, with sixpences and shillings; and the lay is just to take their money away-they've always got it ready in their hands,--then knock 'em into the kennel, and walk off very slow, as if there were nothing else the matter but a child fallen down and hurt itself.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000064_000001.wav|However, mr Fagin seemed to interpret the endeavour as expressing a perfect coincidence with his opinion, and put about the liquor which Barney reappeared with, in a very friendly manner.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000076_000002.wav|Let me have a word with you outside.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000074_000001.wav|'I have got a friend that I think can gratify your darling wish, and put you in the right way, where you can take whatever department of the business you think will suit you best at first, and be taught all the others.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000021_000000.wav|'I know I ain't as cunning as you are,' replied Charlotte; 'but don't put all the blame on me, and say I should have been locked up.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000006_000000.wav|'It's a heavy load, I can tell you,' said the female, coming up, almost breathless with fatigue.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000016_000000.wav|'No, not near,' replied mr Claypole. 'There!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000031_000001.wav|Now, then! Keep close at my heels, and come along.' With these injunctions, he pushed the rattling door with his shoulder, and entered the house, followed by his companion.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000003_000001.wav|The woman was young, but of a robust and hardy make, as she need have been to bear the weight of the heavy bundle which was strapped to her back. Her companion was not encumbered with much luggage, as there merely dangled from a stick which he carried over his shoulder, a small parcel wrapped in a common handkerchief, and apparently light enough.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000051_000000.wav|'What do you mean?' asked his companion.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000039_000000.wav|Barney complied by ushering them into a small back room, and setting the required viands before them; having done which, he informed the travellers that they could be lodged that night, and left the amiable couple to their refreshment.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000092_000000.wav|'To morrow morning.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000032_000001.wav|He stared very hard at Noah, and Noah stared very hard at him.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000062_000001.wav|'Ha! ha! only hear that, Charlotte!'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000074_000000.wav|'I'll tell you more,' said Fagin, after he had reassured the girl, by dint of friendly nods and muttered encouragements.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000007_000000.wav|'Heavy!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000090_000002.wav|Ah!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000076_000001.wav|'Here!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000014_000000.wav|'How should I know?' replied Noah, whose temper had been considerably impaired by walking.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000025_000000.wav|'No; you trusted in me, and let me carry it like a dear, and so you are,' said the lady, chucking him under the chin, and drawing her arm through his.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000057_000001.wav|He was meditating another, when the sudden opening of the door, and the appearance of a stranger, interrupted him.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000020_000000.wav|'A pretty thing it would be, wouldn't it to go and stop at the very first public house outside the town, so that Sowerberry, if he come up after us, might poke in his old nose, and have us taken back in a cart with handcuffs on,' said mr Claypole in a jeering tone.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000080_000000.wav|'Quite perfect,' rejoined Fagin, clapping him on the shoulder.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000085_000000.wav|'Regular town maders?' asked mr Claypole.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000077_000002.wav|Charlotte, see to them bundles.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000061_000000.wav|'We have not so much dust as that in London,' replied Fagin, pointing from Noah's shoes to those of his companion, and from them to the two bundles.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000001_000000.wav|AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER'S, EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS, BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER IN THE METROPOLIS|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000027_000001.wav|Just pausing to observe which appeared the most crowded streets, and consequently the most to be avoided, he crossed into Saint John's Road, and was soon deep in the obscurity of the intricate and dirty ways, which, lying between Gray's Inn Lane and Smithfield, render that part of the town one of the lowest and worst that improvement has left in the midst of London.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000015_000000.wav|'Near, I hope,' said Charlotte.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000077_000000.wav|'There's no occasion to trouble ourselves to move,' said Noah, getting his legs by gradual degrees abroad again.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000046_000000.wav|'Aha!' he whispered, looking round to Barney, 'I like that fellow's looks.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000056_000000.wav|'There, that'll do: don't yer be too affectionate, in case I'm cross with yer,' said Noah, disengaging himself with great gravity.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000026_000001.wav|Of course, he entered at this juncture, into no explanation of his motives, and they walked on very lovingly together.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000080_000001.wav|'You're a genius, my dear.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000002_000000.wav|Upon the night when Nancy, having lulled mr Sikes to sleep, hurried on her self imposed mission to Rose Maylie, there advanced towards London, by the Great North Road, two persons, upon whom it is expedient that this history should bestow some attention.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000068_000002.wav|It was very lucky it was only me.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000070_000000.wav|'No matter who's got it, or who did it, my dear,' replied Fagin, glancing, nevertheless, with a hawk's eye at the girl and the two bundles.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000050_000000.wav|'Tills be blowed!' said mr Claypole; 'there's more things besides tills to be emptied.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000100_000001.wav|Something not too trying for the strength, and not very dangerous, you know.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000072_000002.wav|There is not a safer place in all this town than is the Cripples; that is, when I like to make it so.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000059_000001.wav|'From the country, I see, sir?'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000088_000000.wav|'It couldn't possibly be done without,' replied Fagin, in a most decided manner.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000009_000003.wav|Those are the lights of London.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000030_000000.wav|'Cripples,' said Charlotte.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000098_000000.wav|'But, yer see,' observed Noah, 'as she will be able to do a good deal, I should like to take something very light.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000077_000001.wav|'She'll take the luggage upstairs the while.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000100_000002.wav|That's the sort of thing!'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000106_000002.wav|Ain't there any other line open?'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000058_000000.wav|The stranger was mr Fagin.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000100_000000.wav|'Ah! something of that sort,' replied Noah. 'What do you think would suit me now?|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000091_000000.wav|'When could I see him?' asked Noah doubtfully.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000048_000001.wav|'No more jolly old coffins, Charlotte, but a gentleman's life for me: and, if yer like, yer shall be a lady.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000072_000001.wav|You've hit the right nail upon the head, and are as safe here as you could be.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000032_000000.wav|There was nobody in the bar but a young Jew, who, with his two elbows on the counter, was reading a dirty newspaper.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000047_000000.wav|He again applied his eye to the glass, and turning his ear to the partition, listened attentively: with a subtle and eager look upon his face, that might have appertained to some old goblin.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000090_000004.wav|It'll have to go abroad, and he couldn't sell it for a great deal in the market.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000090_000001.wav|Payment stopped at the Bank?|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000017_000000.wav|'Why not?'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000021_000001.wav|You would have been if I had been, any way.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000079_000000.wav|'She's kept tolerably well under, ain't she?' he asked as he resumed his seat: in the tone of a keeper who had tamed some wild animal.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000106_000001.wav|'I don't think that would answer my purpose.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000072_000000.wav|'In that way of business,' rejoined Fagin; 'and so are the people of the house.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/129325/497_129325_000099_000000.wav|'A little fancy work?' suggested Fagin.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000045_000004.wav|What's your name?'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000045_000001.wav|'Noddy.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000029_000000.wav|'Oh!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000069_000001.wav|Then consider this.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000043_000001.wav|Think it over.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000077_000000.wav|'Man alive, don't I tell you?|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000071_000001.wav|'That ain't no word for it.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000075_000000.wav|'Now, look here.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000135_000001.wav|This is a charming spot, is the Bower, but you must get to apprechiate it by degrees.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000049_000000.wav|'Right, Wegg, right!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000141_000000.wav|'Sorry to deprive you of a pipe, Wegg,' he said, filling his own, 'but you can't do both together.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000037_000000.wav|'Do you like it?'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000045_000002.wav|That's my name.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000045_000003.wav|Noddy-or Nick-Boffin.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000019_000001.wav|Morning!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000077_000001.wav|A diseased governor?|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000035_000000.wav|'He hasn't,' repeated the other to his knotted stick, as he gave it a hug; 'he hasn't got-ha!--ha!--to keep it warm!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000141_000001.wav|Oh! and another thing I forgot to name!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000106_000003.wav|I shall have no peace or patience till you come.|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000059_000002.wav|Why, its delightful!'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000043_000002.wav|Nick, or Noddy.'|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000019_000000.wav|'Morning, sir!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/497/125118/497_125118_000029_000002.wav|No!|497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000009_000012.wav|At the moment when that sublime emergence ceases, or seems to cease, the grand thought that smites me is this: "I, Albert Tissu, am immortalised: my name shall never perish from among men!" I rush down, I write it.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000008_000004.wav|the imperiousness of a whim.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000005_000000.wav|As I rose, I fell flat: and what I did thereafter I did in a state of existence whose acts, to the waking mind, appear unreal as dream.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000005_000005.wav|Happily, the wheel was tied, the rudder hard to port, and as the ship moved, she must, therefore, have turned; and I must have been back to untie the wheel in good time, for when my senses came, I was lying there, my head against the under gimbal, one foot on a spoke of the wheel, no land in sight, and morning breaking.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000005_000002.wav|I must have somehow crawled, or dragged myself forward.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000008_000005.wav|The faint moonlight shewed an ample tract of deck, invisible in most parts under rolled beds of putrid seaweed, and no bodies, and nothing but a concave, large esplanade of seaweed.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000003_000003.wav|I ate voraciously, with sweat, as usual, pouring down my eager brow, using knife or spoon in the right hand, but never the Western fork, licking the plates clean in the Mohammedan manner, and drinking pretty freely.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000009_000004.wav|I follow the direction of his gaze to eastward!|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000009_000010.wav|it seems unholy travail, monstrous birth!|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000008_000009.wav|In the second starboard berth was a small table, and on the floor a thick round ink pot, whose continual rolling on its side made me look down; and there I saw a flat square book with black covers, which curved half open of itself, for it had been wet and stained.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000008_000008.wav|Here I experienced a singular ghostly awe and timorousness, lest she should sink with me, or something: but striking matches, I saw an ordinary cabin, with some fungoids, skulls, bones and rags, but not one cohering skeleton.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000000_000004.wav|And I was so pleased with these people, that I took on board with the gig one of their little tree canoes: which was my foolishness: for gig and canoe were only three nights later washed from the decks into the middle of the sea.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000000_000003.wav|They had in many cases some reddish discoloration, which may have been the traces of betel nut stains: for betel nuts abound there.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000005_000004.wav|I think that I remember retching with desperate jerks of the travailing intestines; also that I was on my face as I moved the regulator in the engine room: but any recollection of going down the stairs, or of coming up again, I have not.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000005_000003.wav|There is an impression on my mind that it was a purple land of pure porphyry; there is some faint memory, or dream, of hearing a long drawn booming of waves upon its crags: I do not know whence I have them.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000005_000001.wav|I must at once, I think, have been conscious that here was the cause of the destruction of mankind; that it still surrounded its own neighbourhood with poisonous fumes; and that I was approaching it.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000003_000002.wav|I was therefore very tired when I went down, lit the central chain lever lamp and my own two, washed and dressed in my bedroom, and sat to dinner in the dining hall corner.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000009_000018.wav|There is a great deal of running about on the decks-they are descending.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000008_000003.wav|Finally, by dint of throwing, I got the rope loop round a mast stump, drew myself up, and made fast the boat, my left hand cut by some cursed shell: and all for what?|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96168/7318_96168_000002_000003.wav|I went from one to the other without any system whatever, searching for the ideal resting place, and often thinking that I had found it: but only wearying of it at the thought that there was a yet deeper and dreamier in the world.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000040_000000.wav|'Poisoned,' I answered.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000035_000000.wav|'Ha! ha!|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000031_000000.wav|'My dearest Clodagh!'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000069_000002.wav|The patient lay in a semi coma broken by passionate vomitings, and his condition puzzled us all.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000012_000002.wav|I only wish that I was a man!'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000028_000000.wav|'Why did you start when I said that?' she asked, reading now at random.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000062_000000.wav|'And you, too-go home, go home, Clodagh!'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000014_000000.wav|'Don't let me think little of you!' she answered pettishly.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000015_000000.wav|'Why should you, Clodagh?|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000107_000002.wav|This was corroborated by Wilson, and by Clodagh: and the verdict was in accordance.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000027_000001.wav|She moved from the window, sat in a rocking chair, and turned the leaves of a book, without reading.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000100_000001.wav|With lightning swiftness I remembered an under look of mistrust which I had once seen on his face.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000085_000002.wav|Is it Yes or No?'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000073_000000.wav|'Oh, highly recommended people of my own.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000067_000000.wav|At the end of that second week, Wilson, the electrician, was one evening sitting by Peter's bedside when I entered.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000082_000000.wav|Now, David Wilson and I never greatly loved each other, and that very day he brought about a painful situation as between Peters and me, by telling Peters that I had taken his place in the expedition.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000066_000001.wav|The second week passed, and only ten days remained before the start of the expedition.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000018_000000.wav|'Marriage indeed!|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000106_000002.wav|He had been poisoned by a powerful dose of atropine.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000105_000000.wav|'Let me alone, the whole of you,' answered Peters: 'I ain't a child.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000077_000000.wav|I shrugged again.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000064_000000.wav|Now she touched my hair with a lofty playfulness that soothed me: but even then I looked upon the rumpled bed, and saw that the man there was really very sick.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000015_000001.wav|I am not bound to desire to go to the North Pole, am I?'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000058_000000.wav|'Clodagh, your presence at the bed side here somehow does not please me. It is so unnecessary.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000086_000000.wav|'What do you think, Peters?' I said: 'any more pains?'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000029_000001.wav|I did not start, Clodagh!|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000026_000000.wav|'That peter takes atropine.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000007_000000.wav|She was at this date no longer young, being by five years my senior, as also, by five years, the senior of her nephew, born from the marriage of her sister with Peters of Taunton.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000070_000000.wav|'Mysterious thing,' said Clark to me, when we were alone.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000111_000002.wav|The print was very large, and a shaded lamp cast a light upon it.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000101_000001.wav|My eyes were fastened on her face: it was full of reassurance, of free innocence.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000013_000000.wav|'I don't know that I have any special ambition that way,' I rejoined.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000019_000001.wav|But there are many in an expedition.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000063_000002.wav|Whims are the brakes of crimes: and this is mine.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000095_000001.wav|Her back was turned upon us, and she was a long time.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000046_000000.wav|'Yes, I think-that is, if he leaves off taking the drug, Wilson.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000052_000000.wav|My beloved put her forefinger to her lips, whispering:|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000029_000003.wav|I did not start!|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000054_000000.wav|She came closer to my ear, saying:|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000082_000001.wav|Peters, a touchy fellow, at once dictated a letter of protest to Clark; and Clark sent Peters' letter to me, marked with a big note of interrogation in blue pencil.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000089_000000.wav|As she opened the syringe box, she remarked with a pout:|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000010_000001.wav|But I could no more help it than I could fly.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000055_000000.wav|'I heard the news early.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000039_000000.wav|'What on earth is the matter?' he said to me.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000099_000000.wav|'Well, how is everything?'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000036_000000.wav|But now she could talk of nothing else.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000048_000000.wav|I hesitated, I hesitated.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000034_000002.wav|Women are no longer admired for doing such things.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000079_000000.wav|This conversation occurred in the dining room of Peters' house: and as we passed through the door, I saw Clodagh gliding down the passage outside-rapidly-away from us.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000038_000002.wav|I hurried to his bed side, and knew by the first glance at his deliriums and his staring pupils that he was poisoned with atropine.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000065_000002.wav|One could retch up the heart...|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000051_000000.wav|I slept till eleven a m, and then hurried over again to Peters.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000093_000002.wav|I felt that I needed it.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000013_000002.wav|I don't like the outer Cold.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000081_000001.wav|By noon the next day, his fine vitality, which so fitted him for an Arctic expedition, had re asserted itself.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000076_000000.wav|'I now formally invite you to join the expedition,' said Clark: 'do you consent?'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000011_000003.wav|She said presently in her cold, rapid way:|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000032_000000.wav|'I easily might, however.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000102_000001.wav|As she rose, laughing at something said by Wilson, the drug glass dropped from her hand, and her heel, by an apparent accident, trod on it.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000081_000002.wav|He was then leaning on an elbow, talking to Wilson, and except his pallor, and strong stomach pains, there was now hardly a trace of his late approach to death.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000065_000001.wav|Lucrezia Borgia in her own age may have been heroic: but Lucrezia in this late century!|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000101_000002.wav|I said to myself: 'I must surely be mad!'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000101_000000.wav|Clodagh went to meet Wilson with frank right hand, in the left being the fragile glass containing the injection.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000093_000001.wav|It was a mere flea bite.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000111_000001.wav|She had apparently lifted an old Bible by the front cover to fling it on the table, for as I threw myself into a chair my eye fell upon the open print near the beginning.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000056_000000.wav|We looked at each other some time-eye to eye, steadily, she and I: but mine dropped before Clodagh's.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000075_000000.wav|I shrugged.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000057_000002.wav|It was then that I said to Clodagh:|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000108_000000.wav|And in all that chaotic hurry of preparation, three other things only, but those with clear distinctness now, I remember.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000036_000004.wav|But now, suddenly, her mind seemed wholly possessed, my mention of Clark's visit apparently setting her well a burn with the Pole fever.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000074_000001.wav|It is clear that Peters is out of the running now.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000102_000000.wav|An ordinary chat began, while Clodagh turned up Peters' sleeve, and, kneeling there, injected his fore arm.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000085_000001.wav|I didn't know whether I was to inject anything to night.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000092_000000.wav|'Peters,' I cried, 'you know you have no right to be doing things like that without consulting me!|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000044_000000.wav|'Don't be frightened: I think he will recover.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000107_000001.wav|Only I remember the inquest, and how I was called upon to prove that Peters had himself injected himself with atropine.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000063_000005.wav|And I want you to get into the habit at once of letting me have my little way----'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000038_000000.wav|The house of dr peter Peters was three doors from mine, on the opposite side of the street.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000012_000001.wav|I say nothing of the many millions...|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000080_000001.wav|Yet I asked myself repeatedly: Did she not know of it?|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000038_000001.wav|Toward one that night, his footman ran to knock me up with the news that Peters was very ill.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000084_000004.wav|He was cheerful, but with a fevered pulse, and still the stomach pains.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000057_000001.wav|At the end of the first week he was still prostrate.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000022_000002.wav|They say...'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000048_000001.wav|But I said:|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000043_000000.wav|'Good Heavens!'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000009_000001.wav|Clark-ha! ha!|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000012_000000.wav|'The man who first plants his foot on the North Pole will certainly be ennobled.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000085_000000.wav|'Ah,' Clodagh said, 'I was waiting for you, Adam.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000009_000000.wav|'dr|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000111_000003.wav|I had been hearing Mackay's wild comparison of the Pole with the tree of Eden, and that no doubt was the reason why such a start convulsed me: for my listless eyes had chanced to rest upon some words.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000061_000000.wav|'Then do so.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000103_000000.wav|'Your friend has been naughty, mr Wilson,' she said again with that same pout: 'he has been taking more atropine.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000088_000000.wav|'A quarter grain, then, Clodagh, 'I said.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000087_000000.wav|'Well, perhaps you had better give us another quarter,' he answered: 'there's still some trouble in the tummy off and on.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000081_000003.wav|For the pains I prescribed some quarter grain tablets of sulphate of morphia, and went away.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000023_000000.wav|She stopped, she stopped.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000106_000001.wav|He died shortly before one a m|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000112_000000.wav|'The woman gave me of the tree, and I did eat....'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000069_000003.wav|I formally stated that he took atropine-had been originally poisoned by atropine: but we saw that his present symptoms were not atropine symptoms, but, it almost seemed, of some other vegetable poison, which we could not precisely name.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000078_000000.wav|'Well, if that means consent,' he said, 'let me remind you that you have only eight days, and all the world to do in them.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000109_000000.wav|The first-and chief-is that tempest of words which I heard at Kensington from that big mouthed Mackay on the Sunday night.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000036_000001.wav|She got from me that afternoon the history of all the Polar expeditions of late years, how far they reached, by what aids, and why they failed.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000091_000000.wav|I became angry at once.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000060_000001.wav|I don't know.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000060_000002.wav|This is a case that I dislike.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000092_000001.wav|Do that once more, and I swear I have nothing further to do with you!'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000004_000000.wav|She was, in my opinion, the most superb of creatures, Clodagh-that haughty neck which seemed always scorning something just behind her left shoulder.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000025_000000.wav|Her voice dropped:|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000029_000004.wav|Who told you, Clodagh, that Peters takes atropine?'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000069_000000.wav|Meantime, Clark came each day.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000084_000000.wav|This decided it: Peters was to go, I stay.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000109_000002.wav|Well, perhaps I know.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000013_000001.wav|'I am very happy in my warm Eden with my Clodagh.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000095_000002.wav|I was standing; Peters in his arm chair, smoking.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000084_000005.wav|I was giving him three quarter grains of morphia a day. That Friday night, at eleven p m, I visited him, and found Clodagh there, talking to him.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000081_000000.wav|However that was, about midnight, to my great surprise, Peters opened his eyes, and smiled.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000032_000001.wav|He will be here presently.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000106_000000.wav|These were the last intelligible words he ever spoke.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000011_000002.wav|I saw her sharp cut, florid face in profile, steadily bent and smelling.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000041_000000.wav|'Good God! what with?'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000110_000000.wav|There I sat, and heard him: and most strangely have those words of his peroration planted themselves in my brain, when, rising to a passion of prophecy, he shouted: 'And as in the one case, transgression was followed by catastrophe swift and universal, so, in the other, I warn the entire race to look out thenceforth for nothing from God but a lowering sky, and thundery weather.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000037_000001.wav|I went home with a pretty heavy heart.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000042_000000.wav|'Atropine.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000055_000001.wav|I am come to stay with him, till-the last....'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000030_000001.wav|But don't look dumbfoundered in that absurd fashion: I have no intention of poisoning him in order to see you a multimillionaire, and a Peer of the Realm....'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000090_000001.wav|He has taken some more atropine.'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000063_000001.wav|In these days of "the corruption of the upper classes," and Roman decadence of everything, shouldn't every innocent whim be encouraged by you upright ones who strive against the tide?|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000017_000000.wav|'I might-I-doubt it.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000111_000000.wav|And this second thing I remember: that on reaching home, I walked into my disordered library (for I had had to hunt out some books), where I met my housekeeper in the act of rearranging things.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000006_000004.wav|Sometimes she frightened me.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000080_000000.wav|Not a word I said to her that day about Clark's invitation.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000027_000002.wav|We were silent, she and I; I standing, looking at her, she drawing the thumb across the leaf edges, and beginning again, contemplatively.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000056_000001.wav|A word was on my mouth to say, but I said nothing.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000009_000004.wav|He has had an absurd dream...'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000022_000000.wav|'But why?|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000084_000003.wav|Peters was now in an arm chair.|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000072_000000.wav|'Who are the two nurses?'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000017_000001.wav|There is our marriage....'|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000065_000000.wav|I have still a nausea to write about it!|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000032_000002.wav|He is bringing mr Wilson for the evening.' (Wilson was going as electrician of the expedition.)|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000090_000000.wav|'Our patient has been naughty!|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7318/96151/7318_96151_000008_000000.wav|On that day of Clark's visit to me I had not been seated five minutes with Clodagh, when I said:|7318
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000000_000000.wav|THE RELIC|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000006_000002.wav|There was a young priest passing me at that moment, and I said to him in Latin of the common sort that I could speak no Spanish.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000001_000000.wav|It was upon an evening in Spain, but with nothing which that word evokes for us in the North-for it was merely a lessening of the light without dews, without mists, and without skies-that I came up a stony valley and saw against the random line of the plateau at its head the dome of a church.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000004_000002.wav|Already at Saragossa, and several times during my walking south from thence, I had noted that what the Spaniards did had a strange affinity to the work of Flanders.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000001_000001.wav|The road I travelled was but faintly marked, and was often lost and mingled with the rough boulders and the sand, and in the shallow depression of the valley there were but a few stagnant pools.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000003_000002.wav|The darkness had come suddenly, and, to make all things consonant, there was no moon and there were not any stars; clouds had risen of an even and menacing sort, and one could see no heaven.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000008_000002.wav|I wondered as I looked at that face whether he had fallen in protest against the Mohammedans, or, as have so many, in a Spanish endurance of torture, martyred by Pagans in the Pacific Seas.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000010_000003.wav|The chant came to an end, and the three gracious epithets in which it closes were full of wailing, and the children's voices were very high.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000004_000000.wav|In the presence of so wonderful a thing I forgot the object of my journey and the immediate care of the moment, and I went through the great doors that opened on the Place.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000006_000003.wav|I asked him if he could speak to me slowly in Latin, as I was speaking to him.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000010_000002.wav|Had I cared less for the human beings about me, so much suffering, so much national tradition of suffering would have revolted, as it did indeed appal, me.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000011_000000.wav|Then the priest shut the doors and locked them, and a boy came and blew the candles out one by one, and I went out into the market place, fuller than ever of Spain.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000009_000002.wav|But what an intonation!|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000003_000001.wav|It was now quite dark.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000009_000001.wav|They next intoned the Salve Regina.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000005_000001.wav|Go to the earliest of the basilicas in Rome, and you will see that sacred enclosure standing in the middle of the edifice and taking up a certain proportion of the whole.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000005_000002.wav|We in the North, where the Faith lived uninterruptedly and, after the ninth century, with no great struggle, dwindled this feature and extended the open and popular space, keeping only the rood screen as a hint of what had once been the Secret Mysteries and the Initiations of our origins.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2162/185436/2162_185436_000008_000000.wav|To those inexperienced in the practice of such worship there might be more excuse for the novel impression which this sight suddenly produced upon me.|2162
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000012.wav|He sings; it is his delight.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000011.wav|It is, thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with arms, conquers Europe.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER five-AT BOMBARDA'S|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000009.wav|Take care! he will make of the first Rue Grenetat which comes to hand Caudine Forks.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000005_000000.wav|The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about dinner; and the radiant party of eight, somewhat weary at last, became stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had been set up in the Champs Elysees by that famous restaurant keeper, Bombarda, whose sign could then be seen in the Rue de Rivoli, near Delorme Alley.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000014_000006.wav|It is not dangerous.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000014_000000.wav|"Taking all things into consideration, Sire, there is nothing to be feared from these people.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000006.wav|He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's resource.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000010_000003.wav|A squadron of magnificent body guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000008_000000.wav|says Moliere.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000012_000000.wav|"Give us back our father from Ghent, Give us back our father."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000005.wav|Give him a pike, he will produce the tenth of August; give him a gun, you will have Austerlitz.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000014_000004.wav|There is nothing to be feared on the part of the populace of Paris the capital.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000013.wav|Proportion his song to his nature, and you will see!|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000014_000002.wav|These are very pretty men, Sire.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000009_000001.wav|The sun was setting; their appetites were satisfied.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000014_000007.wav|In short, it is an amiable rabble."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000016_000001.wav|The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000007.wav|Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of liberty, he tears up the pavements.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000007_000000.wav|"They made beneath the table A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable,"|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000010_000002.wav|Carriages were going and coming.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000009_000000.wav|This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in the morning, had reached at half past four in the afternoon.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000010.wav|When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000010_000001.wav|The horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud of gold.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/134792/2775_134792_000015_000003.wav|The ingenuous police of the Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose colored" a light; it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000010_000000.wav|DAEDALUS and ICARUS.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000012_000002.wav|The murder being discovered, Daedalus was summoned before the court of the Areopagus and condemned to death; but he made his escape to the island of Crete, where he was received by king Minos in a manner worthy of his great reputation.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000014_000004.wav|The body of the unfortunate Icarus was washed up by the tide, and was buried by the bereaved father on an island which he called after his son, Icaria.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000005_000000.wav|Fearing the anger of Erechtheus, Creusa placed her new born babe in a little wicker basket, and hanging some golden charms round his neck, invoked for him the protection of the gods, and concealed him in a lonely cave.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000006_000000.wav|And now to return to Creusa.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000014_000000.wav|In the course of time the great artist became weary of his long exile, more especially as the king, under the guise of friendship, kept him almost a prisoner.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000014_000002.wav|Having awaited a favourable opportunity, father and son commenced their flight, and were well on their way when Icarus, pleased with the novel sensation, forgot altogether his father's oft repeated injunction not to approach too near the sun|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000005_000001.wav|Apollo, pitying his deserted child, sent Hermes to convey him to Delphi, where he deposited his charge on the steps of the temple.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000005_000002.wav|Next morning the Delphic priestess discovered the infant, and was so charmed by his engaging appearance that she adopted him as her own son.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000011_000000.wav|Daedalus, a descendant of Erechtheus, was an Athenian architect, sculptor, and mechanician.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000012_000001.wav|Now his nephew and pupil, Talus, exhibited great talent, having invented both the saw and the compass, and Daedalus, fearing lest he might overshadow his own fame, secretly killed him by throwing him down from the citadel of Pallas Athene.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000004_000000.wav|Ion was the son of Creusa (the beauteous daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens) and the sun god Phoebus Apollo, to whom she was united without the knowledge of her father.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000015_000003.wav|The body of their king was brought to Agrigent by the Cretans, where it was buried with great pomp, and over his tomb a temple to Aphrodite was erected.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000008_000002.wav|Unprepared for this sudden attack he admitted his guilt, but pointed to the wife of Xuthus as the instigator of the crime.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000003_000000.wav|ION.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000005_000003.wav|The young child was carefully tended and reared by his kind foster mother, and was brought up in the service of the temple, where he was intrusted with some of the minor duties of the holy edifice.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000016_000000.wav|Daedalus passed the remainder of his life tranquilly in the island of Sicily, where he occupied himself in the construction of various beautiful works of art.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000008_000003.wav|Ion was about to avenge himself upon Creusa, when, by means of the divine intervention of Apollo, his foster mother, the Delphic priestess appeared on the scene, and explained the true relationship which existed between Creusa and Ion.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000006_000001.wav|During a war with the Euboeans, in which the latter were signally defeated, Xuthus, son of AEolus, greatly distinguished himself on the side of the Athenians, and as a reward for his valuable services, the hand of Creusa, the king's daughter, was bestowed upon him in marriage.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000006_000003.wav|The response was, that Xuthus should regard the first person who met him on leaving the sanctuary as his son.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/161226/2775_161226_000015_000002.wav|Cocalus feigned compliance and invited Minos to his palace, where he was treacherously put to death in a warm bath.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000080_000000.wav|And every night the same thing happened.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000037_000000.wav|Down the marble steps he went, and when he came to the garden, he saw that it was full of roses, red and white and pink and yellow, and the merchant looked at them, and remembered Beauty's wish.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000007_000000.wav|There was still left to him a little house in the country, and to this, when everything else had been sold, he retired.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000071_000000.wav|"Oh, dear!" she said; "if only I could see my poor father I should be almost happy."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000096_000000.wav|Then she ran through the gardens, calling his name again and again, but still there was silence.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000077_000000.wav|"I am very ugly, Beauty, and I am very stupid, but I love you; will you marry me?"|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000106_000000.wav|"Dear Beauty," he said, "nothing but your love could have disenchanted me.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000092_000000.wav|"She has promised to return in a week.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000070_000000.wav|The most beautiful set of rooms in the palace had written over the doors, "Beauty's Rooms," and in them she found books and music, canary birds and Persian cats, and everything that could be thought of to make the time pass pleasantly.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000005_000000.wav|The two eldest were called Marigold and Dressalinda.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000048_000000.wav|The wretched man promised.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000073_000000.wav|That night, when Beauty sat down to supper, the Beast came in.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000047_000000.wav|"You should have thought of that before you stole the rose," said the Beast.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000074_000000.wav|"May I have supper with you?" said he.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000105_000001.wav|He knelt at Beauty's feet and clasped her hands.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000078_000000.wav|"No, Beast," said Beauty gently.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000063_000000.wav|"Come, father dear," said Beauty, "take comfort.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000039_000000.wav|So he stretched out his hand and plucked the biggest red rose within his reach.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000049_000000.wav|"At any rate," he thought, "I shall have three months more of life."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000007_000001.wav|His three daughters, of course, went with him.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000079_000000.wav|The poor Beast sighed and went away.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000004_000000.wav|Once upon a time there was a rich merchant, who had three daughters. They lived in a very fine house in a beautiful city, and had many servants in grand liveries to wait upon them.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000101_000000.wav|Immediately the Beast opened his eyes, sighed, and said:|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000030_000000.wav|He started off and opened another door, but there he saw a bed, merely to look at which made you sleepy, so he said to himself:|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000107_000001.wav|And the Prince whispered to one of his attendants, who went out, and in a very little time came back with Beauty's father and sisters.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000104_000000.wav|"Yes, yes, dear Beast, for I love you dearly."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000005_000001.wav|Never a day passed but these two went out to some feast or junketing; but Beauty, the youngest, loved to stay at home and keep her old father company.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000013_000000.wav|"My dear children," he said, "at last our luck has turned.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000003_000000.wav|ADAPTED BY e NESBIT|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000053_000000.wav|And the merchant filled it up with precious things from the Beast's treasure house.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000086_000001.wav|When she wanted to come back, she was to do the same thing.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000076_000000.wav|So the Beast sat down to supper with her, and when it was finished, he said:|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, bring me a rose," said Beauty hastily.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000068_000000.wav|They went to bed and slept soundly, and the next morning the father departed, weeping bitterly.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000095_000001.wav|But the palace was empty, and no one answered her when she called.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000093_000001.wav|At the end of that time her sleep grew troubled, and she dreamed that She saw the Beast lying dead among the roses in the beautiful gardens of his palace; and from this dream she awoke crying bitterly.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000029_000000.wav|So the merchant sat down as bold as you please, and made a very hearty supper, after which he again thought he would look for the master of the house.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000027_000000.wav|He knocked at the gates, but no one answered, and presently, driven by hunger and cold, he made bold to enter, and mounted the marble steps into the great hall.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000024_000000.wav|He spent the whole day looking about to make sure there was no truth in the letter he had received, and it was beginning to get dusk when he started out, with a sad heart, to make the journey home again.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000044_000001.wav|"Is she a good girl?"|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000013_000004.wav|I will set out at once to claim my ship.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000062_000002.wav|Only this time the table was laid for two.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000054_000000.wav|"I will send it home for you," said the Beast, shutting down the lid.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000066_000000.wav|"Yes," said Beauty, trembling.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000035_000000.wav|When he got out of bed he found he had something else to be grateful for, for on the chair by the bedside lay a fine suit of new clothes, marked with his name, and with ten gold pieces in every pocket.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000040_000000.wav|As the stalk snapped in his fingers, he started back in terror, for he heard an angry roar, and the next minute a dreadful Beast sprang upon him.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000058_000000.wav|And with that he sat down and told them the whole story.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000013_000005.wav|And now tell me, girls, what shall I bring you when I come back?"|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000072_000000.wav|As she spoke, she happened to look at a big mirror, and in it she saw the form of her father reflected, just riding up to the door of his cottage.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000097_000001.wav|"I shall never be happy again."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000010_000002.wav|They led their sister a dreadful life too, with their complaints, for not only did they refuse to do anything themselves, but they said that everything she did was done wrong.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000081_000000.wav|All this time she was waited on by invisible hands, as though she had been a queen.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000050_000000.wav|Then the Beast said, "I will not let you go empty handed."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000083_000000.wav|"Dear Beast, you are so good to me, will you let me go home to see my father?|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000028_000002.wav|But he did not look far, for behind the first door he opened was a cosy little room with supper set for one, a supper the mere look of which made you hungry.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000031_000001.wav|I had better not look any farther for the master of the house."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000006_000000.wav|Now, it happened that misfortune came upon the merchant.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000010_000001.wav|The two eldest sisters would do nothing but sulk in corners, while Beauty swept the floors and washed the dishes, and did her best to make the poor cottage pleasant.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000042_000000.wav|"Mercy! mercy!" cried the merchant.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000009_000000.wav|But Beauty's only thought was to cheer her old father, and while her two sisters sat on wooden chairs and cried and bewailed themselves, Beauty lighted the fire and got the supper ready, for the merchant was now so poor that he could not even keep a servant.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000091_000000.wav|So Beauty, thinking it would amuse them to hear, told them, and their envy increased day by day.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000034_000000.wav|"I must be going," he said to himself, "but I wish I could thank my host for my good rest and my good supper."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000057_000000.wav|"Take them, my child," he said, "and cherish them, for they have cost your poor father his life."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000064_000000.wav|But the next moment the Beast came into the room.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000013_000002.wav|We shall not be so rich as before, but we shall have enough to keep us in comfort.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000092_000001.wav|If we could only make her forget the day, the Beast might be angry and kill her, and then there would be a chance for us."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000095_000000.wav|She did not know where his rooms in the palace were, but she felt she could not wait till supper time before seeing him, so she ran hither and thither, calling his name.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000091_000001.wav|At last Dressalinda said to Marigold:|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000020_000000.wav|"Indeed, sister," said Beauty, "that was not the reason.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000019_000000.wav|"You silly girl," said Marigold, "you just want our father to think you are more unselfish than we are-that's what you want!|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000083_000002.wav|Do let me go and cheer him up, and I will promise faithfully to return to you."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000109_000000.wav|And by her tears their stony hearts were softened, and they were changed into flesh and blood again, and were good and kind for the rest of their lives.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000099_000000.wav|Beauty flung herself on her knees beside him.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000058_000001.wav|The two elder sisters wept and wailed, and of course blamed Beauty for all that had happened.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000100_000000.wav|"Oh, dear Beast," she cried, "and are you really dead?|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000075_000000.wav|"That must be as you please," said Beauty.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000051_000000.wav|So the merchant followed him back into the palace.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000107_000000.wav|So they returned to the palace, which by this time was crowded with courtiers, eager to kiss the hands of the Prince and his bride.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000043_000002.wav|I did not think, after all you have given me, that you would grudge me a flower."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000081_000001.wav|Beautiful music came to her ears without her being able to see the musicians, but the magic looking glass was best of all, for in it she could see whatever she wished.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000013_000003.wav|Get me my traveling cloak, Beauty.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000018_000000.wav|Her father kissed her fondly, and set out.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000063_000001.wav|I do not think the Beast means to kill me, or surely he would not have given me such a good supper."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000093_000000.wav|So on the day before she ought to have gone back, they put, some poppy juice in a cup of wine which they gave her, and this made her so sleepy that she slept for two whole days and nights.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000010_000003.wav|But Beauty bore all their unkindness patiently, for her father's sake.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000097_000000.wav|"Oh! what shall I do if I cannot find him?" she said.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000108_000001.wav|But Beauty, happily married to her Prince, went secretly to the statues every day and wept over them.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000032_000000.wav|And with that he tumbled into bed, and, being very tired, he went to sleep at once, and slept like a top till it was time to get up in the morning.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000083_000001.wav|He is ill, and he thinks that I am dead.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000022_000000.wav|In the meantime the merchant went his way to the city, full of hope and great plans as to what he would do with his money.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000015_000000.wav|"I want a new silk dress," said Dressalinda, "an apple green one, sewn with seed pearls, and green shoes with red heels, and a necklace of emeralds, and a box of gloves."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000069_000000.wav|Beauty, left alone, tried not to feel frightened.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000008_000000.wav|Marigold and Dressalinda were very cross to think that they had lost all their money, and after being so rich and sought after, they must now live in a miserable cottage.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000082_000000.wav|One day, she saw in her mirror that her father was ill, so that night she said to the Beast:|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000036_000000.wav|When he went downstairs, he found a good breakfast waiting for him in the little room where he had supped the night before, and when he had made a good meal, he thought he would go for a stroll in the garden.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000080_000001.wav|He ate his supper with her, and then asked her if she would marry him.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000065_000000.wav|"Don't be frightened," said the Beast gently, "but tell me, do you come here of your own free will?"|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000100_000001.wav|Alas! alas! then I, too, will die, for I cannot live without you."|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000031_000000.wav|"This is some fairies' work.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000081_000002.wav|As the days went by, and her slightest wish was granted, almost before she knew what she wanted, she began to feel that the Beast must love her very dearly, and she was very sorry to see how sad he looked every night when she said "No" to his offer of marriage.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000046_000000.wav|"Oh!" he cried, "what will my poor children do without me?"|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000043_000000.wav|"No," said the Beast, "you must die!"|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000033_000000.wav|When he awoke he was quite surprised to find himself in such a soft and comfortable bed, but presently he remembered all that had happened to him.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000043_000001.wav|The poor merchant fell upon his knees and tried to think of something to say to soften the heart of the cruel Beast; and at last he said, "Sir, I only stole this rose because my youngest daughter asked me to bring her one.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000023_000000.wav|But when he got there, he found that some one had played a trick on him, and no ship of his had come into harbor, so he was just as badly off as before.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2775/160958/2775_160958_000062_000000.wav|Her father went with her, to show her the way.|2775
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000014_000001.wav|Poor Lazarus lies howling at his gates for a few crumbs, he only seeks chippings, offals; let him roar and howl, famish, and eat his own flesh, he respects him not.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000012_000000.wav|"Angelical souls, how blessed, how happy should we be, so loving, how might we triumph over the devil, and have another heaven upon earth!"|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000003_000002.wav|Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; a hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, a hind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000020_000007.wav|If we had any sense or feeling of these things, surely we should not go on as we do, in such irregular courses, practise all manner of impieties; our whole carriage would not be so averse from God.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000006_000008.wav|Take this away, and take all pleasure, joy, comfort, happiness, and true content out of the world; 'tis the greatest tie, the surest indenture, strongest band, and, as our modern Maro decides it, is much to be preferred before the rest.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/47541/6918_47541_000009_000007.wav|nineteen. perform those duties and exercises, even all the operations of a good Christian.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000009.wav|Abraham, who came from the Sumerian city of Ur, was prepared to sacrifice Isaac, Sarah's first born.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000019_000000.wav|The worship of rivers and wells which prevailed in many countries was connected with the belief that the principle of life was in moisture. In India, water was vitalized by the intoxicating juice of the Soma plant, which inspired priests to utter prophecies and filled their hearts with religious fervour.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000025_000000.wav|Saliva, like tears, had creative and therefore curative qualities; it also expelled and injured demons and brought good luck.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000058_000001.wav|The grave was the "house of clay", as in Babylonia.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000025_000002.wav|When the Eye of Ra was blinded by Set, Thoth spat in it to restore vision.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000025_000001.wav|Spitting ceremonies are referred to in the religious literature of Ancient Egypt.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000054_000000.wav|O Varuna, whatever the offence may be That we as men commit against the heavenly folk, When through our want of thought we violate thy laws, Chastise us not, O god, for that iniquity.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000045_000002.wav|The spring sun was personified as Tammuz, the youthful shepherd, who was loved by the earth goddess Ishtar and her rival Eresh ki gal, goddess of death, the Babylonian Persephone.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000043_000001.wav|His spirit inhabited the lunar stone, so that moon and stone worship were closely associated; it also entered trees and crops, so that moon worship linked with earth worship, as both linked with water worship.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000040_000005.wav|At any rate, the excavations conducted there have afforded proof that it flourished in the prehistoric period.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000041_000000.wav|As in Arabia, Egypt, and throughout ancient Europe and elsewhere, the moon god of Sumeria was regarded as the "friend of man".|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000040_000001.wav|It was widely prevalent throughout Babylonia.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000046_000003.wav|He was the chief deity of the city of Cuthah, which, Jastrow suggests, was situated beside a burial place of great repute, like the Egyptian Abydos.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000010_000001.wav|The teachings and example of Buddha, for instance, revolutionized Brahmanic religion in India.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000039_000000.wav|It is possible, of course, that fire was regarded as the vital principle by some city cults, which were influenced by imported ideas. If so, the belief never became prevalent.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000059_000000.wav|As Ma banda anna, "the boat of the sky", Shamash links with the Egyptian sun god Ra, whose barque sailed over the heavens by day and through the underworld of darkness and death during the night.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000009_000000.wav|Like the giant Alban, the eponymous ancestor of a people who invaded prehistoric Britain, Ea bani appears to have represented in Babylonian folk legends a certain type of foreign settlers in the land.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000015.wav|In the Indian god Varuna's ocean home an "Asura fire" (demon fire) burned constantly; it was "bound and confined", but could not be extinguished.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000011.wav|Nusku, like Agni, was also the "messenger of the gods".|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000044_000002.wav|The twin children of the moon were Mashu and Mashtu, a brother and sister, like the lunar girl and boy of Teutonic mythology immortalized in nursery rhymes as Jack and Jill.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000004_000006.wav|When they came as military allies to assist a city folk against a fierce enemy, they were naturally much admired and praised, honoured by the women and the bards, and rewarded by the rulers.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000063_000001.wav|The prominence accorded to an individual deity depended on local conditions, experiences, and influences.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000012.wav|When Merodach or Babylon was exalted as chief god of the pantheon his messages were carried to Ea by Nusku.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000019_000001.wav|Drinking customs had originally a religious significance.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000060_000001.wav|At Erech she had a shrine in the temple of the sky god Anu.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000035_000000.wav|But while most Babylonians appear to have believed that the life principle was in blood, some were apparently of opinion that it was in breath-the air of life.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000013_000001.wav|Each foreign element in a community had its own intellectual life and immemorial tribal traditions, which reflected ancient habits of life and perpetuated the doctrines of eponymous ancestors.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000010.wav|The fire gods of Babylonia never achieved the ascendancy of the Indian Agni; they appear to have resembled him mainly in so far as he was connected with the sun|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000004_000000.wav|As has been indicated, a mythological system must have been strongly influenced by city politics.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000019_000005.wav|Moon and water worship were therefore closely associated; the blood of animals and the sap of plants were vitalized by the water of life and under control of the moon.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000019_000003.wav|The Teutonic gods also drank this mead, and poets were inspired by it.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000008.wav|Human sacrifices might also have been offered up as burnt offerings.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000037_000003.wav|The gods were also invoked by incense.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000035_000001.wav|A man died when he ceased to breathe; his spirit, therefore, it was argued, was identical with the atmosphere-the moving wind-and was accordingly derived from the atmospheric or wind god.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000044_000001.wav|She links with Ishtar as Nin, as Isis of Egypt linked with other mother deities.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000014_000002.wav|He fertilized parched and sunburnt wastes through rivers and irrigating canals, and conferred upon man the sustaining "food of life".|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000011_000001.wav|The priests systematized existing folk beliefs and established an official religion.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000040_000002.wav|The chief seat of the lunar deity, Nannar or Sin, was the ancient city of Ur, from which Abraham migrated to Harran, where the "Baal" (the lord) was also a moon god.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000050_000005.wav|Rain would therefore be gifted by him as a fertilizing deity.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000045_000000.wav|Sun worship was of great antiquity in Babylonia, but appears to have been seasonal in its earliest phases.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000013_000004.wav|It is not surprising, therefore, to find that in Babylonia, as in Egypt, there were differences of opinion regarding the origin of life and the particular natural element which represented the vital principle.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000062_000003.wav|He was a wind and thunder deity, a rain bringer, a corn god, and a god of battle like Thor, Jupiter, Tarku, Indra, and others, who were all sons of the sky.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000014_000000.wav|One section of the people, who were represented by the worshippers of Ea, appear to have believed that the essence of life was contained in water.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000007_000000.wav|Ea bani was attracted to Erech by the gift of a fair woman for wife. The poet who lauded him no doubt mirrored public opinion.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000026_000000.wav|Several African tribes spit to make compacts, declare friendship, and to curse.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000027_000009.wav|The first money taken each day by fishwives and other dealers is spat upon to ensure increased drawings.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000021_000000.wav|Other Egyptian deities, including Osiris and Isis, wept creative tears.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000027_000004.wav|Pliny has expressed belief in the efficacy of the fasting spittle for curing disease, and referred to the custom of spitting to avert witchcraft. In England, Scotland, and Ireland spitting customs are not yet obsolete.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000037_000002.wav|It is possible that this conception was popularized by the Semites. Inspiration was perhaps derived from these deities by burning incense, which, if we follow evidence obtained elsewhere, induced a prophetic trance.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000047_000005.wav|These twin deities, Mitra and Varuna, measured out the span of human life.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000003.wav|This practice, however, did not obtain among the fire worshippers of Persia, nor, as was once believed, in Sumer or Akkad either.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000061_000002.wav|Ishtar appears to be identical with the Egyptian Hathor, who, as Sekhet, slaughtered the enemies of the sun god Ra.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000050_000002.wav|In Roman times the worship of Mithra spread into Europe from Persia.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000027_000006.wav|When the Newcastle colliers held their earliest strikes they made compacts by spitting on a stone.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000042_000001.wav|The mountains of Sinai and the desert of Sin are called after this deity.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000046_000001.wav|He was the king of death, husband of Eresh ki gal, queen of Hades.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000062_000002.wav|As a hammer god, he was imported by the Semites from the hills.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000005.wav|It destroyed demons, and put to flight the spirits of disease.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000035_000002.wav|When, in the Gilgamesh epic, the hero invokes the dead Ea bani, the ghost rises up like a "breath of wind".|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000012_000001.wav|The food supply was a first consideration.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000061_000000.wav|We can trace in Babylonia, as in Egypt, the early belief that life in the Universe had a female origin.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000013.wav|He may have therefore symbolized the sun rays, for Merodach had solar attributes.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000027_000011.wav|We still call a hasty person a "spitfire", and a calumniator a "spit poison".|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000028_000000.wav|The life principle in trees, and c., as we have seen, was believed to have been derived from the tears of deities.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000013_000000.wav|In accounting for the rise of distinctive and rival city deities, we should also consider the influence of divergent conceptions regarding the origin of life in mingled communities.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000059_000001.wav|The consort of Shamash was Aa, and his attendants were Kittu and Mesharu, "Truth" and "Righteousness".|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000012_000003.wav|It was necessary, therefore, for the people to win the favour of the god or goddess who seemed most powerful, and was accordingly considered to be the greatest in a particular district.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000012_000000.wav|The religious attitude of a particular community, therefore, must have been largely dependent on its needs and experiences.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000003_000000.wav|In dealing with the city cults of Sumer and Akkad, consideration must be given to the problems involved by the rival mythological systems. Pantheons not only varied in detail, but were presided over by different supreme gods.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000047_000003.wav|The sun god also illumined the world, and his rays penetrated every quarter: he saw all things, and read the thoughts of men; nothing could be concealed from Shamash.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000004_000003.wav|Reference has been made to the introduction of strange deities by conquerors.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000028_000002.wav|"Among the ancients", wrote Professor Robertson Smith, "blood is generally conceived as the principle or vehicle of life, and so the account often given of sacred waters is that the blood of the deity flows in them.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000045_000006.wav|He had much in common with Nin Girsu, a god of Lagash, who was in turn regarded as a form of Tammuz.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000016_000001.wav|Even the gods required water and food; they were immortal because they had drunk ambrosia and eaten from the plant of life.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000050_000008.wav|Other rival chiefs of city pantheons, whether lunar, atmospheric, earth, or water deities, were similarly regarded as the supreme deities who ruled the Universe, and decreed when man should receive benefits or suffer from their acts of vengeance.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000012_000004.wav|A rain god presided over the destinies of one community, and a god of disease and death over another; a third exalted the war god, no doubt because raids were frequent and the city owed its strength and prosperity to its battles and conquests.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000034_000000.wav|Similar customs were prevalent in Ancient Greece.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000041_000001.wav|He controlled nature as a fertilizing agency; he caused grass, trees, and crops to grow; he increased flocks and herds, and gave human offspring.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000012_000002.wav|At Eridu, as we have seen, it was assured by devotion to Ea and obedience to his commands as an instructor. Elsewhere it might happen, however, that Ea's gifts were restricted or withheld by an obstructing force-the raging storm god, or the parching, pestilence bringing deity of the sun|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000032_000001.wav|No doubt this theory was based on the fact that the human liver contains about a sixth of the blood in the body, the largest proportion required by any single organ.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000014.wav|It is possible that the belief obtained among even the water worshippers of Eridu that the sun and moon, which rose from the primordial deep, had their origin in the everlasting fire in Ea's domain at the bottom of the sea.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000047_000002.wav|He was a god of Destiny, the lord of the living and the dead, and was exalted as the great Judge, the lawgiver, who upheld justice; he was the enemy of wrong, he loved righteousness and hated sin, he inspired his worshippers with rectitude and punished evildoers.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000038_000001.wav|Their origin is obscure. It is doubtful if their worshippers, like those of the Indian Agni, believed that fire, the "vital spark", was the principle of life which was manifested by bodily heat.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000040_000000.wav|Moon worship appears to have been as ancient as water worship, with which, as we have seen, it was closely associated.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000027_000007.wav|There are still "spitting stones" in the north of Scotland.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000021_000003.wav|The weeping ceremonies in connection with agricultural rites were no doubt believed to be of magical potency; they encouraged the god to weep creative tears.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000040_000004.wav|No doubt, like that city, it had its origin at an exceedingly remote period.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000065_000000.wav|The Sumerians, like the Ancient Egyptians, developed their deities, who reflected the growth of culture, from vague spirit groups, which, like ghosts, were hostile to mankind.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000061_000003.wav|She was similarly the goddess of maternity, and is depicted in this character, like Isis and other goddesses of similar character, suckling a babe.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000061_000001.wav|Nin sun links with Ishtar, whose Sumerian name is Nana.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000027_000003.wav|Theocritus, Sophocles, and Plutarch testify to the ancient Grecian customs of spitting to cure and to curse, and also to bless when children were named.|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6918/61317/6918_61317_000014_000001.wav|The god of Eridu was the source of the "water of life".|6918
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000060_000002.wav|For a few moments he did not know what to do.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000025_000000.wav|"It's a good night to be indoors," she said.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000029_000002.wav|For a time the two masculine human beings ate and drank with so much vigor that there was no time for talk. Leffingwell was the first to break silence.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000047_000002.wav|Now he understood about those empty stalls.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000019_000000.wav|"That was what I heard.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000048_000002.wav|The woman was pleading with them to let him go.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000047_000003.wav|The third man, who had been sitting with his shoulder toward Dick, turned his face presently, and the boy with difficulty repressed an exclamation.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000042_000000.wav|The boy undressed and got into bed, placing his saddle bags on the foot of it, and the pistol that he carried in his belt under his head.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000021_000004.wav|All we ask of people is to let us be.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000040_000000.wav|"Don't you be bashful about sayin' so," exclaimed Leffingwell heartily, "'cause I don't think I could keep up more'n a half hour longer."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000060_000000.wav|Meanwhile Dick had dressed with more rapidity than ever before in his life, fully alive to the great dangers that threatened.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000012_000000.wav|"You've seen the armies, then?" he said.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000046_000003.wav|They were sitting fully clothed before the fireplace, and three other persons were with them.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000027_000002.wav|Corn cakes, vegetables, and two kinds of meat were cooking over the coals and a great pot of coffee boiled and bubbled.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000033_000000.wav|"Shut up, Seth," said mrs Leffingwell, genially, "you'll make the young stranger think you're plum' foolish, which won't be wide of the mark either."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000003_000000.wav|"Hello!|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000059_000000.wav|But her words did not seem to make any impression upon the others, except her husband, who protested again that it would be enough to take the horse.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000004_000002.wav|His hair was coal black, long and coarse, increasing his resemblance to an Indian.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000020_000000.wav|"I never heard of one that did."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000050_000000.wav|"I'd like to have that hoss of his," said the elder Leffingwell.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000053_000006.wav|He's got messages, dispatches of some kind that are worth a heap to somebody.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000027_000001.wav|In a great fireplace ten feet wide big logs roared and crackled.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000029_000000.wav|Dick sat down gladly, and they fell to.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000023_000001.wav|"It'll make the fire an' supper all the better.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000047_000005.wav|A fourth and conclusive signal of alarm was registered upon his brain.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000050_000003.wav|I noticed him at once, when Mason come ridin' up.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000036_000004.wav|Dick surmised that this bed would be assigned to him.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000007_000000.wav|"'Light, stranger, an' we'll put up your horse.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000000_000000.wav|He rode on briskly for a full hour, anxiously watching both sides of the road for a cabin or cabin smoke.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000042_000005.wav|It had noted the sound of voices nearby, and awakened him, as if he had been shaken by a rough hand.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000026_000000.wav|She had placed the pine table in the middle of the room, and Dick noticed that it was large enough for five or six persons.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000008_000000.wav|Dick sprang down gladly, but staggered a little at first from the stiffness of his legs.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000061_000000.wav|While they were still talking he put his saddle bags over his arm, opened the shutter its full width, and dropped quietly to the ground outside, remembering to take the precaution of closing the shutter behind him, lest the sudden inrush of cold startle the Leffingwells and their friends.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000060_000003.wav|He might take his pistols and fight, but he could not fight them all with success.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000034_000001.wav|I don't understand it, as he looks like a healthy man."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000019_000001.wav|It will be good news to some, an' bad news to others.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000039_000001.wav|He murmured his excuses and said he believed he would like to retire.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000022_000000.wav|The stable was a good one, better than usual in that country.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000053_000001.wav|The Yanks whipped the Johnnies in a big battle at Mill Spring.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000043_000000.wav|He sat up in his bed and became conscious of a hot and aching head.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000007_000001.wav|Mandy will have supper ready by the time we finish the job."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000036_000001.wav|The room in which they sat was large, apparently used for all purposes, kitchen, dining room, sitting room, and bedroom.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000034_000000.wav|"I'm grateful," said Dick falling into the spirit of it, "but what pains me, mrs Leffingwell, is the fact that mr Leffingwell will only nibble at your food.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000006_000000.wav|The man sharply bade the dogs be silent and they retreated behind the house, their tails drooping.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000027_000004.wav|The flames gave sufficient illumination.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000042_000003.wav|Despite the languor produced by food and heat a certain nervous apprehension had been at work in the boy's mind, and it followed him into the unknown regions of sleep.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000047_000000.wav|As Dick stared his eyes grew more used to the half dusk and he saw clearly.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000060_000004.wav|Then that pleasant flood of cold air gave him the key.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000048_000003.wav|He was only a harmless lad, and while these were dark days, a crime committed now might yet be punished.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000060_000001.wav|But his fear was greatest lest he might lose the precious dispatches that he bore.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000042_000002.wav|Nevertheless he awoke before midnight, and it was a very slight thing that caused him to come out of sleep.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000004_000001.wav|A man, elderly, but dark and strong, with the high cheek bones of an Indian stood in the door, the light of a fire blazing in the fireplace on the opposite side of the wall throwing him in relief.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000062_000000.wav|It was an icy night, but Dick did not stop to notice it.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000045_000004.wav|A third signal of alarm was promptly registered on his brain.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000021_000005.wav|Lots of us in the mountain feel that way.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000053_000007.wav|With all the armies gatherin' in the south an' west of the state it stands to reason that them dispatches mean a lot.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000052_000002.wav|What do you say to that, Kerins?"|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000027_000003.wav|No candles had been lighted, but they were not needed.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000024_000000.wav|Leffingwell's wife, a powerful woman, as large as her husband, and with a pleasant face, gave Dick a large hand and a friendly grasp.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000027_000000.wav|He had seldom beheld a more cheerful scene.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000011_000000.wav|He had spoken hastily and incautiously and he realized it at once.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000036_000002.wav|An old-fashioned squirrel rifle lay on hooks projecting from the wall, but there was no other sign of a weapon.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000002_000000.wav|As he approached two yellow curs rushed forth and began to bark furiously, snapping at the horse's heels, the usual mountain welcome. But when a kick from the horse grazed the ear of one of them they kept at a respectful distance.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000046_000001.wav|The fire had died down except a few coals which cast but a faint light.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000023_000002.wav|We're just plain mountain people, but you're welcome to the best we have.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000022_000001.wav|Dick saw stalls for four horses, but no horses.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000032_000003.wav|You've got a right to be hungry, an' you mustn't forget Ma's cookin' either.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000053_000002.wav|Me an' my pardners have been hangin' 'roun' in the woods, seein' what would happen.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000005_000000.wav|Dick rode close to the door, and, without hesitation, asked for a night's shelter and food.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000058_000004.wav|Besides, he's a nice boy an' he spoke nice all the time to pap an' me."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000042_000004.wav|His body was dead for a time and his mind too, but this nervous power worked on, almost independently of him.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000059_000001.wav|As for the dispatches it wasn't wise for them to fool with such things.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000041_000001.wav|Dick, used to primitive customs, said good night and retired within his alcove, taking his saddle bags.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000051_000000.wav|"A hoss like that would be knowed," protested the woman.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000041_000004.wav|This window contained no glass, but was closed with a broad shutter.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000025_000001.wav|"Supper's ready, Seth.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000001_000000.wav|The smoke came from a strong double cabin, standing about four hundred yards from the road, and the sight of the heavy log walls made Dick all the more anxious to get inside them.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000052_000001.wav|"I know places where sojers wouldn't find that hoss in a thousand years.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000045_000000.wav|He heard the hum of voices and sat up again.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000018_000001.wav|It was fought near a little place called Mill Spring, and resulted in a complete victory for the Northern forces under General Thomas."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000010_000000.wav|"But not younger than many who have gone to the war," replied Dick.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000003_000001.wav|Hello!" called Dick loudly.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81843/6538_81843_000000_000001.wav|By that time night had come fully, though fortunately it was clear but very cold.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000031_000003.wav|Continual reinforcements came to the North throughout the night, not a soldier came to the South.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000033_000001.wav|The nerves, drawn so tightly by the day's work, were not yet relaxed wholly.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000036_000002.wav|Their pulses became stronger, and the blood flowed in a quickened torrent through their veins.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000038_000003.wav|The three men upon whom most rested were very taciturn that night, but it is likely that extraordinary thoughts were passing in the minds of every one of the three.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000024_000002.wav|I've been scared for myself, an' I've been scared for the regiment, an' I've been scared for the whole army, an' I've been scared on general principles, but here we are, alive an' kickin', an' we ought to feel powerful thankful for that."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000005_000001.wav|Coils and streamers of smoke floated about among the trees, and suddenly a gray squirrel hopped out on a bough and began to chatter wildly.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000003_000002.wav|Those blinding flashes of flame no longer came from the forest before him, the shot and shell quit their horrible screaming, and the air was free from the unpleasant hiss of countless bullets.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000010_000002.wav|But they fought magnificently, Dick!|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000028_000000.wav|"Me, too," said Pennington.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000021_000000.wav|"Boys," he said, "I apologize."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000004_000002.wav|The boy felt stiff and sore in every bone and muscle, and, although the cannon and rifles were silent, there was still a hollow roaring in his ears.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000014_000006.wav|They are saying to the Southern army: 'Look out!|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000028_000002.wav|Why don't somebody ring the supper bell?"|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000005_000002.wav|Dick, despite himself, laughed, but the laugh was hysterical.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000005_000006.wav|The ordinary occupations were gone, and people spent most of their time trying to kill one another.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000031_000004.wav|Beauregard, at dawn, would have to face twice his numbers, at least half of whom were fresh troops.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000038_000001.wav|Grant, his face an expressionless mask, presided, and said but little.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000027_000001.wav|The Confederates broke up our breakfast.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000046_000000.wav|"And you, too, Warner and Pennington?"|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000008_000000.wav|Dick saw Colonel Winchester going among his men, and pulling himself together he saluted his chief.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000020_000002.wav|But in a few seconds he recovered himself and looked rather ashamed.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000041_000001.wav|He awoke once before dawn and remembered, but vaguely, all that had happened.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000032_000001.wav|The others, however, summoned their courage anew, and passed the whole night arranging their forces, cheering the men, and preparing for the morn. Their scouts and skirmishers kept watch on the Northern camp, and the Southerners believed that while they had whipped only one army the day before, they could whip two on the morrow.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000048_000000.wav|"Then keep close beside me.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000044_000000.wav|"All right this morning, Dick?" he said.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000020_000000.wav|The last words were high pitched and excited.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000014_000007.wav|Look out!|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000041_000002.wav|Yet he was conscious that there was much movement in the forest.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000005_000004.wav|It was a trifle that made him laugh, but everything was out of proportion now.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000031_000002.wav|Many thousands had fallen, and no new troops were coming to take their place.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000005_000003.wav|He could appreciate the feelings of the squirrel, which probably had been imprisoned in a hollow of the tree all day long, listening to this tremendous battle, and squirrels were not used to such battles.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000012_000000.wav|"Yes, Dick, we have been beaten, and beaten badly.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000014_000004.wav|Dick, my boy, we'll have forty thousand new troops on the field at the next dawn, and before God we'll wipe out the disgrace of today!|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000026_000000.wav|"What is it, Dick?" asked Warner.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000006_000000.wav|He rubbed his hands across his eyes and cleared them of the smoke.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000030_000001.wav|Regiment after regiment and brigade after brigade crossed.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000041_000000.wav|Dick, not having slept any the night before, and having passed through a day of fierce battle, was overcome after midnight, and sank into a sleep that was mere lethargy.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixteen.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000016_000000.wav|Colonel Winchester walked away to a council that had been called, and Dick turned to Pennington and Warner, who were not hurt, save for slight wounds.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000043_000000.wav|Colonel Winchester beckoned to him.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000010_000004.wav|It is only here that we have withstood the rush of the Southern army, and it is probable that we, too, would have gone had not night come to our help."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000014_000005.wav|Listen to the big guns from the boats as they speak at intervals! Why, I can understand the very words they speak!|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000039_000000.wav|Grant, after a day in which any one of a dozen chances would have wrecked him, must have concluded that in very deed and truth he was the favorite child of Fortune.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000014_000003.wav|Dick!|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000004_000000.wav|He stretched himself a little and stood up.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000022_000001.wav|"There have been times today when I felt brave as a lion, and lots of other times I was scared most to death. It would have helped me a lot then, if I could have opened my mouth and yelled at the top of my voice."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000029_000002.wav|They also talked much of the battle.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000017_000000.wav|"Dick," he said, "we're some distance from where we started this morning.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000010_000003.wav|They had to, or be crushed!|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000028_000001.wav|"If you were to hit me in the stomach I'd give back a hollow sound like a drum.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000034_000000.wav|Dick, after a while, saw Colonel Winchester, and other officers near him.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000034_000001.wav|They were talking of their losses.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000005_000000.wav|But the deep woods were silent and empty.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000018_000000.wav|"How large do you suppose the Southern army was?" asked Pennington.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000012_000001.wav|It was the surprise that did it.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81858/6538_81858_000006_000003.wav|The last rosy glow of the sun faded, and thick darkness enveloped the vast forest, in which twenty thousand men had fallen, and in which most of them yet lay, the wounded with the dead.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000026_000004.wav|They retreated rather as victors than defeated men, presenting a bristling front to the enemy until their regiments were lost in the forest, and beating off every attempt of skirmishers or cavalry to molest them.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000019_000001.wav|Their decimated ranks could not withstand the charge of two armies.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000023_000005.wav|Whole brigades and regiments were cut to pieces or thrown in confusion.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000011_000004.wav|He must have known that his star was rising.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000011_000003.wav|He, too, must have felt a singular thrill at that moment.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000011_000007.wav|His division alone had held together in the face of the Southern attack until night came.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000026_000002.wav|The junction of Grant and Buell, after all, had proved too much for them.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000002_000002.wav|He understood on the instant a fact that his soldiers did not comprehend until later.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000017_000000.wav|Sherman, McClernand and other generals now passed among their troops, cheering them, telling them that the time had come to win back what they had lost the day before, and that victory was sure.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000010_000002.wav|How the South fights!"|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000010_000001.wav|How the battle grows!|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000012_000001.wav|But he neither boasted nor predicted, continuing to watch intently the swelling battle.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000007_000000.wav|Nine o'clock came.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000016_000004.wav|He knew the remains of Grant's army were about to march upon the enemy, helping the Army of the Ohio to achieve the task that had proved so great.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000015_000000.wav|Grant was passing along his whole line.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000007_000007.wav|It was charged at once by the men in gray so fiercely that the gunners were glad to escape with their guns, and once more the wild rebel yell of triumph swelled through the southern forest.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000030_000001.wav|The generals discussed in subdued tones their narrow escape, and the soldiers, who now understood very well what had happened, talked of it in the same way.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000028_000001.wav|Even had they been ordered to follow they would have been incapable of it. Complete nervous collapse followed such days and nights as those through which they had passed.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000021_000001.wav|Dick now knew that the North would recover the field, and that the South, cut down fearfully, though having performed prodigies of valor, must fight to save herself.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000029_000000.wav|Nor did Grant and Buell wish to pursue.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000008_000000.wav|Dick, standing with his comrades on one of the ridges that they had defended so well, listened to the roar of conflict on the wing, ever increasing in volume, and watched the vast clouds of smoke gathering over the forest.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000023_000002.wav|The shock was terrific.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000004_000000.wav|Buell led splendid troops that he had trained long and rigidly, and they had not been in the conflict the day before.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000024_000000.wav|Sherman's division, after its momentary repulse, gathered itself anew, and, although knowing now that the Southern army could not be entrapped, drove again with all its might upon the positions around the church. They passed over the dead of the day before, and gathered increasing vigor, as they saw that the enemy was slowly drawing back.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000006_000000.wav|The great conflict increased in violence.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000023_000006.wav|The Southerners cut a wide gap in the Northern army, through which they rushed in triumph, holding the Corinth road against every attack and making their rear secure.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000020_000002.wav|The exultant cheer swept through the ranks again, and back came the defiant rebel yell.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000032_000000.wav|"And we won't make that easy parade down to the Gulf," said Warner.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000010_000000.wav|"Not that I can perceive," replied the colonel, "and yet with the rush of forty thousand fresh troops of ours upon the field I deemed victory quick and easy.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000012_000000.wav|Sherman must have recalled, too, how his statement that the North would need two hundred thousand troops in the west alone had been sneered at, and he had been called mad.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000018_000000.wav|Sherman's whole division now raised itself up and rushed at the enemy, Dick and his comrades in the front of their own regiment.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000002_000003.wav|He knew that the whole army of Buell was now before him.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000020_000001.wav|The promises of their generals were coming true, and there is nothing sweeter than victory after defeat. Fortune, after frowning upon her so long, was now smiling upon the North.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000022_000001.wav|There was only one road by which Beauregard could retreat to Corinth.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000029_000003.wav|The South had lost almost as many.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000007_000006.wav|Another battery dashed up to the relief of the men in blue.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000030_000000.wav|The double army which had saved itself, but which had yet been unable to destroy its enemy, slept that night in the recovered camp.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000006_000001.wav|Buell, a man of iron courage, saw that his soldiers must fight to the uttermost, not for victory only, but even to ward off defeat.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000001_000002.wav|But as they moved forward to attack the Union troops came out to meet them. Nelson had occupied the high ground between Lick and Owl Creeks, and his and the Southern troops met in a fierce clash shortly after dawn.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000011_000006.wav|He had not been able to avert defeat, but he had prevented utter ruin.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000014_000001.wav|Look, there's General Grant himself."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000023_000004.wav|McClernand, too, reeled back, others were driven in also.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000033_000000.wav|"But we'll win!" said Dick.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000014_000000.wav|"We'll win yet," said Dick hopefully, "but I don't think we can achieve any big victory.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000031_000000.wav|"We knew that it was going to be a big war," said Dick, "but it's going to be far bigger than we thought."|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000000_000002.wav|Yet Beauregard and his generals were still sanguine of completing the victory.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000000_000003.wav|Their scouts and skirmishers had failed to discover that the entire army of Buell also was now in front of them.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000003_000003.wav|A long and furious combat ensued.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000002_000000.wav|Beauregard, drawn by the firing at that point, and noticing the courage and tenacity with which the Northern troops held their ground, sending in volley after volley, divined at once that these were not the beaten troops of the day before, but new men.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000005_000001.wav|He and Grant had reckoned that the decimated brigades of the South could not stand at all before him, but just as on the first day they came on with the fierce rebel yell, hurling themselves upon superior numbers, taking the cannon of their enemy, losing them, and retaking them and losing them again, but never yielding.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000011_000001.wav|He walked up and down in front of his lines, saying little but seeing everything.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000025_000000.wav|Grant reformed his line, which had been shattered by the last fiery and successful attack of the South.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000027_000000.wav|It was the middle of the afternoon when the last shot was fired, and the Southern army at its leisure resumed its march toward Corinth, protected on the flanks by its cavalry, and carrying with it the assurance that although not victorious over two armies it had been victorious over one, and had struck the most stunning blow yet known in American history.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000002_000001.wav|This swarthy general, volatile and dramatic, nevertheless had great penetration.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000008_000001.wav|He could see from where he stood the flash of rifle fire and the blaze of cannon, and both eye and ear told him that the battle was not moving back upon the South.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000029_000004.wav|Nearly a third of her army had been killed or wounded in the battle, and yet they retired in good order, showing the desperate valor of these sons of hers.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6538/81859/6538_81859_000026_000001.wav|Despite the prodigies of valor performed by their men, the Southern generals saw that they could not longer hold the field.|6538
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000013_000003.wav|It seems to be worth a hundred ducats." "That is true," said Charlot; "Let us go and ask where they got it." So they rode to the place where the pilgrims stood, and Charlot stopped Bayard close to them.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000002_000003.wav|He sent numbers of his bravest knights to arrest them, but all without success.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000002_000001.wav|Yet he soon fell into a similar snare when he suffered his unworthy son, Charlot, to acquire such an influence over him, that he constantly led him into acts of cruelty and injustice that in his right mind he would have scorned to commit.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000016_000000.wav|When this was done, the king said to Charlot, "Son, I request that you will let this sick pilgrim sit on your horse, and ride if he can, for by so doing he will be healed of all his infirmities." Charlot replied, "That will I gladly do." So saying, he dismounted, and the servants took the pilgrim in their arms, and helped him on the horse.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000007.wav|He gave them to the beggar, and said, "Here, take my spurs.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000018_000003.wav|"O noble king and master," he cried, "my poor companion is run away with; he will fall and break his neck." The king ordered his knights to ride after the pilgrim, and bring him back, or help him if need were.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000002_000000.wav|CHARLEMAGNE was overwhelmed with grief at the loss of so many of his bravest warriors at the disaster of Roncesvalles, and bitterly reproached himself for his credulity in resigning himself so completely to the counsels of the treacherous Count Gan.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000015_000000.wav|Then the king said to Malagigi, "Give me a morsel from your cup, that I may be cleared of my sins." Malagigi answered, "Illustrious lord, I dare not do it, unless you will forgive all who have at any time offended you.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000001.wav|He had a long beard hanging over his breast, and eyebrows that almost covered his eyes.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000008_000002.wav|When Rinaldo heard that he stayed his hand, and gazed doubtingly on the old man, who now threw aside his disguise, and appeared to be indeed Malagigi.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000003_000000.wav|At last Charles himself raised a great army, and went in person to compel the paladin to submit.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000019_000000.wav|Malagigi did not go far, but having changed his disguise, returned to where the king was, and employed his best art in getting the brothers of Rinaldo out of prison.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000005.wav|I thought to rescue them by means of my horse Bayard, but while I slept some thief has stolen him." The old man replied, "I will remember you and your brothers in my prayers.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000005_000006.wav|Let us take him, and carry him to King Charles, who will pay us well for our trouble." They did so, and the king was delighted with his prize, and gave them a present that made them rich to their dying day.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000015_000003.wav|If I catch them I will certainly have them hanged. But tell me, pilgrim, who is that man who stands beside you?" "He is deaf, dumb, and blind," said Malagigi.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000012_000000.wav|The morning of the feast day Rinaldo and Malagigi came to the place where the sports were to be held.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000013_000001.wav|When they were all assembled the king came also, and Charlot with him, near whom the horse Bayard was led, in the charge of grooms, who were expressly enjoined to guard him safely.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000004.wav|The king has taken my brothers, and means to put them to death.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000009_000001.wav|They looked like two pilgrims, very old and poor.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000006.wav|I am a poor man, have you not something to give me?" Rinaldo said, "I have nothing to give," but then he recollected his spurs.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000017_000001.wav|"Yes," said Rinaldo, "I am healed of all my infirmities." When the king heard it he said to Bishop Turpin, "My lord bishop, we must celebrate this with a procession, with crosses and banners, for it is a great miracle."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000018_000004.wav|They did so, but it was in vain.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000001_000000.wav|RINALDO AND BAYARD|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000008.wav|They are the first present my mother gave me when my father, Count Aymon, dubbed me knight.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000007_000001.wav|I tell you truly if it were not for shame to beat one so helpless, I would teach you better manners." The old man said, "Of a truth, sir, if you did so you would do a great sin.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000005_000003.wav|Then he sat down, and, as he waited, he fell asleep.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000002_000002.wav|Rinaldo and his brothers, for some slight offence to the imperious young prince, were forced to fly from Paris, and to take shelter in their castle of Montalban; for Charles had publicly said, if he could take them he would hang them all.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000009.wav|They ought to bring you ten pounds."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000005_000005.wav|Just then came along some country people, who said to one another, "Look, is not that the great horse Bayard that Rinaldo rides?|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000004_000001.wav|His brothers had been taken prisoners in a skirmish, and his only hope of saving their lives was in making terms with the king.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000018_000006.wav|Malagigi was suffered to depart, unsuspected, and he went his way, making sad lamentation for the fate of his comrade, who he pretended to think must surely be dashed to pieces.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000008_000000.wav|The pilgrim took the mantle, folded it up, and put it into his bag. Then a third time he said to Rinaldo, "Sir, have you nothing left to give me that I may remember you in my prayers?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000018_000005.wav|Rinaldo left them all behind him, and kept on his way till he reached Montalban.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000009_000003.wav|Malagigi said to Rinaldo, "I will go meet the monks, and see what news I can learn."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000013_000000.wav|When the two had taken their stand on the border of the field among the crowd the princes and ladies of the court began to assemble.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000007_000000.wav|The old man took the spurs, and put them into his sack, and said, "Noble sir, have you nothing else you can give me?" Rinaldo replied, "Are you making sport of me?|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000005_000000.wav|So he sent a messenger, offering to yield himself and his castle if the king would spare his and his brothers' lives.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000002.wav|He bade Rinaldo good day.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000008_000006.wav|Help my brothers to escape out of prison, I entreat you.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000008_000005.wav|Next to God, my trust is in you.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000003.wav|Rinaldo thanked him, and said, "A good day I have hardly had since I was born." Then said the old man, "Signor Rinaldo, you must not despair, for God will make all things turn to the best." Rinaldo answered, "My trouble is too heavy for me to hope relief.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000005_000001.wav|While the messenger was gone Rinaldo, impatient to learn what tidings he might bring, rode out to meet him.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000006_000000.wav|When Rinaldo woke he looked round for his horse, and, finding him not, he groaned, and said, "O unlucky hour that I was born! how fortune persecutes me!" So desperate was he that he took off his armor and his spurs, saying, "What need have I of these, since Bayard is lost?" While he stood thus lamenting, a man came from the thicket, seemingly bent with age.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000015_000002.wav|These two shall never live in my kingdom again.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000008_000003.wav|"Dear cousin," said Rinaldo, "pray forgive me.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/14358/1401_14358_000008_000004.wav|I did not know you.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000012_000003.wav|He turned sharp to the right, dashed up the hill, cleared a hedge and was gone.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000026_000000.wav|"Confound my mother!" yelled the man.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000008_000000.wav|"Let go of me," I cried, "we shall lose the stag.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000016_000000.wav|"Don't you touch that deer," said I-my voice was so husky I could hardly speak-"don't you see it's surrendered?|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000025_000001.wav|Your mother-"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000016_000002.wav|The man's eyes looked as if they would burst out of his head.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000007_000001.wav|The stag!" I cried.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000031_000004.wav|He had been to Chedcombe, and was coming back.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000009_000001.wav|In an instant I was free.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000012_000001.wav|And for fear he would make for the hedge and jump over it, not minding me, I jerked out my handkerchief and shook it at him.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000013_000003.wav|It was trembling all over and fairly tired to death.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/146770/1401_146770_000004_000001.wav|In a second I clapped spurs into my tricycle and was off.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000043_000001.wav|Don't you realize what you're up against?" he demanded.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000029_000000.wav|"It's all the same; Hathaway or Weatherby, the scoundrel can't disguise his personality.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000023_000000.wav|"This is Mary Louise Burrows," said Miss Stearne, in a weak voice.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000053_000000.wav|He began to pace the room again, casting at her shrewd and uncertain glances.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000010_000001.wav|Since the move was inevitable, she would be glad to go to Miss Stearne as soon as possible.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000000.wav|Miss Stearne was a woman fifty years of age, tall and lean, with a deeply lined face and a tendency to nervousness that was increasing with her years.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000028_000000.wav|"I am the granddaughter of Colonel james Weatherby, sir."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000020_000000.wav|At the noon luncheon Mary Louise was accorded a warm reception by the assembled boarders and this cordial welcome by her school mates did much to restore the girl to her normal condition of cheerfulness.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000026_000000.wav|"I do not know to whom you refer," she answered quietly.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000046_000000.wav|"I do not intend to be insolent, Miss Burrows, but I have been greatly aggravated by your grandfather's unfortunate escape and in this emergency every moment is precious if I am to capture him before he gets out of America, as he has done once or twice before.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000037_000000.wav|"I don't believe you.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000039_000000.wav|He uttered a growl and then threw back his coat, displaying a badge attached to his vest.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000047_000000.wav|"My grandfather is not a criminal, sir."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000048_000002.wav|Where is he?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000001.wav|She was a very clever teacher and a very incompetent business woman, so that her small school, of excellent standing and repute, proved difficult to finance.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000072_000001.wav|The girl read this look and it confused her.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000007_000000.wav|She reflected upon this seemingly unnecessary secrecy as she ate her breakfast.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000033_000001.wav|"Don't annoy me with your airs, for I'm in a hurry.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000067_000002.wav|He's the best man that ever lived, and the whole trouble is that this foolish officer has mistaken him for someone else. I heard him, with my own ears, tell the man he was mistaken."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000051_000002.wav|Therefore, he is either hidden somewhere in Beverly or he has sneaked away to an adjoining town.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000054_000000.wav|"He didn't say where he was going?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000071_000000.wav|"I cannot answer that question, Miss Stearne," she admitted, candidly, "but Gran'pa Jim must have had some good reason."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000019_000001.wav|They asked numerous questions as they helped her to unpack and settle her room, but accepted her conservative answers without comment.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000046_000004.wav|Therefore, whether you dislike to or not, you must tell me where to find your grandfather."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000005.wav|But the school is quite full, as you know; so at first I was uncertain that I could accommodate you here; but Miss Dandler, my assistant, has given up her room to you and I shall put a bed for her in my own sleeping chamber, so that difficulty is now happily arranged.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000003.wav|He begged me to take you in as a regular boarder and of course I consented.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000016_000000.wav|Mary Louise reflected, with a little shock of pain, that her mother had never been very near to her and that Miss Stearne might well perform such perfunctory duties as the girl had been accustomed to expect.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000006.wav|I suppose your family left Beverly this morning, by the early train?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000005.wav|Not always were her rules and regulations dictated by good judgment.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000040_000006.wav|Tell me where to find your grandfather."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000010_000003.wav|Then she bade the faithful servitors good bye, promising to call upon them at their humble home, and walked slowly over the well-known path to Miss Stearne's establishment, where she presented herself to the principal.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000033_000000.wav|"Not yet you won't," said the man in a less boisterous tone.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000007.wav|On the other hand, no one could question the principal's erudition or her skill in imparting her knowledge to others.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000068_000000.wav|Miss Stearne reflected.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000003.wav|She was kindly natured, fond of young girls and cared for her pupils with motherly instincts seldom possessed by those in similar positions.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000000.wav|"Sit down, Mary Louise," she said to the girl.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000064_000006.wav|In that case I-or someone appointed by the Department-will get a chance to nab him.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000058_000000.wav|"What DID he say?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000035_000000.wav|"You don't, eh?|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000029_000001.wav|Where is he?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000020_000001.wav|She even joined a group in a game of tennis after luncheon and it was while she was playing that little Miss Dandler came with, a message that Mary Louise was wanted in Miss Stearne's room at once.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000022_000001.wav|The principal sat crouched over her desk as if overawed by her visitor, who stopped his nervous pacing up and down the room as the girl appeared.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000067_000000.wav|"It would be, if it were true," said the girl.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000064_000005.wav|If nothing gets out, Hathaway may think the coast is clear and it's safe for him to come back.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000034_000000.wav|"I do not know."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000040_000002.wav|I wired the Department for instructions and an hour ago received orders to arrest him, but found my bird had flown.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000044_000001.wav|"I seem to be in the power of a brute.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000069_000000.wav|"Then why did your grandfather run away?" she asked.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000045_000000.wav|He regarded her keenly, still frowning, but when he spoke again he had moderated both his tone and words.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000002.wav|Colonel Weatherby came to me last evening and said he had been suddenly called away on important matters that would brook no delay, and that your mother was to accompany him on the journey.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000006_000000.wav|"I understand, Uncle Eben."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000064_000004.wav|Keep the secret.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000021_000000.wav|"Take my racquet," she said to Jennie Allen; "I'll be back in a minute."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000043_000000.wav|"Great Caesar, girl!|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000062_000002.wav|"When did he say he'd send it?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000014_000000.wav|"They have gone," replied Mary Louise, non committally.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000017_000002.wav|Is my room ready?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000015_000001.wav|And remember, Mary Louise, that you are to come to me for any advice and assistance you need, for I promised your grandfather that I would fill your mother's place as far as I am able to do so."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000051_000003.wav|The old serpent is slippery as an eel; but I'm going to catch him, this time, as sure as fate, and this girl must give me all the information she can."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000046_000003.wav|It is your duty, as a loyal subject of the United States, to assist an officer of the law by every means in your power, especially when he is engaged in running down a criminal.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000041_000000.wav|"If you have finished your insolent remarks," she answered with spirit, "I will go away.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000060_000003.wav|Knew I would question you and wouldn't take chances.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000040_000000.wav|"I'm a federal officer," he asserted with egotistic pride, "a member of the Government's Secret Service Department.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000002.wav|In character Miss Stearne was temperamental enough to have been a genius.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000062_000000.wav|"I thought not." He turned toward the principal.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000010_000002.wav|She helped Aunt Polly pack her trunk and suit case, afterwards gathering into a bundle the things she had forgotten or overlooked, all of which personal belongings Uncle Eben wheeled over to the school.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000022_000000.wav|When she entered Miss Stearne's room she was surprised to find herself confronted by the same man whom she and her grandfather had encountered in front of Cooper's Hotel the previous afternoon-the man whom she secretly held responsible for this abrupt change in her life.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000060_000001.wav|I see.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000033_000002.wav|Where is Hathaway-or Weatherby-or whatever he calls himself?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000064_000000.wav|"Foxy old boy!|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000037_000001.wav|Where did he go?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000050_000000.wav|"He-he left by the morning train, which goes west," stammered Miss Stearne, anxious to placate the officer and fearful of the girl's stubborn resistance.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000048_000000.wav|"The jury will decide that when his case comes to trial.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000040_000001.wav|I've been searching for james j Hathaway for nine years, and so has every man in the service. Last night I stumbled upon him by accident, and on inquiring found he has been living quietly in this little jumping off place.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000044_000003.wav|I shall see a lawyer and try to have you properly punished for this absolute insolence."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000041_000001.wav|You have interrupted my game of tennis."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000040_000004.wav|No nonsense, girl!|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000064_000007.wav|That's all.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000060_000000.wav|"Huh!|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000018_000000.wav|"Yes; and your trunk has already been placed in it.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000049_000000.wav|"I do not know," she persisted.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000017_000000.wav|"Thank you, Miss Stearne," she said.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000008_000000.wav|"What are you and Aunt Polly going to do, Uncle?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000044_000002.wav|If a law exists that permits you to insult a girl, there must also be a law to punish you.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000027_000000.wav|"Aren't you his granddaughter?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000004.wav|You have been one of my most tractable and conscientious pupils and I have been proud of your progress.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000012_000006.wav|Therefore her girls usually found as much fault as other boarding school girls are prone to do, and with somewhat more reason.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000070_000001.wav|Presently she realized that a logical explanation of her grandfather's action was impossible with her present knowledge.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000062_000001.wav|"How about this girl's board money?" he asked.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000013_000001.wav|"This is an astonishing change in your life, is it not?|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000036_000000.wav|"no"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000072_000000.wav|There was unbelief in the woman's eyes-unbelief and a horror of the whole disgraceful affair that somehow included Mary Louise in its scope.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000072_000002.wav|She mumbled an excuse and fled to her room to indulge in a good cry.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000060_000002.wav|Foxy old guy.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000011_000000.wav|It being Saturday, Miss Stearne was seated at a desk in her own private room, where she received Mary Louise and bade her sit down.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000019_000000.wav|Mary Louise went to her room and was promptly pounced upon by Dorothy Knerr and Sue Finley, who roomed just across the hall from her and were delighted to find she was to become a regular boarder.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000015_000000.wav|"You will be lonely for a time, of course, but presently you will feel quite at home in the school because you know all of my girls so well. It is not like a strange girl coming into a new school.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000066_000000.wav|"It-it's-dreadful!" stammered the teacher, shrinking back with a moan.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000004_000001.wav|"How could they go, Uncle?"|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000059_000000.wav|"That he was going away and would arrange with Miss Stearne for me to board at the school."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000018_000001.wav|Let me know, my dear, if there is anything you need."|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000017_000001.wav|"I am sure I shall be quite contented here.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000030_000000.wav|She did not reply.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000067_000001.wav|"But Gran'pa Jim is no criminal, we all know.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000002_000000.wav|"And you say they are gone?" cried Mary Louise in surprise, as she came down to breakfast the next morning and found the table laid for one and old Eben waiting to serve her.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000016_000001.wav|But no one could ever take the place of Gran'pa Jim.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1401/174511/1401_174511_000040_000005.wav|The Federal Government's not to be trifled with.|1401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000019_000001.wav|He could not sleep all that night, and went to him in the morning before sunrise.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000040_000001.wav|Great, then, was their surprise to find Cassim's body taken away, with some of their bags of gold.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000054_000000.wav|A little after the robber and Baba Mustapha had parted, Morgiana went out of Ali Baba's house upon some errand, and upon her return, seeing the mark the robber had made, stopped to observe it.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000017_000003.wav|Whence has he all this wealth?"|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000038_000005.wav|Ali Baba came after with some neighbors, who often relieved the others in carrying the bier to the burying ground.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000030_000001.wav|He went to the forest, and when he came near the rock, having seen neither his brother nor the mules in his way, was seriously alarmed at finding some blood spilled near the door, which he took for an ill omen; but when he had pronounced the word, and the door had opened, he was struck with horror at the dismal sight of his brother's body.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000004_000001.wav|Their father divided a small inheritance equally between them.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000056_000002.wav|The captain, and he who had visited the town in the morning as spy, came in the last.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000037_000000.wav|"Baba Mustapha," said she, "you must make haste and sew the parts of this body together; and when you have done, I will give you another piece of gold."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000009_000000.wav|Ali Baba followed them with his eyes as far as he could see them, and afterward stayed a considerable time before he descended. Remembering the words the captain of the robbers used to cause the door to open and shut, he had the curiosity to try if his pronouncing them would have the same effect.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000046_000000.wav|The robber saluted him, bidding him good morrow; and, perceiving that he was old, said, "Honest man, you begin to work very early: is it possible that one of your age can see so well?|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000023_000000.wav|Cassim rose the next morning long before the sun, and set out for the forest with ten mules bearing great chests, which he designed to fill, and followed the road which Ali Baba had pointed out to him.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000039_000000.wav|In this manner Cassim's melancholy death was concealed, and hushed up between Ali Baba, his widow, and Morgiana, his slave, with so much contrivance that nobody in the city had the least knowledge or suspicion of the cause of it.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000021_000000.wav|"I expect as much," replied Cassim haughtily; "but I must know exactly where this treasure is, and how I may visit it myself when I choose; otherwise, I will go and inform against you, and then you will not only get no more, but will lose all you have, and I shall have a share for my information."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000051_000001.wav|Come, let me blind your eyes at the same place.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000014_000002.wav|The other asked for a small one.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000030_000004.wav|When he came home, he drove the two asses loaded with gold into his little yard, and left the care of unloading them to his wife, while he led the other to his sister in law's house.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000019_000002.wav|"Ali Baba," said he, "I am surprised at you!|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000040_000003.wav|"The removal of the body and the loss of some of our money plainly show that the man whom we killed had an accomplice; and for our own lives' sake we must try and find him.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000039_000002.wav|As for Cassim's warehouse, he intrusted it entirely to the management of his eldest son.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000048_000000.wav|"A dead body!" exclaimed the robber, with affected amazement. "Yes, yes," answered Baba Mustapha; "I see you want to have me speak out, but you shall know no more."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000054_000001.wav|"What can be the meaning of this mark?" said she to herself; "somebody intends my master no good: however, with whatever intention it was done, it is advisable to guard against the worst." Accordingly, she fetched a piece of chalk, and marked two or three doors on each side, in the same manner, without saying a word to her master or mistress.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000016_000001.wav|While Ali Baba was burying the gold, his wife, to show her exactness and diligence to her sister in law, carried the measure back again, but without taking notice that a piece of gold had stuck to the bottom.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000022_000000.wav|Ali Baba told him all he desired, even to the very words he was to use to gain admission into the cave.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000031_000001.wav|When he came into the court, he unloaded the ass, and taking Morgiana aside, said to her: "You must observe an inviolable secrecy.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000014_000003.wav|She bade her stay a little, and she would readily fetch one.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000033_000003.wav|In the evening Morgiana went to the same druggist's again, and with tears in her eyes, asked for an essence which they used to give to sick people only when at the last extremity.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000035_000000.wav|Baba Mustapha seemed to hesitate a little at these words.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000025_000002.wav|Alarmed at this, they galloped full speed to the cave.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000038_000002.wav|Not long after, the proper officer brought the bier, and when the attendants of the mosque, whose business it was to wash the dead, offered to perform their duty, she told them that it was done already.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000031_000000.wav|Ali Baba knocked at the door, which was opened by Morgiana, a clever, intelligent slave, who was fruitful in inventions to meet the most difficult circumstances.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000027_000003.wav|They mounted their horses, went to beat the roads again, and to attack the caravans they might meet.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000053_000000.wav|The robber, finding he could discover no more from Baba Mustapha, thanked him for the trouble he had taken, and left him to go back to his stall, while he returned to the forest, persuaded that he should be very well received.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000023_000001.wav|It was not long before he reached the rock, and found out the place, by the tree and other marks which his brother had given him.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000034_000001.wav|The next morning at daybreak, Morgiana went to an old cobbler whom she knew to be always early at his stall, and bidding him good morrow, put a piece of gold into his hand, saying, "Baba Mustapha, you must bring with you your sewing tackle, and come with me; but I must tell you, I shall blindfold you when you come to such a place."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000016_000000.wav|Ali Baba's wife went home, set the measure upon the heap of gold, filled it, and emptied it often upon the sofa, till she had done, when she was very well satisfied to find the number of measures amounted to so many as they did, and went to tell her husband, who had almost finished digging the hole.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000052_000004.wav|The thief, before he pulled off the band, marked the door with a piece of chalk, which he had ready in his hand, and then asked him if he knew whose house that was; to which Baba Mustapha replied, that as he did not live in that neighborhood he could not tell.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000013_000003.wav|There is no time to be lost." "You are in the right, husband," replied she; "but let us know, as nigh as possible, how much we have.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000038_000006.wav|Morgiana, a slave to the deceased, followed in the procession, weeping, beating her breast, and tearing her hair. Cassim's wife stayed at home mourning, uttering lamentable cries with the women of the neighborhood, who came, according to custom, during the funeral, and, joining their lamentations with hers, filled the quarter far and near with sounds of sorrow.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000029_000004.wav|She spent all the night in weeping; and, as soon as it was day, went to them, telling them, by her tears, the cause of her coming.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000016_000003.wav|I am obliged to you for it, and return it with thanks."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000045_000000.wav|Baba Mustapha was seated with an awl in his hand, just going to work.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000023_000003.wav|On examining the cave, he was in great admiration to find much more riches than he had expected from Ali Baba's relation.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000044_000000.wav|After this robber had received great commendations from the captain and his comrades, he disguised himself so that nobody would take him for what he was; and taking his leave of the troop that night, went into the town just at daybreak, and walked up and down, till accidentally he came to Baba Mustapha's stall, which was always open before any of the shops.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000029_000002.wav|Then her fear redoubled, and her grief was the more sensible because she was forced to keep it to herself.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000018_000002.wav|He does not count his money, but measures it." Cassim desired her to explain the riddle, which she did by telling him the stratagem she had used to make the discovery, and showed him the piece of money, which was so old that they could not tell in what prince's reign it was coined.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000033_000004.wav|"Alas!" said she, taking it from the apothecary, "I am afraid that this remedy will have no better effect than the lozenges; and that I shall lose my good master."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000004_000003.wav|Ali Baba married a woman as poor as himself, and lived by cutting wood, and bringing it upon three asses into the town to sell.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000043_000000.wav|Without waiting for the sentiments of his companions, one of the robbers started up, and said, "I submit to this condition, and think it an honor to expose my life to serve the troop."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000013_000001.wav|"Wife," replied Ali Baba, "you do not know what you undertake, when you pretend to count the money; you will never have done.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000005_000001.wav|He observed it with attention, and distinguished soon after a body of horsemen, whom he suspected might be robbers.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000055_000000.wav|In the meantime, the robber rejoined his troop in the forest, and recounted to them his success, expatiating upon his good fortune in meeting so soon with the only person who could inform him of what he wanted to know.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000056_000000.wav|This speech and plan were approved of by all, and they were soon ready.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000011_000001.wav|When he had loaded them with the bags, he laid wood over them in such a manner that they could not be seen.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000010_000001.wav|The sight of all these riches made him suppose that this cave must have been occupied for ages by robbers, who had succeeded one another.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000031_000005.wav|I leave the matter to your wit and skilful devices."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000033_000001.wav|The apothecary inquired who was ill.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000025_000000.wav|About noon the robbers visited their cave.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000013_000004.wav|I will borrow a small measure, and measure it while you dig the hole."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000027_000001.wav|They could not deny the fact of his being there; and to terrify any person or accomplice who should attempt the same thing, they agreed to cut Cassim's body into four quarters-to hang two on one side, and two on the other, within the door of the cave.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000013_000002.wav|I will dig a hole and bury it.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000042_000001.wav|This is a matter of the first importance, and for fear of any treachery, I propose that whoever undertakes this business without success, even though the failure arises only from an error of judgment, shall suffer death."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000056_000001.wav|They filed off in parties of two each, after some interval of time, and got into the town without being in the least suspected.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000040_000002.wav|"We are certainly discovered," said the captain.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000015_000000.wav|The sister in law did so, but as she knew Ali Baba's poverty, she was curious to know what sort of grain his wife wanted to measure, and, artfully putting some suet at the bottom of the measure, brought it to her, with the excuse that she was sorry that she had made her stay so long, but that she could not find it sooner.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000019_000003.wav|you pretend to be miserably poor, and yet you measure gold.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000046_000001.wav|I question, even if it were somewhat lighter, whether you could see to stitch."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000049_000001.wav|He pulled out a piece of gold, and putting it into Baba Mustapha's hand, said to him, "I do not want to learn your secret, though I can assume you you might safely trust me with it.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000026_000001.wav|He rushed to the door, and no sooner saw the door open, than he ran out and threw the leader down, but could not escape the other robbers, who with their cimeters soon deprived him of life.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000052_000000.wav|The two pieces of gold were great temptations to Baba Mustapha.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000009_000001.wav|Accordingly, he went among the shrubs, and perceiving the door concealed behind them, stood before it and said, "Open, Sesame!"|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000050_000000.wav|"If I were disposed to do you that favor," replied Baba Mustapha, "I assure you I cannot.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000049_000000.wav|The robber felt sure that he had discovered what he sought.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000030_000002.wav|He was not long in determining how he should pay the last dues to his brother; but without adverting to the little fraternal affection he had shown for him, went into the cave to find something to enshroud his remains; and having loaded one of his asses with them, covered them over with wood.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000008_000000.wav|At last the door opened again, and as the captain went in last, so he came out first, and stood to see them all pass by him; when Ali Baba heard him make the door close by pronouncing these words, "Shut, Sesame!" Every man at once went and bridled his horse, fastened his wallet, and mounted again.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000008_000001.wav|When the captain saw them all ready, he put himself at their head, and they returned the way they had come.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000028_000000.wav|In the meantime, Cassim's wife was very uneasy when night came, and her husband was not returned.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000029_000001.wav|She went home again, and waited patiently till midnight.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000011_000003.wav|He then made the best of his way to town.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000051_000000.wav|"Well," replied the robber, "you may, however, remember a little of the way that you were led blindfold.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000009_000002.wav|The door instantly flew wide open.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000041_000000.wav|All the robbers unanimously approved of the captain's proposal.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000006_000000.wav|The troop, who were to the number of forty, all well mounted and armed, came to the foot of the rock on which the tree stood, and there dismounted.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000007_000000.wav|The robbers stayed some time within the rock, during which Ali Baba, fearful of being caught, remained in the tree.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000011_000000.wav|Ali Baba went boldly into the cave, and collected as much of the gold coin, which was in bags, as he thought his three asses could carry.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000031_000003.wav|We must bury him as if he had died a natural death.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000029_000003.wav|She repented of her foolish curiosity, and cursed her desire of prying into the affairs of her brother and sister in law.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000055_000001.wav|All the robbers listened to him with the utmost satisfaction; when the captain, after commending his diligence, addressing himself to them all, said, "Comrades, we have no time to lose: let us set off well armed, without its appearing who we are; but that we may not excite any suspicion, let only one or two go into the town together, and join at our rendezvous, which shall be the great square.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000047_000000.wav|"You do not know me," replied Baba Mustapha; "for old as I am, I have extraordinary good eyes; and you will not doubt it when I tell you that I sewed the body of a dead man together in a place where I had not so much light as I have now."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000017_000002.wav|"What!" said she, "has Ali Baba gold so plentiful as to measure it?|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000042_000000.wav|"Well," said the captain, "one of you, the boldest and most skilful among you, must go into the town, disguised as a traveller and a stranger, to try if he can hear any talk of the man whom we have killed, and endeavor to find out who he was, and where he lived.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000025_000001.wav|At some distance they saw Cassim's mules straggling about the rock, with great chests on their backs.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000012_000001.wav|He then emptied the bags, which raised such a great heap of gold as dazzled his wife's eyes, and then he told her the whole adventure from beginning to end, and, above all, recommended her to keep it secret.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000033_000002.wav|She replied, with a sigh, Her good master, Cassim himself, and that he could neither eat nor speak.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000010_000000.wav|Ali Baba, who expected a dark, dismal cavern, was surprised to see a well lighted and spacious chamber, which received the light from an opening at the top of the rock, and in which were all sorts of provisions, rich bales of silk, stuff, brocade, and valuable carpeting, piled upon one another, gold and silver ingots in great heaps, and money in bags.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000023_000005.wav|He named several sorts of grain, but still the door would not open.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000039_000001.wav|Three or four days after the funeral, Ali Baba removed his few goods openly to his sister in law's house, in which it was agreed that he should in future live; but the money he had taken from the robbers he conveyed thither by night.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000052_000003.wav|"It was here," said Baba Mustapha, "I was blindfolded; and I turned this way." The robber tied his handkerchief over his eyes, and walked by him till they stopped directly at Cassim's house, where Ali Baba then lived.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000016_000002.wav|"Sister," said she, giving it to her again, "you see that I have not kept your measure long.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000013_000000.wav|The wife rejoiced greatly at their good fortune, and would count all the gold piece by piece.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000006_000001.wav|Every man unbridled his horse, tied him to some shrub, and hung about his neck a bag of corn which they brought behind them.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000012_000000.wav|When Ali Baba got home, he drove his asses into a little yard, shut the gates very carefully, threw off the wood that covered the panniers, carried the bags into the house, and ranged them in order before his wife.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000005_000002.wav|He determined to leave his asses to save himself.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000020_000001.wav|Therefore, without showing the least surprise or trouble, he confessed all, and offered his brother part of his treasure to keep the secret.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281187/8474_281187_000025_000003.wav|They drove away the mules, who strayed through the forest so far that they were soon out of sight, and went directly, with their naked sabres in their hands, to the door, which, on their captain pronouncing the proper words, immediately opened.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000051_000002.wav|He entered the cavern and by the condition he found things in, judged that nobody had been there since the captain had fetched the goods for his shop.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000028_000002.wav|When this was done, Ali Baba hid the jars and weapons; and as he had no occasion for the mules, he sent them at different times to be sold in the market by his slave.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000038_000000.wav|Morgiana, who was always ready to obey her master, could not help being surprised at his strange order.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000006_000000.wav|The captain, having lost two brave fellows of his troop, was afraid of diminishing it too much by pursuing this plan to get information of the residence of their plunderer.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000021_000002.wav|You will be better informed of what you wish to know when you have seen what I have to show you, if you will follow me."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000036_000002.wav|I will return immediately."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000018_000001.wav|He then listened, but not hearing or perceiving anything whereby he could judge that his companions stirred, he began to grow very uneasy, threw stones a second and also a third time, and could not comprehend the reason that none of them should answer his signal.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000001_000001.wav|He himself set them the example, and they all returned as they had come.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000046_000001.wav|Sometimes she presented the poniard to one breast, sometimes to another, and oftentimes seemed to strike her own.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000018_000004.wav|Examining all the jars, one after another, he found that all his gang were dead; and, enraged to despair at having failed in his design, he forced the lock of a door that led from the yard to the garden, and, climbing over the walls, made his escape.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000025_000000.wav|"Merchant!" answered she; "he is as much one as I am.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000051_000003.wav|From this time he believed he was the only person in the world who had the secret of opening the cave, and that all the treasure was at his sole disposal.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000039_000000.wav|Morgiana obeyed, though with no little reluctance, and had a curiosity to see this man who ate no salt.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000021_000000.wav|When he returned from the baths, he was very much surprised to see the oil jars, and that the merchant was not gone with the mules. He asked Morgiana, who opened the door, the reason of it.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000028_000001.wav|Near these he and the slave Abdalla dug a trench, long and wide enough to hold the bodies of the robbers; and as the earth was light, they were not long in doing it.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000007.wav|Look into all the other jars."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000030_000002.wav|Two or three days after he was settled, Ali Baba came to see his son, and the captain of the robbers recognized him at once, and soon learned from his son who he was.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000027_000000.wav|On hearing of these brave deeds from the lips of Morgiana, Ali Baba said to her, "God, by your means, has delivered me from the snares these robbers laid for my destruction.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000002.wav|"Do not be afraid," said Morgiana, "the man you see there can neither do you nor anybody else any harm.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000048_000004.wav|I knew him, and you now find that my suspicion was not groundless."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000004.wav|Explain yourself."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000048_000000.wav|Ali Baba and his son, shocked at this action, cried out aloud. "Unhappy woman!" exclaimed Ali Baba, "what have you done, to ruin me and my family?"|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000032_000000.wav|Ali Baba with great pleasure took the treat upon himself.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000051_000000.wav|At the year's end, when he found they had not made any attempt to disturb him, he had the curiosity to make another journey.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000031_000001.wav|He therefore acquainted his father, Ali Baba, with his wish to invite him in return.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000012_000000.wav|In the meantime the captain of the robbers went into the yard, took off the lid of each jar, and gave his people orders what to do.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000050_000002.wav|A few days afterward Ali Baba celebrated the nuptials of his son and Morgiana with great solemnity, a sumptuous feast, and the usual dancing and spectacles; and had the satisfaction to see that his friends and neighbors, whom he invited, had no knowledge of the true motives of the marriage; but that those who were not unacquainted with Morgiana's good qualities, commended his generosity and goodness of heart.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000029_000000.wav|While Ali Baba took these measures, the captain of the forty robbers returned to the forest with inconceivable mortification. He did not stay long: the loneliness of the gloomy cavern became frightful to him.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000001.wav|Ali Baba did so, and seeing a man, started back in alarm, and cried out.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000050_000000.wav|The son, far from showing any dislike, readily consented to the marriage; not only because he would not disobey his father, but also because it was agreeable to his inclination.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000051_000001.wav|He mounted his horse, and when he came to the cave he alighted, tied his horse to a tree, then approaching the entrance, and pronouncing the words, "Open, Sesame!" the door opened.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000019_000000.wav|When Morgiana saw him depart, she went to bed, satisfied and pleased to have succeeded so well in saving her master and family.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000003_000000.wav|Not long after, Morgiana, whose eyes nothing could escape, went out, and seeing the red chalk, and arguing with herself as she had done before, marked the other neighbors' houses in the same place and manner.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000018_000002.wav|Much alarmed, he went softly down into the yard, and going to the first jar, while asking the robber, whom he thought alive, if he was in readiness, smelled the hot boiled oil, which sent forth a steam out of the jar.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000005.wav|"I will," replied Morgiana.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000027_000001.wav|I owe, therefore, my life to you; and, for the first token of my acknowledgment, give you your liberty from this moment, till I can complete your recompense, as I intend."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000029_000001.wav|He determined, however, to avenge the fate of his companions, and to accomplish the death of Ali Baba.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000021_000001.wav|"My good master," answered she, "God preserve you and all your family.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000038_000001.wav|"Who is this strange man," said she, "who eats no salt with his meat?|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000013_000001.wav|What to do she did not know, for the broth must be made.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000016_000000.wav|By this means Morgiana found that her master Ali Baba had admitted thirty eight robbers into his house, and that this pretended oil merchant was their captain.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000011_000003.wav|After they had finished supper, Ali Baba, charging Morgiana afresh to take care of his guest, said to her, "To morrow morning I design to go to the bath before day; take care my bathing linen be ready, give them to Abdalla (which was the slave's name) and make me some good broth against I return." After this he went to bed.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000011_000002.wav|At the same time he called to a slave, and ordered him, when the mules were unloaded, to put them into the stable, and to feed them; and then went to Morgiana to bid her to get a good supper for his guest.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000033_000001.wav|"This, sir," said he, "is my father's house, who, from the account I have given him of your friendship, charged me to procure him the honor of your acquaintance; and I desire you to add this pleasure to those for which I am already indebted to you."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000006.wav|"Moderate your astonishment, and do not excite the curiosity of your neighbors; for it is of great importance to keep this affair secret.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000029_000002.wav|For this purpose he returned to the town and took a lodging in a khan, and disguised himself as a merchant in silks.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000004_000000.wav|The robber, at his return to his company, valued himself much on the precaution he had taken, which he looked upon as an infallible way of distinguishing Ali Baba's house from the others; and the captain and all of them thought it must succeed.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000013_000002.wav|Abdalla, seeing her very uneasy, said, "Do not fret and tease yourself, but go into the yard, and take some oil out of one of the jars."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000038_000002.wav|Your supper will be spoiled if I keep it back so long." "Do not be angry, Morgiana," replied Ali Baba; "he is an honest man, therefore do as I bid you."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000048_000002.wav|Look well at him, and you will find him to be both the fictitious oil merchant, and the captain of the gang of forty robbers.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000022_000000.wav|As soon as Morgiana had shut the door, Ali Baba followed her, when she requested him to look into the first jar, and see if there was any oil.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000010_000002.wav|He stopped his mules, addressed himself to him, and said, "I have brought some oil a great way to sell at to morrow's market; and it is now so late that I do not know where to lodge.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000014_000000.wav|Morgiana thanked Abdalla for his advice, took the oil pot, and went into the yard; when, as she came nigh the first jar, the robber within said softly, "Is it time?"|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000028_000000.wav|Ali Baba's garden was very long, and shaded at the further end by a great number of large trees.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000018_000000.wav|She had not waited long before the captain of the robbers got up, opened the window, and finding no light, and hearing no noise, or any one stirring in the house, gave the appointed signal by throwing little stones, several of which hit the jars, as he doubted not by the sound they gave.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000002_000001.wav|He condemned himself, acknowledging that he ought to have taken better precaution, and prepared to receive the stroke from him who was appointed to cut off his head.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000050_000001.wav|After this they thought of burying the captain of the robbers with his comrades, and did it so privately that nobody discovered their bones till many years after, when no one had any concern in the publication of this remarkable history.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000020_000000.wav|Ali Baba rose before day, and, followed by his slave, went to the baths, entirely ignorant of the important event which had happened at home.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000030_000003.wav|After this he increased his assiduities, caressed him in the most engaging manner, made him some small presents, and often asked him to dine and sup with him, when he treated him very handsomely.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000023_000000.wav|Ali Baba examined all the other jars, one after another; and when he came to that which had the oil in, found it prodigiously sunk, and stood for some time motionless, sometimes looking at the jars, and sometimes at Morgiana, without saying a word, so great was his surprise.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000050_000003.wav|Ali Baba did not visit the robbers' cave for a whole year, as he supposed the other two might be alive.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000051_000004.wav|He put as much gold into his saddle bag as his horse could carry, and returned to town.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000048_000003.wav|Remember, too, that he would eat no salt with you; and what would you have more to persuade you of his wicked design? Before I saw him, I suspected him as soon as you told me you had such a guest.|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8474/281188/8474_281188_000049_000002.wav|Consider, that by marrying Morgiana you marry the preserver of my family and your own."|8474
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000084_000001.wav|Fragoso!" shrieked Lina, kneeling on the edge of the raft.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000078_000000.wav|Minha fell.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000079_000001.wav|He only struck the animal's carapace, and the scales flew to splinters but the ball did not penetrate.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000018_000002.wav|Till then we must keep our eyes on him!"|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000007_000001.wav|"Decidedly not!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000077_000002.wav|Minha was flying aft, pursued by the monster, who was not six feet away from her.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000007_000003.wav|No, Benito!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000053_000001.wav|Not only can the old ones, the centenarians, be recognized by the greenish moss which carpets their carcass and is scattered over their protuberances, but by their natural ferocity, which increases with age.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000066_000000.wav|No reply.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000012_000000.wav|"No!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000010_000002.wav|You have remarked his attentions to my sister! Nothing can be truer!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000011_000000.wav|"What are you talking about, Benito?|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000063_000000.wav|"She is not there!" replied Lina, who had just run to her mistress' room.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000058_000000.wav|"Bring the guns!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000014_000002.wav|I know not-but to force my father to get rid of Torres would perhaps be imprudent!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000007_000000.wav|"No!" replied Manoel.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000027_000000.wav|By what mysterious bond could these two men-one nobleness itself, that was self evident-be connected with each other?|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000003_000000.wav|"Yes, Benito."|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000008_000001.wav|But I dare not!"|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000021_000005.wav|I do not know!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000079_000000.wav|A second shot from Benito failed to stop the cayman.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139358/2012_139358_000006_000000.wav|"Ah!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000053_000000.wav|But the town of e g a is of some importance; it was worthy of a halt to visit it.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000014_000002.wav|"Tomorrow, at daybreak, there will be a rare treat for those who like fresh turtle eggs and little turtles!"|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000050_000000.wav|Between them were canals, iguarapes, lagoons, temporary lakes, an inextricable network which renders the hydrography of this country so difficult.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000053_000002.wav|This would give a rest, which was deservedly due to the hard-working crew of the raft.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000045_000003.wav|If to this is added that the animal is easily caught, it is not to be wondered at that the species is on its way to complete destruction.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000008_000000.wav|"Never fear!" replied Manoel; "if necessary we will watch over them as they sleep."|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000047_000001.wav|A vessel can go up it into Peru without encountering insurmountable obstacles among its white waters, which are fed by a great number of petty affluents.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000018_000001.wav|They watch for the arrival of the chelonians, and proceed to the extraction of the eggs to the sound of the drum; and the harvest is divided into three parts-one to the watchers, another to the Indians, a third to the state, represented by the captains of the shore, who, in their capacity of police, have to superintend the collection of the dues.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000004_000000.wav|"Oh, the dreadful creatures!" cried Lina, hiding her eyes; "they fill me with horror!"|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000030_000000.wav|The bad weather was at last met with.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000023_000001.wav|These there was no wish to get out.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000022_000002.wav|They knew they could catch her up.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000031_000001.wav|The details of his many voyages throughout the whole north of Brazil afforded him numerous subjects to talk about.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000054_000000.wav|The night passed at the moorings near a slightly rising shore, and nothing disturbed the quiet.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000014_000000.wav|"Good!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000035_000000.wav|At this place the jangada halted for twelve hours, so as to give a rest to the crew.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000002_000001.wav|Large bats of ruddy color skimmed with their huge wings the current of the Amazon.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000045_000002.wav|When the meat is smoke dried it keeps for a long time, and is capital food.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000046_000000.wav|On the nineteenth of July, at sunrise, the jangada left Fonteboa, and entered between the two completely deserted banks of the river, and breasted some islands shaded with the grand forests of cacao trees.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000038_000000.wav|Inexperienced fishermen would at first have taken these moving points for floating wreckage, but the natives of Fonteboa were not to be so deceived.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000003_000000.wav|These were, in fact, the horrible vampires which suck the blood of the cattle, and even attack man if he is imprudent enough to sleep out in the fields.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000020_000000.wav|They proceed differently with the little turtles which are just hatched. There is no need to pack them or tie them up.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000016_000001.wav|The operation commences with sunset and finishes with the dawn.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000028_000000.wav|Representatives of different tribes of Indians are found in the neighborhood, which are easily recognizable by the differences in their tattoo marks.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000006_000000.wav|"To be sure-very formidable," answered he.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000031_000002.wav|The man had certainly seen a great deal, but his observations were those of a skeptic, and he often shocked the straightforward people who were listening to him.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000031_000000.wav|It was under these circumstances that little by little Torres had begun to take a more active part in the conversation.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000030_000004.wav|They chatted together, communicated their observations, and their tongues were seldom idle.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000023_000002.wav|But an earlier laying had taken place two months before, the eggs had hatched under the action of the heat stored in the sand, and already several thousands of little turtles were running about the beach.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000022_000000.wav|On the morrow, at daybreak, Benito, Fragoso, and a few Indians took a pirogue and landed on the beach of one of the large islands which they had passed during the night.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000044_000002.wav|What are these, after manatees twelve and fifteen feet long, which still abound in the rivers and lakes of Africa?|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000040_000002.wav|They waited till the necessity of breathing would bring the manatees up again.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000040_000001.wav|One of them, armed with a very primitive harpoon-a long nail at the end of a stick-kept himself in the bow of the boat, while the other two noiselessly paddled on.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000047_000000.wav|The Rio Jurua, coming from the southwest, soon joins the river on the left.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000044_000000.wav|It was not a manatee of any size, for it only measured about three feet long.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000046_000001.wav|The sky was heavily charged with electric cumuli, warning them of renewed storms.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000024_000000.wav|The hunters were therefore in luck.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000012_000000.wav|"Certainly," answered Yaquita.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000027_000000.wav|The Putumayo is one of the most important affluents of the Amazon.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000030_000001.wav|It did not show itself in continual rains, but in frequent storms.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000013_000000.wav|"What causes the noise?" asked Minha.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000024_000002.wav|The booty was divided between the passengers and crew of the jangada, and if any lasted till the evening it did not last any longer.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000040_000003.wav|In ten minutes or thereabouts the animals would certainly appear in a circle more or less confined.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000036_000003.wav|Fonteboa has one thousand inhabitants, drawn from the Indians on both banks, who rear numerous cattle in the fields in the neighborhood.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000048_000000.wav|"It is perhaps in these parts," said Manoel, "that we ought to look for those female warriors who so much astonished Orellana.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000001_000001.wav|THE CONTINUED DESCENT|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000027_000001.wav|Here in the sixteenth century missions were founded by the Spaniards, which were afterward destroyed by the Portuguese, and not a trace of them now remains.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000036_000001.wav|Probably the hamlet has now finished with its nomadic existence, and has definitely become stationary.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000041_000000.wav|In fact, this time had scarcely elapsed before the black points emerged at a little distance, and two jets of air mingled with vapor were noiselessly shot forth.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000019_000002.wav|In this way they always have the meat of these animals fresh.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000020_000001.wav|Their shell is still soft, their flesh extremely tender, and after they have cooked them they eat them just like oysters.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000030_000002.wav|These could not hinder the progress of the raft, which offered little resistance to the wind.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000032_000001.wav|At this spot the Amazon appears under a truly grandiose aspect, but its course is more than ever encumbered with islands and islets.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000049_000000.wav|The jangada continued to descend; but what a labyrinth the Amazon now appeared!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000006_000003.wav|They tell of people, unconsciously submitted to this hemorrhage for many hours, who have never awoke!"|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000051_000000.wav|But if Araujo had no map to guide him, his experience served him more surely, and it was wonderful to see him unraveling the chaos, without ever turning aside from the main river.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000032_000000.wav|On the fifth of July the mouth of the Tunantins appeared on the left bank, forming an estuary of some four hundred feet across, in which it pours its blackish waters, coming from the west northwest, after having watered the territories of the Cacena Indians.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000040_000000.wav|The fishermen continued their cautious advance.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000030_000003.wav|Its great length rendered it almost insensible to the swell of the Amazon, but during the torrential showers the Garral family had to keep indoors. They had to occupy profitably these hours of leisure.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000019_000000.wav|Turtles, or turtle eggs, are an object of very considerable trade throughout the Amazonian basin.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000044_000001.wav|These poor cetaceans have been so hunted that they have become very rare in the Amazon and its affluents, and so little time is left them to grow that the giants of the species do not now exceed seven feet.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000032_000002.wav|It required all the address of the pilot to steer through the archipelago, going from one bank to another, avoiding the shallows, shirking the eddies, and maintaining the advance.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000045_000000.wav|But it would be difficult to hinder their destruction.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000024_000001.wav|The pirogue was filled with these interesting amphibians, and they arrived just in time for breakfast.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000023_000000.wav|On the shore they saw the little hillocks which indicated the places where, that very night, each packet of eggs had been deposited in the trench in groups of from one hundred and sixty to one hundred and ninety.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139356/2012_139356_000037_000002.wav|Six brown points were seen moving along the surface, and these were the two pointed snouts and four pinions of the lamantins.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000013_000000.wav|They had passed the island of Araria, the Archipelago of the Calderon islands, the island of Capiatu, and many others whose names have not yet come to the knowledge of geographers.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000029_000000.wav|"Perhaps," said Fragoso, "they might ask the opinions of the caymans, dolphins, and manatees, for they certainly prefer the black waters to the others to enjoy themselves in."|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000032_000003.wav|These Indians are no longer the Indians of days gone by.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000016_000000.wav|It was a creature of a dark color, something like a large Newfoundland dog.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000005_000000.wav|An extra passenger was on board.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000034_000001.wav|Like everything else, that has changed; heads have re taken their natural form, and there is not the slightest trace of the ancient deformity in the skulls of the chaplet makers.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000005_000002.wav|No one exactly knew.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000030_000003.wav|Take a little of the water, Minha, and drink it; you will find it all right."|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000020_000000.wav|"Yes, little sister," replied Benito, "and you were not there to ask for mercy!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000036_000000.wav|Assuredly if the adventurer was taciturn he was not inquisitive.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000028_000000.wav|"Good!" exclaimed Benito.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000022_000001.wav|Many times they passed by the mouths of iguarapes, or little affluents, with black waters.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000021_000002.wav|When it has got hold of anything you have to cut it off to make it let go!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000030_000002.wav|There is nothing certain in the matter. Under any circumstances, they are excellent to drink, of a freshness quite enviable for the climate, and without after taste, and perfectly harmless.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000044_000000.wav|A peculiar phenomenon, for the river displaces itself to feed its own tributaries!|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000023_000001.wav|It is peculiar to a certain number of these tributaries of the Amazon, which differ greatly in importance.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000037_000001.wav|He and the family received an excellent reception from the principal authorities of the town, the commandant of the place, and the chief of the custom house, whose functions did not in the least prevent them from engaging in trade.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000033_000001.wav|At present the capital of the Upper Amazon, it began as a simple Mission, founded by the Portuguese Carmelites about sixteen ninety two, and afterward acquired by the Jesuit missionaries.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000003_000001.wav|STILL DESCENDING|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000023_000000.wav|The coloration of these waters is a very curious phenomenon.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000009_000000.wav|If he appeared more open with any one, it was with Fragoso.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000011_000000.wav|During the morning the raft passed by the picturesque group of islands situated in the vast estuary of the Javary.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000032_000004.wav|Instead of being clothed in the national fashion, with a frontlet of macaw feathers, bow, and blow tube, have they not adopted the American costume of white cotton trousers, and a cotton poncho woven by their wives, who have become thorough adepts in its manufacture?|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000040_000000.wav|During dinner Torres showed himself more talkative than usual.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000008_000001.wav|He maintained a good deal of reserve, answering if addressed, but never provoking a reply.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000025_000000.wav|"They have tried to explain this coloring in many ways," said he, "but I do not think the most learned have yet arrived at a satisfactory explanation."|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000032_000001.wav|It may, perhaps, seem singular that the ancient lords of the country, Tupinambas and Tupiniquis, should find their principal occupation in making objects for the Catholic religion.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000021_000000.wav|The ant eater looked superb, with his long tail and grizzly hair; with his pointed snout, which is plunged into the ant hills whose insects form its principal food; and his long, thin paws, armed with sharp nails, five inches long, and which can shut up like the fingers of one's hand.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000038_000000.wav|The town is composed of some sixty houses, arranged on the plain which hereabouts crowns the river bank.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000032_000002.wav|But, after all, why not?|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000024_000000.wav|Manoel remarked how thick the cloudiness was, for it could be clearly seen on the surface of the whitish waters of the river.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000021_000003.wav|It is of this hand that the traveler, Emile Carrey, has so justly observed: "The tiger himself would perish in its grasp."|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000040_000004.wav|It was marked enough for even Benito to notice it, not without surprise, and he observed that his father gave particular attention to the questions so curiously propounded by Torres.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2012/139355/2012_139355_000030_000000.wav|"They are particularly attractive to those animals," replied Manoel, "but why it is rather embarrassing to say.|2012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000010.wav|Some great intent Conceals him.|2812
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000006.wav|But now, Full grown to man, acknowledged, as I hear, By john the Baptist, and in public shewn, Son owned from Heaven by his Father's voice, I looked for some great change.|2812
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000011.wav|When twelve years he scarce had seen, I lost him, but so found as well I saw He could not lose himself, but went about His Father's business.|2812
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000015.wav|But these haunts Delight not all.|2812
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000007.wav|To honour?|2812
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000001.wav|Our eyes beheld Messiah certainly now come, so long Expected of our fathers; we have heard His words, his wisdom full of grace and truth. 'Now, now, for sure, deliverance is at hand; The kingdom shall to Israel be restored:' Thus we rejoiced, but soon our joy is turned Into perplexity and new amaze. For whither is he gone?|2812
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000002.wav|what accident Hath rapt him from us?|2812
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000022.wav|Four times ten days I have passed Wandering this woody maze, and human food Nor tasted, nor had appetite.|2812
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000023.wav|That fast To virtue I impute not, or count part Of what I suffer here.|2812
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2812/160187/2812_160187_000001_000025.wav|Yet God Can satisfy that need some other way, Though hunger still remain.|2812
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000010.wav|In one the corpse looked as though it had been dead but a short time.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000002.wav|Was I to meet a fate like this?|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000003.wav|But the sight that met my eyes when my blinder was removed, I cannot describe, nor the sensations with which I gazed upon it.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000003_000000.wav|CHOICE OF PUNISHMENTS.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000005_000000.wav|I was blindfolded, and taken to the lime room first.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000004_000001.wav|Then the Bishop came in with the Lady Superior, and the Abbess who had charge of the kitchen when I left.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000007.wav|Why were they not made of wood?|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000004_000003.wav|First.--To fast five days in the fasting room.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000005_000006.wav|Around the sides of the room, a great number of hooks and chains were fastened to the wall, and a large hook hung in the center overhead.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000011_000008.wav|Or, are the priests on such friendly terms with his satanic majesty that they lend him their keys?|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000006.wav|Their dead bodies were not even allowed a decent burial, but were suffered to remain in the place where they died, until the work of death was complete and dust returned to dust.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000004.wav|These thoughts filled my mind, as I followed the priest from the room; and for a long time I continued to speculate upon what I had seen.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000008.wav|It would have answered the purpose quite as well, if fasting or starvation were the only objects in view.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000011.wav|The thought was too shocking to be cherished for a moment; but I could not drive it from my mind.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000011_000001.wav|He would blow white froth from his mouth, but he never spoke to me, and when he went out, he locked the door after him and took away the key.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000009_000004.wav|I could not see how it was lighted, but it must have been in some artificial manner, for it was quite as light at night, as in the day.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000005.wav|Nor was this all.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000009.wav|In this room were placed several large iron kettles, so deep that a person could sit in them, and many of them contained the remains of human beings.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000009_000010.wav|I wished to know whether it would really bite me or not, but it looked so frightful I did not dare to hazard the experiment.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000007.wav|Thus the atmosphere became a deadly poison to the next poor victim who was left to breathe the noxious effluvia of corruption and decay.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000004_000002.wav|The Bishop read to me three punishments of which he said, I could take my choice.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000005_000002.wav|At length we entered a room where the atmosphere seemed laden with hot vapor.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000006_000003.wav|At my feet yawned a deep pit, from which, arose a suffocating vapor, so hot, it almost scorched my face and nearly stopped my breath.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000009.wav|Then came the fearful suggestion, were these kettles ever heated?|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000010_000005.wav|I believed them all to be instruments of torture, and I thought they gave me a long chain in the hope and expectation that my curiosity would lead me into some of the numerous traps the room contained.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000006_000002.wav|Surprised and terrified, I stood wondering what was to come next.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000006_000000.wav|The priest directed me to stand upon the bench, and turning to the men, he bade them raise the door.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000011_000006.wav|And what will he do with it?|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000004_000007.wav|At first, I thought I did not care, and I said I had no choice about it; but when I came to see the rooms, I was thankful that I was not allowed to abide by that decision.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000008_000005.wav|They called it the fasting room; but if fasting were the only object, why were they placed in those kettles, instead of being allowed to sit on chairs or benches, or even on the floor?|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000006_000004.wav|The priest pointed to the heaving, tumbling billows of smoke that were rolling below, and; asked, "How would you like to be thrown into the lime?" "Not at all," I gasped, in a voice scarcely audible, "it would burn me to death." I suppose he thought I was sufficiently frightened, for he bade his men close the door.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/72876/5002_72876_000007_000004.wav|I can only give the reader some faint idea of the place, which, they said, was called the fasting room, and here incorrigible offenders fasted until they starved to death.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000006_000002.wav|Richard meant to employ these fellows shrewdly and test their loyalty.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000012_000001.wav|He was to give them both in marriage, and had promised them jewels and to spare when they were come to Court.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000026_000005.wav|The King had said it, and the King had already made good the promise in his words.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000016_000001.wav|The Bishop had spoken the Latin service impressively and with unction.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000003_000001.wav|The day was bright, the sky blue, and Sherwood had taken upon itself early summer raiment.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000027_000001.wav|Sir Richard of the Lee and his son became members of the Star Chamber, with grants of land in perpetuity.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000013_000001.wav|The people were wild with joy at having their King amongst them like this.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000026_000004.wav|All were happy-the nightmare of unjust dealings, of Norman oppression, of laws for the poor and none for the rich, was ended.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000026_000003.wav|All the treasure that they had accumulated in their caves at Barnesdale the King's bowmen freely distributed this day.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000018_000003.wav|She was wild eyed, dishevelled, her dress fastened all awry.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000009_000000.wav|They came to the lych gate, and the crowd jostled itself in its admiration.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000017_000001.wav|Master Simeon, with face leaner than ever and inturning eyes, glared impotently at the chief actors in this historic scene.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000023_000003.wav|Then she was gone; and people stirred themselves uneasily, as folks do when having been within touch of the plague.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000021_000001.wav|Seize this woman, some of you, and take her without. I will deal with her later." He imperiously signed to his guards, and at once the demoiselle was gripped harshly by both arms.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000007_000000.wav|The hour was reached, and at once a small company was seen issuing forth from Nottingham Castle.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000024_000001.wav|When he saw that she was gone, that the dreadful episode was done, he gasped hurriedly and sat down.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000004_000000.wav|The old church of Nottingham was already crowded to excess.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000018_000002.wav|But now that the double marriage was nearly made she suddenly appeared, thrusting her way rudely through the gathered crowd at the church door.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000028_000002.wav|My subjects who are loyal to me shall have no cause to regret it.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000028_000001.wav|"Thus you shall have wealth to share with your Robin; and I counsel you both to make good use of your days.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000017_000000.wav|In the first row stood Monceux, in all the pomp of his shrievalty, with his councilmen and aldermen.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000003_000000.wav|It was the wedding day of four happy people.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000028_000005.wav|Help her to administer her riches, Geoffrey, wisely and well; and be you all ready when I shall call upon you.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000012_000000.wav|The brides were to be escorted from Gamewell by no other person than the King himself.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000026_000000.wav|They returned through the streets of Nottingham, gay now with flags and merry with a joyful populace.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000015_000000.wav|Little maids, with baskets of violets and primroses, flung their offerings prettily under the feet of the two beauteous blushing brides, who leaned so timidly upon the King's proud arms.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000008_000004.wav|Arthur a Bland, with a gold chain about his neck, given him by the knight Sir Richard, walked with Middle the Tinker on his left and Much the Miller on his right.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000014_000001.wav|As the King jumped down from his horse before the lych gate, and held out his strong hand to help the brides from off their milk white mares, the whole place became alive with excitement and rapture.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000018_000004.wav|Folks looked once at her, and then exchanged glances between themselves.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000009_000001.wav|As they walked, rather consciously, up the narrow path between the smiling ranks of their fellows the crowd cheered them radiantly.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000025_000001.wav|Then all signed their names in the church books, and the trumpeters and heralds made music for them.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty four|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000028_000000.wav|Turning to Marian, the King wished her every joy that she could wish herself, and gave to her the lands of Broadweald in Lancashire to hold in her own right for ever.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000019_000000.wav|"Stay this mockery of marriage, my lord," she cried, fiercely facing the Bishop.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5002/70998/5002_70998_000023_000002.wav|At the door of the church she turned once as though to renew her preposterous charges, but contented herself merely with a single glance towards them of malignant hate.|5002
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000017_000003.wav|If both transmitters be closed simultaneously, both batteries will be placed to the line, which would practically result in doubling the current in each of the main line coils, in consequence of which both relays are energized and their armatures attracted through the operation of the keys at the distant ends.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000014_000005.wav|The current, however, flows out through the main line coil over the line and through the main line coil one at B, completing its circuit to earth and magnetizing the bar of the relay, thus causing its armature to be attracted.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000016_000002.wav|This consists of an electromagnet, T, operated by a key, K, and separate battery.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000026_000001.wav|For example, it is quite demonstrable that during the making of a simple dash of the Morse alphabet by the neutral relay at the home station the distant pole changer may reverse its battery several times; the home pole changer may do likewise, and the home transmitter may increase and decrease the electromotive force of the home battery repeatedly.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000006_000001.wav|This explanation will necessarily be of somewhat elementary character for the benefit of the lay reader, whose indulgence is asked for an occasional reiteration introduced for the sake of clearness of comprehension.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000003_000003.wav|Thus there was introduced a new feature into the art of multiplex telegraphy, for, whereas duplexing (accomplished by varying the strength of the current) permitted messages to be sent simultaneously from opposite stations, diplexing (achieved by also varying the direction of the current) permitted the simultaneous transmission of two messages from the same station and their separate reception at the distant station.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000014_000003.wav|The artificial line, as well as that to which the two coils are joined, are connected to earth.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000011_000001.wav|The flow of current will cause two equal opposing actions to be set up in the bar; one will exactly offset the other, and no magnetic effect will be produced.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000020_000005.wav|This device being a relay, its purpose is to repeat transmitted signals into a local circuit, as before explained.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000003.wav|If a rod of soft iron be wound around with a number of turns of insulated wire, and a current of electricity be sent through the wire, the rod will be instantly magnetized and will remain a magnet as long as the current flows; but when the current is cut off the magnetic effect instantly ceases.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000010_000000.wav|As the path to the quadruplex passes through the duplex, let us consider the Stearns system, after noting one other principle-namely, that if more than one path is presented in which an electric current may complete its circuit, it divides in proportion to the resistance of each path.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000008_000001.wav|The arrows indicate the direction of flow.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000016_000001.wav|In practice this is done by means of a special instrument known as a continuity preserving transmitter, or, usually, as a transmitter.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000024_000001.wav|It should be stated, however, that between the outline and the filling in of the details there was an enormous amount of hard work, study, patient plodding, and endless experiments before Edison finally perfected his quadruplex system in the year eighteen seventy four.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000029_000002.wav|The necessity for this invention arose out of the problem of increasing the capacity of telegraph lines employed in "through" and "way" service, such as upon railroads.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000030_000003.wav|If, therefore, there be placed in the same circuit a regular telegraph relay and a special telephone, an operator may, by manipulating a key, operate the relay (and its sounder) without producing a sound in the telephone, as the makes and breaks of the key are far below the limit of audibility.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000020_000003.wav|If the direction of flow of current be reversed, by reversing the battery, the electromagnetic polarity also reverses and the end of the permanent magnet swings over to the other side.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000009_000007.wav|Hence, the bar would remain non magnetic.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000023_000005.wav|Besides these there are the compensating resistances and condensers.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000023_000000.wav|Thus far we have referred to two systems, one the neutral or differential duplex, and the other the combination of the neutral and polar relays, making a diplex system.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000017_000002.wav|The relay at A would be unresponsive, but the core of the relay at B would be magnetized and its armature respond to signals from a In like manner, if the transmitter at B be closed, current would flow through similar parts and thus cause the relay at A to respond.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000011_000002.wav|A relay thus wound is known as a differential relay-more generally called a neutral relay.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000014_000006.wav|On releasing the key the circuit is broken and magnetism instantly ceases.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000009_000000.wav|All magnets have two poles, north and south.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000012_000002.wav|Hence, the next figure (four), with its accompanying explanation, will probably make the matter clear.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000018_000001.wav|To accomplish this object Edison introduced another and distinct feature-namely, the using of the same current, but ALSO varying its DIRECTION of flow; that is to say, alternately reversing the POLARITY of the batteries as applied to the line and thus producing corresponding changes in the polarity of another specially constructed type of relay, called a polarized relay.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000023_000007.wav|It will be understood, of course, that the polar relay, as used in the quadruplex system, is wound differentially, and therefore its operation is somewhat similar in principle to that of the differentially wound neutral relay, in that it does not respond to the operation of the key at the home office, but only operates in response to the movements of the distant key.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000027_000002.wav|With the duplex, as we have seen, the current on the main line is changed in strength only when both keys at OPPOSITE stations are closed together, so that a current due to both batteries flows over the main line.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000013_000001.wav|The result would be that these currents would oppose and neutralize each other, and, therefore, none would flow in wire a Inasmuch, however, as there is nothing to hinder, current would flow from battery C through wire B, and the bar would therefore be magnetized.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000007.wav|Its attractive power draws the armature toward the poles.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000003_000000.wav|In the early part of eighteen seventy three, and for some time afterward, the system invented by Joseph Stearns was the duplex in practical use.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000006_000000.wav|As the reader will probably be interested to learn something of the theoretical principles of this fascinating invention, we shall endeavor to offer a brief and condensed explanation thereof with as little technicality as the subject will permit.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000029_000006.wav|It has been in practical use for many years on some of the leading railroads of the United States.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000003_000001.wav|In April of that year, however, Edison took up the study of the subject and filed two applications for patents.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000008.wav|When the operator releases the pressure on his key the circuit is broken, current does not flow, the magnetic effect ceases, and the armature is drawn back by its spring. These movements give rise to the clicking sounds which represent the dots and dashes of the Morse or other alphabet as transmitted by the operator.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000012_000000.wav|The non technical reader may wonder what use can possibly be made of an apparently non operative piece of apparatus.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000016_000003.wav|The armature lever, L, is long, pivoted in the centre, and is bent over at the end.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000005.wav|This instrument consists essentially of an electro magnet of horseshoe form with its two poles close together, and with its armature, a bar of iron, maintained in close proximity to the poles, but kept normally in a retracted position by a spring.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000016_000005.wav|The relay coils are connected by wire to the spring piece, S, and the armature lever is connected to earth.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000016_000007.wav|When the key is released the battery is again connected to earth.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000025_000001.wav|An idea of their complexity may be gathered from the following, which is quoted from American Telegraphy and Encyclopedia of the Telegraph, by William Maver junior:|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000009_000003.wav|If the direction is reversed, the polarity will also be reversed.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000027_000009.wav|The underlying phenomena were similar, the difference consisting largely in the arrangement of the circuits and apparatus.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000026_000000.wav|"It may well be doubted whether in the whole range of applied electricity there occur such beautiful combinations, so quickly made, broken up, and others reformed, as in the operation of the Edison quadruplex.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000027_000004.wav|This difficulty was solved by dividing the battery at each station into two unequal parts, the smaller battery being always in circuit with the pole changer ready to have its polarity reversed on the main line to operate the distant polar relay, but the spring retracting the armature of the neutral relay is made so stiff as to resist these weak currents.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000025_000000.wav|If it were attempted to offer here a detailed explanation of the varied and numerous operations of the quadruplex, this article would assume the proportions of a treatise.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000022_000000.wav|By a combination of the neutral relay and the polar relay two operators, by manipulating two telegraph keys in the ordinary way, can simultaneously send two messages over one line in the SAME direction with the SAME current, one operator varying its strength and the other operator varying its polarity or direction of flow.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000016_000008.wav|The compensating resistances and condensers necessary for a duplex arrangement are shown in the diagram.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000030_000001.wav|It is well known that the diaphragm of a telephone vibrates with the fluctuations of the current energizing the magnet beneath it.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000006.wav|When the distant operator presses down his key the circuit is closed and a current passes along the line and through the (generally two) coils of the electromagnet, thus magnetizing the iron core.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000009_000004.wav|Assuming, for instance, the bar to be end on toward the observer, that end will be a south pole if the current is flowing from left to right, clockwise, around the bar; or a north pole if flowing in the other direction, as illustrated at the right of the figure.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000005_000000.wav|The quadruplex was the tempting goal toward which Edison now constantly turned, and after more than a year's strenuous work he filed a number of applications for patents in the late summer of eighteen seventy four.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000021_000001.wav|This action of the pole changer is effected by movements of the armature of an electromagnet through the manipulation of an ordinary telegraph key by an operator at the home station, as in the operation of the "transmitter," above referred to.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000002.wav|These phenomena are easy of comprehension and demonstration.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000029_000000.wav|Edison made another notable contribution to multiplex telegraphy some years later in the Phonoplex.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000020_000001.wav|An essential part of this relay consists of a swinging PERMANENT magnet, C, whose polarity remains fixed, that end between the terminals of the electromagnet being a north pole.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000014_000004.wav|There is a battery, C, and a key, k When the key is depressed, current flows through the relay coils at A, but no magnetism is produced, as they oppose each other.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000029_000004.wav|There is naturally much intercommunication, which would be greatly curtailed by a system having the capacity of only a single message at a time.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000002_000000.wav|EDISON'S work in stock printers and telegraphy had marked him as a rising man in the electrical art of the period but his invention of quadruplex telegraphy in eighteen seventy four was what brought him very prominently before the notice of the public.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000029_000001.wav|The name suggests the use of the telephone, and such indeed is the case.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000007_000010.wav|With a simple circuit, therefore, between two stations and where an intermediate battery is not necessary, a relay is not used.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000020_000002.wav|Inasmuch as unlike poles of magnets are attracted to each other and like poles repelled, it follows that this north pole will be repelled by the north pole of the electromagnet, but will swing over and be attracted by its south pole.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2364/131735/2364_131735_000012_000001.wav|It must be borne in mind, however, in considering a duplex system, that a differential relay is used AT EACH END of the line and forms part of the circuit; and that while each relay must be absolutely unresponsive to the signals SENT OUT FROM ITS HOME OFFICE, it must respond to signals transmitted by a DISTANT OFFICE.|2364
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000013_000002.wav|Having made this reservation, let us pass on.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000012_000003.wav|On the contrary, our souls being realities and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000023_000001.wav|This could be recognized by some emphasis in his speech.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000018_000000.wav|During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of the South.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000007.wav|His glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000027_000003.wav|He did not even put a question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the world.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000010_000000.wav|Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000017_000003.wav|He entered the police; he succeeded there.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000012.wav|And he would have done it with that sort of inward satisfaction which is conferred by virtue.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000006_000002.wav|In any case, I am not his dupe."|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000005_000000.wav|One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct kept him on the alert and uneasy.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000004_000006.wav|It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in the course of six or seven years gradually took possession of the whole district.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000023_000000.wav|In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000014.wav|It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000000.wav|This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000017_000002.wav|He observed that society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable foundation of rigidity, regularity, and probity, complicated with an inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000004_000005.wav|It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000004_000003.wav|He put an end to differences, he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000008_000000.wav|His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000020_000004.wav|As for the rest, he had very little skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000009.wav|He had introduced a straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; he possessed the conscience of his usefulness, the religion of his functions, and he was a spy as other men are priests.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000022_000002.wav|His brow was not visible; it disappeared beneath his hat: his eyes were not visible, since they were lost under his eyebrows: his chin was not visible, for it was plunged in his cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: and his cane was not visible; he carried it under his coat.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000004_000004.wav|Every one took him for the judge, and with good reason.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000021_000006.wav|He was stoical, serious, austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134804/1365_134804_000017_000004.wav|At forty years of age he was an inspector.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000034_000001.wav|The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000055_000001.wav|This was impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000066_000001.wav|She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000058_000000.wav|This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000029_000002.wav|In the strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000064_000000.wav|The sister replied:--|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000073_000002.wav|A convict and a woman of the town.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000038_000000.wav|She read:--|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000072_000000.wav|We all have a mother,--the earth.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000029_000001.wav|From a cupboard he pulled out one of his old shirts, which he tore in pieces.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000063_000001.wav|He has escaped; we are in search of him-that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?"|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000045_000000.wav|A man responded:--|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000055_000000.wav|It will be remembered that the fundamental point in Javert, his element, the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000040_000000.wav|The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few inarticulate sounds.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000031_000000.wav|There came two taps at the door.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000073_000003.wav|That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000008_000000.wav|One old lady, a subscriber to the Drapeau Blanc, made the following remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:--|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000070_000005.wav|Perhaps that was the one.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000056_000000.wav|On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000020_000000.wav|She stopped; the conclusion of her sentence would have been lacking in respect towards the beginning.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000070_000002.wav|It has been established by the testimony of two or three carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed in a blouse.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000006_000005.wav|"In prison, in the city prison, while waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well!|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000013_000000.wav|It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold!|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000072_000001.wav|Fantine was given back to that mother.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000009_000001.wav|It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!"|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000063_000000.wav|"Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; you have not seen a certain person-a man-this evening?|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000006_000006.wav|I suspected as much.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000049_000000.wav|The door opened.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000070_000004.wav|No one ever found out. But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000074_000004.wav|Her grave resembled her bed.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000021_000000.wav|He finished her thought.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000006_000007.wav|That man was too good, too perfect, too affected. He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came across.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000034_000000.wav|She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled in her hand.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000058_000001.wav|Javert knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000036_000000.wav|The paper was not folded.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000055_000002.wav|In his eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass through.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000071_000000.wav|One last word about Fantine.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000057_000000.wav|But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him imperiously in the opposite direction.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000073_000001.wav|Who was concerned, after all?|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000060_000000.wav|A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though she should faint.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000006_000004.wav|Good God!" "He has been arrested." "Arrested!"|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000014_000000.wav|At that moment the small window in the lodge opened, a hand passed through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at the candle which was burning there.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000050_000000.wav|Javert entered.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000022_000001.wav|"I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000070_000003.wav|Where had he obtained that blouse?|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134830/1365_134830_000029_000003.wav|He betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000033_000001.wav|That was clear.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000038_000000.wav|Then he addressed the audience:--|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000039_000000.wav|"All of you, all who are present-consider me worthy of pity, do you not?|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000017_000014.wav|But, pardon me, you cannot understand what I am saying.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000034_000000.wav|It was an impression which vanished speedily, but which was irresistible at the moment.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000010_000000.wav|"Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released!|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000036_000004.wav|He traversed the crowd slowly.|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000013_000000.wav|"Is there a physician present?"|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1365/134825/1365_134825_000017_000018.wav|Do not, at least, condemn this man!|1365
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000109_000002.wav|Wait."|38
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000087_000000.wav|"A corridor."|38
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000073_000000.wav|"I am innocent."|38
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000093_000000.wav|"But then you would be close to the sea?"|38
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000076_000000.wav|"What!|38
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000065_000000.wav|"A Frenchman."|38
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000069_000000.wav|"A sailor."|38
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000114_000000.wav|"Then you will love me.|38
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000099_000000.wav|"All?"|38
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000041_000001.wav|Day came, the jailer entered.|38
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000031_000000.wav|The day passed away in utter silence-night came without recurrence of the noise.|38
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/38/121024/38_121024_000110_000000.wav|"How long?"|38
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000042_000002.wav|So the bookcase was closed again.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000006.wav|Smerdyakov had picked them up and brought them in the day before.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000025_000001.wav|"Though I should be pleased to have some hot coffee."|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000002.wav|Grigory could not restrain himself.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000022_000010.wav|Look sharp!"|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000046_000001.wav|He would hold a piece on his fork to the light, scrutinize it microscopically, and only after long deliberation decide to put it in his mouth.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000002.wav|Does it want warming?|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000038_000000.wav|Smerdyakov did not speak.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000012.wav|He may suddenly, after hoarding impressions for many years, abandon everything and go off to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage for his soul's salvation, or perhaps he will suddenly set fire to his native village, and perhaps do both.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000046_000000.wav|The squeamish youth never answered, but he did the same with his bread, his meat, and everything he ate.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000022_000006.wav|But would you like some?|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000005.wav|Where had they come from?|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000049_000001.wav|"Would you like to get married?|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000049_000002.wav|Shall I find you a wife?"|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000031_000003.wav|On the contrary, he was conceited and seemed to despise everybody.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000014.wav|His fits were becoming more frequent, and on the days he was ill Marfa cooked, which did not suit Fyodor Pavlovitch at all.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000013.wav|One day when the boy was about fifteen, Fyodor Pavlovitch noticed him lingering by the bookcase, and reading the titles through the glass.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000039_000000.wav|"Answer, stupid!"|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000000.wav|But Smerdyakov turned pale with anger, and made no reply.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000001.wav|Fyodor Pavlovitch left him with an impatient gesture.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000010.wav|The fits varied too, in violence: some were light and some were very severe.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000010.wav|Those impressions are dear to him and no doubt he hoards them imperceptibly, and even unconsciously.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000008.wav|Are you a human being?" he said, addressing the boy directly.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000040_000000.wav|"It's all untrue," mumbled the boy, with a grin.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000043_000000.wav|Shortly afterwards Marfa and Grigory reported to Fyodor Pavlovitch that Smerdyakov was gradually beginning to show an extraordinary fastidiousness.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000041_000003.wav|That's all true.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000001.wav|He was brought up by Grigory and Marfa, but the boy grew up "with no sense of gratitude," as Grigory expressed it; he was an unfriendly boy, and seemed to look at the world mistrustfully.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000007.wav|Till then he had taken no notice of him, though he never scolded him, and always gave him a copeck when he met him. Sometimes, when he was in good humor, he would send the boy something sweet from his table.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000003.wav|Yet he used sometimes to stop suddenly in the house, or even in the yard or street, and would stand still for ten minutes, lost in thought.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000007.wav|Let me know beforehand....|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000004.wav|In character he seemed almost exactly the same as before he went away.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000008.wav|But, stay; didn't I tell you this morning to come home with your mattress and pillow and all?|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000011.wav|He turned out a first rate cook.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000013.wav|At the second or third lesson the boy suddenly grinned.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000006.wav|When Fyodor Pavlovitch heard of it, his attitude to the boy seemed changed at once.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000020_000001.wav|Though there was a dining room in the house, the table was laid as usual in the drawing room, which was the largest room, and furnished with old-fashioned ostentation. The furniture was white and very old, upholstered in old, red, silky material.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000003.wav|No, it's boiling.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000045_000000.wav|"A fly, perhaps," observed Marfa.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000004.wav|It's capital coffee: Smerdyakov's making.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000002.wav|He looked extraordinarily old for his age.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000000.wav|Grigory was thunderstruck.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000031_000002.wav|Not that he was shy or bashful.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000041_000000.wav|"Then go to the devil!|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000007.wav|"He doesn't care for you or me, the monster," Grigory used to say to Marfa, "and he doesn't care for any one.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000011.wav|Grigory taught him to read and write, and when he was twelve years old, began teaching him the Scriptures.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000037_000001.wav|Isn't it funny?" asked Fyodor Pavlovitch.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000042_000001.wav|He thought it dull.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000041_000004.wav|Read that."|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000034_000002.wav|Where did the light come from on the first day?"|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000006.wav|You must come one day and have some fish soup.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000012.wav|But this teaching came to nothing.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000022_000008.wav|Smerdyakov, go to the cupboard, the second shelf on the right.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000030_000001.wav|"I'll just make the sign of the cross over you, for now.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000024_000002.wav|"But stay-have you dined?"|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000029_000000.wav|Alyosha rose, but Fyodor Pavlovitch had already changed his mind.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000010.wav|He brushed his clothes most scrupulously twice a day invariably, and was very fond of cleaning his smart calf boots with a special English polish, so that they shone like mirrors.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000001.wav|The boy looked sarcastically at his teacher. There was something positively condescending in his expression.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000036_000000.wav|He read a little but didn't like it.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000022_000005.wav|I don't offer you brandy, you're keeping the fast.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000004.wav|He only missed them next day, and was just hastening to search his pockets when he saw the notes lying on the table.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000006.wav|In Moscow, too, as we heard afterwards, he had always been silent.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000013.wav|But he seemed to have as much contempt for the female sex as for men; he was discreet, almost unapproachable, with them. Fyodor Pavlovitch began to regard him rather differently.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000006.wav|He shrank into a corner and sulked there for a week.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000037_000000.wav|"Why?|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000020_000004.wav|Fyodor Pavlovitch used to go to bed very late, at three or four o'clock in the morning, and would wander about the room at night or sit in an arm chair, thinking.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000020_000003.wav|On the walls, covered with white paper, which was torn in many places, there hung two large portraits-one of some prince who had been governor of the district thirty years before, and the other of some bishop, also long since dead. In the corner opposite the door there were several ikons, before which a lamp was lighted at nightfall ... not so much for devotional purposes as to light the room.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000021_000001.wav|Fyodor Pavlovitch liked sweet things with brandy after dinner. Ivan was also at table, sipping coffee.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000004.wav|A physiognomist studying his face would have said that there was no thought in it, no reflection, but only a sort of contemplation.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000004.wav|All this he did on the sly, with the greatest secrecy.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000007.wav|Moscow itself had little interest for him; he saw very little there, and took scarcely any notice of anything.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000017.wav|You shall be my librarian.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000020_000000.wav|He did in fact find his father still at table.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000002.wav|In his childhood he was very fond of hanging cats, and burying them with great ceremony.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000003.wav|"I'll show you where!" he cried, and gave the boy a violent slap on the cheek.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000047_000001.wav|What fine gentlemen's airs!" Grigory muttered, looking at him.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000030_000003.wav|Now we've a treat for you, in your own line, too.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000000.wav|When Fyodor Pavlovitch heard of this development in Smerdyakov he determined to make him his cook, and sent him to Moscow to be trained.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000012.wav|He forbade him to be taught anything whatever for a time, too.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000009.wav|Have you brought your mattress?|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000030_000002.wav|Sit still.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000043_000001.wav|He would sit before his soup, take up his spoon and look into the soup, bend over it, examine it, take a spoonful and hold it to the light.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000044_000001.wav|A beetle?" Grigory would ask.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000005.wav|A week later he had his first attack of the disease to which he was subject all the rest of his life-epilepsy.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000008.wav|But as soon as he heard of his illness, he showed an active interest in him, sent for a doctor, and tried remedies, but the disease turned out to be incurable.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000035_000004.wav|The boy took the slap without a word, but withdrew into his corner again for some days.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000005.wav|My Smerdyakov's an artist at coffee and at fish patties, and at fish soup, too.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000022_000009.wav|Here are the keys.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000012.wav|Fyodor Pavlovitch paid him a salary, almost the whole of which Smerdyakov spent on clothes, pomade, perfumes, and such things.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000002.wav|If it had occurred to any one to wonder at the time what the young man was interested in, and what was in his mind, it would have been impossible to tell by looking at him.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000030_000005.wav|Balaam's ass has begun talking to us here-and how he talks!|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000026_000001.wav|He'll have some coffee.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000030_000004.wav|It'll make you laugh.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000041_000001.wav|You have the soul of a lackey.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000002.wav|The great thing was that he had absolute confidence in his honesty.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000021_000000.wav|When Alyosha came in, dinner was over, but coffee and preserves had been served.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000009.wav|On the other hand, he came back to us from Moscow well dressed, in a clean coat and clean linen.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000034_000001.wav|God created light on the first day, and the sun, moon, and stars on the fourth day.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000006.wav|He stands, as it were, lost in thought.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000050_000003.wav|It happened once, when Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk, that he dropped in the muddy courtyard three hundred rouble notes which he had only just received.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000019_000000.wav|Chapter six.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000036_000001.wav|He did not once smile, and ended by frowning.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000032_000000.wav|But we must pause to say a few words about him now.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000020_000002.wav|In the spaces between the windows there were mirrors in elaborate white and gilt frames, of old-fashioned carving.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000051_000000.wav|"Well, my lad, I've never met any one like you," Fyodor Pavlovitch said shortly, and gave him ten roubles.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000024_000001.wav|If you won't have it, we will," said Fyodor Pavlovitch, beaming.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000003.wav|His face had grown wrinkled, yellow, and strangely emasculate.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/681/920_681_000048_000001.wav|He spent some years there and came back remarkably changed in appearance.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000000_000002.wav|The visitors left their carriage at the hotel, outside the precincts, and went to the gates of the monastery on foot.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000037_000002.wav|They say he used to jump up and thrash even ladies with a stick," observed Fyodor Pavlovitch, as he went up the steps.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000016_000000.wav|"That I certainly will, without fail," cried Fyodor Pavlovitch, hugely delighted at the invitation.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000025_000000.wav|"Is that all you can think of?...|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000003_000000.wav|"Who the devil is there to ask in this imbecile place?|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000040_000002.wav|They say he can tell by one's eyes what one has come about.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000006_000000.wav|"I know it's the other side of the copse," observed Fyodor Pavlovitch, "but we don't remember the way.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000010_000000.wav|"I've been there.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000019_000002.wav|So we will come to dinner. Thank the Father Superior," he said to the monk.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000014_000000.wav|The monk, with an extremely courteous, profound bow, announced:|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000026_000001.wav|It's not the features, but something indefinable. He's a second von Sohn.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000032_000000.wav|"Women of the people are here too now, lying in the portico there waiting. But for ladies of higher rank two rooms have been built adjoining the portico, but outside the precincts-you can see the windows-and the elder goes out to them by an inner passage when he is well enough.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000027_000005.wav|You see what a man he is"--he turned to the monk-"I'm afraid to go among decent people with him." A fine smile, not without a certain slyness, came on to the pale, bloodless lips of the monk, but he made no reply, and was evidently silent from a sense of his own dignity.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000034_000001.wav|They'll turn you out when I'm gone."|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000028_000001.wav|An outer show elaborated through centuries, and nothing but charlatanism and nonsense underneath," flashed through Miuesov's mind.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000007_000000.wav|"This way, by this gate, and straight across the copse ... the copse.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000035_000001.wav|Look," he cried suddenly, stepping within the precincts, "what a vale of roses they live in!"|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000027_000002.wav|Remember it.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000013_000000.wav|But his incoherent talk was cut short by a very pale, wan looking monk of medium height, wearing a monk's cap, who overtook them.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000000_000003.wav|Except Fyodor Pavlovitch, none of the party had ever seen the monastery, and Miuesov had probably not even been to church for thirty years.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000015_000000.wav|"The Father Superior invites all of you gentlemen to dine with him after your visit to the hermitage.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000029_000002.wav|"The gates are shut."|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000031_000003.wav|And not one woman goes in at this gate.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000001_000001.wav|Yet no official personage met them.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000038_000001.wav|He never thrashed any one," answered the monk. "Now, gentlemen, if you will wait a minute I will announce you."|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000002_000001.wav|His liberal irony was rapidly changing almost into anger.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000016_000002.wav|And you, Pyotr Alexandrovitch, will you go, too?"|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000009_000001.wav|"That personage has granted us an audience, so to speak, and so, though we thank you for showing us the way, we cannot ask you to accompany us."|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000000_000006.wav|The last of the worshippers were coming out of the church, bareheaded and crossing themselves.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000032_000002.wav|There is a Harkov lady, Madame Hohlakov, waiting there now with her sick daughter.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000025_000001.wav|In what way is he like von Sohn?|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000027_000001.wav|But, look here, Fyodor Pavlovitch, you said just now that we had given our word to behave properly.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000017_000001.wav|What have I come for but to study all the customs here? The only obstacle to me is your company...."|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000017_000000.wav|"Yes, of course.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000000_000007.wav|Among the humbler people were a few of higher rank-two or three ladies and a very old general.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000022_000001.wav|But as you please-" the monk hesitated.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000000_000004.wav|He looked about him with curiosity, together with assumed ease.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000037_000000.wav|"And was it like this in the time of the last elder, Varsonofy?|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000031_000005.wav|And that really is so.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000026_000000.wav|"I've seen his portrait.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000026_000002.wav|I can always tell from the physiognomy."|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000020_000000.wav|"No, it is my duty now to conduct you to the elder," answered the monk.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/920/668/920_668_000031_000004.wav|That's what is remarkable.|920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000127_000001.wav|"I-you cannot mean it?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000011_000000.wav|"That is because she is a little girl, necessarily less strong than the lads are.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000083_000001.wav|But never mind."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000032_000001.wav|"Dost remember, lad?" at which appellation Guy widely stared.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000141_000000.wav|He was setting up that wonderful novelty-a steam engine.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000062_000001.wav|If it must be done-better done at once, before winter sets in.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000052_000002.wav|But I see what it is-I have seen it coming a whole year.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000131_000001.wav|Only let me come and see you-you and your children."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000015_000000.wav|"Is it absolutely necessary we should go?" said the mother, who had a strong home clinging, and already began to hold tiny Longfield as the apple of her eye.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000101_000002.wav|Then in our quiet valley there would be no want, no murmurings, and, above all, no blaming of the master.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000110_000001.wav|I have often watched her and your children. But you don't remember me."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000027_000000.wav|"But gently, I hope?--you are so very outspoken, love.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000091_000000.wav|Here I heard-or fancied I heard-out of the black shadow behind the loom, a heavy sigh.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000121_000000.wav|"No, indeed."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000041_000002.wav|Very often Muriel and I followed him, and spent whole mornings in the mill meadows.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000108_000000.wav|It was the softest, mildest voice-the voice of one long used to oppression; and the young man whom Ursula had supposed to be a Catholic appeared from behind the loom.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000034_000001.wav|Better as it was; better a thousand times.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000060_000000.wav|"No, Lord Luxmore shall not ruin me!|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000031_000000.wav|It was sweet, though half melancholy, to see Enderley again; to climb the steep meadows and narrow mule paths, up which he used to help me so kindly.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000110_000000.wav|"I followed mrs Halifax.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000085_000000.wav|"What do you intend doing?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000052_000003.wav|He is determined to ruin me!"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000081_000001.wav|He was very much dejected-Ursula touched his arm before he even saw her.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000057_000000.wav|"Never mind, dear father.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000104_000000.wav|"Husband, don't let us speak of Lord Luxmore."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000026_000002.wav|I shall not go-I told her so."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000040_000001.wav|Muriel brightened up before she had been there many days.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000094_000000.wav|Again Ursula asked if nothing could be done.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000115_000000.wav|The boy-no, he was a young man now, but scarcely looked more than a boy-assented silently, as if afraid to utter the name.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000072_000003.wav|Sometimes they differed on minor points, and talked their differences lovingly out; but on any great question she had always this safe trust in him-that if one were right and the other wrong, the erring one was much more likely to be herself than john.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000093_000000.wav|"More than I like to think of.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000120_000000.wav|The youth crossed himself, then started and looked round, in terror of observers.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000074_000001.wav|Or are you too tired?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000067_000003.wav|She must not alarm herself."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000088_000001.wav|Have a new set of Luddites coming to burn my mill, and break my machinery? That is what Lord Luxmore wants.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000043_000000.wav|"What is the matter with the stream?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000117_000001.wav|He has left me these six months alone at Luxmore."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000072_000000.wav|I had not meant it as a question, or even a doubt.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000045_000002.wav|Don't cling so fast; father will be back soon-and isn't this a sweet sunny place for a little maid to be lazy in?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000053_000001.wav|He hardly felt Muriel's tiny creeping hands.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000047_000001.wav|It had sunk more and more-the muddy bottom was showing plainly.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000040_000004.wav|She used continually to tell us this was the happiest spring she had ever had in her life.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000120_000001.wav|"You will not betray me?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000082_000000.wav|"Well, love-you know what has happened?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000031_000004.wav|Every night-at least after Miss March went away-he usually found me sitting there.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000051_000000.wav|I tried to urge that such an act was improbable; in fact, against the law.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000014_000000.wav|For, at Longfield, already we began to make a natural almanack and chronological table.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000014_000001.wav|"When the may was out"--"When Guy found the first robin's nest"--"When the field was all cowslips"--and so on.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000020_000002.wav|She might have thought so too, had she not believed in her husband.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000088_000003.wav|If you had heard those poor people whom I sent away tonight!|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000013_000005.wav|You shall go as soon as ever the larch wood is green."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000016_000000.wav|"I think so, unless you will consent to let me go alone to Enderley."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000122_000002.wav|But you are sure you will not betray me?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000019_000001.wav|The troubles must be borne; why not bear them with as good heart as possible?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000131_000000.wav|"I will pray for you.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000030_000001.wav|Little we thought he should ever own it, or that john would be pointing it out to his own boys, lecturing them on "undershot," and "overshot," as he used to lecture me.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000073_000000.wav|She said no more; but put the children to bed; then came downstairs with her bonnet on.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000063_000000.wav|He almost ground his teeth as he saw the sun shining on the far white wing of Luxmore Hall.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000046_000001.wav|He walked rapidly down the meadows, and went into his mill.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000018_000000.wav|"What, with those troubles at the mills?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000019_000002.wav|They cannot last-let Lord Luxmore do what he will.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000092_000002.wav|Will it cost much?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000129_000000.wav|The lad lifted up those soft grey eyes, and then I remembered what his sister had said of Lord Ravenel's enthusiastic admiration of mr Halifax.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000136_000000.wav|So henceforward "Brother Anselmo" was almost domesticated at Rose Cottage.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000099_000001.wav|We could do it easily, by living in a plainer way; by giving up one or two trifles.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000130_000000.wav|"But I and mine are heretics, you know!"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000125_000001.wav|There never was but one in it I cared for, or who cared for me-and now-Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000021_000001.wav|She said, 'she hoped you would not ruin yourself, like mr Miller of Glasgow!' I said I was not afraid."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000039_000000.wav|And when she had put all her little ones to bed-we, wondering where the mother was, went out towards the little churchyard, and found her quietly sitting there.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000020_000003.wav|But now, at mention of the steam engine, she looked up and smiled.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000022_000001.wav|"It is easier to make the world trust one, when one is trusted by one's own household."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000012_000002.wav|Every one of the children has suffered," said the mother, in a cheerful tone, as she poured out a cup of cream for her daughter, to whom was now given, by common consent, all the richest and rarest of the house.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000091_000001.wav|john and Ursula were too anxious to notice it.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000125_000000.wav|"I am sick of it.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000097_000002.wav|At last john said:|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000077_000000.wav|"Who is that, watching our mills?" said mrs Halifax, hastily.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000089_000000.wav|He spoke-as we rarely heard john speak: as worldly cares and worldly injustice cause even the best of men to speak sometimes.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000036_000001.wav|In her delight, she so absolutely forgot herself as to address the mother as Miss March; at which long unspoken name Ursula started, her colour went and came, and her eyes turned restlessly towards the church hard by.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000109_000000.wav|"I do not know you, sir.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000060_000001.wav|I have thought of a scheme.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000029_000000.wav|Not many weeks after, we removed in a body to Enderley.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000083_000000.wav|"Yes, john.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000033_000000.wav|"Enderley is just the same, Phineas. Twelve years have made no change-except in us." And he looked fondly at his wife, who stood a little way off, holding firmly on the wall, in a hazardous group, her three boys.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000139_000001.wav|He taught her to play on the organ, in the empty church close by.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000076_000001.wav|He was rather odd looking, being invariably muffled up in a large cloak and a foreign sort of hat.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000008_000000.wav|mrs Halifax hesitated; said something about "east winds."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000024_000002.wav|He bore up bravely against it; but hard was the struggle between might and right, oppression and staunch resistance.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000065_000000.wav|"Phineas, you forget my principle-only mine, however; I do not force it upon any one else-my firm principle, that I will never go to law. Never!|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000116_000000.wav|"Would not your coming here displease him?" said john, always tenacious of trenching a hair's breadth upon any lawful authority.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000105_000000.wav|Again that sigh-quite ghostly in the darkness.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000122_000001.wav|I hoped you were.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000043_000001.wav|Do you notice, Phineas?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000012_000000.wav|"Muriel will be quite strong when the warm weather comes.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000093_000003.wav|But oh, my poor people at Enderley!"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000117_000000.wav|"It matters not-he is away.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000141_000004.wav|So the ignorant, simple mill people, when they came for their easy Saturday's wages, only stood and gaped at the mass of iron, and the curiously shaped brickwork, and wondered what on earth "the master" was about?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000028_000000.wav|I think-though john rarely betrayed it-he had strongly this presentiment of future power, which may often be noticed in men who have carved out their own fortunes.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000088_000000.wav|"And have all the country down upon me for destroying hand labour?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000107_000000.wav|"Only I, mr Halifax-don't be angry with me."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000025_000000.wav|"How often has Lady Oldtower been here, Ursula?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000128_000000.wav|"Is that any reason why I should not do good to his son-that is, if I could?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000017_000000.wav|She shook her head.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000084_000000.wav|"I would not-except for my poor people."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000087_000000.wav|"Do that, then.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000026_000000.wav|"She called first, you remember, after our trouble with the children; she has been twice since, I think.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000024_000000.wav|For, all winter, john had found out how many cares come with an attained wish.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000041_000000.wav|john was much occupied now.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000013_000001.wav|"But my plan will set all to rights.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000018_000001.wav|How can you speak so lightly?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000126_000000.wav|His lips moved in a paroxysm of prayer-helpless, parrot learnt, Latin prayer; yet, being in earnest, it seemed to do him good.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000113_000002.wav|I would have renounced it long ago.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000050_000000.wav|"Lord Luxmore." He spoke in the smothered tones of violent passion. "Lord Luxmore has turned out of its course the stream that works my mill."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000028_000001.wav|They have in them the instinct to rise; and as surely as water regains its own level, so do they, from however low a source, ascend to theirs.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000086_000001.wav|The water power being so greatly lessened, I must either stop the mills, or work them by steam."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000081_000000.wav|In his empty mill, standing beside one of its silenced looms, we found the master.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000112_000000.wav|"I am surprised to see you here, Lord Ravenel."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000004_000000.wav|"What a comfort! the day light is lengthening.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000054_000001.wav|Is anybody making father angry?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000038_000000.wav|"Yes, I know."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000049_000000.wav|"Do what, john?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000106_000000.wav|"Who's there?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000019_000004.wav|If my landlord will not do it, I will; and add a steam engine, too."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000044_000000.wav|"I have seen it gradually lowering-these two hours.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000070_000000.wav|"Then you think john is right?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000109_000001.wav|How came you to enter my mill?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000057_000002.wav|And father is always good."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000067_000002.wav|But I may have some little trouble with my people here.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000120_000003.wav|Tell me-I will keep your secret-are you a Catholic too?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000140_000001.wav|He was oppressed with business cares; daily, hourly vexations.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000004_000002.wav|Has it not, my little daughter? Who brought her these violets?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000060_000002.wav|But first I must speak to my people-I shall have to shorten wages for a time."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000040_000000.wav|We were very happy at Enderley.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000054_000000.wav|"What does 'ruin' mean?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000090_000000.wav|"Poor people!" he added, "how can I blame them?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000086_000000.wav|"Our wishes come as a cross to us sometimes," he said, rather bitterly. "It is the only thing I can do.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000049_000001.wav|Who?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000100_000000.wav|"Why, indeed?" he said, in a low, fond tone.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000037_000000.wav|"It is all right-Miss-Ma'am, I mean.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000072_000002.wav|For, as I have said, Ursula was not a woman to be led blindfold, even by her husband.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000139_000000.wav|The chief bond between her and Lord Ravenel-or "Anselmo," as he would have us call him-was music.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000065_000001.wav|I would not like to have it said, in contradistinction to the old saying, 'See how these Christians FIGHT!'"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000123_000000.wav|mr Halifax smiled at such a possibility.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000011_000001.wav|Is it not so, Uncle Phineas?" continued her father, hastily, for I was watching them.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000024_000003.wav|It would have gone harder, but for one whom john now began to call his "friend;" at least, one who invariably called mr Halifax so-our neighbour, Sir Ralph Oldtower.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000024_000001.wav|Chiefly, because, as the earl had said, his lordship possessed an "excellent memory." The Kingswell election had worked its results in a hundred small ways, wherein the heavy hand of the landlord could be laid upon the tenant.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000072_000001.wav|But it was pleasant to hear her thus answer.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000074_000002.wav|I am going down to the mill."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000068_000000.wav|No, the mother never did.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000138_000002.wav|And the little maid in her quiet way was very fond of him; delighting in his company when her father was not by.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000120_000002.wav|You are a good man, mr Halifax, and you spoke warmly for us.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000055_000000.wav|"No, my sweet-not angry-only very, very miserable!"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000067_000000.wav|"Now, Uncle Phineas, go you home with Muriel.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000013_000002.wav|I spoke to mrs Tod yesterday.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000140_000003.wav|It ceased to be a pleasure to walk in the green hollow, between the two grassy hills, which heretofore Muriel and I had liked even better than the Flat.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000056_000000.wav|He snatched her up, and buried his head in her soft, childish bosom. She kissed him and patted his hair.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000013_000003.wav|She will be ready to take us all in.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000138_000003.wav|But no one ever was to her like her father.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000029_000004.wav|He used to turn away, almost in pain, from her smile, as she would listen to all he said, then steal off to the harpsichord, and begin that soft, dreamy music, which the children called "talking to angels."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000071_000000.wav|"Of course I do."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000093_000001.wav|But it must be;--nothing venture-nothing have.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000032_000000.wav|He turned to me and smiled.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000045_000001.wav|Good bye, my little daughter.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000079_000001.wav|They used to find shelter at Luxmore."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000013_000000.wav|"I think every one has," said john, looking round on his apple cheeked boys; it must have been a sharp eye that detected any decrease of health, or increase of suffering, there.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000095_000000.wav|"Yes-I did think of one plan-but-"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000021_000000.wav|"Lady Oldtower asked me about it to day.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000099_000002.wav|Only outside things, you know. Why need we care for outside things?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000023_000000.wav|"Ah! never fear; you will make your fortune yet, in spite of Lord Luxmore."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000058_000000.wav|"I wish I were."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000087_000001.wav|Set up your steam engine."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000020_000001.wav|At first, mrs Halifax had looked grave-most women would, especially wives and mothers, in those days when every innovation was regarded with horror, and improvement and ruin were held synonymous.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000134_000000.wav|"No-not that name, mrs Halifax.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000127_000000.wav|He looked exceedingly surprised.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000045_000000.wav|"Nothing of the kind-I must look after it.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000007_000000.wav|"So we have said for a great many to morrows, but it is always put off. What do you think, mother-is the little maid strong enough?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000123_000001.wav|Yet, in truth, there was some reason for the young man's fears; since, even in those days, Catholics were hunted down both by law and by public opinion, as virulently as Protestant nonconformists.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000052_000000.wav|"Not against the law of the great against the little.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000031_000003.wav|We paused half-way up on a low wall, where I had many a time rested, watching the sunset over Nunneley Hill-watching for john to come home.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000133_000000.wav|"Heartily welcome, Lord-"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000013_000004.wav|Boys, shall you like going to Enderley?|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000068_000002.wav|What was to be borne-she bore: what was to be done-she did; but she rarely made any "fuss" about either her doings or her sufferings.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000064_000001.wav|If it is an unlawful act, why not go to law?"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000101_000001.wav|Three months of little renunciations-three months of the old narrow way of living, as at Norton Bury-and the poor people at Enderley might have full wages, whether or no there was full work.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000006_000000.wav|"To morrow."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000099_000000.wav|"How can you talk so!|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000048_000000.wav|"Yes-that's it-it can be nothing else!|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000053_000000.wav|john said this in much excitement.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000138_000000.wav|He said, "She made him good"--our child of peace.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000031_000001.wav|He could not now; he had his little daughter in his arms.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000010_000000.wav|The child shrank back with an involuntary "Oh, no"|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000067_000001.wav|Tell my wife what has occurred-say, I will come to tea as soon as I can.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000035_000000.wav|I went to mrs Halifax, and helped her to describe the prospect to the inquisitive boys; finally coaxing the refractory Guy up the winding road, where, just as if it had been yesterday, stood my old friends, my four Lombardy poplars, three together and one apart.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000040_000003.wav|It was the season she enjoyed most-the time of the singing of birds, and the springing of delicate scented flowers. I myself never loved the beech wood better than did our Muriel.|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000132_000000.wav|"Come, and welcome."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5724/13364/5724_13364_000129_000001.wav|"Oh, you could-you could."|5724
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000006_000000.wav|"dr Chilton!|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000042_000001.wav|She told me long ago." The old man hesitated, then went on, his lips twitching a little.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000032_000001.wav|"I told ye she wa'n't-old."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000014_000003.wav|And believe me, he can NOT know so much about-about your trouble, as this great doctor does, who will come from New York to morrow."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000014_000001.wav|I mind very much.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000028_000001.wav|"She looks like FOLKS, now.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000038_000000.wav|Nancy shook her head.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000020_000002.wav|The New York doctor is coming to morrow."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000050_000000.wav|Old Tom stiffened.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000037_000003.wav|"How is she, ter day-the little gal?"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000008_000002.wav|It is a new doctor-a very famous doctor from New York, who-who knows a great deal about-about hurts like yours."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000033_000000.wav|Nancy laughed.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000015_000000.wav|Pollyanna still looked unconvinced.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000054_000002.wav|So she never told her."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000034_000002.wav|I hain't found that out, yet; I hain't, I hain't!"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000016_000000.wav|"But, Aunt Polly, if you LOVED dr Chilton-"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000012_000001.wav|If-if you don't mind VERY much, I WOULD LIKE to have dr Chilton-truly I would!"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000028_000002.wav|She's actually almost-"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000034_000001.wav|Say, mr Tom, who WAS her A lover?|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000026_000000.wav|Old Tom chuckled.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000037_000000.wav|"Maybe not.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000017_000000.wav|"WHAT, Pollyanna?" Aunt Polly's voice was very sharp now.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000055_000002.wav|An' Miss Polly-young as she was-couldn't never forgive him; she was that fond of Miss Jennie-in them days.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/136483/188_136483_000047_000000.wav|"MISS POLLY!"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000005.wav|He said 'Jamie' wasn't no sort of a name for a boy, and that no son of his should ever be called it.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000042_000001.wav|It was not often that Jimmy said much of that mysterious past life of his, before she had known him.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000011_000002.wav|And mrs Carew wouldn't let me.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000012_000000.wav|There was a slight pause, then, with a sigh, Pollyanna resumed.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000033_000002.wav|And I know somebody else that said so, too."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000014_000000.wav|"My dear child, did it ever occur to you that these people don't CARE to know each other?" he asked quizzically.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000019_000001.wav|"But when it comes to this scheme of yours for the wholesale distribution of wealth-you've got a problem on your hands that you might have difficulty with."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000009_000003.wav|But everybody was so good to me, and I saw such a lot of wonderful things-Bunker Hill, and the Public Garden, and the Seeing Boston autos, and miles of pictures and statues and store windows and streets that didn't have any end.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000031_000002.wav|He is a very nice boy.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000026_000002.wav|On most occasions she was not disappointed in the interest shown; but one day she met with a surprise.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000021_000002.wav|She says I don't understand; that 'twould-er-pauperize her and be indiscriminate and pernicious, and-Well, it was SOMETHING like that, anyway," bridled the little girl, aggrievedly, as the man began to laugh.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000047_000001.wav|"But, then, I ain't 'JAMIE,' you know," he finished with scornful emphasis, as he turned loftily away, leaving a distressed, bewildered Pollyanna behind him.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000031_000001.wav|Then, with some spirit: "Jamie isn't loony!|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000008.wav|He wouldn't even stay to finish the work, but him and me took to the road again that night.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000015_000003.wav|But if they COULD know each other, so that the rich people could give the poor people part of their money-"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000013_000005.wav|Now if THOSE folks only knew the other folks-" But mr Pendleton interrupted with a laugh.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000002.wav|Dad helped about the hayin'--and I did, too, some. The farmer's wife was awful good to me, and pretty quick she was callin' me 'Jamie.' I don't know why, but she just did.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000013_000001.wav|It would be such a lot nicer if they did!|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000029_000000.wav|The boy lifted his chin a little.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000024_000000.wav|And Pollyanna told him.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000030_000002.wav|And I mean that I should think, from your talk, that there wasn't ANYBODY down to Boston but just that loony boy who calls them birds and squirrels 'Lady Lancelot,' and all that tommyrot."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000001.wav|We stopped 'most a week with a farmer.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000006.wav|He said 'twas a sissy name, and he hated it.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000027_000001.wav|"Wasn't there ANYBODY else down to Boston but just that everlasting 'Jamie'?"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000031_000000.wav|"Why, Jimmy Be-Pendleton!" gasped Pollyanna.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000022_000000.wav|"Well, anyway," she reiterated, when she had caught her breath, "I don't understand it, all the same."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000028_000000.wav|"Why, Jimmy Bean, what do you mean?" cried Pollyanna.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000011_000000.wav|"I do." Pollyanna frowned again and pondered.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000025_000001.wav|Here was something she understood. Here was no problem that had to deal with big, fearsome sounding words.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000025_000002.wav|Besides, in this particular instance-would not mr Pendleton be especially interested in mrs Carew's taking the boy into her home, for who better than himself could understand the need of a child's presence?|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000023_000000.wav|"No, dear, I'm afraid you don't," agreed the man, growing suddenly very grave and tender eyed; "nor any of the rest of us, for that matter.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000023_000001.wav|But, tell me," he added, after a minute, "who is this Jamie you've been talking so much about since you came?"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000027_000000.wav|"Say, look a here," he demanded one afternoon, irritably.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000004_000000.wav|JIMMY AND THE GREEN EYED MONSTER|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000005_000003.wav|Indeed, for the next few days, according to Nancy, "There wasn't no putting of your finger on her anywheres, for by the time you'd got your finger down she wa'n't there."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000040_000000.wav|"YOU!"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000018_000001.wav|"I-I don't think I know what a socialist is.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000006_000001.wav|As was usually the case when this question was put to her, she began her reply with a troubled frown.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000021_000003.wav|"And, anyway, I DON'T understand why some folks should have such a lot, and other folks shouldn't have anything; and I DON'T like it.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000011_000003.wav|She didn't know 'em herself.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000018_000004.wav|I'd like to be one."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000032_000000.wav|Jimmy Pendleton flushed miserably and looked utterly wretched.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000026_000000.wav|For that matter, Pollyanna talked to everybody about Jamie.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000009_000001.wav|There's parts of it-Oh, I was glad to be there," she explained hastily.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000008_000000.wav|"But not all of it?" smiled mr Pendleton.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000042_000000.wav|Pollyanna nodded, all sympathy and interest.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000018_000000.wav|"A-what?" questioned the little girl, dubiously.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000038_000000.wav|"Your-dad?" repeated Pollyanna, in amazement.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000018_000003.wav|If it's anything like that, I don't mind being one, a mite.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000013_000003.wav|Then there are other folks-mrs|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000031_000004.wav|Why, he can MAKE stories right out of his own head! Besides, it isn't 'Lady Lancelot,'--it's 'Sir Lancelot.' If you knew half as much as he does you'd know that, too!" she finished, with flashing eyes.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000026_000001.wav|She assumed that everybody would be as interested as she herself was.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000045_000002.wav|Then they put me in the 'sylum."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000016_000000.wav|But again mr Pendleton interrupted with a laugh.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000045_000001.wav|And 'twas there dad-died.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000025_000000.wav|In talking of Jamie, Pollyanna lost her worried, baffled look. Pollyanna loved to talk of Jamie.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000046_000000.wav|"And then you ran away and I found you that day, down by mrs Snow's," exulted Pollyanna, softly.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000013_000002.wav|Why, just think, mr Pendleton, there are lots of folks that live on dirty, narrow streets, and don't even have beans and fish balls to eat, nor things even as good as missionary barrels to wear.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000031_000003.wav|And he knows a lot-books and stories!|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000047_000000.wav|"Oh, yes-and you've known me ever since," repeated Jimmy-but in a far different voice: Jimmy had suddenly come back to the present, and to his grievance.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000021_000001.wav|"That's the way mrs Carew talked.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000006_000000.wav|And always, everywhere she went, Pollyanna met the question: "Well, how did you like Boston?" Perhaps to no one did she answer this more fully than she did to mr Pendleton.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000005_000002.wav|Nor did Pollyanna lose any time in starting on a round of fly away minute calls on all her old friends.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000046_000001.wav|"And I've known you ever since."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000007_000000.wav|"Oh, I liked it-I just loved it-some of it."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000009_000004.wav|And folks.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000015_000000.wav|"Oh, but some of them do," maintained Pollyanna, in eager defense. "Now there's Sadie Dean-she sells bows, lovely bows in a big store-she WANTS to know people; and I introduced her to mrs Carew, and we had her up to the house, and we had Jamie and lots of others there, too; and she was SO glad to know them!|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000044_000000.wav|The boy sighed.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000019_000000.wav|"I don't doubt it, Pollyanna," smiled the man.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000035_000000.wav|There was no answer.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000045_000000.wav|"We just went on till we found another place.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000011_000004.wav|She said folks didn't, down there."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000010_000000.wav|"Well, I'm sure-I thought you liked folks," commented the man.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000009_000002.wav|"I had a perfectly lovely time, and lots of things were so queer and different, you know-like eating dinner at night instead of noons, when you ought to eat it.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000039_000000.wav|"He didn't. 'Twasn't about that Jamie. 'twas about me." The boy still spoke sullenly, with his eyes turned away.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000043_000001.wav|Pollyanna had, for the moment, forgotten all about the original subject of the controversy-the name "Jamie" that was dubbed "sissy."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000026_000003.wav|It came through Jimmy Pendleton.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000030_000001.wav|I'm Jimmy Pendleton.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000041_000003.wav|And one day father heard her.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000005_000000.wav|This time Beldingsville did not literally welcome Pollyanna home with brass bands and bunting-perhaps because the hour of her expected arrival was known to but few of the townspeople.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000038_000001.wav|"Why, how could he know Jamie?"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000013_000004.wav|Carew, and a whole lot like her-that live in perfectly beautiful houses, and have more things to eat and wear than they know what to do with.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/141613/188_141613_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, Pollyanna, Pollyanna," he chuckled; "I'm afraid you're getting into pretty deep water.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000032_000000.wav|"Oh, I'm so glad!|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000010.wav|I wonder what HIS fate was."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000018_000000.wav|"Gilbert looks very young for a doctor.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000024_000004.wav|It was well built to begin with.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000001.wav|"When I was a child I heard an old minister say that a house was not a real home until it had been consecrated by a birth, a wedding and a death.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000031_000000.wav|"Heaps of them, oh, dryad!|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000017_000004.wav|A long engagement doesn't often turn out well.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000029_000003.wav|Her furniture is still in the house, and I bought most of it-for a mere song you might say, because it was all so old-fashioned that the trustees despaired of selling it.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000007_000001.wav|When weddings were in order mrs Rachel was ready to let the dead past bury its dead.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000006_000001.wav|Many things have changed since then, that's what."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000013_000004.wav|Yet these two worthy ladies were not enemies of Anne; on the contrary, they were really quite fond of her, and would have defended her as their own young had anyone else attacked her.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000014_000002.wav|Her lines had fallen in pleasant places.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000007.wav|I can't realize that she's grown up.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000011_000001.wav|It's what I've always prayed for," said mrs Rachel, in the tone of one who is comfortably sure that her prayers have availed much.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000029_000002.wav|She died last spring, and as she had no near relatives she left her property to the Glen saint Mary Church.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000015_000001.wav|"Well, the Blythes generally keep their word when they've once passed it, no matter what happens.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000030_000001.wav|"But, Gilbert, people cannot live by furniture alone.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000008_000000.wav|"I'm going to give Anne two of my cotton warp spreads," she resumed. "A tobacco stripe one and an apple leaf one.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000024_000001.wav|There's a splendid living room with a fireplace in it downstairs, and a dining room that looks out on the harbor, and a little room that will do for my office.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000014_000003.wav|In spite of the fact-as mrs Rachel Lynde would say-that she had married a millionaire, her marriage had been happy.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000030_000003.wav|Are there TREES about this house?"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000012_000000.wav|"He's Gilbert Blythe," said Marilla contentedly.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000003_000000.wav|THE HOUSE OF DREAMS|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000010_000000.wav|"I'm giving Anne that half dozen braided rugs I have in the garret.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000024_000005.wav|I understand that there was some romantic story connected with its building, but the man I rented it from didn't know it."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000016_000001.wav|Life had developed in her a sense of humor which helped her over many difficulties; but as yet nothing had availed to steel her against a reference to her hair.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000029_000001.wav|But it belonged until lately to a very old lady, Miss Elizabeth Russell.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000024_000002.wav|It is about sixty years old-the oldest house in Four Winds.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000011_000003.wav|He was rich, to be sure, and Gilbert is poor-at least, to begin with; but then he's an Island boy."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000003.wav|Long ago, just after we moved into this house, we had a married hired man for a little while, and his wife had a baby here.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000013_000003.wav|If she thought she was getting any particular prize in young dr Blythe, or if she imagined that he was still as infatuated with her as he might have been in his salad days, it was surely their duty to put the matter before her in another light.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000010_000008.wav|And this last spring they were white, and such a crop of plums I never remember at Green Gables."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000010_000001.wav|I never supposed she'd want them-they're so old-fashioned, and nobody seems to want anything but hooked mats now.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000010_000005.wav|And I'll make her enough blue plum preserve to stock her jam closet for a year.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000031_000001.wav|There is a big grove of fir trees behind it, two rows of Lombardy poplars down the lane, and a ring of white birches around a very delightful garden.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000014_000004.wav|Wealth had not spoiled her.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000031_000004.wav|Their boughs form an arch overhead."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000008.wav|I shall never forget what I felt when I saw matthew bringing in a GIRL.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000026_000000.wav|"Who is Captain Jim?"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000032_000003.wav|THAT would be expecting too much."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000030_000000.wav|"So far, good," said Anne, nodding cautious approval.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000013_000001.wav|It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000024_000003.wav|But it has been kept in pretty good repair, and was all done over about fifteen years ago-shingled, plastered and re floored.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000029_000000.wav|"Well, it's the property of the Glen saint Mary Presbyterian Church now, and I rented it from the trustees.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000002.wav|We've had deaths here-my father and mother died here as well as matthew; and we've even had a birth here.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000005_000004.wav|But there's never been a wedding before.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000008_000005.wav|But there's a month yet, and dew bleaching will work wonders."|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000006_000000.wav|"Well, it was a fortunate mistake," said mrs Rachel Lynde, "though, mind you, there was a time I didn't think so-that evening I came up to see Anne and she treated us to such a scene.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000030_000002.wav|You haven't yet mentioned one very important thing.|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000028_000000.wav|"Who owns the house?"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000009_000000.wav|Only a month!|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/188/135249/188_135249_000023_000001.wav|What is it like?"|188
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000018_000003.wav|It's getting on, and I'm likewise getting wet'--which I was.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000009_000000.wav|"What do you think of the band?"|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000007_000001.wav|I do not speak to strangers as a rule.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000019_000000.wav|"You must know that Willyum is that near about money that I never saw nothing like him; not that it's a bad thing in a man, though it may be carried too far and I must say I do think Willyum do carry it too far. He has never given me nothing which he didn't want me to pay for, not even half a pint of beer.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000013_000000.wav|"Possibly," I suggested, "that is in a measure owing to the nature of their occupation."|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000010.wav|So I pulls up.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000024_000004.wav|And he grabs hold of Willyum by the collar, and he says, 'Hang me if I don't wipe down the street with you!' And he shouts out, ''Enrietta, here's Brother Willyum.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000024_000007.wav|oh dear!|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000022_000002.wav|He being a married man, and with a comfortable home, he will be glad to see us.'|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000022_000000.wav|"I never said a word to him, but I walks right out of the park.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000012_000002.wav|To me there's always the smell of the meat about a butcher. But it's as you're made.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000008_000000.wav|I felt that I was getting on-so I went on.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000025_000000.wav|No, I said, I should not.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000002_000000.wav|"It's a fine evening."|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000016_000000.wav|"My young man, his name is Willyum Evans, is a baker, and him and me have been walking out together four years come next month.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000007_000002.wav|Sometimes there's never no knowing who they are."|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000023_000004.wav|Do not let us spoil our day's pleasure by no disagreeable observations.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000024_000003.wav|Oh, dear me, you never saw nothing like the mess that I was in!|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000007.wav|'mr Evans,' I said, short and sharp, 'I wish you a good day.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000003_000000.wav|She turned, she looked me up and down, then she looked straight in front of her again.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000006_000000.wav|"That is my misfortune, rather than my fault."|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000012_000001.wav|I have a sister who likes butchers.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000024_000006.wav|Oh dear!|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000024_000001.wav|I've been looking for you for some time.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000010_000001.wav|I like a band as I can hear."|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000011_000002.wav|It struck me that the tale, as she told it, contained elements of tragedy.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000023_000000.wav|"Well, I didn't know what to do, not liking to have no quarrel with him in the street, so off we starts for his brother's.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000016_000001.wav|So I said to him, 'Willyum, it's my day out, Tuesday.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000018_000002.wav|I thought you was going to take me somewhere.' He said, 'So I am.' So I said, 'Where are you going to take me to?|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000001_000000.wav|I had been seated in the next chair to hers for at least two minutes. I felt that it was time to introduce myself.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000015_000000.wav|I thought so too, but she went on:|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000005.wav|I am particular about my vittles, and I never eat no scraps, and, still less, things what have been sat down upon.' 'Well,' he said, 'it's a pity it should be wasted, I'll eat it myself.' Which he did, and me standing in the rain there looking on.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000016_000003.wav|So when he did come, I was a bit huffy.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000019_000004.wav|I may have some money somewhere, unbeknown to myself, so I will look and see; though I must say I do think it hard that all the expenses should be borne by me!'|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000002.wav|He held it out to me.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000005_000000.wav|But I was not to be crushed; there was something about the shape of her that which suggested sociability.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000021_000000.wav|"That made me fairly wild it really did.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000023_000006.wav|Now, Matilda, don't you let him start hitting me.' And he jumps behind me, so as to get into the shadow, as it were.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000023_000002.wav|Just now you was saying as how your brother would be glad to see us.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000018_000000.wav|"So there we sat, neither of us saying nothing, till I began to feel a little damp, because I had my thin things on, and it was beginning to come down heavy.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000006.wav|That did put my back up.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000008.wav|I am going.' So I goes.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000010_000000.wav|"It's not loud enough for me.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000007_000000.wav|"I don't know nothing at all about that.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000014_000000.wav|"That may be, but still there is a limit, and when a man is always drinking, I think it's time for him to stop."|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000004.wav|'I thank you.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000012_000000.wav|"Bakers," she observed, "is what I like.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000023_000007.wav|So I says, 'Willyum, whatever is the matter now? Your conduct do seem to me to be of the most extraordinary character.'|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000020_000003.wav|'No,' I said.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000018_000004.wav|So he said, 'What do you say to Battersea Park?' So I said, 'I say nothing.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83696/7000_83696_000019_000003.wav|'We are both of us having a day out,' he said, 'and don't let no bad tempers spoil our pleasure.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000008_000001.wav|Captain, you take first over."|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000001.wav|mr Sapsworth and I bowled over after over.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000008.wav|In course of time this had dwindled to half a dozen stragglers.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000026_000000.wav|The "snick" in question was a tremendous drive to deep mid off.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000005.wav|I felt that these things must be happening to me in a dream.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000022_000002.wav|Quite unnecessarily he allowed that this was so.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000033_000003.wav|I only wished that I had been so fortunate as to have led the van.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000003_000001.wav|We sat there, moping in a crowd, I among the rest, when mr Benyon, bustling up, reminded me of my duties as a captain.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000000.wav|Time went on.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000027_000000.wav|"Run it out!" cried mr Benyon.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000040_000002.wav|It was about the second thousand.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000035_000000.wav|"I do like your kind of bowling, mister," mr Benyon would constantly remark.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000015_000000.wav|"I don't think that's a bad little smack to start with," he observed. "I like your kind of bowling, mister.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000001.wav|I felt for mr Sapsworth.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000016_000002.wav|I had certainly never supposed that he could by any possibility have such a thing as a cricket ball in one of the pockets.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000039_000002.wav|I've got one in my pocket you can have."|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000010.wav|mr Benyon did not seem to be distressed by the exertion in the least; mr Barker emphatically did.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000024_000000.wav|It was kind of him to say so; though, to my thinking, his remark did not convey a compliment.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000037_000005.wav|mr Benyon called out to him, but mr Barker neither stopped nor stayed. It seemed that the match was going to resolve itself into a game of single wicket.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000000.wav|He had.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000009_000003.wav|There is a suspicion floating through my mind that at one or two points-two, or more-men were placed unusually close together. For instance, at deep mid off-very deep mid off-mr|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000005.wav|By degrees one fact began to be impressed upon me.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000019_000000.wav|He produced a second ball from the same pocket from which the first had come.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000016_000000.wav|He put his hand into his trousers' pocket.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000010.wav|And not only spectators but cricketers had disappeared.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000015_000002.wav|He turned again to me.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000005_000004.wav|The Latchmere men went slouching towards the tent; some of them, I noticed, instead of going in stole towards the rear.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000040_000000.wav|He had.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000017_000000.wav|My second ball was a colourable imitation of my first, only this time it was wide to leg.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000019_000005.wav|He treated it as he had done the first-he drove it, with terrific force, right above my head.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000006.wav|I was rapidly approaching the condition in which Alice must have been in Wonderland-prepared for anything.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000027_000002.wav|They ran four, and then they ran two more, and still the ball was not thrown in.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000011_000004.wav|He stood bolt upright, his legs together, his feet drawn heel to heel; not at all in the fashion of a modern cricketer, who seeks to guard his wickets with his legs.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000005_000003.wav|I suppose a more unpromising set of fieldsmen never yet took their places in the field.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000034_000002.wav|And the reflection involuntarily crossed my mind-what fools we were to stay!|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000024_000002.wav|The sixth, however, which he also produced from the same wondrous store contained in his breeches pocket, he contented himself with what he called "snicking."|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000014_000001.wav|I gave him an overhand full pitch which would have made a decent catch for point, if point had been close in, which he wasn't. However, in any case mr Benyon would have saved him the trouble.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000042_000007.wav|The bat lay on the ground. And mr Benyon had gone!|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000037_000002.wav|mr Benyon ran thirteen for a hit to leg.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000013_000000.wav|"Hurry up, sir!|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000042_000002.wav|It laid me on the ground.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000042_000006.wav|The opposite wicket was deserted.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000027_000003.wav|mr Benyon urged the fielders on.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000039_000001.wav|"Never mind about the ball.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000011.wav|If my eyes did not deceive me, there was not a member of the Latchmere team left on the ground.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000018_000002.wav|I've got another ball which you can have."|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000010_000000.wav|mr Barker shared with mr Benyon the honour of being first man in. The Latchmere captain, as a captain, had become quite as much a figurehead as I had.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER three.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000007_000000.wav|He and I had agreed that we should start the bowling.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000022_000000.wav|My fourth ball he treated to a swipe to square leg.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000033_000000.wav|What was more, some of our own team took courage, and leg bail.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000005_000001.wav|One part of his address gave us a certain gratification-that part in which he stated that he soon would have to go.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000009_000002.wav|I do not think that our field was arranged on scientific principles; I may certainly claim that I had nothing to do with its arrangement.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000004_000000.wav|"Now then, turn out.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000026_000001.wav|It was stopped, quite involuntarily, by mr Hawthorn and mr Hedges.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000004_000002.wav|We can't stop here all day.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000028_000001.wav|But the ball was at last thrown in-when the pair had run eleven.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000021_000000.wav|He had-the third.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000004.wav|g's" ever came within many miles of it.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000033_000001.wav|I caught one of them-the lad Fenning-in the act of scrambling through the hedge.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000011_000001.wav|What he had done with it I cannot say; possibly it had vanished, with his other garments, into air.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000006.wav|And the balls which he produced!|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000034_000001.wav|So far as I could see, mr Hawthorn, mr Hedges, mr Sapsworth, and I were the only members of the Storwell team left on the ground.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000003.wav|Crack-smack-whack went the balls out of sight in all directions.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000021_000001.wav|And in the same pocket from which the other two had come.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000039_000000.wav|"I do like your kind of bowling, mister," he observed when, as usual, he sent my first ball out of sight.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000041_000002.wav|Then a ball or two later on, "I call that a tidy smack." The "smack" in question had driven the ball, for anything I know to the contrary, a distance of some five miles or so.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000003.wav|No performance of "W.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000005_000002.wav|We turned out.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000004_000003.wav|I'm first man in; soon I'll have to go, and I haven't had a smack at a cricket ball these twenty years!"|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000007_000002.wav|But mr Benyon intervened.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000020_000000.wav|"Never mind about the ball," he said.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000002.wav|mr Benyon was making a record in tall scoring.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000038_000005.wav|That over!|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000037_000000.wav|A little later, looking round the field, I found that mr Hawthorn had disappeared, and that mr Hedges, stuck in a hedge, was struggling gallantly to reach safety on the other side.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000009_000000.wav|I obeyed without a murmur.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000016_000004.wav|He drew one out and threw it up to me.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000042_000005.wav|I was alone in the field.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000040_000001.wav|He produced it-always from the same pocket.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000005_000000.wav|We looked at each other.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000041_000000.wav|"It does warm me so to swipe."|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000009_000004.wav|Hawthorn and mr Hedges were not only doing their best to trample on each other's toes, but each was seeking for a place of security behind the other's back.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000028_000000.wav|mr Hedges did not hurry up; he never could have hurried up, even if his manner of "fielding" the ball had not wholly deprived him of his wind.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000006.wav|It was this-that the number of spectators was growing smaller by degrees and beautifully less.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000037_000003.wav|He made mr Barker run them too-it was the proverbial last straw.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000025_000000.wav|"That's what I call a pretty snick," he said.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000004.wav|And for each ball that disappeared mr Benyon produced another from his breeches pocket.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000018_000000.wav|"Put down Tom Benyon another six!" he cried.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000033_000002.wav|But I had not the heart to stop him.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000015_000001.wav|I suppose that's a boundary." He called to the scorer-if there was one, which I doubt-"Put down Tom Benyon six!"|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000019_000001.wav|I could scarcely believe my eyes.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000008.wav|If mr Barker did no hitting, he did some running.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000008_000000.wav|"Now, Bob Sapsworth, you take the bowling one end, and let your captain take the other.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000014_000003.wav|He drove it over the hedge, and over the trees, and up to the skies, and out of sight.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000019_000002.wav|But I was discovering, with Horatio, that there were more things in heaven and earth than had been contained in my philosophy.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000028_000002.wav|Forty one runs off his first over was a result calculated to take the conceit out of the average bowler.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000011_000003.wav|His pose was almost as peculiar as his costume.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000011_000005.wav|His bat he held straight down in front of him, the blade swinging gently in the air.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000034_000005.wav|The perspiration was running off from us in streams-I had never had such a "sweater" before!|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000009.wav|He never had a chance to make a stroke, but his partner took care to make him run an incredibly large odd number as a wind up to every over.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000006_000000.wav|"mr Trentham, I-I can't bowl," whispered mr Sapsworth to me as we moved across the turf.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000026_000003.wav|Neither of them made the slightest attempt to return the ball.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000042_000000.wav|The next ball I fielded.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000027_000004.wav|"Hurry up, Bill Hedges!"|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000014_000000.wav|I hurried up.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000019_000003.wav|Since mr Benyon professed such affection for the style of bowling which I favoured, I sent him down another sample.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000022_000001.wav|He seemed to have a partiality for swiping.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000023_000000.wav|"I do like a ball which I can get a smack at," he remarked as he produced a fourth ball from the same pocket of his tightly fitting trousers which had contained the other three.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000017_000001.wav|To long leg mr Benyon sent it flying.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000037_000004.wav|As mr Barker was running the thirteenth run, instead of going to his wicket he dropped his bat-the bat which he had never had a chance to utilise-and bolted off the field as though Satan was behind him.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000010_000001.wav|His bearing was indicative of extreme depression. I think he had learned that to take, off hand, the first substitute who offered, was, now and then, unwise.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000007_000001.wav|I confess that I felt no more inclined to act up to the letter of our agreement than he did.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000004_000001.wav|Send your men into the field.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000004.wav|I know that I bowled until I felt that I should either have to stop or drop.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000007.wav|Originally there had been quite a crowd assembled.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000027_000001.wav|He and mr Barker began to run.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000032_000002.wav|I suppose, at the outside, our innings had lasted half an hour.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000002_000000.wav|AND BATS.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000030_000002.wav|But since I had suffered it was only fair that he should suffer too.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000013_000001.wav|Don't I tell you that soon I'll have to go?"|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000023_000001.wav|"A swipe does warm me so.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000031_000005.wav|And the balls he lost!|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83708/7000_83708_000015_000003.wav|"It's no good wasting time looking for that ball.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000005_000002.wav|I was nearly in the school team once.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000015_000000.wav|I was speechless.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000015_000002.wav|It was altogether too preposterous.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000002_000000.wav|THE STORY OF MY LAST CRICKET MATCH.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000014_000000.wav|"To morrow," was the startling reply.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000005_000005.wav|But as I never repeated it-or anything like it-they left me, very wisely, out of the eleven.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000013_000000.wav|"When is the match to be?" I asked.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000012_000002.wav|He would certainly have turned the scale at sixteen stone.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000016_000000.wav|The end of it was that I agreed to play.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000006_000003.wav|Latchmere.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000008_000000.wav|I hinted so much to the deputation.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000011_000000.wav|"That's nothing," mr Sapsworth cried.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000010_000001.wav|It opened the floodgates of their eloquence.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000012_000003.wav|I felt that, to cricketers who intended to play mr Hedges, any objections which I might urge would appear quite trivial.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000008_000005.wav|I decided to crush the deputation before the thing went farther.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000008_000001.wav|The deputation smiled.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000005_000000.wav|I have some idea of cricket-not much, perhaps, but I certainly have some.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000010_000000.wav|But the admission did not crush them: quite the other way.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000007_000003.wav|And one day a deputation of the inhabitants called on me at my lodgings to ask if I would lead the local cricket club to, say, victory.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000001_000000.wav|A SUBSTITUTE.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000008_000002.wav|The chief spokesman was the local barber; his name was Sapsworth.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000004_000000.wav|I a m APPOINTED CAPTAIN.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000007_000000.wav|When they first asked me to play I thought they were mad. Storwell on Sea is a village on the south coast-I beg pardon; I believe it is called by the inhabitants a town.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000012_000000.wav|I glanced at mr Hedges, thus frankly referred to.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000005_000004.wav|I must own that my performance was a surprise to everyone-and to myself among the rest.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000007_000001.wav|It is a pretty place, and not unknown-in the locality.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000016_000001.wav|No man knows to what a depth of folly he can sink until he tries.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000005_000003.wav|That was when I carried my bat for forty five.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000005_000001.wav|I was not in the 'Varsity team, nor near it; but I played in the Freshman's match, and provided myself with spectacles.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7000/83706/7000_83706_000007_000004.wav|As I have said, my first impression was that they were mad; either that, or else that they were "playing it off" on the unprotected stranger.|7000
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000005_000003.wav|Consequently, he frequently reprimanded john, by telling him that his conduct was beneath the dignity, and inconsistent with the principles of good Indians; indecent and unbecoming a gentleman; and, as he never could reconcile himself to it, he was frequently, almost constantly, when they were together, talking to him on the same subject.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000009_000004.wav|This fatal event, however, seemed to be a stream of woe poured into my cup of afflictions, filling it even to overflowing, and blasting all my prospects.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000007_000001.wav|With tears in my eyes, I advised them to become reconciled to each other, and to be friendly; told them the consequences of their continuing to cherish so much malignity and malice, that it would end in their destruction, the disgrace of their families, and bring me down to the grave.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000006_000002.wav|He, however, never struck me; but on John's account he struck Hiokatoo, and thereby excited in john a high degree of indignation, which was extinguished only by blood.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000015_000000.wav|At the age of fourteen or fifteen years, he went into the war with manly fortitude, armed with a tomahawk and scalping knife; and when he returned, brought one white man a prisoner, whom he had taken with his own hands, on the west branch of the Susquehannah river.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000008_000002.wav|He caught Thomas by the hair of his head, dragged him out at the door and there killed him, by a blow which he gave him on the head with his tomahawk!|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000016_000001.wav|He was a great Counsellor and a Chief when quite young; and in the last capacity, went two or three times to Philadelphia to assist in making treaties with the people of the states.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000014_000002.wav|He was manly in his deportment, courageous and, active; and commanded respect.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000015_000003.wav|He was well treated while a prisoner, and redeemed at the close of the war.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000018_000000.wav|Thomas, at the time he was killed, was a few moons over fifty two years old, and john was forty eight.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000007_000004.wav|Their eyes of compassion, of real sentimental affection, will be involuntarily extended after them, in their greatest excesses of iniquity; and those fine filaments of consanguinity, which gently entwine themselves around the heart where filial love and parental care is equal, will be lengthened, and enlarged to cords seemingly of sufficient strength to reach and reclaim the wanderer.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000017_000001.wav|Jacob Jemison, his second son by his last wife, who is at this time twenty seven or twenty eight years of age, went to Dartmouth college, in the spring of eighteen sixteen, for the purpose of receiving a good education, where it was said that he was an industrious scholar, and made great proficiency in the study of the different branches to which he attended.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000008_000000.wav|My advice and expostulations with my sons were abortive; and year after year their disaffection for each other increased.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000009_000000.wav|I returned soon after, and found my son lifeless at the door, on the spot where he was killed!|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000007_000003.wav|Parents, mothers especially, will love their children, though ever so unkind and disobedient.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000014_000003.wav|Though he appeared well pleased with peace, he was cunning in Indian warfare, and succeeded to admiration in the execution of his plans.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000010_000001.wav|Shanks set out on his errand immediately,--and john, fearing that he should be apprehended and punished for the crime he had committed, at the same time went off towards Caneadea.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000005_000002.wav|Although polygamy was tolerated in our tribe, Thomas considered it a violation of good and wholesome rules in society, and tending directly to destroy that friendly social intercourse and love, that ought to be the happy result of matrimony and chastity.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000007_000000.wav|For a number of years their difficulties, and consequent unhappiness, continued and rather increased, continually exciting in my breast the most fearful apprehensions, and greatest anxiety for their safety.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000015_000001.wav|It so happened, that as he was looking out for his enemies, he discovered two men boiling sap in the woods.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000009_000002.wav|I felt my situation unsupportable.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000005_000001.wav|After Thomas and john arrived to manhood, in addition to the former charge, john got two wives, with whom he lived till the time of his death.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000005_000004.wav|john always resented such reprimand, and reproof, with a great degree of passion, though they never quarrelled, unless Thomas was intoxicated.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000017_000002.wav|Having spent two years at that Institution, he returned in the winter of eighteen eighteen, and is now at Buffalo; where I have understood that he contemplates commencing the study of medicine, as a profession.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000004_000001.wav|In general, my children were friendly to each other, and it was very seldom that I knew them to have the least difference or quarrel: so far, indeed, were they from rendering themselves or me uncomfortable, that I considered myself happy-more so than commonly falls to the lot of parents, especially to women.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000017_000000.wav|Thomas had four wives, by whom he had eight children.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000009_000003.wav|Having passed through various scenes of trouble of the most cruel and trying kind, I had hoped to spend my few remaining days in quietude, and to die in peace, surrounded by my family.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000006_000001.wav|At such times he often threatened to take my life for having raised a witch, (as he called john,) and has gone so far as to raise his tomahawk to split my head.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000006_000000.wav|In his fits of drunkenness, Thomas seemed to lose all his natural reason, and to conduct like a wild or crazy man, without regard to relatives, decency or propriety.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000004_000000.wav|Few mothers, perhaps, have had less trouble with their children during their minority than myself.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000009_000001.wav|No one can judge of my feelings on seeing this mournful spectacle; and what greatly added to my distress, was the fact that he had fallen by the murderous hand of his brother!|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000015_000002.wav|He watched them unperceived, till dark when he advanced with a noiseless step to where they were standing, caught one of them before they were apprized of danger, and conducted him to the camp.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000018_000002.wav|He fell a victim to the use of ardent spirits-a poison that will soon exterminate the Indian tribes in this part of the country, and leave their names without a root or branch.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/185074/3972_185074_000007_000002.wav|No one can conceive of the constant trouble that I daily endured on their account-on the account of my two oldest sons, whom I loved equally, and with all the feelings and affection of a tender mother, stimulated by an anxious concern for their fate.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000040_000001.wav|And that we should find him a babe in swaddling clothes?"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000058_000000.wav|"The cave?"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000044_000000.wav|"The Lord will take care of them.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000020_000000.wav|"What is it?" they asked, in one voice.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000010_000000.wav|They rested and talked, and their talk was all about their flocks, a dull theme to the world, yet a theme which was all the world to them.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000009_000001.wav|In appearance, rough and savage as the gaunt dogs sitting with them around the blaze; in fact, simple minded, tender hearted; effects due, in part, to the primitive life they led, but chiefly to their constant care of things lovable and helpless.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000015_000002.wav|His task was done; now for the dreamless sleep with which labor blesses its wearied children!|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000021_000000.wav|"See!" cried the watchman, "the sky is on fire!"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000015_000000.wav|By the gate, hugging his mantle close, the watchman walked; at times he stopped, attracted by a stir among the sleeping herds, or by a jackal's cry off on the mountain side.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000045_000000.wav|Then they all arose and left the marah.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000015_000006.wav|He looked up; the stars were gone; the light was dropping as from a window in the sky; as he looked, it became a splendor; then, in terror, he cried,|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000060_000000.wav|They went through the court yard without notice, although there were some up even then talking about the wonderful light.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000009_000000.wav|Such were the shepherds of Judea!|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000013_000000.wav|While they talked, and before the first watch was over, one by one the shepherds went to sleep, each lying where he had sat|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000060_000001.wav|The door of the cavern was open.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000065_000001.wav|Then the bystanders collected about the two.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000052_000000.wav|"No, the Christ is born."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000019_000000.wav|The men clambered to their feet, weapons in hand.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000050_000001.wav|Come with us, and see for yourself."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000038_000000.wav|"Christ the Lord is born; said he not so?"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000015_000003.wav|He moved towards the fire, but paused; a light was breaking around him, soft and white, like the moon's.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000034_000000.wav|Not once the praise, but many times.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000056_000000.wav|"The Christ indeed!|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000025_000000.wav|"Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000035_000001.wav|Long after he was gone, down from the sky fell the refrain in measure mellowed by distance, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000053_000001.wav|How do you know?"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000066_000000.wav|"It is the Christ!" said a shepherd, at last.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000047_000000.wav|"What would you have?" he asked.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000042_000004.wav|Let us go up and worship him."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000015_000001.wav|The midnight was slow coming to him; but at last it came.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000006_000001.wav|In some long forgotten foray, the building had been unroofed and almost demolished. The enclosure attached to it remained intact, however, and that was of more importance to the shepherds who drove their charges thither than the house itself.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000050_000000.wav|"Let us go down to the cave in the enclosure, that we may be sure; then we will tell you all.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000048_000000.wav|"We have seen and heard great things to night," they replied.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000033_000000.wav|"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men!"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000007_000000.wav|The day of the occurrences which occupy the preceding chapters, a number of shepherds, seeking fresh walks for their flocks, led them up to this plain; and from early morning the groves had been made ring with calls, and the blows of axes, the bleating of sheep and goats, the tinkling of bells, the lowing of cattle, and the barking of dogs.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000055_000000.wav|The man laughed scornfully.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000044_000001.wav|Let us make haste."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000059_000001.wav|Come with us."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000016_000000.wav|"Awake, awake!"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000043_000000.wav|"But the flocks!"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000036_000000.wav|When the shepherds came fully to their senses, they stared at each other stupidly, until one of them said, "It was Gabriel, the Lord's messenger unto men."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000059_000000.wav|"Yes.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000012_000001.wav|On Sabbaths they were accustomed to purify themselves, and go up into the synagogues, and sit on the benches farthest from the ark.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000067_000000.wav|"The Christ!" they all repeated, falling upon their knees in worship. One of them repeated several times over,|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000069_000001.wav|In the khan, to all the people aroused and pressing about them, they told their story; and through the town, and all the way back to the marah, they chanted the refrain of the angels, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men!"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000028_000000.wav|Directly the angel continued:|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000029_000000.wav|"For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord!"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000056_000001.wav|How are you to know him?"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000061_000000.wav|"I give you peace," the watchman said to Joseph and the Beth Dagonite.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000042_000002.wav|The priests and doctors have been a long time looking for the Christ.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000053_000000.wav|"The Christ!|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000049_000001.wav|What did you hear?"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000039_000000.wav|Then another recovered his voice, and replied, "That is what he said."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000023_000000.wav|"Fear not!"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000006_000000.wav|At the side farthest from the town, close under a bluff, there was an extensive marah, or sheepcot, ages old.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000042_000001.wav|Brethren, let us go see this thing which has come to pass.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000054_000000.wav|"Let us go and see first."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/170212/3972_170212_000051_000000.wav|"It is a fool's errand."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000021_000007.wav|Let Edward yield to that, and though he has pierced us with many wounds, we will yet forgive him."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000006_000001.wav|While he was yet there, an invitation arrived from the Countess of Mar, requesting his presence at an entertainment which, by her husband's consent, she meant to give that night at Snawdoun, to the Southron lords before their departure for England.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000003_000000.wav|The regent's re entrance into the citadel of Stirling, being on the evening preceding the day he had promised should see the English lords depart for their country, De Warenne, as a mark of respect to a man whom he could not but regard with admiration, went to the barbican gate to bid him welcome.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000018_000001.wav|He is to conduct the Scottish prisoners to the borders, and then to fall upon Scotland with all his strength, unless you previously surrender, not only Berwick, but Stirling, and the whole of the district between the Forth and the Tweed, into his hands."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000021_000002.wav|Is not the greater part of the Lowlands free?|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000012_000006.wav|Was this the right of conquest?|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000012_000005.wav|Was this honor?|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000025_000001.wav|All warfare that is not defensive is criminal; and he who draws his sword to oppress, or merely to aggrandize, is a murderer and a robber.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000018_000000.wav|"Little from him, or his headlong counselors," replied De Warenne; "but Thomas Earl of Lancaster, the king's nephew, is come from abroad with a numerous army.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000026_000003.wav|By the sword my ancestors gained their estates; and with the sword I have no objection to extend my territories."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000011_000003.wav|Bruce, conscious of his inherent rights, rejected the iniquitous demand of Edward; Baliol accorded with it, and was made king.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000011_000001.wav|All the princes whom you speak of, excepting Bruce of Annandale, did assent to the newly offered claim of Edward on Scotland; but who, amongst them, had any probable chance for the throne, but Bruce or Baliol?|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000016_000000.wav|As Wallace pressed the hand of his new friend, to leave him to repose, a messenger entered from Lord Mar, to request the regent's presence in his closet.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000006_000000.wav|After having transferred his captives to the charge of Lord Mar, Wallace went alone to the chamber of Montgomery, to see whether the state of his wounds would allow him to march on the morrow.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000017_000001.wav|Both the castles and the fleets are taken; and what punishment must we now expect from this terrible threatener?"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000012_000007.wav|The cheek of Alexander would have blushed deep as his Tyrian robe; and the face of Charlemagne turned pale as the lilies, at the bare suspicion of being capable of such a deed.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000010_000003.wav|And besides, did not all the great lords swear fealty to England, on the day he nominated their king?"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000019_000000.wav|"My Lord de Warenne," replied Wallace, "you can expect but one return to these absurd demands.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000008_000000.wav|"Certainly not," returned he; "but I shall see you amidst your noble friends, at some future period.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000016_000003.wav|It was to say, that news had reached him of Wallace's design to attack the castles garrisoned by England, on the eastern coast.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000010_000000.wav|"Sanguinary have been the instruments of my sovereign's rule in Scotland," replied Montgomery; "but such cruelty is foreign to his gallant heart; and without offending that high souled patriotism, which would make me revere its possessor, were he the lowliest man in your legions, allow me, noblest of Scots, to plead one word in vindication of him to whom my allegiance is pledged.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000023_000001.wav|If the blood of Abel called for vengeance on his murderer, what must be the vials of wrath which are reserved for thee?"|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000016_000002.wav|The latter presented him with another dispatch from the Prince of Wales.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000002_000000.wav|The State Prison.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000007_000000.wav|"I fear you dare not expend your strength on this party?" inquired Wallace, turning to Montgomery.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000026_000002.wav|Nay, nor would it be politic for one who holds his possessions in England by the right of conquest to question the virtue of the deed.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000015_000001.wav|Such proof give your sovereign; and, if he have one spark of that greatness of mind which you say he possesses, though he may not adopt your advice, he must respect the adviser."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000015_000000.wav|"Highly would he estimate such counsel," cried Wallace, "had he virtue to feel that he who will be just to his sovereign's enemies must be of an honor that will bind him with double fidelity to his king.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000016_000001.wav|He found him with Lord de Warenne.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000012_000003.wav|Terrible as such ambition was, it is innocence to what Edward has done.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000010_000002.wav|But on the reverse, was not his right to the supremacy of Scotland acknowledged by the princes who contended for the crown?|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000022_000001.wav|He may die with the sword in his hand; but he will never grant an hour's repose to this country till it submits to his scepter."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000019_000001.wav|I shall accompany you myself to the Scottish borders, and there made my reply."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000026_000001.wav|I revere your principle, Sir William Wallace; but it is too sublime to be mine.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000008_000001.wav|When the peace your arms must win, is established between the two nations, I shall then revisit Scotland; and openly declare my friendship for Sir William Wallace."|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000011_000002.wav|Such ready acquiescence was meant to create them one.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000001_000000.wav|Chapter forty one.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3972/5791/3972_5791_000013_000000.wav|"No, Lord Montgomery, it is not our conqueror we are opposing; it is a traitor, who, under the mask of friendship, has attempted to usurp our rights, destroy our liberties, and make a desert of our once happy country.|3972
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000027_000001.wav|They found the work less arduous than they had expected.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000002_000005.wav|Sir john Powis and his party repulsed over and over again the efforts of the assailants against that part of the wall entrusted to them, but at other points the French gained a footing, and swarming up rushed along the walls, slaying all whom they encountered.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000036_000000.wav|At first Walter and his friend feared that their retreat was cut off for the night, but several other people presently arrived, and the officer on guard said, coming out, "You must wait a while; the last batch have only just gone, and I cannot keep opening and closing the gate; in half an hour I will let you out."|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000040_000003.wav|They were, too, dog tired, and were asleep a few minutes after they lay down.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000039_000001.wav|There was a forward movement of the little crowd, and Walter and Ralph closed in to their midst.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000003_000000.wav|"All is lost," Sir john exclaimed; "let us fall back to the castle and die fighting there."|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000060_000003.wav|He was already a skilful swordsman, but he spared no pains to improve himself with his weapons.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000054_000002.wav|Before the force of the French, forty thousand strong, the Earl of Norfolk had fallen back and rejoined the king, but even after this junction the French forces exceeded those of Edward fourfold.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000023_000000.wav|"Do you think we have sufficient bits of rope," Ralph asked.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000027_000000.wav|They now set to work, and step by step mounted the rope.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000039_000002.wav|The gates were opened, and without any question the villagers passed out, and the gates were shut instantly behind them.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000054_000001.wav|Uniting their forces they advanced towards the town.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000044_000001.wav|Sir Walter had just risen, and was delighted at the sight of his esquire.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000011_000000.wav|"This is a nice fix," Ralph exclaimed.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000025_000000.wav|In a short time the fading brightness of the circle of light far overhead told them that twilight had commenced, and shortly afterwards they attached the first strand to the rope some three feet above the water.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000042_000002.wav|Draw your belt an inch or two tighter, it will help to keep out the wolf."|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000015_000000.wav|Ten minutes later they saw two heads appear above, and instantly withdrew their feet from the bucket and made a stroke to the side, which was but four feet distant, being careful as they did that no motion was imparted to the rope.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000030_000000.wav|In another minute both stood in the courtyard.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000045_000001.wav|"By what miracle could you have escaped?|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000060_000002.wav|Walter learned to bear himself well on horseback and to tilt in the ring.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000045_000000.wav|"I had given you up for dead," he exclaimed.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000020_000001.wav|The rope was cut up and unravelled, and the strands cut into pieces about two feet long.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000053_000002.wav|In the meantime Edward opened negotiations with many of the Breton lords, who, seeing that such powerful aid had arrived for the cause of the Countess of Montford, were easily persuaded to change sides.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000029_000000.wav|"I am ready to try it, Master Walter," Ralph replied, "for I ache from head to foot with holding on to this rope.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000005_000007.wav|The bucket hung at the windlass.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000050_000000.wav|All present joined in expressions of praise at the lad's coolness and presence of mind.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten: A PLACE OF REFUGE|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000010_000002.wav|Putting their feet in this, they were able to stand with their heads above the surface without difficulty.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000021_000000.wav|"Shall we begin at once?" Ralph said, when success was achieved.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000030_000002.wav|Going along the passage they issued into the main yard.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000016_000002.wav|And now we must think about climbing up."|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000032_000001.wav|He also picked up a sword for Ralph-his own still hung in its sheath-and then he joined his companion, and the two putting on the steel caps and cloaks walked quietly to the gate.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000027_000005.wav|Descending a step or two he held parley with Ralph.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000039_000000.wav|Presently the officer came out from the guard room again.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000048_000000.wav|In a few minutes a cold capon, several manchets of bread, and a stoop of wine were placed before Walter, while Ralph's wants were attended to below.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000018_000003.wav|If we tie them four feet apart we can go up step by step; I don't see much difficulty about that."|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000015_000001.wav|Then though it was too dark to see anything, they heard the bucket lifted from the water.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000038_000001.wav|"In the dim light of that lamp none will notice that we have head gear, but if it were to glint upon the steel cap the officer might take us for deserters and question us as to who we are."|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000043_000001.wav|It was well that it was no further, for both were so exhausted from want of food that they could with difficulty drag their legs along.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000056_000002.wav|It was agreed that the truce should embrace not only the sovereigns, but all the adherents of each of them.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000010_000000.wav|With great efforts they managed to rid themselves of their armour, and then held on with ease to the rope.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000030_000001.wav|It was a retired spot, and none were passing.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000015_000002.wav|A minute later it fell back again with a splash, then all was quiet.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000038_000000.wav|"Best lay aside your steel cap, Ralph, before we join them," Walter said.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000046_000000.wav|"I have with me only my faithful follower Ralph Smith, who is below; but, Sir Walter, for mercy's sake order that some food be placed before us, or we shall have escaped from the French only to die of hunger here. We have tasted nought since the attack on Vannes began.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000042_000000.wav|"I feel ravenous too, Ralph, but there is no help for it.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000046_000001.wav|Have any beside us escaped?"|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000020_000005.wav|This was done by tying a knot close to one end of a piece of the strand, then sufficient was left to form the loop, and the remainder was wound round the rope in such a way that the weight only served to tighten its hold.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/862/329_862_000013_000000.wav|"But we are no better off if they don't," Ralph remarked, "for we must die here if we are not hauled out.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000025_000000.wav|Anchoring in the River Leita, he disembarked his troops, and leaving a guard to protect the vessels marched to the interior, plundering and burning, and from time to time despatching his booty to swell the immense mass which he had brought in his ships from the sack of Guerande.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000043_000002.wav|The garrison, snatching up their arms, hurried to repel their attack upon the gates, every man hastening in that direction.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000012_000000.wav|Walter dashed up to the turret, and looking seaward beheld rising over the horizon a number of masts.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000011_000000.wav|"Run up, Walter," Sir john exclaimed, "maybe the countess is distraught with her sorrows."|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000004_000005.wav|The wily bishop set to work, and the consequences were soon visible.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000014_000000.wav|Many others heard the shout, and the tidings ran like lightning through the town.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000013_000001.wav|Sir john," he shouted, "we are saved, the English fleet is in sight."|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000009_000000.wav|"Come with me, Walter," he said, "we must fain persuade the countess.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000037_000002.wav|Here he was joined by the archers, who with bent bows prepared to resist the advance of the French.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000005_000004.wav|I point out to them that contrary winds have been blowing, and that at any moment he may arrive; but they will not hear me.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000018_000002.wav|And now, sir, will you follow me?|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000019_000003.wav|Three hundred knights and esquires were to take part in the sortie, they were to be followed by a strong body of men at arms.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000019_000002.wav|In a few minutes the knights were armed and mounted.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000040_000000.wav|Accordingly, next morning he drew off his army and marched to Carhaix.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000007_000001.wav|The breaches were open, and the enemy might pour in at any time and put all to the sword.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000043_000005.wav|Robert of Artois, with the Earl of Stafford, was left with a garrison to hold the town.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000046_000003.wav|The little garrison prepared for the defence.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000034_000002.wav|Finding that he was in earnest they warned him of the eternal stain which such a deed would bring upon his name.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000024_000001.wav|Accordingly the French laid siege to and captured many small towns and castles.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000043_000001.wav|The assailants, however, did not disarm, but after a sufficient time had elapsed to allow the garrison to lay aside their armour two strong parties attacked the principal gates of the town, while Sir Walter Manny and the Earl of Oxford moved round to the opposite side with ladders for an escalade. The plan was successful.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000030_000005.wav|Hennebon was, however, much better prepared than at first for resistance.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000032_000000.wav|So furious did the Spanish prince become that he took a step unprecedented in those days of chivalry.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000042_000002.wav|The assault commenced at three points in the early morning and was continued all day.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000028_000000.wav|The English fought desperately, but the odds of seven to one were too great, and they would have been overpowered had not the other two divisions arrived on the spot and fallen upon the enemy's flanks. After a severe and prolonged struggle the Genoese and Spaniards were completely routed.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000028_000006.wav|Most of them were killed in the attempt, but a few escaped and made their way to Hennebon.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000004_000006.wav|Open grumbling broke forth at the hardships which were endured, and at the prospect of the wholesale slaughter which would attend a storm when all hope of a successful resistance was at an end.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000020_000002.wav|Sir Walter himself and his mounted companions dashed forward to the nearer tents of the French camps, cut down all who opposed them, and setting fire to the huts retired towards the city.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000024_000008.wav|He now sent back to Charles of Blois the greater part of the French troops who accompanied him, and embarked with the Genoese and Spanish, eight thousand in number, and sailed to Quimperle, a rich and populous town in Lower Brittany.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000034_000001.wav|At first they could not believe that he was in earnest, for such a proceeding was so utterly opposed to the spirit of the times that it seemed impossible to them.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000042_000001.wav|The walls, however, were so strong that there seemed little prospect of success attending such an attempt, and a plan was therefore determined upon by which the enemy might be thrown off their guard.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000024_000003.wav|On his way the Spaniard captured the small fortress of Conquet and put the garrison to the sword.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000045_000001.wav|"It is possible," he said to Walter, "that we may have fighting here.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000046_000000.wav|Sir John's previsions were speedily verified.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000003_000000.wav|Walter continued to act as the countess's especial squire.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000035_000002.wav|A council was immediately called, and Sir Walter Manny proposed a plan, which was instantly adopted.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000032_000003.wav|"These English," he said, "have pursued, discomforted, and wounded me, and have killed the nephew whom I loved so well, and as I have none other mode of vengeance I will cut off their heads before their companions who lie within those walls."|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000009_000003.wav|Such resistance as we can offer will but inflame them to fury, and all the horrors of a sack will be inflicted upon the inhabitants. There she is, poor lady, on the turret, gazing, as usual, seaward."|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000010_000002.wav|The English fleet are coming!"|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000027_000000.wav|The English columns marched at a short distance apart so as to be able to give each other assistance in case of attack.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000022_000001.wav|The knights wheeled and presented a firm face to the enemy, covering the entrance of their followers into the gate.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000030_000007.wav|The garrison was very much larger, and was commanded by one of the most gallant knights of the age, and the citizens beheld undaunted the approach of the great French army.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000004_000000.wav|The effect of the new machines was speedily visible.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000036_000001.wav|The latter took post at once along the edge of the ditches.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000002_000000.wav|In a few days these arrived and were speedily set to work, and immense masses of stone were hurled at the walls.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000042_000003.wav|No great vigour, however, was shown in these attempts which were repulsed at all points.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000041_000004.wav|The Spaniards captured four small ships which had been separated in the storm from their consorts, but did not succeed in regaining the coast of Brittany, being driven south by the storm as far as Spain.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000038_000000.wav|In the meantime Sir Walter Manny, with one hundred men at arms and five hundred horse archers, issued by a sally port on the other side of the town, and with all speed rode round to the rear of the French camp.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000030_000001.wav|The king was not yet ready, but at the beginning of August he despatched a force under the command of the Earl of Northampton and Robert of Artois.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000041_000002.wav|During the darkness a tremendous storm burst upon them and the combatants separated.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000023_000000.wav|The arrival of the reinforcements and the proof of skill and vigour given by the English leader, together with the terror caused by the terrible effect of the English arrows, shook the resolution of Don Louis and his troops.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000016_000001.wav|I had given you up for lost.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000030_000006.wav|The walls had been repaired, provisions and military stores laid up, and machines constructed.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000043_000003.wav|Sir Walter Manny with his party were therefore enabled to mount the walls unobserved and make their way into the town; here they fell upon the defenders in the rear, and the sudden onslaught spread confusion and terror among them.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000035_000001.wav|The news, therefore, of what was intended speedily reached the garrison, whom it filled with indignation and horror.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/329/861/329_861_000014_000001.wav|In wild excitement the people ran to the battlements and roofs, and with cheering and clapping of hands hailed the appearance of the still far distant fleet.|329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000004.wav|And there appeared the misty mouth of Bosporus and the Mysian hills; and on the other side the stream of the river Aesepus and the city and Nepeian plain of Adrasteia.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000013_000001.wav|But what pleasure is there in words?|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000006_000002.wav|Hereupon some brought dried wood, others from the meadows leaves for beds which they gathered in abundance for strewing, whilst others were twirling sticks to get fire; others again were mixing wine in the bowl and making ready the feast, after sacrificing at nightfall to Apollo Ecbasius.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000005_000002.wav|And they, trusting in the calm, mightily drove the ship forward; and as she sped through the salt sea, not even the storm footed steeds of Poseidon would have overtaken her.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000007_000001.wav|Wandering about he found a pine not burdened with many branches, nor too full of leaves, but like to the shaft of a tall poplar; so great was it both in length and thickness to look at.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000008.wav|Hence from that time forward the Phrygians propitiate Rhea with the wheel and the drum.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000011.wav|And the beasts of the wild wood left their lairs and thickets and came up fawning on them with their tails. And she caused yet another marvel; for hitherto there was no flow of water on Dindymum, but then for them an unceasing stream gushed forth from the thirsty peak just as it was, and the dwellers around in after times called that stream, the spring of Jason.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000014.wav|But at dawn both sides perceived the fatal and cureless error; and bitter grief seized the Minyan heroes when they saw before them Cyzicus son of Aeneus fallen in the midst of dust and blood.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000008_000008.wav|For the full moon beaming from the sky smote him.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000003_000002.wav|For by her power the winds and the sea and all the earth below and the snowy seat of Olympus are complete; and to her, when from the mountains she ascends the mighty heaven, Zeus himself, the son of Cronos, gives place.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000002_000001.wav|But in the next night the rest of the chieftains, overcome by sleep, were resting during the latest period of the night, while Acastus and Mopsus the son of Ampyeus kept guard over their deep slumbers.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000012_000006.wav|And wrath seized Telamon, and thus he spake:|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000014_000002.wav|Hapless ones, assuredly a bitter vengeance came upon them thereafter at the hands of Heracles, because they stayed the search for him.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000014_000004.wav|These things were thus to be accomplished in after times.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000015_000003.wav|But a goddess nymph through love has made Hylas her husband, on whose account those two wandered and were left behind."|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000000_000001.wav|But there Heracles had been left behind with the younger heroes and he quickly bent his back springing bow against the monsters and brought them to earth one after another; and they in their turn raised huge ragged rocks and hurled them.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000017_000001.wav|But let me give my fault to the winds and let our hearts be joined as before."|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000005_000004.wav|But Heracles by the might of his arms pulled the weary rowers along all together, and made the strong knit timbers of the ship to quiver.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000018_000002.wav|For it was not for flocks of sheep, no, nor for possessions that thou wast angered to fury, but for a man, thy comrade.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000008_000009.wav|And Cypris made her heart faint, and in her confusion she could scarcely gather her spirit back to her.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000012_000002.wav|And the sails were bellied out by the wind, and far from the coast were they joyfully borne past the Posideian headland.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000012.wav|And then they made a feast in honour of the goddess on the Mount of Bears, singing the praises of Rhea most venerable; but at dawn the winds had ceased and they rowed away from the island.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000015_000001.wav|At Argos it is his fate to labour for insolent Eurystheus and to accomplish full twelve toils and dwell with the immortals, if so be that he bring to fulfilment a few more yet; wherefore let there be no vain regret for him.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000008.wav|For that no mortal may escape; but on every side a wide snare encompasses us.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000008_000003.wav|For he desired to find some pretext for war against the Dryopians for their bane, since they dwelt there reckless of right.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000014_000005.wav|But to them appeared Glaucus from the depths of the sea, the wise interpreter of divine Nereus, and raising aloft his shaggy head and chest from his waist below, with sturdy hand he seized the ship's keel, and then cried to the eager crew:|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000013_000002.wav|For I will go, I only, with none of thy comrades, who have helped thee to plan this treachery."|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000012_000001.wav|And they embarked eagerly forthwith; and they drew up the ship's anchors and hauled the ropes astern.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000002.wav|And they stepped ashore that same night; and the rock is still called the Sacred Rock round which they threw the ship's hawsers in their haste.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000007_000003.wav|And he loosened the pine from the ground with his bronze tipped club and grasped the trunk with both hands at the bottom, relying on his strength; and he pressed it against his broad shoulder with legs wide apart; and clinging close he raised it from the ground deep rooted though it was, together with clods of earth.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000000_000002.wav|For these dread monsters too, I ween, the goddess Hera, bride of Zeus, had nurtured to be a trial for Heracles. And therewithal came the rest of the martial heroes returning to meet the foe before they reached the height of outlook, and they fell to the slaughter of the Earthborn, receiving them with arrows and spears until they slew them all as they rushed fiercely to battle.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000014_000003.wav|For when they were returning from the games over Pelias dead he slew them in sea girt Tenos and heaped the earth round them, and placed two columns above, one of which, a great marvel for men to see, moves at the breath of the blustering north wind.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000007_000005.wav|And at the same time he took up his bow and arrows, his lion skin and club, and started on his return.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000010.wav|The trees shed abundant fruit, and round their feet the earth of its own accord put forth flowers from the tender grass.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000001.wav|And he arose from his bed with joy and woke all his comrades hurriedly and told them the prophecy of Mopsus the son of Ampycus.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000013.wav|And the rest gave way and fled in terror just as doves fly in terror before swift winged hawks. And with a din they rustled in a body to the gates; and quickly the city was filled with loud cries at the turning of the dolorous fight.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000003.wav|Nor did anyone note with care that it was the same island; nor in the night did the Doliones clearly perceive that the heroes were returning; but they deemed that Pelasgian war men of the Macrians had landed.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000004.wav|Therefore they donned their armour and raised their hands against them.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000001_000012.wav|And after them the son of Oeneus slew bold Itomeneus, and Artaceus, leader of men; all of whom the inhabitants still honour with the worship due to heroes.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000004_000009.wav|And the gracious goddess, I ween, inclined her heart to pious sacrifices; and favourable signs appeared.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106367/7777_106367_000005_000003.wav|Nevertheless when the sea was stirred by violent blasts which were just rising from the rivers about evening, forspent with toil, they ceased.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000022_000001.wav|And I will tell out truly all our evil plight, that ye yourselves too may know it well.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000034_000005.wav|And they questioned one another in turn.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000022_000009.wav|So they begged of us all the male children that were left in the city and went back to where even now they dwell on the snowy tilths of Thrace.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000000_000009.wav|And they streamed down speechless with dismay; such fear was wafted about them.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000028_000001.wav|But just as they were in the assembly they made ready their departure in all haste, and the women came running towards them, when they knew their intent.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000022_000004.wav|For they hated their lawful wives, and, yielding to their own mad folly, drove them from their homes; and they took to their beds the captives of their spear, cruel ones.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000000_000002.wav|O hapless women, and insatiate in jealousy to their own ruin!|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000000_000001.wav|For the men had rejected their lawful wives, loathing them, and had conceived a fierce passion for captive maids whom they themselves brought across the sea from their forays in Thrace; for the terrible wrath of Cypris came upon them, because for a long time they had grudged her the honours due.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7777/106366/7777_106366_000000_000006.wav|Now for all the women to tend kine, to don armour of bronze, and to cleave with the plough share the wheat bearing fields, was easier than the works of Athena, with which they were busied aforetime.|7777
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000028_000001.wav|It is my life.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000017.wav|It is better that she should think me a brute than that I should be always haunted by those pleading eyes." The door of the distant church house opened and closed.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000032_000002.wav|Won't you tell me about it?"|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000018.wav|He smiled bitterly.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000033_000000.wav|He did not reply.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000015_000002.wav|Then it had been few words, now it was a little common song.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000037_000000.wav|Still laughing, he attempted to draw her to him.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000032_000000.wav|"I know you will come out of it safely," said she; "I feel it.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000003.wav|You need just one little thing, and you cannot get it.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000027_000000.wav|"Then why do you stay in this dreadful North?" she asked.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000015_000004.wav|In the amazement and consternation of this thought she found time to offer up a little prayer: "Dear God, make him kind to me."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000038_000000.wav|"Oh!" she cried, in insulted anger.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000003.wav|"Ah, I am tired-tired with it all!" he cried, in a voice strangely unhappy.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000002.wav|The fates are drawing around you close.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000029_000001.wav|Here at least are forests so that you can keep warm.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000036_000004.wav|"Ah, a star shoots!" he exclaimed, gayly.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000030_000000.wav|He fell suddenly sombre, biting in reflection at his lip.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000031_000000.wav|"No-yes-why not?" he said, at length.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000020_000002.wav|At night we had no other shelter than our blankets, and we could not keep a fire because the spruce burned too fast and threw too many coals.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000033_000004.wav|Once more the fascination of the man grew big, overwhelmed her. She felt her heart flutter, her consciousness swim, her old terror returning.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000035_000000.wav|"I know you are unhappy," replied Virginia, gently.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000032_000001.wav|You are brave and used to travel.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000026_000000.wav|"I am no man's man but my own," he answered, simply.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000004.wav|Bribery is useless!|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000000.wav|"Listen," said he.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000017_000003.wav|He took no notice after that, so the act seemed less like a caress than a matter of course.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000035_000001.wav|"I am truly sorry for that."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000020_000008.wav|This went on for five months."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000020_000004.wav|Two or three times in the night we boiled tea.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000015_000001.wav|Her inmost soul was stirred, just as before.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000017_000002.wav|And she remained there, trembling, in suspense, glancing at him quickly, in birdlike, pleading glances, as though praying him to be kind.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000005.wav|Force is useless!|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000007.wav|"Sorry for a weakness you do not understand? You must think me a fool."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000015.wav|I had to do it.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000022_000001.wav|He said little of himself, but as he went on in short, curt sentences the picture grew more distinct, and to Virginia the man became more and more prominent in it.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000028_000002.wav|I want to go where no man has set foot before me; I want to stand alone under the sky; I want to show myself that nothing is too big for me-no difficulty, no hardship-nothing!"|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000017_000004.wav|He began to talk, half humorously, and little by little, as he went on, she forgot her fears, even her feeling of strangeness, and fell completely under the spell of his power.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000016.wav|Now she will despise me and forget me.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000018_000002.wav|I have journeyed far.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000002.wav|You are a Factor's daughter; you know what that means." He dropped his head.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000020.wav|I'll try it.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000024_000000.wav|"But not mine," said he.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000041_000001.wav|She burst into the violent sobbing of a child, and turned and ran hurriedly to the factory.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000019_000001.wav|He talked of the great Saskatchewan, of Peace River, and the delta of the Mackenzie, of the winter journeys beyond Great Bear Lake into the Land of the Little Sticks, and the half mythical lake of Yamba Tooh.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000021.wav|I'll call for help on the love of man, since I cannot on the love of woman.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000022_000003.wav|One thing she could not conceive-the indomitable spirit of the men.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000037_000001.wav|Angry, mortified, outraged, she fought herself free and leaped to her feet.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000042_000001.wav|He stamped his moccasined foot impatiently.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000015_000003.wav|But the strange power of the man held her close, so she realized that for the moment at least she would do as he desired.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000007.wav|This afternoon I thought I saw another way.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000008.wav|What I could get no other way I might get from this little girl. She is only a child.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000020_000005.wav|We had to thaw our moccasins each morning by thrusting them inside our shirts.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000019_000004.wav|All at once this post of Conjuror's House, a month in the wilderness as it was, seemed very small and tame and civilized for the simple reason that Death did not always compass it about.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000009.wav|I believe I could touch her pity-ah, Ned Trent, Ned Trent, can you ever forget her frightened, white face begging you to be kind?" He paced back and forth between the two bronze guns with long, straight strides, like a panther in a cage.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000010.wav|"Her aid is mine for the asking-but she makes it impossible to ask!|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000018_000003.wav|I have been to the uttermost ends of the North, even up beyond the Hills of Silence."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000028_000000.wav|"Because I love it.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000033_000003.wav|He turned to her again, his eyes glowing into hers.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000033_000001.wav|After a moment she looked up in surprise.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000005.wav|I no longer care." He felt the pressure of her hand.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000023_000001.wav|He let her go without protest, almost without thought, it seemed.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000012.wav|What wonderful eyes she has.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000033_000002.wav|His brows were knit in reflection.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000036_000000.wav|"Are you?|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000000.wav|"Like a rat in a trap!" he jeered at himself.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000013.wav|She thinks I am a brute-how she sobbed, as though her little heart had broken.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000022_000004.wav|She glanced timidly up at her companion's face.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000036_000005.wav|"That means a kiss!"|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000042_000000.wav|Ned Trent stared after her a minute from beneath scowling brows.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000004.wav|"But yesterday I played the game with all my old spirit; to day the zest is gone!|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000006.wav|Craft is useless!|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000034_000006.wav|"Are you just a little sorry for me?" he asked.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000001.wav|"Like a rat in a trap, Ned Trent!|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000015_000000.wav|Virginia went with this man passively-to an appointment which, but an hour ago, she had promised herself she would not keep.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000020_000007.wav|A roaring fire in the fireplace could not prevent the ink from freezing on the pen.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000017_000001.wav|He pulled her shawl about her, masterfully yet with gentleness, and then, as though it was the most natural thing in the world, he drew her to him until she rested against his shoulder.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000043_000014.wav|Well, it was the only way to destroy her interest in me.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000025_000000.wav|She exclaimed, in astonishment, "Are you not of the Company?"|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000029_000000.wav|"Why did you come here, then?|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/17942/2156_17942_000019_000000.wav|And then, in his gay, half mocking, yet musical voice he touched lightly on vast and distant things.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000008_000000.wav|As Lincoln had no suitable jail, an upstairs room in the large adobe Court House was selected as the "Kid's" last home on earth-as the officers supposed, but fate decided otherwise.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000004_000000.wav|"BILLY THE KID" IS SENTENCED TO HANG.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000042_000000.wav|When the pony stood on the street, ready for the last act, the "Kid" went down the back stairs, stepping over the dead body of Bell, and started to mount.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000016_000000.wav|In the latter part of April, Cowboy Charlie Wall had four Mexicans helping him irrigate an alfalfa field, above the Mexican village of Tularosa, on Tularosa river.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000033_000001.wav|Then he hobbled to the open window facing the hotel.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000030_000006.wav|The body of Bell tumbled down the back stairs, falling on the jailer, a German by the name of Geiss, who was sitting at the foot of the stairs.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000025_000001.wav|With the gun in his hand, and looking towards the "Kid," he said: "There are eighteen buckshot in each barrel, and I reckon the man who gets them will feel it."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000035_000000.wav|When directly under the window, the "Kid" stuck his head out, saying: "Hello, Bob!"|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000023_000000.wav|Garrett remarked to the two guards: "Say, boys, you must keep a close watch on the 'Kid,' as he has only a few more days to live, and might make a break for liberty."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000041_000001.wav|This black pony had formerly belonged to the "Kid."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000040_000000.wav|When his legs were free, the "Kid" danced a jig on the little front porch, where many people, who had run out to the sidewalk across the street, on hearing the shots, were witnesses to this free show, which couldn't be beat for money.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000028_000000.wav|About five o'clock in the evening, Bob Ollinger took Charlie Wall and the other four armed prisoners to the Ellis Hotel, across the street, for supper.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000004_000001.wav|HE KILLS HIS TWO GUARDS AND MAKES GOOD HIS ESCAPE.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000010_000001.wav|There were two windows in it, one on the east side and the other on the north, fronting the main street.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000011_000000.wav|In order to get out of this room one had to pass through a hall into another room, where a back stairs led down to the rear yard.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000005_000000.wav|In the latter part of February, eighteen eighty one, "Billy the Kid" was taken to Mesilla to be tried for the murder of Roberts at Blazer's saw mill.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000029_000001.wav|The guards thought he had lost his appetite from worry over his approaching death.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000020_000000.wav|The Sheriff allowed them to wear their pistols and to sleep in the old jail.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000038_000000.wav|Now "Billy the Kid" hobbled back to the armory and buckled around his waist two belts of cartridges and two Colt's pistols.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000044_000000.wav|Charlie Wall told the writer that he could have killed him with his pistol, but that he wanted to see him escape.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000031_000001.wav|He flew out of the gate towards the Ellis Hotel.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000029_000000.wav|According to the story "Billy the Kid" told mrs Charlie Bowdre, and other friends, after his escape, he had been starving himself so that he could slip his left hand out of the steel cuff.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000015_000002.wav|He held a grudge against the "Kid" for the killing of his friend, Jimmie Carlyle, otherwise there was no enmity between them.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000026_000000.wav|With a smile, "Billy the Kid" remarked: "You may be the one to get them yourself."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000030_000000.wav|j w Bell sat on a chair, facing the "Kid," several paces away.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000033_000000.wav|After killing Bell, the "Kid" broke in the door to the armory and secured Ollinger's shot gun.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000032_000000.wav|On hearing the shot, Bob Ollinger and the five armed prisoners, got up from the supper table and ran to the street.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000015_000001.wav|He had come from san antonio texas.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000028_000001.wav|Bell was left to guard the "Kid."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000044_000001.wav|Many other men in the crowd felt the same way, no doubt.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000030_000001.wav|He was reading a newspaper.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000013_000000.wav|The "Kid's" furniture consisted of a pair of steel hand cuffs, steel shackles for his legs, a stool, and a cot.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000039_000001.wav|Then the chain holding his feet close together was filed in two.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000038_000001.wav|Then taking a Winchester rifle in his hand, he hobbled back to the shot gun, which he picked up.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000027_000000.wav|Now Ollinger put the gun back in the armory, locking the door, putting the key in his pocket.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000010_000000.wav|The room selected for the "Kid's" home was large, and in the northeast corner of the building, upstairs.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000032_000001.wav|Charlie Wall and the four Mexicans stopped on the sidewalk, while Ollinger continued to run towards the court house.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000043_000000.wav|Now the "Kid" faced the crowd across the street, holding the rifle ready for action.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000018_000000.wav|When the smoke of battle cleared away, four Tularosa Mexicans lay dead on the ground and Charlie Wall had two bullet wounds in his body, though they were not dangerous wounds.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000036_000001.wav|He said, in a voice loud enough to be heard by Wall and the other prisoners across the street: "Yes, he has killed me, too!"|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000042_000001.wav|Being encumbered with the weight of two pistols, two belts full of ammunition, and the rifle, the "Kid" was thrown to the ground, when the pony began bucking, before he had got into the saddle.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000006_000002.wav|This time he was convicted, and sentenced to hang on the thirteenth day of May, eighteen eighty one, in the Court House yard in Lincoln.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000012_000001.wav|One room was assigned as the Sheriff's private office.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000031_000000.wav|Of course Geiss stampeded.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000020_000001.wav|At meal times they accompanied either Bob Ollinger or j w Bell, to the Ellis Hotel across the main street, which ran east and west through town.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000041_000000.wav|Geiss was hailed again and told to saddle up Billy Burt's, the Deputy County Clerk's, black pony and bring him out on the street.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000030_000005.wav|Now Bell ran out of the door and received a bullet from his own pistol.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000030_000004.wav|Then the "Kid" jerked Bell's pistol out of its scabbard.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000019_000000.wav|Now, to prevent being mobbed by the angry citizens of Tularosa, which was just over the line in Dona Ana County, Wall and his helpers made a run, on horseback, for Lincoln, to surrender to Sheriff Pat Garrett.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000022_000000.wav|On the morning of april twenty eighth eighteen eighty one, Sheriff Garrett prepared to leave for White Oaks, thirty five miles north, to have a scaffold made to hang the "Kid" on.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000024_000000.wav|Bob Ollinger answered: "Don't worry, Pat, we will watch him like a goat."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000027_000001.wav|Then Garrett left for White Oaks.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000045_000001.wav|The rifle being handed back to him when he was securely seated in the saddle, then he dug the pony in the sides with his heels, and galloped west.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000014_000005.wav|Of course this cowardly act left a scar on "Billy the Kid's" heart, which only death could heal.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000017_000000.wav|A large band of Tularosa Mexicans appeared on the scene one morning, to prevent young Wall from using water for his thirsty alfalfa.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000037_000000.wav|These words were hardly out of the guard's mouth when the "Kid" fired a charge of buckshot into his heart.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000005_000001.wav|Judge Bristol presided over the District Court, and assigned Ira e Leonard to defend the "Kid." He was acquitted for the murder of Roberts.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000014_000001.wav|He and the "Kid" were bitter enemies on account of having killed warm friends of each other during the bloody Lincoln County war.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/82458/2156_82458_000030_000003.wav|Bell threw up both hands to shield his head from another blow.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000046_000001.wav|"Look out for him-there he goes for the window."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000030_000000.wav|"There's no time to bother with him," he went on, and reaching out he caught Travers Gladwin by the shoulder and whirled him half way across the room.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000058_000000.wav|"Then they've all escaped," said the thief, easily, thrusting his hands in his pockets to help out his appearance of imperturbability.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000009_000003.wav|Then suddenly the huge man stooped and held up in plain view a dangling wrestling dummy.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000061_000001.wav|"I remember-when the little Japanaze called me oft me beat, he said there was women crooks here, too."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty two.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000047_000001.wav|The idea had flashed upon him that Helen might be concealed there.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000015_000000.wav|"Here's your uniform; I've had enough of it," replied Gladwin, throwing him the coat and cap, "and get into it quick.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000038_000001.wav|"They're both thieves!"|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000015_000001.wav|There's work for you right in this house."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000005_000002.wav|Instead of which-he ground his teeth, went to the little panel door and shouted Phelan's name.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000061_000000.wav|"You mean the women," he said, ignoring Gladwin and addressing the thief.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000004_000001.wav|There was no telling what this amazing crook might do now.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000034_000000.wav|"Stop that man," cried the thief, pointing to Watkins, "he's trying to get out of here with a trunkful of pictures."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000050_000000.wav|"You bet your life I won't," Phelan answered, though he was already bluffed.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000019_000001.wav|But a glance at that young man meant volumes and there was no limit to his spontaneous resources.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000028_000001.wav|This is what I get for not sending this man to jail where he belonged."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000036_000002.wav|Swiftly and silently as he vanished, he could not have been half way to the door before the thief urged Phelan:|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000016_000002.wav|I'm an hour overdue at the station."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000004_000003.wav|He was a perfect dub to have let the situation reach such a stage of complexity, though the one thought uppermost in his mind was to save Helen from public ridicule and contempt.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000026_000001.wav|I don't like to have little boys talk to me like that," and turning to the doorway behind him he beckoned.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000026_000000.wav|"Easy, son-easy.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000055_000001.wav|"Why he's got his pals hidden all over the house."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000056_000000.wav|"I tell you he's lying to you," Gladwin cut in frantically, seeing that Phelan was falling under the spell of the big man's superb bluff, and at the same time remembering Helen and pressing the button in the wall to warn her that the time had come for her to flee.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000041_000000.wav|"It's a trick to get you out of the house," said Gladwin with his eyes on the big man, who was calmly smiling and who had fully made up his mind on a magnificent game of bluff.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000044_000000.wav|"You'll find it's not so funny yourself," cut in the real Gladwin. Then to Phelan, "Arrest this man, Phelan."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000003_000000.wav|IN WHICH BLUFF IS TRUMPS.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000060_000001.wav|In his seething gray matter there stirred the remembrance that Bateato had told him that women were robbing the house.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000031_000000.wav|The young man spun half a dozen times as he reeled across the carpet and he had to use both hands to stop himself against a big onyx table. As he pulled himself up standing he saw that Watkins had lifted the trunk on his shoulders and was headed for the hallway.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000012_000000.wav|His anger was white hot.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000039_000000.wav|Phelan tried to run four ways at once.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000018_000001.wav|"This must be a hell of a joke."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000036_000001.wav|Watkins dropped the trunk and at a signal from his companion was gone.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000027_000000.wav|Stepping forward and making sure there could be no mistake, Gladwin turned to the thief and exclaimed:|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000017_000000.wav|"You'll square yourself with the captain all right if you just do what I tell you," said Gladwin eagerly, helping him on with his coat and pushing him toward the window recess.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000012_000001.wav|Again he had been the victim of delusion and had wasted heroic emotions on a stuffed dummy that served merely as an inanimate instrument in a course of anti fat calisthenics.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000035_000001.wav|One lightning glance at the thickness of the patrolman's neck and the general contour of his rubicund countenance had translated to him the sort of man he had to deal with.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000043_000000.wav|"You'll find it's no joke, officer," said the bogus Gladwin sharply-"not if he gets away."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000018_000000.wav|Phelan took one look at the young man's face and muttered as he obeyed.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000051_000000.wav|He had come close enough for that astute individual to make out that he wore the same uniform young Gladwin had been masquerading in and he made capital of this on the instant.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000048_000000.wav|"Now be careful, officer, or you'll get yourself into a lot of trouble."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000009_000002.wav|Even so far away as he was Phelan could see that the man puffed and blew and that his vigor was slowly waning.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000008_000000.wav|He had been on the point of bursting through the window and somehow scrambling aloft to the rescue of that helpless being who was being ground and wrenched and pounded by that porcine monster, when the monster suddenly rose to view again with a dumb bell in each hand.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000010_000000.wav|The lone watcher swallowed a savage oath.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000016_000000.wav|"There is not, nor play neither," snapped Phelan.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000007_000000.wav|He had been on his way.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000038_000000.wav|"Stop Phelan!" cried Gladwin, who had begun to see through the pantomime.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000032_000000.wav|"Phelan!" he gasped out.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000022_000000.wav|The big fellow curled one corner of his lip in a contemptuous smile, then glanced about him quickly and asked:|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000042_000000.wav|"What the blazes kind of a joke is this?" blurted Phelan, looking from one to the other in utter bewilderment.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000009_000001.wav|There was no passion in the stodgy movements of the great paddy arms.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000055_000000.wav|"I said a band of thieves," insisted the thief.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000026_000002.wav|The obedient Watkins sidled in and stopped with head averted from Gladwin, who started with surprise at seeing him.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000020_000000.wav|"Oh, so you've resigned from the force?"|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000035_000000.wav|The man's hair trigger mind had thought this out before Phelan was half way round the table.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000005_000001.wav|He had almost counted on the thief taking one craven look at his constabulary disguise and then leaping through the window-fleeing like a wolf in the night-he, Travers Gladwin, remaining a veritable hero of romance to sooth and console Helen and gently break the news to her that she had been the dupe of an unscrupulous criminal.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000052_000000.wav|"How do you think it is going to look," he said, impressively, "if I prove that you've tried to help a band of thieves rob this house?"|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000062_000001.wav|"You can have the whole place searched just as soon as you've got this man where he can't get away.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000037_000000.wav|"Quick-go after that man-he's a thief!"|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000032_000001.wav|"Here, quick!"|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000019_000002.wav|He summoned a laugh and jerked out:|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000023_000000.wav|"Where's the young lady?"|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000024_000000.wav|"Never mind the young lady," Gladwin flung back at him.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000004_000002.wav|He was too much for him. That a thief and impostor could possess such superhuman nerve had never occurred to his untutored mind.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000004_000000.wav|Having disposed of the girl for the moment, Travers Gladwin decided it was time to call Michael Phelan to his assistance.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000024_000002.wav|Now get out and keep away from that young lady-and drop my name."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000021_000001.wav|I'll give you one chance-get away from here as quickly as you can."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000062_000000.wav|"He's lying to you, Phelan," persisted Gladwin, though with less vehemence, a great feeling of relief having visited him in the belief that Helen had made her escape.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000047_000000.wav|The thief had started in that direction, but his purpose was not escape.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000045_000000.wav|"Do you mean it?" asked the astonished Phelan, sizing up the thief as the highest example of aristocratic elegance he had ever seen in the flesh.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000021_000000.wav|"Yes," retorted Gladwin, "and let me tell you that this little excursion of yours has gone far enough.|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2156/25563/2156_25563_000059_000000.wav|"You let one go out, Phelan, and there were two others beside this one."|2156
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000106_000000.wav|'I have had my moments,' Lady Georgina murmured, with her head on one side.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000115_000000.wav|'You will come, Lois?' Lady Georgina asked.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000007.wav|Then perhaps she would like this valise for a footstool?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000137_000001.wav|The Count jumped in, jumped about, arranged our parcels, jumped out again.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000118_000002.wav|I don't think she noticed it, but automatically once more she waved him aside.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000031_000000.wav|So, when we had finished that wall, I popped on my best hat, and popped out by myself into Kensington Gardens.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000016_000000.wav|'But if you don't teach,' Elsie went on, gazing at me with those wondering big blue eyes of hers, 'whatever will you do, Brownie?' Her horizon was bounded by the scholastic circle.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000063_000000.wav|She smiled at my audacity.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000102_000000.wav|The Count looked profoundly surprised and delighted.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000044_000002.wav|Then she scanned me up and down, as if I were a girl in a mantle shop, and she contemplated buying either me or the mantle.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000100_000001.wav|He had played for it, and carried his point.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000054_000000.wav|'Don't jabber it to me, child,' she cried.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000081_000001.wav|But, anyhow, I shall have got there.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000112_000000.wav|He bowed and smiled.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000095_000000.wav|He gazed at me with fixed eyes.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000060_000000.wav|'His daughter,' I answered, flushing.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000126_000001.wav|'But I have Lady Georgina's orders to stick to this case; and till Lady Georgina returns I stick to it.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000027_000000.wav|'I have never been to one,' Elsie put in.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000125_000001.wav|'You doubt my honour?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000047_000005.wav|Well, my good woman, what do you want to suggest to me?'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000006.wav|Two ancient ladies were seated on the other side already-very grand looking dames, with the haughty and exclusive ugliness of the English aristocracy in its later stages.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000007_000000.wav|On the day when I found myself with twopence in my pocket, I naturally made up my mind to go round the world.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000129_000001.wav|The quails in aspic and the sparkling hock had evidently opened their hearts to one another.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000103_000002.wav|'Yes, they were delightful days in Vienna,' she said, simpering; 'I was young then, Count; I enjoyed life with a zest.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000001.wav|'You will drop that basket!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000105_000001.wav|'Growing old is a foolish habit of the stupid and the vacant.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000059_000004.wav|Lois Cayley, you say; any relation of a madcap Captain Cayley whom I used once to know, in the Forty second Highlanders?'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000008_000003.wav|I owed him nothing, except my poverty.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000026_000004.wav|What adventure may come, I have not at this moment the faintest conception.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000056_000001.wav|I never heard of any Lois in my life before, except Timothy's grandmother.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000108_000001.wav|She had a tang in her tongue, and in the course of ninety minutes she had flayed alive the greater part of London society, with keen wit and sprightliness.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000022_000000.wav|Elsie stared at me, more aghast and more puzzled than ever.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000004.wav|Oh, certainly, with pleasure; the day was so sultry.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000128_000004.wav|I examined the jewel case closely.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000018_000000.wav|'As a milliner's girl?' Elsie asked, with a face of red horror.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000036_000000.wav|'Still, you go to Schlangenbad on Monday?'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000069_000002.wav|But as I quite agree with you as to the atrocity of such conduct, I have suppressed the Georgina.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000118_000003.wav|Then she turned to me.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000103_000000.wav|I thought the Cantankerous Old Lady, who was a shrewd person in her way, must surely see through this obvious patter; but I had under estimated the average human capacity for swallowing flattery.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000015_000001.wav|'I was before my time, that was all; at present, even a curate's wife may blamelessly bicycle.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000100_000002.wav|He meant her to ask him.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000067_000000.wav|A gleam of intuition flashed across me, 'You don't mean to say,' I exclaimed, 'that you're called Georgina?'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000054_000002.wav|It's the one tongue on earth that even a pretty girl's lips fail to render attractive.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000117_000001.wav|'I hope you won't allow them to stick in any horrid foreigners!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000026_000006.wav|What is the good of being penniless-with the trifling exception of twopence-unless you are prepared to accept your position in the spirit of a masked ball at Covent Garden?'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000009.wav|The only country in the world fit to live in is England.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000118_000004.wav|'Here, my dear,' she said, handing it to me, 'you'd better take care of it.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000064_000000.wav|'I will not contradict your wildest misstatement,' I answered, smiling.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000003.wav|You have to change there.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000041_000003.wav|The Rhine leads you on to the Danube, the Danube to the Black Sea, the Black Sea to Asia; and so, by way of India, China, and Japan, you reach the Pacific and San Francisco; whence one returns quite easily by New York and the White Star Liners.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000083_000000.wav|'And I might starve in London.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000129_000000.wav|When Lady Georgina and the Count returned, they were like old friends together.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000017_000002.wav|I couldn't teach' (teaching, like mauve, is the refuge of the incompetent); 'and I don't, if possible, want to sell bonnets.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000087_000000.wav|I shrugged my shoulders.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000052_000001.wav|The never to be forgotten music of the Fatherland's speech has on my infant ear from the first beginning impressed itself.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000017_000000.wav|'I haven't the faintest idea,' I answered, continuing to paste.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000110_000002.wav|But whenever she travelled, I fancy, she clung to her case as if her life depended upon it; it contained the whole of her valuable diamonds.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000063_000001.wav|We passed on to terms.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000094_000000.wav|'If mystery means fog, it challenges the world,' I interposed.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000099_000002.wav|'We must surely have met.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000066_000001.wav|'My dear,' she murmured, 'my name is the one thing on earth I'm really ashamed of.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000041_000000.wav|Of course, I had not the slightest intention of taking a lady's maid's place for a permanency.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000015.wav|Happily for my nerves, a good lurch to leeward put a stop for a while to the course of her thoughts on the present distresses.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000040_000002.wav|Why not start for Schlangenbad with the Cantankerous Old Lady?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000021_000006.wav|I snatch at the first offer, the first hint of an opening.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000134_000004.wav|'These rogues have deceived us.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000079_000000.wav|I nodded my thanks, and strolled back to Elsie's.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000054_000004.wav|What's your name, young woman?'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000061_000002.wav|Never marry a man, my dear, with a double barrelled name and no visible means of subsistence; above all, if he's generally known by a nickname.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000014_000003.wav|And yet, after all, there isn't much harm in you.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000010.wav|No mosquitoes, no passports, no-goodness gracious, child, don't let that odious man bang about my hat box!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000014_000000.wav|'You see, you had a bicycle,' Elsie put in, smoothing the half papered wall; 'and in those days, of course, ladies didn't bicycle.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000096_000000.wav|I have quick intuitions.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000041_000005.wav|I proceeded to put my foot on it.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000054_000001.wav|'I hate the lingo.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000080_000000.wav|'Will you really go?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000071_000000.wav|I glanced at her card.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000069_000003.wav|It ought to be made penal to send innocent girls into the world so burdened.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000008_000001.wav|I had never seen my stepfather.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000048_000003.wav|I would convoy you over, as companion, or lady help, or anything else you choose to call it; I would remain with you there for a week, till you could arrange with your Gretchen, presumably unsophisticated; and then I would leave you.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000074_000000.wav|'So I suspect,' I answered.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000093_000002.wav|What gaiety!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000120_000002.wav|But as we landed at Ostend I had accidentally overheard a low whispered conversation when he passed a shabby looking man, who had travelled in a second class carriage from London. 'That succeeds?' the shabby looking man had muttered under his breath in French, as the haughty nobleman with the waxed moustache brushed by him.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000022_000005.wav|What will you do to find one?'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000076_000001.wav|So have i Appalling, I assure you.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000021_000000.wav|I paused and reflected.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000118_000007.wav|Hold it so, on your knee; and, for Heaven's sake, don't part with it.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000102_000004.wav|If I recall him!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000005.wav|Don't forget the sandwich tin!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000044_000001.wav|She grew purple in the face with indignation and astonishment, that a casual outsider should venture to address her; so much so, indeed, that for a second I almost regretted my well meant interposition.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000108_000003.wav|As for the Count, he was charmed.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000011_000001.wav|'We all knew that long ago.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000047_000001.wav|I did not quail.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000004.wav|Now, mind you notice how much the luggage weighs in English pounds, and make the man at the office give you a note of it to check those horrid Belgian porters.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000007.wav|Hurry up, Lois; hurry up! the train is just starting!'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000111_000003.wav|'Monsieur has been good enough to accept a place in our carriage,' she observed, as I entered.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000117_000007.wav|Don't let those dreadful porters touch my cloaks.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000127_000001.wav|The shabby looking passenger was pacing up and down the platform outside in a badly made dust coat.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000000.wav|I felt sure he was wrong, and I ventured to say so.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000134_000002.wav|Then he returned to us, all fuming.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000000.wav|How boundless are the opportunities of Kensington Gardens-the Round Pond, the winding Serpentine, the mysterious seclusion of the Dutch brick Palace!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000063_000007.wav|And poor Tom Cayley!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000085_000003.wav|I couldn't go on eating your hard earned bread and doing nothing.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000075_000000.wav|'She has an awful temper.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000035_000001.wav|She had a Roman nose, and her skin was wrinkled like a wilted apple; she wore coffee coloured point lace in her bonnet, with a complexion to match.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000037_000004.wav|Now, there the difficulty comes in.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000124_000000.wav|I gripped it hard with both hands.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000015_000000.wav|'I hope not,' I said devoutly.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000008_000000.wav|It was my stepfather's death that drove me to it.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000028_000000.wav|'Gracious heavens, neither have I! What on earth do you take me for?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000059_000003.wav|It was clever of you to catch at the suggestion of this arrangement.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000111_000002.wav|To my great amazement, I found the Cantankerous Old Lady and the egregious Count comfortably seated there.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000078_000003.wav|I come, you see, of a military family.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000021_000003.wav|I shall stroll out this morning, as soon as I've "cleaned myself," and embrace the first stray enterprise that offers. Our Bagdad teems with enchanted carpets.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000015.wav|It's hard enough nowadays to keep body and skirt together.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000139_000002.wav|In her hurry, at last, she let the Count take possession of her jewel case. I rather fancy that as he passed one window he handed it in to the shabby looking passenger; but I am not certain.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000139_000001.wav|Both trains were just starting.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000044_000003.wav|At last, catching my eye, she thought better of it, and burst out laughing.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000049_000002.wav|'What are girls coming to, I wonder?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000022_000001.wav|'But, how?' she asked.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000001.wav|Genii swarm there.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000054_000003.wav|You yourself make faces over it.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000039_000000.wav|The Cantankerous Old Lady flared up.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000001.wav|The Count helped us to carry our nineteen hand packages and four rugs on board; but I noticed that, fascinated as she was with him, Lady Georgina resisted his ingenious efforts to gain possession of her precious jewel case as she descended the gangway.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000139_000003.wav|At any rate, when we were comfortably seated in our own compartment once more, and he stood on the footboard just about to enter, of a sudden he made an unexpected dash back, and flung himself wildly into a Paris carriage.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000137_000005.wav|You were right, after all, mademoiselle!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000079_000001.wav|Dear little Elsie was in transports of surprise when I related my adventure.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000032_000000.wav|I am told I ought to have been terribly alarmed at the straits in which I found myself-a girl of twenty one, alone in the world, and only twopence short of penniless, without a friend to protect, a relation to counsel her.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000011_000000.wav|'You are, Brownie,' she answered, pausing in her papering, with her sleeves rolled up-they called me 'Brownie,' partly because of my dark complexion, but partly because they could never understand me.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000076_000002.wav|And if it comes to blows, I'm bigger and younger and stronger than she is.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000070_000001.wav|There's my name and address; I start on Monday.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000084_000001.wav|You might stop with me for ever.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000063_000002.wav|They were quite satisfactory.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000006.wav|Foreigners have no consciences.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000116_000000.wav|'No, thank you,' I answered, for I had an idea.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000002.wav|She clung to it like grim death, even in the chops of the Channel. Fortunately I am a good sailor, and when Lady Georgina's sallow cheeks began to grow pale, I was steady enough to supply her with her shawl and her smelling bottle.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000055_000000.wav|'Lois Cayley.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000080_000001.wav|And what will you do, my dear, when you get there?'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000134_000000.wav|The Count, however, was still unsatisfied.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000102_000011.wav|I have it. Vienna, a carriage with footmen in red livery, a noble presence, a crowd of wits-poets, artists, politicians-pressing eagerly round the landau." That was my mental picture as I sat and confronted you: I understand it all now; this is Lady Georgina Fawley!'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000008.wav|They were talking confidentially as I sat down; the trifling episode of my approach did not suffice to stem the full stream of their conversation.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000102_000007.wav|But your face had impressed itself on my sub conscious self!' (I did not learn till later that the esoteric doctrine of the sub conscious self was Lady Georgina's favourite hobby.) 'The moment chance led me to this carriage this morning, I said to myself, "That face, those features: so vivid, so striking: I have seen them somewhere.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000037_000000.wav|'That's the point.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000087_000005.wav|I cut out half her clothes for her; her own ideas were almost entirely limited to differential calculus.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000108_000002.wav|I laughed against my will at her ill tempered sallies; they were too funny not to amuse, in spite of their vitriol.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000118_000006.wav|But mind, don't let it out of your hands on any account.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000085_000000.wav|I kissed her fluffy forehead.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000134_000006.wav|You must dismount at once, miladi, and take the train just opposite.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000006.wav|No?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000099_000001.wav|'Lois, my child, don't stare'--she had covenanted from the first to call me Lois, as my father's daughter, and I confess I preferred it to being Miss Cayley'd.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000049_000001.wav|'Well, I declare,' she murmured.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000087_000002.wav|'What have I got to get ready?' I asked.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000048_000005.wav|I accept the chance as a cheap opportunity of attaining Schlangenbad.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000120_000001.wav|From the first I had doubted him; he was so blandly plausible.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000068_000000.wav|The Cantankerous Old Lady gripped my arm hard.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000008_000004.wav|He married my dear mother when I was a girl at school in Switzerland; and he proceeded to spend her little fortune, left at her sole disposal by my father's will, in paying his gambling debts.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000006.wav|Thanks, Count; will you kindly take charge of my umbrellas?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000047_000004.wav|'Upon my word, Amelia, I rather like the look of her.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000044_000000.wav|My first impression was that the Cantankerous Old Lady would go off in a fit of apoplexy.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000098_000000.wav|'Ah yes, madame, I recollect him well in Vienna.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000023_000003.wav|Omnibuses traverse it from end to end-even, I am told, to Islington and Putney; within, folk sit face to face who never saw one another before in their lives, and who may never see one another again, or, on the contrary, may pass the rest of their days together.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000045_000000.wav|'What do you mean by this eavesdropping?' she asked.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000021_000002.wav|I submit myself to fate; or, if you prefer it, I leave my future in the hands of Providence.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000076_000000.wav|'That's nothing.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000046_000000.wav|I flushed up in turn.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000035_000005.wav|So there was the end of it.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000061_000000.wav|'Ha!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000072_000001.wav|As I walked off, well pleased, Lady Georgina's friend ran after me quickly.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000085_000005.wav|Now let us roll up our sleeves again and hurry on with the dado.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000003.wav|She fidgeted and worried the whole way over.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000001.wav|It was clean and comfortable; but the Cantankerous Old Lady made the porter mop the floor, and fidgeted and worried till we slid out of the station.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000029_000000.wav|'I may go with you?' Elsie pleaded.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000081_000000.wav|'I haven't a notion,' I answered; 'that's where the fun comes in.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000041_000001.wav|Nor even, if it comes to that, as a passing expedient.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000013.wav|I positively decline to appear at Schlangenbad without a diamond to my back.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000012_000000.wav|I laid down the paste brush and mused.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000101_000001.wav|'I think you knew my husband, Sir Evelyn Fawley, and my father, Lord Kynaston.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000082_000000.wav|'Oh, Brownie, you might starve!'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000061_000004.wav|Well, well, we can settle this little matter between us.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000068_000002.wav|'How on earth did you guess?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000102_000001.wav|'What! you are then Lady Georgina Fawley!' he cried, striking an attitude.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000078_000002.wav|But I think I can take care of myself.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000043_000001.wav|'Excuse me,' I said, in my suavest voice, 'but I think I see a way out of your difficulty.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000004.wav|Mind that cloak!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000131_000000.wav|'Pardon me, mademoiselle,' he said, coldly; 'you do not understand these lines as well as I do.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000102_000002.wav|'Indeed, miladi, your admirable husband was one of the very first to exert his influence in my favour at Vienna.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000009_000000.wav|'Of course you will teach,' said Elsie Petheridge, when I explained my affairs to her.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000048_000002.wav|I don't object to going to Schlangenbad.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000000.wav|It was a very rough passage.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000117_000002.wav|They will try to force them on you unless you insist.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000003.wav|Get out at once! Bring my bag and the rugs!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000039_000001.wav|'Yes, and have my jewel case stolen!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000019_000003.wav|But you needn't look so shocked.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000005.wav|I sat down on a chair at the foot of an old elm with a poetic hollow, prosaically filled by a utilitarian plate of galvanised iron.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000050_000000.wav|'Like a native,' I answered, with cheerful promptitude.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000061_000003.wav|So you're poor Tom Cayley's daughter, are you?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000085_000002.wav|I came here to help you.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000052_000000.wav|'Pardon me,' I answered, in German. 'What I say, that I mean.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000069_000001.wav|'So is mine, Georgina Lois.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000097_000000.wav|To make up for it, he talked much, and with animation, to Lady Georgina. They ferreted out friends in common, and were as much surprised at it as people always are at that inevitable experience.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000113_000000.wav|'Would you like some lunch, Lady Georgina?' I asked, in my chilliest voice.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000008_000006.wav|So, when the Colonel died, in the year I was leaving college, I did not think it necessary to go into mourning for him.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000023_000000.wav|'Put on my hat and walk out,' I answered.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000019_000000.wav|'As a milliner's girl; why not?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000004.wav|But for a centre of adventure I choose the Long Walk; it beckoned me somewhat as the north-west Passage beckoned my seafaring ancestors-the buccaneering mariners of Elizabethan Devon.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000117_000004.wav|You have the tickets, I trust?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000098_000002.wav|He was a charming man; you read his masterly paper on the Central Problem of the Dual Empire?'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000071_000002.wav|'Lady Georgina Fawley, forty nine Fortescue Crescent, w'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000085_000004.wav|I know how sweet you are; but the last thing I want is to add to your burdens.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000019_000002.wav|Earls' daughters do it now.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000021_000004.wav|Let one but float my way, and, hi, presto, I seize it.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000003.wav|That's just like you dear good schoolmistresses!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000007.wav|Nature did not cut me out for a high-school teacher.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000040_000001.wav|This was a delightful idea.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000137_000002.wav|He spoke to a porter; then he rushed back excitedly.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000011.wav|The working classes were driving trade out of the country, and the consequence was, we couldn't build a boat which didn't reek like an oil shop.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000069_000000.wav|'Fellow feeling,' I answered.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000032_000005.wav|So I accepted my plight as an amusing experience, affording full scope for the congenial exercise of courage and ingenuity.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000002.wav|Fortunately, the only other occupant of the compartment was a most urbane and obliging Continental gentleman-I say Continental, because I couldn't quite make out whether he was French, German, or Austrian-who was anxious in every way to meet Lady Georgina's wishes.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000022_000002.wav|'Where?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000047_000000.wav|The Cantankerous Old Lady regarded me once more from head to foot.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000057_000000.wav|'Not to my knowledge,' I answered, gravely.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000095_000002.wav|'Whatever your great country attempts-were it only a fog-it achieves consummately.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000068_000001.wav|'What an unusually intelligent girl!' she broke in.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000039_000006.wav|I put my foot down there.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000128_000006.wav|I took my cue at once, and acted for the best on my own responsibility.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000011.wav|Have you no immortal soul, porter, that you crush other people's property as if it was blackbeetles?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000134_000003.wav|'It is as I said,' he exclaimed, flinging open the door.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000128_000000.wav|However, he did not desist even so.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000039_000003.wav|Or nurse her on the boat when I want to give my undivided attention to my own misfortunes.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000007.wav|They just go to the priest and confess, you know, and wipe it all out, and start fresh again on a career of crime next morning.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000000.wav|Oh my, how fussy she was!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000028_000001.wav|But I mean to see where fate will lead me.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000026_000005.wav|The fun lies in the search, the uncertainty, the toss up of it.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000061_000005.wav|Mind, I'm a person who always expects to have my own way.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000087_000001.wav|'tis a foreign trick I picked up in Switzerland.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000024_000000.wav|I had a lovely harangue all pat in my head, in much the same strain, on the infinite possibilities of entertaining angels unawares, in cabs, on the Underground, in the aerated bread shops; but Elsie's widening eyes of horror pulled me up short like a hansom in Piccadilly when the inexorable upturned hand of the policeman checks it.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000041_000004.wav|I began to feel like a globe trotter already; the Cantankerous Old Lady was the thin end of the wedge-the first rung of the ladder!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000006_000000.wav|THE ADVENTURE OF THE CANTANKEROUS OLD LADY|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000049_000004.wav|You speak Greek, of course; but how about German?'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000003.wav|It is a land of romance, bounded on the north by the Abyss of Bayswater, and on the south by the Amphitheatre of the Albert Hall.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000000.wav|I looked at her, aghast.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000007.wav|For frank hideousness, commend me to the noble dowager.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000019_000001.wav|'tis an honest calling.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000014.wav|But the children of the lower classes never learnt their catechism nowadays; they were too much occupied with literatoor, jography, and free 'and drawrin'.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000013_000001.wav|I was a bomb shell in your midst in those days; why, you yourself were almost afraid at first to speak to me.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000053_000000.wav|The old lady laughed aloud.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000066_000002.wav|My parents chose to inflict upon me the most odious label that human ingenuity ever devised for a Christian soul; and I've not had courage enough to burst out and change it.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000040_000000.wav|I saw my chance.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000077_000000.wav|'Well, I wish you well out of it.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000000.wav|We got into our first-class carriage.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000026_000002.wav|You don't understand the language.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000047_000003.wav|'The girl has spirit,' she remarked, in an encouraging tone, as if she were discussing some absent person.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000120_000000.wav|By this time my suspicions of the Count were profound.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000135_000001.wav|But Lady Georgina cried, 'Nonsense, child!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000010.wav|This is Kent that we traverse; ah, the garden of England!|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000014_000002.wav|You terrified us so.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000118_000000.wav|The Count handed her out; he was all high courtly politeness.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000070_000000.wav|'My opinion to a T! You are really an exceptionally sensible young woman.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000030_000001.wav|'That would spoil all.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000019_000004.wav|I tell you, just at present, I am not contemplating it.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000022_000003.wav|When?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000130_000002.wav|But he waved me aside, with one lordly hand.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000078_000001.wav|It is kind of you to give me this warning.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000059_000000.wav|'Well, you'll do, I think,' she said, catching my arm.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000026_000003.wav|No, no; I am going out, simply in search of adventure.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000121_000000.wav|'That succeeds admirably,' the Count had answered, in the same soft undertone.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000021_000005.wav|I go where glory or a modest competence waits me.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000088_000000.wav|By Monday I had papered and furnished the rooms, and was ready to start on my voyage of exploration.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000108_000000.wav|Thenceforward to Dover, they talked together with ceaseless animation. The Cantankerous Old Lady was capital company.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000008.wav|I couldn't swallow a poker if I tried for weeks.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000033_000002.wav|One jostles possibilities.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000030_000002.wav|Your dear little face would be quite enough to scare away a timid adventure.' She knew what I meant.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000083_000001.wav|In either place, I have only two hands and one head to help me.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000128_000005.wav|It had a leather outer covering; within was a strong steel box, with stout bands of metal to bind it.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000071_000001.wav|The very copperplate was noisy.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000128_000001.wav|I saw he meant to go on with his dangerous little game.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000086_000000.wav|'But, Brownie, you'll want to be getting your own things ready. Remember, you're off to Germany on Monday.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000108_000004.wav|He talked well himself, too, and between them I almost forgot the time till we arrived at Dover.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000099_000000.wav|'You were in Vienna then!' the Cantankerous Old Lady mused back.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000100_000000.wav|I could see the foreign gentleman was delighted at this turn.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000138_000000.wav|With singular magnanimity, I refrained from saying, 'I told you so.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000087_000006.wav|And cutting out a blouse by differential calculus is weary, uphill work for a high-school teacher.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000114_000000.wav|'An admirable inspiration,' the Count murmured.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000122_000000.wav|I understood him to mean that he had prospered in his attempt to impose on Lady Georgina.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000117_000008.wav|And if anybody attempts to get in, be sure you stand in front of the door as they mount to prevent them.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000008_000007.wav|Especially as he chose the precise moment when my allowance was due, and bequeathed me nothing but his consolidated liabilities.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000010.wav|Between ourselves, I am a bit of a rebel.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000058_000000.wav|She burst out laughing again.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000089_000012.wav|No, I will not let you take this, Lois; this is my jewel box-it contains all that remains of the Fawley family jewels.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000009.wav|Pokers don't agree with me.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000103_000001.wav|Instead of dismissing his fulsome nonsense with a contemptuous smile, Lady Georgina perked herself up with a conscious air of coquetry, and asked for more.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000092_000000.wav|'Monsieur is attached to the Embassy in London?' Lady Georgina inquired, growing affable.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000091_000003.wav|Did madame desire to have the window open?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000129_000004.wav|Not a reputation in Europe had a rag left to cover it as we steamed in beneath the huge iron roof of the main central junction.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000048_000001.wav|'I am a Girton girl, an officer's daughter, no more a good woman than most others of my class; and I have nothing in particular to do for the moment.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000032_000002.wav|Nature had endowed me with a profusion of crisp black hair, and plenty of high spirits.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000127_000000.wav|He murmured some indignant remark below his breath, and walked off.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000096_000001.wav|I felt the foreign gentleman took an instinctive dislike to me.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000073_000001.wav|'You've caught a Tartar.'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000010_000004.wav|You go to Cambridge, and get examined till the heart and life have been examined out of you; then you say to yourselves at the end of it all, "Let me see; what am I good for now?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000088_000001.wav|I met the Cantankerous Old Lady at Charing Cross, by appointment, and proceeded to take charge of her luggage and tickets.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000130_000003.wav|I had not told Lady Georgina of his vain attempt to take possession of her jewel case; and the bare fact of my silence made him increasingly suspicious of me.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000110_000001.wav|She had a fixed habit, I believe, of sticking fast to that jewel case; for she was too overpowered by the Count's urbanity, I feel sure, to suspect for a moment his honesty of purpose.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000032_000004.wav|I croak with difficulty.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000048_000000.wav|'Merely this,' I replied, bridling up and crushing her.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000127_000002.wav|As they passed their lips moved.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000008.wav|Oh, that placid old gentleman in the episcopal gaiters was their father, was he?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000099_000003.wav|Dare I ask your name, monsieur?'|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000059_000002.wav|I adore originality.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000129_000003.wav|Lady Georgina was now in her finest vein of spleen: her acid wit grew sharper and more caustic each moment.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000109_000007.wav|Did the baggages pretend they considered themselves ladies?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000038_000000.wav|'You could get a temporary maid,' her friend suggested, in a lull of the tornado.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000049_000000.wav|The yellow faced old lady put up her long handled tortoise shell eyeglasses and inspected me all over again.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000047_000002.wav|Then she turned to her companion.|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/28/12332/28_12332_000063_000004.wav|'Do I look like a woman who cares about a reference?|28
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000009_000000.wav|"Get on, get on!" he said to the driver, putting his head out of the window, and pulling a three rouble note out of his pocket he handed it to the man as he looked round.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000028_000003.wav|And she knew that her last hope had failed her.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000008.wav|Tears of shame and despair choked her utterance.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000021_000005.wav|But this news had not produced what she had expected in him; he simply seemed as though he were resenting some affront.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000013_000000.wav|"I angry!|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000006_000002.wav|He sat in one corner, stretched his legs out on the front seat, and sank into meditation.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000008_000004.wav|The scent of brilliantine on his whiskers struck him as particularly pleasant in the fresh air.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000037_000000.wav|"To whom is it degrading?"|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000021_000003.wav|She hoped that this interview would transform her position, and save her.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000004.wav|"Don't you understand that from the day I loved you everything has changed for me?|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000035_000001.wav|"You see what he writes!|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000043_000000.wav|"On Tuesday I shall be in Petersburg, and everything can be settled."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000026_000001.wav|Her lips were quivering.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000012_000000.wav|"You're not angry that I sent for you?|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000009_000001.wav|The driver's hand fumbled with something at the lamp, the whip cracked, and the carriage rolled rapidly along the smooth highroad.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000035_000000.wav|"But my child!" she shrieked.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000040_000001.wav|He could not have said exactly what it was touched him so.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000036_000000.wav|"But, for God's sake, which is better?--leave your child, or keep up this degrading position?"|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000003.wav|Where?|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000027_000000.wav|Again, just as at the first moment of hearing of her rupture with her husband, Vronsky, on reading the letter, was unconsciously carried away by the natural sensation aroused in him by his own relation to the betrayed husband.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000042_000001.wav|Now I must go to him," she said shortly.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000025_000001.wav|"Perhaps they know us!" and he hurriedly turned off, drawing her after him into a side path.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000020_000001.wav|I know how painful it was," he said.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000041_000002.wav|"Couldn't you take your son, and still leave him?"|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000026_000000.wav|"Oh, I don't care!" she said.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000044_000000.wav|"Yes," she said.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000031_000000.wav|"Why can't they?" Anna said, restraining her tears, and obviously attaching no sort of consequence to what he said.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000030_000001.wav|"For God's sake, let me finish!" he added, his eyes imploring her to give him time to explain his words.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000015_000000.wav|He saw that something had happened, and that the interview would not be a joyous one.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000024_000000.wav|"Why do you tell me that?" she said.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000020_000002.wav|But she was not listening to his words, she was reading his thoughts from the expression of his face.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000023_000001.wav|"The one thing I longed for, the one thing I prayed for, was to cut short this position, so as to devote my life to your happiness."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000008.wav|There was no one in the avenue; but looking round to the right he caught sight of her.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000016_000000.wav|"What is it?|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000020_000000.wav|"Yes, yes, that's better, a thousand times better!|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000017_000000.wav|She walked on a few steps in silence, gathering up her courage; then suddenly she stopped.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000014_000000.wav|"Never mind," she said, laying her hand on his, "come along, I must talk to you."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000038_000000.wav|"To all, and most of all to you."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000021_000000.wav|When she got her husband's letter, she knew then at the bottom of her heart that everything would go on in the old way, that she would not have the strength of will to forego her position, to abandon her son, and to join her lover.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000034_000000.wav|She did not let him go on.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000033_000000.wav|"It can't go on.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000009.wav|Her face was hidden by a veil, but he drank in with glad eyes the special movement in walking, peculiar to her alone, the slope of the shoulders, and the setting of the head, and at once a sort of electric shock ran all over him.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000012_000001.wav|I absolutely had to see you," she said; and the serious and set line of her lips, which he saw under the veil, transformed his mood at once.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000023_000000.wav|"I understand, I understand," he interrupted her, taking the letter, but not reading it, and trying to soothe her.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000005_000000.wav|Chapter twenty two|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000026_000004.wav|Read it." She stood still again.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000019_000000.wav|He heard her, unconsciously bending his whole figure down to her as though hoping in this way to soften the hardness of her position for her.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000000.wav|"You say degrading ... don't say that.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000006_000000.wav|It was six o'clock already, and so, in order to be there quickly, and at the same time not to drive with his own horses, known to everyone, Vronsky got into Yashvin's hired fly, and told the driver to drive as quickly as possible.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000033_000001.wav|I hope that now you will leave him.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000031_000001.wav|She felt that her fate was sealed.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000028_000001.wav|She saw at once that he had been thinking about it before by himself.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000040_000002.wav|He felt sorry for her, and he felt he could not help her, and with that he knew that he was to blame for her wretchedness, and that he had done something wrong.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000025_000000.wav|"Who's that coming?" said Vronsky suddenly, pointing to two ladies walking towards them.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000004.wav|How?|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000005.wav|For me there is one thing, and one thing only-your love.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000033_000002.wav|I hope"--he was confused, and reddened-"that you will let me arrange and plan our life. Tomorrow..." he was beginning.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000032_000000.wav|Vronsky meant that after the duel-inevitable, he thought-things could not go on as before, but he said something different.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000005.wav|Why did she fix on this place to meet me, and why does she write in Betsy's letter?" he thought, wondering now for the first time at it.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000028_000002.wav|She knew that whatever he might say to her, he would not say all he thought.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000019_000001.wav|But directly she had said this he suddenly drew himself up, and a proud and hard expression came over his face.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000035_000002.wav|I should have to leave him, and I can't and won't do that."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000007_000000.wav|A vague sense of the order into which his affairs had been brought, a vague recollection of the friendliness and flattery of Serpuhovskoy, who had considered him a man that was needed, and most of all, the anticipation of the interview before him-all blended into a general, joyous sense of life.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000006.wav|If that's mine, I feel so exalted, so strong, that nothing can be humiliating to me.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000028_000000.wav|Having read the letter, he raised his eyes to her, and there was no determination in them.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000008_000000.wav|"I'm happy, very happy!" he said to himself.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000042_000000.wav|"Yes; but it all depends on him.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000001.wav|"And as I go on, I love her more and more.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000007_000002.wav|He dropped his legs, crossed one leg over the other knee, and taking it in his hand, felt the springy muscle of the calf, where it had been grazed the day before by his fall, and leaning back he drew several deep breaths.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000007.wav|He called to the driver to stop before reaching the avenue, and opening the door, jumped out of the carriage as it was moving, and went into the avenue that led up to the house.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000027_000002.wav|And at that instant there flashed across his mind the thought of what Serpuhovskoy had just said to him, and what he had himself been thinking in the morning-that it was better not to bind himself-and he knew that this thought he could not tell her.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000022_000001.wav|It happened of itself," she said irritably; "and see..." she pulled her husband's letter out of her glove.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000008_000001.wav|He had often before had this sense of physical joy in his own body, but he had never felt so fond of himself, of his own body, as at that moment.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000041_000000.wav|"Is not a divorce possible?" he said feebly.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000022_000000.wav|"It was not in the least painful to me.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000006_000001.wav|It was a roomy, old-fashioned fly, with seats for four.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000042_000002.wav|Her presentiment that all would again go on in the old way had not deceived her.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000008_000003.wav|The bright, cold August day, which had made Anna feel so hopeless, seemed to him keenly stimulating, and refreshed his face and neck that still tingled from the cold water.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000020_000004.wav|The idea of a duel had never crossed her mind, and so she put a different interpretation on this passing expression of hardness.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000030_000002.wav|"I rejoice, because things cannot, cannot possibly remain as he supposes."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000024_000002.wav|If I doubted..."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000044_000001.wav|"But don't let us talk any more of it."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000020_000003.wav|She could not guess that that expression arose from the first idea that presented itself to Vronsky-that a duel was now inevitable.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000008_000002.wav|He enjoyed the slight ache in his strong leg, he enjoyed the muscular sensation of movement in his chest as he breathed.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000040_000000.wav|He felt, too, something swelling in his throat and twitching in his nose, and for the first time in his life he felt on the point of weeping.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000021_000002.wav|But this interview was still of the utmost gravity for her.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000026_000002.wav|And he fancied that her eyes looked with strange fury at him from under the veil.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000002.wav|She did not want him now to say what was untrue.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000001.wav|Those words have no meaning for me," she said in a shaking voice.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000015_000001.wav|In her presence he had no will of his own: without knowing the grounds of her distress, he already felt the same distress unconsciously passing over him.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000007_000001.wav|This feeling was so strong that he could not help smiling.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000041_000001.wav|She shook her head, not answering.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000000.wav|"I want nothing, nothing but this happiness," he thought, staring at the bone button of the bell in the space between the windows, and picturing to himself Anna just as he had seen her last time.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000039_000003.wav|She had nothing left her but his love, and she wanted to love him.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000029_000000.wav|"You see the sort of man he is," she said, with a shaking voice; "he..."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000026_000003.wav|"I tell you that's not the point-I can't doubt that; but see what he writes to me.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/34497/4145_34497_000010_000006.wav|But there was now no time for wonder.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000003_000001.wav|Her Grace had issued cards for a concert; and after mature deliberation it was decided that her rival should strike out something new, and announce a christening for the same night.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000014.wav|This Place is in great Beauty at present, and the new Byre is completely finished.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000005_000000.wav|Everything succeeded to admiration.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000019_000002.wav|How could she?|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000009_000000.wav|mrs Douglas's letter had been enclosed in the following one from Miss Grizzy, and as it had not the good fortune to be perused by the person to whom it was addressed, we deem it but justice to the writer to insert it here:--|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000024_000000.wav|"I am so sorry for poor dear Lindore," said Lady Juliana after having exhausted herself in invectives against his wife.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000017.wav|We reckon her Extremely like our Family, Particularly Becky; though she has a great Look of Bella, at the Same Time, Then she Laughs.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000025_000001.wav|He has had a sort of apoplectic fit, but is not considered in immediate danger."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000021_000001.wav|why, what all the world must think-that she is the happiest woman in it.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000000.wav|"My DEAREST NIECE, LADY JULIANA-I am Certain, as indeed we all are, that it will Afford your Ladyship and our dear Nephew the greatest Pleasure to see this letter Franked by our Worthy and Respectable Friend Sir Sampson Maclaughlan, Bart., especially as it is the First he has ever franked; out of compliment to you, as I assure you he admires you excessively, as indeed we all do.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000016.wav|Our dear Little Grand niece is in great health, and much improved.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000024_000002.wav|If he had been an ill natured stingy wretch it would have been nothing; but Frederick is such a noble hearted fellow-I dare say he would give me a thousand pounds if I were to ask him, for he don't care about money."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000025_000000.wav|"Lord Lindore takes the matter very coolly, understand," replied her husband; "but-don't be alarmed, dear Julia-your father has suffered a little from the violence of his feelings.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000008.wav|He will be so much taken up with the King and the Duke of York, that he is afraid he will Disoblige a great Number of the Nobility by it, besides injuring his own health by such Constant application to business.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000009.wav|He is to make a very fine Speech in Parliament, but it is not yet Fixed what his First Motion is to be upon.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000015_000001.wav|aunt,|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000018_000002.wav|When, shutting the drawing room doors, he said, with earnestness, "I think, Julia, you were talking of Lady Lindore this morning: oblige me by repeating what you said, as I was reading the papers, and really did not attend much to what passed."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000022_000001.wav|She has not been seen since.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000019_000001.wav|She really did not know what she said.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000023_000000.wav|Even Lady Juliana was shocked at this intelligence, though the folly, more than the wickedness, of the thing, seemed to strike her mind; but Henry was no nice observer, and was therefore completely satisfied with the disapprobation she expressed for her sister in law's conduct.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000008_000000.wav|After vainly waiting for an answer, much beyond the accustomed time when children are baptized, mrs Douglas could no longer refuse to accede to the desires of the venerable inmates of Glenfern; and about a month before her favoured sister received her more elegant appellations, the neglected twin was baptized by the name of Mary.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000022_000000.wav|"As everyone else has done.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000005.wav|Lady Maclaughlan is in High spirits at Sir Sampson's Success, though, at the Same Time, I assure you, she Felt much for the Distress of poor mr M'Dunsmuir, and had sent him a Large Box of Pills, and a Bottle of Gout Tincture, only two days before he died.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000021_000000.wav|"Think of her!|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000001.wav|At the same Time, you will of course, I am sure, Sympathise with us all in the distress Occasioned by the melancholy Death of our late Most Obliging Member, Duncan M'Dunsmuir, Esquire, of Dhunacrag and Auchnagoil, who you never have had the Pleasure of seeing.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000020_000000.wav|"Well, then, say what you think of her now," cried Douglas impatiently.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000002_000000.wav|VOLTAIRE.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000007_000000.wav|Lady Juliana glanced over the first line of the letter, then looked at the signature, resolved to read the rest as soon as she should have time to answer it; and in the meantime tossed it into a drawer, amongst old visiting cards and unpaid bills.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000007.wav|I hope Harry wont take it amiss if Sir Sampson does not pay him so much Attention as he might expect; but he says that he will not be master of a moment of his own Time in London.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000017_000003.wav|She might give what parties she pleased, go where she liked, spend as much money as she chose, and he would never, trouble his head about the matter.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000004_000002.wav|In the utmost delight the fond mother drove away to consult her confidants upon the name and decorations of the child, whom she had not even looked at for many days.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000026_000000.wav|Lady Juliana burst into tears, desired the carriage might be put up, as she should not go out, and even declared her intention of abstaining from mrs D-----'s assembly that evening.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000018.wav|Excuse the Shortness of this Letter, my dear Niece, as I shall Write a much Longer one by Lady Maclaughlan.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000021_000003.wav|After that, I quite lost sight of her."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000019_000003.wav|It was more than an hour ago.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000019_000000.wav|Her Ladyship, in extreme surprise, wondered how Harry could be so tiresome and absurd as to stop her airing for any such purpose.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/14013/4145_14013_000011_000004.wav|I hope, my dear Niece, you have got a pair of Stout walking shoes, and that both Henry and you remember to Change your feet after Walking. I am told Raw Oysters are much the fashion in London at present; but when this Fatal Event comes to be Known, it will of course Alarm people very much, and put them upon their guard both as to Damp Feet and Raw oysters.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000029_000001.wav|Now, honestly, Graham, isn't it a most extraordinary thing?"|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000025_000001.wav|Do you know that we're standing in the presence of a romance in real life-on the verge of a blood curdling mystery? Fact!--aren't we, Graham?"|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000033_000001.wav|His name's Graham.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000035_000007.wav|At this point I would pause to inquire why, Miss Brodie, you did not take me into your confidence yesterday afternoon?"|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000036_000000.wav|"I did."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000033_000000.wav|"You see this man.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000033_000002.wav|He digs in the same house I do. To be perfectly frank, his rooms are on the opposite side of the landing.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000004.wav|This is my show, and I'll let you know it.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000003.wav|mr Graham she ignored, treating his timorous attempts in a conversational direction with complete inattention.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000004.wav|Well, as I was about to observe-when I was interrupted-Graham started spinning a yarn about how he had forced his way into a house, in which there was a young woman all alone, by herself, and, so far as I could make out, gone on awful.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000047_000002.wav|He gave me an explanation which I have no hesitation in asserting"--Jack, holding his left hand out in front of him, brought his right list solemnly down upon his open palm-"was the most astonishing I ever heard.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000015_000000.wav|Madge drew herself up to her straightest and her stiffest.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000013_000002.wav|Jack laughed again.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000005_000000.wav|THE LONG ARM OF COINCIDENCE|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000041_000000.wav|This was Ella.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000038_000000.wav|"I did."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000030_000000.wav|"It certainly is rather a striking illustration of the long arm of coincidence."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000054_000000.wav|Ella sprang up from her chair.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000034_000001.wav|Often!"|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000039_000001.wav|"Don't think you deceive me, Madge Brodie-I smell a rat, and one of considerable size."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000006_000000.wav|"Go," said Ella, as she hastened from the room, "and open the door, while I go upstairs and take my hat off."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000008_000000.wav|"This," said Jack, referring to his companion, "is a friend of mine."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000001.wav|The two girls sat at each end of the table, the men on either side.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000023_000000.wav|"You needn't-Ella is aware of it already."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000043_000000.wav|"I began to wonder."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000004.wav|His position could hardly have been more uncomfortable.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000011_000001.wav|In her astonishment, she all but knocked the lamp over.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000028_000000.wav|Jack waved his arm excitedly.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000003.wav|Do you want to queer it?|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000006.wav|On the other hand.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000009_000001.wav|She perceived that Jack had a companion, and that was all.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000051_000003.wav|I believe, Graham, I am correct in saying so?"|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000057_000001.wav|Half unconsciously to herself-and probably quite unconsciously to him-she kept a corner of her eye upon him all the time.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000047_000001.wav|"'And therefore, sir, I must ask you to explain.' He explained, I am bound to admit that he explained there and then.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000002.wav|If you'd heard him an hour or two ago, he was hot enough to melt all the ice cream in town.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000053_000002.wav|Dash it, man, I want my tea; I want a high tea, a good tea-at once!"|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000034_000002.wav|This was Ella.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000019_000001.wav|mr Graham, on the contrary, bent almost double-he seemed scarcely more at his ease than she was.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000046_000000.wav|"I hear."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000057_000000.wav|Still, even Madge might have admitted, and perhaps in her heart she did admit, that, under the circumstances, he bore himself surprisingly well; that he looked as if he was deserving of better treatment.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000057_000004.wav|And when he came to tell the story which Jack Martyn had foreshadowed, it was difficult, as one listened, not to believe that he was one who had been raised by nature above the common sort.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000008.wav|I daresay he thought that I'd gone mad."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000044_000000.wav|"Did you?|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000051_000000.wav|"I was about to point out several other things which that explanation shows, with a view, as I might phrase it, of improving the occasion, but, having been interrupted for the third time, I refrain.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000035_000001.wav|You must know, Graham, that there are frequently occasions on which I have nothing whatever to talk about, so I fill up the blanks with what I may call padding.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000000.wav|"Listen to him.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000011_000002.wav|Jack laughed.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000001.wav|If you bustle me, I'll keep going on for ever.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000000.wav|It was a curious meal-if only because of the curious terms on which two members of the party stood toward each other.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000017_000000.wav|She rather believed they had?--If she could credit the evidence of her own eyes the man in front of her was the stranger who had so unwarrantably intruded on pretence of seeking music lessons-who had behaved in so extraordinary a fashion!|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000052_000001.wav|Only, so far as I am concerned, I am ready to give my explanation now.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000007_000001.wav|There were two persons at the door-Jack Martyn and another.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000051_000001.wav|The explanation itself you will hear from Graham's own lips-after tea.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000035_000006.wav|'I'm always insulting a lady.'--I may explain that when I made that remark, Ella, you were the lady I had in my mind's eye.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000005.wav|Ella, influenced by Madge's attitude, seemed as if she could not make up her mind how to treat him on her own account; her bearing towards him, to say the least, was chilly.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000026_000000.wav|mr Graham's language was slightly less emphatic.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000039_000000.wav|"You told me about the lunatic lady, because, I suppose, you could not help it-since you were caught in the act-but you said nothing about a lunatic gentleman." He wagged his finger portentously.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000007.wav|'And whereabouts may Clover Cottage be?' 'On Wandsworth Common.' When he said that, as calmly as if he were asking me to pass the salt, I collapsed.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000044_000002.wav|'Are you aware?' I cried, 'that Clover Cottage, Wandsworth Common, is the residence of the lady whom I hope to make my wife?' 'Good Lord!' he said.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000052_000000.wav|"Perfectly.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000019_000000.wav|Madge acknowledged the introduction with an inclination of the head which was so faint as to be almost imperceptible.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000013_000001.wav|She passed her hand before her eyes, as if to make sure she was not dreaming.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000005.wav|'May I ask,' I said, beginning to think that his yarn smelt somewhat fishy, 'what house this was?' 'The place,' he replied, as cool as a cucumber, 'is called Clover Cottage.' 'What's that!' I cried-I almost jumped out of my chair.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000035_000000.wav|"Have you?|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000024_000001.wav|Jack caught her by the arm.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000029_000000.wav|"I say it's the most extraordinary thing.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000014_000000.wav|"I repeat that I believe you two have met before."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000003.wav|But you wait a bit.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000018_000000.wav|"This," went on Jack airily, "is a friend of mine, Bruce Graham,--Graham, this is Miss Brodie."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000024_000000.wav|As Ella came into the room, she moved to leave it.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000013_000000.wav|Madge continued speechless.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER six|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000051_000002.wav|He is here for the purpose of giving you that explanation-after tea.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000047_000000.wav|"'Which is the same thing,'" continued Jack.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000057_000003.wav|The strong rough face suggested honesty, the bright clear eyes were frank and open; the broad brow spelt intellect, the lines of the mouth and jaw were bold and firm. The man's whole person was suggestive of strength, both physical and mental.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000057_000002.wav|He scarcely looked the sort of man to do anything unworthy.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000053_000000.wav|"Then feel!|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000020_000001.wav|I trust you will allow me to express my contrition."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000043_000001.wav|This was Graham.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000010_000001.wav|Ella has gone to take her hat off."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000005.wav|Sit down, Ella-sit down, Madge-Graham, take a chair.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000035_000002.wav|I say this, because I don't want you to misunderstand the situation.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000016_000000.wav|"Yes, I rather believe we have."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000020_000000.wav|"I'm afraid, Miss Brodie, that I've behaved very badly.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000044_000001.wav|Let me tell you, sir, that as far as you were concerned, I had long since passed the stage of wonder, and had reached the haven of assurance.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000031_000006.wav|To you a tale I will unfold."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000009_000000.wav|It was dark in the passage, and Madge was a little flurried.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000022_000000.wav|There came a voice from behind her.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000037_000000.wav|"You did not."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000033_000003.wav|You may have heard me speak of him."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000049_000000.wav|"Never mind what it shows; what's the explanation?"|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000053_000001.wav|I'll be hanged if you shall explain now.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000002.wav|Madge, unlike her usual self, was reserved and frosty; what little she did say was addressed to Ella or to Jack.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000006.wav|'I say that the place is called Clover Cottage.' I had to hold on to the hair of my head with both my hands.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000042_000002.wav|Don't I tell you this is my show?|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000032_000000.wav|Taking up his position on the hearthrug in front of the fireplace, he commenced to orate.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000056_000007.wav|Jack's somewhat cumbrous attempts at humour and sociability did not mend matters; and more than once before the meal was over mr Graham must have heartily wished that he had never sat down to it.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000011_000000.wav|Presently, returning with the lighted lamp in her hand, placing it on the table, she glanced at Jack's companion-and stared.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000052_000002.wav|I cannot but feel that I shall occupy an invidious position in, at any rate, Miss Brodie's eyes until I have explained."|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4145/104606/4145_104606_000045_000000.wav|"Is it?" interposed Ella.|4145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000050_000000.wav|The others were very reluctant for such extreme measures, but Myles, as usual, carried his way, and so a pitched battle was decided upon.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000022_000000.wav|When Myles had seen his enemy turn upon him, he did not know at first what to expect; he would not have been surprised had they come to blows there and then, and he held himself prepared for any event.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000012_000003.wav|Look to thyself, Falworth; he cometh again Wednesday or Thursday next; thou standest in a parlous state."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000020_000003.wav|When Blunt spoke every one in the armory heard his words.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000038_000001.wav|Blunt's companions were trying to persuade him against something, but without avail.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000047_000000.wav|"So, comrades," said Myles at last, "what shall we do now?"|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000032_000000.wav|He was as good as his word.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000031_000001.wav|I mean to speak to them to night, and tell them it shall not be."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000009_000000.wav|"Holloa, Falworth!" they cried.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000033_000000.wav|Then he jumped down again from his elevated stand, and an uproar of confusion instantly filled the place.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000040_000003.wav|Prithee tell it me, Robin.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000040_000002.wav|But tell me, Robin Ingoldsby, dost know aught more of this matter?|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000040_000004.wav|Where do they propose to lie in wait for Falworth?"|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000007_000002.wav|So no more water was ever carried for the head squires, but it was plain to see that the war for the upperhand was not yet over.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000017_000000.wav|Myles saw Gascoyne direct a sharp glance at him; but he answered nothing either to his enemy's words or his friend's look.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000049_000000.wav|"Nay," said Myles, "I take no such coward's part as that.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000027_000000.wav|"I fear him not," said Myles again; but his heart foreboded trouble.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000037_000002.wav|He had been awakened by the opening of the dormitory door and by the sound of voices-among them was that of his taskmaster.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000030_000001.wav|"They will kill thee an thou cease not troubling them.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000019_000001.wav|He came walking in at the door as if nothing had passed, and at his unexpected coming the hubbub of talk and laughter was suddenly checked.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000019_000003.wav|In his hand Blunt carried the house orders for the day, and without seeming to notice Myles, he opened it and read the list of those called upon for household service.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000025_000002.wav|I fear him not." Nevertheless, he did not speak the full feelings of his heart.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000008_000000.wav|Even if Myles had entertained comforting thoughts to the contrary, he was speedily undeceived.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000037_000003.wav|Fearing punishment for his neglected duty, he had slipped out of the cot, and hidden himself beneath it.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000014_000000.wav|"I know not," said Myles, boldly; "but I fear him not." Nevertheless his heart was heavy with the weight of impending ill.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000052_000000.wav|The smith, leaning with his hammer upon the anvil, listened to them as they described the weapons.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000031_000000.wav|"No matter for that," said Myles; "it is not to be borne that they order others of us about as they do.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000020_000001.wav|When Blunt had ended reading the list of names, he rolled up the parchment, and thrust it into his belt; then swinging suddenly on his heel, he strode straight up to Myles, facing him front to front.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000025_000000.wav|"I think naught," said Myles gruffly.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000005_000003.wav|If they did but know, he should smart for it.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000030_000000.wav|"Best let it be, Myles," said Wilkes.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000004_000000.wav|For a day-for two days-the bachelors were demoralized at the fall of their leader, and the Knights of the Rose were proportionately uplifted.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000051_000000.wav|Then Wilkes started away to gather together those of the Knights of the Rose not upon household duty, and Myles, with the others, went to the armor smith to have him make for them a set of knives with which to meet their enemies-knives with blades a foot long, pointed and double edged.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000005_000001.wav|The bachelors made a great show of indignation and inquiry.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000037_000000.wav|It was by no means easy to worm the story from the mischievous little monkey; he knew Myles too well to be in the least afraid of his threats. But at last, by dint of bribing and coaxing, Myles and his friends managed to get at the facts.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000033_000001.wav|What was the effect of his words upon the bachelors he could not see.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000023_000000.wav|"Dost thou not?" said Blunt.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000011_000000.wav|"Thou wilt sing a different song anon," said one of the bachelors.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000042_000000.wav|"Are they there now?" said Wilkes.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000012_000002.wav|Only this morning he told Philip Mowbray that he would have thy blood for the fall thou gavest him.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000026_000000.wav|"I know not, Myles," said Gascoyne, shaking his head doubtfully.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000036_000000.wav|"There!" said he, still panting from the chase and seating the boy by no means gently upon the bench beside Wilkes.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000007_000001.wav|No one doubted that Wilkes had spoken the truth in his taunt, and that the bachelors had indeed stolen their own tank.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000003_000002.wav|Other and far more bitter battles lay before him ere he could look around him and say, "I have won the victory."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000020_000002.wav|A moment or two of deep silence followed; not a sound broke the stillness.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000009_000001.wav|"Knowest thou that Blunt is nigh well again?"|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000005_000000.wav|The day that Blunt met his fall, the wooden tank in which the water had been poured every morning was found to have been taken away.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000022_000001.wav|He faced the other pluckily enough and without flinching, and spoke up boldly in answer.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000053_000002.wav|With such blades, ere this battle is ended, some one would be slain, and so murder done.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000016_000001.wav|"Blunt cometh again to morrow day."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000018_000002.wav|Myles was sitting on a bench along the wall, talking and jesting with some who stood by, when of a sudden his heart gave a great leap within him.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000025_000001.wav|"He will not dare to touch me to harm me.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000034_000001.wav|Suddenly that impish little page spoken of before, Robin Ingoldsby, thrust his shock head around the corner of the smithy, and said: "Ho, Falworth!|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000032_000001.wav|That night, as the youngsters were shouting and romping and skylarking, as they always did before turning in, he stood upon his cot and shouted: "Silence!|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000019_000000.wav|It was Walter Blunt.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000003_000000.wav|If Myles fancied that one single victory over his enemy would cure the evil against which he fought, he was grievously mistaken; wrongs are not righted so easily as that.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000019_000002.wav|Even Myles stopped in his speech for a moment, and then continued with a beating heart and a carelessness of manner that was altogether assumed.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000018_000000.wav|As the bachelor had said, Blunt came the next morning.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000037_000001.wav|The youngster had been sent to clean the riding boots of one of the bachelors, instead of which he had lolled idly on a cot in the dormitory, until he had at last fallen asleep.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/150127/1649_150127_000049_000001.wav|I say an they hunger to fight, give them their stomachful."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000015_000000.wav|Wallace took the sword, and turned to meet Murray with Edwin in the portal.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000001.wav|Full of thoughts of her who used to share those happy scenes, he heard a sigh behind him.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000013_000000.wav|Wallace smiled.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000002_000000.wav|So large a reinforcement was gratefully received by Wallace; and he welcomed Maxwell with a cordiality which inspired that young knight with an affection equal to his zeal.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000016_000002.wav|Wallace ordered cloaks to be spread on the ground for the countess and her women; and seeing them laid to rest, planted his men to keep guard around the circle.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000011_000000.wav|"But to assure the poor fellows," rejoined the honest soldier, "that something of yourself still keeps watch over them.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000008_000001.wav|"But when Scotland lost her freedom, as the sword was not drawn in her defense, I looked not where it lay.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000008.wav|His heart paused-it beat violently-still the figure advanced.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000005_000000.wav|Mar had seen the power of his arms; Murray had already drunk the experience of a veteran from his genius; hence they were not surprised on hearing that which filled strangers with amazement.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000001_000001.wav|He was trying his eloquence among the clan at Lennox, when Ker arriving, stamped his persuasions with truth; and above five hundred men arranged themselves under their lord's standard.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000017_000001.wav|A little onward, in green Renfrewshire, lay the lands of his father; but that Ellerslie of his ancestors, like his own Ellerslie of Clydesdale, his country's enemies had leveled with the ground.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000006.wav|What then was this ethereal visitant?|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000016_000000.wav|Being well mounted, they pleasantly pursued their way, avoiding all inhabited places, and resting in the deepest recesses of the hills. Lord Mar proposed traveling all night; but at the close of the evening his countess complained of fatigue, declaring she could not advance further than the eastern bank of the River Cart.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000003.wav|He stood motionless; again it met his view; it seemed to approach.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000004_000000.wav|These preliminaries being arranged, the remainder of the day was dedicated to more mature deliberations-to the unfolding of the plan of warfare which Wallace had conceived.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000005.wav|When he last passed these borders, he was bringing his bride from Ayr!|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000009_000000.wav|Soon after these observations, it was admitted that Wallace might attend Lord mar and his family on the morrow to the Isle of Bute.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000000_000005.wav|This was the best apology of any that had been offered; natural affection was the pleader; and though blinded to its true interest, such weakness had an amiable source, and so was pardoned.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000000_000007.wav|"When Sir William Wallace is entering full sail, you will send your hirelings to tow him in! but if a plank could save him now, you would not throw it to him!|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000017_000002.wav|He turned in anguish of heart toward the south, for there less racking remembrances hovered over the distant hills.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000008_000002.wav|I then studied the arts of peace; that is over; and now the passion of my soul revives.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000007_000000.wav|Maxwell, though equally astonished, was not so rapt.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000017_000000.wav|The moon had sunk in the west before the whole of his little camp were asleep; but when all seemed composed, he wandered forth by the dim light of the stars to view the surrounding country-a country he had so often traversed in his boyish days.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000000.wav|Leaning on the shattered stump of an old tree, he fixed his eyes on the far stretching plain, which alone seemed to divide him from the venerable Sir Ronald Crawford and his youthful haunts at Ayr.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000001_000002.wav|Maxwell gladly explained himself to Wallace's lieutenant; and summoning his little reserve, they marched with flying pennons through the town of Dumbarton.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000002.wav|He turned round, and beheld a female figure disappear among the trees.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000014_000000.wav|A glow of conscious valor flushed the cheek of the veteran.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000000_000003.wav|Those who had much property, feared to risk its loss by embracing a doubtful struggle.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000001_000003.wav|At sight of so much larger a power than they expected would venture to appear in arms, and sanctioned by the example of the Earl of Lennox (whose name held a great influence in those parts), several, who before had held back, from doubting their own judgment, now came forward; and nearly eight hundred well appointed men marched into the fortress.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000003_000000.wav|A council being held respecting the disposal of the new troops, it was decided that the Lennox men must remain with their earl in garrison; while those brought by Maxwell, and under his command, should follow Wallace in the prosecution of his conquests along with his own especial people.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000010_000000.wav|When the dawn broke, he arose from his heather bed in the great tower; and having called forth twenty of the Bothwell men to escort their lord, he told Ireland he should expect to have a cheering account of the wounded on his return.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000013_000001.wav|"Were it our holy King David's we might expect such a miracle.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000007_000001.wav|"You have made arms the study of your life?" inquired he.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000008_000003.wav|When the mind is bent on one object only, all becomes clear that leads to it; zeal, in such cases, is almost genius."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000018_000010.wav|But it fled, and again vanished.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000015_000003.wav|Lord Mar, between Murray and Edwin, followed; and the servants and guard completed the suit.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/5776/1649_5776_000015_000001.wav|When they reached the citadel, Lennox and all the officers in the garrison were assembled to bid their chief a short adieu.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000051_000000.wav|Then the Honorable Erastus Hopkins, quick to catch the lack of sympathy in the audience, stood up and begged leave to reply to young Forbes.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000040_000001.wav|Kenneth interviewed mr Webb and found that he received no money for the sign; but the man contended that the paint preserved his barn from the weather on that side.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000009_000000.wav|Again the lawyer laughed.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000025_000000.wav|"Drive out one, and another will take his place.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000038_000000.wav|These "eliminators" consisted of two men with cans of turpentine and gasoline and an equipment of scrubbing brushes.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000003_000000.wav|When Kenneth got home he told mr Watson of his discovery and asked the old gentleman to write to the sign painter and find out what could be done.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000046_000000.wav|What brought the legislator to the meeting was the fact that he was coming forward for re-election in November, and believed that this afforded a good chance to meet some of his constituents and make a favorable impression.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000034_000000.wav|"You'll have to buy them, I'm afraid."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000021_000001.wav|The great corporations who control these industries make their fortunes by this style of advertising.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000038_000003.wav|When evening came the letters had almost disappeared when viewed closely; but when Kenneth rode to the mouth of the glen on his way home and paused to look back, he could see the injunction "Take Smith's Liver Pills" staring at him, in grim defiance of the scrubbing brushes.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000038_000001.wav|Parsons, the farmer, came over to watch this novel proceeding, happy in the possession of three crisp five dollar notes given in accordance with the agreement made with him.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000052_000001.wav|His own firm, he said, bought thousands of bushels of oats from the farmers and converted them into the celebrated Eagle Eye Breakfast Food, three packages for a quarter.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000042_000000.wav|But the majority of them sneered at the champion, and many refused point blank to consider any proposition to discard the advertisements. Indeed, some were proud of them, and believed it a mark of distinction to have their fences and sheds announce an eye remedy or several varieties of pickles.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000018_000003.wav|Besides, no one else seems to have undertaken the task of exterminating them."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000008_000001.wav|I'm sick of this inaction."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000041_000001.wav|Some of them were intelligent enough to admire the young Quixote, and acknowledged frankly that it was a pity to decorate their premises with signs of patent medicines and questionable soaps.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000050_000000.wav|When he ended they applauded his speech mildly; but it was chiefly for the reason that he had spoken so forcibly and well.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000056_000001.wav|"It really isn't worth the struggle."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000055_000000.wav|"He ruined any good effect my speech might have created," said Kenneth, gloomily.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000021_000000.wav|"Impossible.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000023_000000.wav|"The right of custom.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000049_000002.wav|He asked them to observe Webb's pretty homestead, no longer marred by the unsightly sign upon the barn.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000016_000000.wav|"Better yet.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000019_000000.wav|"True enough.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000027_000000.wav|"But they rent thousands of such positions, and in the aggregate our farmers get large sums from them."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000038_000002.wav|All day the two men scrubbed the rocks faithfully, assisted at odd times by their impatient employer; but the thick splashes of paint clung desperately to the rugged surface of the rock, and the task was a hard one.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000002_000000.wav|DON QUIXOTE|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000007_000000.wav|"For what?"|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000019_000002.wav|You may, perhaps, buy the privilege of maintaining the rocks of the glen free from advertising; but the advertisers will paint more signs on all the approaches, and you won't have gained much."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000035_000000.wav|"Not all of them.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000008_000000.wav|"For finding me something to do.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000016_000001.wav|I don't say I'll succeed, but I promise to try.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000036_000003.wav|It would cost the boy something, but he would gain his money's worth in experience.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER three|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000061_000002.wav|Only his pent up enthusiasm had carried him through the ordeal, and now that it was over he was chagrined to think that the speech had been so ineffective.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000035_000001.wav|There must be some refinement among them."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000041_000000.wav|By this time the campaign of the youthful proprietor of Elmhurst against advertising signs began to be talked of throughout the county, and was the subject of much merriment among the farmers.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000040_000002.wav|So Kenneth agreed to repaint the entire barn for him, and actually had the work done.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000040_000003.wav|As it took many coats of paint to blot out the sign it was rather a expensive operation.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000031_000000.wav|"They need to be educated, that's all.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000028_000000.wav|"And ruin the appearance of their homes and farms."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000053_000000.wav|If the young man at Elmhurst would like to be of public service he might find some better way to do so than by advancing such crazy ideas.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000059_000000.wav|"I can't do better than to make it clean-to do away with these disreputable signs," said the boy, stubbornly.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000053_000001.wav|But this, continued the Representative, was a subject of small importance. What he wished especially to call their attention to was the fact that he had served the district faithfully as Representative, and deserved their suffrages for renomination.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000024_000000.wav|"Nor I, at present.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000013_000000.wav|"So much the better."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000017_000001.wav|This foolish proposition isn't worthy your effort.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000018_000000.wav|"No, mr Watson; I'm set on this.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000047_000000.wav|Indeed, the gathering had at first the appearance of being a political one, so entirely did the Representative dominate it.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000052_000006.wav|It was a mighty good thing for the farmers to be reminded, by means of the signs on their barns and fences, of the things they needed in daily life.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000061_000001.wav|He was by nature shy and retiring to a degree.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000036_000000.wav|But the lawyer was not convinced.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000018_000001.wav|It's a crime to allow these signs to flaunt themselves in our prettiest scenes.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000029_000000.wav|mr Watson smiled.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000016_000002.wav|I want something to occupy myself-something really difficult, so that I may test my own powers."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000043_000001.wav|He decided to call a meeting of the neighboring farmers at the district school house on Saturday night, where Kenneth could address them with logical arguments and endeavor to win them over to his way of thinking.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000039_000001.wav|No one ever knew what it cost in labor and material to erase those three signs; but after ten days they had vanished completely, and the boy heaved a sigh of satisfaction and turned his attention to extending the campaign.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000006_000000.wav|"Thank you," he said.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000004_000000.wav|"If you are going to try to prevent rural advertising," he remarked, "you'll find your hands full."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000052_000000.wav|He said the objection to advertising signs was only a rich man's aristocratic hobby, and that it could not be indulged in a democratic community of honest people.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000052_000003.wav|Thus he "benefited the community going and coming." What!|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000047_000001.wav|But mr Watson took the platform and shyly introduced the speaker of the evening.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000017_000002.wav|If you want to be up and doing we'll find something else to occupy your mind."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000049_000003.wav|And then he appealed to them to help him in driving all the advertising signs out of the community.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000037_000002.wav|Kenneth promptly mailed a check for the amount demanded and early next morning started for the glen with what he called his "eliminators."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000036_000001.wav|However, it was not his desire to stifle this new born enthusiasm of Kenneth's, even though he believed it misdirected.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000005_000000.wav|Kenneth looked up smiling.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000017_000000.wav|"But, my dear boy!|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000021_000003.wav|And they must advertise or they can't sell their products."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000037_000001.wav|He would relinquish the three signs in the glen for a payment of fifty dollars each, with the understanding that no other competing signs were to take their place.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000043_000000.wav|mr Watson, at first an amused observer of the campaign, soon became indignant at the way that Kenneth was ridiculed and reviled; and he took a hand in the fight himself.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000031_000001.wav|These farmers seem very honest, decent fellows."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000032_000001.wav|I wish you knew them better."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000052_000005.wav|What aristocratic notion could prevent him?|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000048_000000.wav|The farmers all knew mr Watson, and liked him; so when Kenneth rose they prepared to listen in respectful silence.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000037_000000.wav|After a few days the sign painter answered the letter.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000057_000000.wav|"But I can't give it up and acknowledge myself beaten," protested Kenneth, almost ready to weep with disappointment.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000014_000000.wav|The lawyer grew thoughtful.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000052_000002.wav|They sold this breakfast food to thousands of farmers, to give them health and strength to harvest another crop of oats.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000054_000000.wav|"This man Hopkins," said mr Watson, angrily, "is not a gentleman.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000023_000002.wav|I see no way to stop them."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000033_000001.wav|This campaign ought to bring us closer together, for I mean to get them to help me."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000019_000001.wav|If you're serious, Ken, I'll frankly say the thing can't be done.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000056_000000.wav|"Give it up, my boy," advised the elder man, laying a kindly hand on the youth's shoulder.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000060_000000.wav|"You made a fine speech," declared mr Watson, gravely puffing his pipe. "I am very proud of you, my lad."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000061_000000.wav|Kenneth flushed red.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000003_000001.wav|The lawyer laughed heartily at his young friend's whim, but agreed to help him.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000049_000001.wav|He told them what he had been able to accomplish by himself, in a short time; how he had redeemed the glen from its disgraceful condition and restored it to its former beauty.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000022_000000.wav|"Let them advertise in decent ways, then.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000015_000000.wav|"I believe it's impossible," he ventured.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000045_000002.wav|These signs were not works of art, but they were distinctly helpful to business, and only a fool, in the opinion of the Honorable Erastus, would protest against the inevitable.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000026_000001.wav|Ten dollars a year for a rock as big as a barn!"|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000022_000001.wav|What right has any soap maker to flaunt his wares in my face, whether I'm interested in them or not?"|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000054_000001.wav|He's an impertinent meddler."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000012_000000.wav|"It's a Titan's task, Ken."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000020_000000.wav|"I'll drive every advertising sign out of this country."|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1649/68762/1649_68762_000040_000000.wav|On the farm nearest to Elmhurst at the north, which belonged to a man named Webb, was a barn, facing the road, that displayed on its side a tobacco sign.|1649
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000001_000000.wav|There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000012_000000.wav|As soon as the time came when he was to declare the secret, he was taken before the king with the three branches and the golden cup; and the twelve princesses stood listening behind the door to hear what he would say.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000012_000004.wav|And the king asked the soldier which of them he would choose for his wife; and he answered, 'I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.'--And they were married that very day, and the soldier was chosen to be the king's heir.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000009_000000.wav|One of the princesses went into each boat, and the soldier stepped into the same boat with the youngest.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000011_000002.wav|However, on the third night the soldier carried away one of the golden cups as a token of where he had been.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000006_000000.wav|He was as well received as the others had been, and the king ordered fine royal robes to be given him; and when the evening came he was led to the outer chamber.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000010_000001.wav|There they all landed, and went into the castle, and each prince danced with his princess; and the soldier, who was all the time invisible, danced with them too; and when any of the princesses had a cup of wine set by her, he drank it all up, so that when she put the cup to her mouth it was empty.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000012_000001.wav|And when the king asked him.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000003_000002.wav|There he was to sit and watch where they went to dance; and, in order that nothing might pass without his hearing it, the door of his chamber was left open.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000006_000003.wav|When the twelve princesses heard this they laughed heartily; and the eldest said, 'This fellow too might have done a wiser thing than lose his life in this way!' Then they rose up and opened their drawers and boxes, and took out all their fine clothes, and dressed themselves at the glass, and skipped about as if they were eager to begin dancing.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000003_000003.wav|But the king's son soon fell asleep; and when he awoke in the morning he found that the princesses had all been dancing, for the soles of their shoes were full of holes.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000003_000004.wav|The same thing happened the second and third night: so the king ordered his head to be cut off.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000007_000003.wav|That never happened before.' But the eldest said, 'It is only our princes, who are shouting for joy at our approach.'|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000003_000000.wav|A king's son soon came.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000002_000000.wav|Then the king made it known to all the land, that if any person could discover the secret, and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the night, he should have the one he liked best for his wife, and should be king after his death; but whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, should be put to death.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000010_000003.wav|They danced on till three o'clock in the morning, and then all their shoes were worn out, so that they were obliged to leave off. The princes rowed them back again over the lake (but this time the soldier placed himself in the boat with the eldest princess); and on the opposite shore they took leave of each other, the princesses promising to come again the next night.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000011_000000.wav|When they came to the stairs, the soldier ran on before the princesses, and laid himself down; and as the twelve sisters slowly came up very much tired, they heard him snoring in his bed; so they said, 'Now all is quite safe'; then they undressed themselves, put away their fine clothes, pulled off their shoes, and went to bed.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000006_000001.wav|Just as he was going to lie down, the eldest of the princesses brought him a cup of wine; but the soldier threw it all away secretly, taking care not to drink a drop.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000006_000004.wav|But the youngest said, 'I don't know how it is, while you are so happy I feel very uneasy; I am sure some mischance will befall us.' 'You simpleton,' said the eldest, 'you are always afraid; have you forgotten how many kings' sons have already watched in vain? And as for this soldier, even if I had not given him his sleeping draught, he would have slept soundly enough.'|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000008_000000.wav|Then they came to another grove of trees, where all the leaves were of gold; and afterwards to a third, where the leaves were all glittering diamonds.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000004_000000.wav|Now it chanced that an old soldier, who had been wounded in battle and could fight no longer, passed through the country where this king reigned: and as he was travelling through a wood, he met an old woman, who asked him where he was going.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000001_000001.wav|They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up; but every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night; and yet nobody could find out how it happened, or where they had been.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/126286/337_126286_000012_000002.wav|'Where do my twelve daughters dance at night?' he answered, 'With twelve princes in a castle under ground.' And then he told the king all that had happened, and showed him the three branches and the golden cup which he had brought with him.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000011.wav|He stroked my face kindly.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000011_000004.wav|I thought we should never come to the end of them.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000007.wav|One or two more came who did not mean business.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000015_000000.wav|"Thank you, governor," and he rode on.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000002_000000.wav|No doubt a horse fair is a very amusing place to those who have nothing to lose; at any rate, there is plenty to see.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000002.wav|I knew in a moment by the way he handled me, that he was used to horses; he spoke gently, and his gray eye had a kindly, cheery look in it.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000009.wav|A very close bargain was being driven, for my salesman began to think he should not get all he asked, and must come down; but just then the gray eyed man came back again.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000011_000001.wav|He gave me a good feed of oats and stood by while I ate it, talking to himself and talking to me.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000010.wav|I could not help reaching out my head toward him.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000004.wav|He offered twenty three pounds for me, but that was refused, and he walked away.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000001_000000.wav|thirty two A Horse Fair|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000011_000002.wav|Half an hour after we were on our way to London, through pleasant lanes and country roads, until we came into the great London thoroughfare, on which we traveled steadily, till in the twilight we reached the great city.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000009_000000.wav|"Twenty four ten," said my friend, in a very decided tone, "and not another sixpence-yes or no?"|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000008.wav|Then the hard faced man came back again and offered twenty three pounds.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000006_000000.wav|There was one man, I thought, if he would buy me, I should be happy. He was not a gentleman, nor yet one of the loud, flashy sort that call themselves so.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000021_000001.wav|How good it felt!|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000023_000000.wav|"Do, Polly, it's just what he wants; and I know you've got a beautiful mash ready for me."|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000014_000000.wav|"I wish you luck with him."|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000010_000000.wav|"Done," said the salesman; "and you may depend upon it there's a monstrous deal of quality in that horse, and if you want him for cab work he's a bargain."|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000013_000000.wav|"I think so," replied my owner.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000012_000001.wav|"Have you got a good one?"|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000016_000000.wav|My owner pulled up at one of the houses and whistled.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000015_000001.wav|We soon turned up one of the side streets, and about halfway up that we turned into a very narrow street, with rather poor looking houses on one side, and what seemed to be coach houses and stables on the other.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000020_000000.wav|"Yes, Dolly, as gentle as your own kitten; come and pat him."|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000019_000000.wav|"Is he gentle, father?"|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000004_000001.wav|I was put with two or three other strong, useful looking horses, and a good many people came to look at us.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000011_000003.wav|The gas lamps were already lighted; there were streets to the right, and streets to the left, and streets crossing each other, for mile upon mile.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000017_000000.wav|"Now, then, Harry, my boy, open the gates, and mother will bring us the lantern."|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000007_000001.wav|I'll give twenty four for him."|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000012_000000.wav|"Halloo!" cried a voice.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123033/337_123033_000008_000000.wav|"Say twenty five and you shall have him."|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000014_000006.wav|I gave a loud, shrill neigh for help; again and again I neighed, pawing the ground impatiently, and tossing my head to get the rein loose.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000015_000004.wav|Scarcely drawing the rein, Blantyre shouted, "Which way?" "To the right!" cried the woman, pointing with her hand, and away we went up the right-hand road; then for a moment we caught sight of her; another bend and she was hidden again.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000033_000000.wav|Two days after the accident Blantyre paid me a visit; he patted me and praised me very much; he told Lord George that he was sure the horse knew of Annie's danger as well as he did.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000018_000003.wav|I gathered myself well together and with one determined leap cleared both dike and bank.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000013_000000.wav|"Oh, do not hurry yourself; Lizzie and I shall not run away from you."|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000010_000002.wav|There was a short drive up to the house between tall evergreens.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000030_000004.wav|After awhile she was taken to the carriage, and we came home together.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000012_000001.wav|"I will not be five minutes," he said.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000003_000003.wav|I enjoyed these rides very much in the clear cold air, sometimes with Ginger, sometimes with Lizzie.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000029_000000.wav|It seemed a long time before Ginger came back, and before we were left alone; and then she told me all that she had seen.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000015_000002.wav|Which way had she turned?|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000028_000000.wav|Ginger was saddled and sent off in great haste for Lord George, and I soon heard the carriage roll out of the yard.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000014_000005.wav|It was so sudden that Lady Anne was nearly unseated, but she soon recovered herself.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000015_000001.wav|Long before we came to the bend she was out of sight.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000018_000000.wav|About halfway across the heath there had been a wide dike recently cut, and the earth from the cutting was cast up roughly on the other side. Surely this would stop them!|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000030_000001.wav|"We went a gallop nearly all the way, and got there just as the doctor rode up.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000030_000000.wav|"I can't tell much," she said.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000022_000000.wav|"Can you ride?"|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000030_000005.wav|I heard my master say to a gentleman who stopped him to inquire, that he hoped no bones were broken, but that she had not spoken yet."|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000005_000001.wav|"Are you tired of your good Black Auster?"|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000015_000003.wav|A woman was standing at her garden gate, shading her eyes with her hand, and looking eagerly up the road.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000003_000001.wav|She was a perfect horsewoman, and as gay and gentle as she was beautiful.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000019_000005.wav|He unbuttoned her habit, loosened her collar, felt her hands and wrist, then started up and looked wildly round him for help.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000007_000001.wav|I assure you, she is not perfectly safe; let me beg you to have the saddles changed."|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000032_000000.wav|Ginger used to like it very much, but sometimes when she came back I could see that she had been very much strained, and now and then she gave a short cough.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000003_000004.wav|This Lizzie was a bright bay mare, almost thoroughbred, and a great favorite with the gentlemen, on account of her fine action and lively spirit; but Ginger, who knew more of her than I did, told me she was rather nervous.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000010_000001.wav|We went along gayly enough till we came to his gate.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000021_000000.wav|Blantyre's halloo soon brought them to the spot.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000014_000001.wav|Lizzie was standing quietly by the side of the road a few paces off, with her back to me.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000016_000000.wav|We had hardly turned on the common, when we caught sight again of the green habit flying on before us.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000019_000004.wav|But there was no answer.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000008_000000.wav|"My dear cousin," said Lady Anne, laughing, "pray do not trouble your good careful head about me.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000020_000000.wav|At no great distance there were two men cutting turf, who, seeing Lizzie running wild without a rider, had left their work to catch her.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000010_000000.wav|The village was about a mile off, and the doctor's house was the last in it.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000019_000003.wav|"Annie, dear Annie, do speak!"|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000006_000000.wav|"Oh, no, not at all," she replied, "but I am amiable enough to let you ride him for once, and I will try your charming Lizzie.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000014_000003.wav|I listened to my rider's footsteps until they reached the house, and heard him knock at the door.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000007_000000.wav|"Do let me advise you not to mount her," he said; "she is a charming creature, but she is too nervous for a lady.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000012_000000.wav|He looked at her doubtfully.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000026_000003.wav|Woah!|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000026_000001.wav|He had no whip, which seemed to trouble him; but my pace soon cured that difficulty, and he found the best thing he could do was to stick to the saddle and hold me in, which he did manfully.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000009_000002.wav|"Would they ask this question for her at dr Ashley's, and bring the answer?"|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000014_000002.wav|My young mistress was sitting easily with a loose rein, humming a little song.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000031_000000.wav|When Lord George took Ginger for hunting, York shook his head; he said it ought to be a steady hand to train a horse for the first season, and not a random rider like Lord George.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000026_000004.wav|Steady!" On the highroad we were all right; and at the doctor's and the hall he did his errand like a good man and true.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000019_000002.wav|Gently he turned her face upward: it was ghastly white and the eyes were closed.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000030_000003.wav|The doctor poured something into her mouth, but all that I heard was, 'She is not dead.' Then I was led off by a man to a little distance.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000009_000000.wav|There was no more to be said; he placed her carefully on the saddle, looked to the bit and curb, gave the reins gently into her hand, and then mounted me.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/337/123025/337_123025_000014_000007.wav|I had not long to wait.|337
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000044_000002.wav|I will send some of the servants over to serve the picnic lunch."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000007_000002.wav|ruth Brayton was in a sunny mood, laughing gayly as she chatted with the boys.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000002_000000.wav|"Welcome to the Ox Bow, young gentlemen," greeted Colonel McClure.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000018_000000.wav|"I believe not," answered Tad Butler.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000094_000000.wav|"What do you think about this business?" asked Tad Butler, drawing up beside Ned Rector.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000069_000001.wav|After supper games were brought out and a happy evening followed.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000078_000000.wav|"I am not sure.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000024_000000.wav|Ned Rector observed the look in his companion's eyes.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000050_000000.wav|"You might first take a gallop to the Springs.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000054_000001.wav|We have room to spare and would be glad to have you."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000044_000000.wav|"Of course," smiled mrs McClure.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000039_000000.wav|"I should like to explore the old church," said Tad, again referring to the subject uppermost in his mind.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000089_000001.wav|Stallings will expect us.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000054_000000.wav|"I was going to suggest, too, that it might be a pleasant relief for all of you to accept the hospitality of the Ox Bow ranch and remain here while you are in the vicinity.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000008_000002.wav|There was a difference in the eyes, too.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000074_000000.wav|mr McClure caught the lad's inquiring gaze fixed upon him.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000095_000000.wav|"I think there is more in this spook story than Colonel McClure knows of, or, at least, will admit."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000056_000004.wav|The place is yours. Make yourselves at home."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000076_000000.wav|"Yes; I am afraid there is," he answered quietly.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000067_000001.wav|For him it held a deeper meaning than it did for his companions.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000016_000001.wav|And I fell off a mountain," laughed Walter Perkins.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000023_000001.wav|Stacy Brown's eyes sparkled with anticipation as he surveyed the table resplendent with silver and cut glass-loaded, too, with good things to eat.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000068_000004.wav|Still, it will do no harm to ask him, or to mention the name to him.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000038_000001.wav|You see our stock is held by wire fences. If they want to stampede we let them-let them run until they are tired of it."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000068_000005.wav|That surely would not be wrong."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000005_000000.wav|"We owe you an apology, sir, for appearing in this condition," announced the Professor.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000008_000001.wav|She was not the same girl that he had met the day before.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000091_000000.wav|"Thank you, I will," replied Tad.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000007_000001.wav|Perhaps Sadie and Margaret McClure were not blind to this, for they blushed very prettily, the boys thought, upon being presented to their guests.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000090_000001.wav|Yes; you are right.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000045_000001.wav|"It will be a happy afternoon for all of us if Miss Brayton can find the time to take us."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000075_000000.wav|"Is anything wrong?" asked the rancher's wife.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000084_000001.wav|Yes; I should not be surprised."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000008_000004.wav|It perplexed him.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000087_000000.wav|"We may be needed."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000056_000003.wav|But spend all the time you can with us.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000036_000002.wav|We live here and we have no more than the usual run of ill luck with our stock."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000016_000002.wav|"You see we have had quite a series of experiences."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000092_000002.wav|They, too, were now able to hear the short, spiteful bark of the six shooters.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000034_000000.wav|"I'm afraid you have been misinformed, Master Stacy," answered Colonel McClure.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000066_000001.wav|It will do her good-it will take her mind from herself."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000074_000001.wav|He nodded.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000043_000000.wav|"And have things to eat?" asked Stacy, evincing a keen interest in the proposal.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000017_000001.wav|How long do you expect to remain with the herd?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000057_000002.wav|"We are earning our keep as it were."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000066_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, I wish her to.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000035_000000.wav|"How about the trouble that the cattle men experience when near the place?" spoke up Ned Rector.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000052_000000.wav|"About seven miles to the eastward of the ranch.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000057_000001.wav|You see, he expects us to do our share of night guard duty," explained Tad.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000004_000000.wav|The lads wore their regulation plainsman's clothes, but for this occasion coats had been put on and hair combed, each desiring to look his best, as they were to meet the young ladies of the ranch.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000017_000000.wav|"Indeed you have.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000061_000000.wav|"Stallings," murmured Miss Brayton, her eyes staring vacantly at Tad Butler.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000037_000000.wav|"Stampedes?" asked Tad.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000013_000000.wav|"Yes; but you were driving cattle," objected mrs McClure.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000049_000000.wav|"Perfectly," answered Tad.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000040_000001.wav|ruth, why can't you and the girls take the young men over there to morrow if the day is fine?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000080_000000.wav|"Yes."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000016_000000.wav|"He did.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000071_000000.wav|"Beg pardon; may I speak with you a moment?" asked the man.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000090_000004.wav|Tell your foreman that he may call upon us to any extent."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000052_000003.wav|We can ride about the ranch if it would please you."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000056_000002.wav|I shall not press the point.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000025_000001.wav|"Be as near human as you can and satisfy your appetite."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000088_000001.wav|"They surely will be help enough."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000056_000000.wav|"Not at all-not at all.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000086_000000.wav|"Why go?" asked Margaret.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000050_000001.wav|That will give you all an appetite."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000090_000003.wav|It's a good sign in a young man.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000008_000000.wav|Tad glanced at her inquiringly.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000096_000000.wav|"So do I," answered Tad.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000013_000002.wav|We, down here, know something about that."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000041_000000.wav|"We should be delighted," answered Ned Rector promptly.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000090_000000.wav|"Well, if you must.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000008_000003.wav|Tad could not understand the change.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000092_000000.wav|Bidding their hosts a hasty good night, and promising to be on hand at the appointed hour on the following day if the condition of the herd permitted, the Pony Rider Boys ran for their ponies.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000068_000003.wav|It's none of my business.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000068_000002.wav|No, I won't.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000085_000000.wav|"We must go," announced the lad, rising promptly.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000073_000000.wav|After a little their host returned, but rather hurriedly, it seemed, and Tad's keen eyes noticed that he seemed disturbed.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000063_000000.wav|Miss Brayton excused herself rather abruptly and left the room.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000025_000000.wav|"Now, don't forget that we are not eating off the tail board of the chuck wagon, Chunky," he whispered in passing.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000093_000001.wav|They had heard it too many times before not to understand it.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000053_000000.wav|"I should be delighted."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000077_000000.wav|"What is it?"|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000027_000000.wav|"Take your advice to yourself," he muttered.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000047_000000.wav|"Yes," answered the young woman.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000021_000000.wav|"I should love it."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000059_000000.wav|"That is, some of us are," corrected Ned, with a sly glance at Stacy, who was eating industriously.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000018_000002.wav|We have a lot of traveling to do yet, as it has been planned that we shall see a good deal of the country before it is time to return to school this fall."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000070_000000.wav|Ten o'clock came, and Professor Zepplin, glancing at his watch, was about to propose a return to camp, when one of Colonel McClure's cowboys appeared in the doorway, hat in hand.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000079_000000.wav|"At the camp, you mean?" asked Tad.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000006_000000.wav|"Master Butler and myself have already settled that question," answered the rancher.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000040_000000.wav|"Nothing to hinder.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000093_000000.wav|It was a significant sound.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000088_000000.wav|"But my men have started already," replied the rancher.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000010_000000.wav|"I had so often wanted to take a trip through the Rockies on horseback," announced Miss Margaret.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000056_000001.wav|I understand you perfectly.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000022_000001.wav|It will be hard to have to sleep indoors again."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000042_000000.wav|"We might make it a picnic," suggested Margaret McClure.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000017_000002.wav|Are you going through with them?"|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000018_000001.wav|"I think we shall be leaving very soon now.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000001_000000.wav|DINNER AT THE OX BOW|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000023_000000.wav|Shortly afterwards all were summoned in to supper.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000078_000001.wav|Perhaps I should not alarm you young gentlemen, but I think you should know."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000057_000000.wav|"No; mr Stallings would not like it if we were to remain away over night.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000059_000001.wav|"Others are eating for their keep."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000063_000001.wav|They did not see her again that evening.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000036_000000.wav|"Nothing at all-nothing at all.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000040_000002.wav|You know the place and its history.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000014_000000.wav|"I-I killed a bobcat up in the mountains," Stacy Brown informed them, with enthusiasm.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000060_000000.wav|The Pony Rider Boys caught the hidden meaning in his words, but they tried not to let their hosts observe that it was a joke at the expense of one of them.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000036_000001.wav|Just a mere coincidence.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000031_000000.wav|"Yes, so I understand."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000067_000000.wav|Tad Butler noted the last half of the sentence particularly.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000081_000000.wav|"What's that?" demanded Professor Zepplin sharply.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000090_000002.wav|Business is business, even when one is out on a pleasure trip.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000006_000001.wav|"As Henry Ward Beecher once said, 'Clothes don't make the man, but when he is made he looks very well dressed up.' I must say, however, that these young men are about as likely a lot of lads as I have ever seen."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000082_000001.wav|They say they hear shooting off in that direction, and want to know if they shall ride out."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000089_000002.wav|We may be able to be of some assistance."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000084_000000.wav|"A stampede?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000003_000000.wav|The rancher and his wife were waiting at the lower end of the lawn as the Pony Rider Boys, accompanied by Professor Zepplin, rode up on the following afternoon.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000028_000000.wav|Colonel McClure proved an entertaining host, and the boys were led on to talk about themselves during most of the meal.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000022_000000.wav|"We are getting to love it ourselves.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000046_000000.wav|"Of course ruth will go," nodded mrs McClure.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000033_000003.wav|Almost the instant he caught it it was gone.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000030_000001.wav|"Built by the Mexicans more than a hundred years ago."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000082_000000.wav|"My men think so.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000081_000001.wav|"Something wrong at the camp?"|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000093_000002.wav|In their minds they could see the hardy cowboys riding in front of the unreasoning animals, shooting into the ground in front of them, seeking to check the rush.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76974/64_76974_000020_000000.wav|"Yes; I believe so."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000028.wav|Poor dear boy!|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000038.wav|You shall take care of my page.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000001.wav|I don't want you, stupid [addressing her own servant], but the butler of the house, Mister's butler; what is his name, mr Twoshoes' butler?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000011_000002.wav|Her ladyship is a rum one, and that's the truth.'|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000004.wav|Here, you man, who are you?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000013.wav|no! not Miss Temple!|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000007_000000.wav|IT WAS about three weeks after Ferdinand Armine had quitted Ducie that mr Temple entered the breakfast room one morning, with an open note in his hand, and told Henrietta to prepare for visitors, as her old friend, Lady Bellair, had written to apprise him of her intention to rest the night at Ducie, on her way to the North.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000003.wav|You don't know!|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000006.wav|I knew your master when he was not as high as that cage.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000009.wav|That I would wager you have not.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000002.wav|There is a third. What is it?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000003.wav|Oh! you are there, are you?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000020.wav|I always have two favourites: one for the moment, and one that I never change, and that is my sweet Henrietta Temple.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000026.wav|It is the page!|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000031.wav|Has Miss Temple got a page?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000017.wav|Now I will introduce you to the prettiest, the dearest, the most innocent and charming lady in the world.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000016.wav|But she has got two names.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000010.wav|What do I want?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000008.wav|I don't want it.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000029.wav|He must be smothered.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000011.wav|I want something.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000013_000001.wav|Lady Bellair was of childlike stature, and quite erect, though ninety years of age; the tasteful simplicity of her costume, her little plain white silk bonnet, her grey silk dress, her apron, her grey mittens, and her Cinderella shoes, all admirably contrasted with the vast and flaunting splendour of her companion, not less than her ladyship's small yet exquisitely proportioned form, her highly finished extremities, and her keen sarcastic grey eye.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000018.wav|She is my greatest favourite. She is always my favourite.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000033.wav|My page has not got a feather, but he shall have one, because he was not smothered.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000011_000001.wav|We shall all be well cross examined as to the state of the establishment; and so I advise you to be prepared.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000010.wav|Why don't you answer?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000018.wav|My dear,' continued Lady Bellair, addressing her travelling companion, 'I don't know your name.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000032.wav|Does her page wear a feather?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000039.wav|Take him at once, and give him some milk and water; and, page, be very good, and never leave this good young woman, unless I send for you.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000012_000000.wav|In due course of time, a handsome travelling chariot, emblazoned with a viscount's coronet, and carrying on the seat behind a portly man servant and a lady's maid, arrived at Ducie.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000013_000000.wav|The green parrot, in its sparkling cage, followed next, and then came forth the prettiest, liveliest, smallest, best dressed, and, stranger than all, oldest little lady in the world.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000025.wav|Gregory! run, Gregory!|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000019.wav|Tell all these good people your name; your two names!|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000035.wav|The housemaid.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000013.wav|Now, I knew a gentleman who made his fortune by once remembering what a very great man wanted.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000008_000000.wav|'She brings with her also the most charming woman in the world,' added mr Temple, with a smile.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000036.wav|I thought so.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000000.wav|'Man, there's something wanting.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000013_000003.wav|An arrival was an important moment that required all her practised circumspection; there was so much to arrange, so much to remember, and so much to observe.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000016_000000.wav|mrs Montgomery Floyd, though rather annoyed by this appeal, still contrived to comply with the request in the most dignified manner; and all the servants bowed to mrs Montgomery Floyd.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000012.wav|Miss Temple!|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000040.wav|And, woman, good young woman, perhaps you may find an old feather of Miss Temple's page.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000015.wav|I dare say if I were a minister of state, instead of an old woman ninety years of age, you would contrive somehow or other to find out what I wanted. Never mind, never mind.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000007.wav|What do you think of that?' continued her ladyship, with a triumphant smile. 'What do you laugh at, sir?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000009_000000.wav|'I have little doubt Lady Bellair deems her companion so at present,' said Miss Temple, 'whoever she may be; but, at any rate, I shall be glad to see her ladyship, who is certainly one of the most amusing women in the world.'|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000005.wav|How is your master?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000011.wav|Why do you stare so?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000014_000000.wav|The portly serving man had advanced, and, taking his little mistress in his arms, as he would a child, had planted her on the steps.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000034.wav|Here! woman, who are you?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000001.wav|I had three things to take charge of. The parrot and my charming friend; that is only two.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000018_000027.wav|There was no room for him behind, and I told him to lie under the seat.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/73712/64_73712_000015_000009.wav|Where's the lady?|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000056_000002.wav|Over went the broncho on its back, rolling to its side quickly.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000029_000000.wav|"Yes, if you are sure you can stick on him."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000044_000000.wav|Tad's head was jerked back and forth until it seemed as though his neck would be broken.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000066_000000.wav|"Don't let his head down till you're ready for the get away," cautioned the foreman.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000015_000002.wav|I don't want you to be breaking your neck, however."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000053_000001.wav|Tad, however, forewarned, had freed his left foot from the stirrup and was standing easily over his fallen mount, eyes fixed on the beast's ears, ready to resume his position at the first sign of a quiver of those ears.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000005_000000.wav|"I guess not," answered Tad, rubbing the sand from his eyes and blinking vigorously.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000067_000000.wav|Tad suddenly allowed the head to touch the ground, after the pony had lain pinned at his feet, breathing hard for a full minute.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000008_000001.wav|You can't ride that critter!"|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000006_000001.wav|His hair was filled with the dirt of the plain, and his clothes were torn.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000020_000000.wav|Tad's face lighted up with a satisfied smile.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000043_000001.wav|Instantly the little animal began a series of stiff legged leaps into the air, his curving back making it a very uncomfortable place to sit on.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000012_000000.wav|"Foot slipped out of the stirrup."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000054_000002.wav|It did not seem as if a human being could survive that series of violent antics, and least of all a mere boy.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000069_000000.wav|With a quick pause, as if in surprise, the beast shot its head back to fasten its teeth in the leg of the rider.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000083_000002.wav|That means more trouble."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000019_000000.wav|"Very well, if mr Stallings thinks it is safe," agreed Professor Zepplin reluctantly.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000049_000000.wav|Tad's head swam.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000063_000000.wav|"Wait.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000077_000001.wav|When he did bring up it was with disconcerting suddenness.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000095_000000.wav|A great shout of approval went up from cowpunchers and Pony Riders.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000006_000000.wav|The skin had been scraped from his face in spots where the coarse sand had ground its way through.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000076_000000.wav|Tad shook out the rein, at the same time giving a gentle pressure to the rowels of his spurs.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000009_000000.wav|"I'll ride him-if he kills me!" answered the boy, his jaws setting stubbornly.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000097_000000.wav|"I'm sorry I had to be rough with you, old boy, but you shall have a lump of sugar.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000088_000000.wav|Tad moved swiftly to the right, so as not to get a tug on the rope over the back of the pony.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000078_000002.wav|But this time Tad pressed in the spurs on the right side.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000042_000000.wav|Down went the pony's head between his forward legs, his hind hoofs beating a tattoo in the air.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000073_000000.wav|The pony sprang into the air.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000059_000000.wav|The cowboys uttered a yell of triumph.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000077_000000.wav|Maddened almost beyond endurance, the pony started at a furious pace, not pausing until more than a mile had been covered.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000028_000001.wav|"I don't want to get tangled up with that thing."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000043_000000.wav|The feet came down as suddenly as they had gone up.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000022_000001.wav|Once more Tad petted him.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000041_000000.wav|"Yip!" answered Tad, though more to the pony than in answer to them.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000074_000000.wav|"They're off!" shouted the cowboys.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000054_000000.wav|Like a flash the animal was on its feet again, but with Tad riding in the saddle, a satisfied smile on his face.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000058_000000.wav|He had jerked the broncho's head clear of the ground with a strong tug on the reins, making the animal helpless to rise until the lad was ready for him to do so.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000052_000000.wav|Tad was thankful for the suggestion, for he was not looking for that move at the moment.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000068_000000.wav|Boy and mount were in the air in a twinkling.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000082_000000.wav|"You've got him!" cried Ned Rector as Tad approached, now at a gallop, the animal's ears lying back angrily.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000093_000000.wav|Without giving it a chance to rise, Tad sprang upon it, and, when the pony rose, Tad Butler was sitting proudly in the saddle.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000030_000001.wav|I know his tricks now."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000010_000000.wav|Tad hitched his belt tighter before making any move to approach the pony, which Stallings was now holding by main force.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000072_000000.wav|The broncho's head straightened out before him with amazing quickness. He was beginning to fear as well as hate the human being who so persistently sat his back and tortured him.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000060_000000.wav|"Great!|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000091_000001.wav|The result was as surprising as it was sudden.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000062_000000.wav|Tad's companions gave a shrill cheer.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000036_000000.wav|Lightly touching the saddle, he bounded into it, at the same time shoving both feet forward.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000010_000001.wav|While doing so, the lad watched the animal's buckings observantly.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000081_000003.wav|He was determined to make a grand finish that, while exhibiting his horsemanship, would at the same time give the pony a lesson not soon to be forgotten.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000035_000000.wav|Tad gave no heed to the pony.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000032_000000.wav|"I'm coming," said Tad in a quiet, tense voice.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000079_000000.wav|This was continued until, at least, in sheer desperation, the animal started again to run.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000047_000001.wav|Fortunately, the lad gripped the pommel with his right hand as he felt himself going, and little by little he pulled himself once more to an upright posture.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000080_000000.wav|Gradually Tad now began to work the animal around.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000091_000000.wav|Tad gave the rope a quick rolling motion just as it was being drawn taut.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000078_000003.wav|The pony tried to bite that way, whereat its rider spurred it on the left side.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000051_000001.wav|Don't get caught under him!" bellowed Big foot.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000069_000001.wav|Tad had jerked his leg away as he saw the movement, with the result that only part of his leggin came away between the teeth of the savage animal.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000063_000001.wav|He ain't out of the woods yet," growled Lumpy Bates.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000081_000002.wav|The lad's whole attention was centered on the pony under him.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000030_000000.wav|"Leave that to me.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000084_000000.wav|It came almost before the words were out of the cowpuncher's mouth.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000015_000001.wav|Don't you worry about that.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000083_000000.wav|"Don't be too sure," answered Big foot.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000004_000000.wav|"Are you hurt?" asked Big foot, running to the boy and reaching out to assist him.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000089_000000.wav|The coil was running out over his hands like a thing of life.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER nineteen|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000049_000003.wav|As yet he had not seen fit to use the rowels.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000095_000001.wav|They had never seen a breaking done more skillfully.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000061_000000.wav|"Tenderfoot, eh?" jeered Big foot Sanders.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000064_000000.wav|"Think you could do it better, hey?" snapped Curley Adams.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000089_000001.wav|Grasping the end firmly, the lad shook out the rest of the rope, leaning back until it was almost taut.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000017_000001.wav|I must ride him now.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000094_000000.wav|The little beast's head went down.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000091_000002.wav|The animal's four feet were snipped from under it neatly, sending the broncho to earth with a disheartening bump.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000086_000000.wav|Suddenly settling back on its haunches, the broncho rolled over on its side.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000013_000000.wav|"Think you can make it?"|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000060_000001.wav|Great!" approved Bob Stallings.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000003_000000.wav|The lad appeared to strike the ground head on.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000081_000000.wav|Tad's face was flushed with pride.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000054_000001.wav|Once more the awful, nerve racking bucking began.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000023_000003.wav|Got your spurs on?"|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000050_000000.wav|There came a pause which was almost as disconcerting as had been the previous rapid movements.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000061_000001.wav|"Hooray for the Pinto!"|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000070_000000.wav|Crack!|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000014_000000.wav|"I'll try it, if you have the time to spare."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000031_000000.wav|Cautiously the rope was coiled and made fast to the saddle horn.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000057_000000.wav|Tad was on the ground beside it, standing in a half crouching position, with one foot on the saddle horn.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000045_000000.wav|"Look out for the side jump!" warned the foreman.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000002_000000.wav|GRIT WINS THE BATTLE|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000051_000000.wav|"He's going to throw himself!|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000028_000000.wav|"Will you please coil up the stake rope and fasten it to the horn, mr Stallings?" asked Tad.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000071_000000.wav|Down came the quirt again.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000017_000002.wav|You wouldn't have me be a coward, would you?"|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000079_000002.wav|However, when he sought to unseat his rider by brushing against the trunk of a large tree, he again felt the sting of the quirt on his flank.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000023_000002.wav|Don't know enough to know when he's well off.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000016_000000.wav|"My advice is that you keep off that animal," declared Professor Zepplin.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000021_000000.wav|"Whoa, boy," he soothed, patting the animal gently on the neck.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000026_000000.wav|Tad shook his head.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000053_000000.wav|The pony struck the ground on its left side with a bump that made the animal grunt.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000018_000000.wav|Stallings, realizing the boy's position, nodded slightly to the Professor.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000046_000000.wav|It came almost instantly, and with a quickness that nearly unhorsed the plucky lad.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000034_000000.wav|The lad darted forward, running on his toes, his eyes fixed on the saddle.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000024_000000.wav|"Yes."|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000015_000000.wav|"It takes time to break a bronch.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000075_000000.wav|With amazing quickness the animal lunged ahead, paused suddenly, then shot across the plain in a series of leaps and twists.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/64/76973/64_76973_000056_000000.wav|Tad knew instinctively what it meant.|64
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000035_000000.wav|"They got ter eat-first," he said.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000011_000000.wav|"To New York?" mrs Merideth sat up suddenly, her face alight.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000009_000000.wav|"But are you going to do nothing but that all the time-just teach those dreadful creatures, and-and live there?"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000025_000000.wav|In due time the Mill House, as Margaret called her new home, was ready for occupancy, and the family moved in.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000006_000000.wav|"It is not so dreadful at all," Margaret had assured them.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000006_000002.wav|Patty and her family will live with me, and we are going to open classes in simple little things that will help toward better living."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000038_000001.wav|We be n't charity folks." And he turned away.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000011_000003.wav|Poor dear, you'll need a rest all right, I'm thinking, and we'll keep you just as long as we can, too." With lightning rapidity mrs Merideth had changed their plans-in her mind.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000033_000003.wav|They must go to school-get an education."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000033_000001.wav|"That would spoil everything.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000011_000004.wav|They would go to New York, not Egypt.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000011_000001.wav|"Oh, that will be fine-lovely!|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000029_000001.wav|Both she and her house were looked upon with suspicion, and she had some trouble in finding the two or three teachers of just the right sort to help her.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000023_000000.wav|Margaret smiled, but she made no comment-it was enough to fight present battles without trying to win future ones.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000017_000000.wav|"Ugh!" shuddered mrs Merideth.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000037_000001.wav|His shoulders straightened.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000008_000001.wav|"Well, perhaps it is. Anyway, I hope that just the presence of one clean, beautiful home among them will do some good.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000030_000000.wav|"Never mind," said Margaret, "we shall grow.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000017_000001.wav|"Margaret, how can you-laugh!"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000031_000001.wav|Margaret herself learned much.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000016_000000.wav|"Patty doesn't think them absurd," laughed Margaret.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000030_000001.wav|You'll see!"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000011_000002.wav|Why didn't you tell us?|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000003.wav|This state of affairs she could not seem to remedy, however, in spite of her earnest efforts.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000025_000001.wav|Naming the place had given Margaret no little food for thought.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000005.wav|Some of the children in the mills, indeed, were there solely-according to the parents' version-because they could not "get on" in school.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000021_000001.wav|"I would rather wait until you go, as you seem so worried about the 'break,' as you insist upon calling it; but if you won't, why I must, that is all.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000041_000000.wav|There were other phases, too.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000028_000002.wav|And the "Mill House" it was from that day.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000008_000002.wav|I mean to try it, at all events."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000007_000000.wav|"But that is regular settlement work," sighed mrs Merideth.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000005_000000.wav|The household at Hilcrest did not break up as early as usual that year. A few days were consumed in horrified remonstrances and tearful pleadings on the part of mrs Merideth and Ned when Margaret's plans became known.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000036_000000.wav|"Yes, yes, I know," interposed Margaret, eagerly.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000006_000001.wav|"I have taken a large house not far from the mills, and I am having it papered and painted and put into very comfortable shape.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000011_000005.wav|Egypt had seemed desirable, but if Margaret was going to New York, that altered the case.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000004.wav|The parents, in many cases, were indifferent, and the children more so.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000031_000000.wav|The mill people, however, were not the only ones that learned something during the next few months.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000012_000000.wav|"Oh, but I thought you weren't going to New York," laughed Margaret. "Besides-I'm going with Patty."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000002.wav|She was appalled at the number of children who appeared scarcely to understand that there was such a thing as school.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000029_000000.wav|Margaret's task was not an easy one.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000000.wav|This matter of the school question was a great puzzle to Margaret.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000010_000000.wav|"Certainly not," declared Margaret, with a bright smile.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000028_000001.wav|I will," cried Margaret.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000032_000001.wav|"But thar ain't a boss but what said if I'd got kids I might send them along.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000037_000000.wav|A sudden flash came into the man's eyes.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000007.wav|Then, and not until then, did she realize the seriousness of even this one phase of the problem she had undertaken to solve.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000019_000000.wav|Even the most urgent entreaties on the part of Margaret failed to start the Spencers on their trip, and not until she finally threatened to make the first move herself and go down to the town, did they consent to go.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000010_000001.wav|"I've planned a trip to New York."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000024_000002.wav|She told herself, however, that all this was well and good; and she ate the supper and laid herself down upon the hard bed with an exaltation that rendered her oblivious to taste and feeling.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000015_000000.wav|"What absurd names!" mrs Merideth spoke sharply.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000041_000004.wav|To this end and aim were sacrificed all the life and strength of whatever was theirs.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000036_000001.wav|"I understand all that, and I'll help about that part.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000013_000000.wav|"With Patty!"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000006.wav|Conscious that there must be a school law, Margaret went vigorously to work to find and enforce it.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000040_000001.wav|Very early in her efforts she had sought out the public school teachers, and asked their help and advice.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000018_000000.wav|"Why, it's funny, I think," laughed Margaret again, as she turned away.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000016_000002.wav|You should hear Patty say it really to appreciate it.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101883/5660_101883_000039_000000.wav|A week later Margaret learned that Rosy and Katy were out of school. When she looked them up she found them at work in the mills.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000029_000000.wav|The man frowned.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000011_000001.wav|From the time when I was a tiny little girl he has been that.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000003.wav|I touch only the surface. The great cause behind things I never reach.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000025_000000.wav|Margaret rose, and moved restlessly around the room.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000015_000000.wav|Spencer grew sober instantly.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000031_000001.wav|She gave a nervous little laugh and picked up a bit of paper from the floor.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000029_000002.wav|When he came back the girl had sat down again.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000009_000000.wav|"But, Margaret, I don't see why you must go," he protested.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000005.wav|in Pilgrim's Progress?--of the fire.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000028_000001.wav|It is very simple, after all.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000034_000001.wav|He never did, for that matter.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000008_000002.wav|Frank Spencer, however, was not so pleased at the proposed absence.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000024_000000.wav|"But what-what more could you do?" ventured the man.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000005_000000.wav|Frank Spencer had already left the Mill House and gone to Hilcrest when McGinnis was well enough to go back to his place in the mills.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000007_000002.wav|Later, when she had come to her senses, perhaps-but not now.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000029_000003.wav|Her elbows were on the table, and her linked fingers were shielding her eyes. Involuntarily the man reached his hand toward the bowed head.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000034_000003.wav|Why, Frank, Ned never cared for me-that way!"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000017_000000.wav|She raised a protesting hand.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000012_000000.wav|Frank Spencer stirred uneasily.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000007_000001.wav|As for Hilcrest-she certainly would not stay at Hilcrest anyway-now.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000019_000000.wav|"A failure of it!"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000006_000004.wav|Those long hours of misery when the mills burned had opened Margaret's eyes; and now that her eyes were opened, she was frightened and ashamed.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000028_000002.wav|With one hand I relieve the children's suffering; with the other I take dividends from the very mills that make the children suffer.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000035_000001.wav|The tone and the one word were enough.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000035_000002.wav|For one moment Margaret gazed into the man's face with startled eyes; then she turned and covered her own telltale face with her hands-and because it was a telltale face, Spencer took a long stride toward her.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000008_000000.wav|It did not take much persuasion on the part of Margaret to convince mrs Merideth that a winter abroad would be delightful-just they two together.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000006_000000.wav|For some time after McGinnis went away, Margaret remained at the Mill House; but she was restless and unhappy in the position in which she found herself.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000011_000002.wav|He is good and true and noble, but I have brought him nothing but sorrow.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000010_000000.wav|For a moment the girl was silent; then she turned swiftly and faced him.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000011_000000.wav|"Frank, Bobby McGinnis was my good friend.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000011_000004.wav|I am going away."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000016_000000.wav|"You poor child, of course you do, and no wonder!|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000006_000001.wav|McGinnis taught an evening class at the Mill House, and she knew that it could not be easy for him to see her so frequently now that the engagement was broken.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000021_000002.wav|You've done wonders down there at the Mill House."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000034_000000.wav|"Of course not!|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000020_000000.wav|"Yes.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000018_000001.wav|I-I have made a failure of it."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000023_000002.wav|It's like a tiny little oasis in a huge desert of poverty and distress."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000036_000002.wav|Did you, Margaret?"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000023_000001.wav|"The Mill House is good and does good, I acknowledge; but it's so puny after all.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000023_000000.wav|"It's so little-so very little compared to what ought to be done," she sighed.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000018_000000.wav|"No, no, you do not understand.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000040_000002.wav|And now-Margaret, my Margaret," he said softly and very tenderly.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000027_000001.wav|What can you mean?"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000006.wav|On one side is the man trying to put it out; on the other, is the evil one pouring on oil.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000032_000001.wav|"And he doesn't even love me now, besides."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000008.wav|With one I feed a hungry child, or nurse a sick woman; with the other I make more children hungry and more women sick."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000001.wav|"That's what I mean to find out." She stopped suddenly, facing him.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000007.wav|My two hands are the two men.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000027_000000.wav|"Margaret, are you mad?|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000040_000000.wav|"Margaret, it did not go-that love.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000008_000003.wav|He could see no reason for Margaret's going, and one evening when they were alone together in the library he spoke of it.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000034_000002.wav|'twas only the fancy of a moment.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000013_000000.wav|"But you will be away-from him-if you are here," he suggested.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000022_000000.wav|Margaret shook her head slowly.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000039_000000.wav|Still no answer.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000028_000000.wav|"Merely this.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000026_000004.wav|Sometimes it seems as if it were like that old picture-where was it?|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000036_000000.wav|"Margaret!|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000008_000001.wav|The news of Margaret's broken engagement had been received at Hilcrest with a joyous relief that was nevertheless carefully subdued in the presence of Margaret herself; but mrs Merideth could not conceal her joy that she was to take Margaret away from the "whole unfortunate affair," as she expressed it to her brothers.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000021_000001.wav|It's no failure at all.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000040_000001.wav|It stayed with me day after day, and month after month, and it only grew stronger and deeper until there was nothing left me in all this world but you-just you.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000029_000001.wav|He, too, got to his feet and walked nervously up and down the room.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101892/5660_101892_000032_000000.wav|"Of course it is useless," she retorted in what she hoped was a merry voice.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000025_000002.wav|Perhaps I do let you send for me, instead of coming of my own free will; but I'm never without the thought of you, and the hope of catching somewhere a glimpse of even your dress.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000021_000002.wav|Sometimes it seems almost as if you were afraid----"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000013_000000.wav|She paused again, and again the man was silent.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000018_000000.wav|Margaret made an impatient gesture.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000000.wav|It was her own fault.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000007_000000.wav|Margaret raised an imperious hand.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000024_000000.wav|If the man heard, he did not heed.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000008.wav|Was it not, after all, the very best thing that could have happened?|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000014_000000.wav|"Don't you know what I'm trying to do?" she asked.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000029_000000.wav|"Bobby, I did not understand-I did not know," she said gently.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000010_000000.wav|"You sent for me?" he asked.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000002_000004.wav|She was, in fact, perilously near a breakdown.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000003_000004.wav|They all looked to her.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000031_000001.wav|We-we will do it together-this work."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000001.wav|She had brought this thing upon herself.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000004_000004.wav|Their letters showed unmistakably their impatience at the delay, and questioned her as to her health and welfare, but could set no date for their return.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000016_000001.wav|Didn't I appoint us a committee of two to do the work?" Her voice shook, and her chin trembled like that of a grieved child.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000030_000000.wav|"Won't have to-stay-away!"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000004_000005.wav|Frank, in particular, was disturbed, they said.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000003_000005.wav|Even Bobby McGinnis, when she saw him at all-which was seldom-treated her with a frigid deference that was inexpressibly annoying to her.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000012.wav|Of course she loved him!|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000008_000001.wav|I will see him now." And Patty, wondering vaguely what had come to her gentle eyed, gentle voiced mistress-as she insisted upon calling Margaret-fled precipitately.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000004.wav|But, after all, why should he not love her?|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000023_000000.wav|"Bobby!" breathed Margaret in surprised dismay, falling back before the fire in the eyes that suddenly turned and flashed straight into hers. "Why, Bobby!"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000003_000002.wav|Here she was the head, the strong tower of defense, the one to whom everybody came with troubles, perplexities, and griefs.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000004_000000.wav|From the Spencers she heard irregularly.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000021_000000.wav|"Don't you know that I am alone here-that I have no friends but you and Patty?" she went on tremulously.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000002_000000.wav|To Margaret, however, the whole thing seemed hopelessly small: there was so much to do, so little done!|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000003_000003.wav|There was no human being to whom she could turn for comfort.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000005.wav|And why should she not-love him?|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000032_000000.wav|"But you don't mean-you can't mean----" McGinnis paused, his breath suspended.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000016_000000.wav|"Didn't I ask you to help me?|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000025_000001.wav|"I don't dare to trust myself within sight of your dear eyes, or within touch of your dear hands-though all the while I'm hungry for both.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000011_000001.wav|All the pent loneliness of the past weeks and months burst forth in a stinging whip of retort.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000006.wav|He was good and true and noble, and for years he had loved her-she remembered now their childish compact, and she bitterly reproached herself for not thinking of it before-it might have saved her this....|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000002_000001.wav|She was still the little girl with the teaspoon and the bowl of sand; and the chasm yawned as wide as ever.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000002.wav|She should have seen-have understood.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000034_000000.wav|"Margaret!" choked the man, as he fell on his knees and caught the girl's two hands to his lips.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000009_000000.wav|Two minutes later Bobby McGinnis himself stood tall and straight just inside the door.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000019_000000.wav|"Bobby McGinnis, why don't you help me?" she demanded, tearfully.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000004_000003.wav|Then had come the good news that Frank was out of danger, though still far too weak to undertake the long journey home.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000026_000001.wav|Gradually her confused senses were coming into something like order.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000020_000001.wav|The man had half turned his face so that only his profile showed clean cut and square chinned against the close shut door.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000017_000000.wav|"Yes." Again that strained, almost harsh monosyllable.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000002_000003.wav|For months her strength, time, nerves, and sympathies had been taxed to the utmost; and now that there had come a breathing space, when the intricate machinery of her scheme could run for a moment without her hand at the throttle, she was left weak and nerveless.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000026_000000.wav|Over by the table Margaret stood silent, motionless, her eyes on the bowed figure of the man before her.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000011_000000.wav|Margaret sprang to her feet.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000012_000000.wav|"Yes, I sent for you." She paused, but the man did not speak, and in a moment she went on hurriedly, feverishly.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000007.wav|Still, did she want to save herself this?|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000027_000009.wav|Where, and how could she do more good in the world than right here with this strong, loving heart to help her?...|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000026_000002.wav|Slowly her dazed thoughts were taking shape.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000002_000002.wav|To tell the truth, Margaret was tired, discouraged, and homesick.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000022_000000.wav|"I am afraid," cut in a voice shaken with emotion.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000003_000000.wav|Added to all this, she was lonely.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000004_000007.wav|As for Frank himself-he had not written her since his illness.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000012_000001.wav|"I always send for you-if I see you at all, and yet you know how hard I'm trying to help these people, and that you are the only one here that can help me."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000024_000002.wav|He had stepped forward as she fell back, and his eyes still blazed into hers.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101884/5660_101884_000028_000000.wav|Very softly Margaret crossed the room and touched the man's shoulder.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000020_000003.wav|Kendall shivered visibly-"and Margaret was just delivering herself of a final blow that sent the great bully off blubbering."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000019_000001.wav|"Why, he's almost twice her size."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000008_000000.wav|For four years now her young daughter had been away from her tender care and influence; and for only one of those four years-the last-had she come under the influence of any sort of refinement or culture, and then under only such as a city missionary and an overworked schoolteacher could afford, supplemented by the two trips to Mont Lawn.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000022_000000.wav|"Harry!" gasped mrs Kendall.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000006_000002.wav|She was not ungrateful, certainly, but she was overwhelmed.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000017_000005.wav|At heart she's so gentle and-why, what"--he broke off with an unspoken question, his eyes widely opened at the change that had come to her face.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000015_000005.wav|So far her horror is tempered by the fact that she is sure I didn't know before that there were any people who did not have all these things.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000010_000000.wav|"What shall I do?" she asked anxiously.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000013_000004.wav|It's in her-the gentleness and the refinement.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000013_000000.wav|"I know, I know," nodded the man.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000013_000006.wav|But she'll come out straight.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000008_000002.wav|It was not easy for "Mag of the Alley" to become at once Margaret Kendall, the dainty little daughter of a well bred, fastidious mother.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000015_000000.wav|"Her heart, doctor!" she exclaimed.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000006_000000.wav|Nor was this all.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000022_000001.wav|"'Good'--a delicate girl!"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000015_000006.wav|Now that she has told me of them, she confidently looks to me to do my obvious duty at once."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000012_000000.wav|"The child is so good and loving," she went on a little hurriedly, "that it makes it all the harder-but I must do something.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000004_000005.wav|But there!|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000020_000002.wav|When I arrived on the scene they were the center of an admiring crowd of children,"--mrs|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000016_000000.wav|The doctor laughed.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000020_000000.wav|"Yes, I know, but that didn't seem to occur to Margaret," returned mrs Kendall.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000007_000000.wav|Not only the cakes and the tidies, however, gave mrs Kendall food for thought during those first few days after Margaret's return.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000017_000001.wav|Then he grew suddenly grave.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000015_000003.wav|Why, Harry,"--mrs|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000004_000001.wav|"But, there!|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000004_000006.wav|what's past is past, and there ain't no use frettin' over it.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000017_000004.wav|You'll see.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000003_000000.wav|Bit by bit the little girl's history was related in every house in town; and many a woman-and some men-wept over the tale of how the little fingers had sewed on buttons in the attic sweat shop, and pasted bags in the ill smelling cellar.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000014_000000.wav|mrs Kendall laughed softly.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000012_000002.wav|Doctor, what shall I do?"|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000013_000007.wav|Her heart is all right."|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000015_000001.wav|"Just there lies the greatest problem of all.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000002_000001.wav|To be lost at five years of age in a great city, to be snatched from wealth, happiness, and a loving mother's arms, only to be thrust instantly into poverty, misery, and loneliness; and then to be, after four long years, suddenly returned-no wonder Houghtonsville held its breath and questioned if it all indeed were true.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, nothing," returned mrs Kendall, almost despairingly, "only if you'd seen Joe Bagley yesterday morning I'm afraid you'd have changed your opinion of her gentleness.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000017_000000.wav|"As if you weren't always doing things for people," he said fondly.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000009_000001.wav|Kendall went for advice.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000007_000001.wav|From the very nature of the case it was, of necessity, a period of adjustment; and to mrs Kendall's consternation there was every indication of friction, if not disaster.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000004_000002.wav|ain't that what she's always doin' for folks-somethin' ter make 'em happy?|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5660/101854/5660_101854_000013_000001.wav|"I have seen it myself.|5660
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6119/48032/6119_48032_000041_000005.wav|He said:|6119
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000011_000002.wav|The only thing you want, in order to become as fat as a pig, is a wife that can bring you broad, rich lands.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000060_000002.wav|He drew out an orange and opened it with his knife.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000104_000000.wav|'Well, what do you expect?|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000173_000000.wav|'Well, and the other one?' asked Tubby.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000080_000000.wav|eight|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000010_000000.wav|Instead of chatting with them in the dusk, he wandered about the woods, whispering to the moon.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000047_000000.wav|'No,' replied the rope; 'you have left me for many years past to fall to pieces with the damp.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000076_000000.wav|'Well, then, my charming Zizi,' said the young Prince, who was longing to marry her, 'let us ride away quickly so as to escape from the wicked witch.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000168_000000.wav|'Your Excellency, it is the bird,' replied the Scullion, and he placed it in his hand.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000119_000001.wav|She was too ugly and ragged for him ever to have noticed her, but Titty on her side had admired him, though she thought he might well have been a little fatter.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000118_000000.wav|'I am waiting for my lover,' Zizi replied; and then, with a simplicity quite natural in a girl who so lately had been a canary, she told all her story.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000131_000002.wav|Oh! why did I not follow the old man's advice?|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000131_000003.wav|Why did I leave her alone?|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000148_000000.wav|'Good morning, lovely golden bird,' replied the chief of the scullions, who had been well brought up.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000083_000000.wav|'They are pink and white,' he replied, 'and their eyes are blue.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000035_000004.wav|When you have done this, do not enter the castle, but go round it and enter the orange grove.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000097_000003.wav|As she grew older, the little gypsy became much more remarkable for strength and cunning than for sense or beauty. She had a low forehead, a flat nose, thick lips, coarse hair, and a skin not golden like that of Zizi, but the colour of clay.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000038_000004.wav|The Prince entered boldly into the courtyard.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000026_000003.wav|The Prince got down from his horse and asked leave to rest.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000049_000001.wav|He has given me as much as I want.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000176_000000.wav|And he seated himself solemnly on the oven, and condemned Titty to be burned alive.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000019_000002.wav|I gathered one of them, and when I opened it there came out a lovely princess with a golden skin.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000047_000001.wav|He has stretched me out in the sun|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000005_000000.wav|THE ENCHANTED CANARY|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000108_000000.wav|'I met a wolf,' she told the bricklayer, 'and I broke the bucket across his nose.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000123_000001.wav|The gypsy began to comb her long brown locks, when suddenly she drew a pin from her stays, and, just as the titmouse digs its beak into the heads of linnets and larks, Titty dug the pin into the head of Zizi.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000139_000001.wav|'But she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000071_000000.wav|'I am thirsty; give me something to drink.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000025_000001.wav|He travelled in this way for many weeks, passing by villages, towns, mountains, valleys, and plains, but always pushing south, where every day the sun seemed hotter and more brilliant.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000087_000002.wav|Was I wrong, my lovely Zizi?'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000097_000002.wav|He carried her home to his wife, and the good woman was sorry for her, and brought her up with her own sons.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000066_000000.wav|seven|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000011_000001.wav|'You have everything you can possibly wish for: a good bed, good food, and tuns full of beer.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000094_000000.wav|Suddenly she heard a noise among the trees.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000174_000000.wav|The other one was stealing quietly to the door.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000031_000002.wav|Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000155_000000.wav|While the Master Cook was upstairs, the golden bird came again to perch on the window sill, and called in his clear voice to the head scullion, who was watching the spit:|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000054_000001.wav|Still his heart was light, for he felt that he had got through the most difficult part of his task, and the rest was easy.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000019_000003.wav|That is the wife I want, and I am going to look for her.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000163_000000.wav|The bird appeared a third time, and said: 'Good morning, my fine Cook.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000022_000000.wav|'A yellow wife!|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000090_000001.wav|When they were about four stone throws from the gates they dismounted in the forest, by the edge of a fountain.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000045_000001.wav|YOU never cared to give me a brush; but he has given me one, and he shall go in peace.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000070_000000.wav|He took his knife and cut it open.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000057_000001.wav|Already he felt that death was near him, when his eyes fell on the bag where the oranges peeped out.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000178_000001.wav|All the boys in the country side were there, armed with wooden swords, and decorated with epaulets made of gilt paper.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000036_000002.wav|Your choice once made, be very careful never to leave your bride for an instant, and remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000158_000000.wav|'I pray Heaven,' went on the Canary, 'that it will send you to sleep, and that the goose may burn, so that there may be none left for Titty.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000179_000001.wav|And this is why to day the country boys always throw stones at a titmouse.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000087_000000.wav|'No,' he said at last.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000009_000000.wav|Now, the only trouble that Lord Tubby had was about his son, whom he loved very much, although they were not in the least alike, for the young Prince was as thin as a cuckoo.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000026_000000.wav|At last one day at sunset Desire felt the sun so warm, that he thought he must now be near the place of his dream.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000138_000001.wav|'Is this the wonderful beauty?'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000104_000001.wav|The pitcher may go many times to the well....'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000153_000000.wav|'As if it wasn't enough,' he grumbled between his teeth, 'that the boy should pick up a hag without a penny, but the goose must go and burn now.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000095_000001.wav|Let us see who this creature was.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000039_000000.wav|Suddenly he heard fierce howls, and a dog as tall as a donkey, with eyes like billiard balls, came towards him, showing his teeth, which were like the prongs of a fork.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000062_000000.wav|'Give me something to drink, I am dying of thirst,' said the golden bird.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000059_000001.wav|'If only these oranges were real fruit-fruit as refreshing as what I ate in Flanders!|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000033_000000.wav|The next day the Prince arose early and took leave of his host.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000134_000000.wav|She was then perched on the top of a magnificent ambling palfrey, and they set forth to the castle.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000120_000000.wav|'Dear, dear!' she said to herself.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000082_000000.wav|Once she inquired what the girls in his country were like.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000113_000001.wav|It was not at all easy to fill the milk can, which was large and round.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000044_000000.wav|'Baker, baker, take him by his feet, and throw him into the oven!'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000170_000000.wav|'Gracious! what a pretty girl!' said Tubby.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000022_000001.wav|He must be mad! fit for a strait waistcoat!' cried the good man, when he was able to speak.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000159_000000.wav|And the Scullion fell fast asleep, and when the Master Cook came back he found the goose as black as the chimney.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000013_000000.wav|'My faith!' cried Tubby; 'do you want to marry a negress, and give me grandchildren as ugly as monkeys and as stupid as owls?'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000061_000000.wav|Out of it flew the prettiest little female canary that ever was seen.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000121_000000.wav|It was not long before she did think of it.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000018_000001.wav|Then he went, all dressed for a journey, to the bedside of Tubby, and found him smoking his first pipe.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000164_000000.wav|'Good morning, lovely Golden Bird,' replied the Cook, as if nothing had happened, and at the moment that the Canary was beginning, 'I pray Heaven that it may send,' a scullion who was hidden outside rushed out and shut the shutters.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000047_000002.wav|Let him go in peace.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000078_000000.wav|'To my father's castle,' he said.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000164_000001.wav|The bird flew into the kitchen.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000107_000000.wav|'No; I don't mean to be a beast of burden any longer.' And she flung the bucket so high in the air that it stuck in the branches of an oak.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000091_000000.wav|'My dear Zizi,' said Tubby's son, 'we cannot present ourselves before my father like two common people who have come back from a walk.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000103_000000.wav|'Where is your pitcher?' asked the bricklayer.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000067_000001.wav|It was night, the sky was sparkling with stars, and the earth was covered with a heavy dew.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000069_000002.wav|Perhaps his terrible thirst was a trick of the cunning witch, and suppose, even though he opened the orange on the banks of the stream, that he did not find in it the princess that he sought?|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000106_000000.wav|The gypsy returned to the fountain, and addressing once more the image of Zizi, she said:|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000149_000000.wav|'I pray that Heaven may send you to sleep,' said the golden bird, 'and that the goose may burn, so that there may be none left for Titty.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000165_000000.wav|The Scullion stopped at once, just as he was about to wring the Canary's neck.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000169_000000.wav|'Nonsense!|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000141_000000.wav|But all the same, as he adored his son, he gave the gypsy his hand and led her to the great hall, where the bridal feast was spread.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000136_000000.wav|Bells were pealing, chimes ringing, and the people filling the streets and standing at their doors to watch the procession go by, and they could hardly believe their eyes as they saw what a strange bride their Prince had chosen.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000157_000000.wav|'Good morning, lovely Golden Bird,' replied the Scullion, whom the Master Cook had forgotten in his excitement to warn.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000131_000000.wav|'Poor girl,' he thought to himself.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000038_000001.wav|In less than an hour he arrived at the wall, which was very high indeed.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000156_000000.wav|'Good morning, my fine Scullion!'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000045_000000.wav|'No,' replied the baker; 'a long time has passed since I first began to scour this oven with my own flesh.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000133_000000.wav|They all pretended to believe it, and the ladies at once put on the false princess the rich dresses they had brought for Zizi.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000051_000000.wav|'No,' replied the gate; 'it is a hundred years since you left me to rust, and he has oiled me.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000100_000001.wav|Just as she was stooping to fill it, she saw reflected in the water the lovely image of the Princess.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000059_000002.wav|And, after all, who knows?'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000091_000001.wav|We must enter the castle with more ceremony.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000075_000001.wav|She answered that she was called the Princess Zizi; she was about sixteen years old, and for ten years of that time the witch had kept her shut up in an orange, in the shape of a canary.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000036_000000.wav|'Now, attend to this: whatever happens, do not open your oranges till you reach the bank of a river, or a fountain.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000053_000000.wav|Once outside, the young adventurer put his oranges into a bag that hung from his saddle, mounted his horse, and rode quickly out of the forest.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000051_000001.wav|Let him go in peace.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000129_000000.wav|'Ah me!' said Titty, 'so you don't know your poor Zizi?|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000150_000000.wav|And instantly the chief of the scullions fell fast asleep, and the goose was burnt to a cinder.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000027_000000.wav|'Come in, my young friend,' said the old man; 'my house is not large, but it is big enough to hold a stranger.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000034_000006.wav|Don't try to press it open, but oil the hinges with this,' and the old man gave him a small bottle.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000072_000001.wav|However, he was determined not to let this bird fly away; so he took up some water in the palm of his hand and held it to its beak.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000164_000003.wav|He had come to see for himself why the goose had never made its appearance.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000079_000000.wav|He mounted his horse and took her in front of him, and, holding her carefully in his arms, they began their journey.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000069_000001.wav|Then he remembered that the night before he had disobeyed the orders of the old man.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000075_000000.wav|He asked her name.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000137_000001.wav|At the sight of the hideous creature he almost fell backwards.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000065_000000.wav|Then Tubby's son saw his folly, and while the two canaries flew away he sank on the ground, where, exhausted by his last effort, he lay unconscious.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000129_000002.wav|But if you only have the courage to marry me I shall get back my beauty.' And she began to cry bitterly.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000161_000001.wav|Come, some of you, and hide yourselves, and if it comes again, catch it and wring its neck.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000030_000001.wav|I dreamed that in the land of the sun there was a wood full of orange trees, and that in one of the oranges I should find a beautiful princess who is to be my wife.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000137_000000.wav|In order to do her more honour, Tubby came to meet her at the foot of the great marble staircase.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000119_000000.wav|The gypsy had often seen the young Prince pass by, with his gun on his shoulder, when he was going after crows.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000160_000000.wav|In a fury he woke the Scullion, who in order to save himself from blame told the whole story.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000142_000000.wav|thirteen|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000140_000001.wav|Well, if you believe that, you may drink cold water and think it bacon,' the unhappy Tubby answered crossly.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000063_000001.wav|Out of it flew another canary, and she too began to cry:|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000092_000000.wav|'Don't be long,' replied Zizi, and she watched him go with wistful eyes.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000178_000000.wav|The marriage took place a few days later.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000019_000000.wav|'Father,' he said gravely, 'I have come to bid you farewell.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000169_000001.wav|What a lovely bird!' said Tubby, and in stroking its head he touched a pin that was sticking between its feathers.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000036_000001.wav|Out of each orange will come a princess, and you can choose which you like for your wife.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000095_000000.wav|Then there appeared, not a wolf, but a creature quite as wicked and quite as ugly.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000029_000000.wav|'If I do not mistake, you come from far.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000087_000001.wav|'None of the girls of my own country are beautiful in my eyes, and that is why I came to look for a wife in the land of the sun|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000060_000000.wav|This idea put some life into him.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000068_000000.wav|The traveller having recovered, mounted his horse, and at the first streak of dawn he saw a stream dancing in front of him, and stooped down and drank his fill.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000011_000003.wav|So marry, and you will be perfectly happy.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000040_000000.wav|A few yards further he saw a huge oven, with a wide, red hot gaping mouth.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000038_000002.wav|He sprang to the ground, fastened his horse to a tree, and soon found the iron gate.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000099_000000.wav|Titty was often sent by the bricklayer to fetch water from the fountain, and as she was very proud and lazy the gypsy disliked this very much.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000129_000001.wav|While you were away the wicked witch came, and turned me into this.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000056_000000.wav|But the gourd was empty; in the excitement of his joy he had forgotten to fill it.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000067_000000.wav|When he came to himself, he had a pleasant feeling of freshness all about him.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000081_000002.wav|It is so delightful to teach those one loves!|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000152_000000.wav|While it was browning at the fire, Tubby inquired for his goose a second time.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000109_000000.wav|The bricklayer asked her no more questions, but took down a broom and gave her such a beating that her pride was humbled a little.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000026_000001.wav|He was at that moment close to the corner of a wood where stood a little hut, before the door of which his horse stopped of his own accord.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000098_000000.wav|As she was always being teased about her complexion, she got as noisy and cross as a titmouse.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000105_000000.wav|'But at last it is broken.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000091_000002.wav|Wait for me here, and in an hour I will return with carriages and horses fit for a princess.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000019_000001.wav|Last night I dreamed that I was walking in a wood, where the trees were covered with golden apples.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000152_000002.wav|Tubby showed his patience by abusing his son.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000169_000002.wav|He pulled it out, and lo! the Canary at once became a beautiful girl with a golden skin who jumped lightly to the ground.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000035_000005.wav|Then gather three oranges, and get back to the gate as fast as you can.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000046_000000.wav|'Rope, O rope!' cried the voice again, 'twine yourself round his neck and strangle him.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000011_000000.wav|'What is the matter with you?' his father often said to him.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000105_000001.wav|Well, here is a bucket that will not break.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000101_000002.wav|I am certainly much too pretty to be their water carrier!'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000029_000001.wav|May I ask where you are going?'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000069_000000.wav|He hardly had courage to open his last orange.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000030_000002.wav|It is she I am seeking.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000057_000000.wav|He let himself slide to the earth, and lay down beside his horse, his throat burning, his chest heaving, and his head going round.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000152_000001.wav|The Master Cook himself mounted to the hall to make his excuses, and to beg his lord to have a little patience.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000123_000000.wav|The innocent Zizi came down at once, and stood by Titty.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000049_000002.wav|Let him go in peace.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000017_000000.wav|That evening Tubby and his son ate the golden apples at supper, and thought them delicious.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000023_000000.wav|The servants mounted their horses and rode after the Prince; but as they did not know which road he had taken, they went all ways except the right one, and instead of bringing him back they returned themselves when it grew dark, with their horses worn out and covered with dust.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000097_000001.wav|Now, fifteen years before this time, the father in walking through the forest found a little girl, who had been deserted by the gypsies.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000056_000001.wav|He rode on, struggling with his sufferings, but at last he could bear it no longer.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000094_000002.wav|It was big enough to hold her altogether, but she peeped out, and her pretty head was reflected in the clear water.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000131_000001.wav|'It is not her fault, after all, that she has grown so ugly, it is mine.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000143_000001.wav|However, to make up, the other guests ate greedily, and, as for Tubby, nothing ever took away his appetite.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000035_000002.wav|Give her this brush.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000177_000000.wav|sixteen|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000086_000000.wav|Still he was silent, and Zizi drew herself up proudly.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000031_000000.wav|'Why should I laugh?' asked the old man.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000049_000000.wav|'No,' replied the dog; 'though I have served you long, you never gave me any bread.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000048_000000.wav|'Dog, my good dog,' cried the voice, more and more angry, 'jump at his throat and eat him up.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000008_000000.wav|Still, with all his practice he shot very badly, he was so fat and heavy, and as he grew daily fatter, he was at last obliged to give up walking, and be dragged about in a wheel chair, and the people made fun of him, and gave him the name of my Lord Tubby.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000175_000000.wav|'Stop her! called Tubby.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000132_000000.wav|So he presented the gypsy to the lords and ladies of the Court, explaining to them the terrible misfortune which had befallen his beautiful bride.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000166_000000.wav|fifteen|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000088_000000.wav|This time it was Zizi's turn to be silent.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000127_000000.wav|Meanwhile the Prince was coming as fast as his horse could carry him. He was so impatient that he was always full fifty yards in front of the lords and ladies sent by Tubby to bring back Zizi.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000098_000001.wav|So they used to call her Titty.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000162_000000.wav|He spitted a third goose, lit a huge fire, and seated himself by it.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000114_000000.wav|At last her arms grew so tired that when she did manage to get the can properly under the water she had no strength to pull it up, and it rolled to the bottom.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000034_000001.wav|'It is in the depth of the forest, and this road will lead you there.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000126_000000.wav|twelve|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000050_000000.wav|'Iron gate, iron gate,' cried the voice, growling like thunder, 'fall on him and grind him to powder.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000179_000000.wav|Zizi obtained Titty's pardon, and she was sent back to the brick fields, followed and hooted at by all the boys.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000070_000001.wav|Alas! out of it flew a little canary, just like the others, who cried:|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000028_000001.wav|When his hunger was satisfied the old man said to him:|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000115_000000.wav|On seeing the can disappear, she made such a miserable face that Zizi, who had been watching her all this time, burst into fits of laughter.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000100_000000.wav|It was she who had frightened Zizi by appearing with her pitcher on her shoulder.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000138_000000.wav|'What!' he cried.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000094_000001.wav|Fearing lest it should be a wolf, she hid herself in the hollow trunk of a willow tree which hung over the fountain.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000073_000000.wav|Scarcely had the canary drunk when she became a beautiful girl, tall and straight as a poplar tree, with black eyes and a golden skin.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000041_000000.wav|Then he went on to the well, drew up the cord, which was half rotten, and stretched it out in the sun|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000175_000001.wav|'We will judge her cause at once.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000042_000000.wav|Lastly he went round the castle, and plunged into the orange grove. There he gathered the three most beautiful oranges he could find, and turned to go back to the gate.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000038_000003.wav|Then he took out his bottle and oiled the hinges, when the gate opened of itself, and he saw an old castle standing inside.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000140_000000.wav|'Does she say so?|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000012_000001.wav|All the girls here are pink and white, and I am tired to death of their eternal lilie and roses.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000122_000001.wav|Get down at once, my poor child, and let me dress your hair for you!'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000034_000004.wav|Behind the castle is the orange grove.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000164_000002.wav|Then all the cooks and scullions sprang after it, knocking at it with their aprons. At length one of them caught it just at the very moment that Tubby entered the kitchen, waving his sceptre.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000085_000000.wav|'And no doubt,' went on the Princess, 'one of them is your intended bride?'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000131_000004.wav|And besides, it depends on me to break the spell, and I love her too much to let her remain like this.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000180_000000.wav|On the evening of the wedding day all the larders, cellars, cupboards and tables of the people, whether rich or poor, were loaded as if by enchantment with bread, wine, beer, cakes and tarts, roast larks, and even geese, so that Tubby could not complain any more that his son had married Famine.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000120_000001.wav|'So he likes yellow women!|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000093_000000.wav|When she was left by herself the poor girl began to feel afraid.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000181_000000.wav|Since that time there has always been plenty to eat in that country, and since that time, too, you see in the midst of the fair haired blue eyed women of Flanders a few beautiful girls, whose eyes are black and whose skins are the colour of gold.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000034_000002.wav|You will come to a vast park surrounded by high walls.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000128_000000.wav|At the sight of the hideous gypsy he was struck dumb with surprise and horror.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000034_000003.wav|In the middle of the park is a castle, where dwells a horrible witch who allows no living being to enter the doors.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000055_000001.wav|Here he was seized with dreadful thirst; he took his gourd and raised it to his lips.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000035_000006.wav|Once out of the gate, leave the forest by the opposite side.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000102_000000.wav|So saying, she broke her pitcher and went home.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000144_000000.wav|When the moment arrived to serve the roast goose, there was a pause, and Tubby took the opportunity to lay down his knife and fork for a little. But as the goose gave no sign of appearing, he sent his head carver to find out what was the matter in the kitchen.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000120_000002.wav|Why, I am yellow too, and if I could only think of a way----'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000101_000001.wav|How in the world can they call me ugly?|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000074_000000.wav|On her side she seemed quite bewildered, but she looked about her with happy eyes, and was not at all afraid of her deliverer.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000035_000000.wav|'The gate will open of itself,' he continued, 'and a huge dog which guards the castle will come to you with his mouth wide open, but just throw him this oat cake.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000014_000001.wav|But there must be women somewhere in the world who are neither pink nor white, and I tell you, once for all, that I will never marry until I have found one exactly to my taste.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000064_000000.wav|'I am dying of thirst; give me something to drink.'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000116_000000.wav|Titty turned round and perceived the mistake she had made; and she felt so angry that she made up her mind to be revenged at once.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000014_000000.wav|'No, father, nothing of the sort.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000172_000000.wav|And he took her in his arms, crying: 'My darling Zizi, how happy I am to see you once more!'|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000007_000001.wav|He ate four meals a day, slept twelve hours out of the twenty four, and the only thing he ever did was to shoot at small birds with his bow and arrow.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000055_000000.wav|About mid day he reached a sandy plain, scorching in the sun|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000059_000000.wav|'Ah!' he said to himself.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000113_000002.wav|It would not go down into the well, and the gypsy had to try again and again.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3540/163612/3540_163612_000021_000001.wav|He jumped lightly on his horse, and was a mile from home before Tubby had ceased laughing.|3540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000041_000000.wav|I turned and looked back at the sea.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000032_000000.wav|My heart swelled, and suddenly I was weeping.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000025_000001.wav|I must, of course, have been full of my intention when I did that, I must have been thinking of Nettie and revenge, but I cannot now recall those emotions at all.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000026_000001.wav|And once-strange phantoms!--I saw far out upon the shine, and very small and distant, three long black warships, without masts, or sails, or smoke, or any lights, dark, deadly, furtive things, traveling very swiftly and keeping an equal distance. And when I looked again they were very small, and then the shine had swallowed them up.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000031_000000.wav|How beautiful it was! how still and beautiful!|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000003.wav|Of course there were many discomforts in such camping that had to be faced cheerfully, and so this broad sandy beach was sacred to high spirits and the young.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000046_000000.wav|Two people were bathing in the sea.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000018_000001.wav|Only by making it clear I would distract him until he told me what I wanted to know could I get him to turn from his absorbed contemplation of that phantom dance between the sea rim and the shine.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000039_000000.wav|Why not?|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000004.wav|Art muslin and banjoes, Chinese lanterns and frying, are leading "notes," I find, in the impression of those who once knew such places well.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000061_000002.wav|I wanted fiercely; I made love impatiently. Perhaps I had written irrelevant love letters for that very reason; because with this stark theme I could not play. . .|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000041_000002.wav|Something within me said, "No!"|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000001_000000.wav|Section three|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000026_000000.wav|Then there was the sky, the wonderful, luminous, starless, moonless sky, and the empty blue deeps of the edge of it, between the meteor and the sea.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000059_000001.wav|At least that is the impression I have brought with me across the gulf of the great Change.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000049_000000.wav|She glanced over her shoulder and found him nearer than she thought, started, gesticulated, gave a little cry that pierced me to the heart, and fled up the beach obliquely toward me, running like the wind, and passed me, vanished amidst the black distorted bushes, and was gone-she and her pursuer, in a moment, over the ridge of sand.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000028_000000.wav|Somewhere upon my way the road forked, but I do not remember whether that was near Shaphambury or near the end of my walk.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000025_000000.wav|Once I remember the persistent barking of a dog from somewhere inland of me, and several times I took out and examined my revolver very carefully.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000003_000007.wav|I stood until it was evident they remarked me, a black shape of envy, silhouetted against the glare.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000029_000000.wav|At last I grew weary.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000006_000000.wav|One couple had gone to London; the other had gone to the Bungalow village at Bone Cliff.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000047_000002.wav|These people must have come into sight as I fell asleep, and awakened me almost at once.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000000.wav|This place, upon which I had at last happened, was a fruit of the reaction of artistic minded and carelessly living people against the costly and uncomfortable social stiffness of the more formal seaside resorts of that time.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000002.wav|The thing had become a fashion with a certain Bohemian spirited class; they added cabin to cabin, and these little improvised homes, gaily painted and with broad verandas and supplementary leantos added to their accommodation, made the brightest contrast conceivable to the dull rigidities of the decorous resorts.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000020_000000.wav|I answered with some foul insult by way of thanks, and so we parted, and I set off towards the bungalow village.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000034_000001.wav|I did not want to be the servant of my passions any more.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000013_000000.wav|He was too intent to heed my questions for a time.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000008.wav|Fancy a world in which the common people held love to be a sort of beastliness, own sister to being drunk! . . .|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000003_000002.wav|Two couples were still in occupation of their rooms, but neither of these were at home.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000053_000000.wav|And, it blazed upon me, I might have died there by the sheer ebbing of my will-unavenged!|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000048_000000.wav|Each wore a tightly fitting bathing dress that hid nothing of the shining, dripping beauty of their youthful forms.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000018_000000.wav|He didn't answer.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000017_000000.wav|"You'd hear," I said, "long before it was near enough to see a flash."|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000014_000002.wav|Nice goings on! Mixed bathing-something scandalous.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000062_000000.wav|The thought of Nettie's shining form, of her shrinking bold abandon to her easy conqueror, gave me now a body of rage that was nearly too strong for my heart and nerves and the tense powers of my merely physical being.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000004_000001.wav|The question I now had to debate was which of the remaining couples I had to pursue.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000022_000000.wav|"It's a lonely road, you know," he called after me. . . .|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000036_000001.wav|My resolve I knew would take up with me again.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000012_000000.wav|"Search lights!|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000037_000001.wav|It entered into my thoughts that I might end the matter now and let these others go.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000034_000003.wav|I had played-I had done.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000035_000000.wav|I stood upon the edge of the great ocean, and I was filled with an inarticulate spirit of prayer, and I desired greatly-peace from myself.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000024_000005.wav|Then isolated pine witches would appear, and make their rigid gestures at me as I passed.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000007.wav|To the poor man, to the grimy workers, beauty and cleanness were absolutely denied; out of a life of greasy dirt, of muddied desires, they watched their happier fellows with a bitter envy and foul, tormenting suspicions.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000003_000001.wav|They had all arrived either on Wednesday or Thursday.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000059_000000.wav|There was in the old time always something cruel at the bottom of this business of sexual love.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000012_000003.wav|If it wasn't for this blasted Milky Way gone green up there, we might see."|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000025_000002.wav|Only I see again very distinctly the greenish gleams that ran over lock and barrel as I turned the weapon in my hand.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000062_000001.wav|I came down among the pale sand heaps slowly toward that queer village of careless sensuality, and now within my puny body I was coldly sharpset for pain and death, a darkly gleaming hate, a sword of evil, drawn.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000016_000001.wav|"What's that flicker?|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000005_000000.wav|I walked back to the parade trying to reason my next step out, and muttering to myself, because there was something in that luminous wonderfulness that touched one's brain, and made one feel a little light headed.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000061_000000.wav|Whatever may be true of this for others, for me and my imagination, at any rate, it was altogether true.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000036_000000.wav|And presently, there in the east, would come again the red discoloring curtain over these mysteries, the finite world again, the gray and growing harsh certainties of dawn.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000028_000001.wav|The hesitation between two rutted unmade roads alone remains clear in my mind.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000018_000002.wav|Indeed I gripped his arm and shook him.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000060_000002.wav|You loved against the world, and these two loved AT me. They had their business with one another, under the threat of a watchful fierceness.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000040_000001.wav|I walked slowly up the beach thinking. . . .|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000002_000001.wav|After failing to find any young couple that corresponded to young Verrall and Nettie, I presently discovered an unsatisfactory quartette of couples.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000003_000003.wav|Late in the afternoon I reduced my list by eliminating a young man in drab, with side whiskers and long cuffs, accompanied by a lady, of thirty or more, of consciously ladylike type.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000003_000006.wav|I stood outside in the meteor's livid light, hating them and cursing them for having delayed me so long.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000056_000000.wav|I came up over the little ridge and discovered the bungalow village I had been seeking, nestling in a crescent lap of dunes.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000043_000002.wav|I drew my revolver from my pocket and looked at it, and held it in my hand.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000014_000000.wav|"Know Bungalow village?--rather.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000045_000000.wav|Section four|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000014_000003.wav|Yes."|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000038_000000.wav|To wade out into the sea, into this warm lapping that mingled the natures of water and light, to stand there breast high, to thrust my revolver barrel into my mouth------?|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000009_000000.wav|He pointed seaward with his pipe, his silver ring shone in the sky light.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000041_000001.wav|No!|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000031_000001.wav|Peace! peace!--the peace that passeth understanding, robed in light descending! . . .|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000018_000003.wav|Then he turned upon me cursing.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000044_000000.wav|I seemed to be probing the very deeps of being, but indeed imperceptibly I fell asleep, and sat dreaming.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000015_000000.wav|"But where is it?" I said, suddenly exasperated.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000034_000002.wav|A great desire had come to me to escape from life, from the daylight which is heat and conflict and desire, into that cool night of eternity-and rest.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000024_000003.wav|At one place came grass, and ghostly great sheep looming up among the gray.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000012_000002.wav|Ships going north!|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000004_000000.wav|That finished Shaphambury.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000043_000004.wav|Or Death? . . .|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000024_000006.wav|Grotesquely incongruous amidst these forms, I presently came on estate boards, appealing, "Houses can be built to suit purchaser," to the silence, to the shadows, and the glare.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000061_000001.wav|I was never for dalliance, I was never a jesting lover.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000047_000000.wav|I had awakened.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000001.wav|It was, you must understand, the custom of the steam railway companies to sell their carriages after they had been obsolete for a sufficient length of years, and some genius had hit upon the possibility of turning these into little habitable cabins for the summer holiday.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000012_000001.wav|Smoke!|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000006.wav|I saw the thing as no gathering of light hearts and gay idleness, but grimly-after the manner of poor men poisoned by the suppression of all their cravings after joy.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000029_000002.wav|I came out on the edge of the dimly glittering sandy beach, and something phosphorescent drew me to the water's edge.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000021_000000.wav|I found a policeman, standing star gazing, a little way beyond the end of the parade, and verified the wooden legged man's directions.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000007_000000.wav|I came upon my wooden legged man at the top of his steps.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000033_000001.wav|It came to me that indeed I did not want to kill.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000016_000002.wav|A gunflash-or I'm a lost soul!"|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000008_000000.wav|"Hullo," said i|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000006_000001.wav|Where, I wondered, was Bone Cliff?|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000034_000000.wav|I did not want to kill.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000058_000005.wav|But so far as I was concerned this odd settlement of pleasure squatters was a mystery as well as a surprise, enhanced rather than mitigated by an imaginative suggestion or so I had received from the wooden legged man at Shaphambury.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000054_000000.wav|In another moment I was running and stumbling, revolver in hand, in quiet unsuspected pursuit of them, through the soft and noiseless sand.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000037_000000.wav|Why this paltry thing, revenge?|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000030_000001.wav|The meteor had now trailed its shining nets across the whole space of the sky and was beginning to set; in the east the blue was coming to its own again; the sea was an intense edge of blackness, and now, escaped from that great shine, and faint and still tremulously valiant, one weak elusive star could just be seen, hovering on the verge of the invisible.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000040_000000.wav|I swung about with an effort.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000036_000002.wav|This was a rest for me, an interlude, but to morrow I should be William Leadford once more, ill nourished, ill dressed, ill equipped and clumsy, a thief and shamed, a wound upon the face of life, a source of trouble and sorrow even to the mother I loved; no hope in life left for me now but revenge before my death.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000050_000000.wav|I heard him shout between exhaustion and laughter. . . .|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000029_000001.wav|I came to piled heaps of decaying seaweed and cart tracks running this way and that, and then I had missed the road and was stumbling among sand hummocks quite close to the sea.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000027_000000.wav|Then once a flash and what I thought was a gun, until I looked up and saw a fading trail of greenish light still hanging in the sky.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000047_000003.wav|They waded breast deep in the water, emerging, coming shoreward, a woman, with her hair coiled about her head, and in pursuit of her a man, graceful figures of black and silver, with a bright green surge flowing off from them, a pattering of flashing wavelets about them.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000060_000000.wav|I felt no sense of singularity that this thread of savagery should run through these emotions of mine and become now the whole strand of these emotions.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000043_000000.wav|It was troublesome to go further because the hummocks and the tangled bushes began.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000057_000001.wav|All had doors and windows carelessly open, and none showed a light.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000057_000000.wav|There was a group of three bungalows nearer to me than the others. Into one of these three they had gone, and I was too late to see which.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000042_000000.wav|I must think.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000043_000003.wav|Life?|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000011_000000.wav|"What is?" I asked.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000056_000001.wav|A door slammed, the two runners had vanished, and I halted staring.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000060_000001.wav|I believed, and I think I was right in believing, that the love of all true lovers was a sort of defiance then, that they closed a system in each other's arms and mocked the world without.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000024_000001.wav|The sea was for the most part smooth and shining like a mirror, a great expanse of reflecting silver, barred by slow broad undulations, but at one time a little breeze breathed like a faint sigh and ruffled their long bodies into faint scaly ripples that never completely died out again.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/77361/6877_77361_000033_000000.wav|There was something new and strange in my blood.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000087_000000.wav|A few days later the Miller came and told him that the old ass which was to be beaten three times and fed once, was dead.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000072_000000.wav|The power of the salad at once became apparent, because she also turned into an ass, and ran out into the yard to join the Old Witch, while the dish of salad fell to the ground.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000074_000000.wav|But the Huntsman thought: 'The plant must have done its work,' and said: 'I will go into the kitchen and see.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000066_000000.wav|When the Old Witch heard about the rare salad, she felt a great desire to have some, and said: 'Good countryman, let me try the wonderful salad!'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000052_000000.wav|After he had sat there for a time, a cloud floated over him, and carried him away.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000078_000000.wav|'I am bringing the precious food to you myself,' said he, 'so that you may not have to wait any longer.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000064_000000.wav|The Witch said: 'Who are you, countryman, and what do you want?'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000065_000003.wav|But the sun is so burning, that I am afraid the tender plant will be withered, and I don't know if I shall be able to take it any further.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000071_000000.wav|Then the Maid came into the kitchen, saw the salad standing ready, and was about to put it on the table.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000048_000000.wav|The first one, as he came along, stumbled against him, and said: 'What kind of earthworm is this?'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000006_000000.wav|The Huntsman thanked the Wise Woman, and thought: 'She promises fine things, if only they turn out as well.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000085_000001.wav|The younger one, which was the Maid, beaten once and fed three times.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000033_000000.wav|The Maiden said: 'Let us leave him that; we have taken away his wealth.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000062_000000.wav|After wandering about for a few days, he was fortunate enough to find it.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000015_000000.wav|He collected quite a heap of gold, and at last he thought: 'What is the good of all my gold if I stay at home here?|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000004_000000.wav|The Huntsman pitied the poor Old Woman, put his hand in his pocket, and made her a present according to his means.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000009_000000.wav|'Well,' said the Huntsman, 'this is extraordinary, it is exactly what the Old Woman said.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000012_000000.wav|He did as the Old Woman had told him, cut the heart out of the bird and swallowed it whole.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000010_000000.wav|He put his gun to his shoulder, took aim and fired right into the middle of them, making the feathers fly about.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000065_000002.wav|I have been lucky enough to find it, and I carry it with me.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000053_000000.wav|At first he was swept through the air, but then he was gently lowered and deposited within a large walled garden, upon a soft bed of lettuces and other herbs.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000037_000001.wav|I long for them so much that I grow sad whenever I think of them.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000079_000000.wav|She ate some, and, like the others, was immediately changed into an ass, and ran out to them in the yard.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000084_000001.wav|'How do you want them treated?'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000023_000001.wav|He went in, and he was kindly received and hospitably treated.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000086_000000.wav|Then he went back to the castle and found everything he wanted in it.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000034_000001.wav|Have it I must, and will!'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000057_000000.wav|As he at the same time felt as hungry as ever, and the juicy salad was now very much to his taste, he went on eating greedily.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000091_000000.wav|But he said: 'Keep it; it will be all the same, as I will take you to be my own true wife.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000026_000000.wav|They concocted a potion, and when it was ready they put it into a goblet.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000054_000001.wav|And it will be difficult to get away from here.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000002.wav|Go on your way, and you will come to a tree, on which nine birds are sitting.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000035_000000.wav|So she obeyed the Witch's orders, placed herself at the window, and looked sadly out at the distant hills.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000087_000001.wav|'The other two,' he said, 'which are to be fed three times, are not dead, but they are pining away, and won't last long.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000085_000000.wav|The Huntsman said he wanted the old she ass (the Witch) to be well beaten three times a day and fed once.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000077_000000.wav|Then he picked up the leaves, put them on a dish, and took them to the Maiden.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000047_000000.wav|He quickly lay down again and pretended to be fast asleep.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000059_000000.wav|After this he lay down and slept off his fatigue.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000000.wav|Then he wanted to go on.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000090_000001.wav|My mother forced me to do it.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000089_000000.wav|When they came he gave them some of the other salad to eat, so that they took their human shapes again.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000039_000000.wav|Then he drew her under his cloak, and in a moment they were both sitting on the mountain.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000056_000001.wav|But he had hardly swallowed a little piece, when he began to feel very odd, and quite changed.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000021_000000.wav|She told the girl how he had got it, and at last said: 'If you don't get it from him, it will be the worse for you.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000082_000001.wav|He tapped at the window, and the Miller put his head out and asked what he wanted.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000016_000000.wav|So he took leave of his parents, shouldered his gun, and started off into the world.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000073_000000.wav|In the meantime the messenger was sitting with the beautiful Maiden, and as no one appeared with the salad, she also was seized with a desire to taste it, and said: 'I don't know what has become of the salad.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000049_000000.wav|The second said: 'Tread on him and kill him.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000023_000000.wav|But the real reason was that he had caught sight of the pretty picture at the window.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000018_000000.wav|It so happened that one day he came to a thick forest, and when he got through it, he saw a fine castle lying in the plain beyond.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000003_000001.wav|Pray give me an alms.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000071_000001.wav|But on the way the fancy seized her to taste it, according to her usual habit, and she ate a few leaves.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000069_000000.wav|When it was ready, she could not wait till it was put upon the table, but put a few leaves into her mouth at once.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000030_000000.wav|From this time the Huntsman found no more gold under his pillow; but the coin was always under the Maiden's instead, and the Old Woman used to fetch it away every morning.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000001.wav|But the Old Woman held him back, and said: 'Hark ye, dear Huntsman, I will make you a present because of your good heart.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000050_000000.wav|But the third said: 'It isn't worth the trouble.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000029_000000.wav|The Maiden took it away secretly and swallowed it herself, for the Old Woman wanted to have it.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000090_000002.wav|It was against my own will, for I love you dearly.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000027_000000.wav|And the Maiden took it to him, and said: 'Now, my beloved, you must drink to me.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000011_000000.wav|The birds took flight with a great noise, all except one, which fell down dead, and the cloak dropped at his feet.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000042_000000.wav|So they sat down, and he laid his head on her lap and was soon fast asleep.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000039_000001.wav|The precious stones were glittering around them; their hearts rejoiced at the sight of them, and they soon gathered together some of the finest and largest.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000005.wav|They will drop the cloak, and one of the birds will fall down dead.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000008_000000.wav|There he saw a flock of birds tearing a garment with their beaks and claws; snatching and tearing at it as if each one wanted to have it for himself.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000037_000000.wav|'Alas! my love,' was her answer, 'over there are the garnet mountains, where the precious stones are found.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000063_000000.wav|'I am so tired,' he said; 'I cannot go any further.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000056_000002.wav|He felt four legs growing, a big head, and two long ears, and he saw to his horror that he was changed into an ass.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000034_000000.wav|The Old Woman was very angry, and said: 'A cloak like that is a very wonderful thing, and not often to be got.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000084_000000.wav|'Why not?' said the Miller.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000054_000000.wav|He looked around him and said: 'If only I had something to eat; I am so hungry.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000004.wav|Take aim with your gun, and shoot into the middle of them.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000013_000000.wav|When he woke in the morning, he remembered the Old Woman's promise, and looked under his pillow to see if it was true.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000061_000000.wav|He put the salad into his wallet, climbed over the wall, and went off to find the castle of his beloved.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000037_000002.wav|But who could ever get them?|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000051_000000.wav|Then they passed on, and as soon as they were gone, the Huntsman, who had heard all they said, got up and climbed up to the top of the mountain.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000008.wav|Take the heart out of the dead bird and swallow it whole, then you will find a gold coin under your pillow every single morning when you wake.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000083_000000.wav|'I have three bad animals here,' he said, 'that I want to get rid of. If you will take them and feed them, and treat them as I wish, I will pay you what you like to ask.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000068_000000.wav|The Witch had no suspicions, and her mouth so watered for the new dish, that she went to the kitchen herself to prepare it.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000037_000003.wav|The birds which fly, perhaps; no mortal could ever reach them.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000056_000000.wav|He picked out a fine head of lettuce, and began eating it.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000005_000003.wav|They will have a cloak in their claws, over which they are fighting.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000014_000000.wav|There, sure enough, lay the golden coin shining before him, and the next morning he found another, and the same every morning when he got up.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000031_000000.wav|But he was so much in love, that he thought of nothing but enjoying himself in the Maiden's company.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000012_000001.wav|Then he took the cloak home with him.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000070_000000.wav|Hardly had she swallowed them, when she lost her human shape, and ran out into the courtyard, as an old she ass.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000054_000002.wav|I see neither apples nor pears, nor any other fruit, nothing but salad and herbs.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000007_000000.wav|When he had gone about a hundred paces, he heard above him, in the branches of a tree, such a chattering and screaming that he looked up.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000025_000000.wav|The Old Woman said to the Maiden: 'Now we must get the bird's heart, he will never miss it.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000085_000002.wav|The youngest of all, who was the beautiful Maiden, was to be fed three times, and not beaten at all; he could not find it in his heart to have her beaten.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000082_000000.wav|He tied them all together with a rope, and drove them along till he came to a mill.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000019_000000.wav|He saw an Old Woman standing in one of the windows looking out, with a beautiful Maiden beside her.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000076_000000.wav|'This is all right!' he said; 'two of them are done for.'|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6877/79973/6877_79973_000043_000000.wav|As soon as he was asleep, the Maiden slipped the cloak from his shoulders and put it on her own, loaded herself with the precious garnets, and wished herself at home.|6877
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000041_000000.wav|And meanwhile the band was playing and the darkness was full of the most rousing, intoxicating dance tunes.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000032_000000.wav|"Why do you want me at once?" asked his wife.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000025_000001.wav|I wish it; that's enough, and without further talk, please."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000014_000001.wav|Where do we poor country bumpkins come in!" sneered the tax collector.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000033_000000.wav|"I don't want you, but I wish you to be at home.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000017_000002.wav|An old fright ought to realise she is a fright!"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000015_000000.wav|"We are at a discount now....|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000018_000001.wav|Waiting for the end of the mazurka, he went into the hall and walked up to his wife.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000004_000000.wav|"The regiment!" they cried joyfully.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000007_000000.wav|Their wishes were carried out.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000016_000000.wav|During the mazurka the tax collector's face twitched with spite.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000020_000000.wav|Seeing her husband standing before her, Anna Pavlovna started as though recalling the fact that she had a husband; then she flushed all over: she felt ashamed that she had such a sickly looking, ill humoured, ordinary husband.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000019_000000.wav|"Anyuta, let us go home," croaked the tax collector.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000006_000005.wav|Having talked to their hearts' content, they sent for the Military Commandant and the committee of the club, and instructed them at all costs to make arrangements for a dance.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000038_000000.wav|"Her head aches," said the tax collector for his wife.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000028_000000.wav|"I wish it, and that's enough.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000014_000000.wav|"Of course not!|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000022_000000.wav|"Why?|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000017_000000.wav|"You wait; I'll teach you to smile so blissfully," he muttered.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000015_000001.wav|We're clumsy seals, unpolished provincial bears, and she's the queen of the ball!|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000008_000000.wav|Among the husbands was Shalikov, the tax collector-a narrow, spiteful soul, given to drink, with a big, closely cropped head, and thick, protruding lips.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000006_000002.wav|They knew everything.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000036_000000.wav|And as she talked to her husband Anna Pavlovna looked thinner, older, plainer.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000012_000000.wav|"It makes me sick to look at her!" he muttered.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000028_000001.wav|Come along, and that's all about it."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000039_000003.wav|Oh, how awful it is!|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000033_000001.wav|I wish it, that's all."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000010_000000.wav|The tax collector watched, scowling with spite....|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000037_000000.wav|"You are not going?" asked the ladies in surprise.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000039_000001.wav|The tax collector walked behind his wife, and watching her downcast, sorrowful, humiliated little figure, he recalled the look of beatitude which had so irritated him at the club, and the consciousness that the beatitude was gone filled his soul with triumph.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000040_000000.wav|And Anna Pavlovna could scarcely walk....|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000030_000000.wav|"All right; then I shall make a scene."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000034_000001.wav|She began assuring him she would not stay long, only another ten minutes, only five minutes; but the tax collector stuck obstinately to his point.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000035_000000.wav|"Stay if you like," he said, "but I'll make a scene if you do."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000011_000001.wav|He was ill humoured-first, because the room was taken up with dancing and there was nowhere he could play a game of cards; secondly, because he could not endure the sound of wind instruments; and, thirdly, because he fancied the officers treated the civilians somewhat too casually and disdainfully.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000024_000000.wav|"Why?|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/107247/667_107247_000023_000000.wav|"I beg you to come home!" said the tax collector deliberately, with a spiteful expression.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000028_000001.wav|You had got the kernel yourself, and thought that I had taken all the trouble to crack the nut and had found myself with nothing but the shell.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000011_000000.wav|"I was alluding particularly to mrs Carbuncle."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000031_000002.wav|Of course I would not give them up, because they were my own."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000018_000001.wav|That surprised me."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000052_000001.wav|I suppose that's real at any rate?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000029_000000.wav|"Oh, no," said Lizzie|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000034_000001.wav|There's my poor friend, mrs Carbuncle, declares that all her credit is destroyed, and her niece unable to marry, and her house taken away from her,--all because of her connexion with you."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000044_000000.wav|"And cousin Frank?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000046_000002.wav|He attends you down to Scotland;--does he?|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000024_000001.wav|Of course, we understand that now." On hearing this, Lizzie smiled, but did not say a word.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000026_000002.wav|Well; you-you were laughing at me in your sleeve all the time."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000046_000003.wav|Does mr Emilius go too?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000016_000000.wav|"Just what you were saying, when you talked of your experiences. These experiences do surprise one.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000055_000003.wav|I hope I may never see you again.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000024_000002.wav|"Then I perceived that I-I was supposed to be the thief.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000026_000000.wav|"All that surprised me.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000030_000001.wav|And you thought that I had done it!|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000010_000000.wav|"You mean to me?--disinterested friendship to me?" And Lord George tapped his breast lightly with his fingers.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000019_000001.wav|How little happiness there is for people!"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000042_000000.wav|"And never coming back any more?|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000045_000000.wav|"My cousin attends me down to Scotland."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000002.wav|They resulted in nothing. Lizzie was desirous of getting back the spoons and forks, and, if possible, some of her money.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000039_000001.wav|She had sent for him, and now she didn't know what to say to him.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000006_000002.wav|She could have forgiven the want of deferential manner, had there been any devotion;--but Lord George was both impudent and indifferent.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000039_000003.wav|But with his jeering words, and sneering face, he was as hard to her as a rock.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000000.wav|Lady Eustace did not leave the house during the Saturday and Sunday, and engaged herself exclusively with preparing for her journey.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000038_000003.wav|I shouldn't have begrudged even Benjamin the pull, if he'd got it."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000015_000000.wav|"I don't know what you mean by that, Lord George."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000012_000001.wav|If you have any complaint to make against me,--I will at least listen to it."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000055_000004.wav|I believe you care more for that odious vulgar woman down stairs than you do for anybody else in the world."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000047_000000.wav|"I believe you are trying to insult me, sir."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000041_000000.wav|"I am going to Portray on Monday."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000024_000003.wav|You-you yourself couldn't have suspected me of taking the diamonds, because-because you'd got them, you know, all safe in your pocket.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000058_000000.wav|"Yes, I will.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000005_000001.wav|The man, she thought, had behaved very badly to her,--had accepted very much from her hands, and had refused to give her anything in return; had become the first depository of her great secret, and had placed no mutual confidence in her.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000050_000002.wav|And I liked the idea of it very much." Lizzie pricked up her ears.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000054_000000.wav|"I never doubted that, Lady Eustace.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000024_000004.wav|But you might as well own the truth now.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000014_000002.wav|They're a queer lot;--ain't they,--the sort of people one meets about in the world?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000051_000000.wav|"Don't, Lord George."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000027_000000.wav|"Not laughing, Lord George."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000059_000000.wav|"I ain't clever at all," said Lizzie, beginning to whimper.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000030_000000.wav|"Unfortunately you didn't; but I thought you did.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000007.wav|But even were there anything due to Lady Eustace, mrs Carbuncle would decline to pay it, as she was informed that all moneys possessed by Lady Eustace were now confiscated to the Crown by reason of the PERJURIES,--the word was doubly scored in mrs Carbuncle's note,--which Lady Eustace had committed.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000012_000000.wav|"Lady Eustace, I cannot take charge of mrs Carbuncle's friendships. I have enough to do to look after my own.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000005_000004.wav|But, nevertheless, there would be some excitement in a farewell in which some mock affection might be displayed, and she would have an opportunity of abusing mrs Carbuncle.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000017_000000.wav|"I hope I have not injured you, Lord George."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000053_000002.wav|And so is the prettiness, Lord George;--if there is any."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000060_000000.wav|"Good bye, my dear."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000050_000000.wav|"Well;--I did.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000005.wav|mrs Carbuncle had no power of disposing of Miss Roanoke's property.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000023_000000.wav|"Pray don't talk about the horrid necklace."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000022_000000.wav|"And when I found that you always travelled with ten thousand pounds' worth of diamonds in a box, that surprised me very much.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000061_000000.wav|"Good bye," said Lizzie.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000042_000001.wav|You'll be up here before the season is over, with fifty more wonderful schemes in your little head.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000009_000000.wav|"No woman ever intended to show a more disinterested friendship than I have done; and what has been my return?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000020_000000.wav|"And when Tewett got that girl to say she'd marry him, the coolness with which you bore all the abomination of it in your house,--for people who were nothing to you;--that surprised me!"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000008.wav|This, of course, was unpleasant; but mrs Carbuncle did not have the honours of the battle all to herself.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000022_000001.wav|I thought that you were a very dangerous companion."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000049_000000.wav|"Much you thought about it, Lord George."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000056_000000.wav|"Ah, dear!|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000028_000002.wav|Then, when you found you couldn't eat the kernel, that you couldn't get rid of the swag without assistance, you came to me to help you.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000014_000000.wav|"They don't do much good;--do they?|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000032_000001.wav|What was the good of being so clever?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000028_000000.wav|"Yes, you were.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000039_000004.wav|He was now silent, but still looking down upon her as he stood motionless upon the rug,--so that she was compelled to speak again.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000031_000001.wav|I hate the diamonds.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000058_000002.wav|If I may give you one bit of advice at parting, it is to caution you against being clever when there is nothing to get by it."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000033_000000.wav|"You need not come here to tease me, Lord George."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000007_000002.wav|What an experience I have had since I have been here!"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000024_000005.wav|Didn't you think that it was I who stole the box?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000021_000000.wav|"I meant to be so kind to you all."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000019_000000.wav|"Oh, Lord George, that was the happiest day of my life.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000005_000003.wav|She was full of spite against Lord George, and would have been glad to injure him.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000042_000002.wav|So Lord Fawn is done with, is he?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000035_000000.wav|"mrs Carbuncle is-is-is- Oh, Lord George, don't you know what she is?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000016_000002.wav|You are no more than a child to me, but you have surprised me."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000039_000000.wav|He stood there, still looking down upon her, speaking with a sarcastic subrisive tone, and, as she felt, intending to be severe to her.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000046_000001.wav|That makes it altogether another thing.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000013_000000.wav|"God knows I do not want to make complaints," said Lizzie, covering her face with her hands.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000016_000001.wav|I have knocked about the world a great deal, and would have almost said that nothing would surprise me.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000030_000002.wav|mr Benjamin was too clever for us both, and now he is going to have penal servitude for the rest of his life.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000028_000004.wav|By Jove, I did!|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000055_000000.wav|"Who wanted it to do?" said Lizzie.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000050_000004.wav|You are pretty, you know,--uncommonly pretty."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000003_000004.wav|Lizzie might have saved herself the trouble, had it not been that it was a pleasure to her to insult her late friend, even though in doing so new insults were heaped upon her own head. As for the trumpery spoons, they,--so said mrs Carbuncle,--were the property of Miss Roanoke, having been made over to her unconditionally long before the wedding, as a part of a separate pecuniary transaction.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/158816/667_158816_000053_000000.wav|"Well;--I hope so.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000038_000000.wav|"Insults!" broke from those set lips and nothing more.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000050_000000.wav|"I couldn't help it, your Honor.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000012_000001.wav|That the glorification you speak of is false?|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000018_000000.wav|Then slowly and with a short look at her: "The woman who has queened it so long in C---- society can not wish to undergo the charge of bigamy?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000028_000000.wav|"I?|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000048_000001.wav|But the next moment he was tottering, blanched and helpless, and while struggling to right himself and escape, yielded more and more to a sudden weakness sapping his life vigor, till he fell prone and apparently lifeless on the lounge toward which, with a final effort, he had thrown himself.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000023_000000.wav|"My real name is Brainard; therefore, it is also hers.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000010_000004.wav|I am an adept at the glorification of the party, of the man that it suits my present exigencies to promote, but it is a faculty which should have made you pause before you trusted me with the furtherance and final success of a campaign which may outlast those exigencies.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000044_000002.wav|This woman who has gone through the ceremony of marriage with both of us shall never know to which of us she is the legal wife.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000022_000001.wav|Steele or Brainard?|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000024_000000.wav|"Never!"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000049_000004.wav|Thank God, Miss Olympia! thank God as I do now on my knees!" But here catching the mayor's eye, he faltered to his feet again, saying humbly as he crept away:|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000049_000002.wav|"God has finished what these old arms had only strength enough to begin.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000048_000000.wav|It was but child's play for so strong a man as mr Steele to shake off so futile a grasp, and he did so with a rasping laugh.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000029_000000.wav|"So I have heard you say.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000029_000003.wav|What was your life before you met Olympia Brewster?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000022_000000.wav|"Which name?|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000014_000000.wav|The mayor flushed; indignation gave him vehemence.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000031_000000.wav|Had the random shot told?|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000049_000001.wav|Good!" rang thrilling through the room, as the old man reeled back from the wall against which he had been cast.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000029_000001.wav|A man of twenty five is old enough to have made a record, mr Steele-" The mayor's tone hardened, so did his manner; and I saw why he had been such a power in the courts before he took up politics and an office.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000006_000001.wav|But what does that truth involve for me?|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000010_000005.wav|I have not always been of your party; I am not so now at heart."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000039_000000.wav|"mr Steele, I practised law in that state for a period of three years. All the records of the office and of the prison register are open to me. Over which of them should I waste my time?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000006_000002.wav|Not two weeks, but seven years of torture, five of them devoted to grief for her, loss, and two to rage and bitter revulsion against her whole sex when I found her alive, and myself the despised victim of her deception."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000000_000003.wav|And it was characteristic of the forceful men, as well as the extreme nature of the conflict, that both were quiet in manner and speech-perhaps the mayor the more so, as he began the struggle by saying:|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000012_000002.wav|That you may talk in my favor, but that when you come to the issue, you will vote according to your heart; that is, for Stanton?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000010_000000.wav|"My political principles!" Oh, the irony of his voice, the triumph in his laugh!|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000019_000000.wav|"You will bring such a charge?"|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000028_000002.wav|I am thirty two now."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000029_000002.wav|"mr Steele, I do not mean you to disturb my house or to rob me of my wife.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000002_000000.wav|Without a droop of his eye, or a tremor in his voice, the answer came short, sharp and emphatic:|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000021_000000.wav|At this alternative, uttered with icy deliberation, mrs Packard recoiled with a sharp cry; but the mayor thrust a sudden sarcastic query at his opponent:|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000047_000000.wav|I looked to see the mayor spring and grasp him by the throat, but that was left for another hand.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000041_000000.wav|"I shall never answer; the devil has whispered his own suggestions in your ear; the devil and nothing else."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000023_000001.wav|But I shall be content if she will take my present one of Steele.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000031_000001.wav|The secretary's eye did not falter, nor his figure lose an inch of its height, yet the impression made by his look and attitude were not the same; the fire had gone out of them; a blight had struck his soul-the flush of his triumph was gone.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000036_000000.wav|No answer from the sternly set lips.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000049_000003.wav|He is dead this time, and it's a mercy!|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000000_000001.wav|THE FINGER ON THE WALL.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000044_000001.wav|"I shall not give you even that satisfaction.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000015_000001.wav|You are not a villain, you are a dastard."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000032_000000.wav|Mayor Packard was merciless.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000044_000003.wav|Perhaps it is as good a revenge as the other.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000015_000000.wav|"Then," he cried, "I take back the word by which I qualified you a moment ago.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000043_000004.wav|mr Steele, you are both a villain and a bastard, and have no right in law to this woman.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000028_000001.wav|Seven years ago I was twenty five.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000043_000005.wav|Contradict me if you dare."|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000049_000000.wav|"Good!|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000012_000000.wav|"Do you mean to say, you, that your work is a traitor's work?|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/667/105002/667_105002_000043_000000.wav|"No, not the devil, but yourself.|667
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000069_000003.wav|Speak!"|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000060_000001.wav|He ran along the high road, took the path he had before taken, and reaching the ferry, interrogated the boatman.|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000081_000000.wav|"But as you spoke to him you must have seen him."|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000086_000000.wav|"Which?"|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000090_000000.wav|"You have promised to be secret, my good monsieur?" said the old man.|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000082_000000.wav|"Oh, it's a description you want?"|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000050_000000.wav|Eleven o'clock sounded.|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000057_000001.wav|This glove, wherever it had not touched the muddy ground, was of irreproachable odor.|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000032_000000.wav|"I am going a few steps farther."|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000018_000000.wav|"Afraid of being heard?|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000019_000000.wav|"Afraid of being heard!|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000087_000000.wav|"The short one."|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/217/122443/217_122443_000061_000000.wav|About seven o'clock in the evening, the boatman had taken over a young woman, wrapped in a black mantle, who appeared to be very anxious not to be recognized; but entirely on account of her precautions, the boatman had paid more attention to her and discovered that she was young and pretty.|217
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000023_000000.wav|"When do you expect-she will come home?" he enquired, glancing at the grandfather clock in the corner.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000016_000000.wav|"Oh dear yes!--had been up-hours!|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000036_000002.wav|And, in that moment, instinctively she knew how things came to be as they were,--and, because of this knowledge, her cheeks flamed with a swift, burning colour, and with a soft cry, she hid her face in Miss Priscilla's gentle bosom.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000002_000000.wav|"Lord!" said Adam, pausing with a chair under either arm, "Lord, mr Belloo sir,--I wonder what Miss Anthea will say?" with which remark he strode off with the two chairs to set them in their accustomed places.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000018_000000.wav|"Threw a kiss-from a minstrel's gallery, to a most unworthy individual, Aunt Priscilla?"|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000026_000003.wav|I am glad you are going," she went on, "because to day is-well, a day apart, mr Bellew.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000032_000003.wav|But before her eyes were visions of her dismantled home, in her ears was the roar of voices clamouring for her cherished possessions,--a sickening roar, broken, now and then, by the hollow tap of the auctioneer's cruel hammer.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000026_000000.wav|"The Sergeant!" said Miss Priscilla, "let me see,--it is now a quarter to six, it should take you about fifteen minutes to the village, that will make it exactly six o'clock.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000011_000002.wav|Pride!--with a capital P!"|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000036_000001.wav|As she came, Anthea raised her head, and looked for one who should have been there, but was not.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000004_000000.wav|"Lord!" exclaimed Adam again, balanced now upon a ladder, and pausing to wipe his brow with one hand and with a picture swinging in the other, "Lord! what ever will Miss Anthea say, mr Belloo sir!"|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000024_000000.wav|"Well, if she drove straight back from Cranbrook she would be here now,--but I fancy she won't be so very anxious to get home to day,--and may come the longest way round; yes, it's in my mind she will keep away from Dapplemere as long as ever she can."|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000019_000000.wav|"Threw you a kiss, mr Bellew,--I had to,--the side board you know,--on her knees-you understand?"|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000005_000000.wav|"Ah!" nodded Bellew thoughtfully, "I wonder!"|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000027_000001.wav|"And what message do you send him?"|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000032_000002.wav|For the most part, too, she drove in silence seemingly deaf to Small Porges' flow of talk, which was also very unlike in her.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000017_000004.wav|When she heard my little stick come tapping along she tried to hide them,--I mean her tears, of course, mr Bellew, and when I drew her dear, beautiful head down into my arms, she-tried to smile.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000012_000000.wav|"Yes, she is very proud."|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000032_000005.wav|Thus, she was unwontedly deaf and unresponsive to Small Porges, who presently fell into a profound gloom, in consequence; and thus, she held in the eager mare who therefore, shied, and fidgeted, and tossed her head indignantly.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000014_000001.wav|So I got up,--ridiculously early,--but, bless you, she was before me!"|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000035_000000.wav|Very slowly, for her, Anthea climbed down from the high dog cart, aiding Small Porges to earth, and with his hand clasped tight in hers, and with lips set firm, she turned and entered the hall.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000003_000001.wav|For here was Miss Priscilla, looking smaller than ever, in a great arm chair whence she directed the disposal and arrangement of all things, with quick little motions of her crutch stick.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000022_000000.wav|And when the hall was, once more, its old, familiar, comfortable self, when the floor had been swept of its litter, and every trace of the sale removed,--then Miss Priscilla sighed, and Bellew put on his coat.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000025_000000.wav|"And I think," said Bellew, "Yes, I think I'll take a walk.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000026_000001.wav|You will find the Sergeant just sitting down in the chair on the left hand side of the fire place,--in the corner,--at the 'King's Head,' you know.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000014_000000.wav|"I rose this morning-very early, mr Bellew,--Oh! very early!" said Miss Priscilla, following Adam's laden figure with watchful eyes, "couldn't possibly sleep, you see.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000015_000000.wav|"Ah!"|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000027_000000.wav|"Then I will go to the 'King's Head,'" said Bellew.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000017_000003.wav|such great, big tears,--and so very quiet!|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000020_000000.wav|"I understand!"|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000037_000000.wav|"Tell me-tell me-all about it."|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000036_000000.wav|But Small Porges had seen, and stood aghast, and Miss Priscilla had seen, and now hurried forward with a quick tap, tap of her stick.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000035_000001.wav|But, upon the threshold, she stopped, and stood there utterly still, gazing, and gazing upon the trim orderliness of everything.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000026_000004.wav|You will find the Sergeant at the 'King's Head,'--until half past seven."|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000033_000000.wav|But, slowly as they went, they came within sight of the house, at last, with its quaint gables, and many latticed windows, and the blue smoke curling up from its twisted chimneys,--smiling and placid as though, in all this great world, there were no such thing to be found as-an auctioneer's hammer.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000010_000000.wav|"But!" nodded Bellew, "yes, I understand."|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000003_000000.wav|Seldom indeed had the old hall despite its many years, seen such a running to and fro, heard such a patter of flying feet, such merry voices, such gay, and heart felt laughter.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/176698/1121_176698_000036_000003.wav|Then, while her face was yet hidden there, she whispered:|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000020_000002.wav|Like Whitefoot he was white underneath.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000008_000002.wav|They form a great army and push ahead, regardless of everything.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000008_000004.wav|Of course, they eat everything eatable in their path."|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000009_000001.wav|I don't envy those cousins up there in the Far North a bit.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000014_000000.wav|Before he could reply Johnny Chuck began to chuckle.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000020_000000.wav|Nimbleheels hopped up beside Whitefoot the Wood Mouse, and as the two little cousins sat side by side they were not unlike in general appearance, though of the two Whitefoot was the prettier.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000002_000002.wav|So Whitefoot found a hole in a stump near by and decided to camp out there for a few days.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000028_000001.wav|His jumping is done only in times of danger.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000010_000002.wav|I ought to have sent word to him to be here this morning."|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000003_000000.wav|"I told you yesterday that I would tell you about some of Danny's cousins," began Old Mother Nature just as Chatterer the Red Squirrel, who was late, came hurrying up quite out of breath.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000017_000002.wav|"He went right over my head, and I was sitting up at that!"|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000019_000001.wav|"Hop up on that log side of your Cousin Whitefoot, where all can see you."|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000023_000001.wav|But I like best to be among the weeds because they are tall and keep me well hidden, and also because they furnish me plenty to eat.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000022_000001.wav|When I say this, I mean the greatest ground jumper.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000011_000007.wav|Only Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel and Chatterer the Red Squirrel and Prickly Porky the Porcupine, who were sitting in trees, kept their places. You see they felt quite safe.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000007_000004.wav|To migrate is to move from one part of the country to another.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000016_000003.wav|He thought that if it was a good thing for Danny it would be a good thing for him, so he had come.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000021_000002.wav|Whitefoot possessed a long tail, but the tail of Nimbleheels was much longer, slim and tapering.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000020_000003.wav|His ears were much smaller than those of Whitefoot.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000011_000005.wav|Striped Chipmunk vanished in a hole under an old stump.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000026_000001.wav|Like Johnny Chuck he gets very fat before going to sleep.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000002_000004.wav|So the next morning both were on hand when school opened.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000007_000002.wav|It covers the ground just as grass does here.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000020_000004.wav|But the greatest differences between the two were in their hind legs and tails.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000014_000003.wav|In a minute or so everybody was laughing, and no one but Johnny Chuck knew what the joke was.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000011_000000.wav|Hardly were the words out of Old Mother Nature's mouth when something landed in the leaves almost at her feet and right in the middle of school.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000013_000004.wav|Her eyes twinkled.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000014_000004.wav|At last peter Rabbit stopped laughing long enough to ask Johnny what he was laughing at.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000014_000002.wav|Now, as you know, laughter is catching.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000025_000003.wav|I have little storerooms down there too, in which I put seeds, berries and nuts. Then when I do wake up I have plenty to eat."|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000016_000000.wav|When they were through laughing Nimbleheels answered Old Mother Nature's questions.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000024_000000.wav|"Do you make your home under the ground?" asked Striped Chipmunk.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000003_000003.wav|However, they belong to the Mouse family.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000027_000001.wav|This way and that way he went in great leaps.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/135824/1121_135824_000003_000002.wav|Yet, strange to say, they are not called Mice at all, but Lemmings.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000010.wav|The conspirators, therefore, implored the Prince to come among them with as little delay as possible.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000013.wav|He had not taken advantage of the opinion which the great body of the English people had formed respecting the late birth.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000012.wav|On one point they thought it their duty to remonstrate with his Highness.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000005_000000.wav|But, though she carefully abstained from doing or saying anything that could add to his difficulties, those difficulties were serious indeed. They were in truth but imperfectly understood even by some of those who invited him over, and have been but imperfectly described by some of those who have written the history of his expedition.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000003.wav|Yet who could answer for the effect which the appearance of such an army might produce?|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000005.wav|The States of a province could not give such consent without the consent of every municipality which had a share in the representation.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000006.wav|She had ventured to intercede with him on behalf of her old friend and preceptor Compton, who, for refusing to commit an act of flagitious injustice, had been suspended from his episcopal functions; but she had been ungraciously repulsed.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000007.wav|In the navy Protestant feeling was still stronger.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000010.wav|The only constitutional remedy in such cases was that deputies from the cities which were agreed should pay a visit to the city which dissented, for the purpose of expostulation.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000003_000004.wav|Bentinck and Dykvelt were summoned, and several days were passed in deliberation.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000006.wav|If any part of the royal forces resolutely withstood the invaders, would not that part soon have on its side the patriotic sympathy of millions?|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000000.wav|The obstacles which he might expect to encounter on English ground, though the least formidable of the obstacles which stood in the way of his design, were yet serious.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000005.wav|But would the English people, altogether unaccustomed to the interference of continental powers in English disputes, be inclined to look with favour on a deliverer who was surrounded by foreign soldiers?|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000001.wav|Her understanding had been completely subjugated by his; and, what is more extraordinary, he had won her entire affection.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000014.wav|This is the undoubted rule even when the husband is in the wrong; and to Mary the enterprise which William meditated appeared not only just, but holy.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000003_000002.wav|He assumed the garb of a common sailor, and in this disguise reached the Dutch coast in safety, on the Friday after the trial of the Bishops.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000003_000003.wav|He instantly hastened to the Prince.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000001.wav|He felt that it would be madness in him to imitate the example of Monmouth, to cross the sea with a few British adventurers, and to trust to a general rising of the population.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000001.wav|A formal invitation, transcribed by Sidney but drawn up by some person more skilled than Sidney, in the art of composition, was despatched to the Hague.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000011.wav|The number of deputies was unlimited: they might continue to expostulate as long as they thought fit; and meanwhile all their expenses were defrayed by the obstinate community which refused to yield to their arguments.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000006.wav|The officers were discontented; and the common soldiers shared that aversion to Popery which was general in the class from which they were taken.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000006.wav|Every municipality was, in some sense, a sovereign state, and, as such, claimed the right of communicating directly with foreign ambassadors, and of concerting with them the means of defeating schemes on which other municipalities were intent.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000016.wav|Not one person in a thousand doubted that the boy was supposititious; and the Prince would be wanting to his own interests if the suspicious circumstances which had attended the Queen's confinement were not put prominently forward among his reasons for taking arms.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000003_000001.wav|His errand was one of no ordinary peril.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000009.wav|Propositions brought forward by the Stadtholder as indispensable to the security of the commonwealth, sanctioned by all the provinces except Holland, and sanctioned by seventeen of the eighteen town councils of Holland, had repeatedly been negatived by the single voice of Amsterdam.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000000.wav|During June the meetings of those who were in the secret were frequent. At length, on the last day of the month, the day on which the Bishops were pronounced not guilty, the decisive step was taken.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000012.wav|On the present occasion, however, she judged that the claim of james to her obedience ought to yield to a claim more sacred.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000009.wav|The enterprise would be far more arduous if it were deferred till the King, by remodelling boroughs and regiments, had procured a Parliament and an army on which he could rely.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000004.wav|The States General could not make war or peace, could not conclude any alliance or levy any tax, without the consent of the States of every province.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000011.wav|That she should love such a father was impossible. Her religious principles, indeed, were so strict that she would probably have tried to perform what she considered as her duty, even to a father whom she did not love.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000000.wav|From his wife William had no opposition to apprehend.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000002.wav|It was necessary, and it was pronounced necessary by all those who invited him over, that he should carry an army with him.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000006_000004.wav|The government was indeed justly odious.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000007_000000.wav|These considerations might well have made William uneasy; even if all the military means of the United Provinces had been at his absolute disposal.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000014.wav|He had, on the contrary, sent congratulations to Whitehall, and had thus seemed to acknowledge that the child who was called Prince of Wales was rightful heir of the throne.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000003_000005.wav|The first result of this deliberation was that the prayer for the Prince of Wales ceased to be read in the Princess's chapel.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000004_000009.wav|He had conspired with Tyrconnel and with France against Mary's rights, and had made arrangements for depriving her of one at least of the three crowns to which, at his death, she would have been entitled.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000008.wav|It was important to take some decisive step while things were in this state.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000003.wav|If his Highness would appear in the island at the head of some troops, tens of thousands would hasten to his standard.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000002_000015.wav|This was a grave error, and had damped the zeal of many.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1121/132777/1121_132777_000003_000000.wav|This paper was signed in cipher by the seven chiefs of the conspiracy, Shrewsbury, Devonshire, Danby, Lumley, Compton, Russell and Sidney. Herbert undertook to be their messenger.|1121
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000055_000003.wav|May I take the parasol?"|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000048_000000.wav|"In the shrubbery."|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000041_000001.wav|She refused to hear him.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000052_000001.wav|I might have been mistaken-"|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000007_000001.wav|"Now," the spoiled child declared, addressing the company present, "I'm going to play."|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000052_000002.wav|The girl paused, and looked confused.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000026_000003.wav|Sit down, if you please.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000060_000003.wav|One by one the tourists disappeared under the portico of the front door.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000060_000006.wav|The thoughts from which she recoiled forced their way back into her mind; the narrative of the nursemaid's discovery became a burden on her memory once more.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000026_000001.wav|"My indiscretion has deserved it.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000061_000003.wav|She looked round.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000000_000001.wav|Kitty Keeps Her Birthday.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000054_000000.wav|"I might have been mistaken," the maid repeated-"but I thought Miss Westerfield was crying."|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000017_000000.wav|"What is there to look at?" he inquired.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000000_000000.wav|Chapter thirteen.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000055_000001.wav|The parasol caught her eye.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000024_000000.wav|mrs Presty recovered the command of her temper.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000034_000000.wav|She never once looked at her mother; her face, white and rigid, was turned toward Randal.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000014_000000.wav|The reply only increased his perplexity.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000046_000000.wav|"Yes, ma'am."|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000044_000003.wav|Wondering what had become of her father and her governess, Kitty had asked the nursemaid to look for them.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000057_000001.wav|The servant looked at her with vague misgivings.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275128/8300_275128_000006_000003.wav|Then there came a pause.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000024_000001.wav|As yet, he had failed to find the opportunity of addressing to Sydney the only words of encouragement he could allow to pass his lips: he had asked for her earlier in the evening, and nobody could tell him where she was.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000019_000004.wav|She went back to her bed chamber.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000017_000000.wav|The child was still too drowsy to hear plainly.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000021_000001.wav|"They're as good as spoiled now," she thought; "they're no longer fit for anybody but me." She paused, and abruptly took up the third and last photograph-the likeness of Herbert Linley.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000008_000002.wav|You mustn't look at it till you wake to morrow morning." She pushed the parcel under the pillow-and, instead of saying good night, took a chair and sat down.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000007_000000.wav|Waiting for Sydney to come into the bedroom as usual and wish her good night, Kitty was astonished by the appearance of her grandmother, entering on tiptoe from the corridor, with a small paper parcel in her hand.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000018_000000.wav|Sydney laid her down again on the pillow, gave her a last kiss, and ran out of the room.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000022_000005.wav|Her longing eyes stole a last look at him-a frenzy seized her-she pressed her lips to the photograph in a passion of hopeless love.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000021_000000.wav|She hesitated; her tears dropped on the photographs.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000008_000001.wav|"This is your birthday present.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000013_000001.wav|"We will breakfast early, my precious child.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000010_000001.wav|"Show it, of course; and take the greatest care of it," mrs Presty answered gravely.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000015_000000.wav|Sydney's heart ached when she thought of the separation that was to come with the next day; her despair forced its way to expression in words.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000022_000000.wav|Was it an offense, now, even to look at his portrait?|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000010_000000.wav|The present hidden under the paper wrapper was a sixpenny picture book. Kitty's grandmother disapproved of spending money lavishly on birthday gifts to children.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8300/275127/8300_275127_000006_000000.wav|Chapter twelve.|8300
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000024_000000.wav|An irritating little flock of gulls may go on thus for a long time; and when at last, screaming and mocking, they take their departure, they have spoilt many a chance and wasted many precious minutes of the big, silent, patient fisher's time.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000012_000001.wav|It was tired now, and had just stretched itself out for a moment's rest, when the supposed pieces of stick upon which it lay seized it, and voracious heads with sharp jaws attacked its flesh.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000027_000001.wav|The heron, coming up behind her, cautiously bends its neck over the drifting piece of reed.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000010_000000.wav|Here two large tiger beetles were fighting with a poor water bug.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000016_000001.wav|This was a very favourite lurking place; she could lie there with her back right up against the under surface of the leaf, and her snout on the very border of its shadow, ready to strike.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000027_000000.wav|This time, too, fortune is disposed to favour the young pike.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000026_000001.wav|The eel twists, and refuses to be swallowed; so the bird has to reduce its liveliness by rolling up and down in its sharp edged beak.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000003_000001.wav|The entire monster measured scarcely a finger's length.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000021_000000.wav|Sedately it goes about its business, stalking along with slow, measured steps.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000032_000000.wav|Grim was among the fortunate ones.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000005_000003.wav|Even the sharp eyed heron, which had dropped down unnoticed about a dozen yards off, and was now noiselessly, with slow, cautious steps, wading nearer and nearer, took her at the first glance for a stick.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000028_000000.wav|Grim only once moved her tail.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000031_000002.wav|Experience told the bird it was a fisherman, but here the bird was wrong.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000002_000000.wav|Clear running water filled the ditch, but the bottom was dull black, powdery mud.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000029_000000.wav|There was a fearful crush of fish in the channel, and much elbowing with fins and twisting of tails.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000012_000002.wav|It was within an ace of being made captive for ever, but at last succeeded in making its escape and pushing off, with two of its tormentors after it.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000020_000000.wav|----Meanwhile, the keen eyed heron, wading up to its breast in the water, comes softly and silently trawling through the ditch.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000032_000002.wav|A little later the stream gathered furious pace and carried her with it; she saw light and felt space round her; she was able to move her fins.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000025_000000.wav|The gulls once gone, the heron applies itself with redoubled zeal to its business.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000009_000005.wav|Air bubbles, too, were set free, and ascended quickly with a rotary motion.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000015_000000.wav|It was not long before she had forgotten her recent peril, and once more became filled with the cruel passion of the hunter.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000009_000000.wav|There was never any peace around her.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000031_000001.wav|Out on the lake lay a boat in which a man sat fishing.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000026_000002.wav|Then it glides down.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000010_000002.wav|It must have been almost a pleasure to find oneself so neatly despatched!|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000028_000001.wav|Then she was seized, something hard and sharp and strong held her fast, and she passed head foremost down into a warm, narrow channel.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000023_000000.wav|Sea crows and terns scream around it, and from time to time three or four of them unite in harrying their great rival.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000007_000002.wav|The young pike peered upwards, and saw in the shelter of a tuft of rushes a collection of black, boat shaped whirligigs, showing like dots against the shining surface.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000005_000001.wav|Her reddish brown colour with the tiger like transverse stripes made an excellent disguise.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000002_000001.wav|It lay inches deep, layer upon layer of one tiny particle upon another, and so loose and light that a thick, opaque, smoke like column ascended at the slightest touch.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000016_000002.wav|The silvery flash of small fish twinkled around her, and myriads of tiny shining crustaceans whisked about so close to her nose that at any moment she could have snapped them up by the score into her voracious mouth.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000023_000001.wav|Just as the heron has brought its beak close to the surface of the water, ready to seize its prey, the gulls dash upon it from behind.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000027_000002.wav|It sees there is something suspicious about it, but thinks it is mistaken, and is about to take another step forward. When only half-way, it pauses with its foot in the air; and the next moment the blow falls.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000023_000002.wav|With a hiss it curves its neck and turns the foil upwards, snapping and biting at its tormentors.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000017_000000.wav|It was especially things that moved that had a magic attraction for Grim.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109173/7837_109173_000025_000001.wav|From various attacking positions its beak darts down into the water, but often without result, and it has to go farther afield; then at last it captures a little eel.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000025_000002.wav|A little later it begins its soft little sawing song, which blends so well with the perpetual, monotonous whispering of the reeds.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000019_000000.wav|But in the daytime, she lay peacefully drowsing.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000006_000001.wav|The very next day, however, little fish had begun to gather about those tufts; one day more, and there were swarms of them.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000008_000000.wav|She possessed a remarkable power of placing herself, and knew how to choose her position so as to disappear, as it were, in the water.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7837/109174/7837_109174_000007_000000.wav|Out of one of these Grim had come.|7837
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9919/3866_9919_000011_000003.wav|He had all thirty two of his teeth.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9919/3866_9919_000014_000012.wav|He was a connoisseur of painting.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9919/3866_9919_000018_000003.wav|"What a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with his blue ribbon!"|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9919/3866_9919_000011_000013.wav|She seemed to him to be eight years old.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000018_000002.wav|Mademoiselle Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a single spot of intelligence.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000011_000001.wav|No paradise becomes terrestrial in our day.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000011_000002.wav|The younger wedded the man of her dreams, but she died.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000014_000000.wav|Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000008_000002.wav|He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door was open.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000001_000015.wav|"Thirty francs."|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000010_000001.wav|They had come into the world ten years apart.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000019_000001.wav|This is the case with passive natures.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000022_000000.wav|This was his grandson.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000003_000025.wav|He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. I shall go to see them from time to time." And this he did.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000003_000013.wav|You are finely taken aback, and really, you are excessively ignorant.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000013_000001.wav|Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of blackness. She cherished a frightful memory of her life; one day, a man had beheld her garter.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000003_000020.wav|This manner of procedure was good tempered.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000003_000001.wav|He had all sorts of prejudices and took all sorts of liberties.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000003_000039.wav|He took an immense amount of snuff, and had a particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the back of one hand.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/9920/3866_9920_000019_000004.wav|There breathed from her whole person the stupor of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000036_000002.wav|"It is clean and quiet; I am too poor to want or expect more.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000059_000022.wav|But he has even used me more cruelly still; he persists in suspecting me; it is he who is having me watched.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000009_000000.wav|"mr Bashwood!" she exclaimed, in loud, clear tones indicative of the utmost astonishment, "what a surprise to find you here!|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000017_000001.wav|The spy fell into the snare laid for him.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000011_000009.wav|Hush!|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000046_000003.wav|We are both victims.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000024_000000.wav|"I wonder whether I'm strong enough to throw you after your hat?" she said.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000061_000001.wav|"If the man told you that, the man lied.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000034_000001.wav|"I have been forced to give up my situation, and I am followed and watched by a paid spy.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000061_000002.wav|I beg your pardon, Miss Gwilt; I beg your pardon from the bottom of my heart.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000047_000001.wav|"Why, Allan himself told me-"|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000059_000014.wav|My pride (Heaven help me, I was brought up like a gentlewoman, and I have sensibilities that are not blunted even yet!)--my pride got the better of me, and I left my place.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000034_000004.wav|Let the wretch go.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000061_000008.wav|Let me go and clear it up at once.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000030_000003.wav|He has been following me, and annoying me all the way from the town."|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000034_000007.wav|May I-may I ask for the support of your arm?|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000073_000000.wav|The front of the house was dark, and closed for the night.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000011_000005.wav|No?|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000059_000012.wav|What could I do?|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000066_000003.wav|She drew back from it, after a moment's absorption in her own thoughts, with a start of terror.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000029_000002.wav|"Miss Gwilt!" he exclaimed, and mechanically held out his hand.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000050_000006.wav|Anyhow, the conspiracy has succeeded.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000009_000006.wav|Directly!|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000049_000001.wav|His eyes dropped before hers, and his dark color deepened.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000035_000000.wav|They went on toward the town.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000025_000000.wav|She sauntered on a few steps toward the figure advancing along the road. The spy followed her close.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000024_000001.wav|"I'll take a turn and consider it."|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000051_000002.wav|"Pray excuse my anxiety, Miss Gwilt: Allan's good name is as dear to me as my own!"|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000034_000013.wav|"I am treating you like an old friend.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000005_000001.wav|The fretful children were crying in their cradles; the horse destined for the knacker dozed forlorn in the field of his imprisonment; the cats waited stealthily in corners for the coming night.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000015_000003.wav|"Why am I stopping here?"|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000052_000005.wav|Let us go back to what we were talking about.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3866/173230/3866_173230_000037_000000.wav|The magnetic influence of her touch was thrilling through him while she spoke.|3866
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000010_000003.wav|And what disturbed mrs Arbuthnot about this suggestion was that she did not make it solely to comfort mrs Wilkins; she made it because of her own strange longing for the mediaeval castle.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000025_000006.wav|Certainly her customary clear expression of candor was not there, and its place was taken by a kind of suppressed and frightened pleasedness, which would have led a more worldly minded audience to the instant conviction of recent and probably impassioned lovemaking.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000034_000001.wav|She felt she ought really to ask, straight out and roundly, that the mediaeval castle should already have been taken by some one else and the whole thing thus be settled, but her courage failed her.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000031_000000.wav|"In February?" he called after her sarcastically.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000022_000002.wav|We have attained it, and we are unhappy.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000023_000003.wav|I think it quite likely we shall find the conditions impossible, and even if they were not, probably by to morrow we shall not want to go."|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000038_000000.wav|And at least her little house was not haunted by the loose lived ladies, for Frederick did his work away from home.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000034_000002.wav|Suppose her prayer were to be answered?|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000036_000004.wav|She could do no more.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000009_000000.wav|Of Course mrs Arbuthnot was not miserable-how could she be, she asked herself, when God was taking care of her?--but she let that pass for the moment unrepudiated, because of her conviction that here was another fellow creature in urgent need of her help; and not just boots and blankets and better sanitary arrangements this time, but the more delicate help of comprehension, of finding the exact right words.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000011_000001.wav|There she was, accustomed to direct, to lead, to advise, to support-except Frederick; she long since had learned to leave Frederick to God-being led herself, being influenced and thrown off her feet, by just an advertisement, by just an incoherent stranger.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000014_000000.wav|They got up simultaneously-mrs|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000008_000000.wav|Chapter two|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000026_000003.wav|Though she couldn't approve of the way mrs Wilkins was introducing the idea of predestination into her immediate future, just as if she had no choice, just as if to struggle, or even to reflect, were useless, it yet influenced her.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000015_000002.wav|She had a curious infectiousness.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000036_000009.wav|But how difficult it had been.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000034_000004.wav|And after all-she almost pointed this out to God-if she spent her present nest egg on a holiday she could quite soon accumulate another.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000036_000010.wav|mrs Arbuthnot, groping for guidance, prayed about it to exhaustion.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000015_000001.wav|She appeared to have, apart from her need of help, an upsetting kind of character.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000036_000012.wav|But then what about the parish's boots?|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000039_000001.wav|Life, she often thought, however much one tabulated was yet a mystery.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000036_000008.wav|Their very boots were stout with sins.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000036_000003.wav|The poor were the filter through which the money was passed, to come out, mrs Arbuthnot hoped, purified.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000015_000003.wav|She led one on.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000026_000005.wav|Some people were like that, mrs Arbuthnot knew; and if mrs Wilkins had actually seen her at the mediaeval castle it did seem probable that struggling would be a waste of time.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132864/699_132864_000023_000002.wav|Anybody may do that.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000007_000000.wav|There were disagreeable incidents towards the end of March, when mrs Wilkins, her heart in her mouth and her face a mixture of guilt, terror and determination, told her husband that she had been invited to Italy, and he declined to believe it.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000010_000001.wav|He did not know, nobody knew, what she was going to do, and from the very beginning she was unable to look anybody in the face.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000016_000000.wav|mr Wilkins, who had not been abroad since before the war, and was noticing with increasing disgust, as week followed week of wind and rain, the peculiar persistent vileness of the weather, and slowly conceived a desire to get away from England for Easter.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000015_000002.wav|mrs Wilkins could not speak.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000019_000001.wav|Did you not hear me?"|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000010_000003.wav|How could she stand up and ask people for money when she herself was spending so much on her own selfish pleasure?|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000007_000003.wav|There was no precedent.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000024_000001.wav|We're brow beaten-we're not any longer real human beings.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000011.wav|God sees none."|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000026_000001.wav|Frederick went too deep into her heart for her to talk about him.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000009.wav|But that made no difference to her conscience, which knew and would not let her forget that she had given him an incomplete impression.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000015_000001.wav|The silence in the room, except for the hail hitting the windows and the gay roar of the fire, was complete.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000006.wav|He could not but believe mrs Arbuthnot.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000001.wav|Mellersh, profoundly indignant, besides having his intended treat coming back on him like a blessing to roost, cross examined her with the utmost severity.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000006_000001.wav|In this way everything would be got nicely ready for the two who seemed, in spite of the equality of the sharing, yet to have something about them of guests.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000007_000001.wav|Of course he declined to believe it.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000027_000003.wav|None of the French porters knew him; not a single official at Calais cared a fig for Mellersh.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000016_000004.wav|There was a familiar sound about Easter in Italy. To Italy he would go; and as it would cause comment if he did not take his wife, take her he must-besides, she would be useful; a second person was always useful in a country whose language one did not speak for holding things, for waiting with the luggage.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000010_000008.wav|She gave it all immediately to the organization she worked with, and found herself more tangled in doubts than ever.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000018_000000.wav|He turned his head-their chairs were in front of the fire-and looked at her.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000023_000001.wav|Both mrs Arbuthnot and mrs Wilkins were shattered; try as they would not to, both felt extraordinarily guilty; and when on the morning of the thirtieth they did finally get off there was no exhilaration about the departure, no holiday feeling at all.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000008_000000.wav|Indeed, the whole of March was filled with unpleasant, anxious moments.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000007_000004.wav|He required proofs.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000003.wav|He demanded that, since she had so outrageously accepted it without consulting him, she should write and cancel her acceptance.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000025_000001.wav|mrs Wilkins meant their husbands, persisting in her assumption that Frederick was as indignant as Mellersh over the departure of his wife, whereas Frederick did not even know his wife had gone.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000015_000000.wav|None came.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000012_000000.wav|"Think how much nicer we shall be when we come back," she said to mrs Arbuthnot, encouraging that pale lady.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000027_000001.wav|But after having been very sick, just to arrive at Calais and not be sick was happiness, and it was there that the real splendour of what they were doing first began to warm their benumbed spirits.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000004.wav|Finding himself up against an unsuspected, shocking rock of obstinacy in her, he then declined to believe she had been invited to Italy at all.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000019_000000.wav|"I am thinking," he repeated, raising his clear, cultivated voice and speaking with acerbity, for inattention at such a moment was deplorable, "of taking you to Italy for Easter.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000016_000002.wav|He could afford a trip.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000013_000000.wav|No, mrs Wilkins had no doubts, but she had fears; and March was for her too an anxious month, with the unconscious mr Wilkins coming back daily to his dinner and eating his fish in the silence of imagined security.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000008_000002.wav|mrs Arbuthnot's conscience, made super sensitive by years of pampering, could not reconcile what she was doing with its own high standard of what was right.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000017_000000.wav|He had expected an explosion of gratitude and excitement.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000022_000000.wav|It was a dreadful afternoon.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000024_000000.wav|"We've been too good-much too good," mrs Wilkins kept on murmuring as they walked up and down the platform at Victoria, having arrived there an hour before they need have, "and that's why we feel as though we're doing wrong.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000017_000001.wav|The absence of it was incredible.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132866/699_132866_000008_000007.wav|Would you not, frankly, be disappointed if that prayer were granted?"|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000022_000001.wav|Still ten minutes before dinner. Tired of staying in her bedroom she thought she would go on to mrs Fisher's battlements, which would be empty at this hour, and watch the moon rise out of the sea.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000014_000001.wav|He did not wish to arrive too hot, so had to go slowly.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000017_000000.wav|"Your husband," said Lotty, swinging her feet, "might be here quite soon, perhaps to morrow evening if he starts at once, and there'll be a glorious final few days before we all go home refreshed for life.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000019_000001.wav|She could see as well as any one the unusually, the unique loveliness of Lady Caroline.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000022_000000.wav|She looked at her little clock.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000007_000001.wav|He fathered some of the most entertaining ideas he had lately had on to Lady Droitwich, and also any charming funny things that had been done-or might have been done, for he could imagine almost anything.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000008_000001.wav|Why, but how funny---fancy mother.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000016_000000.wav|Rose was quite aware of what had happened to mr Briggs.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000019_000007.wav|What fun it had been, having an admirer even for that little while.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000028_000002.wav|He did not turn round.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000011_000001.wav|It's late," said Arundel.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000018_000002.wav|If only it would come true as well about Frederick! For Rose, who between lunch and tea had left off thinking about Frederick, was now, between tea and dinner, thinking of him harder than ever.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000002.wav|But now let him wound her as much as he chose, as much as he possibly could, she would still have it out with him.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000002.wav|She couldn't think.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000007.wav|God had done this one.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000024_000002.wav|A dark, ugly room in the daytime, it was transformed just as she had been transformed by the warmth of-no, she wouldn't be silly; she would think of the poor; the thought of them always brought her down to sobriety at once.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000038_000001.wav|And couldn't he feel-didn't he know-|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000002_000005.wav|Scrap, who had that affection for her parents which warms in absence, was athirst for news, and became more and more interested by the news he gradually imparted.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000035_000001.wav|He had not heard.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000025_000001.wav|Firelight and flowers; and outside the deep slits of windows hung the blue curtain of the night.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000034_000000.wav|She must go nearer.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000037_000001.wav|She was afraid. Suppose he-suppose he-oh, but he had come, he had come.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000038_000000.wav|She went on again, close up to him, and her heart beat so loud that she thought he must hear it.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000025_000000.wav|She peeped in.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000028_000004.wav|The miracle had happened, and he had come.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000041_000000.wav|"Rose!" he exclaimed, staring blankly.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000017_000003.wav|You have to get fond of people here."|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000003_000002.wav|She looked very well; she said so and so.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000004.wav|For a person who wrote books, thought Rose, Frederick didn't seem to have much imagination.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000009_000000.wav|She laughed and laughed, and had a great longing to hug her mother, and the time flew, and it grew quite dusk, and it grew nearly dark, and mr Arundel still went on amusing her, and it was a quarter to eight before she suddenly remembered dinner.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000008_000004.wav|How perfectly adorable of her.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000005.wav|Anyhow, she said to herself, getting up from the dressing table, things couldn't go on like this.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000008.wav|Why shouldn't she too be happy?|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000003.wav|She could only see and feel.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000026_000001.wav|She went one step towards it, and then stood still, for she had seen the figure looking out of the window in the farthest corner, and it was Frederick.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000015_000000.wav|He got as far away from the fire as he could, and stood in one of the deep window recesses looking out at the distant lights of Mezzago. The drawing room door was open, and the house was quiet with the hush that precedes dinner, when the inhabitants are all shut up in their rooms dressing.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000008_000005.wav|And did she really say-but how wonderful of her to think of it.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000028_000003.wav|She stood looking at him.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000004_000000.wav|"Mother said that?" Scrap interrupted, surprised.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000024_000001.wav|The fire transformed the room.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000029_000001.wav|So he needed her, for he had come instantly.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000000.wav|Her thoughts wouldn't go on.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000006.wav|She would have it out with him.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000004.wav|She didn't know how it had happened.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000019_000003.wav|They seemed to quicken unsuspected faculties into life.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000001.wav|Her mind stammered.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000002_000002.wav|To them he had always remained mr Arundel; no one called him Ferdinand; and he only knew the gossip also available to the evening papers and the frequenters of clubs.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000002_000000.wav|Scrap wanted to know so much about her mother that Arundel had presently to invent.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000039_000000.wav|"Frederick," she whispered, hardly able even to whisper, choked by the beating of her heart.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000020_000001.wav|She dressed with care, though she knew mr Briggs would no longer see her, but it gave her pleasure to see how pretty, while she was about it, she could make herself look; and very nearly she stuck a crimson camellia in her hair down by her ear.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000028_000000.wav|She stood quite still.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000014_000002.wav|Fortunately he was near the top, and Francesca came down the pergola to pilot him indoors, and having shown him where he could wash she put him in the empty drawing room to cool himself by the crackling wood fire.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000034_000001.wav|She began to creep towards him-softly, softly.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000017_000002.wav|It's in the air.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000032_000000.wav|Her mind stammered again, and broke off.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000005.wav|It was a miracle.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000002_000004.wav|It was quite easy to fasten some of the entertaining things he was constantly thinking on to other people and pretend they were theirs.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000020_000003.wav|She mustn't be silly, she thought.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000033_000000.wav|"Frederick-" she tried to say; but no sound came, or if it did the crackling of the fire covered it up.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000030_000001.wav|Frederick did love her then-he must love her, or why had he come?|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000007.wav|This separate life, this freezing loneliness, she had had enough of it.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000020_000005.wav|Soon she would be back with them again, and what would a camellia behind her ear seem like then?|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000031_000006.wav|God could do miracles.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000006_000000.wav|"Mother did that?" Scrap inquired, wide eyed.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000003_000003.wav|But presently the things Lady Droitwich had said took on an unusual quality: they became amusing.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000020_000002.wav|She did hold it there for a minute, and it looked almost sinfully attractive and was exactly the colour of her mouth, but she took it out again with a smile and a sigh and put it in the proper place for flowers, which is water.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000029_000000.wav|She stood holding her breath.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000025_000004.wav|And that gorgeous lilac on the table- she must go and put her face in it . . .|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000026_000000.wav|But she never got to the lilac.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000020_000004.wav|Think of the poor.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000019_000006.wav|She still buzzed, she still tingled, just at the remembrance.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000030_000000.wav|Her heart, which had seemed to stop beating, was suffocating her now, the way it raced along.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000003_000000.wav|At first it was ordinary news.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000021_000009.wav|Why on earth-the energetic expression matched her mood of rebelliousness-shouldn't she too be loved and allowed to love?|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000008_000006.wav|What sort of a face did Lloyd George make?|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000002_000001.wav|He would talk about anything she wished if only he might be with her for a while and see her and hear her, but he knew very little of the Droitwiches and their friends really-beyond meeting them at those bigger functions where literature is also represented, and amusing them at luncheons and dinners, he knew very little of them really.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000037_000000.wav|She stopped a moment, unable to breathe.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000023_000000.wav|She went into the deserted upper hall with this intention, but was attracted on her way along it by the firelight shining through the open door of the drawing room.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000019_000005.wav|For a brief space, she thought, she had been like a torpid fly brought back to gay buzzing by the lighting of a fire in a wintry room.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000035_000000.wav|He did not move.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/699/132882/699_132882_000024_000000.wav|How gay it looked.|699
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000036_000004.wav|He declared that his beasts were as honest beasts, and as good beasts, as any in the whole province; and that they had a right to be well treated wherever they went.|2411
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000035_000001.wav|This good woman seemed very willing to accommodate the strangers, who were soon compelled to accept the only two beds in the place.|2411
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000018_000000.wav|Rocks on rocks piled, as if by magic spell, Here scorch'd by lightnings, there with ivy green.|2411
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000022_000006.wav|He looked again from the window, and then saw a young man spring from the bushes into the road, followed by a couple of dogs.|2411
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000012_000001.wav|Here was shade, and the fresh water of a spring, that, gliding among the turf, under the trees, thence precipitated itself from rock to rock, till its dashing murmurs were lost in the abyss, though its white foam was long seen amid the darkness of the pines below.|2411
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER three|2411
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000033_000003.wav|Here, light was admitted, and smoke discharged, through an aperture in the roof; and here the scent of spirits (for the travelling smugglers, who haunted the Pyrenees, had made this rude people familiar with the use of liquors) was generally perceptible enough.|2411
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000003_000002.wav|They parted with mutual regret.|2411
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000034_000001.wav|But she thought not of herself, and the animated smile she gave him, told how much she felt herself obliged for the preference of her father.|2411
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2411/132530/2411_132530_000012_000000.wav|Soon after mid day, they reached the summit of one of those cliffs, which, bright with the verdure of palm trees, adorn, like gems, the tremendous walls of the rocks, and which overlooked the greater part of Gascony, and part of Languedoc.|2411
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/27120/1259_27120_000023_000000.wav|"Do you prefer reading to cards?" said he; "that is rather singular."|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/27120/1259_27120_000042_000001.wav|She is now about Miss Elizabeth Bennet's height, or rather taller."|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/27120/1259_27120_000046_000000.wav|"Yes, all of them, I think.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000020_000000.wav|"I should think so, indeed," said he.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000010_000001.wav|"Cross the water and see.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000035_000000.wav|He sat musing for a little, and then started and said: "Are there any more questions, dear guest?|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000013_000001.wav|Do you assert that there are none?"|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000018_000002.wav|Which?|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000024_000000.wav|"Well," said he, "let us take one of our units of management, a commune, or a ward, or a parish (for we have all three names, indicating little real distinction between them now, though time was there was a good deal).|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000001_000000.wav|Said I: "How do you manage with politics?"|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000034_000000.wav|He smiled, and said: "Shrewdly put; and yet from the point of view of the native of another planet.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000024_000005.wav|If the division is a close one, the question is again put off for further discussion; if the division is a wide one, the minority are asked if they will yield to the more general opinion, which they often, nay, most commonly do.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000007_000000.wav|"Does not that make the world duller?" said i|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000020_000003.wav|As a rule, the immediate outcome shows which opinion on a given subject is the right one; it is a matter of fact, not of speculation.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000034_000003.wav|The man is benefited by the bridge building if it turns out a good thing, and hurt by it if it turns out a bad one, whether he puts a hand to it or not; and meanwhile he is benefiting the bridge builders by his work, whatever that may be.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000023_000000.wav|"How is that managed?" said i|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000024_000001.wav|In such a district, as you would call it, some neighbours think that something ought to be done or undone: a new town hall built; a clearance of inconvenient houses; or say a stone bridge substituted for some ugly old iron one,--there you have undoing and doing in one.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000008_000000.wav|"Why?" said the old man.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen: HOW MATTERS ARE MANAGED|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000033_000000.wav|"Yes," I said, "and besides, it does not press hardly on the minority: for, take this matter of the bridge, no man is obliged to work on it if he doesn't agree to its building.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000027_000000.wav|"But do you know," said I, "that there is something in all this very like democracy; and I thought that democracy was considered to be in a moribund condition many, many years ago."|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000017_000000.wav|Said I: "Why, nothing, I should hope.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000034_000004.wav|In fact, I see no help for him except the pleasure of saying 'I told you so' if the bridge building turns out to be a mistake and hurts him; if it benefits him he must suffer in silence.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000024_000003.wav|Equally, if no one backs the proposer,--'seconds him,' it used to be called-the matter drops for the time being; a thing not likely to happen amongst reasonable men, however, as the proposer is sure to have talked it over with others before the Mote.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000011_000000.wav|"Well-I don't know how," said i|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000030_000000.wav|Said he: "The only alternatives to our method that I can conceive of are these.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000024_000002.wav|Well, at the next ordinary meeting of the neighbours, or Mote, as we call it, according to the ancient tongue of the times before bureaucracy, a neighbour proposes the change, and of course, if everybody agrees, there is an end of discussion, except about details.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000028_000000.wav|The old boy's eyes twinkled.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000029_000000.wav|"Well," said I, "I don't know."|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000003_000000.wav|"I will," said i|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000018_000003.wav|Come, tell me that!"|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000009_000000.wav|"The obliteration of national variety," said i|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000025_000000.wav|"Very good," said I; "but what happens if the divisions are still narrow?"|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/72927/1259_72927_000018_000000.wav|"Human nature!" cried the old boy, impetuously; "what human nature?|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000030_000011.wav|Yet the main cause lay deeper still; she had outgrown stimulants, and was passing from words to things.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000014_000003.wav|In the first place, the Grange is on clay, and built where the castle moat must have been; then there's that destestable little river, steaming all night like a kettle.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000015_000000.wav|Margaret could not resist saying, "Why did you go there, then?"|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000013_000001.wav|I never heard till this minute that Oniton was damp."|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000008_000000.wav|His affection for his present wife grew steadily.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000028_000002.wav|Theo-theo-how much?"|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000008_000001.wav|Her cleverness gave him no trouble, and, indeed, he liked to see her reading poetry or something about social questions; it distinguished her from the wives of other men.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000006_000001.wav|Henry knew of a reliable hotel there, and Margaret hoped for a meeting with her sister.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000020_000002.wav|Poor little girl!|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000011_000001.wav|"I loved the place extraordinarily.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000003_000001.wav|It had decayed in the spring, disintegrating the girls more than they knew, and causing either to accost unfamiliar regions.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000014_000005.wav|Ask Sir james or anyone.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000023_000000.wav|Margaret was silent.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000012_000002.wav|But he did not believe in a damp home.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000005_000005.wav|The heart of mrs Wilcox was alone hidden, and perhaps it is superstitious to speculate on the feelings of the dead.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000003_000005.wav|Then it fell.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000028_000001.wav|What's it been reading?|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000030_000007.wav|No doubt Leonard was worth helping, but being Henry's wife, she preferred to help someone else.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000008_000002.wav|He had only to call, and she clapped the book up and was ready to do what he wished.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000002_000000.wav|Chapter thirty one|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000027_000000.wav|"I see your point," said Margaret, getting up.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000006_000008.wav|She moved south again, and spoke of wintering in Naples.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000004_000004.wav|The plate and the more valuable pictures found a safer home in London, but the bulk of the things went country ways, and were entrusted to the guardianship of Miss Avery.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000027_000001.wav|"If Oniton is really damp, it is impossible, and must be inhabited by little boys.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000016_000003.wav|One might go on asking such questions indefinitely."|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000010_000000.wav|"I didn't want to bother you," he replied.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000009_000002.wav|She showed her annoyance, and asked rather crossly why she had not been consulted.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000011_000000.wav|"Where are we to live?" said Margaret, trying to laugh.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000011_000002.wav|Don't you believe in having a permanent home, Henry?"|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000023_000003.wav|Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000003_000000.wav|Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the generations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly, but to an after life in the city of ghosts, while from others-and thus was the death of Wickham Place-the spirit slips before the body perishes.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000030_000004.wav|He did not rely upon the sandwich for lunch, but liked to have it by him in case he grew hungry at eleven.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000009_000000.wav|Margaret had a bad attack of these nerves during the honeymoon.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000006_000004.wav|Evidently she disliked meeting Henry.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000023_000001.wav|Marriage had not saved her from the sense of flux.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000030_000005.wav|When he had gone, there was the house to look after, and the servants to humanize, and several kettles of Helen's to keep on the boil.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000027_000002.wav|Only, in the spring, let us look before we leap.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000014_000001.wav|have you a skin?|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000004_000003.wav|Margaret demurred, but Tibby accepted the offer gladly; it saved him from coming to any decision about the future.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000007_000000.wav|mr Wilcox was not sorry that the meeting failed.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000010_000001.wav|"Besides, I have only heard for certain this morning."|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000018_000001.wav|Don't let this go any further."|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000005_000009.wav|Paul did send a cablegram.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000025_000000.wav|"If possible, something permanent.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000020_000006.wav|She has had her country wedding, and I've got rid of my house to some fellows who are starting a preparatory school."|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000005_000006.wav|They were married quietly-really quietly, for as the day approached she refused to go through another Oniton.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000003_000002.wav|By September it was a corpse, void of emotion, and scarcely hallowed by the memories of thirty years of happiness.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000003_000003.wav|Through its round topped doorway passed furniture, and pictures, and books, until the last room was gutted and the last van had rumbled away.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000008_000005.wav|She cannot win in a real battle, having no muscles, only nerves.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000030_000009.wav|She began to "miss" new movements, and to spend her spare time re reading or thinking, rather to the concern of her Chelsea friends.|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1259/137770/1259_137770_000014_000000.wav|"My dear girl!"--he flung out his hand-"have you eyes?|1259
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000007.wav|It should be baked as soon as light.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000023_000001.wav|Stir in flour until stiff enough to mould up.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000009.wav|If it does not foam well, when put in, it is too stale to use.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000008.wav|If your yeast appears to be a little changed, add a little saleratus to it before you mix it with your bread.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000029_000002.wav|When the butter has melted, put in half a pint of cold milk.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000013_000001.wav|When cool, add half a tea cup of yeast, a little salt, and milk to render it of the consistency of rye bread.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000015_000004.wav|When light, do it up into small rolls-lay the rolls on flat buttered tins-let them remain twenty minutes before baking.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000007.wav|They are very convenient to use in summer, as common yeast is so apt to ferment.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000011_000001.wav|Put in salt, and very little butter-then rub them with the flour-wet the flour with lukewarm water-then work in the yeast, and flour till stiff to mould up.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000005_000001.wav|For four or five loaves of bread, put in a couple of tea spoonsful of salt.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000018.wav|Pine and ash, mixed together, or birch wood, is the best for heating an oven.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000019.wav|To ascertain if your oven is of the right temperature, when cleaned, throw in a little flour; if it browns in the course of a minute, it is sufficiently hot; if it turns black directly, wait several minutes, before putting in the things that are to be baked.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000006.wav|Yeast cakes will keep good five or six months.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000012.wav|It should remain till cool before working in the yeast.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000005_000004.wav|When light, take it out into pans, without moulding it up-let it remain in them about twenty minutes, before baking.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000011_000002.wav|It will rise quicker than common wheat bread, and should be baked as soon as risen, as it turns sour very soon.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000015_000000.wav|Turn a quart of lukewarm milk on to a quart of flour.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000015_000003.wav|Put it in a warm place.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000016.wav|This will raise the bread in the course of an hour.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000004.wav|The more the bread is kneaded, the better it will be.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000006.wav|Whenever your yeast gets sour, the jar should be thoroughly cleaned before fresh is put in-if not cleaned, it will spoil the fresh yeast.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000012.wav|Take half the quantity of milk you need for your biscuit-set it in a warm place, with a little flour, and a tea spoonful of salt.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000013.wav|When light, mix it with the rest of the milk, and use it directly for the biscuit.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000029_000003.wav|If the milk cools the potatoes, put in a quarter of a pint of yeast, and flour to make them of the right consistency to mould up.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000023_000002.wav|Mould it up into small cakes, and bake them immediately.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000002.wav|When risen again, roll them out very thin, cut them into cakes with a tumbler, and dry them in the shade in clear windy weather.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000006.wav|To ascertain when it has risen, cut it through the middle with a knife-if full of small holes like a sponge, it is sufficiently light for baking.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000013.wav|Some cooks have an idea that it kills the life of the flour to scald it, but it is a mistaken idea-it is sweeter for it, and will keep good much longer.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000021_000001.wav|A couple of eggs improve the biscuit, but are not essential.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000007_000001.wav|Bake it between two and three hours.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000003_000002.wav|Set it in a warm place to rise.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000014.wav|Bread made in this way is nearly as good as that which is wet with milk.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000002.wav|When lukewarm, stir in a tea cup of yeast-keep it in a warm place till risen.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000003.wav|When lukewarm, stir in half a pint of family yeast, (if brewers' yeast is used, a less quantity will answer,) a table spoonful of salt, knead in flour till stiff enough to mould up, and free from lumps.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000027_000000.wav|Put a couple of tea spoonsful of saleratus in a pint of sour milk.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000000.wav|Stir into a pint of good lively yeast a table spoonful of salt, and rye or wheat flour to make a thick batter.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000027_000002.wav|Mould them up into small biscuit, and bake them immediately.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000005_000003.wav|It should not be kneaded as stiff as wheat bread, or it will be hard when baked.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000033_000000.wav|Rub six ounces of butter with two pounds of flour-dissolve a couple of tea spoonsful of saleratus in a wine glass of milk, and strain it on to the flour-add a tea spoonful of salt, and milk enough to enable you to roll it out.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000025_000002.wav|Bake them in a quick oven.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000011_000000.wav|Boil the potatoes very soft, then peel and mash them fine.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000001.wav|When thoroughly mixed, add three pints of cold water.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000015_000002.wav|When cool, stir in half a tea cup of yeast, and flour to make it stiff enough to mould up.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000017.wav|A brisk fire should be kept up, and the doors of the room should be kept shut, if the weather is cold.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000029_000004.wav|Set them in a warm place-when risen, mould them up with the hand-let them remain ten or fifteen minutes before baking them.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000010.wav|Milk yeast makes sweeter bread than any other kind of yeast, but it will not keep good long.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000029_000000.wav|Boil mealy potatoes very soft, peel and mash them.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000013_000000.wav|Boil a pint of rice till soft-then mix it with a couple of quarts of rice or wheat flour.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000020.wav|If the oven does not bake well, set in a furnace of live coals.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000017.wav|The dough will need a little fresh hop liquor put to it, in the course of three or four times baking.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000031_000001.wav|When light, drop this mixture by the large spoonful on to flat, buttered tins, several inches apart.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000000.wav|Boil a small handful of hops in a couple of quarts of water.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000007_000000.wav|Brown bread is made by scalding Indian meal, and stirring into it, when lukewarm, about the same quantity of rye flour as Indian meal-add yeast and salt in the same proportion as for other kinds of bread.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000007.wav|Yeast made in this manner will keep good a fortnight in warm weather; in cold weather longer.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000011_000003.wav|The potatoes that the bread is made of should be mealy, and mixed with the flour in the proportion of one third of potatoes to two thirds of flour.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000003_000003.wav|When light, knead in flour till stiff enough to mould up, then let it stand till risen again, before moulding it up.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000005.wav|Cover it over with a thick cloth, and if the weather is cold, set it near a fire.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000025_000000.wav|Weigh out four pounds of flour, and rub three pounds and a half of it with four ounces of butter, four beaten eggs, and a couple of tea spoonsful of salt.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000011.wav|It is very nice to make biscuit of.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000021_000003.wav|Let them remain half an hour before they are baked.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000003_000001.wav|Let it remain till lukewarm, then add a tea cup full of family, or half a tea cup of distillery yeast.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000004.wav|When perfectly dry, tie them up in a bag, and keep them in a cool dry place.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000015.wav|Another method of making yeast, which is very good, is to take about half a pound of your bread dough, when risen, and roll it out thin, and dry it. When you wish to make bread, put a quart of lukewarm milk to it, set it near the fire to rise-when light, scald the flour, and let it be till lukewarm-then add the yeast and salt.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000017_000005.wav|Some people keep yeast in bottles, but they are apt to burst-some use jugs, but they cannot be cleaned so easily as jars.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000005_000000.wav|Wet up rye flour with lukewarm milk, (water will do to wet it with, but it will not make the bread so good.) Put in the same proportion of yeast as for wheat bread.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000033_000001.wav|Beat it with a rolling pin for half an hour, pounding it out thin-cut it into cakes with a tumbler-bake them about fifteen minutes, then take them from the oven.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000001.wav|When risen, stir in Indian meal till of the right consistency to roll out.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000015_000001.wav|Melt a couple of ounces of butter, and put to the milk and flour, together with a couple of eggs, and a tea spoonful of salt.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000023_000000.wav|Dissolve a couple of tea spoonsful of saleratus in a tea cup of sour milk-mix it with a pint of butter milk, and a couple of tea spoonsful of salt.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000031_000002.wav|Let them remain a few minutes before baking.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000031_000003.wav|Bake them in a quick oven till they are a light brown.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000021_000000.wav|Melt a tea cup of butter-mix it with two thirds of a pint of milk, (if you have not any milk, water may be substituted, but the biscuit will not be as nice.) Put in a tea spoonful of salt, half a tea cup of yeast, (milk yeast is the best, see directions for making it)--stir in flour till it is stiff enough to mould up.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000009.wav|The bread should stand ten or twelve minutes in the pans before baking it.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000016.wav|Most ovens require heating an hour and a half for bread.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000021_000002.wav|Set the dough in a warm place when risen, mould the dough with the hand into small cakes, lay them on flat tins that have been buttered.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000019_000003.wav|Care must be taken to keep them from the sun, or they will ferment.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000029_000001.wav|To four good sized potatoes, put a piece of butter, of the size of a hen's egg, a tea spoonful of salt.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000010.wav|If you like your bread baked a good deal, let it stand in the oven an hour and a half.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000011.wav|When the wheat is grown, it makes better bread to wet the flour entirely with boiling water.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000009_000001.wav|When light, take it out into buttered pans, let it remain a few minutes, then bake it two hours and a half.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/12715/3521_12715_000001_000015.wav|Care must be taken not to put the yeast in when the dough is hot, as it will scald it, and prevents its rising.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000013_000000.wav|--But can the thing be undone, Yorick? said my father-for in my opinion, continued he, it cannot.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000006_000000.wav|We'll pay them in money-said the king.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000013_000003.wav|All that is requisite, continued Yorick, is to apprize Didius, and let him manage a conversation after dinner so as to introduce the subject.--Then my brother Toby, cried my father, clapping his two hands together, shall go with us.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000008_000000.wav|Your honour stands pawn'd already in this matter, answered Monsieur le Premier.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000007_000000.wav|Sire, there are not sixty thousand crowns in the treasury, answered the minister.--I'll pawn the best jewel in my crown, quoth Francis the First.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000005_000000.wav|Your majesty, replied the minister calmly, cannot bring yourself off.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000014_000000.wav|--Let my old tye wig, quoth my uncle Toby, and my laced regimentals, be hung to the fire all night, Trim.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/175962/3521_175962_000022_000001.wav|For my own part, I am but just set up in the business, so know little about it-but, in my opinion, to write a book is for all the world like humming a song-be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000006_000002.wav|He disregarded the decora of mere fashion.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000006_000004.wav|There are some who would have thought him mad.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000001_000002.wav|Blood was its Avatar and its seal-the redness and the horror of blood.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000014_000004.wav|And the flames of the tripods expired.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000007_000004.wav|There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. To and fro in the seven chambers there stalked, in fact, a multitude of dreams.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000013_000001.wav|At first, as he spoke, there was a slight rushing movement of this group in the direction of the intruder, who at the moment was also near at hand, and now, with deliberate and stately step, made closer approach to the speaker.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000012.wav|The fourth was furnished and lighted with orange-the fifth with white-the sixth with violet.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000007.wav|To the right and left, in the middle of each wall, a tall and narrow Gothic window looked out upon a closed corridor which pursued the windings of the suite.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000008_000001.wav|And the revel went whirlingly on, until at length there commenced the sounding of midnight upon the clock.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000006.wav|The abbey was amply provisioned.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000008_000000.wav|But these other apartments were densely crowded, and in them beat feverishly the heart of life.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000014_000002.wav|And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000009_000007.wav|But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000009.wav|In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000009_000001.wav|There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000002.wav|This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000018.wav|But in the corridors that followed the suite, there stood, opposite to each window, a heavy tripod, bearing a brazier of fire that projected its rays through the tinted glass and so glaringly illumined the room.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000009_000004.wav|The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000007_000001.wav|Be sure they were grotesque.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000019.wav|And thus were produced a multitude of gaudy and fantastic appearances.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000013.wav|Without was the "Red Death."|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000008.wav|The external world could take care of itself.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000014_000003.wav|And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000007_000008.wav|The dreams are stiff frozen as they stand.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000001_000000.wav|THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000007_000007.wav|And then, for a moment, all is still, and all is silent save the voice of the clock.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000010.wav|The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000008_000004.wav|And the rumor of this new presence having spread itself whisperingly around, there arose at length from the whole company a buzz, or murmur, expressive of disapprobation and surprise-then, finally, of terror, of horror, and of disgust.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000005_000000.wav|It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000014.wav|But in this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000011.wav|The third was green throughout, and so were the casements.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000000.wav|It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000014_000000.wav|And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000000.wav|But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000002.wav|There were seven-an imperial suite.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000007.wav|With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000003.wav|A strong and lofty wall girdled it in.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000015.wav|The panes here were scarlet-a deep blood color.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000011_000000.wav|"Who dares?" he demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood near him-"who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery?|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000009_000008.wav|His vesture was dabbled in blood-and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000010.wav|The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000004_000006.wav|There was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirty yards, and at each turn a novel effect.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000011.wav|There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000002_000012.wav|All these and security were within.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000006_000001.wav|He had a fine eye for colors and effects.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3521/7591/3521_7591_000000_000000.wav|THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH.|3521
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000011_000002.wav|But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000011_000001.wav|Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000009_000000.wav|To the People of the State of New York:|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000006_000000.wav|General Introduction|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000015_000000.wav|In the course of the preceding observations, I have had an eye, my fellow citizens, to putting you upon your guard against all attempts, from whatever quarter, to influence your decision in a matter of the utmost moment to your welfare, by any impressions other than those which may result from the evidence of truth.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000019_000000.wav|It may perhaps be thought superfluous to offer arguments to prove the utility of the UNION, a point, no doubt, deeply engraved on the hearts of the great body of the people in every State, and one, which it may be imagined, has no adversaries.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000019_000002.wav|For nothing can be more evident, to those who are able to take an enlarged view of the subject, than the alternative of an adoption of the new Constitution or a dismemberment of the Union.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000015_000004.wav|I frankly acknowledge to you my convictions, and I will freely lay before you the reasons on which they are founded.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000016_000000.wav|I propose, in a series of papers, to discuss the following interesting particulars:|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000013_000005.wav|And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection that we are not always sure that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000015_000009.wav|They shall at least be offered in a spirit which will not disgrace the cause of truth.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000011_000003.wav|The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its discussion a variety of objects foreign to its merits, and of views, passions and prejudices little favorable to the discovery of truth.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000007_000000.wav|For the Independent Journal.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000013_000006.wav|Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000013_000007.wav|Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000013_000002.wav|Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it cannot be doubted that much of the opposition which has made its appearance, or may hereafter make its appearance, will spring from sources, blameless at least, if not respectable-the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000010_000002.wav|It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000008_000000.wav|HAMILTON|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000019_000004.wav|This shall accordingly constitute the subject of my next address.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000015_000001.wav|You will, no doubt, at the same time, have collected from the general scope of them, that they proceed from a source not unfriendly to the new Constitution.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000014_000000.wav|And yet, however just these sentiments will be allowed to be, we have already sufficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000018_000000.wav|In the progress of this discussion I shall endeavor to give a satisfactory answer to all the objections which shall have made their appearance, that may seem to have any claim to your attention.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000011_000000.wav|This idea will add the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism, to heighten the solicitude which all considerate and good men must feel for the event.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000010_000003.wav|If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000003_000000.wav|THE FEDERALIST PAPERS|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000013_000003.wav|So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000015_000002.wav|Yes, my countrymen, I own to you that, after having given it an attentive consideration, I am clearly of opinion it is your interest to adopt it. I am convinced that this is the safest course for your liberty, your dignity, and your happiness.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000007_000001.wav|saturday october twenty seventh seventeen eighty seven|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130974/373_130974_000014_000004.wav|It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000017_000001.wav|That situation consists in the best possible state of defense, and necessarily depends on the government, the arms, and the resources of the country.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000021_000000.wav|We have heard much of the fleets of Britain, and the time may come, if we are wise, when the fleets of America may engage attention.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000019_000000.wav|One government can collect and avail itself of the talents and experience of the ablest men, in whatever part of the Union they may be found.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000019_000004.wav|It can apply the resources and power of the whole to the defense of any particular part, and that more easily and expeditiously than State governments or separate confederacies can possibly do, for want of concert and unity of system.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000006_000000.wav|JAY|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000019_000002.wav|It can harmonize, assimilate, and protect the several parts and members, and extend the benefit of its foresight and precautions to each.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000023_000004.wav|Various difficulties and inconveniences would be inseparable from such a situation; whereas one government, watching over the general and common interests, and combining and directing the powers and resources of the whole, would be free from all these embarrassments, and conduce far more to the safety of the people.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000023_000001.wav|How, and when, and in what proportion shall aids of men and money be afforded?|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000005_000001.wav|wednesday november seventh seventeen eighty seven|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000004_000000.wav|The Same Subject Continued (Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence)|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000024_000000.wav|But whatever may be our situation, whether firmly united under one national government, or split into a number of confederacies, certain it is, that foreign nations will know and view it exactly as it is; and they will act toward us accordingly.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000013_000000.wav|In the trade to China and India, we interfere with more than one nation, inasmuch as it enables us to partake in advantages which they had in a manner monopolized, and as we thereby supply ourselves with commodities which we used to purchase from them.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000024_000001.wav|If they see that our national government is efficient and well administered, our trade prudently regulated, our militia properly organized and disciplined, our resources and finances discreetly managed, our credit re-established, our people free, contented, and united, they will be much more disposed to cultivate our friendship than provoke our resentment.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000019_000003.wav|In the formation of treaties, it will regard the interest of the whole, and the particular interests of the parts as connected with that of the whole.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000022_000000.wav|Apply these facts to our own case.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000019_000005.wav|It can place the militia under one plan of discipline, and, by putting their officers in a proper line of subordination to the Chief Magistrate, will, as it were, consolidate them into one corps, and thereby render them more efficient than if divided into thirteen or into three or four distinct independent companies.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000005_000000.wav|For the Independent Journal.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000022_000001.wav|Leave America divided into thirteen or, if you please, into three or four independent governments-what armies could they raise and pay-what fleets could they ever hope to have?|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000012_000000.wav|With them and with most other European nations we are rivals in navigation and the carrying trade; and we shall deceive ourselves if we suppose that any of them will rejoice to see it flourish; for, as our carrying trade cannot increase without in some degree diminishing theirs, it is more their interest, and will be more their policy, to restrain than to promote it.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000020_000000.wav|What would the militia of Britain be if the English militia obeyed the government of England, if the Scotch militia obeyed the government of Scotland, and if the Welsh militia obeyed the government of Wales? Suppose an invasion; would those three governments (if they agreed at all) be able, with all their respective forces, to operate against the enemy so effectually as the single government of Great Britain would?|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000009_000000.wav|But the safety of the people of America against dangers from FOREIGN force depends not only on their forbearing to give JUST causes of war to other nations, but also on their placing and continuing themselves in such a situation as not to INVITE hostility or insult; for it need not be observed that there are PRETENDED as well as just causes of war.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000007_000000.wav|To the People of the State of New York:|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000021_000001.wav|But if one national government, had not so regulated the navigation of Britain as to make it a nursery for seamen-if one national government had not called forth all the national means and materials for forming fleets, their prowess and their thunder would never have been celebrated.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000023_000003.wav|Who shall settle the terms of peace, and in case of disputes what umpire shall decide between them and compel acquiescence?|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130977/373_130977_000023_000000.wav|But admit that they might be willing to help the invaded State or confederacy.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000016_000001.wav|They formed it almost as soon as they had a political existence; nay, at a time when their habitations were in flames, when many of their citizens were bleeding, and when the progress of hostility and desolation left little room for those calm and mature inquiries and reflections which must ever precede the formation of a wise and well balanced government for a free people.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000019_000003.wav|It is not yet forgotten that well grounded apprehensions of imminent danger induced the people of America to form the memorable Congress of seventeen seventy four. That body recommended certain measures to their constituents, and the event proved their wisdom; yet it is fresh in our memories how soon the press began to teem with pamphlets and weekly papers against those very measures.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000022_000003.wav|Or why is it suggested that three or four confederacies would be better than one?|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000015_000002.wav|As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign states.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000018_000001.wav|In the mild season of peace, with minds unoccupied by other subjects, they passed many months in cool, uninterrupted, and daily consultation; and finally, without having been awed by power, or influenced by any passions except love for their country, they presented and recommended to the people the plan produced by their joint and very unanimous councils.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000006_000001.wav|wednesday october thirty first seventeen eighty seven|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000020_000001.wav|That, being convened from different parts of the country, they brought with them and communicated to each other a variety of useful information.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000012_000001.wav|Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000022_000005.wav|That certainly would be the case, and I sincerely wish that it may be as clearly foreseen by every good citizen, that whenever the dissolution of the Union arrives, America will have reason to exclaim, in the words of the poet: "FAREWELL!|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000017_000000.wav|This intelligent people perceived and regretted these defects.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000011_000000.wav|It has until lately been a received and uncontradicted opinion that the prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000011_000001.wav|But politicians now appear, who insist that this opinion is erroneous, and that instead of looking for safety and happiness in union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States into distinct confederacies or sovereignties. However extraordinary this new doctrine may appear, it nevertheless has its advocates; and certain characters who were much opposed to it formerly, are at present of the number.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000008_000000.wav|To the People of the State of New York:|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000019_000000.wav|Admit, for so is the fact, that this plan is only RECOMMENDED, not imposed, yet let it be remembered that it is neither recommended to BLIND approbation, nor to BLIND reprobation; but to that sedate and candid consideration which the magnitude and importance of the subject demand, and which it certainly ought to receive.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000009_000000.wav|WHEN the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which, in its consequences, must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a very comprehensive, as well as a very serious, view of it, will be evident.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000019_000002.wav|Experience on a former occasion teaches us not to be too sanguine in such hopes.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000016_000000.wav|A strong sense of the value and blessings of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government to preserve and perpetuate it.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000019_000001.wav|But this (as was remarked in the foregoing number of this paper) is more to be wished than expected, that it may be so considered and examined.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000018_000000.wav|This convention composed of men who possessed the confidence of the people, and many of whom had become highly distinguished by their patriotism, virtue and wisdom, in times which tried the minds and hearts of men, undertook the arduous task.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000006_000000.wav|For the Independent Journal.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000020_000003.wav|That they were individually interested in the public liberty and prosperity, and therefore that it was not less their inclination than their duty to recommend only such measures as, after the most mature deliberation, they really thought prudent and advisable.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000011_000002.wav|Whatever may be the arguments or inducements which have wrought this change in the sentiments and declarations of these gentlemen, it certainly would not be wise in the people at large to adopt these new political tenets without being fully convinced that they are founded in truth and sound policy.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000017_000001.wav|Still continuing no less attached to union than enamored of liberty, they observed the danger which immediately threatened the former and more remotely the latter; and being persuaded that ample security for both could only be found in a national government more wisely framed, they as with one voice, convened the late convention at Philadelphia, to take that important subject under consideration.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000016_000002.wav|It is not to be wondered at, that a government instituted in times so inauspicious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000019_000005.wav|Many, indeed, were deceived and deluded, but the great majority of the people reasoned and decided judiciously; and happy they are in reflecting that they did so.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/373/130975/373_130975_000020_000000.wav|They considered that the Congress was composed of many wise and experienced men.|373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000011_000001.wav|What is it but a cracked jug?|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000022.wav|But I had no longer any pleasure in the world.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000017_000002.wav|Why should he think of her now?|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000008_000003.wav|I turned my face in the direction of it, so far as I could judge, and went on.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000016_000000.wav|"I don't in the least mind taking charge of it," answered Wingfold.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000001.wav|I heard the sounds of the workmen's hammers on the new one as I went.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000005_000000.wav|His large face grew paler as he spoke, and something almost like fear grew in his eyes, but they looked straight into those of the curate, and his voice did not tremble.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000015_000001.wav|I can't even bear to think of it even in the house, and yet I don't quite care to destroy it."|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000007_000000.wav|"It was a still, warm night, no moon, but plenty of star light, the wind blowing as now, gentle and sweet and cool-just the wind my lungs sighed for.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000011.wav|An old bedstead was all I saw.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000010_000000.wav|"On the contrary," interrupted Wingfold, "I was smiling with admiration of your pluck."|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000029.wav|And partly comforted by the temporary conclusion, I got a little troubled sleep.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000023.wav|I went straight home, and to bed again-but had brought little repose with me: I must do something-but what?|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000007_000002.wav|The turf was soft under my feet, the dusk soft to my eyes, and the wind to my soul; I had breath and room and leisure and silence and loneliness, and everything to make me more than usually happy; and so I wandered on and on, neither caring nor looking whither I went: so long as the stars remained unclouded, I could find my way back when I pleased.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000001_000000.wav|THE SHEATH.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000020.wav|I crept out of the house, and up to the higher ground.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000007_000001.wav|I got into the open park, avoiding the trees, and wandered on and on, without thinking where I was going.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000010.wav|There was no one there!|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000028.wav|I might, in the morning, be of service to them.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000004.wav|When I got into the garden I began to sing and knock the bushes about, then opened the door noisily, and clattered about in the hall and the lower rooms before going up the stair.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000017_000006.wav|Good heavens!|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000009_000001.wav|I stood and listened for a moment, but all seemed still as the grave.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000005.wav|Along every passage and into every room I went, to give good warning ere I approached that in which I had heard the voices.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000027.wav|There MUST be some simple explanation of the matter, however strange it showed!|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000011.wav|I approached it softly, and finding that door inside a small closet, knew at once where I was. As I was in office on the ground, and it could hardly be any thing righteous that led to such an outcry in the house, which, although deserted, was still my master's, I felt justified in searching further into the matter.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000011_000002.wav|So down the slope I went, got into the garden, and made my way through the tangled bushes to the house.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000008_000000.wav|"I had been out perhaps an hour, when through the soft air came a cry, apparently from far off.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000011_000003.wav|I knew the place perfectly, for I had often wandered all over it, sometimes spending hours there.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000012.wav|Laying my ear therefore against the door, I heard what was plainly a lady's voice.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000008_000004.wav|I cannot run, for, if I attempt it, I am in a moment unable even to walk-from palpitation and choking.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000006_000002.wav|I rose, dressed, and went out.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000008_000002.wav|The bare sound made me shudder before I had time to say to myself it was a cry.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000004_000000.wav|"I am going to make a confidant of you, mr Wingfold," said the dwarf, with troubled face, and almost whispered word.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000015_000000.wav|"Would you mind taking care of it, mr Wingfold?" the gate keeper continued as the curate examined it; "I don't like having it.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000004.wav|I followed instantly, saw her run up the steps, and heard her open and shut the door.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000017_000008.wav|And had not Faber said there seemed something unusual about the character of his illness?--What could it mean?--It was impossible of course-but yet-and yet-|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000003_000002.wav|The trees hid the sky, and the little human nest was dark around them.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000008_000001.wav|There was something in the tone that seemed to me unusually frightful.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000008.wav|I cannot describe the horror of it.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000017_000004.wav|Certainly he had never till then thought of her with the slightest interest, and why should she come up to him now?|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000017_000007.wav|There was her brother ill!|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000019_000000.wav|"If I had thought so, I should not have left it unmentioned till now," answered Polwarth.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000000.wav|"As soon as I had had a cup of tea, I set out for the old house.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000006_000000.wav|"One night, some weeks ago-I can, if necessary, make myself certain of the date,--I was-no uncommon thing with me-unable to sleep.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000003.wav|Ere I could breathe again after it, the tall figure of a woman rushed past me, tearing its way through the bushes towards the door.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000009_000002.wav|I must go in, and see whether anyone was there in want of help.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000002.wav|All else was silence.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000011_000000.wav|"At least," resumed Polwarth, "I have this advantage over some, that I cannot be fooled with the fancy that this poor miserable body of mine is worth thinking of beside the smallest suspicion of duty.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000008.wav|Still no answer.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000018_000000.wav|"Do you think," he said, "we are in any way bound to inquire further into the affair?"|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000007.wav|I knocked again.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000014.wav|She soothed, she expostulated, she condoled, she coaxed.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000026.wav|And the lady might be his wife, who had gone as soon as she could leave him to find help, but had failed.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000004_000001.wav|"You will know how much I have already learned to trust you when I say that what I am about to confide to you plainly involves the secret of another."|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000003_000001.wav|Seated there, in the shadowy old attic, through the very walls of which the ivy grew, and into which, by the open window in the gable, from the infinite west, blew the evening air, carrying with it the precious scent of honeysuckle, to mingle with that of old books, Polwarth recounted and Wingfold listened to a strange adventure.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000013_000009.wav|I opened it and peeped in.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000019_000002.wav|Meantime I have the relief of the confessional."|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000012_000024.wav|The only result certain to follow, was more trouble to the troubled already.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/246932/7868_246932_000003_000000.wav|He led the way to his room, and the curate followed.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000007_000000.wav|"Bless me!|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000026_000000.wav|Gluck determined to say something at all events.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000023_000002.wav|This pause gave time for Gluck to collect his thoughts a little, and, seeing no great reason to view his diminutive visitor with dread, and feeling his curiosity overcome his amazement, he ventured on a question of peculiar delicacy.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000023_000000.wav|"No," said the dwarf, conclusively.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000004_000000.wav|When they were gone, Gluck took a farewell look at his old friend in the melting pot.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000002_000000.wav|"Suppose we turn goldsmiths?" said Schwartz to Hans, as they entered the large city.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000020_000002.wav|The features of the face, however, were by no means finished with the same delicacy; they were rather coarse, slightly inclining to coppery in complexion, and indicative, in expression, of a very pertinacious and intractable disposition in their small proprietor.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000028_000000.wav|"Oh!" cried poor Gluck, running to look up the chimney after him; "oh dear, dear, dear me!|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000009_000002.wav|Gluck looked out of the window.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000018_000001.wav|"I'm too hot."|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000004_000002.wav|"And no wonder," thought Gluck, "after being treated in that way." He sauntered disconsolately to the window, and sat himself down to catch the fresh evening air, and escape the hot breath of the furnace.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000027_000000.wav|"Listen!" said the little man, deigning no reply to this polite inquiry.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000007_000001.wav|what's that?" exclaimed Gluck, jumping up.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000013_000000.wav|Gluck summoned all his energies, walked straight up to the crucible, drew it out of the furnace, and looked in.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000014_000000.wav|"Come, Gluck, my boy," said the voice out of the pot again, "I'm all right; pour me out."|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000003_000003.wav|The mug was a very odd mug to look at.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000027_000002.wav|The shape you saw me in was owing to the malice of a stronger king, from whose enchantments you have this instant freed me.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000003_000006.wav|When it came to the mug's turn to be made into spoons, it half broke poor little Gluck's heart: but the brothers only laughed at him, tossed the mug into the melting pot, and staggered out to the ale house: leaving him, as usual, to pour the gold into bars, when it was all ready.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000006_000000.wav|"No it wouldn't, Gluck," said a clear, metallic voice close at his ear.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000017_000000.wav|Still Gluck couldn't move.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000007_000002.wav|There was nobody there.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000025_000002.wav|After which, he again walked up to Gluck and stood still, as if expecting some comment on his communication.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000001_000000.wav|Southwest Wind, Esquire, was as good as his word.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000020_000000.wav|"That's right!" said the dwarf, stretching out first his legs, and then his arms, and then shaking his head up and down, and as far round as it would go, for five minutes without stopping; apparently with the view of ascertaining if he were quite correctly put together, while Gluck stood contemplating him in speechless amazement.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000009_000001.wav|He looked again into all the corners and cupboards, and then began turning round, and round, as fast as he could in the middle of the room, thinking there was somebody behind him, when the same voice struck again on his ear. It was singing now very merrily, "Lala lira la;" no words, only a soft running, effervescent melody, something like that of a kettle on the boil.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000009_000003.wav|No, it was certainly in the house.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000009_000004.wav|Upstairs, and downstairs.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000024_000000.wav|"Pray, sir," said Gluck, rather hesitatingly, "were you my mug?"|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000026_000001.wav|"I hope your Majesty is very well," said Gluck.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000012_000001.wav|Gluck, my boy," said the pot again.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000009_000006.wav|He ran to the opening, and looked in: yes, he saw right; it seemed to be coming, not only out of the furnace, but out of the pot.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000021_000001.wav|It might indeed be supposed to refer to the course of Gluck's thoughts, which had first produced the dwarf's observations out of the pot; but whatever it referred to, Gluck had no inclination to dispute the dictum.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000004_000003.wav|Now this window commanded a direct view of the range of mountains, which, as I told before, overhung the Treasure Valley, and more especially of the peak from which fell the Golden River.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000020_000004.wav|"No, it wouldn't, Gluck, my boy," said the little man.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000003_000002.wav|So they melted all their gold, without making money enough to buy more, and were at last reduced to one large drinking mug, which an uncle of his had given to little Gluck, and which he was very fond of, and would not have parted with for the world; though he never drank anything out of it but milk and water.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000020_000003.wav|When the dwarf had finished his self examination, he turned his small eyes full on Gluck, and stared at him deliberately for a minute or two.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000027_000006.wav|The King of the Golden River had evaporated.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000021_000000.wav|This was certainly rather an abrupt and unconnected mode of commencing conversation.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000027_000003.wav|What I have seen of you, and your conduct to your wicked brothers, renders me willing to serve you; therefore, attend to what I tell you.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000008_000000.wav|"Not at all, my boy," said the same voice, louder than before.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000027_000005.wav|His figure became red, white, transparent, dazzling-a blaze of intense light-rose, trembled, and disappeared.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000027_000001.wav|"I am the King of what you mortals call the Golden River.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000025_000000.wav|On which the little man turned sharp round, walked straight up to Gluck, and drew himself up to his full height.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110705/7868_110705_000003_000000.wav|The thought was agreed to be a very good one; they hired a furnace, and turned goldsmiths.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000014_000004.wav|He raised it, drank, spurned the animal with his foot, and passed on.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000006.wav|Hans struggled on.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000007_000000.wav|"Good morning, brother," said Hans; "have you any message for the King of the Golden River?"|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000001_000000.wav|three.--HOW mr|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000014_000002.wav|Its tongue was out, its jaws dry, its limbs extended lifelessly, and a swarm of black ants were crawling about its lips and throat.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000001_000001.wav|HANS SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000012_000001.wav|This, however, relieved his thirst; an hour's repose recruited his hardy frame, and, with the indomitable spirit of avarice, he resumed his laborious journey.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000002_000003.wav|They beat him again, till their arms were tired, and staggered to bed.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000008.wav|He saw the cataract of the Golden River springing from the hillside, scarcely five hundred feet above him.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000003.wav|It was a fair child, stretched nearly lifeless on the rock, its breast heaving with thirst, its eyes closed, and its lips parched and burning.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000002_000005.wav|The noise of the fray alarmed the neighbours who, finding they could not pacify the combatants, sent for the constable.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000002_000001.wav|The discovery of the total loss of their last piece of plate had the effect of sobering them just enough to enable them to stand over Gluck, beating him very steadily for a quarter of an hour; at the expiration of which period they dropped into a couple of chairs, and requested to know what he had to say for himself.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000017_000001.wav|And a flash of blue lightning rose out of the east, shaped like a sword; it shook thrice over the whole heaven, and left it dark with one heavy, impenetrable shade.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000012_000000.wav|He had been compelled to abandon his basket of food, which became a perilous incumbrance on the glacier, and had now no means of refreshing himself but by breaking off and eating some of the pieces of ice.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000006_000000.wav|On his way out of the town he had to pass the prison, and as he looked in at the windows, whom should he see but Schwartz himself peeping out of the bars, and looking very disconsolate.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000011_000003.wav|The ice was excessively slippery, and out of all its chasms came wild sounds of gushing water; not monotonous or low; but changeful and loud, rising occasionally into drifting passages of wild melody, then breaking off into short melancholy tones, or sudden shrieks, resembling those of human voices in distress or pain.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000014_000003.wav|Its eye moved to the bottle which Hans held in his hand.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000011_000000.wav|On this object, and on this alone, Hans's eyes and thoughts were fixed; forgetting the distance he had to traverse, he set off at an imprudent rate of walking, which greatly exhausted him before he had scaled the first range of the green and low hills.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000009_000000.wav|It was, indeed, a morning that might have made anyone happy, even with no Golden River to seek for.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000017_000000.wav|"I have none," replied Hans; "thou hast had thy share of life." He strode over the prostrate body, and darted on.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000004.wav|Hans eyed it deliberately, drank, and passed on.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000004_000001.wav|How to get the holy water was the question.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000013_000002.wav|Intense thirst was soon added to the bodily fatigue with which Hans was now afflicted; glance after glance he cast on the flask of water which hung at his belt.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000018_000005.wav|As he did so, an icy chill shot through his limbs: he staggered, shrieked, and fell.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000003_000000.wav|Hans, on hearing this, contrived to escape, and hid himself; but Schwartz was taken before the magistrate, fined for breaking the peace, and, having drunk out his last penny the evening before, was thrown into prison till he should pay.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000002_000000.wav|The King of the Golden River had hardly made the extraordinary exit related in the last chapter, before Hans and Schwartz came roaring into the house, very savagely drunk.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000016_000000.wav|At this instant a faint cry fell on his ear.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000000.wav|The path became steeper and more rugged every moment; and the high hill air, instead of refreshing him, seemed to throw his blood into a fever.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000007.wav|The sun was sinking, but its descent seemed to bring no coolness; the leaden weight of the dead air pressed upon his brow and heart, but the goal was near.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000016_000001.wav|He turned, and saw a gray haired old man extended on the rocks.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000002_000002.wav|Gluck told them his story, of which, of course, they did not believe a word.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000009.wav|He paused for a moment to breathe, and sprang on to complete his task.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000018_000006.wav|The waters closed over his cry.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000011_000001.wav|He was, moreover, surprised, on surmounting them, to find that a large glacier, of whose existence, notwithstanding his previous knowledge of the mountains, he had been absolutely ignorant, lay between him and the source of the Golden River.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000017_000002.wav|The sun was setting; it plunged toward the horizon like a red hot ball.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000011_000002.wav|He entered on it with the boldness of a practised mountaineer; yet he thought he had never traversed so strange or so dangerous a glacier in his life.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000018_000001.wav|He stood at the brink of the chasm through which it ran.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000016_000003.wav|I am dying."|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000005_000000.wav|Next morning he got up before the sun rose, put the holy water into a strong flask, and two bottles of wine and some meat in a basket, slung them over his back, took his alpine staff in his hand, and set off for the mountains.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000015_000002.wav|He stopped to open it, and again, as he did so, something moved in the path above him.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000013_000003.wav|"Three drops are enough," at last thought he; "I may, at least, cool my lips with it."|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000014_000000.wav|He opened the flask, and was raising it to his lips, when his eye fell on an object lying on the rock beside him; he thought it moved.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000009_000001.wav|Level lines of dewy mist lay stretched along the valley, out of which rose the massy mountains-their lower cliffs in pale gray shadow, hardly distinguishable from the floating vapour, but gradually ascending till they caught the sunlight, which ran in sharp touches of ruddy colour along the angular crags, and pierced, in long level rays, through their fringes of spear like pine.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000014_000001.wav|It was a small dog, apparently in the last agony of death from thirst.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000013_000001.wav|It was past noon, and the rays beat intensely upon the steep path, while the whole atmosphere was motionless, and penetrated with heat.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7868/110706/7868_110706_000014_000005.wav|And he did not know how it was, but he thought that a strange shadow had suddenly come across the blue sky.|7868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10702/3979_10702_000068_000001.wav|This was done.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10702/3979_10702_000059_000000.wav|The bird stopped singing at once, and all the other birds stopped too.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000035_000000.wav|The first thing the princess did on arriving at the mountain was to stop her ears with cotton, and then, making up her mind which was the best way to go, she began her ascent.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000046_000000.wav|"Why, what are you doing here?" she cried.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000026_000001.wav|But may I ask the purpose of your question?"|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000006_000000.wav|"But why not?" inquired the prince.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000045_000000.wav|Princess Parizade took the pitcher, and, carrying with her besides the cage the twig and the flask, returned down the mountain side.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000005_000000.wav|"My lord," he said at last, "I do know the road for which you ask, but your kindness and the friendship I have conceived for you make me loth to point it out."|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000014_000000.wav|"Who is this imbecile?" cried some, "stop him at once." "Kill him," shrieked others, "Help! robbers!|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000009_000000.wav|"And suppose," answered the dervish, "that your enemies are invisible, how then?"|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000019_000003.wav|Still, we must hope for better luck."|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000007_000000.wav|"The very greatest danger," answered the dervish.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000037_000001.wav|Although confined in a cage, I was content with my lot, but if I must become a slave, I could not wish for a nobler mistress than one who has shown so much constancy, and from this moment I swear to serve you faithfully. Some day you will put me to the proof, for I know who you are better than you do yourself.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000027_000000.wav|"Good dervish," answered the princess, "I have heard such glowing descriptions of these three things, that I cannot rest till I possess them."|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000028_000000.wav|"Madam," said the dervish, "they are far more beautiful than any description, but you seem ignorant of all the difficulties that stand in your way, or you would hardly have undertaken such an adventure. Give it up, I pray you, and return home, and do not ask me to help you to a cruel death."|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000044_000000.wav|"No, I have not forgotten," replied the bird, "but what you ask is very difficult.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000007_000001.wav|"Other men, as brave as you, have ridden down this road, and have put me that question.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000045_000001.wav|At every black stone she stopped and sprinkled it with water, and as the water touched it the stone instantly became a man.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000008_000001.wav|But what dangers can there be in the adventure which courage and a good sword cannot meet?"|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000013_000001.wav|Then it came to a sudden halt, and the prince at once got down and flung the bridle on his horse's neck.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000032_000001.wav|It is possible that you may succeed, but all the same, the risk is great."|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000047_000000.wav|"We have been asleep," they said.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000042_000000.wav|When the Princess Parizade held in her hands the three wonders promised her by the old woman, she said to the bird: "All that is not enough. It was owing to you that my brothers became black stones.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000011_000005.wav|For those stones are in reality men like yourself, who have been on the same quest, and have failed, as I fear that you may fail also.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000051_000000.wav|Then they rode away, followed by the knights and gentlemen, who begged to be permitted to escort them.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000039_000001.wav|She then returned to the cage, and said: "Bird, there is still something else, where shall I find the Singing Tree?"|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000036_000000.wav|At the sight of the bird, the princess hastened her steps, and without vexing herself at the noise which by this time had grown deafening, she walked straight up to the cage, and seizing it, she said: "Now, my bird, I have got you, and I shall take good care that you do not escape." As she spoke she took the cotton from her ears, for it was needed no longer.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000007_000002.wav|I did my best to turn them also from their purpose, but it was of no use. Not one of them would listen to my words, and not one of them came back.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000021_000000.wav|"That, holy dervish," replied Prince Perviz, "was my elder brother, who is now dead, though how he died I cannot say."|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000029_000000.wav|"Holy father," answered the princess, "I come from far, and I should be in despair if I turned back without having attained my object.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000011_000004.wav|On each side you will see vast heaps of big black stones, and will hear a multitude of insulting voices, but pay no heed to them, and, above all, beware of ever turning your head. If you do, you will instantly become a black stone like the rest.|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3979/10701/3979_10701_000006_000001.wav|"What danger can there be?"|3979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000082_000003.wav|And in the foreground Lucille's face.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000030_000002.wav|Then one of the priests, armed with a great stone headed club-for no metal is permitted within the precincts of the god Cruk-struck at him furiously.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000021_000000.wav|And Jim hurled himself like a madman against the stairs, and surmounted them with two bounds.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000074_000002.wav|You'll find yourself-well, we won't go into that.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000034_000001.wav|The priests had started the machinery.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000003.wav|Those fools tried to betray me, and then the Eye went out.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000060_000001.wav|"Suppose you take us back to Peconic Bay.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000065_000000.wav|"Why don't you ask my girl herself?" piped old Parrish.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000007_000003.wav|And now it seemed a monstrous thing that proud Atlantis should be at the mercy of these hordes.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000004_000004.wav|It was the death keening of proud Atlantis, Queen of the Atlantic for fifty thousand years.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000004.wav|Perhaps I have you to thank for that performance?|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000096_000000.wav|"Well, your response was an automatic one.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000012_000002.wav|Wedged bolt upright, he could only wait and let the frenzied mob stream past him.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000055_000002.wav|Down they crashed, carrying their freight of black, clinging, human ants, while from the sea's depths a wave, a mile high, rose and battered the fragments to destruction.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000008_000003.wav|And he ran faster, panting, gasping, till of a sudden the portals loomed before him, and he saw a crowd of frenzied Atlanteans struggling to pass through, and a file of soldiers struggling to keep them back.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000087_000000.wav|But the first explanation came from Andy Lumm.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000064_000001.wav|"The game's still in my hands.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000018_000000.wav|Jim thought he remembered where he was.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000002.wav|Didn't know I'd worked that out, did you?|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000064_000000.wav|"Well, Dent, I'm ready to be frank with you," he said.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000017_000004.wav|Suddenly he realized that his task was ended.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000016_000001.wav|Red slaughter down below, a very inferno of sound; above, that shadowy stairway, still extending almost to the heavens.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000005.wav|My hand is on the lever.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000006_000001.wav|But, feeling the drag of his wings, he unbuckled the strap and flung them away.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000054_000001.wav|Roar upon roar, as the infinite momentum of the disintegrating uranium struck obstacle after obstacle.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000055_000001.wav|Not as a ship sinks, but piecemeal, her walls and towers crumbling and toppling as a child's sand castle crumbles under the attack of the lapping waves.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000057_000001.wav|Jim, with one arm round Lucille, faced Tode at the instrument board.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000061_000000.wav|"Don't trust him, Jim," whispered Lucille.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000100_000000.wav|"Let's think no more about him," said Lucille.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000094_000003.wav|It burned him to a few grease spots.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000034_000000.wav|As he stopped struggling for a moment, to gather his strength for a supreme effort, he heard a whir overhead, and saw the arms of the stone gods begin their horrible revolution.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000041_000001.wav|A screech of terror, a howl that reverberated through the amphitheatre, and nothing remained of either but a heap of macerated flesh.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000050_000003.wav|It was the instrument of universal death-the uranium release of untold forces of cataclysmic depredation.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000024_000000.wav|Never has such a shadow play been seen, perhaps, as that below, where death stalked in dense darkness, and the slayer did not even see his victim.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000011_000002.wav|It was like a nightmare, that blind search under the pale three quarter moon and the black, star blotched sky.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000057_000000.wav|The Atom Smasher was vibrating at tremendous speed.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000066_000001.wav|He knows the answer!" cried Lucille scornfully.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000017_000000.wav|Jim's lungs were bursting, and his heart hammering as if it would break his chest.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000009_000002.wav|He was within the walls now, and struggling to pass through the mob of people that was swarming like homeless bees.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000016_000000.wav|But long before he reached the top he was ascending one by one, with straining limbs and laboring breath.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000007.wav|How about picking up a little treasure from the hoards of Solomon or Genghis Khan?|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000013_000000.wav|Suddenly something gave behind him-a door, as it seemed, broken off its hinges by the mob pressure.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000058_000003.wav|We're not likely to see anything so pretty in history again, unless we go to watch the destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii by lava from Vesuvius.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000017_000005.wav|In place of the stairs stood a vast hall, and beyond that another hall, dim in the faint light that filtered through the glass above.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000057_000002.wav|Near by sat Parrish, watching him too.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000058_000002.wav|The good old Atom Smasher has been doing some lively stunts, or we'd have been engulfed too.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000069_000001.wav|Tode's voice rang true.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000008_000002.wav|He must get to her before the Drilgoes entered.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000049_000000.wav|But it was too late.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000054_000000.wav|A roar that seemed to rend the heavens followed.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000092_000001.wav|"Tode had got the dials pointing to the fifth dimension-eternity, he called it, though actually I believe it's nothing more than annihilation, a grand smash.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000023_000000.wav|The Drilgoes had broken in and trapped the multitudes that had taken refuge there.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000038_000000.wav|Jim saw the revolving arms descend within a foot of his head.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000007_000001.wav|But behind him he heard another sound, and shuddered at it, all his hopes suddenly reversed.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000078_000001.wav|His last thought was that Lucille's arms were about him, and that he was holding her.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000013_000002.wav|He got up, unconscious of his bruises, ran to the top of the flight, and saw the dim square of palest twilight where the door had been.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000040_000000.wav|And Cain knew Lucille.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000027_000000.wav|Beside it stood a group of figures, impossible to distinguish in the darkness, but of a sudden Lucille's scream rang out above the din below.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000093_000002.wav|It was sealed up in wax, and Tode had got it free on the way out of Atlantis.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000101_000000.wav|"To morrow we go back to New York," said Jim.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000050_000000.wav|"Hold tight!" screeched Parrish.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000023_000001.wav|Their fearful stone tipped spears thrust in and out, to the accompaniment of their savage howls and the screams of the dying.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000077_000000.wav|Parrish leased forward, making a swift movement with his hand.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000033_000000.wav|He struck down three of the priests; then he was seized around the knees from behind, and fell heavily.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000042_000001.wav|He caught Lucille and dragged her back toward the Atom Smasher.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000085_000000.wav|"But what place is this?"|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000094_000004.wav|He simply-vanished.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000025_000002.wav|He had emerged upon the other side of the amphitheatre, upon the platform where he had seen the priests and dignitaries gathered when he was led forward to be sacrificed.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000082_000004.wav|The girl was bending over Jim, one hand soothing his forehead.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000074_000004.wav|You'll disappear.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000032_000001.wav|In such a moment he only remembered that Tode was a white man, and of his own generation.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000005.wav|However, the sensible thing is to let bygones be bygones.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000104_000001.wav|I was thinking of poor Cain.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000066_000000.wav|"He needn't trouble.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000047_000000.wav|"For God's sake hurry!" Jim yelled in Tode's ear.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000104_000000.wav|"No, Jim.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000070_000000.wav|"Yes, the fifth dimension, and eternity," said Tode, "where time and space reel into functionlessness.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000097_000002.wav|He'd said they wouldn't work, but he'd lied.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000081_000001.wav|Thank God for it!"|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000063_000001.wav|Tode saw his grim look and laughed malignantly.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000040_000001.wav|As the priests rallied for a desperate resistance, Cain hurled his great body through the air, landing squarely upon the shoulders of the priest nearest the revolving arms, and knocking him flat.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000000.wav|Tode heard.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000096_000002.wav|Luckily you were too late, for Tode vanished like that!" Old Parrish snapped his fingers.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000006.wav|I have only to press it, and we're there."|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000056_000001.wav|And then suddenly it was ended.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000015_000001.wav|No chance of recognition in that darkness.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000083_000000.wav|"Where am I?" Jim muttered.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000093_000000.wav|"You remember how poor Cain seemed to take great interest in the Atom Smasher.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000084_000001.wav|With an effort she composed herself.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000090_000001.wav|The return of Parrish had been duly chronicled in the newspapers, and had provoked a mild interest, but fortunately the public mind was so occupied at the moment with the trial of a night club hostess that, after the first rush of newspaper men, the three were left alone.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000106_000001.wav|No, he would never quite forget, but that was twelve thousand years ago ... and to morrow was his wedding day.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000045_000000.wav|They had a moment's leeway.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000015_000000.wav|Suddenly a tremendous uproar filled the streets, yells, the clicking grunts of the Drilgoes, the screams of the panic stricken populace. The invaders had arrived, and they were sweeping all before them.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000064_000004.wav|I'll have to trust you, but I shall have means of evening up if you play crooked."|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000069_000000.wav|Jim stood stock still in horror.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000038_000001.wav|One more fight-one more, the last.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000050_000001.wav|He thrust his arm into his breast, and pulled out a little lever.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000025_000001.wav|For he knew where he was now.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000007_000000.wav|Through the blackness he raced forward, hearing that sobbing ululation within the walls.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000011_000000.wav|He blundered about, raging, forcing a path now here, now there.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000035_000000.wav|Jim saw him now, a figure poised upon a platform behind the arms, his own arms raised heavenward.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000031_000000.wav|Jim leaped aside, letting the club descend harmlessly upon the floor. He shot out his right with all his strength behind it, catching the priest upon the jaw, and the man crumpled.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000012_000000.wav|Suddenly Jim found himself wedged by the pressure of the crowd into a sort of recess leading off the elevator court.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000104_000002.wav|He died for me."|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000058_000001.wav|"That pretty little scene of destruction we've just witnessed.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000088_000002.wav|'Andy,' she says.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000019_000001.wav|For a moment he stood still.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000056_000000.wav|A boiling chaos in which water and earth and fire were blended, spread over land and sea.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000074_000001.wav|"Come, make your choice, Dent," he mocked. "It's merely to press this lever.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000017_000003.wav|Another!|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000070_000002.wav|But my impression of it is that it's a fairly good representation of the place popularly known as hell.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000063_000000.wav|Jim felt a cold fury permeating him.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000094_000002.wav|The result was that when Tode pressed that lever, instead of blowing the whole contraption to pieces, he got a couple of billion volts of electricity through his body, combined with a larger amperage than has ever been imagined.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000082_000001.wav|For a few moments he looked about him without understanding.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000073_000000.wav|"The dark blur on the spectral lines," old Parrish muttered.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000100_000001.wav|She had come up to them, and the two looked at each other and smiled.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000055_000003.wav|From the crater of the volcano a huge wave of fire fanned forward, and where fire and water met a cloud of steam rose up.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000072_000002.wav|There's one factor you haven't reckoned in your calculations, and that's called God."|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000049_000001.wav|A score of Drilgoes, with leveled spears, were rushing on the four.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000007_000004.wav|He had let loose destruction upon the world.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000001.wav|"Eternity in the fifth dimension.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000006_000002.wav|He might need them, but his one thought was to get to Lucille, if she were still alive.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000032_000000.wav|Whirling the club around his head, he fought back the fanatics, all the while shouting to Tode to start the Atom Smasher.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000007_000002.wav|For that sound was the shouting of the Drilgoes as they rushed forward to conquest.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000100_000002.wav|Love is self centred; other things it forgets very quickly.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000017_000001.wav|One flight more!|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000077_000001.wav|"Go to your own hell, you dev-"|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000091_000000.wav|Day after day, in the brilliant autumn weather, Jim and Lucille would roam the tinted woods, recharging themselves with the feel of Earth, until the memory of those dread experiences grew dim.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000000.wav|"The alternative is, that I have already set the dial to eternity, Dent," grinned Tode.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000088_000003.wav|'I got an inkling you oughter go to the Vanishing Place and see if she ain't there.' And there I found you two, mired to the waist, and mr Parrish dancing around and fretting, and his clothes burned to cinders.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000018_000001.wav|Beyond that next hall there should be the tongue of flooring, crossing the amphitheatre and joining the platform of the idols.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000094_000005.wav|You don't remember what you did at the moment, boy?"|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000064_000003.wav|I'm willing to take you and Parrish back, provided you agree she shall be mine.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000064_000002.wav|I want Lucille.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000019_000002.wav|What use to proceed further?|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000041_000000.wav|Then the arms caught priest and Drilgo, and the steel hooks dug deep into their flesh.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000007_000005.wav|But it was to save Lucille.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000011_000001.wav|He ran into blind alleys, into small threading streets about the court, which led him back into the central place of assembly.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000022_000000.wav|The thick walls had cut off all sound from his ears, save a confused murmur, but now a hideous uproar assailed them.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000087_000002.wav|"Mean, treacherous place it is.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000016_000002.wav|Step after step, flight beyond flight!|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000087_000005.wav|Granpop Dawes says thar's underground springs around the edge, and that it runs straight down to hell, though that seems sorter far fetched to me.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000046_000001.wav|A moment's leeway, and no more, before the savage band would impale the four upon their stone pointed spears.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000082_000002.wav|Then the outlines of a room etched themselves against the clouded background.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000067_000001.wav|"Now, what's the alternative?"|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000058_000004.wav|But that would be quite tame in comparison with this."|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000045_000001.wav|The Drilgoes had driven the priests back into the hooks.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000048_000000.wav|The wheels were revolving, a stream of violet light, leaping out of the central tunnel, cast a lurid illumination upon the scene.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000045_000002.wav|With awful shrieks the fanatics were yielding up their lives, in the place of their selected victims.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000006_000003.wav|And he felt that each moment lost might mean that he would be too late.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000075_000000.wav|"Lucille has answered you," Jim retorted.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000055_000000.wav|And proud Atlantis was sinking into the depths of the sea....|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000095_000000.wav|"I don't seem to remember anything," said Jim.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000105_000000.wav|"But that was twelve thousand years ago, my dear, and to day's to day," said Jim.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000039_000000.wav|Suddenly, with loud yells, a band of Drilgoes leaped forward from the head of the stairs and rushed upon the struggling priests and victims. And, dark as it was, Jim recognized their leader-Cain.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000054_000002.wav|The Drilgoes vanished, the amphitheatre melted away, walls and roof....|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000098_000000.wav|"We carried you out, and then I saw your eyelid twitch.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000054_000003.wav|Overhead were the moon and stars.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000082_000000.wav|Jim opened his eyes.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000037_000000.wav|Jim was being dragged forward, with Lucille beside him, old Parrish following, still making a futile struggle for life, while pitiful screeches issued from his mouth.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000046_000000.wav|But more Drilgoes were pouring up the stairs.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000043_000000.wav|Tode had already broken from his captors and was working at it frantically.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000001.wav|"Thank you," he answered, scowling.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000005_000001.wav|Dense, utter, impenetrable darkness reigned, and even the gibbous moon, floating overhead, seemed to give no light.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000088_000001.wav|Made me and my wife uneasy, that did.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000004.wav|No, don't try to move.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000020_000001.wav|Down through a small, square opening overhead, no larger than a ventilator, it came ... a glimmer of violet flame!|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000084_000000.wav|"Back on earth, Jim, the good old earth, never again to leave it," answered Lucille, with a catch in her voice.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000078_000002.wav|Nothing mattered, therefore, even though they two were plunged into that awful nothingness of the fifth dimension, where neither space nor time recognizably exists.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000097_000001.wav|I used those dial numberings Tode had given me.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000071_000000.wav|"You fool, Dent," Tode's voice rang out with vicious, snarling emphasis, "I gave you your chance to come in with me.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000012_000003.wav|And louder above the sound of wailing came the roars of the Drilgoes swarming along the causeway.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000105_000001.wav|"And to morrow a new life begins for you and me."|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000074_000006.wav|I must have Lucille. Choose!" His voice rang out in maniac tones.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000009_000000.wav|He could distinguish nothing more than the confused struggle.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000026_000000.wav|There, in the rear, were the hideous, shadowy gods, looming up out of the darkness, their outstretched arms interlaced.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000046_000002.wav|There was not the slightest chance that they would be able to make their identity known.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000097_000004.wav|They brought us back to the Vanishing Place.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000068_000003.wav|A pleasant little surprise.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000004_000000.wav|He dropped down softly to the causeway.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000021_000002.wav|Instead, Jim found himself looking down into the amphitheatre.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000092_000000.wav|"Well, Jim, I reckon I'd better tell you and get it over," said old Parrish one morning-Parrish, quite his old, jaunty self again.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000072_000001.wav|"And you can do your worst.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000087_000001.wav|"Well, mr Dent, my wife and me sure were glad to be on the spot when you and Miss Parrish got bogged on the edge of the Black Pool," he said.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000069_000002.wav|He believed Tode had the power he claimed.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000013_000001.wav|Jim was hurled backward, and fell heavily down a flight of stone stairs, bringing up against a stone balustrade.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000084_000002.wav|"You mustn't talk," she said.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000028_000002.wav|They were dragging them toward the idols, and Jim understood what that scene portended.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000022_000001.wav|The whole floor of the amphitheatre was a mass of moving shadows, of slayers and slain.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000098_000002.wav|Then I shut off the power and let the waters rush in over the Atom Smasher, and swam ashore.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000092_000002.wav|Well, he pressed that lever.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000087_000004.wav|If us hadn't found her, and dragged her out with ropes, she'd have gone clear under.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000094_000001.wav|He'd pried loose one of the wires that hooked to the transformer, and short circuited it, not knowing, of course, just what he was doing.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000014_000001.wav|That stairway must lead to the top of the building, and thence there should be some access to the amphitheatre.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000004_000005.wav|She was dying in darkness.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000006.wav|But we must make a little excursion.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000030_000001.wav|She knew him, turned toward him.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000025_000000.wav|Yet only for a moment did Jim turn his eyes upon that sight.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000074_000007.wav|"Choose, all of you!"|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000093_000001.wav|There's no way of telling what had been going on in that brain of his, but it looks to me like he'd known that that lever meant death.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000096_000003.wav|"But you must have got into the field of magnetic force-any way, you were almost electrocuted.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000059_000000.wav|Tode's jeering tone grated on Jim's ears immeasurably.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000060_000000.wav|"I don't think any of us are craving any more experiments, Tode," he said, trying to keep his voice steady.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000005_000000.wav|For, with the blinding of the Eye, all the soft lights within the city had gone out.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000096_000001.wav|You jumped him.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000081_000000.wav|"He's coming around, Lucille.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000026_000001.wav|And there upon the platform was the Atom Smasher, a little thread of violet light seeping out of the central tube.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000087_000003.wav|Thar was a cow got mired thar last month, up to her belly.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000019_000000.wav|He had gone astray, and out of his bursting lungs a cry of rage and despair went up.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000072_000000.wav|"That's a lie, Lucius," answered Lucille steadily.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000106_000000.wav|He drew her closer to him.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000044_000000.wav|"Hold on!" screeched old Parrish.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000050_000002.wav|Jim recognized it and remembered.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000020_000000.wav|And then, amazingly, there came what might have been a sign from heaven.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000070_000001.wav|Don't ask me what it's like there. I've never been there.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000071_000002.wav|You refused because of a girl-a girl, Dent, who loved me long before you came upon the scene."|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000102_000000.wav|"I think so, Jim," said Lucille.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000006_000000.wav|Jim dropped to the causeway and began running in the direction of the city.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000028_000000.wav|With three leaps Jim was at her side.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000044_000001.wav|"Hold on!"|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000018_000002.wav|But he stopped suddenly as he emerged, not upon the tongue, but upon still another stairway.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000071_000001.wav|Together we'd have made ourselves masters of Atlantis and brought back her plunder to our Twentieth Century world.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000062_000008.wav|A few pounds of precious stones would make a world of difference in our social status when we reach Long Island."|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000098_000001.wav|We worked over you with artificial respiration till it looked as if there was a chance for you.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000056_000002.wav|Where the last island of the Atlantean continent had been, only the ocean was to be seen, placid beneath the stars.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000096_000004.wav|Lucille and I thought you were dead for hours.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000060_000002.wav|We'll dump the Atom Smasher into the pond, and try to forget that we've had anything except a bad nightmare."|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000042_000000.wav|But in that instant Jim had fought free again.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000074_000003.wav|I don't know where you'll find yourself.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000012_000001.wav|So strong was the pressure here that he was unable to move an inch.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000076_000000.wav|"And how about you, old man?" called Tode to Parrish.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8684/293663/8684_293663_000097_000003.wav|They did work.|8684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000007_000002.wav|I'll take him in a line when we go treasure hunting, for we'll keep him like so much gold, in case of accidents, you mark, and in the meantime.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000033_000000.wav|"There ain't a thing left here," said Merry, still feeling round among the bones; "not a copper doit nor a baccy box.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000005_000004.wav|And then, mates, us that has the boats, I reckon, has the upper hand."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000027_000000.wav|"I've taken a notion into my old numbskull," observed Silver.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000007_000003.wav|Once we got the ship and treasure both and off to sea like jolly companions, why then we'll talk mr Hawkins over, we will, and we'll give him his share, to be sure, for all his kindness."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000016_000000.wav|A tall tree was thus the principal mark.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000001_000000.wav|The Treasure hunt-Flint's Pointer|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000005_000003.wav|Where they have it, I don't know yet; but once we hit the treasure, we'll have to jump about and find out.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000026_000000.wav|Indeed, on a second glance, it seemed impossible to fancy that the body was in a natural position.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000035_000001.wav|"Billy took me in.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000031_000000.wav|"Speaking of knives," said another, "why don't we find his'n lying round?|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000014_000000.wav|As we pulled over, there was some discussion on the chart.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000008_000002.wav|Should the scheme he had now sketched prove feasible, Silver, already doubly a traitor, would not hesitate to adopt it.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000008_000001.wav|For my part, I was horribly cast down.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000034_000001.wav|Great guns!|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000029_000002.wav|But, by thunder! If it don't make me cold inside to think of Flint.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000005_000000.wav|"Aye, mates," said he, "it's lucky you have Barbecue to think for you with this here head.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000034_000002.wav|Messmates, but if Flint was living, this would be a hot spot for you and me.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000003_000002.wav|In the same wasteful spirit, they had cooked, I suppose, three times more than we could eat; and one of them, with an empty laugh, threw what was left into the fire, which blazed and roared again over this unusual fuel.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000035_000002.wav|There he laid, with penny pieces on his eyes."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000038_000002.wav|Care killed a cat.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000038_000000.wav|"Come, come," said Silver; "stow this talk.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000008_000003.wav|He had still a foot in either camp, and there was no doubt he would prefer wealth and freedom with the pirates to a bare escape from hanging, which was the best he had to hope on our side.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000012_000001.wav|All the stores, I observed, came from our stock, and I could see the truth of Silver's words the night before.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000020_000001.wav|About the centre, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed-I tethered by my rope, he ploughing, with deep pants, among the sliding gravel.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000018_000000.wav|We pulled easily, by Silver's directions, not to weary the hands prematurely, and after quite a long passage, landed at the mouth of the second river-that which runs down a woody cleft of the Spy glass. Thence, bending to our left, we began to ascend the slope towards the plateau.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000015_000000.wav|Tall tree, Spy glass shoulder, bearing a point to the n of n n e Skeleton Island e s e and by e Ten feet.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000038_000001.wav|He's dead, and he don't walk, that I know; leastways, he won't walk by day, and you may lay to that.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000025_000001.wav|But what sort of a way is that for bones to lie? 'Tain't in natur'."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000019_000001.wav|It was, indeed, a most pleasant portion of the island that we were now approaching.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000009_000000.wav|Nay, and even if things so fell out that he was forced to keep his faith with dr Livesey, even then what danger lay before us!|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000036_000001.wav|Dear heart, but he died bad, did Flint!"|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000013_000002.wav|Both were to be carried along with us for the sake of safety; and so, with our numbers divided between them, we set forth upon the bosom of the anchorage.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127537/534_127537_000028_000001.wav|The body pointed straight in the direction of the island, and the compass read duly e s e and by e|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000123_000004.wav|The sled swayed and trembled, half started forward. One of his feet slipped, and one man groaned aloud.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000096_000000.wav|"Pooh! pooh!" said john Thornton; "Buck can start a thousand pounds."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000027_000000.wav|"You poor, poor dears," she cried sympathetically, "why don't you pull hard?--then you wouldn't be whipped." Buck did not like her, but he was feeling too miserable to resist her, taking it as part of the day's miserable work.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000055_000008.wav|Buck made no effort.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000070_000006.wav|And when, released, he sprang to his feet, his mouth laughing, his eyes eloquent, his throat vibrant with unuttered sound, and in that fashion remained without movement, john Thornton would reverently exclaim, "God! you can all but speak!"|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000056_000005.wav|What of the thin and rotten ice he had felt under his feet all day, it seemed that he sensed disaster close at hand, out there ahead on the ice where his master was trying to drive him.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000033_000002.wav|These, added to the six of the original team, and Teek and Koona, the huskies obtained at the Rink Rapids on the record trip, brought the team up to fourteen.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000033_000000.wav|This accomplished, the outfit, though cut in half, was still a formidable bulk.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000114_000005.wav|Buck whined with suppressed eagerness.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000036_000004.wav|Some days they did not make ten miles.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000046_000001.wav|They were perambulating skeletons.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000006_000005.wav|When they put a clothes sack on the front of the sled, she suggested it should go on the back; and when they had put it on the back, and covered it over with a couple of other bundles, she discovered overlooked articles which could abide nowhere else but in that very sack, and they unloaded again.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000055_000012.wav|A moisture came into his eyes, and, as the whipping continued, he arose and walked irresolutely up and down.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000025_000001.wav|"Never mind that man," she said pointedly.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000075_000001.wav|Skeet and Nig were too good-natured for quarrelling,--besides, they belonged to john Thornton; but the strange dog, no matter what the breed or valor, swiftly acknowledged Buck's supremacy or found himself struggling for life with a terrible antagonist.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000002_000000.wav|"Mush on, poor sore feets," the driver encouraged them as they tottered down the main street of Skaguay.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000100_000000.wav|Nobody spoke.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000065_000000.wav|"You poor devil," said john Thornton, and Buck licked his hand.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000001_000008.wav|In less than five months they had travelled twenty five hundred miles, during the last eighteen hundred of which they had had but five days' rest. When they arrived at Skaguay they were apparently on their last legs. They could barely keep the traces taut, and on the down grades just managed to keep out of the way of the sled.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000070_000004.wav|He had a way of taking Buck's head roughly between his hands, and resting his own head upon Buck's, of shaking him back and forth, the while calling him ill names that to Buck were love names.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000100_000001.wav|Thornton's bluff, if bluff it was, had been called.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000081_000001.wav|"No, it is splendid, and it is terrible, too. Do you know, it sometimes makes me afraid."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000052_000003.wav|I tell you straight, I wouldn't risk my carcass on that ice for all the gold in Alaska."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000038_000003.wav|His sister and brother in law seconded him; but they were frustrated by their heavy outfit and their own incompetence.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000056_000009.wav|It was nearly out.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000122_000000.wav|"Now, MUSH!"|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000030_000006.wav|The lightened sled bounded on its side behind them.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000036_000002.wav|They were slack in all things, without order or discipline.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000091_000003.wav|He staggered to his feet and fell down.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000115_000004.wav|It was the answer, in terms, not of speech, but of love.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000075_000007.wav|It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000031_000007.wav|Throw away that tent, and all those dishes,--who's going to wash them, anyway?|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000080_000000.wav|"It's uncanny," Pete said, after it was over and they had caught their speech.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000069_000002.wav|As Buck grew stronger they enticed him into all sorts of ridiculous games, in which Thornton himself could not forbear to join; and in this fashion Buck romped through his convalescence and into a new existence.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000100_000003.wav|His tongue had tricked him.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000070_000001.wav|Other men saw to the welfare of their dogs from a sense of duty and business expediency; he saw to the welfare of his as if they were his own children, because he could not help it.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000100_000002.wav|He could feel a flush of warm blood creeping up his face.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000100_000006.wav|He had great faith in Buck's strength and had often thought him capable of starting such a load; but never, as now, had he faced the possibility of it, the eyes of a dozen men fixed upon him, silent and waiting.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000114_000003.wav|"As you love me, Buck.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000106_000001.wav|Not a man believed him capable of the feat. Thornton had been hurried into the wager, heavy with doubt; and now that he looked at the sled itself, the concrete fact, with the regular team of ten dogs curled up in the snow before it, the more impossible the task appeared.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000091_000004.wav|The faint sound of Thornton's voice came to them, and though they could not make out the words of it, they knew that he was in his extremity.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000101_000000.wav|"I've got a sled standing outside now, with twenty fiftypound sacks of flour on it," Matthewson went on with brutal directness; "so don't let that hinder you."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000112_000001.wav|"Free play and plenty of room."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000042_000000.wav|Mercedes nursed a special grievance-the grievance of sex.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000043_000003.wav|They went on their way, but she did not move.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000055_000000.wav|But the team did not get up at the command.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000063_000007.wav|The bottom had dropped out of the trail.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000075_000008.wav|Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000050_000006.wav|john Thornton was whittling the last touches on an axe handle he had made from a stick of birch.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000001_000000.wav|They were all terribly footsore.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000038_000002.wav|So he cut down even the orthodox ration and tried to increase the day's travel.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000068_000003.wav|She had the doctor trait which some dogs possess; and as a mother cat washes her kittens, so she washed and cleansed Buck's wounds.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000029_000002.wav|Throw your weight against the gee pole, right and left, and break it out."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000102_000001.wav|He did not know what to say.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000110_000002.wav|"I offer you eight hundred for him, sir, before the test, sir; eight hundred just as he stands."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000068_000005.wav|Nig, equally friendly, though less demonstrative, was a huge black dog, half bloodhound and half deerhound, with eyes that laughed and a boundless good nature.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000074_000002.wav|Because of his very great love, he could not steal from this man, but from any other man, in any other camp, he did not hesitate an instant; while the cunning with which he stole enabled him to escape detection.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000125_000000.wav|But Thornton fell on his knees beside Buck.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000121_000000.wav|Buck duplicated the manoeuvre, this time to the left.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000079_000003.wav|One day (they had grub staked themselves from the proceeds of the raft and left Dawson for the head waters of the Tanana) the men and dogs were sitting on the crest of a cliff which fell away, straight down, to naked bed rock three hundred feet below.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000085_000004.wav|A "miners' meeting," called on the spot, decided that the dog had sufficient provocation, and Buck was discharged.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000010_000000.wav|"It's springtime, and you won't get any more cold weather," the man replied.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000036_000003.wav|It took them half the night to pitch a slovenly camp, and half the morning to break that camp and get the sled loaded in fashion so slovenly that for the rest of the day they were occupied in stopping and rearranging the load.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000053_000003.wav|Hi! Get up there!|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000030_000005.wav|The dogs never stopped.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000029_000001.wav|The runners are froze fast.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000060_000002.wav|I'm going to Dawson."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000050_000001.wav|When they halted, the dogs dropped down as though they had all been struck dead.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000072_000004.wav|And often, such was the communion in which they lived, the strength of Buck's gaze would draw john Thornton's head around, and he would return the gaze, without speech, his heart shining out of his eyes as Buck's heart shone out.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000052_000001.wav|"The bottom's likely to drop out at any moment.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000115_000001.wav|The affair was growing mysterious.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000037_000005.wav|But it was not food that Buck and the huskies needed, but rest.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000097_000000.wav|"And break it out?|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000087_000001.wav|This it did, and was flying down stream in a current as swift as a mill race, when Hans checked it with the rope and checked too suddenly.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000035_000003.wav|Four times he had covered the distance between Salt Water and Dawson, and the knowledge that, jaded and tired, he was facing the same trail once more, made him bitter.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000038_000000.wav|Then came the underfeeding.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000047_000000.wav|There came a day when Billee, the good-natured, fell and could not rise. Hal had traded off his revolver, so he took the axe and knocked Billee on the head as he lay in the traces, then cut the carcass out of the harness and dragged it to one side.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000088_000001.wav|When he felt him grasp his tail, Buck headed for the bank, swimming with all his splendid strength.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000093_000002.wav|Thornton was himself bruised and battered, and he went carefully over Buck's body, when he had been brought around, finding three broken ribs.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000050_000005.wav|Hal did the talking.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000025_000000.wav|But she was a clannish creature, and rushed at once to the defence of her brother.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000048_000000.wav|It was beautiful spring weather, but neither dogs nor humans were aware of it.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000054_000001.wav|It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter the scheme of things.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000042_000005.wav|Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex prerogative, she made their lives unendurable.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000026_000003.wav|After two efforts, they stood still, panting.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000104_000001.wav|"Though it's little faith I'm having, john, that the beast can do the trick."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000070_000005.wav|Buck knew no greater joy than that rough embrace and the sound of murmured oaths, and at each jerk back and forth it seemed that his heart would be shaken out of his body so great was its ecstasy.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000056_000012.wav|The last sensations of pain left him.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000114_000001.wav|He took his head in his two hands and rested cheek on cheek.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000127_000003.wav|"Sir," he said to the Skookum Bench king, "no, sir.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000030_000011.wav|He tripped and was pulled off his feet.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000070_000000.wav|This man had saved his life, which was something; but, further, he was the ideal master.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000123_000005.wav|Then the sled lurched ahead in what appeared a rapid succession of jerks, though it never really came to a dead stop again...half an inch...an inch... two inches...|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000023_000002.wav|They need a rest."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000066_000000.wav|Chapter six.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000037_000002.wav|The Outside dogs, whose digestions had not been trained by chronic famine to make the most of little, had voracious appetites. And when, in addition to this, the worn out huskies pulled weakly, Hal decided that the orthodox ration was too small.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000004_000004.wav|This belt was the most salient thing about him.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000123_000003.wav|His great chest was low to the ground, his head forward and down, while his feet were flying like mad, the claws scarring the hard packed snow in parallel grooves.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000043_000002.wav|She let her legs go limp like a spoiled child, and sat down on the trail.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000050_000003.wav|Charles sat down on a log to rest.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000118_000000.wav|"Gee!" Thornton's voice rang out, sharp in the tense silence.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000049_000004.wav|Air holes formed, fissures sprang and spread apart, while thin sections of ice fell through bodily into the river.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000127_000000.wav|Thornton rose to his feet.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000036_000001.wav|They did not know how to do anything, and as the days went by it became apparent that they could not learn.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000034_000002.wav|And they were proud, too.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000031_000006.wav|"Half as many is too much; get rid of them.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000045_000005.wav|It was heartbreaking, only Buck's heart was unbreakable.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000005_000002.wav|"Mercedes" the men called her.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000073_000000.wav|For a long time after his rescue, Buck did not like Thornton to get out of his sight.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000088_000004.wav|The suck of the water as it took the beginning of the last steep pitch was frightful, and Thornton knew that the shore was impossible.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000095_000003.wav|At the end of half an hour one man stated that his dog could start a sled with five hundred pounds and walk off with it; a second bragged six hundred for his dog; and a third, seven hundred.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000112_000000.wav|"You must stand off from him," Matthewson protested.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000034_000007.wav|They had worked the trip out with a pencil, so much to a dog, so many dogs, so many days, q e d|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000116_000000.wav|"Now, Buck," he said.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000026_000001.wav|They threw themselves against the breast bands, dug their feet into the packed snow, got down low to it, and put forth all their strength.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000064_000000.wav|john Thornton and Buck looked at each other.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000070_000002.wav|And he saw further.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000052_000000.wav|"And they told you true," john Thornton answered.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000014_000000.wav|"Oh, that's all right, that's all right," the man hastened meekly to say.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000055_000005.wav|Teek followed. Joe came next, yelping with pain.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000106_000002.wav|Matthewson waxed jubilant.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000003_000003.wav|The worthless ones were to be got rid of, and, since dogs count for little against dollars, they were to be sold.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000123_000000.wav|Thornton's command cracked out like a pistol shot.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000062_000004.wav|They were limping and staggering.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000041_000001.wav|It was the cherished belief of each that he did more than his share of the work, and neither forbore to speak this belief at every opportunity. Sometimes Mercedes sided with her husband, sometimes with her brother. The result was a beautiful and unending family quarrel.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000055_000003.wav|john Thornton compressed his lips.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000088_000002.wav|But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down stream amazingly rapid.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000092_000004.wav|Thornton saw him coming, and, as Buck struck him like a battering ram, with the whole force of the current behind him, he reached up and closed with both arms around the shaggy neck.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000100_000005.wav|The enormousness of it appalled him.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000046_000002.wav|There were seven all together, including him.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000012_000000.wav|"Think it'll ride?" one of the men asked.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000071_000001.wav|He would often seize Thornton's hand in his mouth and close so fiercely that the flesh bore the impress of his teeth for some time afterward.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000033_000006.wav|Buck and his comrades looked upon them with disgust, and though he speedily taught them their places and what not to do, he could not teach them what to do.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000034_000001.wav|The two men, however, were quite cheerful.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000003_000002.wav|But so many were the men who had rushed into the Klondike, and so many were the sweethearts, wives, and kin that had not rushed in, that the congested mail was taking on Alpine proportions; also, there were official orders. Fresh batches of Hudson Bay dogs were to take the places of those worthless for the trail.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000086_000003.wav|Buck, on the bank, worried and anxious, kept abreast of the boat, his eyes never off his master.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000092_000002.wav|Hans paid out the rope, permitting no slack, while Pete kept it clear of coils.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000030_000008.wav|Buck was raging.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000074_000000.wav|But in spite of this great love he bore john Thornton, which seemed to bespeak the soft civilizing influence, the strain of the primitive, which the Northland had aroused in him, remained alive and active. Faithfulness and devotion, things born of fire and roof, were his; yet he retained his wildness and wiliness.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000063_000003.wav|Suddenly, they saw its back end drop down, as into a rut, and the gee pole, with Hal clinging to it, jerk into the air.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000072_000000.wav|For the most part, however, Buck's love was expressed in adoration. While he went wild with happiness when Thornton touched him or spoke to him, he did not seek these tokens.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000114_000000.wav|Thornton knelt down by Buck's side.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000044_000000.wav|In the excess of their own misery they were callous to the suffering of their animals.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000069_000003.wav|Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000079_000004.wav|john Thornton was sitting near the edge, Buck at his shoulder.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000079_000002.wav|Nothing was too great for Buck to do, when Thornton commanded.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000056_000013.wav|He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000032_000003.wav|She clasped hands about knees, rocking back and forth broken heartedly.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000035_000002.wav|They were starting dead weary.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000031_000000.wav|Kind hearted citizens caught the dogs and gathered up the scattered belongings.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000031_000008.wav|Good Lord, do you think you're travelling on a Pullman?"|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000056_000011.wav|As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000041_000005.wav|In the meantime the fire remained unbuilt, the camp half pitched, and the dogs unfed.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000077_000002.wav|But as often as he gained the soft unbroken earth and the green shade, the love for john Thornton drew him back to the fire again.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000063_000000.wav|As Buck watched them, Thornton knelt beside him and with rough, kindly hands searched for broken bones.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000109_000000.wav|The team of ten dogs was unhitched, and Buck, with his own harness, was put into the sled.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000035_000004.wav|His heart was not in the work, nor was the heart of any dog.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000068_000001.wav|For that matter, they were all loafing,--Buck, john Thornton, and Skeet and Nig,--waiting for the raft to come that was to carry them down to Dawson.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000105_000007.wav|A majority of the men who had witnessed the making of the bet decided in his favor, whereat the odds went up to three to one against Buck.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000048_000007.wav|The sap was rising in the pines. The willows and aspens were bursting out in young buds.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000056_000006.wav|He refused to stir.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000105_000005.wav|A quibble arose concerning the phrase "break out." O'Brien contended it was Thornton's privilege to knock the runners loose, leaving Buck to "break it out" from a dead standstill.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000115_000005.wav|Thornton stepped well back.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000061_000003.wav|He rapped his knuckles again as he tried to pick it up. Then he stooped, picked it up himself, and with two strokes cut Buck's traces.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000044_000005.wav|In its frozen state it was more like strips of galvanized iron, and when a dog wrestled it into his stomach it thawed into thin and innutritious leathery strings and into a mass of short hair, irritating and indigestible.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000068_000004.wav|Regularly, each morning after he had finished his breakfast, she performed her self appointed task, till he came to look for her ministrations as much as he did for Thornton's.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000035_000000.wav|Late next morning Buck led the long team up the street.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000091_000000.wav|Hans promptly snubbed with the rope, as though Buck were a boat.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000068_000000.wav|A rest comes very good after one has travelled three thousand miles, and it must be confessed that Buck waxed lazy as his wounds healed, his muscles swelled out, and the flesh came back to cover his bones.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000095_000001.wav|This exploit was particularly gratifying to the three men; for they stood in need of the outfit which it furnished, and were enabled to make a long desired trip into the virgin East, where miners had not yet appeared.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000013_000000.wav|"Why shouldn't it?" Charles demanded rather shortly.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000075_000002.wav|And Buck was merciless.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000001_000002.wav|There was nothing the matter with them except that they were dead tired.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000121_000002.wav|The sled was broken out.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000093_000001.wav|His first glance was for Buck, over whose limp and apparently lifeless body Nig was setting up a howl, while Skeet was licking the wet face and closed eyes.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000000_000001.wav|They were in a wretched state, worn out and worn down.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000034_000005.wav|In the nature of Arctic travel there was a reason why fourteen dogs should not drag one sled, and that was that one sled could not carry the food for fourteen dogs.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000069_000000.wav|To Buck's surprise these dogs manifested no jealousy toward him.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000088_000006.wav|He clutched its slippery top with both hands, releasing Buck, and above the roar of the churning water shouted: "Go, Buck!|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000102_000000.wav|Thornton did not reply.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000073_000001.wav|From the moment he left the tent to when he entered it again, Buck would follow at his heels.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000083_000001.wav|"Not mineself either."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000068_000002.wav|Skeet was a little Irish setter who early made friends with Buck, who, in a dying condition, was unable to resent her first advances.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000055_000006.wav|Pike made painful efforts.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/123059/534_123059_000048_000008.wav|Shrubs and vines were putting on fresh garbs of green.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000047_000002.wav|On one of these boards I saw, branded with a hot iron, the name WALRUS-the name of Flint's ship.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000009_000002.wav|Well, I reckon he was blue.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000040_000001.wav|So with the second.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000014_000000.wav|The song had stopped as suddenly as it began-broken off, you would have said, in the middle of a note, as though someone had laid his hand upon the singer's mouth.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000029_000002.wav|'bout ship, mates!|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000017_000000.wav|"Darby M'Graw," it wailed-for that is the word that best describes the sound-"Darby M'Graw!|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000001_000000.wav|The Treasure hunt-The Voice Among the Trees|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000035_000001.wav|Soon they were chatting together, with intervals of listening; and not long after, hearing no further sound, they shouldered the tools and set forth again, Merry walking first with Silver's compass to keep them on the right line with Skeleton Island.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000031_000001.wav|"Ben Gunn it were!"|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000026_000002.wav|He, on his part, had pretty well fought his weakness down.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000019_000000.wav|"That fixes it!" gasped one.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000000_000000.wav|thirty two|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000038_000000.wav|But Dick was not to be comforted; indeed, it was soon plain to me that the lad was falling sick; hastened by heat, exhaustion, and the shock of his alarm, the fever, predicted by dr Livesey, was evidently growing swiftly higher.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000045_000000.wav|"Huzza, mates, all together!" shouted Merry; and the foremost broke into a run.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000032_000000.wav|"It don't make much odds, do it, now?" asked Dick.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000028_000001.wav|But you can never tell what will affect the superstitious, and to my wonder, George Merry was greatly relieved.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000026_000000.wav|And the rest were all too terrified to reply.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000003_000003.wav|There was no sound but that of the distant breakers, mounting from all round, and the chirp of countless insects in the brush.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000019_000001.wav|"Let's go."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000003_000000.wav|The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west, this spot on which we had paused commanded a wide prospect on either hand.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000035_000002.wav|He had said the truth: dead or alive, nobody minded Ben Gunn.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000009_000001.wav|"Blue!|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000048_000000.wav|All was clear to probation.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000027_000000.wav|"Sperrit?|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000040_000003.wav|It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000027_000004.wav|That ain't in natur', surely?"|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000016_000001.wav|Already the others had begun to lend an ear to this encouragement and were coming a little to themselves, when the same voice broke out again-not this time singing, but in a faint distant hail that echoed yet fainter among the clefts of the Spy glass.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000015_000000.wav|"Come," said Silver, struggling with his ashen lips to get the word out; "this won't do.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000003_000004.wav|Not a man, not a sail, upon the sea; the very largeness of the view increased the sense of solitude.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000036_000000.wav|Dick alone still held his Bible, and looked around him as he went, with fearful glances; but he found no sympathy, and Silver even joked him on his precautions.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000016_000000.wav|His courage had come back as he spoke, and some of the colour to his face along with it.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000040_000000.wav|The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the bearings proved the wrong one.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000015_000001.wav|Stand by to go about.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000046_000002.wav|Silver doubled his pace, digging away with the foot of his crutch like one possessed; and next moment he and I had come also to a dead halt.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000022_000000.wav|Still Silver was unconquered.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000047_000000.wav|Before us was a great excavation, not very recent, for the sides had fallen in and grass had sprouted on the bottom.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000047_000001.wav|In this were the shaft of a pick broken in two and the boards of several packing cases strewn around.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000026_000001.wav|They would have run away severally had they dared; but fear kept them together, and kept them close by john, as if his daring helped them.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000005_000000.wav|"There are three 'tall trees'" said he, "about in the right line from Skeleton Island. 'Spy glass shoulder,' I take it, means that lower p'int there.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000025_000001.wav|"Don't you cross a sperrit."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000005_000001.wav|It's child's play to find the stuff now.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000004_000000.wav|Silver, as he sat, took certain bearings with his compass.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000046_000001.wav|A low cry arose.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000027_000002.wav|"But there's one thing not clear to me. There was an echo.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000022_000001.wav|I could hear his teeth rattle in his head, but he had not yet surrendered.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000046_000000.wav|And suddenly, not ten yards further, we beheld them stop.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000012_000001.wav|The colour went from their six faces like enchantment; some leaped to their feet, some clawed hold of others; Morgan grovelled on the ground.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000032_000001.wav|"Ben Gunn's not here in the body any more'n Flint."|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000013_000000.wav|"It's Flint, by ----!" cried Merry.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/534/127538/534_127538_000037_000002.wav|Not that!" and he snapped his big fingers, halting a moment on his crutch.|534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3187/168497/3187_168497_000021_000000.wav|WAR|3187
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3187/168497/3187_168497_000018_000000.wav|THE JOCOSE GODS|3187
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/153958/2628_153958_000011_000002.wav|They were absent for about ten minutes, and on their return the foreman pronounced the prisoner guilty.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/153958/2628_153958_000006_000003.wav|I will, however, commute your sentence to one of three months, with the option of a fine of twenty five per cent. of the money you have received from the insurance company."|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/153958/2628_153958_000019_000004.wav|I shall therefore order that you receive two tablespoonfuls of castor oil daily, until the pleasure of the court be further known."|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000010_000001.wav|Avery Knight stopped him.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000022_000000.wav|On the next day Knight called for me in a cab.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000041_000000.wav|"I slew the man in Central Park.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000024_000000.wav|"--Nor will you," I said, emphatically.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000034_000000.wav|"Well, doctor," said Knight, unable to repress a note of triumph in his voice, "have you seen?"|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000028_000000.wav|"Doc," said he, "I have it.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000026_000000.wav|"Nonsense, man," I replied.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000028_000001.wav|Put on your hat, and come with me.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000039_000001.wav|It's too late now.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000029_000003.wav|Even yet I could not believe it possible.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000036_000002.wav|I call it the saltatorial theory.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000042_000001.wav|I have no money to speak of; I do not like oatmeal, and it is the one ambition of my life to die rich.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000040_000000.wav|"If homicides in New York went undiscovered, I reasoned, although the best detective talent was employed to ferret them out, it must be true that the detectives went about their work in the wrong way.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000027_000001.wav|At length he looked up brightly.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000007_000000.wav|"You pique my professional pride, doctor," he said in a nettled tone. "I will convince you."|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000003_000000.wav|THE DETECTIVE DETECTOR|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000008_000000.wav|About twelve yards in advance of us a prosperous looking citizen was rounding a clump of bushes where the walk curved.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000018_000000.wav|I laughed, tauntingly.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000016_000000.wav|"How goes the mysterious murder?" I asked.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000045_000003.wav|Therefore, he must necessarily set to work and trail a short man with a white beard who likes to be in the papers, who is very wealthy, is fond 'of oatmeal, wants to die poor, and is of an extremely generous and philanthropic disposition. When thus far is reached the mind hesitates no longer.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000043_000003.wav|I have demonstrated to you that the theory is possible."|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000040_000002.wav|That was my clue.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000039_000002.wav|I will proceed.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000025_000000.wav|"Not by ordinary methods," said Knight.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/109663/2628_109663_000005_000000.wav|"But, my dear Knight," said I, "it sounds incredible.|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2628/153964/2628_153964_000018_000000.wav|"If this be so," said my opponent, "we must bear it as best we may."|2628
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000012_000001.wav|And I'm wondering if whoever killed this fellow, whoever he may be, wouldn't have killed mr Gilverthwaite, too, if he'd come?|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000009_000001.wav|You'll have to get help," he went on, turning to the constable.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000022_000000.wav|"That's just where I'm coming with you," he answered.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000016_000001.wav|"Anyway, he's not known to me, and I've been in these parts twenty years.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000001_000000.wav|THE MURDERED MAN|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000006_000000.wav|"Not a sound!" I answered.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000008_000000.wav|"Nothing and nobody!" I said.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000024_000002.wav|Yon lodger of yours is dead, and your mother in a fine way, wondering where you are!"|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000023_000004.wav|Was he the man I ought to have met?|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000024_000001.wav|"But you must get back with me quickly.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000014_000001.wav|Ever since finding the body, I had been wondering what I should say when authority, either in the shape of a coroner or a policeman, asked me about my own adventures that night.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000023_000006.wav|Or-yet again-was this some man who had come upon mr Gilverthwaite's correspondent, and, for some reason, been murdered by him?|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000019_000000.wav|"What?" I asked.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000020_000000.wav|"Papers!" said he.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000023_000005.wav|Or had that man been there, witnessed the murder, and gone away, frightened to stop where the murder had been done?|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000003_000002.wav|Was this the man mr Gilverthwaite meant me to meet?|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000013_000001.wav|"You saw nobody about close by-nor in the neighbourhood-no strangers on the road?"|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000013_000000.wav|"Well, well, I never knew its like!" he remarked, staring from me to the body, and from it to me.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000003_000005.wav|Then I wondered if I had disturbed the murderers-it was fixed in me from the beginning that there must have been more than one in at this dreadful game-and if they were still lurking about and watching me from the brushwood; and I made an effort, and bent down and touched one of the nerveless hands.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/139200/589_139200_000022_000001.wav|"I've my bicycle close by, and we'll ride into the town together at once.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000012_000001.wav|She dared not make such a suggestion without consulting the other person most concerned, so she answered that she would write mrs Smith or see her.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000042_000000.wav|"I was as sure as I needed to be," Nelson Smith answered.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000024_000005.wav|You were an angel to sacrifice yourself to save me, and your doing it the way you did has made me a happy man at one stroke.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000038_000000.wav|Her silence, after the warmth of his words, seemed cold.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000052_000002.wav|Even the thumb was abnormally long, which fact prevented the hand from being as beautiful as it was, somehow, unforgettable.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000054_000005.wav|I see that!" with another smile.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER seven|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000030_000000.wav|"About the Savoy," he went on.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000018_000002.wav|But there's something about you makes me feel as if I'd like to tell you the truth whenever I can: and the truth is, that for reasons you may understand some day-though I hope to Heaven you'll never have to!--my association with those men is one of the things I long to turn the key upon.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000057_000002.wav|Miss Grayle and I will go together-two women alone and independent.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000036_000001.wav|Yet so it was.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000017_000001.wav|"Oh, but we mustn't go there, of all places!|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000014_000000.wav|"Thank you, but my wife won't need to remind mrs Ellsworth of her debt," the answer came before Annesley could speak.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000035_000001.wav|Meantime, I'll try to grow a bit more like what your lover ought to be; and later I shall kiss you enough to make up for lost time."|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000004_000003.wav|If he persisted, through these moments of suspense, she would scream or burst out crying.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000031_000000.wav|"If she'd been there, you would have gone to her table and sat down, and we-should never have met!" Annesley thought aloud.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000010_000000.wav|"Quite right.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000034_000003.wav|I'd give anything to show you how I-but no I was good before, when I was tempted to kiss you.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000024_000000.wav|"You weren't foolish!" he contradicted.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000007_000000.wav|It was he.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000020_000005.wav|I----"|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000018_000006.wav|Will you believe this-and trust me for the rest?"|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000056_000000.wav|"Now you must engage her room," Nelson Smith said, abruptly.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000020_000000.wav|"I know.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000005_000000.wav|"Why should I not wish to tell you?" the Something was saying.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000044_000003.wav|It seemed beastly hard luck to leave you fast in that old woman's clutches!"|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000046_000002.wav|Nobody paid the slightest attention to the newcomers, and Annesley settled down unobtrusively in a corner, while her companion went to scribble a line to the Countess de Santiago.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000024_000008.wav|I thank you for it-and for all the rest."|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000004_000004.wav|Trembling, with tears in her voice, she heard herself answer.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000022_000002.wav|I wanted to arrange my-business matters so as to be fair to you.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000038_000001.wav|Perhaps he felt it so, for he went on after an instant's pause, as if he had waited for something in vain, and his tone was changed.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000026_000001.wav|"I hadn't thought of that.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000009_000002.wav|"But if----"|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000034_000001.wav|"That's the first time I've been called a saint, and I'm afraid it will be the last.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000039_000006.wav|Nelson Smith is a respectable one, and she'll respect it!|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000007_000001.wav|Before she had time to finish the thought, he walked in, confident and smiling as when she had left him a few minutes-or a few years-ago; and in the wave of relief which overwhelmed her, Annesley forgot Ruthven Smith's question and her answer.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000030_000005.wav|But she was missing.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000027_000002.wav|"Besides, I feel that to morrow I shall find I've dreamed-all this."|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000024_000003.wav|Destiny!|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000051_000001.wav|She had not the air of one who would be complimented by such a request.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000040_000001.wav|She'll engage a room for you next to her own suite, or as near as possible; then you'll be provided with a chaperon."|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000009_000001.wav|I told him," Annesley stammered, her eyes appealing, seeking to explain, and begging pardon.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000030_000006.wav|Are you sorry?"|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000026_000002.wav|It's a difficulty. But we'll obviate it-somehow.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000014_000002.wav|Good night!|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000004_000005.wav|And yet it did not seem to be herself, but something within, stronger than she, that suddenly took control of her.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000005_000002.wav|Nelson Smith." And before the words had left her lips a taxi drew up at the door.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000013_000001.wav|"Well, you can trust me with mrs Ellsworth.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000026_000004.wav|Only I'm afraid we can't ask your friend the Archdeacon to marry us, as I meant to suggest, because I was sure you'd like it."|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000056_000001.wav|"It's late. You can make friends afterward."|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000018_000004.wav|To me, it doesn't seem bad at all.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000038_000002.wav|Annesley thought it, by contrast, almost businesslike.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000057_000001.wav|"And you-will you come to the desk? Yet, no-it is better not.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000006_000000.wav|There was one instant of agony during which the previous suspense seemed nothing-an instant when the girl forgot what she had said, her soul pressing to the windows of her eyes.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000002_000000.wav|THE COUNTESS DE SANTIAGO|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000045_000001.wav|He took it, raising it to his lips, and both were startled when the taxi stopped.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000040_000000.wav|"Now, my plan is to ask for her (she'll be in by this time), have a few words of explanation on the quiet, not to embarrass you; and the Countess will do the rest.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000015_000000.wav|Then they were off, they two alone together; and Annesley guessed that the chauffeur must have had his instructions where to drive, as she heard none given.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000009_000000.wav|"I-he asked me ...|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000042_000001.wav|"A moment after I switched on the electricity in the room up there I heard a taxi drive away.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000030_000003.wav|She knows all about me-or enough-and if she'd been in the restaurant at dinner this evening she could have done for me what you did.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000042_000002.wav|I turned off the light so I could look out.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000015_000002.wav|It occurred to the girl that precautions might still have to be taken.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000057_000003.wav|Lucky it's not the season, or we might find nothing free at short notice.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000034_000000.wav|"saint George!" he echoed, a ring of bitterness under his laugh.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000004_000002.wav|She could not bear his grieved or offended reproaches.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000039_000004.wav|Indeed, I'm partly English, born in Canada, though I've spent most of my life in the United States.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000004_000001.wav|She could not parry the man's questions.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000054_000004.wav|He, too, will be lucky.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000007_000002.wav|She remembered again, only with the shock of hearing him address the newcomer by the name she had given.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000020_000003.wav|I didn't suppose that Fate would give you to me so soon.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000014_000003.wav|Glad to have met you, even if it was an unpromising introduction."|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000053_000002.wav|She spoke English perfectly, with a slight foreign accent and a roll of the letter "r."|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000026_000003.wav|Don't worry!|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000029_000000.wav|Afterward there came a time when Annesley called back those words and wondered if they had held a deeper meaning than she guessed.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000017_000000.wav|"The Savoy!" exclaimed Annesley.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000024_000006.wav|As for the name-what's in a name?|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000017_000002.wav|Those men----"|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000057_000005.wav|I hope he always will!"|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000004_000000.wav|The repetition irritated the girl, whose nerves were strained to snapping point.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000032_000001.wav|But you haven't answered my question."|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000036_000002.wav|She was sorry that he was so scrupulous. She longed to have him hold her against his heart.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000024_000007.wav|We might as well be in reality what we played at being to night-'mr and mrs Nelson Smith.' There are even reasons why I'm pleased that you've made me a present of the name.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000013_000004.wav|I'll remind her of it if you like-tell her you asked me.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000054_000002.wav|I think this is the best thing that can happen.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000027_000000.wav|"I should.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000028_000000.wav|"Then I've dreamed you, at the same time, and I'm not going to let you slip out of my dream, now I've got you in it.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000033_000000.wav|"I'll answer it now!" cried the girl.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000041_000002.wav|I suppose you did know?|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000039_000005.wav|Nobody at the Savoy but the Countess de Santiago knows who I am, and she'll understand that it may be convenient for me to change my name.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000015_000003.wav|But in another moment she was undeceived.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000026_000000.wav|"By Jove!" he exclaimed.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000041_000000.wav|"I'm not anxious about myself, but about you," Annesley said.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000019_000000.wav|"I've told you I would!" the girl reminded him.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000005_000001.wav|"The name is the same as your own-Smith.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000006_000001.wav|Was it he who had come, or----|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000042_000003.wav|By flattening my nose against the glass I could see that the place where those chaps had waited was empty; but in case the taxi was only turning, and meant to pass the house again, I lit the room once more, for realism.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000011_000002.wav|Not only did he shake hands, but actually came out to the taxi with them, asking Annesley if he should tell his cousins of her engagement, or if she preferred to give the news herself?|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/589/146346/589_146346_000023_000000.wav|"You are being noble to me," said the girl, "and I've been very foolish. I've complicated everything.|589
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000002_000001.wav|If a man has been affected pleasurably or painfully by anyone, of a class or nation different from his own, and if the pleasure or pain has been accompanied by the idea of the said stranger as cause, under the general category of the class or nation: the man will feel love or hatred, not only to the individual stranger, but also to the whole class or nation whereto he belongs.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000014_000000.wav|Note.--Things which are accidentally the causes of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000006_000005.wav|For when men conceive a danger, they conceive it as still future, and are determined to fear it; this determination is checked afresh by the idea of freedom, which became associated with the idea of the danger when they escaped therefrom: this renders them secure afresh: therefore they rejoice afresh.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000008_000002.wav|For pleasure is called love towards peter, and pain is called hatred towards peter, simply in so far as peter is regarded as the cause of one emotion or the other.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000006_000003.wav|However, since he has joined to the image of the thing other images, which exclude its existence, this determination to pain is forthwith checked, and the man rejoices afresh as often as the repetition takes place.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000004_000001.wav|Joy arising from the fact, that anything we hate is destroyed, or suffers other injury, is never unaccompanied by a certain pain in us.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000006_000002.wav|For, as we have said, when the image of the thing in question, is aroused, inasmuch as it involves the thing's existence, it determines the man to regard the thing with the same pain as he was wont to do, when it actually did exist.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000006_000004.wav|This is the cause of men's pleasure in recalling past evils, and delight in narrating dangers from which they have escaped.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000008_000003.wav|When this condition of causality is either wholly or partly removed, the emotion towards peter also wholly or in part vanishes.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000010_000005.wav|Part one) conceive it not as the sole cause, but as one of the causes of the emotion, and therefore our love or hatred towards it will be less.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000005_000001.wav|For in so far as we conceive a thing similar to ourselves to be affected with pain, we ourselves feel pain.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000010_000003.wav|note) love it or hate it, and shall do so with the utmost love or hatred that can arise from the given emotion.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000007_000001.wav|Love or hatred towards, for instance, peter is destroyed, if the pleasure involved in the former, or the pain involved in the latter emotion, be associated with the idea of another cause: and will be diminished in proportion as we conceive peter not to have been the sole cause of either emotion.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000014_000005.wav|However, I do not think it worth while to point out here the vacillations springing from hope and fear; it follows from the definition of these emotions, that there can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope, as I will duly explain in the proper place.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/24758/3630_24758_000008_000001.wav|note).|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000028_000002.wav|There would be many other disadvantages in such a system, notably the inability to modulate freely to other keys, and since modulation is one of the predominant and most striking characteristics of modern music, this would constitute a serious barrier to advances in composition.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000019_000000.wav|three.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000023_000000.wav|The intensity of tones varies with the medium conveying them, being usually louder at night because the air is then more elastic.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000022_000000.wav|nine.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000025_000001.wav|Practically every musical tone really consists of a combination of several tones sounding simultaneously, the combined effect upon the ear giving the impression of a single tone.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000024_000002.wav|A series of simple vibrations will cause a simple (or colorless) tone, while complex vibrations (giving rise to overtones of various kinds and in a variety of proportions) cause more individualistic peculiarities of quality.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000017_000001.wav|Pitch.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000014_000002.wav|The duration of the reverberation depends upon the size and height of the room, material of floor and walls, furniture, size of audience, etc|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000020_000001.wav|It depends upon rate of vibration.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000012_000002.wav|If there is such a surface in an auditorium (as often occurs) there will be a certain point where everything can be heard very easily, but in the rest of the room it may be very difficult to understand what is being said or sung.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000030_000000.wav|thirteen.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000015_000000.wav|six.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000016_000000.wav|seven.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000017_000000.wav|one.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000024_000004.wav|nine above.)|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000027_000004.wav|The characteristic tone of the oboe on the other hand has many overtones and is therefore highly individualistic: this enables us to recognize the tone of the instrument even though we cannot see the player.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000025_000007.wav|A similar series might be worked out from any other fundamental.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000030_000004.wav|In eighteen ninety one a convention of piano manufacturers at Philadelphia adopted this same pitch for the United States, and it has been in practically universal use ever since.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000002_000000.wav|ACOUSTICS|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000007_000002.wav|These particles lie so close together that no movement at all can be detected, and it is only when the disturbance finally reaches the air particles that are in contact with the ear drum that any effect is evident.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000020_000002.wav|If a body vibrates only eight or ten times per second no tone is heard at all: but if it vibrates regularly at the rate of sixteen or eighteen per seconds a tone of very low pitch is heard.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000020_000004.wav|The highest tone that can ordinarily be heard is the E[flat] four octaves higher than the highest E[flat] of the piano.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000025_000000.wav|eleven.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000028_000000.wav|twelve.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000008_000000.wav|This phenomenon of sound transmission may perhaps be made more clear by the old illustration of a series of eight billiard balls in a row on a table: if the first ball is tapped lightly, striking gently against ball number two, the latter (as well as numbers three, four, five, six, and seven) will not apparently move at all, but ball number eight at the other end will roll away.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000004_000000.wav|one.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000010_000001.wav|This medium may be air, water, a bar of iron or steel, the earth, etc|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000025_000003.wav|The first of these overtones is the octave above the fundamental; the second is the fifth above this octave; the third, two octaves above the fundamental, and so on through the series as shown in the figure below.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000029_000001.wav|He called the collection "The Well tempered Clavichord."|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000023_000002.wav|If two strings of the same length are stretched side by side and one set in vibration so as to produce tone the other will soon begin to vibrate also and the combined tone will be louder than if only one string produced it.|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000001_000000.wav|APPENDIX C|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3630/11612/3630_11612_000019_000001.wav|Quality (timbre).|3630
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000002_000000.wav|The Old Piano|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000006_000003.wav|I wish she was alive, to ride in Jos's carriage once again.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000004_000000.wav|Emmy smiled.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000033_000001.wav|A few days afterwards, as they were seated in the drawing room, where Jos had fallen asleep with great comfort after dinner, Amelia said with rather a faltering voice to Major Dobbin-|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000039_000004.wav|I forgot, or I should never have spoken of it so.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000010_000002.wav|Having partaken of a copious breakfast, with fish, and rice, and hard eggs, at Southampton, he had so far rallied at Winchester as to think a glass of sherry necessary.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000040_000007.wav|Had you come a few months sooner perhaps you might have spared me that-that dreadful parting.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000027_000002.wav|"I was afraid you didn't care about it."|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifty nine|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000003_000000.wav|The Major's visit left old john Sedley in a great state of agitation and excitement.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000035_000000.wav|"About what?" said he.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000010_000005.wav|He was cold over Bagshot Heath, where the native chattered more and more, and Jos Sahib took some brandy and water; in fact, when he drove into town he was as full of wine, beer, meat, pickles, cherry brandy, and tobacco as the steward's cabin of a steam packet.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000006_000000.wav|Amelia found him up very early the next morning, more eager, more hectic, and more shaky than ever.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000042_000000.wav|"Yes, often," Amelia said.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000006_000004.wav|She kept her own and became it very well." And his eyes filled with tears, which trickled down his furrowed old face.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000021_000001.wav|Jos's carriage (the temporary one, not the chariot under construction) arrived one day and carried off old Sedley and his daughter-to return no more.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000022_000000.wav|As for Miss Mary, her sorrow at Amelia's departure was such as I shall not attempt to depict.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000012_000003.wav|Distance sanctifies both. Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000036_000003.wav|Thank you, William." She held out her hand, but the poor little woman's heart was bleeding; and as for her eyes, of course they were at their work.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000012_000001.wav|The old man was very much affected; so, of course, was his daughter; nor was Jos without feeling.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000018_000003.wav|Not Miss Binny, she was too old and ill tempered; Miss Osborne? too old too.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000017_000003.wav|Not that she would encourage him in the least-the poor uncouth monster-of course not.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000032_000002.wav|It was not George's gift; the only one which she had received from her lover, as she thought-the thing she had cherished beyond all others-her dearest relic and prize.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000040_000006.wav|Our dearest, truest, kindest friend and protector?|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000037_000000.wav|But William could hold no more.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000012_000004.wav|Jos was unaffectedly glad to see and shake the hand of his father, between whom and himself there had been a coolness-glad to see his little sister, whom he remembered so pretty and smiling, and pained at the alteration which time, grief, and misfortune had made in the shattered old man.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000033_000000.wav|Then, according to her custom, she rebuked herself for her pettishness and ingratitude and determined to make a reparation to honest William for the slight she had not expressed to him, but had felt for his piano.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000029_000000.wav|"Do you, Amelia?" cried the Major.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000023_000000.wav|Let us hope she was wrong in her judgement.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000022_000002.wav|Amelia loved her like a daughter. During eleven years the girl had been her constant friend and associate.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000006_000001.wav|"I didn't sleep much, Emmy, my dear," he said.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000012_000005.wav|Emmy had come out to the door in her black clothes and whispered to him of her mother's death, and not to speak of it to their father.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000005_000002.wav|All these twopenny documents arranged on a side table, old Sedley covered them carefully over with a clean bandanna handkerchief (one out of Major Dobbin's lot) and enjoined the maid and landlady of the house, in the most solemn way, not to disturb those papers, which were arranged for the arrival of mr Joseph Sedley the next morning, "mr|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000005_000000.wav|"You don't know anything about business, my dear," answered the sire, shaking his head with an important air.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000026_000000.wav|Major Dobbin was exceedingly pleased when, as he was superintending the arrangements of Jos's new house-which the Major insisted should be very handsome and comfortable-the cart arrived from Brompton, bringing the trunks and bandboxes of the emigrants from that village, and with them the old piano.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000039_000000.wav|"No, only indifferent," Dobbin continued desperately.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000007_000001.wav|Amelia, as she read out the letter to her father, paused over the latter word; her brother, it was clear, did not know what had happened in the family.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000022_000001.wav|From childhood upwards she had been with her daily and had attached herself so passionately to that dear good lady that when the grand barouche came to carry her off into splendour, she fainted in the arms of her friend, who was indeed scarcely less affected than the good-natured girl.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000024_000002.wav|She had to bear all the blame of his misdoings, and indeed was so utterly gentle and humble as to be made by nature for a victim.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000011_000001.wav|Jos descended from the post chaise and down the creaking swaying steps in awful state, supported by the new valet from Southampton and the shuddering native, whose brown face was now livid with cold and of the colour of a turkey's gizzard.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129066/380_129066_000010_000004.wav|At Farnham he stopped to view the Bishop's Castle and to partake of a light dinner of stewed eels, veal cutlets, and French beans, with a bottle of claret.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000018_000004.wav|He desired to be buried with a little brown hair chain which he wore round his neck and which, if the truth must be known, he had got from Amelia's maid at Brussels, when the young widow's hair was cut off, during the fever which prostrated her after the death of George Osborne on the plateau at Mount saint John.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000010_000003.wav|Russell Square was the boundary of her prison: she might walk thither occasionally, but was always back to sleep in her cell at night; to perform cheerless duties; to watch by thankless sick beds; to suffer the harassment and tyranny of querulous disappointed old age.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000011_000000.wav|The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise, and to set up the selfish, the foolish, or the wicked.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000018_000001.wav|The idea that he should never see her again depressed him in his lucid hours.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000007_000003.wav|The little fellow patronized the feeble and disappointed old man.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000008_000001.wav|But proper pride and this poor lady had never had much acquaintance together.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000012_000000.wav|They buried Amelia's mother in the churchyard at Brompton, upon just such a rainy, dark day as Amelia recollected when first she had been there to marry George.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000013_000006.wav|She was quite alone in the world.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000013_000003.wav|The children running up and down the slopes and broad paths in the gardens reminded her of George, who was taken from her; the first George was taken from her; her selfish, guilty love, in both instances, had been rebuked and bitterly chastised.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000021_000000.wav|For indeed it was no other than our stout friend who was also a passenger on board the Ramchunder.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000015_000000.wav|Old Sedley grew very fond of his daughter after his wife's death, and Amelia had her consolation in doing her duty by the old man.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000008_000003.wav|The very thought of them is odious and low.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000023_000000.wav|After leaving saint Helena he became very generous, disposing of a great quantity of ship stores, claret, preserved meats, and great casks packed with soda water, brought out for his private delectation.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000013_000004.wav|She strove to think it was right that she should be so punished.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000013_000000.wav|So she determined with all her might and strength to try and make her old father happy.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000025_000001.wav|Jos, a little testy about his father's misfortunes and unceremonious applications to him, was soothed down by the Major, who pointed out the elder's ill fortunes and old age.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000012_000003.wav|Her thoughts were away in other times as the parson read.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000009_000002.wav|O you poor women!|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000011_000002.wav|Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000010_000002.wav|Little George visited her captivity sometimes and consoled it with feeble gleams of encouragement.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000011_000003.wav|Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000019_000002.wav|But whether it was the sea air, or the hope which sprung up in him afresh, from the day that the ship spread her canvas and stood out of the roads towards home, our friend began to amend, and he was quite well (though as gaunt as a greyhound) before they reached the Cape.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000009_000005.wav|The kindness was too much for the poor epileptic creature.|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/380/129064/380_129064_000013_000002.wav|What sad, unsatisfactory thoughts those of the widow were!|380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000063_000003.wav|Nothing to eat or drink, and very likely a day or so to spend here till I'm found, if I ever am. Chris said, 'Yell, if you want us.' Much good that would do now!|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000010_000000.wav|"Don't seem to feel anxious a mite.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000044_000002.wav|In his struggles the lunch was lost, for the bottle broke and the pocket where the sandwiches were stored was full of mud.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000054_000000.wav|"The only thing to do now is to get down to the valley, if I can, before dark.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000064_000004.wav|Oh, well!|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000042_000002.wav|Abner said they purred and snarled and gave a mewing sort of cry; but which it was now he could not tell, having unfortunately been half asleep.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000056_000000.wav|But he got on wonderfully well, and was feeling much encouraged, when his foot slipped, the root he held gave way, and down he went, rolling and bumping to his death on the rocks below, he thought, as a crash came, and he knew no more.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000015_000001.wav|Better take old Buff; he'll bring you home when you get lost, and keep puss from clawing you.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000069_000004.wav|I'll make it up to him.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000027_000000.wav|"We are going to walk up, and leave the horses to rest; so I can choose my time.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000062_000003.wav|All below was wrapped in mist, and not a sound reached him but the sigh of the pine, and the murmur of the waterfall.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000037_000001.wav|Here's a nice rock, and the last spring we are likely to see till we get to the top.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000092_000002.wav|I said I'd kill one, and I did, and want to keep the skin; for I ought to have something to show after all this knocking about and turning somersaults half a mile long," answered Corny stoutly, as he tried to shoulder his load again.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000014_000004.wav|Now you hold your tongue, and let me slip away when I think we've hit the right spot.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000036_000001.wav|He did his best, but when they passed opening after opening into the green recesses of the wood, and the granite boulders grew more and more plentiful, his patience gave out, and he began to plan what he could say to excuse himself.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000062_000000.wav|He was much shaken by the fall, his flesh bruised, his clothes torn, and his spirit cowed; for hunger, weariness, pain, and danger, showed him what a very feeble creature he was, after all.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000015_000002.wav|You won't like that part of the fun as much as you expect to, maybe," said Chris, with a sly twinkle of the eye, as he glanced at Corny and then away to the vast forest that stretched far up the mighty mountain's side.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000027_000002.wav|No danger of my starving, is there?" whispered Corny, as he leaned over to Chris, who sat, apparently, on nothing, with his long legs dangling into space.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000030_000001.wav|The ladies went more slowly, enjoying the grand beauty of the scene, while Chris carried the lunch basket, and Corny lingered in the rear, waiting for a good chance to "plunge."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000059_000000.wav|"Caught in a tree, by Jupiter!" and all visions of heaven vanished in a breath, as he sat up and stared about him, wide awake now, and conscious of many aching bones.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000020_000000.wav|"That ain't just square; but it's not my funeral, so I won't meddle. Hope you'll have first rate sport, and bag a brace of cats.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000051_000001.wav|I'll shoot something, if I stay all night.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000047_000000.wav|"I'm too high for any game but birds, and those I don't want.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000054_000001.wav|Abner said there was an old cabin, where the hunters used to sleep, somewhere round that way.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000052_000004.wav|More cuts and bruises, more vain shots, and all the reward of his eager struggles was a single feather that floated down as the great bird soared serenely away, leaving the boy exhausted and disappointed in a wilderness of granite boulders, with no sign of a path to show the way out.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000007_000000.wav|"I intend to be spry, and if you won't go and blab, I'll tell you a plan I made last night."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000044_000001.wav|He sunk up to his knees, and with great difficulty got out by clinging to the tussocks that grew near.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000021_000001.wav|If he had seen Chris dart behind the barn, and there roll upon the grass in convulsions of laughter, he would have been both surprised and hurt.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000027_000001.wav|See, I've got a bottle of cold tea in this pocket, and a lot of grub in the other.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000014_000005.wav|I'm not a bit afraid, and while the rest go poking to the top, I'll plunge into the woods and see what I can do."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000064_000005.wav|I'll pull through, I guess, and when it's all over, it will be a jolly good story to tell."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000050_000002.wav|There was time to go back the way he had come, and by following the path down the hill he could reach the hotel and get supper and a bed, or be driven home.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000096_000000.wav|He liked to tell the story of that day and night when his friends were recounting adventures by sea and land; but he never said much about the hours on the ledge, always owned that Chris shot the beast, and usually ended by sagely advising his hearers to let their mothers know, when they went off on a lark of that kind.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000037_000002.wav|Come on, Chris, and give us the dipper.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000043_000001.wav|But a hawk was all he saw above, an ugly snake was the only living thing he found among the logs, and a fat woodchuck's hind legs vanished down the most attractive hole.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000025_000000.wav|"No fun without it.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000076_000001.wav|Just before this happy moment he had heard a shot fired somewhere in the forest, and as he hurried toward the sound he saw an animal dart into the hut, as if for shelter.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000054_000003.wav|May break my bones, but I can't sit and starve up here, and I was a fool to come.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000045_000000.wav|"Here's a mess!" thought poor Corny, surveying himself with great disgust and feeling very helpless, as well as tired, hungry, and mad. "Luckily, my powder is dry and my gun safe; so my fun isn't spoiled, though I do look like a wallowing pig.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000064_000001.wav|"Even the old chap lost in the bush in Australia had a savage with him who dug a hole in a tree, and pulled out a nice fat worm to eat.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000017_000000.wav|Corny spoke so confidently, and looked so pleased with his plan, that honest Chris could not bear to tell him how much danger he would run in that pathless forest, where older hunters than he had been lost.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000016_000002.wav|I will keep dashing in and out of the woods as we go; then no one will miss me for a while, and when they do you just say, 'Oh, he's all right; he'll be along directly,' and go ahead, and let me alone."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000055_000001.wav|Coming to the ravine, he found the only road was down its precipitous side to the valley, that looked so safe and pleasant now.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000076_000000.wav|Anxious to report himself alive, and relieve his mother's anxiety, he pressed on till he struck the path, and soon saw, not far away, the old cabin Abner had spoken of.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000012_000000.wav|"Wait till I get out my handkerchief; if you're going to be affectin' I may want it.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000069_000001.wav|I can't make them hear, and must wait till morning.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000014_000000.wav|"Come now, stop joking and lend a hand, and I'll do anything I can for you.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000075_000000.wav|Feeling like a prisoner set free, he hurried as fast as bare feet and stiff legs would carry him along the bed of the stream, coming at last into the welcome shelter of the woods, which seemed more beautiful than ever, after the bleak region of granite in which he had been all night.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000032_000000.wav|"The very next path I see, I'll dive in and run; Chris can't leave the rest to follow, and if I once get a good start, they won't catch me in a hurry," thought the boy, longing to be free and alone in the wild woods that tempted him on either hand.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000016_000001.wav|I shall take some lunch and plenty of shot, and have a glorious time, even if I don't meet that confounded beast.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000086_000000.wav|The tale was soon told, and received with the most flattering signs of interest, wonder, sympathy, and admiration.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000048_000001.wav|My hands smart like fury, and I guess the mosquitoes have about eaten my face up.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000088_000000.wav|"That isn't a wild goose, is it?" proudly demanded Corny, pointing to the cat, which now lay on the ground, while he leaned against a tree to hide his weariness; for he felt ready to drop, now all the excitement was over.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000078_000000.wav|There she was, the big, fierce cat, crouched in a corner, with fiery eyes, growling and spitting at sight of an enemy, but too badly wounded to fight, as the blood that dripped from her neck, and the tremble of her limbs plainly showed.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000053_000002.wav|Utterly used up, he could not get home now if he had known the way; and suddenly all the tales he had ever heard of men lost in the mountains came into his head.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000015_000000.wav|"All right.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000073_000002.wav|Once there, it was pretty certain that by following the rough road he would come into the valley, from whence he could easily find his way home.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000051_000003.wav|The next live thing I see I'll shoot it, and make a fire and have a jolly supper.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000049_000001.wav|It was long past noon when Corny came out near the waterfall, so tired and hungry that he heartily wished himself back among the party, who had lunched well and were now probably driving gayly homeward to a good supper.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000050_000001.wav|He was desperately tired with these hours of rough travel, and very hungry; but would not own it, and sat considering what to do next, for he saw by the sun that the afternoon was half over.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000065_000002.wav|So vivid was it that he woke himself by crying out, "Here I am!" and nearly went over the ledge, stretching out his arms to Abner.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000069_000005.wav|Chris is a capital fellow, and I just wish I had him here to make things jolly," thought the lonely lad.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000063_000002.wav|Gun smashed in that confounded fall, so I can't even fire a shot to call help.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000050_000003.wav|That was the wise thing to do, but his pride rebelled against returning empty handed after all his plans and boasts of great exploits.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000082_000000.wav|Just as he paused to take breath and shift his burden from one shoulder to the other, a loud shout startled him, and a moment after, several men came bursting through the wood, cheering like lunatics as they approached.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000069_000002.wav|Poor Chris will get an awful scolding for letting me go.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000003_000001.wav|The other lad appeared to be absorbed in shaping an arrow from the slender stick in his hand, but he watched his neighbor with a grin, saying a few words occasionally which seemed to add to his irritation, though they were in a sympathizing tone.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000091_000001.wav|Guess you've had enough of catamounts for one spell, hey?" and Abner laughed as he looked at poor Corny, who was a more sorry spectacle than he knew,--ragged and rough, hatless and shoeless, his face red and swelled with the poisoning and bites, his eyes heavy with weariness, and in his mouth a bit of wild cherry bark which he chewed ravenously.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000042_000000.wav|So he bathed his hot face, took a cool drink, and lay on the moss, staring up into the green gloom of the pines, blissfully dreaming of the joys of a hunter's life,--till a peculiar cry startled him to his feet, and sent him creeping warily toward the sound.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000060_000000.wav|Yes, there he lay among the branches of one of the sturdy pines, into which he had fallen on his way down the precipice.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000002_000000.wav|CORNY'S CATAMOUNT|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000070_000001.wav|Corny kept awake as long as he could, fearing to dream and fall; but by and by he dropped off, and slept soundly till the chill of dawn waked him.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000095_000002.wav|He made no more boasts of skill and courage that summer, set out on no more wild hunts, and gave up his own wishes so cheerfully that it was evident something had worked a helpful change in wilful Corny.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000041_000000.wav|"I'll rest a bit, and then go along down, keeping a look out for puss by the way," thought Corny, feeling safe and free, and very happy, for he had his own way, at last, and a whole day to lead the life he loved.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000037_000000.wav|"The hardest part is coming now, and we'd better rest a moment.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000095_000000.wav|In this order they reached home, and Corny tumbled into his mother's arms, to be no more seen for some hours.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000036_000000.wav|But mrs Barker got on bravely, with the support of his strong arm, and chatted away so delightfully that Corny would really have enjoyed the walk, if his soul had not been yearning for catamounts.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000061_000001.wav|All he could see was a narrow ledge where the tree stood, and anxious to reach a safer bed for the night, he climbed cautiously down to drop on the rock, so full of gratitude for safety that he could only lie quite still for a little while, thinking of mother, and trying not to cry.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000022_000001.wav|Three merry girls, a pair of small boys, two amiable mammas, Chris and Corny, made up the party, with Abner to drive the big wagon drawn by Milk and Molasses, the yellow span.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000089_000001.wav|Where did you shoot her?" asked Abner, stooping to examine the creature.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000013_000000.wav|The big boy in the blue overalls spoke with such a comical drawl that the slender city lad could not help laughing, and with a slap that nearly sent his neighbor off his perch, Corny said good naturedly:|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000066_000000.wav|The start and the scare made it hard to go to sleep again, and he sat looking at the solemn sky, full of stars that seemed watching over him alone there, like a poor, lost child on the great mountain's stony breast.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000068_000001.wav|But the splash of the waterfall, and the rush of the night wind deadened the sounds to his ear, and drowned his own reply.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000090_000001.wav|I hit her a rap with a club, in the cabin where I found her," answered Corny, heartily wishing he need not share the prize with any one.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000047_000001.wav|I'll go slap down, and come out in the valley.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000058_000001.wav|He lay a few minutes drowsily musing, for the fall had stunned him; then, as he moved his hand something pricked it, and he felt pine needles in the fingers that closed over them.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000024_000002.wav|I wish you'd leave that gun at home; I'm so afraid you'll get hurt with it.'|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000072_000001.wav|He was stiff, and full of pain, but daylight and the hope of escape cheered him up, and gave him coolness and courage to see how best he could accomplish his end.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000091_000000.wav|"Chris did it; he fired a spell back and see the critter run, but we was too keen after you to stop for any other game.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000058_000000.wav|He seemed floating in the air, for he swayed to and fro on a soft bed, a pleasant murmur reached his ear, and when he looked down he saw what looked like clouds, misty and white, below him.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000090_000002.wav|But he was honest, and added at once, "Some one else had put a bullet into her; I only finished her off."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000006_000000.wav|"You'll have to be pretty spry, then, for there's only two more days to August," replied the whittler, shutting one eye to look along his arrow and see if it was true.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000051_000002.wav|Who cares for hunger and mosquito bites? Not i Hunters can bear more than that, I guess.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000052_000003.wav|And away he went, climbing, tumbling, leaping from rock to rock, toward the place where the eagle had alighted.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000020_000001.wav|One thing you mind, don't get too nigh before you fire; and keep out of sight of the critters as much as you can."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000005_000000.wav|"But I won't give up, and I never say 'Beat.' I'm not going to be laughed out of it, and I'll do what I said I would, if it takes all summer, Chris Warner."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000052_000002.wav|It should be done!|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000060_000001.wav|Blessed little tree! set there to save a life, and teach a lesson to a wilful young heart that never forgot that hour.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000077_000000.wav|Whether it was a rabbit, woodchuck or dog, he had not seen, as a turn in the path prevented a clear view; and hoping it was old Buff looking for him, he ran in, to find himself face to face with a catamount at last.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000055_000002.wav|Stunted pines grew in the fissures of the rocks, and their strong roots helped the clinging hands and feet as the boy painfully climbed, slipped, and swung along, fearing every minute to come to some impassable barrier in the dangerous path.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000019_000000.wav|"No fear of that; I've tramped round all summer, and know my way like an Indian.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000073_000004.wav|This he fastened firmly round the trunk of the pine, and finished his preparations by tying his handkerchief to one of the branches, that it might serve as a guide for him, a signal for others, and a trophy of his grand fall.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000035_000000.wav|"Certainly ma'am," answered Corny, obeying at once, and inwardly resolving to deposit his fair burden on the first fallen log they came to, and make his escape.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000019_000001.wav|Keep the girls quiet, and let me have a good lark.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000028_000001.wav|Hunting is mighty hard work on a hot day, and this is going to be a blazer," answered Chris, pulling his big straw hat lower over his eyes.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000079_000000.wav|"Now's my chance!|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000012_000001.wav|Granite's cheap up here; just mention what you'd like on your tombstone and I'll see that it's done, if it takes my last cent."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000054_000002.wav|I can try for it, and perhaps shoot something on the way.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000083_000001.wav|Corny could have hugged them all and cried like a girl; but pride kept him steady, though his face showed his joy as he nodded his hatless head with a cool-|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000062_000002.wav|Too tired to move, he lay watching the western sky, where the sun set gloriously behind the purple hills.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000081_000000.wav|"Wish I didn't look so like a scare crow; but perhaps my rags will add to the effect.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000043_000002.wav|He shot at all three and missed them, so pushed on, pretending that he did not care for such small game.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000074_000000.wav|Then putting a little sprig of the evergreen tree in his jacket, with a grateful thought of all it had done for him, he swung himself off and landed safely below, not minding a few extra bumps after his late exploits at tumbling.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000051_000000.wav|"I won't go home, to be laughed at by Chris and Abner.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000092_000000.wav|"No, I haven't!|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000063_000004.wav|I'll try, though." And getting up on his weary legs, Corny shouted till he was hoarse; but echo alone answered him, and after a few efforts he gave it up, trying to accept the situation like a man.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000065_000001.wav|A dream came, and he saw the old farm house in sad confusion, caused by his absence,--the women crying, the men sober, all anxious, and all making ready to come and look for him.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000052_000000.wav|The sight of an eagle soaring above him seemed to answer his question, and fill him with new strength and ardor.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000081_000003.wav|Hope some house isn't very far off, for I don't believe I can lug this brute much farther, I'm so starved and shaky."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000093_000002.wav|Right about face, neighbors, and home we go, to the tune of Hail Columby."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000023_000000.wav|"All aboard!" shouted our young Nimrod, in a hurry to be off, as the lunch basket was handed up, and the small boys packed in the most uncomfortable corners, regardless of their arms and legs.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000093_000000.wav|"Here, give me the varmint, and you hang on to Chris, my boy, or we'll have to cart you home.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000050_000000.wav|No chance for a bath appeared, so he washed his burning face and took a rest, enjoying the splendid view far over valley and intervale through the gap in the mountain range.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000025_000001.wav|Don't worry, mammy; I'm old enough to take care of myself."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000019_000002.wav|I'll turn up all right by sundown; so don't worry.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000064_000002.wav|I'm not lucky enough even to find a sassafras bush to chew, or a bird's egg to suck.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000063_000000.wav|"This is a first-class scrape.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000052_000001.wav|To shoot the king of birds and take him home in triumph would cover the hunter with glory.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000094_000000.wav|As Abner spoke, the procession set forth.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000022_000000.wav|No deacon could have been more sober, however, than Chris when they met next morning, while the party of summer boarders at the old farm house were in a pleasant bustle of preparation for the long expected day on the mountain.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000010_000001.wav|But I'll stand ready to pick up the pieces, if you come to grief."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000049_000000.wav|It was easy to say, "I'll follow the brook," but not so easy to do it; for the frolicsome stream went headlong over rocks, crept under fallen logs, and now and then hid itself so cleverly that one had to look and listen carefully to recover the trail.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000019_000004.wav|I'll make things straight with her after the fun is over."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000051_000005.wav|A pretty hard prospect, either way."|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000009_000000.wav|"They all failed, so there was nothing to tell.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000043_000000.wav|On he went, looking up into the trees for a furry bunch, behind every log, and in every rocky hole, longing and hoping to discover his heart's desire.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000014_000002.wav|Mother won't let me go off far enough, so of course I don't do it, and then you all jeer at me.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000079_000001.wav|Don't care who shot her, I'll kill her, and have her too, if I pay my last dollar," thought Corny; and catching up a stout bit of timber fallen from the old roof, he struck one quick blow, which finished poor puss, who gave up the ghost with a savage snarl, and a vain effort to pounce on him.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000061_000000.wav|Holding fast, lest a rash motion should set him bounding further down, like a living ball, Corny took an observation as rapidly as possible, for the red light was fading, and the mist rising from the valley.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000019_000003.wav|Not a word to mother, mind, or she won't let me go.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000051_000004.wav|Now which way will I go,--up or down?|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000064_000000.wav|"The fellows we read about always come to grief in a place where they can shoot a bird, catch a fish, or knock over some handy beast for supper," he said, talking to himself for company.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000065_000000.wav|Then, hoping to forget his woes in sleep, he nestled under the low growing branches of the pine, and lay blinking drowsily at the twilight world outside.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000062_000001.wav|He could do no more till morning, and resigned himself to a night on the mountain side, glad to be there alive, though doubtful what daylight would show him.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000083_000000.wav|It was Abner, Chris, and some of the neighbors, setting out again on their search, after a night of vain wandering.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000014_000003.wav|To morrow we are going up the mountain, and I'm set on trying again, for Abner says the big woods are the place to find the 'varmint'.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000047_000002.wav|Abner said any brook would show the way, and this rascal that led me into a scrape shall lead me out," he said, as he followed the little stream that went tumbling over the stones, that increased as the ground sloped toward the deep ravine, where a waterfall shone like silver in the sun|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000046_000000.wav|So he washed as well as he could, hoping the sun would dry him, picked out a few bits of bread unspoiled by the general wreck, and trudged on with less ardor, though by no means discouraged yet.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000081_000002.wav|Poor mammy will mourn over me and coddle me up as if I'd been to the wars.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000081_000001.wav|Won't the girls laugh at my swelled face, and scream at the cat.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000090_000000.wav|"Didn't shoot her; broke my gun when I took that header down the mountain.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7416/103126/7416_103126_000053_000001.wav|Here he was, alone, without a guide, in this wild region where there was neither food nor shelter, and night coming on.|7416
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000059_000001.wav|If you do not bring over your opponent to your own opinion, you will at least gain his esteem.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000079_000001.wav|This is a mistake, gentlemen, and I can with relation to this point, reveal to you what my sex prefers to these vulgar eulogiums.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000008_000001.wav|We can put a general question, designating the most important members.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000048_000000.wav|Lawyers, literary people, military men, travellers, invalids and aged ladies, ought to have a prudent and continual distrust of the abuse of digressions.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000037_000007.wav|This delicate politeness is particularly to be observed towards old persons.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000042_000000.wav|Know this, and remember it well, that every other preparation than thinking what you are about to say, will make you acquire two intolerable faults, affectation and stiffness.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000038_000000.wav|When your narrations have had success, keep a modest countenance; leave others to point out the striking parts which have pleased them.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000041_000003.wav|They have besides less freedom, appropriateness, and grace.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000026_000001.wav|Questions are therefore necessary, but they demand infinite delicacy and tact, in order neither to fatigue nor ever wound the feelings.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000082_000000.wav|I repeat, as I have often said, let there be moderation in everything.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000008_000003.wav|They, on their part, ask the same of us.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000005_000001.wav|We shall, necessarily, have little to say on this head; there are, however, some little rules which are not to be neglected.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000078_000001.wav|If we remain silent, we appear to be inhaling the incense with complacency; if we repel it, we only seem to excite it the more.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000071_000002.wav|What pleasure can we find in causing ladies to blush, and in meriting the name of a man of bad society?|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000032_000000.wav|There are many conditions indispensable to the success of a narrative. These conditions are, first, novelty; the best stories weary when they are multiplied too much, because every one wishes to be an actor in his turn upon the stage of the world.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000069_000003.wav|A proverb well applied, and placed at the end of a phrase, frequently makes a very happy conclusion.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000081_000000.wav|But is it then necessary to proscribe eulogiums entirely?|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000037_000004.wav|Look at him attentively.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000083_000002.wav|It is much better to cause people to think more than we say, and not outrage language, and run the risk of going beyond what we ought to say.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000045_000000.wav|The first degree of digression is the parenthesis; provided it is short, natural, and seldom repeated; and that you take care to announce it always; and finally, in order not to abuse it, you should make a skilful use of it.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000007_000001.wav|To put a corrective upon this mark of regard, a lady who addresses a gentleman, should be earnest in her inquiries of the health of his family, however little intimacy she may have with them.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000087_000001.wav|We, however, give to this word a particular and limited sense.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000044_000000.wav|Those who are less engaged in these things, should content themselves with simply and briefly explaining a subject, and of mentioning the emotion they felt; with speaking of some brilliant passage, and adding that they do not pretend to pronounce judgment.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000006_000000.wav|It is proper to vary the phraseology of these formal questions, as much as possible; and we must abstain from them entirely, towards a superior, or a person with whom we are but little acquainted, for such inquiries presuppose some degree of intimacy.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000069_000000.wav|Popular quotations and proverbs, as well as other quotations, require some care; and, except in familiar conversation, are altogether misplaced.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000045_000002.wav|This method of speaking in italics may be striking and artless; but it often becomes obscure and trivial; the habit is dangerous, and one should use this difficult digression only before intimate friends.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000006_000001.wav|In the last case, there is a method of manifesting our interest, without violating etiquette; it consists in making these inquiries of the domestics, or of other persons of the house, and of saying afterwards when introduced; 'I am happy Sir, to hear that you are in good health.'|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000060_000001.wav|Be assured that the spirit of contradiction can be conquered only by silence.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000078_000002.wav|Thus we see, in such a case, and even among very clever persons too, those who reply by silly exclamations and by rude assertions.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000038_000001.wav|The surest means of not having the approbation of others, in actions as well as other things, is to solicit it, whether it be by looks, or by words.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000007_000002.wav|Many persons ask this question mechanically, without waiting for the answer, or else hasten to reply, before they have received it.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000017_000004.wav|With these forms, they think they comply with the rules of politeness.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000017_000005.wav|It is incivility with affectation.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000086_000000.wav|Politeness is not less opposed to making excessive complaints to the first person you meet, than to the frequent and extravagant eulogiums which you bestow improperly upon those from whom you expect a favor in return.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000028_000001.wav|They embarrass and overwhelm our conversation, turn away the attention of those who listen to us, and render us importunate, and ridiculous, without our being able to perceive it.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000030_000000.wav|SECTION three.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000087_000002.wav|It signifies a want of due regard to, and a forgetfulness of, the delicate attentions which seem to identify us with the situation of others.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000072_000002.wav|It requires but a moment to lose those delicate shades of character which constitute a man of the world, and which cost us so much labor to acquire.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000060_000000.wav|But if you have to do with one of those people who, possessed with a mania of discussion, commence by contradicting before they hear, and who are always ready to sustain the contrary opinion, yield to him; you will have nothing to gain with him.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000087_000000.wav|By the word improprieties, we generally understand all violations of politeness.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000084_000000.wav|Under any circumstances, complaining has always a bad grace.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000010_000000.wav|Politeness infuses into visits of some little ceremony, a coloring of modesty, grace, and deference, which should be preserved with the greatest care.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000033_000000.wav|The next thing is to take a suitable opportunity.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000023_000000.wav|It is customary to employ the few moments of a visit of mere politeness, in looking at the portraits which adorn the fireplace, and even taking them down, if you are invited to do it.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000046_000002.wav|But if it is an affair of nothings succeeding nothings, let it flow on.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000037_000001.wav|If your opinion is asked, give it frankly, and without wishing to appear better informed than the narrator himself.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000022_000000.wav|If you strike against any one in the least, ask pardon for it immediately.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000051_000000.wav|The two shoals to be avoided in this form of language are directly opposed to each other; the one is triviality, the other bombast.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000037_000005.wav|If he is in doubt, declare that you are altogether ignorant of the subject in question.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000023_000002.wav|It would moreover be improper to make long compliments; indirect, and ingenious praise, is all that is proper.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000069_000001.wav|If they are frequent, conversation becomes a tedious gossipping; if introduced without a short previous remark, one of two things will take place, they will either prevent the speaker from being understood, or they will give him the air of Sancho Panza.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000041_000002.wav|When arrived at this point, abstain from these kinds of analysis, which though indeed more correct, seem labored.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000008_000002.wav|In case of the absence of near relations, we ask the person we are visiting, if they have heard from them lately, if the news is favorable.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000027_000000.wav|Madame Necker ingeniously observes that these favorite and frequently repeated terms with which we fill our conversation, serve, ordinarily as a mark of people's character.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000037_000003.wav|Frequently, in the midst of a recital, the narrator, through forgetfulness, hesitates, and thinks that he can recall it.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000053_000000.wav|They are not so used, if, in the course of a discussion, you suppose a respectable person to supply the place of a madman, an ill bred person, or a robber; or, if you suppose him to be in a situation disgraceful or even ridiculous.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7962/110061/7962_110061_000032_000002.wav|There are but too many people who discover the secret of wearying while telling very good things, on account of their too great eagerness to tell them.|7962
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000025_000001.wav|"Skirt flounced to the waist are so very pretty and dressy, and you would look sweetly in them, but I notice you don't wear them at all.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000050_000001.wav|I have been near telling her several times that I did wish she would let me alone."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000094_000000.wav|"Would you like it, dearest?" he asked; "or would you prefer to go on living just as we have been, you and I together?|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000063_000000.wav|"She isn't! it's false!|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000111_000001.wav|I have heard ladies say they would not marry a man who had a child."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000037_000001.wav|This, and the covert sneers with which she often addressed Miss Allison had not escaped mr Dinsmore's notice, and it frequently cost him quite an effort to treat Miss Stevens with the respectful politeness which he considered due to her sex and to the daughter of his father's old friend.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000056_000000.wav|"Did he, papa?|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000087_000000.wav|"No, my dear, it wouldn't do," he replied with a grave shake of the head.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000051_000000.wav|"No, daughter, don't do that.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000015_000000.wav|She obeyed, hanging her head and blushing.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000080_000002.wav|You know I don't care for Phillis or john; but that isn't all." And then she repeated what had passed between Annie and herself.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000040_000000.wav|"Why, papa, I thought we were going to have such a nice time, and she just spoiled it all."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000061_000001.wav|what has she to do with my papa's affairs?" asked Elsie indignantly, the color rushing over face, neck, and arms.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000106_000001.wav|But shall I tell her that it will add to your happiness if she will be your mamma?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000045_000001.wav|"Miss Stevens is the very last person I would have you take for your model; the less you resemble her in dress, manners, or anything else, the better.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000077_000000.wav|"Who?|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000053_000000.wav|Her father laughed a little.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000094_000001.wav|I would consult your happiness before my own, for it lies very near my heart, my precious one.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000035_000000.wav|She was going to decline it on the plea that the path was too narrow for three, but something in his look made her change her mind and accept; and they moved on, while Elsie, almost ready to cry with vexation, fell behind with Edward Allison for an escort.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000070_000000.wav|"Yes, papa."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000027_000001.wav|You wear so little jewelry, and your father could afford to cover you with it if he chose.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000100_000000.wav|"No, darling; ask as many as you wish."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000027_000003.wav|Couldn't you persuade your papa to buy some for you?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000007_000002.wav|A bedroom for each, and a private parlor for the joint use of the party, had been secured in advance, and late the night before they had arrived and taken possession.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000098_000000.wav|"Your mamma loves us both too well not to be pleased with anything that would add to our happiness," he replied gently.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000005_000000.wav|"I think I shall enjoy the fortnight we are to spend here, papa; it seems such a very pleasant place," Elsie remarked, in a tone of great satisfaction.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000011_000000.wav|"May I run to her door and ask if she is?--and if she isn't, may I wait for her out here on the veranda?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000056_000002.wav|But won't you tell me about it?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000028_000001.wav|I don't want anything but what papa chooses to buy for me of his own accord.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000090_000000.wav|At last he said, "Elsie!" in a soft, low tone that quite made the little girl start and look up into his face; for she, too, had been in a deep reverie.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000044_000000.wav|"No, sir, I won't," Elsie answered with a blush.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000056_000001.wav|I am sure it was very good of him, and I will try to like Miss Stevens for that.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000009_000000.wav|"Papa," said Elsie, gazing longingly upon them, as she stood by the open window, "can't we take a walk?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000029_000001.wav|I have just been waiting for pleasant company.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000036_000000.wav|Edward tried to entertain his young companion, but was too much provoked at the turn things had taken to make himself very agreeable to any one; and altogether it was quite an uncomfortable walk: no one seeming to enjoy it but Miss Stevens, who laughed and talked incessantly; addressing nearly all her conversation to mr Dinsmore, he answering her with studied politeness, but nothing more.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000029_000002.wav|I will be ready in one moment." And before Rose could recover from her astonishment sufficiently to reply she had disappeared through the hall door.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000102_000001.wav|Indeed, my daughter, I cannot ask her to come to us unless you will promise to do so, and to love and obey, her just as you do me.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000080_000000.wav|"Oh, papa, don't!" she said, turning away her face.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000082_000001.wav|I can't bear to have them say such things about you!" she exclaimed indignantly.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000097_000000.wav|At last she spoke, and he bent down to catch the words.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000097_000001.wav|"Dear papa," she whispered, "would it make you happy? and do you think mamma knows, and that she would like it?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000034_000000.wav|"No, Miss Stevens, I think it never was," he replied, offering the other arm to Rose.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000032_000000.wav|"No, brother," said Rose, smiling, "you don't wish any such thing; on the contrary, you would be the very first to fly to the rescue if you saw her in danger of drowning."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000058_000000.wav|A few days after this, Elsie was playing on the veranda, with several other little girls.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000045_000000.wav|"That makes no difference, my daughter," he said gravely.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000075_000000.wav|"What is my little girl thinking of?" he asked at length.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000006_000000.wav|"I am glad you are pleased with it, daughter," returned mr Dinsmore, opening the morning paper, which john had just brought up.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000023_000000.wav|Miss Stevens' presence proved scarcely less annoying to Elsie than the child had anticipated.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000068_000000.wav|mr Dinsmore said nothing for a moment; but thinking tears would prove the best relief to her overwrought feelings, contented himself with simply stroking her hair in a soothing way, and once or twice pressing his lips gently to her forehead.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000023_000001.wav|She tried to keep out of the lady's way, but it was quite impossible.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000051_000001.wav|You must behave in a lady like manner whether she does or not.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000108_000000.wav|"Perhaps; but don't set your heart too much on it, for she may not be quite so willing to take such a troublesome charge as Miss Stevens seems to be," he said, returning to his playful tone.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000057_000000.wav|"It was when they were both quite young men," said mr Dinsmore, "before either of them was married: they were skating together and your grandfather broke through the ice, and would have been drowned, but for the courage and presence of mind of mr Stevens, who saved him only by very great exertion, and at the risk of his own life."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000046_000000.wav|Elsie looked very much pleased.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000044_000001.wav|"But, papa," she added the next moment, "Miss Stevens does that constantly."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000102_000000.wav|"If Miss Allison consents to take a mother's place to you, I am sure your own mamma, if she could speak to you, would tell you she deserved to have the title; and it would hurt us both very much if you refused to give it.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000025_000004.wav|Ah! if you were my child, I would dress you sweetly, you dear little thing!"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000113_000001.wav|"I am only afraid she loves you better than she does me."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000099_000000.wav|"Dear papa, you won't be angry if I ask another question?'"'|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000052_000001.wav|"I was wondering all the time how you could be so very polite to Miss Stevens; for I was quite sure you would rather not have had her along.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000015_000002.wav|You could never guess who has the rooms just opposite ours; on the other side of the hall."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000101_000000.wav|"Then, papa, will I have to call her mamma? and do you think my own mamma would like it?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000038_000000.wav|"Was it not too provoking, papa?" exclaimed Elsie, as she followed him into his room on their return from their walk.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000061_000000.wav|"Miss Stevens! and what does she know about it?|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000050_000000.wav|"I will try not to do it any more, papa," she replied, the tears springing to her eyes; "but you don't know how very annoying Miss Stevens is.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000079_000003.wav|I shall have to read him a serious lecture on the subject.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000112_000000.wav|"But Miss Rose loves me, papa; I am sure she does," she said, flushing, and the tears starting to her eyes.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000083_000001.wav|What do you say to going home?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000074_000000.wav|"I won't, papa," she murmured, blushing and hanging her head.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000055_000000.wav|"Ah! well, dear," he said in a soothing tone; "we won't talk any more about it.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000059_000002.wav|I am not going to have any new mamma."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000029_000000.wav|Elsie went in to get her hat, and Miss Stevens came towards Rose, saying, "I think I heard you say you were going to walk; and I believe, if you don't forbid me, I shall do myself the pleasure of accompanying you.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000048_000000.wav|"What, papa?" she asked, blushing again, for his tone was reproving.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000051_000003.wav|And you must remember too, dear, that the Bible bids us be courteous, and teaches us to treat others as we ourselves would wish to be treated."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000007_000001.wav|Dinsmore and Elsie, Rose and Edward Allison-were occupying very comfortable quarters in a large hotel at one of our fashionable watering places.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000080_000001.wav|"Please don't tease me so.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000053_000002.wav|"Ah!|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000083_000000.wav|He was silent again for a little; then said kindly, "I think I had better take you away from these troublesome talkers.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000113_000000.wav|"Yes, darling, I know she does," he answered soothingly.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000115_000000.wav|She felt no disposition to renew the afternoon's conversation with Annie Hart, so she went quietly upstairs to their private parlor and sat down to amuse herself with a book until Chloe came in from eating her supper.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000039_000000.wav|"What, my dear?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000043_000000.wav|"Then why did you not mention her name, instead of speaking of her as she?|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000074_000001.wav|Then hiding her face on his breast, she lay there for several minutes perfectly silent and still.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000043_000001.wav|That does not sound respectful in a child of your age, and I wish my little girl always to be respectful to those older than herself. I thought I heard you the other day mention some gentleman's name without the prefix of mr, and I intended to reprove you for it at the time.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000008_000001.wav|Beyond were green fields, woods, and hills.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000107_000000.wav|"Yes, sir; and that I will call her mamma, and obey her and love her dearly.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000084_000003.wav|Let us start to morrow, papa; can't we?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000045_000002.wav|If you wish to copy any one let it be Miss Allison, for she is a perfect lady in every respect."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000010_000000.wav|"When Miss Rose is ready to go with us."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000020_000000.wav|"I hope not, daughter.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000072_000000.wav|"Miss Stevens does say such hateful things, papa!"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000110_000000.wav|"I hope she will, papa," she said; "I think she might be very glad to come and live with you; and in such a beautiful home, too."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000109_000000.wav|Elsie looked troubled and anxious.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000052_000000.wav|"I think you always remember the command to be courteous, papa," she said, looking affectionately into his face.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000077_000001.wav|Phillis?" asked mr Dinsmore, looking excessively amused.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000016_000000.wav|"Miss Stevens?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000065_000000.wav|Elsie made no reply, but dropping scissors, paper, and everything, sprang up and ran swiftly along the veranda, through the hall, upstairs, and without pausing to take breath, rushed into her father's room, where he sat quietly reading.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000106_000000.wav|"I don't know, daughter; I have not asked her yet.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000055_000001.wav|I acknowledge that I do not find Miss Stevens the most agreeable company in the world, but I must treat her politely, and show her a little attention sometimes; both because she is a lady and because her father once saved my father's life; for which I owe a debt of gratitude to him and his children."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000084_000001.wav|"I wish we were there now.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000094_000002.wav|I can never forgive myself for all I have made you suffer, and when you were restored to me almost from the grave, I made a vow to do all in my power to make your future life bright and happy."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000014_000002.wav|"Come here, and tell me what it is all about."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000049_000001.wav|I am afraid my little daughter is growing censorious," he said, with a very grave look as he drew her to his side.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000049_000000.wav|"Come here and sit on my knee; I want to talk to you.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000105_000000.wav|"Do you think she will come, papa?" she asked anxiously.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000014_000000.wav|"What is too bad, daughter?|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000054_000000.wav|"Oh, papa, you know Miss Rose would never have done such a thing!" exclaimed the little girl warmly.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000033_000000.wav|But before there was time for anything more to be said Miss Stevens had returned, and walking straight up to mr Dinsmore, she put her arm through his, saying with a little laugh, and what was meant for a very arch expression, "You see I don't stand upon ceremony with old friends, mr Dinsmore.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000027_000000.wav|"Oh, yes; I know your dress is not cheap; I didn't mean that at all: it is quite expensive enough, and some of your white dresses are beautifully worked; but I would like a little more ornament.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000088_000000.wav|"Why, papa?" she asked with a look of keen disappointment.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000013_000002.wav|It's just too bad!"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000114_000002.wav|Miss Rose, too, was gone, she found upon further search, and though she had not much difficulty in conjecturing why she had thus, for the first time, been left behind, she could not help feeling rather lonely and desolate.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000069_000000.wav|"You feel better now, dearest, do you not?" he asked presently, as she raised her head to wipe away her tears.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000026_000001.wav|He always buys my dresses himself and says how they are to be made.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000081_000000.wav|He looked a good deal provoked as she went on with her story; then very grave indeed.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000114_000000.wav|A large party of equestrians were setting out from the hotel that evening soon after tea, and Elsie, in company with several other little girls, went out upon the veranda to watch them mount and ride away.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000114_000001.wav|She was absent but a few moments from the parlor, where she had left her father, but when she returned to it he was not there.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000042_000000.wav|"Why, papa, surely you know I mean Miss Stevens!"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000049_000002.wav|"You forget that we ought not to speak of other people's faults."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000051_000002.wav|We must expect annoyances in this world, my child; and must try to bear them with patience, remembering that God sends the little trials as well as the great, and that He has commanded us to 'let patience have her perfect work.' I fear it is a lack of the spirit of forgiveness that makes it so difficult for us to bear these trifling vexations with equanimity.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000073_000002.wav|It does not sound at all like my usually gentle sweet tempered little girl."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000014_000001.wav|I think I never before saw so cross a look on my little girl's face," he said, peering at her over the top of his newspaper.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000053_000003.wav|I doubt if you would have been angry had it been Miss Rose," he added, a little mischievously.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000082_000000.wav|"I don't like them to talk so, papa!|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000018_000000.wav|"I knew she was in the house, because I saw her name in the hotel book last night when I went to register ours."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000073_000000.wav|He laid his finger upon her lips.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000111_000000.wav|"Ah! but everyone does not appreciate my society as highly as you do," he replied, laughing and pinching her cheek; "and besides, you forget about the troublesome little girl.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000084_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, papa, do take me home," she answered eagerly.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000033_000001.wav|It isn't my way."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000081_000001.wav|He was quite silent for a moment after she had done.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000026_000000.wav|"Thank you, ma'am, I daresay you mean to be very kind," replied Elsie, trying not to look annoyed, "but I don't want a mamma, since my own dear mother has gone to heaven; papa is enough for me, and I like the way he dresses me.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000037_000000.wav|Miss Stevens had, from the first, conceived a great antipathy to Rose, whom she considered a dangerous rival, and generally avoided, excepting when mr Dinsmore was with her; but she always interrupted a tete a tete between them when it was in her power to do so without being guilty of very great rudeness.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000028_000000.wav|"Indeed, Miss Stevens, I don't want them!|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000031_000000.wav|mr Dinsmore looked excessively annoyed, and Edward "pshawed, and wished her at the bottom of the sea."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000004_000000.wav|--ROWE.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000089_000000.wav|"You are too young to understand why," he said in the same grave tone, and then relapsed into silence; sitting there for some time stroking her hair in an absent way, with his eyes on the carpet.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000107_000001.wav|Oh, papa, ask her very soon, won't you?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000047_000000.wav|"Elsie!"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000013_000001.wav|"Papa, what do you think?|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000060_000000.wav|"Yes, indeed, but you are though," asserted Annie positively; "for I heard my mother say so only yesterday; and it must be so, for she Miss Stevens told it herself."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000052_000002.wav|And then, what right had she to take your arm without being asked?" and Elsie's face flushed with indignation.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000022_000000.wav|"Ah, now I have my own little girl again," he said, drawing her to his knee and returning her caresses with interest: "But there, I hear Miss Rose's step in the hall.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000085_000000.wav|"But you know you will have to leave Miss Rose."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000079_000001.wav|"I don't think the silly nonsense of the servants need trouble you.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000003_000000.wav|It is a busy, talking world.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000063_000001.wav|my"--but Elsie checked herself and shut her teeth hard to keep down the emotion that was swelling in her breast.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000041_000000.wav|"She? who, daughter?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000093_000000.wav|Elsie looked at him for a moment with a bewildered expression; then suddenly comprehending, her face lighted up.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000017_000000.wav|"Why, papa; did you know she was here?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000012_000000.wav|"Yes."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000027_000002.wav|A pair of gold bracelets, like mine for instance, would be very pretty, and look charming on your lovely white arms: those pearl ones you wear sometimes are very handsome-any one could tell that they are the real thing-but you ought to have gold ones too, with clasps set with diamonds.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000073_000001.wav|"Don't use that word again.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000025_000000.wav|"You ought to have more flounces on your skirts, my dear," she remarked one day.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000008_000000.wav|It was now early in the morning, Elsie and her papa were in his room, which was in the second story and opened upon a veranda, shaded by tall trees, and overlooking a large grassy yard at the side of the building.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000024_000000.wav|Then she would press all sorts of dainties upon the little girl in such a way that it was next to impossible to decline them, and occasionally even went so far as to suggest improvements, or rather alterations, in her dress, which she said was entirely too plain.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000095_000000.wav|His tones were full of deep feeling, and as he spoke he drew her closer and closer to him and kissed her tenderly again and again.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000020_000001.wav|I think she will hardly annoy you when you are close at my side; and that is pretty much all the time, isn't it?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000079_000002.wav|john is a sad fellow, I know; he courts all the pretty colored girls wherever he goes.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000081_000002.wav|Then drawing her closer to him, he said tenderly, "My poor little girl, I am sorry you should be so annoyed; but you know it is not true, daughter, and why need you care what other people think and say?"|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000013_000000.wav|She skipped away, but was back again almost immediately.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000066_000000.wav|"Why, Elsie, daughter, what is the matter?" he asked in a tone of surprise and concern, as he caught sight of her flushed and agitated face.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000059_000001.wav|"What can you mean, Annie?|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000071_000000.wav|"Now tell me what it was all about."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000115_000001.wav|Then the little girl brought a stool, and seating herself in the old posture with her head in her nurse's lap, she drew her mother's miniature from her bosom, and fixing her eyes lovingly upon it, said, as she had done hundreds of times before: "Now, mammy, please tell me about my dear, dear mamma."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000076_000000.wav|"How everybody talks about you, papa; last evening I was out on the veranda, and I heard john and Miss Stevens' maid, Phillis, talking together.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000092_000000.wav|"I have been thinking," he said, in a half hesitating way, "that though it would not do to invite Miss Rose to spend the winter with us, it might do very nicely to ask her to come and live at the Oaks."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000079_000004.wav|But it is very kind of you to be so concerned for Phillis."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000022_000001.wav|Run to mammy and have your hat put on."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000079_000000.wav|"Well, dear, and what of it all?" he asked, soothingly.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000019_000000.wav|"And it just spoils all our pleasure."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000058_000001.wav|"Do you think you shall like your new mamma, Elsie?" asked one of them in a careless tone, as she tied on an apron she had just been making for her doll, and turned it around to see how it fitted.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000015_000001.wav|"I think I have some reason to be cross, papa," she said; "I thought we were going to have such a delightful time here, and now it is all spoiled.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000046_000001.wav|"Yes, indeed, papa," she said, "I should be glad if I could be just like Miss Rose, she is always kind and gentle to everybody; even the servants, whom Miss Stevens orders about so crossly."|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000067_000000.wav|"Oh, papa, it's that hateful Miss Stevens; I can't bear her!" she cried, throwing herself upon his breast, and bursting into a fit of passionate weeping.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000007_000000.wav|They-mr|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000059_000000.wav|"My new mamma!" exclaimed Elsie, with unfeigned astonishment, dropping the scissors with which she had been cutting paper dolls for some of the little ones.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000030_000000.wav|Elsie was out again in a moment, just as the gentlemen had joined Rose, who excited their surprise and disgust by a repetition of Miss Stevens' speech to her.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6341/64956/6341_64956_000053_000001.wav|"And thus deprive my little girl of her rights," he said, softly kissing the glowing cheek.|6341
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000016_000001.wav|The coachman, Terenty, fastened the horses, who kept whisking away the flies, to a tree, and, treading down the grass, lay down in the shade of a birch and smoked his shag, while the never ceasing shrieks of delight of the children floated across to him from the bathing place.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000030_000004.wav|Did it often happen?|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000004_000005.wav|But Marya Philimonovna had the happy thought of putting in gussets, and adding a little shoulder cape.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000017_000001.wav|To go over all those fat little legs, pulling on their stockings, to take in her arms and dip those little naked bodies, and to hear their screams of delight and alarm, to see the breathless faces with wide open, scared, and happy eyes of all her splashing cherubs, was a great pleasure to her.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000030_000001.wav|What sort of time did she have?|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000009_000000.wav|Everything went happily at home too; but at lunch Grisha began whistling, and, what was worse, was disobedient to the English governess, and was forbidden to have any tart.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000003_000004.wav|The fact that the children had not been at the sacrament for nearly a year worried her extremely, and with the full approval and sympathy of Marya Philimonovna she decided that this should take place now in the summer.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000001.wav|In the old days she had dressed for her own sake to look pretty and be admired.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000004_000007.wav|On the morning, however, all was happily arranged, and towards ten o'clock-the time at which they had asked the priest to wait for them for the mass-the children in their new dresses, with beaming faces, stood on the step before the carriage waiting for their mother.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000008_000000.wav|On the way home the children felt that something solemn had happened, and were very sedate.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000004_000002.wav|One dress, Tanya's, which the English governess had undertaken, cost Darya Alexandrovna much loss of temper.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000007_000001.wav|But Darya Alexandrovna saw, or fancied she saw, the sensation produced by her children and her.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000015_000000.wav|They gathered a whole basketful of mushrooms; even Lily found a birch mushroom.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000031_000000.wav|Darya Alexandrovna felt disinclined to leave the peasant women, so interesting to her was their conversation, so completely identical were all their interests.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000014_000000.wav|The new frocks were taken off, and orders were given for the little girls to have their blouses put on, and the boys their old jackets, and the wagonette to be harnessed; with Brownie, to the bailiff's annoyance, again in the shafts, to drive out for mushroom picking and bathing.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000002_000001.wav|He wrote begging her forgiveness for not having thought of everything before, and promised to come down at the first chance.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000010_000001.wav|On the pretext of wanting to give some dinner to her dolls, she had asked the governess's permission to take her share of tart to the nursery, and had taken it instead to her brother.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000030_000000.wav|And the conversation became most interesting to Darya Alexandrovna.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000025_000000.wav|"I've had four; I've two living-a boy and a girl.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000009_000001.wav|Darya Alexandrovna would not have let things go so far on such a day had she been present; but she had to support the English governess's authority, and she upheld her decision that Grisha should have no tart.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000030_000003.wav|Where was her husband?|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000002_000002.wav|This chance did not present itself, and till the beginning of June Darya Alexandrovna stayed alone in the country.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000006.wav|And looking at herself for the last time in the looking glass she was satisfied with herself.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000003.wav|She saw that she was losing her good looks.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000027_000000.wav|"Why, two years old."|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000022_000000.wav|"No; he's only three months old," answered Darya Alexandrovna with pride.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000003_000002.wav|She had a strange religion of transmigration of souls all her own, in which she had firm faith, troubling herself little about the dogmas of the Church.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000002_000000.wav|Towards the end of May, when everything had been more or less satisfactorily arranged, she received her husband's answer to her complaints of the disorganized state of things in the country.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000013_000002.wav|Tanya!|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000007_000005.wav|And the smallest, Lily, was bewitching in her naive astonishment at everything, and it was difficult not to smile when, after taking the sacrament, she said in English, "Please, some more."|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000012_000000.wav|On catching sight of their mother they were dismayed, but, looking into her face, they saw they were not doing wrong.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000009_000002.wav|This rather spoiled the general good humor.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000007_000000.wav|In the church there was no one but the peasants, the servants and their women folk.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000004_000006.wav|The dress was set right, but there was nearly a quarrel with the English governess.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000004.wav|But now she began to feel pleasure and interest in dress again.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000007_000003.wav|Aliosha, it is true, did not stand quite correctly; he kept turning round, trying to look at his little jacket from behind; but all the same he was wonderfully sweet.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000003_000003.wav|But in her family she was strict in carrying out all that was required by the Church-and not merely in order to set an example, but with all her heart in it.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000010_000000.wav|The culprit was sitting at the window in the corner of the drawing room; beside him was standing Tanya with a plate.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000013_000003.wav|Grisha!" said their mother, trying to save the frock, but with tears in her eyes, smiling a blissful, rapturous smile.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000031_000002.wav|The peasant women even made Darya Alexandrovna laugh, and offended the English governess, because she was the cause of the laughter she did not understand.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000001_000000.wav|Chapter eight|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000011_000000.wav|Tanya had at first been under the influence of her pity for Grisha, then of a sense of her noble action, and tears were standing in her eyes too; but she did not refuse, and ate her share.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000023_000000.wav|"You don't say so!"|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000005.wav|Now she did not dress for her own sake, not for the sake of her own beauty, but simply that as the mother of those exquisite creatures she might not spoil the general effect.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000004_000004.wav|It was so narrow on Tanya's shoulders that it was quite painful to look at her.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000009_000005.wav|But on the way, as she passed the drawing room, she beheld a scene, filling her heart with such pleasure that the tears came into her eyes, and she forgave the delinquent herself.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000003_000001.wav|Darya Alexandrovna in her intimate, philosophical talks with her sister, her mother, and her friends very often astonished them by the freedom of her views in regard to religion.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000021_000000.wav|"And so they've been bathing you too," said another to the baby.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000007_000004.wav|Tanya behaved like a grownup person, and looked after the little ones.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000016_000000.wav|Then they reached the river, put the horses under the birch trees, and went to the bathing place.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000000.wav|Darya Alexandrovna had done her hair, and dressed with care and excitement.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000025_000001.wav|I weaned her last carnival."|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000006_000007.wav|She looked nice.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000015_000001.wav|It had always happened before that Miss Hoole found them and pointed them out to her; but this time she found a big one quite of herself, and there was a general scream of delight, "Lily has found a mushroom!"|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000007_000002.wav|The children were not only beautiful to look at in their smart little dresses, but they were charming in the way they behaved.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/34483/5126_34483_000031_000001.wav|What pleased her most of all was that she saw clearly what all the women admired more than anything was her having so many children, and such fine ones.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000038_000000.wav|At this moment Toby saw mr Lord enter the tent, and he knew that the summons to start was about to be given.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000026_000000.wav|Toby shook his head; he had just discovered that there was possibly some connection between his heart and his stomach, for his grief at leaving home had taken from him all desire for good things.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000023_000003.wav|Now he was leaving them forever, and as he locked the stable door he could hear the sounds of music coming from the direction of the circus grounds, and he was angry at it, because it represented that which was taking him away from his home, even though it was not as pleasant as it might have been.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000018_000000.wav|It was almost impossible for him to eat anything, and this very surprising state of affairs attracted the attention of Uncle Daniel.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000012_000001.wav|How hard it was for him to walk around unconcernedly: and how especially hard to prevent his feet from straying toward that tempting display of dainties which he was to sell to those who came to see and enjoy, and who would look at him with wonder and curiosity!|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000027_000002.wav|The performance failed to interest him, and the animals did not attract until he had visited the monkey cage for the third or fourth time.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000009_000000.wav|If Toby had followed his inclinations, the chances are that he would have fallen on his knees, and kissed mr Lord's hands in the excess of his gratitude.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000025_000000.wav|mr Lord saw him as soon as he arrived on the grounds, and as he passed another ticket to Toby he took his bundle from him, saying, as he did so, "I'll pack up your bundle with my things, and then you'll be sure not to lose it.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000027_000003.wav|Then he fancied that the same venerable monkey who had looked so knowing in the afternoon was gazing at him with a sadness which could only have come from a thorough knowledge of all the grief and doubt that was in his heart.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000023_000001.wav|The cow, the hens, and even the pigs, came in for a share of his unusually kind attention; and as he fed them all the big tears rolled down his cheeks, as he thought that perhaps never again would he see any of them.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000022_000000.wav|Toby thought of the six pea nuts which he had bought with the penny Uncle Daniel had given him; and, amid all his homesickness, he could not help wondering if Uncle Daniel ever made himself sick with only six pea nuts when he was a boy.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000013_000001.wav|The afternoon performance passed off as usual to all of the spectators save Toby.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000013_000000.wav|He did not go home to dinner that day, and once or twice he felt impelled to walk past the candy stand, giving a mysterious shake of the head at the proprietor as he did so.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000013_000002.wav|He imagined that each one of the performers knew that he was about to join them; and even as he passed the cage containing the monkeys he fancied that one particularly old one knew all about his intention of running away.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000009_000001.wav|But not knowing exactly how such a show of thankfulness might be received, he contented himself by repeatedly promising that he would be punctual to the time and place appointed.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000011_000000.wav|As Toby walked around the circus grounds, whereon was so much to attract his attention, he could not prevent himself from assuming an air of proprietorship.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000007_000000.wav|"I don't believe he'd try to stop me," said Toby, confidently; "for he's told me lots of times that it was a sorry day for him when he found me."|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000014_000000.wav|Of course it was necessary for him to go home at the close of the afternoon's performance, in order to get one or two valuable articles of his own-such as a boat, a kite, and a pair of skates-and in order that his actions might not seem suspicious.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000029_000000.wav|It would not have surprised the boy just then if the animal had spoken; but as he did not, Toby did the next best thing, and spoke to him.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000019_000000.wav|"Bless my heart! what ails the boy?" asked the old man, as he peered over his glasses at Toby's well filled plate, which was usually emptied so quickly.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000016_000000.wav|That wink, distorted as it was, gladdened Toby's heart immensely, and took away nearly all the sting of the scolding with which Uncle Daniel greeted him when he reached home.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000017_000002.wav|Just then one or two kind words would have prevented him from running away, bright as the prospect of circus life appeared.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000011_000002.wav|He was really to travel with a circus, to become a part, as it were, of the whole, and to be able to see its many wonderful and beautiful attractions every day.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000006_000001.wav|"If your uncle Daniel should see you working here, he might mistrust something, and then you couldn't get away."|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000008_000000.wav|"We won't take any chances, my son," was the reply, in a very benevolent tone, as he patted Toby on the head, and at the same time handed him a piece of pasteboard.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000023_000002.wav|These dumb animals had all been Toby's confidants; he had poured out his griefs in their ears, and fancied, when the world or Uncle Daniel had used him unusually hard, that they sympathized with him.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000005_000000.wav|Toby could scarcely restrain himself at the prospect of this golden future that had so suddenly opened before him.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000005_000001.wav|He tried to express his gratitude, but could only do so by evincing his willingness to commence work at once.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000023_000000.wav|As no one paid any further attention to Toby, he pushed back his plate, arose from the table, and went with a heavy heart to attend to his regular evening chores.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000015_000000.wav|mr Lord patted him on the head, gave him two large sticks of candy, and, what was more kind and surprising, considering the fact that he wore glasses, and was cross eyed, he winked at Toby.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000028_000001.wav|No sooner had he flattened his little pug nose against the iron than the aged monkey came down from the ring in which he had been swinging, and, seating himself directly in front of Toby's face, looked at him most compassionately.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000028_000000.wav|There was no one around the cages, and Toby got just as near to the iron bars as possible.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000025_000001.wav|Don't you want some candy?"|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000026_000001.wav|It is also more than possible that mr Lord had had experience enough with boys to know that they might be homesick on the eve of starting to travel with a circus; and in order to make sure that Toby would keep to his engagement he was unusually kind.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000008_000001.wav|"There's a ticket for the circus, and you come around to see me about ten o'clock to night.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000006_000000.wav|"No, no, that won't do," said mr Lord, cautiously.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000012_000000.wav|Even the very tent ropes had acquired a new interest for him, and the faces of the men at work seemed suddenly to have become those of friends.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000015_000001.wav|A wink from mr Lord must have been intended to convey a great deal, because, owing to the defect in his eyes, it required no little exertion, and even then could not be considered as a really first-class wink.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000027_000000.wav|That evening was the longest Toby ever knew.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/36956/5126_36956_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER two.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000048_000005.wav|Part of her hair had straggled down, and hung in a sort of ringlet by her face.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000005_000000.wav|This mercurial brigand, it would appear, has paid Turon another visit, but, with the exception of what may be considered the legalised robbery of the betting ring, has not levied contributions.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000002.wav|As for his wife, she was given in to be the handsomest woman in the whole countryside-tall and graceful, with a beautiful smile, and soft fair hair.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000045_000001.wav|We had both seen them at the ball at the Turon, and everybody agreed they were the handsomest couple there.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000017_000007.wav|So we agreed to make one thing of it. We were to meet at a place about ten miles off and ride over there together.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000032_000003.wav|Are they going to suicide, like the people in the round tower of Jhansi?'|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000025_000000.wav|We began to think at last that we had got in for a hot thing, and that we should have to drop it like Moran's mob at Kadombla.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000011_000003.wav|It looked as if our luck was dead out, and we began to think our chance of getting across the border to Queensland, and clear out of the colony that way, looked worse every day.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000046_000001.wav|But you couldn't have told much of what they felt by their faces.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000009_000004.wav|Was that justice?|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000053_000001.wav|'Permit me to offer you a chair, madam; you look faint.'|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000007_000003.wav|The rest's flummery.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000032_000000.wav|'Get to a corner, Dick; they're always the safest places.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000010_000002.wav|Whatever it was that had happened to him in the old times when he was a Government man he didn't talk about.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000026_000002.wav|It always beat me how they contrived to defend so many points at once.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000005_000001.wav|Rather the other way, indeed.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000046_000004.wav|He and his beautiful wife were in our power, and, to make matters worse, one of our band lay dead, beside the inner wall, killed by his hand.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000030_000003.wav|It seemed very queer and strange, everything was so silent and quiet.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000007_000001.wav|Dashed if I don't think it's the best way after all.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000015_000002.wav|He'd lost some gold by us in the escort robbery, and not forgotten it; so it seems he'd been trying his best to fit us ever since.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000054_000001.wav|It wouldn't have been much wonder if she had after what she'd gone through that night.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000054_000000.wav|As he did so she sank down in it, and really looked as if she would faint away.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000029_000002.wav|Here goes for a battering ram, Dick!'|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000046_000000.wav|Now they were entering their own hall in a different way.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000015_000001.wav|Well, this gentleman took it into his head to put on extra steam and try and run us down.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000030_000000.wav|He pointed to a long, heavy sapling which had been fetched in for a sleeper or something of that sort.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000022_000003.wav|I don't half like charging him, and that's God's truth.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000011_000002.wav|Go where we would, we found the police always quick on our trail, and we had two or three very close shaves of it.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000005.wav|There are some people, here and there, like this among the gentlefolk, and, say what you like, it does more to make coves like us look a little closer at things and keep away from what's wrong and bad than all the parsons' talk twice over.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000007_000002.wav|You know where you are.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000051_000000.wav|He began now.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000033_000000.wav|'There are no women here,' I said.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000048_000003.wav|I saw Starlight start as he looked at her.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000031_000000.wav|We half expected another volley.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000009_000002.wav|Whose business was it to have learned me better?|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000048_000006.wav|It was pale, but clear and bright looking, and there was a thin streak of blood across her forehead that showed as she came underneath the lamp light from the landing above.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000006_000004.wav|We, unlike a contemporary, have no morbid sympathy with crime-embroidered or otherwise; our wishes, as loyal subjects, are confined to a short shrift and a high gallows for all who dare to obstruct the Queen's highway.'|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000027_000000.wav|The shooting was very close.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000020_000000.wav|We blazed away too, and as there was no stable at the back we surrounded the house and tried hard to find an opening.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000034_000002.wav|Besides, everybody bows down to mrs Knightley.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000023_000000.wav|He made a rush, half on his hands and knees, and managed to get behind this barrel, where he was safe from being hit as long as he kept well behind it.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000024_000004.wav|He lingered a bit; but in less than an hour he was a dead man.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000000.wav|mr Knightley was a tall, handsome man, with a grand black beard that came down to his chest.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000043_000001.wav|There we were standing and leaning about the dark hall, staring and wondering, and these people walking down to meet us like ghosts, without speaking or anything else.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000040_000002.wav|Three or four people could walk abreast easy enough.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000013_000000.wav|Sir Ferdinand was always on the move, but we knew he couldn't do it all himself unless he got the office from some one who knew the ropes better than he did.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000055_000005.wav|The old woman was a family servant, who had been with them for years and years.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000001.wav|He walked like a lord, and had that kind of manner with him that comes to people that have always been used to be waited on and have everything found for them in this world.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000048_000001.wav|As they stepped on to the floor of the hall and looked round mrs Knightley smiled.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000026_000003.wav|We tried back and front, doors and windows.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000040_000001.wav|The staircase was all stone, ornamented every way it could be.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000046_000003.wav|Now the tables were turned.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000048_000002.wav|She looked to me like an angel from heaven that had come by chance into the other place and hadn't found out her mistake.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000024_000001.wav|Daly raps away at this, and the man staggers and falls.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000015_000004.wav|We heard, too, that he should say he'd never rest till he had Starlight and the Marstons, and that if he could get picked police he'd bring us in within a month, dead or alive.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000009_000000.wav|'Why?' says father, getting up and glaring with his eyes, 'because I was a blind, ignorant dog when I was young, as had never been taught nothing, and knowed nothing, not so much as him there' (pointing to Crib), 'for he knows what his business is, and I didn't.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000007_000000.wav|'That's easy to understand, barrin' a word here and there,' says father, taking his pipe out of his mouth and laying it down; 'that's the way they used to talk to us in the old days.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000026_000004.wav|Twenty times we tried a rush, but they were always ready-so it seemed-and their fire was too hot for us to stand up to, unless we wanted to lose every second man.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000003_000001.wav|'We shall have something short and sweet after the "Star".|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000035_000000.wav|Just then Moran and Wall managed to find their way into the other side of the house, and they came tearing into the hall like a pair of colts. They looked rather queer when they saw us three and no one else.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000011_000000.wav|The next dust we got into was all along of a mr Knightley, who lived a good way down to the south, and it was one of the worst things we ever were mixed up in.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000003_000000.wav|'The "Banner" comes next,' says Starlight, tearing it open.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000006_000002.wav|We have always regarded the present system-facetiously called police protection-as a farce.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000002_000000.wav|Chapter forty four|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000051_000004.wav|We trust to receive honourable treatment at your hands.'|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000032_000002.wav|What the devil's the matter?|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000055_000000.wav|Then mr Knightley began again.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000024_000003.wav|He was shot through the body.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000025_000002.wav|He crept away to the back of the building, where he could see to fire at a top window close by where the doctor and mr Knightley had been potting at us.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000017_000005.wav|We didn't like working with them. Starlight and I were dead against it.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000034_000003.wav|She's as good as she's handsome, I believe, and that's saying a great deal.'|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000024_000000.wav|On the left of the verandah there was a door stood partly open, and after a bit a man in a light overcoat and a white hat, like mr Knightley always wore, showed himself for a second.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000050_000000.wav|mr Knightley was a man that always had the first word in everything, and generally the best of an argument-putting down anybody who differed from him in a quiet, superior sort of way.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000032_000001.wav|We must mind it isn't an ambush.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000047_000001.wav|And who could say how such a play might end?|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000047_000000.wav|What was to be his doom?|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000011_000001.wav|After the Turon races and all that shine, somehow or other we found that things had been made hotter for us than ever since we first turned out.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000005_000002.wav|A hasty note for mr Dawson, whom he had tricked into temporary association by adopting one of the disguises he can so wonderfully assume, requested that gentleman to receive the Handicap Stakes, won by his horse, Darkie, alias Rainbow, and to hand them over to the treasurer of the Turon Hospital, which was accordingly done.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000055_000001.wav|He wanted to know how he stood.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000040_000000.wav|It was an old-fashioned house for that part of the world, built a good many years ago by a rich settler, who was once the owner of all that side of the country.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000051_000003.wav|Captain Starlight, I surrender my sword-or should do so if I had one.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000019_000000.wav|Of course he was on his guard then, and before long the bullets began to fly pretty thick among us, and we had to take cover to return fire and keep as dark as we could.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000014_000000.wav|Last of all we dropped on to it.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000051_000002.wav|But we have fired our last cartridge-the doctor thought we had a thousand left-in which case, I may as well tell you, you'd never have had this pleasure.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000048_000000.wav|I looked at our men.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000020_000001.wav|Devil a chance there seemed to be; none of us dared show.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000027_000001.wav|Nearly every one of us had a scratch-Starlight rather the worst, as he was more in the front and showed himself more.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000017_000001.wav|Besides that, we felt savage about his trying to run us in.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000004.wav|You couldn't have got any one to say different for a hundred pounds.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000034_000001.wav|'I hate seeing women put out.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000003.wav|Everybody liked and respected her, gentle and simple-everybody had a good word for her.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000039_000002.wav|I noticed he took off his hat and leaned against the wall.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000022_000002.wav|'I'm dashed if I don't think Knightley will bag me.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000044_000006.wav|mrs Knightley was the only woman that ever put me in mind of Miss Falkland, and I can't say more than that.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000007_000004.wav|All on us as takes to the cross does it with our eyes open, and deserves all we gets.'|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000031_000001.wav|But nothing came.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000028_000000.wav|At last we began to see that the return fire was slacking off, while ours was as brisk as ever.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000022_000004.wav|Anyhow I'll try for that barrel there; and if I get behind it I can fire from short range and make him come out.'|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000036_000001.wav|Poor Patsey won't want one, anyhow.'|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000049_000000.wav|I looked over at Moran.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000020_000003.wav|We all had a close shave more than once for being too fast.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000053_000000.wav|'I shall never forget the honour,' says Starlight, walking forward and bowing low.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000017_000006.wav|But we knew they'd tackle it by themselves if we backed out.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000003_000002.wav|How's this?|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000055_000002.wav|He didn't like the look of Moran and Wall-they were a deal too quiet for him, and he could read men's faces like a book.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000049_000001.wav|He and Wall sat in a corner, looking as grim and savage as possible, while his deadly black eyes had a kind of gloomy fire in them that made him look like a wild beast in a cage.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000043_000000.wav|It was a strange sight.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000039_000001.wav|Then he stepped back and waited.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000022_000000.wav|The lot fell upon Patsey Daly.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000024_000002.wav|Patsey shows himself for a moment from behind the cask, thinking to make a rush forward; that minute mr Knightley, who was watching him from a window (the other was only an image), lets drive at him, cool and steady, and poor Patsey drops like a cock, and never raised his head again.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000010_000000.wav|We none of us felt in the humour to say much after that.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5126/27504/5126_27504_000031_000002.wav|We could only stand and wait.|5126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000039_000001.wav|The regiment was fed and caressed at station after station until the youth had believed that he must be a hero.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000047_000003.wav|He tried to mathematically prove to himself that he would not run from a battle.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000044_000000.wav|"Yank," the other had informed him, "yer a right dum good feller." This sentiment, floating to him upon the still air, had made him temporarily regret war.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000043_000003.wav|The youth, on guard duty one night, conversed across the stream with one of them.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000053_000002.wav|They were wrangling.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000046_000001.wav|They talked much of smoke, fire, and blood, but he could not tell how much might be lies.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000046_000000.wav|Still, he could not put a whole faith in veteran's tales, for recruits were their prey.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000073_000001.wav|"Did you ever think you might run yourself, Jim?" he asked.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000054_000002.wav|"You can believe me or not, jest as you like.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000042_000002.wav|For recreation he could twiddle his thumbs and speculate on the thoughts which must agitate the minds of the generals. Also, he was drilled and drilled and reviewed, and drilled and drilled and reviewed.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000055_000002.wav|Finally he said: "Well, you don't know everything in the world, do you?"|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000041_000000.wav|He was brought then gradually back to his old ideas.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000073_000000.wav|The youth at last interrupted them.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000065_000000.wav|The youth remained silent for a time.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000053_000001.wav|The loud private followed.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000063_000002.wav|Didn't the cavalry all start this morning?" He glared about him.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000055_000000.wav|His comrade grunted stubbornly.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000043_000005.wav|The youth liked him personally.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000038_000004.wav|He often thought of it.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000068_000001.wav|He made a fine use of the third person.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000056_000001.wav|He began to stow various articles snugly into his knapsack.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000070_000002.wav|But you can't bet on nothing.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000043_000000.wav|The only foes he had seen were some pickets along the river bank.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000052_000002.wav|He was an unknown quantity.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000045_000001.wav|Some talked of gray, bewhiskered hordes who were advancing with relentless curses and chewing tobacco with unspeakable valor; tremendous bodies of fierce soldiery who were sweeping along like the Huns.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000050_000000.wav|A little panic fear grew in his mind.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000063_000003.wav|No one denied his statement.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000043_000002.wav|When reproached for this afterward, they usually expressed sorrow, and swore by their gods that the guns had exploded without their permission.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000057_000000.wav|The youth, pausing in his nervous walk, looked down at the busy figure. "Going to be a battle, sure, is there, Jim?" he asked.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000065_000001.wav|At last he spoke to the tall soldier.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000041_000003.wav|Secular and religious education had effaced the throat grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000026_000001.wav|She had then covered her face with the quilt.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000047_000002.wav|He lay in his bunk pondering upon it.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000052_000003.wav|He saw that he would again be obliged to experiment as he had in early youth.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000038_000000.wav|A certain light haired girl had made vivacious fun at his martial spirit, but there was another and darker girl whom he had gazed at steadfastly, and he thought she grew demure and sad at sight of his blue and brass.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000019_000001.wav|So they were at last going to fight.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000065_000002.wav|"Jim!"|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000045_000000.wav|Various veterans had told him tales.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000039_000000.wav|On the way to Washington his spirit had soared.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000073_000002.wav|On concluding the sentence he laughed as if he had meant to aim a joke.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000061_000000.wav|"Huh!" said the loud one from a corner.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000038_000003.wav|He had seen a good deal of flurry and haste in her movement as she changed her attitude.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000058_000000.wav|"Of course there is," replied the tall soldier.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000063_000001.wav|"Not much it won't.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000042_000001.wav|His province was to look out, as far as he could, for his personal comfort.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000063_000007.wav|The regiment's got orders, too. A feller what seen 'em go to headquarters told me a little while ago. And they're raising blazes all over camp-anybody can see that."|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000052_000004.wav|He must accumulate information of himself, and meanwhile he resolved to remain close upon his guard lest those qualities of which he knew nothing should everlastingly disgrace him. "Good Lord!" he repeated in dismay.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000072_000001.wav|They had a rapid altercation, in which they fastened upon each other various strange epithets.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000066_000000.wav|"What?"|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000008_000000.wav|"It's a lie!|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000064_000000.wav|"Shucks!" said the loud one.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000039_000002.wav|There was a lavish expenditure of bread and cold meats, coffee, and pickles and cheese.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000047_000000.wav|However, he perceived now that it did not greatly matter what kind of soldiers he was going to fight, so long as they fought, which fact no one disputed.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000041_000001.wav|Greeklike struggles would be no more.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000063_000000.wav|"Not much it won't," replied the tall soldier, exasperated.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000052_000001.wav|Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000072_000000.wav|The other turned savagely upon him.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000054_000001.wav|He waved his hand expressively.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000058_000002.wav|You jest wait."|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000042_000000.wav|He had grown to regard himself merely as a part of a vast blue demonstration.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000070_000000.wav|"Oh, there may be a few of 'em run, but there's them kind in every regiment, 'specially when they first goes under fire," said the other in a tolerant way.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000043_000001.wav|They were a sun tanned, philosophical lot, who sometimes shot reflectively at the blue pickets.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000039_000003.wav|As he basked in the smiles of the girls and was patted and complimented by the old men, he had felt growing within him the strength to do mighty deeds of arms.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000048_000000.wav|Previously he had never felt obliged to wrestle too seriously with this question.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000050_000002.wav|He contemplated the lurking menaces of the future, and failed in an effort to see himself standing stoutly in the midst of them.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000055_000001.wav|For a moment he seemed to be searching for a formidable reply.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000043_000004.wav|He was a slightly ragged man, who spat skillfully between his shoes and possessed a great fund of bland and infantile assurance.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000041_000002.wav|Men were better, or more timid.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000045_000002.wav|Others spoke of tattered and eternally hungry men who fired despondent powders.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000038_000002.wav|As he perceived her, she had immediately begun to stare up through the high tree branches at the sky.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000050_000001.wav|As his imagination went forward to a fight, he saw hideous possibilities.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/130093/398_130093_000071_000000.wav|"Oh, you think you know-" began the loud soldier with scorn.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000002_000001.wav|I had lost myself completely in work, when I heard footsteps outside.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000023_000000.wav|Now we were approaching dangerous ground, but a sudden sense of his sufferings at the hands of the ignorant came to my help, and I asked to hear more with all the deference I really felt.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000027_000000.wav|I began to find this unexpected narrative a little dull.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000014_000001.wav|I began to be very eager to know upon what errand he had come.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000003_000001.wav|I stepped down from the desk and offered him a chair by the window, where he seated himself at once, being sadly spent by his climb.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000023_000001.wav|A swallow flew into the schoolhouse at this moment as if a kingbird were after it, and beat itself against the walls for a minute, and escaped again to the open air; but Captain Littlepage took no notice whatever of the flurry.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000002_000004.wav|Then I looked, and saw Captain Littlepage passing the nearest window; the next moment he tapped politely at the door.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000031_000001.wav|"It accounts for the change in a great many things,--the sad disappearance of sea captains,--doesn't it?"|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000034_000001.wav|It sounded like the strange warning wave that gives notice of the turn of the tide.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000012_000001.wav|"She was very much looked up to in this town, and will be missed."|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000015_000001.wav|"We may know it all, the next step; where mrs Begg is now, for instance. Certainty, not conjecture, is what we all desire."|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000017_000001.wav|"We have not looked for truth in the right direction.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000021_000000.wav|"You must have left the sea a good many years ago, then, Captain Littlepage?" I said.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000011_000000.wav|I thought of the Countess of Carberry, and felt that history repeated itself.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000007_000002.wav|"Shakespeare was a great poet; he copied life, but you have to put up with a great deal of low talk."|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000016_000000.wav|"I suppose we shall know it all some day," said i|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000008_000006.wav|The captain was very grave indeed, and I bade my inward spirit keep close to discretion.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000006_000001.wav|Then he glanced at me, and looked all about him as pleased as a child.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000032_000007.wav|No: when folks left home in the old days they left it to some purpose, and when they got home they stayed there and had some pride in it.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000002_000002.wav|There was a steep footpath between the upper and the lower road, which I climbed to shorten the way, as the children had taught me, but I believed that mrs Todd would find it inaccessible, unless she had occasion to seek me in great haste.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000009_000000.wav|"Poor mrs Begg has gone," I ventured to say.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000004_000000.wav|"You ought to have the place of honor, Captain Littlepage," I said.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000003_000002.wav|I returned to my fixed seat behind the teacher's desk, which gave him the lower place of a scholar.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000029_000000.wav|"It was a hard life at sea in those days, I am sure," said I, with redoubled interest.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/398/123602/398_123602_000013_000000.wav|I wondered, as I looked at him, if he had sprung from a line of ministers; he had the refinement of look and air of command which are the heritage of the old ecclesiastical families of New England.|398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000041_000002.wav|As she went down the street which led to it, Blinders, a burly, ruddy faced policeman, who knew her well, stopped to make an observation.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000016_000000.wav|"Yet they may interest the three kingdoms one day," said Berwin softly.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000028_000004.wav|Henceforth I'll neither see nor think of this drunken lunatic," and with such resolve he dismissed all thoughts of his strange acquaintance from his mind, which, under the circumstances, was perhaps the wisest thing he could do.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000030_000001.wav|She had neither kith nor kin, nor friends, nor even acquaintances; but, being something of a miser, scraped and screwed to amass money she had no need for, and dwelt in a wretched little apartment in a back slum, whence she daily issued to work little and pilfer much.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000036_000000.wav|The same routine was observed each morning, and everything went smoothly.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000045_000002.wav|We've all got to come to it some day.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000045_000004.wav|Well, I don't care.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000046_000000.wav|"Don't you get drunk, mrs Kebby, or I'll lock you up."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000034_000003.wav|As yet she had been unsuccessful.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000052_000000.wav|It was almost nine when she reached the Nelson Hotel, and found the covered tray with mr Berwin's breakfast waiting for her; so she hurried with it to Geneva Square as speedily as possible, fearful of a scolding. Having admitted herself into the house, mrs Kebby took up the tray with both hands, and pushed open the sitting room door with her foot.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000042_000000.wav|"Is that good gentleman of yours home, mrs Kebby?" he asked, in the loud tones used to deaf people.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000034_000000.wav|In short, mrs Kebby was a dangerous old witch, who, a century back, would have been burnt at the stake; and the worst possible person for Berwin to have in his house.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000015_000003.wav|Besides," added Lucian, with a shrug, "they do not interest me."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000013_000000.wav|Berwin, who was holding a full tumbler of rich, strong port, drank the whole of it in one gulp.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000012_000003.wav|Keep your own secrets, and go your own way.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000008_000001.wav|When Lucian stood up to take his departure, he addressed him directly:|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000033_000001.wav|Also, she could tell fortunes by reading tea leaves and shuffling cards, and was not above aiding the maid servants in their small love affairs.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000045_000000.wav|"So he do, like a corpse.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000015_000001.wav|I will have nothing to do with your business.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000003_000000.wav|mrs KEBBY'S DISCOVERY|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000007_000000.wav|"Here, mr Denzil," said he in good-natured tones, "drink this and draw near the fire; you must be chilled to the bone after our Arctic expedition."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000040_000000.wav|"At the usual time," answered Berwin impatiently.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000031_000000.wav|Usually at nine o'clock she brought in her employer's breakfast from the Nelson Hotel, which was outside the Square, and while he was enjoying it in bed, after his fashion, she cleaned out and made tidy the sitting room.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000045_000001.wav|What of that?|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000023_000000.wav|"You are ill!" said Lucian, amazed by the man's fury.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000022_000001.wav|Berwin!|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000020_000000.wav|"People with whom you have no concern," replied the man sullenly.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000025_000001.wav|"I hope you will be better in the morning."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000032_000000.wav|For these services Berwin paid her well, and only enjoined her to keep a quiet tongue about his private affairs, which mrs Kebby usually did until excited by too copious drams of gin, when she talked freely and unwisely to all the servants in the Square.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000022_000006.wav|Go! go!|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000021_000000.wav|"That is true enough, mr Berwin, so I'll say good night!"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000038_000000.wav|"No, I think not," replied the man, who looked wretchedly ill.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000031_000002.wav|She then went about her own business, which was connected with the cleaning of various other apartments, and only returned at midday and at night to lay the table for Berwin's luncheon and dinner, or rather dinner and supper, which were also sent in from the hotel.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000012_000001.wav|I cannot explain what I saw to night, but as surely as you were out of this house, some people were in it.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000039_000000.wav|"At nine, sir?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000052_000001.wav|Here, at the sight which met her eyes, she dropped the tray with a crash, and let off a shrill yell.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000044_000000.wav|"I saw him an hour ago," explained Blinders, "and I thought he looked ill."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000027_000001.wav|He could make nothing of Berwin-as he chose to call himself-he could see no meaning in his wild words and mad behaviour; but as he walked briskly back to his lodgings he came to the conclusion that the man was nothing worse than a tragic drunkard, haunted by terrors engendered by over indulgence in stimulants.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000031_000001.wav|Berwin then dressed and went out for a walk, despite Miss Greeb's contention that he took the air only at night, like an owl, and during his absence mrs Kebby attended to the bedroom.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000018_000000.wav|"They deal with danger to myself," interrupted Berwin.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000037_000001.wav|She laid the table, made up the fire, and before taking her leave asked mr Berwin if he wanted anything else.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000051_000000.wav|Next morning she woke in anything but an amiable mood, and had to fortify herself with an early drink before she was fit to go about her business.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000030_000000.wav|mrs Margery Kebby, who attended to the domestic economy of Berwin's house, was a deaf old crone with a constant thirst, only to be assuaged by strong drink; and a filching hand which was usually in every pocket save her own.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000006_000000.wav|This exploration finished, and Lucian being convinced that himself and his host were the only two living beings in the house, Berwin conducted his half frozen guest back to the warm sitting room and poured out a glass of wine.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000045_000005.wav|He's paid me up till to night.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000041_000001.wav|As she left the house eight o'clock chimed from the steeple of a near church, and mrs Kebby, clinking her newly received wages in her pocket, hurried out of the square to do her Christmas marketing.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000029_000000.wav|But later on certain events took place which forced him to alter his determination.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000022_000003.wav|A very good name, Berwin, but not for me.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000038_000001.wav|"You can bring my breakfast to morrow."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000050_000000.wav|Here she began to celebrate the season, and afterwards went shopping; then she celebrated the season again, and later carried home her purchases to the miserable garret she occupied.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER four|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000022_000007.wav|mr Denzil, and leave me to die here like a rat in its hole!"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000035_000000.wav|Deeming her a weak, quiet old creature, Berwin, in spite of his suspicious nature, entrusted mrs Kebby with the key of the front door, so that she could enter for her morning's work without disturbing him. The sitting room door itself was not always locked, but Berwin usually bolted the portal of his bedroom, and had invariably to rise and admit mrs Kebby with his breakfast.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000029_000001.wav|Fate, with her own ends to bring about is not to be denied by her puppets; and of these Lucian was one, designed for an important part in the drama which was to be played.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000026_000000.wav|Berwin shook his head, and with a silent tongue, which contrasted strangely with his late outcry, ushered Denzil out of the house.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000022_000004.wav|Oh, was there ever so unhappy a creature as I? False name, false friend, in disgrace, in hiding!|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000005_000002.wav|Also, he made him look out of the window into the yard itself, with its tall black fence dividing it from the other properties.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000012_000004.wav|I wish you good night, sir," and Lucian moved towards the door.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000047_000000.wav|"Garn!" grunted the old beldame.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000022_000005.wav|Curse everybody!|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000025_000000.wav|"Good night, then," said Denzil, seeing that nothing could be done.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, if they deal with danger to society," said Denzil, thinking his strange neighbour spoke of anarchistic schemes, "I would----"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231836/6505_231836_000049_000000.wav|"Well! well!|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000005_000002.wav|Berwin-so called-was dead, his assassin had melted into thin air, and the Silent House had added a second legend to its already uncanny reputation.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000031_000001.wav|"Is not that word a trifle melodramatic?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000007_000000.wav|Search was immediately made for the murderer, but no trace could be found of him, nor could it be ascertained how he had entered the house. The doors were all locked, the windows were all barred, and neither at the back nor in the front was there any outlet left open whereby the man-if it was a man who had done the deed-could have escaped.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000051_000000.wav|Within the week he received a visit from the detective.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000015_000000.wav|"I do not see the slightest chance of tracing Berwin's past," said he to the barrister.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000008_000001.wav|The policeman knew every one, even to the errand boys of the neighbourhood, who brought parcels of Christmas goods, and in many cases had exchanged greetings with the passers by; but he was prepared to swear, and, in fact, did swear at the inquest, that no stranger either came into or went out of Geneva Square.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000012_000000.wav|The firm who had furnished the rooms made almost the same report, quite as meagre and unsatisfactory.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000036_000000.wav|"By advertisement."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000038_000000.wav|"Yes.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000023_000000.wav|"Which you did?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000014_000000.wav|Berwin-so called-was dead; he was buried under his assumed name, and there, so far as the obtainable evidence went, was an end to the strange tenant of the Silent House.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000037_000000.wav|"Advertisement!"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000041_000000.wav|"In the newspapers, also?" asked Lucian, nettled by the detective's tone.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000056_000000.wav|"She thinks she can, but, of course, she cannot be certain until she sees the body.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000014_000001.wav|Gordon Link, the detective charged with the conduct of the case, confessed as much to Denzil.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000046_000000.wav|Link looked keenly at the young man.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000027_000000.wav|"No; I asked him," replied the detective, "but he stated that houses nowadays were not built with secret passages.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000019_000000.wav|"Every inch of it, and with the result that I have found nothing.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000006_000002.wav|When she returned, shortly after nine, on Christmas morning, the man was dead and cold.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000011_000002.wav|He gave neither cheque nor notes, but paid always in gold; and beyond the fact that he called himself Mark Berwin, the landlord knew nothing about him.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000002_000000.wav|THE TALK OF THE TOWN|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000033_000001.wav|"How am I to discover the man's past?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000035_000001.wav|And how is the business to be accomplished?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000024_000000.wav|"Yes, but found nothing; yet," said Lucian, with an air of conviction, "however the man and woman entered, they were in the house."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000042_000000.wav|"No; it is not necessary."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000004_000000.wav|To add to the wonderment of the public, it came out in the evidence of Lucian Denzil at the inquest that Berwin was not the real name of the victim; so here the authorities were confronted with a three fold problem.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000045_000002.wav|But if you succeed in identifying Berwin, will you let me know?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000031_000000.wav|"Vengeance!" repeated Link, raising his eyebrows.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000053_000001.wav|"Who is the lady?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000044_000000.wav|"I'll think of it," said Link, too jealous of his dignity to give way at once.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000005_000003.wav|Formerly it had been simply haunted, now it was also blood stained, and its last condition was worse than its first.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000032_000001.wav|However, mr Link," added Lucian, "I have come to certain conclusions.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000016_000000.wav|"Are you sure there is no clue, mr Link?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000048_000000.wav|"Out of simple curiosity.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000033_000000.wav|"Your third conclusion brings us round to the point whence we started," retorted Link.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000043_000000.wav|"I don't agree with you.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000017_000000.wav|"Absolutely none; even the weapon with which the crime was committed cannot be found."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000054_000000.wav|"A mrs Vrain, who writes from Bath."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000049_000000.wav|"Well," said Link, rather gratified by this tribute to his power, "I shall indulge your fancy."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000055_000000.wav|"Can she identify the dead man?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231837/6505_231837_000045_000001.wav|"You know your own business best.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000018_000003.wav|"Well, my husband was called Mark, too, so there you are-Mark Berwin."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000032_000000.wav|"You did not get on well together?" said Link sharply.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000010_000000.wav|"Say, now," said mrs Vrain, casting an approving glance on Lucian's face, "I'm right down glad to see you.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000020_000002.wav|Then he lost part of his little finger-left hand finger-in an accident out West. What other proof do you want, mr Link?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000059_000000.wav|"He," said mrs Vrain, with supreme contempt, "why, he hadn't backbone enough for folks to get riz at him!|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000067_000000.wav|"So the journals said; with a bowie!"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000005_000002.wav|It seemed likely that mrs Vrain, who asserted herself to be the wife of the deceased, would be able to answer these questions in full; therefore, he was punctual in keeping the appointment at the office of Link.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000055_000000.wav|"I know nothing about it," retorted the widow.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000068_000000.wav|"No, not with a bowie," corrected Lucian, "but with some long, sharp instrument."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000070_000001.wav|"I should say a stiletto-an Italian stiletto."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000006_000004.wav|Her hands and feet were small, her stature was that of a fairy, and her figure was perfect in every way.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000018_000002.wav|And isn't his first name Mark?" pursued the pretty widow.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000045_000001.wav|"He was a widower with a grown up daughter when I took him to church.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000053_000002.wav|But it is no good going on in this way, poppa, for I've no call to excuse myself to strangers.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000056_000000.wav|"Have you any idea who killed him?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000026_000002.wav|Where was he during the other four?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000053_000000.wav|"It was, to put up so long with mr Vrain," said Lydia resentfully; "but I'm honest, if I'm nothing else.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000006_000003.wav|In spite of her grief her demeanour was lively and engaging, and her smile particularly attractive, lighting up her whole face in the most fascinating manner.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000006_000000.wav|He was rather astonished to find that mrs Vrain had arrived, and was deep in conversation with the detective, while a third person, who had evidently accompanied her, sat near at hand, silent, but attentive to what was being discussed.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000057_000001.wav|How should I?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000017_000001.wav|"Let us continue.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000052_000001.wav|But you know your heart is better than your tongue."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000066_000001.wav|He was stabbed."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000050_000001.wav|"All your evidence goes to prove it, yet the assurance company may not be satisfied with the proof. I expect the grave will have to be opened, and the remains identified."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000033_000003.wav|If he hadn't left me, I'd have left him-that's an almighty truth."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000066_000000.wav|"If you want to know how he died," explained Link, "I can tell you.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000057_000000.wav|"I guess not!|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000006_000001.wav|As the dead man had been close on sixty years of age, and mrs Vrain claimed to be his wife, Denzil had quite expected to meet with an elderly woman.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000059_000001.wav|He was half baked!"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000026_000001.wav|Well, Mark Vrain took the house in Geneva Square six months back.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000026_000000.wav|"I beg your pardon!|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000021_000000.wav|"The proofs you have given seem sufficient, mrs Vrain, but may I ask when your husband left his home?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000047_000001.wav|"Wasn't he murdered?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000045_000002.wav|Well, can I get this assurance money?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER six|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000060_000000.wav|"Crazy, that is," remarked Clyne; "always thought the world was against him, and folks wanted to get quit of him."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000048_000000.wav|"The man called Berwin was murdered."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000025_000000.wav|"Vrain!" struck in Lydia, the widow, "Mark Vrain."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000019_000000.wav|"Is this all your proof?" asked Link calmly.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000046_000000.wav|"I suppose so," said Link, "provided you can prove your husband's death."|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000044_000000.wav|"Was mr Berwin-I beg pardon, Vrain-was he married twice?"|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000011_000000.wav|"I knew him as mr Berwin-Mark Berwin," replied Denzil, taking a seat.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6505/231838/6505_231838_000009_000002.wav|But then, on occasions, he was disposed to be hyper critical.|6505
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000005_000001.wav|"Your boss would never know it got out through you."|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000021_000005.wav|The man swore at her, grasped her arm till he hurt her and she cried out.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000033_000002.wav|Won't you please get them out, for I'm afraid I can't hold them on any longer, my feet ache so!"|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000044_000001.wav|"You were-as fine as you could be to me under the circumstances, I suppose!|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000046_000000.wav|Then, quietly, Graham led her away to his car with Barnard and the detectives following.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000042_000001.wav|I guess you're the winner!|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000027_000002.wav|Joe stood between two policemen with a rope bound about his body spirally, and the boy Hennie, also bound, beside his fallen bicycle, turned his ferret eyes from side to side as if he hoped even yet to escape.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000024_000001.wav|It was then she heard Graham's voice calling:|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000004_000000.wav|"Thank you," she said, wearily, "but that wouldn't do me any good."|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000002_000002.wav|And say!|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000010_000010.wav|Bring in them things from the cupboard and let's get to work."|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000022_000000.wav|"You shut up or I'll shoot you!" he said with an oath.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000017_000000.wav|"Shut up!|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000035_000001.wav|No one of that group but Shirley could fully appreciate the ludicrous picture he made.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000002_000006.wav|We'll just take out the leaves.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000025_000000.wav|"Shirley!|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000013_000001.wav|"Drink that and you'll feel better."|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000010_000002.wav|Well, anyhow, buck up, and let's have some tea.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000042_000000.wav|"I say, pard!|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000002_000003.wav|Girlie!|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000028_000000.wav|"Oh, my dear Miss Hollister!|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000013_000000.wav|"Buck up, girlie!" he growled.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000010_000007.wav|Hennie!|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000039_000001.wav|You will see, we shall not forget it!" he puffed as he rose with beads of perspiration on his brow.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000033_000000.wav|"Yes, mr Barnard, they got my note book, but not the notes!|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000007_000001.wav|You couldn't have helped it!"|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000040_000001.wav|"She's rounded up the whole gang for us, and that's more than anybody else has been able to do yet!|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000010_000006.wav|See?|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000008_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, I could, and I ought.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000020_000000.wav|"Beat it!" he cried in a hoarse whisper.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000020_000003.wav|I bet they heard her singin'!|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000025_000002.wav|I'm coming!"|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000005_000000.wav|"Why not?" asked the man sharply.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000045_000000.wav|The man met her gaze for an instant, a flippant reply upon his lips, but checked it and dropping his eyes, was silent.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000042_000003.wav|You certainly had your nerve!"|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000012_000000.wav|The man frowned when she declined to come to supper, but a moment later stumbled awkwardly across the room with a slopping cup of coffee and set it down beside her.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000007_000000.wav|"It wouldn't be your fault.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/17615/3493_17615_000014_000002.wav|But she tried to look a bit brighter.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000018_000000.wav|Had he any consciousness of his degradation?|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000034_000003.wav|Lady Eversleigh's widowhood, Douglas Dale's lonely life, are the work of Victor Carrington-a work not to be undone upon this earth.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000024_000002.wav|He must be ill.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000003_000002.wav|Before his departure he saw Lady Eversleigh and her mother, and established with them a bond of friendship as close as that of their kin.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000022_000000.wav|Thus his life passed-a changeless routine, unbroken by one bright interval, one friendly visit, one sign or token to show that there was any link between this lonely wretch and the rest of humanity.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000029_000001.wav|As Lady Eversleigh paced the terraces of an Italian garden, her mother by her side, with Gertrude clinging to her side; as she looked out over the vast domain which owned her as mistress-it might seem that fortune had lavished her fairest gifts into the lap of her who had been once a friendless stranger, singing in the taverns of Wapping.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000009_000000.wav|Amongst those who envied Lady Eversleigh's good fortune, there was none whose envy was so bitter as that of her husband's disappointed nephew, Sir Reginald.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000020_000000.wav|During the brief interval of each day in which he was sober, Sir Reginald Eversleigh was wont to reflect upon the past.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000034_000007.wav|But in the heart of Douglas Dale there is an empty place which can never be filled upon earth.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000033_000004.wav|There was a pain too intense, a memory too dark, associated with the events of that period.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000033_000001.wav|The difference in their social position made no difference to her; and no more frequent or more welcome guests were seen at Raynham than Captain Duncombe, his daughter and son in law, and honest Joyce Harker.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000021_000000.wav|In those hours the slow tears made furrows in his haggard cheeks-the tears of remorse, vain repentance, that came too late for earth; but not, perhaps, utterly too late for heaven, since, even for this last and worst of sinners, there might be mercy.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000026_000001.wav|A trap door in the roof, which he had been accustomed to open for the ventilation of his garret, had been closed by the wind, and the baronet had passed unconsciously from sleep to death.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000004_000000.wav|Victor Carrington's mother retired into a convent, and was probably as happy as she had ever been.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000005_000001.wav|He was almost jealous of Rosamond Jernam, when he found how great a hold she had obtained on the heart of her charge; but his jealousy was mingled with gratitude, and he joined Lady Eversleigh in testifying his friendship for the tender hearted woman who had protected and cherished the heiress of Raynham in the hour of her desolation.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000036_000000.wav|Had not Paulina been "weary, and heavy laden," bowed down by the burden of a false accusation, friendless, hopeless, from her very cradle?|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000024_000001.wav|"I have not seen him to day nor yesterday, nor for many days.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000008_000000.wav|"That woman's wealth must be boundless," exclaimed aristocratic dowagers, for whom the grip of poverty's bony fingers had been tight and cruel.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000008_000001.wav|"Her husband left her magnificent estates, and an enormous amount of funded property; and now a mother drops down from the skies for her benefit-a mother who is reported to be almost as rich as herself."|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000033_000002.wav|Lady Eversleigh had a particular regard for the man who had so true and faithful a heart, and she would often talk to him; but she never mentioned the subject of that miserable night on which he had seen her down at Wapping.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000029_000000.wav|Yes, Anna was at peace; surrounded by friends; delighted day by day to watch the budding loveliness, the sportive grace of Gertrude Eversleigh, the idolized heiress of Raynham.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000016_000002.wav|Form and features, complexion and expression, were alike degraded.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000020_000001.wav|He knew himself to be the wretch and outcast he was; and, looking back at his start in life, he could but remember how different his career might have been had he so chosen.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000011_000002.wav|But now he found himself quite alone; and there was no voice to promise future triumph.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000004_000001.wav|She had loved him but little, whose only virtue was that he had loved her much.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000034_000002.wav|Is it not the fate of the innocent to suffer in this life for the sins of the wicked?|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000034_000000.wav|And so the story ends.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000019_000000.wav|Yes; that was the undying vulture which preyed upon his entrails-the consuming fire that was never quenched.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000010_000001.wav|Instead of this, he heard of her exaltation, and he hated her with an intense hatred which was almost childish in its purposeless fury.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000033_000003.wav|That subject was tacitly avoided by both.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000003_000001.wav|He was stricken down with fever; the fate of the woman he had so loved, so unjustly suspected, nearly cost him his life, and when he recovered sufficiently, he left England, not to return for three years.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3493/46712/3493_46712_000015_000000.wav|Here he could afford to buy brandy, for at that date brandy was much cheaper in France than it is now.|3493
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000084_000000.wav|"That I couldn't say."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000099_000002.wav|The doctor rolled up his shirt sleeves and stooped down.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000113_000001.wav|But now- Oh, I never want to see it in the house!|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000002_000000.wav|KING'S DAGGER|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000070_000000.wav|"no|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000091_000000.wav|"dr Warren," reported the policeman, calling upstairs to Carroll and Thong.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000020_000002.wav|I went out the side one.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000143_000000.wav|"Well, whatever it is, who owns it?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000017_000001.wav|The latter had not been forced open-it did not take long to ascertain that.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000046_000000.wav|"A little after.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000108_000000.wav|"That's what did it!" exclaimed the county physician.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000121_000003.wav|I'll get at it right away. I guess you remember that Murray case," he went on, to no one in particular.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000133_000000.wav|"Look!" exclaimed Carroll, pointing.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000066_000000.wav|"no"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000121_000002.wav|No telling what that may develop.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000122_000000.wav|"That wasn't your case, Doc," observed Carroll.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000021_000000.wav|"Wasn't it bolted?" came sharply from Thong.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000121_000000.wav|"Pretty sure, yes.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000064_000001.wav|I lay still a little while, and then I went to sleep again. I was only awake maybe two or three minutes."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000146_000000.wav|"I don't!|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000004_000000.wav|mrs Darcy, who was sixty five years of age, had carried on the jewelry business of her husband, Mortimer Darcy, after his death, which preceded her more tragic one by about seven years.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000123_000002.wav|That's why I'm saying nothing until I've made an examination.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000036_000002.wav|Then come those of her maid, Jane Metson.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000072_000005.wav|He may be in any time now, and I haven't it ready for him."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000050_000000.wav|"Well, if you call a clock striking a noise, then it was one."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000025_000000.wav|"Yes, but mrs Darcy may have slipped it back herself.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000114_000000.wav|"She?|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000149_000002.wav|Got take it home now.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000037_000000.wav|"I see," murmured Carroll.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000072_000001.wav|I had not set an alarm, though I wanted to get up early to do a little repair job I had promised for early this morning.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000127_000000.wav|"Well, that's all I can do now," dr Warren said, after his very perfunctory examination.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000142_000000.wav|"It isn't a dagger-it's a paper cutter-a magazine knife."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000029_000001.wav|"What's the matter?|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000058_000002.wav|I remember, at the time, it felt as though something had passed over my face."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000123_000000.wav|"No, it was before my time.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000076_000000.wav|"The watch," murmured Darcy.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000127_000001.wav|"The rest will have to be at the morgue.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000010_000001.wav|She understood it, and it understood her.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000052_000002.wav|"You know when you awaken in the night, and hear the strokes, you can't be sure you haven't missed some of the first ones.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000047_000000.wav|"And you didn't hear anything all night?" Carroll shot this question at Darcy suddenly.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000092_000003.wav|Then we'll have another go at you.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000126_000000.wav|"no|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000086_000001.wav|"He has not lived here very long, but I knew him in New York.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000039_000002.wav|Did you hear anything?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000077_000000.wav|"The watch that is still ticking?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000099_000004.wav|Let's have a light, it's too dark to see."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000109_000000.wav|"Don't!" muttered Darcy in a strained voice.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000036_000003.wav|Sallie Page sleeps on the top floor where the janitor's family lives, and he, of course, sleeps up there also."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000041_000002.wav|But of course she might have heard a noise if you didn't, and she might have come down to find out what it was about.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000018_000002.wav|"But if there has been a robbery they didn't get much.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000065_000000.wav|"You didn't call mrs Darcy?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000148_000001.wav|Place on fire?|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000019_000003.wav|Any of the doors or windows forced?" and the detective fairly shot these questions at Darcy,|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000132_000001.wav|He had been strolling about the shop, and had come to a stop near Darcy's work table-a sort of bench against the wall, and behind one of the showcases.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000107_000001.wav|The butt of his gun projected behind him, and as dr Warren moved the statue into the light of the jewelry store chandeliers, they all saw, clinging to the stock of the gun, some straggling, white hairs.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000058_000001.wav|Something awakened me suddenly; but what, I can't say.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000041_000004.wav|But if it was a burglar it's funny you didn't hear any noise-like a fall, or something.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000010_000000.wav|It was to that class of trade that mrs Darcy catered.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000100_000000.wav|One of the clerks switched on more electric lights, and they glinted and sparkled on the silver and cut glass.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000068_000000.wav|"no|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000092_000001.wav|"Better come down and meet him, mr Darcy.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000062_000003.wav|That would account for it I reasoned, so-"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000039_000001.wav|"No question about that.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000062_000000.wav|"Well, like a cloth brushing my face more than like a hand-or it may have been a hand with a glove on it.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000111_000000.wav|"Use the statue that way."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000121_000001.wav|I never make a statement, though, until after the autopsy.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000090_000001.wav|There was less of a crowd about now, and Mulligan did not have to keep back a rush as he opened the portal.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000099_000001.wav|quite an old lady," he mused as he took off his coat, which Carroll held for him.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000020_000000.wav|"I think not.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000081_000001.wav|"Crimps, what a name!|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000013_000000.wav|Rather more than a repair man and clerk was james Darcy.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000149_000005.wav|Take wifely home li'l preshent-you know how 'tish.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000128_000001.wav|dr Warren soon resumed his coat, accepted a cigarette from Daley, slipped into his still damp rain garment and was soon throbbing down the street in his automobile, having announced that he was going to breakfast and would perform the autopsy immediately afterward.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000040_000000.wav|"Only the watch ticking in her hand.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000049_000000.wav|"What kind of talk is that?" demanded Thong roughly.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000019_000002.wav|What happened during the night?|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000100_000001.wav|They flashed on the white, still face, and the gleams seemed to be swallowed up in that red blotch in the snowy hair.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000007_000000.wav|That is to say, those, aside from a casual trade with people who dropped in as they might have done to a grocery, to get what they really needed in the way of jewelry, came in gasolene or electric cars where their ancestors had come with horses and carriage.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000156_000000.wav|"You got Pearl's name 'graved on it, Darcy, ole man?" asked King, thickly, licking his hot and feverish lips.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000030_000000.wav|"Dead!|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000054_000000.wav|"No, not exactly.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000132_000000.wav|"What's up?" asked Thong quickly.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000093_000000.wav|"Oh, sure," assented the jewelry worker.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000078_000005.wav|I can't understand what makes it go, unless some one got in and wound it-and they wouldn't do that."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000125_000001.wav|I'm sorry, but it wouldn't do-here," and the doctor motioned to the glittering array of cut glass and plate.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000019_000001.wav|How'd you find things when you came downstairs?|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000034_000000.wav|"Yes.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000071_000001.wav|Yes," murmured Carroll.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000042_000001.wav|I went to bed about half past ten, after working at my table down here awhile."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000035_000000.wav|"Where is your room?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000025_000001.wav|She was down first, though why, I can't say.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000082_000004.wav|It needed a new case spring and some of the screws were loose."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000006_000001.wav|Young ladies counted it a point in the favor of their lovers if the engagement circlet came from Van Doren's. And Mortimer Darcy, knowing the value of that class of trade, had, when he purchased mr Van Doren's business fostered that spirit.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000060_000001.wav|It may have been I dreamed it."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000094_000000.wav|"Doc Warren, eh," mused Thong to his partner, as Darcy preceded them downstairs.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000136_000001.wav|"Wonder what did it?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000018_000003.wav|The safe hasn't been opened, and the best of the goods-all the diamonds and other stones-are in that.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000154_000000.wav|"Sure thash mine!|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000101_000001.wav|Depressed fracture.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000071_000000.wav|"Um!|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000101_000004.wav|Might have been from a black jack?" and he glanced questioningly at the detectives.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000078_000003.wav|Anyhow I didn't do anything to the Indian's watch more than look at it, and I made up my mind to rise early and hurry it through.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000057_000000.wav|"Three or four," murmured Thong.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000067_000001.wav|Sallie?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000030_000002.wav|The store won't open to day, but the police want to see every one.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000151_000000.wav|"Wheresh my paper cutter, Darcy?" went on King, smiling in a fashion meant to be merry, but which was fixed and glassy as to his eyes. "Wheresh my li'l preshent for wifely?|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000144_000000.wav|Darcy stared at the keen knife, and then at the dead woman.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000068_000002.wav|She's deaf."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000155_000000.wav|"My wife-she likes them things.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000036_000000.wav|"In the rear, on the second floor-the one next above.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000072_000000.wav|"I awakened with a sudden start just before six o'clock.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000078_000004.wav|So I didn't even wind it.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000107_000000.wav|It was that of a hunter, standing as though he had just delivered a shot, and was peering to see the effect.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000060_000000.wav|"Well, I couldn't be sure.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000074_000000.wav|"On a watch."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000026_000000.wav|More knockings had sounded on the front door, and the faces of two young men peered in through the misty glass, the crowd having made a lane for them on learning that they worked in the place of death.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000135_000001.wav|"This is getting interesting!"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000008_000001.wav|The pretty girls and their well groomed companions of the "Assembly Ball" set liked to stop in there for their rings, brooches, scarf pins or cuff links, and very frequent were the rather languid orders:|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000101_000002.wav|Bad place, too.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000082_000002.wav|We have bought some odd things from him for our customers, queer bead necklaces and the like.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000004_000002.wav|Many good wishes, and not a little trade, had gone to him from his former employers, and some of their customers bought of him when he went into business for himself in the thriving city of Colchester.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000123_000001.wav|But I remember it.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000139_000000.wav|"Over on the watch repair table."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000016_000000.wav|And so the Darcy trade had grown and prospered.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000149_000007.wav|Wheresh my gold mounted paper cutter, Darcy?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000051_000000.wav|"Oh, a clock struck!" and Thong settled back in his chair more at his ease.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000073_000000.wav|"What sort of a repair job?" asked Carroll.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000114_000003.wav|"Say, do you know something about this killing that you're keeping back from us?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000024_000000.wav|"There's a bolt on the door!" Carroll snapped.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000123_000003.wav|Better 'phone the morgue keeper," he went on, "and have them come for the body."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000124_000000.wav|"Have you-have you got to take her away?" faltered Darcy.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000089_000000.wav|"Oh," said Carroll and Thong in unison.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000134_000000.wav|The men from the morgue had the body raised in the air.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000141_000000.wav|"Is that your dagger?" snapped Carroll at the jewelry worker.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000149_000000.wav|"'Lo, Darcy!" went on a young man, who walked unsteadily into the jewelry store.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000020_000003.wav|That was locked with the spring catch from the inside."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000058_000000.wav|"Yes; three anyhow-maybe four.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000062_000002.wav|Then I tried to arouse myself, but I heard the wind blowing and a sprinkle of rain, and, as my window was open, I thought the curtain might have blown across my face.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000005_000001.wav|This man-Harrison Van Doren by name-had what was termed the best jewelry trade in Colchester.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000101_000000.wav|"Um, yes!|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000014_000000.wav|"We will have mr Darcy design something different for you."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000082_000001.wav|"He has a curio store down on Water Street.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000036_000001.wav|mrs Darcy has her rooms in front.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000015_000000.wav|"That's what I want," the customer would say-"something different-something you don't see everywhere."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000113_000002.wav|I couldn't bear to look at it-nor could she!"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000132_000003.wav|"What's up, Bill?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000096_000001.wav|Come on!"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000086_000002.wav|He has done business with me for some years."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000098_000001.wav|Murders and autopsies were all in the day's work with him.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000049_000002.wav|Now which was it?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000079_000000.wav|"Whose watch is it?" asked Thong.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000017_000000.wav|"Well, let's hear what you have to say," said Carroll, after james Darcy had given what the detectives considered was, for the time, a sufficient history of himself and his relative, and had hastily gone over such of the stock as was kept outside the safe.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000081_000000.wav|"Singa Phut!" ejaculated Carroll.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000041_000005.wav|How about that, mr Darcy?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000018_000001.wav|His long, artistic fingers were trembling, and he felt weak and faint.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000118_000000.wav|"The house I hope to live in with my wife-Miss Amy Mason," answered Darcy, and he spoke in calm contrast to his former excitement, "We are going to be married in the fall," he went on.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000009_000000.wav|"You may send it, charge."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000090_000000.wav|There came another knock on the side door downstairs.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000071_000002.wav|"Well, then you went to sleep again. What did you do next?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000134_000001.wav|And then, in the gleam from the electric lights there was revealed underneath and in the left side of the dead woman a clean slit through her light dress-a slit the edges of which were stained with blood.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000022_000001.wav|You see, I was all excited like-"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000110_000000.wav|"Don't what?" asked the physician sharply.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000008_000000.wav|So Darcy's jewelry store was known, and though a bit old-fashioned in a way, was favorably known, not only to the older members of the rich families of the place, but to the younger set as well.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000125_000000.wav|"Yes.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000081_000002.wav|Who belongs to it?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000052_000000.wav|"Yes, a clock struck.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000114_000002.wav|What do you mean?" asked Carroll quickly.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000155_000003.wav|But gotta square wife somehow.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000152_000001.wav|The detective held it out, and the red spots on it seemed to show brighter in the gleam of the electric lights.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000075_000000.wav|"Where's the watch now?" and the detective flicked the ashes from a cigar the reporter had given him.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000127_000002.wav|Got a place where I can wash my hands?" he asked.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000030_000001.wav|Killed, I'm afraid!|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000103_000000.wav|"That'll crack a skull, but it won't draw blood-not if it's used right," and he brought from his hip pocket one of the weapons in question-a short, stout flexible reed, covered with leather, the end forming a pocket in which was a chunk of lead.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000076_000001.wav|"It-it's in her hand," and he nodded in the direction of the silent figure downstairs.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000019_000000.wav|"Well, let that go for the time.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000087_000000.wav|"Is he all right-safe-not one of them gars-you know, the fellows that use a silk cord to strangle you with?" asked Thong, who had some imagination regarding garroters.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000082_000003.wav|He left the watch with my cousin, who told me to repair it.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000099_000003.wav|"Head's badly cut-let's see what we have here.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000059_000000.wav|"Like a hand?" suggested Carroll.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000092_000000.wav|"The county physician," explained Carroll.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000040_000001.wav|First I thought it was her heart beating."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000155_000005.wav|Thatsh me-sure thash mine!" and carefully trying to balance himself, he reached forward as though to take the stained dagger from the hand of the detective.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000044_000001.wav|She had gone to her apartment, but I don't have to pass near that to get to my room.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000114_000001.wav|We?|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000105_000000.wav|"Maybe not," assented the doctor.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000154_000002.wav|Didn't have no name on it-brought it here for my ole fren', Darcy, t' engrave.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000006_000000.wav|This name, on little white plush lined boxes, containing pins or sparkling rings, came to mean almost as much as some of the more expensive names in New York.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000098_000000.wav|He was smiling and cheerful, was dr Warren.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000108_000002.wav|The burglar-or whoever it was-swung this statue as a club. It would make a deadly one, using the foot end for a handle," and dr Warren waved the ornament in the air over the dead woman's head to illustrate what he meant.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000069_000000.wav|"And you didn't call the janitor?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000097_000002.wav|"Second time this week you've got me out of bed before my time.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000030_000003.wav|Oh, Miss Brill, come in!" and he held out his hand to the one young woman clerk, who drew back in horrified fright as she saw the silent figure on the floor.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000126_000001.wav|I'll put a notice in the door now," and Darcy wrote out one which a clerk affixed to the front door for him.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000004_000001.wav|Mortimer Darcy had been a diamond salesman for a large New York house in his younger days, and had come to be an expert in precious stones.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000044_000002.wav|I came straight up and went to bed."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000064_000000.wav|"Nothing.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000063_000001.wav|"But what did you do?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000155_000004.wav|Take her home nice preshent.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000149_000001.wav|"Wheresh tha' paper cutter I left for you t' 'grave Pearl's name on?|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000112_000000.wav|"Why not?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000055_000002.wav|The county physician, who was also the coroner, had not yet arrived.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000115_000000.wav|He took a step nearer Darcy-a threatening step it would seem, from the fact that the jewelry worker drew back as if in alarm.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000118_000002.wav|Miss Mason admired it, and I planned to buy it.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000078_000001.wav|I forget just why I didn't do it," and Darcy seemed a bit confused, a point not lost sight of by Carroll.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000025_000002.wav|She seldom came down ahead of me, especially of late years.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000028_000000.wav|Darcy did so, Mulligan helping him keep back the crowd of curious ones.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000053_000000.wav|"Well, put it down as three," suggested Thong.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000137_000000.wav|"Shouldn't wonder but it was done with this!" and Thong held out, on the palm of his large hand, a slender dagger, on the otherwise bright blade of which were some dark stains.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000052_000003.wav|I heard three, anyhow, I'm sure of that."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000017_000002.wav|"Is anything gone?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000078_000000.wav|"Yes, but the funny part of it is that the watch wasn't going last night, when I planned to start work on it.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000143_000001.wav|The words were as crisp as the steel of the stained blade.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000020_000001.wav|The front door was locked, just as it is now.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000011_000001.wav|This was the easier for her, since she owned the building in which her display was kept, and lived in a quiet and tastefully furnished apartment over the store.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000132_000002.wav|The bench was fitted with a lathe, and on it were parts of watches, like the dead specimens preserved in alcohol in a doctor's office.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000018_000004.wav|Nothing seems to be gone from the cases, though I'd have to make a better search, and go over the inventory, to make certain."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000092_000002.wav|He'll want to ask you some questions.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000067_000000.wav|"Nor the servant-what's her name?|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000037_000001.wav|"Then you came downstairs and found mrs Darcy lying here-dead?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000052_000001.wav|It was either three or four, I can't be sure which," Darcy replied.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000140_000000.wav|Darcy gasped.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000135_000000.wav|"Another wound!" exclaimed Daley, his newspaper instincts quickly aroused by this addition of evidence of mystery.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000118_000001.wav|"I had asked mrs Darcy to set that statue aside for me.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000072_000004.wav|I was anxious to finish the repair job for a man who was to leave on an early train this morning.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000097_000004.wav|I like my sleep!"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000150_000000.wav|"Harry King, and stewed to the gills again!" murmured Pete Daley. "Wow! he has some bun on!"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000120_000001.wav|"But are you sure it did, Doc?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000033_000000.wav|"Did you come directly down to the store from your room?" asked Thong.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000056_000000.wav|"Yes, at first I thought some one had been in my room, and then, after I thought about it, I wasn't quite sure.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000097_000003.wav|What's the matter, if they've got to have a murder, with doing it in the afternoon?|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000128_000000.wav|Darcy indicated a little closet near his work bench.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000023_000000.wav|"Yes," assented Thong.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000025_000003.wav|I generally opened the store.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000013_000001.wav|He was an expert jewelry designer and a setter of precious stones; and often, when some fastidious customer did not seem to care for what was shown from the glittering trays in the showcases, mrs Darcy or one of her clerks would say:|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000053_000001.wav|"Was it the striking of the clock that awakened you?"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000068_000001.wav|There wasn't any use in that.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000005_000002.wav|The "old" families-not that any of them could trace their ancestry back very far-liked to say that "we get all our stuff at Van Doren's."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000051_000001.wav|His manner seemed to indicate that he was on the track of something.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000105_000001.wav|"Let's look a bit further."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000148_000006.wav|I got something here.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000010_000002.wav|That was enough.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000034_000001.wav|As soon as I awakened."|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000136_000000.wav|"It's a cut-a deep one, too," murmured Carroll, as he drew nearer to look.|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000118_000003.wav|We had the place all picked out where it would stand. But-now-"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6371/63713/6371_63713_000146_000001.wav|It was left here by-"|6371
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000053_000000.wav|In seventeen seventy two, a committee, of whom Lavoisier was a member, was appointed by the French Academy, to investigate a report that a stone had fallen from the sky at Luce, France.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000016_000000.wav|But for seven years the atmospheric phenomena continued-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000024_000000.wav|This book is an assemblage of data of external relations of this earth. We take the position that our data have been damned, upon no consideration for individual merits or demerits, but in conformity with a general attempt to hold out for isolation of this earth.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000021_000001.wav|But Science is established preposterousness.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000005_000001.wav|Nevertheless they were as common as were green suns in eighteen eighty three.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000041_000000.wav|I fear me, I fear me: this is one of the profoundly damned.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000045_000000.wav|In the topography of intellection, I should say that what we call knowledge is ignorance surrounded by laughter.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000040_000007.wav|At Seringapatam, India, about the year eighteen hundred, fell a hailstone-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000007_000000.wav|I suppose, in Alaska and in the South Sea Islands, all the medicine men were similarly upon trial.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000019_000000.wav|Then you haven't studied hypnosis.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000017_000000.wav|Except that, in the seven, there was a lapse of several years-and where was the volcanic dust all that time?|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000043_000002.wav|Said to have fallen at nashville tennessee, january twenty fourth eighteen ninety one.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000048_000000.wav|Punk and silk and charcoal.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000020_000000.wav|This is one of the profundities that we advertised in advance.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000062_000001.wav|I know of no aerolite that has ever been acceptably traced to terrestrial origin.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000057_000000.wav|But positiveness and the fate of every positive statement.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000010_000000.wav|Terrific.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000012_000000.wav|In all text books that mention this occurrence-no exception so far so I have read-it is said that the extraordinary atmospheric effects of eighteen eighty three were first noticed in the last of August or the first of September.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000011_000002.wav|The volume of smoke that went up must have been visible to other planets-or, tormented with our crawlings and scurryings, the earth complained to Mars; swore a vast black oath at us.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000051_000000.wav|Therefore no stones can fall from the sky.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000030_000003.wav|It was issued after an investigation that took five years.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000011_000000.wav|We're told that the sound was heard two thousand miles, and that thirty six thousand three hundred eighty persons were killed.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000043_000003.wav|One smiles.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000040_000000.wav|Hailstones, for instance.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000060_000000.wav|The writer abandons the first, or absolute, exclusion, and modifies it with the explanation that the day before a reported fall of stones in Tuscany, june sixteenth seventeen ninety four, there had been an eruption of Vesuvius-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000053_000002.wav|Lavoisier analyzed the stone of Luce.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000066_000000.wav|We accept.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000022_000001.wav|I don't know what whopper the medicine men told.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000057_000001.wav|It is not customary to think of damned stones raising an outcry against a sentence of exclusion, but, subjectively, aerolites did-or data of them bombarded the walls raised against them-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000069_000000.wav|It's virginal.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000037_000000.wav|We shall have a few data initiatorily.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000006_000000.wav|Science had to account for these unconventionalities.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000046_000000.wav|Black rains-red rains-the fall of a thousand tons of butter.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000072_000000.wav|We see, to start with, that the virgins of science have fought and wept and screamed against external relations-upon two grounds:|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000004_000000.wav|In the autumn of eighteen eighty three, and for years afterward, occurred brilliant colored sunsets, such as had never been seen before within the memory of all observers.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000024_000001.wav|This is attempted positiveness.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000074_000000.wav|Or up from one part of this earth's surface and down to another.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000008_000000.wav|Something had to be thought of.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000009_000000.wav|Upon the twenty eighth of August, eighteen eighty three, the volcano of Krakatoa, of the Straits of Sunda, had blown up.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000032_000000.wav|That the atmospheric effects that have been attributed to Krakatoa were seen in Trinidad before the eruption occurred:|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000065_000000.wav|We believe no more.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000040_000001.wav|One reads in the newspapers of hailstones the size of hens' eggs.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000019_000001.wav|You have never tried to demonstrate to a hypnotic that a table is not a hippopotamus.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000043_000001.wav|Size of saucers.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000052_000000.wav|Or nothing more reasonable or scientific or logical than that could be said upon any subject.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000062_000000.wav|It's more than one hundred and twenty years later.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000019_000005.wav|There's nothing to prove.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000035_000000.wav|Inertia and its inhospitality.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000043_000000.wav|Or snowflakes.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000039_000000.wav|The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000054_000000.wav|The stone of Luce showed signs of fusion.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000021_000000.wav|You can oppose an absurdity only with some other absurdity.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000026_000000.wav|That this preposterous explanation interferes with some of my own enormities.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000013_000000.wav|That makes a difficulty for us.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000056_000000.wav|So, authoritatively, falling stones were damned.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000022_000000.wav|But Krakatoa: that's the explanation that the scientists gave.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000071_000000.wav|Butter and paper and wool and silk and resin.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000038_000000.wav|I fear me that the horse and the barn were a little extreme for our budding liberalities.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000040_000005.wav|See Chambers' Encyclopedia for three pounders.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000036_000000.wav|Or raw meat should not be fed to babies.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000034_000000.wav|That they were seen in Natal, South Africa, six months before the eruption.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000029_000000.wav|The orthodox explanation:|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000014_000000.wav|It is said that these phenomena were caused by particles of volcanic dust that were cast high in the air by Krakatoa.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000056_000001.wav|The stock means of exclusion remained the explanation of lightning that was seen to strike something-that had been upon the ground in the first place.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000025_000000.wav|My own chief reason for indignation here:|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000030_000005.wav|The mathematical parts are especially impressive: distribution of the dust of Krakatoa; velocity of translation and rates of subsidence; altitudes and persistences-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000052_000001.wav|The only trouble is the universal trouble: that the major premise is not real, or is intermediate somewhere between realness and unrealness.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000030_000004.wav|You couldn't think of anything done more efficiently, artistically, authoritatively.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000047_000000.wav|Jet black snow-pink snow-blue hailstones-hailstones flavored like oranges.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000073_000000.wav|There in the first place;|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000041_000001.wav|I blurt out something that should, perhaps, be withheld for several hundred pages-but that damned thing was the size of an elephant.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000042_000000.wav|We laugh.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131226/511_131226_000053_000003.wav|The exclusionists' explanation at that time was that stones do not fall from the sky: that luminous objects may seem to fall, and that hot stones may be picked up where a luminous object seemingly had landed-only lightning striking a stone, heating, even melting it.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000039_000000.wav|What rain, I don't know.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000051_000000.wav|If the whole world should seem to combine against you, it is only unreal combination, or intermediateness to unity and disunity.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000080_000000.wav|That such marksmanship is not attributable to whirlwinds seems to me to be what we think we mean by common sense:|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000040_000000.wav|Also it is spoken of as "dried" several times.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000002_000004.wav|Upon removing this nap, a buff colored, pulpy substance was found.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000042_000001.wav|Lawrence Smith, of Kentucky, one of the most resolute of the exclusionists:|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000018_000004.wav|Graves to examine it.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000087_000002.wav|They returned next morning and found a gelatinous mass of grayish color.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000022_000000.wav|But, before evening, two others sprang up.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000061_000000.wav|There in the first place;|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000049_000000.wav|Or this is why, against the seemingly insuperable odds against all things new, there can be what is called progress-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000094_000001.wav|Olmstead, who collected these lost souls, says:|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000092_000000.wav|That, according to a communication from a c|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000028_000002.wav|The flake formation is interesting: later we shall think of it as signifying pressure-somewhere.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000068_000000.wav|It was grayish.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000030_000000.wav|Something that looked like beef: one flake of it the size of a square envelope.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000045_000001.wav|But he had also called upon dr Hamilton, who had a specimen, and dr Hamilton had declared it to be lung tissue.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000038_000000.wav|Or that it had not fallen; that it had been upon the ground in the first place, and had swollen in rain, and, attracting attention by greatly increased volume, had been supposed by unscientific observers to have fallen in rain-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000023_000002.wav|The rival convention is "spawn of frogs or of fishes." These two conventions have made a strong combination.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000050_000000.wav|That nothing is positive, in the aspects of homogeneity and unity:|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000031_000000.wav|If we think of how hard the exclusionists have fought to reject the coming of ordinary looking dust from this earth's externality, we can sympathize with them in this sensational instance, perhaps.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000018_000007.wav|The chemic reactions were the same.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000067_000002.wav|It is described as like gelatine, but much firmer: but, having been in water twenty four hours, it swelled out, and looked altogether gelatinous-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000024_000004.wav|It would seem acceptable that, if many reports of white birds should occur, the birds are not blackbirds, even though there have been white blackbirds. Or that, if often reported, grayish or whitish gelatinous substance is not nostoc, and is not spawn if occurring in times unseasonable for spawn.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000029_000000.wav|Then the exclusionists.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000040_000001.wav|That's one of the most important of the details.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000026_000000.wav|So it was called, in its day, and now we have an occurrence that attracted a great deal of attention in its own time.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000024_000000.wav|Now, I can't say that nostoc is always greenish, any more than I can say that blackbirds are always black, having seen a white one: we shall quote a scientist who knew of flesh colored nostoc, when so to know was convenient.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000018_000001.wav|Edward Hitchcock went to live in Amherst.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000026_000001.wav|Usually these things of the accursed have been hushed up or disregarded-suppressed like the seven black rains of Slains-but, upon march third eighteen seventy six, something occurred, in Bath county kentucky, that brought many newspaper correspondents to the scene.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000045_000003.wav|"As to whence it came, I have no theory." Nevertheless he endorses the local explanation-and a bizarre thing it is:|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000067_000000.wav|That, in Wilna, Lithuania, april fourth eighteen forty six, in a rainstorm, fell nut sized masses of a substance that is described as both resinous and gelatinous.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000057_000000.wav|That the twinkling of stars is penetration of light through something that quivers?|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000008_000000.wav|A few minutes of exposure to the air changed the buff color to "a livid color resembling venous blood." It absorbed moisture quickly from the air and liquefied.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000032_000000.wav|It seems to me that the exclusionists are still more emphatically conservators.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000085_000002.wav|He gives earlier dates, but I practice exclusions, myself.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000091_000001.wav|Garland, of Nelson county virginia, had found a jelly like substance of about the circumference of a twenty five cent piece:|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000074_000000.wav|This is what had occurred at Bath, England, twenty three years before.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000078_000004.wav|The mystery of it is: What could have brought so many of them together?|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000037_000001.wav|The Kentucky 'wonder' is no more or less than nostoc."|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000021_000000.wav|He did not satisfy himself as to just the exact species it belonged to, but he predicted that similar fungi might spring up within twenty four hours-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000060_000000.wav|We shall be opposed by the standard resistances:|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000051_000002.wav|The simplest strategy seems to be-never bother to fight a thing: set its own parts fighting one another.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000092_000003.wav|It looked like boiled starch:|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000055_000000.wav|That meteors tear through and detach fragments?|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000056_000000.wav|That fragments are brought down by storms?|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000046_000000.wav|A flock of gorged, heavy weighted buzzards, but far up and invisible in the clear sky-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000002_000002.wav|Graves, formerly lecturer at Dartmouth College.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000078_000006.wav|A whirlwind seems anything but a segregative force.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000063_000001.wav|It will mean that something had been in a stationary position for several days over a small part of a small town in England: this is the revolutionary thing that we have alluded to before; whether the substance were nostoc, or spawn, or some kind of a larval nexus, doesn't matter so much.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000002_000000.wav|That, upon the thirteenth of August, eighteen nineteen, something had fallen from the sky at Amherst, Mass.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000012_000000.wav|They were dead and dry.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000027_000000.wav|The substance that looked like beef that fell from the sky.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000083_000000.wav|The four red rains of Siena.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000095_000000.wav|"The fact that the supposed deposits were so uniformly described as gelatinous substance forms a presumption in favor of the supposition that they had the origin ascribed to them."|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000031_000001.wav|Newspaper correspondents wrote broadcast and witnesses were quoted, and this time there is no mention of a hoax, and, except by one scientist, there is no denial that the fall did take place.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000041_000001.wav|To give completeness to "the proper explanation," it is said that mr Brandeis had identified the substance as "flesh colored" nostoc.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000062_000000.wav|Up from one place, in a whirlwind, and down in another.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000018_000005.wav|Exactly like the first one.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000067_000001.wav|It was odorless until burned: then it spread a very pronounced sweetish odor.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000072_000000.wav|That, june twenty fourth nineteen eleven, at Eton, Bucks, England, the ground was found covered with masses of jelly, the size of peas, after a heavy rainfall. We are not told of nostoc, this time: it is said that the object contained numerous eggs of "some species of Chironomus, from which larvae soon emerged."|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000023_000000.wav|Or we've arrived at one of the oldest of the exclusionists' conventions-or nostoc.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000082_000000.wav|The seven black rains of Slains;|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000019_000001.wav|Hitchcock recognized it in a moment.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000028_000000.wav|Upon march third eighteen seventy six, at Olympian Springs, Bath county kentucky, flakes of a substance that looked like beef fell from the sky-"from a clear sky." We'd like to emphasize that it was said that nothing but this falling substance was visible in the sky.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000014_000000.wav|Or they were not fish at all.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000054_000000.wav|Or that, far up, or far away, the whole sky is gelatinous?|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000053_000000.wav|I shall have to accept, myself, that gelatinous substance has often fallen from the sky-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000002_000003.wav|It was an object that had upon it a nap, similar to that of milled cloth.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000002_000006.wav|This thing was said to have fallen with a brilliant light.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000087_000000.wav|Greg's comment in this instance is: "Curious if true." But he records without modification the fall of a meteorite at Gotha, Germany, september sixth eighteen thirty five, "leaving a jelly like mass on the ground." We are told that this substance fell only three feet away from an observer.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000078_000001.wav|L. Jenyns, of Bath.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000020_000000.wav|It was a gelatinous fungus.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000069_000000.wav|We are told that, in eighteen forty one and eighteen forty six, a similar substance had fallen in Asia Minor.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000081_000000.wav|It may not look like common sense to say that these things had been stationary over the town of Bath, several days-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000006_000002.wav|Dewey's family.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000028_000001.wav|It fell in flakes of various sizes; some two inches square, one, three or four inches square.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000058_000000.wav|I think, myself, that it would be absurd to say that the whole sky is gelatinous: it seems more acceptable that only certain areas are.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000084_000000.wav|An interesting sidelight on the mechanics of orthodoxy is that mr Jenyns dutifully records the second fall, but ignores it in his explanation.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000073_000000.wav|I incline, then, to think that the objects that fell at Bath were neither jellyfish nor masses of frog spawn, but something of a larval kind-|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000024_000002.wav|In looking up the subject, myself, I have read only of greenish nostoc.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000093_000000.wav|That, according to a newspaper, of newark new jersey, a mass of gelatinous substance, like soft soap, had been found.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/511/131228/511_131228_000024_000001.wav|When we come to reported falls of gelatinous substances, I'd like it to be noticed how often they are described as whitish or grayish.|511
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123215/112_123215_000042_000001.wav|She felt oddly like crying.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123215/112_123215_000008_000001.wav|How glorious!|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123215/112_123215_000008_000002.wav|What was it?|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123215/112_123215_000039_000003.wav|Never tell me that Friday isn't unlucky."|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123215/112_123215_000033_000000.wav|"I love them," said Dorothy.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000017_000001.wav|She sent for the carpenter again, and had him build another addition to her house, as the picture shows.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000013_000000.wav|The old woman scarcely knew where to keep this new flock that had come to her fold, for the house was already full; but she thought the matter over and finally decided she must build an addition to her house.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000026_000000.wav|It cost so much money to clothe them that she decided to dress them all alike, so that they looked like the children of a regular orphan asylum.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000006_000001.wav|And the woman, after that, lived all alone, and said to herself, "I have done my duty to the world, and now shall rest quietly for the balance of my life.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000044_000000.wav|The children looked at one another in surprise, for they had forgotten all about the bread.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000024_000000.wav|"I shall not have to build again," she said; "and that is one satisfaction.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000043_000000.wav|"Where is the bread for your supper?"|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000041_000000.wav|Altogether, the baker man was terribly frightened; and when all the sixteen small Indians rushed from the bushes and flourished their tomahawks, he took to his heels and ran down the hill as fast as he could go!|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000045_000000.wav|"You are sixteen very naughty children!" exclaimed the old woman; "and for punishment you must eat your broth without any bread, and afterwards each one shall have a sound whipping and be sent to bed."|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000031_000000.wav|"Why, yes.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000029_000000.wav|"At your house," the stranger replied; "it looks for all the world like a big shoe!"|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000032_000000.wav|"Never mind," said the woman; "it may be a shoe, but it is full of babies, and that makes it differ from most other shoes."|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000011_000000.wav|The youngsters were like all other children, and got into mischief once in awhile; but the old woman had much experience with children and managed to keep them in order very well, while they quickly learned to obey her, and generally did as they were bid.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000051_000000.wav|Before many years the boys were old enough to work for the neighboring farmers, and that made the woman's family a good deal smaller.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000035_000000.wav|"There are so many children," she said one day to the baker man, "that I often really do n't know what to do!"|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000007_000000.wav|She lived in a peculiar little house, that looked something like this picture.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000014_000000.wav|So she hired a carpenter and built what is called a "lean to" at the right of her cottage, making it just big enough to accommodate the four new members of her family.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000021_000000.wav|The old woman, having taken the other twelve, could not well refuse to adopt these little orphans also.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000026_000002.wav|But it was a good and wholesome diet, and the children thrived and grew fat upon it.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000008_000000.wav|It was not like most of the houses you see, but the old woman had it built herself, and liked it, and so it did not matter to her how odd it was.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000020_000000.wav|And now, to make the matter worse, her fourth daughter, who had been named Abigail, suddenly took sick and died, and she also had four small children that must be cared for in some way.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000044_000001.wav|And then one of them confessed, and told her the whole story of how they had frightened the baker man for saying he would send them to the poor house.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000018_000000.wav|Then she put three new cots in the new part for the babies to sleep in, and when they arrived they were just as cozy and comfortable as peas in a pod.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000042_000000.wav|When the grandmother returned she asked,|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000051_000001.wav|And then the girls grew up and married, and found homes of their own, so that all the children were in time well provided for.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000038_000000.wav|The baker man came every day to the shoe house, and brought two great baskets of bread in his arms for the children to eat with their milk and their broth.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000012_000000.wav|But scarcely had she succeeded in getting them settled in their new home when Margaret, another of her daughters, died, and sent four more children to her mother to be taken care of.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000023_000000.wav|Once more she sent for the carpenter, and bade him build a third addition to the house; and when it was completed she added four more cots to the dozen that were already in use.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000034_000002.wav|The only peace she ever got was when they were all safely tucked in their little cots and were sound asleep; for then, at least, she was free from worry and had a chance to gather her scattered wits.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000050_000000.wav|They took care not to play any more tricks on the baker man, and as they grew older they were naturally much better behaved.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000025_000001.wav|But the old woman did not complain at this; her time was too much taken up with the babies for her to miss the grass and the flowers.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000034_000001.wav|And some were naughty and had to be whipped; and some were dirty and had to be washed; and some were good and had to be kissed. It was "Gran'ma, do this!" and "Gran'ma, do that!" from morning to night, so that the poor grandmother was nearly distracted.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000047_000000.wav|But she kept her promise, and made them eat their broth without any bread; for, indeed, there was no bread to give them.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000010_000000.wav|This misfortune ruined all the old woman's dreams of quiet; but the next day the children arrived-three boys and two girls-and she made the best of it and gave them the beds her own daughters had once occupied, and her own cot as well; and she made a bed for herself on the parlor sofa.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000049_000000.wav|They cried some, of course, but they knew very well they deserved the punishment, and it was not long before all of them were sound asleep.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000016_000000.wav|But the old woman continued to look after them, as well as she was able, until Sarah, her third daughter, also died, and three more children were sent to their grandmother to be brought up.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/121671/112_121671_000023_000001.wav|The house presented a very queer appearance now, but she did not mind that so long as the babies were comfortable.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000008_000001.wav|Perhaps it was a good paper and perhaps it was bad enough to make Homer turn over in his grave.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000007_000001.wav|How did you get on in Greek today?"|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000008_000002.wav|I've studied and mulled over notebooks until I'm incapable of forming an opinion of anything.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000038_000000.wav|She and Phil walked to Redmond together.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000026_000001.wav|Summing up, I think that is what Redmond has given me."|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000042_000002.wav|She slipped her hand inside her collar and caught at the gold chain.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000028_000002.wav|It's a matter I was always dubious about before."|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000044_000000.wav|"Moody Spurgeon MacPherson called here tonight after you left," said Aunt Jamesina, who had sat up to keep the fire on.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000008_000000.wav|"I don't know.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000021_000000.wav|"Have you learned anything at Redmond except dead languages and geometry and such trash?" queried Aunt Jamesina.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000022_000000.wav|"Oh, yes.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000033_000003.wav|Then came Convocation.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000008_000003.wav|How thankful little Phil will be when all this examinating is over."|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000042_000001.wav|In the darkness she felt her face burning.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000018_000001.wav|It's not to be expected, of course.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000015_000000.wav|"You don't act as if you were by times," said Aunt Jamesina severely.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000035_000002.wav|She knew he was studying very hard, aiming at High Honors and the Cooper Prize, and he took little part in the social doings of Redmond.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000039_000001.wav|Did you hear anything of it?"|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000031_000000.wav|"Will you please define what gumption is, Aunt Jimsie?" asked Phil.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000032_000000.wav|"No, I won't, young woman.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000032_000002.wav|So there is no need of defining it."|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000023_000000.wav|"We've learned the truth of what Professor Woodleigh told us last Philomathic," said Phil.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000026_000000.wav|"I think," said Anne slowly, "that I really have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as the foreshadowing of victory.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000042_000003.wav|One energetic twist and it gave way.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000036_000002.wav|It was of one strange, unaccountable pang that spoiled this long expected day for her and left in it a certain faint but enduring flavor of bitterness.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000034_000001.wav|She meant to carry them, of course, but her eyes wandered to another box on her table.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000030_000001.wav|If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000033_000002.wav|Priscilla took Honors in Classics, and Phil in Mathematics. Stella obtained a good all round showing.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000044_000002.wav|That boy ought to sleep with a rubber band around his head to train his ears not to stick out.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000041_000000.wav|"I think it's true," said Phil lightly.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000016_000000.wav|"Oh, Aunt Jimsie, haven't we been pretty good girls, take us by and large, these three winters you've mothered us?" pleaded Phil.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000002_000000.wav|Chapter thirty seven|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000030_000003.wav|But those of us who have some gumption should duly thank the Lord for it."|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000030_000002.wav|It's their misfortune not their fault, poor souls.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000024_000001.wav|When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding."|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000028_000001.wav|Well, that justifies higher education in my opinion.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000044_000004.wav|It was I who suggested it to him and he took my advice, but he never forgave me for it."|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000037_000000.wav|The Arts graduates gave a graduation dance that night.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000034_000000.wav|"This is what I would once have called an epoch in my life," said Anne, as she took Roy's violets out of their box and gazed at them thoughtfully.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000035_000003.wav|Anne's own winter had been quite gay socially. She had seen a good deal of the Gardners; she and Dorothy were very intimate; college circles expected the announcement of her engagement to Roy any day.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000005_000000.wav|"If you live long enough both wishes will come true," said Anne calmly.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000042_000005.wav|Her hands were trembling and her eyes were smarting.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000037_000001.wav|When Anne dressed for it she tossed aside the pearl beads she usually wore and took from her trunk the small box that had come to Green Gables on Christmas day. In it was a thread like gold chain with a tiny pink enamel heart as a pendant.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000035_000005.wav|Yet just before she left Patty's Place for Convocation she flung Roy's violets aside and put Gilbert's lilies of the valley in their place.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000006_000000.wav|"It's easy for you to be serene.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000035_000009.wav|The wonderful day had come and Roy's violets had no place in it.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000006_000003.wav|If I should fail in it what would Jo say?"|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000018_000000.wav|"But I mistrust you haven't any too much sense yet.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000006_000002.wav|I'm not-and when I think of that horrible paper tomorrow I quail.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000035_000006.wav|She could not have told why she did it.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000004_000000.wav|"I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night," groaned Phil.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/112/123216/112_123216_000011_000000.wav|"Words aren't made-they grow," said Anne.|112
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000003_000000.wav|In the great city in which he lived there was always something going on; every day many strangers came there.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000004_000000.wav|'Those must indeed be splendid clothes,' thought the Emperor.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000006_000001.wav|But he remembered when he thought about it that whoever was stupid or not fit for his office would not be able to see it.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000004_000001.wav|'If I had them on I could find out which men in my kingdom are unfit for the offices they hold; I could distinguish the wise from the stupid!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000009_000000.wav|Both the impostors begged him to be so kind as to step closer, and asked him if it were not a beautiful texture and lovely colours.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000004_000002.wav|Yes, this cloth must be woven for me at once.' And he gave both the impostors much money, so that they might begin their work.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000021_000000.wav|'What!' thought the Emperor, 'I can see nothing!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000012_000002.wav|What colours!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000021_000004.wav|That were the most dreadful thing that could happen to me.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000010_000003.wav|No, I must certainly not say that I cannot see the cloth!'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000021_000002.wav|Am I stupid?|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000020_000000.wav|'Is it not splendid!' said both the old statesmen who had already been there.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000021_000003.wav|Am I not fit to be Emperor?|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000012_000001.wav|'What a texture!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000020_000002.wav|What colours!' And then they pointed to the empty loom, for they believed that the others could see the cloth quite well.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000010_000001.wav|I have never thought that, and nobody must know it!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000021_000006.wav|'It has my gracious approval.' And then he nodded pleasantly, and examined the empty loom, for he would not say that he could see nothing.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000019_000000.wav|Now the Emperor wanted to see it himself while it was still on the loom.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000017_000002.wav|'Yes, it is quite beautiful,' he said to the Emperor.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145699/1509_145699_000019_000001.wav|With a great crowd of select followers, amongst whom were both the worthy statesmen who had already been there before, he went to the cunning impostors, who were now weaving with all their might, but without fibre or thread.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000012_000001.wav|"I should much rather go to Chillon with you."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000058_000000.wav|"Think what, sir?" said his aunt.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000054_000000.wav|"You two are going off there together?|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000048_000000.wav|"I am much obliged to you."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000015_000002.wav|"She don't like to ride round in the afternoon.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000074_000003.wav|She's dreadfully nervous.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000005_000000.wav|"You can go in the cars," said Miss Miller.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000042_000003.wav|He probably corresponds to the young lady's idea of a count.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000060_000001.wav|But I really think that you had better not meddle with little American girls that are uncultivated, as you call them.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000077_000000.wav|Winterbourne was embarrassed.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000060_000002.wav|You have lived too long out of the country.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000015.wav|Well, we ARE exclusive, mother and i We don't speak to everyone-or they don't speak to us.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000035_000000.wav|"The young girl is very pretty," said Winterbourne in a moment.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000080_000001.wav|Her prettiness was still visible in the darkness; she was opening and closing her enormous fan.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000070_000001.wav|He found her that evening in the garden, wandering about in the warm starlight like an indolent sylph, and swinging to and fro the largest fan he had ever beheld.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000074_000005.wav|She's gone somewhere after Randolph; she wants to try to get him to go to bed.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000031_000000.wav|He immediately perceived, from her tone, that Miss Daisy Miller's place in the social scale was low.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000017_000000.wav|"Then we may arrange it.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000080_000000.wav|Miss Daisy Miller stopped and stood looking at him.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000043_000001.wav|Evidently she was rather wild. "Well," he said, "I am not a courier, and yet she was very charming to me."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000056_000001.wav|"What a dreadful girl!"|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000008.wav|She was very quiet and very comme il faut; she wore white puffs; she spoke to no one, and she never dined at the table d'hote.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000003.wav|He felt that he had lived at Geneva so long that he had lost a good deal; he had become dishabituated to the American tone. Never, indeed, since he had grown old enough to appreciate things, had he encountered a young American girl of so pronounced a type as this. Certainly she was very charming, but how deucedly sociable!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000055_000000.wav|"I have known her half an hour!" said Winterbourne, smiling.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000014.wav|He leaned back in his seat; he remarked to himself that she had the most charming nose he had ever seen; he wondered what were the regular conditions and limitations of one's intercourse with a pretty American flirt.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000009.wav|He was inclined to think Miss Daisy Miller was a flirt-a pretty American flirt.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000025_000000.wav|"I shall not be happy till we go!" he protested.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000008.wav|Some people had told him that, after all, American girls were exceedingly innocent; and others had told him that, after all, they were not.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000053_000001.wav|"But she is wonderfully pretty, and, in short, she is very nice.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000002_000001.wav|"You too, I suppose, have seen it?"|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000042_000004.wav|He sits with them in the garden in the evening. I think he smokes."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000081_000000.wav|Winterbourne fancied there was a tremor in her voice; he was touched, shocked, mortified by it.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000065_000000.wav|"I think that she fully intends it."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000066_000000.wav|"Then, my dear Frederick," said mrs Costello, "I must decline the honor of her acquaintance.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000019_000003.wav|I guess he'll stay at home with Randolph if mother does, and then we can go to the castle."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000007_000003.wav|She said she couldn't go.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000042_000002.wav|I shouldn't wonder if he dines with them. Very likely they have never seen a man with such good manners, such fine clothes, so like a gentleman.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000007.wav|"She's your aunt." Then, on Winterbourne's admitting the fact and expressing some curiosity as to how she had learned it, she said she had heard all about mrs Costello from the chambermaid.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000024_000001.wav|She turned to Winterbourne, blushing a little-a very little.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000030_000006.wav|Her nephew, who had come up to Vevey expressly to see her, was therefore more attentive than those who, as she said, were nearer to her.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000036_000000.wav|"Of course she's pretty.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000014_000001.wav|"With your mother," he answered very respectfully.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000009_000002.wav|He wants to stay at the hotel.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000020_000004.wav|"Oh, Eugenio!" said Miss Miller with the friendliest accent.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000072_000000.wav|"I have been walking round with mother.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000013.wav|She would be very exclusive.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000054_000003.wav|You haven't been twenty four hours in the house."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000060_000000.wav|"I haven't the least idea what such young ladies expect a man to do.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000006_000000.wav|"Yes; you can go in the cars," Winterbourne assented.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000061_000000.wav|"My dear aunt, I am not so innocent," said Winterbourne, smiling and curling his mustache.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000004_000001.wav|You can drive, you know, or you can go by the little steamer."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000007_000002.wav|She suffers dreadfully from dyspepsia.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000030_000010.wav|And her picture of the minutely hierarchical constitution of the society of that city, which she presented to him in many different lights, was, to Winterbourne's imagination, almost oppressively striking.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000030_000001.wav|"Oh yes, I have observed them.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000012.wav|But this young girl was not a coquette in that sense; she was very unsophisticated; she was only a pretty American flirt.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000015_000001.wav|"I guess my mother won't go, after all," she said.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000074_000001.wav|"She doesn't sleep-not three hours.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000010_000001.wav|"Couldn't you get some one to stay for the afternoon with Randolph?"|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000034_000001.wav|I would if I could, but I can't."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000005.wav|It appeared that Randolph's vigil was in fact triumphantly prolonged, for Winterbourne strolled about with the young girl for some time without meeting her mother.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000038_000000.wav|"She has that charming look that they all have," his aunt resumed.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000003_000001.wav|I want to go there dreadfully.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000002.wav|And yet was he to accuse Miss Daisy Miller of actual or potential inconduite, as they said at Geneva?|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000004.wav|I don't believe he'll go to bed before eleven."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000074_000000.wav|"No; she doesn't like to go to bed," said the young girl.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000000.wav|"She will talk to him all she can; but he doesn't like her to talk to him," said Miss Daisy, opening her fan.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000002_000000.wav|"Yes, formerly, more than once," said Winterbourne.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000038_000001.wav|"I can't think where they pick it up; and she dresses in perfection-no, you don't know how well she dresses.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000072_000001.wav|But mother gets tired walking round," she answered.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000052_000000.wav|"You don't say that as if you believed it," mrs Costello observed.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000044_000000.wav|"You had better have said at first," said mrs Costello with dignity, "that you had made her acquaintance."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000004_000000.wav|"It's a very pretty excursion," said Winterbourne, "and very easy to make.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000030_000007.wav|He had imbibed at Geneva the idea that one must always be attentive to one's aunt.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000075_000000.wav|"Let us hope she will persuade him," observed Winterbourne.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000060_000003.wav|You will be sure to make some great mistake.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000031_000001.wav|"I am afraid you don't approve of them," he said.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000050_000000.wav|"And pray who is to guarantee hers?"|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000063_000001.wav|"You won't let the poor girl know you then?" he asked at last.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000011.wav|He had known, here in Europe, two or three women-persons older than Miss Daisy Miller, and provided, for respectability's sake, with husbands-who were great coquettes-dangerous, terrible women, with whom one's relations were liable to take a serious turn.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000046_000001.wav|And pray what did you say?"|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000060_000004.wav|You are too innocent."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000070_000002.wav|It was ten o'clock.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000007_000001.wav|"We were going last week, but my mother gave out.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000054_000001.wav|I should say it proved just the contrary.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000011.wav|"I want to know her ever so much.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000066_000001.wav|I am an old woman, but I am not too old, thank Heaven, to be shocked!"|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000007.wav|Winterbourne had lost his instinct in this matter, and his reason could not help him. Miss Daisy Miller looked extremely innocent.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000041_000000.wav|"An intimacy with the courier?" the young man demanded.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000007_000004.wav|Randolph wouldn't go either; he says he doesn't think much of old castles.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000079_000001.wav|"She tells me she does," he answered at last, not knowing what to say.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000003_000000.wav|"No; we haven't been there.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000078_000000.wav|The young girl looked at him through the dusk.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000019_000002.wav|But he's a splendid courier.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000067_000000.wav|"But don't they all do these things-the young girls in America?" Winterbourne inquired.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000011_000000.wav|Miss Miller looked at him a moment, and then, very placidly, "I wish YOU would stay with him!" she said.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000069_000001.wav|Winterbourne was impatient to see her again, and he was vexed with himself that, by instinct, he should not appreciate her justly.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000074_000006.wav|He doesn't like to go to bed."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000032_000000.wav|"They are very common," mrs Costello declared.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000027_000001.wav|The young man, at least, thought his manner of looking an offense to Miss Miller; it conveyed an imputation that she "picked up" acquaintances.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000003_000002.wav|Of course I mean to go there.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000059_000000.wav|"That she is the sort of young lady who expects a man, sooner or later, to carry her off?"|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000070_000000.wav|Though he was impatient to see her, he hardly knew what he should say to her about his aunt's refusal to become acquainted with her; but he discovered, promptly enough, that with Miss Daisy Miller there was no great need of walking on tiptoe.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000034_000000.wav|"I can't, my dear Frederick.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000030_000009.wav|She admitted that she was very exclusive; but, if he were acquainted with New York, he would see that one had to be.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000015.wav|It presently became apparent that he was on the way to learn.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000042_000001.wav|They treat the courier like a familiar friend-like a gentleman.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000012.wav|I know just what YOUR aunt would be; I know I should like her.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000001.wav|He had never yet heard a young girl express herself in just this fashion; never, at least, save in cases where to say such things seemed a kind of demonstrative evidence of a certain laxity of deportment.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000009_000000.wav|"He says he don't care much about old castles.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000024_000000.wav|Eugenio's tone apparently threw, even to Miss Miller's own apprehension, a slightly ironical light upon the young girl's situation.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000057_000000.wav|Her nephew was silent for some moments.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000068_000000.wav|mrs Costello stared a moment.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000001.wav|"She's going to try to get Eugenio to talk to him.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000076_000009.wav|Every two days she had a headache.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000043_000000.wav|Winterbourne listened with interest to these disclosures; they helped him to make up his mind about Miss Daisy.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000015_000000.wav|But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost upon Miss Daisy Miller.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000038_000002.wav|I can't think where they get their taste."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000036_000001.wav|But she is very common."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000012_000000.wav|Winterbourne hesitated a moment.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000068_000001.wav|"I should like to see my granddaughters do them!" she declared grimly.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000053_000000.wav|"She is completely uncultivated," Winterbourne went on.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000040_000000.wav|"She is a young lady," said mrs Costello, "who has an intimacy with her mamma's courier."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000030_000002.wav|Seen them-heard them-and kept out of their way." mrs Costello was a widow with a fortune; a person of much distinction, who frequently intimated that, if she were not so dreadfully liable to sick headaches, she would probably have left a deeper impress upon her time.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000020_000002.wav|Possibly he would have done so and quite spoiled the project, but at this moment another person, presumably Eugenio, appeared.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000080_000004.wav|You needn't be afraid.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000018_000000.wav|"Eugenio?" the young man inquired.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000000_000000.wav|Poor Winterbourne was amused, perplexed, and decidedly charmed.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000007_000005.wav|But I guess we'll go this week, if we can get Randolph."|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/143477/1509_143477_000019_000000.wav|"Eugenio's our courier.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000000_000000.wav|BLOCKHEAD HANS|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000022_000000.wav|'Oh,' said Blockhead Hans, 'it is really too good!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000020_000000.wav|'Slap! bang! here I am!' cried Blockhead Hans; 'better and better-it is really famous!'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000048_000000.wav|'That was neatly done!' said the Princess. 'I couldn't have done it; but I will soon learn how to!'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000009_000001.wav|'I will not give you a horse. YOU can't speak; YOU don't know how to choose your words.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000040_000000.wav|'Of course!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000015_000001.wav|I shall give it to the Princess!'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000023_000000.wav|'Why!' said the brothers, 'this is pure mud, straight from the ditch.'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000013_000000.wav|'Hullo!' bawled Blockhead Hans, 'here I am!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000025_000001.wav|This was a very good thing, for otherwise they would have torn each other in pieces, merely because the one was in front of the other.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000010_000000.wav|'Well,' said Blockhead Hans, 'if I can't have a horse, I will take the goat which is mine; he can carry me!'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000018_000001.wav|Are you going to send that, too, to the Princess?'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000030_000001.wav|My father is roasting young chickens to day!' said the Princess.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000017_000001.wav|Look what I have just found!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000036_000001.wav|'How do you-um.'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000017_000000.wav|'Slap! bang! here I am again!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000009_000000.wav|'Stop that nonsense!' said the old man.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000031_000001.wav|He was not prepared for such a speech; he did not know what to say, although he wanted to say something witty.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000035_000000.wav|'Of course!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000006_000000.wav|'We are going to Court, to woo the Princess!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000004_000002.wav|All the servants stood in the courtyard and saw them mount their steeds, and here by chance came the third brother; for the squire had three sons, but nobody counted him with his brothers, for he was not so learned as they were, and he was generally called 'Blockhead Hans.'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000024_000000.wav|'Of course it is!' said Blockhead Hans, 'and it is the best kind!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000024_000001.wav|Look how it runs through one's fingers!' and, so saying, he filled his pocket with the mud.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000046_000000.wav|'I like you!' said the Princess.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000015_000000.wav|'With the crow?|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000045_000001.wav|'I have so much that I can quite well throw some away!' and he poured some mud out of his pocket.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000005_000001.wav|You are in your Sunday best clothes!'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000011_000000.wav|And he did so.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000037_000000.wav|'It doesn't matter!' said the Princess. 'Take him out!'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000007_000001.wav|I'll go to!' cried Blockhead Hans; and the brothers laughed at him and rode off.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000007_000000.wav|'Hurrah!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000041_000000.wav|'That's good!' replied Blockhead Hans; 'then can I roast a crow with them?'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000049_000000.wav|Blockhead Hans became King, got a wife and a crown, and sat on the throne; and this we have still damp from the newspaper of the editor and the reporters-and they are not to be believed for a moment.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000008_000001.wav|What a desire for marriage has seized me!|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000027_000000.wav|'It doesn't matter!' said the Princess. 'Away! out with him!'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000036_000000.wav|'How do you-um!' he said, and the reporters wrote down.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000008_000000.wav|'Dear father!' cried Blockhead Hans, 'I must have a horse too.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000046_000002.wav|And the reporters giggled, and each dropped a blot of ink on the floor.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000042_000000.wav|'With the greatest of pleasure!' said the Princess; 'but have you anything you can roast them in? for I have neither pot nor saucepan.'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000014_000000.wav|'Blockhead!' said his brothers, 'what are you going to do with it?'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000013_000001.wav|Just look what I found on the road!'--and he showed them a dead crow which he had picked up.|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1509/145742/1509_145742_000009_000002.wav|Your brothers! Ah! they are very different lads!'|1509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000015_000000.wav|After this event Merlin was never more known to hold converse with any mortal but Viviane, except on one occasion.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000004_000003.wav|The edifice, when brought by the workmen to a certain height, three times fell to the ground, without any apparent cause.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000024_000000.wav|[Footnote: Buried under beare.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000009_000001.wav|At one time he appeared as a dwarf, at others as a damsel, a page, or even a greyhound or a stag.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000015_000006.wav|But do thou hasten to King Arthur, and charge him from me to undertake, without delay, the quest of the Sacred Graal.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000004_000000.wav|At this time Vortigern reigned in Britain.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000005_000004.wav|The red dragon was slain, and the white one, gliding through a cleft in the rock, disappeared.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000006_000003.wav|Merlin became his chief adviser, and often assisted the king by his magical arts.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/172156/3330_172156_000003_000000.wav|Merlin was the son of no mortal father, but of an Incubus, one of a class of beings not absolutely wicked, but far from good, who inhabit the regions of the air.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000027_000000.wav|Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000063_000001.wav|So Damon tells me, and I can quite believe him;--he says that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000007_000005.wav|But do not put this idea into our heads; for, if we listen to you, the husbandman will be no longer a husbandman, the potter will cease to be a potter, and no one will have the character of any distinct class in the State.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000044_000000.wav|Why so?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000074_000000.wav|Very true, he said.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000045_000000.wav|You ought to speak of other States in the plural number; not one of them is a city, but many cities, as they say in the game.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000056_000001.wav|he asked.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000013_000000.wav|Wealth, I said, and poverty.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000035_000000.wav|What, now, I said, if he were able to run away and then turn and strike at the one who first came up?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000033_000000.wav|And do you not suppose, Adeimantus, that a single boxer who was perfect in his art would easily be a match for two stout and well to do gentlemen who were not boxers?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000014_000000.wav|How do they act?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000067_000000.wav|Yes, I replied, in the form of amusement; and at first sight it appears harmless.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000018_000000.wav|Very true.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000038_000000.wav|Likely enough.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000076_000000.wav|What do you mean?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000069_000000.wav|Is that true?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000063_000000.wav|they will be afraid that he may be praising, not new songs, but a new kind of song; and this ought not to be praised, or conceived to be the meaning of the poet; for any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole State, and ought to be prohibited.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000024_000000.wav|That is evident.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000007_000011.wav|And thus the whole State will grow up in a noble order, and the several classes will receive the proportion of happiness which nature assigns to them.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000026_000000.wav|What evils?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000007_000004.wav|Our potters also might be allowed to repose on couches, and feast by the fireside, passing round the winecup, while their wheel is conveniently at hand, and working at pottery only as much as they like; in this way we might make every class happy-and then, as you imagine, the whole State would be happy.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000084_000000.wav|That is not to be denied.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000069_000001.wav|I said.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000082_000000.wav|To be sure.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000070_000000.wav|That is my belief, he replied.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000007_000008.wav|But, if so, we mean different things, and he is speaking of something which is not a State.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000006_000000.wav|Yes.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000056_000000.wav|What may that be?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000034_000000.wav|Hardly, if they came upon him at once.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000022_000000.wav|Certainly not.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000078_000000.wav|Yes.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000073_000000.wav|And when they have made a good beginning in play, and by the help of music have gained the habit of good order, then this habit of order, in a manner how unlike the lawless play of the others! will accompany them in all their actions and be a principle of growth to them, and if there be any fallen places in the State will raise them up again.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000019_000000.wav|And the result will be that he becomes a worse potter?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000066_000000.wav|Yes, he said; the lawlessness of which you speak too easily steals in.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000059_000000.wav|Also, I said, the State, if once started well, moves with accumulating force like a wheel.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000008_000000.wav|I think that you are quite right.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000047_000000.wav|And what, I said, will be the best limit for our rulers to fix when they are considering the size of the State and the amount of territory which they are to include, and beyond which they will not go?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000016_000000.wav|Certainly not.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000032_000000.wav|That is true, he said.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000010_000000.wav|What may that be?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000051_000000.wav|Here then, I said, is another order which will have to be conveyed to our guardians: Let our city be accounted neither large nor small, but one and self sufficing.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000081_000001.wav|Does not like always attract like?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000060_000000.wav|Very possibly, he said.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000046_000000.wav|That is most true, he said.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000030_000000.wav|How so?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000012_000000.wav|What are they?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000072_000000.wav|Very true, he said.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000054_000000.wav|Yes, he said; that is not so difficult.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000085_000000.wav|And for this reason, I said, I shall not attempt to legislate further about them.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000005_000000.wav|You mean to ask, I said, what will be our answer?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000042_000000.wav|That is not likely; and yet there might be a danger to the poor State if the wealth of many States were to be gathered into one.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000007_000009.wav|And therefore we must consider whether in appointing our guardians we would look to their greatest happiness individually, or whether this principle of happiness does not rather reside in the State as a whole.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000003_000000.wav|Yes, I said; and you may add that they are only fed, and not paid in addition to their food, like other men; and therefore they cannot, if they would, take a journey of pleasure; they have no money to spend on a mistress or any other luxurious fancy, which, as the world goes, is thought to be happiness; and many other accusations of the same nature might be added.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000049_000000.wav|I would allow the State to increase so far as is consistent with unity; that, I think, is the proper limit.|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3330/170956/3330_170956_000035_000001.wav|And supposing he were to do this several times under the heat of a scorching sun, might he not, being an expert, overturn more than one stout personage?|3330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000053_000001.wav|However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000054_000000.wav|'And now which is which?' she said to herself, and nibbled a little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment she felt a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000056_000000.wav|'Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000014_000000.wav|'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000077_000003.wav|I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000050_000000.wav|This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000030_000000.wav|'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son, 'I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000060_000001.wav|'Let me alone!'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000076_000000.wav|'Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000067_000000.wav|'And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,' continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, 'and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky!|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000016_000000.wav|'Why?' said the Caterpillar.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000062_000000.wav|'I haven't the least idea what you're talking about,' said Alice.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000023_000001.wav|For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, 'So you think you're changed, do you?'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000068_000000.wav|'But I'm NOT a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice. 'I'm a-I'm a-'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000034_000000.wav|'In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000040_000000.wav|The Caterpillar was the first to speak.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000041_000000.wav|'What size do you want to be?' it asked.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000071_000000.wav|'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000063_000001.wav|There's no pleasing them!'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000003_000000.wav|The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000042_000000.wav|'Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied; 'only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000052_000000.wav|'Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000019_000000.wav|This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came back again.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000077_000001.wav|'Come, there's half my plan done now!|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000077_000004.wav|However, I've got back to my right size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden-how IS that to be done, I wonder?' As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000055_000001.wav|Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000048_000000.wav|'But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000036_000000.wav|'I have answered three questions, and that is enough,' Said his father; 'don't give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000060_000000.wav|'I'm NOT a serpent!' said Alice indignantly.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000045_000000.wav|'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000057_000000.wav|'What CAN all that green stuff be?' said Alice. 'And where HAVE my shoulders got to?|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000077_000002.wav|How puzzling all these changes are!|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000058_000000.wav|As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000064_000000.wav|Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000018_000000.wav|'Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER five Advice from a Caterpillar|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000072_000000.wav|'I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000049_000000.wav|'You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000058_000001.wav|She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating her violently with its wings.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000065_000000.wav|'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look out for serpents night and day!|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000011_000000.wav|'Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice; 'but when you have to turn into a chrysalis-you will some day, you know-and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you'll feel it a little queer, won't you?'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000025_000000.wav|'Can't remember WHAT things?' said the Caterpillar.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000077_000000.wav|It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000050_000001.wav|In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000066_000000.wav|'I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice, who was beginning to see its meaning.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000061_000000.wav|'Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000026_000000.wav|'Well, I've tried to say "HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY BEE," but it all came different!' Alice replied in a very melancholy voice.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000029_000000.wav|'You are old, Father William,' the young man said, 'And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head- Do you think, at your age, it is right?'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000071_000002.wav|No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000069_000000.wav|'Well!|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000076_000002.wav|After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000057_000001.wav|And oh, my poor hands, how is it I can't see you?' She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the distant green leaves.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000069_000001.wav|WHAT are you?' said the Pigeon.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000073_000000.wav|'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do, why then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say.'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000028_000000.wav|Alice folded her hands, and began:--|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000006_000001.wav|'Explain yourself!'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000033_000000.wav|'You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak- Pray how did you manage to do it?'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000032_000000.wav|'In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, 'I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment-one shilling the box- Allow me to sell you a couple?'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000053_000000.wav|Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000037_000000.wav|'That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000050_000002.wav|Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, 'One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000012_000000.wav|'Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000020_000000.wav|'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000017_000000.wav|Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a VERY unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000039_000000.wav|'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000024_000000.wav|'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; 'I can't remember things as I used-and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000023_000000.wav|Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000065_000001.wav|Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000022_000000.wav|'No,' said the Caterpillar.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000031_000000.wav|'You are old,' said the youth, 'as I mentioned before, And have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet you turned a back somersault in at the door- Pray, what is the reason of that?'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000009_000000.wav|'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very politely, 'for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000074_000000.wav|This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent for a minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, 'You're looking for eggs, I know THAT well enough; and what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a serpent?'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000046_000000.wav|'Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger, sir, if you wouldn't mind,' said Alice: 'three inches is such a wretched height to be.'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000005_000001.wav|Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I-I hardly know, sir, just at present-at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000018_000001.wav|'I've something important to say!'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000035_000000.wav|'You are old,' said the youth, 'one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose- What made you so awfully clever?'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000004_000000.wav|'Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000008_000000.wav|'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000055_000000.wav|She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000043_000000.wav|'I DON'T know,' said the Caterpillar.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000067_000001.wav|Ugh, Serpent!'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000044_000000.wav|Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000006_000000.wav|'What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000010_000000.wav|'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000076_000001.wav|Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000051_000001.wav|The other side of WHAT?' thought Alice to herself.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000051_000000.wav|'One side of WHAT?|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000014_000001.wav|'Who are YOU?'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000005_000000.wav|This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000015_000000.wav|Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation. Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's making such VERY short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, 'I think, you ought to tell me who YOU are, first.'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000038_000000.wav|'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words have got altered.'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/123443/459_123443_000069_000002.wav|'I can see you're trying to invent something!'|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000029_000002.wav|As soon as I was clear of the thicket, I ran as I never ran before, scarce minding the direction of my flight, so long as it led me from the murderers; and as I ran, fear grew and grew upon me until it turned into a kind of frenzy.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000005.wav|Kill me too, if you can.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000028_000000.wav|But now john put his hand into his pocket, brought out a whistle, and blew upon it several modulated blasts that rang far across the heated air.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000022_000000.wav|And at this point Tom flashed out like a hero.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000016_000000.wav|And then all of a sudden he was interrupted by a noise.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000005_000000.wav|Then I came to a long thicket of these oaklike trees-live, or evergreen, oaks, I heard afterwards they should be called-which grew low along the sand like brambles, the boughs curiously twisted, the foliage compact, like thatch.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000004.wav|You've killed Alan, have you?|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000025_000002.wav|But he had no time given him to recover.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000016_000002.wav|Far away out in the marsh there arose, all of a sudden, a sound like the cry of anger, then another on the back of it; and then one horrid, long drawn scream.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000006_000001.wav|I judged at once that some of my shipmates must be drawing near along the borders of the fen.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000015_000000.wav|"Silver," said the other man-and I observed he was not only red in the face, but spoke as hoarse as a crow, and his voice shook too, like a taut rope-"Silver," says he, "you're old, and you're honest, or has the name for it; and you've money too, which lots of poor sailors hasn't; and you're brave, or I'm mistook.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000003_000001.wav|On the far side of the open stood one of the hills, with two quaint, craggy peaks shining vividly in the sun|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000015_000004.wav|If I turn agin my dooty-"|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000021_000000.wav|"That?" returned Silver, smiling away, but warier than ever, his eye a mere pin point in his big face, but gleaming like a crumb of glass. "That?|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000005_000002.wav|The marsh was steaming in the strong sun, and the outline of the Spy glass trembled through the haze.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000002.wav|And as for you, john Silver, long you've been a mate of mine, but you're mate of mine no more.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000028_000003.wav|I might be discovered.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000032_000000.wav|And here a fresh alarm brought me to a standstill with a thumping heart.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000015_000003.wav|As sure as God sees me, I'd sooner lose my hand.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000024_000000.wav|And with that, this brave fellow turned his back directly on the cook and set off walking for the beach.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000016_000003.wav|The rocks of the Spy glass re echoed it a score of times; the whole troop of marsh birds rose again, darkening heaven, with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had re-established its empire, and only the rustle of the redescending birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the languor of the afternoon.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000017_000000.wav|Tom had leaped at the sound, like a horse at the spur, but Silver had not winked an eye.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000005_000001.wav|The thicket stretched down from the top of one of the sandy knolls, spreading and growing taller as it went, until it reached the margin of the broad, reedy fen, through which the nearest of the little rivers soaked its way into the anchorage.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000013_000000.wav|The sun beat full upon them.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000002.wav|Would not the first of them who saw me wring my neck like a snipe's?|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000015_000002.wav|Not you!|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000000.wav|Indeed, could anyone be more entirely lost than I?|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000029_000000.wav|Instantly I began to extricate myself and crawl back again, with what speed and silence I could manage, to the more open portion of the wood.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000020_000001.wav|"It's a black conscience that can make you feared of me.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000001.wav|"Then rest his soul for a true seaman!|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000027_000000.wav|When I came again to myself the monster had pulled himself together, his crutch under his arm, his hat upon his head.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000001_000000.wav|The First Blow|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000000.wav|"Alan!" he cried.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000006_000002.wav|Nor was I deceived, for soon I heard the very distant and low tones of a human voice, which, as I continued to give ear, grew steadily louder and nearer.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000006.wav|There was nothing left for me but death by starvation or death by the hands of the mutineers.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000029_000001.wav|As I did so, I could hear hails coming and going between the old buccaneer and his comrades, and this sound of danger lent me wings.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000014_000000.wav|"Mate," he was saying, "it's because I thinks gold dust of you-gold dust, and you may lay to that!|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000031_000002.wav|The air too smelt more freshly than down beside the marsh.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000010_000000.wav|And now I began to feel that I was neglecting my business, that since I had been so foolhardy as to come ashore with these desperadoes, the least I could do was to overhear them at their councils, and that my plain and obvious duty was to draw as close as I could manage, under the favourable ambush of the crouching trees.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000020_000002.wav|But in heaven's name, tell me, what was that?"|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000003.wav|Would not my absence itself be an evidence to them of my alarm, and therefore of my fatal knowledge?|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000015_000001.wav|And will you tell me you'll let yourself be led away with that kind of a mess of swabs?|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000019_000000.wav|"Hands off!" cried Silver, leaping back a yard, as it seemed to me, with the speed and security of a trained gymnast.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000024_000002.wav|His hands flew up, he gave a sort of gasp, and fell.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000006.wav|But I defies you."|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000004_000001.wav|The isle was uninhabited; my shipmates I had left behind, and nothing lived in front of me but dumb brutes and fowls.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000018_000000.wav|"john!" said the sailor, stretching out his hand.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000004_000003.wav|Here and there were flowering plants, unknown to me; here and there I saw snakes, and one raised his head from a ledge of rock and hissed at me with a noise not unlike the spinning of a top.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000028_000004.wav|They had already slain two of the honest people; after Tom and Alan, might not I come next?|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000016_000001.wav|I had found one of the honest hands-well, here, at that same moment, came news of another.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000020_000000.wav|"Hands off, if you like, john Silver," said the other.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000003_000000.wav|I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and I had now come out upon the skirts of an open piece of undulating, sandy country, about a mile long, dotted with a few pines and a great number of contorted trees, not unlike the oak in growth, but pale in the foliage, like willows.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000005.wav|Good bye to the HISPANIOLA; good bye to the squire, the doctor, and the captain!|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000006_000000.wav|All at once there began to go a sort of bustle among the bulrushes; a wild duck flew up with a quack, another followed, and soon over the whole surface of the marsh a great cloud of birds hung screaming and circling in the air.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000014_000001.wav|If I hadn't took to you like pitch, do you think I'd have been here a warning of you?|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000008_000001.wav|By the sound they must have been talking earnestly, and almost fiercely; but no distinct word came to my hearing.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000009_000000.wav|At last the speakers seemed to have paused and perhaps to have sat down, for not only did they cease to draw any nearer, but the birds themselves began to grow more quiet and to settle again to their places in the swamp.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000000_000000.wav|fourteen|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000031_000000.wav|All this while, as I say, I was still running, and without taking any notice, I had drawn near to the foot of the little hill with the two peaks and had got into a part of the island where the live oaks grew more widely apart and seemed more like forest trees in their bearing and dimensions.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000025_000000.wav|Whether he were injured much or little, none could ever tell.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000025_000004.wav|From my place of ambush, I could hear him pant aloud as he struck the blows.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000028_000002.wav|More men would be coming.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000031_000001.wav|Mingled with these were a few scattered pines, some fifty, some nearer seventy, feet high.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000011_000000.wav|I could tell the direction of the speakers pretty exactly, not only by the sound of their voices but by the behaviour of the few birds that still hung in alarm above the heads of the intruders.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000025_000003.wav|Silver, agile as a monkey even without leg or crutch, was on the top of him next moment and had twice buried his knife up to the hilt in that defenceless body.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000023_000003.wav|If I die like a dog, I'll die in my dooty.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000008_000000.wav|Another voice answered, and then the first voice, which I now recognized to be Silver's, once more took up the story and ran on for a long while in a stream, only now and again interrupted by the other.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000004_000004.wav|Little did I suppose that he was a deadly enemy and that the noise was the famous rattle.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000007_000000.wav|This put me in a great fear, and I crawled under cover of the nearest live oak and squatted there, hearkening, as silent as a mouse.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000028_000001.wav|I could not tell, of course, the meaning of the signal, but it instantly awoke my fears.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000030_000001.wav|When the gun fired, how should I dare to go down to the boats among those fiends, still smoking from their crime?|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000002_000000.wav|I WAS so pleased at having given the slip to Long john that I began to enjoy myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land that I was in.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000025_000001.wav|Like enough, to judge from the sound, his back was broken on the spot.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000004_000002.wav|I turned hither and thither among the trees.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000012_000000.wav|Crawling on all fours, I made steadily but slowly towards them, till at last, raising my head to an aperture among the leaves, I could see clear down into a little green dell beside the marsh, and closely set about with trees, where Long john Silver and another of the crew stood face to face in conversation.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000024_000001.wav|But he was not destined to go far. With a cry john seized the branch of a tree, whipped the crutch out of his armpit, and sent that uncouth missile hurtling through the air. It struck poor Tom, point foremost, and with stunning violence, right between the shoulders in the middle of his back.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127522/459_127522_000017_000001.wav|He stood where he was, resting lightly on his crutch, watching his companion like a snake about to spring.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000019_000004.wav|Now, we've only one man to rely on."|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000026_000000.wav|At last, however, the party was made up.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000023_000001.wav|A turn ashore'll hurt nobody-the boats are still in the water; you can take the gigs, and as many as please may go ashore for the afternoon.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000005.wav|Or rather, I suppose the truth was this, that all hands were disaffected by the example of the ringleaders-only some more, some less; and a few, being good fellows in the main, could neither be led nor driven any further.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000011_000000.wav|We brought up just where the anchor was in the chart, about a third of a mile from each shore, the mainland on one side and Skeleton Island on the other.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000020_000000.wav|"And who is that?" asked the squire.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000014_000000.wav|"I don't know about treasure," he said, "but I'll stake my wig there's fever here."|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000021_000002.wav|If they all go, why we'll fight the ship.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000001_000000.wav|thirteen|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000017_000000.wav|Of all the gloomy features of that gloomy afternoon, this obvious anxiety on the part of Long john appeared the worst.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000016_000000.wav|And it was not only we of the cabin party who perceived the danger.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000012_000002.wav|From the ship we could see nothing of the house or stockade, for they were quite buried among trees; and if it had not been for the chart on the companion, we might have been the first that had ever anchored there since the island arose out of the seas.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000027_000000.wav|Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to save our lives.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000021_000003.wav|If they none of them go, well then, we hold the cabin, and God defend the right.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000015_000001.wav|They lay about the deck growling together in talk.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000021_000001.wav|This is a tiff; he'd soon talk 'em out of it if he had the chance, and what I propose to do is to give him the chance. Let's allow the men an afternoon ashore.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000015_000004.wav|Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder cloud.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000016_000001.wav|Long john was hard at work going from group to group, spending himself in good advice, and as for example no man could have shown a better.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000001.wav|He whipped out of sight in a moment, leaving Silver to arrange the party, and I fancy it was as well he did so.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000007_000000.wav|"Well," he said with an oath, "it's not forever."|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000003.wav|It was as plain as day. Silver was the captain, and a mighty rebellious crew he had of it.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000000.wav|The captain was too bright to be in the way.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000027_000003.wav|In a jiffy I had slipped over the side and curled up in the fore sheets of the nearest boat, and almost at the same moment she shoved off.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000021_000000.wav|"Silver, sir," returned the captain; "he's as anxious as you and I to smother things up.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000006_000003.wav|Anderson was in command of my boat, and instead of keeping the crew in order, he grumbled as loud as the worst.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000023_000002.wav|I'll fire a gun half an hour before sundown."|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000022_000000.wav|It was so decided; loaded pistols were served out to all the sure men; Hunter, Joyce, and Redruth were taken into our confidence and received the news with less surprise and a better spirit than we had looked for, and then the captain went on deck and addressed the crew.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000027_000001.wav|If six men were left by Silver, it was plain our party could not take and fight the ship; and since only six were left, it was equally plain that the cabin party had no present need of my assistance.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000012_000000.wav|The place was entirely land locked, buried in woods, the trees coming right down to high water mark, the shores mostly flat, and the hilltops standing round at a distance in a sort of amphitheatre, one here, one there.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000019_000002.wav|I get a rough answer, do I not?|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000016_000002.wav|He fairly outstripped himself in willingness and civility; he was all smiles to everyone.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000003_000001.wav|Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern coast. Grey coloured woods covered a large part of the surface.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000004.wav|The honest hands-and I was soon to see it proved that there were such on board-must have been very stupid fellows.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000026_000001.wav|Six fellows were to stay on board, and the remaining thirteen, including Silver, began to embark.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000011_000001.wav|The bottom was clean sand.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000011_000002.wav|The plunge of our anchor sent up clouds of birds wheeling and crying over the woods, but in less than a minute they were down again and all was once more silent.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000015_000000.wav|If the conduct of the men had been alarming in the boat, it became truly threatening when they had come aboard.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000024_000000.wav|I believe the silly fellows must have thought they would break their shins over treasure as soon as they were landed, for they all came out of their sulks in a moment and gave a cheer that started the echo in a faraway hill and sent the birds once more flying and squalling round the anchorage.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000006_000002.wav|The heat was sweltering, and the men grumbled fiercely over their work.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000031_000000.wav|But you may suppose I paid no heed; jumping, ducking, and breaking through, I ran straight before my nose till I could run no longer.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000008_000000.wav|I thought this was a very bad sign, for up to that day the men had gone briskly and willingly about their business; but the very sight of the island had relaxed the cords of discipline.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000013_000000.wav|There was not a breath of air moving, nor a sound but that of the surf booming half a mile away along the beaches and against the rocks outside.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000013_000001.wav|A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage-a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000023_000000.wav|"My lads," said he, "we've had a hot day and are all tired and out of sorts.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000019_000001.wav|You see, sir, here it is.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000002.wav|Had he been on deck, he could no longer so much as have pretended not to understand the situation.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000018_000000.wav|We held a council in the cabin.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000025_000006.wav|It is one thing to be idle and skulk and quite another to take a ship and murder a number of innocent men.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000015_000002.wav|The slightest order was received with a black look and grudgingly and carelessly obeyed.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000028_000000.wav|No one took notice of me, only the bow oar saying, "Is that you, Jim? Keep your head down." But Silver, from the other boat, looked sharply over and called out to know if that were me; and from that moment I began to regret what I had done.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000004_000000.wav|The HISPANIOLA was rolling scuppers under in the ocean swell.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000004_000001.wav|The booms were tearing at the blocks, the rudder was banging to and fro, and the whole ship creaking, groaning, and jumping like a manufactory.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000006_000001.wav|I volunteered for one of the boats, where I had, of course, no business.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/459/127521/459_127521_000027_000002.wav|It occurred to me at once to go ashore.|459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000045_000003.wav|"Boys!" shouted Father De Smet.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000013_000000.wav|But Netteke was now just as much bent upon going as she had been before upon standing still.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000040_000000.wav|Father De Smet looked them in the face and said not a word.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000009_000001.wav|Joseph seized his hand.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000037_000003.wav|After supper will do; but first we'll drink a health to the Kaiser, and since you are host here, you shall propose it!"|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000050_000000.wav|"Oh," cried Mother De Smet, "it was as if the good God himself intervened to save you!"|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000022_000000.wav|"No," Father De Smet called back, "I didn't name her after the Kaiser. I think too much of my mule!"|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000034_000001.wav|I told you we should meet again!" shouted the soldier to Father De Smet.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000041_000001.wav|The river had now quite a current, which helped them, and while the soldiers were still having their joke with Father De Smet the boat moved quietly out of sight.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000019_000000.wav|"No," answered Father De Smet, "I think too much of my King to name my mule after him."|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000005_000000.wav|"There isn't a thing," answered his father.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000008_000000.wav|"Son," he said sternly, "don't ever let me hear you say such a thing again.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000006_000000.wav|"Well," answered Joseph, "there are a whole lot of other things beside balky mules in this world that I wish had never been made.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000015_000001.wav|In one more step she would have come down upon the soldier's toes, if he had not moved aside just in time.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000038_000000.wav|He pointed to the pail of milk which Father De Smet still held.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000043_000003.wav|We want our supper, and you delay us." Still Father De Smet said nothing.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000026_000000.wav|"Very well," said her husband; "we'll stop under that bunch of willows."|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000036_000000.wav|"What do you want here?" he said.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000051_000003.wav|If he hadn't been greedy, he might have carried out his plan, but he wanted our potatoes and our supper too; and so he got neither!" he chuckled.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000044_000001.wav|From an unexpected quarter a shot rang out.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000011_000001.wav|There, standing right in front of them in the tow path, was a German soldier!|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000047_000003.wav|If you had not started the boat when you did, it is quite likely they might have got me, after all, and the potatoes too.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000025_000002.wav|Besides, I want to send over there," she pointed to a farmhouse not a great distance from the river, "and get some milk and eggs."|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000024_000000.wav|"Very likely," muttered Father De Smet under his breath.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000003_000001.wav|"You have made no end of trouble for us, and gained nothing for yourself!|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000006_000001.wav|There are spiders, and rats, and Germans.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000007_000000.wav|Father De Smet became serious at once.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000025_000000.wav|"I think we shall have to stop soon and feed the mule or she will be too tired to get us across the line at all.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000003_000000.wav|"Now, why couldn't you have done that long ago, you addlepated old fool," he said mildly to Netteke.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000045_000007.wav|On went the boat at Netteke's best speed, which seemed no better than a snail's pace to the fleeing family.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000043_000000.wav|Meanwhile his captors were busy with Father De Smet.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000045_000004.wav|"Get aboard!|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000044_000004.wav|One of his companions gave a howl and fell to the ground.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000017_000000.wav|"It's a balky mule," replied Father De Smet mildly, "and very obstinate."|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000043_000002.wav|Drink to the Kaiser!" shouted the first soldier, "or we'll feed you to the fishes!|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000037_000001.wav|"Then, perhaps, a few supplies for our brave army.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000009_000000.wav|Father De Smet was so much in earnest that he boomed these words out in quite a loud voice.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000051_000002.wav|But the smell of the onions was too much for him!|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000043_000001.wav|"Come!|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000051_000005.wav|Instead, he got a salute from the Belgians." He crossed himself reverently. "Thank God for our soldiers," he said, and Mother De Smet, weeping softly, murmured a devout "Amen."|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000037_000002.wav|There is no hurry.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000025_000001.wav|I believe we should save time by stopping for supper.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000045_000009.wav|It was after ten o'clock at night when the "Old Woman" at last approached the twinkling lights of Antwerp, and they knew that, for the time being at least, they were safe.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000045_000000.wav|Father De Smet fled, too.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000049_000000.wav|"Neither did I," answered his father; "and neither did the Germans for that matter.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000003_000003.wav|We may even have to spend the night in dangerous territory, and all because you're just as mulish as, as a mule," he finished helplessly.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000034_000002.wav|"And it was certainly thoughtful of you to provide for our entertainment.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000015_000002.wav|He was very angry.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000015_000000.wav|But Netteke had had no military training, and she simply kept on.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000018_000000.wav|"Indeed!" sneered the soldier; "then, I suppose you have named him Albert after your pig headed King!"|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000051_000004.wav|"And neither did the Kaiser get a toast from me!|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000030_000003.wav|When Father De Smet returned, supper was nearly ready.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000047_000004.wav|I am proud of you."|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000034_000003.wav|Comrades, fall to!"|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000023_000001.wav|"I'll make you pay well for your impudence!" he shouted.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000033_000000.wav|Father De Smet was so startled that he dropped the eggs.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000047_000000.wav|"They overreached themselves," he said.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000008_000001.wav|There are spiders, and rats, and balky mules, and Germans, and it doesn't do a bit of good to waste words fussing because they are here.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000047_000002.wav|"You were brave boys!|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000037_000000.wav|"Some supper first," said the soldier gayly, helping himself to some onions and passing the pan to his friends.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000024_000001.wav|He was now more than ever anxious to get beyond the German lines before dark, but as the afternoon passed it became certain that they would not be able to do it.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000046_000001.wav|Here, in a suburb of the city, Father De Smet decided to dock for the night.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000034_000000.wav|"Ha!|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000011_000000.wav|Father De Smet looked up.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000044_000000.wav|But he did not finish the sentence.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51163/5809_51163_000006_000002.wav|They are all pests.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000013_000001.wav|It will thus be seen that dew performs an important part in supporting vegetation.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000011.wav|He found upon weighing these after a night's exposure under a clear sky that the cotton wool on top of the board had gained fourteen grains in weight from the moisture, or dew, that had formed upon it, while the same amount of cotton on the under side of the board had only increased four grains.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000009_000004.wav|From what has gone before it will be seen that if the atmosphere is not charged with moisture up to the point of saturation it will require a greater amount of depression of temperature to cause condensation, and this is why we usually have heavier dews in June when the air is more highly charged with moisture than we do in August when it is dry.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000012_000005.wav|Frost-which of course is but frozen dew-at this season of the year will form on a still autumn night, although the atmosphere at some distance above the ground is some degrees above the freezing point.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000003.wav|In cold weather we call it frost.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000004.wav|It has been stated in a former chapter on evaporation that the capacity of the air for holding moisture in a transparent form depends upon its temperature.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000012_000002.wav|If under these conditions a cloud floats overhead, forming a heat screen, its presence will be readily noticed by a rise in the thermometer.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000007.wav|When the air is charged with this vapor to the point of saturation (which point varies with the temperature) a slight depression of the temperature is sufficient to condense this vapor into cloud or drops of water.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000011_000000.wav|It is a curious fact that often there will be a heavier dew under the blaze of a full moon on a clear night than at any other time.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000005_000001.wav|twenty).|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000011_000009.wav|This clears away the heat screen in the atmosphere and allows radiation to go on more rapidly at the earth's surface, and thus cools it to a greater extent when the moon is shining brightly than when it is dark and in the shadow of the earth.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000011_000008.wav|There are but few days in summer when there is not a haze in the atmosphere, although we call the sky clear, which intensifies the light and gives everything a warmer tone. The heat coming from a full moon on a clear night is absorbed in causing the aqueous vapors that are partly condensed in the higher regions of the atmosphere, to be reabsorbed into transparent vapor.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000011_000003.wav|For half the month, say, the sun is shining continuously upon all or a part of it.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000004_000000.wav|Everyone has noticed that at certain times in the year the grass becomes wet in the evening and grows more so till the sun rises the next day and dispels the moisture, and this when no cloud is seen.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000009_000003.wav|The covering acts as a screen, which prevents the heat from radiating to the dew point.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000003_000004.wav|If not, you have missed a picture that otherwise would have been hung on the walls of your memory, that no one could rob you of.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000011_000005.wav|The moon does not revolve upon its own axis like the earth, therefore the same side or a portion of it is exposed to the sun for fourteen days.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000012_000003.wav|Radiation into the upper regions of the atmosphere is checked, which causes a sudden rise in the temperature near the surface of the earth.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000009.wav|He weighed out pieces of equal weight and attached a number of them to the upper side of a board and as many more to the lower side, and exposed it to the night air under varying conditions.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000004_000004.wav|In former times some scientists supposed that it was a fine rain that fell from the higher regions of the atmosphere. Others supposed it to be an emanation from the earth, while still others supposed it was an exudation from the stars.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000015.wav|It has been determined that substances like grass and green leaves of all kinds, hay and straw, while they are poor conductors of heat, are excellent radiators.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000004_000002.wav|It was as familiar to the ancients as it is to us, and yet it is only about three quarters of a century since the cause of it has been understood.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000015_000002.wav|In some cases the blooming flowers were in actual contact with the snow.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000014_000002.wav|When it is condensed at the surface of the earth we have the phenomenon of frost, but when condensed in the upper regions of the atmosphere we have that of snow.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000016.wav|In another chapter we have referred to this quality of straw, that is taken advantage of by the inhabitants of hot countries in the manufacture of ice and in our own land for storing it.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000008.wav|Between eighteen twelve and eighteen fourteen dr Wells made a series of experiments with flocks of cotton wool.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000011_000001.wav|The moon has no screens about it of any kind to obstruct the free radiation of heat.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000003_000000.wav|Reader, did you ever live in the country?|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000012_000001.wav|Sometimes the difference is very marked, amounting to as much as twenty or thirty degrees.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000006.wav|If it is sixty degrees Fahrenheit the air will retain six grains of transparent moisture to the square foot of air, while at eighty degrees it will contain nearly eleven grains.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000002_000000.wav|HOW DEW IS FORMED.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000010.wav|One experiment was made with a board four feet from the earth, so that half of the bunches of cotton faced the ground and the other half the sky.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000007_000012.wav|He tried further experiments by making little paper houses, or boxes, to cover a certain portion of grass or vegetation.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/58763/5809_58763_000010_000001.wav|If, however, it is cloudy or the wind is blowing there is rarely any formation of dew.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000033_000000.wav|Marie seized Jan's arm.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000001_000000.wav|ON THE TOW PATH|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000043_000003.wav|When she has made up her mind she is as difficult to persuade as a setting hen."|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000027_000001.wav|Go ahead," said Father De Smet.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000013_000000.wav|"Look alive there, Mate!" sang out Father De Smet.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000037_000002.wav|Netteke would not move.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000007_000002.wav|"You roar like a foghorn on a dark night.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000004_000001.wav|Half an hour later, when Mother De Smet went back to get some potatoes for the soup, she found Jan proudly steering the boat by himself.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000016_000000.wav|For the most part, however, the countryside seemed so quiet and peaceful that it was hard to believe that such dreadful things were going on all about them.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000006_000000.wav|"Here!" boomed a loud voice behind her, and Father De Smet's head appeared above a barrel on the other side of the deck.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000007_000001.wav|You mustn't talk so loud," whispered Mother De Smet.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000034_000001.wav|"Father De Smet told me especially to keep away from Netteke's hind legs."|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000047_000001.wav|She kept her ears back and would not touch the water.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000026_000001.wav|It was level, open country all about them, dotted here and there with farmhouses, and in the distance the spire of a village church rose above the clustering houses and pointed to the sky.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000025_000001.wav|"The babies are both asleep and I have nothing to do."|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000031_000000.wav|"She'll wake up fast enough when it's time to eat, and so will you," said Marie, with profound wisdom.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000038_000000.wav|"What is the matter?" he shouted.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000048_000001.wav|The gangplank was put out, and he and Marie went on board.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000023_000000.wav|"Not a mule, exactly," Jail replied, "but I drove old Pier up from the field with a load of wheat all by myself.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000037_000005.wav|She made no effort to get it.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000013_000001.wav|"Hard aport with the tiller!|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000048_000000.wav|"All right, then, Crosspatch," said Jan. Leaving the pail in front of her, he went back to the boat.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000040_000000.wav|"Netteke has stopped.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000027_000002.wav|"Only don't get too near Netteke's hind legs.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000011_000000.wav|"Never mind, son," said Mother De Smet kindly, when she came back for her potatoes and saw his downcast face.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000010_000003.wav|Her potatoes spilled over the deck, while a wail from the front of the boat announced that one of the babies had bumped, too.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000030_000002.wav|I've been measuring by that farmhouse across the river for a long time, and she hasn't crawled up to it yet!|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000012_000000.wav|The boat gave a little lurch toward the middle of the stream.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000010_000006.wav|His father threw him a pole which was kept for such emergencies, and they both pushed.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000025_000000.wav|"May I go, too?" asked Marie timidly of Father De Smet as he was about to draw in the plank.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000037_000001.wav|In vain!|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000041_000002.wav|Hold it in front of her nose."|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000005_000000.wav|"Oh, my soul!" she cried in astonishment.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000037_000004.wav|But Netteke was really offended.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000043_000000.wav|"Then it's no use," said Father De Smet mournfully.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000005_000001.wav|"What a clever boy you must be to learn so quickly to handle the tiller.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000045_000000.wav|"Oh, dear!" said she; "I hoped we should get to the other side of the line before dark, but if Netteke's set, she's set, and we must just make the best of it.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000022_000000.wav|"Have you ever driven a mule before?" Father De Smet asked again.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000034_000000.wav|"You'll do nothing of the kind!" she cried.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000045_000002.wav|We'll eat, and maybe by the time we are through she'll be willing to start." Father De Smet tossed a bucket on to the grass.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000045_000001.wav|It's lucky it's dinner time.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000013_000002.wav|Head her out into the stream!"|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000020_000000.wav|"Would you like to drive the mule awhile?" he asked.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000042_000000.wav|"I have," answered Marie, "but she won't even look at it."|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000017_000001.wav|He hailed his father.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000010_000002.wav|Netteke, the mule, came to a sudden stop, and Mother De Smet sat down equally suddenly on a coil of rope.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000040_000002.wav|I think she's run down!" Marie called back.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000043_000001.wav|"She's balked and that is all there is to it.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5809/51162/5809_51162_000006_000002.wav|If the Germans see these potatoes, they'll never let us get them to Antwerp," he shouted.|5809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000064_000003.wav|When was it!|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000071_000000.wav|His hands released her as he uttered this cry, and went up to his white hair, which they tore in a frenzy.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000017_000000.wav|"I can't say that I mean to.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000036_000000.wav|"Is that all?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000047_000000.wav|"Monsieur Manette"; mr Lorry laid his hand upon Defarge's arm; "do you remember nothing of this man?|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000072_000002.wav|See what the prisoner is.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000054_000004.wav|The two spectators started forward, but she stayed them with a motion of her hand.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000005_000006.wav|So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished traveller, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have remembered home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000103_000000.wav|"I hope you care to be recalled to life?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000063_000002.wav|After looking doubtfully at it, two or three times, as if to be sure that it was really there, he laid down his work, put his hand to his neck, and took off a blackened string with a scrap of folded rag attached to it.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000090_000002.wav|They tried speaking to him; but, he was so confused, and so very slow to answer, that they took fright at his bewilderment, and agreed for the time to tamper with him no more.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000013_000000.wav|He had put up a hand between his eyes and the light, and the very bones of it seemed transparent.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000074_000001.wav|But I cannot tell you at this time, and I cannot tell you here.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000050_000000.wav|"Have you recognised him, monsieur?" asked Defarge in a whisper.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000082_000000.wav|"But, consider.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000086_000003.wav|If you will lock the door to secure us from interruption, I do not doubt that you will find him, when you come back, as quiet as you leave him.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000087_000001.wav|But, as there were not only carriage and horses to be seen to, but travelling papers; and as time pressed, for the day was drawing to an end, it came at last to their hastily dividing the business that was necessary to be done, and hurrying away to do it.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000095_000000.wav|But, before she could repeat the question, he murmured an answer as if she had repeated it.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000072_000005.wav|She was-and He was-before the slow years of the North Tower-ages ago.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000101_000006.wav|And so, under a short grove of feebler and feebler over swinging lamps, out under the great grove of stars.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000061_000000.wav|Not yet trusting the tones of her voice, she sat down on the bench beside him.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000004_000000.wav|After a long silence, the head was lifted for another moment, and the voice replied, "Yes-I am working." This time, a pair of haggard eyes had looked at the questioner, before the face had dropped again.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000016_000000.wav|"Do you mean to finish that pair of shoes to day?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000092_000000.wav|They began to descend; Monsieur Defarge going first with the lamp, mr Lorry closing the little procession.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000065_000001.wav|He turned her full to the light, and looked at her.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000058_000000.wav|"You are not the gaoler's daughter?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000071_000001.wav|It died out, as everything but his shoemaking did die out of him, and he refolded his little packet and tried to secure it in his breast; but he still looked at her, and gloomily shook his head.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000052_000001.wav|There was something awful in his unconsciousness of the figure that could have put out its hand and touched him as he stooped over his labour.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000047_000002.wav|Look at me.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000093_000001.wav|You remember coming up here?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000078_000000.wav|"If, when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you, weep for it, weep for it!|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000033_000000.wav|"Did you ask me for my name?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000078_000006.wav|Thank God for us, thank God!"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000011_000000.wav|"I must bear it, if you let it in." (Laying the palest shadow of a stress upon the second word.)|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000091_000000.wav|In the submissive way of one long accustomed to obey under coercion, he ate and drank what they gave him to eat and drink, and put on the cloak and other wrappings, that they gave him to wear.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000098_000002.wav|Only one soul was to be seen, and that was Madame Defarge-who leaned against the door post, knitting, and saw nothing.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000089_000001.wav|Monsieur Defarge put this provender, and the lamp he carried, on the shoemaker's bench (there was nothing else in the garret but a pallet bed), and he and mr Lorry roused the captive, and assisted him to his feet.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000030_000002.wav|It is in the present mode.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000062_000002.wav|In the midst of the action he went astray, and, with another deep sigh, fell to work at his shoemaking.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000101_000001.wav|Soldiers with lanterns, at the guard house there.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000028_000001.wav|What did you say?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000052_000000.wav|She had moved from the wall of the garret, very near to the bench on which he sat|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000073_000000.wav|Hailing his softened tone and manner, his daughter fell upon her knees before him, with her appealing hands upon his breast.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000012_000000.wav|The opened half door was opened a little further, and secured at that angle for the time.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000054_000002.wav|He had taken it up, and was stooping to work again, when his eyes caught the skirt of her dress.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000031_000000.wav|"And the maker's name?" said Defarge.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000061_000001.wav|He recoiled, but she laid her hand upon his arm.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000055_000001.wav|By degrees, in the pauses of his quick and laboured breathing, he was heard to say:|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000048_000001.wav|They were overclouded again, they were fainter, they were gone; but they had been there.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000097_000000.wav|That he had no recollection whatever of his having been brought from his prison to that house, was apparent to them.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000005_000005.wav|So sunken and suppressed it was, that it was like a voice underground.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000008_000000.wav|The shoemaker stopped his work; looked with a vacant air of listening, at the floor on one side of him; then similarly, at the floor on the other side of him; then, upward at the speaker.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000027_000000.wav|There was a longer pause than usual, before the shoemaker replied:|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000017_000001.wav|I suppose so.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000019_000002.wav|He showed no surprise at seeing another figure, but the unsteady fingers of one of his hands strayed to his lips as he looked at it (his lips and his nails were of the same pale lead colour), and then the hand dropped to his work, and he once more bent over the shoe.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000086_000001.wav|You see how composed he has become, and you cannot be afraid to leave him with me now.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000063_000003.wav|He opened this, carefully, on his knee, and it contained a very little quantity of hair: not more than one or two long golden hairs, which he had, in some old day, wound off upon his finger.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000078_000003.wav|Good gentlemen, thank God!|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000028_000000.wav|"I forget what it was you asked me.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000096_000002.wav|It was so very long ago."|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000070_000001.wav|"Whose voice was that?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000019_000001.wav|When he had stood, for a minute or two, by the side of Defarge, the shoemaker looked up.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000066_000000.wav|"She had laid her head upon my shoulder, that night when I was summoned out-she had a fear of my going, though I had none-and when I was brought to the North Tower they found these upon my sleeve.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000057_000000.wav|With the tears streaming down her face, she put her two hands to her lips, and kissed them to him; then clasped them on her breast, as if she laid his ruined head there.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000069_000001.wav|But she sat perfectly still in his grasp, and only said, in a low voice, "I entreat you, good gentlemen, do not come near us, do not speak, do not move!"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000047_000001.wav|Look at him.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000070_000000.wav|"Hark!" he exclaimed.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000075_000000.wav|His cold white head mingled with her radiant hair, which warmed and lighted it as though it were the light of Freedom shining on him.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000053_000001.wav|She stood, like a spirit, beside him, and he bent over his work.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000096_000000.wav|"Remember?|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000101_000002.wav|"Your papers, travellers!" "See here then, Monsieur the Officer," said Defarge, getting down, and taking him gravely apart, "these are the papers of monsieur inside, with the white head.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000082_000001.wav|Is he fit for the journey?" asked mr Lorry.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000054_000005.wav|She had no fear of his striking at her with the knife, though they had.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000063_000000.wav|But not for long.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000013_000001.wav|So he sat, with a steadfastly vacant gaze, pausing in his work.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000067_000000.wav|He formed this speech with his lips many times before he could utter it. But when he did find spoken words for it, they came to him coherently, though slowly.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000045_000000.wav|"Monsieur Manette, do you remember nothing of me?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000054_000003.wav|He raised them, and saw her face.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000037_000000.wav|"One Hundred and Five, North Tower."|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000029_000000.wav|"I said, couldn't you describe the kind of shoe, for monsieur's information?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000005_000002.wav|Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000060_000000.wav|"Who are you?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000049_000002.wav|Finally, with a deep long sigh, he took the shoe up, and resumed his work.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000086_000000.wav|"Then be so kind," urged Miss Manette, "as to leave us here.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000097_000002.wav|On their reaching the courtyard he instinctively altered his tread, as being in expectation of a drawbridge; and when there was no drawbridge, and he saw the carriage waiting in the open street, he dropped his daughter's hand and clasped his head again.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000042_000000.wav|He lapsed away, even for minutes, ringing those measured changes on his hands the whole time.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000085_000000.wav|"That's business," said mr Lorry, resuming on the shortest notice his methodical manners; "and if business is to be done, I had better do it."|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000077_000000.wav|She held him closer round the neck, and rocked him on her breast like a child.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000041_000000.wav|"I am not a shoemaker by trade?|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000056_000000.wav|"What is this?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000084_000001.wav|"More than that; Monsieur Manette is, for all reasons, best out of France. Say, shall I hire a carriage and post horses?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000012_000001.wav|A broad ray of light fell into the garret, and showed the workman with an unfinished shoe upon his lap, pausing in his labour.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000006_000000.wav|Some minutes of silent work had passed: and the haggard eyes had looked up again: not with any interest or curiosity, but with a dull mechanical perception, beforehand, that the spot where the only visitor they were aware of had stood, was not yet empty.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000040_000000.wav|His haggard eyes turned to Defarge as if he would have transferred the question to him: but as no help came from that quarter, they turned back on the questioner when they had sought the ground.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000024_000003.wav|Take it, monsieur."|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000041_000002.wav|I I learnt it here.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000069_000000.wav|Once more, the two spectators started, as he turned upon her with a frightful suddenness.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000014_000000.wav|"Are you going to finish that pair of shoes to day?" asked Defarge, motioning to mr Lorry to come forward.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000101_000005.wav|"Adieu!" from Defarge.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000003_000000.wav|"You are still hard at work, I see?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000062_000001.wav|Advancing his hand by little and little, he took it up and looked at it.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000051_000001.wav|At first I thought it quite hopeless, but I have unquestionably seen, for a single moment, the face that I once knew so well.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000025_000000.wav|mr Lorry took it in his hand.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000072_000001.wav|It can't be.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000023_000000.wav|The shoemaker looked up as before, but without removing a hand from his work.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000009_000000.wav|"What did you say?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000041_000004.wav|I asked leave to-"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000099_000002.wav|She quickly brought them down and handed them in;--and immediately afterwards leaned against the door post, knitting, and saw nothing.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000001_000000.wav|It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the salutation, as if it were at a distance:|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000074_000000.wav|"O, sir, at another time you shall know my name, and who my mother was, and who my father, and how I never knew their hard, hard history.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000080_000001.wav|He had gradually dropped to the floor, and lay there in a lethargy, worn out.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000012_000003.wav|He had a white beard, raggedly cut, but not very long, a hollow face, and exceedingly bright eyes.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000019_000000.wav|mr Lorry came silently forward, leaving the daughter by the door.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000015_000000.wav|"What did you say?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000072_000004.wav|No, no|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000046_000000.wav|The shoe dropped to the ground, and he sat looking fixedly at the questioner.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000048_000000.wav|As the captive of many years sat looking fixedly, by turns, at mr Lorry and at Defarge, some long obliterated marks of an actively intent intelligence in the middle of the forehead, gradually forced themselves through the black mist that had fallen on him.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000054_000000.wav|It happened, at length, that he had occasion to change the instrument in his hand, for his shoemaker's knife.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000065_000000.wav|As the concentrated expression returned to his forehead, he seemed to become conscious that it was in hers too.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000005_000004.wav|So entirely had it lost the life and resonance of the human voice, that it affected the senses like a once beautiful colour faded away into a poor weak stain.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000088_000001.wav|The darkness deepened and deepened, and they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000013_000002.wav|He never looked at the figure before him, without first looking down on this side of himself, then on that, as if he had lost the habit of associating place with sound; he never spoke, without first wandering in this manner, and forgetting to speak.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000021_000000.wav|"What did you say?"|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/353/128309/353_128309_000032_000001.wav|The task of recalling him from the vagrancy into which he always sank when he had spoken, was like recalling some very weak person from a swoon, or endeavouring, in the hope of some disclosure, to stay the spirit of a fast dying man.|353
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000007_000003.wav|She sleeps and lets all her nerves and muscles rest; only her gills and fins keep working mechanically.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000012_000000.wav|He has anchored off his favourite bank, a narrow reef which, in the shelter of the wood, runs far out into the lake.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000030_000000.wav|He notes the smallest movement of his captive.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000002_000000.wav|It was so natural for Grim to be once more splashing freely in the lake; it was so natural for her to be feeding on roach again.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000026_000002.wav|A marked fish, one of his oldest, perhaps his biggest!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000006_000000.wav|She loves peace and quiet, and feels very irritable under the influence of others.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000002_000001.wav|She should have learned a lesson from her adventure in the air with the man, but the qualifications were lacking.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000007_000001.wav|She feels indisposed and ill, and remains motionless in her watery lair.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000041_000001.wav|She blinks her cunning eyes, and their blue black pupils become large and round.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000020_000002.wav|Alas, it is another of those prickly fish, she notices at once, one of those confounded tit bits that are only to be looked at, but which neither teeth nor throat are ever glad to deal with; and she opens her mouth and chokes and spits.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000007_000002.wav|Day after day she stays thus, without feeling hunger, or any desire for action.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000026_000000.wav|A little later a whirlpool appears on the seething water, and he catches a glimpse of a dorsal fin with the hinder point missing.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000024_000001.wav|The reel shrieks and hums as if a giant grasshopper sat chirping in it.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000009_000000.wav|But when the weather calms down and the waves once more grow less, she comes to life again, and is then well and rested.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000013_000000.wav|It was hard work getting out to it!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000008_000000.wav|At such times the angler may try to tempt her with spoon or other artificial bait, or with live fish, but she will not touch them!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000019_000000.wav|He seizes the rod and lifts it.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000038_000001.wav|And then, among the rocks of the reef, the line breaks; the angler's body drifts in among the reeds.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000016_000003.wav|They want to hide because they feel weak; they do not want to go down into deep water to Oa.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000017_000001.wav|It reminds the fisherman of a heron he once shot at, and which sent out a shower of such half dead little fish.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000009_000001.wav|The storm has cleared her blood; she needs food and exercise, and is biting madly.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000024_000002.wav|All at once, Grim leaps out of the water high into the air, so that her golden, black streaked body, with the panther like spots and the trickling water drops, casts a gleam over the lake.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000039_000000.wav|Towards evening the sky becomes overcast and the troubled water looks thick and muddy.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000005_000000.wav|By this time she weighs about eighteen pounds, and measures the length of a grown man's leg from hip to heel; her dorsal fin measures more than two hand breadths, and it would take a large hand to span her back.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000030_000002.wav|Will he be able to draw it from the deep water with his fine, fragile line?|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000016_000004.wav|Then the terns snap them up, and put them down their little red throats.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000013_000003.wav|The boat quivered, and the angler started and let the main sail down, while the black wind from the frayed clouds raged under the heavens.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000037_000000.wav|No one sees the accident, and his heavy waders drag him quickly down.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000034_000001.wav|They gleam, they sparkle, they flash; and great, heavy, September clouds drift over the lake.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000033_000000.wav|The fight and nervous excitement recommence-the quick, exciting contest between man and fish.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000016_000001.wav|They are good Samaritans to all the half dead bait he from time to time throws overboard.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000019_000001.wav|The line is running out at full speed. He carefully checks it, making the resistance stronger and stronger, so as to prevent the fish from breaking the line with a sudden jerk.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000027_000001.wav|His big body is perspiring with his exertions, and he has to stand with his legs wide apart and his feet firmly fixed whenever the mighty fish gives one of its sudden jerks.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000031_000001.wav|The angler chooses to let it go in the hope of picking it up on the other side.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109180/7938_109180_000030_000001.wav|It is still in full vigour, and there are many water plants and stalks in the way.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000049_000000.wav|She also hears the splashing of the bird, and shouts and strange thumps on the boat planks; and she keeps her blue black pupils fixed expectantly upon the great dark shadow up there.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000031_000001.wav|Like a huge eel she wriggles up to the surface, where she lies in wait, slowly drifting with the current.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000037_000001.wav|Involuntarily the angler's attention is attracted to them.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000001_000003.wav|She has room for more fish, mountains of fish!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000048_000002.wav|She must wait patiently until her perquisites descend.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000039_000001.wav|A pike that has gorged itself on a giant perch!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000017_000001.wav|The spines begin to hurt her, and her mouthful on the whole to incommode her.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000017_000003.wav|She can feel it breathing inside her mouth; incessantly, with every indication of excitement, its gill covers open and close, and take the lion's share of the water.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000030_000001.wav|It is corpse weather today.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000041_000002.wav|No throwing this one back again!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000044_000001.wav|Oh!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000003_000001.wav|Her eyes gleam, and her thin lips quiver with insatiable desire.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000004_000003.wav|There goes a bleak right before her nose!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000004_000002.wav|Snap!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000013_000000.wav|She tries again.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000048_000000.wav|She dares not venture up to the surface.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000004_000001.wav|Snap!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000013_000002.wav|Colours dance before her eyes as the gullet opens and closes, trying to draw in the perch's head.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000019_000000.wav|Thus the combat continues.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000043_000001.wav|Life was once more coursing through her veins.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000044_000000.wav|She was in water, and with a stroke of her tail she made for the bottom.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000014_000002.wav|The torture in the spiked barrel is over.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000012_000001.wav|Impossible!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000002_000000.wav|With a jerk of her body she comes nearer, and is now right in the whirlpool of bleak and perch.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000039_000000.wav|What a haul!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000052_000000.wav|And to think that Heaven should at last reward him for his magnanimity! For the mark on the dorsal fin showed distinctly that this fish had been in his hands before.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000008_000000.wav|Just as the pike's attack is at its height, the Rasper suddenly raises his twelve spined dorsal fin.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000042_000002.wav|For the third time she was as it were in the heron's throat!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000033_000001.wav|The queer fish with two tails attracts her.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000051_000001.wav|He saw the pike throw up her head, and was glad to find her still as lively as ever.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000046_000001.wav|She scowled at them, but although her stomach was empty, she felt no desire to eat.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000014_000000.wav|So there is nothing to be done, but give it up!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000033_000000.wav|A cunning expression comes into Oa's little eyes.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000030_000002.wav|The angry waves stir up carrion from the bottom, or carry it out from bridge and bank.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000011_000001.wav|She quickly takes a better hold, even letting her prehensile teeth come into play, and the long board like tongue warp in co-operation; but no matter what she does, or how wide she opens her mouth, her efforts are in vain: the high backed one refuses to move beyond a certain point.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000016_000000.wav|He is still in the pike's throat, and cannot get away, for he has his twelve stiffest dorsal spines bored into his enemy's palate; and the more he worries and works with his dangerous opponent, the deeper and more firmly do the spines fix themselves.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000018_000000.wav|It is impossible for her to bear this suffocation any longer; she must have air; and in ungovernable rage she begins to lash out with her tail.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000050_000000.wav|Who knows, some day perhaps a young one might drop out!|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/109179/7938_109179_000017_000002.wav|She cannot get sufficient water over her gills, and what does filter into her mouth in spite of the gag, is needed by the gag itself.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000007_000000.wav|The king turned over on his pillow and tried to sleep, but the strange voice kept ringing in his ears.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000003_000001.wav|He and his favorite page became separated from the rest of the party and soon they realized that they were lost. As night approached they found the rude hut of a charcoal burner and begged for permission to pass the night there.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000005_000000.wav|"Here in this hut is born to night The maiden of your fate: You can't escape your lot, young king; Your fate for you will wait.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000025_000000.wav|The cry continued, however, and it sounded very near, almost under the woodcutter's feet.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000015_000001.wav|He carried her away into the deep forest, but he did not have the heart to put an innocent babe to death. He left her in a hollow tree, wrapped up in the bright red sash he wore.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000001_000000.wav|MARIA OF THE FOREST|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000017_000001.wav|"I'll do the deed myself."|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000007_000001.wav|He rose early.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000013_000000.wav|"What can I do about it?" asked the page, yawning.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000035_000000.wav|'tis fate-'tis fate-'tis fate."|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000026_000002.wav|My good wife will be a mother to her," he said.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000034_000000.wav|"Here in this hut is born to night The maiden of your fate: You can't escape your lot, young king; Your fate for you will wait.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000026_000001.wav|Her own mother has abandoned her.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000004_000001.wav|This is what it said:|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000022_000000.wav|'tis fate-'tis fate-'tis fate."|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000016_000001.wav|The king was angry.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000042_000001.wav|The page, however, was suspicious when he heard her name.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000014_000000.wav|"You must steal this babe this very day and put it to death," said the king sternly.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000031_000001.wav|The king ordered him again to steal her.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000006_000000.wav|'tis fate-'tis fate-'tis fate."|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000028_000002.wav|It made Maria's dark eyes look even brighter than before.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000020_000000.wav|The king agreed that it was quite impossible for the babe to escape death, but he could not forget the strange voice which had said:|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000023_000000.wav|Now it happened that very day that a woodcutter was working in the forest.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000009_000000.wav|"At what time?" asked the king.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000010_000000.wav|"It was just midnight," replied the charcoal burner.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000003_000002.wav|They were received most hospitably.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000017_000000.wav|"Take me to the baby," he said.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000021_000000.wav|"Here in this hut is born to night The maiden of your fate: You can't escape your lot, young king; Your fate for you will wait.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000018_000001.wav|They, of course, did not wish to return to the hut of the charcoal burner, and at length they found their way out of the deep forest.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000042_000004.wav|He reported his suspicions to the king.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000039_000003.wav|The king danced with her.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000012_000000.wav|"I refuse to wed any maid born in this poor hut," he said.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000037_000001.wav|The sailors rescued it and opened it with interest.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000029_000002.wav|He called her to him and examined it carefully.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110128/7938_110128_000031_000002.wav|This time the king plotted her death by drowning.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000076_000002.wav|The prince she had recognized the very moment she had seen him.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000005_000000.wav|"No," answered the son.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000071_000000.wav|The two women opened their door and crept out in the darkness.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000021_000000.wav|"May I come some day to sell you pretty things?" asked the old woman.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000007_000000.wav|"That is good advice," replied the prince.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000074_000001.wav|He stared hard at the princess.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000069_000000.wav|"Perhaps the pirates have come and by this cry are trying to lure us out," answered her mother cautiously.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000036_000003.wav|The princess was so surprised that she turned pale.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000046_000000.wav|"Where is your boat?" asked the princess after they had ridden together for some time without speaking.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000015_000000.wav|The old woman hastened to the royal palace.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000035_000000.wav|"That will be splendid!" cried the princess.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000017_000001.wav|It looked like an interesting diversion to talk with the old woman.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000004_000000.wav|"Do you know that the king of Naples has a daughter?" asked the father.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000052_000000.wav|"Does my lady know with whom she is going away?" he asked.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000027_000001.wav|The next afternoon at four o'clock he went to the palace of the king of Naples.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000033_000000.wav|The prince would not set a price.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000027_000000.wav|The old woman gladly consented, and the prince dressed himself as a peddler.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000079_000000.wav|"She is no king's daughter!" she cried.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000059_000002.wav|Then he sorrowfully returned to his waiting ship.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000018_000000.wav|"What do you wish, good mother?" she asked.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000029_000000.wav|"Yes," said the princess.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000079_000002.wav|We found her upon these very rocks.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000070_000000.wav|"No, mother," she insisted.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000005_000001.wav|"I do not know."|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000071_000002.wav|They lifted her tenderly and carried her home.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000007_000001.wav|"I thank you."|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000029_000001.wav|"A peddler was to come to day at four o'clock with pretty things for me to buy."|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000025_000002.wav|"I made an appointment to see the princess to morrow.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000068_000000.wav|"Some one is in trouble outside, mother," said the daughter.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000003_000000.wav|"I will wed no one except the daughter of the king of Naples."|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000011_000000.wav|Then he asked: "Does any one know whether or not the king of Naples has a daughter?"|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000069_000001.wav|There were often pirate ships which stopped there.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000074_000002.wav|Then he spoke in a voice which shook.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000020_000000.wav|"I am," replied the princess.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000043_000002.wav|She came straight up to him.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000002_000000.wav|The prince replied:|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000064_000000.wav|"I thought you were a pretty little maid," he said, "when I first saw you, but now I've changed my mind about you."|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000049_000000.wav|"Of course, I've seen him only twice," she told herself in an effort to gain assurance.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000000_000001.wav|The years passed by and he did not marry, so one day his father called him before him and said:|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000026_000000.wav|"Well done, good mother!" cried the prince, again thrusting his hand into his purse.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000070_000001.wav|"I'm sure this is a girl's cry."|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000019_000000.wav|"Are you the daughter of the king of Naples?" questioned the old woman.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000067_000001.wav|In the stillness of the night they heard a cry.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000025_000003.wav|I am going to the palace at four o'clock to sell pretty things to her."|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000044_000000.wav|"I'm ready, beloved," were her words.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000008_000001.wav|There was no person to be found who knew anything about it.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000035_000001.wav|"Come again to morrow at this hour."|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000023_000001.wav|"A very beautiful daughter, too!"|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000058_000001.wav|"It is a bit awkward to lose my horse.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000039_000000.wav|He told her of the quest which had led him there, and she admired all the patience and diligence he had shown in finding out her existence. When he asked her to marry him at once, she readily consented.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000025_000000.wav|The old woman thanked him.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7938/110127/7938_110127_000076_000001.wav|She blushed.|7938
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000012_000000.wav|But the feeling of safety inspired by Frederic's faithless ally was not destined to endure long: on their arrival at Rome, the French and Spanish ambassadors presented to the pope the treaty signed at Grenada on the eleventh of November, fifteen hundred, between Louis the twelfth and Ferdinand the Catholic, a treaty which up, to that time had been secret.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000009_000004.wav|All this perhaps was not very loyal conduct on the part of a king who had so long desired and had just now received the surname of Catholic, but it mattered little to Louis, who profited by treasonable acts he did not have to share.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000014_000003.wav|At the very moment when Fabrizio Colonna in a fortified outpost was discussing the conditions of capitulation with the French captains, suddenly great cries of distress were heard.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000009_000003.wav|This partition was all the more likely to be made, in fact, because Frederic, supposing all the time that Ferdinand was his good and faithful friend, would open the gates of his towns, only to receive into his fortresses conquerors and masters instead of allies.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000014_000002.wav|Such negotiations, made with cunning supported by bribery, proved as usual more prompt and efficacious than any others.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000014_000009.wav|The Duke of Valentinois broke in the doors, chased out for himself forty of the most beautiful, and handed over the rest to his army.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000008_000003.wav|As Louis the twelfth's army was continuing its way towards Rome, and he received a fresh order to join it, he took his departure the next day, leaving behind him, Vitellozzo and Gian Paolo Bagliani to prosecute the siege in his absence.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000021_000000.wav|His Holiness was now having a run of good fortune, and he learned on the same day that Piombino was taken and that Duke Hercules had given the King of France his assent to the marriage.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000016_000004.wav|The terms of this capitulation were faithfully adhered to on both sides: d'Aubigny entered Naples, and Frederic retired to Ischia.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000036_000006.wav|Almost at the same time d'Albret arrived in quest of his cardinal's hat.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000026_000004.wav|That evening the guests met again, and spent half the night in dancing, while a magnificent display of fireworks lighted up the Piazza of San Paolo.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000013_000000.wav|These dispositions were scarcely made when d'Aubigny, having passed the Volturno, approached to lay siege to Capua, and invested the town on both sides of the river.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000009_000000.wav|Louis the twelfth was this time advancing upon Naples, not with the incautious ardour of Charles the eighth, but, on the contrary, with that prudence and circumspection which characterised him.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000019_000000.wav|The capture of Naples gave the Duke of Valentinois his liberty again; so he left the French army, after he had received fresh assurances on his own account of the king's friendliness, and returned to the siege of Piombino, which he had been forced to interrupt.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000034_000001.wav|The object of all these fetes was to scatter abroad a great deal of money, and so to make the Duke of Valentinois popular, while poor Jacopo d'Appiano was forgotten.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000025_000000.wav|We humbly ask forgiveness of our readers, and especially of our lady readers; but though we have found words to describe the first part of the spectacle, we have sought them in vain for the second; suffice it to say that just as there had been prizes for feats of adroitness, others were given now to the dancers who were most daring and brazen.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000014_000006.wav|Butchery and pillage had begun, and the work of destruction must needs be completed: in vain did Fabrizio Colonna, Ranuzio di Marciano, and Don Ugo di Cardona attempt to make head against the French and Spaniards with such men as they could get together.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000033_000001.wav|The apparent object of this journey was that the new subjects might take their oath to Caesar, and the real object was to form an arsenal in Jacopo d'Appiano's capital within reach of Tuscany, a plan which neither the pope nor his son had ever seriously abandoned.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000033_000004.wav|After these solemn functions the customary pleasures followed, and the pope summoned the prettiest girls of the country and ordered them to dance their national dances before him.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000034_000000.wav|Following on these dances came feasts of unheard of magnificence, during which the pope in the sight of all men completely ignored Lent and did not fast.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000017_000001.wav|His eldest son, Dan Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, retired to Spain, where he was permitted to marry twice, but each time with a woman who was known to be barren; and there he died in fifteen fifty.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000014_000005.wav|The French, when they saw that the town was half taken, rushed on the gates with such impetuosity that the besieged did not even attempt to defend themselves any longer, and forced their way into Capua by three separate sides: nothing more could be done then to stop the issue.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000008_000002.wav|This did not hinder Caesar from seizing in the space of a few days Severeto, Scarlino, the isle of Elba, and La Pianosa; but he was obliged to stop short at the castle, which opposed a serious resistance.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000029_000000.wav|This man was Ramiro d'Orco.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000036_000001.wav|At last they arrived in sight of Corneto, and there the duke, who was not on the same vessel as the pope, seeing that his ship could not get in, had a boat put out, and so was taken ashore.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000016_000001.wav|So he shut himself up in Castel Nuovo and gave permission to Gaeta and to Naples to treat with the conqueror.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000026_000003.wav|Lucrezia showed the utmost delight in accepting these gifts; then she retired into the next room, leaning on the pope's arm, and followed by the ladies of her suite, leaving the Duke of Valentinois to do the honours of the Vatican to the men.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000016_000000.wav|Capua once taken, Frederic saw that it was useless any longer to attempt defence.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000012_000002.wav|It was demonstrated that the arrangement had only been undertaken to provide the Christian princes with another weapon for attacking the Ottoman Empire, and before this consideration, one may readily suppose, all the pope's scruples vanished; on the twenty fifth of June, therefore, it was decided to call a consistory which was to declare Frederic deposed from the throne of Naples.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000015_000000.wav|The pillage continued for three days.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/11734/4013_11734_000033_000003.wav|The pontifical court made a stay there of several days, partly with a view of making the duke known to the inhabitants, and also in order to be present at certain ecclesiastical functions, of which the most important was a service held on the third Sunday in Lent, in which the Cardinal of Cosenza sang a mass and the pope officiated in state with the duke and the cardinals.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000024_000002.wav|When it was finished, he was tired, so he curled up at the bottom for a nap.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000007_000002.wav|What is it this time?"|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000021_000002.wav|They grew harder and harder.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000028_000000.wav|"'Yes,' replied mr Fox.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000033_000002.wav|It was a splendid idea!|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000007_000000.wav|"That's easy," replied Johnny.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000039_000000.wav|"Yes," replied Striped Chipmunk, winking at Grandfather Frog, "and now we are going back home perfectly happy and satisfied."|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000005_000000.wav|"What do you wonder?"|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000033_000004.wav|And then he made a discovery-such a splendid discovery!|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000030_000001.wav|'It's of no use,' thought mr Mole. 'If I go outside, they will soon find me, and if I stay here, they will dig me out.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000022_000007.wav|The only thing I can do is to dig.'|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000010_000000.wav|"I don't know," he confessed finally.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000030_000002.wav|Oh, dear, oh, dear!|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000026_000001.wav|Mole,' replied mr Badger.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4013/182396/4013_182396_000022_000005.wav|Now I can't run fast, because my legs are too short.|4013
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000008.wav|Does it follow that because the monster has slept since twelve twenty nine he must therefore never awake again?|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000006_000000.wav|The wall that confined the fiord, like all the coast of the peninsula, was composed of a series of vertical columns thirty feet high.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000007_000001.wav|Hans had exhibited great intelligence, and it gave me some little comfort to think then that he was not going to leave us.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000012_000000.wav|"The rector," repeated the Professor.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000007.wav|Who can assure us that an eruption is not brewing at this very moment?|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000030_000001.wav|I have therefore examined the natives, I have studied external appearances, and I can assure you, Axel, that there will be no eruption."|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000007_000000.wav|This was our last stage upon the earth.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000022_000001.wav|I could not sleep for dreaming about eruptions.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000002_000001.wav|It extends along the inner edge of a small fiord, inclosed between basaltic walls of the strangest construction.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000028_000000.wav|"I was thinking of that.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000000.wav|Now, thought I, here we are, about to climb Snaefell.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000033_000001.wav|Coming out from the priest's house, the Professor took a straight road, which, through an opening in the basaltic wall, led away from the sea.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000033_000003.wav|This tract seemed crushed under a rain of enormous ejected rocks of trap, basalt, granite, and all kinds of igneous rocks.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000035_000000.wav|"You see all these volumes of steam, Axel; well, they demonstrate that we have nothing to fear from the fury of a volcanic eruption."|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000013_000001.wav|I was in great alarm lest she should treat me to the Icelandic kiss; but there was no occasion to fear, nor did she do the honours at all too gracefully.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000039_000000.wav|'No more; that is sufficient.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000042_000000.wav|The next day, june twenty third, Hans was awaiting us with his companions carrying provisions, tools, and instruments; two iron pointed sticks, two rifles, and two shot belts were for my uncle and myself.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000006_000001.wav|These straight shafts, of fair proportions, supported an architrave of horizontal slabs, the overhanging portion of which formed a semi arch over the sea.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000019_000000.wav|Hans merely nodded.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000041_000000.wav|I spent that whole night in one constant nightmare; in the heart of a volcano, and from the deepest depths of the earth I saw myself tossed up amongst the interplanetary spaces under the form of an eruptive rock.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000043_000004.wav|This worthy couple were fleecing us just as a Swiss innkeeper might have done, and estimated their imperfect hospitality at the highest price.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000014_000005.wav|Before the day was over I saw that we had to do with a blacksmith, a fisherman, a hunter, a joiner, but not at all with a minister of the Gospel.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000029_000000.wav|"No, indeed!" I replied with forcible emphasis.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000038_000000.wav|"But-"|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000034_000000.wav|Here and there I could see puffs and jets of steam curling up into the air, called in Icelandic 'reykir,' issuing from thermal springs, and indicating by their motion the volcanic energy underneath.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000002.wav|We will explore the crater.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000040_000001.wav|My uncle had beaten me with the weapons of science.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000014_000004.wav|Very far from it.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000026_000002.wav|This was too good to be true.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000023_000000.wav|So, at last, when I could hold out no longer, I resolved to lay the case before my uncle, as prudently and as cautiously as possible, just under the form of an almost impossible hypothesis.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000004_000000.wav|I had heard of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, and Fingal's Cave in Staffa, one of the Hebrides; but I had never yet seen a basaltic formation.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000009.wav|And if he wakes up presently, where shall we be?|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000031_000000.wav|At this positive affirmation I stood amazed and speechless.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000043_000003.wav|But the farewell was put in the unexpected form of a heavy bill, in which everything was charged, even to the very air we breathed in the pastoral house, infected as it was.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000015_000002.wav|Hence the necessity to work for their livelihood; but after fishing, hunting, and shoeing horses for any length of time, one soon gets into the ways and manners of fishermen, hunters, and farriers, and other rather rude and uncultivated people; and that evening I found out that temperance was not among the virtues that distinguished my host.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000020_000000.wav|One thought, above all others, harassed and alarmed me; it was one calculated to shake firmer nerves than mine.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000032_000000.wav|"You don't doubt my word?" said my uncle.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000019_000003.wav|But what could I do?|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000037_000000.wav|"Understand this clearly," added the Professor.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000024_000002.wav|But I was mistaken.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000036_000000.wav|"Am I to believe that?" I cried.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000019_000004.wav|The place to resist the Professor would have been Hamburg, not the foot of Snaefell.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000004.wav|But that is not all.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000014_000001.wav|It was close, dirty, and evil smelling.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000003.wav|Very good, too, others have done as much without dying for it.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000037_000001.wav|"At the approach of an eruption these jets would redouble their activity, but disappear altogether during the period of the eruption.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000027_000000.wav|After a few moments' silence, during which I dared not question him, he resumed:|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000012_000001.wav|"It seems, Axel, that this good man is the rector."|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000033_000002.wav|We were soon in the open country, if one may give that name to a vast extent of mounds of volcanic products.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000025_000000.wav|"I was thinking of that," he replied with great simplicity.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000033_000000.wav|I obeyed like an automaton.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000026_000000.wav|What could those words mean?--Was he actually going to listen to reason?|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000006_000002.wav|At intervals, under this natural shelter, there spread out vaulted entrances in beautiful curves, into which the waves came dashing with foam and spray.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000043_000001.wav|The priest and his tall Megaera were awaiting us at the door.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000040_000000.wav|I returned to the parsonage, very crestfallen.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000021_000006.wav|Now, there is no proof that Snaefell is extinct.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000040_000002.wav|Still I had one hope left, and this was, that when we had reached the bottom of the crater it would be impossible, for want of a passage, to go deeper, in spite of all the Saknussemm's in Iceland.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000034_000001.wav|This seemed to justify my fears: But I fell from the height of my new born hopes when my uncle said:|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000024_000001.wav|I communicated my fears to him, and drew back a step to give him room for the explosion which I knew must follow.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000042_000001.wav|Hans, as a cautious man, had added to our luggage a leathern bottle full of water, which, with that in our flasks, would ensure us a supply of water for eight days.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000024_000000.wav|I went to him.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000032_000001.wav|"Well, follow me."|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000019_000002.wav|For my own part the incidents of the journey had hitherto kept me amused, and made me forgetful of coming evils; but now my fears again were beginning to get the better of me.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000017_000002.wav|This was to be clearly understood.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000003_000000.wav|Basalt is a brownish rock of igneous origin.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000003_000002.wav|Here nature had done her work geometrically, with square and compass and plummet. Everywhere else her art consists alone in throwing down huge masses together in disorder.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123267/882_123267_000005_000000.wav|At Stapi I beheld this phenomenon in all its beauty.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000032_000000.wav|No particular event marked the next day.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000018_000000.wav|Then calmly, automatically, and dispassionately he kissed the host, the hostess, and their nineteen children.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000019_000001.wav|The luckiest had only two urchins upon their knees.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000036_000001.wav|At six p.m. we reached Buedir, a village on the sea shore; and the guide there claiming his due, my uncle settled with him.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000037_000001.wav|We were rounding the immense base of the volcano.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000029_000001.wav|The last tufts of grass had disappeared from beneath our feet.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000021_000001.wav|After this little pinch of warmth the different groups retired to their respective rooms.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000006_000000.wav|It was a peasant's house, but in point of hospitality it was equal to a king's.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000008_000002.wav|I was hardly expecting so much comfort; the only discomfort proceeded from the strong odour of dried fish, hung meat, and sour milk, of which my nose made bitter complaints.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000010_000000.wav|My uncle lost no time in obeying the friendly call, nor was I slack in following.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000007_000001.wav|Therefore, we followed, as he bid us.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000015_000000.wav|My uncle and I treated this little tribe with kindness; and in a very short time we each had three or four of these brats on our shoulders, as many on our laps, and the rest between our knees.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000003_000000.wav|HOSPITALITY UNDER THE ARCTIC CIRCLE|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000005_000000.wav|But the temperature was much lower.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000029_000004.wav|Sometimes we could see a hawk balancing himself on his wings under the grey cloud, and then darting away south with rapid flight.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000022_000000.wav|At five next morning we bade our host farewell, my uncle with difficulty persuading him to accept a proper remuneration; and Hans signalled the start.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000037_000002.wav|The Professor hardly took his eyes off it.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000034_000000.wav|We had no time to watch these phenomena; we had to proceed on our way.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000005_000001.wav|I was cold and more hungry than cold.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000035_000001.wav|I was getting tired; but my uncle was as firm and straight as he was at our first start.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000032_000001.wav|Bogs, dead levels, melancholy desert tracks, wherever we travelled.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000030_000000.wav|We had to cross a few narrow fiords, and at last quite a wide gulf; the tide, then high, allowed us to pass over without delay, and to reach the hamlet of Alftanes, one mile beyond.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000013_000000.wav|After him his wife pronounced the same words, accompanied with the same ceremonial; then the two placing their hands upon their hearts, inclined profoundly before us.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000028_000000.wav|This word produced a repulsive effect.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000016_000000.wav|This concert was brought to a close by the announcement of dinner.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000031_000001.wav|The ice king certainly held court here, and gave us all night long samples of what he could do.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000035_000000.wav|The horses did their duty well, no difficulties stopped them in their steady career.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000023_000001.wav|On our right the chain of mountains was indefinitely prolonged like an immense system of natural fortifications, of which we were following the counter scarp or lesser steep; often we were met by streams, which we had to ford with great care, not to wet our packages.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000036_000000.wav|june twentieth.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123266/882_123266_000037_000000.wav|The soil told of the neighbourhood of the mountain, whose granite foundations rose from the earth like the knotted roots of some huge oak.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000012_000003.wav|Everywhere around us we saw truncated cones, formerly so many fiery mouths.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000007_000000.wav|As a true nephew of the Professor Liedenbrock, and in spite of my dismal prospects, I could not help observing with interest the mineralogical curiosities which lay about me as in a vast museum, and I constructed for myself a complete geological account of Iceland.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000022_000002.wav|It was formed by one of those torrents of stones flung up by the eruptions, called 'sting' by the Icelanders.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000008_000001.wav|Possibly, it may still be subject to gradual elevation.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000005_000001.wav|There was therefore no room for conversation.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000022_000000.wav|To judge by the distant appearance of the summit of Snaefell, it would have seemed too steep to ascend on our side.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000023_000001.wav|The steepness increased, but these stone steps allowed us to rise with facility, and even with such rapidity that, having rested for a moment while my companions continued their ascent, I perceived them already reduced by distance to microscopic dimensions.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000017_000000.wav|Hans went on as quietly as if he were on level ground; sometimes he disappeared altogether behind the huge blocks, then a shrill whistle would direct us on our way to him.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000035_000002.wav|Happily we were on the opposite side, and sheltered from all harm.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000017_000002.wav|A very wise precaution in itself, but, as things turned out, quite useless.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000035_000000.wav|Without knowing Danish I understood at once that we must follow Hans at the top of our speed.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000012_000000.wav|To the eruption succeeded other volcanic phenomena.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000021_000002.wav|The Icelanders, though burdened with our loads, climbed with the agility of mountaineers.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000032_000000.wav|"Look!" said my uncle.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000025_000004.wav|The Professor saw that my limbs were refusing to perform their office, and in spite of his impatience he decided on stopping.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000009_000001.wav|Before the volcanoes broke out it consisted of trap rocks slowly upraised to the level of the sea by the action of central forces.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000019_000001.wav|Its snowy summit, by an optical illusion not unfrequent in mountains, seemed close to us, and yet how many weary hours it took to reach it!|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000019_000002.wav|The stones, adhering by no soil or fibrous roots of vegetation, rolled away from under our feet, and rushed down the precipice below with the swiftness of an avalanche.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000005_000000.wav|We walked in single file, headed by the hunter, who ascended by narrow tracks, where two could not have gone abreast.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000036_000004.wav|I was yielding to the effects of hunger and cold.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000008_000003.wav|Therefore, in this case, the theory of Sir Humphry Davy, Saknussemm's document, and my uncle's theories would all go off in smoke.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000008_000004.wav|This hypothesis led me to examine with more attention the appearance of the surface, and I soon arrived at a conclusion as to the nature of the forces which presided at its birth.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000018_000001.wav|There Hans bid us come to a halt, and a hasty breakfast was served out.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000023_000000.wav|Such as it was, it did us good service.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000008_000000.wav|This most curious island has evidently been projected from the bottom of the sea at a comparatively recent date.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000033_000003.wav|This phenomenon, which is not unfrequent when the wind blows from the glaciers, is called in Icelandic 'mistour.'|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000006_000000.wav|After we had passed the basaltic wall of the fiord of Stapi we passed over a vegetable fibrous peat bog, left from the ancient vegetation of this peninsula.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000016_000000.wav|The way was growing more and more arduous, the ascent steeper and steeper; the loose fragments of rock trembled beneath us, and the utmost care was needed to avoid dangerous falls.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000018_000002.wav|My uncle swallowed two mouthfuls at a time to get on faster.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000033_000002.wav|If that huge revolving pillar sloped down, it would involve us in its whirling eddies.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000010_000001.wav|No violence accompanied this change; the matter thrown out was in vast quantities, and the liquid material oozing out from the abysses of the earth slowly spread in extensive plains or in hillocky masses.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000018_000003.wav|But, whether he liked it or not, this was a rest as well as a breakfast hour and he had to wait till it pleased our guide to move on, which came to pass in an hour.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000036_000000.wav|Yet Hans did not think it prudent to spend the night upon the sides of the cone.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000004_000002.wav|From our starting point we could see the two peaks boldly projected against the dark grey sky; I could see an enormous cap of snow coming low down upon the giant's brow.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000036_000005.wav|The rarefied air scarcely gave play to the action of my lungs.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000033_000000.wav|I looked down upon the plain.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000009_000002.wav|The internal fires had not yet forced their way through.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000025_000000.wav|Three thousand two hundred feet below us stretched the sea.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000015_000000.wav|So I felt a little comforted as we advanced to the assault of Snaefell.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000021_000001.wav|He himself seemed to possess an instinct for equilibrium, for he never stumbled.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000011_000002.wav|Therefore a time would come when the elastic and explosive forces of the imprisoned gases would upheave this ponderous cover and drive out for themselves openings through tall chimneys. Hence then the volcano would distend and lift up the crust, and then burst through a crater suddenly formed at the summit or thinnest part of the volcano.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000025_000005.wav|He therefore spoke to the hunter, who shook his head, saying:|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/882/123268/882_123268_000020_000001.wav|Then we helped each other with our sticks.|882
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000067_000000.wav|"No, thank you," said Marilla, with indignant emphasis.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000006_000003.wav|To be sure, he insisted on remaining in the kitchen, for his curiosity wanted to see all that went on.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000010_000001.wav|"All mrs Morgan's heroines converse so beautifully.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000012_000000.wav|And, to do her justice, there wasn't.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000010_000002.wav|But I'm afraid I'll be tongue tied and stupid.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000030_000002.wav|Everything was done to a turn and the soup was just what soup should be, but couldn't be depended on to remain so for any length of time.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000020_000006.wav|It is, however, an ill wind that blows nobody good, and the pig was eventually the gainer by Davy's mischance.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000004_000000.wav|The table was set in the sitting room, with Marilla's finest linen and the best china, glass, and silver.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000058_000001.wav|"When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000031_000000.wav|"I don't believe they're coming after all," said Marilla crossly.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000046_000001.wav|Let's carry the things in and get it over."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000034_000002.wav|Priscilla and mrs Morgan are not coming, that's plain, and nothing is being improved by waiting."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000020_000004.wav|Davy slipped and came sprawling squarely down on the lemon pies.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000013_000002.wav|At half past twelve the Allans and Miss Stacy came.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000048_000002.wav|Everybody ran out into the hall.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000065_000001.wav|"I've lived here for sixty years and I've never been on the pond yet."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000054_000001.wav|Then Diana went home with a headache and Anne went with another to the east gable, where she stayed until Marilla came home from the post office at sunset, with a letter from Priscilla, written the day before.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000023_000004.wav|I'm punishing him for his disobedience.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000056_000002.wav|After all, it was NOT too good to be true . . . things just as good and far better are coming true for me all the time.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000020_000000.wav|Davy had finished ravelling out his herring net and had wound the twine into a ball.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000061_000000.wav|"Maybe you could find one like it somewhere and buy it for her."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000026_000000.wav|"Oh, all right," said Davy, somewhat comforted.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000030_000000.wav|One o'clock came . . . but no Priscilla or mrs Morgan.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000056_000003.wav|And I suppose the events of today have a funny side too.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000021_000000.wav|"Davy Keith," said Marilla, shaking him by the shoulder, "didn't I forbid you to climb up on that table again?|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000017_000001.wav|She had, in accordance with her promise to mrs Lynde, written to Miss Barry of Charlottetown, asking for the loan of it.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000010_000000.wav|"I do hope I'll be able to say something once in a while, and not sit like a mute," said Diana anxiously.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000040_000003.wav|Don't you like it?"|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000043_000003.wav|I'm always forgetting it . . . so I popped a spoonful in."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000004_000001.wav|You may be perfectly certain that every article placed on it was polished or scoured to the highest possible perfection of gloss and glitter.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000023_000001.wav|Perhaps you'll get them sorted out in your memory by that time.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000013_000003.wav|Everything was going well but Anne was beginning to feel nervous.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000007_000000.wav|At half past eleven the lettuce salad was made, the golden circles of the pies were heaped with whipped cream, and everything was sizzling and bubbling that ought to sizzle and bubble.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000023_000005.wav|Go, Davy, I say."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000070_000000.wav|"I think he only put it on because he wanted to conclude a business deal with Harmon Andrews," said Anne.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000048_000001.wav|Just as mr Allan had finished returning thanks there arose a strange, ominous sound on the stairs, as of some hard, heavy object bounding from step to step, finishing up with a grand smash at the bottom.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000002_000001.wav|The shining black mantelpiece was heaped with roses and ferns.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000059_000001.wav|"I'd rather walk calmly along and do without both flying and thud.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000068_000003.wav|He seems to have a prejudice against marriage."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000044_000000.wav|"It's a case of too many cooks, I guess," said Marilla, who had listened to this dialogue with a rather guilty expression.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000035_000000.wav|Anne and Diana set about lifting the dinner, with all the zest gone out of the performance.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000056_000004.wav|Perhaps when Diana and I are old and gray we shall be able to laugh over them.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000011_000000.wav|"I'm nervous about a good many things," said Anne, "but I don't think there is much fear that I won't be able to talk."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000058_000000.wav|"I know I'm too much inclined that, way" agreed Anne ruefully.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000045_000000.wav|The guests in the parlor heard peal after peal of laughter from the kitchen, but they never knew what the fun was about.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000057_000000.wav|"You'll probably have a good many more and worse disappointments than that before you get through life," said Marilla, who honestly thought she was making a comforting speech.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000062_000001.wav|Platters as old as that are very scarce.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000066_000001.wav|"Suppose you come with us tomorrow.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000040_000002.wav|We always do.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000015_000000.wav|"Don't suppose it.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000033_000000.wav|At half past one Marilla again emerged from the parlor.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000045_000001.wav|There were no green peas on the dinner table that day, however.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000006_000001.wav|Was he redeeming his promise to be good?|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000056_000000.wav|"Well," sighed Anne, laying the letter down on the red sandstone step of the back porch, where she was sitting, while the twilight rained down out of a dappled sky, "I always thought it was too good to be true that mrs Morgan should really come.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000057_000001.wav|"It seems to me, Anne, that you are never going to outgrow your fashion of setting your heart so on things and then crashing down into despair because you don't get them."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000058_000003.wav|I think it almost pays for the thud."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000064_000000.wav|"In bed.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000018_000001.wav|It was examined and admired; then, just as Anne had taken it back into her own hands, a terrific crash and clatter sounded from the kitchen pantry. Marilla, Diana, and Anne fled out, the latter pausing only long enough to set the precious platter hastily down on the second step of the stairs.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000028_000000.wav|"What shall we do for dessert?" asked Anne, looking regretfully at the wreck and ruin.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000070_000001.wav|"I've heard him say that's the only time a man needs to be particular about his appearance, because if he looks prosperous the party of the second part won't be so likely to try to cheat him.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000047_000001.wav|But Anne and Diana, between their disappointment and the reaction from their excitement of the forenoon, could neither talk nor eat.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000010_000005.wav|And it would be almost as bad to have nothing to say."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000069_000000.wav|"Well, you can never tell about those old bachelors.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000053_000000.wav|"Well, you know she only bought it, so it isn't the same as if it was an heirloom," said Diana, trying to console.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000058_000002.wav|But really, Marilla, the flying part IS glorious as long as it lasts . . . it's like soaring through a sunset.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000002_000000.wav|A great blue bowlful of snowballs overflowed on the polished table.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000068_000002.wav|I don't believe mr Harrison will ever marry.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000056_000001.wav|But there . . . that speech sounds as pessimistic as Miss Eliza Andrews and I'm ashamed of making it.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000034_000000.wav|"Girls, we MUST have dinner.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000001_000001.wav|Even Anne had never been able to infuse much grace into it, for Marilla would not permit any alterations.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000021_000001.wav|Didn't I?"|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000020_000001.wav|Then he had gone into the pantry to put it up on the shelf above the table, where he already kept a score or so of similar balls, which, so far as could be discovered, served no useful purpose save to yield the joy of possession.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000040_000000.wav|"Yes," said Anne, mashing the potatoes with the air of one expected to do her duty.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000036_000000.wav|"I don't believe I'll be able to eat a mouthful," said Diana dolefully.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000013_000004.wav|It was surely time for Priscilla and mrs Morgan to arrive.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000062_000004.wav|Marilla, look at that big star over mr Harrison's maple grove, with all that holy hush of silvery sky about it.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000070_000002.wav|I really feel sorry for mr Harrison; I don't believe he feels satisfied with his life.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000056_000005.wav|But I feel that I can't expect to do it before then, for it has truly been a bitter disappointment."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000059_000004.wav|What are you going to do about Miss Barry's platter?"|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000013_000005.wav|She made frequent trips to the gate and looked as anxiously down the lane as ever her namesake in the Bluebeard story peered from the tower casement.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000062_000002.wav|mrs Lynde couldn't find one anywhere for the supper.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000049_000000.wav|At the bottom of the stairs lay a big pink conch shell amid the fragments of what had been Miss Barry's platter; and at the top of the stairs knelt a terrified Davy, gazing down with wide open eyes at the havoc.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000006_000000.wav|And what about Davy all this time?|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000048_000000.wav|There is an old proverb that really seems at times to be inspired . . . "it never rains but it pours." The measure of that day's tribulations was not yet full.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000062_000003.wav|I only wish I could, for of course Miss Barry would just as soon have one platter as another, if both were equally old and genuine.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000055_000000.wav|"And oh, Anne dear," wrote Priscilla, "I'm so sorry, but I'm afraid we won't get up to Green Gables at all now, for by the time Aunty's ankle is well she will have to go back to Toronto.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000052_000001.wav|"It was my fault.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000002_000002.wav|Every shelf of the what not held a sheaf of bluebells; the dark corners on either side of the grate were lighted up with jars full of glowing crimson peonies, and the grate itself was aflame with yellow poppies.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000065_000000.wav|"You'll drown yourself or the twins, rowing about the pond in that flat," grumbled Marilla.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000060_000000.wav|"Pay her back the twenty dollars she paid for it, I suppose.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000038_000000.wav|When Diana dished the peas she tasted them and a very peculiar expression crossed her face.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000059_000000.wav|"Well, maybe it does," admitted Marilla.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000063_000000.wav|"Where's Davy?" said Marilla, with an indifferent glance at the star.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000067_000002.wav|I think I hear Rachel pronouncing on it.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000064_000002.wav|Of course, the original agreement was that he must be good. But he TRIED to be good . . . and I hadn't the heart to disappoint him."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000051_000000.wav|"No, I never did," whimpered Davy.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000067_000001.wav|"I'd be a nice sight, wouldn't I, rowing down the pond in a flat?|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000066_000002.wav|We'll shut Green Gables up and spend the whole day at the shore, daffing the world aside."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000000_000000.wav|There may have been two happier and more excited girls somewhere in Canada or the United States at that moment, but I doubt it.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000042_000001.wav|Then she made a grimace.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000066_000000.wav|"Well, it's never too late to mend," said Anne roguishly.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000014_000000.wav|"Suppose they don't come at all?" she said piteously.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000062_000000.wav|"I'm afraid not.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000008_000001.wav|We must have dinner at sharp one, for the soup must be served as soon as it's done."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000068_000000.wav|"No, I'm sure there isn't.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000052_000003.wav|I am properly punished for my carelessness; but oh, what will Miss Barry say?"|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000010_000003.wav|And I'll be sure to say 'I seen.' I haven't often said it since Miss Stacy taught here; but in moments of excitement it's sure to pop out.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000040_000001.wav|"I put a spoonful of sugar in.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000020_000002.wav|Davy had to climb on the table and reach over to the shelf at a dangerous angle . . . something he had been forbidden by Marilla to do, as he had come to grief once before in the experiment.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000025_000000.wav|"You can come down after dinner is over and have yours in the kitchen."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000024_000000.wav|"Ain't I to have any dinner?" wailed Davy.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000070_000003.wav|It must be very lonely to have no one to care about except a parrot, don't you think?|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000043_000002.wav|I happened to think of it, for a wonder . . .|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000060_000001.wav|I'm so thankful it wasn't a cherished heirloom because then no money could replace it."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000029_000000.wav|"Get out a crock of strawberry preserves," said Marilla consolingly. "There's plenty of whipped cream left in the bowl for it."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000022_000000.wav|"I forgot," whimpered Davy.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000023_000003.wav|I'm not punishing him because he spoiled your pies . . . that was an accident.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000050_000000.wav|"Davy," said Marilla ominously, "did you throw that conch down ON PURPOSE?"|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000002_000003.wav|All this splendor and color, mingled with the sunshine falling through the honeysuckle vines at the windows in a leafy riot of dancing shadows over walls and floor, made of the usually dismal little room the veritable "bower" of Anne's imagination, and even extorted a tribute of admiration from Marilla, who came in to criticize and remained to praise.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000003_000000.wav|"Now, we must set the table," said Anne, in the tone of a priestess about to perform some sacred rite in honor of a divinity.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000055_000001.wav|She has to be there by a certain date."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000054_000000.wav|The guests went away soon after, feeling that it was the most tactful thing to do, and Anne and Diana washed the dishes, talking less than they had ever been known to do before.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000000_000001.wav|Every snip of the scissors, as rose and peony and bluebell fell, seemed to chirp, "mrs Morgan is coming today." Anne wondered how mr Harrison COULD go on placidly mowing hay in the field across the lane, just as if nothing were going to happen.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000020_000005.wav|His clean blouse was ruined for that time and the pies for all time.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122827/16_122827_000068_000001.wav|He just called there one evening on business with mr Harmon Andrews and mrs Lynde saw him and said she knew he was courting because he had a white collar on.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000002_000000.wav|Paul Irving would have known the meaning of this, or made a meaning out of it for himself, if he didn't; but practical Davy, who, as Anne often despairingly remarked, hadn't a particle of imagination, was only puzzled and disgusted.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000011_000004.wav|I don't want a fairy story.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000062_000000.wav|"Well, I guess you may have it.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000023_000000.wav|Diana's father was a Liberal, for which reason she and Anne never discussed politics.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000053_000004.wav|Oh, there's Miss Sarah Copp now. PLEASE, Diana, go and explain."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000022_000000.wav|"mr|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000041_000005.wav|I shall have to pay for the damage I've done, but I wouldn't mind that if I were only sure they would understand my motive in peeping in at their pantry window.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000029_000000.wav|"That is the pantry window, I feel sure," she said, "because this house is just like Uncle Charles' at Newbridge, and that is their pantry window.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000004.wav|She never would before for fear it might come in handy sometime and I've had to whitewash it every spring.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000002.wav|Thank goodness, we Copps keep our pantries presentable at all times and don't care who sees into them.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000007_000001.wav|If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000049_000004.wav|I imagined out a most interesting dialogue between the asters and the sweet peas and the wild canaries in the lilac bush and the guardian spirit of the garden.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000046_000000.wav|"We must prepare for it," said Anne tranquilly.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000023_000001.wav|Green Gables folk had always been Conservatives.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000028_000000.wav|Diana looked at a certain little square window over the basement.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000046_000001.wav|A thunderstorm seemed a trifle in comparison with what had already happened.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000060_000002.wav|It's a very old platter."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000036_000000.wav|"Could I pull you out if I crawled up?" suggested Diana.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000010_000002.wav|Would you have liked to live with mrs Wiggins?"|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000041_000003.wav|I'm not uncomfortable, as long as I keep perfectly still . . . not uncomfortable in BODY I mean.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000038_000000.wav|"No . . . the splinters hurt too badly.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000062_000006.wav|Besides, I didn't know men were so skurse."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000016_000001.wav|It will be such a weight off my mind, for I have to go to town day after tomorrow and how can I face your Aunt Josephine without a willow ware platter?|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000013_000001.wav|You'd better see what she wants."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000061_000001.wav|She promptly agreed to give twenty five and Miss Sarah looked as if she felt sorry she hadn't asked for thirty.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000064_000001.wav|We've had a rather trying time but it's over now.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000022_000001.wav|Allan says it is on the principle of calling a place a grove because there are no trees in it," said Diana, "for nobody lives along the road except the Copp girls and old Martin Bovyer at the further end, who is a Liberal.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000032_000000.wav|"I'm afraid it won't bear my weight," she said as she gingerly stepped on the roof.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000008_000000.wav|"Marilla is not stingy, Davy," said Anne severely.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000062_000002.wav|The fact is-" Miss Sarah threw up her head importantly, with a proud flush on her thin cheeks-"I'm going to be married-to Luther Wallace.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000046_000004.wav|Here . . . take my hat with you.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000048_000000.wav|"Did you get very wet?" she asked anxiously.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000019_000004.wav|I suppose I shouldn't complain about a garden when the farmers' crops are suffering so.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000008_000001.wav|"It is very ungrateful of you to say such a thing."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000015_000002.wav|She says the old Copp girls on the Tory Road have a willow ware platter and she thinks it's exactly like the one we had at the supper.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000000.wav|"Bless you, that's all right," said Miss Sarah amiably.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000049_000001.wav|"My head and shoulders are quite dry and my skirt is only a little damp where the rain beat through the lathes.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000018_000001.wav|It was ten miles to Spencervale and the day was not especially pleasant for traveling.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000000_000001.wav|She turned her head at Davy's question and answered dreamily,|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000006_000002.wav|Yet here she was doing it . . . so wide sometimes is the gulf between theory and practice.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000004.wav|I'm getting awful tired of living under another woman's thumb.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000027_000001.wav|"If I were sure the platter was the right kind I would not mind waiting until they came home.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000043_000002.wav|I wouldn't mind my misfortunes so much if they were romantic, as mrs Morgan's heroines' always are, but they are always just simply ridiculous.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000062_000001.wav|I want all the money I can scare up just now.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000047_000004.wav|Finally the rain ceased, the sun came out, and Diana ventured across the puddles of the yard.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000054_000000.wav|Miss Sarah Copp was a small person, garbed in shabby black, with a hat chosen less for vain adornment than for qualities that would wear well. She looked as amazed as might be expected on seeing the curious tableau in her yard, but when she heard Diana's explanation she was all sympathy.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000035_000000.wav|Diana hastily dragged in the previously mentioned keg and Anne found that it was just sufficiently high to furnish a secure resting place for her feet.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000022_000002.wav|The Tory government ran the road through when they were in power just to show they were doing something."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000033_000002.wav|In her joy Anne forgot the precarious nature of her footing, incautiously ceased to lean on the window sill, gave an impulsive little hop of pleasure . . . and the next moment she had crashed through the roof up to her armpits, and there she hung, quite unable to extricate herself. Diana dashed into the duck house and, seizing her unfortunate friend by the waist, tried to draw her down.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000003.wav|Martha's the boss of this establishment I can tell you.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000019_000005.wav|mr Harrison says his pastures are so scorched up that his poor cows can hardly get a bite to eat and he feels guilty of cruelty to animals every time he meets their eyes."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000051_000000.wav|"Oh, Anne, it's sweet . . . just sweet.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000049_000006.wav|I wish I had a pencil and paper to do it now, because I daresay I'll forget the best parts before I reach home."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000019_000001.wav|"Everything is so parched up.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000031_000000.wav|This important point of ethics being settled, Anne prepared to mount the aforesaid "little house," a construction of lathes, with a peaked roof, which had in times past served as a habitation for ducks.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000064_000003.wav|So 'all's well that ends well.'"|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000026_000000.wav|This proved to be the case.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000065_000000.wav|"We're not home yet," said Diana rather pessimistically, "and there's no telling what may happen before we are.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000004_000000.wav|"Of course, I was, dear boy.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000055_000002.wav|I didn't see anything else-I didn't LOOK for anything else."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000063_000000.wav|When the girls were safely away, Diana driving and Anne holding the coveted platter carefully on her lap, the green, rain freshened solitudes of the Tory Road were enlivened by ripples of girlish laughter.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000044_000000.wav|Thunder it was undoubtedly, and Diana, having made a hasty pilgrimage around the house, returned to announce that a very black cloud was rising rapidly in the northwest.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000020_000001.wav|Along most of its extent it was lined with thick set young spruces crowding down to the roadway, with here and there a break where the back field of a Spencervale farm came out to the fence or an expanse of stumps was aflame with fireweed and goldenrod.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000050_000000.wav|Diana the faithful had a pencil and discovered a sheet of wrapping paper in the box of the buggy.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000041_000002.wav|They'll know where the axe is and get me out.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000015_000001.wav|"Mother and I have just got home from Carmody, and I saw Mary Sentner from Spencer vale in mr Blair's store.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000039_000000.wav|Diana searched faithfully but no axe was to be found.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000011_000001.wav|"Nor I don't want to go out to Uncle Richard neither.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000034_000002.wav|See if you can put something under my feet . . . then perhaps I can draw myself up."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000060_000001.wav|But it's worth twenty five dollars.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000055_000000.wav|"Miss Copp," she said earnestly.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000012_000000.wav|Fortunately for Anne, Marilla called out at this moment from her room.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000055_000001.wav|"I assure you I looked into your pantry window only to discover if you had a willow ware platter.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000030_000000.wav|"No, I don't think so," decided Anne, after due reflection, "since our motive is not idle curiosity."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000026_000001.wav|The girls looked at each other in perplexity.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000040_000000.wav|"I'll have to go for help," she said, returning to the prisoner.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000046_000003.wav|Fortunately my parasol is in the buggy.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000046_000002.wav|"You'd better drive the horse and buggy into that open shed.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000018_000000.wav|The next afternoon the girls fared forth on their platter hunting expedition.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000031_000001.wav|The Copp girls had given up keeping ducks . . .|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000016_000000.wav|"I'll go right over to Spencervale after it tomorrow," said Anne resolutely, "and you must come with me.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000006.wav|You must be real tired and hungry.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000019_000003.wav|As for my garden, it hurts me every time I go into it.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000031_000003.wav|Although scrupulously whitewashed it had become somewhat shaky, and Anne felt rather dubious as she scrambled up from the vantage point of a keg placed on a box.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000024_000001.wav|The house was a very old-fashioned one, situated on a slope, which fact had necessitated the building of a stone basement under one end.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000035_000001.wav|But she could not release herself.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000045_000000.wav|"I believe we're going to have a heavy thunder shower," she exclaimed in dismay, "Oh, Anne, what will we do?"|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000033_000000.wav|"Lean on the window sill," advised Diana, and Anne accordingly leaned. Much to her delight, she saw, as she peered through the pane, a willow ware platter, exactly such as she was in quest of, on the shelf in front of the window.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000057_000000.wav|"Twenty dollars," said Anne, who was never meant to match business wits with a Copp, or she would not have offered her price at the start.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000008.wav|Martha locked up all the cake and cheese and preserves afore she went.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000000.wav|"Well, I'll see," said Miss Sarah cautiously.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000009_000001.wav|"I heard Marilla say she was it, herself, the other day."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000010_000001.wav|If Marilla had been stingy she wouldn't have taken you and Dora when your mother died.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000029_000001.wav|The shade isn't down, so if we climbed up on the roof of that little house we could look into the pantry and might be able to see the platter.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000054_000001.wav|She hurriedly unlocked the back door, produced the axe, and with a few skillfull blows set Anne free.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000007.wav|And you want to buy my platter.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000047_000003.wav|Occasionally Anne slanted back her parasol and waved an encouraging hand to her friend; But conversation at that distance was quite out of the question.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000024_000002.wav|The house and out buildings were all whitewashed to a condition of blinding perfection and not a weed was visible in the prim kitchen garden surrounded by its white paling.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000027_000002.wav|But if it isn't it may be too late to go to Wesley Keyson's afterward."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000017_000000.wav|Both girls laughed over the old memory . . . concerning which, if any of my readers are ignorant and curious, I must refer them to Anne's earlier history.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000018_000002.wav|It was very warm and windless, and the dust on the road was such as might have been expected after six weeks of dry weather.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000043_000004.wav|No, Diana, I believe it is thunder."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000025_000001.wav|"I believe that nobody is home."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000015_000000.wav|"I've good news for you, Anne," said Diana.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000024_000000.wav|Finally the girls came to the old Copp homestead . . . a place of such exceeding external neatness that even Green Gables would have suffered by contrast.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000054_000002.wav|The latter, somewhat tired and stiff, ducked down into the interior of her prison and thankfully emerged into liberty once more.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000062_000003.wav|He wanted me twenty years ago.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000049_000002.wav|Don't pity me, Diana, for I haven't minded it at all.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000043_000003.wav|Fancy what the Copp girls will think when they drive into their yard and see a girl's head and shoulders sticking out of the roof of one of their outhouses. Listen . . . is that a wagon?|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000053_000000.wav|"Oh, no, it wouldn't be suitable at all.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000053_000003.wav|I like writing such things, but of course nothing of the sort would ever do for publication, for editors insist on plots, so Priscilla says.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000001.wav|"You needn't worry-there's no harm done.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000043_000000.wav|"If they're not back by sunset you'll have to go for other assistance, I suppose," said Anne reluctantly, "but you mustn't go until you really have to.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000005.wav|But come in, come in.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000011_000000.wav|"You just bet I wouldn't!" Davy was emphatic on that point.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000020_000000.wav|After a wearisome drive the girls reached Spencervale and turned down the "Tory" Road . . . a green, solitary highway where the strips of grass between the wheel tracks bore evidence to lack of travel.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000041_000004.wav|I wonder what the Copp girls value this house at.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000007_000000.wav|"Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000016_000002.wav|It would be even worse than the time I had to confess about jumping on the spare room bed."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000006.wav|She went to town today-I drove her to the station.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000058_000009.wav|She always does, because she says I'm too extravagant with them if company comes."|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000049_000005.wav|When I go home I mean to write it down.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000064_000002.wav|I've got the platter, and that rain has laid the dust beautifully.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000004_000001.wav|Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?"|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000033_000001.wav|So much she saw before the catastrophe came.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000006_000001.wav|But she felt rather ashamed of saying it; for had she not, in keen remembrance of many similar snubs administered in her own early years, solemnly vowed that she would never tell any child it was too little to understand?|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000049_000003.wav|I kept thinking how much good the rain will do and how glad my garden must be for it, and imagining what the flowers and buds would think when the drops began to fall.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000041_000000.wav|"No, indeed, you won't," said Anne vehemently.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000047_000000.wav|Diana untied the pony and drove into the shed, just as the first heavy drops of rain fell.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000038_000001.wav|If you can find an axe you might chop me out, though.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000041_000001.wav|"If you do the story of this will get out everywhere and I shall be ashamed to show my face. No, we must just wait until the Copp girls come home and bind them to secrecy.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000001_000000.wav|"'Over the mountains of the moon, Down the valley of the shadow.'"|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000027_000000.wav|"I don't know what to do," said Anne.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000056_000005.wav|But you might as well argue with a post as with Martha.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/16/122828/16_122828_000006_000000.wav|"Oh, you are too little to understand," said Anne.|16
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000023_000001.wav|They flinched.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000037_000000.wav|He peered at the body.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000033_000000.wav|"It is this way, Man who walked in the Sea," said the grey Thing.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000006_000003.wav|My left arm was in a sling (it was lucky it was my left), and I carried my revolver in my right. Soon we traced a narrow path through the wild luxuriance of the island, going northwestward; and presently M'ling stopped, and became rigid with watchfulness.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000015_000000.wav|There was nothing threatening about this detachment, at any rate. They seemed awestricken and puzzled.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000029_000000.wav|"Well?" said i|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000022_000002.wav|He is-there," I pointed upward, "where he can watch you.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000034_000000.wav|And with these six creatures guiding us, we went through the tumult of ferns and creepers and tree stems towards the northwest. Then came a yelling, a crashing among the branches, and a little pink homunculus rushed by us shrieking.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000034_000005.wav|Yet it passed me, gripped Montgomery, and holding him, fell headlong beside him and pulled him sprawling upon itself in its death agony.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000032_000001.wav|Some have died. Show us now where his old body lies,--the body he cast away because he had no more need of it."|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000034_000003.wav|Montgomery fired and missed, bowed his head, threw up his arm, and turned to run. I fired, and the Thing still came on; fired again, point blank, into its ugly face.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000018_000001.wav|"Is it still to be this and that?|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000004_000001.wav|THE FINDING OF MOREAU.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000006_000000.wav|It is possibly due to the tension of my mind, at the time, but even now that start into the hot stillness of the tropical afternoon is a singularly vivid impression.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000028_000000.wav|"The Other with the Whip-" began the grey Thing.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000032_000000.wav|"Some," said I, "have broken the Law: they will die.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000011_000000.wav|"Confound you!" said I, and gripped my pistol.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000014_000001.wav|"He is dead," said this monster.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000006_000005.wav|Then, listening intently, we heard coming through the trees the sound of voices and footsteps approaching us.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000023_000000.wav|I looked at them squarely.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000019_000001.wav|"Is there a Law, thou Other with the Whip?"|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000038_000003.wav|Montgomery turned him over. Resting at intervals, and with the help of the seven Beast People (for he was a heavy man), we carried Moreau back to the enclosure. The night was darkling.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000004_000000.wav|eighteen.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000036_000000.wav|"See," said I, pointing to the dead brute, "is the Law not alive? This came of breaking the Law."|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000022_000003.wav|You cannot see him, but he can see you. Fear the Law!"|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000024_000000.wav|"He is great, he is good," said the Ape man, peering fearfully upward among the dense trees.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000014_000002.wav|"They saw."|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000018_000000.wav|"Is there a Law now?" asked the Monkey man.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000006_000004.wav|Montgomery almost staggered into him, and then stopped too.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000016_000000.wav|"Where is he?" said Montgomery.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000020_000001.wav|And they all stood watching us.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000013_000000.wav|For a space no one spoke.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000021_000000.wav|"Prendick," said Montgomery, turning his dull eyes to me. "He's dead, evidently."|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000010_000000.wav|"Hullo!" suddenly shouted Montgomery, "Hullo, there!"|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000005_000001.wav|He was already more than half fuddled. I told him that some serious thing must have happened to Moreau by this time, or he would have returned before this, and that it behoved us to ascertain what that catastrophe was. Montgomery raised some feeble objections, and at last agreed. We had some food, and then all three of us started.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000025_000000.wav|"And the other Thing?" I demanded.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129594/718_129594_000022_000000.wav|I had been standing behind him during this colloquy. I began to see how things lay with them.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000015_000001.wav|Let them not know that I am the Master."|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000007_000000.wav|"Are you the one I met on the beach?" I asked.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000009_000003.wav|"Where are the others?" I asked.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000028_000002.wav|Woe be to him who breaks the Law!"|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000000_000000.wav|twenty one.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000048_000000.wav|At first I did not understand, but presently it occurred to me that he wished me to follow him; and this I did at last,--slowly, for the day was hot.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000035_000004.wav|They held things more clumsily; drinking by suction, feeding by gnawing, grew commoner every day. I realised more keenly than ever what Moreau had told me about the "stubborn beast flesh." They were reverting, and reverting very rapidly.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000022_000001.wav|"Even now he watches us!"|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000033_000003.wav|The Dog man scarcely dared to leave my side.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000029_000001.wav|With an affectation of indifference I began to chop idly at the ground in front of me with my hatchet. They looked, I noticed, at the deep cuts I made in the turf.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000037_000000.wav|My Dog man imperceptibly slipped back to the dog again; day by day he became dumb, quadrupedal, hairy.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000012_000000.wav|"Presently you will slay them all," said the Dog man.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000034_000000.wav|In the first month or so the Beast Folk, compared with their latter condition, were human enough, and for one or two besides my canine friend I even conceived a friendly tolerance. The little pink sloth creature displayed an odd affection for me, and took to following me about.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000025_000000.wav|"True, true!" said the Dog man.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000022_000000.wav|"He is not dead," said I, in a loud voice.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000045_000001.wav|But with a certain lack of practical sense which has always been my bane, I had made it a mile or more from the sea; and before I had dragged it down to the beach the thing had fallen to pieces.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000051_000000.wav|I found a thousand difficulties.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000030_000001.wav|I answered him.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000056_000001.wav|Then, with such patience as I could command, I collected a quantity of fruit, and waylaid and killed two rabbits with my last three cartridges.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000010_000000.wav|"They are mad; they are fools," said the Dog man.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000055_000001.wav|One of my spasms of disgust came upon me.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000050_000000.wav|I burnt both of the bodies on a pyre of brushwood; but after that I saw that unless I left the island my death was only a question of time. The Beast People by that time had, with one or two exceptions, left the ravine and made themselves lairs according to their taste among the thickets of the island.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000044_000000.wav|It was only about September or October that I began to think of making a raft.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000050_000006.wav|I turned once more, almost passionately now, to hammering together stakes and branches to form a raft for my escape.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000042_000002.wav|I am told that even now my eyes have a strange brightness, a swift alertness of movement.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000010_000005.wav|We love the Law, and will keep it; but there is no Pain, no Master, no Whips for ever again.' So they say. But I know, Master, I know."|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000043_000001.wav|Five times I saw sails, and thrice smoke; but nothing ever touched the island.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000032_000001.wav|Indeed, I may say-without vanity, I hope-that I held something like pre eminence among them. One or two, whom in a rare access of high spirits I had scarred rather badly, bore me a grudge; but it vented itself chiefly behind my back, and at a safe distance from my missiles, in grimaces.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000015_000000.wav|"And that their sins may grow," I said, "let them live in their folly until their time is ripe.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000051_000003.wav|But I could think of nothing.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000029_000000.wav|They looked curiously at one another.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000038_000000.wav|As the carelessness and disorganisation increased from day to day, the lane of dwelling places, at no time very sweet, became so loathsome that I left it, and going across the island made myself a hovel of boughs amid the black ruins of Moreau's enclosure. Some memory of pain, I found, still made that place the safest from the Beast Folk.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000052_000003.wav|But it sailed strangely.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000052_000005.wav|The head was not kept to the wind; it yawed and fell away.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000035_000000.wav|This, I say, was in the earlier weeks of my solitude among these brutes. During that time they respected the usage established by the Law, and behaved with general decorum.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000008_000000.wav|"The same, Master."|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000020_000000.wav|None about the fire attempted to salute me.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000048_000002.wav|It was not afraid and not ashamed; the last vestige of the human taint had vanished.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000009_000001.wav|"It is well," I said, extending my hand for another licking kiss.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000044_000004.wav|There came a season of thunder storms and heavy rain, which greatly retarded my work; but at last the raft was completed.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000040_000001.wav|For them and for me it came without any definite shock.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000045_000002.wav|Perhaps it is as well that I was saved from launching it; but at the time my misery at my failure was so acute that for some days I simply moped on the beach, and stared at the water and thought of death.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000049_000003.wav|That danger at least was over; but this, I knew was only the first of the series of relapses that must come.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000050_000001.wav|Few prowled by day, most of them slept, and the island might have seemed deserted to a new comer; but at night the air was hideous with their calls and howling. I had half a mind to make a massacre of them; to build traps, or fight them with my knife.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000026_000001.wav|An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000053_000002.wav|Suddenly a great white bird flew up out of the boat, and neither of the men stirred nor noticed it; it circled round, and then came sweeping overhead with its strong wings outspread.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000046_000000.wav|I did not, however, mean to die, and an incident occurred that warned me unmistakably of the folly of letting the days pass so,--for each fresh day was fraught with increasing danger from the Beast People.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000050_000005.wav|The creatures had lost the art of fire too, and recovered their fear of it.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000031_000001.wav|But from that night until the end came, there was but one thing happened to tell save a series of innumerable small unpleasant details and the fretting of an incessant uneasiness. So that I prefer to make no chronicle for that gap of time, to tell only one cardinal incident of the ten months I spent as an intimate of these half humanised brutes.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000048_000004.wav|At last I had him face to face.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000018_000002.wav|The moon was just riding up on the edge of the ravine, and like a bar across its face drove the spire of vapour that was for ever streaming from the fumaroles of the island.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000050_000004.wav|After the death of this poor dog of mine, my last friend, I too adopted to some extent the practice of slumbering in the daytime in order to be on my guard at night. I rebuilt my den in the walls of the enclosure, with such a narrow opening that anything attempting to enter must necessarily make a considerable noise.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000055_000005.wav|I could not bring myself to look behind me.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000010_000001.wav|"Even now they talk together beyond there.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000001_000001.wav|When I awoke, it was dark about me.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000043_000002.wav|I always had a bonfire ready, but no doubt the volcanic reputation of the island was taken to account for that.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000013_000000.wav|"Presently," I answered, "I will slay them all,--after certain days and certain things have come to pass.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000044_000001.wav|By that time my arm had healed, and both my hands were at my service again.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000030_000003.wav|In the course of about an hour I had really convinced several of the Beast Folk of the truth of my assertions, and talked most of the others into a dubious state. I kept a sharp eye for my enemy the Hyena swine, but he never appeared. Every now and then a suspicious movement would startle me, but my confidence grew rapidly.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000018_000000.wav|For a moment the opening of the hut was blackened by the exit of the Dog man.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000026_000000.wav|They were staggered at my assurance.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000002_000004.wav|I snatched my hand away.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000002_000003.wav|All my muscles contracted.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000001_000002.wav|My arm ached in its bandages.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000054_000000.wav|Then I stopped shouting, and sat down on the headland and rested my chin on my hands and stared.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000016_000000.wav|"The Master's will is sweet," said the Dog man, with the ready tact of his canine blood.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000010_000004.wav|We have no Master, no Whips, no House of Pain, any more. There is an end.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000036_000003.wav|I cannot pursue this disagreeable subject.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000049_000001.wav|As I did so, the Thing rose straight at me in a leap, and I was knocked over like a ninepin. It clutched at me with its crippled hand, and struck me in the face. Its spring carried it over me.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000030_000002.wav|Then one of the dappled things objected, and an animated discussion sprang up round the fire. Every moment I began to feel more convinced of my present security. I talked now without the catching in my breath, due to the intensity of my excitement, that had troubled me at first.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000027_000000.wav|"The Man with the Bandaged Arm speaks a strange thing," said one of the Beast Folk.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000004_000000.wav|"I-Master."|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000054_000002.wav|I would have swum out to it, but something-a cold, vague fear-kept me back.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000034_000001.wav|The Monkey man bored me, however; he assumed, on the strength of his five digits, that he was my equal, and was for ever jabbering at me,--jabbering the most arrant nonsense. One thing about him entertained me a little: he had a fantastic trick of coining new words.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000002_000002.wav|Then something soft and warm and moist passed across my hand.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000011_000001.wav|"It is well," I said again.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000020_000003.wav|Altogether, perhaps twenty of the Beast Folk squatted, staring into the fire or talking to one another.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000002_000000.wav|I heard something breathing, saw something crouched together close beside me.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000049_000000.wav|The brute made no sign of retreat; but its ears went back, its hair bristled, and its body crouched together. I aimed between the eyes and fired.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000020_000002.wav|I looked round for the Hyena swine, but he was not there.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000042_000001.wav|My clothes hung about me as yellow rags, through whose rents showed the tanned skin. My hair grew long, and became matted together.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000014_000000.wav|"What the Master wishes to kill, the Master kills," said the Dog man with a certain satisfaction in his voice.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000055_000004.wav|I turned my back upon them, struck the lug and began paddling out to sea.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000010_000002.wav|They say, 'The Master is dead. The Other with the Whip is dead.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000010_000003.wav|That Other who walked in the Sea is as we are.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000045_000000.wav|I was delighted with it.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000009_000002.wav|I began to realise what its presence meant, and the tide of my courage flowed.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129597/718_129597_000053_000000.wav|As the day grew brighter, I began waving the last rag of my jacket to them; but they did not notice me, and sat still, facing each other.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000028_000000.wav|"Go away!" cried i|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000023_000004.wav|For some time I stood staring after him.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000004_000001.wav|One bent his knees.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000002_000002.wav|Among the chips scattered about the beach lay the two axes that had been used to chop up the boats. The tide was creeping in behind me.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000008_000000.wav|"None escape," said i "Therefore hear and do as I command." They stood up, looking questioningly at one another.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000019_000000.wav|As I watched them disposing of the mangled remains of M'ling, I heard a light footfall behind me, and turning quickly saw the big Hyena swine perhaps a dozen yards away.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000011_000000.wav|"Take him," said I, standing up again and pointing with the whip; "take him, and carry him out and cast him into the sea."|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000026_000001.wav|I knew what that object was, but I had not the heart to go back and drive them off. I began walking along the beach in the opposite direction, designing to come round the eastward corner of the island and so approach the ravine of the huts, without traversing the possible ambuscades of the thickets.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000031_000000.wav|"May I not come near you?" it said.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000003_000000.wav|"Salute!" said i "Bow down!"|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000021_000000.wav|I was perhaps a dozen seconds collecting myself.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000012_000000.wav|They came forward, evidently still afraid of Montgomery, but still more afraid of my cracking red whip lash; and after some fumbling and hesitation, some whip cracking and shouting, they lifted him gingerly, carried him down to the beach, and went splashing into the dazzling welter of the sea.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000036_000000.wav|"There is food in the huts," said an Ox boar man, drowsily, and looking away from me.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000024_000003.wav|I went back to the beach, and turning eastward past the burning enclosure, made for a point where a shallow spit of coral sand ran out towards the reef.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000002_000003.wav|There was nothing for it but courage.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000020_000002.wav|I was far more afraid of him than of any other two of the Beast Folk. His continued life was I knew a threat against mine.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000025_000004.wav|What was the Hyena swine telling them? My imagination was running away with me into a morass of unsubstantial fears.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000016_000001.wav|At the water's edge they stopped, turning and glaring into the sea as though they presently expected Montgomery to arise therefrom and exact vengeance.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000024_000000.wav|I dismissed my three serfs with a wave of the hand, and went up the beach into the thickets.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000016_000000.wav|"Good!" said I, with a break in my voice; and they came back, hurrying and fearful, to the margin of the water, leaving long wakes of black in the silver.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000035_000000.wav|"I want food," said I, almost apologetically, and drawing near.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000034_000001.wav|One, a Wolf woman, turned her head and stared at me, and then the others.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000006_000002.wav|Come and see."|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000023_000000.wav|Perhaps a little too spasmodically I drew my revolver, aimed quickly and fired.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000034_000000.wav|Towards noon certain of them came and squatted basking in the hot sand. The imperious voices of hunger and thirst prevailed over my dread. I came out of the bushes, and, revolver in hand, walked down towards these seated figures.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000002_000006.wav|They stopped and stared at me.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000025_000001.wav|"The stubborn beast flesh grows day by day back again." Then I came round to the Hyena swine.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000006_000001.wav|Great is the Law!|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000025_000002.wav|I felt sure that if I did not kill that brute, he would kill me. The Sayer of the Law was dead: worse luck.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000023_000002.wav|Every now and then he looked back at me over his shoulder.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000007_000000.wav|"None escape," said one of them, advancing and peering.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000020_000001.wav|I dropped the whip and snatched at the pistol in my pocket; for I meant to kill this brute, the most formidable of any left now upon the island, at the first excuse. It may seem treacherous, but so I was resolved.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000023_000005.wav|I turned to my three obedient Beast Folk again and signalled them to drop the body they still carried. Then I went back to the place by the fire where the bodies had fallen and kicked the sand until all the brown blood stains were absorbed and hidden.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000006_000000.wav|"They broke the Law," said I, putting my foot on the Sayer of the Law. "They have been slain,--even the Sayer of the Law; even the Other with the Whip.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000020_000000.wav|For a moment we stood eye to eye.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000023_000001.wav|I heard him yelp, saw him run sideways and turn, knew I had missed, and clicked back the cock with my thumb for the next shot. But he was already running headlong, jumping from side to side, and I dared not risk another miss.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000019_000002.wav|He stopped in this crouching attitude when I turned, his eyes a little averted.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000032_000000.wav|"No; go away," I insisted, and snapped my whip.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000014_000000.wav|They went in up to their armpits and stood regarding me.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000021_000001.wav|Then cried I, "Salute! Bow down!"|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000004_000003.wav|One knelt, then the other two.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000032_000001.wav|Then putting my whip in my teeth, I stooped for a stone, and with that threat drove the creature away.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000034_000002.wav|None attempted to rise or salute me. I felt too faint and weary to insist, and I let the moment pass.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000004_000002.wav|I repeated my command, with my heart in my mouth, and advanced upon them.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000024_000001.wav|I carried my pistol in my hand, my whip thrust with the hatchets in the sling of my arm. I was anxious to be alone, to think out the position in which I was now placed.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000001_000001.wav|ALONE WITH THE BEAST FOLK.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000022_000000.wav|His teeth flashed upon me in a snarl.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000027_000001.wav|I was now so nervous with my own imaginings that I immediately drew my revolver. Even the propitiatory gestures of the creature failed to disarm me. He hesitated as he approached.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000004_000000.wav|They hesitated.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/718/129596/718_129596_000002_000005.wav|I took half a dozen steps, picked up the blood stained whip that lay beneath the body of the Wolf man, and cracked it.|718
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000017_000002.wav|Could a lover's confusion be more deliciously enhanced by silence and hesitation?" Ehlert above evidently sees a ballroom picture of brilliancy, with the regulation tender avowal.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000007_000003.wav|This testimony is final.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000013_000000.wav|I can find "no lack of affinity" between the andantino and presto.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000033_000005.wav|Its inaccessible position preserves it from rude and irreverent treatment.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000015.wav|I select for especial admiration this modulatory passage:|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000025_000000.wav|And what could be more evocative of dramatic suspense than the sixteen bars before the mad, terrifying coda!|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000030_000006.wav|Of technical difficulties he knew literally nothing; the intricate and evasive parts were as easy as the easiest-I might say easier!|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000008_000002.wav|So does Klindworth, although F sharp may be found in some editions.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000013.wav|What a harmonist!|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000010_000002.wav|The second Ballade, although dedicated to Robert Schumann, did not excite his warmest praise.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000013.wav|According to his own lights the Russian virtuoso was right: his strength was not equal to the task, and so, imitating Chopin, he topsy turvied the shading.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000003_000000.wav|Chopin then, according to Hadow, is no "builder of the lofty rhyme," but the poet of the single line, the maker of the phrase exquisite. This is hardly comprehensive.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000033_000002.wav|I know of nothing in music like the F minor Ballade.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000025_000003.wav|Here is the episode:|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000012_000000.wav|Rubinstein bore great love for this second Ballade.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000008.wav|Here is the very apotheosis of the ornament; the figuration sets off the idea in dazzling relief.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000009_000001.wav|I have witnessed children lay aside their games to listen thereto.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000006.wav|It was published December, eighteen forty three.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000003.wav|Then, told in his most dreamy tones, the legend begins.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000010_000006.wav|It is really in the keys of F major-A minor. Chopin's psychology was seldom at fault.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000026_000000.wav|[Musical score excerpt]|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000025_000001.wav|How the solemn splendors of the half notes weave an atmosphere of mystic tragedy!|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000016_000000.wav|"A coquettish grace-if we accept by this expression that half unconscious toying with the power that charms and fires, that follows up confession with reluctance-seems the very essence of Chopin's being."|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000006.wav|He might have added that the entire composition contains examples-look at the first bar of the valse episode in the bass.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000008.wav|It is a questioning thought that, like a sudden pain, shoots through mind and body."|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000005.wav|There is the tall lily in the fountain that nods to the sun|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000001.wav|Chopin always wears his learning lightly; it does not oppress us.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000033_000001.wav|It is Chopin at the supreme summit of his art, an art alembicated, personal and intoxicating.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000003_000001.wav|With the more complex, classical types of the musical organism Chopin had little sympathy, but he contrived nevertheless to write two movements of a piano sonata that are excellent-the first half of the B flat minor Sonata.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000007_000002.wav|It was the property of Professor Lebert (Levy), since deceased, and in it, without any question, stands the much discussed E flat.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000005.wav|Even Willeby, who personally prefers the D natural, thinks Chopin intended the E flat, and quotes a similar effect twenty eight bars later.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000018_000003.wav|And what an irresistible moment it is, this delightful territory, before the darker mood of the C sharp minor part is reached!|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000017_000000.wav|"It becomes a difficult task to transcribe the easy transitions, full of an irresistible charm, with which he portrays Love's game.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000001.wav|The last bar of the introduction has caused some controversy.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000025_000002.wav|This soul suspension recalls Maeterlinck.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000018_000002.wav|To my mind this repetition adds emphasis, although it is a formal blur.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000014_000000.wav|Presto con fuoco Chopin marks the second section.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000002.wav|That 'cello like largo with its noiseless suspension stays us for a moment in the courtyard of Chopin's House Beautiful.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000011_000002.wav|"What can be finer than the simple strains of the opening section!|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000007_000005.wav|It is insipid, colorless.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000003.wav|Kullak suggests some variants.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000006.wav|It drips in cadenced monotone and its song is repeated on the lips of the slender hipped girl with the eyes of midnight-and so might I weave for you a story of what I see in the Ballade and you would be aghast or puzzled.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000009_000004.wav|How soft and sweet a breath steals over the senses and the heart!"|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000000.wav|The G minor Ballade after "Konrad Wallenrod," is a logical, well knit and largely planned composition.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000031_000005.wav|This piece winds up with extreme bravura.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000003.wav|The narrative tone is missing after the first page, a rather moody and melancholic pondering usurping its place.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000001.wav|It is the Odyssey of Chopin's soul.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000001.wav|The closest parallelism may be detected in its composition of themes.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000018_000000.wav|The disputed passage is on the fifth page of the Kullak edition, after the trills.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000013_000004.wav|It shocks one by its abrupt but by no means fantastic transitions. The key color is changeful, and the fluctuating themes are well contrasted.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000002.wav|The inverted dominant pedal in the C sharp minor episode reveals, with the massive coda, a great master.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000012.wav|I remember de Pachmann-a close interpreter of certain sides of Chopin-playing this coda piano, pianissimo and prestissimo. The effect was strangely irritating to the nerves, and reminded me of a tornado seen from the wrong end of an opera glass.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000028_000001.wav|It has three requirements: The comprehension of the programme as a whole,--for Chopin writes according to a programme, to the situations in life best known to, and understood by himself; and in an adequate manner; the conquest of the stupendous difficulties in complicated figures, winding harmonies and formidable passages.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000029_000001.wav|The Ballade- andante con moto, six eighths-begins in the major key of the dominant; the seventh measure comes to a stand before a fermata on C major.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000003_000002.wav|The idealized dance forms he preferred; the Polonaise, Mazurka and Valse were already there for him to handle, but the Ballade was not.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000002.wav|Lyrism is the keynote of the work, a passionate lyrism, with a note of self absorption, suppressed feeling-truly Slavic, this shyness!--and a concentration that is remarkable even for Chopin.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000011_000003.wav|They sound as if they had been drawn from the people's store house of song.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000011_000000.wav|In truth they cannot.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000010_000003.wav|"A less artistic work than the first," he wrote, "but equally fantastic and intellectual.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000014_000002.wav|He also wisely marks crescendos in the bass at the first thematic development.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000021_000000.wav|Here is Klindworth:|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000009_000002.wav|It appears like some fairy tale that has become music.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000030_000004.wav|Then followed a passage a tempo, in which the principal theme played hide and seek.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000024_000000.wav|[Musical score excerpt]|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000003_000006.wav|In them he attains the acme of his power as an artist," remarks Niecks.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000008_000003.wav|On the last page, second bar, first line, Kullak writes the passage beginning with E flat in eighth notes, Klindworth in sixteenths.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000008_000004.wav|The close is very striking, full of the splendors of glancing scales and shrill octave progressions.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000007.wav|The theme in F minor has the elusive charm of a slow, mournful valse, that returns twice, bejewelled, yet never overladen.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000011_000001.wav|"The second Ballade possesses beauties in no way inferior to those of the first," he continues.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000013_000002.wav|Chopin's robust treatment of the first theme results in a strong piece of craftmanship. The episodical nature of this Ballade is the fruit of the esoteric moods of its composer.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000030_000001.wav|A little thread connects this with the chorale like introduction of the second theme.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000031_000004.wav|The coda, in modulated harp tones, came to a stop before a fermata which corresponded to those before mentioned, in order to cast anchor in the haven of the dominant, finishing with a witches' dance of triplets, doubled in thirds.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000010_000000.wav|And how difficult it seems to be to write of Chopin except in terms of impassioned prose!|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000002.wav|Its second theme in E flat is lovely in line, color and sentiment.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000033_000000.wav|There is passion, refined and swelling, in the curves of this most eloquent composition.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000000.wav|This G minor Ballade was published in June, eighteen thirty six, and is dedicated to Baron Stockhausen.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000004.wav|It is the mood of a man who examines with morbid, curious insistence the malady that is devouring his soul.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000008_000000.wav|Kullak gives sixty to the half note at the moderato.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000005.wav|This Ballade is the companion of the Fantaisie Polonaise, but as a Ballade "fully worthy of its sisters," to quote Niecks.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000032_000002.wav|They would breed mischief, were they emancipated from the measure."|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000013_000003.wav|It follows a hidden story, and has the quality-as the second Impromptu in F sharp-of great, unpremeditated art.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000015_000002.wav|It is the schoolgirls' delight, who familiarly toy with its demon, seeing only favor and prettiness in its elegant measures.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000031_000000.wav|I admired the short trills in the left hand, which were trilled out quite independently, as if by a second player; the gliding ease of the cadence marked dolcissimo.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000032_000000.wav|The "lingering" mentioned by de Lenz is tempo rubato, so fatally misunderstood by most Chopin players.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000006.wav|Kullak and Mertke, in the Steingraber edition, play the passage in this manner:|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000009_000000.wav|"Perhaps the most touching of all that Chopin has written is the tale of the F major Ballade.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000001.wav|It is Chopin in his most reflective, yet lyric mood.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000011.wav|It is a storm of the emotions, muscular in its virility.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000009_000003.wav|The four voiced part has such a clearness withal, it seems as if warm spring breezes were waving the lithe leaves of the palm tree.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000004.wav|That he is wrong internal testimony abundantly proves.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000004.wav|Development, as in strict cyclic forms, there is not a little.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000011_000005.wav|The second appearance of the latter leads to an urging, restless coda in A minor, which closes in the same key and pianissimo with a few bars of the simple, serene, now veiled first strain."|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000008.wav|The first questioning theme is heard again, and with a perpendicular roar the presto comes upon us.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000010.wav|A whirlwind I have called it elsewhere.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000004.wav|He uses the transient shake in the third bar, instead of the appoggiatura which Klindworth prefers.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000014_000005.wav|Klindworth indicates both.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000008_000001.wav|On the third page, third bar, he uses F natural in the treble.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000018_000004.wav|Niecks becomes enthusiastic over the insinuation and persuasion of this composition: "the composer showing himself in a fundamentally caressing mood." The ease with which the entire work is floated proves that Chopin in mental health was not daunted by larger forms.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000002.wav|Gutmann, Mikuli and other pupils declare for the E flat; Klindworth and Kullak use it.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000019_000005.wav|Klindworth attacks the trill on the second page with the upper tone-A flat.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000010_000005.wav|I recollect very well that when Chopin played this Ballade for me it finished in F major; it now closes in A minor." Willeby gives its key as F minor.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000014_000001.wav|Kullak gives eighty four to the quarter, and for the opening sixty six to the quarter.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000003.wav|The return of the first theme in A minor and the quick answer in E of the second are evidences of Chopin's feeling for organic unity.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000023_000012.wav|How wonderfully the introduction comes in for its share of thoughtful treatment.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000007_000004.wav|The D natural robs the bar of all meaning.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000015.wav|They belong as much to the world as to Poland.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000031_000001.wav|It swung itself into the higher register, where it came to a stop before A major, just as the introduction stopped before C major.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000003_000003.wav|Here he is not imitator, but creator.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000014_000004.wav|At the eighth bar, after this return, Kullak adheres to the E instead of F at the beginning of the bar, treble clef.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000027_000000.wav|A story of de Lenz that lends itself to quotation is about this piece:|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000010_000004.wav|Its impassioned episodes seem to have been afterward inserted.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000022_000000.wav|[Musical score excerpt of the same passage in Klindworth's edition]|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000002_000000.wav|w h Hadow has said some pertinent things about Chopin in "Studies in Modern Music." Yet we cannot accept unconditionally his statement that "in structure Chopin is a child playing with a few simple types, and almost helpless as soon as he advances beyond them; in phraseology he is a master whose felicitous perfection of style is one of the abiding treasures of the art."|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000007.wav|As Niecks thinks, "This dissonant E flat may be said to be the emotional keynote of the whole poem.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000009.wav|For two pages the dynamic energy displayed by the composer is almost appalling.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000005_000006.wav|It is fascinating.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000011_000004.wav|The entrance of the presto surprises, and seems out of keeping with what precedes; but what we hear after the return of tempo primo-the development of those simple strains, or rather the cogitations on them-justifies the presence of the presto.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000004_000013.wav|Only the Slav may hope to understand Chopin thoroughly.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000018_000005.wav|There is moonlight in this music, and some sunlight, too.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000029_000005.wav|Rub the bloom from a peach or from a butterfly-what remains will belong to the kitchen, to natural history!|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000017_000001.wav|Who will not recall the memorable passage in the A flat Ballade, where the right hand alone takes up the dotted eighths after the sustained chord of the sixth of A flat?|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000017_000003.wav|The episodes of this Ballade are so attenuated of any grosser elements that none but psychical meanings should be read into them.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7316/10642/7316_10642_000006_000003.wav|Xaver Scharwenka has seen fit to edit Klindworth, and gives a D natural in the Augener edition.|7316
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/44937/4358_44937_000021_000000.wav|"The roaring of the wheels has filled my ears, The clashing and the clamor shut me in, Myself, my soul, in chaos disappears, I cannot think or feel amid the din."|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/44937/4358_44937_000010_000000.wav|The exhibits afforded pathetic evidence that the older immigrants do not expect the solace of art in this country; an Italian expressed great surprise when he found that we, although Americans, still liked pictures, and said quite naively that he didn't know that Americans cared for anything but dollars-that looking at pictures was something people only did in Italy.|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/44937/4358_44937_000005_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixteen|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/44937/4358_44937_000020_000000.wav|seemed to relieve the tension of the moment.|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/44937/4358_44937_000019_000000.wav|"Who was it made the coal? Our God as well as theirs."|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/44937/4358_44937_000006_000000.wav|ARTS AT HULL HOUSE|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000007_000010.wav|Would any one faint?|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000005_000000.wav|Opposite to the singing seats towered the pulpit, from which the clergyman looked down upon us like a sparrow upon the house top.|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000006_000003.wav|The minister stood upon a heated slab of soap stone.|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000003_000001.wav|For my part, I see no necessary connection between discomfort and devotion.|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000007_000001.wav|The chorister, even, was frequently among the missing, but was charitably supposed to be subject to the ague. Efforts were made to prevail upon the elderly part of the parish to permit the introduction of stoves with long funnels.|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000004_000003.wav|This was the golden legend: "BUILT, seventeen seventy.|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000004_000004.wav|ENLARGED, seventeen ninety five." I remember hearing a wag propose to add as another remarkable fact, "SCOURED, eighteen eighteen."|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000007_000008.wav|The stoves were provided, and an uncommonly full attendance the next Sabbath showed the very general interest the matter had excited.|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000006_000001.wav|But in winter the vast airy space had a peculiar and searching chill.|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000008_000001.wav|No one could see across the church, and the minister loomed up, as if in a dense fog; all eyes were fountains of tears.|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000007_000003.wav|Their fathers had worshipped in the cold, and their sons might.|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4358/20034/4358_20034_000004_000002.wav|The singing seats, projecting from the central portion of the gallery, furnished me with another hebdomadal study, in large gilt letters of antique awkwardness, which so impressed themselves on my mind that I see them now.|4358
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000100_000000.wav|Onward we passed, both I and my Conductor, Up o'er the crag above another arch, Which the moat covers, where is paid the fee|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000123_000000.wav|After one foot to go away he lifted, This word did Mahomet say unto me, Then to depart upon the ground he stretched it.|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000056_000000.wav|Already was the flame erect and quiet, To speak no more, and now departed from us With the permission of the gentle Poet;|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000217_000000.wav|The heavy dropsy, that so disproportions The limbs with humours, which it ill concocts, That the face corresponds not to the belly,|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000095_000000.wav|For who repents not cannot be absolved, Nor can one both repent and will at once, Because of the contradiction which consents not.'|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000246_000000.wav|Such I became, not having power to speak, For to excuse myself I wished, and still Excused myself, and did not think I did it.|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000036_000000.wav|Thereafterward, the summit to and fro Moving as if it were the tongue that spake, It uttered forth a voice, and said: "When I|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000052_000000.wav|Joyful were we, and soon it turned to weeping; For out of the new land a whirlwind rose, And smote upon the fore part of the ship.|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000202_000000.wav|He cried: "Spread out the nets, that I may take The lioness and her whelps upon the passage;" And then extended his unpitying claws,|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000031_000000.wav|Leave me to speak, because I have conceived That which thou wishest; for they might disdain Perchance, since they were Greeks, discourse of thine."|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000077_000000.wav|But inasmuch as never from this depth Did any one return, if I hear true, Without the fear of infamy I answer,|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000118_000000.wav|"Nor death hath reached him yet, nor guilt doth bring him," My Master made reply, "to be tormented; But to procure him full experience,|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000215_000000.wav|And after the two maniacs had passed On whom I held mine eye, I turned it back To look upon the other evil born.|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000145_000000.wav|When it was come close to the bridge's foot, It lifted high its arm with all the head, To bring more closely unto us its words,|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000140_000000.wav|But I remained to look upon the crowd; And saw a thing which I should be afraid, Without some further proof, even to recount,|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000053_000000.wav|Three times it made her whirl with all the waters, At the fourth time it made the stern uplift, And the prow downward go, as pleased Another,|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000125_000000.wav|Staying to look in wonder with the others, Before the others did his gullet open, Which outwardly was red in every part,|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000019_000000.wav|For with his eye he could not follow it So as to see aught else than flame alone, Even as a little cloud ascending upward,|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000194_000000.wav|And Niccolo, who the luxurious use Of cloves discovered earliest of all Within that garden where such seed takes root;|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000171_000000.wav|I do not think a sadder sight to see Was in Aegina the whole people sick, (When was the air so full of pestilence,|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000165_000000.wav|When we were now right over the last cloister Of Malebolge, so that its lay brothers Could manifest themselves unto our sight,|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000185_000000.wav|Wholly to me did the good Master gather, Saying: "Say unto them whate'er thou wishest." And I began, since he would have it so:|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000093_000000.wav|Francis came afterward, when I was dead, For me; but one of the black Cherubim Said to him: 'Take him not; do me no wrong;|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000022_000000.wav|And the Leader, who beheld me so attent, Exclaimed: "Within the fires the spirits are; Each swathes himself with that wherewith he burns."|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000212_000000.wav|And he to me: "That is the ancient ghost Of the nefarious Myrrha, who became Beyond all rightful love her father's lover.|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/81/121543/81_121543_000231_000000.wav|"I found them here," replied he, "when I rained Into this chasm, and since they have not turned, Nor do I think they will for evermore.|81
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000003.wav|For a while she lay still, fighting against the weakness that overpowered her, and by degrees the horrible nausea passed and the agony in her head abated, leaving only a dull ache.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000007_000002.wav|She ripped it off with a shudder and flung it from her, rubbing the red smear from her hands with a kind of horror.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000018_000002.wav|Ibraheim Omair!|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000009_000001.wav|Diana repeated the request in Arabic, one of the few sentences she knew without stumbling.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000002.wav|She did not credit him with so much acumen.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000011.wav|By now the absence of herself and Gaston and their escort would be discovered.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000002.wav|In those last moments all inequality of rank had been swept away in their common peril-they had been only a white man and a white woman together in their extremity.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000010_000000.wav|Diana hated the sweet, thick stuff, but it would do until she could get the water she wanted, and she put out her hand to take the little cup. But her eyes met the other's fixed on her, and something in their malignant stare made her pause.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000003.wav|She longed to scream and make a dash for the opening that she guessed was behind her, and to take her chance in the darkness outside.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000012_000001.wav|That confirmed Diana's suspicions and rage lent her additional strength.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000000.wav|Her position was an appalling one, but hope was strong within her.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000005.wav|He had proved his faithfulness, sacrificing his life for his master's play thing.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000008_000004.wav|She crossed the tent to the side of the Arab woman.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000016_000001.wav|But her courage had risen with a bound; the fact that she was physically stronger than the woman who had been put to guard her, and also that she had gained her point with the burly negro, had a great moral effect on her, further restoring her confidence in herself.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000004.wav|But she knew that such a chance was impossible; if she ever reached the open air she would never be allowed to get more than a few steps from the tent.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000024.wav|He would come!|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000004_000006.wav|Her own dread-not of the death that was imminent, but lest the mercy it offered should be snatched from her.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000013_000001.wav|The Nubian listened with white teeth flashing in a broad grin, and shook his head in response to some request urged with denunciatory fist.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000010.wav|And the feeling gave a necessary spur to the courage that was fast coming back to her.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000021.wav|And long after she knew from his even breathing that he was asleep she had lain wide eyed beside him, grasping at what happiness she could, living for the moment as she had schooled herself to live, trying to be content with just the fact of his nearness.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000018_000001.wav|But the sharp, guttural voice predominating over the other voices killed the wild hope that had sprung up in her by its utter dissimilarity to the soft low tones for which she longed.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000009.wav|How late she did not know.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000008_000001.wav|Her sensitive lip curled with disgust, all her innate fastidiousness in revolt.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000005.wav|She moved her arm slightly from before her eyes so that she could see, and looked cautiously from under thick lashes, screened by the sleeve of her coat.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000001.wav|The hold she was exercising over herself was tremendous, her body was rigid with the effort, and her hands deep down in her pockets clenched till the nails bit into the palms.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000004_000004.wav|She remembered fragmentary incidents of what had gone before the oblivion from which she had just emerged.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000013_000004.wav|She went a step forward, her head high, and looked him straight in the face.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000007.wav|Instantly Diana realised that there was no help or compassion to be expected from her.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000006.wav|She was lying on a pile of cushions in one corner of a small tented apartment which was otherwise bare, except for the rug that covered the floor.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000020_000000.wav|The voices in the next room continued, until Diana almost prayed for the moment she was waiting for would come; suspense was worse than the ordeal for which she was nerving herself, It came at last.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000011_000000.wav|"no|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000006.wav|She must convey the impression of fearlessness, though cold terror was knocking at her heart.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000005.wav|Her only course lay in the bravado that alone kept her from collapse.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000030.wav|For the advent of the man who a few weeks before she had loathed for his brutal abduction of herself she now prayed with the desperation of despair.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000004.wav|If it could only be prolonged until Ahmed reached her.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000012_000000.wav|Before she realised what was happening the woman thrust a strong arm round her and forced the cup to her lips.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000014_000003.wav|Bring me water!" she said again, more imperiously than before.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000004_000002.wav|Recollection was dulled in bodily pain, and, at first, thought was merged in physical suffering.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000004_000007.wav|Then before the valet could effect his supreme devotion had come the hail of bullets, and he had fallen against her, the blood that poured from his wounds saturating her linen coat, and rolled over across her feet.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000008.wav|She closed her eyes again with a shudder. The attempted devotion of Gaston had been useless.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000010.wav|Her watch had been broken some months before, and she had no means of even guessing the hour, but it must be well on in the evening.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000006.wav|Gaston was in all probability dead, but she was alive, and she must husband her strength for her own needs. She forced the threatening emotion down, and, with an effort, controlled the violent shivering in her limbs, and sat up slowly, looking at the Arab woman, who, hearing her move, turned to gaze at her.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000020_000001.wav|The curtain slid aside again, and the same huge negro she had seen before entered. He came towards her, and her breath hissed in suddenly between her set teeth, but before he reached her the Arab woman intercepted him, blocking his way, and with wild eyes and passionate gestures poured out a stream of low, frenzied words.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000013.wav|Of that she had no doubt.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000000.wav|Her eyes were still shut; a leaden weight seemed fixed on them, and the effort to open them was beyond her strength.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000004_000000.wav|Slowly and painfully, through waves of deadly nausea and with the surging of deep waters in her ears, Diana struggled back to consciousness.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000002.wav|Every instinct was rebelling against the calm she forced upon herself.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000007_000000.wav|Diana's muscles relaxed and she sat back easily on the cushions, the little passage of wills had restored her confidence in herself.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000025.wav|He would come!|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000012.wav|He would know her peril and he would come to her.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000006.wav|If he only came in time! Hours had passed since the ambuscade had surprised them.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000021_000002.wav|She walked slowly to the curtain and nodded to the Nubian to draw it aside, and slower still she passed into the other room.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000014_000001.wav|He pointed to the coffee that the woman had recommenced to make, her back turned to them, but Diana stamped her foot.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000010_000003.wav|What beyond the woman's expression made her think so she did not know, but she was sure of it.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000008_000002.wav|The heat aggravated a burning thirst that was parching her throat.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000011_000001.wav|Not coffee.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000018.wav|An inconsistent jealousy that had been unprovoked and unjustified, but for which she had suffered. She had known last night, when she winced under his sarcastic tongue, and later, when Saint Hubert had left them and his temper had suddenly boiled over, that she was paying for the unaccustomed strain that he was putting on his own feelings.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000007_000001.wav|She moved her hand and it brushed against her jacket, coming away stained and sticky, and she noticed for the first time that all one side and sleeve were soaked with blood.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000010_000004.wav|She put the cup aside impatiently.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000004_000001.wav|The agony in her head was excruciating, and her limbs felt cramped and bruised.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000031.wav|He represented safety, salvation, everything that made life worth living.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000012_000005.wav|And, in answer to her cries, a curtain at the side of the tent, that Diana had not noticed, slid aside and a gigantic Nubian came in. With outstretched hand shaking with rage, pointing at Diana, she burst into voluble abuse, punctuating every few words with the shrieks that had brought the negro.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000013_000002.wav|He picked up the last remaining embers that had scattered on the rug, rubbing the smouldering patches till they were extinguished, and then turned to leave the room.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000013_000003.wav|But Diana called him back.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000014.wav|Although he had changed so strangely in the last few days, though the wonderful gentleness of the last two months had merged again into indifference and cruelty, still she never doubted.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000004.wav|All that he could do he had done, he had shielded her body with his own, it must have been over his lifeless body that they had taken her.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000029.wav|The reversal of the role he played in her life brought a quivering smile to her lips.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000007.wav|It had been early afternoon then.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000015_000003.wav|The water was warm and slightly brackish, but she needed it too much to mind.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000021_000003.wav|Only a little larger than the one she had left, almost as bare, but her mind took in these things uncomprehendingly, for all her attention was focussed on the central figure in the room.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000014_000002.wav|"Water!|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000027.wav|He would not let anything happen to her.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000022.wav|And the indifference of the night had been maintained when he had left her at dawn, his persistent silence pointing the continuance of his displeasure.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000021_000001.wav|Only her hands twitched, her long fingers curling and uncurling spasmodically, and she buried them deep in her breeches' pockets to hide them.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000001.wav|A lump came into her throat as she thought of Gaston.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000023_000008.wav|His heavy face lit up with a gleam of malicious satisfaction as Diana came towards him, his loose mouth broadened in a wicked smile.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000008.wav|Now the lighted lamp told her it was night.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000007.wav|In the opposite corner of the tent an Arab woman crouched over a little brazier, and the smell of native coffee was heavy in the air.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000015_000004.wav|In spite of being tepid it relieved the dry, suffocating feeling in her throat and refreshed her.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000020_000002.wav|The Nubian turned on her impatiently and thrust her roughly out of his way, and, coming to Diana, put out his hand as if to grasp her arm, but she stepped back with flashing eyes and a gesture that he obeyed.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000019_000001.wav|She stood rigid, one foot beating nervously into the soft rug.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000017_000016.wav|He might discard her at his own pleasure, but no one would take her from him with impunity.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000015_000002.wav|She picked up one of the clean coffee cups that had rolled to her feet, rinsed it several times, and then drank.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000018_000003.wav|He had come first!|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000005_000002.wav|But instead of his body or the dry hot sand her fingers had expected to encounter they closed over soft cushions, and with the shock she sat up with a jerk, her eyes staring wide, but, sick and faint, she fell back again, her arm flung across her face, shielding the light that pierced like daggers through her throbbing eye balls.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000006_000000.wav|She lay still, pressing closely down amongst the cushions, and clenching the sleeve of her jacket between her teeth to stifle the groan that rose to her lips.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000012_000003.wav|She dashed the cup to the floor, spilling its contents, and, with an effort, tore the clinging hands from her and sent the woman crashing on to the ground, rolling against the brazier, oversetting it, and scattering brass pots and cups over the rug.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000021_000000.wav|Her heart was pounding, but she had herself under control.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89388/8194_89388_000015_000000.wav|The thought of its condition made her hesitate for a moment, but only for a moment.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000017_000000.wav|She shook her head without looking up.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000007.wav|And yet as he looked at her with eyes filled with hopeless misery a demon of suggestion whispered within him, tempting him.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000016.wav|Ahmed in the full power of his strength again would be the man he had always been, implacable, cruel, merciless.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000006.wav|She winced as if the hurt had been her own when Saint Hubert's gentle, dexterous fingers touched the Sheik's bruised head.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000001.wav|He made no more remonstrances, but set about his work quickly.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000007.wav|Without a word he thrust her behind the divan and turned to meet them.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000009_000000.wav|The dawn was breaking when they reached the camp.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000023.wav|He coveted what was not his, and masked his envy with a hypocrisy that now appeared contemptible.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000004_000001.wav|I need more appliances than I have with me, and we are too few to stay and risk a possible attack if there are others of Ibraheim Omair's men in the neighbourhood."|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000025.wav|I wanted to kill Raoul when he would not come with me, but for that I would have gone back to her....|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000014_000005.wav|She bent lower over the unconscious man; his lips were parted slightly, and the usual sternness of his mouth was relaxed.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000020_000001.wav|"Please take it.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000003.wav|He looked down longingly on the pale face lying against his arm, and his features contracted at the sight of the cruel marks marring the whiteness of her delicate throat.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000004_000000.wav|"I don't know-but we must get away from here.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000017.wav|Saint Hubert's own longing, his passionate, Gallic temperament, were driving him as they had driven him the day before.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000000_000004.wav|But for the dying wretch expiating his crimes so hideously she felt no pity, he was beyond all sympathy.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000007_000004.wav|He must not die.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000000.wav|Saint Hubert put his hand on her shoulder.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000011.wav|Diana was on her feet, swaying giddily, powerless to help him, cold with dread.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000015.wav|Diana tried to get to him, faint and stumbling, flung here and there by the fighting, struggling men, until a strong hand caught her and drew her aside.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000001.wav|"Diane, you are torturing yourself unnecessarily.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000040.wav|Grand Dieu!|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000044.wav|Diane, Diane, it is all black.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000026_000000.wav|And hour after hour with weary hopelessness the tired voice went on-"Diane, Diane...."|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000018.wav|The longing to save her from misery was acute, that, and his own love, prompted by the urging of the desire within him.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000019_000001.wav|She even had to admit to herself a certain sensation of relief after she had bathed her aching head and throat, and substituted a thin, silk wrap for the torn, stained riding suit.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000010_000000.wav|While Saint Hubert, with difficulty, cleared the tent of the Sheik's men Diana stood beside the divan and looked at him.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000008.wav|He knew his friend as no one else did.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000008.wav|Would he live?|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000007.wav|And when it was over and Raoul had turned aside to wash his hands, she slipped on to her knees beside him.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000023_000000.wav|He sent Henri away and sat down beside the divan to watch with a feeling of weariness that was not bodily.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000004.wav|The fear of him was wiped out in the fear for him.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000010_000001.wav|He was soaked in blood that had burst through the temporary bandages, and his whole body bore evidence of the terrible struggle that had gone before the blow that had felled him.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000015_000001.wav|Then for a moment she dropped her bright head beside the bandaged one on the pillow, but when the Vicomte came back she was kneeling where he had left her, her hands clasped over one of the Sheik's and her face hidden against the cushions.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000000.wav|He carried her into the bedroom, hesitating beside the couch before he put her down.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000008.wav|Give me what I want willingly and I will be kind to you, but fight me, and by Allah! you shall pay the cost!...|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000002.wav|You cannot get away, I shall not let you go....|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000021.wav|Who was he that he should judge him?|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000011_000002.wav|I will come and tell you as soon as I am finished."|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000024_000000.wav|The first words were in Arabic, then the slow, soft voice lapsed into French, pure as the Vicomte's own.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000014_000004.wav|She glanced back over her shoulder at Saint Hubert, but he had gone to the open doorway to speak to Yusef, and was standing out under the awning.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000009.wav|The courage that had kept her up so far had not extended to asking Saint Hubert again, and a few muttered words from Henri, to which the Vicomte had responded with only a shrug, had killed the words that were hovering on her lips.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000007_000005.wav|God would not be so cruel.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000003.wav|I can help you.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000011_000000.wav|"Diane, you have been through enough," he said gently.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000000.wav|The noise outside the tent was growing louder as the fighting rolled back in its direction, and once or twice a bullet ripped through the hangings.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000007_000001.wav|It was an agony of dread and apprehension, of momentary waiting for some word or exclamation from the powerful Arab who was holding him, or from Saint Hubert, who was riding beside him, that would mean his death, and of momentary respites from fear and faint glimmerings of hope as the minutes dragged past and the word she was dreading did not come.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000005_000000.wav|Diana looked down on the wounded man fearfully.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000004.wav|She suffered horribly.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000015.wav|Why does it give me no pleasure to have broken her at last?|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000017_000002.wav|I couldn't sleep."|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000019.wav|Then he trembled, and a great fear of himself came over him.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000020_000000.wav|Henri was pouring out coffee when she came back, and Saint Hubert turned to her with a cup in his outstretched hand.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000004.wav|I shall go mad if you don't let me do something.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000020.wav|Ahmed was his friend.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000005_000001.wav|"But the ride-the jolting," she gasped.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000014_000000.wav|Only a few hours before he had come to her in all the magnificence of his strength.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000003.wav|Her face was deadly pale, and dark lines showed below her eyes, but her hands did not shake, and her voice was low and even.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000020.wav|Last night she only spoke to him, and when he went I cursed her till I saw the terror in her eyes.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000005.wav|See!|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000000_000006.wav|And the retribution was swift.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000004.wav|You can do no good by staying here.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000009_000002.wav|They carried him into the tent and laid him on the divan, beside which Henri had already put out all the implements that his master would need.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000015.wav|Her chance was slight, if any.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000000.wav|"Two hours south of the oasis with the three broken palm trees by the well....|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000006.wav|He dropped the dead chief back into the tumbled cushions and looked up swiftly, and at the same moment Ibraheim Omair's men made a rush.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000008_000000.wav|From time to time Saint Hubert spoke to her, and the quiet courage of his voice steadied her breaking nerves.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000027.wav|Has it been long to her?|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000009.wav|Three times he fired and one of the negroes and two Arabs fell, but the rest hurled themselves on him, and Diana saw him surrounded.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000006_000000.wav|"It has got to be risked," replied Saint Hubert abruptly.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000022.wav|He could at least be honest with himself, he could own the truth.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000014_000001.wav|She looked at the long limbs lying now so still, so terribly, suggestively still, and her lips trembled again, but her pain filled eyes were dry.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000014_000003.wav|She leaned over him whispering his name, and a sudden hunger came to her to touch him, to convince herself that he was not dead.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000000_000003.wav|And she was afraid, with a shuddering horror, of the merciless, crimson stained hands that would touch her, of the smiling, cruel mouth that would be pressed on hers, and of the murderous light shining in his fierce eyes.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000002_000000.wav|Saint Hubert glanced up hastily as Diana came to his side.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000014_000002.wav|She could not cry, only her throat ached and throbbed perpetually.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000021_000001.wav|She slid down on to the rug where she had knelt before.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000021_000000.wav|She took it unheeding, and, swallowing it hastily, went to the side of the divan again.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000011.wav|To him, all his life, a thing desired had upon possession become valueless.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000018_000000.wav|Saint Hubert did not press it.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000033.wav|The tent is cold and dark without you....|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000023_000003.wav|For a time Ahmed Ben Hassan lay motionless, and then, as the day crept on and the early rays of the warm sun filled the tent, he moved uneasily, and began to mutter feverishly in confused Arabic and French.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000010.wav|She looked at him with anguished eyes.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000018.wav|I have tortured her to keep my vow, and still I want her....|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000019.wav|Diane, Diane, how beautiful you are!... What devil makes me hate Raoul after twenty years?|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000002.wav|I must help you.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000003.wav|Agony leaped into her eyes.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000023_000002.wav|He had need of all his calm, and he gripped himself resolutely.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000037.wav|How the jackals are howling....|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000013_000000.wav|The weakness that had sent her trembling into his arms the day before had been the fear of danger to the man she loved, but in the face of actual need the courage that was so much a part of her nature did not fail her.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000005.wav|Henri and I will watch.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000009_000001.wav|Diana had a glimpse of rows of unusually silent men grouped beside the tent, but all her mind was concentrated on the long, limp figure that was being carefully lifted down from the sweating horse.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000030.wav|Diane, Diane, how could I know how much you meant to me?|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000007.wav|I will not spare you.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000018_000001.wav|"Very well," he said quietly, "but if you are going to stay you must take off your riding boots and put on something more comfortable than those clothes."|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000006.wav|My hands are quite steady." She held them out as she spoke, and Saint Hubert gave in without opposition.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000011_000001.wav|"Go and rest while I do what I can for Ahmed.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000017_000001.wav|"I can't go.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000045.wav|I cannot see you, Diane, Diane...."|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000029.wav|Where is Diane?...|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000031.wav|How could I know that I should love you?...|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000024.wav|The clasp of his arms around her seemed suddenly a profanation, and he laid her down very gently on the low couch, drawing the thin coverlet over her, and went back slowly to the other room.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000002.wav|He would never have the torturing happiness of holding her in his arms again, would never again clasp her against the heart that was crying out for her with the same mad passion that had swept over him yesterday.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000008_000001.wav|As they passed the scene of the ambuscade he told her of Gaston.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000012_000000.wav|She looked up fiercely.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000006.wav|I will call you if there is any change, my word of honour."|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000014.wav|For four months she has fought me.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000000_000002.wav|It was a revelation of the real man with the thin layer of civilisation stripped from him, leaving only the primitive savage drunk with the lust of blood.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000023_000005.wav|And beside him, with his face buried in his hands, Raoul de Saint Hubert thanked God fervently that he had saved Diana the added torture of listening to the revelations of the past four months.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000003.wav|Try and get some sleep for a few hours.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000022_000013.wav|The pleasure of pursuit faded with ownership.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000021_000003.wav|For a few moments she looked at him, then drowsily her eyes closed and her head fell forward on the cushions, and with a half sad smile of satisfaction Saint Hubert gathered her up into his arms.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000018.wav|The camp of Ibraheim Omair had been wiped out, but Ahmed Ben Hassan's men looked only at the unconscious figure of their leader.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000016_000002.wav|We cannot know for some time how it will go with him.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000002_000002.wav|What did it matter about her?|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000000_000001.wav|She had seen him in cruel, even savage moods, but nothing that had ever approached the look of horrible pleasure that was on his face now.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000010.wav|Shall I make you love me?...|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000026.wav|Allah! how long the day has been....|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000001_000010.wav|His strength was abnormal, and for some minutes the struggling mass of men strained and heaved about him.|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8194/89390/8194_89390_000025_000036.wav|Grant me time to get to her....|8194
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000005.wav|A French fleet, commanded by Philip de Ravenstein, arrived off Naples when D'Aubigny was already master of it.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000011.wav|He found Gonzalvo of Cordova posted with his army on the left bank of the Garigliano, either to invest the place or to repulse re enforcements that might arrive for it.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000002_000002.wav|In giving the senate an account of his mission, one of the ambassadors, Dominic of Treviso, drew the following portrait of Louis the twelfth.: "The king is in stature tall and thin, and temperate in eating, taking scarcely anything but boiled beef; he is by nature miserly and retentive; his great pleasure is hawking; from September to April he hawks.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000008.wav|He marched rapidly on Naples, and entered it on the fourteenth of May, almost without resistance; and the two forts defending the city, the Castel Nuovo and the Castel dell' Uovo surrendered, one on the eleventh of June and the other on the first of July.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000001.wav|D'Aubigny fell ill; and Louis the twelfth. sent to Naples, with the title of viceroy, Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, a brave warrior, but a negotiator inclined to take umbrage and to give offence.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000006_000002.wav|With those political miscalculations was connected a more personal and more disinterested feeling.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000001.wav|The French army, under the command of Stuart d'Aubigny, a valiant Scot, arrived on the twenty fifth of June, fifteen o one, before Rome, and there received a communication in the form of a bull of the pope which removed the crown of Naples from the head of Frederick the third., and partitioned that fief of the Holy See between the Kings of France and Spain.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000002.wav|Fortified with this authority, the army continued its march, and arrived before Capua on the sixth of July.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000007.wav|The great captain was as eager to profit by victory as he had been patient in waiting for a chance of it.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000006.wav|The very day after his success Gonzalvo heard that a Spanish corps, lately disembarked in Calabria, had also beaten, on the twenty first of April, at Seminara, a French corps commanded by D'Aubigny.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000002_000008.wav|The French and the Spaniards, D'Aubigny and Gonzalvo of Cordova, at first gave their attention to nothing but establishing themselves firmly, each in the interests of the king his master, in those portions of the kingdom which were to belong to them.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000005_000009.wav|But the candidature of Cardinal d'Amboise failed; a four weeks' pope, Pius the third., succeeded Alexander the sixth.; and, when the Holy See suddenly became once more vacant, Cardinal d'Amboise failed again; and the new choice was Cardinal Julian della Rovera, Pope Julius the second., who soon became the most determined and most dangerous foe of Louis the twelfth., already assailed by so many enemies.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000006_000000.wav|The Venetian, Dominic of Treviso, was quite right; Louis the twelfth. was "of unstable mind, saying yes and no" On such characters discouragement tells rapidly.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000000.wav|The outset of the campaign was attended with easy success.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000003.wav|The French essayed to drive the Spaniards from the points they had occupied in the disputed territories; and at first they had the advantage.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000000_000000.wav|Whilst matters were thus going on in the north of Italy, Louis the twelfth. was preparing for his second great Italian venture, the conquest of the kingdom of Naples, in which his predecessor Charles the eighth. had failed.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000019.wav|All the prisoners, captains, men at arms, and common soldiers were accordingly given up, put to sea, and sailed for Genoa, where they were well received and kindly treated by the Genoese, which did them great good, for they were much in need of it.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000002.wav|The disputes soon took the form of hostilities.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000014.wav|Gonzalvo, who was kept well informed of his enemies' condition, threw, on the twenty seventh of December, a bridge over the Garigliano, attacked the French suddenly, and forced them to fall back upon Gaeta, which they did not succeed in entering until they had lost artillery, baggage, and a number of prisoners.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000006.wav|The unhappy King Frederick took refuge in the island of Ischia; and, unable to bear the idea of seeking an asylum in Spain with his cousin who had betrayed him so shamefully, he begged the French admiral himself to advise him in his adversity.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000000_000009.wav|The King of France, whatever sacrifices he might already have made and might still make in order to insure their co-operation, could no more count upon it than upon the loyalty of the King of Spain in the conquest they were entering upon together.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000003_000018.wav|The French captains, seeing that fortune was not kind to them, and that they had provisions for a week only, were all for taking this offer.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000000_000007.wav|He forgot, moreover, that Ferdinand had at the head of his armies a tried chieftain, Gonzalvo of Cordova, already known throughout Europe as the great captain, who had won that name in campaigns against the Moors, the Turks, and the Portuguese, and who had the character of being as free from scruple as from fear.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15305/4839_15305_000001_000010.wav|It does not appear that Frederick ever had an idea of doing so, for his name is completely lost to history up to the day of his death, which took place at Tours on the ninth of November, fifteen o four, after three years' oblivion and exile.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000011.wav|As soon as the speech was ended, his Majesty rose up and gave quite a brotherly welcome to the brilliant ambassadors.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000006.wav|As early as the twentieth of April, fourteen ninety eight, a fortnight after his accession, Louis the twelfth. addressed to the Venetians a letter "most gracious," says the contemporary chronicler Marino Sanuto, "and testifying great good will;" and the special courier who brought it declared that the king had written to nobody in Italy except the pope, the Venetians, and the Florentines.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000002_000002.wav|And, indeed, his government did present these two phases, so different and inharmonious.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000006_000002.wav|In less than three weeks the duchy was conquered; in only two cases was any assault necessary; all the other places were given up by traitors or surrendered without a show of resistance.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000007_000005.wav|It was Louis the twelfth. who deserved Machiavelli's strictures for having engaged, by means of diplomatic alliances of the most contradictory kind, at one time with the Venetians' support, and at another against them, in a policy of distant and incoherent conquests, without any connection with the national interests of France, and, in the long run, without any success.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000007_000003.wav|By allying themselves, in fourteen ninety nine, with Louis the twelfth. against the Duke of Milan, they did not fall into Louis's hands, for, between fourteen ninety nine and fifteen fifteen, and many times over, they sided alternately with and against him, always preserving their independence and displaying it as suited them at the moment.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000001.wav|He looked upon it as his patrimony.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000009_000005.wav|On the twenty fifth of January, fifteen hundred, the insurrection broke out; and two months later Ludovic Sforza had once more become master of Milaness, where the French possessed nothing but the castle of Milan.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000005_000002.wav|And on account of the charges and expenses which would be incurred by the Venetian government whilst rendering assistance to the Most Christian king in the aforesaid war, the Most Christian king bound himself to approve and consent that the city of Cremona and certain forts or territories adjacent, specially indicated, should belong in freehold and perpetuity to the Venetian government.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000005_000001.wav|It provided for an alliance between the King of France and the Venetian government, for the purpose of making war in common upon the Duke of Milan, Ludovic Sforza, on and against every one, save the lord pope of Rome, and for the purpose of insuring to the Most Christian king restoration to the possession of the said duchy of Milan as his rightful and olden patrimony.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000003.wav|The Duke of Milan, Ludovic, the Moor, had by his sagacity and fertile mind, by his taste for arts and sciences and the intelligent patronage he bestowed upon them, by his ability in speaking, and by his facile character, obtained in Italy a position far beyond his real power.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000002_000005.wav|We shall thus get at a better understanding and better appreciation of their character and their results.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000009_000006.wav|In one of the fights brought about by this sudden revolution the young Chevalier Bayard, carried away by the impetuosity of his age and courage, pursued right into Milan the foes he was driving before him, without noticing that his French comrades had left him; and he was taken prisoner in front of the very palace in which were the quarters of Ludovic Sforza.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000005_000003.wav|The treaty, at the same time, regulated the number of troops and the military details of the war on behalf of the two contracting powers, and it provided for divers political incidents which might be entailed, and to which the alliance thus concluded should or should not be applicable according to the special stipulations which were drawn up with a view to those very incidents.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000006_000004.wav|Milan and Cremona alone remained to be occupied.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000004.wav|Leonardo da Vinci, one of the most eminent amongst the noble geniuses of the age, lived on intimate terms with him; but Ludovic was, nevertheless, a turbulent rascal and a greedy tyrant, of whom those who did not profit by his vices or the enjoyments of his court were desirous of being relieved.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000000.wav|Outside of France, Milaness [the Milanese district] was Louis the twelfth's first thought, at his accession, and the first object of his desire.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000009_000002.wav|Unfortunately Trivulzio was himself a Milanese and of the faction of the Guelphs.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000007_000002.wav|The Venetians did not deserve his censure.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000006_000001.wav|Duke Ludovic Sforza opposed to it a force pretty nearly equal in number, but far less full of confidence and of far less valor.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000003_000010.wav|There is certainly a royal castle, in the which lives the queen, the wife of the deceased king; nevertheless his Majesty was pleased to give audience in this hostelry, all covered expressly with cloth of Alexandrine velvet, with lilies of gold at the spot where the king was placed.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000006_000005.wav|Ludovic Sforza "appeared before his troops and his people like the very spirit of lethargy," says a contemporary unpublished chronicle, "with his head bent down to the earth, and for a long while he remained thus pensive and without a single word to say.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15304/4839_15304_000002_000004.wav|Let us follow these two portions of Louis the twelfth's reign, each separately, without mixing up one with the other by reason of identity of dates.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000003_000000.wav|"Everybody knows, excellent gentlemen of the senate," said he, "that on the preservation of Padua depends all hope, not only of recovering our empire, but of maintaining our own liberty.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000005_000000.wav|"The lord of La Palisse," continues the chronicler, "thought this a somewhat strange manner of proceeding; howbeit he hid his thought, and said to the secretary, 'I am astounded that the emperor did not send for my comrades and me for to deliberate more fully of this matter; howbeit you will tell him that I will send to fetch them, and when they are come I will show them the letter.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000007_000002.wav|Maximilian was personally brave and free from depravity or premeditated perfidy, but he was coarse, volatile, inconsistent, and not very able.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000008_000001.wav|When he became pope, he had three objects: to recover and extend the temporal possessions of the papacy, to exercise to the full his spiritual power, and to drive the foreigner from Italy.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000001_000008.wav|It blazed forth again immediately, but at first between the Venetians and the Emperor Maximilian almost alone by himself.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000003_000005.wav|If the defence of Padua is the pledge for the salvation of Venice, who would hesitate to go and defend it?|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000002_000001.wav|The doge, Leonardo Loredano, the same who had but lately opposed the surprisal of Padua, rose up and delivered in the senate a long speech, of which only the essential and characteristic points can be quoted here:--|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000004_000004.wav|On returning to his quarters he sent for a French secretary of his, whom he bade write to the lord of La Palisse a letter, whereof this was the substance: 'Dear cousin, I have this morning been to look at the breach, which I find more than practicable for whoever would do his duty.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000005_000001.wav|I do not think there will be many who will not be obedient to that which the emperor shall be pleased to command.'|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000006_000002.wav|They all looked at one another, laughing, for to see who would speak first.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000001_000003.wav|But at the commencement of July, fifteen o nine, they heard that the important town of Padua, which had fallen to the share of Emperor Maximilian, was uttering passionate murmurs against its new master, and wished for nothing better than to come back beneath the old sway; and, in spite of the opposition shown by the doge, Loredano, the Venetians resolved to attempt the venture.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000001_000002.wav|Two other small towns, Marano and Osopo, followed her example; and for several months this was all that the Venetians preserved of their continental possessions.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000001_000004.wav|During the night between the sixteenth and seventeenth of July, a small detachment, well armed and well led, arrived beneath the walls of Padua, which was rather carelessly guarded.|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4839/15307/4839_15307_000003_000004.wav|To save it who would refuse to risk his own life and that of his children?|4839
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000007_000000.wav|Then came Keith's letter.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000020_000001.wav|"I shall want breakfast at seven o'clock, Susan." He turned away plainly indicating that for him the matter was closed.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000004_000002.wav|He then went on to explain.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000006_000000.wav|It was a bitter blow.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000031_000000.wav|mrs McGuire, her eyes dreamily fixed out the window, nodded her head slowly.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000043_000005.wav|Like this," she finished, producing from somewhere about her person a half sheet of note paper.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000043_000004.wav|You know that's all the rage now.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000014_000001.wav|His face had grown a little white.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000024_000000.wav|And Susan went.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000041_000002.wav|I tell you it made me sick, mr Jenkins, sick!"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000032_000004.wav|One day he went to a fire.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000043_000000.wav|"Well, it did.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000021_000000.wav|But for Susan the matter was not closed.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000005_000004.wav|Meanwhile, the boy was as comfortable where he was as he could be anywhere, and, moreover, there were certain treatments which should still be continued.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000043_000002.wav|I couldn't help it.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000032_000012.wav|It was just the way he told it.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000002_000000.wav|DANIEL BURTON TAKES THE PLUNGE|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000025_000000.wav|But not yet for Susan was the matter closed.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER seventeen|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000011_000001.wav|She went at once to the studio.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000032_000001.wav|It was always like that with my john.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000015_000001.wav|But will he PAY anything for them things?"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000016_000001.wav|And-Susan."|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000032_000003.wav|I'll never forget.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000032_000006.wav|He was twelve years old.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63101/6288_63101_000023_000001.wav|You may go."|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000036_000000.wav|"I wonder if you think I'd do it!" he demanded.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000015_000002.wav|Why, Susan, I could see it-SEE it, I tell you, and, oh, I did so want to be there to help.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000016_000004.wav|His mother told me.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000005_000000.wav|The town, aware now of the stupendous change that had come to the fortunes of the Burton family, stared, gossiped, shook wise heads of prophecy, then passed on to the next sensation-which happened to be the return of four soldiers from across the seas; three crippled, one blinded.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000032_000005.wav|Tell me that?"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000027_000000.wav|"I wish I could.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000044_000000.wav|"It would-help some." Keith drew in his breath and held it a moment suspended.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000025_000004.wav|I can see that now.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000026_000000.wav|Keith shook his head.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000013_000003.wav|"Susan, I can't! I can't-stand it," he moaned.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000046_000002.wav|However, we'll see.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000025_000003.wav|He couldn't do it.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000017_000005.wav|He never talked like this, until to day.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000028_000004.wav|He looked like anything but the happy possessor of new wealth.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000027_000001.wav|But I couldn't, I know I couldn't.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000019_000002.wav|You want others to hear it-what you heard-don't you?"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000024_000001.wav|He couldn't do it.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000015_000000.wav|"john McGuire.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000030_000000.wav|"Do what?"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000017_000006.wav|Oh, he's told me a little, from time to time.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000017_000008.wav|And there it was, wasted, WASTED, worse than wasted on-me!"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000015_000008.wav|Even one man counted there-counted for, oh, so much!--for at the last there was just one man left----john McGuire.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000019_000001.wav|"Listen!|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000028_000003.wav|His step was slow, his head was bowed.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000033_000001.wav|No, no, don't look like that," she protested hurriedly, as Keith began to frown.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000022_000000.wav|"How?"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000010_000001.wav|What IS the matter?" demanded Susan concernedly.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000045_000003.wav|He's nervous as a witch since he quit his job."|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000015_000009.wav|And to hear him tell it-it was wonderful, wonderful!"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000041_000000.wav|"But, Keith, I'm sure that Dorothy liked-"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000024_000003.wav|He's only begun to practice a little bit.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000014_000001.wav|But, what is it-now?"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000003_000000.wav|FOR THE SAKE OF john|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000024_000000.wav|"Oh, Susan, if we only could!" A dawning hope had come into Keith Burton's face, but almost at once it faded into gray disappointment. "We couldn't do it, though, Susan.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000025_000005.wav|But, Keith, couldn't YOU do it?--take it down, I mean, as he talked, like a stylographer?"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000015_000005.wav|I could hear it.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63111/6288_63111_000031_000001.wav|Couldn't he do it?"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000030_000000.wav|"Indeed I'm here," she cried gayly, giving a warm clasp to his eagerly outstretched hand "How do you do?|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000005_000003.wav|But inwardly-|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000045_000004.wav|And it was the WAY you did it, with never a word or a hint that I was different.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000042_000000.wav|"No, no, it isn't that," protested the girl quickly.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000036_000001.wav|"You're at home now, and you have all your old friends, and-"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000007_000003.wav|She brought them all, and read them to him.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000049_000000.wav|"You've helped more-than you'll ever know.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000054_000000.wav|"I mean just that."|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000063_000000.wav|"He wouldn't.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000070_000000.wav|So what's the use?|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000027_000000.wav|"A little, but not much.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000016_000004.wav|"Susan, how-how IS he?" she finished unsteadily.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000042_000001.wav|"It's only-There are so many-"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000036_000000.wav|"Oh, but I didn't," she laughed a little embarrassedly.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000043_000001.wav|There isn't any one here that UNDERSTANDS-like you.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000039_000000.wav|"Good!|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000067_000004.wav|He spoke-beautifully about that to day.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000045_000002.wav|I never said it before-to anybody.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000056_000004.wav|But the words just wouldn't come.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000049_000001.wav|But, come-look!|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000027_000002.wav|Some way, I-" She stopped short, with a quick indrawing of her breath.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000027_000003.wav|In the doorway down the hall stood Keith.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000034_000000.wav|"Yesterday."|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000045_000007.wav|And how I blessed you for not TELLING me those lines were there!|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000022_000000.wav|"I know.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000069_000000.wav|When thinkin' won't mend it, Then thinkin' won't end it.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000026_000001.wav|"I mean, about your being 'Miss Stewart'?"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000023_000002.wav|WOULD he see me, do you think?"|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6288/63105/6288_63105_000024_000000.wav|"He ought to.|6288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000006_000000.wav|For the end of the world was long ago, And all we dwell to day As children of some second birth, Like a strange people left on earth After a judgment day.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000031_000000.wav|And naught was left King Alfred But shameful tears of rage, In the island in the river In the end of all his age.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000049_000000.wav|"The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000045_000000.wav|"The gates of heaven are lightly locked, We do not guard our gain, The heaviest hind may easily Come silently and suddenly Upon me in a lane.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000019_000000.wav|The Northmen came about our land A Christless chivalry: Who knew not of the arch or pen, Great, beautiful half witted men From the sunrise and the sea.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000030_000000.wav|And if ever he climbed the crest of luck And set the flag before, Returning as a wheel returns, Came ruin and the rain that burns, And all began once more.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000013_000000.wav|And a Shape that moveth murkily In mirrors of ice and night, Hath blanched with fear all beasts and birds, As death and a shock of evil words Blast a man's hair with white.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000046_000000.wav|"And any little maid that walks In good thoughts apart, May break the guard of the Three Kings And see the dear and dreadful things I hid within my heart.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000047_000000.wav|"The meanest man in grey fields gone Behind the set of sun, Heareth between star and other star, Through the door of the darkness fallen ajar, The council, eldest of things that are, The talk of the Three in One.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000051_000000.wav|"The wise men know what wicked things Are written on the sky, They trim sad lamps, they touch sad strings, Hearing the heavy purple wings, Where the forgotten seraph kings Still plot how God shall die.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000057_000000.wav|He only heard the heathen men, Whose eyes are blue and bleak, Singing about some cruel thing Done by a great and smiling king In daylight on a deck.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000028_000000.wav|And the great kings of Wessex Wearied and sank in gore, And even their ghosts in that great stress Grew greyer and greyer, less and less, With the lords that died in Lyonesse And the king that comes no more.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000005_000000.wav|For the White Horse knew England When there was none to know; He saw the first oar break or bend, He saw heaven fall and the world end, O God, how long ago.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000050_000000.wav|"The men of the East may search the scrolls For sure fates and fame, But the men that drink the blood of God Go singing to their shame.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000014_000000.wav|And the cry of the palms and the purple moons, Or the cry of the frost and foam, Swept ever around an inmost place, And the din of distant race on race Cried and replied round Rome.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000043_000000.wav|"When our last bow is broken, Queen, And our last javelin cast, Under some sad, green evening sky, Holding a ruined cross on high, Under warm westland grass to lie, Shall we come home at last?"|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000026_000000.wav|There was not English armour left, Nor any English thing, When Alfred came to Athelney To be an English king.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000024_000000.wav|They seemed as trees walking the earth, As witless and as tall, Yet they took hold upon the heavens And no help came at all.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000022_000000.wav|Their souls were drifting as the sea, And all good towns and lands They only saw with heavy eyes, And broke with heavy hands,|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000011_000000.wav|Where Ind's enamelled peaks arise Around that inmost one, Where ancient eagles on its brink, Vast as archangels, gather and drink The sacrament of the sun|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000016_000000.wav|A sea folk blinder than the sea Broke all about his land, But Alfred up against them bare And gripped the ground and grasped the air, Staggered, and strove to stand.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000038_000000.wav|She spoke not, nor turned not, Nor any sign she cast, Only she stood up straight and free, Between the flowers in Athelney, And the river running past.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000034_000000.wav|It was wrought in the monk's slow manner, From silver and sanguine shell, Where the scenes are little and terrible, Keyholes of heaven and hell.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000008_000000.wav|When Caesar's sun fell out of the sky And whoso hearkened right Could only hear the plunging Of the nations in the night.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000055_000000.wav|"Night shall be thrice night over you, And heaven an iron cope. Do you have joy without a cause, Yea, faith without a hope?"|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000029_000000.wav|And the God of the Golden Dragon Was dumb upon his throne, And the lord of the Golden Dragon Ran in the woods alone.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000021_000000.wav|Our towns were shaken of tall kings With scarlet beards like blood: The world turned empty where they trod, They took the kindly cross of God And cut it up for wood.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000037_000000.wav|Her face was like an open word When brave men speak and choose, The very colours of her coat Were better than good news.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000010_000000.wav|And men rode out of the eastern lands, Broad river and burning plain; Trees that are Titan flowers to see, And tiger skies, striped horribly, With tints of tropic rain.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000035_000000.wav|In the river island of Athelney, With the river running past, In colours of such simple creed All things sprang at him, sun and weed, Till the grass grew to be grass indeed And the tree was a tree at last.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000018_000000.wav|He broke them with a broken sword A little towards the sea, And for one hour of panting peace, Ringed with a roar that would not cease, With golden crown and girded fleece Made laws under a tree.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000025_000000.wav|They bred like birds in English woods, They rooted like the rose, When Alfred came to Athelney To hide him from their bows|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000044_000000.wav|And a voice came human but high up, Like a cottage climbed among The clouds; or a serf of hut and croft That sits by his hovel fire as oft, But hears on his old bare roof aloft A belfry burst in song.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000009_000000.wav|When the ends of the earth came marching in To torch and cresset gleam. And the roads of the world that lead to Rome Were filled with faces that moved like foam, Like faces in a dream.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000002_000000.wav|Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000012_000000.wav|And men brake out of the northern lands, Enormous lands alone, Where a spell is laid upon life and lust And the rain is changed to a silver dust And the sea to a great green stone.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000040_000000.wav|"Mother of God," the wanderer said, "I am but a common king, Nor will I ask what saints may ask, To see a secret thing.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000015_000000.wav|And there was death on the Emperor And night upon the Pope: And Alfred, hiding in deep grass, Hardened his heart with hope.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000017_000000.wav|He bent them back with spear and spade, With desperate dyke and wall, With foemen leaning on his shield And roaring on him when he reeled; And no help came at all.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140067/1482_140067_000048_000000.wav|"The gates of heaven are lightly locked, We do not guard our gold, Men may uproot where worlds begin, Or read the name of the nameless sin; But if he fail or if he win To no good man is told.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000041_000000.wav|Dealing far blows about the fight, Like thunder bolts a roam, Like birds about the battle field, While Ogier writhed under his shield Like a tortoise in his dome.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000012_000000.wav|Till on the helm of a high chief Fell shatteringly his brand, And the helm broke and the bone broke And the sword broke in his hand.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000008_000000.wav|Or purple and peacock skies grow dark With a moving locust tower; Or tawny sand winds tall and dry, Like hell's red banners beat and fly, When death comes out of Araby, Was Eldred in his hour.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000036_000000.wav|"The fruits leap up in all your farms, The lamps in each abode; God of all good things done on earth, All wheels or webs of any worth, The God that makes the roof, Gurth, The God that makes the road.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000007_000000.wav|As the tall white devil of the Plague Moves out of Asian skies, With his foot on a waste of cities And his head in a cloud of flies;|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000002_000000.wav|As the sea flooding the flat sands Flew on the sea born horde, The two hosts shocked with dust and din, Left of the Latian paladin, Clanged all Prince Harold's howling kin On Colan and the sword.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000027_000000.wav|"The lamps are dying in your homes, The fruits upon your bough; Even now your old thatch smoulders, Gurth, Now is the judgment of the earth, Now is the death grip, now!"|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000055_000000.wav|"But whatso hap at the end of the world, Where Nothing is struck and sounds, It is not, by Thor, these monkish men These humbled Wessex hounds-|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000024_000000.wav|"Stand like an oak," cried Marcus, "Stand like a Roman wall! Eldred the Good is fallen- Are you too good to fall?|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000058_000000.wav|There was that in the wild men back of him, There was that in his own wild song, A dizzy throbbing, a drunkard smoke, That dazed to death all Wessex folk, And swept their spears along.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000060_000000.wav|Prince Colan slew a score of them, And was stricken to his knee; King Alfred slew a score and seven And was borne back on a tree.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000014_000000.wav|Seven spears, and the seventh Was wrought as the faerie blades, And given to Elf the minstrel By the monstrous water maids;|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000043_000000.wav|Then the great statue on the shield Looked his last look around With level and imperial eye; And Mark, the man from Italy, Fell in the sea of agony, And died without a sound.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000030_000000.wav|But Mark was come of the glittering towns Where hot white details show, Where men can number and expound, And his faith grew in a hard ground Of doubt and reason and falsehood found, Where no faith else could grow.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000035_000000.wav|"Spears at the charge!" yelled Mark amain. "Death on the gods of death! Over the thrones of doom and blood Goeth God that is a craftsman good, And gold and iron, earth and wood, Loveth and laboureth.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000005_000000.wav|But like a cloud of morning To eastward easily, Tall Eldred broke the sea of spears As a tall ship breaks the sea.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000059_000000.wav|Vainly the sword of Colan And the axe of Alfred plied- The Danes poured in like a brainless plague, And knew not when they died.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000023_000000.wav|Centre and right the Wessex guard Grew pale for doubt and fear, And the flank failed at the advance, For the death light on the wizard lance- The star of the evil spear.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000050_000000.wav|"The blind gods roar for Rome fallen, And forum and garland gone, For the ice of the north is broken, And the sea of the north comes on.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000017_000000.wav|Thrice drowned was Elf the minstrel, And washed as dead on sand; And the third time men found him The spear was in his hand.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140072/1482_140072_000031_000000.wav|Belief that grew of all beliefs One moment back was blown And belief that stood on unbelief Stood up iron and alone.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000060_000000.wav|"So shall you earn a king's sword, Who cast your sword away." And the King took, with a random eye, A rude axe from a hind hard by And turned him to the fray.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000037_000000.wav|Far to the King's left Elf the bard Led on the eastern wing With songs and spells that change the blood; And on the King's right Harold stood, The kinsman of the King.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000007_000000.wav|King Guthrum lay on the upper land, On a single road at gaze, And his foe must come with lean array, Up the left arm of the cloven way, To the meeting of the ways.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000041_000000.wav|No bows nor slings nor bolts they bore, But bills and pikes ill made; And none but Colan bore a sword, And rusty was its blade.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000013_000000.wav|In the eyes Italian all things But a black laughter died; And Alfred flung his shield to earth And smote his breast and cried-|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000022_000000.wav|And all were moved a little, But Colan stood apart, Having first pity, and after Hearing, like rat in rafter, That little worm of laughter That eats the Irish heart.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000053_000000.wav|Colan stood bare and weaponless, Earl Harold, as in pain, Strove for a smile, put hand to head, Stumbled and suddenly fell dead; And the small white daisies all waxed red With blood out of his brain.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000018_000000.wav|"I was a fool and wasted ale- My slaves found it sweet; I was a fool and wasted bread, And the birds had bread to eat.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000008_000000.wav|And long ere the noise of armour, An hour ere the break of light, The woods awoke with crash and cry, And the birds sprang clamouring harsh and high, And the rabbits ran like an elves' army Ere Alfred came in sight.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000039_000000.wav|But as he came before his line A little space along, His beardless face broke into mirth, And he cried: "What broken bits of earth Are here?|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000040_000000.wav|For Colan was hung with raiment Tattered like autumn leaves, And his men were all as thin as saints, And all as poor as thieves.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000051_000000.wav|To his great gold ear ring Harold Tugged back the feathered tail, And swift had sprung the arrow, But swifter sprang the Gael.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000042_000000.wav|And Colan's eyes with mystery And iron laughter stirred, And he spoke aloud, but lightly Not labouring to be heard.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000021_000000.wav|"But yoke me my own oxen, Down to my own farm; My own dog will whine for me, My own friends will bend the knee, And the foes I slew openly Have never wished me harm."|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000047_000000.wav|Not less barbarian laughter Choked Harold like a flood, "And shall I fight with scarecrows That am of Guthrum's blood?|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000056_000000.wav|And the King said, "Do thou take my sword Who have done this deed of fire, For this is the manner of Christian men, Whether of steel or priestly pen, That they cast their hearts out of their ken To get their heart's desire.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000059_000000.wav|"Love with the shield of the Broken Heart Ever his bow doth bend, With a single shaft for a single prize, And the ultimate bolt that parts and flies Comes with a thunder of split skies, And a sound of souls that rend.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000054_000000.wav|And all at that marvel of the sword, Cast like a stone to slay, Cried out.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000057_000000.wav|"And whether ye swear a hive of monks, Or one fair wife to friend, This is the manner of Christian men, That their oath endures the end.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000031_000000.wav|"Lift not my head from bloody ground, Bear not my body home, For all the earth is Roman earth And I shall die in Rome."|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000036_000000.wav|Midmost the saddles rose and swayed, And a stir of horses' manes, Where Guthrum and a few rode high On horses seized in victory; But Ogier went on foot to die, In the old way of the Danes.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000035_000000.wav|But the Earls of the Great Army Lay like a long half moon, Ten poles before their palisades, With wide winged helms and runic blades Red giants of an age of raids, In the thornland of Ethandune.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000054_000002.wav|Verily Man shall not taste of victory Till he throws his sword away."|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000009_000000.wav|The live wood came at Guthrum, On foot and claw and wing, The nests were noisy overhead, For Alfred and the star of red, All life went forth, and the forest fled Before the face of the King.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1482/140071/1482_140071_000034_000000.wav|And when they came to the open land They wheeled, deployed and stood; Midmost were Marcus and the King, And Eldred on the right-hand wing, And leftwards Colan darkling, In the last shade of the wood.|1482
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000026_000001.wav|What's the giddy hour?|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000029_000000.wav|'What about your grub, though?' asked Jane.|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000013_000002.wav|I wish to goodness he would -'|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000026_000002.wav|You'll be late for your grub!'|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000014_000000.wav|'OH, take care!' cried Anthea in an agony of apprehension.|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000010_000000.wav|'He does grow,' said Anthea.|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000002_000003.wav|Ask for a good fat Megatherium and have done with it.'|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000014_000001.wav|But it was too late — like music to a song her words and Cyril's came out together — Anthea - 'Oh, take care!' Cyril - 'Grow up now!'|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000085_000000.wav|'Come to his own Martha, then — a precious poppet!'|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000013_000000.wav|'Grow up some day!' said Cyril bitterly, plumping the Lamb down on the grass.|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000074_000003.wav|You see, he's sort of under a spell — enchanted — you know what I mean!'|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000006_000003.wav|Good bye.'|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000042_000001.wav|You might let Bobs and me come with you — even if you don't want the girls.'|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000008_000000.wav|'I'll tell you what,' said the Psammead suddenly, shooting out its long snail's eyes - 'I'm getting tired of you — all of you.|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000049_000001.wav|'Look here.'|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000016_000005.wav|Their own Lamb!|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000074_000000.wav|'Oh, Lamb! how can you?' cried Jane - 'when you know perfectly well you're our own little baby brother that we're so fond of.|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000082_000001.wav|'You shall say whatever you like in the morning — if you can,' she added in a whisper. It was a gloomy party that went home through the soft evening.|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000022_000004.wav|I can see it.|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/549/126410/549_126410_000016_000002.wav|You boys might wish as well!' They all wished hard, for the sight was enough to dismay the most heartless.|549
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000011_000002.wav|While she held her place in the world as high as ever, what was the prospect before Sydney Westerfield?|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000004.wav|Alone and friendless in a foreign country; her fair fame blemished; her hope in the future utterly destroyed, she attempted to drown herself.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000013_000001.wav|He had been kind and considerate; he had listened to her little story of the relics of her father, found in the garret, as if her interests were his interests.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000006.wav|The best of good women-a Sister of Charity-happened to be near enough to the river to rescue her.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000017_000000.wav|The next letter which she picked out from the little heap was of some length, and was written in a clear and steady hand.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000013_000005.wav|Perhaps he was not thinking of the strangers; perhaps his mind was dwelling fondly and regretfully on his wife?|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000001.wav|It is needless to make this long letter longer by dwelling on the girl's miserable story.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000018_000001.wav|Had she heard her father mention it at home in the time of her early childhood?|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000012_000000.wav|If she had been a few years older, Herbert Linley might never again have seen her a living creature.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000002_000002.wav|Her overburdened heart found no relief in tears.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000009_000002.wav|The generous impulses which other women were free to feel were forbidden luxuries to her.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000005.wav|This took place in France.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000024_000003.wav|My father was therefore dealing with his own property when he ordered the house to be sold.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000005_000001.wav|"Oh, God, how can I give that woman back the happiness of which I have robbed her!"|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000002_000006.wav|In the cooler atmosphere her memory recovered itself; she recollected the newspaper, that Herbert had taken from her.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000002.wav|You have heard it of other girls, over and over again.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000028_000000.wav|"You will now understand how my mother's grateful remembrance associated her with the interests of more than one community of Nuns; and you will not need to be told what she had in mind when she obtained my father's promise at the time of her last illness.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000029_000003.wav|Let it be sold.'|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000020_000001.wav|My last letter told you of my father's death.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000018_000002.wav|There were no associations with it that she could now call to mind.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000009_000001.wav|What a lost wretch she saw!|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000023_000000.wav|"You and I were both very young when my poor mother died; but I think you must remember that she, like the rest of her family, was a Roman Catholic.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000022_000000.wav|"I think I see you look up from my letter, with your big black eyes staring straight before you, and say and swear that this must be one of my mystifications.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000031_000001.wav|If I die first-oh, there is a chance of it!|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000010_000001.wav|Why?|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000022_000003.wav|They are the result of a promise made, many years since, to his wife.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000032_000000.wav|So the letter ended.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000022_000001.wav|Unfortunately (for I am fond of the old house in which I was born) it is only too true.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000017_000003.wav|The strange surname struck her; it was "Bennydeck."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000015_000000.wav|Looking absently round the room, she noticed the packet of her father's letters placed on the table by her bedside.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000001_000001.wav|Miss Westerfield.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000011.wav|That end was attained in a Priory of Benedictine Nuns, established in France.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000004_000001.wav|For having been too ready to forgive the wretch who had taken her husband from her, and had repaid a hundred acts of kindness by unpardonable ingratitude.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000024_000000.wav|"Having reminded you of this, I may next tell you that Sandyseal Place was my mother's property.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000012_000001.wav|But she was too young to follow any train of repellent thought persistently to its end.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000007_000000.wav|Slowly and sadly she submitted, and went back to her room.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000006_000003.wav|Must she wait till Herbert Linley no longer concealed that he was weary of her, and cast her off?|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000029_000001.wav|My mother thanked him and refused.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000025_000000.wav|"But why did my mother make him promise to sell the place at his death?|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000006_000001.wav|It was not something that she experienced now.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000033_000003.wav|What religious consolations would encourage her penitence? What prayers, what hopes, would reconcile her, on her death bed, to the common doom?|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000007.wav|She was sheltered; she was pitied; she was encouraged to return to her family.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000024_000002.wav|I am her only child.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000003_000001.wav|She could think of nothing but what the judge had said, in speaking of mrs Linley.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000026_000001.wav|In deference to my mother's wishes it was kept strictly a secret from me while my father lived.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000009_000000.wav|She paused, thinking of the marriage that was now a marriage no more. The toilet table was close to her; she looked absently at her haggard face in the glass.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000009_000004.wav|Useless longings! Too late!|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000020_000004.wav|Our old moated house at Sandyseal, in which we have spent so many happy holidays when we were schoolfellows, is sold.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000008_000002.wav|The Divorce, the merciless Divorce, answered:--No!|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000035_000000.wav|Her mind was still pursuing its own sad course of inquiry; she was wondering in what part of England Sandyseal might be; she was asking herself if the Nuns at the old moated house ever opened their doors to women, whose one claim on their common Christianity was the claim to be pitied-when she heard Linley's footsteps approaching the door.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000008.wav|The poor deserted creature absolutely refused; she could never forget that she had disgraced them.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000031_000004.wav|For the present good by, and a prosperous voyage outward bound."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000020_000003.wav|Prepare yourself to be surprised.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000004_000000.wav|A cruel reproof, and worse than cruel, a public reproof, administered to the generous friend, the true wife, the devoted mother-and for what?|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000001_000000.wav|Chapter thirty two.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000009_000003.wav|She was ashamed of her wickedness; she was eager to sacrifice herself, for the good of the once dear friend whom she had wronged.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000012_000003.wav|Even in his absence he pleaded with her to have some faith in him still.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000003.wav|She loved and trusted; she was deceived and deserted.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000027_000009.wav|The good Sister of Charity won her confidence.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000013_000004.wav|And yet, he might have found a kinder way of reproving a sensitive woman than looking into the street-as if he had forgotten her in the interest of watching the strangers passing by!|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000034_000001.wav|"If my lot had fallen among good people," she thought, "perhaps I might have belonged to the Church which took care of that poor girl."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000006_000005.wav|It should be her own act that parted them, and that did it at once.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000010_000000.wav|She regretted it bitterly.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000020_000000.wav|"The delay in the sailing of your ship offers me an opportunity of writing to you again.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000024_000005.wav|I would rather have kept the house.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000019_000001.wav|It addressed her father familiarly as "My dear Roderick," and it proceeded in these words:--|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000036_000002.wav|"I was only thinking," she said.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000014_000001.wav|Was there nothing she could find to do which would offer some other subject to occupy her mind than herself and her future?|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000031_000003.wav|In case of the worst, therefore, I shall leave the interests of my contemplated Home in your honest and capable hands.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000031_000002.wav|We may have a naval war, perhaps, or I may turn out one of those incorrigible madmen who risk their lives in Arctic exploration.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000006_000000.wav|The composing influence of prayer on a troubled mind was something that she had heard of.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000016_000001.wav|They all related to race horses, and to cunningly devised bets which were certain to make the fortunes of the clever gamblers on the turf who laid them. Absolute indifference on the part of the winners to the ruin of the losers, who were not in the secret, was the one feeling in common, which her father's correspondents presented.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000003_000000.wav|When her wish had been gratified, when she had read it from beginning to end, one vivid impression only was left on her mind.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000022_000002.wav|The instructions in my father's will, under which Sandyseal has been sold, are peremptory.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000036_000001.wav|Her long absence had alarmed him; he feared she might be ill.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000017_000001.wav|By comparison with the blotted scrawls which she had just burned, it looked like the letter of a gentleman.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000002_000000.wav|She locked the door of her bedchamber, and threw off her walking dress; light as it was, she felt as if it would stifle her.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000017_000002.wav|She turned to the signature.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000006_000004.wav|No!|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000009_000005.wav|too late!|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000002_000005.wav|One of the windows was open already; she threw up the other to get more air.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000006_000002.wav|An overpowering impatience to make the speediest and completest atonement possessed her.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/275147/7766_275147_000019_000000.wav|She read the letter.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000075_000000.wav|"It's worth eight hundred," said Henry, too much dazed to ask more than its value.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000059_000000.wav|"Go to the devil," said mr Bloom, still pensive.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000015_000000.wav|"Yes, sir," said mr Bloom, in his heartiest prospectus voice, "things have been whizzing around Okochee.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000060_000003.wav|The big country road ran just back of the heights.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000004_000001.wav|Capital decided not to invest.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000029_000000.wav|"The mountains ever call to their children," murmured mrs Blaylock.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000000.wav|Okochee rose, as it were, from its sunny seat on the post office stoop, hitched up its suspender, and threw a granite dam two hundred and forty feet long and sixty feet high across the Cooloosa one mile above the town.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000014_000000.wav|The Colonel smoothed back, with a sweeping gesture, his long, smooth, locks.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000004_000000.wav|The fate of the good town is quickly told.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000044_000002.wav|That was the only five hundred dollar lot that went.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000005_000001.wav|In yachting caps and flowing neckties they pervaded the lake to its limits.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000074_000001.wav|"I haven't got time to dicker-name your price."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000056_000000.wav|"It's a fine rhyme, just the same," declared mr Bloom.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000004_000004.wav|The sunsets gilded the dreamy draws and coves with a minting that should charm away heart burning.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000024_000000.wav|mrs Blaylock turned a glance of speaking tenderness upon the Colonel, fingered for a moment the silvery curl that drooped upon her bosom, then looked again toward the mountains.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000001_000002.wav|Okochee felt that New York should not be allowed to consider itself the only alligator in the swamp, so to speak.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000001.wav|Thereupon, a dimpling, sparkling lake backed up twenty miles among the little mountains.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000006.wav|Cotton mills, factories, and manufacturing plants would rise up as the green corn after a shower.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000004_000005.wav|Okochee, true to the instinct of its blood and clime, was lulled by the spell.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000037_000001.wav|I consider the purchase a most fortuitous one.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000055_000002.wav|They were written to the music composed by a dear friend."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000004_000003.wav|The wooded peaks, the impressive promontories of solemn granite, the beautiful green slants of bank and ravine did all they could to reconcile Okochee to the delinquency of miserly gold.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000070_000000.wav|"Now," he continued, when mr Cooly had responded with alacrity, "is there a bookstore in town?"|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000044_000003.wav|The rest ranged from ten dollars to two hundred.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000039_000002.wav|Skyland!--a lovely name."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000078_000000.wav|"Keep your clothes on," said mr Bloom.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000028_000000.wav|"That's great stuff, ma'am," said j Pinkney Bloom, enthusiastically, when the poetess had concluded.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000031_000000.wav|mrs Blaylock reclined at ease.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000008.wav|Along the picturesque heights above the lake would rise in beauty the costly villas and the splendid summer residences of capital.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000039_000000.wav|"Those years," said mrs Blaylock, "in Holly Springs were long, long, long.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000000_000000.wav|OUT OF NAZARETH|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000067_000002.wav|Finally they entered the village of Cold Branch. Warmly both the Colonel and his wife praised it for its homelike and peaceful beauty.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000062_000005.wav|I'm ashamed of your extravagance, j p"|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000032_000001.wav|A third of the population had moved away.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000022_000002.wav|They seemed to speak in familiar terms to the responsive spirit of Lorella.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000077_000001.wav|"All right, hunky-sail in and cut yer capers."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000060_000004.wav|Cold Branch had nothing in common with the frisky ambition of Okochee with its impertinent lake.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000062_000002.wav|Right to day this boat's in the government service.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000061_000000.wav|"Mac," said j Pinkney suddenly, "I want you to stop at Cold Branch. There's a landing there that they made to use sometimes when the river was up."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000079_000001.wav|mr Cooly showed signs of future promise, for he already had the deed spread out, and was reaching across the counter for the ink bottle.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000073_000003.wav|Henry was lank and soporific, and not inclined to rush his business.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000030_000003.wav|I'll ask Mac."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000008_000002.wav|Pinkney Bloom) returned to each a deed, duly placed on record, to the best lot, at the price, on hand that day.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000009_000001.wav|tax, j Pinkney Bloom (unloving of checks and drafts and the cold interrogatories of bankers) strapped about his fifty two inch waist a soft leather belt containing eight thousand dollars in big bills, and said that all was very good.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000076_000000.wav|"Shut that door," said mr Bloom to the lawyer.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000048_000000.wav|"You old fat rascal!" he chuckled, with a wink.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000046_000001.wav|"And he thinks there's an open house up there."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000060_000001.wav|That was Cold Branch-no boom town, but the slow growth of many years.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000079_000000.wav|He drew eight one hundred dollar bills from his money belt and planked them down on the counter.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000065_000000.wav|"The other passengers get off there, too," said mr Bloom.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000014_000002.wav|He looked rather to be an old courtier handed down from the reign of Charles, and re attired in a modern suit of fine, but raveling and seam worn, broadcloth.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000001_000003.wav|And then that harmless, but persistent, individual so numerous in the South-the man who is always clamoring for more cotton mills, and is ready to take a dollar's worth of stock, provided he can borrow the dollar-that man added his deadly work to the tourist's innocent praise, and Okochee fell.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000001_000001.wav|These things came about through a fatal resemblance of the river Cooloosa to the Hudson, as set forth and expounded by a Northern tourist.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000034_000001.wav|They were so simple, impractical, and unsuspecting.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000035_000004.wav|I carefully selected a lot in the centre of the business district, although its price was the highest in the schedule-five hundred dollars-and made the purchase at once."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000049_000001.wav|He went back and joined the Blaylocks, where he sat, less talkative, with that straight furrow between his brows that always stood as a signal of schemes being shaped within.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000064_000000.wav|"Oh, come now, j p," said the captain.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000076_000001.wav|Then he tore off his coat and vest, and began to unbutton his shirt.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000015_000002.wav|Did you happen to squeeze in on the ground floor in any of the gilt edged grafts, Colonel?"|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000029_000002.wav|Peyton-a little taste of the currant wine, if you will be so good.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000074_000000.wav|"I want to buy your house and store," said mr Bloom.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000040_000000.wav|"Doubtless," said the Colonel, "we shall be able to secure comfortable accommodations at some modest hotel at reasonable rates.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000073_000002.wav|Adjoining it was Henry's home-a decent cottage, vine embowered and cosy.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000007_000002.wav|Streets and avenues were surveyed; parks designed; corners of central squares reserved for the "proposed" opera house, board of trade, lyceum, market, public schools, and "Exposition Hall." The price of lots ranged from five to five hundred dollars.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000062_000004.wav|And the great city of Skyland, all disconsolate, waiting for its mail?|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000017_000001.wav|He has such a talent for financiering and markets and investments and those kind of things.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000072_000001.wav|"We're going to buy it."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000038_000002.wav|Secret of eternal youth-where art thou?|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000073_000000.wav|Henry Williams was behind his counter.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000010_000005.wav|The work of the Skyland Real Estate Company was finished.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000083_000001.wav|"Get it recorded, and take it down and give it to him.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000081_000000.wav|"Make it out to Peyton Blaylock," said mr Bloom.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000005.wav|Fourteen thousand horsepower would this dam furnish.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000001_000000.wav|Okochee, in Georgia, had a boom, and j Pinkney Bloom came out of it with a "wad." Okochee came out of it with a half million dollar debt, a two and a half per cent. city property tax, and a city council that showed a propensity for traveling the back streets of the town.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000079_000002.wav|Never before or since was such quick action had in Cold Branch.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000007.wav|The spindle and the flywheel and turbine would sing the shrewd glory of Okochee.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000040_000001.wav|Our trunks are in Okochee, to be forwarded when we shall have made permanent arrangements."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000030_000000.wav|"Let me bring a glass, ma'am.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000033_000002.wav|I might give you a hunch as to whether you can make the game go or not."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000037_000006.wav|Of course, mrs Blaylock would not personally serve behind the counter.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000041_000000.wav|J. Pinkney Bloom excused himself, went forward, and stood by the captain at the wheel.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000038_000000.wav|Again followed that wonderful bow, as the Colonel lightly touched the pale cheek of the poetess.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000007_000000.wav|Far up the lake-eighteen miles above the town-the eye of this cheerful camp follower of booms had spied out a graft.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000010_000000.wav|One last trip he was making to Skyland before departing to other salad fields.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000073_000001.wav|His store was a small one, containing a mixture of books, stationery, and fancy rubbish.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000013_000000.wav|"Our home, sir," said Colonel Blaylock, removing his wide brimmed, rather shapeless black felt hat, "is in Holly Springs-Holly Springs, Georgia.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000028_000001.wav|"I wish I had looked up poetry more than I have.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000022_000003.wav|"My native hills!" she murmured, dreamily.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000037_000002.wav|It is my intention to erect a small building upon it at once, and open a modest book and stationery store.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000035_000003.wav|The description was so pleasing, the future of the town set forth in such convincing arguments, and its increasing prosperity portrayed in such an attractive style that I decided to take advantage of the opportunity it offered.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000038_000003.wav|Every second the answer comes-"Here, here, here." Listen to thine own heartbeats, O weary seeker after external miracles.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000044_000001.wav|Now, you see that old babe in the wood over there? Well, he's the boy that drew the prize.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000062_000001.wav|"I've got the United States mails on board.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000007_000001.wav|He purchased there a precipitous tract of five hundred acres at forty five cents per acre; and this he laid out and subdivided as the city of Skyland-the Queen City of the Switzerland of the South.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000032_000002.wav|Business-and the Colonel was an authority on business-had dwindled to nothing.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000051_000001.wav|If I have been deceived again, still we may glean health and content, if not worldly profit.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000006_000001.wav|He came out of that flushed and capable region known as the "North." He called himself a "promoter"; his enemies had spoken of him as a "grafter"; Okochee took a middle course, and held him to be no better nor no worse than a "Yank."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000060_000002.wav|Cold Branch lay on the edge of the grape and corn lands.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000035_000000.wav|"No, sir," said Colonel Blaylock, pausing to arrange the queen's wrap. "I did not invest in Okochee.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000019_000000.wav|"Practical affairs," he said, with a wave of his hand toward the promoter, "are, if I may use the comparison, the garden walks upon which we tread through life, viewing upon either side of us the flowers which brighten that journey.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000050_000000.wav|"There's a good many swindles connected with these booms," he said presently.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000083_000000.wav|"You'll find the party at the Pinetop Inn," said j Pinkney Bloom.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000051_000003.wav|My dear, can you recall those verses entitled 'He Giveth the Increase,' that you composed for the choir of our church in Holly Springs?"|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000003.wav|It was conceded that nowhere could the Palisades be judged superior in the way of scenery and grandeur.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000020_000002.wav|It must be nice, though-quite nice."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000049_000000.wav|"Mac, you're a fool," said j Pinkney Bloom, coldly.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000022_000001.wav|Very fair and stately they looked in the clear morning air.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000005_000002.wav|Girls wore silk waists embroidered with anchors in blue and pink.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000069_000001.wav|It's a job for you."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000038_000001.wav|mrs Blaylock, blushing like a girl, shook her curl and gave the Colonel an arch, reproving tap.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000028_000002.wav|I was raised in the pine hills myself."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000007_000003.wav|Positively, no lot would be priced higher than five hundred dollars.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000064_000001.wav|"You know I was just fooling. I'll put you off at Cold Branch, if you say so."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000050_000001.wav|"What if this Skyland should turn out to be one-that is, suppose business should be sort of dull there, and no special sale for books?"|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000072_000000.wav|"Get there," said mr Bloom.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000068_000000.wav|J. Pinkney Bloom walked down Cold Branch's main street.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000023_000003.wav|That is one portent reason for the change we are making.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000071_000000.wav|"One," said the lawyer.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000078_000001.wav|"I'm only going down to the bank."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000030_000002.wav|Maybe we can scare up some fruit or a cup of tea on board.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000004_000002.wav|Of all the great things promised, the scenery alone came to fulfilment.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000030_000001.wav|You come along, Colonel-there's a little table we can bring, too.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000044_000004.wav|His wife writes poetry.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000003_000009.wav|The naphtha launch of the millionaire would spit among the romantic coves; the verdured hills would take formal shapes of terrace, lawn, and park.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000010_000002.wav|There was a little business there to be settled-the postmaster was to be paid off for his light but lonely services, and the "inhabitants" had to be furnished with another month's homely rations, as per agreement.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000021_000001.wav|My shawl, Peyton, if you please-the breeze comes a little chilly from yon verdured hills."|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000006_000000.wav|Needless to say j Pinkney was no product of Georgia soil.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000005_000003.wav|The trousers of the young men widened at the bottom, and their hands were proudly calloused by the oft plied oar. Fishermen were under the spell of a deep and tolerant joy.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000010_000003.wav|And then Skyland would know j Pinkney Bloom no more.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000029_000003.wav|The journey, though delightful in the extreme, slightly fatigues me." Colonel Blaylock again visited the depths of his prolific coat, and produced a tightly corked, rough, black bottle. mr Bloom was on his feet in an instant.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000019_000002.wav|mrs Blaylock, sir, is one of those fortunate higher spirits whose mission it is to make the flowers grow.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000063_000004.wav|I hate to mention these things, but-"|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7766/109658/7766_109658_000069_000000.wav|"Get your hat, son," said mr Bloom, in his breezy way, "and a blank deed, and come along.|7766
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000012_000000.wav|By the time they finished their meal it had become twilight, and the Queen declared it would soon be dark.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000030_000000.wav|"Well," she said, "it's-"|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000008_000001.wav|I don't see the good of a merry go round if it isn't used."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000040_000000.wav|"I'm sorry not to say good bye to mr Split," said Dot, as the boat glided out into the river.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000004_000001.wav|Tot bestrode a dapple gray horse, and the Queen sat upon a lion and took hold of its mane to steady herself.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000028_000002.wav|There is no reason in the world why you should not know my name."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000035_000000.wav|"You are too late," said the Queen; "the trouble is all over."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000025_000000.wav|"Certainly it does," answered the Queen.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000016_000000.wav|The little girl was awakened next morning by a sharp clicking sound near by, and opening her eyes she saw a tin monkey running up and down a string fastened to a branch of the tree.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000037_000000.wav|"Well," said the Queen, when the Patrol and the Fire Engine had gone back to their stables, "it is time for us to go."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000018_000001.wav|Split was here some time ago.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000026_000001.wav|Tot also looked interested, and forgot his slice of melon as he listened.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000036_000000.wav|"Then we may as well go back," said the officer, grumpily.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000022_000000.wav|"mr Split's name suits him very well," said Dot, who was enjoying the fruit.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000039_000000.wav|The boat was lying where they had left it, and they at once stepped in and seated themselves.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000038_000000.wav|They looked around for mr Split, but not seeing him they walked across the opening to the path that led through the forest to the river.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000021_000000.wav|"He gathered those before he unhooked himself," said the Queen, "for then he had two arms to carry them.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000013_000000.wav|"I wonder where we can sleep," said Tot.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000021_000001.wav|But when it came to winding up the animals he had to separate in order that he might use each hand in a different place, and so get around quicker."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000018_000000.wav|"Yes, indeed," replied the monkey, still busily climbing his string; "mr|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000004_000000.wav|"It's almost like a side show!" cried Dot enthusiastically, as she seated herself upon a camel.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000024_000000.wav|"I suppose your own name fits you in the same way," ventured the girl.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000033_000002.wav|But it is wrecked now, beyond repair, so there is nothing more to worry about."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000011_000001.wav|There were melons, grapes, bananas, oranges, plums, strawberries, and pears and all were ripe and exquisitely flavored.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000029_000000.wav|"Then," said Tot, sharply, "tell it!"|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000014_000000.wav|The Queen and Dot and Tot each climbed into one of the hammocks and were covered over with silk quilted comfortables, after which mr Split turned a key at the end of each hammock and set them moving gently to and fro like the rocking of a cradle.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000013_000002.wav|These hammocks were lined with soft, silken cushions and looked very pleasant and cozy to the sleepy children.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000020_000001.wav|The Queen now joined Dot and they called Tot to breakfast, for mr Split had loaded the cloth with a variety of cool, fresh fruit and berries.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000038_000001.wav|They each squeaked the Alligator when they came to him, and left him feeling joyful and contented.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000031_000001.wav|Springing to their feet they saw the tin train lying upside down near the track, with its wheels whirling around like the wind, and near by was a wooden goat and cart, completely wrecked and splintered into many pieces.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000026_000000.wav|Dot's heart now began to beat rapidly, for she thought she would at last discover what the Queen's name was.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000013_000001.wav|But Dot looked around and saw that mr Split was fastening three big hammocks between the trees at the edge of the forest.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000002_000001.wav|They waited until the cars had passed the spot where they stood and then quickly ran across the track before the engine came around again.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000032_000001.wav|It started to run again in its usual rushing way, but Dot noticed that the cow catcher was badly bent and that some of the paint had been knocked off.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000015_000000.wav|Before she went to sleep Dot looked over the edge of her hammock and saw that the merry go round and the tin train were now motionless, while all the animals seemed to have run down and were standing quite still waiting for morning, when mr Split would come and wind them up again.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000028_000000.wav|The little Queen laughed merrily.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000007_000000.wav|"Oh, I shall be glad to make a change," she cried, and leaping off the camel's back she sprang upon the tiger, who thereupon dried his tears and smiled in a most delightful manner.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000017_000000.wav|"Dear me!" she said, looking at him intently; "are you wound up so early in the morning?"|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000028_000001.wav|"Isn't it funny," she exclaimed, "that I always forget to tell you?|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000020_000000.wav|Tot was already up and sitting near the railway track watching the tin train go round.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000011_000000.wav|mr Split had spread a white cloth upon the grass close to one edge of the forest, and Dot and Tot and the Queen sat around this and ate of the delicious fruit the queer man had gathered.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/271826/8057_271826_000023_000000.wav|"Yes, it would be hard to call him anything else," replied the Queen.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000038_000000.wav|"Try it and see," answered Trot, biting into an apple herself.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000044_000000.wav|"I told you to let things alone," growled Cap'n Bill.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000037_000000.wav|"Are they good to eat?" asked the Boolooroo.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000030_000000.wav|"Have you nearly finished?" he inquired.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000034_000001.wav|"They're awful good."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000024_000003.wav|I'm an ol' man, myself, but if you don't behave I'll spank you like I would a baby, an' it won't be any trouble at all to do it, thank'e.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000043_000001.wav|The Magic Umbrella fell to the ground and Button Bright promptly seized it.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000064_000000.wav|"Yes, you are.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000053_000001.wav|"I'm no murderer, thank goodness, and I wouldn't kill you if I could-much as you deserve it."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000017_000002.wav|I've heard of the Earth, my child, but it isn't inhabited.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000056_000000.wav|"How long have you lived?" asked Button Bright.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000009_000004.wav|Don't you know you will be punished for your impudence?|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000011_000001.wav|What else could it be?|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000013_000001.wav|"But I'll punish you.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000044_000001.wav|"If you don't behave, your Majesty, this Blue Island'll have to get another Boolooroo."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000021_000003.wav|Aren't you sorry for yourselves?"|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000052_000004.wav|It can't be done."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000052_000002.wav|When the final minute is up, we die; but we're obliged to live all of the six hundred years, whether we want to or not.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000049_000000.wav|"Why not?" asked Cap'n Bill.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000067_000000.wav|"Well," said he, "let's go home.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000060_000005.wav|It ought to be for life.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000015_000001.wav|"Where in the Sky did you come from, then, and where is your country located?"|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000014_000000.wav|"Seems to me," said Trot, "you're actin' rather imperlite to strangers. If anyone comes to our country to visit us, we always treat 'em decent."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000019_000000.wav|"You surely are," added Cap'n Bill.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, you're wrong about that," said Button Bright.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000043_000002.wav|Then the sailor let go his hold and the King staggered to a seat, choking and coughing to get his breath back.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000028_000000.wav|He retreated a little way to a marble seat beside the fountain, but watched the strangers carefully.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000048_000002.wav|"Nothing can kill me."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000031_000000.wav|"No," said Trot; "we've got to eat our apples yet."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000032_000000.wav|"Apples-apples?|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000036_000000.wav|"Guess they don't grow anywhere but on the Earth," remarked Cap'n Bill.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000009_000000.wav|"You brutes!|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000068_000000.wav|"All right," agreed Trot, jumping up.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000022_000002.wav|We'll go home, pretty soon."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000016_000000.wav|"We live on the Earth, when we're at home," replied the girl.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000025_000000.wav|"Sail away?|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000032_000001.wav|What are apples?" he asked.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000033_000000.wav|Trot took some from the basket.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000025_000001.wav|How?" asked the Boolooroo.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000027_000002.wav|"Go ahead, then, and eat your lunch."|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000052_000000.wav|"It's a fact," said the King.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000060_000003.wav|The Boolooroo tells them whom to vote for, and if they don't obey they are severely punished.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000012_000000.wav|"Glad to meet you, sir," said Cap'n Bill.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000045_000000.wav|"Why?" asked the Blueskin.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000048_000001.wav|Why, he couldn't do that," observed the King, who was trying to rearrange the ruffle around his neck.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/284428/8057_284428_000017_000000.wav|"The Earth?|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/296395/8057_296395_000008_000001.wav|It is considered probable that our fine English tabbies have a trace of the British wild cat blood in their veins, although it may be obscure.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/296395/8057_296395_000008_000009.wav|It is not found very far north, and neither in Norway nor Sweden; there the lynx reigns supreme. The wild cat is a fine animal, of larger growth than the cat of our familiar acquaintance, and stands tall.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/296395/8057_296395_000008_000000.wav|As the domestic cat in different parts of the world will breed occasionally with the wild races of the locality, and as cats are conveyed from country to country, it is probable that our cats are of somewhat compound pedigree.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/296395/8057_296395_000010_000000.wav|In country places, where rabbits are abundant,--and, we may add, the smaller, but not less destructive, rodents, and a variety of feathered game,--the barn door cat is sometimes tempted to abscond and take to a romantic and semi wild life in the woods.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8057/296395/8057_296395_000010_000001.wav|Kittens born of such parents have no desire for the domestic hearth, and are wild and suspicions to a degree.|8057
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000142_000000.wav|'You would have been no worse off than plenty of literary men,' said Dora.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000066_000000.wav|'You don't say that seriously, Jasper?'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000058_000000.wav|'no|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000155_000003.wav|Wouldn't somebody help him?'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000173_000002.wav|If you marry, I wish you a happy life.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000176_000000.wav|'Is there no remedy for cataract in its early stages?' asked Marian.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000039_000001.wav|'I only wanted to make myself indispensable to them, and at the end of this year I shall feel pretty sure of that.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000104_000001.wav|Could you do anything that would sell? With very moderate success in fiction you might make three times as much as you ever will by magazine pot boilers.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000045_000004.wav|And why shouldn't I go on writing for myself-for us?|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000124_000000.wav|'Well, I shouldn't be surprised if that were found necessary,' replied her brother caustically.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000125_000000.wav|'And shall we have to go back to our old lodgings again?' inquired Maud.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000114_000002.wav|The experiment is worth a try I'm certain.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000073_000001.wav|The existence of such a fear meant, of course, that she did not entirely trust him, and viewed his character as something less than noble.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000155_000001.wav|He talked of going to the workhouse, and things like that.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000016_000000.wav|'This won't make any difference to you-in the end, my darling,' the mother ventured to say at length, alluding for the first time to the effect of the catastrophe on Marian's immediate prospects.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000100_000000.wav|He again lost himself in anxious reverie.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000051_000000.wav|'You know the reason, dear.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000111_000000.wav|She did not approach, but only because the painful thought he had excited kept her to that spot.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000157_000001.wav|A fog veiled sky added its weight to crush her spirit; at the hour when she usually rose it was still all but as dark as midnight.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000110_000001.wav|Come here and forgive me.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000088_000000.wav|She was on the point of confessing that she had swooned, but something restrained her.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000109_000000.wav|'I know you didn't, Jasper.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000171_000007.wav|What I wish to say is, that it will be better if from to day you consider yourself as working for your own subsistence.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000148_000000.wav|'What does he wish you to do, dear?'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000015_000001.wav|Mrs Yule sat down, and watched the girl raise the cup to her mouth with trembling hand.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000093_000000.wav|'But of course your interests will be properly looked after.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000028_000000.wav|'How the deuce comes this about?' he exclaimed.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000152_000000.wav|'He has seen an oculist?--a really good doctor?'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000045_000002.wav|If I do that, I shall have a right to the money, I think.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000141_000005.wav|Suppose we had married, and after that lost the money!'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000106_000001.wav|For the first time Jasper saw her cheeks colour deeply, and it was with anything but pleasure.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000156_000000.wav|'There's not much help to be expected in this world,' answered the girl.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000147_000001.wav|We have talked about it.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000136_000000.wav|'I suppose she's wretched?' said Dora.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000073_000000.wav|She could not breathe a word which might be interpreted as fear lest the change of her circumstances should make a change in his feeling. Yet that was in her mind.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000115_000003.wav|Now that Jasper's love might be endangered, it behoved her to use any arts which nature prompted.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000021_000001.wav|I am quite well again.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000045_000003.wav|It will at least be eight guineas.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000140_000000.wav|He walked about and ejaculated splenetic phrases on the subject of his ill luck.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000150_000003.wav|He'll get worse and worse, until there has been an operation; and perhaps he'll never be able to use his eyes properly again.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000075_000000.wav|'How can I make you feel how much I love you?' she murmured.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000032_000002.wav|When did the letter come?'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000022_000001.wav|Finding herself weaker than she had thought, she stopped an empty cab that presently passed her, and so drove to the Milvains' lodgings.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000013_000000.wav|'Oh, you can't, dear!|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000172_000000.wav|'I am prepared to do that, father.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000132_000000.wav|He bit the ends of his moustache, and his eyes glared at the impalpable thwarting force that to imagination seemed to fill the air about him.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000012_000001.wav|But I am going out in an hour or two.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000024_000000.wav|'Your father has been behaving brutally,' he said, holding her hands and gazing anxiously at her.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000025_000000.wav|'There is something far worse than that, Jasper.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000050_000001.wav|Jasper stood rather stiffly, and threw his head back.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000086_000000.wav|'Not a bit of it.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000087_000000.wav|'You are right.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000020_000000.wav|'You feel much better now, don't you?'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000160_000000.wav|'Your father has asked to see you when you come down,' Mrs Yule whispered.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000041_000000.wav|'Oh, I shall transfer myself to a better paper presently.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000010_000000.wav|At five her mother brought tea.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000177_000000.wav|'None.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000013_000002.wav|It wouldn't be good for you.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000180_000002.wav|With the dissipation of the fog rain had set in; its splashing upon the muddy pavement was audible.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000043_000000.wav|'What shall we do, Jasper?'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000035_000002.wav|Marian's look was fixed upon him, and he became conscious of it.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000031_000000.wav|'So father says.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000091_000001.wav|If the blackguards pay ten shillings in the pound you will get two thousand five hundred out of them, and that's something.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000045_000005.wav|You can help me to think of subjects.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000180_000000.wav|Marian withdrew.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000008_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000044_000000.wav|'Work and wait, I suppose.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000181_000001.wav|Marian took a place beside her.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000045_000000.wav|'There's something I must tell you.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000009_000003.wav|At times she lay in silent anguish; frequently her tears broke forth, and she sobbed until weariness overcame her.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000030_000000.wav|'You are the only one affected?'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000096_000000.wav|'Oh, no doubt.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000021_000000.wav|'Much.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000112_000001.wav|Then I must come to you.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000009_000000.wav|Throughout the day Marian kept her room.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000177_000002.wav|I prefer not to speak of it.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000063_000000.wav|'You know me too well to fear.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000089_000000.wav|'Your father can hardly be sorry,' said Jasper.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000098_000000.wav|'Not to night.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000126_000000.wav|Jasper gave no answer, but kicked a footstool savagely out of his way and paced the room.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000065_000003.wav|He had never satisfied her heart's desire of infinite love; she never spoke with him but she was oppressed with the suspicion that his love was not as great as hers, and, worse still, that he did not wholly comprehend the self surrender which she strove to make plain in every word.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000154_000000.wav|'And how did he speak to you?'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000058_000001.wav|I only meant-'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000094_000000.wav|'No, indeed.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000052_000001.wav|But what I have in mind is this.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000062_000000.wav|'Can you promise to keep a little love for me all that time?' he asked with a constrained smile.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000035_000000.wav|Even whilst he spoke his eyes wandered absently.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000080_000000.wav|The question made her wince.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000141_000000.wav|'We are here, and here we must stay,' was the final expression of his mood.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000079_000000.wav|'Well now, we are quite sure of each other.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000032_000001.wav|Sit down, Marian.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000115_000004.wav|And so, for once, he was not wholly satisfied with her, and at their parting he wondered what subtle change had affected her manner to him.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000162_000000.wav|Marian entered the study.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000137_000000.wav|'What else can you expect?'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000054_000000.wav|'Of what?'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000012_000000.wav|'To bed?|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000150_000000.wav|'Father has been telling me something, Marian,' said Mrs Yule after a long silence.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000171_000000.wav|'I understand.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000017_000000.wav|'Of course not,' was the reply, in a tone of self persuasion.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000052_000000.wav|'Well, well; it isn't a matter of much moment.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000104_000000.wav|'That isn't exactly the question.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000104_000002.wav|A girl like you.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000122_000000.wav|The girls were appalled.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000134_000000.wav|'Did you make that considerate remark to Marian?' asked Maud.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000163_000000.wav|'I am obliged to you for coming,' he began with distant formality. 'Since I saw you last I have learnt something which makes a change in my position and prospects, and it is necessary to speak on the subject.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000038_000000.wav|It was as necessary to him as to her to have a respite before the graver discussion began.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000029_000000.wav|'Perhaps he was.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000072_000000.wav|'Oh, but how coldly you speak, Jasper!'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000143_000000.wav|'Perhaps not.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000143_000002.wav|I have to rely upon my own efforts. What's the time?|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000034_000000.wav|'And you have been fretting over it all day.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000061_000000.wav|'No; I quite understand that.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000056_000000.wav|She spoke with shaken voice, her eyes fixed upon his face.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000023_000000.wav|Jasper was at home, and working.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000129_000000.wav|Maud glanced at her sister, but Dora was preoccupied.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000109_000001.wav|But you make me think that-'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000083_000002.wav|I'm not the fellow to be beaten.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000064_000000.wav|'I thought you seemed a little doubtful.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000078_000000.wav|'I am content for you to think so,' she said.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000008_000001.wav|WAITING ON DESTINY|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000046_000001.wav|We are forgetting all about it.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000171_000009.wav|But it is right that you should understand what my prospects are.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000014_000000.wav|'I have to go out, mother, so we won't speak of it.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000074_000001.wav|Her heart ached because, in her great misery, he had not fondled her, and intoxicated her senses with loving words.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000086_000006.wav|You understand?|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000116_000000.wav|'Why didn't Marian come to speak a word?' said Dora, when her brother entered the girls' sitting room about ten o'clock.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000144_000000.wav|And nodding a good night he left them.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000035_000003.wav|He tried to smile.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000022_000000.wav|At seven, Marian went out.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000049_000001.wav|Surely that is extreme behaviour.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000046_000000.wav|'First of all, what about my letter to your father?|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000178_000000.wav|'Will you let me be what help to you I can?'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000013_000001.wav|It's so bitterly cold.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000171_000006.wav|If the disease prove irremediable, I must prepare myself for the worst.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000071_000000.wav|'Why no, of course not.'|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000112_000000.wav|'Come, Marian!|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000027_000001.wav|Jasper gave a whistle of consternation, and looked vacantly from the paper to Marian's countenance.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000133_000000.wav|'A lesson against being over hasty,' he muttered, again kicking the footstool.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/11049/4363_11049_000162_000003.wav|When he raised his head Marian saw that he looked older, and she noticed-or fancied she did-that there was some unfamiliar peculiarity about his eyes.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000005.wav|EARS-Small and V shaped, nicely feathered, set wide apart and high on the head and carried slightly forward.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000020_000000.wav|The Japanese Spaniel was certainly known in England half a century ago, and probably much earlier.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000016.wav|The white should be clear white, and the colour, whether black or red, should be evenly distributed in patches over the body, cheeks, and ears.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000003.wav|The legs are by preference slender and much feathered, the feet large and well separated.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000022_000003.wav|Daddy Jap.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000017.wav|HEIGHT AT SHOULDER-About ten inches.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000018_000000.wav|It would not be fitting to close an article on Pekinese without bearing testimony to their extraordinarily attractive characteristics. They are intensely affectionate and faithful, and have something almost cat like in their domesticity.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000009.wav|Black masks, and spectacles round the eyes, with lines to the ears, are desirable.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000008_000000.wav|The Duchess of Richmond occasionally gave away a dog to intimate friends, such as the Dowager Lady Wharncliffe, Lady Dorothy Nevill, and others, but in those days the Pekinese was practically an unknown quantity, and it can therefore be more readily understood what interest was aroused about eleven years ago by the appearance of a small dog, similar in size, colour, and general type to those so carefully cherished at Goodwood.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000012_000000.wav|The following is the scale of points as issued by the Pekinese Club:--|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000006.wav|The Japanese Spaniel is constitutionally delicate, requiring considerable care in feeding.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000019_000004.wav|It is fairly certain that they are indigenous to the Far East, whence we have derived so many of our small snub nosed, large eyed, and long haired pets.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000024_000000.wav|The following is the official standard issued by the Club:--|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000009_000004.wav|Gia Gia, Manchu Tao Tai, Goodwood Ming, Marland Myth, and others.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000010.wav|Finely minced rabbit, or fish are better.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000020_000003.wav|Their colours were not invariably white and black.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000012.wav|COAT-Profuse, long, straight, rather silky.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000020_000006.wav|This blaze up the face was commonly said to resemble the body of a butterfly, whose closed wings were represented by the dog's expansive ears.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000004.wav|An important point is the coat.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000019_000006.wav|The "sleeve dog" and the "chin dog" are common and appropriate appellations in the East.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000004_000002.wav|The dogs were, and are to this day, jealously guarded under the supervision of the Chief Eunuch of the Court, and few have ever found their way into the outer world.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000015.wav|The term red includes all shades, sable, brindle, lemon or orange, but the brighter and clearer the red the better.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000004.wav|MUZZLE-Very short and broad; not underhung nor pointed; wrinkled.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000011.wav|TAIL-Carried in a tight curl over the back. It should be profusely feathered so as to give the appearance of a beautiful "plume" on the animal's back.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000018_000001.wav|They display far more character than the so-called "toy dog" usually does, and for this reason it is all important that pains should be taken to preserve the true type, in a recognition of the fact that quality is more essential than quantity.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000007.wav|A frequent-almost a daily-change of diet is to be recommended, and manufactured foods are to be avoided.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000009.wav|For puppies newly weaned it is well to limit the supply of milk foods and to avoid red meat.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000008.wav|LEGS-The bones of the legs should be small, giving them a slender appearance, and they should be well feathered.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000011_000000.wav|Is it therefore to be wondered at that confusion exists as to what is the true type?|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000001.wav|NOSE-Black, broad, very short and flat.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000010.wav|LEGS-Short; fore legs heavy, bowed out at elbows; hind legs lighter, but firm and well shaped.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000005_000002.wav|Lord john and another naval officer, a cousin of the late Duchess of Richmond's, each secured two dogs; the fifth was taken by General Dunne, who presented it to Queen Victoria.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000002.wav|NOSE-Very short in the muzzle part.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000025_000013.wav|It should be absolutely free from wave or curl, and not lie too flat, but have a tendency to stand out, especially at the neck, so as to give a thick mane or ruff, which with profuse feathering on thighs and tail gives a very showy appearance.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000000.wav|The white and black colouring is now the most frequent.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER forty five|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000019_000000.wav|As their breed name implies, these tiny black and white, long haired lap dogs are reputed to be natives of the land of the chrysanthemum. The Japanese, who have treasured them for centuries, have the belief that they are not less ancient than the dogs of Malta.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000019_000005.wav|The Oriental peoples have always bred their lap dogs to small size, convenient for carrying in the sleeve.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000012.wav|TAIL-Curled and carried well up on loins; long, profuse straight feather.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000021_000008.wav|Rice usually agrees well; fresh fish, sheep's head, tongue, chicken livers, milk or batter puddings are also suitable; and occasionally give oatmeal porridge, alternated with a little scraped raw meat as an especial favour.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000015_000000.wav|In every case a black muzzle is indispensable, also black points to the ears, with trousers, tail and feathering a somewhat lighter shade than the body.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000013_000011.wav|FEET-Flat, not round; should stand well up on toes, not on ankles.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4363/14936/4363_14936_000020_000005.wav|The colouring other than white was usually about the long fringed ears and the crown of the head, with a line of white running from the point of the snub black nose between the eyes as far as the occiput.|4363
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3686/171133/3686_171133_000004_000000.wav|three.|3686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3686/171133/3686_171133_000007_000000.wav|six.|3686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3686/171133/3686_171133_000007_000005.wav|These romans being in great fear, lest the place should be taken by force, made an agreement with them to depart upon certain conditions; and when they had obtained the security they desired, they delivered up the citadel, into which the people of Machaerus put a garrison for their own security, and held it in their own power.|3686
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000044_000000.wav|"Does he have many enemies?" asked Happy Jack.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000033_000002.wav|You saw him simply jump.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000045_000000.wav|"The same enemies the rest of you have," replied Old Mother Nature. "But the one he has most reason to fear is Hooty the Owl, and that is the one you have least reason to fear, because Hooty seldom hunts by day."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000004_000000.wav|"I've come to try to learn.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000039_000002.wav|His coat is a soft yellowish brown above; beneath he is all white.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000018_000001.wav|"I dig a tunnel just big enough to run along comfortably.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000004_000001.wav|Will you let me stay, Mother Nature?" replied Striped Chipmunk.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000037_000001.wav|Timmy likes the night, especially the early evening, and doesn't like the light of day."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000041_000001.wav|"Also he eats grubs and insects.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000033_000001.wav|"You didn't see him fly, for the very good reason that he cannot fly any more than you can.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000041_000002.wav|He dearly loves a fat beetle.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000016_000001.wav|"I couldn't get along without them.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000049_000004.wav|We will take them for our lesson to morrow.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000003_000002.wav|"What have you come for, Striped Chipmunk?"|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000009_000001.wav|"I can climb if I want to, and I do sometimes, but prefer the ground."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000033_000000.wav|"Oh, no, you didn't," retorted Old Mother Nature.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000008_000002.wav|The rest of his coat is reddish brown above and light underneath.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000011_000000.wav|"He seems to like old stone walls and rock piles," continued peter, "and he is one of the brightest, liveliest, merriest and the most lovable of all my friends."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000039_000006.wav|By nature he is gentle and lovable."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000006.wav|He climbs low trees for fruit and nuts, but prefers to stay on the ground.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000014_000000.wav|"Very good, peter," said Old Mother Nature.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000014_000002.wav|Striped Chipmunk has a big pocket on the inside of each cheek, while his cousins of the trees have no pockets at all."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000030_000002.wav|My, I wish I could fly the way he can!"|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000024_000001.wav|Please remember that they never should be called Gophers, for they are not Gophers. One of the smallest members of the family is just about your size, Striped Chipmunk, and he also wears stripes, only he has more of them than you have, and they are broken up into little dots.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000018_000002.wav|Down deep enough to be out of reach of Jack Frost I make a nice little bedroom with a bed of grass and leaves, and I make another little room for a storeroom in which to keep my supply of seeds and nuts. Sometimes I have more than one storeroom.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000022_000002.wav|"I looked out for that," said he.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000049_000001.wav|"So I have," said she.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000022_000005.wav|If you please, Mother Nature, if I am not a Ground Squirrel, who is?"|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000047_000000.wav|"Not as you do," said Old Mother Nature.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000028_000000.wav|"I haven't," said Happy Jack.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000015_000000.wav|"Of course," cried peter.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000007.wav|Now just remember that the Chipmunks are Rock Squirrels and their cousins the Spermophiles are Ground Squirrels.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000008_000000.wav|"He wears a striped coat," continued peter.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000008.wav|Now who of you has seen Timmy the Flying Squirrel lately?"|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000047_000001.wav|"In very cold weather he sleeps, but if he happens to be living where the weather does not get very cold, he is active all the year around.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000043_000002.wav|He makes a comfortable nest of bark lining, grass, and moss, or any other soft material he can find.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000024_000002.wav|He is called the Thirteen lined Spermophile.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000005_000001.wav|Now, peter Rabbit, what are the differences between Striped Chipmunk and his cousins, the Tree Squirrels?"|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000005.wav|This particular member of the family is quite as much at home among rocks and tree roots as in open ground.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000024_000000.wav|"Seek Seek's family are the true Ground Squirrels.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000038_000000.wav|"How big is he?" asked Happy Jack, and looked a little sheepish as if he were a wee bit ashamed of not being acquainted with one of his own cousins.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000003.wav|He has a big, bushy tail, very like Happy Jack's.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000040_000000.wav|"Does he eat nuts like his cousins?" asked peter Rabbit.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000017_000002.wav|Supposing, Striped Chipmunk, you tell us where and how you make your home."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000024_000004.wav|All the family do this, and all of them sleep through the winter.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000046_000000.wav|"Does he sleep all winter?" piped up Striped Chipmunk.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000018_000003.wav|Also I have some little side tunnels."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000049_000002.wav|"That will never do, never in the world.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000022_000001.wav|It was a throaty little chuckle, pleasant to hear.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000027_000000.wav|"I haven't," said Striped Chipmunk.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000006_000001.wav|"He is smaller than they are," began peter.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000035_000006.wav|When he reaches the tree he is jumping for he shoots up a little way and lands on the trunk not far above the ground.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000013_000001.wav|"That is one of his secrets.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000020_000000.wav|"Because I have it hidden underneath the stone wall on the edge of the Old Orchard," replied Striped Chipmunk.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000031_000000.wav|Old Mother Nature shook her head disapprovingly.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000017_000000.wav|"And the other great difference," said Old Mother Nature, "is that Striped Chipmunk sleeps nearly all winter, just waking up occasionally to pop his head out on a bright day to see how the weather is.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000016_000000.wav|"They are," replied Striped Chipmunk.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000030_000000.wav|"I have," spoke up Jumper the Hare.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000012_000000.wav|"Thank you, peter," said Striped Chipmunk softly.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000014_000001.wav|"But there are two very important differences which you have not mentioned.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000008_000001.wav|"The stripes are black and yellowish white and run along his sides, a black stripe running down the middle of his back.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000001.wav|They are called Gray Ground Squirrels and sometimes Gray Gophers.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000035_000005.wav|If there is anything in the way, he can steer himself around it.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000049_000003.wav|Johnny and his relatives, the Marmots, certainly cannot be overlooked.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000019_000000.wav|"But why is it I never have been able to find the entrance to your tunnel?" asked peter, as full of curiosity as ever.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000005_000000.wav|"Of course I'll let you stay," cried Old Mother Nature heartily. "I am glad you have come, especially glad you have come today, because to day's lesson is to be about you and your cousins.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000013_000002.wav|But I know it is in the ground.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000021_000000.wav|"But even then, I should think that all the sand you must have taken out would give your secret away," cried peter.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000023_000001.wav|He likes best the flat, open country.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000047_000002.wav|Now I guess this is enough about the Squirrel family."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000035_000000.wav|"That is simply because I have given him a fold of skin between the front and hind leg on each side," explained Old Mother Nature. "When he jumps he stretches his legs out flat, and that stretches out those two folds of skin until they look almost like wings. This is the reason he can sail so far when he jumps from a high place.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000031_000001.wav|"Jumper," said she, "what is wrong with your eyes?|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000039_000005.wav|Then, he is very lively and dearly loves to play.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000039_000000.wav|"He is, if anything, a little smaller than Striped Chipmunk," replied Old Mother Nature.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000002_000002.wav|So it was not surprising that Striped Chipmunk heard all about Old Mother Nature's school.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000018_000000.wav|"I make my home down in the ground," replied Striped Chipmunk.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000022_000000.wav|Striped Chipmunk chuckled happily.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000015_000002.wav|Those pockets must be very handy."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000048_000000.wav|"You've forgotten Johnny Chuck," cried peter.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000034_000000.wav|"When he's flying, I mean jumping, he looks as if he had wings," insisted Jumper stubbornly.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000025_000002.wav|One of the largest of these is the California Ground Squirrel.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000035_000004.wav|His tail helps him to keep his balance.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000042_000000.wav|"Where does he make his home?" peter inquired.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000043_000004.wav|He likes to get into old buildings."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000023_000002.wav|He is called Spermophile because that means seed eater, and he lives largely on seeds, especially on grain.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000031_000002.wav|When did you ever see Timmy fly?"|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000035_000002.wav|Timmy does the same thing, only he gets going by jumping.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000041_000000.wav|"He certainly does," replied Old Mother Nature.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000007_000001.wav|"Go on," said she.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000032_000000.wav|"Last night," insisted Jumper stubbornly.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000008_000004.wav|I never see him in the trees, so I guess he can't climb."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000008_000003.wav|His tail is rather thin and flat.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000035_000001.wav|You've seen a bird, after flapping its wings to get going, sail along with them outstretched and motionless.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000041_000003.wav|He likes meat when he can get it."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000002_000001.wav|News travels quickly through the Green Forest and over the Green Meadows, for the little people who live there are great gossips.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000033_000003.wav|Just remember that the only animals in this great land who can fly are the Bats.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000039_000004.wav|He has very large, dark, soft eyes, especially suited for seeing at night.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000009_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, I can," interrupted Striped Chipmunk.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/135814/1195_135814_000015_000001.wav|"I don't see how I came to forget that. I've laughed many times at Striped Chipmunk with those pockets stuffed with nuts or seeds until his head looked three times bigger than it does now.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000009_000000.wav|Accept a ribbon red, I beg, For Madam Purrer's tail, And ice cream made by lovely Peg, A Mont Blanc in a pail.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000019_000001.wav|The study door flew open, the little red wrapper appeared on the threshold, joy put strength into the feeble limbs, and Beth ran straight into her father's arms.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000005_000000.wav|THE JUNGFRAU TO BETH|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000038_000000.wav|"Now, Beth," said Amy, longing for her turn, but ready to wait.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000004_000004.wav|Out in the garden stood a stately snow maiden, crowned with holly, bearing a basket of fruit and flowers in one hand, a great roll of music in the other, a perfect rainbow of an Afghan round her chilly shoulders, and a Christmas carol issuing from her lips on a pink paper streamer.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000023_000001.wav|Two easy chairs stood side by side at the head of the table, in which sat Beth and her father, feasting modestly on chicken and a little fruit.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000024_000001.wav|Do you remember?" asked Jo, breaking a short pause which had followed a long conversation about many things.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000023_000000.wav|mr Laurence and his grandson dined with them, also mr Brooke, at whom Jo glowered darkly, to Laurie's infinite amusement.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000039_000001.wav|But recollecting how nearly he had lost her, he held her close, saying tenderly, with her cheek against his own, "I've got you safe, my Beth, and I'll keep you so, please God."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000004_000003.wav|The Unquenchables had done their best to be worthy of the name, for like elves they had worked by night and conjured up a comical surprise.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000012_000000.wav|"I'm so full of happiness, that if Father was only here, I couldn't hold one drop more," said Beth, quite sighing with contentment as Jo carried her off to the study to rest after the excitement, and to refresh herself with some of the delicious grapes the 'Jungfrau' had sent her.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000021_000000.wav|mr March told how he had longed to surprise them, and how, when the fine weather came, he had been allowed by his doctor to take advantage of it, how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000027_000000.wav|"I'm glad it's over, because we've got you back," whispered Beth, who sat on her father's knee.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000032_000004.wav|I'm proud to shake this good, industrious little hand, and hope I shall not soon be asked to give it away."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000024_000000.wav|"Just a year ago we were groaning over the dismal Christmas we expected to have.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000022_000001.wav|The fat turkey was a sight to behold, when Hannah sent him up, stuffed, browned, and decorated.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000036_000002.wav|Her face is rather thin and pale just now, with watching and anxiety, but I like to look at it, for it has grown gentler, and her voice is lower.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000041_000000.wav|"I observed that Amy took drumsticks at dinner, ran errands for her mother all the afternoon, gave Meg her place tonight, and has waited on every one with patience and good humor.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000028_000001.wav|But you have got on bravely, and I think the burdens are in a fair way to tumble off very soon," said mr March, looking with fatherly satisfaction at the four young faces gathered round him.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000016_000001.wav|Half an hour after everyone had said they were so happy they could only hold one drop more, the drop came.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000003_000000.wav|As Christmas approached, the usual mysteries began to haunt the house, and Jo frequently convulsed the family by proposing utterly impossible or magnificently absurd ceremonies, in honor of this unusually merry Christmas.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000034_000000.wav|"What about Jo?|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000043_000002.wav|I made the music for Father, because he likes the verses."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000036_000004.wav|I rather miss my wild girl, but if I get a strong, helpful, tenderhearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000019_000000.wav|But it was too late.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000020_000001.wav|As the laugh subsided, mrs March began to thank mr Brooke for his faithful care of her husband, at which mr Brooke suddenly remembered that mr March needed rest, and seizing Laurie, he precipitately retired.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000020_000000.wav|It was not at all romantic, but a hearty laugh set everybody straight again, for Hannah was discovered behind the door, sobbing over the fat turkey, which she had forgotten to put down when she rushed up from the kitchen.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000029_000001.wav|Did Mother tell you?" asked Jo.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000002_000001.wav|Beth was soon able to lie on the study sofa all day, amusing herself with the well beloved cats at first, and in time with doll's sewing, which had fallen sadly behind hand.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000020_000002.wav|Then the two invalids were ordered to repose, which they did, by both sitting in one big chair and talking hard.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000032_000002.wav|A burnt offering has been made to vanity, this hardened palm has earned something better than blisters, and I'm sure the sewing done by these pricked fingers will last a long time, so much good will went into the stitches.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000033_000000.wav|If Meg had wanted a reward for hours of patient labor, she received it in the hearty pressure of her father's hand and the approving smile he gave her.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000023_000003.wav|A sleigh ride had been planned, but the girls would not leave their father, so the guests departed early, and as twilight gathered, the happy family sat together round the fire.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000036_000003.wav|She doesn't bounce, but moves quietly, and takes care of a certain little person in a motherly way which delights me.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000010_000000.wav|Their dearest love my makers laid Within my breast of snow. Accept it, and the Alpine maid, From Laurie and from Jo.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000030_000000.wav|"Not much.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000021_000003.wav|Jo saw and understood the look, and she stalked grimly away to get wine and beef tea, muttering to herself as she slammed the door, "I hate estimable young men with brown eyes!"|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000030_000001.wav|Straws show which way the wind blows, and I've made several discoveries today."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000037_000000.wav|Jo's keen eyes were rather dim for a minute, and her thin face grew rosy in the firelight as she received her father's praise, feeling that she did deserve a portion of it.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000018_000003.wav|mrs March was the first to recover herself, and held up her hand with a warning, "Hush! Remember Beth."|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000011_000000.wav|How Beth laughed when she saw it, how Laurie ran up and down to bring in the gifts, and what ridiculous speeches Jo made as she presented them.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/130164/1195_130164_000015_000000.wav|"Of course I am!" cried Meg, smoothing the silvery folds of her first silk dress, for mr Laurence had insisted on giving it.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000010_000003.wav|Furthermore, they should bear in mind that most of our important discoveries would not have been made had animal experimentation not been available, as it is solely by this means that modern surgical and obstetrical technique has been brought to its present degree of perfection; and further progress can scarcely be expected without its aid.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000003_000001.wav|In former times every woman who gave birth to a child or passed through a miscarriage was exposed to grave danger of infection or child bed fever; but at present-thanks to the recognition of the bacterial origin of the disease and of its identity with wound infection-this danger can be practically eliminated by the rigid observance of surgical cleanliness and aseptic technique.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000004_000003.wav|Fortunately, most of the abnormalities give timely warning of their occurrence, and in most instances may be relieved by comparatively simple measures; or, if not, they afford indications for treatment which should lead to a happy termination. The recognition of the existence of such conditions, however, is not always easy, and their ideal treatment requires careful training and sometimes the utmost nicety of judgment.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000008_000000.wav|Although there have been notable advances in the science and in the art of obstetrics since the middle of the eighteenth century, a great many fundamental facts must yet be learned.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000005_000000.wav|From my own experience as a teacher and consultant, I state without hesitation that in no other branch of medicine or surgery are graver emergencies encountered than in certain obstetrical complications whose treatment involves the greatest responsibility and requires the highest order of ability to insure a successful outcome for the mother and her child.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000007_000000.wav|One of the most important facts emphasized by Doctor Slemons is the value of medical supervision for several weeks after the child is born; this precaution contributes greatly toward a rapid and complete convalescence.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000006_000002.wav|The subject matter has been carefully chosen, and the author has wisely refrained from giving advice with regard to treatment which can be satisfactorily directed only after careful study by a physician.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000010_000001.wav|As yet such institutions scarcely exist in this country.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000006_000000.wav|In order that the principles of prevention may receive their fullest application during pregnancy, labor, and the lying in period, it is also advisable that intelligent women should possess some knowledge of the Reproductive Process in human beings.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000006_000003.wav|At the same time he has given a clear account of the physiology of pregnancy and labor, and has laid down sound rules for the guidance of the patient.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000006_000001.wav|This information is imparted by Doctor Slemons' book, which I can thoroughly recommend to prospective mothers.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000004_000002.wav|It is true, of course, that pregnancy and childbirth are generally normal processes, but they are not always so.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000004_000004.wav|Consequently, if prospective mothers wish to be assured of the best care, they should be cautious in the choice of their medical attendant.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000009_000001.wav|Firstly, that the advance of the science of obstetrics, and consequently improvements in its practice, must depend greatly upon the cooperation of intelligent women.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000010_000000.wav|Secondly, they must realize that real progress in the science of obstetrics can be expected to proceed only from well equipped clinics connected with strong universities, and in charge of thoroughly trained and broad minded men.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000004_000005.wav|As the ordinary layman has no means of determining the real qualifications of a physician, the choice should not be made upon the advice of casual acquaintances; but, instead, the family physician should be consulted, who, should he feel unwilling to assume the responsibility of the case, will be able to recommend a thoroughly competent substitute.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000002_000000.wav|INTRODUCTION|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000004_000000.wav|These few examples give some idea of the benefits of prophylaxis in the practice of obstetrics.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000003_000003.wav|Furthermore, a careful examination some weeks before the expected date of confinement enables us to recognize the existence of abnormal presentations and of disproportion between the size of the mother's pelvis and that of the child's head.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000008_000001.wav|For example, we are almost totally ignorant of the stimulus which causes the mother to fall into labor approximately two hundred eighty days after the last normal menstruation.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000005_000001.wav|For these reasons a physician should be chosen only after mature deliberation, and his services should be esteemed much more highly than is usually the case.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000007_000001.wav|During the lying in period the physician should supervise the care of the mother and the child, should insist upon the necessity for maternal nursing, and should keep the mother under observation until perfectly normal conditions are regained.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000009_000002.wav|They must come to realize that they will secure the best treatment only as they demand the highest standard of excellence from their attendants; and they can aid in securing this for their poorer sisters and their children by interesting themselves in obstetrical charities.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000010_000002.wav|Women who are anxious to promote the welfare of their sex can find no better way of doing so than by bringing this need to the attention of wealthy men interested in philanthropy and education.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000004_000001.wav|Prospective mothers should understand not only that there is an advantage in taking such precautions, but that they may be risking their lives, or at least their future well-being, unless they insist upon competent medical attention.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1195/37134/1195_37134_000003_000004.wav|Timely recognition of such conditions makes appropriate treatment possible and practically insures a successful outcome; while tardy recognition is frequently followed by disastrous results.|1195
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000013_000000.wav|"One can see them with the naked eye...|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000006.wav|The ground to the right-along the course of the Kolocha and Moskva rivers-was broken and hilly.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000037_000000.wav|With a long overcoat on his exceedingly stout, round shouldered body, with uncovered white head and puffy face showing the white ball of the eye he had lost, Kutuzov walked with plunging, swaying gait into the crowd and stopped behind the priest.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000032_000000.wav|"The Smolensk Mother of God," another corrected him.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000015_000001.wav|And over there?..." Pierre pointed to a knoll on the left, near which some troops could be seen.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000010_000000.wav|"Are those our men there?" Pierre inquired.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000002_000000.wav|It was about eleven o'clock.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000013.wav|His having moved his troops there is only a ruse; he will probably pass round to the right of the Moskva.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000007.wav|Between the hollows the villages of Bezubova and Zakharino showed in the distance.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000012_000000.wav|"Where?|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000035_000001.wav|Someone, a very important personage judging by the haste with which way was made for him, was approaching the icon.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000004.wav|"That's where one crosses the Kolocha.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000033_000001.wav|Following the battalion that marched along the dusty road came priests in their vestments-one little old man in a hood with attendants and singers.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000038_000001.wav|His white head twitched with the effort.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000011.wav|That's Semenovsk, yes, there," he pointed to Raevski's knoll.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000024_000000.wav|"Well, send number three company again," the officer replied hurriedly.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000005_000000.wav|"I must ask someone who knows," he thought, and addressed an officer who was looking with curiosity at his huge unmilitary figure.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000034_000000.wav|At the summit of the hill they stopped with the icon; the men who had been holding it up by the linen bands attached to it were relieved by others, the chanters relit their censers, and service began.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000006_000000.wav|"May I ask you," said Pierre, "what village that is in front?"|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000012_000001.wav|Where?" asked Pierre.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000006.wav|That's our center.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000013_000001.wav|Why, there!"|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000034_000004.wav|Behind the priest and a chanter stood the notabilities on a spot reserved for them.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000036_000001.wav|Pierre recognized him at once by his peculiar figure, which distinguished him from everybody else.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000021_000000.wav|An elderly sergeant who had approached the officer while he was giving these explanations had waited in silence for him to finish speaking, but at this point, evidently not liking the officer's remark, interrupted him.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000008_000000.wav|"Borodino," the other corrected him.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000018_000000.wav|"That's his again," said the officer. (It was the Shevardino Redoubt.) "It was ours yesterday, but now it is his."|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000011_000000.wav|"Yes, and there, further on, are the French," said the officer.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000002.wav|Below the village the road crossed the river by a bridge and, winding down and up, rose higher and higher to the village of Valuevo visible about four miles away, where Napoleon was then stationed.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000009.wav|"Well, you see, that's difficult to explain....|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000005.wav|Here and there over the whole of that blue expanse, to right and left of the forest and the road, smoking campfires could be seen and indefinite masses of troops-ours and the enemy's.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000001.wav|This was Borodino.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000011_000001.wav|"There they are, there... you can see them."|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000001_000000.wav|Pierre stepped out of his carriage and, passing the toiling militiamen, ascended the knoll from which, according to the doctor, the battlefield could be seen.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000012.wav|"But the battle will hardly be there.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000001.wav|"I can tell you quite clearly, because I constructed nearly all our entrenchments.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000008.wav|The left flank..." here the officer paused.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000035_000000.wav|The crowd round the icon suddenly parted and pressed against Pierre.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000000.wav|From above on the left, bisecting that amphitheater, wound the Smolensk highroad, passing through a village with a white church some five hundred paces in front of the knoll and below it.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000010.wav|Yesterday our left flank was there at Shevardino, you see, where the oak is, but now we have withdrawn our left wing-now it is over there, do you see that village and the smoke?|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000004_000000.wav|All that Pierre saw was so indefinite that neither the left nor the right side of the field fully satisfied his expectations.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000025_000000.wav|"And you, are you one of the doctors?"|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000003_000008.wav|On the left the ground was more level; there were fields of grain, and the smoking ruins of Semenovsk, which had been burned down, could be seen.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000000.wav|"Our position?" replied the officer with a smile of satisfaction.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000031_000001.wav|The Iberian Mother of God!" someone cried.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000009_000000.wav|The officer, evidently glad of an opportunity for a talk, moved up to Pierre.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000004_000001.wav|Nowhere could he see the battlefield he had expected to find, but only fields, meadows, troops, woods, the smoke of campfires, villages, mounds, and streams; and try as he would he could descry no military "position" in this place which teemed with life, nor could he even distinguish our troops from the enemy's.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000037_000003.wav|Despite the presence of the commander in chief, who attracted the attention of all the superior officers, the militiamen and soldiers continued their prayers without looking at him.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000037_000002.wav|Behind Kutuzov was Bennigsen and the suite.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000022_000000.wav|"Gabions must be sent for," said he sternly.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000020_000007.wav|Our right flank is over there"--he pointed sharply to the right, far away in the broken ground-"That's where the Moskva River is, and we have thrown up three redoubts there, very strong ones.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000015_000000.wav|"Ah, those are the French!|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000028_000001.wav|There they are...|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167609/3294_167609_000034_000002.wav|The singing did not sound loud under the open sky.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000010_000002.wav|It seemed that no horses could be had even for the carriages, much less for the carting.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000029_000000.wav|"I understand."|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000003_000002.wav|One instance, which had occurred some twenty years before, was a movement among the peasants to emigrate to some unknown "warm rivers." Hundreds of peasants, among them the Bogucharovo folk, suddenly began selling their cattle and moving in whole families toward the southeast.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000001_000000.wav|Until Prince Andrew settled in Bogucharovo its owners had always been absentees, and its peasants were of quite a different character from those of Bald Hills.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000012_000002.wav|His excellency Prince Andrew himself gave me orders to move all the people away and not leave them with the enemy, and there is an order from the Tsar about it too.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000019_000000.wav|"You drop this nonsense and tell the people to get ready to leave their homes and go to Moscow and to get carts ready for tomorrow morning for the princess' things.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000025_000000.wav|"What am I to do with the people?" said Dron.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000027_000000.wav|"Quite beside themselves, Yakov Alpatych; they've fetched another barrel."|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000011_000000.wav|Alpatych looked intently at Dron and frowned.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000004_000001.wav|He learned from domestic serfs loyal to him that the peasant Karp, who possessed great influence in the village commune and had recently been away driving a government transport, had returned with news that the Cossacks were destroying deserted villages, but that the French did not harm them.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000011_000005.wav|He noticed this hesitation in Dron's look and therefore frowned and moved closer up to him.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000010_000000.wav|Dron replied that the horses of these peasants were away carting.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000005_000001.wav|Yet there was no time to waste.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000005_000004.wav|On the evening of the day the old prince died the Marshal went away, promising to return next day for the funeral.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000001_000002.wav|They were called steppe peasants.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000028_000001.wav|I'll go to the police officer, and you tell them so, and that they must stop this and the carts must be got ready."|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000025_000001.wav|"They're quite beside themselves; I have already told them..."|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000019_000001.wav|And don't go to any meeting yourself, do you hear?"|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000022_000000.wav|"Stop that!" cried Alpatych sternly.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000004_000002.wav|Alpatych also knew that on the previous day another peasant had even brought from the village of Visloukhovo, which was occupied by the French, a proclamation by a French general that no harm would be done to the inhabitants, and if they remained they would be paid for anything taken from them.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000009_000001.wav|Though the peasants paid quitrent, Alpatych thought no difficulty would be made about complying with this order, for there were two hundred and thirty households at work in Bogucharovo and the peasants were well to do.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000031_000000.wav|And so it was, for when evening came no carts had been provided.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000005_000005.wav|But this he was unable to do, for he received tidings that the French had unexpectedly advanced, and had barely time to remove his own family and valuables from his estate.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000017_000000.wav|"Eh, Dron, drop it!" Alpatych repeated, withdrawing his hand from his bosom and solemnly pointing to the floor at Dron's feet.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000002_000002.wav|Rumors of the war with Bonaparte and his invasion were connected in their minds with the same sort of vague notions of Antichrist, the end of the world, and "pure freedom."|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000024_000001.wav|What are you thinking of, eh?"|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000028_000000.wav|"Well, then, listen!|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000026_000000.wav|"'Told them,' I dare say!" said Alpatych.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000003_000006.wav|Now in eighteen twelve, to anyone living in close touch with these people it was apparent that these undercurrents were acting strongly and nearing an eruption.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000012_000003.wav|Anyone who stays is a traitor to the Tsar.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000010_000001.wav|Alpatych named others, but they too, according to Dron, had no horses available: some horses were carting for the government, others were too weak, and others had died for want of fodder.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000021_000001.wav|Take the keys from me and discharge me, for Christ's sake!"|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000005_000003.wav|He had told her that after the sixteenth he could not be responsible for what might happen.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000001_000003.wav|The old prince used to approve of them for their endurance at work when they came to Bald Hills to help with the harvest or to dig ponds, and ditches, but he disliked them for their boorishness.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000005_000002.wav|On the fifteenth, the day of the old prince's death, the Marshal had insisted on Princess Mary's leaving at once, as it was becoming dangerous.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000008_000000.wav|Soon after the migration to the "warm rivers," in which he had taken part like the rest, Dron was made village Elder and overseer of Bogucharovo, and had since filled that post irreproachably for twenty three years.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000026_000001.wav|"Are they drinking?" he asked abruptly.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000030_000001.wav|He had managed people for a long time and knew that the chief way to make them obey is to show no suspicion that they can possibly disobey.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3294/167597/3294_167597_000001_000001.wav|They differed from them in speech, dress, and disposition.|3294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000002.wav|The flower table, of course had to be arranged on that day, and some things for the refreshment table.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000004_000000.wav|Just then Julia came in with the evening paper in her hand.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000039_000000.wav|But Julia was not one to show this kind of resentment, and since she had become interested in Manuel she was only too glad to help the Bazaar that was to benefit him.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000041_000000.wav|The large room was so handsome as to require comparatively little decoration.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000004_000001.wav|"See, or rather hear the news.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000015_000000.wav|"Well, why not?" he enquired, "as long as it is to be in a good cause."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000026_000000.wav|"Why, of course," said Edith, "we know several children who would be delighted with it at Christmas."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000027_000000.wav|"No, thank you, sister Edith," responded Philip, "I'm not going to spend my hard earned allowance in presents for children; if you make me buy this doll, out it goes to a certain room in one of the college buildings to become a cherished decoration, and," waving the doll dramatically in the air, "I shall defy any proctor or college authority to tear it away from me."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000030_000000.wav|"You wouldn't pay a hundred dollars for it?" queried ruth.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000004_000003.wav|There was a large patch of blue in the west when the sun went down----"|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000003.wav|But so definite had she been in expressing her wishes, that the girls felt that it was due her for lending her house to pay all deference to what she said.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000044_000000.wav|"Can't we have first choice of anything?" queried Tom Hurst, a mischief loving friend of Philip's whom some of the girls distrusted a little.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000034_000000.wav|"If you really wish to have it, I'll try to secure it for you," she said.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000033_000000.wav|Now ruth, while pleased at his wish for the cushion had no idea that he would, if necessary, pay a hundred dollars for it.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000018_000000.wav|"Then you must be willing," said Brenda, "to let us sell the things you have chosen, if some fussy old person comes along and wishes any of these reserved things, and refuses to be contented with anything else."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000047_000000.wav|"She might," answered Nora, with a very dignified manner.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000000_000000.wav|twenty four|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000012_000001.wav|Oh, I am sure that we shall have no trouble getting them to buy all that they can afford," replied Belle positively.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000009_000000.wav|"Boys are not so fond of spending money at fairs, I can tell you that," said Nora, rather decidedly, "and besides most of them are so much in debt that they haven't anything to spend."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000024_000001.wav|You can always find some one to give the things to that you buy."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000001.wav|She knew the ways of girls too well to think that it would be safe to have anything left for Wednesday morning.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000006_000000.wav|"In the place where the sun should have gone down," she responded with a smile.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000037_000004.wav|Nora was to have charge of this table, and she expected to have a great deal of fun out of the misfits between the purchasers and the parcels.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000054_000000.wav|"Yes, indeed," answered Nora, "there are as many as twenty stars to be seen, and that is almost a sure sign.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000038_000001.wav|It is true that the various mothers of the girls comprising "The Four" had said that they would be glad enough when it was all over, because for a fortnight it had been impossible to get the girls to think of anything else.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000040_000001.wav|The work did not, of course, proceed very rapidly, for every one in the group of fifteen or more had to give an opinion on everything, and a unanimous opinion as to what looked best in any particular case was naturally impossible.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000006_000002.wav|there won't be a thing for the boys to do this evening."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000038_000000.wav|Altogether the preparations for the Bazaar had moved along much more smoothly than any one had expected.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000037_000000.wav|"Well, the rest of you seemed so busy that we thought we should only be in the way," said Will with the glibness that is almost second nature with youths of his age, "but we're ready to work now," and they went across the room to the surprise table where half a dozen of their friends were busy.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000004.wav|On the Monday therefore after Easter they went to work with a will to gather in the promised contributions.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000037_000002.wav|All kinds of little things-toys, novelties, like those used as German favors, small books and photographs, were neatly done up in bright tissue paper wrappings, and tied with silk ribbons.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000016_000000.wav|"Oh, no," interrupted the practical Edith, "that would not really be fair.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000010_000001.wav|"I know several who have more money than they know what to do with.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000037_000001.wav|The "surprise table" had been an idea of Belle's, and was a rather agreeable change from the usual grab bag.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000032_000001.wav|Although very quiet in his way of living, and in his general conversation, he had a larger income than many in his set.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000050_000000.wav|"You shouldn't use tobacco at all," cried Edith in a plaintive tone, "at your age, Philip, you know how mamma feels about it."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000046_000000.wav|"Do you suppose that any old lady will want that tobacco pouch?" asked Tom, with a most innocent expression on his face.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000048_000000.wav|"Well, then," replied Tom, "I don't believe that I shall return, for I am not sure that I ought to patronize an institution that encourages old ladies to buy tobacco pouches."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000037_000003.wav|They were heaped on a large table, and purchasers were permitted to buy each little package at their own price, provided at least, according to a sign placed above the table, that no bid should be for less than fifteen cents.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000017_000001.wav|If any one wants to bid on anything to night I say that it is perfectly fair." After much discussion, it was at last decided that any one who had a great preference for any special thing might write his name on a piece of paper and have it pinned to the object with the limit of price that he was willing to pay.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000045_000001.wav|There may be old ladies who will want----"|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000020_000000.wav|"Oh, there will be plenty of things that will suit you just as well, if you only make up your minds to it."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000023_000000.wav|All the girls laughed except Edith, who seldom saw the funny side of things as quickly as the others.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000012_000000.wav|"Oh, they can buy things for their sisters and cousins; besides, boys like pincushions and picture frames and sofa pillows.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000007.wav|Brenda was in a tremor of excitement.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000032_000000.wav|This was not entirely an idle boast, this readiness to spend a large sum of money for a small thing-on the part of Will, as Philip and some of his classmates might have testified.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000013_000000.wav|As a matter of fact when the boys after dinner were ushered into the pretty little ballroom, where the tables laden with fancy goods stood, they expressed great interest in all that they saw, and began to make bids for the things which seemed to them best worth having.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000036_000000.wav|"Come," cried Brenda, rushing up to them, "you are not doing a thing, you two."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000053_000000.wav|"It certainly does look as if it might clear up," said Belle to Nora, as they walked along.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000051_000001.wav|Anyway it's time we started for Cambridge, we're not used to late hours." At this the rest of the boys laughed rather more loudly than the occasion seemed to warrant, but with a return of good manners they bade the girls good bye, and promised mrs Blair, who had returned to the room that they would certainly drop in some time on Wednesday.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000034_000001.wav|"I am sure there won't be any trouble, although I suppose that it can't be laid aside to night, as long as Edith feels as she does."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000005_000000.wav|"The sun!" exclaimed the others derisively.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000021_000000.wav|"Perhaps you'll want me to buy a blue sofa pillow or some other Yale thing," sighed Will Hardon.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000039_000001.wav|At her aunt's suggestion she had made it her special duty to collect flowers and plants for the flower table, and armed with notes of introduction from mrs Barlow she had gone to many a supposedly close person to ask for some small contribution to the flower table.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000010_000002.wav|Some juniors that I know-New York fellows, are coming to morrow and they will spend a lot of money."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000014_000000.wav|"Look out," cried Nora, "or we may take you at your word, Will Hardon, and make you pay one hundred dollars for that crimson pillow that you admire so."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000038_000003.wav|mrs Barlow was especially pleased with the good spirit that her niece Julia had shown, for it would have been so easy and natural for her at the last to display a little pettishness in the way of a refusal to have anything to do with the Bazaar in view of the fact that she had not been invited to join "The Four" at their weekly meetings for work.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000025_000000.wav|"This doll?" asked Philip, holding it rather clumsily on his arm.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000001_000000.wav|AN EVENING'S FUN|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000003_000001.wav|I know that a lot of people will come even if it rains, and perhaps they'll be good and buy three times as much as they would in fine weather."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000032_000003.wav|No one knew of his liberality except those whom he helped, for he had not the least wish to pose as a benefactor.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000028_000001.wav|But you know I'm in earnest about that pillow," he added, for he knew, and ruth knew that he knew that the down pillow with its rich crimson cover embroidered with a large "H." was the work of her skilful fingers.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000011_000000.wav|"Gracious!" exclaimed Brenda, "I hope that we have things that will suit them.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000011_000001.wav|It seems to me that most of these things are for girls to use."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, how silly you are, Edith," broke in Brenda; "as if all the people who come to the Bazaar could be here at the same minute.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000002_000000.wav|mrs Blair had said that all the preparations for the Bazaar must be completed on Tuesday, the day before it was to open.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000043_000000.wav|"Well, if other people will only be as much impressed as you are, and will open their purses accordingly, we shall have nothing to complain of," said Nora, "and I hope that you will all come back and buy everything that is left over by to morrow evening."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000042_000000.wav|Now if the boys did not find a great deal of work to do they were very outspoken in their admiration for all that had been accomplished by the girls.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000039_000002.wav|Her success had been altogether remarkable, and in addition to the cut flowers that were to arrive on Wednesday, a great many beautiful potted plants and vines had been sent in from various conservatories for general decorations.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000041_000001.wav|The long mirrors with which every side was paneled formed a complete decoration in themselves, and added to the general effectiveness, as Brenda said by making the tables "look double."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/56179/6120_56179_000024_000000.wav|"Well, you can see yourselves, boys," she said, in a determined tone, "that you ought to be glad to buy whatever is left over,--for you probably won't get in until toward evening.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000019_000000.wav|"You don't say!" said Ellen Robinson, putting a hard, investigating finger on the foot board.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000018_000007.wav|I thought it was ridiculous to buy it, but Leslie insisted that it was the only thing for my room; and those crazy, extravagant children went and bought it when I had my head turned."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000020_000001.wav|She showed her the bird's nest in the tree overhead.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000013_000002.wav|That's queer, isn't it?|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000014_000000.wav|Leslie took the children up stairs to wash their faces and freshen up, and Julia Cloud led her sister to the lovely guest room that was always in perfect order.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000036_000001.wav|"I don't see any place as nice as our town, do you, Cloudy?|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000019_000004.wav|What's that out there, a porch?"|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000026_000001.wav|"I suppose they have by this time."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000016_000000.wav|But Julia Cloud was genuinely glad to see her sister, and said so heartily enough to satisfy even so jealous a nature as Ellen's; and so presently they were walking about the pretty rooms together, and Ellen was taking in all the beauties of the home.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000012_000002.wav|She likes to keep them bright.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000038_000002.wav|It was that Ellen was still anxious to have her sister get married, and she had taken this way to get her acquainted with a man whom she thought a "good match".|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000002_000003.wav|He sat on the terrace in the moonlight with them afterwards, joking, telling them stories, and eating chocolates with the rest.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000011_000004.wav|Couldn't you find anything better than this in the town?|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000018_000002.wav|We had such fun choosing it, too.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000004_000000.wav|They talked far into the night, for he had to hear all the stories of all their doings, and every minute or two one or the other of the children would break in to tell something about the other or to praise their dear Cloudy Jewel for her part in everything.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000033_000000.wav|"But I'm glad they came, Cloudy.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000029_000000.wav|"Cloudy, dear, what makes such a difference in people?|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000017_000002.wav|"Though I don't like that painted furniture much myself," she said as she glanced at the French gray enamel of the bed; "but I suppose it's all right if that's the kind of thing you like.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000024_000001.wav|Who'll support you?"|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000006.wav|It isn't as if we couldn't go when we like, you know."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000037_000002.wav|Ellen had suggested that maybe he could get her sister to take him to board!|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000033_000002.wav|It was nice to play with the children, and nice to have a home to show our relatives, and nicest of all to have them see you-how beautiful you are at the head of the house."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000027_000002.wav|College closed last week."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000012_000000.wav|"We like this very well," said Julia Cloud with her old patient smile and the hurt flush that always accompanied her answers to her sister's contempt.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000039_000002.wav|No, indeed!|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000025_000000.wav|"Don't let that worry you, Ellen, There are other children, and I love to mother them.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, no," said Julia Cloud quickly, the pretty flush coming in her cheeks.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000032_000000.wav|"Did she truly say that, Cloudy?" twinkled Leslie.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000031_000001.wav|Your Aunt Ellen always wanted to have a lot of people around, and liked to go to tea parties and dress a great deal; and she never cared for reading or study or music.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000002_000000.wav|"Guardy Lud" was the first visitor, just for a night and a day.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000013_000001.wav|No paper on the wall!|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000023_000002.wav|I'm happier as I am."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000007_000003.wav|I'm entirely satisfied with the work you're doing, Miss Cloud.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000018_000001.wav|"Everything was bought new except a few little bits of mahogany down stairs.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000008_000000.wav|And so Julia Cloud was well content to go on with her beloved work as home maker.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000011_000001.wav|"I should think 'twould take all your time to keep clean.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000040_000000.wav|But Professor Armitage, like everybody else who came once to Cloudy Villa, liked it, and begged a thousand pardons for presuming, but came again and again, until even the children began to like him in a way, and did not in the least mind having him around.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000036_000003.wav|For, really, all the Christian Endeavor societies I've been to this summer acted as if their members were all away on vacations and they didn't care whether school kept or not."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000007_000000.wav|"All the better for that, no doubt," said Guardy Lud thoughtfully, watching Jane Bristol's sweet smile as she talked over some committee plans with Allison.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000019_000002.wav|But I never thought my cane seat chairs were much.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000006_000000.wav|"They are both poor and earning their own living," said Julia Cloud, feeling that in view of the future and what it might contain she wanted to be entirely honest, that the weight of responsibility should not rest too heavily upon her.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000007_000004.wav|I couldn't have found a better mother for 'em if I'd searched heaven, I'm sure."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000031_000002.wav|But I think you're mistaken about their not having had a good time.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000010_000000.wav|Allison arose and went down the terrace to do the honors, showing his uncle where to drive in and put his car in the little garage, helping his aunt and the little cousins to alight.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000017_000001.wav|"Well, they certainly have feathered your nest well!" she declared as her eyes rested on the luxury everywhere.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000018_000006.wav|It's real French enamel, you know, and happens to be a craze of fashion at present.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000003_000001.wav|He told Julia Cloud over and over again how more than pleased he was with what she had done for his children, and insisted that her salary should be twice as large.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000031_000005.wav|Herbert liked it that Allison let him drive his car when they went out.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000003_000000.wav|After the young people were gone he lingered, wiping his eyes, and saying, "Bless my soul!" thoughtfully.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000002_000001.wav|He had come East for a flying business trip, and could not pass by his beloved wards without at least a glimpse.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000034_000000.wav|"Dear, flattering child!" said Julia Cloud lovingly.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000038_000000.wav|To this day Julia Cloud has never decided whether Ellen really thought Julia would take a professor from the college to board, or whether she just sent him there as a joke.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000007_000001.wav|"I should say they were about as wholesome a couple of young people as could be found to match your two.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000018_000003.wav|Don't you like my furniture?|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000034_000001.wav|"It is so good to know you feel that way!|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000024_000000.wav|"Yes, but after these children are married what'll you do?|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000034_000002.wav|But now here comes Allison, and we must finish up our plans for the trip and get ready to close the house for the summer."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000017_000003.wav|Was it some of their old furniture from California?"|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty four|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000002.wav|I suppose that's one consolation for having such a little playhouse affair to live in; you don't have to climb up far.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000021_000000.wav|"Well," said Ellen half sourly, "I suppose there's no chance of your getting sick of it all and coming back, and I must say I don't blame you.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000025_000002.wav|Shall we go down stairs?"|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000030_000000.wav|Julia Cloud smiled.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000025_000001.wav|But as far as support is concerned I'm putting away money in the bank constantly, more than I ever expected to have all together in life; and I shall not trouble anybody for support. However, I hope to be able to work for a good many years yet, and what I'm doing now I love.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000001.wav|It's like child's play going up.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000019_000001.wav|"Well, it does seem sort of smooth.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000005.wav|Now, if you don't want us, say so, and we'll go on to night.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000027_000000.wav|"They have a great many young friends, and we have beautiful times together.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000029_000001.wav|Why are some so much harder to make have a good time than others?|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000000.wav|"Well, you certainly have things well fixed," said Ellen grudgingly. "What easy little stairs!|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000031_000004.wav|And the children enjoyed the victrola, especially the funny records.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000021_000001.wav|It certainly is a contrast from the way you've lived up to now. But these children will grow up and get married, and then where will you be?|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000036_000002.wav|And I don't feel quite right anywhere but home on Sunday, do you?|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000023_000000.wav|"I'm not looking for such chances, Ellen," she said decidedly.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000029_000002.wav|Why, I feel as if I'd lived years since day before yesterday, and I don't feel as if they'd half enjoyed anything.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000005_000000.wav|The next day they took him everywhere and showed him everything about the college and the place, introduced him to their favorite professors, at least those who were not already gone on their vacations, and took him for a long drive past their favorite haunts. Then he had to meet Jane Bristol and Howard Letchworth.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000031_000000.wav|"I don't know what it is, dear, unless it is that some people have different ideals and standards from other people, and they can't find their pleasure the same way.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000037_000000.wav|And so they went home to begin another happy winter.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000013_000003.wav|And the chimney right in the room!|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000015_000003.wav|Well, we've come to stay two days if you want us.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000032_000001.wav|"Isn't she funny?" They both broke down and laughed.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000029_000003.wav|I really wanted to make them happy, for I felt as if we'd taken so much from them when we took you; but I just seemed to fail, everything I did."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000031_000003.wav|They appreciated your trying to do things for them, I know, for Aunt Ellen said to me that you were a very thoughtful girl.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000002_000002.wav|He dropped down into their midst quite unexpectedly the night before college closed, and found them with a bevy of young people at the supper table, who opened their ranks right heartily, and took him in.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000003_000004.wav|He would see that a sum was set aside in the bank for their use in any such plans as they might have for their Christian Endeavor work.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000011_000003.wav|Looks as if some crazy person had built it.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000017_000000.wav|"And this is your bedroom!" she paused in the middle of the rose and gray room, and looked about her, taking in every little detail with an eye that would put it away for remembrance long afterwards.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000011_000005.wav|I saw some real pretty frame houses with gardens as we came through."|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000027_000001.wav|But you won't see many of them now.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6120/14976/6120_14976_000037_000001.wav|But the very first day there came a rift in their happiness in the shape of the new professor of chemistry, a man about Julia Cloud's age, whom Ellen Robinson had met on her visit to Thayerville, and told about her sister.|6120
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000041_000013.wav|The use to which Alaric applied his new command, distinguishes the firm and judicious character of his policy.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000018_000008.wav|The treaty was ratified by solemn oaths, and observed with mutual fidelity.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000041_000007.wav|Perhaps the philosopher who addresses the emperor of the East in the language of reason and virtue, which he might have used to a Spartan king, had not condescended to form a practicable scheme, consistent with the temper, and circumstances, of a degenerate age.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000010_000001.wav|He died in the month of January; and before the end of the winter of the same year, the Gothic nation was in arms.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000018_000017.wav|In an age of miracles, it would perhaps be unjust to dispute the claim of the historian Zosimus to the common benefit: yet it cannot be dissembled, that the mind of Alaric was ill prepared to receive, either in sleeping or waking visions, the impressions of Greek superstition.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000041_000004.wav|The measures which Synesius recommends, are the dictates of a bold and generous patriot.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000041_000014.wav|He issued his orders to the four magazines and manufactures of offensive and defensive arms, Margus, Ratiaria, Naissus, and Thessalonica, to provide his troops with an extraordinary supply of shields, helmets, swords, and spears; the unhappy provincials were compelled to forge the instruments of their own destruction; and the Barbarians removed the only defect which had sometimes disappointed the efforts of their courage.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000033_000005.wav|Alaric appears to have seized the favorable moment to execute one of those hardy enterprises, in which the abilities of a general are displayed with more genuine lustre, than in the tumult of a day of battle.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000018_000003.wav|They stretched from east to west, to the edge of the sea shore; and left, between the precipice and the Malian Gulf, an interval of three hundred feet, which, in some places, was contracted to a road capable of admitting only a single carriage.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000041_000016.wav|The provinces of Europe which belonged to the Eastern emperor, were already exhausted; those of Asia were inaccessible; and the strength of Constantinople had resisted his attack.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000018_000009.wav|The Gothic prince, with a small and select train, was admitted within the walls; he indulged himself in the refreshment of the bath, accepted a splendid banquet, which was provided by the magistrate, and affected to show that he was not ignorant of the manners of civilized nations.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000018_000007.wav|The same impatience urged him to prevent the delay and danger of a siege, by the offer of a capitulation; and as soon as the Athenians heard the voice of the Gothic herald, they were easily persuaded to deliver the greatest part of their wealth, as the ransom of the city of Minerva and its inhabitants.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2146/136610/2146_136610_000041_000008.wav|Perhaps the pride of the ministers, whose business was seldom interrupted by reflection, might reject, as wild and visionary, every proposal, which exceeded the measure of their capacity, and deviated from the forms and precedents of office.|2146
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000031_000002.wav|He complains very bitterly of this at a dinner party, but his respect for Goethe has not diminished through this personal experience.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000030_000002.wav|In the latter case they appear obscure, intricate, incoherent.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000003_000005.wav|For instance, I once dreamt about a kind of swimming bath where the bathers suddenly separated in all directions; at one place on the edge a person stood bending towards one of the bathers as if to drag him out.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000043_000001.wav|If we keep closely to the definition that dream work denotes the transference of dream thoughts to dream content, we are compelled to say that the dream work is not creative; it develops no fancies of its own, it judges nothing, decides nothing.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000017_000005.wav|Small wonder, says the dream thought, if this person is grateful to me for this-this love is not cost free.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000007_000007.wav|I will not pursue the further result of the thought.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000052_000001.wav|Whence came the one florin fifty kreuzers?|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000040_000000.wav|The motives for this part of the dream work are easily gauged.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000034_000005.wav|The derogatory reception of my friend's work had made a deep impression upon me.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000004_000001.wav|The dream work proceeds like Francis Galton with his family photographs.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000007_000011.wav|The dream work is peculiarly adept at representing two contradictory conceptions by means of the same mixed image.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000038_000005.wav|A trait, after the manner of the find in the Lido, forces itself upon me here.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000036_000000.wav|The first person in the dream thoughts behind the ego was my friend who had been so scandalously treated.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000005_000000.wav|When there is nothing in common between the dream thoughts, the dream work takes the trouble to create a something, in order to make a common presentation feasible in the dream.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000030_000005.wav|As this explanation is in entire disagreement with the view that the dream owes its origin to dissociated, uncritical cerebral activity, I will emphasize my view by an example:|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000030_000003.wav|When the dream appears openly absurd, when it contains an obvious paradox in its content, it is so of purpose.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000010_000001.wav|There is evidence of a third factor, which deserves careful consideration.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000020_000001.wav|The first dream thoughts which are unravelled by analysis frequently strike one by their unusual wording.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000051_000001.wav|Her husband tells her, Elise L---- and her fiance had intended coming, but could only get some cheap seats, three for one florin fifty kreuzers, and these they would not take.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000031_000004.wav|Goethe died in eighteen thirty two.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000039_000003.wav|Its mode of action thus consists in so cooerdinating the parts of the dream that these coalesce to a coherent whole, to a dream composition.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000050_000000.wav|three.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000003_000010.wav|First of all came the little episode from the time of my courting, of which I have already spoken; the pressure of a hand under the table gave rise in the dream to the "under the table," which I had subsequently to find a place for in my recollection.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000004_000002.wav|The different elements are put one on top of the other; what is common to the composite picture stands out clearly, the opposing details cancel each other.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000026_000000.wav|The causal connection between two ideas is either left without presentation, or replaced by two different long portions of dreams one after the other.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000044_000000.wav|It is, perhaps, not superfluous to support these assertions by examples:|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1413/121799/1413_121799_000034_000006.wav|In my judgment, it contained a fundamental biological discovery which only now, several years later, commences to find favor among the professors.|1413
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000014_000000.wav|The sun shone gloriously; Karen and the old lady walked along the path through the corn; it was rather dusty there.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000021_000000.wav|And Karen could not help dancing a step or two, and when she began her feet continued to dance; it was just as though the shoes had power over them.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000031_000003.wav|Come out!|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000008_000003.wav|All this looked charming, but the old lady could not see well, and so had no pleasure in them.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000008_000004.wav|In the midst of the shoes stood a pair of red ones, just like those the princess had worn.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000031_000002.wav|Here, she knew, dwelt the executioner; and she tapped with her fingers at the window, and said, "Come out!|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000033_000001.wav|"Then I can't repent of my sins! But strike off my feet in the red shoes!"|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000038_000001.wav|And the clergyman's wife was sorry for her and took her into service; and she was industrious and thoughtful.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000024_000001.wav|She danced, and was forced to dance straight out into the gloomy wood.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000040_000004.wav|For the church itself had come to the poor girl in her narrow chamber, or else she had come into the church.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000040_000001.wav|And he touched the ceiling with the spray, and the ceiling rose so high, and where he had touched it there gleamed a golden star.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000016_000001.wav|"Sit firm when you dance"; and he put his hand out towards the soles.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000028_000004.wav|Dance shalt thou-!"|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000029_000000.wav|"Mercy!" cried Karen.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000028_000000.wav|"Dance shalt thou!" said he.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000008_000000.wav|Now Karen was old enough to be confirmed; she had new clothes and was to have new shoes also.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000022_000000.wav|The shoes were placed in a closet at home, but Karen could not avoid looking at them.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000031_000004.wav|I cannot come in, for I am forced to dance!"|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122810/439_122810_000033_000000.wav|"Don't strike my head off!" said Karen.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000011_000000.wav|"Poor child!" said the old poet, as he took the boy by the hand.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000020_000011.wav|But that is a long time ago, and it is all past now; however, a thing of that sort she never forgets.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000010_000000.wav|"Poor thing!" said the old poet, as he went to open the door.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000019_000002.wav|I will tell all children about him, that they may take care and not play with him, for he will only cause them sorrow and many a heartache."|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000014_000003.wav|Look, the weather is now clearing up, and the moon is shining clear again through the window."|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000020_000009.wav|He is forever running after everybody.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000011_000002.wav|Thou shalt have wine and roasted apples, for thou art verily a charming child!" And the boy was so really.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000018_000000.wav|The poor poet lay on the earth and wept, for the arrow had really flown into his heart.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000020_000000.wav|And all good children to whom he related this story, took great heed of this naughty Cupid; but he made fools of them still, for he is astonishingly cunning.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000013_000000.wav|"You are a merry fellow," said the old man.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000013_000001.wav|"What's your name?"|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000020_000010.wav|Only think, he shot an arrow once at your old grandmother!|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000014_000001.wav|"Don't you know me?|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000011_000003.wav|His eyes were like two bright stars; and although the water trickled down his hair, it waved in beautiful curls.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000020_000004.wav|Yes, he is forever following people.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000020_000007.wav|Ask them only and you will hear what they'll tell you.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000011_000004.wav|He looked exactly like a little angel, but he was so pale, and his whole body trembled with cold.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/122809/439_122809_000014_000000.wav|"My name is Cupid," answered the boy.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000013_000000.wav|Yet not unfaithful nor unkind, with work day virtues surely staid, Theirs is the sane and humble mind, And dull affections undismayed.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000005_000001.wav|L'Apprenti Sorcier|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000009_000001.wav|In Praise of Solid People|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000014_000000.wav|O happy people!|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000018_000000.wav|I look around the empty room, The clock still ticking in its place, And all else silent as the tomb, Till suddenly, I think, a face|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000020_000000.wav|And dusky galleys past me sail, Full freighted on a faerie sea; I hear the silken merchants hail Across the ringing waves to me|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/439/123866/439_123866_000005_000000.wav|twenty two.|439
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000015_000000.wav|I have a little heresy about all this, however.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000015_000001.wav|My associates regard the thought with as much horror as many worthy people of the twentieth Century felt in regard to any heretical suggestion that the original outline of government as laid down in the First Constitution did not apply as well to twentieth Century conditions as to those of the early nineteenth.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000003.wav|They are wise to us now.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000010_000004.wav|Under these modern social and economic conditions, the kind of individual freedom to which I had been accustomed in the twentieth Century was impossible.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000020_000002.wav|The Hans discontinued their service along this route, and as evidence that they were badly shaken by our success, sent no raiders down the Beaches.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000018_000002.wav|There was feverish activity in the ammunition plants, and the hunting of stray Han ships became an enthusiastic sport.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000019_000004.wav|It floated to earth, nose down, and since it was unarmed and unarmored, they had no difficulty in shooting it to pieces and massacring its crew and passengers.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000004_000000.wav|A careful survey of the territory showed that it was only the northern sections and slopes that had been "beamed" by the first Han ship.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000019_000006.wav|But then I did not have centuries of bitter persecution in my blood.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000006_000000.wav|The ammunition plant, and the rocket ship plant, which had just been about to start operation at the time of the raid, were intact, as were the other important plants.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000031_000002.wav|They're holding back as much information as possible for future bartering, perhaps."|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000009.wav|Most of the party was wiped out as the dis rays went into action on them.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000001.wav|One of them will become public property in a few days, I think.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000027_000000.wav|"Just what evidence is there that anybody has been clearing information to the Hans?" I asked.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000005.wav|This is what the Americans called those strips of country directly under the regular ship routes of the Hans, who as a matter of precaution frequently blasted them with their dis beams to prevent the growth of foliage which might give shelter to the Americans.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000005_000001.wav|The forest screen above it, however, had been annihilated, and it was determined to abandon it, after removing all usable machinery and evidences of the processes that might be of interest to the Han scientists, should they return to the valley in the future.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000016_000002.wav|The eternal cycle seems to be at work.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000016_000001.wav|I have seen signs of the reawakening of greed, of selfishness.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000031_000000.wav|"Then it's quite clear," I ventured, "that whoever is 'clearing' us to them is doing it piecemeal.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000012_000000.wav|The sub boss who could not command the loyalty of his followers was as quickly deposed, either by them or by his superiors, as the ancient ward leader of the twentieth Century who lost control of his votes.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000013_000001.wav|I tremble to think what would have happened, had the attempt been made to handle the a e f this way during the First World War, instead of by that rigid military discipline and complete assumption of the individual as a mere standardized cog in the machine.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000000.wav|"Well," he replied, "first of all there was that raid upon us.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000006.wav|But they've been beaming those paths so hard, it looks as though they even had information of this strategy.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000007_000000.wav|Hart brought the Camboss up from the Susquanna Works, and laid out new camp locations, scattering them farther to the south, and avoiding ground which had been seared by the Han beams and the immediate locations of the Han wrecks.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000010_000002.wav|But many of the gangs, I found, were badly organized, lacked strong hands in authority, and were rife with intrigue.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000010_000005.wav|I would have been as much of a nonentity in every phase of human relationship by attempting to avoid alliances, as any man of the twentieth Century would have been politically, who aligned himself with no political party.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000025_000002.wav|You know, a hundred and fifteen or twenty years ago there were certain of these people's ancestors who actually degraded themselves by mating with the Hans, sometimes even serving them as slaves, in the days before they brought all their service machinery to perfection.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000004.wav|But we've been getting them for the past week by installing automatic re broadcast units along the scar paths.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000026_000001.wav|But I hardly suspect the Pineys. There is little intelligence among them.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000005.wav|Near Bah flo this morning a party of Eries shot one without success.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000009_000003.wav|And as might be expected, we had a great deal of banter over which one of us was Camp Boss.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000031_000001.wav|It sounds like a bit of occasional barter, rather than an out and out alliance.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000001.wav|That first Han ship knew the location of our plants exactly.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000000.wav|"Tony," he said, "There are two things I want to talk to you about.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000011_000002.wav|He was just as much of an autocrat, and just as much dependent upon the general popularity of his actions for the ability to maintain his autocracy.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000018_000000.wav|Our victory over the seven Han ships had set the country ablaze.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000007.wav|And in addition, they've been using code.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000019_000001.wav|A dozen Sacramentos had caught the hazy outlines of its rep rays approaching them, head on, in the twilight, like ghostly pillars reaching into the sky.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000010_000003.wav|On the whole, I thought I would be wise to stay with a group which had already proved its friendliness, and in which I seemed to have prospects of advancement.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000006.wav|The explosions staggered her, but did not penetrate.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000024_000002.wav|I'm thinking of developing a permanent field force, along the lines of the regular armies of the twentieth Century you told me about.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000017_000000.wav|All this, however, is wandering afar from my story, which concerns our early battles against the Hans, and not our more modern problems of self control.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000024_000000.wav|"We're in for it now.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000014_000000.wav|But owing to the centuries of desperate suffering the people had endured at the hands of the Hans, there developed a spirit of self sacrifice and consideration for the common good that made the scheme applicable and efficient in all forms of human co-operation.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000002.wav|We aren't going to get any more Han ships by shooting up their repellor rays unless we use much larger rockets.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000029_000000.wav|"But they still have no knowledge of the nature and control of ultronic activity?" I asked.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000028_000003.wav|Then, the Hans quite obviously have learned that we are picking up their electrophone waves, for they've gone back to their old, but extremely accurate, system of directional control.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000002_000000.wav|Incredible Treason|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000010_000001.wav|The Wyomings had a high morale, and had prospered under the rule of Big Boss Hart for many years.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000024_000004.wav|I'm going to need your help in this.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000023_000002.wav|The first move is to develop sectional organization by Zones.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000011_000000.wav|This entire modern life, it appeared to me, judging from my ancient viewpoint, was organized along what I called "political" lines.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000020_000001.wav|The Sand snipers, practically invisible in their sand colored clothing, and half buried along the beaches, lay in wait for days, risking the play of dis beams along the route, and finally registering four hits within a week.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000008.wav|Our reports indicate that the Eries' rockets bounced off harmlessly.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000022_000004.wav|They're putting armor of great thickness in the hulls of their ships below the rep ray machines.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000018_000003.wav|The results were disastrous to our hereditary enemies.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000009_000001.wav|On our return, we had a camp of our own, of course.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/115968/3483_115968_000024_000001.wav|The Hans are sure to launch reprisal expeditions. If we're to save the race we must keep them away from our camps and plants.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000017_000001.wav|This creature, his most prized possession, San Lan with the utmost moral callousness ordered to seduce me, urging her to apply without stint and to its fullest extent, her knowledge of evil arts.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000007_000002.wav|And this, I was the more ready to believe after my own recent experience.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000019_000003.wav|But had he done so, I truly believe he would have been ready to inflict degradation, torture and even death upon her, to make me surrender the information he wanted.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000024_000001.wav|Did not the historians, the philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome show themselves to be the same shrewd observers as those of succeeding centuries, the same masters of the logical and slaves of the illogical?|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000019_000002.wav|Naturally San Lan could not understand the nature of my pity for this poor child, nor the fact that it might have proved a weak spot in my armor.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000004_000003.wav|Into this I was hustled and locked, whereupon the cage rose swiftly again to a hole in the bottom of the hull, into which it fitted snugly, and I stepped into the interior of a craft not unlike the one with which I had had my fateful encounter, the cage being unlocked.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000013_000000.wav|And at the period of which I speak, I was less attuned than now to the modern world.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000012_000000.wav|I have since thought that I was greatly aided by my newness to this age. I have never, as a matter of fact, become entirely attuned to it.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000022_000004.wav|So it was received with much respect.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000021_000003.wav|They had succeeded in producing, by synthesis, what appeared to be living tissues, and even animals of moderately complex structure and rudimentary brains, but they could not give these creatures the full complement of life's characteristics, nor raise the brains to more than mechanical control of muscular tissues.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000024_000000.wav|Yet, did not even brilliant scientists frequently exhibit the same lack of logic back in the Twentieth Century?|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000010_000002.wav|Perhaps had my love for her been less great, I would have succumbed.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000008_000003.wav|Most elaborately staged attempts at seduction were made upon me with drugs, with women. Hypnotism was resorted to.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000009_000000.wav|Surrender of what?|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000025_000001.wav|For the rest he is born today, as in ancient Greece, with a blank brain, and struggles through to his grave, with a more or less beclouded understanding, and with distinct limitations to what we used to call his "think tank."|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000016_000000.wav|Among these was San Lan himself, the ruler.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000011_000004.wav|But even in the Twentieth Century we had learned that hypnotism cannot make a person violate his fundamental concepts of morality against his will, and steadfastly I steeled my will against them.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000003_000000.wav|Hypnotic Torture|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000014_000000.wav|And so they failed.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000019_000001.wav|But he did not realize this, and could not; for even the most natural and fundamental affection of the human race, that of parents for their offspring, had been so degraded and suppressed in this vicious Han civilization as to be unrecognizable.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000004_000000.wav|Some twenty minutes later the ship arrived.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000023_000002.wav|But the prestige I had gained among them, and the novelty of my expressed opinion carried much weight with them.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000008_000000.wav|I spent two months as a prisoner in Lo Tan.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000011_000002.wav|Had they done so, it might have made a difference.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000004_000001.wav|It settled down slowly into the ravine on its repeller rays until it was but a few feet above the tree tops.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000013_000001.wav|Real as my life was, and my love for my wife, there was much about it all that was like a dream, and in the midst of my tortures by the Hans, this complex-this habit of many months-helped me to tell myself that this, too, was all a dream, that I must not succumb, for I would wake up in a moment.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000018_000000.wav|Had San Lan only known it, he might have had a better chance of breaking down my resistance through another bit of femininity in his household, the little nine year old Princess Lu Yan, his daughter.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000022_000003.wav|But the idea was as new to him and the scientists of his court as Darwinism was to the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000022_000002.wav|I had expected him to snort his disgust, as the extreme school of evolutionists would have done in the Twentieth Century.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000026_000002.wav|Yet through these same centuries they had been busily engaged in the extermination of "weaklings," whom, by their very persecutions, they had turned into "super men," now rising in mighty wrath to destroy them; and in reducing themselves to the depths of softening vice and flabby moral fiber.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000022_000000.wav|It was my own opinion that they never could succeed in doing so.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000011_000000.wav|But these were things that not even the most skilled of the Han hypnotists and psychoanalysts could drag from me.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000010_000003.wav|But all the while I knew subconsciously that this was not Wilma.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000016_000002.wav|Instead of having me executed, he continued to shower luxuries and attentions on me, and frequently commanded my attendance upon him.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000021_000001.wav|Its conception embraced nothing but electrons, protons and molecules, and still was struggling desperately for some shred of evidence that thoughts, will power and consciousness of self were nothing but chemical reactions.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000022_000005.wav|Painfully and with enforced mental readjustments, they began a philosophical search for excuses and justifications for the idea.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000004_000002.wav|There it was stopped, and floated steadily, while a little cage was let down on a wire.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000020_000001.wav|There were times when he seemed to sense vaguely, gropingly, wonderingly, that he might have a soul.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000006_000000.wav|The ship rose to a great height, and headed westward at such speed that the hum of the air past its smooth plates rose to a shrill, almost inaudible moan.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000012_000002.wav|Now that my Wilma has been at rest these many years, I wish that I might go back to the year nineteen twenty seven, and take up my old life where I left it off, in the abandoned mine near Scranton.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000026_000000.wav|This particular reflection of mine proved unpopular with them, for it stabbed their vanity, and neither my prestige nor the novelty of the idea was sufficient salve.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000022_000001.wav|This opinion impressed San Lan greatly.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000010_000004.wav|Product of the utmost of nobility in this modern virile, rugged American race, she would have died under even worse torture than these vicious Han scientists knew how to inflict, before she would have pleaded with me this way to betray my race and her honor.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/119637/3483_119637_000025_000000.wav|After all, I reflected, man makes little progress within himself. Through succeeding generations he piles up those resources which he possesses outside of himself, the tools of his hands, and the warehouses of knowledge for his brain, whether they be parchment manuscripts, printed book, or electronorecordographs.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000007_000000.wav|I am not superstitious; but I have ceased to deny that things happen in this old house-things that I cannot explain; and, therefore, I must needs ease my mind, by writing down an account of them, to the best of my ability; though, should this, my diary, ever be read when I am gone, the readers will but shake their heads, and be the more convinced that I was mad.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000011_000000.wav|It was not Halloween.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000013_000002.wav|Pepper, usually as brave as a lion!|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000010_000000.wav|I must have been here some ten years before I saw sufficient to warrant any belief in the stories, current in the neighborhood, about this house.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000020_000001.wav|Onward, outward, I drove.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000020_000003.wav|Further off, the sun, a splash of white flame, burned vividly against the dark.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000004.wav|What was going to become of me?|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000011_000004.wav|I was sitting reading, as is often my custom, in my study. Pepper lay, sleeping, near my chair.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000002.wav|All this time I had experienced little, save a sense of lightness and cold discomfort.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000011_000001.wav|If I were telling a story for amusement's sake, I should probably place it on that night of nights; but this is a true record of my own experiences, and I would not put pen to paper to amuse anyone.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000028_000000.wav|Gradually, I found that I was being borne forward, floating across the flat waste.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000028_000001.wav|For what seemed an eternity, I moved onward.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000010_000002.wav|Then, as the years passed, bringing age upon me, I became often aware of something unseen, yet unmistakably present, in the empty rooms and corridors.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000010_000001.wav|It is true that I had, on at least a dozen occasions, seen, vaguely, things that puzzled me, and, perhaps, had felt more than I had seen.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000021_000001.wav|Then, for the last time, I saw the earth-an enduring globule of radiant blue, swimming in an eternity of ether.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000001.wav|I had passed beyond the fixed stars and plunged into the huge blackness that waits beyond.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000024_000001.wav|Slowly, I emerged from these, and there, below me, I saw the stupendous plain that I had seen from my room in this house that stands upon the borders of the Silences.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000027_000001.wav|Everywhere I looked, I saw nothing but the same flat weariness of interminable plain.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000004_000002.wav|We keep no servants-I hate them.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000023_000000.wav|Slowly, the distant redness became plainer and larger; until, as I drew nearer, it spread out into a great, somber glare-dull and tremendous. Still, I fled onward, and, presently, I had come so close, that it seemed to stretch beneath me, like a great ocean of somber red.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000030_000000.wav|Gradually, I began to weary with the sameness of the thing.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000009_000002.wav|True or not, I neither know nor care, save as it may have helped to cheapen it, ere I came.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000005_000000.wav|I have decided to start a kind of diary; it may enable me to record some of the thoughts and feelings that I cannot express to anyone; but, beyond this, I am anxious to make some record of the strange things that I have heard and seen, during many years of loneliness, in this weird old building.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000014_000002.wav|Now, however, I saw that it was not so; for the candles burned with a steady flame, and showed no signs of going out, as would have been the case had the change been due to fumes in the atmosphere.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000000.wav|A great while seemed to pass over me, and now I could nowhere see anything.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000014_000001.wav|I had been considerably startled when the lights burnt first green and then red; but had been momentarily under the impression that the change was due to some influx of noxious gas into the room.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000018_000000.wav|Gradually, as I became more accustomed to the idea, I realized that I was looking out on to a vast plain, lit with the same gloomy twilight that pervaded the room.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000018_000003.wav|It seemed to broaden and spread out, so that the eye failed to perceive any limitations.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000013_000000.wav|Down on the floor, I heard a faint, frightened whimper, and something pressed itself in between my two feet.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000024_000000.wav|In a further space, I found that I was descending upon it; and, soon, I sank into a great sea of sullen, red hued clouds.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000025_000000.wav|Presently, I landed, and stood, surrounded by a great waste of loneliness.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000021_000002.wav|And there I, a fragile flake of soul dust, flickered silently across the void, from the distant blue, into the expanse of the unknown.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000031_000000.wav|"At first, I saw it, far ahead, like a long hillock on the surface of the Plain.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000005.wav|Where was I going?|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000008_000001.wav|Little curved towers and pinnacles, with outlines suggestive of leaping flames, predominate; while the body of the building is in the form of a circle.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000015_000004.wav|Still, I sat watching; while a sort of dreamy indifference seemed to steal over me; banishing altogether the fear that had begun to grip me.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000003_000001.wav|I live here in this ancient house, surrounded by huge, unkempt gardens.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000009_000001.wav|However, that is as may be.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000029_000000.wav|Presently, in a half conscious manner, I noticed that there was a faint mistiness, ruddy in hue, lying over its surface.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000006.wav|Even as the thoughts were formed, there grew against the impalpable blackness that wrapped me a faint tinge of blood.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000017_000000.wav|The light came from the end wall, and grew ever brighter until its intolerable glare caused my eyes acute pain, and involuntarily I closed them.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000020_000000.wav|After a time, I looked to right and left, and saw the intolerable blackness of the night, pierced by remote gleams of fire.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000030_000001.wav|Yet, it was a great time before I perceived any signs of the place, toward which I was being conveyed.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000017_000002.wav|The first thing I noticed was that the light had decreased, greatly; so that it no longer tried my eyes.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000026_000002.wav|I comprehended, at once, that it was from this extraordinary sun that the place derived its doleful light.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000006_000000.wav|For a couple of centuries, this house has had a reputation, a bad one, and, until I bought it, for more than eighty years no one had lived here; consequently, I got the old place at a ridiculously low figure.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000023_000001.wav|I could see little, save that it appeared to spread out interminably in all directions.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000015_000002.wav|For perhaps a minute, I kept my glance about the room, nervously.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000004_000000.wav|The peasantry, who inhabit the wilderness beyond, say that I am mad. That is because I will have nothing to do with them.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000019_000000.wav|Suddenly, I became conscious that I was no longer in the chair. Instead, I seemed to be hovering above it, and looking down at a dim something, huddled and silent.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000029_000001.wav|Still, when I looked more intently, I was unable to say that it was really mist; for it appeared to blend with the plain, giving it a peculiar unrealness, and conveying to the senses the idea of unsubstantiality.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000004_000003.wav|I have one friend, a dog; yes, I would sooner have old Pepper than the rest of Creation together.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000018_000001.wav|The immensity of this plain scarcely can be conceived.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000022_000003.wav|Now however the atrocious darkness seemed to creep into my soul, and I became filled with fear and despair.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000016_000001.wav|Steadily it grew, filling the room with gleams of quivering green light; then they sank quickly, and changed-even as the candle flames had done-into a deep, somber crimson that strengthened, and lit up the room with a flood of awful glory.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000027_000000.wav|From that strange source of light, I glanced down again to my surroundings.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000020_000002.wav|Once, I glanced behind, and saw the earth, a small crescent of blue light, receding away to my left.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000028_000002.wav|I was unaware of any great sense of impatience; though some curiosity and a vast wonder were with me continually.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000019_000002.wav|As I moved, an icy coldness seemed to enfold me, so that I shivered.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000017_000001.wav|It may have been a few seconds before I was able to open them.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000011_000002.wav|no|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000019_000001.wav|In a little while, a cold blast struck me, and I was outside in the night, floating, like a bubble, up through the darkness.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000003_000000.wav|I am an old man.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000018_000002.wav|In no part could I perceive its confines.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000021_000000.wav|An indefinite period passed.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000026_000001.wav|The interior of this ring was black, black as the gloom of the outer night.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000015_000001.wav|I felt distinctly frightened; but could think of nothing better to do than wait.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000027_000002.wav|Nowhere could I descry any signs of life; not even the ruins of some ancient habitation.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000012_000000.wav|Without warning, the flames of the two candles went low, and then shone with a ghastly green effulgence.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000025_000001.wav|The place was lit with a gloomy twilight that gave an impression of indescribable desolation.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000010_000003.wav|Still, it was as I have said many years before I saw any real manifestations of the so-called supernatural.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3483/174132/3483_174132_000015_000000.wav|I did not move.|3483
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000034_000000.wav|"If it is in my power to do so, it shall be done, Comrade-I have not the pleasure of your name."|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000041_000004.wav|Who is w Windsor?|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000070_000008.wav|But-"|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000082_000000.wav|"I guess I can wait," he said.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000063_000000.wav|The point was well received.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000042_000001.wav|It seemed that that was what they all wanted to know: Who was w Windsor?|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000005_000003.wav|Five brows were corrugated with wrathful lines.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000024_000000.wav|"When will he return?"|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000007_000001.wav|I am observed!" he murmured.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000008_000000.wav|The words broke the spell.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000041_000005.wav|Where is mr Wilberfloss?"|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000075_000000.wav|"I fear that there is nothing to be done, except wait.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000009_000000.wav|"Are you the acting editor of this paper?"|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000048_000000.wav|"Where's this fellow Windsor?|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000083_000005.wav|Our tissues require restoring.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000052_000002.wav|I write 'Moments of Mirth.'"|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000028_000000.wav|"So did I," chimed in the rest.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000083_000002.wav|That is the watch word.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000022_000000.wav|"Where is mr Windsor?"|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000080_000003.wav|He cannot brook interference.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000038_000001.wav|We are both at a loss to make head or tail of it."|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000060_000001.wav|You don't know.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000076_000000.wav|"Ten weeks!"|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000041_000000.wav|"It is an outrage.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1536/1417_1536_000003_000000.wav|THE HONEYED WORD|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1539/1417_1539_000068_000001.wav|The man behind is a big bug."|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1539/1417_1539_000066_000000.wav|"You're up against a big proposition."|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000008_000003.wav|Are you with me, Comrade Jackson?"|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000023_000026.wav|Small thieves, pickpockets and the like, flocked to mr Jarvis as their tribal leader and protector and he protected them.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000007_000001.wav|Furnished, too.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000038_000001.wav|"Rightly, Comrade Jarvis.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000040_000004.wav|Bat Jarvis.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000023_000023.wav|Shamrock Hall became a place of joy and order; and-more important still-the nucleus of the Groome Street Gang had been formed.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000009_000000.wav|"All right," said Mike.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000031_000001.wav|"Obliged," he added.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000040_000003.wav|Groome Street.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000028_000000.wav|"There's a basket here, if you want it," said Billy.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000012_000001.wav|Don't say I didn't warn you.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000006_000000.wav|"The place has that drawback also.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000040_000001.wav|"Any time you're in bad.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000038_000006.wav|Such a cat spells death to boredom."|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000013_000003.wav|His mouth was wide, his jaw prominent.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000025_000001.wav|"Mine, mister."|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000030_000000.wav|mr Jarvis stooped, and, still whistling softly, lifted the cat.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000017_000002.wav|His face lit up.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000045_000002.wav|Comrade Jackson, here is one for you.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000025_000000.wav|"Pipe de collar," said mr Jarvis, touching the cat's neck.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000033_000000.wav|"Shake!" he said.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000038_000000.wav|"And rightly," he said.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000042_000001.wav|"Not garrulous, perhaps, but what of that?|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000012_000002.wav|If you've got the nerve, read on."|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000007_000000.wav|"On Fourth Avenue," said Billy Windsor, "you can get quite good flats very cheap.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000037_000000.wav|p smith nodded approvingly.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000005_000000.wav|"It's beastly expensive at the Astor," said Mike.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000038_000005.wav|No diner out can afford to be without such a cat.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000036_000001.wav|"Obliged.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000023_000021.wav|Bat had accepted the offer.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000034_000000.wav|Billy did so.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000029_000001.wav|Here, kit."|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000023_000007.wav|More, he was the founder and originator of it.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000015_000000.wav|"mr Windsor?" he said to the company at large.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000023_000024.wav|The work progressed.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000007_000004.wav|I don't know if you mind that?"|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1417/1532/1417_1532_000029_000000.wav|"Nope.|1417
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000016_000000.wav|'Rap again, sir, rap again; there's a little lass in there; she went in a bit since.'|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000034_000001.wav|Yet he did not seem to mind it; his face was full of love and full of joy as he looked at the lamb.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000008_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000011_000000.wav|But there were no lights now; there was nothing to cast a halo round the dirty, weather stained tents and the dingy caravans.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000038_000000.wav|'Those are sweet words, ain't they?' said the old man.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000049_000000.wav|'All the summer time,' said the woman.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000057_000000.wav|But no answer came from the bed.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000045_000000.wav|'No; he doesn't see it,' repeated the woman; 'he thinks I ought to get up and act in the play, just as usual.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000028_000000.wav|It was a very small place; there was hardly room for him to stand.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000059_000002.wav|Rosalie sat beside her without moving, lest she should awake her, and kept gazing at her picture till she knew every line of it.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000010_000003.wav|How dismal the fair looked then!|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000010_000000.wav|Rain, rain, rain!|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000058_000000.wav|And when the little girl sat down by her side, and tried to comfort her by stroking her hand very gently, and saying, 'Mammie dear, mammie dear, don't cry!|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000020_000000.wav|This time a face appeared between the muslin curtains and peered cautiously out.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000041_000000.wav|The woman did not speak; a fit of coughing came on, and the old man stood looking at her with a very pitying expression.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000020_000001.wav|It was a very pretty little face, so pretty that the old man sighed to himself when he saw it.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000036_000001.wav|There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.'|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000050_000001.wav|poor thing!' said the old man; and then a choking sensation appeared to have seized him, for he cleared his throat vigorously many times, but seemed unable to say more.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000033_000001.wav|The lamb's fleece was torn in several places, and there were marks of blood on its back, as if it had been roughly used by some cruel beast in a recent struggle.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000033_000000.wav|It was the picture of a shepherd, with a very kind and compassionate face, who was bearing home in his bosom a lost lamb.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000021_000000.wav|Then the small head turned round, and seemed to be telling what it had seen to some one within, and asking leave to admit the visitor; for a minute afterwards the door was opened, and the owner of the pretty face stood before the old man.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000023_000000.wav|She was very poorly dressed, and she shivered as the damp, cold air rushed in through the open door.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000052_000000.wav|'It does look pretty there,' said the little girl; 'mammie, you can look at it nicely now.'|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000060_000000.wav|'"Rejoice with Me, for I have found My sheep which was lost.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000032_000000.wav|A flush of pleasure came into the child's face as he brought out of his pocket his promised gift.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000035_000000.wav|In the distance were some of the shepherd's friends, who were coming to meet him, and underneath the picture were these words, printed in large letters-|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000019_000000.wav|The old man laughed a hearty laugh at the children's talk, and rapped again at the caravan door.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000034_000000.wav|But the shepherd seemed to have suffered more than the lamb, for he was wounded in many places, and his blood was falling in large drops on the ground.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000057_000002.wav|But she found her mother's face buried in the pillow, on which large tears were falling.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000028_000001.wav|At the end of the caravan was a narrow bed something like a berth on board ship, and on it a woman was lying who was evidently very ill.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000036_000000.wav|'Rejoice with Me, for I have found My sheep which was lost.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000046_000000.wav|'You must be tired of moving about, ma'am,' said the old man compassionately.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000034_000002.wav|He had forgotten his sorrow in his joy that the lamb was saved.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000029_000000.wav|There was not room for much furniture in the small caravan; a tiny stove, the chimney of which went through the wooden roof, a few pans, a shelf containing cups and saucers, and two boxes which served as seats, completely filled it.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000022_000000.wav|She was a little girl about twelve years of age, very slender and delicate in appearance.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000054_000000.wav|'Good day, ma'am,' said the old man; 'I shall, maybe, never see you again; but I would like the Good Shepherd to say those words of you.'|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000024_000000.wav|'Good afternoon, my little dear,' said the old man.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000059_000003.wav|And the first thing her mother heard when she awoke from sleep was Rosalie's voice saying softly-|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000014_000002.wav|After crossing an almost impassable place, he climbed the steps leading to one of the caravans and knocked at the door.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000043_000000.wav|'Yes, very ill,' gasped the woman bitterly; 'every one can see that but Augustus!'|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000048_000000.wav|'Are you always on the move, ma'am?' asked the old man.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000053_000001.wav|He wants to find you, and take you up in His arms, and carry you home; and He won't mind the wounds it has cost Him, if you'll only let Him do it.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000047_000002.wav|'It's a weary time I have of it-a weary time.'|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000049_000001.wav|'We get into lodgings for a little time in the winter; and then we let ourselves out to some of the small town theatres; but all the rest of the year we're going from feast to feast and from fair to fair-no rest nor comfort, not a bit!'|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000015_000000.wav|It was a curious door; the upper part of it, being used as a window, was filled with glass, behind which you could see two small muslin curtains, tied up with pink ribbon.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000037_000000.wav|The little girl read the words aloud in a clear, distinct voice; and her mother gazed at the picture with tears in her eyes.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000028_000003.wav|She had the same beautiful eyes and sunny hair, though her face was thin and wasted.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000044_000000.wav|'That's my father,' said the little girl.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000057_000001.wav|Rosalie thought her mother was asleep, and crept on tiptoe to her side, fearful of waking her.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000051_000000.wav|The child had climbed on one of the boxes, and brought down a square red pincushion from the shelf which ran round the top of the caravan.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000017_000000.wav|'Don't you wish you was her?' said one of the little boys to the other.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000055_000001.wav|She looked out from between the muslin curtains until he had quite disappeared to a distant part of the field, and then she turned to her mother and said eagerly-|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000055_000000.wav|He went carefully down the steps of the caravan, and Rosalie stood at the window, watching him picking his way to the other shows, to which he was carrying the same message of peace.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000022_000001.wav|Her hair, which was of a rich auburn colour, was hanging down to her waist, and her eyes were the most beautiful the old man thought he had ever seen.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000056_000000.wav|'It's a very pretty picture, isn't it, mammie dear?'|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000031_000000.wav|'You must excuse my intruding, ma'am,' said the old man, with a polite bow; 'but I'm so fond of little folks, and I've brought this little girl of yours a picture, if she will accept it from me.'|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000051_000001.wav|From this she took two pins, and fastened the picture on the wooden wall, so that her mother could see it as she was lying in bed.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000029_000001.wav|There was only just room for the old man to stand, and the fire was so near him that he was in danger of being scorched.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000058_000001.wav|What's the matter, mammie dear?' her mother only wept the more.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000059_000001.wav|By degrees her mother grew calmer, the sobs became less frequent, and, to the little girl's joy, she fell asleep.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000028_000002.wav|She was the child's mother, the old man felt sure.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000014_000000.wav|A little old man, with a rosy, good tempered face, was making his way across the sea of mud which divided the shows from each other.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000030_000000.wav|Rosalie had seated herself on one of the boxes close to her mother's bed.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/88089/6406_88089_000014_000001.wav|He was evidently no idler in the fair; he had come into it that Sunday afternoon for a definite purpose, and he did not intend to leave it until it was accomplished.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000024_000002.wav|Look at me; is it possible you do not know me?"|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000009_000002.wav|There is no room in my house for creatures like you."|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000031_000001.wav|When that day comes, assure the Countess and Count and Amelia that my heart was full of respect and love and gratitude towards them till my last breath.' These, my dear Countess, were his last words."|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000028_000002.wav|I had grateful thoughts of all your kindness, and my only sorrow was that you and your dear parents should regard me as ungrateful enough to be guilty of stealing your ring.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000027_000002.wav|Can you ever forgive my parents and me?|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000027_000004.wav|Forgive us, dear Mary."|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000016_000008.wav|Poor, forsaken, suspected of crime, I am alone in the world, a stranger, not knowing where to lay my head. The only little corner that remained to me on the earth I am driven from, and now I shall no longer have the consolation of coming here to weep by your grave!" At these words the tears rushed forth afresh.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000028_000004.wav|May His name be praised!"|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000024_000001.wav|God has heard your fervent prayers, and I have come to help you.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000003_000000.wav|The months sped on, and now the anniversary of her father's birthday arrived.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000027_000001.wav|You have been ill rewarded for the pleasure which you gave me with the basket of flowers, but at last your innocence has been made known.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000015_000004.wav|The soft evening breeze murmured among the branches, making the rose trees planted on her father's grave tremble.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000032_000000.wav|The tears of the good Amelia flowed copiously.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000016_000005.wav|When the moon shone into the prison which confined me you were then alive; when I was driven from the home which I loved so much you were left me.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000020_000000.wav|A STRANGE MEETING.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000027_000003.wav|We are ready to make amends as far as it lies in our power.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000012_000000.wav|Mary made no further attempt to defend herself against the unjust accusation.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000004_000001.wav|It had always been a pleasure to Mary to give her flowers for this purpose, and she now determined to decorate her father's tomb in the same manner.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000012_000002.wav|When she had put the little bundle under her arm, thanked the servants of Pine Farm for their kindness to her and protested once more her innocence, she asked permission to take leave of her friends, the old farmer and his wife.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000017_000000.wav|"Alas," said she, "I dare not at this hour beg a lodging for the night. Indeed, if I tell why I was turned out of doors, no one perhaps will consent to receive me."|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000011_000000.wav|"Not even one hour," cried his wife passionately; and her husband, seeing that advice would only irritate her more, remained silent.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000010_000002.wav|Let her but remain this one night."|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000014_000001.wav|However, they consoled her as well as they could, and gave her a little money to assist her on her journey.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000007_000000.wav|The next day the labourers at the farm were busy taking in the hay from a large meadow just beyond the forest.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000004_000002.wav|Taking from a cupboard the beautiful basket which had been the first cause of all her unhappiness, she filled it with choice flowers of all colours, artistically interspersed with fresh green leaves, and carried it to Erlenbrunn before the hour of divine service, and laid it on her father's tomb, watering it at the same time with tears that could not be repressed.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000003_000002.wav|Previously she had had the pleasure and excitement of preparing something which she knew would please her father, but now, alas, this delightful occupation was rendered useless!|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000007_000001.wav|The farmer's wife had a large piece of fine linen spread out on the grass a few steps from the house, and in the evening this was found to have disappeared.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000003_000001.wav|Until then it had always been to Mary a day of great joy, but this time, when the day dawned, she was bathed in tears.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000010_000001.wav|Let her sup with us, as she has worked all day in the great heat.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000004_000000.wav|The country people round about their home used to beg flowers from her for the purpose of decorating the graves of their friends.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000030_000001.wav|He prayed for you daily, as he was accustomed to do when he lived at Eichbourg, and at the hour of his death he blessed you all.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000022_000000.wav|The late hour of night and the solitude of the graveyard and her loneliness made Mary start with fear.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000005_000001.wav|Let me at least ornament your grave with them."|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000025_000000.wav|The moon was shining brightly upon her face, and with an exclamation of surprise, Mary cried out, "Is it you, the Countess Amelia?|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000027_000000.wav|"Dear Mary," said she, "we have done you great injustice.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000018_000002.wav|As the inscription had been effaced by time, it was left there to be used as a seat.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000030_000000.wav|"Believe me, good Countess," said Mary, "my father was far from feeling the least resentment towards you.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000026_000000.wav|The Countess raised Mary gently from the ground, pressed her to her heart, and kissed her tenderly.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000022_000001.wav|Looking up she saw the beautiful face and figure of a woman, dressed in a long flowing robe.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000015_000000.wav|It was towards the close of the day when Mary set out with her little bundle under her arm, and began to climb up the mountain, following the narrow road to the woods.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000016_000000.wav|"Oh, my father," cried Mary, "would that you were still here, that I might pour my trouble into your ears!|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000006_000001.wav|She had no fear that any one would dare to steal either the basket or the flowers.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000016_000002.wav|You are now happy, and beyond the reach of grief.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000028_000003.wav|My great desire was that you might one day be convinced of my innocence, and God has granted this desire.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000010_000000.wav|"It is too late," said her husband, "to send Mary away now.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000015_000002.wav|When she came out of the forest the village clock struck seven, and before she arrived at the graveyard it was nearly dark; but she was not afraid, and went up to her father's grave, where she sat down and gave way to a burst of grief.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000032_000001.wav|"Come, Mary," said she, "and sit down here with me on the stone.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000014_000002.wav|"Go, good girl," said they to her, "and may God take care of you."|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000008_000000.wav|When Mary was returning from her work in the evening with a rake on her shoulder and a pitcher in her hand, along with the other servants, this passionate woman came out of the kitchen and met her with a torrent of abuse, and ordered her to give up the linen immediately.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000018_000000.wav|She looked around.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000006_000000.wav|Mary left the basket on the grave, and went back to the misery of Pine Farm.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000015_000003.wav|The full moon was shining through the trees, illumining with a silver light the roses on the grave and the basket of flowers.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000018_000001.wav|Against the wall, near her father's tomb, was a gravestone, very old and covered with moss.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000009_000001.wav|Begone as soon as possible.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000018_000004.wav|It is perhaps the last time I shall ever be here.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000021_000000.wav|Mary sat down on the stone near the wall shaded by the thick foliage of a tree which covered her with its dark branches.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000016_000006.wav|I had in you a good father and protector and faithful friend.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000028_000001.wav|"Considering the circumstances," she said, "you showed great indulgence towards me, and it never entered my mind to nourish the least resentment towards you.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000021_000001.wav|Here she poured out her soul in fervent prayer to God.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000006_000002.wav|Many of the country people who saw her offering were moved to tears, and, blessing the old gardener's pious daughter, they prayed for her prosperity.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000021_000002.wav|Suddenly she heard a sweet voice calling her familiarly by her name, "Mary, Mary!"|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000009_000000.wav|"Thief," she cried coarsely, "do you think I am ignorant of the theft of the ring, and what difficulty you had to escape the executioner's sword?|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000013_000001.wav|It is evident death does not mean to rid me of them for some time."|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000029_000001.wav|Oh, if we had only taken more precaution, if we had placed more confidence in an old servant who had always shown unimpeachable honesty and faithfulness, perhaps thou hadst still been living with us!"|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000008_000002.wav|This conjecture turned out to be the true one, but the farmer's wife was not to be turned from her conviction.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000015_000001.wav|She wished before leaving the neighbourhood to visit her father's grave once more.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6406/89940/6406_89940_000028_000000.wav|Mary was distressed at these words, and begged the Countess not to talk of forgiveness.|6406
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000044_000000.wav|"But where were you going, when you met us?" Tip asked the Woggle Bug.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000050_000000.wav|"That is true," acknowledged the Pumpkinhead.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000012_000000.wav|"Could seeds be considered in the light of brains?" enquired the Pumpkinhead, abruptly.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000030_000001.wav|My action, being unexpected, must have startled them, for one of the little girls perched upon the window sill gave a scream and fell backward out the window, drawing her companion with her as she disappeared.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000056_000002.wav|And there is no wood around to make him a new limb from.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000018_000001.wav|The|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000008_000001.wav|"Education is a thing to be proud of.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000058_000000.wav|"How very unfortunate!" cried the Woggle Bug.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000045_000000.wav|"Nowhere in particular," was the reply, "although it is my intention soon to visit the Emerald City and arrange to give a course of lectures to select audiences on the 'Advantages of Magnification.'"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000069_000000.wav|"I have," returned Nick, well pleased.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000039_000000.wav|"I didn't know before," said Tip, looking at the|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000054_000000.wav|"Yes; my brains are working well today," admitted the Scarecrow, an accent of pride in his voice.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000041_000001.wav|"But in the course of my wanderings I had the good fortune to save the ninth life of a tailor-tailors having, like cats, nine lives, as you probably know.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000021_000000.wav|"'My dear children,' said he, 'I have captured a Woggle Bug-a very rare and interesting specimen.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000010_000000.wav|"Nevertheless," interrupted the Tin Woodman, "a good heart is, I believe, much more desirable than education or brains."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000053_000000.wav|"What rare philosophy!" exclaimed the Woggle Bug, admiringly.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000031_000000.wav|"The Professor uttered a cry of horror and rushed away through the door to see if the poor children were injured by the fall.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000064_000001.wav|"How dare you call me flimsy?"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000048_000000.wav|The Woggle Bug bowed with profound grace.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000066_000001.wav|"Even your head won't stay straight, and you never can tell whether you are looking backwards or forwards!"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000055_000000.wav|"Then, if you are sufficiently rested and refreshed, let us bend our steps toward the Emerald City," suggested the magnified one.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000063_000000.wav|"I cannot forget it," retorted the Saw Horse, "for it is quite as flimsy as the rest of your person."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000014_000000.wav|"Very well, dear father," answered the obedient Jack.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000034_000000.wav|"Wonderful!" exclaimed the Pumpkinhead, admiringly.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000052_000000.wav|"Not more so than yourself," answered the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000060_000001.wav|Get to work, my dear Nick, and fit the Pumpkinhead's leg to the Saw Horse."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000002_000001.wav|"Knowing no better, I used my arms as well as my legs for walking, and crawled under the edges of stones or hid among the roots of grasses with no thought beyond finding a few insects smaller than myself to feed upon.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000042_000000.wav|"He must have been a good tailor," said the Scarecrow, somewhat enviously.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000041_000000.wav|"Nor do they, in their natural state," returned the stranger.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000032_000001.wav|I was proud of my great size, and realized that now I could safely travel anywhere in the world, while my superior culture would make me a fit associate for the most learned person I might chance to meet.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000061_000000.wav|Jack was not especially pleased with this idea; but he submitted to having his left leg amputated by the Tin Woodman and whittled down to fit the left leg of the Saw Horse.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000007_000002.wav|That is why I place 't e' Thoroughly Educated upon my cards; for my greatest pride lies in the fact that the world cannot produce another Woggle Bug with a tenth part of my own culture and erudition."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000025_000000.wav|"The students stood up on their stools and craned their heads forward to get a better view of me, and two little girls jumped upon the sill of an open window where they could see more plainly.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000046_000000.wav|"We are bound for the Emerald City now," said the Tin Woodman; "so, if it pleases you to do so, you are welcome to travel in our company."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000068_000001.wav|"You must have an excellent heart, my metallic friend."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000065_000000.wav|"Because you are built as absurdly as a jumping|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000013_000000.wav|"Keep quiet!" commanded Tip, sternly.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000060_000000.wav|"Now, that is what I call real cleverness," said the Scarecrow, approvingly. "I wonder my brains did not think of that long ago!|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000022_000000.wav|"'No!' yelled the scholars, in chorus.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000059_000001.wav|I judge that both are made of wood."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000061_000001.wav|Nor was the Saw Horse especially pleased with the operation, either; for he growled a good deal about being "butchered," as he called it, and afterward declared that the new leg was a disgrace to a respectable Saw Horse.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000016_000000.wav|"I must have lived fully three years in that secluded school house hearth," said he, "drinking thirstily of the ever flowing fount of limpid knowledge before me."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000064_000000.wav|"Flimsy! me flimsy!" cried Jack, in a rage.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000002_000000.wav|"It is but honest that I should acknowledge at the beginning of my recital that I was born an ordinary Woggle Bug," began the creature, in a frank and friendly tone.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000018_000000.wav|"But one, day" continued the Bug, "a marvelous circumstance occurred that altered my very existence and brought me to my present pinnacle of greatness.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000011_000000.wav|"To me," said the Saw Horse, "a good leg is more desirable than either."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000003_000000.wav|"The chill nights rendered me stiff and motionless, for I wore no clothing, but each morning the warm rays of the sun gave me new life and restored me to activity.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000032_000000.wav|"It immediately occurred to me that this was a good opportunity to escape.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000008_000002.wav|I'm educated myself.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000067_000000.wav|"Friends, I entreat you not to quarrel!" pleaded the Tin Woodman, anxiously." As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each others' faults."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000031_000001.wav|The scholars followed after him in a wild mob, and I was left alone in the school room, still in a Highly Magnified state and free to do as I pleased.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000041_000002.wav|The fellow was exceedingly grateful, for had he lost that ninth life it would have been the end of him; so he begged permission to furnish me with the stylish costume I now wear.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000062_000001.wav|"Remember, if you please, that it is my leg you are abusing."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000052_000001.wav|"Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000007_000001.wav|Not one of them was more attentive than the humble, unnoticed Woggle Bug, and I acquired in this way a fund of knowledge that I will myself confess is simply marvelous.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000017_000000.wav|"Quite poetical," commented the Scarecrow, nodding his head approvingly.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000004_000000.wav|"But Destiny had singled me out, humble though I was, for a grander fate! One day I crawled near|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000059_000000.wav|"If the Pumpkinhead is to ride, why not use one of his legs to make a leg for the horse that carries him?|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000015_000000.wav|The Woggle Bug listened patiently-even respectfully-to these remarks, and then resumed his story.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000043_000000.wav|"He was a good hearted tailor, at any rate," observed Nick Chopper.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000006_000000.wav|"No one noticed so small a creature as a Woggle Bug, and when I found that the hearth was even warmer and more comfortable than the sunshine, I resolved to establish my future home beside it.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000069_000001.wav|"My heart is quite the best part of me.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000068_000000.wav|"An excellent suggestion," said the Woggle Bug, approvingly.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000008_000000.wav|"I do not blame you," said the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000035_000001.wav|"I|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000056_000000.wav|"We can't," said Tip.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125945/335_125945_000062_000000.wav|"I beg you to be more careful in your speech," said the Pumpkinhead, sharply.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000080_000001.wav|While this was being done Tip mended the wooden limbs of Jack Pumpkinhead and made them stronger than before, and the Saw Horse was also inspected to see if he was in good working order.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000023_000001.wav|"If his wit bears the same polish, how sparkling it must be!|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000003_000001.wav|These the boy ate greedily, finding them an ample breakfast, and afterward the little party resumed its Journey.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000007_000000.wav|Is the Tin Woodman the Emperor of the Winkies?" asked the horse.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000066_000000.wav|"I was sure you would help me," remarked the Scarecrow in a pleased voice. "How large an army can you assemble?"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000051_000001.wav|You will observe this engraved star upon my left breast.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000073_000000.wav|"I did it with a magic powder," modestly asserted the boy.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000077_000000.wav|"Well, I cannot claim any great experience in life," the Saw Horse answered for himself.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000049_000001.wav|He rattled and clanked a little, as he moved, but in the main he seemed to be most cleverly constructed, and his appearance was only marred by the thick coating of polishing paste that covered him from head to foot.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000041_000000.wav|The Scarecrow, with great politeness, introduced Tip and Jack Pumpkinhead, and the latter personage seemed to interest the Tin Woodman greatly.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000071_000000.wav|The Tin Woodman looked around him in a puzzled way, for the Saw Horse had until now remained quietly standing in a corner, where the Emperor had not noticed him.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000011_000001.wav|He is a proud man, as he has every reason to be, and it pleases him to be termed Emperor rather than King."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000057_000000.wav|"I cannot, say" was the reply.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000047_000000.wav|"Nonsense!" said the Emperor-but in a kindly, sympathetic tone.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000012_000000.wav|"I'm sure it makes no difference to me," replied the boy.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000079_000003.wav|The Scarecrow now presented a very respectable appearance, and although in no way addicted to vanity he|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000076_000002.wav|Does he know anything?"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000021_000001.wav|"My friend was ever inclined to be a dandy, and I suppose he is now more proud than ever of his personal appearance."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000078_000000.wav|"Perhaps you do," said the emperor; "for experience does not always mean wisdom.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000022_000000.wav|"He is, indeed," said the man, with a polite bow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000045_000000.wav|"I hope you are enjoying good health?" continued the Woodman.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000079_000002.wav|His clothes were also cleaned and pressed by the Imperial tailors, and his crown polished and again sewed upon his head, for the Tin Woodman insisted he should not renounce this badge of royalty.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000020_000000.wav|"Oh, no; nothing serious," returned the man.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000072_000001.wav|How came this creature alive?"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000031_000000.wav|"My dear old friend!|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000014_000001.wav|Said the Scarecrow to his personage:|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000015_000000.wav|"Show us at once to your master, the Emperor."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000051_000000.wav|"That nickel plate was, I confess, a happy thought," said Nick; "and it was the more necessary because I had become somewhat scratched during my adventurous experiences.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000079_000001.wav|Meanwhile the Scarecrow was taken apart and the painted sack that served him for a head was carefully laundered and restuffed with the brains originally given him by the great Wizard.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000020_000001.wav|"But this is his Majesty's day for being polished; and just now his august presence is thickly smeared with putz pomade."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000010_000000.wav|"I thought that 'Emperor' was the title of a person who rules an empire," said Tip, "and the Country of the Winkies is only a Kingdom."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000027_000001.wav|Upon a handsome center table stood a large silver oil can, richly engraved with scenes from the past adventures of the Tin Woodman, Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow: the lines of the engraving being traced upon the silver in yellow gold.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000050_000000.wav|The boy's intent gaze caused the Tin Woodman to remember that he was not in the most presentable condition, so he begged his friends to excuse him while he retired to his private apartment and allowed his servants to polish him. This was accomplished in a short time, and when the emperor returned his nickel plated body shone so magnificently that the Scarecrow heartily congratulated him on his improved appearance.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000023_000000.wav|"Good Gracious!" the Scarecrow exclaimed at hearing this.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000037_000000.wav|"Dear me!" said the Scarecrow dolefully.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000040_000001.wav|"But tell me, how came your Majesty here?|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000019_000000.wav|"How is that?" enquired the Scarecrow, anxiously." I hope nothing has happened to him."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000078_000001.wav|But time is precious Just now, so let us quickly make preparations to start upon our Journey.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000027_000000.wav|The travelers were at first somewhat awed by their surroundings, and even the Scarecrow seemed impressed as he examined the rich hangings of silver cloth caught up into knots and fastened with tiny silver axes.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000055_000000.wav|Then he turned to the Scarecrow and asked:|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000011_000000.wav|"Don't mention that to the Tin Woodman!" exclaimed the Scarecrow, earnestly. "You would hurt his feelings terribly.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000046_000000.wav|"At present, yes;" replied the Pumpkinhead, with a sigh; "but I am in constant terror of the day when I shall spoil."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000075_000000.wav|"He enabled us to escape the rebels," added the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000030_000000.wav|And then the door burst open and Nick Chopper rushed into their midst and caught the Scarecrow in a close and loving embrace that creased him into many folds and wrinkles.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000068_000000.wav|"We five," corrected the Pumpkinhead.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000058_000000.wav|"Great Goodness!" cried the Tin Woodman, "What a calamity!|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000069_000000.wav|"Five?" repeated the Tin Woodman.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000029_000000.wav|"Well! well!|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000060_000001.wav|What an extraordinary idea!" cried the Emperor, who was both shocked and surprised.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000013_000000.wav|The Saw Horse now ambled forward at a pace so fast that its riders had hard work to stick upon its back; so there was little further conversation until they drew up beside the palace steps.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000047_000001.wav|"Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000042_000000.wav|"You are not very substantial, I must admit," said the Emperor.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000076_000001.wav|"A live Saw Horse is a distinct novelty, and should prove an interesting study.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000008_000000.wav|"Yes, indeed.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125943/335_125943_000003_000000.wav|Tip awoke soon after dawn, but the Scarecrow had already risen and plucked, with his clumsy fingers, a double handful of ripe berries from some bushes near by.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000023_000000.wav|"Why not stuff him with money?" asked Tip.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000003_000001.wav|Some of them pecked at the eyes of the Gump, which hung over the nest in a helpless condition; but the Gump's eyes were of glass and could not be injured. Others of the Jackdaws rushed at the Saw Horse; but that animal, being still upon his back, kicked out so viciously with his wooden legs that he beat off as many assailants as did the Woodman's axe.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000067_000003.wav|So of course they are all three in the box."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000005_000000.wav|Finding themselves thus opposed, the birds fell upon the Scarecrow's straw, which lay at the center of the nest, covering Tip and the Woggle Bug and Jack's pumpkin head, and began tearing it away and flying off with it, only to let it drop, straw by straw into the great gulf beneath.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000075_000000.wav|"Well," said the Woggle Bug, "it remains for me to save us in my most Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated manner; for I seem to be the only one able and willing to make a wish.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000036_000001.wav|"But our friend the Woggle Bug claims to be highly educated, so he ought easily to figure out how that can be done."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000011_000001.wav|He also set the Saw Horse upright, and said to it:|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000039_000001.wav|"You're making my head ache."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000072_000001.wav|We've wasted one wish already."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000068_000000.wav|"That may be; but the pill gave me a dreadful pain, just the same," said the boy.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000030_000000.wav|"You are now" said the Woggle Bug, impressively, when the task had been completed, "the most valuable member of our party; and as you|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000024_000000.wav|"Money!" they all cried, in an amazed chorus.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000048_000000.wav|"I don't," returned the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000039_000000.wav|"Stop! stop!" cried the Pumpkinhead.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000048_000002.wav|But let us make a wish at once.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000052_000000.wav|"Yes; but my mouth is painted on, and there's no swallow connected with it,' answered the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000057_000000.wav|"One half, one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven,!" counted Tip.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000053_000000.wav|Observing the truth of this remark, Tip said:|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000017_000002.wav|The|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000040_000001.wav|"Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000040_000002.wav|I am certain that if the thing can be accomplished at all, it is in a very simple manner."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000066_000000.wav|"Why, the three pills are in the box again!" said the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000057_000001.wav|thirteen, fifteen, seventeen.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000016_000000.wav|"I am completely ruined!" declared the Scarecrow, as he noted their astonishment.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000009_000000.wav|"We are, indeed!" responded the Educated Insect, fairly hugging the stiff head of the Gump in his joy.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000009_000001.wav|"and we owe it all to the flopping of the Thing, and the good axe of the Woodman!"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000073_000000.wav|"Oh, no, we haven't!" protested the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000055_000000.wav|This the Scarecrow tried to do; but his padded gloves were too clumsy to clutch so small an object, and he held the box toward the boy while Tip selected one of the pills and swallowed it.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000056_000000.wav|"Count!" cried the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000035_000000.wav|"How about these wishing pills?" enquired the Scarecrow, taking the box from his jacket pocket.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000014_000000.wav|"Not so!" exclaimed a hollow voice.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000069_000000.wav|"Impossible!" declared the Woggle|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000013_000000.wav|"I really think we have escaped very nicely," remarked the Tin Woodman, in a tone of pride.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000002_000000.wav|The Tin Woodman was usually a peaceful man, but when occasion required he could fight as fiercely as a Roman gladiator.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000033_000000.wav|"Thank you," returned the Scarecrow, gratefully.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000048_000003.wav|Who will swallow the first pill?"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000017_000000.wav|The awful question startled them all.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000062_000001.wav|Speak, I beg!" entreated the Tin Woodman, tears of sympathy running down his nickel cheeks.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000042_000000.wav|"Why not start counting at a half of one?" asked the Saw Horse, abruptly. "Then anyone can count up to seventeen by twos very easily."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000041_000000.wav|"Yes," said Tip.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000074_000000.wav|"Now you're making my head ache," said Tip.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000021_000001.wav|"The Scarecrow's clothing is still safe."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000067_000000.wav|"Of course they are," the Woggle Bug declared.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000071_000002.wav|And as your wish, being granted, proves you did not swallow the pill, it is also plain that you suffered no pain."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000043_000000.wav|They looked at each other in surprise, for the Saw Horse was considered the most stupid of the entire party.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000025_000000.wav|"To be sure," said the boy.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000058_000000.wav|"Now wish!" said the Tin Woodman anxiously:|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000062_000000.wav|"What can we do for you.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000007_000000.wav|When the last foe had disappeared, Tip crawled from under the sofas and assisted the Woggle Bug to follow him.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000029_000001.wav|The Scarecrow's left leg and boot were stuffed with five dollar bills; his right leg was stuffed with ten dollar bills, and his body so closely filled with fifties, one hundreds and one thousands that he could scarcely button his jacket with comfort.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000015_000000.wav|At this they all turned in surprise to look at the Scarecrow's head, which lay at the back of the nest.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000040_000000.wav|"And mine," added the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000052_000001.wav|"In fact," he continued, looking from one to another critically, "I believe the boy and the Woggle Bug are the only ones in our party that are able to swallow."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000054_000001.wav|Give me one of the Silver Pills."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000061_000003.wav|Murder! Fire!|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000008_000000.wav|"We are saved!" shouted the boy, delightedly.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000050_000000.wav|"I can't," said the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000022_000000.wav|"Yes," answered the Tin Woodman; "but our friend's clothes are useless without stuffing."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000049_000000.wav|"Suppose you do it," suggested Tip.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000074_000001.wav|"I can't understand the thing at all.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000028_000000.wav|There was an immense fortune lying in that inaccessible nest; and Tip's suggestion was, with the Scarecrow's consent, quickly acted upon.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000065_000000.wav|"What's happened?" asked the boy, a little ashamed of his recent exhibition.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000036_000000.wav|"Not unless we can count seventeen by twos," answered the Tin Woodman.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000048_000001.wav|"You're no wiser than the rest of us, are you?|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000034_000000.wav|"Well, the emergency is here," observed Tip; "and unless your brains help us out of it we shall be compelled to pass the remainder of our lives in this nest."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000059_000000.wav|But Just then the boy began to suffer such fearful pains that he became alarmed.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000074_000002.wav|But I won't take another pill, I promise you!" and with this remark he retired sulkily to the back of the nest.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125951/335_125951_000054_000000.wav|"Then I will undertake to make the first wish.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000011_000000.wav|"No, I arrived safely," answered Jack, "and his Majesty has been very kind indeed to me.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000021_000000.wav|"Where can you go?" asked Jack Pumpkinhead.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000075_000002.wav|"My straw is all shaking down into my legs."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000005_000001.wav|The City is conquered!" gasped the Royal Army, who was all out of breath.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000043_000001.wav|"Bring the horse here at once."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000055_000000.wav|"Fetch a clothesline," said the King to his Army, "and tie us all together. Then if one falls off we will all fall off."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000050_000002.wav|For, from the ease with which he was conquered, I have little confidence in his powers."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000035_000001.wav|Don't worry," answered the Scarecrow soothingly; "if you'll keep quiet long enough for me to think, I'll try to find some way for us all to escape."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000040_000000.wav|"It was the only place I could think of your Majesty," added the Soldier, fearing he had made a blunder.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000004_000000.wav|"Tally one for me," said the Scarecrow, calmly "What's wrong, my man?" he added, addressing the Soldier.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000052_000000.wav|"I expected this blow" said the Soldier, sulkily; "but I can bear it.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000053_000000.wav|"Perhaps you are right," observed his Majesty.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000033_000000.wav|"Ah! then you would not be fit to associate with," returned the Scarecrow. "The matter is more serious than I suspected."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000034_000000.wav|"You," said the Pumpkinhead, gloomily, "are liable to live for many years. My life is necessarily short.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000063_000001.wav|Run as fast as you can for the gate of the City, and don't let anything stop you."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000009_000000.wav|"Good afternoon, noble parent!" he cried, delightedly.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000059_000000.wav|"Not exactly," replied the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000068_000002.wav|Tip got one small prick in his left arm, which smarted for an hour afterward; but the needles had no effect upon the Scarecrow or Jack Pumpkinhead, who never even suspected they were being prodded.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000058_000000.wav|"I have to be as careful as you do," said Jack.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000009_000001.wav|"I'm glad to see you are here.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000049_000000.wav|"He can't carry four!" objected Tip.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000069_000000.wav|As for the Saw Horse, he made a wonderful record upsetting a fruit cart, overturning several meek looking men, and finally bowling over the new Guardian of the Gate-a fussy little fat woman appointed by General Jinjur.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000038_000000.wav|"Where is the Saw Horse you rode here?" he asked the Pumpkinhead.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000041_000000.wav|"It pleases me very much," said the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000031_000000.wav|"Nonsense!" exclaimed the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000041_000001.wav|"Has the animal been fed?"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000035_000000.wav|"There, there!|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000009_000002.wav|That terrible Saw Horse ran away with me."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000053_000001.wav|"But, for my part, not being a soldier, I am fond of danger.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000014_000000.wav|"By the way, who has conquered me?"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000010_000001.wav|"Did you get hurt?|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000006_000000.wav|"This is quite sudden," said the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000030_000001.wav|"If any of these girls understand cooking, my end is not far off!"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000010_000000.wav|"I suspected it," said Tip.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000045_000001.wav|"He doesn't seem especially graceful!" he remarked, musingly.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000063_000000.wav|"Now," said Tip to the horse, "you must save us all.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000045_000002.wav|"but I suppose he can run?"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000043_000000.wav|"Excellent!" cried the Scarecrow.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000031_000001.wav|"they're too busy to cook, even if they know how!"|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000061_000000.wav|"Now throw open the gates," commanded the Scarecrow, "and we will make a dash to liberty or to death."|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/335/125941/335_125941_000030_000000.wav|"But we also are in danger," said the Pumpkinhead, anxiously.|335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000042_000006.wav|She asked him a great many questions, some of which bored him a little; for he took no pleasure in talking about himself.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000005_000000.wav|"He is a peer, then?"|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000007_000000.wav|"And has he any other title than Lord Lambeth?"|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000024_000000.wav|Beaumont began to laugh again.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000039_000001.wav|She is certainly very clever."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000000_000002.wav|It is not proposed to narrate minutely the incidents of their sojourn on this charming shore; though if it were convenient I might present a record of impressions nonetheless delectable that they were not exhaustively analyzed.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000042_000001.wav|He was, as I have said, a man of conscience, and he had a strong, incorruptible sense of the proprieties of life.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000036_000000.wav|"You prefer a bluestocking."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000029_000000.wav|"Damn my eyes!" exclaimed Lord Lambeth.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000001_000001.wav|How would you say it in England-his position?"|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000033_000000.wav|"What do you call my 'line'?|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000008_000002.wav|"He is the son of the Duke of Bayswater," he added presently.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000000_000004.wav|The young Englishmen were introduced to everybody, entertained by everybody, intimate with everybody.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000024_000002.wav|"Depend upon it," he said, "that girl means to try for you."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000041_000000.wav|"In point of fact," Lord Lambeth rejoined, "I find it uncommonly lively."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000031_000001.wav|"And, in the second place, why shouldn't I be fond of her?"|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000060_000004.wav|She's so devilish positive."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000035_000000.wav|"All the better.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000023_000001.wav|"Is she very plain?"|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000056_000000.wav|"Do you want to buy up their leases?" he asked.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000031_000000.wav|"In the first place, how do you know how fond I am of her?" asked Lord Lambeth.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000021_000000.wav|"And the other?"|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000006_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, he is a peer."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000018_000000.wav|"Yes, there are two."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000058_000002.wav|Bessie Alden listened with great interest and declared that she would give the world to see such a place.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000000_000008.wav|He had meditated upon mrs Westgate's account of her sister, and he discovered for himself that the young lady was clever, and appeared to have read a great deal.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000052_000000.wav|"Ah, but one doesn't make laws.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000035_000001.wav|It's an animal I detest."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000015_000000.wav|"And his mother?"|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000019_000000.wav|"And what are they called?"|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000053_000001.wav|"It must be a great privilege, and I should think that if one thought of it in the right way-from a high point of view-it would be very inspiring."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000039_000000.wav|"I don't know anything about that.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000058_000003.wav|Whereupon-"It would be awfully kind of you to come and stay there," said Lord Lambeth.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000023_000000.wav|Bessie Alden looked at him a moment.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000000_000010.wav|If she was shy, she carried it off very well.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000011_000000.wav|"And are his parents living?"|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000063_000002.wav|"What am I to do?"|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000042_000000.wav|After this, Percy Beaumont held his tongue; but on the tenth of August he wrote to the Duchess of Bayswater.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000037_000000.wav|"Is that what you call Miss Alden?"|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000034_000000.wav|"Exactly so.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000020_000001.wav|She is the Countess of Pimlico."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/122789/166_122789_000002_000000.wav|"His position?" Percy Beaumont repeated.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000002_000000.wav|How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form?|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000004_000000.wav|Oh!|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000008.wav|He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000023_000000.wav|"Dearest Clerval," exclaimed I, "how kind, how very good you are to me. This whole winter, instead of being spent in study, as you promised yourself, has been consumed in my sick room.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000010_000001.wav|Here I paused, I knew not why; but I remained some minutes with my eyes fixed on a coach that was coming towards me from the other end of the street.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000010_000000.wav|Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000005_000002.wav|Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete!|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000006_000000.wav|Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000005_000001.wav|Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000011_000003.wav|Clerval continued talking for some time about our mutual friends and his own good fortune in being permitted to come to Ingolstadt.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000000_000000.wav|Chapter five|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000015_000001.wav|I walked with a quick pace, and we soon arrived at my college.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000006_000002.wav|I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000010.wav|He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000009_000000.wav|[Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner."]|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000011_000000.wav|Nothing could equal my delight on seeing Clerval; his presence brought back to my thoughts my father, Elizabeth, and all those scenes of home so dear to my recollection.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000013_000001.wav|By the by, I mean to lecture you a little upon their account myself.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000027_000000.wav|"If this is your present temper, my friend, you will perhaps be glad to see a letter that has been lying here some days for you; it is from your cousin, I believe."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000015_000000.wav|I trembled excessively; I could not endure to think of, and far less to allude to, the occurrences of the preceding night.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000001.wav|I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000004.wav|Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000015_000008.wav|I could hardly believe that so great a good fortune could have befallen me, but when I became assured that my enemy had indeed fled, I clapped my hands for joy and ran down to Clerval.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000006.wav|I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000024_000000.wav|"You will repay me entirely if you do not discompose yourself, but get well as fast as you can; and since you appear in such good spirits, I may speak to you on one subject, may I not?"|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000015_000006.wav|I threw the door forcibly open, as children are accustomed to do when they expect a spectre to stand in waiting for them on the other side; but nothing appeared.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000019_000000.wav|Poor Clerval!|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000015_000002.wav|I then reflected, and the thought made me shiver, that the creature whom I had left in my apartment might still be there, alive and walking about.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000017_000002.wav|How ill you are!|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000012_000000.wav|"It gives me the greatest delight to see you; but tell me how you left my father, brothers, and Elizabeth."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000020_000003.wav|He knew that I could not have a more kind and attentive nurse than himself; and, firm in the hope he felt of my recovery, he did not doubt that, instead of doing harm, he performed the kindest action that he could towards them.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000011.wav|I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000005.wav|At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness. But it was in vain; I slept, indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000019_000001.wav|What must have been his feelings?|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000002_000003.wav|Great God!|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000003_000009.wav|His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000013_000002.wav|But, my dear Frankenstein," continued he, stopping short and gazing full in my face, "I did not before remark how very ill you appear; so thin and pale; you look as if you had been watching for several nights."|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000022_000000.wav|By very slow degrees, and with frequent relapses that alarmed and grieved my friend, I recovered.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000002_000001.wav|His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000017_000000.wav|"My dear Victor," cried he, "what, for God's sake, is the matter?|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000005_000000.wav|I passed the night wretchedly.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000025_000000.wav|I trembled.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000016_000001.wav|It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000007_000002.wav|My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear, and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me:|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/352/166_352_000019_000002.wav|A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so strangely turned to bitterness.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/126302/166_126302_000006_000000.wav|When the king came and saw this, he was greatly astonished and pleased; but his heart grew still more greedy of gain, and he shut up the poor miller's daughter again with a fresh task.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/126302/166_126302_000010_000000.wav|At the birth of her first little child she was very glad, and forgot the dwarf, and what she had said.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/126302/166_126302_000002_000000.wav|By the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine stream of water; and upon the stream there stood a mill.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/126302/166_126302_000005_000000.wav|And round about the wheel went merrily; the work was quickly done, and the straw was all spun into gold.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/166/126302/166_126302_000008_000000.wav|till, long before morning, all was done again.|166
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/62850/6330_62850_000009_000000.wav|Arguments must be fostered and preserved.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/62850/6330_62850_000011_000006.wav|Diplomacy is an evil game, chiefly because it has been so exclusive.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/62850/6330_62850_000006_000005.wav|We are willing to accept modifications, but the scheme would work.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000000_000000.wav|thirty two|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000014_000003.wav|That is, not among umpires.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000001_000000.wav|ART FOR ARGUMENT'S SAKE|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000005_000001.wav|Reviewers look for motives.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000010_000003.wav|How could symbolism be more perfect?|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000013_000000.wav|"You see," he went on, "there are seven or eight other newspapers in town who will see it just the other way and I've got to keep the balance straight."|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/62851/6330_62851_000012_000002.wav|Always see the scab hit the striker.'"|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000003_000000.wav|When Adam delved and Eve span, the fiction that man is incapable of housework was first established.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000011_000004.wav|"He doesn't seem to have the proper touch," she explained.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000018_000009.wav|Even before her head had bumped, he would be hard at work. With him the thrill lay in the inspiration of the competitive spirit.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000012_000004.wav|Nature herself is cavalier.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000015_000007.wav|A dish is an unresponsive thing.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000012_000001.wav|Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000016_000004.wav|It is a brand new world for the child.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000018_000001.wav|This seems to us laborious and rather tiresome, both for father and child.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000015_000008.wav|It gives back nothing.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000010_000006.wav|But to return to our quotation: "If Richard tried to take up the bundle, his fingers fell away like the legs of the brittle crab and the bundle collapsed, incalculable and helpless.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000014_000003.wav|Perhaps it has been too convenient.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000016_000007.wav|Probably he will think that they are part of your own handiwork turned out for his pleasure.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000017_000006.wav|No, there is nothing dull in feeding a child.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000014_000005.wav|Like children in a toy shop, we have chosen to live with the most amusing of talking and walking dolls, without ever attempting to tear down the sign which says, "Do not touch." In fact we have helped to set it in place. That is a pity.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000018_000005.wav|He brought his technic into the home.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000006_000004.wav|It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000002_000000.wav|Holding a Baby|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000006_000002.wav|To this declaration men gave immediate and eager assent and they have kept it up.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000003_000001.wav|It would be interesting to figure out just how many foot pounds of energy men have saved themselves, since the creation of the world, by keeping up the pretense that a special knack is required for washing dishes and for dusting, and that the knack is wholly feminine.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000003_000002.wav|The pretense of incapacity is impudent in its audacity, and yet it works.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000013_000003.wav|Nature is the great teacher."|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000010_000000.wav|At this point, interruption is inevitable.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000013_000004.wav|This simply isn't true.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000010_000003.wav|At least all will do.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000013_000007.wav|Instinct is not what it used to be.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000014_000002.wav|It has been convenient.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000012_000002.wav|As I ventured to suggest before, almost any firm grip will do.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6330/66016/6330_66016_000013_000001.wav|It is pretty generally held that all a woman needs to do to know all about children is to have some. This wisdom is attributed to instinct.|6330
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000015_000005.wav|Third, there is the question of venereal disease, which society has an unquestionable right to keep down, by every reasonable restriction upon sexual promiscuity.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000003_000000.wav|You will hear sermons and read newspaper editorials about the "divorce evil," and you will find that to the preacher or editor this "evil" consists of the fact that more and more people are refusing to stay unhappily married.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000015_000006.wav|And finally, there is the respect which all men and women owe to love.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000015_000007.wav|It seems to me that society has the same right to protect love against extreme outrage, as it has to forbid indecent exposure of the person on the street.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000020_000000.wav|We clear out foul smelling weeds from our garden, because we wish to raise beautiful flowers and useful herbs therein.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000009_000004.wav|I would not say that they should choose to be intimate friends-though even that may be possible occasionally.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000020_000001.wav|There lives in California a student of plant life, who has shown us what we can do, not by magic or by superhuman efforts, but simply by loving plants, by watching them ceaselessly, understanding their ways, and guiding their sex life to our own purposes.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000014_000000.wav|We have quoted the old maxim, "Marry in haste and repent at leisure," and we suggested that parents and guardians should have the right to ask the young to wait before marriage, and make certain of the state of their hearts.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000016_000002.wav|He gives them advice about their disagreement, and sends them away for three months to think it over.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000009_000002.wav|I cite this story because it is a perfect illustration of the extent to which the "divorce problem" is a problem of our lack of sense. mrs Wharton will, I fear, consider me a very vulgar person if I assert that there is absolutely no reason whatever why any of those four people in her story should have had a moment's discomfort of mind, except that they thought there was.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000017_000001.wav|In order to illustrate this problem, I will tell you about a certain man known to me.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000003_000003.wav|They know this because God has told them so, and in the name of God they seek to keep people tied in sex unions which have come to mean loathing instead of love.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000008_000002.wav|When we refuse divorce under such circumstances we are not fostering marriage, as we fondly imagine; we are really fostering adultery.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000013_000000.wav|(Discusses the circumstances under which society has the right to forbid divorce, or to impose limitations upon it.)|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000016_000007.wav|In both cases, the parties directly interested have the right to decide their own fate, but the rest of the world requires them to think carefully about it, and to listen to counsel.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000010_000005.wav|This lady had been the writer's wife for ten years or so, and there had been a terrible uproar when they voluntarily parted.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000006_000004.wav|I know another whose wife turned into an ultra pious Catholic, and turned over the care of his domestic life to a priest.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000009_000001.wav|Just imagine, if you can, such an excruciating situation: a woman, her husband, and two men who used to be her husbands, all compelled to meet together and think of something to say!|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000022_000001.wav|We have shown elsewhere how genius multiplies to infinity the joy and power of life by means of the arts; and one of the greatest of the arts is the art of love.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000006_000000.wav|I know another man, a conservative capitalist of narrow and aggressive temper, whose wife turned into an ardent Bolshevik.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000009_000000.wav|There is a short story by Edith Wharton, in which the "divorce evil" is exhibited to us in its naked horror; the story called "The Other Two," in the volume "The Descent of Man." A society woman has been divorced twice and married three times, and by an ingenious set of circumstances the woman and all three of the men are brought into the same drawing room at the same time.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000008_000004.wav|Therefore it follows that "strict" divorce laws, such as the clerical propaganda urges upon us, are in reality laws for the promotion of fornication and prostitution.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000012_000000.wav|THE RESTRICTION OF DIVORCE|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000017_000006.wav|In addition, he had begotten one child out of marriage, and left the mother and child to starve.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000005_000003.wav|She ought in common sense to have broken the engagement; but she was in love, and she married, as many another fool woman does, with the idea of "reforming" the man.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000007_000002.wav|Also we are coming to take what we believe with more seriousness; the intellectual life means more and more to us, and it becomes harder and harder for us to find sexual and domestic happiness with a partner who does not share our convictions, but, on the contrary, may be contributing to the campaign funds of the opposition party.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000016_000008.wav|Except for grave offenses, such as adultery, insanity, crime or venereal disease, I do not think that anyone should receive a divorce in less than six months, nor do I think that any personal right is contravened by the imposing of such a delay.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000015_000003.wav|In the first place, there are or may be children, and society should try to preserve for every child a home with a father and a mother in it.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000015_000004.wav|Second, there are property rights, of which every marriage is a tangle, and the settlement of which the law should always oversee.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000019_000001.wav|At present the great mass of the public has sympathy for the law breaker; just as, in old days, the peasants could not help admiring the outlaw who resisted unjust land laws and robbed the rich, or as today, under the capitalist regime, we can not withhold our sympathy from political prisoners, even though they have committed acts of violence which we deplore.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000018_000003.wav|If any man or woman tries three times to find happiness in love, and fails each time, we have a right to assume that the fault must lie with that person, and not with the three partners.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000002_000000.wav|(Defends divorce as a protection to monogamous love, and one of the means of preventing infidelity and prostitution.)|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000017_000007.wav|For ten years or so I used to see him about once in six months, and invariably he had a new woman, a young girl of fine character, who had been ensnared by him, and was in the agonizing process of discovering his moral and mental derangement.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000017_000008.wav|Yet there was absolutely nothing in the law to place restraint upon this man; he could wander from state to state, or to the other side of the world, preying upon lovely young girls wherever he went.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000005_000004.wav|She failed, and was utterly and unspeakably wretched.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000008_000001.wav|But it is a fact that intellectual convictions are the raw material out of which characters and lives are made, and it is inevitable that some characters and lives that fit quite well at twenty should fit very badly at thirty or forty.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000016_000000.wav|There is in successful operation in Switzerland a wise and sane divorce law, based upon common sense and not upon superstition.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000001_000000.wav|THE PROBLEM OF DIVORCE|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000016_000001.wav|A couple wish to break their marriage, and they go before a judge, and in private session, as to a friendly adviser, they tell their troubles.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000018_000000.wav|This particular man happens to call himself a "radical"; but I could tell you of similar men in the highest social circles, or in the political world, the theatrical world, the "sporting" world; they are in every rank of life, and are just as definitely and certainly menaces to human welfare and progress as pirates on the high seas or highwaymen on the road.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000010_000003.wav|The man had also two grown sons, and after a few days he remarked that he would like me to meet the mother of these young men.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000020_000002.wav|We can perform what to our ignorant ancestors would have seemed to be miracles; we can actually make all sorts of new plants, which will continue to breed their own kind, and survive forever if we give them proper care.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000018_000002.wav|But I think we might begin by refusing to let any man or woman have more than two divorces in one lifetime, in any state or part of the world.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000020_000003.wav|In other words, Luther Burbank has shown us that we can "change plant nature."|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000010_000002.wav|I visited his home, and met his wife and two little children, and saw a man and woman living in domestic happiness.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000017_000005.wav|To my knowledge he was three times married in six years, and each time he deserted the woman, and forced her to divorce him, and to take care of herself, and in one case of a child.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87791/5190_87791_000004_000003.wav|Who does not know the man who masters life and becomes a vital force, while his wife remains dull and empty?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000024_000002.wav|You do not refuse to engage in the automobile business because the carburetor and the differential are words of four syllables.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000016_000000.wav|For the present book the following claims may be made.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000019_000002.wav|He wrestles with problems and cares all day, and when he sits down to read in the evening, he says: "Make it short and snappy." There is the wife of the tired business man, the American perfect lady.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000011.wav|Shall we be punished if we think wrong, and how shall we be punished?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000016_000005.wav|A large order, as the boys phrase it!|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000002.wav|Then, being dissatisfied, he went to the unrecognized teachers, the enthusiasts and the "cranks" of a hundred schools.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000004.wav|As a result, he has not found what he claims is ultimate or final truth; but he has what he might describe as a rough working draft, a practical outline, good for everyday purposes.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000006.wav|The things they most need to know they are not taught in the schools, nor in the newspapers they read, nor in the church they attend.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000005.wav|Many such questions every day make one aware of a vast mass of people, earnest, hungry for happiness, and groping as if in a fog.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000021_000001.wav|Is there a heaven with a God, who watches you day and night, and knows every thought you think, and will some day take you to eternal bliss if you obey his laws?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000012.wav|Shall we be rewarded if we think right, and will the pay be worth the trouble?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000000.wav|There come to the writer literally thousands of letters every year, asking him questions, some of them of the strangest.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000007.wav|What does it mean, and what have we to do with it? Are we its masters or its slaves?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000002.wav|A man is unable to make his wife happy, and can I tell him what is the matter with women?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000009.wav|Why is it so hard, and do we have to stand its hardness?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000018_000001.wav|And then there is another, and in our modern world a still larger class, who say, "Oh, shucks!|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000021_000002.wav|If you really believe that, you will try to find out about his laws, and you will be comparatively little concerned about the success or failure of your business.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000020_000002.wav|Where do I come from, and what is going to become of me?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000004.wav|A man works in a sweatshop, and has only a little time for self improvement, and will I tell him what books he ought to read?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000003.wav|Finally, he thought for himself; he was even willing to try experiments upon himself.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000017_000001.wav|It might begin with the child, because we all begin that way; it might begin with love, because that precedes the child; it might begin with the care of the body, explaining that sound physical health is the basis of all right living, and even of right thinking; it might begin as most philosophies do, by defining life, discussing its origin and fundamental nature.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000008.wav|What does it owe us, and what do we owe to it?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000013_000000.wav|INTRODUCTORY|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000010.wav|And can we really know about all these matters, or will we be only guessing? Can we trust ourselves to think about them, or shall we be safer if we believe what we are told?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000018_000000.wav|The trouble with this last plan is that there are a lot of people who have their ideas on life made up in tabloid form; they have creeds and catechisms which they know by heart, and if you suggest to them anything different, they give you a startled look and get out of your way.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000020_000000.wav|Yet, I wonder; is there a single one among all these tired people, or even among the cynical people, who has not had some moment of awe when the thought came stabbing into his mind like a knife: "What a strange thing this life is!|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000007.wav|Of these agencies, the first is not entirely competent, the second is not entirely honest, and the third is not entirely up to date.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000024_000000.wav|Such questions as these I am going to try to answer in the simplest language possible.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000020_000004.wav|It is not only in the class room and the schools that the minds of men are grappling with the fundamental problems; in fact, it was not from the schools that the new religions and the great moral impulses of humanity took their origin.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000016_000003.wav|Finally, it is a kind book; it is not written for its author's glory, nor for his enrichment, but to tell you things that may be useful to you in the brief span of your life.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000005.wav|He is going to have confidence enough in you, the reader, to give you the hardest part first; that is, to begin with the great fundamental questions.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000019_000001.wav|There will be, among others, the great American tired business man.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000018_000002.wav|I don't go in for religion and that kind of thing." You offer them something that looks like a sermon, and they turn to the baseball page.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000003.wav|A man has invested his savings in mining stock, and can I tell him what to do about it?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000015_000001.wav|A man is dying of cancer, and do I think it can be cured by a fast?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000020_000001.wav|What am I anyhow?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000023_000006.wav|What is life, and how does it come to be?|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000017_000000.wav|There are several ways for such a book to begin.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5190/87766/5190_87766_000021_000000.wav|Stop and think a bit, and you will realize it does make a difference what you believe about life, how it comes to be, where it is going, and what is your place in it.|5190
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000020_000001.wav|Son of Aeson, no longer fear thou so much the hest of thy king, since a god hath granted us escape between the rocks; for Phineus, Agenor's son, said that our toils hereafter would be lightly accomplished."|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000017_000001.wav|Their spirit melted within them; and Euphemus sent forth the dove to dart forward in flight; and they all together raised their heads to look; but she flew between them, and the rocks again rushed together and crashed as they met face to face.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000013_000002.wav|And quickly they called upon Apollo, lord of prophecy, and offered sacrifice upon the health as the day was just sinking.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000004_000001.wav|So high in the air does it rise turned towards the sea.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000004_000009.wav|But what need is there that I should sin yet again declaring everything to the end by my prophetic art?|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000008_000003.wav|And quickly Aeson's son, with good will exceeding, addressed him:|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000002_000003.wav|Wherefore now obey my counsel, if indeed with prudent mind and reverencing the blessed gods ye pursue your way; and perish not foolishly by a self sought death, or rush on following the guidance of youth.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000013_000001.wav|And up rose Jason and up rose the sons of Boreas at the bidding of the aged sire.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000018_000005.wav|But as they rowed they trembled, until the tide returning drove them back within the rocks.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000002_000006.wav|But if she flies onward and perishes midway, then do ye turn back; for it is better to yield to the immortals.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000010_000001.wav|But instead of that, may the god grant me death at once, and after death I shall take my share in perfect bliss."|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000007_000001.wav|But, my friends, take thought of the artful aid of the Cyprian goddess.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000018_000008.wav|For it seemed about to leap down upon the ship's whole length and to overwhelm them.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000012_000007.wav|Here, ever since he escaped the god sent doom, never has he forgotten or neglected me; but sorely and against his will do I send him from my doors, so eager is he to remain with me in my affliction."|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000019_000004.wav|And the rocks in one spot at that moment were rooted fast for ever to each other, which thing had been destined by the blessed gods, when a man in his ship should have passed between them alive.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000000_000002.wav|And there, when they had taken their fill of food and drink, they kept awake all night waiting for the sons of Boreas.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000013_000004.wav|Thereupon having well feasted they turned themselves to rest, some near the ship's hawsers, others in groups throughout the mansion.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000002_000002.wav|For they are not firmly fixed with roots beneath, but constantly clash against one another to one point, and above a huge mass of salt water rises in a crest, boiling up, and loudly dashes upon the hard beach.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000011_000003.wav|The rest the old man pleased with words of wisdom and let them go; Paraebius only he bade remain there with the chiefs; and straightway he sent him and bade him bring back the choicest of his sheep.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000018_000004.wav|For the rocks were again parting asunder.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000018_000001.wav|Next the current whirled the ship round.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000012_000001.wav|Even as this man, loyal as he is, came hither to learn his fate.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000007_000003.wav|And further than this ask me not."|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000019_000003.wav|But Athena soared up to Olympus, when they had escaped unscathed.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000018_000006.wav|Then most awful fear seized upon all; for over their head was destruction without escape.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000015_000001.wav|And afterwards they raised an altar to the blessed twelve on the sea beach opposite and laid offerings thereon and then entered their swift ship to row, nor did they forget to bear with them a trembling dove; but Euphemus seized her and brought her all quivering with fear, and they loosed the twin hawsers from the land.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000012_000006.wav|I indeed knew of the sin when he came; and I bid him build an altar to the Thynian nymph, and offer on it an atoning sacrifice, with prayer to escape his father's fate.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000006_000002.wav|And Colchian Aea lies at the edge of Pontus and of the world."|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000001_000002.wav|I was infatuated aforetime, when in my folly I declared the will of Zeus in order and to the end.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000013_000003.wav|And the younger comrades made ready a feast to their hearts' desire.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000019_000001.wav|And the eddying current held her between the clashing rocks; and on each side they shook and thundered; and the ship's timbers were held fast. Then Athena with her left hand thrust back one mighty rock and with her right pushed the ship through; and she, like a winged arrow, sped through the air.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000011_000001.wav|To all alike, however poor he was that came, the aged man gave his oracles with good will, and freed many from their woes by his prophetic art; wherefore they visited and tended him.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000002_000007.wav|For ye could not escape an evil doom from the rocks, not even if Argo were of iron."|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000019_000006.wav|For they deemed that they were saved from Hades; and Tiphys first of all began to speak:|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000002_000004.wav|First entrust the attempt to a dove when ye have sent her forth from the ship.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000012_000003.wav|But he was paying the sad penalty of his father's sin.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106369/7909_106369_000006_000001.wav|What shall I do, how shall I go over again such a long path through the sea, unskilled as I am, with unskilled comrades?|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000013_000005.wav|And at the cruel woe they were seized with unbearable grief.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000004_000001.wav|And now I bid you propitiate him with the steam of sacrifice and libations.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000006.wav|And never does silence hold that grim headland, but there is a continual murmur from the sounding sea and the leaves that quiver in the winds from the cave.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000002_000002.wav|And even as ploughing oxen toil as they cleave the moist earth, and sweat streams in abundance from flank and neck; and from beneath the yoke their eyes roll askance, while the breath ever rushes from their mouths in hot gasps; and all day long they toil, planting their hoofs deep in the ground; like them the heroes kept dragging their oars through the sea.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000013_000004.wav|But him there on the spot a short sickness laid to rest far from his native land, when the company had paid due honours to the dead son of Abas.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000004_000002.wav|Be gracious, O king, be gracious in thy appearing."|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000014_000004.wav|But quickly tell forth all this and boldly urge them to call to mind their task."|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000017_000001.wav|And after him Erginus and Nauplius and Euphemus started up, eager to steer. But the others held them back, and many of his comrades granted it to Ancaeus.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000014_000001.wav|Not so much for my prowess in war did Jason take me with him in quest of the fleece, far from Parthenia, as for my knowledge of ships.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000022_000002.wav|No river is like this, and none sends forth from itself such mighty streams over the land.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000013_000001.wav|For then a second time the heroes heaped up a barrow for a comrade dead.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000021_000001.wav|For he longed for her love, and he promised to grant her whatever her hearts desire might be.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000001.wav|Next, on the opposite side they saw and passed the mouth of the river Sangarius and the fertile land of the Mariandyni, and the stream of Lycus and the Anthemoeisian lake; and beneath the breeze the ropes and all the tackling quivered as they sped onward.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000008_000002.wav|And so they went up all together into the city, and all that day with friendly feelings made ready a feast within the palace of Lycus and gladdened their souls with converse.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000002_000001.wav|And quickly they sighted and sailed past his shrine and the broad banks of the river and the plain, and deep flowing Calpe, and all the windless night and the day they bent to their tireless oars.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000005.wav|From here an icy breath, unceasingly issuing from the chill recess, ever forms a glistening rime which melts again beneath the midday sun|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000004.wav|And from it towards the land a hollow glen slopes gradually away, where there is a cave of Hades overarched by wood and rocks.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000002.wav|During the night the wind ceased and at dawn they gladly reached the haven of the Acherusian headland.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000014_000002.wav|Wherefore, I pray, let there be no fear for the ship.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000005_000005.wav|And none but Leto, daughter of Coeus, strokes them with her dear hands.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000019_000002.wav|And mounting on the edge of the barrow he gazed upon the ship, such as he was when he went to war; and round his head a fair helm with four peaks gleamed with its blood red crest.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000021_000002.wav|And she in her craftiness asked of him virginity.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000011_000003.wav|And with a sharp cry the hero fell to the ground; and as he was struck his comrades flocked together with answering cry.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000013_000006.wav|For when with due honours they had buried him also hard by the seer, they cast themselves down in helplessness on the sea shore silently, closely wrapped up, and took no thought for meat or drink; and their spirit drooped in grief, for all hope of return was gone.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000016_000001.wav|For those whom we once deemed to be men of skill, they even more than I are bowed with vexation of heart.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000013_000003.wav|The tale goes that Tiphys son of Hagnias died; nor was it his destiny thereafter to sail any further.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000022_000004.wav|This flows down to the plain from lofty mountains, which, men say, are called the Amazonian mountains.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000003_000001.wav|Helpless amazement seized them as they looked; and no one dared to gaze face to face into the fair eyes of the god.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000022_000007.wav|For they dwelt not gathered together in one city, but scattered over the land, parted into three tribes.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000018_000001.wav|And quickly with the oars they passed out through the river Acheron and, trusting to the wind, shook out their sails, and with canvas spread far and wide they were cleaving their passage through the waves in fair weather.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000019_000005.wav|And besides the drink offerings they built an altar to Apollo, saviour of ships, and burnt thigh bones; and Orpheus dedicated his lyre; whence the place has the name of Lyra.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000009.wav|For indeed the river saved them with their ships when they were caught in a violent tempest.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000015_000002.wav|Wherefore let us not delay our attempt, but rouse yourselves to the work and cast away your griefs."|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000007_000003.wav|It rises aloft with steep cliffs, looking towards the Bithynian sea; and beneath it smooth rocks, ever washed by the sea, stand rooted firm; and round them the wave rolls and thunders loud, but above, wide spreading plane trees grow on the topmost point.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000019_000003.wav|And again he entered the vast gloom; and they looked and marvelled; and Mopsus, son of Ampycus, with word of prophecy urged them to land and propitiate him with libations.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000022_000003.wav|If a man should count every one he would lack but four of a hundred, but the real spring is only one.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000019_000004.wav|Quickly they drew in sail and threw out hawsers, and on the strand paid honour to the tomb of Sthenelus, and poured out drink offerings to him and sacrificed sheep as victims.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7909/106370/7909_106370_000019_000001.wav|And for a time they went no further, for Persephone herself sent forth the spirit of Actor's son which craved with many tears to behold men like himself, even for a moment.|7909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000034_000008.wav|I can write no more.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000034_000007.wav|If I could be myself, I would rather remain at home with Judge Logan.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000017_000006.wav|Broken by it I, too, may be; bow to it, I never will.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000006_000005.wav|The suits consisted of actions of tort and assumpsit.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000026_000003.wav|You know I am never sanguine; but I believe we will carry the State.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000022_000009.wav|The very moment a speaker is elected, write me who he is.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000034_000004.wav|To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000017_000008.wav|It shall not deter me.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000030_000001.wav|This demoralizing doctrine had been promulgated by Jackson, and acted upon for so many years that it was too much to expect of human nature that the Whigs should not adopt it, partially at least, when their turn came, But we are left in no doubt as to the way in which Lincoln regarded the unseemly scramble.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000017_000013.wav|But if after all we should fail, be it so.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000017_000003.wav|It may be true; if it must, let it.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000029_000003.wav|I was much, very much, wounded myself, at his being left out.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000022_000001.wav|Douglas has not been here since you left.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000027_000005.wav|Yesterday Douglas, having chosen to consider himself insulted by something in the 'Journal,' undertook to cane Francis in the street.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000028_000002.wav|He sought a quarrel with the latter, during their canvass in eighteen thirty eight, in a grocery, with the usual result.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000032_000001.wav|We give this remarkable letter entire, from the manuscript submitted to us by the late john t Stuart:|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000004_000000.wav|EARLY LAW PRACTICE|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102240/7569_102240_000022_000004.wav|Noah, I still think, will be elected very easily.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000017.wav|But there is evidence that he felt too large for the life of a farmhand on Pigeon Creek, and his thoughts naturally turned, after the manner of restless boys in the West, to the river, as the avenue of escape from the narrow life of the woods.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000017_000010.wav|She said to mr Herndon: "I can say, what scarcely one mother in a thousand can say, Abe never gave me a cross word or look, and never refused in fact or appearance to do anything I asked him.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000013.wav|Some of his greatest work in later years was done in this grotesque Western fashion,--"sitting on his shoulder blades."|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000009_000008.wav|The lack of doors and floors was at once corrected.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000010.wav|He attained his full growth, six feet and four inches, two years before he came of age.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000007.wav|Despite his Quaker ancestry and his natural love of peace, he was no non resistant, and when he once entered upon a quarrel the opponent usually had the worst of it.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000007_000002.wav|They moved into the latter before it was half completed; for by this time the Sparrows had followed the Lincolns from Kentucky, and the half faced camp was given up to them.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000014.wav|At Posey's they hired a wagon and literally hewed a path through the wilderness to their new habitation near Little Pigeon Creek, a mile and a half east of Gentryville, in a rich and fertile forest country.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000011.wav|He rarely met with a man he could not easily handle.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000004.wav|Thomas Lincoln, concluding that Kentucky was no country for a poor man, determined to seek his fortune in Indiana.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000003.wav|Their veterinary practice was mostly by charms and incantations; and when a person believed himself bewitched, a shot at the image of the witch with a bullet melted out of a half dollar was the favorite curative agency.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000011.wav|They must fell trees for fence rails before noon, and in the waxing of the moon.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000000.wav|But it is questionable whether he lost anything by being deprived of the ministrations of the backwoods dominies.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000028_000004.wav|The family thus housed and sheltered, one more bit of filial work remained for Abraham before assuming his virile independence.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000013.wav|One aged man says that he has seen him pick up and carry away a chicken house weighing six hundred pounds.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000007.wav|He could not afford to waste paper upon his original compositions.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000005.wav|He had heard of rich and unoccupied lands in Perry County in that State, and thither he determined to go.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000017_000008.wav|It was a happy and united household: brothers and sisters and cousins living peacefully under the gentle rule of the good stepmother, but all acknowledging from a very early period the supremacy in goodness and cleverness of their big brother Abraham.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000009.wav|Before we close our sketch of this period of Lincoln's life, it may not be amiss to glance for a moment at the state of society among the people with whom his lot was cast in these important years.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000021.wav|The voyage was made successfully, and Abraham gained great credit for his management and sale of the cargo.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000019_000002.wav|We have known a man to gain the sobriquet of "Split log Mitchell" by indulging in the luxury of building a cabin of square hewn timbers.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000004.wav|But his voracity for anything printed was insatiable.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000001.wav|The belief in witchcraft had long ago passed away with the smoke of the fagots from old and New England, but it survived far into this century in Kentucky and the lower halves of Indiana and Illinois-touched with a peculiar tinge of African magic.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000017_000009.wav|mrs Lincoln, not long before her death, gave striking testimony of his winning and loyal character.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000020_000002.wav|In these affairs the women naturally took no part; but weddings, which were entertainments scarcely less rude and boisterous, were their own peculiar province.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000014.wav|After a few months of desultory instruction young Abraham knew all that these vagrant literati could teach him. His last school days were passed with one Swaney in eighteen twenty six, who taught at a distance of four and a half miles from the Lincoln cabin.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000008.wav|A bird lighting in a window, a dog baying at certain hours, the cough of a horse in the direction of a child, the sight, or worse still, the touch of a dead snake, heralded domestic woe.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000010.wav|Had it not been for that interior spur which kept his clear spirit at its task, his schools could have done little for him; for, counting his attendance under Riney and Hazel in Kentucky, and under Dorsey, Crawford, and Swaney in Indiana, it amounted to less than a year in all.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000009_000006.wav|She had a store of household goods which filled a four horse wagon borrowed of Ralph Grume, Thomas Lincoln's brother in law, to transport the bride to Indiana.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000007_000000.wav|Thomas Lincoln, with the assistance of his wife and children, built a temporary shelter of the sort called in the frontier language "a half faced camp"; merely a shed of poles, which defended the inmates on three sides from foul weather, but left them open to its inclemency in front.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000017_000004.wav|Some of his comrades remember still his bursts of righteous wrath, when a boy, against the wanton murder of turtles and other creatures.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000019.wav|But in eighteen twenty eight an opportunity offered for a little glimpse of the world outside, and the boy gladly embraced it.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000019_000001.wav|Their houses were usually of one room, built of round logs with the bark on.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000002.wav|The pioneers believed in it for good and evil.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000012.wav|Insufficient bedding and clothing, a few pans and kettles, were their sole movable wealth.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000007_000008.wav|A few three legged stools; a bedstead made of poles stuck between the logs in the angle of the cabin, the outside corner supported by a crotched stick driven into the ground; the table, a huge hewed log standing on four legs; a pot, kettle, and skillet, and a few tin and pewter dishes were all the furniture.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000019_000006.wav|There was little public worship.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000011.wav|john Hanks says: "When Abe and I returned to the house from work he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn bread, take down a book, sit down, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read." The picture may be lacking in grace, but its truthfulness is beyond question.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000009_000012.wav|With this slight addition to their resources the family were much improved in appearance, behavior, and self respect.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000000.wav|Among these people, and in all essential respects one of them, Abraham Lincoln passed his childhood and youth.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000028_000001.wav|He met them with a frank and energetic welcome.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000008.wav|He selected a spot which pleased him in his first day's journey.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000000.wav|Such a woman as Sarah Bush could not be careless of so important a matter as the education of her children, and they made the best use of the scanty opportunities the neighborhood afforded.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000002.wav|His mind was slow in acquisition, and his powers of reasoning and rhetoric improved constantly to the end of his life, at a rate of progress marvelously regular and sustained.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000027_000000.wav|The next autumn, john Hanks, the steadiest and most trustworthy of his family, went to Illinois.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000008.wav|But he was generous and placable, and some of his best friends were those with whom he had had differences, and had settled them in the way then prevalent,--in a ring of serious spectators, calmly and judicially ruminant, under the shade of some spreading oak, at the edge of the timber.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000006.wav|He wrote, for his own amusement and edification, essays on politics, of which gentlemen of standing who had been favored with a perusal said with authority, at the cross roads grocery, "The world can't beat it." One or two of these compositions got into print and vastly increased the author's local fame.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000008_000003.wav|The rank woods were full of malaria, and singular epidemics from time to time ravaged the settlements.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000011_000001.wav|They were known as active and consistent members of that communion.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000014.wav|At another time, seeing some men preparing a contrivance for lifting some large posts, Abe quickly shouldered the posts and took them where they were needed.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000028_000005.wav|With the assistance of john Hanks he plowed fifteen acres, and split, from the tall walnut trees of the primeval forest, enough rails to surround them with a fence.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000004.wav|His budding talents as a writer were not always used discreetly.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000017_000006.wav|At home he was the life of the singularly assorted household, which consisted, besides his parents and himself, of his own sister, mrs Lincoln's two girls and boy, Dennis Hanks, the legacy of the dying Sparrow family, and john Hanks (son of the carpenter Joseph with whom Thomas Lincoln learned his trade), who came from Kentucky several years after the others.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000006.wav|From this arose occasional heart burnings and feuds, in which Abraham bore his part according to the custom of the country.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000015.wav|The nine miles of walking doubtless seemed to Thomas Lincoln a waste of time, and the lad was put at steady work and saw no more of school.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000019_000008.wav|If a man was possessed of a wagon, the family rode luxuriously; but as a rule the men walked and the women went on horseback with the little children in their arms.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000005.wav|A dog crossing the hunter's path spoiled his day, unless he instantly hooked his little fingers together, and pulled till the animal disappeared.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000007.wav|The commonest occurrences were heralds of death and doom.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000000.wav|"We are making no claim of early saintship for him.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000011_000000.wav|Thomas Lincoln joined the Baptist church at Little Pigeon in eighteen twenty three; his oldest child, Sarah, followed his example three years later.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000001.wav|When his tasks ended, his studies became the chief pleasure of his life.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000008.wav|He learned to write, first, that he might have an accomplishment his playmates had not; then that he might help his elders by writing their letters, and enjoy the feeling of usefulness which this gave him; and finally that he might copy what struck him in his reading and thus make it his own for future use.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000008_000006.wav|Among the Pioneers of Pigeon Creek, so ill fed, ill housed, and uncared for, there was little prospect of recovery from such a grave disorder.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000004_000000.wav|INDIANA|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000024_000000.wav|They were full of strange superstitions.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000006_000001.wav|Life had assumed a more settled and orderly course.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000013_000011.wav|The schools were much alike.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000017_000011.wav|His mind and mine-what little I had-seemed to run together....|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000008_000007.wav|The Sparrows, husband and wife, died early in October, and Nancy Hanks Lincoln followed them after an interval of a few days. Thomas Lincoln made the coffins for his dead "out of green lumber cut with a whipsaw," and they were all buried, with scant ceremony, in a little clearing of the forest.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000027_000004.wav|His daughter Sarah or Nancy, for she was called by both names, who married Aaron Grigsby a few years before, had died in childbirth. The emigrating family consisted of the Lincolns, john Johnston, mrs Lincoln's son, and her daughters, mrs Hall and mrs Hanks, with their husbands.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000009_000011.wav|She dressed the children in warmer clothing and put them to sleep in comfortable beds.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000028_000003.wav|They numbered men enough to build without calling in their neighbors, and immediately put up a cabin on the north fork of the Sangamon River.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000019_000010.wav|Arriving at the place of meeting, which was some log cabin if the weather was foul, or the shade of a tree if it was fair, the assembled worshipers threw their provisions into a common store and picnicked in neighborly companionship.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000020.wav|He was hired by mr Gentry, the proprietor of the neighboring village of Gentryville, to accompany his son with a flat boat of produce to New Orleans and intermediate landings.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000018_000003.wav|It is also reported that he sometimes impeded the celerity of harvest operations by making burlesque speeches, or worse than that, comic sermons, from the top of some tempting stump, to the delight of the hired hands and the exasperation of the farmer.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000005.wav|He would sit in the twilight and read a dictionary as long as he could see.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000019_000004.wav|Their shoes were of the same, and a good Western authority calls a wet moccasin "a decent way of going barefoot." About the time, however, when Lincoln grew to manhood, garments of wool and of tow began to be worn, dyed with the juice of the butternut or white walnut, and the hides of neat cattle began to be tanned.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000001.wav|He was not remarkably precocious.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000008_000005.wav|In many cases those who apparently recovered lingered for years with health seriously impaired.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000012.wav|His strength is still a tradition in Spencer County.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000008_000009.wav|[Footnote: A stone has been placed over the site of the grave "by p e Studebaker, of south bend indiana." The stone bears the following inscription: "Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of President Lincoln, died october fifth, a d eighteen eighteen, aged thirty five years.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000012.wav|The habit remained with him always.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000026_000009.wav|But perhaps, after all, the thing which gained and fixed his mastery over his fellows was to a great degree his gigantic stature and strength.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7569/102232/7569_102232_000014_000002.wav|In all the intervals of his work-in which he never took delight, knowing well enough that he was born for something better than that-he read, wrote, and ciphered incessantly.|7569
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7518/86741/7518_86741_000057_000000.wav|"Yes, there is something I wish to see."|7518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7518/86741/7518_86741_000043_000000.wav|"Before or after, whichever you please."|7518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7518/86741/7518_86741_000064_000000.wav|"How attentively he looked at you."|7518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7518/86741/7518_86741_000042_000000.wav|"After the execution?" cried Franz.|7518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7518/86741/7518_86741_000007_000002.wav|I have.|7518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000006_000001.wav|He never boasted of his ancestors; he never even spoke of them, except when he was questioned on the subject; but he never forgot them.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000006_000002.wav|They were the very breath of his life; the deities of his social worship: the family treasures to be held precious beyond all lands and all wealth, all ambitions and all glories, by his children and his children's children to the end of their race.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000013_000000.wav|There were other characteristics of my father's disposition and manner, which I might mention; but they will appear to greater advantage, perhaps, hereafter, connected with circumstances which especially called them forth.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000010_000002.wav|On these occasions, we were not addressed by our Christian names; if we accidentally met him out of doors, he was sure to turn aside and avoid us; if we asked a question, it was answered in the briefest possible manner, as if we had been strangers.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000012_000008.wav|In his happiest moments, in the gayest society, I have only seen him smile.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000007_000002.wav|Every fair liberty was given to us; every fair indulgence was granted to us.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000008_000001.wav|I mean by this, that he was a father to us, but never a companion.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000006_000000.wav|It was by such accidental circumstances as these that you discovered how far he was proud.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000001_000003.wav|It was that quiet, negative, courteous, inbred pride, which only the closest observation could detect; which no ordinary observers ever detected at all.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000004.wav|He would allow us, as boys, to quit the breakfast table before he had risen himself; but never before she had left it.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000008_000002.wav|There was something in his manner, his quiet and unchanging manner, which kept us almost unconsciously restrained.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000009_000000.wav|Again, his mode of testifying displeasure towards my brother or myself, had something terrible in its calmness, something that we never forgot, and always dreaded as the worst calamity that could befall us.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000003.wav|He led her into the dining room, when we were alone, exactly as he would have led a duchess into a banqueting hall.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000001.wav|Towards my sister, his demeanour always exhibited something of the old-fashioned, affectionate gallantry of a former age.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000008_000000.wav|It may seem incomprehensible, even ridiculous, to some persons, but it is nevertheless true, that we were none of us ever on intimate terms with him.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000005_000000.wav|On the first day, the party assembled for dinner comprised the merchant's daughter, my mother, an old lady who had once been her governess, and had always lived with her since her marriage, the new Lord, the Abbe, my father, and my uncle.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000006.wav|His daughter was in his eyes the representative of her mother: the mistress of his house, as well as his child.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000010_000005.wav|To our boyish feelings (to mine especially) there was no ignominy like it, while it lasted.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000002_000003.wav|Here lay his fretful point.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000007.wav|It was curious to see the mixture of high bred courtesy and fatherly love in his manner, as he just gently touched her forehead with his lips, when he first saw her in the morning.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000010_000003.wav|His whole course of conduct said, as though in so many words-You have rendered yourselves unfit to associate with your father; and he is now making you feel that unfitness as deeply as he does.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000008_000004.wav|I never confided to him my schemes for amusement as a boy, or mentioned more than generally my ambitious hopes, as a young man.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000002_000001.wav|On such occasions as these, if he had any pride, it was impossible to detect it.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000001_000002.wav|My father's pride had nothing of this about it.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000012_000004.wav|It required, indeed, all the masculine energy of look about the upper part of his face, to redeem the lower part from an appearance of effeminacy, so delicately was it moulded in its fine Norman outline.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000011_000002.wav|He paid her the same attention that he would have paid to the highest lady in the land.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000008_000006.wav|Thus, all holiday councils were held with old servants; thus, my first pages of manuscript, when I first tried authorship, were read by my sister, and never penetrated into my father's study.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000004_000002.wav|The merchant was a portly, purple faced man, who bore his new honours with a curious mixture of assumed pomposity and natural good humour.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000005_000002.wav|My father's pale face flushed crimson in a moment. He touched the magnificent merchant lord on the arm, and pointed significantly, with a low bow, towards the decrepit old lady who had once been my mother's governess.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000002_000000.wav|Who that observed him in communication with any of the farmers on any of his estates-who that saw the manner in which he lifted his hat, when he accidentally met any of those farmers' wives-who that noticed his hearty welcome to the man of the people, when that man happened to be a man of genius-would have thought him proud?|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000010_000000.wav|Whenever, as boys, we committed some boyish fault, he never displayed outwardly any irritation-he simply altered his manner towards us altogether.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000004_000004.wav|He was a political refugee, dependent for the bread he ate, on the money he received for teaching languages.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000003_000000.wav|Among a host of instances of this peculiar pride of his which I could cite, I remember one, characteristic enough to be taken as a sample of all the rest.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000010_000004.wav|We were left in this domestic purgatory for days, sometimes for weeks together.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/54659/5868_54659_000012_000007.wav|If he ever laughed, as a young man, his laugh must have been very clear and musical; but since I can recollect him, I never heard it.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000012.wav|For my part, I know not, save that all shall be as God wills.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000010.wav|It drops its venom into the finest brains; and makes them call sense, nonsense; and nonsense, sense; fact, fiction; and fiction, fact. It drops its venom into the tenderest hearts, alas! and makes them call wrong, right; and right, wrong; love, cruelty; and cruelty, love.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000005.wav|God's Book, which is the Universe, and the reading of God's Book, which is Science, can do you nothing but good, and teach you nothing but truth and wisdom.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000004.wav|God has ordained that you, and every child which comes into the world, should begin by learning something of the world about him by his senses and his brain; and the better you learn what they can teach you, the more fit you will be to learn what they cannot teach you.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000002.wav|If your parents tried to teach you your lessons in the most agreeable way, by beautiful picture books, would it not be ungracious, ungrateful, and altogether naughty and wrong, to shut your eyes to those pictures, and refuse to learn?|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000014.wav|But this at least I know: that any little child, who will use the faculties God has given him, may find an antidote to all its poison in the meanest herb beneath his feet.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000013_000000.wav|"Well, Robert, where have you been walking this afternoon?" said mr Andrews to one of his pupils at the close of a holiday.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000000.wav|I say "good boys;" not merely clever boys, or prudent boys: because using your eyes, or not using them, is a question of doing Right or doing Wrong.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000016_000001.wav|But he did not mind it, because he fell in with an old man cutting turf, who told him all about turf cutting, and gave him a dead adder.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000011.wav|Some say that the axe is laid to the root of it just now, and that it is already tottering to its fall: while others say that it is growing stronger than ever, and ready to spread its upas shade over the whole earth.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000017_000000.wav|Whereon mr Andrews, who seems to have been a very sensible old gentleman, tells him all about his curiosities: and then it comes out-if you will believe it-that Master William has been over the very same ground as Master Robert, who saw nothing at all.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000003.wav|But you must begin at the beginning in order to end at the end, and sow the seed if you wish to gather the fruit.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000001.wav|God has given you eyes; it is your duty to God to use them.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000014_000001.wav|But it was very dull.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000007.wav|If you ask Him for a fish, he will not give you a serpent.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000019_000003.wav|On the other hand, Franklin could not cross the Channel without making observations useful to mankind.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000019_000000.wav|"So it is.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000007.wav|And so you will be delivered (if you will) out of the tyranny of darkness, and distrust, and fear, into God's free kingdom of light, and faith, and love; and will be safe from the venom of that tree which is more deadly than the fabled upas of the East.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000014_000002.wav|He hardly saw a single person.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000008_000000.wav|DEDICATION|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000013.wav|The tree has been cut down already again and again; and yet has always thrown out fresh shoots and dropped fresh poison from its boughs.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000008.wav|Who planted that tree I know not, it was planted so long ago: but surely it is none of God's planting, neither of the Son of God: yet it grows in all lands and in all climes, and sends its hidden suckers far and wide, even (unless we be watchful) into your hearts and mine.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000022_000009.wav|And its name is the Tree of Unreason, whose roots are conceit and ignorance, and its juices folly and death.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000004.wav|It is your duty to learn His lessons: and it is your interest.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000019_000006.wav|And you, Robert, learn that eyes were given to you to use."|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000021_000006.wav|God did not put this wondrous world about your young souls to tempt or to mislead them.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/55088/5868_55088_000012_000000.wav|Now, among those very stupid old-fashioned boys' books was one which taught me that; and therefore I am more grateful to it than if it had been as full of wonderful pictures as all the natural history books you ever saw.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000006_000001.wav|But what completely won my good will was a picture of enviable loveliness painted on his left arm.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000013_000000.wav|What do I remember next?|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000017_000001.wav|Just at the most exciting point of the game, the ship would careen, and down would go the white checkers pell mell among the black.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000007_000000.wav|While I stood admiring this work of art, a fat wheezy steamtug, with the word AJAX in staring black letters on the paddlebox, came puffing up alongside the Typhoon.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000031_000002.wav|He said the colors were pricked into the skin with needles, and that the operation was somewhat painful.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000006_000005.wav|I determined to know that man.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000005_000000.wav|I will not be positive about "the Spanish Main," but it was hurrah for something o I considered them very jolly fellows, and so indeed they were.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000007_000001.wav|It was ridiculously small and conceited, compared with our stately ship.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5868/66166/5868_66166_000023_000001.wav|That's what the pilot said.|5868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000011_000005.wav|For a few moments he was sublime.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000013_000001.wav|He hesitated, balancing awkwardly on one foot.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000026_000000.wav|He said, as if in excuse for this hope, that previously the army had encountered great defeats and in a few months had shaken off all blood and tradition of them, emerging as bright and valiant as a new one; thrusting out of sight the memory of disaster, and appearing with the valor and confidence of unconquered legions.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000034_000001.wav|He experimented with many schemes, but threw them aside one by one as flimsy.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000030_000000.wav|As these thoughts went rapidly through his mind, he turned upon them and tried to thrust them away.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000023_000004.wav|Those pictures of glory were piteous things.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000025_000005.wav|And if he himself could believe in his virtuous perfection, he conceived that there would be small trouble in convincing all others.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000033_000000.wav|When he perceived again that it was not possible for the army to be defeated, he tried to bethink him of a fine tale which he could take back to his regiment, and with it turn the expected shafts of derision.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000004_000002.wav|Perhaps, then, he was not so bad after all.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000010_000001.wav|As he watched his envy grew until he thought that he wished to change lives with one of them. He would have liked to have used a tremendous force, he said, throw off himself and become a better.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000008_000001.wav|It-whatever it was-was responsible for him, he said.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000016_000002.wav|Doubts and he were struggling.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000012_000001.wav|Indeed, he saw a picture of himself, dust stained, haggard, panting, flying to the front at the proper moment to seize and throttle the dark, leering witch of calamity.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000023_000002.wav|As he was at last compelled to pay attention to them, his capacity for self hate was multiplied.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000006.wav|There was a dull, weight like feeling in his stomach, and, when he tried to walk, his head swayed and he tottered.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000027_000003.wav|This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000032_000000.wav|A defeat of the army had suggested itself to him as a means of escape from the consequences of his fall.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000004_000003.wav|He seated himself and watched the terror stricken wagons.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000003_000003.wav|The white topped wagons strained and stumbled in their exertions like fat sheep.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000005_000005.wav|The men forced their way through parts of the dense mass by strength.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000017_000000.wav|He would truly be a worm if any of his comrades should see him returning thus, the marks of his flight upon him.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000011_000003.wav|He knew the frenzy of a rapid successful charge.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000025_000002.wav|Thus, many men of courage, he considered, would be obliged to desert the colors and scurry like chickens.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000005_000001.wav|It came swiftly on.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000038_000002.wav|At it the others all crowed and cackled.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000032_000003.wav|He presently discarded all his speculations in the other direction.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000036_000000.wav|He imagined the whole regiment saying: "Where's Henry Fleming?|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000031_000004.wav|He cried out bitterly that their crowns were stolen and their robes of glorious memories were shams.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000010_000003.wav|He thought of the magnificent pathos of his dead body.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000026_000003.wav|He could not tell who the chosen for the barbs might be, so he could center no direct sympathy upon him.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000030_000002.wav|He said that he was the most unutterably selfish man in existence.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000005_000003.wav|The men at the head butted mules with their musket stocks.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000008_000000.wav|He searched about in his mind for an adequate malediction for the indefinite cause, the thing upon which men turn the words of final blame.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000027_000002.wav|A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000036_000002.wav|Oh, my!" He recalled various persons who would be quite sure to leave him no peace about it.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000030_000003.wav|His mind pictured the soldiers who would place their defiant bodies before the spear of the yelling battle fiend, and as he saw their dripping corpses on an imagined field, he said that he was their murderer.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000028_000002.wav|With his heart continually assuring him that he was despicable, he could not exist without making it, through his actions, apparent to all men.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000003_000001.wav|From the heaving tangle issued exhortations, commands, imprecations.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000008_000002.wav|There lay the fault.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000004_000004.wav|They fled like soft, ungainly animals.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000034_000002.wav|He was quick to see vulnerable places in them all.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000029_000003.wav|If the men were advancing, their indifferent feet were trampling upon his chances for a successful life.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000004_000001.wav|They were all retreating.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000002_000000.wav|He became aware that the furnace roar of the battle was growing louder. Great blown clouds had floated to the still heights of air before him. The noise, too, was approaching.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000010_000002.wav|Swift pictures of himself, apart, yet in himself, came to him-a blue desperate figure leading lurid charges with one knee forward and a broken blade high-a blue, determined figure standing before a crimson and steel assault, getting calmly killed on a high place before the eyes of all.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000025_000004.wav|They would be sullen brothers in distress, and he could then easily believe he had not run any farther or faster than they.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000011_000002.wav|In his ears, he heard the ring of victory.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000007_000003.wav|He could never be like them.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000030_000001.wav|He denounced himself as a villain.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000020_000000.wav|He was not cast down by this defeat of his plan, for, upon studying the affair carefully, he could not but admit that the objections were very formidable.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000003_000000.wav|As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000017_000002.wav|In the battle blur his face would, in a way, be hidden, like the face of a cowled man.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000005_000004.wav|They prodded teamsters indifferent to all howls.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000037_000001.wav|As he imagined himself passing near a crowd of comrades, he could hear one say, "There he goes!"|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000006_000005.wav|And the backs of the officers were very rigid.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000004_000000.wav|The youth felt comforted in a measure by this sight.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000029_000002.wav|He would be compelled to doom himself to isolation.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000014_000000.wav|He had no rifle; he could not fight with his hands, said he resentfully to his plan.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000034_000000.wav|But, as he mortally feared these shafts, it became impossible for him to invent a tale he felt he could trust.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000016_000001.wav|He stepped as if he expected to tread upon some explosive thing.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000024_000001.wav|He had a great desire to see, and to get news.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000031_000002.wav|Thinking of the slain, he achieved a great contempt for some of them, as if they were guilty for thus becoming lifeless. They might have been killed by lucky chances, he said, before they had had opportunities to flee or before they had been really tested.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000009_000001.wav|Heroes, he thought, could find excuses in that long seething lane.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000011_000001.wav|He felt the quiver of war desire.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000036_000004.wav|In the next engagement they would try to keep watch of him to discover when he would run.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000014_000001.wav|Well, rifles could be had for the picking.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000026_000006.wav|It would be very unfortunate, no doubt, but in this case a general was of no consequence to the youth.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000023_000005.wav|He groaned from his heart and went staggering off.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000026_000002.wav|He of course felt no compunctions for proposing a general as a sacrifice.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000036_000003.wav|They would doubtless question him with sneers, and laugh at his stammering hesitation.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000024_000002.wav|He wished to know who was winning.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000000.wav|He discovered that he had a scorching thirst.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000031_000003.wav|Yet they would receive laurels from tradition.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000012_000000.wav|He thought that he was about to start for the front.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000038_000001.wav|He seemed to hear some one make a humorous remark in a low tone.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000024_000000.wav|A certain mothlike quality within him kept him in the vicinity of the battle.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000007_000004.wav|He could have wept in his longings.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000005.wav|It was more powerful than a direct hunger.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000010_000000.wav|He wondered what those men had eaten that they could be in such haste to force their way to grim chances of death.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000004_000006.wav|There was an amount of pleasure to him in watching the wild march of this vindication.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000037_000000.wav|Wherever he went in camp, he would encounter insolent and lingeringly cruel stares.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000016_000000.wav|He started forward slowly.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000007.wav|He could not see with distinctness. Small patches of green mist floated before his vision.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000003.wav|His feet were like two sores.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000021_000000.wav|Furthermore, various ailments had begun to cry out.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000007_000002.wav|The separation was as great to him as if they had marched with weapons of flame and banners of sunlight.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000009_000000.wav|The haste of the column to reach the battle seemed to the forlorn young man to be something much finer than stout fighting.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000011_000000.wav|These thoughts uplifted him.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000018_000000.wav|But then he said that his tireless fate would bring forth, when the strife lulled for a moment, a man to ask of him an explanation.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000026_000005.wav|It was quite probable they would hit the wrong man who, after he had recovered from his amazement would perhaps spend the rest of his days in writing replies to the songs of his alleged failure.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000006_000004.wav|This importance made their faces grave and stern.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000018_000001.wav|In imagination he felt the scrutiny of his companions as he painfully labored through some lies.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000009_000002.wav|They could retire with perfect self respect and make excuses to the stars.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000017_000001.wav|There was a reply that the intent fighters did not care for what happened rearward saving that no hostile bayonets appeared there.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000005_000006.wav|The blunt head of the column pushed.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000006_000003.wav|They tumbled teams about with a fine feeling that it was no matter so long as their column got to the front in time.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000005_000002.wav|Avoiding the obstructions gave it the sinuous movement of a serpent.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000029_000001.wav|If the din meant that now his army's flags were tilted forward he was a condemned wretch.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000006_000001.wav|They were to confront the eager rush of the enemy.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000001_000000.wav|Chapter eleven|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000022_000001.wav|His face was so dry and grimy that he thought he could feel his skin crackle.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000027_000000.wav|In a defeat there would be a roundabout vindication of himself.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000003_000002.wav|Fear was sweeping it all along. The cracking whips bit and horses plunged and tugged.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130103/510_130103_000032_000004.wav|He returned to the creed of soldiers.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000012_000004.wav|On their way they met the four women and told them how they could be saved from their troubles.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000001_000000.wav|There were once two brothers Karmu and Dharmu.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000003_000007.wav|On the way they came to a fig tree full of figs and they went to eat the fruit; but when they got near they found that all the figs were full of grubs, and they sang:--|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000012_000001.wav|But they said.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000002_000002.wav|When the time for transplanting the rice came, Dharmu used to plough and dig the ditches and mend the gaps along with the day labourers.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000008_000000.wav|"If you go to catch the buffalo, Dharmu, It will kill you. How shall we drink milk?|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000004_000000.wav|"Exhausted by hunger we came to a fig tree, And found it full of grubs, O Karam Gosain, how far off are you?"|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000003_000004.wav|We will not work for them anymore; come, let us undo the work we did to day, you cut down the embankments you repaired, and I will uproot the seedlings which I planted." So they went out into the night to do this.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000012_000003.wav|Karam Gosain promised them that on their way back they should take possession of all; and they did so and mounted on the elephant and returned to their home with great wealth.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000003_000001.wav|When the midday meal was brought the same thing happened, Dharmu and his wife got nothing; but they hoped that it would be made up to them when the wages were paid, and worked on fasting.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000003_000003.wav|In the night Dharmu's wife said "They promised to pay us for merely looking after the work and instead, we worked hard and have still got nothing.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000005_000000.wav|Then they came to a mango tree and the same thing happened.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130560/510_130560_000005_000001.wav|And they went on and saw a cow with a calf; and they thought that they would milk the cow and drink the milk, but when they went to catch it it ran away from them and would not let itself be caught; and they sang:--|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000039_000005.wav|They paused and stood, expectant.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000011_000000.wav|The youth still lamented.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000008_000000.wav|The tall soldier made a little commonplace smile.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000039_000000.wav|At last, they saw him stop and stand motionless.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000020_000000.wav|He paused in piteous anxiety to await his friend's reply.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000046_000001.wav|Then it was shaken by a prolonged ague.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000018_000001.wav|He could not speak accurately because of the gulpings in his throat.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000026_000001.wav|He was shaking his hands helplessly.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000019_000000.wav|But the tall soldier continued to beg in a lowly way.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000002_000001.wav|Then he started to walk on with the others.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000006_000000.wav|Something in the gesture of the man as he waved the bloody and pitying soldiers away made the youth start as if bitten.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000022_000000.wav|However, the tall soldier seemed suddenly to forget all those fears. He became again the grim, stalking specter of a soldier.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000005_000002.wav|His gray, appalling face had attracted attention in the crowd, and men, slowing to his dreary pace, were walking with him.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000054_000000.wav|"Hell-"|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000035_000002.wav|What you thinking about?|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000048_000001.wav|There was a slight rending sound.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000044_000000.wav|The tall soldier opened his lips and spoke.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000039_000003.wav|He was waiting with patience for something that he had come to meet.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000032_000001.wav|His heart seemed to wrench itself almost free from his body at this sight. He made a noise of pain.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000002_000000.wav|The youth fell back in the procession until the tattered soldier was not in sight.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000030_000001.wav|He was startled from this view by a shrill outcry from the tattered man.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000005_000005.wav|The shadows of his face were deepening and his tight lips seemed holding in check the moan of great despair.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000003_000002.wav|Because of the tattered soldier's question he now felt that his shame could be viewed. He was continually casting sidelong glances to see if the men were contemplating the letters of guilt he felt burned into his brow.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000048_000003.wav|A swift muscular contortion made the left shoulder strike the ground first.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000017_000000.wav|"Sure-will yeh, Henry?" the tall soldier beseeched.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000038_000003.wav|There was something rite like in these movements of the doomed soldier.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000048_000002.wav|Then it began to swing forward, slow and straight, in the manner of a falling tree.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000046_000002.wav|He stared into space.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000024_000000.wav|The youth had to follow.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000052_000000.wav|As the flap of the blue jacket fell away from the body, he could see that the side looked as if it had been chewed by wolves.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000033_000001.wav|"Jim-Jim-what are you doing-what makes you do this way-you'll hurt yerself."|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000005_000004.wav|In a dogged way he repelled them, signing to them to go on and leave him alone.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000053_000001.wav|He shook his fist.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000021_000001.wav|He strove to express his loyalty, but he could only make fantastic gestures.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000038_000000.wav|The tall soldier turned and, lurching dangerously, went on.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000039_000004.wav|He was at the rendezvous.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000025_000000.wav|Presently the latter heard a voice talking softly near his shoulder. Turning he saw that it belonged to the tattered soldier.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000005_000006.wav|There could be seen a certain stiffness in the movements of his body, as if he were taking infinite care not to arouse the passion of his wounds.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000034_000000.wav|The same purpose was in the tall soldier's face.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000014_000001.wav|His face turned to a semblance of gray paste. He clutched the youth's arm and looked all about him, as if dreading to be overheard.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000035_000004.wav|Tell me, won't you, Jim?"|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000041_000000.wav|Finally, the chest of the doomed soldier began to heave with a strained motion.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000022_000001.wav|He went stonily forward.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000014_000002.wav|Then he began to speak in a shaking whisper:|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000028_000000.wav|The tall soldier weakly tried to wrench himself free.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000001_000000.wav|Chapter nine|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000011_000001.wav|"Oh, Jim-oh, Jim-oh, Jim-"|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000023_000000.wav|His look was fixed again upon the unknown.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000050_000000.wav|The youth had watched, spellbound, this ceremony at the place of meeting.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000028_000003.wav|At last he spoke as if dimly comprehending.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000005_000000.wav|The spectral soldier was at his side like a stalking reproach.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000007_000001.wav|Jim Conklin!"|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000053_000002.wav|He seemed about to deliver a philippic.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000033_000000.wav|When he overtook the tall soldier he began to plead with all the words he could find.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000049_000001.wav|"God!" said the tattered soldier.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000051_000000.wav|He now sprang to his feet and, going closer, gazed upon the pastelike face.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000008_000001.wav|"Hello, Henry," he said.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000036_000001.wav|In his eyes there was a great appeal.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000038_000006.wav|They hung back lest he have at command a dreadful weapon.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000012_000003.wav|Yes, b'jiminey, I got shot." He reiterated this fact in a bewildered way, as if he did not know how it came about.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000046_000000.wav|Suddenly his form stiffened and straightened.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000029_000000.wav|He started blindly through the grass.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000035_000003.wav|Where you going?|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000004_000001.wav|He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000048_000000.wav|His tall figure stretched itself to its full height.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000013_000000.wav|The youth put forth anxious arms to assist him, but the tall soldier went firmly as if propelled.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000028_000002.wav|He stared at the youth for a moment.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000021_000000.wav|The youth had reached an anguish where the sobs scorched him.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000004_000002.wav|He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000003_000001.wav|The mob of men was bleeding.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000027_000000.wav|He ran forward presently and grasped the tall soldier by the arm. "Jim!|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/510/130101/510_130101_000009_000001.wav|He stuttered and stammered.|510
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000014_000000.wav|The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to make external show pass for sterling worth-to let white washed walls vouch for clean shrines.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000020_000000.wav|NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000007_000000.wav|To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000017_000002.wav|They say he is like Fielding: they talk of his wit, humour, comic powers.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000006_000000.wav|My thanks are due in three quarters.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000021_000001.wav|If, therefore, the authorship of other works of fiction has been attributed to me, an honour is awarded where it is not merited; and consequently, denied where it is justly due.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000011_000001.wav|I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as "Jane Eyre:" in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry-that parent of crime-an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000012_000002.wav|To attack the first is not to assail the last.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000017_000005.wav|Finally, I have alluded to mr Thackeray, because to him-if he will accept the tribute of a total stranger-I have dedicated this second edition of "JANE EYRE."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000012_000001.wav|Self righteousness is not religion.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000005_000000.wav|A preface to the first edition of "Jane Eyre" being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000004_000000.wav|PREFACE|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000017_000000.wav|Why have I alluded to this man?|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122625/242_122625_000008_000000.wav|To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000008_000000.wav|Felix was very indignant-and aggrieved as well.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000013_000000.wav|"Look here, peter," said Felix ominously, "they tell me that you've been praying right along that I couldn't eat a bitter apple.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000028_000001.wav|That's my way of looking at it."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000012_000000.wav|Felix marched over to Uncle Roger's, and we trailed after, scenting a scene.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000015_000002.wav|And you've got to stop it, peter Craig."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000080_000000.wav|"Yes, but," said Dan triumphantly, "if you believe God answers prayers about particular things, it was Peter's prayer He answered.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000070_000001.wav|"Uncle Roger believes in boys fighting.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000010_000003.wav|peter prays three times a day regular-in the morning and at dinner time and at night-and besides that, any time through the day when he happens to think of it, he just prays, standing up.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000097_000000.wav|"What did Shuben do when she found out she had killed Accadee?" asked Felicity.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000043_000002.wav|I know what I'm fighting for but I can't think of the word."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000085_000001.wav|"Why are there never no stories about ugly people?"|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000049_000001.wav|It was a nice, remote, bosky place where no prowling grown up would be likely to intrude.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000064_000000.wav|"This stops right here, boys," he said.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000011_000000.wav|"Well, he's got to stop praying against me, anyhow," said Felix resolutely.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000035_000000.wav|"You might settle it by drawing lots," said Cecily desperately.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000082_000000.wav|Of course we did.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000064_000001.wav|"You know I don't allow fighting."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000083_000002.wav|Her cheeks were still flushed with the excitement of the evening.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000037_000000.wav|"What would Aunt Jane say if she knew you were going to fight?" Cecily demanded of peter.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000032_000000.wav|Felicity tried another tack.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000006_000000.wav|But this devoutly desired consummation did not come to pass.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000004_000000.wav|Felix prayed earnestly that he might be enabled to eat a bitter apple without making a face.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000081_000006.wav|And I did.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000007_000002.wav|She said she thought it was real cute of him.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000004_000002.wav|But Felix was vastly encouraged.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000069_000001.wav|"They've been such friends, and it was dreadful to see them fighting."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000095_000004.wav|The stars twinkled through the softly waving boughs.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000007_000001.wav|"He told Felicity and Felicity told me.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000083_000000.wav|The Story Girl leaned that brown head of hers against the fir trunk behind her, and looked up at the apple green sky through the dark boughs above us.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000023_000002.wav|If he don't interfere with my prayers there's no need of fighting.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000007_000003.wav|I think that is a dreadful way to talk about praying and I told her so.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000006_000001.wav|In spite of prayers and heroic attempts, Felix could never get beyond that last bite.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000023_000001.wav|"It's Felix.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000105_000002.wav|With all its laughter and delight and glamour it is our eternal possession.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000025_000001.wav|"That's fair enough.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000089_000000.wav|"Pretty people are always conceited," said Felix, who was getting tired of holding his tongue.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000051_000000.wav|"I don't know," I confessed dubiously.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000021_000000.wav|"I don't want to give up the Ordeal," said Felix, "and I won't."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000066_000003.wav|peter, Roger is looking for you to wash his buggy.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000065_000001.wav|"peter--"|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000014_000002.wav|I never prayed that you couldn't eat a bitter apple.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000102_000000.wav|"No," said Dan reluctantly.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000020_000002.wav|Let's all give up the Ordeal, anyway.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000066_000004.wav|Be off."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000013_000001.wav|Now, I tell you-"|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000052_000000.wav|"Did you ever fight?" asked the Story Girl.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000020_000001.wav|"I think it would be dreadful. Surely you can arrange it some other way.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000047_000000.wav|"It doesn't do to meddle in an affair of this kind between boys," said the Story Girl sagely.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000028_000000.wav|"A fellow's got a right to pray as he pleases," said peter, "and if anybody tries to stop him he's bound to fight.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000081_000003.wav|Let's leave it alone and I'll tell you a story.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000093_000004.wav|Her eyes were dark and soft, her foot was as light as a breeze, and her voice sounded like a brook in the woods, or the wind that comes over the hills at night.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000027_000001.wav|"The more religious anything was the more fighting there was about it."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000060_000001.wav|Cecily, keep quiet. Now, one-two-three!"|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000086_000000.wav|"Perhaps ugly people never have stories happen to them," suggested Felicity.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000072_000000.wav|"I don't meddle with hired boys' prayers," she said haughtily.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000094_000005.wav|She drew her arrow to her eye-alas, she knew the art only too well!--and took careful aim.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000077_000003.wav|I wish I could understand it."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000051_000001.wav|"Felix is too fat.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000045_000001.wav|"It's all right to fight for principle. It's kind of praying with your fists."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000084_000001.wav|One of the young braves was named Accadee.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000094_000004.wav|Below her stood the snow white moose.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000010_000001.wav|"God MUST be fair.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000027_000000.wav|"Why, they were always fighting about religion in old times," said Felix.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000095_000001.wav|It was quite dark in the fir wood.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000051_000002.wav|He'll get out of breath in no time.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000103_000002.wav|Felicity likes the winter, and so does the Story Girl, but I don't.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000009_000002.wav|It isn't fair."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000026_000000.wav|"It's dreadful to fight about anything so religious as praying," sighed poor Cecily.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000016_000002.wav|I s'pose you think a hired boy hasn't any business to pray for particular things, but I'll show you.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000093_000001.wav|Never an arrow of his that did not go straight to the mark.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000039_000001.wav|"Good Presbyterians don't fight."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000014_000000.wav|"I never did!" exclaimed peter indignantly.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000063_000000.wav|He was not angry.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000014_000003.wav|I just prayed that I'd be the only one that could."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000040_000001.wav|I heard your Uncle Roger say that Presbyterians were the best for fighting in the world-or the worst, I forget which he said, but it means the same thing."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000057_000000.wav|"Well," said the Story Girl, "I think it doesn't matter whether you get whipped or not so long as you fight a good, square fight."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000025_000002.wav|If I'm licked I won't pray for that particular thing any more."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000061_000001.wav|As a result, peter got what later developed into a black eye, and Felix's nose began to bleed.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000058_000000.wav|Her potent voice made me feel that I was quite a hero after all, and the sting went out of my recollection of that old fight.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000091_000001.wav|"He must be a good sort of chap and DO heaps of things.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000082_000003.wav|He would not look at Cecily, but every one else had forgiven her.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000001_000001.wav|THE ORDEAL OF BITTER APPLES|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000066_000001.wav|"I don't care what you were fighting about, but you must settle your quarrels in a different fashion.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000091_000002.wav|That's all that's necessary."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000004_000001.wav|And when he had prayed three nights after this manner, he contrived to eat a bitter apple without a grimace until he came to the last bite, which proved too much for him.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000039_000000.wav|"You said you were going to be a Presbyterian," persisted Cecily.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000065_000000.wav|"Oh, but Uncle Alec, it was this way," began Felix eagerly.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000105_000001.wav|"The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts." They may rob us of our future and embitter our present, but our past they may not touch.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000010_000000.wav|"Oh, Felix, don't talk like that," said Cecily, shocked.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000042_000000.wav|"I thought you said in your sermon, Master peter, that people shouldn't fight."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000066_000002.wav|Remember my commands, Felix.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000094_000006.wav|The next moment Accadee fell dead with her arrow in his heart."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000050_000001.wav|Do you think he will?"|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000095_000002.wav|We could see her face and eyes but dimly through the gloom.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000029_000000.wav|"What would Miss Marwood say if she knew you were going to fight?" asked Felicity.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000077_000000.wav|"There's something wrong somewhere," said Cecily perplexedly.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000073_000001.wav|"Just as much nonsense as praying about the bitter apples in the first place."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000002_000001.wav|He had not felt very keenly over the matter of the sermons, and certainly the mere fact that peter could eat sour apples without making faces did not cast any reflection on the honour or ability of the other competitors.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000077_000001.wav|"We ought to pray for what we want, of that I'm sure-and peter wanted to be the only one who could pass the Ordeal.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000049_000000.wav|It was ultimately arranged that the combat should take place in the fir wood behind Uncle Roger's granary.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000040_000000.wav|"Oh, don't they!|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000103_000000.wav|"Isn't it cold?" said Cecily, shivering again.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000070_000000.wav|"Uncle Roger would have let them fight it out," said the Story Girl discontentedly.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000002_000002.wav|But to Felix everything suddenly became flat, stale, and unprofitable, because peter continued to hold the championship of bitter apples.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000090_000001.wav|"They're always so tall and slender.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000082_000001.wav|We all sat down at the roots of the firs.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000051_000006.wav|And this is Peter's first fight."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000088_000001.wav|I like them best that way.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000059_000001.wav|Cecily was very pale, and Felix and peter were taking off their coats.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000080_000001.wav|What do you make of that?"|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000054_000000.wav|"Who beat?"|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000003_000002.wav|But I had no burning desire to eat sour apples without grimacing, and I did not sympathize over and above with my brother.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000070_000003.wav|peter and Felix wouldn't have been any worse friends after it.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000006_000003.wav|For a time he could not understand this.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000068_000000.wav|Cecily "caught it" after Uncle Alec had gone.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000015_000000.wav|"Well, that's the same thing," cried Felix.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000002_000003.wav|It haunted his waking hours and obsessed his nights.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000081_000004.wav|Aunt Olivia had a letter today from a friend in Nova Scotia, who lives in Shubenacadie.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000015_000001.wav|"You've just been praying for the opposite to me out of spite.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000038_000000.wav|"Don't you drag my Aunt Jane into this affair," said peter darkly.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000023_000003.wav|But if he does there's no other way to settle it."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000043_000001.wav|"This is different.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000002_000005.wav|If anything could have made him thin the way he worried over this matter would have done it.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000078_000002.wav|We mustn't pray selfish prayers."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000067_000001.wav|He turned his back on Cecily.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000045_000000.wav|"Yes, that's it," agreed peter.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000019_000000.wav|"All right.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000061_000000.wav|peter and Felix "pitched in," with more zeal than discretion on both sides.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000061_000002.wav|Cecily gave a shriek and ran out of the wood.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000007_000000.wav|"He's praying that you'll never be able to eat a bitter apple without making a face," she said.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000053_000000.wav|"Once," I said briefly, dreading the next question, which promptly came.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000046_000000.wav|"Oh, can't you do something to prevent them from fighting, Sara?" pleaded Cecily, turning to the Story Girl, who was sitting on a bin, swinging her shapely bare feet to and fro.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000019_000001.wav|I can fight as well as pray."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000063_000002.wav|But he took the combatants by their shirt collars and dragged them apart.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000006_000004.wav|But he thought the mystery was solved when Cecily came to him one day and told him that peter was praying against him.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000006_000002.wav|Not even faith and works in combination could avail.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000081_000002.wav|We only get more mixed up all the time.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000102_000001.wav|"I suppose there'd be some drawback to everything, even being an Injun."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000003_000003.wav|When, however, he took to praying about it, I realized how deeply he felt on the subject, and hoped he would be successful.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000078_000000.wav|"Peter's prayer was wrong because it was a selfish prayer, I guess," said the Story Girl thoughtfully.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000010_000002.wav|I'll tell you what I believe is the reason.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000034_000001.wav|He would have faced an army with banners.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000095_000000.wav|The Story Girl paused-a dramatic pause.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000044_000000.wav|"I guess you mean principle," I suggested.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/126842/242_126842_000091_000000.wav|"It doesn't matter what a man LOOKS like," I said, feeling that Felix and Dan were catching it rather too hotly.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000020_000001.wav|Madam Mope!" cried the voice of john Reed; then he paused: he found the room apparently empty.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000019_000000.wav|With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy: happy at least in my way.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000009_000000.wav|A breakfast room adjoined the drawing room, I slipped in there.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000040_000004.wav|but first-"|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000009_000002.wav|I mounted into the window seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000025_000000.wav|"What do you want?" I asked, with awkward diffidence.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000010_000001.wav|At intervals, while turning over the leaves of my book, I studied the aspect of that winter afternoon.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000040_000000.wav|"What! what!" he cried.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000041_000000.wav|He ran headlong at me: I felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000034_000000.wav|"Show the book."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000028_000000.wav|john had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000019_000001.wav|I feared nothing but interruption, and that came too soon.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000038_000001.wav|"You are like a murderer-you are like a slave driver-you are like the Roman emperors!"|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000045_000000.wav|"Take her away to the red room, and lock her in there." Four hands were immediately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000026_000000.wav|"Say, 'What do you want, Master Reed?'" was the answer.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000027_000000.wav|john Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000004_000000.wav|There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000029_000001.wav|I wonder if he read that notion in my face; for, all at once, without speaking, he struck suddenly and strongly.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000035_000000.wav|I returned to the window and fetched it thence.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122626/242_122626_000021_000002.wav|Georgy! (calling to his sisters) Joan is not here: tell mama she is run out into the rain-bad animal!"|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000023_000000.wav|The red room was a square chamber, very seldom slept in, I might say never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors at Gateshead Hall rendered it necessary to turn to account all the accommodation it contained: yet it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000007_000000.wav|"Master!|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000008_000000.wav|"No; you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep. There, sit down, and think over your wickedness."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000040_000001.wav|"And what a scream!|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000021_000002.wav|Say your prayers, Miss Eyre, when you are by yourself; for if you don't repent, something bad might be permitted to come down the chimney and fetch you away."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000018_000000.wav|I had nothing to say to these words: they were not new to me: my very first recollections of existence included hints of the same kind.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000037_000000.wav|"Take me out!|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000022_000000.wav|They went, shutting the door, and locking it behind them.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000033_000008.wav|It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000040_000002.wav|If she had been in great pain one would have excused it, but she only wanted to bring us all here: I know her naughty tricks."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000033_000005.wav|Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting bourne?|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000018_000001.wav|This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing song in my ear: very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000034_000004.wav|Shaking my hair from my eyes, I lifted my head and tried to look boldly round the dark room; at this moment a light gleamed on the wall.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000026_000001.wav|I was not quite sure whether they had locked the door; and when I dared move, I got up and went to see.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000031_000000.wav|What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon!|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000011_000001.wav|This preparation for bonds, and the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of the excitement out of me.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000043_000002.wav|I abhor artifice, particularly in children; it is my duty to show you that tricks will not answer: you will now stay here an hour longer, and it is only on condition of perfect submission and stillness that I shall liberate you then."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000046_000001.wav|I heard her sweeping away; and soon after she was gone, I suppose I had a species of fit: unconsciousness closed the scene.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000034_000002.wav|I wiped my tears and hushed my sobs, fearful lest any sign of violent grief might waken a preternatural voice to comfort me, or elicit from the gloom some haloed face, bending over me with strange pity.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000034_000005.wav|Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind?|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000012_000000.wav|"Don't take them off," I cried; "I will not stir."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000010_000000.wav|"If you don't sit still, you must be tied down," said Bessie.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000019_000001.wav|They will have a great deal of money, and you will have none: it is your place to be humble, and to try to make yourself agreeable to them."|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000038_000002.wav|Have you seen something?" again demanded Bessie.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000024_000000.wav|This room was chill, because it seldom had a fire; it was silent, because remote from the nursery and kitchen; solemn, because it was known to be so seldom entered.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000028_000001.wav|Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned?|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000021_000000.wav|"Besides," said Miss Abbot, "God will punish her: He might strike her dead in the midst of her tantrums, and then where would she go?|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000046_000000.wav|Bessie and Abbot having retreated, mrs Reed, impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in, without farther parley.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000033_000004.wav|That certainly was a crime: and was I fit to die?|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000021_000001.wav|Come, Bessie, we will leave her: I wouldn't have her heart for anything.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000023_000003.wav|Scarcely less prominent was an ample cushioned easy chair near the head of the bed, also white, with a footstool before it; and looking, as I thought, like a pale throne.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000035_000000.wav|"Miss Eyre, are you ill?" said Bessie.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000038_000000.wav|"What for?|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000004_000000.wav|I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000031_000002.wav|Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought!|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000028_000005.wav|Her beauty, her pink cheeks and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her, and to purchase indemnity for every fault.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000033_000006.wav|In such vault I had been told did mr Reed lie buried; and led by this thought to recall his idea, I dwelt on it with gathering dread.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000018_000002.wav|Miss Abbot joined in-|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000032_000003.wav|I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child-though equally dependent and friendless-mrs|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000044_000003.wav|I shall be killed if-"|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000028_000002.wav|Why could I never please?|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000026_000004.wav|I returned to my stool.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000028_000004.wav|Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000043_000001.wav|"Loose Bessie's hand, child: you cannot succeed in getting out by these means, be assured.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000011_000000.wav|Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000016_000000.wav|"But it was always in her," was the reply.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/242/122627/242_122627_000043_000000.wav|"Let her go," was the only answer.|242
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000017_000002.wav|"He cannot fool us again," they said.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000021_000001.wav|But before he left he begged the Bull's pardon for having used his horn for a resting place.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000004_000001.wav|"Please let me go and some day I will surely repay you."|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000015_000001.wav|Wolf!" Again the Villagers ran to help him, only to be laughed at again.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000029_000001.wav|As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000031_000002.wav|Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!"|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000003_000000.wav|A Lion lay asleep in the forest, his great head resting on his paws.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000005_000001.wav|But he was generous and finally let the Mouse go.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000023_000000.wav|"It's all the same to me," replied the Bull.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000030_000000.wav|"How useless is the Plane!" said one of them.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000031_000001.wav|"You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless!|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000005_000000.wav|The Lion was much amused to think that a Mouse could ever help him.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000014_000000.wav|As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000013_000000.wav|His Master had told him to call for help should a Wolf attack the flock, and the Villagers would drive it away.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000003_000002.wav|Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000013_000002.wav|Wolf!"|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000016_000000.wav|Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did spring from the underbrush and fall upon the Sheep.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000006_000000.wav|Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a hunter's net.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000028_000000.wav|THE PLANE TREE|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000013_000001.wav|So now, though he had not seen anything that even looked like a Wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of his voice, "Wolf!|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000014_000001.wav|But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000022_000000.wav|"You must be very glad to have me go now," he said.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000031_000000.wav|"Ungrateful creatures!" said a voice from the Plane Tree.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000006_000001.wav|Unable to free himself, he filled the forest with his angry roaring.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000002_000000.wav|THE LION AND THE MOUSE|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000011_000001.wav|Soon he found life in the pasture very dull.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000003_000001.wav|A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000012_000000.wav|One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a Wolf, he thought of a plan to amuse himself.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000015_000000.wav|A few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, "Wolf!|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000030_000001.wav|"It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves."|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/282391/6167_282391_000017_000000.wav|In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Wolf!|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000006_000003.wav|I also look at them as a little floral joke that is harmless and not displeasing, but they cannot for a moment compare in beauty with the free growing Snapdragon of the older type.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000014_000001.wav|Abnormal size, whether greatly above or much below the average, appeals to the vulgar and uneducated eye, and will always command its attention and wonderment.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000003_000002.wav|And here again, though many really beautiful things are being brought forward, there seems always to be an undue value assigned to a fresh development, on the score of its novelty.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000010_000000.wav|The Zinnia is another fine annual that has been much spoilt by its would be improvers.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000006_000001.wav|In this grand plant one is glad to have dwarf ones as well as the old trailing kinds.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000002_000000.wav|NOVELTY AND VARIETY|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000014_000000.wav|And all this parade of distortion and deformity comes about from the grower losing sight of beauty as the first consideration, or from his not having the knowledge that would enable him to determine what are the points of character in various plants most deserving of development, and in not knowing when or where to stop.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000004_000000.wav|Now it seems to me, that among the thousands of beautiful things already at hand for garden use, there is no merit whatever in novelty or variety unless the thing new or different is distinctly more beautiful, or in some such way better than an older thing of the same class.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000011_000000.wav|I also think that Stocks and Wallflowers are much handsomer when rather tall and branching.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000012_000003.wav|The red also is of a rather dull and heavy nature, so that instead of a handsome yellow flower with a broad central ring, here is an ugly red one with a yellow border.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000004.wav|Take, for example, one of the dwarfest Ageratums: what a silly little dumpy, formless, pincushion of a thing it is!|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000010_000001.wav|When a Zinnia has a hard, stiff, tall flower, with a great many rows of petals piled up one on top of another, and when its habit is dwarfed to a mean degree of squatness, it looks to me both ugly and absurd, whereas a reasonably double one, well branched, and two feet high, is a handsome plant.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000000.wav|And there seems to be a general wish among seed growers just now to dwarf all annual plants.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000003.wav|It no doubt enables ignorant gardeners to use a larger variety of plants as senseless colour masses, but it is obvious that many, if not most, of the plants are individually made much uglier by the process.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000008.wav|When this kind came out it was a noteworthy novelty, not because it was a novelty, but because it was a better and more beautiful thing.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty one|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000006.wav|Here is a plant (whose chief weakness already lies in a certain over stiffness) made stiffer and more shapeless still by dwarfing and by cramming with too many petals.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000007.wav|The Comet Asters of later years are a much improved type of flower, with a looser shape and a certain degree of approach to grace and beauty.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000009_000002.wav|I was fortunate enough to get some seed, and have never grown any other, nor have I ever seen elsewhere any that I think can compare with it.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000003_000000.wav|When I look back over thirty years of gardening, I see what an extraordinary progress there has been, not only in the introduction of good plants new to general cultivation, but also in the home production of improved kinds of old favourites.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000012_000001.wav|The improver has sought to increase the width of the red ring.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000001.wav|Now, when a plant is naturally of a diffuse habit, the fixing of a dwarfer variety may be a distinct gain to horticulture-it may just make a good garden plant out of one that was formerly of indifferent quality; but there seems to me to be a kind of stupidity in inferring from this that all annuals are the better for dwarfing.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000012_000002.wav|Up to a certain point it makes a livelier and brighter looking flower; but he has gone too far, and extended the red till it has become a red flower with a narrow yellow edge.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000006_000005.wav|Its beauty is lost if it is crowded up among other things in a border; it should be grown in a dry wall or steep rocky bank, where its handsome bushy growth and finely poised spikes of bloom can be well seen.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000006_000004.wav|This I always think one of the best and most interesting and admirable of garden plants.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000003_000001.wav|In annual plants alone there has been a remarkable advance.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000013_000000.wav|No annual plant has of late years been so much improved as the Sweet Pea, and one reason why its charming beauty and scent are so enjoyable is, that they grow tall, and can be seen on a level with the eye.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000014_000002.wav|But then the production of the immense size that provokes astonishment, and the misapplied ingenuity that produces unusual dwarfing, are neither of them very high aims.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000002.wav|I take it that the bedding system has had a good deal to do with it.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000011_000001.wav|Dwarf Stocks, moreover, are invariably spattered with soil in heavy autumn rain.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73973/6167_73973_000005_000005.wav|And then the dwarfest of the China Asters.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000012_000003.wav|Can it be really to teach with deliberate intention that instead of displaying its natural and graceful tree form it should aim at a more desirable kind of beauty, such as that of the chimney pot or drain pipe, and that this is so important that it is right and laudable to devote to it much time and delicate workmanship?|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000006_000001.wav|All that is most beautiful in a Pansy, the wing like curves, the waved or slightly fluted radiations, the scarcely perceptible undulation of surface that displays to perfection the admirable delicacy of velvety texture; all the little tender tricks and ways that make the Pansy one of the best loved of garden flowers; all this is overlooked, and not only passively overlooked, but overtly contemned.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000014_000001.wav|It is, therefore, thrown out, not because they have any fault to find with it, but because it does not concern them; and the ordinary gardener, to whose practice it might be of the highest value, accepting the verdict of the show judge as an infallible guide, also treats it with contempt and neglect.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000006_000000.wav|Then the poor Pansies have single blooms laid flat on white papers, and are only approved if they will lie quite flat and show an outline of a perfect circle.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000010_000003.wav|I ask myself, What is it for? and I get no answer.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000009_000002.wav|The stems are rather stiff, because they are half woody at the base.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000010_000001.wav|I have never seen anything so ugly in the way of potted plants as a certain kind of Chrysanthemum that has incurved flowers of a heavy sort of dull leaden looking red purple colour trained in this manner.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000010_000002.wav|Such a sight gives me a feeling of shame, not unmixed with wrathful indignation.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000001_000000.wav|THE WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000013_000000.wav|I cannot but think, as well as hope, that the strong influences for good that are now being brought to bear on all departments of gardening may reach this class of show, for there are already more hopeful signs in the admission of classes for groups arranged for decoration.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000002_000001.wav|And as far as I can see that it does this, I think the show right and helpful; and whenever it does not, I think it harmful and misleading.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000005_000002.wav|Already in the case of Carnations a better influence is being felt, and at the London shows there are now classes for border Carnations set up in long stalked bunches just as they grow.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000006_000002.wav|The show pansy judge appears to have no eye, or brain, or heart, but to have in their place a pair of compasses with which to describe a circle!|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000003_000002.wav|Looking at the catalogue of a leading Dahlia nursery, I find that the decorative kinds fill ten pages, while the show kinds, including Pompones, fill only three.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000003_000000.wav|The love of gardening has so greatly grown and spread within the last few years, that the need of really good and beautiful garden flowers is already far in advance of the demand for the so-called "florists" flowers, by which I mean those that find favour in the exclusive shows of Societies for the growing and exhibition of such flowers as Tulips, Carnations, Dahlias, and Chrysanthemums.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000012_000002.wav|What does it teach?|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000005_000003.wav|It is only like this that their value as outdoor plants can be tested; for many of the show sorts have miserably weak stalks, and a very poor, lanky habit of growth.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000007_000000.wav|I do most strongly urge that beauty of the highest class should be the aim, and not anything of the nature of fashion or "fancy," and that every effort should be made towards the raising rather than the lowering of the standard of taste.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000012_000000.wav|But the show decrees that all this is wrong, and that the tiny, brittle branches must be trained stiffly round till the shape of the plant shows as a sort of cylinder.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000010_000005.wav|I look again at the unhappy plant, and see its poor leaves fat with an unwholesome obesity, and seeming to say, We were really a good bit mildewed, but have been doctored up for the show by being crammed and stuffed with artificial aliment!|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6167/73972/6167_73972_000006_000003.wav|All idea of garden delight seems to be excluded, as this kind of judging appeals to no recognition of beauty for beauty's sake, but to hard systems of measurement and rigid arrangement and computation that one would think more applicable to astronomy or geometry than to any matter relating to horticulture.|6167
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000008_000000.wav|The peculiar thing about a newt's courtship is its restraint.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000015_000002.wav|In fact, the two cases are not at all analogous.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000021_000001.wav|The Master Pushers' work is soon accomplished, for it consists simply in pushing the piece of gurry over the other side of the log until it falls with a splash into the water, where it is lost.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000011_000002.wav|A trained ear might even detect her whistling in an indifferent manner.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000001.wav|What a scampering!|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000005_000001.wav|Since that time I have practically lived among newts, jotting down observations, making lantern slides, watching them in their work and in their play (and you may rest assured that the little rogues have their play-as who does not?) until, from much lying in a research posture on my stomach, over the inclosure in which they were confined, I found myself developing what I feared might be rudimentary creepers.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000003_000000.wav|It is not generally known that the newt, although one of the smallest of our North American animals, has an extremely happy home life.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000016_000002.wav|And it takes the closest kind of community team work in the newt colony to get things anywhere near cleaned up by nightfall.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000019_000002.wav|They are not dragging anything, but are sort of helping the leader by crowding against him and eating little pieces out of the filament of his tail.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000002.wav|What a bustle!|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000003_000001.wav|It is just one of those facts which never get bruited about.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000023_000000.wav|And so it goes.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000007_000002.wav|And I, for one, would not have it different.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000018_000000.wav|Over here on the right of the log are the Master Draggers.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000021_000000.wav|The little workers, reaching the goal with their precious freight, are now giving it over to the Master Pushers, who have been waiting for them in the sun all this while.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000007_000001.wav|For the newt is, after all, only a newt, and has his weaknesses just as any of the rest of us.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000023_000001.wav|Day in and day out, the busy army of newts go on making the world a better place in which to live.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000000.wav|It is early morning, and the workers are just appearing, hurrying to the old log which is to be the scene of their labors.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000009_000000.wav|The means employed by the males to draw the attention and win the affection of those of the opposite sex (females) are varied and extremely strategic.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000004.wav|Ah, little bustlers! How lucky you are, and how wise!|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000008_000001.wav|It is carried on, at all times, with a minimum distance of fifty paces (newt measure) between the male and the female.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000015_000001.wav|Not I, for one....|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000006_000001.wav|The remainder of this article bids fair to be fairly scientific.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000024_000000.wav|And, after all, what more has life to offer?|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000007_000003.wav|There is little enough fun in the world as it is.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000008_000002.wav|Some of the bolder males may now and then attempt to overstep the bounds of good sportsmanship and crowd in to forty five paces, but such tactics are frowned upon by the Rules Committee.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000019_000001.wav|Following him, in single file, come the rest of the Master Draggers.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000016_000001.wav|It is a life full of all kinds of exciting adventure, from weaving nests to crawling about in the sun and catching insect larvæ and crustaceans. The newt's day is practically never done, largely because the insect larvæ multiply three million times as fast as the newt can possibly catch and eat them.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000022_000001.wav|Would that my own work were as clean cut and as satisfying.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000005_000002.wav|And so, late this autumn, I stood erect and walked into my house, where I immediately set about the compilation of the notes I had made.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000006.wav|An ideal existence, I'll tell the scientific world.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000012_000000.wav|The male, in the meantime, is flashing his gleamer frantically two blocks away and is performing all sorts of attractive feats, calculated to bring the lady newt to terms.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000019_000000.wav|The one in the lead is dragging a bit of gurry out from the water and up over the edge into the sunlight.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000013_000001.wav|From the distance at which the courtship was being carried on, the male (who was, it must be admitted, a bit near sighted congenitally) was unable to detect the change in personnel, and continued, even in the presence of the rubber eraser, to gyrate and undulate in a most conscientious manner, still under the impression that he was making a conquest.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000007_000000.wav|In studying the more intimate phases of newt life, one is chiefly impressed with the methods by means of which the males force their attentions upon the females, with matrimony as an object.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000008_000003.wav|To the eye of an uninitiated observer, the pair might be dancing a few of the more open figures of the minuet.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000012_000001.wav|I have seen a male, in the stress of his handicap courtship, stand on his fore feet, gesticulating in amorous fashion with his hind feet in the air.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000018_000001.wav|Of all the newt workers, they are the most futile, which is high praise indeed. Come, let us look closer and see what it is that they are doing.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000005.wav|You work long hours, without pay, for the sheer love of working.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000006_000000.wav|So much for the non technical introduction.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000011_000000.wav|But the little creature, true to her sex instinct, does not at once give evidence that her morale has been shattered.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000017_000003.wav|Ah, little scamperers!|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000011_000001.wav|She affects a coyness and lack of interest, by hitching herself sideways along the bottom of the aquarium, with her head turned over her right shoulder away from the swain.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279229/8075_279229_000020_000000.wav|And now they have reached the top.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000001_000000.wav|A PIECE OF ROAST BEEF|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000026_000001.wav|Then the roast beef came.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000027_000000.wav|On a silver platter, with a silver cover, it was placed before me under the best possible scenic conditions.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000015_000006.wav|And I got more than ten cents' worth of calories, I know.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000008_000001.wav|The price was twenty cents, which included a dab of mashed potato dished out in an ice cream scoop, a generous allowance of tender peas, two hot tea biscuits and butter to match.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000027_000002.wav|It had a trifle more fat, was just a shade pinker, and perhaps a micrometer could have detected a bit more bulk; but, so far as I was concerned or so far as the calories were concerned, it was the same.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000029_000000.wav|I nibbled at my roast beef, but my spirit was broken.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000028_000001.wav|At any rate, it could be said for it that it was not intoxicating, and so could never cause any real misery in this world.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000020_000001.wav|Five minutes later another man placed a knife and spoon at my plate.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000020_000000.wav|After I had been there a few minutes a waiter came and put on a fresh table cloth.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000032_000000.wav|These investigations may not prove to be much of a contribution to modern science or economics.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000006_000000.wav|To answer these questions I started out on a tour of the representative eating places of some of our best known strata of society, and, whatever my conclusions are, you may be sure that they are thoroughly inexpert.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000029_000001.wav|I had gone through a week of self denial, ordering roast beef when I craved edibles, eating at restaurants while my family waited for me at home, and here was the result of my researches: Roast beef is roast beef, and nothing can prevent it.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000012_000001.wav|As for the taste, the only difference that I could detect was that one had been hot and the other cold.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000025_000000.wav|"No; that will be all for now," I said, and turned wearily away.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000021_000001.wav|I looked over the menu as if I were in a pretty captious mood, and then, with the air of an epicure who has tasted to the dregs all the condiments of Arabia and whose jaded palate refuses to thrill any longer, I ordered "roast beef."|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000023_000000.wav|The waiter wasn't very enthusiastic over my order, and something saved me from asking him if they threw in "a side" of mashed potatoes with the meat.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000015_000005.wav|All in all, it was what I should call a representative roast beef dinner.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000023_000002.wav|That cheered him up more than anything I had done that evening, and he really got quite fratty and said: "A little salad, sir?" Again I imitated a man who has had more experience with salads than any other three men put together and who has found them a miserable sham.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000011_000002.wav|The roast beef here was served cold, with a plate of escarole salad (when I was a boy I used to have to dig escarole out of the front lawn with a trowel so that the grass could have a chance) for seventy five cents.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000019_000000.wav|Not to be outdone, however, I got my place in the sun by cleverly tripping my rival as he passed me, so that he fell into the fountain arrangement, while I sat down in the seat pulled out for him by the head waiter.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000005_000001.wav|What makes the difference?|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000014_000002.wav|I said to myself: "Look here!|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000018_000001.wav|They looked through my rough exterior all right, but they didn't stop at my sterling qualities.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000013_000001.wav|Beef and salad, plus tip, ninety cents.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000016_000000.wav|But so far I had kept below the Fourteenth Street belt in my investigations.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000012_000000.wav|The meat bulked a little larger than at the Bay State Lunch, but when the fat had been cut away and trimmed off the salvage was about the size of a boy's mitten.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000016_000003.wav|Here, I felt, would be the test.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000007_000000.wav|First, I tried out what is known as the Bay State Lunch, so called because on Thursdays they have a fishcake special.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000005_000000.wav|Roast beef is not the same price in all eating places.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000003_000000.wav|But for all that I can't seem to feel that I am having a good time while I am eating it.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000014_000004.wav|This thing is getting the best of you." But before I knew it I was inside and seated at an oilcloth covered table, saying, in a hoarse voice, "Roast beef!"|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000019_000001.wav|And, once I was in, there was nothing for them to do but let me stay.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000027_000001.wav|But the thing that met my gaze when the cover was lifted might just as well have been the same property piece of roast beef that was keeping company with a dab of mashed potato in the Bay State Lunch.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000002_000000.wav|Personally, I class roast beef with watercress and vanilla cornstarch pudding as tasty articles of diet.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000016_000005.wav|Surrounded by glittering chandeliers and rich tapestries, snowy table linen and silver service, here was the chance for the ordinary roast beef to become a veritable dainty, with some character, some distinctive touch that should lift it above all that roast beef has ever meant before.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000015_000003.wav|A cup of coffee was also included in the ten cents' initial expense, but I somehow wasn't coffee thirsty that night, and so didn't sample it.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000018_000002.wav|They looked right through to the man behind me, and gave him the signal that there was a seat for him.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000021_000000.wav|It wasn't long, as the crow flies, before one of the third assistant waiters unloosened enough to drop round and see if there was anything else I wanted besides one roll and a knife and spoon.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000026_000000.wav|During the next twenty minutes the orchestra played once and I ate my roll.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000011_000000.wav|For the next experiment I went to a restaurant where business men are wont to gather for luncheon, men who pride themselves on their acumen and adherence to the principles of efficiency.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000018_000000.wav|But apparently the hotel retainers weren't trained to look through a rough exterior and find the sterling qualities beneath.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000015_000001.wav|The article itself was of the regulation size, cut somewhat thinner, perhaps, and bordering on the gray in hue, but undoubtedly roast beef.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000008_000000.wav|Here the roast beef shot through the Punch and Judy arrangement in the wall, a piece of meat about as large around as a man's size mitten, steeping in its own gravy and of a pale reddish hue.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000003_000001.wav|It stimulates the same nerve centers in me that a lantern slide lecture on "Palestine-the Old and the New," does.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000028_000000.wav|As a fitting garniture to such a dish, there was a corsage of watercress draped on the corner of the salver.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279239/8075_279239_000015_000004.wav|But I did help myself to the plate piled high with fresh bread which was left in front of me.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000007_000001.wav|In fact, a great many young gardeners never do anything further.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000007_000003.wav|If, on the morning following the first attempt to prepare the ground for planting, you are able to walk in a semi erect position as far as the bathtub (and, without outside assistance, lift one foot into the water), you may flatter yourself that you are, joint for joint, in as perfect condition as the man in the rubber heels advertisements.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000017_000003.wav|And so it would.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000007_000000.wav|This is one of the most important things that the young gardener is called upon to do.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000004_000003.wav|But all of this is on condition that something of mine grows into manhood.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000018_000001.wav|This will have necessitated a previous drawing up of a chart, showing just what is to be planted and where. As this chart will be the cause of considerable hard feeling in the family circle, usually precipitating a fist fight over the number of rows of onions to be set out, I will not touch on that in this article.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000018_000003.wav|I will say, however, that those in the family who are standing out for onions might much better save their time and feelings by pretending to give in, and then, later in the day, sneaking out and slipping the sprouts in by themselves in some spot where they will know where to find them again.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000018_000002.wav|There are some things too intimate for even a professional agriculturist to write of.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000003_000001.wav|Obviously the suggestions should come from a layman himself, in the nature of warnings to others.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000022_000003.wav|He is an Italian, and charges really very little when you consider what he accomplishes.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000017_000002.wav|You may feel that it would be futile and unsystematic to go about digging up a forkful here and a shovelful there, tossing the earth at random, in the hope that in due time you will get the place dug up.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000011_000001.wav|You might think that a back yard, possessed of an ordinary amount of decency and civic pride would, at some time during its career, have said to itself:|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000011_000000.wav|The necessity for work of such a strenuous nature in the mere preliminaries of the process of planting a garden is due to the fact that the average back yard has, up till the present time, been behaving less like a garden than anything else in the world.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000004_000002.wav|In fact, I would take it as a personal favor, and would feel that anything that I might do in the future for Nature would be little enough in return for the special work she went to all the trouble of doing for me.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000012_000001.wav|I may some day be called upon to be a garden, and the least I can do is to get myself into some sort of shape, so that, when the time comes, I will be fairly ready to receive a seed or two."|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000014_000000.wav|I have saved in a box all the things that I have dug from my back yard, and, when I have them assembled, all I will need will be a good engine to make them into a pretty fairly decent runabout,--nothing elaborate, mind you, but good enough to run the family out in on Sunday afternoons.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000009_000002.wav|One advocates bending over, without once raising up, until the whole row is dug.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000013_000000.wav|But no! Year in and year out they have been drifting along in a fools' paradise, accumulating stones and queer, indistinguishable cans and things, until they were prepared to become anything, quarries, iron mines, notion counters,--anything but gardens.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000015_000000.wav|And then there are lots of other things that wouldn't even fit into the runabout.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000022_000001.wav|Such may well be the case, as that was as far as I got.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000016_000001.wav|If you have an empty and detached furnace boiler, you might bring that along to fill with the stones you will dig up.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000016_000003.wav|Your market is limited only by the number of neighbors who are building stone houses.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000018_000000.wav|The thing to do is to decide just where you want your garden, and what its dimensions are to be.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000003_000000.wav|But all of these editorial suggestions appear to be conducted by professionals for the benefit of the layman, which seems to me to be a rather one sided way of going about the thing.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000022_000002.wav|I then found a man who likes to do those things and whose doctor has told him that he ought to be out of doors all the time.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000019_000001.wav|The idea is to keep the music going during the driving of the stake.)|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000004_000000.wav|I am qualified to put forth such an article because of two weeks' service in my own back yard, doing my bit for peter Henderson and planting all sorts of things in the ground without the slightest expectation of ever seeing anything of any of them again.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000017_000001.wav|It is something we all have to go through with.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000009_000001.wav|All agree that it is impossible to avoid walking about during the following week as if you were impersonating an old colored waiter with the lumbago; but there are two schools, each with its own theory, as to the less painful method.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000012_000000.wav|"Now look here!|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000009_000003.wav|The others, of whom I must confess that I am one, feel that it is better to draw the body to a more or less erect position after each shovelful.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000005_000000.wav|However, although I am an amateur, I shall have to adopt, in my writing, the tone of a professional, or I shall never get any one to believe what I say.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000017_000000.wav|On the first day, when you find yourself confronted by a stretch of untouched ground which is to be turned over (technical phrase, meaning to "turn over"), you may be somewhat at a loss to know where to begin. Such indecision is only natural, and should cause no worry on the part of the young gardener.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000022_000000.wav|It may seem that I have spent most of my time in advice on preparing the ground for planting.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000002_000000.wav|During the past month almost every paper, with the exception of the agricultural journals, has installed an agricultural department, containing short articles by Lord Northcliffe, or some one else in the office who had an unoccupied typewriter, telling the American citizen how to start and hold the interest of a small garden.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000007_000002.wav|Some inherited weakness, something they never realized they had before, may crop out during this process: weak back, tendency of shoulder blades to ossification, misplacement of several important vertebræ, all are apt to be discovered for the first time during the course of one day's digging.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000021_000002.wav|You will feel that at last you have something tangible. Now all that remains is to turn the ground over, harrow it, smooth it up nice and neat, plant your seeds, cultivate them, thin out your plants and pick the crops.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000001_000000.wav|GARDENING NOTES|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000015_000002.wav|But there, I mustn't get sentimental.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8075/279233/8075_279233_000019_000000.wav|Having decided on the general plan and dimensions of the plot, gather the family about as if for a corner stone dedication, and then make a rather impressive ceremony of driving in the first stake by getting your little boy to sing the first twelve words of some patriotic air. (If he doesn't know the first twelve, any twelve will do.|8075
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000008_000002.wav|He has to show that some proposed step concerns his affairs. A silent partner has an interest in a business, although he takes no active part in its conduct because its prosperity or decline affects his profits and liabilities.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000000.wav|This state of affairs explains many things in our historic educational traditions.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000005_000003.wav|They are literally bound up with these changes; our desires, emotions, and affections are but various ways in which our doings are tied up with the doings of things and persons about us.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000016.wav|Even the pursuit of science may become an asylum of refuge from the hard conditions of life-not a temporary retreat for the sake of recuperation and clarification in future dealings with the world.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000033_000010.wav|It shows that mind and intelligent or purposeful engagement in a course of action into which things enter are identical.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000002.wav|While the theoretical errors of which we have been speaking have their expressions in the conduct of schools, they are themselves the outcome of conditions of social life. A change confined to the theoretical conviction of educators will not remove the difficulties, though it should render more effective efforts to modify social conditions.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000013.wav|These words suggest that a person is bound up with the possibilities inhering in objects; that he is accordingly on the lookout for what they are likely to do to him; and that, on the basis of his expectation or foresight, he is eager to act so as to give things one turn rather than another. Interest and aims, concern and purpose, are necessarily connected.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000028_000003.wav|History is one such group of facts; algebra another; geography another, and so on till we have run through the entire curriculum.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000018_000000.wav|A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000012_000005.wav|Only through them, in the literal time sense, will the initial activities reach a satisfactory consummation.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000022_000001.wav|The Importance of the Idea of Interest in Education.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000028_000004.wav|Having a ready made existence on their own account, their relation to mind is exhausted in what they furnish it to acquire. This idea corresponds to the conventional practice in which the program of school work, for the day, month, and successive years, consists of "studies" all marked off from one another, and each supposed to be complete by itself-for educational purposes at least.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000026_000000.wav|The problem of instruction is thus that of finding material which will engage a person in specific activities having an aim or purpose of moment or interest to him, and dealing with things not as gymnastic appliances but as conditions for the attainment of ends.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000024_000003.wav|The whole attitude is one of concern with what is to be, and with what is so far as the latter enters into the movement toward the end.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000014.wav|You have to find out what your resources are, what conditions are at command, and what the difficulties and obstacles are.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000009_000002.wav|To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000000.wav|The facts of interest show that these conceptions are mythical.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000016.wav|The logical result is expressed with literal truth in the words of an American humorist: "It makes no difference what you teach a boy so long as he doesn't like it."|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000029_000006.wav|Translated into details, it means that the act of learning or studying is artificial and ineffective in the degree in which pupils are merely presented with a lesson to be learned.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000005.wav|By its nature, the allegation could not be checked up.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000005.wav|But it should contribute through the type of intellectual and emotional disposition which it forms to the improvement of those conditions.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000024_000004.wav|Leave out the direction which depends upon foresight of possible future results, and there is no intelligence in present behavior.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000005_000006.wav|Interest, concern, mean that self and world are engaged with each other in a developing situation.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000014_000003.wav|It is obvious that a very large part of the everyday meaning of will is precisely the deliberate or conscious disposition to persist and endure in a planned course of action in spite of difficulties and contrary solicitations.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000002.wav|It accounts for the tendency to isolate intellectual matters till knowledge is scholastic, academic, and professionally technical, and for the widespread conviction that liberal education is opposed to the requirements of an education which shall count in the vocations of life.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000002.wav|We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000011.wav|Identification of will, or effort, with mere strain, results when a mind is set up, endowed with powers that are only to be applied to existing material.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000010.wav|You attend to the keys, to what you have written, to your movements, to the ribbon or the mechanism of the machine.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000008.wav|The responsibility was transferred from the educator to the pupil because the material did not have to meet specific tests; it did not have to be shown that it fulfilled any particular need or served any specific end.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000008.wav|The other is like a man who has planned an outing for the next day which continuing rain will frustrate. He cannot, to be sure, by his present reactions affect to morrow's weather, but he may take some steps which will influence future happenings, if only to postpone the proposed picnic.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000013.wav|To attend to material because there is something to be done in which the person is concerned is not disciplinary in this view; not even if it results in a desirable increase of constructive power.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000033_000011.wav|Hence to develop and train mind is to provide an environment which induces such activity.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000029_000003.wav|It becomes an object of study-that is, of inquiry and reflection-when it figures as a factor to be reckoned with in the completion of a course of events in which one is engaged and by whose outcome one is affected.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000016_000005.wav|The people we called weak willed or self indulgent always deceive themselves as to the consequences of their acts.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000025_000001.wav|Intelligence is not a peculiar possession which a person owns; but a person is intelligent in so far as the activities in which he plays a part have the qualities mentioned.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000008.wav|No ideal reward, no enrichment of emotion and intellect, accompanies them.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000015.wav|This foresight and this survey with reference to what is foreseen constitute mind.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000004.wav|The latter is bound up with what is going on; its outcome makes a difference to him.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000008_000001.wav|In some legal transactions a man has to prove "interest" in order to have a standing at court.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000011_000003.wav|If the material operates in this way, there is no call either to hunt for devices which will make it interesting or to appeal to arbitrary, semi coerced effort.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000005_000000.wav|Such a separation could exist only if the personal attitudes ran their course in a world by themselves.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000010_000004.wav|This procedure is properly stigmatized as "soft" pedagogy; as a "soup kitchen" theory of education.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000009.wav|To oscillate between drill exercises that strive to attain efficiency in outward doing without the use of intelligence, and an accumulation of knowledge that is supposed to be an ultimate end in itself, means that education accepts the present social conditions as final, and thereby takes upon itself the responsibility for perpetuating them.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000011.wav|Neither the people who engage in them, nor those who are directly affected by them, are capable of full and free interest in their work.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000021.wav|We may call the phase of objective foresight intellectual, and the phase of personal concern emotional and volitional, but there is no separation in the facts of the situation.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000010_000000.wav|When the place of interest in education is spoken of in a depreciatory way, it will be found that the second of the meanings mentioned is first exaggerated and then isolated.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000009_000004.wav|Both terms express the engrossment of the self in an object.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000033_000002.wav|Interest means that one is identified with the objects which define the activity and which furnish the means and obstacles to its realization.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000004.wav|An illustration may clear up their significance.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000028_000002.wav|Various branches of study represent so many independent branches, each having its principles of arrangement complete within itself.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000016_000006.wav|They pick out some feature which is agreeable and neglect all attendant circumstances.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000029_000005.wav|Stated thus broadly, the formula may appear abstract.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000010.wav|In many instances, he can intervene even more directly.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000015.wav|This is more likely to occur if the subject matter presented is uncongenial, for then there is no motive (so it is supposed) except the acknowledgment of duty or the value of discipline.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000017_000002.wav|They are something to look at and for curiosity to play with rather than something to achieve.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000017.wav|The very word art may become associated not with specific transformation of things, making them more significant for mind, but with stimulations of eccentric fancy and with emotional indulgences.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000031_000003.wav|Their pursuits are fixed by accident and necessity of circumstance; they are not the normal expression of their own powers interacting with the needs and resources of the environment.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000010.wav|Many of our existing social activities, industrial and political, fall in these two classes.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000017.wav|In neither case is it intelligent.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000020.wav|Compare what was said in an earlier chapter about the one sided meanings which have come to attach to the ideas of efficiency and of culture.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000033_000012.wav|On the other side, it protects us from the notion that subject matter on its side is something isolated and independent.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000016_000003.wav|Stubbornness shows itself even more in reluctance to criticize ends which present themselves than it does in persistence and energy in use of means to achieve the end.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000015_000001.wav|One has to do with the foresight of results, the other with the depth of hold the foreseen outcome has upon the person.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000005.wav|His fortunes are more or less at stake in the issue of events.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000025_000002.wav|Nor are the activities in which a person engages, whether intelligently or not, exclusive properties of himself; they are something in which he engages and partakes.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000005_000004.wav|Instead of marking a purely personal or subjective realm, separated from the objective and impersonal, they indicate the non existence of such a separate world.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000001.wav|The Meaning of the Terms.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000007.wav|The changes made by some actions (those which by contrast may be called mechanical) are external; they are shifting things about.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000002.wav|The things, the subject matter known, consist of whatever is recognized as having a bearing upon the anticipated course of events, whether assisting or retarding it.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000010_000001.wav|Interest is taken to mean merely the effect of an object upon personal advantage or disadvantage, success or failure.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000017_000006.wav|And most persons are naturally diverted from a proposed course of action by unusual, unforeseen obstacles, or by presentation of inducements to an action that is directly more agreeable.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000001.wav|It throws light upon the clash of aims manifested in different portions of the school system; the narrowly utilitarian character of most elementary education, and the narrowly disciplinary or cultural character of most higher education.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000033_000007.wav|Discipline or development of power of continuous attention is its fruit.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000016_000009.wav|That the primary difference between strong and feeble volition is intellectual, consisting in the degree of persistent firmness and fullness with which consequences are thought out, cannot be over emphasized.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000015.wav|Their mental life is sentimental; an enjoyment of an inner landscape.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000014_000005.wav|His ability is executive; that is, he persistently and energetically strives to execute or carry out his aims.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000011.wav|It can only be accomplished piecemeal, a step at a time.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000003.wav|The former is indifferent to what is going on; one result is just as good as another, since each is just something to look at.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000016_000001.wav|A man keeps on doing a thing just because he has got started, not because of any clearly thought out purpose.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000007.wav|Persons whose interests have been enlarged and intelligence trained by dealing with things and facts in active occupations having a purpose (whether in play or work) will be those most likely to escape the alternatives of an academic and aloof knowledge and a hard, narrow, and merely "practical" practice.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000012_000002.wav|The fact that a process takes time to mature is so obvious a fact that we rarely make it explicit.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000000.wav|one.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000009_000001.wav|To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000015_000000.wav|Clearly there are two factors in will.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000006.wav|Even when discipline did not accrue as matter of fact, when the pupil even grew in laxity of application and lost power of intelligent self direction, the fault lay with him, not with the study or the methods of teaching.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000014_000002.wav|Where an activity takes time, where many means and obstacles lie between its initiation and completion, deliberation and persistence are required.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000015.wav|Such words as interest, affection, concern, motivation, emphasize the bearing of what is foreseen upon the individual's fortunes, and his active desire to act to secure a possible result.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000020.wav|While such words as affection, concern, and motive indicate an attitude of personal preference, they are always attitudes toward objects-toward what is foreseen.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000013.wav|It is a challenge to undertake the task of reorganization courageously and to keep at it persistently.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000011_000000.wav|But the objection is based upon the fact-or assumption-that the forms of skill to be acquired and the subject matter to be appropriated have no interest on their own account: in other words, they are supposed to be irrelevant to the normal activities of the pupils.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000010_000002.wav|Separated from any objective development of affairs, these are reduced to mere personal states of pleasure or pain.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000031_000000.wav|This state of affairs must exist so far as society is organized on a basis of division between laboring classes and leisure classes.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000020_000005.wav|In the long run, its value is measured by whether it supplies a mere physical excitation to act in the way desired by the adult or whether it leads the child "to think"--that is, to reflect upon his acts and impregnate them with aims.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000018_000001.wav|Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000005.wav|Art is neither merely internal nor merely external; merely mental nor merely physical.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000025_000003.wav|Other things, the independent changes of other things and persons, cooperate and hinder.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000016.wav|They take for granted the objective changes.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000029_000002.wav|Just as one "studies" his typewriter as part of the operation of putting it to use to effect results, so with any fact or truth.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000019_000000.wav|It is hardly necessary to press the point that interest and discipline are connected, not opposed.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000019.wav|But for an active being, a being who partakes of the consequences instead of standing aloof from them, there is at the same time a personal response. The difference imaginatively foreseen makes a present difference, which finds expression in solicitude and effort.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000024_000000.wav|If we recur to the case where mind is not concerned with the physical manipulation of the instruments but with what one intends to write, the case is the same.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000017_000005.wav|A certain flabbiness of fiber prevents the contemplated object from gripping him and engaging him in action.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000005.wav|You are engaged in a certain occupation, say writing with a typewriter.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000018_000003.wav|To know what one is to do and to move to do it promptly and by use of the requisite means is to be disciplined, whether we are thinking of an army or a mind. Discipline is positive.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000003_000000.wav|Chapter Ten: Interest and Discipline|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000010.wav|A reorganization of education so that learning takes place in connection with the intelligent carrying forward of purposeful activities is a slow work.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000014_000006.wav|A weak will is unstable as water.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000012_000003.wav|We overlook the fact that in growth there is ground to be covered between an initial stage of process and the completing period; that there is something intervening.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000023_000001.wav|Mind appears in experience as ability to respond to present stimuli on the basis of anticipation of future possible consequences, and with a view to controlling the kind of consequences that are to take place.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000022_000005.wav|Attitudes and methods of approach and response vary with the specific appeal the same material makes, this appeal itself varying with difference of natural aptitude, of past experience, of plan of life, and so on.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000032_000006.wav|And just here the true conceptions of interest and discipline are full of significance.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000009_000003.wav|We say of an interested person both that he has lost himself in some affair and that he has found himself in it.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000007.wav|His failure was but proof that he needed more discipline, and thus afforded a reason for retaining the old methods.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000004_000006.wav|Consequently he does whatever he can to influence the direction present occurrences take.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000025_000000.wav|If this illustration is typical, mind is not a name for something complete by itself; it is a name for a course of action in so far as that is intelligently directed; in so far, that is to say, as aims, ends, enter into it, with selection of means to further the attainment of aims.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000020_000002.wav|Parents and teachers often complain-and correctly-that children "do not want to hear, or want to understand." Their minds are not upon the subject precisely because it does not touch them; it does not enter into their concerns.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000013.wav|The same conditions force many people back upon themselves. They take refuge in an inner play of sentiment and fancies.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000027_000000.wav|In historic practice the error has cut two ways.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000018_000002.wav|Discipline means power at command; mastery of the resources available for carrying through the action undertaken.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000017_000003.wav|There is no such thing as over intellectuality, but there is such a thing as a one sided intellectuality.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000033_000003.wav|Any activity with an aim implies a distinction between an earlier incomplete phase and later completing phase; it implies also intermediate steps.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7949/39970/7949_39970_000030_000009.wav|Others contribute to the maintenance of life, and to its external adornment and display.|7949
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000010_000002.wav|It had not come, but it had sent that shiver through the sea to say that it was coming.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000135_000005.wav|After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards be quite the same boy.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000065_000000.wav|"What was that?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000132_000002.wav|The rock was slippery as a ball, and they had to crawl rather than climb.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000012_000001.wav|But she was a young mother and she did not know this; she thought you simply must stick to your rule about half an hour after the mid day meal.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000122_000000.wav|"Now we have him," Hook shouted.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000127_000001.wav|First to draw blood was john, who gallantly climbed into the boat and held Starkey.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000020_000000.wav|In the gloom that they brought with them the two pirates did not see the rock till they crashed into it.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000135_000006.wav|No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except peter.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000100_000000.wav|"Animal?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000105_000000.wav|"Yes."|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000127_000002.wav|There was fierce struggle, in which the cutlass was torn from the pirate's grasp.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000162_000000.wav|"And you a lady; never." Already he had tied the tail round her.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000041_000002.wav|He was tingling with life and also top heavy with conceit.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000069_000001.wav|By this time they were on the rock, and suddenly Hook remembered Tiger Lily.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000084_000000.wav|"You are not; you are not," Hook cried hoarsely.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000135_000002.wav|He could only stare, horrified.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000059_000000.wav|Hook winced.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000161_000000.wav|"Let us draw lots," Wendy said bravely.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000152_000002.wav|I can neither fly nor swim."|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000164_000000.wav|peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000010_000000.wav|It was not, she knew, that night had come, but something as dark as night had come.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000058_000000.wav|Smee, much impressed, gazed at the bird as the nest was borne past, but the more suspicious Starkey said, "If she is a mother, perhaps she is hanging about here to help peter."|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000086_000001.wav|"If you are Hook," he said almost humbly, "come tell me, who am I?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000075_000000.wav|"You called over the water to us to let her go," said Starkey.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000071_000000.wav|He had a playful humour at moments, and they thought this was one of the moments.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000072_000000.wav|"That is all right, captain," Smee answered complacently; "we let her go."|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000037_000000.wav|Of course Wendy was very elated over Peter's cleverness; but she knew that he would be elated also and very likely crow and thus betray himself, so at once her hand went out to cover his mouth.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000047_000000.wav|"And yet a third time he sighs," said Smee.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000078_000000.wav|"Spirit that haunts this dark lagoon to night," he cried, "dost hear me?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000054_000000.wav|peter pulled her beneath the water, for Hook had started up, crying, "What was that?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000018_000001.wav|It was the pirate dinghy, with three figures in her, Smee and Starkey, and the third a captive, no other than Tiger Lily.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000083_000000.wav|"I am james Hook," replied the voice, "captain of the JOLLY ROGER."|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000068_000000.wav|"And there is my hook.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000114_000001.wav|"You ask him some questions," he said to the others, wiping his damp brow.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000135_000001.wav|It made him quite helpless.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000029_000000.wav|"Set her free," came the astonishing answer.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000089_000000.wav|"Have we been captained all this time by a codfish!" they muttered.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000040_000000.wav|Now Wendy understood.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000087_000000.wav|"A codfish," replied the voice, "only a codfish."|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000137_000003.wav|"They must be swimming back or flying," the boys concluded.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000127_000000.wav|The fight was short and sharp.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000137_000004.wav|They were not very anxious, because they had such faith in peter.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000015_000000.wav|"Pirates!" he cried.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000141_000001.wav|peter, feeling her slip from him, woke with a start, and was just in time to draw her back.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000133_000002.wav|After all, he was the only man that the Sea Cook had feared.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000140_000001.wav|With a last effort peter pulled her up the rock and then lay down beside her.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000107_000000.wav|"No!"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000115_000001.wav|"I can't think of a thing," he said regretfully.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000116_000000.wav|"Can't guess, can't guess!" crowed peter.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000052_000000.wav|"What's a mother?" asked the ignorant Smee.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000073_000000.wav|"Let her go!" cried Hook.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000139_000000.wav|"Help, help!"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000156_000000.wav|It was the tail of a kite, which Michael had made some days before.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000112_000000.wav|"Are you here?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000091_000000.wav|In his dark nature there was a touch of the feminine, as in all the great pirates, and it sometimes gave him intuitions.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000094_000000.wav|"And another name?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000048_000000.wav|Then at last he spoke passionately.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000050_000000.wav|Affrighted though she was, Wendy swelled with pride.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000157_000000.wav|"Michael's kite," peter said without interest, but next moment he had seized the tail, and was pulling the kite toward him.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000090_000003.wav|"Don't desert me, bully," he whispered hoarsely to it.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000079_000000.wav|Of course peter should have kept quiet, but of course he did not.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000026_000000.wav|"The captain!" said the pirates, staring at each other in surprise.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000088_000000.wav|"A codfish!" Hook echoed blankly, and it was then, but not till then, that his proud spirit broke.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000135_000000.wav|Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed peter.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000132_000001.wav|Hook rose to the rock to breathe, and at the same moment peter scaled it on the opposite side.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000085_000000.wav|"Brimstone and gall," the voice retorted, "say that again, and I'll cast anchor in you."|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000135_000003.wav|Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000097_000000.wav|"no"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000066_000000.wav|But they could see nothing.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000082_000001.wav|Speak!" Hook demanded.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000146_000000.wav|"Shall we swim or fly, peter?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000113_000000.wav|"Yes."|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000102_000000.wav|"Man?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000151_000000.wav|"What is it?" she asked, anxious about him at once.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000057_000000.wav|There was a break in his voice, as if for a moment he recalled innocent days when-but he brushed away this weakness with his hook.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000111_000000.wav|"no"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000098_000000.wav|"Mineral?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000037_000001.wav|But it was stayed even in the act, for "Boat ahoy!" rang over the lagoon in Hook's voice, and this time it was not peter who had spoken.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000134_000000.wav|It was then that Hook bit him.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000018_000003.wav|She was to be left on the rock to perish, an end to one of her race more terrible than death by fire or torture, for is it not written in the book of the tribe that there is no path through water to the happy hunting ground?|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000162_000001.wav|She clung to him; she refused to go without him; but with a "Good bye, Wendy," he pushed her from the rock; and in a few minutes she was borne out of his sight.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000051_000000.wav|"O evil day!" cried Starkey.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000043_000000.wav|The two pirates were very curious to know what had brought their captain to them, but he sat with his head on his hook in a position of profound melancholy.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000158_000000.wav|"It lifted Michael off the ground," he cried; "why should it not carry you?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000001_000000.wav|Chapter eight THE MERMAIDS' LAGOON|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000008_000001.wav|The rock was not much larger than their great bed, but of course they all knew how not to take up much room, and they were dozing, or at least lying with their eyes shut, and pinching occasionally when they thought Wendy was not looking.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000116_000001.wav|"Do you give it up?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000090_000000.wav|They were his dogs snapping at him, but, tragic figure though he had become, he scarcely heeded them.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000021_000000.wav|"Luff, you lubber," cried an Irish voice that was Smee's; "here's the rock.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000118_000000.wav|"Yes, yes," they answered eagerly.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000124_000000.wav|"Are you ready, boys?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000159_000000.wav|"Both of us!"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000109_000000.wav|To Wendy's pain the answer that rang out this time was "Yes."|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000104_000000.wav|"Boy?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000115_000000.wav|Smee reflected.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000152_000000.wav|"I can't help you, Wendy.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000061_000000.wav|"Captain," said Smee, "could we not kidnap these boys' mother and make her our mother?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000096_000000.wav|"Vegetable?" asked Hook.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000032_000000.wav|"But, captain-"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000079_000001.wav|He immediately answered in Hook's voice:|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000090_000001.wav|Against such fearful evidence it was not their belief in him that he needed, it was his own.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000053_000001.wav|"He doesn't know!" and always after this she felt that if you could have a pet pirate Smee would be her one.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000077_000000.wav|"It is passing queer," Smee said, and they all fidgeted uncomfortably. Hook raised his voice, but there was a quiver in it.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000049_000000.wav|"The game's up," he cried, "those boys have found a mother."|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000114_000000.wav|Hook was completely puzzled.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000155_000002.wav|As they sat thus something brushed against peter as light as a kiss, and stayed there, as if saying timidly, "Can I be of any use?"|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000023_000002.wav|peter had seen many tragedies, but he had forgotten them all.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000012_000004.wav|She stood over them to let them have their sleep out.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000074_000000.wav|"'twas your own orders," the bo'sun faltered.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1012/133424/1012_133424_000070_000000.wav|"Where is the redskin?" he demanded abruptly.|1012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000021_000003.wav|Dick now believed that so many good omens could not fail.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000006_000002.wav|I didn't get away from that hospital too soon.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000009_000002.wav|They don't seem to make any stand at all!"|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000043_000000.wav|"But don't get shot," cautioned Colonel Winchester.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000008_000001.wav|"Your mathematical power grows every day, Frank.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000012_000003.wav|Good Heavens, why don't we push on?"|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000000.wav|Dick, through his own glasses saw Confederate officers watching them also.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000019_000000.wav|"I hope and believe so.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000037_000004.wav|The Winchester regiment was moved far to the north, where its officers hopefully believed that the first attack would be made.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000026_000000.wav|Dick, too, felt a sinking of the heart, but despair was not written on his face as it was on that of his colonel.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000015_000000.wav|"It's a narrow stream, but deep, and crossed by several stone bridges. It will be hard to force a crossing here, but further up it can be done with ease since we outnumber Lee so much that we can overlap him by far. I have my information from Shepard, and he makes no mistakes.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000015_000001.wav|There is a church, too, on the upper part of the peninsula, a little church belonging to an order called the Dunkards."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000003.wav|McClellan said that fifty thousand men were there, and that Jackson was coming with fifty thousand more, but Shepard, who always knew, said that they did not number more than twenty thousand.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000020_000000.wav|The colonel raised his glasses and took a long look in front.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000005_000000.wav|"How did you stand that fighting yesterday afternoon, George?" Dick asked of Warner.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000038_000003.wav|But they did not hide the view of the armies, arrayed for battle, and with only a narrow river between.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000007.wav|If he said anything at all he would have to say it in a guarded manner and to his best friends.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000030_000001.wav|But he isn't going to cross without a battle, that's sure. The rebels are flushed with victory, they think they have the greatest leaders ever born and they believe, despite the disparity of numbers, that they can beat us."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000021_000001.wav|The glasses carried far.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000006_000000.wav|"First rate.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000040_000003.wav|A more comfortable summer home for a night could not be asked. And there was plenty of food, too.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000004_000000.wav|But Dick said nothing to anybody of his duel with Harry Kenton.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000023_000000.wav|"What is it, mr Shepard?" asked Colonel Winchester.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000041_000002.wav|Now and then they heard the booming of guns, and just before dark there had been a short artillery duel across the Antietam, but now the night was quiet, save for the murmur and movement of a great army.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000012_000002.wav|With Jackson tied up before Harper's Ferry, Lee's defeat is sure, unless he retreats across the Potomac, and that would be equivalent to a defeat.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000014_000000.wav|"Do you know anything about the Antietam, colonel?" asked Dick.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000017_000000.wav|"What do you mean by that?"|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000025_000002.wav|"Oh, that lost day!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000028_000001.wav|And so we will!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000036_000001.wav|Jackson, even with his vanguard, could not arrive before night, and the main force certainly could not come from Harper's Ferry before the morrow.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000037_000000.wav|But Colonel Winchester raged again and again in vain.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000031_000000.wav|"And I believe they can't," said Dick.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000020_000003.wav|The whole country would have been heavy with forest had it not been for the tramp of war.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000006_000001.wav|The open air agreed with me, and as no bullet sought me out I felt benefited.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000025_000004.wav|What a day!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000003_000002.wav|It was another good omen.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000028_000004.wav|I want our regiment to be the first to reach the Antietam."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000037_000001.wav|There was no attack.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000041_000001.wav|If they must rest they would rest well.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000027_000000.wav|"Why, colonel!" he exclaimed, "we can beat them anyhow!"|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000028_000000.wav|"That's so, my lad, so we can!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000037_000002.wav|Brigade after brigade in blue came up and sat down before the Antietam.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000002_000001.wav|The Confederates, after the fierce fighting of the day before, had abandoned both gaps, and the way at last lay clear before the Army of the Potomac.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000018_000004.wav|We're bound to achieve a great victory, colonel."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000038_000000.wav|Despite the delay, Dick and his comrades, thrilled at the great and terrible panorama spread before them.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000040_000006.wav|Heavenly aromas arose.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000041_000000.wav|Dick and his comrades ate and drank, and then lay down in the grove.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000040_000004.wav|The Army of the Potomac never lacked it.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000008_000000.wav|"Correct," said Warner, who was in an uncommonly fine humor.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000036_000002.wav|Here was a full half day for the Army of the Potomac, enough in which to destroy a divided portion of the Army of Northern Virginia.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000007_000000.wav|"It's only eight miles from the gap," said Pennington, who had been making inquiries, "and as we have come three miles it must be only five miles away."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000021_000002.wav|Dick saw a line of trees which he surmised marked the course of the Antietam, and he saw small detachments of cavalry which he knew were watching the advance of the Army of the Potomac. Their purpose convinced him that Lee had not retreated across the Potomac, but that he would fight and surely lose.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000028_000002.wav|It was childish of me to talk as I did.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000035_000001.wav|But his eyes came back from the church and rested on the country around Sharpsburg.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000009_000000.wav|"If some rebel cannoneer doesn't shoot it off in the coming battle.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000022_000000.wav|A horseman galloped toward them.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000043_000001.wav|"The Confederate riflemen will certainly be on watch on the other side of the stream."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000018_000003.wav|It's another good omen.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000035_000000.wav|He saw through the powerful glasses the walls of the little village of Sharpsburg, and to the north a roof which he believed was that of the Dunkard Church, of which Shepard spoke.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000026_000001.wav|Jackson might come, but it would only be with a part of his force, that which marched the swiftest, and the victory of the Army of the Potomac would be all the grander.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000028_000003.wav|Here, Johnson, blow your best on that trumpet.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000040_000002.wav|They had dry grass, warm air and the open sky.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000003_000000.wav|Dick was mounted again.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000029_000003.wav|But in front he saw only quiet and peace, save for a few distant horsemen who seemed to be riding at random.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000040_000000.wav|The Winchester regiment went into camp in a pleasant grove at the northern end of the Union line.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000016_000000.wav|"Ah," murmured Dick, "the little church of Shiloh!"|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000025_000005.wav|What a day!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000002.wav|Why should they be allowed to ride about so calmly? His heart fairly ached for the attack.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000033_000000.wav|The regiment in its swift advance now came nearer to the Antietam, the narrow but deep creek between its high banks.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000025_000000.wav|"My God!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000029_000002.wav|Dick looked back, and he saw once more that vast billowing cloud of dust made by the marching army.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000004_000004.wav|Again he was thankful.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000009_000001.wav|By George, we're driving their skirmishers before us!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000008_000003.wav|Wonderful! wonderful! You'll soon have a great head on you, Frank."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000019_000001.wav|We've the materials with which to do it.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000042_000000.wav|Dick asked permission for his two comrades and himself to go down near the river and obtained it.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000025_000006.wav|Nothing can ever pay us back for the losing of it!"|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000019_000002.wav|But we've got to push and push hard."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000004.wav|What a chance!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000040_000001.wav|Dick and his two young comrades had no fault to find with their quarters.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000041_000003.wav|Through the darkness came the sound of many voices and the clank of moving wheels.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000012_000000.wav|"Why don't we hurry!" he exclaimed.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000001.wav|He tried to imagine that this was Lee and that Longstreet, and that one of the Hills, and the one who wore a gorgeous uniform must surely be Stuart.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000004_000001.wav|He shuddered even now when he recalled it.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000003_000001.wav|In fact his horse, after pulling the reins from his hands and fleeing from the Confederate fire, had been retaken by a member of his own regiment and returned to him.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000035_000003.wav|Beyond the peninsula he caught glimpses of the broad Potomac.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000039_000005.wav|What a chance!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000022_000001.wav|It was Shepard again, dustier than ever, his face pale from weariness.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114476/8118_114476_000034_000001.wav|Great armies drawn up for battle were a spectacle that no boy could ever view calmly, and his heart beat so hard that it caused him actual physical pain.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000022_000001.wav|He was resolved to get back to the army with the news that a heavy Southern force was across the Rappahannock. Others might get there first with the fact, but one never knew.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000031_000001.wav|While a portion of the Southern army was across it must be a minor portion, and certainly the major part could not span such a flood and attack.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000047_000000.wav|"A mile or two back I passed a line of Southern horsemen, just as wet and bedraggled as ours."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000022_000000.wav|But nothing could stop the boy.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000031_000002.wav|The storm and time allied were now fighting for Pope.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000026_000000.wav|He came up, gasping, struck out and reached the further shore.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000035_000001.wav|Colonel Winchester recognized the voice, but the light was so dim that he did not recognize him from whom it came.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000054_000000.wav|News, where a Northern force could not have obtained a word, was poured out for the South.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000025_000005.wav|Then he shot into a creek, swollen by the flood, and went over his head.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000032_000002.wav|He wondered why the rain and wind did not die down.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000025_000001.wav|It was impossible to judge of pace under such circumstances.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000053_000000.wav|Earlier in the day Stuart, full of enterprise, and almost insensible to fatigue, had crossed the Rappahannock much higher up and at the head of a formidable body of his horsemen, unseen by scouts and spies, was riding around the Union right.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000040_000001.wav|He had not realized that he was walking on his spirit and courage and that his strength was gone, so powerful had been the buffets of the wind and rain.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000053_000001.wav|They galloped into Warrenton where the people, red hot as usual for the South, crowded around them cheering and laughing and many of the women crying with joy.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000050_000002.wav|But they must be few who dare to ride in such a storm."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000040_000000.wav|Dick made an effort, but his strength failed and he slipped back to the ground.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000038_000000.wav|The whole troop set up a shout as Dick came forward, taking off his dripping cap.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000048_000001.wav|It would be hard to tell blue and gray apart on such a night."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000026_000003.wav|His belt had broken in his struggles, and pistols, small sword and ammunition were gone.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000011_000000.wav|The lightning and thunder made Dick jump, and for a few moments he was blinded by the electric glare.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000025_000002.wav|The army might be ten miles further on or it might be only two.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000044_000003.wav|Not many men can be abroad at such a time.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000026_000005.wav|Then he laughed at the idea.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000021_000002.wav|The rain did not abate.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000020_000000.wav|He stood a while behind the trunk of a great tree, trying to shelter himself a little from the rain, and listened.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000024_000001.wav|He had the river on his right, and it now became an unfailing guide.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000020_000002.wav|The storm was of uncommon fury.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000017_000002.wav|There was no calling of voices and no beat of footsteps.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000021_000003.wav|Both armies were flooded that night, but they could find some measure of protection.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000032_000001.wav|The yellow torrent of the Rappahannock was now his only sure guide and he stuck to it.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000023_000000.wav|He stumbled on.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000008_000002.wav|We've seen enough anyway and we'd better get back as fast as we can."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000034_000000.wav|A mile or two further and in the swish of the storm he heard hoofbeats again.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000024_000003.wav|The river swished high against its banks and once or twice, when he caught dim glimpses of it through the trees, he saw a yellow torrent bearing much brushwood upon its bosom.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000020_000003.wav|He had never seen one fiercer, and knowing that he had little to dread from the Southerners while it raged he knew also that he must make his way on foot, and as best he could, to his own people.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000010_000001.wav|The last star was gone and the somber clouds covered the whole heavens.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000034_000003.wav|Shapeless as he might appear on his horse that was Colonel Winchester, and there were the broad shoulders of Sergeant Whitley and the figures of the others.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000004_000001.wav|The cottages were prepared for the higher officers, but the men stacked arms in the open ground all about.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000037_000000.wav|"So it is," said Sergeant Whitley, keener of eye than the others.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000030_000001.wav|His way lay in another direction. What they wished he did not wish, and while they fought for the triumph of the South it was his business to endure and struggle on that he might do his own little part for the Union.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000025_000004.wav|He grasped at weeds and bushes, but they slipped through his hands.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000054_000002.wav|Stuart shook his plumed head until his long golden hair flew about his neck.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000033_000000.wav|He became conscious after a while of a growing weakness, but he had recalled all the powers of his will and it was triumphant over his body. He trudged on on feet that were unconscious of sensation, and his face as if the flesh were paralyzed no longer felt the beat of the rain.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000034_000001.wav|Looking forth from the bushes he saw another line of horsemen, but now they were going in the direction of Pope's army.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000050_000000.wav|"Then that settles it.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000023_000005.wav|He was compelled to stop a while and take refuge behind a big oak.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000023_000001.wav|He was able to keep his cartridges dry in his pouch, but that was all.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000043_000000.wav|"It is, sir, and I not only look like a wreck but I feel like one.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000018_000000.wav|He divined at once that his comrades, wholly unaware of his fall, when no one could either see or hear it, had gone on without missing him. They might also mount their horses and gallop away wholly ignorant that he was not among them.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000017_000001.wav|He clapped his hand to the left side of his head, and felt there a big bump and a sharp ache. His weapons were still in his belt and he knew that his injuries were not serious, but he heard nothing save the drive and roar of the wind and rain.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000013_000002.wav|Listen to that thunder again, won't you!"|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000010_000004.wav|Then came a mighty crash and a great blaze of lightning seemed to cleave the sky straight down the center.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000029_000002.wav|Just behind came three youths, and Dick's heart fairly leaped when he saw the last of the three.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000048_000000.wav|"Might they not have been our own men?|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000014_000002.wav|The first bolt had struck a tree which had fallen within thirty feet of them, but the second left this bit of the woods unscathed.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000042_000001.wav|It's lucky we found you."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000030_000000.wav|Dick was so sodden and cold and wretched that he was tempted to call out to them-the sight of Harry was like a light in the darkness-but the temptation was gone in an instant.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000039_000003.wav|Jump up behind me!"|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000007_000000.wav|"All the clouds that we saw a little further back," he said, "have gathered together, an' the storm is about to bust.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000005_000000.wav|Colonel Winchester suppressed a groan.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000010_000003.wav|Deep and sullen thunder began to mutter on the southwestern horizon.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000029_000003.wav|He could not mistake the figure, and a turning of the head caused him to catch a faint glimpse of the face.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000051_000000.wav|"That's surely true, sir."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000039_000002.wav|Your horse must have broken loose in the storm. But here, you look as if you were nearly dead!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000023_000007.wav|The Union and its fate, gigantic as they were, slipped away from his mind, and it took an effort of the will to bring them back.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000049_000001.wav|I recognized them perfectly."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000019_000000.wav|Although he was a little dazed, Dick had a good idea of direction and he plunged through the mud which was now growing deep toward the little ravine in which they had hitched their horses.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000034_000002.wav|Dick recognized these figures.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000013_000001.wav|When a drought breaks up I wish it wouldn't break up with such a terrible fuss.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000053_000002.wav|It was like Jackson and Stuart to drop from the clouds this way and to tell them, although the land had been occupied by the enemy, that their brave soldiers would come in time.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000008_000000.wav|"It's so, sergeant," said Colonel Winchester.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000024_000000.wav|But his will made the effort, and recalling his mission he struggled on again.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000026_000002.wav|But he had lost everything.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000014_000001.wav|Despite himself Dick shrank again.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000013_000000.wav|"No," said Warner, who alone heard him, "but we're scared half to death.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000005_000001.wav|Dick noticed that his face was pallid in the uncertain shadows, and he understood the agony of spirit that the brave man must suffer when he saw that they had been outflanked by their enemy.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000046_000001.wav|What did you see?"|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000046_000000.wav|"You have!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000016_000001.wav|Dick heard Warner on his right, and he followed the sound of his voice.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000006_000000.wav|Sergeant Whitley, moving forward a little, touched the colonel on the arm.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000049_000000.wav|"One could make such a mistake, but in this case it was not possible. I saw my own cousin, Harry Kenton, riding with them.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000015_000001.wav|The close, dense heat was swept away, and the first blasts of the rain were as cold as ice.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000021_000004.wav|To the scouts and skirmishers and to Dick, wandering through the forest, nature was an unmitigated foe.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000025_000000.wav|He had very little idea of his progress.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000012_000000.wav|"Are any of you hurt?"|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000044_000002.wav|What a night!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000028_000001.wav|They were wrapped in cloaks, but cloaks and uniforms alike were sodden.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000023_000002.wav|His wet, cold clothes flapped around him and he shivered to the bone.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000029_000000.wav|Dick looked at them attentively.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER four.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000019_000001.wav|All were gone, including his own mount, and he had no doubt that the horse had broken or slipped the bridle in the darkness and followed the others.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000010_000000.wav|But the storm was upon them before they could reach their horses.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/114469/8118_114469_000036_000000.wav|"Colonel," cried Dick, "it is I, Richard Mason, whom you left behind!"|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000007.wav|That moment a white figure appeared between the yew trees by the porch.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000006.wav|I seized it quickly, and broke the seal.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000004_000000.wav|Caring little what people might say or think, I could not stay at a distance.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000009_000000.wav|Alone I sat by my father's grave, with my mother's ready before my feet. They had cast the mould on the other side, so as not to move my father's coverlet.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000006_000003.wav|One of them brought me a bunch, then stared, and was afraid to offer them.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000012_000002.wav|Within a yard of me stood mr Edgar Vaughan.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000010_000003.wav|So I waited, with heavy composure, till she should be brought, who so often had walked there with me.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000010_000001.wav|Defiance, and pride, and savage delight in misery, were entirely gone; and depression had taken the place of dejection.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000010_000002.wav|Death now seemed to me the usual and proper condition of things, and I felt it an impertinence that I should still be alive.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000008_000000.wav|We arrived at Vaughan saint Mary late in the afternoon of the second day. The whole of the journey was to me a long and tearful dream.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000008_000002.wav|He had never before been further from home than Exeter; and his single visit to that city had formed the landmark of his life.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000013_000002.wav|I neither rose nor spoke, but turned and watched him.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000011_000000.wav|The bell was tolling faster, and the shadows growing longer, and the children who had been playing at hide and seek, where soon themselves shall be sought in vain, had flitted away from sight, perhaps scared at my presence, perhaps gone home to tea, to enjoy the funeral afterwards. The evening wind had ceased from troubling the yews, and the short-lived songs of the birds were done.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000008_000004.wav|The ignorant man knew better.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000008.wav|It was the aged minister leading my mother the last path of all. The book was in his hand, and his form was tall and stately, and his step so slow, that the white hair fell unruffled, while the grand words on his lips called majesty into his gaze.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000002_000000.wav|Although I find a sad pleasure in lingering over these times, with such a history still impending, I cannot afford the indulgence.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000004_000001.wav|Nature told me that it was my duty to go, and duty or not, I could not stay away.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000004.wav|In vain I wiped them hurriedly and looked again.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000009.wav|Thrusting aside the letter, I followed into the Church, and stood behind the old font where I had been baptized; a dark and gloomy nook, fit for such an entrance.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000005.wav|mr Vaughan was gone; but on the grass at my feet lay a folded letter.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000002.wav|Betwixt suspense and terror, and the wildness of grief, I was obliged to lean on the headstone for support, and a giddiness came over me.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000010_000000.wav|My mind (if any I had) seemed to have undergone some change.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000012_000003.wav|In a moment the old feeling was at my heart, and my wits were all awake.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000016_000002.wav|And yet I loved your mother, Clara; I loved her very truly."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000019_000000.wav|"And my mother, too," I answered, "whose coffin I see coming."|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000016_000001.wav|I am not come to offer you condolence, which you would despise; nor do I mean to be present when you would account the sight of me an insult.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000008_000001.wav|mr Huxtable came with us.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000010.wav|She who had carried me there was carried past it now, and the pall waved in the damp cold air, and all the world seemed stone and mould.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000008_000003.wav|He never tried to comfort me as the others did.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000017_000000.wav|This he said with such emotion, that a new thought broke upon me.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000007_000001.wav|Some one from time to time gave out the words of a verse and then it was sung to a simple impressive tune. That ancient hymn, which has drowned so many sobs, I did not hear, but felt it.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000003_000002.wav|But difficulties, sore to encounter at such a time, would have met me on every side.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000012_000000.wav|The sun was setting behind me: suddenly a shadow eclipsed my own upon the red loam across the open grave.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000013_000001.wav|He lifted his hat to me.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000005_000002.wav|There it lies indeed, I can touch it, kiss it, and embrace it; but oh how small a part of mother! and even that part is not mine.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000010_000004.wav|At length she was coming for good and all, and a space was left for me.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000009_000001.wav|The poor old pensioner had been true to her promise, and man's last garden was blooming like his first flower bed.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000005_000005.wav|The last last look of all on earth-they must have carried me away.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000003_000003.wav|Moreover the kind act cheered and led me through despondency, like the hand and face of God.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000003_000000.wav|Dear mother's simple funeral took me once more to my native place.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000016_000000.wav|"Very well," he resumed, with the ancient chill hardening over his features; "so then let it be.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000013_000000.wav|I observed that he was paler than when I had seen him last, and the rigid look was wavering on his face, like steel reflected by water.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000005_000001.wav|So far away now, so hopelessly far away!|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000012_000001.wav|Without a start, and dreamily (as I did all things now), I turned to see whence it came.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000010_000005.wav|But I must not repose there yet; I had still my task before me.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000018_000000.wav|Quick as the thought, he asked, "Would you know who killed your father?"|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000020_000001.wav|He took his hat off, and the perspiration stood upon his forehead.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER two.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8118/268287/8118_268287_000015_000000.wav|I heard, with some surprise, his allusion to the Great Being, whom he was not wont to recognise; but I made him no reply.|8118
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000067_000001.wav|She was obliged to pass between the point of the jetty, surmounted by a beacon just lighted, and a rock which jutted out.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000036_000000.wav|"It matters not; you were wrong to reply to him as you did," continued Aramis, following with his eyes the young man, now vanishing behind the cliffs.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000026_000000.wav|"He is and he is not," replied Athos; "that is to say, he is dismissed by one half of France, but by intrigues and promises he makes the other half sustain him; you will perceive that this may last a long time."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000071_000001.wav|The beacon bathed with light the little strait through which they were about to pass and the rock where the young man stood with bare head and crossed arms.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000020_000000.wav|"Hush!" said Athos, "we are overheard."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000049_000000.wav|"Ah! here is De Winter coming," said Athos.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000098_000001.wav|See if he is still in the same place."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000057_000000.wav|When De Winter perceived them, in his turn he advanced toward them with surprising rapidity.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000064_000000.wav|At this moment Athos perceived a man walking on the seashore parallel to the jetty, and hastening his steps, as if to reach the other side of the port, scarcely twenty steps from the place of embarking.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000082_000000.wav|"Fire!" cried Grimaud, unconsciously.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000098_000000.wav|"Hold, Athos," said Aramis, "perhaps there is yet time.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000013_000001.wav|Boulogne was a strong position, then almost a deserted town, built entirely on the heights; what is now called the lower town did not then exist.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000061_000000.wav|"But let us go," continued De Winter; "let us be off; the boat must be waiting for us and there is our sloop at anchor-do you see it there?|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000021_000000.wav|In truth, the walker, who, during the observations of the two friends, had passed and repassed behind them several times, stopped at the name of De Winter; but as his face betrayed no emotion at mention of this name, it might have been by chance he stood so still.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000064_000002.wav|The latter, to make a short cut, had appeared on a sluice.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000033_000000.wav|"Nothing warranted me to answer him otherwise; he was polite to me and I was so to him."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000060_000000.wav|Athos glanced at Aramis.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000008_000000.wav|"If Mousqueton were with us," observed Athos, on reaching the spot where they had had a dispute with the paviers, "how he would tremble at passing this!|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000044_000000.wav|"In beauty or on the contrary?" asked Aramis, laughing.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000101_000000.wav|"Hold your tongue," replied Aramis; "you would make me weep, if such a thing were possible."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000046_000000.wav|"Ah! Egad!" cried Aramis, "you set me thinking.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000066_000000.wav|And Athos sprang into the boat, which was immediately pushed off and which soon sped seawards under the efforts of four stalwart rowers.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000051_000001.wav|"I see them about twenty paces behind my lord.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000087_000000.wav|"Yes, but the son has done us no harm."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000039_000000.wav|"A quarrel?" asked Athos.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000065_000000.wav|"He certainly bodes us no good," said Athos; "but let us embark; once out at sea, let him come."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000102_000002.wav|At this instant the three friends turned, in spite of themselves, a last look on the rock, upon the menacing figure which pursued them and now stood out with a distinctness still.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000016_000000.wav|Athos and Aramis walked down toward the port.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000075_000000.wav|"The monk!" exclaimed Grimaud.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000017_000000.wav|On reaching the jetty Athos and Aramis stopped to look at a little boat made fast to a pile and ready rigged as if waiting to start.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000016_000003.wav|This man, whom they had noticed from the first for the same reason they had themselves been remarked by others, was walking in a listless way up and down the jetty. From the moment he perceived them he did not cease to look at them and seemed to burn with the wish to speak to them.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000041_000000.wav|"I am always afraid of a quarrel when I am expected at any place and when such a quarrel might possibly prevent my reaching it.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000034_000000.wav|"But if he be a spy----"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000089_000000.wav|The young man burst into a laugh.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000055_000000.wav|Athos smiled sadly, for it was evident that he was thinking of other things as he listened to his friend and moved toward De Winter.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000070_000000.wav|"He who followed us and spoke to us awaits us there; behold!"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000010_000000.wav|It was soon time for Grimaud to recall the past.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121413/2238_121413_000007_000000.wav|The three gentlemen took the road to Picardy, a road so well known to them and which recalled to Athos and Aramis some of the most picturesque adventures of their youth.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000098_000000.wav|"Let us go and see your beggar, sir, and if he is such as you describe him, you are right-it will be you who have discovered the true treasure."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000021_000003.wav|He therefore hastened to the palace to congratulate the queen on the battle of Lens, determined beforehand to act with or against the court, as his congratulations were well or ill received.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000137_000000.wav|"Then," said the coadjutor, "this evening, at ten o'clock, and if I am pleased with you another bag of five hundred pistoles will be at your disposal."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000073_000000.wav|"He was told-my lord will pardon me----"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000025_000001.wav|The queen at last asked him if he had anything to add to the fine discourse he had just made to her.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000030_000001.wav|Then, turning toward Porthos, "The devil!" said he, "this has a bad look.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000089_000000.wav|"Well, the man whom I offer you is a general syndic."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000059_000000.wav|"Who and what is this man?"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000028_000001.wav|That glance was so sharp that it penetrated the heart of Mazarin, who, reading in it a declaration of war, seized D'Artagnan by the arm and said:|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000041_000001.wav|Thirty thousand crowns in alms is not given, as you have done for the last six months, out of pure Christian charity; that would be too grand.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000110_000001.wav|His countenance denoted the struggle between two opposite principles-a wicked nature, subdued by determination, perhaps by repentance.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000020_000001.wav|Porthos bowed.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000030_000000.wav|"Yes, my lord," he replied.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000034_000001.wav|He hastened to his cabinet.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000039_000000.wav|"In that case, my lord, the time for words has passed and the hour for action is at hand; my lord, in three days, if you wish it, my father will be out of prison and in six months you may be cardinal."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000053_000003.wav|For the rest, if any one of you have further or better counsel to expound, I will listen to him with the greatest pleasure."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000020_000003.wav|Although the coadjutor had preached that same morning it was well known that he leaned much to the side of the Fronde; and Mazarin, in requesting the archbishop of Paris to make his nephew preach, had evidently had the intention of administering to Monsieur de Retz one of those Italian kicks he so much enjoyed giving.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000009_000000.wav|D'Artagnan and Porthos obeyed.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000116_000000.wav|The mendicant shook his head.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000009_000001.wav|The court of Anne of Austria was full of gayety and animation; for, after having gained a victory over the Spaniard, it had just gained another over the people.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000020_000002.wav|At this moment the coadjutor was announced; a cry of surprise ran through the royal assemblage.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000090_000000.wav|"And what do you know of him?"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000028_000000.wav|The coadjutor bowed and left the palace, casting upon the cardinal such a glance as is best understood by mortal foes.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000076_000000.wav|Gondy bit his lips.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000025_000000.wav|During this storm, Gondy, who had it in his power to make it most unpleasant for the jesters, remained calm and stern.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000091_000000.wav|"Nothing, my lord, except that he is tormented with remorse."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000088_000000.wav|"Yes, I have heard it said," replied the coadjutor.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000120_000000.wav|"My friend," said Gondy, "you seem to be a clever and a thoughtful man; are you disposed to take a part in a little civil war, should we have one, and put at the command of the leader, should we find one, your personal influence and the influence you have acquired over your comrades?"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000029_000000.wav|"If occasion requires, monsieur, you will remember that man who has just gone out, will you not?"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000053_000001.wav|"You are the directors of all consciences.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000061_000000.wav|"What is his name?"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000107_000000.wav|"Some of those men sometimes die worth twenty thousand and twenty five and thirty thousand francs and sometimes more."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000038_000000.wav|"From the depth of my heart," said Gondy.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000022_000002.wav|He concluded by saying that he placed his feeble influence at her majesty's command.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000105_000001.wav|I believe this man paid his predecessor a hundred pistoles for his."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000056_000000.wav|"We hope so," answered the curates.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000128_000000.wav|"I think," said the beggar, "I can undertake things more difficult and more important than that."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000044_000000.wav|"You have been preparing long enough, my lord, for it to be welcome to you now."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000034_000002.wav|Broussel's son was there, still furious, and still bearing bloody marks of his struggle with the king's officers.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000035_000001.wav|The young man gazed at him as if he would have read the secret of his heart.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000036_000000.wav|"My dear Monsieur Louvieres," said the coadjutor, "believe me, I am truly concerned for the misfortune which has happened to you."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000106_000000.wav|"The rascal is rich, then?"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000121_000000.wav|"Yes, sir, provided this war were approved of by the church and would advance the end I wish to attain-I mean, the remission of my sins."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000099_000000.wav|Gondy dressed himself as an officer, put on a felt cap with a red feather, hung on a long sword, buckled spurs to his boots, wrapped himself in an ample cloak and followed the curate.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000115_000000.wav|"Yes," continued the curate, apparently accustomed to this tone, "yes, we wish to know your opinion of the events of to day and what you have heard said by people going in and out of the church."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000132_000000.wav|"I answer for him," said the curate.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000065_000000.wav|"Very well, sir, find this man, and when you have found him bring him to me."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000011_000001.wav|Without him I should probably at this moment be a dead fish in the nets at Saint Cloud, for it was a question of nothing less than throwing me into the river.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000022_000001.wav|His speech, therefore, was so well turned, that in spite of the great wish felt by the courtiers to laugh, they could find no point on which to vent their ridicule.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000097_000000.wav|"Certainly."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000016_000000.wav|"Permit me, madame," said D'Artagnan, "to reserve a portion for my friend; like myself" (he laid an emphasis on these words) "an ancient musketeer of the company of Treville; he has done wonders."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000075_000000.wav|"That your lordship was about to treat with the court."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000066_000000.wav|"We will be with you at six o'clock, my lord."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000114_000000.wav|There was an ironical tone in his voice which he could not quite disguise and which astonished the coadjutor.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000052_000003.wav|The curates asked him what was to be done.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000074_000000.wav|"Certainly, speak."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000003_000000.wav|forty five.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000006_000000.wav|D'Artagnan would have preferred money in hand to all that fine talk, for he knew well that to Mazarin it was easy to promise and hard to perform. But, though he held the cardinal's promises as of little worth, he affected to be completely satisfied, for he was unwilling to discourage Porthos.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000092_000000.wav|"What makes you think so?"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000113_000000.wav|"With me!" said the mendicant; "it is a great honor for a poor distributor of holy water."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000122_000000.wav|"The war will not only be approved of, but directed by the church.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000057_000000.wav|"Let us hear.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000138_000000.wav|The eyes of the mendicant dashed with cupidity, but he quickly suppressed his emotion.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000083_000000.wav|"Exactly your man."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000022_000000.wav|The coadjutor possessed, perhaps, as much wit as all those put together who were assembled at the court to laugh at him.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000096_000000.wav|"And think you that we should find him at this hour at his post?"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000072_000000.wav|"And wherefore has he not been to see me?"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000126_000000.wav|"I think they have some esteem for me," said the mendicant with pride, "and that not only will they obey me, but wherever I go they will follow me."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000015_000000.wav|"I know that, sir; I have known that," said the queen, "a long time; therefore I am delighted to be able thus publicly to mark my gratitude and my esteem."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000037_000000.wav|"Is that true, and do you speak seriously?" asked Louvieres.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000102_000000.wav|"Stop!" he said, "there he is at his post."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000030_000002.wav|I dislike these quarrels among men of the church."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000052_000001.wav|Two hours later, thirty officiating ministers from the most populous, and consequently the most disturbed parishes of Paris had assembled there.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000067_000000.wav|"Go, my dear curate, and may God assist you!"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000021_000001.wav|Although almost engaged to the leaders of the Fronde he had not gone so far but that retreat was possible should the court offer him the advantages for which he was ambitious and to which the coadjutorship was but a stepping stone.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000041_000003.wav|As for me, I hate the court and have but one desire at this moment-vengeance.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000023_000002.wav|The Count de Villeroy said that "he did not know how any fear could be entertained for a moment, when the court had, to defend itself against the parliament and the citizens of Paris, his holiness the coadjutor, who by a signal could raise an army of curates, church porters and vergers."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000046_000000.wav|"And how many hours of reflection do you ask?"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000040_000000.wav|The coadjutor started.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000109_000000.wav|In the meantime they were advancing toward the square, and the moment the coadjutor and the curate put their feet on the first church step the mendicant arose and proffered his brush.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000117_000001.wav|As to what is said, everybody is discontented, everybody complains, but 'everybody' means 'nobody.'"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000127_000000.wav|"And could you count on fifty resolute men, good, unemployed, but active souls, brawlers, capable of bringing down the walls of the Palais Royal by crying, 'Down with Mazarin,' as fell those at Jericho?"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000122_000001.wav|As for the remission of your sins, we have the archbishop of Paris, who has the very greatest power at the court of Rome, and even the coadjutor, who possesses some plenary indulgences; we will recommend you to him."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000110_000000.wav|He was a man between sixty six and sixty eight years of age, little, rather stout, with gray hair and light eyes.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000021_000002.wav|Monsieur de Retz wished to become archbishop in his uncle's place, and cardinal, like Mazarin; and the popular party could with difficulty accord him favors so entirely royal.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000035_000000.wav|The coadjutor went to him and held out his hand.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000024_000000.wav|The Marechal de la Meilleraie added that in case the coadjutor should appear on the field of battle it would be a pity that he should not be distinguished in the melee by wearing a red hat, as Henry the fourth. had been distinguished by his white plume at the battle of Ivry.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000032_000000.wav|"Oh!" he murmured, as he left the threshold of the palace: "ungrateful court! faithless court! cowardly court!|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000119_000000.wav|"I mean that all these cries, all these complaints, these curses, produce nothing but storms and flashes and that is all; but the lightning will not strike until there is a hand to guide it."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000063_000000.wav|"And can you find him?"|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000136_000000.wav|"Capital," answered the mendicant.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000041_000000.wav|"Oh! let us speak frankly," continued Louvieres, "and act in a straightforward manner.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000007_000001.wav|D'Artagnan and Porthos pointed to their dusty and torn dresses, but the cardinal shook his head.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000134_000000.wav|"It must be on some elevated place, whence a given signal may be seen in every part of Paris."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000069_000001.wav|Him I can place at your disposal; it is Count de Rochefort."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000053_000002.wav|Well, undermine in them the miserable prejudice of respect and fear of kings; teach your flocks that the queen is a tyrant; and repeat often and loudly, so that all may know it, that the misfortunes of France are caused by Mazarin, her lover and her destroyer; begin this work to day, this instant even, and in three days I shall expect the result.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000130_000000.wav|"I will undertake to throw up fifty, and when the day comes, to defend them."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000058_000000.wav|"My lord, I have in my parish a man who might be of the greatest use to you."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000011_000002.wav|Speak, D'Artagnan, speak."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000034_000003.wav|The only precaution he had taken in coming to the archbishopric was to leave his arquebuse in the hands of a friend.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000049_000000.wav|"If I should not be in, wait for me."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000055_000000.wav|"You think, then, that you can help me more efficaciously than your brothers?" said Gondy.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000101_000000.wav|On arriving at the Rue des Prouvaires, the curate pointed toward the square before the church.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000100_000001.wav|The people were in an excited mood, but, like a swarm of frightened bees, seemed not to know at what point to concentrate; and it was very evident that if leaders of the people were not provided all this agitation would pass off in idle buzzing.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000071_000000.wav|"My lord, he has been for three days at the Rue Cassette."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000033_000000.wav|But whilst they were indulging in extravagant joy at the Palais Royal, to increase the hilarity of the queen, Mazarin, a man of sense, and whose fear, moreover, gave him foresight, lost no time in making idle and dangerous jokes; he went out after the coadjutor, settled his account, locked up his gold, and had confidential workmen to contrive hiding places in his walls.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000007_000000.wav|Whilst the two friends were with the cardinal, the queen sent for him. Mazarin, thinking that it would be the means of increasing the zeal of his two defenders if he procured them personal thanks from the queen, motioned them to follow him.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000050_000000.wav|"Good! at midnight, my lord."|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2238/121415/2238_121415_000020_000000.wav|"These names are too numerous for me to remember them all, and I will content myself with the first," said the queen, graciously.|2238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000010_000001.wav|It swept upward from the valley floor, beautifully shaped and soaring, so tall that its misty blue peak could surely talk face to face with the stars.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000020_000001.wav|But Dad said, "I don't see why not, do you?" and looked to Mother for agreement.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000025_000002.wav|Truly it was an enchanted place!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000009_000001.wav|When the car finally stopped, the rest of them got out stiffly and went into the new house.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000001.wav|And when he was finished with that, Dad called for his help.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000010_000003.wav|He felt so tight and shivery inside that he didn't know whether he wanted to laugh, or cry, or both.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000029_000001.wav|Well, there was only one way to find out.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000011_000003.wav|It was waiting for him.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000015_000000.wav|"C'mere," Aunt Amy said, grabbing him by the arm.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000007.wav|He was a real explorer now.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000007.wav|He would have to wait until morning before he could climb.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000026_000001.wav|It was warm and soft and sweet smelling; it soothed away the hurt of his aching muscles and the sting of his scratches.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000012_000000.wav|But there was a great deal to do first.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000004.wav|At the top of a rise would be an outcropping of strangely colored rock, invisible from below.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000000.wav|You never know what you will find when you climb a mountain, even if you have climbed them before-which, of course, David never had. Looking up from the foot of the mountain, he had thought that it was a smooth slope from bottom to top.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000006.wav|It was too late now.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000015_000001.wav|"Help me look for that ironing board."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000010_000006.wav|And when he closed his eyes, he seemed to hear a voice which whispered, "Come along, then, and climb."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000027_000001.wav|Then it would fade and be drowned out by the breeze.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000014_000001.wav|Dad was pushing chairs and tables around in an aimless way.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000001.wav|But he was discovering as he climbed that it was not smooth at all, but very much broken up.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000019_000000.wav|"May I climb the mountain tomorrow?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000005.wav|Already the evening sun was throwing shadows across the side of the mountain and touching its peak with a ruddy blaze.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000017_000002.wav|It almost seemed like the mountain waving its hand, as if to say that it was quite all right for him to wait until morning.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000018_000000.wav|It was long after dark before the moving van drove away.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000014_000000.wav|Inside, everything was in confusion.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000029_000000.wav|Who could it possibly be?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000017_000000.wav|As he gazed up miserably at the glowing summit, he thought he saw a tiny speck soar out from it in a brief circle.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000014_000002.wav|Mother was saying, "They'll all have to go out again; we forgot to put down the rug first." Aunt Amy was making short dashes between the kitchen and the dining room, muttering to herself.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000028_000001.wav|The noise did not sound dangerous, but-well, he had never been up a mountain before, and there was no telling what he might find.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000028_000002.wav|He dropped into a crouch and crept silently up to the tangle of bushes.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000024_000008.wav|He had one nasty slip, which might have been his last if he had not grabbed a tough clump of weeds at the crucial instant.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000011_000004.wav|"Come and climb," it whispered, "come and climb."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000023_000002.wav|But he did not care now.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000003.wav|When David finally got a chance to sneak out for a breathing spell, he felt his heart sink.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000021_000000.wav|Mother said, "Well ... be very careful," in a doubtful tone, and that was that.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000009_000000.wav|All the way there David had saved this moment for himself, struggling not to peek until the proper time came.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000012_000004.wav|Regretfully, he waved his hand at the peak and whispered, "It shouldn't take long-I'll be back as soon as I can." Then he went around to the front door to see what could be done about speeding things up.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000011_000000.wav|It would be so easy to go!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000023_000007.wav|Even the peak could not give him a better view than this.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000009_000004.wav|Then he took a deep breath, clenched his hands tightly, and lifted his head.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000002.wav|So the afternoon wore on without letup-and also without any signs of progress in their moving.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000027_000008.wav|The noise, whatever it was, came from the other side of the thicket.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000023_000004.wav|He looked back.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000018_000002.wav|But David could not eat until he had found the courage to ask one question:|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000027_000006.wav|He sat up.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000011_000002.wav|And just beyond the hedge the mountainside awaited him, going up and up in one smooth sweep until the green and tawny faded into hazy heights of rock.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000006.wav|And when the meadow had been discovered, there would be a something else beyond.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000012_000002.wav|The moving van was standing out in front, the car must be unloaded.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000025_000000.wav|But, oh! it was worth it.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000026_000000.wav|David threw himself on the grass and rolled in it.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000024_000005.wav|Then he started upward again.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000009_000002.wav|But David walked slowly into the back yard with his eyes fixed on the ground.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000014_000004.wav|David asked, "Can I do anything?"--hoping that the answer would be no|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000018_000001.wav|Beckie crooned happily over her bottle, and the rest of them gathered in the kitchen for a late supper of sandwiches and canned soup.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000011_000001.wav|The back yard was hedged in (with part of the hedge growing right across the toes of the mountain), but there was a hole in the privet large enough to crawl through.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000030_000000.wav|He dropped down on his stomach and carefully began to worm his way under the thicket.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000020_000000.wav|Aunt Amy muttered something about landslides, which were firmly fixed in her mind as the fate of people who climbed mountains.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000024_000001.wav|Halfway up the scarp was a dark horizontal line of bushes, something like a hedge.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000024_000003.wav|To scale the rock face itself was impossible, however: there were no hand or foot holds.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000017_000001.wav|Was it a bird of some sort, or just one of those dots that swim before your eyes when you stare too long at the sky?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000028_000003.wav|His heart began to pound, and he swallowed to relieve the dryness in his throat.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000016_000000.wav|When the ironing board was finally located, Mother had something for him to do.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156718/2531_156718_000022_000002.wav|There were terraces, ledges, knolls, ravines, and embankments, one after another.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000027_000001.wav|"Do you mean-are you going to give me-lessons?" Through his mind flashed a picture of the Phoenix (with spectacles on its beak and a ruler in its wing) writing out sentences on a blackboard.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000068_000006.wav|If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000008.wav|For example, how do you tell a true Unicorn from a false one?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000047_000005.wav|I shall give you proof positive."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000002.wav|Understand me-I have nothing against a classical education as such.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000014_000000.wav|"And now, my boy," continued the Phoenix, as it settled back comfortably, "I have been thinking.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000004.wav|But in the broad view, a classical education is not a true education.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000039_000002.wav|And Arabia?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000046_000001.wav|Are you sure that-isn't there some other-I mean, can you do it?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000017_000000.wav|"Well, I go to school, if that's what you mean.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000037_000000.wav|"As many as you want, Phoenix.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000047_000000.wav|The Phoenix drew itself up to its full height.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000068_000002.wav|But just the thing for acquiring (ouch!) muscle tone.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000041_000000.wav|"Oh, Phoenix, Phoenix!" David jumped up and began to caper, while the Phoenix beamed.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000052_000000.wav|"On my back.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000009_000002.wav|You cut me to the quick.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000067_000001.wav|"You're doing better and better, Phoenix.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000016_000000.wav|"Do not be so modest, my boy!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000029_000001.wav|"That's different.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000041_000001.wav|But suddenly he stopped.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000025_000001.wav|"I'm afraid I don't know that, either," he said in a small voice.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000033_000001.wav|"What were those last three, please?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000049_000000.wav|"Let's-let's do it tomorrow," he quavered.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000012_000000.wav|"My boy," said the Phoenix at last, brushing the crumbs from its chest, "I take a modest pride in my way with words, but nothing in the language can do these-ah-baked poems justice.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000048_000001.wav|He glanced over the brink. The sheer face of the scarp fell away beneath them, plunging down to the tiny trees and rocks below.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000068_000003.wav|Are there any more cookies? Ah, there are.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000069_000000.wav|The Phoenix would take wing again.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000032_000000.wav|"Of course, my boy!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000028_000002.wav|The full benefit of my vast knowledge, plus a number of trips to-"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000021_000000.wav|"I-I don't know."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000063_000003.wav|Lots of sleep.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000003_000000.wav|Next day it took less than an hour to reach the ledge, and David was sure that he could shorten the time even more when he was familiar with the goat trail.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000014_000002.wav|You have very rare qualities."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000038_000001.wav|Your education will include-"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000001.wav|They crawled through the air.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000009.wav|The scarp loomed before them, solid and blank.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000071_000001.wav|Are you ready?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000000.wav|Up ... up ... up....|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000053_000000.wav|"No," said David faintly.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000016_000004.wav|Of course, I suppose some attempt to educate you has already been made, has it not?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000023_000000.wav|"I don't know."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000011.wav|It looked as though they would not get back to it.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000004_000002.wav|It came from the thicket, and it sounded very much like a snore.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000011_000000.wav|So they sat down on the grass together, and for a long time nothing was heard but sounds of munching.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000052_000002.wav|Ready?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000070_000000.wav|At the end of the week the Phoenix, after a brilliant display of acrobatics, landed on the ledge, clasped its wings behind its back, and looked solemnly at David.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000040_000001.wav|Your education will-"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000019_000000.wav|"Oh, reading and writing and arithmetic, and things like that."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000063_000000.wav|"Well, my course is clear," said the Phoenix firmly.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000058_000002.wav|I-puff-"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000004.wav|The Phoenix sobbed as it stretched its neck in the last effort. Fifty feet ... twenty feet ... ten....|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000028_000001.wav|"Absolutely without equal!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000067_000000.wav|David would wrap the wet towel around the Phoenix's neck.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000024_000001.wav|What is the first rule of defense when attacked by a Chimera?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000069_000003.wav|And sometimes he did not think at all, but just sat with his eyes half shut, feeling the sunlight on his face and listening to the rustle of the wind in the thicket.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000068_000000.wav|"I do perform that rather well, don't I?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000005_000000.wav|David smiled to himself and shouted, "Hello, Phoenix!"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000069_000001.wav|And David would settle back against a rock and watch.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000003.wav|They were gaining-slipping back-gaining again.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000002.wav|The wings flapped wildly, faster and faster.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000009_000005.wav|"Oh, well," it continued, more mildly, "one does not fight fate, does one?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000026_000000.wav|"There you are!" cried the Phoenix.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000048_000000.wav|David reluctantly followed the Phoenix to a spot on the edge of the shelf where there was a gap in the bushes.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000065_000008.wav|Now and then it would swoop back to the ledge beside David and wipe the sweat from its brow.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000001.wav|"Just as I suspected-a classical education.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000004.wav|He opened his eyes and choked with fright.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000060_000001.wav|The earth reeled under him and would not stop no matter how tightly he clutched the grass.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000009_000004.wav|It stopped and swallowed again.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000002.wav|He felt a hopping sensation, then a long, sickening downward swoop that seemed to leave his stomach far behind.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000000.wav|The great wings were outstretched.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000066_000000.wav|"I trust you see signs of progress, my boy?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000036_000001.wav|But to continue: Sea Monsters, Leprechauns, Rocs, Gnomes, Elves, Basilisks, Nymphs-ah-and many others.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000045_000001.wav|I shall carry you on my back, of course."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000009_000000.wav|The Phoenix drew itself up indignantly.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000027_000002.wav|The thought gave him a sinking feeling.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000037_000001.wav|Will we go to Africa?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000063_000006.wav|We shall do it yet!"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000061_000003.wav|I hope you are not being overfed at home?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000061_000000.wav|"Puff-I repeat, I am-puff-an exceedingly powerful flyer.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000063_000002.wav|Rigorous diet.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000058_000000.wav|At last the Phoenix weakly raised its head.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000054_000001.wav|The proof is to be demonstrated, the-to be brief, we are off!"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000063_000005.wav|Courage, my dear fellow!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000050_000001.wav|"No time like the present.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000036_000003.wav|And your education will cost you nothing.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000048_000002.wav|He stepped back quickly with a shudder.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000008_000001.wav|"Now, Phoenix," he said firmly, "you have to promise me you won't go away to South America.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000027_000003.wav|After all, it was summer-and summer was supposed to be vacation time.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000018_000000.wav|"And what do they teach you there?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000008.wav|The bush saved them.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000040_000000.wav|"Yes.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000004_000000.wav|The Phoenix was not in sight when he arrived, and for an instant David was stricken with fright.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000000.wav|"Aha!" said the Phoenix triumphantly.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000065_000006.wav|It was a magnificent sight.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000029_000002.wav|Oh, Phoenix, that'll be wonderful!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000007.wav|The Phoenix was breathing in hoarse gasps; its wings were pounding the air frantically.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000020_000005.wav|Life is real, life is earnest.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000044_000000.wav|"Yes, but I don't."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000065_000003.wav|Then there would be a fifteen minute rest and refreshment period.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000035_000000.wav|"I see," said David doubtfully.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000047_000001.wav|"I am hurt-yes, deeply hurt-by your lack of faith.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000013_000000.wav|"I'm glad you like them," David said politely.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000030_000001.wav|We shall visit my friends and acquaintances."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000065_000005.wav|This was the part David liked best.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000026_000001.wav|"You do not have a true, practical education-you are not ready for Life.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000016_000001.wav|I speak the truth.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000045_000000.wav|"Do not be so dense, my dear fellow.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000063_000001.wav|"I must practice. Setting up exercises, roadwork, and what not.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000006.wav|David's legs slipped from the bird's back.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000016_000002.wav|It came to me that such a mind as yours, having these qualities, should be further cultivated and refined.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000029_000003.wav|Where will we go?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000035_000001.wav|"What do they look like?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000031_000000.wav|"Oh, do you have-"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000068_000005.wav|As I was saying, let this be a lesson to you, my boy.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000022_000001.wav|Where do you find the Philosopher's Stone?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000034_000000.wav|"Gryffins," explained the Phoenix, "are the small, reddish, friendly ones.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000065_000002.wav|After this, the bird would jog trot up and down the ledge and practice jumping.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000034_000003.wav|They are very stupid."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000003.wav|A tremendous rush of air snatched at his shirt.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000022_000000.wav|"I thought not.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000034_000001.wav|Gryffons are the quick tempered proud ones.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000014_000001.wav|Yesterday you showed an intelligent interest in my problems and asked intelligent questions. You did not scoff, as others might have done.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000056_000007.wav|He dangled over the abyss from the outstretched neck, and prayed.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000055_000010.wav|Above them-high above them-was the ledge.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000006_000000.wav|There was a thrashing sound in the thicket, and the Phoenix appeared, looking very rumpled and yawning behind its wing.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000054_000000.wav|"Splendid!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000016_000003.wav|And I should be avoiding my clear cut duty if I did not take this task in hand myself.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000008_000000.wav|David thrust the bag of cookies behind his back.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156720/2531_156720_000065_000007.wav|The Phoenix dashed back and forth at top speed, wheeled in circles, shot straight up like a rocket-plunged, hovered, looped-rolled, soared, fluttered.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000000.wav|"Hand me that twig, my boy." The Phoenix took the twig, found a bare spot of earth, and sketched a picture.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000054_000000.wav|It did not seem very practical to David.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000055_000003.wav|The noise?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000059_000000.wav|"How about electricity, Phoenix?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000023_000003.wav|We shall begin immediately-"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000039_000002.wav|Grass and leaves were strewn over the snares; chips, hewn branches, and other evidences of their work were removed.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000051_000001.wav|Now, my boy, since we must continue your education during the night, it is necessary that we have some way of getting in touch with each other.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000069_000001.wav|I shall have everything finished in a flash."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000081_000003.wav|It took the repair men an hour to untangle the wires and fix them.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000033_000000.wav|"How?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000079_000000.wav|Aunt Amy came bumping down the stairs with a candle.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000012.wav|And our archenemy dangling by the foot in mid-air, completely at our mercy! Magnificent!"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000008.wav|Perhaps even today, when they had been digging up the pirate treasure, the Scientist had got his new rifle and had started to hunt through the mountains.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000063_000005.wav|Screw driver, please."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000081_000002.wav|Everyone in the block turned out to see what had happened.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000058_000001.wav|But there was another thing to consider.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000039_000003.wav|They sat down and looked proudly at each other.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000008_000002.wav|What are we going to do with it?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000074_000000.wav|"Quick, my boy," it gasped.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000028_000001.wav|If you know those habits, you can predict just what they will do at any time.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000007.wav|He had been saving it for a model airplane, but the excitement of the last few days had driven it completely out of his mind.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000003.wav|The lights in the house, and down the whole street, flickered and went out.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000021_000002.wav|I was just-ah-Thinking."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000024_000000.wav|"You might have brought more," said the Phoenix, fifteen minutes later.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000046_000004.wav|You may await me there."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000004.wav|And the hatchet?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000023_000001.wav|Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000064_000001.wav|David could hear the creak of the lines under the Phoenix's weight and the rattling of the screw driver against the porcelain insulators.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000046_000001.wav|A risk, I admit, but a necessary one.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000001.wav|He couldn't spend pirate gold pieces, or even show them to anyone, without being asked a lot of embarrassing questions.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000008_000000.wav|"We have one at home already," said David.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000057_000002.wav|Then we could learn Morse code and send messages to each other.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000054_000002.wav|"But how are we going to hide the wires? And what about the noise of the bell?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000056_000000.wav|"Yes, that's true." It still sounded impractical.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000006_000002.wav|Now, you will take our gold and purchase the following." And the Phoenix listed the things it wanted, and told David which to bring to the ledge and which to leave below.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000022_000002.wav|The Scientist may show up any minute."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000046_000000.wav|"Precisely, my boy.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000041_000000.wav|"They're sure strong enough," David agreed, flexing his fingers to take the stiffness out of them.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000020_000000.wav|There was a crash from the thicket as though someone had jumped up in it suddenly, and the Phoenix stumbled out, rubbing its eyes.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000000.wav|Suddenly it happened.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000026_000002.wav|The Plan is far too profound for you to guess what it is.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000068_000000.wav|"Do you need any help up there?" David asked.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000032_000002.wav|Never fear, my boy-I thought of that also.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000017_000001.wav|They certainly would have to hurry.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000025_000003.wav|I've been thinking about the rope and wire and bell all night, and I can't make heads or tails out of it."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000017_000000.wav|The thought gave David a creepy feeling on the back of his neck.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000001.wav|Then he brought the package home, hid it behind the woodpile in the garage, and sat down to think. Wire-bell-pushbutton.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000038_000003.wav|When they had been chosen, David had to shinny up them to lop off their branches.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000002.wav|Next we get a stake, cut a notch in it, and drive it into the ground-so.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000007.wav|"Just picture it, my dear chap!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000023_000002.wav|One of my favorite proverbs.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000025_000001.wav|"Phoenix, please tell me what we're going to do.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000018_000001.wav|As an afterthought he had added a paper bag full of cookies.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000070_000001.wav|The tinkering sounds began again, and a spurt of falling debris rattled in the leaves of the hedge.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000081_000000.wav|They could hear the wailing of sirens now.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000044_000000.wav|"Patience, patience!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000076_000000.wav|"Hey!" he shouted.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000010_000000.wav|"What did you say?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000065_000004.wav|We shall have to use the wire cutters."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000028_000002.wav|Our particular Scientist is a daytime creature-that is to say, he comes at dawn and goes at dusk.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000066_000000.wav|The Phoenix returned to the top of the pole with the cutters, and worked on the wires for five more minutes.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000062_000000.wav|They gathered up the tools and walked along the hedge to the telephone pole, which was in one corner of the yard.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000051_000005.wav|That, my boy, is the nub, or crux, of the situation.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000036_000003.wav|This is exactly the sort of trap that the Scientist once set for me!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000036_000001.wav|Better to say 'a stroke of genius.' Only I, Phoenix, could have thought of it.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000073_000000.wav|By the light of the sparks David saw the Phoenix staggering to its feet.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000044_000002.wav|I shall meet you tonight after dark, as soon as it is safe for me to come down.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000077_000000.wav|"Is that you, dear?" came Mother's anxious voice from the dining room.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000041_000001.wav|"But what are we going to do if the Scientist does get caught in one?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000049_000002.wav|Have you the tools here?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000063_000004.wav|Perhaps I had better investigate up there.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000038_000005.wav|Then he had to make two stakes from stout, hard wood, cut a notch at one end, and drive them into the ground with the flat of the hatchet.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000006_000001.wav|A hardware store should have what we need.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000005_000000.wav|"I think they're open till six," said David, shaking the sand out of his shoes.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000055_000001.wav|The wires?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000002.wav|What could the Phoenix possibly want with them?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000063_000003.wav|Most profound.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000044_000001.wav|You will be told when the time comes.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000035_000000.wav|"Golly, Phoenix," said David, "that's pretty clever."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000051_000004.wav|The question now is, how will you know when I have arrived?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000001.wav|There was a terrific burst of blue light, a sharp squawk from the Phoenix, and a shower of sparks.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000028_000003.wav|His invariable habit, my boy!"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000039_000001.wav|But at last the saplings were set in the notches, the nooses were formed and fastened on.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000003.wav|The sapling is bent down to it and fitted into the notch, which holds it down.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000032_000003.wav|We are going to construct a snare at each end of the ledge."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000053_000000.wav|"My boy, we are going to install this bell in your room, and the pushbutton on the base of that telephone pole.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000026_000000.wav|The Phoenix gave a pleased laugh.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000038_000001.wav|First they had to find the right kind of sapling, springy and strong.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000080_000000.wav|"Look!" David shouted, "the line's broken in our back yard!"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000066_000002.wav|One of the wires vibrated on a low note like a slack guitar string.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000073_000001.wav|He jumped to the bird's side, but the Phoenix waved him away with its wing.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000031_000001.wav|He thought about this a while, then asked, "But suppose the Scientist comes up on the ledge during the day and catches you asleep?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000004_000000.wav|"Now, my boy," said the Phoenix, when they got back to the ledge that afternoon, "are the shops still open?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000005.wav|But wait-why hadn't he remembered?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000067_000001.wav|"An important problem, that.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000049_000001.wav|Well, let us get on with the Plan.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000008.wav|Of course the Phoenix's Plan was more important than any model plane could be.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000063_000002.wav|I might also mention positive and negative and-ah-all that sort of thing.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000076_000001.wav|"The lights are out!"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000027_000000.wav|David leaned forward eagerly.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000032_000001.wav|That is where the rope and hatchet come in.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000036_000002.wav|And consider the poetic justice of it!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000048_000000.wav|"Phoenix," he whispered, "how did you do it?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000005.wav|Broken wires began to sputter ominously and fire out sparks.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000057_000001.wav|"Perhaps later we can install another bell at this end.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000028_000000.wav|"Now, scientists, you know, have fixed habits.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000058_000000.wav|Put in this way, the idea had a certain appeal, and David found himself warming to it.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000046_000002.wav|There is a hedge at the back of your house, is there not?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000079_000002.wav|"Turning out all the lights so he can murder us in our beds!"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000006.wav|A smell of singed feathers and burning rubber filled the air.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000081_000001.wav|Fire trucks, repair trucks, and police cars pulled up in front of the house.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000021_000000.wav|"Ah, splendid, my boy!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000063_000000.wav|"Electricity," said the Phoenix thoughtfully, "is a complicated and profound subject.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000007_000000.wav|"... and a hatchet," the Phoenix concluded.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000075_000001.wav|He slipped through a cellar window, hid the equipment under a stack of old boxes, and ran noisily up the stairs into the kitchen.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000065_000002.wav|Child's play!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000012_000000.wav|"Oh.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000075_000000.wav|David had the presence of mind to gather up all the tools, the wire, bell, and pushbutton, and one of the Phoenix's feathers, which had been torn out during the fall.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000040_000000.wav|"My boy," said the Phoenix, "I have had a wide, and sometimes painful, experience with traps; so you may believe me when I say that these are among the best I have seen.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000004.wav|In the blackness which followed, each stage of the Phoenix's descent could be heard as clearly as cannon shots: the twanging and snapping as it tumbled through the wires, a drawn out squawk and the flop of wings in the air below, the crash into the hedge, the jarring thud against the ground.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000070_000000.wav|Trailing one end of the wire in its beak, the Phoenix flew up into the darkness once more.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000049_000000.wav|"I have been hunted long enough, my boy, to have learned a few tricks. It is merely a matter of gliding close to the ground, selecting the best shadows, and keeping a sharp lookout.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000038_000002.wav|The sapling had to be in the right place-one by the goat trail, the other at the far end of the ledge.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000053_000001.wav|When I arrive here at night, I shall press the button to let you know that I am ready to go. A magnificent idea, isn't it?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000060_000000.wav|"Look above you, my boy!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000010.wav|The sapling, jarred out of the notch, springing upward!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000055_000004.wav|You have a pillow on your bed, under which the bell can be muffled."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000013_000000.wav|"Now, run along, my boy.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000081_000004.wav|And all the time policemen were going through the crowd, asking questions and writing things down in their notebooks.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000074_000001.wav|"We must make a strategic retreat!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000067_000004.wav|The pliers, please."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000069_000000.wav|"No, everything is coming along beautifully, thank you.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000002.wav|What to do?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000018_000000.wav|Early next morning David climbed up to the ledge, bringing with him the coil of rope and the hatchet.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000061_000000.wav|The Phoenix was evidently set on carrying out the Plan, and David did not want to wear out the bird's patience with more objections. And-well, why not?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000012_000001.wav|But-"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000008.wav|The Scientist, smiling evilly as he skulks along the path!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000043_000000.wav|"Yes, they're down in the cellar.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000071_000002.wav|Another blue flash blazed up.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000078_000000.wav|"The telephone's dead!" Dad shouted from the hall.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000011_000000.wav|"Curiosity killed the cat," explained the Phoenix.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000026_000004.wav|I shall now explain the rope and hatchet."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000067_000002.wav|Where is our wire?|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000019_000000.wav|"Here's the stuff, Phoenix," he called out as he stepped onto the ledge.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000057_000000.wav|"Just imagine it!" the Phoenix continued enthusiastically.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000051_000000.wav|"Splendid!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000046_000003.wav|Splendid.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000051_000007.wav|But I have worked out the solution."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000032_000000.wav|"Aha!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000050_000000.wav|"Yes, here they are."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000006.wav|Two days had passed since the Scientist had shown up.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000022_000000.wav|"Phoenix," said David, "I'm not going to ask you again what your Plan is, because I know you'll tell me when it's time.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000005_000001.wav|"Are we going to buy something?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000065_000003.wav|The covering on the lines is rather tough, however.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000023_000000.wav|"Precisely, my boy.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000013_000001.wav|A very important Thought has just come to me. I must Meditate a while." The Phoenix glanced at the thicket and hid a yawn behind one wing.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000042_000001.wav|Now, do you have the pliers, wire cutters, and screw driver below?"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000060_000001.wav|The telephone pole is simply loaded down with power lines waiting to be tapped."|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000064_000000.wav|The Phoenix took the screw driver in one claw and flew up to the top of the pole.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000004.wav|More embarrassing questions.... Well, he would have to rob his bank.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000067_000000.wav|"We must not forget the difference between alternating and direct current, my boy," said the Phoenix as it flew down again.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000055_000000.wav|"Nothing to it, my boy!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000057_000003.wav|Exactly like a private telephone line!"|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000026_000001.wav|"Of course you cannot, my boy.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000031_000000.wav|"Oh," said David.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000005.wav|Now we make a noose-so-from a piece of rope, tie it to the end of the sapling, and spread the loop out on the path-this way.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000001.wav|"First we find a sapling and clear the branches from it with the hatchet-like this.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000034_000009.wav|The unwary footstep!|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000016_000005.wav|The more he puzzled over it the more confused he became, and finally he just gave up. There was only one thing he was sure about: whatever the Plan was, they would have to carry it out as soon as possible.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000006_000000.wav|"Precisely, my boy.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000015_000006.wav|Just before they had moved, Uncle Charles had given him a ten dollar bill as a farewell present.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2531/156724/2531_156724_000054_000001.wav|"Well, Phoenix, that's a good idea," he said carefully.|2531
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000022_000001.wav|"Well, the worst is over with all of us, I hope.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000024_000002.wav|I h'always gets them on deck as soon as possible to get the h'air.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000039_000001.wav|He was stout and grizzled and brown and kind.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000055_000000.wav|All the time that she talked mrs Barrett was busy in making mrs Ware-for that, it seemed, was the sick lady's name-more comfortable; and Katy was feeding Gretchen out of a big bowl full of bread and milk which one of the stewards had brought.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000011.wav|Don't you wish you were dead?|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000000.wav|"I hate being at sea," Katy heard her say.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000052_000003.wav|Little Gretchen has had to go without anything; and she has been so good and patient!"|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000026_000002.wav|I never thought that going to Europe meant such dreadful things as this!"|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000060_000003.wav|On the sixth appeared a long narrow box containing a fountain pen.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000003_000004.wav|The night seemed endless, for she was too frightened to sleep except in broken snatches; and when day dawned, and she looked through the little round pane of glass in the port hole, only gray sky and gray weltering waves and flying spray and rain met her view.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000051_000001.wav|How did it happen?"|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000059_000001.wav|He gave mrs Ashe and herself the seats next to him at table, looked after their comfort in every possible way, and each night at dinner sent Katy one of the apple dumplings made specially for him by the cook, who had gone many voyages with the Captain and knew his fancies.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000003.wav|Mamma! do you hear me?|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000037_000001.wav|It might with equal propriety have been called "The Adventures of two little Girls who didn't have any Adventures," for nothing in particular happened to either Violet or Emma during the whole course of their long drawn out history.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000054_000002.wav|I'm h'ashamed that such a thing should 'appen on the 'Spartacus,' ma'am,--I h'am, h'indeed.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000044_000001.wav|I couldn't think what 'ad come to you so early; and you're looking ever so well again, I'm pleased to see; and 'ere's a bundle just arrived, Miss, by the Parcels Delivery."|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000070_000001.wav|"I feel as if I could sleep for a fortnight to make up for the bad nights at sea."|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000002.wav|Nearer and nearer they came; and Katy opening her eyes saw a procession of boots and shoes of all sizes and shapes, which had evidently been left on the floors or at the doors of various staterooms, and which in obedience to the lurchings of the vessel had collected in the cabin.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000034_000000.wav|"That was what that woman called it,--the fat one who made me come up here.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000041_000001.wav|It's a bit of a towel hung from a particular window; and when I see it I say to myself, 'Thank God! another voyage safely done and no harm come of it.' It's a sad kind of work for a man to go off for a twenty four days' cruise leaving a sick wife on shore behind him.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000006.wav|She heard them going down the cabin; but how it ended, or whether the owners of the boots and shoes ever got their own particular pairs again, she never knew.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000040_000001.wav|The Captain liked girls.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000025_000002.wav|Amy gave a scream of joy at the sight of Katy, and cuddled down in her lap under the warm rug with a sigh of relief and satisfaction.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000029_000000.wav|"I wanted to; but I was sick too, so sick that I couldn't move.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000060_000000.wav|Meanwhile, every morning brought a fresh surprise from that dear, painstaking Rose, who had evidently worked hard and thought harder in contriving pleasures for Katy's first voyage at sea.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000037_000002.wav|Amy, however, found them perfectly enchanting, and was never weary of hearing how they went to school and came home again, how they got into scrapes and got out of them, how they made good resolutions and broke them, about their Christmas presents and birthday treats, and what they said and how they felt.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000063_000000.wav|The moon had risen and was shining softly on the river as the crowded tender landed the passengers from the "Spartacus" at the Liverpool docks.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000008_000001.wav|Twice Katy was thrown out of her berth on the floor; then the stewardess came and fixed a sort of movable side to the berth, which held her in, but made her feel like a child fastened into a railed crib. At intervals she could still hear Amy crying and scolding her mother, and conjectured that they were having a dreadful time of it in the other stateroom.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000032_000000.wav|"Mabel looks quite pale; she was sick, too," said Amy, regarding the doll in her arms with an anxious air.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000036_000002.wav|"They had served out their apprenticeships," the kindly old captain told them, "and were made free of the nautical guild from that time on." So it proved; for after these two bad days none of the party were sick again during the voyage.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000040_000002.wav|He had one of his own, about Katy's age, and was fond of talking about her.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000059_000000.wav|On the whole, there was no one on the "Spartacus" whom Katy liked so well as sedate little Gretchen except the dear old Captain, with whom she was a prime favorite.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000001_000000.wav|ON THE "SPARTACUS."|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000008_000000.wav|The gale increased as the day wore on, and the vessel pitched dreadfully.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000003.wav|They now seemed to be acting in concert with one another, and really looked alive as they bumped and trotted side by side, and two by two, in at the door and up close to her bedside.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000031_000000.wav|"She couldn't answer; she was too ill," explained Katy.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000008_000003.wav|"And they call this travelling for pleasure!" thought poor Katy.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000039_000002.wav|He had a bluff weather beaten face, lit up with a pair of shrewd blue eyes which twinkled when he was pleased; and his manner, though it was full of the habit of command, was quiet and pleasant.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000039_000000.wav|Captain Bryce was exactly the kind of sea captain that is found in story books, but not always in real life.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000020_000002.wav|mrs Ashe had by no means got to the tea and toast stage yet, and was feeling miserable enough.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000030_000000.wav|"I didn't mean to be naughty, but I couldn't help crying.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000035_000001.wav|"Perhaps she hasn't noticed it at all.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000003_000001.wav|The "Spartacus" had the reputation of being a dreadful "roller," and seemed bound to justify it on this particular voyage.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000042_000002.wav|She seemed such a very nice girl, and Katy thought she should like to know her.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000047_000000.wav|Later in the morning, Katy, going down to her stateroom for something, came across a pallid, exhausted looking lady, who lay stretched on one of the long sofas in the cabin, with a baby in her arms and a little girl sitting at her feet, quite still, with a pair of small hands folded in her lap.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000005_000001.wav|She seemed to be angry as well as sick, for she was scolding her poor mother in the most vehement fashion.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000061_000003.wav|Long he studied before he made quite sure that it was there.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000007_000002.wav|She could only resign herself to her own discomforts, and try to believe that somehow, sometime, this state of things must mend,--either they should all get to land or all go to the bottom and be drowned, and at that moment she didn't care very much which it turned out to be.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000018_000000.wav|"But this horrible ship keeps on, And is never a moment still, And I yearn for the touch of the nice dry land, Where I needn't feel so ill!|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000060_000005.wav|It grew to be one of the little excitements of ship life to watch for the arrival of these daily gifts; and "What did the mail bring for you this time, Miss Carr?" was a question frequently asked.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000036_000001.wav|Amy and Katy both felt suddenly ravenous; and when mrs Ashe awhile later was helped up the stairs, she was amazed to find them eating cold beef and roasted potatoes, with the finest appetites in the world.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000048_000000.wav|"Can I do anything for you?" she asked.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000058_000000.wav|Katy grew to feel as if she knew a great deal about her fellow travellers as time went on.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000050_000001.wav|"If you would give my little girl something to eat!|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000002.wav|Mamma!|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000058_000001.wav|There was the young girl going out to join her parents under the care of a severe governess, whom everybody on board rather pitied.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000004_000001.wav|She wanted to get up and see how mrs Ashe had lived through the night, but the attempt to move made her so miserably ill that she was glad to sink again on her pillows.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000030_000001.wav|You would have cried too, and so would Johnnie, if you had been cooped up in a dreadful old berth at the top of the wall that you couldn't get out of, and hadn't had anything to eat, and nobody to bring you any water when you wanted some.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000001.wav|Amid the rush of the wind, the creaking of the ship's timbers, and the shrill buzz of the screw, she heard a sound of queer little footsteps in the entry outside of her open door, hopping and leaping together in an odd irregular way, like a regiment of mice or toy soldiers.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000067_000001.wav|I never saw one, and they look so nice in 'Punch.'"|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000026_000000.wav|"I thought I was never going to see you again," she said, with a little squeeze.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000030_000002.wav|And mamma wouldn't answer when I called to her."|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000008_000002.wav|It was all like a bad dream.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000045_000000.wav|"What!" cried simple Katy.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000053_000000.wav|Katy lost no time, but ran for mrs Barrett, whose indignation knew no bounds when she heard how the helpless party had been neglected.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000039_000004.wav|Not a sailor under him would have dared dispute his orders for a moment; but he was very popular with them, notwithstanding; they liked him as much as they feared him, for they knew him to be their best friend if it came to sickness or trouble with any of them.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000046_000000.wav|It contained a pretty little green bound copy of Emerson's Poems, with Katy's name and "To be read at sea," written on the flyleaf.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000065_000000.wav|"Four wheeler or hansom, ma'am?" said a porter to mrs Ashe.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000047_000001.wav|The little girl did not seem to be more than four years old. She had two pig tails of thick flaxen hair hanging over her shoulders, and at Katy's approach raised a pair of solemn blue eyes, which had so much appeal in them, though she said nothing, that Katy stopped at once.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000060_000002.wav|The fifth brought a wonderful epistle, full of startling pieces of news, none of them true.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000035_000003.wav|I wish they would bring us something to eat."|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000004_000000.wav|"Oh, dear, why do people ever go to sea, unless they must?" she thought feebly to herself.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000058_000004.wav|A great sea going steamer is a little world in itself, and gives one a glimpse of all sorts and conditions of people and characters.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000052_000002.wav|She wouldn't even take the baby into the berth with her; and I have had all I could do to manage with him, when I couldn't lift up my head.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000061_000002.wav|It was late afternoon when they entered the Mersey, and dusk had fallen before the Captain got out his glass to look for the white fluttering speck in his own window which meant so much to him.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000002_000000.wav|The ulster and the felt hat soon came off again, for a head wind lay waiting in the offing, and the "Spartacus" began to pitch and toss in a manner which made all her unseasoned passengers glad to betake themselves to their berths.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000052_000001.wav|But my maid has been sick, too; and oh, so selfish!|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000064_000000.wav|"We shall meet again in London or in Paris," said one to another, and cards and addresses were exchanged.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000052_000000.wav|"Everybody has been sick on our side the ship," explained the poor lady, "and I suppose the stewardess thought, as I had a maid with me, that I needed her less than the others.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000062_000000.wav|"It's all right," he said to Katy, who stood near, almost as much interested as he.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000015_000000.wav|The letter was not long, but it was very like its writer.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000045_000001.wav|Then she laughed at her own foolishness, and took the "bundle," which was directed in Rose's unmistakable hand.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000062_000001.wav|"Lucy never forgets, bless her!|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000022_000000.wav|"Neither could I, and I felt just as guilty not to be taking care of you," said Katy.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000004.wav|I won't stay in this ship!|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000007_000000.wav|And then came another storm of sobs, but never a sound from mrs Ashe, who, Katy suspected, was too ill to speak.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000066_000000.wav|"Which, Katy?"|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000005_000000.wav|The stewardess looked in with offers of tea and toast, the very idea of which was simply dreadful, and pronounced the other lady "'orridly ill, worse than you are, Miss," and the little girl "takin' on dreadful in the h'upper berth." Of this fact Katy soon had audible proof; for as her dizzy senses rallied a little, she could hear Amy in the opposite stateroom crying and sobbing pitifully.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000046_000002.wav|With a half happy, half tearful pleasure Katy recognized the fact that distance counts for little if people love one another, and that hearts have a telegraph of their own whose messages are as sure and swift as any of those sent over the material lines which link continent to continent and shore with shore.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000048_000001.wav|"I am afraid you have been very ill."|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000040_000003.wav|Lucy was his mainstay at home, he told Katy. Her mother had been "weakly" now this long time back, and Bess and Nanny were but children yet, so Lucy had to take command and keep things ship shape when he was away.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000008.wav|Tell the captain to take me back to the land.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000021_000003.wav|And it seemed very neglectful not to come to see after you, poor dear child! but really I couldn't raise my head."|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000027_000000.wav|"This is only the beginning; we shall get across the sea in a few days, and then we shall find out what going to Europe really means.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000013_000000.wav|"By post!" cried Katy, in amazement; "why, how can that be?" Then catching sight of Rose's handwriting on the envelope, she understood, and smiled at her own simplicity.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000012_000000.wav|"And 'ere's a letter, ma'am, which has come for you by post this morning," said the nice old stewardess, producing an envelope from her pocket, and eying her patient with great satisfaction.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000058_000002.wav|There was the other girl on her way to study art, who was travelling quite alone, and seemed to have nobody to meet her or to go to except a fellow student of her own age, already in Paris, but who seemed quite unconscious of her lonely position and competent to grapple with anything or anybody.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000049_000000.wav|At the sound of her voice the lady on the sofa opened her eyes.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000000.wav|One droll thing happened in the course of the second night,--at least it seemed droll afterward; at the time Katy was too uncomfortable to enjoy it.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000036_000000.wav|A good many passengers had come up by this time; and Robert, the deck steward, was going about, tray in hand, taking orders for lunch.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000009_000005.wav|It was exactly like one of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, Katy wrote to Clover afterward.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000002_000001.wav|mrs Ashe and Amy were among the earliest victims of sea sickness; and Katy, after helping them to settle in their staterooms, found herself too dizzy and ill to sit up a moment longer, and thankfully resorted to her own.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000057_000001.wav|They kept her on deck with them a great deal, and she was perfectly content with them and very good, though always solemn and quiet.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000010_000001.wav|When she woke the sun was struggling through the clouds, and she felt better.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000022_000002.wav|The vessel doesn't pitch half so much now, and the stewardess says we shall feel a great deal better as soon as we get on deck.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000003_000002.wav|Down, down, down the great hull would slide till Katy would hold her breath with fear lest it might never right itself again; then slowly, slowly the turn would be made, and up, up, up it would go, till the cant on the other side was equally alarming.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000007.wav|I want to go back, mamma.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000020_000001.wav|Amy had fallen asleep at last and must not be waked up, so their interview was conducted in whispers.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000007_000001.wav|She felt very sorry for poor little Amy, raging there in her high berth like some imprisoned creature, but she was powerless to help her.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000021_000001.wav|"All day yesterday, when she wasn't sick she was raging at me from the upper berth, and I too ill to say a word in reply.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000026_000001.wav|"Oh, Miss Katy, it has been so horrid!|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000025_000000.wav|Stewardesses are all powerful on board ship, and mrs Barrett was so persuasive as well as positive that it was not possible to resist her. She got Katy into her dress and wraps, and seated her on deck in a chair with a great rug wrapped about her feet, with very little effort on Katy's part.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000039_000003.wav|He was a Martinet on board his ship.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000062_000003.wav|It's a load taken from my mind."|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000061_000000.wav|Katy never forgot the thrill that went through her when, after so many days of sea, her eyes first caught sight of the dim line of the Irish coast.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000041_000000.wav|"She'll be on the lookout when the steamer comes in," said the Captain. "There's a signal we've arranged which means 'All's well,' and when we get up the river a little way I always look to see if it's flying.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000028_000000.wav|"Could you?|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000070_000000.wav|"Yes, and that is wide enough and long enough and soft enough to be comfortable!" replied Katy.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000027_000001.wav|But what made you behave so, Amy, and cry and scold poor mamma when she was sick? I could hear you all the way across the entry."|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000028_000001.wav|Then why didn't you come to me?"|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER four.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000035_000000.wav|"They say that you don't feel the motion half so much in the bottom of the ship," said Katy.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000049_000001.wav|She tried to speak, but to Katy's dismay began to cry instead; and when the words came they were strangled with sobs.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000067_000000.wav|"Oh, let us have a hansom!|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000068_000000.wav|So a hansom cab was called, the two ladies got in, Amy cuddled down between them, the folding doors were shut over their knees like a lap robe, and away they drove up the solidly paved streets to the hotel where they were to pass the night.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000043_000000.wav|The deck had dried fast in the fresh sea wind, and the Captain had just arranged Katy in her chair, and was wrapping the rug about her feet in a fatherly way, when mrs Barrett, all smiles, appeared from below.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000061_000004.wav|At last he shut the glass with a satisfied air.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000019_000000.wav|"Break! break!|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000059_000002.wav|Katy did not care particularly for the dumpling, but she valued it as a mark of regard, and always ate it when she could.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000019_000001.wav|break! There is no good left in me; For the dinner I ate on the shore so late Has vanished into the sea!"|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000005.wav|It wasn't a bit kind of you to bring me to such a horrid place.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000060_000001.wav|mrs Barrett was enlisted in the plot, there could be no doubt of that, and enjoyed the joke as much as any one, as she presented herself each day with the invariable formula, "A letter for you, ma'am," or "A bundle, Miss, come by the Parcels Delivery." On the fourth morning it was a photograph of Baby Rose, in a little flat morocco case.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000060_000004.wav|Then came mr Howells's "A Foregone Conclusion," which Katy had never seen; then a box of quinine pills; then a sachet for her trunk; then another burlesque poem; last of all, a cake of delicious violet soap, "to wash the sea smell from her hands," the label said.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000040_000000.wav|Katy and he grew quite intimate during their long morning talk.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000069_000000.wav|"How lovely it will be to sleep in a bed that doesn't tip or roll from side to side!" said mrs Ashe.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000057_000002.wav|Pleasant people turned up among the passengers, as always happens on an ocean steamship, and others not so pleasant, perhaps, who were rather curious and interesting to watch.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000009.wav|Mamma, why don't you speak to me?|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000006_000001.wav|"I won't stay in this nasty old ship.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000003_000003.wav|On the whole, Katy preferred to have her own side of the ship, the downward one; for it was less difficult to keep herself in the berth, from which she was in continual danger of being thrown.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000034_000001.wav|But I'm glad she did, for I feel heaps better already; only I keep thinking of poor little Maria Matilda shut up in the trunk in that dark place, and wondering if she's sick.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4138/11079/4138_11079_000055_000001.wav|The little uncomplaining thing was evidently half starved, but with the mouthfuls the pink began to steal back into her cheeks and lips, and the dark circles lessened under the blue eyes.|4138
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000009_000000.wav|As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear!|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000031_000000.wav|Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered through the village, Sauntered as soft away! So unsuspected violets Within the fields lie low, Too late for striving fingers That passed, an hour ago.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000104_000000.wav|twenty five.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000063_000000.wav|fifteen.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000106_000000.wav|twenty six.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000077_000000.wav|And get the dimples ready, And wonder we could care For that old faded midnight That frightened but an hour.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000035_000000.wav|Mirth is the mail of anguish, In which it cautions arm, Lest anybody spy the blood And "You're hurt" exclaim!|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000059_000000.wav|THE SECRET.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000075_000000.wav|DAWN.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000080_000000.wav|Read, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid; How many times they bore The faithful witness, Till we are helped, As if a kingdom cared!|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000032_000000.wav|eight.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000073_000000.wav|We trust, in plumed procession, For such the angels go, Rank after rank, with even feet And uniforms of snow.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000023_000000.wav|Glee!|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000079_000000.wav|THE BOOK OF MARTYRS.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000078_000000.wav|eighteen.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000061_000000.wav|Some things that stay there be, -- Grief, hills, eternity: Nor this behooveth me.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000051_000000.wav|I asked no other thing, No other was denied. I offered Being for it; The mighty merchant smiled.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000019_000002.wav|Yes!|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000097_000000.wav|twenty three.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000003_000000.wav|LIFE.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000029_000000.wav|seven.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000008_000000.wav|Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to day Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory,|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000050_000000.wav|twelve.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000020_000000.wav|Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet. Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000083_000000.wav|THE MYSTERY OF PAIN.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000025_000000.wav|How they will tell the shipwreck When winter shakes the door, Till the children ask, "But the forty? Did they come back no more?"|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000040_000000.wav|IN A LIBRARY.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160592/240_160592_000082_000000.wav|nineteen.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000084_000000.wav|No lifetime set on them, Apparelled as the new Unborn, except they had beheld, Born everlasting now.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000096_000000.wav|eighteen.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000075_000000.wav|fourteen.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000077_000000.wav|I'm ceded, I've stopped being theirs; The name they dropped upon my face With water, in the country church, Is finished using now, And they can put it with my dolls, My childhood, and the string of spools I've finished threading too.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000009_000000.wav|BEQUEST.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000054_000000.wav|I CANNOT live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000076_000000.wav|LOVE'S BAPTISM.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000014_000000.wav|Surfeit?|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000044_000000.wav|TRANSPLANTED.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000086_000000.wav|sixteen.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000013_000000.wav|Alter?|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000050_000000.wav|I'll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks, --|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000047_000000.wav|THE OUTLET.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000049_000000.wav|My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously!|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000081_000000.wav|RESURRECTION.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000078_000000.wav|Baptized before without the choice, But this time consciously, of grace Unto supremest name, Called to my full, the crescent dropped, Existence's whole arc filled up With one small diadem.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000052_000000.wav|twelve.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000092_000000.wav|THE WIFE.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000066_000000.wav|thirteen.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000057_000000.wav|I could not die with you, For one must wait To shut the other's gaze down, -- You could not.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000058_000000.wav|And I, could I stand by And see you freeze, Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000033_000000.wav|eight.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000080_000000.wav|fifteen.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000003_000000.wav|LOVE.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/160593/240_160593_000029_000000.wav|seven.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000036_000000.wav|eleven.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000038_000000.wav|thirteen.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000033_000000.wav|eight.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000008_000002.wav|Among other things, it is time for a list of species to be published which no man claiming to be either a gentleman or a sportsman can shoot for aught else than preservation in a public museum.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000042_000000.wav|The Lewis and Clark Club, of Pittsburgh, john m Phillips, President.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000031_000000.wav|six.|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/240/144999/240_144999_000005_000002.wav|And what is a sportsman to day?|240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000006_000000.wav|mr Malone has consented to tell for the first time, in this record of the militant campaign, what happened at his memorable interview with President Wilson in July, nineteen seventeen, an interview which he followed up two months later with his resignation as Collector of the Port of New York.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000005.wav|I give up a powerful office in my own state.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000084_000001.wav|Indeed, I judge from your letter that any discussion of the reasons would not be acceptable to you and that it is your desire to be free of the restraints of public office.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000102_000002.wav|Sensing their predicament and fearing any loss of prestige, they risked a slight advance.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000071_000001.wav|Will not this Administration, reelected to power by the hope and faith of the women of the West, handsomely reward that faith by taking action now for the passage of the federal suffrage amendment?|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000029_000001.wav|My opinion was confirmed.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000003_000000.wav|An Administration Protest Dudley Field Malone Resigns|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000023_000000.wav|My reply to this was, "With all respect for you, mr President, my explanation to the public will not be as difficult as yours, if I am compelled to remind the public that you have appointed to office and can remove all the important officials of the city of Washington."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000011_000001.wav|"The manhandling of the women by the police was outrageous and the entire trial (before a judge of your own appointment) was a perversion of justice," I said.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000011_000000.wav|"If the situation is as you describe it, it is shocking," said the President'.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000052_000000.wav|"The liberty loving women of California greet you as one of the few men in history who have been willing to sacrifice material interests for the liberty of a class to which they themselves do not belong.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000088_000000.wav|To this mr Malone replied:|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000035_000003.wav|We had said so but it would have taken months to convince the public that the President was in any way responsible.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000038_000000.wav|Women ought to be willing to make sacrifices for their own liberation, but for a man to have the courage and imagination to make such a sacrifice for the liberation of women is unparalleled.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000037_000002.wav|It is impossible to overemphasize what a tremendous acceleration mr Malone's fine, solitary and generous act gave to the speedy break down of the Administration's resistance.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000010_000006.wav|I observed that although we might not agree with the "manners" of picketing, citizens had a right to petition the President or any other official of the government for a redress of grievances.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000104_000000.wav|The Report, which he had so long delayed because he wanted [he said] to make it a particularly brilliant and elaborate one, read:|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000034_000000.wav|mr Malone's resignation in September, nineteen seventeen, came with a sudden shock, because the entire country and surely the Administration thought him quieted and subdued by the President's personal appeal to him in July.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000081_000000.wav|THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000066_000002.wav|It will hearten the mothers of the nation, eliminate a just grievance, and turn the devoted energies of brilliant women to a more hearty support of the Government in this crisis.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000107_000002.wav|The resolution was sponsored by Representative Pou, Chairman of the Rules Committee and Administration leader, himself an anti suffragist.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000017_000008.wav|You were pleased and approved of what I had done.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000001.wav|You ask if I am going to sacrifice you.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000094_000000.wav|After a most careful re reading of my letter, I am unable to understand how you could judge that any discussion by you of my reasons for resigning would not be acceptable to me since my letter was an appeal to you on specific grounds for action now by the Administration on the Federal Suffrage amendment.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000033_000000.wav|Under this published interpretation of his pardon the women at Occoquan accepted the pardon and returned to Washington.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000074_000002.wav|It is no small sacrifice now for me, as a member of your Administration, to sever our political relationship.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000102_000001.wav|We were now for a moment the object of sympathy; the Administration was the butt of considerable hostility.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000017_000006.wav|But that your great weakness with women voters was that you had not taken any step throughout your entire Administration to urge the passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment, which mr Hughes was advocating and which alone can enfranchise all the women of the nation.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000046_000001.wav|The letter itself was a high minded appeal . . . .|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000004_000001.wav|He had known and supported the President from the beginning of the President's political career.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000123_000000.wav|Representative Volstead, of Minnesota, Republican, came the closest of all to real courage in his protest:-|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000022_000000.wav|The President earnestly urged me not to resign, saying, "What will the people of the country think when they hear that the Collector of the Port of New York has resigned because of an injustice done to a group of suffragists by the police officials of the city of Washington?"|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000050_000001.wav|There flashed through my mind all the memories of Knights of chivalry and of romance that I have ever read, and they all paled before your championship, and the sacrifice and the high spirited leadership that it signifies. Where you lead, I believe, thousands of other men will follow, even though at a distance, and most inadequately . . . ."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000116_000000.wav|of the banners of the pickets without permitting the women carrying them to be the objects of mob violence.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000119_000001.wav|If we keep up this sort of practices, we will compel the House, when they come to vote on the constitutional amendment, to surrender obediently likewise'."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000041_000000.wav|"May I express my appreciation and gratitude for the excellent and manly letter that you have written to President Wilson on woman suffrage?|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000047_000000.wav|mrs Norman de r Whitehouse, the President of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, with which mr Malone had worked for years, wired:|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000125_000002.wav|To be sure this was accomplished only after an inordinate amount of time, money and effort had been spent on a sustained and relentless campaign of pressure.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000009_000002.wav|It was three o'clock.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000118_000003.wav|The very idea was appalling to Representative Stafford of Wisconsin, anti suffrage Republican, who joined in the Democratic protests.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000067_000001.wav|I was the first man of your Administration, nearly five years ago, to publicly advocate preparedness, and helped to found the first Plattsburg training camp.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000028_000005.wav|I felt certain that the high spirited women in the workhouse would refuse to accept the pardon as a mere "benevolent" act on the part of the President.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000041_000001.wav|I am sure that I am only one of many women who feel thankful to you for it.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000124_000003.wav|Some women did in a peaceable, and perfectly lawful manner, display suffrage banners on the public street near the White House.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000056_000000.wav|The President, The White House, Washington, d c|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000038_000001.wav|mr Malone called to the attention of the nation the true cause of the obstruction and suppression.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000032_000001.wav|This he never denied.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000018_000000.wav|I reiterated to the President my earlier appeal that he assist suffrage as an urgent war measure and a necessary part of America's program for world democracy, to which the President replied: "The enfranchisement of women is not at all necessary to a program of democracy and I see nothing in|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000061_000001.wav|Since England and Russia, in the midst of the great war, have assured the national enfranchisement of their women, should we not be jealous to maintain our democratic leadership in the world by the speedy national enfranchisement of American women?|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000028_000000.wav|There was just a day and a half left to perfect the exceptions for the appeal under the rules of procedure.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000004.wav|I quit a political career.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000060_000000.wav|But the present policy of the Administration, in permitting splendid American women to be sent to jail in Washington, not for carrying offensive banners, not for picketing, but on the technical charge of obstructing traffic, is a denial even of their constitutional right to petition for, and demand the passage of, the federal suffrage amendment.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000028_000003.wav|He had not even consulted me as their attorney.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000048_000000.wav|"Although we disagree with you on the question of picketing every suffragist must be grateful to you for the gallant support you are giving our cause and the great sacrifice you are making."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000064_000000.wav|the nation are, and always will be, loyal to the country, and the passage of the suffrage amendment is only the first step toward their national emancipation.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000006.wav|I, who have no money, sacrifice a lucrative salary, and go back to revive my law practice.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000004_000002.wav|He had campaigned twice through New Jersey with mr Wilson as Governor; he had managed mr Wilson's campaigns in many states for the nomination before the Baltimore Convention; he had toured the country with mr Wilson in nineteen twelve ; and it was he who led to victory President Wilson's fight for California in nineteen sixteen.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000099_000000.wav|Chapter eight|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000040_000000.wav|Alice Stone Blackwell, the daughter of Lucy Stone, herself a pioneer suffrage leader and editor, wrote to mr Malone:|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000074_000003.wav|But I think it is high time that men in this generation, at some cost to themselves, stood up to battle for the national enfranchisement of American women.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000027_000000.wav|"But," I said, "mr|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000101_000001.wav|It yielded on a point of machinery.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000037_000003.wav|His sacrifice lightened ours.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000112_000000.wav|mr Meeker of Missouri, Democrat, protested against Congress "yielding to the nagging of a certain group."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000010_000007.wav|He seemed to acquiesce in this view, and reminded me that the women had been unmolested at the White House gates for over five months, adding that he had even ordered the head usher to invite the women on cold days to come into the White House and warm themselves and have coffee.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000084_000002.wav|I, therefore, accept your resignation, to take effect as you have wished.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000039_000001.wav|The conservative suffrage leaders, although they heartily disapproved of , picketing, were as outspoken in their gratitude.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000118_000000.wav|The subject of the creation of a committee on suffrage was almost entirely forgotten.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000044_000001.wav|It was the noblest act that any man|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000052_000003.wav|We are deeply grateful for the incalculable benefit of your active assistance in the struggle of American women for political liberty and for a real Democracy."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000066_000000.wav|For the whole country gladly acknowledges, mr President, that no vital piece of legislation has come through Congress these five years except by your extraordinary and brilliant leadership.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000032_000000.wav|"The President's pardon is an acknowledgment by him of the grave injustice that has been done:"|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000090_000000.wav|The President, The White House, Washington, d c|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000038_000002.wav|He reproached the President and his colleagues after mature consideration, in the most honorable and vital way,-by refusing longer to associate himself with an Administration which backed such policies.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000103_000001.wav|Scarcely had the women recovered from the surprise of his visit when the Senator, on the following day, september fifteenth, filed the favorable report which had been lying with his Committee since may fifteenth, exactly six months.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000076_000000.wav|to keep my promise made in the West and more freely to go into this larger field of democratic effort, I hereby resign my office as Collector of the Port of New York, to take effect at once, or at your earliest convenience.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000061_000000.wav|In more than twenty states it is a practical impossibility to amend the state constitutions; so the women of those States can only be enfranchised by the passage of the federal suffrage amendment.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000067_000002.wav|And if, with our troops mobilizing in France, you will give American women this measure for their political freedom, they will support with greater enthusiasm your hope and the hope of America for world freedom.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000125_000001.wav|The creation of this committee, which had been pending since nineteen thirteen, was now finally granted in September, nineteen seventeen.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000049_000000.wav|mrs james Lees Laidlaw, Vice Chairman of the New York Suffrage Party, said:|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000002.wav|You sacrifice nothing by my resignation.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000010_000005.wav|I told mr Wilson everything I had witnessed from the time we saw the suffragists arrested in front of the White House to their sentence in the police court.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000028_000001.wav|No stenographic record of the trial had been taken, which put me under the greatest legal difficulties.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000122_000000.wav|"Gentlemen, there is only one question before the House today and that is, if you look at it from a political aspect, whether you wish to approve of the practices of these women who have been disgracing their cause here in Washington for the past several months."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000043_000000.wav|mrs Carrie Chapman Catt, the President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, wrote:|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000101_000002.wav|It gave us a report in the Senate and a committee in the House and expected us to be grateful.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000003.wav|But I lose much.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000028_000002.wav|I was in the midst of these preparations for appeal the next day when I learned to my surprise that the President had pardoned the women.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000017_000009.wav|I returned to California and repeated this promise, and so far as I am concerned, I must keep my part of that obligation."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000074_000001.wav|In every circumstance throughout those years I have served you with the most respectful affection and unshadowed devotion.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000116_000001.wav|To see women roughly handled by rough men on the streets of the capital of the nation is not a pleasing sight to Kentuckians and to red blooded Americans, and let us hope the like will never again be seen here."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000017_000001.wav|President, if there is any sacrifice in this unhappy circumstance, it is I who am making the sacrifice.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000035_000002.wav|The nation was shocked into the realization that this was not a street brawl between women and policemen, but a controversy between suffragists and a powerful Administration.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000125_000000.wav|The Suffrage Committee in the House was appointed.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000059_000000.wav|And if the women of the West voted to reelect you, I promised them that I would spend all my energy, at any sacrifice to myself, to get the present Democratic Administration to pass the federal suffrage amendment.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000002_000000.wav|Chapter seven|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000057_000000.wav|Dear mr President:|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000050_000000.wav|"No words of mine can tell you how our hearts have been lifted and our purposes strengthened in this tremendous struggle in New York State by the reading of your powerful and noble utterances in your letter to President Wilson.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000000.wav|The President was visibly moved as I added, "You are the President now, reelected to office.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000042_000000.wav|"The picketing seems to me a very silly business, and I am sure it is doing the cause harm instead of good; but the picketers are being shamefully and illegally treated, and it is a thousand pities, for President Wilson's own sake, that he ever allowed the Washington authorities to enter on this course of persecution.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000009_000003.wav|I called a taxicab, drove direct to the executive offices and met him.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000039_000000.wav|And mr Malone's resignation was not only welcomed by the militant group.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000010_000003.wav|I also informed him that I had offered to act as counsel for the suffragists on the appeal of their case.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000065_000001.wav|It is true that this amendment would have to come from Congress, but the present Congress shows no earnest desire to enact this legislation for the simple reason that you, as the leader of the party in power, have not yet suggested it.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000027_000002.wav|I agreed to this, and we closed the interview with the President saying, "If you consider my personal request and do not resign, please do not leave Washington without coming to see me." I left the executive offices and never saw him again.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000095_000000.wav|However, I am profoundly grateful to you for your prompt acceptance of my resignation.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000113_000000.wav|mr Cantrill of Kentucky, Democrat, believed that "millions of Christian women in the nation should not be denied the right of having a Committee in the House to study the problem of suffrage because of the mistakes of some few of their sisters."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000124_000001.wav|While I do not approve of picketing, I disapprove more strongly of the hoodlum methods pursued in suppressing the practice.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000100_000000.wav|The Administration Yields|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000118_000004.wav|He said:|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000058_000001.wav|The most difficult argument to meet among the seven million voters was the failure of the Democratic party, throughout four years of power, to pass the federal suffrage amendment looking toward the enfranchisement of all the women of the country.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000035_000004.wav|mr Malone did what we could only have done with the greatest difficulty and after more pro|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000110_000001.wav|Some indirectly and many, inadvertently, however, paid eloquent tribute to the suffrage picket.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000033_000003.wav|During the next two months I carefully watched the situation.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000035_000001.wav|mr Wilson and his Administration were shocked that any one should care enough about the liberty of women to resign a lucrative post in the Government.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000053_000000.wav|I reprint mr Malone's letter of resignation which sets forth in detail his position.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000109_000000.wav|Scores of Congressmen, anxious to refute the idea that the indomitable picket had had anything to do with their action, revealed naively how surely it had.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000118_000001.wav|The Congressmen were utterly unable to shake off the ghosts of the pickets.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000042_000001.wav|It was high time for some one to make a protest, and you have made one that has been heard far and wide . . . ."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000067_000000.wav|As you well know, in dozens of speeches in many states I have advocated your policies and the war.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000006_000001.wav|I quote the story in his own words:|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000083_000000.wav|Your letter of september seventh reached me just before I left home and I have, I am sorry to say, been unable to reply to it sooner.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000007.wav|But most of all I sever a personal association with you of the deepest affection which you know has meant much to me these past seven years.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000077_000000.wav|Yours respectfully,|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000051_000000.wav|And from the women voters of California with whom mr Malone had kept faith came the message:|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000037_000000.wav|longed sacrifices.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000084_000000.wav|I must frankly say that I cannot regard your reasons for resigning your position as Collector of Customs as convincing, but it is so evidently your wish to be relieved from the duties of the office that I do not feel at liberty to withhold my acceptance of your resignation.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000010_000004.wav|He asked me for full details of my complaint and attitude.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000033_000006.wav|Under this development it seemed to me that self respect demanded action, so I sent my resignation to the President, publicly stated my attitude and regretfully left his Administration."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000105_000000.wav|"The Committee on Woman Suffrage, to which was referred the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, conferring upon women the right of suffrage, having the same under consideration, beg leave to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that the joint resolution do pass."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000017_000005.wav|I told you that I found your strength with women voters lay in the fact that you had with great patience and statesmanship kept this country out of the European war.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000082_000000.wav|My dear mr Collector:|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000118_000002.wav|The pickets had not influenced their actions!|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000065_000000.wav|For this reason many of your most ardent friends and supporters feel that the passage of the federal suffrage amendment is a war measure which could appropriately be urged by you at this session of Congress.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000033_000001.wav|The incident was closed.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000107_000001.wav|This vote was indicative of the strength of the amendment in the House.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000055_000000.wav|september seventh nineteen seventeen.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000010_000000.wav|I began by reminding the President that in the seven years and a half of our personal and political association we had never had a serious difference.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000017_000002.wav|I was sent twice as your spokesman in the last campaign to the Woman Suffrage States of the West.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000121_000000.wav|He spoke the truth, and finished dramatically with:|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000016_000000.wav|"Do you mean to tell me," he said, "that you intend to resign, to repudiate me and my Administration and sacrifice me for your views on this suffrage question?"|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000058_000000.wav|Last autumn, as the representative of your Administration, I went into the woman suffrage states to urge your reelection.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000037_000001.wav|He laid the responsibility squarely and dramatically where it belonged.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000020_000001.wav|"mr|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000021_000008.wav|But I cannot and will not remain in office and see women thrown into jail because they demand their political freedom."|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000062_000001.wav|The women of|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000007_000000.wav|Frank p Walsh, amos Pinchot, Frederic c Howe, j a h Hopkins, Allen McCurdy and I were present throughout the trial of the sixteen women in July.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000085_000000.wav|I need not say that our long association in public affairs makes me regret the action you have taken most sincerely.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000060_000001.wav|It, therefore, now becomes my profound obligation actively to keep my promise to the women of the West.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000028_000004.wav|Moreover, I was amazed that since the President had said he considered the treatment of the women "shocking," he had pardoned them without stating that he did so to correct a grave injustice.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000033_000002.wav|I returned to New York.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000015_000000.wav|The President asserted his ignorance of all this.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000011_000002.wav|This seemed to annoy the President and he replied with asperity, "Why do you come to me in this indignant fashion for things which have been done by the police officials of the city of Washington?"|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000124_000002.wav|I gather from the press that this is what took place.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000078_000000.wav|(Signed) DUDLEY FIELD MALONE.|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2045/158081/2045_158081_000029_000003.wav|I advised them that as a matter of law no one could compel them to accept the pardon, but that as a matter of fact they would have to accept it, for the Attorney|2045
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000038_000000.wav|To his disciples he once said, "Do you look upon me, my sons, as keeping anything secret from you?|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000019_000000.wav|Addressing his favorite disciple, he said, "To you only and myself it has been given to do this-to go when called to serve, and to go back into quiet retirement when released from office."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000010_000000.wav|Once he exclaimed, "Alas!|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000018_000000.wav|On one day on which he had wept, on that day he would not sing.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000046_000001.wav|He said, "I have heard that superior men show no partiality; are they, too, then, partial?|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000031_000000.wav|The Master's regular subjects of discourse were the "Books of the Odes" and "History," and the up keeping of the Rules of Propriety.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000039_000000.wav|Four things there were which he kept in view in his teaching-scholarliness, conduct of life, honesty, faithfulness.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000028_000002.wav|"Their aim and object," he answered, "was that of doing the duty which every man owes to his fellows, and they succeeded in doing it;--what room further for feelings of resentment?"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000043_000002.wav|"Why so much ado," said the Master, "at my merely permitting his approach, and not rather at my allowing him to draw back? If a man have cleansed himself in order to come and see me, I receive him as such; but I do not undertake for what he will do when he goes away."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000034_000000.wav|"As I came not into life with any knowledge of it," he said, "and as my likings are for what is old, I busy myself in seeking knowledge there."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000040_000000.wav|"It is not given to me," he said, "to meet with a sage; let me but behold a man of superior mind, and that will suffice.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000012_000000.wav|"Maintain firm hold upon Virtue.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000024_000000.wav|As to wealth, he remarked, "If wealth were an object that I could go in quest of, I should do so even if I had to take a whip and do grooms' work.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000036_000000.wav|"Let there," he said, "be three men walking together: from that number I should be sure to find my instructors; for what is good in them I should choose out and follow, and what is not good I should modify."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000024_000001.wav|But seeing that it is not, I go after those objects for which I have a liking."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000035_000000.wav|Strange occurrences, exploits of strength, deeds of lawlessness, references to spiritual beings-such like matters the Master avoided in conversation.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000011_000000.wav|"Concentrate the mind," said he, "upon the Good Way.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000051_000001.wav|"Are such available?" asked the Master.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000054_000000.wav|Again, "The man of superior mind is placidly composed; the small minded man is in a constant state of perturbation."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000042_000001.wav|I am not of these.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000028_000001.wav|"Had they any feelings of resentment?" was the next question.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000038_000003.wav|That is so with me."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000050_000000.wav|"'A Sage and a Philanthropist?' How should I have the ambition?" said he.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000049_000000.wav|"Although in letters," he said, "I may have none to compare with me, yet in my personification of the 'superior man' I have not as yet been successful."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000041_000000.wav|When the Master fished with hook and line, he did not also use a net. When out with his bow, he would never shoot at game in cover.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000029_000000.wav|"With a meal of coarse rice," said the Master, "and with water to drink, and my bent arm for my pillow-even thus I can find happiness.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000013_000000.wav|"Rely upon Philanthropy.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000053_000001.wav|Better, however, the hard than the disorderly."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000004_000000.wav|Characteristics of Confucius-An Incident|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000040_000001.wav|Neither is it given to me to meet with a good man; let me but see a man of constancy, and it will suffice.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000037_000000.wav|On one occasion he exclaimed, "Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000021_000000.wav|The Master answered:--|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95963/6865_95963_000005_000000.wav|Said the Master:--|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000026_000003.wav|This remark coming to the Master's ears, he said, "What I did is part of the ceremonial!"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000015_000001.wav|Say even that he does certainly contend with others, as in archery competitions; yet mark, in that case, how courteously he will bow and go up for the forfeit cup, and come down again and give it to his competitor.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000023_000000.wav|He would say, "If I do not myself take part in my offerings, it is all the same as if I did not offer them."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000038_000000.wav|"Judge:--Seeing that the feudal lords planted a screen at their gates, he too would have one at his!|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000025_000001.wav|I follow Chow!"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000026_000002.wav|On entering the grand temple he inquired about everything."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000019_000003.wav|Because they have not documents enough, nor men learned enough.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000033_000002.wav|He has gone away without a word of censure."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000012_000000.wav|On a question being put to him by Lin Fang, a disciple, as to what was the radical idea upon which the Rules of Propriety were based, the Master exclaimed, "Ah! that is a large question.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000019_000002.wav|And why cannot they do so?|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000035_000000.wav|"Was he miserly?" some one asked.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000012_000001.wav|As to some rules, where there is likelihood of extravagance, they would rather demand economy; in those which relate to mourning, and where there is likelihood of being easily satisfied, what is wanted is real sorrow."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000027_000000.wav|"In archery," he said, "the great point to be observed is not simply the perforation of the leather; for men have not all the same strength.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000021_000001.wav|The position in the empire of him who could tell you is as evident as when you look at this"--pointing to the palm of his hand.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000029_000000.wav|"To serve one's ruler nowadays," he remarked, "fully complying with the Rules of Propriety, is regarded by others as toadyism!"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000031_000000.wav|Referring to the First of the Odes, he remarked that it was mirthful without being lewd, and sad also without being painful.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000018_000000.wav|"Coloring," replied the Master, "requires a pure and clear background." "Then," said the other, "rules of ceremony require to have a background!" "Ah!" exclaimed the Master, "you are the man to catch the drift of my thought.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000022_000001.wav|In offering to other spirits it was the same.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000038_000002.wav|If he knew the Rules of Propriety, who is there that does not know them?"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000015_000000.wav|Of "the superior man," the Master observed, "In him there is no contentiousness.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95959/6865_95959_000017_000000.wav|"Dimples playing in witching smile, Beautiful eyes, so dark, so bright! Oh, and her face may be thought the while Colored by art, red rose on white!"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000002_000001.wav|"Lead the way in it," said the Master, "and work hard at it."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000040_000000.wav|"Such as are sure to be true to their word, and effective in their work-who are given to hammering, as it were, upon one note-of inferior calibre indeed, but fit enough, I think, to be ranked next."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000050_000001.wav|Try to please him by the adoption of wrong principles, and you will fail.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000030_000000.wav|Confucius again replied, "A sentence could hardly be supposed to do so much as that.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000033_000000.wav|The Duke of Sheh in a conversation with Confucius said, "There are some straightforward persons in my neighborhood.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000026_000001.wav|"Why so late?" he asked.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000048_000000.wav|"What, then, if they all disliked him?"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000050_000004.wav|Try to please him by the adoption of wrong principles, and you will succeed.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000001_000000.wav|Answers on the Art of Governing-Consistency|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000007_000000.wav|"As to those of whom you are uncertain, will others omit to notice them?"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000025_000001.wav|If he be unable to rectify himself, how is he to rectify others?"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000004_000001.wav|Excuse small faults.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000009_000000.wav|"One thing of necessity," he answered-"the rectification of terms."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000024_000000.wav|Again, "Suppose the ruler to possess true kingly qualities, then surely after one generation there would be good will among men."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000028_000001.wav|But there is a proverb people use which says, 'To play the prince is hard, to play the minister not easy.' Assuming that it is understood that 'to play the prince is hard,' would it not be probable that with that one sentence the country should be made to prosper?"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000018_000000.wav|The Master was on a journey to Wei, and Yen Yu was driving him.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000026_000003.wav|"The details of it," suggested the Master; "had it been legislation, I should have been there to hear it, even though I am not in office."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000021_000000.wav|"Instruct them."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000013_000000.wav|"A man of little mind, that!" said the Master, when Fan Ch'i had gone out.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000012_000002.wav|he asked.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000011_000004.wav|Hence, a man of superior mind, certain first of his terms, is fitted to speak; and being certain of what he says can proceed upon it.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000003_000000.wav|Requested to say more, he added, "And do not tire of it."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000028_000000.wav|Confucius answered, "A sentence could hardly be supposed to do so much as that.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000051_000000.wav|Again, "The superior man can be high without being haughty.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000050_000003.wav|The inferior man is, on the other hand, difficult to serve, but easy to please.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000005_000000.wav|"But," he asked, "how am I to know the sagacious and talented, before promoting them?"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000032_000001.wav|Do not look at trivial advantages.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000050_000002.wav|Also, when such a one employs others, he uses them according to their capacity.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000017_000000.wav|Of King, a son of the Duke of Wei, he observed that "he managed his household matters well.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000049_000001.wav|Better if he were liked by the good folk in the village, and disliked by the bad."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000015_000000.wav|"Let a leader," said he, "show rectitude in his own personal character, and even without directions from him things will go well.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000027_000000.wav|Duke Ting asked if there were one sentence which, if acted upon, might have the effect of making a country prosperous.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000044_000000.wav|"The Southerners," said he, "have the proverb, 'The man who sticks not to rule will never make a charm worker or a medical man,' Good!--'Whoever is intermittent in his practise of virtue will live to be ashamed of it.' Without prognostication," he added, "that will indeed be so."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000020_000000.wav|"And after enriching them, what more would you do for them?"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000017_000001.wav|On his coming into possession, he thought, 'What a strange conglomeration!'--Coming to possess a little more, it was, 'Strange, such a result!' And when he became wealthy, 'Strange, such elegance!'"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000011_000002.wav|If terms be incorrect, language will be incongruous; and if language be incongruous, deeds will be imperfect.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000050_000005.wav|And when he employs others he requires them to be fully prepared for everything."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000045_000000.wav|"The nobler minded man," he remarked, "will be agreeable even when he disagrees; the small minded man will agree and be disagreeable."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000052_000000.wav|"The firm, the unflinching, the plain and simple, the slow to speak," said he once, "are approximating towards their duty to their fellow men."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000012_000003.wav|"I am not equal to an old gardener." was the reply.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000019_000000.wav|"Enrich them," replied the Master.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000015_000001.wav|If he be not personally upright, his directions will not be complied with."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000032_000002.wav|If you wish for speedy results, they will not be far reaching; and if you regard trivial advantages you will not successfully deal with important affairs."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000012_000000.wav|Fan Ch'i requested that he might learn something of husbandry.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000050_000000.wav|"The superior man," he once observed, "is easy to serve, but difficult to please.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000049_000000.wav|"That, too," said he, "is scarcely enough.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000047_000000.wav|"That will scarcely do," he answered.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000026_000000.wav|Once when Yen Yu was leaving the Court, the Master accosted him.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000053_000001.wav|The master replied, "He who can properly be so-called will have in him a seriousness of purpose, a habit of controlling himself, and an agreeableness of manner: among his friends and associates the seriousness and the self control, and among his brethren the agreeableness of manner."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000011_000005.wav|In the language of such a person there is nothing heedlessly irregular-and that is the sum of the matter."|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000010_000002.wav|Why such rectification?"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000006_000000.wav|"Promote those whom you do know," said the Master.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000004_000000.wav|Chung kung, on being made first minister to the Chief of the Ki family, consulted the Master about government, and to him he said, "Let the heads of offices be heads.|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6865/95969/6865_95969_000038_000000.wav|"Him who is spoken of by his kinsmen as a dutiful son, and whom the folks of his neighborhood call' good brother.'"|6865
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000035_000000.wav|(APPENDIX A)|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000012_000000.wav|Asked, Who is the rich man?|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000067_000000.wav|sixteen|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000002.wav|To understand Nature, and to follow her!|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000038_000000.wav|A life entangled with Fortune is like a torrent.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000029_000003.wav|He says that Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000002.wav|my part has been fully done.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000056_000000.wav|Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice. . . .|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000029_000006.wav|"There is no enemy near," he cries, "all is perfect peace!"|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000002.wav|Behold how I have used the senses, the primary conceptions which Thous gavest me.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000029_000001.wav|Diogenes, who was sent as a spy long before you, brought us back another report than this.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000000.wav|"What can I do?"--Choose the master, the crew, the day, the opportunity. Then comes a sudden storm.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000004.wav|What then have I to do?|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000025_000002.wav|We should act as we do in seafaring.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000006.wav|For I am not Eternity, but a human being-a part of the whole, as an hour is part of the day.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000000.wav|If Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this fellow would have had nothing to be proud of.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000008.wav|This itself is the only thing to be proud of.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000056_000001.wav|None is a slave whose acts are free.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000019_000000.wav|Who to Necessity doth bow aright, Is learn'd in wisdom and the things of God.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000036_000000.wav|Fragments Attributed to Epictetus|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000003.wav|Have I ever laid anything to Thy charge?|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000031_000005.wav|With thoughts like these, beholding the Sun, Moon, and Stars, enjoying earth and sea, a man is neither helpless nor alone!|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000006.wav|So far there is nothing to pride myself on.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000007.wav|Take them back and place them wherever Thou wilt!|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000004.wav|But it seems I do not understand what he wrote.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000003.wav|Accordingly I ask who is the Interpreter. On hearing that it is Chrysippus, I go to him.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000009.wav|But if I admire the interpretation and that alone, what else have I turned out but a mere commentator instead of a lover of wisdom?--except indeed that I happen to be interpreting Chrysippus instead of Homer.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000065_000000.wav|fifteen|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000061_000000.wav|thirteen|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000069_000000.wav|seventeen|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000010.wav|So when any one says to me, Prithee, read me Chrysippus, I am more inclined to blush, when I cannot show my deeds to be in harmony and accordance with his sayings.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000031_000001.wav|Another supplies my food, whose care it is; another my raiment; another hath given me perceptions of sense and primary conceptions.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000046_000000.wav|Keep neither a blunt knife nor an ill disciplined looseness of tongue.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000029_000005.wav|That to be clothed in sackcloth is better than any purple robe; that sleeping on the bare ground is the softest couch; and in proof of each assertion he points to his own courage, constancy, and freedom; to his own healthy and muscular frame.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000042_000000.wav|It is a shame that one who sweetens his drink with the gifts of the bee, should embitter God's gift Reason with vice.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000004.wav|Have I ever murmured at aught that came to pass, or wished it otherwise?|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000002_000001.wav|But what is it that I desire?|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000001_000000.wav|When a man prides himself on being able to understand and interpret the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself:--|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000083_000000.wav|twenty four|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000040_000000.wav|The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever flowing source.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000008_000002.wav|Thus no sudden wrath will betray you into unreasonable conduct, nor will you behave harshly by irritating another.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000008_000000.wav|It is best to share with your attendants what is going forward, both in the labour of preparation and in the enjoyment of the feast itself.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000051_000000.wav|eight|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000006_000000.wav|At meals, see to it that those who serve be not more in number than those who are served.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000021_000000.wav|Crito, if this be God's will, so let it be.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000059_000000.wav|twelve|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000012_000001.wav|Epictetus replied, "He who is content."|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000010_000000.wav|When Xanthippe was chiding Socrates for making scanty preparation for entertaining his friends, he answered:--"If they are friends of ours they will not care for that; if they are not, we shall care nothing for them!"|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000033_000001.wav|If I might choose, I would be found doing some deed of true humanity, of wide import, beneficent and noble.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000049_000000.wav|seven|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000004_000000.wav|At feasts, remember that you are entertaining two guests, body and soul. What you give to the body, you presently lose; what you give to the soul, you keep for ever.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000025_000000.wav|It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000016_000000.wav|On all occasions these thoughts should be at hand:--|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000063_000000.wav|fourteen|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000023_000000.wav|We shall then be like Socrates, when we can indite hymns of praise to the Gods in prison.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000041_000000.wav|three|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000071_000000.wav|eighteen|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000020_000000.wav|Once more:--|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000029_000002.wav|He says that Death is no evil; for it need not even bring shame with it.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000005.wav|I do the only thing that remains to me-to be drowned without fear, without a cry, without upbraiding God, but knowing that what has been born must likewise perish.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000073_000000.wav|nineteen|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000018_000000.wav|Again:|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000003.wav|The matter is in the hands of another-the Master of the ship. The ship is foundering.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000021_000001.wav|As for me, Anytus and Meletus can indeed put me to death, but injure me, never!|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000005.wav|Have I in anything transgressed the relations of life?|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000026_000001.wav|What matters it to me?|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000086_000000.wav|(APPENDIX B)|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000000.wav|If death surprise me thus employed, it is enough if I can stretch forth my hands to God and say, "The faculties which I received at Thy hands for apprehending this thine Administration, I have not neglected.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000034_000009.wav|What life is fairer and more noble, what end happier than his?|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000006_000001.wav|It is absurd for a crowd of persons to be dancing attendance on half a dozen chairs.|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000017_000000.wav|Lead me, O God, and Thou, O Destiny Be what it may the goal appointed me, Bravely I'll follow; nay, and if I would not, I'd prove a coward, yet must follow still!|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000081_000000.wav|twenty three|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1827/143625/1827_143625_000079_000000.wav|twenty two|1827
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000009_000002.wav|That stupid horse, with his heavy hoofs, has been treading down my people without mercy!' So he turned on to a side path and the ant king cried out to him: 'We will remember you-one good turn deserves another!'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000009_000000.wav|He rode on, and after a while it seemed to him that he heard a voice in the sand at his feet.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000010_000001.wav|'Out with you, you idle, good for nothing creatures!' cried they; 'we cannot find food for you any longer; you are big enough, and can provide for yourselves.' But the poor young ravens lay upon the ground, flapping their wings, and crying: 'Oh, what helpless chicks we are!|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000005_000000.wav|This had gone on for a long time, when one day the servant, who took away the dish, was overcome with such curiosity that he could not help carrying the dish into his room.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000004_000002.wav|But he had a strange custom; every day after dinner, when the table was cleared, and no one else was present, a trusty servant had to bring him one more dish.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000008_000003.wav|Now, though it is said that fishes are dumb, he heard them lamenting that they must perish so miserably, and, as he had a kind heart, he got off his horse and put the three prisoners back into the water.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000007_000000.wav|In his trouble and fear he went down into the courtyard and took thought how to help himself out of his trouble.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000004_000003.wav|It was covered, however, and even the servant did not know what was in it, neither did anyone know, for the king never took off the cover to eat of it until he was quite alone.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000015_000001.wav|The ant king had come in the night with thousands and thousands of ants, and the grateful creatures had by great industry picked up all the millet seed and gathered them into the sacks.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000016_000002.wav|But he heard a rustling in the branches, and a golden apple fell into his hand.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000004_000000.wav|A long time ago there lived a king who was famed for his wisdom through all the land.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000006_000000.wav|Now it so happened that on this very day the queen lost her most beautiful ring, and suspicion of having stolen it fell upon this trusty servant, who was allowed to go everywhere.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000006_000002.wav|In vain he declared his innocence; he was dismissed with no better answer.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000003_000000.wav|THE WHITE SNAKE|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000006_000001.wav|The king ordered the man to be brought before him, and threatened with angry words that unless he could before the morrow point out the thief, he himself should be looked upon as guilty and executed.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000004_000001.wav|Nothing was hidden from him, and it seemed as if news of the most secret things was brought to him through the air.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000008_000002.wav|When his request was granted he set out on his way, and one day came to a pond, where he saw three fishes caught in the reeds and gasping for water.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000005_000001.wav|When he had carefully locked the door, he lifted up the cover, and saw a white snake lying on the dish.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000011_000000.wav|And now he had to use his own legs, and when he had walked a long way, he came to a large city.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000008_000000.wav|The servant could now easily prove his innocence; and the king, to make amends for the wrong, allowed him to ask a favour, and promised him the best place in the court that he could wish for.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126313/561_126313_000010_000004.wav|Then they came hopping up to it, satisfied their hunger, and cried: 'We will remember you-one good turn deserves another!'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000031_000006.wav|And when they came to the hazel tree, the white dove sang:|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000002_000000.wav|There she was forced to do hard work; to rise early before daylight, to bring the water, to make the fire, to cook and to wash.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000010_000000.wav|'Hither, hither, through the sky, Turtle doves and linnets, fly! Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, Hither, hither, haste away! One and all come help me, quick! Haste ye, haste ye!--pick, pick, pick!'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000024_000000.wav|When night came she wanted to go home; and the king's son would go with her, and said to himself, 'I will not lose her this time'; but, however, she again slipped away from him, though in such a hurry that she dropped her left golden slipper upon the stairs.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000006_000000.wav|'Hither, hither, through the sky, Turtle doves and linnets, fly! Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, Hither, hither, haste away! One and all come help me, quick! Haste ye, haste ye!--pick, pick, pick!'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000027_000000.wav|'Back again! back again!|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000001_000002.wav|This new wife had two daughters of her own, that she brought home with her; they were fair in face but foul at heart, and it was now a sorry time for the poor little girl.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000003_000000.wav|It happened once that the father was going to the fair, and asked his wife's daughters what he should bring them.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000030_000000.wav|'Back again! back again!|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000011_000001.wav|And they flew down into the ashes; and the little doves put their heads down and set to work, pick, pick, pick; and then the others began pick, pick, pick; and they put all the good grain into the dishes, and left all the ashes.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000028_000001.wav|So he turned his horse round, and brought the false bride back to her home, and said, 'This is not the right bride; let the other sister try and put on the slipper.' Then she went into the room and got her foot into the shoe, all but the heel, which was too large.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000031_000003.wav|But the mother said, 'No, no, she is much too dirty; she will not dare to show herself.' However, the prince would have her come; and she first washed her face and hands, and then went in and curtsied to him, and he reached her the golden slipper.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000031_000005.wav|And when he drew near and looked at her face he knew her, and said, 'This is the right bride.' But the mother and both the sisters were frightened, and turned pale with anger as he took Ashputtel on his horse, and rode away with her.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000002_000001.wav|Besides that, the sisters plagued her in all sorts of ways, and laughed at her.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000008_000000.wav|Then Ashputtel brought the dish to her mother, overjoyed at the thought that now she should go to the ball.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000007_000001.wav|Long before the end of the hour the work was quite done, and all flew out again at the windows.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000028_000000.wav|Then the prince got down and looked at her foot; and he saw, by the blood that streamed from it, what a trick she had played him.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000025_000000.wav|The prince took the shoe, and went the next day to the king his father, and said, 'I will take for my wife the lady that this golden slipper fits.' Then both the sisters were overjoyed to hear it; for they had beautiful feet, and had no doubt that they could wear the golden slipper.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000019_000001.wav|And when she came in it to the ball, everyone wondered at her beauty: but the king's son, who was waiting for her, took her by the hand, and danced with her; and when anyone asked her to dance, he said as before, 'This lady is dancing with me.'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000030_000001.wav|look to the shoe! The shoe is too small, and not made for you! Prince! prince! look again for thy bride, For she's not the true one that sits by thy side.'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000005_000000.wav|Then she threw the peas down among the ashes, but the little maiden ran out at the back door into the garden, and cried out:|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000008_000002.wav|So she shook two dishes of peas into the ashes.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000003_000001.wav|'Fine clothes,' said the first; 'Pearls and diamonds,' cried the second.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000003_000005.wav|Three times every day she went to it and cried; and soon a little bird came and built its nest upon the tree, and talked with her, and watched over her, and brought her whatever she wished for.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000013_000000.wav|'Shake, shake, hazel tree, Gold and silver over me!'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000017_000000.wav|The next day when the feast was again held, and her father, mother, and sisters were gone, Ashputtel went to the hazel tree, and said:|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000011_000000.wav|Then first came two white doves in at the kitchen window; next came two turtle doves; and after them came all the little birds under heaven, chirping and hopping about.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000031_000002.wav|'This is not the true bride,' said he to the father; 'have you no other daughters?' 'No,' said he; 'there is only a little dirty Ashputtel here, the child of my first wife; I am sure she cannot be the bride.' The prince told him to send her.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000003_000004.wav|Then she took it, and went to her mother's grave and planted it there; and cried so much that it was watered with her tears; and there it grew and became a fine tree.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000031_000004.wav|Then she took her clumsy shoe off her left foot, and put on the golden slipper; and it fitted her as if it had been made for her.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000016_000001.wav|But she slipped away from him, unawares, and ran off towards home; and as the prince followed her, she jumped up into the pigeon house and shut the door.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000026_000000.wav|But on their way home they had to pass by the hazel tree that Ashputtel had planted; and on the branch sat a little dove singing:|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000001_000001.wav|And the snow fell and spread a beautiful white covering over the grave; but by the time the spring came, and the sun had melted it away again, her father had married another wife.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000025_000004.wav|Then he took her for his bride, and set her beside him on his horse, and rode away with her homewards.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000011_000002.wav|Before half an hour's time all was done, and out they flew again.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000004_000002.wav|'You, Ashputtel!' said she; 'you who have nothing to wear, no clothes at all, and who cannot even dance-you want to go to the ball?|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000003_000002.wav|'Now, child,' said he to his own daughter, 'what will you have?' 'The first twig, dear father, that brushes against your hat when you turn your face to come homewards,' said she.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000014_000000.wav|Then her friend the bird flew out of the tree, and brought a gold and silver dress for her, and slippers of spangled silk; and she put them on, and followed her sisters to the feast.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000032_000001.wav|look at the shoe! Princess! the shoe was made for you! Prince! prince! take home thy bride, For she is the true one that sits by thy side!'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000025_000003.wav|Then the mother gave her a knife, and said, 'Never mind, cut it off; when you are queen you will not care about toes; you will not want to walk.' So the silly girl cut off her great toe, and thus squeezed on the shoe, and went to the king's son.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000012_000000.wav|Now when all were gone, and nobody left at home, Ashputtel went sorrowfully and sat down under the hazel tree, and cried out:|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000016_000003.wav|But when they had broken open the door they found no one within; and as they came back into the house, Ashputtel was lying, as she always did, in her dirty frock by the ashes, and her dim little lamp was burning in the chimney.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000001_000003.wav|'What does the good for nothing want in the parlour?' said they; 'they who would eat bread should first earn it; away with the kitchen maid!' Then they took away her fine clothes, and gave her an old grey frock to put on, and laughed at her, and turned her into the kitchen.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000011_000003.wav|And then Ashputtel took the dishes to her mother, rejoicing to think that she should now go to the ball. But her mother said, 'It is all of no use, you cannot go; you have no clothes, and cannot dance, and you would only put us to shame': and off she went with her two daughters to the ball.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000015_000000.wav|The king's son soon came up to her, and took her by the hand and danced with her, and no one else: and he never left her hand; but when anyone else came to ask her to dance, he said, 'This lady is dancing with me.'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126312/561_126312_000022_000000.wav|'Shake, shake, hazel tree, Gold and silver over me!'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000006_000002.wav|What good thing do you bring?' 'I bring nothing, I want something given me.' Gretel presents Hans with a piece of bacon.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000007_000003.wav|Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' 'What did you take her?' 'I took her nothing, she gave me something.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'Gave me a bit of bacon.' 'Where is the bacon, Hans?' 'I tied it to a rope, brought it home, dogs took it.' 'That was ill done, Hans, you should have carried the bacon on your head.' 'Never mind, will do better next time.'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000008_000001.wav|Goodbye, mother.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans comes to Gretel. 'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans, What good thing do you bring?' 'I bring nothing, but would have something given.' Gretel presents Hans with a calf.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000005_000004.wav|When he gets home it is suffocated.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000011_000001.wav|What good thing do you bring?' 'I bring nothing, but would have something given.' Gretel says to Hans: 'I will go with you.'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000006_000003.wav|'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000009_000001.wav|Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' 'What did you take her?' 'I took nothing, but had something given me.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'A calf.' 'Where have you the calf, Hans?' 'I set it on my head and it kicked my face.' 'That was ill done, Hans, you should have led the calf, and put it in the stall.' 'Never mind, will do better next time.'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000007_000000.wav|Hans takes the bacon, ties it to a rope, and drags it away behind him. The dogs come and devour the bacon.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000005_000002.wav|What good thing do you bring?' 'I bring nothing, I want something given me.' Gretel presents Hans with a young goat.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000003_000002.wav|Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' 'What did you take her?' 'Took nothing; had something given me.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'Gave me a needle.' 'Where is the needle, Hans?' 'Stuck in the hay cart.' 'That was ill done, Hans.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000012_000001.wav|Then Hans goes to his mother.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000005_000003.wav|'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans takes the goat, ties its legs, and puts it in his pocket.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000002_000000.wav|The mother of Hans said: 'Whither away, Hans?' Hans answered: 'To Gretel.' 'Behave well, Hans.' 'Oh, I'll behave well.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000002_000001.wav|Goodbye, mother.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans comes to Gretel. 'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000008_000002.wav|'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000000.wav|'Whither away, Hans?' 'To Gretel, mother.' 'Behave well, Hans.' 'Oh, I'll behave well.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000006.wav|Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' What did you take her?' 'Took her nothing, she gave me something.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'Gave me a knife.' 'Where is the knife, Hans?' 'Stuck in my sleeve.' 'That's ill done, Hans, you should have put the knife in your pocket.' 'Never mind, will do better next time.'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000005_000006.wav|Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' 'What did you take her?' 'Took nothing, she gave me something.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'She gave me a goat.' 'Where is the goat, Hans?' 'Put it in my pocket.' 'That was ill done, Hans, you should have put a rope round the goat's neck.' 'Never mind, will do better next time.'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000010_000000.wav|'Whither away, Hans?' 'To Gretel, mother.' 'Behave well, Hans.' 'I'll behave well.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000012_000003.wav|Where have you been?' 'With Gretel.' 'What did you take her?' 'I took her nothing.' 'What did Gretel give you?' 'She gave me nothing, she came with me.' 'Where have you left Gretel?' 'I led her by the rope, tied her to the rack, and scattered some grass for her.' 'That was ill done, Hans, you should have cast friendly eyes on her.' 'Never mind, will do better.'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000005_000001.wav|Goodbye, mother.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans comes to Gretel. 'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000003.wav|I want to have something given to me.' Gretel presents Hans with a knife.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000007_000001.wav|When he gets home, he has the rope in his hand, and there is no longer anything hanging on to it.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000002_000002.wav|What do you bring that is good?' 'I bring nothing, I want to have something given me.' Gretel presents Hans with a needle, Hans says: 'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.'|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000003_000000.wav|Hans takes the needle, sticks it into a hay cart, and follows the cart home.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000004.wav|'Goodbye, Gretel.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans takes the knife, sticks it in his sleeve, and goes home.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000013_000000.wav|Hans went into the stable, cut out all the calves' and sheep's eyes, and threw them in Gretel's face.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000002.wav|What do you bring that is good?' 'I bring nothing.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000001.wav|Goodbye, mother.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans comes to Gretel. 'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000004_000005.wav|'Good evening, mother.' 'Good evening, Hans.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000009_000000.wav|Hans takes the calf, puts it on his head, and the calf kicks his face. 'Good evening, mother.' 'Good evening, Hans.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000006_000001.wav|Goodbye, mother.' 'Goodbye, Hans.' Hans comes to Gretel. 'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/561/126319/561_126319_000011_000000.wav|Hans comes to Gretel. 'Good day, Gretel.' 'Good day, Hans.|561
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000042_000001.wav|"It seems to me he pitched you down pretty clean out of the room above.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000019_000000.wav|Grey had now made up his mind that it would be better that he should tell the whole story,--better not only for himself, but for all the Vavasors, including this angry man himself.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000034_000003.wav|The money shall be repaid at once, with any interest that can be due; and if I find you interfering again, I will expose you."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000049_000005.wav|mr Grey, with his property at Nethercoats, and his august manners, and his reputation at Cambridge, was a most respectable lodger, and mr Jones could hardly understand how any one could presume to raise his hand against such a man.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000015.wav|Two thousand pounds of his own money, and two thousand more of Alice's money,--or of mr Grey's,--he had already spent to make his way into that assembly.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000004_000000.wav|There are men who rarely think well of women,--who hardly think well of any woman.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000002.wav|What good had it done for him, or was it likely to do for him?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000010_000002.wav|mr Grey, as he went up, felt almost angry with himself in having admitted his enemy into his lodgings.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000055_000000.wav|"Well, yes.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000047_000007.wav|When ordering that his money might be expended with the possible object of saving Alice from her cousin, he had never felt a moment's regret; he had never thought that he was doing more than circumstances fairly demanded of him.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000003_000000.wav|mr Tombe had gained nothing for the cause by his crafty silence. George Vavasor felt perfectly certain, as he walked out from the little street which runs at the back of Doctors' Commons, that the money which he had been using had come, in some shape, through the hands of john Grey.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000012_000000.wav|This was a question which mr Grey could not answer very quickly.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000005.wav|He had gone too far to stick at any scruples.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000000.wav|But why should they have conspired to feed him with these moneys? There had been no deceit, at any rate, in reference to the pounds sterling which Scruby had already swallowed.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000005_000001.wav|Now, what could he believe of her?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000005.wav|I doubt whether he had attempted to strike a blow, or whether he had so much as clenched his fist.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000002.wav|"There is no help for it," he said, as he also prepared for action.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000001.wav|They had been supplied, whatever had been the motives of the suppliers; and he had no doubt that more would be supplied if he would only keep himself quiet.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000014_000001.wav|I have come here direct from mr Tombe's chambers.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000002.wav|He was still walking westward as he thought of this, down Ludgate Hill, on his direct line towards Suffolk Street; and he tried to persuade himself that it would be well that he should hide his wrath till after provision should have been made for this other election.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000006.wav|He had looked forward to his entrance into that Chamber as the hour of his triumph; but he had entered it with mr Bott, and there had been no triumph to him in doing so.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000048_000000.wav|When Vavasor was led away down stairs by the tailor, and Grey found that no more actual fighting would be required of him, he retired into his bedroom, that he might wash his mouth and free himself from the stains of the combat.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000038_000000.wav|Vavasor, when he raised himself, prepared to make another rush at the room, but before he could do so a man from below, hearing the noise, had come upon him and interrupted him.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000005.wav|What would he gain by staying his hand now?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000048_000005.wav|Of that he was well aware.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000007_000000.wav|"mr Grey," he said, stopping himself suddenly, "I was this moment going to call on you at your lodgings."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000005_000000.wav|This idea of his, however, had been greatly shaken by Alice's treatment of himself personally; but still he had not, hitherto, believed that she was false to him.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000006.wav|Vavasor had struck him repeatedly, but the blows had fallen on his body or his head, and he was unconscious of them.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000033_000000.wav|"I have no hold upon her fortune."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000041_000000.wav|"That man has ill used me, and I've punished him; that's all."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000030_000001.wav|Are you aware that she is engaged to me as my wife?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000046_000002.wav|Even though the estate might be entailed so as to give him no more than a life interest, still money might be raised on it.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000038_000001.wav|"mr Jones," said Grey, speaking from above, "if that gentleman does not leave the house, I must get you to search for a policeman."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000031_000000.wav|"I must altogether decline to discuss with you Miss Vavasor's present or future position."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000049_000001.wav|mr Jones had known him for some years, and entertained a most profound respect for his character.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000048_000007.wav|Security for the money advanced by him, of course, he had none;--of course he had desired none;--of course the money had been given out of his own pocket with the sole object of saving Alice, if that might be possible; but of all those who might hear of this affair, how many would know or even guess the truth?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000002_000000.wav|What Occurred in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000003_000004.wav|To him it seemed to be certain that Alice and mr Grey were in league;--and if they were in league, what must he think of Alice, and of her engagement with himself!|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000005_000003.wav|He hated her at this moment with even a more bitter hatred than that which he felt towards john Grey.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000027_000001.wav|We thought it better that her fortune should not be for the moment disturbed."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000005_000005.wav|Or could it be that Kate, also, was lying to him?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000016_000001.wav|When you have answered that, I shall have other questions to ask you."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000047_000008.wav|But now he was almost driven to utter reproach.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000048_000003.wav|He had been told that he had advanced money on behalf of Alice, in order that he might obtain some power over Alice's fortune, and thus revenge himself upon Alice for her treatment of him.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000049_000004.wav|But though given to sport, by which he meant modern prize fighting and the Epsom course on the Derby day, mr Jones was a man who dearly loved respectable customers and respectable lodgers.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000004_000008.wav|Grey, as he thought, had been accepted by her cold prudence; but he thought, also, that she had found her prudence to be too cold, and had therefore returned where she had truly loved. Vavasor, though he did not love much himself, was willing enough to be the object of love.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000051_000000.wav|"It was very disagreeable, certainly," said Grey.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000014_000000.wav|"I think you heard me say so.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000000.wav|He would get it.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000058_000000.wav|"Or we might manage to polish him off in any other way, you know."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000059_000000.wav|It was some time before mr Grey could get rid of the tailor, but he did so at last without having told any part of the story to that warlike, worthy, and very anxious individual.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000053_000000.wav|"Yes; I know who he is."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000001.wav|That was his resolve as he walked in by the apple woman's stall, under the shadow of the great policeman, and between the two august lamps.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000004_000002.wav|I cannot say that such had been Vavasor's creed,--not entirely such.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000046_000007.wav|He went by himself from room to room, roaming along passages, sitting now for ten minutes in the gallery, and then again for a short space in the body of the House,--till he would get up and wander again out into the lobby, impatient of the neighbourhood of mr Bott.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000004.wav|He would get it; though in doing so he might destroy his cousin Alice and ruin his sister Kate.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000046_000006.wav|On this very night he walked about the lobbies of the House, thinking of all this.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000024_000003.wav|Now, let me know why you have meddled with my matters."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000009_000000.wav|"If you please," said Vavasor, leading the way up Suffolk Street. There had been no other greeting than this between them.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000048_000006.wav|But were not the circumstances of a nature to make it appear that the accusation was true?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000019_000001.wav|The angry man evidently knew something, and it would be better that he should know the truth. "There has been such interference, mr Vavasor, if you choose to call it so.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000029_000001.wav|Then, as Vavasor simply sneered at him, but spoke nothing, he went on.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000046_000003.wav|His life interest in it would be worth ten or twelve years' purchase.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000007.wav|Exactly at the corner of Suffolk Street he met john Grey.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000007.wav|He would go to Alice and demand the money from her with threats, and with that violence in his eyes which he knew so well how to assume.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000007.wav|He had but one object now in his mind, and that object was the kicking his assailant down the stairs.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000012.wav|To such as himself,--Members without an acquired name,--men did not seem to listen at all.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000004.wav|It was still a trouble to him to think that he should have been in any way beholden to john Grey; but the terrible thing had been done, the evil had occurred.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000036_000001.wav|I said that you were a pettifogging rascal.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000030_000002.wav|I ask you, sir, whether you are aware that Miss Vavasor is to be my wife?"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000049_000003.wav|His father had been a tradesman at Cambridge, and in this way Jones had become known to mr Grey.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000052_000000.wav|"Was the gentleman known to you?" asked the tailor.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000039_000000.wav|Vavasor, though the lodging house man had hold of the collar of his coat, made no attempt to turn upon his new enemy.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000042_000002.wav|I think the best thing you can do now is to walk yourself off."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000054_000000.wav|"Any quarrel, sir?"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000032_000002.wav|If you had understood anything of the conduct which is usual among gentlemen, or if you had had any particle of pride in you, sir, you would have left her and never mentioned her name again.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000035_000001.wav|You must recall them."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000046_000005.wav|What a boon it would be if death could be made to overtake the old man before he did so!|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000010_000001.wav|Then they both entered the house, and Vavasor followed his host up stairs.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000005_000006.wav|If so, Kate also should be included in the punishment.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000003_000001.wav|He did not care much to calculate whether the payments had been made from the personal funds of his rival, or whether that rival had been employed to dispense Alice's fortune. Under either view of the case his position was sufficiently bitter. The truth never for a moment occurred to him.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000010_000000.wav|"If you will allow me, I have the key," said Grey.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000010.wav|This art of speaking in Parliament, which had appeared to him to be so grand, seemed already to be a humdrum, homely, dull affair.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000006_000003.wav|They were his enemies,--Alice and mr Grey,--and why should he keep any terms with his enemies?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000015_000000.wav|"He is so."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000043_000000.wav|It was the only thing that Vavasor could do, and he did walk himself off.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000023_000001.wav|To bully or be bullied were alike contrary to his nature.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000023_000000.wav|Grey was a man tranquil in temperament, very little prone to quarrelling, with perhaps an exaggerated idea of the evil results of a row,--a man who would take infinite trouble to avoid any such scene as that which now seemed to be imminent; but he was a man whose courage was quite as high as that of his opponent.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000034_000000.wav|"Yes, sir, you have.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000030_000000.wav|"And what was her fortune to you, sir?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000047_000006.wav|To have been personally engaged in a fighting scramble with such a man as George Vavasor was to him terrible.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000001.wav|He was already beginning to hate his seat in Parliament.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000022_000000.wav|"I dare say not; but, nevertheless, you must explain them."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000020_000000.wav|"Well," said Vavasor, taking his right hand away from his waistcoat, and tapping the round table with his fingers impatiently.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000023_000003.wav|"My difficulty in explaining it comes from consideration for you," he said.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000032_000000.wav|"By heavens, then, you shall hear me discuss it!|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000010_000006.wav|He looked full into Grey's face, and Grey looked full into his; and as he looked the great cicatrice seemed to open itself and to become purple with fresh blood stains.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000032_000003.wav|I now find you meddling with her money matters, so as to get a hold upon her fortune."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000002.wav|He would get it;--as long as Alice had a pound over which he could obtain mastery by any act or violence within his compass.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000024_000002.wav|At any rate, I intend to have none for you.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000043_000004.wav|Grey had probably received more personal damage than had fallen to his share; but Grey had succeeded in expelling him from the room, and he knew that he had been found prostrate on the landing place when the tailor first saw him.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000016_000000.wav|"And I have come from him to ask you what interference you have lately taken in my money matters.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000000.wav|But he might probably have got over the annoyance of this feeling had he not been overwhelmed by a consciousness that everything was going badly with him.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000009_000001.wav|mr Grey himself, though a man very courteous in his general demeanour, would probably have passed Vavasor in the street with no more than the barest salutation.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000008_000001.wav|Shall I return with you?"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000043_000002.wav|I do not think that he was comfortable when he got there, or that he felt himself very well able to fight another battle that night on behalf of the River Bank.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000046_000001.wav|If he would but die, there might yet be a hope remaining of permanent success!|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000025_000000.wav|"I think I might, perhaps, better refer you to your uncle."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000047_000009.wav|"Oh, Alice! that this thing should have come upon me through thy fault!"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000010_000005.wav|"No," said Vavasor; "I will stand up." And he stood up, holding his hat behind his back with his left hand, with his right leg forward, and the thumb of his right hand in his waistcoat pocket.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000044_000016.wav|He must spend, at any rate, two thousand more if he intended that his career should be prolonged beyond a three months' sitting;--and how was he to get this further sum after what had taken place to day?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000039_000001.wav|When two dogs are fighting, any bystander may attempt to separate them with impunity. The brutes are so anxious to tear each other that they have no energies left for other purposes.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000000.wav|Grey was much the larger man and much the stronger.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000047_000000.wav|Nor was mr Grey much happier when he was left alone, than was his assailant.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000042_000000.wav|"I don't know much about punishing," said the tailor.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000045_000006.wav|Had he not often declared how great had been that murderer who had been able to divest himself of all such scruples,--who had scoured his bosom free from all fears of the hereafter, and, as regarded the present, had dared to trust for everything to success?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000017_000000.wav|"But, mr Vavasor, has it occurred to you that I may not be disposed to answer questions so asked?"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000008_000000.wav|"At my lodgings, were you?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000050_000000.wav|"Dear, dear, sir-this is a terrible affair!" he said, as he made his way into the room.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000037_000010.wav|Grey kicked at him as he went, but the kick was impotent.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138888/2053_138888_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifty two.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000006.wav|"What on earth should we have done with him?"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000013_000000.wav|"It's a lie and a slander.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000004_000000.wav|"Hush!" said the widow, "there's a carriage coming on the road-close to us." mrs Greenow, as she spoke these words, drew back from the Captain's arms before the first kiss of permitted ante nuptial love had been exchanged.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000008.wav|"She can do another cap, and many more won't be wanted." Then I think the ceremony was repeated.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000005_000004.wav|Before the wheels had stopped, mrs Greenow had begun to reflect whether it might be possible that she should send mr Cheesacre back without letting him go on to the Hall; but if mrs Greenow was dismayed, what were the feelings of the Captain?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000014_000000.wav|"It's the police, or the sheriff's officer, or something of the kind," said Cheesacre.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000001.wav|"And perhaps, if you are not extravagant, we could manage a month or so in London during the winter, just to see the plays and do a little shopping." Then the Captain's face became very bright.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000004_000004.wav|Cheesacre.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000056_000011.wav|Burgo Fitzgerald was a gentleman of high standing, and his creditors would have swallowed up every shilling that mrs Greenow possessed; but with Captain Bellfield she was comparatively safe.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000047_000000.wav|"I might give that up," said Cheesacre readily,--"at any rate, for a time."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000007.wav|What will Jeannette say?" "Bother Jeannette," said the Captain in his bliss.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000035_000000.wav|"How different?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000011_000000.wav|"Pay me the money you owe me," said Cheesacre.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000034_000000.wav|"But things are so different since that," said the widow.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000033_000002.wav|Rumours as to the old Squire's will had no doubt reached him, and he was now willing to take advantage of that assistance which mrs Greenow had before offered him in this matter.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000009.wav|Nobody ever heard me talking about my money." He knew that Alice knew that he was a pauper; but, nevertheless, he had the satisfaction of speaking of himself as though he were not a pauper.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000019_000000.wav|"It's too late," said mrs Greenow, sinking behind her veil.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000024_000002.wav|Cheesacre, moreover, had contrived to whisper into the widow's ears the true extent of his errand into Westmoreland.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000039_000000.wav|"But you always told me I might have her for the asking."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000032_000006.wav|He liked to have his own,--that was all.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000003.wav|"And as for being dull," said the widow, "when people grow old they must be dull.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000056_000003.wav|Why had he not told her?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000032_000003.wav|mrs Greenow told him that she did look at it in that light.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000042_000000.wav|"Who's mercenary now, mr Cheesacre?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000046_000000.wav|"I can't say anything about that, but I know that she wouldn't take you.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000005.wav|Old Cheesacre, in spite of his absurdities, is not a bad sort of fellow at bottom;--awfully fond of his money, you know, Miss Vavasor, and always boasting about it." "That's not pleasant," said Alice.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000043_000000.wav|They were now close to the gate, and Cheesacre paused before he entered.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000065_000000.wav|"Captain Bellfield, of Vavasor Hall, Westmoreland.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000041_000001.wav|The man who marries her will have to find the money for the smock she stands up in."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000004_000003.wav|Round the corner of the road, at a sharp trot, came the Shap post horse, with the Shap gig behind him,--the same gig which had brought Bellfield to Vavasor on the previous day,--and seated in the gig, looming large, with his eyes wide awake to everything round him, was-mr|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000045_000000.wav|"Somebody else, perhaps, is the happy man?"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000011.wav|"You drive after him, young gentleman, and you'll find him on the road to Shap," said mrs Greenow.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000037_000004.wav|Is she going to fling a man over because of that?"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000058_000000.wav|"I think of taking this house," said she, "and of living here."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000020_000000.wav|"Why, you haven't been and married him since yesterday?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000064_000007.wav|There's no good in paying for two journeys." The Captain was to be allowed to come over from Penrith twice a week previous to his marriage; or perhaps, I might more fairly say, that he was commanded to do so.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000015_000002.wav|Sheriff's officers can be paid, and there's an end of them."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000037_000002.wav|mrs Greenow, who would have thought to find you mercenary like that?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000064_000001.wav|Everything was settled.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000006_000002.wav|"He's wanted by the police," he shouted out again, as soon as he was able to recover his voice.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000052_000000.wav|"The expense does not matter to you, mr Cheesacre."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000042_000002.wav|You shan't be ashamed of her clothing.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000026_000000.wav|"It belongs to your old friend, mr Cheesacre," said Bellfield to Kate.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000062_000000.wav|"But won't you be rather dull, my dear?"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000010.wav|But, with juvenile craft, he put his hand on the carpet bag, and finding that it did not contain stones, was comforted.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000064_000003.wav|Kate promised to be the solitary bridesmaid.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000040_000003.wav|There's my dear friend Charlie Fairstairs.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000024_000000.wav|Nevertheless, the widow had contrived to reconcile the two men before she reached the Hall.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000006.wav|"No, the most unpleasant thing in the world.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000017_000001.wav|"Don't you make a fool of yourself.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000061_000000.wav|"I've been talking to my niece about it," continued mrs Greenow, "and I find that such an arrangement can be made very conveniently.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000012_000004.wav|"What is this I hear, Captain Bellfield?" she said.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixty five.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000012_000001.wav|Such accusations from him she had heard before.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000012_000003.wav|If that were true, the Captain could be her Captain no longer.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000044_000000.wav|"I know there's none.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000005_000001.wav|As regarded her, her annoyance had chiefly reference to her two nieces, and especially to Alice. How was she to account for this second lover?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000037_000003.wav|Inherited property!|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000006.wav|"What a goose you are!|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000012_000002.wav|But she did care very much as to this mission of the police against her Captain.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000001.wav|The absence of such joint stock fund is always felt when a small party is thrown together without such assistance.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000057_000000.wav|Upon the whole I think that she was lucky in her choice; or, perhaps, I might more truly say, that she had chosen with prudence.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000035_000003.wav|How are things different?"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000051_000003.wav|Bellfield did it cheaper, of course; he travelled second class.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000002.wav|"He has gone," said the widow.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000057_000004.wav|Therefore, I say that mrs Greenow had been lucky in her choice, and not altogether without prudence.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000033_000003.wav|The time had come in which he ought to marry; of that he was aware.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000004.wav|Kate's satisfaction was almost as intense.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000061_000001.wav|The property is left between her and her uncle,--the father of my other niece, and neither of them want to live here."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000049_000003.wav|"There's a pride about me," he continued, "that I don't choose to go where I'm not wanted."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000022_000001.wav|You may be sure of that.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000007.wav|There's nothing I hate so much, Miss Vavasor, as that kind of talking.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000016_000000.wav|"I'll indict him for the libel-I will, as sure as I'm alive," said Bellfield.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000049_000000.wav|He still paused at the gate.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000032_000000.wav|He could, however, not keep himself from hinting that Oileymead was a substantial home, and that Bellfield had not as much as a straw mattress to lie upon.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000030_000001.wav|He first asked, in a melancholy tone, whether it was really necessary that he must abandon all his hopes.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000033_000001.wav|That was his next subject.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000017_000002.wav|When men can't pay their way they must put up with having things like that said of them.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000059_000001.wav|What on earth would he do with himself all his life in that gloomy place!|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000064_000006.wav|And I'll get Cheesacre here, and make him marry her.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000060_000000.wav|"Yes, in Westmoreland.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000028_000001.wav|He never had a chance in that quarter."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000030_000002.wav|"He wasn't going to say anything against the Captain," he said, "if things were really fixed.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000040_000002.wav|Look here, mr Cheesacre; you want to get married, and it's quite time you should.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000030_000000.wav|In the meantime Cheesacre was telling his story.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000000.wav|"We could go to Yarmouth, you know, in the autumn." Then the Captain's visage became somewhat bright again.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000008_000000.wav|"It's false," said Bellfield.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000004.wav|"Yes, indeed.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000006_000000.wav|"That man's wanted by the police," said Cheesacre, speaking while the gig was still in motion.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000018_000000.wav|"I was going to Vavasor Hall, on purpose to caution you."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000042_000003.wav|I'll see to that."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000007_000000.wav|mrs Greenow turned pale beneath the widow's veil which she had dropped.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000049_000002.wav|To this she made him no answer.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000036_000000.wav|"My niece has inherited property."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000037_000001.wav|Oh!|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000024_000003.wav|This, however, he did not do altogether in Bellfield's hearing.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000040_000000.wav|"And now I tell you that you mayn't.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000017_000003.wav|mr Cheesacre, where were you going?"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000056_000000.wav|In this way the afternoon went very pleasantly.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000009_000000.wav|"It's true," said Cheesacre.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000051_000004.wav|I heard of him as I came along."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000051_000001.wav|Perhaps you'll be so good as to tell the boy with the gig to come after me?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000054_000001.wav|"Where is he?" Kate asked in a low voice, and everyone there felt how important was the question.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000059_000000.wav|"What, in Westmoreland!" said the Captain, with something of dismay in his tone.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000017_000000.wav|"Nonsense," said the widow.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000040_000001.wav|It's of no use your going on there to ask her, for she will only send you away with an answer you won't like.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000063_000004.wav|Dancing can't go on for ever." In answer to this the widow's Captain assured the widow that she was not at all old; and now, on this occasion, that ceremony came off successfully which had been interrupted on the Shap road by the noise of mr Cheesacre's wheels.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000033_000007.wav|"You know you put it into my head your own self," pleaded mr Cheesacre.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000037_000000.wav|"And is that to make a change?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000055_000008.wav|My idea is this,--when a man has lots of money, let him make the best use he can of it, and say nothing about it.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000042_000001.wav|Do you go home and think of it; and if you'll marry Charlie, I'll go to your wedding.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000029_000000.wav|"Not enough of the rocks and valleys about him, was there, Captain Bellfield?" said Kate.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000025_000000.wav|Bellfield, who was sent on to the house, found Alice and Kate surveying the newly arrived carpet bag.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000011_000001.wav|"You're a swindler!"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000050_000000.wav|"I can't tell you, mr Cheesacre, that you are wanted in that light, certainly."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000013_000002.wav|What police are after me, mr Cheesacre?"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000035_000001.wav|I ain't different.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000032_000001.wav|In answer to this mrs Greenow told him that there was so much more reason why some one should provide the poor man with a mattress.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000012_000000.wav|mrs Greenow cared little as to her lover being a swindler in mr Cheesacre's estimation.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000024_000005.wav|She merely frowned at him, and bade him begone, so that the walk which mrs Greenow began with one lover she ended in company with the other.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000006_000001.wav|"He's wanted by the police, mrs Greenow," and in his ardour he stood up in the gig and pointed at Bellfield. Then the gig stopped suddenly, and he fell back into his seat in his effort to prevent his falling forward.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000064_000004.wav|There was some talk of sending for Charlie Fairstairs, but the idea was abandoned.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000051_000000.wav|"Then I'll go.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000030_000003.wav|He never begrudged any man his chance."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000033_000004.wav|He had told many of his friends in Norfolk that Kate Vavasor had thrown herself at his head, and very probably he had thought it true.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000046_000001.wav|I like farming, you know, but she doesn't."|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000004_000002.wav|But they were only just in time to escape the vigilant eyes of a new visitor.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000024_000001.wav|They had actually shaken hands, and the lamb Cheesacre had agreed to lie down with the wolf Bellfield.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000040_000004.wav|How could you get a better wife than Charlie?"|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000022_000000.wav|"I'm not one to intrude where I'm not wanted.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000007_000001.wav|What might not her Captain have done?|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000010_000000.wav|"I'll indict you for slander, my friend," said Bellfield.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000007_000003.wav|"Oh, my!" she said, and dropped her hand from his arm, which she had taken.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2053/138901/2053_138901_000004_000001.wav|The scene was on the high road from Shap to Vavasor, and as she was still dressed in all the sombre habiliments of early widowhood, and as neither he nor his sweetheart were under forty, perhaps it was as well that they were not caught toying together in so very public a place.|2053
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/133290/1639_133290_000016_000001.wav|At that same period North America was discovered, as if it had been kept in reserve by the Deity, and had just risen from beneath the waters of the deluge.|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/133290/1639_133290_000008_000000.wav|The Americans have no neighbors, and consequently they have no great wars, or financial crises, or inroads, or conquest to dread; they require neither great taxes, nor great armies, nor great generals; and they have nothing to fear from a scourge which is more formidable to republics than all these evils combined, namely, military glory.|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/133290/1639_133290_000008_000004.wav|Now the people which is thus carried away by the illusions of glory is unquestionably the most cold and calculating, the most unmilitary (if I may use the expression), and the most prosaic of all the peoples of the earth.|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/133290/1639_133290_000028_000004.wav|The Americans frequently term what we should call cupidity a laudable industry; and they blame as faint heartedness what we consider to be the virtue of moderate desires.|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000085_000000.wav|'I will not set it free.'|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000008_000000.wav|Then they set forth, but the news of their coming ran swifter still, and Rhiannon and Kieva, wife of Pryderi, made haste to prepare a feast for them.|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000017_000000.wav|'Let us take to making shoes,' said Manawyddan, 'for there are not any among the shoemakers bold enough to fight us.'|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000066_000000.wav|'Good day to thee, lord; and what art thou doing?'|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000056_000000.wav|'From singing in England; but wherefore dost thou ask?'|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000058_000001.wav|'And what work art thou upon?'|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000044_000000.wav|'A thief,' he answered, 'that I caught robbing me.'|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000014_000000.wav|'We will make shields,' answered Manawyddan.|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000076_000000.wav|'What work art thou upon?' asked the bishop, drawing rein.|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000060_000002.wav|Let it go free.'|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1639/132848/1639_132848_000013_000000.wav|'What craft shall we follow?' asked Pryderi.|1639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000012_000008.wav|What's the other half?|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000010_000003.wav|But Rickie was succouring a distressed female-mrs|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000023_000001.wav|They were all he really possessed in the world, the only place he could call his own.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000001.wav|Then the tram arrived-the slow stuffy tram that plies every twenty minutes between the unknown and the marketplace-and took them past the desecrated grounds of Downing, past Addenbrookes Hospital, girt like a Venetian palace with a mantling canal, past the Fitz William, towering upon immense substructions like any Roman temple, right up to the gates of one's own college, which looked like nothing else in the world.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000007_000000.wav|Rickie went back to the Silts.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000020_000006.wav|They dealt with so much and they had experienced so little.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000006_000000.wav|He did not stop for the funeral.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000016_000000.wav|Rickie laughed.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000011_000001.wav|She did not like being spoken to outside the college, and was also distrait about her basket.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000008_000006.wav|The atmosphere alters.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000013_000000.wav|They had reached the corner of Hills Road.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000006.wav|Many a maiden lady who had read that Cambridge men were sad dogs, was surprised and perhaps a little disappointed at the reasonable life which greeted her.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000012_000015.wav|She ought to introduce me to her husband."|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000023_000004.wav|There was a beautiful fire, and the kettle boiled at once.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000028_000001.wav|Hitherto they had played on gods and heroes, on the infinite and the impossible, on virtue and beauty and strength.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000021_000000.wav|They waited for the other tram by the Roman Catholic Church, whose florid bulk was already receding into twilight.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000006_000002.wav|As he expressed it, "one must not court sorrow," and he hinted to the young man that they desired to be alone.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000012_000005.wav|She never will talk about him.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000000.wav|A costly hymn tune announced five o'clock, and in the distance the more lovable note of saint Mary's could be heard, speaking from the heart of the town.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000021_000004.wav|It watches over the apostate city, taller by many a yard than anything within, and asserting, however wildly, that here is eternity, stability, and bubbles unbreakable upon a windless sea.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000025_000000.wav|"We are not leaving Sawston," she wrote.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000023_000005.wav|He made tea on the hearth rug and ate the biscuits which mrs Aberdeen had brought for him up from Anderson's. "Gentlemen," she said, "must learn to give and take." He sighed again and again, like one who had escaped from danger.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000008_000004.wav|On the platform he met friends.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000010.wav|They start and quarrel and jabber.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000008.wav|"Pooh, volcanic!" says the leading tourist, and the ladies say how interesting.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000012.wav|They even welcomed those boys who were neither limp nor perky, but odd-those boys who had never been at a public school at all, and such do not find a welcome everywhere.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000012_000012.wav|I know she'd dislike it, but she oughtn't to dislike.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000010_000004.wav|Aberdeen.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000010_000000.wav|Tilliard fled into a hansom, cursing himself for having tried to do the thing cheaply.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000011_000003.wav|The basket was empty, and never would hold anything illegal.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000024_000000.wav|A letter from Miss Pembroke was on the table.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000008_000003.wav|The fair valley of Tewin Water, the cutting into Hitchin where the train traverses the chalk, Baldock Church, Royston with its promise of downs, were nothing in themselves, but dear as stages in the pilgrimage towards the abode of peace.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000003.wav|"Our luggage," explained Rickie, "comes in the hotel omnibus, if you would kindly pay a shilling for mine." Ansell turned aside to some large lighted windows, the abode of a hospitable don, and from other windows there floated familiar voices and the familiar mistakes in a Beethoven sonata.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000005.wav|It was not sufficient glory to be a Blue there, nor an additional glory to get drunk.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000024_000004.wav|Her letters were not for the likes of him, nor to be read in rooms like his.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000012_000013.wav|After all, bedders are to blame for the present lamentable state of things, just as much as gentlefolk.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000013.wav|And they did everything with ease-one might almost say with nonchalance, so that the boys noticed nothing, and received education, often for the first time in their lives.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000024_000003.wav|Why should she write?|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000026_000001.wav|But he felt that it did not belong to him: words so sincere should be for Gerald alone.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000020_000000.wav|Rickie was silent.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000008_000000.wav|He was only there a few days.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000011.wav|They taught the perky boy that he was not everything, and the limp boy that he might be something.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000028_000000.wav|And so Rickie deflected his enthusiasms.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000012_000014.wav|She ought to want me to come.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000011.wav|Fingers burst up through the sand black fingers of sea devils.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000011_000000.wav|"Oh, mrs Aberdeen, I never saw you: I am so glad to see you-I am so very glad." mrs Aberdeen was cold.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000009_000000.wav|Cambridge, according to her custom, welcomed her sons with open drains. Pettycury was up, so was Trinity Street, and navvies peeped out of King's Parade.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000019_000003.wav|But I refuse to accompany you.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000021_000003.wav|"Built out of doll's eyes to contain idols"--that, at all events, is the legend and the joke.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000004.wav|It was called "The Bay of the Fifteen Islets," and the action took place on saint John's Eve off the coast of Sicily.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000002.wav|Who wants visions in a world that has Agnes and Gerald?" He turned on the electric light and pulled open the table drawer.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000008_000005.wav|They had all had pleasant vacations: it was a happy world.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000020_000007.wav|Was it possible he would ever come to think Cambridge narrow? In his short life Rickie had known two sudden deaths, and that is enough to disarrange any placid outlook on the world.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000026_000004.wav|The clouds were too strong for it; but in them was one chink, revealing one star, and through this the smoke escaped into the light of stars innumerable.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000026_000003.wav|He saw it reach the outer air and beat against the low ceiling of clouds.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000013.wav|But just before the catastrophe one man, integer vitae scelerisque purus, sees the truth.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000027_000014.wav|Here are no devils.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000006_000001.wav|mr Pembroke thought that he had a bad effect on Agnes, and prevented her from acquiescing in the tragedy as rapidly as she might have done.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000022_000007.wav|Miss Appleblossom in particular had had a tremendous shock.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000009_000001.wav|Here it was gas, there electric light, but everywhere something, and always a smell.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000019_000002.wav|You can go to the bad.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000026_000000.wav|Rickie burnt this letter, which he ought not to have done, for it was one of the few tributes Miss Pembroke ever paid to imagination.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000024_000002.wav|She wrote like the Sibyl; her sorrowful face moved over the stars and shattered their harmonies; last night he saw her with the eyes of Blake, a virgin widow, tall, veiled, consecrated, with her hands stretched out against an everlasting wind.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150843/2060_150843_000023_000002.wav|Over the door was his name, and through the paint, like a grey ghost, he could still read the name of his predecessor.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000027_000001.wav|Marek slid cautiously toward us and began to exhibit his webbed fingers.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000028_000002.wav|As we rose to go, she opened her wooden chest and brought out a bag made of bed ticking, about as long as a flour sack and half as wide, stuffed full of something.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000035_000000.wav|"He's a worker, all right, mam, and he's got some ketch on about him; but he's a mean one.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000016_000005.wav|I had never seen her crushed like this before.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000034_000001.wav|They're wanting in everything, and most of all in horse sense.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000032_000000.wav|Antonia undertook to explain.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000036_000001.wav|It was full of little brown chips that looked like the shavings of some root.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000027_000003.wav|Marek was always trying to be agreeable, poor fellow, as if he had it on his mind that he must make up for his deficiencies.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000022_000001.wav|"You mean they sleep in there,--your girls?" He bowed his head.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000014_000005.wav|As soon as we entered he threw a grainsack over the crack at the bottom of the door.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000028_000003.wav|At sight of it, the crazy boy began to smack his lips.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000019_000001.wav|This is no place to keep vegetables.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000028_000005.wav|She measured a teacup full, tied it up in a bit of sacking, and presented it ceremoniously to grandmother.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000016_000004.wav|Tony left her corner reluctantly.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000007_000000.wav|Fuchs put in a cheerful word and said prairie dogs were clean beasts and ought to be good for food, but their family connections were against them. I asked what he meant, and he grinned and said they belonged to the rat family.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000012_000001.wav|We went slowly up the icy path toward the door sunk in the drawside.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000028_000004.wav|When mrs Shimerda opened the bag and stirred the contents with her hand, it gave out a salty, earthy smell, very pungent, even among the other odors of that cave.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000029_000003.wav|All things for eat better in my country."|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000011_000001.wav|As we approached the Shimerdas' we heard the frosty whine of the pump and saw Antonia, her head tied up and her cotton dress blown about her, throwing all her weight on the pump handle as it went up and down.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000020_000001.wav|We got no potatoes, mrs Burden," Tony admitted mournfully.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000020_000000.wav|"We get from mr Bushy, at the post office,--what he throw out.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000024_000000.wav|Grandmother sighed.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000022_000000.wav|Grandmother drew back.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000021_000003.wav|He was clean and neat as usual, with his green neckcloth and his coral pin.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000027_000002.wav|I knew he wanted to make his queer noises for me-to bark like a dog or whinny like a horse,--but he did not dare in the presence of his elders.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000029_000000.wav|"For cook," she announced.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000005_000000.wav|Grandmother looked up in alarm and spoke to grandfather.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000030_000001.wav|"I can't say but I prefer our bread to yours, myself."|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000011_000000.wav|After breakfast grandmother and Jake and I bundled ourselves up and climbed into the cold front wagon seat.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000017_000000.wav|"You not mind my poor mamenka, mrs Burden.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000004_000004.wav|Ambrosch come along by the cornfield yesterday where I was at work and showed me three prairie dogs he'd shot. He asked me if they was good to eat.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000004_000000.wav|"All but the crazy boy," Jake put in.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000025_000003.wav|He had in some way lost on exchange in New York, and the railway fare to Nebraska was more than they had expected.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000016_000001.wav|Then the poor woman broke down.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000016_000003.wav|Grandmother paid no heed to her, but called Antonia to come and help empty the basket.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000021_000005.wav|When I got up on one of the stools and peered into it, I saw some quilts and a pile of straw. The old man held the lantern.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000032_000002.wav|Cook with rabbit, cook with chicken, in the gravy,--oh, so good!"|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000014_000006.wav|The air in the cave was stifling, and it was very dark, too.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000023_000000.wav|Tony slipped under his arm.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000025_000002.wav|He left Bohemia with more than a thousand dollars in savings, after their passage money was paid.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000032_000001.wav|"This very good, mrs Burden,"--she clasped her hands as if she could not express how good,--"it make very much when you cook, like what my mama say.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000024_000003.wav|You'll have a better house after while, Antonia, and then you'll forget these hard times."|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000021_000006.wav|"Yulka," he said in a low, despairing voice, "Yulka; my Antonia!"|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/147963/2060_147963_000028_000001.wav|The woman had a quick ear, and caught up phrases whenever she heard English spoken.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000006_000007.wav|He tried to speak of her to Agnes, but again she was reluctant.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000030_000002.wav|He rebuked his soul, not unsuccessfully, and then they returned to the subject of Varden.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000008.wav|They cannot create one.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000011_000002.wav|Naturally enough, she considered it a further attempt of the authorities to snub the day boys, for whose advantage the school had been founded.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000005_000000.wav|So after all they never mentioned Gerald's name.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000024_000005.wav|Well, I'm brutal.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000006_000001.wav|She, ever robust and practical, always discouraged him. She was not cold; she would willingly embrace him.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000034_000003.wav|He drew up some new rules-alterations in the times of going to bed, and so on-the effect of which would be to provide fewer opportunities for the pulling of Varden's ears.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000021_000001.wav|"Have you gone mad?"|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000020_000004.wav|Long may they, flourish.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000024_000004.wav|It's just the kind of thing poor mr Ansell would say.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000025_000001.wav|He wondered whether she was not right, and regretted that she proceeded to say, "My dear boy, you mustn't talk these heresies inside Dunwood House!|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000016_000003.wav|They can make strong isolated friendships, but of general good fellowship they haven't a notion."|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000034_000009.wav|He felt uneasy about the boy-almost superstitious.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000009.wav|Cannot cannot-cannot.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000000.wav|"Silence, madam.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000007_000000.wav|They conversed and differed healthily upon other topics.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000006.wav|But don't pretend you've got it before you have.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000016_000001.wav|But just a little tap, when you know it comes from hatred, is too terrible.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000028_000000.wav|"The Dunwood House set has its points." For Rickie suffered from the Primal Curse, which is not-as the Authorized Version suggests-the knowledge of good and evil, but the knowledge of good and evil.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000006_000004.wav|He thought of her often during these earlier months.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000024_000002.wav|"Aha!|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000024_000007.wav|Boys ought to rough it, or they never grow up into men, and your mother would have agreed with me.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000002_000000.wav|She ran about the house looking handsomer than ever.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000003_000004.wav|Suddenly he tightened his pressure, and said, "Darling, why don't you still wear ear rings?"|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000001_000008.wav|Surely the dust would settle soon: in Italy, at Easter, he might perceive the infinities of love.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000012_000001.wav|We are right and they are wrong, but I wish the thing could have been done more quietly.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000004_000000.wav|"Ear rings?"|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000002_000001.wav|Her cheerful voice gave orders to the servants.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000007_000001.wav|A rifle corps was to be formed: she hoped that the boys would have proper uniforms, instead of shooting in their old clothes, as mr Jackson had suggested. There was Tewson; could nothing be done about him?|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000034_000006.wav|So nothing was done.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000005.wav|When they do, the whole of life changes, and you get the true thing.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000010.wav|I never cared a straw for England until I cared for Englishmen, and boys can't love the school when they hate each other.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000016_000000.wav|"Physical pain doesn't hurt-at least not what I call hurt-if a man hits you by accident or play.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000001_000002.wav|The crown of life had been attained, the vague yearnings, the misread impulses, had found accomplishment at last.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000001.wav|Don't betray me to Herbert, or I'll give us the sack. But seriously, what is the good of, throwing boys so much together? Isn't it building their lives on a wrong basis?|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000010_000000.wav|"Oh, mrs Orr!|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000012_000003.wav|He has given a gang of foolish people their opportunity.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000007_000002.wav|He would slink away from the other prefects and go with boys of his own age.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000012_000002.wav|The headmaster does get so excited.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000016_000002.wav|Boys do hate each other: I remember it, and see it again.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000032_000000.wav|"I hate the whole boy.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000011_000001.wav|She had taken the boy out of charity, and without a thought of being unconstitutional. But in had come this officious "Limpet" and upset the headmaster, and she was scolded, and mrs Varden was scolded, and mr Jackson was scolded, and the boy was scolded and placed with mr Pembroke, whom she revered less than any man in the world.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000020_000001.wav|"I'm getting somewhat involved.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000031_000001.wav|I hate the look about his eyes."|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000007.wav|Patriotism and esprit de corps are all very well, but masters a little forget that they must grow from sentiment.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000034_000000.wav|"No, you aren't," she cried, kissing him.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000003_000003.wav|Tomorrow the fog might be here, but today one said, "It is like the country." Arm in arm they strolled in the side garden, stopping at times to notice the crocuses, or to wonder when the daffodils would flower.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000011_000000.wav|mrs Orr, who was quite rich, had attempted no such thing.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000012_000000.wav|"We say, 'Let them talk,'" persisted Rickie, "but I never did like letting people talk.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000012_000005.wav|My father found me a nuisance, and put me through the mill, and I can never forget it particularly the evenings."|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000018_000000.wav|"You see, the notion of good fellowship develops late: you can just see its beginning here among the prefects: up at Cambridge it flourishes amazingly.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000001_000004.wav|So he reasoned, and at first took the accomplishment for granted.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000006_000003.wav|But his mother-he had never concealed it from himself-had glories to which his wife would never attain: glories that had unfolded against a life of horror-a life even more horrible than he had guessed.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000000_000000.wav|eighteen|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000022_000003.wav|I wish they did, but they don't.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000008_000000.wav|"He had to go somewhere," said Agnes.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000018_000001.wav|That's why I pity people who don't go up to Cambridge: not because a University is smart, but because those are the magic years, and-with luck-you see up there what you couldn't see before and mayn't ever see again.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000004_000002.wav|"My taste has improved, perhaps."|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000005_000002.wav|He did not want her to forget the greatest moment in her life.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000010_000002.wav|Her teeth are drawn.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000024_000009.wav|It can, can, create a sentiment."|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000030_000001.wav|Why would he see the other side of things?|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000024_000000.wav|"mr|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000014_000002.wav|It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts."|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000034_000002.wav|Could nothing be suggested?|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000034_000008.wav|At last he asked her to stop.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000006_000000.wav|He valued emotion-not for itself, but because it is the only final path to intimacy.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000002_000004.wav|The tone of their marriage life was soon set.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000010_000001.wav|Who cares for her?|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000026_000000.wav|"The Jackson set have their points."|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000003_000002.wav|The air was pure and quiet.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000020_000002.wav|But hear me, O Agnes, for I am practical.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2060/150855/2060_150855_000020_000005.wav|But I do not approve of the boarding house system.|2060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000044_000001.wav|The Djinns jerked the Palace and the gardens a thousand miles into the air: there was a most awful thunder clap, and everything grew inky black.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000044_000002.wav|The Butterfly's Wife fluttered about in the dark, crying, 'Oh, I'll be good!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000037_000000.wav|'It wouldn't matter if you did,' said his wife.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000014_000000.wav|Presently two Butterflies flew under the tree, quarrelling.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000047_000001.wav|Of course it doesn't make any difference to me-I'm used to this kind of thing-but as a favour to you and to Suleiman bin Daoud I don't mind putting things right.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000060_000000.wav|Balkis-The tender and Most Lovely Balkis-said, 'O my Lord and Regent of my Existence, I hid behind the camphor tree and saw it all.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000043_000000.wav|Away flew the Butterfly to his wife, who was crying, 'I dare you to do it!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000065_000000.wav|There was never a King like Solomon, Not since the world began; But Solomon talked to a butterfly As a man would talk to a man.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000037_000002.wav|I dare you to do it,' she said. Stamp!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000034_000001.wav|'Remember what I can do if I stamp my foot.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000051_000000.wav|They stood on the marble steps one hundred abreast and shouted, 'What is our trouble?|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000055_000001.wav|Go in peace, little folk!' And he kissed them on the wings, and they flew away.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000061_000002.wav|Tell me, therefore, O my Lady and Heart of my Heart, how did you come to be so wise?' And Balkis the Queen, beautiful and tall, looked up into Suleiman bin Daoud's eyes and put her head a little on one side, just like the Butterfly, and said, 'First, O my Lord, because I loved you; and secondly, O my Lord, because I know what women folk are.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000048_000002.wav|I'll be good!'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000031_000001.wav|They never mean half they say.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000044_000003.wav|I'm so sorry I spoke.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000038_000000.wav|Suleiman bin Daoud, sitting under the camphor tree, heard every word of this, and he laughed as he had never laughed in his life before.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000035_000002.wav|Suppose you stamp now.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000043_000001.wav|I dare you to do it!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000020_000001.wav|I said that to quiet her.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000061_000001.wav|But by means of your wisdom I made the magic for the sake of a jest and for the sake of a little Butterfly, and-behold-it has also delivered me from the vexations of my vexatious wives!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000031_000002.wav|If it pleases my husband to believe that I believe he can make Suleiman bin Daoud's Palace disappear by stamping his foot, I'm sure I don't care.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000048_000000.wav|So he stamped once more, and that instant the Djinns let down the Palace and the gardens, without even a bump.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000034_000000.wav|'Remember!' said the Butterfly.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000004_000001.wav|He understood what the beasts said, what the birds said, what the fishes said, and what the insects said.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000021_000001.wav|Go back to your wife, little brother, and let me hear what you say.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000002_000003.wav|It is the story of the Butterfly that Stamped.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000032_000002.wav|We know what men folk are like, don't we?|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000048_000001.wav|The sun shone on the dark green orange leaves; the fountains played among the pink Egyptian lilies; the birds went on singing, and the Butterfly's Wife lay on her side under the camphor tree waggling her wings and panting, 'Oh, I'll be good!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000033_000000.wav|Away flew the Butterfly's Wife to her husband, and in five minutes they were quarrelling worse than ever.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000053_000000.wav|Then up and spoke an Egyptian Queen-the daughter of a Pharoah-and she said, 'Our Palace cannot be plucked up by the roots like a leek for the sake of a little insect.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000037_000001.wav|'You couldn't bend a blade of grass with your stamping.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000032_000001.wav|Ask him to stamp, and see what will happen.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000042_000000.wav|'Now, little brother,' he said, 'go back to your wife and stamp all you've a mind to.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000005_000003.wav|When he turned it twice, Fairies came down from the sky to do whatever he told them; and when he turned it three times, the very great angel Azrael of the Sword came dressed as a water carrier, and told him the news of the three worlds, Above-Below-and Here.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000041_000000.wav|'Slaves,' said Suleiman bin Daoud, 'when this gentleman on my finger' (that was where the impudent Butterfly was sitting) 'stamps his left front forefoot you will make my Palace and these gardens disappear in a clap of thunder.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000022_000000.wav|Back flew the Butterfly to his wife, who was all of a twitter behind a leaf, and she said, 'He heard you!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000035_000001.wav|'I should very much like to see it done.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000038_000002.wav|He just laughed with joy, and Balkis, on the other side of the tree, smiled because her own true love was so joyful.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000051_000001.wav|We were living peacefully in our golden palace, as is our custom, when upon a sudden the Palace disappeared, and we were left sitting in a thick and noisome darkness; and it thundered, and Djinns and Afrits moved about in the darkness!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000053_000001.wav|No! Suleiman bin Daoud must be dead, and what we heard and saw was the earth thundering and darkening at the news.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000027_000001.wav|She thought, 'If I am wise I can yet save my Lord from the persecutions of these quarrelsome Queens,' and she held out her finger and whispered softly to the Butterfly's Wife, 'Little woman, come here.' Up flew the Butterfly's Wife, very frightened, and clung to Balkis's white hand.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000015_000001.wav|Don't you know that if I stamped with my foot all Suleiman bin Daoud's Palace and this garden here would immediately vanish in a clap of thunder.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000045_000000.wav|The Butterfly was nearly as frightened as his wife, and Suleiman bin Daoud laughed so much that it was several minutes before he found breath enough to whisper to the Butterfly, 'Stamp again, little brother.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000019_000000.wav|Suleiman bin Daoud smiled in his beard and said, 'Yes, I know, little brother.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000006_000002.wav|Once he tried to feed all the animals in all the world in one day, but when the food was ready an Animal came out of the deep sea and ate it up in three mouthfuls.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000036_000000.wav|'I promised Suleiman bin Daoud that I wouldn't,' said the Butterfly, 'and I don't want to break my promise.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000011_000000.wav|And Balkis the Most Beautiful said, 'O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul, what will you do?'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000039_000000.wav|Presently the Butterfly, very hot and puffy, came whirling back under the shadow of the camphor tree and said to Suleiman, 'She wants me to stamp!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000060_000001.wav|It was I who told the Butterfly's Wife to ask the Butterfly to stamp, because I hoped that for the sake of the jest my Lord would make some great magic and that the Queens would see it and be frightened.' And she told him what the Queens had said and seen and thought.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000057_000000.wav|Then they put their veils over their heads, and they put their hands over their mouths, and they tiptoed back to the Palace most mousy quiet.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000026_000000.wav|'Gracious!' said his wife, and sat quite quiet; but Suleiman bin Daoud laughed till the tears ran down his face at the impudence of the bad little Butterfly.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000029_000000.wav|The Butterfly's Wife looked at Balkis, and saw the most beautiful Queen's eyes shining like deep pools with starlight on them, and she picked up her courage with both wings and said, 'O Queen, be lovely for ever.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000043_000002.wav|Stamp!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000018_000001.wav|She is my wife; and you know what wives are like.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000051_000002.wav|That is our trouble, O Head Queen, and we are most extremely troubled on account of that trouble, for it was a troublesome trouble, unlike any trouble we have known.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000009_000001.wav|So, when they quarrelled too much, he only walked by himself in one part of the beautiful Palace gardens and wished he had never been born.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000017_000001.wav|What made you tell that awful fib to your wife?--for doubtless she is your wife.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000046_000000.wav|'Yes, give him back his Palace,' said the Butterfly's Wife, still flying about in the dark like a moth.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000059_000000.wav|And Suleiman bin Daoud, still looking after the Butterflies where they played in the sunlight, said, 'O my Lady and Jewel of my Felicity, when did this happen?|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000041_000001.wav|When he stamps again you will bring them back carefully.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000049_000001.wav|He leaned back all weak and hiccoughy, and shook his finger at the Butterfly and said, 'O great wizard, what is the sense of returning to me my Palace if at the same time you slay me with mirth!'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000043_000003.wav|Stamp now!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000037_000003.wav|Stamp!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000035_000000.wav|'I don't believe you one little bit,' said the Butterfly's Wife.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000031_000003.wav|He'll forget all about it to morrow.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000005_000002.wav|When he turned it once, Afrits and Djinns came Out of the earth to do whatever he told them.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/137739/3046_137739_000045_000001.wav|Give me back my Palace, most great magician.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000072_000000.wav|The room was very still before the first verse ended; and Alice skipped the next, fearing she could not get through; for John's eyes were on her, showing that he knew she sang for him and let the plaintive little ballad tell what her reply must be.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000035_000001.wav|Did you see him jump up when Alice ended her oration? He'd have gone to her if I hadn't held him back.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000045_000001.wav|She is all I want for my son; and I don't mean to lose the dear, brave creature if I can help it.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000042_000003.wav|I know he's rich in that; I see and feel it; and any woman should be glad to get it.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000058_000001.wav|Later we give up childish things, you see.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000067_000004.wav|Yes, give us this; sweet thing!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000037_000001.wav|The kind boy thinks it would make me unhappy.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000038_000003.wav|He told me last night, and I've had no time since to tell you.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000018_000000.wav|'I've got it! perfectly lovely!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000043_000000.wav|'Right, dear.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000069_000000.wav|BIDE A WEE|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000035_000002.wav|I don't wonder he was pleased and proud.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000046_000000.wav|'I'm so glad his choice suits you, mother, and he is spared the saddest sort of disappointment.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000035_000000.wav|'Yes, mother.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000013_000004.wav|You've tried it, I dare say.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000037_000002.wav|It wouldn't.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000008_000001.wav|It's lovely to see people so happy.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000019_000000.wav|'What is it?|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000051_000001.wav|Yes, she has a flower at her throat; one, two, oh, blessed sight! he saw it all across the room, and gave a rapturous sigh which caused Miss Perry's frizzled crop to wave with a sudden gust.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000073_000000.wav|'Yes, you are tired; come out and rest, my dearest'; and with a masterful air Demi took her into the starlight, leaving Tom to stare after them winking as if a sky rocket had suddenly gone off under his nose.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000060_000000.wav|'So deuced sarcastic!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000055_000000.wav|'Yes, by Jove! we fellows will have to look out or you'll carry off all the honours.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000067_000005.wav|Scotch songs are always charming.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000052_000000.wav|'I saw no wine at any of the spreads; but it is plain that young Brooke has had too much.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000001_000002.wav|A step startled her, and looking up she saw her brother coming down the path with folded arms, bent head, and the absent air of one absorbed in deep thought.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000007_000000.wav|'Wish I could!' and Demi picked a little bud, with a sigh that went to Josie's warm heart.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000061_000001.wav|I'm faint with so much talking.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000047_000000.wav|Daisy's voice broke there; and a sudden rustle, followed by a soft murmur, seemed to tell that she was in her mother's arms, seeking and finding comfort there.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000055_000001.wav|You were superb today, and held us all like magic, though it was so hot there, I really think I couldn't have stood it for anyone else,' added Dolly, labouring to be gallant and really offering a touching proof of devotion; for the heat melted his collar, took the curl out of his hair, and ruined his gloves.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000019_000001.wav|Don't be ridiculous, please,' begged the bashful lover, eager, but afraid of this sharp tongued bit of womanhood.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000010_000000.wav|'Don't be a hypocrite.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000067_000002.wav|People are thinning out, and we all want a little refreshment.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000053_000001.wav|He saw her standing by the piano now, idly turning over music as she talked with several gentlemen.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000045_000000.wav|'Heartily; for a better, nobler girl doesn't live.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000057_000001.wav|We can't grind all the time and you ladies don't seem to mind taking a turn at the two latter "branches" you mention,' returned Dolly, with a glance at George which plainly said, 'I had her there.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000040_000000.wav|Mrs Meg was speaking, and still of john, when she could hear again:|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000056_000000.wav|'There is room for all; and if you will leave us the books, we will cheerfully yield the baseball, boating, dancing, and flirting, which seem to be the branches you prefer,' answered Alice sweetly.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000074_000001.wav|Won't Dora laugh?' And Tom departed in hot haste to impart and exult over his discovery.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000074_000000.wav|'Bless my soul! the Deacon really meant business last summer and never told me.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000064_000000.wav|'Alice, I can't believe it-did you understand-how shall I ever thank you?' murmured Demi, bending as if he, too, read the song, not a note or word of which did he see, however.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000012_000000.wav|'You are very kind, child.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000045_000002.wav|Her heart is big enough for both love and duty; and they can wait more happily if they do it together-for wait they must, of course.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000032_000002.wav|He was young; he would forget; and she would do her duty better, perhaps, if no impatient lover waited for her.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000062_000000.wav|'I promised Dora West I'd give her a turn.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000024_000000.wav|DEAR ALICE, You know what the flowers mean.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000004_000000.wav|'Getting flowers for "our brides".|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000028_000000.wav|'I trust you, Jo.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000072_000001.wav|He took it as she meant it, and smiled at her so happily that her heart got the better of her voice, and she rose abruptly, saying something about the heat.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000037_000000.wav|'No; and I guess why.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000018_000001.wav|just suit her, and you too, being a poet!' cried Josie, with a skip.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000044_000002.wav|You would like it, mother?'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000032_000003.wav|With eyes that saw but dimly, and a hand that lingered on the stem he had stripped of thorns, she laid the half blown flower by the rose, and asked herself if even the little bud might be worn.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000053_000003.wav|The elderly persons in question retired at length, but only to be replaced by two impetuous youths who begged Miss Heath to accompany them to Parnassus and join the dance. Demi thirsted for their blood, but was appeased by hearing George and Dolly say, as they lingered a moment after her refusal:|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000071_000000.wav|'I fear me sair they're failing baith; For when I sit apart, They talk o' Heaven so earnestly, It well nigh breaks my heart. So, laddie, dinna urge me now, It surely winna be; I canna leave the auld folk yet. We'd better bide a wee.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000075_000000.wav|What was said in the garden was never exactly known; but the Brooke family sat up very late that night, and any curious eye at the window would have seen Demi receiving the homage of his womankind as he told his little romance.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000059_000001.wav|Better not try to fence with these superior girls.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000067_000003.wav|My brain fairly reels with the 'ologies and 'isms I've heard discussed tonight.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000059_000002.wav|Sure to be routed, horse, foot, and dragoons,' said Stuffy, lumbering away, somewhat cross with too many spreads.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000006_000000.wav|'Both; you get the one, and I'll give you the other.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000013_000000.wav|'Oh, well, there are various ways, you know.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000005_000000.wav|'A bride or a flower?' asked Demi calmly, though he eyed the blooming bush as if it had a sudden and unusual interest for him.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000048_000002.wav|As she thought thus, the half blown rose went to join the bud; and then, after a pause, she slowly kissed the perfect rose, and added it to the tell tale group, saying to herself with a sort of sweet solemnity, as if the words were a vow:|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000067_000000.wav|'Music?|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000063_000002.wav|A moment he gazed, then hastened to seize the coveted place before a new detachment of bores arrived.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000042_000000.wav|'It is his having nothing to offer that keeps him silent, I think.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000054_000000.wav|'Really, you know, I'm quite converted to co education and almost wish I'd remained here.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000035_000003.wav|I spoilt my gloves clapping, and quite forgot my dislike of seeing women on platforms, she was so earnest and unconscious and sweet after the first moment.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000050_000001.wav|Demi meantime was escorting certain venerable personages about the college, and helping his grandfather entertain them with discussion of the Socratic method of instruction, Pythagoras, Pestalozzi, Froebel, and the rest, whom he devoutly wished at the bottom of the Red Sea, and no wonder, for his head and his heart were full of love and roses, hopes and fears.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000042_000002.wav|But he forgets that love is everything.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000033_000001.wav|Open windows, thin partitions, and the stillness of summer twilight made it impossible to help hearing, and in a few moments more she could not refrain; for they were talking of john.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000044_000001.wav|But she is so dutiful and good, I'm afraid she won't let herself be happy.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000003_000000.wav|'What are you at here, Mischief?' asked Demi, with an Irvingesque start, as he felt rather than saw a disturbing influence in his day dream.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000032_000000.wav|Was it wise and kind to ask him to wait, to bind him by any promise, or even to put into words the love and honour she felt for him?|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000028_000002.wav|No jokes, dear, if you love me.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000020_000003.wav|She is coming to dress with Daisy, so I can do it nicely.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000044_000000.wav|'So she will be, and I hope they will find it out.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000065_000001.wav|I understood-I don't deserve it-we are too young, we must wait, but-I'm very proud and happy, john!'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000058_000000.wav|'Some of us do in our first years.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000053_000002.wav|Hiding his impatience under an air of scholastic repose, Demi hovered near, ready to advance when the happy moment came, wondering meantime why elderly persons persisted in absorbing young ones instead of sensibly sitting in corners with their contemporaries.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000038_000006.wav|He was in despair, sick and poor, and too proud to beg; and our dear boy found it out, and took every penny he had, and never told even his mother till she made him.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000062_000001.wav|Must look her up; she's a jolly little thing, and doesn't bother about anything but keeping in step.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000014_000001.wav|I want to tell her so; but I lose my head when I try, and don't care to make a fool of myself.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000010_000002.wav|Now, Jack, I'm fond of you, and want to help; it's so interesting-all these lovers and weddings and things, and we ought to have our share.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000061_000002.wav|Old Plock cornered me and made my head spin with Kant and Hegel and that lot.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000032_000001.wav|No; it would be more generous to make the sacrifice alone, and spare him the pain of hope deferred.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000057_000000.wav|'Ah, now you are too hard upon us!|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000039_000000.wav|Alice did not hear what Daisy answered, for she was busy with her own emotions-happy ones now, to judge from the smile that shone in her eyes and the decided gesture with which she put the little bud in her bosom, as if she said: 'He deserves some reward for that good deed, and he shall have it.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000033_000000.wav|As she sat looking sadly down on the symbols of an affection that grew dearer every moment, she listened half unconsciously to the murmur of voices in the adjoining room.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000059_000000.wav|'You got it there, Doll.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000052_000001.wav|Quite gentlemanly, but evidently a trifle intoxicated, my dear.'|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000032_000004.wav|It looked very poor and pale beside the others; yet being in the self sacrificing mood which real love brings, she felt that even a small hope was too much to give, if she could not follow it up with more.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000063_000001.wav|As she bent to turn a page, the eager young man behind the piano saw the rose and was struck speechless with delight.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3046/148993/3046_148993_000038_000000.wav|'It must.|3046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000036_000002.wav|Tit kept moving on, without stopping, not showing the slightest weariness, but Levin was already beginning to be afraid he would not be able to keep it up: he was so tired.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000017_000001.wav|But tell me, how do the peasants look at it?|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000046_000001.wav|That's right; lunch, then."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000009_000001.wav|Tomorrow I shall start mowing."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000050_000001.wav|Sergey Ivanovitch was only just getting up.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000025_000000.wav|Levin got off his mare, and fastening her up by the roadside went to meet Tit, who took a second scythe out of a bush and gave it to him.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000047_000000.wav|Levin gave his scythe to Tit, and together with the peasants, who were crossing the long stretch of mown grass, slightly sprinkled with rain, to get their bread from the heap of coats, he went towards his house. Only then he suddenly awoke to the fact that he had been wrong about the weather and the rain was drenching his hay.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000045_000000.wav|"Lunch, sir," said the old man.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000001_000000.wav|Chapter four|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000026_000000.wav|"It's ready, sir; it's like a razor, cuts of itself," said Tit, taking off his cap with a smile and giving him the scythe.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000007_000000.wav|The bailiff smiled and said: "Yes, sir."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000011_000000.wav|"I'm awfully fond of it.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000044_000000.wav|On finishing yet another row he would have gone back to the top of the meadow again to begin the next, but Tit stopped, and going up to the old man said something in a low voice to him.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000035_000003.wav|But see the grass missed out!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000039_000000.wav|His pleasure was only disturbed by his row not being well cut.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000043_000000.wav|Another row, and yet another row, followed-long rows and short rows, with good grass and with poor grass.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000004_000000.wav|"I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined," he thought, and he determined he would go mowing, however awkward he might feel about it with his brother or the peasants.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000022_000000.wav|From the uplands he could get a view of the shaded cut part of the meadow below, with its grayish ridges of cut grass, and the black heaps of coats, taken off by the mowers at the place from which they had started cutting.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000040_000000.wav|The first row, as Levin noticed, Tit had mowed specially quickly, probably wishing to put his master to the test, and the row happened to be a long one.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000049_000000.wav|"Not a bit of it, sir; mow in the rain, and you'll rake in fine weather!" said the old man.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000017_000000.wav|"Really! what an idea!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000034_000000.wav|"Never mind, he'll get on all right," the old man resumed.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000023_000001.wav|He counted forty two of them.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000036_000001.wav|They moved a hundred paces.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000018_000000.wav|"No, I don't think so; but it's so delightful, and at the same time such hard work, that one has no time to think about it."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000031_000000.wav|Tit made room, and Levin started behind him.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000044_000001.wav|They both looked at the sun "What are they talking about, and why doesn't he go back?" thought Levin, not guessing that the peasants had been mowing no less than four hours without stopping, and it was time for their lunch.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000015_000000.wav|"It's splendid as exercise, only you'll hardly be able to stand it," said Sergey Ivanovitch, without a shade of irony.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000031_000001.wav|The grass was short close to the road, and Levin, who had not done any mowing for a long while, and was disconcerted by the eyes fastened upon him, cut badly for the first moments, though he swung his scythe vigorously.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000048_000000.wav|"The hay will be spoiled," he said.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000041_000000.wav|He thought of nothing, wished for nothing, but not to be left behind the peasants, and to do his work as well as possible.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000037_000006.wav|Tit moved on with sweep after sweep of his scythe, not stopping nor showing signs of weariness.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000036_000000.wav|The grass became softer, and Levin, listening without answering, followed Tit, trying to do the best he could.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000014_000000.wav|"Yes, it's very pleasant," said Levin.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000043_000002.wav|A change began to come over his work, which gave him immense satisfaction.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000002_000001.wav|Once in a previous year he had gone to look at the mowing, and being made very angry by the bailiff he had recourse to his favorite means for regaining his temper,--he took a scythe from a peasant and began mowing.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000016_000002.wav|I dare say I shall manage to keep it up..."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000050_000000.wav|Levin untied his horse and rode home to his coffee.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000016_000001.wav|It's hard work at first, but you get into it.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000008_000000.wav|At tea the same evening Levin said to his brother:|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000016_000000.wav|"I've tried it.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000035_000000.wav|"He's made a start....|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000032_000000.wav|"It's not set right; handle's too high; see how he has to stoop to it," said one.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000037_000002.wav|Levin straightened himself, and drawing a deep breath looked round.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000013_000001.wav|Just like one of the peasants, all day long?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000017_000002.wav|I suppose they laugh in their sleeves at their master's being such a queer fish?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000020_000000.wav|"No, I'll simply come home at the time of their noonday rest."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000010_000000.wav|"I'm so fond of that form of field labor," said Sergey Ivanovitch.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000005_000000.wav|Towards evening Konstantin Levin went to his counting house, gave directions as to the work to be done, and sent about the village to summon the mowers for the morrow, to cut the hay in Kalinov meadow, the largest and best of his grass lands.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34479/5400_34479_000035_000002.wav|The master, sure, does his best for himself!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, no, mamsie," cried Polly, feeling as if she could fly to the ends of the earth to atone, and longing beside for the brisk walk down town. Going up to the window she pointed triumphantly to the little bit of blue sky still visible.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000147_000000.wav|"And just like a man," she retorted, with a happy little laugh, "not to ask for explanations."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000011_000000.wav|"There isn't any, mamsie, in the house," she stammered; "he had the last yesterday."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000083_000000.wav|"For shame, Joey!" cried Polly, feeling her face grow dreadfully red in the darkness, "the gentleman's been so kind to me!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000025_000002.wav|Well, I guess you better ride up anyway, Polly, come to think, and then you'll get home all the quicker."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000039_000000.wav|But what a change!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000105_000000.wav|"No, they didn't," contradicted joel, flatly; and sitting down on the floor he began to tie and untie his new possessions.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000052_000000.wav|"Is that all?" said the gentleman with a happy laugh.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000020_000000.wav|"Oh, mamsie," said Polly, turning back just a minute, "I know the way to Fletcher's just as easy as anything.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000028_000000.wav|"I can hurry too," cried Phronsie, drawing her small figure to its utmost height, "oh, so fast, Polly!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000136_000001.wav|There was a little girl there; a bright, black eyed little girl.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000037_000001.wav|Even the cunning blandishments of a very attractive monkey that always had entertained the children on their numerous visits, failed to interest her now. Mamsie would be worrying, she knew; and besides, the sight of so many birds eating their suppers out of generously full seed cups, only filled her heart with remorse as she thought of poor Cherry and his empty one.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000188_000000.wav|"Phoo-phoo!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000182_000000.wav|"Isn't Jappy-our-cousin?|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000081_000000.wav|The two little Whitneys, who were eagerly clutching Polly's arms, turned around; and Percy rubbed his eyes in a puzzled way, as joel said, stopping a minute to look up at the tall figure:|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000153_000001.wav|"Oh, Ben, do draw me another little house!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000040_000000.wav|"I don't care," said Polly to herself, holding fast her little package. "I'll run and get in the car-then I'll be all right."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000111_000000.wav|"Bad, naughty old rain," she said, and then she began to cry as hard as she could.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000118_000000.wav|"Then I'm going to peek," cried joel, squeaking across the floor to carry his threat into execution.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000007_000001.wav|"Why, he does act queer, don't he?|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000055_000001.wav|And then he added a cunning arrangement for birds to swing in, and two or three other things that didn't have anything to do with birds at all.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000051_000000.wav|"Bird seed," gasped Polly.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000152_000000.wav|"She has," cried joel, disentangling himself from the group, "don't you see, Jappy?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000002_000001.wav|And then he set up a loud and angry chirping, flying up and down, and opening his mouth as if he wanted to express his mind, but couldn't, and otherwise acting in a very strange and unaccountable manner.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000122_000000.wav|"They're all Pepperses," said Percy, waving his hand, and doing the business up at one stroke.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000075_000000.wav|"Oh, whickety!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000005_000001.wav|"What upon earth, Polly!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000049_000000.wav|No need to ask for it now!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000031_000000.wav|At this Phronsie turned and wiped away two big tears, while she gazed up at the cage in extreme commiseration.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000053_000000.wav|"All!" Polly's heart stood still as she thought of Cherry, stark and stiff in the bottom of his cage, if he didn't get it soon.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000181_000000.wav|At this a scream, loud and terrible to hear, struck upon them all, as joel flung himself flat on the floor.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000069_000000.wav|"Oh dear me, Phronsie!" cried Polly, huddling her up from the dark, wet ground.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000171_000000.wav|"Does she mean it, grandpapa?|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000091_000002.wav|"Here, mrs Pepper, be so good as to call mrs Whitney."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000050_000000.wav|"What was it, child?" asked the gentleman, peering sharply to find out what the little shiny things were.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000000_000000.wav|POLLY'S BIG BUNDLE|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000135_000000.wav|"He means, dearie," said his mamma, reassuringly, "when he was a boy like you.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000095_000000.wav|mr King advanced to the foot of the staircase as his daughter, all unconscious, ran down with a light step, and a smile on her face.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000049_000004.wav|The rain that was falling around them as they stood there sent with the sound of every drop such a flood of misery into Polly's heart!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000140_000001.wav|"Wait, Joey," she whispered, "he's going to tell us all about it."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000101_000000.wav|"Where are they!" asked Polly.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000180_000001.wav|"You and I, my boy," he turned to his son, "are left out in the cold."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000029_000000.wav|"And it's ever so far," cried Polly, in despair, as she saw the small under lip of the child begin to quiver.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000135_000001.wav|Now hear what papa is going to say."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000097_000000.wav|"A big bundle?" she repeated wonderingly, and gazing at him.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000104_000000.wav|"They went after you," said Davie, "after we came home with our shoes."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000115_000000.wav|"Why, I thought I told you," said Polly, at her wit's end over Phronsie. "It's Percy and Van's father, Joey!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000150_000000.wav|"Has Polly got-" began Jasper.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000046_000001.wav|"Only-" and she began to look for her parcel that had been sent spinning.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000187_000000.wav|"I can't be as good as Ben," said Jappy, laughing, "but I'll be a real brother like him."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000131_000000.wav|"Well," said mr Whitney, sitting down and drawing his wife to his side, "it's a long story.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000186_000000.wav|"Will you, really?" he said, "just like Ben-and everything?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000061_000000.wav|"Oh, yes," said Polly, raising her clear, brown eyes up at him.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000024_000000.wav|"Yes'm," said Polly, wild to be off.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000094_000002.wav|Grandpapa's going to!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000194_000000.wav|"Don't hurry so, Polly," said Jasper, as she jumped up to fly up stairs. "He's had some a perfect age-he's all right."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000141_000001.wav|And then my parents sent for me, and I went to Germany to school; and when I came back I lost sight of her.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000009_000002.wav|There, there," she said, nodding persuasively at the cage, "you pretty creature you!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000019_000003.wav|But be sure, Polly, to hurry, for it's getting late, and I shall be worried about you.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000107_000000.wav|"He drawed me a be yew tiful one," cried Phronsie, holding up her mangy bit; "see, Polly, see!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000168_000000.wav|"Well, then, now begin," said Phronsie, looking down on the faces with an air as much like mr King's as was possible, and finishing up with two or three little nods.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000094_000000.wav|"No, I shall-I heard her first!" cried Percy.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000177_000000.wav|"I know it," said Percy, "and so's Van!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000142_000000.wav|"Oh!" cried all the children together.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000056_000002.wav|For I'm going to take you safely home this time where umbrellas can't run into you."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000071_000001.wav|At that Polly gathered her up close and began to walk with rapid footsteps up the path.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000110_000000.wav|Phronsie's face grew very grave at that.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000121_000000.wav|"And here are the little friends I've heard so much about!" cried mr Whitney coming in amongst them.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000198_000000.wav|"I know," said Polly with a gay little laugh, pointing with the handful of seed into the library, "but I shouldn't have met the other big bundle if it hadn't have been for this, Joe!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000102_000002.wav|He held up a shining black shoe, fairly bristling with newness, for Polly to admire.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000073_000001.wav|"Don't let him, Polly, don't!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000140_000000.wav|"I don't know," said Polly.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000161_000000.wav|"Well, anyway, I'll be just as big," cried joel, "when I'm thirteen, so!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000141_000000.wav|"Well, this little cousin and I went to the district school, and had many good times together.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000159_000000.wav|"He's a standin' on tip toe," said joel critically, who was hovering near.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000121_000001.wav|"Oh, you needn't introduce me to Polly-she brought me home!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000149_000000.wav|The door was thrown suddenly open, and Jasper plunged in, his face flushed with excitement, and after him Ben, looking a little as he did when Phronsie was lost, while Prince squeezed panting in between the two boys.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000123_000000.wav|"Only the best of 'em isn't here," observed Van, rather ungallantly, "he draws perfectly elegant, papa!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000169_000000.wav|"Oh, no, dear, that isn't it," cried the old gentleman, "I'll tell you. Say, Phronsie, 'you are all cousins-every one.'"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000176_000000.wav|"We're cousins!" he said.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000092_000000.wav|"Pepper!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000109_000000.wav|"It's all washed out," said Polly, smoothing it out, "when you staid out in the rain."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000155_000000.wav|Jasper turned around at that-and then rushed forward.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000093_000001.wav|"Oh, let me tell her!" He struggled to get down from his father's arms as he said this.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000018_000001.wav|"There, now, see, it can't rain yet awhile."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000042_000002.wav|Nothing for it but to run now!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000134_000001.wav|To be called "a little shaver" before all the others!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000099_000000.wav|So Polly and Phronsie crept in unnoticed after all.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000153_000000.wav|"She's all home," echoed Phronsie, flying up.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000057_000000.wav|"Oh!" said Polly, with a little skip.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000045_000000.wav|"I beg your pardon; it was extremely careless in me."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000020_000001.wav|I couldn't get lost."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000015_000000.wav|"I'll run right down to Fletcher's and get it," cried Polly.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000106_000000.wav|"Oh, yes," said Davie, nodding his head, "so he did; that was when we all cried 'cause you weren't home, Polly."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000064_000001.wav|And then she told him how she'd forgotten Cherry's seed, and all about it.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000042_000001.wav|Well, I must hurry.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000094_000001.wav|"Oh, dear me!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000017_000001.wav|"I'm most afraid it will rain, Polly."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000190_000000.wav|"Now, papa, Jappy's going to be Joey's brother-and he isn't anything but our old uncle!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000032_000000.wav|"I guess I'll give him a piece of bread," said mrs Pepper to herself. At this word "bread," Polly, who was half way down the hall, came running back.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000034_000000.wav|"Well, hurry along then," said mrs Pepper, and Polly was off.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000156_000000.wav|"Oh, brother Mason!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000190_000001.wav|Make him be ours more, papa, do!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000084_000001.wav|And then-well, then Percy gave a violent bound, and upsetting joel as he did so, wriggled his way down the steps-at the same time that Van, on Polly's other side, rushed up to the gentleman:|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000124_000001.wav|"Peppers!" again repeated mr Whitney in a puzzled way.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000057_000001.wav|"Thank you sir!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000167_000000.wav|"Well, then, now begin-"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000151_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, I'm here," cried Polly, springing up to them; "oh, Ben!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000055_000002.wav|And then they came out on the wet, slippery street again.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000009_000003.wav|so you sha'n't be starved."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000096_000001.wav|"Yes," replied the old gentleman, shortly, "and she's brought a big bundle, Marian!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000160_000000.wav|"Not a bit of it, Joe!" cried Jasper, with a merry laugh, and setting both feet with a convincing thud on the floor.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000183_000000.wav|"Goodness!" exclaimed the old gentleman, in the greatest alarm, "what is the matter with the boy!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000146_000001.wav|It was always either 'Polly's mother,' or 'Phronsie's mother.' Just like a woman," he added, with a mischievous glance at his wife, "not to be explicit."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000125_000000.wav|"And here is mrs Pepper," said old mr King, pompously drawing her forward, "the children's mother, and-"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000137_000000.wav|"Who's Mary Bartlett?" asked joel, interrupting.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000058_000000.wav|"What!" said the gentleman, stopping short in the midst of an immense puddle, and staring at her, "mr|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000006_000001.wav|"Oh, mamsie, will he die, do you think?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000048_000001.wav|"Oh, dear!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000174_000001.wav|And then Jasper and she took hold of hands and had a good spin!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000049_000002.wav|The seed lay all over the pavement, scattered far and wide even out to the puddles in the street.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000007_000002.wav|P'raps he's been eating too much?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000103_000000.wav|"Splendid," she cried heartily; "but where are the boys?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000131_000001.wav|You see, when I was a little youngster, and-"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000191_000000.wav|And then Polly sprang up.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000003_000000.wav|"Dear me!" said mrs Pepper, "what's that?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000027_000000.wav|"Oh, no Pet, I can't," cried Polly, "I've got to hurry like everything!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000065_000001.wav|"Now, then, Polly."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000005_000000.wav|"What is the matter?" asked her mother, turning around in her chair in perfect astonishment.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000008_000000.wav|"Eating!" said Polly, "oh mamsie, he hasn't had anything." And she pointed with shame and remorse to the seed cup with only a few dried husks in the very bottom.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000009_000000.wav|"Oh, Polly," began mrs Pepper; but seeing the look on her face, she changed her tone for one more cheerful.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000053_000001.wav|"Now," said the kind tones, briskly, "come, little girl, we'll make this all right speedily.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000102_000001.wav|"See-aren't these prime!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000019_000001.wav|"And besides, 'tisn't much use to wait for Ben.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000025_000001.wav|"Remember, for you to ride up with.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000074_000000.wav|"There sha'n't anything hurt you," said Polly, kissing her reassuringly, and stepping briskly off with her burden, just as the door burst open, and joel flew out on the veranda steps, followed by the rest of the troop in the greatest state of excitement.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000064_000002.wav|"And oh, sir," she said, and her voice began to tremble, "Mamsie'll be so frightened if I don't get there soon!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000134_000000.wav|"Oh, papa!" began Percy, deprecatingly.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000089_000001.wav|"Do come in, children-why-good gracious, Mason!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000004_000000.wav|"It's Cherry," said Polly, lifting up her head from "Fasquelle," "and-oh, dear me!" and flinging down the pile of books in her lap on a chair, she rushed across the room and flew up to the cage and began to wildly gesticulate and explain and shower down on him every endearing name she could think of.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000138_000000.wav|"There she is, sir," said mr Whitney, pointing to mrs Pepper, who was laughing and crying together.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000064_000000.wav|"Yes, sir, I am," said Polly, pleased to think he knew her.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000037_000000.wav|Here she steadily resisted all temptations to stop and look at the new arrivals of birds, and to feed the carrier pigeons who seemed to be expecting her, and who turned their soft eyes up at her reproachfully when she failed to pay her respects to them.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000052_000001.wav|"I'm very glad."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000061_000002.wav|"There's Percy, and Van, and little Dick-oh, he's so cunning!" she cried, impulsively.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000060_000000.wav|"Jappy!" said the stranger, still standing as if petrified.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000197_000000.wav|"Is that all there is in that big bundle?" said joel in a disappointed tone, who had followed with extreme curiosity to see its contents. "Phoo!--that's no fun-old bird seed!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000046_000000.wav|"It's no matter," said Polly, hopping up with a little laugh, and straightening her hat.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000119_000001.wav|"Come right back, or I'll tell mamsie!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000082_000000.wav|"We don't ever kiss strangers-mamsie's told us not to."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000053_000002.wav|Let's see-here's a bird store.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000049_000003.wav|And not a cent of money to get any more with!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000080_000000.wav|"Isn't anybody going to kiss me, I wonder!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000056_000001.wav|"Where do you live?|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000021_000000.wav|"I know you do," said mrs Pepper, "but it'll be dark early on account of the shower.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000173_000001.wav|"So make the most of it."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000033_000000.wav|"Oh, mamsie, don't," she said.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000100_000000.wav|"I wish Ben was here," said little Davie, capering around the Whitney group, "an' Jappy, I do!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000036_000001.wav|"Well, here I am," she said with a sigh of relief, as she at last reached mr Fletcher's big bird store.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000012_000000.wav|"And you forgot him to day?" asked mrs Pepper, with a look in her black eyes Polly didn't like.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000041_000003.wav|Her pocket was empty!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000182_000001.wav|I-want-Jappy!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000139_000000.wav|"Where?" said joel, utterly bewildered.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000025_000000.wav|"And there's a five cent piece in that one for you to ride up with," said her mother, tying up the purse carefully.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000072_000000.wav|"Do let me carry you, little girl," said Polly's kind friend persuasively, bending down to the little face on Polly's neck.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000076_000000.wav|"Phronsie!" said mrs Pepper, springing to her feet, "why, I thought she was up stairs with Jane."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000133_000002.wav|But to go back-when I was a little shaver, about as big as Percy here-"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000033_000001.wav|"It made him sick before, don't you know it did-so fat and stuffy."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000166_000000.wav|"I will," said Phronsie, shaking her small head wisely, "every single thing."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000030_000000.wav|"Run right along," said mrs Pepper, briskly.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000010_000000.wav|At the word "starved," Polly winced as though a pin had been pointed at her.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000070_000000.wav|The stranger, amazed at this new stage of the proceedings, was vainly trying to hold the umbrella over both, till the procession could move on again.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000092_000001.wav|Pepper!" repeated mr Whitney, perplexedly.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000085_000000.wav|"Papa-oh, papa!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000145_000000.wav|"You always were a proud little thing," he said laughing.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000145_000001.wav|"Well, but," broke in mr King, unable to keep silence any longer, "I'd like to inquire, Mason, why you didn't find all this out before, in Marian's letters, when she mentioned mrs Pepper?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000146_000000.wav|"She didn't ever mention her," said mr Whitney, turning around to face his questioner, "not as mrs Pepper-never once by name.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000139_000001.wav|"I don't see any Mary Bartlett. What does he mean, Polly?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000164_000000.wav|"Now, then!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000021_000001.wav|Well," she said, pulling out her well worn purse from her pocket, "if it does sprinkle, you get into a car, Polly, remember."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000038_000000.wav|So she put down her ten cents silently on the counter, and took up the little package of seed, and went out.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000016_000000.wav|"Twon't take me but a minute, mamsie; Jasper's gone, and Thomas, too, so I've got to go," she added, as she saw her mother hesitate.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000054_000000.wav|"But, sir-" began Polly, holding back.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000172_000000.wav|"As true as everything?" demanded joel, crowding in between them.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000063_000000.wav|"Why, you must be Polly?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000019_000000.wav|"Well," said mrs Pepper, while Phronsie, standing in a chair with her face pressed close to the cage, was telling Cherry through the bars "not to be hungry, please don't!" which he didn't seem to mind in the least, but went on screaming harder than ever!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000026_000000.wav|"Where you going?" asked Phronsie, who on seeing the purse knew there was some expedition on foot, and beginning to clamber down out of the chair.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000007_000000.wav|"I guess not," said mrs Pepper, laying down her work and coming up to the cage, while Phronsie scrambled off from her chair and hurried to the scene.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000162_000000.wav|Just then a loud and quick rap on the table made all the children skip, and stopped everybody's tongue.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000183_000001.wav|Do somebody stop him!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000026_000002.wav|Take me, Polly!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000001_000000.wav|The room was very quiet; but presently Phronsie strayed in, and seeing Polly studying, climbed up in a chair by the window to watch the birds hop over the veranda and pick up worms in the grass beside the carriage drive.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000178_000000.wav|"Yes," said Van, flying up, "and I'm cousin to Polly, too-that's best!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000189_000000.wav|"Oh, dear!" they both cried in great distress.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000087_000000.wav|"Why, Polly Pepper!" exclaimed joel, not minding his own upset.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000185_000000.wav|joel bolted up at that, and began to smile through the tears running down the rosy face.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000075_000002.wav|"Where'd you get Phronsie?" he asked, standing quite still at sight of the little feet tucked up to get out of the rain.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000001_000001.wav|And then came mrs Pepper with the big mending basket, and ensconced herself opposite by the table; and nothing was to be heard but the "tick, tick" of the clock, and an occasional dropping of a spool of thread, or scissors, from the busy hands flying in and out among the stockings.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000041_000001.wav|A car was just in sight-that was fine!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000192_000001.wav|"Cherry'll die-Cherry'll die!" she cried, "do somebody help me off with the string!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000096_000000.wav|"Has Polly come?" she asked, seeing only her father.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000026_000001.wav|"Oh, I want to go too, I do.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000049_000001.wav|There lay the paper wet and torn, down at their feet.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000023_000000.wav|"And there's ten cents for your bird seed in that pocket," said mrs Pepper, pointing to a coin racing away into a corner by itself.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000058_000001.wav|Jasper King's?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000144_000000.wav|"I heard," said mrs Pepper, "that you'd grown awfully rich, and I couldn't."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000184_000001.wav|"I'll tell you how we'll fix it!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000171_000001.wav|Does she mean it?" cried Percy, in the greatest excitement.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000108_000000.wav|"That's the little brown house," said Davie, looking over her shoulder as Phronsie put it carefully into Polly's hand.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000062_000000.wav|The gentleman's face looked very queer just then; but he merely said:|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000014_000000.wav|"Well, he must have something right away," said mrs Pepper, decidedly. "That's certain."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000088_000000.wav|"Hush!" cried Polly, catching his arm, "he's come-oh, joel--he's come!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000089_000000.wav|"Who?" cried joel, staring around blindly, "who, Polly?" Polly had just opened her lips to explain, when mr King's portly, handsome figure appeared in the doorway.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000154_000000.wav|"And see-see!" cried the little Whitneys, pointing with jubilant fingers to their papa, "see what she brought!"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000069_000001.wav|"You'll catch your death!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000136_000000.wav|"Well, I was sent up into Vermont to stay at the old place.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000065_000000.wav|"I'm going up there myself, so that it all happens very nicely," said the gentleman, commencing to start off briskly, and grasping her hand tighter.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000006_000000.wav|"How could I!" cried Polly, in accents of despair, not heeding her mother's question.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000041_000000.wav|So she went on with nimble footsteps, dodging the crowd, and soon came to the corner.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/3587/5400_3587_000039_000001.wav|The cloud that had seemed but a cloud when she went in, was now fast descending in big ominous sprinkles that told of a heavy shower to follow.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000052_000000.wav|"Excuse me, but you know one really can't argue in that way," he observed.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000006_000001.wav|Looking towards the plough land across the river, he made out something black, but he could not distinguish whether it was a horse or the bailiff on horseback.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000025_000000.wav|"Come, now....|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000021_000002.wav|If it's a good thing for you, it's a good thing for everyone."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000058_000000.wav|"As for your dislike of it, excuse my saying so, that's simply our Russian sloth and old serf owner's ways, and I'm convinced that in you it's a temporary error and will pass."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000020_000000.wav|"Why have schools?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000032_000000.wav|"If you admit that it is a benefit," said Sergey Ivanovitch, "then, as an honest man, you cannot help caring about it and sympathizing with the movement, and so wishing to work for it."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000017_000000.wav|"What! was it impossible, if the money were properly laid out, to provide medical aid?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000002_000002.wav|And as I've told you before, I tell you again: it's not right for you not to go to the meetings, and altogether to keep out of the district business.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000035_000000.wav|"That's to say, I don't admit it's being either good or possible."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000045_000000.wav|But Sergey Ivanovitch shrugged his shoulders.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000030_000000.wav|"Yes, I admit it," said Levin without thinking, and he was conscious immediately that he had said what he did not think.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000012_000000.wav|"I never did assert it," thought Konstantin Levin.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000056_000001.wav|"The chief problem of the philosophy of all ages consists just in finding the indispensable connection which exists between individual and social interests.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000008_000000.wav|"Self respect!" said Levin, stung to the quick by his brother's words; "I don't understand.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000041_000000.wav|"I'll tell you, then," he said with heat, "I imagine the mainspring of all our actions is, after all, self interest.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000011_000000.wav|"Come, really though," said the elder brother, with a frown on his handsome, clever face, "there's a limit to everything.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000043_000001.wav|There self interest did come in.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000059_000000.wav|Konstantin was silent.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000004_000002.wav|Indifference, incapacity-I won't admit; surely it's not simply laziness?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000030_000002.wav|How it would be proved he could not tell, but he knew that this would inevitably be logically proved to him, and he awaited the proofs.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000043_000002.wav|One longed to throw off that yoke that crushed us, all decent people among us.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000026_000000.wav|"Oh, well, but I fancy her wrist will never be straight again."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000040_000001.wav|And that irritated Levin.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000042_000000.wav|"Excuse me," Sergey Ivanovitch interposed with a smile, "self interest did not induce us to work for the emancipation of the serfs, but we did work for it."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000041_000002.wav|Doctors and dispensaries are no use to me.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000048_000001.wav|Sergey Ivanovitch smiled.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000018_000001.wav|For the three thousand square miles of our district, what with our thaws, and the storms, and the work in the fields, I don't see how it is possible to provide medical aid all over.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000015_000000.wav|Konstantin Levin felt that there was no course open to him but to submit, or to confess to a lack of zeal for the public good.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000044_000000.wav|Konstantin Levin had warmed to his subject, and began mimicking the president and the half witted Alioshka: it seemed to him that it was all to the point.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000043_000000.wav|"No!" Konstantin Levin broke in with still greater heat; "the emancipation of the serfs was a different matter.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000060_000000.wav|Sergey Ivanovitch wound up the last line, untied the horse, and they drove off.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000011_000002.wav|How can you think it a matter of no importance whether the peasant, whom you love as you assert..."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000034_000001.wav|But you said just now..."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000002_000003.wav|If decent people won't go into it, of course it's bound to go all wrong.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000016_000000.wav|"It's both," he said resolutely: "I don't see that it was possible..."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000021_000000.wav|"What do you mean?|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000050_000000.wav|"I'm not going to be tried.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000004_000000.wav|"But why can't you?|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000015_000001.wav|And this mortified him and hurt his feelings.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000059_000001.wav|He felt himself vanquished on all sides, but he felt at the same time that what he wanted to say was unintelligible to his brother.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000019_000000.wav|"Oh, well, that's unfair ...|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000010_000000.wav|"I don't think it important; it does not take hold of me, I can't help it," answered Levin, making out that what he saw was the bailiff, and that the bailiff seemed to be letting the peasants go off the ploughed land.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000041_000005.wav|The schools are no good to me, but positively harmful, as I told you.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000008_000002.wav|But in this case one wants first to be convinced that one has certain qualifications for this sort of business, and especially that all this business is of great importance."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000024_000001.wav|He was silent for a little, drew out a hook, threw it in again, and turned to his brother smiling.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000055_000001.wav|"He too has a philosophy of his own at the service of his natural tendencies," he thought.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000053_000000.wav|But Konstantin Levin wanted to justify himself for the failing, of which he was conscious, of lack of zeal for the public welfare, and he went on.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000007_000002.wav|How can you have so little self respect?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000028_000001.wav|And mending the highroads is an impossibility; and as soon as they put up bridges they're stolen."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000019_000001.wav|I can quote to you thousands of instances....|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000027_000000.wav|"That remains to be proved....|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000033_000000.wav|"But I still do not admit this movement to be just," said Konstantin Levin, reddening a little.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000041_000003.wav|An arbitrator of disputes is no use to me.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000041_000004.wav|I never appeal to him, and never shall appeal to him.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000056_000003.wav|The birches are not simply stuck in, but some are sown and some are planted, and one must deal carefully with them. It's only those peoples that have an intuitive sense of what's of importance and significance in their institutions, and know how to value them, that have a future before them-it's only those peoples that one can truly call historical."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000030_000001.wav|He felt that if he admitted that, it would be proved that he had been talking meaningless rubbish.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000055_000000.wav|Sergey Ivanovitch smiled.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000014_000000.wav|And Sergey Ivanovitch put before him the alternative: either you are so undeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000029_000000.wav|"Still, that's not the point," said Sergey Ivanovitch, frowning.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000007_000000.wav|"Why is it you can do nothing?|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000041_000006.wav|For me the district institutions simply mean the liability to pay fourpence halfpenny for every three acres, to drive into the town, sleep with bugs, and listen to all sorts of idiocy and loathsomeness, and self interest offers me no inducement."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000010_000002.wav|"Can they have finished ploughing?" he wondered.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000003_000001.wav|"I can't! and so there's no help for it."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000018_000000.wav|"Impossible, as it seems to me....|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000013_000000.wav|"... dies without help?|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000010_000001.wav|They were turning the plough over.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000019_000002.wav|But the schools, anyway."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000034_000000.wav|"What!|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000040_000000.wav|"I can't see where philosophy comes in," said Sergey Ivanovitch, in a tone, Levin fancied, as though he did not admit his brother's right to talk about philosophy.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000008_000001.wav|If they'd told me at college that other people understood the integral calculus, and I didn't, then pride would have come in.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000006_000000.wav|He had hardly grasped what his brother was saying.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000001_000000.wav|Chapter three|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000018_000002.wav|And besides, I don't believe in medicine."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000004_000001.wav|I must own I can't make it out.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000029_000002.wav|"Do you admit that education is a benefit for the people?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000048_000000.wav|Konstantin Levin spoke as though the floodgates of his speech had burst open.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000038_000000.wav|"How so?"|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000002_000004.wav|We pay the money, and it all goes in salaries, and there are no schools, nor district nurses, nor midwives, nor drugstores-nothing."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000007_000001.wav|You made an attempt and didn't succeed, as you think, and you give in.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000056_000000.wav|"Come, you'd better let philosophy alone," he said.|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5400/34478/5400_34478_000013_000001.wav|The ignorant peasant women starve the children, and the people stagnate in darkness, and are helpless in the hands of every village clerk, while you have at your disposal a means of helping them, and don't help them because to your mind it's of no importance."|5400
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000017_000005.wav|And wet territory voted dry will bring about a greatly accelerated patronage of the photoplay houses. There is every strategic reason why these two forces should patch up a truce.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000003_000003.wav|Blood is drawn from the guts to the brain.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000003_000005.wav|After a day's work a street sweeper enters the place, heavy as King Log.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000005_000008.wav|As Padraic Colum says in his poem on the herdsman:--|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000015_000000.wav|Since I have announced myself a farmer and a puritan, let me here list the saloon evils not yet recorded in this chapter.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000017_000002.wav|But it is not too late for the dry forces to repent.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000003_000001.wav|For no pious reason, surely.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000006_000000.wav|"With thoughts on white ships And the King of Spain's Daughter."|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000004_000001.wav|Here is more fancy and whim than ever before blessed a hot night. Here, under the wind of an electric fan, they witness everything, from a burial in Westminster to the birthday parade of the ruler of the land of Swat.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000011_000010.wav|Their leadership seldom dries up a factory town or a mining region, with all the help the Anti Saloon League can give.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000011_000009.wav|But they are outstanding groups.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000002_000001.wav|It refers as well to every other type of moving picture that gets into the slum.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000008_000001.wav|I beg to be allowed to relate a personal matter.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000011_000003.wav|The larger the county seat, the larger the non church going population and the more stubborn the fight.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000013_000002.wav|The women's vote, a little more puritanical than the men's vote, will make the result sure.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000004_000000.wav|The photoplays have done something to reunite the lower class families. No longer is the fire escape the only summer resort for big and little folks.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000002_000007.wav|Below the cliff caves were bar rooms in endless lines.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000002_000008.wav|There are almost as many bar rooms to day, yet this new thing breaks the lines as nothing else ever did.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000011_000001.wav|When a county goes dry, it is generally in spite of the county seat.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000012_000002.wav|The men who do this, drink freely at their own clubs or parties.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000001_000000.wav|THE SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SALOON|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000002_000005.wav|But now, to speak in an Irish way, the crowd takes the platform, and looking down, sees itself swaying.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000008_000004.wav|The talk with this man was worth it all to me.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000014_000003.wav|And a whole evening costs but a dime apiece.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88363/5672_88363_000015_000002.wav|The shame of the American drinking place is the bar tender who dominates its thinking.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000007.wav|By Allah Omnipotent we were longing to see thee, and glory be to God who hath again shown us thy face!" Then taking me by the hand he made me sit by his side, rejoicing, and he welcomed me with familiar kindness again and entreated me as a friend.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000004.wav|Then I dropped down from Baghdad to the Gulf, and with other merchants embarked, and our ship sailed before a fair wind many days and nights till, by Allah's aid, we reached the island of Sarandib.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000016.wav|They fell upon us and wounded and slew all who opposed them; then, having captured the ship and her contents, carried us to an island, where they sold us at the meanest price.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000005.wav|As soon as we had made fast we landed and I took the present and the letter; and, going in with them to the King, kissed ground before him.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000000.wav|Know, O my brothers and friends and companions all, that when I left voyaging and commercing, I said in myself, "Sufficeth me that hath befallen me;" and I spent my time in solace and pleasure.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000025.wav|He carried me still unconscious till he reached the place for which he was making, when he rolled me off his back and presently went his ways followed by the others.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000006_000001.wav|How sweet and how grateful!"|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000017.wav|Now I was bought by a wealthy man who, taking me to his house, gave me meat and drink and clothing and treated me in the friendliest manner; so I was heartened and I rested a little.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000012.wav|But after.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000006_000000.wav|Now when Shahrazad had ended her story of the two Sindbads, Dinarzad exclaimed, "O my sister, how pleasant is thy tale and how tasteful!|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000001_000003.wav|Then I gave the wand of gold to him whom I had delivered from the serpent and bade him farewell, and my friend took me on his back and flew with me as before, till he brought me to the city and set me down in my own house.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000001_000005.wav|Then we embarked, I and my wife, with all our moveables, leaving our houses and domains and so forth, and set sail, and ceased not sailing from island to island and from sea to sea, with a fair wind and a favouring, till we arrived at Bassorah safe and sound.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000001_000008.wav|Then I forswore travel and vowed to Allah the Most High I would venture no more by land or sea, for that this seventh and last voyage had surfeited me of travel and adventure; and I thanked the Lord (be He praised and glorified!), and blessed Him for having restored me to my kith and kin and country and home.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000014.wav|Some days after I craved his leave to depart, but could not obtain it except by great pressing, whereupon I farewelled him and fared forth from his city, with merchants and other companions, homewards bound without any desire for travel or companions, homewards bound without any desire for travel or trade.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000038.wav|Here I went in to the Caliph and, after saluting him and kissing hands, informed him of all that had befallen me; whereupon he rejoiced in my safety and thanked Almighty Allah; and he bade my story be written in letters of gold.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000003_000000.wav|according to the version of the Calcutta Edition|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000015.wav|We continued voyaging and coasting along many islands; but, when we were half-way, we were surrounded by a number of canoes, wherein were men like devils armed with bows and arrows, swords and daggers; habited in mail coats and other armoury.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000037.wav|I likewise bought for myself a beast and we fared forth and crossed the deserts from country to country till I reached Baghdad.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000002.wav|I trembled at these words and rejoined, "By Allah the Omnipotent, O my lord, I have taken a loathing to wayfare, and when I hear the words 'Voyage' or 'Travel,' my limbs tremble for what hath befallen me of hardships and horrors.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000001_000006.wav|I made no stay there, but freighted another vessel and, transferring my goods to her, set out forthright for Baghdad city, where I arrived in safety, and entering my quarter and repairing to my house, foregathered with my family and friends and familiars who laid up my goods in my warehouses.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000021.wav|In the evening I reported my success to my master who was delighted in me and entreated me with high honour; and next morning he removed the slain elephant.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000000_000000.wav|When it was the Five Hundred and Sixty sixth Night,|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000001_000000.wav|She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sindbad the Seaman thus continued:--When I smote the serpent on the head with my golden staff she cast the man forth of her mouth.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/75791/5672_75791_000005_000030.wav|After this, he entreated me with increased favour and said, "O my son, thou hast shown us the way to great gain, wherefore Allah requite thee!|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000006_000001.wav|We need not call it the Arabian's cave.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000003_000009.wav|Humanity takes on its sacred aspect.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER nineteen|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000011_000002.wav|At last he is declared justified.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000013_000003.wav|It was the force behind every mummification.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000010_000001.wav|He is carried past a dreadful place on the back of the cow Hathor.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000004_000001.wav|We retire to the shaded porch.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000015_000000.wav|The Greeks, the wisest people in our limited system of classics, bowed down before the Egyptian hierarchy.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000010_000003.wav|They sit in majestic rows.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000006_000004.wav|The Nile flows through his heart.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000006_000007.wav|We built the mysteriousness of the Universe into the Pyramids, carved it into every line of the Sphinx.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000005_000003.wav|In the imaginative pictures the principle begins to be applied more largely, till throughout the fairy story the figures float in and out from the unknown, as fancies should.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5672/88367/5672_88367_000004_000002.wav|It takes two more steps toward quietness of light to read the human face and figure.|5672
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000027_000001.wav|"How died he?"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000005_000002.wav|The origin of this enmity seems to be found in the words of an ancient prophecy-"A lofty name shall have a fearful fall when, as the rider over his horse, the mortality of Metzengerstein shall triumph over the immortality of Berlifitzing."|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000014_000002.wav|The neck of the animal, before arched, as if in compassion, over the prostrate body of its lord, was now extended, at full length, in the direction of the Baron.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000027_000000.wav|A rapid smile shot over the countenance of the listener.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000006_000006.wav|The prophecy seemed to imply-if it implied anything-a final triumph on the part of the already more powerful house; and was of course remembered with the more bitter animosity by the weaker and less influential.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000032_000000.wav|From this date a marked alteration took place in the outward demeanor of the dissolute young Baron Frederick Von Metzengerstein.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000006_000002.wav|Besides, the estates, which were contiguous, had long exercised a rival influence in the affairs of a busy government.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000036_000000.wav|Indeed, the Baron's perverse attachment to his lately acquired charger-an attachment which seemed to attain new strength from every fresh example of the animal's ferocious and demon like propensities-at length became, in the eyes of all reasonable men, a hideous and unnatural fervor.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000013_000003.wav|The longer he gazed the more absorbing became the spell-the more impossible did it appear that he could ever withdraw his glance from the fascination of that tapestry.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000013_000002.wav|It was with difficulty that he reconciled his dreamy and incoherent feelings with the certainty of being awake.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000015_000001.wav|As he threw it open, a flash of red light, streaming far into the chamber, flung his shadow with a clear outline against the quivering tapestry, and he shuddered to perceive that shadow-as he staggered awhile upon the threshold-assuming the exact position, and precisely filling up the contour, of the relentless and triumphant murderer of the Saracen Berlifitzing.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000034_000000.wav|These repeated insults were not to be endured by an imperious nobility. Such invitations became less cordial-less frequent-in time they ceased altogether.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000021_000001.wav|If such had been the case, we know our duty better than to bring him into the presence of a noble of your family."|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000009_000000.wav|From some peculiar circumstances attending the administration of his father, the young Baron, at the decease of the former, entered immediately upon his vast possessions.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000014_000001.wav|To his extreme horror and astonishment, the head of the gigantic steed had, in the meantime, altered its position.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000040_000000.wav|As the flames, when first seen, had already made so terrible a progress that all efforts to save any portion of the building were evidently futile, the astonished neighborhood stood idly around in silent and pathetic wonder.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000012_000001.wav|The horse itself, in the foreground of the design, stood motionless and statue like-while farther back, its discomfited rider perished by the dagger of a Metzengerstein.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000033_000002.wav|"Will the Baron join us in a hunting of the boar?"--"Metzengerstein does not hunt;" "Metzengerstein will not attend," were the haughty and laconic answers.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000015_000000.wav|Stupified with terror, the young nobleman tottered to the door.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000042_000001.wav|The agony of his countenance, the convulsive struggle of his frame, gave evidence of superhuman exertion: but no sound, save a solitary shriek, escaped from his lacerated lips, which were bitten through and through in the intensity of terror.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000036_000001.wav|In the glare of noon-at the dead hour of night-in sickness or in health-in calm or in tempest-the young Metzengerstein seemed rivetted to the saddle of that colossal horse, whose intractable audacities so well accorded with his own spirit.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000023_000000.wav|The young Frederick, during the conference, seemed agitated by a variety of emotions.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000003_000002.wav|Let it suffice to say, that at the period of which I speak, there existed, in the interior of Hungary, a settled although hidden belief in the doctrines of the Metempsychosis. Of the doctrines themselves-that is, of their falsity, or of their probability-I say nothing.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000004_000000.wav|But there are some points in the Hungarian superstition which were fast verging to absurdity.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000020_000002.wav|although, as you very justly observe, of a suspicious and untractable character, let him be mine, however," he added, after a pause, "perhaps a rider like Frederick of Metzengerstein, may tame even the devil from the stables of Berlifitzing."|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000038_000000.wav|Among all the retinue of the Baron, however, none were found to doubt the ardor of that extraordinary affection which existed on the part of the young nobleman for the fiery qualities of his horse; at least, none but an insignificant and misshapen little page, whose deformities were in everybody's way, and whose opinions were of the least possible importance.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000017_000000.wav|"Whose horse?|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000006_000003.wav|Moreover, near neighbors are seldom friends; and the inhabitants of the Castle Berlifitzing might look, from their lofty buttresses, into the very windows of the palace Metzengerstein.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000014_000000.wav|The action, however, was but momentary, his gaze returned mechanically to the wall.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000035_000001.wav|Some there were, indeed, who suggested a too haughty idea of self consequence and dignity.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000009_000002.wav|His castles were without number.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000003_000001.wav|Why then give a date to this story I have to tell?|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000008_000000.wav|Frederick, Baron Metzengerstein, was, on the other hand, not yet of age. His father, the Minister G-, died young.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000022_000000.wav|"True!" observed the Baron, dryly, and at that instant a page of the bedchamber came from the palace with a heightened color, and a precipitate step.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000037_000000.wav|There were circumstances, moreover, which coupled with late events, gave an unearthly and portentous character to the mania of the rider, and to the capabilities of the steed.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000032_000002.wav|He was never to be seen beyond the limits of his own domain, and, in this wide and social world, was utterly companionless-unless, indeed, that unnatural, impetuous, and fiery colored horse, which he henceforward continually bestrode, had any mysterious right to the title of his friend.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000028_000000.wav|"In his rash exertions to rescue a favorite portion of his hunting stud, he has himself perished miserably in the flames."|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000030_000000.wav|"Indeed;" repeated the vassal.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000020_000001.wav|"He is, as you say, a remarkable horse-a prodigious horse!|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000031_000000.wav|"Shocking!" said the youth, calmly, and turned quietly into the chateau.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000032_000001.wav|Indeed, his behavior disappointed every expectation, and proved little in accordance with the views of many a manoeuvering mamma; while his habits and manner, still less than formerly, offered any thing congenial with those of the neighboring aristocracy.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000006_000000.wav|To be sure the words themselves had little or no meaning.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000016_000002.wav|With much difficulty, and at the imminent peril of their lives, they were restraining the convulsive plunges of a gigantic and fiery colored horse.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000043_000000.wav|The fury of the tempest immediately died away, and a dead calm sullenly succeeded.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000039_000000.wav|One tempestuous night, Metzengerstein, awaking from a heavy slumber, descended like a maniac from his chamber, and, mounting in hot haste, bounded away into the mazes of the forest.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000033_000001.wav|"Will the Baron honor our festivals with his presence?"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000005_000001.wav|Never before were two houses so illustrious, mutually embittered by hostility so deadly.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000019_000000.wav|"The letters w v b are also branded very distinctly on his forehead," interrupted a second equerry, "I supposed them, of course, to be the initials of Wilhelm Von Berlifitzing-but all at the castle are positive in denying any knowledge of the horse."|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000023_000001.wav|He soon, however, recovered his composure, and an expression of determined malignancy settled upon his countenance, as he gave peremptory orders that a certain chamber should be immediately locked up, and the key placed in his own possession.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000013_000000.wav|On Frederick's lip arose a fiendish expression, as he became aware of the direction which his glance had, without his consciousness, assumed. Yet he did not remove it.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000037_000003.wav|His stable, too, was appointed at a distance from the rest; and with regard to grooming and other necessary offices, none but the owner in person had ventured to officiate, or even to enter the enclosure of that particular stall.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000040_000001.wav|But a new and fearful object soon rivetted the attention of the multitude, and proved how much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000041_000000.wav|Up the long avenue of aged oaks which led from the forest to the main entrance of the Chateau Metzengerstein, a steed, bearing an unbonneted and disordered rider, was seen leaping with an impetuosity which outstripped the very Demon of the Tempest.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000020_000000.wav|"Extremely singular!" said the young Baron, with a musing air, and apparently unconscious of the meaning of his words.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000008_000001.wav|His mother, the Lady Mary, followed him quickly after.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000006_000004.wav|Least of all had the more than feudal magnificence, thus discovered, a tendency to allay the irritable feelings of the less ancient and less wealthy Berlifitzings.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/274549/8163_274549_000016_000001.wav|At the principal gate of the palace he encountered three equerries.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000062_000002.wav|He could not find a sweet grape or a ripe fig (if Epimetheus had a fault, it was a little too much fondness for figs); or, if ripe at all, they were overripe, and so sweet as to be cloying.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000073_000000.wav|Suddenly there was a gentle little tap on the inside of the lid.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000077_000000.wav|Again the tap!|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000023_000002.wav|I am so taken up with thinking about it all the time.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000051_000004.wav|What a beautiful day it was!|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000050_000002.wav|I am resolved, at least, to find the two ends of the cord."|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000043_000004.wav|I need not open the box, and should not, of course, without the foolish boy's consent, even if the knot were untied."|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000021_000000.wav|"Always talking about grapes and figs!" cried Pandora, pettishly.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000044_000003.wav|When life is all sport, toil is the real play.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000053_000002.wav|I have the greatest mind in the world to run away!"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000012_000000.wav|"But who gave it to you?" asked Pandora.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000092_000000.wav|"And, as the lid seems very heavy," cried Epimetheus, running across the room, "I will help you!"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000008_000001.wav|Her name was Pandora.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000075_000000.wav|But either Epimetheus had not heard the tap, or was too much out of humour to notice it.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000101_000000.wav|"Oh tell us," they exclaimed-"tell us what it is!"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000034_000000.wav|"What a dull boy he is!" muttered Pandora, as Epimetheus left the cottage.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000054_000001.wav|The gold cord untwined itself, as if by magic, and left the box without a fastening.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000031_000001.wav|"It was like two serpents twisting around a stick, and was carved so naturally that I, at first, thought the serpents were alive."|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000048_000007.wav|The child could not quite satisfy herself whether she had heard anything or no But, at all events, her curiosity was stronger than ever.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000051_000003.wav|Pandora stopped to listen.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000075_000001.wav|At any rate, he made no answer.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000046_000003.wav|Do you think that you should be less curious than Pandora?|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000026_000000.wav|"Pandora, what are you thinking of?" exclaimed Epimetheus.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000086_000001.wav|"And what of it?"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000062_000005.wav|Neither did he himself know what ailed him, any better than they did.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000059_000002.wav|Only let us out!"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000016_000002.wav|There needed no fathers and mothers to take care of the children; because there was no danger, nor trouble of any kind, and no clothes to be mended, and there was always plenty to eat and drink.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000046_000005.wav|But you would not do it.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000058_000003.wav|And so perhaps she might, if the enchanted face on the lid of the box had not looked so bewitchingly persuasive at her, and if she had not seemed to hear, more distinctly, than before, the murmur of small voices within.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000104_000004.wav|But then that lovely and lightsome little figure of Hope!|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000072_000005.wav|She was crying bitterly, and sobbing as if her heart would break.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000074_000000.wav|"What can that be?" cried Pandora, lifting her head.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000065_000003.wav|She was too intent upon her purpose.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000079_000000.wav|A sweet little voice spoke from within-|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000055_000001.wav|"What will Epimetheus say?|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000019_000001.wav|"And what in the world can be inside of it?"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000033_000001.wav|"But until Quicksilver comes back and tells us so, we have neither of us any right to lift the lid of the box."|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000083_000003.wav|Come, come, my pretty Pandora!|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000031_000000.wav|"Oh, the most curious staff you ever saw!" cried Epimetheus.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000011_000000.wav|"My dear little Pandora," answered Epimetheus, "that is a secret, and you must be kind enough not to ask any questions about it.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000012_000001.wav|"And where did it come from?"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000065_000000.wav|He entered softly, for he meant, if possible, to steal behind Pandora, and fling the wreath of flowers over her head, before she should be aware of his approach.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000027_000001.wav|Still, however, she could not help thinking and talking about the box.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000102_000001.wav|Trust in my promise, for it is true."|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000057_000001.wav|How shall I make him believe that I have not looked into the box?"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000100_000002.wav|Yes, my dear children, and I know something very good and beautiful that is to be given you hereafter!"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000053_000000.wav|"That face looks very mischievous," thought Pandora.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000104_000005.wav|What in the world could we do without her?|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000046_000006.wav|Oh, fie! No, no! Only, if you thought there were toys in it, it would be so very hard to let slip an opportunity of taking just one peep!|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000023_000001.wav|"And, besides, I never do have any. This ugly box!|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000068_000002.wav|Naughty Pandora! why have you opened this wicked box?"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000095_000000.wav|"Pray, who are you, beautiful creature?" inquired Pandora.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000081_000000.wav|"No, no," answered Pandora, again beginning to sob, "I have had enough of lifting the lid!|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000081_000003.wav|You need never think that I shall be so foolish as to let you out!"|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000048_000006.wav|Or was it merely the singing in Pandora's ears? Or could it be the beating of her heart?|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000054_000000.wav|But just then, by the merest accident, she gave the knot a kind of twist, which produced a wonderful result.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000045_000004.wav|And many a kick did the box-(but it was a mischievous box, as we shall see, and deserved all it got)--many a kick did it receive.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000020_000001.wav|"I wish, dear Pandora, you would try to talk of something else.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000049_000000.wav|As she drew back her head, her eyes fell upon the knot of gold cord.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000044_000006.wav|And then, for the rest of the day, there was the box!|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000059_000000.wav|"Let us out, dear Pandora-pray let us out!|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000032_000001.wav|"Nobody else has such a staff. It was Quicksilver; and he brought me hither, as well as the box.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000017_000002.wav|The truth is, those ugly little winged monsters, called Troubles, which are now almost as numerous as mosquitoes, had never yet been seen on the earth.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000063_000003.wav|The fingers of little girls, it has always appeared to me, are the fittest to twine flower wreaths; but boys could do it, in those days, rather better than they can now.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000043_000003.wav|Even Epimetheus would not blame me for that.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000016_000001.wav|Then, everybody was a child.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8163/116797/8163_116797_000045_000003.wav|Or, if she chanced to be ill tempered, she could give it a push, or kick it with her naughty little foot.|8163
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000013_000000.wav|four.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000007_000000.wav|one.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000009_000002.wav|And so the environment shapes and affects the animal.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000007_000003.wav|The first question to ask in the part of the study of economic society here undertaken is: What is its motive force?|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000016_000003.wav|They are the mainspring of economic progress.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000021_000000.wav|Sec.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000007_000005.wav|The question merits long and careful study, but the general answer is so simple that it seems almost self evident: The motive force in economics is found in the feelings of men.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000016_000009.wav|If only the desire for a two or three room cabin can be aroused, experience shows that family life and industrial qualities may be improved in many other ways.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000016_000004.wav|In recent discussion of the control of the tropics, the too great contentedness of tropical peoples has been brought out prominently.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000013_000003.wav|As men become more the masters of circumstances, their desires anticipate mere physical wants; they seek a more varied food of finer flavor and more delicately prepared.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000023_000000.wav|one.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000009_000005.wav|After the animal has been thus fitted, its desire is for those things normally to be found in its surroundings.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000011_000004.wav|He needs clothing to protect him against the harsher climates of the lands to which he moves.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000018_000000.wav|Not only in America, but in most civilized lands to day, is seen a rapid growth of wants in the working classes.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000011_000003.wav|He feels the need of companionship, for it is only through association and mutual help that men, so weak as compared with many kinds of animals, are able to resist the enemies which beset them.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258954/7520_258954_000013_000004.wav|Dress is not limited by physical comfort, for one of the earliest of the esthetic wants to develop is the love of personal ornament.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000007_000002.wav|In popular discussion, however, the word frequently implies great wealth in a single hand, though this wealth may be invested in a large number of small industries.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000052_000000.wav|one.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000054_000002.wav|The cost of management, amount of stock carried, advertising, cost of selling the product, may all be smaller per unit of product.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000004.wav|Since that time two counter forces have been at work to affect the ratio of manufacturing establishments to population.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000054_000005.wav|It can have a clearing house for orders and ship from the nearest source of supply. The least efficient factories can be first closed when demand falls off. Factories can be specialized to produce that for which each is best fitted.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000017_000002.wav|In cotton mills, in eighteen seventy, the average was one hundred and eighty four; in eighteen ninety, two hundred and forty four; in nineteen hundred, two hundred and eighty seven.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000002_000000.wav|GROWTH OF TRUSTS AND COMBINATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000047_000000.wav|four.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000052_000005.wav|The word trust is popularly used of any large industry, though usually there is connected with it the idea of some evil power to raise prices to the consumers.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000026_000001.wav|In eighteen ninety three, the number was less, but the total nominal capital (preferred and common stocks and bonds) was still the greatest it had ever been in any year.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000017_000000.wav|But while the number of establishments in these staple industries was decreasing, the number of employees per establishment in most cases was increasing.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000017_000001.wav|The average in all industries, in eighteen seventy, was eight; in eighteen ninety, twelve; in nineteen hundred, ten and four tenths.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000006.wav|In this stage there is not enough manufacturing power in the community to supply much more than its own needs.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000043_000003.wav|In a rifle factory with a daily output of fifty, eight men are needed for the same product that can be supplied by three men in a factory with an output of one thousand daily.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000006.wav|The number of establishments has been diminished as the staple products that can be transported have come to be made in larger factories.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000021_000001.wav|Consolidation took place on a great scale in railroads and in manufactures.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000008.wav|These differences are broadly stated; there are contrasts within every nation.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000056_000001.wav|A railroad line across the continent owns its own steamers for shipping goods to Asia or Europe.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000019_000000.wav|four.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000003.wav|A family specialized in producing cloth and exchanged with its neighbors; so with shoes, candles, soap, canned goods, cured meats, etc|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000041_000002.wav|The machinery in a large factory is thus more fully utilized.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000054_000004.wav|By regulating and equalizing the output in the different localities, it can run more nearly full time. Being acquainted with the entire situation, it can reduce the friction. A strong combination has advantages in shipment.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000043_000002.wav|In making plows, nine men working separately will average sixty six plows each per year, while one hundred and eighty men working together will average one hundred and ten each per year, the output per man being increased sixty six and two thirds per cent.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000047_000002.wav|When each man is working on the smallest possible subdivision of the product, doubling the number of employees will not increase his skill.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000058_000002.wav|But as this excessive competition usually is for the very purpose of forcing the combination, this explanation is a begging of the question.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000007_000005.wav|Large factories may or may not have monopoly power; as factories grow in size, competition among them often becomes more, not less, complete and severe.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000045_000004.wav|Combination effects a great saving in the number of commercial travelers, a result partly due to the decrease in competition, but partly also to better organization. Each of twenty different factories must send its drummers into every part of the country to seek business.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000008.wav|In eighteen seventy there were two hundred and fifty two thousand establishments; in eighteen ninety, three hundred and fifty five thousand, and in nineteen hundred, five hundred and twelve thousand, a ratio to population of one to one hundred and sixty two, one hundred and seventy seven, and one hundred and forty four respectively.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000038_000000.wav|six.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000019_000002.wav|We are told that in cotton mills, in eighteen thirty, the average capital invested was fifty thousand dollars; in eighteen ninety, nearly four hundred thousand dollars; in nineteen hundred, four hundred and forty thousand dollars.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000005.wav|The number of establishments has been increased by specialization of farming which has called for many industries to produce the things once made on farms, and by increasing wealth and invention, which has made possible many small industries supplying things before almost unknown.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000007.wav|About two hundred million people in the United States and western Europe have reached the third and highest industrial plane, where the highest mechanical devices are employed and industry becomes highly specialized.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000033_000000.wav|one.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000021_000002.wav|Much of this has been of such a kind that it does not appear at all in the figures showing the number of establishments and of employees.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000009.wav|Three hundred miles from here, in the Alleghanies, people still can be found spinning and weaving and wearing homespun as in colonial days.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000010.wav|In a trip of twenty miles in Tyrol or Switzerland one can observe every one of these industrial stages.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000050_000001.wav|three. CAUSES OF INDUSTRIAL COMBINATIONS|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000016_000001.wav|The population meantime doubled.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000047_000005.wav|The point is reached in the growth of establishments where oversight cannot be as perfect and complete; the eye of the master cannot be over all.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000004.wav|About two hundred million people live in the stage of simple machines and small factories.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000026_000003.wav|Then followed the period of the greatest formation of trust companies the world has ever seen, which extended from eighteen ninety eight to nineteen o one, and ended in nineteen o two.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000009.wav|The last date was one of great industrial prosperity, and doubtless many ephemeral enterprises had been called into existence, thus giving a somewhat abnormal result.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000000.wav|three.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000045_000005.wav|In combination they can divide the territory, visit every merchant and get larger orders at smaller cost. Supplies can be purchased more cheaply in large amounts, and shipments in car load and train load lots make possible special (sometimes illegal) concessions from railroads and from carriers on waterways.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000007_000000.wav|one.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000019_000003.wav|It is easy to observe the large increase in investment of capital in flouring mills since the new processes came into use.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000045_000003.wav|The advertising of certain kinds of goods involves a large and inevitable outlay, which is relatively less for a larger business, as the greater the output the smaller the burden on each unit of the product.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000035_000000.wav|three.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000010.wav|Moreover, there has been a large increase in the number of things made in factories which were formerly made in the homes, and which then did not appear at all in the census of manufactures.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000049_000001.wav|While there is a truth in this thought not to be overlooked, the effects must now be recognized to be more distant than was supposed.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000007_000004.wav|The capital may be the same as before, the ownership may or may not be widely diffused, but the control and management are unified.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000005.wav|These are found in eastern and southern Europe, small portions of South America, some parts even of the United States.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000021_000003.wav|Many discrepancies appear in the data regarding this movement given by different authorities, as there is no generally accepted rule by which to determine the selection of the companies to be included in the lists, and as the conditions are changing from day to day.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000054_000003.wav|A large aggregation can control credit better and escape loss from bad debts.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000016_000005.wav|There were twenty four thousand grist mills in eighteen eighty, eighteen thousand in eighteen ninety, and twenty five thousand in nineteen hundred, a change of ratio from two thousand one hundred to three thousand population per grist mill.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000058_000000.wav|three.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000047_000003.wav|When the finest machinery can be kept constantly in use, economy in its use has reached the maximum. As large factories tend to create cities around them, land rises in value and higher wages must be paid the workmen.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000011.wav|The most striking development, if not the typical form, in America to day is large or concentrated industry.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000016_000006.wav|There were twenty six thousand sawmills in eighteen eighty, twenty two thousand in eighteen ninety, and thirty three thousand in nineteen hundred, a change from about one thousand nine hundred and twenty to two thousand two hundred and seventy persons per sawmill.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000036_000000.wav|four.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000011_000002.wav|One billion people use only tools, and have no better source and means of power than domestic animals.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000054_000006.wav|The magnitude of the industry and its presence in different localities strengthens its influence with the railroads.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000045_000002.wav|The necessary inspection of the results is more rapid and easy.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000049_000000.wav|It is evident that most of these reasons apply to a single local factory with far greater force than to a federation of locally scattered plants. It was once believed that the growing disadvantages of large industry would set an early limit to consolidation.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000016_000002.wav|This movement has been going on for seventy years, there being about the same number of mills in nineteen hundred as in eighteen thirty, though population had multiplied six fold.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000052_000002.wav|The old legal idea of a trust is the confidence imposed in a trustee.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty four|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000007_000003.wav|Large production is the concentration of capital into large units of industry.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000007.wav|The resultant of these movements during the thirty years ending in nineteen hundred is somewhat surprising: the ratio of factories (with an output worth five hundred dollars) to population has somewhat increased.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000045_000000.wav|three.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000058_000003.wav|It is fallacious also in that it ignores the marginal principle in the problem of profits.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000023_000000.wav|The number organized and the capital represented by this movement in the last of these decades are eight times as great as in the thirty years preceding.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000017_000003.wav|The grist mills, in eighteen eighty, had two and four tenths persons per establishment; in eighteen ninety, three and four tenths.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7520/258986/7520_258986_000014_000002.wav|The early factories growing out of the household industry were small.|7520
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000065_000000.wav|"What you tell me," said the young man, "passes wonder.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000080_000000.wav|"Then give it to me; I command you to give it to me."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000103_000000.wav|The young man opened the door of adamant and entered the first of the vaulted rooms.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000041_000000.wav|He saw before him a garden of such splendor and magnificence as he had never dreamed of even in his wildest fancy.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000055_000002.wav|"What," he cried, "art thou not contented with all thou hast and with all that we do for thee without asking the forbidden question?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000088_000002.wav|"And to think," said he, "if I had listened to that accursed Talisman of Solomon, called The Wise,' all this happiness, this ecstasy that is now mine, would have been lost to me."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000051_000001.wav|"What is the matter with you?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000027_000002.wav|He had to lean against the wall behind him, for the sight made him dizzy.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000072_000000.wav|Following the Demon, the young man ascended a flight of steps, and so entered the vestibule of the palace.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000064_000004.wav|And now thou knowest all!"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000028_000001.wav|Around the wall, and facing the basin from all sides, stood six golden statues.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000042_000000.wav|But of all these things the young man thought nothing and saw nothing; for at the end of the marble avenue there arose a palace, the like of which was not in the four quarters of the earth-a palace of marble and gold and carmine and ultramarine-rising into the purple starry sky, and shining in the moonlight like a vision of Paradise.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000074_000001.wav|"Zadok!" he cried-"Zadok!|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000022_000000.wav|There was a key of brass in the door.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000117_000000.wav|The young man struck his head with his clinched fist.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000005_000001.wav|The floor swayed and rocked beneath the young man's feet.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000064_000000.wav|"I will tell thee," said Zadok.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000117_000001.wav|"What a fool am I!" he cried.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000096_000002.wav|Six times you would have deprived me of joys that should have been mine, and each was greater than that which went before.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000020_000000.wav|"Thou shalt enter," said Zadok.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000115_000002.wav|"Tell me, O Talisman," said he, "how shall I open yonder door?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000048_000001.wav|"What means all this sorrow?" said he to one of the slaves.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000010_000000.wav|"I bring the treasure," said Zadok, "from the treasure house of the ancient kings of Egypt.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000056_000000.wav|Thereupon he tore his cap from his head and flung it upon the ground, and began beating himself violently upon the head with great outcrying.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000118_000000.wav|"Open the door!" cried the queen.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000127_000000.wav|"That," said the Lad who fiddled when the Jew was in the bramble bush, "may be as you please, Sir Knight; and, to tell the truth, I will be mightily glad for a drop to moisten my throat withal."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000057_000002.wav|"Nevertheless, if I do not find out what it all means, I shall go mad myself."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000046_000004.wav|When men would praise any one they would say, "He is as rich," or as "magnificent," or as "generous, as Aben Hassen the Fool."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000122_000000.wav|The young man heard the Demon Zadok give a yell of laughter.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000043_000000.wav|When the crowd that stood waiting saw the young man appear, they shouted: "Welcome!|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000107_000000.wav|"Are you content?" asked the young man.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000039_000000.wav|They ascended the steps, and so reached the garden above.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000072_000006.wav|But each sat silent and motionless-each was a stone as white as alabaster.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000020_000003.wav|Zadok led the way down the steps and the young man followed.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000053_000000.wav|Instantly the beautiful slave dropped the golden basin upon the stone floor, and began shrieking and tearing her clothes.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000043_000002.wav|To the master who has come again!|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000120_000002.wav|The young man stood as though turned to stone, for there stood a gigantic Black Demon with a napkin wrapped around his loins and a scimitar in his right hand, the blade of which gleamed like lightning in the flame of the lamp.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000026_000004.wav|"This," said he, "is great, but it is little.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000075_000000.wav|"She was really alive as thou art alive, and he did truly transform her to this stone," said Zadok.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000083_000006.wav|It grew louder and louder-it became a shout.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000047_000003.wav|All the city was shrouded in gloom, and everywhere was weeping and crying.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000049_000000.wav|Instantly all the slaves began howling and beating their heads, and he to whom the young man had spoken fell down with his face in the dust, and lay there twisting and writhing like a worm.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000074_000006.wav|O Zadok!|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000063_000001.wav|Why are the people all gone mad this morning, and why do they weep and wail, and why do they go crazy when I do but ask them why they are so afflicted?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000083_000003.wav|In an instant there came a marvellous change. He saw the stone melt, and begin to grow flexible and soft.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000083_000000.wav|Zadok laughed and vanished.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000007_000000.wav|He removed the cloths from the young man's back, and rubbed the places that smarted with a cooling unguent.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000069_000000.wav|He seized the young man by the girdle, and in an instant flew away with him to a hanging garden that lay before the queen's palace.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000011_000000.wav|"And where is this treasure house, O Zadok?" said the young man.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000058_000000.wav|Then he bethought himself, for the first time since he came to that land, of the Talisman of Solomon.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000078_000000.wav|"Tell me, Zadok," cried the young man; "I command you to tell me, where is that wand of silver and gold?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000024_000000.wav|The young man could not believe what he saw with his own eyes.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000037_000000.wav|He led the way and the young man followed; they passed through the vaulted rooms and out through the door of adamant, and Zadok locked it behind them and gave the key to the young man.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000066_000000.wav|"Nothing is easier," said Zadok.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000116_000002.wav|Do not push the door open, for it is not locked!"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000017_000001.wav|In an instant the walls of the prison split asunder, and the sky was above them.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000000_000000.wav|It was done as the king said, and by and by Aben Hassen the Fool lay in the prison, smarting and sore with the whipping he had had.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000099_000000.wav|Zadok laughed aloud.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000086_000000.wav|The queen smiled-her teeth sparkled like pearls.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000108_000000.wav|The queen looked about her.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000102_000001.wav|He struck his heel upon the circle.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000060_000001.wav|Be thou also further advised: do not question the Demon Zadok."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000041_000004.wav|Each held a flaming torch of sandal wood.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000073_000000.wav|Upon the couch in the centre of the apartment reclined a queen with a crown of gold upon her head.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000063_000000.wav|"Tell me," said the young man; "I command thee to tell me, O Zadok!|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000044_000003.wav|And to think that if I had listened to the Talisman of Solomon I would have had none of it."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000128_000000.wav|"But," said Fortunatus, "you have not told us what the story is to be about."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000120_000001.wav|A flaming lamp hung from the ceiling above.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000093_000000.wav|"Then, as you love me, I beg one boon on you.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000096_000004.wav|Now," said he to the queen, "I will show you our treasure." He called aloud, "Zadok, Zadok, Zadok!"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000101_000000.wav|"Thou art where thou commandest to be," said the Demon.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000041_000005.wav|Behind the slaves stood a double row of armed men, and behind them a great crowd of other slaves and attendants, dressed each as magnificently as a prince, blazing and flaming with innumerable jewels and ornaments of gold.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000074_000007.wav|That she were flesh and blood, instead of cold stone!|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000068_000000.wav|"I hear and obey," said the Demon.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000091_000000.wav|"And do you really love me as you say?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000096_000000.wav|"Be silent," said the young man.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000130_000000.wav|Ill Luck and the Fiddler|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000087_000000.wav|He grew suddenly dizzy; the world swam before his eyes.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000055_000000.wav|Instantly they who stood waiting began crying and tearing their clothes and beating their hands.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000052_000001.wav|"Tell me," said the young man, "what means all this sorrow and lamentation?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000098_000000.wav|"I command you," said the young man, "to carry the queen and myself to the garden where my treasure lies hidden."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000021_000001.wav|Fool!|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000061_000002.wav|Zadok! Zadok!"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000124_000003.wav|Is there not some one here to tell us a fair story about a saint?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000027_000000.wav|He took the young man by the hand and led him into a third room-vaulted as the other two had been, lit as they had been by a carbuncle in the roof above.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000088_000001.wav|The young man lived in a golden cloud of delight.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000044_000001.wav|He was dizzy with joy.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000059_000000.wav|"Tell me, O Talisman," said he, "why all these people weep and wail so continuously?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000085_000000.wav|Aben Hassen the Fool fell upon his knees.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000102_000003.wav|The young man descended the steps with the queen behind him, and behind them both came the Demon Zadok.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000007_000001.wav|Instantly the pain and smarting ceased, and the merchant's son had perfect ease.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000073_000002.wav|She was cold and dead-of stone as white as marble.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000004_000001.wav|"What a fool I am," said he, "not to have thought to call upon Zadok before this!" Then he called aloud, "Zadok, Zadok!|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000046_000002.wav|He made friends with the princes and nobles of the land.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000017_000002.wav|The Demon leaped from the earth, carrying the young man by the girdle, and flew through the air so swiftly that the stars appeared to slide away behind them.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000115_000000.wav|They had both forgotten that the Demon Zadok was there.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000020_000004.wav|At the bottom of the steps there was a door of adamant.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000057_000001.wav|"I think everybody in this place has gone mad," said he.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000077_000001.wav|"Listen, O master.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000110_000000.wav|"No!" cried she.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000025_000001.wav|"This," said he, "is nothing; come with me."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000012_000001.wav|It was I that brought him thence to this place with one vessel of gold money and one vessel of silver money."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000013_000001.wav|Then, tell me, can you take me from here to the city of the queen of the Black Isles, whence you brought him?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000008_000000.wav|"Now," said Zadok, "what is thy bidding?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000083_000004.wav|He saw it become warm, and the cheeks and lips grow red with life.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000042_000001.wav|The palace was illuminated from top to bottom and from end to end; the windows shone like crystal, and from it came sounds of music and rejoicing.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000014_000000.wav|"Yes," said Zadok, "with ease."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000064_000003.wav|No one since that time has been permitted to enter the palace-it is forbidden for any one even to ask a question concerning it; but every year, on the day on which the queen was turned to stone, the whole land mourns with weeping and wailing.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000113_000000.wav|"I cannot open the door," said he.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000026_000002.wav|When the young man saw this vast and amazing wealth he stood speechless and breathless with wonder.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000117_000003.wav|Here have I been coming to this place seven months, and have never yet thought to try whether yonder door was locked or not!"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000126_000003.wav|Wilt thou not let me pay for having it filled?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000022_000002.wav|The young man entered after him.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000081_000001.wav|He drew from his girdle a wand, half of gold and half of silver, as he spoke, and gave it to the young man.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000038_000001.wav|I have shown thee how to enter, and thou mayst go in whenever it pleases thee to do so."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000094_000000.wav|The young man was drunk with happiness.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000054_000000.wav|The young man began to grow frightened; he arose from his couch, and with uneven steps went out into the anteroom.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000031_000000.wav|"Tell me, Zadok," said the young man, after he had filled his soul with all the other wonders that surrounded him-"tell me what is there that lies beyond that door?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000047_000001.wav|Where the day before had been laughter, to day was crying.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000050_000000.wav|"He has asked the question!" howled the slaves-"he has asked the question!"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000033_000000.wav|"Then open the door for me," said the young man; "for I cannot open it for myself, as there is neither lock nor key to it."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000047_000000.wav|So for seven months he lived a life of joy and delight; then one morning he awakened and found everything changed to grief and mourning.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000076_000000.wav|"And tell me," said the young man, "can she never become alive again?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000017_000000.wav|He stamped his foot upon the ground.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000043_000001.wav|Welcome!|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000061_000001.wav|Then he called aloud, Zadok!|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000105_000000.wav|They went into the next room, and when the queen saw the basin of gold her face turned as white as ashes.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000094_000001.wav|"Thou shalt see it all," said he.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000018_000001.wav|It was here that I saw thy father seal it so that no one but the master of Zadok may enter.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000029_000001.wav|The door was tightly shut, and there was neither lock nor key to it.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000096_000001.wav|"Six times, vile thing, you would have betrayed me.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000045_000000.wav|That was the way he came back to the treasure of the ancient kings of Egypt, and to the palace of enchantment that his father had quitted.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000026_000003.wav|The Demon Zadok laughed.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000003_000003.wav|Only do not call upon Zadok, the King of the Demons, in this thy trouble."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000036_000000.wav|The Demon laughed.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000115_000001.wav|Then the young man bethought himself of the Talisman of Solomon.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000035_000000.wav|"I wish that I knew what was there," said the young man.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000018_000000.wav|"We are now," said Zadok, "above the treasure house of which I spoke.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000095_000000.wav|Then, for the first time, the Talisman spoke without being questioned. "Fool!" it cried; "wilt thou not be advised?"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000016_000000.wav|"I obey," said Zadok.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000030_000001.wav|Beyond this door is that alone which shall satisfy all thy desires."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000121_000003.wav|Strike, O slave!"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000017_000003.wav|In a moment he set the young man again upon the ground, and Aben Hassen the Fool found himself at the end of what appeared to be a vast and splendid garden.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000041_000001.wav|There were seven fountains as clear as crystal that shot high into the air and fell back into basins of alabaster.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000082_000000.wav|"Thou mayst go now, Zadok," said the young man, trembling with eagerness.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000006_000000.wav|"I have come," said Zadok, "and first let me cure thy smarts, O master."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000034_000000.wav|"That also I am forbidden to do," said Zadok.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000071_000000.wav|He led the way, and the young man followed, filled with wonder and astonishment.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000053_000001.wav|"He has asked the question!" she screamed-"he has asked the question!"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000074_000000.wav|He sighed; he melted; the tears burst from his eyes and ran down his cheeks.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000072_000002.wav|But they were without life-they were all of stone as white as alabaster.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000051_000000.wav|"Are you mad?" cried the young man.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000116_000000.wav|"Oh, wretched one!" cried the Talisman, "oh, wretched one!|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000085_000002.wav|"My father turned you to cold stone, and I-I have brought you back to warm life again."|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000119_000000.wav|They went forward together.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000083_000001.wav|The young man stood for a while looking down at the beautiful figure of alabaster.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000044_000002.wav|"All-all this," he exulted, "belongs to me.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000004_000000.wav|The young man smote his hand upon his head.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000072_000001.wav|There stood guards in armor of brass and silver and gold.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000040_000000.wav|Thereupon he vanished like a flash, leaving the young man standing like one in a dream.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000021_000003.wav|Within here shalt thou find death!"|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000084_000000.wav|"Who are you?" it said.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000119_000001.wav|The young man pushed the door with his hand. It opened swiftly and silently, and they entered.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000026_000000.wav|He led him from this room to another-like it vaulted, and like it lit by a carbuncle set in the dome of the roof above.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000046_000001.wav|Nor had he any fear of an end coming to it, for he knew that his treasure was inexhaustible.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5975/54006/5975_54006_000077_000002.wav|Thy father possessed a wand, half of silver and half of gold.|5975
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000017_000001.wav|There were several carriages along the roads on whose occupants his glance was cast; that of Lady Aoi, however, was the most striking, and as he passed by the attendants saluted him courteously, which act Genji acknowledged.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000052_000000.wav|"How much the soul departed, still May love to linger round this couch, My own heart tells me, even I Reluctant am to leave it now."|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000011_000003.wav|Genji was also directed by special order to take part in the ceremony.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000056_000004.wav|All were habited in new winter apparel, and looked fresh and blooming.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000004.wav|"Even in ordinary matters," she thought, "it is too common a practice, to say nothing of the good done by people, but to exaggerate the bad; and so, in such cases, if it should be rumored that mine was that living spirit which tormented Lady Aoi, how trying it would be to me!|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000024_000001.wav|At the same time, the jealous spirit still vexed her, and now more vigorous exorcising was employed.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000036_000001.wav|In due course the corpse was taken to the cemetery of Toribeno.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000002.wav|She had sometimes dreams, after weary thinking, between slumber and waking, in which she seemed to fly to some beautiful girl, apparently Lady Aoi, and to engage in bitter contention and struggle with her.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000033_000001.wav|Sadaijin also went to Court, as well as his sons, who had some expectation of promotion, and there were few people left in the mansion.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000025_000001.wav|The curtain was dropped, and the mother of the lady left the room, as she thought her daughter might prefer to speak to him in private.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000047_000000.wav|Genji still felt lonely.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000066_000001.wav|This inclination was perceived by her relations.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000061_000001.wav|The inmates of the house, who did not know what was the reason, were anxious about her, thinking she was indisposed.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000060_000000.wav|At this time he confined himself more than usual to his own house, and for companionship he was constantly with Violet, who was now approaching womanhood.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000043_000000.wav|This was soon responded to by Genji:--|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000019_000000.wav|He felt for the wounded lady, and hastened to see her; but she, under some pretext, refused to see him.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000001.wav|She thought that she never wished any evil to her; but, when she reflected, there were several times when she began to think that a wounded spirit, such as her own, might have some influence of the kind.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000055_000000.wav|As Sadaijin was turning over these papers a withered flower, which seems to have marked some particular occasion, dropped from amongst them.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000051_000002.wav|Among these papers he saw one on which the words "Old pillows and old quilts" were written, and close to these the following:--|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000031_000000.wav|To return to the Lady of Rokjio.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000035_000000.wav|These sad tidings soon reached the Court, and created great distress and confusion: even the arrangements for appointments and promotion were disturbed.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000035_000002.wav|Messengers of inquiry came one after another to the mansion, so numerous that it was almost impossible to return them all answers. We need not add how greatly affected were all her relations.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000064_000000.wav|He called Koremitz before him and said, "To day is not a very opportune day; I would rather have them to morrow evening.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000029_000001.wav|"You speak thus," said Genji, as if he was addressing the spirit, "but you do not tell me who you are.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000066_000002.wav|It seems that her father was not quite averse to this liking, and he told his eldest daughter, the reigning Emperor's mother, that Genji was recently bereaved of his good consort, and that he should not feel discontented if his daughter were to take the place of Lady Aoi; but this the royal mother did not approve.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000056_000001.wav|He went to the ex Emperor, to whom he still seemed thin and careworn.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000027_000002.wav|I never thought of coming here in such a way; but it seems the spirit of one whose thoughts are much disconcerted wanders away unknown even to itself.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000026_000001.wav|Everything will come right.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000057_000002.wav|She was apparently shy, which only increased her beauty.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000013_000001.wav|Her attendants, however, suggested to her that she ought to go.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000061_000004.wav|Perhaps you would like to play at Go again, like last night, for a change;" but she was more than ever shy.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000047_000003.wav|He admired her, too.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000027_000001.wav|I feel extremely disturbed.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000032_000000.wav|Some days passed, and the day of autumn appointments arrived.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000018_000000.wav|In due course the procession passed, and the exciting scene of the day was over.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000035_000001.wav|As it happened late in the evening there was no time to send for the head of the monastery, or any other distinguished priest.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000013_000002.wav|"It is a great pity," they said, "not to see it; people come from a long distance to see it." Her mother also said, "You seem better to day.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000058_000000.wav|He approached, and after having a little conversation, said, "I have many things to say to you, but now I must have a little rest," and returned to his own quarters.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000034_000000.wav|It was in the evening of that day that Lady Aoi was suddenly attacked by a spasm, and before the news of this could be carried to the Court, she died.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000061_000003.wav|He entered the little room, saying, "Are you not quite well?|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000047_000005.wav|In his letter he stated that she might have a little sympathy with him in his sorrow, and he also sent with it the following:--|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000021_000003.wav|Some imagined this to be the effect of fearful jealousy of some one who was intimately known to Genji and who had most influence over him; but the spirit gave no information to this effect.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000006_000000.wav|The Emperor has at last abdicated his throne, as he has long intended, in favor of the Heir apparent, and the only child of the Princess Wistaria is made Heir apparent to the new Emperor.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000014_000000.wav|Being pressed in this way, she hastily made up her mind, and went with a train of carriages.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000029_000003.wav|On this, Genji was still more perplexed and anxious, and put a stop to the colloquy.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000005_000000.wav|HOLLYHOCK|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000008_000000.wav|This change in the reigning Emperor, and the gradual advancement of Genji's position, gave the latter greater responsibility, and he had to restrain his wandering.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000049_000000.wav|There was, indeed, nothing serious between Genji and this princess; yet, as far as correspondence was concerned, they now and then exchanged letters, so she did not object to receiving this communication.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000013_000003.wav|I think you had better go. Take these girls with you."|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000061_000002.wav|About noon Genji came.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000036_000002.wav|Numerous mourners and priests of different churches crowded to the spot, while representatives of the ex Emperor, Princess Wistaria, and the Heir apparent also were present.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000030_000001.wav|They came in all haste, wiping off the perspiration from their faces as they journeyed; and, from the Emperor and Royal princes down to the ordinary nobles, all took an interest in the ceremony of Ub yashinai (first feeding), and the more so as the child was a boy.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000003.wav|She became even terrified at these dreams; but yet they took place very often.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000024_000002.wav|She became much affected by it, and cried out, "Please release me a little; I have something to tell the Prince."|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000026_000000.wav|He tried to soothe her, and said, "Pray don't trouble yourself too much about matters.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000026_000002.wav|Your illness, I think, will soon pass away.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000039_000002.wav|Genji was leaning out of a window, his cheek resting on his hand; and, looking out upon the half fading shrubberies, was humming-|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000029_000004.wav|Presently she became very calm, and people thought that she was a little relieved.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000007_000001.wav|The ex Emperor still felt some anxiety about the Heir apparent, and appointed Genji as his guardian, as he had not yet a suitable person for that office.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000036_000003.wav|The ceremony of burial was performed with all solemnity and pathos.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000005.wav|It is no rare occurrence that one's disembodied spirit, after death, should wander about; but even that is not a very agreeable idea.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000056_000002.wav|He had some affectionate conversation with him, remained till evening, and then proceeded to his mansion at Nijio.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000007_000000.wav|The ex Emperor now lived in a private palace with this Princess in a less royal style; and the Niogo of Kokiden, to whom was given the honorary title of ex Empress, resided in the Imperial Palace with the Emperor, her son, and took up a conspicuous position.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000018_000001.wav|The quarrels about the carriage naturally came to the ears of Genji.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000050_000003.wav|The room was the same as before, and everything was unchanged; but his only daughter, the pride of his old days, was no more, and his son in law had gone too.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000025_000003.wav|The lady was lying on her couch, dressed in a pure white garment, with her long tresses unfastened.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000036_000000.wav|As the death took place from a malign spiritual influence, she was left untouched during two or three days, in the hope that she might revive; but no change took place, and now all hope was abandoned.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000011_000001.wav|She was the favorite child of her mother as well as of her father, and the ceremonies for the day of consecration were arranged with especial splendor.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000044_000000.wav|"That cloudy shrine we view on high, Where my lost love may dwell unseen, Looks gloomy now to this sad eye That looks with tears on what has been."|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000037_000000.wav|Thus the modest and virtuous Lady Aoi passed away forever.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000027_000000.wav|"Ah! no I only come here to solicit you to give me a little rest.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000012_000000.wav|As the occasion was expected to be magnificent, every class of the people showed great eagerness to witness the scene, and a great number of stands were erected all along the road.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000039_000000.wav|It was on one of these occasions that a soft shower of rain was falling.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000016_000000.wav|The lady so maltreated was of course extremely indignant, and she would fain have gone home without seeing the spectacle, but there was no passage for retiring.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000016_000001.wav|Meanwhile the approach of the procession was announced, and only this calmed her a little.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000056_000000.wav|Return we now to Genji.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000022_000006.wav|How much more, then, must it be disagreeable to have the repute that one's living spirit was inflicting pain upon another!"|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000062_000000.wav|"Why are you so shy?" he exclaimed; "be a little more cheerful-people may think it strange," said he, and stayed with her a long time trying to soothe her; but to no effect-she still continued silent and shy.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000024_000000.wav|In due course, the confinement of Lady Aoi approached.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000023_000000.wav|These thoughts still preyed upon her mind, and made her listless and depressed.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000066_000000.wav|Let us here notice that the young daughter of Udaijin, after she saw Genji, was longing to see him again.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000012_000001.wav|The day thus looked forward to at last arrived.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000049_000001.wav|She felt for him much, and an answer was returned, in which she expressed her sympathy at his bereavement.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000025_000004.wav|He approached her, and taking her hand, said: "What sad affliction you cause us!" She then lifted her heavy eyelids, and gazed on Genji for some minutes.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000047_000001.wav|He wrote a letter to the Princess Momo zono (peach gardens).|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000065_000000.wav|Up to this time nothing about Violet had been publicly known, and Genji thought it was time to inform her father about his daughter; but he considered he had better have the ceremony of Mogi first performed, and ordered preparations to be made with that object.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000026_000003.wav|Even supposing you quit this present world, there is another where we shall meet, and where I shall see you once more cheerful, and there will be a time when your mother and father will also join you."|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000011_000002.wav|The number of persons who take a share in the procession on this occasion is defined by regulations; yet the selection of this number was most carefully made from the most fashionable of the nobles of the time, and their dresses and saddles were all chosen of beautiful appearance.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/3961/8080_3961_000050_000000.wav|Now, in the mansion of Sadaijin every performance of requiem was celebrated.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000006_000001.wav|On the list were several of my acquaintances, and among other names, I was rejoiced to see that of mr Cornelius Wyatt, a young artist, for whom I entertained feelings of warm friendship.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000048_000000.wav|About a month after the loss of the "Independence," I happened to meet Captain Hardy in Broadway.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000045_000000.wav|"The salt!" I ejaculated.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000028_000003.wav|Scarcely had we recovered our senses, before the foretopsail went into shreds, when we got up a storm stay-sail and with this did pretty well for some hours, the ship heading the sea much more steadily than before.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000051_000001.wav|But of late, it is a rare thing that I sleep soundly at night.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000032_000001.wav|This party made off immediately, and, after undergoing much suffering, finally arrived, in safety, at Ocracoke Inlet, on the third day after the wreck.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000000.wav|One day he came upon deck, and, taking his arm as had been my wont, I sauntered with him backward and forward.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000026_000006.wav|There was nothing in this, however, to make him sob. I repeat, therefore, that it must have been simply a freak of my own fancy, distempered by good Captain Hardy's green tea.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000049_000001.wav|His wife was, indeed, as she had been represented, a most lovely, and most accomplished woman.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000011_000000.wav|I did not receive the expected message from the captain for nearly a week.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000001.wav|His gloom, however (which I considered quite natural under the circumstances), seemed entirely unabated.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000008_000000.wav|Wyatt's two sisters I knew very well, and most amiable and clever girls they were.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000011_000004.wav|There were the two sisters, the bride, and the artist-the latter in one of his customary fits of moody misanthropy.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000009_000001.wav|"mrs w was a little indisposed, and would decline coming on board until to morrow, at the hour of sailing."|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000017_000000.wav|Now, I was aware that mrs Adelaide Curtis, of Albany, was the artist's wife's mother,--but then I looked upon the whole address as a mystification, intended especially for myself.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000013_000002.wav|She was dressed, however, in exquisite taste-and then I had no doubt that she had captivated my friend's heart by the more enduring graces of the intellect and soul.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000047_000001.wav|We landed, in fine, more dead than alive, after four days of intense distress, upon the beach opposite Roanoke Island.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000047_000002.wav|We remained here a week, were not ill treated by the wreckers, and at length obtained a passage to New York.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000009_000000.wav|On the day in which I visited the ship (the fourteenth), Wyatt and party were also to visit it-so the captain informed me-and I waited on board an hour longer than I had designed, in hope of being presented to the bride, but then an apology came.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000003.wav|I ventured a jest or two, and he made a sickening attempt at a smile.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000011_000001.wav|It came at length, however, and I immediately went on board.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000048_000001.wav|Our conversation turned, naturally, upon the disaster, and especially upon the sad fate of poor Wyatt.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000006.wav|Wealth was the general solution-but this I knew to be no solution at all; for Wyatt had told me that she neither brought him a dollar nor had any expectations from any source whatever.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000014_000001.wav|There was no servant-that was a settled point.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000023_000003.wav|The next morning he was quite recovered, so far as regarded his mere bodily health.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000016_000003.wav|On the lid were painted the words-"mrs|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000003.wav|Wyatt's three rooms were in the after cabin, which was separated from the main one by a slight sliding door, never locked even at night.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000007.wav|"He had married," he said, "for love, and for love only; and his bride was far more than worthy of his love." When I thought of these expressions, on the part of my friend, I confess that I felt indescribably puzzled.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000006_000000.wav|I found that we were to have a great many passengers, including a more than usual number of ladies.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000008.wav|Could it be possible that he was taking leave of his senses?|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000026_000001.wav|After this there was a dead stillness, and I heard nothing more, upon either occasion, until nearly daybreak; unless, perhaps, I may mention a low sobbing, or murmuring sound, so very much suppressed as to be nearly inaudible-if, indeed, the whole of this latter noise were not rather produced by my own imagination.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000002.wav|I must except, however, Wyatt and his sisters, who behaved stiffly, and, I could not help thinking, uncourteously to the rest of the party.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000051_000002.wav|There is a countenance which haunts me, turn as I will.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000042_000001.wav|At length we pulled away.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000004.wav|As we were almost constantly on a wind, and the breeze was not a little stiff, the ship heeled to leeward very considerably; and whenever her starboard side was to leeward, the sliding door between the cabins slid open, and so remained, nobody taking the trouble to get up and shut it.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000015_000007.wav|I resolved to quiz him well, now and hereafter.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000011_000006.wav|He did not even introduce me to his wife-this courtesy devolving, per force, upon his sister Marian-a very sweet and intelligent girl, who, in a few hurried words, made us acquainted.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000025_000001.wav|They were sounds occasioned by the artist in prying open the oblong box, by means of a chisel and mallet-the latter being apparently muffled, or deadened, by some soft woollen or cotton substance in which its head was enveloped.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000033_000001.wav|We lowered it without difficulty, although it was only by a miracle that we prevented it from swamping as it touched the water.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000005_000001.wav|We were to sail on the fifteenth of the month (June), weather permitting; and on the fourteenth, I went on board to arrange some matters in my state room.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000006.wav|They secluded themselves in their staterooms during the greater part of the passage, and absolutely refused, although I repeatedly urged them, to hold communication with any person on board.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000029_000000.wav|The gale still held on, however, and we saw no signs of its abating. The rigging was found to be ill fitted, and greatly strained; and on the third day of the blow, about five in the afternoon, our mizzen mast, in a heavy lurch to windward, went by the board.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000042_000000.wav|We lingered awhile sadly upon our oars, with our eyes riveted upon the spot.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000049_000000.wav|The artist had engaged passage for himself, wife, two sisters and a servant.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000023_000000.wav|I called assistance, and, with much difficulty, we brought him to himself.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000013_000000.wav|The truth is, I could not help regarding mrs Wyatt as a decidedly plain looking woman.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000015_000000.wav|The box in question was, as I say, oblong.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000016_000000.wav|One thing, however, annoyed me not a little.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000029_000001.wav|For an hour or more, we tried in vain to get rid of it, on account of the prodigious rolling of the ship; and, before we had succeeded, the carpenter came aft and announced four feet of water in the hold.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000000.wav|mrs Wyatt herself was far more agreeable.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000016_000001.wav|The box did not go into the extra state room.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000015_000004.wav|This point, therefore, I considered as sufficiently settled.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000006.wav|Well, during two nights (not consecutive) while I lay awake, I clearly saw mrs w, about eleven o'clock upon each night, steal cautiously from the state room of mr w, and enter the extra room, where she remained until daybreak, when she was called by her husband and went back.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000007_000004.wav|It was no business of mine, to be sure, but with none the less pertinacity did I occupy myself in attempts to resolve the enigma.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000016_000002.wav|It was deposited in Wyatt's own; and there, too, it remained, occupying very nearly the whole of the floor-no doubt to the exceeding discomfort of the artist and his wife;--this the more especially as the tar or paint with which it was lettered in sprawling capitals, emitted a strong, disagreeable, and, to my fancy, a peculiarly disgusting odor.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000036_000000.wav|"The box!" vociferated mr Wyatt, still standing-"the box, I say! Captain Hardy, you cannot, you will not refuse me.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000043_000002.wav|I confess that I entertained some feeble hope of his final deliverance, when I saw him lash himself to the box, and commit himself to the sea."|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000006_000003.wav|He had the ordinary temperament of genius, and was a compound of misanthropy, sensibility, and enthusiasm. To these qualities he united the warmest and truest heart which ever beat in a human bosom.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000043_000001.wav|Was not that an exceedingly singular thing?|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000003.wav|I say "amused"--and scarcely know how to explain myself.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000001.wav|The passengers were, consequently, in high spirits and disposed to be social.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000013_000001.wav|If not positively ugly, she was not, I think, very far from it.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000009.wav|What else could I think?|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000038_000002.wav|Sit down, I say, or you will swamp the boat.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000033_000000.wav|Fourteen passengers, with the captain, remained on board, resolving to trust their fortunes to the jolly boat at the stern.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000000.wav|Several circumstances occurred immediately after this fit of Wyatt which contributed to heighten the curiosity with which I was already possessed.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000006_000002.wav|He had been with me a fellow student at C- University, where we were very much together.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000030_000001.wav|This we at last accomplished-but we were still unable to do any thing at the pumps; and, in the meantime, the leak gained on us very fast.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000042_000003.wav|Finally, I hazarded a remark.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000030_000000.wav|All was now confusion and despair-but an effort was made to lighten the ship by throwing overboard as much of her cargo as could be reached, and by cutting away the two masts that remained.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000038_000001.wav|I cannot listen to you.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000037_000000.wav|The captain, for a moment, seemed touched by the earnest appeal of the artist, but he regained his stern composure, and merely said:|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000040_000002.wav|We saw at a glance that the doom of the unfortunate artist was sealed.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000031_000000.wav|At sundown, the gale had sensibly diminished in violence, and as the sea went down with it, we still entertained faint hopes of saving ourselves in the boats.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000007_000007.wav|"Oh, extra baggage, to be sure," I now said to myself-"something he wishes not to be put in the hold-something to be kept under his own eye-ah, I have it-a painting or so-and this is what he has been bargaining about with Nicolino, the Italian Jew." This idea satisfied me, and I dismissed my curiosity for the nonce.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000007_000003.wav|I was, just at that epoch, in one of those moody frames of mind which make a man abnormally inquisitive about trifles: and I confess, with shame, that I busied myself in a variety of ill bred and preposterous conjectures about this matter of the supernumerary state room.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000006.wav|My first observation was by way of opening a masked battery.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000010.wav|He, so refined, so intellectual, so fastidious, with so exquisite a perception of the faulty, and so keen an appreciation of the beautiful!|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000034_000001.wav|What must have been the astonishment of all, then, when having proceeded a few fathoms from the ship, mr Wyatt stood up in the stern sheets, and coolly demanded of Captain Hardy that the boat should be put back for the purpose of taking in his oblong box!|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000012_000000.wav|mrs Wyatt had been closely veiled; and when she raised her veil, in acknowledging my bow, I confess that I was very profoundly astonished.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000023_000005.wav|I avoided him during the rest of the passage, by advice of the captain, who seemed to coincide with me altogether in my views of his insanity, but cautioned me to say nothing on this head to any person on board.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000007_000001.wav|The state rooms were sufficiently roomy, and each had two berths, one above the other.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000005.wav|The gentlemen said little about her; but the ladies, in a little while, pronounced her "a good hearted thing, rather indifferent looking, totally uneducated, and decidedly vulgar." The great wonder was, how Wyatt had been entrapped into such a match.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000022_000003.wav|In conclusion, he fell flat and heavily upon the deck. When I ran to uplift him, to all appearance he was dead.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000038_000004.wav|There-I knew it-he is over!"|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000023_000001.wav|Upon reviving he spoke incoherently for some time.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000016_000006.wav|This side up. To be handled with care."|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000036_000001.wav|Its weight will be but a trifle-it is nothing-mere nothing.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000043_000000.wav|"Did you observe, captain, how suddenly they sank?|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000007_000002.wav|These berths, to be sure, were so exceedingly narrow as to be insufficient for more than one person; still, I could not comprehend why there were three state rooms for these four persons.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000016_000004.wav|Adelaide Curtis, albany new york.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000038_000000.wav|"mr Wyatt, you are mad.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000015_000006.wav|It was the first time I had ever known Wyatt to keep from me any of his artistical secrets; but here he evidently intended to steal a march upon me, and smuggle a fine picture to New York, under my very nose; expecting me to know nothing of the matter.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000036_000002.wav|By the mother who bore you-for the love of Heaven-by your hope of salvation, I implore you to put back for the box!"|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000008.wav|They had separate apartments-no doubt in contemplation of a more permanent divorce; and here, after all I thought was the mystery of the extra state room.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000027_000001.wav|We were, in a measure, prepared for it, however, as the weather had been holding out threats for some time.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000005.wav|But my berth was in such a position, that when my own state room door was open, as well as the sliding door in question (and my own door was always open on account of the heat,) I could see into the after cabin quite distinctly, and just at that portion of it, too, where were situated the state rooms of mr Wyatt.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000041_000001.wav|While we gazed in the extremity of astonishment, he passed, rapidly, several turns of a three inch rope, first around the box and then around his body.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000005.wav|I determined to commence a series of covert insinuations, or innuendoes, about the oblong box-just to let him perceive, gradually, that I was not altogether the butt, or victim, of his little bit of pleasant mystification.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000032_000000.wav|After incredible labor we succeeded, at length, in getting the longboat over the side without material accident, and into this we crowded the whole of the crew and most of the passengers.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000007_000000.wav|I observed that his name was carded upon three state rooms; and, upon again referring to the list of passengers, I found that he had engaged passage for himself, wife, and two sisters-his own.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000034_000000.wav|We had no room, of course, for any thing except a few positively necessary instruments, some provisions, and the clothes upon our backs. No one had thought of even attempting to save any thing more.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000000.wav|For the first three or four days we had fine weather, although the wind was dead ahead; having chopped round to the northward, immediately upon our losing sight of the coast.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000014_000004.wav|Immediately upon its arrival we made sail, and in a short time were safely over the bar and standing out to sea.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000022_000002.wav|Then he grew very red-then hideously pale-then, as if highly amused with what I had insinuated, he began a loud and boisterous laugh, which, to my astonishment, he kept up, with gradually increasing vigor, for ten minutes or more.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000033_000002.wav|It contained, when afloat, the captain and his wife, mr Wyatt and party, a Mexican officer, wife, four children, and myself, with a negro valet.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000028_000001.wav|At the end of this period, however, the gale had freshened into a hurricane, and our after-sail split into ribbons, bringing us so much in the trough of the water that we shipped several prodigious seas, one immediately after the other.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000024_000007.wav|That they were virtually separated was clear.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000013_000003.wav|She said very few words, and passed at once into her state room with mr w|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000050_000002.wav|In this state room the pseudo wife, slept, of course, every night.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000041_000002.wav|In another instant both body and box were in the sea-disappearing suddenly, at once and forever.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000031_000001.wav|At eight p m, the clouds broke away to windward, and we had the advantage of a full moon-a piece of good fortune which served wonderfully to cheer our drooping spirits.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000038_000003.wav|Stay-hold him-seize him!--he is about to spring overboard!|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000046_000001.wav|"We must talk of these things at some more appropriate time."|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000015_000005.wav|I chuckled excessively when I thought of my acumen.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000050_000003.wav|In the daytime she performed, to the best of her ability, the part of her mistress-whose person, it had been carefully ascertained, was unknown to any of the passengers on board.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000003.wav|Wyatt's conduct I did not so much regard.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000011_000002.wav|The ship was crowded with passengers, and every thing was in the bustle attendant upon making sail.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000004.wav|He was gloomy, even beyond his usual habit-in fact he was morose-but in him I was prepared for eccentricity.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000044_000000.wav|"They sank as a matter of course," replied the captain, "and that like a shot.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000011_000003.wav|Wyatt's party arrived in about ten minutes after myself.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000026_000005.wav|He had opened his oblong box, in order to feast his eyes on the pictorial treasure within.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000019_000001.wav|That is to say, she was chatty; and to be chatty is no slight recommendation at sea.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000014_000000.wav|My old inquisitiveness now returned.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000035_000000.wav|"Sit down, mr Wyatt," replied the captain, somewhat sternly, "you will capsize us if you do not sit quite still.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000049_000002.wav|On the morning of the fourteenth of June (the day in which I first visited the ship), the lady suddenly sickened and died.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000025_000000.wav|There was another circumstance, too, which interested me much. During the two wakeful nights in question, and immediately after the disappearance of mrs Wyatt into the extra state room, I was attracted by certain singular cautious, subdued noises in that of her husband. After listening to them for some time, with thoughtful attention, I at length succeeded perfectly in translating their import.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000018_000005.wav|For the sisters, however, I could make no excuse.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000017_000001.wav|I made up my mind, of course, that the box and contents would never get farther north than the studio of my misanthropic friend, in Chambers Street, New York.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8080/274558/8080_274558_000021_000002.wav|He said little, and that moodily, and with evident effort.|8080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000054_000001.wav|'If he had been dead I could have borne it, but this I cannot bear!'|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000034_000000.wav|'Her name is Caroline.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000018_000003.wav|After that he and some other lads jumped aboard the French ship, and I believe they was in her when she struck her flag.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000050_000001.wav|Good God! what can a man be made of to go on as he does?|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000018_000004.wav|What 'a did next I can't say, for the wind had dropped, and the smoke was like a cloud.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000026_000002.wav|This was but for two or three moments.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000036_000002.wav|When are they going to be married?'|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000034_000002.wav|If so-'|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138656/2319_138656_000010_000000.wav|'I'm from aboard the Victory,' said the sailor.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000011_000000.wav|So poor Anne, who really had not the slightest wish to throw her heart away upon a soldier, but merely wanted to displace old thoughts by new, turned into the inner garden from day to day, and passed a good many hours there, the pleasant birds singing to her, and the delightful butterflies alighting on her hat, and the horrid ants running up her stockings.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000038_000000.wav|'That you do not care for Derriman, and mean to encourage john Loveday. What's all the world so long as folks are happy!|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000018_000002.wav|The villagers were by this time driving a roaring trade with the soldiers, who purchased of them every description of garden produce, milk, butter, and eggs at liberal prices.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000009_000000.wav|'Don't mention him, mother, don't!'|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000029_000000.wav|The widow looked unhappily in her daughter's face, distressed between her desire that Anne should encourage Festus, and her wish to consult Anne's own feelings.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000022_000000.wav|'Are you offended with me?' he said to her in a low voice of repressed resentment.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000017_000000.wav|Thus the month of July passed.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000039_000000.wav|'What a weathercock you are, mother!|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000012_000003.wav|The paths were grassed over, so that people came and went upon them without being heard.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000015_000002.wav|He thus gave her accounts at fifteen paces of his experiences in camp, in quarters, in Flanders, and elsewhere; of the difference between line and column, of forced marches, billeting, and such like, together with his hopes of promotion.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000013_000002.wav|Out there they were almost one family, and they talked from plot to plot with a zest and animation which mrs Garland could never have anticipated when she first removed thither after her husband's death.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000035_000000.wav|'I'll overtake you in a minute,' she said to the younger pair, and went back, her colour, for some unaccountable reason, rising as she did so. The miller and she then came on slowly together, conversing in very low tones, and when they got to the bottom they stood still.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000015_000001.wav|She always spoke to him when she saw him there, and he replied in deep, firm accents across the gooseberry bushes, or through the tall rows of flowering peas, as the case might be.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000032_000000.wav|'Well, where's mr Loveday?' asked mrs Garland.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000012_000000.wav|This garden was undivided from Loveday's, the two having originally been the single garden of the whole house.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000043_000001.wav|But mrs Garland could not keep the secret long.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000018_000003.wav|The figures of these rural sutlers could be seen creeping up the slopes, laden like bees, to a spot in the rear of the camp, where there was a kind of market place on the greensward.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000033_000000.wav|'Father's behind,' said john.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000003_000002.wav|At last she could bear it no longer, and went downstairs.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000018_000000.wav|At length the earnest trumpet major obtained mrs Garland's consent to take her and her daughter to the camp, which they had not yet viewed from any closer point than their own windows.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000024_000000.wav|'When are you coming to the hall again?'|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000025_000000.wav|'Never, perhaps.'|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000012_000002.wav|The soil within was of that intense fat blackness which is only seen after a century of constant cultivation.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000008_000000.wav|'Because you must not.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000004_000000.wav|'Where are you going?' said mrs Garland.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000021_000004.wav|Festus looked from Anne to the trumpet major, and from the trumpet major back to Anne, with a dark expression of face, as if he suspected that there might be a tender understanding between them.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000030_000000.wav|'Leave her alone, leave her alone,' said Festus, his gaze blackening. 'Now I think of it I am glad she can't come with me, for I am engaged;' and he stalked away.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000012_000004.wav|The grass harboured slugs, and on this account the miller was going to replace it by gravel as soon as he had time; but as he had said this for thirty years without doing it, the grass and the slugs seemed likely to remain.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000003_000001.wav|It made her think of things which she tried to forget, and to look into a little drawer at something soft and brown that lay in a curl there, wrapped in paper.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000014_000002.wav|The brooks were so far overhung at their brinks by grass and garden produce that, had it not been for their perpetual babbling, few would have noticed that they were there.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000013_000001.wav|The two households were on this account even more closely united in the garden than within the mill.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000012_000001.wav|It was a quaint old place, enclosed by a thorn hedge so shapely and dense from incessant clipping that the mill boy could walk along the top without sinking in-a feat which he often performed as a means of filling out his day's work.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000010_000000.wav|'Well then, dear, walk in the garden.'|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2319/138631/2319_138631_000020_000000.wav|They passed on to the tents of the German Legion, a well grown and rather dandy set of men, with a poetical look about their faces which rendered them interesting to feminine eyes.|2319
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000014_000004.wav|I declared to Lady Augusta briefly that nothing in the world can ever do so well as the thing that does best; and at this she looked a little disconcerted.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000003.wav|I feel as if I ought to 'tip' some custode for my glimpse of it.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000011.wav|Somebody else presently finds it and transfers it, with its air of momentary desolation, to another piece of furniture.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000009_000000.wav|"Lady Augusta stared-my irony was lost on her.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000017_000001.wav|But what's the use of being a Princess-'|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000010.wav|There's a sociable circle or a confidential couple, and the relinquished volume lies open on its face and as dropped under extreme coercion.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000004.wav|I delight in his nonsense myself; why is it therefore that I grudge these happy folk their artless satisfaction?|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000000.wav|"I suppose I ought to enjoy the joke of what's going on here," I wrote, "but somehow it doesn't amuse me.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000014.wav|I've a strong impression, too, that the second volume is lost-has been packed in the bag of some departing guest; and yet everybody has the impression that somebody else has read to the end.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000015.wav|Don't enquire too closely,' he said last night; 'only believe that I feel a sort of terror.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000016.wav|Why should I take the occasion of such distinguished honours to say that I begin to see deeper into Gustave Flaubert's doleful refrain about the hatred of literature?|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000006_000001.wav|The clear thing is that mrs Wimbush doesn't guard such a treasure so jealously as she might.'|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000003_000005.wav|mrs Wimbush goes by the calendar, the temperature goes by the weather, the weather goes by God knows what, and the Princess is easily heated.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000009_000001.wav|'She didn't have time, so she gave me a chance first; because unfortunately I go to morrow to Bigwood.'|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000017.wav|I refer you again to the perverse constitution of man.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000007_000001.wav|mr Paraday lent her the manuscript to look over.'|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000006.wav|He's perpetually detailed for this job, and he tells me it has a peculiarly exhausting effect.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000008_000000.wav|"'She spoke, you mean, as if it were the morning paper?'|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000013_000000.wav|"'Of course he gave it back to my maid-or else his man did,' said Lady Augusta. 'I dare say it's all right.'|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000003_000008.wav|When I asked her what she was looking for she said she had mislaid something that mr Paraday had lent her.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000017.wav|At any rate, I'd as soon overturn that piece of priceless Sevres as tell her I must go before my date.' It sounds dreadfully weak, but he has some reason, and he pays for his imagination, which puts him (I should hate it) in the place of others and makes him feel, even against himself, their feelings, their appetites, their motives.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000014_000001.wav|They haven't time to look over a priceless composition; they've only time to kick it about the house.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000015_000001.wav|Oh the Princess will get up!' said Lady Augusta.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000005_000002.wav|Meanwhile mrs Wimbush has found out about him, and is actively wiring to him.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000018_000000.wav|"'If you can't dissemble your love?' I asked as Lady Augusta was vague. She said at any rate she'd question her maid; and I'm hoping that when I go down to dinner I shall find the manuscript has been recovered."|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000013.wav|I'm sure it's rather smudgy about the twentieth page.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000008.wav|None of the uses I have yet seen him put to infuriate me quite so much.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000015.wav|You see therefore that the beautiful book plays a great part in our existence.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000010.wav|Last night I had some talk with him about going to day, cutting his visit short; so sure am I that he'll be better as soon as he's shut up in his lighthouse.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000014_000003.wav|Their questions are too delightful!|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000010_000000.wav|"'And your chance has only proved a chance to lose it?'|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000011.wav|He told me that this is what he would like to do; reminding me, however, that the first lesson of his greatness has been precisely that he can't do what he likes.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000020.wav|He's too beastly intelligent.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000007_000000.wav|"'Poor dear, she has the Princess to guard!|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000013.wav|When I hint that a violent rupture with our hostess would be the best thing in the world for him he gives me to understand that if his reason assents to the proposition his courage hangs woefully back.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000014.wav|He makes no secret of being mortally afraid of her, and when I ask what harm she can do him that she hasn't already done he simply repeats: 'I'm afraid, I'm afraid!|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000008.wav|All the disinterested people here are his particular admirers and have been carefully selected as such. There's supposed to be a copy of his last book in the house, and in the hall I come upon ladies, in attitudes, bending gracefully over the first volume.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000007.wav|Every one's beginning-at the end of two days-to sidle obsequiously away from her, and mrs Wimbush pushes him again and again into the breach.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000007.wav|To be intimate with him is a feather in my cap; it gives me an importance that I couldn't naturally pretend to, and I seek to deprive him of social refreshment because I fear that meeting more disinterested people may enlighten him as to my real motive.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000003_000010.wav|When I expressed my surprise that he should have bandied about anything so precious (I happen to know it's his only copy-in the most beautiful hand in all the world) Lady Augusta confessed to me that she hadn't had it from himself, but from mrs Wimbush, who had wished to give her a glimpse of it as a salve for her not being able to stay and hear it read.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000011_000000.wav|"'I haven't lost it.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000001_000005.wav|Mystery of the human heart-abyss of the critical spirit! mrs Wimbush thinks she can answer that question, and as my want of gaiety has at last worn out her patience she has given me a glimpse of her shrewd guess.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000017_000000.wav|"'I dare say she is-she's so awfully clever.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000003_000003.wav|I never willingly talk to these people about him, but see what a comfort I find it to scribble to you!|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000003_000004.wav|I appreciate it-it keeps me warm; there are no fires in the house.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000012_000000.wav|"'And Lord Dorimont went away directly after luncheon.'|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000002_000004.wav|She has been told everything in the world and has never perceived anything, and the echoes of her education respond awfully to the rash footfall-I mean the casual remark-in the cold Valhalla of her memory.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/29012/3967_29012_000011_000002.wav|I told my maid to give it to Lord Dorimont-or at least to his man.'|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000009_000000.wav|Such light as there was, glimmered upon the woman's face.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000016_000003.wav|Remembering what Dick Parmiter had told me, I mean that every sound reverberated through the house, I crept down the landing on tiptoe.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000005_000003.wav|I could see the whites of them; our heads were so near they almost touched.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000000.wav|The girl was still seated on the chair, but she had changed her attitude.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000009.wav|A thick soft scarf-silk it seemed to the touch-was knotted tightly round it, and the end of the scarf ran up to the cross beam above the bed posts.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000018_000001.wav|I held my breath and listened in the doorway, but there was no sound of any one breathing, so I stepped into the room.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000002_000006.wav|I heard again that unearthly screeching which had so frightened Dick and perplexed me, It perplexed me still.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000007.wav|And then it made a sound, and all the blood in my veins stood still.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000020_000000.wav|Yet there was no doubt possible.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000009.wav|I carried her down the passage, through the open door and laid her on the bed.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000004.wav|She was standing on nothing whatever!|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000008_000000.wav|I flung up the window and the cold fog poured into the room.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000012_000000.wav|"Thank you," she murmured.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000014.wav|Her long black eyelashes rested upon her cheeks.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000009.wav|For the sound was neither a screech like that which rose from the hollow, nor a groan, nor any ghostly noise.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000008.wav|I thought that my heart would stop or my brain burst.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000004.wav|I spoke to her.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000006.wav|A horrible fear turned me cold.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000010.wav|It was purely human, it was a kecking sound in the throat, such as one makes who gasps for breath.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000009.wav|Her eyes were closed, but she was breathing.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000007_000000.wav|I fumbled at the knot with my fingers.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000017_000000.wav|I had taken some twenty paces when the passage opened out to my right. I put out my hand and touched a balustrade.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000004.wav|It had two big windows looking out towards the sea, and as I stood in the dim grey light, I wondered whether it was from one of those windows that Adam Mayle had looked years before, and seen the brigantine breaking up upon the Golden Ball Reef.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000016_000001.wav|The house was very still; so far no one had been disturbed.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000013.wav|Her face was pale, but that I took to be its natural complexion.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000002.wav|I noticed a streak of white which ran straight up towards the ceiling from behind her head, and I wondered what that was.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000001.wav|She had leaned her arms upon the sill and her head upon her arms.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000008_000004.wav|Then I carried the woman to the window and placed her in the chair, and supported her so that she might not fall.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000018_000000.wav|I crept forward, and at last at the far end of the house and on the left hand of the passage I came to that for which I searched, and which I barely hoped to find-an open door.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000007.wav|I knelt down by her side, and setting down the water gently lifted her head.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000005.wav|She did not answer me.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000007_000001.wav|It was a slip knot, and now that no weight kept it taut, it loosened easily.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000003_000001.wav|The room was so dark that I could not have read my watch, even if I had looked at it, which I did not think to do.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000015_000000.wav|I pondered for a moment what I should do!|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000009_000002.wav|She was of a slight figure as I knew from the ease with which I carried her, but tall.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000016_000002.wav|A long narrow passage stretched in front of me, with doors upon either side.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000005_000002.wav|Her eyes were open and they stared into mine.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000016_000004.wav|I had only my stockings upon my feet and I crept forward so carefully that I could not hear my own footfalls.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000015.wav|There was no hint of any trouble in her expression, no trace of any passionate despair.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000010_000001.wav|She moved her hands upon her lap, and finally lifted one and held her throat with it.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000005.wav|It was taller than any human being that I had seen.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000011.wav|She nestled down beneath it and her lips smiled very prettily, and she uttered a little purring murmur of content; but this she did in her sleep.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000008.wav|With the other arm I felt about her neck.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000001.wav|The fog was still thick about the house, so that hardly a glimmer of light came from the window.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000011.wav|I cannot describe my astonishment; she was in a deep sleep.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000001.wav|I wondered what it was on which she stood.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000009_000003.wav|I could not doubt who it was, for one thing the white dress she wore was of some fine soft fabric, and even in that light it was easy to see that she was beautiful.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000007_000002.wav|I slipped the noose back over her head and left it dangling.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000010.wav|The scarf was the streak of white.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000001.wav|I looked round the room.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000004_000011.wav|The white thing was a live thing of flesh and blood.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000013_000001.wav|I took my arm from her waist and groped about the room for the water jug.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000006_000005.wav|Again the queer gasping coughing noise broke from her lips, and at last I understood it.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000002_000002.wav|The strangeness of my position, besides, kept me in some excitement.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000001_000000.wav|TELLS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT IN CULLEN MAYLE'S BEDROOM|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000003_000002.wav|But at some time during that night I woke up quite suddenly with a clear sense that I had been waked up.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000013_000002.wav|I found it at last and a glass beside it.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000013_000003.wav|These I carried back to the window.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000002.wav|It was a large bedroom, and the bed had not been slept in.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000011_000000.wav|"Very likely there will be some water in the room," said i "If you are safe, if you will not fall, I will look for it."|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000007.wav|Helen Mayle was still asleep, and she had not moved from her posture.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000005_000000.wav|I sprang up on the bed and jumped to the foot of it.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000015_000001.wav|Should I wake the household? Should I explain what had happened and my presence in the house?|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000002_000009.wav|Ghosts and bogies might do very well for the island of Tresco, but mr Berkeley was not to be terrified with any such old wives' stories, and so mr Berkeley fell asleep.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000010_000000.wav|I held her thus with the cold salt air blowing upon her face, and in a little, she began to recover.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000010.wav|I could feel her breath upon my cheek and it came steadily and regular.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000016_000000.wav|I propped her securely in the chair, then crossed the room, opened the door and listened.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000012.wav|She slept with the untroubled sleep of a child.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000002_000001.wav|Parmiter had thrown a new light upon the business tonight, and by the help of that light I arrayed afresh my scanty knowledge.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000014_000002.wav|I poured out the water from the jug into the tumbler.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000005.wav|But the light was broadening with the passage of every minute.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000009_000001.wav|I saw that she was young, little more than a girl indeed, with hair and eyes of an extreme blackness.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000019_000008.wav|I raised her in my arms, and still she did not wake.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3967/292604/3967_292604_000002_000007.wav|I could not for a moment entertain Dick's supposition of a spirit.|3967
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000005_000000.wav|To get an idea of the city as it was when the war broke out you must imagine a city of about sixty thousand people, without street cars, electric lights, telephones, waterworks, sewer system or any modern improvements whatever.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000011_000002.wav|This church as it stands today is a magnificent building with two great entrances.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000008_000004.wav|The streets are narrow, the houses have flat tops and many of them are but one or two stories high.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000004_000001.wav|He had a threshing floor on the top of Mount Moriah.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000009_000001.wav|This was built on Mount Moriah which was a great flat mountain top of uneven rock.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000008_000002.wav|It is a little less than two and one half miles around the city wall, but the city itself has outgrown these limitations, quite a portion of it being on the outside of the wall.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000008_000001.wav|The walls average some thirty feet high and are about fifteen feet thick at the top.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000013_000001.wav|It was later found out that this German church was built for military purposes.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000017_000000.wav|While in and about Jerusalem the writer visited the famous "Upper Room," the "Jew's Wailing Place," the "Mosque of Omar," which stands upon the very spot where Solomon's Temple used to stand, the "Way of Sorrows," the "Ecco Homo Arch," the "Castle of Antonio," "Tower of David," the "Pool of Siloam," and a great many other interesting places.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000010_000001.wav|Here is where the massive stones were "made ready" and the master builder's plans were so perfect that, "there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the temple while it was in building." The marks of the mason's tools and the niches where their lamps were placed can be seen to this day.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000003_000000.wav|The history of the world is largely the story of the rise and fall of great cities.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000011_000004.wav|Before soldiers were placed there, scenes of conflict and bloodshed were very common indeed-a sad spectacle for Jews and Moslems and other enemies of the Christ to gaze upon.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000009_000002.wav|Great arches were built around the sides and then the top leveled off until the large temple area was formed.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000012_000001.wav|In this connection it is interesting to note that at the gate entrance to the Pool of Bethesda the scripture story of the healing of the impotent man is written, or rather inscribed, beneath the arch, in fifty one different languages.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000016_000004.wav|Then the "rolling stone" and the groove in which it was placed is very interesting.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000013_000005.wav|When the ex kaiser entered the city of Jerusalem, a breach was made in the wall near the Jaffa Gate, so instead of entering through the gate like an ordinary mortal, he went in through a hole in the wall. He would no doubt be glad now to go through another "hole in the wall" to have his liberty.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000008_000003.wav|The hotel at which the writer stopped while visiting the city some years ago, was located outside the wall, as are many of the best buildings.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000011_000001.wav|It is called the "Church of the Holy Sepulchre." For sixteen hundred years there was no question but what this tomb was the identical one in which the body of Christ was laid.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixteen|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000006_000000.wav|There is an old Arab legend which says: "Not until the River Nile flows into Palestine will the Turk be driven from Palestine." Of course this was their way of saying that such a thing would never come to pass for the Turk actually believed that he had such a hold on that country that there was no power on earth that could make him give it up.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000010_000002.wav|It is a remarkable fact that in sinking shafts alongside the temple wall, great stones have been discovered but no stone chips are found by them.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000011_000000.wav|Jerusalem has several large churches the most noted of which is the one built over the traditional tomb of Christ.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000013_000000.wav|One of the large churches in the city was dedicated by the ex kaiser when he visited the city in eighteen ninety eight.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000011_000003.wav|The sad thing about it is the fact that it is divided up into various chapels, each held by sects of so-called Christians, and a large armed guard has to be kept in the church to keep these fanatical people from killing each other.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000009_000003.wav|Below the sides of this area are still seen the massive rooms that are called Solomon's stables.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000016_000001.wav|They made their tombs different from those of any other people.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000009_000005.wav|Here multiplied thousands took refuge during some of the memorable sieges that the city went through.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000008_000000.wav|Jerusalem is to this day a walled city.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000004_000000.wav|The site of the city was once owned by a farmer whose name was Oman.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000014_000004.wav|It is said that no Jew cares to pass this place after night and if he passes it in daylight he will mutter a curse upon the memory of him who presumed to be the King of the Jews.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000005_000002.wav|In three months the English did more for the city than the Turk did in a thousand years.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000010_000000.wav|Not far away are the great vaults known as Solomon's Quarries.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000003_000002.wav|Some of the great cities of today are famous for their size, such as New York and London; some for their beauty, like Paris and Rio Janeiro; some for their culture and learning, as Boston and Oxford; some for their manufacturing and commercial supremacy, as Detroit and Liverpool.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000006_000001.wav|But when the English started from Egypt they not only built a railroad as they went toward Jerusalem, but not far from the Nile they prepared a great filtering process to cleanse the water, and then laid a twelve inch pipe and brought the pure water along with them for both man and beast.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000014_000001.wav|This is almost north of the Damascus gate and on the great highway from Jerusalem from the north.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000013_000003.wav|This self appointed world ruler is represented on the ceiling of the chapel of a building on Mount Olivet in a companion panel with the Deity.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000016_000002.wav|That it was a "rich man's tomb" is also very certain, as is the fact that it dates back to the Herodian period in which Jesus lived.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000004_000002.wav|The city as it is today is on top of two mountains, but the valley between has been filled up so that it is almost like one continuous mountain top.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000016_000000.wav|One of the first things noted as the writer went into this tomb was the fact that it is a Jewish tomb.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000009_000000.wav|There was a time, however, when this city boasted of having the finest building ever erected by the hands of man, viz: Solomon's Temple.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000012_000000.wav|In the Church of Pater Noster I counted the Lord's Prayer in thirty two different languages inscribed on marble slabs so that almost any person from any country can read this prayer in his own language.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000016_000003.wav|There is also some frescoed work upon it showing that it was held sacred by the early Christians.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000015_000000.wav|Near this Skull Place is an old tomb that just fits the Bible narrative, viz: "Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre wherein never man was yet laid."|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000003_000003.wav|But there is one city on the globe not nearly as large as Des Moines, not at all beautiful, its people neither cultured nor learned, has no factories and one narrow gauge railway takes care of most of its commerce, and yet it is by far the most famous city of all time.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000015_000001.wav|This tomb was discovered many years ago by General Gordon and is often spoken of as Gordon's Tomb, also called the Garden Tomb.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000009_000004.wav|The writer rambled for hours through these great underground vaults and saw the holes in the stone pillars where the horses were tied.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000003_000004.wav|It is the city of Jerusalem.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000013_000004.wav|In this same building the ex kaiser is represented as a crusader by a figure and the Psalmist is painted with the moustache of a German general.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000005_000001.wav|However, General Allenby's entrance into the city in December, nineteen seventeen, was the beginning of a new era.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000016_000005.wav|This was something like a gigantic grindstone which rolled in the groove and was large enough to cover the opening when the tomb was closed.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000015_000002.wav|When excavating about it a wall was found which proved to be a garden wall the end of which butts up against Mount Calvary.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000014_000000.wav|To the writer, however, perhaps the most interesting place in or about the entire city is the Garden Tomb and Mount Calvary.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68358/6308_68358_000002_000000.wav|A WORLD FAMOUS CITY-JERUSALEM|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000011_000002.wav|Of course, the water evaporates very rapidly, but in the spring when the Jordan overflows and pours a much greater volume of water into it, how does it come that it evaporates so much faster than at any other time in the year?|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000019_000002.wav|At the close of the Mexican War, our Government permitted Lieutenant Lynch to take ten seamen and two small boats and make this exploration.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000012_000001.wav|I have never learned to swim; in deep water simply cannot keep my feet up, but in the Dead Sea they could not be kept down, and of course I could swim like a duck.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000012_000003.wav|Everything about it is dead.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000006_000002.wav|The water from this spring is joined by that of several other springs and small rivulets caused by the melting snows on the mountain, flows to the south a distance of a few miles, and forms a small lake which is about three miles wide and four miles long.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000012_000004.wav|Like some people, it is always receiving but never giving.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000017_000003.wav|The young man was greatly troubled about this for it was a borrowed one.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000009_000000.wav|Within this Jordan valley is what might be called an inner valley which is from a quarter of a mile to a mile wide, and from fifty to something like seventy five feet deep.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000019_000001.wav|His name was Lynch and he was a lieutenant in the American Navy.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000016_000002.wav|Failing to find the body, together with the fact that they had witnessed the parting of the waters when the two men went over and the same when Elisha came back alone, was sufficient evidence to them that the young prophet had told the truth.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000007_000003.wav|These sudden storms often imperil any small boats which may be out on the sea as was the case in Bible times when the Master was sleeping and his disciples awakened him, saying: "Lord, save us; we perish."|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000017_000001.wav|Every student borrowed an ax and went to work felling trees along the river bank.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000014_000002.wav|They not only never saw him again but they never were able to find a trace of his body.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000017_000002.wav|In one case the ax flew off the handle and went into the water.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000013_000002.wav|At the fords of the Jordan I waded out into the stream but the current was so swift that I did not attempt to go entirely across.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000005_000000.wav|It is the River Jordan, and a glimpse of it brings forth some of the most wonderful characteristics possessed by any river, as well as many historical events that make their memories dear to the hearts of men and women wherever civilization has found its way.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000017_000000.wav|Evidently this event created a great impression all over the country and young men came to the school for the prophets which was located near, that the buildings had to be enlarged.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000007_000002.wav|The river enters through a small canyon at the northwest and passes out through another canyon at the south end. Sometimes the wind will rush down the canyon at the northwest and in a few moments the waters of the lake are like a great whirlpool.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000018_000001.wav|john the Baptist must have been the Billy Sunday of his day for the crowds that came to hear him were immense.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000014_000001.wav|It must have been an exciting day for the entire camp when they last saw their great leader become a mere speck on the mountain side and finally disappear altogether.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000011_000000.wav|While the Jordan as well as other smaller streams flow continually into the Dead Sea, it is said that it never raises an inch.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000019_000000.wav|In connection with the River Jordan and the bodies of water at each end, it is interesting to note that the first man to take the level and give to the world the remarkable facts about the physical characteristics of this wonderful and world famous river, was an American.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000012_000002.wav|Nothing grows near this body of water.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000007_000000.wav|The first ten and one half miles the water falls six hundred and eighty feet to where it enters the Sea of Galilee.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000018_000002.wav|One day among others who came was a fine looking young man who asked for baptism.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000015_000002.wav|The record also states that this crossing was at the time when the river was out of its banks and this whole bottom, nearly a mile wide, was a rushing torrent. Perhaps this accounts for the fact that the enemies who had taken possession of the Promised Land were totally unprepared for their coming, feeling secure while the river was so high and dangerous.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000006_000004.wav|This is spoken of in the Bible as "the waters of Merom." From the southern end of this lake the Jordan begins.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000013_000001.wav|It is about the size of the Des Moines river in northern Iowa, not nearly so large as this river in the southern part of the state.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000013_000000.wav|The River Jordan runs very swiftly.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000018_000000.wav|But perhaps the greatest of all events that occurred at this place was the baptism of Christ.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000010_000001.wav|During this sixty five miles (airline) to the Dead Sea, it falls more than six hundred feet more, so that the Dead Sea itself is about thirteen hundred feet below the level of the Mediterranean Sea which is only forty miles west.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000002_000000.wav|A WORLD FAMOUS RIVER-THE JORDAN|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000011_000001.wav|This, with the fact that this body of water has no outlet whatever, makes a problem to which geologists and scientific men have failed to give a satisfactory solution.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000018_000003.wav|But the preacher knew him and refused, saying that he was unworthy to do this, but the young man, who was no other than the Master himself, explained the situation and the preacher hesitated no longer.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000007_000001.wav|This pear shaped body of water is a little more than a dozen miles long and half that wide and is surrounded by mountains.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000015_000001.wav|After thirty days mourning for Moses, the great company marched down to the river; it was opened for them and they crossed on dry ground.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000012_000006.wav|When carried by the swift current into this salty water they soon die.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000005_000001.wav|Unlike all other rivers which rise in some elevated place and flow toward the sea level, nearly every mile of this river is below the surface of the ocean.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000006_000001.wav|That spring is but a few hundred feet above sea level.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000008_000000.wav|From this body of water to the point where the Jordan empties into the Dead Sea is only sixty five miles by airline, but the way the river winds like a gigantic serpent, one would travel twice that distance were he to go in a boat.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000012_000005.wav|At the mouth of the Jordan one can see dead fish floating on the water.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000006_000003.wav|This lake is just on a level with the Mediterranean Sea which is only about thirty miles to the west.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER seventeen|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000009_000001.wav|This might be called the river bottom and the river winds like a snake in this smaller valley.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6308/68359/6308_68359_000015_000000.wav|There must have been much speculation among these people as to what became of Moses until in some miraculous way joshua was informed that the great leader was dead and that he must now take charge and lead the people across the Jordan into the Promised Land.|6308
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000028_000001.wav|"Chase people who carry canes, bark at beggars, and fawn on the people of the house.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000020_000001.wav|It is worth just as much to you as the treasure you lost!"|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000032_000000.wav|"What! nothing!"|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000006_000001.wav|It would not obey him.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000036_000002.wav|"Don't you go wherever you please?"|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000023_000000.wav|THE WOLF AND THE HOUSE DOG|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000003_000000.wav|"Aha!" he muttered.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000018_000002.wav|I couldn't think of spending any of it."|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000024_000001.wav|He was really nothing but skin and bones, and it made him very downhearted to think of it.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000002_000000.wav|A Wolf, lurking near the Shepherd's hut, saw the Shepherd and his family feasting on a roasted lamb.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000028_000002.wav|In return you will get tidbits of every kind, chicken bones, choice bits of meat, sugar, cake, and much more beside, not to speak of kind words and caresses."|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000013_000001.wav|He groaned and cried and tore his hair.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000037_000000.wav|"Not always!|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000036_000001.wav|A chain!" cried the Wolf.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000030_000000.wav|"What is that on your neck?"|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000017_000002.wav|Why did you put it there?|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000031_000000.wav|"Nothing at all," replied the Dog.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000006_000000.wav|A Goat strayed away from the flock, tempted by a patch of clover. The Goatherd tried to call it back, but in vain.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000028_000000.wav|"Hardly anything," answered the House Dog.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000038_000000.wav|"All the difference in the world!|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000020_000000.wav|"If that is the case," he said, "cover up that stone.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000019_000000.wav|The stranger picked up a large stone and threw it into the hole.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000014_000000.wav|A passerby heard his cries and asked what had happened.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000015_000000.wav|"My gold!|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000027_000000.wav|"What must I do?" asked the Wolf.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000008_000000.wav|"Do not tell the master," he begged the Goat.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000011_000000.wav|THE MISER|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000017_000003.wav|Why did you not keep it in the house where you could easily get it when you had to buy things?"|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000037_000001.wav|But what's the difference?" replied the Dog.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000018_000001.wav|"Why, I never touched the gold.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000025_000000.wav|One night this Wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat House Dog who had wandered a little too far from home.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000035_000000.wav|"Perhaps you see the mark of the collar to which my chain is fastened."|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000006_000002.wav|Then he picked up a stone and threw it, breaking the Goat's horn.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000017_000000.wav|"Your gold!|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000029_000000.wav|The Wolf had such a beautiful vision of his coming happiness that he almost wept.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000038_000001.wav|I don't care a rap for your feasts and I wouldn't take all the tender young lambs in the world at that price." And away ran the Wolf to the woods.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000012_000000.wav|A Miser had buried his gold in a secret place in his garden. Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was all there.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000013_000000.wav|When the Miser discovered his loss, he was overcome with grief and despair.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000034_000000.wav|"But please tell me."|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000024_000000.wav|There was once a Wolf who got very little to eat because the Dogs of the village were so wide awake and watchful.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/282412/8347_282412_000036_000000.wav|"What!|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000016.wav|When she beheld all those warriors and knew that they were the army of Ardashir's father, she feared lest he should be diverted from her by his sire and forget her and depart from her, whereupon her father would slay her.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000003_000003.wav|Such was her case; but as regards Ardashir, he was alone with his father that night and the Great King questioned him of his case, whereupon he told him all that had befallen him, first and last.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000007_000005.wav|The merchant uncovered her face, whereupon the place was illumined by her beauty and her seven tresses hung down to her anklets like horses' tails.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000014.wav|And all who had seen him selling stuffs in the linendrapers' bazar marvelled how his soul could have consented thereto, considering the nobility of his spirit and the loftiness of his dignity; but it was his love and inclination to the King's daughter that to this had constrained him.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000003_000002.wav|So, if he send to her to consult her, let her make no opposition; for I will not return to my country without her." Then the handmaid returned to Hayat al Nufus; and, kissing her hands, delivered to her the message, which when she heard, she wept for very joy and returned thanks to Almighty Allah.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000004_000000.wav|When it was the Seven Hundred and Thirty eighth Night,|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000005_000015.wav|And they abode in all comfort and solace and joyance of life, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and Severer of societies; the Depopulator of palaces and the Garnerer of graveyards.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000005_000016.wav|And men also relate the tale of|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000015.wav|Meanwhile, news of the multitude of her lover's troops came to Hayat al Nufus, who was still jailed by her sire's commandment, till they knew what he should order respecting her, whether pardon and release or death and burning; and she looked down from the terrace roof of the palace and, turning towards the mountains, saw even these covered with armed men.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000005_000013.wav|Then he went in to the Princess and embraced her; and she kissed his hands and they wept in the standing place of parting.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000017.wav|So she called a handmaid that was with her in her apartment by way of service, and said to her, "Go to Ardashir, son of the Great King, and fear not.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000005.wav|Send for the midwives and let them examine her before thee.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000009.wav|Then the King threw his arms about Ardashir's neck and entreated him with all worship and honour, bidding his chief eunuchs bear him to the bath.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000007_000006.wav|She had Nature kohl'd eyes, heavy hips and thighs and waist of slenderest guise, her sight healed all maladies and quenched the fire of sighs, for she was even as the poet cries,|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000003_000008.wav|The like of thee should not rise to the like of me, for I am the least of servants' slaves.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000002_000000.wav|When it was the Seven Hundred and Thirty seventh Night,|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000005_000010.wav|She carried with her all her waiting women and eunuchs, as well as the nurse, who had returned, after her flight, and resumed her office.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000010.wav|When he came out, he cast over his shoulders a costly robe and crowned him with a coronet of jewels; he also girt him with a girdle of silk, purfled with red gold and set with pearls and gems, and mounted him on one of his noblest mares, with selle and trappings of gold inlaid with pearls and jewels.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000001_000003.wav|Where is the young man, the son of yonder magnanimous King?" And quoth the Wazir, "O mighty King, thou didst command him be put to death." When the King heard this, he was clean distraught and cried out from his heart's core and in most of head, saying, "Woe to you!|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000005_000006.wav|They spread the marriage feasts and banquets and lastly Ardashir went in unto the Princess and found her a jewel which had been hidden, an union pearl unthridden and a filly that none but he had ridden, so he notified this to his sire.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000003_000000.wav|She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the bondmaid sent by Hayat al Nufus made her way to Ardashir and delivered him her lady's message, which when he heard, he wept with sore weeping and said to her, "Know that Hayat al Nufus is my mistress and that I am her slave and the captive of her love.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8347/258283/8347_258283_000005_000014.wav|After this he returned to his capital and Ardashir and his company fared on, till they reached Shiraz, where they celebrated the marriage festivities anew.|8347
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000028_000000.wav|Money could not buy that dog.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000030_000001.wav|Six years later it chanced that I lost Jim.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000028_000006.wav|I thought he was a "goner" that time for sure, but he soon straightened up.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000027_000003.wav|The police accused the stablemen of being parties to the theft, in which I think they were right.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000028_000004.wav|Next came a fight with a wolf; following this, came a narrow escape from a rattlesnake in the road.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/12546/4108_12546_000006_000003.wav|The route lay through Indianapolis, Dayton, Cleveland, Columbus, Buffalo, albany new york, Trenton, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, to Washington.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000037_000000.wav|"Then you think-?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000033_000000.wav|"That man," said Lord Wisbeach impassively, "is not your nephew."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000063_000000.wav|"I want to speak to mr Sturgis," she said.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000020_000000.wav|"In private, you know."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000050_000000.wav|"You must come here at once, Lord Wisbeach.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000032_000001.wav|But-"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000007_000000.wav|"You haven't drunk your nice soup."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000060_000000.wav|A happy solution struck mrs Pett.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000011_000006.wav|How right events had proved this instinctive feeling.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000030_000004.wav|She had been right about Jerry Mitchell; was she to be proved right about the self styled Jimmy Crocker?|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000064_000004.wav|I want to consult-You will come up at once?|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000064_000000.wav|"Oh, mr Sturgis," said mrs Pett.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000036_000003.wav|I wanted to make him think that I suspected nothing."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000027_000000.wav|"mrs Pett, you remember what I told you yesterday?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000064_000005.wav|Thank you so much.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000008_000000.wav|"Feed it to the cat."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000062_000000.wav|She unhooked the receiver, and gave a number.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000040_000000.wav|"Exactly.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000017_000000.wav|"Can I have a word with you, mrs Pett?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000038_000000.wav|"Remember what I said to you yesterday."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000006_000001.wav|"I'm feeling a lot worse."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000030_000000.wav|mrs Pett started.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000011_000004.wav|She had always mistrusted the man.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000036_000001.wav|Just so.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000064_000003.wav|Yes, the mother of Ogden Ford.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000057_000000.wav|When he had gone, mrs Pett remained for some minutes, thinking. She was aflame with excitement.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000030_000003.wav|It is one of the effects of a successful hunch that it breeds other hunches.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000028_000000.wav|"Of course."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000053_000001.wav|Let us leave it at this then.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000055_000001.wav|"It will be a pleasure."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000025_000001.wav|"He is very subject to these attacks.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000032_000000.wav|"Never.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000057_000007.wav|She felt that she must have further assistance.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000025_000000.wav|"Poor Oggie is not at all well to day," said mrs Pett, when he was gone.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000036_000002.wav|For a purpose.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000053_000002.wav|I will come here to night and will make it my business to watch these two men.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000039_000000.wav|"But Skinner-the butler-recognised him?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000012_000002.wav|Through the open window floated sounds of warmth and Summer.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000054_000000.wav|"It is wonderful of you, Lord Wisbeach."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000025_000002.wav|What do you want to tell me, Lord Wisbeach?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000010_000000.wav|"Have a heart," replied the sufferer.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000004_000000.wav|"Oh, Gee," said Ogden wearily.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000040_000002.wav|They are working together.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000040_000003.wav|The thing is self evident. Look at it from your point of view.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000018_000000.wav|"Certainly, Lord Wisbeach."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000021_000000.wav|He then looked meaningly at mrs Pett.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000016_000000.wav|Lord Wisbeach hated little dogs.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000035_000000.wav|"But you-"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000040_000004.wav|How simple it is.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000009_000000.wav|"Could you eat a nice bowl of bread and milk, precious?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2772/4108_2772_000055_000000.wav|"Not at all," replied his lordship.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000083_000002.wav|They crossed the room together.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000073_000000.wav|"I'll tell Buck I couldn't get you," said mr Crocker, moving another step.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000035_000000.wav|"Why not?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000078_000000.wav|"All right, then.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000078_000001.wav|Wait till I've got this shoe on, and let's start.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000041_000000.wav|"Sure!|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000063_000000.wav|"Chicago Ed's my monaker."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000074_000001.wav|What's the matter with you?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000059_000000.wav|"Naw.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000060_000000.wav|"Oh?|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000084_000000.wav|Whispered words reached him.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000081_000000.wav|"Step dis way!" said mr Crocker jocosely.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000061_000000.wav|"You don't?" said mr Crocker a little discomposed.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000016_000001.wav|You're all right!|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000037_000000.wav|"Say, did you come to kidnap me?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000016_000000.wav|"Nonsense, dad!|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty one|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000087_000000.wav|"Then why's the shutter closed?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000054_000000.wav|"Who's making any noise?|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000014_000001.wav|mr Crocker eyed this sadly.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000080_000001.wav|Sing?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000076_000000.wav|"Sure, if you get the conditions.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000050_000004.wav|See?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000074_000000.wav|"Here, stop!|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000005_000000.wav|CHICAGO ED.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000050_000000.wav|"Say, listen.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000032_000000.wav|"Don't do that!" he said huskily.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000065_000000.wav|"Well, you will after dis!" said mr Crocker, happily inspired.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000051_000000.wav|"I get you, kid."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000069_000000.wav|"How am I to know you're on the level?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000015_000002.wav|I'm feeling nervous."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000012_000001.wav|"Suppose he has a fit!"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000072_000002.wav|There's no need to fly off the handle like that."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000049_000000.wav|"Sure," said mr Crocker.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000086_000000.wav|"Sure."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000052_000000.wav|"Well, if that's understood, all right.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000058_000001.wav|"Who's working this with you?|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000011_000000.wav|mr Crocker surveyed his repellent features doubtfully.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000044_000001.wav|"I'm wit Buck."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000070_000000.wav|mr Crocker played a daring card.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000050_000001.wav|If you take me now, Buck's got to come across.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000052_000001.wav|Give me a minute to get some clothes on, and I'll be with you."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000015_000001.wav|I could have done with it.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000040_000000.wav|"Keep those hands up!" advised Ogden.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000072_000001.wav|"I'm not saying anything against you.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000067_000000.wav|"Take that mask off and let's have a look at you."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000048_000001.wav|"We're old pals. Did you see the piece in the paper about him kidnapping me last time?|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000089_000002.wav|The figures passed through.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000088_000000.wav|"I fixed it after I was in."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000034_000000.wav|"Do you want to murder me?"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000036_000000.wav|mr Crocker's make-up was trickling down his face in sticky streams.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000060_000001.wav|Say, I don't remember you, if it comes to that."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000008_000000.wav|mr Crocker seemed to feel this himself.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000039_000001.wav|Nix on the rough stuff!"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000079_000000.wav|"Beat it quietly."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000071_000000.wav|"All right," he said, making a move towards the door.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000053_000000.wav|"Don't make a noise," said mr Crocker.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000089_000000.wav|There was a faint scraping sound, followed by a click.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000059_000001.wav|A new guy."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000048_000000.wav|"I'm strong for Buck," he said conversationally.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000082_000000.wav|They left the room cautiously.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000085_000000.wav|"I thought you said you came in this way."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000078_000002.wav|Now I'm ready."|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000033_000001.wav|"I'm at the right end of it.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000032_000001.wav|"It might go off!"|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000033_000000.wav|"I should worry!" replied Ogden coldly.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000033_000004.wav|"I got this with cigarette coupons, to shoot rabbits when we went to the country.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000047_000000.wav|To mr Crocker's profound relief Ogden lowered the pistol.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000015_000000.wav|"I wish you hadn't thrown that stuff away, Jim.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4108/2777/4108_2777_000083_000001.wav|One was large, the other small.|4108
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000003_000007.wav|If the trail could have told tales, there would have been many a story of dead men washed up on the bars, of sneak thieves given thirty nine lashes and like the scapegoat turned out into the mountain wilds-a rough and ready justice administered without judge or jury.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000020_000000.wav|In Barkerville, which became the centre of Cariboo, saloons and dance halls grew up overnight.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000005_000000.wav|They danced a' nicht in dresses licht Fra' late until the early, O! But O, their hearts were hard as flint, Which vexed the laddies sairly, O!|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000014.wav|Then he went out in the night to sleep under the stars, penniless.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000008_000008.wav|From hating and fearing him, the camp came almost to worship him.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000010_000001.wav|You deserve to be hanged.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000013.wav|He gathered his last nuggets and hurled them in handfuls at the mirror, shattering it in countless pieces.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000006.wav|We laugh now! Victoria did not laugh then.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000003_000006.wav|In a mining camp there is no mercy for the crook.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000020_000004.wav|Nails were cheap at a dollar a pound.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000004_000002.wav|When the road opened, there was a rush of hurdy gurdy girls for dance halls; but that did not modify the rough chivalry of an unwritten law.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000010_000002.wav|Had the jury performed their duty, I might have the painful satisfaction of condemning you to death.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000007.wav|There was still a basket of champagne left.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000008_000003.wav|He stood for the rights of the poorest miner.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000005.wav|A man looking anything but respect would have been knocked down on the spot.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000008_000004.wav|In private life he was fond of music, art, and literature; but in public life he was autocratic as a czar and sternly righteous as a prophet.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000006_000000.wav|The dollar was their only love, And that they loved fu' dearly, O! They dinna care a flea for men, Let them court hooe'er sincerely, O!|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000009.wav|The champagne was all gone, but he still had some gold nuggets.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000020_000006.wav|Boots still cost fifty dollars. Such luxuries as mirrors and stoves cost as high as seven hundred dollars each.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000001.wav|His companion in the saloon was arrested and tried.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000001.wav|Alack the day, there was no poet to send letters to the outside world on this handling of Cupid's bow and arrow! The comedy was pushed in the most business like fashion.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000004_000001.wav|Mrs Cameron, wife of the famous Cariboo Cameron, lived with her husband on his claim till she died, and many other women lived in the camps with their husbands.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000011.wav|The miner stood and proudly surveyed his own figure in the glass.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000000.wav|The effect of sudden wealth on some of the hungry, ragged horde who infested Cariboo was of a sort to discount fiction.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000008_000000.wav|matthew Begbie, later, like Douglas, given a title for his services to the Empire, had, as we have seen, first come out under direct appointment by the crown; and when parliamentary government was organized in British Columbia his position was confirmed as chief justice.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000020_000002.wav|Champagne in pint bottles sold at two ounces of gold.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000000.wav|Cariboo was what the miners call a 'he camp.' Not unnaturally, the 'she camps' heard 'the call from Macedonia.' The bishop of Oxford, the bishop of London, the lord mayor of London, and a colonial society in England gathered up some industrious young women as suitable wives for the British Columbia miners.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000003_000001.wav|The ordinary wage was ten dollars a day, and men who could be trusted, and who were brave enough to pack the gold out to the coast, received twenty and even as high as fifty dollars a day.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000008.wav|He danced the hurdy gurdy on that basket till he cut his feet.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000003_000003.wav|The miners found what the great banks have always found, that the presence of unused gold is a nuisance and a curse.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000009_000000.wav|Many are the stories of his circuits.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000002.wav|A lunatic escaped from a madhouse could not have been more foolish.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000002_000000.wav|LIFE AT THE MINES|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000002.wav|Threescore young girls came out under the auspices of the society and the Church, carefully shepherded by a clergyman and a stern matron.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000003.wav|He came to the best saloon of Barkerville.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000021_000000.wav|A newspaper was published in Barkerville.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000011.wav|The disreputable also found their own places.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000007.wav|You can go, and I devoutly hope the next man you sandbag will be one of the jury.' On another occasion a man was found stabbed on the Cariboo Road.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000000.wav|Mr Alexander, one of the Overlanders of 'sixty two, tells how 'Begbie's decisions may not have been good law, but they were first-class justice.' His 'doctrine was that if a man were killed, some one had to be hanged for it; and the effect was salutary.' A man had been sandbagged in a Victoria saloon and thrown out to die.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000002.wav|The circumstantial evidence was strong, and the judge so charged the jury.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER seven|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000005.wav|The prisoner's counsel arose and requested the discharge of the man.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000016_000000.wav|I ken a body made a strike. He looked a little lord. He had a clan o' followers Amang a needy horde.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000008.wav|On the instant, every girl was offered some kind of situation, which she voluntarily and almost immediately exchanged for matrimony.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000003.wav|They reached Victoria in September of 'sixty two and were housed in the barracks.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000007_000012.wav|And the mining camp began to take on an appearance of domesticity and home.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000014_000015.wav|He settled down to work for the rest of his life in other men's mines.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000004.wav|Dead silence fell in the court room.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000003.wav|But the jury acquitted the prisoner.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000003_000002.wav|There is a letter, written by Sir matthew Begbie, describing how the mountain trails were infested that winter by desperadoes lying in wait for the miners who came staggering over the trail literally weighted down with gold.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000011_000002.wav|On his way down the prisoner escaped from the constable. This type of hair trigger gunmen at once fled the country when Begbie came.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000013_000000.wav|But, in spite of his harsh manner towards the wrong doer, 'the old man,' as the miners affectionately called him, kept law and order.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000020_000005.wav|Milk was retailed frozen at a dollar a pound.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000013_000001.wav|In the early days gold commissioners not only settled all mining disputes, but acted as judge and jury.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000012_000009.wav|Begbie adjourned the court with the pious wish that the murderer should go out and cut the throats of the jury.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282385/9026_282385_000008_000005.wav|He was a vigilance committee in himself through sheer force of personality.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282386/9026_282386_000020_000003.wav|This meant shafts, tunnels, hydraulic machinery, stamp mills.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282386/9026_282386_000018_000000.wav|Bull teams of twenty yokes, long lines of pack horses led by a bell mare, mule teams with a tinkling of bells and singing of the drivers, met the stage and passed with happy salute.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9026/282386/9026_282386_000020_000000.wav|This does not mean that the camp had collapsed.|9026
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000035_000000.wav|"At least a hundred."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000017_000003.wav|I looked to see if their appearance might draw some of the Nautilus's men onto the platform.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000129_000000.wav|"By jumping down the hatches you're about to open."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000088_000000.wav|And he pressed an electric button, transmitting an order to the crew's quarters.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000118_000001.wav|Nobody on board seemed to be making any preparations for departure.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000059_000000.wav|"But that's simply an olive shell of the 'tent olive' species, genus Oliva, order Pectinibranchia, class Gastropoda, branch Mollusca-"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000047_000001.wav|Besides, it was the last day the Nautilus would spend in these waterways, if, tomorrow, it still floated off to the open sea as Captain Nemo had promised.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000097_000000.wav|"Well, sir, let them come aboard.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000139_000000.wav|"Damnation!" he exclaimed.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000117_000000.wav|I got up at six o'clock in the morning.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000133_000000.wav|"Not in the least."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000045_000001.wav|I often heard them repeat the word "assai," and from their gestures I understood they were inviting me to go ashore, an invitation I felt obliged to decline.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000025_000000.wav|"Yes, captain," I replied, "but unfortunately we've brought back a horde of bipeds whose proximity worries me."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000119_000001.wav|In ten minutes the tide would reach its maximum elevation, and if Captain Nemo hadn't made a rash promise, the Nautilus would immediately break free.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000108_000000.wav|"Captain," I said, "I don't doubt-"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000070_000001.wav|What?|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000053_000001.wav|Our dragnet was filled with Midas abalone, harp shells, obelisk snails, and especially the finest hammer shells I had seen to that day.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000039_000000.wav|For several hours I was left to myself, sometimes musing on the islanders- but no longer fearing them because the captain's unflappable confidence had won me over-and sometimes forgetting them to marvel at the splendors of this tropical night.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000122_000000.wav|"We're about to depart," he said.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000085_000000.wav|"Well, sir, closing the hatches should do the trick."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000073_000001.wav|Now some twenty dugout canoes were surrounding the Nautilus.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000090_000000.wav|"No, captain, but one danger still remains."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000043_000001.wav|He must have been a "mado" of high rank, because he paraded in a mat of banana leaves that had ragged edges and was accented with bright colors.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000097_000001.wav|I see no reason to prevent them. Deep down they're just poor devils, these Papuans, and I don't want my visit to Gueboroa Island to cost the life of a single one of these unfortunate people!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000100_000000.wav|"He was one of your great seamen," the captain told me, "one of your shrewdest navigators, that d'Urville!|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000022_000000.wav|"Captain!" I went on, touching him with my hand.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000028_000000.wav|"Savages!" Captain Nemo replied in an ironic tone.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000114_000001.wav|What's Ned Land up to?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000120_000000.wav|But some preliminary vibrations could soon be felt over the boat's hull. I heard its plating grind against the limestone roughness of that coral base.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000100_000002.wav|A man wise but unlucky! Braving the ice banks of the South Pole, the coral of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, only to perish wretchedly in a train wreck! If that energetic man was able to think about his life in its last seconds, imagine what his final thoughts must have been!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000141_000000.wav|Meanwhile, crazed with terror, the unhinged Papuans beat a retreat. As for us, half laughing, we massaged and comforted poor Ned Land, who was swearing like one possessed.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000113_000000.wav|"Master has no need for my services?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000087_000000.wav|"Nothing easier," Captain Nemo said.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000017_000004.wav|But no Lying well out, that enormous machine still seemed completely deserted.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000124_000000.wav|"I've given orders to open the hatches."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000008_000000.wav|A second well polished stone removed a tasty ringdove leg from Conseil's hand, giving still greater relevance to his observation.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000082_000001.wav|Native dugout canoes are surrounding us, and in a few minutes we're sure to be assaulted by several hundred savages."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000013_000000.wav|Indeed, it was essential to beat a retreat because some twenty natives, armed with bows and slings, appeared barely a hundred paces off, on the outskirts of a thicket that masked the horizon to our right.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000139_000001.wav|"I've been struck by a lightning bolt!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000029_000000.wav|"But captain-"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000077_000000.wav|"We've got to alert Captain Nemo," I said, reentering the hatch.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000017_000002.wav|We hadn't gone two cable lengths when a hundred savages, howling and gesticulating, entered the water up to their waists.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000094_000000.wav|"But if these Papuans are occupying the platform at that moment, I don't see how you can prevent them from entering."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000079_000001.wav|I did so and found Captain Nemo busy with calculations in which there was no shortage of X and other algebraic signs.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000019_000000.wav|I went below to the lounge, from which some chords were wafting. Captain Nemo was there, leaning over the organ, deep in a musical trance.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000042_000003.wav|Beneath their pierced, distended earlobes there dangled strings of beads made from bone. Generally these savages were naked.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000117_000001.wav|The hatches weren't open. So the air inside hadn't been renewed; but the air tanks were kept full for any eventuality and would function appropriately to shoot a few cubic meters of oxygen into the Nautilus's thin atmosphere.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000066_000001.wav|In fact, as naturalists have ventured to observe, "dextrality" is a well-known law of nature. In their rotational and orbital movements, stars and their satellites go from right to left.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000044_000000.wav|I could easily have picked off this islander, he stood at such close range; but I thought it best to wait for an actual show of hostility. Between Europeans and savages, it's acceptable for Europeans to shoot back but not to attack first.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000072_000001.wav|"I'd rather he cracked my shoulder!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000016_000000.wav|Ned Land was unwilling to leave his provisions behind, and despite the impending danger, he clutched his pig on one side, his kangaroos on the other, and scampered off with respectable speed.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000118_000000.wav|I worked in my stateroom until noon without seeing Captain Nemo even for an instant.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000052_000002.wav|However, I'm opposed to being devoured, even in all decency, so I'll keep on my guard, especially since the Nautilus's commander seems to be taking no precautions. And now let's get to work!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000086_000000.wav|"Precisely, and that's what I came to tell you-"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000060_000001.wav|But instead of coiling from right to left, this olive shell rolls from left to right!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000046_000002.wav|However, I didn't see one local dugout canoe.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000099_000000.wav|Among other things, we came to talk of the Nautilus's circumstances, aground in the same strait where Captain Dumont d'Urville had nearly miscarried.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000053_000000.wav|For two hours our fishing proceeded energetically but without bringing up any rarities.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000024_000001.wav|"Well, did you have a happy hunt?|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000098_000001.wav|He questioned me with interest on our excursions ashore and on our hunting, but seemed not to understand the Canadian's passionate craving for red meat. Then our conversation skimmed various subjects, and without being more forthcoming, Captain Nemo proved more affable.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000068_000000.wav|I gave a yell of despair!|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000018_000001.wav|The hatches were open. After mooring the skiff, we reentered the Nautilus's interior.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000028_000001.wav|"You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you're surprised to find savages there?|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000078_000001.wav|I found no one there.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000056_000000.wav|"No, my boy, but I'd gladly have sacrificed a finger for such a find!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000115_000000.wav|"Begging master's indulgence," Conseil replied, "but our friend Ned is concocting a kangaroo pie that will be the eighth wonder!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000091_000000.wav|"What's that, sir?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000050_000000.wav|"They're cannibals even so, my boy."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000107_000001.wav|Tomorrow, on the day stated and at the hour stated, the tide will peacefully lift it off, and it will resume its navigating through the seas."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000099_000001.wav|Then, pertinent to this:|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000100_000001.wav|He was the Frenchman's Captain Cook.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000081_000000.wav|"Correct, Professor Aronnax," the captain answered me. "But I imagine you have pressing reasons for looking me up?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000031_000000.wav|"Well then," I replied, "if you don't want to welcome them aboard the Nautilus, you'd better take some precautions!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000026_000000.wav|"What sort of bipeds?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000103_000000.wav|"What your d'Urville did on the surface of the sea," Captain Nemo told me, "I've done in the ocean's interior, but more easily, more completely than he.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000006_000000.wav|WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land's completing its assignment.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000080_000000.wav|"Am I disturbing you?" I said out of politeness.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000119_000000.wav|I still waited for a while, then I made my way to the main lounge. Its timepiece marked two thirty.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000045_000000.wav|During this whole time of low tide, the islanders lurked near the Nautilus, but they weren't boisterous.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000043_000000.wav|One of these chieftains came fairly close to the Nautilus, examining it with care.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000109_000000.wav|"Tomorrow," Captain Nemo added, standing up, "tomorrow at two forty in the afternoon, the Nautilus will float off and exit the Torres Strait undamaged."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000127_000000.wav|"Won't they come inside the Nautilus?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000121_000000.wav|At two thirty five Captain Nemo appeared in the lounge.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000014_000000.wav|The skiff was aground ten fathoms away from us.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000024_000000.wav|"Ah, it's you, professor!" he said to me.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000105_000000.wav|"What's that, sir?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000135_000000.wav|I headed to the central companionway.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000110_000000.wav|Pronouncing these words in an extremely sharp tone, Captain Nemo gave me a curt bow.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000138_000002.wav|But as soon as his hands seized the railing, he was thrown backward in his turn.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000123_000000.wav|"Ah!" I put in.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000051_000000.wav|"A person can be both a cannibal and a decent man," Conseil replied, "just as a person can be both gluttonous and honorable. The one doesn't exclude the other."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000112_000001.wav|So I've just one thing to say to you: have faith in him and sleep in peace."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000136_000001.wav|But when the first islander laid hands on the companionway railing, he was flung backward by some invisible power, lord knows what!|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000009_000000.wav|We all three stood up, rifles to our shoulders, ready to answer any attack.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000130_000000.wav|"Professor Aronnax," Captain Nemo replied serenely, "the Nautilus's hatches aren't to be entered in that fashion even when they're open."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000136_000000.wav|The hatch lids fell back onto the outer plating. Twenty horrible faces appeared.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000066_000000.wav|And there was good reason to be excited!|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000017_000000.wav|In two minutes we were on the strand.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000079_000000.wav|The word "Enter!" answered me.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000027_000000.wav|"Savages."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000136_000002.wav|He ran off, howling in terror and wildly prancing around.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000038_000001.wav|Night had already fallen, because in this low latitude the sun sets quickly, without any twilight. I could see Gueboroa Island only dimly.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000040_000000.wav|The night passed without mishap.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000030_000000.wav|"Speaking for myself, sir, I've encountered them everywhere."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000089_000000.wav|"There, sir, all under control!" he told me after a few moments. "The skiff is in place and the hatches are closed.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000042_000004.wav|I noted some women among them, dressed from hip to knee in grass skirts held up by belts made of vegetation.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000040_000001.wav|No doubt the Papuans had been frightened off by the mere sight of this monster aground in the bay, because our hatches stayed open, offering easy access to the Nautilus's interior.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000015_000000.wav|The savages approached without running, but they favored us with a show of the greatest hostility.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000064_000000.wav|"Look at its spiral!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000038_000000.wav|I climbed onto the platform.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000066_000002.wav|Man uses his right hand more often than his left, and consequently his various instruments and equipment (staircases, locks, watch springs, etc) are designed to be used in a right to left manner. Now then, nature has generally obeyed this law in coiling her shells. They're right handed with only rare exceptions, and when by chance a shell's spiral is left-handed, collectors will pay its weight in gold for it.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000128_000000.wav|"How will they manage that?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000071_000000.wav|"A shell isn't worth a human life!" I told him.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000062_000000.wav|"Yes, my boy, it's a left-handed shell!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000082_000000.wav|"Very pressing.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000140_000002.wav|Anyone who touched it got a fearsome shock- and such a shock would have been fatal if Captain Nemo had thrown the full current from his equipment into this conducting cable! It could honestly be said that he had stretched between himself and his assailants a network of electricity no one could clear with impunity.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000101_000000.wav|As he spoke, Captain Nemo seemed deeply moved, an emotion I felt was to his credit.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000028_000002.wav|Where aren't there savages? And besides, are they any worse than men elsewhere, these people you call savages?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000106_000000.wav|"Like them, the Nautilus has run aground!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000046_000000.wav|So the skiff didn't leave shipside that day, much to the displeasure of mr Land who couldn't complete his provisions. The adroit Canadian spent his time preparing the meat and flour products he had brought from Gueboroa Island.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000138_000001.wav|Carried away by his violent instincts, Ned Land leaped up the companionway.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000104_000000.wav|"Even so, captain," I said, "there is one major similarity between Dumont d'Urville's sloops of war and the Nautilus."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000110_000001.wav|This was my dismissal, and I reentered my stateroom.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000134_000000.wav|"Well, come along and you'll see!"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000119_000002.wav|If not, many months might pass before it could leave its coral bed.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000034_000000.wav|"What's your count?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000096_000000.wav|"I'm certain of it."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000020_000000.wav|"Captain!" I said to him.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000070_000002.wav|Didn't master see that this man eater initiated the attack?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000137_000000.wav|Ten of his companions followed him.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000095_000000.wav|"Then, sir, you assume they'll board the ship?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000078_000000.wav|I went below to the lounge.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000037_000000.wav|The captain's fingers then ran over the instrument's keyboard, and I noticed that he touched only its black keys, which gave his melodies a basically Scottish color.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000072_000000.wav|"Oh, the rascal!" Conseil exclaimed.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000112_000000.wav|"My boy," I replied, "when I expressed the belief that these Papuan natives were a threat to his Nautilus, the captain answered me with great irony.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000005_000000.wav|The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000073_000002.wav|Hollowed from tree trunks, these dugouts were long, narrow, and well designed for speed, keeping their balance by means of two bamboo poles that floated on the surface of the water. They were maneuvered by skillful, half naked paddlers, and I viewed their advance with definite alarm.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000032_000000.wav|"Easy, professor, no cause for alarm."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000010_000000.wav|"Apes maybe?" Ned Land exclaimed.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000021_000000.wav|He didn't hear me.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000131_000000.wav|I gaped at the captain.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000061_000000.wav|"It can't be!" Conseil exclaimed.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000041_000001.wav|The island was soon on view through the dissolving mists, first its beaches, then its summits.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000098_000000.wav|On this note I was about to withdraw; but Captain Nemo detained me and invited me to take a seat next to him.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000023_000000.wav|He trembled, and turning around:|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000012_000000.wav|"Head for the skiff!" I said, moving toward the sea.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000137_000001.wav|All ten met the same fate.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000107_000000.wav|"The Nautilus is not aground, sir," Captain Nemo replied icily. "The Nautilus was built to rest on the ocean floor, and I don't need to undertake the arduous labors, the maneuvers d'Urville had to attempt in order to float off his sloops of war. The Zealous and the new Astrolabe wellnigh perished, but my Nautilus is in no danger.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000024_000002.wav|Was your herb gathering a success?"|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000074_000002.wav|Without thunderclaps, lightning bolts would be much less frightening, although the danger lies in the flash, not the noise.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000011_000001.wav|"Savages."|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/835/130876/835_130876_000068_000001.wav|Conseil pounced on his rifle and aimed at a savage swinging a sling just ten meters away from him. I tried to stop him, but his shot went off and shattered a bracelet of amulets dangling from the islander's arm.|835
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000029_000002.wav|That's why mrs Mingott felt she ought not to allow this slight on Countess Olenska to pass without consulting you."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000002_000000.wav|mrs van der Luyden's attitude said neither yes nor no, but always appeared to incline to clemency till her thin lips, wavering into the shadow of a smile, made the almost invariable reply: "I shall first have to talk this over with my husband."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000017_000000.wav|"Oh, it's really Newland's story," said his mother smiling; and proceeded to rehearse once more the monstrous tale of the affront inflicted on mrs Lovell Mingott.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000029_000000.wav|Newland Archer came to his mother's rescue.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000033_000001.wav|"It occurs to me, my dear, that the Countess Olenska is already a sort of relation-through Medora Manson's first husband.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000029_000001.wav|"Everybody in New York knows what you and cousin Louisa represent.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000036_000001.wav|"If Louisa's health allowed her to dine out-I wish you would say to mrs Lovell Mingott-she and I would have been happy to-er-fill the places of the Lawrence Leffertses at her dinner." He paused to let the irony of this sink in. "As you know, this is impossible." mrs Archer sounded a sympathetic assent.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000015_000000.wav|"Quite-quite," he reassured her.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000012_000000.wav|"Ah, there's a great deal to be said for that plan-indeed I think my uncle Egmont used to say he found it less agitating not to read the morning papers till after dinner," said mrs Archer responsively.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000031_000001.wav|"As long as a member of a well-known family is backed up by that family it should be considered-final."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000036_000000.wav|mr van der Luyden turned to mrs Archer.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000020_000000.wav|There was a silence during which the tick of the monumental ormolu clock on the white marble mantelpiece grew as loud as the boom of a minute gun.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000033_000002.wav|At any rate, she will be when Newland marries." He turned toward the young man.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000035_000000.wav|Husband and wife looked at each other again.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000000_000004.wav|She always, indeed, struck Newland Archer as having been rather gruesomely preserved in the airless atmosphere of a perfectly irreproachable existence, as bodies caught in glaciers keep for years a rosy life in death.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000009_000000.wav|The double doors had solemnly reopened and between them appeared mr Henry van der Luyden, tall, spare and frock coated, with faded fair hair, a straight nose like his wife's and the same look of frozen gentleness in eyes that were merely pale grey instead of pale blue.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000013_000000.wav|"Yes: my good father abhorred hurry.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000028_000000.wav|But instantly she became aware of her mistake.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000019_000000.wav|"Ah-" said mr van der Luyden, drawing a deep breath.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000035_000001.wav|Their pale eyes clung together in prolonged and serious consultation; then a faint smile fluttered over mrs van der Luyden's face.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000033_000003.wav|"Have you read this morning's Times, Newland?"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000028_000002.wav|But being shy and retiring persons, with no natural inclination for their part, they lived as much as possible in the sylvan solitude of Skuytercliff, and when they came to town, declined all invitations on the plea of mrs van der Luyden's health.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000016_000000.wav|"Then I should like Adeline to tell you-"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000033_000000.wav|"I had no idea," mr van der Luyden continued, "that things had come to such a pass." He paused, and looked at his wife again.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000003_000000.wav|She and mr van der Luyden were so exactly alike that Archer often wondered how, after forty years of the closest conjugality, two such merged identities ever separated themselves enough for anything as controversial as a talking over.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000036_000004.wav|I am sure Louisa will be as glad as I am if Countess Olenska will let us include her among our guests." He got up, bent his long body with a stiff friendliness toward his cousin, and added: "I think I have Louisa's authority for saying that she will herself leave the invitation to dine when she drives out presently: with our cards-of course with our cards."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000013_000001.wav|But now we live in a constant rush," said mr van der Luyden in measured tones, looking with pleasant deliberation about the large shrouded room which to Archer was so complete an image of its owners.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000035_000002.wav|She had evidently guessed and approved.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000000_000003.wav|Her fair hair, which had faded without turning grey, was still parted in flat overlapping points on her forehead, and the straight nose that divided her pale blue eyes was only a little more pinched about the nostrils than when the portrait had been painted.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000011_000001.wav|"In town my mornings are so much occupied that I find it more convenient to read the newspapers after luncheon."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000026_000000.wav|"We'll hope it has not quite come to that," said mr van der Luyden firmly.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000018_000000.wav|"Of course," she ended, "Augusta Welland and Mary Mingott both felt that, especially in view of Newland's engagement, you and Henry OUGHT TO KNOW."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000021_000000.wav|mr van der Luyden was the first to speak.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000020_000001.wav|Archer contemplated with awe the two slender faded figures, seated side by side in a kind of viceregal rigidity, mouthpieces of some remote ancestral authority which fate compelled them to wield, when they would so much rather have lived in simplicity and seclusion, digging invisible weeds out of the perfect lawns of Skuytercliff, and playing Patience together in the evenings.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000006_000000.wav|A footman appeared, to whom she gravely added: "If mr van der Luyden has finished reading the newspaper, please ask him to be kind enough to come."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000014_000000.wav|"But I hope you HAD finished your reading, Henry?" his wife interposed.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000004_000000.wav|mrs van der Luyden, however, who had seldom surprised any one, now surprised them by reaching her long hand toward the bell rope.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000005_000000.wav|"I think," she said, "I should like Henry to hear what you have told me."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000023_000000.wav|"I'm certain of it, sir.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000001_000000.wav|Like all his family, he esteemed and admired mrs van der Luyden; but he found her gentle bending sweetness less approachable than the grimness of some of his mother's old aunts, fierce spinsters who said "No" on principle before they knew what they were going to be asked.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000028_000001.wav|The van der Luydens were morbidly sensitive to any criticism of their secluded existence. They were the arbiters of fashion, the Court of last Appeal, and they knew it, and bowed to their fate.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000000_000002.wav|mrs van der Luyden still wore black velvet and Venetian point when she went into society-or rather (since she never dined out) when she threw open her own doors to receive it.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000034_000000.wav|"Why, yes, sir," said Archer, who usually tossed off half a dozen papers with his morning coffee.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000030_000000.wav|mrs van der Luyden glanced at her husband, who glanced back at her.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000031_000000.wav|"It is the principle that I dislike," said mr van der Luyden.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131259/225_131259_000003_000001.wav|But as neither had ever reached a decision without prefacing it by this mysterious conclave, mrs Archer and her son, having set forth their case, waited resignedly for the familiar phrase.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000038_000000.wav|"What a life for you!--" he groaned.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000025_000001.wav|"Oh, IS there no reason?"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000026_000000.wav|"Not if you staked your all on the success of my marriage.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000007_000002.wav|"We're damnably dull.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000029_000000.wav|"You too-oh, all this time, you too?"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000031_000003.wav|He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000008_000000.wav|Her eyes darkened, and he expected an indignant rejoinder.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000037_000001.wav|What her answer really said was: "If you lift a finger you'll drive me back: back to all the abominations you know of, and all the temptations you half guess." He understood it as clearly as if she had uttered the words, and the thought kept him anchored to his side of the table in a kind of moved and sacred submission.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000014_000002.wav|"And what do you make out that you've made of me?"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000002_000002.wav|dr Carver is a very clever man.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000024_000000.wav|He turned around without moving from his place.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000036_000002.wav|Not as long as we can look straight at each other like this."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000012_000000.wav|"Exquisite pleasures-it's something to have had them!" he felt like retorting; but the appeal in her eyes kept him silent.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000008_000001.wav|But she sat silent, as if thinking over what he had said, and he grew frightened lest she should answer that she wondered too.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000001_000000.wav|"But dr Carver-aren't you afraid of dr Carver?|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000010_000001.wav|Archer reddened to the temples, but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock about it if it were left undisturbed.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000009_000000.wav|At length she said: "I believe it's because of you."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000007_000003.wav|We've no character, no colour, no variety.--I wonder," he broke out, "why you don't go back?"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000007_000001.wav|And you like Beaufort because he's so unlike us." He looked about the bare room and out at the bare beach and the row of stark white village houses strung along the shore.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000002_000001.wav|"Oh, the Carver danger is over.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000045_000000.wav|They may have stood in that way for a long time, or only for a few moments; but it was long enough for her silence to communicate all she had to say, and for him to feel that only one thing mattered.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000006_000001.wav|But I used to; and he understands."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000034_000000.wav|She sat motionless, with lowered lids.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000035_000000.wav|"Not yet?|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000024_000001.wav|"And in that case there's no reason on earth why you shouldn't go back?" he concluded for her.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000015_000000.wav|She paled a little.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000044_000000.wav|At that he sprang up, forgetting everything but the sweetness of her face.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000017_000000.wav|Her paleness turned to a fugitive flush.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000021_000000.wav|"For that's the thing we've always got to think of-haven't we-by your own showing?" she insisted.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000005_000000.wav|Archer changed colour.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000013_000001.wav|For a long time I've hoped this chance would come: that I might tell you how you've helped me, what you've made of me-"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000004_000003.wav|"Do you suppose Christopher Columbus would have taken all that trouble just to go to the Opera with the Selfridge Merrys?"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000019_000000.wav|She lowered her voice.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000026_000002.wav|You gave me my first glimpse of a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000025_000000.wav|Her eyes were clinging to him desperately.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000036_000001.wav|"I promise you: not as long as you hold out.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000010_000000.wav|It was impossible to make the confession more dispassionately, or in a tone less encouraging to the vanity of the person addressed.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000015_000001.wav|"Of you?"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000030_000000.wav|For answer, she let the tears on her lids overflow and run slowly downward.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000002_000003.wav|He wants a rich wife to finance his plans, and Medora is simply a good advertisement as a convert."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000032_000000.wav|But after a moment the sense of waste and ruin overcame him.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000022_000000.wav|"My own showing?" he echoed, his blank eyes still on the sea.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000005_000001.wav|"And Beaufort-do you say these things to Beaufort?" he asked abruptly.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000040_000000.wav|"And mine a part of yours?"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000004_000001.wav|But, do you know, they interest me more than the blind conformity to tradition-somebody else's tradition-that I see among our own friends.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000027_000000.wav|"Oh, don't say that; when I'm enduring it!" she burst out, her eyes filling.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000017_000001.wav|"I thought-you promised-you were not to say such things today."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000034_000001.wav|"Oh-I shan't go yet!"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000047_000000.wav|"I won't go back," she said; and turning away she opened the door and led the way into the public dining room.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000013_000000.wav|"I want," she went on, "to be perfectly honest with you-and with myself.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000014_000000.wav|Archer sat staring beneath frowning brows.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000032_000001.wav|There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well have been half the world apart.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000037_000000.wav|He dropped into his chair.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000004_000002.wav|It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country." She smiled across the table.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000020_000000.wav|He stood in the window, drumming against the raised sash, and feeling in every fibre the wistful tenderness with which she had spoken her cousin's name.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000004_000000.wav|"To all sorts of new and crazy social schemes.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000018_000001.wav|None of you will ever see a bad business through!"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000031_000000.wav|Half the width of the room was still between them, and neither made any show of moving.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000026_000003.wav|It's beyond human enduring-that's all."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000036_000000.wav|At that she raised her clearest eyes.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000045_000001.wav|He must do nothing to make this meeting their last; he must leave their future in her care, asking only that she should keep fast hold of it.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000011_000000.wav|"At least," she continued, "it was you who made me understand that under the dullness there are things so fine and sensitive and delicate that even those I most cared for in my other life look cheap in comparison.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000002_000000.wav|She smiled.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000014_000001.wav|He interrupted her with a laugh.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000003_000000.wav|"A convert to what?"|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000031_000004.wav|His one terror was to do anything which might efface the sound and impression of her words; his one thought, that he should never again feel quite alone.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131276/225_131276_000001_000001.wav|I hear he's been staying with you at the Blenkers'."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000002_000001.wav|The house in itself was already an historic document, though not, of course, as venerable as certain other old family houses in University Place and lower Fifth Avenue.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000006_000001.wav|But at any rate it spared them the embarrassment of her presence, and the faint shadow that her unhappy past might seem to shed on their radiant future.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000005_000001.wav|That was how women with lovers lived in the wicked old societies, in apartments with all the rooms on one floor, and all the indecent propinquities that their novels described.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000008_000002.wav|I like all the novelties," said the ancestress, lifting the stone to her small bright orbs, which no glasses had ever disfigured.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000006_000002.wav|The visit went off successfully, as was to have been expected.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000006_000003.wav|Old mrs Mingott was delighted with the engagement, which, being long foreseen by watchful relatives, had been carefully passed upon in family council; and the engagement ring, a large thick sapphire set in invisible claws, met with her unqualified admiration.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000014_000001.wav|"Sit down-sit down, Beaufort: push up the yellow armchair; now I've got you I want a good gossip.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000016_000000.wav|In the hall, while mrs Welland and May drew on their furs, Archer saw that the Countess Olenska was looking at him with a faintly questioning smile.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000009_000000.wav|"Oh-" mrs Welland murmured, while the young man, smiling at his betrothed, replied: "As soon as ever it can, if only you'll back me up, mrs Mingott."|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000008_000000.wav|"old-fashioned eyes?|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000007_000000.wav|"It's the new setting: of course it shows the stone beautifully, but it looks a little bare to old-fashioned eyes," mrs Welland had explained, with a conciliatory side glance at her future son in law.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000005_000000.wav|Her visitors were startled and fascinated by the foreignness of this arrangement, which recalled scenes in French fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had never dreamed of.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000015_000001.wav|Old mrs Mingott had always professed a great admiration for Julius Beaufort, and there was a kind of kinship in their cool domineering way and their short cuts through the conventions.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000015_000000.wav|She had forgotten her relatives, who were drifting out into the hall under Ellen Olenska's guidance.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000017_000000.wav|"Of course you know already-about May and me," he said, answering her look with a shy laugh.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000012_000000.wav|There was a cousinly murmur of pleasure between the ladies, and mrs Mingott held out Ferrigiani's model to the banker.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000008_000005.wav|But it's the hand that sets off the ring, isn't it, my dear mr Archer?" and she waved one of her tiny hands, with small pointed nails and rolls of aged fat encircling the wrist like ivory bracelets.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000013_000000.wav|"Thanks.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000008_000008.wav|Her hand is large-it's these modern sports that spread the joints-but the skin is white.--And when's the wedding to be?" she broke off, fixing her eyes on Archer's face.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000010_000000.wav|"We must give them time to get to know each other a little better, mamma," mrs Welland interposed, with the proper affectation of reluctance; to which the ancestress rejoined: "Know each other? Fiddlesticks!|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000011_000000.wav|These successive statements were received with the proper expressions of amusement, incredulity and gratitude; and the visit was breaking up in a vein of mild pleasantry when the door opened to admit the Countess Olenska, who entered in bonnet and mantle followed by the unexpected figure of Julius Beaufort.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000002_000004.wav|She seemed in no hurry to have them come, for her patience was equalled by her confidence.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000003_000002.wav|A flight of smooth double chins led down to the dizzy depths of a still snowy bosom veiled in snowy muslins that were held in place by a miniature portrait of the late mr Mingott; and around and below, wave after wave of black silk surged away over the edges of a capacious armchair, with two tiny white hands poised like gulls on the surface of the billows.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/225/131256/225_131256_000002_000000.wav|A visit to mrs Manson Mingott was always an amusing episode to the young man.|225
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000024_000001.wav|Just now they seemed especially funny, because he was almost falling asleep while he talked.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000004_000000.wav|There was an air of solid comfort and cosiness about this house that rested her.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000012_000001.wav|She clasped the slender hand with her own plump fingers, and shook it heartily.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000005_000000.wav|"Oh, please do," Dora cried.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000002_000001.wav|The journey from Montreal had been long and lonely, the parting from her parents hard, and the thought of meeting the unknown relatives had weighed upon her mind and helped to make her unusually subdued.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000017_000001.wav|mr Merrithew had, as Jackie said, "the splendidest way of splaining things," and found something of interest to relate about almost every street of the little city.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000025_000000.wav|"Now, Susan, my very favourite song!"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000003_000000.wav|mrs Merrithew took the little newcomer to her room, had her trunks settled conveniently, and then left her to prepare for the late tea which was waiting for them all.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000023_000001.wav|I think life would be very dull without meals."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000011_000002.wav|But you,--ah, yes!|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000017_000000.wav|The walk that afternoon was one which Dora always remembered.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000024_000000.wav|These philosophical remarks rather astonished Dora, who was not yet accustomed to the contrast between Jack's sage reflections and his tender years.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000019_000001.wav|These willows she had often sketched, and Dora carried away a spray of the pale gray green leaves, in memory of her favourite story writer.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000004_000004.wav|Just over the side of the bed was a book shelf, quite empty, waiting for her favourite books.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000015_000000.wav|"That's the way with mother," Marjorie said to Dora after breakfast. "She never ends things up.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000013_000004.wav|As usual, it was "mother" who offered the most feasible plan.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000021_000001.wav|There were other things, too, to see, and many anecdotes to hear, so that it was a somewhat tired, though happy and hungry party which trudged home just in time for tea.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000012_000002.wav|So, in girlish romance and sudden resolution, the little maids sealed a compact which was never broken, and began a friendship which lasted and grew in beauty and strength all through their lives.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000019_000002.wav|It was one of Dora's ambitions, kept secret hitherto, but now confided to Marjorie, to write stories "something like mrs Ewing's."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000006_000000.wav|Marjorie laughed, as she patted the little bunch of blue gray fur in Dora's lap.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000013_000000.wav|At the breakfast table the next morning there was a merry discussion as to what should be done first to amuse Dora.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000013_000002.wav|This was approved of, but postponed for a day or two to allow for preparations and invitations.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000011_000003.wav|You are like my father, and besides, we are cousins, and that makes us understand each other.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000004_000001.wav|This room-which her aunt had told her was just opposite Marjorie's-was all furnished in the softest shades of brown and blue, her favourite colours.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000009_000001.wav|"I knew it as soon as I looked at you."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000009_000000.wav|Then they both laughed, and Marjorie, obeying one of her sudden impulses, threw her arms around Dora's neck and gave her a cousinly hug. "You and I will be friends, too," she said.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000013_000003.wav|mr Merrithew said "Let us go shooting bears," but even Jackie did not second this astounding proposition.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000022_000000.wav|And such a tea, suited to hearty outdoor appetites born of the good Canadian air!|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000004_000005.wav|While she sat and looked about in admiration, the door was pushed gently open, and a plump maltese kitten came in, gazed at her doubtfully a moment, and then climbed on her lap.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000020_000000.wav|They saw, too, the picturesque cottage in which a certain quaint old lady had attained to the ripe age of a hundred and six years,--a record of which Fredericton was justly proud.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000011_000004.wav|Let us be friends."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000003_000001.wav|When Dora was ready, she sat down in the little armchair that stood near a table piled with books, and looked about her contentedly.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000014_000000.wav|"Suppose, this morning," she said, "you just help Dora unpack, and make her thoroughly at home in the house and garden; then this afternoon perhaps your father will take you for a walk, and show Dora the house where mrs Ewing lived, and any other interesting places.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000026_000000.wav|And then Susan sang, in her soft, crooning voice "The maple leaf, the maple leaf, the maple leaf for ever!"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000004_000006.wav|Then Marjorie's bright face appeared at the door, and, "May I come in?" she asked.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000024_000002.wav|When mrs Merrithew saw him nodding, she rang, and the nurse-who, like Debby, was a family institution-came in and carried him off in her stalwart arms, to his little white bed.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000017_000002.wav|They went through the beautiful cathedral, and he told them how it had been built through the earnest efforts of the well-known and venerated Bishop Medley, who was afterward Metropolitan of Canada.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000010_000000.wav|Dora's dark brown eyes looked gravely into Marjorie's blue ones.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000013_000001.wav|Jackie, who had invited her to sit beside him and beamed at her approvingly over his porridge and cream, suggested a walk to his favourite candy store and the purchase of some sticks of "pure chocolate." Marjorie proposed a picnic at Old Government House.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000014_000001.wav|That would do for to day, wouldn't it?|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER two.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/119253/231_119253_000014_000002.wav|Then, day after to morrow we could have the picnic; and for the next week I have a magnificent idea, but I want to talk it over with your father," and she nodded and smiled at that gentleman in a way which made him almost as curious as the children.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000009_000000.wav|Spargo took a step towards the cottage: Breton pulled him back.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000036_000002.wav|Breton kept his eye on his captive; Spargo gave a glance at the two old men.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000046_000000.wav|Spargo began to search the prisoner's pockets.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000002.wav|We'll deal with mr Myerst here first.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000018_000002.wav|The only thing we can do is this-we must catch Myerst unawares.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000041_000001.wav|And Breton pointed Spargo to an old corner cupboard.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000039_000004.wav|He won't shift that chair in a hurry."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000005_000001.wav|"It's Myerst-the Safe Deposit man. Myerst!"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000039_000001.wav|He kept Myerst covered while Spargo made play with the rope.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000025_000002.wav|Be ready!--when he gets that second cheque I guess he'll be off."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000035_000003.wav|Now, mr Myerst, right about face!|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000003_000000.wav|"And how on earth can I waste time guessing?" he exclaimed.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000014_000000.wav|"Myerst is in possession of whatever secret they have, and he's followed them down here to blackmail them.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000007_000001.wav|"Myerst!|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000028_000001.wav|The door opened.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000035_000001.wav|"Sure he's got nothing else on him that's dangerous, Spargo?|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000038_000003.wav|Mark that, my fine fellows!"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000032_000001.wav|Breton laughed softly.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000028_000000.wav|Breton drew back into the angle of the porch; Spargo quitted his protecting bush and took the other angle.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000016_000000.wav|"I daresay you're right," he said.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000020_000003.wav|For anything we know Myerst may be armed."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000042_000002.wav|Now, guardian," he continued, when Spargo had carried out this order, "what was he after? Shall I suggest it?|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000008.wav|Now, guardian, what was this fellow after?"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000035_000005.wav|March!"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000033_000002.wav|Spargo-may I trouble you to see what mr Myerst carries in his pockets?|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000024_000004.wav|And Spargo twisted his head round to his companion.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000024_000002.wav|At the table in the middle of the floor the three men sat|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000021_000000.wav|"Well?" said Spargo.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000033_000006.wav|See if he's got a weapon of any sort on him, Spargo-that's the important thing."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000004.wav|"Guardian," continued Breton, "don't be frightened!|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000022_000004.wav|Come on, Spargo; it's beginning to get light already."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000018_000001.wav|But that's impossible-I know that cottage.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000043_000002.wav|"Blackmail!|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000046_000004.wav|And there was an open cheque, signed by Cardlestone for ten thousand pounds, and another, with Elphick's name at the foot, also open, for half that amount.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000043_000000.wav|Cardlestone began to whimper; Elphick nodded his head.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000003.wav|Now, Myerst, my man, sit down in that chair-it's the heaviest the place affords.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000018_000004.wav|Look here!"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000043_000004.wav|He-he got money-papers-from us.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000001.wav|"Don't alarm yourself.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000038_000001.wav|"You damned young bully!" he exclaimed.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000022_000001.wav|If things turn out as I think they will, Myerst, when he's got what he wants, will be off.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000051_000002.wav|And-and he says he's the fullest evidence against Cardlestone-and against me as an accessory after the fact."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000033_000003.wav|Go through them carefully.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000043_000003.wav|That was it-blackmail.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000024_000003.wav|Cardlestone's face was in the shadow; Myerst had his back to the window; old Elphick bending over the table was laboriously writing with shaking fingers.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000036_000000.wav|Myerst obeyed this peremptory order with more curses.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000043_000001.wav|"Yes, yes!" he muttered.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000039_000002.wav|"Don't be afraid of hurting him, Spargo," he said.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000033_000004.wav|Not for papers or documents-just now.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000007_000000.wav|"Myerst!" he almost shouted.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000023_000001.wav|Together, he and Spargo made their way to the front of the cottage.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000002.wav|He dropped his revolver into his pocket and turned to the two old men.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000054_000003.wav|Now we must have the police here." He sat down at the table and drew the writing materials to him.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000035_000000.wav|"Excellent!" said Breton, laughing again.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000006_000000.wav|Spargo started as if something had bitten him.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000048_000000.wav|Old Cardlestone began to whimper afresh; Elphick turned a troubled face on his ward.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000005.wav|Spargo, you see that coil of rope there.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000031_000003.wav|Quick!"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000012_000001.wav|"They're going through a quantity of papers. The two old gentlemen look very ill and very miserable.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000027_000001.wav|He's coming."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000053_000002.wav|But-he's so clever that-that----"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000039_000000.wav|"We'll see about that later," answered Breton.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000018_000000.wav|"I wish," he said at last, "I wish we could get in there and overhear what's going on.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000000.wav|Spargo spliced his man to the chair in a fashion that would have done credit to a sailor.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000036_000001.wav|The three walked into the cottage.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000007_000004.wav|Then----"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000042_000001.wav|Give them both a stiff dose: they've broken up.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000014_000001.wav|That's my notion."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000000.wav|"Wait a moment," said Breton, soothingly.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000052_000000.wav|"And-it's a lie?" asked Breton.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000054_000005.wav|"I'm going to write a note to the superintendent of police at Hawes-there's a farm half a mile from here where I can get a man to ride down to Hawes with the note.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000013_000000.wav|"What notion?"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000004.wav|Into it, now!|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000056_000000.wav|"Must the police come?" he said.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000037_000006.wav|Tie Myerst up-hand and foot-to that chair.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000016_000001.wav|"Now, what's to be done?"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000050_000001.wav|"Come-tell me the truth now."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000026_000000.wav|Breton smiled grimly and nodded.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000022_000003.wav|You can report to me, and when Myerst comes out I'll cover him.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000012_000000.wav|"Well," answered Breton.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000001_000000.wav|THE WHIP HAND|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000005_000000.wav|"Steady, Spargo, steady!" he said.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000010_000000.wav|"Wait!" he said.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000054_000004.wav|"Look here, Spargo," he continued.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000041_000000.wav|Old Elphick lifted his head and shook it; he was plainly on the verge of tears; as for Cardlestone, it was evident that his nerve was completely gone.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000015_000000.wav|Spargo thought awhile, pacing up and down the river bank.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000039_000003.wav|"Tie him well and strong.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000038_000000.wav|Myerst suddenly laughed.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000010_000002.wav|I'd better tell you what they're doing."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000005.wav|And don't you be frightened, either, mr Cardlestone.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000031_000001.wav|"We are glad to meet you so unexpectedly.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000024_000000.wav|The interior into which he looked was rough and comfortless in the extreme.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000034_000001.wav|And he forthwith drew out and exhibited a revolver, while Myerst, finding his tongue, cursed them both, heartily and with profusion.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000020_000002.wav|Now it'll come in handy.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000031_000002.wav|And-I must trouble you to put up your hands.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000028_000002.wav|And they heard Myerst's voice, threatening, commanding in tone.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000054_000002.wav|That may account for a good many things.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000026_000001.wav|A moment later Spargo whispered again.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000007_000002.wav|Good Lord!--why did I never think of him?|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000045_000001.wav|"Spargo, let's see what he has on him."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000023_000002.wav|Arrived at the door, Breton posted himself in the porch, motioning to Spargo to creep in behind the bushes and to look through the window.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000042_000000.wav|"Spargo," he said, "I'm pretty sure you'll find whisky in there.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000036_000003.wav|Cardlestone, white and shaking, was lying back in his chair; Elphick, scarcely less alarmed, had risen, and was coming forward with trembling limbs.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000057_000000.wav|"The police must come," answered Breton firmly.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000008_000000.wav|"I don't know why you should have thought of him," said Breton. "But-he's there."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000031_000000.wav|"Good morning, mr Myerst," said Breton with cold and ironic politeness.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000046_000006.wav|He turned to old Elphick.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000044_000000.wav|Breton turned on the captive with a look of contempt.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000045_000000.wav|"I thought as much, mr Myerst," he said.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000056_000001.wav|"Must----"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000004_000000.wav|Breton laughed softly.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000017_000000.wav|Breton, too, considered matters.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000055_000000.wav|Elphick began to move in his corner.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000042_000003.wav|Was it-blackmail?"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000040_000007.wav|It seems to me that mr Spargo and I came just in time.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000057_000001.wav|"Go ahead with your wire, Spargo, while I write this note."|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000027_000000.wav|"Look out, Breton!|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000051_000000.wav|"He's been investigating-so he says," answered Elphick.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000010_000001.wav|"We've got to discuss this.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000023_000003.wav|And Spargo noiselessly followed his directions and slightly parting the branches which concealed him looked in through the uncurtained glass.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000020_000000.wav|"That's a useful thing to have, Spargo," he remarked.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000003_000001.wav|"Who is he?"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000033_000005.wav|We can leave that matter-we've plenty of time.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000002_000000.wav|Spargo, almost irritable from desire to get at close grips with the objects of his long journey, shook off Breton's hand with a growl of resentment.|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/231/127936/231_127936_000047_000001.wav|What hold has he on you?"|231
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000005_000001.wav|They had things worth while to be proud of; and they had met him as a son and brother.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000007_000003.wav|Freckles did not feel that he deserved it.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000015_000001.wav|The man isn't made who wouldn't lay down the life of him for her.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000023_000003.wav|I'll need to come like lightning, and Duncan has no extra horse, so I'm thinking you'd best get me one-or perhaps a wheel would be better.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000002.wav|You could stake your life on it, they'll be coming back.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000032_000005.wav|Damn them, if singing will do it, I'll raise them from the benches!"|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000023_000006.wav|A wheel would cost less and be faster than a horse, and would take less care.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000020_000000.wav|"What?"|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000028_000003.wav|Then he went to the trail, with a new expression on his face and a strange throbbing in his heart.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000003_000000.wav|Stretching the length of the limb, he thought deeply, though he was not thinking of Black Jack or Wessner.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000005_000004.wav|He failed to decide, because he never had known others similar to them; but how he loved them!|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000009_000002.wav|Also, he was much disappointed.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000025_000003.wav|He did not propose to have a second man unless it were absolutely necessary, for he had been alone so long that he loved the solitude, his chickens, and flowers.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000030_000001.wav|She had stepped in one mucky spot and left a sharp impression.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000001_000000.wav|Wherein Freckles Wins Honor and Finds a Footprint on the Trail|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000017_000004.wav|I never saw much shooting, but if that wasn't the nearest to miss I ever want to see!|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000028_000002.wav|He went and picked it up, oh! so carefully, gazing at it with hungry eyes, but touching it only to carry it to his case, where he hung it on the shining handlebar of the new wheel and locked it among his treasures.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000029_000001.wav|The big bully was not a man to give up his purpose, or to have the hat swept from his head with a bullet and bear it meekly.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000007_000002.wav|The gang were shouting themselves hoarse for the Limberlost guard.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000009_000001.wav|The Boss scarcely could believe his senses.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000006_000000.wav|In the world where he was going soon, were the majority like them, or were they of the hypocrite and bun throwing classes?|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000029_000000.wav|What Black Jack's next move would be he could not imagine, but that there would be a move of some kind was certain.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000022_000001.wav|As soon as I feel that we have the rarest of the stuff out below, we will come.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000010_000000.wav|"I have been almost praying all the way over, Freckles," he said, "that you would have some evidence by which we could arrest those fellows and get them out of our way, but this will never do.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000025_000004.wav|The thought of having a stranger to all his ways come and meddle with his arrangements, frighten his pets, pull his flowers, and interrupt him when he wanted to study, so annoyed him that he was blinded to his real need for help.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000022_000004.wav|Jack has been shooting twenty years to your one, and it stands to reason that you are no match for him.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000008_000002.wav|The gang drove in and finished felling the tree.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000004.wav|Wessner may not have the pluck, unless he is half drunk.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000026_000000.wav|With McLean it was a case of letting his sober, better judgment be overridden by the boy he was growing so to love that he could not endure to oppose him, and to have Freckles keep his trust and win alone meant more than any money the Boss might lose.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000001.wav|"They're not going to be taking that.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000005_000003.wav|What kind of people were they and where did they belong among the classes he knew?|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000031_000000.wav|When he reached his room, he tenderly laid the hat upon his bookshelf, and to wear off his awkwardness, mounted his wheel and went spinning on trail again.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000027_000000.wav|The following morning McLean brought the wheel, and Freckles took it to the trail to test it.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000032_000000.wav|"I wonder what she was going to say of me voice," he whispered.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000008_000003.wav|McLean was angry beyond measure at this attempt on his property, for in their haste to fell the tree the thieves had cut too high and wasted a foot and a half of valuable timber.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000002_000001.wav|Considering what they had been through, they never would come again.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000029_000002.wav|Moreover, Wessner would cling to his revenge with a Dutchman's singleness of mind.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000007_000000.wav|He had forgotten the excitement of the morning and the passing of time when distant voices aroused him, and he gently lifted his head.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000032_000001.wav|"She never got it said, but from the face of her, I believe she was liking it fairly well.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000031_000004.wav|He removed his hat, carefully lifted the bark, and gazed lovingly at the imprint.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000030_000002.wav|The afternoon sun had baked it hard, and the horses' hoofs had not obliterated any part of it, as they had in so many places.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000003_000002.wav|No other woman whom he ever had known would.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000017_000002.wav|The Bird Woman told her distinctly to lie low and blaze away high, just to help scare them.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000003_000001.wav|Would the Bird Woman and the Angel come again?|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000023_000002.wav|I'll just be getting wind of them, and then make tracks for you.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000004_000004.wav|They made him feel they cared that he was there, and that they would have been glad to see him elsewhere.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000017_000000.wav|"She scared all the breath out of me body," admitted Freckles.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000031_000002.wav|When he came to the bark, he veered far to one side and smiled at it in passing.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000007_000004.wav|He would have given much to be able to go to the men and explain, but to McLean only could he tell his story.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000023_000000.wav|"No one, sir," said Freckles emphatically.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000011_000000.wav|"No, indeed; nor the Angel, either, sir," said Freckles.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000028_000001.wav|In the excitement of yesterday all of them had forgotten it.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000031_000001.wav|It was like flying, for the path was worn smooth with his feet and baked hard with the sun almost all the way.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000006.wav|And the next time-" Freckles hesitated.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000004_000000.wav|What were the people in the big world like?|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000005_000002.wav|With them he could, for the only time in his life, forget the lost hand that every day tortured him with a new pang.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000016_000000.wav|"Did you say she handled one of the revolvers?" asked McLean.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000025_000000.wav|As they walked to the cabin, McLean insisted on another guard, but Freckles was stubbornly set on fighting his battle alone.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000004_000002.wav|There had been people at the Home, who exchanged a stilted, perfunctory kindness for their salaries.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000030_000005.wav|He would not have ventured a caress on her hat any more than on her person, but this was different. Surely a footprint on a trail might belong to anyone who found and wanted it.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000004_000001.wav|His knowledge was so very limited.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000012_000000.wav|"The Angel?" queried the astonished McLean.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000033_000001.wav|Then he arose, appearing as if he had been drinking at the fountain of gladness.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000030_000003.wav|Freckles stood fascinated, gazing at it.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000008_000001.wav|McLean shook hands with him warmly, but big Duncan gathered him into his arms and hugged him as a bear and choked over a few words of praise.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000028_000004.wav|He was not in the least afraid of anything that morning.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000024_000000.wav|"Yes," said McLean; "and if you didn't have a first-class wheel, you never could cross the corduroy on it at all."|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000032_000003.wav|That's what they all thought at the Home.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000008_000000.wav|At the sight of Freckles the men threw up their hats and cheered.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000000.wav|"Of course!" said Freckles.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000005_000000.wav|Now here was another class, that had all they needed of the world's best and were engaged in doing work that counted.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000009_000000.wav|When the last wagon rolled away, McLean sat on the stump and Freckles told the story he was aching to tell.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000003.wav|At least, Black Jack will.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000007_000001.wav|Nearer and nearer they came, and as the heavy wagons rumbled down the east trail he could hear them plainly.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000017_000001.wav|"Seems that her father has taught her to shoot.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000022_000003.wav|It won't do to leave you here longer alone.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000014_000000.wav|"I know her father well," said McLean at last, "and I have often seen her.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000025_000002.wav|If the Bird Woman was going to give up the Little Chicken series, he would yield to the second guard, solely for the sake of her work and the presence of the Angel in the Limberlost.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000031_000003.wav|Suddenly he was off the wheel, kneeling beside it.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000019_000005.wav|Then he'd be a terror.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000032_000004.wav|Well, if it is, I'll just shut me eyes, think of me little room, the face of her watching, and the heart of her beating, and I'll raise them.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000023_000004.wav|I used to do extra work for the Home doctor, and he would let me take his bicycle to ride around the place.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000018_000000.wav|"Now, will they come back?" asked McLean.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000002_000002.wav|His heart sank until he had palpitation in his wading boots.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/149735/1422_149735_000017_000005.wav|Scared the life near out of me body with the fear that she'd drop one of them.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000006_000009.wav|They had kicked in a myriad differing ways-wrathfully, sweetly, noisily, softly, smilingly, tearfully, pathetically and patronizingly; but they had all kicked; with the result that woman had now become to George not so much a flaming inspiration or a tender goddess as something to be dodged-tactfully, if possible; but, if not possible, by open flight.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000013_000001.wav|On a mat outside lay a letter.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000009_000005.wav|This thing wanted thinking over.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000012_000000.wav|He dressed moodily, and left the room to go down to breakfast. Breakfast would at least alleviate this sinking feeling which was unmanning him.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000024_000002.wav|But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000007_000002.wav|A flicker of a match, and there is an explosion.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000008_000001.wav|Her bright eyes, looking into his, had touched off the spiritual trinitrotoluol which he had been storing up for so long. Up in the air in a million pieces had gone the prudence and self restraint of a lifetime.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000010_000001.wav|His faith in his luck sustained him.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000008.wav|No subject here for flippant jest.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000020_000000.wav|"Thank you ever so much again for all your wonderful kindness.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000007.wav|Indeed, thinking over the affair in all its aspects as he dried himself after his tub, George could not see how it could possibly turn out any other way.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000006_000008.wav|Some had kicked about their musical numbers, some about their love scenes; some had grumbled about their exit lines, others about the lines of their second act frocks.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000009_000001.wav|In the first place, he did not know the girl's name.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000006_000001.wav|Not really in love.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000023_000000.wav|What a girl!|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000024_000003.wav|On George, hopefully watching for something to turn up, she smiled almost immediately.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000028_000005.wav|He paid his bill and left the restaurant.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000023_000003.wav|The sweetness of her to bother to send him a note!|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000029_000001.wav|Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and what the book with its customary curtness called "one d."--Patricia Maud.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000003_000002.wav|Then he sat up in bed with a jerk.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000005.wav|"Ships that pass in the night!"|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000000.wav|"Outside the 'Carlton,' 'tis averred, these stirring happenings occurred.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000005.wav|'What means this conduct? Prithee stop!' exclaimed that admirable slop.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000026_000000.wav|"THE PEER AND THE POLICEMAN."|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000024_000001.wav|From such masterful spirits she turns away.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000030_000001.wav|In the pocket closest to his throbbing heart was a single ticket to Belpher.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000004_000000.wav|There was no doubt about it.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000014.wav|Well!|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000025_000003.wav|This particular happening the writer had apparently considered worthy of being dignified by rhyme.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000007_000001.wav|Take a man of naturally quixotic temperament, a man of chivalrous instincts and a feeling for romance, and cut him off for five years from the exercise of those qualities, and you get an accumulated store of foolishness only comparable to an escape of gas in a sealed room or a cellarful of dynamite.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000004_000006.wav|George sprang lightly out of bed, and turned on the cold tap in the bath room.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000006_000004.wav|During the last five years women had found him more or less cold.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000016.wav|But British Justice is severe alike on pauper and on peer; with even hand she holds the scale; a thumping fine, in lieu of gaol, induced Lord b to feel remorse and learn he mustn't punch the Force."|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000023_000004.wav|More than ever before was he convinced that he had met his ideal, and more than ever before was he determined that a triviality like being unaware of her name and address should not keep him from her. It was not as if he had no clue to go upon.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000015_000000.wav|"Dear mr Bevan" (it began).|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000004_000005.wav|Even the sound of someone in the street below whistling one of his old compositions, of which he had heartily sickened twelve months before, was pleasant to his ears, and this in spite of the fact that the unseen whistler only touched the key in odd spots and had a poor memory for tunes.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000002.wav|The day was fair, the sky was blue, and everything was peaceful too, when suddenly a well dressed gent engaged in heated argument and roundly to abuse began another well dressed gentleman.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000010_000006.wav|A fellow could not expect Luck to do everything for him.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000028_000000.wav|George's mutton chop congealed on the plate, untouched.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000012.wav|He gave the constable a punch just where the latter kept his lunch.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000016_000000.wav|With a sudden leap of the heart he looked at the signature.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000010_000007.wav|He must supplement its assistance with his own efforts.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000005_000000.wav|It had come at last.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000003.wav|His suede gloved fist he raised on high to dot the other in the eye.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000003_000003.wav|He had remembered that he was in love.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000023_000002.wav|The resource of her, to think of pawning that brooch!|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000006.wav|It might easily turn out that way.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000019_000001.wav|I had to.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000010.wav|Let us be brief.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000014_000002.wav|He opened the envelope.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000012_000001.wav|And he could think more briskly after a cup or two of coffee.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000023_000008.wav|Especially a man with luck like his.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000004_000002.wav|He felt young and active.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000002.wav|What would Sherlock Holmes have done?|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000028_000002.wav|This was no time for food. Rightly indeed had he relied upon his luck.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000028_000001.wav|The French fried potatoes cooled off, unnoticed.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000024_000000.wav|Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER five.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000003.wav|Concentrated thought supplied no answer to the question; and it was at this point that the cheery optimism with which he had begun the day left George and gave place to a grey gloom.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000019_000002.wav|I saw Percy driving up in a cab, and knew that he must have followed us. He did not see me, so I got away all right.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000014_000001.wav|It was also in pencil, and strange to him.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000010_000005.wav|To fail now, to allow this girl to pass out of his life merely because he did not know who she was or where she was, would stamp him a feeble adventurer.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000027_000013.wav|The constable said 'Well!|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000018_000000.wav|"DEAR mr|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000018_000001.wav|BEVAN,|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000004.wav|A dreadful phrase, haunting in its pathos, crept into his mind.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000013_000000.wav|He opened the door.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000023_000006.wav|It narrowed the thing down absurdly.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000010_000003.wav|He had gained much; it now remained for him to push his success to the happy conclusion.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000003_000000.wav|George awoke next morning with a misty sense that somehow the world had changed.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000010_000004.wav|The driver of Luck must be replaced by the spoon-or, possibly, the niblick-of Ingenuity.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000028_000003.wav|It had stood by him nobly.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000011_000001.wav|Well, nothing much, if it came to that, except the knowledge that she lived some two hours by train out of London, and that her journey started from Waterloo Station.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000007_000000.wav|The psychological effect of such a state of things is not difficult to realize.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146111/1422_146111_000006_000000.wav|George had never been in love before.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000009_000003.wav|She had felt from the first that such a request should be made by her in person and not through the medium of writing, but surely it was incredible that a man like George, who had been through so much for her and whose only reason for being in the neighbourhood was to help her, could have coldly refused without even a word.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000013_000003.wav|It was enough to break a boy's heart; and it completely spoiled Albert's appetite-a phenomenon attributed, I am glad to say, in the Servants' Hall to reaction from recent excesses.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000003_000001.wav|His uncle Francis, the Bishop, when he tackled him in the garden on the subject of Intemperance-for Uncle Francis, like thousands of others, had taken it for granted, on reading the report of the encounter with the policeman and Percy's subsequent arrest, that the affair had been the result of a drunken outburst-had no inkling of the volcanic emotions that seethed in his nephew's bosom.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000009_000002.wav|In black and white she had asked George to go to London and see Geoffrey and arrange for the passage-through himself as a sort of clearing house-of letters between Geoffrey and herself.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000015_000001.wav|He has a long garden implement in his hand, and he is sending up the death rate in slug circles with a devastating rapidity.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER seventeen.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000001.wav|Centuries before we were born or thought of there was a widely press agented boy in Sparta who even went so far as to let a fox gnaw his tender young stomach without permitting the discomfort inseparable from such a proceeding to interfere with either his facial expression or his flow of small talk.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000009_000001.wav|That is to say, she resolutely kept herself from accepting the only explanation of the episode that seemed possible.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000008_000003.wav|A deep, dangerous, dastardly stripling this, who fought to win and only to win.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000017_000000.wav|And the boom is a death knell.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000010.wav|He throws back his head and bellows.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000006.wav|Observe Bertram the Bull when things are not going just as he could wish.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000003_000003.wav|He little knew that, but for the conventions (which frown on the practice of murdering bishops), Percy would gladly have strangled him with his bare hands and jumped upon the remains.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000007_000000.wav|"No answer!|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000011_000001.wav|The little brute was suffering torments.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000009_000005.wav|Now, more than ever, she felt alone in a hostile world.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000005_000000.wav|Foiled in this fashion, she had fallen back in desperation on her second line of attack.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000004_000002.wav|Twice, since the occasion when the discovery of Lord Marshmoreton at the cottage had caused her to abandon her purpose of going in and explaining everything to George, had she attempted to make the journey; and each time some trifling, maddening accident had brought about failure.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000005_000003.wav|She had given it to Albert to deliver and Albert had returned empty handed.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000011_000002.wav|He was showering anonymous Advice to the Lovelorn on Reggie Byng-excellent stuff, culled from the pages of weekly papers, of which there was a pile in the housekeeper's room, the property of a sentimental lady's maid-and nothing seemed to come of it.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000015_000000.wav|Hear him now as he toils.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000012.wav|Instances could be readily multiplied.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000018_000001.wav|It gives one to think.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000005_000002.wav|It had taken up much of one afternoon, this note, for it was not easy to write; and it had resulted in nothing.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000013.wav|Deposit a charge of shot in some outlying section of Thomas the Tiger, and note the effect.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000008.wav|He snorts.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000003.wav|But, while this feat may be said to have established a record never subsequently lowered, there is no doubt that almost every day in modern times men and women are performing similar and scarcely less impressive miracles of self restraint.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000003_000000.wav|Lord Belpher, for example, though he limped rather painfully, showed nothing of the baffled fury which was reducing his weight at the rate of ounces a day.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000004_000000.wav|Lord Belpher's case, inasmuch as he took himself extremely seriously and was not one of those who can extract humour even from their own misfortunes, was perhaps the hardest which comes under our notice; but his sister Maud was also experiencing mental disquietude of no mean order.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000011.wav|He is upset, and he doesn't care who knows it.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000012_000000.wav|The choicest quotations from the works of such established writers as "Aunt Charlotte" of Forget Me Not and "Doctor Cupid", the heart expert of Home Chat, expended themselves fruitlessly on Reggie.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000008_000002.wav|He had not even bothered to read it.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000005.wav|Animals care nothing about keeping up appearances.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000010_000000.wav|Yet, to her guests she was bright and entertaining.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000017_000001.wav|As it rings softly out on the pleasant spring air, another stout slug has made the Great Change.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000014_000002.wav|He works in his rose garden with a new vim, whistling or even singing to himself stray gay snatches of melodies popular in the 'eighties.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000009_000000.wav|Maud could not understand it.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000011_000003.wav|Every day, sometimes twice and thrice a day, he would leave on Reggie's dressing table significant notes similar in tone to the one which he had placed there on the night of the ball; but, for all the effect they appeared to exercise on their recipient, they might have been blank pages.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000004_000003.wav|Once, just as she was starting, her aunt Augusta had insisted on joining her for what she described as "a nice long walk"; and the second time, when she was within a bare hundred yards of her objective, some sort of a cousin popped out from nowhere and forced his loathsome company on her.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000009_000004.wav|And yet what else was she to think?|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000011_000000.wav|Albert, I am happy to say, was thoroughly miserable.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000005_000001.wav|She had written a note to George, explaining the whole situation in good, clear phrases and begging him as a man of proved chivalry to help her.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000009.wav|He paws the ground.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000004_000001.wav|Everything had gone wrong with Maud. Barely a mile separated her from George, that essential link in her chain of communication with Geoffrey Raymond; but so thickly did it bristle with obstacles and dangers that it might have been a mile of No Man's Land.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000013_000002.wav|On three separate occasions had Albert been revolted by the sight of his protege in close association with the Faraday girl-once in a boat on the lake and twice in his grey car.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000003_000002.wav|He came away from the interview, indeed, feeling that the boy had listened attentively and with a becoming regret, and that there was hope for him after all, provided that he fought the impulse.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000007_000001.wav|But there must be an answer!"|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000007.wav|He stamps.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000000.wav|The gift of hiding private emotion and keeping up appearances before strangers is not, as many suppose, entirely a product of our modern civilization.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000013_000001.wav|So far from rendering himself indispensable to Maud by constant little attentions, Reggie, to the disgust of his backer and supporter, seemed to spend most of his time with Alice Faraday.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000001_000004.wav|Of all the qualities which belong exclusively to Man and are not shared by the lower animals, this surely is the one which marks him off most sharply from the beasts of the field.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000008_000004.wav|The ticket marked "R.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000018_000000.wav|It is peculiar, this gaiety.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1422/146123/1422_146123_000002_000000.wav|In the days which followed Lord Marshmoreton's visit to George at the cottage, not a few of the occupants of Belpher Castle had their mettle sternly tested in this respect; and it is a pleasure to be able to record that not one of them failed to come through the ordeal with success.|1422
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000016_000007.wav|We fought them until dark, all the time driving them before us.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000041_000000.wav|"We can never do it; it's too steep; the wagons will run over the mules," said another wagon master.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000012_000003.wav|It was hard to convince Pat, however, of the truth.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000031_000001.wav|A light was still burning in the General's tent, he having remained awake, anxiously awaiting my return.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000037_000000.wav|"That will do.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000004_000000.wav|"All right, Colonel; send along a wagon or two to bring in the meat," I said.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000054_000002.wav|He then picked out five hundred of the best men and horses, and, taking his pack train with him, started south for the Canadian River, leaving the rest of the troops at the supply camp.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000006_000003.wav|He came up rather angrily, and demanded an explanation.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000025_000003.wav|Looking in the direction whence the shot had come I saw two Indians, and at once turned my gun loose on them, but in the excitement of the moment I missed my aim.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000050_000000.wav|"Where's your command?|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000036_000002.wav|How does that beautiful spot down in the valley suit you?" I asked him.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000038_000000.wav|"By the time you are located in your camp, your wagons shall be there," said i|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000023_000000.wav|"Well, Cody, go ahead," said he; "I'll leave it to you; but remember that I don't want a dry camp."|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000006_000000.wav|The following afternoon he again requested me to go out and get some fresh buffalo meat.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000036_000000.wav|"Never you mind the train, General.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000039_000002.wav|The wagon train was a mile in the rear, and when it came up one of the drivers asked, "How are we going down there?"|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000031_000000.wav|It was eleven o'clock at night when I got back to the camp.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000037_000001.wav|I can easily descend with the cavalry, but how to get the wagons down there is a puzzler to me," said he.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000026_000001.wav|The two Indians who had fired at me, and had killed my horse, were retreating across the creek on a beaver dam.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000005_000000.wav|"I am not in the habit of sending out my wagons until I know that there is something to be hauled in; kill your buffaloes first, and then I'll send out the wagons," was the Colonel's reply.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000017_000002.wav|Major Brown declared it was a crack shot, because it broke the plate.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000025_000002.wav|I disentangled myself, and jumped behind the dead body.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000013_000001.wav|None of these, however, discovering Indians, they all returned to camp about the same time, finding it in a state of great excitement, it having been attacked a few hours previously by a party of Indians, who had succeeded in killing two men and in making off with sixty horses belonging to Company h|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000043_000001.wav|We now started the wagon down the hill.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000007_000000.wav|"I can't allow any such business as this, Cody," said he.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000053_000002.wav|The camp presented a pitiful sight, indeed.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000043_000003.wav|Three other wagons immediately followed in the same way, and in half an hour every wagon was in camp, without the least accident having occurred.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000043_000000.wav|I told Wilson, the chief wagon master, to bring on his mess wagon, which was at the head of the train, and I would try the experiment at least. Wilson drove the team and wagon to the brink of the hill, and following my directions he brought out some extra chains with which we locked the wheels on each side, and then rough locked them.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000002_000002.wav|The first night we camped on the south fork of Big Creek, four miles west of Hays City.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000024_000000.wav|"No danger of that," said I; and then I rode on, leaving him to return to the command.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000026_000000.wav|On the opposite side of the creek, going over the hill, I observed a few lodges moving rapidly away, and also some mounted warriors, who could see me, and who kept blazing away with their guns.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000039_000000.wav|"All right, Cody, I'll leave it to you, as you seem to want to be boss," he replied, pleasantly.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000026_000006.wav|The redskins whirled and made off.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000036_000001.wav|You say you are looking for a good camp.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7733/106800/7733_106800_000033_000000.wav|"Cody, we're in a nice fix now," said General Carr.|7733
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000013_000002.wav|But the world, even the religious world, has always been ungrateful to its most generous benefactors.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000011_000001.wav|And while one is grinding such chaff in the theological mill, he may as well have a turn at the Atonement, which is, in fact, the essence of the dogma of the Incarnation.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000004.wav|The wise man finds himself surrounded and obstructed by certain concrete errors, and he attacks these errors with relative truths.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000014_000002.wav|Little matters whence we sprang; we are what we are.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000006_000001.wav|His words, as reported by the Evangelists, are ever flowing fountains of spiritual refreshments; and I feel that he was in himself even far more wise and good than he appears in the gospel.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000009.wav|The same man, who muffles himself in as many furs as he can get in Greenland, will strip himself to a linen robe in Jamaica.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000006_000006.wav|They mark the altitude at which his spirit loved to dwell.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000012_000006.wav|must he go back to Heaven unsacrificed, foiled for want of an assassin?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000006.wav|For a wise man only attacks the errors that are in his way; things which he never meets he can scarcely think of as obstructions.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000011.wav|Exactly so; and because one sage, seeing him roll down to the right, has pushed him up on the right, while another sage, seeing him roll down to the left, has pushed him up on the left, are the two sages to be accounted antagonists?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000005_000002.wav|This one distorts the beauty, degrades the sublimity, stultifies the meaning of the facts and the character wherein it has been founded, taking away all true grandeur from Jesus, benumbing our love and reverence.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000010_000001.wav|He cured many sick: if God, why did he not give the whole world health?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000011_000002.wav|No wonder this poor Atonement has been attacked on all sides; it invites attack; one may say that in every aspect it piteously implores us to attack it and relieve it from the misery of its spectral existence.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000010_000002.wav|He associated with publicans and sinners: if God, why did he make publicans and sinners at all?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000010_000008.wav|He lived an example of holiness to us all: if God, how can our humanity imitate Deity?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000008_000001.wav|When deity speaks and deity reports the speeches, all should be absolute truth transparently self consistent, else what advantage or gain have we by the substitution of God for Man?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000002.wav|Could we conceive an abstract intellect, we might conceive it dwelling continually in the sphere of abstract and absolute truth; but no man, however wise, dwells continually in this sphere.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000006_000000.wav|Jesus, as a man, commands my heart's best homage.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000011_000003.wav|It is so full of breaches that one does not know where to storm.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000012_000005.wav|The situation is desperate; he has again and again prayed his Father to despatch a special murderer to despatch him, yet none appears: shall he have to perish by old age or disease? may he be compelled to commit suicide?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000012_000002.wav|Need one say more?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000008.wav|Stephenson, whose business it is to get from Manchester to Liverpool, sets about filling up Chat Moss.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000014_000000.wav|Is it not the worst of sacrilege, a foul profanation of our human nature, which for us, at least, should be holy and awful, when the heroic and saintly martyrdom of a true Man is thus falsified into the self schemed sham sacrifice, ineffectual, of a God?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000013_000000.wav|Benjamin Disraeli attained the cynical sublime when he suggested a monument of gratitude to Judas.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000010_000000.wav|He went about doing good: if God, why did he not do all good at once?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000010.wav|Luther said that the human mind is like a drunken peasant on horseback: he is rolling off on the right, you push him up, he then rolls over on the left.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000004_000000.wav|"These hereditary enemies of the Truth... have even had the heart to degrade this first preacher of the Mountain, the purest hero of Liberty; for, unable to deny that he was earth's greatest man, they have made of him heaven's smallest god."--Heine: Reisebilder.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000010_000003.wav|He preached the kingdom of heaven: if God, why did he not bring the kingdom with him and make all mankind fit for it?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000010_000004.wav|He loved the poor, he taught the ignorant: if God, why did he let any remain poor and ignorant?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000005_000000.wav|The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus, which, in whatever relation regarded, is full of self contradictions and absurdities, is, above all, pernicious in its moral and spiritual results.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000000.wav|Jesus as a man, whose words have been recorded by fallible men, is not lowered in my esteem by such contradictions as I find between his various speeches.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000012_000001.wav|The whole scheme of the Atonement, as planned by God, is based upon a crime-a crime infinitely atrocious, the crime of murder and deicide, is essential to its success: if Judas had not betrayed, if the Jews had not insisted, if Pilate had not surrendered, if all these turpitudes had not been secured, the Atonement could not have been consummated.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000006_000007.wav|We are but completing the circle from the clearest fragment arc left.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000007_000001.wav|Every proverb has its antagonist proverb, each being true to a certain extent, or in certain relations.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000014_000006.wav|It climbs to God by trampling on Man, it builds Heaven in contempt of Earth, its soul is a phosphorescence from the slain and rotting Body; its fervent faith vilifies us worse than the coldest sneer of Mephistopheles.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000006_000005.wav|When we find sentences of the purest beauty and wisdom in the records of a man's conversation, we may safely proportion the whole philosophical character of the speaker to such sentences.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000014_000003.wav|But much matters to what we may attain.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000008_000002.wav|Why bring in God to utter and record what could have been as well uttered and recorded by man?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000009_000000.wav|Everything for which we love and venerate the man Jesus becomes a bitter and absurd mockery when attributed to the Lord Christ.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000006_000002.wav|What disciple could be expected to report perfectly the words of a teacher so mystically sublime?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000005_000001.wav|Most myths have a certain justification in their beauty, in their symbolism of high truth.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000002_000000.wav|JESUS: AS GOD; AS A MAN|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91902/7258_91902_000012_000003.wav|Sometimes, when musing upon this doctrine, I have a vision of the God man getting old upon the earth, horribly anxious and wretched, because no one will murder him.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000010_000003.wav|Why did their risen Lord only slink about among his own disciples, appearing to these but at flying instants: why did he not, with his well-known features and with the wounds of the nails and the spear in his body, confront the chief priests and Pilate and the whole of Jerusalem, and compel them to acknowledge and bear enduring witness to his resurrection?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000003_000002.wav|Thus, what Christian has ever deigned to examine critically the marvels affirmed in the Koran, such as Mohammed's visit to heaven; although the Koran can be traced far more surely to the Prophet of Islam than can the Gospels to their reputed authors, and this Prophet bears a far higher character for truthfulness than do the early Christians?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000007_000000.wav|This prodigal multiplicity and superfluity of resurrections seems to have been not a little embarrassing to modern Christian champions, though doubtless it did not in the least trouble the primitive non scientific believers, to whom nothing was more natural than the unnatural, including the supernatural and the infranatural.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000002_000000.wav|In reviewing mr r h Hutton's Essay on "Christian Evidences, Popular and Critical," I was obliged to follow his lead, joining issue on such pleas as he put forward.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000010_000005.wav|We might go on asking Why? and Why? and Why? in this fashion on a hundred points, confident that to not one of our questions could the Christian apologist give a straightforward and satisfactory answer.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000003_000001.wav|And here I venture to assert that if the story of the resurrection and ascension were recorded of any other than Jesus in any other sacred book than the Bible, mr Hutton and all other intelligent Christians would not only disbelieve it, but would not even condescend to investigate it, condemning it offhand as too preposterous to be worthy of serious attention.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000007_000005.wav|Once in the imperial archives, the record of the miracle would have spread everywhere; all subsequent historians would have related it, all subsequent writers referred to it.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000007_000008.wav|When peter and the others were preaching the resurrection of Christ, why did they not adduce and produce some of these many, risen saints, whose visible, tangible, living and speaking evidence would have been irresistible?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000007_000002.wav|But the difficulties of the poor apologist are enormously increased if he must further contend that many bodies of the saints came out of their graves, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many, and still there is no external evidence.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000003_000000.wav|We leave thus the torturing of texts in the dim cells of the theological Inquisition, a process by which almost any confession required can be and has been wrung from the unfortunate victims, and emerge into the open daylight of common sense and reason.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000007_000007.wav|It is very significant that neither in the Acts nor in the Epistles is there any allusion to these resurrections.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000008_000000.wav|Just as the resurrection of Jesus could be accepted without misgiving by the non scientific early Christians, to whom miracles appeared among the most frequent occurrences of life, so could the ascension.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000004_000001.wav|We have seen that it cannot be because of any superiority of evidence for the former, since the evidence for the latter is in many cases infinitely greater and better authenticated, and since he does not attempt to weigh evidence before either accepting or rejecting, though he may seek evidence and argument to confirm what he has already given himself to believe.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000002_000002.wav|But I could not consider this argument adequate or conclusive, for there are large general considerations of incomparably greater importance which it leaves out altogether.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000007_000006.wav|So it is no wonder that, recoiling from these manifold impossibilities, the Christian advocates prefer to dwell on the one resurrection as if it were unique, and avoid dwelling on the others that by the very same testimony immediately followed it.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000008_000004.wav|Where is the Heaven for its God? where the Hell for its Devil?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000008_000001.wav|Their earth was a plane, vaulted by the sky, lamped by the little sun and moon and stars; above this vault was Heaven, where their God dwelt enthroned; they knew nothing of the law of gravitation; their Christ, standing in the flesh on the Mount of Olives, floated up through this vault to sit enthroned beside his Father in the most natural supernatural manner.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000002_000004.wav|Therefore, while confident that even on these grounds the case must go against the Christian believer, I wish to add a few words on its wider relations, in order that the decision may be established, not merely by the letter of the law, but also by the spirit of justice.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000002_000001.wav|Thus with regard to the resurrection of Jesus, as mr Hutton adduced what he thought confirmatory evidence only from the New Testament itself, I confined myself to showing or attempting to show that such evidence is unsubstantial.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000005_000000.wav|It is worth noting that while our Christian advocates insist with all their might, such as it is, upon the resurrection of Jesus, they willingly pass over as lightly as possible, if they do not altogether ignore, a similar miracle guaranteed by the very same authority.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000010_000004.wav|Why did he not summon all the people from the highest to the lowest to the solemn spectacle of his ascension, securing multitudinous and permanently recorded evidence such as none of us could doubt?|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000006_000000.wav|"The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets."|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91906/7258_91906_000001_000000.wav|(eighteen seventy six.)|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000006_000012.wav|"Gods of Greece," after declaring in his wild way that he has never loved the old deities, that to him the Greek are repugnant, and the romans thoroughly hateful, yet avows that when he considers how dastardly and windy are the gods who overcame them, the new reigning sorrowful gods, malignant in their sheep's, clothing of humility, he feels ready to fight for the former against these.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000008.wav|Pan lives, not as a God, but as the All, Nature, now that the oppression of the Supernatural is removed.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000002.wav|Fate, in the form of Science, has decreed the extinction of the gods.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000006_000002.wav|With this my interpretation the time agrees.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000006_000007.wav|Milton in his Hymn on the Nativity shouts harsh Puritanical scorn on the oracles stricken dumb, and the deities overthrown.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000000.wav|More than eighteen hundred years have passed since the death of the great god Pan was proclaimed; and now it is full time to proclaim the death of the great god Christ.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000006_000001.wav|He is the good Pan, the great Shepherd.... at whose death were moanings, sighs, trepidations and lamentations in all the machine of the universe, heavens, earth, sea, hells.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000003.wav|Mary and her babe must join Venus and Love, Isis and Horus; living with them only in the world of art.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000005.wav|For ages already the Father has been as spectral as Jupiter; for ages already the Holy Ghost has been but the shadow of a shade.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000010.wav|So the priesthood and the shrines of the Olympians kept possession of the Roman Empire centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000006_000006.wav|The poets have chanted this momentous revolution according to their religion, their phantasy, or their mood.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000004_000000.wav|(eighteen seventy five.)|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000004.wav|Jesus on his cross must dwindle to a point, even in the realms of legend under Prometheus on Caucasus.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000003_000000.wav|GREAT CHRIST IS DEAD|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000009.wav|I may be told that Christianity is yet alive and flourishing, that its priesthood and its churches hold possession of Europe and America and Australia.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000007.wav|The Hebrew dynasty of the gods is no more; it has done much evil in its long sovranty, which we will try to forget now it ceases to reign; it has done some little good, whose remembrance we will cherish when it is sepulchred, Christ the Great is dead, but Pan the Great lives again, as mr Maccall told us in some lines published in this paper several years ago.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000006_000011.wav|Heine in his.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7258/91905/7258_91905_000008_000012.wav|When the noblest hearts worship not at its altars, when the most vigorous intellects abandon its creeds, the knell of its doom has rung.|7258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000022_000000.wav|The fat boy paid no attention to him.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000066_000001.wav|"I told you so.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000079_000000.wav|"Shake," glowed Bud, extending his hand to Tad.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000041_000000.wav|"Wow!" piped Stacy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000023_000000.wav|"Get after him, boys!|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000017_000001.wav|The can landed right between the eyes of the animal. The coyote uttered a grunt of surprise, hesitated an instant, then, with tail between his legs, bounded away with a howl of fear.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000027_000000.wav|"Haven't any rope," answered Tad, with a muttered "Ouch!" as his big toe came in contact with the can of condensed milk.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000020_000000.wav|Tom Parry, aroused by this new note in the midnight medley, tumbled out just in time to see Stacy disappearing over the ridge.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000062_000000.wav|"We saw one of them and the tracks of the rest----"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000039_000000.wav|A volley of shots was fired as an accompaniment to the startling yells. A moment later and a body of horsemen dashed into camp, which they had easily located by the smouldering camp fire.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000016_000000.wav|"Boo!" said Stacy explosively, at the same time hurling the can of condensed milk full in the face of the coyote nearest to him.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000006_000000.wav|The Professor found difficulty even in driving the lads to their beds that night.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000065_000000.wav|"I don't know whether you'd call it an angel or not.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000048_000000.wav|By this time, with his companions, he had dismounted, turning the ponies loose to roam where they would.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000077_000001.wav|So-but Tom Parry told you, of course."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000060_000000.wav|"Yes, how did you know that!" questioned Tad.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000079_000001.wav|"You're the right sort for this outfit.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000067_000002.wav|Finally he paused over one particular spot, and with a frown peered down upon it.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000012_000000.wav|Out of Stacy Brown's tent crept a figure in its night clothes.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000078_000000.wav|"Tom Parry didn't," objected the guide.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000087_000002.wav|Don't let him get into any difficulties, mr Stevens.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000089_000000.wav|Tad lost no time in getting ready for the trip to trail the wild horses to their lair, and in a few moments the horse hunters rode from the camp, followed by the envious glances of the Pony Rider Boys.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000014_000000.wav|The animals would elevate their noses in the air, and, as if at a prearranged signal, all would strike the first note of their mournful wail at identically the same instant.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000026_000000.wav|"Rope him, somebody!" shouted Parry.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000028_000000.wav|Laughing and shouting, they soon came up with Stacy, however, because he could not run as fast as the other boys.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000066_000003.wav|I'll tell you in a minute if he's the one."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000047_000002.wav|I want to see my kiddie!" laughed Bud Stevens.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000087_000001.wav|But be careful.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000011_000002.wav|They grew bolder.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000005_000000.wav|FUN IN THE FOOTHILLS|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000065_000001.wav|It struck me that it was quite the opposite," laughed Tad.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000034_000002.wav|Do you hear?"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000059_000001.wav|Soon as the wagon gets here with the trappings.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000066_000000.wav|"The white stallion, fellows," nodded Bud.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000051_000001.wav|"Our chuck wagon'll be along when it gets here.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000034_000001.wav|Not having any slipper, I'll use my shoe.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000081_000001.wav|Bud directed two of his men to work south, two more to ride north, while he would take the center of the range.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000024_000001.wav|The coyotes, frightened beyond their power of reasoning, if such a faculty was possessed by them, were now no more than so many black streaks lengthening out across the desert.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000050_000001.wav|What we have is free," answered the Professor hospitably.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000069_000000.wav|"Why do you call him that?"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000059_000000.wav|"Yep.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000033_000000.wav|The tall, gaunt figure of the Professor appeared suddenly at the tent entrance.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000018_000000.wav|"Yeow! Scat!" shrieked the fat boy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000052_000000.wav|"A schooner, did you say?" questioned Stacy, edging closer to the cowboy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000044_000001.wav|Better look out where you're shooting to!" warned Stacy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000053_000000.wav|"Yep; schooner."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000037_000000.wav|There was a sudden sound of hoof beats.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000013_000001.wav|He could see them plainly now and Stacy's eyes looked like two balls.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000046_000000.wav|"The Professor'll take you over his knee and chastise you with his shoe, if you don't watch sharp," said Stacy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000010_000000.wav|"Go to sleep!" commanded the Professor.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000047_000001.wav|Where's the kiddie?|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000084_000000.wav|"No; they were out for a play.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000011_000003.wav|They approached the camp until a circle of them surrounded it.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000057_000000.wav|"Well, you've got something coming to you, then," replied Bud, turning to the others again.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000012_000001.wav|It was none other than Stacy himself.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000036_000001.wav|And when it arrived it was even more startling than had been the fat boy's chase of the cowardly coyotes.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000054_000000.wav|"Where's the water?"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000032_000000.wav|Reaching his tent, they threw the fat boy into his bed.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000067_000000.wav|Tad took the horse hunter to the trail that he had followed up the mountain side.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000066_000002.wav|Come along, kiddie, and show me that trail.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000049_000000.wav|"We're going to eat breakfast with you," Bud Stevens informed them.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000012_000002.wav|In one hand he held a can of condensed milk that he had smuggled from the commissary department that afternoon.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000021_000000.wav|"Hey, come back here!" shouted Parry.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000070_000004.wav|Then again-that's three times, ain't it?--he's got a temper like angels ain't supposed to have."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000047_000000.wav|"Come out of that.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000068_000001.wav|That's the Angel," he emphasized.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000058_000001.wav|I presume that's the purpose of your visit here?" asked the Professor.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000068_000000.wav|"That's him.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000070_000003.wav|More angel.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000040_000000.wav|The Pony Rider Boys were out of their tents in a twinkling.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000048_000003.wav|There was no more sleep in camp that night.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000042_000001.wav|Bang!|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000084_000001.wav|That shows they had had plenty to eat and drink.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000028_000002.wav|In another minute the rest of the party had piled on the heap.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000059_000002.wav|After breakfast we'll look around a bit.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000028_000001.wav|Tad caught up with him first, and the two lads went down together.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000033_000001.wav|Some of the boys darted by him, the others crawling out under the sides of the tent, all making a lively sprint for their own quarters.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000007_000000.wav|"They'll go away when the moon comes up," called the guide when the boys protested that the beasts kept them awake.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000055_000000.wav|"Say, moon face, didn't you ever hear tell of a prairie schooner!"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000048_000002.wav|Tom Parry, piling fresh fuel on the embers of the camp fire, soon had the scene brightly lighted.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000019_000000.wav|The whole pack turned tail and ran with Stacy after them in full flight, headed for the desert.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000035_000002.wav|Yet they were destined not to pass the night without a further disturbance, though the Professor did not use his shoe to chastise the noisy ones.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000079_000002.wav|We'll let you help point the bunch into the corral when we get them going.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000048_000001.wav|The whole camp, aroused by the shouting and shooting, had turned out after pulling on their trousers and shoes.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000048_000004.wav|Professor Zepplin accepted the new disturbance with good grace.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000036_000000.wav|It lacked only a few hours to daylight when the second interruption occurred.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000078_000001.wav|"Master Tad read the trail himself."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000051_000000.wav|"That's what I was telling the bunch," nodded Bud.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000085_000000.wav|Professor Zepplin glanced at the guide inquiringly.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000087_000000.wav|"Yes, you may go, Tad.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000029_000001.wav|"Somebody's standing on my neck."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000081_000000.wav|Just after breakfast, to which the camp had sat down at break of day, the horse hunters began their preliminary work.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000034_000000.wav|"Young men, the very next one who raises a disturbance in this camp to night is going to get a real old-fashioned trouncing.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000050_000000.wav|"That's right.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000074_000002.wav|He's proud as a peacock with a new spread of tail feathers."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000070_000002.wav|Then, if you'll look at his hoof mark, you'll see the frog is shaped like a heart.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000006_000001.wav|When they did finally tumble in and pull the blankets over them they were unable to sleep, between the howling of the coyotes and their laughter over Stacy Brown's new found talent.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000082_000000.wav|"What I want," he explained to the boys, "is to find where the wild horses are waterin' these days.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000088_000001.wav|"Come along; take a hunch on your cinch straps, a chunk of grub in your pocket; then we're ready to find where the Angel washes his face every morning and night."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000020_000001.wav|The guide was followed quickly by the other three boys of the party and Professor Zepplin.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000015_000000.wav|Suddenly the figure of the Pony Rider Boy rose up before them, right in the middle of one of the unearthly wails.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000025_000000.wav|The lads set up a whoop as they started on the chase after their companion.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000029_000000.wav|"Get up!" shouted Tad.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000023_000001.wav|If he falls they're liable to pile on him and chew him up before we can get to him!" commanded the guide.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/111961/5909_111961_000072_000001.wav|We'll get the old gentleman this time or break every cinch strap in the outfit."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000022_000000.wav|"Who are you?" returned Tad boldly.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000055_000000.wav|"I reckon you'd better drag me.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000006_000001.wav|He was full of their great achievements and was telling what he would do if any of the bandits came to visit their camp.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000019_000001.wav|Hands up!|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000003.wav|He thought he was going to strike on the hard ground.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000014_000001.wav|He had plenty of time to think matters over.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000036_000000.wav|"Do you sleep in your skin?" retorted Dippy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000008_000000.wav|"On guard?"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000014_000003.wav|Tad knew that if Dunk ever got into communication with his fellows it would go hard with the Pony Rider Boys.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000015_000002.wav|He saw a solitary horseman far out over the rolling plain.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000057_000000.wav|"We hear."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000067_000002.wav|Clambering out he squared off for fight, but the only fight he got was another ducking in the pool.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000055_000002.wav|I don't propose to help you out."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000015_000001.wav|He already had a brisk fire going, but before lighting it, the lad had walked down to the edge of the canyon for a survey of the plain.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000044_000000.wav|"Like it?|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000056_000000.wav|"Do you hear?" demanded Dippy in a deep, hoarse voice.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000066_000005.wav|Within sixty seconds from that time half of the crowd were threshing about in the cold waters of the pool, while Tad, who had crawled out, sat on the bank dripping, watching their struggles.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000066_000001.wav|Dippy plunged in head first.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000047_000000.wav|"I haven't said anything yet."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000004.wav|Instead he landed at the bottom of a deep pool of water cold as ice it seemed to him.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000067_000001.wav|All at once he was picked up in a pair of strong arms and tossed in bodily. Stacy howled lustily.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000077_000000.wav|"Yes, you might fetch me a piece of soap," answered Butler laughingly.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000063_000000.wav|"Then take your punishment!"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000048_000000.wav|"But you're going to?"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000017_000000.wav|About noon they made camp for dinner and a rest, not taking up their journey until about four o'clock in the afternoon.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000001.wav|When they let go, Tad sailed several feet through the air.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000005_000001.wav|The boys realized that they had taken a rather active part in what might prove for them a serious affair.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000023_000000.wav|"I reckon my question gits the first answer, seeing as I've got the drop on you."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000076_000000.wav|"I reckon you kin go back and dry off now," drawled Dippy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000060_000003.wav|Tad was taken out where the gentle murmur of the Spring falling over the rocks could be heard when the Pony Rider Boys were not making too much noise.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000074_000002.wav|They had a rough and tumble scrimmage in the cold water, coming out choking, dripping and laughing.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000034_000000.wav|All hands sat down to the evening meal after the men had washed up, in most instances without removing their hats.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000020_000001.wav|"They've got us again."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000006.wav|Not expecting anything of this sort the boy was not holding his breath. The result was that he got a mouthful of water.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000065_000001.wav|Dippy stepped to the edge of the pool and leaning over peered down somewhat anxiously.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000055_000001.wav|If you're going to have fun with me you'll have to earn it.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000079_000001.wav|But their troubles for the night were not wholly over yet.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000073_000001.wav|"We haven't had our baths yet and I reckon we need them."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000068_000001.wav|Don't you know I've been shot?"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000033_000001.wav|You see we have our chuck wagon here.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000033_000003.wav|We usually have some central point where we make headquarters.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000046_000002.wav|What you got to say about it, young man?" demanded Dippy, glancing at Tad Butler, who was smiling.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000011_000002.wav|Huh!|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000039_000000.wav|"Can't I say what I've got to say?" demanded the fat boy indignantly.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000040_000000.wav|"Are you going to brag about yourself?" demanded Polly.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000072_000000.wav|"Any of the rest of you kiddies been wounded in the fracas?" demanded Folly.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000034_000001.wav|This attracted the attention of the fat boy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000007.wav|He came up choking, then pretended to go down again.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000014_000000.wav|The night passed without incident, Tad Butler keeping a vigilant watch all during the dark hours of the night.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000013_000000.wav|They were agreed upon this, and by common consent Butler was given the watch for the night.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000035_000000.wav|"Say, do you fellows sleep in your hats as well as wash and eat in them?" he demanded.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000075_000001.wav|Boys who could take rough handling such as this, without losing their tempers or even offering any objection, surely must be worth while.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000024_000001.wav|With it came the thought that these must be the Rangers.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000017_000001.wav|Darkness overtook them, finding them still without sight or sound of the Spring where Withem said they would find the Rangers' camp.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000059_000001.wav|They expected the boy to resist, which would have given them still further excuse to handle him roughly.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000008.wav|Instead he crawled up to the bank, under which he hid.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000033_000002.wav|Of course we don't carry it wherever we go.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000005_000002.wav|If, by any chance, the bandits learned who had interfered with them, it might be necessary for Professor Zepplin and his charges to make lively tracks for the border and seek other fields of adventure.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000031_000000.wav|At the lieutenant's reassuring words the Rangers---for the boys had stumbled upon the camp of the men of Captain McKay's command---crowded forward, talking and laughing, three of them taking the horses as the party dismounted, then leading the way into the bushes and in among the rocks where the lads came upon a campfire, around which were seated five or six other Rangers.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000062_000002.wav|I'll die first!"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000011_000003.wav|Some of you children take the trick.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000079_000002.wav|Their initiation was not yet complete.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000010_000001.wav|Let him take the watch," approved Rector.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000024_000000.wav|Tad all at once realized that the sound of falling water was in the air.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000041_000000.wav|"I'm telling you, and---"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000014_000002.wav|He realized that Dunk Tucker, the prisoner, had overheard all that had been said during their talk with Withem out on the plain.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000043_000000.wav|"Don't you like it?" asked Ned, flushing.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000011_000000.wav|"You forget that I'm a wounded man.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000066_000002.wav|He did not even have time to cry out.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000005.wav|He went in all over.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000045_000000.wav|"Why don't you look the other way then?" interjected Stacy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000028_000000.wav|"Wait a minute.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000011_000004.wav|I've got to take care of my health."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000066_000000.wav|Quick as a flash a pair of arms encircled his neck.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000029_000001.wav|"Yeow!" bowled the fat boy as a figure appeared beside him and a pair of iron arms grasped his hands pulling him down, nearly unseating him.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000029_000000.wav|"I---I wish we did have a little daylight," stammered Chunky, which elicited a short laugh from his companions.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000044_000001.wav|Why, it's the hottest thing that ever crossed the Staked Plains since the Apaches came down in---"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000006_000000.wav|The same thought was in the minds of all except Chunky, who held his head erect, his chest swelled out.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000029_000003.wav|Let go!"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000061_000000.wav|"Do you withdraw the flippant words you used to a member of this august body?" demanded a deep voice.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000013_000001.wav|The boys slept with their rifles beside them that night.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000060_000001.wav|To look at their faces one would have thought they were performing a solemn duty.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000033_000000.wav|"Just in time to have chuck with us.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000000.wav|With that they gave the boy a swing, one holding to the feet the other the shoulders of the lad.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000054_000000.wav|"Will you go peaceably or must we drag you?"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000060_000000.wav|The Rangers fell in behind the two who were carrying Butler, in solemn procession.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000019_000002.wav|Every man of you is covered!"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000070_000000.wav|"Yes, shot."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000075_000000.wav|All this made a favorable impression on the Rangers.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000050_000000.wav|"Can we stand for any more remarks, boys?" asked Dippy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000073_000000.wav|"No, but you've overlooked two of us," announced Ned stepping out.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000064_000002.wav|Quick as a cat in his movements Tad turned over before he landed, going down on all fours.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000015_000000.wav|Soon after daybreak, Tad awakened his fellows.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/287837/5909_287837_000053_000000.wav|"That's the idea!"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000031_000000.wav|"Of course not.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000013_000001.wav|I don't know what's happened to the boy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000073_000001.wav|Beyond that, I would not venture an opinion."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000024_000000.wav|"Trying to burn up the mountain?" shouted Tad.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000066_000000.wav|But he was left in peace only a moment.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000098_000002.wav|They cannot be far away.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000085_000000.wav|"What is it?|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000078_000000.wav|"I wouldn't worry," comforted Walter Perkins.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000015_000000.wav|"What's that you say?" demanded Ned, turning on him.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000093_000000.wav|"It can't be possible."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000057_000000.wav|Ned pulled himself to his feet, yawning broadly.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000004_000001.wav|Then, again, the beans and bacon were pronounced excellent by each of them, and Stacy had made fully as good time with his crude chopsticks as had the others with the tablespoons.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000051_000000.wav|"Very well, sir," answered Ned.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000056_000001.wav|I'm stiff in every joint," he mumbled.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000035_000000.wav|"Suppose he had to stop to smoke a pipe of peace with his friend," suggested Ned.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000046_000002.wav|I'd be likely to get hurt if I did.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000023_000000.wav|The result was a bright blaze that flared high, lighting the rocks far down into the canyon, but not sufficiently far to reach Tad.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000070_000002.wav|Then both boys added their voices to the effort, joined a few minutes later by the Professor and Walter Perkins.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000062_000000.wav|"Get out," mumbled Stacy sleepily, at the same time kicking viciously with the disturbed foot.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000011_000000.wav|"Haven't any matches."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000074_000000.wav|"Maybe he's fallen into the stream during the night and drowned," suggested Chunky.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000009_000000.wav|"That means we freeze, I guess," interjected Stacy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000076_000000.wav|"If the Indian ever gets here with a rope, I'll go down there and see if I can find out anything," said Ned.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000037_000000.wav|"Even if I were, I couldn't be called a savage," retorted Ned.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000050_000002.wav|If anything occurs during the night, remember you are to let me know at once.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000021_000000.wav|"That will be fine," cried Walter.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000106_000000.wav|"What?"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000087_000000.wav|"What about them?" asked Walter, pausing as he was about to strike a match to the wood.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000083_000000.wav|The other two boys began preparing for the camp fire.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000068_000001.wav|Ned and Stacy's foot race continued until both were out of breath and thoroughly awake.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000090_000001.wav|Don't keep us waiting in suspense all-"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000102_000000.wav|"Yes, there's their tracks," agreed the Professor.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000050_000000.wav|"Yes.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000050_000001.wav|Then Walter and Stacy had better go to their tents.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000071_000000.wav|They were unable to get any reply at all; nor was there the slightest movement or sign of life where Tad had last been seen.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000098_000001.wav|"Look around, boys.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000089_000000.wav|"Happened?|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000032_000000.wav|"Never mind Chunky.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000067_000001.wav|He did so, with Stacy a close second and the rubber pillow brushing Ned's cheek in transit.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000068_000002.wav|Then they sat down, laughing, the color flaming in their cheeks and eyes sparkling with pleasurable excitement.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000010_000000.wav|"You can go cut yourself a few chopsticks and sleep under them," retorted Ned Rector.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000046_000003.wav|You had better all turn in now.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000033_000000.wav|"Isn't it about time that lazy Indian were back, Professor?" asked Walter.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000086_000001.wav|The ponies!"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000005_000000.wav|Supper finished, all hands turned in to help wash the dishes, and in a few moments the camp was again in perfect order.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000055_000000.wav|He sat up, rubbing his eyes and blinking in the strong morning light.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000003_000000.wav|BOY AND PONIES STRANGELY MISSING|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000049_000001.wav|I'll do that, with your permission, Professor," offered Ned Rector promptly.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000047_000000.wav|"All right," answered Ned and Walter at once.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000041_000000.wav|"Hello!" answered Walter.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000070_000001.wav|But there was no answer to his summons.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000016_000000.wav|"I-I was just thinking to myself," explained Chunky, edging away.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000018_000000.wav|"I'll make a suggestion, young gentlemen," said the Professor.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000036_000001.wav|Were you ever an Indian?" asked Stacy innocently.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000045_000001.wav|"If he gets back then we are in great luck.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000022_000000.wav|Quickly carrying the dried wood to the place indicated, they piled it so that it would make a long fire, then lighted it from three sides at the same time.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000052_000000.wav|After replenishing the fire, determined to remain awake until daylight, the lad rolled up in his blankets.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000096_000000.wav|"Chunky's and Tad's."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000031_000001.wav|Chunky is the only one who-"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000100_000000.wav|"They went this way," shouted Ned.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000025_000000.wav|"No; we're trying to burn it down, so we can pick you up," called Ned Rector.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000084_000001.wav|Boys!" he cried.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000013_000000.wav|"Chunky has suddenly developed into a wit, Tad.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000046_000001.wav|I wouldn't care to try to climb up in the dark.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000081_000000.wav|"What is there to eat?" asked the Professor.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000044_000000.wav|"And he won't be back till morning," sang the boy down there in the shadows.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000020_000001.wav|Pile it right up on the edge of the cliff and light it.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000080_000000.wav|"That's right," agreed Ned.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000046_000000.wav|"No; wait till morning.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000034_000000.wav|"Yes, that's so.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000066_000001.wav|Ned recovered himself and returned to the charge.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000097_000000.wav|"Is it possible?" sputtered the Professor, striding to the place where their stock had been tethered.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000008_000000.wav|"Sure thing.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000103_000002.wav|No amount of searching brought it to view again, and after more than an hour of persistent effort, the Professor called the hunt off, and the crestfallen party returned to camp.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000063_000000.wav|Thus encouraged, Ned pulled the other big toe.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000066_000002.wav|Over went the cot, with Stacy beneath it. From the confusion of blankets emerged the red face of the fat boy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000086_000000.wav|"The ponies!|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000008_000001.wav|I have most of the blankets."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000069_000000.wav|"I'll wake up Tad, I guess," announced Ned after recovering his breath.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000088_000001.wav|Has anything happened to them?" asked the Professor, striding toward the excited Ned Rector.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000104_000000.wav|"What are we going to do?" asked Stacy dolefully.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000077_000000.wav|"Not until all other means have been exhausted," declared the Professor.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000046_000004.wav|There will be no need for you to sit up."|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000007_000000.wav|"Are you warm enough down there?" called Ned.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000019_000000.wav|"Yes, sir, what is it?" asked the boys in chorus.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000042_000000.wav|"I'm going to bed.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000049_000000.wav|"That's a good idea.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000030_000001.wav|"We say things to each other, but it's all in fun.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000048_000000.wav|"I think perhaps Master Tad is right.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000048_000002.wav|I would suggest, however, that one of you roll up in his blankets outside here, so that he can hear if Master Tad calls," suggested Professor Zepplin.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000035_000001.wav|"Then there would be a certain amount of grunting to do before Eagle eye could state his business, and after that much talk, talk.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000043_000000.wav|"No such luck," answered Ned, who had come up beside Walter and replied to Tad's question.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000054_000000.wav|Ned awoke with a start.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000090_000000.wav|"Well, what is it?|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000073_000000.wav|"It means," said Ned, "that Tad isn't there.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000091_000000.wav|"They're gone!"|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000061_000000.wav|"Wake up," he commanded, pinching one of the fat boy's big toes.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000012_000000.wav|"Never mind, Tad, the moon soon will be up and you can get warm by that," shouted the fat boy.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000017_000000.wav|Ned was glaring at him ferociously, at the same time struggling to keep back the laughter that rose to his lips because of Stacy's sharp retort.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000029_000000.wav|"Wait till Tad comes up.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000040_000000.wav|"Hello, up there!" he shouted, pulling himself to a sitting position.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5909/107621/5909_107621_000067_000000.wav|Ned Rector thought it time to leave.|5909
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000023_000001.wav|However, from that moment a deeper mood of brooding malice occupied my spirit. Indeed the humour of us all was one of dangerous, even murderous, fierceness.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000028_000001.wav|This may have been a result of the tempest stirring up the ocean beneath the ice.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000002_000000.wav|Well, during the first days, progress was very slow, the ice being rough and laney, and the dogs behaving most badly, stopping dead at every difficulty, and leaping over the traces.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000017_000000.wav|'That beast accuses me of murdering David Wilson!'|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000025_000000.wav|As we advanced, the ice every day became smoother; so that, from four miles a day, our rate increased to fifteen, and finally (as the sledges lightened) to twenty.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000028_000002.wav|Whatever it was, we did not care: we slept deep.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000038_000001.wav|Forty more steps I took (slide I could not now for the meteorites)--perhaps sixty-perhaps eighty: and now, to my sudden horror, I stood by a circular clean cut lake.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000027_000001.wav|It lasted in its full power only an hour, but during that time snatched two of our sledges long distances, and compelled us to lie face downward.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000002_000003.wav|Clark led on ski, captaining a sledge with four hundred pounds.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000034_000000.wav|The sun shone with a clear, benign, but heatless shining: a ghostly, remote, yet quite limpid light, which seemed designed for the lighting of other planets and systems, and to strike here by happy chance.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000007_000000.wav|After the eleventh day our rate of march improved: all lanes disappeared, and ridges became much less frequent.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000036_000000.wav|And now with a wild hilarity I flew.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000003_000002.wav|Our sleeping bags (Clark and Mew slept together in one, I in another) were soaking wet all the night, being thawed by our warmth; and our fingers, under wrappings of senne grass and wolf skin, were always bleeding. Sometimes our frail bamboo cane kayaks, lying across the sledges, would crash perilously against an ice ridge-and they were our one hope of reaching land.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000032_000000.wav|The first thing which my mind opened to perceive was that, while the tempest was less strong, the ice was now in extraordinary agitation.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000016_000000.wav|I rushed at once to Clark, who was stooping among the dogs, unharnessing: and savagely pushing his shoulder, I exclaimed:|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000002_000005.wav|But on the third day Clark had an attack of snow blindness, and Mew took his place.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000029_000000.wav|We were within ten miles of the Pole.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000003_000000.wav|Pretty soon our sufferings commenced, and they were bitter enough.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000028_000000.wav|We knew that the ice was in awful upheaval around us; we heard, as our eyelids sweetly closed, the slow booming of distant guns, and brittle cracklings of artillery.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000011_000001.wav|One of Mew's dogs was sick: it was necessary to kill it: he asked me to do it.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000026_000002.wav|Their incrustations we soon determined to be diamonds, and other precious stones.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000022_000000.wav|'To the devil with you, man, say I, and let me be!' cried he: 'you know your own conscience best, I suppose.'|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000004_000001.wav|Mew suffered from 'Arctic thirst.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000003_000003.wav|But the dogs were the great difficulty: we lost six mortal hours a day in harnessing and tending them.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000024_000001.wav|Like the lower animals, we were stricken now with dumbness, and hardly once in a week spoke a word one to the other, but in selfish brutishness on through a real hell of cold we moved.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000035_000001.wav|Now, too, I noticed that, but for these stones, all roughness had disappeared, not a trace of the upheaval going on a little further south being here, for the ice lay positively as smooth as a table before me. It is my belief that this stretch of smooth ice has never, never felt one shock, or stir, or throe, and reaches right down to the bottom of the deep.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000033_000000.wav|I did not care.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000013_000000.wav|'Well, I don't know,' he replied, catching fire at once, 'you ought to be used to killing, Jeffson.'|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000005_000000.wav|Under these conditions, man becomes in a few days, not a savage only, but a mere beast, hardly a grade above the bear and walrus.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000031_000004.wav|Instinctively, brutishly, as the Gadarean swine rushed down a steep place, I, rubbing my daft eyes, arose.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000009_000000.wav|His disappearance had been explained by a hundred different guesses on the ship-all plausible enough.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000026_000000.wav|It was now that we began to encounter a succession of strange looking objects lying scattered over the ice, whose number continually increased as we proceeded.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000032_000003.wav|As I stood, I plunged and staggered, and I found the dogs sprawling, with whimperings, on the heaving floor.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000012_000000.wav|'Oh,' said I, 'you kill your own dog, of course.'|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000008_000000.wav|Yet, as it were, his arm reached out and touched me, even there.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000018_000000.wav|'Well?' said Clark.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000006_000000.wav|On we pressed, crawling our little way across the Vast, upon whose hoar silence, from Eternity until then, Bootes only, and that Great Bear, had watched.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000004_000000.wav|Our one secret thought now was food, food-our day long lust for the eating time.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000023_000000.wav|Before this insult I stood with grinding teeth, but impotent.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000019_000000.wav|'I'd split his skull as clean----!'|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000005_000001.wav|Ah, the ice! A long and sordid nightmare was that, God knows.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000026_000001.wav|They had the appearance of rocks, or pieces of iron, incrusted with glass fragments of various colours, and they were of every size.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000026_000005.wav|Clark grumbled something about their being meteor stones, whose ferruginous substance had been lured by the magnetic Pole, and kept from frictional burning in their fall by the frigidity of the air: and they quickly ceased to interest our sluggish minds, except in so far as they obstructed our way.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000039_000000.wav|One minute only, swaying and nodding there, I stood: and then I dropped down flat in swoon.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96153/7437_96153_000037_000000.wav|The odometer measured nine miles from my start.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000000.wav|If socially and otherwise the Egyptians profited but little from the establishment of the Caliphate, they gained still less from the domination of the Turks.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000008.wav|No one, however, who knows the peoples of the two countries can doubt that, apart from the fact of the Sultan being the official head of their religion, their loyalty to him is largely due to the desire of peoples who have lost the place they once held in the comity of nations to associate themselves with such kindred peoples as have in some extent maintained their ancient status.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000009_000000.wav|Each and all of these six events have played important parts in moulding the present day aspect of Egypt and its people, and the more closely do we study the existing conditions, the more strikingly do these six events stand out from all others as the great and dominating landmarks in the history of modern Egypt.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000002.wav|It left them practically under the same rulers, for though the system of government was modified, it placed the executive power, if not in the hands of the same men as before, at least in those of men of the same stamp, who ruled them as their predecessors had done, in the same manner, through the same agents, and with the same cruelty and wanton oppression.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000008_000005.wav|Of these six events the two that belong to the second period are, the conquest of the land by the Arabs and its subsequent seizure by the Turks.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000012_000006.wav|From year to year his one prayer was for an abundant Nile and a plentiful crop, not that he might thereby enrich himself, but that he might thereby secure a sufficiency for himself and his family and suffer less from the rapacious tyranny and heartless cruelty of those never resting oppressors, his rulers and all who, as officials or favourites, were lifted even a little above his own level.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000001_000000.wav|LINKS WITH THE PAST|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000004.wav|Under the Arabs the Egyptians had been ruled by foreigners, but by foreigners who were in some degree allied to them.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000004_000003.wav|It was, indeed, during this time that the world famous cities of Alexandria and Cairo were built as well as the magnificent mosques that are the pride of all Islam, but these were all the work, not of the people themselves, but of the foreigners by whom they were held in thraldom, and are therefore monuments not of the country's glory but of its shame.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000009.wav|The Indian and the Egyptian Mahomedans alike look back to the time when Islam was the one dominant, unopposable power in their native lands, and, conscious of their own fallen condition, would fain relieve the darkness of their destiny by seeking a place, however humble, within the only radiance they can claim to share.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000011_000003.wav|The history of the country has, therefore, in the first two periods little to say of the people.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000011_000004.wav|In the modern period the two stories touch each other more closely, for in it the people have begun to have a political existence.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000004_000001.wav|In it after nearly two hundred years of Persian rule, interrupted by a brief restoration of the native power, Egypt was for a little more than three and half centuries in the hands of the Greeks, from whom in the thirtieth year of the Christian Era it passed to the Roman Empire.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000008_000004.wav|These two events, with four that belong to the modern period, are indeed all that the whole history of the country presents to us as still clearly and prominently exerting an important and permanent influence upon both the character of the people and the existing circumstances and condition of their country.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000003_000000.wav|Although the people were then well established in the land and possessed a high degree of civilisation, their history, as we now know it, dates only from the reign of Menes, somewhere over five thousand years before the birth of Christ.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000003_000001.wav|From that date down to the present time we have a continuous record, the whole course of which may be divided into three clearly distinguished periods.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000008_000001.wav|Not a single ruler, patriot, statesman, demagogue, artist or author, in short, no man or woman that lived before the dawn of the modern period, has been instrumental in the making of Egypt or the Egyptians what they now are.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000012.wav|Were, therefore, the hopes of the large section of the Mahomedans which is filled with the desire for the restoration of an Arab Caliphate to be realised it would entirely depend upon circumstances that it is quite impossible to foresee-whether the Egyptians would or would not remain faithful to the Empire.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000003.wav|Yet the Turkish, like the Arab, conquest wrought one important effect, the influence of which time has strengthened so that it is only second to that in the urgency of its bearing upon existing conditions.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000011_000001.wav|Now and again under some ruler of more humanity or of greater laxity than others their condition may be said to have for the time improved, but such changes were far too slight and their possible duration always far too uncertain for these benefits to be more to the people than as the grateful but passing pleasure a fleeting morning cloud brings to the traveller in a sunburnt desert.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000005_000000.wav|The third and present period began in seventeen ninety eight when the landing of Bonaparte was the first of the series of events that by the introduction and gradual development of European influence have brought about the now existing social and political condition of the country.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000012_000001.wav|To fully describe the importance of this event it would be necessary to enlarge upon the character and tendency of the Mahomedan religion at a length my limits forbid, and I must here therefore content myself with noting that, great as was the moral and mental revolution this conversion occasioned, it was by no means commensurate with that which followed the introduction of Islam into other countries.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000012_000008.wav|So such as he had been before, such he remained after the Arab conquest, but with a loftier sense of the dignity of manhood, a nobler conception of life and of its duties, and a stronger faith in a hereafter that should compensate him for all his sufferings and privations in this life.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000012_000005.wav|The political condition of the people was little, if at all, affected by the change in their religion; and consequently, under the Caliphs and their successors, the Egyptian continued to be as he had been before-a man with no higher ambition than that of passing through life with the least possible trouble.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000005.wav|Under the Turks their sovereign was, and is, not only a foreigner, but one of an utterly alien race, wholly separated from them by language, character, habits, by everything, indeed, save the bond of their common religion.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000011_000002.wav|Hence, such as the fellaheen or peasantry were when Cheops was building his pyramid, such they remained in almost all respects down to the arrival of the French.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000007.wav|To Europeans this loyalty, which, it is worthy of mention here, is shared by the Moslems of India, has always appeared somewhat of an enigma.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000013_000013.wav|Meanwhile the revival of the Arabic power being a possibility too far removed from probability to take a place in the politics of the day, the loyalty of the Egyptians to the Turkish Empire must be accepted as a controlling feature in the affairs of the country.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000012_000007.wav|It was, and is, of the essence of Islam that it appeals to freemen and favours that love of freedom that is the birthright of every man; but Islam brought no freedom to the Egyptians, save, indeed, the spiritual and moral one their rulers could not rob them of.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/99249/7437_99249_000004_000000.wav|The second period began in five twenty nine b c with the conquest of the country by Cambyses.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000029_000000.wav|Observe that all wide sight and self command Deserts these throngs now driven to demonry By the Immanent Unrecking.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000034_000002.wav|For in London these questions were very far away, and our own lesser problems alone troubling.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000011_000000.wav|by|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000034_000003.wav|London believed that Paris was making a great confusion of its business, but remained uninterested.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000031_000000.wav|Why prompts the Will so senseless shaped a doing?|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000026_000002.wav|Europe's voiceless tremors do not reach her.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000026_000006.wav|They flourished together, they have rocked together in a war, which we, in spite of our enormous contributions and sacrifices (like though in a less degree than America), economically stood outside, and they may fall together.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000034_000001.wav|Yet there in Paris the problems of Europe were terrible and clamant, and an occasional return to the vast unconcern of London a little disconcerting.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000026_000001.wav|England still stands outside Europe.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000015_000000.wav|PREFACE|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000026_000004.wav|But Europe is solid with herself.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/117899/7437_117899_000026_000010.wav|There, at the nerve center of the European system, his British preoccupations must largely fall away and he must be haunted by other and more dreadful specters. Paris was a nightmare, and every one there was morbid.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000024_000000.wav|And so fair was the world about them, too: the brightest suavest autumn weather; all the still air aromatic with that vernal perfume of peach: yet not so utterly still, but if I passed close to the lee of any floating thing, the spicy stirrings of morning or evening wafted me faint puffs of the odour of mortality over ripe for the grave.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000014_000000.wav|I felt, I felt, that in this townlet, save the water gnats of Norway, was no living thing; that the hum and the savour of Eternity filled, and wrapped, and embalmed it.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000029_000001.wav|I could therefore have wired from Bergen or Stavanger, supposing the batteries not run down, to somewhere: but I would not: I was so afraid; afraid lest for ever from nowhere should come one answering click, or flash, or stirring....|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000017_000001.wav|And I saw that Bergen and Stavanger were dead.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000015_000001.wav|Glancing into one open casement near the ground, I saw an aged woman, stout and capped, lie on her face before a very large porcelain stove; but I paced on without stoppage, traversed several streets, and came out, as it became dark, upon a piece of grass land leading downward to a mountain gorge.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000016_000000.wav|About three in the afternoon I was startled to find myself there, and turned back.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000010_000000.wav|And I asked myself this question: 'How came these foreign stragglers here in this obscure northern town?'|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000019_000000.wav|From Stavanger I steered a straight course for the Humber.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000006_000000.wav|They were there in the hope, and with the thought, to fly westward by boat.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000001_000000.wav|The fjord opened finally in a somewhat wider basin, shut in by quite steep, high towering mountains, which reflected themselves in the water to their last cloudy crag: and, at the end of this I saw ships, a quay, and a modest, homely old town.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000017_000000.wav|Out to sea, then, I went again; and within the next few days I visited Bergen, and put in at Stavanger.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000020_000000.wav|I had no sooner left behind me the Norway coast than I began to meet the ships, the ships-ship after ship; and by the time I entered the zone of the ordinary alternation of sunny day and sunless night, I was moving through the midst of an incredible number of craft, a mighty and wide spread fleet.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000011_000000.wav|And my wild heart answered: 'There has been an impassioned stampede, northward and westward, of all the tribes of Man.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000018_000000.wav|It was then, on the nineteenth of august, that I turned my bow toward my native land.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000011_000001.wav|And this that I, Adam Jeffson, here see is but the far tossed spray of that monstrous, infuriate flood.'|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000030_000001.wav|For I was used to the silence of the ice: and I was used to the silence of the sea: but I was afraid of the silence of England.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000016_000004.wav|In that confined place fantastic qualms beset me; I mounted to the first landing, and tried the door, but it was locked; I mounted to the second: the door was open, and with a chill reluctance I took a step inward where all was pitch darkness, the window stores being drawn.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000016_000005.wav|I hesitated: it was very dark.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000012_000000.wav|Well, I passed up a street before me, careful, careful where I trod.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000015_000003.wav|When I looked about with the return of light I saw majestic fir grown mountains on either hand, almost meeting overhead at some points, deeply shading the mossy gorge.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7437/96157/7437_96157_000003_000000.wav|I ran and stopped the engines, and, without anchoring, got down into an empty boat that lay at the ship's side when she stopped; and I paddled twenty yards toward the little quay.|7437
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000009_000001.wav|Add two tablespoonfuls of caviare and a teaspoonful of lemon juice; season to taste.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000047_000001.wav|Drain.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000024_000000.wav|twelve.--Dutch Baked Mackerel.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000027_000000.wav|Season a leg of mutton with salt, pepper and a pinch of cloves.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000007_000003.wav|Serve hot, and pour over the sauce; garnish with parsley.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000019_000002.wav|Stir in the yolk of an egg.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000023_000001.wav|Then add some small whole onions, some cauliflower, mushrooms and one cup of French peas.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000031_000000.wav|Clean and pick three dozen prawns.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000053_000003.wav|Season with salt and pepper, and serve with small boiled sausages.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000041_000001.wav|Add six shallots and one clove of garlic chopped fine, some parsley and thyme and the mushrooms.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000002_000000.wav|one.--Oriental Canapes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000013_000000.wav|Melt one ounce of butter in a baking pan; then cover the bottom of the pan with thin slices of Swiss cheese.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000017_000002.wav|Serve on a platter with stewed prawns and garnish with croutons.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000036_000000.wav|eighteen.--German Lentil Soup.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000013_000001.wav|Break in six eggs; sprinkle with salt and pepper.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000022_000000.wav|eleven.--Russian Stewed Chicken.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000027_000001.wav|Lay in a baking pan with one sliced onion, two celery roots, three cloves of garlic and two carrots cut fine, one bay leaf, a sprig of thyme and a few peppercorns.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000044_000000.wav|twenty two.--Dutch Sweet Potato Puff.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000028_000000.wav|fourteen.--Italian Sugar Cakes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000019_000000.wav|Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter; add one onion chopped and two cups of tomatoes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000037_000002.wav|Then add some small sausages. Let boil five minutes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000039_000005.wav|Serve with celery and currant jelly.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000051_000004.wav|Serve hot with tomato sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000031_000002.wav|Add one pint of stock and let simmer half an hour until tender.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000027_000002.wav|Pour over one cup of vinegar and one cup of hot water.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000043_000000.wav|Boil some fine noodles in salted water for ten minutes; let drain. Beat the yolks of five eggs with one cup of pulverized sugar and mix with the noodles.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000007_000002.wav|Baste often with the sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000026_000000.wav|thirteen.--Polish Roast Mutton.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000051_000003.wav|Mix with one egg and form into balls; roll in flour and fry in deep hot lard until brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000037_000001.wav|Let boil until lentils are soft, with one sliced onion.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000033_000000.wav|Season a round steak with salt, black pepper and paprica; dredge with flour and let fry in hot lard on both sides until brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000007_000001.wav|Remove the tongue and lard it with thin strips of bacon; sprinkle with paprica; lay in a baking pan; add one onion sliced thin and one cup of the water in which the tongue was cooked and pour over one pint of cream. Let bake in a moderate oven.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000038_000000.wav|nineteen.--French Spiced Venison.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000010_000000.wav|five.--Madras Potato Curry.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000049_000002.wav|Then add one glass of red wine, mixed with a teaspoonful of brown sugar.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000049_000003.wav|Let boil a few minutes longer and serve with fried croutons.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000007_000000.wav|Boil a large fresh beef tongue in salted water until tender.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000052_000000.wav|twenty six.--Baden Stewed Lentils.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000027_000004.wav|Baste often with the sauce in the pan until nearly done; then add one pint of sour cream and let bake until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000016_000000.wav|eight.--Bombay Spinach.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000019_000004.wav|Put some boiled rice on a platter; add the shrimps and pour over the sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000021_000002.wav|Put in the oven to brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000039_000004.wav|Sprinkle with flour; add a glass of sherry and let brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000012_000000.wav|six.--Swiss Baked Eggs.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000011_000003.wav|Add the sliced potatoes and a sprig of parsley chopped.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000015_000000.wav|Clean and cut a shad into large slices; sprinkle with salt, pepper and ginger.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000011_000001.wav|Add three ounces of grated cocoanut, one teaspoonful of curry powder and one cup of milk, salt and cayenne pepper to taste.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000051_000002.wav|Season highly with salt, black pepper and a pinch of cayenne.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000031_000003.wav|Serve on a border of boiled rice; garnish with fried parsley.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000041_000002.wav|Let all fry a few minutes; then add the mushroom liquor and two tablespoonfuls of white wine, salt and pepper to taste. Let simmer five minutes and serve hot on slices of toast.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000011_000002.wav|Let boil up.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000045_000000.wav|Peel and boil three sweet potatoes in salted water until tender; then mash well with three beaten yolks of eggs, one cup of milk, three tablespoonfuls of butter, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, a pinch of nutmeg and lemon juice. Beat the whites with a pinch of salt to a stiff froth; add to the potatoes and put in a well buttered baking dish and bake.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000005_000000.wav|Chop a sheep's tongue, liver and heart and one pound of bacon.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000041_000000.wav|Drain one can of mushrooms and heat two tablespoonfuls of butter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000035_000001.wav|Cut off the head, skin and bone; chop the herring; add chopped apples, pickles, potatoes, olives and capers.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000003_000001.wav|Mix with one tablespoonful of butter; season with salt and pepper, a pinch each of mustard, cayenne, nutmeg and curry powder and moisten with lemon juice.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000046_000000.wav|twenty three.--Spaghetti (ITALIAN).|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000027_000005.wav|Thicken with flour; boil up and pour over the roast.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000009_000003.wav|Put the mixture in the centre; turn in the ends and serve at once.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000003_000000.wav|Take some lobster or crab meat and pound in a mortar.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000053_000001.wav|Add one chopped onion and stir in one tablespoonful of flour until brown; add some cold water mixed with vinegar.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000033_000002.wav|Cover and let simmer half an hour.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000009_000002.wav|Beat four eggs with one tablespoonful of cream, salt and pepper, and fry in an omelet pan with hot butter until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000025_000000.wav|Place the mackerel in a baking dish; sprinkle with pepper and chopped parsley.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000025_000001.wav|Cover with fried bread crumbs and bits of butter, and moisten with cream.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000004_000000.wav|two.--Haggis (SCOTCH).|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000006_000000.wav|three.--Austrian Braised Tongue.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000039_000002.wav|Let bake, covered, in a hot oven.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000045_000001.wav|Serve hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000015_000004.wav|Garnish with sliced lemon and sprigs of parsley and serve cold.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000017_000000.wav|Boil the spinach in salted water until tender; drain and chop fine. Fry one chopped onion in two tablespoonfuls of butter; add the chopped spinach, a pinch of pepper and curry powder.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000019_000005.wav|Serve very hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000025_000002.wav|Then bake until brown on top and serve hot with stewed potatoes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000030_000000.wav|fifteen.--Oriental Stewed Prawns.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000011_000000.wav|Cut boiled potatoes into thin slices; then fry one chopped onion in two tablespoonfuls of butter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000053_000000.wav|Boil one quart of lentils until tender; then heat two tablespoonfuls of butter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000039_000000.wav|Rub the venison with salt, pepper, vinegar, cloves and allspice; then put in a baking pan.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000023_000002.wav|Let all cook until tender; then serve hot on a large platter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000023_000000.wav|Cut a fat chicken into pieces at the joints and let stew, well seasoned with salt and pepper.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000027_000003.wav|Dredge with flour and let bake in a hot oven.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000054_000000.wav|twenty seven.--Duck aux Champignons.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000005_000003.wav|Then clean the pouch of the sheep and fill with the mixture. Lay in boiling water and let boil three hours.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000050_000000.wav|twenty five.--Boulettes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000008_000000.wav|four.--Russian Omelet.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000014_000000.wav|seven.--Jewish Stewed Shad.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000049_000000.wav|Boil five medium sized beets until tender; then chop and add to a highly seasoned chicken broth.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000035_000000.wav|Soak the herring over night; remove the milch and mash fine.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000049_000001.wav|Add the juice of one lemon, some cinnamon and nutmeg; let boil fifteen minutes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000039_000003.wav|Baste often with the sauce when nearly done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000015_000003.wav|Let boil until done and pour over the fish.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000020_000000.wav|ten.--Irish Baked Potatoes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000037_000000.wav|To one gallon of soup stock, add one quart of lentils.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000021_000003.wav|Serve with boiled fish.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000048_000000.wav|twenty four.--Russian Beet Soup.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000055_000001.wav|Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan; add the ducks, one large onion chopped fine, two cloves of garlic and one herb bouquet chopped.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000017_000001.wav|Cover and let simmer five minutes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000011_000004.wav|Let simmer a few minutes and serve hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000003_000002.wav|Cut small rounds of toasted bread; scoop out some of the centre; fill with the mixture and cover with a curry sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000009_000000.wav|Chop two shallots with a little parsley and cook in hot water.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000051_000001.wav|Add one tablespoonful of lemon juice, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000018_000000.wav|nine.--Spanish Fricasseed Shrimps.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000039_000001.wav|Pour over a cup of melted butter; add one onion sliced, some thyme, parsley, the juice of a lemon, and a cup of hot water.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000003_000003.wav|Sprinkle with fine bread crumbs and let bake in the oven a few minutes. Serve hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000013_000002.wav|Pour over four tablespoonfuls of cream; sprinkle with grated Swiss cheese, and let bake in the oven to a delicate brown. Serve hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000021_000000.wav|Peel and boil potatoes in salted water until tender; drain and mash with a lump of butter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000047_000003.wav|Then add one cup of milk; let boil and pour over the spaghetti.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14672/3615_14672_000047_000004.wav|Sprinkle with salt, pepper and grated cheese and let bake in the oven until done. Serve hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000022_000002.wav|Serve the chicken on a platter with boiled rice.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000030_000002.wav|Garnish with some thin slices of smoked salmon.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000050_000002.wav|Add the beaten whites; fill the pie and bake in a moderate oven.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000040_000000.wav|Peel and slice large apples; sprinkle with sugar and lemon juice and make a rich egg batter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000010_000003.wav|Serve hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000018_000001.wav|Remove the kernels and mash the prunes well.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000033_000000.wav|seventeen.--English Meat Loaf.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000054_000002.wav|Roll out an inch thick; cut with a biscuit cutter; rub with melted butter; lay in a buttered baking pan; let raise one hour; then bake in a hot oven twenty minutes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000020_000002.wav|Let cook slowly until tender; then scrape six carrots and cut thin; add two sliced onions, two cloves of garlic and let cook until tender.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000026_000000.wav|Peel small tender turnips; heat one tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000058_000000.wav|Soak six crackers in water; then press dry.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000058_000002.wav|Add three eggs and chopped parsley; sprinkle with salt, pepper and nutmeg.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000008_000000.wav|Drain one can of mushrooms; chop six shallots very fine and saute in one tablespoonful of butter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000020_000000.wav|Lard a round of beef with slices of bacon and put in a large saucepan. Cover and let brown a few minutes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000004_000004.wav|Serve hot or cold.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000002_000001.wav|Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000008_000003.wav|Serve hot on slices of French toast.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000011_000000.wav|six.--Scotch Omelet.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000032_000001.wav|Make a loaf a half inch thick and bake in a moderate oven until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000002_000007.wav|Serve with baked macaroni.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000037_000000.wav|nineteen.--Swiss Pie.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000006_000000.wav|Season a breast of veal with salt, pepper and ginger.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000040_000002.wav|Lay the sliced apples in the batter and fry in deep hot lard to a golden brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000018_000005.wav|Serve cold.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000010_000002.wav|Pour all together and let cook until meat is very tender.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000014_000001.wav|Add a pinch of sugar and let them fry in hot rendered butter until a golden brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000017_000000.wav|nine.--German Prune Kuchen.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000041_000000.wav|twenty one.--Jewish Purim Torte.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000056_000000.wav|Cut the potatoes into small dice pieces and fry in hot lard.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000044_000002.wav|Add the whites, beaten to a stiff froth; put in a buttered pudding mold, and let boil until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000046_000000.wav|Clean the brains.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000054_000001.wav|Beat all up well with one pint of milk; let raise over night.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000045_000000.wav|twenty three.--German Stewed Brains.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000025_000000.wav|thirteen.--Swedish Baked Turnips.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000018_000003.wav|Make a rich biscuit dough, roll out and place on a well buttered baking pan.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000036_000004.wav|Cut into triangles and drop in a kettle of hot rendered butter; fry until a golden brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000022_000000.wav|Cut a fat hen into pieces at the joints and boil until tender; season and fry with one onion and two green peppers chopped fine.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000030_000000.wav|Boil one cup of rice; add three chopped shallots, one teaspoonful of soy and salt to taste.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000046_000002.wav|Let stew fifteen minutes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000036_000002.wav|Put on a well floured baking board.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000039_000000.wav|twenty.--French Apple Fritters.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000059_000000.wav|thirty.--Italian Soup.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000057_000000.wav|twenty nine.--Jewish Dumplings.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000008_000001.wav|Add the chopped mushrooms; sprinkle with salt, pepper, some chopped parsley and one minced bay leaf.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000021_000000.wav|eleven.--Spanish Fried Chicken.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000058_000001.wav|Fry one chopped onion in butter and pour over the crackers.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000026_000003.wav|Thicken the sauce with flour and milk.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000038_000002.wav|Fill the pie with the onions, cover the top with cream and let bake in a moderate oven until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000036_000005.wav|Then mix some powdered sugar with a little milk and flavor with vanilla.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000056_000002.wav|Let boil up once and add the potatoes to the sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000012_000001.wav|Chop to a fine mince and fry in hot butter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000004_000003.wav|Add flour sifted with a teaspoonful of baking powder. Make into a large roll; place in the centre of the prunes; cover with brown sugar and a tablespoonful of molasses and put in the oven to bake until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000044_000003.wav|Serve with brandy sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000006_000001.wav|Heat a cupful of dripping; lay the meat in the stew pan with the dripping, one onion, some celery seed, carroway seed, a few peppercorns and parsley.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000038_000001.wav|Line a buttered pie dish with the dough; then slice three onions very thin and let cook in hot butter until tender; add a pinch of salt.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000029_000000.wav|fifteen.--Japanese Rice.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000013_000000.wav|seven.--Jewish Egg Bread.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000031_000000.wav|sixteen.--Scotch Loaf Cake.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000043_000000.wav|twenty two.--English Boiled Pudding.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000051_000000.wav|twenty six.--Polish Stewed Beans.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000009_000000.wav|five.--Turkish Soup.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000027_000000.wav|fourteen.--Belgian Baked Bananas.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000030_000001.wav|Place on a platter, cover with chopped hard boiled eggs, sprinkle with salt, paprica and chopped parsley.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000014_000002.wav|Sprinkle with pulverized sugar and cinnamon and serve hot with coffee.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000024_000003.wav|Sprinkle with cinnamon, nutmeg and grated lemon peel; then mix with the yolks of four eggs and the whites beaten stiff.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000050_000005.wav|Put on the pie when cool and serve.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000004_000000.wav|Cook one pound of prunes in a large saucepan with sliced lemon, a piece of stick cinnamon and brown sugar.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000034_000001.wav|Sprinkle with pepper, mace and chopped parsley.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000056_000001.wav|Then fry one onion cut fine in hot butter, but do not brown; stir in some flour; then add milk, salt, pepper and parsley.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000026_000004.wav|Add a little water and set in the oven a half hour, covered with paper; then serve.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000002_000000.wav|Boil a beef tongue until tender; skin and slice thin.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000005_000000.wav|three.--Swiss Pot Roast.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000012_000002.wav|Add six well beaten eggs, sprinkle with salt and pepper and fold into an omelet and serve on a hot dish.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000002_000004.wav|Let boil.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000023_000000.wav|twelve.--Hungarian Bread Pudding.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000001_000000.wav|one.--Italian Tongue.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000007_000000.wav|four.--Mushrooms a la Bordelaise.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000028_000004.wav|Put the bananas in a glass dish and pour over the sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000006_000002.wav|Cover and let stew slowly until nearly done; then add one cup of tomato sauce and cook slowly until tender.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000028_000003.wav|Let bake in a quick oven.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000036_000003.wav|Roll out a half inch thick.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000026_000002.wav|Pour over a cup of water; cover and let cook for one hour until tender but not broken.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000022_000001.wav|Add one cup of tomato sauce, salt and pepper to taste.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000052_000003.wav|Add the beans and simmer ten minutes. Serve hot with a beef pot roast.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000016_000000.wav|Clean sheep's kidneys and cut into thin slices.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000050_000000.wav|Make a rich pie dough.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000058_000003.wav|Mix all with some cracker meal until you can form into balls and boil in salted water until done. Serve hot with melted butter poured over them, and garnish with parsley.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000019_000000.wav|ten.--French Roast with Carrots.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000002_000002.wav|Add one chopped onion and two cloves of garlic minced fine.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000028_000001.wav|Sprinkle with sugar and grated lemon peel.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000003_000000.wav|two.--German Prune Pudding.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000048_000000.wav|Sift one pint of flour with one teaspoonful of baking powder; beat three yolks of eggs with a pinch of salt; add one pint of cream and one tablespoonful of melted butter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000042_000002.wav|Add the whites beaten stiff; then fill with the mixture and let bake until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000053_000000.wav|twenty seven.--Vienna Milk Rolls.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000015_000000.wav|eight.--Bombay Broiled Kidney.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000035_000000.wav|eighteen.--Jewish Purim Cakes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000049_000000.wav|twenty five.--French Tart.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000050_000004.wav|Mix one ounce of granulated sugar with one tablespoonful of cold water and let come to a boil.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000046_000001.wav|Heat one tablespoonful of drippings in a pan; add the brains, one sliced onion, some parsley, salt and pepper.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000056_000003.wav|Let all get very hot and serve.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000012_000000.wav|Boil young tender leeks in salted water; let drain.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000028_000000.wav|Skin fine bananas and lay them whole in a baking dish.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000002_000006.wav|Simmer ten minutes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000020_000004.wav|Season highly with salt, pepper and parsley; add to the meat, and let all cook together a half hour and serve hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000047_000000.wav|twenty four.--Scotch Cream Muffins.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000018_000000.wav|Boil some prunes until tender.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000018_000002.wav|Mix with sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice to taste.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000020_000003.wav|Thicken with butter and flour.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000024_000005.wav|Serve hot with wine sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000048_000002.wav|Beat all well together.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000034_000002.wav|Moisten with beef stock and let bake in the oven.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000052_000002.wav|Let sauce boil.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000018_000004.wav|Fill with the prunes and let bake until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000010_000000.wav|Season and fry some lamb chops; add two green peppers sliced thin, one onion chopped and an herb bouquet.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000034_000003.wav|Serve cold, sliced very thin, garnished with watercress.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000016_000002.wav|Then dip in beaten egg and fine bread crumbs and broil on a hot greased gridiron.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000042_000000.wav|Line a well buttered baking dish with a rich pie paste.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000052_000000.wav|Break string beans into pieces and let boil in salted water until tender; then heat one tablespoonful of butter; stir in one tablespoonful of flour until brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000020_000001.wav|Add sliced onion and boiling water to cover.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000024_000004.wav|Put in a well buttered pudding dish, and let bake until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000006_000003.wav|Serve with baked potatoes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000036_000006.wav|Spread on the top.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000028_000005.wav|Let get cold and serve.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14674/3615_14674_000016_000001.wav|Sprinkle with salt, cayenne pepper and grated lemon peel.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000050_000002.wav|Spread the pudding with jelly and cover with the beaten whites; set in the oven to brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000026_000002.wav|Mix well.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000006_000004.wav|Then fry thin slices of egg plant and add to the stew.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000014_000002.wav|Then pour into a well greased pan and bake until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000046_000000.wav|Peel and core apples; sprinkle well with sugar.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000021_000000.wav|eleven.--French Strawberry Pudding.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000018_000001.wav|Bake in a quick oven and serve at once.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000028_000005.wav|Serve with tomato sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000054_000002.wav|Cover the top with whipped whites of eggs and place a raw yoke on each slice of bread.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000044_000003.wav|Cover and let cook slowly until tender.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000054_000001.wav|Spread with chopped anchovies and chopped ham.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000030_000004.wav|Serve hot with lemon sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000044_000000.wav|Season three pounds of veal with salt, pepper and lemon juice.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000042_000001.wav|Chop all the cabbage from the inside and fry in hot grease with one sliced onion.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000008_000000.wav|Pare and slice apples and lay them in a buttered pie dish.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000002_000001.wav|Then place in the freezer to harden and serve.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000054_000000.wav|Cut thin round slices of bread and toast them.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000007_000000.wav|four.--Irish Apple Pudding.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000048_000000.wav|Clean and boil the brains in salted water; add one onion sliced; let cook ten minutes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000048_000002.wav|Mix together and fry in deep hot lard by the tablespoonful until brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000003.wav|Add a sprig of parsley and a little onion chopped fine.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000058_000000.wav|Clean and season the sweetbreads with salt and pepper and sprinkle with lemon juice and chopped parsley.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000028_000003.wav|Fill into small pate shells; rub with butter and beaten egg.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000007.wav|Serve hot with a cream sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000055_000000.wav|twenty eight.--Bavarian Apple Pie.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000004.wav|Mix with a beaten egg and bread crumbs; sprinkle with nutmeg.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000039_000000.wav|twenty.--Scotch Stewed Onions.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000056_000002.wav|Then cover with cake crumbs and let bake until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000006_000002.wav|Add one sliced onion, two sliced green peppers and two tomatoes, one red pepper and two sprigs of parsley.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000027_000000.wav|fourteen.--Italian Veal Pates.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000043_000000.wav|twenty two.--Dutch Veal Stew.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000048_000001.wav|Remove the brains and mash up well with one tablespoonful of butter, some bread crumbs and parsley chopped, salt and pepper to taste; add two eggs.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000010_000002.wav|Serve very hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000032_000001.wav|Let cook until tender and serve on a platter with cooked rice.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000012_000001.wav|Remove the chicken and chop it fine; then add to the soup with the yolks of three well beaten eggs; let all get very hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000038_000002.wav|Place the eggs on the crumbs; sprinkle with salt, pepper, grated cheese and chopped parsley.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000005.wav|Form into croquettes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000006_000001.wav|Lay in a large stew pan and cover with hot water.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000028_000004.wav|Place a paper over the top and let bake in a moderate oven.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000018_000000.wav|Soak six ounces of bread crumbs in milk and press dry; add two ounces of butter mixed with three ounces of sugar and three ounces of chocolate; add the yolks of six eggs well beaten, and flavor with a teaspoonful of vanilla; add the whites beaten to a stiff froth.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000040_000001.wav|Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000012_000000.wav|Boil a large chicken in three quarts of water; season with salt, sage and pepper; add one onion chopped and cook until tender.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000042_000005.wav|Let bake until brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000033_000000.wav|seventeen.--Madras Curried Apples.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000005_000000.wav|three.--Turkish Stewed Lamb.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000038_000001.wav|Butter a baking dish; add a layer of bread crumbs and grated cheese.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000046_000003.wav|Serve with whipped cream.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000047_000000.wav|twenty four.--Bavarian Fried Brains.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000003_000000.wav|two.--English Chicken Salad.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000008_000002.wav|Then cover with a rich pie paste and let bake until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000028_000001.wav|Add some chopped ham, lemon juice and two eggs.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000054_000003.wav|Set in the oven to bake long enough to heat the egg, and serve at once.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000044_000002.wav|Cover and let brown a few minutes; then add two carrots and one onion sliced thin, some thyme and mace; pour over one cup of hot water.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000006_000003.wav|Let stew slowly until tender.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000056_000001.wav|Let bake and fill with chopped apples, raisins and chopped nuts, sugar and a pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000014_000001.wav|Stir until smooth.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000052_000002.wav|Sprinkle the dough with flour and cover with the cherries.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000016_000000.wav|Slice two cucumbers, two tomatoes, one onion and two green peppers.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000028_000002.wav|Mix with bread crumbs and melted butter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000049_000000.wav|twenty five.--Polish Bread Pudding.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000030_000001.wav|Add the beaten whites.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000020_000003.wav|Let bake for five minutes and serve.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000037_000000.wav|nineteen.--Spanish Baked Eggs.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000014_000003.wav|Serve with English roast beef, and pour over the gravy.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000000.wav|Chop cold veal.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000035_000000.wav|eighteen.--Irish Batter Cakes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000012_000002.wav|Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve at once.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000057_000000.wav|twenty nine.--Russian Fried Sweetbreads.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000010_000000.wav|Boil one cup of rice in chicken broth; add a pinch of curry powder and season to taste with salt and pepper.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000048_000003.wav|Serve with tomato sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000028_000000.wav|Chop cooked veal with some onion, parsley, thyme and one clove of garlic; season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000017_000000.wav|nine.--English Chocolate Pudding.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000006_000005.wav|Serve hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000034_000001.wav|Add a few thinly cut shallots. Cover and let simmer until done.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000002.wav|Season with salt, pepper and lemon juice.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000014_000000.wav|Beat three eggs with a pinch of salt; add one pint of milk and two thirds of a cup of flour.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000013_000000.wav|seven.--Yorkshire Pudding.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000015_000000.wav|eight.--Portugal Salad.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000022_000000.wav|Dip enough macaroons in wine to line the pudding dish; cover with sweetened strawberries.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000011_000000.wav|six.--Hungarian Chicken Soup.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000009_000000.wav|five.--Indian Rice.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000026_000004.wav|Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and bake until light brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000020_000000.wav|Prepare circular pieces of buttered toast.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000056_000003.wav|Beat three whites of eggs with pulverized sugar; flavor with lemon and spread over the pudding.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000020_000001.wav|Then mix one cup of chopped fish with three sweet pickles minced fine, and two tablespoonfuls of Madras chutney; moisten with two tablespoonfuls of Hollandaise sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000041_000000.wav|twenty one.--German Baked Cabbage.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000026_000000.wav|Line a pie plate with a rich pie dough.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000022_000001.wav|Beat the yolks of four eggs with sugar and flavor with vanilla; pour over the strawberries; put in the oven to bake. Beat the whites to a stiff froth with some pulverized sugar; put on top of the pudding and let brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000034_000002.wav|Serve on a platter with boiled rice and pour over a curry sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000058_000001.wav|Roll in fine bread crumbs and fry in hot lard.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000029_000000.wav|fifteen.--Hungarian Noodle Pudding.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000038_000000.wav|Poach eggs as soft as possible.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000036_000002.wav|Add the whites of eggs, beaten stiff and let fry a golden color; then spread with jam and serve hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000052_000001.wav|Stone black cherries.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000036_000001.wav|Beat well.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000001_000000.wav|one.--Portugal Iced Pudding.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000052_000003.wav|Sprinkle with sugar and let bake until done. Then cover with a sweetened egg custard and bake until brown. Serve cold.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000042_000002.wav|Remove from the fire.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000053_000000.wav|twenty seven.--Belgian Poached Eggs.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000004_000000.wav|Mix one cup of cold chicken cut fine with one cup of chopped celery, one cup of cooked chestnuts chopped and two green peppers cut fine.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000044_000001.wav|Put a few slices of bacon in a stew pan; when hot, add the veal.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000019_000000.wav|ten.--Spanish Canapes.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000004_000001.wav|Season with salt and pepper.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000050_000001.wav|Mix well and bake until brown; then beat the whites to a stiff froth with three tablespoonfuls of pulverized sugar.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000036_000000.wav|Beat the yolks of four eggs; add a pinch of salt, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one small cup of milk and sifted flour enough to make a smooth batter.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000006.wav|Dip in beaten egg and fine bread crumbs and fry in deep hot lard.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000020_000002.wav|Spread this mixture over eight pieces of toast; sprinkle with three tablespoonfuls of grated Parmesan cheese.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000030_000003.wav|Fill with the noodles and pour over some melted butter. Bake until brown.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000025_000000.wav|thirteen.--German Cheese Pie.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000022_000002.wav|Serve cold.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000042_000006.wav|Serve hot.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000045_000000.wav|twenty three.--French Baked Apple Dumplings.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000031_000000.wav|sixteen.--Polish Stewed Chicken.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000038_000005.wav|Serve with toast.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000038_000004.wav|Let bake in a hot oven until brown on top.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000038_000003.wav|Cover with bread crumbs and pour over some cream sauce.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000030_000002.wav|Line the pudding dish with a rich pie paste.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000004_000002.wav|Put on crisp lettuce leaves in the salad bowl; cover with a mayonnaise dressing.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000024_000001.wav|Mix with some sweetbread and mushrooms chopped.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000026_000003.wav|Fill the pie.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3615/14677/3615_14677_000046_000001.wav|Then mix some cold boiled rice with one egg, a pinch of salt, sugar and cinnamon, flour enough to make a dough.|3615
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000025_000001.wav|If he could only come to me I would make him overseer of all my business.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000020_000001.wav|If you will make him over to me, I will let you off your debt.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000050_000000.wav|'I am going to the Serpent King.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000022_000000.wav|At night Mark took the child, put it in a barrel, fastened the lid tight down, and threw it into the sea.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000060_000001.wav|I'm tired, VERY tired, and want to sleep-scratch my head.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000015_000003.wav|Is that a bargain?'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000032_000001.wav|When the mistress read it she could hardly believe her eyes and called for her daughter.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000052_000000.wav|'I will remember,' said Vassili, and he went on.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000049_000000.wav|And he walked on.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000057_000000.wav|The girl said: 'You have not been sent here to collect rents, but for your own destruction, and that the serpent may devour you.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000055_000000.wav|As soon as she saw him she said: 'Oh, Vassili, what brings you to this accursed place?'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000007_000000.wav|'What news is there?' asked the eldest.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000080_000000.wav|The sailors carried all the gold and silver into the ship, and then they set sail for home with Vassili on board.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000067_000001.wav|Must I lie here much longer?"'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000042_000000.wav|'I did; this old wide spreading oak.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000004_000000.wav|'Dear daddy, let the poor old men sleep here to night, do-to please me.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000032_000003.wav|If you don't obey my orders I shall be very angry.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000016_000001.wav|When he had driven some miles he drew up, carried the child to the edge of a steep precipice and threw it over, muttering, 'There, now try to take my property!'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000081_000000.wav|Mark was more furious than ever.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000006_000000.wav|The three old men stood in the middle of the loft, leaning on their sticks, with their long grey beards flowing down over their hands, and were talking together in low voices.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000063_000000.wav|'I dreamt I was walking on a wide road, and an oak tree said to me: "Ask the king this: Rotten at the roots, half dead, and yet green stands the old oak.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000049_000002.wav|As he stepped on it the whale said, 'Do tell me where you are going.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000025_000002.wav|As you say, he is so good and clever.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000022_000001.wav|The barrel floated away to a great distance, and at last it floated close up to a monastery.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000034_000001.wav|His wife, daughter, and son in law all went out to meet him.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000025_000003.wav|Do spare him to me.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000031_000001.wav|They blew on it and gave it back to him, saying: 'Now go and give the letter to Mark's wife.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000062_000000.wav|'Out with it then, quick!|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000024_000002.wav|When he went into the church the choir was singing, and one voice was so clear and beautiful, that he asked who it belonged to.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000034_000000.wav|In due time, Mark returned from his travels.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000018_000000.wav|As they were passing near the precipice they heard a sound of crying, and on looking over they saw a little green meadow wedged in between two great heaps of snow, and on the meadow lay a baby amongst the flowers.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000074_000000.wav|The great fish heaved itself up and threw up all the twelve ships and their crews.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000053_000002.wav|Vassili walked in, and went from one room to another astonished at all the splendour he saw.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000025_000004.wav|I will make his fortune, and will present your monastery with twenty thousand crowns.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000068_000001.wav|Then he may plunge back into the sea and heal his back.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000082_000000.wav|Vassili led a good and happy life with his dear wife, and his kind mother in law lived with them.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000036_000001.wav|It certainly was his handwriting, but by no means his wishes.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000064_000000.wav|'It must stand till some one comes and pushes it down with his foot. Then it will fall, and under its roots will be found more gold and silver than even Mark the Rich has got.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000048_000000.wav|'Very well,' said Vassili; 'I'll ask him.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000013_000002.wav|Who can be got to stand godfather to such a little beggar boy?'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000083_000001.wav|His face is wrinkled, his hair and beard are snow white, and his eyes are dim; but still he rows on.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000059_000000.wav|Then she rose up to receive the Serpent King.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000028_000001.wav|On the way he met three beggars, who asked him: 'Where are you going, Vassili?'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000038_000001.wav|Twelve years ago he built a castle on some land of mine.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000022_000003.wav|It seemed to come from the barrel which was bobbing about near the water's edge.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000032_000000.wav|Vassili reached the house and gave the letter.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000078_000001.wav|There, at the roots, was more gold and silver than even Mark the Rich had.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000023_000000.wav|The boy lived on with the monks, and grew up to be a clever, gentle, and handsome young man.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000066_000000.wav|'That depends on himself.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000031_000002.wav|You will not be forsaken.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000029_000000.wav|'I am going to the house of Mark the Merchant, and have a letter for his wife,' replied Vassili.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000071_000000.wav|When he reached the strait the whale asked: 'Have you thought of me?'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000036_000000.wav|Mark read it.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000026_000000.wav|The abbot hesitated a good deal, but he consulted all the other monks, and at last they decided that they ought not to stand in the way of Vassili's good fortune.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000040_000001.wav|As he tramped along he suddenly heard a voice saying: 'Vassili! where are you going?'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000015_000001.wav|How can you afford to bring up the boy?|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000044_000001.wav|Is it to stand much longer on the earth?"'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000022_000002.wav|The monks were just spreading out their nets to dry on the shore, when they heard the sound of crying.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000044_000000.wav|'When the time comes, remember me and ask the king: "Rotten to the roots, half dead but still green, stands the old oak.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000008_000001.wav|What shall we name him, and what fortune shall we give him?' said the second.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000067_000000.wav|'And at last I dreamt that I was walking over a bridge made of a whale's back, and the living bridge spoke to me and said: "Here have I been stretched out these three years, and men and horses have trampled my back down into my ribs.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000015_000000.wav|'Look here, my friend, you are a poor man.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000019_000002.wav|Mark guessed at once that the child must be his godson, asked to see him, and said:|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101258/7540_101258_000024_000000.wav|Now, it happened about this time that the merchant, Mark, came to the monastery in the course of a journey.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000007_000001.wav|This I had successfully accomplished, arriving home only nine days after my own ship.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000012_000000.wav|"Ah!" I responded, with a still more hopeless sigh, "if only we could! But I suppose there is about as much chance of that as there is of my becoming Lord High Admiral of Great Britain.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000013.wav|Many, however, were so sorely hurt that they succumbed to their injuries, the English captain being among this number.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000016.wav|Now, however, the poor man was dying, and could never hope to enjoy his share of the spoil, or even insure its possession to his relatives.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000017_000000.wav|"Meanwhile, the consciousness gradually forced itself upon Richard Saint Leger that he was wounded unto death, and that time would soon be for him no more.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000005_000004.wav|That I should do so was indeed so completely a foregone conclusion, that I was especially educated for it at Greenwich; upon leaving which, I had been bound apprentice to my father.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000023_000000.wav|"They may have been; I cannot say," answered my mother.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000008_000000.wav|I have stated that when, upon the termination of an Australian voyage and the completion of my duties as chief mate, I returned to my ancestral home for the purpose of spending a brief holiday with my mother prior to my departure upon yet another journey to the antipodes, I had found her in dire trouble.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000010_000000.wav|Then arose the question of what was best to be done under our altered circumstances.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000005_000005.wav|And under him I had faithfully served my time, and had risen to the position of second mate when death claimed him, and he passed away in my arms, commending my mother to my tenderest care with his last breath.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000007_000002.wav|A claim for salvage had been duly made, and I calculated that when the settling day arrived, my own share would fall very little short of three thousand pounds, if, indeed, it did not fully reach that figure.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000010.wav|The expedition was a failure, so far as the capture of the galleon was concerned, for she fell into the hands of Commodore Anson. In other respects, however, the voyage proved fairly profitable; for though they missed the great treasure ship, they fell in with and captured another Spanish vessel which had on board sufficient specie to well recompense the captors for the time and trouble devoted to the adventure.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000013_000001.wav|"Your dear father took the same view of the matter that you do, and never, to my knowledge, devoted a single hour to the search.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000008_000001.wav|This trouble was the natural-and I may say inevitable-result of my father's mistaken idea that he was as good a man of business as he was a seaman.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000020_000001.wav|But what you have related only strengthens my previous conviction, that the document or documents no longer exist.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000025_000000.wav|"In the west attic, where they have always been kept," answered my mother.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000015.wav|With this object in view, and not caring to subject their booty to the manifold risks attendant upon a cruise of an entire year, they had sought out a secluded spot, and had there carefully concealed the treasure by burying it in the earth.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000022_000000.wav|"And have those relics never been examined since my ancestor Hugh abandoned the quest as hopeless?" I inquired.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000005.wav|At length-in the year seventeen forty two, I think it was-it became whispered about among those restless spirits that a galleon had actually been captured, and that the captors had returned to England literally laden with wealth.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000008.wav|This done, his next step was to organise a company of adventurers, with himself as their head and leader, to sail in search of the next year's galleon.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000023_000001.wav|"But I do not believe that your dear father-or your grandfather either, for that matter-ever thought it worth while to subject them to a thoroughly exhaustive scrutiny.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000013_000000.wav|"Well, I really don't know, my boy; I am not prepared to say so much as that," answered my mother.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000015_000007.wav|He then sought out the leader of the fortunate expedition, and having pledged himself to the strictest secrecy, obtained the fullest particulars relating to the adventure.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101799/7540_101799_000017_000003.wav|At length the stubborn courage of the English prevailed, and, despite their vast superiority in numbers, the Spaniards, who had boarded, were first driven back to their own deck and then below, when, further resistance being useless, they flung down their arms and surrendered.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000043_000000.wav|'So you shall,' said the old woman.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000051_000001.wav|But strike the water with the halter and say, "Come here, O mare of the mountain witch!" and she will come.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000064_000001.wav|He tried hard to keep awake, but it was of no use, and in the morning there he was again on the log, grasping the halter.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000008_000006.wav|Then the witch stretched out her hand, and cut off a lock of the maiden's hair, and in an instant the girl sprang up, a pea hen once more, spread her wings and flew away, while her sisters, who were busily stripping the boughs, flew after her.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000007_000000.wav|Next came the turn of the youngest son, who made himself a comfortable bed under the apple tree, and prepared himself to sleep.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000026_000001.wav|When he entered the palace, to his great joy he found his wife sitting alone in a vast hall, and they began hastily to invent plans for her escape.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000035_000000.wav|Soon after the dragon came home, and the empress sat down near him, and began to coax and flatter him into a good humour, and at last she said:|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000031_000000.wav|'This time I will forgive you, because you brought me the water when I was in the cask; but beware how you return here, or you will pay for it with your life.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000030_000000.wav|So the dragon ate till it was past mid day, and when he could eat no more he mounted his horse and set out after the fugitives.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000048_000005.wav|It had hardly touched his fingers when the fish appeared in the stream beside him.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000065_000000.wav|'What is it, my brother?' asked the wolf as it stood before him.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000004.wav|This went on for some time, till the prince could bear it no longer, and made up his mind he would search the world through for her.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000048_000001.wav|He managed to keep his seat for a long time, in spite of all her efforts to throw him, but at length he grew so weary that he fell fast asleep, and when he woke he found himself sitting on a log, with the halter in his hands.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000056_000000.wav|So when it began to grow dark the prince mounted the mare for the second time and rode into the meadows, and the foal trotted behind its mother. Again he managed to stick on till midnight: then a sleep overtook him that he could not battle against, and when he woke up he found himself, as before, sitting on the log, with the halter in his hands.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000005.wav|In vain his father tried to persuade him that his task was hopeless, and that other girls were to be found as beautiful as this one.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000039_000002.wav|It was a long and steep climb, but at last he found her, and with a low bow he began:|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000050_000000.wav|'The old woman's mare strayed last night, and I don't know where to look for her.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000075_000000.wav|'You can't really mean what you say?' replied the woman.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000032_000001.wav|Then he could bear it no longer and turned back to the palace, in spite of the dragon's threats.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000068_000000.wav|The prince did as he was bid, and as the hair touched his fingers the wolf changed back into a mare, with the foal beside her.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000076_000000.wav|'Yes, I do,' said the prince, and the old woman was forced to let him have his way.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000022_000000.wav|So the prince unfastened the trap, pulled out one of the fox's hairs, and continued his journey.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000007_000002.wav|And behold!|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000005_000001.wav|He felt very much ashamed of himself, and went with lagging feet to tell his father!|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000002.wav|But that did no good as far as the pea hens went.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000043_000002.wav|One post only was empty, and as they passed it cried out:|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000073_000000.wav|'What I promised that will I perform,' answered she.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000010_000003.wav|And she hastened to him, and took his hand, and drew him into the palace.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000014_000000.wav|The prince, who was very tender hearted, brought some water at once, and pushed it through a hole in the barrel; and as he did so one of the iron hoops burst.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000060_000001.wav|He mounted and rode back, and the old woman placed food on the table, and led the mare back to the stable.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000006_000001.wav|But no sooner had he lain himself down than his eyes grew heavy, and when the sunbeams roused him from his slumbers there was not an apple left on the tree.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000029_000000.wav|'Eat your supper with a free mind first,' answered the horse, 'and follow them afterwards.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000034_000000.wav|Then, fearing to meet his enemy, he stole out of the castle.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000007_000001.wav|Towards midnight he awoke, and sat up to look at the tree.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000010_000004.wav|In a few days they were married, and the prince forgot his father and his brothers, and made up his mind that he would live and die in the castle.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000042_000000.wav|'I wish to become your servant,' answered he.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000006.wav|The prince would listen to nothing, and, accompanied by only one servant, set out on his quest.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000076_000003.wav|The empress had been looking for him night and day, and stole out to meet him, and he swung her on to his saddle, and the horse flew off again.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000076_000001.wav|So he took leave of her, and put the halter round his horse's neck and led him into the forest, where he rubbed him down till his skin was shining like gold.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000013_000001.wav|When he got to the twelfth he paused, but his curiosity was too much for him, and in another instant the key was turned and the cellar lay open before him.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000022_000001.wav|And as he was going over the mountain he passed a wolf entangled in a snare, who begged to be set at liberty.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000045_000000.wav|The old woman made no answer, but turned to the prince and said:|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000008_000001.wav|That evening the prince returned to the apple tree, and everything passed as before, and so it happened for several nights.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000052_000000.wav|The prince did as he was bid, and the mare and her foal stood before him.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000003.wav|They never came back any more, though the prince returned to the tree every night, and wept his heart out for his lost love.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000058_000000.wav|'The old witch's mare has run away from me, and I do not know where to look for her.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000020_000000.wav|The prince picked up the fish and threw it into the water; then he took off one of its scales, as he had been told, and put it in his pocket, carefully wrapped in a cloth.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000070_000000.wav|'So I did,' replied the mare, 'but they are no friends of mine and betrayed me.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000019_000001.wav|Take one of my scales, and when you are in danger twist it in your fingers, and I will come!'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000004_000000.wav|And his son replied, 'I will sit up to night and watch the tree, and I shall soon see who it is!'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000055_000000.wav|'Well, go among the foxes this time,' said she, and returned to the house, not knowing that the prince had overheard her.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000020_000001.wav|Then he went on his way till, some miles further down the road, he found a fox caught in a trap.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000061_000000.wav|'You should have gone to the foxes, as I told you,' said she, striking the mare with a stick.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000038_000004.wav|But no one can ever get this horse without first serving the old woman for three whole days. And besides the horses she has a foal and its mother, and the man who serves her must look after them for three whole days, and if he does not let them run away he will in the end get the choice of any horse as a present from the old woman.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000079_000001.wav|I shall sink to the earth if I try to keep up with you.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000077_000001.wav|Shall we eat and drink, or shall we follow the runaways?' and the horse replied, 'Whether you eat or don't eat, drink or don't drink, follow them or stay at home, matters nothing now, for you can never, never catch them.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000036_000001.wav|Where did you get it from?'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000007_000003.wav|the apples were beginning to ripen, and lit up the whole palace with their brightness.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000033_000000.wav|'Ask the dragon when he comes home,' said the prince, 'where he got that wonderful horse from, and then you can tell me, and I will try to find another like it.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000038_000002.wav|And in one corner is a thin, wretched looking animal whom no one would glance at a second time, but he is in reality the best of the lot.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000008_000003.wav|So, when the evening came, the old woman hid herself under the tree and waited for the prince.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000078_000000.wav|But the dragon made no reply to the horse's words, but sprang on his back and set off in chase of the fugitives.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000010_000001.wav|The prince tried to pass in, but the way was barred by the keeper of the gate, who wanted to know who he was, why he was there, and how he had learnt the way, and he was not allowed to enter unless the empress herself came and gave him leave.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000062_000000.wav|'I did go to the foxes,' replied the mare, 'but they are no friends of mine and betrayed me.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000003_000000.wav|At last the emperor said to his eldest son, 'If only I could prevent those robbers from stealing my fruit, how happy I should be!'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000028_000000.wav|'Give me your advice; what shall I do-have my supper as usual, or set out in pursuit of them?'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000025_000000.wav|'Oh, brother!' asked the prince, 'tell me, if you can, where the dragon emperor lives?'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000030_000001.wav|In a short time he had come up with them, and as he snatched the empress out of her saddle he said to the prince:|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000032_000002.wav|Again the empress was sitting alone, and once more they began to think of a scheme by which they could escape the dragon's power.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000079_000000.wav|Soon the dragon's horse was heard panting behind, and he cried out, 'Oh, my brother, do not go so fast!|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000021_000000.wav|'Oh! be a brother to me!' called the fox, 'and free me from this trap, and I will help you when you are in need.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000053_000000.wav|'You should have gone among the fishes,' cried the old woman, striking the animal with a stick.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000027_000001.wav|He sent at once for his talking horse, and said to him:|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000001.wav|He dragged her out, and in his fury called his guards, and ordered them to put her to death as fast as possible.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000072_000000.wav|'I have served you well,' said he, 'and now for my reward.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000015_000000.wav|He was turning away, when a voice cried the second time, 'Brother, for pity's sake fetch me some water; I'm dying of thirst!'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000080_000000.wav|And the prince's horse answered, 'Why do you serve a monster like that? Kick him off, and let him break in pieces on the ground, and come and join us.'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000076_000002.wav|Then he mounted, and they flew straight through the air to the dragon's palace.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000002_000001.wav|But every morning the fruit was gone, and the boughs were bare of blossom, without anyone being able to discover who was the thief.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000037_000000.wav|And he answered:|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000012_000000.wav|The prince, who was left alone in the castle, soon got tired of being by himself, and began to look about for something to amuse him.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000041_000001.wav|What are you doing here?'|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000032_000000.wav|Half mad with grief, the prince rode sadly on a little further, hardly knowing what he was doing.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000010_000000.wav|After travelling for many days, he arrived at length before a large gate, and through the bars he could see the streets of a town, and even the palace.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000057_000000.wav|'What is it, my brother?' asked the fox, who instantly appeared before him.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000009_000000.wav|When he had recovered from his surprise at the unexpected disappearance of the maiden, the prince exclaimed, 'What can be the matter?' and, looking about him, discovered the old witch hidden under the bed.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000038_000003.wav|He is twin brother to my own horse, and can fly as high as the clouds themselves.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000005_000000.wav|So directly it grew dark the young man went and hid himself near the apple tree to begin his watch, but the apples had scarcely begun to ripen before he fell asleep, and when he awoke at sunrise the apples were gone.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000048_000002.wav|He jumped up in terror, but the mare was nowhere to be seen, and he started with a beating heart in search of her.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000049_000000.wav|'What is it, my brother?' asked the fish anxiously.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000047_000000.wav|But the prince did not waver, and declared he would abide by his words.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000071_000000.wav|The old woman made no answer, and left the stable, but the prince was at the door waiting for her.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000081_000000.wav|And the dragon's horse plunged and reared, and the dragon fell on a rock, which broke him in pieces.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000069_000000.wav|'You should have gone among the wolves,' said she, striking her with a stick.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000027_000000.wav|There was no time to waste, as the dragon might return directly, so they took two horses out of the stable, and rode away at lightning speed. Hardly were they out of sight of the palace than the dragon came home and found that his prisoner had flown.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000016_000000.wav|So the prince went back, and brought some more water, and again a hoop sprang.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7540/101262/7540_101262_000023_000001.wav|Take a lock of my fur, and when you need me twist it in your fingers.' And the prince undid the snare and let the wolf go.|7540
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000003_000002.wav|For should the soul of a prince, carrying with it the consciousness of the prince's past life, enter and inform the body of a cobbler, as soon as deserted by his own soul, every one sees he would be the same PERSON with the prince, accountable only for the prince's actions: but who would say it was the same MAN?|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000036_000001.wav|The Difficulty from ill Use of Names.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000006_000000.wav|nineteen.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000021_000001.wav|But then they who place human identity in consciousness only, and not in something else, must consider how they will make the infant Socrates the same man with Socrates after the resurrection.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000000_000000.wav|sixteen.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000003_000003.wav|The body too goes to the making the man, and would, I guess, to everybody determine the man in this case, wherein the soul, with all its princely thoughts about it, would not make another man: but he would be the same cobbler to every one besides himself.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000034_000001.wav|Suppositions that look strange are pardonable in our ignorance.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000015_000000.wav|But yet it is hard to conceive that Socrates, the same individual man, should be two persons.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000000_000001.wav|Whether, the same immaterial Substance remaining, there can be two Persons.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000001_000005.wav|Can he be concerned in either of their actions?|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000027_000000.wav|twenty six.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000009_000000.wav|In this personal identity is founded all the right and justice of reward and punishment; happiness and misery being that for which every one is concerned for HIMSELF, and not mattering what becomes of any SUBSTANCE, not joined to, or affected with that consciousness.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000021_000002.wav|But whatsoever to some men makes a man, and consequently the same individual man, wherein perhaps few are agreed, personal identity can by us be placed in nothing but consciousness, (which is that alone which makes what we call SELF,) without involving us in great absurdities.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000020_000001.wav|A way of speaking which, whoever admits, must allow it possible for the same man to be two distinct persons, as any two that have lived in different ages without the knowledge of one another's thoughts.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000003_000005.wav|And indeed every one will always have a liberty to speak as he pleases, and to apply what articulate sounds to what ideas he thinks fit, and change them as often as he pleases.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000013_000002.wav|And the same man being presumed to be the same person, I is easily here supposed to stand also for the same person.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000017_000000.wav|Secondly, or the same animal, without any regard to an immaterial soul.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000006_000001.wav|Self depends on Consciousness, not on Substance.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000031_000000.wav|But let men, according to their diverse hypotheses, resolve of that as they please.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000000.wav|PERSON, as I take it, is the name for this self.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000003_000001.wav|But yet the soul alone, in the change of bodies, would scarce to any one but to him that makes the soul the man, be enough to make the same man.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000007_000004.wav|That with which the consciousness of this present thinking thing CAN join itself, makes the same person, and is one self with it, and with nothing else; and so attributes to itself, and owns all the actions of that thing, as its own, as far as that consciousness reaches, and no further; as every one who reflects will perceive.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000018_000000.wav|Thirdly, or the same immaterial spirit united to the same animal.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000001_000008.wav|For this would no more make him the same person with Nestor, than if some of the particles of smaller that were once a part of Nestor were now a part of this man the same immaterial substance, without the same consciousness, no more making the same person, by being united to any body, than the same particle of matter, without consciousness, united to any body, makes the same person.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000014_000000.wav|twenty three.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000023_000001.wav|why else is he punished for the fact he commits when drunk, though he be never afterwards conscious of it?|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000003.wav|This personality extends itself beyond present existence to what is past, only by consciousness,--whereby it becomes concerned and accountable; owns and imputes to itself past actions, just upon the same ground and for the same reason as it does the present.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000027_000001.wav|Not the substance with which the consciousness may be united.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000026_000001.wav|And whether, in the second case, there would not be one person in two distinct bodies, as much as one man is the same in two distinct clothings?|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000003_000006.wav|But yet, when we will inquire what makes the same SPIRIT, MAN, or PERSON, we must fix the ideas of spirit, man, or person in our minds; and having resolved with ourselves what we mean by them, it will not be hard to determine, in either of them, or the like, when it is the same, and when not.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000007_000003.wav|As in this case it is the consciousness that goes along with the substance, when one part is separate from another, which makes the same person, and constitutes this inseparable self: so it is in reference to substances remote in time.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000025_000000.wav|Nothing but consciousness can unite remote existences into the same person: the identity of substance will not do it; for whatever substance there is, however framed, without consciousness there is no person: and a carcass may be a person, as well as any sort of substance be so, without consciousness.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000010_000001.wav|Which shows wherein Personal identity consists.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000035_000000.wav|I am apt enough to think I have, in treating of this subject, made some suppositions that will look strange to some readers, and possibly they are so in themselves.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000039_000003.wav|For, whatever be the composition whereof the complex idea is made, whenever existence makes it one particular thing under any denomination, THE SAME EXISTENCE CONTINUED preserves it the SAME individual under the same denomination.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000004_000000.wav|eighteen.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000029_000000.wav|twenty seven.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000001.wav|Wherever a man finds what he calls himself, there, I think, another may say is the same person.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000032_000000.wav|twenty eight.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000005.wav|And therefore whatever past actions it cannot reconcile or APPROPRIATE to that present self by consciousness, it can be no more concerned in than if they had never been done: and to receive pleasure or pain, i e reward or punishment, on the account of any such action, is all one as to be made happy or miserable in its first being, without any demerit at all.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000001_000006.wav|attribute them to himself, or think them his own more than the actions of any other men that ever existed?|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000001_000002.wav|So that personal identity, reaching no further than consciousness reaches, a pre existent spirit not having continued so many ages in a state of silence, must needs make different persons.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000026_000003.wav|So that self is not determined by identity or diversity of substance, which it cannot be sure of, but only by identity of consciousness.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000030_000000.wav|I agree, the more probable opinion is, that this consciousness is annexed to, and the affection of, one individual immaterial substance.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000016_000000.wav|First, it must be either the same individual, immaterial, thinking substance; in short, the same numerical soul, and nothing else.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000023_000002.wav|Just as much the same person as a man that walks, and does other things in his sleep, is the same person, and is answerable for any mischief he shall do in it.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000001_000009.wav|But let him once find himself conscious of any of the actions of Nestor, he then finds himself the same person with Nestor.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000039_000002.wav|But if to any one the idea of a man be but the vital union of parts in a certain shape; as long as that vital union and shape remain in a concrete, no otherwise the same but by a continued succession of fleeting particles, it will be the SAME MAN.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000004_000001.wav|Consciousness alone unites actions into the same Person.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000034_000000.wav|twenty nine.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000011_000001.wav|And to punish Socrates waking for what sleeping Socrates thought, and waking Socrates was never conscious of, would be no more of right, than to punish one twin for what his brother twin did, whereof he knew nothing, because their outsides were so like, that they could not be distinguished; for such twins have been seen.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000028_000001.wav|In like manner it will be in reference to any immaterial substance, which is void of that consciousness whereby I am myself to myself: so that I cannot upon recollection join with that present consciousness whereby I am now myself, it is, in that part of its existence, no more MYSELF than any other immaterial being.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000024_000000.wav|twenty five.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000013_000000.wav|But yet possibly it will still be objected,--Suppose I wholly lose the memory of some parts of my life, beyond a possibility of retrieving them, so that perhaps I shall never be conscious of them again; yet am I not the same person that did those actions, had those thoughts that I once was conscious of, though I have now forgot them?|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000002.wav|It is a forensic term, appropriating actions and their merit; and so belongs only to intelligent agents, capable of a law, and happiness, and misery.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000004.wav|All which is founded in a concern for happiness, the unavoidable concomitant of consciousness; that which is conscious of pleasure and pain, desiring that that self that is conscious should be happy.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000014_000001.wav|Difference between Identity of Man and of Person.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000033_000006.wav|For, supposing a MAN punished now for what he had done in another life, whereof he could be made to have no consciousness at all, what difference is there between that punishment and being CREATED miserable?|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000007_000000.wav|SELF is that conscious thinking thing,--whatever substance made up of, (whether spiritual or material, simple or compounded, it matters not)--which is sensible or conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concerned for itself, as far as that consciousness extends.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000032_000001.wav|Person a forensic Term.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000039_000000.wav|For, supposing a rational spirit be the idea of a MAN, it is easy to know what is the same man, viz. the same spirit-whether separate or in a body-will be the SAME MAN.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000001_000001.wav|All those who hold pre existence are evidently of this mind; since they allow the soul to have no remaining consciousness of what it did in that pre existent state, either wholly separate from body, or informing any other body; and if they should not, it is plain experience would be against them.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000031_000003.wav|In all which account of self, the same numerical SUBSTANCE is not considered a making the same self; but the same continued CONSCIOUSNESS, in which several substances may have been united, and again separated from it, which, whilst they continued in a vital union with that wherein this consciousness then resided, made a part of that same self.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000015_000001.wav|To help us a little in this, we must consider what is meant by Socrates, or the same individual MAN.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000008_000000.wav|twenty.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000039_000001.wav|Supposing a rational spirit vitally united to a body of a certain conformation of parts to make a man; whilst that rational spirit, with that vital conformation of parts, though continued in a fleeting successive body, remains, it will be the SAME MAN.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000003_000000.wav|And thus may we be able, without any difficulty, to conceive the same person at the resurrection, though in a body not exactly in make or parts the same which he had here,--the same consciousness going along with the soul that inhabits it.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000019_000000.wav|Now, take which of these suppositions you please, it is impossible to make personal identity to consist in anything but consciousness; or reach any further than that does.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000002_000001.wav|The body, as well as the soul, goes to the making of a Man.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7335/290365/7335_290365_000011_000000.wav|This may show us wherein personal identity consists: not in the identity of substance, but, as I have said, in the identity of consciousness, wherein if Socrates and the present mayor of Queenborough agree, they are the same person: if the same Socrates waking and sleeping do not partake of the same consciousness, Socrates waking and sleeping is not the same person.|7335
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000008_000000.wav|The father Greeley ought to have foreseen that such energy and will would produce results; but because Horace, in a fit of abstraction, tried to yoke the "off" ox on the "near" side, he said, "Ah! that boy will never get along in the world.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000004_000003.wav|The neighbors came and made their friendly visits, and ate apples and drank cider, as was the fashion, but the lad never noticed their coming or their going.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000003_000001.wav|When two years old, he would pore over the Bible, as he lay on the floor, and ask questions about the letters; at three, he went to the "district school," often carried through the deep snow on the shoulders of one of his aunts, or on the back of an older boy.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000037_000002.wav|Flags on the shipping, in the harbor, were at half mast; and bells tolled from one to three o'clock.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000006.wav|I would rather be a convict in a State prison, a slave in a rice swamp, than to pass through life under the harrow of debt. Hunger, cold, rags, hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable, but debt is infinitely worse than them all.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000005.wav|He wrote four columns of editorial matter (his copy, wittily says Junius Henri Browne, "strangers mistook for diagrams of Boston"), dozens of letters, often forgot whether he had been to his meals, and was ready to see and advise with everybody.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000025_000003.wav|His little son Pickie, called "the glorious boy with radiant beauty never equalled," died suddenly.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000004_000002.wav|He gathered a stock of pine knots, and, lighting one each night, lay down by the hearth, and read, oblivious to all around him.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000013_000001.wav|Fortunately, though it was the almost universal custom to use liquors, Horace was a teetotaler, and despised chewing or smoking tobacco, which he regarded "as the vilest, most detestable abuse of his corrupted sensual appetites whereof depraved man is capable;" therefore he had no fear of temptation from these sources.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000035_000003.wav|Can't you possibly let me in to have one last look?"|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000024_000002.wav|What did Zaccheus think now of his boy of whom he prophesied "would never know more than enough to come in when it rains"?|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000010_000002.wav|What was their surprise to find that the young printer knew almost every thing, and was always ready to speak, or read an essay.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000003_000002.wav|He soon stood at the head of his little class in spelling and reading, "and took it so much to heart when he did happen to lose his place, that he would cry bitterly; so that some boys, when they had gained the right to get above him, declined the honor, because it hurt Horace's feelings so."|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000018_000002.wav|At first his fellow workmen called him "the ghost," from his white hair and complexion; but they soon found him friendly, and willing to lend money, which, as a rule, was never returned to him; they therefore voted him to be a great addition to the shop.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000001.wav|Of the five thousand copies published and to be sold at a cent each, mr Greeley says, "We found some difficulty in giving them away." The expenses for the first week were five hundred and twenty five dollars; receipts, ninety two.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000034_000003.wav|saint Louis, Albany, Indianapolis, Nashville, and other cities held memorial meetings.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000007.wav|Avoid pecuniary obligation as you would pestilence or famine.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000034_000001.wav|The Union League Club, the Lotos, the Typographical Society, the Associated Press, German and colored clubs, and temperance organizations passed resolutions of sorrow.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000021_000003.wav|The latter paper was a great success, the circulation running up to ninety thousand, though very little money was made; but it gave mr Greeley a reputation in all parts of the country for journalistic ability.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000001.wav|Fifteen of his friends promised to subscribe for it.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000026_000001.wav|To a high position had come the printer boy.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000003.wav|Some of the New York journals fought the new sheet; but it lived and grew till, on the seventh week, it had eleven thousand subscribers. A good business manager was obtained as partner.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000003.wav|It grew to a subscription list of nine thousand persons; but much of the business was done on trust, times were hard, and, after seven years, the enterprise had to be abandoned.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000002.wav|But the boy who could walk nearly six hundred miles to see his parents, and be laughed at for poor clothes, while he saved his money for their use, was not to be overcome at thirty years of age, by the failure of one or of a dozen papers.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000016_000000.wav|"Yes; we need help, and he was the best I could get," said the foreman.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000026_000003.wav|In eighteen fifty his first book was published by the Harpers, "Hints toward Reform," composed of ten lectures and twenty essays.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000004.wav|On the third day, one of the apprentices took a large black ball, used to put ink on the type, and remarking that Horace's hair was too light, daubed his head four times.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000005_000000.wav|When Horace was nearly ten years old, his father, who had speculated in a small way in lumber, became a bankrupt; his house and furniture were sold by the sheriff, and he was obliged to flee from the State to avoid arrest.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000037_000000.wav|And then through an enormous concourse of people, Fifth Avenue being blocked for a mile, the body was borne to Greenwood Cemetery.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000032_000005.wav|If she lasts, poor soul, another week, I shall go before her."|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000017_000000.wav|"Well, pay him off to night, and let him go about his business."|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000000.wav|Young Greeley, now twenty three, and deeply interested in politics, determined to start a weekly paper.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000015_000000.wav|The next morning Horace was at the shop at half past five!|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000033_000000.wav|After her death he could not sleep at all, and brain fever soon set in. friday november twenty ninth, the end came.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000038_000000.wav|The following Sabbath clergymen all over the country preached about this wonderful life: its struggles succeeded by world-wide honor.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000032_000002.wav|He left his speech making, and for weeks attended her with the deepest devotion.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000028_000002.wav|When urged to arm the office, he said, "No; all my life I have worked for the workingmen; if they would now burn my office and hang me, why, let them do it."|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000027_000003.wav|His paper molded the opinions of hundreds of thousands.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000018_000005.wav|His earnings were sent, as before, to his parents.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000004_000004.wav|When really forced to leave his precious books for bed, he would repeat the information he had learned, or the lessons for the next day, to his brother, who usually, most ungraciously, fell asleep before the conversation was half completed.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000015_000002.wav|He waited for an hour and a half,--a day, it seemed to him,--when one of the journey men arrived, and, finding the door locked, sat down beside the stranger.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000026_000000.wav|In eighteen forty eight he was elected to Congress for three months to fill out the unexpired term of a deceased member, and did most effective work with regard to the mileage system and the use of the public lands.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000005_000001.wav|Some of these debts were paid, thirty years afterward, by his noble son.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000037_000004.wav|By the side of his wife and their three little children the great man was laid to rest, the two daughters stepping into the vault, and laying flowers tenderly upon the coffin.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000032_000000.wav|No doubt the defeat was a great disappointment to one who had served his country and the Republican party for so many years with very little political reward.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000033_000002.wav|He had written only a short time before, "With an awe that is not fear, and a consciousness of demerit which does not exclude hope, I await the opening, before my steps, of the gates of the eternal world." Dead at sixty one!|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000012_000006.wav|A noble son indeed, who would not buy a single garment for himself, but carried the money home, so as to make the poor ones a trifle more comfortable!|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000035_000004.wav|The man stood a moment by the open coffin, and then, pulling his hat low down to hide the tears, was lost in the crowd.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000012_000000.wav|Soon after he had learned his trade, the newspaper suspended, and he was thrown out of work.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000037_000001.wav|Stores were closed, and houses along the route were draped in black.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000001.wav|He hastened thither, and, though unprepossessing, from his thin voice, short pantaloons, lack of stockings, and worn hat, he was hired on trial.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000022_000001.wav|I wish them carried out.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000031_000001.wav|The Democratic party saw the hopelessness of nominating a man in opposition to Grant and Greeley, and accepted the latter as their own candidate. The contest was bitter and partisan in the extreme.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000022_000000.wav|President Harrison died after having been a month in office; and seven days after his death, mr Greeley started, april tenth eighteen forty one, a new paper, the "New York Tribune," with the dying words of Harrison as its motto: "I desire you to understand the true principles of the government.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000004.wav|mr Greeley worked sixteen hours a day.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000032_000004.wav|I have not slept one hour in twenty four for a month.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000005.wav|Years after this he wrote, "Through most of this time I was very poor, and for four years really bankrupt, though always paying my notes, and keeping my word, but living as poorly as possible. My embarrassments were sometimes dreadful; not that I feared destitution, but the fear of involving my friends in my misfortunes was very bitter....|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000010_000001.wav|He soon joined a debating society, composed of the best informed persons of the little town of East Poultney,--the minister, the doctor, the lawyer, the schoolteachers, and the like.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000010_000000.wav|When at his type, he would often compose paragraphs for the paper, setting up the words without writing them out.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000030_000001.wav|He was opposed to the hanging of Jefferson Davis; and with Gerritt Smith, a well-known abolitionist, and about twenty others, he signed mr Davis's bail bond for one hundred thousand dollars, which released him from prison at Fortress Monroe, where he had been for two years.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000019_000000.wav|After a year, business grew dull, and he was without a place.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000015_000004.wav|He took him to the foreman, who decided to try him on a Polyglot Testament, with marginal references, such close work that most of the men refused to do it.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000027_000001.wav|In eighteen sixty he was at the Chicago Convention, and helped to nominate Abraham Lincoln in preference to William h Seward.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000021_000000.wav|Meantime the young editor had married Miss Mary y Cheney, a schoolteacher of unusual mind and strength of character.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000030_000000.wav|After the war mr Greeley, while advocating "impartial suffrage" for black as well as white, advocated also "universal amnesty." He believed nothing was to be gained by punishing a defeated portion of our nation, and wanted the past buried as quickly as possible.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000030_000005.wav|Out of a life earnestly devoted to the good of human kind, your children will select my going to Richmond and signing that bail bond as the wisest act."|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000007_000002.wav|The editor looked at the small, tow haired boy, shook his head, and said, "You are too young." With a heavy heart the child walked the long nine miles back again.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000003.wav|Finally the boys began to tease him with saucy remarks, and threw type at him; but he paid no attention.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000006.wav|He soon left his desk, spent an hour in washing the ink from his hair, and returned to his duties.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000004_000001.wav|As he grew older, every book within seven miles was borrowed, and perused after the hard day's work of farming was over.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000019_000001.wav|For some months he worked on various papers, when a printer friend, mr Story, suggested that they start in business, their combined capital being one hundred and fifty dollars.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000007.wav|Seeing that he could not be irritated, and that he was determined to work, he became a great favorite.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000005.wav|The pressman and editor both stopped their labors to witness a fight; but they were disappointed, for the boy never turned from his work.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000005_000002.wav|Going to Westhaven, vermont., mr Greeley obtained work on a farm, and moved his family thither.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000005_000003.wav|They were very poor, the children sitting on the floor and eating their porridge together out of a tin pan; but they were happy in the midst of their hard work and plain food.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000014_000000.wav|All day Friday and Saturday he walked the streets of New York, looking for work.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000025_000002.wav|And now came a great sorrow, harder to bear than poverty.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000003_000000.wav|He learned to read, one can scarcely tell how.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000018_000004.wav|Once he bought a second-hand black suit of a Jew, for five dollars, but it proved a bad bargain.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000020_000008.wav|If you have but fifty cents, and can get no more for a week, buy a peck of corn, parch it, and live on it, rather than owe any man a dollar."|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000019_000003.wav|The partner was drowned shortly after, and his brother in law took his place.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000034_000000.wav|When his death became known, the whole nation mourned for him. Newspapers from Maine to Louisiana gave touching tributes to his greatness, his purity, and his far sightedness as a leader of the people.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000030_000003.wav|No criticism was too scathing; but mr Greeley took the denunciations like a hero, because he had done what his conscience approved.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000006.wav|When told that he was losing time by thus seeing people, he said, "I know it; but I'd rather be beset by loafers, and stopped in my work, than be cooped up where I couldn't be got at by men who really wanted to and had a right to see me." So warm as this were his sympathies with all humanity!|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000001_000004.wav|mrs Greeley was a great reader of such books as she could obtain, and remembered all she read.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000000_000000.wav|HORACE GREELEY.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000027_000005.wav|When he found the war inevitable, after General McClellan's defeat at the Chickahominy, he urged upon mr Lincoln immediate emancipation, which was soon adopted. The "New York World" said after his death, "mr|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000025_000001.wav|Margaret Fuller came upon the editorial staff; for mr Greeley was ever the advocate of the fullest liberty for woman in any profession, and as much pay for her work as for that of men.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000025_000000.wav|The years passed on.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000021_000002.wav|Beside editing the "New Yorker," he had also taken charge of the "Jeffersonian," a weekly campaign paper published at Albany, and the "Log Cabin," established to aid in the election of General Harrison to the Presidency.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000001_000005.wav|It requires no great discernment to see from whence Horace Greeley derived his intense love for reading, and his boundless energy.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000014_000002.wav|Late in the day, a friend who called upon the owner of the house, learning that the printer wanted work, said he had heard of a vacancy at mr West's, eighty five Chatham Street.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000027_000006.wav|Greeley will hold the first place with posterity on the roll of emancipation."|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000024_000000.wav|In eighteen forty two, when he was thirty one, he visited Washington, Niagara, and his parents in Pennsylvania, and wrote delightful letters back to his paper.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000029_000002.wav|These volumes, dedicated to john Bright, have had a sale of several hundred thousand copies.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000018_000001.wav|By beginning his labors before six in the morning, and not leaving his desk till nine in the evening, working by the light of a candle stuck in a bottle, he could earn six dollars a week.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000035_000000.wav|And then came the sad and impressive burial.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000008_000001.wav|He'll never know more than enough to come in when it rains." Alas! for the blindness of Zaccheus Greeley, whose name even would not be remembered but for his illustrious son.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000006_000000.wav|Horace earned a few pennies all his own; sometimes by selling nuts, or bundles of the roots of pitch pine for kindling, which he carried on his back to the store.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000015_000001.wav|New York was scarcely awake; even the newsboys were asleep in front of the paper offices.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000026_000002.wav|At this time he was also prominently in the lecture field, speaking twice a week to large audiences all over the country.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000026_000004.wav|The following year he visited England as one of the "jury" in the awarding of prizes; and while there made a close study of philanthropic and social questions.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000027_000000.wav|In eighteen fifty five he again visited Europe; and four years later, California, where he was received with great demonstrations of honor and respect.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000012_000005.wav|Putting fifteen dollars in his pocket, he took the balance of sixty three in a note, and gave it to his father.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000002.wav|The first day he worked at the types in silence.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000018_000003.wav|As usual, though always scrupulously clean, he wore his poor clothes, no stockings, and his wristbands tied together with twine.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000033_000001.wav|At noon he said distinctly, his only remaining children, Ida and Gabriella, standing by his bedside, "I know that my Redeemer liveth;" and at half past three, "It is done." He was ready for the great change.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000037_000003.wav|Two hundred and fifty carriages, containing the President of the United States, governors, senators, and other friends, were in the procession.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000001_000000.wav|Among the hills of New Hampshire, in a lonely, unpainted house, Horace Greeley was born, february third eighteen eleven, the third of seven children.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000031_000000.wav|In eighteen seventy two considerable disaffection having arisen in the Republican party at the course pursued by President Grant at the South, the "Liberal Republicans," headed by Sumner, Schurz, and Trumbull, held a convention at Cincinnati, and nominated Horace Greeley for President.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000029_000000.wav|The same year he began his "History of the Civil War" for a Hartford publisher.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000028_000000.wav|In the draft riots in New York, in eighteen sixty three, the mob burst into the Tribune Building, smashing the furniture, and shouting, "Down with the old white coat!" mr Greeley always wore a coat and hat of this hue.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000028_000001.wav|Had he been present, doubtless he would have been killed at once.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000012_000002.wav|He remained a few weeks with his family, then walked fifty miles east to a town in New York State, where he found plenty of work, but no money, and in six weeks returned to the log cabin.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000032_000001.wav|But just a month before the election came the crushing blow of his life, in the death of his noble wife.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000007_000001.wav|From earliest childhood he had determined to be a printer; so, when eleven years of age, he walked nine miles to see the publisher of a newspaper, and obtain a situation.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000021_000001.wav|It was, of course, a comfort to have some one to share his sorrows; but it pained his tender heart to make another help bear his burdens.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000034_000004.wav|john Bright sent regrets over "our friend, Horace Greeley." Congress passed resolutions of respect for his "eminent services and personal purity and worth."|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000019_000002.wav|They did so, and their first work was the printing of a penny "Morning Post," which suspended in three weeks, they losing sixty dollars.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000001_000003.wav|Her first two children having died, this boy was especially dear.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000023_000000.wav|Success did not come at first.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000004_000000.wav|Before he was six years old he had read the Bible through, and "Pilgrim's Progress." Their home contained only about twenty books, and these he read and re read.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000012_000003.wav|After trying various towns, he found a situation in Erie, taking the place of a workman who was ill, and for seven months he did not lose a day.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000009_000000.wav|When Horace was fourteen, he read in a newspaper that an apprentice was wanted in a printing office eleven miles distant.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000027_000004.wav|He had fought against slavery with all the strength of his able pen; but he advocated buying the slaves for four hundred million dollars rather than going to war,--a cheaper method than our subsequent conflict, with enormous loss of life and money.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000007_000004.wav|After some weeks he returned, with a few more cents in his purse than when he started!|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000030_000002.wav|At once the North was aflame with indignation.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000012_000001.wav|The people with whom he boarded gave him a brown overcoat, not new, and with moistened eyes said good by to the poor youth whom they had learned to love as their own.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7313/91072/7313_91072_000007_000003.wav|But he must do something; and, a little later, with seventy five cents in his pocket, and some food tied in a bundle, which he hung on the end of a stick, slung over his shoulder, he walked one hundred and twenty miles back to New Hampshire, to see his relatives.|7313
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000007_000002.wav|With him was Sir William Thompson, the great English scientist.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000004_000000.wav|It is not surprising, therefore, that wireless telegraphy should have the highest place on the list.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000003_000000.wav|About seventy per cent of these ballots were returned properly marked and the result was most interesting indeed.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000014_000002.wav|To please her the king accomplished this mighty work. Today the whole thing, in fact, the entire city of Babylon, is nothing but a pile of ruins.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000018_000002.wav|The standard of measurement these days is the ability to serve.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000012_000000.wav|On the north side of the pyramid, about fifty feet up, there is a narrow tunnel that runs down at an angle of twenty six degrees to the center of the field that forms its base.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000012_000002.wav|After you have descended eighty five feet in this tunnel there is another tunnel that runs up to the center of the structure where there are some large rooms or chambers.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000007_000005.wav|Sitting within the sound of the waves of the Pacific, I was connected up with Atlantic City and heard the waves of the Atlantic.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000007_000003.wav|The emperor was given the receiver and placed it to his ear and was suddenly startled, saying: "My God, it speaks." This amused all, but greatly interested the man of science and thus the telephone was brought into prominence.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000013_000004.wav|On approaching it this great mountain seemed to be suspended or hanging in the air-hence the name.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000015_000004.wav|Each of these columns was a gift from a king.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000002_000003.wav|He, of course, was not confined to the printed list and could write in others that were better entitled to a place than those on the printed list.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000018_000000.wav|Brute force is no longer the measure of power or influence.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000006_000000.wav|The telephone was given second place in the list of modern wonders.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000008_000001.wav|The fourth place was given to Radium, the fifth to Antiseptics and Antitoxines, the sixth to Spectrum Analysis, and the seventh to the marvelous X Ray.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000011_000001.wav|It was scientifically and mathematically constructed ages before modern science or mathematics were born.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000005_000004.wav|Yet every few hours we all knew just which ship was gaining and it was really a most exciting race.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000012_000004.wav|In these rooms there are large mummy cases, but they are empty at the present time.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000006_000003.wav|mr Watson was in the basement with an instrument trying without success to talk with mr Bell in the room above.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000010_000003.wav|It covers thirteen acres of ground and is four hundred and fifty feet high.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000017_000002.wav|It only took twelve years to build it and after standing fifty six years it was overthrown by an earthquake and after nearly a thousand years the metal was used for other purposes.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000005_000001.wav|Through it the seven seas have became great whispering galleries.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000004_000001.wav|Guglielmo Marconi is far more worthy to be remembered than the king who built the great Pyramid in Egypt.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000005_000003.wav|For three days and nights two great ocean liners raced across the deep and never came in sight of each other at all.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000013_000003.wav|Not only were beautiful flowers and shrubbery kept growing, but large forest trees as well.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000016_000003.wav|The treasures of nations and the spoil of kingdoms were brought here for safe keeping and criminals from all nations fled to this temple, for when they reached it no law could touch them.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000006_000004.wav|Finally the latter made a little change in the instrument and spoke and mr Watson came rushing upstairs greatly excited, saying: "Why, mr Bell, I heard your voice distinctly and could almost understand what you were saying."|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000002_000001.wav|A ballot was prepared containing fifty six subjects of scientific and mechanical achievement and blank spaces in which other subjects might be written.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000012_000001.wav|The tunnel is so true that from the bottom one can see the star, that is near the North Star, which is supposed to have been directly in the north when the structure was built.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000017_000004.wav|Both of these have long since passed out of existence.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000004_000002.wav|This brilliant Italian, when but fifteen years of age was reveling in the dreamland wonders of electricity and when but twenty had the theory practically worked out and his patience and enthusiasm were simply amazing.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000015_000005.wav|They tell us that the great stairway was carved from a single grapevine and that the cypress wood doors were kept in glue a lifetime before they were hung on their hinges.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000009_000002.wav|The one of real service was the Pharos, or lighthouse, at Alexandria, Egypt. This was a gigantic structure more than four hundred feet high on the top of which a great fire was kept burning at night, thus serving as a lighthouse.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000007_000001.wav|One day Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, who knew mr Bell personally, came in.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000010_000001.wav|There are seventy seven of these pyramids altogether. Three of them are located less than a dozen miles from Cairo, the others being up the river Nile a half day's journey.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000018_000003.wav|We are learning that the Galilean carpenter told the truth when he said: "He who would be great among you let him be servant of all." Service is one of the greatest words in human language.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000015_000002.wav|The foundation was made earthquake proof.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000007_000000.wav|The next year the imperfect telephone was exhibited at the Centennial in Philadelphia, but for a time it was the laughing stock of most people and hardly anyone ever dreamed that it would ever be more than a mere plaything.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000015_000003.wav|The temple proper was supported by one hundred and twenty seven columns which were sixty feet high.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000006_000001.wav|It is hard to realize that the telephone only dates back to eighteen seventy five.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68369/6492_68369_000016_000005.wav|Today this temple with the city itself is nothing but ruins.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000006_000002.wav|Other inventions and discoveries have since been brought out that are too deadly to even talk about.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000011_000002.wav|The nineteen men who made up the committee belonged to fourteen nations. President Wilson, as chairman, called them together in this room.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000009_000003.wav|It would thrill the heart of every lover of justice and mercy and would answer the heart longings of millions who have prayed without ceasing for the reign of peace on earth among men of good will.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000011_000004.wav|In all, ten meetings were held and all were held in this room. President Wilson presided at all but one of them.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000019_000002.wav|After hours of searching and miles of walking and inquiries galore, the place was found, but the door to the enclosure had to be unlocked with a silver key.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000007_000000.wav|No one can describe the Peace Conference without giving great credit to our president, for without him it seemed that the leaders were unable to get anywhere.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000016_000002.wav|But it was the peoples of the downtrodden, war stricken nations especially who looked to our president as the great champion of liberty and freedom. They believed that he was the "Big Brother" and that the country that he represented would see that they were treated fairly.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000018_000000.wav|Then the modest, dignified, unselfish bearing of our president among them turned gratitude into love and devotion.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000015_000002.wav|When he reached his homeland he no doubt told his people how the great American president championed a plan to abolish war and told the statesmen of the Peace Conference that the world is learning that all men on this earth are brothers, and the very hills of that black land echoed with praises for America.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000012_000004.wav|The old Palace is there but the great Hall of Mirrors where the treaty was finally signed could not be comfortably heated in the winter time.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000005_000000.wav|The late war revealed the possibilities of human genius.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000013_000002.wav|The great day was February fourteenth, nineteen nineteen.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000006_000001.wav|For instance, we are told that a gas had been discovered that is so deadly that a few bombs filled with it and dropped upon a city would all but wipe it out of existence. When the armistice was signed hundreds of tons of that gas were ready for use and on the way to the battle front.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000021_000001.wav|People who looked upon America as the one great nation of the earth almost sneered when they mentioned our attitude toward the League of Nations.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000012_000005.wav|So for that as well as other reasons the meetings were held in Paris.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000005_000001.wav|Man's power to destroy has been discovered and across the sky can be seen in letters of blood the warning, "Abolish war or perish." Some say the war ended six months too soon, but had it continued that much longer, the probable results are too awful to contemplate.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000004_000003.wav|Quit fighting or quit living.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000016_000001.wav|In the villages of far away India, in the homes of the Sea Islanders and in fact wherever human beings have congregated they have talked of a world peace.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000004_000002.wav|Either some plan to stop war or preparation for the final judgment.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000002_000000.wav|SOME IMPRESSIONS OF THE GREAT PEACE CONFERENCE|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000011_000005.wav|Each man brought his suggestions in writing so there would be no chance for misunderstanding. Full discussion of all points was always encouraged.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000010_000001.wav|No one knows how many are alive and well today who would have been sleeping in unknown and unmarked graves had the armistice been detained a single week.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000013_000000.wav|Through mr Ray Stannard Baker I received a pass to the Peace Conference.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000011_000003.wav|The first meeting of this committee was held February third and was very brief.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000011_000006.wav|When the entire constitution was worked out it was agreed to unanimously and it was then ready to be presented to the Peace Conference.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000020_000000.wav|Then came the months of haggling, the work of selfish politicians both at home and abroad, and finally the rejection by our own people of the greatest piece of work since the beginning of the Christian era, all of which makes one who knows the real situation hang his head in shame.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000014_000000.wav|When he was introduced our president read the constitution, or covenant as it was called, and then made some remarks concerning it.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000009_000001.wav|It would bring gratitude from the heart of every wife and sweetheart whose face has been bathed with tears as the last good bys were on their lips.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000019_000000.wav|A single instance of his thoughtfulness will be given.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000013_000004.wav|Clemenceau was the chairman of the conference and sat at the head of the table.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000004_000004.wav|Peace or death.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000007_000002.wav|A committee was at once appointed to work out a constitution for such an organization and President Wilson was made the chairman.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000018_000002.wav|Without a single effort on his part to put himself forward, he became the natural leader of all.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000021_000002.wav|They have almost lost confidence in us and it will be hard to regain it.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000006_000000.wav|American genius was just coming into play.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000013_000001.wav|These passes were only given to newspaper men and I represented People's Popular Monthly.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000019_000005.wav|In memory of the great Lafayette from a fellow servant of liberty."|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000005_000002.wav|The Angel of Destruction had the sword lifted over Germany, but it was as though divine providence stayed his hand.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000004_000001.wav|It is either universal peace or universal doom.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000012_000000.wav|Until the Peace Treaty was ready to sign all meetings of the great conference were held in the Foreign Ministry building in Paris.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000009_000000.wav|To abolish war would rejoice the heart of every mother who has gone into the jaws of death to give birth to a son.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000021_000003.wav|France is especially bitter. Perhaps the result of the Disarmament Conference, which is practically the same thing under another name, will help them to forget some things, but the French will be slow to take up with it.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000013_000003.wav|On this date eighty four statesmen representing twenty seven nations, the combined population of which is more than twelve hundred million people, were seated around one table.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6492/68353/6492_68353_000020_000001.wav|Why any living mortal in America could oppose a plan that has for its object the abolition of war is simply amazing to the people of Europe.|6492
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000027_000000.wav|"To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care; To pursue it with forks and hope; To threaten its life with a railway share; To charm it with smiles and soap!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000005_000000.wav|When at length he sat up and was able to speak, His sad story he offered to tell; And the Bellman cried "Silence!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000015_000000.wav|"It is this, it is this-"|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000018_000000.wav|Fit the fourth|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000012_000000.wav|("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold In a hasty parenthesis cried, "That's exactly the way I have always been told That the capture of Snarks should be tried!")|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000011_000000.wav|"'You may seek it with thimbles-and seek it with care; You may hunt it with forks and hope; You may threaten its life with a railway share; You may charm it with smiles and soap-'"|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000025_000000.wav|"'tis a pitiful tale," said the Bellman, whose face Had grown longer at every word: "But, now that you've stated the whole of your case, More debate would be simply absurd.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000002_000000.wav|Fit the Third|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000015_000001.wav|"We have had that before!" The Bellman indignantly said. And the Baker replied "Let me say it once more. It is this, it is this that I dread!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000004_000000.wav|They roused him with muffins-they roused him with ice- They roused him with mustard and cress- They roused him with jam and judicious advice- They set him conundrums to guess.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000006_000000.wav|There was silence supreme!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000031_000000.wav|The Boots and the Broker were sharpening a spade- Each working the grindstone in turn: But the Beaver went on making lace, and displayed No interest in the concern:|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000006_000001.wav|Not a shriek, not a scream, Scarcely even a howl or a groan, As the man they called "Ho!" told his story of woe In an antediluvian tone.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000005_000001.wav|Not even a shriek!" And excitedly tingled his bell.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000022_000000.wav|"It's excessively awkward to mention it now- As I think I've already remarked." And the man they called "Hi!" replied, with a sigh, "I informed you the day we embarked.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000033_000000.wav|The maker of Bonnets ferociously planned A novel arrangement of bows: While the Billiard marker with quivering hand Was chalking the tip of his nose.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000014_000000.wav|"It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul, When I think of my uncle's last words: And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl Brimming over with quivering curds!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000013_000000.wav|"'But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000023_000000.wav|"You may charge me with murder-or want of sense- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000003_000000.wav|THE BAKER'S TALE|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000034_000000.wav|But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine, With yellow kid gloves and a ruff- Said he felt it exactly like going to dine, Which the Bellman declared was all "stuff."|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000028_000000.wav|"For the Snark's a peculiar creature, that won't Be caught in a commonplace way. Do all that you know, and try all that you don't: Not a chance must be wasted to day!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000008_000000.wav|"I skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears, "And proceed without further remark To the day when you took me aboard of your ship To help you in hunting the Snark.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000009_000000.wav|"A dear uncle of mine (after whom I was named) Remarked, when I bade him farewell-" "Oh, skip your dear uncle!" the Bellman exclaimed, As he angrily tingled his bell.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000007_000000.wav|"My father and mother were honest, though poor-" "Skip all that!" cried the Bellman in haste. "If it once becomes dark, there's no chance of a Snark- We have hardly a minute to waste!"|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000020_000000.wav|The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. "If only you'd spoken before! It's excessively awkward to mention it now, With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000017_000000.wav|"But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day, In a moment (of this I am sure), I shall softly and suddenly vanish away- And the notion I cannot endure!"|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000010_000000.wav|"He remarked to me then," said that mildest of men, "'If your Snark be a Snark, that is right: Fetch it home by all means-you may serve it with greens, And it's handy for striking a light.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184265/4039_184265_000024_000000.wav|"I said it in Hebrew-I said it in Dutch- I said it in German and Greek: But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!"|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000047_000000.wav|Then the Snark pronounced sentence, the Judge being quite Too nervous to utter a word: When it rose to its feet, there was silence like night, And the fall of a pin might be heard.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000032_000000.wav|Fit the Sixth|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000031_000000.wav|And when quarrels arose-as one frequently finds Quarrels will, spite of every endeavour- The song of the Jubjub recurred to their minds, And cemented their friendship for ever!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000002_000000.wav|THE BEAVER'S LESSON|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000010_000000.wav|"'tis the voice of the Jubjub!" he suddenly cried. (This man, that they used to call "Dunce.") "As the Bellman would tell you," he added with pride, "I have uttered that sentiment once.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000030_000000.wav|Such friends, as the Beaver and Butcher became, Have seldom if ever been known; In winter or summer, 'twas always the same- You could never meet either alone.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000034_000000.wav|They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000001_000000.wav|Fit the Fifth|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000036_000000.wav|He dreamed that he stood in a shadowy Court, Where the Snark, with a glass in its eye, Dressed in gown, bands, and wig, was defending a pig On the charge of deserting its sty.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000027_000000.wav|The Butcher would gladly have talked till next day, But he felt that the lesson must end, And he wept with delight in attempting to say He considered the Beaver his friend.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000026_000000.wav|"You boil it in sawdust: you salt it in glue: You condense it with locusts and tape: Still keeping one principal object in view- To preserve its symmetrical shape."|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000037_000000.wav|The Witnesses proved, without error or flaw, That the sty was deserted when found: And the Judge kept explaining the state of the law In a soft under current of sound.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000050_000000.wav|The Judge left the Court, looking deeply disgusted: But the Snark, though a little aghast, As the lawyer to whom the defense was entrusted, Went bellowing on to the last.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000007_000000.wav|But the valley grew narrow and narrower still, And the evening got darker and colder, Till (merely from nervousness, not from goodwill) They marched along shoulder to shoulder.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000011_000000.wav|"'tis the note of the Jubjub!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000013_000000.wav|It felt that, in spite of all possible pains, It had somehow contrived to lose count, And the only thing now was to rack its poor brains By reckoning up the amount.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000044_000000.wav|But the Judge said he never had summed up before; So the Snark undertook it instead, And summed it so well that it came to far more Than the Witnesses ever had said!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000020_000000.wav|"The method employed I would gladly explain, While I have it so clear in my head, If I had but the time and you had but the brain- But much yet remains to be said.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000008_000000.wav|Then a scream, shrill and high, rent the shuddering sky, And they knew that some danger was near: The Beaver turned pale to the tip of its tail, And even the Butcher felt queer.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000006_000000.wav|Each thought he was thinking of nothing but "Snark" And the glorious work of the day; And each tried to pretend that he did not remark That the other was going that way.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000039_000000.wav|The Jury had each formed a different view (Long before the indictment was read), And they all spoke at once, so that none of them knew One word that the others had said.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000046_000000.wav|So the Snark found the verdict, although, as it owned, It was spent with the toils of the day: When it said the word "GUILTY!" the Jury all groaned, And some of them fainted away.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000012_000000.wav|The Beaver had counted with scrupulous care, Attending to every word: But it fairly lost heart, and outgrabe in despair, When the third repetition occurred.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000045_000000.wav|When the verdict was called for, the Jury declined, As the word was so puzzling to spell; But they ventured to hope that the Snark wouldn't mind Undertaking that duty as well.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000028_000000.wav|While the Beaver confessed, with affectionate looks More eloquent even than tears, It had learned in ten minutes far more than all books Would have taught it in seventy years.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000023_000000.wav|"As to temper the Jubjub's a desperate bird, Since it lives in perpetual passion: Its taste in costume is entirely absurd- It is ages ahead of the fashion:|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000035_000000.wav|But the Barrister, weary of proving in vain That the Beaver's lace making was wrong, Fell asleep, and in dreams saw the creature quite plain That his fancy had dwelt on so long.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000022_000000.wav|In his genial way he proceeded to say (Forgetting all laws of propriety, And that giving instruction, without introduction, Would have caused quite a thrill in Society),|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000042_000000.wav|"The fact of Desertion I will not dispute; But its guilt, as I trust, is removed (So far as related to the costs of this suit) By the Alibi which has been proved.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000003_000000.wav|They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000011_000002.wav|The proof is complete, If only I've stated it thrice."|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000038_000000.wav|The indictment had never been clearly expressed, And it seemed that the Snark had begun, And had spoken three hours, before any one guessed What the pig was supposed to have done.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000021_000000.wav|"In one moment I've seen what has hitherto been Enveloped in absolute mystery, And without extra charge I will give you at large A Lesson in Natural History."|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000016_000000.wav|The Beaver brought paper, portfolio, pens, And ink in unfailing supplies: While strange creepy creatures came out of their dens, And watched them with wondering eyes.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000040_000000.wav|"You must know-" said the Judge: but the Snark exclaimed "Fudge!" That statute is obsolete quite! Let me tell you, my friends, the whole question depends On an ancient manorial right.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000005_000000.wav|But the very same plan to the Beaver occurred: It had chosen the very same place: Yet neither betrayed, by a sign or a word, The disgust that appeared in his face.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000009_000000.wav|He thought of his childhood, left far far behind- That blissful and innocent state- The sound so exactly recalled to his mind A pencil that squeaks on a slate!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184266/4039_184266_000004_000000.wav|Then the Butcher contrived an ingenious plan For making a separate sally; And had fixed on a spot unfrequented by man, A dismal and desolate valley.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000043_000001.wav|One could see he was wise, The moment one looked in his face!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000058_000001.wav|The first is the taste, Which is meagre and hollow, but crisp: Like a coat that is rather too tight in the waist, With a flavour of Will o'-the wisp.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000022_000000.wav|A Billiard marker, whose skill was immense, Might perhaps have won more than his share- But a Banker, engaged at enormous expense, Had the whole of their cash in his care.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000028_000000.wav|While, for those who preferred a more forcible word, He had different names from these: His intimate friends called him "Candle ends," And his enemies "Toasted cheese."|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000046_000000.wav|"Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes! But we've got our brave Captain to thank:" (So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best- A perfect and absolute blank!"|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000013_000001.wav|Now open your mouth and speak.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000033_000001.wav|The Bellman looked scared, And was almost too frightened to speak:|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000015_000001.wav|Speak or die!"|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000027_000000.wav|He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry, Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!" To "What you may call um!" or "What was his name!" But especially "Thing um a jig!"|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000039_000000.wav|This the Banker suggested, and offered for hire (On moderate terms), or for sale, Two excellent Policies, one Against Fire, And one Against Damage From Hail.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000037_000000.wav|Navigation was always a difficult art, Though with only one ship and one bell: And he feared he must really decline, for his part, Undertaking another as well.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000024_000000.wav|There was one who was famed for the number of things He forgot when he entered the ship: His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings, And the clothes he had bought for the trip.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000010_000003.wav|Rule forty two of the Code, "No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm," had been completed by the Bellman himself with the words "and the Man at the Helm shall speak to no one." So remonstrance was impossible, and no steering could be done till the next varnishing day.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000040_000000.wav|Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day, Whenever the Butcher was by, The Beaver kept looking the opposite way, And appeared unaccountably shy.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000011_000001.wav|Such is Human Perversity.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000032_000000.wav|The last of the crew needs especial remark, Though he looked an incredible dunce: He had just one idea-but, that one being "Snark," The good Bellman engaged him at once.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000052_000000.wav|The Bellman perceived that their spirits were low, And repeated in musical tone Some jokes he had kept for a season of woe- But the crew would do nothing but groan.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000057_000000.wav|"Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again The five unmistakable marks By which you may know, wheresoever you go, The warranted genuine Snarks.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000045_000000.wav|"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply "They are merely conventional signs!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000034_000000.wav|But at length he explained, in a tremulous tone, There was only one Beaver on board; And that was a tame one he had of his own, Whose death would be deeply deplored.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000036_000000.wav|It strongly advised that the Butcher should be Conveyed in a separate ship: But the Bellman declared that would never agree With the plans he had made for the trip:|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000033_000000.wav|He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared, When the ship had been sailing a week, He could only kill Beavers.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000047_000000.wav|This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000043_000000.wav|The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! Such solemnity, too!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000058_000000.wav|"Let us take them in order.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000023_000000.wav|There was also a Beaver, that paced on the deck, Or would sit making lace in the bow: And had often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck, Though none of the sailors knew how.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000002_000000.wav|THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000059_000000.wav|"Its habit of getting up late you'll agree That it carries too far, when I say That it frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea, And dines on the following day.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000018_000000.wav|THE LANDING|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000048_000000.wav|He was thoughtful and grave-but the orders he gave Were enough to bewilder a crew. When he cried "Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!" What on earth was the helmsman to do?|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000020_000000.wav|"Just the place for a Snark!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000056_000000.wav|"We have sailed many weeks, we have sailed many days, (Seven days to the week I allow), But a Snark, on the which we might lovingly gaze, We have never beheld till now!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000015_000000.wav|"Under which king, Bezonian?|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000049_000000.wav|Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes: A thing, as the Bellman remarked, That frequently happens in tropical climes, When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked."|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000063_000000.wav|"For, although common Snarks do no manner of harm, Yet, I feel it my duty to say, Some are Boojums-"|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000020_000001.wav|I have said it twice: That alone should encourage the crew. Just the place for a Snark!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000053_000000.wav|He served out some grog with a liberal hand, And bade them sit down on the beach: And they could not but own that their Captain looked grand, As he stood and delivered his speech.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000035_000000.wav|The Beaver, who happened to hear the remark, Protested, with tears in its eyes, That not even the rapture of hunting the Snark Could atone for that dismal surprise!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000041_000000.wav|Fit the Second|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000038_000000.wav|The Beaver's best course was, no doubt, to procure A second-hand dagger proof coat- So the Baker advised it-and next, to insure Its life in some Office of note:|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000010_000000.wav|The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances, used to have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to be revarnished, and it more than once happened, when the time came for replacing it, that no one on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged to.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000012_000001.wav|Humpty Dumpty's theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000050_000000.wav|But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East, That the ship would not travel due West!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000060_000000.wav|"The third is its slowness in taking a jest. Should you happen to venture on one, It will sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed: And it always looks grave at a pun.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000055_000000.wav|"We have sailed many months, we have sailed many weeks, (Four weeks to the month you may mark), But never as yet ('tis your Captain who speaks) Have we caught the least glimpse of a Snark!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000006_000000.wav|PREFACE|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000044_000000.wav|He had bought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land: And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A map they could all understand.|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4039/184264/4039_184264_000029_000000.wav|"His form is ungainly-his intellect small-" (So the Bellman would often remark) "But his courage is perfect!|4039
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000016_000002.wav|At this city also the inhabitants of Sepphoris of Galilee met him, who were for peace with the romans.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000016_000005.wav|And indeed the danger of losing Sepphoris would be no small one, in this war that was now beginning, seeing it was the largest city of Galilee, and built in a place by nature very strong, and might be a security of the whole nation's [fidelity to the romans].|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000023_000003.wav|The southern parts of Judea, if they be measured lengthways, are bounded by a Village adjoining to the confines of Arabia; the Jews that dwell there call it Jordan.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000010_000002.wav|Perhaps also there was some interposition of Providence, which was paving the way for Vespasian's being himself emperor afterwards.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000008_000002.wav|Yet did the disturbance that was in his soul plainly appear by the solicitude he was in [how to recover his affairs again].|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000018_000000.wav|A Description Of Galilee, Samaria, And Judea.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000013_000002.wav|Accordingly, they presently got together a great multitude of all their most hardy soldiers, and marched away for Ascalon.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000017_000000.wav|CHAPTER three.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000006_000000.wav|CHAPTER one.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000011_000000.wav|CHAPTER two.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000012_000000.wav|A Great Slaughter About Ascalon.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000005_000000.wav|From Vespasian's Coming To Subdue The Jews To The Taking Of Gamala.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000021_000002.wav|It is also sufficiently watered with torrents, which issue out of the mountains, and with springs that never fail to run, even when the torrents fail them, as they do in the dog days.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000007_000000.wav|Vespasian Is Sent Into Syria By Nero In Order To Make War With The Jews.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000003_000000.wav|BOOK three.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000020_000002.wav|Moreover, the cities lie here very thick, and the very many villages there are here are every where so full of people, by the richness of their soil, that the very least of them contain above fifteen thousand inhabitants.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000010_000001.wav|So Nero esteemed these circumstances as favorable omens, and saw that Vespasian's age gave him sure experience, and great skill, and that he had his sons as hostages for his fidelity to himself, and that the flourishing age they were in would make them fit instruments under their father's prudence.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000022_000002.wav|They have abundance of trees, and are full of autumnal fruit, both that which grows wild, and that which is the effect of cultivation.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171137/3654_171137_000023_000002.wav|This is the northern boundary of Judea.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000012_000004.wav|This greatly discouraged the romans, who in their own opinions were already gotten within the walls, while they were now at once astonished at Josephus's contrivance, and at the fortitude of the citizens that were in the city.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000021_000001.wav|And now, when Josephus saw this ram still battering the same place, and that the wall would quickly be thrown down by it, he resolved to elude for a while the force of the engine.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000005_000003.wav|Now these workmen accomplished what they were about in four days' time, and opened a broad way for the army.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000014_000002.wav|Nor were the romans unacquainted with the state they were in, for when they stood over against them, beyond the wall, they could see them running together, and taking their water by measure, which made them throw their javelins thither the place being within their reach, and kill a great many of them.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000004_000006.wav|Accordingly, he wrote these things, and sent messengers immediately to carry his letter to Jerusalem.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000003_000001.wav|So Vespasian marched to the city Gadara, and took it upon the first onset, because he found it destitute of any considerable number of men grown up and fit for war.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000007_000002.wav|But when Vespasian had set against them the archers and slingers, and the whole multitude that could throw to a great distance, he permitted them to go to work, while he himself, with the footmen, got upon an acclivity, whence the city might easily be taken.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000010_000002.wav|To that end he called the commanders that were under him to a council of war, and consulted with them which way the assault might be managed to the best advantage.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000005_000002.wav|Accordingly, he sent both foot men and horsemen to level the road, which was mountainous and rocky, not without difficulty to be traveled over by footmen, but absolutely impracticable for horsemen.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000009_000002.wav|It is only to be come at on the north side, where the utmost part of the city is built on the mountain, as it ends obliquely at a plain.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000010_000003.wav|And when the resolution was there taken to raise a bank against that part of the wall which was practicable, he sent his whole army abroad to get the materials together.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000009_000003.wav|This mountain Josephus had encompassed with a wall when he fortified the city, that its top might not be capable of being seized upon by the enemies.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000007_000005.wav|These last had skill as well as strength; the other had only courage, which armed them, and made them fight furiously.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000005_000001.wav|Now Vespasian was very desirous of demolishing Jotapata, for he had gotten intelligence that the greatest part of the enemy had retired thither, and that it was, on other accounts, a place of great security to them.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000017_000005.wav|Yet did not this plea move the people, but inflamed them the more to hang about him.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000020_000003.wav|This was the experiment which the Roman general betook himself to, when he was eagerly bent upon taking the city; but found lying in the field so long to be to his disadvantage, because the Jews would never let him be quiet.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000005_000006.wav|So he took this news to be of the vastest advantage to him, and believed it to be brought about by the providence of God, that he who appeared to be the most prudent man of all their enemies, had, of his own accord, shut himself up in a place of sure custody.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000020_000005.wav|This brought matters to such a pass that none of the Jews durst mount the walls, and then it was that the other romans brought the battering ram that was cased with hurdles all over, and in the tipper part was secured by skins that covered it, and this both for the security of themselves and of the engine.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000007_000004.wav|Yet did they suffer as much as they made the enemy suffer; for as despair of deliverance encouraged the Jews, so did a sense of shame equally encourage the romans.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000018_000001.wav|Now Josephus thought, that if he resolved to stay, it would be ascribed to their entreaties; and if he resolved to go away by force, he should be put into custody.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000019_000002.wav|So he repelled the Jews in great measure by the Arabian archers, and the Syrian slingers, and by those that threw stones at them, nor was there any intermission of the great number of their offensive engines.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000020_000006.wav|Now, at the very first stroke of this engine, the wall was shaken, and a terrible clamor was raised by the people within the city, as if they were already taken.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000010_000006.wav|However, the Jews cast great stones from the walls upon the hurdles which protected the men, with all sorts of darts also; and the noise of what could not reach them was yet so terrible, that it was some impediment to the workmen.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000012_000003.wav|He also built a good number of towers upon the wall, and fitted it to strong battlements.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000005_000005.wav|And a certain deserter told this good news to Vespasian, that Josephus had removed himself thither, which made him make haste to the city, as supposing that with taking that he should take all Judea, in case he could but withal get Josephus under his power.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000016_000001.wav|However, Josephus contrived another stratagem besides the foregoing, to get plenty of what they wanted.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000002_000000.wav|Vespasian, When He Had Taken The City Gadaea Marches To Jotapata.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000015_000002.wav|At this sight the romans were discouraged, and under consternation, when they saw them able to throw away in sport so much water, when they supposed them not to have enough to drink themselves.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000005_000007.wav|Accordingly, he sent Placidus with a thousand horsemen, and Ebutius a decurion, a person that was of eminency both in council and in action, to encompass the city round, that Josephus might not escape away privately.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000010_000005.wav|These hurdles they spread over their banks, under cover whereof they formed their bank, and so were little or nothing hurt by the darts that were thrown upon them from the wall, while others pulled the neighboring hillocks to pieces, and perpetually brought earth to them; so that while they were busy three sorts of ways, nobody was idle.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000007_000006.wav|And when the fight had lasted all day, it was put an end to by the coming on of the night.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER seven.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000007_000007.wav|They had wounded a great many of the romans, and killed of them thirteen men; of the Jews' side seventeen were slain, and six hundred wounded.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000011_000001.wav|Vespasian then set the engines for throwing stones and darts round about the city.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000009_000004.wav|The city is covered all round with other mountains, and can no way be seen till a man comes just upon it. And this was the strong situation of Jotapata.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000007_000003.wav|Josephus was then in fear for the city, and leaped out, and all the Jewish multitude with him; these fell together upon the romans in great numbers, and drove them away from the wall, and performed a great many glorious and bold actions.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171139/3654_171139_000008_000001.wav|On the next day the Jews made another attack upon the romans, and went out of the walls and fought a much more desperate battle with them than before.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000016_000000.wav|CHAPTER six.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000002.wav|He ordered those auxiliaries which were lightly armed, and the archers, to march first, that they might prevent any sudden insults from the enemy, and might search out the woods that looked suspiciously, and were capable of ambuscades.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000015_000001.wav|This account I have given the reader, not so much with the intention of commending the romans, as of comforting those that have been conquered by them, and for the deterring others from attempting innovations under their government.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000009.wav|After these came the commanders of the cohorts and tribunes, having about them soldiers chosen out of the rest.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000004_000002.wav|The foot were put into the city to be a guard to it, but the horse lodged abroad in the camp.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000009_000004.wav|The camp, and all that is in it, is encompassed with a wall round about, and that sooner than one would imagine, and this by the multitude and the skill of the laborers; and, if occasion require, a trench is drawn round the whole, whose depth is four cubits, and its breadth equal.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000014_000003.wav|In a case, therefore, where counsel still goes before action, and where, after taking the best advice, that advice is followed by so active an army, what wonder is it that Euphrates on the east, the ocean on the west, the most fertile regions of Libya on the south, and the Danube and the Rhine on the north, are the limits of this empire?|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000017_000000.wav|Placidus Attempts To Take Jotapata And Is Beaten Off. Vespasian Marches Into Galilee.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000018_000005.wav|However, three men of the Jews' side were slain, and a few wounded; so Placidus, finding himself unable to assault the city, ran away.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000005.wav|Behind these he set such carriages of the army as belonged both to himself and to the other commanders, with a considerable number of their horsemen for their security.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER four.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000012_000002.wav|The footmen are armed with breastplates and head pieces, and have swords on each side; but the sword which is upon their left side is much longer than the other, for that on the right side is not longer than a span.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000005_000002.wav|Now these ten cohorts had severally a thousand footmen, but the other thirteen cohorts had no more than six hundred footmen apiece, with a hundred and twenty horsemen.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000008.wav|Next to these came the mules that carried the engines for sieges, and the other warlike machines of that nature.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000013.wav|But behind all the legions came the whole multitude of the mercenaries; and those that brought up the rear came last of all for the security of the whole army, being both footmen, and those in their armor also, with a great number of horsemen.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000012_000004.wav|The horsemen have a long sword on their right sides, axed a long pole in their hand; a shield also lies by them obliquely on one side of their horses, with three or more darts that are borne in their quiver, having broad points, and not smaller than spears.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000003.wav|Next to these followed that part of the romans which was completely armed, both footmen and horsemen.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000015_000002.wav|This discourse of the Roman military conduct may also perhaps be of use to such of the curious as are ignorant of it, and yet have a mind to know it.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000011.wav|Then came the main army in their squadrons and battalions, with six men in depth, which were followed at last by a centurion, who, according to custom, observed the rest.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000015_000003.wav|I return now from this digression.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000014_000004.wav|One might well say that the Roman possessions are not inferior to the romans themselves.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3654/171138/3654_171138_000019_000007.wav|After these came the peculiar cavalry of his own legion, for there were a hundred and twenty horsemen that peculiarly belonged to every legion.|3654
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/144965/1849_144965_000008_000002.wav|The locality was Wellington, Sumner county kansas.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/144965/1849_144965_000019_000001.wav|For example:|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/144965/1849_144965_000030_000001.wav|It is not open to argument, or academic treatment of any kind. The cold fact is:|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/144965/1849_144965_000053_000000.wav|SNAKES.--mr|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000018_000002.wav|Leave me alone; or else by God I'll fling the whole thing to the dogs, let come what may."|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000014_000000.wav|"Less politeness and less paint, senora duenna," said Sancho; "by God your hands smell of vinegar wash."|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000018_000000.wav|To which Sancho made answer, "That's trick upon trick, I think, and not honey upon pancakes; a nice thing it would be for a whipping to come now, on the top of pinches, smacks, and pin proddings!|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000017_000000.wav|Rhadamanthus bade Sancho put away his wrath, as the object they had in view was now attained.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000009_000000.wav|On hearing this Sancho broke silence and cried out, "By all that's good, I'll as soon let my face be smacked or handled as turn Moor.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000001.wav|In the middle of the court was a catafalque, raised about two yards above the ground and covered completely by an immense canopy of black velvet, and on the steps all round it white wax tapers burned in more than a hundred silver candlesticks.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000037_000001.wav|Don Stockfish, soul of a mortar, stone of a date, more obstinate and obdurate than a clown asked a favour when he has his mind made up, if I fall upon you I'll tear your eyes out!|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000011.wav|Sancho surveyed himself from head to foot and saw himself all ablaze with flames; but as they did not burn him, he did not care two farthings for them.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000003.wav|She lay with her head resting upon a cushion of brocade and crowned with a garland of sweet smelling flowers of divers sorts, her hands crossed upon her bosom, and between them a branch of yellow palm of victory.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000028_000008.wav|Thereupon the duke seized the opportunity of practising this mystification upon him; so much did he enjoy everything connected with Sancho and Don Quixote.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000035_000002.wav|If it should be good, faithful, and true, it will have ages of life; but if it should be bad, from its birth to its burial will not be a very long journey."|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000037_000003.wav|All that you have seen to night has been make believe; I'm not the woman to let the black of my nail suffer for such a camel, much less die!"|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000002.wav|Upon the catafalque was seen the dead body of a damsel so lovely that by her beauty she made death itself look beautiful.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000008.wav|Nor was this all, for Don Quixote had perceived that the dead body on the catafalque was that of the fair Altisidora.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000012_000000.wav|Here Don Quixote, too, broke silence, saying to Sancho, "Have patience, my son, and gratify these noble persons, and give all thanks to heaven that it has infused such virtue into thy person, that by its sufferings thou canst disenchant the enchanted and restore to life the dead."|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000009.wav|As the duke and duchess mounted the stage Don Quixote and Sancho rose and made them a profound obeisance, which they returned by bowing their heads slightly.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000032_000003.wav|For of course that's where one who dies in despair is bound for."|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000009_000002.wav|Try those jokes on a brother in law; 'I'm an old dog, and "tus, tus" is no use with me.'"|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000003_000010.wav|At this moment an official crossed over, and approaching Sancho threw over him a robe of black buckram painted all over with flames of fire, and taking off his cap put upon his head a mitre such as those undergoing the sentence of the Holy Office wear; and whispered in his ear that he must not open his lips, or they would put a gag upon him, or take his life.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000010_000001.wav|Ho, I say, officials, obey my orders; or by the word of an honest man, ye shall see what ye were born for."|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixty nine.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000007_000000.wav|No sooner had Minos the fellow judge of Rhadamanthus said this, than Rhadamanthus rising up said:|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000006_000000.wav|At this point one of the two that looked like kings exclaimed, "Enough, enough, divine singer!|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000030_000000.wav|O harder thou than marble to my plaint;|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1849/138063/1849_138063_000010_000000.wav|"Thou shalt die," said Rhadamanthus in a loud voice; "relent, thou tiger; humble thyself, proud Nimrod; suffer and be silent, for no impossibilities are asked of thee; it is not for thee to inquire into the difficulties in this matter; smacked thou must be, pricked thou shalt see thyself, and with pinches thou must be made to howl.|1849
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000000_000000.wav|When it was the Six Hundred and Ninth Night,|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000001_000009.wav|"Whither went they?" enquired the Moor, and Judar replied, "I pinioned their hands behind them and cast them into the lake, where they were drowned, and the same fate is in store for thee." The Moor laughed and rejoined, saying, "O unhappy!|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000001_000004.wav|Then Judar sat watching and after awhile, his feet appeared above the water and the fisher said, "He is dead and damned!|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000001_000011.wav|Then he waited awhile; presently the Moor thrust both hands forth of the water and called out to him, saying, "Ho, good fellow, cast out thy net!" So Judar threw the net over him and drew him ashore, and lo! in each hand he held a fish as red as coral.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000004_000000.wav|When it was the Six Hundred and Eleventh Night,|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000003_000008.wav|As for the brand, if its bearer draw it and brandish it against an army, the army will be put to the rout; and if he say the while, 'Slay yonder host,' there will come forth of that sword lightning and fire, that will kill the whole many.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000003_000004.wav|Our father was wont to make use of this book, of which we had some small matter by heart, and each of us desired to possess it, that he might acquaint himself with what was therein.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000005_000003.wav|"Nay," answered the Maghribi, "they are Ifrits in the guise of fish.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000001_000012.wav|Quoth the Moor, "Bring me the two caskets that are in the saddle bags." So Judar brought them and opened them to him, and he laid in each casket a fish and shut them up.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75807/7085_75807_000002_000000.wav|When it was the Six Hundred and Tenth Night,|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, one of my supporters," laughed Robert; "a bit of a poacher and a bit of a pub loafer, but he's on the right side."|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000030_000002.wav|She had come unscathed through it, but what might have happened if she had gone unsuspectingly to visit Sir john Chobham and warn him of his danger?|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000013_000001.wav|Had it come to that?|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000027_000008.wav|He was also a candidate for Parliament, it seemed, and as there was only one seat in this particular locality, it was obvious that the success of either Robert or Sir john would mean a check to the ambitions of the other, hence, no doubt, the rivalry and enmity between these otherwise kindred souls.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000010_000001.wav|Tells a pack of lies to get our votes, that's all that he's after, damn him.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000020_000000.wav|"Who is the person he referred to as old Chobham?" she asked.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000009_000002.wav|Ought to be ashamed to look any decent man in the face.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000022_000000.wav|So there was an upright man, possibly a very Hugo in character, who was thwarting and defying the evildoer in his nefarious career, and there was a dastardly plot afoot to break his neck!|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000015_000001.wav|"A serpent in duckling's plumage," was her private comment; merciful chance had revealed him to her in his true colours.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000006_000000.wav|The train which carried Alethia towards her destination was a local one, with the wayside station habit strongly developed.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000022_000001.wav|Possibly the attempt would be made within the next few hours.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000025_000000.wav|Robert merely laughed.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000013_000005.wav|In placid Saxon blooded England people did not demonstrate their feelings lightly and without some strong compelling cause.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000027_000006.wav|Sir john, the Hugo of her imagination, was, if anything, rather more depraved and despicable than Robert Bludward.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000003.wav|Her ideas on life in general had been acquired through the medium of popular respectable novel writers, and modified or emphasised by such knowledge as her aunt, the vicar, and her aunt's housekeeper had put at her disposal.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000014_000003.wav|She had not far to look; "mr|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000009_000000.wav|"Robert Bludward?|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000013_000006.wav|What manner of evildoer was Robert Bludward?|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000023_000002.wav|He stared straight at the occupants of the car, and, after he had passed them, sang in his clear, boyish voice:|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000025_000002.wav|He had goaded them to desperation with his shameless depravity till they spoke openly of putting him to a violent death, and he laughed.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000016_000000.wav|As they drove away from the station a dissipated looking man of the labouring class waved his hat in friendly salute.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000008_000000.wav|There was a certain scornful ring in his question.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000027_000007.wav|He was mean, evasive, callously indifferent to his country's interests, a cheat, a man who habitually broke his word, and who was responsible, with his associates, for most of the poverty, misery, crime, and national degradation with which the country was afflicted.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000009_000003.wav|Send him to Parliament to represent us-not much!|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000015_000000.wav|It was a considerable shock to her to find that Robert was fair, with a snub nose, merry eye, and rather a schoolboy manner.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000017_000000.wav|"Who was that man?" asked Alethia quickly.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000009.wav|mrs Bludward was something of an invalid, and Robert was a young man who had been at Oxford and was going into Parliament.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000014_000000.wav|The train stopped at another small station, and the two men got out.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000009_000001.wav|An out an'-out rotter, that's what he is.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000013.wav|Robert was more of a problem.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000028_000001.wav|A friend is very seriously ill and I have been sent for."|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000022_000006.wav|Robert would come spurring after her and seize her bridle just as she was turning in at Sir John's gates.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000030_000003.wav|What indeed!|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000015.wav|It was probable, Alethia considered, that Robert came into the last category, in which case she was certain to enjoy the companionship of one or two excellent women, and might possibly catch glimpses of undesirable adventuresses or come face to face with reckless admiration seeking married women.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000019_000000.wav|So these were the sort of associates that Robert Bludward consorted with, thought Alethia.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000022_000005.wav|The chances were that she would be watched.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000023_000001.wav|He had the frank open countenance, neatly brushed hair and tidy clothes that betoken a clear conscience and a good mother.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000006.wav|She could hardly remember ever having met them, but once or twice in the course of the last three or four years they had expressed a polite wish that she should pay them a visit; they had probably not been unduly depressed by the fact that her aunt's failing health had prevented her from accepting their invitation.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000027_000004.wav|Suddenly she started, and began to read with breathless attention a prominently printed article, headed "A Little Limelight on Sir john Chobham." The colour ebbed away from her face, a look of frightened despair crept into her eyes.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000014_000006.wav|And this monster was going to meet her at Derrelton Station in a few short minutes.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000026_000001.wav|From her no help was to be expected.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000029_000000.wav|It was dreadful to have to concoct lies, but it would be more dreadful to have to spend another night under that roof.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000028_000000.wav|"I must go back to Webblehinton at once," Alethia informed her astonished hostess at lunch time; "I have had a telegram.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000016_000001.wav|"Good luck to you, mr Bludward," he shouted; "you'll come out on top!|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000010_000003.wav|Properly exposed him, hip and thigh, I tell you."|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000013_000002.wav|There was something dramatically biblical in the idea of Robert Bludward's neighbours and acquaintances hissing him for very scorn.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000027_000000.wav|After breakfast Alethia, on the pretext of going to look at an outlying rose garden, slipped away to the village through which they had passed on the previous evening.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000004.wav|And now, in her twenty ninth year, her aunt's death had left her, well provided for as regards income, but somewhat isolated in the matter of kith and kin and human companionship.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000014_000002.wav|Alethia pounced on it, in the expectation of finding a cultured literary endorsement of the censure which these rough farming men had expressed in their homely, honest way.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000005_000010.wav|Further than that Alethia's information did not go; her imagination, founded on her extensive knowledge of the people one met in novels, had to supply the gaps.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000027_000009.wav|One was seeking to have his enemy done to death, the other was apparently trying to stir up his supporters to an act of "Lynch law".|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000026_000002.wav|Alethia locked her door that night, and placed such ramparts of furniture against it that the maid had great difficulty in breaking in with the early tea in the morning.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000004_000000.wav|FOREWARNED|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/2327/7085_2327_000016_000002.wav|We'll break old Chobham's neck for him."|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000013.wav|Moreover, he sent other four score, who fetched comely black girls, and forty others brought male chattels and carried them all to Judar's house, which they filled.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000003_000013.wav|How could you sell me?|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000010.wav|Judar was delighted with it while he was passing along the highway and withal it had cost him nothing.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000004_000000.wav|When it was the Six Hundred and Nineteenth Night,|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000001_000004.wav|If ye allow me aught to clothe me, 'twill be of your bounty, and each of you shall traffic with the folk for himself.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000007_000000.wav|So he gave a great cry and fell down in a fit.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000003_000012.wav|Then said he, "Weep not, for it was Satan and covetise that led you to do thus.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000002.wav|As for me, I pardon you and welcome you: no harm shall befall you."|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000003_000011.wav|Quoth he, "I salute you, O my brothers! you have cheered me by your presence." And they bowed their heads and burst into tears.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000003_000014.wav|But I comfort myself with the thought of Joseph, whose brothers did with him even more than ye did with me, because they cast him into the pit."--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000008.wav|Meanwhile, Al Ra'ad summoned his attendant Jinn and bade them build the palace.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000003_000010.wav|They swooned away for excess of fear, and when they recovered, they found themselves in their mother's house and saw Judar seated by her side.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000001_000011.wav|After awhile, his master the merchant set out on a pilgrimage to Meccah, taking Judar with him, and when they reached the city, the Cairene repaired to the Haram temple, to circumambulate the Ka'abah.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000000_000000.wav|When it was the Six Hundred and Seventeenth Night,|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000001_000007.wav|So he looked out and listening, heard all the angry words that passed between them and saw the division of the spoil.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000001.wav|But repent unto Allah and crave pardon of Him, and He will forgive you both, for He is the Most Forgiving, the Merciful.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000005_000000.wav|She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Judar said to his brothers, "How could you do with me thus?|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7085/75810/7085_75810_000001_000005.wav|Ye are my sons and I am your mother; wherefore let us abide as we are, lest your brother come back and we be disgraced." But they accepted not her words and passed the night, wrangling with each other.|7085
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000021_000001.wav|Two towers were erected two stories high, and were surrounded with heaps of inflamed materials consisting of fagots and straw.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000024_000004.wav|His pulse was then one hundred forty four, double its ordinary quickness.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000004_000004.wav|If, instead of a flat iron, we use a concave metal disk about the size and shape of a watch crystal, some very interesting results may be obtained.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000016_000005.wav|The head dress is a large cap which envelops the whole head down to the neck, having suitable perforations for the eyes, nose, and mouth.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000023_000003.wav|Whenever they breathed upon a thermometer it sunk several degrees; every expiration, particularly if strongly made, gave a pleasant impression of coolness to their nostrils, and their cold breath cooled their fingers whenever it reached them.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000018_000002.wav|On other occasions the fireman handled blazing wood and burning substances, and walked during five minutes upon an iron grating placed over flaming fagots.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000024_000001.wav|Sir Charles Blagden went into a room where the heat was one degree or two degrees above two hundred sixty degrees, and remained eight minutes in this situation, frequently walking about to all the different parts of the room, but standing still most of the time in the coolest spot, where the heat was above two hundred forty degrees.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000004_000007.wav|By a careful manipulation of the dropper, the disk may be filled with water which, notwithstanding the intense heat, never reaches the boiling point.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000016_000003.wav|This valuable property, which has been long in practical use, he ascribed to the conducting and radiating power of the wire gauze, which carried off the heat of the flame, and deprived it of its power. The Chevalier Aldini conceived the idea of applying the same material, in combination with other badly conducting substances, as a protection against fire.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000024_000007.wav|Another beef steak, similarly placed, was rather overdone in thirty three minutes.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000010_000000.wav|While I was viewing this performance, I remarked a smell like that of singed horn or leather, though his hand was not burnt.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000017_000001.wav|All these pieces are made of iron wire gauze, having the interval between its threads the twenty fifth part of an inch.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000009_000001.wav|He then squeezed the fingers of his horny hand close together, put it for a few minutes under his armpit, to make it sweat, as he said; and, taking it again out, drew it over a ladle filled with melted copper, some of which he skimmed off, and moved his hand backwards and forwards, very quickly, by way of ostentation.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000014_000001.wav|His experiment is stated to have given satisfaction.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000005_000000.wav|By taking advantage of the fact that different liquids assume a spheroidal form at widely different temperatures, one may obtain some startling results.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000025_000002.wav|When it is raised to its highest temperature, with the doors closed, the thermometer stands at three hundred fifty degrees, and the iron floor is red hot.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000006_000001.wav|The natural moisture of the hand is usually sufficient for this result, but it is better to wipe the hand with a damp towel.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000003_000001.wav|TEMPERATURES THE BODY CAN ENDURE.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000019_000000.wav|In order to show how the head, eyes, and lungs are protected, the fireman put on the asbestos and wire gauze cap, and the cuirass, and held the shield before his breast.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000021_000002.wav|The firemen braved the danger with impunity.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000025_000003.wav|The workmen often enter it at a temperature of three hundred forty degrees, walking over the iron floor with wooden clogs, which are of course charred on the surface.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000008_000000.wav|Beckmann, in his History of Inventions, vol|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000004_000008.wav|On the other hand, if boiling water be dropped on the superheated disk its temperature will immediately be REDUCED to six degrees below the boiling point; thus the hot metal really cools the water.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000004_000002.wav|Everybody knows that if it is not too hot the water will spread over the surface and evaporate; but if it is too hot, the water will glance off without wetting the iron, and if this drop be allowed to fall on the hand it will be found that it is still cool.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000021_000004.wav|The violence of the fire was so great that he could not be seen, while a thick black smoke spread around, throwing out a heat which was unsupportable by spectators.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000025_000004.wav|On one occasion Sir f Chantrey, accompanied by five or six of his friends, entered the furnace, and, after remaining two minutes, they brought out a thermometer which stood at three hundred twenty degrees.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000020_000000.wav|In the experiments which were made at Paris in the presence of a committee of the Academy of Sciences, two parallel rows of straw and brushwood supported by iron wires, were formed at the distance of three feet from each other, and extended thirty feet in length.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000013_000000.wav|Thus far our interest in heat resistance has uncovered secrets of no very great practical value, however entertaining the uses to which we have seen them put.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000014_000002.wav|The pompiers were clothed in asbestos, over which was a network of iron. Some of them, it was stated, who wore double gloves of amianthus, held a red hot bar during four minutes.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000012_000001.wav|They told him that if the hand had been wet it would have been badly scalded.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000019_000002.wav|In a subsequent trial, at Paris, a fireman placed his head in the middle of a large brazier filled with flaming hay and wood, and resisted the action of the fire during five or six minutes and even ten minutes.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000016_000004.wav|The incombustible pieces of dress which he uses for the body, arms, and legs, are formed out of strong cloth, which has been steeped in a solution of alum, while those for the head, hands, and feet, are made of cloth of asbestos or amianthus.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000015_000001.wav|Sir David says:|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000005_000002.wav|Even mercury can be frozen in this way by a combination of chemicals.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000004_000003.wav|The fact is that the water never touches the hot iron at all, provided the heat is sufficiently intense, but assumes a slightly elliptical shape and is supported by a cushion of vapor.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000019_000001.wav|A fire of shavings was then lighted, and kept burning in a large raised chafing dish; the fireman plunged his head into the middle of the flames with his face to the fuel, and in that position went several times round the chafing dish for a period longer than a minute.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000022_000000.wav|It is a remarkable result of these experiments, that the firemen are able to breathe without difficulty in the middle of the flames.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000022_000001.wav|This effect is owing not only to the heat being intercepted by the wire gauze as it passes to the lungs, in consequence of which its temperature becomes supportable, but also to the singular power which the body possesses of resisting great heats, and of breathing air of high temperatures.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000006_000000.wav|Through the action of this principle it is possible to dip the hand for a short time into melted lead, or even into melted copper, the moisture of the skin supplying a vapor which prevents direct contact with the molten metal; no more than an endurable degree of heat reaches the hand while the moisture lasts, although the temperature of the fusing copper is one thousand nine hundred ninety six degrees.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000016_000000.wav|In our own times the art of defending the hands and face, and indeed the whole body, from the action of heated iron and intense fire, has been applied to the nobler purpose of saving human life, and rescuing property from the flames.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000025_000001.wav|The furnace which he employs for drying his moulds is about fourteen feet long, twelve feet high, and twelve feet broad.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000024_000002.wav|The air, though very hot, gave no pain, and Sir Charles and all the other gentlemen were of opinion that they could support a much greater heat.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000024_000006.wav|In the space of twenty minutes the eggs were roasted quite hard, and in forty seven minutes the steak was not only dressed, but almost dry.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000023_000008.wav|A familiar instance of this occurred in the heated room.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000013_000002.wav|As long ago as eighteen twenty nine, for instance, an English newspaper printed the following:|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000016_000002.wav|Sir h Davy had long ago shown that a safety lamp for illuminating mines, containing inflammable air, might be constructed of wire gauze, alone, which prevented the flame within, however large or intense, from setting fire to the inflammable air without.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000024_000005.wav|In order to prove that there was no mistake respecting the degree of heat indicated by the thermometer, and that the air which they breathed was capable of producing all the well-known effects of such a heat on inanimate matter, they placed some eggs and a beef steak upon a tin frame near the thermometer, but more distant from the furnace than from the wall of the room.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/166683/3105_166683_000018_000000.wav|In order to prove the efficacy of this apparatus, and inspire the firemen with confidence in its protection, he showed them that a finger first enveloped in asbestos, and then in a double case of wire gauze, might be held a long time in the flame of a spirit lamp or candle before the heat became inconvenient.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000012_000002.wav|Enough that I resolved to go; and as Lorna could not come with me, it was even worse than stopping.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000030_000002.wav|It will be the best thing that could befall a lusty infant heretic.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000028_000002.wav|What was farmer to have for supper?'|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000020_000001.wav|This I will tell in most careful language, so as to give offence to none, if skill of words may help it.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000005_000003.wav|Thirdly, they gave me, 'Ridd never be ridden,' and fearing to make any further objections, I let them inscribe it in bronze upon blue.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000007_000000.wav|Beginning to be short of money, and growing anxious about the farm, longing also to show myself and my noble escutcheon to mother, I took advantage of Lady Lorna's interest with the Queen, to obtain my acquittance and full discharge from even nominal custody.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000024_000003.wav|And from the description of one of those two, who carried off the poor woman, I knew beyond all doubt that it was Carver Doone himself.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000012_000003.wav|Nearly everybody vowed that I was a great fool indeed, to neglect so rudely-which was the proper word, they said-the pushing of my fortunes.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000011_000003.wav|Yet before the land itself has acknowledged touch of man, upon one in a hundred acres; and before one mile in ten thousand of the exhaustless ocean has ever felt the plunge of hook, or combing of the haul nets; lo, we crawl, in flocks together upon the hot ground that stings us, even as the black grubs crowd upon the harried nettle!|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000010_000001.wav|And here let me mention-although the two are quite distinct and different-that both the dew and the bread of Exmoor may be sought, whether high or low, but never found elsewhere.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000015_000001.wav|They shook hands with me; and said that they could not deny but that there was reason in my view of the matter.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000004_000001.wav|They did me the honour to consult me first, and to take no notice of my advice.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000011_000000.wav|Now while I was walking daily in and out great crowds of men (few of whom had any freedom from the cares of money, and many of whom were even morbid with a worse pest called 'politics'), I could not be quit of thinking how we jostle one another.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000023_000001.wav|Therefore his wife was not surprised although the dusk was falling, that farmer Christopher should be at work in 'blind man's holiday,' as we call it.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000031_000000.wav|The cruelty of this man is a thing it makes me sick to speak of; enough that when the poor baby fell (without attempt at cry or scream, thinking it part of his usual play, when they tossed him up, to come down again), the maid in the oven of the back kitchen, not being any door between, heard them say as follows,--|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000024_000002.wav|In spite of tears, and shrieks, and struggles, they tore the babe from the mother's arms, and cast it on the lime ash floor; then they bore her away to their horses (for by this time she was senseless), and telling the others to sack the house, rode off with their prize to the valley.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000008_000002.wav|As for the furrier, he could never have enough of my society; and this worthy man, praying my commendation, demanded of me one thing only-to speak of him as I found him.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000028_000001.wav|Fetch down the staves of the rack, my boy.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000004_000006.wav|Moreover, the name of our farm was pure proof; a plover being a wild bird, just the same as a raven is.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000005_000000.wav|Here I was inclined to pause, and admire the effect; for even De Whichehalse could not show a bearing so magnificent.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000007_000002.wav|And right glad was I-for even London shrank with horror at the news-to escape a man so bloodthirsty, savage, and even to his friends (among whom I was reckoned) malignant.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000022_000002.wav|And he had a way of looking round, and spreading his legs, and laughing, with his brave little body well fetched up, after a desperate journey to the end of the table, which his mother said nothing could equal.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000007_000001.wav|It had been intended to keep me in waiting, until the return of Lord Jeffreys, from that awful circuit of shambles, through which his name is still used by mothers to frighten their children into bed.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000026_000000.wav|By evil luck, this child began to squeal about his mother, having been petted hitherto, and wont to get all he wanted, by raising his voice but a little.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000008_000001.wav|And he introduced me to many great people, who quite kindly encouraged me, and promised to help me in every way when they heard how the King had spoken.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000006_000002.wav|And half in fun, and half in earnest, she called me 'Sir john' so continually, that at last I was almost angry with her; until her eyes were bedewed with tears; and then I was angry with myself.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixty nine|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000030_000000.wav|'No game!|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000004_000003.wav|But the gentlemen would not hear of this; and to find something more appropriate, they inquired strictly into the annals of our family.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000024_000000.wav|But she was surprised, nay astonished, when by the light of the kitchen fire (brightened up for her husband), she saw six or seven great armed men burst into the room upon her; and she screamed so that the maid in the back kitchen heard her, but was afraid to come to help.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000019_000001.wav|And their mother (although she had taken some money, which the Doones were always full of) declared that it was a robbery; and though it increased for a while the custom, that must soon fall off again.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000004_000000.wav|The coat of arms, devised for me by the Royal heralds, was of great size, and rich colours, and full of bright imaginings.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000006_000000.wav|Now being in a hurry-so far at least as it is in my nature to hurry-to get to the end of this narrative, is it likely that I would have dwelled so long upon my coat of arms, but for some good reason?|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000004_000007.wav|Upon this chain of reasoning, and without any weak misgivings, they charged my growing escutcheon with a black raven on a ground of red.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000011_000001.wav|God has made the earth quite large, with a spread of land large enough for all to live on, without fighting. Also a mighty spread of water, laying hands on sand and cliff with a solemn voice in storm time; and in the gentle weather moving men to thoughts of equity.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000026_000004.wav|If it had been her own baby, instinct rather than reason might have had the day with her; but the child being born of her mistress, she wished him good luck, and left him, as the fierce men came downstairs.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000025_000000.wav|The other Doones being left behind, and grieved perhaps in some respects, set to with a will to scour the house, and to bring away all that was good to eat.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000025_000001.wav|And being a little vexed herein (for the Badcocks were not a rich couple) and finding no more than bacon, and eggs, and cheese, and little items, and nothing to drink but water; in a word, their taste being offended, they came back, to the kitchen, and stamped; and there was the baby lying.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000003_000000.wav|NOT TO BE PUT UP WITH|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000022_000000.wav|Mistress Margery Badcock, a healthy and upright young woman, with a good rich colour, and one of the finest hen roosts anywhere round our neighbourhood, was nursing her child about six of the clock, and looking out for her husband.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000027_000000.wav|While this good maid was in the oven, by side of back kitchen fireplace, with a faggot of wood drawn over her, and lying so that her own heart beat worse than if she were baking; the men (as I said before) came downstairs, and stamped around the baby.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000026_000001.wav|Now the mark of the floor was upon his head, as the maid (who had stolen to look at him, when the rough men were swearing upstairs) gave evidence.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000019_000000.wav|Now these two maidens were known, because they had served the beer at an ale house; and many men who had looked at them, over a pint or quart vessel (especially as they were comely girls), thought that it was very hard for them to go in that way, and perhaps themselves unwilling.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000026_000005.wav|And being alarmed by their power of language (because they had found no silver), she crept away in a breathless hurry, and afraid how her breath might come back to her.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000012_000004.wav|But I answered that to push was rude, and I left it to people who had no room; and thought that my fortune must be heavy, if it would not move without pushing.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000022_000001.wav|Now this child was too old to be nursed, as everybody told her; for he could run, say two yards alone, and perhaps four or five, by holding to handles.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000011_000004.wav|Surely we are too much given to follow the tracks of each other.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000016_000001.wav|I have seen at times, a little, both of one and of the other, and making more than due allowance for the difficulties of language, and the difference of training, upon the whole, the balance is in favour of our people.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000012_000001.wav|Such a man must be very wretched in this pure dearth of morality; like a fisherman where no fish be; and most of us have enough to do to attend to our own morals.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000020_000000.wav|Before we had finished meditating upon this loose outrage-for so I at least would call it, though people accustomed to the law may take a different view of it-we had news of a thing far worse, which turned the hearts of our women sick.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000023_000000.wav|Christopher Badcock was a tenant farmer, in the parish of Martinhoe, renting some fifty acres of land, with a right of common attached to them; and at this particular time, being now the month of February, and fine open weather, he was hard at work ploughing and preparing for spring corn.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000017_000000.wav|Yet some people may be surprised that men with any love of justice, whether inborn or otherwise, could continue to abide the arrogance, and rapacity, and tyranny of the Doones.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000019_000002.wav|And who would have her two girls now, clever as they were and good?|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000015_000002.wav|And although they themselves must be the losers-which was a handsome thing to say-they would wait until I was a little older and more aware of my own value.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000018_000001.wav|Twenty sheep a week, and one fat ox, and two stout red deer (for wholesome change of diet), as well as threescore bushels of flour, and two hogsheads and a half of cider, and a hundredweight of candles, not to mention other things of almost every variety which they got by insisting upon it-surely these might have sufficed to keep the people in their place, with no outburst of wantonness.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000008_000000.wav|Earl Brandir was greatly pleased with me, not only for having saved his life, but for saving that which he valued more, the wealth laid by for Lord Alan.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000004_000009.wav|All this was very fierce and fine; and so I pressed for a peaceful corner in the lower dexter, and obtained a wheat sheaf set upright, gold upon a field of green.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000005_000001.wav|But the heralds said that it looked a mere sign board, without a good motto under it; and the motto must have my name in it.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000011_000002.wav|This, as well, is full of food; being two thirds of the world, and reserved for devouring knowledge; by the time the sons of men have fed away the dry land.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000030_000001.wav|Then let us have a game of loriot with the baby!|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3105/163726/3105_163726_000026_000002.wav|And she put a dish cloth under his head, and kissed him, and ran away again.|3105
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4681/13056/4681_13056_000005_000000.wav|mrs Parker's Sorrows|4681
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000011_000002.wav|The parliament, no doubt, continued he, had done wisely on the commencement of the war, in engaging several of its members in the most dangerous parts of it, and thereby satisfying the nation that they intended to share all hazards with the meanest of the people.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000022_000000.wav|During this important transaction of the self denying ordinance, the negotiations for peace were likewise carried on, though with small hopes of success.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000003_000000.wav|These violent dissensions brought matters to extremity, and pushed the Independents to the execution of their designs.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000015_000001.wav|He was saved by a subtlety, and by that political craft in which he was so eminent.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000011_000004.wav|During the progress of military operations, there have arisen in the parliamentary armies many excellent officers, who are qualified for higher commands than they are now possessed of.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000020_000000.wav|Fairfax was a person equally eminent for courage and for humanity; and though strongly infected with prejudices, or principles derived from religious and party zeal, he seems never, in the course of his public conduct, to have been diverted by private interest or ambition from adhering strictly to these principles.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000021_000002.wav|Carried by his natural temper to magnanimity, to grandeur, and to an imperious and domineering policy, he yet knew, when necessary, to employ the most profound dissimulation, the most oblique and refined artifice, the semblance of the greatest moderation and simplicity.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000007_000005.wav|Lingering expedients alone will be pursued; and operations in the field concurring in the same pernicious end with deliberations in the cabinet, civil commotions will forever be perpetuated in the nation.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000021_000000.wav|Cromwell, by whose sagacity and insinuation Fairfax was entirely governed, is one of the most eminent and most singular personages that occurs in history: the strokes of his character are as open and strongly marked, as the schemes of his conduct were, during the time, dark and impenetrable.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000012_000000.wav|In opposition to this reasoning of the Independents, many of the Presbyterians showed the inconvenience and danger of the projected alteration.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000026_000000.wav|The advantages gained during the campaign and the great distresses of the royalists, had much elevated their hopes; and they were resolved to repose no trust in men inflamed with the highest animosity against them, and who, were they possessed of power, were fully authorized by law to punish all their opponents as rebels and traitors.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000010_000000.wav|On the day subsequent to these devout animadversions when the parliament met, a new spirit appeared in the looks of many.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000007_000003.wav|In the hands of those members, they said, are lodged all the considerable commands of the army, all the lucrative offices in the civil administration: and while the nation is falling every day into poverty, and groans under an insupportable load of taxes, these men multiply possession on possession, and will in a little time be masters of all the wealth of the kingdom.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000014_000001.wav|This ordinance was the subject of great debate, and for a long time rent the parliament and city into factions.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000011_000003.wav|But affairs are now changed.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000007_000002.wav|On that day, the preachers, after many political prayers, took care to treat of the reigning divisions in the parliament, and ascribed them entirely to the selfish ends pursued by the members.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000015_000003.wav|His absence being remarked orders were despatched for his immediate attendance in parliament; and the new general was directed to employ some other officer in that service.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000021_000001.wav|His extensive capacity enabled him to form the most enlarged projects: his enterprising genius was not dismayed with the boldest and most dangerous.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000007_000000.wav|A fast, on the last Wednesday of every month, had been ordered by the parliament at the beginning of these commotions; and their preachers on that day were careful to keep alive, by their vehement declamations, the popular prejudices entertained against the king, against prelacy, and against Popery.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000003_000003.wav|But how to effect this project was the difficulty. The authority, as well as merits, of Essex was very great with the parliament.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000003_000002.wav|A new model alone of the army could bring complete victory to the parliament, and free the nation from those calamities under which it labored.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000014_000003.wav|A pension of ten thousand pounds a year was settled on Essex.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000021_000004.wav|And by using well that authority which he had attained by fraud and violence, he has lessened, if not overpowered, our detestation of his enormities, by our admiration of his success and of his genius.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000007_000004.wav|That such persons, who fatten on the calamities of their country, will ever embrace any effectual measure for bringing them to a period, or insuring final success to the war, cannot reasonably be expected.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274379/8222_274379_000011_000006.wav|The army, indeed, he was sorry to say it, did not correspond by its discipline to the merit of the officers; nor were there any hopes, till the present vices and disorders which prevail among the soldiers were repressed by a new model that their forces would ever be attended with signal success in any undertaking.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000015.wav|The foot under Skippon were obliged to surrender their arms, artillery, baggage, and ammunition; and being conducted to the parliament's quarters, were dismissed.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000005_000001.wav|The marquis of Newcastle was entirely lost to the royal cause.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000006_000000.wav|When Prince Rupert, contrary to his advice, resolved on this battle, and issued all orders without communicating his intentions to him, he took the field, but, he said, merely as a volunteer; and, except by his personal courage, which shone out with lustre, he had no share in the action.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000002.wav|He marched towards Worcester; and Waller received orders from Essex to follow him and watch his motions, while he himself marched into the west, in quest of Prince Maurice.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000019_000001.wav|Equally indulgent to their friends and rigorous to their enemies, they employed with success these two powerful engines of reward and punishment, in confirmation of their authority.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000000.wav|The two generals had orders to march with their combined armies towards Oxford; and, if the king retired into that city, to lay siege to it, and by one enterprise put a period to the war.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000005_000002.wav|That nobleman the ornament of the court and of his order, had been engaged, contrary to the natural bent of his disposition, into these military operations merely by a high sense of honor and a personal regard to his master.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000011.wav|Essex, retreating into Cornwall, informed the parliament of his danger, and desired them to send an army which might fall on the king's rear. General Middleton received a commission to execute that service; but came too late.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000027_000000.wav|Popery and prelacy alone, whose genius seemed to tend towards superstition, were treated by the Independents with rigor.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000028_000001.wav|In consequence of this scheme, they were declared enemies to all proposals of peace, except on such terms as they knew it was impossible to obtain; and they adhered to that maxim, which is in the main prudent and political, that whoever draws the sword against his sovereign, should throw away the scabbard.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000004.wav|In order to prevent him, Waller presently dislodged, and hastened by quick marches to that town while the king, suddenly returning upon his own footsteps reached Oxford; and having reenforced his army from that garrison, now in his turn marched out in quest of Waller.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000006_000002.wav|Next morning early, he sent word to the prince, that he was instantly to leave the kingdom; and without delay, he went to Scarborough, where he found a vessel, which carried him beyond sea.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000019_000000.wav|No sooner did this intelligence reach London, than the committee of the two kingdoms voted thanks to Essex for his fidelity, courage, and conduct; and this method of proceeding, no less politic than magnanimous, was preserved by the parliament throughout the whole course of the war.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000006.wav|Next day, the king decamped, and marched towards Daventry.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000014_000001.wav|The great zeal of the city facilitated this undertaking.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000005_000003.wav|The dangers of war were disregarded by his valor; but its fatigues were oppressive to his natural indolence.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000024_000003.wav|From this distinction, as from a first principle, were derived, by a necessary consequence, all the other differences of these two sects.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000005_000000.wav|This event was in itself a mighty blow to the king; but proved more fatal in its consequences.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000005.wav|Both sides were not a little surprised to find that they must again renew the combat for that victory which each of them thought they had already obtained.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000013_000001.wav|Ruthven, a Scotchman, who had been created earl of Brentford, acted under the king as general.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000023_000001.wav|There had long prevailed in that party a secret distinction, which, though the dread of the king's power had hitherto suppressed it, yet, in proportion as the hopes of success became nearer and more immediate, began to discover itself with high contest and animosity.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000001.wav|Newcastle's regiment alone, resolute to conquer or to perish, obstinately kept their ground, and maintained, by their dead bodies, the same order in which they had at first been ranged.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000026_000002.wav|Of all Christian sects, this was the first which, during its prosperity as well as its adversity, always adopted the principle of toleration; and it is remarkable that so reasonable a doctrine owed its origin, not to reasoning, but to the height of extravagance and fanaticism.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000014.wav|Essex, Robarts, and some of the principal officers escaped in a boat to Plymouth; Balfour with his horse passed the king's outposts in a thick mist, and got safely to the garrisons of his own party.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000006_000003.wav|During the ensuing years, till the restoration, he lived abroad in great necessity, and saw with indifference his opulent fortune sequestered by those who assumed the government of England.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000000.wav|After a short combat, the cavalry of the royalists gave way; and such of the infantry as stood next them were likewise borne down and put to flight.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000005.wav|The two armies faced each other at Cropredy Bridge, near Banbury; but the Charwell ran between them.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000029_000000.wav|Sir Henry Vane, Oliver Cromwell, Nathaniel Fiennes, and Oliver saint John, the solicitor general, were regarded as the leaders of the Independents. The earl of Essex, disgusted with a war of which he began to foresee the pernicious consequences, adhered to the Presbyterians, and promoted every reasonable plan of accommodation.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000007.wav|This second battle was equally furious and desperate with the first: but after the utmost efforts of courage by both parties, victory wholly turned to the side of the parliament.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000023_000003.wav|We must here endeavor to explain the genius of this party, and of its leaders, who henceforth occupy the scene of action.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000007.wav|Waller ordered a considerable detachment to pass the bridge, with an intention of falling on the rear of the royalists.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000003.wav|Waller had approached within two miles of the royal camp, and was only separated from it by the Severn, when he received intelligence that the king was advanced to Bewdly, and had directed his course towards Shrewsbury.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000028_000002.wav|By terrifying others with the fear of vengeance from the offended prince, they had engaged greater numbers into the opposition against peace, than had adopted their other principles with regard to government and religion.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000024_000002.wav|In proportion to its degree of fanaticism, each sect became dangerous and destructive; and as the Independents went a note higher than the Presbyterians, they could less be restrained within any bounds of temper and moderation.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000025_000000.wav|The Independents rejected all ecclesiastical establishments, and would admit of no spiritual courts, no government among pastors, no interposition of the magistrate in religious concerns, no fixed encouragement annexed to any system of doctrines or opinions.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000002.wav|In the other wing, Sir Thomas Fairfax and Colonel Lambert, with some troops, broke through the royalists; and, transported by the ardor of pursuit, soon reached their victorious friends, engaged also in pursuit of the enemy.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000020_000000.wav|That the king might have less reason to exult in the advantages which he had obtained in the west, the parliament opposed to him very numerous forces.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000003_000006.wav|The front of the battle was now exactly counterchanged; and each army occupied the ground which had been possessed by the enemy at the beginning of the day.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000016_000010.wav|The king followed him, and having reenforced his army from all quarters, appeared in the field with an army superior to the enemy.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000025_000001.wav|According to their principles, each congregation, united voluntarily and by spiritual ties, composed within itself a separate church, and exercised a jurisdiction, but one destitute of temporal sanctions, over its own pastor and its own members.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000023_000002.wav|The Independents, who had at first taken shelter and concealed themselves under the wings of the Presbyterians, now evidently appeared a distinct party, and betrayed very different views and pretensions.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000027_000001.wav|The doctrines too of fate or destiny were deemed by them essential to all religion. In these rigid opinions the whole sectaries, amidst all their other differences, unanimously concurred.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000014_000002.wav|Many speeches were made to the citizens by the parliamentary leaders, in order to excite their ardor.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000020_000002.wav|Though the king's troops defended themselves with valor, they were overpowered by numbers; and the night came very seasonably to their relief, and prevented a total overthrow.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000024_000001.wav|Every man, as prompted by the warmth of his temper, excited by emulation, or supported by his habits of hypocrisy, endeavored to distinguish himself beyond his fellows, and to arrive at a higher pitch of saintship and perfection.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274378/8222_274378_000020_000003.wav|Charles, leaving his baggage and cannon in Dennington Castle, near Newbury, forthwith retreated to Wallingford, and thence to Oxford.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000027_000000.wav|That the letter of the law, as much as the most flaming court sermon, inculcates passive obedience, is apparent; and though the spirit of a limited government seems to require, in extraordinary cases, some mitigation of so rigorous a doctrine, it must be confessed, that the presiding genius of the English constitution had rendered a mistake in this particular very natural and excusable.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000020_000002.wav|Notwithstanding the low condition into which the house of peers was fallen, there appeared some intention of rejecting this ordinance; and the popular leaders were again obliged to apply to the multitude, and to extinguish, by threats of new tumults, the small remains of liberty possessed by the upper house.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000004_000000.wav|These concessions, though considerable gave no satisfaction to the parliamentary commissioners; and, without abating any thing of their rigor on this head, they proceeded to their demands with regard to the militia.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000017_000001.wav|When the debates had been carried on to no purpose during twenty days among the commissioners, they separated, and returned; those of the king to Oxford, those of the parliament to London.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000031_000003.wav|The thought, no longer bent on that divine and mysterious essence, so superior to the narrow capacities of mankind, was able, by means of the new model of devotion, to relax itself in the contemplation of pictures, postures, vestments, buildings; and all the fine arts which minister to religion, thereby received additional encouragement.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000015_000001.wav|After all these were granted, it would be necessary to proceed to the discussion of those other demands, still more exorbitant, which a little before had been transmitted to the king at Oxford.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000020_000003.wav|Seven peers alone voted in this important question.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000006_000000.wav|But though the royalists insisted on these plausible topics before the commencement of war, they were obliged to own, that the progress of civil commotions had somewhat abated the force and evidence of this reasoning.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000028_000000.wav|Toleration had hitherto been so little the principle of any Christian sect, that even the Catholics, the remnant of the religion professed by their forefathers, could not obtain from the English the least indulgence.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000027_000001.wav|To inflict death, at least, on those who depart from the exact line of truth in these nice questions, so far from being favorable to national liberty, savors strongly of the spirit of tyranny and proscription.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000002_000001.wav|But Charles had never attained such enlarged principles.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000005_000002.wav|In this situation, surely the nation, governed by so virtuous a monarch, may for the present remain in tranquillity, and try whether it be not possible, by peaceful arts, to elude that danger with which it is pretended its liberties are still threatened.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000015_000000.wav|What rendered an accommodation more desperate was, that the demands on these three heads, however exorbitant, were acknowledged, by the parliamentary commissioners, to be nothing but preliminaries.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000031_000001.wav|Even the English church, though it had retained a share of Popish ceremonies, may justly be thought too naked and unadorned, and still to approach too near the abstract and spiritual religion of the Puritans.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000031_000002.wav|Laud and his associates, by reviving a few primitive institutions of this nature, corrected the error of the first reformers, and presented to the affrightened and astonished mind some sensible, exterior observances, which might occupy it during its religious exercises, and abate the violence of its disappointed efforts.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000028_000002.wav|They openly challenged the superiority, and even menaced the established church with that persecution which they afterwards exercised against her with such severity.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000006_000003.wav|Were the arms of the state, therefore, put entirely into such hands, what public security, it may be demanded, can be given to liberty, or what private security to those who, in opposition to the letter of the law, have so generously ventured their lives in its defence?|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000002_000000.wav|Had Charles been of a disposition to neglect all theological controversy, he yet had been obliged, in good policy, to adhere to episcopal jurisdiction; not only because it was favorable to monarchy, but because all its adherents were passionately devoted to it; and to abandon them, in what they regarded as so important an article, was forever to relinquish their friendship and assistance.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000008_000001.wav|Amidst such violent animosities, power alone could insure safety; and the power of one side was necessarily attended with danger to the other.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000019_000001.wav|After the union with Scotland, the bigoted prejudices of that nation revived the like spirit in England; and the sectaries resolved to gratify their vengeance in the punishment of this prelate, who had so long, by his authority, and by the execution of penal laws, kept their zealous spirit under confinement.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000023_000002.wav|Sincere he undoubtedly was, and, however misguided, actuated by pious motives in all his pursuits; and it is to be regretted that a man of such spirit, who conducted his enterprises with so much warmth and industry, had not entertained more enlarged views, and embraced principles more favorable to the general happiness of society.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000017_000000.wav|The Presbyterians, it must be confessed, after insisting on such conditions, differed only in words from the Independents, who required the establishment of a pure republic.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000015_000002.wav|Such ignominious terms were there insisted on, that worse could scarcely be demanded, were Charles totally vanquished, a prisoner, and in chains.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000008_000002.wav|Few or no instances occur in history of an equal, peaceful, and durable accommodation that has been concluded between two factions which had been inflamed into civil war.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000006_000001.wav|If the power of the militia, said the opposite party, be intrusted to the king, it would not now be difficult for him to abuse that authority.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000031_000000.wav|Whatever ridicule, to a philosophical mind, may be thrown on pious ceremonies, it must be confessed that, during a very religious age, no institutions can be more advantageous to the rude multitude, and tend more to mollify that fierce and gloomy spirit of devotion to which they are subject.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000015_000004.wav|It was insisted that forty eight more, with all the members who had sitten in either house at Oxford, all lawyers and divines who had embraced the king's party, should be rendered incapable of any office, be forbidden the exercise of their profession, be prohibited from coming within the verge of the court, and forfeit the third of their estates to the parliament.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000026_000002.wav|Some accused him of recommending slavish doctrines, of promoting persecution, and of encouraging superstition; while others thought that his conduct in these three particulars would admit of apology and extenuation.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000020_000000.wav|We shall not enter into a detail of this matter, which at present seems to admit of little controversy.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000005_000000.wav|The king's partisans had all along maintained, that the fears and jealousies of the parliament, after the securities so early and easily given to public liberty, were either feigned or groundless; and that no human institution could be better poised and adjusted than was now the government of England.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000009_000000.wav|With regard to Ireland, there were no greater hopes of agreement between the parties.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000026_000001.wav|That he deserved a better fate was not questioned by any reasonable man: the degree of his merit in other respects was disputed.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8222/274380/8222_274380_000026_000000.wav|The great and important advantage which the party gained by Strafford's death, may in some degree palliate the iniquity of the sentence pronounced against him: but the execution of this old, infirm prelate, who had so long remained an inoffensive prisoner, can be ascribed to nothing but vengeance and bigotry in those severe religionists by whom the parliament was entirely governed.|8222
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000035_000000.wav|Sarka shuddered, trying to picture in his mind the massing of the minions of Mars, who thus saw a new country given into their hands-if they could take it.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000037_000001.wav|The people, however, now know that Sarka is returning, and their courage rises again!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000023_000002.wav|And still the one question remained unanswered: Who was Luar?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000022_000001.wav|By intuition, she already knew.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000006.wav|Who was she?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000027_000000.wav|The Gens of Dalis had occupied all the territory northward to the Pole, from a line drawn east and west through the southernmost of what had once been the Hawaiian Islands.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000032_000003.wav|Chaos, catastrophe, approaching an infinity of destruction.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000001.wav|Why?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000012_000000.wav|Side by side sat Sarka and Jaska, their eager eyes peering through the forward end of the flashing aircar toward the Earth, growing minute by minute larger.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000010_000001.wav|How had they managed the first contact, the first negotiations leading to the compact between two such alien peoples?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000000.wav|How?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000008_000000.wav|Strange alchemy, which Sarka wondered about and, wondering, looked ahead to the time when he should be able, within his laboratory, to analyze the force it embodied, and thus gain new scientific knowledge of untold value to people of the Earth.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000037_000002.wav|The flames are merely a hint of what faces us; but the people will rise and follow you wherever you lead!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000028_000000.wav|Here, however, the light was invisible, and Sarka flew on in fear that somehow his aircars would blunder into it, and be destroyed-for that the blue light was an agent of ghastly destruction became instantly apparent.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER nineteen|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000021_000000.wav|"Yes, Jaska," he said suddenly, "somewhere on Earth, when we reach it, we may discover the secret of Luar-and know far more about Dalis than we have ever known before!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000031_000000.wav|"God, Jaska," murmured Sarka.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000010_000003.wav|But there had not, though there had been times and times when Sarka had peered closely enough at the surface of both the Moon and of Mars to see the activities, or the results of the activities, of the peoples of the two worlds.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000004.wav|If she were a native of Earth, how had she reached the Moon?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000034_000001.wav|People could have watched and seen these deserted buildings slowly fuse together, run together as molten metal runs together, like the lava from a volcano of long ago under the ponderous moving to and fro of some invisible, juggernautlike agency.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000037_000000.wav|"Only," came back the instant answer, "in that they destroy the courage of the people of the Earth!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000023_000001.wav|Might he not have known, two centuries ago, of the Secret Exit Dome, and somehow managed to make use of it in some ghastly experiment?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000039_000000.wav|"The ruler of the Moon is a woman called Luar, which seems a contraction of Lunar!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000019_000000.wav|His mind went back to the clucking sounds which, among the Gnomes of the Moon, passed for speech.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000010_000002.wav|Had there been any flights exchanged by the two worlds, surely the scientists of Earth would have known about it.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000007.wav|Her name, Luar, was a strange one, and Sarka studied it for many minutes, rolling the odd syllables of it over his tongue, wondering where, on the Earth, he had heard names, or words, similar to it.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000023_000000.wav|Sarka thought of the manner in which Jaska and he had been transported to the Moon; of how much Dalis seemed to know of the secrets of the laboratory of the Sarkas.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000013_000000.wav|And always, as they stared and literally willed the cubes which piloted and were the motive power of the aircars to speed and more speed, that marvelous display of interplanetary fireworks which had aroused the concern of Sarka the Second.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000014_000001.wav|Whence did they emanate?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000032_000000.wav|Think of a shoreline, once lined with mighty buildings, after the passage of a tidal wave greater than ever before known to man.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000012_000001.wav|They were able, after some hours, to make out the outlines of what had once been continents, to see the shadows in valleys which had once held the oceans of Earth....|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000025_000001.wav|Neither Sarka nor Jaska, nor yet the people in those other aircars, could have told how long they had been flying, when, coming over the curve of the Earth, at an elevation of something like three miles, they were able at last to see into the area which had once housed the Gens of Dalis.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000029_000003.wav|For, in order for the Gens of Dalis to be in position to launch their attack against the Moon, he had managed, by manipulating the speed of the Beryls, to bring that area into position directly opposite the Moon.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000032_000002.wav|Multiply that shoreline by the vast area which had housed the Gens of Dalis, and the mental picture is almost too big to grasp.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000014_000002.wav|Sarka the Second had said that they came from Mars, yet Mars was invisible to those in the speeding aircars, which argued that it was hidden behind the Earth. There was no way of knowing how close it was to the home of these rebels of Dalis' Gens.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000035_000001.wav|Had the Earth been taken by surprise?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000010_000000.wav|That there was an alliance between Mars and the Moon seemed almost unbelievable.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000003.wav|There were no answers to any of the questions yet.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000022_000002.wav|Let Sarka arrive at her conclusion by scientific methods if he desired, and she would simply smile anew.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000024_000000.wav|The Earth was now so close that details were plainly seen.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000015_000001.wav|But....|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000027_000001.wav|Upon this area had struck the strange blue light from the deep Cone of the Moon.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000025_000000.wav|In their flight, which had been, to them a flight through the glories of a super heavenly Universe, they had lost all count of time.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000005_000000.wav|Stranger, more thrilling even than had been the flight of the Earth after being forced out of its orbit, was the flight of those dozen aircars of the Moon, bearing the rebels of Dalis' Gens back to Earth.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000032_000001.wav|The devastation would be indescribable.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000019_000001.wav|He pondered anew.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000015_000000.wav|And ever, as they flashed forward, Sarka was recalling that vague hint on the lips of Jaska, to the effect that Luar, for all her sovereignty of the Moon, might be, nonetheless, a native of the Earth.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000011_000000.wav|Somehow, however, communication, if Sarka the Second had guessed correctly, had been managed between Mars and the Moon; and now that the Earth was a free flying orb the two were in alliance against it, perhaps for the same reason that the Earth had gone a voyaging.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000008.wav|This produced no result, until he tried substituting various letters; then, again, adding various letters.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000014_000000.wav|What were those lights?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000034_000000.wav|Yet, Sarka knew, remembering the murmuring of the blue column as it came out of the cone, all this devastation had been caused in almost absolute silence.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000024_000001.wav|The Himalayas were out of sight, over the Earth, and by a mental command Sarka managed to change slightly the course of the dozen aircars.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000038_000001.wav|On a chance, he sent a single sentence of strange meaning to his father.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000031_000001.wav|"Look!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000035_000002.wav|Had Sarka the Second been able to prepare for the approaching catastrophe?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000029_000000.wav|The dwellings of the Gens of Dalis were broken and smashed into chaotic ruins.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000038_000000.wav|So, as they raced across the area of devastation, the face of Sarka became calm again.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000036_000000.wav|"Father," he sent his thoughts racing on ahead of him, "are those lights which are striking the Earth causing any damage?"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000030_000000.wav|Had it been otherwise, the blue column might have struck anywhere, and wiped out millions of lives!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11533/4110_11533_000016_000002.wav|When?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000076_000001.wav|Aboard her were a Professor George Berry and the owner, Stanley Browne.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000052_000003.wav|And still there appeared to be hundreds of the Quabos left.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000021_000001.wav|"Glass.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000027_000001.wav|The length of hose-made of some linen like fabric of tough, shredded sea weed and covered with a flexible metal sheath-was cut into three pieces each about fifty yards long.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000011_000003.wav|Though there was little doubt in the minds of any of us as to what the outcome would be.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000017_000001.wav|"Please try to concentrate, and see if any effective weapon suggests itself to you-something more available at the moment than machine guns."|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000042_000002.wav|We parried and thrust with the flaming hoses in an equally desperate effort to prevent it.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000044_000000.wav|I caught the hose in my left hand and turned the fiery jet against the water filled helmet.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000025_000001.wav|Then she interrupted herself.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000007_000001.wav|"Why art thou here!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000030_000000.wav|"Unless," retorted the Professor, "their glass has some special heat and cold resisting quality."|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000068_000002.wav|The Queen can order her fish servants to guard the outer cave and see that no food gets in to the starving monsters there.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000010_000000.wav|Fighting vainly, the population of Zyobor was swept into the palace grounds, then into the building itself.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000057_000000.wav|"There's plenty of it.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000043_000003.wav|There was a sickening smell-and the tentacle was jerked spasmodically away.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000057_000004.wav|Run!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000025_000002.wav|"Ah, yes!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000054_000001.wav|And here the Professor took command again.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000042_000000.wav|It was not a battle so much as a series of fierce duels.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000012_000001.wav|The Quabos, able only to enter one at a time, halted a moment and there was a badly needed breathing spell.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000035_000000.wav|The ranks of Quabos had closed in now, till they extended down the street for several hundred yards in close formation-a forest of great pulpy heads with huge eyes that glared unblinkingly at the glittering, pink building that was their objective.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000072_000001.wav|The daily tasks and pleasures were picked up where they had been dropped.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000022_000000.wav|He turned excitedly to the Queen.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000068_000000.wav|"Now," said the Professor triumphantly, "we have only to knock out the bottom half of the tunnel wall, empty the tunnel and make sure there are no more Quabos lurking there.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000062_000002.wav|The cut ends were smashed so that they could not be crammed down over the tapering jets; but we could use our metal saws for cleaner severances at the other ends.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000057_000001.wav|The Quabos brought it with them." The Professor turned to me again.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000065_000001.wav|Stanley, the Professor and a Zyobite came up in the rear with their three hoses.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000065_000000.wav|We sprayed the monsters with fire as workmen spray fruit trees with insect poison.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000017_000000.wav|"You might as well wish for a dozen light cannon!" snapped the Professor.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000019_000000.wav|Frankly I could think of nothing.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000002_000000.wav|Somebody tugged at my sleeve.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000047_000000.wav|I went toward the next one, swinging the flaring hose in a slow arc as I advanced.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000041_000000.wav|The last stand was begun.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000073_000003.wav|The Professor is the official wise man of the city.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000047_000001.wav|The creature lunged at me and threshed at the burning jet with all four of its feelers.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000024_000000.wav|"Hast thou, in the palace, any lengths of pipe like to that which the Quabos drag behind them?"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000001_000000.wav|A block from the palace we bunched together and, by sheer mass and ferocity, actually stopped the machinelike advance for a few moments. Miscellaneous weapons had been brought from the houses-sledges, stone benches, anything that might break the Quabos' helmets-and handed to us in silence by the noncombatants.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000040_000002.wav|We fell back a step so that none should get at our backs.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000063_000000.wav|The giant with the ax stepped from hose to hose.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000032_000001.wav|How such creatures can make glass at all is beyond me!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000008_000000.wav|"I came to fight beside thee," she answered composedly, though her delicate lips quivered.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000053_000000.wav|By order of the Queen three stout Zyobites stepped up to us and relieved us of our exhausting labor.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000058_000002.wav|Four of our number were caught, but the rest got through unscathed.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000019_000003.wav|What weapon could be called forth to be effective against the thick glass helmets?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000068_000004.wav|The Quabos are as good as exterminated at this moment. And I can get back to my zoological work...."|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000023_000001.wav|At least it's worth trying.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000060_000001.wav|When we stole up the last block toward the break we found the nearest Quabo was a hundred yards down the street-and working further away with every move.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000023_000000.wav|"I think we have it!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000067_000000.wav|In half an hour they were all reduced to huddles of slimy wet flesh that dotted the pavement from the break back to the palace grounds.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000062_000001.wav|The metal was soft enough to be sheered through by the stroke.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000075_000000.wav|Now we have thought of a way in which, with luck, we may communicate with the upper world.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000028_000000.wav|Stanley, the Professor and I each took an end.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000036_000002.wav|The Professor and I touched off our torches; and we moved slowly out the door toward the ranks of Quabos.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000036_000001.wav|A spurt of fire belched from his hose, streaming out for four or five feet in a solid red cone.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000016_000000.wav|"A brace of machine guns...." I murmured hopefully.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000057_000002.wav|"Take metal saws with you.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000014_000000.wav|"If you asked me, I'd say we couldn't last another three hours anyway," replied Stanley with a shrug.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000048_000002.wav|I retreated.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000028_000001.wav|And we prepared to fight, with fire, the creatures of water.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000048_000000.wav|Nevertheless with a swift move it slapped a tentacle squarely down over the hose nozzle.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000069_000001.wav|We knew each others thoughts well enough.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000027_000002.wav|These were connected to three of the largest gas vents of the palace.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000064_000000.wav|The end was certain and not long in coming.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000013_000000.wav|"We've got to find some drastic means of defence," said the Professor, "or we won't last another three hours."|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000060_000000.wav|They had!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000036_000000.wav|"Light up!" ordered Stanley, setting an example by touching his hose nozzle to the nearest wall jet.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000004_000001.wav|It cracked.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000050_000000.wav|The Professor swung his four foot jet my way.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000061_000000.wav|At once we set to work on the scores of hoses that quivered over the floor with each move of the distant monsters.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000015_000000.wav|"Nonsense!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000031_000000.wav|Stanley shrugged.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000040_000001.wav|The Quabos in front, supplied with slack in their hoses by those behind, leaped at us with incredible agility.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000059_000000.wav|Down a side street we raced, and along a parallel avenue toward the tunnel.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000034_000000.wav|For an instant we paused just inside the doorway, looking out at the ugly, glassed in Things that were massing to attack us again.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000021_000002.wav|What destroys it?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000071_000000.wav|With the menace of the Quabos banished forever, the city of Zyobor resumed its normal way.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000029_000000.wav|"It ought to work," Stanley, repeated several times as though trying to reassure himself as well as us.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000048_000001.wav|The flame was extinguished as the flame of a candle is pinched out between thumb and forefinger.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000055_000002.wav|They move so slowly that you can easily cut off their retreat."|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000045_000000.wav|A shout of savage exultation broke from my lips.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000033_000000.wav|Dragging our hose to the big front entrance of the palace, and warning the crowded people to keep their feet clear of it, we prepared to test out the efficiency of this, our last resource against the enemy.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000068_000001.wav|After that we can fill it in with solid cement.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000046_000000.wav|The tentacle around my arm tightened, then relaxed.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000074_000001.wav|We are more than content with our lot here.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000014_000001.wav|"These fish have out thought us!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000007_000002.wav|Go back to the palace at once!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000004_000002.wav|I swung again and it fell in fragments, spilling the gallons of water it had contained.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000066_000000.wav|Caught between the two forces, the beaten fish milled in hopeless confusion and indecision.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11528/4110_11528_000004_000000.wav|Disregarding the clutching tentacles entirely, I swung the bar against the helmet.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000032_000001.wav|Cubes which are Moon cubes, brought to the Earth in the heart of that blue column, here reformed to create an army which is invincible, because it cannot be slain!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000019_000000.wav|"How long, father," queried Sarka, "should it take to empty the Gens areas?"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000005_000000.wav|On it came with unbelievable speed.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000030_000000.wav|"God!" cried Sarka, his voice so tense that both his father and Jaska heard it above the roaring which shook and rocked the world.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000022_000001.wav|It would be a race, in any case.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000014_000001.wav|"Spokesmen of the Gens, make sure that every individual member of your Gens is fully equipped with flying clothing including belts and ovoids-prepared for an indefinite stay outside on the roof of the world!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000014_000002.wav|Get your people out swiftly, keeping them in formation!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000025_000001.wav|The globes on the tops of the columns dimmed their lights, and the squares, rectangles and globes got instantly into terrible motion.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000007_000000.wav|"What are they?" whispered Jaska, standing fearlessly at Sarka's side. "Interplanetary cars?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000036_000000.wav|Again that exaltation, which convinced him he could move mountains with his two hands, coursed through the being of Sarka.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000032_000003.wav|When they have laid waste the Earth, the Martians have but to finish the fight!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000007_000003.wav|Or beings of Mars?"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000039_000000.wav|Then he sent his mental commands to the Spokesmen:|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000038_000002.wav|The Spokesmen must vanquish the Martians or perish!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000008_000000.wav|"I think," said Sarka, after studying the display for a few minutes, "that they are either rockets or fireballs, perhaps both together!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000025_000000.wav|Sarka sought swiftly among the columns for the one which might conceivably be in supreme command; but even as he sought the Moon cubes moved to the attack.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000041_000001.wav|Jaska had thought spoken them, before he could prevent.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000028_000000.wav|Within a minute, Sarka was conscious of a trembling of all the laboratory, and the eyes of Jaska were wide with fear.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000004_000001.wav|Compared to the oncoming flames from Mars, the preceding display of lights had been as nothing. The whole Heavens between the Earth and Mars seemed alight with an unearthly glare, as though the very heart of the sun had burst and hurled part of its flaming mass outward into space.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000023_000000.wav|Even as the last flights of the Gens of Earth were slipping into the icy air from the roof of the world, the Moon cubes began their terrifying, appalling attack, every detail of which could be seen by Sarka from the Master Beryl.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000031_000002.wav|Your will still rules the cubes which piloted you from the Moon?"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000007_000001.wav|Rockets?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000038_000000.wav|"I believe you are right," he said softly.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000006_000000.wav|But there was no telling, yet, the form of the things which were coming.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000040_000001.wav|You live only if you win!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000040_000002.wav|We speak no more until victory is ours!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000024_000001.wav|The top of each of them was a gleaming globe whose eery light played over the country immediately surrounding each column, their weird light reflected in the squares, rectangles and globes that other cubes had formed.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000030_000002.wav|The Moon cubes are destroying the dwelling of our people, and the Martians are to destroy the people who have fled!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000011_000000.wav|"The ferment in the devasted area," was the gist of their report, "is assuming myriads of shapes!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000017_000002.wav|A brave show.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000012_000001.wav|"Quickly!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000032_000000.wav|"Yes," replied Sarka tersely, "but there are only a dozen of the cubes. What can they do against countless millions of them?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000013_000003.wav|The columnar formations are topped by globes which emit an ethereal radiance!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000038_000001.wav|"Those of us who have passed through the flames which bore these Moon cubes will control the cubes, even bend them to our will.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000030_000001.wav|"Do you see?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000042_000000.wav|"I, too, have been through the white flames!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000029_000000.wav|The cube army struck the dwellings, disappeared into them as though they had been composed of tissue paper, and continued on!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000016_000001.wav|The advance fires from Mars seemed to have no effect on them, which Sarka had expected, since the fires seemed to consume nothing they had touched previously.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000017_000001.wav|People dressed in the clothing of this Gens or that, wearing each the insignia of the house of his Spokesman.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000031_000001.wav|But what?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000015_000000.wav|The contacts were broken.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000018_000001.wav|Noiseless flame which rebounded from the surface of the Earth broke in silence, deluging the heavens with shooting stars of great brilliance.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty one|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000018_000002.wav|Through its display flew the people of the Gens, mustering in flight above flight, each to his own level, under command of the Spokesmen of the Gens.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000034_000000.wav|"Then what of the Spokesmen of the Gens, who will be out of contact with me?"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000035_000000.wav|"They must stand on their own feet, must fight their own battle!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000007_000002.wav|Balls of fire?|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000021_000000.wav|"I wonder," mused Sarka, "if that is soon enough!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000040_000000.wav|"Meet the Martians when they arrive and destroy or drive them back!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000008_000002.wav|Since they must know this, we can expect to see the people of Mars themselves when, or soon after, those balls of fire strike the Earth!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000012_000000.wav|"What forms?" snapped Sarka.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000010_000000.wav|The Spokesmen of the Gens whose borders touched those of the devasted Dalis area, were reporting again, and their voices were high pitched with fear that threatened to break the bounds of sanity.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000018_000000.wav|Strange, too, that the fireballs made no noise.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000031_000000.wav|"There must be a way," said Sarka the Second quietly, "to circumvent the cubes!|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000015_000001.wav|Sarka stared into the Beryl, glancing swiftly in all directions, to see whether his orders were obeyed.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000009_000000.wav|Sarka raced back to the room of the Master Beryl as a strident humming came through to him.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000037_000000.wav|Quietly be answered Jaska.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000035_000001.wav|Call to you the people who have passed through the white flames, and fight with the distant will of Luar and of Dalis for control of the cube army!"|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4110/11535/4110_11535_000041_000002.wav|He turned upon her, lips shaping a command that she remain behind.|4110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2696/157636/2696_157636_000029_000003.wav|They sold many things besides coffee, and served a variety of purposes, but primarily they were temples of talk and good fellowship.|2696
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000054_000003.wav|This was done, and he came to himself by the time that one of the carts with the creaking wheels reached the spot.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000044_000004.wav|In their fear, silence fell upon them, and a postillion, in the guise of a demon, passed in front of them, blowing, in lieu of a bugle, a huge hollow horn that gave out a horrible hoarse note.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000021_000000.wav|"What is Dapple?" said the duchess.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000016_000001.wav|The truth is that the one I saw was a country wench, and I set her down to be a country wench; and if that was Dulcinea it must not be laid at my door, nor should I be called to answer for it or take the consequences.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000054_000007.wav|Then another cart came by at the same pace, but the occupant of the throne was not old like the others, but a man stalwart and robust, and of a forbidding countenance, who as he came up said in a voice far hoarser and more devilish, "I am the enchanter Archelaus, the mortal enemy of Amadis of Gaul and all his kindred," and then passed on.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000033_000006.wav|As soon as he saw him Don Quixote, bracing his shield on his arm, and drawing his sword, advanced to meet him; the duke with boar spear did the same; but the duchess would have gone in front of them all had not the duke prevented her.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000018_000001.wav|But if I put on my shoes I don't dirty them; besides, squires to knights errant mostly drink water, for they are always wandering among woods, forests and meadows, mountains and crags, without a drop of wine to be had if they gave their eyes for it."|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000015_000000.wav|Sancho upon this related to her, word for word, what has been said already touching that adventure, and having heard it the duchess said, "From this occurrence it may be inferred that, as the great Don Quixote says he saw there the same country wench Sancho saw on the way from El Toboso, it is, no doubt, Dulcinea, and that there are some very active and exceedingly busy enchanters about."|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000009_000000.wav|And according to that the gentleman has good reason to say he would rather be a labouring man than a king, if vermin are to eat him."|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000018_000000.wav|"Indeed, senora," said Sancho, "I never yet drank out of wickedness; from thirst I have very likely, for I have nothing of the hypocrite in me; I drink when I'm inclined, or, if I'm not inclined, when they offer it to me, so as not to look either strait laced or ill bred; for when a friend drinks one's health what heart can be so hard as not to return it?|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000002_000002.wav|It was the duchess, however, who spoke first, saying:|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000014_000000.wav|"That is true," said the duchess; "but tell me, Sancho, what is this you say about the cave of Montesinos, for I should like to know."|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000024_000000.wav|"That will do," said the duchess; "no more of this; hush, Dona Rodriguez, and let Senor Panza rest easy and leave the treatment of Dapple in my charge, for as he is a treasure of Sancho's, I'll put him on the apple of my eye."|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000013_000002.wav|But, senora, your excellence must not therefore think me ill disposed, for a dolt like me is not bound to see into the thoughts and plots of those vile enchanters.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000010_000001.wav|My lord and husband the duke, though not one of the errant sort, is none the less a knight for that reason, and will keep his word about the promised island, in spite of the envy and malice of the world.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000045_000000.wav|"Ho there! brother courier," cried the duke, "who are you?|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000010_000000.wav|The duchess could not help laughing at the simplicity of her duenna, or wondering at the language and proverbs of Sancho, to whom she said, "Worthy Sancho knows very well that when once a knight has made a promise he strives to keep it, though it should cost him his life.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000029_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty four.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000031_000002.wav|Having, therefore, instructed their servants in everything they were to do, six days afterwards they took him out to hunt, with as great a retinue of huntsmen and beaters as a crowned king.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000036_000000.wav|"That," said Don Quixote, "was a Gothic king, who, going a hunting, was devoured by a bear."|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000001_000000.wav|OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND HER DAMSELS HELD WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL WORTH READING AND NOTING|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000032_000001.wav|Sancho, however, took what they gave him, meaning to sell it the first opportunity.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000008_000000.wav|They gnaw me now, they gnaw me now, There where I most did sin.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000033_000003.wav|The duke and Don Quixote likewise dismounted and placed themselves one at each side of her.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000049_000000.wav|"This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian," said Sancho; "for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself."|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000033_000007.wav|Sancho alone, deserting Dapple at the sight of the mighty beast, took to his heels as hard as he could and strove in vain to mount a tall oak.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000012_000002.wav|For in truth and earnest, I know from good authority that the coarse country wench who jumped up on the ass was and is Dulcinea del Toboso, and that worthy Sancho, though he fancies himself the deceiver, is the one that is deceived; and that there is no more reason to doubt the truth of this, than of anything else we never saw.|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3180/138043/3180_138043_000048_000000.wav|"By God and upon my conscience," said the devil, "I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about."|3180
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000063_000000.wav|'I think I hear someone pursuing us,' said the princess|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000027_000001.wav|He got up and dressed, and hastened to the presence chamber, where the little king was seated on his throne.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000032_000001.wav|You may sleep in peace, and to morrow morning when you awake you will find the palace all ready.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000015_000001.wav|When you go home give my compliments to your father and tell him that I wish he would square accounts with me.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000049_000000.wav|When the hour arrived which Kostiei had fixed for the prince's last trial, and there were no signs of him, the king sent to his room to ask why he delayed so long.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000020_000000.wav|He rode steadily on for three days, and at sunset on the fourth day he found himself on the seashore.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000032_000000.wav|'Fear nothing.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000053_000000.wav|By this time the prince and princess had got a good start, and were feeling quite happy, when suddenly they heard the sound of a gallop far behind them.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000014_000000.wav|'And who are you?' asked the prince.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000056_000002.wav|Do you mean to say you never thought of that?|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000007_000003.wav|On the surface floated a silver cup with a golden handle, but as it bobbed about whenever the king tried to seize it, he was too thirsty to wait any longer and knelt down and drank his fill.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000026_000000.wav|'It has been very lucky for you that you have been able to make me laugh.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000023_000002.wav|Long time my father has waited for you, and great is his anger.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000056_000000.wav|'Idiots!' he exclaimed, in a passion.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000026_000003.wav|Go to sleep; to morrow I will tell you.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000025_000002.wav|When he caught sight of the prince he uttered piercing yells, which shook the walls of the palace.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000020_000003.wav|In a few minutes a flock of geese which had been paddling about in the sea approached the shore, and put on the dresses, struck the sand with their feet and were transformed in the twinkling of an eye into eleven beautiful young girls, who flew away as fast as they could.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000061_000000.wav|In an instant prince, princess, and horse had all disappeared, and instead was a dense forest, crossed and recrossed by countless paths. Kostiei's soldiers dashed hastily into the forest, believing they saw before them the flying horse with its double burden.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000047_000001.wav|I will try to save you.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000051_000001.wav|'Break in the door, and bring him to me!'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000013_000002.wav|'You kept them waiting a good long time!'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000038_000002.wav|Be very careful.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000046_000000.wav|'Not of making boots, at any rate!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000052_000000.wav|The servants hurried to do his bidding.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000040_000000.wav|'This one is the youngest,' he said.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000062_000001.wav|'I will go after them myself.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000067_000000.wav|'Greeting, monk.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000042_000000.wav|So the prince returned sadly into his room, but the bee was there before him.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000008_000001.wav|After two or three jerks to his head, which only hurt him without doing any good, he called out angrily, 'Let go at once!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000006_000000.wav|By that time he hoped he would have so many things to think about that he would have forgotten to trouble about the little son who never came.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000011_000004.wav|But try as he would and work as hard as he might he could never forget his promise, and every time he let the baby out of his sight he thought that he had seen it for the last time.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000049_000001.wav|The servants, finding the door locked, knocked loudly and received for answer, 'In one moment.' It was the spittle, which was imitating the voice of the prince.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000059_000000.wav|The prince jumped down and laid his ear to the ground.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000035_000001.wav|Not recognise the youngest princess!' said the Prince to himself, as he entered his room, 'a likely story!'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000011_000000.wav|In a few weeks they began to set out on their return home, which they reached one hot day, eight months after they had all left.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000053_000001.wav|The prince sprang from the saddle, and laid his ear to the ground.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000019_000002.wav|So, kissing him tenderly, with many tears they let him go.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000047_000002.wav|And we will fly together or die together.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000011_000002.wav|On the steps of the palace stood the queen, with a splendid golden cushion in her arms, and on the cushion the most beautiful boy that ever was seen, wrapped about in a cloud of lace.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000039_000003.wav|Twice he walked along the line, without being able to detect the sign agreed upon.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000010_000002.wav|But as he felt much stronger and better he made up his mind that this strange adventure must really have happened, and he sprang on his horse and rode off with a light heart to look for his companions.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000007_000000.wav|The country the king reigned over was very large, and full of high, stony mountains and sandy deserts, so that it was not at all easy to go from one place to another.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000034_000001.wav|To morrow all my twelve daughters shall stand in a row before you, and if you cannot tell me which of them is the youngest, off goes your head.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000031_000000.wav|'I was dreaming of your father, who has planned my death.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000028_000000.wav|'Now, Prince, this is what you have to do.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000023_000001.wav|I am the youngest daughter of Kostiei the immortal, who has twelve daughters and rules over the kingdoms under the earth.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000024_000000.wav|At these words she struck the ground with her foot and a gulf opened, down which they went right into the heart of the earth.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000041_000000.wav|'How in the world did you guess?' cried Kostiei in a fury.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000052_000002.wav|Nobody inside; but just the spittle in fits of laughter!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000008_000000.wav|When he had finished he began to rise from his knees, but somehow his beard seemed to have stuck fast in the water, and with all his efforts he could not pull it out.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000029_000001.wav|He was quite absorbed in these thoughts, when suddenly a bee flew against the window and tapped, saying, 'Let me come in.' He rose and opened the window, and there stood before him the youngest princess.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000065_000000.wav|'And this time it is Kostiei himself.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000028_000002.wav|It is to stand in the middle of a great park, full of streams and lakes.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000035_000000.wav|'What!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000068_000001.wav|They have entered the church, and told me to give you their greetings if I met you.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000039_000004.wav|The third time his heart beat fast at the sight of a tiny speck upon the eyelid of one of the girls.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000046_000001.wav|I am not afraid of death.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000064_000000.wav|'Yes, so do i'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000043_000000.wav|'Why do you look so melancholy, my handsome Prince?'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000062_000002.wav|This time they shall not escape.' And he galloped off, foaming with anger.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000039_000000.wav|Next morning King Kostiei again sent for the prince.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000024_000002.wav|And the prince, as he had been bidden, entered boldly into the hall.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000028_000001.wav|By to night you must build me a marble palace, with windows of crystal and a roof of gold.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000028_000003.wav|If you are able to build it you shall be my friend.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000055_000001.wav|When the soldiers came up to the bridge, they paused uncertainly.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000044_000001.wav|Does he take me for a shoemaker?'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000065_000001.wav|But his power only reaches as far as the first church, and he can go no farther.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000019_000000.wav|Then the prince began to prepare for his journey.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000038_000003.wav|Now good bye.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000037_000000.wav|'Then what must I do?'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000028_000004.wav|If not, off with your head.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000023_000003.wav|But trouble not yourself and fear nothing, only do as I bid you.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000055_000002.wav|How were they to know which of the three roads the fugitives had taken?|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000007_000001.wav|One day the king had wandered out alone, meaning to go only a little distance, but everything looked so alike he could not make out the path by which he had come.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000029_000000.wav|The prince listened in silence to this startling speech, and then returning to his room set himself to think about the certain death that awaited him.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000030_000000.wav|'What are you dreaming about, Prince?'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000008_000002.wav|Who is holding me?'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000016_000000.wav|So saying the old man disappeared, and the prince returned to the palace and told his father what had happened.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000020_000001.wav|On the sand before him lay twelve white dresses, dazzling as the snow, yet as far as his eyes could reach there was no one in sight to whom they could belong.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000018_000001.wav|'It is nothing so dreadful after all!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000023_000000.wav|'I thank you, noble Prince, for having granted my request.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000018_000000.wav|'Do not grieve over it, father,' answered the prince.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000062_000000.wav|'A horse! a horse!' cried the king.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000023_000006.wav|Now let us go.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000005_000001.wav|They tried not to let each other see how unhappy they were, and pretended to take pleasure in hunting and hawking and all sorts of other sports; but at length the king could bear it no longer, and declared that he must go and visit the furthest corners of his kingdom, and that it would be many months before he should return to his capital.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000021_000000.wav|'Oh Prince, give me back my dress, and I shall be for ever grateful to you.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000061_000001.wav|They seemed close upon them, when suddenly horse, wood, everything disappeared, and they found themselves at the place where they started.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000026_000001.wav|Stay with us in our underground empire, only first you will have to do three things.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000045_000000.wav|'What do you think of doing?'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000023_000005.wav|That which will happen after, you will know in time.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000046_000002.wav|One can only die once after all.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000039_000002.wav|As the prince looked at them, he was amazed at their likeness.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000005_000000.wav|A long time ago there lived a king and queen who had no children, although they both wished very much for a little son.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000013_000001.wav|'How are you my unlooked for Prince?' he said.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000039_000001.wav|The young princesses were all drawn up in a row, dressed precisely in the same manner, and with their eyes all cast down.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000041_000004.wav|If not, off goes your head.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000015_000002.wav|If he neglects to pay his debts he will bitterly repent it.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000065_000002.wav|Give me your golden cross.' So the prince unfastened the cross which was his mother's gift, and the princess hastily changed herself into a church, the prince into a priest, and the horse into a belfry.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000017_000000.wav|The king turned pale and explained to his son the terrible story.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000048_000002.wav|Without losing an instant the prince sprang into the saddle, swung the princess behind him, and away they went like an arrow from a bow.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000060_000000.wav|'Yes,' he said, 'they are not far off now.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000038_000000.wav|'This.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000058_000000.wav|'I hear a horse,' cried the princess.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000041_000002.wav|But you are not going to escape me so easily. In three hours you shall come here and give me another proof of your cleverness.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000052_000001.wav|The door was broken open.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000009_000001.wav|'You have drunk from my spring, and I shall not let you go until you promise to give me the most precious thing your palace contains, which was not there when you left it.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000050_000002.wav|He sent the servants back again, and the same voice replied, 'Immediately.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000019_000001.wav|His father gave him a complete suit of steel armour, a sword, and a horse, while his mother hung round his neck a cross of gold.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000048_000001.wav|Holding each other tight by the hand, they made their way up into the sunlight, and found themselves by the side of the same sea, while the prince's horse was still quietly feeding in the neighbouring meadow. The moment he saw his master, the horse whinnied and galloped towards him.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000047_000000.wav|'No, Prince, you shall not die.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000033_000000.wav|What she said, she did.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000018_000003.wav|But if I do not come back in a year's time, you must give up all hopes of ever seeing me.'|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000068_000000.wav|'Yes, the prince and Kostiei's daughter have just gone by.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000048_000000.wav|As she spoke she spat upon the ground, and then drawing the prince after her out of the room, she locked the door behind her and threw away the key.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/41933/4427_41933_000056_000003.wav|Go back at once!' and off they galloped like lightning.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000008_000002.wav|Numerous are the traditionary accounts of his peculiarities,--of his odd manners and customs,--which I have heard; but it is only of one little incident that I am now going to speak.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000003_000000.wav|See that little boy, who, having put on his father's spectacles, is enjoying for the first time a clear and distinct view of the evening sky.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000004_000007.wav|Ah!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000006.wav|She can see as well as any body, if she chooses.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000003_000002.wav|Poor innocent! a star had always been to him a dim, cloudy spot, a little nebula, which the magic glass has now resolved; and he can hardly believe that this brilliant point is not an optical illusion.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000004_000011.wav|My only feeling was mortification at my most awkward mistake.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000005.wav|It's all affectation.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000013.wav|Alas! we see just enough to seal our own condemnation.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000003_000001.wav|"Oh! is that pretty little yellow dot a star?" exclaims the delighted child.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000004_000009.wav|I was petrified.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000003_000003.wav|But when his mother assures him that the stars always appear so to her, and he turns to look in her face, he says, "Why, mother! how beautiful you look!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000002_000001.wav|As I look around in society, I see staring glassy ellipses on every side "in the place where eyes ought to grow,"--and perhaps most of the unfortunate owls get along very comfortably with their artificial eyes.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000004.wav|Yes, it is very fashionable now a days for young ladies to carry eye glasses, and call themselves near sighted!" Or, "Pooh!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000002.wav|If we were blind, we should be abundantly pitied, but as we are only half blind, such comments as these are all the consolation we get.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000008_000004.wav|One day as he was thus occupied, his wife emerged from the house, dressed in a dark brown gingham, and bearing in her hand some "muslins," which she began to spread upon the gooseberry bushes to whiten.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000008_000005.wav|She was very busily engaged, so that she was not aware that her husband was approaching her with a large stick, until she felt a smart blow across her shoulders, and heard his peculiar, sharp voice shouting in her ears, "Go 'long! old cow!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000004_000001.wav|They were accompanied, I was told, by a Boston lady, a stranger to us.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000005_000000.wav|"Why, Julia! what is the matter?|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000002_000000.wav|Who is free from this malady?|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000008_000003.wav|A favorite employment of this good man was the care of his garden, and he might be seen any pleasant afternoon in summer, rigged out in a hideous yellow calico robe, or blouse, with a dusty old black straw hat stuck on the back of his head, hoeing and digging in that beloved patch of ground.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000010.wav|In vain I protest that I could not see her,--that three yards is a great distance to my eyes.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000011.wav|She leaves me with an incredulous smile, and that most provoking phrase, "O yes!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000004_000006.wav|Have you quite forgotten me?|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000008_000006.wav|Go 'long! old cow!"|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000006_000002.wav|As he was passing her, he thought he perceived that her fur boa or tippet had escaped from her neck, and, carefully lifting the end of it with one hand, he made a low bow, raising his hat with the other, and said in his blandest tone, "Madam, you are losing your tippet!" And what thanks did the worthy Doctor receive, do you think, for this truly kind and polite deed?|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000004_000010.wav|I could not smile, I could not speak.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000008_000000.wav|The Rev.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000008.wav|I did not see you." "O no!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20023/4427_20023_000001_000000.wav|Purblind and short sighted friends!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000002_000011.wav|I often wished myself on a spit, to revolve slowly before the fire until thoroughly roasted.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000013.wav|The old-fashioned blanket, in which the baby was done up head and all, like a bundle, is thrown aside.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000014.wav|The child is not quite so often carried upside down.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000005_000003.wav|She never forgot it, and always packed it very carefully, too.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000011.wav|Even the poor babies are not safe from this popular insanity.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000002_000003.wav|There was no such fuss when I was young; in those good old times these airy notions had not come into fashion.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000002.wav|Fresh air is my bane.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000006.wav|I call in a physician; lo!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000015.wav|I suppose, under the new system, but what difference does it make whether the poor thing is smothered or frozen to death?|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000004_000006.wav|She always walked fast, and the more the wind blew, the warmer she felt, I might be assured.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000003_000003.wav|I banish all books on the subject from my table.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000002_000006.wav|No, indeed!|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000005_000002.wav|I devoutly hoped she would leave it behind in some of our numerous stopping places, and with an eye to that possibility, I must confess, I hung it in the most out of the way corners I could find; but it seemed to be on her mind continually.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000004_000003.wav|I always took to flight.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/20028/4427_20028_000002_000010.wav|When we crowded joyfully round a crackling, sparkling wood fire, even while our faces glowed with the intense heat, cold shivers were creeping down our backs, and sudden draughts from an opening door set our teeth chattering.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000012_000009.wav|So they drank this pleasant, this sweet water; and such it seemed to be, as might well be expected where God was the donor.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000005_000001.wav|How Moses When He Had Brought The People Out Of Egypt Led Them To Mount Sinai; But Not Till They Had Suffered Much In Their Journey.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000005_000000.wav|CHAPTER one.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000011_000011.wav|So the hebrews were very joyful at what was sent them from heaven.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000011_000008.wav|It also supplied the want of other sorts of food to those that fed on it.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000012_000005.wav|When Moses had received this command from God, he came to the people, who waited for him, and looked upon him, for they saw already that he was coming apace from his eminence.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000004_000000.wav|From The exodus Out Of Egypt, To The Rejection Of That Generation.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000010_000002.wav|Accordingly God promised he would take care of them, and afford them the succor they were desirous of.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000003_000001.wav|Containing The Interval Of Two Years.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000007_000003.wav|And when God had granted him that favor, he took the top of a stick that lay down at his feet, and divided it in the middle, and made the section lengthways.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000007_000002.wav|He therefore betook himself to prayer to God, that he would change the water from its present badness, and make it fit for drinking.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000009_000006.wav|That as for himself, he shall not be so much concerned for his own preservation; for if he die unjustly, he shall not reckon it any affliction, but that he is concerned for them, lest, by casting stones at him, they should be thought to condemn God himself.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000009_000003.wav|Seeing it is probable that God tries their virtue, and exercises their patience by these adversities, that it may appear what fortitude they have, and what memory they retain of his former wonderful works in their favor, and whether they will not think of them upon occasion of the miseries they now feel.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000010_000005.wav|So he placed himself in the midst of them, and told them he came to bring them from God a deliverance from their present distresses.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000009_000001.wav|But as for Moses himself, while the multitude were irritated and bitterly set against him, he cheerfully relied upon God, and upon his consciousness of the care he had taken of these his own people; and he came into the midst of them, even while they clamored against him, and had stones in their hands in order to despatch him.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000011_000010.wav|Now the hebrews call this food manna: for the particle man, in our language, is the asking of a question. What is this?|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000003_000000.wav|BOOK three.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000010_000007.wav|Upon which Moses returned thanks to God for affording them his assistance so suddenly, and sooner than he had promised them.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000007_000006.wav|So they labored at it till the water was so agitated and purged as to be fit to drink.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000012_000006.wav|As soon as he was come, he told them that God would deliver them from their present distress, and had granted them an unexpected favor; and informed them, that a river should run for their sakes out of the rock.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000012_000008.wav|But they were astonished at this wonderful effect; and, as it were, quenched their thirst by the very sight of it.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000011_000004.wav|They also imitated their conductor, and were pleased with the food, for it was like honey in sweetness and pleasant taste, but like in its body to bdellium, one of the sweet spices, and in bigness equal to coriander seed.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000008_000002.wav|And when they dug into the sand, they met with no water; and if they took a few drops of it into their hands, they found it to be useless, on account of its mud.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000007_000004.wav|He then let it down into the well, and persuaded the hebrews that God had hearkened to his prayers, and had promised to render the water such as they desired it to be, in case they would be subservient to him in what he should enjoin them to do, and this not after a remiss or negligent manner.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4427/12471/4427_12471_000011_000003.wav|So he tasted it, and gave them some of it, that they might be satisfied about what he told them.|4427
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000011_000001.wav|These were the reserved seats, the boxes of the elect.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000017_000003.wav|I leaned forward in my seat to scrutinize the female-hoping against hope that she might prove to be another than Dian the Beautiful.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000032_000002.wav|Before him slaves and gorilla men fought in mad stampede to escape the menace of the creature's death agonies, for such only could that frightful charge have been.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000016_000002.wav|They beat their great wings up and down, and smote their rocky perches with their mighty tails until the ground shook. Then the band started another piece, and all was again as silent as the grave.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000028_000001.wav|The tiger was now upon the bull's broad back, clinging to the huge neck with powerful fangs while its long, strong talons ripped the heavy hide into shreds and ribbons.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000008_000000.wav|Along the crowded avenue we marched, the guards showing unusual cruelty toward us, as though we, too, had been implicated in the murder of their fellow.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000009_000002.wav|Benches surrounded this open space upon three sides, and along the fourth were heaped huge bowlders which rose in receding tiers toward the roof.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000023_000003.wav|Its vivid yellows fairly screamed aloud; its whites were as eider down; its blacks glossy as the finest anthracite coal, and its coat long and shaggy as a mountain goat.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000029_000001.wav|It was with difficulty that the girl avoided the first mad rush of the wounded animal.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000023_000002.wav|In contour and markings it was not unlike the noblest of the Bengals of our own world, but as its dimensions were exaggerated to colossal proportions so too were its colorings exaggerated.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000015_000000.wav|And then the music started-music without sound!|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000018_000000.wav|Presently a door in one side of the arena wall was opened to admit a huge, shaggy, bull like creature.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000007_000000.wav|"Naught," he replied.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000019_000001.wav|"His kind roamed the outer crust with the cave bear and the mammoth ages and ages ago.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000023_000004.wav|That it is a beautiful animal there is no gainsaying, but if its size and colors are magnified here within Pellucidar, so is the ferocity of its disposition.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000013_000000.wav|For the first time I beheld their queen.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000004_000000.wav|What the purpose or nature of the general exodus we did not know, but presently through the line of captives ran the rumor that two escaped slaves had been recaptured-a man and a woman-and that we were marching to witness their punishment, for the man had killed a Sagoth of the detachment that had pursued and overtaken them.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000002_000002.wav|All must be done in broad daylight-all but the work I had to do in the apartment beneath the building.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000002_000001.wav|There were no nights to mask our attempted escape.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000027_000000.wav|There ensued a battle royal which for sustained and frightful ferocity transcends the power of imagination or description.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000010_000000.wav|At first I couldn't make out the purpose of this mighty pile of rock, unless it were intended as a rough and picturesque background for the scenes which were enacted in the arena before it, but presently, after the wooden benches had been pretty well filled by slaves and Sagoths, I discovered the purpose of the bowlders, for then the Mahars began to file into the enclosure.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000025_000002.wav|Never in my life had I heard such an infernal din as the two brutes made, and to think it was all lost upon the hideous reptiles for whom the show was staged!|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000019_000002.wav|We have been carried back a million years, David, to the childhood of a planet-is it not wondrous?"|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000034_000000.wav|I ran to the right, passing several exits choked with the fear mad mob that were battling to escape.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000009_000000.wav|They jabbed us with their spears and struck at us with the hatchets at the least provocation, and at no provocation at all.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000011_000000.wav|They marched directly across the arena toward the rocks upon the opposite side, where, spreading their bat like wings, they rose above the high wall of the pit, settling down upon the bowlders above.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000008_000001.wav|The occasion was to serve as an object lesson to all other slaves of the danger and futility of attempted escape, and the fatal consequences of taking the life of a superior being, and so I imagine that Sagoths felt amply justified in making the entire proceeding as uncomfortable and painful to us as possible.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000012_000001.wav|Here they lolled, blinking their hideous eyes, and doubtless conversing with one another in their sixth sense fourth dimension language.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000028_000000.wav|For a while the man and woman busied themselves only with keeping out of the way of the two creatures, but finally I saw them separate and each creep stealthily toward one of the combatants.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164101/2992_164101_000022_000001.wav|I could not at first see the beast from which emanated this fearsome challenge, but the sound had the effect of bringing the two victims around with a sudden start, and then I saw the girl's face-she was not Dian!|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000010_000000.wav|"What they do," said Perry, "is to project their thoughts into the fourth dimension, when they become appreciable to the sixth sense of their listener.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000012_000000.wav|During this period my thoughts were continually upon Dian the Beautiful.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000011_000002.wav|They had set us to carrying a great accumulation of Maharan literature from one apartment to another, and there arranging it upon shelves.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000051_000000.wav|"David," said the old man, "I believe that God sent us here for just that purpose-it shall be my life work to teach them His word-to lead them into the light of His mercy while we are training their hearts and hands in the ways of culture and civilization."|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000037_000000.wav|"Murder to kill a reptilian monster?" I asked in astonishment.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000004.wav|The dominant race of Pellucidar, David, have not yet learned that men converse among themselves, or reason.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000003_000000.wav|SLAVES|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000008_000002.wav|They employed a species of sign language.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000047_000002.wav|More ages elapsed until at the present time we find a race consisting exclusively of females.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000034_000001.wav|At first I thought they were dead, but later their regular breathing convinced me of my error.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000007_000005.wav|In like manner air is introduced.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000020_000002.wav|Think of it!|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000007_000003.wav|The streets are broad and of a uniform height of twenty feet.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000050_000002.wav|It's marvelous-absolutely marvelous just to think about it."|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000006.wav|It is thus that we reason in relation to the brutes of our own world.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000019_000000.wav|"Look," he cried, pointing to it, "this is evidently water, and all this land.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000048_000000.wav|"For two reasons they hide it away and guard it jealously.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000039_000003.wav|They look upon us as we look upon the beasts of our fields, and I learn from their written records that other races of Mahars feed upon men-they keep them in great droves, as we keep cattle.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000010_000001.wav|Do I make myself quite clear?"|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000024_000000.wav|Perry and I sought him out and put the question straight to him.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000008.wav|They believe that the motions of the lips alone convey the meaning.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000008_000001.wav|The method of communication between these two was remarkable in that no spoken words were exchanged.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000047_000003.wav|But here is the point.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000014_000000.wav|We hid our new weapons beneath the skins which formed our beds, and then Perry conceived the idea of making bows and arrows-weapons apparently unknown within Pellucidar.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000028_000000.wav|"Yes."|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000036_000000.wav|"It would be murder, David," he cried.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000008_000003.wav|As I was to learn later, the Mahars have no ears, not any spoken language.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000052_000000.wav|"You are right, Perry," I said, "and while you are teaching them to pray I'll be teaching them to fight, and between us we'll make a race of men that will be an honor to us both."|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000030_000002.wav|Perry said it must be some sort of homing instinct such as is possessed by certain breeds of earthly pigeons.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000007_000004.wav|At intervals tubes pierce the roof of this underground city, and by means of lenses and reflectors transmit the sunlight, softened and diffused, to dispel what would otherwise be Cimmerian darkness.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000019_000001.wav|Do you notice the general configuration of the two areas? Where the oceans are upon the outer crust, is land here.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000030_000003.wav|I didn't know, of course, but it gave me an idea.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000029_000000.wav|"But how," persisted Perry, "could you travel to strange country without heavenly bodies or a compass to guide you?"|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000007.wav|They know that the Sagoths have a spoken language, but they cannot comprehend it, or how it manifests itself, since they have no auditory apparatus.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000015_000004.wav|What had become of them he had not the faintest conception-they might be wandering yet, lost within the labyrinthine tunnel, if not dead from starvation.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000035_000000.wav|Hastening back to Perry where he pored over a musty pile of, to me, meaningless hieroglyphics, I explained my plan to him.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000018_000000.wav|"Diminutive world!" he scoffed.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000047_000000.wav|"What happened?|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000013_000001.wav|So great were the number of slaves who waited upon the inhabitants of Phutra that none of us was apt to be overburdened with work, nor were our masters unkind to us.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000049_000002.wav|Why, we two would be the means of placing the men of the inner world in their rightful place among created things.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000007_000000.wav|As we continued on through the main avenue of Phutra we saw many thousand of the creatures coming and going upon their daily duties. They paid but little attention to us.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000046_000005.wav|Finally a certain female scientist announced the fact that she had discovered a method whereby eggs might be fertilized by chemical means after they were laid-all true reptiles, you know, are hatched from eggs.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000053_000001.wav|When I had outlined it to him, he seemed about as horror struck as Perry had been; but for a different reason.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000015_000001.wav|Dian and two others had eluded them.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000000.wav|"What is there horrible about it, David?" the old man asked.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000038_000004.wav|We see here what might well have occurred in our own history had conditions been what they have been here.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000027_000000.wav|"Could you find your way back to your own land?" asked Perry.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000050_000001.wav|At one step we may carry them from the Age of Stone to the twentieth century.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000030_000001.wav|He seemed surprised to think that we found anything wonderful in it.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000050_000000.wav|"Why, Perry," I exclaimed, "you and I may reclaim a whole world! Together we can lead the races of men out of the darkness of ignorance into the light of advancement and civilization.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000002.wav|Why, I have come across here very learned discussions of the question as to whether gilaks, that is men, have any means of communication.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000020_000004.wav|Our own world contains but fifty three million square miles of land, the balance of its surface being covered by water.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000005_000000.wav|I glanced at Perry as the thing passed me to inspect him.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000011_000001.wav|He shook his head in despair, and returned to his work.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000016_000000.wav|I was now still further apprehensive as to the fate of Dian, and at this time, I imagine, came the first realization that my affection for the girl might be prompted by more than friendship.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000019_000002.wav|These relatively small areas of ocean follow the general lines of the continents of the outer world.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000049_000001.wav|The very thought of it fairly overpowered me.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000015_000000.wav|We had completed these arrangements for our protection after leaving Phutra when the Sagoths who had been sent to recapture the escaped prisoners returned with four of them, of whom Hooja was one.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000045_000000.wav|"I wonder, David," he said at length, "as you are determined to carry out your wild scheme, if we could not accomplish something of very real and lasting benefit for the human race of Pellucidar at the same time. Listen, I have learned much of a most surprising nature from these archives of the Mahars.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000003.wav|One writer claims that we do not even reason-that our every act is mechanical, or instinctive.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000038_000003.wav|These terrible convulsions of nature time and time again wiped out the existing species-but for this fact some monster of the Saurozoic epoch might rule today upon our own world.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000009_000000.wav|I never did quite grasp him, though he endeavored to explain it to me upon numerous occasions.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000006_000000.wav|"A rhamphorhynchus of the Middle Olitic, David," he said, "but, gad, how enormous!|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000031_000000.wav|"Then Dian could have found her way directly to her own people?" I asked.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000043_000000.wav|"Very well then, Perry." I replied.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000005_000002.wav|When it passed on, he turned to me.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000046_000000.wav|"Once the males were all powerful, but ages ago the females, little by little, assumed the mastery.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000026_000000.wav|"They will set the thipdars upon us," he said, "and then we shall be killed; but-" he hesitated-"I would take the chance if I thought that I might possibly escape and return to my own people."|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000039_000000.wav|"Life within Pellucidar is far younger than upon the outer crust.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000022_000000.wav|The proposition was a corker.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000049_000003.wav|Only the Sagoths would then stand between them and absolute supremacy, and I was not quite sure but that the Sagoths owed all their power to the greater intelligence of the Mahars-I could not believe that these gorilla like beasts were the mental superiors of the human race of Pellucidar.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000046_000003.wav|Science took vast strides.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000041_000009.wav|That the Sagoths can communicate with us is incomprehensible to them.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000035_000001.wav|To my surprise he was horrified.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000043_000001.wav|"I shall become a murderer."|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000020_000005.wav|Just as we often compare nations by their relative land areas, so if we compare these two worlds in the same way we have the strange anomaly of a larger world within a smaller one!|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000039_000004.wav|They breed them most carefully, and when they are quite fat, they kill and eat them."|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000047_000001.wav|Immediately the necessity for males ceased to exist-the race was no longer dependent upon them.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000011_000000.wav|"You do not, Perry," I replied.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000042_000000.wav|"Yes, David," he concluded, "it would entail murder to carry out your plan."|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000020_000000.wav|"We know that the crust of the globe is five hundred miles in thickness; then the inside diameter of Pellucidar must be seven thousand miles, and the superficial area one hundred sixty five million four hundred eighty thousand square miles.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000033_000001.wav|I didn't see what accident could befall a whole community in a land of perpetual daylight where the inhabitants had no fixed habits of sleep.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2992/164100/2992_164100_000016_000001.wav|During my waking hours she was constantly the subject of my thoughts, and when I slept her dear face haunted my dreams.|2992
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000009_000007.wav|Thus they agree with Plato, in whom I have read these same things.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000002_000005.wav|After their sixth year they are taught natural science, and then the mechanical sciences.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000009_000003.wav|And they defend themselves by the opinion of Socrates, of Cato, of Plato, and of saint Clement; but, as you say, they misunderstand the opinions of these thinkers.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000009_000010.wav|The blind card wool with their hands, separating the down from the hairs, with which latter they stuff the couches and sofas; those who are without the use of eyes and hands give the use of their ears or their voice for the convenience of the State, and if one has only one sense he uses it in the farms.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000006_000005.wav|The rest become a prey to idleness, avarice, ill health, lasciviousness, usury, and other vices, and contaminate and corrupt very many families by holding them in servitude for their own use, by keeping them in poverty and slavishness, and by imparting to them their own vices.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000009_000005.wav|Nevertheless, they send abroad to discover the customs of nations, and the best of these they always adopt.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000015.wav|Furthermore, if at any time a man is taken captive with ardent love for a certain woman, the two are allowed to converse and joke together and to give one another garlands of flowers or leaves, and to make verses.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000005_000003.wav|Pride they consider the most execrable vice, and one who acts proudly is chastised with the most ruthless correction.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000006_000001.wav|It is not the custom to keep slaves.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000014.wav|By these means they lose their color and have pale complexions, and become feeble and small. For this reason they are without proper complexions, use high sandals, and become beautiful not from strength, but from slothful tenderness. And thus they ruin their own tempers and natures, and consequently those of their offspring.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000001.wav|Certainly not.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000011.wav|But if the women should even desire them they have no facility for doing these things.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000009_000009.wav|The lame serve as guards, watching with the eyes which they possess.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000002_000008.wav|Names are given to them by Metaphysicus, and that not by chance, but designedly, and according to each one's peculiarity, as was the custom among the ancient romans.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000006.wav|And thus they distribute male and female breeders of the best natures according to philosophical rules.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000004_000017.wav|Moreover, the love born of eager desire is not known among them; only that born of friendship.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000005_000002.wav|They hate black as they do dung, and therefore they dislike the Japanese, who are fond of black.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/114452/6924_114452_000006_000006.wav|Therefore public slavery ruins them; useful works, in the field, in military service, and in arts, except those which are debasing, are not cultivated, the few who do practise them doing so with much aversion.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000007_000004.wav|The eye of a two year old child is practically as perfect an optical instrument as the eye of a boy of ten, and yet how much more the older boy seems to see.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000007_000007.wav|Do not let him sleep, or lie, facing the sun, or any other powerful light, but throughout his life be careful that all his use of eyesight be under conditions of ample and well directed light.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000025_000000.wav|Cut up picture puzzles, painting books, tracing slates with large and simple designs cultivate observation and ingenuity.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000010_000004.wav|If there is a guitar, or mandolin, or zither, or a piano, available, perhaps, by and by, the mother can teach the child to recognize the difference in the vibratory sensation perceived by his fingers touching the body of the instrument when a low note and a high note are struck alternately.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000010_000006.wav|The next step, if she can take it, is to place his little hands upon her chest to feel the lowest notes of her voice, and upon both the chest and the top of her head to feel the highest, and endeavoring to get him to recognize the similarity in vibratory sensation between what he now feels and what he previously felt on the musical instruments.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000009_000002.wav|Let him then open his eyes and see if he can indicate the object he had previously held.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000023_000001.wav|A sand pile, or a large, shallow sand box, perhaps five feet square, with sides six inches high, and completely lined with enamel cloth to make it watertight, is a wonderful implement for constructive play on the part of the child. Whole villages of farms, fields, and forests, ponds and brooks, roads and railroads, can be made here in miniature.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000010_000000.wav|The Montessori weighted forms are excellent for training his muscular recognition of difference of weight, and an excellent way is to put various quantities of birdshot into half a dozen exactly similar little rubber balls that can be purchased at any toy store for two cents apiece.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000006_000000.wav|DEVELOPING THE MENTAL FACULTIES|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000010_000007.wav|The last step in this series of exercises to awaken a recognition of vibratory sensations is to lead him to feel in his own chest and head the vibrations set up by his own voice in shouting and laughing, crying or babbling.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000004_000000.wav|But during the first two or three years of the child's life the principal stress should be placed upon his learning to understand what is said to him, without bothering much about his speaking himself.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000012_000000.wav|There are many little games with kindergarten materials that can be used to develop the powers of attention, observation, imitation, and obedience.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000002_000000.wav|WHAT ABOUT THE BABY'S SPEECH?|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000009_000001.wav|When he can do this by sight without difficulty, have him shut his eyes, place an object in his little hands, teach him to feel it over carefully, take it from him, and, while his eyes are still closed, place it once more in the pile.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000007_000003.wav|As a matter of fact, we see and hear and taste and smell and feel with our brains.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000003_000000.wav|The hearing baby babbles because he gets some pleasure from the sounds, and also because he desires to imitate the sounds of speech he hears around him.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000011_000002.wav|Remember that the attention of a little child is like a constantly flitting butterfly that rests for only a moment or two on anything before dancing away to something else.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000024_000000.wav|Building blocks of wood or stone; the metal construction toy called "Mechano"; dolls, doll houses, furniture, and equipment, are valuable, but they should be simple, inexpensive and not fragile.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000017_000001.wav|An especially good exercise for the gentle and long continued control of breath results from the toy blow pipes with conical wire bowls by means of which light, celluloid balls of bright colors are kept suspended in the air, dancing on the column of breath blown softly through the tube.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000021_000000.wav|seven|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000022_000000.wav|THE CULTIVATION OF CREATIVE IMAGINATION|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000015_000000.wav|DEVELOPING THE LUNGS|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000016_000000.wav|The tendency of the deaf child is to grow up with less development of lungs and of the imagination than hearing children.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000007_000009.wav|We shall not be able to improve the working of the eye by our efforts, but we can educate the brain.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000007_000006.wav|Of course, where the instrument is found to be imperfect we can assist it by means of additional lenses, or perhaps by some one of the skillful operations now performed by oculists, and, as the sight is of such increased importance to a deaf child, the greatest care and watchfulness should be given to his eyes.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000004_000001.wav|In the case of the hearing child, the understanding of language comes before he can himself utter it.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000019_000000.wav|For physical development in which the lungs come in for their share and the sense of mechanical rhythm is fostered, an excellent exercise is marching in step to the stroke of the drum, proud in Boy Scout uniform. Dancing is a very desirable accomplishment for the deaf child.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000010_000001.wav|Then hand the boy one of the weighted balls, and after he has felt its weight put it back with the other similar appearing balls and see if he can again discover it.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291608/6924_291608_000007_000008.wav|Supposing that the simple tests referred to heretofore have shown that the eyes, as optical instruments, are sufficiently perfect, our efforts need to be to train the brain to take cognizance of, and to interpret the impressions transmitted to it by the eyes.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000001.wav|A little toy street car, a cap, and a toy sheep, would do nicely to begin with, as the three words, "car," "cap," and "sheep," are not easily confused.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000014_000003.wav|She does not think of it as a teaching exercise, but it is a very important one.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000004_000001.wav|This once accomplished, tests can be made with sounds of different kinds, different pitch, and different volume, varying the distance, the instruments, and the vowel when the articulate sounds are reached.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000004_000008.wav|Using these sounds at different pitches, and with different intensities and distances, a sufficiently accurate estimate can be formed of the degree of his hearing power so far as his present needs are concerned.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000009_000002.wav|But his ability to imitate sounds is not an accurate measure of his ability to hear.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000013_000000.wav|In this effort to develop the hearing, however, the necessity must not be forgotten of also training the brain to associate ideas with what the eye sees on the lips when words are spoken.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000009_000001.wav|If his hearing is not too seriously impaired, he will begin to attempt to imitate spoken sounds by the time he is twenty four to thirty months old.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000009.wav|When he can get the right one about ninety per cent. of the time, then take three new words, returning occasionally to the first three. Very soon his own name and those of others, with photographs to enable him to indicate which, will prove of interest to him.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000003_000003.wav|Then pat him twice, and make him hold up two fingers, then three times and have him put up three fingers.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000000_000000.wav|eight|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000015_000006.wav|The first indication of impatience, of being bored and weary, will destroy much of one's influence with the deaf child.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000005.wav|Repeat "car," and take his little hand, put it on the car.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000003_000004.wav|Now return to one pat and one finger, repeat two pats and the holding up of two of his fingers, and three pats and three fingers.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000004_000002.wav|He can be shown a whistle, then, when it is blown behind his back, he will hold up as many fingers as the times it was blown, if he perceives the sound.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000002.wav|Place two of the objects before him, the car and the sheep, and speak the name of one of them, "car," we will say, loudly and distinctly close to his ear, but in such a way that he cannot see your mouth.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000008.wav|When he makes only occasional mistakes with two objects, add the cap.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000010_000000.wav|The question will naturally arise as to whether the child's hearing of speech can be aided by an electric or mechanical device.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000010.wav|When he has successfully learned to distinguish a few single words, a beginning can be made on short sentences.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000015_000003.wav|She must all this time remember, also, that the shades of feeling, pleasure, disappointment, approval, disapproval, doubt, certainty, love, anger, joy, which are largely conveyed to the hearing child by intonation of voice, must be conveyed to the deaf baby by facial expression and manner.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000007_000000.wav|If any ability to perceive sounds is found, every effort should be made to lead the child to use it, and as the most essential use of hearing is in the comprehension of spoken language, the principal effort should be made along that line.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000015_000004.wav|They become very keen at interpreting moods by the look.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000016_000002.wav|Interest, cheerfulness, and patience are tremendous forces to help the little deaf child.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000009_000004.wav|Distinct utterance comes slowly to the child with normal hearing, and still more slowly and imperfectly to the child whose hearing is not good.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000016_000001.wav|Do not be caught unawares.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000010_000005.wav|By the use of the Acousticon, it then becomes possible to communicate by means of the ear without speaking at such short range.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000009_000003.wav|He may perceive the sounds much better than he is able to reproduce them.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000009_000000.wav|The suggestions already made should be studiously followed throughout his whole childhood.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000006_000000.wav|THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESIDUAL HEARING|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000004.wav|Repeat it with "sheep" and show him the sheep.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000006.wav|Then "sheep," and make him put his hand on the sheep.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000010_000002.wav|But I have found that sometimes, in cases where the sound perception was not at first sufficient to enable the child to distinguish even the most dissimilar vowel sounds, although uttered loudly close to the ear, I could awaken the attention of the child to sound, and stimulate the dormant power by the use of an Acousticon.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000012_000000.wav|DEVELOPING THE POWER OF LIP READING|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000004_000003.wav|He can be asked to distinguish between a whistle, a little bell, and the clapping of the hands.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000004_000000.wav|Having established this system of response on his part to sensations perceived, it is not difficult to shift from the number of pats to the number of times he hears a noise.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6924/291609/6924_291609_000008_000003.wav|Then show him the car.|6924
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000004_000001.wav|Ha!|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000021_000000.wav|When thieves and thugs fall out and fight there's fell arrears to pay; And soon or late sin meets its fate, and so it fell one day That Claw fingered Kitty and Windy Ike fanged up like dogs at bay.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000030_000000.wav|A bird sang for the joy of spring, so piercing sweet and frail; And blinding bright the land was dight in gay and glittering mail; And with a wondrous black fox skin a man slid down the trail.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000018_000000.wav|Wherefore it was beyond all laws that lusts of man restrain, A man drank deep and sank to sleep never to wake again; And the Yukon swallowed through a hole the cold corpse of the slain.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000008_000000.wav|"I tracked it up where the mountains hunch like the vertebrae of the world; I tracked it down to the death still pits where the avalanche is hurled; From the glooms to the sacerdotal snows, where the carded clouds are curled.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000002_000000.wav|His cheeks were blanched as the flume head foam when the brown spring freshets flow; Deep in their dark, sin calcined pits were his sombre eyes aglow; They knew him far for the fitful man who spat forth blood on the snow.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000004_000000.wav|"The Moose hides called it the devil fox, and swore that no man could kill; That he who hunted it, soon or late, must surely suffer some ill; But I laughed at them and their old squaw tales. Ha!|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000034_000000.wav|Grim shadows diapered the snow; the air was strangely mild; The valley's girth was dumb with mirth, the laughter of the wild; The still, sardonic laughter of an ogre o'er a child.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000012_000000.wav|"So that was the end of the great black fox, and here is the prize I've won; And now for a drink to cheer me up-I've mushed since the early sun; We'll drink a toast to the sorry ghost of the fox whose race is run."|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000009_000001.wav|I was weary and sick and cold.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152824/2254_152824_000020_000000.wav|The black fox skin a shadow cast from the roof nigh to the floor; And sleek it seemed and soft it gleamed, and the woman stroked it o'er; And the man stood by with a brooding eye, and gnashed his teeth and swore.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152825/2254_152825_000006_000000.wav|Mad!|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000013_000000.wav|For grub meant gold to our thinking, and all that could walk must pack; The sheep for the shambles stumbled, each with a load on its back; And even the swine were burdened, and grunted and squealed and rolled, And men went mad in the moment, huskily clamoring "Gold!"|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000018_000000.wav|We built our boats and we launched them.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000024_000000.wav|Beneath us the green tumult churning, above us the cavernous gloom; Around us, swift twisting and turning, the black, sullen walls of a tomb. We spun like a chip in a mill race; our hearts hammered under the test; Then-oh, the relief on each chill face!--we soared into sunlight and rest.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000009_000000.wav|We landed in wind swept Skagway.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000009_000001.wav|We joined the weltering mass, Clamoring over their outfits, waiting to climb the Pass. We tightened our girths and our pack straps; we linked on the Human Chain, Struggling up to the summit, where every step was a pain.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000028_000000.wav|But what of the others that followed, losing their boats by the score? Well could we see them and hear them, strung down that desolate shore. What of the poor souls that perished?|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000023_000000.wav|We roused Lake Marsh with a chorus, we drifted many a mile; There was the canyon before us-cave like its dark defile; The shores swept faster and faster; the river narrowed to wrath; Waters that hissed disaster reared upright in our path.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000020_000000.wav|Spring! and the hillsides flourished, vivid in jewelled green; Spring! and our hearts' blood nourished envy and hatred and spleen. Little cared we for the Spring birth; much cared we to get on- Stake in the Great White Channel, stake ere the best be gone.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000004_000000.wav|Never was seen such an army, pitiful, futile, unfit; Never was seen such a spirit, manifold courage and grit. Never has been such a cohort under one banner unrolled As surged to the ragged edged Arctic, urged by the arch tempter-Gold.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000016_000000.wav|Thus toiled we, the army of fortune, in hunger and hope and despair, Till glacier, mountain and forest vanished, and, radiantly fair, There at our feet lay Lake Bennett, and down to its welcome we ran: The trail of the land was over, the trail of the water began.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000002_000002.wav|Gold!|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000005_000000.wav|"Farewell!" we cried to our dearests; little we cared for their tears. "Farewell!" we cried to the humdrum and the yoke of the hireling years; Just like a pack of school boys, and the big crowd cheered us good bye. Never were hearts so uplifted, never were hopes so high.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000019_000000.wav|Each man worked like a demon, as prow to rudder we raced; The winds of the Wild cried "Hurry!" the voice of the waters, "Haste!" We hated those driving before us; we dreaded those pressing behind; We cursed the slow current that bore us; we prayed to the God of the wind.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000002_000000.wav|Gold!|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000012_000000.wav|"Klondike or bust!" rang the slogan; every man for his own. Oh, how we flogged the horses, staggering skin and bone! Oh, how we cursed their weakness, anguish they could not tell, Breaking their hearts in our passion, lashing them on till they fell!|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2254/152831/2254_152831_000010_000000.wav|Gone was the joy of our faces, grim and haggard and pale; The heedless mirth of the shipboard was changed to the care of the trail. We flung ourselves in the struggle, packing our grub in relays, Step by step to the summit in the bale of the winter days.|2254
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000031_000000.wav|"I thought you were binding your books to night," said Miss Baker, suddenly, "and you looked tired.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000002.wav|She was quiet, she was peaceful.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000003_000000.wav|One day, about a fortnight after the coroner's inquest had been held, and when the excitement of the terrible affair was calming down and Polk Street beginning to resume its monotonous routine, Old Grannis sat in his clean, well kept little room, in his cushioned armchair, his hands lying idly upon his knees.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000024_000002.wav|I've been so lonely to night-and last night too-all this year-all my life," he suddenly cried.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000005.wav|The geraniums blooming in the starch boxes in the window, the aged goldfish occasionally turning his iridescent flank to catch a sudden glow of the setting sun|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000003_000002.wav|Old Grannis had drawn his chair close to the wall-so close, in fact, that he could hear Miss Baker's grenadine brushing against the other side of the thin partition, at his very elbow, while she rocked gently back and forth, a cup of tea in her hands.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000041_000001.wav|Oh, yes," she exclaimed, with a little gasp, "Oh, yes, I often did."|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000034_000001.wav|She had often dreamed of this, but had always put it off to some far distant day.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000010_000001.wav|He did not speak.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000002.wav|Never in his life had he been so happy.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000007.wav|She held it toward him.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000011_000000.wav|The retired dressmaker's courage had carried her thus far; now it deserted her as abruptly as it had come.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000033_000001.wav|"I thought you always did about four o'clock.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000008.wav|He had sold his happiness for money; he had bartered all his tardy romance for some miserable banknotes.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000002.wav|The transaction had been concluded.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000011_000005.wav|She had done this-she who could not pass him on the stairs without a qualm. What to do she did not know.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000030_000001.wav|Why, you don't know-you have no idea-all these years-living so close to you, I-I-" he paused suddenly.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000016_000001.wav|Miss Baker paused, looking at him over her shoulder, her eyes very wide open, blinking through her tears, for all the world like a frightened child.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000012_000002.wav|Already she was trembling so that half the tea was spilled.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000018_000001.wav|"It was unlady like.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000017_000000.wav|"Stop," exclaimed the old Englishman, rising to his feet.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000040_000000.wav|"Didn't you sit close to the partition on your side?" he insisted.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000006.wav|He did not hear the timid rapping on his door, and it was not until the door itself opened that he looked up quickly and saw the little retired dressmaker standing on the threshold, carrying a cup of tea on a tiny Japanese tray.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000008.wav|The minutes passed; side by side, and separated by only a couple of inches of board, the two old people sat there together, while the afternoon grew darker.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000021_000000.wav|"Wait, I'll help you," she said.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000004.wav|Her room was the picture of calmness and order.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000020_000000.wav|"Oh, won't you-won't you please-"|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000004.wav|It was large enough, to be sure, but when all was over, he returned to his room and sat there sad and unoccupied, looking at the pattern in the carpet and counting the heads of the tacks in the zinc guard that was fastened to the wall behind his little stove.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000035_000002.wav|I used to pass the whole evening that way."|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000034_000000.wav|It hardly seemed possible to Miss Baker that she was actually talking to Old Grannis, that the two were really chatting together, face to face, and without the dreadful embarrassment that used to overwhelm them both when they met on the stairs.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000010.wav|She had found courage enough to explain her intrusion.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000036_000000.wav|"And, yes-yes-I did too," she answered.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000004.wav|He had never loved before, and there was still a part of him that was only twenty years of age.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000010_000000.wav|Old Grannis dropped his hands upon either arm of his chair, and, leaning forward a little, looked at her blankly.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000021_000001.wav|She came into the room, up to the table, and moved the pamphlets to one side.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000036_000001.wav|"I used to make tea just at that time and sit there for a whole hour."|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000030_000002.wav|It seemed to him as if the beating of his heart was choking him.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000009.wav|He had not foreseen that it would be like this.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000037_000003.wav|Didn't you sit close to the partition?"|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000032_000000.wav|"No, no," returned Old Grannis, drawing up a chair and sitting down. "No, I-the fact is, I've sold my apparatus; a firm of booksellers has bought the rights of it."|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000007.wav|It seemed to her the most natural thing in the world to make a steaming cup of tea and carry it in to Old Grannis next door.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000034_000003.wav|Yet here she was, IN HIS ROOM, and they were talking together, and little by little her embarrassment was wearing away.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000001.wav|There was nothing for him to do.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000007.wav|He came toward her and took the tray from her hands, and, turning back into the room with it, made as if to set it upon his table. But the piles of his pamphlets were in the way.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000009_000000.wav|"I was making some tea, and I thought you would like to have a cup."|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000015_000000.wav|"Oh, I didn't mean-I didn't mean-I didn't know it would seem like this.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000037_000002.wav|I could even fancy that I could hear your dress brushing against the wall paper close beside me.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000009.wav|With the brusque resolve and intrepidity that sometimes seizes upon very timid people-the courage of the coward greater than all others-she had presented herself at the old Englishman's half open door, and, when he had not heeded her knock, had pushed it open, and at last, after all these years, stood upon the threshold of his room.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000001.wav|Not only did an inexplicable regret stir within him, but a certain great tenderness came upon him. The tears that swam in his faded blue eyes were not altogether those of unhappiness.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000005.wav|It did not appear to him that he could be the same to Miss Baker now; their little habits were disarranged, their customs broken up.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000017_000003.wav|Oh," he cried, with a sudden sharp breath, "oh, you ARE kind.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000043_000004.wav|They stood at length in a little Elysium of their own creating.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000017_000004.wav|I-I-you have-have made me very happy."|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000033_000002.wav|I used to hear you when I was making tea."|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000043_000000.wav|After that they spoke but little.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000041_000000.wav|"No-I don't know-perhaps-sometimes.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000035_000000.wav|"Yes, yes, I always heard you when you were making tea," returned the old Englishman; "I heard the tea things.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000031_000001.wav|I thought you looked tired when I last saw you, and a cup of tea, you know, it-that-that does you so much good when you're tired.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000007.wav|They would drift apart now, and she would no longer make herself a cup of tea and "keep company" with him when she knew that he would never again sit before his table binding uncut pamphlets.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000003_000001.wav|It was evening; not quite time to light the lamps.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000012_000000.wav|"I was making some tea, and I thought you would like to have a cup of tea." Her agitation betrayed itself in the repetition of the word.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000016_000000.wav|"Stop," cried Old Grannis, finding his voice at last.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000023_000000.wav|"Now-now-now I will go back," she exclaimed, hurriedly.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000015_000003.wav|I don't know what you will think of me.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000013_000000.wav|Old Grannis still kept silence, still bending forward, with wide eyes, his hands gripping the arms of his chair.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000003.wav|Old Grannis had received his check.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000017_000002.wav|I hadn't dreamed-I couldn't believe you would be so good, so kind to me.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000011_000002.wav|What she had done seemed to her indecorous beyond expression.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000004.wav|The absence of his accustomed work seemed to leave something out of his life.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000028_000000.wav|"I'll drink it from the saucer." Old Grannis had drawn up his armchair for her.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000001.wav|One moment she had been sitting quietly on her side of the partition, stirring her cup of tea with one of her Gorham spoons.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000011_000003.wav|It was an enormity.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000018_000000.wav|"No, no," exclaimed Miss Baker, ready to sob.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000006.wav|It was five o'clock, the time when she was accustomed to make her cup of tea and "keep company" with him on her side of the partition.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000026_000000.wav|"But I never take sugar in my tea."|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000007_000000.wav|"I was making some tea," she said, "and I thought you would like to have a cup."|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000002.wav|His hands lay idly in his lap.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000011_000001.wav|Her cheeks became scarlet; her funny little false curls trembled with her agitation.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000015_000005.wav|I'll go." She turned about.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000024_000000.wav|"No-no," returned the old Englishman.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000042_000000.wav|Then Old Grannis put his arm about her, and kissed her faded cheek, that flushed to pink upon the instant.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000043_000003.wav|After all these years they were together; they understood each other.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000018_000002.wav|You will-you must think ill of me." She stood in the hall.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000000.wav|Old Grannis leant his face in his hands.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000024_000001.wav|"Don't go, don't go.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER seventeen|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000031_000002.wav|But you weren't binding books."|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000005.wav|He felt his awkwardness leaving him.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000001.wav|A tremulous joy came upon him.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000003.wav|His table, with its pile of pamphlets, was in a far corner of the room, and, from time to time, stirred with an uncertain trouble, he turned his head and looked at it sadly, reflecting that he would never use it again.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000039_000000.wav|Old Grannis shyly put out his hand and took hers as it lay upon her lap.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000008.wav|It seemed to her that he was wanting her, that she ought to go to him.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000004_000001.wav|That morning the bookselling firm where he had bought his pamphlets had taken his little binding apparatus from him to use as a model.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000043_000001.wav|The day lapsed slowly into twilight, and the two old people sat there in the gray evening, quietly, quietly, their hands in each other's hands, "keeping company," but now with nothing to separate them.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000012_000001.wav|She felt that she could not hold the tray out another instant.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000006.wav|The next moment she had been all trepidation.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000011_000007.wav|Helplessly, and with a little quaver in her voice, she repeated obstinately:|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000017_000001.wav|"I didn't know it was you at first.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000015_000004.wav|I-" she caught her breath-"improper"--she managed to exclaim, "unlady like-you can never think well of me-I'll go.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000003.wav|At last it had come-come when he had least expected it.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000011.wav|What was that on the back of his hand?|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000043_000002.wav|It had come at last.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000000.wav|"Let me-I'll take the tray from you," cried Old Grannis, coming forward.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000008_000003.wav|The evening was closing down tranquilly.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000025_000000.wav|"I-I-I've forgotten the sugar."|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000015_000002.wav|I-I-I'm SO ashamed!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000014_000000.wav|Then with the tea tray still held straight before her, the little dressmaker exclaimed tearfully:|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000005_000006.wav|He could no longer fancy himself so near to her.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000003.wav|For thirty years his eyes had not been wet, but tonight he felt as if he were young again.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000006_000005.wav|He could not tell whether he was profoundly sad or deeply happy; but he was not ashamed of the tears that brought the smart to his eyes and the ache to his throat.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000019_000008.wav|Both of his hands were occupied with the tray; he could not make a place for it on the table. He stood for a moment uncertain, his embarrassment returning.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000027_000000.wav|"But it's rather cold, and I've spilled it-almost all of it."|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000037_000000.wav|"And didn't you sit close to the partition on your side?|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000022_000000.wav|"Thanks, thanks," murmured Old Grannis, setting down the tray.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000030_000000.wav|"Think ILL of you?" cried Old Grannis, "think ILL of you?|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/2301/816_2301_000034_000002.wav|It was to come gradually, little by little, instead of, as now, abruptly and with no preparation. That she should permit herself the indiscretion of actually intruding herself into his room had never so much as occurred to her.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000014_000000.wav|Running to the window, he opened it, and put out his head.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000027_000001.wav|'Go and buy it.'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000028_000000.wav|'Walk ER!' exclaimed the boy.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000032_000000.wav|The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one; but write it he did, somehow, and went downstairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the poulterer's man.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000031_000000.wav|'I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's,' whispered Scrooge, rubbing his hands, and splitting with a laugh.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000006_000000.wav|'They are not torn down,' cried Scrooge, folding one of his bed curtains in his arms, 'They are not torn down, rings and all.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000025_000000.wav|'What a delightful boy!' said Scrooge. 'It's a pleasure to talk to him. Yes, my buck!'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000064_000003.wav|A quarter past.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000065_000001.wav|He was on his stool in a jiffy, driving away with his pen, as if he were trying to overtake nine o'clock.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000069_000001.wav|'It shall not be repeated.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000075_000001.wav|May that be truly said of us, and all of us!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000023_000002.wav|Do you know whether they've sold the prize turkey that was hanging up there?--Not the little prize turkey: the big one?'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000050_000001.wav|But he made a dash and did it.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000003.wav|Never mind.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000004_000001.wav|'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000013_000000.wav|He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000074_000004.wav|His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000021_000000.wav|'Do you know the poulterer's in the next street but one, at the corner?' Scrooge inquired.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000002_000000.wav|THE END OF IT|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000010_000001.wav|'There's the door by which the Ghost of Jacob Marley entered!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000063_000003.wav|That was the thing he had set his heart upon.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000029_000002.wav|Come back with him in less than five minutes, and I'll give you half a crown!'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000017_000000.wav|'What's to day, my fine fellow?' said Scrooge.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000010_000003.wav|There's the window where I saw the wandering Spirits!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000068_000002.wav|Step this way, sir, if you please.'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000008_000000.wav|'I don't know what to do!' cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath, and making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings. 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am as giddy as a drunken man.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000048_000002.wav|Bless you!'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000031_000001.wav|'He shan't know who sends it.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000008_000002.wav|A happy New Year to all the world!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000027_000000.wav|'Is it?' said Scrooge.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000072_000003.wav|Make up the fires and buy another coal scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000031_000003.wav|Joe Miller never made such a joke as sending it to Bob's will be!'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000004_000003.wav|Heaven and the Christmas Time be praised for this!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000004.wav|Hallo! Whoop!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000019_000003.wav|They can do anything they like. Of course they can.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000006.wav|Hallo!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000007_000000.wav|His hands were busy with his garments all this time: turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000046_000001.wav|Will you come and see me?'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000040_000000.wav|'My dear sir,' said Scrooge, quickening his pace, and taking the old gentleman by both his hands, 'how do you do?|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000068_000000.wav|'You are!' repeated Scrooge.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000010_000004.wav|It's all right, it's all true, it all happened.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000003_000000.wav|Yes! and the bedpost was his own.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000030_000001.wav|He must have had a steady hand at a trigger who could have got a shot off half as fast.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000068_000001.wav|'Yes, I think you are.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000058_000001.wav|Scrooge had forgotten, for the moment, about her sitting in the corner with the footstool, or he wouldn't have done it on any account.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000006.wav|Merry Christmas!'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000040_000002.wav|It was very kind of you.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000019_000004.wav|Of course they can.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000071_000001.wav|He had a momentary idea of knocking Scrooge down with it, holding him, and calling to the people in the court for help and a strait waistcoat.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000047_000000.wav|'I will!' cried the old gentleman.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000019_000002.wav|The Spirits have done it all in one night.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000056_000000.wav|He turned it gently, and sidled his face in round the door.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000055_000001.wav|He knows me,' said Scrooge, with his hand already on the dining room lock.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000075_000000.wav|He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle ever afterwards; and it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000053_000000.wav|'Where is he, my love?' said Scrooge.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000064_000002.wav|No Bob.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000037_000000.wav|Shaving was not an easy task, for his hand continued to shake very much; and shaving requires attention, even when you don't dance while you are at it.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000070_000000.wav|'Now, I'll tell you what, my friend,' said Scrooge.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000038_000003.wav|A merry Christmas to you!' And Scrooge said often afterwards that, of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000005_000000.wav|He was so fluttered and so glowing with his good intentions, that his broken voice would scarcely answer to his call.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000063_000000.wav|But he was early at the office next morning.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000007.wav|Whoop! Hallo here!'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000049_000000.wav|He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000035_000000.wav|'Why, it's impossible to carry that to Camden Town,' said Scrooge. 'You must have a cab.'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000002.wav|I'm quite a baby.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000042_000000.wav|'Yes,' said Scrooge. 'That is my name, and I fear it may not be pleasant to you.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000008_000001.wav|A merry Christmas to everybody!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000054_000001.wav|I'll show you upstairs, if you please.'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000019_000001.wav|'I haven't missed it.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000013_000001.wav|Clash, clash, hammer; ding, dong, bell!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000003.wav|It's a wonderful knocker!--Here's the turkey.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000046_000000.wav|'Don't say anything, please,' retorted Scrooge. 'Come and see me.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000031_000002.wav|It's twice the size of Tiny Tim.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000014_000001.wav|No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold; cold, piping for the blood to dance to; golden sunlight; heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000049_000002.wav|In the afternoon he turned his steps towards his nephew's house.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000044_000002.wav|A great many back payments are included in it, I assure you.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000010_000000.wav|'There's the saucepan that the gruel was in!' cried Scrooge, starting off again, and going round the fireplace.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000049_000001.wav|He had never dreamed that any walk-that anything-could give him so much happiness.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000038_000002.wav|He looked so irresistibly pleasant, in a word, that three or four good humoured fellows said, 'Good morning, sir!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000029_000000.wav|'No, no,' said Scrooge. 'I am in earnest.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000055_000000.wav|'Thankee.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000038_000000.wav|He dressed himself 'all in his best,' and at last got out into the streets.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000006_000002.wav|I know they will!'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000002.wav|What an honest expression it has in its face!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000059_000000.wav|'Why, bless my soul!' cried Fred, 'who's that?'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000044_000003.wav|Will you do me that favour?'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000044_000001.wav|'Not a farthing less.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000005_000001.wav|He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his face was wet with tears.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000063_000001.wav|Oh, he was early there!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000051_000001.wav|'Nice girl! Very.'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000056_000001.wav|They were looking at the table (which was spread out in great array); for these young housekeepers are always nervous on such points, and like to see that everything is right.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000057_000000.wav|'Fred!' said Scrooge.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000003_000002.wav|Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000019_000000.wav|'It's Christmas Day!' said Scrooge to himself.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000062_000001.wav|It is a mercy he didn't shake his arm off.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000013_000002.wav|Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clash, clash!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000050_000000.wav|He passed the door a dozen times before he had the courage to go up and knock.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000069_000000.wav|'It's only once a year, sir,' pleaded Bob, appearing from the tank.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000064_000001.wav|The clock struck nine.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000016_000000.wav|'EH?' returned the boy with all his might of wonder.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000001.wav|I don't know anything.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000048_000000.wav|'Thankee,' said Scrooge. 'I am much obliged to you.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000000.wav|'I don't know what day of the month it is,' said Scrooge. 'I don't know how long I have been among the Spirits.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000001.wav|'I scarcely ever looked at it before.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000034_000001.wav|He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped 'em short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000070_000002.wav|And therefore,' he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the tank again-'and therefore I am about to raise your salary!'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000063_000002.wav|If he could only be there first, and catch Bob Cratchit coming late!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000060_000001.wav|I have come to dinner.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000004_000002.wav|O Jacob Marley!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000014_000003.wav|Glorious!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000011_000000.wav|Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000062_000002.wav|He was at home in five minutes.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000041_000000.wav|'mr Scrooge?'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000044_000000.wav|'If you please,' said Scrooge.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000055_000002.wav|'I'll go in here, my dear.'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000054_000000.wav|'He's in the dining room, sir, along with mistress.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000070_000001.wav|'I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000047_000001.wav|And it was clear he meant to do it.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000013_000003.wav|Oh, glorious, glorious!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000023_000001.wav|'A remarkable boy!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000072_000000.wav|'A merry Christmas, Bob!' said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000033_000000.wav|'I shall love it as long as I live!' cried Scrooge, patting it with his hand.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000048_000001.wav|I thank you fifty times.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000064_000005.wav|He was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time. Scrooge sat with his door wide open, that he might see him come into the tank.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000040_000001.wav|I hope you succeeded yesterday.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000030_000000.wav|The boy was off like a shot.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000022_000000.wav|'I should hope I did,' replied the lad.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000064_000000.wav|And he did it; yes, he did!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000032_000001.wav|As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000012_000004.wav|I don't care.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000009_000000.wav|He had frisked into the sitting room, and was now standing there, perfectly winded.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000008_000004.wav|Whoop!|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000023_000000.wav|'An intelligent boy!' said Scrooge.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000045_000000.wav|'My dear sir,' said the other, shaking hands with him, 'I don't know what to say to such munifi----'|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000029_000001.wav|Go and buy it, and tell 'em to bring it here, that I may give them the directions where to take it. Come back with the man, and I'll give you a shilling.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/816/53638/816_53638_000038_000001.wav|The people were by this time pouring forth, as he had seen them with the Ghost of Christmas Present; and, walking with his hands behind him, Scrooge regarded every one with a delighted smile.|816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000011_000009.wav|Why dost not speak?"|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000015.wav|No repentance was ever more sincere.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000019_000003.wav|These were the charms which he could not bear to think his son had sacrificed to the daughter of Mrs Miller.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000035_000000.wav|We now return to take leave of Mr Jones and Sophia, who, within two days after their marriage, attended Mr Western and Mr Allworthy into the country.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000011.wav|Think, most adorable creature, of my unhappy situation, of my despair.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000029_000001.wav|She lives in reputation at the polite end of the town, and is so good an economist, that she spends three times the income of her fortune, without running into debt.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000018.wav|You must expect, however, that if I can be prevailed on by your repentance to pardon you, I will at least insist on the strongest proof of its sincerity." "Name any proof in my power," answered Jones eagerly.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000012_000003.wav|Dost repent heartily of thy promise, dost not, Sophia?"|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000011_000012.wav|All the spirit of contrary, that's all.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000002.wav|Justice I know must condemn me.--Yet not for the letter I sent to Lady Bellaston.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000017_000000.wav|As for the other, who really loved his daughter with the most immoderate affection, there was little difficulty in inclining him to a reconciliation.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000025_000000.wav|Thus, reader, we have at length brought our history to a conclusion, in which, to our great pleasure, though contrary, perhaps, to thy expectation, Mr Jones appears to be the happiest of all humankind; for what happiness this world affords equal to the possession of such a woman as Sophia, I sincerely own I have never yet discovered.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000008_000000.wav|Mr Jones during this interval attempted once or twice to speak, but was absolutely incapable, muttering only, or rather sighing out, some broken words; when Sophia at length, partly out of pity to him, and partly to turn the discourse from the subject which she knew well enough he was endeavouring to open, said-|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000033_000000.wav|Black George, hearing the discovery that had been made, ran away, and was never since heard of; and Jones bestowed the money on his family, but not in equal proportions, for Molly had much the greatest share.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000020.wav|"On my knees I intreat, I implore your confidence, a confidence which it shall be the business of my life to deserve." "Let it then," said she, "be the business of some part of your life to shew me you deserve it.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000015_000001.wav|There likewise he met his uncle, who was returned to town in quest of his new married daughter.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000014.wav|"I do not, I dare not press you.--Yet permit me at least once more to beg you would fix the period.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000011_000008.wav|What, art dumb?|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000028_000000.wav|Square died soon after he writ the before mentioned letter; and as to Thwackum, he continues at his vicarage.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000007.wav|The first moment of hope that my Sophia might be my wife taught it me at once; and all the rest of her sex from that moment became as little the objects of desire to my sense as of passion to my heart." "Well," says Sophia, "the proof of this must be from time.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000038_000001.wav|They preserve the purest and tenderest affection for each other, an affection daily encreased and confirmed by mutual endearments and mutual esteem.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000011.wav|I will not dare to press anything further than you permit me.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000024_000001.wav|These two, therefore, sat stoutly to it during the whole evening, and long after that happy hour which had surrendered the charming Sophia to the eager arms of her enraptured Jones.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000019_000000.wav|There have not, I believe, been many instances of a number of people met together, where every one was so perfectly happy as in this company.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000016.wav|"O! my Sophia," cries he, "you have named an eternity."--"Perhaps it may be something sooner," says she; "I will not be teazed.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000001.wav|"What is that?" said Sophia, a little surprized.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000008.wav|Indeed, you have acted strangely.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000021_000008.wav|Mr Western!"|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000011_000000.wav|At this instant Western, who had stood some time listening, burst into the room, and, with his hunting voice and phrase, cried out, "To her, boy, to her, go to her.----That's it, little honeys, O that's it! Well! what, is it all over?|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000010_000013.wav|Nay, I will not."--"O! don't look unkindly thus, my Sophia," cries he.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000029_000000.wav|Mrs Fitzpatrick is separated from her husband, and retains the little remains of her fortune.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000021.wav|I think I have been explicit enough in assuring you, that, when I see you merit my confidence, you will obtain it. After what is past, sir, can you expect I should take you upon your word?"|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000009_000019.wav|"Time," replied she; "time alone, Mr Jones, can convince me that you are a true penitent, and have resolved to abandon these vicious courses, which I should detest you for, if I imagined you capable of persevering in them." "Do not imagine it," cries Jones.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000021_000009.wav|He began, indeed, once to debate the matter, and assert his right to talk to his own daughter as he thought fit; but, as nobody seconded him, he was soon reduced to order.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000023_000003.wav|In confidence of this secrecy she went through the day pretty well, till the squire, who was now advanced into the second bottle, could contain his joy no longer, but, filling out a bumper, drank a health to the bride.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000029_000002.wav|She maintains a perfect intimacy with the lady of the Irish peer; and in acts of friendship to her repays all obligations she owes her husband.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000016_000000.wav|This marriage was the luckiest incident which could have happened to the young gentleman; for these brothers lived in a constant state of contention about the government of their children, both heartily despising the method which each other took.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000014_000000.wav|In which the history is concluded.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3094/136458/3094_136458_000017_000001.wav|He was no sooner informed by his nephew where his daughter and her husband were, than he declared he would instantly go to her.|3094
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000004_000000.wav|Vainamoinen, old and steadfast, Thundered on upon his journey, From the gloomy land of Pohja, Sariola for ever misty.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000017_000000.wav|Vainamoinen, old and steadfast, Did not find the task a hard one. From the stone the rind he severed, And a pile of ice he hewed her, But no splinters scattered from it, Nor the smallest fragment loosened. Then again he asked the maiden In the sledge to sit beside him.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000006_000000.wav|Vainamoinen, old and steadfast, Stayed his horse upon the instant. And he raised his voice, and speaking, In such words as these addressed her: "Come into my sledge, O maiden, In the sledge beside me seat thee."|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000003_000000.wav|From her hand flew swift the shuttle, In her hands the reel was turning, And the copper shafts they clattered, And the silver comb resounded, As the maiden wove the fabric, And with silver interwove it.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000011_000000.wav|'Tell me O thou little fieldfare, Sing thou, that my ears may hear it, Whether it indeed is better, Whether thou hast heard 'tis better, For a girl in father's dwelling, Or in household of a husband?'|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000009_000000.wav|Then the maiden gave him answer, And in words like these addressed him: "As I wandered through the bedstraws Tripping o'er the yellow meadows, Yesterday, in time of evening, As the sun was slowly sinking, In the bush a bird was singing, And I heard the fieldfare trilling, Singing of the whims of maidens, And the whims of new wed damsels.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000002_000000.wav|Lovely was the maid of Pohja, Famed on land, on water peerless, On the arch of air high seated, Brightly shining on the rainbow, Clad in robes of dazzling lustre, Clad in raiment white and shining. There she wove a golden fabric, Interwoven all with silver, And her shuttle was all golden, And her comb was all of silver.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000015_000000.wav|But the maid gave crafty answer, And in words like these responded: "As a man I will esteem you, And as hero will regard you, If you can split up a horsehair With a blunt and pointless knife blade, And an egg in knots you tie me, Yet no knot is seen upon it."|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000005_000000.wav|Thereupon his head he lifted, And he gazed aloft to heaven, And beheld a glorious rainbow; On the arch the maiden seated As she wove a golden fabric. As the silver comb resounded.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000010_000000.wav|"Thus the bird was speaking to me, And I questioned it in this wise:|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/302111/8713_302111_000020_000000.wav|At the boat with zeal he laboured, Toiling at the work unresting, Working thus one day, a second, On the third day likewise working, But the rocks his axe blade touched not, And upon the hill it rang not.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000020_000003.wav|We have books, it is true, but that is not at all the same as living talk and converse.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000035_000001.wav|What's most vexatious of all is to have to die here.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000006_000001.wav|And he would go away after seeing five or six patients.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000020_000000.wav|"You know, of course," the doctor went on quietly and deliberately, "that everything in this world is insignificant and uninteresting except the higher spiritual manifestations of the human mind. Intellect draws a sharp line between the animals and man, suggests the divinity of the latter, and to some extent even takes the place of the immortality which does not exist.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000007_000006.wav|Near the books there always stood a decanter of vodka, and a salted cucumber or a pickled apple lay beside it, not on a plate, but on the baize table cloth. Every half hour he would pour himself out a glass of vodka and drink it without taking his eyes off the book.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000004_000001.wav|Yes!"|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000006.wav|Indeed, he is summoned without his choice by fortuitous circumstances from non existence into life . . . what for?|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000034_000000.wav|Soon after nine o'clock Mihail Averyanitch would go away.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000024_000003.wav|The wife of a battalion commander, a queer woman, used to put on an officer's uniform and drive off into the mountains in the evening, alone, without a guide.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000020_000004.wav|If you will allow me to make a not quite apt comparison: books are the printed score, while talk is the singing."|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000006.wav|In the consulting room he was met by his assistant, Sergey Sergeyitch-a fat little man with a plump, well washed shaven face, with soft, smooth manners, wearing a new loosely cut suit, and looking more like a senator than a medical assistant.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000005.wav|Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000017_000001.wav|The doctor was always the one to begin the conversation.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000003_000000.wav|There were a great many patients, but the time was short, and so the work was confined to the asking of a few brief questions and the administration of some drugs, such as castor oil or volatile ointment.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000012_000002.wav|He had a hale and hearty appearance, luxuriant grey whiskers, the manners of a well bred man, and a loud, pleasant voice.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000018_000000.wav|"What a pity," he would say quietly and slowly, not looking his friend in the face (he never looked anyone in the face)--"what a great pity it is that there are no people in our town who are capable of carrying on intelligent and interesting conversation, or care to do so.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000011_000000.wav|"No, it's not time yet . . ." he would answer.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000005.wav|Andrey Yefimitch knew that such surroundings were torture to feverish, consumptive, and impressionable patients; but what could be done?|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000029_000000.wav|"Perfectly true."|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000009_000001.wav|The clock would strike four, then five, and still he would be walking up and down thinking.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000024_000000.wav|And he would describe how wholesome, entertaining, and interesting life had been in the past.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000025_000000.wav|"Queen of Heaven, Holy Mother..." Daryushka would sigh.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000009_000002.wav|Occasionally the kitchen door would creak, and the red and sleepy face of Daryushka would appear.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000015_000000.wav|The friends would sit on the sofa in the study and for some time would smoke in silence.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000021_000000.wav|"Perfectly true."|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000007_000004.wav|He would always go on reading for several hours without a break and without being weary.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000007_000007.wav|Then without looking at it he would feel for the cucumber and bite off a bit.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000014_000001.wav|"I am always glad to see you."|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000034_000001.wav|As he put on his fur coat in the entry he would say with a sigh:|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000016_000000.wav|"Daryushka, what about the beer?" Andrey Yefimitch would say.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000011.wav|The ikon had been put up at his expense; at his instructions some one of the patients read the hymns of praise in the consulting room on Sundays, and after the reading Sergey Sergeyitch himself went through the wards with a censer and burned incense.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000006_000000.wav|He was soon wearied by the timidity of the patients and their incoherence, by the proximity of the pious Sergey Sergeyitch, by the portraits on the walls, and by his own questions which he had asked over and over again for twenty years.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000000.wav|His life was passed like this.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000001.wav|As a rule he got up at eight o'clock in the morning, dressed, and drank his tea.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000000.wav|"I often dream of intellectual people and conversation with them," he said suddenly, interrupting Mihail Averyanitch.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000001.wav|"My father gave me an excellent education, but under the influence of the ideas of the sixties made me become a doctor.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000005_000001.wav|When he had to open a child's mouth in order to look at its throat, and the child cried and tried to defend itself with its little hands, the noise in his ears made his head go round and brought tears to his eyes.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000002.wav|Then he sat down in his study to read, or went to the hospital.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000007_000005.wav|He did not read as rapidly and impulsively as Ivan d mitritch had done in the past, but slowly and with concentration, often pausing over a passage which he liked or did not find intelligible.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000033_000001.wav|And yet I have a feeling as though I should never die.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000023_000001.wav|"To expect intelligence of this generation!"|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000007.wav|He had an immense practice in the town, wore a white tie, and considered himself more proficient than the doctor, who had no practice.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000012_000003.wav|He was good-natured and emotional, but hot tempered.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000008_000000.wav|At three o'clock he would go cautiously to the kitchen door; cough, and say, "Daryushka, what about dinner? . ."|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000007_000000.wav|With the agreeable thought that, thank God, he had no private practice now, and that no one would interrupt him, Andrey Yefimitch sat down to the table immediately on reaching home and took up a book.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000003_000001.wav|Andrey Yefimitch would sit with his cheek resting in his hand, lost in thought and asking questions mechanically.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000033_000002.wav|Oh, I think to myself: 'Old fogey, it is time you were dead!' But there is a little voice in my soul says: 'Don't believe it; you won't die.'"|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000022_000001.wav|Daryushka would come out of the kitchen and with an expression of blank dejection would stand in the doorway to listen, with her face propped on her fist.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000018_000002.wav|Even the educated class do not rise above vulgarity; the level of their development, I assure you, is not a bit higher than that of the lower orders."|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000010_000000.wav|"Andrey Yefimitch, isn't it time for you to have your beer?" she would ask anxiously.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000003_000002.wav|Sergey Sergeyitch sat down too, rubbing his hands, and from time to time putting in his word.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000013_000001.wav|"Good evening, my dear fellow!|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000013_000000.wav|"Here I am," he would say, going in to Andrey Yefimitch.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000026_000000.wav|"And how we drank!|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000024_000004.wav|It was said that she had a love affair with some princeling in the native village.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000033_000000.wav|"I must own I doubt it too.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000007_000002.wav|Half his salary went on buying books, and of the six rooms that made up his abode three were heaped up with books and old magazines.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000009.wav|In that sense the intellect is the source of an enjoyment nothing can replace."|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000024_000001.wav|How intelligent the educated class in Russia used to be, and what lofty ideas it had of honour and friendship; how they used to lend money without an i o u, and it was thought a disgrace not to give a helping hand to a comrade in need; and what campaigns, what adventures, what skirmishes, what comrades, what women!|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000006_000002.wav|The rest would be seen by his assistant in his absence.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000004.wav|Of course, intellect, too, is transient and not eternal, but you know why I cherish a partiality for it.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000003.wav|Most likely I should have become a member of some university.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000008.wav|And so, just as in prison men held together by common misfortune feel more at ease when they are together, so one does not notice the trap in life when people with a bent for analysis and generalization meet together and pass their time in the interchange of proud and free ideas.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000028_000002.wav|I believe if I had not obeyed him then, by now I should have been in the very centre of the intellectual movement.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000002_000003.wav|At the hospital the out patients were sitting in the dark, narrow little corridor waiting to be seen by the doctor.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000005_000002.wav|He would make haste to prescribe a drug, and motion to the woman to take the child away.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000018_000001.wav|It is an immense privation for us.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/300047/8713_300047_000019_000001.wav|I agree."|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000007.wav|She was like a chameleon.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000005.wav|And now, on a dull evening, some three weeks after Audrey's dinner party, he was alone in his study, smoking, as he leaned back in his easy chair, in one of those dreamy moods which with him meant fiction in the making, the tobacco smoke curling round his head the Pythian fumes of his inspiration.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000008.wav|No, she wasn't; he recollected that the change of colour was a vital process in that animal.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000005_000004.wav|He became if anything more intently, more remorselessly analytical, more absolutely the student of human nature.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000007.wav|With its silk cushions, Oriental rugs, and velvet draperies, its lining of books, and writing table heaped with manuscripts and proofs, it witnessed to his impartial love of luxury and hard work.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000001_000002.wav|Everywhere the glare accentuated this toneless melancholy.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000002.wav|Novels were lying in his head ten deep. He had whole note books full of germs and embryos, all neatly arranged in their separate pigeon holes.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000001_000004.wav|This lassitude is felt most by those who have shared least in the amusement, the workers who must stay behind in the great workshop because they are too busy or too poor to leave it.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000012.wav|After a moment's satisfaction with this last fancy, he became aware that he was being made the fool of metaphor.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000014.wav|To find out what lay at the bottom of this shifting personality, what elemental thoughts and feelings, if any, the real Audrey was composed of; to see for himself the play of circumstances on her plastic nature, and know what reaction it was capable of-in a word, to experimentalise in cold blood on the living nerve and brain tissue, was his plan of work for the year eighteen ninety six.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000001_000001.wav|Everywhere there was the same torpor, the same wornout, desiccated life in death. It was in the streets with their sultry pallor, in the parks and squares where the dust lay like a grey blight on every green thing.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000008.wav|In Audrey Craven he had found the indispensable thing-intimacy without love, or even, as he understood the word, friendship.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000004.wav|Hitherto he had been merely trying his instrument, running his fingers over the keys in his easy professional way; but these preliminary flourishes gave no idea of the constructive harmonies to follow.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000008.wav|He never wanted to understand her; the relentless passion for analysis was absorbed in a comprehensive enthusiasm which embraced the whole of Alison and took no count of the parts.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000000.wav|He struck out into new paths; he was tired of his neutral washes, and striking effects in black and white.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000015.wav|She had just sufficient strength for the sudden breaking off of their engagement, none for explanation, and none, alas! to save her from regretting her act of supererogatory virtue.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000000.wav|To night he had left his proofs untouched on the writing table, and had settled himself comfortably to his pipe, with the voluptuous satisfaction of a man who has put off a disagreeable duty.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000014.wav|And because she loved him, because the thought of him, so hard to other women, so tender to herself, fascinated her reason and paralysed her will-flattering the egoism inherent even in the very good-because she was weak and he was irresistibly strong, she cut herself from him deliberately, open eyed, and with one stroke.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000007.wav|Whatever came in his way, the tragedy or comedy of his daily life, his moods of passion and apathy, the aspirations of his better moments, all underwent the same disintegrating process.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000000.wav|He was beginning to adjust his latest impressions to his earlier idea of her.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000007.wav|He loved Alison Fraser, and he found that love made understanding impossible.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000003.wav|Wyndham had his intuitions, but he was not the man to trust them as such; it was his habit to verify them by a subsequent logic.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000000.wav|What he really prided himself on was his knowledge of other people, especially of women.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000008.wav|It told other secrets too.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000001.wav|He had begun to dream of glorious subtilties of design and colour.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000005_000001.wav|He simply sank back into himself, and became the man he had been before, plus his experience of feeling, and minus the ingenuousness of his self knowledge.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000005.wav|Her whole person, which at first sight had impressed him with its emphatic individuality, now struck him as characterless and conventional.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000005.wav|Then, for the first time in his life, a woman's nature had been given to him to know.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000006.wav|The study was curiously suggestive of its owner's inconsistencies.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000001.wav|He recalled the evening when he had first seen her-the hot, crowded drawing room, the heavy atmosphere, the dull faces coming and going, and the figure of Audrey flashing through it all.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000009.wav|She was like an opal-all sparkle when you move it, and at rest dull, most undeniably dull.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000008.wav|He had the power of standing aloof from himself, of arresting the flight of his own sensations, and criticising his own actions as a disinterested spectator.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000005_000000.wav|Wyndham gave no sign of suffering.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000002.wav|She had irritated him then, for he had not yet classified her.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000013.wav|It was one which made it difficult for her to reconcile her marriage with Wyndham to her conscience.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000005.wav|To night he was supremely happy.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000006.wav|And yet-what was she like?|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000002.wav|Not that he yet understood that character.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000003_000009.wav|Thus he made no experiment on others that he had not first tried on his own person.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000012.wav|As Miss Gladys Armstrong had guessed (or as she would have put it, diagnosed), a detail of Wyndham's past life had come to Miss Fraser's knowledge, as these details always come, through a well meaning friend.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000009.wav|The cigar case on the table beside him was embroidered by a woman's hand, the initials l w worked with gold thread in a raised monogram.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000003.wav|In some he had jotted down a name and a date, or a word which stood for a whole train of ideas.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000002.wav|His work "took" because of its coarser qualities, the accentuated bitterness, the startling irony, the vigorous, characteristic phrase.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000007_000004.wav|She dogged his thoughts with most unmaidenly insistence; her image lay in wait for him at every cross road of association; it was something vivid yet elusive, protean yet persistent. He recalled that other evening of her dinner party-their first recognised meeting.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000003.wav|Compared with this great work, all former efforts would seem to the taste they had created as so much literary trifling.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000003.wav|Those black strokes were not introduced to throw up the grey wash or pencilled shading; Wyndham's cynicism was no mere literary affectation, it was engrained in his very nature.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000006_000004.wav|In others he had recorded some illustration as it occurred to him; or a single sentence stood flanked by a dozen variants-Wyndham being a careful worker and sensitive to niceties of language.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000004_000006.wav|It was a glorious opportunity for the born analyst; and for the first time in his life he let an opportunity go.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8713/296159/8713_296159_000002_000001.wav|For one thing, it gave him opportunity for cultivating Miss Craven's acquaintance.|8713
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000054_000000.wav|'That will be as you please, Mr Boffin.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000030_000001.wav|Mr Boffin takes Mr john Rokesmith at his word, in postponing to some indefinite period, the consideration of salary.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000056_000001.wav|I will begin this very day.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000003.wav|'Mr Boffin, consider it done.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000085_000000.wav|The man of low cunning had, of course, acquired a mastery over the man of high simplicity.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000127_000000.wav|'What is, my dear?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000080_000004.wav|There's no hurry about it; that's all I say at present.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000114_000001.wav|Would that man, sir-we will say that man, for the purposes of argueyment;' Mr Wegg made a smiling demonstration of great perspicuity here; 'would that man, sir, be expected to throw any other capacity in, or would any other capacity be considered extra?|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000017_000000.wav|Mr Rokesmith again explained; defining the duties he sought to undertake, as those of general superintendent, or manager, or overlooker, or man of business.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000081_000000.wav|'Every day.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000125_000000.wav|'What is it, my dear?|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000062_000003.wav|This old house had wasted-more from desuetude than it would have wasted from use, twenty years for one.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000005.wav|No need to be bought out, sir. Would Stepney Fields be considered intrusive?|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000065_000000.wav|'The room was kept like this, Rokesmith,' said Mr Boffin, 'against the son's return.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000121_000000.wav|Mr Boffin hurried out, and found her on the dark staircase, panting, with a lighted candle in her hand.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000002.wav|Do not fear, Mr Boffin, that I shall contaminate the premises which your gold has bought, with MY lowly pursuits.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000098_000000.wav|Mr Wegg was going to say, My Benefactor, and had said My Bene, when a grandiloquent change came over him.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000158_000002.wav|The two children's faces, and they get older.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000055_000001.wav|You'll begin to take charge at once, of all that's going on in the new house, will you?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000004.wav|Coach maker's estimate, so much.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000032_000000.wav|Mr Boffin was no less delighted; indeed, in his own bosom, he regarded both the composition itself and the device that had given birth to it, as a very remarkable monument of human ingenuity.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000105_000003.wav|I HAVE taken it into my head.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000029_000000.wav|Mr Rokesmith quickly wrote, and then read aloud:|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000118_000000.wav|--My father got over it, Mr Boffin, and so shall i'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000103_000002.wav|I always was, from a child, too sensitive.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000076_000001.wav|no'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000136_000000.wav|'For a moment it was the old man's, and then it got younger.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000079_000000.wav|The Secretary's eyes glanced with so much meaning in them at the Mounds, that Mr Boffin said, as if in answer to a remark:|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000007_000002.wav|Yes.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000064_000002.wav|There was the tight clenched old bureau, receding atop like a bad and secret forehead; there was the cumbersome old table with twisted legs, at the bed side; and there was the box upon it, in which the will had lain.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000000.wav|john Rokesmith read his abstracts aloud.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000078_000001.wav|In remembrance of our old master, our old master's children, and our old service, me and Mrs Boffin mean to keep it up as it stands.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000010.wav|His words at the time (I was then an infant, but so deep was their impression on me, that I committed them to memory) were:|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000148_000000.wav|'I never had the feeling in the house before,' said Mrs Boffin; 'and I have been about it alone at all hours of the night.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000009.wav|Then came correspondence.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000003.wav|Furniture estimate, so much. Estimate for furniture of offices, so much.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000034_000001.wav|So did Mrs Boffin.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000043_000000.wav|'"The gay, the gay and festive scene, The halls, the halls of dazzling light."'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000007_000000.wav|'Oh!' said Mr Boffin. 'Oh indeed!|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000053_000000.wav|'No, no I have got other plans for this house.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000143_000001.wav|I thought I'd try another room, and shake it off.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000109_000000.wav|'No,' pursued Mr Boffin; 'because that would express, as I understand it, that you were not going to do anything to deserve your money.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000071_000000.wav|They had opened the door at the bottom of the staircase giving on the yard, and they stood in the sunlight, looking at the scrawl of the two unsteady childish hands two or three steps up the staircase.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000154_000004.wav|But-'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000013_000000.wav|'I said Secretary,' assented Mr Rokesmith.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000006.wav|If not remote enough, I can go remoter.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000067_000004.wav|I've seen him sit on these stairs, in his shy way, poor child, many a time.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000110_000001.wav|Now, my independence as a man is again elevated.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000139_000000.wav|'Where were you then, old lady?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000006.wav|Harness maker's estimate, so much.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000005_000000.wav|Mr Boffin drew a long breath, laid down his pen, looked at his notes as doubting whether he had the pleasure of their acquaintance, and appeared, on a second perusal of their countenances, to be confirmed in his impression that he had not, when there was announced by the hammer headed young man:|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000031_000000.wav|'Well!|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000010.wav|Acceptance of Mr Boffin's offer of such a date, and to such an effect.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000136_000001.wav|For a moment it was both the children's, and then it got older.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000150_000000.wav|'Yes; but why didn't it come before?' asked Mrs Boffin.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000064_000001.wav|There was the old grisly four post bedstead, without hangings, and with a jail like upper rim of iron and spikes; and there was the old patch work counterpane.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000066_000000.wav|As the Secretary looked all round it, his eyes rested on a side door in a corner.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000158_000001.wav|The old man's face, and it gets younger.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000154_000000.wav|'Yes, deary,' said Mrs Boffin, laying aside her shawl.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000001.wav|They were all about the new house.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000007_000003.wav|Ask him to come in.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000007.wav|Mr Boffin, don't allow yourself to be made uncomfortable by the pang it gives me to part from my stock and stall.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000137_000000.wav|'And then it was gone?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000054_000001.wav|I hold myself quite at your disposal.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000068_000001.wav|And his poor sister too,' said Mrs Boffin. 'And here's the sunny place on the white wall where they one day measured one another.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000035_000002.wav|Well!|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000065_000003.wav|When the son came home for the last time in his life, and for the last time in his life saw his father, it was most likely in this room that they met.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000135_000000.wav|'What face?' asked her husband, looking about him.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000133_000000.wav|'Touched them?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000057_000001.wav|Mrs Boffin took the opportunity of his being so engaged, to get a better observation of his face than she had yet taken.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000105_000002.wav|Far be it from me to deny them.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000102_000000.wav|'Now, Wegg, Wegg, Wegg,' remonstrated the excellent Boffin.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000010_000000.wav|'That's apology for both of us: for Mr Boffin, and for me as well,' said the smiling Mrs Boffin. 'But Lor! we can talk it over now; can't us?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000008_000000.wav|Mr Rokesmith appeared.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000009_000002.wav|Well, sir, I am rather unprepared to see you, for, to tell you the truth, I've been so busy with one thing and another, that I've not had time to turn your offer over.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000042_000000.wav|Mrs Boffin replied:|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000140_000002.wav|"Lor!" I says, "I'll think of something else-something comfortable-and put it out of my head." So I thought of the new house and Miss Bella Wilfer, and was thinking at a great rate with that sheet there in my hand, when all of a sudden, the faces seemed to be hidden in among the folds of it and I let it drop.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000095_000000.wav|'What do you think,' said Mr Boffin, 'of not keeping a stall, Wegg?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000036_000000.wav|'I rather inferred that, sir,' replied john Rokesmith, 'from the scale on which your new establishment is to be maintained.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000044_000000.wav|'That's it!|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000147_000001.wav|Whereas we know better.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000044_000003.wav|Will you repeat it, my dear?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000086_000000.wav|For these reasons Mr Boffin passed but anxious hours until evening came, and with it Mr Wegg, stumping leisurely to the Roman Empire.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000002_000004.wav|It is curious to consider, in such a case as Mr Boffin's, what a cheap article ink is, and how far it may be made to go.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000090_000001.wav|Much obliged to you, I'm sure.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000111_000000.wav|Weep for the hour, When to Boffinses bower, The Lord of the valley with offers came; Neither does the moon hide her light From the heavens to night, And weep behind her clouds o'er any individual in the present Company's shame.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000132_000001.wav|I felt them.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000073_000001.wav|We didn't want the rest.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000090_000002.wav|Is it your pleasure, sir, that we decline and we fall?' with a feint of taking up the book.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000018_000000.wav|'Now, for instance-come!' said Mr Boffin, in his pouncing way.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000067_000001.wav|We'll go down this way, as you may like to see the yard, and it's all in the road.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000001.wav|Anybody but you.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000069_000001.wav|They shan't be rubbed out in our time, nor yet, if we can help it, in the time after us.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000103_000001.wav|'I am acquainted with my faults.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000103_000000.wav|'I know I am, sir,' returned Wegg, with obstinate magnanimity.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000007.wav|In the words of the poet's song, which I do not quite remember:|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000138_000000.wav|'Yes; and then it was gone.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000085_000004.wav|It seemed to him (so skilful was Wegg) that he was plotting darkly, when he was contriving to do the very thing that Wegg was plotting to get him to do.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000012_000001.wav|'It was Secretary that you named; wasn't it?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000154_000001.wav|'I'm not nervous any more.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000088_000000.wav|'Let me get on my considering cap, sir,' replied that gentleman, turning the open book face downward.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000037_000001.wav|The fact is, my literary man named to me that a house with which he is, as I may say, connected-in which he has an interest-'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000099_000004.wav|I have already thought of that, and taken my measures.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000051_000002.wav|And I am bound to bear in mind that I took Wegg on, at a time when I had no thought of being fashionable or of leaving the Bower.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000077_000000.wav|'Might I ask, without seeming impertinent, whether you have any intention of selling it?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000104_000001.wav|You have taken it into your head that I mean to pension you off.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000080_000005.wav|I ain't a scholar in much, Rokesmith, but I'm a pretty fair scholar in dust.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000081_000001.wav|And the sooner I can get you into your new house, complete, the better you will be pleased, sir?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000030_000004.wav|Mr john Rokesmith will please enter on his duties immediately."'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000059_000001.wav|Being here, would you care at all to look round the Bower?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000146_000000.wav|Mr Boffin, lost in amazement, looked at Mrs Boffin.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000086_000001.wav|At about this period Mr Boffin had become profoundly interested in the fortunes of a great military leader known to him as Bully Sawyers, but perhaps better known to fame and easier of identification by the classical student, under the less Britannic name of Belisarius.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000026_000000.wav|'Apple pie order!' said Mr Boffin, after checking off each inscription with his hand, like a man beating time.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000002_000001.wav|Mr Boffin's face denoted Care and Complication.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000009.wav|His Christian name was Thomas.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000088_000002.wav|Now let me think.' (as if there were the least necessity) 'Yes, to be sure I do, Mr Boffin.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000062_000002.wav|Whatever is built by man for man's occupation, must, like natural creations, fulfil the intention of its existence, or soon perish.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000093_000000.wav|'And I hope you'll like it, Wegg.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000120_000000.wav|Mr Wegg resumed his spectacles therefore.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000085_000002.wav|How long such conquests last, is another matter; that they are achieved, is every day experience, not even to be flourished away by Podsnappery itself.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000119_000001.wav|He now darted it at his patron, who took it, and felt his mind relieved of a great weight: observing that as they had arranged their joint affairs so satisfactorily, he would now be glad to look into those of Bully Sawyers.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000158_000003.wav|A face that I don't know.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000069_000000.wav|'We must take care of the names, old lady,' said Mr Boffin. 'We must take care of the names.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000151_000000.wav|This draft on Mr Boffin's philosophy could only be met by that gentleman with the remark that everything that is at all, must begin at some time. Then, tucking his wife's arm under his own, that she might not be left by herself to be troubled again, he descended to release Wegg.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000035_000003.wav|Mrs Boffin has carried the day, and we're going in neck and crop for Fashion.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000049_000001.wav|I shall therefore cast about for comfortable ways and means of not calling up Wegg's jealousy, but of keeping you in your department, and keeping him in his.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000115_000000.wav|'Well,' said Mr Boffin, 'I suppose it would be added.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000019_000002.wav|I would transact your business with people in your pay or employment.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000047_000000.wav|'Correct to the letter!' said Mr Boffin. 'And I consider that the poetry brings us both in, in a beautiful manner.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000064_000003.wav|A few old chairs with patch work covers, under which the more precious stuff to be preserved had slowly lost its quality of colour without imparting pleasure to any eye, stood against the wall.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000011.wav|Rejection of Mr Boffin's proposal of such a date and to such an effect.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000031_000001.wav|Now, Noddy!' cried Mrs Boffin, clapping her hands, 'That IS a good one!'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000144_000000.wav|'With the faces?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000073_000000.wav|'It would have been enough for us,' said Mr Boffin, 'in case it had pleased God to spare the last of those two young lives and sorrowful deaths.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000096_000000.wav|'I think, sir,' replied Wegg, 'that I should like to be shown the gentleman prepared to make it worth my while!'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000030_000000.wav|'"Mr Boffin presents his compliments to Mr john Rokesmith, and begs to say that he has decided on giving Mr john Rokesmith a trial in the capacity he desires to fill.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000002.wav|Exactly my own views, Mr Boffin.' Here Wegg rose, and balancing himself on his wooden leg, fluttered over his prey with extended hand.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000080_000006.wav|I can price the Mounds to a fraction, and I know how they can be best disposed of; and likewise that they take no harm by standing where they do.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000057_000000.wav|Mr Boffin repeated it, and the Secretary wrote it down in his pocket book.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000082_000001.wav|Ain't that your opinion?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000044_000002.wav|Mrs Boffin has a wonderful memory.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000006.wav|The collection of ballads will in future be reserved for private study, with the object of making poetry tributary'--Wegg was so proud of having found this word, that he said it again, with a capital letter-'Tributary, to friendship.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000002.wav|Decorator's estimate, so much.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000050_000000.wav|'Lor!' cried Mrs Boffin. 'What I say is, the world's wide enough for all of us!'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000067_000005.wav|Mr and Mrs Boffin have comforted him, sitting with his little book on these stairs, often.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000076_000000.wav|'Not any, Rokesmith.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000104_000000.wav|'But listen,' pursued the Golden Dustman; 'hear me out, Wegg.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000067_000003.wav|He was very timid of his father.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000094_000000.wav|'Thank you, sir,' returned that reticent individual.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000082_000000.wav|'Well, it ain't that I'm in a mortal hurry,' said Mr Boffin; 'only when you DO pay people for looking alive, it's as well to know that they ARE looking alive.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000065_000001.wav|In short, everything in the house was kept exactly as it came to us, for him to see and approve.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000009_000001.wav|'Mrs Boffin you're already acquainted with.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000030_000002.wav|It is quite understood that Mr Boffin is in no way committed on that point.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000140_000001.wav|Well; I got the better of it, and went on sorting, and went on singing to myself.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000149_000000.wav|'And won't again, my dear,' said Mr Boffin. 'Depend upon it, it comes of thinking and dwelling on that dark spot.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000014_000000.wav|'It rather puzzled me at the time,' said Mr Boffin, 'and it rather puzzled me and Mrs Boffin when we spoke of it afterwards, because (not to make a mystery of our belief) we have always believed a Secretary to be a piece of furniture, mostly of mahogany, lined with green baize or leather, with a lot of little drawers in it.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000015_000001.wav|But he had used the word in the sense of Steward.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000019_000001.wav|I would write your letters, under your direction.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000108_000000.wav|'Don't you, indeed, sir?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000088_000003.wav|It was at my corner. To be sure it was!|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000151_000001.wav|Who, being something drowsy after his plentiful repast, and constitutionally of a shirking temperament, was well enough pleased to stump away, without doing what he had come to do, and was paid for doing.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000094_000001.wav|'I hope it may prove so.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000088_000004.wav|You had first asked me whether I liked your name, and Candour had compelled a reply in the negative case.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000040_000000.wav|'Association?' the Secretary suggested.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000132_000000.wav|'I don't know that I think I saw them anywhere.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000114_000002.wav|Now let us (for the purposes of argueyment) suppose that man to be engaged as a reader: say (for the purposes of argueyment) in the evening.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000101_000000.wav|--And equally,' said Mr Wegg, repairing the want of direct application in the last line, 'behold myself on a similar footing!'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000146_000001.wav|Mrs Boffin, lost in her own fluttered inability to make this out, looked at Mr Boffin.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000005.wav|Horse dealer's estimate, so much.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000033_000000.wav|'And I tell you, my deary,' said Mrs Boffin, 'that if you don't close with Mr Rokesmith now at once, and if you ever go a muddling yourself again with things never meant nor made for you, you'll have an apoplexy-besides iron moulding your linen-and you'll break my heart.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000028_000001.wav|Yourself.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000140_000000.wav|'Here, at the chest.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000088_000005.wav|I little thought then, sir, how familiar that name would come to be!'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000145_000000.wav|'Yes, and I even felt that they were in the dark behind the side door, and on the little staircase, floating away into the yard.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000109_000001.wav|But you are; you are.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000051_000000.wav|'So it is, my dear,' said Mr Boffin, 'when not literary.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000000.wav|'I suppose it would, sir.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000052_000000.wav|'In this house?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000041_000002.wav|My literary man was so friendly as to drop into a charming piece of poetry on that occasion, in which he complimented Mrs Boffin on coming into possession of-how did it go, my dear?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000152_000000.wav|Mr Boffin then put on his hat, and Mrs Boffin her shawl; and the pair, further provided with a bunch of keys and a lighted lantern, went all over the dismal house-dismal everywhere, but in their own two rooms-from cellar to cock loft.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000094_000002.wav|On all accounts, I am sure.' (This, as a philanthropic aspiration.)|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000091_000001.wav|In fact, I have got another offer to make you.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000016_000001.wav|Being both bad sailors, we should want a Steward if we did; but there's generally one provided.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000080_000007.wav|You'll look in to morrow, will you be so kind?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000012.wav|Concerning Mr Boffin's scheme of such another date to such another effect.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000025_000013.wav|All compact and methodical.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000006_000000.wav|'Mr Rokesmith.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000110_000002.wav|Now, I no longer|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000063_000001.wav|The scanty moveables partook of it; save for the cleanliness of the place, the dust-into which they were all resolving would have lain thick on the floors; and those, both in colour and in grain, were worn like old faces that had kept much alone.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000015_000000.wav|Certainly not, said Mr Rokesmith.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000116_000005.wav|My stall and I are for ever parted.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000037_000000.wav|'Yes,' said Mr Boffin, 'it's to be a Spanker.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000057_000002.wav|It impressed her in his favour, for she nodded aside to Mr Boffin, 'I like him.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000024_000001.wav|Now let us hear what they're all about; will you be so good?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125128/501_125128_000092_000000.wav|Mr Wegg (who had had nothing else in his mind for several nights) took off his spectacles with an air of bland surprise.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000030_000000.wav|'I mean to have it, and the boat too,' said Mr Inspector, playing the line.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000043_000000.wav|He pointed behind him at the boat, and gasped to that degree that he dropped upon the stones to get his breath.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000015_000002.wav|Sit close, Mortimer.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000018_000003.wav|And everything so vaunted the spoiling influences of water-discoloured copper, rotten wood, honey combed stone, green dank deposit-that the after consequences of being crushed, sucked under, and drawn down, looked as ugly to the imagination as the main event.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000060_000000.wav|'Singular and entertaining combination, sir, your friend.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000041_000000.wav|'By the Lord, he's done me!'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000012.wav|He makes ready to secure that object.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000057_000000.wav|He raised his voice and called 'Eugene!|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000003_000000.wav|'Gaffer's boat, Gaffer in luck again, and yet no Gaffer!' So spake Riderhood, staring disconsolate.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000016_000001.wav|The squall had come up, like a spiteful messenger before the morning; there followed in its wake a ragged tear of light which ripped the dark clouds until they showed a great grey hole of day.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000045_000000.wav|They ran to the rope, leaving him gasping there.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000035_000000.wav|'I told you so,' quoth Mr Inspector, pulling off his outer coat, and leaning well over the stern with a will.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000075_000002.wav|But consider.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000032_000000.wav|'Take care,' said Riderhood.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000018.wav|Now see!|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000024.wav|How do I make that out? Simple and satisfactory.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000014.wav|He makes it too secure, as it happens.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000048_000000.wav|They had helped to release the rope, and of course not.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000064_000000.wav|'Here just before us, you see,' said Mr Inspector.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000062_000001.wav|In a public house kitchen with a large fire.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000001.wav|It's a wild tempestuous evening when this man that was,' stooping to wipe some hailstones out of his hair with an end of his own drowned jacket, '--there!|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000031_000000.wav|But still the luck resisted; wouldn't come.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000075_000003.wav|Such a night for plumage!'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000072_000000.wav|In short, the night's work had so exhausted and worn out this actor in it, that he had become a mere somnambulist.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000000.wav|Father, was that you calling me?|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000008_000000.wav|Astonished by his friend's unusual heat, Lightwood stared too, and then said: 'What can have become of this man?'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000029_000000.wav|He tried easy now; but the luck resisted; wouldn't come.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000028_000000.wav|'I must have it up,' said Mr Inspector. 'I am going to take this boat ashore, and his luck along with it.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000037_000001.wav|Go ahead you, and keep out in pretty open water, that I mayn't get fouled again.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000033_000000.wav|'I am not going to do either, not even to your Grandmother,' said Mr Inspector; 'but I mean to have it.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000011.wav|Why not speak, Father?|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000009_000000.wav|'Can't imagine.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000049_000000.wav|'And you will have observed before, and you will observe now, that this knot, which was drawn chock tight round his neck by the strain of his own arms, is a slip knot': holding it up for demonstration.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000017_000001.wav|Black with wet, and altered to the eye by white patches of hail and sleet, the huddled buildings looked lower than usual, as if they were cowering, and had shrunk with the cold.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000014.wav|Speak, Father.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000055_000000.wav|'If you wouldn't object to standing by him half a minute, sir,' was the reply, 'I'll find the nearest of our men to come and take charge of him;--I still call it HIM, you see,' said Mr Inspector, looking back as he went, with a philosophical smile upon the force of habit.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000015_000003.wav|Here's the hail again.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000066_000000.wav|'And had hot brandy and water too, you see,' said Mr Inspector, 'and then cut off at a great rate.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000001_000000.wav|THE BIRD OF PREY BROUGHT DOWN|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000011.wav|He sees some object that's in his way of business, floating.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000032_000001.wav|'You'll disfigure.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000004.wav|The wind sweeps jeeringly over Father, whips him with the frayed ends of his dress and his jagged hair, tries to turn him where he lies stark on his back, and force his face towards the rising sun, that he may be shamed the more.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000017_000000.wav|They were all shivering, and everything about them seemed to be shivering; the river itself; craft, rigging, sails, such early smoke as there yet was on the shore.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000062_000003.wav|Mr Inspector having to Mr Riderhood announced his official intention of 'keeping his eye upon him', stood him in a corner of the fireplace, like a wet umbrella, and took no further outward and visible notice of that honest man, except ordering a separate service of brandy and water for him: apparently out of the public funds.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000012_000001.wav|While they were doing so, Riderhood still sat staring disconsolate.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000051_000000.wav|'Likewise you will have observed how he had run the other end of this rope to his boat.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000058_000000.wav|It was broad daylight now, and he looked about.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000038_000000.wav|His directions were obeyed, and they pulled ashore directly; two in one boat, two in the other.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000002.wav|Now he's more like himself; though he's badly bruised,--when this man that was, rows out upon the river on his usual lay.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000001.wav|Father!|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000073_000002.wav|He had just come home.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000074_000000.wav|'Why what bloodshot, draggled, dishevelled spectacle is this!' cried Mortimer.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000015_000001.wav|Steady!' cried Eugene (he had recovered immediately on embarking), as they bumped heavily against a pile; and then in a lower voice reversed his late apostrophe by remarking ('I wish the boat of my honourable and gallant friend may be endowed with philanthropy enough not to turn bottom upward and extinguish us!) Steady, steady!|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000008.wav|Was it you, the voiceless and the dead?|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000024_000000.wav|Mr Inspector stepped into the boat.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000025.wav|Because he's got it here.' The lecturer held up the tightly clenched right hand.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000022.wav|You'll ask me how I make out about the pockets?|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000035_000001.wav|'Come!'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000077_000001.wav|I also felt that I had committed every crime in the Newgate Calendar.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000016_000000.wav|Indeed he had the full benefit of it, and it so mauled him, though he bent his head low and tried to present nothing but the mangy cap to it, that he dropped under the lee of a tier of shipping, and they lay there until it was over.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000007.wav|Father, was that you calling me?|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000059_000001.wav|Mr Inspector could not exactly say that he had seen him go, but had noticed that he was restless.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000044_000001.wav|It's Gaffer!'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000023_000000.wav|'Look at the broken scull.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000009.wav|He dodges about in his boat, does this man, till he gets chilled.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000021_000000.wav|('With a morbid expectation,' murmured Eugene to Lightwood, 'that somebody is always going to tell him the truth.')|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000062_000000.wav|We could, and we did.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000011_000000.wav|'She's fast enough till the tide runs back.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000016.wav|His object drifts up, before he is quite ready for it.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000022_000000.wav|'This is Hexam's boat,' said Mr Inspector. 'I know her well.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000046_000002.wav|I thought I heard you call me twice before!|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000071_000001.wav|But he offered such ample apologies, and was so very penitent, that when Lightwood got out of the cab, he gave the driver a particular charge to be careful of him.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000033_000002.wav|You MUST come up. I mean to have you.'|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000054_000000.wav|'What is to be done with the remains?' asked Lightwood.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000004_000002.wav|Perhaps fire, like the higher animal and vegetable life it helps to sustain, has its greatest tendency towards death, when the night is dying and the day is not yet born.|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/501/125127/501_125127_000053_000008.wav|Last evening he does this. Worse for him!|501
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000016_000002.wav|One must be a Grub before one can become a Bee.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000052_000002.wav|Wings and legs which had been bitten off were flying about in the air, and after some time eight of the Princesses lay dead upon the ground.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000026_000001.wav|"What are your graces' orders?" she asked, dropping a curtsy and scraping the ground with her feet.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000004_000003.wav|They swarmed out in all directions; they crawled up and down the hive; they flew off to the flowers and bushes, or wandered all around on the ground.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000029_000004.wav|I am just as good as the others."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000042_000001.wav|"I am Queen now anyway, and have the power to do what I like.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000043_000000.wav|"You are disloyal subjects, who are not worth ruling over.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000011.wav|But we may do the same thing again.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000008_000001.wav|"One, two, three!|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000021_000003.wav|You are a mere working Bee, and you will never be anything else all your days."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000028_000002.wav|They were dragging ever so much honey, which they crammed down the cross little Princesses' throats.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000030_000001.wav|"Hold your tongue, little bawler! The Queen's coming." And at the same moment the Queen Bee came.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000017_000001.wav|The others you can stint; they are only working people, and they must accustom themselves to be content with what they can get." And every morning the poor little wretches got a little piece of Bee bread and nothing more, and with that they had to be satisfied, though they were ever so hungry.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000033_000000.wav|Then she went away.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000028_000001.wav|She soon came back with many other Bees.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000015_000000.wav|"What funny creatures!" said the young Bees.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000006.wav|But I will not submit to it.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000040_000000.wav|The Queen looked cautiously round on all sides, and then opened the first of the doors.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000022_000000.wav|"But I want to be Queen!" cried the Grub, and thumped on the door. Of course the old Bee did not answer such nonsense, but went on to the others.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000030_000000.wav|The old Bee tried to hush her.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000013_000000.wav|The Bees had them ready in no time, and then the Queen laid ten pretty eggs, one in each of the big rooms, and the doors were fixed as before.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000009.wav|They fed her every day with the finest and best honey in the whole hive; and when she was full grown, she was a charming and good Queen.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000005.wav|I have heard the Bees saying to one another that they would like to have a younger and more beautiful Queen, and they will chase me away in disgrace.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000044_000000.wav|Some of the old Bees, who had been Grubs at the same time as the Queen, declared that they would follow her.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000037_000000.wav|"Good gracious! is that true?" cried the old Nurse, and beat her wings in horror.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000018_000002.wav|She could not see, but she could plainly hear the grown up Bees talking outside, and for a while she lay quite still and kept her thoughts to herself.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000008_000002.wav|Then we can begin our work." And they perspired as well as they had learned to, and the prettiest yellow wax came out of their bodies.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000028_000003.wav|And then they got them to hold their tongues and lie still and rest.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000002_000000.wav|By Carl Ewald|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000029_000000.wav|But the little Grub lay awake, thinking over what had happened.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000029_000002.wav|"Give me some honey!|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000039_000003.wav|"I hope she won't kill the Princesses," she thought, and squeezed herself nearer to the door to hear what happened.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000046_000000.wav|As for the little Grub, no one gave a single thought to her.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000007.wav|All the Princesses had killed one another, and the old Queen had gone out into the world: it was just as it is now.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000005_000001.wav|She was bigger than the others, and it was she who ruled the hive.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000004_000002.wav|They hummed and buzzed, they stretched their legs, they tried their wings.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000047_000001.wav|The other Bees ran up and gazed at them in admiration.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000050_000000.wav|"You are rather conceited," shrieked a third.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000009_000001.wav|"Now we will begin to build." The old Bees took the wax, and began to build a number of little six sided cells, all alike and close up to one another.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000017_000000.wav|"They are Princesses," said the Queen, "so you must treat them well.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000021_000000.wav|"Just listen to her!" said the old Bee mockingly.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000023_000001.wav|Let me come into your chamber.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000003.wav|But at last the head Bee Nurse got a hearing, and said,--"I can tell you how you can get out of the difficulty, if you will but follow my advice.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000005.wav|I was then a Grub myself.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000014_000000.wav|"Take care," the Queen said one day.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000047_000003.wav|"It is hard to say which is the most beautiful."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000019_000000.wav|"You have had enough for to day," answered the old Bee who was appointed to be head Bee Nurse, creeping up and down in the passage outside.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000002.wav|For a long time they talked this way and that as to what they should decide on doing in their unhappy circumstances.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000000.wav|For a long time she stood in silence before the Princesses' chambers.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000004.wav|I know that too well.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000006_000002.wav|The others can collect flower dust, and when you come home give it in smartly to the old Bees in the hive."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000045_000000.wav|"Now we have no Queen," said the others, "we must take good care of the Princesses." And so they crammed them with honey from morning till night; and they grew, and grabbed, and squabbled, and made more noise each day than the day before.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000026_000000.wav|The head Bee Nurse came running up in an instant and opened the doors.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000044_000001.wav|And soon after they flew away.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000005_000002.wav|"Stop your nonsense, little children," she said, "and set to work and do something.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000041_000001.wav|What would become of us in the autumn after your majesty's death?"|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000020_000001.wav|"I will go into one of the Princesses' chambers; I have not room to stir here."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000040_000002.wav|"What is the matter?" she cried.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000010_000000.wav|"We can now knead the dough," she said.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000003_000003.wav|'Many a streamlet makes a river,' and you know these are bad times for farmers."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000005_000000.wav|Last of all came the Queen.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000042_000002.wav|How do you know that I shall die in the autumn?" But the Bees held her fast, and dragged her outside the hive.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000011_000001.wav|She sat down in the middle of the hive and began to lay her eggs.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000003.wav|Then my turn will be over.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000054_000003.wav|What shall we do?"|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000001.wav|"Now they are lying there asleep," she said at last. "From morning till evening they do nothing but eat and sleep, and they grow bigger and fatter every day.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000054_000002.wav|What shall we do?|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000035_000001.wav|"You must mind what you are doing, my good Grub," she said.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000009_000000.wav|"Good!" said the Queen.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000047_000000.wav|One morning the doors of the Princesses' chambers flew open, and all ten of them stepped out, beautiful full grown Queen Bees.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000052_000003.wav|The two last were still fighting.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000010_000001.wav|"But first put a little honey in-that makes it taste so much better." They kneaded and kneaded, and before very long they had made some pretty little loaves of Bee bread, which they carried into the cells.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000001.wav|But the oldest and cleverest sat in a corner and held a council.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000052_000000.wav|At this the Bees formed round in a ring and looked on at the battle.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000016_000000.wav|"They are Grubs," said the Queen.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000040_000003.wav|"Are you raising a rebellion?"|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000037_000001.wav|And without hearing a word more, she hurried off to tell the other Bees.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000009_000002.wav|All the time they were building, the others came flying in with flower dust and honey, which they laid at the Queen's feet.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000000.wav|In despair they crawled about the hive, and did not know which way to turn.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000047_000002.wav|"How pretty they are!" they said.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000024_000000.wav|"Are you?|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000003_000000.wav|The farmer opened his hive.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000005_000003.wav|A good Bee does not idle, but turns to with a will and makes good use of its time."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000007_000000.wav|Away they flew at once.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000013_000001.wav|Every day the Bees flew in and out, gathering great heaps of honey and flower dust; but in the evening, when their work was done, they would open the doors just a crack and have a peep at the eggs.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000011_000002.wav|She laid great heaps of them, and the Bees were kept very busy running with the little eggs in their mouths and carrying them into the new cells. Each egg had a little cell to itself; and when they had all been put in their places, the Queen gave orders to fix doors to all the cells and shut them fast.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000006.wav|I lay in my cell, and distinctly heard what took place.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000008.wav|But the Bees took one of us Grubs and laid her in one of the Princesses' cells.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000029_000003.wav|I can't stand it any longer.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000038_000001.wav|"But I can now lie down and sleep with a good conscience."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000055_000004.wav|I remember that the same misfortune happened to us in this hive a long time ago.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000054_000000.wav|"That is a pretty business!" called the Bees, and ran about among each other in dismay.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000006_000001.wav|"You over there, fly out and see if there is any honey in the flowers.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000004_000001.wav|But all the same they flew out; for they had been sitting all the winter in the hive, and they longed for a breath of fresh air.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000051_000001.wav|We can't do with more than one."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000033_000001.wav|But the little Grub had heard all she said.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000012_000000.wav|"Good!" she said, when this was done.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000028_000000.wav|"In a moment, in a moment, your graces," she answered, and ran off as fast as her six legs could carry her.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000006_000000.wav|So she divided them into parties and set them to work.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000040_000001.wav|But at the same moment the Bees swarmed out from all directions, seized her by the legs and wings, and dragged her out.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000039_000002.wav|But she was quite afraid of the wicked Queen, and dared not stir.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000027_000000.wav|"More honey!" they shouted, all in one voice.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000036_000000.wav|"First listen to me," said the Grub, and she told her about the Queen's wicked design.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000001_000000.wav|THE QUEEN BEE|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000038_000000.wav|"I think I deserve a little honey for what I have done," said the little Grub.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000029_000001.wav|She longed so much for some honey that she began to shake the door again.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000008_000000.wav|"You! you must perspire," said the Queen.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000007_000001.wav|But all the very young ones stayed behind. They made the last party, for they had never been out with the others.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000042_000000.wav|"Let me go!" cried the Queen, and tried to get away.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000020_000000.wav|"Maybe, but I am hungry!" shouted the little Grub.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000016_000003.wav|Be quick now, and give them something to eat." The Bees bestirred themselves to feed the little ones, but they were not equally kind to them all.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000039_000001.wav|The Grub could hear her talking aloud to herself.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000052_000004.wav|One of them had lost all her wings, and the other had only four legs left.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000003_000002.wav|Get to work, and gather a good lot of honey for me to sell to the shopkeeper in the autumn.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000023_000000.wav|"It is hard, though," she thought, "that we should have to be so hungry." And then she knocked on the Princess' wall and called to her, "Give me a little of your honey.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000021_000002.wav|You are born to toil and drudge, my little friend.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000032_000002.wav|In a few days they will be full grown, and will creep out of their cells.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000043_000002.wav|Are there any of you who will come with me?"|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000016_000004.wav|The ten, however, that lay in the large cells got as much to eat as ever they wanted, and every day a great quantity of honey was carried in to them.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000043_000001.wav|I won't stay here an hour longer, but I will go out into the world and build a new nest.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/275212/8388_275212_000022_000001.wav|From every side they were calling out for more food, and the little Grub could hear it all.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000027_000001.wav|I was seated on our packs, my Winchester lying across my knees, cocked; Coonskin sat on the ground at my right, with shot gun in hand.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000010_000006.wav|I hear Griswold is with them, he having recovered.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000024_000001.wav|Assigning to my valet the shot gun and the Smith and Wesson double action revolver, I loaded two extra shells with buckshot, tested the locks of my Winchester and single action Colt revolver, gave Coonskin explicit instructions, and awaited events.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000046_000000.wav|"Oh just a little while ago.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000026_000002.wav|Don seemed to understand, and stationing himself some ten feet before us, watched the strangers eagerly.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000002_000001.wav|Wouldn't I like to capture 'em, though!" he said enthusiastically.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000000_000002.wav|Now Coonskin called for me and said our evening meal was under way.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000019_000003.wav|I felt we must be near to Thirty Mile.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000033_000000.wav|"West.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000007_000000.wav|"Oh," he chuckled, "anybody would know you by your outfit; besides, everybody along the trail has been expecting you, even two desperadoes."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000047_000003.wav|The outlaws turned their eyes upon us so quickly I think they must have overheard my whispered command.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000051_000002.wav|Several times we were puzzled by forking trails, and were in doubt whether we were on the right one to Eureka.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000028_000001.wav|He identified the desperadoes.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000045_000001.wav|"How long ago were they here?|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000005_000000.wav|"Will your dog bite, mr Pod?" called mr Green.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000015_000002.wav|It was twenty one miles to Thirty Mile Spring.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000027_000004.wav|When they had come to a hundred feet from us, I called roughly, "Helloa, boys! come in. You're just in time for grub."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000052_000002.wav|I decided to head for it.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000027_000003.wav|Our bearded and sun burned faces, long hair, and generally rough attire, added to our unfriendly attitude, must have puzzled the approaching horsemen.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000003_000001.wav|Something tells me that we'll meet these outlaws."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000027_000002.wav|Our revolvers were in our belts.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000000_000003.wav|So, I bade mrs Green a good night.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000040_000001.wav|There both men dismounted behind their steeds, took off the bridles with spade bits that their horses might drink, and regarded us tenderfeet with some respect and concern.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000034_000000.wav|"Just lookin' round.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000019_000004.wav|The idea of passing the spring and having to trace our steps next morning was not to be entertained.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000052_000000.wav|I judged the valley to be ten miles wide.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000052_000005.wav|Both were very hospitable.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000013_000000.wav|We soon arrived at Egan, where we were kindly received.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000010_000001.wav|"The outlaws pretended to be friendly, lunched with him, and started off on their horses.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000010_000004.wav|The poor fellow regained consciousness, and managed by morning to crawl six miles to a ranch.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000018_000002.wav|They also admonished me to hold up and shoot without considering an instant any two mounted men of the description given, else we two would never live to tell how it happened.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000013_000003.wav|No habitation would we see; only an occasional coyote, or a band of wild horses, or possibly some prairie schooner, or the outlaws, or some of the posses.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000017_000003.wav|One picked up a two quart canteen, saying good naturedly that he reckoned he would have to rustle it.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000008_000001.wav|But I explained that his wife had told me all, whereupon he invited us men to breakfast, and was escorted by Don to a point which he considered the limit of his master's domain.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000035_000000.wav|I did not answer.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000015_000000.wav|It was noon.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000010_000000.wav|"Griswold is the unfortunate man's name," said Green.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000052_000004.wav|They were mr Robinson, proprietor of Newark Mines, and his superintendent.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000021_000001.wav|To the east, some fifty feet away, stood a tub, obscured by pussy willows, and brimming with cool water furnished by a cedar trough which reached from the bubbling spring.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000013_000001.wav|The men showed us about the works, allowing me to take photographs, and gave me a more accurate description of the outlaws, and the long trail of a hundred miles to Eureka.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000016_000004.wav|I was relieved when I saw one of the riders wearing a bandage round his head; it must be Griswold.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000031_000000.wav|"Pretty fair," I replied disinterestedly.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000044_000000.wav|"Not exactly," I said with a faint smile.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000025_000002.wav|The dark horse appeared to be somewhat darker than the one described by Griswold, but I was cautioned that they might exchange a horse for one on the range in order to mislead their pursuers.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000008_000000.wav|This was interesting.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000029_000000.wav|Instantly reining their steeds, one of them slung some simple questions at me, designed, no doubt, to throw us off guard.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000004_000001.wav|Our bed, only separated from the earth by a single canvas, never was more comfortable.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000000_000001.wav|I said we were well provided with food and fire arms, that she might feel quite safe from the brigands.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000017_000002.wav|They were affable fellows and resolute, but had set out hardly equipped for the chase.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000010_000007.wav|But they say at Egan that some of the boys this afternoon gave up the chase, because it was getting too warm for them; they felt pretty near the game."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000014_000000.wav|By trailing through Egan Canyon we cut the backbone of the mountain range and now, at an altitude of several hundred feet above the plain, were climbing higher and higher the rugged plateau, until we reached Nine Mile, and unpacked.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000047_000000.wav|At once, as I hoped they would, the desperadoes were thrown off their guard and looked behind them.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000048_000000.wav|I was in the mood to "jump" Coonskin for not aiding me to hold up the outlaws.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000015_000003.wav|So we cooked here.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000017_000000.wav|The strangers left their steeds standing, each tying a rein to a stirrup, then introduced themselves.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000023_000001.wav|"Jove!" he added, "I believe the outlaws are coming."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000019_000000.wav|With this parting injunction, unofficial though it was, the riders loped away, and my nervous troop, at half past two, "hit the trail" in lively form.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000015_000001.wav|Accustomed as we were to travel on two meals a day, I could set no regular hour for them.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000006_000000.wav|I rushed out barefoot and dispelled his fears, and, after shaking hands, questioned him how he knew who I was.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000016_000000.wav|The desperadoes formed the chief topic of discussion, even Don showed the bloodhound in him, and, ever since leaving Egan, showed unusual excitement and was more vigilant.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000050_000002.wav|About midnight we made a dry camp at a discreet distance from the trail, where without building a fire we made a cold lunch serve for our second meal that day, and retired.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000032_000000.wav|"Which way you traveling?"|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000018_000000.wav|Before separating on our several missions, Coonskin photographed the party, and Griswold repeated his description of the outlaws. Couriers had been dispatched to Ely, Hamilton, Eureka, and other points; these men were bound for Hunter, seven miles over the mesa.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000010_000005.wav|Resolute men hurriedly saddled their horses, and soon thirty were after the outlaws.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000038_000000.wav|"No, better water our horses and go on," said the partner.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000034_000001.wav|Which is the trail to Hamilton?"|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000021_000000.wav|The noon hour found us weary travelers reclining on a heap of blankets.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000022_000000.wav|"I'm afraid the fellows ain't going to bother us after all," said Coonskin disappointedly, at length.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000020_000000.wav|By ten o'clock next morning we had breakfasted, and were trailing toward the summit of the plateau.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000004_000003.wav|Suddenly I heard Don, who was on guard, growl, then a sound of wheels and a horse's whinny.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000028_000000.wav|Instantly Don leaped to his feet, and with tail straight out and body trembling from rage he uttered a savage growl of defiance.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000051_000001.wav|By two o'clock we had crossed the Long Valley Mountains and were on the margin of a sage covered plain, still probably twenty miles to Pinto.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000019_000006.wav|And there we camped.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000004_000000.wav|Supper over and dishes washed, we retired.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000046_000001.wav|They took in a few cans of water," I here pointed in their direction, and said: "They were going to cook over there behind that knoll."|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000014_000001.wav|The spring was in a grassy spot, and Coonskin first replenished our canteens, then released the donkeys.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000017_000004.wav|I said they were welcome to anything I could spare.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000013_000002.wav|At three points only should we find water, at Nine Mile Spring, Thirty Mile and Pinto Creek, the latter being seventy miles away.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000019_000001.wav|I was glad the country was clear and open. Only an occasional dwarf cedar stood in dark relief against the sage.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000025_000001.wav|It was plain they were cinching their saddles, probably preparing to do some rough riding.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000011_000000.wav|mr Green gave me a second handed description of the desperadoes and their outfit, and directing me on my route, wished us Godspeed.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000040_000000.wav|Instantly I rose to my feet, and trailing the rifle over my wrist strode, eyeing him defiantly, in a line at a right angle with the course of his horse, but the rogue did not go far before turning his steed in the direction of the tub.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000048_000003.wav|And think of the handsome reward," I said.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000027_000000.wav|Those were anxious moments for me, as well as for the young man who was ten years my junior.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000049_000000.wav|The thought of a forfeited reward seemed to stagger the boy.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000045_000000.wav|"That so?" queried the outlaw, quite excitably.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8388/278289/8388_278289_000030_000000.wav|"Purty nice lot of burros you've got," he began.|8388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000000_000001.wav|peter AND PAUL.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000017_000001.wav|How great!' poor peter cried. 'Yet I must sell my Sunday wig- The scarf pin that has been my pride- My grand piano-and my pig!' Full soon his property took wings: And daily, as each treasure went, He sighed to find the state of things Grow less and less convenient.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000021_000000.wav|Said peter 'I am well aware Mine is a state of happiness: And yet how gladly could I spare Some of the comforts I possess! What you call healthy appetite I feel as Hunger's savage tooth: And, when no dinner is in sight, The dinner bell's a sound of ruth!|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000018_000000.wav|Weeks grew to months, and months to years: peter was worn to skin and bone: And once he even said, with tears, 'Remember, Paul, that promised Loan!' Said Paul' I'll lend you, when I can, All the spare money I have got- Ah, peter, you're a happy man! Yours is an enviable lot!|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000027_000000.wav|'You well remember, I am sure, When first your wealth began to go, And people sneered at one so poor, I never used my peter so! And when you'd lost your little all, And found yourself a thing despised, I need not ask you to recall How tenderly I sympathised!|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000028_000000.wav|'Then the advice I've poured on you, So full of wisdom and of wit: All given gratis, though 'tis true I might have fairly charged for it! But I refrain from mentioning Full many a deed I might relate For boasting is a kind of thing That I particularly hate.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000010_000000.wav|Said Paul 'How bitterly I rue That fatal morning when I called! Consider, peter, what you do! You won't be richer when you're bald! Think you, by rending curls away, To make your difficulties less? Forbear this violence, I pray: You do but add to my distress!'|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000026_000000.wav|It chanced one day, as peter sat Gnawing a crust-his usual meal- Paul bustled in to have a chat, And grasped his hand with friendly zeal. 'I knew,' said he, 'your frugal ways: So, that I might not wound your pride By bringing strangers in to gaze, I've left my legal friend outside!|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000032_000000.wav|You'll see in a moment what the difference is between 'convenient' and 'inconvenient.' You quite understand it now, don't you?" he added, looking kindly at Bruno, who was sitting, at Sylvie's side, on the floor.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000012_000001.wav|Yet why so strict? Is this to act a friendly part? However legal it may be To pay what never has been lent, This style of business seems to me Extremely inconvenient!|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000006_000000.wav|'Well, well!' said peter, with a sigh. 'Hand me the cash, and I will go. I'll form a Joint Stock Company, And turn an honest pound or so.' 'I'm grieved,' said Paul, 'to seem unkind: The money shalt of course be lent: But, for a week or two, I find It will not be convenient.'|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000001_000000.wav|"As I was saying," the other Professor resumed, "if you'll just think over any Poem, that contains the words-such as,|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000005_000001.wav|peter said. 'The First of April, as I think. Five little weeks will soon be fled: One scarcely will have time to wink! Give me a year to speculate- To buy and sell-to drive a trade-' Said Paul 'I cannot change the date. On May the Fourth it must be paid.'|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000033_000000.wav|"Yes," said Bruno, very quietly.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000022_000000.wav|'No scare crow would accept this coat: Such boots as these you seldom see. Ah, Paul, a single five pound note Would make another man of me!' Said Paul 'It fills me with surprise To hear you talk in such a tone: I fear you scarcely realise The blessings that are all your own!|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000008_000000.wav|The Fourth arrived, and punctual Paul Came, with his legal friend, at noon. 'I thought it best,' said he, 'to call: One cannot settle things too soon.' Poor peter shuddered in despair: His flowing locks he wildly tore: And very soon his yellow hair Was lying all about the floor.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000031_000000.wav|'Not so,' was Peter's mild reply, His cheeks all wet with grateful tears; No man recalls, so well as I, Your services in bygone years: And this new offer, I admit, Is very very kindly meant- Still, to avail myself of it Would not be quite convenient!'|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000030_000001.wav|You little guessed How deep it drained my slender store: But there's a heart within this breast, And I WILL LEND YOU FIFTY MORE!'|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000016_000000.wav|'But pay your debts!' cried honest Paul. 'My gentle peter, pay your debts! What matter if it swallows all That you describe as your "assets"? Already you're an hour behind: Yet Generosity is best. It pinches me-but never mind! I WILL NOT CHARGE YOU INTEREST!'|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000007_000000.wav|So, week by week, poor peter came And turned in heaviness away; For still the answer was the same, 'I cannot manage it to day.' And now the April showers were dry- The five short weeks were nearly spent- Yet still he got the old reply, 'It is not quite convenient!'|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000033_000002.wav|In fact, he climbed up into Sylvie's lap as he spoke, and rested his head against her shoulder.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000002_000000.wav|'peter is poor,' said noble Paul, 'And I have always been his friend: And, though my means to give are small, At least I can afford to lend. How few, in this cold age of greed, Do good, except on selfish grounds! But I can feel for Peter's need, And I WILL LEND HIM FIFTY POUNDS!'|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000025_000000.wav|'One can't be too deliberate,' Said Paul, 'in parting with one's pelf. With bills, as you correctly state, I'm punctuality itself: A man may surely claim his dues: But, when there's money to be lent, A man must be allowed to choose Such times as are convenient!'|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134148/3825_134148_000024_000000.wav|Said peter 'Though I cannot sound The depths of such a man as you, Yet in your character I've found An inconsistency or two. You seem to have long years to spare When there's a promise to fulfil: And yet how punctual you were In calling with that little bill!'|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000048_000000.wav|"Thank you," the old man said, simply and heartily.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000043_000002.wav|Yes, it's all right: Eric has got his commission; and, now that he has arranged matters with Muriel, he has business in town that must be seen to at once."|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000046_000003.wav|"Who spoke?" he exclaimed.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000044_000001.wav|"Do you mean that they are engaged?"|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000008_000000.wav|"Good night!|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000016_000000.wav|"Delightful power of magic!" I thought.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000054_000003.wav|"But you will return, will you not?"|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000051_000001.wav|"But I hope to run down again in a month," I added.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000020_000001.wav|"Here is my chance," I thought, "for testing the reverse action of the Magic Watch!" I pressed the 'reversal peg' and walked in.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000013_000001.wav|A light cart was standing at the door of the 'Great Millinery Depot' of Elveston, laden with card board packing cases, which the driver was carrying into the shop, one by one. One of the cases had fallen into the street, but it scarcely seemed worth while to step forward and pick it up, as the man would be back again in a moment.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000025_000000.wav|When the needle work had been unfolded, and they were all ready to begin, their mother said "Come, that's done, at last!|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000013_000005.wav|I helped them in emptying the cart, and placing in it some pillows for the wounded man to rest on; and it was only when the driver had mounted to his place, and was starting for the Surgery, that I bethought me of the strange power I possessed of undoing all this harm.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000026_000000.wav|At last all the work was picked to pieces and put away, and the lady led the way into the next room, walking backwards, and making the insane remark "Not yet, dear: we must get the sewing done first."|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000005_000000.wav|A casual observer might have thought "and there ends the dialogue!" That casual observer would have been mistaken.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000010_000000.wav|And at last they parted.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000018_000000.wav|"Oh mocking Magic Watch!" I said to myself, as I passed out of the little town, and took the seaward road that led to my lodgings.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000025_000001.wav|You may fold up your work, girls." But the children took no notice whatever of the remark; on the contrary, they set to work at once sewing-if that is the proper word to describe an operation such as I had never before witnessed.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000002_000000.wav|As I entered the little town, I came upon two of the fishermen's wives interchanging that last word "which never was the last": and it occurred to me, as an experiment with the Magic Watch, to wait till the little scene was over, and then to 'encore' it.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000045_000001.wav|I could never be happy with my child married to a man without an object to live for-without even an object to die for!"|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000041_000002.wav|"Muriel is gone to bed-the excitement of that terrible scene was too much for her-and Eric has gone to the hotel to pack his things, to start for London by the early train."|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000001_000001.wav|AN OUTLANDISH WATCH.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000050_000000.wav|The next few days passed wearily enough.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000008_000001.wav|And ye'll send us word if she writes?"|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000050_000001.wav|I felt no inclination to call by myself at the Hall; still less to propose that Arthur should go with me: it seemed better to wait till Time-that gentle healer of our bitterest sorrows should have helped him to recover from the first shock of the disappointment that had blighted his life.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000049_000000.wav|A silence followed: then I rose, feeling sure that Arthur would wish to be alone, and bade our gentle host 'Good night': Arthur took his hand, but said nothing: nor did he speak again, as we went home till we were in the house and had lit our bed room candles.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000040_000000.wav|The longer I thought over this strange adventure, the more hopelessly tangled the mystery became: and it was a real relief to meet Arthur in the road, and get him to go with me up to the Hall, to learn what news the telegraph had brought.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000025_000004.wav|Now and then one of the children would pause, as the recovered thread became inconveniently long, wind it on a bobbin, and start again with another short end.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000015_000000.wav|Instantly I stepped out into the street, picked up the box, and replaced it in the cart: in the next moment the bicycle had spun round the corner, passed the cart without let or hindrance, and soon vanished in the distance, in a cloud of dust.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000016_000001.wav|"How much of human suffering I have-not only relieved, but actually annihilated!" And, in a glow of conscious virtue, I stood watching the unloading of the cart, still holding the Magic Watch open in my hand, as I was curious to see what would happen when we again reached the exact time at which I had put back the hand.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000006_000001.wav|They'll not treat her bad, yer may depend.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000022_000001.wav|"He that takes my life," he seemed to be saying, wheezily, to himself, "takes trash: But he that takes the Daily Telegraph-!" But this awful contingency I did not face.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000026_000001.wav|After which, I was not surprised to see the children skipping backwards after her, exclaiming "Oh, mother, it is such a lovely day for a walk!"|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000040_000001.wav|I told him, as we went, what had happened at the Station, but as to my further adventures I thought it best, for the present, to say nothing.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000006_000003.wav|Good night!"|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000007_000001.wav|Good night!"|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000052_000004.wav|'This life of mine I guard, as God's high gift, from scathe and wrong, Not greatly care to lose!'"|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000020_000003.wav|They would first wonder who I was, then see me, then look down, and think no more about me.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000020_000005.wav|"So, if I can once get in," I said to myself, "all risk of expulsion will be over!"|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000056_000000.wav|"Do," said Arthur: "and you shall write and tell me of our friends.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000043_000000.wav|"Did you not hear?|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000051_000002.wav|"I would stay now, if I could.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000020_000004.wav|And as to being expelled with violence, that event would necessarily come first in this case.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000052_000001.wav|"But don't think about me.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000010_000002.wav|The instantaneous change was startling: the two figures seemed to flash back into their former places.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000043_000001.wav|Oh, I had forgotten: it came in after you left the Station.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000006_000000.wav|"Ah, she'll like 'em, I war'n' ye!|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000013_000000.wav|I had not long to wait for an opportunity of testing this property also of the Magic Watch, for, even as the thought passed through my mind, the accident I was imagining occurred.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000010_000001.wav|I waited till they were some twenty yards apart, and then put the Watch a minute back.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty three.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000046_000000.wav|"I hope they will be happy," a strange voice said.|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000049_000002.wav|I never understood those words till now."|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3825/134160/3825_134160_000012_000000.wav|"But the real usefulness of this magic power," I thought, "would be to undo some harm, some painful event, some accident-"|3825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000035_000000.wav|"Kill them, then, while we have time, and then we can go home again," advised one of the chief officers.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000023_000002.wav|The dome was built so that the island could disappear.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000015_000000.wav|"Do not be alarmed," said their hostess.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000003_000000.wav|When night fell all the interior of the Great Dome, streets and houses, became lighted with brilliant incandescent lamps, which rendered it bright as day.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000019_000001.wav|"They will come soon, but not until all of this dome is under the surface of the water."|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000034_000000.wav|"Good!" exclaimed the Su dic, who had armed all his followers and had brought with him two copper vessels, which he carefully set down upon the ground beside him.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000042_000000.wav|The boat halted and Coo ee oh drew back her arm to throw the silver rope toward the Su dic, who was now but a few feet from her.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000015_000002.wav|But it proves the Flatheads are coming to attack us."|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000004_000000.wav|Lady Aurex gave them a nice supper and when they wished to retire showed them to a pretty room with comfortable beds and wished them a good night and pleasant dreams.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000018_000001.wav|Through the glass could be seen swimming fishes, and tall stalks of swaying seaweeds, for the water was clear as crystal and through it they could distinguish even the farther shore of the lake.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000005_000000.wav|"What do you think of all this, Ozma?" Dorothy anxiously inquired when they were alone.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000002_000000.wav|Under Water|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000016_000000.wav|"What do you mean by sub sub merging the island?" asked Dorothy.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000033_000000.wav|The Flatheads, pushing their way through the line of palm trees, had reached the shore of the lake just as the top of the island's dome disappeared beneath the surface.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000021_000000.wav|"No, indeed."|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000038_000000.wav|From the submerged dome a door opened and something black shot swiftly out into the water.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000022_000000.wav|"Was the island ever sub sub sunk before?"|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000009_000000.wav|Dorothy was not worrying, especially.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000014_000001.wav|Then they rushed into the living room of the house and found Lady Aurex, fully dressed, awaiting them.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000008_000000.wav|"Do not worry, dear," said Ozma, "I do not think we are in danger, whatever happens, and the result of our adventure is sure to be good."|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000023_000003.wav|I think," she continued, "that our Queen fears the Flatheads will attack the island and try to break the glass of the dome."|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000017_000000.wav|"Come here and see," was the reply.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000007_000001.wav|"If Queen Coo ee oh conquers to morrow, she won't be nice to us, and if the Su dic conquers, he'll be worse."|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000037_000000.wav|"Look out!" suddenly exclaimed the officers, pointing into the lake; "something's going to happen."|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000012_000000.wav|"What is it?" asked Dorothy, jumping out of bed.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000010_000000.wav|A sort of grating, grinding sound awakened her.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000007_000000.wav|"Just now, though, we're in a bad fix," asserted Dorothy.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000024_000000.wav|"Well, if we're under water, they can't fight us, and we can't fight them," asserted Dorothy.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000025_000000.wav|"They could kill the fishes, however," said Ozma gravely.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000040_000001.wav|"It is all enclosed, and can move under water.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000040_000002.wav|Coo ee oh has several of these boats which are kept in little rooms in the basement under our village. When the island is submerged, the Queen uses these boats to reach the shore, and I believe she now intends to fight the Flatheads with them."|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000031_000000.wav|On the bank, which was now far above their heads, a crowd of dark figures could be seen.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000020_000000.wav|"Won't the dome leak?" Dorothy inquired anxiously.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000006_000002.wav|I have no doubt I can accomplish this in time."|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000003_000003.wav|They were prisoners, but treated with much consideration.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000006_000000.wav|"I am glad we came," was the reply, "for although there may be mischief done to morrow, it was necessary I should know about these people, whose leaders are wild and lawless and oppress their subjects with injustice and cruelties.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000039_000000.wav|"What is that?" Dorothy asked the Lady Aurex.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000032_000000.wav|"Now let us see what Coo ee oh will do to oppose them," continued Lady Aurex, in a voice that betrayed her excitement.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000033_000001.wav|The water now flowed from shore to shore, but through the clear water the dome was still visible and the houses of the Skeezers could be dimly seen through the panes of glass.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000018_000000.wav|Lady Aurex led them to a window which faced the side of the great dome which covered all the village, and they could see that the island was indeed sinking, for the water of the lake was already half way up the side of the dome.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000030_000000.wav|"See!" cried Lady Aurex, pointing to the shore.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000003_000002.wav|There was revelry and feasting in the Queen's palace, and the music of the royal band could be plainly heard in Lady Aurex's house, where Ozma and Dorothy remained with their hostess and keeper.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000003_000001.wav|Dorothy thought the island must look beautiful by night from the outer shore of the lake.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000014_000000.wav|As soon as possible they finished dressing, while the creaking and swaying continued.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000023_000001.wav|But Coo ee oh doesn't care to do that often, for it requires a lot of hard work to operate the machinery.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000009_000001.wav|She had confidence in her friend, the fairy Princess of Oz, and she enjoyed the excitement of the events in which she was taking part.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000036_000000.wav|"Not yet," objected the Su dic.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000041_000000.wav|The Su dic and his people knew nothing of Coo ee oh's submarines, so they watched with surprise as the under water boat approached them. When it was quite near the shore it rose to the surface and the top parted and fell back, disclosing a boat full of armed Skeezers.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000019_000000.wav|"The Flatheads are not here yet," said Lady Aurex.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000029_000000.wav|By this time the top of the dome was quite under water and suddenly the island stopped sinking and became stationary.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000023_000000.wav|"Oh, yes; on several occasions.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000013_000000.wav|"I'm not sure," answered Ozma "but it feels as if the island is sinking."|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/149791/3905_149791_000030_000001.wav|"The Flatheads have come."|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000017_000002.wav|A base and cowardly knight of the court, named Andret, spied them through a keyhole.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000004.wav|Tristram was cited before the whole court, and reproached with having dared to present himself before them after having slain their kinsman.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000012_000003.wav|The judges of the field decided that the king of Ireland was acquitted of the charge against him, and they led Tristram in triumph to his tent.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000010_000002.wav|He embarked for Ireland; but a tempest drove him to the coast of England, near Camelot, where King Arthur was holding his court, attended by the knights of the Round Table, and many others, the most illustrious in the world.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000009_000003.wav|Whenever a knight's word was pledged (it mattered not how rashly) it was to be redeemed at any price.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000001_000000.wav|Gouvernail, the queen's squire, who had accompanied her, took charge of the child, and restored him to his father, who had at length burst the enchantments of the fairy, and returned home.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000006_000001.wav|On the first day a Saracen prince, named Palamedes, obtained the advantage over all.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000001.wav|It occurred to her that the missing portion was like that which was left in the skull of Moraunt, the Irish champion.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000016_000004.wav|The lady was mounted on her horse, and led away by her triumphant lover. Tristram, it is needless to say, was absent at the time, and did not return until their departure.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000012_000005.wav|They departed together, and arrived in Ireland; and the queen, forgetting her resentment for her brother's death, exhibited to the preserver of her husband's life nothing but gratitude and good will.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000009_000000.wav|King Mark made his nephew give him a minute recital of his adventures.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000007_000001.wav|Tristram, still feeble from his wound, rose during the night, took his arms, and concealed them in a forest near the place of the contest, and, after it had begun, mingled with the combatants.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000015_000003.wav|Love seemed to light up all his fires on their lips, as in their hearts.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000011_000001.wav|He took part in many justs; he fought many combats, in which he covered himself with glory.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000005.wav|He acknowledged that he had fought with Moraunt to settle the claim for tribute, and said that it was by force of winds and waves alone that he was thrown on their coast.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000009_000002.wav|King Mark was fascinated with the description, and, choosing a favorable time, demanded a boon[Footnote: "Good faith was the very corner stone of chivalry.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000005_000002.wav|They dressed his wounds, which in general healed readily; but the lance of Moraunt was poisoned, and one wound which it made yielded to no remedies, but grew worse day by day.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000017_000000.wav|The king showed much gratitude to Tristram, but in the bottom of his heart he cherished bitter jealousy of him.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000003_000005.wav|King Mark assented with reluctance; Tristram received the accolade, which conferred knighthood upon him, and the place and time were assigned for the encounter.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000002_000001.wav|In particular, he devoted himself to the chase and to all woodland sports, so that he became distinguished above all other chevaliers of the court for his knowledge of all that relates to hunting.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000016_000000.wav|In the midst of the festivities of the court which followed the royal marriage, an unknown minstrel one day presented himself, bearing a harp of peculiar construction.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000017_000005.wav|The king saw enough to confirm his suspicions, and he burst into the apartment with his sword drawn, and had nearly slain Tristram before he was put on his guard.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000005_000000.wav|The kingdom of Cornwall was thus delivered from its tribute. Tristram, weakened by loss of blood, fell senseless.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000015_000004.wav|The day was warm; they suffered from thirst.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000002.wav|She imparted her thought to the queen, who compared the fragment taken from her brother's wound with the sword of Tristram, and was satisfied that it was part of the same, and that the weapon of Tristram was that which reft her brother's life.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000015_000006.wav|He took it, gave some of it to the charming Isoude, and drank the remainder himself.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000011_000007.wav|Argius heard of the great renown of the unknown knight; he also was witness of his exploits.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000010_000000.wav|Tristram believed it was certain death for him to return to Ireland; and how could he act as ambassador for his uncle in such a cause?|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000011_000003.wav|This prince, accused of treason against his liege sovereign, Arthur, came to Camelot to free himself from the charge.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000017_000004.wav|Andret brought the king, having first raised his suspicions, and placed him so as to watch their motions.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000009_000006.wav|The history of the times presents authentic transactions equally embarrassing and absurd"--SCOTT, note to Sir Tristram.] of his nephew, who readily granted it.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000010_000001.wav|Yet, bound by his oath, he hesitated not for an instant. He only took the precaution to change his armor.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000006_000004.wav|Palamedes could not behold them without emotion, and made no effort to conceal his love.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000015_000009.wav|He loaded him with honors, and made him chamberlain of his palace, thus giving him access to the queen at all times.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000002_000002.wav|No wonder that Belinda, the king's daughter, fell in love with him; but as he did not return her passion, she, in a sudden impulse of anger, excited her father against him, and he was banished the kingdom.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000016_000003.wav|King Mark could not by the laws of knighthood withhold the boon.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000002_000003.wav|The princess soon repented of her act, and in despair destroyed herself, having first written a most tender letter to Tristram, sending him at the same time a beautiful and sagacious dog, of which she was very fond, desiring him to keep it as a memorial of her.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000014_000001.wav|Brengwain, her favorite maid of honor, was to accompany her.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000006.wav|The queen demanded vengeance for the death of her brother; the fair Isoude trembled and grew pale, but a murmur rose from all the assembly that the life of one so handsome and so brave should not be taken for such a cause, and generosity finally triumphed over resentment in the mind of the king.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000007_000003.wav|But his exertions caused his wound to reopen; he bled fast, and in this sad state, yet in triumph, they bore him to the palace.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000017_000003.wav|They sat at a table of chess, but were not attending to the game.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000003_000004.wav|King Mark could find no champion who dared to encounter the Irish knight, till his nephew Tristram, who had not yet received the honors of knighthood, craved to be admitted to the order, offering at the same time to fight the battle of Cornwall against the Irish champion.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000003.wav|She laid her griefs and resentment before the king, who satisfied himself with his own eyes of the truth of her suspicions.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000018_000000.wav|A proof of the great popularity of the tale of Sir Tristram is the fact that the Italian poets, Boiardo and Ariosto, have founded upon it the idea of the two enchanted fountains, which produced the opposite effects of love and hatred.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000012_000000.wav|Tristram fought with Blaanor, and overthrew him, and held his life in his power.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000016_000008.wav|"Ah, lady," said he, "I will obey you; but I beseech you that you will not for ever steel your heart against me." "Palamedes," she replied, "may I never taste of joy again if I ever quit my first love." Palamedes then went his way.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000011_000008.wav|He sought him, and conjured him to adopt his defence, and on his oath declared that he was innocent of the crime of which he was accused.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000011_000009.wav|Tristram readily consented, and made himself known to the king, who on his part promised to reward his exertions, if successful, with whatever gift he might ask.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000005_000009.wav|The queen undertook his cure, and by a medicated bath gradually restored him to health.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000005_000004.wav|Tristram asked permission of his uncle to depart, and seek for aid in the kingdom of Loegria (England).|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000000_000003.wav|His queen set out in quest of him, but was taken ill on her journey, and died, leaving an infant son, whom, from the melancholy circumstances of his birth, she called Tristram.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000015_000001.wav|A favorable wind filled the sails, and promised them a fortunate voyage.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000007_000000.wav|Next day the tournament was renewed.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000016_000001.wav|He excited the curiosity of King Mark by refusing to play upon it till he should grant him a boon.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000005_000008.wav|The strange harper was sent for, and conveyed to the palace, where, finding that he was in Ireland, whose champion he had lately slain, he concealed his name, and called himself Tramtris.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000008_000000.wav|It happened one day that a damsel of the court, entering the closet where Tristram's arms were deposited, perceived that a part of the sword had been broken off.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000017_000006.wav|But Tristram avoided the blow, drew his sword, and drove before him the cowardly monarch, chasing him through all the apartments of the palace, giving him frequent blows with the flat of his sword, while he cried in vain to his knights to save him.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000003_000003.wav|The knights of Cornwall are in ill repute in romance for their cowardice, and they exhibited it on this occasion.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000012_000002.wav|"God forbid," said Tristram, "that I should take the life of so brave a knight!" He raised him up and restored him to his friends.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000006_000000.wav|At this time a tournament was held, at which many knights of the Round Table, and others, were present.|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3905/172165/3905_172165_000018_000001.wav|Boiardo thus describes the fountain of hatred:|3905
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER seven.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000008_000003.wav|Once on the Continent, they had to make their way, poor and friendless, through people whose language they did not understand, and who were in many places ten times more rude and dangerous in those ages than the inhabitants of these islands: and we know as a matter of history, that many were killed on the way.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000005_000002.wav|Aidan was an Irishman who entered the monastery of Iona, from which he was sent to preach to the Northumbrians on the invitation of their good king, Oswald.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000003_000002.wav|There was ample field for their noble ambition.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000007_000001.wav|They travelled on foot towards their destination in small companies, generally of thirteen.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000005_000003.wav|He founded the monastery of Lindisfarne, which afterwards became so illustrious.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000005_000004.wav|He was its first abbot; and for thirty years it was governed by him and by two other Irish abbots, Finan and Colman, in succession.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000013_000002.wav|We are told by English writers that "they were skilled in every department of learning sacred and profane"; and that under them were educated many young English nobles, sent to Glastonbury with that object.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000012_000002.wav|Irish professors and teachers were in those times held in such estimation that they were employed in most of the schools and colleges of Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000003_000003.wav|For these were the Dark Ages, when the civilisation and learning bequeathed by old Greece and Rome had been almost wiped out of existence by the barbarous northern hordes who overran Europe; and Christianity had not yet time to spread its softening influence among them.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000004_000000.wav|To begin with the Irish missionary work in Great Britain.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000006_000002.wav|In a letter written by him to Charles the Bald, king of France, he says:--"What shall I say of Ireland, who, despising the dangers of the deep, is migrating with almost her whole train of philosophers to our coasts?" And other foreign evidences of a like kind might be brought forward.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000008_000004.wav|But these stout hearted pilgrims were prepared for all this, and looking only to the service of their Master, never flinched.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000010_000000.wav|Wherever they went they made pilgrimages to holy places-places sanctified by memories of early saints-and whenever they found it practicable they were sure to make their way to Rome, to visit the shrines of the apostles, and obtain the blessing of the Pope.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000013_000001.wav|In Glastonbury especially, they taught with great success.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000017_000002.wav|Having kept them for some time on a visit in his palace, he finally opened a great school in some part of France-probably Paris-for the education of boys of all ranks of society, not only for the sons of the highest nobles, but also for those of the middle and low classes, at the head of which he placed Clement.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000012_000004.wav|It was enough that the candidate for an appointment came from Ireland: he needed no other recommendation.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000009_000002.wav|Europe was too small for their missionary enterprise.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000008_000006.wav|They were somewhat rough in outward appearance: but beneath all that they had solid sense and much learning.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000017_000003.wav|He also directed that all the scholars should be provided with food and suitable habitations: it was in fact a great free boarding school, founded and maintained at the expense of the king.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000008_000001.wav|Most of them were persons in good position, who might have lived in plenty and comfort at home.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000017_000001.wav|And as he perceived that these brothers were evidently men of real learning, and of a superior cast in every way, he joyfully accepted their proposals.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000008_000005.wav|They were confident, cheerful, and self helpful, faced privation with indifference, caring nothing for luxuries; and when other provisions failed them, they gathered wild fruit, trapped animals, and fished, with great dexterity and with any sort of next to hand rude appliances.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000011_000000.wav|The Irish "passion for pilgrimage and preaching" never died out: it is a characteristic of the race.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000006_000000.wav|Whole crowds of ardent and learned Irishmen travelled on the Continent in the sixth, seventh, and succeeding centuries, spreading Christianity and secular knowledge everywhere among the people.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000015_000001.wav|Observing how the merchants exhibited and drew attention to their wares, they acted in a similar fashion to force themselves into notice like the others.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000012_000003.wav|The revival of learning on the Continent was indeed due in no small degree to those Irish missionaries.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000007_000003.wav|The long hair behind flowed down on the back: and the eyelids were painted or stained black.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000009_000001.wav|They were to be found everywhere through Europe, even as far as Iceland and the Faroe and Shetland Islands.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000009_000003.wav|Many were to be found in Egypt; and as early as the seventh century, three learned Irish monks found their way to Carthage, where they laboured for a long time and with great success.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000007_000004.wav|Each had a long stout walking stick: and slung from the shoulder a leathern bottle for water, and a wallet containing his greatest treasure-a book or two and some relics.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000003_000000.wav|Towards the end of the sixth century the great body of the Irish were Christians, so that the holy men of Ireland were able to turn their attention to the conversion of other people.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000012_000001.wav|Indeed the two functions were generally combined; for it was quite common to find a man a successful missionary, while at the same time acting as professor in a college, or as head of some great seminary for general education.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000005_000000.wav|In the seven kingdoms of England-the Heptarchy-the Anglo Saxons were the ruling race, rude and stubborn, and greatly attached to their gloomy northern pagan gods.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000013_000003.wav|Among these students the most distinguished was saint Dunstan, who, according to all his biographers, received his education, both Scriptural and secular, from Irish masters there.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000007_000000.wav|These men, on their first appearance on the Continent, caused much surprise, they were so startlingly different from those preachers the people had been accustomed to.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000006_000001.wav|On this point we have the decisive testimony of an eminent French writer of the ninth century, Eric of Auxerre, who himself witnessed what he records.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000014_000000.wav|As for the numerous Continental schools and colleges in which Irishmen figured either as principals or professors, it would be impossible, with our limited space, to notice them here.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000015_000003.wav|This they repeated as they went from place to place, so that the people wondered very much; and some thought them to be nothing more than persons half crazed.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000017_000000.wav|Now at this very time King Charles was using his best efforts to restore learning, by opening schools throughout his dominions, but found it hard to procure a sufficient supply of qualified teachers.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112593/8006_112593_000012_000000.wav|Irishmen were equally active in spreading secular knowledge.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000020_000000.wav|The schools proved their mettle by the scholars they educated and sent forth: scholars who astonished all Europe in their day.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000005_000000.wav|In lay schools was taught what might be called the native learning-the learning that had grown up in the country in the course of ages.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000014_000002.wav|The Fer leginn was always some distinguished man-of course a great scholar.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000009_000001.wav|In Clonard there were three thousand, all residing in and around the college; and Bangor founded by saint Comgall, and Clonfert founded by saint Brendan the Navigator, had each as many.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000011_000001.wav|During study and lecture hours these same young men, having put by aprons and napkins, and donned their ordinary dress, are received and treated on terms of perfect equality by those they have served, who take on no airs, and do not pose as superiors, but mix with them in free and kindly intercourse as fellow students and comrades.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000001.wav|All those who had the means paid their way in everything.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000006_000002.wav|They continued on, and were to be found in every part of Ireland for fourteen centuries after saint Patrick's arrival, down to a period within our own memory; but of course greatly changed as time went on.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000004_000001.wav|These were what are called monastic or ecclesiastical schools, for they were mostly taught by monks; while the older schools, being taught by laymen, were called lay schools.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000007_000002.wav|They held their ground successfully-as the lay schools did-during the evil days of later ages, when determined attempts were made, under the penal laws, to suppress them; and at the present day they are working all over the country quite as vigorously as in days of yore.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000021_000001.wav|It was no wonder that the people of Great Britain and the Continent, when they met such scholars, all from Ireland, came to the conclusion that the schools which educated them were the best to be found anywhere.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000005.wav|They wait on their richer comrades, bring up the dishes, etc, from the kitchen for meals, and lay the tables: and when the meal is over, they remove everything, wash up dishes and plates, and put them all by in their proper places.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000003.wav|But most of even the poorest did their best to pay something; and in this respect it is interesting to compare the usages of those long past times with some features of the college life of our own days.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000006_000006.wav|But the famine of eighteen forty seven broke up those schools, and in a very few years they nearly all disappeared.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000021_000005.wav|But even in much greater numbers than these came students from Great Britain.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000006_000000.wav|These lay schools, being now within the Christian communion, were not abolished or discouraged in any way by saint Patrick or his successors.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000014_000003.wav|He was generally a monk, but sometimes a layman; for those good monks selected the best man they could find, whether priest or layman.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000015_000003.wav|At study time the students went just where they pleased, and accommodated themselves as best they could.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000021_000000.wav|These men, and scores of others that we cannot find space for here, spread the fame of their native country everywhere.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000015_000002.wav|The greater part of the work, indeed, was carried on in the open air when the weather at all permitted.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000017_000001.wav|There were no grammars, no dictionaries, no simple introductory lesson books, such as we have now.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000020_000002.wav|john Scotus Erigena ('john the Irish born Scot') of the ninth century taught in Paris; he was the greatest Greek scholar of his time, and was equally eminent in Theology.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000002_000000.wav|HOW IRELAND BECAME THE MOST LEARNED COUNTRY IN EUROPE.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000012_000000.wav|All this was anticipated in Ireland more than a thousand years ago; for a similar custom existed in some of the old Irish colleges.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000005_000002.wav|In these last the professional men were educated.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000011_000000.wav|And the pleasing feature of this arrangement is, that it is not attended with any sense of humiliation or loss of self respect.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000019_000001.wav|The Latin and Greek languages and literatures were studied and taught with success.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000007_000001.wav|Before going farther it is well to remark that these schools also continued, and increased and multiplied as time went on.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000016_000001.wav|These same books, too, were a motley collection-some large, some small, some fresh from the scribe, some tattered and brown with age: but all most carefully covered and preserved; for they were very expensive.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000007_000000.wav|But our business here is mainly with the early monastic schools, which became so celebrated all over Europe.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000017_000003.wav|And in this rugged and difficult fashion they mastered the language.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000006_000001.wav|They were simply let alone, to teach their own secular learning just as they pleased.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000003_000000.wav|In old pagan times, long before the arrival of saint Patrick, there were schools in Ireland taught by druids.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000016_000000.wav|Then the little handbell tinkled for some particular lecture, and the special students for this hurried to their places, and seated themselves as best they could-on chair, stool, form, stone, or bank, and opened their books.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000009_000000.wav|Many of the monastic colleges had very large numbers of students.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000021_000003.wav|From Germany, France, Italy, Egypt, came priests and laymen, princes, chiefs, and peasant students-all eagerly seeking to drink from the fountain of Irish learning.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000014_000000.wav|Where there were large numbers great care was taken that there should be no confusion or disorder.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000007.wav|For this they receive food and some small payment, which renders them independent of charity.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000019_000003.wav|And they were equally eminent in sacred learning-Theology, Divinity, and the Holy Scriptures.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000017_000000.wav|Then the master went over the text, translating and explaining it, and whenever he thought it necessary questioned his pupils, to draw them out. After this he had to stand the cross fire of the students' questions, who asked him to explain all sorts of difficulties: for this was one of the college regulations.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000006.wav|In fact, they perform most of the work expected from ordinary servants.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000004.wav|In some of the present American universities there is an excellent custom which enables very poor students to support themselves and pay their college fees.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER six.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000008_000000.wav|To notice all the monastic schools of old that attained eminence would demand more space than can be afforded here.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000010_000000.wav|The students were of all classes-rich and poor-from the sons of kings and chiefs down to the sons of farmers, tradesmen, and labourers; young laymen for general education, as well as ecclesiastical students for the priesthood.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000019_000000.wav|The great Irish colleges were, in fact, universities in the full sense of the word, that is to say, schools which taught the whole circle of knowledge: they were, indeed, in a great measure the models on which our present universities were formed.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000008_000005.wav|Besides these, at least twenty five others, all eminent, are specially mentioned in our old books.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8006/112592/8006_112592_000006_000004.wav|I was myself educated in some of those lay schools; and I remember with pleasure several of my old teachers: rough and unpolished men most of them, but excellent, solid scholars, and full of enthusiasm for learning-enthusiasm which they communicated to their pupils.|8006
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000005_000002.wav|The corpse was followed by the parents.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000005_000005.wav|His wife hung on his arm, and wept aloud with the convulsive bursts of a mother's sorrow.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000011_000000.wav|The village was one of those sequestered spots which still retain some vestiges of old English customs.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000028_000000.wav|The church door was open and I stepped in.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000020_000001.wav|Faintings and hysterics had at first shaken her tender frame, and were succeeded by a settled and pining melancholy.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000014_000001.wav|He had begun the connection in levity, for he had often heard his brother officers boast of their village conquests, and thought some triumph of the kind necessary to his reputation as a man of spirit.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000005.wav|When present, his looks and words occupied her whole attention; when absent, she thought but of what had passed at their recent interview.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000001_000000.wav|May no wolfe howle; no screech owle stir A wing about thy sepulchre! No boysterous winds or stormes come hither, To starve or wither Thy soft sweet earth!|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000002_000002.wav|I determined to pass the night there, and, having taken an early dinner, strolled out to enjoy the neighboring scenery.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000020_000004.wav|She strained a last aching gaze after him as the morning sun glittered about his figure and his plume waved in the breeze; he passed away like a bright vision from her sight, and left her all in darkness.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000015_000003.wav|In vain did he try to fortify himself by a thousand heartless examples of men of fashion, and to chill the glow of generous sentiment with that cold derisive levity with which he had heard them talk of female virtue: whenever he came into her presence she was still surrounded by that mysterious but impassive charm of virgin purity in whose hallowed sphere no guilty thought can live.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000003.wav|As to her, she loved almost unconsciously; she scarcely inquired what was the growing passion that was absorbing every thought and feeling, or what were to be its consequences.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000004_000001.wav|Every now and then the stroke of a bell from the neighboring tower fell on my ear; its tones were in unison with the scene, and, instead of jarring, chimed in with my feelings; and it was some time before I recollected that it must be tolling the knell of some new tenant of the tomb.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000002_000001.wav|There was an air of primitive simplicity about its inhabitants not to be found in the villages which lie on the great coach roads.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000011_000002.wav|These, indeed, had been promoted by its present pastor, who was a lover of old customs and one of those simple Christians that think their mission fulfilled by promoting joy on earth and good will among mankind.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000008_000005.wav|She had been the pupil of the village pastor, the favorite lamb of his little flock.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000022_000000.wav|She felt a conviction that she was hastening to the tomb, but looked forward to it as a place of rest.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000006_000001.wav|The bier was placed in the centre aisle, and the chaplet of white flowers, with a pair of white gloves, was hung over the seat which the deceased had occupied.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000021_000002.wav|She avoided society and wandered out alone in the walks she had most frequented with her lover. She sought, like the stricken deer, to weep in silence and loneliness and brood over the barbed sorrow that rankled in her soul.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000025_000001.wav|Her eye was fixed on the distant village church: the bell had tolled for the evening service; the last villager was lagging into the porch, and everything had sunk into that hallowed stillness peculiar to the day of rest.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000021_000003.wav|Sometimes she would be seen late of an evening sitting in the porch of the village church, and the milk maids, returning from the fields, would now and then overhear her singing some plaintive ditty in the hawthorn walk.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000007_000000.wav|Every one knows the soul subduing pathos of the funeral service, for who is so fortunate as never to have followed some one he has loved to the tomb?|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000028_000001.wav|There hung the chaplet of flowers and the gloves, as on the day of the funeral: the flowers were withered, it is true, but care seemed to have been taken that no dust should soil their whiteness.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000022_000003.wav|She was incapable of angry passions, and in a moment of saddened tenderness she penned him a farewell letter.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000025_000003.wav|Sickness and sorrow, which pass so roughly over some faces, had given to hers the expression of a seraph's.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000013_000006.wav|She would listen to him with charmed ear and downcast look of mute delight, and her cheek would mantle with enthusiasm; or if ever she ventured a shy glance of timid admiration, it was as quickly withdrawn, and she would sigh and blush at the idea of her comparative unworthiness.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000009_000001.wav|It might be truly said of her:|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000025_000004.wav|A tear trembled in her soft blue eye.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000011_000007.wav|The artlessness of rural habits enabled him readily to make her acquaintance; he gradually won his way into her intimacy, and paid his court to her in that unthinking way in which young officers are too apt to trifle with rustic simplicity.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000013_000004.wav|She felt in his society the enthusiasm of a mind naturally delicate and poetical, and now first awakened to a keen perception of the beautiful and grand.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000006_000000.wav|I followed the funeral into the church.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000023_000004.wav|Her poor parents hung in mute anxiety over this fading blossom of their hopes, still flattering themselves that it might again revive to freshness and that the bright unearthly bloom which sometimes flushed her cheek might be the promise of returning health.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000027_000005.wav|Evergreens, however, had been planted about the grave of the village favorite, and osiers were bent over it to keep the turf uninjured.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000013_000003.wav|She looked up to him as to a being of a superior order.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000020_000002.wav|She had beheld from her window the march of the departing troops.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000011_000001.wav|It had its rural festivals and holiday pastimes, and still kept up some faint observance of the once popular rites of May.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000008_000001.wav|It was a simple one, and such as has often been told.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000019_000000.wav|The officer retired confounded, humiliated, and repentant.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000000.wav|There was nothing in his advances to startle or alarm.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000004.wav|She, indeed, looked not to the future.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000002.wav|Can we wonder that they should readily win a heart young, guileless, and susceptible?|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000003_000003.wav|The early part of the day had been dark and showery, but in the afternoon it had cleared up, and, though sullen clouds still hung overhead, yet there was a broad tract of golden sky in the west, from which the setting sun gleamed through the dripping leaves and lit up all Nature into a melancholy smile.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000003_000001.wav|Indeed, it was an object of some curiosity, its old tower being completely overrun with ivy so that only here and there a jutting buttress, an angle of gray wall, or a fantastically carved ornament peered through the verdant covering.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000010_000000.wav|"This is the prettiest low born lass, that ever Ran on the green sward: nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself; Too noble for this place."|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000007.wav|He taught her to see new beauties in Nature; he talked in the language of polite and cultivated life, and breathed into her ear the witcheries of romance and poetry.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000001_000001.wav|but, like a spring, Love kept it ever flourishing. HERRICK.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000022_000001.wav|The silver cord that had bound her to existence was loosed, and there seemed to be no more pleasure under the sun|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000027_000002.wav|In the present rage also for strange incident and high seasoned narrative they may appear trite and insignificant, but they interested me strongly at the time; and, taken in connection with the affecting ceremony which I had just witnessed, left a deeper impression on my mind than many circumstances of a more striking nature.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000018_000000.wav|He was quite a novice in seduction, and blushed and faltered at his own baseness; but so innocent of mind was his intended victim that she was at first at a loss to comprehend his meaning, and why she should leave her native village and the humble roof of her parents.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000028_000002.wav|I have seen many monuments where art has exhausted its powers to awaken the sympathy of the spectator, but I have met with none that spoke more touchingly to my heart than this simple but delicate memento of departed innocence.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000011_000005.wav|He was charmed with the native taste that pervaded this village pageant, but, above all, with the dawning loveliness of the queen of May.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000002_000000.wav|IN the course of an excursion through one of the remote counties of England, I had struck into one of those cross roads that lead through the more secluded parts of the country, and stopped one afternoon at a village the situation of which was beautifully rural and retired.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000022_000005.wav|She even depicted the sufferings which she had experienced, but concluded with saying that she could not die in peace until she had sent him her forgiveness and her blessing.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000013_000005.wav|Of the sordid distinctions of rank and fortune she thought nothing; it was the difference of intellect, of demeanor, of manners, from those of the rustic society to which she had been accustomed, that elevated him in her opinion.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000018_000001.wav|When at last the nature of his proposal flashed upon her pure mind, the effect was withering.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000004_000000.wav|I had seated myself on a half sunken tombstone, and was musing, as one is apt to do at this sober thoughted hour, on past scenes and early friends-on those who were distant and those who were dead-and indulging in that kind of melancholy fancying which has in it something sweeter even than pleasure.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000023_000001.wav|She could only totter to the window, where, propped up in her chair, it was her enjoyment to sit all day and look out upon the landscape.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000013_000002.wav|Her attachment had something in it of idolatry.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000008_000007.wav|She appeared like some tender plant of the garden blooming accidentally amid the hardier natives of the fields.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000009_000000.wav|The superiority of her charms was felt and acknowledged by her companions, but without envy, for it was surpassed by the unassuming gentleness and winning kindness of her manners.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000008_000003.wav|Her father had once been an opulent farmer, but was reduced in circumstances.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000025_000005.wav|Was she thinking of her faithless lover? or were her thoughts wandering to that distant churchyard, into whose bosom she might soon be gathered?|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000015_000000.wav|What was he to do?|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000027_000004.wav|It was a wintry evening: the trees were stripped of their foliage, the churchyard looked naked and mournful, and the wind rustled coldly through the dry grass.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000016_000001.wav|He remained for a short time in a state of the most painful irresolution; he hesitated to communicate the tidings until the day for marching was at hand, when he gave her the intelligence in the course of an evening ramble.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000027_000001.wav|They are but scanty, and I am conscious have little novelty to recommend them.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000017_000001.wav|It broke in at once upon her dream of felicity; she looked upon it as a sudden and insurmountable evil, and wept with the guileless simplicity of a child. He drew her to his bosom and kissed the tears from her soft cheek; nor did he meet with a repulse, for there are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness which hallow the caresses of affection.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000025_000000.wav|Her father had just been reading a chapter in the Bible: it spoke of the vanity of worldly things and of the joys of heaven: it seemed to have diffused comfort and serenity through her bosom.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000027_000003.wav|I have passed through the place since, and visited the church again from a better motive than mere curiosity.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000017_000002.wav|He was naturally impetuous, and the sight of beauty apparently yielding in his arms, the confidence of his power over her, and the dread of losing her forever all conspired to overwhelm his better feelings: he ventured to propose that she should leave her home and be the companion of his fortunes.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000012_000001.wav|He never even talked of love, but there are modes of making it more eloquent than language, and which convey it subtilely and irresistibly to the heart. The beam of the eye, the tone of voice, the thousand tendernesses which emanate from every word and look and action,--these form the true eloquence of love, and can always be felt and understood, but never described.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000021_000001.wav|It was, like other tales of love, melancholy.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000024_000000.wav|In this way she was seated between them one Sunday afternoon; her hands were clasped in theirs, the lattice was thrown open, and the soft air that stole in brought with it the fragrance of the clustering honeysuckle which her own hands had trained round the window.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000007_000001.wav|But when performed over the remains of innocence and beauty, thus laid low in the bloom of existence, what can be more affecting?|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000011_000003.wav|Under his auspices the May pole stood from year to year in the centre of the village green; on Mayday it was decorated with garlands and streamers, and a queen or lady of the May was appointed, as in former times, to preside at the sports and distribute the prizes and rewards.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000022_000002.wav|If ever her gentle bosom had entertained resentment against her lover, it was extinguished.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000008_000000.wav|On returning to the inn I learnt the whole story of the deceased.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000005_000004.wav|The father seemed to repress his feelings, but his fixed eye, contracted brow, and deeply furrowed face showed the struggle that was passing within.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000023_000002.wav|Still she uttered no complaint nor imparted to any one the malady that was preying on her heart.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000023_000003.wav|She never even mentioned her lover's name, but would lay her head on her mother's bosom and weep in silence.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000014_000000.wav|Her lover was equally impassioned, but his passion was mingled with feelings of a coarser nature.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000007_000002.wav|At that simple but most solemn consignment of the body to the grave "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust!"--the tears of the youthful companions of the deceased flowed unrestrained.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000021_000004.wav|She became fervent in her devotions at church, and as the old people saw her approach, so wasted away, yet with a hectic gloom and that hallowed air which melancholy diffuses round the form, they would make way for her as for something spiritual, and looking after her, would shake their heads in gloomy foreboding.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000013_000001.wav|The gallant figure of her youthful admirer and the splendor of his military attire might at first have charmed her eye, but it was not these that had captivated her heart.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000007_000003.wav|The father still seemed to struggle with his feelings, and to comfort himself with the assurance that the dead are blessed which die in the Lord; but the mother only thought of her child as a flower of the field cut down and withered in the midst of its sweetness; she was like Rachel, "mourning over her children, and would not be comforted."|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000027_000000.wav|Such are the particulars which I gathered of this village story.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000026_000002.wav|She was too faint to rise-she attempted to extend her trembling hand-her lips moved as if she spoke, but no word was articulated; she looked down upon him with a smile of unutterable tenderness, and closed her eyes forever.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6567/53342/6567_53342_000018_000002.wav|She did not weep; she did not break forth into reproach; she said not a word, but she shrunk back aghast as from a viper, gave him a look of anguish that pierced to his very soul, and, clasping her hands in agony, fled, as if for refuge, to her father's cottage.|6567
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000019_000005.wav|I should have liked to have left off Laploshka.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000010_000000.wav|The knowledge of this amiable weakness offered a perpetual temptation to play upon Laploshka's fears of involuntary generosity.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000011_000000.wav|"You owe me two francs from last night," was his breathless greeting.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000012_000000.wav|I spoke evasively of the situation in Portugal, where more trouble seemed brewing.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000016_000000.wav|"They do not want money," he said; "they have too much money.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000015_000002.wav|The ordinary solution, of giving it to the poor, would by no means fit the present situation, for nothing would have distressed the dead man more than such a misuse of his property.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000009.wav|Then he slowly made his way over to a milk hall.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000007_000001.wav|He said horrid things about other people in such a charming way that one forgave him for the equally horrid things he said about oneself behind one's back.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000021_000004.wav|Having acquired such information as the Baron was able to impart on short notice, I solemnly placed the two franc piece in his hand, with the hearty assurance that it was "pour vous," and turned to go.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000022_000001.wav|He smiled, slightly raised his hat, and vanished.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000007.wav|I lunched next day at an expensive restaurant which I felt sure that the living Laploshka would never have entered on his own account, and I hoped that the dead Laploshka would observe the same barriers.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000017_000000.wav|If that were really the case my way seemed clear.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000008_000001.wav|Thus, although possessed of only moderate means, he was able to live comfortably within his income, and still more comfortably within those of various tolerantly disposed associates.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000008_000000.wav|Naturally Laploshka had a large circle of acquaintances, and as he exercised some care in their selection it followed that an appreciable proportion were men whose bank balances enabled them to acquiesce indulgently in his rather one sided views on hospitality.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000015_000003.wav|On the other hand, the bestowal of two francs on the rich was an operation which called for some tact.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000015_000000.wav|There arose the problem of what to do with his two francs.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000010_000001.wav|To offer him a lift in a cab and pretend not to have enough money to pay the fair, to fluster him with a request for a sixpence when his hand was full of silver just received in change, these were a few of the petty torments that ingenuity prompted as occasion afforded.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000021_000003.wav|It was now or never. Putting a strong American inflection into the French which I usually talked with an unmistakable British accent, I catechised the Baron as to the date of the church's building, its dimensions, and other details which an American tourist would be certain to want to know.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000012_000001.wav|But Laploshka listened with the abstraction of the deaf adder, and quickly returned to the subject of the two francs.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000003.wav|Poring over the bill of fare with the absorbed scrutiny of one who seeks the cheapest among the cheap was Laploshka. Once he looked across at me, with a comprehensive glance at my repast, as though to say, "It is my two francs you are eating," and then looked swiftly away.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000007_000003.wav|And Laploshka did it really well.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000019_000004.wav|My friends began to comment on my changed looks, and advised me to leave off heaps of things.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000010_000003.wav|He had the air of a man who had not slept.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000004.wav|Evidently the poor of Monsieur le Cure had been genuine poor.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000021_000000.wav|The delicate mission of bestowing the retrieved sum on the deserving rich still confronted me.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000020_000001.wav|An English lady behind me was making ineffectual efforts to convey a coin into the still distant bag, so I took the money at her request and helped it forward to its destination. It was a two franc piece.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000016_000001.wav|They have no poor.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000019_000002.wav|As I turned into my club on a rainy afternoon I would see him taking inadequate shelter in a doorway opposite.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000021_000005.wav|The Baron was slightly taken aback, but accepted the situation with a good grace. Walking over to a small box fixed in the wall, he dropped Laploshka's two francs into the slot.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000016_000002.wav|They are all pampered."|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000007_000002.wav|Hating anything in the way of ill natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000019_000000.wav|After that, in Paris or London or wherever I happened to be, I continued to see a good deal of Laploshka.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000009_000000.wav|But towards the poor or to those of the same limited resources as himself his attitude was one of watchful anxiety; he seemed to be haunted by a besetting fear lest some fraction of a shilling or franc, or whatever the prevailing coinage might be, should be diverted from his pocket or service into that of a hard up companion.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000000.wav|Some three weeks later chance had taken me to Vienna, and I sat one evening regaling myself in a humble but excellent little Gasthaus up in the Wahringer quarter.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000007_000000.wav|Laploshka was one of the meanest men I have ever met, and quite one of the most entertaining.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000015_000001.wav|To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I am not capable.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000022_000000.wav|That evening, at the crowded corner by the Cafe de la Paix, I caught a fleeting glimpse of Laploshka.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000015_000004.wav|An easy way out of the difficulty seemed, however, to present itself the following Sunday, as I was wedged into the cosmopolitan crowd which filled the side aisle of one of the most popular Paris churches.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000018_000001.wav|The appointments were primitive, but the Schnitzel, the beer, and the cheese could not have been improved on. Good cheer brought good custom, and with the exception of one small table near the door every place was occupied.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000015_000005.wav|A collecting bag, for "the poor of Monsieur le Cure," was buffeting its tortuous way across the seemingly impenetrable human sea, and a German in front of me, who evidently did not wish his appreciation of the magnificent music to be marred by a suggestion of payment, made audible criticisms to his companion on the claims of the said charity.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000019_000003.wav|Even if I indulged in the modest luxury of a penny chair in the Park he generally confronted me from one of the free benches, never staring at me, but always elaborately conscious of my presence.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000014_000000.wav|Laploshka said nothing, but his eyes bulged a little and his cheeks took on the mottled hues of an ethnographical map of the Balkan Peninsula. That same day, at sundown, he died.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000020_000000.wav|On a certain Sunday-it was probably Easter, for the crush was worse than ever-I was again wedged into the crowd listening to the music in the fashionable Paris church, and again the collection bag was buffeting its way across the human sea.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277898/6965_277898_000021_000001.wav|Again I trusted to the inspiration of accident, and again fortune favoured me.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000030_000003.wav|I'm certain a fox was shot or trapped in Lady Widden's woods the very day before we drew them."|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000007_000000.wav|"Anyhow, my dear Norah, he can't ride."|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000030_000000.wav|"I'm sure I hope so; I hope so," said the Major moodily.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000003_000002.wav|The Major could plead reasonable excuse for his fit of the glooms.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000018_000001.wav|Brown, with a darkish tail." Norah changed colour.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000008_000000.wav|"Russians never can; but he shoots."|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000001_000000.wav|THE BAG|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000017_000000.wav|"Pheasants, woodpigeons, rabbits," hazarded Norah.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000015_000002.wav|His game bag looked comfortably full.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000008.wav|But after the Major's display her best efforts at vocal violence missed their full effect; it was as though one had come straight out from a Wagner opera into a rather tame thunderstorm.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000035_000000.wav|Norah's heart, which had stood still for a space, made up for lost time with a most disturbing bound.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000014_000002.wav|We're going to have it here in the hall.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000034_000000.wav|"Nothing-nothing worth speaking of," said the boy.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000039_000000.wav|"Aha, we'll have a good gallop after that brush to morrow," said the Major, with a transient gleam of good humour.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000041_000000.wav|"Why," she continued, "it's your game bag, Vladimir!|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000027_000002.wav|Throw it on the top of that chest; they won't see it there."|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000004_000002.wav|The Major's plans on the subject of matrimony were not at present in such an advanced stage as mrs Hoopington's, but he was beginning to find his way over to Hoopington Hall with a frequency that was already being commented on.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000012_000002.wav|Anyhow, I've explained to Vladimir that certain birds are beneath his dignity as a sportsman.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000030_000002.wav|One hears so often that a fox has settled down as a tenant for life in certain covers, and then when you go to turn him out there isn't a trace of him.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000043_000000.wav|And then a simultaneous idea flashed on himself and mrs Hoopington. Their faces flushed to distinct but harmonious tones of purple, and with one accusing voice they screamed, "You've shot the fox!"|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000005_000001.wav|"Why you didn't bring one or two hunting men down with you, instead of that stupid Russian boy, I can't think."|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000016_000000.wav|"Guess what I have shot," he demanded.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000024_000000.wav|Norah sat down suddenly, and hid her face in her hands.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000032_000003.wav|She dared not raise her eyes above the level of the tea table, and she almost expected to see a spot of accusing vulpine blood drip down and stain the whiteness of the cloth.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000042_000000.wav|"By Gad," said the Major, who was now standing up; "there's a pretty warm scent!"|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000006_000000.wav|"Vladimir isn't stupid," protested her niece; "he's one of the most amusing boys I ever met.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000026_000001.wav|In a torrent of agitated words she tried to explain the horror of the situation.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000012_000001.wav|A Grand Duke pots a vulture just as seriously as we should stalk a bustard.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000028_000001.wav|At that moment mrs Hoopington and the Major entered the hall.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000013_000001.wav|Most people with whom Vladimir came in contact found his high spirits infectious, but his present hostess was guaranteed immune against infection of that sort.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000009_000001.wav|Yesterday he brought home a woodpecker in his game bag."|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000003.wav|In fact, he conveyed the impression that if a destroying angel had been lent to him for a week it would have had very little time for private study. In the lulls of his outcry could be heard the querulous monotone of mrs Hoopington and the sharp staccato barking of the fox terrier.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000002.wav|He reviled and railed at fate and the general scheme of things, he pitied himself with a strong, deep pity too poignent for tears, he condemned every one with whom he had ever come in contact to endless and abnormal punishments.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000038_000000.wav|"Yesterday morning; a fine dog fox, with a dark brush," confided mrs Hoopington.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000027_000000.wav|"Hide it, hide it!" said Norah frantically, pointing to the still unopened bag.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000027_000001.wav|"My aunt and the Major will be here in a moment.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000003_000000.wav|Major Pallaby was a victim of circumstances, over which he had no control, and of his temper, over which he had very little.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000009_000000.wav|"Yes; and what does he shoot?|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000028_000000.wav|Vladimir swung the bag with fair aim; but the strap caught in its flight on the outstanding point of an antler fixed in the wall, and the bag, with its terrible burden, remained suspended just above the alcove where tea would presently be laid.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000013_000000.wav|mrs Hoopington sniffed.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000014_000003.wav|Entertain the Major if he comes in before I'm down, and, above all, be bright."|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000047_000001.wav|He had almost expected that some of the local clergy would have insisted on being present, or that a salute might have to be fired over the grave.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000018_000000.wav|"No; a large beast; I don't know what you call it in English.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000026_000002.wav|The boy understood nothing, but was thoroughly alarmed.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000005.wav|His mind strayed back to the youth in the old Russian folk tale who shot an enchanted bird with dramatic results.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000002_000001.wav|Be as bright and lively as you can; the poor man's got a fit of the glooms."|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000004_000000.wav|In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby mrs Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000006_000001.wav|Just compare him for a moment with some of your heavy hunting men-"|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000007.wav|A servant had by this time brought his horse round to the door, and in a few seconds mrs Hoopington's shrill monotone had the field to itself.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000031_000000.wav|"Major, if any one tried that game on in my woods they'd get short shrift," said mrs Hoopington.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000002_000000.wav|"The Major is coming in to tea," said mrs Hoopington to her niece. "He's just gone round to the stables with his horse.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000032_000001.wav|On one side of her loomed the morose countenance of the Major, on the other she was conscious of the scared, miserable eyes of Vladimir.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000032_000004.wav|Her aunt's manner signalled to her the repeated message to "be bright"; for the present she was fully occupied in keeping her teeth from chattering.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000001.wav|The Major's fury clothed and reclothed itself in words as frantically as a woman up in town for one day's shopping tries on a succession of garments.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000000.wav|Norah tried hastily to palliate Vladimir's misdeed in their eyes, but it is doubtful whether they heard her.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000047_000000.wav|"Just plain burial?" said Vladimir, rather relieved.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000029_000000.wav|"The Major is going to draw our covers to morrow," announced the lady, with a certain heavy satisfaction.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000004_000001.wav|Against his notorious bad temper she set his three thousand a year, and his prospective succession to a baronetcy gave a casting vote in his favour.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000040_000000.wav|"What is exciting him?" asked his mistress, as the dog suddenly broke into short angry barks, with a running accompaniment of tremulous whines.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000033_000000.wav|"What did you shoot to day?" asked mrs Hoopington suddenly of the unusually silent Vladimir.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000025_000000.wav|"Merciful Heaven!" she wailed; "he's shot a fox!"|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000015_000001.wav|That young gentleman, however, was supremely unconscious of any shortcomings, and burst into the hall, tired, and less sprucely groomed than usual, but distinctly radiant.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000044_000006.wav|Meanwhile, the Major, roaming round the hall like an imprisoned cyclone, had caught sight of and joyfully pounced on the telephone apparatus, and lost no time in ringing up the hunt secretary and announcing his resignation of the Mastership.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/277899/6965_277899_000046_000000.wav|"Bury it," said Norah.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000013.wav|And, oh, my dear Helen, such good things as I had to eat!|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000003.wav|Then your grandfather made up a nice bed in the cradle, out of Charlie's winter blanket and an old pillow, and laid me down in it, all rolled up as I was in your petticoat.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000013_000000.wav|Your affectionate Pussy.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000015.wav|I do not think I shall ever again be contented to eat in the shed, and have only the old pieces which nobody wants.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000000.wav|"You do as I tell you," said he, in that most awful tone of his, which always makes you so afraid.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000005.wav|The old gentleman laughed at this, till the tears ran down his red cheeks.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000003.wav|I have always noticed that people do not observe any difference between one cat's voice and another's; now they really are just as different as human voices.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000010.wav|I do not know what that is, but I think I have got it: it hurts me all over when I walk, and I feel as if I looked like Bill Jacobs's old cat, who, they say, is older than the oldest man in town; but of course that must be a slander.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000019_000002.wav|But you know me well enough to be sure that every thing I say is perfectly natural.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000007_000001.wav|I shivered all night, and it hurt me terribly whenever I moved.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000004.wav|Caesar has one of the finest, deepest toned voices I ever heard.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000007.wav|I am afraid it will be some days yet before I can see him again, for they do not let me go out at all, and the bandages are not taken off my leg.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000002.wav|I suppose she thought it was only some common strolling cat who was hungry.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000006.wav|However, he saw that I was alive, and that was something.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000003.wav|Your grandfather has tried several things of his, which are said to be good for hair; but they have not had the least effect.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000013.wav|I often think how much more careful they would be if they did.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000011.wav|This morning your grandfather sat looking at me for a long time and stroking his chin: at last he said, "Do you suppose it would do any good to shave the cat all over?" At this I could not resist the impulse to scream, and your mother said, "I do believe the creature knows whenever we speak about her." Of course I do!|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000005.wav|One day, after I got well enough to be in the kitchen, he slipped in, between the legs of the butcher's boy who was bringing in some meat; but before I had time to say one word to him, Mary flew at him with the broom, and drove him out.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000008_000001.wav|It was enough to make any cat laugh.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000014.wav|I had almost the same things for my dinner that the rest of them did: it must be a splendid thing to be a man or a woman!|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000007_000004.wav|Well, he took me up in his arms, and carried me into the dining room; it was quite cool; there was a nice wood fire on the hearth, and Mary was setting the table for breakfast.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000012.wav|Why in the world shouldn't I! People never seem to observe that cats have ears.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000007_000003.wav|Don't you remember when you had that big double tooth pulled out, and he gave you five dollars, how he swore then?|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000004.wav|When your mother came into the room she laughed almost as hard as she did when she saw me in the soft soap barrel, and said, "Why, father, you are rather old to play cat's cradle!"|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000005_000000.wav|My Dear Helen:|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000011.wav|For three days I had to lie all the time in the cradle: if your grandfather caught me out of it, he would swear at me, and put me back again.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000009.wav|I try to be resigned to whatever may be in store for me, but it is very hard to look forward to being a fright all the rest of one's days.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000015.wav|There are some houses in which I lived, before I came to live with you, about which I could tell strange stories if I chose.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000009.wav|I heard your mother say to day that she really believed the cat had the rheumatism.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000008_000000.wav|Sick as I was, I could not help laughing at the sight of her face.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000002.wav|You know she always bangs things when she is cross, but I never could see what good it does.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000009.wav|The bandages were wet with something which smelled so badly it made me feel very sick, for the first day or two.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000000.wav|I am so glad to know that you are coming home next week, that I cannot think of any thing else.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000016_000000.wav|seven.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000008.wav|At first they thought it was broken, but finally decided that it was only sprained, and must be bandaged.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000019_000003.wav|And now, my dear Helen, I hope I have prepared you to see me looking perfectly hideous.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000011_000008.wav|The cradle is carried upstairs, and I sleep on Charlie's blanket behind the stove.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000017_000000.wav|My Dear Helen:|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000019_000004.wav|I only trust that your love for me will not be entirely killed by my unfortunate appearance.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000007.wav|After breakfast I tried to walk, but my right paw was entirely useless.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000012_000003.wav|I hope you will come home soon.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000007_000000.wav|As you may imagine, I did not get any sleep that night, not even so much as a cat's nap, as people say, though how cat's naps differ from men's and women's naps, I don't know.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000001.wav|There is only one drawback to my pleasure, and that is, I am so ashamed to have you see me in such a plight.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000005.wav|However, he has been so good to me, that I let him do any thing he likes, and every day he rubs in some new kind of stuff, which smells a little worse than the last one.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000008.wav|If it were not for this dreadful state of my fur, I should be perfectly happy, for I feel much better than I ever did before in my whole life, and am twice as fat as when you went away.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000019_000001.wav|You see I spend so much more time in the society of men and women than of cats, that I find myself constantly using expressions which sound queerly in a cat's mouth.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000002.wav|I told you, in my last letter, that my fur was beginning to come off.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000012_000000.wav|The thing I am most concerned about is my fur; it is coming off in spots: there is a bare spot on the back of my neck, on the place by which they lifted me up out of the soap barrel, half as large as your hand; and whenever I wash myself, I get my mouth full of hairs, which is very disagreeable.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000010_000001.wav|I felt afraid myself, though all the time he was stroking my head, and saying, "Poor pussy, there, poor pussy, lie still." In a few minutes Mary came down with the cradle, and set it down by the fire with such a bang that I wondered it did not break.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000018_000010.wav|I don't suppose such a thing was ever seen in the world as a cat without any fur.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000007_000005.wav|He said to her in a very gruff voice, "Here you, Mary, you go up into the garret and bring down the cradle."|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6965/291718/6965_291718_000006_000000.wav|I will begin where I left off in my last letter.|6965
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000078_000000.wav|APRICOTS.--The apricot is indigenous to the plains of Armenia, but is now cultivated in almost every climate, temperate or tropical.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000168_000001.wav|Beat the eggs, mix these with the bread crumbs, add the remaining ingredients, and stir well until all is thoroughly mixed.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000058_000002.wav|The apple, uncooked, is less digestible than the pear; the degree of digestibility varying according to the firmness of its texture and flavour.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000118_000001.wav|In this respect, it nearly approaches the tamarind.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000151_000004.wav|Boiling milk substituted for the boiling water would very much improve this pudding.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000149_000000.wav|VERY PLAIN BREAD PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000090_000000.wav|BAKEWELL PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000053_000001.wav|Line a large round plate with the paste, place a narrow rim of the same round the outer edge, and lay the apples thickly in the middle.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000071_000000.wav|APRICOT TART.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000030_000001.wav|When it is three parts done, take it out of the oven, put the white of an egg on a plate, and, with the blade of a knife, whisk it to a froth; brush the pie over with this, then sprinkle upon it some sifted sugar, and then a few drops of water.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000150_000000.wav|twelve fifty one.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000118_000005.wav|The berries, arranged on bunches of nice curled parsley, make an exceedingly pretty garnish for supper dishes, particularly for white meats, like boiled fowl a la Bechamel, the three colours, scarlet, green, and white, contrasting so well, and producing a very good effect.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000143_000000.wav|twelve fifty.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000136_000000.wav|ORANGE BATTER PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000029_000000.wav|twelve thirty three.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000005_000001.wav|The hard acid kinds are unwholesome if eaten raw; but by the process of cooking, a great deal of this acid is decomposed and converted into sugar.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000131_000000.wav|BOILED BATTER PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000029_000002.wav|of unpared apples allow two ounces. of moist sugar, one half teaspoonful of finely minced lemon peel, one tablespoonful of lemon juice.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000078_000006.wav|The apricot makes excellent jam and marmalade, and there are several foreign preparations of it which are considered great luxuries.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000142_000000.wav|BAKED BREAD PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000119_000000.wav|BAKED BATTER PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000118_000002.wav|When boiled with sugar, it makes a very agreeable preserve or jelly, according to the different modes of preparing it.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000007_000000.wav|twelve thirty.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000037_000000.wav|QUINCES.--The environs of Corinth originally produced the most beautiful quinces, but the plant was subsequently introduced into Gaul with the most perfect success.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000014_000000.wav|BAKED APPLE PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000121_000001.wav|Baked in small cups, this makes very pretty little puddings, and should be eaten with the same accompaniments as above.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000073_000001.wav|Line the edge of the dish with paste, put on the cover, and ornament the pie in any of the usual modes.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000085_000000.wav|A BACHELOR'S PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000166_000000.wav|MINIATURE BREAD PUDDINGS.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000120_000000.wav|twelve forty six.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000098_000000.wav|twelve forty three.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000058_000004.wav|Entremets of apples are made in great variety.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000174_000002.wav|This pudding may be very much enriched by adding cream, candied peel, or more eggs than stated above.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000078_000004.wav|It has been somewhat condemned for its laxative qualities, but this has possibly arisen from the fruit having been eaten unripe, or in too great excess.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000155_000000.wav|twelve fifty two.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000065_000000.wav|BAKED APRICOT PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000022_000000.wav|twelve thirty two.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000173_000000.wav|twelve fifty five.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000073_000003.wav|Short crust merely requires a little sifted sugar sprinkled over it before being sent to table.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000045_000000.wav|APPLE SNOWBALLS.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000154_000000.wav|BOILED BREAD PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000039_000002.wav|of pared and cored apples, allow two ounces. of moist sugar, one half teaspoonful of minced lemon peel, one tablespoonful of lemon juice, one half pint of boiled custard.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000078_000005.wav|Delicate persons should not eat the apricot uncooked, without a liberal allowance of powdered sugar.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000058_000000.wav|APPLES.--No fruit is so universally popular as the apple.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000118_000003.wav|Barberries are also used as a dry sweetmeat, and in sugarplums or comfits; are pickled with vinegar, and are used for various culinary purposes.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000046_000000.wav|twelve thirty five.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000028_000000.wav|APPLE TART o r PIE.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000005_000002.wav|The sweet and mellow kinds form a valuable addition to the dessert.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000078_000003.wav|A good apricot, when perfectly ripe, is an excellent fruit.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000037_000002.wav|Quinces may be profitably cultivated in this country as a variety with other fruit trees, and may be planted in espaliers or as standards.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000021_000000.wav|BOILED APPLE PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000167_000000.wav|twelve fifty four.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000104_000000.wav|twelve forty four.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000132_000000.wav|twelve forty eight.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000039_000000.wav|twelve thirty four.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000078_000001.wav|There are several varieties.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000168_000003.wav|A few currants may be added to these puddings: about three ounces. will be found sufficient for the above quantity.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000162_000002.wav|Send sweet sauce to table with it.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000058_000005.wav|Apples, when peeled, cored, and well cooked, are a most grateful food for the dyspeptic.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000151_000002.wav|Measure this pulp, and to every quart stir in salt, nutmeg, sugar, and currants in the above proportion; mix all well together, and put it into a well buttered pie dish.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000052_000000.wav|twelve thirty six.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000053_000003.wav|This tourte may be eaten either hot or cold, and is sufficient to fill two large sized plates.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000102_000000.wav|BARONESS PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000030_000002.wav|Put the pie back into the oven, and finish baking, and be particularly careful that it does not catch or burn, which it is very liable to do after the crust is iced.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000016_000000.wav|twelve thirty one.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000037_000001.wav|The ancients preserved the fruit by placing it, with its branches and leaves, in a vessel filled with honey or sweet wine, which was reduced to half the quantity by ebullition.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000013_000001.wav|The room should be dry, and well aired, but should not admit the sun|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000124_000000.wav|BAKED BATTER PUDDING, with Dried or Fresh Fruit.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000151_000001.wav|Let these stand till the water is cool; then press it out, and mash the bread with a fork until it is quite free from lumps.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000138_000001.wav|As soon as it is turned out of the basin, put a small jar of orange marmalade all over the top, and send the pudding very quickly to table.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000059_000000.wav|ALMA PUDDING.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000105_000002.wav|Serve merely with plain sifted sugar, a little of which may be sprinkled over the pudding.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000109_000001.wav|The recipe was kindly given to her family by a lady who bore the title here prefixed to it; and with all who have partaken of it, it is an especial favourite.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000040_000002.wav|Fill up with a nicely made boiled custard, grate a little nutmeg over the top, and the pie is ready for table.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000126_000003.wav|It must be sent quickly to table, and covered plentifully with sifted sugar.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2790/142824/2790_142824_000159_000000.wav|BREAD.--Bread contains, in its composition, in the form of vegetable albumen and vegetable fibrine, two of the chief constituents of flesh, and, in its incombustible constituents, the salts which are indispensable for sanguification, of the same quality and in the same proportion as flesh.|2790
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000010.wav|He did not seem to understand fully what was happening.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000077_000003.wav|And now we go hand in hand."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000027_000000.wav|They had not far to carry the coffin to the church, not more than three hundred paces.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000066_000000.wav|"Ah, how I loved him!" exclaimed Kolya.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000073_000000.wav|"For ever!" the boys chimed in again.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000019_000000.wav|"I won't give away anything and to her less than any one!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000004_000004.wav|I am always manly, but this is awful. Karamazov, if I am not keeping you, one question before you go in?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000068_000000.wav|"Yes, yes," the boys repeated enthusiastically.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000034_000000.wav|"Come, fly down, birds, fly down, sparrows!" he muttered anxiously.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000035_000001.wav|But he would not do this and seemed indeed suddenly alarmed for his flowers, as though they wanted to take them from him altogether.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000025_000000.wav|"Mother, make the sign of the cross over him, give him your blessing, kiss him," Nina cried to her.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000010_000001.wav|How can you?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000037_000006.wav|But the boys instantly overtook him and caught hold of him on all sides.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000020_000000.wav|The boys, seeing that the father would not leave the coffin and that it was time to carry it out, stood round it in a close circle and began to lift it up.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000008.wav|Nina had been pushed in her chair by the boys close up to the coffin.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000003.wav|And whatever happens to us later in life, if we don't meet for twenty years afterwards, let us always remember how we buried the poor boy at whom we once threw stones, do you remember, by the bridge?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000013_000002.wav|I respect your brother!"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000025_000002.wav|They carried the coffin past her.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000002.wav|His thin face was hardly changed at all, and strange to say there was no smell of decay from the corpse.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000002.wav|It was the coffin of poor little Ilusha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000038_000000.wav|"Captain, give over, a brave man must show fortitude," muttered Kolya.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000006_000002.wav|As you say, so it will be.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000077_000001.wav|Don't be put out at our eating pancakes-it's a very old custom and there's something nice in that!" laughed Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000035_000004.wav|The boys and Alyosha kept up with him.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000037_000004.wav|He missed them, of course, and went on crying as he ran.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000042_000002.wav|Nina, too, broke into sobs.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000012.wav|If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000017.wav|But I assure you, boys, that as he laughs he will say at once in his heart, 'No, I do wrong to laugh, for that's not a thing to laugh at.' "|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000048_000000.wav|"The landlady is laying the table for them now-there'll be a funeral dinner or something, the priest is coming; shall we go back to it, Karamazov?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000006.wav|But I cannot forget that Kartashov exists and that he is not blushing now as he did when he discovered the founders of Troy, but is looking at me with his jolly, kind, dear little eyes.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000007_000000.wav|"The valet killed him, my brother is innocent," answered Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000052_000001.wav|The boy flushed crimson but did not dare to reply.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000001.wav|They had waited for him and had already decided to bear the pretty flower decked little coffin to the church without him.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000047_000000.wav|"Perhaps he will.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000039_000001.wav|Ilusha's little bed is still there-"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000057_000000.wav|"Boys, I should like to say one word to you, here at this place."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000012.wav|It was his habit to call Ilusha "old man," as a term of affection when he was alive.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000011_000000.wav|"Oh, if I, too, could sacrifice myself some day for truth!" said Kolya with enthusiasm.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000012.wav|Then he was reminded that he must crumble the bread and he was awfully excited, snatched up the bread and began pulling it to pieces and flinging the morsels on the grave.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000075_000000.wav|"Certainly we shall all rise again, certainly we shall see each other and shall tell each other with joy and gladness all that has happened!" Alyosha answered, half laughing, half enthusiastic.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000032_000002.wav|During the mass Snegiryov became somewhat calmer, though at times he had outbursts of the same unconscious and, as it were, incoherent anxiety.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000072_000000.wav|"And may the dead boy's memory live for ever!" Alyosha added again with feeling.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000032_000004.wav|During the prayer, "Like the Cherubim," he joined in the singing but did not go on to the end.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000029_000000.wav|"Ilusha told me to, Ilusha," he explained at once to Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000000.wav|"I say this in case we become bad," Alyosha went on, "but there's no reason why we should become bad, is there, boys?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000078_000001.wav|Hurrah for Karamazov!" Kolya cried once more rapturously, and once more the boys took up his exclamation: "Hurrah for Karamazov!"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000046_000001.wav|Had we better come back here to night? He'll be drunk, you know."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000064_000000.wav|"Let us remember his face and his clothes and his poor little boots, his coffin and his unhappy, sinful father, and how boldly he stood up for him alone against the whole school."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000023_000002.wav|He'll be prayed for there.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000028_000000.wav|"And the crust of bread, we've forgotten the crust!" he cried suddenly in dismay.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000044_000001.wav|"Do you know, Karamazov," he dropped his voice so that no one could hear them, "I feel dreadfully sad, and if it were only possible to bring him back, I'd give anything in the world to do it."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000005.wav|He was a fine boy, a kind hearted, brave boy, he felt for his father's honor and resented the cruel insult to him and stood up for him.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000006_000001.wav|Was it he killed your father or was it the valet?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000047_000002.wav|If we all come together we shall remind them of everything again," Alyosha suggested.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000049_000000.wav|"Of course," said Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000031_000000.wav|"Every day, every day!" said the captain quickly, seeming cheered at the thought.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000007.wav|It was an expensive one in the churchyard close to the church, Katerina Ivanovna had paid for it.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000061_000000.wav|The boys were excited and they, too, wanted to say something, but they restrained themselves, looking with intentness and emotion at the speaker.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000000.wav|"Boys, we shall soon part.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000042_000000.wav|"Where have you taken him away?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000006.wav|And so in the first place, we will remember him, boys, all our lives.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000006_000003.wav|I haven't slept for the last four nights for thinking of it."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000015.wav|What's more, perhaps, that one memory may keep him from great evil and he will reflect and say, 'Yes, I was good and brave and honest then!' Let him laugh to himself, that's no matter, a man often laughs at what's good and kind.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000077_000002.wav|"Well, let us go!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000012_000000.wav|"But not in such a cause, not with such disgrace and such horror!" said Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000043_000001.wav|Let us wait a minute and then go back."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000007.wav|And even if we are occupied with most important things, if we attain to honor or fall into great misfortune-still let us remember how good it was once here, when we were all together, united by a good and kind feeling which made us, for the time we were loving that poor boy, better perhaps than we are.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000023_000003.wav|One can hear the singing in church and the deacon reads so plainly and verbally that it will reach him every time just as though it were read over his grave."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000017_000001.wav|"They are his flowers, not yours!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000016_000000.wav|"Father, give me a flower, too; take that white one out of his hand and give it me," the crazy mother begged, whimpering.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000052_000000.wav|"I beg you most earnestly, Kartashov, not to interrupt again with your idiotic remarks, especially when one is not talking to you and doesn't care to know whether you exist or not!" Kolya snapped out irritably.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000004_000000.wav|"How glad I am you've come, Karamazov!" he cried, holding out his hand to Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000004.wav|Every face looking at me now I shall remember even for thirty years.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000019_000003.wav|The poor, crazy creature was bathed in noiseless tears, hiding her face in her hands.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000027_000005.wav|At one minute he stretched out his hand to support the head of the coffin and only hindered the bearers, at another he ran alongside and tried to find a place for himself there.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000008.wav|Kolya Krassotkin was the foremost of them.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000001.wav|I shall be for some time with my two brothers, of whom one is going to Siberia and the other is lying at death's door. But soon I shall leave this town, perhaps for a long time, so we shall part.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000012.wav|Let us never forget him.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000037_000007.wav|Then he fell helpless on the snow as though he had been knocked down, and struggling, sobbing, and wailing, he began crying out, "Ilusha, old man, dear old man!" Alyosha and Kolya tried to make him get up, soothing and persuading him.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000021_000000.wav|"I don't want him to be buried in the churchyard," Snegiryov wailed suddenly; "I'll bury him by the stone, by our stone!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000003.wav|He had died two days after Mitya was sentenced.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000046_000000.wav|"What do you think, Karamazov?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000077_000000.wav|"Well, now we will finish talking and go to his funeral dinner.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000001.wav|Let us be, first and above all, kind, then honest and then let us never forget each other!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000065_000001.wav|"He was brave, he was good!"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000051_000000.wav|"They are going to have salmon, too," the boy who had discovered about Troy observed in a loud voice.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000023_000001.wav|"There in the churchyard the ground has been crossed.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000001.wav|The distracted father began fussing about again, but the touching and impressive funeral prayers moved and roused his soul.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000010.wav|Well, and who has united us in this kind, good feeling which we shall remember and intend to remember all our lives?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000001.wav|Ilusha lay with his hands folded and his eyes closed in a blue coffin with a white frill round it.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000019_000002.wav|She took away his little cannon and he gave it to her," the captain broke into loud sobs at the thought of how Ilusha had given up his cannon to his mother.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000026_000000.wav|"To be sure, I'll stay with them, we are Christians, too." The old woman wept as she said it.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000000.wav|He really was late.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000002.wav|He seemed suddenly to shrink together and broke into rapid, short sobs, which he tried at first to smother, but at last he sobbed aloud.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000017_000000.wav|"I won't give it to any one, I won't give you anything," Snegiryov cried callously.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000013_000000.wav|"Of course ...|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000016.wav|That's only from thoughtlessness.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000010_000000.wav|"What do you mean?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000058_000000.wav|The boys stood round him and at once bent attentive and expectant eyes upon him.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000024_000001.wav|But on seeing that precious little face, which for the last three days she had only looked at from a distance, she trembled all over and her gray head began twitching spasmodically over the coffin.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000041_000001.wav|But at that instant he saw in the corner, by the little bed, Ilusha's little boots, which the landlady had put tidily side by side.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000013.wav|Perhaps we may even grow wicked later on, may be unable to refrain from a bad action, may laugh at men's tears and at those people who say as Kolya did just now, 'I want to suffer for all men,' and may even jeer spitefully at such people.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000023_000000.wav|"What an idea, bury him by an unholy stone, as though he had hanged himself!" the old landlady said sternly.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000008.wav|But why am I talking about those two?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000003.wav|When they began taking leave of the dead and closing the coffin, he flung his arms about, as though he would not allow them to cover Ilusha, and began greedily and persistently kissing his dead boy on the lips.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000045_000000.wav|"Ah, so would I," said Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000037_000001.wav|But he flung the hat in the snow as though he were angry and kept repeating, "I won't have the hat, I won't have the hat." Smurov picked it up and carried it after him.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000041_000000.wav|"Mamma, poor crippled darling, Ilusha has sent you these flowers," he cried, holding out to her a little bunch of flowers that had been frozen and broken while he was struggling in the snow.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000056_000000.wav|A sudden impulse seemed to come into his soul.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000018_000000.wav|"Father, give mother a flower!" said Nina, lifting her face wet with tears.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000036_000000.wav|"The flowers are for mamma, the flowers are for mamma!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000014_000000.wav|"And so do I!" the boy, who had once declared that he knew who had founded Troy, cried suddenly and unexpectedly, and he blushed up to his ears like a peony as he had done on that occasion.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000036_000001.wav|I was unkind to mamma," he began exclaiming suddenly.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000055_000001.wav|Alyosha looked and the whole picture of what Snegiryov had described to him that day, how Ilusha, weeping and hugging his father, had cried, "Father, father, how he insulted you," rose at once before his imagination.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000005.wav|They had all been impatiently expecting him and were glad that he had come at last.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000040_000003.wav|Snegiryov opened the door hurriedly and called to his wife with whom he had so cruelly quarreled just before:|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000013.wav|May his memory live for ever in our hearts from this time forth!"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000002_000000.wav|Chapter three.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000021_000002.wav|I won't let him be carried out!"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000037_000000.wav|Some one called to him to put on his hat as it was cold.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000004.wav|At last they succeeded in persuading him to come away from the step, but suddenly he impulsively stretched out his hand and snatched a few flowers from the coffin.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000005.wav|Just now Kolya said to Kartashov that we did not care to know whether he exists or not.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000041_000002.wav|Seeing the old, patched, rusty looking, stiff boots he flung up his hands and rushed to them, fell on his knees, snatched up one boot and, pressing his lips to it, began kissing it greedily, crying, "Ilusha, old man, dear old man, where are your little feet?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000032_000001.wav|It was an old and rather poor church; many of the ikons were without settings; but such churches are the best for praying in.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000027_000001.wav|It was a still, clear day, with a slight frost.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000025_000001.wav|But her head still twitched like an automaton and with a face contorted with bitter grief she began, without a word, beating her breast with her fist.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000074_000000.wav|"Karamazov," cried Kolya, "can it be true what's taught us in religion, that we shall all rise again from the dead and shall live and see each other again, all, Ilusha too?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000069_000000.wav|"Karamazov, we love you!" a voice, probably Kartashov's, cried impulsively.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000000.wav|Alyosha went into the room.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000028_000001.wav|But the boys reminded him at once that he had taken the crust of bread already and that it was in his pocket.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000005.wav|He looked at them and a new idea seemed to dawn upon him, so that he apparently forgot his grief for a minute.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000010.wav|There was something crazy about his gestures and the words that broke from him.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000035_000003.wav|But his steps became more and more hurried, he almost ran.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000013_000001.wav|I should like to die for all humanity, and as for disgrace, I don't care about that-our names may perish.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000005_000000.wav|"What is it, Kolya?" said Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000040_000000.wav|"Yes, yes, mamma!" Snegiryov suddenly recollected, "they'll take away the bed, they'll take it away," he added as though alarmed that they really would.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000025_000004.wav|As Alyosha went out of the house he begged the landlady to look after those who were left behind, but she interrupted him before he had finished.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000070_000000.wav|"We love you, we love you!" they all caught it up.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000035_000002.wav|And after looking at the grave, and as it were, satisfying himself that everything had been done and the bread had been crumbled, he suddenly, to the surprise of every one, turned, quite composedly even, and made his way homewards.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000055_000000.wav|They all stood still by the big stone.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000006_000000.wav|"Is your brother innocent or guilty?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000003.wav|I give you my word for my part that I'll never forget one of you.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000042_000001.wav|Where have you taken him?" the lunatic cried in a heartrending voice.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000007.wav|"Father will cry, be with father," Ilusha had told them as he lay dying, and the boys remembered it.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000060_000000.wav|"That will be so, I understand you, Karamazov!" cried Kolya, with flashing eyes.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000029_000001.wav|"I was sitting by him one night and he suddenly told me: 'Father, when my grave is filled up crumble a piece of bread on it so that the sparrows may fly down, I shall hear and it will cheer me up not to be lying alone.' "|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000033_000011.wav|When they began filling up the grave, he suddenly pointed anxiously at the falling earth and began trying to say something, but no one could make out what he meant, and he stopped suddenly.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000040_000002.wav|But it was not far off and they all arrived together.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000004_000001.wav|"It's awful here.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000028_000002.wav|He instantly pulled it out and was reassured.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000044_000000.wav|"No, it's no use, it's awful," Kolya assented.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000063_000000.wav|"Yes, yes, for ever, for ever!" the boys cried in their ringing voices, with softened faces.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000002.wav|I say that again.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000002_000002.wav|The Speech At The Stone|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000015_000003.wav|The expression of his face was serious and, as it were, thoughtful.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000027_000004.wav|He seemed in a state of bewildered anxiety.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000009_000001.wav|I could envy him!"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000070_000001.wav|There were tears in the eyes of many of them.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000003_000006.wav|There were about twelve of them, they all had their school bags or satchels on their shoulders.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000062_000009.wav|You are all dear to me, boys, from this day forth, I have a place in my heart for you all, and I beg you to keep a place in your hearts for me!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000047_000001.wav|Let us come together, you and I, that will be enough, to spend an hour with them, with the mother and Nina.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000022_000000.wav|He had been saying for the last three days that he would bury him by the stone, but Alyosha, Krassotkin, the landlady, her sister and all the boys interfered.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000032_000000.wav|They reached the church at last and set the coffin in the middle of it. The boys surrounded it and remained reverently standing so, all through the service.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000008.wav|My little doves-let me call you so, for you are very like them, those pretty blue birds, at this minute as I look at your good dear faces.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000071_000000.wav|"Hurrah for Karamazov!" Kolya shouted ecstatically.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000059_000011.wav|People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000056_000001.wav|With a serious and earnest expression he looked from one to another of the bright, pleasant faces of Ilusha's schoolfellows, and suddenly said to them:|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000021_000001.wav|Ilusha told me to.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000030_000000.wav|"That's a good thing," said Alyosha, "we must often take some."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000035_000000.wav|One of the boys observed that it was awkward for him to crumble the bread with the flowers in his hands and suggested he should give them to some one to hold for a time.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000039_000000.wav|"You'll spoil the flowers," said Alyosha, "and mamma is expecting them, she is sitting crying because you would not give her any before.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000067_000001.wav|How good life is when one does something good and just!"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000016_000001.wav|Either because the little white rose in Ilusha's hand had caught her fancy or that she wanted one from his hand to keep in memory of him, she moved restlessly, stretching out her hands for the flower.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/758/3638_758_000043_000000.wav|"Let them weep," he said to Kolya, "it's no use trying to comfort them just now.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000064_000000.wav|"Well, tell me where to begin, give your orders.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000054_000003.wav|Would you believe it, I dined here to day only to avoid dining with the old man, I loathe him so.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000015.wav|I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard, that's what it is!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000019.wav|I seem to be on the right path, don't I? Yet would you believe it, in the final result I don't accept this world of God's, and, although I know it exists, I don't accept it at all.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000062_000000.wav|"Well, Alyosha, it's sometimes very unwise to be a Russian at all, but anything stupider than the way Russian boys spend their time one can hardly imagine.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000050_000000.wav|"I did that on purpose.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000010.wav|Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000002.wav|Dmitri doesn't come in.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000004.wav|There has been a continual look of expectation in your eyes, and I can't endure that.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000011.wav|And therefore I tell you that I accept God simply. But you must note this: if God exists and if He really did create the world, then, as we all know, He created it according to the geometry of Euclid and the human mind with the conception of only three dimensions in space.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000001.wav|How you rushed into the discussion this morning!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000007.wav|And I won't go through all the axioms laid down by Russian boys on that subject, all derived from European hypotheses; for what's a hypothesis there, is an axiom with the Russian boy, and not only with the boys but with their teachers too, for our Russian professors are often just the same boys themselves.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000048_000005.wav|Why push myself forward again?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000010.wav|Your expectant eyes ceased to annoy me, I grew fond of them in the end, those expectant eyes.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000070_000000.wav|"And why did you begin 'as stupidly as you could'?" asked Alyosha, looking dreamily at him.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000007.wav|Ah, Alyosha, if you only knew how light my heart is now!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000004.wav|You know, on the contrary, that Dmitri behaved as though there was an understanding between us.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000000.wav|"I remember everything, Alyosha, I remember you till you were eleven, I was nearly fifteen.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000028_000001.wav|We shall meet before I am thirty, when I shall begin to turn aside from the cup.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000054_000004.wav|I should have left long ago, so far as he is concerned.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000031_000000.wav|"Are you frowning on Smerdyakov's account?" asked Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000008.wav|The centripetal force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000009_000001.wav|They have it here.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000056_000001.wav|"We've time enough for our talk, for what brought us here.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000001.wav|I want to get to know you once for all, and I want you to know me. And then to say good by.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000002.wav|I believe it's always best to get to know people just before leaving them.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000062_000001.wav|But there's one Russian boy called Alyosha I am awfully fond of."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000004.wav|Then, when you came to Moscow yourself, we only met once somewhere, I believe.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000008.wav|Well, it's better so; I can simply go away for good.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000005.wav|In this stinking tavern, for instance, here, they meet and sit down in a corner.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000055_000000.wav|"If you are going away to morrow, what do you mean by an eternity?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000024_000001.wav|And what does your second half mean?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000056_000002.wav|Why do you look so surprised?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000001.wav|"Would you believe it that ever since that scene with her, I have thought of nothing else but my youthful greenness, and just as though you guessed that, you begin about it.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000005.wav|Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000058_000006.wav|To ask me, 'What do you believe, or don't you believe at all?' That's what your eyes have been meaning for these three months, haven't they?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000058_000005.wav|Why have you been looking at me in expectation for the last three months?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000010_000000.wav|"You remember that?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000043_000000.wav|"No, only perhaps it wasn't love."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000009.wav|You do stand firm, don't you? I like people who are firm like that whatever it is they stand by, even if they are such little fellows as you.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000010.wav|It's been going on nearly six months, and all at once I've thrown it off.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000008.wav|I finished it just now, you were witness."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000008_000000.wav|"Let me have soup, and tea afterwards, I am hungry," said Alyosha gayly.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000002.wav|I don't know whether I was fond of you even.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000008.wav|And so I omit all the hypotheses.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000007.wav|It's a feature of the Karamazovs, it's true, that thirst for life regardless of everything; you have it no doubt too, but why is it base?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000013.wav|Here they have brought the soup for you, eat it, it will do you good.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000056_000006.wav|Is that it?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000006.wav|Do you think I am boasting?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000061_000000.wav|"Yes, for real Russians the questions of God's existence and of immortality, or, as you say, the same questions turned inside out, come first and foremost, of course, and so they should," said Alyosha, still watching his brother with the same gentle and inquiring smile.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000019_000001.wav|Now, have I insulted you dreadfully?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000041_000000.wav|"You seem very merry about it now," observed Alyosha, looking into his face, which had suddenly grown brighter.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000006.wav|It's all too funny.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000026_000003.wav|Is it true that you mean to leave the monastery?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000024.wav|Even if parallel lines do meet and I see it myself, I shall see it and say that they've met, but still I won't accept it.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000006.wav|I've led the conversation to my despair, and the more stupidly I have presented it, the better for me."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000048_000001.wav|Nobody dies of hysterics, though.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000064_000001.wav|The existence of God, eh?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000024_000000.wav|"You are trying to save me, but perhaps I am not lost!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000002.wav|It appears after all I didn't.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000018_000000.wav|"Well?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000057_000000.wav|"no"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000040_000000.wav|"Of my love, if you like.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000001.wav|What have I to do with it?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000011.wav|You seem to love me for some reason, Alyosha?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000011.wav|Isn't it so?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000000.wav|"You are always harping upon it!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000005_000001.wav|The Brothers Make Friends|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000001.wav|I don't want to wound my little brother who has been watching me with such expectation for three months.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000056_000004.wav|To talk of my love for Katerina Ivanovna, of the old man and Dmitri? of foreign travel? of the fatal position of Russia?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000005.wav|That's how it is I've kept away from you.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000009.wav|For what are we aiming at now?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000028_000005.wav|But to hang on to seventy is nasty, better only to thirty; one might retain 'a shadow of nobility' by deceiving oneself.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000000.wav|"On the contrary, I am struck by a coincidence," cried Ivan, warmly and good humoredly.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000015.wav|All such questions are utterly inappropriate for a mind created with an idea of only three dimensions.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000007.wav|And what do they talk about in that momentary halt in the tavern?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000063_000000.wav|"How nicely you put that in!" Alyosha laughed suddenly.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000073_000000.wav|"To be sure I will, it's not a secret, that's what I've been leading up to.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000032_000001.wav|Damn him, I certainly did want to see Dmitri, but now there's no need," said Ivan reluctantly.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000006.wav|"Her feeling for Dmitri was simply a self laceration.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000007.wav|I am going.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000014.wav|It's first rate soup, they know how to make it here.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000018.wav|It's not a matter of intellect or logic, it's loving with one's inside, with one's stomach.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000047_000000.wav|"I think not."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000010.wav|And masses, masses of the most original Russian boys do nothing but talk of the eternal questions!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000010.wav|What happened after I departed?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000051_000001.wav|"Besides I feel somehow depressed."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000035_000001.wav|how will it end?" asked Alyosha anxiously.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000008.wav|Would you believe, it, I sat here eating my dinner and was nearly ordering champagne to celebrate my first hour of freedom.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000027.wav|I began our talk as stupidly as I could on purpose, but I've led up to my confession, for that's all you want.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000019_000000.wav|"That you are just as young as other young men of three and twenty, that you are just a young and fresh and nice boy, green in fact!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000067_000000.wav|"Yes, of course, if you are not joking now."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000028_000002.wav|Father doesn't want to turn aside from his cup till he is seventy, he dreams of hanging on to eighty in fact, so he says.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000048_000004.wav|I won't go to her at all.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000066_000002.wav|I want to be friends with you, Alyosha, for I have no friends and want to try it.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000040_000002.wav|I sat watching over her ... and all at once it's collapsed!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000001.wav|Ha ha!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000003.wav|But how she tormented me!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000004.wav|How attractive she was just now when I made my speech!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000025.wav|That's what's at the root of me, Alyosha; that's my creed.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000040_000001.wav|I fell in love with the young lady, I worried myself over her and she worried me.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000003.wav|I had my own business to settle with Katerina Ivanovna.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000033_000000.wav|"But are you really going so soon, brother?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000004.wav|Well, damn it all, I can't stay here to be their keeper, can I? I've finished what I had to do, and I am going.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000002.wav|Alyosha, look straight at me!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000009.wav|I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000002.wav|You know, dear boy, there was an old sinner in the eighteenth century who declared that, if there were no God, he would have to be invented.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000023_000000.wav|"Certainly, love it, regardless of logic as you say, it must be regardless of logic, and it's only then one will understand the meaning of it.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000065_000001.wav|You declared yesterday at father's that there was no God." Alyosha looked searchingly at his brother.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000000.wav|"Me laughing!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000050_000001.wav|Alyosha, shall I call for some champagne?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000014.wav|I acknowledge humbly that I have no faculty for settling such questions, I have a Euclidian earthly mind, and how could I solve problems that are not of this world? And I advise you never to think about it either, my dear Alyosha, especially about God, whether He exists or not.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000046_000000.wav|"Isn't Madame Hohlakov laying it on?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000040_000004.wav|Would you believe it?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000003.wav|Of course I am just such a little boy as you are, only not a novice.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000000.wav|"But how could I tell that I didn't care for her a bit!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000048_000000.wav|"I must find out.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000013_000000.wav|"Were you very anxious to see me, then?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000028.wav|You didn't want to hear about God, but only to know what the brother you love lives by.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000054_000001.wav|I didn't say I should go in the morning....|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000009_000000.wav|"And cherry jam?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000020.wav|It's not that I don't accept God, you must understand, it's the world created by Him I don't and cannot accept.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000026_000000.wav|"I see you are feeling inspired.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000005.wav|I've asked myself many times whether there is in the world any despair that would overcome this frantic and perhaps unseemly thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't, that is till I am thirty, and then I shall lose it of myself, I fancy.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000004.wav|And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000003.wav|At thirty, though, I shall be sure to leave the cup, even if I've not emptied it, and turn away-where I don't know.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000032_000000.wav|"Yes, on his account.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000015_000003.wav|You are a riddle to me even now.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000016.wav|Precious are the dead that lie there, every stone over them speaks of such burning life in the past, of such passionate faith in their work, their truth, their struggle and their science, that I know I shall fall on the ground and kiss those stones and weep over them; though I'm convinced in my heart that it's long been nothing but a graveyard.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000010.wav|I am trying to explain as quickly as possible my essential nature, that is what manner of man I am, what I believe in, and for what I hope, that's it, isn't it?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000005.wav|So holy it is, so touching, so wise and so great a credit it does to man.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000026.wav|I am in earnest in what I say.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000054_000002.wav|But perhaps it may be the morning.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000006.wav|Some driveling consumptive moralists-and poets especially-often call that thirst for life base.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000015_000004.wav|But I understand something in you, and I did not understand it till this morning."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000011.wav|I could never have guessed even yesterday, how easy it would be to put an end to it if I wanted."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000052_000000.wav|"Yes, you've been depressed a long time, I've noticed it."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000054_000005.wav|But why are you so worried about my going away? We've plenty of time before I go, an eternity!"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000012.wav|I love some great deeds done by men, though I've long ceased perhaps to have faith in them, yet from old habit one's heart prizes them.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000048_000003.wav|God gave woman hysterics as a relief.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000005.wav|And do you know she attracts me awfully even now, yet how easy it is to leave her.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000058_000002.wav|That's what we care about.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000050_000002.wav|Let us drink to my freedom.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000042_000003.wav|And yet how she attracted me!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000000.wav|"Yes, and I've released myself once for all.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000048_000002.wav|They don't matter.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000038_000001.wav|And after all, what have I to do with Dmitri?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000005.wav|She loved me and not Dmitri," Ivan insisted gayly.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000058_000000.wav|"Then you know what for.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000003.wav|The stupider one is, the clearer one is.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000004.wav|But till I am thirty, I know that my youth will triumph over everything-every disillusionment, every disgust with life.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000006_000002.wav|Waiters were continually darting to and fro in it.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000059_000000.wav|"Perhaps so," smiled Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000040_000005.wav|Yes, it's the literal truth."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000030_000000.wav|"But he begged me not to tell Dmitri that he had told me about him," added Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000045_000000.wav|Alyosha told him she had been hysterical, and that she was now, he heard, unconscious and delirious.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000003.wav|I've noticed how you've been looking at me these three months.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000049_000000.wav|"But you told her that she had never cared for you."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000044_000004.wav|It certainly was sitting by a 'laceration.' Ah, she knew how I loved her!|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000020.wav|Do you understand anything of my tirade, Alyosha?" Ivan laughed suddenly.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000000.wav|"Very.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000065_000000.wav|"Begin where you like.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000035_000000.wav|"What of Dmitri and father?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000072_000000.wav|"You will explain why you don't accept the world?" said Alyosha.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000018.wav|There are all sorts of phrases for it.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000005.wav|And now I've been here more than three months, and so far we have scarcely said a word to each other.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000051_000000.wav|"No, brother, we had better not drink," said Alyosha suddenly.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000006_000004.wav|But there was the usual bustle going on in the other rooms of the tavern; there were shouts for the waiters, the sound of popping corks, the click of billiard balls, the drone of the organ.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000000.wav|"Joking?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000022_000000.wav|"Love life more than the meaning of it?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000000.wav|"To begin with, for the sake of being Russian.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000009.wav|And those who do not believe in God talk of socialism or anarchism, of the transformation of all humanity on a new pattern, so that it all comes to the same, they're the same questions turned inside out.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000056_000005.wav|Of the Emperor Napoleon?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000007.wav|The little man stands firm, I thought.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000002.wav|And secondly, the stupider one is, the closer one is to reality.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000012.wav|Yet there have been and still are geometricians and philosophers, and even some of the most distinguished, who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely the whole of being, was only created in Euclid's geometry; they even dare to dream that two parallel lines, which according to Euclid can never meet on earth, may meet somewhere in infinity.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000006.wav|As for me, I've long resolved not to think whether man created God or God man.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000006.wav|To morrow I am going away, and I was just thinking as I sat here how I could see you to say good by and just then you passed."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000005_000000.wav|Chapter three.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000058_000001.wav|It's different for other people; but we in our green youth have to settle the eternal questions first of all.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000020_000019.wav|One loves the first strength of one's youth.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000025_000000.wav|"Why, one has to raise up your dead, who perhaps have not died after all. Come, let me have tea.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000003.wav|"Cain's answer about his murdered brother, wasn't it? Perhaps that's what you're thinking at this moment?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000004.wav|And what have Russian boys been doing up till now, some of them, I mean?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000008.wav|Of the eternal questions, of the existence of God and immortality.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000013.wav|I have come to the conclusion that, since I can't understand even that, I can't expect to understand about God.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000066_000001.wav|But now I've no objection to discussing with you, and I say so very seriously.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000014_000008.wav|Though I am laughing, I am serious.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000012_000001.wav|There's such a difference between fifteen and eleven that brothers are never companions at those ages.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000036_000006.wav|I finished it.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000009_000002.wav|You remember how you used to love cherry jam when you were little?"|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000004.wav|Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000058_000004.wav|Just when the old folks are all taken up with practical questions.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000026_000002.wav|You are a steadfast person, Alexey.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000056_000003.wav|Answer: why have we met here?|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000071_000001.wav|Russian conversations on such subjects are always carried on inconceivably stupidly.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000017.wav|I believe in the Word to Which the universe is striving, and Which Itself was 'with God,' and Which Itself is God and so on, and so on, to infinity.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000023.wav|I won't accept it.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000068_000021.wav|Let me make it plain.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000060_000006.wav|They've never met in their lives before and, when they go out of the tavern, they won't meet again for forty years.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000066_000000.wav|"I said that yesterday at dinner on purpose to tease you and I saw your eyes glow.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000010_000001.wav|Let me have jam too, I like it still."|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3638/696/3638_696_000006_000006.wav|So he must have come here, he reflected, simply to meet Dmitri by arrangement.|3638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000043_000001.wav|Now he fortified himself with two or three glasses of strong whisky and went to bed, taking his vixen into his arms, where he slept soundly.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000027_000000.wav|Having got her into the house, the next thing he thought of was to hide her from the servants.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000016_000002.wav|The bride was in her twenty third year. She was small, with remarkably small hands and feet.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000016_000003.wav|It is perhaps worth noting that there was nothing at all foxy or vixenish in her appearance. On the contrary, she was a more than ordinarily beautiful and agreeable woman.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000019_000000.wav|Hearing the hunt, mr Tebrick quickened his pace so as to reach the edge of the copse, where they might get a good view of the hounds if they came that way.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000028_000001.wav|Besides these women there was a groom or a gardener (whichever you choose to call him), who was a single man and so lived out, lodging with a labouring family about half a mile away.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000038_000000.wav|There was a bright moon, so that mr Tebrick could see the dogs as clearly as could be.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000017_000001.wav|And owing to the circumstance that her mother had been dead many years, and her father bedridden, and not altogether rational for a little while before his death, they had few visitors but her uncle.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000030_000000.wav|"Janet," says he, "mrs Tebrick and I have had some bad news, and mrs Tebrick was called away instantly to London and left this afternoon, and I am staying to night to put our affairs in order.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000012_000001.wav|A grown lady is changed straightway into a fox.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000036_000000.wav|He started up now, calling to the gardener that he would come down to the dogs himself to quiet them, and bade the man go indoors again and leave it to him.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000041_000000.wav|"Oh, my poor precious!|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000015_000000.wav|She was married in the year eighteen seventy nine to mr Richard Tebrick, after a short courtship, and went to live after their honeymoon at Rylands, near Stokoe, Oxon.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000002.wav|Nothing would satisfy him then till he had clothed her suitably, bringing her dresses from the wardrobe for her to choose.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000019_000001.wav|His wife hung back, and he, holding her hand, began almost to drag her.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000014_000003.wav|It seems she took great fright or disgust at it, and vomited after it was done.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000010_000000.wav|But the strange event which I shall here relate came alone, unsupported, without companions into a hostile world, and for that very reason claimed little of the general attention of mankind.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000031_000000.wav|When she came back with his tea, mr Tebrick said: "I shall not require you upstairs.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000005.wav|While he tied the ribands his poor lady thanked him with gentle looks and not without some modesty and confusion.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000036_000002.wav|mr Tebrick went downstairs, and taking his gun from the rack loaded it and went out into the yard.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000013_000000.wav|The only things which go any way towards an explanation of it are but guesswork, and I give them more because I would not conceal anything, than because I think they are of any worth.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000030_000002.wav|We shall probably go away to the Continent, and I do not know when we shall come back.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000017_000000.wav|She had been strictly brought up by a woman of excellent principles and considerable attainments, who died a year or so before the marriage.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000016_000001.wav|But however they became acquainted the marriage was a very happy one.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000029_000000.wav|mr Tebrick going downstairs pitched upon the parlour maid.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000018_000000.wav|On one of the first days of the year eighteen eighty, in the early afternoon, husband and wife went for a walk in the copse on the little hill above Rylands.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000015_000001.wav|One point indeed I have not been able to ascertain and that is how they first became acquainted.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000030_000003.wav|Please tell the others, and now get me my tea and bring it into my study on a tray." Janet said nothing for she was a shy girl, particularly before gentlemen, but when she entered the kitchen mr Tebrick heard a sudden burst of conversation with many exclamations from the cook.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000033_000001.wav|He only called to her softly:|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000009_000001.wav|Thus there may be not one marvel to speak of in a century, and then often enough comes a plentiful crop of them; monsters of all sorts swarm suddenly upon the earth, comets blaze in the sky, eclipses frighten nature, meteors fall in rain, while mermaids and sirens beguile, and sea serpents engulf every passing ship, and terrible cataclysms beset humanity.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000017_000003.wav|That she did not grow up a country hoyden is to be explained by the strictness of her governess and the influence of her uncle.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000037_000000.wav|When he came out into the yard both dogs saluted him by barking and whining twice as much as they did before, the setter jumping up and down at the end of his chain in a frenzy, and Nelly shivering, wagging her tail, and looking first at her master and then at the house door, where she could smell the fox right enough.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000014_000001.wav|They were an ancient family, and have had their seat at Tangley Hall time out of mind.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000011_000002.wav|What adds to the difficulty to my mind is that the metamorphosis occurred when mrs Tebrick was a full grown woman, and that it happened suddenly in so short a space of time.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000032_000001.wav|For the first moment he thought the room was empty, and his vixen got away, for he could see no sign of her anywhere.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000040_000000.wav|Old Nanny, though she was not expecting to find her mistress there, having been told that she was gone that afternoon to London, knew her instantly, and cried out:|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000012_000000.wav|But here we have something very different.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000010_000001.wav|For the sudden changing of mrs Tebrick into a vixen is an established fact which we may attempt to account for as we will.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000018_000002.wav|While they were walking they heard the hounds and later the huntsman's horn in the distance.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000036_000003.wav|Now there were two dogs, one a handsome Irish setter that was his wife's dog (she had brought it with her from Tangley Hall on her marriage); the other was an old fox terrier called Nelly that he had had ten years or more.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000041_000003.wav|Then, seeing her mistress start and look at her, she cried out: "But never fear, my darling, it will all come right, your old Nanny knows you, it will all come right in the end."|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000018_000001.wav|They were still at this time like lovers in their behaviour and were always together.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000001.wav|What do you do there?" And then in a moment saw for himself what she would be at, and began once more to blame himself heartily-because he had not guessed that his wife would not like to go naked, notwithstanding the shape she was in.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000032_000002.wav|But after a moment he saw something stirring in a corner of the room, and then behold! she came forth dragging her dressing gown, into which she had somehow struggled.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000021_000000.wav|So that with his gazing on her and knowing her well, even in such a shape, yet asking himself at every moment: "Can it be she?|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000017_000005.wav|Her old nurse said: "Miss Silvia was always a little wild at heart," though if this was true it was never seen by anyone else except her husband.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000028_000000.wav|mr Tebrick had three servants living in the house, the cook, the parlour maid, and an old woman who had been his wife's nurse.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000036_000001.wav|All this he said in a dry, compelling kind of voice which made the fellow do as he was bid, though it was against his will, for he was curious.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000039_000000.wav|But by all this going on with so much strangeness and authority on his part, as it seemed to them, the servants were much troubled.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000027_000001.wav|He carried her to the bedroom in his arms and then went downstairs again.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000006.wav|He propped her up in an armchair with some cushions, and they took tea together, she very delicately drinking from a saucer and taking bread and butter from his hands.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000016_000000.wav|Whether it was from a chance meeting on the roads, or less romantic but more probable, by mr Tebrick becoming acquainted with her uncle, a minor canon at Oxford, and thence being invited by him to visit Tangley Hall, it is impossible to say.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000043_000000.wav|mr Tebrick had all this time gone about paying off his servants and shooting his dogs as if he were in a dream.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000021_000002.wav|She lay very close to him, nestling under his coat and fell to licking his face, but never taking her eyes from his.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000017_000004.wav|But perhaps living in so wild a place gave her some disposition to wildness, even in spite of her religious upbringing.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000038_000002.wav|The bitch was clean gone, till, looking to see how she had broken her chain, he found her lying hid in the back of her kennel. But that trick did not save her, for mr Tebrick, after trying to pull her out by her chain and finding it useless-she would not come,--thrust the muzzle of his gun into the kennel, pressed it into her body and so shot her.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000041_000002.wav|What dreadful change is this?"|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000031_000002.wav|I am busy now, but I will see you again before you go."|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000016_000004.wav|Her eyes were of a clear hazel but exceptionally brilliant, her hair dark, with a shade of red in it, her skin brownish, with a few dark freckles and little moles.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000042_000001.wav|So she hurried out soon, fearing to be found there by mr Tebrick, and who knows, perhaps shot, like the dogs, for knowing the secret.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000021_000001.wav|Am I not dreaming?" and her beseeching and lastly fawning on him and seeming to tell him that it was she indeed, they came at last together and he took her in his arms.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000020_000001.wav|You may well think if he were aghast: and so maybe was his lady at finding herself in that shape, so they did nothing for nearly half an hour but stare at each other, he bewildered, she asking him with her eyes as if indeed she spoke to him: "What am I now become? Have pity on me, husband, have pity on me for I am your wife."|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000004.wav|It was made of a flowered silk, trimmed with lace, and the sleeves short enough to sit very well on her now.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000010_000002.wav|Certainly it is in the explanation of the fact, and the reconciling of it with our general notions that we shall find most difficulty, and not in accepting for true a story which is so fully proved, and that not by one witness but by a dozen, all respectable, and with no possibility of collusion between them.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000032_000000.wav|When she had gone mr Tebrick took the tray upstairs.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000009_000000.wav|Wonderful or supernatural events are not so uncommon, rather they are irregular in their incidence.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000015_000002.wav|Tangley Hall is over thirty miles from Stokoe, and is extremely remote.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000038_000001.wav|First he shot his wife's setter dead, and then looked about him for Nelly to give her the other barrel, but he could see her nowhere.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000042_000000.wav|But though she said this she did not care to look again, and kept her eyes turned away so as not to meet the foxy slit ones of her mistress, for that was too much for her.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000025_000000.wav|He waited till it was quite dark that he might the better bring her into her own house without being seen, and buttoned her inside his topcoat, nay, even in his passion tearing open his waistcoat and his shirt that she might lie the closer to his heart.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000011_000001.wav|Yet I would not dissuade any of my readers from attempting an explanation of this seeming miracle because up till now none has been found which is entirely satisfactory.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000025_000001.wav|For when we are overcome with the greatest sorrow we act not like men or women but like children whose comfort in all their troubles is to press themselves against their mother's breast, or if she be not there to hold each other tight in one another's arms.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000034_000007.wav|All this showed him, or so he thought, that his wife was still herself; there was so little wildness in her demeanour and so much delicacy and decency, especially in her not wishing to run naked, that he was very much comforted, and began to fancy they could be happy enough if they could escape the world and live always alone.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000030_000001.wav|We are shutting up the house, and I must give you and mrs Brant a month's wages and ask you to leave to morrow morning at seven o'clock.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000024_000000.wav|They sat thus till it was getting near dusk, when he recollected himself, and the next thing was that he must somehow hide her, and then bring her home.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000015_000003.wav|Indeed to this day there is no proper road to it, which is all the more remarkable as it is the principal, and indeed the only, manor house for several miles round.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000033_000000.wav|This must surely have been a comical sight, but poor mr Tebrick was altogether too distressed then or at any time afterwards to divert himself at such ludicrous scenes.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000012_000002.wav|There is no explaining that away by any natural philosophy.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000018_000003.wav|mr Tebrick had persuaded her to hunt on Boxing Day, but with great difficulty, and she had not enjoyed it (though of hacking she was fond enough).|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000019_000002.wav|Before they gained the edge of the copse she suddenly snatched her hand away from his very violently and cried out, so that he instantly turned his head.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000035_000000.wav|From this too sanguine dream he was aroused by hearing the gardener speaking to the dogs, trying to quiet them, for ever since he had come in with his vixen they had been whining, barking and growling, and all as he knew because there was a fox within doors and they would kill it.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000038_000004.wav|Then, leaving the dogs as they were, chained up, mr Tebrick went indoors again and found the gardener, who had not yet gone home, gave him a month's wages in lieu of notice and told him he had a job for him yet-to bury the two dogs and that he should do it that same night.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000023_000000.wav|So they passed a good while, till at last the tears welled up in the poor fox's eyes and she began weeping (but quite in silence), and she trembled too as if she were in a fever.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/39475/5290_39475_000011_000000.wav|But here I will confine myself to an exact narrative of the event and all that followed on it.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000021_000001.wav|We'll let in a little more light.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000052_000000.wav|"I saw you this morning, ma'm, as you went out.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000068_000004.wav|Why, what was it to him what place she asked for?|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000001.wav|Surely all was good and well with the world!|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000022_000000.wav|Cassandra watched him cross the floor, his short bow legs reflected grotesquely in its shining surface as he walked, then turned and gazed again at the life-size, half length portrait of a young man with sunny hair like David's and warm brown eyes.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000052_000003.wav|mrs Darling is very particular."|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000057_000003.wav|Presently a young man came and bent down to her as if listening.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000039_000002.wav|David-her David-she had not come to him after all; she had come to an empty place.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000000.wav|She gathered the child in her arms and held him with his sweet, warm lips pressed to her breast and his soft little hand thrust in her bosom. David's little son-David's little son!|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000046_000000.wav|Quickly she packed her few belongings and rang for a messenger, and as she stood an instant waiting for an answer to her ring, the white capped nurse she had noticed in the morning passed by with the baby in her arms.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000013_000002.wav|What if David were not there!|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000017_000001.wav|A visitor at this hour, and seemingly a lady, yet with a baby in her arms, and alone, and not to see the house.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000065_000000.wav|"Yes," said Cassandra, faintly.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000005.wav|He had not confided his sacred secret to these people, and they had thought what they pleased.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000039_000005.wav|She was not thinking, only looking, seeing into the past and down the long vista of her future.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000039_000000.wav|Darker, dingier, stuffier, seemed the box of a room, as she walked into it and laid her still sleeping babe on the bed.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000038_000000.wav|In a moment she was gone.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000013_000000.wav|"Oh, yes.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000027_000000.wav|"No, I never met any one by that name.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000046_000004.wav|Then, too, if only she had some one with her to whom she could speak now and then, it would be better.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000026_000000.wav|The old servant was saying: "You 'aven't 'appened to meet a Samuel Cutter in America, 'ave you?|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000066_000001.wav|"How perfectly dear.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000036_000000.wav|"Let me carry 'im for you, ma'm.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000010_000000.wav|While waiting with her baby in her arms for the hotel boy to call her cab, she observed another lady, young and graceful, enter a cab, and a maid following her wearing a pretty cap, and carrying a child.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000062_000002.wav|She placed her little son on the seat beside her and held him with sheltering arm, while he watched the moving vehicles and looked from them to his mother's face.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000046_000003.wav|And now she was in "Vanity Fair," and must be wise and not go to David's mother unattended.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000013_000006.wav|For a moment, bewildered, she could hardly understand what he was saying to her.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000007_000001.wav|She was to go nowhere alone, without taking a cab, and never start out on foot, carrying her baby in her arms, as she might do at home.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000003.wav|Had not evil things been said of David even on her own mountain?|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000019_000000.wav|"Yes, I'm a stranger." She caught at the word.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000004_000000.wav|She had tried to put them one side that she might look out when she awoke, but she could see only chimney pots and grimy, irregularly tiled roofs.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000071_000000.wav|"Will you go to Daneshead Castle itself, ma'm, or stop in Queensderry?" As she had no idea what the question involved, she replied at hazard.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000021_000002.wav|A Vandyke-and worth it's weight in gold."|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000040_000002.wav|She saw David walking at her side, and heard his laugh, sun bright and glorious he seemed, her Phoebus Apollo-the father of her little son.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000019_000001.wav|Seized by an inward terror of the small eyes fixed curiously on her, she intuitively shrank from betraying her identity, and the old servant had told her what she needed to know.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000014_000000.wav|Although dazed and baffled, Cassandra betrayed no sign of the tumult within, and the little old man stood before her hesitating, his curiosity piqued into a determination to discover her business and identity.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000068_000001.wav|The young girl's pleasant words had warmed her heart, and the refreshment gave her more courage.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000020_000001.wav|She held her now sleeping baby close to her breast as she followed the old man about from picture to picture.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000019_000002.wav|Of course her husband was "his lordship," over here.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000067_000001.wav|"Come, Laura, we can't wait, you know," and they passed on.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000039_000004.wav|She neither wept nor prayed; and the red spot burned against the creamy whiteness of her skin.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000033_000003.wav|That's gossip, you know."|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000044_000001.wav|He opened his large, clear eyes, and suddenly it seemed that her wish was granted,--that the veil was rent and she was looking into David's eyes and seeing his soul free, no longer chained by invisible links to those dead and gone beings, and their traditions.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000035_000001.wav|Her pallor struck him then, even as the red spot on her cheek deepened, and he held out his arms for the child.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000030_000004.wav|The mystery was still unsolved.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000030_000003.wav|He had learned nothing of this young woman to tell his old wife, except that she came from America, and had never met Samuel Cutter.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000060_000000.wav|"I will take what they have."|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000013_000004.wav|Then they were swallowed up in the dark interior.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000043_000000.wav|And David-her David-was one of these!|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000026_000001.wav|'E's our son.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000010_000002.wav|Ought she then to arrive attended by a maid, carrying her baby?|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000010_000004.wav|So the address was given the cabman, and they were rattled away over the rough paving, a long, lonely ride through the wonderful city-so many miles of houses and splendid buildings, of gardens and monuments.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000017_000002.wav|Again he coughed behind his hand.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000034_000000.wav|Cassandra rose and stood suddenly poised for flight.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000012_000001.wav|She soothed and comforted him until her panic passed, and when, at last, they stopped before a great house built in on either side by other houses, with wide steps of stone descending directly upon the street, she had regained a measure of composure.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000062_000001.wav|Cabs and carriages were rushing up and down the street below them.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000050_000000.wav|"I couldn't go with you myself, ma'm-but-"|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000034_000002.wav|She had a silver shilling in her hand, for Betty Towers had told her all servants expected a tip, and this was intended for the cabman.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000001_000000.wav|IN WHICH CASSANDRA VISITS DAVID THRYNG'S ANCESTORS|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000064_000001.wav|A gray haired lady followed, and paused beside her.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000029_000001.wav|"It takes three or four days to get there from my home."|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000047_000001.wav|The young woman stood still in astonishment.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000063_000000.wav|"What a perfectly lovely child!" said a pleasant voice.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000043_000001.wav|What they had felt-what they had thought and striven for-was it all intensified and concentrated in him?|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000005_000000.wav|The room seemed to sway and tip as the ship had done, and there was a continuous sound as of thunder, a strange undercurrent that seemed to her strained nerves like the moaning of the lost souls of all the ages, who had lived and toiled and smothered in this monstrous and terrible city.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000040_000001.wav|In the radiance of the spring, she saw them, and in the glory of the autumn; she breathed the fragrance of the pines in winter and heard the soft patter of summer rains on widespreading leaves.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000067_000000.wav|"Babies are always dear," said the mother, with a smile.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000028_000000.wav|"About 'ow far do you think, ma'm?"|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000030_000001.wav|"It's a big country-America is.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000003_000000.wav|The child was dressed in a fresh white coat, and Cassandra had much ado to keep him clean.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000049_000000.wav|"Yes."|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000004.wav|It was the trail of the serpent of ill report.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000017_000000.wav|A mystery!|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000055_000002.wav|She only thought that she must be brave and try-try to think how to reach David's people.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000034_000001.wav|She must get out of that house and hear no more.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000041_000000.wav|She saw the terrible sea which she had crossed to come to him-the white crested waves, with turquoise lights and indigo depths, shifting and sliding unceasingly where all the world seemed swallowed in space, and the huge steamship so small a thing in the vast and perilous deep; and now-now she was here.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000009_000000.wav|Betty Towers had procured clothing for her-a modest supply-using her own good taste, and not disguising Cassandra's natural grace and dignity by a too close adherence to the prevailing mode.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000011_000003.wav|Her brain whirled, and a new feeling to which she had hitherto been blessedly a stranger crept over her, a feeling of fear.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000068_000003.wav|The clerk wrote the address promptly on a card, but the keen look of interest with which he handed it to her caused her to shrink inwardly.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000007_000002.wav|She had given her written instructions how to conduct herself under all ordinary circumstances, at her hotel or on the street-how to ring for a servant, order her meals, or call a cab.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000046_000001.wav|Yes, surely women of David's state did not travel about alone.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000042_000000.wav|She had tried to find him, her David, and had been shown the dead, and the glory of the dead-all past and gone-her David's glory.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000013_000001.wav|Wait," cried Cassandra.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000034_000003.wav|Had she followed her impulse, she would have darted by with her fingers in her ears, but instead, she dropped the shilling in the old man's hand, and quietly turned toward the door.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000037_000000.wav|But her arms closed tighter about her baby.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000068_000000.wav|Then her tea and crisp, hot muffins were brought.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000068_000002.wav|She made her way to the office and inquired how she might find Lord Thryng's country home.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000042_000001.wav|Shown that long, empty gallery resounding with those aged footsteps, and the pictures-pictures-pictures-of men and women who had once been babes like her little son and David's, now dead and gone-not one soul among them all to greet her.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000013_000003.wav|And of course, he might be out.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000014_000001.wav|Her gravity and silence gave her a poise and dignity that allayed suspicion, but he and his old wife liked diversion, and a spice of gossip lightened the monotony of their lives, so he waited, then coughed behind his hand.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000035_000000.wav|"Thank you," his fingers closed over the shilling.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000010_000001.wav|Eager, for David's sake, to draw no adverse comment upon herself, she took note of everything.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000006_000001.wav|She must hurry-hurry and find David.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000006_000003.wav|He would take him in his arms.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000052_000001.wav|I'll see what I can do. What number is your room? and what name?|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000025_000000.wav|She followed slowly in the old man's wake, never opening her lips until they had made the circuit and were again standing before the portrait of the fair haired youth.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000008_000003.wav|She leaned over the bed, half dressed as she was, and murmured pretty cooing phrases, kissing and cuddling him to contented laughter.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000070_000001.wav|He explained to her courteously-almost deferentially.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000064_000000.wav|Cassandra looked up to see a rosy cheeked girl, a little too stout and florid, with a great mop of dark hair tied with a wide black ribbon.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000066_000003.wav|Isn't he, though?"|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000037_000002.wav|We do in America."|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000007.wav|She would go to his mother and wait for his return, and there she would bring her precious gift-David's little son.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000032_000001.wav|She had seated herself in the hall, for her heart throbbed chokingly, and the lump was heavy in her throat.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000053_000000.wav|"Oh, never mind, then." Cassandra turned away in sudden shame lest she had not done the right thing.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000006_000006.wav|She must get used to all this, and not expect to find all the world like her own sunny mountains.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000009_000002.wav|Cassandra stood a long moment before the two gowns.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000006_000002.wav|He would be glad to see his little son.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000004_000004.wav|She could not touch them without blackening her hands, nor let her baby sit on the floor for the dirt he wiped up on his clothing as he rolled and kicked about.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000055_000000.wav|Cassandra felt more abashed under the round eyed gaze of the maid than if she had encountered the queen.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000031_000000.wav|"Yes, 'is young lordship do look amazing like that picture.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000036_000001.wav|Is it a boy?"|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000041_000001.wav|What was she?|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000044_000002.wav|This had been all a dream-a dream.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000052_000002.wav|I mustn't talk here.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000031_000001.wav|If you'd ever seen 'im, you'd think 'e'd dressed up in velvet and lace and stood for it.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000045_000002.wav|Did not the old man say it was only gossip?|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000033_000000.wav|"'Is lordship is still in Hafrica, mam.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000016_000000.wav|"No, it was not the house-it was-" Again she waited, not knowing how to introduce her husband's name.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000057_000002.wav|Then Cassandra knew that she was hungry and sat herself in one of the windows apart, before a table.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000030_000000.wav|The old man's eyes opened wide, and his jaw dropped.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000047_000000.wav|"Will you tell me, please, have you a sister?" she said.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000047_000002.wav|"Or-any friend like yourself?|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000011_000002.wav|There were the nursemaids-the babies-the beggars-the ragged urchins and the venders of the street, with their raucous cries rending the air.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000069_000001.wav|Will you tell me how, please?"|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000024_000002.wav|She drew a deep breath and looked down the length of the long gallery.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000002_000001.wav|Cassandra had placed her little son in the middle of a huge bed which nearly filled the small room she had been given in a hotel, recommended to her by Betty Towers as one where "nice ladies travelling alone" could stop.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000024_000003.wav|Everything was being impressed upon her mind as upon sensitized paper.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000019_000003.wav|"I am from America, and I would like to see the gallery." She must do so to give a pretext for having come to visit an empty house.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000069_000000.wav|"I wish to go there.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000043_000002.wav|Oh, if her soul could only reach to him, wherever he was, and penetrate this impalpable veil that stretched between them!|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000067_000002.wav|As Cassandra looked up in the mother's face, something stirred vaguely in her heart.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000055_000001.wav|Her ring for a messenger had not been answered, and she did not know how to find her husband's country seat. She felt faint and weary, but did not think of hunger, nor that it was long past the dinner hour, and that she had eaten nothing since her early breakfast.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000030_000002.wav|England may be a small place, but she 'as tremendous big possessions." He felt it all belonged to England, and spoke with swelling pride as his short legs carried him toward the door. There again he paused.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000031_000002.wav|'E's lived in America five years, but if you never were in Canada and never met our Sammy, it's more likely you never saw 'im either."|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000004_000001.wav|A narrow opening at the top of the window let in a little air; still she felt smothered, and tried to raise the lower sash, but could not move it.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000037_000001.wav|"He is my little son." It was almost a cry, as she said it, but again she forced herself to calmness, and, walking slowly out, added, with a quiet smile: "I always keep him myself.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000006_000004.wav|He would hold them both to his heart.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000047_000004.wav|"And it is right hard to go about alone with my baby, so I thought I would ask you if you have a sister."|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000029_000000.wav|Cassandra had no idea of the distance, but she knew how long David and Hoyle were journeying there, so she answered as best she could.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000068_000005.wav|She lifted her head proudly.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000004_000003.wav|Here only a small triangle of blue sky could be seen-not a tree, not a bit of earth-and in the small room all those heavy furnishings closed around her, dark red, stuffy, and greasy with London smoke.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5290/26685/5290_26685_000012_000000.wav|As the great two story coaches and trams thundered by, she clasped her baby closer, until he looked up in her face with round eyed wonder and put up his lip in pitiful protest.|5290
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000024_000000.wav|The second winter after the massacre, my father and my two older brothers, with several others, were betrayed by a half breed at Winnipeg to the United States authorities.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000006_000002.wav|A yoke of oxen and a lumber wagon were taken from some white farmer and brought home for our conveyance.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000014_000003.wav|Another fire was quickly made, which saved our lives.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000017_000002.wav|There were times of plenty and times of scarcity, and we had several narrow escapes from death.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000006_000001.wav|In the general turmoil, we took flight into British Columbia, and the journey is still vividly remembered by all our family.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000017_000003.wav|In savage life, the early spring is the most trying time and almost all the famines occurred at this period of the year.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000011_000000.wav|The Washechu (white men) were coming in great numbers with their big guns, and while most of our men were fighting them to gain time, the women and the old men made and equipped the temporary boats, braced with ribs of willow.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000013_000001.wav|Only the strictest vigilance saved us.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000021_000002.wav|They are children of Nature, and occasionally she whips them with the lashes of experience, yet they are forgetful and careless.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000009_000001.wav|I cried out all possible reproaches on the white man's team and concluded that a dog travaux was good enough for me.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000022_000001.wav|Food is free-lodging free-everything free!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000019_000000.wav|In times of famine, the adults often denied themselves in order to make the food last as long as possible for the children, who were not able to bear hunger as well as the old.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000017_000000.wav|I was now an exile as well as motherless; yet I was not unhappy.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000020_000000.wav|I once passed through one of these hard springs when we had nothing to eat for several days.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000019_000001.wav|As a people, they can live without food much longer than any other nation.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000021_000000.wav|Such was the Indians' wild life!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000014_000002.wav|We were surrounded.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000015_000000.wav|One of the most thrilling experiences of the following winter was a blizzard, which overtook us in our wanderings.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000003_000002.wav|A little girl cousin of mine was put in a bag and suspended from the horn of an Indian saddle; but her weight must be balanced or the saddle would not remain on the animal's back.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000003_000003.wav|Accordingly, I was put into another sack and made to keep the saddle and the girl in position!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000015_000004.wav|We had plenty of buffalo robes and the snow kept us warm, but we found it heavy. After a time, it became packed and hollowed out around our bodies, so that we were as comfortable as one can be under those circumstances.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000018_000000.wav|The Indians are a patient and a clannish people; their love for one another is stronger than that of any civilized people I know.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000010_000003.wav|We were forced to cross in buffalo skin boats-as round as tubs!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000018_000002.wav|White people have been known to kill and eat their companions in preference to starving; but Indians-never!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000005_000001.wav|For instance, whenever a train of dogs had been travelling for a long time, almost perishing with the heat and their heavy loads, a glimpse of water would cause them to forget all their responsibilities.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000011_000002.wav|It was not an easy matter to keep them right side up, with their helpless freight of little children and such goods as we possessed.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000012_000003.wav|The people carried it with them in bags formed of tripe or the dried pericardium of animals.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000021_000003.wav|Much of their suffering might have been prevented by a little calculation.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000008_000002.wav|At last, I mustered up courage enough to join them in this sport.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000022_000000.wav|During the summer, when Nature is at her best, and provides abundantly for the savage, it seems to me that no life is happier than his!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000011_000001.wav|Some of these were towed by two or three women or men swimming in the water and some by ponies.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000018_000001.wav|If this were not so, I believe there would have been tribes of cannibals among them.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000017_000001.wav|Our wanderings from place to place afforded us many pleasant experiences and quite as many hardships and misfortunes.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000016_000000.wav|The next day the storm ceased, and we discovered a large herd of buffaloes almost upon us.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000006_000000.wav|I was a little over four years old at the time of the "Sioux massacre" in Minnesota.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000015_000002.wav|For a day and a night we lay under the snow.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000020_000003.wav|Soon after this, we came into a region where buffaloes were plenty, and hunger and scarcity were forgotten.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000015_000001.wav|Here and there, a family lay down in the snow, selecting a place where it was not likely to drift much.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000002_000000.wav|EARLY HARDSHIPS|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000004_000002.wav|I believe I was accustomed to all the precarious Indian conveyances, and, as a boy, I enjoyed the dog travaux ride as much as any.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000014_000001.wav|It was a prairie fire.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000016_000001.wav|We dug our way out, shot some of the buffaloes, made a fire and enjoyed a good dinner.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000003_000001.wav|I was passive in the whole matter.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000004_000004.wav|Both ponies and large dogs were used as beasts of burden, and they carried in this way the smaller children as well as the baggage.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000023_000000.wav|The raids made upon our people by other tribes were frequent, and we had to be constantly on the watch.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000013_000000.wav|Now we were compelled to trespass upon the country of hostile tribes and were harassed by them almost daily and nightly.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000010_000001.wav|Now the Missouri is considered one of the most treacherous rivers in the world.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000009_000002.wav|I was really rejoiced that we were moving away from the people who made the wagon that had almost ended my life, and it did not occur to me that I alone was to blame.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000009_000003.wav|I could not be persuaded to ride in that wagon again and was glad when we finally left it beside the Missouri river.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000004_000001.wav|However cold the weather might be, the inmate of the fur lined sack was usually very comfortable-at least I used to think so.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000012_000000.wav|In our flight, we little folks were strapped in the saddles or held in front of an older person, and in the long night marches to get away from the soldiers, we suffered from loss of sleep and insufficient food.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000012_000002.wav|Water was not always to be found.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000024_000001.wav|As I was then living with my uncle in another part of the country, I became separated from them for ten years.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000008_000004.wav|Alas, before I could realize what had happened, I was under the wheels, and had it not been for the neighbor immediately behind us, I might have been run over by the next team as well.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000020_000001.wav|I well remember the six small birds which constituted the breakfast for six families one morning; and then we had no dinner or supper to follow!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000010_000002.wav|Even a good modern boat is not safe upon its uncertain current.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000003_000000.wav|One of the earliest recollections of my adventurous childhood is the ride I had on a pony's side.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000015_000003.wav|Uncle stuck a long pole beside us to tell us when the storm was over.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000023_000002.wav|Only a few of them were recovered, and our journeys after this misfortune were effected mostly by means of the dog travaux.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000009_000000.wav|This was my first experience with a civilized vehicle.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000003_000004.wav|I did not object, for I had a very pleasant game of peek a boo with the little girl, until we came to a big snow drift, where the poor beast was stuck fast and began to lie down.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000023_000001.wav|I remember at one time a night attack was made upon our camp and all our ponies stampeded.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000004_000000.wav|This was the convenient and primitive way in which some mothers packed their children for winter journeys.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000005_000002.wav|Some of them, in spite of the screams of the women, would swim with their burdens into the cooling stream, and I was thus, on more than one occasion, made to partake of an unwilling bath.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000007_000001.wav|It seemed almost like a living creature to me, this new vehicle with four legs, and the more so when we got out of axle grease and the wheels went along squealing like pigs!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000008_000003.wav|I was sure they stepped on the wheel, so I cautiously placed my moccasined foot upon it.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000005_000000.wav|This mode of travelling for children was possible only in the summer, and as the dogs were sometimes unreliable, the little ones were exposed to a certain amount of danger.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000012_000001.wav|Our meals were eaten hastily, and sometimes in the saddle.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000008_000001.wav|My elder brothers soon became experts.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000003_000005.wav|Then it was not so nice!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92200/7240_92200_000010_000000.wav|The summer after the "Minnesota massacre," General Sibley pursued our people across this river.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000002_000000.wav|The Indian boy was a prince of the wilderness.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000002_000003.wav|Aside from this, he was master of his time.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000010_000000.wav|Boys of all ages were paired for a "spin," and the little red men cheered on their favorites with spirit.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000016_000002.wav|As it was the custom of our people, when they killed or wounded an enemy on the battle field, to announce the act in a loud voice, we did the same.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000012_000000.wav|Last of all came the swimming.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000006_000003.wav|There was another game with arrows that was characterized by gambling, and was generally confined to the men.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000025_000001.wav|When we had no ponies, we often had swimming matches of our own, and sometimes made rafts with which we crossed lakes and rivers.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000006_000000.wav|It was considered out of place to shoot by first sighting the object aimed at.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000015_000003.wav|After the onslaught upon the nest was ended, we usually followed it by a pretended scalp dance.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000014_000004.wav|No one struck with the hand, but all manner of tripping with legs and feet and butting with the knees was allowed.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000020_000003.wav|This advice he obeyed.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000005_000001.wav|Before it fell to the ground a volley from the bows of the participants followed.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000024_000002.wav|The top must spin all the way through.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000021_000002.wav|Poor little fellow!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000024_000000.wav|We played games with these tops-two to fifty boys at one time.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000015_000002.wav|But it seemed that the bees were always on the alert and never entirely surprised, for they always raised quite as many scalps as did their bold assailants!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000016_000000.wav|On the occasion of my first experience in this mode of warfare, there were two other little boys who were also novices.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000024_000003.wav|There were bars of snow over which we must pilot our top in the spoon end of our whip; then again we would toss it in the air on to another open spot of ice or smooth snow crust from twenty to fifty paces away.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000023_000002.wav|We whipped them with a long thong of buckskin.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000022_000004.wav|Sometimes a strip of bass wood bark, four feet long and about six inches wide, was used with considerable skill.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000003_000003.wav|Yet we observed that the fawns skipped and played happily while the gray wolves might be peeping forth from behind the hills, ready to tear them limb from limb.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000011_000000.wav|As soon as this was ended, the pony races followed.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000013_000002.wav|When there were fifty or a hundred players on each side, the battle became warm; but anything to arouse the bravery of Indian boys seemed to them a good and wholesome diversion.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000003_000000.wav|It is true that our savage life was a precarious one, and full of dreadful catastrophes; however, this never prevented us from enjoying our sports to the fullest extent.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000002_000002.wav|His principal occupation was the practice of a few simple arts in warfare and the chase.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000004_000000.wav|Our sports were molded by the life and customs of our people; indeed, we practiced only what we expected to do when grown.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000012_000001.wav|A little urchin would hang to his pony's long tail, while the latter, with only his head above water, glided sportively along.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000007_000002.wav|A boy might say to some other whom he considered his equal:|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000021_000000.wav|When we had reassembled and were indulging in our mimic dance, Little Wound was not allowed to dance.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000002_000001.wav|He had but very little work to do during the period of his boyhood.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000006_000001.wav|This was usually impracticable in actual life, because the object was almost always in motion, while the hunter himself was often upon the back of a pony at full gallop.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000024_000004.wav|The top that holds out the longest is the winner.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000023_000001.wav|We made our tops heart shaped of wood, horn or bone.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000027_000003.wav|I once had a grizzly bear for a pet, and so far as he and I were concerned, our relations were charming and very close.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000003_000002.wav|It was an uncertain life, to be sure.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000026_000001.wav|The older boys had put us on this uncertain bark and pushed us out into the swift current of the river.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000016_000004.wav|However, he evidently did not want to retreat without any honors; so he bravely jumped upon the nest and yelled:|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000025_000000.wav|We loved to play in the water.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000019_000001.wav|One of his older companions shouted:|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000021_000003.wav|His swollen face was sad and ashamed as he sat on a fallen log and watched the dance.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000022_000001.wav|Among them were throwing wands and snow arrows.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000011_000002.wav|If a boy declined to ride, there would be shouts of derision.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000027_000002.wav|My pets were different at different times, but I particularly remember one.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000022_000000.wav|We had some quiet plays which we alternated with the more severe and warlike ones.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000017_000000.wav|"I, the brave Little Wound, to day kill the only fierce enemy!"|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000008_000000.wav|"I can't run; but I will challenge you to fifty paces."|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000024_000001.wav|Each whips his top until it hums; then one takes the lead and the rest follow in a sort of obstacle race.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000006_000002.wav|Therefore, it was the off hand shot that the Indian boy sought to master.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000015_000000.wav|One of our most curious sports was a war upon the nests of wild bees. We imagined ourselves about to make an attack upon the Ojibways or some tribal foe.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000027_000000.wav|We had many curious wild pets.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000020_000002.wav|Dive into the water!" for there was a lake near by.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000025_000002.wav|It was a common thing to "duck" a young or timid boy or to carry him into deep water to struggle as best he might.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000004_000001.wav|Our games were feats with the bow and arrow, foot and pony races, wrestling, swimming and imitation of the customs and habits of our fathers.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000027_000005.wav|It was his habit to treat every boy unmercifully who injured me.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000019_000000.wav|Scarcely were the last words uttered when he screamed as if stabbed to the heart.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000026_000000.wav|I remember a perilous ride with a companion on an unmanageable log, when we were both less than seven years old.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000007_000001.wav|At noon the boys were usually gathered by some pleasant sheet of water, and as soon as the ponies were watered, they were allowed to graze for an hour or two, while the boys stripped for their noonday sports.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000020_000000.wav|"Dive into the water!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000014_000002.wav|It was really a battle, in which each one chose his opponent.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000014_000003.wav|The rule was that if a boy sat down, he was let alone, but as long as he remained standing within the field, he was open to an attack.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000003_000001.wav|As we left our teepees in the morning, we were never sure that our scalps would not dangle from a pole in the afternoon!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000026_000003.wav|I never knew how we managed to prevent a shipwreck on that voyage and to reach the shore.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000011_000001.wav|All the speedy ponies were picked out and riders chosen.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000027_000001.wav|There were young foxes, bears, wolves, raccoons, fawns, buffalo calves and birds of all kinds, tamed by various boys.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000027_000004.wav|But I hardly know whether he made more enemies for me or I for him.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000004_000002.wav|We had sham fights with mud balls and willow wands; we played lacrosse, made war upon bees, shot winter arrows (which were used only in that season), and coasted upon the ribs of animals and buffalo robes.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000009_000000.wav|A former hero, when beaten, would often explain his defeat by saying: "I drank too much water."|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000023_000003.wav|The handle was a stick about a foot long and sometimes we whittled the stick to make it spoon shaped at one end.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000022_000002.wav|In the winter we coasted much.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000021_000001.wav|He was considered not to be in existence-he had been killed by our enemies, the Bee tribe.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000014_000005.wav|Altogether it was an exhausting pastime-fully equal to the American game of football, and only the young athlete could really enjoy it.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000016_000003.wav|My friend, Little Wound (as I will call him, for I do not remember his name), being quite small, was unable to reach the nest until it had been well trampled upon and broken and the insects had made a counter charge with such vigor as to repulse and scatter our numbers in every direction.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000001_000000.wav|GAMES AND SPORTS|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/92202/7240_92202_000022_000005.wav|We stood on one end and held the other, using the slippery inside of the bark for the outside, and thus coasting down long hills with remarkable speed.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000012_000000.wav|However, in the morning the simple people of the scattered village saw the man on the column.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000011_000002.wav|The probabilities are, however, Terese, as viewed by an unbeliever, that he shot a line over the column with a bow and arrow and then drew up a rope ladder and ascended with ease.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000023_000000.wav|Simeon kept no track of the days, having no engagements to meet, nor offices to perform, beyond the prayers at morn, midday and night.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000037_000001.wav|He waited and then called aloud, but all in vain.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000009_000001.wav|Three times during the day did he thus stretch his cramped limbs, and pray with his face to the East.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000032_000000.wav|Simeon lifted his hands in adoration and thankfulness and renewed his lease.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000017_000000.wav|The rainy season came on.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000000.wav|But man's body and mind accommodate themselves to almost any condition.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000021_000003.wav|If he fell, it was damnation for his soul-all were agreed as to this.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000008_000004.wav|Any recklessness in movement, and he would have slipped from his perilous position and been dashed to death upon the stones beneath.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000038_000000.wav|When sunrise came, there sat the monk, his face between his knees, the folds of his black robe drawn over his head.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000025_000000.wav|Language was lost in disuse.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000011_000000.wav|Well, his companions at the monastery, a mile away, said he was carried there in the night by a miraculous power; that he went to sleep in his stone cell and awoke on the pillar.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000027_000000.wav|This pillar, which had once graced the portal of a pagan temple, again became a place of pious pilgrimage, and people flocked to Simeon's rock, so that they might be near when he stretched out his black, bony hands to the East, and the spirit of Almighty God, for a space, hovered close around.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000036_000000.wav|"He has always been there," the people said, and crossed themselves hurriedly.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000033_000000.wav|And so he lived on and on and on-he lived on the top of that pillar, never once descending for thirty years.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000016_000000.wav|Still Simeon kept his place.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000008_000003.wav|He slept sitting, with his head bowed between his knees, and, indeed, in this posture he passed most of his time.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000034_000001.wav|Did Simeon hear the bells and say, "Soon it will be my turn"?|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000040_000001.wav|Would he arise at sundown and pray, and with outstretched hands bless the assembled pilgrims?|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000009_000002.wav|At such times, those who stood near shared in his prayers, and went away blessed and refreshed.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000026_000000.wav|The food he ate was minimum in quantity; sensation ceased, and the dry, hot winds reduced bodily tissue to a dessicated something called a saint-loved, feared and reverenced for his fortitude.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000037_000000.wav|But one evening when the young monk came with his basket, no line was dropped down from above.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000010_000000.wav|How did Simeon get to the top of the column?|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000021_000002.wav|There was no respite nor rest from the hard surface of the rock, and aching muscles could find no change from the cramped and perilous position.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000020_000000.wav|Simeon never spoke, for words are folly, and to the calls of saint or sinner he made no reply.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000030_000000.wav|The order was shouted up to him in a Bishop's voice-he must let down his rope, draw up a ladder, and descend.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000028_000000.wav|So much attention did the abnegation of Simeon attract that various other pillars, marking the ruins of art and greatness gone, in that vicinity, were crowned with pious monks.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000003.wav|He was not pressed for time.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000021_000001.wav|During those first weeks he must have suffered terribly and horribly.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000005.wav|The people on a slow schedule, ten minutes late, never irritated his temper.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000006_000002.wav|To this end he climbed to the top of a marble column, sixty feet high, and there on the capstone he began to live a life beyond reproach.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000038_000001.wav|But he did not rise and lift his hands in prayer.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000004_000000.wav|The church has aureoled and sainted the men and women who have fought the Cosmic Urge.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000011_000001.wav|Other monks said that Simeon had gone to pay his respects to a fair lady, and in wrath God had caught him and placed him on high.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000019_000000.wav|Once each day, as darkness gathered, a monk came with a basket containing a bottle of goat's milk and a little loaf of black bread, and Simeon dropped down a rope and drew up the basket.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000039_000000.wav|All day he sat there, motionless.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000035_000001.wav|His senses had flown, for what good were they!|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000028_000003.wav|About then the Bishops in assembly asked, "Is Simeon sincere?" To test the matter of Simeon's pride, he was ordered to come down from his retreat.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000028_000002.wav|Imitators were numerous.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000013_000000.wav|All day he stayed there.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000024_000000.wav|Memory died in him, the hurts became callouses, the world pain died out of his heart, and to cling became a habit.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000020_000001.wav|He lived in a perpetual attitude of adoration.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000009_000000.wav|As the sun arose he stood up, just for a few moments, and held out his arms in greeting, blessing and in prayer.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000005_000000.wav|As the traveler journeys through Southern Italy, Sicily and certain parts of what was Ancient Greece, he will see broken arches, parts of viaducts, and now and again a beautiful column pointing to the sky. All about is the desert, or solitary pastures, and only this white milestone marking the path of the centuries and telling in its own silent, solemn and impressive way of a day that is dead.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000004.wav|No frivolous dame of tarnished fame sought to share with him his perilous perch.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000034_000000.wav|All his former companions grew aweary, and one by one died, and the monastery bells tolled their requiem as they were laid to rest.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000018_000001.wav|Some prophesied he would be blown off, but the morning light revealed his form, naked from the waist up, standing with hands outstretched to greet the rising sun|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000008_000000.wav|The environment was circumscribed, but there were outlook, sunshine, ventilation-three good things.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000001.wav|One thing at least, Simeon was free from economic responsibilities, free from social cares and intrusion.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000028_000001.wav|The thought of these monks was to show how Christianity had triumphed over heathenism.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000040_000000.wav|The people watched in whispered silence.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000006_000001.wav|And that he might live absolutely beyond reproach, always in public view, free from temptation, and free from the tongue of scandal, he decided to live in the world, and still not be of it.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000007_000000.wav|Simeon was then twenty four years old.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000008_000002.wav|The capstone was a little less than three feet square, so Simeon could not lie down.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000015_000000.wav|The days passed, with the scorching heat of the midday sun, and the cool winds of the night.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000014_000000.wav|And the next day he was still there.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000021_000000.wav|Did he suffer?|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000017_000001.wav|When the nights were cold and dark, Simeon sat there with bowed head, and drew the folds of his single garment, a black robe, over his face.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7240/108066/7240_108066_000022_000006.wav|His correspondence never got in a heap.|7240
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000021.wav|Joseph seized him by the wrist, saw something glitter in his other hand, and turned sick.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000004.wav|Where could he be?|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000017_000000.wav|With but little need of the help Mary yet gave him, Joseph got up, and led her to what was now a respectable little smithy, with forge and bellows and anvil and bucket.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000016_000002.wav|There's too many vagabonds about."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000016_000001.wav|But really, miss, you oughtn't to be out like this after dark.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000008_000000.wav|"It is no such wonder as you think," said Mary; "you have lost a good deal of blood."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000004_000000.wav|The night was very dark.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000016.wav|The consequence was that she fell-but safe in the smith's arms.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifty three.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000020_000001.wav|That would be as much as to say you would do the will of God when the devil would let you.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000022_000001.wav|Any time you want to go anywhere, don't forget as you've got enemies about, and just send for me.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000022.wav|The fellow had stabbed him.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000000.wav|Was that music she heard?|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000011_000000.wav|"I think so."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000013.wav|Joseph!"|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000002.wav|About the middle of the lane was a farmyard, and a little way farther a cottage.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000014.wav|He started, threw his bow from him, tucked his violin under his arm, and bounded to meet her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000004_000003.wav|She felt weak, but the fresh air was reviving.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000008.wav|She would have run, but there was no place of refuge now nearer than the corner of the turnpike road, and she knew her breath would fail her long before that.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000015_000000.wav|"But what made you think of coming here?"|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000021_000000.wav|"I must not take you from your work, you know, Joseph."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000018_000000.wav|"Anyhow, miss," he said, "you'll never come from there alone in the dark again!"|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000013_000004.wav|It can't be you live in it?"|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000006.wav|The same moment the clouds thinned about the moon, and a pale light came filtering through upon the common in front of her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000001.wav|She dared not stop to listen.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000007.wav|She cast one look over her shoulder, saw something turn a corner in the lane, and sped on again.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000009.wav|How lonely and shelterless the common looked!|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000009_000000.wav|Her voice faltered.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000008.wav|In the mean time the moon had been growing out of the clouds, clearer and clearer.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000023.wav|With indignation, as if it were a snake that had bit him, the blacksmith flung from him the hand he held.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000023_000001.wav|In her turn she questioned Joseph, and learned that, as soon as he knew she was going to settle at Testbridge, he started off to find if possible a place in the neighborhood humble enough to be within his reach, and near enough for the hope of seeing her sometimes, and having what help she might please to give him.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000016_000000.wav|"Let's go into the smithy-house I won't presume to call it," said Joseph, "though it has a lean to for the smith-and I'll tell you everything about it.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000002.wav|But immediately, thereupon, was poured forth on the dim air such a stream of pearly sounds as if all the necklaces of some heavenly choir of woman angels were broken, and the beads came pelting down in a cataract of hurtless hail.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000024.wav|The man gave a cry, staggered, recovered himself, and ran.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000013_000003.wav|That cottage used to be a mere hovel, without door or window!|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000023_000002.wav|The explanation afforded Mary more pleasure than she cared to show.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000025.wav|Joseph would have followed again, but fell, and for a minute or two lost consciousness.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000004_000001.wav|There was no moon, and the stars were hidden by thick clouds.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000003_000000.wav|Mary left the house, and saw no one on her way.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000005.wav|She was so rejoiced to know that he must be somewhere near, that, for very delight of unsecured safety, she held her peace, and had almost stopped.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000000.wav|She had not gone far when the moon rose, and from behind the clouds diminished the darkness a little.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000012_000000.wav|"Then I'll be after the fellow."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000022_000002.wav|You won't have long to wait till I come.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000003_000001.wav|But it was better, she said to herself, that he should lie there untended, than be waited on by unloving hands.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000024_000000.wav|When they came to the suburbs, she sent him home, and went straight to mr Brett with mr Redmain's message.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000007_000002.wav|But my father was just the same, and he was a stronger man than I'm like to be, I fancy."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000002_000000.wav|A FRIEND IN NEED.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000014_000001.wav|It's mine-bought and paid for."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000009.wav|The hut came in sight.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000013_000001.wav|You must lie still awhile.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000010_000000.wav|"You've stopped it-ain't you, miss?"|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000026.wav|When he came to himself, Mary was binding up his arm.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000004.wav|As she drew near the common, she heard the steps more plainly, still soft and swift, and almost wished she had sought refuge in the cottage she had just passed-only it bore no very good character in the neighborhood. When she reached the spot where the paths united, feeling a little at home, she stopped to listen.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000009_000001.wav|She had been greatly alarmed-and the more that she had not light enough to get the edges of the wound properly together.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000023_000000.wav|Part of this conversation, and a good deal more, passed on their way to Testbridge, whither, as soon as Joseph seemed all right, Mary, who had forgotten her hunger and faintness, insisted on setting out at once.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000001.wav|The first part of her journey lay along a narrow lane, with a small ditch, a rising bank, and a hedge on each side.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000012.wav|She called out, "Joseph!|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000003.wav|From no source could they come save the bow and violin of Joseph Jasper!|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000013_000000.wav|"No, no; you must not attempt it.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000006.wav|But she ran on again.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000018.wav|He half stopped, and, turning from the path, took to the common.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000013_000002.wav|But I don't understand it at all!|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000019_000000.wav|"I understand you, Joseph," answered Mary, "for I know you would not have me leave doing what I can for the poor man up there, because of a little danger in the way."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000005_000003.wav|Soon after passing the gate of the farmyard, she thought she heard steps behind her, seemingly soft and swift, and naturally felt a little apprehension; but her thoughts flew to the one hiding place for thoughts and hearts and lives, and she felt no terror. At the same time something moved her to quicken her pace.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000004_000002.wav|She must walk all the way to Testbridge.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64298/3380_64298_000006_000019.wav|Jasper handed his violin to Mary, and darted after him.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000010_000000.wav|"I thought as much!|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000022_000001.wav|And, indeed, it caused no gloom.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000040_000000.wav|Joseph Jasper became once more Mary's pupil.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000042_000001.wav|I don't want money.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000038_000001.wav|Perhaps she then remembered a certain petition in the Lord's prayer.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000035_000001.wav|He grew a rich man, and died happy-so his friends said, and said as they saw.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000006_000000.wav|Mary began her story with the incident of her having been pursued by some one, and rescued by the blacksmith, whom she told her listeners she had known in London.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000037_000001.wav|She continued to be much liked, and in the shop was delightful.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000010_000002.wav|There was a thousand pounds there for her!|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000005_000001.wav|What was that?" asked mr Brett, facing round on her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000031_000000.wav|Some time after, it came out that the same night on which the presence of Joseph rescued Mary from her pursuer, a man speaking with a foreign accent went to one of the surgeons in Testbridge to have his shoulder set, which he said had been dislocated by a fall.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000015_000000.wav|Lady Malice was grievously hurt at the examination she found had been going on.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000010_000001.wav|The fool!|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000023_000003.wav|But when a week after week passed, and he heard nothing of or from her, he became anxious, and at last lowered his pride so far as to call on Mary, under the pretense of buying something in the shop.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000033_000002.wav|That he continued to think of those things, she had one ground of hoping, namely, the kindness with which he invariably received her, and the altogether gentler manner he wore as often and as long as she saw him.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000004_000000.wav|"No," said mr Redmain; "she must stay where she is.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000029_000001.wav|As it is, allow me to refer you to mr Brett, the lawyer, whom I dare say you know."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000041_000003.wav|Before two years were over, he was what people call a flourishing man, and laying by a little money.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000039_000001.wav|From him Letty also heard what increased her desire to be worth something before she went to rejoin Tom.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000019_000001.wav|The behavior and disappearance of Sepia seemed to give her little trouble.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000024_000000.wav|His troubled look filled her with sympathy, but she could not help being glad afresh that he had escaped the snares laid for him.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000021_000002.wav|And something did seem to be getting into, or waking up in, him.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000021_000000.wav|Almost every evening, until he left Durnmelling, Mary went to see mr Redmain.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000013_000001.wav|She was nowhere to be found.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000006_000001.wav|Then she narrated all that had happened the night before, from first to last, not forgetting the flame that lighted the closet as they approached the window.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000011_000000.wav|Mewks came, in evident anxiety.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000037_000000.wav|Letty was diligent in business, but it never got into her heart.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000022_000003.wav|But to the mother's suggestions as to possible changes in the future, the daughter never responded: she had no thought of plans in common with her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000012_000001.wav|mr Brett took it for granted he had deliberately and intentionally shut out Mary, and Mewks did not attempt to deny it, protesting he believed she was boring his master.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000033_000001.wav|But they never had any more talk about the things Mary loved most.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000028_000001.wav|I come only to ask you to tell me the real nature of the accusations brought against Miss Yolland: your name is, of course, coupled with them."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000010_000003.wav|I didn't want to drive her to despair: a dying man must mind what he is about.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000004_000001.wav|I fancy something happened last night which she has got to tell us about."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000013_000000.wav|mr Brett next requested the presence of Miss Yolland.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000041_000002.wav|He soon found it necessary to make arrangement with a carpenter and wheelwright to work on his premises.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000040_000001.wav|She was now no more content with her little cottage piano, but had an instrument of quite another capacity on which to accompany the violin of the blacksmith.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000038_000002.wav|But will it not be rather a dreadful thing for some people if they are forgiven as they forgive?|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000002_000000.wav|DISAPPEARANCE.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000005_000000.wav|"Ah!|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000021_000005.wav|When suffering, he would occasionally break into fierce and evil language, then be suddenly silent.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000041_000000.wav|To him trade came in steadily, and before long he had to build a larger shoeing shed.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000023_000002.wav|There was a conspiracy in that house to ruin the character of the loveliest woman in creation!|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000033_000003.wav|Whether the change was caused by something better than physical decay, who knows save him who can use even decay for redemption?|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000007_000000.wav|"Just let me see those memoranda," said mr Brett to mr Redmain, rising, and looking for the paper where he had left it the day before.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000027_000000.wav|"I do not yet know your errand," replied Mary; "but I may not be so much surprised as you think."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000042_000000.wav|"But," he said to Mary, "I can't go on like this, you know, miss.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000025_000001.wav|But Godfrey was too proud or too agitated to sit.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifty five.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000039_000000.wav|Old mr Duppa died, and a young man came to minister to his congregation who thought the baptism of the spirit of more importance than the most correct of opinions concerning even the baptizing spirit. From him Mary found she could learn, and would be much to blame if she did not learn.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000028_000000.wav|"Do not imagine," said Godfrey, stiffly, "that I believe a word of the contemptible reports in circulation.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000024_000001.wav|He looked at her searchingly, and at last murmured a request that she would allow him to have a little conversation with her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000023_000000.wav|Strange rumors came abroad.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000009_000000.wav|"It is not here!" said mr Brett.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000022_000002.wav|For there was little love in the attentions the Mortimers paid him; and in what other hope could Hesper have married, than that one day she would be free, with a freedom informed with power, the power of money!|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000032_000001.wav|But Mary answered she could no more leave home, and must content herself with the hope of seeing mrs Redmain when she came to Durnmelling.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000013_000002.wav|The place was searched throughout, but there was no trace of her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000019_000000.wav|Hesper sought Mary, and kissed her with some appearance of gratitude. She saw what a horrible suspicion, perhaps even accusation, she had saved her from.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000022_000000.wav|For some time it remained doubtful whether this attack was not, after all, going to be the last: the doctor himself was doubtful, and, having no reason to think his death would be a great grief in the house, did not hesitate much to express his doubt.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000008_000000.wav|"It was of that paper I was this moment thinking," answered mr Redmain.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000033_000004.wav|He lived two years more, and died rather suddenly.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000032_000000.wav|Hesper was no sooner in London, than she wrote to Mary, inviting her to go and visit her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000031_000001.wav|When Joseph heard it, he smiled, and thought he knew what it meant.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000012_000002.wav|The grin on that master's face at hearing this was not very pleasant to behold. When examined as to the missing paper, he swore by all that was holy he knew nothing about it.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/64300/3380_64300_000038_000000.wav|After a year or so, mrs Wardour began to take a little notice of her again; but she never asked her to Thornwick until she found herself dying.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000021_000001.wav|By the third day, Agnes was not merely sick but ashamed of the life she had hitherto led, was despicable in her own eyes, and astonished that she had never seen the truth concerning herself before.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000011_000005.wav|On and on went the dreary hours-or did they go at all?--"no change, no pause, no hope;"--on and on till she FELT she was forgotten, and then she grew strangely still and fell asleep.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000013_000003.wav|She lost all notion of time.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000017_000002.wav|The child, also, put out her hand-but in the direction away from Agnes. And that was well, for if she had touched Agnes it would have killed her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000018_000000.wav|Then Agnes lost her temper, and put out her hands to seize the little girl; but lo! the little girl was gone, and she found herself tugging at her own hair.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000020_000000.wav|When she woke, there was the little girl, heedless, ugly, miserable, staring at her own toes.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000010_000002.wav|She had not, indeed, advanced a single step; for, in whatever direction she tried to go, the sphere turned round and round, answering her feet accordingly.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000004_000002.wav|She knew that if she set her down she would never run after her like the princess, at least not before the evil thing was already upon her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000011_000003.wav|She wept at last, then grew very angry, and then sullen; but nobody heeded whether she cried or laughed.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000020_000001.wav|All at once, the creature began to smile, but with such an odious, self satisfied expression, that Agnes felt ashamed of seeing her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000018_000002.wav|Agnes was furious now, and flew at her to bite her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000017_000003.wav|Then Agnes said, "Who are you?" And the little girl said, "Who are you?"|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000010_000003.wav|Like a squirrel in his cage she but kept placing another spot of the cunningly suspended sphere under her feet, and she would have been still only at its lowest point after walking for ages.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000007_000000.wav|The wise woman carried Agnes into a dark room, there undressed her, took from her hand her knitting needles, and put her, naked as she was born, into the hollow sphere.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000008_000006.wav|Her own choice was going to be carried a good deal farther for her than she would have knowingly carried it for herself.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000011_000002.wav|Nothing was overhead, nothing under foot, nothing on either hand, but the same pale, faint, bluish glimmer.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000024_000003.wav|So beware of yourself.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000004_000000.wav|Nothing such, however, was in the wise woman's plan for the curing of her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000022_000000.wav|The next morning she woke in the arms of the wise woman; the horror had vanished from her sight, and two heavenly eyes were gazing upon her. She wept and clung to her, and the more she clung, the more tenderly did the great strong arms close around her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000010_000000.wav|Walk she found she could, well enough, but walk out she could not.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000010_000001.wav|On and on she went, keeping as much in a straight line as she might, but after walking until she was thoroughly tired, she found herself no nearer out of her prison than before.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000009_000001.wav|A little longer, and it grew wearisome.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000012_000000.wav|The moment she was asleep, the wise woman came, lifted her out, and laid her in her bosom; fed her with a wonderful milk, which she received without knowing it; nursed her all the night long, and, just ere she woke, laid her back in the blue sphere again.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000004_000001.wav|On and on she carried her without a word.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000008_000002.wav|She could not feel that any thing supported her, and yet she did not sink.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000015_000003.wav|She was the color of pale earth, with a pinched nose, and a mere slit in her face for a mouth.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000019_000001.wav|In her agony of despair, sleep descended, and she slept.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000008_000005.wav|And, indeed, it was but this: she had cared only for Somebody, and now she was going to have only Somebody.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000024_000001.wav|That you are ashamed of yourself now is no sign that the cause for such shame has ceased.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000006_000002.wav|It had neither door, nor window, nor any opening to break its perfect roundness.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000024_000002.wav|In new circumstances, especially after you have done well for a while, you will be in danger of thinking just as much of yourself as before.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000017_000000.wav|But it was so lonely that she would have been glad to play with a serpent, and put out her hand to touch her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000004_000003.wav|On and on she went, never halting, never letting the light look in, or Agnes look out.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000016_000001.wav|"What business has she beside me!"|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000002_000003.wav|Agnes, on the contrary, seldom changed her mood, but kept that of calm assured self satisfaction.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000004_000004.wav|She walked very fast, and got home to her cottage very soon after the princess had gone from it.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000002_000005.wav|She would actually nod her head to herself in complacent pride that she had stood out against them.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000024_000004.wav|I am going from home, and leave you in charge of the house.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000014_000000.wav|Another night came, and another still, during both of which the wise woman nursed and fed her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000003_000005.wav|The fearlessness of Agnes was only ignorance: she did not know what it was to be hurt; she had never read a single story of giant, or ogress or wolf; and her mother had never carried out one of her threats of punishment.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000023_000001.wav|When she had eaten it, she called her to her, and said very solemnly,--|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000009_000000.wav|After sitting a while, she wished she had something to do, but nothing came.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000017_000001.wav|She touched nothing.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000015_000000.wav|All at once, on the third day, she was aware that a naked child was seated beside her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000018_000004.wav|And now Agnes hated her with her whole heart.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000009_000002.wav|She would see whether she could not walk out of the strange luminous dusk that surrounded her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000003_000004.wav|But the man who will do his work in spite of his fear is a man of true courage.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000013_000002.wav|Oh, how slowly the hours went by!|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000011_000004.wav|It was all the same to the cold unmoving twilight that rounded her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000008_000003.wav|She stood for a while, perfectly calm, then sat down.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000014_000001.wav|But she knew nothing of that, and the same one dreary day seemed ever brooding over her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000024_000000.wav|"Agnes, you must not imagine you are cured.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000005_000002.wav|The place she had chosen for Agnes was a strange one-such a one as is to be found nowhere else in the wide world.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000003_000001.wav|Some have no fear, because they have no knowledge of the danger: there is nothing fine in that.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000011_000001.wav|It grew dreary and drearier-in her, that is: outside there was no change.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000016_000000.wav|"How ugly she is!" thought Agnes.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000003_000002.wav|Some are too stupid to be afraid: there is nothing fine in that.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000019_000000.wav|The moment she hated her, it flashed upon her with a sickening disgust that the child was not another, but her Self, her Somebody, and that she was now shut up with her for ever and ever-no more for one moment ever to be alone.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000013_000004.wav|If she had been told that she had been there twenty years, she would have believed it-or twenty minutes-it would have been all the same: except for weariness, time was for her no more.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000011_000000.wav|At length she cried aloud; but there was no answer.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000021_000000.wav|She turned sick at herself, and would gladly have been put out of existence, but for three days the odious companionship went on.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000015_000001.wav|But there was something about the child that made her shudder.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000003_000000.wav|Whether it be a good thing or a bad not to be afraid depends on what the fearlessness is founded upon.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000023_000000.wav|When she had lain thus for a while, the wise woman carried her into her cottage, and washed her in the little well; then dressed her in clean garments, and gave her bread and milk.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000005_000001.wav|She had other places, none of them alike.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000018_000003.wav|But she found her teeth in her own arm, and the little girl was gone-only to return again; and each time she came back she was tenfold uglier than before.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000001_000000.wav|seven.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000008_000000.wav|What sort of a place it was she could not tell.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000003_000003.wav|Some who are not easily frightened would yet turn their backs and run, the moment they were frightened: such never had more courage than fear.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000013_000000.wav|When first she came to herself, she thought the horrors of the preceding day had been all a dream of the night.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000002_000004.wav|Father nor mother had ever by wise punishment helped her to gain a victory over herself, and do what she did not like or choose; and their folly in reasoning with one unreasonable had fixed her in her conceit.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000006_000000.wav|It was a great hollow sphere, made of a substance similar to that of the mirror which Rosamond had broken, but differently compounded.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000002_000002.wav|Plainly she was the mere puppet of her moods, and more than that, any cunning nurse who knew her well enough could call or send away those moods almost as she pleased, like a showman pulling strings behind a show.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000008_000001.wav|She could see nothing but a faint cold bluish light all about her.|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3380/6175/3380_6175_000017_000004.wav|"I am Agnes," said Agnes; and the little girl said, "I am Agnes." Then Agnes thought she was mocking her, and said, "You are ugly;" and the little girl said, "You are ugly."|3380
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000020_000004.wav|You will not speak in vain.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000014_000002.wav|In this respect we are much worse situated than the same parties have been in Europe.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000019_000003.wav|He has now got some ground on which to stand for intercourse.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000024_000004.wav|Once more; put yourself in their places, and then judge them gently from your own, if you would be just to them, if you would be of any use.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000013_000002.wav|The priest, too, will have to learn the duties of an American citizen; he will live less and less for the church, and more for the people, till at last, if there be Catholicism still, it will be under Protestant influences, as begins to be the case in Germany.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000021_000001.wav|They are so fond of change, they will leave us." What then?|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000002_000000.wav|We feel, say these persons, the justice of what has been said as to the duty and importance of improving these people.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000005_000003.wav|Then, the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table might be received with gratitude, and, if any but the dogs came to tend the beggar's sores, such might be received as angels.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000021_000002.wav|Why, let them go and carry the good seed elsewhere.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000010_000002.wav|If we look fairly into the history of their people, and the circumstances under which their own youth was trained, we cannot expect that anything short of the most steadfast patience and love can enlighten them as to the beauty and value of implicit truth, and, having done so, fortify and refine them in the practice of it.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000014_000001.wav|People meet, in the relations of master and servant, who have lived in two different worlds.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000009_000000.wav|And you, O giver! how did you give?|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000024_000001.wav|We hear people blaming it in their servants, who can and do go to Niagara, to the South, to the Springs, to Europe, to the seaside; in short, who are always on the move whenever they feel the need of variety to reanimate mind, health, or spirits.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000017_000000.wav|It is shocking to think to what falsehoods human beings like ourselves will resort, to excuse a love of amusement, to hide ill health, while they see us indulging freely in the one, yielding lightly to the other; and yet we have, or ought to have, far more resources in either temptation than they.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000009_000005.wav|Did you say, "james, I shall expect you to do right in everything, and to attend to my concerns as I should myself; and, at the end of the quarter, I will give you my old clothes and a new pocket handkerchief, besides seeing that your mother is provided with fuel against Christmas?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000009_000004.wav|Or, with affability and condescending sweetness, made easy by internal delight at thine own wondrous virtue, didst thou give five dollars to balance five hundred spent on thyself?|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000002_000001.wav|We have sometimes tried; but the want of real gratitude which, in them, is associated with such warm and wordy expressions of regard, with their incorrigible habits of falsehood and evasion, have baffled and discouraged us.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000004_000000.wav|First, as to ingratitude.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000003_000000.wav|We answer first with regard to those who have grown up in another land, and who, soon after arriving here, are engaged in our service.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000020_000003.wav|Offer your aid, as a faithful friend, to watch their lapses, and refine their sense of truth.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000012_000001.wav|Do what you do for them for God's sake, and as a debt to humanity-interest to the common creditor upon principal left in your care.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000001_000001.wav|Most persons have an opportunity of becoming acquainted, if they will, with the lower classes of Irish, as they are so much employed among us in domestic service, and other kinds of labor.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000005_000004.wav|But the institutions which sustained such ideas have fallen to pieces.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000010_000000.wav|Line upon line, and precept upon precept, the tender parent expects from the teacher to whom he confides his child; vigilance unwearied, day and night, through long years.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000023_000001.wav|But this must be for another day.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000024_000003.wav|How natural that they should incline to it!|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000005_000005.wav|It is understood, even In Europe, that|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/92427/7276_92427_000005_000001.wav|Gratitude!|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000053_000002.wav|When the sky cleared, only the dwarf, Marianna, and Desire were left of the company.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000035_000000.wav|Marianna replied that she would do her best to help the Prince; so the Court Chamberlain gave her his arm, and escorted her to the Prince's sick room.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000024_000002.wav|For some time he had enjoyed undisturbed the possession of his stolen throne; but as Desire grew taller and stronger every year, Garabin began to fear the day when he would be compelled to resign in favor of his nephew.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000027_000001.wav|Had he not been very old and crafty, he would have started from his golden throne, for he knew that the little golden heart set with diamonds had been one of the crown jewels, and that therefore Marianna must be the missing Princess, and rightful queen of the kingdom.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000044_000001.wav|It roused the Prince from his swoon, and with his last measure of strength, poor Desire dragged himself to the window.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000036_000001.wav|So weak was the poor Prince, that he could scarcely lift his head to look at his visitors.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000053_000000.wav|Immediately the sky grew black, the lightning crashed, and there arose a terrible, howling wind.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000028_000003.wav|Perplexed, and with fear in his heart, the King sought the cruel magician who had cast the spell on Desire.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000037_000002.wav|Nothing seemed changed; the water within seemed as pure and diamond like as ever.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000028_000002.wav|What was he to do with Marianna, whose right to the throne was superior even to his nephew's?|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000042_000000.wav|By great good fortune, the cook's helper was no other than the peasant girl whom Marianna had saved.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000034_000000.wav|"Welcome, thrice welcome, lovely maiden," said Garabin with the most dreadful hypocrisy.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000042_000001.wav|This girl recognized the yellow bird, and instead of wringing its neck, let it fly out of the window.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000014_000000.wav|"Dear lady," said the peasant girl, pressing Marianna's hand to her lips, "how sweet and kind thou art!|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000037_000001.wav|Marianna looked at the crystal flask.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000009_000001.wav|Alas, what are we to do?|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000049_000000.wav|Garabin, seeing his precious plot miscarry, grew mad with rage.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000025_000001.wav|Of this malady, Desire was slowly dying, for no medicine could cure him or even give him any relief from his constant pain.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000026_000001.wav|The King gave orders that she be brought before him.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000005_000002.wav|The dwarf took pity on the Queen, but his efforts were vain, for the poor woman was so weak and exhausted that she died without telling the dwarf anything about herself or the child she carried.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000031_000003.wav|You can then try Marianna for having killed the Prince, and condemn her to be thrown from the precipice."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000016_000000.wav|"Poor little bird," said Marianna, bending down and taking him up in her hands, "why criest thou so mournfully?|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000038_000000.wav|Suddenly, Garabin cried at the top of his voice, "Seize the witch; she has killed the Prince!"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000005_000000.wav|But late in the afternoon, when the red shield of the sun could scarcely be seen through the tangle of the wild wood branches, she perceived a light coming from a little grove of cedars by the shore of a frozen lake.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000047_000001.wav|It was empty.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000037_000000.wav|Now just as Marianna bent over the Prince to touch his forehead with the water of healing, the yellow bird screamed and cried as madly as if he were caught in a net.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000026_000002.wav|So Marianna, walking between two halberdiers and followed across the courtyard by crowds of curious people, was led before the King.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000037_000004.wav|Alas, in a moment, so terrible was the magician's poison that the Prince turned white as the driven snow, and fell back on the pillows insensible.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000045_000000.wav|"Stop!|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000003_000000.wav|Once upon a time a wicked nobleman rose in rebellion against his rightful king, and taking the royal forces by surprise, defeated them and seized the kingdom.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000006_000001.wav|His brother, the dwarf of the mountain, made her the prettiest red leather shoes, and his cousins, the dwarfs of the pines, made the little girl dresses from cloth woven on fairy looms.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000018_000002.wav|His wing is broken."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000039_000000.wav|Presently there was a great confusion, rough hands seized Marianna, and somebody caught the yellow bird.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000047_000004.wav|Desire still lay in a heap by the window, and over him the yellow bird poured the contents of the phial.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000037_000005.wav|The lookers on, who had expected to see him spring up entirely cured, began to murmur, and Marianna herself, terrified at what had happened, let fall the flask, which broke into a thousand sparkling pieces.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000050_000000.wav|"Seize them," cried he, "and toss them both over the precipice!"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000040_000000.wav|So Marianna was hurried to a dark prison room and loaded with chains, and the yellow bird was taken to the castle kitchen, and given to the cook.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000042_000004.wav|The bird flew to the window of Prince Desire's room, and saw that he was still insensible.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000031_000000.wav|"To night I shall cast a spell of sleep on Marianna, steal the crystal flask, empty it of the water of healing, and refill it with a liquid which will cause death within a night and a day.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000025_000000.wav|When the Prince reached his twentieth year, Garabin would certainly have killed him openly had he dared; but, fearing the people, he resolved to use secret methods, and bribed a cruel magician to afflict poor Desire with a deadly and mysterious malady.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000017_000000.wav|But the bird uttered only a forlorn little cry, and hid his head again under his wings.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000014_000001.wav|Great is the debt I owe thee."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000036_000000.wav|Desire lay in a great old-fashioned bed, his face flushed with fever.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000010_000000.wav|To this Marianna replied, "Do not fear, dear father.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000004_000003.wav|All afternoon, however, she trudged bravely on through the silence and the cold, her heart sinking as mile after mile revealed no sign of a house or a shelter.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000052_000000.wav|"Cruel King!" cried the dwarf sternly, "and thou, wicked and perfidious magician, the hour of thy punishment is at hand."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000031_000001.wav|I shall then replace the flask before Marianna wakes.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000039_000002.wav|At high noon, a trial was held, and since the doctors declared that the Prince was dying, Marianna was condemned to be thrown from the precipice.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000008_000002.wav|One spring morning a little yellow bird flew into the cedar grove, and gave the dwarf a letter which it held in its beak.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000032_000000.wav|So pleased was Garabin with this horrid plot, that he could have danced for joy.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000044_000000.wav|The bell kept on sadly tolling and tolling.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000019_000002.wav|Scarcely had she done so, when the yellow bird burst into a joyous and golden song, and flying to the window, beat madly against the panes.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000004_000000.wav|Into the dark forest which lay behind the palace ran the Queen, holding her baby daughter in her arms.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000021_000000.wav|"Nay, he returns," said Marianna, gently, as the yellow bird flew back and perched in the sheltering bower of Marianna's arms.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000018_000001.wav|"Someone has wounded him.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000053_000001.wav|Three giant gusts drove fiercely by, the first one blowing the King and the magician head over heels over the precipice, the second carrying away the soldiers, and the third the rascally favorites.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000032_000001.wav|That very night, the magician filled Marianna's flask with the poisonous water, and departed, thinking that nobody had noticed him.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000006_000000.wav|So the little dwarf, who was a good, kind old fellow, brought the little girl up as if she were his own child.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000044_000002.wav|The procession was then passing directly underneath the window, and Desire's eyes met the eyes of Marianna.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000054_000001.wav|You, Marianna, are the rightful Queen of this country."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000048_000001.wav|He arrived at the cliff just as the poor maiden was about to be pushed off into space, and standing by her side, dared anyone to lay hands upon her.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000045_000001.wav|Stop!" cried the poor Prince, wildly; "I forbid-"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000051_000000.wav|So the soldiers rushed at Marianna and the Prince, intending to carry out their wicked master's orders.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000046_000001.wav|The procession went on.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000023_000001.wav|This pleasant land, unknown to Marianna, was part of her father's kingdom, and she was really its queen because her father had been the last rightful king.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000039_000003.wav|When somebody asked about the yellow bird, Garabin laughed, and gave orders that the cook should wring its neck, and toss it to the cat.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000019_000003.wav|Then the peasant girl threw open the casement, and the yellow bird flew out into the streaming sun|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000029_000001.wav|He listened to Garabin's story, stirring a great cauldron all the while, and said, "Do not fear.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000046_000000.wav|An instant later he sank fainting to the floor.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000042_000002.wav|The yellow bird flew to the window of the magician's room.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000005_000001.wav|The Queen made her way toward this light, and discovered a little thatched hut in the silent wood; it was the house of one of the dwarfs of the forest.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000030_000000.wav|Garabin rubbed his hands together with glee.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000021_000002.wav|When they reached the foot of the path, the peasant girl cried:--|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000029_000002.wav|I will destroy both claimants to the throne at once."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/90847/7276_90847_000043_000001.wav|First came a troop of soldiers, then Marianna, weighted down with chains, and last of all, a little group in which were Garabin, the magician, and some of Garabin's favorites.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000018_000000.wav|"How do you know?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000035_000001.wav|"I can't see any more of it than I can of the Atlantic."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000067_000000.wav|"Such a funny name."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000076_000000.wav|Button Bright liked the sailor's looks.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000049_000000.wav|"Yes.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000109_000001.wav|But I'm afraid you won't believe me, and-" he suddenly broke off and looked toward the white house in the distance-"Didn't you say you lived over there?" he inquired.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000062_000000.wav|"No; I'm not smart.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000052_000001.wav|A one legged sailor can't know much."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000034_000000.wav|He shook his head, still gazing far out over the water.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000075_000002.wav|He was old, not very tall, somewhat stout and chubby, with a round face, a bald head and a scraggly fringe of reddish whisker underneath his chin.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000069_000000.wav|"Just like your own nickname happened," he answered gloomily.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000111_000000.wav|"I'd like to," replied Button Bright.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000074_000000.wav|"Thank you," said Trot.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000065_000000.wav|"How did it happen?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000039_000000.wav|"Then it doesn't make any difference how big an ocean is," he replied. "What are those buildings over there?" pointing to the right, along the shore of the bay.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000073_000000.wav|"I don't try to," he said.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000019_000000.wav|"Cap'n Bill told me," she said.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000038_000000.wav|"Looks don't count, with oceans," she asserted.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000088_000000.wav|Button Bright shook his head.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000029_000000.wav|The boy's dress was rich and expensive, even to his fine silk stockings and tan shoes; but the umbrella looked old and disreputable.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000022_000000.wav|"Oh; is that your home?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000058_000000.wav|"What is it, then?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000040_000000.wav|"That's the town," said Trot.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000083_000000.wav|"No," said Button Bright.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000053_000000.wav|"Why not?" asked Trot, a little indignantly.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000093_000000.wav|Button Bright nodded, very seriously.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000062_000002.wav|I guess I am.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000021_000001.wav|He lives at my house, too-the white house you see over there on the bluff."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000105_000000.wav|"Yes," said Button Bright; "that was the way."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000062_000003.wav|But I know a few things that are wonderful.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000094_000000.wav|"That's it," he said.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000011_000001.wav|"Where did you come from?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000011_000000.wav|"Hello," answered Trot, looking up surprised.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000028_000006.wav|The eyes of the beast were small red stones, and it had two tiny tusks of ivory.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000046_000000.wav|"Much obliged," laughed Trot.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000053_000001.wav|"Folks don't learn things with their legs, do they?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000113_000001.wav|The old sailorman had refilled his pipe and lighted it again, and he smoked thoughtfully as he pegged along beside the children.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000013_000000.wav|"Dear me," said Trot; "you're a long way from home, then."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000027_000000.wav|"Yes, 'n deed; Cap'n Griffith is my father; but he's gone, most of the time, sailin' on his ship.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000062_000001.wav|Some folks think I'm stupid.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000066_000000.wav|"How did what happen?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000017_000000.wav|"Because it's the biggest lot of water in all the world."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000101_000000.wav|"Oh!" she said suddenly, clapping her hands together; "I know now."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000079_000000.wav|Cap'n Bill looked at the boy curiously.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000099_000000.wav|"'Riddlecum, riddlecum ree; What can the answer be?'"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000061_000000.wav|"If you do you're pretty smart," said Trot.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000064_000000.wav|"Button Bright."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000028_000001.wav|He wore a blouse waist, a short jacket and knickerbockers. Under his arm he held an old umbrella that was as tall as he was.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000036_000000.wav|"You'd find out, if you had to sail across it," she declared.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000072_000000.wav|"Guess I'll call you Button Bright," said Trot, sighing.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000023_000000.wav|"Yes," said Trot, proudly.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000020_000000.wav|"Who's Cap'n Bill?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000104_000000.wav|"Shoot," said Cap'n Bill.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000090_000000.wav|"No," said Button Bright; "I didn't come by water."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000091_000000.wav|Trot laughed.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000051_000004.wav|I s'pose he knows more than anyone else in all the world."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000054_000000.wav|"No; but they can't get around, without legs, to find out things."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000051_000000.wav|"That's all.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000028_000004.wav|It was of wood and carved to resemble an elephant's head.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000041_000000.wav|The boy sat down beside her on the flat rock.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000076_000001.wav|There was something very winning-something jolly and care free and honest and sociable-about the ancient seaman that made him everybody's friend; so the strange boy was glad to meet him.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000110_000001.wav|"Won't you come home with us?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000028_000000.wav|Trot wasn't very big herself, but the boy was not quite as big as Trot. He was thin, with a rather pale complexion and his blue eyes were round and earnest.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000084_000000.wav|The sailor glanced around him.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000015_000000.wav|"Of course."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000043_000004.wav|They can't help being girls, of course.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000096_000000.wav|"I don't know," said Button Bright; "I've never seen one."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000056_000000.wav|"What's a league?" asked the boy.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000077_000000.wav|"Well, well, Trot," he said, coming up, "is this the way you hurry to town?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000108_000000.wav|Button Bright nodded again.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000068_000000.wav|The boy scowled a little.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000043_000000.wav|"Not very well," the boy replied.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000109_000000.wav|"I ought to tell you my story," he said, "and then you'd understand.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000074_000001.wav|"Oh, here comes Cap'n Bill!" as she glanced over her shoulder.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000014_000000.wav|"'bout as far as I can get, in this country," the boy replied, gazing out over the water.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000069_000002.wav|So they always call me Button Bright."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000069_000001.wav|"My father once said I was bright as a button, an' it made ever'body laugh.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000086_000000.wav|"No," said Button Bright.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000044_000001.wav|"My 'sperience with boys is that they don't know much, but think they do."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000100_000000.wav|Trot looked the boy over carefully.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000035_000000.wav|"I don't b'lieve this is bigger than any other ocean," said he.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000081_000000.wav|Button Bright nodded.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000115_000000.wav|"No one but you two," said the boy, following after Trot, with his umbrella tucked carefully underneath his arm.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000051_000003.wav|I'm glad of it, 'cause Cap'n Bill knows ev'rything.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000051_000002.wav|"That's why he don't sailor any more.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000106_000001.wav|"You had to get up in the air before you could drop down, an'--oh, Cap'n Bill! he says he's from Phillydelfy, which is a big city way at the other end of America."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000070_000000.wav|"What's your real name?" she inquired.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000075_000000.wav|Button Bright turned also and looked solemnly at the old sailor who came stumping along the path toward them.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000037_000000.wav|"When I was in Chicago I saw Lake Michigan," he went on dreamily, "and it looked just as big as this water does."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000062_000005.wav|Say, what's your name?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000110_000000.wav|"Yes," said Trot.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000012_000000.wav|"Philadelphia," said he.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000010_000000.wav|"Hello," said the boy.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000028_000005.wav|The long trunk of the elephant was curved to make a crook for the handle.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000104_000001.wav|"They're called parashoots, mate; but why, I can't say.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000112_000000.wav|"All right; let's go, then," said the girl, jumping up.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000047_000000.wav|He nodded, rather absently, and tossed a pebble into the water.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000100_000002.wav|The only queer thing about him was his big umbrella.|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000080_000001.wav|"Guess as you're a stranger, my lad."|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7276/284424/7276_284424_000014_000001.wav|"Isn't this the Pacific Ocean?"|7276
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000005_000017.wav|We shall see what comes of it tomorrow."|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000005_000015.wav|At length she produced a little something to my joy. Then I made her finish the minuet, i e only the first voice.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000017_000002.wav|That's the way to shriek."|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000005_000005.wav|It goes, but she gets bored too quickly.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000011_000000.wav|fifty four.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000010_000001.wav|It is preserved in the Court Library in Vienna.)|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000013_000003.wav|That is your case."|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000006_000000.wav|(Paris, may fourteenth seventeen seventy eight, to his father.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000005_000014.wav|Thereupon I wrote four measures of a minuet and said to her: 'Now look what an ass I am; I have begun a minuet and can't finish even the first part; be good enough to finish it for me.' She thought it impossible.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000005_000009.wav|In vain.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000007_000002.wav|She is very clever and learns quickly.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000003_000002.wav|She is eight years old and learns everything by heart. Something may come of her for she has talent, but not if she goes on as she is doing now; she will never acquire velocity because she purposely makes her hand heavy.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000016_000003.wav|His anger fled and he broke into a merry laugh.)|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000009_000000.wav|fifty three.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000017_000000.wav|fifty seven.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000015_000000.wav|fifty six.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000006_000001.wav|The pupil was the daughter of the Duke de Guines, an excellent flautist.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161100/2110_161100_000003_000000.wav|fifty.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000011_000002.wav|It is characterized by brevity and wealth of melody.)|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000022_000000.wav|seventy eight.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000005_000004.wav|Mozart himself was plainly of another opinion.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000012_000000.wav|seventy three.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000005_000005.wav|h e k])|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000009_000001.wav|february twenty eighth seventeen seventy eight, to his father.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000020_000000.wav|seventy seven.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000014_000000.wav|seventy four.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000015_000001.wav|Mozart was thinking of writing a French opera.)|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000016_000000.wav|seventy five.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000017_000002.wav|It seems that wood wind instruments were still absent from the symphony orchestra in Salzburg.)|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000007_000000.wav|(Mannheim, november thirteenth seventeen seventy seven, to his father.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000018_000000.wav|seventy six.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000025_000003.wav|Mozart replied: "Yes, I have heard of England's triumph, and, indeed, with great joy (for you know well that I am an arch Englishman)." The little book of criticism never appeared.)|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000010_000002.wav|Whom should it please?|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000006_000003.wav|'It doesn't hurt me in the least; bad music leaves my nerves unaffected, but I sometimes get a headache from good music.' Then I thought to myself: Yes, such a shallow pate as you feels a pain as soon as he hears something which he can not understand."|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000019_000000.wav|(Vienna, april twelfth seventeen eighty three, to his father, who was active as Court Chapelmaster in Salzburg, and who had been asked by his son in the same letter, when it grew a little warmer, "to look in the attic and send some of your (his) church music.")|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000025_000000.wav|(Vienna, december twenty eighth seventeen eighty two, to his father.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000018_000001.wav|"Others know as well as you and I that tastes are continually changing, and that the changes extend even into church music; this should not be, but it accounts for the fact that true church music is now found only in the attic and almost eaten up by the worms."|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000024_000002.wav|But what would you?|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000008_000002.wav|The orchestra is said to be large and good, and my principal favorites can be well performed there, that is to say choruses, and I am right glad that the Frenchmen are fond of them....Heretofore Paris has been used to the choruses of Gluck.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161102/2110_161102_000026_000000.wav|eighty.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000016_000002.wav|Mozart obviously had in view, not the pianoforte which was just coming into use in his day, but the clavichord. This instrument was sounded by striking the strings with bits of brass placed in the farther end of the keys which were simple and direct levers.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000011_000000.wav|sixty three.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000003_000001.wav|"Whoever can see and hear her (the daughter of Stein) play without laughing must be a stone (Stein) like her father.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000014_000000.wav|(Vienna, april twenty eighth seventeen eighty four, to his father in Salzburg, whither the pianist Richter, whom he recommends to his father, is going on a concert trip.)|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000005_000000.wav|sixty.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000017_000000.wav|sixty six.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000016_000000.wav|(Paris, june twelfth seventeen seventy eight, to his father.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000021_000000.wav|sixty eight.|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000002_000003.wav|h e k])|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000020_000000.wav|(Recorded by Rochlitz as a criticism by Mozart of Italian singers in seventeen eighty nine.)|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2110/161101/2110_161101_000016_000005.wav|h e k])|2110
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000045_000000.wav|Everts stepped forward and flipped a lighter.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000021_000001.wav|He'd heard of such men.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000010_000002.wav|The pilot stared at her doubtfully and finally turned back to his controls, still muttering.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000023_000002.wav|A little wouldn't hurt him, though there was no proper nourishment in it.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000011_000000.wav|The shuttle lifted sluggishly, but there was no great difficulty.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000041_000000.wav|Three men entered the room.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000005_000000.wav|He'd looked forward to the trip to the airport as a way of judging public reaction.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000006_000000.wav|Inside, Chris was waiting, carrying an official automatic.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000049_000003.wav|There was no gravity; the two men handed him up easily to the one in the airlock while the inner seal began to close.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000042_000002.wav|There would be exactly one hour's supply of oxygen when he was thrown out and it still lacked five minutes of the deadline.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000022_000000.wav|The steward brought his food in a thoroughly chastened manner.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000023_000000.wav|For a moment, as the smell of real steak reached him, Doc regretted the fact that his metabolism had been switched.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000013_000000.wav|He grinned wryly.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000051_000000.wav|A red light went on.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000030_000000.wav|He accepted a chair.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000023_000004.wav|But after a few bites, it was queerly unsatisfactory.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000021_000002.wav|But he'd thought the species extinct.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000005_000003.wav|The guards tested Doc's manacles and forced him into the shuttle.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000003_000002.wav|There were also times when it didn't seem to matter, and when his only thoughts were for the villages and the plague.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000011_000002.wav|Chris went out, and other guards came in to free him.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000039_000003.wav|There was half an hour left when he began opening the little bottles and making his films.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000028_000002.wav|There were less than eleven hours left to him.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000021_000000.wav|Feldman shook his head.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000029_000002.wav|His words were courteous as Doc motioned toward the tray of breakfast.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000018_000002.wav|"Bring me two complete dinners-one Earth normal and one Mars normal."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000023_000005.wav|The seemingly unappealing Mars normal ragout suited his current tastes better, after all.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000017_000000.wav|"You're on first-class."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000038_000001.wav|"I'm sorry, dr Feldman.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000033_000001.wav|We went through it together, shortly after having our metabolism switched during the food shortage of 'eighty eight."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000049_000002.wav|A hiss of oxygen reached him and the suit ballooned out.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000025_000000.wav|A gong sounded, and a red light warned him that acceleration was due.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000015_000001.wav|There was a long wait, as if the procedure were being checked with some authority, but finally he received a surly acknowledgement. "Steward.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000035_000001.wav|I'm sorry."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000046_000000.wav|"Better change your metabolism back to Earth normal, Captain Everts," he said, and his voice was so normal that he hardly recognized it.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000020_000004.wav|Until you reach your destination, you are my passenger and entitled to every consideration of any other passenger except freedom of movement through the ship.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000054_000000.wav|The outer seal snapped open and the spaceman heaved.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000011_000001.wav|Doc could see that there was even some fuel remaining when they slipped into the tube at the orbital station.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000002_000000.wav|Execution|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000008_000002.wav|"The only thing that will get this into orbit with the station is faith.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000028_000000.wav|"Come ahead," Feldman invited.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000026_000000.wav|Acceleration had ended, and a simple breakfast was waiting when he awoke.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000032_000000.wav|"When did she have Selznik's migraine?" he asked.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000050_000000.wav|There was still ten seconds to go, according to the big chronometer that had been installed in the lock.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000018_000001.wav|He wouldn't cost them much, considering the distance he was going.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000016_000000.wav|"How's the chance of getting some food?"|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000037_000001.wav|But Everts wasn't the sort to dicker even for his life.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000014_000001.wav|He set the electron microscope up on that and plugged it in.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000029_000003.wav|"I've already eaten, thank you."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000004_000002.wav|Maybe it was working. There were screaming crowds outside the jail, and the noise of their hatred was strong enough to carry through even the atmosphere of Mars. But there were also signs that the Lobby was worried, as if afraid that some attempt might still be made to rescue him.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000006_000001.wav|There was also a young pilot, looking nervous and unhappy.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000052_000001.wav|The spaceman's face swung around in surprise.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000051_000003.wav|Four seconds ... three ... two....|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000008_000001.wav|I wasn't counting on three for the trip," the pilot protested.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000037_000004.wav|Perhaps if I could leave a few notes for your physician-"|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000025_000001.wav|He finished with his bottles, put them into the incubator, and piled into his bunk, swallowing one of the tablets of morphetal the ship furnished.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000042_000000.wav|Doc forced his hands to steadiness with foolish pride and began climbing into the suit.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000007_000000.wav|"All right," Chris ordered.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000020_000000.wav|A sharp click interrupted him.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000042_000001.wav|He reached for the helmet, but the man shook his head, pointing to the oxygen gauge.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000004_000001.wav|They were trying to focus all fear and resentment on him.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000039_000000.wav|Doc tore up his notes bitterly.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000043_000001.wav|The spacesuited man climbed into it and began strapping down so that the rush of air would not sweep him outward when the other seal was released.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000024_000002.wav|He might even be able to leave some notes behind.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000038_000000.wav|It was Everts' turn to shake his head.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000051_000001.wav|The man caught Doc and held him against the outer seal.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000010_000001.wav|Chris had never been afraid to do what she felt she should.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000023_000003.wav|He squeezed some of the gravy and bits of meat into one of his bottles, sticking to his purpose; then he fell to on the rest.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000009_000000.wav|"That's your problem," Chris told him firmly.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000020_000001.wav|"That's enough, Steward.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000014_000000.wav|He roamed the cabin until he found a little collapsible table.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000014_000003.wav|He wondered if they would really throw it out into space with him.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000047_000002.wav|"Thank you, dr Feldman."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000045_000003.wav|Then he caught himself.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000038_000002.wav|I have orders to burn out your cabin when you leave.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000008_000003.wav|I'm loaded with every drop of fuel she'll hold and it still isn't enough."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000037_000002.wav|"Nothing that I've found, Captain.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000037_000003.wav|I have a clue, but I'm still working on it.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000030_000002.wav|"This is a personal matter which I perhaps have no right to bring up.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000022_000001.wav|He managed to find space for it and came to attention.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000038_000003.wav|But thank you." He got to his feet and left as quietly and erectly as he had entered.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000044_000001.wav|Now he raised it to his lips, fumbling for a light.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000031_000001.wav|Apparently there was another man who placed his patients above anything else, though he was probably meticulous about obeying all actual rules.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000047_000001.wav|The man bowed faintly.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000029_000001.wav|There was neither friendliness nor hostility in his glance.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000004_000000.wav|They brought him the papers, where he was painted as a monster beside whom Jack the Ripper and Albrecht Delier were gentle amateurs.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000048_000001.wav|It was like something from a play, too unreal to affect his life.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000024_000000.wav|Once the steward had cleared away the dishes, Doc went to work.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000005_000001.wav|But apparently the Lobby had no desire to test that. The guards led him up to the roof of the jail, where a rocket was waiting.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000031_000002.wav|There was no law against listening to a pariah, at least.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000035_000000.wav|"Both of you must have it, Captain, though it won't mature for another year.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000006_000002.wav|He was muttering under his breath as the guards locked Doc's legs to a seat and left.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000050_000001.wav|The spaceman used it in tying the sack of possessions firmly to Doc's suit.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000003_000001.wav|There were periods when fear clogged his throat and left him gasping with the need to scream and beat his cell walls.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000020_000003.wav|dr Feldman, you have my apologies.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000012_000000.wav|"So long, dr Feldman," the pilot called softly as they led him out. Then the guards shoved him through the airlock into the station.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000051_000002.wav|The red light blinked.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000009_000001.wav|"You've got your orders, and so have i Up ship!"|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000054_000001.wav|Air exploded outwards, and Doc went with it.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000005_000002.wav|The landing space was too small for one of the station shuttles, but a little Northport Southport shuttle was parked there after what must have been a difficult set down.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000037_000000.wav|Doc studied the man.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000019_000000.wav|"Okay, Feldman.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000024_000001.wav|It was better than wasting his time in dread.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000044_000000.wav|Doc had saved one bracky weed.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000030_000003.wav|But my wife is greatly worried about this plague.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000034_000000.wav|Doc felt carefully at the base of the Captain's skull; the swelling was there.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000047_000000.wav|Everts' eyes widened briefly.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000054_000002.wav|He was alone in space, gliding away from the ship, with oxygen hissing softly through the valve and ticking away his life.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000014_000004.wav|Probably they would.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000040_000001.wav|The bug could not grow in Earth normal tissue.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000026_000002.wav|He flipped the switch while reaching for the coffee.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000027_000000.wav|"Captain Everts," the speaker said.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000018_000000.wav|They could afford it, Doc decided.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000045_000001.wav|Doc inhaled deeply.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000039_000001.wav|He paced his cabin slowly, reading out the hours while his eyes lingered on the little bottle of cultures.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000014_000002.wav|It seemed a shame that good equipment should be wasted along with his life.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000023_000001.wav|Then he shrugged.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000030_000005.wav|The ship physician believes mrs Everts may have the plague, but isn't sure of the symptoms.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000041_000001.wav|One of them, dressed in a spacesuit, held out another suit to him.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000049_000000.wav|Everts nodded to the man holding the helmet.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000028_000001.wav|He cut off the switch and glanced at the clock on the wall.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000030_000001.wav|His voice was apologetic when he began.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000040_000000.wav|He was still not finished when steps echoed down the hall, but he was reasonably sure of his results.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000015_000000.wav|He pushed a button on the call board over the table and asked for the steward.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000007_000001.wav|"Up ship!"|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000048_000000.wav|It was ridiculous, impossible, and yet there was a curious relief at the formality of it.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132299/922_132299_000034_000001.wav|He asked a few questions, but there could be no doubt.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000019_000003.wav|Then quantity of treatment paid, rather than quality.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000036_000002.wav|I'll have to.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000016_000002.wav|It created the only space experts, which meant that the men placed in government agencies to regulate it came from its own ranks.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000008_000000.wav|The privileges their ancestors had earned in blood and care became automatic rights.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000026_000001.wav|Feldman learned not to question in medical school.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000005_000001.wav|His mind was wrapped up in a whirl of the past-his past and that of the whole planet.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000025_000001.wav|But that could be justified; it was the only safe kind of surgery and the only way to make sure there was no unsupervised experimentation, such as that which supposedly caused the plague.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000036_000004.wav|There'd be a leak, with all the guides and others here, and we can't afford that.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000008_000002.wav|That kind of talk didn't get far.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000035_000002.wav|But they had no phone in the lodge where the guide lived and no way to summon an ambulance.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000018_000002.wav|But its history was a long series of retreats.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000027_000000.wav|He had never figured why she singled him out for her attentions, but he gloried in both those attentions and the results.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000016_000001.wav|It developed enough pressure to get whatever appropriations it wanted, even over Presidential veto.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000037_000003.wav|And she was probably genuinely shocked.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000021_000001.wav|An obscure scientist in one of the laboratories run by the Medical Lobby found a cure before the first waves of the epidemic hit America. Rutherford Ryan, then head of the Lobby, made sure that Medical Lobby got all the credit.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000039_000005.wav|But Baxter lived.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000013_000000.wav|The last of the great lobbies was Space, probably.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000033_000001.wav|The man was moaning and scared, and he was bleeding profusely.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000029_000000.wav|They celebrated that, with a little party of some four hundred people and reporters at Ryan's lodge in Canada.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000036_000000.wav|When Feldman seemed uncertain, Harnett had given his warning in a low but vehement voice.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000031_000002.wav|He hired a guide and went hunting, eighty miles beyond the last outpost of civilization.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000018_000001.wav|It also tried to prevent government control of treatment and payment, feeling that it couldn't trust the people to know where to stop.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000033_000000.wav|Feldman reached Baxter first.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000001.wav|The man on subsidy or public dole could vote to demand more.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000022_000001.wav|Ryan made a deal with Space Lobby, and the two effectively ran the world.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000007_000000.wav|The men who drew the Constitution had been pretty practical dreamers. They came to their task after a bitter war and a worse period of wild chaos, and they had learned where idealism stopped and idiocy began. They set up a republic with all the elements of democracy that they considered safe.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000004.wav|In fact, he was assured that voting alone was enough to make him a fine and noble citizen.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000035_000003.wav|They'd have to drive Baxter back in the car, which would almost certainly result in his death.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000023_000003.wav|A man belonged to his Lobby, just as a serf had belonged to his feudal landlord.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000015_000000.wav|They worked out a system of subcontracts that spread the profits so wide that hardly a company of any size in the country wasn't getting a share. Thus a lot of patriotic, noble voters got their pay from companies in the lobby block and could be panicked by the lobby at the first mention of recession.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000020_000000.wav|It took a world-wide plague to turn the tide.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000037_000001.wav|She'd spent years making him the outlet for all her ambitions, denied because women were still only second rate members of Medical Lobby.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000019_000001.wav|But the people wanted their troubles handled free-which meant by government spending, since that could be added to the national debt, and thus didn't seem to cost anything.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000013_000002.wav|It developed during a period of chaos when another country called Russia got the first hunk of metal above the atmosphere and when the representatives who had been picked for everything but their grasp of science and government went into panic over a myth of national prestige.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000012_000000.wav|The old Farm Lobby was unbeatable.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000030_000000.wav|It was then that Baxter shot himself.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000039_000002.wav|He got the bullet out and sewed up the wound with a bit of surgical thread he'd been using to tie up a torn good luck emblem.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000035_000001.wav|He couldn't operate outside a hospital.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000025_000003.wav|It also made for better fees.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000006_000002.wav|Only fools expected absolute freedom, but wise men dreamed up many systems of relative freedom, including democracy. They had tried that in America, as the last fling of the dream.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000024_000000.wav|It was a safe world now.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000023_000000.wav|There was still a president and a congress, as there had been a Senate under the Roman Caesars.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000007_000002.wav|But the men who followed the framers of the new plan were a different sort, without the knowledge of practical limits.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000027_000003.wav|In return, he agreed to follow that period by becoming an administrator.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000020_000001.wav|The plague began in old China; anything could start there, with more than a billion people huddled in one area and a few madmen planning to conquer the world.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000039_000004.wav|Chris swore harshly and beat her fists against the bole of a tree.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000011_000000.wav|Someone had to look, of course, and someone did.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000039_000000.wav|There wasn't much equipment.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000027_000001.wav|He became automatically a rising young man, the favorite of the daughter of the Lobby president.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000012_000002.wav|They convinced the little farmers it was for the good of all, and they made the story stick well enough to swing the farm vote.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000011_000001.wav|Organized special interests stepped in where the mob had failed.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000029_000001.wav|It was to be a gala weekend.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000013_000001.wav|It was an accident that grew up so fast it never even knew it wasn't a real part of the government.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000007.wav|So he went out and voted for the man who promised him most, or who looked most like what his limited dreams felt to be a father image or son image or hero image.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000028_000000.wav|They were married in April and his office was ready in May, complete with a staff of eighty.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000034_000001.wav|Chris knocked his hand aside.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000033_000003.wav|The bullet had struck a rib, been deflected and robbed of some of its energy, and had barely reached the heart.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000006.wav|He became a great man by listing his unthought, hungry desire for someone to take care of him without responsibility.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000022_000000.wav|By the time the world recovered, America ran it and the Medical Lobby was untouchable.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000000.wav|They got the vote extended to everyone.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000014_000000.wav|The space effort was turned over to the aircraft industry, which had never been able to manage itself successfully except under the stimulus of war or a threat of war.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000037_000000.wav|Chris added her own threats.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000024_000002.wav|For that, for security and the right not to think, most people were willing to leave well enough alone.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000012_000001.wav|The big farmers shaped the laws they wanted.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000008_000001.wav|Practical men tried to explain that there were no such rights-that each generation had to pay for its rights with responsibility.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000037_000002.wav|She couldn't let it go now.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000019_000004.wav|Competence no longer mattered so much.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000036_000005.wav|I like you-you have color.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000031_000001.wav|He'd come along to handle press relations and had gotten romantic about the countryside, never having been out of a city before.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000026_000002.wav|He scored second in Medical Ethics only to Christina Ryan.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000023_000002.wav|The real government had become a kind of oligarchy, as it always did after too much false democracy ruined the ideals of real and practical self rule.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000016_000000.wav|So Space Lobby took over completely in its own field.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000006_000000.wav|Idealism!|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000006_000001.wav|Throughout history, some men had sought the ideal, and most had called it freedom.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000019_000000.wav|It fought what it called socialized medicine.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000024_000001.wav|Maybe progress had been halted at about the level of nineteen eighty, but so long as the citizens didn't break the rules of their lobbies, they had very little to worry about.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000026_000000.wav|Feldman's father had stuck by the rule but had questioned it.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000035_000000.wav|She was right, of course.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000032_000002.wav|There was also a photographer and writer, but they hadn't been introduced by name.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000014_000001.wav|The failing airplane industry became the space combine overnight, and nobody kept track of how big it was, except a few sharp operators.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000028_000001.wav|The publicity releases had gone out, and the Public Relations Lobby that handled news and education was paid to begin the greatest build-up any young genius ever had.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000038_000000.wav|Baxter groaned again and started to bleed more profusely.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000036_000001.wav|"You touch him, Dan, and I'll spread it in every one of our media.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000021_000000.wav|It wiped out two billion people, depopulated Africa and most of Asia, and wrecked Europe, leaving only America comparatively safe to take over.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000012_000003.wav|They made the laws when it came to food and crops.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000011_000002.wav|Lobbies grew up.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000019_000005.wav|The Lobby lost, but didn't know it-because the lowered standards of competence in the profession lowered the caliber of men running the political aspects of that profession as exemplified by the Lobby.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000022_000002.wav|None of the smaller lobbies could buck them, and neither could the government.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000002.wav|The man who read of nothing beyond sex crimes could vote on the great political issues of the world.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000006_000003.wav|It had been a good attempt, too.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000031_000000.wav|Baxter had been Feldman's closest friend in the Lobby.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000025_000000.wav|Some rules seemed harsh, of course, such as the law that all operations had to be performed in Lobby hospitals.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000033_000002.wav|Only a miracle had saved him from instant death.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000027_000004.wav|A doctor's doctor, as they put it.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000039_000001.wav|Feldman operated with a pocketknife sterilized in a bottle of expensive Scotch and only anodyne tablets in place of anesthesia.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000025_000002.wav|The rule was now an absolute ethic of medicine.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000034_000000.wav|He'd reached for a probe without thinking.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000011_000003.wav|There had always been pressure groups, but now they developed into a third arm of the government.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000032_000000.wav|Chris, Feldman and Harnett from Public Relations had accompanied him on the trip.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000003.wav|No ability was needed for his vote.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000032_000001.wav|They were sitting in a nearby car while Feldman enjoyed the scenery, Chris made further plans, and Harnett gathered material.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132291/922_132291_000010_000008.wav|He never bothered later to see how the men he'd elected had handled the jobs he had given them.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000011_000005.wav|It would soon pass him completely.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000011_000002.wav|He estimated the course.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000012_000001.wav|The rope shot out, well thrown.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000022_000000.wav|"I came along to see you killed, as you know very well.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000012_000003.wav|It would pass within ten feet-and might as well have been ten miles for all the good it would do him.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000047_000000.wav|He jockeyed the ship around by trial and error, studying the manual that was lying prominently on the control panel.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000020_000001.wav|"Thank God.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000005_000001.wav|The ship was retreating from him already hundreds of yards away.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000051_000001.wav|The thin haze of Mars' atmosphere came rushing up, while the blast lashed out.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000024_000001.wav|"I'm on your side now."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000040_000004.wav|Dan, are we all going to have to die?|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000036_000001.wav|It was probably a deliberate clue to give him hope, to assure him the villages were still trying.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000013_000003.wav|He aimed the hissing bottle, fumbling for the manual valve.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000050_000000.wav|In the end, he compromised, leaving a small margin for a bad landing that would require a second attempt, but with less practice than he wanted.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000007.wav|He'd come from the villages to save you.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000011_000004.wav|The ship drifted closer, but to one side.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000019_000000.wav|He threw back his helmet just as Chris Ryan jerked hers off.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000033_000000.wav|"You've got me beat then," he said.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000026_000002.wav|If you don't care about me, you might consider the people dying of the plague who need you!"|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000022_000001.wav|Saving you wasn't in my orders."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000000.wav|"I can't prove my motives.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000025_000001.wav|"Let's see.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000027_000001.wav|He followed her.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000004_000001.wav|It was sheer stupidity, since nothing could have been more merciful than to lose this reality.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000027_000000.wav|She'd played her trump, and it took the round.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000053_000000.wav|The computer seemed to work as it should.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000048_000003.wav|It saved fuel to turn without power, and he wasn't sure he could have turned accurately by blasting.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000052_000000.wav|He turned to the flare computer and back to what he could see through the quartz viewport.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000004.wav|I was with Captain Everts when he was found, so I discovered how to get into the raft.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000041_000000.wav|Feldman was out of his suit and at the control panel.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000024_000000.wav|"It's up to you, Dan," she told him, and there was all the sincerity in the world in her blue eyes.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000044_000001.wav|Then she sighed.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000013_000002.wav|An automatic seal on the suit cut off the connection.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000044_000000.wav|"Oh." Her voice was low.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000038_000000.wav|She swore at him, then began ripping off the spacesuit.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000008_000000.wav|It meant someone was trying to save him.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000054_000000.wav|It could have been worse.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000030_000003.wav|No cure, research beginning immediately.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000031_000000.wav|"mrs Everts rates a topsecret break?" Doc commented dryly.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000041_000002.wav|It might work out here where there was room to maneuver and nothing to hit.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000013_000001.wav|He inhaled deeply and yanked the oxygen tank free.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000004.wav|Maybe there's a cure.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000032_000006.wav|I can see a lot of things."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000055_000000.wav|He threw her her spacesuit and one of the emergency bottles of oxygen from the rack.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000006.wav|He wasn't the real pilot.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000047_000002.wav|It was self leveling in an atmosphere, and automatic flare computers were supposed to make it possible for an amateur to judge the rate of descent near the surface.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000025_000000.wav|He began counting on his fingers.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000054_000002.wav|The ship was a mess when Feldman freed himself from the elastic straps of the seat.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000032_000005.wav|I can see that now.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000054_000003.wav|Chris had shrieked as they hit, but she was unbuckling herself now.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000001.wav|"I don't know.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000047_000001.wav|According to the booklet, the ship was simple to operate.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000051_000000.wav|He had located Jake's village through the little telescope when he finally reached for the main blast control.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000039_000001.wav|And you've decided your precious Lobby won't save you?"|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000057_000000.wav|"Heard about it from the broadcasts and figured you might land around here.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000012_000000.wav|A spacesuited figure suddenly appeared in the tiny airlock, holding a coil of rope.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000033_000004.wav|I've been trying all along to get it to your Research division."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000036_000000.wav|As always her story had a convincing element she shouldn't have known. The pilot's farewell, addressing him as dr Feldman, had been too low for her to hear, but it was something that fitted her story.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000007_000001.wav|He recognized it as a life raft.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000030_000002.wav|Repeat topsecret. Martian fever incubates fourteen years, believed highly fatal.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000002.wav|But it wasn't hard to do what I've done.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000030_000000.wav|Regret confirm diagnosis.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000028_000000.wav|"All right," he said grudgingly.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000045_000003.wav|Shut up and let me see if I can figure out how to land this thing."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000014_000002.wav|He blinked, trying to spot the rope.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000055_000002.wav|We've sprung a leak and the pressure's dropping."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000026_000000.wav|"It was all true." Anger began to grow in her eyes.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000054_000001.wav|They hit the ground, bounced twice, and turned over.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000003.wav|That shuttle pilot was found in a routine check, stowed away on the life raft.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000010_000000.wav|Something flashed a hot blue, and the little ship leaped forward. Whoever was handling it knew nothing about piloting.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000045_000001.wav|I'm too mixed up.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000046_000002.wav|He had to reach the wastelands away from any of the shuttle ports.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000011_000000.wav|Again blue spurts came, but this time matters were even worse.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000032_000000.wav|"She's the daughter of Elmers of Space Lobby!" Chris answered.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000006_000000.wav|Then something blinked to one side.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000041_000003.wav|But trying to make a landing was going to be different.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000010_000001.wav|It picked up too much speed at too great an angle.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000028_000001.wav|"Spill your story."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000002.wav|They've started research too late and they'll be under so much pressure that the real brains won't have a chance.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000013_000000.wav|Every film he had seen on space seemed to form a mad jumble in his mind, but he seized on the first idea he could remember.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000037_000000.wav|"And your motive-your real motive?" he insisted.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000038_000001.wav|She turned her back, pulling a thin blouse down from her neck.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000040_000001.wav|"I'm not just scared and selfish.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000017_000001.wav|He'd forgotten that the inflated suit held enough oxygen for several minutes.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000055_000001.wav|"Hurry up with that.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000005.wav|It works in culture bottles, but it may fail in person.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000047_000003.wav|It looked reassuring-and was probably written with that in mind.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000040_000003.wav|He switched to Mars normal when he was a liaison agent and never changed back.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000007_000000.wav|A little ship was less than three hundred yards away.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000029_000000.wav|She held out a copy of a space radiogram, addressed to mrs d e Everts, and signed by one of the best doctors on the Lobby Board of Directors.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000016_000001.wav|He couldn't hold on long enough to tie the rope....|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000048_000002.wav|When they were near turnover point, he began cranking the little gyroscope to swing the ship.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000046_000003.wav|They had no aspirators, however, and they couldn't cover much territory in the spacesuits they would have to use.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000040_000000.wav|She dropped her eyes, then raised them to meet his defiantly.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000015_000002.wav|It added spin to his vertical axis, but the rope came into view within arm's reach.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000033_000002.wav|I can't see how your brilliant mind concocted this whole scheme in almost no time. And to be honest, I can't even see why Medical Lobby decided to save me at the last minute and sent you to do the job.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000007_000002.wav|Now his spin brought him around to face it, and he saw it was parallelling his course.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000004_000002.wav|But the will to be himself was stronger than logic.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000020_000002.wav|Dan, I almost gave up!"|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000033_000003.wav|You didn't have to spy out knowledge from me.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000014_000001.wav|It kicked him toward the rope slightly, but most of the energy was wasted in setting him into a wilder spin.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000004_000003.wav|And bit by bit, he forced the fear and horror away from him until he could examine his situation.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000038_000002.wav|He stared, then reached out to touch the lump there.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000042_000000.wav|"Dan?" she repeated.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000032_000001.wav|She pointed to the message, underlining words with her finger.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000009.wav|I just used it, hoping I could reach you."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000030_000004.wav|Penalty violation topsecret, death all concerned.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000011_000001.wav|Then there was a long wait before a third try was made.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000000.wav|He shrugged.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000012_000002.wav|But it was too short.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000040_000005.wav|Can't you save him?"|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000005_000002.wav|Mars was a shrunken pill far away.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000016_000000.wav|He grasped it, just as his lungs seemed about to burst.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000031_000001.wav|"Come off it, Chris!"|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000046_000000.wav|He found that the fuel tanks were nearly full, but that still didn't leave much margin.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000021_000001.wav|"If you'll open the lock again, I'll leave.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000049_000001.wav|But now he had to waste fuel and ruin his orbit again.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000008.wav|The whole scheme was his.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000014_000003.wav|It was within five feet now.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000049_000002.wav|There was no way to practice maneuvering without actually doing so.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000043_000003.wav|The topsecret stuff looks bad for research.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000014_000000.wav|It almost worked.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000023_000000.wav|He grunted and reached for the handle that would release the outer lock. "Better get back inside if you don't want to blow out with me."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000048_000000.wav|Finally he reached for the control, hoping he'd figured his landing orbit reasonably well by simple logic.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000056_000000.wav|They were halfway to the village when a dozen tractors came racing up and Jake piled out of the lead one to drag the two in with him.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000005.wav|And I heard his whole confession.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000021_000000.wav|"I liked the air out there better," he told her bitterly.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000058_000000.wav|Jake caught his look and nodded.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000035_000001.wav|You'll just have to believe me.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000036_000002.wav|It shook his confidence.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000009_000002.wav|There wasn't that much free money in the villages.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000033_000001.wav|"I can't see how such a reformed young noblewoman calmly walked over and stole a life raft.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000005_000000.wav|He was spinning slowly, so that stars ahead of him seemed to crawl across his view.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000040_000002.wav|Dad caught it, too, and it must be close to the time for him.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000045_000002.wav|Tomorrow maybe, but not now.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000053_000001.wav|The speed was within acceptable limits.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000044_000002.wav|"I suppose I can understand why you hate me, Dan."|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000049_000000.wav|He was gaining some proficiency, however, he felt.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000017_000000.wav|His lungs gave up suddenly, collapsing and then sucking in greedily. Clean air rushed in, letting his head clear.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000030_000001.wav|Topsecret.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000018_000000.wav|His body struck the edge of the airlock and a hand jerked him inside. The outer seal was slammed shut and locked, and there was a hiss of air entering.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000048_000001.wav|He smoothed it out in the following hours as he watched the markings on Mars.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000034_000000.wav|She sighed and dropped onto a little seat.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/922/132300/922_132300_000015_000001.wav|This time he threw the bottle away from it.|922
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000018_000001.wav|"You might as well come to it and tell the truth; that you do not like our society." And she gave him a vicious little glance without a shadow of a smile.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000009.wav|Her hair was thrown back in an attempt at a coil, though, like her own rebellious nature, it could not brook restraint, and persistently escaped in a hundred little curls that fringed her face and lay upon the soft white nape of her neck like fluffy shreds of sun lit floss on new cut ivory.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000021_000005.wav|He had been so perilously near speaking words which would probably have lighted, to their destruction-to his, certainly-the smoldering flames within their breast that it frightened him, and the manner in which he spoke was but a tone giving utterance to the pain in his heart.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000090_000003.wav|Mary saw the eloquent movement away from her and his speaking attitude, with averted face; then the princess went into eclipse, and the imperial woman was ascendant once more.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000005_000004.wav|Love lying in her heart had made her a little more shy than formerly in seeking him, but her straightforward way of taking whatever she wanted made her transparent little attempts at concealment very pathetic.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000002_000000.wav|After we had all returned to Greenwich the princess and Brandon were together frequently.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000100_000005.wav|I tried."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000005_000003.wav|She sought Brandon upon all occasions, and made opportunities to meet him; not openly-at any rate, not with Brandon's knowledge, nor with any connivance on his part, but apparently caring little what he or any one else might see.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000101_000000.wav|Mary's eyes were bent upon the floor, and tears were falling over her flushed cheeks, unheeded and unchecked.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000117_000000.wav|She nestled closer to him and hid her face on his breast.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000027_000002.wav|First, the king would, in all probability, cut off his head upon an intimation of Mary's possible fondness for him; and, second, if he should be so fortunate as to keep his head, Mary could not, and certainly would not, marry him, even if she loved him with all her heart.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000060_000001.wav|He felt that his only hope lay in silence, so he sat beside her and said nothing.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000083_000000.wav|"I think there is no doubt that I mean it," replied Brandon.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000018_000000.wav|"That will not do," interrupted Mary, who knew enough of a guardsman's duty to be sure it was not onerous.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000054_000003.wav|I would not disturb you." She spoke with a tremulous voice and a quick, uneasy glance, and started to move backward out of the alcove.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000112_000001.wav|I cannot guess."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000056_000000.wav|"That's it; I don't know, but I want to know; and I want you to sit here beside me and tell me.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000121_000002.wav|Evidently it seemed farther looking down than looking up.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000075_000001.wav|I will not be bad even to please you; I have determined not to be bad and I will not-not even to be good.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000006_000001.wav|But with Brandon's stronger nature the sun would go till noon and there would burn for life.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000120_000000.wav|"No," said Mary, with a despairing shake of the head, as the tears began to flow again; "no! never." And falling upon his knees, he caught both her hands in his, sprang to his feet and ran from the room.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000071_000001.wav|"I can be ever so much better than that if I try."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000002_000002.wav|But we spent two evenings, with only four of us present, prior to the disastrous events which changed everything, and of which I am soon to tell you.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000082_000001.wav|It gave her a pang to hear that he was actually going, and her love pulsed higher; but she also felt a sense of relief, somewhat as a conscientious house breaker might feel upon finding the door securely locked against him.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000068_000004.wav|How about the first time I met you?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000021_000004.wav|The latter half of this sentence was uttered doggedly and sounded sullen and ill humored, although, of course, it was not so intended.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000027_000001.wav|Caution and judgment still sat enthroned, and they told him now what he knew full well they would not tell him after a short time-that failure was certain to follow the attempt, and disaster sure to follow failure.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000009_000000.wav|The more I saw of this man, the more I respected him, and this curbing of his affections added to my already high esteem.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000003_000000.wav|This pair, who should have remained apart, met constantly in and about the palace, and every glance added fuel to the flame.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000105_000003.wav|Her eyes were cast down in silence, and she was evidently thinking as she toyed with the lace of his doublet.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000004_000000.wav|One day the rumor spread through the court that the old French king, Louis the twelfth, whose wife, Anne of Brittany, had just died, had asked Mary's hand in marriage.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000103_000002.wav|I shall never recover."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000121_000003.wav|There was nothing left now but flight.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000068_000000.wav|"How modest we have become!|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000032_000001.wav|I am not much of a Joseph, and am very little given to running away from a beautiful woman, but in this case I am fleeing from death itself. And to think what a heaven it would be.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000093_000001.wav|Not this time.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000068_000002.wav|Kind?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000089_000001.wav|I beg-if I cannot command.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000047_000000.wav|"Do you believe he will?"|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000071_000000.wav|"You are easily satisfied if you call that good," laughingly returned Mary.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000100_000004.wav|Oh!|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000004_000006.wav|In fact, one cannot take too many precautions when in those enchanted waters.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000008_000002.wav|I saw this only too plainly, but never a word of it was spoken between us.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000099_000000.wav|Mary followed him nearly to the door of the room, but when he turned he saw that she had stopped, and was standing with her hands over her face, as if in tears.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000067_000000.wav|Mary saw the manner quickly enough-what woman ever missed it, much less so keen eyed a girl as she-and it gave her confidence, and brought back the easy banter of her old time manner.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000009_000006.wav|Her manner, however, had no effect upon Brandon, who did not, or at least appeared not to notice it.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000021_000001.wav|I beg of you not to ask.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000029_000003.wav|There was no living with her in peace.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000008.wav|Her bodice was cut low, both back and front, showing her large perfectly molded throat and neck, like an alabaster pillar of beauty and strength, and disclosing her bosom just to its shadowy incurving, white and billowy as drifted snow.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000093_000004.wav|Mary mother, forgive me." Then her woman spirit fell before the whirlwind of his passion, and she was on his breast with her white arms around his neck, paying the same tribute to the little blind god that he would have exacted from the lowliest maiden of the land.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000118_000000.wav|"Now that I have said it, what is my reward?" he asked-and the fair face came up, red and rosy, with "rewards," any one of which was worth a king's ransom.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000084_000000.wav|She looked up with a light in her eyes and asked: "What is the debt? How much?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000097_000000.wav|"Heaven help us both; for I love you!"|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000006_000003.wav|He knew the hopeless misery such a passion would bring him, and helped the good Lord, in so far as he could, to answer his prayer, and lead him not into temptation.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000098_000001.wav|"Don't! don't!|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000007.wav|It would probably have met a rebuff from the princess part of her; for what a perversity, both royal and feminine, she wanted all the freedom for herself.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000058_000000.wav|Mary soon recovered her self possession-women are better skilled in this art than men-and continued:|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000093_000005.wav|Just as though it were not the blood of fifty kings and queens that made so red and sweet, aye, sweet as nectar thrice distilled, those lips which now so freely paid their dues in coined bliss.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000084_000003.wav|Please tell me how much it is and I will hand it to you.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000076_000000.wav|"I am afraid you had better be bad-I give you fair warning," said Brandon huskily.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000083_000002.wav|I could have paid it with what I lost to Judson before I discovered him cheating." This was the first time he had ever alluded to the duel, and the thought of it, in Mary's mind, added a faint touch of fear to her feeling toward him.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000009_000007.wav|This the girl could not endure, and lacking strength to resist her heart, soon returned to the attack.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000084_000005.wav|Now tell me that I may.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000053_000000.wav|Brandon was on his feet in an instant, and with a low bow was backing himself out most deferentially, to leave her in sole possession if she wished to rest.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000004_000005.wav|Ships, too, are good, with masts to tie one's self to, and sails and rudder, and a gust of wind to waft one quickly past the island.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000080_000005.wav|And who was he?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000055_000001.wav|You know-you must know-oh!|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000038_000000.wav|After a short silence Jane heard a sob from the other bed, then another, and another.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000051_000000.wav|Late one day Brandon had gone over to this quiet retreat, and having selected a volume, took his place in a secluded little alcove half hidden in arras draperies.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000049_000000.wav|After this, for a few days, Mary was quiet enough.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000080_000007.wav|No one better.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000061_000000.wav|After a short silence, Mary continued, half banteringly: "Answer me, sir!|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000077_000000.wav|"But the position is reversed with us; at first I was unkind to you, and you were kind to me, but now I am kind to you and you are unkind to me."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000043_000000.wav|"Do you wish me to come to your bed?"|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000080_000000.wav|She was anxious to know, but asked the question partly to turn the conversation which was fast becoming perilous.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000003.wav|Her beauty had its sweetest quality, for the princess was sunk and the woman was dominant, with flushed face and flashing eyes that caught a double luster from the glowing love that made her heart beat so fast.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000008_000001.wav|Brandon had contrived to have his duties, ostensibly at least, occupy his evenings, and did honestly what his judgment told him was the one thing to do; that is, remain away from a fire that could give no genial warmth, but was sure to burn him to the quick.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000005_000002.wav|In truth, it might, I hoped, die in the dawning, for my lady was as capricious as a May day; but it was love-love as plain as the sun at rising.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000012_000000.wav|Jane did know, I am sorry for Mary's sake to say, how often the fair hand was given to such spasms; so with this emphasized hint she walked on ahead, half sulky at the indignity put upon her, and half amused at her whimsical mistress.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000100_000001.wav|It is all my fault.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000021_000003.wav|I refuse to answer further."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000002_000001.wav|Upon several occasions he was invited, with others, to her parlor for card playing.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000081_000000.wav|Brandon answered her question: "I do not know about going; I think I shall.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000069_000000.wav|"No," returned Brandon, who, in his turn, was recovering himself, "no, I can't say that you were very kind at first.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000057_000002.wav|He had done his part, for he had done all he could.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000037_000001.wav|No one interrupted her until Jane went in to robe her for the night, and to retire.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000075_000002.wav|This," placing her hand over her heart, "is just full of 'good' to day," and her lips parted as she laughed at her own pleasantry.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000019_000001.wav|"Please do not think it.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000054_000000.wav|"Master Brandon, you need not go.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000005_000000.wav|Matters began to look dark to me.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000056_000001.wav|I am going to be reconciled with you, despite the way you treated me when last we met.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000126_000000.wav|"If I see her again," he said, "I shall have to kill some one, even if it is only myself."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000009_000001.wav|The effort was doubly wise in Brandon's case.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000086_000001.wav|Is that it?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000076_000002.wav|After a short silence Mary continued, regardless of the warning:|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000052_000000.wav|He had not been there long when in came Mary.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000073_000002.wav|Can't you tell?"|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000065_000000.wav|"Yes, yes; but answer my question; am I not kind-more than you deserve?"|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000090_000004.wav|She looked at him for a brief space with softening eyes, and, lifting her hand, put it back in his, saying:|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000055_000002.wav|I beg you-" But she interrupted him by taking his arm and drawing him to a seat beside her on the cushion.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000125_000000.wav|It was better, he thought, and wisely too, that there be no leave taking, but that he should go without meeting her.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000066_000000.wav|"Indeed, yes; a thousand times.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000036_000000.wav|She had not before fully known that she loved him.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000011_000000.wav|She tried a hundred little schemes to get him to herself for a moment-the hunting of a wild flower or a four leaved clover, or the exploration of some little nook in the forest toward which she would lead him-but Jane did not at first take the hint and kept close at her heels.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000010_000001.wav|Brandon was sauntering along reading when they overtook him. Jane told me afterwards that Mary's conduct upon coming up to him was pretty and curious beyond the naming.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000040_000000.wav|"Yes."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000080_000006.wav|Those two dreadfully stubborn facts could not be forgotten, and the gulf between them could not be spanned; she knew that only too well.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000022_000000.wav|Mary took it as it sounded, and, in unfeigned surprise, exclaimed angrily: "Leave you?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000100_000003.wav|I could not help it; I tried.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000002.wav|She was beginning to know her power over him, and it was never greater than at this moment.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000014_000001.wav|I thought at first I would simply let you go your way, and then I thought I-would not. Don't deny it.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000079_000001.wav|Jane tells me you are going to New Spain?"|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000080_000004.wav|The brink was a delightful place, full of all the sweet ecstasies and thrilling joys of a seventh heaven, but over the brink-well! there should be no "over," for who was she?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000089_000000.wav|"Please do.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000004.wav|During all this time Brandon remained cool and really seemed unconscious of his wonderful attraction for her.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000014_000003.wav|With all your faults, you don't tell even little lies; not even to a woman-I believe.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000063_000000.wav|"Yes, I know all that; but I am not.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000069_000002.wav|It was so unexpected it almost took me off my feet," and they both laughed in remembering the scene of their first meeting.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000049_000001.wav|Her irritable mood had vanished, but Jane could see that she was on the lookout for some one all the time, although she made the most pathetic little efforts to conceal her watchfulness.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000068_000005.wav|Was I kind then?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000009_000003.wav|His trouble, however, did not make a mope of him, and he retained a great deal of his brightness and sparkle undimmed by what must have been an ache in his heart.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000086_000002.wav|Perhaps you are not so kind after all."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000057_000003.wav|Heaven had not helped him, since here was temptation thrust upon him when least expected, and when the way was so narrow he could not escape, but must meet it face to face.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000032_000003.wav|I am unable to tell how I feel toward her.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000021_000000.wav|"I cannot; I cannot.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000112_000000.wav|"What is it?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000016_000001.wav|Tell me the truth."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000024_000000.wav|He did not follow her to explain, knowing how dangerous such an explanation would be, but felt that it was best for them both that she should remain offended, painful as the thought was to him.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000078_000001.wav|"You don't know when I am kind to you.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000010_000002.wav|At first she was inclined to be distant, and say cutting things, but when Brandon began to grow restive under them and showed signs of turning back, she changed front in the twinkling of an eye and was all sweetness.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000068_000006.wav|And as to condescension, don't-don't use that word between us."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000073_000001.wav|I'm doing my very best now.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000085_000001.wav|Be sure, I thank you, though I say it only once," and he looked into her eyes with a gaze she could not stand even for an instant.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000128_000000.wav|But providence, or fate, or some one, ordered it differently, and there was plenty of trouble ahead.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000121_000000.wav|Her words showed him the chasm anew.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000027_000000.wav|Now that he had unintentionally offended her, and had permitted her to go without an explanation, she was dearer to him than ever, and, as he sat there with his face in his hands, he knew that if matters went on as they were going, the time would soon come when he would throw caution to the dogs and would try the impossible-to win her for his own.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000110_000001.wav|Tell me and I will say it."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000015_000000.wav|"My duties-," began Brandon.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000114_000001.wav|But-oh!--do you wish to hear me say it?"|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000080_000003.wav|It was not to be thought of between people so far apart as they.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000016_000000.wav|"Oh! bother your duties.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000074_000000.wav|"Yes, I think I recognize it; but-but-be bad again."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000037_000003.wav|Jane quietly prepared to retire, and lay down in her own bed.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000026_000000.wav|Poor Brandon sat down upon a stone, and, as he longingly watched her retiring form, wished in his heart he were dead.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000057_000001.wav|Was this the answer to all his prayers, "Lead me not into temptation"?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000027_000003.wav|The distance between them was too great, and she knew too well what she owed to her position.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000041_000000.wav|"What is the matter, dear?"|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000119_000000.wav|"But this is worse than insanity," cried Brandon, as he almost pushed her from him.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000029_000004.wav|Even the king fought shy of her, and the queen was almost afraid to speak.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000072_000000.wav|"Let me see you try," said Brandon.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000048_000000.wav|"I know it;" and with this consolation Mary softly wept herself to sleep.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000000.wav|As I said, we had spent several evenings with Mary after we came home from Windsor, at all of which her preference was shown in every movement.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000032_000004.wav|It sometimes seems that I can not live another hour without seeing her; yet, thank God, I have reason enough left to know that every sight of her only adds to an already incurable malady. What will it be when she is the wife of the king of France?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000060_000004.wav|He thought of the window, and that possibly he might break away through it, and then he thought of feigning illness, and a hundred other absurd schemes, but they all came to nothing, and he sat there to let events take their own course as they seemed determined to do in spite of him.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000019_000000.wav|"In God's name, Lady Mary, that is not it," answered Brandon, who was on the rack.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000087_000002.wav|How much is it and to whom is it owing?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000114_000000.wav|"Ah, yes; you know it.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000001.wav|Some women are so expressive under strong emotion that every gesture, a turn of the head, a glance of the eyes, the lifting of a hand or the poise of the body, speaks with a tongue of eloquence, and such was Mary.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000005.wav|It is hard to understand why he did not see it, but I really believe he did not.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000078_000002.wav|I should be kinder to myself, at least, were I to leave you and take myself to the other side of the world."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000025_000000.wav|Of course, Mary's womanly self esteem, to say nothing of her royal pride, was wounded to the quick, and no wonder.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000002_000003.wav|During these two evenings the "Sailor Lass" was in constant demand.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000000.wav|"I am not intending to say one word about your treatment of me that day over in the forest, although it was very bad, and you have acted abominably ever since.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000090_000000.wav|"Master Brandon!" she exclaimed sharply, and drew away her hand. Brandon dropped the hand and moved over on the seat.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000031_000000.wav|Brandon, tired of this everlasting watchfulness to keep himself out of temptation, and, dreading at any moment that lapse from strength which is apt to come to the strongest of us, had resolved to quit his place at court and go to New Spain at once.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000003_000002.wav|Notwithstanding these haughty moods, anyone with half an eye could see that the princess was gradually succumbing to the budding woman; that Brandon's stronger nature had dominated her with that half fear which every woman feels who loves a strong man-stronger than herself.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000031_000001.wav|He had learned, upon inquiry, that a ship would sail from Bristol in about twenty days, and another six weeks later.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000002.wav|Her eyes would glow with a soft fire when they rested upon him, and her whole person told all too plainly what, in truth, it seemed she did not care to hide.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000068_000003.wav|Have I always been so?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000076_000001.wav|He felt her eyes upon him all the time, and his strength and good resolves were oozing out like wine from an ill coppered cask.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000026_000001.wav|This was the first time he really knew how much he loved the girl, and he saw that, with him at least, it was a matter of bad to worse; and at that rate would soon be-worst.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000092_000002.wav|The hand would not satisfy now; it must be all, all!|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000056_000002.wav|I am going to be friends with you whether you will or not.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000023_000000.wav|"Your highness-" began Brandon; but she was gone before he could speak.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000003.wav|When others were present she would restrain herself somewhat, but with only Jane and myself, she could hardly maintain a seemly reserve.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000110_000000.wav|"What is it?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000069_000003.wav|"No, I can't say your kindness showed itself very strongly in that first interview, but it was there nevertheless, and when Lady Jane led me back, your real nature asserted itself, as it always does, and you were kind to me; kind as only you can be."|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000007.wav|It was slit to the shoulder, and gave entrancing glimpses of her arms with every movement, leaving them almost bare when she lifted her hands, which was often, for she was as full of gestures as a Frenchwoman.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000082_000002.wav|It would take away a temptation which she could not resist, and yet dared not yield to much longer.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000069_000001.wav|How you did fly out at me and surprise me.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000017_000000.wav|"I will, if you let me," returned Brandon, who had no intention whatever of doing anything of the sort.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000059_000006.wav|She wore her favorite long flowing outer sleeve, without the close fitting inner one.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000113_000000.wav|"Did you not like to hear me say that-that I-loved you?"|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000010_000003.wav|She laughed and smiled and dimpled, as only she could, and was full of bright glances and gracious words.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000029_000006.wav|She did not tell Jane the cause of her vexation, but only said she "verily hated Brandon," and that, of course, was the key to the whole situation.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000064_000000.wav|"There is no answer, dear lady-I beg you-oh, do you not see-"|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000007_000006.wav|Although he was quite at ease in her presence, too much so, Mary sometimes thought, and strangely enough sometimes told him in a fit of short-lived, quickly repented anger that always set him laughing, yet there was never a word or gesture that could hint of undue familiarity.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000021_000002.wav|Leave me! or let me leave you.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000056_000004.wav|Poor Brandon, usually so ready, had nothing "to say to that," but sat in helpless silence.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000004_000003.wav|This modern Ulysses made a masterful effort, but alas! had no ships to carry him away, and no wax with which to fill his ears.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000073_000000.wav|"Why, I'm trying now," answered Mary with a distracting little pout. "Don't you know genuine out and out goodness when you see it?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000102_000000.wav|"There is no fault in any one; neither could I help it," she murmured.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000084_000006.wav|Quickly." And she was alive with enthusiastic interest.|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7145/87280/7145_87280_000122_000001.wav|Why did I ever come to this court?|7145
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000005.wav|Bees were confined to their hive without any pollen, after being supplied with honey, eggs and larvae.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000023_000000.wav|The construction of my hives, permits the flour to be placed, at once, where the bees can take it, without being compelled to waste their time in going out for it, or to suffer for the want of it, when the weather confines them at home.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000009_000000.wav|In the backward spring of eighteen fifty two, I had an excellent opportunity of testing the value of this substance.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000011_000001.wav|My experiments do not corroborate this theory, but tend to confirm the views of Huber, and to show the absolute necessity of pollen to the development of brood.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000021_000007.wav|The feeding is continued till the bees cease to carry away the meal; that is, until the natural supplies furnish them with a preferable article.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000020_000000.wav|Virgil in the fourth book of his Georgics, which is entirely devoted to bees, speaks of them as having received a direct emanation from the Divine Intelligence.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000016_000003.wav|It is certain that if they flew from one species to another, there would be a much greater mixture of different varieties than there now is, for they carry on their bodies the pollen or fertilizing principle, and thus aid most powerfully in the impregnation of plants.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000018_000000.wav|He must be blind indeed, who will not see, at every step in the natural history of this insect, the plainest proofs of the wisdom of its Creator.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000016_000000.wav|It has been observed that a bee, in gathering pollen, always confines herself to the same kind of flower on which she begins, even when that is not so abundant as some others.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000011_000004.wav|That bees cannot live upon pollen without any honey, is proved by the fact, that large stores of it are often found, in hives whose occupants have died of starvation; that they can live without it, is equally well known; but that the full grown bees make some use of it in connection with honey, for their own nourishment, I believe to be highly probable.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER six.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000011_000003.wav|But as all the elements of wax are found in honey, and none of them in pollen, this opinion does not seem to me, to be entitled to much weight.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000011_000002.wav|The same able contributor to Apiarian science, thinks that pollen is used by the bees when they are engaged in comb building; and that unless they are well supplied with it, they cannot rapidly secrete wax, without very severely taxing their strength.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000000.wav|We are indebted to Huber for the discovery of the use made by the bees of pollen.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000004.wav|By rigid experiments he proved the truth of this supposition.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000002.wav|It was this fact which led the old observers to conclude that it was gathered for the purpose of building comb.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000016_000002.wav|It is probable that the pollen of different kinds of flowers would not pack so well together.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000019_000001.wav|At first the importance of its products, when honey was the only natural sweet, served most powerfully to attract his attention to its curious habits; and now since the cultivation of the sugar cane has diminished the relative value of its luscious sweets, the superior knowledge which has been obtained of its instincts, is awakening an increasing enthusiasm in its cultivation.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000021_000008.wav|The average consumption of each colony is about two pounds of meal!|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000006_000003.wav|dr Hunter dissected some immature bees, and found their stomachs to contain farina, but not a particle of honey.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000016_000001.wav|Thus if you examine a ball of this substance taken from her thigh, it is found to be of one uniform color throughout: the load of one will be yellow, another red, and a third brown; the color varying according to that of the plant from which it was obtained.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000001.wav|That it did not serve as food for the mature bees, was evident from the fact that large supplies are often found in hives whose inmates have starved to death.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000020_000001.wav|And many modern Apiarians are almost disposed to rank the bee for sagacity, as next in the scale of creation to man.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000009_000001.wav|In one of my hives, was an artificial swarm of the previous year.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000009_000002.wav|The hive was well protected, being double, and the situation was warm.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000022_000000.wav|At the last annual Apiarian Convention in Germany, a cultivator recommended wheat flour as an excellent substitute for pollen.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000006.wav|In a short time the young all perished.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000006_000001.wav|Repeated experiments have proved that no brood can be raised in a hive, unless the bees are supplied with it.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000003.wav|After Huber had demonstrated that wax is secreted from an entirely different substance, he was soon led to conjecture that the bee bread must be used for the nourishment of the embryo bees.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000022_000001.wav|He says that in February, eighteen fifty two, he used it with the best results.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000006_000002.wav|It contains none of the elements of wax, but is rich in what chemists call nitrogenous substances, which are not contained in honey, and which furnish ample nourishment for the development of the growing bee.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185457/3977_185457_000007_000007.wav|A fresh supply of brood was given to them, with an ample allowance of pollen, and the development of the larvae then proceeded in the natural way.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000000_000000.wav|The unwillingness of a swarm of bees, which has been deprived of its queen, to receive another, until after some time has elapsed, must always be borne in mind, by those who have anything to do with making artificial swarms.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000000_000003.wav|Before long, they will cultivate an acquaintance, by thrusting their antennae through to her; so that, when she is liberated the next day, they will gladly adopt her in place of the one they have lost.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000004_000002.wav|How are such persons to manage bees on my plan, which seems like bearding a lion in its very den!|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000001_000008.wav|Nine things out of ten may work to a charm, and yet the tenth may be so connected with the other nine, that its failure renders their success of no account.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000000_000006.wav|A small paste board box with suitable holes, or a wooden match box thoroughly scalded, I have found to answer a very good purpose.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000005_000002.wav|There never will be a "royal road" to profitable bee keeping.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000007_000001.wav|"The use of these frames will, I am persuaded, give a new impulse to the easy and profitable management of bees; and will render the making of artificial swarms an easy operation."|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000000_000004.wav|If a hole large enough for her to creep out, is closed with wax, they will gnaw the wax away, and liberate her themselves, from her confinement.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000001_000003.wav|If a number of sealed queens are on hand, and there is danger that some may hatch, and destroy the others, before the Apiarian can make use of them in forming artificial swarms, he may very carefully cut out the combs containing them, and place them each in a separate cradle!|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000004_000004.wav|By managing bees according to the directions furnished in this treatise, almost any one can learn, by using a bee dress, to superintend them, with very little risk; while those who are favorites with them, may dispense entirely with any protection.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000001_000009.wav|When I first used this Nursery, I did not give the bees access to it, and I found that the queens were not properly developed, and died in their cells.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000001_000001.wav|A solid block about an inch and a quarter thick, is substituted for one of my frames; holes, about one and a half inches in diameter, are bored through it, and covered on both sides, with gauze wire slides; the wire ought to be such as will allow a common bee to pass through, but should be too small to permit a queen to do the same.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000004_000000.wav|I am now prepared to answer an objection which doubtless has been present in the minds of many, all the time that they have been reading the various processes on which I rely for the multiplication of colonies.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000002_000005.wav|Two queens may in this way, be made in six hives to furnish all the supernumerary queens which will be wanted in quite a large Apiary.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000002_000000.wav|Last Spring, I made one queen supply several hives with eggs, so as to keep them strong in numbers while they were constantly engaged in rearing a large number of spare queens.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000001_000004.wav|The bees having access to them, will give them proper attention, and as soon as they are hatched, will supply them with food, and thus they will always be on hand for use when they are needed.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000000_000002.wav|To prevent such losses, I adopt the German plan of confining the queen, in what they call, "a queen cage." A small hole, about as large as a thimble, may be gouged out of a block, and covered over with wire gauze, or any other kind of perforated cover, so that when the queen is put in, the bees cannot enter to destroy her.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000001_000002.wav|Any kind of perforated cover may be made to answer the same purpose as the gauze wire.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000004_000001.wav|A very large number of persons who keep bees, or who wish to keep them, are so much afraid of them that they object entirely even to natural swarming, because they are in danger of being stung in the process of hiving the bees.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/185466/3977_185466_000000_000005.wav|Queens that seem bent on departing to the woods, may be confined in the same way, until the colony has given up all thoughts of forsaking its hive.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000019_000002.wav|I repeated this experiment with the same event.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000021_000001.wav|Gunpowder is also fired in all kinds of air, and, in the quantity in which I tried it, did not make any sensible change in them, except that the common air in which it was fired would not afterwards admit a candle to burn in it.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000021_000002.wav|In order to try this experiment I half exhausted a receiver, and then with a burning glass fired the gunpowder which had been previously put into it.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000004_000000.wav|By means of iron filings and brimstone I have, since my former experiments, procured a considerable quantity of this kind of air in a method something different from that which I used before.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000006_000000.wav|Iron filings and brimstone, I have observed, ferment with great heat in nitrous air, and I have since observed that this process is attended with greater heat in fixed air than in common air.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000013_000000.wav|I put about the quantity of half a nut shell full of ether, inclosed in a glass tube, through a body of quicksilver, into an ounce measure of common air, confined by quicksilver; upon which it presently began to expand, till it occupied the space of two ounce measures.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000024_000002.wav|This, however, was the only method by which I could contrive to fire gunpowder in acid or alkaline air, in which it exploded just as it did in nitrous or fixed air.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000014_000000.wav|All the phenomena of dilatation and contraction were nearly the same, when, instead of common air, I used nitrous air, fixed air, inflammable air, or any species of phlogisticated common air.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000023_000001.wav|In the experiment with inflammable air a considerable mixture of common air would have been exceedingly hazardous: for, by that assistance, the inflammable air might have exploded in such a manner, as to have been dangerous to the operator. Indeed, I believe I should not have ventured to have made the experiment at all with any other pump besides mr Smeaton's.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000024_000000.wav|Sometimes, I filled a glass vessel with quicksilver, and introduced the air to it, when it was inverted in a bason of quicksilver.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000004_000002.wav|In this manner, and in about a week, there was, as near as I can recollect, one sixth, or at least one eighth of the whole converted into a permanent air, not imbibed by water.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000013_000005.wav|Being tried by a mixture of nitrous air, it appeared not to be so good as fresh air, though the injury it had received was not considerable.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000003_000004.wav|Probably the whole of it would have been rendered immiscible in water, if the electrical operation had been continued a sufficient time. This air continued several days in water, and was even agitated in water without any farther diminution.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000004_000001.wav|For having placed a pot of this mixture under a receiver, and exhausted it with a pump of mr Smeaton's construction, I filled it with fixed air, and then left it plunged under water; so that no common air could have access to it.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000015_000002.wav|To what this appearance was owing I cannot tell, and indeed I did not examine into it.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000013_000003.wav|Withdrawing the quicksilver, and admitting water to this air, without any agitation, it began to be absorbed; but only about half an ounce measure had disappeared after it had stood an hour in the water.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000017_000001.wav|As some of the circumstances attending the ignition of this paper in some of the kinds of air were a little remarkable, I shall just recite them.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000005_000001.wav|Perhaps more time may be requisite for this purpose, for this process was not continued more than a day and a night.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000014_000001.wav|The quantity of each of these kinds of air was nearly doubled while they were kept in quicksilver, but fixed air was not so much increased as the rest, and phlogisticated air less; but after passing through the water, they appeared not to have been sensibly changed by the process.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000021_000003.wav|By this means I could fire a greater quantity of gunpowder in a small quantity of air, and avoid the hazard of blowing up, and breaking my receiver.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000013_000004.wav|But by once passing it through water the air was reduced to its original dimensions.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000024_000001.wav|By this means I intirely avoided any mixture of common air; but then it was not easy to convey the gunpowder into it, in the exact quantity that was requisite for my purpose.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000020_000000.wav|Paper dipped in a solution of mercury, zinc, or iron, in nitrous acid, has, in a small degree, the same property with paper dipped in a solution of copper in the same acid.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000011_000000.wav|MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000007_000001.wav|I imagined that, if it could have dissolved iron, the phlogiston would have united with the air, and have made it immiscible with water, as in the former instances; but after being confined in a phial full of nails from the fifteenth of December to the fourth of October following, neither the iron nor the air appeared to have been affected by their mutual contact.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000012_000000.wav|one.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000003_000005.wav|It was not, however, common air, for it was not diminished by nitrous air.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000009_000001.wav|In this manner I procured a very considerable quantity of fixed air, so that I judged it was all discharged from the tartar.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000007_000000.wav|Though fixed air incorporated with water dissolves iron, fixed air without water has no such power, as I observed before.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3977/87547/3977_87547_000016_000000.wav|three.|3977
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000008_000005.wav|Of course, they have pockets in their cheeks.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000018_000001.wav|"As I was saying, this is all about our native Mice; that is, the Mice who belong to this country.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000009_000002.wav|By day the entrances are closed with earth from inside, for the Mice are active only at night. Sometimes the burrows are hidden under bushes, and sometimes they are right out in the open.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000025_000003.wav|Man brought him here and now he is here to stay and quite as much at home as if he belonged here the way the rest of you do.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000003_000001.wav|Without pockets in which to carry the seeds, I am afraid some of them would never be able to store up enough food for winter," began Old Mother Nature, as soon as everybody was on hand the next morning.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000012_000001.wav|"He is very, very fond of Grasshoppers and Crickets.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000028_000001.wav|"He is so small he can hide under a leaf.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000008_000003.wav|The smallest of the Spiny Pocket Mice is about the size of Nibbler the House Mouse and the largest is twice as big.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000012_000004.wav|He is found all over the West from well up in the North to the hot dry regions of the Southwest. When he cannot find a convenient deserted burrow of some other animal, he digs a home for himself and there raises several families each year.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000013_000000.wav|"Another little member of the Mouse family found clear across the country is the Harvest Mouse.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000005_000000.wav|Old Mother Nature smiled.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000014_000004.wav|Sometimes he uses a hole in a tree or post and sometimes a deserted birds' nest, but more frequently he builds a nest for himself-a little round ball of grass and other vegetable matter.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000006_000001.wav|He weighs less than an ounce and is a dear little fellow.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000006_000004.wav|In each cheek is a pocket opening from the outside, and these pockets are lined with hair. He is called Silky Pocket Mouse because of the fineness and softness of his coat.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000007_000000.wav|"Do they have spines like Prickly Porky?" demanded peter Rabbit.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000005_000002.wav|"But there are others who have even greater need of pockets, and among them are the Pocket Mice.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000021_000001.wav|"Once I was carried to Farmer Brown's barn in a shock of corn and I found Nibbler living in the barn."|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000008_000001.wav|"I don't wonder you ask," said she. "I think it is a foolish name myself, for they haven't any spines at all.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000008_000004.wav|They are more slender than their Silky cousins, and their tails are longer in proportion to their size and have little tufts of hair at the ends.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000006_000002.wav|His back and sides are yellow, and beneath he is white.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000019_000000.wav|peter Rabbit looked rather sheepish when he discovered that Old Mother Nature hadn't for gotten, and resolved that in the future he would hold his tongue.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000024_000002.wav|If they are living in a barn, they make their nest of hay and any soft material they can find.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000016_000000.wav|"Now this is all about the native Mice and-what is it, peter?"|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000014_000003.wav|The most interesting thing about this little Mouse is the way he builds his home.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000008_000000.wav|Old Mother Nature laughed.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000010_000001.wav|He has a beautiful yellowish brown coat and white waistcoat, and his feet are white. But his tail is short in comparison with Whitefoot's and instead of being slim is quite thick.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000018_000002.wav|And now we come to Nibbler the House Mouse, who, like Robber the Brown Rat, has no business here at all, but who has followed man all over the world and like Robber has become a pest to man."|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000022_000004.wav|He eats all sorts of food, but spoils more for man, by running about over it, than he eats.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000024_000000.wav|"If mr and mrs Nibbler are living in a house, their nest is made of scraps of paper, cloth, wool and other soft things stolen from the people who live in the house.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000024_000001.wav|In getting this material they often do great damage.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000010_000000.wav|"Another Mouse of the West looks almost enough like Whitefoot to be a member of his branch of the family.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000021_000000.wav|"I have," replied Danny Meadow Mouse.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000015_000001.wav|Inside is a warm, soft bed made of milkweed or cattail down, the very nicest kind of a bed for the babies.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000027_000002.wav|Isn't that so?" Happy Jack turned to the others and every one nodded, even Prickly Porky.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000013_000003.wav|In appearance he is much like Nibbler, but his coat is browner and there are fine hairs on his tail.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000011_000000.wav|"Is that because he eats Grasshoppers?" asked peter Rabbit at once.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000022_000001.wav|"Probably other members of his family were. He is perfectly at home in any building put up by man, just as is Robber the Rat.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000026_000001.wav|I suspect these are the only ones in whom you take any interest, and so you will not care to come to school any more.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000023_000001.wav|A Cat is Nibbler's worst enemy.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000004_000000.wav|"I wouldn't be without my pockets for any thing," spoke up Striped Chipmunk.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000012_000002.wav|He eats many kinds of insects, Moths, Flies, Cutworms, Beetles, Lizards, Frogs and Scorpions. Because of his fondness for the latter he is called the Scorpion Mouse in some sections.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000027_000000.wav|"No, marm," answered Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel, who, you remember, had laughed at peter Rabbit for wanting to go to school.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000018_000000.wav|"How impatient some little folks are and how fearful that their curiosity will not be satisfied," remarked Old Mother Nature.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000022_000002.wav|Because of his small size he can go where Robber cannot.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000014_000000.wav|"As a rule he does little harm to man, for his food is chiefly seeds of weeds, small wild fruits and parts of wild plants of no value to man.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000005_000004.wav|All of these pretty little fellows live in the dry parts of the Far West and Southwest in the same region where Longfoot the Kangaroo Rat lives.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000025_000000.wav|"While Nibbler prefers to live in or close to the homes of men, he sometimes is driven out and then takes to the fields, especially in summer.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000006_000006.wav|Neighbors and close relatives are the Spiny Pocket Mice."|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000012_000005.wav|In the early evening he often utters a fine, shrill, whistling call note.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000029_000002.wav|He isn't even a Rodent.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000020_000000.wav|"Have any of you seen Nibbler?" asked Old Mother Nature.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000023_000000.wav|"It is largely because of Robber the Rat and Nibbler that men keep the Cats you all hate so.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000023_000003.wav|He is very timid, ready to dart into his hole at the least sound.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000012_000003.wav|He is fond of meat when he can get it. He also eats seeds of many kinds.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000010_000002.wav|His fur is like velvet.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000013_000002.wav|In fact, he is one of the smallest of the entire family.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000014_000002.wav|But this does not happen often.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000014_000005.wav|This is placed in thick grass or weeds close to the ground or in bushes or low trees several feet from the ground.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000025_000001.wav|There he lives in all sorts of hiding places, and isn't at all particular what the place is, if it promises safety and food can be obtained close by.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000012_000000.wav|"You've guessed it," laughed Old Mother Nature.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000023_000002.wav|Nibbler is slender and graceful, with a long, hairless tail and ears of good size.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000029_000001.wav|"He isn't a Mouse.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000006_000005.wav|He has some larger cousins, one of them being a little bigger than Nibbler the House Mouse.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135826/1348_135826_000028_000000.wav|"There is one little fellow living right near here who looks to me as if he must be a member of the Mouse family, but he isn't like any of the Mice you have told us about," continued Happy Jack.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000021_000001.wav|"A lot you know about the Great World," he said.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000027_000002.wav|His feet are black and so is the tip of his tail.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000019_000006.wav|I ran for my life."|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000026_000001.wav|A little farther south in the East is a cousin very much like him called the New York Weasel.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000022_000004.wav|I can forgive them for that.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000018_000003.wav|If I could climb a tree like Chatterer, it would be different."|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000025_000003.wav|You see he moves so quickly, dodging out of sight in a flash, that whoever catches him must be quick indeed.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000019_000005.wav|I was just returning when he popped out.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000024_000000.wav|"Hasn't he any enemies?" asked peter Rabbit.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000008_000002.wav|He was about as long as Chatterer the Red Squirrel but looked longer because of his slim body and long neck.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000009_000001.wav|Striped Chipmunk is all wrong, excepting about the end of his tail," interrupted Jumper the Hare.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000026_000005.wav|In summer he is a purer white underneath than his larger cousins.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000027_000001.wav|He is about the size of Billy Mink, but instead of the rich dark brown of Billy's coat his coat is a creamy yellow.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000015_000000.wav|"I know it," replied Striped Chipmunk and shivered again.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000006_000001.wav|"I don't know a single good thing about him," he continued, "but I know plenty of bad things.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000014_000000.wav|"You are lucky to be alive," declared Chatterer the Red Squirrel.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000017_000000.wav|"Pooh!" exclaimed Jimmy Skunk.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000025_000008.wav|It is because of his wonderful ability to disappear in an instant that he is called Shadow.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000008_000008.wav|I don't like to think about him!"|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000019_000000.wav|"No, it wouldn't!" interrupted Chatterer.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000023_000002.wav|He is hot blooded, quick tempered and fearless.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000019_000004.wav|He had found a hole in a certain tree where I was living, and it was just luck that I wasn't at home when he called.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000018_000002.wav|When I suspect Shadow is about, I go somewhere else, the farther the better.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000010_000001.wav|"Striped Chipmunk saw him in summer and you saw him in winter. He changes his coat according to season, just as you do yourself, Jumper.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000004_000001.wav|You see, all felt they must be there so that they might learn all they possibly could about one they so feared.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000005_000000.wav|"Striped Chipmunk," said Old Mother Nature, "you know something about Shadow the Weasel, tell us what you know."|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000010_000000.wav|"Striped Chipmunk is quite right and so are you," declared Old Mother Nature.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000008_000005.wav|His short, round tail was black at the end.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000022_000007.wav|That fellow just loves to kill. He takes pleasure in it.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000026_000003.wav|His smallest cousin is the Least Weasel. The latter is not much longer than a Mouse.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000020_000000.wav|"He is the most awful fellow in all the Great World," declared Whitefoot the Wood Mouse.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000008_000004.wav|His front feet were white, and his hind feet rather whitish, but not clear white.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000008_000000.wav|"Like a snake on legs," declared Striped Chipmunk.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000018_000001.wav|"I may be ever so much bigger, but he is so quick I wouldn't stand the least chance in the world.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000022_000000.wav|"I just know, that's all," retorted Whitefoot in a very positive though squeaky voice.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000023_000000.wav|"Whitefoot is right," declared Old Mother Nature, and she spoke sadly.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000007_000000.wav|"What did he look like?" asked Old Mother Nature.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000026_000000.wav|"Shadow is known as the Common Weasel, Short tailed Weasel, Brown Weasel, Bonaparte Weasel and Ermine, and is found all over the forested parts of the northern part of the country.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000006_000000.wav|"I know I hate him!" declared Striped Chipmunk, and all the others nodded their heads in agreement.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000015_000001.wav|"I know it.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000028_000001.wav|Robber, as you know, is big and savage and always ready for a fight when cornered.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000026_000004.wav|In winter he is all white, even the tip of his tail.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000009_000002.wav|"He was all white, every bit of him but the end of his tail, that was black."|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000016_000001.wav|"He was hunting me just the same way, running with his nose in the snow and following every twist and turn I had made.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000022_000005.wav|Every one must eat to live.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000006_000003.wav|Any hole I can get into he can.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000008_000003.wav|He was brown above and white below.|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1348/135832/1348_135832_000016_000002.wav|But for that black tipped tail I wouldn't have seen him until too late."|1348
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000002.wav|Let us sit down and talk in comfort.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000045_000000.wav|"But I say, Miss Morland, I shall come and pay my respects at Fullerton before it is long, if not disagreeable."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000019_000000.wav|Catherine felt that nothing could have been safer; but ashamed of an ignorance little expected, she dared no longer contest the point, nor refuse to have been as full of arch penetration and affectionate sympathy as Isabella chose to consider her.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000041_000000.wav|"Nay, but there is no such confounded hurry.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000035_000001.wav|He made no answer; but after a minute's silence burst out with, "A famous good thing this marrying scheme, upon my soul!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000027_000003.wav|I will not allow myself to think of such things, till we have your father's answer.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000022_000000.wav|"Indeed, Isabella, you are too humble.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000018_000004.wav|I am grown wretchedly thin, I know; but I will not pain you by describing my anxiety; you have seen enough of it.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000040_000000.wav|"May we?|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000031_000001.wav|But when it did come, where could distress be found?|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000025_000000.wav|"For my own part," said Isabella, "my wishes are so moderate that the smallest income in nature would be enough for me.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000011.wav|When I think of them I am so agitated!"|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000026_000000.wav|"Richmond!" cried Catherine.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000051_000001.wav|My notion of things is simple enough.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000037_000002.wav|I am glad you are no enemy to matrimony, however.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000007_000001.wav|It appeared that Blaize Castle had never been thought of; and, as for all the rest, there was nothing to regret for half an instant.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000005.wav|And to marry for money I think the wickedest thing in existence.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000033_000001.wav|But for particulars Isabella could well afford to wait.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000012_000002.wav|Can you-can you really be in love with james?"|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000029_000007.wav|For heaven's sake, waste no more time.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000001.wav|I am amazingly agitated, as you perceive.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000041_000002.wav|Not but that I shall be down again by the end of a fortnight, and a devilish long fortnight it will appear to me."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000006.wav|Your brother is the most charming of men.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000027_000004.wav|Morland says that by sending it tonight to Salisbury, we may have it tomorrow. Tomorrow?|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000001.wav|I think like you there.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000013_000000.wav|This bold surmise, however, she soon learnt comprehended but half the fact.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000031_000002.wav|"I have had no difficulty in gaining the consent of my kind parents, and am promised that everything in their power shall be done to forward my happiness," were the first three lines, and in one moment all was joyful security.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000000.wav|"Nay, my beloved, sweetest friend," continued the other, "compose yourself.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000032_000002.wav|It was "dear john" and "dear Catherine" at every word; "dear Anne and dear Maria" must immediately be made sharers in their felicity; and two "dears" at once before the name of Isabella were not more than that beloved child had now well earned.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000010_000000.wav|Catherine replied only by a look of wondering ignorance.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000040_000003.wav|I dine with Miss Tilney today, and must now be going home."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000007.wav|We shall be very glad to see you at Fullerton, whenever it is convenient." And away she went.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000039_000000.wav|"And then you know"--twisting himself about and forcing a foolish laugh-"I say, then you know, we may try the truth of this same old song."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000006_000000.wav|Early the next day, a note from Isabella, speaking peace and tenderness in every line, and entreating the immediate presence of her friend on a matter of the utmost importance, hastened Catherine, in the happiest state of confidence and curiosity, to Edgar's Buildings.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000004.wav|Oh!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000047_000000.wav|"And I hope-I hope, Miss Morland, you will not be sorry to see me."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000050_000001.wav|And as to most matters, to say the truth, there are not many that I know my own mind about."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000003.wav|Well, and so you guessed it the moment you had my note? Sly creature!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000037_000000.wav|"Do you?|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000033_000004.wav|She saw herself at the end of a few weeks, the gaze and admiration of every new acquaintance at Fullerton, the envy of every valued old friend in Putney, with a carriage at her command, a new name on her tickets, and a brilliant exhibition of hoop rings on her finger.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000013_000003.wav|Her brother and her friend engaged!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000009.wav|Oh!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000013_000002.wav|Never had Catherine listened to anything so full of interest, wonder, and joy.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000009_000004.wav|It sees through everything."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000053_000000.wav|The agitation which she had herself experienced on first learning her brother's engagement made her expect to raise no inconsiderable emotion in mr and mrs Allen, by the communication of the wonderful event.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000037_000001.wav|That's honest, by heavens!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000029_000008.wav|There, go, go-I insist on it."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000000.wav|"Very true.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000018_000002.wav|Catherine, the many sleepless nights I have had on your brother's account!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000008_000000.wav|"She will never forgive me, I am sure; but, you know, how could I help it?|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000025_000002.wav|A cottage in some retired village would be ecstasy.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000008.wav|It was not in the power of all his gallantry to detain her longer.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000033_000002.wav|The needful was comprised in mr Morland's promise; his honour was pledged to make everything easy; and by what means their income was to be formed, whether landed property were to be resigned, or funded money made over, was a matter in which her disinterested spirit took no concern.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000002.wav|If there is a good fortune on one side, there can be no occasion for any on the other.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000051_000003.wav|Fortune is nothing.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000006_000001.wav|The two youngest Miss Thorpes were by themselves in the parlour; and, on Anne's quitting it to call her sister, Catherine took the opportunity of asking the other for some particulars of their yesterday's party.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000043_000000.wav|"That is kind of you, however-kind and good-natured.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000026_000001.wav|"You must settle near Fullerton.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000048_000000.wav|"Oh! dear, not at all.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000011_000008.wav|But what will your excellent father and mother say?|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000023_000003.wav|Had I the command of millions, were I mistress of the whole world, your brother would be my only choice."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000013_000005.wav|The strength of her feelings she could not express; the nature of them, however, contented her friend.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000016_000000.wav|"You are so like your dear brother," continued Isabella, "that I quite doted on you the first moment I saw you.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000052_000009.wav|With such news to communicate, and such a visit to prepare for, her departure was not to be delayed by anything in his nature to urge; and she hurried away, leaving him to the undivided consciousness of his own happy address, and her explicit encouragement.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/212/14_212_000049_000000.wav|"That is just my way of thinking.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000006_000000.wav|"Oh!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000050_000004.wav|On the other hand, the delight of exploring an edifice like Udolpho, as her fancy represented Blaize Castle to be, was such a counterpoise of good as might console her for almost anything.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000050_000002.wav|It was now but an hour later than the time fixed on for the beginning of their walk; and, in spite of what she had heard of the prodigious accumulation of dirt in the course of that hour, she could not from her own observation help thinking that they might have gone with very little inconvenience.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000045_000000.wav|"But then, if they should only be gone out for an hour till it is dryer, and call by and by?"|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000041_000002.wav|It has not been so dirty the whole winter; it is ankle deep everywhere."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000021_000003.wav|Aye, and Blaize Castle too, and anything else we can hear of; but here is your sister says she will not go."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000018_000002.wav|john Thorpe was soon with them, and his voice was with them yet sooner, for on the stairs he was calling out to Miss Morland to be quick.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000014_000002.wav|The clock struck twelve, and it still rained.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000026_000000.wav|"But is it like what one reads of?"|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000001_000000.wav|The morrow brought a very sober looking morning, the sun making only a few efforts to appear, and Catherine augured from it everything most favourable to her wishes.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000052_000001.wav|Where?"|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000002_000001.wav|dear, I do believe it will be wet," broke from her in a most desponding tone.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000052_000000.wav|"Who?|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000041_000000.wav|"And well they might, for I never saw so much dirt in my life.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000034_000000.wav|"I do not know indeed."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000004.wav|Still, however, and during the length of another street, she entreated him to stop.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000007_000000.wav|"No," replied her friend very placidly, "I know you never mind dirt."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000019_000007.wav|Oh!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000042_000000.wav|Isabella corroborated it: "My dearest Catherine, you cannot form an idea of the dirt; come, you must go; you cannot refuse going now."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000025_000000.wav|"The oldest in the kingdom."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000021_000000.wav|"You croaking fellow!" cried Thorpe.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000004_000000.wav|"No walk for me today," sighed Catherine; "but perhaps it may come to nothing, or it may hold up before twelve."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000019_000000.wav|"To Bristol!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000018_000000.wav|"Isabella, my brother, and mr Thorpe, I declare!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000031_000000.wav|"Not go!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000022_000001.wav|"What is that?"|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000023_000000.wav|"The finest place in England-worth going fifty miles at any time to see."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000015_000000.wav|"I do not quite despair yet.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000014.wav|I had rather, ten thousand times rather, get out now, and walk back to them.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000000.wav|"On the right-hand pavement-she must be almost out of sight now." Catherine looked round and saw Miss Tilney leaning on her brother's arm, walking slowly down the street.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000018_000003.wav|"Make haste!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000018_000001.wav|They are coming for me perhaps-but I shall not go-I cannot go indeed, for you know Miss Tilney may still call." mrs Allen agreed to it.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000021_000002.wav|Kingsweston!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000001_000002.wav|She applied to mr Allen for confirmation of her hopes, but mr Allen, not having his own skies and barometer about him, declined giving any absolute promise of sunshine. She applied to mrs Allen, and mrs Allen's opinion was more positive. "She had no doubt in the world of its being a very fine day, if the clouds would only go off, and the sun keep out."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000006_000001.wav|That will not signify; I never mind dirt."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000014_000003.wav|"You will not be able to go, my dear."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000040_000001.wav|But I suppose they thought it would be too dirty for a walk."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000047_000000.wav|"Then I will.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000039_000000.wav|"Did upon my soul; knew him again directly, and he seemed to have got some very pretty cattle too."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000050_000001.wav|She could not think the Tilneys had acted quite well by her, in so readily giving up their engagement, without sending her any message of excuse.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000054_000002.wav|She listened reluctantly, and her replies were short.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000010.wav|How could you say that you saw them driving up the Lansdown Road?|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000012.wav|They must think it so strange, so rude of me!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000006.wav|I cannot go on.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000038_000000.wav|"Did you indeed?"|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000005_000000.wav|"Perhaps it may, but then, my dear, it will be so dirty."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000051_000002.wav|As they entered Argyle Buildings, however, she was roused by this address from her companion, "Who is that girl who looked at you so hard as she went by?"|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000005.wav|"Pray, pray stop, mr Thorpe.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000012_000000.wav|"It was such a nice looking morning!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000009_000000.wav|"So it does indeed.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000033_000000.wav|"Not they indeed," cried Thorpe; "for, as we turned into Broad Street, I saw them-does he not drive a phaeton with bright chestnuts?"|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000001.wav|She saw them both looking back at her. "Stop, stop, mr Thorpe," she impatiently cried; "it is Miss Tilney; it is indeed.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000021_000001.wav|"We shall be able to do ten times more.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000015_000001.wav|I shall not give it up till a quarter after twelve.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000002.wav|How could you tell me they were gone?|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000032_000001.wav|They promised to come at twelve, only it rained; but now, as it is so fine, I dare say they will be here soon."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000064_000008.wav|What a delightful hand you have got!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000015_000003.wav|There, it is twenty minutes after twelve, and now I shall give it up entirely.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000019_000002.wav|But, however, I cannot go with you today, because I am engaged; I expect some friends every moment." This was of course vehemently talked down as no reason at all; mrs Allen was called on to second him, and the two others walked in, to give their assistance.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000046_000000.wav|"Make yourself easy, there is no danger of that, for I heard Tilney hallooing to a man who was just passing by on horseback, that they were going as far as Wick Rocks."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000015_000002.wav|This is just the time of day for it to clear up, and I do think it looks a little lighter.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000013_000002.wav|I hope mr Allen will put on his greatcoat when he goes, but I dare say he will not, for he had rather do anything in the world than walk out in a greatcoat; I wonder he should dislike it, it must be so comfortable."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000024_000000.wav|"What, is it really a castle, an old castle?"|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000063_000004.wav|I wonder whether it will be a full ball or not!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000049_000001.wav|mrs Allen was not inattentive to it: "Well, my dear," said she, "suppose you go." And in two minutes they were off.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000032_000000.wav|"I cannot go, because"--looking down as she spoke, fearful of Isabella's smile-"I expect Miss Tilney and her brother to call on me to take a country walk.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000054_000006.wav|It will never do.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000011.wav|I would not have had it happen so for the world.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000019_000009.wav|So much better than going to the Lower Rooms.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000013.wav|To go by them, too, without saying a word! You do not know how vexed I am; I shall have no pleasure at Clifton, nor in anything else.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000018_000004.wav|Make haste!" as he threw open the door.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000014_000001.wav|Catherine went every five minutes to the clock, threatening on each return that, if it still kept on raining another five minutes, she would give up the matter as hopeless.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000010_000000.wav|"There are four umbrellas up already.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000022_000000.wav|"Blaize Castle!" cried Catherine.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000051_000001.wav|Thorpe talked to his horse, and she meditated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap doors.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000064_000004.wav|Why were not they more punctual? It was dirty, indeed, but what did that signify?|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000051_000000.wav|They passed briskly down Pulteney Street, and through Laura Place, without the exchange of many words.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000017_000000.wav|It was too dirty for mrs Allen to accompany her husband to the pump room; he accordingly set off by himself, and Catherine had barely watched him down the street when her notice was claimed by the approach of the same two open carriages, containing the same three people that had surprised her so much a few mornings back.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000053_000008.wav|I must go back to Miss Tilney." But mr Thorpe only laughed, smacked his whip, encouraged his horse, made odd noises, and drove on; and Catherine, angry and vexed as she was, having no power of getting away, was obliged to give up the point and submit. Her reproaches, however, were not spared.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000011_000001.wav|I would much rather take a chair at any time."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000019_000008.wav|I am in such ecstasies at the thoughts of a little country air and quiet!|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000013_000000.wav|"Anybody would have thought so indeed.|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000044_000000.wav|"Yes, yes, every hole and corner."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000009_000001.wav|If it keeps raining, the streets will be very wet."|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/14/208/14_208_000019_000003.wav|"My sweetest Catherine, is not this delightful?|14
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1058/133263/1058_133263_000004_000003.wav|This, if I am not mistaken, is a great error.|1058
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000012_000000.wav|You have interested me much by what you say of the boy's progress.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000000.wav|You need not have taken such trouble about accounts and expenditure; of course, whatever you have done I perfectly approve of.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000008_000003.wav|Is it not painting the lily?|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000003_000004.wav|Meanwhile really great events are preparing in the East of Europe,--not that I am going to inflict them upon you, nor ask you to listen to speculations which even those in authority turn a deaf ear to.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000013_000001.wav|How is it that you know nothing of Glencore,--can he not be traced?|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000006_000003.wav|The difference is, perhaps, that there is less shame about it, since it is under the protection of the Church.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000009_000002.wav|Let him "moon away," as you call it, my dear Harcourt.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty two.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000004.wav|I should have no objection whatever to having him attached to my Legation here, and perhaps no great difficulty in effecting his appointment; but there is a serious obstacle in his position.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000014_000000.wav|Lord Selby, whom you may remember in the Blues formerly, dined here yesterday, and mentioned a communication he had received from his lawyer with regard to some property entail, which, if Glencore should leave no heir male, devolved upon him.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000002_000003.wav|I have ordered the Sicilian wine for your friend; I have obtained the Royal leave for you to shoot in Calabria; and I assure you it is rather a rare incident in my life to have forgotten nothing required of me!|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000007_000002.wav|I have a few who come when I want them, and go in like manner.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000019_000000.wav|Horace Upton.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000000.wav|It is very kind of you to think of my health.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000017_000001.wav|I am, as I have the right to be, on the sick list, and it is as well my rest should remain undisturbed.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000003.wav|I feel it greatly; and though the season is midsummer, I am obliged to dress entirely in a light costume of buckskin, and take Marsalla baths, which refresh me, at least for the while.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000007_000000.wav|I go out very little; my notion is, that the Diplomatist, like the ancient Augur, must not suffer himself to be vulgarized by contact.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000015_000000.wav|As to my Lady, I can give you no information whatever.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000007_000004.wav|Of my colleagues I see as little as possible, though, when we do meet, I feel an unbounded affection for them.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000012_000001.wav|His tastes, I infer, lie in the direction which, in a worldly sense, are least profitable; but, after all, Harcourt, every one has brains enough, and to spare, for any career.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000005_000001.wav|I do, perhaps, as well as I should like anywhere.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000010.wav|It is only nature makes the blunder of giving the sharpest swords the weakest scabbards.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000003_000003.wav|why, my dear friend, there is not a matter between this country and our own that rises above the capacity of a Colonel of Dragoons.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000002.wav|There is both good and evil in this.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000015_000001.wav|Her house at Florence is uninhabited, the furniture is sold off; but no one seems even to guess whither she has betaken herself.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000015_000002.wav|The fast and loose of that pleasant city are, as I hear, actually houseless since her departure.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000007.wav|Besides this, it was never Glencore's wish, but the very opposite to it, that he should be brought prominently forward in life.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000009.wav|He may, or may not, be correct in this.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000001.wav|You say that the boy has no idea of money or its value.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000020_000001.wav|Tripley's or Chipley's, I think.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000005.wav|The King has most kindly placed a little villa at Ischia at my disposal; but I do not mean to avail myself of the politeness.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000007_000003.wav|They tell me "what is going on," far better and more truthfully than paid employees, and they cannot trace my intentions through my inquiries, and hasten off to retail them at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000006_000001.wav|There is really little peculiar to observe.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000010_000004.wav|Imagine his delight as each day opened new stores of knowledge to him, surrounded as he was by all that could encourage zeal and reward research.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000009_000003.wav|It is wonderfully little consequence what any one does with his intellect till he be three or four and twenty.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000008_000002.wav|A moonstruck, romantic youth at a German University.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000008.wav|I wish you would ask Brodie, or any of our best men, whether they have met with this affection; what class it affects, and what course it usually takes? My Italian doctor implies that it is the passing malady of men highly excitable, and largely endowed with mental gifts.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000020_000003.wav|I have got so accustomed to their stimulating power that I never write without one or two on my forehead.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000010_000001.wav|The man is eminently remarkable,--with his opportunities, miraculous.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000020_000000.wav|Whose Magnesia is it that contains essence of Bark?|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000003.wav|And now as to his future.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000005.wav|The young men who figure at embassies and missions are all "cognate numbers." They each of them know who and what the other is, whence he came, and so on.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000016_000000.wav|I trust I have omitted nothing in reply to your last despatch, except it be to say that I look for you here about September, or earlier, if as convenient to you; you will, of course, write to me, however, meanwhile.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000006_000002.wav|I don't perceive that there is more levity than elsewhere.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000009_000004.wav|Indeed, I half suspect that the soil might be left quietly to rear weeds till that time; and as to dreaminess, it signifies nothing if there be a strong "physique." With a weak frame, imagination will play the tyrant, and never cease till it dominates over all the other faculties; but where there is strength and activity, there is no fear of this.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000002_000000.wav|British Legation, Naples.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000015_000005.wav|He has left three cards upon me, each duly returned; but I am resolved that our inter change of courtesies shall proceed no farther.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000007.wav|He calls it arterial arthriticis,--a kind of inflammatory action of one coat of the arterial system; his notion is highly ingenious, and wonderfully borne out by the symptoms.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000007_000001.wav|He can only lose, not gain, by that mixed intercourse with the world.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000014_000001.wav|I tried to find out the whereabouts and the amount of this heritage; but, with the admirable indifference that characterizes him, he did not know or care.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000004.wav|I have also taken to smoke the leaves of the nux vomica, steeped in arrack, and think it agrees with me.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000011_000006.wav|Now, our poor boy could not stand this ordeal, nor would it be fair he should be exposed to it.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000005_000002.wav|There is a wonderful sameness over the world just now, preluding, I have very little doubt, some great outburst of nationality from all the countries of Europe,--just as periods of Puritanism succeed intervals of gross licentiousness.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000013_000000.wav|If you really press the question of his coming to me, I will not refuse, seeing that I can take my own time to consider what steps subsequently should be adopted.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000011.wav|What a pity the weapon cannot be worn naked!|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000003_000002.wav|Important questions!|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000002.wav|You are aware that, though warm, the weather here has some exciting property, some excess or other of a peculiar gas in the atmosphere, prejudicial to certain temperaments.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252342/7495_252342_000004_000006.wav|The Duke of San Giustino has also offered me his palace at Baia; but I don't fancy leaving this just now, where there is a doctor, a certain Luigi Buffeloni, who really seems to have hit off my case.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000023_000001.wav|At length the space slowly began to thin.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000000_000001.wav|SOME TRAITS OF LIFE|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000037_000003.wav|The Palazzo della Torre was for a fortnight the resort of the curious and the idle.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000002.wav|Lady Glencore's beauty and her vast fortune were now counts in the indictment against her, and many a jealous rival was not sorry at this hour of humiliation.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000015_000000.wav|"She'll not see you.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000007_000000.wav|"I suppose that must suffer also.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000001_000001.wav|As the apartments which faced the street were not ever used for these receptions, the dark unlighted windows suggested no remark; but they who had entered the courtyard were struck by the gloomy aspect of the vast building: not only that the entrance and the stairs were in darkness, but the whole suite of rooms, usually brilliant as the day, were now in deep gloom.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000004_000001.wav|What is it, Scaresby?|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000035_000001.wav|To the former he gave vent to all his sarcasm and bitterness; they liked it just because they would n't condescend to it themselves.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000014_000001.wav|She, a Countess, of a family second to none in all Italy; her father a Grand d'Espagne.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000037_000001.wav|The gay world, for so it likes to be called, has no greater element of enjoyment amongst all its high gifts than its precious power of forgetting.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000017_000001.wav|Hang me, but good houses and good cooks are growing too scarce to make one credulous of the ills that can be said of their owners."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000021_000002.wav|Not one, however, sincerely professed that he disbelieved it.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000013_000002.wav|Why, how do we go anywhere, nowadays, except by 'not believing' the evil stories that are told of our entertainers."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000011_000001.wav|He came over here and fell in love with the girl, and they ran off together; but they forgot to get married, Princess.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000024_000001.wav|Witnesses were heard and evidence taken as to her case.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000001.wav|A few might, perhaps, have been merciful, but they were overborne by numbers.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000000.wav|Never was there a society less ungenerously prudish, and yet there were cases-this, one of them-which transgressed all conventional rule. Like a crime which no statute had ever contemplated, it stood out self accused and self condemned.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000037_000002.wav|It forgets not only all it owes to others,--gratitude, honor, and esteem,--but even the closer obligations it has contracted with itself.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000013_000000.wav|"That's exactly what I was recommending to the Mar quesa Guesteni.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000034_000006.wav|Are they not invariably devouring and destroying some vermin a little smaller than themselves, and making thus a healthier atmosphere for their betters?|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000032_000000.wav|It may seem small minded and narrow to stigmatize such conduct as this. Some may say that for the ordinary courtesies of society no pledges of friendship are required, no real gratitude incurred.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000027_000000.wav|"I must really have those large Sevres jars," said one.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000009_000000.wav|"All is very briefly related, then," said he.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000034_000001.wav|They are often well born, almost always well mannered, invariably well dressed.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000010_000000.wav|"Never mind his father."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000036_000000.wav|He, however, effected this much: he kept the memory of her who had gone, alive by daily calumnies.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000012_000000.wav|"I don't believe a word of it,--I'll never believe it," cried the Princess.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000024_000000.wav|The next day Florence sat in committee over the lost Countess.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000003.wav|The despotism of beauty is not a very mild sway, after all; and perhaps the Countess had exercised her rule right royally.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000021_000001.wav|Many declared that they had come to the determination to discredit the story.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000013_000001.wav|I said, you need n't believe it.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000021_000000.wav|Various were the sentiments expressed by the different speakers,--some sorrowfully deploring the disaster; others more eagerly inveighing against the infamy of the man who had proclaimed it.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000003_000000.wav|Scaresby was, however, too busy in recounting his news to others to perceive the signals the old Princess held out; and it was only as her chasseur, six feet three of green and gold, bent down to give her Highness's message, that the Major hurried off, in all the importance of a momentary scandal, to the side of her carriage.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000017_000000.wav|"Just what you suggested a few moments ago,--don't believe it.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000019_000000.wav|"I'll tell you, then.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000001_000002.wav|From every carriage window heads were protruded, wondering at this strange spectacle; and eager inquiries passed on every side for an explanation.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000024_000002.wav|They all agreed it was a great hardship,--a terrible calamity; but still, if true, what could be done?|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000034_000002.wav|They do not, at first blush, appear to discharge any very great or necessary function in life; but we must by no means, from that, infer their inutility.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000032_000002.wav|Still, the revulsion, from habits of deference and respect, to disparagement, and even sarcasm, is a sorry evidence of human kindness; and the threshold, over which for years we had only passed as guests, might well suggest sadder thoughts as we tread it to behold desolation.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000029_000001.wav|Splendid hock she had,--I wonder is there much of it left?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000006_000000.wav|"You can't mean that her fortune is in peril?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000005.wav|They discussed and debated the question all day; but while they hesitated over the reprieve, the prisoner was beyond the law.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000029_000000.wav|"I hope she has not taken Horace with her; he was the best cook in Italy.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000025_000007.wav|The next morning large bills of sale, posted over the walls, declared that all the furniture and decorations were to be sold.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000016_000000.wav|"What is to be done?" exclaimed the Princess, sorrowfully.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000004_000000.wav|"Here I am, all impatience.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000001_000003.wav|The explanation of "sudden illness" was rapidly disseminated, but as rapidly contradicted, and the reply given by the porter to all demands quickly repeated from mouth to mouth, "Her Ladyship will not receive."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000034_000003.wav|Naturalists tell us that several varieties of insect existence we rashly set down as mere annoyances, have their peculiar spheres of usefulness and good; and, doubtless, these same loungers contribute in some mysterious manner to the welfare of that state which they only seem to burden.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000001_000000.wav|It was the night Lady Glencore received; and, as usual, the street was crowded with equipages, which somehow seemed to have got into inextricable confusion,--some endeavoring to turn back, while others pressed forward,--the court of the palace being closely packed with carriages which the thronged street held in fast blockade.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000030_000000.wav|"I wish we were certain of another bad reputation to replace her," grunted out Scaresby; "they are the only kind of people who give good dinners, and never ask for returns."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000009_000001.wav|"The charming Countess, you remember, ran away with a countryman of mine, young Glencore, of the eighth Hussars; I used to know his father intimately."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000019_000002.wav|You know as well as I, Princess, that social credit is as great a bubble as commercial; we should all of us be bankrupts if our books were seen.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/252341/7495_252341_000028_000000.wav|"And I, the small park phaeton," cried another.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000026_000001.wav|It's Miss Fliddy Ringgan."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000074_000000.wav|"I am confident he would be here at this moment," said Constance, "if he wasn't in London."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000023_000000.wav|"mr Rossitur's!" said mrs Evelyn;--"does he send them here?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000039_000000.wav|"He's to the mill."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000086_000000.wav|"Well, Barby-"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000070_000001.wav|He'll be too savage for anything."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000091_000000.wav|"No-we'll keep that for dinner.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000038_000001.wav|does he leave it all to his cousin?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000029_000001.wav|"Her and me was a picking 'em afore sunrise."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000050_000001.wav|Rossitur failed and lost everything-bankrupt-a year or two after they came home."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000089_000001.wav|Sweet must send for them if he wants them.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000015_000000.wav|"Young man!" called out the landlady's reproving voice, "won't you never recollect to bring that basket round the back way?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000090_000000.wav|"Well, will you have the samp for breakfast?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000014_000002.wav|My taste leads me to prefer the simplicity of primitive arrangements this morning."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000068_000000.wav|"You may set your mind at rest on that subject, mamma," said Constance, still using her chop sticks with great complacency;--"it's my opinion that the farmer is not in existence who is blessed with such a conjugal futurity.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000060_000000.wav|The manner still more than the matter of this speech was beyond the withstanding of any good-natured muscles, though the gentleman's smile was a grave one and quickly lost in gravity.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000045_000001.wav|"mr Carleton,--if you will just imagine we are in China, and introduct a pair of familiar chop sticks into this basket, I shall be repaid for the loss of a strawberry by the expression of ecstasy which will immediately spread itself over your features.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000052_000001.wav|They don't look like it.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000005_000000.wav|Tempest.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000075_000000.wav|"But what is 'all mamma's doing,' Constance?" inquired her sister.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000070_000000.wav|"I don't know,--" said Constance, intent upon her basket,--"I feel a friend's distress for mr Thorn-it's all your doing, mamma,--you won't be able to look him in the face when we have Fleda next fall-I am sure I shall not want to look at his!|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000085_000000.wav|"Fleda!--"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000082_000001.wav|mr Carleton, did your ears receive a faint announcement of ham and eggs which went quite through and through mine just now?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000092_000000.wav|The gentleman turned his horse and galloped back to Montepoole.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000020_000000.wav|"Just afore I started."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000081_000000.wav|"I am very glad of it!|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000050_000000.wav|"They are all broken to pieces," said mrs Evelyn, as mr Carleton's eye went back to her for his answer;--"mr|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000024_000000.wav|"He doos not," said Philetus;--"he doosn't keep to hum for a long spell."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000018_000000.wav|"How?--" said Philetus.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000028_000000.wav|"What does she have to do with it?" said mrs Evelyn.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000030_000000.wav|"All that basketful!"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000058_000000.wav|"So she says."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000059_000000.wav|"And so she acts," said Constance.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000080_000000.wav|"Only at that impracticable distance, mamma; but I introduced his name afterwards in my usual happy manner and I found that Miss Ringgan's cheeks were by no means indifferent to it.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000026_000000.wav|"Who doos?|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000066_000000.wav|"And happy, mamma-Fleda don't look miserable-she seems perfectly happy and contented!"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000076_000000.wav|"The destruction of the peace of the whole family of Thorns-shouldn't sleep sound in my bed if I were she with such a reflection.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000081_000002.wav|He is a charming young man and would make her very happy."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000076_000001.wav|I look forward to heart rending scenes,--with a very disturbed state of mind."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000041_000000.wav|"She doos," said Philetus.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000059_000001.wav|"I wish you had heard her yesterday.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000002_000000.wav|Chapter thirty.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000019_000001.wav|Are they fresh picked?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000056_000000.wav|"Do you know her?" asked both the Miss Evelyns again.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000077_000000.wav|"But what have I done, my child?" said mrs Evelyn.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000080_000001.wav|I didn't dare go any further."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000068_000001.wav|I think Fleda's strong pastoral tastes are likely to develope themselves in a new direction."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000073_000000.wav|"I shouldn't think anybody could forget her," said Edith.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000084_000000.wav|The sun was not much more than two hours high the next morning when a rider was slowly approaching mr Rossitur's house from the bridge, walking his horse like a man who wished to look well at all he was passing.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000083_000000.wav|He bowed and handed the young lady in; but Constance declared that though he sat beside her and took care of her at breakfast he had on one of his intangible fits which drove her to the last extreme of impatience, and captivation.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000089_000002.wav|Philetus must make haste back, for you know mr Douglass wants him to help in the barn meadow.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000079_000000.wav|"Did you see him?" said mrs Evelyn.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000013_000001.wav|I dare say they are for mr Sweet."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000014_000000.wav|"Well, mamma!--" said Constance with great equanimity,--"mr|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000004_000001.wav|No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000037_000000.wav|"He's to hum."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000064_000000.wav|"Nice!" said Edith.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000084_000001.wav|He paused behind a clump of locusts and rose acacias in the corner of the courtyard as a figure bonneted and gloved came out of the house and began to be busy among the rose bushes.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000071_000000.wav|"mr|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000089_000003.wav|Lucas won't be here and now the weather is so fine I want to make haste with the hay."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000078_000000.wav|"Didn't you introduce your favourite mr Olmney to Miss Ringgan last summer?|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000022_000000.wav|"From mr Rossitur's down to Queechy."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000084_000002.wav|Another figure presently appeared at the hall door and called out,|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000017_000000.wav|"Where do you get them?" said mrs Evelyn.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000087_000000.wav|This second voice was hardly raised, but it came from so much nearer that the words could be distinctly heard.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000061_000000.wav|"And this has been her life ever since mr Rossitur lost his property?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000072_000000.wav|"Yes," said mrs Evelyn in an indulgent tone,--"he was very attentive to her last winter when she was with us, but she went away before anything was decided.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000071_000001.wav|Thorn!" said mr Carleton.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000036_000000.wav|"But where is mr Hugh?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000088_000000.wav|"mr Skillcorn wants to know if you're going to fix the flowers for him to carry?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000057_000000.wav|"I can hardly say that," he replied.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000054_000002.wav|I am very sorry for them."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000032_000000.wav|"And does she send that too?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000044_000000.wav|"She's a very clever girl," said mrs Evelyn dismissing the subject.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000034_000000.wav|"But hasn't she any help in taking care of the garden?" said Constance.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000045_000000.wav|"She's too lovely for anything!" said Constance.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000059_000002.wav|It was beyond everything.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000027_000000.wav|"Mamma!" exclaimed Constance looking up.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000055_000000.wav|"And his niece takes care of his farm in the meantime?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000072_000001.wav|I don't think he has forgotten her."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000013_000000.wav|"Constance!" said mrs Evelyn from the piazza,--"don't take that!|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000054_000001.wav|He has gone down hill sadly since his misfortunes.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000091_000002.wav|Thin, Barby."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000067_000001.wav|She is a very good girl! but she might have been made something much better than a farmer's wife."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000062_000000.wav|"Entirely,--sacrificed!--" said mrs Evelyn, with a compassionately resigned air;--"education, advantages and everything given up; and set down here where she has seen nobody from year's end to year's end but the country people about-very good people-but not the kind of people she ought to have been brought up among."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000011_000000.wav|"Whose are they?|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000063_000000.wav|"Oh mamma!" said the eldest Miss Evelyn in a deprecatory tone,--"you shouldn't talk so-it isn't right-I am sure she is very nice-nicer now than anybody else I know; and clever too."|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000057_000001.wav|"I had such a pleasure formerly.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000006_000000.wav|It was the very next morning that several ladies and gentlemen were gathered on the piazza of the hotel at Montepoole, to brace minds or appetites with the sweet mountain air while waiting for breakfast.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000021_000000.wav|"Started from where?" said a gentleman standing by mrs Evelyn.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000011_000001.wav|Are they for sale?"|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7495/102612/7495_102612_000046_000000.wav|He smiled a little as he complied with the young lady's invitation, but the expression of ecstasy did not come.|7495
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000036_000000.wav|Alice felt disposed to laugh, though she succeeded in suppressing her merriment, ere she answered:|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000020_000000.wav|"Seek you any here?" demanded Heyward, when the other had arrived sufficiently nigh to abate his speed; "I trust you are no messenger of evil tidings?"|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000029_000001.wav|Nay, throw aside that frown, Heyward, and in pity to my longing ears, suffer him to journey in our train.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000028_000001.wav|I understand not your allusions about lines and angles; and I leave expounding to those who have been called and set apart for that holy office.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000032_000000.wav|"I am glad to encounter thee, friend," continued the maiden, waving her hand to the stranger to proceed, as she urged her Narragansett to renew its amble.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000012_000002.wav|The route of the detachment is known, while ours, having been determined within the hour, must still be secret."|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000011_000001.wav|"If we journey with the troops, though we may find their presence irksome, shall we not feel better assurance of our safety?"|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000040_000000.wav|"Even so.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000010_000000.wav|"Here, then, lies our way," said the young man, in a low voice. "Manifest no distrust, or you may invite the danger you appear to apprehend."|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000013_000000.wav|"Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?" coldly asked Cora.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000023_000001.wav|The first point to be obtained is to know one's own mind.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000009_000000.wav|The conjecture of Major Heyward was true.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000006_000000.wav|"Say, rather, Alice, that I would not trust you.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000006_000002.wav|He is said to be a Canadian too; and yet he served with our friends the Mohawks, who, as you know, are one of the six allied nations.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000003_000000.wav|"Are such specters frequent in the woods, Heyward, or is this sight an especial entertainment ordered on our behalf?|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000012_000000.wav|"Being little accustomed to the practices of the savages, Alice, you mistake the place of real danger," said Heyward.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000014_000003.wav|Here their progress was less interrupted; and the instant the guide perceived that the females could command their steeds, he moved on, at a pace between a trot and a walk, and at a rate which kept the sure footed and peculiar animals they rode at a fast yet easy amble.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000043_000001.wav|The Indian muttered a few words in broken English to Heyward, who, in his turn, spoke to the stranger; at once interrupting, and, for the time, closing his musical efforts.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000004_000001.wav|"He has volunteered to guide us to the lake, by a path but little known, sooner than if we followed the tardy movements of the column; and, by consequence, more agreeably."|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000009_000001.wav|When they reached the spot where the Indian stood, pointing into the thicket that fringed the military road; a narrow and blind path, which might, with some little inconvenience, receive one person at a time, became visible.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000032_000001.wav|"Partial relatives have almost persuaded me that I am not entirely worthless in a duet myself; and we may enliven our wayfaring by indulging in our favorite pursuit.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000023_000003.wav|I have endeavored to do both, and here I am."|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000007_000001.wav|"Will you not speak to him, Major Heyward, that I may hear his tones?|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000026_000000.wav|"A most arbitrary, if not a hasty decision!" exclaimed Heyward, undecided whether to give vent to his growing anger, or to laugh in the other's face.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000044_000001.wav|You will then, pardon me, Alice, should I diminish your enjoyments, by requesting this gentleman to postpone his chant until a safer opportunity."|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000007_000000.wav|"If he has been my father's enemy, I like him still less!" exclaimed the now really anxious girl.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000019_000000.wav|The frown which had gathered around the handsome, open, and manly brow of Heyward, gradually relaxed, and his lips curled into a slight smile, as he regarded the stranger.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000037_000000.wav|"I apprehend that he is rather addicted to profane song.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000035_000000.wav|"Is he, then, much practiced in the art of psalmody?" demanded her simple companion.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000047_000000.wav|Major Heyward was mistaken only in suffering his youthful and generous pride to suppress his active watchfulness.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000040_000003.wav|I never abide in any place, sleeping or waking, without an example of this gifted work.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000008_000001.wav|But he stops; the private path by which we are to journey is, doubtless, at hand."|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000022_000000.wav|"You appear to possess the privilege of a casting vote," returned Heyward; "we are three, while you have consulted no one but yourself."|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000040_000001.wav|As the psalms of David exceed all other language, so does the psalmody that has been fitted to them by the divines and sages of the land, surpass all vain poetry.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000006_000001.wav|I do know him, or he would not have my confidence, and least of all at this moment.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000023_000000.wav|"Even so.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000007_000002.wav|Foolish though it may be, you have often heard me avow my faith in the tones of the human voice!"|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000045_000000.wav|"You will diminish them, indeed," returned the arch girl; "for never did I hear a more unworthy conjunction of execution and language than that to which I have been listening; and I was far gone in a learned inquiry into the causes of such an unfitness between sound and sense, when you broke the charm of my musings by that bass of yours, Duncan!"|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000039_000000.wav|"You have, then, limited your efforts to sacred song?"|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143948/1806_143948_000028_000000.wav|"Of offense, I hope there is none, to either party: of defense, I make none-by God's good mercy, having committed no palpable sin since last entreating his pardoning grace.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000011_000001.wav|They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to understand another to corruptions and dialects.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000016_000002.wav|Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the Horican.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000016_000000.wav|In point of fact, the country which is the scene of the following tale has undergone as little change, since the historical events alluded to had place, as almost any other district of equal extent within the whole limits of the United States.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000016_000006.wav|The rest have disappeared, either from the regions in which their fathers dwelt, or altogether from the earth.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000015_000001.wav|They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000015_000002.wav|There is sufficient historical truth in the picture to justify the use that has been made of it.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000011_000000.wav|Philologists have said that there are but two or three languages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now composes the United States.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000017_000000.wav|There is one point on which we would wish to say a word before closing this preface.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000006_000000.wav|INTRODUCTION|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000010_000003.wav|In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imaginative race would do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000013_000000.wav|The whites have assisted greatly in rendering the traditions of the Aborigines more obscure by their own manner of corrupting names.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000012_000000.wav|Like nations of higher pretensions, the American Indian gives a very different account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000013_000002.wav|When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New York), the English, and the French, all gave appellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and that the Indians not only gave different names to their enemies, but frequently to themselves, the cause of the confusion will be understood.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000016_000003.wav|But, beyond this, the enterprise and energy of a people who have done so much in other places have done little here.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000010_000005.wav|He will express a phrase in a word, and he will qualify the meaning of an entire sentence by a syllable; he will even convey different significations by the simplest inflections of the voice.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000011_000003.wav|They mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000014_000000.wav|In these pages, Lenni Lenape, Lenope, Delawares, Wapanachki, and Mohicans, all mean the same people, or tribes of the same stock.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000008_000000.wav|Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self denying, and self devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000010_000001.wav|Climate may have had great influence on the former, but it is difficult to see how it can have produced the substantial difference which exists in the latter.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000013_000001.wav|Thus, the term used in the title of this book has undergone the changes of Mahicanni, Mohicans, and Mohegans; the latter being the word commonly used by the whites.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000007_000000.wav|It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the information necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or in the accompanying notes.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000008_000001.wav|These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000017_000001.wav|Hawkeye calls the Lac du Saint Sacrement, the "Horican." As we believe this to be an appropriation of the name that has its origin with ourselves, the time has arrived, perhaps, when the fact should be frankly admitted.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000015_000000.wav|The Mohicans were the possessors of the country first occupied by the Europeans in this portion of the continent.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000009_000001.wav|There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opinion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/143946/1806_143946_000009_000000.wav|It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000004.wav|The Susquehanna, a narrow though rapid stream at its source, was much filled with "flood wood," or fallen trees; and the troops adopted a novel expedient to facilitate their passage.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000020_000001.wav|Had he drawn still more upon fancy, the lovers of fiction would not have so much cause for their objections to his work. Still, the picture would not have been in the least true without some substitutes for most of the other personages.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000014_000000.wav|General james Clinton, the brother of George Clinton, then governor of New York, and the father of De Witt Clinton, who died governor of the same State in eighteen twenty seven, commanded the brigade employed on this duty.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000016_000002.wav|At the commencement of the following year the settlement began; and from that time to this the country has continued to flourish.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000000.wav|In seventeen seventy nine an expedition was sent against the hostile Indians, who dwelt about a hundred miles west of Otsego, on the banks of the Cayuga.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000021_000001.wav|It has been often said, and in published statements, that the heroine of this book was drawn after the sister of the writer, who was killed by a fall from a horse now near half a century since.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000006.wav|The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty feet high the remainder of its margin being in mountains, intervals, and points.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000018_000003.wav|They have all, long since, given place to other buildings of a more pretending character.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000010_000001.wav|It then became, in a subsequent division of territory, a part of Montgomery; and finally, having obtained a sufficient population of its own, it was set apart as a county by itself shortly after the peace of seventeen eighty three.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000014_000002.wav|The grave of this unfortunate man was the first place of human interment that the author ever beheld, as the smoke house was the first ruin!|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000018_000001.wav|The literal facts are chiefly connected with the natural and artificial objects and the customs of the inhabitants.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000010_000000.wav|Otsego, in common with most of the interior of the province of New York, was included in the county of Albany previously to the war of the separation.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000020_000000.wav|The author has elsewhere said that the character of Leather Stocking is a creation, rendered probable by such auxiliaries as were necessary to produce that effect.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000017_000006.wav|Its manufacturers are prosperous, and it is worthy of remark that one of the most ingenious machines known in European art is derived from the keen ingenuity which is exercised in this remote region.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000017_000003.wav|He has inhabited it ever since, at intervals; and he thinks he can answer for the faithfulness of the picture he has drawn.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000017_000005.wav|It sends forth its emigrants like any other old region, and it is pregnant with industry and enterprise.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000018_000004.wav|There is also some liberty taken with the truth in the description of the principal dwelling; the real building had no "firstly" and "lastly." It was of bricks, and not of stone; and its roof exhibited none of the peculiar beauties of the "composite order." It was erected in an age too primitive for that ambitious school of architecture.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000008_000001.wav|The author is very sensible that, had he confined himself to the latter, always the most effective, as it is the most valuable, mode of conveying knowledge of this nature, he would have made a far better book.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000017_000000.wav|Although the settlement of this part of Otsego a little preceded the birth of the author, it was not sufficiently advanced to render it desirable that an event so important to himself should take place in the wilderness.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000007.wav|The outlet, or the Susquehanna, flows through a gorge in the low banks just mentioned, which may have a width of two hundred feet.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000015_000000.wav|Soon after the close of the war, Washington, accompanied by many distinguished men, visited the scene of this tale, it is said with a view to examine the facilities for opening a communication by water with other points of the country.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000015_000001.wav|He stayed but a few hours.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000016_000001.wav|The manner in which the scene met his eye is described by Judge Temple.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000011_000002.wav|As the Indian agent of New York had a log dwelling at the foot of the lake, however, it is not impossible that the appellation grew out of the meetings that were held at his council fires; the war drove off the agent, in common with the other officers of the crown; and his rude dwelling was soon abandoned.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000008_000000.wav|As this work professes, in its title page, to be a descriptive tale, they who will take the trouble to read it may be glad to know how much of its contents is literal fact, and how much is intended to represent a general picture.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000016_000000.wav|In seventeen eighty five the author's father, who had an interest in extensive tracts of land in this wilderness, arrived with a party of surveyors.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000002.wav|One brigade ascended the Mohawk until it reached the point nearest to the sources of the Susquehanna, whence it cut a lane through the forest to the head of the Otsego.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000023_000000.wav|From circumstances which, after this Introduction, will be obvious to all, the author has had more pleasure in writing "The Pioneers" than the book will probably ever give any of its readers.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000014_000001.wav|During the stay of the troops at the foot of the Otsego a soldier was shot for desertion.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000013_000000.wav|When all was ready the troops embarked, the damn was knocked away, the Otsego poured out its torrent, and the boats went merrily down with the current.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000011_000001.wav|There is a tradition which says that the neighboring tribes were accustomed to meet on the banks of the lake to make their treaties, and otherwise to strengthen their alliances, and which refers the name to this practice.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000005.wav|The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000017_000001.wav|Perhaps his mother had a reasonable distrust of the practice of Dr Todd, who must then have been in the novitiate of his experimental acquirements.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000012_000003.wav|The boats and baggage were carried over this "portage," and the troops proceeded to the other extremity of the lake, where they disembarked and encamped.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000022_000000.wav|Circumstances rendered this sister singularly dear to the author.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000011_000003.wav|The author remembers it, a few years later, reduced to the humble office of a smoke house.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000018_000000.wav|In order to prevent mistake, it may be well to say that the incidents of this tale are purely a fiction.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000014_000003.wav|The swivel alluded to in this work was buried and abandoned by the troops on this occasion, and it was subsequently found in digging the cellars of the authors paternal residence.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000021_000000.wav|It may be well to say here, a little more explicitly, that there was no real intention to describe with particular accuracy any real characters in this book.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000007_000000.wav|INTRODUCTION|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000021_000002.wav|So ingenious is conjecture that a personal resemblance has been discovered between the fictitious character and the deceased relative!|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1806/2536/1806_2536_000000_000000.wav|This is a LibriVox recording.|1806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000005_000001.wav|When we endeavour to penetrate their essential and final nature, we have a choice between two contrary theories.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000008.wav|Or the muscular force, which is increased or decays.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000011_000005.wav|To be conscious of an effort would then be nothing else than to receive all these centripetal sensations; and what proves this is, that the consciousness of effort when most clearly manifested is accompanied by some muscular energy, some strong contraction, or some respiratory trouble, and yields if we render the respiration again regular and put the muscles back into repose.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000003_000000.wav|These two reasons sufficiently explain the tendency to see only psychological states in the emotional ones; and, in fact, those authors who have sought to oppose mind to matter have not failed to introduce emotion into their parallel as representing the essence of mind.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000015.wav|These derangements are the basis of emotion, its physical basis, and to be moved is to perceive them.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000007.wav|It has been imagined that emotion is nothing else than a perception of a certain kind, an intellectual act strictly comparable to the contemplation of a landscape.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000002_000006.wav|It is true that this attribution is not absolutely characteristic of mental phenomena, for it happens that we put a part of our Ego into material objects, such as our bodies, and even into objects separate from our bodies, and whose sole relation to us is that of a legal proprietorship.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000007.wav|Or else it is the secretion of the saliva or of the sweat, which flows in abundance or dries up.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000005_000000.wav|Two principal opinions may be upheld in the actual state of our acquaintance with the psychology of the feelings.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000002_000007.wav|We must guard against the somewhat frequent error of identifying the Ego with the psychical.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000004.wav|The intellectualist theory is more vast than Herbartism; it exists in all doctrines in which the characteristic difference between thought and feeling is expunged and feeling is brought back to thought.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000005.wav|Or it is the heart, which hastens or slackens its beats, or makes them irregular, or enfeebles, or augments them.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000004_000000.wav|The question of knowing what place in our metaphysical theory we ought to secure for emotion seems difficult to resolve, and we even find some pleasure in leaving it in suspense, in order that it may be understood that a metaphysician is not compelled to explain everything.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000012_000003.wav|Does not, for instance, desire represent a complement of the consciousness?|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000002_000005.wav|It is I who suffer, we say, I who complain, I who hope.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000003.wav|However, this particular point is of slight Importance.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000003_000001.wav|On this point I will recall the fine ironical image used by Tyndall, the illustrious English physicist, to show the abyss which separates thought from the molecular states of the brain.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000011_000000.wav|By the side of emotion we may place, as demanding the same analytical study, the feeling of effort.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000011.wav|The new theory commences by changing the order of events.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000004_000002.wav|They proceed from the fact that studies on the nature of the emotions are still very little advanced. The physical conditions of these states are pretty well known, and their psychical and social effects have been abundantly described; but very little is known as to what distinguishes an emotion from a thought.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000008.wav|Only, in the place of a landscape with placid features you must put a storm, a cataclysm of nature; and, instead of supposing this storm outside us, let it burst within us, let it reach us, not by the outer senses of sight and condition, but by the inner senses.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000012_000002.wav|But we remain perplexed, and we ask ourselves whether this clearness of perception is not somewhat artificial, whether affectivity, emotivity, tendency, will, are really all reduced to perceptions, or whether they are not rather irreducible elements which should be added to the consciousness.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000003_000003.wav|We should then know that when we love, a movement is produced in one direction, and when we hate, in another.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000006.wav|To perceive is, in fact, the property of intelligence; to reason, to imagine, to judge, to understand, is always, in a certain sense, to perceive.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000009.wav|What we then perceive will be an emotion.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000011_000003.wav|I do not know whether he has taken into account the parallelism of the two theories, but it is nevertheless evident.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000002_000000.wav|After sensations and images, we have to name among the phenomena of consciousness, the whole series of affective states-our pleasures and our pains, our joys and our griefs, our sentiments, our emotions, and our passions.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000013.wav|The change is directed to the nature of emotion.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000009_000000.wav|This theory has at least the merit of originality.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000014.wav|It is considered to exist in the organic derangements indicated above.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000011_000002.wav|It is again the same author, that true genius, w james, who has attempted this reduction.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000009.wav|Or the almost undefinable organic troubles revealed to us by the singing in the ears, constriction of the epigastrium, the jerks, the trembling, vertigo, or nausea-all this collection of organic troubles which comes more or less confusedly to our consciousness under the form of tactile, muscular, thermal, and other sensations.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000003_000004.wav|But the Why would remain without an answer."|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000009_000003.wav|Emotion is no longer anything but a certain kind of perception, the perception of the organic sensations.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000010.wav|Until now this category of phenomena has been somewhat neglected, because we saw in it effects and consequences of which the role in emotion itself seemed slight, since, if they could have been suppressed, it was supposed that emotion would still remain.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000000.wav|The second bears the name of the intellectualist theory.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000004_000001.wav|Besides, the difficulties which atop us here are peculiarly of a psychological order.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000009_000002.wav|It eliminates all difference which may exist between a perception and an emotion.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000010_000000.wav|This reduction, if admitted, would much facilitate the introduction of emotion into our system, which, being founded on the distinction between the consciousness and the object, is likewise an intellectualist system.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000010_000001.wav|The definition of emotion, as it is taught by w james, seems expressly made for us who are seeking to resolve all intellectual states into physical impressions accompanied by consciousness.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000012_000000.wav|To my great regret I can state nothing very clear regarding these problems.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000008_000002.wav|Their theory, at first sight, appears singular, like everything which runs counter to our mental habits.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/142727/296_142727_000007_000001.wav|It consists in expunging the characteristic of the affective states.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000007_000001.wav|Agreement and Opposition.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000008_000004.wav|Substance in space we are cognizant of only through forces operative in it, either drawing others towards itself (attraction), or preventing others from forcing into itself (repulsion and impenetrability).|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000002.wav|The first question which occurs in considering our representations is to what faculty of cognition do they belong?|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000009_000012.wav|But being merely sensuous intuitions, in which we determine all objects solely as phenomena, the form of intuition (as a subjective property of sensibility) must antecede all matter (sensations), consequently space and time must antecede all phenomena and all data of experience, and rather make experience itself possible.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000004.wav|Many judgements are admitted to be true from mere habit or inclination; but, because reflection neither precedes nor follows, it is held to be a judgement that has its origin in the understanding.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000006.wav|For, when they are immediately certain (for example: "Between two points there can be only one straight line"), no better or less mediate test of their truth can be found than that which they themselves contain and express.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000003.wav|To the understanding or to the senses?|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000008_000001.wav|The Internal and External.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000005_000006.wav|We shall now proceed to fulfil this duty, and thereby throw not a little light on the question as to the determination of the proper business of the understanding.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000008_000006.wav|But what other internal attributes of such an object can I think than those which my internal sense presents to me?|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000006_000001.wav|Identity and Difference.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000008.wav|The act whereby I compare my representations with the faculty of cognition which originates them, and whereby I distinguish whether they are compared with each other as belonging to the pure understanding or to sensuous intuition, I term transcendental reflection.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000006_000000.wav|one.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000005_000001.wav|For this reason we ought to call these conceptions, conceptions of comparison (conceptus comparationis).|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000010.wav|The proper determination of these relations rests on the question, to what faculty of cognition they subjectively belong, whether to sensibility or understanding?|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000009_000007.wav|In respect to things in general, unlimited reality was regarded as the matter of all possibility, the limitation thereof (negation) as the form, by which one thing is distinguished from another according to transcendental conceptions.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000005.wav|All judgements do not require examination, that is, investigation into the grounds of their truth.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000009_000003.wav|The former denotes the determinable in general, the second its determination, both in a transcendental sense, abstraction being made of every difference in that which is given, and of the mode in which it is determined.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000008_000000.wav|three.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000009_000001.wav|Matter and Form.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000007.wav|But all judgement, nay, all comparisons require reflection, that is, a distinction of the faculty of cognition to which the given conceptions belong.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000009_000008.wav|The understanding demands that something be given (at least in the conception), in order to be able to determine it in a certain manner.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000001.wav|It is the consciousness of the relation of given representations to the different sources or faculties of cognition, by which alone their relation to each other can be rightly determined.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000004_000000.wav|Reflection (reflexio) is not occupied about objects themselves, for the purpose of directly obtaining conceptions of them, but is that state of the mind in which we set ourselves to discover the subjective conditions under which we obtain conceptions.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/129659/296_129659_000008_000002.wav|In an object of the pure understanding, only that is internal which has no relation (as regards its existence) to anything different from itself.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000005_000006.wav|All Men neglect it in the Passage; and all regret the Loss of it when 'tis past.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000005_000003.wav|Nothing, said he, can be longer, since 'tis the Measure of Eternity; Nothing is shorter, since there is Time always wanting to accomplish what we aim at.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000007_000000.wav|Each pass'd his Verdict.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000012_000001.wav|The envious Informer indeed, died with Shame and Vexation.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000002_000004.wav|The Populace with loud Acclamations attended him to the Palace Gate.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000008_000002.wav|He imagin'd, it is plain, that it would do him more Honour than his own Green one.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000005_000005.wav|It's Extent is to Infinity, in the Whole; and divisible to Infinity in part.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000002_000008.wav|Every Eye was surpriz'd, tho' charm'd at the same Time to see him again: But then none were to be admitted into the Assembly Room except the Knights.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000012_000002.wav|The Empire was glorious abroad, and in the full Enjoyment of Tranquility, Peace and Plenty, at home: This, in short, was the true golden Age.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000005_000007.wav|Nothing can possibly be done without it; it buries in Oblivion whatever is unworthy of being transmitted down to Posterity; and it renders all illustrious Actions immortal.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000003_000001.wav|As the Reputation of his being a Man of the strictest Honour and Veracity was so strongly imprinted on their Minds, the Motion of his Admittance was carried in the Affirmative, without the least Opposition.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000005_000001.wav|His reply was, that a Man of his Merit had something else to think on, than idle Riddles; 'twas enough for him, that he was acknowledg'd the Hero of the Circus.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000006_000000.wav|The next Question that was started, was, What is the Thing we receive, without being ever thankful for it; which we enjoy, without knowing how we came by it; which we give away to others, without knowing where 'tis to be found; and which we lose, without being any ways conscious of our Misfortune?|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000012_000003.wav|The whole Country was sway'd by Love and Justice.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000007_000003.wav|What Pity 'tis, said some who were present, that one of so comprehensive a Genius, should make such a scurvy Cavalier?|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000010_000001.wav|The Queen and He ador'd the Divine Providence.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/296/141721/296_141721_000002_000005.wav|The Queen, who had heard of his Arrival, was in the utmost Agony, between Hope and Despair.|296
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000004_000000.wav|"Is it possible," he exclaimed, "that you never saw a silkworm moth?|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000019_000001.wav|In a silkworm paradise such as our mundane instincts lead us to desire, the seraph freed from the necessity of toil, and able to satisfy his every want at will, would lose his wings at last, and sink back to the condition of a grub....|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000007_000001.wav|It cannot fly, of course: none of them can fly....|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000005_000001.wav|"Well, call them what you like," returned Niimi;--"the poets call them eyebrows....|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000010_000003.wav|As they approach maturity, the creatures need almost constant attention.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000010_000009.wav|They only pair, lay eggs, and die.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000016_000000.wav|Those silkworms have all that they wish for,--even considerably more.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000006_000000.wav|He left the guest room, and presently returned with a white paper fan, on which a silkworm moth was sleepily reposing.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000017_000006.wav|Let pain and its effort be suspended, and life must shrink back, first into protoplasmic shapelessness, thereafter into dust.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000009_000000.wav|Then Niimi took me to see his worms.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000010_000008.wav|They have mouths, but do not eat.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000021_000000.wav|three|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000007_000002.wav|Now look at the eyebrows."|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47032/5727_47032_000004_000001.wav|The silkworm moth has very beautiful eyebrows."|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000009_000000.wav|....The merest outline of the subject is terrifying!|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000057_000000.wav|Although the power of making visible the forms of the dead has been claimed for one sort of incense only, the burning of any kind of incense is supposed to summon viewless spirits in multitude.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000043_000000.wav|Recipe for Baikwa.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000047_000005.wav|Finally I may observe that, while judging the incense, a player is expected to take not less than three inhalations, or more than five.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000048_000001.wav|A full set of the utensils required for the game can now be had for about fifty dollars; but the materials are of the poorest kind.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000024_000002.wav|But the faces of the tablets bear numbers or marks; and each set comprises three tablets numbered "one," three numbered "two," three numbered "three," and one marked with the character signifying "guest." After these tablet sets have been distributed, a box called the "tablet box" is placed before the first player; and all is ready for the real game.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000023_000006.wav|But with the "guest incense" no experiment is made.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000012_000001.wav|When the rich Sudatta wished to invite the Buddha to a repast, he made use of incense.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000010_000000.wav|three|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000027_000002.wav|The olfactory nerves are apt to become somewhat numbed long before the game is concluded; and, therefore it is customary during the Ko kwai to rinse the mouth at intervals with pure vinegar, by which operation the sensitivity is partially restored.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000027_000001.wav|But it is quite a feat to make ten correct judgments in succession.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000025_000004.wav|He takes the six tablets out of the box, and wraps them up in the paper which contained the incense guessed about.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000038_000005.wav|It is the custom In some families to enter all such records in a book especially made for the purpose, and furnished with an index which enables the Ko kwai player to refer immediately to any interesting fact belonging to the history of any past game.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000028_000000.wav|RECORD OF A KO KWAI.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000042_000000.wav|To twenty one pastilles|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000011_000001.wav|This is very cheap.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000048_000000.wav|In this economical era, the Ko kwai takes of necessity a much humbler form than it assumed in the time of the great daimyo, of the princely abbots, and of the military aristocracy.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5727/47030/5727_47030_000055_000001.wav|When the Emperor had lost his beautiful favorite, the Lady Li, he sorrowed so much that fears were entertained for his reason.|5727
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000026_000005.wav|He it was who alone had three of the most desirable things in the world,--the government of his nation, and the high priesthood, and the gift of prophecy.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000025_000005.wav|So they returned back to Samaria, and shut the multitude again within the wall; and when they had taken the city, they demolished it, and made slaves of its inhabitants.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000012_000002.wav|The king being thereto disposed beforehand, complied with them, and came upon the Jews with a great army, and took their city by force, and slew a great multitude of those that favored Ptolemy, and sent out his soldiers to plunder them without mercy.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000017_000002.wav|Nor was it many days afterward that his brother john had a plot laid against him by Antiochus's party, and was slain by them.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000020_000002.wav|He also made a league with Antiochus the son.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000021_000005.wav|He also laid a great many men in ambush in many places of the mountains, and was superior in all his attacks upon them; and when he had been conqueror after so glorious a manner, he was made high priest, and also freed the Jews from the dominion of the Macedonians, after one hundred and seventy years of the empire [of Seleucus].|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000002.wav|He then took Bethsura, which was a small city; but at a place called Bethzacharis, where the passage was narrow, Judas met him with his army.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000001.wav|So this Antiochus got together fifty thousand footmen, and five thousand horsemen, and fourscore elephants, and marched through Judea into the mountainous parts.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000025_000006.wav|And as they had still great success in their undertakings, they did not suffer their zeal to cool, but marched with an army as far as Scythopolis, and made an incursion upon it, and laid waste all the country that lay within Mount Carmel.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000011_000001.wav|As Also Concerning The Actions Of The Maccabees, Matthias And Judas; And Concerning The Death Of Judas.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000026_000004.wav|He was certainly a very happy man, and afforded no occasion to have any complaint made of fortune on his account.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000025_000000.wav|six.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000023_000000.wav|four.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000004.wav|Now he that governed the elephant was but a private man; and had he proved to be Antiochus, Eleazar had performed nothing more by this bold stroke than that it might appear he chose to die, when he had the bare hope of thereby doing a glorious action; nay, this disappointment proved an omen to his brother [Judas] how the entire battle would end.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000012_000003.wav|He also spoiled the temple, and put a stop to the constant practice of offering a daily sacrifice of expiation for three years and six months.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000021_000002.wav|He also got the garrison under, and demolished the citadel.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000010_000000.wav|CHAPTER one.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000026_000003.wav|He died, leaving five sons behind him.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000021_000004.wav|He also sent his sons with a band of strong men against Antiochus, while he took part of the army himself with him, and fell upon him from another quarter.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000025_000003.wav|He also proceeded as far as Samaria, where is now the city Sebaste, which was built by Herod the king, and encompassed it all round with a wall, and set his sons, Aristobulus and Antigonus, over the siege; who pushed it on so hard, that a famine so far prevailed within the city, that they were forced to eat what never was esteemed food.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000020_000001.wav|When Jonathan, who was Judas's brother, succeeded him, he behaved himself with great circumspection in other respects, with relation to his own people; and he corroborated his authority by preserving his friendship with the romans.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000020_000000.wav|one.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000017_000001.wav|Now, after the king was departed, Judas was not idle; for as many of his own nation came to him, so did he gather those that had escaped out of the battle together, and gave battle again to Antiochus's generals at a village called Adasa; and being too hard for his enemies in the battle, and killing a great number of them, he was at last himself slain also.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000023_000003.wav|Now John's case was this: When he considered the courage of his mother, and heard her entreaty, he set about his attacks; but when he saw her beaten, and torn to pieces with the stripes, he grew feeble, and was entirely overcome by his affections.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000007.wav|So Antiochus went to Jerusalem, and staid there but a few days, for he wanted provisions, and so he went his way.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000000.wav|five.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000009_000000.wav|From The Taking Of Jerusalem By Antiochus Epiphanes, To The Death Of Herod The Great.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000017_000000.wav|six.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000008.wav|He left indeed a garrison behind him, such as he thought sufficient to keep the place, but drew the rest of his army off, to take their winter quarters in Syria.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000014_000000.wav|three.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000024_000002.wav|Moreover, he was the first of the Jews that had money enough, and began to hire foreign auxiliaries also.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000024_000000.wav|five.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000022_000000.wav|three.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000026_000000.wav|eight.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000021_000000.wav|two.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000021_000001.wav|However, Simon managed the public affairs after a courageous manner, and took Gazara, and Joppa, and Jamnia, which were cities in his neighborhood.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000026_000002.wav|So john lived the rest of his life very happily, and administered the government after a most extraordinary manner, and this for thirty three entire years together.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000015_000002.wav|He also built another altar, and began to offer the sacrifices; and when the city had already received its sacred constitution again, Antiochus died; whose son Antiochus succeeded him in the kingdom, and in his hatred to the Jews also.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000018_000000.wav|CHAPTER two.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000011_000000.wav|How The City Jerusalem Was Taken, And The Temple Pillaged [By Antiochus Epiphanes].|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171107/3289_171107_000016_000006.wav|And when a great many of his men were slain, Judas took the rest with him, and fled to the toparchy of Gophna.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER three.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000008_000000.wav|six.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000014_000002.wav|And when he had made his escape to Jerusalem, he provoked the multitude, which hated him before, to make an insurrection against him, and this on account of the greatness of the calamity that he was under.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000003_000000.wav|one.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000007_000002.wav|He was of the sect of the Essens, and had never failed or deceived men in his predictions before.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000014_000005.wav|But this mutability and irregularity of his conduct made them hate him still more.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000015_000005.wav|In which battle Demetrius was the conqueror, although Alexander's mercenaries showed the greatest exploits, both in soul and body.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000018_000000.wav|eight.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000015_000003.wav|Now, before they joined battle, the kings made proclamation, and endeavored to draw off each other's soldiers, and make them revolt; while Demetrius hoped to induce Alexander's mercenaries to leave him, and Alexander hoped to induce the Jews that were with Demetrius to leave him.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000015_000006.wav|Yet did the upshot of this battle prove different from what was expected, as to both of them; for neither did those that invited Demetrius to come to them continue firm to him, though he was conqueror; and six thousand Jews, out of pity to the change of Alexander's condition, when he was fled to the mountains, came over to him.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000017_000003.wav|But still he was not able to exclude Antiochus, for he burnt the towers, and filled up the trenches, and marched on with his army.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000005_000000.wav|three.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000017_000000.wav|seven.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000015_000007.wav|Yet could not Demetrius bear this turn of affairs; but supposing that Alexander was already become a match for him again, and that all the nation would [at length] run to him, he left the country, and went his way.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000016_000003.wav|Upon which so deep a surprise seized on the people, that eight thousand of his opposers fled away the very next night, out of all Judea, whose flight was only terminated by Alexander's death; so at last, though not till late, and with great difficulty, he, by such actions, procured quiet to his kingdom, and left off fighting any more.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000008_000001.wav|Hereupon Aristobulus repented of the great crime he had been guilty of, and this gave occasion to the increase of his distemper.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000012_000003.wav|Whereupon Theodopus marched against him, and took what belonged to himself as well as the king's baggage, and slew ten thousand of the Jews.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000011_000001.wav|And now the king's wife loosed the king's brethren, and made Alexander king, who appeared both elder in age, and more moderate in his temper than the rest; who, when he came to the government, slew one of his brethren, as affecting to govern himself; but had the other of them in great esteem, as loving a quiet life, without meddling with public affairs.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000018_000002.wav|This man also made an expedition against Judea, and beat Alexander in battle; but afterwards retired by mutual agreement.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000003_000001.wav|For after the death of their father, the elder of them, Aristobulus, changed the government into a kingdom, and was the first that put a diadem upon his head, four hundred seventy and one years and three months after our people came down into this country, when they were set free from the Babylonian slavery.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000014_000006.wav|And when he asked them why they so hated him, and what he should do in order to appease them, they said, by killing himself; for that it would be then all they could do to be reconciled to him, who had done such tragical things to them, even when he was dead.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000003_000003.wav|He also put his mother in bonds, for her contesting the government with him; for john had left her to be the governess of public affairs.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000012_000004.wav|However, Alexander recovered this blow, and turned his force towards the maritime parts, and took Raphia and Gaza, with Anthedon also, which was afterwards called Agrippias by king Herod.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000010_000000.wav|What Actions Were Done By Alexander Janneus, Who Reigned Twenty Seven Years.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000008_000005.wav|O thou most impudent body!|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000015_000004.wav|But since neither the Jews would leave off their rage, nor the Greeks prove unfaithful, they came to an engagement, and to a close fight with their weapons.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000018_000001.wav|About this time it was that the people of Damascus, out of their hatred to Ptolemy, the son of Menhens, invited Aretas [to take the government], and made him king of Celesyria.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000007_000000.wav|five.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000003_000004.wav|He also proceeded to that degree of barbarity as to cause her to be pined to death in prison.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000013_000000.wav|three.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000014_000001.wav|However, when he fought with Obodas, king of the Arabians, who had laid an ambush for him near Golan, and a plot against him, he lost his entire army, which was crowded together in a deep valley, and broken to pieces by the multitude of camels.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000007_000001.wav|And truly any one would be surprised at Judas upon this occasion.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000016_000001.wav|However, the rest of the [Jewish] multitude did not lay aside their quarrels with him, when the [foreign] auxiliaries were gone; but they had a perpetual war with Alexander, until he had slain the greatest part of them, and driven the rest into the city Berneselis; and when he had demolished that city, he carried the captives to Jerusalem.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000014_000003.wav|However, he was then too hard for them; and, in the several battles that were fought on both sides, he slew not fewer than fifty thousand of the Jews in the interval of six years.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000016_000002.wav|Nay, his rage was grown so extravagant, that his barbarity proceeded to the degree of impiety; for when he had ordered eight hundred to be hung upon crosses in the midst of the city, he had the throats of their wives and children cut before their eyes; and these executions he saw as he was drinking and lying down with his concubines.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000011_000000.wav|one.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171108/3289_171108_000008_000007.wav|How long shall I myself spend my blood drop by drop? let them take it all at once; and let their ghosts no longer be disappointed by a few parcels of my bowels offered to them." As soon as he had said these words, he presently died, when he had reigned no longer than a year.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000015_000000.wav|six.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000014_000002.wav|But when he had passed by Pella and Scythopolis, and was come to Corea, where you enter into the country of Judea, when you go up to it through the Mediterranean parts, he heard that Aristobulus was fled to Alexandrium, which is a strong hold fortified with the utmost magnificence, and situated upon a high mountain; and he sent to him, and commanded him to come down.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000005_000004.wav|She was a sagacious woman in the management of great affairs, and intent always upon gathering soldiers together; so that she increased the army the one half, and procured a great body of foreign troops, till her own nation became not only very powerful at home, but terrible also to foreign potentates, while she governed other people, and the Pharisees governed her.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000007_000004.wav|But Alexandra died before she could punish Aristobulus for his disinheriting his brother, after she had reigned nine years.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000014_000006.wav|And when he came down, it was to prevail with Pompey to allow him the government entirely; and when he went up to the citadel, it was that he might not appear to debase himself too low.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000015_000003.wav|So Pompey pitched his camp in that place one night, and then hasted away the next morning to Jerusalem; but Aristobulus was so affrighted at his approach, that he came and met him by way of supplication.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000006_000002.wav|Now she was so superstitious as to comply with their desires, and accordingly they slew whom they pleased themselves.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000014_000000.wav|five.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000014_000005.wav|And when his brother invited him again [to plead his cause], he came down and spake about the justice of it, and then went away without any hinderance from Pompey; so he was between hope and fear.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000014_000007.wav|However, Pompey commanded him to give up his fortified places, and forced him to write to every one of their governors to yield them up; they having had this charge given them, to obey no letters but what were of his own hand writing.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000003_000000.wav|Alexandra Reigns Nine Years, During Which Time The Pharisees Were The Real Rulers Of The Nation.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000004_000004.wav|But she retained the younger, Aristobulus, with her as a private person, by reason of the warmth of his temper.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000008_000000.wav|CHAPTER six.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000007_000001.wav|In the mean time, Alexandra fell sick, and Aristobulus, her younger son, took hold of this opportunity, with his domestics, of which he had a great many, who were all of them his friends, on account of the warmth of their youth, and got possession of all the fortresses.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000015_000004.wav|He also promised him money, and that he would deliver up both himself and the city into his disposal, and thereby mitigated the anger of Pompey.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000006_000000.wav|three.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000005_000001.wav|And now the Pharisees joined themselves to her, to assist her in the government.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000007_000003.wav|It was, as I have already said, of old called the Citadel; but afterwards got the name of Antonia, when Antony was [lord of the East], just as the other cities, Sebaste and Agrippias, had their names changed, and these given them from Sebastus and Agrippa.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000010_000000.wav|one.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER five.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000014_000003.wav|Now his inclination was to try his fortune in a battle, since he was called in such an imperious manner, rather than to comply with that call.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000004_000002.wav|Nor was he mistaken as to his expectations; for this woman kept the dominion, by the opinion that the people had of her piety; for she chiefly studied the ancient customs of her country, and cast those men out of the government that offended against their holy laws.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000012_000000.wav|three.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000013_000002.wav|However, neither was Aristobulus wanting to himself in this case, as relying on the bribes that Scaurus had received: he was also there himself, and adorned himself after a manner the most agreeable to royalty that he was able.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000004_000001.wav|Now Alexander left the kingdom to Alexandra his wife, and depended upon it that the Jews would now very readily submit to her, because she had been very averse to such cruelty as he had treated them with, and had opposed his violation of their laws, and had thereby got the good will of the people.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000006_000004.wav|But when Alexandra sent out her army to Damascus, under pretense that Ptolemy was always oppressing that city, she got possession of it; nor did it make any considerable resistance.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3289/171109/3289_171109_000009_000001.wav|At Last Pompey Is Made The Arbitrator Of The Dispute Between The Brothers.|3289
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000040_000002.wav|The next minute, however, he had scrambled to his feet and was running swiftly along the garden wall.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000036_000000.wav|Then Trot started for the door and Tiggle could no longer see her because she was not now touching him.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000020_000001.wav|"Tell me where Cap'n Bill is."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000042_000002.wav|Just then he came opposite the camp of the Pinkies and decided to trust himself to the mercies of his Earth friends rather than be made a prisoner by his own people, who would obey the commands of their detested but greatly feared Boolooroo.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000015_000005.wav|She waited until the sentry who was pacing the corridor had his back toward her and then she turned the key and slipped within, softly closing the door behind her.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000021_000001.wav|"The Boolooroo has hidden him until to morrow morning, when he's to be patched to me.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000043_000001.wav|They soon gave up the chase and returned to the City, while the runaway Majordomo was captured by Captain Coralie and marched away to the tent of Rosalie the Witch, a prisoner of the Pinkies.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000010_000000.wav|"We're sorry for anyone who has to be patched," replied Fredjim in a reflective tone, "for although it didn't hurt us as much as we expected, it's a terrible mix up to be in-until we become used to our strange combination.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000011_000000.wav|"Not so," said Jimfred; "we are really more intelligent than you are, for the left side of our brain was always the keenest before we were patched."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000015_000002.wav|As the girl walked through these passages she could hear snores of various degrees coming from behind some of the closed doors and knew that all the regular inmates of the place were sound asleep.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000030_000001.wav|"I know a house where I can hide so snugly that all the Boolooroo's soldiers cannot find me."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000004_000001.wav|A blue gloom hung over the City, which was scarcely relieved by a few bluish, wavering lights here and there, but Trot knew the general direction in which the palace lay and she decided to go there first.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000020_000000.wav|"No," answered Trot.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000039_000001.wav|It would be a dangerous leap, for as his arms were bound he might topple off the wall into the garden; but he resolved to take this chance.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000037_000003.wav|She remembered there was a comfortable vacant room just opposite the suite of the Six Snubnosed Princesses, so she stole softly up to it and tried the door.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000025_000000.wav|"Much worse," said Tiggle, with a groan.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000037_000005.wav|So she turned the key, opened the door, and walked in.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000005_000000.wav|Once or twice the little girl lost her way, for the streets were very puzzling to one not accustomed to them, but finally she sighted the great palace and went up to the entrance.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000004_000000.wav|All the Blueskins except a few sentries had gone to bed and were sound asleep.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000013_000000.wav|"We are not sure of that," responded Jimfred, "for we have a right arm, too, and it is pretty strong."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000035_000000.wav|"I'll do that, all right," promised the delighted Tiggle.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000015_000000.wav|While they were tussling at the bench, dragging it first here and then there in the trial of strength, Trot opened the door of the palace and walked in.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000037_000001.wav|When Tiggle had safely escaped, the little girl wandered through the palace in search of Cap'n Bill, but soon decided such a quest in the dark was likely to fail and she must wait until morning.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000019_000000.wav|"Oh, it's the Earth Child," said he.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000019_000001.wav|"Are you condemned to be patched, too, little one?"|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000042_000001.wav|If he leaped down into the City he would be seized at once.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000005_000002.wav|They were sitting on a bench outside the doorway and both stood up as she approached.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000040_000001.wav|When she finally opened the door he slipped off and let himself fall to the wall, where he doubled up in a heap.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000006_000000.wav|"We thought we heard footsteps," said one.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000031_000000.wav|"All right," said Trot; "I'll do it; for when you're gone the Boolooroo will have no one to patch Cap'n Bill to."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000016_000002.wav|Every time she made a noise some one groaned, and that made the child uneasy.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000033_000001.wav|Even while she spoke Trot was busy with the knots in the cords, and presently she had unbound Tiggle, who soon got upon his feet.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000015_000004.wav|It was locked, but the key had been left on the outside.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000018_000000.wav|Trot hastened to this form and knelt beside it, but was disappointed to find it was only Tiggle.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000017_000000.wav|At last she found a window and managed to open the shutters and let the moonlight in.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000035_000001.wav|"You've made a friend of me, little girl, and if ever I can help you I'll do it with pleasure."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000041_000002.wav|More guards were yelling, now, running along the foot of the wall to keep the fugitive in sight, and people began to pour out of the houses and join in the chase.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000010_000001.wav|You and we are about alike now, Jimfred, although we were so different before."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000033_000000.wav|"But it will take him time to do that, and time is all I want," answered the child.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000009_000000.wav|"You see," remarked Jimfred, as they seated themselves again upon the bench, "the Boolooroo has ordered the patching to take place to morrow morning after breakfast.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000028_000000.wav|"I would, indeed!" said he.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000008_000001.wav|It was the first time the girl had seen them together and she marveled at the queer patching that had so strongly united them, yet so thoroughly separated them.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000015_000001.wav|It was pretty dark in the hall and only a few dim blue lights showed at intervals down the long corridors.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000015_000003.wav|So she mounted to the upper floor, and thinking she would be likely to find Cap'n Bill in the Room of the Great Knife she went there and tried the door.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000032_000000.wav|"He may find some one else," suggested the prisoner.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000024_000000.wav|"Oh, that's worse than being patched!" cried Trot.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000036_000001.wav|The man was much surprised at her disappearance, but listened carefully and when he heard the girl make a noise at one end of the corridor he opened the door and ran in the opposite direction, as he had been told to do.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000014_000000.wav|"We will test it," suggested the other, "by all pulling upon one end of this bench with our right arms.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000016_000001.wav|After a moment's thought she began feeling her way to the window, stumbling over objects as she went.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000017_000002.wav|In the center stood the Great Knife which the Boolooroo used to split people in two when he patched them, and at one side was a dark form huddled upon the floor and securely bound.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000042_000003.wav|So, suddenly he gave a mighty leap and came down into the field outside the City.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000038_000004.wav|A little way to the right the wall joined the wall of the City, being on the same level with it.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000021_000000.wav|"I can't," said Tiggle.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000026_000000.wav|But now an idea occurred to the girl.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000029_000000.wav|"If I get you out of the palace, can you hide yourself so that you won't be found?"|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000037_000002.wav|She was tired, too, and thought she would find a vacant room-of which there were many in the big palace-and go to sleep until daylight.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000005_000001.wav|There she found a double guard posted.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000012_000000.wav|"That may be," admitted Fredjim, "but we are much the strongest, because our right arm was by far the best before we were patched."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284445/8591_284445_000038_000003.wav|Looking out, he found that a few feet below the window was the broad wall that ran all around the palace gardens.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000016_000001.wav|What we need, in order to oppose them successfully, is a number of sharp sticks which are longer than their own."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000039_000001.wav|But, if anyone should see you, you would be captured."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000036_000001.wav|The band tried to enliven them by playing the "Dead March," but it was not a success.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000045_000001.wav|And, if you can think of a way, you must try to rescue us.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000009_000000.wav|"Their dreadful color makes me hysterical," he said to his soldiers, "so if I am to have any peace of mind we must charge the foe and drive them back into the Fog Bank.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000011_000005.wav|The Pinkies tried to chase them, but their round, fat legs were no match for the long, thin legs of the Blueskins, who quickly gained the gate and shut themselves up in the City again.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000036_000002.wav|The Pinkies were despondent in spite of the fact that they had repulsed the attack of the Blues, for as yet they had not succeeded in gaining the City or finding the Magic Umbrella, and the blue dusk of this dread country-which was so different from their own land of sunsets-made them all very nervous.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000049_000000.wav|"Why, where has she gone?"|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000029_000000.wav|At this the Ruler of the Blues stopped short in his flight to yell with terror, but seeing that only the sailorman was pursuing them and that this solitary foe had tumbled flat upon the ground, he issued a command and several of his people fell upon poor Cap'n Bill, seized him in their long arms and carried him struggling into the City, where he was fast bound.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000014_000000.wav|"I merely ran back to the City to get a drink of water, for I was thirsty," declared the Boolooroo.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000030_000000.wav|Then a panic fell upon the Pinkies at the loss of their leader, and Trot and Button Bright called out in vain for them to rescue Cap'n Bill.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000042_000000.wav|The hardest part of Rosalie's task was to toss up one end of the rope ladder until it would catch on some projection on top of the wall.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000009_000002.wav|Don't be afraid; those pink creatures have no blue blood in their veins and they'll run like rabbits when they see us coming."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000008_000000.wav|The Boolooroo, having made all preparations to receive the enemy, was annoyed because they held back.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000030_000001.wav|By the time the army recovered their wits and prepared to obey, it was too late.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000027_000002.wav|The result was that the lances of the Boolooroo's people could not touch the Pinkies, but were thrust aside with violence and either broken in two or sent hurling through the air in all directions.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000027_000003.wav|Finding themselves so suddenly disarmed, the amazed Blueskins turned about and ran again, while Cap'n Bill, greatly excited by his victory, shouted to his followers to pursue the enemy, and hobbled after them as fast as he could make his wooden leg go, swinging his sharp stick as he advanced.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000048_000000.wav|As the beautiful Witch kissed the little girl good bye she slipped upon her finger a curious ring.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000028_000001.wav|Unfortunately the Pinkies had not followed their commander, being for the moment dazed by their success, so that Cap'n Bill was all alone among the Blueskins when he stepped his wooden leg into a hole in the ground and tumbled full length, his sharp stick flying from his hand and pricking the Boolooroo in the leg as it fell.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000053_000000.wav|"Oh, thank you!" cried Trot.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000010_000001.wav|The Boolooroo went out, too, but he kept well behind his people, remembering the sharp sticks with which the enemy were armed.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000020_000000.wav|"I have one magic charm," said Rosalie, thoughtfully, "that will save our army; but I am allowed to work only one magic charm every three days-not oftener-and perhaps I'll need the magic for other things."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000011_000002.wav|Of course the Blueskins couldn't run against these sharp points, so they halted a few feet away and began to swing their cord and weights.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000021_000000.wav|"Strikes me, ma'am," returned the sailor, "that what we need most on this expedition is to capture the Blueskins.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000007_000001.wav|The cord didn't wind around the Pinkie, as he was too far off, but the weight hit him in the eye and made him howl lustily as he trotted back to his comrades at full speed.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000015_000002.wav|"We were all thirsty."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000042_000001.wav|There were few such projections, but after creeping along the wall for a distance they saw the end of a broken flagstaff near the top edge.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000035_000002.wav|We can only hope that the Boolooroo won't patch Cap'n Bill for three days."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000050_000001.wav|"Can't you see me?"|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000046_000000.wav|"I'll do my best," he promised.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000030_000002.wav|And, although Trot ran with them, in her eagerness to save her friend, the gate was found to be fast barred and she knew it was impossible for them to force an entrance into the City.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000039_000000.wav|"We can make a rope ladder that will enable you to climb to the top of the wall, and then you can lower it to the other side and descend into the City.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000026_000001.wav|Their sticks were twice as long as those of the Pinkies and the Boolooroo chuckled with glee to think what fun they would have in punching holes in the round, fat bodies of his enemies.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000038_000000.wav|Trot couldn't sleep, either, she was so worried over Cap'n Bill.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000017_000001.wav|"Get to work at once and make yourselves long sharp sticks, and then we will attack the enemy again."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000034_000000.wav|"The Boolooroo may decide to patch him at once," added Button Bright, with equal sadness, for he too mourned the sailor's loss.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000056_000003.wav|Keep out of their way and you will be perfectly safe.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000035_000001.wav|"I am not a fairy, my dears, but merely a witch, and so my magic powers are limited.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000024_000000.wav|"Now," she said to them, "you will be powerful enough to defeat the Blueskins, whatever they may do."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000025_000000.wav|The Pinkies were overjoyed at this promise and it made them very brave indeed, since they now believed they would surely be victorious.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000056_000004.wav|Don't lose the ring, for you must give it back to me when you return.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000053_000001.wav|"That will be fine."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000056_000002.wav|But be careful not to let any Blueskin touch you, for while you are in contact with any person you will become visible.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000045_000000.wav|"No," said the girl; "you must stay to lead the army.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000012_000000.wav|"It is evident," panted the Boolooroo, facing his defeated soldiers wrathfully, "that you are a pack of cowards!"|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000017_000000.wav|"True-true!" exclaimed the Boolooroo, enthusiastically.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000008_000001.wav|He was himself so nervous and excited that he became desperate and after an hour of tedious waiting, during which time he pranced around impatiently, he decided to attack the hated Pinkies and rid the country of them.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000028_000000.wav|The Blues were in such a frightened, confused mass that they got in one another's way and could not make very good progress on the retreat, so the old sailor soon caught up with them and began jabbing at the crowd with his stick.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000027_000000.wav|Out from the gate they marched very boldly and pressed on to attack the Pinkies, who were drawn up in line of battle to receive them, with Cap'n Bill at their head.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000016_000000.wav|"Your High and Mighty Spry and Flighty Majesty," remarked the Captain, respectfully, "it occurs to me that the weapons of the Pinkies are superior to our own.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000027_000001.wav|When the opposing forces came together, however, and the Blueskins pushed their points against the Pinkies, the weapons which had been enchanted by Rosalie began to whirl in swift circles-so swift that the eye could scarcely follow the motion.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000044_000000.wav|"Don't you want me to go with you?" asked Button Bright, a little wistfully.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000052_000001.wav|"It's a magic ring I've loaned you, my dear," said she, "and as long as you wear it you will be invisible to all eyes-those of Blueskins and Pinkies alike.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000010_000000.wav|Then he ordered the gate thrown open and immediately the Blueskins poured out into the open plain and began to run toward the Pinkies.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000007_000002.wav|After this experience the invaders were careful to keep a safe distance from the wall.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000055_000000.wav|"The Queen of the Mermaids gave it to me," answered Trot; "but Sky Island is so far away from the sea that the ring won't do me any good while I'm here.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000009_000001.wav|But take all the prisoners you can, my brave men, and to morrow we will have a jolly time patching them.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000019_000000.wav|"What can be done?" asked the girl.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000057_000001.wav|A little way off she found a bluestone seat, near to the inner edge, and attaching the ladder to this she easily descended it and found herself in the Blue City.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000011_000001.wav|The Pinkies did not run like rabbits, but formed a solid line and knelt down with their long, sharp sticks pointed directly toward the Blueskins, the other ends being set firmly upon the ground.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000048_000001.wav|At once Button Bright exclaimed:|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000036_000004.wav|Trot tried to interest them by telling them that on the Earth the people had both the sun and the moon, and loved them both; but nevertheless it is certain that had not the terrible Fog Bank stood between them and the Pink Land most of the invading army would have promptly deserted and gone back home.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000056_000000.wav|Rosalie smiled and kissed her again.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000056_000005.wav|It is one of my witchcraft treasures and I need it in my business."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000023_000000.wav|She then went out and had all the Pinkies come before her, one by one, and she enchanted their sharp sticks by muttering some cabalistic words and making queer passes with her hands over the weapons.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000052_000003.wav|If at any time you wish to be seen, take the ring from your finger; but as long as you wear it, no one can see you-not even Earth people."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000040_000000.wav|"I'll risk that," said the child, excited at the prospect of gaining the side of Cap'n Bill in this adventurous way.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000022_000000.wav|"Very well," replied Rosalie; "I will take your advice, Cap'n, and enchant the weapons of the Pinkies."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000031_000000.wav|So she went sorrowfully back to the camp, followed by the Pinkies, and asked Rosalie what could be done.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000032_000000.wav|"I'm sure I do not know," replied the Witch.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000056_000001.wav|"Be brave, my dear," she said, "and I am sure you will be able to find Cap'n Bill without getting in danger yourself.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000047_000000.wav|"And here-keep my polly till I come back," added Trot, giving him the bird.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000036_000003.wav|They saw the moon rise for the first time in their lives, and its cold, silvery radiance made them shudder and prevented them from going to sleep.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000042_000002.wav|The Witch tossed up the ladder, trying to catch it upon this point, and on the seventh attempt she succeeded.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000040_000001.wav|"Please make the rope ladder at once, Rosalie!"|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000055_000001.wav|It's only to call the mermaids to me if I need them, and they can't swim in the sky, you see."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000033_000000.wav|"Three days is a long time," remarked Trot, dismally.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000019_000001.wav|"The Blueskins are bigger and stronger than the Pinkies, and if they have sharp sticks which are longer than ours they will surely defeat us."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000015_000001.wav|So did we!" cried the soldiers, eagerly.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000018_000000.wav|So the soldiers and citizens all set to work preparing long sharp sticks, and while they were doing this Rosalie the Witch had a vision in which she saw exactly what was going on inside the City wall.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000041_000001.wav|When it was finished, the three-Rosalie, Trot and Button Bright-stole out into the moonlight and crept unobserved into the shadow of the wall.|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000045_000002.wav|Perhaps I'll be able to save Cap'n Bill myself; but if I don't it's all up to you, Button Bright."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000043_000000.wav|"Good!" cried Trot; "now I can climb up."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8591/284444/8591_284444_000021_000001.wav|If we don't, we'll need plenty of magic to help us back to the Pink Country; but if we do, we can take care of ourselves without magic."|8591
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000022_000001.wav|Henceforth, the promptness of expropriation will save him from total ruin.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000006.wav|Did they impose on each industry a proportional tax, so as to preserve a balance in the market?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000002.wav|The native manufacturer was ruined by the colonist.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000041_000000.wav|The tendency of society in favor of compelling proprietors to support national workshops and public manufactories is so strong that for several years, under the name of ELECTORAL REFORM, it has been exclusively the question of the day.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000042_000006.wav|For the people are credulous, but they are strong.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000003.wav|By taxation.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000005_000000.wav|PARIS, april first eighteen forty one.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000004.wav|And upon what will the tax be levied?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000005.wav|The most remarkable feature of this business was precisely that to which the least attention was paid; namely, that, in one way or another, property had to be violated.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000037_000000.wav|I omit, for the sake of brevity, the numerous considerations which the professor adduces in support of what he calls, too modestly in my opinion, his Utopia.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000038_000000.wav|three.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000009.wav|They sacrificed the property of the tax payer.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000016_000001.wav|Very well; but from this exception we will pass to another, from that to a third, and so on from exceptions to exceptions, until we have reduced the rule to a pure abstraction.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000021_000001.wav|For a long time, a revision of the law concerning mortgages was clamored for; a process was demanded, in behalf of all kinds of credit and in the interest of even the debtors themselves, which would render the expropriation of real estate as prompt, as easy, and as effective as that which follows a commercial protest.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000034_000002.wav|What becomes, during this progressive invasion, of independent cultivation, exclusive domain, property?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000010_000001.wav|Poets have sung of it in their hymns; philosophers have dreamed of it in their Utopias; priests teach it, but only for the spiritual world.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000033_000001.wav|TO CHECK THE CONTINUAL EMIGRATION OF LABORERS FROM THE COUNTRY INTO THE CITIES.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000015_000010.wav|It is not two years since I saw a proprietor destroy a forest more than five hundred acres in extent.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000011_000001.wav|It was not to be expected that a system of inductions abstractly gathered together, and still more abstractly expressed, would be understood with equal accuracy in its ensemble and in each of its parts.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000027_000005.wav|So the government thinks.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000008_000002.wav|I have used, in all its fulness, and concerning an important question, the right which the charter grants us.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000043_000004.wav|For the rest, the present system is only a continuation of the municipal system, which, in the middle ages, sprang up in connection with feudalism,--an oppressive, mischief making system, full of petty passions and base intrigues.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000005.wav|Upon property.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000017_000002.wav|Now, this so-called conversion is an extensive expropriation, and in this case with no indemnity whatever. The public funds are so much real estate, the income from which the proprietor counts upon with perfect safety, and which owes its value to the tacit promise of the government to pay interest upon it at the established rate, until the fund holder applies for redemption.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000015_000006.wav|Man leaves his imprint, stamps his character, upon the objects of his handiwork. This plastic force of man, as the modern jurists say, is the seal which, set upon matter, makes it holy.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000019_000002.wav|In this case, instinctive justice belies legal justice.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000023_000000.wav|These arguments, and others besides, you clearly stated, sir, in your first lectures of this academic year.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000015_000002.wav|Naboth, and the miller of Sans Souci, would have protested against French law, as they protested against the caprice of their kings.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000033_000000.wav|one.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000007.wav|They created a maximum PRICE for each variety of sugar; and, as this maximum PRICE was not the same, they attacked property in two ways,--on the one hand, interfering with the liberty of trade; on the other, disregarding the equality of proprietors.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000017_000000.wav|How many supporters do you think, sir, can be claimed for the project of the conversion of the public funds?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000016_000000.wav|But, it is said, expropriation on the ground of public utility is only an exception which confirms the principle, and bears testimony in favor of the right.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000003.wav|To maintain the beet root, the cane had to be taxed.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000000.wav|But, sir, the stoppage of private industry is the result of over production, and insufficient markets.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000015_000009.wav|Soon, in the name of public utility, methods of cultivation and conditions of enjoyment will be prescribed; inspectors of agriculture and manufactures will be appointed; property will be taken away from unskilful hands, and entrusted to laborers who are more deserving of it; and a general superintendence of production will be established.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000021_000003.wav|There is nothing more just, nothing more reasonable, nothing more philosophical apparently, than the motives which gave rise to this reform.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000015_000003.wav|"It is the field of our fathers," they would have cried, "and we will not sell it!" Among the ancients, the refusal of the individual limited the powers of the State.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000025_000004.wav|I address this question to all whom this pitiless Nemesis pursues, and even troubles in their dreams.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000027_000000.wav|Lower interest on money!|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000010.wav|Finally, did they prefer to cultivate the two varieties of sugar at the nation's expense, just as different varieties of tobacco are cultivated?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000018_000000.wav|That such a measure may be justly executed, it must be generalized; that is, the law which provides for it must decree also that interest on sums lent on deposit or on mortgage throughout the realm, as well as house and farm rents, shall be reduced to three per cent.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000028_000002.wav|But it is a law of political economy that an increase of production augments the mass of available capital, consequently tends to raise wages, and finally to annihilate interest.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000027_000001.wav|But, as we have just seen, that is to limit property.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000001.wav|If, then, production continues in the national workshops, how will the crisis be terminated? Undoubtedly, by the general depreciation of merchandise, and, in the last analysis, by the conversion of private workshops into national workshops.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000029_000005.wav|Little by little the government will become manufacturer, commission merchant, and retail dealer.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000029_000001.wav|They formed a conspiracy against property! Their law to regulate the labor of children in factories will, without doubt, prevent the manufacturer from compelling a child to labor more than so many hours a day; but it will not force him to increase the pay of the child, nor that of its father.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000002.wav|On the other hand, the government will need capital with which to pay its workmen; now, how will this capital be obtained?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000043_000003.wav|There are thousands of documents, even official documents, to prove this, if necessary.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000008_000001.wav|This grand right-the sword of thought, which elevates the virtuous citizen to the rank of legislator, and makes the malicious citizen an agent of discord-frees us from all preliminary responsibility to the law; but it does not release us from our internal obligation to render a public account of our sentiments and thoughts.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000030_000000.wav|It will be the sole proprietor.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000040_000003.wav|make haste to seize this glorious initiative; let the watchwords of equality, uttered from the heights of science and power, be repeated in the midst of the people; let them thrill the breasts of the proletaires, and carry dismay into the ranks of the last representatives of privilege!|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000042_000005.wav|Unhappy he who shall dare to trifle with them!|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000042_000002.wav|There should be no secrets or reservations from peoples and powers.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000006_000000.wav|MONSIEUR,--|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000008_000000.wav|But we Frenchmen have the liberty of the press.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000024_000003.wav|Far from mobilizing the soil, I would, if possible, immobilize even the functions of pure intelligence, so that society might be the fulfilment of the intentions of Nature, who gave us our first possession, the land.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000021_000002.wav|The Chamber of Deputies, in the early part of this year, eighteen forty one, discussed this project, and the law was passed almost unanimously.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000041_000005.wav|Already we have a minister of public works.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000007_000002.wav|Any one who, wishing to publish a treatise upon the constitution of the country, could not satisfy this threefold condition, would be obliged to procure the endorsement of a responsible patron possessing the requisite qualifications.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000002_000000.wav|WHAT IS PROPERTY?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000011.wav|They abolished, so far as the sugar industry was concerned, the right of property.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000002_000001.wav|SECOND MEMOIR|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000008.wav|Did they suppress the beet root by granting an indemnity to the manufacturer?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000004.wav|To protect the property of the one, it became necessary to violate the property of the other.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000042_000003.wav|He disgraces himself and fails in respect for his fellows, who, in publishing his opinions, employs evasion and cunning.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000042_000004.wav|Before the people act, they need to know the whole truth.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000031_000001.wav|Even now the legislative power is asked, no longer simply to regulate the government of factories, but to create factories itself.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000034_000000.wav|But, to keep the peasant in his village, his residence there must be made endurable: to be just to all, the proletaire of the country must be treated as well as the proletaire of the city.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000029_000003.wav|But to fix their minimum wages is to compel the proprietor, is to force the master to accept his workman as an associate, which interferes with freedom and makes mutual insurance obligatory.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000025_000002.wav|Always depending upon the future for the payment of his debts, he will be deceived in his hope, and surprised by maturity.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000025_000001.wav|Under the system of competition which is killing us, and whose necessary expression is a plundering and tyrannical government, the farmer will need always capital in order to repair his losses, and will be forced to contract loans.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000041_000001.wav|What is, after all, this electoral reform which the people grasp at, as if it were a bait, and which so many ambitious persons either call for or denounce?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000008_000004.wav|You have criticised in a kindly spirit-I had almost said with partiality for the writer-a work which teaches a doctrine that you thought it your duty to condemn.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000039_000007.wav|What, think you, will become, in this fatal circle, of the possibility of profit,--in a word, of property?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000022_000005.wav|three.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000012_000001.wav|But it is not my purpose here to pass upon the theory of the right of possession.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000025_000007.wav|Now, the debtor's sentence is irrevocable: he has but a few days of grace.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000011_000000.wav|Like a stone thrown into a mass of serpents, the First Memoir on Property excited intense animosity, and aroused the passions of many. But, while some wished the author and his work to be publicly denounced, others found in them simply the solution of the fundamental problems of society; a few even basing evil speculations upon the new light which they had obtained.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000020_000001.wav|Did they leave these two industries to themselves?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000018_000002.wav|See! If at the moment of conversion a piece of real estate yields an income of one thousand francs, after the new law takes effect it will yield only six hundred francs.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216567/8534_216567_000024_000002.wav|This certainly is not my plan for the abolition of property.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000013_000001.wav|The difficulty of satisfying these various desires at the same time is the primary cause of the despotism of the will, and the appropriation which results from it.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000022_000004.wav|Instinct is the source of passion and enthusiasm; it is intelligence which causes crime and virtue.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000026_000000.wav|Property, born of the reasoning faculty, intrenches itself behind comparisons.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000011_000001.wav|In the first place, the bees would not fail to try some new industrial process; for instance, that of making their cells round or square.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000007_000004.wav|Just as the swarm of bees is composed of individual bees, alike in nature and equal in value, so the honeycomb is formed of individual cells, constantly and invariably repeated.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000010_000001.wav|He reflects, then, since to observe and experiment is to reflect; he reasons, since he cannot help reasoning.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000020_000000.wav|The intelligence acquired by animals never modifies the operations which they perform by instinct: it is given them only as a provision against unexpected accidents which might disturb these operations.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000027_000003.wav|Therefore it is necessary, by a final examination of their characteristics, to eliminate those features which are hostile to sociability.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000016_000003.wav|But, in man, almost every thing is accomplished by intelligence; and intelligence supplements instinct.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000026_000004.wav|In this state of society,--which the jurists have called NEGATIVE COMMUNISM-man draws near to man, and shares with him the fruits of the field and the milk and flesh of animals.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000019_000001.wav|But notice that the learned observer defines the kind of reflection which distinguishes us from the animals as the POWER OF CONSIDERING OUR OWN MODIFICATIONS.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000008_000001.wav|In the bee, the will is constant and uniform, because the instinct which guides it is invariable, and constitutes the animal's whole life and nature.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000019_000002.wav|This I shall endeavour to interpret, by developing to the best of my ability the laconism of the philosophical naturalist.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000007_000003.wav|The labors which animals perform, whether alone or in society, are exact reproductions of their character.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000026_000007.wav|To express this idea by an Hegelian formula, I will say:|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000026_000001.wav|But, just as reflection and reason are subsequent to spontaneity, observation to sensation, and experience to instinct, so property is subsequent to communism.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000010_000006.wav|A final illustration will make these facts still clearer.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000006_000000.wav|I have said that human society is COMPLEX in its nature.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000011_000000.wav|If to the blind but convergent and harmonious instincts of a swarm of bees should be suddenly added reflection and judgment, the little society could not long exist.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000010_000003.wav|He is wedded to his opinions; he esteems himself, and despises others.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000008_000002.wav|In man, talent varies, and the mind wavers; consequently, his will is multiform and vague.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000018_000000.wav|Intelligence and instinct being common, then, though in different degrees, to animals and man, what is the distinguishing characteristic of the latter?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000019_000000.wav|If we grant intelligence to animals, we must also grant them, in some degree, reflection; for, the first cannot exist without the second, as f Cuvier himself has proved by numerous examples.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000008_000003.wav|He seeks society, but dislikes constraint and monotony; he is an imitator, but fond of his own ideas, and passionately in love with his works.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000012_000000.wav|Thus, moral evil, or, in this case, disorder in society, is naturally explained by our power of reflection.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000022_000002.wav|Man esteems only the products of reflection and of reason.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000021_000005.wav|This fact is one of the most curious and indisputable which philology has observed.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000026_000003.wav|It is the first phase of human civilization.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000012_000002.wav|Man, in his infancy, is neither criminal nor barbarous, but ignorant and inexperienced.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000009_000001.wav|We should see one man plowing a field, another building houses; this one forging metals, that one cutting clothes; and still others storing the products, and superintending their distribution.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000011_000004.wav|Evil would be introduced into the honey producing republic by the power of reflection,--the very faculty which ought to constitute its glory.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000007_000001.wav|A society of beasts is a collection of atoms, round, hooked, cubical, or triangular, but always perfectly identical.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000002_000000.wav|PART SECOND.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000005_000000.wav|Property not being our natural condition, how did it gain a foothold? Why has the social instinct, so trustworthy among the animals, erred in the case of man?|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000004_000000.wav|The true form of human society cannot be determined until the following question has been solved:--|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000018_000002.wav|This lacks clearness, and requires an explanation.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000027_000001.wav|When we have discovered the third term, the SYNTHESIS, we shall have the required solution.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000009_000000.wav|If, like the bees, every man were born possessed of talent, perfect knowledge of certain kinds, and, in a word, an innate acquaintance with the functions he has to perform, but destitute of reflective and reasoning faculties, society would organize itself.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000013_000002.wav|On the other hand, man always needs a market for his products; unable to compare values of different kinds, he is satisfied to judge approximately, according to his passion and caprice; and he engages in dishonest commerce, which always results in wealth and poverty.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000010_000002.wav|In reflecting, he becomes deluded; in reasoning, he makes mistakes, and, thinking himself right, persists in them.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000017_000002.wav|Cuvier: Introduction to the Animal Kingdom.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000009_000002.wav|Each one, without inquiring as to the object of his labor, and without troubling himself about the extent of his task, would obey orders, bring his product, receive his salary, and would then rest for a time; keeping meanwhile no accounts, envious of nobody, and satisfied with the distributor, who never would be unjust to any one.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000010_000004.wav|Consequently, he isolates himself; for he could not submit to the majority without renouncing his will and his reason,--that is, without disowning himself, which is impossible.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000026_000002.wav|Communism-or association in a simple form-is the necessary object and original aspiration of the social nature, the spontaneous movement by which it manifests and establishes itself.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000010_000000.wav|But man acquires skill only by observation and experiment.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000006_000003.wav|Man, by his nature and his instinct, is predestined to society; but his personality, ever varying, is adverse to it.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000023_000001.wav|He keeps an account of his experience, and preserves the record; so that the race, as well as the individual, becomes more and more intelligent.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000025_000000.wav|Thus, evil-or error and its consequences-is the firstborn son of the union of two opposing faculties, instinct and reflection; good, or truth, must inevitably be the second child.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000027_000004.wav|The union of the two remainders will give us the true form of human association.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000014_000000.wav|The practice of justice is a science which, when once discovered and diffused, will sooner or later put an end to social disorder, by teaching us our rights and duties.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000027_000000.wav|Communism-the first expression of the social nature-is the first term of social development,--the THESIS; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term,--the ANTITHESIS.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000006_000001.wav|Though this expression is inaccurate, the fact to which it refers is none the less true; namely, the classification of talents and capacities.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000022_000003.wav|The most wonderful works of instinct are, in his eyes, only lucky GOD SENDS; he reserves the name DISCOVERY-I had almost said creation-for the works of intelligence.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8534/216564/8534_216564_000015_000000.wav|This progressive and painful education of our instinct, this slow and imperceptible transformation of our spontaneous perceptions into deliberate knowledge, does not take place among the animals, whose instincts remain fixed, and never become enlightened.|8534
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000053_000001.wav|Begin when you like, but you must finish at sunset, or it will be the worse for you." Then she sent her to her miserable cell, and treble locked the door.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000007_000000.wav|"Yes, sire, but I shall be most happy if you will condescend to taste their contents.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000012_000001.wav|So he and Grognon departed hand in hand out of the cave, very well pleased.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000058_000001.wav|There was no complaint to make, yet Grognon exclaimed that the skein was dirty, and boxed the princess's ears till her rosy cheeks turned yellow and blue.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000067_000002.wav|But she promised to try once more; and for several days employed all her industry in inventing a box, which, she said, the prisoner must be forbidden on any account to open.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000005_000000.wav|In course of time the queen fell sick and died, and her daughter was almost broken hearted.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000044_000000.wav|The sight of her father's grief quite overcame Graciosa.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000072_000001.wav|Then, in his chariot, drawn by stags, he took her to the castle, where she did all that she had been commanded, and returned in safety, to her stepmother, who was more furious than ever.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000015_000000.wav|"Oh, give it me, and I will nourish and cherish it," cried the princess.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000032_000001.wav|No knight ventured to dispute this fact, until there appeared one who carried a little box adorned with diamonds, and proclaimed aloud that Grognon was the ugliest woman in the universe, and that the most beautiful was she whose portrait was in the box.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000039_000002.wav|She entreated Percinet to use his fairy power to send her home again, and meantime to tell her what had become of her father.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000038_000000.wav|"Yes; and I wish to preserve everything concerning you," said he tenderly; whereupon Graciosa cast down her eyes.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000028_000001.wav|I desire that your majesty will punish her, or leave me to do it-else I will certainly be revenged upon you both."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000063_000000.wav|Graciosa tried patiently, but she could see no difference in the feathers; she threw them all back again into the basket, and began to weep bitterly.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000058_000002.wav|Then she left her, and overwhelmed the fairy with reproaches.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000035_000002.wav|Enter this chariot, and I will convey you there."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000018_000000.wav|The obedient princess went to her apartment, where her nurse soon found out the sorrow in her face, and its cause.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000050_000001.wav|Forlorn and hopeless, Graciosa dared not now call upon Percinet; she doubted if he still loved her enough to come to her aid.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000057_000001.wav|Come with me, and make us both happy." But she said nothing, and the fairy prince disappeared.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000069_000002.wav|But being weak with imprisonment, she soon grew weary, and, sitting down upon the edge of a little wood, took the box upon her lap.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000072_000003.wav|At last, she resolved to ask help no more, but to work her own wicked will upon Graciosa.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000001.wav|She remembered what Percinet had said: that she would never return to the fairy palace, until after she was buried.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000034_000001.wav|She knew it was the doing of the fairy prince who loved her, and felt a joy mingled with fear.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000076_000002.wav|Still, death will be less bitter, if only you regret me a little."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000027_000003.wav|She sent for the king:|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000055_000000.wav|Immediately Percinet stood beside her, having entered the cell as easily as if he carried the key in his pocket.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000057_000000.wav|"It is your own fault.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000069_000003.wav|Suddenly a wonderful desire seized her to open it.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000064_000000.wav|"Here I am, my princess," cried a voice from under the basket; and the fairy prince appeared.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000007_000001.wav|Which wine do you prefer-canary, hermitage, champagne?" and she ran over a long list, out of which his majesty made his choice.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000059_000000.wav|"Find me, by to morrow, something absolutely impossible for her to do."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000047_000001.wav|You will enter it no more till after your burial."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000049_000000.wav|Arrived in her father's presence, she had great difficulty in persuading him that she was not a ghost, until the coffin with the faggot inside it was taken up, and Grognon's malice discovered But even then, the king was so weak a man, that the queen soon made him believe he had been cheated, that the princess was really dead, and that this was a false Graciosa.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000019_000002.wav|She may not be so bad after, all."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000029_000001.wav|She came trembling and looking round vainly for Prince Percinet.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000033_000002.wav|Graciosa, in solitude and darkness, groped through the forest, sometimes falling against the trunks of trees, sometimes tearing herself with bushes and briers; at last, overcome with fear and grief, she sank on the ground, sobbing out, "Percinet, Percinet, have you forsaken me?"|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000049_000001.wav|Without more ado, he abandoned his daughter to her stepmother's will.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000003_000002.wav|She was all her mother's joy.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000033_000000.wav|The princess, who sat behind her stepmother, felt sure that the unknown knight was Percinet; but she dared say nothing.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000072_000002.wav|If a fairy could be strangled, Grognon certainly would have done it in her rage.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000052_000000.wav|The fairy promised to think of it, and soon brought a skein as thick as four persons, yet composed of thread so fine, that it broke if you only blew upon it, and so tangled that it had neither beginning nor end.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000004.wav|Well she knew it, and well she knew the glitter of the rock crystal walls.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000037_000001.wav|"Prince, you know everything about me."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000011_000000.wav|The king, who was a great lover of money, replied eagerly, "Certainly, madam, I'll marry you to morrow if you will."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000073_000000.wav|She caused to be dug a large hole in the garden, and taking the princess there, showed her the stone which covered it.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000027_000001.wav|Her head was cut in several places, and her arm fractured.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000075_000000.wav|Graciosa obeyed; and while she was standing at the edge of the pit, Grognon pushed her in, and let the stone fall down again upon her, burying her alive.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000021_000000.wav|Grognon, on her part, made the best of herself that was possible.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000016_000000.wav|"That is impossible; for it is the Duchess Grognon, whom I have promised to marry."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000004_000003.wav|Of course she could not help her ugliness, and nobody would have disliked her for that, if she had not been of such an unpleasant temper that she hated everything sweet and beautiful, and especially Graciosa.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000025_000001.wav|They talked a little while together, and then returned to the palace, where the page assisted her to mount her horse; on which she looked so beautiful, that all the new queen's splendours faded into nothing in comparison, and not one of the courtiers had eyes for any except Graciosa.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000058_000000.wav|At sunset, Grognon eagerly came to the prison door with her three keys, and found Graciosa smiling and fair, her task all done.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000014_000000.wav|"Yes, my child," said he, "for I have taken a dove alive."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000024_000003.wav|I might longer have concealed myself from you, but for your present sorrow, in which, however, I hope to be of both comfort and assistance-a page and yet a prince, and your faithful lover."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000004_000004.wav|She had also a very good opinion of herself, and when any one praised the princess, would say angrily, "That is a lie!|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000028_000000.wav|"This is all Graciosa's fault; she wished to kill me.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000027_000000.wav|Prince Percinet, who was the page, cast one look at his fair Graciosa and obeyed; but no sooner had the duchess mounted, than the horse ran away with her and dragged her over briers, stones, and mud, and finally threw her into a deep ditch.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000069_000001.wav|She was dressed like any poor peasant, in a cotton gown, a woollen hood and wooden shoes; yet, as she walked along, people took her for a queen in disguise, so lovely were her looks and ways.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000029_000000.wav|The king, afraid of losing his casks full of gold pieces, consented, and Graciosa was commanded to appear.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000012_000000.wav|Grognon, highly delighted, made but one other condition-that she should have the Princess Graciosa entirely in her own rule and power, just as if she had been her real mother; to which the foolish king consented, for he thought much more of riches than he did of his child.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000035_000000.wav|"Princess," said he, "why are you afraid of me?|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000070_000000.wav|"I will take nothing out, I will touch nothing," said she to herself, "but I must see what is inside."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000032_000000.wav|Soon after, the king, who knew that his wife's weak point was her vanity, gave a tournament, at which he ordered the six bravest knights of the court to proclaim that Queen Grognon was the fairest lady alive.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000030_000002.wav|And then she saw the prince standing before her, in his green dress and his white plume, the most charming of pages.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000005_000003.wav|She, informed of his approach, went out to meet him, and received him most respectfully.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000040_000000.wav|"Come with me into the great tower there, and you shall see for yourself."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000004_000005.wav|My little finger is worth her whole body."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000020_000000.wav|And the nurse gave so much good advice, that Graciosa began to smile, and dressed herself in her best attire, a green robe embroidered with gold; while her fair, loose falling hair was adorned, according to the fashion of the day, with a coronet of jasmine, of which the leaves were made of large emeralds.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000039_000000.wav|She spent eight days in his palace-days full of every enjoyment; and Percinet tried all the arguments he could think of to induce her to marry him, and remain there for ever.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000047_000000.wav|"Princess, my palace, which you forsake, is among the things which are dead and gone.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000041_000000.wav|Thereupon he took her to the top of a tower, prodigiously high, put her little finger to his lips, and her foot upon his foot.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000005.wav|And there, at the palace gate, stood Percinet, and the queen, his mother, and the princesses, his sisters.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000032_000002.wav|He opened it, and behold the image of the Princess Graciosa!|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000008_000003.wav|"Sire," she exclaimed, "some one has robbed me of my good wine, and put this rubbish in its place."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000037_000000.wav|"How is this?" she said.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000024_000002.wav|I have loved you long, and seen you often, for I have the fairy gift of making myself invisible.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000005_000002.wav|One day, after a long chase, he came to a strange castle, which happened to be that of the Duchess Grognon.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000062_000000.wav|Grognon jumped for joy, sent for the princess, and ordered her to take her task, and finish it, as before, by set of sun|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000006.wav|"Welcome, Graciosa!" cried they all; and Graciosa, after all her sufferings, wept for joy.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000065_000000.wav|"What do I not owe you?" cried Graciosa.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000063_000002.wav|Percinet loves me no longer; if he did, he would already have been here."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000050_000000.wav|Grognon, transported with joy, dragged her to a dark prison, took away her clothes, made her dress in rags, feed on bread and water, and sleep upon straw.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000038_000001.wav|She was only too happy, and afraid that she should learn to love the fairy prince too much.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000075_000001.wav|After this, there seemed no more hope for the poor princess.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000046_000000.wav|"What is this?" she cried, terrified.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000042_000000.wav|"She will not be much loss, sire; and as, when dead, she was far too frightful for you to look at, I have given orders to bury her at once."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000031_000000.wav|Percinet advised her to pretend illness on account of the cruel treatment she was supposed to have received; which so delighted Grognon, that she got well all the sooner, and the marriage was celebrated with great splendour.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000045_000001.wav|As they quitted the courtyard, they heard a great noise, and Graciosa saw the palace all falling to pieces with a great crash.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000004_000002.wav|Her mouth was so big that you might have thought she could eat you up, only she had no teeth to do it with; she was also humpbacked and lame.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000067_000000.wav|When Grognon arrived, she found the task done.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000030_000000.wav|"Ah! kind Percinet, what do I not owe you?|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000034_000002.wav|She turned to fly, but saw him standing before her, more handsome and charming than ever.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000064_000001.wav|He gave three taps with his wand-the feathers flew by millions out of the basket, and arranged themselves in little heaps, each belonging to a different bird.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000055_000002.wav|"Do you wish anything more, madam?" asked he coldly.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000067_000003.wav|"Then," added the cunning fairy, "of course, being such a disobedient and wicked girl, as you say, she will open it, and the result will satisfy you to your heart's content."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000048_000000.wav|"Prince, you are angry with me," said Graciosa sorrowfully; only she knew well that she suffered quite as much as he did in thus departing and quitting him.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000078_000001.wav|Some came in chariots drawn by dragons, or swans, or peacocks; some were mounted upon floating clouds, or globes of fire.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000004_000001.wav|Her hair was fiery red, her face fat and spotty, and she had but one eye.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000071_000002.wav|They leaped into the green meadow, separated into various bands, and began dancing and singing, eating and drinking, to Graciosa's wonder and delight.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000071_000000.wav|Without reflecting on the consequences, she lifted up the lid, and instantly there jumped out a number of little men and little women, carrying little tables and chairs, little dishes, and little musical instruments.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000003.wav|So she took courage, crept through the little door, and lo! she came out into a beautiful garden, with long alleys, fruit trees, and flower beds.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000027_000002.wav|They picked her up in little pieces, like a broken wineglass; never was there a poor bride in worse plight. But in spite of her sufferings her malice remained.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000005_000001.wav|So was her husband for a year, and then he began to comfort himself by hunting.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000067_000001.wav|She was furious at the fairy, who was as much astonished as herself at the result of their malicious contrivances.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000009_000001.wav|Why, such rubbish would buy my whole kingdom."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000051_000001.wav|"I have here," said she, "a little wretch of a girl for whom I wish to find all sorts of difficult tasks; pray assist me in giving her a new one every day."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000078_000003.wav|When she discovered that Grognon's poor prisoner was now Prince Percinet's bride, she was overwhelmed with confusion, and entreated her to forget all that had passed, because she really was ignorant who she had been so cruelly afflicting.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000072_000000.wav|Again, in her distress, she called upon Percinet, and again he appeared; and, with a single touch of his wand, sent all the little people back into the box.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000019_000000.wav|"My child," said the good old woman, "princesses ought to show a good example to humbler women.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000008_000002.wav|"I never saw the like-what nonsense!" and she tried the third, out of which came a heap of pearls and diamonds, so that the floor of the cave was strewn with them.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000051_000000.wav|Meantime, Grognon had sent for a fairy, who was scarcely less malicious than herself.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000078_000000.wav|The marriage was celebrated with great splendour; and all the fairies, for a thousand leagues round, attended it.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000056_000000.wav|"Percinet, Percinet, do not reproach me; I am only too unhappy."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000002.wav|Perhaps this final cruelty of Grognon would be the end of her sorrows.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000060_000000.wav|The fairy brought a great basket full of feathers, plucked from every kind of bird-nightingales, canaries, linnets, larks, doves, thrushes, peacocks, ostriches, pheasants, partridges, magpies, eagles-in fact, if I told them all over, I should never come to an end; and all these feathers were so mixed up together, that they could not be distinguished.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000026_000001.wav|Descend, Miss, and let me try your horse;--and your page, whom everybody thinks so much of, bid him come and hold my bridle."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000039_000001.wav|But the good and gentle Graciosa remembered her father who was once so kind to her, and she preferred rather to suffer than to be wanting in duty.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000017_000000.wav|"She a dove!--she is rather a hawk," sighed the princess in despair; but her father bade her hold her tongue, and promise to love her stepmother, who would have over her all the authority of a mother, and to whom he wished to present her that very day.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000077_000000.wav|While she spoke, she saw through the blank darkness a glimmer of light; it came through a little door.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000003_000001.wav|Her incomparable beauty, sweetness, and intelligence caused her to be named Graciosa.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000003_000003.wav|Every day she had given her a different dress, of gold brocade, velvet, or satin; yet she was neither conceited nor boastful.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000005_000004.wav|As he was very hot with hunting, she took him into the coolest place in the palace, which was a vaulted cave, most elegantly furnished, where there were two hundred barrels arranged in long rows.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000003_000000.wav|Once upon a time there lived a king and queen, who had an only daughter.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000078_000002.wav|Among the rest, appeared the very fairy who had assisted Grognon to torment Graciosa.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000029_000002.wav|The cruel Grognon ordered four women, ugly as witches, to take her and strip off her fine clothes, and whip her with rods till her white shoulders were red with blood. But lo! as soon as the rods touched her, they turned into bundles of feathers, and the women tired themselves to death with whipping, without hurting Graciosa the least in the world!|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000079_000000.wav|"But I will make amends for all the evil that I have done," said the fairy; and, refusing to stay for the wedding dinner, she remounted her chariot, drawn by two terrible serpents, and flew to the palace of Graciosa's father.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000013_000000.wav|When the king returned home, Graciosa ran out with joy to welcome her father, and asked him if he had had good sport in his hunting.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000035_000001.wav|This is the palace of the fairy queen my mother, and the princesses my sisters, who will take care of you, and love you tenderly.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000079_000001.wav|There, before either king, or courtiers, or ladies in waiting could stop her-even had they wished to do it, which remains doubtful-she came behind the wicked Grognon, and twisted her neck, just as a cook does a barn door fowl.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000024_000000.wav|"Princess," said the page, bowing, "I am in no one's service but your own.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000022_000000.wav|Meantime, Graciosa waited in fear the moment of her arrival, and, to pass the time away, she went all alone into a little wood, where she sobbed and wept in secret, until suddenly there appeared before her a young page, whom she had never seen before.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000030_000001.wav|What should I do without you!" sighed the princess, when she was taken back to her own chamber and her nurse.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000055_000001.wav|"Behold me, princess, ready to serve you, even though you forsook me." He touched the skein with his wand, and it untangled itself, and wound itself up in perfect order.|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8329/279775/8329_279775_000044_000002.wav|If you love me, take me home."|8329
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000072_000000.wav|INDIANA:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000056_000000.wav|There is one feature of the Idaho game law that may well stand unchanged.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000079_000002.wav|The prices ranged from thirty five dollars to forty seven dollars and fifty cents; and while we looked, two ladies came up, one of whom pointed to a bird of paradise corpse and said: "There!|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000034_000002.wav|Birds know no state lines, and while practically all the States lying to the north of Florida protect migratory birds and waterfowl, yet these are recklessly slaughtered in that state to such an extent as to be appalling to all sportsmen and bird lovers.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000006_000000.wav|DELAWARE:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000057_000000.wav|ILLINOIS:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000063_000000.wav|The use of all machine shotguns in hunting should be prohibited.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000047_000000.wav|Give the sage grouse and sharp tail ten year close seasons, at once, to forestall their extermination.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000107_000000.wav|Enact a Bayne law.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000075_000000.wav|A Bayne law, absolutely prohibiting the sale of all native wild game, should be enacted at once.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000054_000001.wav|The time to temporize, theorize, be conservative and easy going has gone by.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000071_000000.wav|The present bag limits on Illinois game birds are fatally high.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000015_000000.wav|If game shooting within the District is continued, on the marshes of the Eastern Branch and on the Potomac River, common decency demands the enactment of bag limit laws and long close season laws of the most modern pattern.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000081_000000.wav|Spring shooting should be stopped, at once and forever.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000064_000002.wav|New York thoroughly cleaned her Augean stable in nineteen eleven, and Massachusetts won her Bayne law by a desperate battle in nineteen twelve.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000086_000002.wav|She boasts about her corn and hogs, but she is deaf to the appeals of the states surrounding her on the subject of spring shooting.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000052_000000.wav|Extend the State Warden's term to four years.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000079_000000.wav|In Indiana the white tailed deer is extinct.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000071_000003.wav|Which shall it be?|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000008_000000.wav|Enact bag limit laws, in very small figures.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000080_000000.wav|IOWA:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000110_000000.wav|For good reasons, forty states of the American Union strictly prohibit the killing of song and insectivorous birds.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000007_000000.wav|Stop all spring shooting, at once; stop killing shore birds for ten years, and protect swans indefinitely.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000078_000000.wav|The use of pump and autoloading guns in hunting should be prohibited.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000045_000000.wav|The imperative duties of Idaho are as follows:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000054_000000.wav|If the people of Idaho wish to save their wild fauna, they must be up and doing.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000059_000000.wav|In Illinois the bag limits on birds are nearly all at least fifty per cent too high.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000095_000001.wav|I refer to Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000028_000003.wav|But the gunners began early to shoot, and shoot, and shoot.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000083_000000.wav|All shore birds that visit Iowa deserve a five year close season.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000066_000001.wav|Often the migratory game was located by telegraphic reports.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000037_000000.wav|GEORGIA:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000088_000000.wav|KANSAS:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000084_000000.wav|Especially is the shooting of plover, sandpiper, marsh and beach birds, rail, duck, geese and brant from september first, to april fifteenth, an outrage.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000082_000000.wav|The killing of all tree squirrels and chipmunks should cease.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000064_000001.wav|saint Louis cleared her record in nineteen o nine.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000101_000000.wav|LOUISIANA:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000044_000000.wav|IDAHO:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000061_000000.wav|All tree squirrels and chipmunks should be perpetually protected, as companions to man, unfit for food.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000012_000004.wav|The latter can easily back up General Apathy to an extent that spells "no game laws." In one act, and at one bold stroke, Delaware can step out of her position at the rear of the procession of states, and take a place in the front rank.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000043_000001.wav|The protection of wild life is now a gentleman's proposition, and in it every real man with red blood in his veins has a duty to perform.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000053_000001.wav|I am told that the sage grouse is almost "gone"; and I think that the antelope, caribou, and mountain sheep are in the same condition of scarcity.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000064_000003.wav|In nineteen thirteen, Pennsylvania probably will enact a Bayne law.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000079_000001.wav|This means very close hunting, and a bad outlook for all other game larger than the sparrow. On october second nineteen twelve, eleven heads of greater bird of paradise, with plumes attached, were offered for sale within one hundred feet of the headquarters of the Fourth National Conservation Congress.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000004_000000.wav|First of all, Connecticut needs a ten year close season law to save her remnant of shore birds before it is completely annihilated.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000050_000000.wav|Enact the model law to protect non game birds.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000013_000000.wav|DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000043_000000.wav|We are glad to report that Georgia has already begun to take up the white man's burden.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000056_000002.wav|One myth per year is not an extravagant bag for any intelligent hunter; and it seems that the "ibex" will not down.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000012_000005.wav|Will she do it?|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000060_000000.wav|Doves should be removed from the game list.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000012_000003.wav|I dare say they are afflicted with apathy, and game hogs.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000022_000000.wav|A general resident license should be required for hunting.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000059_000001.wav|They should be as follows: No squirrels, doves or shore birds; six quail, five woodcock, ten coots, ten rail, ten ducks, three geese and three brant, with a total limit of ten waterfowl per day.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000071_000002.wav|The men of Illinois have just two alternatives between which to choose: drastic and immediate preservation, or a gameless state.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000001_000000.wav|The enormous bag limits of thirty five rail and fifty each per day of plover, snipe and shore birds is a crime!|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000053_000000.wav|Like Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, the state of Idaho has wasted her stock of game, and it is to be feared that several species are now about to disappear from that state.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144986/2688_144986_000056_000001.wav|The open season on "ibex," of which one per year may be killed, may as well be continued.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000019_000000.wav|At the last session of the Maryland legislature, the law preventing the use of power boats in wild fowl shooting was repealed.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000092_000000.wav|NEW HAMPSHIRE:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000069_000000.wav|The antelope need three or four small ranges, such as the Snow Creek Antelope Range, where the bad lands are too rough for ranchmen, but quite right for antelopes and other big game.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000099_000001.wav|It was a pitched battle,--that of nineteen twelve, inaugurated by Ernest Napier, President of the State Game and Fish Commission and his fellow commissioners.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000109_000003.wav|There is no law prohibiting spring shooting, and there is no "model law" protecting the non game birds.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000108_000000.wav|NEW MEXICO:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000032_000002.wav|As matters stand at this date (nineteen twelve) the Old Bay State needs the following new laws:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000094_000000.wav|Gray Squirrel, none per day, or per year; duck (except wood duck), ten per day, or thirty per season; ruffed grouse, four per day, twelve per season; hare and rabbit, four per day, or twelve per season.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000109_000000.wav|All things considered, the game laws of New Mexico are surprisingly up to date, and the state is to be congratulated on its advanced position. For example, there are long close seasons on antelope, elk (now extinct!), mountain sheep, bob white quail, pinnated grouse, wild pigeon and ptarmigan,--an admirable list, truly.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000090_000000.wav|Nevada's bag limits are among the best of any state, the only serious flaw being "ten sage grouse" per day: which should be zero!|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000017_000000.wav|MARYLAND:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000098_000000.wav|NEW JERSEY:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000049_000000.wav|The state should prohibit the use of machine guns in hunting.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000030_000004.wav|The victory is highly instructive, as great victories usually are.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000089_000000.wav|A corps of salaried game protectors should be chosen for active and aggressive game protection.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000004_000000.wav|MAINE:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000037_000001.wav|All the game protected by the laws of the state is debarred from sale; squirrels, pinnated grouse, doves and wild turkeys enjoy long close seasons; the bag limits on deer and game birds are reasonably low; spring shooting still is possible on nine species of ducks; and this should be stopped without delay.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000107_000000.wav|Prohibit the killing of squirrels as "game."|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000113_000000.wav|NEW YORK:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000115_000001.wav|Spring shooting was stopped in nineteen o three.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000043_000000.wav|Two or three state game preserves, for deer, each at least four miles square, should be established without delay.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000052_000000.wav|MISSISSIPPI:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000032_000001.wav|Very soon, also, her sportsmen will raise the standard of ethics in shotgun shooting, by barring out the automatic and pump shotguns so much beloved by the market shooters.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000099_000000.wav|New Jersey enjoys the distinction of being the second state to break the strangle hold of the gun makers of Hartford and Ilion, and cast out the odious automatic and pump guns.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000007_000000.wav|Only bull moose, with at least two three-inch prongs on its horns, may be killed.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000085_000000.wav|All non game birds should have perpetual protection.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000109_000004.wav|The sale of game will not trouble New Mexico, because the present laws prevent the sale of all protected game except plover, curlew and snipe,--all of them species by no means common in the arid regions of the Southwest.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000101_000004.wav|The moral is: Will the People apply this lesson to the ruffed grouse, quail and the shore birds generally before they, too, are too far gone to be brought back?|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000077_000000.wav|No other state has bestowed close seasons upon as many extinct species of game as Nebraska.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000104_000000.wav|Prohibit the sale of all native wild game; but promote the sale of preserve bred game.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000083_000000.wav|NEVADA:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000061_000000.wav|Doves should be taken off the list of game birds, and protected throughout the year; and so should all tree squirrels.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000070_000001.wav|The splendid sage grouse is now extinct in many parts of its previous range.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000053_000000.wav|The legalized slaughter of robins, cedar birds, grosbeaks and doves should cease immediately, on the basis of economy of resources and a square deal to all the states lying northward of Mississippi.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000075_000000.wav|Montana's bag limits are not wholly bad; but the grizzly bear has almost been exterminated, save in the Yellowstone Park.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000039_000000.wav|All spring shooting should be prohibited.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000033_000000.wav|Low bag limits on all game.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000010_000000.wav|The open season for deer varies from ten weeks to four weeks, and in parts of three counties there is no open season at all.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000036_000000.wav|MICHIGAN:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000075_000002.wav|And then we will hear enthusiastic talk about "restocking."|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000115_000002.wav|A comprehensive law protecting non game birds was enacted in eighteen sixty two. New York's first law against the sale of certain game during close seasons was enacted in eighteen thirty seven.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000005_000004.wav|For example:|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000003_000000.wav|NEW LAWS NEEDED IN THE STATES (Continued)|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000117_000000.wav|In nineteen twelve a new codification of the state game laws went into effect, through the initiative of Governor Dix and Conservation Commissioners Van Kennen, Moore and Fleming, assisted (as special counsel) by Marshall McLean, George a Lawyer and john b Burnham.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000097_000000.wav|The use of automatic and pump guns in hunting should be barred,--through state pride, if for no other reason.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000114_000001.wav|This proud position has been achieved partly through the influence of a great conservation Governor, john a Dix, and the State Conservation Commission proposed and created by his efforts.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000109_000002.wav|On two counts, her laws are not quite perfect.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000073_000001.wav|Only seven states have failed in that respect.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000099_000002.wav|The longer the contest continued, the more did the press and the people of New Jersey awaken to the seriousness of the situation.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000067_000005.wav|It is said that in nineteen eleven, eleven thousand deer were killed in Montana, all in the western part of the state, seventy per cent of which were white tails.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000035_000000.wav|Expulsion of the automatic and pump shotguns, in hunting.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000074_000000.wav|The use of automatic and pump shotguns, and silencers, should immediately be prohibited.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2688/144987/2688_144987_000006_000000.wav|Cow and calf moose are permanently protected.|2688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000023_000001.wav|"It was my father's fault. He it was who built Harrowby Hall, and the haunted chamber was to have been mine.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000025_000000.wav|"So I've heard," returned the ghost.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000023_000003.wav|He did it merely to spite me, and, with what I deem a proper spirit, I declined to live in the room; whereupon my father said I could live there or on the lawn, he didn't care which.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000004_000000.wav|The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000067_000002.wav|There stood the ghost of Harrowby Hall, conquered by the cold, a prisoner for all time.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000007_000002.wav|They had tried stopping the clock, so that the ghost would not know when it was midnight; but she made her appearance just the same, with that fearful miasmatic personality of hers, and there she would stand until everything about her was thoroughly saturated.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000012_000001.wav|Go sit out on the lake, if you like that sort of thing; soak the water butt, if you wish; but do not, I implore you, come into a gentleman's house and saturate him and his possessions in this way.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000054_000000.wav|"You walk too slowly," she said.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000059_000001.wav|It cannot be.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000010_000004.wav|The sight was so unexpected and so terrifying that he fainted, but immediately came to, because of the vast amount of water in his hair, which, trickling down over his face, restored his consciousness.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000034_000002.wav|None of his friends would consent to sacrifice their personal comfort to his, nor was there to be found in all England a man so poor as to be willing to occupy the doomed chamber on Christmas Eve for pay.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000032_000000.wav|But the master of Harrowby would have lost his wager had there been anyone there to take him up, for when Christmas Eve came again he was in his grave, never having recovered from the cold contracted that awful night.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000066_000002.wav|I beg of you do not doo----"|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000019_000000.wav|"No doubt.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000012_000002.wav|It is damned disagreeable."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000023_000002.wav|My father had it furnished in pink and yellow, knowing well that blue and gray formed the only combination of color I could tolerate.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000050_000000.wav|"But, my dear sir," returned the ghost, with a pale reluctance, "it is fearfully cold out there.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000032_000001.wav|Harrowby Hall was closed, and the heir to the estate was in London, where to him in his chambers came the same experience that his father had gone through, saving only that, being younger and stronger, he survived the shock.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000021_000001.wav|"I am the ghost of that fair maiden whose picture hangs over the mantelpiece in the drawing room.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000005_000000.wav|BY john KENDRICK BANGS|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000056_000001.wav|Do not do so, I beg!" cried the ghost.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000031_000000.wav|"By saint George and his Dragon!" ejaculated the master of Harrowby, wringing his hands.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000010_000001.wav|Finding no one there, she immediately set out to learn the reason why, and she chose none other to haunt than the owner of the Harrowby himself.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000054_000003.wav|I beseech you to accelerate your step."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000064_000000.wav|"But warehouses burn."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000045_000000.wav|"Certainly, madam," returned the master, courteously.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000053_000000.wav|They had not gone far before the water ghost showed signs of distress.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000051_000002.wav|Come!" This last in a tone of command that made the ghost ripple.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000041_000000.wav|The clock clanged out the hour of twelve.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000062_000001.wav|Instead of the comfortably tepid, genial ghost I have been in my past, sir, I shall be iced water," cried the lady, threateningly.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000008_000002.wav|And then he swooned away, and was found unconscious in his bed the next morning by his host, simply saturated with sea water and fright, from the combined effects of which he never recovered, dying four years later of pneumonia and nervous prostration at the age of seventy eight.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000007_000001.wav|The owners of Harrowby Hall had done their utmost to rid themselves of the damp and dewy lady who rose up out of the best bedroom floor at midnight, but without avail.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000036_000001.wav|The water ghost appeared at the specified time, and found the heir of Harrowby prepared; but hot as the room was, it shortened her visit by no more than five minutes in the hour, during which time the nervous system of the young master was well nigh shattered, and the room itself was cracked and warped to an extent which required the outlay of a large sum of money to remedy.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000037_000000.wav|It was then that the natural action of the mind, in going from one extreme to the other, suggested to the ingenious heir of Harrowby the means by which the water ghost was ultimately conquered, and happiness once more came within the grasp of the house of Oglethorpe.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000048_000001.wav|"The water won't swallow me up; in fact, it will just add to my present bulk."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000055_000000.wav|"I should like to oblige a lady," returned the master, courteously, "but my clothes are rather heavy, and a hundred yards an hour is about my speed.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000014_000000.wav|"Madam," returned the unhappy householder, "I wish that remark were strictly truthful.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000032_000002.wav|Everything in his rooms was ruined-his clocks were rusted in the works; a fine collection of water color drawings was entirely obliterated by the onslaught of the water ghost; and what was worse, the apartments below his were drenched with the water soaking through the floors, a damage for which he was compelled to pay, and which resulted in his being requested by his landlady to vacate the premises immediately.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000046_000000.wav|"That is my delectable fate," returned the lady.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000065_000000.wav|"So they do, but this warehouse cannot burn.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000067_000001.wav|There was a momentary tremor throughout the ice bound form, and the moon, coming out from behind a cloud, shone down on the rigid figure of a beautiful woman sculptured in clear, transparent ice.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000059_000002.wav|I have you at last."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000009_000000.wav|The next year the master of Harrowby Hall decided not to have the best spare bedroom opened at all, thinking that perhaps the ghost's thirst for making herself disagreeable would be satisfied by haunting the furniture, but the plan was as unavailing as the many that had preceded it.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000020_000000.wav|"How the deuce did you ever come to get elected?" asked the master.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000015_000000.wav|"That is a bit of specious nonsense," returned the ghost, throwing a quart of indignation into the face of the master of Harrowby.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000023_000000.wav|"I was not to blame, sir," returned the lady.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000011_000002.wav|He would have liked to put on a dry suit of clothes first, but the apparition declined to leave him for an instant until her hour was up, and he was forced to deny himself that pleasure.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000024_000000.wav|"That was rash," said the master of Harrowby.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000060_000002.wav|I congeal!"|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000014_000001.wav|I was talking about you.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000049_000000.wav|"Nevertheless," said the master, firmly, "we will go out on the lake."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000057_000001.wav|We have been on this spot just ten minutes; we have fifty more.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000034_000000.wav|So the heir of Harrowby Hall resolved, as his ancestors for several generations before him had resolved, that something must be done.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000029_000001.wav|And what is more," said the water ghost, "it doesn't make the slightest difference where you are, if I find that room empty, wherever you may be I shall douse you with my spectral pres----"|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000011_000000.wav|Now it so happened that the master of Harrowby was a brave man, and while he was not particularly fond of interviewing ghosts, especially such quenching ghosts as the one before him, he was not to be daunted by an apparition.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000056_000000.wav|"Do not!|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000010_000002.wav|She found him in his own cosey room drinking whiskey-whiskey undiluted-and felicitating himself upon having foiled her ghost ship, when all of a sudden the curl went out of his hair, his whiskey bottle filled and overflowed, and he was himself in a condition similar to that of a man who has fallen into a water butt.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000039_000001.wav|The air outside was still, but the temperature was below zero.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000019_000001.wav|I'm never dry.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000038_000000.wav|The heir provided himself with a warm suit of fur under clothing. Donning this with the furry side in, he placed over it a rubber garment, tight fitting, which he wore just as a woman wears a jersey.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000044_000001.wav|"May I ask where did you get that hat?"|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000030_000000.wav|Here the clock struck one, and immediately the apparition faded away.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000052_000000.wav|And they started.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000011_000005.wav|The whiskey became utterly valueless as a comforter to his chilled system, because it was by this time diluted to a proportion of ninety per cent of water.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000011_000003.wav|Every time he would move she would follow him, with the result that everything she came in contact with got a ducking.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000059_000000.wav|"Never, madam.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000057_000002.wav|Take your time about it, madam, but freeze, that is all I ask of you."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000060_000001.wav|"Help me, I beg.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000054_000001.wav|"I am nearly frozen.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000036_000002.wav|And worse than this, as the last drop of the water ghost was slowly sizzling itself out on the floor, she whispered to her would be conqueror that his scheme would avail him nothing, because there was still water in great plenty where she came from, and that next year would find her rehabilitated and as exasperatingly saturating as ever.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000026_000000.wav|"I'll sell the place."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000039_000000.wav|It was a bitterly cold night that brought to a close this twenty fourth day of December.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000038_000001.wav|On top of this he placed another set of under clothing, this suit made of wool, and over this was a second rubber garment like the first.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000011_000006.wav|The only thing he could do to ward off the evil effects of his encounter he did, and that was to swallow ten two grain quinine pills, which he managed to put into his mouth before the ghost had time to interfere. Having done this, he turned with some asperity to the ghost, and said:|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000022_000000.wav|"But what induced you to get this house into such a predicament?"|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000035_000000.wav|Then the thought came to the heir to have the fireplace in the room enlarged, so that he might evaporate the ghost at its first appearance, and he was felicitating himself upon the ingenuity of his plan, when he remembered what his father had told him-how that no fire could withstand the lady's extremely contagious dampness.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000061_000002.wav|To night you have had your last drench."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000057_000000.wav|"That, madam," said the master slowly, and seating himself on an ice cake-"that is why I have brought you here.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000023_000004.wav|That night I ran from the house and jumped over the cliff into the sea."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000066_000000.wav|"For the last time let me beseech you.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000055_000001.wav|Indeed, I think we would better sit down here on this snowdrift, and talk matters over."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000019_000003.wav|I have been the incumbent of this highly unpleasant office for two hundred years to night."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000061_000001.wav|"You have drenched me and mine for two hundred and three years, madam.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000063_000000.wav|"No, you won't, either," returned Oglethorpe; "for when you are frozen quite stiff, I shall send you to a cold storage warehouse, and there shall you remain an icy work of art forever more."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000030_000001.wav|It was perhaps more of a trickle than a fade, but as a disappearance it was complete.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000011_000004.wav|In an effort to warm himself up he approached the fire, an unfortunate move as it turned out, because it brought the ghost directly over the fire, which immediately was extinguished.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000035_000001.wav|And then he bethought him of steam pipes.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000025_000001.wav|"If I had known what the consequences were to be I should not have jumped; but I really never realized what I was doing until after I was drowned.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000027_000000.wav|"That you cannot do, for it is also required of me that I shall appear as the deeds are to be delivered to any purchaser, and divulge to him the awful secret of the house."|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000048_000000.wav|"You can't get rid of me that way," returned the ghost.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8421/283462/8421_283462_000016_000000.wav|"No, I don't," returned the master of Harrowby.|8421
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000026_000003.wav|This piece of metal, when nicely fitted into a file handle, will answer all the purposes of the bluing pan and presents quite a neat appearance.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000028_000002.wav|I have no hesitation in saying that at this particular point the split chuck should be removed from the lathe head and carefully placed in the chuck box and the cement chuck put in its place.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000028_000000.wav|We have now arrived at an important station in staff making, a junction, we may term it, where many lines branch off from the main road.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000029_000000.wav|We will suppose that the workman has a moderately true chuck, and that he prefers to turn and finish all the lower portions in this way.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000012.wav|If it does not come out clean, or if soap is not used, it may be brightened by again inserting in the lathe and bringing it in contact with a piece of fine emery paper or cloth.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000028_000001.wav|At this particular spot is where authorities differ.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000020_000009.wav|They may be good workmen as far as they go; they may be painstaking; but they cannot be classed as watchmakers.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000018_000002.wav|I have seen staffs that were models as regards execution and finish, that were nearly worthless from a practical standpoint, simply because the maker had devoted all his time and energy to the execution of a beautiful piece of lathe work, and had given no thought or study to the form and size of the pivots.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000003.wav|The chuck holds the work truest that comes the nearest to fitting it.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000026_000004.wav|Having placed the blank in the angle, lay on it a piece of yellow wax about the size of a bean, and heat it over your lamp until the wax takes fire and burns.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000020_000001.wav|To the reader who takes this view of the situation I simply want to say, kindly follow me to the end of this paragraph, and if you are still of the same opinion, then you are wasting your time in following me farther.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000018_000000.wav|To produce a good balance staff requires more skill than to produce any other turned portion of a watch, and your success will depend not alone on your knowledge of its proper shape and measurements, nor the tools at your command, but rather upon your skill with the graver and your success in hardening and tempering.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000008.wav|Petroleum is preferred by some to linseed oil, but, to tell the truth, I can see no difference in the action of linseed, petroleum or olive oil.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000006.wav|The hardening and tempering may be effected in various ways, and I am scarcely prepared to say which method is the best, as there are several which give about the same general results.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000018_000001.wav|There are many points worthy of consideration in the making of a balance staff that are too often neglected.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000020_000007.wav|In fact, he is not a watchmaker at all, but simply an apprentice or student, even though he be working for a salary or be his own master.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000002.wav|Be careful in selecting your chuck that you pick one that fits the wire fairly close.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000010.wav|The main object in using the soap in hardening is that it may form a scale upon the blank, and if the heating is effected gradually the soap will melt and form a practically air tight case around the blank.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000029_000001.wav|Of course the directions for using a cement chuck on the upper part of a staff are equally applicable to the lower.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000028_000005.wav|All I have got to say is that they had more confidence in the truth of their chucks than I have in mine.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000026_000005.wav|Blow out the flame and allow the staff to cool, and it will be found to be of about the right hardness.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000023_000000.wav|Good tools, in good condition, are the most essential requisites in making a new staff.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000011.wav|This scale, if the hardening is carefully and properly done, will generally chip and fall off when the blank is plunged in the oil, particularly if the oil is cool, and if it does not fall off of its own accord, it can easily be removed by rolling the blank upon the bench.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000020_000006.wav|The watchmaker who does not possess the experience or necessary qualifications to make a new balance staff and make it in a neat and workmanlike manner, is never certain of having exactly what is needed, and cannot hope to long retain the confidence of his customers.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000020_000005.wav|This state of affairs leads to makeshifts, and they in turn lead to botch work.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000028_000006.wav|I have even read of watchmakers who made the entire staff in a split chuck, but I must confess I am somewhat curious to examine a staff made in that way, and must have the privilege of examining it before I will admit that a true staff can be so made.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000007.wav|One method of hardening is to smear the blank with common yellow soap, heat it to a cherry red, and drop endwise into linseed oil.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000004.wav|If you try to use a chuck that is too large or too small for the work, you will only ruin the chuck for truth.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000028_000003.wav|I believe that all of the remaining work upon a staff should be executed while it is held in a cement chuck.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/290923/3816_290923_000024_000000.wav|The balance staff should be made of the best steel, tempered to such a degree as to give the longest service and yet not so hard as to endanger the breakage of the pivots.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000012_000005.wav|When Lord Brandyball's family came down into the country, and invited him to dine at Brandyball Park, Sniffle was so agitated that he almost forgot how to say grace, and upset a bowl of currant jelly sauce in Lady Fanny Toffy's lap.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000012_000001.wav|When, for instance, Tom Sniffle first went into the country as Curate for mr Fuddleston (Sir Huddleston Fuddleston's brother), who resided on some other living, there could not be a more kind, hardworking, and excellent creature than Tom.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000008_000002.wav|What, gentlemen, can't we even in the Church acknowledge a republic?|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000004_000000.wav|It is very likely that if Miss Smith had come with a licence to marry Jones, the parson in question, not seeing old Smith present, would have sent off the beadle in a cab to let the old gentleman know what was going on; and would have delayed the service until the arrival of Smith senior.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000006_000001.wav|He has no more right to stop my marriage than to stop my dinner, to both of which, as a free born Briton, I am entitled by law, if I can pay for them.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000015_000000.wav|As for poor Tom, he was over head and ears in debt as well as in love: his creditors came down upon him.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000016_000000.wav|If temptation had not come upon this unhappy fellow in the shape of a Lord Brandyball, he might still have been following his profession, humbly and worthily.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000007_000000.wav|But if the clergyman did in the Duke's case what he would NOT do in Smith's; if he has no more acquaintance with the Coeurdelion family than I have with the Royal and Serene House of Saxe Coburg Gotha,--THEN, I confess, my dear Snobling, your question might elicit a disagreeable reply, and one which I respectfully decline to give.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve-ON CLERICAL SNOBS AND SNOBBISHNESS|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000002_000000.wav|'Dear mr Snob,' an amiable young correspondent writes, who signs himself Snobling, 'ought the clergyman who, at the request of a noble Duke, lately interrupted a marriage ceremony between two persons perfectly authorised to marry, to be ranked or not among the Clerical Snobs?'|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000003_000002.wav|Let that be sufficient punishment; and, if you please, do not press the query.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000012_000004.wav|He wrote annually reams of the best intentioned and vapid sermons.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000010_000006.wav|A well bred Snob is just as secretly proud of his riches and honours as a PARVENU Snob who makes the most ludicrous exhibition of them; and a high born Marchioness or Duchess just as vain of herself and her diamonds, as Queen Quashyboo, who sews a pair of epaulets on to her skirt, and turns out in state in a cocked hat and feathers.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000017_000000.wav|Could he have done better?|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000013_000001.wav|He quarrelled with his aunt for dining out every night.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000008_000003.wav|There, at least, the Heralds' College itself might allow that we all of us have the same pedigree, and are direct descendants of Eve and Adam, whose inheritance is divided amongst us.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000010_000001.wav|Can satire go farther than this?|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000003_000001.wav|One of the illustrated weekly papers has already seized hold of the clergyman, and blackened him most unmercifully, by representing him in his cassock performing the marriage service.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000012_000003.wav|His conduct to his poor was admirable.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000010_000005.wav|This is only a little more openly and undisguisedly snobbish than the cases before alluded to.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000010_000003.wav|It is as if a man wouldn't go to heaven unless he went in a special train, or as if he thought (as some people think about vaccination) Confirmation more effectual when administered at first hand.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000016_000001.wav|He might have married his cousin with four thousand pounds, the wine merchant's daughter (the old gentleman quarrelled with his nephew for not soliciting wine orders from Lord b for him): he might have had seven children, and taken private pupils, and eked out his income, and lived and died a country parson.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/11258/3816_11258_000013_000003.wav|He DOUBLE BARRELLED his name, (as many poor Snobs do,) and instead of t Sniffle, as formerly, came out, in a porcelain card, as Rev.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000011_000003.wav|He would sometimes, without any previous notice, absent himself from his house for two or three days, unaccompanied by servant or attendant.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000007_000004.wav|Knowing, as he did, that such a charge had once been connected with his name, he would of course be perpetually uneasy, and suspect some latent insinuation at every possible opportunity.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000001.wav|But, after a few experiments, we thought it advisable to desist, and leave him to prolong his absence, or to terminate it, as might happen to suit his own inclination.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000002.wav|mr Falkland, who was most painfully alive to every thing that related to his honour, saw these variations, and betrayed his consciousness of them now in one manner, and now in another, frequently before I was myself aware, sometimes almost before they existed.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000011_000006.wav|mr Falkland was sometimes seen climbing among the rocks, reclining motionless for hours together upon the edge of a precipice, or lulled into a kind of nameless lethargy of despair by the dashing of the torrents.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000007_000005.wav|He would doubt and fear, lest every man with whom he conversed harboured the foulest suspicion against him.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000006.wav|Me he always treated, at these times, with fierceness, and drove me from him with a vehemence lofty, emphatical, and sustained, beyond any thing of which I should have thought human nature to be capable.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000009_000005.wav|As to his guilt, I could scarcely bring myself to doubt that in some way or other, sooner or later, I should arrive at the knowledge of that, if it really existed.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000010_000005.wav|The man must indeed possess an uncommon portion of hardness of heart, who can envy me so slight a relief.--To proceed.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000009_000002.wav|It seemed to have all the effect that might have been expected from years of observation and experience.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000009_000001.wav|The constant state of vigilance and suspicion in which my mind was retained, worked a very rapid change in my character.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000007_000000.wav|Is it not unaccountable that, in the midst of all my increased veneration for my patron, the first tumult of my emotion was scarcely subsided, before the old question that had excited my conjectures recurred to my mind, Was he the murderer?|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000005.wav|Upon these occasions there was something inconceivably, savagely terrible in his anger, that gave to the person against whom it was directed the most humiliating and insupportable sensations.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000007_000006.wav|In my case he found that I was in possession of some information, more than he was aware of, without its being possible for him to decide to what it amounted, whether I had heard a just or unjust, a candid or calumniatory tale.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000006_000000.wav|CHAPTER four.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000009.wav|What he endured in the intercourse between us appeared to be gratuitous evil.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000005.wav|I had some consolation in the midst of my restlessness.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000010_000002.wav|I have already said, that one of the motives which induced me to the penning of this narrative, was to console myself in my insupportable distress.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000010_000004.wav|While I recollect or describe past scenes, which occurred in a more favourable period of my life, my attention is called off for a short interval, from the hopeless misfortune in which I am at present involved.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000010.wav|He had only to wish that there was no such person as myself in the world, and to curse the hour when his humanity led him to rescue me from my obscurity, and place me in his service.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000008.wav|But to mr Falkland there was no consolation.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000007_000001.wav|It was a kind of fatal impulse, that seemed destined to hurry me to my destruction.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000003.wav|At one time he would suddenly yield to his humble, venerable friend, murmuring grievously at the constraint that was put upon him, but without spirit enough even to complain of it with energy.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000000.wav|The fluctuating state of my mind produced a contention of opposite principles, that by turns usurped dominion over my conduct.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000007_000003.wav|That was as completely accounted for from the consideration of his excessive sensibility in matters of honour, as it would have been upon the supposition of the most atrocious guilt.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000000.wav|At first, when we received intelligence at any time of the place to which mr Falkland had withdrawn himself, some person of his household, mr Collins or myself, but most generally myself, as I was always at home, and always, in the received sense of the word, at leisure, went to him to persuade him to return.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000009_000003.wav|The strictness with which I endeavoured to remark what passed in the mind of one man, and the variety of conjectures into which I was led, appeared, as it were, to render me a competent adept in the different modes in which the human intellect displays its secret workings.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000012_000004.wav|At another time, even though complying, he would suddenly burst out in a paroxysm of resentment.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000006.wav|Curiosity is a principle that carries its pleasures, as well as its pains, along with it.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000011_000007.wav|He would remain for whole nights together under the naked cope of heaven, inattentive to the consideration either of place or time; insensible to the variations of the weather, or rather seeming to be delighted with that uproar of the elements, which partially called off his attention from the discord and dejection that occupied his own mind.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000011_000000.wav|For some time after the explanation which had thus taken place between me and mr Falkland, his melancholy, instead of being in the slightest degree diminished by the lenient hand of time, went on perpetually to increase.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000010_000001.wav|I shall come soon enough to the story of my own misery.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000011_000005.wav|But it was impossible that a man of mr Falkland's distinction and fortune should long continue in such a practice, without its being discovered what was become of him; though a considerable part of our county was among the wildest and most desolate districts that are to be found in South Britain.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000011_000002.wav|It was no longer practicable wholly to conceal them from the family, and even from the neighbourhood.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3816/19585/3816_19585_000008_000003.wav|The situation of both was distressing; we were each of us a plague to the other; and I often wondered, that the forbearance and benignity of my master was not at length exhausted, and that he did not determine to thrust from him for ever so incessant an observer.|3816
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000004_000003.wav|After which the prince said, "Cousin, we must lose no time; therefore pray oblige me by taking this lady along with you, and conducting her to such a place, where you will see a tomb newly built in form of a dome: you will easily know it; the gate is open; enter it together, and tarry till I come, which will be very speedily."|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000009_000000.wav|I arrived at my father's capital, where, contrary to custom, I found a numerous guard at the gate of the palace, who surrounded me as I entered.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000012_000000.wav|Being in such a condition, I could not travel far at a time; I retired to remote places during the day, and travelled as far by night as my strength would allow me.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000021_000000.wav|After a while, casting his eyes upon me, "Dear nephew," cried he, embracing me, "if I have lost that unworthy son, I shall happily find in you what will better supply his place." The reflections he made on the doleful end of the prince and princess his daughter made us both weep afresh.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000003_000004.wav|We continued a long time at table, and after we had both supped; "Cousin," said he, "you will hardly be able to guess how I have been employed since your last departure from hence, about a year past.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000007_000004.wav|I was sensibly afflicted, and went to the public burying place, where there were several tombs like that which I had seen: I spent the day in viewing them one after another, but could not find that I sought for, and thus I spent four days successively in vain.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000004_000002.wav|We sat down again with this lady at table, where we continued some time, conversing upon indifferent subjects; and now and then filling a glass to each other's health.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000006_000001.wav|Then my cousin, speaking to the lady, said, "Madam, it is by this way that we are to go to the place I told you of:" upon which the lady advanced, and went down, and the prince began to follow; but first turning to me, said, "My dear cousin, I am infinitely obliged to you for the trouble you have taken; I thank you.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000017_000003.wav|The sultan went up, and opening the curtains, perceived the prince his son and the lady in bed together, but burnt and changed to cinder, as if they had been thrown into a fire, and taken out before they were consumed.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000006_000000.wav|The hatchet served him to break down the empty sepulchre in the middle of the tomb; he took away the stones one after another, and laid them in a corner; he then dug up the ground, where I saw a trap door under the sepulchre, which he lifted up, and underneath perceived the head of a staircase leading into a vault.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000004_000001.wav|I very readily took the oath required of me: upon which he said to me, "Stay here till I return, I will be with you in a moment; and accordingly he came with a lady in his hand, of singular beauty, and magnificently apparelled: he did not intimate who she was, neither did I think it would be polite to enquire.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000003_000003.wav|The last time I saw him, he received me with greater demonstrations of tenderness than he had done at any time before; and resolving one day to give me a treat, he made great preparations for that purpose.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000028_000002.wav|"This, madam," said he, "is, in obedience to your commands, the account I was to give how I lost my right eye, wherefore my beard and eye brows are shaved, and how I came to be with you at this time."|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000011_000000.wav|But the usurper's cruelty did not stop here; he ordered me to be shut up in a machine, and commanded the executioner to carry me into the country, to cut off my head, and leave me to be devoured by birds of prey.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000028_000001.wav|But good fortune having brought us to your gate, we made bold to knock, when you received us with so much kindness, that we are incapable of rendering suitable thanks.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000003_000006.wav|But first you are to promise me upon oath, that you will keep my secret, according to the confidence I repose in you."|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000019_000004.wav|But that unfortunate creature had swallowed so much of the poison, that all the obstacles which by my prudence I could lay in the way served only to inflame her love.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000019_000002.wav|This tenderness increased as they grew in years, and to such a height, that I dreaded the end of it.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000017_000000.wav|From this antechamber we came into another, very large, supported by columns, and lighted by several branched candlesticks.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000005_000001.wav|We were scarcely got thither, when we saw the prince following us, carrying a pitcher of water, a hatchet, and a little bag of mortar.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000013_000000.wav|I gave him a long detail of the tragical cause of my return, and of the sad condition he saw me in.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000003_000002.wav|These journeys cemented a firm and intimate friendship between the prince my cousin and myself.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000007_000001.wav|As I returned to my uncle's palace, the vapours of the wine got up into my head; however, I reached my apartment, and went to bed.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000008_000000.wav|You must know, that all this while the sultan my uncle was absent, and had been hunting for several days; I grew weary of waiting for him, and having prayed his ministers to make my apology at his return, left his palace, and set out towards my father's court.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135892/1349_135892_000026_000001.wav|"I shall move him to compassion," said I to myself, "by the relation of my uncommon misfortunes, and without doubt he will take pity on a persecuted prince, and not suffer me to implore his assistance in vain."|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000004_000000.wav|In a short time the lady stopped before a gate that was shut, and knocked: a Christian, with a venerable long white beard, opened it; and she put money into his hand, without speaking; but the Christian, who knew what she wanted, went in, and in a little time, brought a large jug of excellent wine.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000023_000006.wav|But I cannot without laughing think of their amusing and uniform figure." Here Safie laughed so heartily, that the two sisters and the porter could not refrain from laughing also.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000015_000000.wav|"My ladies," replied the porter, "by your very air, I judged at first that you were persons of extraordinary merit, and I conceive that I am not mistaken.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000008_000001.wav|"Pray, Sister," said the beautiful portress, "come in, what do you stay for?|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000029_000001.wav|Each man took the instrument he liked, and all three together began to play a tune The ladies, who knew the words of a merry song that suited the air, joined the concert with their voices; but the words of the song made them now and then stop, and fall into excessive laughter.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000018_000006.wav|The song pleased the ladies much, and each of them afterwards sung one in her turn.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000051_000000.wav|The next business was to settle who should carry the message.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000002_000000.wav|STORY OF THE THREE CALENDERS, SONS OF SULTANS; AND OF THE FIVE LADIES OF BAGDAD.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000022_000001.wav|When they were all in the best humour possible, they heard a knocking at the gate.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000033_000000.wav|Safie made the business known to her sisters, who considered for some time what to do: but being naturally of a good disposition, and having granted the same favour to the three calenders, they at last consented to let them in.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000054_000002.wav|The frightened porter interrupted her thus: "In the name of heaven, do not put me to death for another man's crime.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000018_000008.wav|The day drawing to a close, Safie spoke in the name of the three ladies, and said to the porter, "Arise, it is time for you to depart." But the porter, not willing to leave good company, cried, "Alas! ladies, whither do you command me to go in my present condition?|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000014_000003.wav|If thy own breast cannot keep thy counsel, how canst thou expect the breast of another to be more faithful?'"|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000034_000000.wav|The caliph, his grand vizier, and the chief of the eunuchs, being introduced by the fair Safie, very courteously saluted the ladies and the calenders.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000018_000005.wav|That as the wind bears with it the sweet scents of the purfumed places over which it passes, so the wine he was going to drink, coming from her fair hands, received a more exquisite flavour than it naturally possessed.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000051_000003.wav|What are you disputing about?"|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000031_000002.wav|"No matter," said the caliph, "I command you to knock." Jaaffier complied; Safie opened the gate, and the vizier, perceiving by the light in her hand, that she was an incomparable beauty, with a very low salutation said, "We are three merchants of Mossoul, who arrived here about ten days ago with rich merchandise, which we have in a warehouse at a caravan serai, where we have also our lodging.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000031_000004.wav|Night being come on, and the music and dancers making a great noise, the watch, passing by, caused the gate to be opened and some of the company to be taken up; but we had the good fortune to escape by getting over the wall.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000018_000007.wav|In short, they were all very pleasant during the repast, which lasted a considerable time, and nothing was wanting that could serve to render it agreeable.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000028_000000.wav|"Honest man," said the calender, "do not put yourself in a passion; we should be sorry to give you the least occasion; on the contrary, we are ready to receive your commands." Upon which, to put an end to the dispute, the ladies interposed, and pacified them.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000023_000004.wav|They care not what place we put them in, provided they may be under shelter; they would be satisfied with a stable.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000031_000005.wav|Being strangers, and somewhat overcome with wine, we are afraid of meeting that or some other watch, before we get home to our khan.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000035_000001.wav|We are not censorious, nor impertinently curious; it is enough for us to notice affairs that concern us, without meddling with what does not belong to us." Upon this they all sat down, and the company being united, they drank to the health of the new comers.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000005_000001.wav|As she went by a butcher's stall, she made him weigh her twenty five pounds of his best meat, which she ordered the porter to put also into his basket.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000005_000002.wav|At another shop, she took capers, tarragon, cucumbers, sassafras, and other herbs, preserved in vinegar: at another, she bought pistachios, walnuts, filberts, almonds, kernels of pine apples, and such other fruits; and at another, all sorts of confectionery.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000036_000000.wav|While the vizier, entertained the ladies in conversation, the caliph could not forbear admiring their extraordinary beauty, graceful behaviour, pleasant humour, and ready wit; on the other hand, nothing struck him with more surprise than the calenders being all three blind of the right eye.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000023_000002.wav|There are three calenders at our gate, at least they appear to be such by their habit; but what will surprise you is, they are all three blind of the right eye, and have their heads, beards, and eye brows shaved.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000030_000001.wav|The caliph Haroon al Rusheed was frequently in the habit of walking abroad in disguise by night, that he might discover if every thing was quiet in the city, and see that no disorders were committed.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000006_000001.wav|They walked till they came to a magnificent house, whose front was adorned with fine columns, and had a gate of ivory. There they stopped, and the lady knocked softly.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000007_000002.wav|Just as he was about to ask her some questions upon this head, another lady came to open the gate, and appeared to him so beautiful, that he was perfectly surprised, or rather so much struck with her charms, that he had nearly suffered his basket to fall, for he had never seen any beauty that equalled her.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000025_000000.wav|At their entrance they made a profound obeisance to the ladies, who rose up to receive them, and told them courteously that they were welcome, that they were glad of the opportunity to oblige them, and to contribute towards relieving the fatigues of their journey, and at last invited them to sit down with them.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000003_000000.wav|In the reign of Caliph Haroon al Rusheed, there was at Bagdad, a porter, who, notwithstanding his mean and laborious business, was a fellow of wit and good humour.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000031_000001.wav|The vizier, in vain represented to him that the noise proceeded from some women who were merry making, that without question their heads were warm with wine, and that it would not be proper he should expose himself to be affronted by them: besides, it was not yet an unlawful hour, and therefore he ought not to disturb them in their mirth.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000018_000003.wav|Soon after, the ladies took their places, and made the porter sit down by them, who was overjoyed to see himself seated with three such admirable beauties.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000028_000001.wav|When the calenders were seated, the ladies served them with meat; and Safie, being highly pleased with them, did not let them want for wine.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000021_000000.wav|The porter went and read these words, written in large characters of gold: "He who speaks of things that do not concern him, shall hear things that will not please him." Returning again to the three sisters, "Ladies," said he, "I swear to you that you shall never hear me utter a word respecting what does not relate to me, or wherein you may have any concern."|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000049_000003.wav|We shall be still more to blame, if any mischief befall us; for it is not likely that they would have extorted such a promise from us, without knowing themselves to be in a condition to punish us for its violation."|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000012_000000.wav|The porter was well satisfied with the money he had received; but when he ought to have departed, he could not summon sufficient resolution for the purpose.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000014_000000.wav|The ladies fell a laughing at the porter's reasoning; after which Zobeide gravely addressed him, "Friend, you presume rather too much; and though you do not deserve that I should enter into any explanation with you, I have no objection to inform you that we are three sisters, who transact our affairs with so much secrecy that no one knows any thing of them.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000045_000001.wav|However, this gave her no ease, for she fell into a fit.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000006_000000.wav|She then went to a druggist, where she furnished herself with all manner of sweet scented waters, cloves, musk, pepper, ginger, and a great piece of ambergris, and several other Indian spices; this quite filled the porter's basket, and she ordered him to follow her.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000060_000002.wav|This, madam, is my history."|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000058_000001.wav|Those who tell us their history, and the occasion of their coming, do them no hurt, let them go where they please; but do not spare those who refuse to give us that satisfaction."|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000018_000009.wav|What with drinking and your society, I am quite beside myself.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000014_000001.wav|We have but too much reason to be cautious of acquainting indiscreet persons with our counsel; and a good author that we have read, says, Keep thy own secret, and do not reveal it to any one.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000030_000000.wav|In the height of this diversion, when the company were in the midst of their jollity, a knocking was heard at the gate; Safie left off singing, and went to see who it was.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000034_000003.wav|But before I proceed farther, I hope you will not take it ill if we desire one favour of you." "Alas!" said the vizier, "what favour?|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1349/135891/1349_135891_000043_000001.wav|She went towards Safie and opened the case, from whence she took a lute, and presented it to her: and after some time spent in tuning it, Safie began to play, and accompanying the instrument with her voice, sung a song about the torments that absence creates to lovers, with so much sweetness, that it charmed the caliph and all the company.|1349
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000042_000001.wav|Be patient, darling, and try to trust both your heavenly and your earthly father.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000102_000003.wav|And you will help him, won't you?"|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000065_000000.wav|Chloe was just putting the finishing touches to her young lady's toilet when little Horace came running down the hall, and rapping on Elsie's door, called out, "Sister, papa says put on a short dress, and your walking shoes, and come take a stroll on the beach with us before breakfast."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000095_000000.wav|"A likely story; it is in a very different hand from yours."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000044_000001.wav|"I do not think you can help grieving, darling, though I agree with you that it is your duty to try to be cheerful, as well as patient and submissive; and I trust you will find it easier as the days and weeks move on.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000079_000000.wav|She kept her promise faithfully, and had her reward in much real enjoyment of the many pleasures provided for her.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000002_000000.wav|Oh, what a feeble fort's a woman's heart, Betrayed by nature, and besieged by art.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000085_000000.wav|"You certainly were acquainted with Tom Jackson, and how, but through you, could he have gained any knowledge of Elsie and her whereabouts?"|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000070_000000.wav|"And feel too, I am thankful to be able to say.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000024_000001.wav|"I know it, papa," she murmured.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000003_000000.wav|--FANE'S "LOVE IN THE DARK."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000069_000000.wav|"Thank you, mamma, I am very glad to be here; and I had such a good restful sleep.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000048_000000.wav|"Thank you, best and kindest of mothers; I should never want anything kept from you."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000102_000000.wav|Walter looked at Arthur in surprise.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000005_000001.wav|But don't ask me to leave her again."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000036_000000.wav|"You are greatly fatigued, my child," he said.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000023_000001.wav|She shall never know a pang a father's love and care can save her from." And again his hand rested caressingly on Elsie's head.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000025_000001.wav|If there were any gauge by which to measure love, I know not whose would be found the greatest."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000081_000000.wav|mr Travilla was with them most of the time.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000088_000001.wav|I'm not afraid of you."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000012_000001.wav|He passed his arm about her waist, drew her closer to him, and taking her hand in his, held it in a warm, loving clasp.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000006_000001.wav|I'd be happy, sir, at any time when you can make it convenient for me to see you here, with Horace and the child, or without them."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000089_000000.wav|"Perhaps not, but you may well fear Him who has said, 'a lying tongue is but for a moment.' How do you reconcile such an assertion as you have just made with the fact of your having that letter in your possession?"|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000011_000001.wav|Her feelings had been wrought up to a high pitch of excitement in the struggle to be perfectly submissive and obedient, and now the overstrained nerves claimed this relief.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000009_000000.wav|Egerton was at the depot, but could get neither a word with Elsie, nor so much as a sight of her face.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000061_000000.wav|"You have no lingering doubts as to the identity and utter unworthiness of the man?"|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000098_000003.wav|I have no doubt that you sent that villain to Lansdale to try his arts upon Elsie; and for that you are richly deserving of my anger, and of any punishment it might be in my power to deal out to you.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000042_000003.wav|Look to Him and he will help you to bear it, and send relief in His own good time and way.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000059_000001.wav|Well, that was right, but take it now.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000059_000000.wav|"And didn't like to take it before folks?|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000062_000001.wav|If he had his deserts, he would be in the State's Prison; and to think of his daring to approach my child, and even aspire to her hand!"|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000027_000000.wav|After tea the Allisons flocked in to bid her welcome.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000072_000000.wav|"Come here, daughter," he said, "and tell me if you obeyed orders last night."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000097_000001.wav|The chirography was precisely that of the letter. While slowly convalescing, Arthur had prepared for this expected interview with Horace, by spending many a solitary hour in laboriously teaching himself to imitate Jackson's ordinary hand, in which most of the letters he had received from him were written.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000057_000000.wav|"Has she, darling?|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000039_000000.wav|Elsie walked to the window and looked out.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000100_000001.wav|At one time he had resolved to confess everything, throw himself upon the mercy of his father and brother, and begin to lead an honest, upright life; but a threatening letter received that morning from Jackson had led him to change his purpose, and determine to close his lips for a time.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000041_000000.wav|"Mamma, I do feel it to be very, very sweet to be so loved and cared for.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000104_000002.wav|If you go on as you have for the last three or four years, you will bring down his gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000064_000000.wav|Throwing on a dressing gown over her night dress, she sat down before the open window with her Bible in her hand.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000100_000000.wav|Arthur listened in sullen silence, though his rapidly changing color showed that he felt the cutting rebuke keenly.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000040_000000.wav|"It is not so bad as that, I hope, dear," said Rose, folding her tenderly in her arms; "think how we all love you, especially your father.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000013_000000.wav|How it soothed and comforted her.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000092_000000.wav|"I would."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000080_000000.wav|mr and mrs Dinsmore were still youthful in their feelings, and joined with great zest in the sports of the young people, going with them in all their excursions, taking an active part in all their pastimes, and contriving so many fresh entertainments, that during those few weeks life seemed like one long gala day.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000011_000000.wav|As the train sped onward, again Elsie laid her head down upon her father's shoulder and wept silently behind her veil.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000060_000000.wav|"The dear child; my heart aches for her," he remarked to his wife, as they went out together, "and I find it almost impossible yet to forgive either that scoundrel Jackson or my brother Arthur."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000087_000000.wav|"You may as well speak the truth, sir; it will be much better for you in the end," said mr Dinsmore, sternly, his eyes flashing with indignant anger.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000005_000000.wav|"Yes, aunt, if she wants to come.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000066_000001.wav|I'll be down in five minutes."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000063_000001.wav|The gentle murmur of old ocean came pleasantly to her ear, and sweetly in her mind arose the thought of Him whom even the winds and the sea obey; of His never failing love to her, and of the many great and precious promises of His word.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000098_000000.wav|"I don't believe a word of it," said mr Dinsmore, looking sternly at him.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000053_000000.wav|"Well, dear, that is perfectly natural, but try to be entirely submissive to your father, and wait patiently; and hopefully too," she added with a smile; "for if mr Egerton is really good, no doubt it will be proved in time, and then your father will at once remove his interdict.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000042_000004.wav|You know He tells us it is through much tribulation we enter the kingdom of God; and that whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000057_000003.wav|"But you need rest too, and ought not to stay up any longer."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000004_000001.wav|"Horace, will you bring her to see me again?"|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000102_000001.wav|"Come, Art, speak, why don't you?" he said.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000096_000000.wav|"I can adopt that hand on occasion, as I'll prove to your satisfaction."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000070_000001.wav|But there, your father is calling to you from the sitting room."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000040_000001.wav|I don't know how we could any of us do without you, darling.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000094_000000.wav|"I wrote it myself."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000043_000001.wav|And this seems to be really my only one, while my cup of blessings is full to overflowing.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000039_000001.wav|"How I love the sea," she said, sighing, "but, mamma, to night it makes me think of a text-'All Thy waves and Thy billows have gone over me.'"|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000020_000002.wav|And if anybody's been making her sorry, I'll kill him.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000011_000002.wav|And love's young dream, the first, and sweetest, was over and gone.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000064_000001.wav|She still loved, as of old, to spend the first hour of the day in the study of its pages, and in communion with Him whose word it is.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000069_000001.wav|How well you look."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000016_000000.wav|"No, son," answered mr Dinsmore, patting his rosy cheek, and softly stroking Elsie's hair, "and it is just the same with a man who has but one daughter."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000062_000000.wav|"Not one; and if I could only convince Elsie of his true character she would detest him as thoroughly as I do.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000042_000002.wav|You know that no trial can come to you without your heavenly Father's will, and that He means this for your good.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000009_000001.wav|Her veil was not once lifted, and her father never left her side for a moment.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000053_000001.wav|And if you are mistaken, you will one day discover it, and feel thankful, indeed, to your papa for taking just the course he has."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000009_000002.wav|mr Travilla bought the tickets, and Simon attended to the checking of the baggage.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000105_000000.wav|"No, you've called me a liar, and what's the use of my telling you anything?|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000027_000001.wav|All seemed glad of her coming, Richard, Harold, and Sophy especially so.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000011_000003.wav|She could never hope to see again the man she still fondly imagined to be good and noble, and with a heart full of deep, passionate love for her.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000073_000000.wav|"Yes, papa, I did."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000020_000001.wav|But, mamma, I wasn't teasing her, not a bit; was I, Elsie?|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000103_000000.wav|"I ask no favors from a man who throws the lie in my teeth," muttered Arthur angrily.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000044_000002.wav|You are very young, and have plenty of time to wait; indeed, if all had gone right, you know your papa would not have allowed you to marry for several years yet."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000093_000000.wav|"You have not answered my question about the letter.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000024_000000.wav|She caught it in both of hers and laying her cheek lovingly against it, looked up at him with tears trembling in her eyes.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000052_000000.wav|"I know papa is far wiser than I, but, oh, my heart will not believe what they say of-of him!" she cried with sudden, almost passionate vehemence.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000088_000000.wav|"And you may as well remember that it isn't Elsie you are dealing with.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000044_000000.wav|"Let us sit down on this couch while we talk; you are too tired to stand," said Rose, drawing her away from the window to a softly cushioned lounge.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000057_000002.wav|I know you need comfort, my poor little pet," he said, taking the offered seat, and passing his arm round her waist.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000030_000001.wav|It will be altogether better for her health."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000097_000000.wav|He opened his desk, wrote a sentence on a scrap of paper, and handed it to mr Dinsmore.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000046_000000.wav|"Yes, dear; papa told me; for you know you are my darling daughter too, and I have a very deep interest in all that concerns you."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000022_000000.wav|"But you wouldn't, papa," said the boy, shaking his head with an incredulous smile.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000059_000002.wav|There, good night.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000078_000000.wav|"I have no fault to find with you on that score, my dear child," he said tenderly, "but if you can be cheerful, it will be for your own happiness, as well as ours."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000082_000000.wav|The whole party left the shore about the last of September, the Allisons returning to their city residence, mr Travilla to his Southern home, and the Dinsmores travelling through Pennsylvania and New York, from one romantic and picturesque spot to another; finishing up with two or three weeks in Philadelphia, during which Rose and Elsie were much occupied with their fall and winter shopping.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000081_000001.wav|He had tarried behind in Philadelphia, as mr Dinsmore and his daughter passed through, but followed them to Cape Island a few days later.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000102_000002.wav|"Horace, don't look so stern and angry, I know he means to turn over a new leaf; for he told me so.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000010_000000.wav|He walked back to his boarding house, cursing his ill luck and Messrs. Dinsmore and Travilla, and gave notice to his landlady that his room would become vacant the next morning.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000074_000000.wav|"I am writing a few lines to Aunt Wealthy, to tell her of our safe arrival.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000027_000002.wav|They were full of plans for giving her pleasure, and crowding the greatest possible amount of enjoyment into the four or five weeks of their expected sojourn on the island.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000075_000000.wav|"Only my love, papa, and-and that she must not be anxious about me, as she said that she should.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000104_000003.wav|I presume you have put yourself in Jackson's power; but if you will now make a full and free confession to me, and promise amendment, I will help you to get rid of the rascal's claims upon you, and start afresh.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000056_000000.wav|"I thought it was only permission, papa, not command," she answered, lifting her eyes to his face, and moving to make room for him by her side.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000099_000001.wav|I hoped to find you penitent and ready to forsake your evil courses; and in that case, intended to help you to pay off your debts and begin anew, without paining father with the knowledge that his confidence in you has been again so shamefully abused.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000043_000002.wav|I fear I am very wicked to feel so sad."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000012_000000.wav|Her father understood and sympathized with it all.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000018_000000.wav|"Sister is tired with her journey," said mamma tenderly; "we won't tease her to night."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000076_000001.wav|How it rejoices my heart to see you looking so bright and well this morning."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000015_000000.wav|"You shall never go away again," said the little fellow, hugging her tight.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000032_000001.wav|"Your system should become used to that before you take more."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000098_000001.wav|"Arthur, you had better be frank and open with me.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000058_000000.wav|"But surely papa knows I cannot go to bed without my good night kiss when he is in the same house with me," she said, winding her arms about his neck.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000024_000002.wav|"I know you love your foolish little daughter very dearly; almost as dearly as she loves you."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000090_000000.wav|"I say it's a cowardly piece of business for you to give the lie to a fellow that hasn't the strength to knock you down for it."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000067_000000.wav|She came down looking sweet and fresh as the morning; a smile on the full red lips, and a faint tinge of rose color on the cheeks that had been so pale the night before.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000017_000000.wav|"You don't look bright and merry, as you did when you went away," said the child, bending a gaze of keen, loving scrutiny upon the sweet face, paler, sadder, and more heavy eyed than he had ever seen it before.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000021_000000.wav|"But suppose papa was the one who had made her sorry; what then?" asked mr Dinsmore.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000041_000001.wav|I could not tell you how dear you and my little brother are to me, and as for papa-sometimes I am more than half afraid I make an idol of him; and yet-oh, mamma," she murmured, hiding her face in Rose's bosom, "why is it that I can no longer be in love with the loves that so fully satisfied me?"|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000057_000001.wav|Bless her for it!|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000083_000000.wav|mr Dinsmore took this opportunity to pay another flying visit to his two young brothers.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000091_000000.wav|"You would hardly attempt that if you were in perfect health, Arthur."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000084_000000.wav|"I know nothing about it," was the sullen rejoinder.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000075_000001.wav|That I am very safe and happy in the hands of my heavenly Father-and those of the kind earthly one He has given me," she added in a whisper, putting her arms about his neck, and looking in his face with eyes brimful of filial tenderness and love.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000009_000003.wav|Then the train came thundering up, and the fair girl was hurried into it, mr Travilla, on one side, and her father on the other, effectually preventing any near approach to her person on the part of the baffled and disappointed fortune hunter.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000037_000000.wav|She was very glad to avail herself of the permission.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000047_000000.wav|A tender caress accompanied the words, and was returned with equal ardor.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000028_000000.wav|"It will be moonlight next week," said Sophy; "and we'll have some delightful drives and walks along the beach.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000066_000000.wav|"Yes, tell papa I will.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000035_000000.wav|mr Dinsmore was watching his daughter.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000104_000004.wav|Will you do it?"|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000050_000002.wav|He told me he had been, at one time, a little wild, but surely he ought not to be condemned for that, after he had repented and reformed."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000013_000001.wav|She could never be very wretched while thus tenderly loved, and cherished.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000099_000002.wav|But I must say that your persistent denial of your complicity with that scoundrel Jackson does not look much like contrition, or intended amendment."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000104_000001.wav|"But, Arthur, I give you one more chance, and for our father's sake I hope you will avail yourself of it.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER nineteen.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000050_000001.wav|From the first he seemed to be a perfect gentleman, educated, polished, and refined; and afterward he became-at least so I thought from the conversations we had together-truly converted, and a very earnest, devoted Christian.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000007_000000.wav|"Thank you, Miss Stanhope; and mother and I would be delighted to see you at Ion."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000033_000000.wav|"Yes, that is what some of the doctors here, and the oldest inhabitants, tell us," remarked mr Allison, "and I believe it is the better plan."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000063_000000.wav|Elsie lay all night in a profound slumber, and awoke at an early hour the next morning, feeling greatly refreshed and invigorated.|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6388/64974/6388_64974_000022_000001.wav|"You love her too much a great deal; you'd never make her sorry unless she'd be naughty; and she's never one bit naughty,--always minds you and mamma the minute you speak."|6388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000012_000001.wav|"But I've found something," muttered he to himself, between his set teeth, and within five minutes more was again closeted with the post commander.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000014_000000.wav|"Yes.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000011_000000.wav|"Lost anything, Captain Blake?"|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000017_000001.wav|There's a courier coming-hard!|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000027_000017.wav|Only for a second or two, however.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000017_000002.wav|Mother saw him-too, through the-spyglass.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000005_000001.wav|From Omaha,--department headquarters,--almost on the heels of the Laramie wire came cheery word from their gallant chief: "Coming to join you noon train to day. Cheyenne one thirty to morrow.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000017_000000.wav|"Major, you told me to keep watch and let you know.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000018_000000.wav|"Right!" cried Webb.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000007_000001.wav|See!|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000018_000002.wav|Those devils may indeed cut him off.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162238/2397_162238_000027_000013.wav|Theirs was the race, perhaps, but not the prize, for he had turned up far from the expected point.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000025_000000.wav|Two, indeed, of Blake's horses were crippled, and it was high time to be going.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000004_000000.wav|"That means news of importance," said Webb, at the instant.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000016_000000.wav|"Blake!|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000020_000002.wav|Come on, ye scut!" And down they went, full tilt at the Sioux, yet heading to cover and reach the beleaguered party in the hollow.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000020_000000.wav|"Millions, be damned!" yelled Kennedy.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000023_000001.wav|I heard him plainly.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000010_000002.wav|It was no surprise to Dade.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000024_000000.wav|"Picked it up by that pony yonder, sir," answered the corporal, with a salute.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162239/2397_162239_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162253/2397_162253_000012_000017.wav|Something had hit him from behind, but he couldn't tell what.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162253/2397_162253_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty two|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162253/2397_162253_000013_000000.wav|Flint's nerve was failing him, for here was confirmation of the general's theory, but there was worse to come and more of it.|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2397/162253/2397_162253_000017_000000.wav|And presently they came-mrs|2397
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/5710/4152_5710_000003_000000.wav|The most immediate and unequivocal expression of that archaic human nature which characterizes man in the predatory stage is the fighting propensity proper.|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/5710/4152_5710_000003_000001.wav|In cases where the predatory activity is a collective one, this propensity is frequently called the martial spirit, or, latterly, patriotism.|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/5710/4152_5710_000003_000003.wav|Indeed, the leisure class claims the distinction as a matter of pride, and no doubt with some grounds.|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/5710/4152_5710_000010_000000.wav|In the male child the predaceous interval is ordinarily fairly well marked and lasts for some time, but it is commonly terminated (if at all) with the attainment of maturity.|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/5710/4152_5710_000014_000010.wav|The same is true of the encouragement given to the growth of "college spirit," college athletics, and the like, in the higher institutions of learning.|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000009_000001.wav|His little eyes, of a calm blue, were like bits of steel.|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000009_000003.wav|His physical strength, well-known to every one, put him above all danger of attack.|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000013_000004.wav|It seemed, like a pearl, to have its orient.|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000012_000003.wav|Modeste,--blossom enclosed, like that of Catullus,--was she worth all these precautions?|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000012_000000.wav|It was eight o'clock.|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000004_000007.wav|The young fellow looked at Modeste precisely as he would have looked at a cheap lithograph.|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000010_000002.wav|Her face expressed the pleasure she took in the smooth petals of the flower she was working.|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4152/12926/4152_12926_000004_000000.wav|This young man with a livid face-a blonde of the type with black eyes, whose immovable glance has an indescribable fascination, sober in speech as in conduct, dressed in black, lean as a consumptive, but nevertheless vigorously framed-visited the family of his former master and the house of his cashier less from affection than from self interest.|4152
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000011_000002.wav|Cargan offered him a cigar, but he put it aside quickly.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000022_000001.wav|'You cannot! It's impossible!' he said firmly.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000044_000000.wav|'Or a team?'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000042_000000.wav|'Say, you!' Cargan called, 'can you get an auto anywhere here?'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000054_000005.wav|He felt very small and very mean.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000058_000000.wav|'Maybe they'll think I stole this horse.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000070_000001.wav|He could see her tiptoeing at their telephone.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000033_000001.wav|mrs Waldron followed.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000005.wav|'Say, tell him,--' he licked his lips,--'tell him I'm sure glad I saved him.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000003_000000.wav|BUSINESS IS BUSINESS|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000010_000001.wav|'Good bye, dear,' she caroled.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000022_000000.wav|Incredulity, horror, resolve, passed over Waldron's face.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000056_000001.wav|The sky was enormous; he was only a speck on the vast floor.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000073_000001.wav|He scarcely noticed the loiterers who stared at him, or thought of his streaked face, his trousers split at the knee, his hat lost on the wild ride.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000077_000002.wav|There was a row of customers along the soda water counter, and through the open windows came scraps of conversation: two boys were teasing each other about a girl; a group of men were talking auctions, options, prices, real estate.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000053_000001.wav|He walked his horse onward, not daring to trot, struck the dusty highway, rode on over an imperceptible roll of the plains, and was alone on a vast bare earth, naked as when born from the womb of time.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000086_000001.wav|Montana Pacific's off two points more.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000037_000000.wav|'Eccentrics or hot box,' said the man who jumped off the step beside him.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000059_000002.wav|Flinging himself outward, he rolled over on the soft ground, and lay groaning on the prairie.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000056_000005.wav|That face lingered.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000058_000011.wav|Once he slipped, and, screaming, saw for an instant a blur of grass before he could pull himself back to safety.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000020_000000.wav|'You haven't been thinking of selling me out-after all the business I've given you?'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000002.wav|He told you to!--No, I dunno anything about a court decision.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000070_000004.wav|'Martha,' he called quickly,--'tell Casey not to sell out Waldron-tell him right away.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000078_000001.wav|He brushed furtively at the caked dust on his legs, remembering, irritably, the elegance of Waldron, whom he had saved.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000080_000001.wav|Except for Waldron he could have scooped it all in; but now four hundred was all he dared touch,--and perhaps not that.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000061_000004.wav|Never had he so felt the need of humanity, of human aid.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000082_000002.wav|'The old high brow tried to bluff me.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000024_000005.wav|I've borrowed money from my wife-and other places.'--He was too proud to add, 'This is confidential.'--'My boy's just entered college, my girl's just come out. It isn't just the money-' a gush of emotion reddened his face-'You've got to pull me through, Cargan.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000037_000002.wav|What is it, Bill?'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000058_000009.wav|The flat earth swung beneath, the sky swam dizzily.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000077_000004.wav|Then he slid inside the door, and ordered a chocolate soda.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000028_000000.wav|'This is Bloomfield, I think,' he said coldly.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000071_000000.wav|The connection roared and failed.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000048_000002.wav|Say-do you want to?'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000056_000007.wav|The face faded away leaving a dull pity behind it, a struggling remorse.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000033_000003.wav|Her face was troubled, and when they reached the motor, she caught her husband's elbow gently as if to ask him something, but he merely nodded and turned her glance toward Cargan's window.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000007_000006.wav|Drawing out his note book he swiftly figured.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000007_000009.wav|Gotta sell Waldron out. Must have made a thousand dollars out of that account first and last. Too bad.' A momentary sense of Waldron's calamity swept over him, but quickly evaporated.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000010_000006.wav|It was Waldron.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000033_000002.wav|She was a stiff woman, a little faded, quietly dressed.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000071_000001.wav|He hung up the instrument.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000061_000003.wav|A profound pity for himself stirred him.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000056_000010.wav|He was alone with God.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000014_000001.wav|'How much do I lose?' he asked feebly.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000026_000001.wav|'Ab so lute ly, we won't take the risk.'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000078_000002.wav|In the mirror of the soda fountain he saw himself, torn, dirty, shrinking, and the sight filled him with disgust and anger.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000056_000011.wav|God saw into his heart.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000078_000004.wav|'Gimme a cigar,' he called to the boy at the magazine counter; bit off the end, lit it, and began to think business.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000079_000000.wav|The clerk, swirling a cataract of milk from glass to glass, revealed the inner sheet of the paper propped before him.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000004.wav|Well what do you think-' He gulped down the sudden reversal and felt for words.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000069_000002.wav|He called Cargan and Casey, then waited, fidgeting.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000008_000002.wav|Give me a kiss, dear, and take your old shirt.' She was a graceful woman, stiffened by an obvious corset, and faintly powdered.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000013_000001.wav|'Sell, mr Waldron,' he answered earnestly, 'sell right off.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000056_000006.wav|He saw him looking vaguely out of the car window-saying that he couldn't stand up under it-that it was 'impossible.' He wondered if it was a bluff, after all.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000024_000000.wav|Different worlds of imagination revolved in the two men's minds. Theophilus Waldron thought of the children, and of his father the governor, and of the family pride.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000027_000001.wav|Waldron got up stiffly and carefully brushed the cinders from his coat.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000069_000004.wav|The clock ticked in a hush; the chickens droned in whispers; the woman herself worked over the stove with slow fingers, moving the kettles gently.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000007_000000.wav|Cargan turned first, as usual, to the stock market reports.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000085_000001.wav|He saw that he had forgotten to replace the receiver, and putting it to his ear caught Casey's voice again:--|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000059_000003.wav|The well trained horse stopped and began to graze; he too was quivering with fatigue, but his fright was over.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000057_000002.wav|Cargan suddenly became conscious of his appearance-his serge suit, his straw hat, his awkward seat in the saddle.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000030_000001.wav|'I mean,' he faltered, 'that I may not be able to stand up under it.' And then his voice resumed its desperate certainty.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000041_000000.wav|There was no house in sight, no road, nothing but the dead train, the new land of endless shimmering prairies, and, beyond the ditch, a single horseman looking curiously at the long cars and the faces strained against the glass of the windows.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000003.wav|Up fifteen points on a merger!|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000040_000000.wav|'Walk then,' said the conductor stolidly.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000001.wav|Sold it!|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000021_000000.wav|Cargan nodded.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000016_000001.wav|With punctilious care he unbuttoned his gray cutaway, took out a wallet from under the button of the Society of Colonial Wars, drew forth a sheet of note paper, and with a pencil inscribed a broad o 'There's my collateral, mr Cargan,' he said whimsically.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000084_000003.wav|He felt better and better.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000068_000000.wav|'And say, can I use your telephone?'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000062_000001.wav|It, too, was lost.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000051_000000.wav|'Gimme it to take for you.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000046_000001.wav|He had never ridden a horse.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000030_000002.wav|'I mean, sir, that what you propose is impossible.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000082_000001.wav|Sell that Benningham Common-yes, Waldron's.' At the name his anger broke loose.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000019_000000.wav|The gentleman put his wallet back hurriedly as if some one had laughed at it, and cast a quick, hurt look at his broker.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000087_000001.wav|'Sell out the old gambler!|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000010_000000.wav|The train was starting; indeed he had just time to dash up the steps of his car.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000080_000004.wav|The reaction was complete.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000074_000000.wav|But as he plodded onward the atmosphere of town had its effect.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000049_000000.wav|Cargan was tempted.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000007_000005.wav|In each case the collateral deposited had already been insufficient.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000012_000001.wav|'What'll I do, Cargan?|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000033_000005.wav|Then the children hustled the old folks into the tonneau and they were off, just as the train started.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000013_000002.wav|That Brogan crowd's runnin' the company now, and they're no good, sell quick.'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000016_000000.wav|The old man blinked rapidly, then conquered his pride.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000082_000000.wav|'Go ahead,' said the operator,--and, at the word, 'Hey there, Casey,' he yelled at the dim voice on the wires, 'I've gotta have five thousand quick!|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000014_000000.wav|Waldron looked at him in doubt.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000026_000000.wav|'Business is business, mr Waldron,' he said curtly.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000050_000000.wav|'What'll I do with my suit case?'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000008_000003.wav|A long yellow feather dangled from her orange hat, big pearls were set in her ears, and her shoe buckles glittered as she walked.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000045_000000.wav|It shook its head again.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000007_000004.wav|His eye caught an explanatory note: the dividend on the preferred had been cut; the surplus was heavily reduced. His mind, searching rapidly over their business, fixed upon two marginal accounts-Jim Smith's and Waldron's.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000009_000000.wav|He kissed her admiringly.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000024_000006.wav|It's impossible; it's out of the question for me to break now!'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000066_000000.wav|'Say, is Hamden near here?' he asked of a slim woman in a gingham dress who appeared at the door.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000059_000000.wav|He did not note how far they ran; but at last came a slower motion, a gallop, and then a trot.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000079_000003.wav|'Good gosh,' he gulped inwardly, 'what a chance!' It was a sure thing for the man with the money.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000058_000008.wav|The speed sickened him.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000028_000002.wav|mr Cargan, there are considerations above business.' His voice failed a little.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000059_000005.wav|The world again was empty, and this time there was no road.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000084_000002.wav|'I'm sure glad,' he repeated more vigorously; 'carryin' him to day was what did it.' A vision of mrs Waldron's happy face rose to bless him; the exhilaration of the morning coursed back into his heart, with a comfortable feeling of good business about it.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000031_000000.wav|He bowed and felt his way down the corridor.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000024_000002.wav|'I didn't mean it that way,' he answered hurriedly.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000000.wav|'What!|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000064_000000.wav|'Hello, is that Annie?' came faintly across the silence.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000084_000004.wav|From somewhere a saying floated into his head: 'Doing good unto others is the only happiness.' 'By heck, that's true,' he commented aloud, and sat smoking peacefully, his mind aglow with pleasant thoughts.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000030_000003.wav|I mean that ab so lute ly you cannot sell me out.'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000029_000000.wav|Cargan had heard that bluff before.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000046_000000.wav|'Or a-horse?' Cargan hesitated.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000083_000006.wav|I'm sure glad.'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000054_000004.wav|He had never before looked at the country except as real estate, never seen the plains, and a curious new sense of the bigness of the earth oppressed him.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000007_000010.wav|'Business is business,' he thought, and remembered, with a little angry satisfaction, Anita Waldron's coming out dance and how the Runkles, who were invited, kept talking about it all winter. 'Old Waldron won't be so darn particular next year.'|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000010_000004.wav|A lurch of the train swung him heavily out among the chairs; to save himself he caught a shoulder and dropped into a seat.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000034_000003.wav|"It's impossible!" Nevertheless, in self defense he began to calculate what it might have cost to carry the account, until the appalling magnitude of the risk shut off the discussion.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8791/291101/8791_291101_000009_000001.wav|'Say, Martha, you look great,' he chuckled.|8791
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000001.wav|The inhabitants of New Orleans look with as much certainty for the appearance of the yellow fever, small pox, or cholera, in the hot season, as the Londoner does for fog in the month of November.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000017.wav|This was the Yellow Fever.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000019.wav|On an average, more than four hundred died daily.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000021.wav|The slow recovery of her reason settled into the most intense melancholy, which gained at length the compassion even of her cruel master.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000015.wav|But the creditors pleaded that they were "an extra article," and would sell for more than common slaves; and must, therefore, be sold at auction.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000005.wav|Sometimes death was the immediate consequence.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000002.wav|In the summer of eighteen thirty one, the people of New Orleans were visited with one of these epidemics.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000020.wav|In the midst of disorder and confusion, death heaped victims on victims.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000013.wav|Morton was overwhelmed with horror at the idea of his nieces being claimed as slaves, and asked for time, that he might save them from such a fate.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000004.wav|There she remained more than a fortnight, and with the exception of a daily visit from her master, she saw no one but the old Negress who waited upon her.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000007.wav|Yet such was the fact.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000011.wav|An inventory of the property was made out by james Morton, and placed in the hands of the creditors; and the young ladies, with their uncle, were about leaving the city to reside for a few days on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain, where they could enjoy a fresh air that the city could not afford.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000022.wav|The beautiful bright eyes, always pleading in expression, were now so heart piercing in their sadness, that he could not endure their gaze.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000023.wav|In a few days the poor girl died of a broken heart, and was buried at night at the back of the garden by the Negroes; and no one wept at the grave of her who had been so carefully cherished, and so tenderly beloved.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000005.wav|One bright moonlight evening as she was seated at the window, she perceived the figure of a man beneath her window.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000005_000008.wav|Jane was purchased by a dashing young man, who had just come into the possession of a large fortune.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000005_000007.wav|She had taken poison.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000005_000001.wav|We need not add that had those young girls been sold for mere house servants or field hands, they would not have brought one half the sums they did.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000001.wav|The poverty of the young man, and the youthful age of the girl, had caused their feelings to be kept from the young lady's parents.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000014.wav|Soon the breath infected the air with a fetid odour, the lips were glazed, despair painted itself in the eyes, and sobs, with long intervals of silence, formed the only language.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000005_000003.wav|Ellen, the eldest, was sold to an old gentleman, who purchased her, as he said, for a housekeeper.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000001_000000.wav|TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000015.wav|From each side of the mouth spread foam, tinged with black and burnt blood.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000013.wav|If, then, a happy crisis came not, all hope was gone.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000016.wav|They were given up, but neither ate nor slept, nor separated from each other, till they were taken into the New Orleans slave market, where they were offered to the highest bidder.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000016.wav|Soon the young maiden was seen descending, and the enthusiastic lover, with his arms extended, waiting to receive his mistress.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000018.wav|At this moment the sharp sound of a rifle was heard, and the young man fell weltering in his blood, at the feet of his mistress.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000021.wav|Friend followed friend in quick succession.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000003.wav|It appeared in a form unusually repulsive and deadly.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000008.wav|Fiery veins streaked the eye; the face was inflamed, and dyed of a dark dull red colour; the ears from time to time rang painfully.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000009.wav|Now mucous secretions surcharged the tongue, and took away the power of speech; now the sick one spoke, but in speaking had a foresight of death.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000002_000001.wav|He's as far From the enjoyment of the earth and air Who watches o'er the chains, as they who wear."|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000005_000011.wav|This was a most singular spot, remote, in a dense forest spreading over the summit of a cliff that rose abruptly to a great height above the sea; but so grand in its situation, in the desolate sublimity which reigned around, in the reverential murmur of the waves that washed its base, that, though picturesque, it was a forest prison.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000014.wav|He even offered to mortgage his little farm in Vermont for the amount which young slave women of their ages would fetch.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000012.wav|The progress of the heat within was marked by yellowish spots, which spread over the surface of the body.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000002_000000.wav|"Is the poor privilege to turn the key Upon the captive, freedom?|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000004.wav|It seized persons who were in health, without any premonition.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000012.wav|But just as they were about taking the train, an officer arrested the whole party; the young ladies as slaves, and the uncle upon the charge of attempting to conceal the property of his deceased brother.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000007_000000.wav|This, reader, is an unvarnished narrative of one doomed by the laws of the Southern States to be a slave.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000004_000002.wav|Like too many, Morton had been dealing extensively in lands and stocks; and though apparently in good circumstances was, in reality, deeply involved in debt. Althesa, although as white as most white women in a southern clime, was, as we already know, born a slave.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000007.wav|The patient was devoured with burning thirst. The stomach, distracted by pains, in vain sought relief in efforts to disburden itself.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000022.wav|The sick were avoided from the fear of contagion, and for the same reason the dead were left unburied.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000002.wav|At the death of his master, Volney had returned to his widowed mother at Mobile, and knew nothing of the misfortune that had befallen his mistress, until he received a letter from her.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000006_000011.wav|Jane wrote a hasty note and threw it out of the window, which was eagerly picked up by the young man, and he soon disappeared in the woods. Night passed away in dreariness to her, and the next morning she viewed the spot beneath her window with the hope of seeing the footsteps of him who had stood there the previous night.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/4158/4744_4158_000003_000006.wav|The disorder began in the brain, by an oppressive pain accompanied or followed by fever.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000010_000003.wav|Tlaloc was appealed to as inhabiting each of the cardinal points and every mountain top.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000000_000002.wav|Fire from water, warmth and moisture from the destructive breath of the tempest, this was the riddle of riddles to the untutored mind.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000004_000003.wav|Five priests, two stewards, and a crowd of slaves served his image.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000001_000004.wav|They typified the paradoxical nature of the storm under the character of the giant Haokah. To him cold was heat, and heat cold; when sad he laughed, when merry groaned; the sides of his face and his eyes were of different colors and expressions; he wore horns or a forked headdress to represent the lightning, and with his hands he hurled the meteors.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000010_000001.wav|Moreover, as has already been pointed out, the thunder god was usually ruler of the winds, and thus another reason for his quadruplicate nature was suggested.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000000_000003.wav|"Out of the eater came forth meat, out of the strong came forth sweetness." It was the visible synthesis of all the divine manifestations, the winds, the waters, and the flames.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000000_000001.wav|The impressive phenomena which characterize it, the prodigious noise, the awful flash, the portentous gloom, the blast, the rain, have left a profound impression on the myths of every land.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000011.wav|Therefore they were in great esteem as love charms.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000004_000001.wav|"He was Prince of Evil and the most respected god of the Peruvians.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000008_000005.wav|He was invoked at seed time and harvest; and as purveyor of nourishment he was addressed as grandfather, and his worshippers styled themselves his grandchildren.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000007_000000.wav|In this pretty waif that has floated down to us from the wreck of a literature now forever lost, there is more than one point to attract the notice of the antiquary.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000008_000000.wav|Again, twice in this poem is the triple nature of the storm adverted to. This is observable in many of the religions of America.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000008_000001.wav|It constitutes a sort of Trinity, not in any point resembling that of Christianity, nor yet the Trimurti of India, but the only one in the New World the least degree authenticated, and which, as half seen by ignorant monks, has caused its due amount of sterile astonishment.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000010_000007.wav|Tohil, the god who gave the Quiches fire by shaking his sandals, was represented by a flint stone. He is distinctly said to be the same as Quetzalcoatl, one of whose commonest symbols was a flint (tecpatl).|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000005.wav|The former was the more powerful.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000001_000003.wav|"There is no end to the fancies entertained by the Sioux concerning thunder," observes mrs Eastman.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000007.wav|For this reason they adored him as their maker.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000009.wav|Few villages were willing to be without one or more of these.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000008_000006.wav|He rode through the heavens on the clouds, and the thunderbolts which split the forest trees were the stones he hurled at his enemies.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000005_000000.wav|Garcilasso de la Vega, a descendant of the Incas, has preserved an ancient indigenous poem of his nation, presenting the storm myth in a different form, which as undoubtedly authentic and not devoid of poetic beauty I translate, preserving as much as possible the trochaic tetrasyllabic verse of the original Quichua:--|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000010_000002.wav|Hurakan, Haokah, Tlaloc, and probably Heno, are plural as well as singular nouns, and are used as nominatives to verbs in both numbers.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000008.wav|He it was, they thought, who produced the thunder and the lightning by hurling stones with his sling; and the thunderbolts that fall, said they, are his children.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000004_000000.wav|Apocatequil's statue was erected on the mountains, with that of his mother on one hand, and his brother on the other.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000008_000004.wav|Therefore he was the patron of husbandry.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000000.wav|As nations rose in civilization these fancies put on a more complex form and a more poetic fulness.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000010_000004.wav|His statue rested on a square stone pedestal, facing the east, and had in one hand a serpent of gold.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000004_000002.wav|From Quito to Cuzco not an Indian but would give all he possessed to conciliate him.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000010.wav|They were in appearance small, round, smooth stones, but had the admirable properties of securing fertility to the fields, protecting from lightning, and, by a transition easy to understand, were also adored as gods of the Fire, as well material as of the passions, and were capable of kindling the dangerous flames of desire in the most frigid bosom.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/83616/4744_83616_000003_000003.wav|For this crime they destroyed him, but their sister proved pregnant, and died in her labor, giving birth to two eggs.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000028_000004.wav|I even feel I ought to-and I must."|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000014_000005.wav|It stood between them.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000006.wav|Besides, the way her husband had put it to her was singular.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000027_000000.wav|"Perhaps in the spring instead-" she said, with a tremor in the voice.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000005.wav|She loved to suffer for them both.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000004_000005.wav|They had angered its great soul.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000016_000002.wav|If you cannot understand, I feel at least you may be able to-forgive." His tone grew tender, gentle, soft.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000001.wav|The discipline would certainly be severe-she did not dream at the moment how severe!--but this fine, consistent little Christian saw it plain; she accepted it, too, without any sighing of the martyr, though the courage she showed was of the martyr order.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000017_000001.wav|He stopped abruptly, and sank back in his chair.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000004.wav|Merely for herself, the nightmare might have left her cold.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000013.wav|Cut off from them he languished as a lover of the sea can droop inland, or a mountaineer may pine in the flat monotony of the plains.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000011_000002.wav|Something I can't define connects my inner being with these trees, and separation would make me ill-might even kill me.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000002.wav|Her husband should never know the cost.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000008.wav|All his best years of active life had been spent in the care and guardianship of trees.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000020_000002.wav|You've never once been selfish, and I cannot bear to hear you say such things.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000002_000003.wav|In this particular case, yielding to his strong desire, she thought the battle won, but the terror of the trees came back before the first month had passed.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000025_000001.wav|I think you need me really,--don't you?" Eagerly, with a touch of heart felt passion, the words poured out.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000004_000006.wav|At its heart was this deep, incessant roaring.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000010.wav|He could not live for long away from them without a strange, acute nostalgia that stole his peace of mind and consequently his strength of body.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000004_000000.wav|The Forest never let her go completely.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000003_000004.wav|It was in abeyance-hidden round the corner.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000028_000000.wav|"In the spring-perhaps," he answered gently, almost beneath his breath. "For they will not need me then.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000006_000000.wav|This she could understand, in a fashion at least, and make allowances for.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000023_000001.wav|He loved the Forest better than herself, for he placed it first.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000014_000004.wav|She almost felt the rush of foliage in the wind.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000007_000001.wav|He consented to a cottage on the edge, instead of in the heart of it.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000001_000000.wav|mrs Bittacy had never liked their present home.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000023_000003.wav|The terror Sanderson had brought revived and shook its wings before her very eyes. For the whole conversation, of which this was a fragment, conveyed the unutterable implication that while he could not spare the trees, they equally could not spare him.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000006_000002.wav|It has the genuine air and mystery, the depth and splendor, the loneliness, and there and there the strong, untamable quality of old time forests as Bittacy of the Department knew them.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000007.wav|It did not take the form of a mere selfish predilection.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000020_000000.wav|"David, He will direct.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000005.wav|It was David's peculiar interest in the trees that gave the special invitation.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000022_000004.wav|My life and happiness lie here together."|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000016_000004.wav|I cannot help it somehow; these trees, this ancient Forest, both seem knitted into all that makes me live, and if I go-"|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000023_000004.wav|The vividness with which he managed to conceal and yet betray the fact brought a profound distress that crossed the border between presentiment and warning into positive alarm.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000001_000002.wav|She liked to see things coming.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000023_000002.wav|Behind the words, moreover, hid the unuttered thought that made her so uneasy.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000028_000003.wav|I wish to stay with them particularly then.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000011_000001.wav|"My duty and my happiness lie here with the Forest and with you. My life is deeply rooted in this place.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000007.wav|It had decided his vocation, fed his ambition, nourished his dreams, desires, hopes.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000003.wav|Chiefly, moreover, for her husband.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000028_000001.wav|All the world can love them in the spring.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000013_000000.wav|"Yes," he replied, "I do.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000002_000004.wav|They laughed in her face.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000016_000003.wav|"My selfishness, I know, must seem quite unforgivable.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000004_000001.wav|It was ever ready to encroach. All the branches, she sometimes fancied, stretched one way-towards their tiny cottage and garden, as though it sought to draw them in and merge them in itself.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000003.wav|In all but this one passion his unselfishness was ever as great as her own.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000018_000000.wav|"My dear," she murmured, "God will direct.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000012_000000.wav|"David, you feel it as strongly as that!" she said, forgetting the tea things altogether.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000008_000000.wav|Only with the last two years or so-with his own increasing age, and physical decline perhaps-had come this marked growth of passionate interest in the welfare of the Forest.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000010_000008.wav|Something higher than two wills in conflict seeking compromise was in it from the beginning.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000026_000001.wav|God bless you for you sweet unselfishness. And your sacrifice," he added, "is all the greater because you cannot understand the thing that makes it necessary for me to stay."|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000003_000003.wav|It was not only in her mind; it existed apart from any mere mood; a separate fear that walked alone; it came and went, yet when it went-went only to watch her from another point of view.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000026_000000.wav|"Now more than ever, dear.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000016_000000.wav|And after a pause of several minutes, disregarding the criticism as though he had not heard it-"I cannot explain it better than that, you see," his grave voice answered.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000005_000001.wav|But instinctively she felt it; and more besides.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000009_000000.wav|The six weeks they annually spent away from their English home, each regarded very differently, of course.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000029_000001.wav|mrs Bittacy, at least, asked no more questions.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000014_000003.wav|She felt suddenly cold, confused a little, frightened.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000021_000000.wav|And then he had suggested that she should go alone perhaps for a shorter time, and stay in her brother's villa with the children, Alice and Stephen.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000003_000001.wav|Far from morbid naturally, she did her best to deny the thought, and so simple and unartificial was her type of mind that for weeks together she would wholly lose it.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000014_000000.wav|The reality of what he hinted at crept into that shadow covered room like an actual Presence and stood beside them.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000029_000000.wav|And in this way, without further speech, the decision was made.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000016_000001.wav|"There is this deep, tremendous link,--some secret power they emanate that keeps me well and happy and-alive.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000004_000003.wav|It would absorb and smother them if it could.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000011_000003.wav|My hold on life would weaken; here is my source of supply.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000015_000000.wav|"There are things-some things," she faltered, "we are not intended to know, I think." The words expressed her general attitude to life, not alone to this particular incident.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000020_000001.wav|Nothing shall harm you.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000013_000001.wav|And it's not of the body only, I feel it in my soul."|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000019_000000.wav|"My selfishness afflicts me-" he began, but she would not let him finish.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4744/31668/4744_31668_000001_000001.wav|She preferred a flat, more open country that left approaches clear.|4744
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000065_000000.wav|Well! they were both ready to go, and on the way his mother talked to him, and asked, 'How it was he had got so strong?'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000093_000000.wav|When they got up to the castle again, the captain took the bear and led it away, and then the lad threw off the hide, and went to a tailor and ordered clothes fit for a prince; and when they were fitted on he went to the king, and said he wanted to find the Princess.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000091_000000.wav|'Well, has it lain still?' the king asked.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000106_000001.wav|At last he said he hadn't any key.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000087_000002.wav|Then the king began to pull and haul at posts and pins, this one up and that one down, till at last a little house floated up to the water's edge. There he kept his daughter, for she was so dear to him that he had hid her, so that no one could find her out.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000034_000000.wav|'Oh!' said the lad to the Troll, 'now I see what you mean to do with me.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000002.wav|At last the news came to the king's ears, that there never had been such fun in the town before, for here was a white bear that danced and cut capers just as it was bid.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000006_000000.wav|'Just as I thought!' said the old dame; 'now we can't go a step farther; a pretty bed we shall have here!'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000055_000000.wav|'You may thank your stars you weren't in that tussle, else you must have lost your life.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000096_000000.wav|'I pity you with all my heart.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000015_000001.wav|That brought her to herself, and she kicked, and scratched, and flung herself about, and at last sat down upon a heap of firewood in the corner; but she was so frightened that she scarce dared to look one in the face.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000057_000003.wav|She never wished it, she said; 'twas quite against her will. They had seized her by force, and she was the King of Arabia's daughter.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000073_000001.wav|'No! let's first burn out his eyes, and then turn him adrift in a little boat.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000056_000000.wav|'What!|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000000.wav|Oh! the lad was ready to go that instant; but the eleven lions went with him.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000071_000000.wav|Then she seized it with both hands, tore it off, and twisted it round her fist.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000077_000000.wav|'Thank you kindly', said he.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000001_000000.wav|Once on a time there was an old beggar woman, who had gone out to beg.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000014_000000.wav|'But what's come over your mother?' said the man, after they had chattered a while.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000003.wav|They came snorting like man eating steeds, and wondered who it was that dared to be there, and said they would tear him to pieces, so small that there should not be a bit of him left.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000039_000000.wav|'Let me see', said the Troll; 'I've got twelve lions in a garden; if they could only get hold of the lad they'd soon tear him to pieces.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000011_000001.wav|There must be men where the lights shine so', said the lad.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000060_000001.wav|''Twould be a pretty thing if I couldn't wield one of these.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000089_000000.wav|'Well!' said the Princess, 'if it sleeps here, I'm sure I won't.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000002.wav|The third day came the Troll's brothers, but they did not come in man's shape.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000090_000005.wav|So in the morning when they heard the king rattling at the posts outside, the lad drew on the hide, and lay down by the stove.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000000_000000.wav|THE BLUE BELT|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000015_000000.wav|So the lad went and took hold of the old dame; and dragged her up the hall along the floor.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000002.wav|After that, he went to a cupboard and took out a great silver dish, and laid the ox on it; and the dish was so big that none of the ox hung over on any side.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000027_000000.wav|'Thank you kindly, that'll do nicely', said the lad; and with that he pulled off his clothes and lay down in the cradle; but, to tell you the truth; it was quite as big as a four poster.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000108_000000.wav|At the door the Princess met him, and told her father this was her deliverer, on whom her heart was set.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000043_000000.wav|'Now, mother, you'll soon be well', said the lad, when he went in, 'for here is the lion's milk.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000087_000006.wav|Then the lad flew at her and tore her to bits, and the Princess began to cry and sob.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000007_000000.wav|But the lad took the bag under one arm, and his mother under the other, and ran straight up the steep crag with them.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000009_000001.wav|But they went on, and in a little while they came to a great house which was all painted red.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000095_000000.wav|Yes; the lad knew all that.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000081_000000.wav|In a little while came a great bird flying with an island in its claws, and let it fall down on the fleet, and sunk every ship.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000040_000001.wav|She would sham sick, and say she felt so poorly, nothing would do her any good but lion's milk.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000008_000000.wav|'Now, don't you see!|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000000.wav|After that he went to the town, where every one was glad because the king had got his daughter back; but now the king had hidden her away somewhere himself, and promised her hand as a reward to any one who could find her, and this though she was betrothed before.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000002_000002.wav|But the lad was a long time gone, for as soon as he got so far into the wood, that the old dame could not see him, he ran off to where the belt lay, took it up, tied it round his waist, and lo! he felt as strong as if he could lift the whole hill.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000002_000001.wav|But when they had gone a bit further, the lad said he must turn aside a moment out of the road, and meanwhile his mother sat down on a tree stump.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000090_000001.wav|But as soon as the king was well gone, the white bear came and begged her to undo his collar.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000020_000000.wav|'Oh! now he's going to roast us alive', she said, in the corner where she sat|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000008.wav|Then all the court began to bewail, and the captain most of all.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000025_000000.wav|'Well!|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000079_000004.wav|So they began to knock it about with large stones, but, after all, they couldn't crack the shell.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000009_000000.wav|But the old dame said those were no Christian folk, but Trolls, for she was at home in all that forest far and near, and knew there was not a living soul in it, until you were well over the ridge, and had come down on the other side.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000004_000000.wav|Yes! he might do that; so when he had got to the top, he saw a light shining from the north.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000017_000000.wav|'Yes, to be sure', said the man.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000035_000000.wav|The Troll did not dare to do otherwise than the lad bade him, and the end of it was that the lad rolled down a great rock, which fell upon the Troll, and broke one of his thighs.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000090_000000.wav|But just then the bear curled himself up and lay down by the stove; and it was settled at last that the Princess should sleep there too, with a light burning.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000094_000000.wav|'You're not the first who has wished the same thing', said the king, 'but they have all lost their lives; for if any one who tries can't find her in four and twenty hours his life is forfeited.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000036_000001.wav|After that he had to put him on his back and carry him home; so he ran with him as fast as a horse, and shook him so that the Troll screamed and screeched as if a knife were run into him.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000057_000004.wav|So they talked on, and at last she asked him what he would do; whether she should go back home, or whether he would have her to wife.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000050_000001.wav|They hold that castle, and round it there is an orchard with apples in it, and whoever eats those apples sleeps for three days and three nights.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000050_000000.wav|'Well!' said the Troll, 'I have two brothers in a castle; they are twelve times as strong as I am, and that's why I was turned out and had to put up with this farm.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000080_000002.wav|As soon as they landed, the lad ordered all the sailors to go and bury themselves up to the eyes in a sandhill, so that they could barely see the ships. The lad and the captains climbed a high crag and sate down under a fir.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000084_000002.wav|'The bear had best sleep here.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000095_000003.wav|When twelve hours were gone, the king said:|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000033_000000.wav|Next day the Troll-for it was a Troll as clear as day-asked if the old dame would stay and keep house for him a few days; and as the day went on he took a great iron crowbar, and asked the lad if he had a mind to go with him up the hill and quarry a few corner stones.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000019_000000.wav|'Of course', said the man, 'that might be got too.' And after he had sat a while longer, he rose up and threw six loads of dry pitch pine on the fire.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000101_000000.wav|So the lad went the same way which the king had led him the night before, and he bade the king unlock door after door till they came down to the pier which ran out into the sea.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000075_000001.wav|So, when he had got his sight again, he went down to the shore and made signs to the lions that they should all lie close together like a raft; then he stood upon their backs while they swam with him to the mainland.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000079_000002.wav|For some time they had fair wind and fine weather, but after that they lay wind bound under a rocky island.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000005.wav|The lad did not wake till late in the afternoon, and when he got on his knees and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, he began to wonder what had been going on, when he saw the marks of hoofs.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000031_000000.wav|'But do you know how to settle him?|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000068_000000.wav|'Yes'--he had.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000068_000001.wav|It was tied round his waist.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000006.wav|When the king heard that, he warned all the court not to laugh.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000067_000000.wav|'Have you got it still?' asked she.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000077_000001.wav|'Now you shall have the doom you passed on me', and he fulfilled it on the spot.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000041_000000.wav|'Then I'm afraid you'll be poorly a long time, mother', said the lad, 'for I'm sure I don't know where any is to be got.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000075_000003.wav|Then he stole up to the castle, like a thief, to see if he couldn't lay hands on his belt; and when he got to the door, he peeped through the keyhole, and there he saw his belt hanging up over a door in the kitchen.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000001_000002.wav|So when they had gone a bit up the hill side, they came upon a little blue belt, which lay where two paths met, and the lad asked his mother's leave to pick it up.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000095_000002.wav|Now in the castle there was a band that played sweet tunes, and there were fair maids to dance with, and so the lad danced away.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000028_000000.wav|'Well!' thought the lad to himself, ''twill never do to go to sleep yet.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000057_000000.wav|So she begged him to come in, that she might talk with him, for she hadn't seen a Christian soul ever since she came there.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000075_000002.wav|When he had reached the shore he went up into a birchen copse, and made the lions lie quiet.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000001.wav|When that was done, he took it up by all the four legs, and laid it on the glowing embers, and turned it and twisted it about till it was burnt brown outside.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000031_000001.wav|Is that what you're thinking of?' said she.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000063_000000.wav|After she had gone, and the lad had wandered about a little, he called to mind that he had been sent on an errand thither, and had come to fetch something for his mother's health; and though he said to himself, 'After all, the old dame was not so bad but she's all right by this time'--still he thought he ought to go and just see how she was.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000007.wav|But while the fun was going on, in came one of the king's maids, and began to laugh and make game of the bear, and the bear flew at her and tore her, so that there was scarce a rag of her left.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000087_000001.wav|He passed along gallery after gallery, through doors and rooms, up stairs and down stairs, till at last he came to a pier which ran out into the sea.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000008_000001.wav|don't you see that we are close to a house! don't you see the bright light?'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000074_000001.wav|They caught game for him, and they plucked the birds and made him a bed of down; but he was forced to eat his meat raw, and he was blind.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000036_000000.wav|'Well! you are in a sad plight', said the lad, as he strode down, lifted up the rock, and set the man free.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000004.wav|When this was done, he bade them go and sit down to supper and eat.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000034_000001.wav|You want to crush me to death; so just go down yourself and look after the cracks and refts in the rock, and I'll stand up above.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000047_000000.wav|That night the Troll began to talk to the old dame again.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000072_000000.wav|'Now', she cried, 'what shall I do with such a wretch as you?|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000023_000000.wav|'Stuff and nonsense!' said the lad; 'no harm if we have.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000079_000001.wav|So he loaded four ships and set sail for Arabia.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000005.wav|They mustn't do that, else it would tear them to pieces.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000019_000001.wav|This made the old hag still more afraid.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000012_000000.wav|'Good evening, grandfather!' said the lad.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000103_000000.wav|'Still five minutes more', said the lad, as he pulled and pushed at the posts and pins, and the house floated up.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000087_000005.wav|So they brought the bear in, and locked the door, and it danced and played its tricks; but just when the fun was at its height, the Princess's maid began to laugh.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000003.wav|This he put on the table, and then he went down into the cellar, and fetched a cask of wine, knocked out the head, and put the cask on the table, together with two knives, which were each six feet long.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000074_000000.wav|So they burned out his eyes and turned him adrift, in spite of his prayers and tears; but, as the boat drifted, the lions swam after, and at last they laid hold of it and dragged it ashore on an island, and placed the lad under a fir tree.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000087_000003.wav|He left the white bear outside while he went in and told her how it had danced and played its pranks.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000080_000001.wav|Yes! they were good to do that, they said, so they set sail with a fine breeze, and got to Arabia in three and twenty hours.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000072_000001.wav|I'll just give you one blow, and dash your brains out!'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000084_000001.wav|'It's no good your going away, when it's so late', said the king.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000085_000000.wav|'Perhaps it might sleep in the ingle by the kitchen fire', said the captain.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000095_000001.wav|Still he wished to try, and if he couldn't find her, 'twas his look out.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000062_000000.wav|So, when they had lived a little while in the castle, the Princess thought she ought to go home to her parents, and let them know what had become of her; so they loaded a ship, and she set sail from the castle.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000006.wav|But her son seized one, and began to cut slices out of the thigh of the ox, which he placed before his mother.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000081_000001.wav|After it had done that, it flew up to the sandhill and flapped its wings, so that the wind nearly took off the heads of the sailors, and it flew past the fir with such force that it turned the lad right about, but he was ready with his sword, and gave the bird one blow and brought it down dead.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000026_000000.wav|As for beds', he said, 'I don't know what's to be done.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000022_000000.wav|'Heaven bless and help us! what a stout heart you have got', said the old dame; 'don't you see we have got amongst Trolls?'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000006.wav|But when he went towards the castle, a maiden looked out of a window who had seen all that had happened, and she said:|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000079_000003.wav|So the sailors went ashore and strolled about to spend the time, and there they found a huge egg, almost as big as a little house.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000000.wav|In a little while back came the man with an ox so fat and big, the lad had never seen its like, and he gave it one blow with his fist under the ear, and down it fell dead on the floor.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000042_000003.wav|So when the rest saw that, they were so afraid that they crept up and lay at his feet like so many curs.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000003.wav|So a messenger came to say the bear must come to the castle at once, for the king wanted to see its tricks.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000032_000000.wav|'Nothing easier', said he; at any rate he would try.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000005_000000.wav|'We must get on, mother; we are near a house, for I see a bright light shining quite close to us in the north.' Then she rose and shouldered her bag, and set off to see; but they hadn't gone far, before there stood a steep spur of the hill, right across their path.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000001_000001.wav|She had a little lad with her, and when she had got her bag full, she struck across the hills towards her own home.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000092_000000.wav|'I should think so', said the Princess; 'it hasn't so much as turned or stretched itself once.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000088_000000.wav|'Stuff and nonsense', cried the king; 'all this fuss about a maid! I'll get you just as good a one again.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000060_000000.wav|'Who?--I?' said the lad.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000003_000000.wav|'Dear mother', said the lad, 'mayn't I just go up to the top of this high crag while you rest, and try if I can't see some sign of folk hereabouts?'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000021_000000.wav|And when the wood had burned down to glowing embers, up got the man and strode out of his house.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000056_000002.wav|No fear of that, I think,' said the lad.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000104_000000.wav|'Now the time is up', bawled the king; 'come hither, headsman, and take off his head.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000064_000000.wav|'What wretches you are to live in this beggarly hut', said the lad. 'Come with me up to my castle, and you shall see what a fine fellow I am.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000061_000001.wav|After he had thus got down, he thrust the sword under his arm and carried it about with him.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000063_000001.wav|So he went and found both the man and his mother quite fresh and hearty.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000046_000000.wav|When the lad heard that, he forced the Troll to get out of bed, threw open the door, and all the lions rose up and seized the Troll, and at last the lad had to make them leave their hold.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000024_000005.wav|So they went, the lad first and the old dame after, but she began to whimper and wail, and to wonder how she should ever use such knives.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000078_000000.wav|'Well, you may live', said the lad, 'but you shall undergo the same punishment you gave me'; and so he burned out the Troll's eyes, and turned him adrift on the sea in a little boat, but he had no lions to follow him.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000050_000002.wav|If we could only get the lad to go for the fruit, he wouldn't be able to keep from tasting the apples, and as soon as ever he fell asleep my brothers would tear him in pieces.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000038_000000.wav|'Well', said the old dame, 'if you can't hit on a plan to get rid of him, I'm sure I can't.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000028_000001.wav|I'd best lie awake and listen how things go as the night wears on.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000029_000000.wav|So after a while the man began to talk to the old dame, and at last he said:|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000016_000000.wav|After a while, the lad asked if they could spend the night there.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000082_000004.wav|So when it got to the castle every one was afraid, for such a beast they had never seen before; but the captain said there was no danger unless they laughed at it.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000090_000002.wav|The Princess was so scared she almost swooned away; but she felt about till she found the collar, and she had scarce undone it before the bear pulled his head off.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000106_000000.wav|But there stood the king and fumbled with his keys, to draw out the time.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000057_000005.wav|Of course he would have her, and she shouldn't go home.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000011_000000.wav|'Don't say so; we must go in.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000042_000000.wav|'Oh! if that be all', said the Troll, 'there's no lack of lion's milk, if we only had the man to fetch it'; and then he went on to say how his brother had a garden with twelve lions in it, and how the lad might have the key if he had a mind to milk the lions.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000087_000000.wav|But at midnight the king came with a lamp in his hand and a big bunch of keys, and carried off the white bear.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000004_000001.wav|So he ran down and told his mother.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000074_000002.wav|At last, one day the biggest lion was chasing a hare which was blind, for it ran straight over stock and stone, and the end was, it ran right up against a fir stump and tumbled head over heels across the field right into a spring; but lo! when it came out of the spring it saw its way quite plain, and so saved its life.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000042_000001.wav|So the lad took the key and a milking pail, and strode off; and when he unlocked the gate and got into the garden, there stood all the twelve lions on their hind paws, rampant and roaring at him.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000040_000002.wav|All that the lad lay and listened to; and when he got up in the morning his mother said she was worse than she looked, and she thought she should never be right again unless she could get some lion's milk.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000054_000001.wav|So when he came to the orchard, he climbed up into the apple tree and ate as many apples as he could, and he had scarce got down before he fell into a deep sleep; but the lions all lay round him in a ring.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000042_000004.wav|After that they followed him about wherever he went, and when he got home, they lay down outside the house, with their fore paws on the door sill.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000032_000002.wav|All this the lad lay and listened to.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000097_000000.wav|'Stuff!' said the lad; 'while there's life there's hope!|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000044_000000.wav|He had just milked a drop in the pail.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000105_000000.wav|'Nay, nay!' said the lad; 'stop a bit, there are still three minutes! Out with the key, and let me get into this house.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000079_000005.wav|Then the lad came up with his sword to see what all the noise was about, and when he saw the egg, he thought it a trifle to crack it; so he gave it one blow and the egg split, and out came a chicken as big as an elephant.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000052_000000.wav|All this the lad lay and listened to.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000010_000000.wav|'What's the good?' said the old dame, 'we daren't go in, for here the Trolls live.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163505/3185_163505_000045_000001.wav|He was sure the lad was not the man to milk lions.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000029_000000.wav|All the while the husband kept on screaming and calling out:|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000043_000000.wav|So the man got a whole cart load of clothes, and a chest full of shining dollars, and as much meat and drink as he would; and when he had got all he wanted, he jumped into the cart and drove off.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000009_000000.wav|Well, she sold her cow for five shillings, but there was no one in the town who would give ten pounds for a lean tough old hen, so she went back to the butcher, and said:|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000004_000000.wav|'Will you sell that cow, Goody?'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000033_000000.wav|'That was another of them', he said to himself, as he walked along.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000018_000000.wav|'If it's you', said her husband, 'don't stand up there like a goat on a house top, but come down and let me hear what you have to say for yourself.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000035_000000.wav|'Whence do you come, master?'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000024_000000.wav|So he got an axe and cut windows in the cottage, for the carpenters had forgotten them; then the sun shone in, and he got his three hundred dollars.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000037_000000.wav|'From Paradise Place!' she cried, 'you don't say so!|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000012_000001.wav|No, it can never be me; it must be some great strange bird.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000012_000002.wav|But what shall I do to find out whether it is me or not.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000008_000000.wav|'Very good!' said the man; 'I don't want the hen, and you'll soon get it off your hands in the town, but I'll give you five shillings for the cow.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000019_000000.wav|So she crawled down again, but she hadn't a shilling to shew, for the crown she had got from the butcher she had thrown away in her drunkenness.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000026_000000.wav|After a while he passed by a house, out of which came an awful screaming and bellowing; so he turned in and saw a Goody, who was hard at work banging her husband across the head with a beetle, and over his head she had drawn a shirt without any slit for the neck.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000021_000000.wav|'Why, Goody!' he asked, 'what are you doing?'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000002_000002.wav|But they had a cow, and the man was to drive it into town and sell it, to get money to buy corn for seed.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000050_000000.wav|peter looked first at the man, and then at the sky, and said:|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000052_000000.wav|'Of course you can't where you stand', said the man; 'but just come and lie down here, and stare straight up, and mind you don't take your eyes off the sky; and then you shall see what you shall see.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000054_000000.wav|When the hoofs thundered along the road, peter the third jumped up; but he was so taken aback when he found the man had gone off with his horse that he hadn't the sense to run after him till it was too late.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000042_000002.wav|Now, if you will take them with you, you shall have a horse and cart to carry them.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000044_000000.wav|'That was the third', he said to himself, as he went along.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000041_000001.wav|As for money, he hasn't a sixpence to bless himself with.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000028_000000.wav|'No', she said, 'I only must have a hole in this shirt for his neck to come through.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000003_000000.wav|Close by the town she met a butcher, who asked:|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000010_000000.wav|'Do all I can, I can't get rid of this hen, master! you must take it too, as you took the cow.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000042_000001.wav|Why, there's a whole cupboard full of old clothes up stairs which belonged to him, besides a great chest full of money yonder.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000012_000004.wav|I know how I shall be able to tell whether it is me; if the calves come and lick me, and our dog Tray doesn't bark at me when I get home, then it must be me, and no one else.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000038_000000.wav|For you must know this Goody had been married three times, and as her first and last husbands had been bad, she had made up her mind that the second only was gone to heaven.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000049_000000.wav|'No', kept on the man, 'I never did see anything like it!--here is a man going straight up to heaven on a black horse, and here you see his horse's tail still hanging in this birch; and yonder up in the sky you see the black horse.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000032_000000.wav|So he got a pair of scissors, and snipped a hole in the neck, and went off with his three hundred dollars.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000014_000000.wav|'Ah, deary me', said she, 'I thought so; it can't be me surely.' So she went to the straw yard, and the calves wouldn't lick her, when they snuffed in the strong smell of tar.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000015_000000.wav|So she crept up on the roof of the safe and began to flap her arms, as if they had been wings, and was just going to fly off.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000002_000003.wav|But when it came to the pinch, the wife dared not let her husband start for fear he should spend the money in drink, so she set off herself with the cow, and took besides a hen with her.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000048_000000.wav|'What do you lie there staring at?'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000022_000001.wav|But in my old cottage I had plenty of sun, though I never carried in the least bit.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000047_000000.wav|Then peter stood and looked at him for some time, wondering what had come over him; but at last he asked:|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000042_000000.wav|'Mercy on me', cried out the Goody; 'he never ought to go about such a figure when he left so much behind him.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000022_000000.wav|'Oh', she answered, 'I'm only carrying in a little sun; but I don't know how it is, when I'm outside, I have the sun in my sieve, but when I get inside, somehow or other I've thrown it away.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000057_000000.wav|'Thank you heartily!' said his wife; 'I never thought you could be so kind.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000022_000002.wav|I only wish I knew some one who would bring the sun inside; I'd give him three hundred dollars and welcome.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000053_000000.wav|But while peter the third lay and stared up at the sky till his eyes filled with tears, the man from Paradise Place took his horse and jumped on its back and rode off both with it and the cart and horse.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000042_000003.wav|As for the horse, he can keep it, and sit on the cart, and drive about from house to house, and then he needn't trudge on foot.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000023_000000.wav|'Have you got an axe?' asked the man.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000012_000000.wav|'Is it me, or is it not me?|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000051_000000.wav|'I see nothing but the horse hair in the birch; that's all I see!'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000056_000000.wav|'I gave it to the man too for peter the second, for I thought it wasn't right he should sit in a cart, and scramble about from house to house; so now he can sell the cart and buy himself a coach to drive about in.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000036_000000.wav|'Oh!' said he, 'I come from Paradise Place', for that was the name of his farm.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000040_000000.wav|'Well', asked the Goody, 'how do things go with him, poor dear soul?'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000055_000000.wav|He was rather down in the mouth when he got home to his Goody; but when she asked him what he had done with the horse, he said,|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000025_000000.wav|'That was one of them', said the man to himself, as he went on his way.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000037_000001.wav|Why, then, you must know my second husband peter, who is dead and gone, God rest his soul.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000002_000000.wav|Once on a time there was a man, and he had a wife.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000002_000001.wav|Now this couple wanted to sow their fields, but they had neither seed corn nor money to buy it with.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000058_000000.wav|Well, when the man reached home, who had got the six hundred dollars and the cart load of clothes and money, he saw that all his fields were ploughed and sown, and the first thing he asked his wife was, where she had got the seed corn from.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000012_000003.wav|Oh!|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000034_000000.wav|Last of all, he came to a farm, where he made up his mind to rest a bit.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000046_000000.wav|'Well, well, if I ever!' he said, as peter the third came riding up. 'No!|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000011_000001.wav|But while she slept, the butcher took and dipped her into a tar barrel, and then laid her down on a heap of feathers; and when she woke up, she was feathered all over, and began to wonder what had befallen her.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000020_000000.wav|So he toddled off, and when he had walked a little way he saw a Goody, who was running in and out of a newly built wooden cottage with an empty sieve, and every time she ran in, she threw her apron over the sieve just as if she had something in it, and when she got in she turned it upside down on the floor.|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000014_000001.wav|'No, no!' she said, 'it can't be me; it must be some strange outlandish bird.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000007_000001.wav|I must have five shillings for the cow, but you shall have the hen for ten pounds.'|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000001_000000.wav|NOT A PIN TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3185/163507/3185_163507_000034_000001.wav|So when he went in, the mistress asked him:|3185
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000029_000001.wav|Now, if a man murdereth, behold will our law, which is just, take the life of his brother?|7475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000017_000001.wav|And behold, it will become a tree, springing up in you unto everlasting life.|7475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000008_000001.wav|If ye have, how can ye disbelieve on the Son of God?|7475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000052_000001.wav|Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.|7475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000014_000001.wav|But there were many who were so hardened that they would not look, therefore they perished.|7475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000017_000004.wav|Amen.|7475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000013_000001.wav|And many did look and live.|7475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7475/232691/7475_232691_000017_000002.wav|And then may God grant unto you that your burdens may be light, through the joy of his Son.|7475
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000078_000000.wav|Raoul obeyed.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000008_000000.wav|At this moment Raoul awoke, without a cloud on his face without weariness or lassitude; his eyes were fixed on those of Athos and perhaps he comprehended all that passed in the heart of the man who was awaiting his awakening as a lover awaits the awakening of his mistress, for his glance, in return, had all the tenderness of love.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000021_000000.wav|"And I was asleep," cried Raoul, "whilst you, sir, you had the kindness to attend to all these details.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000081_000000.wav|Athos waved his hand-he dared not trust himself to speak: and Raoul went away, his head uncovered.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000039_000000.wav|The young man stored in his mind the admonition whilst he admired the delicate tenderness with which it was bestowed.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000044_000001.wav|Apropos, if you fire-and you will do so, for you are recommended to a young general who is very fond of powder-remember that in single combat, which often takes place in the cavalry, never to fire the first shot.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000011_000000.wav|"And you did not awaken me?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000061_000000.wav|There was profound silence.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000046_000002.wav|Then another important thing, Raoul: should you be wounded in a battle, and fall from your horse, if you have any strength left, disentangle yourself from the line that your regiment has formed; otherwise, it may be driven back and you will be trampled to death by the horses.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000007.wav|Raoul, learn how to distinguish the king from royalty; the king is but a man; royalty is the gift of God.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000057_000002.wav|A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000064_000000.wav|"I shall adore God, sir," said Raoul, "respect royalty and ever serve the king.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000081_000001.wav|Athos remained motionless, looking after him until he turned the corner of the street.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000053_000000.wav|"Faith, yes, with a haughty presence, a fine equipage; such as the son of a noble house would have."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000016_000000.wav|"Perfectly well; quite rested, sir."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000043_000000.wav|"Yes, sir.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000033_000000.wav|Athos mounted more slowly, after speaking in a low voice to the lackey, who, instead of following them immediately, returned to their rooms. Raoul, delighted at the count's companionship, perceived, or affected to perceive nothing of this byplay.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000006_000003.wav|Between the past and the present was an ineffable abyss.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000028_000000.wav|"'tis well," said Athos, "I will take care of that."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000082_000000.wav|Then the count threw the bridle of his horse into the hands of a peasant, remounted the steps, went into the cathedral, there to kneel down in the darkest corner and pray.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000057_000000.wav|The two gentlemen then went into the church.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000040_000000.wav|"I have remarked also another thing," said Athos, "which is, that in firing off your pistol you hold your arm too far outstretched.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000048_000000.wav|They arrived that very moment at the gate of the town, guarded by two sentinels.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000044_000002.wav|He who fires the first shot rarely hits his man, for he fires with the apprehension of being disarmed, before an armed foe; then, whilst he fires, make your horse rear; that manoeuvre has saved my life several times."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000080_000000.wav|"Adieu, sir, adieu, my beloved protector."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000069_000001.wav|I will wear it, I swear to you, as a grateful man should do."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000036_000000.wav|"Take care, Raoul!|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000004_000000.wav|At length, after occupying about an hour in these preparations, he opened the door of the room in which the vicomte slept, and entered.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000006.wav|So blind were his contemporaries that they regarded the cardinal's death as a deliverance; and I, even I, opposed the designs of the great man who held the destinies of France within the hollow of his hand.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000036_000002.wav|See! your horse is tired already, he froths at the mouth, whilst mine looks as if he had only just left the stable.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000036_000003.wav|You hold the bit too tight and so make his mouth hard, so that you will not be able to make him manoeuvre quickly.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000067_000000.wav|Raoul bent his knee to the ground.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000007_000000.wav|In recalling all he had been through, he foresaw all that Raoul might suffer; and the expression of the deep and tender compassion which throbbed in his heart was pictured in the moist eye with which he gazed on the young man.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000043_000001.wav|I have fired since in that manner and have been quite successful."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000068_000002.wav|Should your hand still be too weak to use this sword, Raoul, so much the better.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000035_000000.wav|After passing through the Porte Saint Denis, Athos looked at Raoul's way of riding and observed:|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000011.wav|Different in your fate from us, you will have a king without a minister, whom you may serve, love, respect.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000066_000000.wav|"Yours is a noble nature." he said; "here is your sword."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000004.wav|The Palace of the Louvre contains two things-the king, who must die, and royalty, which never dies.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000051_000000.wav|"By his manner, sir, and his age; he's the second to day."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000073_000000.wav|"Oh! for ever and ever!" cried the youth; "oh!|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000068_000000.wav|"It was worn by my father, a loyal gentleman.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000062_000000.wav|Then Athos raised his hand and pointing to the coffin:|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000072_000000.wav|"Adieu," faltered the count, who felt his heart die away within him; "adieu, and think of me."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000001_000000.wav|twenty two.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000009.wav|Raoul, I seem to read your future destiny as through a cloud.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000008.wav|Whenever you hesitate as to whom you ought to serve, abandon the exterior, the material appearance for the invisible principle, for the invisible principle is everything.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000034_000000.wav|They set out, passing over the Pont Neuf; they pursued their way along the quay then called L'Abreuvoir Pepin, and went along by the walls of the Grand Chatelet.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000005_000000.wav|The sun, already high, penetrated into the room through the window, the curtains of which Raoul had neglected to close on the previous evening. He was still sleeping, his head gracefully reposing on his arm.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000027_000000.wav|"Monsieur le vicomte has no sword."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000012.wav|Should the king prove a tyrant, for power begets tyranny, serve, love, respect royalty, that Divine right, that celestial spark which makes this dust still powerful and holy, so that we-gentlemen, nevertheless, of rank and condition-are as nothing in comparison with the cold corpse there extended."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000029_000001.wav|When they reached the steps Raoul saw three horses.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000042_000000.wav|"Because I bent my arm and rested my hand on my elbow-so; do you understand what I mean?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000065_000000.wav|Athos smiled.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000050_000000.wav|"How do you make that out?" inquired Athos.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000079_000000.wav|"Adieu, Raoul," said the count; "adieu, my dearest boy!"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000063_000003.wav|If Richelieu made the king, by comparison, seem small, he made royalty great.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000060_000001.wav|The sepulchral depths of the descent were dimly lighted by a silver lamp on the lowest step; and just below this lamp there was laid, wrapped in a flowing mantle of violet velvet, worked with fleurs de lis of gold, a catafalque resting on trestles of oak.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000040_000002.wav|So in twelve times you thrice missed the mark."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000046_000001.wav|They are.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000003_000001.wav|In the first place he himself furbished a sword, which he drew from its perfumed leather sheath; he examined it to see if its hilt was well guarded and if the blade was firmly attached to the hilt.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000009_000000.wav|"You are there, sir?" he said, respectfully.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000064_000001.wav|And if death be my lot, I hope to die for the king, for royalty and for God.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000064_000002.wav|Have I, sir, comprehended your instructions?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121392/274_121392_000068_000003.wav|You will have the more time to learn to draw it only when it ought to be used."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000045_000000.wav|At that moment the steward came in to consult his master upon the proceedings of the next day and also with regard to the shooting party which had been proposed.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000023_000000.wav|"I fear that is true," said D'Artagnan, in a low tone.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000008_000000.wav|"Speak out, my friend."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000007_000000.wav|"Sir," said the servant, "I have a favour to ask you."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000047_000000.wav|"Your arms, my lord-what arms?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000052_000000.wav|"Make sure of it, and if they want it, have them burnished up.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000026_000001.wav|"What time is it, then?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000052_000001.wav|Which is my best cavalry horse?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000009_000001.wav|Perhaps you will think, sir, that prosperity has spoiled me?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000028_000001.wav|I follow you, though I am not hungry."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000066_000001.wav|We shall serve in a campaign, seek out all sorts of adventures-return, in short, to our former life."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000074_000000.wav|Porthos, meantime, asked D'Artagnan to give him his instructions how to proceed on his journey.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000040_000001.wav|How does it happen, then, that he is in your service?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000030_000001.wav|Meanwhile his misgivings in regard to Mousqueton recurred to his mind and with greater force because Mousqueton, though he did not himself wait on the table, which would have been beneath him in his new position, appeared at the door from time to time and evinced his gratitude to D'Artagnan by the quality of the wine he directed to be served.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000081_000000.wav|"My Lord,--I have already one man to offer to your eminence, and he is well worth twenty men.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000053_000000.wav|"Vulcan."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000067_000000.wav|These last words fell on Mousqueton like a thunderbolt.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000004_000002.wav|The face of the steward, despite one slight shade of care, light as a summer cloud, seemed a physiognomy of absolute felicity.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000002_000000.wav|In the position of Porthos, D'Artagnan would have been perfectly happy; and to make Porthos contented there was wanting-what? five letters to put before his three names, a tiny coronet to paint upon the panels of his carriage!|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000005_000000.wav|"Here is what I am looking for," thought D'Artagnan; "but alas! the poor fellow does not know the purpose for which I am here."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000048_000000.wav|"Zounds! my weapons."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000056_000000.wav|"What horse dost thou choose for thyself?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000010_000000.wav|"Art thou happy, friend?" asked D'Artagnan.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000035_000000.wav|"Oh, blind self love!" thought D'Artagnan.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000028_000000.wav|"Your home is a paradise, Porthos; one takes no note of time.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000072_000001.wav|"But," he added, "in this war prisoners stand a chance of being hung."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000015_000001.wav|You, sir, know how necessary subordination is in any large establishment of servants."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000033_000000.wav|This was a blow to D'Artagnan.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000067_000001.wav|It was those very terrible old days that made the present so excessively delightful, and the blow was so great he rushed out, overcome, and forgot to shut the door.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000061_000000.wav|"Are we then going to travel, my lord?" asked Mousqueton, rather uneasy.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000050_000000.wav|"My military weapons."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000078_000000.wav|The friends then took leave of each other on the very border of the estate of Pierrefonds, to which Porthos escorted his friend.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000059_000000.wav|"Half Norman, half Mecklenburger; will go night and day."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000039_000000.wav|"With his sixteen hundred francs-you remember, the sixteen hundred francs he earned at the siege of La Rochelle by carrying a letter to Lord de Winter-he has set up a little shop in the Rue des Lombards and is now a confectioner."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000026_000000.wav|"What! to dinner?" said D'Artagnan.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000065_000000.wav|"Into the service-the king's service?" Mousqueton trembled; even his fat, smooth cheeks shook as he spoke, and he looked at D'Artagnan with an air of reproach; he staggered, and his voice was almost choked.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000032_000000.wav|"Why," replied Porthos, "Mouston, of course."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000049_000000.wav|"What weapons?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000043_000000.wav|"I should not have believed him; but men are changed by events."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000003_000000.wav|"I shall pass all my life," thought D'Artagnan, "in seeking for a man who is really contented with his lot."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000062_000000.wav|"Something better still, Mouston."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000009_000000.wav|"I am afraid to do so.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000011_000000.wav|"As happy as possible; and yet, sir, you may make me even happier than I am."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000060_000003.wav|Then take pistols with thee and a hunting knife."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000034_000000.wav|"That may be true," replied Porthos; "but I am used to him, and besides, he wouldn't be willing to let me go without him, he loves me so much."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000071_000000.wav|"Oh!" said D'Artagnan, "we don't now make war as we did formerly.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000029_000000.wav|"Come, if one can't always eat, one can always drink-a maxim of poor Athos, the truth of which I have discovered since I began to be lonely."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000001_000000.wav|As they returned toward the castle, D'Artagnan thought of the miseries of poor human nature, always dissatisfied with what it has, ever desirous of what it has not.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000044_000001.wav|Taste of this; it is a Spanish wine which our friend Athos thought much of."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000081_000001.wav|I am just setting out for Blois.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000070_000000.wav|"But-formerly-it appears," began Mousqueton timidly.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000051_000000.wav|"Yes, my lord; at any rate, I think so."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000030_000002.wav|Therefore, when, at dessert, upon a sign from D'Artagnan, Porthos had sent away his servants and the two friends were alone:|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000060_000002.wav|Polish up or make some one else polish my arms.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000076_000000.wav|"That's agreed," said Porthos.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000068_000000.wav|The two friends remained alone to speak of the future and to build castles in the air.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000020_000000.wav|"Will monsieur remain long with us?" asked Mousqueton, with a serene and glowing countenance.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000058_000000.wav|"Strong, thinkest thou?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000066_000000.wav|"Yes and no|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000004_000000.wav|Whilst making this reflection, chance seemed, as it were, to give him the lie direct.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000012_000000.wav|"Well, speak, if it depends on me."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000072_000000.wav|Mousqueton inquired, therefore, the state of the case of his old friend, who confirmed the statement of D'Artagnan.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121382/274_121382_000038_000000.wav|"What is he, then?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000007_000001.wav|"When I saw you at your chateau at Bragelonne, I made certain proposals to you which you perfectly understood; instead of answering me as a friend, you played with me as a child; the friendship, therefore, that you boast of was not broken yesterday by the shock of swords, but by your dissimulation at your castle."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000033_000000.wav|"I swear," he said, with a calm brow and kindly glance, but in a voice still trembling with recent emotion, "I swear that I no longer bear animosity to those who were once my friends.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000044_000000.wav|Athos smiled with ineffable pleasure.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000006_000000.wav|"I wish for nothing more; have you any cause of complaint against me or Monsieur d'Herblay?|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000030_000000.wav|These proceedings made D'Artagnan and Porthos draw back.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000028_000001.wav|"I wish it."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000014_000000.wav|"I consider it worthy conduct of a pupil of Jesuits."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000024_000001.wav|D'Artagnan bent forward, ready either to attack or to stand on his defense.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000034_000000.wav|Athos was about to retire.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000038_000003.wav|Ministers, princes, kings, will pass away like mountain torrents; civil war, like a forest flame; but we-we shall remain; I have a presentiment that we shall."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000030_000001.wav|D'Artagnan did not draw his sword; Porthos put his back into the sheath.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000027_000000.wav|Aramis hesitated.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000047_000000.wav|"We should be so on this occasion, if only to be faithful to our oath," said Aramis.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000052_000000.wav|"Well," resumed Athos, "swear on this cross, which, in spite of its magnificent material, is still a cross; swear to be united in spite of everything, and forever, and may this oath bind us to each other, and even, also, our descendants!|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000002.wav|No, you sounded me, nothing more.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000009.wav|Were you a party man?|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000025_000000.wav|Athos at that moment extended his hand with the air of supreme command which characterized him alone, drew out his sword and the scabbard at the same time, broke the blade in the sheath on his knee and threw the pieces to his right.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000029_000000.wav|Then Aramis, paler than before, but subdued by these words, snapped the serpent blade between his hands, and then folding his arms, stood trembling with rage.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000026_000000.wav|"Aramis," he said, "break your sword."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000025_000001.wav|Then turning to Aramis:|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000013.wav|So much the better; it proves that we know how to keep our secrets."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000048_000001.wav|Devil take me if I've ever been so happy as at this moment."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000046_000000.wav|"Egad!" said D'Artagnan, "by Heaven! yes."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000019_000002.wav|However, because I was prudent you must not take me for a fool.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000010.wav|There is no doubt of that.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000006_000001.wav|If so, speak out," answered Athos.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000022_000000.wav|Porthos, who had not spoken one word, answered merely by a word and a gesture.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000005_000000.wav|"Hear me, count," replied D'Artagnan; "instead of making compliments to each other, let us explain our conduct to each other, like men of right and honest hearts."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000051_000000.wav|Aramis smiled and drew from his vest a cross of diamonds, which was hung around his neck by a chain of pearls.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000043_000001.wav|"You excel us all."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000043_000000.wav|"And are the first of men!" added D'Artagnan.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000020_000000.wav|"What are you meddling with?" cried Aramis, pale with anger, suspecting that D'Artagnan had acted as a spy on him and had seen him with Madame de Longueville.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000001.wav|"You came seeking me to make to me certain proposals, but did you make them?|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000003_000000.wav|After a few minutes of silent embarrassment, Athos spoke.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000016_000000.wav|Upon hearing D'Artagnan's reply, Aramis seemed about to draw his sword, when Athos prevented him.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000037_000000.wav|"And as for me," said Porthos, "I swear nothing, but I'm choked. Forsooth!|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000009_000002.wav|And I have the same sincerity to show you, if you wish, Monsieur d'Herblay; I acted in a similar way to you and you also deceived me."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000005.wav|But that is all.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000038_000002.wav|I respect your convictions, and whilst we fight for opposite sides, let us remain friends.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000011.wav|Well, why should not we, too, belong to a party?|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000031_000001.wav|I swear before God, who seeth us, and who, in the darkness of this night heareth us, never shall my sword cross yours, never my eye express a glance of anger, nor my heart a throb of hatred, at you.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000024_000000.wav|Aramis started back and drew his.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000031_000003.wav|D'Artagnan, I have always loved you as my son; Porthos, we slept six years side by side; Aramis is your brother as well as mine, and Aramis has once loved you, as I love you now and as I have ever loved you.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000031_000000.wav|"Never!" exclaimed Athos, raising his right hand to Heaven, "never!|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000010_000012.wav|You had your secret and we had ours; we didn't exchange them.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000038_000001.wav|Yes, I have said it and I now repeat it: our destinies are irrevocably united, although we now pursue divergent roads.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000009_000001.wav|You ask what I have against you; I tell you.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000049_000000.wav|And he wiped his eyes, still moist.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000007_000000.wav|"I have," replied D'Artagnan.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000038_000000.wav|"My friends," said Athos, "this is what I expected from such hearts as yours.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000015_000000.wav|On seeing D'Artagnan rise, Porthos rose also; these four men were therefore all standing at the same time, with a menacing aspect, opposite to each other.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000042_000000.wav|"You speak charmingly," said Porthos.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000012_000000.wav|"And what do you find in it that is worthy of blame?" asked Aramis, haughtily.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000013_000000.wav|The blood mounted instantly to the temples of D'Artagnan, who arose, and replied:|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000017_000000.wav|"D'Artagnan," he said, "you are here to night, still infuriated by yesterday's adventure.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000031_000007.wav|I repeat my words, Aramis, and then, if you desire it, and if they desire it, let us separate forever from our old friends."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000045_000001.wav|Gentlemen, your hands; are we not pretty good Christians?"|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000001_000000.wav|They proceeded silently to the centre of the Place, but as at this very moment the moon had just emerged from behind a cloud, they thought they might be observed if they remained on that spot and therefore regained the shade of the lime trees.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000000_000001.wav|The Place Royale.|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/274/121398/274_121398_000033_000001.wav|I regret that I ever crossed swords with you, Porthos; I swear not only that it shall never again be pointed at your breast, but that in the bottom of my heart there will never in future be the slightest hostile sentiment; now, Athos, come."|274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000005_000001.wav|The day passed, and still he did not return.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000008_000000.wav|"The thick and peculiar mist, or smoke, which distinguishes the Indian Summer, and which now hung heavily over all objects, served, no doubt, to deepen the vague impressions which these objects created.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000002_000004.wav|The result was that Bedloe, who was wealthy, had made an arrangement with dr Templeton, by which the latter, in consideration of a liberal annual allowance, had consented to devote his time and medical experience exclusively to the care of the invalid.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000004.wav|Whence he came, I never ascertained. Even about his age-although I call him a young gentleman-there was something which perplexed me in no little degree.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000010.wav|It is only now, in the year eighteen forty five, when similar miracles are witnessed daily by thousands, that I dare venture to record this apparent impossibility as a matter of serious fact.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000002_000001.wav|I soon, however, grew accustomed to it, and my uneasiness wore off.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000009_000003.wav|I remembered, too, strange stories told about these Ragged Hills, and of the uncouth and fierce races of men who tenanted their groves and caverns.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000006.wav|At the first attempt to induce the magnetic somnolency, the mesmerist entirely failed.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000001.wav|At length there seemed to pass a violent and sudden shock through my soul, as if of electricity.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000002_000002.wav|It seemed to be his design rather to insinuate than directly to assert that, physically, he had not always been what he was-that a long series of neuralgic attacks had reduced him from a condition of more than usual personal beauty, to that which I saw.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000025_000005.wav|That officer was my dearest friend.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000002.wav|I could not have been more surprised at the sound of the trump of the Archangel.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000011_000005.wav|This seemed to dissipate the equivocal sensations which had hitherto annoyed me.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000010.wav|An instantaneous and dreadful sickness seized me.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000008_000002.wav|This path was excessively sinuous, and as the sun could not be seen, I soon lost all idea of the direction in which I journeyed.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000023_000000.wav|We looked at the picture which he presented.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000002.wav|They retreated, at first, before us.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000023_000001.wav|I saw nothing in it of an extraordinary character, but its effect upon Bedloe was prodigious.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000000_000000.wav|A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000030_000000.wav|I was speaking with the editor of the paper in question, upon the topic of this remarkable accident, when it occurred to me to ask how it happened that the name of the deceased had been given as Bedlo.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000005.wav|He came so close to my person that I felt his hot breath upon my face.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000007.wav|The tumult had ceased.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000032_000000.wav|"Authority?--no," he replied.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000024_000003.wav|I was then only twenty years old.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000016_000003.wav|At first, doubting that I was really awake, I entered into a series of tests, which soon convinced me that I really was. Now, when one dreams, and, in the dream, suspects that he dreams, the suspicion never fails to confirm itself, and the sleeper is almost immediately aroused.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000022_000002.wav|Let us content ourselves with this supposition.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000003.wav|They rallied, fought madly, and retreated again.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000016_000000.wav|"You will say now, of course, that I dreamed; but not so.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000028_000003.wav|To relieve this, dr Templeton resorted to topical bleeding.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000005.wav|The rabble pressed impetuously upon us, harrassing us with their spears, and overwhelming us with flights of arrows.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000015_000007.wav|From the swarming streets to the banks of the river, there descended innumerable flights of steps leading to bathing places, while the river itself seemed to force a passage with difficulty through the vast fleets of deeply-burthened ships that far and wide encountered its surface.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000028_000007.wav|Its close resemblance to the medicinal leech caused the mistake to be overlooked until too late.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000004.wav|In an instant I seemed to rise from the ground.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000009.wav|Beneath me lay my corpse, with the arrow in my temple, the whole head greatly swollen and disfigured.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000022_000003.wav|For the rest I have some explanation to make.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000011.wav|I took interest in nothing.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000005_000000.wav|Upon a dim, warm, misty day, toward the close of November, and during the strange interregnum of the seasons which in America is termed the Indian Summer, mr Bedloe departed as usual for the hills.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000000.wav|"For many minutes," continued the latter, "my sole sentiment-my sole feeling-was that of darkness and nonentity, with the consciousness of death.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000007_000003.wav|The scenery which presented itself on all sides, although scarcely entitled to be called grand, had about it an indescribable and to me a delicious aspect of dreary desolation.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000006_000001.wav|The account which he gave of his expedition, and of the events which had detained him, was a singular one indeed.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000000.wav|Doctor Templeton had been a traveller in his younger days, and at Paris had become a convert, in great measure, to the doctrines of Mesmer.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000012.wav|Even the corpse seemed a matter in which I had no concern.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000009_000001.wav|And now an indescribable uneasiness possessed me-a species of nervous hesitation and tremor.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000007.wav|Scarcely had he disappeared in the mist before, panting after him, with open mouth and glaring eyes, there darted a huge beast.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000009.wav|I reeled and fell.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000023_000003.wav|And yet it was but a miniature portrait-a miraculously accurate one, to be sure-of his own very remarkable features.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000003.wav|Of his family I could obtain no satisfactory account.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000020_000002.wav|He sat erect and rigid in his chair-his teeth chattered, and his eyes were starting from their sockets.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000011_000000.wav|"The sight of this monster rather relieved than heightened my terrors-for I now made sure that I dreamed, and endeavored to arouse myself to waking consciousness.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000011_000002.wav|I called aloud.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000008.wav|One of them struck me upon the right temple.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000008.wav|The city was in comparative repose.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000009.wav|After this the will of the patient succumbed rapidly to that of the physician, so that, when I first became acquainted with the two, sleep was brought about almost instantaneously by the mere volition of the operator, even when the invalid was unaware of his presence.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000008.wav|He stooped much.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000020_000001.wav|I looked toward Templeton.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000023_000004.wav|At least this was my thought as I regarded it.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000007.wav|In the fifth or sixth he succeeded very partially, and after long continued effort.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000008.wav|I could not be mistaken in its character.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000007_000001.wav|I bent my steps immediately to the mountains, and, about ten, entered a gorge which was entirely new to me.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000032_000002.wav|The name is Bedlo with an e, all the world over, and I never knew it to be spelt otherwise in my life."|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000003.wav|By a frequent repetition of these, a result had arisen, which of late days has become so common as to attract little or no attention, but which, at the period of which I write, had very rarely been known in America.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000001.wav|This young gentleman was remarkable in every respect, and excited in me a profound interest and curiosity.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000033_000000.wav|"Then," said I mutteringly, as I turned upon my heel, "then indeed has it come to pass that one truth is stranger than any fiction-for Bedloe, without the e, what is it but Oldeb conversed!|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000007.wav|He was singularly tall and thin.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000027_000000.wav|"We have the painful duty of announcing the death of mr Augustus Bedlo, a gentleman whose amiable manners and many virtues have long endeared him to the citizens of Charlottesville.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000012_000004.wav|I looked upward.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000025_000003.wav|The party in the kiosk were sepoys and British officers, headed by Hastings.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000011_000001.wav|I stepped boldly and briskly forward. I rubbed my eyes.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000006_000000.wav|About eight o'clock at night, having become seriously alarmed at his protracted absence, we were about setting out in search of him, when he unexpectedly made his appearance, in health no worse than usual, and in rather more than ordinary spirits.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000016_000002.wav|All was rigorously self consistent.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000025_000000.wav|"In your detail of the vision which presented itself to you amid the hills, you have described, with the minutest accuracy, the Indian city of Benares, upon the Holy River.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000011.wav|I struggled-I gasped-I died." "You will hardly persist now," said I smiling, "that the whole of your adventure was not a dream.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000028_000004.wav|Leeches were applied to the temples.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000002.wav|The Doctor, however, like all enthusiasts, had struggled hard to make a thorough convert of his pupil, and finally so far gained his point as to induce the sufferer to submit to numerous experiments.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000019_000000.wav|"And now a new object took possession of my soul.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000013_000003.wav|A strange odor loaded the breeze.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000010.wav|His forehead was broad and low.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000002_000003.wav|For many years past he had been attended by a physician, named Templeton-an old gentleman, perhaps seventy years of age-whom he had first encountered at Saratoga, and from whose attention, while there, he either received, or fancied that he received, great benefit.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000023_000002.wav|He nearly fainted as he gazed.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000018_000002.wav|Against the crowd which environed me, however, I experienced a deep sentiment of animosity.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000009.wav|It was a hyena.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000013.wav|Volition I had none, but appeared to be impelled into motion, and flitted buoyantly out of the city, retracing the circuitous path by which I had entered it.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000013_000004.wav|A low, continuous murmur, like that arising from a full, but gently flowing river, came to my ears, intermingled with the peculiar hum of multitudinous human voices.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000005.wav|I am not prepared to assert, however, that this rapport extended beyond the limits of the simple sleep producing power, but this power itself had attained great intensity.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000012_000002.wav|At this shadow I gazed wonderingly for many minutes.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000004_000000.wav|The temperature of Bedloe was, in the highest degree sensitive, excitable, enthusiastic.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000000.wav|"My amazement was, of course, extreme.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000008_000001.wav|So dense was this pleasant fog that I could at no time see more than a dozen yards of the path before me.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000012_000005.wav|The tree was a palm.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000010_000001.wav|A drum in these hills was a thing unknown.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000012_000003.wav|Its character stupefied me with astonishment.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000010.wav|But all these things I felt-not saw.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000031_000000.wav|"I presume," I said, "you have authority for this spelling, but I have always supposed the name to be written with an e at the end."|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000004.wav|I mean to say, that between Doctor Templeton and Bedloe there had grown up, little by little, a very distinct and strongly marked rapport, or magnetic relation.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000029_000002.wav|The poisonous sangsue of Charlottesville may always be distinguished from the medicinal leech by its blackness, and especially by its writhing or vermicular motions, which very nearly resemble those of a snake."|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000018_000005.wav|I joined the weaker party, arming myself with the weapons of a fallen officer, and fighting I knew not whom with the nervous ferocity of despair.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000033_000001.wav|And this man tells me that it is a typographical error."|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000028_000001.wav|The proximate cause was one of especial singularity.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000003_000008.wav|Only at the twelfth was the triumph complete.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000021_000003.wav|This latter I felt-not saw.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000001_000011.wav|His complexion was absolutely bloodless.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000028_000006.wav|This creature fastened itself upon a small artery in the right temple.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7809/108638/7809_108638_000007_000004.wav|The solitude seemed absolutely virgin.|7809
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000076_000001.wav|"I don't approve of having boys with long tongues in my house.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000091_000001.wav|One thing at a time.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000023_000001.wav|Miss Plantagenet-as I knew she would,--denied that he was there; but afterwards, when I threatened to bring the police on to the scene, she gave way and let me see Bernard."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000040_000000.wav|"No," said Durham, returning to his seat.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000079_000001.wav|"I wish him to die in peace."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000050_000001.wav|"And how confoundedly clever.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000033_000003.wav|Mind you"--Julius wagged his finger again-"I really believe he killed Sir Simon, but as he is dying, why, I shall do nothing.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000036_000002.wav|Durham was perplexed, and wondered what Julius was driving at, and how much he knew.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000065_000000.wav|"Indeed, mr Durham; and why to mrs Gilroy?"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000030_000003.wav|To assist you to arrest him?"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000066_000002.wav|I hope, however, she will reappear to claim her legacy."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000046_000001.wav|Bernard will probably tell you himself.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000004_000001.wav|He had always suspected that Julius was in some way connected with the crime, although he had not thought him personally guilty.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000046_000000.wav|"I can't say.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000005_000006.wav|What's to be done next?"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000054_000000.wav|"Oh yes, sir.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000089_000001.wav|I wish Julius Beryl to commit himself beyond recall."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000110_000002.wav|I daresay he will disappear.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000097_000002.wav|He looked haggard and anxious, and started up when the door opened.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000071_000000.wav|"I hope none of the servants know that Bernard is here?"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000028_000004.wav|"Yes," he said at length, throwing down his pen and taking up a position on the hearth rug.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000099_000000.wav|"Yes," said Durham, producing the document.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000098_000001.wav|"Have you got it?" he asked.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000073_000001.wav|"I don't want Bernard arrested."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000072_000000.wav|"They all know by this time," said Miss Berengaria, calmly.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000088_000001.wav|At the foot of this stair she stopped.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000038_000003.wav|However, Durham kept his temper under, and pretended to believe that Julius was speaking in all good faith.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000108_000000.wav|Michael's face assumed an expression of terror.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000094_000000.wav|"I know I did.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000005_000001.wav|"The whole thing was a plant.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000069_000001.wav|"dr Payne assures me he cannot live.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000072_000001.wav|"We kept the matter from them as long as possible; and with Alice I waited on Bernard myself.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000008_000000.wav|"I am not your legal adviser," said Durham, quickly.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000025_000001.wav|"Let us understand one another clearly.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000012_000001.wav|"Bernard is supposed to be dead."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000028_000001.wav|He wondered if Julius really believed the man at the Bower to be Bernard Gore, or if he was trying to learn what he-Durham-thought himself.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000104_000000.wav|"Mark," he said, using the name Bernard usually called the lawyer by, "don't you think I am looking better?"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000024_000000.wav|"You are sure, then, that Bernard committed the crime?"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000083_000000.wav|"no|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000094_000005.wav|Let us be just."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000051_000004.wav|In it Durham told the whole of Beryl's scheme to get possession of the property.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000100_000003.wav|The whole deception was cleverly carried out.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000069_000002.wav|I am glad he has decided to make this will."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000092_000000.wav|"Yes," said Miss Berengaria, climbing the stairs with a briskness surprising in a woman of her years, "something will happen.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000020_000000.wav|It was on the tip of Durham's tongue to say that no doubt Jerry had been placed as a spy at the Bower, but he suppressed this remark.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000042_000003.wav|The rest of the estate, real and personal, went to Julius Beryl.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000097_000000.wav|The young man lying in bed was very weak.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000094_000002.wav|But Beryl, having had the will made, will-kill him.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000082_000000.wav|"And yourself?"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000019_000000.wav|"Yes!|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000070_000000.wav|"Yes, you would be," said Miss Berengaria ironically, and she might have been rash enough to say more, but that Durham intervened.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000063_000000.wav|"So poor Bernard is going to make his will," she said briskly.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000083_000001.wav|I am the executor."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000092_000001.wav|This poor foresworn wretch upstairs will die."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000006_000004.wav|But Julius soon explained the reason for his call.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000033_000002.wav|His death is only a question of days.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000081_000003.wav|But you, Miss Plantagenet, and----"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000017_000001.wav|He walked on the other side of the street, and before I could cross over, which was difficult on account of the traffic, Bernard disappeared.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000096_000002.wav|"And if he tries anything of that sort on," thought Durham, "I'll have him arrested at once for the first murder.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000036_000003.wav|A clue came with the next words.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000042_000005.wav|It was exactly the kind of will Julius wanted. Michael was simply his instrument, and Durham shrewdly suspected that from some knowledge of the forged check Beryl had obtained this extraordinary influence.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000053_000001.wav|He would have liked to examine him then and there touching his luring of Bernard to Crimea Square, but the present moment was not propitious, so he passed on.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000040_000001.wav|"If Gore wishes to make a will, I suppose I am the man to draw it up.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000076_000002.wav|Jerry had no right to be hanging round the garden when Bernard arrived, much less to write and tell you that he was here."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000037_000000.wav|"And being friends with Bernard," went on Beryl, "he is sorry that we quarrelled.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000091_000000.wav|"I can't say.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000018_000000.wav|"Indeed?" said Durham, with a qualm, for he fancied Julius might have learned of Gore's whereabouts.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000107_000000.wav|"I hope not.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000033_000004.wav|I am not a vindictive man.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000108_000001.wav|"I won't die," he moaned, sinking back.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000063_000001.wav|"I hope he has left Alice something."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000087_000000.wav|"Come along then," said Miss Berengaria, hastening out of the room; "the sooner this is over the better.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000041_000000.wav|"I have them with me," said Julius, bringing out a sealed letter.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000006_000003.wav|It was difficult to know why Beryl should pay a visit to an avowed enemy.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000111_000001.wav|"Beryl will now murder this poor reptile, and take all the money to himself."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000029_000000.wav|"Why did you not tell me?" asked Julius, sharply.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000020_000002.wav|He thought it would be best to give the man rope enough to hang himself.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000103_000005.wav|Then Durham put the will into an envelope and prepared to go down.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000051_000000.wav|However, Durham, true to his appointment, arrived at the station the next day and had the will in his pocket.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000099_000001.wav|"Miss Plantagenet, will you please call up your maid to witness it?"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000090_000000.wav|"What will you do then?"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000072_000002.wav|But Jerry told the servants as well as mr Beryl."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000080_000001.wav|"Well," she added sharply, "are we to go upstairs and witness this will?"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000081_000000.wav|"Yes!|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000085_000002.wav|I shall stay here.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000053_000002.wav|Julius, however, in a most benevolent way spoke to the boy-"I hope you are giving your good mistress satisfaction?"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000062_000002.wav|Durham guessed this and touched her hand.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000042_000004.wav|Durham smiled inwardly as he read this document.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000107_000001.wav|With nursing you may get better."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000098_000000.wav|Michael raised himself on his elbow.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000009_000000.wav|"You are Bernard's."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000086_000001.wav|"You go up with mr Durham, aunt."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000094_000001.wav|I could help him back to life with careful nursing, and I wish to do so, since I think there is good in the rascal.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000078_000000.wav|"I daresay you are," said the old dame, "to see Bernard hanged."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000027_000000.wav|"Bernard answered it for you.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000016_000001.wav|"Why did you not stop him?"|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000097_000004.wav|"We have come about the will."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000103_000006.wav|Michael stopped him.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000069_000000.wav|Julius shook his head.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000053_000000.wav|Durham looked hard at the young scoundrel who was such a worthy instrument of Beryl's.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000050_000002.wav|Of course, if the real Bernard were dead this will might stand.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000017_000003.wav|Now I am."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000045_000000.wav|"Then mrs Gilroy," said Durham, pretending ignorance.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000109_000001.wav|You will get well."|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000049_000000.wav|Durham, for the sake of keeping up the deception, had to shake hands, although he loathed himself for doing so.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000030_000000.wav|Durham shrugged his shoulders.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000061_000001.wav|It was a very pretty comedy, but Durham was not to be taken in.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000047_000000.wav|For the sake of appearances Durham went on making objections.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8875/293959/8875_293959_000051_000007.wav|But the letter prepared the minds of both ladies for the execution of the will.|8875
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000021_000001.wav|On the contrary, she thought she had a perfect right to be angry, for was she not most desperately ill used-and a princess too?|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000018_000000.wav|Then the door opened, and the princess entered.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000018_000001.wav|She looked all around, but saw nothing of the wise woman.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000005_000004.wav|For a moment she feared the old woman would be offended, but the next, there came a voice, saying,|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000004.wav|Indeed, it was not once nor twice that for a moment she was fully persuaded she saw a great beast coming leaping and bounding through the moonlight to have her all to himself.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000019_000000.wav|It was a single bare little room, with a white deal table, and a few old wooden chairs, a fire of fir wood on the hearth, the smoke of which smelt sweet, and a patch of thick growing heath in one corner.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000009_000000.wav|To this there came no reply.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000007.wav|The wise woman, too, she felt sure, although her cottage looked asleep, was watching her at some little window.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000005_000001.wav|But again she bethought herself-that, if she could not do all she was told, she could, at least, do a part of it: if she could not knock at the door, she could at least knock-say on the wall, for there was nothing else to knock upon-and perhaps the old woman would hear her, and lift her in by some window.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000001_000002.wav|The princess thought she knew the worst of the moon, and she knew nothing at all about the cottage, therefore she would stay with the moon.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000023_000004.wav|Seeing the face of the wise woman bending over her, she threw her arms around her neck and held up her mouth to be kissed.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000002.wav|Then nobody could deny that there, all round about the heath, like a ring of darkness, lay the gloomy fir wood, and the princess knew what it was full of, and every now and then she thought she heard the howling of its wolves and hyenas.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000013_000000.wav|"Rosamond."|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000005.wav|She did not know that not a single evil creature dared set foot on that heath, or that, if one should do so, it would that instant wither up and cease.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000019_000002.wav|And what with the sufferings and terrors she had left outside, the new kind of tears she had shed, the love she had begun to feel for her parents, and the trust she had begun to place in the wise woman, it seemed to her as if her soul had grown larger of a sudden, and she had left the days of her childishness and naughtiness far behind her.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000023_000001.wav|It was no use stopping to look about her, for what had she to do but forever look about her as she went on and on and on-never seeing any thing, and never expecting to see any thing!|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000021_000002.wav|But the wind howled on, and the rain kept pouring down the chimney, and every now and then the lightning burst out, and the thunder rushed after it, as if the great lumbering sound could ever think to catch up with the swift light!|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000008_000000.wav|"Please, old woman, I did not mean to knock so loud."|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000006_000000.wav|"Who is there?"|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000005_000000.wav|But the old woman-as the princess called her, not knowing that her real name was the Wise Woman-had told her that she must knock at the door: how was she to do that when there was no door?|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000023_000005.wav|And the kiss of the wise woman was like the rose gardens of Damascus.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000003_000001.wav|But, to her surprise, she came only to another back, for no door was to be seen. She tried the farther end, but still no door.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000022_000001.wav|But being in a bad temper always makes people stupid, and presently she struck her forehead such a blow against something-she thought herself it felt like the old woman's cloak-that she fell back-not on the floor, though, but on the patch of heather, which felt as soft and pleasant as any bed in the palace.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000007_000000.wav|The princess answered,|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000019_000004.wav|Those who are good tempered because it is a fine day, will be ill tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in the one case, the fine weather has got into them, in the other the rainy.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000001.wav|First of all, the soft wind blowing gently through the dry stalks of the heather and its thousands of little bells raised a sweet rustling, which the princess took for the hissing of serpents, for you know she had been naughty for so long that she could not in a great many things tell the good from the bad.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000023_000003.wav|The hopelessness grew at length so unendurable that she woke with a start.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000010_000000.wav|Then the princess knocked again, this time with her knuckles, and the voice came again, saying,|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000020_000000.wav|Then in her terror the princess grew angry, and saying to herself, "She must be somewhere in the place, else who was there to open the door to me?" began to shout and yell, and call the wise woman all the bad names she had been in the habit of throwing at her nurses.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000001_000001.wav|And now the question was between the moon and the cottage.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000012_000000.wav|And the princess answered,|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000003_000002.wav|She must have passed it as she ran-but no-neither in gable nor in side was any to be found.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000011_000000.wav|"Who is there?"|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000019_000003.wav|People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed!|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000004_000000.wav|A cottage without a door!--she rushed at it in a rage and kicked at the wall with her feet.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000023_000002.wav|The only shadow of a hope she had was, that she might by slow degrees grow thinner and thinner, until at last she wore away to nothing at all; only alas! she could not detect the least sign that she had yet begun to grow thinner.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000015_000000.wav|"What do you want?" said the voice.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000016_000000.wav|"Oh, please, let me in!" said the princess.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000008.wav|In this, however, she would have been quite right, if she had only imagined enough-namely, that the wise woman was watching OVER her from the little window.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000005_000002.wav|Thereupon, she rose at once to her feet, and picking up a stone, began to knock on the wall with it.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000004_000003.wav|Suddenly, however, she remembered how her screaming had brought the horde of wolves and hyenas about her in the forest, and, ceasing at once, lay still, gazing yet again at the moon.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000014_000001.wav|But the princess soon ventured to knock a third time.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/6171/4519_6171_000002_000010.wav|Hardly had the possibility arisen in her mind, before she was on her feet: if the woman was any thing short of an ogress, her cottage must be better than that horrible loneliness, with nothing in all the world but a stare; and even an ogress had at least the shape and look of a human being.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000017_000001.wav|Onward they sped, and Duke was encouraged by the sight and sound of these reinforcements to increase his own outrageous clamours and to press home his attack.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000012_000004.wav|He made a convulsive frontal attack upon the hobgoblin-and the massacre began.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000006_000002.wav|Surrounded by the comforts of middle class respectability, and profoundly oppressed, even in his youth, by the Puritan ideals of the household, he sometimes experienced a sense of suffocation.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000005_000000.wav|This cat was, for a cat, needlessly tall, powerful, independent, and masculine.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000013_000003.wav|But it was the treacherous left that did the work.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000018_000003.wav|He had little fear for himself, because he was inclined to think that, unhampered, he could whip anything on earth; still, things seemed to be growing rather warm and he saw nothing to prevent his leaving.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000018_000001.wav|They rushed upon him from two directions, cutting off the steps of the porch.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000003_000002.wav|He was given to musing but not to avoidable action, and he seemed habitually to hope for something which he was pretty sure would not happen.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000006_000000.wav|No; Gipsy was not the pet for a little girl.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000003.wav|He made a stirring picture, however brief, as he left the solid porch behind him and sailed upward on an ascending curve into the sunlit air.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000011_000002.wav|To the gaze of Duke, still blurred by slumber, this monstrosity was all of one piece-the bone seemed a living part of it.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000007_000004.wav|This stately and dangerous walk of his, his long, vibrant whiskers, his scars, his yellow eye, so ice cold, so fire hot, haughty as the eye of Satan, gave him the deadly air of a mousquetaire duellist.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000017_000002.wav|But he was ill advised.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000009_000003.wav|What that eye beheld was monstrous.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000015_000001.wav|He stared insanely.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000005_000004.wav|Meanwhile, he grew so rangy, and developed such length and power of leg and such traits of character, that the father of the little girl who owned him was almost convincing when he declared that the young cat was half broncho and half Malay pirate-though, in the light of Gipsy's later career, this seems bitterly unfair to even the lowest orders of bronchos and Malay pirates.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000004_000000.wav|Thus, being asleep in a nook behind the metal refuse can, when the strange cat ventured to ascend the steps of the porch, his appearance was so unwarlike that the cat felt encouraged to extend its field of reconnaissance-for the cook had been careless, and the backbone of a three pound whitefish lay at the foot of the refuse can.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000010_000000.wav|Here was a strange experience-the horrific vision in the midst of things so accustomed.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000005_000003.wav|Long before his adolescence, his lack of domesticity was ominous, and he had formed bad companionships.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000009_000000.wav|It was about a foot from Duke's nose, and the little dog's dreams began to be troubled by his olfactory nerve.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000011_000006.wav|If he had been able to do that, he would have said to himself: "We have here an animal of most peculiar and unattractive appearance, though, upon examination, it seems to be only a cat stealing a fishbone. Nevertheless, as the thief is large beyond all my recollection of cats and has an unpleasant stare, I will leave this spot at once."|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000006_000005.wav|He went forth in a May twilight, carrying the evening beefsteak with him, and joined the underworld.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000007_000000.wav|His extraordinary size, his daring, and his utter lack of sympathy soon made him the leader-and, at the same time, the terror-of all the loose lived cats in a wide neighbourhood.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000014_000001.wav|Gipsy possessed a vocabulary for cat swearing certainly second to none out of Italy, and probably equal to the best there, while Duke remembered and uttered things he had not thought of for years.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000003_000000.wav|On a fair Saturday afternoon in November Penrod's little old dog Duke returned to the ways of his youth and had trouble with a strange cat on the back porch.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000017_000000.wav|His feet were already in motion toward the battlefield, with Penrod and Herman hurrying in his wake.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000006_000001.wav|The rosy hearthstone and sheltered rug were too circumspect for him.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000015_000000.wav|The hum of the carpenter shop ceased, and Sam Williams appeared in the stable doorway.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000010_000001.wav|Sunshine fell sweetly upon porch and backyard; yonder was the familiar stable, and from its interior came the busy hum of a carpenter shop, established that morning by Duke's young master, in association with Samuel Williams and Herman.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000016_000002.wav|C'mon!"|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000008_000002.wav|It was a desirable fishbone, large, with a considerable portion of the fish's tail still attached to it.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000003_000001.wav|This indiscretion, so uncharacteristic, was due to the agitation of a surprised moment, for Duke's experience had inclined him to a peaceful pessimism, and he had no ambition for hazardous undertakings of any sort.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000013_000004.wav|Seemingly this left gave Duke three lightning little pats upon the right ear, but the change in his voice indicated that these were no love taps.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000007_000006.wav|Such, in brief, was the terrifying creature which now elongated its neck, and, over the top step of the porch, bent a calculating scrutiny upon the wistful and slumberous Duke.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000009_000002.wav|Duke opened one drowsy eye.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000013_000001.wav|Such was not his purpose, however, for, having attained his greatest possible altitude, he partially sat down and elevated his right arm after the manner of a semaphore.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000016_000001.wav|"Duke's havin' a fight with the biggest cat you ever saw in your life!|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000016_000000.wav|"My gorry!" he shouted.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000011_000005.wav|Indeed, Duke was not in a position to think the matter over quietly.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000005_000002.wav|He was precocious in dissipation.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000003_000003.wav|Even in his sleep, this gave him an air of wistfulness.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000005.wav|It is possible that the white fish's spinal column and flopping tail had interfered with his vision, and in launching himself he may have mistaken the dark, round opening of the cistern for its dark, round cover.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000011_000000.wav|Gipsy had seized the fishbone by the middle.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000007_000003.wav|In appearance he did not lack distinction of an ominous sort; the slow, rhythmic, perfectly controlled mechanism of his tail, as he impressively walked abroad, was incomparably sinister.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000008_000000.wav|The scrutiny was searching but not prolonged.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000004.wav|His head was proudly up; he was the incarnation of menacing power and of self confidence.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000002.wav|There, without an instant's pause, he gathered his fur sheathed muscles, concentrated himself into one big steel spring, and launched himself superbly into space.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000013_000002.wav|This semaphore arm remained rigid for a second, threatening; then it vibrated with inconceivable rapidity, feinting.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000009_000001.wav|This faithful sentinel, on guard even while Duke slept, signalled that alarums and excursions by parties unknown were taking place, and suggested that attention might well be paid.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000014_000000.wav|Never had such a shattering uproar, all vocal, broken out upon a peaceful afternoon.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000011_000001.wav|Out from one side of his head, and mingling with his whiskers, projected the long, spiked spine of the big fish: down from the other side of that ferocious head dangled the fish's tail, and from above the remarkable effect thus produced shot the intolerable glare of two yellow eyes.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000017_000003.wav|This time it was the right arm of the semaphore that dipped-and Duke's honest nose was but too conscious of what happened in consequence.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000012_000000.wav|On the contrary, Duke was so electrified by his horrid awakening that he completely lost his presence of mind.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000018_000002.wav|Undaunted, the formidable cat raked Duke's nose again, somewhat more lingeringly, and prepared to depart with his fishbone.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000012_000003.wav|It was Gipsy's war cry, and, at the sound of it, Duke became a frothing maniac.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000000.wav|Therefore, on small accounts he decided to leave the field to his enemies and to carry the fishbone elsewhere.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000006.wav|In that case, it was a leap calculated and executed with precision, for as the boys clamoured their pleased astonishment, Gipsy descended accurately into the orifice and passed majestically from public view, with the fishbone still in his mouth and his haughty head still high.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000020_000001.wav|He took two giant leaps. The first landed him upon the edge of the porch.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000007_000001.wav|He contracted no friendships and had no confidants.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000005_000001.wav|Once, long ago, he had been a roly poly pepper and salt kitten; he had a home in those days, and a name, "Gipsy," which he abundantly justified.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4519/80189/4519_80189_000012_000001.wav|In the very instant of his first eye's opening, the other eye and his mouth behaved similarly, the latter loosing upon the quiet air one shriek of mental agony before the little dog scrambled to his feet and gave further employment to his voice in a frenzy of profanity.|4519
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000001.wav|Better, they advised, go overland eastward to a great peaceful river and descend that to the sea.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000015_000010.wav|However, we cleared the bank before dark.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000008_000005.wav|He had ascended that same Parsnip river, which Mackenzie had found so appalling, to a little emerald lake set like a jewel in the mountains.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000017_000004.wav|I crawled, not without great risk, to his assistance, and saved his life by cutting his pack so [that] it dropped back in the river.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000009_000005.wav|They thought the white men in smoking were emitting spirits with each breath.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000008_000001.wav|Mackenzie had crossed overland from the Peace river to Bella Coola.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000010_000005.wav|No wonder the two Scotsmen named the new inland empire New Caledonia-after their native land.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000017_000000.wav|This task [says Fraser] was as dangerous as going by water.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000020_000000.wav|The natives here warned Fraser that it would be madness to go forward. At the same time they furnished him with a guide.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000022_000005.wav|Then he forced each voyageur to swear on the Cross: 'I do solemnly swear that I will sooner perish than forsake in distress any of our crew during the present voyage.' With renewed self respect they then paddled off, singing voyageurs' songs to keep up their courage. Imagine, for a moment, the scene!|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000009_000008.wav|History does not record whether the women became as addicted to soap as the men to the fragrant weed.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000020_000011.wav|The voyageurs again embarked, and swept down the narrow bends of the turbulent floods at what are now Lytton, Yale, and Hope.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000012_000003.wav|Fraser went down the river and strengthened British possession by building a fourth fort-Fort George at the mouth of the Nechaco.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000015_000001.wav|I ordered the five best men of the crews into a canoe lightly loaded; and in a moment it was under way.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000007.wav|Beyond it several minor rapids were passed without difficulty; and then they came upon a series of great whirlpools which seemed impassable.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000020_000006.wav|One of the chiefs said that he had himself seen white men, who were great 'tyees,' because 'they were well dressed and very proud and went about this way'--clapping his hands to his hips and strutting about with an air of vast importance. The Indians told Fraser of another great river that came in from the east and joined this one some distance below.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000009_000006.wav|When the traders offered soap to the squaws, the women at once began to devour it.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000008_000000.wav|Take a look at the map!|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000011_000001.wav|This was forty miles south of Stuart Lake, at the headwaters of the Nechaco, the north fork of the Fraser.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000014_000002.wav|On the third day they passed Mackenzie's farthest south-the site of the present Alexandria.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000022_000000.wav|The return journey was fraught with danger.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000014_000003.wav|Below this the river was unexplored and unknown.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000020_000005.wav|The Indians declared that the sea lay only ten 'sleeps' distant.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000015_000007.wav|The bank was high and steep.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000009.wav|They then came back overland for the packs.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000002.wav|Fraser, of course, did not know that the peaceful river they spoke of was really the Columbia.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000017_000002.wav|One man, who lost the path, got in a most intricate and perilous position.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000019_000003.wav|Thus skimming along as fast as lightning, the crews, cool and determined, followed each other in awful silence; and when we arrived at the end, we stood gazing at each other in silent congratulation on our narrow escape from total destruction.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000010_000004.wav|It was four or five miles wide, and was gemmed with green islets; and all round, appearing through the clouds in jagged outline, were the opal summits of the snowy peaks.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000003.wav|He thought the river he was following was the Columbia.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000009_000001.wav|john Stuart accompanied Fraser as lieutenant.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000011_000003.wav|Again a fort was erected and named Fort Fraser, making three forts in the interior of New Caledonia.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000008.wav|But the men unloaded the canoes and-'a desperate undertaking'--ran them down the rapids with light ballast.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000015_000005.wav|To continue by water would be certain destruction.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000017_000001.wav|The men passed and repassed a declivity, on loose stones and gravel, which constantly gave way under foot.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000016_000000.wav|Indians warned the white men to desist from their undertaking.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300234/8879_300234_000012_000000.wav|Fraser had sent a request to the directors of the north-west Company to be permitted to fit out an expedition down the great river, which he thought was the Columbia; and in the spring of eighteen o seven two canoes under Jules Quesnel were sent out with goods.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000005_000000.wav|It was the spring of seventeen ninety two.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000004_000002.wav|Let us leave him for the present stealing furtively along the coast from Cape Flattery to Cape Disappointment.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000010_000012.wav|Don Quadra held that he had been instructed to relinquish only the land on which the fort stood-according to Vancouver, 'but little more than one hundred yards in extent any way.' No understanding could be arrived at, and Quadra at the end of September took his departure for Monterey, leaving Vancouver to follow a few days later.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000005_000004.wav|It was a new river, with wonderful purple water-the purple of river silt blending with ocean blue.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000003_000004.wav|Loop holes punctured the palisades of the fort, and cannon were above the gates.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000006_000006.wav|First were the Spaniards at every harbour gate; and yet to day, of all their deep-sea findings on that coast, not a rod, not a foot, does Spain own.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000011_000000.wav|Vancouver was anxious to be off on further exploration.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000002_000001.wav|Some of the names, however, were afterwards changed.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000011_000002.wav|He spent most of October exploring this river.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000008_000003.wav|In June the explorers passed up the Strait of Georgia.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000005.wav|For some time there were mutterings of war, but at length diplomacy prevailed. England demanded, among other things, the restoration of the buildings and the land, and full reparation for all losses.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000000_000003.wav|Strange that the Spaniards should look on complaisantly while English traders from China-Meares and Hanna and Barkley and Douglas-were taking possession of Nootka.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000011_000003.wav|Explorers in that day, as in this, were not fair judges of each other's feats.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000012_000003.wav|Portland Canal, Jervis Inlet, Cook Inlet, Prince William Sound, Lynn Canal-all were traced to head waters by Vancouver.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000000_000004.wav|The answer came unexpectedly.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000012_000001.wav|His lieutenant, Broughton, who had been in charge of the boats that explored the Columbia, here left him and accompanied Quadra to San Blas, whence he went overland to the Atlantic and sailed for England, bearing dispatches to the government.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000002_000002.wav|What is to day known as Esquimalt, Quimper called Valdes, and Victoria he named Cordoba.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000016.wav|Gray had, indeed, been up the river, and had crossed the bar and come out on the Pacific again.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000004.wav|And as mistress of the seas, she could not tolerate as much as the seizure of a fishing smack.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000013.wav|The American told an astounding story.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000006_000004.wav|Yet they sang as they sailed their rickety death traps, and they laughed as they rowed; and when the tide rip caught them, they sank without a cry to any but the Virgin.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000010_000006.wav|Spanish cannon thundered a welcome that shook the hills, and English guns made answer.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000006_000008.wav|But if actual accomplishments count, these pilots with their ragged peon crews, half bloods of Aztec woman and Spanish adventurer, deserve higher rank in the roll of Pacific coast exploration than history has yet accorded them.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000012_000000.wav|Vancouver then visited the presidio at San Francisco, and thence proceeded to Monterey, where Quadra awaited him.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000010_000002.wav|Vancouver found the Spaniards occupying a fort on an island at the mouth of the harbour. On the main shore stood the Indian village of Chief Maquinna.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000008.wav|This expedition was commanded by Captain George Vancouver, who had been on the Pacific with Cook.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000014.wav|He had found Bruno Heceta's River of the West.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000005_000013.wav|Narvaez himself lay almost unconscious in his berth.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000007_000015.wav|Vancouver refused to credit the news; yet there was the ship's log; there were the details-landmarks, soundings, anchorages for twenty miles up the Columbia from its mouth.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8879/300343/8879_300343_000003_000008.wav|On the morning of the twentieth the woods were seen to be alive with Indians.|8879
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000051_000001.wav|This he is accustomed to do every time he catches a fish of any importance.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000005_000000.wav|It is in one of the valleys in the submarine mountainous region that this shoal of thousands of bleak lies.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000034_000000.wav|An angler this.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000003_000000.wav|The lake is perfectly calm, its green black surface smooth and shining, and full of drifting summer clouds.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000021_000001.wav|It is as well to have bayonets fixed in case of the sudden appearance of a pike.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000035_000000.wav|Not a single bite.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000047_000001.wav|He hears a rushing sound like that of the paddles of a distant steamer striking and tearing the water; he sees the terns flocking, and the surface of the water broken again and again by bleak leaping high into the air.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000042_000000.wav|The weather to day, from a fisherman's point of view, is the worst possible.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000015_000002.wav|An eager interchange from bottom to surface goes on; for when the upper layer is satiated, it likes to enjoy its feeling of well-being in peace, until voracity once more makes them all rivals.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000003_000001.wav|The reeds are reflected in it and look double their height, and the trees mirror their branches there, seeming twice as leafy; and a red house with a white flagstaff on one of the banks becomes quite a little submarine palace.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000039_000000.wav|In his youth his gun had been his best friend; but the chase demands much of legs and muscles and heart.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000035_000001.wav|But what did that matter?|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000030_000000.wav|Above the spot a cloud of terns is circling.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000040_000000.wav|It was thus in his later years that his fishing rod had become the old man's joy and companion.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000031_000001.wav|An emerald green colour extended from the back right over the head and nose; and the rims of their eyes when they blinked could sparkle and shine like the gem itself.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000039_000001.wav|When a man is no longer in his prime, he should beware of paying ardent court to Dame Diana.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000029_000003.wav|Then a mouth opens, shoots out a pair of concertina like lips, and changes into a funnel; and the poor little fish disappear into a chasm, like threads into a vacuum cleaner.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000027_000001.wav|The rear guard overtakes the fugitives and cuts off their retreat; and smack after smack is heard after their charge.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000049_000000.wav|At last he can do no more, and drops exhausted on to a thwart.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000007_000001.wav|It is cleft incessantly from bottom to surface, bubbles rise and whirlpools are formed, and a long strip of lake foams and spurts.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000034_000001.wav|He had been out since early morning, and had a delightful day.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000029_000002.wav|When they descend in crowds from their flight into the air, they grow stiff with terror on finding themselves face to face with great, amber eyes that seem starting out of their sockets to go greedily hunting on their own account.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000039_000003.wav|But Father Neptune clasps him rapturously in his wet embrace, and sets the fish around his boat leaping and playing.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000025_000001.wav|They kill and devour-and it will be still worse when the rear guard comes up.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000002_000001.wav|It likes to cool its long legs, as it flies, by trailing them along the surface of the water.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000015_000001.wav|Noses are pushed up, and little thimble like mouths open; the water streams in, and with it the food.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000039_000002.wav|In her suite-it is useless to deny it-the old man is seldom looked upon with favour: he has had his day.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000026_000001.wav|Gleam after gleam flashes up as the little shining fish, uncertain of their way, twist and turn about.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000042_000001.wav|The July sun is shining hotly, and sends its beams deep down into the water.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000041_000000.wav|Season after season he made his weekly journey from town by rail, and then drove out to the lake.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000022_000001.wav|There must be nothing now to check their speed; fair weather sailing is over, and the privateering expedition has begun.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000019_000002.wav|Sheaves of silvery gleaming rays flicker far out in their wake.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000002_000000.wav|Borne on a gentle breeze, a large crane fly comes sailing out of the wood.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000043_000002.wav|Far off a flock of wild ducks rising raise some little, gentle waves, that look so blue, so blue!|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000037_000000.wav|He was a regular visitor to the lake.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000014_000001.wav|Now they are in the valley where it lies.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000025_000000.wav|Like yellow flashes of water lightning the perch dart into the shoal of little fish, and like grain among a flock of chickens, masses of bleak disappear into their mouths.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000018_000002.wav|They lead, and with frolicsome eagerness push past one another, so as to be the first to arrive.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000030_000002.wav|Sometimes they make a catch, sometimes miss their aim, but have the good fortune to take a fish that inadvertently appears close by; indeed the bleak often leap straight into the birds' open beak.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000011_000002.wav|A fresh signal, inaudible, imperceptible to all but themselves, and once more, in a trice, the narrow, smoothly gliding hunting column is reformed.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000008_000000.wav|It is not like a single large animal darting forward with rapidly twisting tail, and leaving a wake and waves behind it; but a general effervescence that makes the depths gleam with millions of scales.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000026_000000.wav|Now they arrive, and the alarm in the swarm of bleak below spreads with magical swiftness to the upper layers, where the bewildered little creatures make off at full speed.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000044_000000.wav|The angler, who is a big, sturdy man with large, black rimmed spectacles upon his voluminous nose, is in his customary fishing dress-an old straw hat with an elastic under the chin, his coat off, and no collar, on his legs a pair of thick, yellowish brown moleskin trousers, his feet in a pair of felt shoes, lined with straw.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000017_000000.wav|The perch have quickened their pace; involuntarily the speed is increased; they already scent their prey.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000030_000001.wav|They fly low with half extended legs and drooping wings, ready to dart down.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000018_000000.wav|Foremost of the company, with a dark golden, high backed leader at their head, swim a couple of hundred of the finest perch.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000048_000000.wav|He gets four lines clear, and has enough to do in throwing them out and pulling them in.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000051_000000.wav|Then he opens his wallet, takes out the bottle containing clear liquid, and takes a nip.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000028_000002.wav|They tumble over one another and try in their bewilderment which can leap highest and farthest.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000043_000001.wav|There is a bottle green hue above the deep water, and a lilac shade in the shallows; but over the sandy bottom the colour is drab.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000022_000000.wav|All at once the van slips away from the rest, and the latter have to exert themselves to catch up, twisting and turning their tails, and unfurling the stiff sail of their dorsal fin.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000028_000004.wav|There is a splash when they rise, and a splash when they again reach the surface of the water; making a sound like the falling of torrents of rain.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000047_000002.wav|He takes up his anchor, and rows up until he hears the smack, smack of the greedy perch all round him, and knows he is in the middle of the whirlpool of fish.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000031_000000.wav|Poor little bleak! they were so pretty to look at.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000024_000001.wav|All order among the assailants instantly ceases, and each member thinks only of its own mouth, and cares for nothing but getting it filled.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000043_000000.wav|The lake slumbers.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000033_000001.wav|In it was an elderly man.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000015_000000.wav|The lively little freshwater herring as yet suspect no danger; they are in constant motion, occupied in snapping up the fallen, half drowned insects.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000011_000000.wav|With their uppermost layer only a couple of inches below the surface of the water they hasten on.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000036_000000.wav|He was lying now at the bottom of the boat, dreaming.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000031_000002.wav|Their shining breast was whiter than a swan's, and their plump sides gleamed and sparkled like ice under a wintry moon.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000029_000000.wav|Hell is beneath them in the water!|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000026_000002.wav|Each makes itself as long and thin as it can, so as to show as little as possible, and disappear, as it were, in the water.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000021_000000.wav|For the present the whole flock keeps to the bottom, darting along with dorsal fin erect, the stiff spines bristling menacingly.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000012_000001.wav|They go suddenly and headlong from the surface to the depths, spinning out from their compact mass a long, living thread.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000007_000000.wav|Suddenly, at the end of the neighbouring valley, the water seethes and foams.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000033_000000.wav|A boat lay anchored a few hundred yards off.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000038_000000.wav|It is well known that it takes three generations to make a gentleman; but it would take three times as many to create, out of a race that ever since the morning of time had lived out of doors, a generation that did not care to handle either gun or rod.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000037_000001.wav|His ancestors' love of a free, out of door life had entered into his blood.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000010_000000.wav|They go together in a large company, like soldiers in an army, rows of them above, beside, and behind one another.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000047_000000.wav|Suddenly he awakes with a start.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000006_000001.wav|In front and behind, the valley winds on between the hill sides until it widens out and finally loses itself in the barren, sandy desert.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000028_000003.wav|They rise like flying fish out of the water with a flash, and once more disappear with a splash into the water.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000030_000003.wav|The birds hold them at all sorts of angles in their beak, and fly away with them, shrieking and screaming, pursued by their fellows.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000005_000001.wav|It covers the area of a market place, and makes the water alive for fathoms down.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000028_000000.wav|The swarm of bleak scatters in wild panic.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000012_000000.wav|Just as they twist and turn in the horizontal plane, so do they in the vertical.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000002_000003.wav|Then comes a sudden surprise: a fish pops up its mouth, and closes its scissor jaws with a snap on the insect's legs, and it disappears in the centre of a rocking series of rings.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000016_000000.wav|The splash of the waves on the surface lifts the gluttons up and down, while the ground swell rocks the satiated to rest.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109176/7959_109176_000046_000000.wav|He is now lying outstretched in midday drowsiness, enjoying the great peace that rests on the lake.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000005_000000.wav|Only a few moments before, all the sloping banks of the bog had been held by the sun; it shone upon the flowers of the wild chervil and upon a narrow strip of orange gravel that had been scraped out of one of the banks.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000036_000001.wav|He had once been caught by the tip of one claw in an otter trap.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000040_000001.wav|The otter felt quite sure that it was only by good fortune that it had not been annihilated by its great, dangerous rival.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000037_000001.wav|With all possible speed he slips out from among the roots, and is already rising; and as he approaches the surface and finds the blessed light beating more and more strongly upon the mud about his eyes, he hastens his flight, until, with an eager sniff, he reaches the surface.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000026_000000.wav|Once Grim is lucky.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000029_000000.wav|Once more there is a pause in the fighting.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000002_000000.wav|The harrier was sitting on her newly hatched young, and the pair of crows were feeding theirs for the last time; it was the time of the owls-and the nightingales.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000025_000000.wav|Whenever Grim goes to the surface, a puffing and growling is heard.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000032_000002.wav|At full speed she runs her long body into the network and sticks fast, rapidly twisting her tail screw both ahead and astern.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000016_000000.wav|After having labouriously shuffled over a piece of land, and reached the largest of the big pools, it allowed itself to glide noiselessly from its slip-a path trodden in the grass-into its true element.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000013_000000.wav|A rover's blood flowed in its veins.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000019_000000.wav|An attempt to get beneath Grim, in order to seize her round the gills or by the belly, was unsuccessful; at the decisive moment Grim had turned aside, so that the otter had to set its teeth where it could. And it needed a well placed grip to hold such a giant fish.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000018_000001.wav|It caught a glimpse of the indistinct outline of a great fish, and exasperated at such audacity, determined to go in chase of the robber.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000036_000004.wav|Up!|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000018_000000.wav|The otter, with a newly caught fish in its mouth, had been on its way out to a little island, intending to have its meal under a sallow, when it was suddenly attacked and robbed of its prey.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000034_000001.wav|But he makes tremendous exertions, whipping his tail in under the peat bank, while with his hind paws he seeks for support in clefts and cracks.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000025_000001.wav|The otter hastily gasps for breath, and tightens his hold with his fore claws; but when they are on their way down to the depths, and air bubbles, like silver beads, roll through the water behind him, he has only to hold on and let himself go.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000023_000001.wav|He is used to these desperate rallies, which always become fiercer and more violent as the quarry is on the point of giving in.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000020_000000.wav|The instant it has taken hold-a little behind the neck-Grim darts into deep water with her assailant.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000021_000000.wav|Grim soon sees that this pace is wearing out her strength, and pauses for a moment.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000022_000002.wav|She quickly regains her balance, however, frees her body from the pressure, and sets off, with sudden twists, and leaps from the bottom to the surface, turning so suddenly that the fish snatcher's body swings out and hangs down in the water.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000009_000001.wav|Like a monster toadstool, it grows up out of the horizon, sending up a cloud of purple into the air.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000013_000001.wav|Nature had endowed it with a peculiarly active power of assimilation, which was probably necessary if it was to keep warm in the cold water; it needed daily its own weight in fish, and therefore had to be incessantly changing its hunting ground.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000015_000000.wav|Pike, which it used especially to catch in the bogs, were somewhat dry, it is true, but after all, one could not have salmon and trout every day!|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000037_000000.wav|He has let go of Grim, and now makes his escape from the hole with so sudden a jerk that the old crayfish accompanies him; but the dread of water, which no living being that breathes with lungs can quite overcome, has taken possession of the otter.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000032_000001.wav|In her mad rush down, Grim has come near these, and instinctively seeks shelter beneath them.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000035_000001.wav|For a long time it has patiently followed the battle through its feelers, and hoped that some morsel would fall to its hungry stomach; now, with gratitude to Providence, it closes its great claw upon the warm blooded fisher.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000007_000000.wav|Suddenly the nightingale up in the thicket becomes silent, stops in the middle of its highest trill, and begins to snarl.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000033_000000.wav|The otter treads water now on the right, now on the left side of her, and tries, by utilizing the roots as steps, to lift her up with him. But in vain; he cannot even stir the huge fish!|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000020_000001.wav|The otter backs, extends his fore and hind legs far out from his body, and spreads his web, so as to offer as much resistance as possible.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000031_000001.wav|With a powerful stroke of her tail, she disappears with lightning rapidity from the surface, and goes to the bottom with her rider, whose merry go round jaunt makes his head swim.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000006_000000.wav|But now it was gone.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000034_000003.wav|The grasp tightens, so that his whole leg aches; he tries to draw in his foot, but it is held immovable.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000010_000000.wav|For a moment the flower stands out perfect, large and round at the end of its slender, black stalk, and then the illusion is shattered: from a toadstool the poppy has turned into a moon!|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000031_000003.wav|Her back aches, her flexor muscles hurt.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000023_000000.wav|But the otter only keeps a firmer hold.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000008_000000.wav|A large otter with low set ears cautiously raises its head above the strip of gravel.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000038_000000.wav|Grim is close behind him, and as the otter lands, there is a loud splash.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000034_000002.wav|Suddenly he feels one of his feet seized.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000001_000000.wav|thirteen: A FIGHT WITH AN OTTER|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000038_000002.wav|Grim has now to content herself with sending her opponent a cold, dull, fishy glance, and let the Nipper continue its journey down into her draw bag.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000004_000000.wav|The water began to sparkle with strong, bright colours, and patches of yellow, scarlet, and blue floated about, shot with brilliant flakes of emerald and purple, which gave darkened reflections of the birch tops.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000031_000000.wav|Now Grim's strength returns once more.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000017_000001.wav|A wild chase was going on in the depths, and where it passed the rushes bowed their sheaves and the flags their fans.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000031_000002.wav|She is trying to get hold of his leg or body, and therefore twists round with him so that he flaps like a loose piece of strap on an axle; but she is not sufficiently supple to reach him.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000017_000002.wav|Black mud was stirred up in whirlpools; seething bubbles came to the surface and burst.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000036_000002.wav|The trap was heavy, and had dragged him under water; and he had only escaped at the last moment. With the grasp on his leg, his lungs begin to warn him, his throat contracts, and his eyes seem on the point of bursting.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000039_000000.wav|The wound that the old giant pike had received was not a dangerous one. True, there were two rows of deep cuts made by a pair of thick, round toothed jaws in the flesh on one side of her back; but they healed like so many others that she had had in her time.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000012_000000.wav|The otter came to the bog every two or three months, when it was tired of hunting fish in the lake.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000022_000000.wav|As she does so, she feels as if an eel were winding its pliant body round her chest.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000035_000000.wav|A monster crayfish, that has become so stiff with age that it can scarcely manage to strike a proper blow with its tail, has made for itself, in fear of Grim, a reliable place of refuge in the hole.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000028_000000.wav|They lie fighting on the surface-a golden streaked, slimy, scaly fish twisted into a knot with a dark, hairy, furred body!|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000014_000000.wav|It was timid and suspicious, but a great glutton.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000026_000001.wav|An old snag sticks up in the water, and, in turning, the otter's body is dashed against it.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000011_000000.wav|Then the otter comes right up out of the earth, with body and tail and four legs, and shuffles down the slope.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000031_000004.wav|At last she has met with an opponent who puts her judgment, her ingenuity, and her endurance to the extreme test.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000036_000005.wav|With or without his prey!|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000011_000001.wav|A couple of herons, fishing at the edge of the bog, bend their necks and make off with hoarse, shrill trumpetings; and a herd of splashing heifers, scenting the approach of a beast of prey, begin to growl and snort.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000008_000001.wav|It sniffs long and continuously, as it stretches its round, shaggy neck out over the ridge.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000039_000001.wav|Her back, however, was tender for days after, and she found it a little difficult to leap.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000023_000002.wav|He takes care, however, in turning, not to let any of his legs hang in front of the pike's mouth; he is too well acquainted with the teeth of the fresh water shark!|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000009_000000.wav|Above the distant banks on the other side of the bog, the first glow of the full moon peeps out.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7959/109185/7959_109185_000032_000000.wav|Down on the bottom, sticking out from the bank, are the roots of the willow bushes on the edge.|7959
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000040_000006.wav|In Kent abbesses, as representatives of religion, came immediately after bishops.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000017_000001.wav|The strangest and saddest result, consequent on the suppression of the convents, was that men were made to profit by the loss which women had sustained.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000002_000006.wav|At one time the center was in Italy, at another in Gaul, and, at still another, it was in Britain or Ireland or Germany.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000024_000004.wav|In form, all the plays preserve the simple directness of their model, Terence, while, in conception, they embody the noblest ideals of Christian teaching.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000039_000001.wav|The modern college for women only feebly reproduces it, since the college for women has arisen at a time when colleges in general are under a cloud.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000030_000003.wav|And, if we accept the criterion that influence is measured by the number and nature of one's relations, it would be difficult to find in any age relations that were more select or more cosmopolitan.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000017_000005.wav|Similarly, the properties of other nunneries, large and small, were appropriated for the foundation of collegiate institutions at Oxford, all of which were for the benefit of men.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000015_000000.wav|From what has been said of the accomplishments and achievements of the Anglo Saxon nuns just mentioned, it is evident that they were, of a truth, women of exceptional worth and of sterling character.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000003_000000.wav|But whether it was in the south, or the west or the north of Europe that letters flourished, it was always the convent or the monastery that was the home of learning and culture.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000002_000003.wav|During the "wandering of the nations" in the fourth and fifth centuries, and the long and fierce struggles between the barbarian hordes from the north with the decadent peoples of the once great Roman empire, there was, no doubt, a partial eclipse of the sun of civilization; but the consequent darkness was not so dense nor so general and long continued as is sometimes imagined.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000002_000005.wav|For even during the most troublous times there were centers of culture in one part of Europe or another.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000024_000003.wav|They are, likewise, distinguished by originality of treatment, complete mastery of the material used, as well as by genuine beauty of rhyme and rhythm.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000039_000004.wav|She was treated as an equal by the men of her class, as is witnessed by letters we still have from popes and emperors to abbesses.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000007_000002.wav|Her convent and adjoining monastery for monks soon became the most noted center of learning and culture in Britain.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000020_000000.wav|The truth is, when anything was achieved for the intellectual advancement of women it was due either to private instruction or to the result of a protracted struggle on the part of women themselves for what they deemed their indefeasible rights.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000034_000002.wav|It exhibits Herrad's intense interest in the intellectual advancement of her nuns and pupils as well as her superior talent and acquirements.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000002_000004.wav|The progress of intellectual culture was, indeed, greatly retarded, but there was no time when the light of learning was entirely extinguished.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000005_000002.wav|And in these homes of piety and learning the inmates enjoyed a peace and a security that it was impossible to find elsewhere.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000025_000002.wav|Everything in her plays that is not formal but essential, everything that is original and individual, belongs wholly to the Christianized Germany of the tenth century. Everywhere we can trace the influence of the atmosphere in which she lived; every thought and every motive is colored by the spiritual conditions of her time.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000031_000001.wav|She is without doubt the most voluminous woman writer of the Middle Ages.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000024_000000.wav|Her dramas, which, of all her works, have attracted the most attention, are seven in number.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000003_000001.wav|Within these holy precincts the literary treasures of antiquity were preserved and multiplied.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000034_000001.wav|Nor is there any other work that gives us a better knowledge of the manners, customs and ideals of the twelfth century, or one that, in its particular sphere, is of more value to the student of art, philology and archaeology.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000034_000003.wav|Unfortunately the manuscript copy of this work was destroyed at the time of the bombardment of Strasburg by the Germans in eighteen seventy, and our knowledge of it is limited to portions of it which had previously been transcribed or to accounts left of it by those who had examined it before its destruction.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000039_000003.wav|Great spiritual rewards and great worldly prizes were alike within her grasp.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000023_000001.wav|As a writer of history and legends she ranks with the best authors of her time, while as a writer of dramas she stands absolutely alone.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000008_000000.wav|As to the monks subject to her authority, she inspired them with so great a love of knowledge, and urged them to so thorough a study of the Scriptures, that her monastery became, as Venerable Bede informs us, a school not only for missionaries but for bishops as well.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000031_000003.wav|The Bollandists, than whom there is no more competent authority, express their amazement at the amount and quality of Hildegard's work.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000021_000003.wav|The Anglo Saxon convents developed few writers, whereas those of Germany produced several who not only shed luster on their sex but who also showed what woman is capable of accomplishing when accorded some measure of encouragement and full liberty of action.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000030_000000.wav|Among her correspondents were people of the humble walks of life as well as the highest representatives of Church and State.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000007_000003.wav|And so great was her reputation for knowledge and wisdom that not only priests and bishops, but also princes and kings sought her counsel in important matters of church and state.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000024_000005.wav|In marked contrast to her model, who invariably exhibits the frailties and lapses of woman, Hroswitha's plays turn on the resistance of her sex to temptation, and on their steadfast adherence to duty and to vows voluntarily assumed.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000040_000001.wav|Never was woman more highly honored, never was her power and influence greater than during the period of conventual life extending from Hilda of Whitby to Gertrude and the Matildas of Helfta, and especially during that golden period of monasticism and chivalry when cloister and court were the radiant centers of learning and culture.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000043_000001.wav|Both of these noted women were worthy prototypes of that long list of learned Italian women who, during the Renaissance, won such honor for themselves and such undying glory for their country.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000017_000003.wav|When they were appropriated by Henry the eighth, it never occurred to him or his ministers to make any provision for the education of women in lieu of that which had so ruthlessly been wrested from them.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000006_000000.wav|Among the first convent schools to achieve distinction were those of Arles and Poitiers in Gaul, in the latter part of the sixth century.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000011_000000.wav|As his poetical faculty became more developed, his profoundly original genius became more marked, and his inspiration more earnest and impassioned.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000040_000003.wav|In England, they ranked with lords temporal and spiritual, and had the right to attend the king's council or to send proxies to represent them, while in Germany, where they held property directly from the king or emperor, they enjoyed the rights and privileges of barons and, as such, took part in the proceedings of the imperial diet either in person or through their accredited representatives.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000015_000002.wav|A woman's education, at this time, was not complete unless she could write Latin and speak it fluently.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000035_000001.wav|Of the abbess Gertrude we read that her enthusiasm for knowledge was so great that she not only inspired others with the same enthusiasm, but that she was an incessant collector of books, which she had her nuns transcribe.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000013_000001.wav|I cannot, however, refrain from referring to that group of learned English nuns who are chiefly known by their Latin correspondence with saint Boniface, the Apostle of Germany, and by the assistance which they gave him in his arduous labors.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000030_000001.wav|There were simple monks and noble abbots; dukes, kings and queens; archbishops and cardinals and no fewer than four Popes.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000042_000000.wav|"The educational influence of convents during centuries," continues the same writer, "cannot be rated too highly.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000005_000003.wav|They were free from the dangers and annoyances that so often menaced them in their own homes and were able to pursue their studies under the most favorable auspices.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000041_000000.wav|Possessing such power and prestige, it is not surprising to learn that abbesses wielded great influence in temporal as well as spiritual matters; that it pervaded politics and extended to the courts of kings and emperors.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000004_000000.wav|Of the monastic institutions for men there is no occasion to speak, except in so far as they contributed to the intellectual advancement of woman.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000031_000000.wav|But her astonishing collection of letters is the slightest product of her intellectual activity.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000033_000000.wav|Herrad, the gifted abbess of Hohenburg in Alsace, was a contemporary of Hildegard, and, like her, was noted for her culture and wide range of knowledge.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000040_000000.wav|Nor is this all.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000002_000001.wav|By some it is considered as synonymous with the Dark Ages, because of the decline of learning and civilization during this long interval of time.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000029_000001.wav|So great was her reputation for sanctity and for the extent and variety of her attainments that she was called "the marvel of Germany." She is without doubt one of the most beautiful and imposing as well as one of the greatest figures of the Middle Ages-great beside such eminent contemporaries as Abelard, Martin of Tours and Bernard of Clairvaux.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000040_000005.wav|In England they were invested with extraordinary powers, and in certain cases owed obedience to none save the Pope.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000019_000003.wav|They made provision only for the boys.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000015_000004.wav|In certain convents Latin was almost the sole medium of communication,--to such an extent, indeed, that a special rule was made prohibiting "the use of the Latin tongue except under special circumstances."|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000005_000001.wav|Here were educated rich and poor, gentle and simple.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000005_000000.wav|Practically the only schools for girls during the Middle Ages were the convents.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000017_000000.wav|But this is not all.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000019_000001.wav|But no|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000041_000002.wav|At a later period during the prolonged absence in Italy of Otto the third, the control of affairs was entrusted to the abbess alone; and so successful was her administration, and so vigorous were the measures which she adopted against the invading Wends, that she commanded the admiration of all.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000029_000002.wav|People from all parts of the Christian world sought her counsel; and her convent at Bingen became a Mecca for all classes and conditions of men and women.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000009_000000.wav|Celebrated, however, as Hilda was for her great educational work at Whitby, she is probably better known to the world as the one who first recognized and fostered the rare gifts of the poet Caedmon.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000038_000000.wav|A recent writer sums up in a few words the status and the accomplishments of the lady of the abbey in the following paragraph:|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000035_000002.wav|Among her most distinguished subjects were two religious by the name of Matilda, one of whom was her sister, and a third, who, to distinguish her from the abbess, is known as "Gertrude the Great."|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000031_000002.wav|Her works on theology, Scripture and science make no less than six or eight large octavo volumes.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56778/6038_56778_000039_000002.wav|The lady abbess, on the other hand, was part of the two great social forces of her time, feudalism and the Church.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000030_000002.wav|And as for men of the old conservative type, a learned woman was as much an object of horror as is a militant suffragette in conservative England to day.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000026_000001.wav|I believed that Plautus or Terence was being read in prose.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000010_000003.wav|To become thoroughly versed in Greek poetry and proficient in the teachings of Greek philosophy was the ambition of scores of Roman women, who soon became noted for the extent and variety of their attainments, as well as for their rare culture and charming personality.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000025_000000.wav|That some of the women had literary ability of a high order is indicated by a letter of Pliny to one of his correspondents, in which occurs the following passage:|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000021_000002.wav|They not only went to, but presided over, public games and religious ceremonies.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000003_000000.wav|In the first place the Roman matron had much more freedom than was accorded the Greek wife during the age of Pericles.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000042_000001.wav|These people do not know that Olda prophesied when the men were mute; that while Barach was atremble, Deborah saved Israel; that Judith and esther delivered from supreme peril the children of God.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000010_000000.wav|With the extension of the empire and the consequent enormous increase in wealth and the rapid progress in social and intellectual freedom, there was a notable change in the character of the education given to women, at least to those of the wealthier and patrician families.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000013_000002.wav|Highly educated and of commanding personalities, both these women, like many others of their time, contributed much to the making of Roman history by the success they achieved in molding the characters of some of the greatest men of their own or of any age.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000012_000000.wav|Scarcely less distinguished and accomplished was another Cornelia, the wife of Pompey, the Great.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000027_000001.wav|According to Cicero, his daughter Tulia was "the best and most learned of women"; but her literary work, it is probable, did not extend much beyond her letters to her illustrious father.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000010_000001.wav|This was, in great measure, due to the wave of Hellenism which, shortly after the conquest of Greece, broke upon the Roman capital with such irresistible force.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000004_000000.wav|Besides this, foreign women were never so conspicuous in Rome as in Athens.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000031_000001.wav|He gives his opinion of them in the following characteristic fashion:|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000002_000000.wav|The condition of women in Rome, especially from one fifty b c to one fifty a d, was quite different from what it was in Athens, even during her palmiest days.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000022_000000.wav|Yet more.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000041_000003.wav|It is not only a defence of his course, but also a splendid tribute to his two illustrious friends, and a tribute also to the great and good women of all time.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000008_000000.wav|"Mere woman's work Expressing the comparative respect Which means the absolute scorn."|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000042_000000.wav|"There are people, O Paula and Eustochium," exclaims the Christian Cicero, vibrant with emotion and in a burst of eloquence that recalls one of the burning philippics of Marcus Tullius, "who take offence at seeing your names at the beginning of my works.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000009_000000.wav|As early as four fifty b c, when the laws of the Twelve Tables were promulgated, the girls of Rome received instruction in reading, writing and arithmetic.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000015_000002.wav|Thus, Cicero tells us of an interview which he had at Antium with Brutus and Cassius. Besides the men, there were present on this occasion three women, who took an active part in the discussion.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000015_000003.wav|These were Servilia, the mother of Brutus, Porcia, the wife of Brutus and the daughter of Cato, and Tertulla, the wife of Cassius and sister of Brutus.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000016_000000.wav|Among other noteworthy makers of Roman history, besides those just mentioned, is Livia, the wife of Augustus and the mother of Tiberius.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000028_000000.wav|Considering the number of educated women that lived in the latter days of the Republic and during the earlier part of the Empire, and their well known culture and love of letters, it is reasonable to suppose that they may have written much in both prose and verse of which we have no record.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000004_000002.wav|And, although many Greek women, some of them of rare beauty and culture, found their way to Rome, especially under the empire, they were always kept in the background and never succeeded in achieving anything approaching the ascendancy which distinguished them during the time of Aspasia.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000017_000000.wav|Then there was the gracious, the virtuous, the self sacrificing Octavia, sister of the Emperor Augustus, who was so successful in composing grave differences between her brother and her husband, and who so exerted her influence for peace during the troublous times in which she lived that she lives in history as a peacemaker.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000015_000006.wav|As we learn from Tacitus, their counsels and assistance were considered of peculiar value by the Commonwealth.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000005_000004.wav|She was never supposed to have reached the age of reason or experience." And her noblest epitaph, it was averred, was couched in the following words:|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000038_000003.wav|And more than this, they frequently suggested modifications and corrections which the great man accepted with touching humility and incorporated in a revised copy.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000038_000002.wav|After he had completed his version of the first Book of Kings, he turned it over to them, saying: "Read my Book of Kings-read also the Latin and Greek translations and compare them with my version." And they did read and compare and criticise.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000027_000000.wav|Scarcely less distinguished for her taste in literature, and for her talent as a letter writer, was Pliny's wife, Calphurnia, who, at his request, wrote to him in his absence every day and sometimes even twice a day.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000016_000001.wav|So great was her influence and so persistent was her activity in government affairs, that it is sometimes asserted that she was the prime mover of most of the public acts of both these rulers.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000003_000002.wav|She went to the theater and the Forum; she took part in all reputable entertainment, whether public or private. Besides this, she had more and greater legal rights than Greek women had ever known, and was treated rather as the peer and companion of man than as his toy or his slave.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000015_000007.wav|For, when some of the sterner old moralists wished to exclude women from all participation in public affairs, the Senate, after a heated debate, decided by a large majority that the cooperation of women in questions of administration, far from being a menace, as some contended, was so beneficial to the state that it should be continued.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000042_000007.wav|And the mother of the Gracchi, your Cornelia, and the daughter of Cato, wife of Brutus, before whom pale the austere virtue of the father and the courage of the husband-are they not the pride of the whole of Rome?|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000015_000001.wav|But there were others who chose a wider field for their activities, and who, by reason of their unerring judgment, well poised and highly cultivated minds, had so won the confidence of the nation's greatest leaders that they were frequently consulted on important affairs of state.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000003_000001.wav|Far from being kept in oriental seclusion, like her Athenian sister, she was at liberty to receive and dine with the friends of her husband, and to appear in public whenever she desired.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000038_000001.wav|So great was Jerome's confidence in their scholarship and so high was his appreciation of their ability and judgment that he did not hesitate to submit his translations to them for their criticism and approval.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000013_000000.wav|Then there was the cultured and devoted Aurelia, the mother of Julius Caesar.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000042_000006.wav|Did not Themista philosophize with the sages of Greece?|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000033_000003.wav|The gist of his teaching is contained in the statement that:|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000011_000000.wav|Among the pioneers of the intellectual movement in Rome, and one of the most beautiful types of the learned women of her time, was the celebrated daughter of the elder Scipio Africanus-Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6038/56777/6038_56777_000033_000002.wav|Like Plato, he contended that women should have the same training as men and that the faculties of both should be equally developed.|6038
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000042_000013.wav|The widows themselves demand it!|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000055_000001.wav|His elbow brushed her shoulder.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000065_000000.wav|"Please stay and have some coffee with me."|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000066_000002.wav|I'm afraid of what people might say."|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000071_000001.wav|And I've never thought to call.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000055_000008.wav|What is Gopher Prairie to you?"|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000064_000000.wav|"I'm not a humming bird.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000015_000001.wav|Evangelize it to what?"|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000012_000001.wav|He quartered the office, a grayhound on the scent; a grayhound with glasses tilted forward on his thin nose, and a silky indecisive brown mustache.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000032_000002.wav|Julius got well.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000072_000003.wav|He slipped out, came back with dr and mrs Dillon.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000070_000000.wav|"Yes.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000051_000000.wav|"I won't be cajoled!|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000032_000001.wav|I came here.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000027_000000.wav|"It is.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000005_000001.wav|Won't you come in and wait for them?"|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000023_000004.wav|Most places that have lost the smell of earth but not yet acquired the smell of patchouli-or of factory smoke-are just as suspicious and righteous.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000012_000003.wav|She noted that he did not apologize for it, as Kennicott would have done.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000004_000003.wav|To the person who opened she murmured, "Do you happen to know where the Perrys are?" She realized that it was Guy Pollock.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000043_000002.wav|Really?"|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000031_000009.wav|And I read, oh, everything.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000050_000000.wav|"Yes, I'm sure she's very bland.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000018_000000.wav|"(Yes, thanks.) No, I think it's the town."|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000010_000002.wav|Please try this chair."|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000042_000016.wav|Suppose I did dare to make love to-some exquisite married woman. I wouldn't admit it to myself.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000031_000008.wav|I walked in Gramercy Park.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000063_000002.wav|It's like blood on the wing of a humming bird."|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000049_000000.wav|"No, REALLY!|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000056_000000.wav|"A bore!"|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000070_000002.wav|He's a dentist, just come to town.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000040_000003.wav|How old are you, Carol?"|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000016_000004.wav|Tell me, mr Pollock, what is the matter with Gopher Prairie?"|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000041_000000.wav|"Twenty six, Guy."|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000055_000004.wav|He stopped himself with a sharp, "Good Lord, Carol, you're not a jury.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirteen|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000042_000008.wav|There's one thing that's the matter with Gopher Prairie, at least with the ruling class (there is a ruling class, despite all our professions of democracy). And the penalty we tribal rulers pay is that our subjects watch us every minute.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000008_000003.wav|They are a cot and a wash stand and my other suit and the blue crepe tie you said you liked."|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000011_000000.wav|She glanced about the rusty office-gaunt stove, shelves of tan law books, desk chair filled with newspapers so long sat upon that they were in holes and smudged to grayness.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000059_000000.wav|"I don't know.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000037_000006.wav|At least, I am making you talk!|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000007_000000.wav|"I didn't know your office was up here."|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000011_000001.wav|There were only two things which suggested Guy Pollock.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000058_000000.wav|"How could you?"|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000055_000007.wav|Tell me your side.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000039_000000.wav|"Would you have a fireplace for me?"|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000042_000018.wav|I'm broken.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000070_000004.wav|They don't know much of anybody----"|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000043_000000.wav|"Guy!|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000055_000002.wav|He flitted over to the desk chair, his thin back stooped.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000027_000004.wav|I'm a perfect example.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000066_000000.wav|"I'd like to.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000016_000000.wav|"To anything that's definite.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000012_000002.wav|He had a golf jacket of jersey, worn through at the creases in the sleeves.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000010_000000.wav|"Of course.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000033_000001.wav|I thought I was 'keeping up.' But I guess the Village Virus had me already.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000067_000002.wav|"Carol!|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000049_000003.wav|But her mother, mrs Westlake-nobody could be sweeter."|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000047_000000.wav|"Oh, maybe once or twice, when Will has positively known of a case where Doctor-where one of the others has continued to call on patients longer than necessary, he has laughed about it, but----"|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000004_000001.wav|She saw a light under an office door.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000016_000001.wav|Seriousness or frivolousness or both.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000031_000006.wav|I went to symphonies twice a week.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/124526/639_124526_000055_000003.wav|He picked up the cloisonne vase. Across it he peered at her with such loneliness that she was startled. But his eyes faded into impersonality as he talked of the jealousies of Gopher Prairie.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/143022/639_143022_000017_000002.wav|Bully place for a nice quiet snooze-empty stage, sir!"|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/143022/639_143022_000001_000000.wav|A LONELY RIDE|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/143022/639_143022_000010_000000.wav|Was there any driver?|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/639/143022/639_143022_000005_000000.wav|Perhaps I was out of spirits.|639
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000026_000002.wav|The talent for being sarcastic is a most dangerous one.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000005_000004.wav|The most that any earnest person should attempt to do with a daily paper is to glance over the headlines which give the gist of the news, and then to read such editorial comments as enable the reader to understand the more important events and affairs that are transpiring in the world so that reference to them in conversation would be intelligent and intelligible.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000026_000001.wav|She must avoid frequent attempts at wit; avoid punning, which is the cheapest possible form of wit; and avoid sarcasm.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000003.wav|One reason why the art of conversation has so degenerated in these days is that so few have a real interest in hearing the fine thoughts of good thinker and talkers.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000021_000002.wav|We had ever so much about Shakespere.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000006_000003.wav|She was telling a young gentleman where the book shelves were to be in the splendid new house being built by her father, and suggesting that the shelves would look nice if the books had nice bindings.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000008.wav|I have heard a young boarding school graduate embarrass a whole room full of excellent and educated people by asking a young gentleman if he did not think Longfellow very inferior to Lowell in his love poems.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000024_000000.wav|one.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000020_000000.wav|"'Well, not all.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000005_000000.wav|And here it may help you if I particularize a little in regard to a knowledge of important events of the day and also of general and current literature.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000026_000004.wav|The temptation to be bright and interesting and to attract attention by the use of sarcasm is very strong, for nearly all will be interested in it and enjoy it for a little.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000022_000001.wav|And yet, to talk too much about books is not well; it often marks the pedantic and egotistic character.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000005.wav|Until years and experience, as well as wide reading and information, have given you the right to express freely your opinions in society, it will be well to listen a great deal more than you speak, especially when in the company of your elders.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000022_000003.wav|It is not very long since another popular modern novelist held up to scorn and ridicule the young woman whose particular ambition seemed to be to let society know what an immense number of books she had been reading.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000024_000002.wav|Especially should she avoid seeking to make an impression by frequent mention of advantageous friends or circumstances.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000005_000002.wav|More than three fourths of the matter printed in the "great city dailies" is not only of no use to anyone, but it is a positive damage to habits of mental application to read it.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000024_000004.wav|In one of his essays he says: "You shall not enumerate your brilliant acquaintances, nor tell me by their titles what books you have read.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000027_000002.wav|Much harm, much blunting of fine sensibilities, much destruction of that delicate modesty which is the priceless dower of young girlhood, comes of such jesting and joking where it is permitted without restraint or reproof.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000001.wav|Be especially careful to avoid interrupting one who is speaking.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000010_000000.wav|"The young man looked at her, and then said seriously, 'You'll want Green, of course, and Motley, and Parkman.'|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000006_000000.wav|The field of literature is now so vast that no one can hope to be well acquainted with more than a small portion of it.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000025_000004.wav|American girls and women are accused by cultivated foreigners of having loud, harsh, strident voices; and there is too much truth in the accusation.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000025_000002.wav|To laugh aloud is a dangerous thing, unless all noise and harshness have been cultivated out of the voice, as ought to be done in every good school.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000025_000007.wav|But talking in too loud a tone is scarcely less unpleasant to the listeners than the use of too low a tone, which is generally an affectation.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000022_000000.wav|So you see how ridiculous this young girl, by the betrayal of such ignorance, made herself in conversation with a cultured young gentleman whose good opinion she was most anxious to win.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000023_000000.wav|Directions and suggestions for aiding young people to become agreeable and pleasant conversers must necessarily be mainly negative.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000005_000005.wav|But if one should never see a daily paper, yet should every week carefully read a digest of news prepared for a good weekly paper, one would be thoroughly furnished with all necessary knowledge of contemporaneous events, and the time thus saved from daily papers could be profitably employed in other reading.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000013_000001.wav|That's what Gibbon was.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000022_000002.wav|It is safe to say that unless one happens to meet a very congenial mind among conversers in general society, to introduce the subject of books is liable to be misconstrued.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000021_000000.wav|"'And Shakespere,' she added.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000009_000002.wav|Mine's lost, but Pen will remember.'|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000025_000003.wav|The culture of the voice is one of the most important elements in making a pleasant converser.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000026_000003.wav|'No one ever knew a sarcastic woman who could keep friends.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000003_000002.wav|And while games and other amusements may serve for a temporary variety (always excepting games known as "kissing games," which should be promptly tabooed and denounced, and ever will be in truly refined society), yet animated and intelligent conversation must always hold the first place in the list of the pleasures of any refined society circle.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000017_000000.wav|"'We don't any of us like poetry.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000027_000001.wav|She must avoid a kind of joking and badinage that should never be heard among well bred young people in society-that about courtship and marriage.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000027_000003.wav|A young girl may not be called upon to reprove it, but she certainly can shun the company of those who are given to such vulgarity (for no other term will rightly describe it), and she can certainly refrain from joining in any conversation of this description.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000022_000004.wav|Nevertheless, one must have a good groundwork of knowledge of books in order to avoid mistakes such as poor Irene made in talking with young Corey.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000021_000003.wav|Weren't you perfectly astonished when you found out how many other plays there were of his?|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000024_000003.wav|The greatest observer and commentator upon manners that ever wrote was mr Emerson.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000003_000001.wav|It is one of the marks of an advancing state of intelligence and culture, when an assemblage of gentlemen and ladies can pass delightful hours in the mere interchange of thought in conversation.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000012_000000.wav|"'They're historians, too.'|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000010.wav|In this way you will avoid that bane of social conversation-gossip.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000015_000001.wav|'I used to get them mixed up with each other, and I couldn't tell them from the poets. Should you want to have poetry?'|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000026_000000.wav|three.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000009_000001.wav|I believe we had one of his books.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000005_000001.wav|Of course the main source of knowledge of the more important events that are going on in the world is the daily or weekly newspaper; and yet there is scarcely any reading so utterly demoralizing to good mental habits as the ordinary daily paper.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000004_000000.wav|How shall a young girl fit herself to enjoy and to afford enjoyment in general society?|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000012.wav|Have a special thought and regard for those who may labor under disadvantages?|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000018_000000.wav|"'I'm afraid I don't, very much,' Corey owned.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000025_000006.wav|The cause of harshness and loudness is often mere carelessness on the part of young people.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000024_000005.wav|I am to infer that you keep good company by your good manners and better information; and to infer your reading from the wealth, and accuracy of your conversation."|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000019_000002.wav|I think we ought to have all the American poets.'|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000018_000001.wav|'But of course there was a time when Tennyson was a great deal more to me than he is now.'|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000011.wav|In all social relations strive to throw your influence for that which is faithful, sincere, kind, generous, and just.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000009_000000.wav|"'We had a good deal about him in school.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000006_000001.wav|Yet every well informed young person should know the general character of the principal writers since the time of Shakespere, even though one should never read their works.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000008_000000.wav|"'If you want to read him,' said Corey, with a laugh of sympathy for an imaginable joke.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000013.wav|be especially kind to the shrinking and timid, to the poor and unfortunate.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000011_000001.wav|What kind of writers are they?'|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000017_000001.wav|Do you like it?'|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000007.wav|Do not quote poetry; do not ask people's opinions on delicate and individual questions.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000005_000003.wav|It is a waste of time even to undertake to sift the important from the unimportant.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000028_000004.wav|So many people want to talk about themselves, or their affairs, that it is in many circles almost an impossibility to maintain a high and elevating conversation.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000004_000001.wav|Certainly the first requisites are intelligence, a good knowledge of standard literature, a general knowledge of the more important events that are taking place in the world, and such a knowledge of the best current literature as may be obtained from the regular reading of one or two of the standard monthly magazines.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/56222/6032_56222_000025_000005.wav|Nor is there any excuse for unpleasant, harsh, rough, nasal tones of voice in these days when in every good school instruction is given in the management of the voice for reading and conversation.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000015.wav|One of my uncles, a slave of Colonel Burwell, lost a pair of ploughlines, and when the loss was made known the master gave him a new pair, and told him that if he did not take care of them he would punish him severely.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000031.wav|At last mr Burwell determined to reward my mother, by making an arrangement with the owner of my father, by which the separation of my parents could be brought to an end.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000005.wav|He came in with a bright face, was placed in the scales, and was sold, like the hogs, at so much per pound. His mother was kept in ignorance of the transaction, but her suspicions were aroused.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000007_000001.wav|six, eighteen thirty three.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000008_000000.wav|"mrs|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000013.wav|Time seemed to soften the hearts of master and mistress, and to insure kinder and more humane treatment to bondsmen and bondswomen.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000007.wav|Every day seems like a romance within itself, and the years grow into ponderous volumes.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000003.wav|My recollections of childhood are distinct, perhaps for the reason that many stirring incidents are associated with that period.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000011.wav|Colonel Burwell at one time owned about seventy slaves, all of which were sold, and in a majority of instances wives were separated from husbands and children from their parents.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000005.wav|The visions are so terribly distinct that I almost imagine them to be real.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000001.wav|We were living at Prince Edward, in Virginia, and master had just purchased his hogs for the winter, for which he was unable to pay in full.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000008_000001.wav|AGNES HOBBS|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000004.wav|His mother was ordered to dress him up in his Sunday clothes, and send him to the house.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000019.wav|The baby was named Elizabeth, and it was pleasant to me to be assigned a duty in connection with it, for the discharge of that duty transferred me from the rude cabin to the household of my master. My simple attire was a short dress and a little white apron.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000024.wav|This was the first time I was punished in this cruel way, but not the last.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000014.wav|When I was quite a child, an incident occurred which my mother afterward impressed more strongly on my mind.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000021.wav|This was a golden promise, and I required no better inducement for the faithful performance of my task. I began to rock the cradle most industriously, when lo! out pitched little pet on the floor.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000027.wav|When I was eight, mr Burwell's family consisted of six sons and four daughters, with a large family of servants.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000004_000010.wav|We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000018.wav|Rather than be punished the way Colonel Burwell punished his servants, he took his own life.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000003.wav|Little Joe, the son of the cook, was selected as the victim.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000013.wav|A. Burwell, was somewhat unsettled in his business affairs, and while I was yet an infant he made several removals.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000004_000014.wav|My old mistress said to her: "Stop your nonsense; there is no necessity for you putting on airs.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000015.wav|To take care of this baby was my first duty.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000005_000001.wav|They kept up a regular correspondence for years, and the most precious mementoes of my existence are the faded old letters that he wrote, full of love, and always hoping that the future would bring brighter days.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000025.wav|The black eyed baby that I called my pet grew into a self willed girl, and in after years was the cause of much trouble to me.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000009.wav|From such a wilderness of events it is difficult to make a selection, but as I am not writing altogether the history of myself, I will confine my story to the most important incidents which I believe influenced the moulding of my character.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000011.wav|I presume that I must have been four years old when I first began to remember; at least, I cannot now recall anything occurring previous to this period.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000008.wav|One day she was whipped for grieving for her lost boy.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000004_000007.wav|The shadow eclipsed the sunshine, and love brought despair.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000004_000015.wav|Your husband is not the only slave that has been sold from his family, and you are not the only one that has had to part.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000017.wav|My mother went to the spring in the morning for a pail of water, and on looking up into the willow tree which shaded the bubbling crystal stream, she discovered the lifeless form of her brother suspended beneath one of the strong branches.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000010.wav|As I glance over the crowded sea of the past, these incidents stand forth prominently, the guide posts of memory.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000004_000017.wav|She turned away in stoical silence, with a curl of that loathing scorn upon her lips which swelled in her heart.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000012_000002.wav|To escape from his embarrassment it was necessary to sell one of the slaves.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000029.wav|I was my mother's only child, which made her love for me all the stronger.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000002.wav|My birthplace was Dinwiddie Court House, in Virginia.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000020.wav|My old mistress encouraged me in rocking the cradle, by telling me that if I would watch over the baby well, keep the flies out of its face, and not let it cry, I should be its little maid.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000003_000014.wav|While living at Hampton Sidney College, Prince Edward county virginia, mrs Burwell gave birth to a daughter, a sweet, black eyed baby, my earliest and fondest pet.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6032/58192/6032_58192_000004_000008.wav|The parting was eternal.|6032
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000011_000000.wav|"The man is rather deaf, and in any case we must take our chance of that.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000003.wav|It follows, therefore, that Barrymore, since only this window would serve the purpose, must have been looking out for something or somebody upon the moor.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000009.wav|So I reasoned with myself in the morning, and I tell you the direction of my suspicions, however much the result may have shown that they were unfounded.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000010_000000.wav|"But surely he would hear us."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000078_000002.wav|Far away in the black distance there still glowed that one tiny point of yellow light.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000043_000004.wav|The next night we lowered the lamp and sat smoking cigarettes without making the least sound.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000013_000001.wav|As a matter of course I did the same.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000038_000003.wav|However, our conjectures were set at rest by a visit from Stapleton himself that very afternoon.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000002_000000.wav|Baskerville Hall, october fifteenth.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000064_000002.wav|Her bulky figure in a shawl and skirt might have been comic were it not for the intensity of feeling upon her face.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000088_000000.wav|"Then get your revolver and put on your boots.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000004_000002.wav|He was less surprised than I had expected.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000001.wav|The baronet's nerves were still quivering from that cry, which recalled the dark story of his family, and he was not in the mood for fresh adventures.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000094_000003.wav|The baronet caught my sleeve and his face glimmered white through the darkness.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000005.wav|But in any case it was a blow to him and it would take him some time before he could prepare himself to meet it.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000121_000002.wav|Come on!|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000035_000003.wav|And yet he would not so much as let me touch the tips of her fingers."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000006.wav|We shuffled cautiously towards it, trying every plank before we dared to put our whole weight upon it.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000006.wav|He would withdraw all opposition upon his part if I would promise for three months to let the matter rest and to be content with cultivating the lady's friendship during that time without claiming her love.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000024_000001.wav|I ran down the hill therefore and met the baronet at the bottom.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000012_000000.wav|The baronet has been in communication with the architect who prepared the plans for Sir Charles, and with a contractor from London, so that we may expect great changes to begin here soon.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000000.wav|Our friend, Sir Henry, and the lady had halted on the path and were standing deeply absorbed in their conversation, when I was suddenly aware that I was not the only witness of their interview.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000045_000001.wav|He walked into the room, and as he did so Barrymore sprang up from the window with a sharp hiss of his breath and stood, livid and trembling, before us.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000004.wav|His arm was round her, but it seemed to me that she was straining away from him with her face averted.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000083_000000.wav|"Not more than a mile or two off."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000037_000003.wav|She was glad to meet me, but when she did it was not love that she would talk about, and she wouldn't have let me talk about it either if she could have stopped it.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000115_000000.wav|"No, no"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000037_000002.wav|But he has never let us get together and it was only today for the first time that I saw a chance of having a few words with her alone.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000005.wav|Then he passed through the same door as before, and the light of the candle framed it in the darkness and shot one single yellow beam across the gloom of the corridor.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000043_000001.wav|I sat up with Sir Henry in his rooms until nearly three o'clock in the morning, but no sound of any sort did we hear except the chiming clock upon the stairs.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000124_000002.wav|Let us see if we can get a glimpse of him."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000067_000001.wav|What does it mean?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000037_000001.wav|I tell you, Watson, I've only known her these few weeks, but from the first I just felt that she was made for me, and she, too-she was happy when she was with me, and that I'll swear. There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000097_000001.wav|We stood straining our ears, but nothing came.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000077_000001.wav|Forget what I have said.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000072_000002.wav|Was it possible that this stolidly respectable person was of the same blood as one of the most notorious criminals in the country?|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000071_000002.wav|But now you have heard it, and you will see that if there was a plot it was not against you."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000007.wav|Stapleton was the cause of the interruption.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000002_000001.wav|MY DEAR HOLMES: If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must acknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that events are now crowding thick and fast upon us.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000030_000000.wav|"Yes, I did."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000047_000002.wav|I go round at night to see that they are fastened."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000065_000001.wav|This is the end of it.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000062_000000.wav|"Very good, sir.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000003.wav|"A warder, no doubt," said he.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000010.wav|That is the whole truth, as I am an honest Christian woman and you will see that if there is blame in the matter it does not lie with my husband but with me, for whose sake he has done all that he has."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000094_000000.wav|As if in answer to his words there rose suddenly out of the vast gloom of the moor that strange cry which I had already heard upon the borders of the great Grimpen Mire.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000004.wav|The night was very dark, so that I can hardly imagine how he could have hoped to see anyone.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000104_000001.wav|What do they say of it?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000001_000000.wav|Chapter nine.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000009.wav|So far as the Barrymores go we have found the motive of their actions, and that has cleared up the situation very much.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000072_000000.wav|This, then, was the explanation of the stealthy expeditions at night and the light at the window.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000043_000003.wav|Fortunately we were not discouraged, and we determined to try again.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000059_000003.wav|Who is your confederate out yonder, and what is this conspiracy that is going on?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000029_000001.wav|But her brother was well up to the front. Did you see him come out on us?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000035_000000.wav|"He can't object to my worldly position, so it must be myself that he has this down on.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000005.wav|He knew that I was here and that we could not refuse to help him.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000009.wav|Still, I could see no better course than to observe him from the hill, and to clear my conscience by confessing to him afterwards what I had done.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000099_000000.wav|My blood ran cold in my veins, for there was a break in his voice which told of the sudden horror which had seized him.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000004_000000.wav|But whatever the true explanation of Barrymore's movements might be, I felt that the responsibility of keeping them to myself until I could explain them was more than I could bear.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000010.wav|Besides, he was a much taller man.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000037_000006.wav|With that I offered in as many words to marry her, but before she could answer, down came this brother of hers, running at us with a face on him like a madman.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000109_000000.wav|"It was hard to say whence it came."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000006.wav|Next moment I saw them spring apart and turn hurriedly round.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000004.wav|We were just in time to catch a glimpse of the tall, black bearded figure, his shoulders rounded as he tiptoed down the passage.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000007.wav|The man is a striking looking fellow, very well equipped to steal the heart of a country girl, so that this theory seemed to have something to support it.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000011.wav|With a cry of surprise I pointed him out to the baronet, but in the instant during which I had turned to grasp his arm the man was gone.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000077_000000.wav|"Well, I cannot blame you for standing by your own wife.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000042_000004.wav|All these things have by one night's work been thoroughly cleared.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000006.wav|When he dragged himself here one night, weary and starving, with the warders hard at his heels, what could we do?|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000064_000000.wav|"No, no, sir; no, not against you!"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000015_000000.wav|"That depends on whether you are going on the moor," said i|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000096_000000.wav|"I don't know.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000033_000000.wav|"I dare say not.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000125_000002.wav|Foul with mire, with a bristling beard, and hung with matted hair, it might well have belonged to one of those old savages who dwelt in the burrows on the hillsides.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000002.wav|He had not seen this lonely man upon the tor and could not feel the thrill which his strange presence and his commanding attitude had given to me.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000116_000002.wav|There was the footprint of the hound beside him as he lay.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000019_000002.wav|I am sure that you are the last man in the world who would wish to be a spoil sport.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000005.wav|They were walking slowly along in deep conversation, and I saw her making quick little movements of her hands as if she were very earnest in what she was saying, while he listened intently, and once or twice shook his head in strong dissent.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000033_000003.wav|Tell me straight, now!|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000113_000000.wav|"Stapleton was with me when I heard it last.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000007.wav|We took him in and fed him and cared for him.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000009.wav|However, the man is fortunately rather deaf, and he was entirely preoccupied in that which he was doing.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000084_000000.wav|"Hardly that."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000126_000003.wav|I sprang forward therefore, and Sir Henry did the same.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000121_000000.wav|"No, by thunder; we have come out to get our man, and we will do it.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000127_000000.wav|We were both swift runners and in fairly good training, but we soon found that we had no chance of overtaking him.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000012_000004.wav|And yet the course of true love does not run quite as smoothly as one would under the circumstances expect.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000116_000003.wav|It all fits together.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000002.wav|Thence I saw him at once.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000021_000001.wav|I assure you my cheeks flushed at the very thought.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000093_000000.wav|"I say, Watson," said the baronet, "what would Holmes say to this?|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000007.wav|To follow them and break into their intimate conversation seemed to be an outrage, and yet my clear duty was never for an instant to let him out of my sight.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000059_000000.wav|"Move your light across the window, Watson!" cried the baronet.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000017_000000.wav|"Well, you know what my instructions are.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000045_000000.wav|We had arranged no plan of campaign, but the baronet is a man to whom the most direct way is always the most natural.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000065_000000.wav|"We have to go, Eliza.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000116_000004.wav|I don't think that I am a coward, Watson, but that sound seemed to freeze my very blood.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000011.wav|Perhaps in my next I may be able to throw some light upon this also.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000010.wav|But the moor with its mysteries and its strange inhabitants remains as inscrutable as ever.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000095_000000.wav|"My God, what's that, Watson?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000068_000002.wav|The light is a signal to him that food is ready for him, and his light out yonder is to show the spot to which to bring it."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000103_000001.wav|Why should you mind what they call it?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000007_000002.wav|I wonder what your friend Holmes would do if he were here."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000091_000000.wav|"I have a hunting crop."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000098_000000.wav|"Watson," said the baronet, "it was the cry of a hound."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000016_000000.wav|"Yes, I am."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000009.wav|Every day we hoped that he was gone, but as long as he was there we could not desert him.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000081_000001.wav|How far do you think it is?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000007.wav|We had taken the precaution of leaving our boots behind us, but, even so, the old boards snapped and creaked beneath our tread.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000008.wav|We are certainly making some progress.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000087_000000.wav|"I will come," said i|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000123_000000.wav|"What shall we do now?" whispered Sir Henry.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000008.wav|He was running wildly towards them, his absurd net dangling behind him.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000110_000001.wav|Isn't that the direction of the great Grimpen Mire?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000089_000002.wav|Now and again the moon peeped out for an instant, but clouds were driving over the face of the sky, and just as we came out on the moor a thin rain began to fall.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000003.wav|From crime to crime he sank lower and lower until it is only the mercy of God which has snatched him from the scaffold; but to me, sir, he was always the little curly headed boy that I had nursed and played with as an elder sister would.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000059_000001.wav|"See, the other moves also!|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000066_000001.wav|It is my doing, Sir Henry-all mine.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000121_000003.wav|We'll see it through if all the fiends of the pit were loose upon the moor."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000096_000002.wav|I heard it once before."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000018_000000.wav|Sir Henry put his hand upon my shoulder with a pleasant smile.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000004.wav|"The moor has been thick with them since this fellow escaped." Well, perhaps his explanation may be the right one, but I should like to have some further proof of it.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000105_000000.wav|I hesitated but could not escape the question.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000010.wav|When at last we reached the door and peeped through we found him crouching at the window, candle in hand, his white, intent face pressed against the pane, exactly as I had seen him two nights before.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000093_000001.wav|How about that hour of darkness in which the power of evil is exalted?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000006_000000.wav|"Perhaps then he pays a visit every night to that particular window," I suggested.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000120_000000.wav|"Shall we turn back?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000008.wav|That opening of the door which I had heard after I had returned to my room might mean that he had gone out to keep some clandestine appointment.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000012_000001.wav|There have been decorators and furnishers up from Plymouth, and it is evident that our friend has large ideas and means to spare no pains or expense to restore the grandeur of his family.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000000.wav|"Yes, sir, my name was Selden, and he is my younger brother.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000006.wav|Such are the adventures of last night, and you must acknowledge, my dear Holmes, that I have done you very well in the matter of a report.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000101_000000.wav|"Who?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000032_000000.wav|"I can't say that he ever did."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000074_000000.wav|The woman's words came with an intense earnestness which carried conviction with them.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000112_000003.wav|You need not fear to speak the truth."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000009.wav|This man was far from the place where the latter had disappeared.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000029_000000.wav|"Quite in the back row, eh?|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000002.wav|They have always been together, and according to his account he has been a very lonely man with only her as a companion, so that the thought of losing her was really terrible to him.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000002_000005.wav|But I will tell you all and you shall judge for yourself.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000005.wav|It had struck me that it was possible that some love intrigue was on foot.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000090_000000.wav|"Are you armed?" I asked.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000112_000001.wav|Come now, Watson, didn't you think yourself that it was the cry of a hound?|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000052_000001.wav|I was holding a candle to the window."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000066_000002.wav|He has done nothing except for my sake and because I asked him."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000000.wav|Very stealthily we heard it pass along until it died away in the distance.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000033_000004.wav|Is there anything that would prevent me from making a good husband to a woman that I loved?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000076_000001.wav|Every word of it."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000092_000000.wav|"We must close in on him rapidly, for he is said to be a desperate fellow.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000006.wav|I stood among the rocks watching them, very much puzzled as to what I should do next.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000127_000002.wav|We ran and ran until we were completely blown, but the space between us grew ever wider. Finally we stopped and sat panting on two rocks, while we watched him disappearing in the distance.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000002_000002.wav|In my last report I ended upon my top note with Barrymore at the window, and now I have quite a budget already which will, unless I am much mistaken, considerably surprise you.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000110_000000.wav|"It rose and fell with the wind.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000026_000000.wav|I explained everything to him: how I had found it impossible to remain behind, how I had followed him, and how I had witnessed all that had occurred.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000071_000001.wav|"I said that it was not my secret and that I could not tell it to you.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000006.wav|That would have accounted for his stealthy movements and also for the uneasiness of his wife.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000008.wav|He might have been the very spirit of that terrible place. It was not the convict.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000037_000007.wav|He was just white with rage, and those light eyes of his were blazing with fury.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000019_000000.wav|"My dear fellow," said he, "Holmes, with all his wisdom, did not foresee some things which have happened since I have been on the moor.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000068_000001.wav|We cannot let him perish at our very gates.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000126_000004.wav|At the same moment the convict screamed out a curse at us and hurled a rock which splintered up against the boulder which had sheltered us.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000037_000008.wav|What was I doing with the lady?|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000057_000000.wav|"There it is!" I cried.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000003.wav|There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000019_000001.wav|You understand me?|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000034_000000.wav|"I should say not."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000066_000000.wav|"Oh, john, john, have I brought you to this?|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000072_000001.wav|Sir Henry and I both stared at the woman in amazement.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000001.wav|We had risen from our rocks and were turning to go home, having abandoned the hopeless chase.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000094_000002.wav|Again and again it sounded, the whole air throbbing with it, strident, wild, and menacing.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000107_000000.wav|He groaned and was silent for a few moments.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000117_000000.wav|It was as cold as a block of marble.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000011_000001.wav|We'll sit up in my room tonight and wait until he passes." Sir Henry rubbed his hands with pleasure, and it was evident that he hailed the adventure as a relief to his somewhat quiet life upon the moor.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000080_000000.wav|"It may be so placed as to be only visible from here."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000038_000004.wav|He had come to offer apologies for his rudeness of the morning, and after a long private interview with Sir Henry in his study the upshot of their conversation was that the breach is quite healed, and that we are to dine at Merripit House next Friday as a sign of it.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000064_000001.wav|It was a woman's voice, and mrs Barrymore, paler and more horror struck than her husband, was standing at the door.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000003.wav|Softly we stole along until we had come into the other wing.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000053_000000.wav|"And why were you holding a candle to the window?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000001.wav|That is natural enough, and I am glad that he should understand her value.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000002_000003.wav|Things have taken a turn which I could not have anticipated.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000086_000003.wav|The man was a danger to the community, an unmitigated scoundrel for whom there was neither pity nor excuse.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000001.wav|A wisp of green floating in the air caught my eye, and another glance showed me that it was carried on a stick by a man who was moving among the broken ground.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000054_000000.wav|"Don't ask me, Sir Henry-don't ask me!|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000000.wav|Before breakfast on the morning following my adventure I went down the corridor and examined the room in which Barrymore had been on the night before.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000050_000001.wav|Come, now!|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000056_000002.wav|And then I gave a cry of exultation, for a tiny pinpoint of yellow light had suddenly transfixed the dark veil, and glowed steadily in the centre of the black square framed by the window.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000086_000000.wav|The same thought had crossed my own mind.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000076_000000.wav|"Yes, Sir Henry.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000054_000002.wav|If it concerned no one but myself I would not try to keep it from you."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000000.wav|"His sister is everything in his life, he says.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000033_000001.wav|I always thought him sane enough until today, but you can take it from me that either he or I ought to be in a straitjacket. What's the matter with me, anyhow?|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000125_000000.wav|The words were hardly out of my mouth when we both saw him.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000007_000000.wav|"Perhaps he does.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000044_000001.wav|Then the baronet gently opened his door and we set out in pursuit.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000007.wav|This I promised, and so the matter rests."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000009.wav|He gesticulated and almost danced with excitement in front of the lovers. What the scene meant I could not imagine, but it seemed to me that Stapleton was abusing Sir Henry, who offered explanations, which became more angry as the other refused to accept them.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000067_000000.wav|"Speak out, then!|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000040_000000.wav|"Did he give any explanation of his conduct?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000086_000002.wav|Their secret had been forced from them.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000005.wav|He stooped his head to hers, and she raised one hand as if in protest.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000025_000002.wav|"You don't mean to say that you came after me in spite of all?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000079_000000.wav|"I wonder he dares," said Sir Henry.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000086_000006.wav|Any night, for example, our neighbours the Stapletons might be attacked by him, and it may have been the thought of this which made Sir Henry so keen upon the adventure.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000002.wav|It was Stapleton with his butterfly net.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000007.wav|He stood with his legs a little separated, his arms folded, his head bowed, as if he were brooding over that enormous wilderness of peat and granite which lay before him.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000129_000007.wav|Much of what I tell you is no doubt quite irrelevant, but still I feel that it is best that I should let you have all the facts and leave you to select for yourself those which will be of most service to you in helping you to your conclusions.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000000.wav|I hurried along the road at the top of my speed without seeing anything of Sir Henry, until I came to the point where the moor path branches off.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000002_000004.wav|In some ways they have within the last forty eight hours become much clearer and in some ways they have become more complicated.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000041_000004.wav|If she had to leave him he had rather it was to a neighbour like myself than to anyone else.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000060_000001.wav|"It is my business, and not yours. I will not tell."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000126_000000.wav|Something had evidently aroused his suspicions.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000011.wav|Finally Stapleton turned upon his heel and beckoned in a peremptory way to his sister, who, after an irresolute glance at Sir Henry, walked off by the side of her brother.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000042_000002.wav|And now I pass on to another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein, the mystery of the sobs in the night, of the tear stained face of mrs Barrymore, of the secret journey of the butler to the western lattice window.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000050_000000.wav|"Look here, Barrymore," said Sir Henry sternly, "we have made up our minds to have the truth out of you, so it will save you trouble to tell it sooner rather than later.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000122_000004.wav|It was strange to see this single candle burning there in the middle of the moor, with no sign of life near it-just the one straight yellow flame and the gleam of the rock on each side of it.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000081_000000.wav|"Very likely.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000004.wav|Do not think that it was a delusion, Holmes.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000012_000003.wav|Between ourselves there are pretty clear signs that this will not be wanting if the lady is willing, for I have seldom seen a man more infatuated with a woman than he is with our beautiful neighbour, Miss Stapleton.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000111_000000.wav|"Yes, it is."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000063_000000.wav|"And you go in disgrace.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000003_000001.wav|The western window through which he had stared so intently has, I noticed, one peculiarity above all other windows in the house-it commands the nearest outlook on to the moor.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000028_000000.wav|"I was on that hill."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000019_000003.wav|I must go out alone."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000000.wav|And it was at this moment that there occurred a most strange and unexpected thing.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000126_000001.wav|It may have been that Barrymore had some private signal which we had neglected to give, or the fellow may have had some other reason for thinking that all was not well, but I could read his fears upon his wicked face.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000125_000003.wav|The light beneath him was reflected in his small, cunning eyes which peered fiercely to right and left through the darkness like a crafty and savage animal who has heard the steps of the hunters.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000089_000003.wav|The light still burned steadily in front.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000077_000002.wav|Go to your room, you two, and we shall talk further about this matter in the morning."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000020_000000.wav|It put me in a most awkward position.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000126_000005.wav|I caught one glimpse of his short, squat, strongly built figure as he sprang to his feet and turned to run. At the same moment by a lucky chance the moon broke through the clouds. We rushed over the brow of the hill, and there was our man running with great speed down the other side, springing over the stones in his way with the activity of a mountain goat.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000045_000002.wav|His dark eyes, glaring out of the white mask of his face, were full of horror and astonishment as he gazed from Sir Henry to me.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000003.wav|He was very much closer to the pair than I was, and he appeared to be moving in their direction. At this instant Sir Henry suddenly drew Miss Stapleton to his side.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000125_000001.wav|Over the rocks, in the crevice of which the candle burned, there was thrust out an evil yellow face, a terrible animal face, all seamed and scored with vile passions.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000010.wav|The lady stood by in haughty silence.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000104_000000.wav|"Tell me, Watson.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000005.wav|I assure you that I have never in my life seen anything more clearly.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000006.wav|As far as I could judge, the figure was that of a tall, thin man.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000017_000001.wav|I am sorry to intrude, but you heard how earnestly Holmes insisted that I should not leave you, and especially that you should not go alone upon the moor."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000038_000001.wav|Our friend's title, his fortune, his age, his character, and his appearance are all in his favour, and I know nothing against him unless it be this dark fate which runs in his family.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000069_000000.wav|"Then your brother is-"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000008.wav|To act the spy upon a friend was a hateful task.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000050_000003.wav|What were you doing at that window?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000122_000000.wav|We stumbled slowly along in the darkness, with the black loom of the craggy hills around us, and the yellow speck of light burning steadily in front.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000128_000012.wav|There was the sharp pinnacle of granite still cutting the lower edge of the moon, but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000013_000000.wav|After the conversation which I have quoted about Barrymore, Sir Henry put on his hat and prepared to go out.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000043_000000.wav|I have said "by one night's work," but, in truth, it was by two nights' work, for on the first we drew entirely blank.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000008_000000.wav|"I believe that he would do exactly what you now suggest," said i "He would follow Barrymore and see what he did."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000022_000004.wav|It was clear that there was already an understanding between them and that they had met by appointment.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000048_000000.wav|"On the second floor?"|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000014_000000.wav|"What, are you coming, Watson?" he asked, looking at me in a curious way.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000088_000001.wav|The sooner we start the better, as the fellow may put out his light and be off."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000078_000000.wav|When they were gone we looked out of the window again.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000023_000012.wav|The naturalist's angry gestures showed that the lady was included in his displeasure.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000124_000001.wav|He must be near his light.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000112_000002.wav|I am not a child.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000092_000001.wav|We shall take him by surprise and have him at our mercy before he can resist."|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000073_000008.wav|Then you returned, sir, and my brother thought he would be safer on the moor than anywhere else until the hue and cry was over, so he lay in hiding there. But every second night we made sure if he was still there by putting a light in the window, and if there was an answer my husband took out some bread and meat to him.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000068_000000.wav|"My unhappy brother is starving on the moor.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7874/110243/7874_110243_000038_000000.wav|I tried one or two explanations, but, indeed, I was completely puzzled myself.|7874
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000057_000000.wav|And the Lord Maxwell in like case Did with Erle Douglas dye; Of twenty hundred Scottish speres, Scarce fifty five did flye.|5063
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000053_000000.wav|And with Sir George and stout Sir james, Both knights of good account, Good Sir Ralph Rabby there was slaine, Whose prowesse did surmount.|5063
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000051_000000.wav|This fight did last from breake of day Till setting of the sun; For when they rung the evening bell, The battel scarce was done.|5063
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000068_000000.wav|God save our king, and bless this land In plentye, joy, and peace; And grant henceforth, that foule debate 'Twixt noblemen may cease!|5063
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000066_000000.wav|This vow full well the king perform'd After, at Humbledowne; In one day, fifty knights were slayne, With lordes of great renowne.|5063
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000012_000000.wav|Lord Percy to the quarry went, To view the tender deere; Quoth he, "Erle Douglas promised This day to meet me heere;|5063
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000029_000000.wav|[Yet bides Earl Douglas on the bent, As Chieftain stout and good, As valiant Captain, all unmov'd The shock he firmly stood.|5063
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000062_000000.wav|"O heavy newes," King james did say; "Scottland can witnesse bee, I have not any captaine more Of such account as hee."|5063
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000032_000000.wav|And throwing strait their bows away, They grasp'd their swords so bright: And now sharp blows, a heavy shower, On shields and helmets light.]|5063
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000064_000000.wav|"Now God be with him," said our king, "Sith it will noe better bee; I trust I have, within my realme, Five hundred as good as hee.|5063
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000061_000000.wav|This newes was brought to Eddenborrow, Where Scotlands king did raigne, That brave Erle Douglas suddenlye Was with an arrow slaine.|5063
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5063/32451/5063_32451_000048_000000.wav|So thus did both these nobles dye, Whose courage none could staine; An English archer then perceiv'd The noble erle was slaine.|5063
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000057_000001.wav|"It's for you.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000062_000000.wav|"I hate her," she said fiercely.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000099_000000.wav|"Tell June to come down here.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000059_000000.wav|Hale watched her while she munched a striped stick of peppermint.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000058_000000.wav|"I reckon I will," she said with a happy smile.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000009_000000.wav|"Shore!|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000078_000001.wav|I'm a gittin' too big."|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000070_000000.wav|"Would-I like-to-go-over-"|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000050_000000.wav|"No, indeed, she ain't."|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000066_000000.wav|They had reached the spot on the river where he had seen her first, and beyond, the smoke of the cabin was rising above the undergrowth.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000069_000000.wav|Straightway her face was a ray of sunlight.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000003_000000.wav|Hale opened his eyes next morning on the little old woman in black, moving ghost like through the dim interior to the kitchen.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000009_000003.wav|She's growed some-an' if she ain't purty, well I'd tell a man!|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000033_000001.wav|Uncle Billy turned back from the gate to the porch.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000049_000000.wav|"She ain't?"|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000104_000003.wav|With this thought in his brain, he rode down from the luminous upper world of the moon and stars toward the nether world of drifting mists and black ravines.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000017_000001.wav|Uncle Billy was bewildered.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000065_000000.wav|"Go away!" she said, digging her fist into her eyes until her face was calm again.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000011_000001.wav|Keep yo' mouth plum' shut about this here war.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000035_000001.wav|He's too old fer her."|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000082_000000.wav|"I reckon you can," laughed Hale.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000059_000002.wav|Her teeth were even and white, and most of them flashed when her red lips smiled.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3792/176660/3792_176660_000093_000001.wav|Sarved you right fer blabbin' things that hain't yo' business." He shook with laughter.|3792
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000006_000000.wav|At nine mr McCaskey came.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000003_000004.wav|Flowers and summer resort agents were blowing; the air and answers to Lawson were growing milder; hand organs, fountains and pinochle were playing everywhere.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000016_000002.wav|I will not.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000014_000001.wav|Let cheap Bohemians consider coffee the end, if they would.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000019_000000.wav|Major Grigg, who sat by his fat wife on the top step, arose and buttoned his coat.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000022_000004.wav|But I've looked the house over from top to cellar, and it's gone he is.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000014_000006.wav|mrs McCaskey dodged in time.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000013_000001.wav|He knew what should follow the entree.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000012_000000.wav|"Pig's face, is it?" said mrs McCaskey, and hurled a stewpan full of bacon and turnips at her lord.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000016_000005.wav|Sure, they'll have to borrow more dishes to keep it up with."|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000023_000001.wav|They call it hard as iron; they say that no pulse of pity beats in its bosom; they compare its streets with lonely forests and deserts of lava.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000016_000004.wav|'Twill not last long.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000014_000008.wav|But a loud, wailing scream downstairs caused both her and mr McCaskey to pause in a sort of involuntary armistice.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000022_000001.wav|But it's lost he is, me little boy Mike.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000043_000001.wav|But he laid it around the nearing shoulder of his wife.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000013_000002.wav|On the table was a roast sirloin of pork, garnished with shamrocks.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000046_000000.wav|Long they sat thus.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000019_000002.wav|"I will scour the city." His wife never allowed him out after dark.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000019_000006.wav|I may need carfares."|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000014_000003.wav|Finger bowls were not beyond the compass of his experience.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000018_000004.wav|Bathos, truly; but mr Toomey sat down at the side of Miss Purdy, millinery, and their hands came together in sympathy.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000016_000003.wav|Married folks they are; and few pleasures they have.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000023_000002.wav|But beneath the hard crust of the lobster is found a delectable and luscious food.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000037_000001.wav|"'tis Pat he would be named, after me old father in Cantrim."|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000044_000003.wav|Forget it."|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000028_000000.wav|"Perhaps," said Miss Purdy, "you should.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000018_000005.wav|The two old maids, Misses Walsh, who complained every day about the noise in the halls, inquired immediately if anybody had looked behind the clock.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000014_000004.wav|They were not to be had in the Pension Murphy; but their equivalent was at hand.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000046_000002.wav|Couriers came and went.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92806/6895_92806_000054_000000.wav|"By the deported snakes!" he exclaimed, "Jawn McCaskey and his lady have been fightin' for an hour and a quarter by the watch.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000027_000001.wav|Right into the inmost heart of a matter does her simple wit seem to pierce!|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000060_000000.wav|'She had, yes: but she wanted more, more, more, the silly idiot.'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000050_000000.wav|'It was a thing like a butterfly, only larger, and it kept its toes always spread out, with a skin stretched between.'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000021_000000.wav|This, for several minutes, she did not answer, sitting with her back half toward me, cracking almonds, continually striking one step with the ball of her outstretched foot.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000065_000001.wav|The vices and climes must have begun with those who lacked things, and then the others, always seeing vices and climes alound them, began to do them, too-as when one rotten olive is in a bottle, the whole mass soon becomes collupted: but originally they were not rotten, but only became so.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000027_000000.wav|Her astounding shrewdness!|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000022_000001.wav|Always the same.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000051_000001.wav|How caplicious!|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000065_000002.wav|And all though a little carelessness at the first.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000059_000000.wav|'Why did she poison?|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000008_000001.wav|But how did Abel feel when he was killed?|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000007_000000.wav|'He killed him, then.'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000066_000001.wav|You understand, Clodagh, that originally the earth produced men by a long process, beginning with a very low type of creature, and continually developing it, until at last a man stood up.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000021_000001.wav|In the clarid gold of the platform I saw her fez and corals reflected as an elongated blotch of florid red.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000002_000000.wav|We fell to talking about the Bible.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000064_000000.wav|'How was it?'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000019_000000.wav|'There was Isaac,' says she: 'when Ablaham laid him on the wood to kill him, he did not jump up and lun to hide.'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000044_000000.wav|'Well, by their faces....'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000000_000000.wav|Her book of books is the Old Testament.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000031_000000.wav|'Ah, but then,' says she, 'it was not to their bad souls that the vices and climes were due, but only to this question of land.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000009_000000.wav|'Well,' said I, 'you have seen bones all around you, and the bones of your mother, and you can feel the bones in your fingers.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000042_000000.wav|'Because once, long ago before the poison cloud, I had a lover called Clodagh: and she was a....'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000033_000000.wav|'I am not going to argue the matter,' I said.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000038_000000.wav|'There is no telling.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000004_000000.wav|'Over what?' says she.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000045_000000.wav|'But there must have been many faces-all alike-'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000047_000000.wav|'Still, it must have been vely clever to tell.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000021_000002.wav|She turned and drank some wine from the great gold Jarvan goblet which I had brought from the temple of Boro Budor, her head quite covered in by it. Then, the little hairs at her lip corners still wet, says she:|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000010_000000.wav|'And the men and the butterfly feel the same after they are dead?'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000058_000000.wav|'Come, come, don't be a little maniac!' I went.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000016_000000.wav|'Oh, not all!|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000051_000000.wav|'Leally?|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000017_000001.wav|With every chance she is at it.)|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000062_000000.wav|'By the others chiefly.'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000006_000000.wav|'I do not complehend!'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000003_000000.wav|'He knocked him over,' I replied, liking sometimes to use such idioms, with the double object of teaching and perplexing her.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000067_000000.wav|She ran quick with a little cry, and coming again, sat crowned, incarnadine in the blushing depths of the gold.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000015_000000.wav|'Because they were all such shocking cowards.'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000016_000001.wav|not all!'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000036_000003.wav|But now, if some more men would spling, they would be taught-'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000066_000003.wav|Instead, go inside-stop, I will tell you a secret: to day in the wood I picked some musk roses and wound them into a wreath, meaning to give them you for your head when you came to morrow: and it is inside on the pearl tripod in the second room to the left: go, therefore, and put it on, and bring the harp, and play to me, my dear.'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000013_000000.wav|'Ah!... so much the better: for it is possible that you may have to die a great deal sooner than you think.'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000059_000001.wav|Had she not enough dates and wine?'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000018_000000.wav|'Nearly all,' said I: 'tell me one who was not afraid-'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000046_000000.wav|'Not all alike.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000032_000000.wav|The clear limelight of her intelligence!|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000025_000000.wav|'Their evil nature-their base souls.'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000038_000001.wav|I sometimes feel as if they must, and shall.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000049_000000.wav|'What was a goose like?'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000023_000000.wav|'Robberies of a hundred sorts, murders of ten hundred-'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000032_000001.wav|She wriggled on her seat in her effort of argument.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000033_000002.wav|And there always must be on an earth where millions of men, with varying degrees of cunning, reside.'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/96175/6895_96175_000051_000002.wav|And am I like that?--but what were you saying that your lover, Clodagh, was?'|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000004_000008.wav|Zip!|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000025_000001.wav|With the whole world for his-|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000022_000009.wav|Those ideas don't suit me.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000004_000004.wav|He spoke disrespectfully of the equator, he skipped from continent to continent, he derided the zones, he mopped up the high seas with his napkin.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000004_000010.wav|Presto!|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000020_000000.wav|"A relic of the stone age," declared Coglan, warmly.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000018_000001.wav|"I know an Esquimau in Upernavik who sends to Cincinnati for his neckties, and I saw a goat herder in Uruguay who won a prize in a Battle Creek breakfast food puzzle competition.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000001_000000.wav|At midnight the cafe was crowded.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000024_000001.wav|He was my discovery and I believed in him.|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6895/92805/6895_92805_000019_000001.wav|"But it also seems that you would decry patriotism."|6895
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000008_000001.wav|This is the priestly class.|3537
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000001_000004.wav|This is due partly to the relief it affords in being different from what went before it, partly to its being reputable.|3537
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000001_000007.wav|When seen in the perspective of half a dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly.|3537
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000008_000003.wav|Even more strikingly than the everyday habit of the priest, the vestments, properly so called, are ornate, grotesque, inconvenient, and, at least ostensibly, comfortless to the point of distress.|3537
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000008_000005.wav|The shaven face of the priest is a further item to the same effect.|3537
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000001_000002.wav|A new style comes into vogue and remains in favor for a season, and, at least so long as it is a novelty, people very generally find the new style attractive.|3537
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3537/5704/3537_5704_000001_000003.wav|The prevailing fashion is felt to be beautiful.|3537
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39477/5513_39477_000007_000003.wav|Farewell, poor bird!|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39477/5513_39477_000007_000004.wav|Farewell!|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000019_000003.wav|Moreover she won all three of them. After this they often played a quiet game of piquet together, and cribbage too.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000031_000000.wav|So she drove them before her back into the pond, the ducks running in terror from her with their wings spread, and she not pressing them, for he saw that had she been so minded she could have caught two or three of the nearest.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000033_000000.wav|"Silvia, what a light-hearted childish creature you are.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000032_000000.wav|But when they got within doors he picked her up in his arms, kissed her and spoke to her.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000021_000003.wav|For his mind was filled not only with the fear that she might escape from him and run away, which he knew was groundless, but with more rational visions, such as wandering curs, traps, gins, spring guns, besides a dread of being seen with her by the neighbourhood.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000023_000001.wav|First she ran this way, then that, though keeping always close to him, looking very sharply with ears cocked forward first at one thing, then another and then up to catch his eye.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000021_000006.wav|After this he resolved to take her, though with full precautions.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000025_000003.wav|So in this case, too, for realising that the silly ducks thought his wife a fox indeed and were alarmed on that account he found painful that spectacle which to others might have been amusing.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000011_000001.wav|She would come to him, put her paw in his hand and look at him with sparkling eyes shining with joy and gratitude, would pant with eagerness, jump at him and lick his face.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000008_000005.wav|I swear to you, my darling, that all my life I will be true to you, will be faithful, will respect and reverence you who are my wife.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000035_000001.wav|Then it seemed she would have him play to her on the pianoforte: she led him to it, nay, what is more, she would herself pick out the music he was to play.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000008_000003.wav|I swear I would, and that too if you were changed to anything." But then, catching her grave look, he would say: "Do you think I jest on these things, my dear?|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000010_000000.wav|Often he would swear to her that the devil might have power to work some miracles, but that he would find it beyond him to change his love for her.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000014_000000.wav|"Good God!|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000017_000000.wav|"Day but just breaking...." etc|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000018_000003.wav|Nor did he ever repeat the experiment of reading to her.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000008_000004.wav|I do not.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000004_000000.wav|In the morning when he woke up they had the place to themselves, for on his instructions the servants had all left first thing: Janet and the cook to Oxford, where they would try and find new places, and Nanny going back to the cottage near Tangley, where her son lived, who was the pigman there.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000005_000003.wav|She was still fond of the same food that she had been used to before her transformation, a lightly boiled egg or slice of ham, a piece of buttered toast or two, with a little quince and apple jam.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000008_000002.wav|Though you are a fox I would rather live with you than any woman.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5513/39476/5513_39476_000006_000002.wav|His vixen relished them exceedingly and seemed never to tire of them, so that he increased his order first from one pound to three pounds and afterwards to five.|5513
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000046_000001.wav|We put provisions on for two days and rigged up a make shift mast and sail, for we intended to go to sea.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000021_000000.wav|"Before we knew it, we went into the fog, which proved to be a big dense bank of this same sand, and it rained down on us from every side. Ventilators were quickly brought to their places, and later even the hatches were battened down.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000001.wav|There were just four of us left aboard who could do anything. The four were Thompson, Dan Taylor, Quashee, and myself.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000006.wav|Along about two o'clock in the afternoon it was so hot that all hands got to talking about it.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000057_000006.wav|They seemed like they were scared to death.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000002.wav|It was still raining fire and hot rocks and you could hardly see a ship's length for dust and ashes, but we could stand that.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000009_000000.wav|The British steamer Horace experienced the effect of the explosion when farther from land.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000001.wav|About noon I took the bridge to make an observation.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000039_000003.wav|Taylor wasn't sure he was alive.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000059_000000.wav|"I kept to the bridge all night.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000008_000000.wav|WHAT HAPPENED ON THE "HORACE"|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000006_000004.wav|I hurried them to the seashore, where we boarded a small steamship, in which we made the trip in safety to Fort de France.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000043_000000.wav|"My own son's gone, too.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000021_000002.wav|What the stuff was we could not at first conjecture, or rather, we didn't have much time to speculate on it, for we had to get our ship in shape to withstand we hardly knew what.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000003_000001.wav|It was a little before eight o'clock on the morning of may eighth that the end came.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000012.wav|We found parts of some bodies-a hand, or an arm or a leg.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000049_000001.wav|Soundings showed seven fathoms where before the eruption there were thirty six fathoms of water.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000066_000002.wav|Morne Rouge, a beautiful summer resort, frequented by the people of the island during the hot season as a place of recreation, also escaped.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000030_000000.wav|MATE SCOTT'S GRAPHIC STORY|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000002_000001.wav|His escape from death had in it something of the marvellous.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000016_000000.wav|"There would suddenly come great flashes of light from the dark bank toward Martinique.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000037_000000.wav|"That tidal wave picked the ship up like a canoe and then smashed her. After one list to starboard the ship righted, but the masts, the bridge, the funnel and all the upper works had gone overboard.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000059_000006.wav|We were about seven hundred miles off Cape Henlopen.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000036_000001.wav|When the wave of fire was going over us, a tidal wave of the sea came out from the shore and did the rest.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000057_000005.wav|A flock of them, squawking and crying, made for our rigging and perched there.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000046_000006.wav|We burned blue lights, but she kept on.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000041_000000.wav|"The ship was on fire, of course, what was left of it.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000057_000004.wav|And sea birds!|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000036_000003.wav|For an instant we could see nothing but the water and the flame.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000064_000001.wav|Cattle lowed in the night.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000064_000002.wav|Dogs howled and sought the company of their masters, and when driven forth they gave every evidence of fear.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000041_000002.wav|Aft she was like a furnace, but forward the flames had not got below deck, so we four carried those who were still alive on deck into the fo'c's'l.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000061_000000.wav|FIERY STREAM CONTAINED POISONOUS GASES|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000039_000004.wav|The last we saw of him or his dead body it was drifting shoreward on that hatch.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000055_000007.wav|There wasn't a breath of wind.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000020_000001.wav|A few moments later, the lookout called down that we were running into a fog bank dead ahead.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000044_000002.wav|Our boats had gone overboard with the masts and funnel.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000036_000000.wav|"That all happened a long way inside of half a minute; then something new happened.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000042_000002.wav|We rolled him in a blanket and put him in a sailor's bunk.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000054_000000.wav|"Then, as quick as you could toss a biscuit over its rail, the Nordby dropped-regularly dropped-three or four feet down into the sea.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000007.wav|We reckoned that something queer was coming off, but none of us could explain what it was.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000006_000001.wav|It is impossible for me to tell how long I stood there inert.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000024_000000.wav|THE ENGINE BECAME CHOKED|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000002_000002.wav|He says:|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000003.wav|I shed my coat and vest and got into what little shade there was.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000059_000004.wav|At two o'clock in the morning all the queer goings on stopped just the way they began-all of a sudden.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000006_000002.wav|Probably it was only a few seconds, but so vivid were my impressions that it now seems as though I stood as a spectator for many minutes.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000038_000002.wav|Before I could get up three men tumbled in on top of me.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000005.wav|I didn't know what to make of it.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000035_000002.wav|He reeled and fell on the bridge with his face toward me.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000026_000001.wav|We made some experiments, and found the stuff was superior to emery dust.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000057_000003.wav|Some of them jumped clear out of it.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000052_000002.wav|Nothing worth while talking about occurred until two days afterward-wednesday may seventh.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000017_000001.wav|I noticed a sort of grit that got into my mouth from the end of the cigar I was smoking.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000058_000003.wav|Even the officers began to think that the world was coming to an end.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000059_000005.wav|We lay to until daylight; then we took our reckonings and started off again.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000050_000001.wav|The following is the story told by Captain Eric Lillien skjold:|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000043_000002.wav|But he wasn't.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000043_000003.wav|Nobody could tell me where he was.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000041_000001.wav|The stumps of both masts were blazing.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000065_000001.wav|Even the snakes, which at ordinary times are found in great numbers near the volcano, crawled away.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000005_000000.wav|"It was like a terrible hurricane, and where a fraction of a second before there had been a perfect calm, I felt myself drawn into a vortex and I had to brace myself firmly.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000009_000002.wav|We quote engineer Anderson's story:|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000016_000002.wav|All night this continued, and it was not until day came that the flashes disappeared. The dark bank that covered the horizon toward Martinique, however, did not fade away with the breaking of day, and at eight in the morning of the ninth (Friday) the whole section of the sky in that direction seemed dark and troubled.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000051_000000.wav|THE STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF THE "NORDBY"|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000033_000004.wav|He was facing the fire cloud with both hands gripped hard to the bridge rail, his legs apart and his knees braced back stiff.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000006_000003.wav|When I recovered possession of my senses I ran to my house and collected the members of the family, all of whom were panic stricken.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000045_000000.wav|PREPARED TO TRUST TO LUCK|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000010_000001.wav|The air seemed heavy and oppressive.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000039_000000.wav|"Captain Muggah went overboard, still clinging to the fragments of his wrecked bridge.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000035_000000.wav|"In another instant it was all over for him.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000004.wav|Not just burned, but burning, then, when we got to them.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000046_000005.wav|We thought for a minute just after we were wrecked that we were to get help from a ship that passed us.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000018_000002.wav|As we went forward we met one or two of the sailors from the forecastle, who wanted to know about the dust that was falling on the ship.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000043_000005.wav|He was a likely boy.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000059_000002.wav|We were all pretty much tired out by that time, but there was no such thing as trying to sleep.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000063_000000.wav|It is believed that Mont Pelee threw off a great gasp of some exceedingly heavy and noxious gas, something akin to firedamp, which settled upon the city and rendered the inhabitants insensible.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000047_000004.wav|The French Cable Company, which was at work trying to repair the cables broken by the eruption, found the bottom of the Caribbean Sea so changed as to render the old charts useless.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000011.wav|The donkey engineman was killed on deck sitting in front of his boiler.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000046_000007.wav|We learned afterward that she was the Roddam."|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000039_000001.wav|Daniel Taylor, the ship's cooper, and a Kitts native jumped overboard to save him.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000055_000005.wav|We sort of ducked, expecting an awful crash of thunder, but it didn't come.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000004_000002.wav|The air was dead about me, so dead that the floating dust seemingly was not disturbed.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000048_000001.wav|The changes in sea levels were not confined to the immediate centre of volcanic activity, but extended as far north as Porto Rico, and it was believed that the seismic wave would be found to have altered the ocean bed round Jamaica.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000046_000004.wav|But we did not have to risk the raft, for about three o'clock in the afternoon, when we were almost ready to put the raft overboard, the Suchet came along and took us all off.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000026_000002.wav|It cut deeper and quicker, and only about half as much was required to do the work.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000010_000002.wav|The weather conditions were not at all unlike those which precede the great West Indian hurricanes, but, knowing it was not the season of the year for them, we all remarked in the engine room that there must be a heavy storm approaching.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000004_000001.wav|It was quite dark, the sun being obscured by ashes and fine volcanic dust.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000004.wav|As I worked it grew hotter and hotter.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000053_000008.wav|You could almost see the pitch softening in the seams.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000039_000002.wav|Taylor managed to push the captain on to a hatch that had floated off from us and then they swam back to the ship for more assistance, but nothing could be done for the captain.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000058_000004.wav|Mighty strange things happen on the sea, but this topped them all.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000057_000001.wav|Sharks!|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000040_000007.wav|The cook was burned to death in his galley.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000003_000003.wav|A terror came upon me, but I could not explain my fear.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000005_000002.wav|The mysterious force levelled a row of strong trees, tearing them up by the roots and leaving bare a space of ground fifteen yards wide and more than one hundred yards long. Transfixed I stood, not knowing in what direction to flee.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000047_000001.wav|While deep crevices had been formed on the land, a still greater effect had seemingly been produced beneath the water.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000042_000003.wav|A few minutes later we looked at him and he was dead.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000042_000001.wav|His hair and all his clothing had been burned off, but he was alive.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000057_000000.wav|"Something else we could see, too.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000046_000000.wav|"We made that raft for something over thirty that were alive.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000033_000000.wav|"Did you ever see the tide come into the Bay of Fundy.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000032_000002.wav|I wasn't looking at the mountain at all.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000013_000000.wav|GREAT FLASHES OF LIGHT|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000025_000000.wav|"Then there was another anxious moment shortly after nine o'clock.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/31629/5239_31629_000005_000005.wav|It moved with a rapidity that made it impossible for anything to escape it.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000021_000002.wav|Their works in cotton and wool exceeded in fineness anything known in Europe at that time.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000038_000001.wav|The king opened the agricultural season by a great celebration, and, like the kings of Egypt, he put his hand to the plough, and ploughed the first furrow.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000036_000000.wav|thirteen.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000044_000000.wav|Even the mode of decorating their palaces and temples finds a parallel in the Old World.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000012_000003.wav|They are variously wrought, and some of them, having the form of men, must have been idols. Near the walls are many caves and excavations under the earth; but in another place, farther west, are other and greater monuments, such as large gate ways with hinges, platforms, and porches, each made of a single stone.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000015_000003.wav|In it were rooms and cells which were used as tombs.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000060_000000.wav|But it is impossible that the Quichuas and Aimaras could have passed across the wide Atlantic to Europe if there had been no stepping stone in the shape of Atlantis with its bridge like ridges connecting the two continents.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000031_000001.wav|They possessed castes; and the trade of the father descended to the son, as in India.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000030_000000.wav|seven.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000007_000004.wav|Was not the Nubian "Island of Merou," with its pyramids built by "red men," a similar transplantation?|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000053_000001.wav|The evidence from language is treated scientifically, and not as a kind of ingenious guessing.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000018_000000.wav|The public roads of the Peruvians were most remarkable; they were built on masonry.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000059_000000.wav|[Since the above was written I have received a letter from dr Falb, dated Leipsic, april fifth eighteen eighty one.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000013_000001.wav|But its remains exist to day, the marvel of the Southern Continent, covering not less than twenty square miles.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000034_000001.wav|They drank toasts and invoked blessings.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000053_000003.wav|It is not one of the casual and shifting forms of speech produced by nomad races.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000023_000000.wav|I have already shown, in the chapter upon the similarities between the civilizations of the Old and New Worlds, some of the remarkable coincidences which existed between the Peruvians and the ancient European races; I will again briefly, refer to a few of them:|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000009_000001.wav|Their descendants are to this day an olive skinned people, much lighter in color than the Indian tribes subjugated by them.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000034_000000.wav|eleven.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000053_000004.wav|To which of the stages of language does this belong-the agglutinative, in which one root is fastened on to another, and a word is formed in which the constitutive elements are obviously distinct, or the inflexional, where the auxiliary roots get worn down and are only distinguishable by the philologist?|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000024_000001.wav|They worshipped the sun, moon, and planets.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000022_000000.wav|Can any one read these details and declare Plato's description of Atlantis to be fabulous, simply because he tells us of the enormous quantities of gold and silver possessed by the people?|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000017_000001.wav|Think of a stone aqueduct reaching from the city of New York to the State of North Carolina!|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000038_000000.wav|fifteen.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000039_000000.wav|sixteen.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000040_000002.wav|It is enough for me to quote mr Ferguson's words, that the coincidence between the buildings of the Incas and the Cyclopean remains attributed to the Pelasgians in Italy and Greece "is the most remarkable in the history of architecture."|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000044_000001.wav|A recent writer says:|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000012_000004.wav|It surprised me to see these enormous gate ways, made of great masses of stone, some of which were thirty feet long, fifteen high, and six thick."|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000031_000000.wav|eight.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000013_000002.wav|Tombs, temples, and palaces arise on every hand, ruined but still traceable.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000037_000000.wav|fourteen.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000014_000001.wav|The buildings here, as throughout Peru, were all constructed of hewn stone, and had doors and windows with posts, sills, and thresholds of stone.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000033_000000.wav|ten.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000059_000002.wav|A work from such a source, upon so curious and important a subject, will be looked for with great interest.]|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000033_000001.wav|Their weapons were the same as those of the Old World, and made after the same pattern.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000040_000001.wav|There was a striking resemblance between the architecture of the Peruvians and that of some of the nations of the Old World.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000032_000000.wav|nine.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000021_000004.wav|Their accumulations of the precious metals exceeded anything previously known in the history of the world.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000053_000000.wav|"Senor Lopez's view, that the Peruvians were Aryans who left the parent stock long before the Teutonic or Hellenic races entered Europe, is supported by arguments drawn from language, from the traces of institutions, from religious beliefs, from legendary records, and artistic remains.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000012_000002.wav|"In this place, also," says De Leon, "there are stones so large and so overgrown that our wonder is excited, it being incomprehensible how the power of man could have placed them where we see them.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000026_000001.wav|They believed in the resurrection of the body, and accordingly embalmed their dead.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000003_000000.wav|THE PERUVIAN COLONY.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000013_000005.wav|These vast structures have been ruined for centuries, but still the work of excavation is going on.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000047_000001.wav|"that a study of ancient Peruvian pottery has constantly reminded me of forms with which we are familiar in Egyptian archaeology."|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000010_000000.wav|They were a great race.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000020_000001.wav|They were the work of the white, auburn haired, bearded men from Atlantis, thousands of years before the time of the Incas.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000028_000000.wav|five.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000040_000000.wav|seventeen.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000024_000000.wav|one.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000049_000000.wav|In Peru we find vases with very much the same style of face.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000053_000002.wav|Senor Lopez first combats the idea that the living dialect of Peru is barbarous and fluctuating.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000018_000002.wav|These roads were from twenty to twenty five feet wide, were macadamized with pulverized stone mixed with lime and bituminous cement, and were walled in by strong walls "more than a fathom in thickness." In many places these roads were cut for leagues through the rock; great ravines were filled up with solid masonry; rivers were crossed by suspension bridges, used here ages before their introduction into Europe.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000029_000001.wav|They divided the year into twelve months.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000032_000001.wav|They had bards and minstrels, who sung at the great festivals.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000037_000001.wav|They regarded agriculture as the principal interest of the nation, and held great agricultural fairs and festivals for the interchange of the productions of the farmers.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000054_000001.wav|But many of these forms are due to a scanty alphabet, and really express familiar sounds; and many, again, result from the casual spelling of the Spaniards.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000029_000000.wav|six.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000035_000000.wav|twelve.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000014_000000.wav|One of the centres of the ancient Quichua civilization was around Lake Titicaca.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000027_000001.wav|The priest examined the entrails of the animals offered in sacrifice, and, like the Roman augurs, divined the future from their appearance.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000035_000001.wav|They built triumphal arches for their returning heroes, and strewed the road before them with leaves and flowers.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000010_000002.wav|The Incas were simply an offshoot, who, descending from the mountains, subdued the rude races of the sea coast, and imposed their ancient civilization upon them.|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5239/32139/5239_32139_000056_000006.wav|It is impossible to do more than refer to the supposed Aryan roots contained in the glossary, but it may be noticed that the future of the Quichuan verb is formed in s-I love, Munani; I shall love, Munasa-and that the affixes denoting cases in the noun are curiously like the Greek prepositions."|5239
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000057_000001.wav|JOHNSON.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000012_000004.wav|dr Johnson said, 'the cards used by such persons must be less polished than ours commonly are.'|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000018_000000.wav|I expressed a liking for mr Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000041_000003.wav|He that intromits, is criminal; he that intromits not, is innocent.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000024.wav|No scholar has gone from him either blind or lame, or with any of his limbs or powers injured or impaired. They were irregular, and he punished them: they were obstinate, and he enforced his punishment.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000014_000004.wav|Some think Swift's the best; others prefer a fuller and grander way of writing.' JOHNSON. 'Sir, you must first define what you mean by style, before you can judge who has a good taste in style, and who has a bad.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000032.wav|In a place like Campbelltown, it is easy for one of the principal inhabitants to make a party.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000013_000003.wav|JOHNSON.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000027_000000.wav|He said, 'Walpole was a minister given by the King to the people: Pitt was a minister given by the people to the King,--as an adjunct.'|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000031_000005.wav|The law is the measure of civil right; but if the measure be changeable, the extent of the thing measured never can be settled.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000052_000002.wav|For such an institution makes a very important part of the history of mankind.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000042_000000.wav|'I therefore return to my original position, that a law, to have its effect, must be permanent and stable.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000048_000000.wav|'DEAR SIR,|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000001_000002.wav|He said, 'There's no occasion for my writing.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000016.wav|Correction must be proportioned to occasions.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000025_000002.wav|'Sir, he is attached to some woman.' BOSWELL. 'I rather believe, Sir, it is the fine climate which keeps him there.' JOHNSON. 'Nay, Sir, how can you talk so?|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000010.wav|A stubborn scholar must be corrected till he is subdued.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000041_000001.wav|Its end is the security of property; and property very often of great value.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000000.wav|'The charge is, that he has used immoderate and cruel correction. Correction, in itself, is not cruel; children, being not reasonable, can be governed only by fear.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000024_000001.wav|If the authours who apply to me have money, I bid them boldly print without a name; if they have written in order to get money, I tell them to go to the booksellers, and make the best bargain they can.' BOSWELL. 'But, Sir, if a bookseller should bring you a manuscript to look at?' JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, I would desire the bookseller to take it away.'|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000001_000003.wav|I'll talk to you.' He was, however, at last prevailed on to dictate to me, while I wrote as follows:--|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000040_000001.wav|It is necessary that the law should be adequate to its end; that, if it be observed, it shall prevent the evil against which it is directed.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000032_000000.wav|'To permit a law to be modified at discretion, is to leave the community without law.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000027.wav|Of this accusation the meaning is not very easy to be found. No instrument of correction is more proper than another, but as it is better adapted to produce present pain without lasting mischief. Whatever were his instruments, no lasting mischief has ensued; and therefore, however unusual, in hands so cautious they were proper.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000041_000007.wav|If the duty enjoined by the law were of difficult performance, omission, though it could not be justified, might be pitied.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000004.wav|Yet, as good things become evil by excess, correction, by being immoderate, may become cruel.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000050_000000.wav|'I am glad if you got credit by your cause, and am yet of opinion, that our cause was good, and that the determination ought to have been in your favour.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000001_000001.wav|When I came, I found him unwilling to exert himself. I pressed him to write down his thoughts upon the subject.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000026.wav|It has been said, that he used unprecedented and improper instruments of correction.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000025_000005.wav|What proportion does climate bear to the complex system of human life?|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000002_000018.wav|The degrees of scholastick, as of military punishment, no stated rules can ascertain. It must be enforced till it overpowers temptation; till stubbornness becomes flexible, and perverseness regular.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000025_000001.wav|JOHNSON.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000018_000001.wav|He answered, 'A conceited fellow.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5186/7793/5186_7793_000041_000006.wav|If temptation were rare, a penal law might be deemed unnecessary.|5186
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000004_000003.wav|So Herod ordered him to be brought into the midst, and then lamented himself about his children, from whom he had suffered such great misfortunes; and because Antipater fell upon him in his old age.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000002_000010.wav|And now was Antipater evidently in a miserable condition, while nobody came to him nor saluted him, as they did at his going away, with good wishes of joyful acclamations; nor was there now any thing to hinder them from entertaining him, on the contrary, with bitter curses, while they supposed he was come to receive his punishment for the murder of his brethren.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000008_000003.wav|But what were Varus's discourses to Herod was not known to the generality, and upon what words it was that he went away; though it was also generally supposed that whatsoever Herod did afterward about his son was done with his approbation.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000003_000002.wav|The porters indeed received him in, but excluded his friends.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000008_000002.wav|Then Varus got up, and departed out of the court, and went away the day following to Antioch, where his usual residence was, because that was the palace of the Syrians; upon which Herod laid his son in bonds.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER five.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000008_000006.wav|But while the king was in doubt about it, one of Herod's friends seeing a seam upon the inner coat of the slave, and a doubling of the cloth, [for he had two coats on,] he guessed that the letter might be within that doubling; which accordingly proved to be true.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000008_000010.wav|The letter was this: 'Acme to king Herod.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000002_000008.wav|But others advised him to sail home without delay; for that if he were once come thither, he would soon put an end to all accusations, and that nothing afforded any weight to his accusers at present but his absence.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000002_000005.wav|This last news affected him deeply; not out of any affection for Pheroras, but because he was dead without having murdered his father, which he had promised him to do.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000007_000008.wav|But Antipater fell down on his face, and appealed to God and to all men for testimonials of his innocency, desiring that God would declare, by some evident signals, that he had not laid any plot against his father.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000009_000004.wav|Hereupon Herod was in such great grief, that he was ready to send his son to Rome to Caesar, there to give an account of these his wicked contrivances.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48361/5746_48361_000005_000006.wav|He also offered himself to the torture.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000009_000003.wav|When he had got the knife, he looked about, and had a mind to stab himself with it; and he had done it, had not his first cousin, Achiabus, prevented him, and held his hand, and cried out loudly.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000004_000003.wav|Accordingly we will undergo death, and all sorts of punishments which thou canst inflict upon us, with pleasure, since we are conscious to ourselves that we shall die, not for any unrighteous actions, but for our love to religion." And thus they all said, and their courage was still equal to their profession, and equal to that with which they readily set about this undertaking.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000005_000002.wav|But as for Herod, he dealt more mildly with others [of the assembly] but he deprived Matthias of the high priesthood, as in part an occasion of this action, and made Joazar, who was Matthias's wife's brother, high priest in his stead.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000006_000005.wav|He also sent for physicians, and did not refuse to follow what they prescribed for his assistance, and went beyond the river Jordan, and bathed himself in the warm baths that were at Callirrhoe, which, besides their other general virtues, were also fit to drink; which water runs into the lake called Asphaltiris.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000013_000003.wav|The body was carried upon a golden bier, embroidered with very precious stones of great variety, and it was covered over with purple, as well as the body itself; he had a diadem upon his head, and above it a crown of gold: he also had a scepter in his right hand.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000014_000002.wav|And when he had given a treat to the multitude, and left off his motoring, he went up into the temple; he had also acclamations and praises given him, which way soever he went, every one striving with the rest who should appear to use the loudest acclamations.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000002_000001.wav|Now Herod's ambassadors made haste to Rome; but sent, as instructed beforehand, what answers they were to make to the questions put to them. They also carried the epistles with them.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000002_000002.wav|But Herod now fell into a distemper, and made his will, and bequeathed his kingdom to [Antipas], his youngest son; and this out of that hatred to Archclaus and Philip, which the calumnies of Antipater had raised against them.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000012_000001.wav|But then Salome and Alexas, before the king's death was made known, dismissed those that were shut up in the hippodrome, and told them that the king ordered them to go away to their own lands, and take care of their own affairs, which was esteemed by the nation a great benefit.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000011_000001.wav|And now Herod altered his testament upon the alteration of his mind; for he appointed Antipas, to whom he had before left the kingdom, to be tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, and granted the kingdom to Archclaus.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000006_000003.wav|Nay, further, his privy member was putrefied, and produced worms; and when he sat upright, he had a difficulty of breathing, which was very loathsome, on account of the stench of his breath, and the quickness of its returns; he had also convulsions in all parts of his body, which increased his strength to an insufferable degree.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000001_000001.wav|Concerning The Disease That Herod Fell Into And The Sedition Which The Jews Raised Thereupon; With The Punishment Of The Seditious.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000008_000000.wav|CHAPTER seven.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000002_000004.wav|He also distributed among his sons and their sons his money, his revenues, and his lands.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000004_000006.wav|They pretended, indeed, that they did it to affront him; but if any one consider the thing truly, they will find that they were guilty of sacrilege against God therein.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER six.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000010_000001.wav|Concerning Herod's Death, And Testament, And Burial.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000006_000008.wav|Accordingly, they were a great number that came, because the whole nation was called, and all men heard of this call, and death was the penalty of such as should despise the epistles that were sent to call them.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000005_000003.wav|Now it happened, that during the time of the high priesthood of this Matthias, there was another person made high priest for a single day, that very day which the Jews observed as a fast.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000010_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000011_000006.wav|But then, as to the affairs of his family and children, in which indeed, according to his own opinion, he was also very fortunate, because he was able to conquer his enemies, yet, in my opinion, he was herein very unfortunate.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000004_000005.wav|He then cried out, that these men had not abstained from affronting him, even in his lifetime, but that in the very day time, and in the sight of the multitude, they had abused him to that degree, as to fall upon what he had dedicated, and in that way of abuse had pulled it down to the ground.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5746/48362/5746_48362_000005_000006.wav|And that very night there was an eclipse of the moon.|5746
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000014_000000.wav|On may fifth Warren sailed into Canso.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000017_000000.wav|No reinforcements arrived after the first appearance of the British fleet.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000052_000003.wav|The Provincials reported their own killed, quite correctly, at a hundred.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000035_000007.wav|The walls were continually being smashed from without and patched up from within. The streets were ploughed from end to end.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000002_000000.wav|Rome would not rest till she had ruined Carthage.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000054_000004.wav|Warren was cursed, Pepperrell blamed; and a mutinous spirit arose.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000019_000001.wav|The Provincials eyed the fortress eagerly.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000047_000002.wav|They had seized this position some time before and called it Gorham's Post, after the colonel whose regiment held it. Fourteen years later there was another and more famous Gorham's Post, on the south shore of the saint Lawrence near Quebec, opposite Wolfe's Cove.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000005_000001.wav|A wild enthusiast, William Vaughan, urged Governor Shirley of Massachusetts to make an immediate counter-attack.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000040_000002.wav|A second vessel was forced aground.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000004_000013.wav|The French did not.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000043_000004.wav|But Vaughan was not to lead.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000042_000013.wav|Warren, who was just over forty, replied with some heat.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000045_000002.wav|The first men up the rungs were shot, stabbed, or cut down.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000050_000005.wav|The French officer and he saluted.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000019_000005.wav|Its signal cannon fired.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000040_000003.wav|Her captain fought her to the last; but Warren's boat crews took her. Some men who escaped from her brought du Chambon the news that a third French ship, the Vigilant, was coming to the relief of Louisbourg with ammunition and other stores. This ship had five hundred and sixty men aboard, that is, as many as all the regulars in Louisbourg.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000043_000008.wav|The commandant of the battery felt far from easy.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000005_000000.wav|The burning of Canso and the attack on Annapolis stirred up the wrath of New England.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000006_000003.wav|Shirley was dejected and in doubt what to do next.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000005_000006.wav|Nor could they be blamed.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000043_000007.wav|But they came in by driblets, and most of them were drunk.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000036_000004.wav|But the rumour ran quickly through the whole camp, probably not without Pepperrell's own encouragement, and at once produced, not a panic, but the most excellent effect.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000037_000002.wav|Races, wrestling, and quoits were better; while fishing was highly commendable, both in the way of diet as well as in the way of sport.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000021_000004.wav|Vaughan then retired for the night.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000050_000003.wav|But when the drums began beating, it was to a parley, not to arms.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000001_000000.wav|THE SEA LINK LOST seventeen forty five|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000047_000003.wav|The arming of this battery was a stupendous piece of work.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000052_000006.wav|They amounted to about three hundred.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000028_000005.wav|Very few had even a single change of clothing.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000004_000002.wav|He was much disliked in Louisbourg.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000006_000006.wav|All the merchants were eager for attack.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000057_000001.wav|Everything went off without a hitch.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000057_000006.wav|'Good Lord!' he said, 'we have so much to thank Thee for, that Time will be too short.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000027_000003.wav|But a ship builder colonel, Meserve of New Hampshire, came to the rescue by designing a gun sleigh, sixteen feet in length and five in the beam.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000028_000004.wav|Most men's kits were of the very scantiest.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000019_000003.wav|But it looked hard enough, for all that.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000009_000003.wav|The men volunteered eagerly.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000015_000005.wav|The bibulous du Quesnel had died in October.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2061/147110/2061_147110_000045_000006.wav|The rest sheered off.|2061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000024_000000.wav|"What do we want of a shirt, Tom?"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000009_000000.wav|But he never heard me.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000056_000002.wav|They always dig out with a case knife  and not through dirt, mind you; generly it's through solid rock.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000052_000000.wav|"A couple of case knives."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000062_000003.wav|Why can't you stick to the main point?"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000009_000001.wav|He had forgot me and everything else.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000055_000000.wav|"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000065_000000.wav|"How long will it take, Tom?"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000011_000000.wav|"For what?" I says.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000041_000000.wav|Along during the morning I borrowed a sheet and a white shirt off of the clothes line; and I found an old sack and put them in it, and we went down and got the fox fire, and put that in too.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000051_000000.wav|"Well, then," I says, "if we don't want the picks and shovels, what do we want?"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000044_000000.wav|"Tools?" I says.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000001.wav|There ain't even a dog to give a sleeping mixture to.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000010_000000.wav|"No, it wouldn't do  there ain't necessity enough for it."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000006_000007.wav|I wish there was a moat to this cabin.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000004_000001.wav|Hain't we got to saw the leg of Jim's bed off, so as to get the chain loose?"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000039_000000.wav|"Well, spos'n it is?|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000028_000000.wav|"Why, Tom, we can pull a feather out of a goose and make him a better one; and quicker, too."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000005_000000.wav|"Why, you just said a body could lift up the bedstead and slip the chain off."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000006_000006.wav|It's gaudy, Huck.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000035_000003.wav|Why, half the time you can't read anything a prisoner writes on a tin plate, or anywhere else."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000047_000000.wav|"Why, to dig with.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000036_000000.wav|"Well, then, what's the sense in wasting the plates?"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000001_000001.wav|We fetched an armful and hid it in the weeds, and set down to rest, and Tom says, kind of dissatisfied:|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000041_000008.wav|Well, I says, I needed the watermelon.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000041_000005.wav|So we allowed we would steal everything there was that come handy.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000045_000000.wav|"Yes."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000049_000000.wav|He turns on me, looking pitying enough to make a body cry, and says:|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000006_000003.wav|Who ever heard of getting a prisoner loose in such an old maidy way as that?|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000032_000001.wav|They feed him in a pan."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000013_000001.wav|And what would you want to saw his leg off for, anyway?"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000023_000000.wav|"Borrow a shirt, too."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000040_000001.wav|So we cleared out for the house.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000054_000000.wav|"Yes."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000025_000000.wav|"Want it for Jim to keep a journal on."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000062_000001.wav|Neither did that other fellow.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000011.wav|Why, we could work with a torchlight procession if we wanted to, I believe.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000018_000005.wav|And you wouldn't leave them any?|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000014_000005.wav|But there's one thing  he can have a rope ladder; we can tear up our sheets and make him a rope ladder easy enough.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000018_000007.wav|I never heard of such a thing."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000018_000002.wav|Huck, you don't ever seem to want to do anything that's regular; you want to be starting something fresh all the time.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000022_000000.wav|He said that would do.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000057_000000.wav|"I don't know."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000006_000000.wav|"Well, if that ain't just like you, Huck Finn.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000002.wav|And there's Jim chained by one leg, with a ten foot chain, to the leg of his bed: why, all you got to do is to lift up the bedstead and slip off the chain.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000009.wav|Now look at just that one thing of the lantern.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000063_000001.wav|But there's one thing, anyway  Jim's too old to be dug out with a case knife. He won't last."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000033_000000.wav|"That ain't nothing; we can get him some."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000018_000004.wav|ain't it there in his bed, for a clew, after he's gone? and don't you reckon they'll want clews? Of course they will.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000031_000000.wav|"Many makes it out of iron rust and tears; but that's the common sort and women; the best authorities uses their own blood.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000003.wav|And Uncle Silas he trusts everybody; sends the key to the punkin headed nigger, and don't send nobody to watch the nigger.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000019_000001.wav|Now, the way I look at it, a hickry bark ladder don't cost nothing, and don't waste nothing, and is just as good to load up a pie with, and hide in a straw tick, as any rag ladder you can start; and as for Jim, he ain't had no experience, and so he don't care what kind of a  "|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000053_000000.wav|"To dig the foundations out from under that cabin with?"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000046_000000.wav|"Tools for what?"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000020_000001.wav|Who ever heard of a state prisoner escaping by a hickry bark ladder?|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000066_000001.wav|Then his next move will be to advertise Jim, or something like that.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000043_000000.wav|"Everything's all right now except tools; and that's easy fixed."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000059_000000.wav|"I don't know.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000066_000000.wav|"Well, we can't resk being as long as we ought to, because it mayn't take very long for Uncle Silas to hear from down there by New Orleans. He'll hear Jim ain't from there.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000031_000001.wav|Jim can do that; and when he wants to send any little common ordinary mysterious message to let the world know where he's captivated, he can write it on the bottom of a tin plate with a fork and throw it out of the window.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000040_000000.wav|He broke off there, because we heard the breakfast horn blowing.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000042_000000.wav|Well, as I was saying, we waited that morning till everybody was settled down to business, and nobody in sight around the yard; then Tom he carried the sack into the lean to whilst I stood off a piece to keep watch.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000041_000002.wav|He said we was representing prisoners; and prisoners don't care how they get a thing so they get it, and nobody don't blame them for it, either.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000041_000006.wav|And yet he made a mighty fuss, one day, after that, when I stole a watermelon out of the nigger patch and eat it; and he made me go and give the niggers a dime without telling them what it was for.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000022_000001.wav|And that gave him another idea, and he says:|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000003_000000.wav|"What do we want of a saw?"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000014_000000.wav|"Well, some of the best authorities has done it.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000042_000001.wav|By and by he come out, and we went and set down on the woodpile to talk.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000041_000010.wav|So I let it go at that, though I couldn't see no advantage in my representing a prisoner if I got to set down and chaw over a lot of gold leaf distinctions like that every time I see a chance to hog a watermelon.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000007.wav|Well, we can't help it; we got to do the best we can with the materials we've got.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000020_000002.wav|Why, it's perfectly ridiculous."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000014_000001.wav|They couldn't get the chain off, so they just cut their hand off and shoved.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000059_000001.wav|A month and a half."|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/163402/2532_163402_000002_000004.wav|Jim could a got out of that window hole before this, only there wouldn't be no use trying to travel with a ten foot chain on his leg.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000002_000000.wav|I said nothing, not being able to speak, but marvelling how she had come just in the point of time to prove me wrong to think I had no friend; and she went on:|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000009_000002.wav|And so a dread which was just waking was laid to rest for ever; and when Ratsey went I made up the fire, and lay down in the blankets in front of it, for I was dog tired and longed for sleep.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000016_000000.wav|He therefore left to john Trenchard everything of which he should die possessed, and being near death begged his forgiveness if he had wronged him in aught.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000004_000000.wav|And while she spoke I thought how Elzevir had gone to shoot her father, and only failed of it by a hair's breadth, and yet she spoke so well I thought he never really meant to shoot at all, but only to scare the magistrate.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000023_000000.wav|And of ourselves let me speak last.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000022_000000.wav|And of the Mohune Hospital-for that was what the alms houses were now called-Master Glennie was first warden, with fair rooms and a full library, and Master Ratsey head of the Bedesmen.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000000_000000.wav|'twas with thoughts like this that I was busy while the short afternoon was spent, and the story went up and down the village, how that Elzevir Block and john Trenchard, who left so long ago, were come back to Moonfleet, and that the old lander was drowned saving the young man's life.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000001_000005.wav|Did you not think to tell me you were come?|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000021_000001.wav|And that was let again, and men left the Choughs at Ringstave and came back to their old haunt, and any shipwrecked or travel worn sailor found board and welcome within its doors.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000020_000002.wav|And of that money I never touched penny piece, having learnt a bitter lesson in the past, but laid it out in good works, with mr Glennie and Grace to help me.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000018_000000.wav|'He made a good end, john,' he said, rising from his knees, 'and I pray that our end may be in as good cause when it comes.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000007_000002.wav|Said I not to you, Have a care how you touch the treasure, it was evilly come by and will bring a curse with it?|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000020_000000.wav|What need to tell this tale at any more length, since you may know, by my telling it, that all went well? for what man would sit down to write a history that ended in his own discomfiture?|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000001_000006.wav|Did you not see the light, did you not know there was a friend that waited for you?'|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000017_000002.wav|The candle had long burnt out, but the fire was bright, and he knelt a moment by the trestle table before he went out.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000004_000002.wav|And still I could not speak.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000013_000002.wav|And that this is so let what I am about to read to you prove; so light a candle and set it by me, for my eyes cannot follow the writing in this dancing firelight.'|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000010_000000.wav|He looked at me curiously at first, as taking note of the bearded man that had grown out of the boy he remembered, but gave me very kindly greeting, and sat down beside me on a bench.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000015_000001.wav|It was addressed to the Reverend Horace Glennie, Perpetual Curate of Moonfleet, in the County of Dorset, England, and written in English by Heer Roosten, Attorney and Signariat of the Hague in the Kingdom of Holland.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000013_000000.wav|After this I thought he was going, but he cleared his throat in such a way that I guessed he had something important to say, and he drew a long folded blue paper from his pocket.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000020_000006.wav|But that great vault below it, with its memories, was set in order, and then safely walled up, and after that nothing was more ever heard of Blackbeard and his lost Mohunes.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000010_000001.wav|First, he lifted the sail from the dead body, and looked at the sleeping face.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000018_000004.wav|So fare you well, and remember that there are other treasures besides this, and that a good woman's love is worth far more than all the gold and jewels of the world-as I once knew.' And with that he left me.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/154838/2532_154838_000021_000000.wav|The village, too, renewed itself with the new almshouses and church. There were old houses rebuilt and fresh ones reared, and all are ours, except the Why Not? which still remains the Duchy Inn.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000069_000000.wav|And as he sat there he smiled and smiled, even though there was no one to see him.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000065_000000.wav|"I guess your little girl must have dropped this rag doll down into the drain pipe!" the man said to Mama.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000005_000000.wav|The men made quite a lot of noise with their hammers, for they were putting new gutters around the eaves, and pounding upon tin makes a great deal of noise.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000047_000000.wav|Then Raggedy Ann remembered that there was an opening at the bottom of the pipe.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000053_000000.wav|All day Sunday it rained and all of Sunday night, and Monday morning when Daddy started to work it was still raining.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000049_000001.wav|She wondered where Raggedy Andy was, although she did not get worried about him until she had asked Mama where he might be.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000056_000001.wav|Some of you must have left shavings or something in the eaves, and it has washed down into the pipe, so that the water pours over the gutter in sheets!"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000066_000000.wav|"I'm so glad you found him!" Mama said to the man.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000050_000000.wav|"He must be just where you left him!" Mama said.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000024_000000.wav|"Oh dear!" he exclaimed when he had peeped around the corner of the roof, "the gutter ends here and there is nothing but a hole!"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000035_000000.wav|"I can't find them!" he said in muffled tones.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000040_000000.wav|Raggedy Andy tried to wiggle backward up the pipe, but his clothes caught upon a little piece of tin which stuck out from the inside of the pipe and there he stayed.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000042_000001.wav|They stayed out upon the shiny new tin gutter until it began raining and hoped and hoped that Raggedy Andy could get back up to them.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000041_000000.wav|"What shall we do?" Uncle Clem cried, "The folks will never find him down there, for we can not tell them where he is, and they will never guess it!"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000040_000001.wav|He could neither go down nor come back up.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000036_000000.wav|Now Henny and Uncle Clem thought that Raggedy Andy meant for them to let go of his feet and this they did.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000062_000000.wav|Then the man measured with his stick, so that he knew just where the place was, and with a pair of tin shears he cut a section from the pipe and found Raggedy Andy.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000027_000000.wav|"Are you down there, penny dolls?" he called.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000017_000000.wav|All the other dolls climbed upon the window sill beside him.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000007_000000.wav|"What are they doing now?" Raggedy Andy asked.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000044_000000.wav|And although they were very quiet, each one was so sorry to lose Raggedy Andy, and each felt that he would never be found again.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000070_000000.wav|He felt very happy within and he liked to smile, anyway, because his smile was painted on.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000003_000000.wav|THE NEW TIN GUTTER|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000035_000001.wav|"Let me down farther and I think I'll be able to reach them!"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000029_000000.wav|"I hope their heads were not broken!" Raggedy Ann said.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000008_000000.wav|He was lying with his head beneath a little bed quilt, just as Marcella had dropped him when she left the nursery; so he could not see what was going on.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000043_000001.wav|Then they went back to the position each had been in, when Marcella had left them.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000058_000000.wav|So along about ten o'clock that morning one of the men came to fix the pipe.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000016_000001.wav|See her go!" Raggedy Andy cried.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000023_000000.wav|"Perhaps I did!" Raggedy Andy said, "We will look around the bend in the eave!"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000071_000000.wav|And another reason Raggedy Andy smiled was because he was not lonesome.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000042_000000.wav|The dolls were all very sad.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000034_000000.wav|It was a rather tight fit, but Raggedy Andy wiggled and twisted until all the dolls could see of him were his two feet.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000055_000000.wav|Daddy came right back into the house and called up the men who had put in the new shiny tin gutters.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000022_000000.wav|"Perhaps you scooted them farther than you thought!" Uncle Clem said.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000072_000000.wav|Inside his waist were the two little penny dolls.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000004_000000.wav|All day Saturday the men had worked out upon the eaves of the house and the dolls facing the window could see them.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000020_000000.wav|The other dolls followed his example and scooted along behind him.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000073_000000.wav|The man had punched Raggedy Andy farther down into the pipe, and he had been able to reach the two little dolls and tuck them into a safe place.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000064_000000.wav|The man laughed and carried little water soaked Raggedy Andy into the house.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000054_000000.wav|As Daddy walked out of the front gate, he turned to wave good bye to Mama and Marcella and then he saw something.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000011_000000.wav|This was a signal for all the dolls to sit up and smooth out the wrinkles in their clothes.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000025_000000.wav|"They must have scooted right into the hole," Henny, the Dutch doll said.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000048_000000.wav|"Tomorrow night if we have a chance, we dolls must take a stick and see if we can reach Raggedy Andy from the bottom of the pipe and pull him down to us!" she thought.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000009_000001.wav|"But they are putting new shingles or something on the roof!"|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000049_000000.wav|Marcella came up to the nursery and played all day, watching the rain patter upon the new tin gutter.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000043_000000.wav|Then they went inside the nursery and sat looking out the window until it was time for the folks to get up and the house to be astir.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000021_000000.wav|When Raggedy Andy came to the place where he expected to find the penny dolls lying, they were nowhere about.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000057_000000.wav|"We will send a man right up to fix it!" the men said.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000026_000000.wav|Raggedy Andy lay flat upon the shiny tin and looked down into the hole.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000010_000000.wav|After the men had left their work and gone home to supper and the house was quiet, Raggedy Andy cautiously moved his head out from under the little bed quilt and, seeing that the coast was clear, sat up.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000031_000000.wav|"I'm so sorry I scooted them!" Raggedy Andy cried, as he brushed his hand over his shoe button eyes.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000015_000000.wav|"Here's a grand place to have a lovely slide!" he said as he gave one of the penny dolls a scoot down the shiny tin gutter.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000059_000000.wav|But although he punched a long pole down the pipe, and punched and punched, he could not dislodge whatever it was which plugged the pipe and kept the water from running through it.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000009_000000.wav|"We can only see the men's legs as they pass the window," answered Uncle Clem.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2532/157475/2532_157475_000051_000000.wav|"I cannot remember where I left him!" Marcella said.|2532
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000055_000004.wav|This gave us no fear either.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000010_000000.wav|"Our brothers!" we said.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000017_000004.wav|Let us throw away our candles and our torches.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000058_000000.wav|Only the glass box in our arms is like a living heart that gives us strength.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000057_000000.wav|We know these things, but we do not care.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000012_000005.wav|And slowly, slowly as a flush of blood, a red flame trembled in the wire.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000052_000000.wav|Then we knew suddenly that we were lying on a soft earth and that we had stopped.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000055_000006.wav|So we walked on, our box in our arms, our heart empty.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000002_000002.wav|It is true that our tunic was torn and stained with brown stains which had been blood.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000005_000000.wav|"Who are you, our brother?|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000029_000005.wav|What will you do with the light?"|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000016_000000.wav|Still they would not move.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000018_000000.wav|But they looked upon us, and suddenly we were afraid.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000046_000000.wav|"It must be destroyed!"|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000055_000000.wav|It mattered not where we went.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000049_000002.wav|You thrice damned fools!"|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000056_000001.wav|Whatever days are left to us, we shall spend them alone.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000029_000000.wav|"Our brothers!|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000057_000002.wav|We are tired.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000012_000001.wav|We spoke of it, and of our long quest, and of our tunnel, and of our escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000002_000001.wav|These great and wise of the earth did not know what to think of us, and they looked upon us with wonder and curiosity, as if we were a miracle.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000015_000000.wav|"Fear nothing, our brothers.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000058_000003.wav|We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000012_000006.wav|Then the wire glowed.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000028_000000.wav|We looked upon them and we pleaded:|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000013_000000.wav|But terror struck the men of the Council.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000053_000001.wav|We crawled to it, we fell upon it, our face in our arms, and we lay still.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000049_000001.wav|"You fools!|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000053_000000.wav|Our glass box lay beside us.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000017_000001.wav|"We give you the key to the earth!|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000014_000000.wav|We looked upon them and we laughed and said:|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000048_000001.wav|We turned and we looked at them for the last time, and a rage, such as [-it ] is not fit for humans to know, choked our voice in our throat.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000055_000003.wav|The forest disposes of its own victims.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000027_000002.wav|Nor for any small Council.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000017_000002.wav|Take it, and let us be one of you, the humblest among you.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000017_000003.wav|Let us [-all ] work together, and harness this power, and make it ease the toil of men.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000008_000000.wav|"A Street Sweeper!|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000017_000006.wav|Let us bring a new light to men!"|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000017_000000.wav|"We give you the power of the sky!" we cried.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000051_000004.wav|But we ran.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000052_000004.wav|We had not thought of coming here, but our legs had carried our wisdom, and our legs had brought us to the Uncharted Forest against our will.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000015_000003.wav|We give it to you."|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000027_000001.wav|No such crime has ever been committed, and it is not for us to judge.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000018_000001.wav|For their eyes were still, and small, and evil.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000056_000002.wav|And we have heard of the corruption to be found in solitude.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000000_000001.wav|No men stopped us, for there were none about [-from ] the Palace of Corrective Detention, and the others knew nothing.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000029_000001.wav|You are right.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000012_000004.wav|And we stood still, our eyes upon the wire.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000044_000000.wav|"This thing," they said, "must be destroyed."|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000020_000001.wav|They moved to the table and the others followed.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000051_000003.wav|And the road seemed not to be flat before us, but as if it were leaping up to meet us, and we waited for the earth to rise and strike us in the face.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000002_000000.wav|All the heads of the Council turned to us as we entered.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000051_000005.wav|We knew not where we were going.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000032_000000.wav|"No," we answered.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000045_000000.wav|And all the others cried as one:|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000040_000002.wav|Therefore it cannot be destroyed by the whim of one."|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000001_000000.wav|We saw nothing as we entered, save the sky in the great windows, blue and glowing.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/120583/6574_120583_000029_000003.wav|We do not care.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000018_000000.wav|"I swear," he cried, "by the sun, and by the blue sky of heaven, and by the fire of love that burns my heart, that if you grant my prayer, while they exist you shall never behold me again.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000020_000005.wav|I wept bitterly, and clasping my hands in agony, I exclaimed, "Oh!|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000020_000003.wav|Night was far advanced when I came to the halfway resting place and seated myself beside the fountain.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000010_000000.wav|"If you consent, neither you nor any other human being shall ever see us again; I will go to the vast wilds of South America.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000013_000001.wav|I compassionated him and sometimes felt a wish to console him, but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000014_000001.wav|May not even this be a feint that will increase your triumph by affording a wider scope for your revenge?"|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000012_000003.wav|My evil passions will have fled, for I shall meet with sympathy!|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000005_000002.wav|Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000008_000000.wav|"I intended to reason.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000022_000002.wav|My haggard and wild appearance awoke intense alarm, but I answered no question, scarcely did I speak.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000013_000002.wav|I tried to stifle these sensations; I thought that as I could not sympathize with him, I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to bestow.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000015_000002.wav|If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing of whose existence everyone will be ignorant.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000009_000001.wav|I shuddered when I thought of the possible consequences of my consent, but I felt that there was some justice in his argument. His tale and the feelings he now expressed proved him to be a creature of fine sensations, and did I not as his maker owe him all the portion of happiness that it was in my power to bestow?|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000013_000000.wav|His words had a strange effect upon me.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000014_000000.wav|"You swear," I said, "to be harmless; but have you not already shown a degree of malice that should reasonably make me distrust you?|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000006_000005.wav|Shall I respect man when he condemns me?|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000009_000002.wav|He saw my change of feeling and continued,|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000002_000002.wav|He continued,|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000011_000003.wav|This may not be; cease to argue the point, for I cannot consent."|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000006_000006.wav|Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness, and instead of injury I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000002_000001.wav|But I was bewildered, perplexed, and unable to arrange my ideas sufficiently to understand the full extent of his proposition.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000012_000000.wav|"How inconstant are your feelings!|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000010_000003.wav|The picture I present to you is peaceful and human, and you must feel that you could deny it only in the wantonness of power and cruelty.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000019_000000.wav|Saying this, he suddenly quitted me, fearful, perhaps, of any change in my sentiments.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000022_000003.wav|I felt as if I were placed under a ban-as if I had no right to claim their sympathies-as if never more might I enjoy companionship with them.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000006_000000.wav|"You are in the wrong," replied the fiend; "and instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000006_000002.wav|Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000020_000004.wav|The stars shone at intervals as the clouds passed from over them; the dark pines rose before me, and every here and there a broken tree lay on the ground; it was a scene of wonderful solemnity and stirred strange thoughts within me.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000008_000007.wav|Oh!|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000005_000000.wav|"I do refuse it," I replied; "and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000006_000009.wav|I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000008_000009.wav|Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some existing thing; do not deny me my request!"|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000017_000000.wav|"I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe forever, and every other place in the neighbourhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile."|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000008_000008.wav|My creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you for one benefit!|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000005_000004.wav|I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent."|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000016_000004.wav|Turning to him, therefore, I said,|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000011_000002.wav|You will return and again seek their kindness, and you will meet with their detestation; your evil passions will be renewed, and you will then have a companion to aid you in the task of destruction.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000019_000001.wav|I saw him descend the mountain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost among the undulations of the sea of ice.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000022_000004.wav|Yet even thus I loved them to adoration; and to save them, I resolved to dedicate myself to my most abhorred task.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000007_000000.wav|A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded-|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000008_000003.wav|But I now indulge in dreams of bliss that cannot be realized.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000022_000001.wav|Even in my own heart I could give no expression to my sensations-they weighed on me with a mountain's weight and their excess destroyed my agony beneath them. Thus I returned home, and entering the house, presented myself to the family.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000002_000000.wav|The being finished speaking and fixed his looks upon me in the expectation of a reply.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000009_000000.wav|I was moved.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000011_000001.wav|How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile?|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70756/6574_70756_000016_000003.wav|After a long pause of reflection I concluded that the justice due both to him and my fellow creatures demanded of me that I should comply with his request.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000015_000001.wav|They remained confined for five months before the trial took place, the result of which deprived them of their fortune and condemned them to a perpetual exile from their native country.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000008_000001.wav|Before I depart I will give them to you; they will prove the truth of my tale; but at present, as the sun is already far declined, I shall only have time to repeat the substance of them to you.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000004_000002.wav|He was tried and condemned to death.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000016_000001.wav|Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard of oppression, on discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000005_000001.wav|He made, at that moment, a solemn vow to deliver him and then looked around for the means.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000021_000000.wav|"She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the cottage of De Lacey, when her attendant fell dangerously ill.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000009_000000.wav|"Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000009_000001.wav|The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000014_000001.wav|The plot of Felix was quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agatha were thrown into prison.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000013_000002.wav|He revolved a thousand plans by which he should be enabled to prolong the deceit until it might be no longer necessary, and secretly to take his daughter with him when he departed.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000018_000001.wav|The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000010_000001.wav|Felix had procured passports in the name of his father, sister, and himself.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000014_000004.wav|This idea was torture to him.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000003_000000.wav|"The name of the old man was De Lacey.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000004_000003.wav|The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000021_000001.wav|Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000005_000000.wav|"Felix had accidentally been present at the trial; his horror and indignation were uncontrollable when he heard the decision of the court.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000009_000003.wav|This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000020_000003.wav|She hesitated some time, but at length she formed her determination.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000010_000000.wav|"The day for the execution of the Turk was fixed, but on the night previous to it he quitted his prison and before morning was distant many leagues from Paris.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000009_000002.wav|She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion and taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect and an independence of spirit forbidden to the female followers of Muhammad.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000013_000003.wav|His plans were facilitated by the news which arrived from Paris.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000015_000000.wav|"He did not succeed.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000005_000003.wav|Felix visited the grate at night and made known to the prisoner his intentions in his favour.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000010_000002.wav|He had previously communicated his plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under the pretence of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in an obscure part of Paris.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000005_000004.wav|The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000014_000002.wav|The news reached Felix and roused him from his dream of pleasure.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6574/70753/6574_70753_000017_000000.wav|"Such were the events that preyed on the heart of Felix and rendered him, when I first saw him, the most miserable of his family.|6574
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000007.wav|When the farmer found out one night the cause of the disturbance, he came down and awakened his wife and-|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000006.wav|It was the awful row this happy family used to make every night which first led to the discovery.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000011_000001.wav|They are very wise too, and this wisdom is especially displayed in the number of doors they have in each of their dwellings; so that should an enemy, in the shape of a pussy, or a ferret, pop in at one door, Bunny would just pop out at the other.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000012_000000.wav|Cats almost invariably bring home their prey to be either leisurely eaten, given to their kittens, or presented to their owners.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000010_000001.wav|He was a fine, noble, red tabby, and it was quite a sight to see the surprising strength and agility with which he worked.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000010_000000.wav|I counted one day no less than three hundred fifty mice which a cat had killed single handed at the removal of a rick of oats in a farmer's yard.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixteen.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000005.wav|There is more honesty in the one, more craft and cunning in the other.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000006_000004.wav|Then is pussy's opportunity. She springs nimbly on the bank, and plunges her arms up to the shoulders into the earth, and never fails to bring poor molie to bank; and the daylight has hardly had time to dazzle his eyes before he is dead.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000000.wav|A man in Banffshire rented a small farm from a game preserving laird.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000020_000000.wav|If I tell the reader of a cat that is so clever that she can catch swallows on the wing, I suppose I may be allowed to close this chapter in peace.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000009.wav|Pussy prefers the charming, while our friend the dog merely runs down his prey, and takes little pains to show skill even in that.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000009_000000.wav|A cat never springs on her prey unless sure of catching it, and her aim is most unerring.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000007_000002.wav|"The hare," says my informant, "fought with great vigour, and often floored her antagonist; but Pirnie sent in her claws and teeth, till blood flew like rain, and fur like drift (driven snow); and the hare soon becoming exhausted, Pirnie seized it by the throat, and its plaintive screams were presently hushed in death."|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000003_000000.wav|HUNTING EXPLOITS.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000002.wav|Rat catching is only just one degree better, and principally enjoyed by cats who have not reached maturity in body and intellect-cats, in fact, in their hobble de hoy hood.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000001.wav|It stands to pussy in the same relation that indoor croquet, billiards, or reading a book in bed does to our noble selves.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000006_000001.wav|At the time I write, she is over twenty years old; but hale and hearty, and as playful as a kitten.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000006.wav|A dog is singularly destitute in what is called in Scotland, "canniness." He also wants patience; but the cat, armed with this gift, combined with cunning, and skill gained from experience, is master for anything in the field which she considers game and chooses to square her moustache at.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000008_000002.wav|The battle was witnessed by Graysie's owners, and lasted the greater part of the afternoon, and ended triumphantly for pussy, in the defeat and death of the weasel.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000021_000000.wav|At the foot of a certain post master's garden, flows a stream in which his cat takes many a good salmon trout.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000015_000000.wav|Gamekeepers do all they can to destroy the life of poor pussy by setting traps for, and shooting her wherever met.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000018_000004.wav|"There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip;" and the poacher's gun brought matters to quite a different conclusion.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000001.wav|This man was ruined by rabbits, and turned out of house and home by them.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000016_000000.wav|Cats are great enemies to birds in the breeding season; but it is surprising with what terrible fierceness even the smallest birds will defend their nests from the inroads of predatory cats, whose evil intentions are thus often frustrated.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000011_000004.wav|Of course, Bunny by this time was scampering off to the opposite hole, and there at the door pussy would nab him just as he came out.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000004.wav|She also took a few youthful prisoners, whom she brought home to play with and amuse a fine family of kittens, which she had in the cottage garret.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000005_000000.wav|Leaving rats and mice along with blue bottle flies, in the category of mere kitten's play, pussy's game list includes hares, rabbits, stoats, weasels, water rats, and moles, besides everything that flies or has feathers, from the humble household sparrow to the black cock of the mountain.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000018_000001.wav|The man fired, and Reynard dropped.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000015_000001.wav|But some cats come to know all about the treacherous wires and how to avoid them.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000004.wav|There is as much difference between the hunting of an animal of the cat kind and that of one of the canine order, as there is between the skilled tactics of German warfare, and the wild rush to battle of Arab cavalry.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000019_000001.wav|They were no doubt sitting cheek by jowl when pussy made the spring.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000021_000002.wav|On this bridge crouches this sagacious cat, and often secures a swallow, as it skims out from under.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000018_000002.wav|His burden was a fine large cat.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000002.wav|They first ate up all his oats, his grass, and turnips, so that only potatoes could be grown on the place.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000004_000000.wav|Catching mice is, to a proper minded cat, a mere parlour pastime, only to be resorted to on rainy days, or of a night when too restless to sleep.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000015_000002.wav|They know too that hares and rabbits often fall into these snares, and accordingly they turn this knowledge to good account; and when they find a half strangled animal in the gin, they quietly despatch, and if possible carry it home.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000014_000000.wav|"Jane," said he, and he looked almost sublime as he stood on the cold damp floor with a penny candle in one hand, in rather scanty shirt tails and red Kilmarnock night cap-he was a study for a Rembrandt, "Jane, I've been a duffer too long.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000013_000005.wav|These young rabbits lived and grew, and burrowed and made nests in the thatch.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000006_000003.wav|When she spies a mole hill, she at once sets herself down to watch it; nor will she raise the siege for hours, until the little gentleman in velvet gives signs of his presence by casting up a few grains of earth.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000010_000002.wav|He killed most of them with his paws, seldom putting a tooth in one.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000018_000000.wav|A poacher, the other day, was returning home in the grey light of early morning, when he observed a large fox coming in his direction, with what the man took to be a hare over his shoulder.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291170/8758_291170_000010_000005.wav|Indeed, high bred cats seldom care to eat mice unless they are very hungry; they much prefer fish to anything else, and the flesh of birds they consider a greater luxury than even that of rabbits.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000022_000000.wav|In thieves' slang the word "Cat" signifies a lady's muff, and "to free a cat" to steal a muff.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000036_000002.wav|Such a thing has been known before this, as a young costermonger having one of his front teeth pulled out to enable him to whistle well.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000021_000002.wav|In the first place, what is the meaning of the word "Cat." Let us look in the dictionary.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000021_000003.wav|A Cat, according to dr Johnson, is "a domestick animal that catches mice." But the word has one or two other meanings, for instance:--|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000014_000000.wav|One day, ever so long ago, it struck me that I should like to try and write a book about Cats.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000037_000002.wav|Kemble made his appearance in the costume of 'Macbeth,' and, amid vollies of hissing, hooting, groans, and cat calls, seemed as though he meant to speak a steril and pointless address announced for the occasion."|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000020_000000.wav|But stay, little Robin, did you ever spare, A grub on the ground or a fly in the air? No, that you never did, I'll swear; So I won't kill the Cat, That's flat."|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000047_000000.wav|There is a kind of ship, too, called a Cat, a vessel formed on the Norwegian model, of about six hundred tons burthen.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000042_000001.wav|The instrument was readily concealed within the mouth, and the perpetrator of the noise could not be detected.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000036_000000.wav|The shrill whistle indulged in upon the first night of a pantomime by those young gentlemen with the figure six curls in the front row of the gallery are denominated cat calls.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000035_000000.wav|In the North, however, the same game is called "Piggie." I learn by the newspaper that a young woman at Leeds nearly lost her eye sight by a blow from one of these piggies or cats, and the magistrates sent the boy who was the cause of it to an industrial school, ordering his father to pay half a crown a week for his maintenance.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000016_000000.wav|Somewhat disheartened by the reception my little project had met with, I gave up the idea for awhile, and went to work upon other things.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000036_000003.wav|Let us hope that his talent was properly appreciated in the circles in which he moved.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000027_000000.wav|A kind of double tripod with six feet, intended to hold a plate before the fire and so constructed that, in whatever position it is placed, three of the legs rest on the ground, is called a Cat, from the belief that however a Cat may be thrown, she always falls on her feet.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000014_000003.wav|The third said, "Nobody would read it," and added, "Besides, what do you know of the subject?" and before I had time to begin to tell him, said he expected it was very little.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000021_000000.wav|But all the cruel and unjust things that have been said about poor pussy I will tell you in another chapter.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000014_000001.wav|I mentioned the idea to some of my friends: the first burst out laughing at the end of my opening sentence, so I refrained from entering into further details.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000025_000001.wav|Two little holes astern, above the Gun room ports, are called Cat holes.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000030_000000.wav|Catkins are imperfect flowers hanging from trees in the manner of a rope or cat's tail.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000043_000001.wav|George Rose, so well known in after life as the friend of Pitt, Clerk of the Parliament, Secretary of the Treasury, etc, and executor of the Earl of Marchmont, but then "a bashful young man," was one of the frequenters of this tavern.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000029_000001.wav|It is very hard and semi transparent, and has different points from whence the light is reflected with a kind of yellowish radiation somewhat similar to the eyes of cats.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000046_000000.wav|It was once upon a time the trick of a countryman to bring a Cat to market in a bag, and substitute it for a sucking pig in another bag, which he sold to the unwary when he got the chance.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000031_000001.wav|Cat silver is a fossil. Cat's tail is a seed or a long round substance growing on a nut tree.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000018_000003.wav|Again, nothing can be more unjust than to call Cats cruel.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000010_000000.wav|THE BOOK OF CATS.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000024_000000.wav|Cat harping is the name for a purchase of ropes employed to brace in the shrouds of the lower masts behind their yards.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000026_000000.wav|A Cat's paw is a particular turn in the bight of a rope made to hook a tackle in; and the light air perceived in a calm by a rippling on the surface of the water, is known by the same name.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000014_000004.wav|"Why not Dogs?" asked one friend of mine, hitting upon the notion as though by inspiration.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000033_000000.wav|In the North of England, a common expression of contempt is to call a person Cat faced.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000046_000001.wav|If the trick was discovered prematurely, it was called letting the cat out of the bag-if not-he that made the bad bargain was said to have bought a pig in a poke.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000032_000001.wav|Guanahani, or Cat Island, a small island of the Bahama group, in the West Indies, is supposed to be so called because wild Cats of large size used to infest it, but I can find no particulars upon the subject in the works of writers on the West Indies.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/296465/8758_296465_000033_000002.wav|With little boys in the street a Cat is a dreadfully objectionable plaything, roughly cut out of a stick or piece of wood, and sharpened at each end.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000030_000001.wav|I know an instance of a cat bred and reared at a flour mill: it was a universal custom with this pussy to watch by the dam side, where she might have been seen at any time either in winter or summer.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000006_000000.wav|Cats are, as a rule, averse to water in every shape.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000009_000000.wav|Joe, a nice she tabby, was a curious specimen of the feline fish catcher. Her master was a disciple of Walton's.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000006.wav|Has the horse conceived?|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000015_000004.wav|I hate to be done.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000011_000004.wav|When the salmon came up the shallow streams to spawn in thousands, all waggling under his very nose, and to be had for the mere lifting out, he couldn't stand that.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000015_000001.wav|He was coming trotting along the foot path, and wore about his neck what I took to be a very tasteful thing in cravats.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000007_000001.wav|But let the occasion arise, either in the pursuit of game or in some case of necessity, and she at once throws all her scruples overboard, and goes overboard after them, wetting both feet and fur with a will.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000006_000003.wav|It would be a bad thing in a business way, however, as far as the medical profession and their friends the undertakers are concerned; for, if the former did not work with additional zeal, many of the latter would starve.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000014_000001.wav|At last, however, poor Gilbert was trapped and slain.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000011_000001.wav|He was a noted fisherman and a daring and reckless poacher, so much so that the gamekeepers threatened to kill him, whenever they could catch him.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000006_000004.wav|Did you ever observe a cat crossing the street on a rainy day?|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000011.wav|At last you peep below the bed, and with the tongs pull out-what?--only one of Gibbey's salmon.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000018_000001.wav|Tom was singing on the hearth, but he had laid aside the wrap-it was nowhere to be seen.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000008_000001.wav|This is told as a great curiosity; but I can assure the reader that such things are by no means rare.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000017_000000.wav|"Certainly, sir; but would you not come in, and have a drink of nice sweet whey?"|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000024_000000.wav|"No, no, Tom was never better in his life."|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000022_000001.wav|no, sir."|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000002.wav|Sometimes, in taking a walk through the wood, you would find yourself suddenly sprawling on all fours, having trampled on one of Gibbey's salmon.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000033_000004.wav|Thus, in course of time, the kittens could all swim and fish, and rivalled even their mother in quickness and daring.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000009_000003.wav|Then, when a trout was landed, pussy at once threw herself upon it and despatched it.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000001.wav|It was not so much what he ate that the keepers grudged; but he was in the constant habit of carrying away large fish to hide for future use; and as he generally forgot where he had put them, he still went on hiding more.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000029_000000.wav|An eel, was it!|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000022_000000.wav|"Dear me!|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000015_000006.wav|A pleasant little woman answered my knock.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000018_000000.wav|I would.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000005_000000.wav|FISHING EXPLOITS.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000008.wav|Something has been making its presence felt in your bed room for days.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000033_000000.wav|This cat not only fished herself, but taught her children to do so too. The way in which she managed this was very amusing, and shows how extremely sagacious feline nature is.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000030_000003.wav|She was also great in catching water rats, which she seized and killed as eagerly and speedily as any English terrier would.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000009_000004.wav|At other times, she would spring into the stream, perhaps up to the neck, and commence fishing on her own account, by feeling with her paws below all the banks, working as hard and as eagerly as any bare legged school boy.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000027_000001.wav|It was pleasant, though I did not know what I was laughing at; only I had a slight inkling that somehow or other I had made a mighty fool of myself.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000029_000003.wav|I thought it was time I was going off too; so bidding her good morning, I did, and left her laughing-such a pleasant little woman!|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000033_000003.wav|After letting it jump about for some little time, to amuse the kittens and attract their undivided attention, she would kill and return it to the stream, jumping after it and playing with it in the water to entice a kitten in.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000019_000000.wav|"That's a fine cat you've got," said I, when I had finished my whey.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000013_000007.wav|Nay, the poor brute has eaten all his oats, but he could not stomach-one of Gibbey's salmon.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000031_000000.wav|But not only can cats swim and fish, but they have been known to teach their offspring to do so; and a knowledge of the gentle art has been transmitted in some cat families down to the third and fourth generation.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000016_000000.wav|"Might I trouble you for a glass of water?"|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000011_000000.wav|Gibbey was a fine, large, brindled Tom.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000026_000000.wav|"A cravat!" cried she.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000029_000001.wav|The cravat was an eel!|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000021_000000.wav|"He has caught cold, I think?"|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000006_000005.wav|How gingerly she treads, how carefully picks out the driest spots, lifting each fore paw and shaking it with an air of supreme disgust, and finally, for the last few yards, making a reckless bolt to the front door.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000008_000002.wav|I have known of hundreds of such cases; and they are occurring every day.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000006_000002.wav|Parsons might preach in peace, and actors rant undisturbed.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000033_000001.wav|When the kittens came of sufficient age, she would entice them down, some fine sunny day to a part of the stream, where the water was very clear and shallow.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000033_000002.wav|Here the smaller trout fry and minnows would be gambolling; and, making a spring, pussy would seize one of these and bring it out alive.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000034_000001.wav|I have a fine tom kitten which I intend training to catch fish.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000015_000005.wav|Five minutes afterwards I was at the cottage door.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000009_000002.wav|Anxiously she would watch the skimming fly, squaring her lips and emitting little excited screams of delight, whenever a fish rose to nibble.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000020_000000.wav|"He is, sir; everybody admires our Tom."|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000011_000003.wav|In fact, Gibbey found the spawning time much more convenient than any other.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8758/291168/8758_291168_000011_000002.wav|They did not mind, they said, his taking a good clean sea trout occasionally; but the beast fished in season and out of season.|8758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000007_000000.wav|HAVING in the three last numbers taken a summary review of the principal circumstances and events which have depicted the genius and fate of other confederate governments, I shall now proceed in the enumeration of the most important of those defects which have hitherto disappointed our hopes from the system established among ourselves.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000011_000008.wav|The natural cure for an ill administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000010_000005.wav|Who can predict what effect a despotism, established in Massachusetts, would have upon the liberties of New Hampshire or Rhode Island, of Connecticut or New York?|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000015_000002.wav|The amount to be contributed by each citizen will in a degree be at his own option, and can be regulated by an attention to his resources.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000017_000002.wav|The state of agriculture and the populousness of a country have been considered as nearly connected with each other.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000003_000000.wav|Other Defects of the Present Confederation|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000009_000000.wav|The want of a mutual guaranty of the State governments is another capital imperfection in the federal plan.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000017_000001.wav|Those of the direct kind, which principally relate to land and buildings, may admit of a rule of apportionment. Either the value of land, or the number of the people, may serve as a standard.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000012_000002.wav|I speak of it now solely with a view to equality among the States.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000015_000004.wav|If inequalities should arise in some States from duties on particular objects, these will, in all probability, be counterbalanced by proportional inequalities in other States, from the duties on other objects.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000007_000001.wav|To form a safe and satisfactory judgment of the proper remedy, it is absolutely necessary that we should be well acquainted with the extent and malignity of the disease.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000011_000006.wav|The peace of society and the stability of government depend absolutely on the efficacy of the precautions adopted on this head.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000010_000001.wav|Usurpation may rear its crest in each State, and trample upon the liberties of the people, while the national government could legally do nothing more than behold its encroachments with indignation and regret.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000011_000002.wav|It could be no impediment to reforms of the State constitution by a majority of the people in a legal and peaceable mode.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000011_000003.wav|This right would remain undiminished.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000012_000003.wav|Those who have been accustomed to contemplate the circumstances which produce and constitute national wealth, must be satisfied that there is no common standard or barometer by which the degrees of it can be ascertained.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000005_000000.wav|HAMILTON|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000011_000009.wav|A guaranty by the national authority would be as much levelled against the usurpations of rulers as against the ferments and outrages of faction and sedition in the community.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000016_000001.wav|They prescribe their own limit; which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed, that is, an extension of the revenue.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000008_000001.wav|The United States, as now composed, have no powers to exact obedience, or punish disobedience to their resolutions, either by pecuniary mulcts, by a suspension or divestiture of privileges, or by any other constitutional mode.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000010_000003.wav|The tempestuous situation from which Massachusetts has scarcely emerged, evinces that dangers of this kind are not merely speculative.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000011_000005.wav|Towards the preventions of calamities of this kind, too many checks cannot be provided.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000016_000003.wav|This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000008_000004.wav|It will appear, from the specimens which have been cited, that the American Confederacy, in this particular, stands discriminated from every other institution of a similar kind, and exhibits a new and unexampled phenomenon in the political world.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000010_000002.wav|A successful faction may erect a tyranny on the ruins of order and law, while no succor could constitutionally be afforded by the Union to the friends and supporters of the government.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000015_000003.wav|The rich may be extravagant, the poor can be frugal; and private oppression may always be avoided by a judicious selection of objects proper for such impositions.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000017_000004.wav|In every country it is a herculean task to obtain a valuation of the land; in a country imperfectly settled and progressive in improvement, the difficulties are increased almost to impracticability.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000016_000002.wav|When applied to this object, the saying is as just as it is witty, that, "in political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four." If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000004_000001.wav|wednesday december twelfth seventeen eighty seven|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000014_000002.wav|This, however, is an evil inseparable from the principle of quotas and requisitions.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000004_000000.wav|For the Independent Journal.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/130994/288_130994_000015_000001.wav|Imposts, excises, and, in general, all duties upon articles of consumption, may be compared to a fluid, which will, in time, find its level with the means of paying them.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000058_000000.wav|Ruby turned away, and began pulling at his hayrack in silence.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000005_000000.wav|Diamond opened the door, and went out of the room, and down the stair and into the yard.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000004.wav|It's my belief, once out, they'd stick out for ever.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000019_000002.wav|It comes to next to nothing-what with your fat and shine.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000017_000008.wav|I daresay he grudges his master the beer he drinks, but I don't believe he grudges anything else."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000056_000001.wav|I suppose he did not understand more of English than just what the coachman and stableman were in the habit of addressing him with.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000009.wav|Depend upon it, Ruby, no cabman likes to be abused any more than his fare.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000040_000001.wav|You're only fit for the knacker's yard.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000020_000000.wav|"Well, at least you ought to be thankful you're the better for it.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000007.wav|The abuse master gets for your sake is quite shameful.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000053_000001.wav|It was necessary I should grow fat, and necessary that good Joseph, your master, should grow lean.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000052_000000.wav|"Never before.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000018_000000.wav|"Well, I don't grudge yours what he gets by me," said Ruby.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000021_000001.wav|You go along like a buttock of beef upon castors-you do."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000017_000000.wav|"And I'm proud to be so worked.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000057_000000.wav|"You just wait till to morrow, and you'll see whether I'm speaking the truth or not.--I declare the old horse is fast asleep!--Diamond!--No I won't."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000042_000000.wav|"Can't hurt you!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000009.wav|If you would but step out a bit and run off a little of your fat!"|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000038_000004.wav|There's no truth to be got out of you but by cross questioning.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000014_000001.wav|"I must attend to my own master's interests, and eat all that is given me, and be sleek and fat as I can, and go no faster than I need."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000027_000006.wav|You don't even care for your own legs-so long as you can eat, eat, and sleep, sleep.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000005_000003.wav|It blew him right up to the stable door, and went on blowing.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000030_000000.wav|"I tell you I put my foot on one of those horrid stones they make the roads with, and it gave my ankle such a twist."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000015_000001.wav|You make me ashamed of being a horse.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000026_000000.wav|"Oh, but I was."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000002_000001.wav|When Diamond went to his bed, which was in a tiny room in the roof, he heard it like the sea moaning; and when he fell asleep he still heard the moaning.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000038_000003.wav|Why did you want to get fat?|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000011.wav|Indeed they are."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000013_000000.wav|"No harm?" retorted Diamond.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000019_000000.wav|"Gets!" retorted Diamond.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000017_000005.wav|And his master ain't over kind to him either.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000049_000000.wav|"I know you don't.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000015_000004.wav|Pray where would your carcass be if it weren't for him?"|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000010_000000.wav|He heard the two horses talking to each other-in a strange language, which yet, somehow or other, he could understand, and turn over in his mind in English.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000002_000005.wav|"Diamond, come here," she said again and again; but where the here was he could not tell.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000049_000001.wav|An ignorant, rude old human horse, like you, couldn't know it.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000004.wav|It's not your lively horse that comes to grief in that way.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000042_000001.wav|Just let me once try."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000015_000002.wav|You dare to say my master ain't your master!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000016_000001.wav|If I were his own horse, he would work me as hard as he does you."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000000.wav|"Ankle indeed!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000032_000001.wav|I will tell you the truth: it was my own fault that I fell lame."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000001_000001.wav|The mother would always pay the week's rent before she laid out anything even on food.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000004_000000.wav|"Come here, Diamond," was all her answer.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000017_000007.wav|But that old horse knows he's got the wife and children to keep-as well as his drunken master-and he works like a horse.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000038_000002.wav|I thought you were a humbug!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000054_000002.wav|When young Diamond found this, he thought he might venture to take up the dropt shuttlecock of the conversation.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000000.wav|"Kick!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000028_000000.wav|"But I tell you I was lame."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000041_000000.wav|"Never mind, Diamond.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000008.wav|I'll try to think as well of you as I can.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000052_000001.wav|But you've confessed to shamming lame."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000040_000003.wav|Hold your tongue, or I'll break my halter and be at you-with your handsome fat!"|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000007_000001.wav|He ran to the place, however: just as he reached it there came a wild blast, and down fell the key clanging on the stones at his feet.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000003.wav|And so long as you don't lift your feet better, but fall asleep between every step, you'll run a good chance of laming all your ankles as you call them, one after another.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000039_000000.wav|"Because once I am fat, my nature is to keep fat for a long time; and I didn't know when master might come home and want to see me."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000053_000003.wav|So I must be lame, and so I sprained my ankle-for the angel horses have ankles-they don't talk horse slang up there-and it hurt me very much, I assure you, Diamond, though you mayn't be good enough to be able to believe it."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000019_000001.wav|"What he gets isn't worth grudging.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000027_000005.wav|There you are with your huge carcass crushing down your poor legs all night long.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000053_000000.wav|"Nothing of the sort.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000006_000000.wav|"She wants me to go into the stable," said Diamond to himself, "but the door is locked."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000002.wav|You might heave your rump up half a foot, but for lashing out-oho!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000040_000002.wav|You wanted to look handsome, did you?|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000043_000000.wav|"No, you can't."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000008.wav|No decent horse would bring it on him.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000002_000004.wav|He jumped out of bed, and looked everywhere, but could not see her.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000015_000000.wav|"Now really if the rest of the horses weren't all asleep, poor things-they work till they're tired-I do believe they would get up and kick you out of the stable.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000055_000000.wav|"I'm good enough to believe it, Ruby," he said.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty two.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000001_000005.wav|Diamond in consequence had gone to bed very quiet and thoughtful-a little troubled indeed.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000029_000001.wav|But my belief is, it wasn't even grease-it was fat."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000003_000000.wav|"Dear North Wind," said Diamond, "I want so much to go to you, but I can't tell where."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000001_000002.wav|His father had been very gloomy-so gloomy that he had actually been cross to his wife.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000040_000000.wav|"You conceited, good for nothing brute!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000015_000003.wav|That's your gratitude for the way he feeds you and spares you!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000049_000004.wav|Well, I'm one of them."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000005.wav|I tell you I believe it wasn't much, and if it was, it was your own fault.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000012_000000.wav|"There's no harm in being fat," said Ruby in a deprecating tone.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000027_000000.wav|"Then I believe it was all your own fault.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000006.wav|There!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000054_000000.wav|Old Diamond made no reply.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000045_000000.wav|"Because I'm an angel."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000024_000000.wav|"Well, you see, Diamond, I don't want to go lame again."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000044_000000.wav|"Why then?"|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000016_000000.wav|"He doesn't do it for my sake.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000002_000002.wav|All at once he said to himself, "Am I awake, or am I asleep?" But he had no time to answer the question, for there was North Wind calling him.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000005.wav|Talk of kicking!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000007_000002.wav|He picked it up, and ran back and opened the stable door, and went in.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000046_000000.wav|"What's that?"|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000008_000002.wav|This is what he saw.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000010_000001.wav|The first words he heard were from Diamond, who apparently had been already quarrelling with Ruby.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000001_000004.wav|This comes of not having faith enough in God, and shows how necessary this faith is, for when we lose it, we lose even the kindness which alone can soothe the suffering.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000032_000000.wav|"I say, Diamond, I can't bear to have an honest old horse like you think of me like that.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000047_000000.wav|"Of course you don't know."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000017_000004.wav|He's something like a horse-all skin and bone.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000023_000006.wav|Why don't you put one foot before the other now and then when you're in the cab?|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000035_000000.wav|At the words, the old horse arose with a scramble like thunder, shot his angry head and glaring eye over into Ruby's stall, and said-|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000038_000000.wav|"You grease tub!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000056_000000.wav|But Ruby never turned his head, or took any notice of him.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000027_000007.wav|You a horse indeed!"|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000041_000002.wav|You can't hurt me."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000005_000001.wav|His little heart was in a flutter, for he had long given up all thought of seeing her again.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000001_000000.wav|IT WAS Friday night, and Diamond, like the rest of the household, had had very little to eat that day.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000038_000005.wav|You ain't fit to be a horse."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000031_000001.wav|Why should you ape your betters?|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000049_000002.wav|But there's young Diamond listening to all we're saying; and he knows well enough there are horses in heaven for angels to ride upon, as well as other animals, lions and eagles and bulls, in more important situations.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000025_000000.wav|"I don't believe you were so very lame after all-there!"|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000017_000006.wav|He put a stinging lash on his whip last week.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000056_000002.wav|Finding, however, that his companion made no reply, he shot his head over the partition and looking down at him said-|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131218/288_131218_000053_000002.wav|I could have pretended to be lame, but that no horse, least of all an angel horse would do.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000008.wav|The consequence was that the older we grew, the more our minds were alienated from her, and the more we came to regard her as our enemy. If she really meant to be our friend after the best fashion she knew, it was at least an uncomely kind of friendship, that showed itself in constant opposition, fault finding, and complaint.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000009.wav|The real mistake was that we were boys.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER four|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000007_000000.wav|"God didn't make the fees, Kirsty!"|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000013.wav|On reflection, I think a little better; but the girl would have been worse off, because she could not have escaped from her as we did.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000004_000002.wav|Then he would set forth to us where we had been wrong, if we were wrong, and send us away with an injunction not to provoke mrs Mitchell, who couldn't help being short in her temper, poor thing!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000004.wav|Indeed the distance from her nose to her mouth was greater than the length of her nose.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000019_000004.wav|It was delight indeed to sit by her fire and listen to them. That would be after the men had had their supper, early of a winter night, and had gone, two of them to the village, and the other to attend to the horses.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000019_000001.wav|There was nothing like them in all that countryside.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000019_000000.wav|And then her stories!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000002.wav|I suppose she was about forty.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000003.wav|She was not pleasant, for she was grim faced and censorious, with a very straight back, and a very long upper lip.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000000.wav|My father had a housekeeper, a trusty woman, he considered her.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000012_000000.wav|All this set me thinking.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000005_000000.wav|She was saving even to stinginess.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000009_000001.wav|Then he opened his mouth and spake like a discontented prophet of old:|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000010.wav|There was something in her altogether antagonistic to the boy nature.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000017_000002.wav|Oh! she was dear, and good, and kind, our Kirsty!|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000003_000000.wav|"Very well, mrs Mitchell; I will speak to them about it."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000016_000000.wav|"Oh! she's not a bad sort," said Kirsty; "though I must say, if I was her, I would try to be a little more agreeable."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000009_000000.wav|Davie was silent for a while.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000001_000000.wav|Kirsty|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000012_000002.wav|It was, in fact, the same question, only with a more important object in the eye of it.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/121741/288_121741_000002_000005.wav|When I think of her first, it is always as making some complaint to my father against us.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000015_000000.wav|"There's a friend of Nanny's, a lame boy, called Jim."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000033_000001.wav|I meant, if you would take Jim with you to clean your boots, and do odd jobs, you know, sir, then Nanny would like it better.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000025_000000.wav|"You want your boots shined in the country-don't you, sir?"|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000017_000000.wav|"Nanny doesn't care much about going to the country, sir."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000002_000003.wav|Besides, she was more attached to Jim than to Diamond: Jim was a reasonable being, Diamond in her eyes at best only an amiable, over grown baby, whom no amount of expostulation would ever bring to talk sense, not to say think it.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000011_000000.wav|And he was indeed, for he had grown very fond of him.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000038_000002.wav|All I will say is, that Diamond, who is my only care, was full of quiet delight-a gladness too deep to talk about.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000037_000002.wav|But after dark, there ain't so much doing."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000041_000002.wav|mr Raymond advised his father to give him plenty of liberty.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000027_000000.wav|"It wouldn't be nice to walk over the flowers with dirty boots-would it, sir?"|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000011_000001.wav|His opinion of him was very different from Nanny's.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000043_000001.wav|After doing everything that fell to his share, the boy had a wealth of time at his disposal.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000037_000001.wav|People's kind to lame boys, you know, sir.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000007_000001.wav|They're so beautiful, they make you happy to look at them."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000036_000000.wav|What mr Raymond thought, I dare hardly attempt to put down here.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000043_000000.wav|Joseph assented heartily, smiling to himself at the idea of pushing Diamond.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000001_000001.wav|They really began to look fit for double harness.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000034_000000.wav|"Now you come to the point, Diamond.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000016_000000.wav|"I've heard of him," said mr Raymond.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000033_000000.wav|"No, sir; I didn't mean that.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000007_000000.wav|"Ain't they?|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000014_000002.wav|What is it now?"|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000043_000002.wav|And a happy, sometimes a merry time it was.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000040_000004.wav|But all the time, he was dreaming of the country at the back of the north wind, and trying to recall the songs the river used to sing.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000034_000002.wav|I will turn it over in my mind.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty four.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000041_000000.wav|These were very different times from those when he used to drive the cab, but you must not suppose that Diamond was idle.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000021_000000.wav|"He's a good boy, sir."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000038_000000.wav|Diamond succeeded in bringing Jim to mr Raymond, and the consequence was that he resolved to give the boy a chance.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000031_000000.wav|"Then Nanny would be better pleased to go, sir."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000010_000000.wav|"Ah! how do you do, Diamond?" said mr Raymond; "I am glad to see you."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000026_000000.wav|"Yes, to be sure."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000003_000003.wav|It was after one of his visits, during which they had been talking of her new prospects, that Nanny expressed to Diamond her opinion of the country.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000022_000000.wav|"Well, so much the better for him."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000020_000001.wav|That is, if you can show good reason for it."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000009_000000.wav|Diamond smiled with a far away look, as if he were gazing through clouds of green leaves and the vision contented him.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000034_000001.wav|I see what you mean, exactly.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000023_000000.wav|"I know he can shine boots, sir."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000002_000004.wav|Now that she could manage the baby as well as he, she judged herself altogether his superior.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000002_000000.wav|Joseph and his wife got their affairs in order, and everything ready for migrating at the shortest notice; and they felt so peaceful and happy that they judged all the trouble they had gone through well worth enduring.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000001_000000.wav|BEFORE the end of the month, Ruby had got respectably thin, and Diamond respectably stout.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000035_000000.wav|"I'll try, sir.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000000_000001.wav|IN THE COUNTRY|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000003_000002.wav|But when at length she went to live with Diamond's family, Jim was willing enough to go and see her.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000040_000002.wav|So they have their fun over, and are ready to go to bed again by the time the trees are dressed.|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000016_000001.wav|"Well?"|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/288/131220/288_131220_000024_000000.wav|"So much the better for us."|288
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000006_000000.wav|He and Louise had no conversation together until that night.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000006_000001.wav|Gertrude and Alex-I mean Jack-had gone for a walk, although it was nine o'clock, and anybody but a pair of young geese would have known that dew was falling, and that it is next to impossible to get rid of a summer cold.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000028_000000.wav|So we sit and talk, and sometimes Liddy threatens to leave, and often I discharge her, but we stay together somehow.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000003_000001.wav|Of my share in discovering the secret chamber they have been singularly silent.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000011_000001.wav|Paul Armstrong evidently studied the situation carefully.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000011_000000.wav|But the law has long arms.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000022_000003.wav|Gertrude, I learned, had watched all night beside me, in an extremity of anxiety about me.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000015_000003.wav|Attempts to dislodge me having failed, he was driven to breaking into his own house.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000000.wav|There will be two weddings before long, and Liddy has asked for my heliotrope poplin to wear to the church.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000022_000002.wav|The note Liddy had found in Gertrude's scrap basket was from him, and it was he who had startled me into unconsciousness by the clothes chute, and, with Gertrude's help, had carried me to Louise's room.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000013_000001.wav|What she only suspected, what she really knew, we never learned.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000028_000001.wav|I am talking of renting a house next year, and Liddy says to be sure there is no ghost.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000022_000001.wav|Not only had he alarmed-Louise and himself, he admitted-on the circular staircase, but he had dug the hole in the trunk room wall, and later sent Eliza into hysteria.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000002.wav|Then, furious at her apparent connivance, he had started for the station.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000012_000002.wav|The man was unscrupulous, and with the girl as a bait, Paul Armstrong soon had him fast.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000011_000003.wav|He decided to die, to all appearances, and when the hue and cry subsided, he would be able to enjoy his money almost anywhere he wished.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000012_000003.wav|The plan was apparently the acme of simplicity: a small town in the west, an attack of heart disease, a body from a medical college dissecting room shipped in a trunk to Doctor Walker by a colleague in San Francisco, and palmed off for the supposed dead banker.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000005.wav|I am gray, I admit, but I haven't felt as well in a dozen years.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000006.wav|Sometimes, when I am bored, I ring for Liddy, and we talk things over.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000001.wav|He accused the doctor of the deception, and, crossing the lawn, had said something cruel to Louise.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000026_000005.wav|Thomas, the fourth victim of the conspiracy, is buried on the hill.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000002.wav|She has wanted it for three years, and she was quite ugly the time I spilled coffee on it.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000024_000000.wav|The oddest thing to me was that mr Jamieson had known for some time that Alex was Jack Bailey.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000007.wav|This they did as I have told.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000023_000003.wav|He secured Arnold's keys from his room at the club and got into the house, armed with a golf stick for sounding the walls.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000005.wav|To her surprise, Arnold already knew, through Bailey that night, that things were not right.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000028_000004.wav|My neighbors are packing up for another summer.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000023_000001.wav|Of that story of Thomas', about seeing Jack Bailey in the footpath between the club and Sunnyside, the night Liddy and I heard the noise on the circular staircase-that, too, was right.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000004.wav|Of the conspiracy she said nothing.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000005.wav|They stepped into the road in front of the car to stop it, and fate played into their hands.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000016_000005.wav|She had no love for her stepfather, but her devotion to her mother was entire, self sacrificing.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000015_000000.wav|To go back to Paul Armstrong.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000002.wav|She told him that there was something wrong, and that the bank was about to close.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000015_000002.wav|Sunnyside, with its hoard in the chimney room, had been rented without his knowledge!|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000013_000002.wav|She was a chambermaid in the hotel at C-, and it was evidently her intention to blackmail Doctor Walker.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000008_000000.wav|It was no place for an elderly spinster.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000026_000000.wav|Well, it is all over now.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000026_000002.wav|I went to the funeral, because I wanted to be sure he was really buried, and I looked at the step of the shaft where I had sat that night, and wondered if it was all real. Sunnyside is for sale-no, I shall not buy it.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000021_000001.wav|He did not believe that the money was gone; in fact, it was hardly possible in the interval since the securities had been taken.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000007_000000.wav|At half after nine, growing weary of my own company, I went downstairs to find the young people.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000006.wav|Moreover, he suspected what Louise did not, that the money was hidden at Sunnyside. He had a scrap of paper that indicated a concealed room somewhere.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000026_000001.wav|Paul Armstrong rests in Casanova churchyard, and this time there is no mistake.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000026_000003.wav|Little Lucien Armstrong is living with his step grandmother, and she is recovering gradually from troubles that had extended over the entire period of her second marriage.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000016_000000.wav|Louise and her mother had, from the first, been the great stumbling blocks.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000003.wav|We are very quiet, just the two of us.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000010_000002.wav|The railroad in New Mexico had apparently drained the banker's private fortune, and he determined to retrieve it by one stroke.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000006.wav|The car struck the train, and they had only to dispose of the unconscious figure in the road.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000000.wav|Louise arrived at Sunnyside and found the house rented.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000011_000002.wav|Just as the only good Indian is a dead Indian, so the only safe defaulter is a dead defaulter.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000007_000003.wav|But here again I was driven back. Louise was sitting in a deep chair, looking the happiest I had ever seen her, with Halsey on the arm of the chair, holding her close.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty four|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000003_000000.wav|Of Doctor Walker's sensational escape that night to South America, of the recovery of over a million dollars in cash and securities in the safe from the chimney room-the papers have kept the public well informed.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000009_000000.wav|The next day, by degrees, I got the whole story.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000026_000006.wav|With Nina Carrington, five lives were sacrificed in the course of this grim conspiracy.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000016_000006.wav|Forced into acquiescence by her mother's appeals, overwhelmed by the situation, the girl consented and fled.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000016_000003.wav|The girl was told that something of the kind was necessary, that the bank was about to close and her stepfather would either avoid arrest and disgrace in this way, or kill himself.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000023_000005.wav|He was glad enough to get away without an alarm being raised, and he took the "owl" train to town.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000016_000002.wav|There was a terrible scene.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000010_000001.wav|Common enough, but he loved money, not for what it would buy, but for its own sake. An examination of the books showed no irregularities in the past year since john had been cashier, but before that, in the time of Anderson, the old cashier, who had died, much strange juggling had been done with the records.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000012_000001.wav|The connivance of Doctor Walker was suggested by his love for Louise.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000003.wav|Doctor Walker and Paul Armstrong-the latter still lame where I had shot him-hurried across to the embankment, certain only of one thing.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000000.wav|It was this that had taken Halsey to the doctor the night he disappeared.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000020_000002.wav|But the catastrophe at the bank occurred sooner than he had expected.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000025_000001.wav|BAILEY?"|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000023_000004.wav|He ran against the hamper at the head of the stairs, caught his cuff link in it, and dropped the golf stick with a crash.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000017_000001.wav|Trapped as she was, she did not want to see an innocent man arrested.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000012_000004.wav|What was simpler?|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000015_000004.wav|The ladder in the chute, the burning of the stable and the entrance through the card room window-all were in the course of a desperate attempt to get into the chimney room.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000021_000002.wav|Where was it?|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000007_000002.wav|They did not see or hear me, and I beat a hasty retreat to the library.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000021_000000.wav|john Bailey had known Paul Armstrong intimately.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000015_000001.wav|At the last moment his plans had been frustrated.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000008.wav|For three days Halsey lay in the box car, tied hand and foot, suffering tortures of thirst, delirious at times, and discovered by a tramp at Johnsville only in time to save his life.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000010_000000.wav|Paul Armstrong had a besetting evil-the love of money.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000028_000003.wav|Time has passed since I began this story.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000017_000002.wav|The telegram, received on Thursday, had sent the cashier to the bank that night in a frenzy.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000020_000000.wav|Bailey was almost desperate.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000008_000001.wav|I retired to my upstairs sitting room and got out Eliza Klinefelter's lavender slippers.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000025_000000.wav|"How long are you and I going to play our little comedy, mr|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000007.wav|When Warner married Rosie, Liddy sniffed and said what I took for faithfulness in Rosie had been nothing but mawkishness. I have not yet outlived Liddy's contempt because I gave them silver knives and forks as a wedding gift.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000019_000000.wav|His inherited cupidity was aroused.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000001.wav|Not knowing what to do, she sent for Arnold at the Greenwood Club, and told him a little, not all.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000022_000000.wav|So it was Alex, Jack Bailey, who had been our ghost.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000020_000001.wav|He decided to go west and find Paul Armstrong, and to force him to disgorge.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000017_000000.wav|From somewhere in Colorado she sent an anonymous telegram to Jack Bailey at the Traders' Bank.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000007_000001.wav|At the door of the living room I paused. Gertrude and Jack had returned and were there, sitting together on a divan, with only one lamp lighted.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000016_000001.wav|The plan had been to send Louise away until it was too late for her to interfere, but she came back to the hotel at C- just at the wrong time.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000008_000002.wav|Ah, well, the foster motherhood would soon have to be put away in camphor again.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000028_000002.wav|To be perfectly frank, I never really lived until that summer.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000023_000002.wav|On the night before Arnold Armstrong was murdered, Jack Bailey had made his first attempt to search for the secret room.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000010_000003.wav|This was nothing less than the looting of the bank's securities, turning them into money, and making his escape.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000021_000003.wav|And from some chance remark let fall some months earlier by Arnold Armstrong at a dinner, Bailey felt sure there was a hidden room at Sunnyside.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000003_000002.wav|The inner history has never been told.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000023_000000.wav|That old Thomas had seen his master, and thought he had seen the Sunnyside ghost, there could be no doubt.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000013_000000.wav|The woman, Nina Carrington, was the cog that slipped.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000002_000000.wav|THE ODDS AND ENDS|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000018_000003.wav|That his father was responsible.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000021_000006.wav|His smooth upper lip had been sufficient disguise, with his change of clothes, and a hair cut by a country barber.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000027_000001.wav|I knew she would.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000024_000001.wav|But the face of the pseudo gardener was very queer indeed, when that night, in the card room, the detective turned to him and said:|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000014_000004.wav|Halsey must not tell the detective what he suspected until the money had been removed from the chimney room.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000020_000003.wav|On the moment of starting west, at Andrews Station, where mr Jamieson had located the car, he read that the bank had closed, and, going back, surrendered himself.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000004_000000.wav|When Halsey learned the truth, he insisted on going the next morning, weak as he was, to Louise, and by night she was at Sunnyside, under Gertrude's particular care, while her mother had gone to Barbara Fitzhugh's.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/1070/688_1070_000005_000000.wav|What Halsey said to mrs Armstrong I never knew, but that he was considerate and chivalrous I feel confident.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000004.wav|I did not expect to meet wolves there.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000012_000001.wav|There was one nest with a roof of shaggy bark, and I wondered if the birds thought it would be pleasant to live under a roof, or whether the bark had fallen down on them after they built.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000003_000000.wav|The grove served a more utilitarian purpose, however.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000018_000001.wav|The hummer did not return my interest.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000012_000003.wav|As we went down one aisle, a big bird went blundering out ahead of us, probably an owl, for afterwards we stumbled on a skeleton and feathers of one of the family.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000015_000005.wav|He sat very unconcernedly on a low branch right out in the middle of the road, but Billy did not run over him.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000015_000004.wav|When she had flown off, he stretched his wings, whirred them as if for practice, and then moved his bill as if still tasting the dainty he had had for supper.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000005_000002.wav|After the bare yellow stubble and all the reds and browns of a California summer landscape, its rich dark green color and its stanch, strong stalks made it seem a very plain honest sort of field, and its greenness was most grateful to eyes unused to the bright colors and strong lights of California.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000017_000004.wav|It was the castle which the trees surrounded.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000006.wav|Though in the grove a great deal, I never ran into but one cobweb, and was conscious of the pleasant freedom from falling caterpillars.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000018_000003.wav|I would dismount and sit on the ground, leaning against a blue gum, while Billy stood by, in a bower of green leaves, with ears pricked forward thoughtfully, and a dreamy look of satisfaction in his eyes. Hummingbirds are such dainty things.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000007_000004.wav|The limbs were so slender and flexible that a touch was enough to bend back a green gate fifteen to twenty feet long, and Billy often pushed a branch aside with his nose.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000008_000002.wav|The same changes are seen in the bark: first the trunks are smooth and green; then they are hung with shaggy shreds of bark; this in turn drops off so that the old trees are smooth again. Some of the young shoots have almost white stems, and their leaves have a pinkish tinge.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000002.wav|Then it was delightful to see a lazuli bunting on her nest down another aisle.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000003_000004.wav|In the photograph of a eucalyptus avenue near Los Angeles, the row of trees on the right have been cut near the ground and the branching trunks are the consequence.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000019_000001.wav|The brown earth between the rows was barred by alternate lines of sunlight and shadow, and the vista of each avenue ended in blue sky. Sometimes cool ocean breezes would penetrate the forest.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000003_000001.wav|The eucalyptus is an Australian tree, with narrow straight hanging leaves, and its rapid growth makes it useful for firewood.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000005_000001.wav|On one side of it was a rustling cornfield always pleasant to look at.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000011_000001.wav|The first time we started to go up and down the avenues we scared up a pair of turtle doves, beautiful, delicately tinted gentle creatures, fit tenants of the lovely grove.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000013_000000.wav|In one of the trees we came to an enormous nest made of the unusual materials that are sometimes chosen by that strange bird, the road runner.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000001.wav|Billy liked it, perhaps, for association's sake, for we had ridden through the eucalyptus at his home in northern California.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000019_000006.wav|I returned to it again and again, coming in out of the hot yellow world and closing behind me the doors of my 'rest house,' for the little wood had come to seem like a cool wayside chapel, a place of peace.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000008_000001.wav|When young they are covered with branches low to the ground, and their aromatic tender leaves are light bluish green; afterwards they lose their lower branches, while their leaves become stiff and sickle shaped, dull green and almost odorless.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000007_000002.wav|The eucalyptus trees, although thirty or forty feet high, were lithe and slender; some of them could be spanned by the hands.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000006_000000.wav|Opposite the little grove, in a small house perched on a hill, an old sea captain lived alone.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000005_000000.wav|My eucalyptus or blue gum grove was down near the big sycamore, and opposite the bare knoll where Romulus and the burrowing owls had their nightly battles.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000019_000003.wav|Mourning doves cooed, and the sweet notes of yellow birds filled the sunny grove with suggestions of happiness.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000015_000001.wav|Their grayish green suits toned in with the color of the blue gums.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000013_000002.wav|To make sure about the nest, I spoke to my neighbor ranchman, and he told me that when he had been milking during the spring he had often seen the birds come out of the blue gums, and had also seen them perching there on the trees.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000008_000003.wav|Indeed, a young blue gum is as pretty a sight as one often sees; it is a tree of exquisite delicacy of coloring.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000002.wav|I too had pleasant memories of the northern gums, but my first interest was in finding out who lived in my little woods.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000011_000000.wav|It was a surprise to find so many feathered folks living in the eucalyptus, and I took a personal interest in each one of the inhabitants.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000016_000001.wav|One builder was the one the photographer was fortunate enough to catch brooding; her nest, the one so charmingly placed on a light blue branch between two straight spreading leaves, like the knot between two bows of stiff ribbon.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000007_000001.wav|I could let down the fence and put it up behind me; thus having my small forest all to myself; and used to enjoy riding up and down the fragrant blue avenues.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000015_000000.wav|One afternoon in riding down the rows, I came face to face with two mites of hummingbirds seated on a branch.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000007_000000.wav|It was always a relief to leave the hot beating sun and the glare of the yellow fields and enter the cool shade of the quiet grove.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000018_000004.wav|Once when this one alighted on the rim of her nest she whirred herself right down inside.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000006_000002.wav|When I stopped to ask if he had seen anything noteworthy happen at the grove, he complained that it shut off his view and kept away the breeze from the ocean!|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000006.wav|I thought the pretty bird would surely be safe here, but one day when I called, expecting to see a growing family, I was shocked to find a pathetic little skeleton in the nest.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000000.wav|But my doll was not stuffed with sawdust, for all of that.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000017_000000.wav|The second nest was on a drooping branch, and, to make it stand level, was deepened on the down side of the limb, making it the highest hummingbird's nest I had ever seen.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000018_000007.wav|The whole tiny body seemed to throb with its heart beats.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000007_000003.wav|The rows were planted ten feet apart, but the long branches interlaced, so one had to be on the alert, in riding down the lines, to bend low on the saddle or push aside the branches that obstructed the way.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000015_000002.wav|It was a surprise when one of them turned to the other and fed it-the mother hummer was small enough to be taken for a nestling!|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000004.wav|The two nests were as unlike as the sites.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000017_000003.wav|From a bare silent woods it becomes a dwelling place. Everything seemed to centre around this little nest, then the only one in the grove; the tiny pinch of down became the most important thing in the woods.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000017_000002.wav|How one little home does make a place habitable!|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000000.wav|Mountain Billy and I both liked to wander among the blue gums.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000008_000000.wav|The eucalyptus trees change very curiously as they grow old.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000012_000002.wav|I could get no trace of the owners of the nest, and it troubled me, not liking to have any little homes in my wood that I did not know all about.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000005.wav|The bird outside had used dull green weeds, while this one used beautiful shining oak stems.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000013_000004.wav|If I had only come earlier!|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000006_000003.wav|I was too much taken by surprise to apologize for my trees, but felt reproached; unwittingly I had destroyed the old captain's choicest pleasure.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000003.wav|It seemed odd, for there was her little cousin nesting out in the weeds in the bright sun, while she was raising her brood in the shady forest.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000019_000000.wav|Often, while watching the nest, my thoughts wandered away to the grove itself.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000019_000005.wav|Such a secure retreat!|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000001_000000.wav|MY BLUE GUM GROVE.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000011_000002.wav|They did not know my friendly interest in them, and flew to the ground trailing and trying to decoy me away in such a marked manner that when we passed a young dove a few yards farther on, it was easy to put two and two together.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000013_000005.wav|Now they had gone, and my chance of a nest study was lost.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000014_000001.wav|There was still much to enjoy, for a mourning dove flew from her nest of twigs almost over Billy's head, and it made me quite happy to know that the gentle bird was brooding her eggs in my woods.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000019_000004.wav|A yellow butterfly wandered down the blue aisles.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000003.wav|A dog had once been seen driving a coyote wolf out of it, but that was merely in passing.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000007_000005.wav|In places, fallen trees barred our path, but Billy used to step carefully over them.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000015_000003.wav|She sat beside her son and fed him in the conventional way, by plunging her bill down his open mouth.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000018_000006.wav|The tips of my fingers touched what felt like round balls, but, not satisfied, I pulled down the bough and found one round ball and one mite of a gray back with microscopic yellow hairs on each side of the spine.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000013_000003.wav|How exasperating!|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000010_000007.wav|Moreover, I never saw a lizard in the blue gums, though dozens of them were to be seen about the oaks and in the brush.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/46588/688_46588_000018_000005.wav|Soon she began to act so strangely for a brooding bird that, when she flew, I went to feel in the nest.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000042_000001.wav|The iodine may be obtained on evaporation as a sublimate.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000027_000001.wav|Lungs congested.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000011_000001.wav|Death may result from inflammation of the larynx and lungs.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000048_000003.wav|Great prostration, diarrhoea, with bloody stools.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000048_000001.wav|The earliest signs are a garlicky taste in the mouth and pain in the throat and stomach.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000033_000001.wav|Burnt on platinum foil, it gives a green colour to the flame.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000011_000000.wav|Inhalation of the fumes of strong ammonia may lead to death from capillary bronchitis or broncho pneumonia.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000047_000004.wav|In 'safety' matches the amorphous phosphorus is on the box.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000035_000001.wav|Stomach may be perforated.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000004_000001.wav|The salts give a yellow precipitate with platinum chloride, and a white precipitate with tartaric acid.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000004_000003.wav|Stains on dark clothing are red or brown.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000053_000003.wav|Distil in the dark, through a glass tube kept cool by a stream of water.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000038_000001.wav|It strikes blue with solution of starch, and stains the skin and intestines yellowish brown.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000047_000001.wav|It may also occur as the amorphous non poisonous variety, a red opaque infusible substance, insoluble in carbon disulphide.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000048_000002.wav|Vomited matter luminous in the dark, bile stained or bloody, with garlic like odour.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000050_000003.wav|Sulphate of copper is a valuable antidote, both as an emetic and as forming an insoluble compound with phosphorus.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000047_000002.wav|Ordinary phosphorus is soluble in oil, alcohol, ether, chloroform, and carbon disulphide; insoluble in water. It is much used in rat poisons, made into a paste with flour, sugar, fat, and Prussian blue.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000005_000001.wav|Do not use the stomach tube.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000001_000001.wav|These preparations are not volatile, so that there is not much fear of lung trouble.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000053_000002.wav|Acidulate with sulphuric acid to fix any ammonia present.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000001_000002.wav|In chronic cases death occurs from stricture of the oesophagus causing starvation.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000018_000000.wav|sixteen.--INORGANIC IRRITANTS|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000034_000001.wav|The salts of barium are also cardiac poisons.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000015_000001.wav|Other treatment according to symptoms.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000039_000001.wav|Chronic poisoning (iodism) is characterized by coryza, salivation, and lachrymation, frontal headache, loss of appetite, marked mental depression, acne of the face and chest, and a petechial eruption on the limbs.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000011_000002.wav|When swallowed in solution, the symptoms are similar to those of soda and potash.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000005_000002.wav|The glottis may be inflamed, and if there is danger of asphyxia, tracheotomy may have to be performed.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000004_000002.wav|They are not dissipated by heat, and give a violet colour to the deoxidizing flame of the blowpipe.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000020_000000.wav|seventeen.--CHLORATE OF POTASSIUM, etc|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000006_000001.wav|It is also found as 'washing soda.'|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000048_000004.wav|Harsh, dry, yellow skin, purpuric spots with ecchymoses under the skin and mucous membranes, retention or suppression of urine, delirium, convulsions, coma, and death.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000050_000001.wav|Oil should not be given.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000048_000007.wav|The inhalation of the fumes of phosphorus, as in making vermin killers, etc, gives rise to 'phossy jaw.'|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000042_000002.wav|It will be recognized by the blue colour which it gives with starch.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000050_000002.wav|Sulphate and carbonate of magnesium, mucilaginous drinks.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000037_000000.wav|nineteen.--IODINE-IODIDE OF POTASSIUM|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/688/15446/688_15446_000002_000001.wav|Inflammation may have extended to larynx.|688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000027_000011.wav|He refuses to be alone.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000022_000000.wav|It was now fully night fall, and a thick humid fog hung over the city, soon ending in a settled and heavy rain.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000016_000002.wav|Still all were distinguished by a certain sodden swarthiness of complexion, a filmy dimness of eye, and pallor and compression of lip.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000014_000001.wav|These were known by their coats and pantaloons of black or brown, made to sit comfortably, with white cravats and waistcoats, broad solid looking shoes, and thick hose or gaiters.--They had all slightly bald heads, from which the right ears, long used to pen holding, had an odd habit of standing off on end.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000026_000005.wav|Horrible filth festered in the dammed up gutters. The whole atmosphere teemed with desolation.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000020_000006.wav|Hurriedly putting on an overcoat, and seizing my hat and cane, I made my way into the street, and pushed through the crowd in the direction which I had seen him take; for he had already disappeared. With some little difficulty I at length came within sight of him, approached, and followed him closely, yet cautiously, so as not to attract his attention.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000022_000007.wav|By and bye he passed into a cross street, which, although densely filled with people, was not quite so much thronged as the main one he had quitted.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000026_000007.wav|Once more he strode onward with elastic tread.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000020_000004.wav|I felt singularly aroused, startled, fascinated.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000018_000001.wav|All was dark yet splendid-as that ebony to which has been likened the style of Tertullian.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000024_000002.wav|At no moment did he see that I watched him.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000014_000003.wav|Theirs was the affectation of respectability;--if indeed there be an affectation so honorable.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000026_000004.wav|By the dim light of an accidental lamp, tall, antique, worm eaten, wooden tenements were seen tottering to their fall, in directions so many and capricious that scarce the semblance of a passage was discernible between them. The paving stones lay at random, displaced from their beds by the rankly growing grass.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000026_000006.wav|Yet, as we proceeded, the sounds of human life revived by sure degrees, and at length large bands of the most abandoned of a London populace were seen reeling to and fro. The spirits of the old man again flickered up, as a lamp which is near its death hour.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000026_000003.wav|It was the most noisome quarter of London, where every thing wore the worst impress of the most deplorable poverty, and of the most desperate crime.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000023_000001.wav|The rain fell fast; the air grew cool; and the people were retiring to their homes.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000021_000001.wav|He was short in stature, very thin, and apparently very feeble.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000020_000005.wav|"How wild a history," I said to myself, "is written within that bosom!" Then came a craving desire to keep the man in view-to know more of him.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000016_000006.wav|Of the first grade the leading features are long locks and smiles; of the second frogged coats and frowns.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000016_000000.wav|The gamblers, of whom I descried not a few, were still more easily recognisable.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000022_000008.wav|Here a change in his demeanor became evident.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000016_000005.wav|They seem to prey upon the public in two battalions-that of the dandies and that of the military men.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000020_000002.wav|I well remember that my first thought, upon beholding it, was that Retzch, had he viewed it, would have greatly preferred it to his own pictural incarnations of the fiend.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000022_000011.wav|A second turn brought us into a square, brilliantly lighted, and overflowing with life.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000021_000000.wav|I had now a good opportunity of examining his person.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8592/285135/8592_285135_000022_000014.wav|He urged his way steadily and perseveringly.|8592
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000005_000001.wav|john Wickliffe, a secular priest, educated at Oxford, began in the latter end of Edward the third. to spread the doctrine of reformation by his discourses, sermons, and writings; and he made many disciples among men of all ranks and stations.|7445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000030_000006.wav|Hence the perpetual turbulence, disorders, factions, and civil wars of those times: hence the small regard paid to a character, or the opinion of the public: hence the large discretionary prerogatives of the crown, and the danger which might have ensued from the too great limitation of them.|7445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000001_000006.wav|But Richard, because he was detected in consulting and deliberating with the judges on the lawfulness of restoring the constitution, found his barons immediately in arms against him; was deprived of his liberty; saw his favorites, his ministers, his tutor, butchered before his face, or banished and attainted; and was obliged to give way to all this violence.|7445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000026_000004.wav|The court of France adhered to Clement, and was followed by its allies, the king of Castile and the king of Scotland: England of course was thrown into the other party, and declared for Urban.|7445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000030_000000.wav|This preamble contains a true picture of the state of the kingdom.|7445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000001_000000.wav|On comparing the conduct and events of this reign with those of the preceding, we shall find equal reason to admire Edward and to blame Richard; but the circumstance of opposition, surely, will not lie in the strict regard paid by the former to national privileges, and the neglect of them by the latter.|7445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000000_000001.wav|But after making all proper allowances, he still appears to have been a weak prince, and unfit for government, less for want of natural parts and capacity, than of solid judgment and a good education.|7445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000026_000002.wav|The French cardinals, as soon as they recovered their liberty, fled from Rome, and protesting against the forced election, chose Robert, son of the count of Geneva, who took the name of Clement the seventh., and resided at Avignon.|7445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000030_000003.wav|They wore public badges, by which their confederacy was distinguished.|7445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7445/94526/7445_94526_000026_000006.wav|But this circumstance, though it weakened the papal authority, had not so great an effect as might naturally be imagined.|7445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000034_000000.wav|"He may, and then again he may not; you can't be sure of it.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000028_000001.wav|After watching your performance Saturday-seeing you soak a batter in the ribs, and then hand out free passes enough to force a run-I came to realize what control means.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000014_000000.wav|Phil got away from the others as soon as he could, and hurried home to brood over it.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000034_000001.wav|If you'd only spent your time with me, I would have been willing to act as second string pitcher, and you would not have been crowded out.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000026_000000.wav|"Oh, I don't know.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000015_000001.wav|When practice time came after school was over, he put on his suit and appeared upon the field, but soon complained that he was not feeling well, and departed.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000007_000000.wav|So many persons wished to shake hands with Rodney Grant that he laughingly protested, saying they would put his "wing out of commission." Suddenly perceiving Phil, the Texan pushed aside those between them, sprang forward and placed a hand on Springer's shoulder, crying:|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000016_000002.wav|When he arrived at school, a few minutes before time for the morning session to begin, Grant was waiting for him.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000031_000003.wav|It makes me tired!"|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000044_000000.wav|"Yes; lost it, or-or something," Roy replied stumblingly.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000046_000001.wav|She doesn't quite know herself.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000049_000002.wav|Do you know, lots of times we're liable to misjudge some one until something happens to show us just the sort of a person he is."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000008_000002.wav|I owe what little I know about pitching to Springer.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000045_000000.wav|"How did she happen to lul lose it?"|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000001.wav|"It does, does it?|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000028_000000.wav|"Not quite.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000006.wav|This fellow Grant is practically an outsider; he doesn't belong in Oakdale. He's a presuming cub, too-always pushing himself forward.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000048_000002.wav|Perhaps mother mislaid it somewhere.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000029_000002.wav|When I put the ball over, they pup pounded it."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000004.wav|I knew the time would come when you'd be mighty sore with yourself.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000035_000000.wav|"I suppose I did.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000002_000000.wav|At the close of the game there was another boy on the field who was quite as glum and downcast as Hooker himself.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000002_000001.wav|This was Phil Springer, who remained seated on the bench while his team mates and a portion of the enthusiastic crowd swarmed, cheering, around Grant and lifted him to their shoulders.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000019_000001.wav|"You caught it sitting on the bench during the last four innings of that game, I reckon.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000014_000001.wav|It had been a hard blow, and he had stood up poorly beneath it.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000022_000001.wav|In a measure he did relieve his feelings by expressing his opinion of Herbert Rackliff, who was brazenly seeking to ignore the open disdain of his schoolmates.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000049_000000.wav|"Well, say, Hooker," exclaimed Phil, "you're all right!|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000018_000000.wav|"I-I took a walk," faltered Phil, flushing.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000023_000000.wav|Shortly before dark, Phil, chancing to take a cross cut from Middle Street to High Street, observed Roy Hooker pelting away with a baseball at the white shingle on the barn.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000017_000000.wav|"What became of you after breakfast, partner?" questioned Rod.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000005_000000.wav|He was jealous-bitterly so; but he forced himself to join the cheering crowd and to make a half hearted pretense of rejoicing.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000003_000001.wav|Barely had he started, however, when something brought him to a halt, and beneath his breath he muttered:|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000010_000000.wav|"Oh, thanks," said Phil, weakly returning the warm grasp of Rod's strong hand.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000022_000002.wav|He did not come out for practice that night, and Grant explained to the others that Phil was knocked out by a cold, whereupon Cooper chucklingly remarked that he thought it was Barville that had knocked Springer out.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000019_000000.wav|"Got a cold, eh?" said Rodney sympathetically.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000050_000000.wav|"Yes; I suppose that's right," said Roy.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000024_000001.wav|"I thought perhaps it was Rackliff.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000002.wav|Well, say, didn't you realize what you were doing while you were coaching that fellow?|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000008_000000.wav|"Here's my mentor.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000023_000001.wav|Drawing near, Phil asked Roy what he was doing, and the latter, startled and perspiring, looked round.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000022_000000.wav|All that day Springer sought to avoid talking baseball with any of the fellows, for invariably they spoke of Grant's surprisingly successful performance; and when they did so something like a sickening poison seemed to bubble within the jealous youth, who told himself that he could not long continue to join in this praise, but must soon betray himself by bursting forth into a tirade against the Texan.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000049_000001.wav|I didn't suppose you'd stoop to work, even under such circumstances.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000004_000000.wav|"That won't do.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000039_000000.wav|"Working?|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000044_000002.wav|She'd saved up a little at a time to buy material for a new dress."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000019_000002.wav|I remember now that you didn't even put on your sweater."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000003_000000.wav|Presently he realized that this behavior on his part must attract attention the moment the excitement relaxed, and he got up with the intention of hurrying at once to the gymnasium.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000013_000000.wav|"You're very kind, Grant," was Springer's only response.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000012_000000.wav|"Don't you feel so bad about it, old partner," he said.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000048_000003.wav|Anyhow, it's gone, and I'm going to try to earn enough to replace it."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000050_000001.wav|But he did not look Phil in the eyes.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000029_000001.wav|"Control is necessary," he admitted; "but it isn't everything.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000008_000001.wav|Only for him, I'd never been able to do it.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000043_000000.wav|"Lost it?"|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000011_000000.wav|Under cover of the chatter, joking and laughter, while they were changing their clothes in the dressing room of the gymnasium, Grant, observing the dejection Springer could not hide to save himself, again uttered some friendly words of encouragement.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000037_000000.wav|"How did that happen?"|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000034_000002.wav|You put your foot in it, all right, old man."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000008_000003.wav|Let's give him a cheer, fellows."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000008.wav|You won't be in it hereafter; he'll be the whole show."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000046_000000.wav|"I can't tell.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000014_000004.wav|He was sorry now that he had ever spent his time teaching the Texan to pitch, and it occurred to him that the same amount of coaching and encouragement bestowed upon Hooker would not have resulted in the training of a man to outdo him upon the slab and push him into the background.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000014_000003.wav|In spite of himself, this thought, aided by other unpleasant contemplations, awoke in his heart a sensation of envious resentment toward Rodney.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000039_000002.wav|I didn't know you ever did such a thing."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000012_000002.wav|You'll make up for that next time."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000035_000002.wav|You weren't at school to day."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000048_000000.wav|"But it couldn't be a robbery," protested Hooker quickly and earnestly. "Nobody would come into the house and take money out of that drawer-nobody around here.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000038_000000.wav|"Working."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000030_000002.wav|"They didn't seem to pound Grant much, and he appeared able to put the ball just about where he wanted to."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000024_000000.wav|"Oh, is it you?" said Roy.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000035_000001.wav|But let's not talk about it.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000030_000000.wav|"But they wouldn't if it hadn't been for----" Choking, as he realized what he had so nearly said, Hooker bit his tongue.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000031_000002.wav|Grant, Grant, Grant!|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000044_000001.wav|"It wasn't much, but it was all she had.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000020_000000.wav|"Yes, I guess that's when I got it," agreed Phil.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000005_000002.wav|For Phil had long entertained the ambition of becoming the first pitcher on the academy nine, and this year he had been fully confident until the present hour that the goal he sought was his beyond dispute.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000010_000001.wav|"I didn't do anything-except blow up."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000029_000000.wav|Phil felt his face burn.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000033_000001.wav|"He may get his some time."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000026_000001.wav|I'm getting so I can hit that shingle once in a while, and use a curve, too.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000047_000000.wav|"That sounds like a robbery instead of a loss."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000040_000000.wav|"Well," said Roy slowly, "this was a case of necessity, you see."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000039_000001.wav|How careless!|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000048_000001.wav|You never hear of such a thing happening around this town.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000021_000000.wav|"Well, you've got to shake it in time for the game with Clearport. That's when you'll even things up."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000026_000002.wav|I couldn't seem to hit it with a straight ball when I began."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000031_000000.wav|"Grant!" snarled Phil furiously.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000032_000005.wav|I'm going to talk plain to you.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000014_000002.wav|Thinking the matter over in solitude, he was forced into a realization of the fact that he lacked, in a great measure, the confidence and steadiness characteristic of Rodney Grant, and he could not put aside the conviction that it was Grant, the fellow he had coached, who was destined to become the star pitcher of the nine.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000009_000000.wav|They did so, but that cheer lacked the spontaneous enthusiasm and genuine admiration which had been thrown into the cheering for Grant, something which Springer did not fail to note.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000025_000001.wav|"You can't get much good out of that."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281471/8887_281471_000025_000000.wav|"That's a hard way to practice," said Springer.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000029_000002.wav|You've been wonderfully successful in coaching Grant, and all the time you were training him to relieve you in a measure when the hardest work should come.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000011_000000.wav|"Yes," said the captain, "I'm afraid that was the principal trouble-you didn't have much heart for it.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000007_000002.wav|It will be ten minutes yet before school begins."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000003_000000.wav|PLAIN TALK FROM ELIOT.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000013_000002.wav|You've been sulking, old fellow.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000007_000000.wav|"Glad to hear it," said Roger, slipping his arm through Springer's. "Come on, let's walk over yonder to the fence.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000003.wav|You and he were close friends, and, knowing how you must feel to be batted out, he was loath to go in.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000016_000000.wav|"I haven't been giving him---- What has he said to you, Eliot?|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000004.wav|You must realize it was a mighty lucky thing for us that we had a pitcher to take your place.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000044_000001.wav|It did not take him long to shed his outer clothes and get into a baseball suit.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000031_000000.wav|Roger was vexed, but he continued to maintain his calm manner.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000046_000000.wav|"Look at Hook!" whooped Chipper Cooper.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000028_000001.wav|Eliot went on, steadily and earnestly:|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000006.wav|Even old stagers get into that condition sometimes when pitching, and it's not an infrequent occurrence that a slabman who is not thought so good steps in and stops the slaughter."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000027_000000.wav|"Those words betray you, my boy.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000030_000000.wav|"I don't believe it would hurt his feelings a great deal."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000033_000002.wav|There'll be a practice game to night; we'll play against a picked up scrub team.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000032_000000.wav|"I don't suppose the fellows have much confidence in me now."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000031_000003.wav|Now, I'm your friend, old fellow, and I want you to listen to me and take my advice.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000000.wav|"Now, that isn't generous, and you know it.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000012_000000.wav|"The baby!" exclaimed Springer resentfully.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000010_000000.wav|"I know that," said Phil, poking his toe into an ant's nest and declining to meet Roger's steady, level gaze; "but, really, I-I was feeling pretty rotten, you know, and I didn't have mum much heart for practice."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000047_000000.wav|Eliot was at bat, and the umpire had just called the second strike on him.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000002.wav|I've not sized it up as anything of the sort.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000043_000000.wav|Nevertheless, when he reached home by a roundabout course, and found it impossible to dismiss thoughts of the boys engaged in that practice game, he eventually decided that he was a fool.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000033_000003.wav|Now, I want to see you at the field in a suit and ready to do your part."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000049_000000.wav|Apparently not at all discomposed by these remarks, Hooker continued steadily about his business, and presently, rousing a shout of surprise, he succeeded in fanning the captain of the nine.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000040_000000.wav|It was a blow below the belt, and, in spite of himself, Phil could not help showing the effect.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000025_000000.wav|"He certainly did amazingly well, for which he generously gave you all the credit."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000011_000002.wav|I hardly thought it of you, Phil; I didn't expect you to play the baby."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000045_000000.wav|The game was in the second inning, with the regular team at bat and Hooker pitching for the scrub, which was made up partly of grammar school boys.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000054_000001.wav|"You got a look, all right. Oh, say!|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000021_000001.wav|We were all sorry to see you get your bumps and lose control, and I don't believe any one was any sorrier than Grant himself; for, somehow, I've come firmly to believe that he's on the square.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000020_000000.wav|Weakly Springer sought to protest against this, but stopped in the midst of it, fully comprehending how feeble his words were.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000052_000003.wav|There's more pitch in him than you can find in a big chew of spruce gum."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000037_000000.wav|"I hear Eliot has expressed his estimation of you and Rod Grant."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000021_000000.wav|"It's folly, Springer," said Eliot, "sheer childish folly.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000009_000000.wav|"As a rule," he began, "you've been a great enthusiast over baseball, and I didn't think you'd let a slight cold keep you away from practice. Exercise is one of the best remedies for a cold, if a person takes care of himself when he's through exercising."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000021_000002.wav|He was reluctant about going on to the slab when I called him."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000056_000000.wav|Roger Eliot lingered to speak a word to Hooker, and Springer, still unnoticed, plainly heard what he said.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000017_000000.wav|"Not a word."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000027_000001.wav|You've been trapped by the green eyed monster.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000045_000001.wav|Everybody seemed to be watching Roy, and Phil walked on to the field and toward one of the benches without attracting attention.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000029_000001.wav|By and by we'll have to play two games a week, and some of those games come so close together that one pitcher alone, unless he has an arm of iron, can't do all the flinging.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000008_000001.wav|Leaning against the fence, the captain of the nine faced his companion.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000007_000001.wav|I want to have a little chin with you.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000054_000003.wav|Look out for him, Roddy, or he'll add you to his list.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000013_000003.wav|It doesn't pay, Phil; you're hurting yourself far more than any one else."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000046_000001.wav|"He's actually trying to strike Roger out!"|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000019_000001.wav|For some time before that game you and Grant were very chummy; you were nearly always together, so that everybody noticed it.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000054_000000.wav|"You wanted to see it," yelled Cooper.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000028_000000.wav|The color mounted into Phil's cheeks and slowly receded, leaving him pale, and still with downcast eyes.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000052_000001.wav|"He'll get you if you don't.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000036_000001.wav|Having a chance to speak privately with Springer, he said:|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000031_000005.wav|You'll have plenty of chances to show the stuff you're made of."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000004_000000.wav|"How's your cold, Phil?"|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000035_000001.wav|And Grant, having begun to feel piqued, made no further advances.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000054_000002.wav|Where did this new Christy Mathewson come from, anyhow?|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000029_000000.wav|"We need two pitchers-we must have them if we hope to make a decent showing in the series.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000029_000004.wav|But if you continue to sulk, as you have for the past few days, you'll lose the sympathy of your teammates; but you won't hurt Grant-otherwise than his feelings."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000013_000001.wav|I made up my mind to speak plainly to you, and I'm going to do so-for your own good.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000026_000000.wav|"I suppose he'll be the whole shooting match, now."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000047_000001.wav|There were no runners on the sacks.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000005_000000.wav|It was Eliot who asked the question, and Springer, pausing with one foot on the academy steps, replied:|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000055_000000.wav|Rodney Grant did not strike out, but, nevertheless, he failed to meet one of Hooker's shoots squarely, and the grammar school shortstop gathered in an easy grounder and threw to first for the third put out.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000054_000004.wav|List' to my warning."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000019_000000.wav|"It was apparent to the dullest, Phil.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000053_000000.wav|Crane, setting his teeth, made two fouls, and then sent Chipper into real convulsions by whiffing at a high one which Roy whistled across his shoulders with surprising accuracy.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000005.wav|Barville had you going, Phil, and you couldn't seem to steady down.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000006_000000.wav|"Oh, it's some bub better, I think."|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000008_000000.wav|Together they walked to the fence at the back of the yard, pausing beneath one of the tall old trees which was putting forth tender green leaves.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000031_000001.wav|"You ought to know him better than any one else around here; you ought to know whether he's at all sensitive or not.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000023_000001.wav|If the score had been heavy against us at the time, some fellows might have fancied Grant's reluctance was prompted by fear and a disinclination to shoulder another man's load in the first game he pitched.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000036_000000.wav|At noon that day Roy Hooker returned to school, bringing a written excuse from his mother.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000011_000001.wav|You lost heart in the game, and you haven't braced up yet.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000015_000000.wav|"Is that the reason why you've been giving Rod Grant the cold shoulder?"|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000038_000000.wav|Phil started.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000034_000000.wav|"All right," agreed Phil.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000022_000000.wav|"Perhaps that was because he was afraid he'd get his, too," muttered Springer.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000051_000000.wav|A moment later Hooker pulled him handsomely on a wide one, and the first strike was called, Cooper being again awakened to a wondering, whooping state of merriment.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000031_000002.wav|I'll tell you honestly, if I were in his place to day, I'd feel it.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000042_000001.wav|For he himself had vainly sought to put aside the depressing and unnerving conviction that in steadiness, stamina and self confidence, Rodney Grant was his superior; something he had determined never to breathe to any one else, but which the keen judgment of the team captain had found out.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000049_000001.wav|Roger stepped back from the plate, after striking out, and stood there gazing at Roy, with one of his strange, rare smiles.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000052_000002.wav|Who said Hooky couldn't pitch?|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000033_000001.wav|Unless they're chumps, they know every pitcher has his off days.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000057_000000.wav|"Perhaps we've made a mistake in sizing you up, Roy, old fellow.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8887/281472/8887_281472_000050_000000.wav|Crane followed.|8887
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1175/126221/1175_126221_000003_000000.wav|Deprived of the objects of both intellect and emotion, he could not proceed to his work.|1175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000015_000001.wav|And if any one comes into the house, it's into the room he'll slip, not to see them; and as to work, he has the garden dug to bits, and the whole place smeared with cow dung; and such a crop as was never seen; and the alders all plaited till they look grand.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000015_000004.wav|A doctor believes this boy to be mad.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000015_000000.wav|A woman near Gort, in Galway, says: 'There is a boy, now, of the Cloran's; but I wouldn't for the world let them think I spoke of him; it's two years since he came from America, and since that time he never went to Mass, or to church, or to fairs, or to market, or to stand on the cross roads, or to hurling, or to nothing.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000015_000005.wav|Those that are at times 'away,' as it is called, know all things, but are afraid to speak.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000016_000002.wav|When the king asked him who he was, he said, 'I am your candlestick.' I do not remember where I have read this story, and I have, maybe, half forgotten it.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000017_000008.wav|The people of the waters have been in all ages beautiful and changeable and lascivious, or beautiful and wise and lonely, for water is everywhere the signature of the fruitfulness of the body and of the fruitfulness of dreams.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/292347/8459_292347_000012_000000.wav|NOTES|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/292348/8459_292348_000003_000000.wav|MONGAN THINKS OF HIS PAST GREATNESS.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/292348/8459_292348_000006_000000.wav|I have made the Seven Lights, the constellation of the Bear, lament for the theft of the Rose, and I have made the Dragon, the constellation Draco, the guardian of the Rose, because these constellations move about the pole of the heavens, the ancient Tree of Life in many countries, and are often associated with the Tree of Life in mythology.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/292348/8459_292348_000005_000000.wav|The Rose has been for many centuries a symbol of spiritual love and supreme beauty.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/292348/8459_292348_000005_000007.wav|I have read somewhere that a stone engraved with a Celtic god, who holds what looks like a rose in one hand, has been found somewhere in England; but I cannot find the reference, though I certainly made a note of it.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/292348/8459_292348_000001_000001.wav|I have used them in this book more as principles of the mind than as actual personages.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000002_000002.wav|Besides, one might suppose that books, like their authors, improve by travel their having crossed the sea is, with us, so great a distinction.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000016_000000.wav|"Again, in estimating the merit of certain poems, whether they be Ossian's or Macpherson's can surely be of little consequence, yet, in order to prove their worthlessness, mr w has expended many pages in the controversy.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000012_000002.wav|He who regards it directly and intensely sees, it is true, the star, but it is the star without a ray while he who surveys it less inquisitively is conscious of all for which the star is useful to us below its brilliancy and its beauty.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000005_000000.wav|"As I am speaking of poetry, it will not be amiss to touch slightly upon the most singular heresy in its modern history the heresy of what is called, very foolishly, the Lake School.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000003_000006.wav|But, in fact, the 'Paradise Regained' is little, if at all, inferior to the 'Paradise Lost,' and is only supposed so to be because men do not like epics, whatever they may say to the contrary, and, reading those of Milton in their natural order, are too much wearied with the first to derive any pleasure from the second.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000016_000005.wav|We shall see what better he, in his own person, has to offer.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000000_000001.wav|Believing only a portion of my former volume to be worthy a second edition that small portion I thought it as well to include in the present book as to republish by itself.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000025_000000.wav|"Of Coleridge, I can not speak but with reverence.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000022_000002.wav|Here is an extract from his preface:-|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000010_000000.wav|"'Trifles, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below,'|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000002_000000.wav|"You are aware of the great barrier in the path of an American writer. He is read, if at all, in preference to the combined and established wit of the world.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000014_000001.wav|With the increase of his judgment the light which should make it apparent has faded away.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000026_000002.wav|I imagine to myself the scowl of your spiritual eye upon the profanity of that scurrilous Ursa Major.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000002_000003.wav|Our antiquaries abandon time for distance; our very fops glance from the binding to the bottom of the title page, where the mystic characters which spell London, Paris, or Genoa, are precisely so many letters of recommendation.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000022_000000.wav|"But there are occasions, dear B, there are occasions when even Wordsworth is reasonable.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000019_000000.wav|Secondly:|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000009_000001.wav|The diffidence, then, with which I venture to dispute their authority would be overwhelming did I not feel, from the bottom of my heart, that learning has little to do with the imagination intellect with the passions or age with poetry.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000001_000003.wav|Another than yourself might here observe, 'Shakespeare is in possession of the world's good opinion, and yet Shakespeare is the greatest of poets.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000016_000003.wav|But worse still: that he may bear down every argument in favor of these poems, he triumphantly drags forward a passage, in his abomination with which he expects the reader to sympathize.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000014_000002.wav|His judgment consequently is too correct.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000001_000005.wav|A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000022_000001.wav|Even Stamboul, it is said, shall have an end, and the most unlucky blunders must come to a conclusion.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000008_000001.wav|In such case I should no doubt be tempted to think of the devil in 'Melmoth.' who labors indefatigably, through three octavo volumes, to accomplish the destruction of one or two souls, while any common devil would have demolished one or two thousand.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000001_000000.wav|"It has been said that a good critique on a poem may be written by one who is no poet himself.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000011_000001.wav|As regards the greater truths, men oftener err by seeking them at the bottom than at the top; Truth lies in the huge abysses where wisdom is sought not in the palpable palaces where she is found.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000021_000000.wav|"Now, we have no doubt this is all true: we will believe it, indeed we will, mr w Is it sympathy for the sheep you wish to excite?|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000018_000000.wav|A few sad tears does Betty shed.... She pats the pony, where or when She knows not.... happy Betty Foy! Oh, Johnny, never mind the doctor!'|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000000_000000.wav|"DEAR b........|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000003_000005.wav|Perhaps an inadvertent word has descended to posterity.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000013_000000.wav|"As to Wordsworth, I have no faith in him.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000021_000001.wav|I love a sheep from the bottom of my heart.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000006_000002.wav|Therefore the end of instruction should be happiness; and happiness is another name for pleasure;-therefore the end of instruction should be pleasure: yet we see the above mentioned opinion implies precisely the reverse.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000025_000001.wav|His towering intellect! his gigantic power!|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000001_000002.wav|On this account, and because there are but few B 's in the world, I would be as much ashamed of the world's good opinion as proud of your own.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000014_000000.wav|"He was to blame in wearing away his youth in contemplation with the end of poetizing in his manhood.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000024_000000.wav|"Yet, let not mr w despair; he has given immortality to a wagon, and the bee Sophocles has transmitted to eternity a sore toe, and dignified a tragedy with a chorus of turkeys.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000000_000002.wav|I have therefore herein combined 'Al Aaraaf' and 'Tamerlane' with other poems hitherto unprinted.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000026_000004.wav|Think of all that is airy and fairy like, and then of all that is hideous and unwieldy; think of his huge bulk, the Elephant! and then and then think of the 'Tempest'--the 'Midsummer Night's Dream'--Prospero Oberon-and Titania!|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000029_000000.wav|"To sum up this long rigmarole, I have, dear B-, what you, no doubt, perceive, for the metaphysical poets as poets, the most sovereign contempt.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000016_000006.wav|Imprimis:|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000004_000000.wav|"I dare say Milton preferred 'Comus' to either . if so justly.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000026_000003.wav|Think of poetry, dear B, think of poetry, and then think of dr Samuel Johnson!|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000014_000003.wav|This may not be understood but the old Goths of Germany would have understood it, who used to debate matters of importance to their State twice, once when drunk, and once when sober sober that they might not be deficient in formality-drunk lest they should be destitute of vigor.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000003_000001.wav|I think the notion that no poet can form a correct estimate of his own writings is another.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000005_000001.wav|Some years ago I might have been induced, by an occasion like the present, to attempt a formal refutation of their doctrine; at present it would be a work of supererogation.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000009_000000.wav|"Against the subtleties which would make poetry a study not a passion it becomes the metaphysician to reason but the poet to protest. Yet Wordsworth and Coleridge are men in years; the one imbued in contemplation from his childhood; the other a giant in intellect and learning.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285173/8459_285173_000029_000001.wav|That they have followers proves nothing|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285137/8459_285137_000033_000008.wav|The bloody shirt and handkerchief confirmed the idea suggested by the bullet; for the blood on examination proved to be capital claret, and no more. When I came to think of these things, and also of the late increase of liberality and expenditure on the part of mr Goodfellow, I entertained a suspicion which was none the less strong because I kept it altogether to myself.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285137/8459_285137_000034_000001.wav|The result was that, after some days, I came across an old dry well, the mouth of which was nearly hidden by brambles; and here, at the bottom, I discovered what I sought.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285137/8459_285137_000034_000000.wav|In the meantime, I instituted a rigorous private search for the corpse of mr Shuttleworthy, and, for good reasons, searched in quarters as divergent as possible from those to which mr Goodfellow conducted his party.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285137/8459_285137_000033_000007.wav|If it were found in the animal then, after having made its exit, I saw clearly that it must have been deposited by the person who found it.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8459/285137/8459_285137_000035_000001.wav|Upon this hint I acted.|8459
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000014_000003.wav|On the following day her appointment was officially announced, and she was overwhelmed with proffers of assistance from all sides.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000016_000000.wav|Without farewells, quietly and at night, seen off only by a few intimate relatives, the little group of nurses started on their mission-the first one where women were to care for the soldiers who had fallen in war.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000014_000002.wav|Offer and request crossed each other in the mails.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000018_000000.wav|It may well be thought that her heart sank when she saw the enormity of the task that lay before her, for she had been sent to bring order from chaos, plenty from want, comfort from torture and cleanliness from wholesale filth.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000008_000003.wav|This was the state of affairs when Florence Nightingale became the Superintendent of the Home.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000018_000001.wav|She had to contend not only with these awful conditions, but with the dislike and distrust of the medical officers with whom she was to work, who resented the fact that a woman had been sent out to reorganize what they considered a part of their department, and who doubted, because she was a woman, that she would be capable of doing so efficiently.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000004_000001.wav|Her father was William Nightingale, an English gentleman, and her elder sister, Parthenope, also took her name from the place where she was born, for Parthenope is the ancient term for Naples.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000007.wav|All the food, we are told, consisted of beef and vegetables boiled together in one huge caldron, into which new supplies were thrown indiscriminately as fast as they were delivered.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000006_000001.wav|Sick people were expected to be cared for by their relatives; hospitals were inefficient and badly run, and the comforts of the modern sickroom were unknown.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000009_000000.wav|In a very short time the Home was completely changed.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000019_000001.wav|They were laid groaning in hallways and on the bare ground until such time as the doctors could look after them.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000029_000000.wav|She returned to England quietly as she had left, although a British Government placed a battleship at her service-and she lived in England engaged in useful and philanthropic work for a great many years.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000019_000000.wav|And when she arrived there was no time to spend in preliminary planning, for active fighting had been going on at the front and the wounded from recent battles were pouring in, adding to the confusion that already existed.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000005_000000.wav|The Nightingale family did not remain long in Italy, and soon after the birth of his youngest child William Nightingale, with his wife and two little daughters, returned to England where the two girls spent their childhood in a rambling old house in Derbyshire with many traditions and stories attached to it.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000026_000002.wav|She did not die, however, but recovered to take up again her duties as chief nurse and organizer.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000010_000002.wav|The theater of war soon shifted to the Crimean Peninsula where the British and French laid siege to the town of Sebastopol which was Russia's most important fortress and chief base of supplies.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000001.wav|With the constant flood of wounded men, and men who were dying of dysentery and cholera, with no medical supplies and little food, with no nurses and only a few doctors, the condition of the British wounded soon became terrible beyond description.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000009_000001.wav|Miss Nightingale had personally visited the former subscribers, and secured once more their help and patronage.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000027_000001.wav|After most of the men had left and only a few remained she still worked faithfully to serve them, establishing "reading huts" and places of recreation such as the Red Cross and the y m c a established in France and Belgium in the course of the World War some sixty years later.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000024_000000.wav|She had gone to Scutari in eighteen fifty four.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000014_000000.wav|Right then a curious thing happened.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000029_000001.wav|With a fund of about two hundred fifty thousand dollars she founded the Nightingale Home for the proper training of nurses, a fund that she could have doubled or trebled had she so desired, or if the needs of the home had required it.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000005_000001.wav|Here Florence conceived a love for nursing and used to tend sick animals in the neighborhood and when she grew older, to sit up with and cheer the sick among the cottagers.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000013_000000.wav|Then the newspapers began calling for English women to go to the Crimea and care for the sick, and Florence Nightingale heard the call.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000006.wav|There were no conveniences of any kind and many men died of exhaustion because no food adequate for the sick could be prepared.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000015_000000.wav|A large number of patriotic women volunteered to aid her, but only a very few possessed the necessary qualifications for such a task.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000026_000000.wav|Then she fell ill with Crimean fever, and through the army the news was received with more consternation than a severe defeat.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000010_000003.wav|Before the walls of Sebastopol there took place severe fighting, which continued until bitter winter rendered further campaigning impossible.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000012_000002.wav|On one occasion, we are told, a consignment of shoes for the soldiers turned out to be in women's sizes.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000004.wav|Vermin crawled over the floors, over the walls and over the bodies of the helpless men.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000022_000001.wav|The doctors who had been her opponents soon looked up to her and became her devoted friends, and the men who had been through such terrible sufferings thought she was indeed an angel from heaven, and, as she passed down the long wards would furtively kiss her shadow as it fell across their blankets.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000010_000000.wav|Then war broke out between England, France and Turkey on the one side and Russia on the other,--a war that was brought about among other reasons by the desire of the Russian Czar to seize and hold the port of Constantinople.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000024_000002.wav|One of her biographers tells us that when she entered the trenches she was warned by a sentinel to go no further, because the enemy had the place under close watch and would certainly open fire when they beheld a group of people at that particular point.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000013_000001.wav|She wrote a letter to Sydney Herbert who was Minister of War, volunteering to organize a body of nurses and go out to the Crimea to care for the wounded.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000005_000003.wav|Poor men used to come hat in hand to the old house requesting that Miss Florence spend a few hours with a sick wife or a young mother, and the Nightingales were kind enough and sensible enough to allow their daughter to do the work for which she had so evident an inclination.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000023_000002.wav|And the wonders she performed were heard of back in England, where her name became national.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000020_000000.wav|Then Florence Nightingale, hardly taking breath, plunged into the task that awaited her and sent her nurses to the quarters where they were most needed.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000003.wav|They were brought in with their uniforms covered with filth and blood, and were laid in long rows on the floors of the hospital where few cots were to be found.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000012_000001.wav|But owing to the inefficiency and red tape of the War Department, the supplies were not delivered, but lay rotting in warehouses and in the holds of vessels while men died for the want of them.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000017_000001.wav|From there they made their way to the seat of the war, and Miss Nightingale looked for the first time on the hospital where she was so soon to acquire immortal fame.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000005.wav|Rats gnawed the fingers of the wounded who were too weak to drive them away.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000008_000000.wav|This home, like many another benevolent institution in those times, was badly administered.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000012_000003.wav|Improper inspections resulted in high profits, for the army contractors made uniforms out of shoddy and leather accouterments from paper, filled the cores of hay bales with kale stocks and cheated the Government right and left without forbearance or conscience.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000027_000000.wav|When the war was ended Miss Nightingale remained at the Crimea until the last soldiers were sent home, and then, and not till then, she followed them.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000008_000001.wav|As it constantly showed a deficit, its friends had become discouraged in supporting it, and the subscriptions on which it lived had been falling off.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000006_000002.wav|As Florence grew older she thought a great deal about these things, and finally decided that she would do something which at that time was regarded almost as strange as if she had declared her intention of visiting the North Pole-she said she was going to become a professional trained nurse, and went abroad to study nursing on the Continent which was far ahead of England in such matters.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000014_000001.wav|The War Department had already decided that Miss Nightingale was the one person who could take charge of the reorganization of the hospitals in the Crimea, and had written a letter requesting her services.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000022_000002.wav|Many a time she took charge of cases that had been given up by the doctors, who turned their attention always to those whom they believed had a fighting chance for life, and she nursed them back to life with a patience and a tenderness that the doctors could not spare.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000020_000002.wav|They visited the quartermasters and obtained the supplies that had been tied up through faulty administration and through army red tape, and in a short time they had established a diet kitchen where several hundred sick and wounded men could have the food they required, food that would save their lives.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000008_000002.wav|The ladies who were compelled to remain there did not receive the care that they should have had, and were unhappy and dispirited.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000029_000002.wav|In the following years she was frequently consulted on hospital organization in the armies not only of Great Britain but of Continental nations as well.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000023_000000.wav|From the ships and warehouses there commenced to appear the comforts that sick men demanded-sheets and nightgowns, socks and pillows; in the place of the nauseous beef stew, the wounded began to get broths and jellies.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000008.wav|The bread was moldy and the beef too tough even for well men to eat.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000011_000000.wav|While the war was going on thousands of sick and wounded British soldiers were pouring into the base hospitals at Scutari, where no provision for their care had been made.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty five|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000002_000000.wav|FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000015_000001.wav|Of all that offered to go Miss Nightingale was only able to accept thirty that she considered would be capable of performing the severe tasks that lay ahead, for she knew only too well the grim welcome she would receive at the Crimea.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92935/7286_92935_000026_000001.wav|Men broke down and cried like children when they heard that Miss Nightingale lay at the point of death, and the Commander in Chief, Lord Raglan, rode through sleet and mud for hours to visit her personally.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000027_000000.wav|Washington praised her highly and before a large number of his officers and men, and more cheering reechoed through the ranks when he gave her the brevet rank of Captain in the American Army.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000020_000001.wav|It was a terribly hot day and many men in both the British and the American armies fell exhausted and even died from the heat of the sun|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000004_000001.wav|All the country was aflame, and rang with the stories of what happened at Lexington and Bunker Hill. Man after man from the village took his powder horn and musket and went off to enlist for the war, and Molly grew more and more restless as she saw them go.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000009_000002.wav|The letter ended by telling her to come to Trenton and live with her parents, for he would be able without doubt to get leave from his command and see her often.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000017_000002.wav|A far greater adventure lay before her, for she fell in with the American soldiers just as they commenced the severe battle of Monmouth.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000024_000003.wav|I'll take the place that my brave husband has left!" And running to the gun Molly commenced to load and fire so determinedly and skilfully that a gasp of amazement ran through the men that saw her.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000006_000000.wav|Molly consented with the utmost enthusiasm.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000002_000004.wav|She washed and scrubbed and scoured and baked from morning till night, and seemed to revel in the hard work that gave the needed exercise to her strong muscles.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000011_000000.wav|And now Molly found that there was something that she could do-namely, go and care for the wounded who were still lying where they had fallen on the field of battle.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000022_000001.wav|The sun had proved too much for him.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000020_000000.wav|john Hays was one of the cannoneers of Greene's artillery and he worked all day loading and firing his piece.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000024_000000.wav|"Leave the gun where it is.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000019_000000.wav|General Lee, however, proved to be a poor man for this task and his indecision and semi cowardice left Washington exposed to the brunt of the enemy's attack before he was prepared to meet it and against the intentions of the American commander.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000025_000002.wav|Before she left her cannon General Greene himself came over to where she stood and grasping her hand thanked her in the name of the American Army.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000019_000001.wav|The situation was saved by General Greene, who saw what had happened, changed his own plans and diverted the attack of the British to his own position from which he poured in a heavy artillery fire that caused them terrible losses.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000013_000003.wav|Molly had left and had taken with her a wounded American soldier whom she carried on her shoulder.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000018_000000.wav|This battle had considerable importance, as a comparatively large number of troops were engaged in it.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000017_000001.wav|Her first step in soldiering had been taken when she fired the cannon at the British in the preceding year.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000008_000000.wav|The tide of the struggle wavered and battles with the red coats were fought and won.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000003_000000.wav|Throughout her life Molly Hays had admired soldiers, and more than once she expressed herself in no undecided terms to the effect that she wished she were a man so that she could bear arms and wear a uniform, and be a soldier herself.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000001_000000.wav|MOLLY PITCHER|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000002_000001.wav|This young woman was named Molly Ludwig Hays, and was the wife of a barber who had been well known in the village.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000023_000002.wav|At this Molly sprang forward crying out:|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000021_000000.wav|All this time Molly Hays had been caring for the wounded and carrying water to the thirsty gunners, using for the purpose the bucket that was attached to her husband's cannon for cleaning purposes.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000007_000001.wav|Fate, thought Molly, had made a sad mistake, in making her a woman, for she knew that in spite of her petticoats she could soldier as well as the men,--and if she had only been a man she believed she could have risen to an important position in the army.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000028_000000.wav|And not only the Americans did her honor, but the French as well, for the Marquis de Lafayette with his own hand presented her with a purse of golden crowns.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000008_000002.wav|Molly hoped and waited, but for weeks at a time she went without word from her husband and did not know whether he were alive or dead.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000023_000000.wav|Molly stopped carrying water to care for her husband.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000008_000001.wav|It was hard to get the newspapers in those times and news of the armies and their doings was often weeks behind the actual events.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000021_000001.wav|Tirelessly she continued her efforts to care for the wounded and comfort the fighting soldiers, heedless of the bullets that came her way or of the general turmoil of battle.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000017_000000.wav|On a hot day of July in the following summer it chanced that Washington's forces were again not far away from Molly's home, and she took a difficult journey on the chance of seeing her husband.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000018_000002.wav|The English had been retreating from Philadelphia, across New Jersey, followed by Washington, and the American general had decided to launch an attack on the left wing of the retreating forces and General Lee was ordered by Washington to attack the English on the flank and hold them in battle until he himself could come up with the bulk of the American Army.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000002_000003.wav|She was not only handsome, but as strong as a man, able to carry a heavy meal sack on her shoulder; and one of the hardest workers that the town knew.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000015_000002.wav|And so they paid no attention to her.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000021_000002.wav|As the day wore on the men would greet her coming with: "Here comes Molly with her pitcher!" And gradually this was changed to "Here comes Molly Pitcher." And this was the name that history has adopted in regard to the brave woman for whom it was so used.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000002_000000.wav|In the days of the American Revolution a young woman lived as a servant in carlisle pennsylvania, with the family of General Irving, a retired British officer, who had fought in the French and Indian War and had seen a great deal of service.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000009_000001.wav|He had a letter from john Hays for Molly, and it not only told her that he was alive and well, but was in camp not far off from her former home in trenton new jersey, where her aged parents were still living.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000025_000000.wav|For many weary hours she toiled at the gun, until the British were driven back and the battle was claimed as an American victory.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000024_000002.wav|I am a gunner's wife and know how to load and fire a cannon.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000012_000002.wav|The brave girl dropped the pail of water that she had been carrying, picked up the fuse and applied it to the touch hole.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000026_000000.wav|This was not all the triumph she received, however, for word was soon brought to her that General Washington himself wished to see her.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000010_000000.wav|Soon the war itself was being fought in the neighborhood of her home. The Americans attacked the British near Princeton killing and capturing a large number.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000023_000001.wav|She bathed his head and moved him into the shade, returning to her duties just in time to hear General Knox give orders that the cannon be removed, because he had no other gunner cool enough and skilful enough to work it in its present exposed position.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000012_000001.wav|She studied the cannon carefully and it seemed to be aimed right at a group of the enemy that was approaching.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000015_000001.wav|As it was they thought she was only some country girl who had perhaps lost some relative in the recent battle and was carrying his dead body back to her home.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000005_000000.wav|At last her husband came to her, somewhat sheepishly, for he disliked to tell her the intention he had in his heart; but at length he made her understand that just because he was married was no reason why he should remain at home with the women; and he, too, intended to enlist that very day.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7286/92930/7286_92930_000024_000001.wav|I can fire it.|7286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000005_000004.wav|He was then carried to the market place, and exposed during some time as a malefactor.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000003_000000.wav|The consequence was that the choice of almost all the shires and burghs fell on Whig candidates.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000007_000000.wav|The Scottish Bishops, in great dismay, sent the Dean of Glasgow to plead the cause of their persecuted Church at Westminster.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000007_000008.wav|It was a Sunday; but to rabble a congregation of prelatists was held to be a work of necessity and mercy.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000002_000001.wav|It was absolutely necessary that he should determine by his own authority how that Convention which was to meet at Edinburgh should be chosen, and that he should assume the power of annulling some judgments and some statutes.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000007_000006.wav|But this proclamation, not being supported by troops, was very little regarded.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000000_000005.wav|They were for the most part strongly attached to the Church established by law.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000004_000004.wav|But a philosopher may perhaps be inclined to think the opposite extreme not less absurd, and may ask why religion should reject the aid of associations which exist in every nation sufficiently civilised to have a calendar, and which are found by experience to have a powerful and often a salutary effect.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000004_000003.wav|For nothing disgusted the rigid Covenanter more than the reverence paid by the prelatist to the ancient holidays of the Church. That such reverence may be carried to an absurd extreme is true.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000004_000002.wav|Unhappily throughout a large part of Scotland the clergy of the Established Church were, to use the phrase then common, rabbled. The morning of Christmas day was fixed for the commencement of these outrages.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000007_000002.wav|But, though he had, at the request of a large number of the noblemen and gentlemen of Scotland, taken on himself provisionally the executive administration of that kingdom, the means of maintaining order there were not at his command.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000004_000000.wav|Nor was it only at the elections that the popular feeling, so long and so severely compressed, exploded with violence.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000002_000000.wav|William saw that he must not think of paying to the laws of Scotland that scrupulous respect which he had wisely and righteously paid to the laws of England.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000007_000004.wav|It was vain to hope that mere words would quiet a nation which had not, in any age, been very amenable to control, and which was now agitated by hopes and resentments, such as great revolutions, following great oppressions, naturally engender.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000003_000001.wav|The defeated party complained loudly of foul play, of the rudeness of the populace, and of the partiality of the presiding magistrates; and these complaints were in many cases well founded.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000004_000007.wav|To these austere fanatics a holiday was an object of positive disgust and hatred.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000006_000003.wav|The graver Covenanters, while they applauded the fervour of their riotous brethren, were apprehensive that proceedings so irregular might give scandal, and learned, with especial concern, that here and there an Achan had disgraced the good cause by stooping to plunder the Canaanites whom he ought only to have smitten.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000001_000000.wav|In Scotland the course of events was very different.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000007_000003.wav|He had not a single regiment north of the Tweed, or indeed within many miles of that river.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000000_000004.wav|They rose up against the first magistrate merely in order to assert the supremacy of the law.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/149236/1323_149236_000002_000002.wav|He accordingly summoned to the parliament house several Lords who had been deprived of their honours by sentences which the general voice loudly condemned as unjust; and he took on himself to dispense with the Act which deprived Presbyterians of the elective franchise.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/138617/1323_138617_000009_000004.wav|Did I show you the particular causes of each individual in a collection of twenty particles of matter, I should think it very unreasonable, should you afterwards ask me, what was the cause of the whole twenty.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/138617/1323_138617_000009_000000.wav|In such a chain, too, or succession of objects, each part is caused by that which preceded it, and causes that which succeeds it.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/138617/1323_138617_000010_000001.wav|It is observed by arithmeticians, that the products of nine, compose always either nine, or some lesser product of nine, if you add together all the characters of which any of the former products is composed.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1323/138617/1323_138617_000003_000011.wav|There is, consequently, such a Being; that is, there is a Deity.|1323
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000014_000000.wav|He conversed with a colorless fluency|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000133_000000.wav|His eyes literally blazed with savage fire|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000018_000000.wav|He drew near to a desperate resolve|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000023_000000.wav|He flushed crimson|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000005_000000.wav|Haughtiness and arrogance were largely attributed to him|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000084_000000.wav|Her eyes dilated with pain and fear|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000065_000000.wav|He was born to a lively and intelligent patriotism|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000097_000000.wav|Her interest flagged|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000003_000000.wav|Half suffocated by his triumph|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000067_000000.wav|He was discreetly silent|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000017_000000.wav|He drank of the spirit of the universe|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000129_000000.wav|His curiosity is quenched|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000137_000000.wav|His face dismissed its shadow|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000066_000000.wav|He was dimly mistrustful of it|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000155_000000.wav|His mind echoed with words|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000111_000000.wav|Her step seemed to pity the grass it prest|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000075_000000.wav|He was quaking on the precipice of a bad bilious attack|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000098_000000.wav|Her life had dwarfed her ambitions|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000021_000000.wav|He felt the ironic rebound of her words|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000092_000000.wav|Her heart fluttered with a vague terror|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000081_000000.wav|Her blank gaze chilled you|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000074_000000.wav|He was nothing if not grandiloquent|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000033_000000.wav|He held his breath in admiring silence|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000127_000000.wav|His conscience leapt to the light|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000041_000000.wav|He mused a little while in grave thought|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000034_000000.wav|He laughed away my protestations|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000108_000000.wav|Her smile was linked with a sigh|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000171_000000.wav|His thoughts galloped|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000026_000000.wav|He gave her a baffled stare|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000136_000000.wav|His face caught the full strength of the rising wind|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000123_000000.wav|His accents breathed profound relief|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000068_000000.wav|He was empty of thought|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000083_000000.wav|Her eyes danced with malice|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000159_000000.wav|His mouth quivered with pleasure|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000089_000000.wav|Her haughty step waxed timorous and vigilant|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000047_000000.wav|He ruled autocratically|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000114_000000.wav|Her thoughts outstripped her erring feet|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000141_000000.wav|His face torn with conflict|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000149_000000.wav|His heart rebuked him|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000119_000000.wav|Her voice trailed off vaguely|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000058_000000.wav|He threw a ton's weight of resolve upon his muscles|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000044_000000.wav|He paused, stunned and comprehending|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000073_000000.wav|He was most profoundly skeptical|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000048_000000.wav|He sacrificed the vulgar prizes of life|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000150_000000.wav|His heart was full of enterprise|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000020_000000.wav|He felt an unaccountable loathing|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000093_000000.wav|Her heart pounded in her throat|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000012_000000.wav|He braced himself to the exquisite burden of life|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000151_000000.wav|His impatient scorn expired|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000027_000000.wav|He gave himself to a sudden day dream|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000049_000000.wav|He sat on thorns|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000113_000000.wav|Her stumbling ignorance which sought the road of wisdom|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130489/1383_130489_000152_000000.wav|His last illusions crumbled|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000022_000000.wav|I sanction with all my heart|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000031_000000.wav|I say this is no disparagement of|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000154_000000.wav|I thank you for your most generous greeting|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000023_000000.wav|I saw an ingenious argument the other day|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000127_000000.wav|I submit it to every candid mind|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000074_000000.wav|I shall often have to advert to|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000115_000000.wav|I speak of this to show|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000140_000000.wav|I take a broader and bolder position|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000059_000000.wav|I shall just give the summary of|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000084_000000.wav|I shall take it for granted here|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000017_000000.wav|I return you my most grateful thanks|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000010_000000.wav|I respectfully submit|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000020_000000.wav|I said that I thought|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000046_000000.wav|I shall ask you to look very closely|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000100_000000.wav|I should like to day to examine briefly|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000155_000000.wav|I thank you for your thoughtful courtesy|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000066_000000.wav|I shall not force into the discussion|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000007_000000.wav|I repeat, I am not speaking|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000136_000000.wav|I suppose there is no one here|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000101_000000.wav|I should much prefer|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000044_000000.wav|I shall add a few words|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000075_000000.wav|I shall pass by all this|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000080_000000.wav|I shall show that I am not|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000009_000000.wav|I respectfully counsel|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000069_000000.wav|I shall not tax your patience|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000063_000000.wav|I shall not attempt a detailed narrative|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000094_000000.wav|I should have forfeited my own self respect|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000123_000000.wav|I speak within the hearing of|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000117_000000.wav|I speak the secret feeling of this company|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000081_000000.wav|I shall speak first about|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000149_000000.wav|I tell you, gentlemen|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000037_000000.wav|I see no exception|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000097_000000.wav|I should like to go a step farther|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000142_000000.wav|I take leave to say|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000011_000000.wav|I rest my opinion on|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000051_000000.wav|I shall consider myself privileged|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000027_000000.wav|I say it most confidently|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000105_000000.wav|I shudder at the doctrine|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000091_000000.wav|I should be the last man to deny|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000053_000000.wav|I shall endeavor to be guided|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000058_000000.wav|I shall invite you to follow me|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000148_000000.wav|I tell him in reply|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000065_000000.wav|I shall not enlarge upon|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000034_000000.wav|I see around me|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000098_000000.wav|I should like to refer to two events|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000103_000000.wav|I should think it too absurd|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000087_000000.wav|I shall waste no time in refuting|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000070_000000.wav|I shall not undertake to prophesy|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000018_000000.wav|I said a little way back|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000102_000000.wav|I should not be satisfied with myself|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000120_000000.wav|I speak with feeling upon this point|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000056_000000.wav|I shall here use the word to denote|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000133_000000.wav|I suppose it to be entirely true|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000026_000000.wav|I say it is extremely important|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000003_000000.wav|I remember an intimation|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000073_000000.wav|I shall now proceed to show|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000114_000000.wav|I speak from no little personal observation|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000083_000000.wav|I shall take a broader view of the subject|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000118_000000.wav|I speak what I know when I say|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000028_000000.wav|I say no more of these things|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000033_000000.wav|I say without fear of contradiction|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000043_000000.wav|I set out with saying|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000014_000000.wav|I rise to thank you|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000021_000000.wav|I salute with profound reverence|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000062_000000.wav|I shall not acknowledge|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000147_000000.wav|I take two views of|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000002_000000.wav|I remember a reference made|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000119_000000.wav|I speak wholly without authority|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000141_000000.wav|I take it for granted|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000137_000000.wav|I suppose we are all of one opinion|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000157_000000.wav|I thank you very gratefully|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000006_000000.wav|I remember to have heard|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000052_000000.wav|I shall desist from|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000064_000000.wav|I shall not end without appealing|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000039_000000.wav|I see no reason for doubting|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130532/1383_130532_000151_000000.wav|I thank you for having allowed me|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000162_000000.wav|I wish you to observe|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000036_000000.wav|I think we may well be proud of|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000083_000000.wav|I was overwhelmed|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000148_000000.wav|I wish to ask if you honestly and candidly believe|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000150_000000.wav|I wish to begin my statement|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000146_000000.wav|I wish rather to call your attention|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000152_000000.wav|I wish to do full justice to|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000142_000000.wav|I wish at the outset|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000153_000000.wav|I wish to draw your attention|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000106_000000.wav|I will not allude|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000166_000000.wav|I would enter a protest|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000133_000000.wav|I will take the precaution to add|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000038_000000.wav|I think we must draw a distinction|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000026_000000.wav|I think that, in these last years|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000163_000000.wav|I would also gratefully acknowledge|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000089_000000.wav|I will accept the general proposition|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000085_000000.wav|I was very much interested|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000012_000000.wav|I think it is quite right|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000030_000000.wav|I think we are justified|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000046_000000.wav|I think you will all agree|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000024_000000.wav|I think that I can explain|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000108_000000.wav|I will not attempt to note|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000092_000000.wav|I will ask you to accompany me|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000094_000000.wav|I will dwell a little longer|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000019_000000.wav|I think it will be granted|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000044_000000.wav|I think when we look back upon|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000171_000000.wav|I would not be understood as belittling|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000119_000000.wav|I will now consider with you|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000086_000000.wav|I was very much thrilled|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000027_000000.wav|I think that none of us will deny|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000154_000000.wav|I wish to express my profound gratification|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000167_000000.wav|I would further point out to you|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000060_000000.wav|I use very plain language|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000004_000000.wav|I think I am not the first to utter|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000035_000000.wav|I think we may say, therefore|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000008_000000.wav|I think I have rightly spoken|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000110_000000.wav|I will not condescend to|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000181_000000.wav|I would venture to point out|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000103_000000.wav|I will illustrate this point by|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000145_000000.wav|I wish it first observed|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000095_000000.wav|I will endeavor in a brief way|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000021_000000.wav|I think, on the contrary|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000020_000000.wav|I think no Wise man can be indifferent|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000180_000000.wav|I would urge upon you|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000066_000000.wav|I very confidently submit|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000029_000000.wav|I think there is no call on me to listen|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000050_000000.wav|I tremble at the task|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000177_000000.wav|I would suggest first of all|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000138_000000.wav|I will venture to express the hope|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000081_000000.wav|I was not slow to accept and believe|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000143_000000.wav|I wish emphatically to reaffirm|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1383/130533/1383_130533_000011_000000.wav|I think it is not too much to say|1383
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000020_000002.wav|We know this, because he has covered all with the glamour of his rich, boyish imagination that failed to perceive the cruel mockery of such selfish pageantry.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000034_000002.wav|The river bank is lined with rushes, and in one place I saw the prongs of antlers shaking the elders.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000013_000001.wav|For here we see scenes such as Shakespeare saw, and our delight is in the things that his eyes beheld.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000036_000000.wav|In Charlcote Church is a memorial to Sir Thomas Lucy; and there is a glowing epitaph that quite upsets any of those taunting and defaming allusions in "The Merry Wives." At the foot of the monument is a line to the effect that the inscription thereon was written by the only one in possession of the facts, Sir Thomas himself.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000031_000001.wav|And to whom do we owe it that he did leave-Justice Shallow or Ann Hathaway, or both?|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000008.wav|But today it is all a crumbling heap; ivy, rooks and daws hold the place in fee, each pushing hard for sole possession.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000026_000002.wav|Soon after leaving the church a rustic swain hailed me and asked for a match. The pipe and the Virginia weed-they mean amity the world over.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000016_000002.wav|It is the only castle in England where the portcullis is lowered at ten o'clock every night and raised in the morning (if the coast happens to be clear) to tap of drum.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000027_000000.wav|"But did Shakespeare run away?" I demanded.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000038_000000.wav|"Farewell, proud, vain, false, treacherous world, We have seen enough of thee: We value not what thou canst say of we."|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000014_000002.wav|Just beyond the bridge, settled snugly in a forest of waving branches, we see storied old Warwick Castle, with Caesar's Tower lifting itself from the mass of green.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000032_000001.wav|No record is found of the marriage.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000015_000002.wav|And again they came back when Will Shakespeare, a youth from Stratford, eight miles away, came here and waved his magic wand.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000020_000001.wav|But he saw them as a countryman who came on certain fete days, and stared with open mouth.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000001.wav|Whether her ticket was by way of Leamington I do not know.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000020_000003.wav|Had his view been from the inside he would not have made his kings noble nor his princes generous; for the stress of strife would have stilled his laughter, and from his brain the dazzling pictures would have fled.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000007_000000.wav|It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000004.wav|And we may be sure that the eldest boy in that brood never forgot the day.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000019_000000.wav|There are the cedars of Lebanon, brought by Crusaders from the East, and the screaming peacocks in the paved courtway: and in the Great Hall are to be seen the sword and accouterments of the fabled Guy, the mace of the "Kingmaker," the helmet of Cromwell, and the armor of Lord Brooke, killed at Litchfield.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000011_000001.wav|You hear the jingle of keys, the flick of the whip and the rattle of the lawnmower; and a cold, secret fear takes possession of you-a sort of half frenzied impulse to flee, before smug modernity takes you captive and whisks you off to play tiddledywinks or to dance the racquet.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000026_000000.wav|Two miles down the river is Barford, and a mile farther is Wasperton, with its quaint old stone church.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000040_000001.wav|Rock and ravine, beetling crag, singing cascade, and the heights where the lightning plays and the mists hover are certainly good timber for poetry-after you have caught your poet-but Nature eludes all formula.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000005.wav|In fact, in "Midsummer Night's Dream" he has called on his memory for certain features of the show.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000039_000000.wav|When the Charlcote Mansion was built, there was a housewarming, and Good Queen Bess (who was not so awful good) came in great state; so we see that she had various calling acquaintances in these parts.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000030_000002.wav|Moses, Lot, Tarquin, Pericles, Demosthenes, Saint Paul, Shakespeare, Rousseau, Voltaire, Goldsmith, Hugo-but the list is too long to give.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000007.wav|No doubt Kenilworth was stupendous in its magnificence, and it will pay you to take down from its shelf Sir Walter's novel and read about it.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000014_000000.wav|At the foot of Mill Street are the ruins of the old Gothic bridge that leads off to Banbury.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000018_000000.wav|The long line of battlements, the massive buttresses, the angular entrance cut through solid rock, crooked, abrupt, with places where fighting men can lie in ambush, all is as Shakespeare knew it.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000011_000000.wav|Leamington seems largely under subjection to that triumvirate of despots-the Butler, the Coachman and the Gardener.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000026_000001.wav|It is a good place to rest: for nothing is so soothing as a cool church where the dim light streams through colored windows, and out of sight somewhere an organ softly plays.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000017_000001.wav|A fine old soldier in spotless uniform, with waxed white moustache and dangling sword, conducts the visitors.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000031_000000.wav|But just suppose that Shakespeare had not run away!|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000003.wav|john Shakespeare was a worthy citizen of Warwickshire, and it is very probable that he received an invitation, and that he drove over with Mary Arden, his wife, sitting on the front seat holding the baby, and all the other seven children sitting on the straw behind.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000034_000003.wav|I sent a shrill whistle and a stick that way, and out ran four fine deer that loped gracefully across the turf.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000026_000003.wav|If I had questions to ask, now was the time!|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000035_000003.wav|So each estate hired its priests by the year, just as men with a taste for litigation hold attorneys in constant retainer.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000010_000001.wav|Perhaps this is by some Act of Parliament-I really do not know; anyway, I have ceased to kick against the pricks and now meekly accept my fate.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000013_000000.wav|Warwick is worth our while.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000029_000000.wav|And come to think of it Rusticus is right.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000032_000002.wav|But we should think of her gratefully, for no doubt it was she who started the lad off for London.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000025_000000.wav|It is eight miles from Warwick to Stratford by the direct road, but ten by the river.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000016_000001.wav|But practically it is the same.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000020_000004.wav|Yet his fancies serve us better than the facts.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000010_000000.wav|I have on several occasions been to the Shakespeare country, approaching it from different directions, but each time I am set down at Leamington.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000034_000001.wav|The winding Avon, full to its banks, strays lazily through rich fields and across green meadows, past the bright red brick pile of Charlcote Mansion.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000034_000004.wav|The sight brought my poacher instincts to the surface, but I bottled them, and trudged on until I came to the little church that stands at the entrance to the park.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000023_000000.wav|Five miles from Warwick (ten, if you believe the cab drivers) are the ruins of Kenilworth Castle.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000035_000001.wav|And this is well, for in the good old days it seemed wise to keep in close communication with the other world.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000040_000000.wav|Some hasty individual has put forth a statement to the effect that poets can only be bred in a mountainous country, where they could lift up their eyes to the hills.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000020_000000.wav|And that Shakespeare saw these things there is no doubt.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000031_000002.wav|I should say to Ann first and His Honor second.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000024_000000.wav|In Fifteen Hundred Seventy five, when Shakespeare was eleven years of age, Queen Elizabeth came to Kenilworth.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000025_000001.wav|I have walked both routes and consider the latter the shorter.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000030_000001.wav|Indeed, it seems necessary that a man should have "run away" at least once, in order afterward to attain eminence.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000022_000000.wav|"This castle hath a pleasant seat: the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. This guest of Summer, The temple haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle; Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate."|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000015_000000.wav|All about are quaint old houses and shops, with red tiled roofs, and little windows, with diamond panes, hung on hinges, where maidens fair have looked down on brave men in coats of mail.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000026_000004.wav|So I asked, and Rusticus informed me that Hampton Lucy was only a mile beyond and that Shakespeare never stole deer at all; so I hope we shall hear no more of that libelous accusation.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292252/8825_292252_000035_000000.wav|All mansions, castles and prisons in England have chapels or churches attached.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000020_000002.wav|The rare richness and lavish beauty of the Wellington mausoleum are only surpassed by a certain tomb in France.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000041_000000.wav|What architect has the skill to build a tower so high as the name of Shakespeare?|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000039_000003.wav|What bronze can equal the bronze of "Hamlet"?|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000003_000001.wav|I saw briarwood pipes with Shakespeare's face carved on the bowl, all for one and six; feather fans with advice to the players printed across the folds; the "Seven Ages" on handkerchiefs; and souvenir spoons galore, all warranted Gorham's best.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000030_000000.wav|We have this on the authority of a solid Englishman, who says: "The virtues essential and peculiar to the exalted station of British Worthy debar the unfortunate possessor from entering Paradise.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000004_000001.wav|The young ladies who perform this office are clever women with pleasant voices and big, starched, white aprons.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000041_000002.wav|Then why a monument to Shakespeare?|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000038_000000.wav|What is as indestructible as these: "The Tempest," "The Winter's Tale," "Julius Caesar," "Coriolanus"?|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000020_000000.wav|The finest memorial in Saint Paul's is to a certain eminent Irishman, Arthur Wellesley.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000029_000000.wav|We have seen that, although Napoleon, the defeated, has a more gorgeous tomb than Wellington, who defeated him, yet there is consolation in the thought that although England has no monument to Shakespeare he now has the freedom of Elysium; while the present address of the British worthies who have battened and fattened on poor humanity's thirst for strong drink, since Samuel Johnson was executor of Thrale's estate, is unknown.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000015_000001.wav|Further than that, in every library there are Washington Irving, Hawthorne, and William Winter's three lacrimose but charming volumes.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000020_000001.wav|The mines and quarries of earth have been called on for their richest contributions; and talent and skill have given their all to produce this enduring work of beauty, that tells posterity of the mighty acts of this mighty man.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000018_000000.wav|As the tourist approaches the city of London for the first time, there are four monuments that probably will attract his attention.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000033_000001.wav|But England's Budget has never been ballasted with a single pound to help preserve inviolate the memory of her one son to whom the world uncovers.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000035_000000.wav|Why a monument to Shakespeare?|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000009_000002.wav|Whether he was accommodated we can not say; and if he was, did he pay it back, is a question that has caused much hot debate.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000041_000001.wav|Add anything if you can to mind!|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000028_000003.wav|The founder of this brewery became rich; and if my statistical friend is right, the owners of these mighty vats have defeated mankind with "great slaughter."|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000011_000000.wav|But I rather guess I know why his grave was not marked with his name.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000000_000000.wav|Drayton before Shakespeare's time called Warwick "the heart of England," and the heart of England it is today-rich, luxuriant, slow.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000023_000001.wav|And one grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000032_000003.wav|There is no scholar in any clime who is not his debtor.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000028_000001.wav|And each of these workmen is allowed to drink six quarts of beer each day, without charge, which proves that kindliness is not dead.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000021_000000.wav|As an exploiter, the Corsican overdid the thing a bit-so the world arose and put him down; but safely dead, his shade can boast a grave so sumptuous that Englishmen in Paris refuse to look upon it.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000032_000000.wav|But still, should not England have a fitting monument to Shakespeare?|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000011_000001.wav|He was a play actor, and the church people would have been outraged at the thought of burying a "strolling player" in that sacred chancel.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000000_000002.wav|Down toward Stratford there are flat islands covered with sedge, long rows of weeping willows, low hazel, hawthorn, and places where "Green Grow the Rushes, o" Then, if the farmer leaves a spot untilled, the dogrose pre empts the place and showers its petals on the vagrant winds.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000038_000001.wav|What monument sublimer than "Lear," sterner than "The Merchant of Venice," more dazzling than "Romeo and Juliet," more amazing than "Richard the third"?|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000009_000001.wav|The only letter addressed to Shakespeare that can be found is one from the happy father of Thomas, mr Richard Quiney, wherein he asks for a loan of thirty pounds.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000030_000002.wav|This is the only dignity beyond their reach."|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000002_000003.wav|At least, this is what I thought he said.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000013_000000.wav|"Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here, Blest be the man who spares these stones, And cursed be he who moves my bones."|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000031_000000.wav|The writer quoted is an honorable man, and I am sure he would not make this assertion if he did not have proof of the fact.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000022_000001.wav|Her land is spiked with glistening monuments to greatness gone.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000012_000000.wav|Then they hastily replaced the stones, and over the grave they placed the slab that they had brought:|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000019_000000.wav|One of these monuments is to commemorate a calamity-the conflagration of Sixteen Hundred Sixty six-and the others are in honor of deeds of war.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000004_000003.wav|Each day the same bright British damsel conducted me through, and told her tale, but it was always with animation, and a certain sweet satisfaction in her mission and starched apron that was very charming.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000009_000004.wav|Little did mr Quiney think, when he wrote that letter, that he was writing for the ages.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000033_000000.wav|He was born in England; he never was out of England; his ashes rest in England.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000028_000002.wav|Then there are big horses that draw the big wagons, and on the corner there is a big taproom where the thirsty are served with big glasses.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000023_000002.wav|And if he can "defeat with great slaughter" his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000031_000001.wav|So, for the present, I will allow him to go on his own recognizance, believing that he will adduce his documents at the proper time.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000001_000000.wav|The first glimpse we get of Stratford is the spire of Holy Trinity; then comes the tower of the new Memorial Theater, which, by the way, is exactly like the city hall at Dead Horse, Colorado.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000039_000001.wav|What capital, were it even in London, could rumble around it as tumultuously as Macbeth's perturbed soul?|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000004_000002.wav|I was at Stratford four days and went just four times to the old curiosity shop.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000040_000001.wav|What edifice can equal thought?|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000039_000000.wav|What moon could shed about the pile a light more mystic than that of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000042_000000.wav|I answer, not for the glory of Shakespeare, but for the honor of England!|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000037_000001.wav|Malachite and alabaster are of no avail; jasper, serpentine, basalt, porphyry, granite: stones from Paros and marble from Carrara-they are all a waste of pains: genius can do without them.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000034_000000.wav|Victor Hugo has said something on this subject which runs about like this:|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000003_000000.wav|There is a Macbeth livery stable, a Falstaff bakery, and all the shops and stores keep Othello this and Hamlet that.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000009_000000.wav|Judith married Thomas Quiney.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000002_000004.wav|Of course, it is barely possible that I was daydreaming, but I think the facts are that it was he who dozed, and waking suddenly as I passed gave me the wrong cue.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000002_000000.wav|Stratford is just another village of Niagara Falls.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000018_000001.wav|They lift themselves out of the fog and smoke and soot, and seem to struggle toward the blue.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000025_000000.wav|When I visited the site of the Globe Theater and found thereon a brewery, whose shares are warranted to make the owner rich beyond the dream of avarice, I was depressed.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000036_000001.wav|Shakespeare has no need of a pyramid; he has his work.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000032_000002.wav|His name is honored in every school or college of earth where books are prized.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000028_000000.wav|Yes, yes, I must be truthful-it is a big brewery, and there are four big bulldogs in the courtway; and there are big vats, and big workmen in big aprons.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000026_000000.wav|But there is no park, and no monument, and no white haired old poet to give you welcome-only a brewery.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000039_000002.wav|What framework of cedar or oak will last as long as "Othello"?|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000017_000000.wav|In England poets are relegated to a "Corner." The earth and the fulness thereof belongs to the men who can kill; on this rock have the English State and Church been built.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000010_000000.wav|The inscription over Shakespeare's grave is an offer of reward if you do, and a threat of punishment if you don't, all in choice doggerel.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000015_000000.wav|Under certain circumstances, if occasion demands, I might muster a sublime conceit; but considering the fact that ten thousand Americans visit Stratford every year, and all write descriptions of the place, I dare not in the face of Baedeker do it.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000023_000000.wav|On the carved marble to Lord Cornwallis I read that, "He defeated the Americans with great slaughter." And so, wherever in England I see a beautiful monument, I know that probably the inscription will tell how "he defeated" somebody.|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8825/292253/8825_292253_000014_000000.wav|A threat from a ghost!|8825
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000008_000002.wav|a doctor?"|55
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000001_000004.wav|The house, with kitchens and cellars below, had above the ground floor, two stories and attics.|55
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000009_000011.wav|It was three o'clock; at a quarter past, a merchant presented himself to insure two ships; it was a clear profit of fifteen thousand. francs.|55
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000049_000000.wav|"Oh, it is useless to inquire," returned the count; "perhaps, after all, he was not the man you seek for.|55
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000051_000000.wav|"Not a word."|55
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000053_000000.wav|"Nothing."|55
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000005_000000.wav|"Look there," said Maximilian, laughing; "there is her husband changing his jacket for a coat.|55
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000003_000001.wav|Penelon, Penelon!" An old man, who was digging busily at one of the beds, stuck his spade in the earth, and approached, cap in hand, striving to conceal a quid of tobacco he had just thrust into his cheek.|55
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000016_000001.wav|"No, no," returned Monte Cristo, pale as death, pressing one hand on his heart to still its throbbings, while with the other he pointed to a crystal cover, beneath which a silken purse lay on a black velvet cushion.|55
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/55/121068/55_121068_000056_000001.wav|Recollect what our excellent father so often told us, 'It was no Englishman that thus saved us.'" Monte Cristo started.|55
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000049_000001.wav|Resistance would only aggravate your case."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000080_000000.wav|Juliette, as she marched through the streets between two men of the National Guard, and followed by Merlin, was hooted and jeered at, insulted, pelted with mud.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000086_000000.wav|Her love for him he would never know; now he knew only her crime, but presently, when she would be convicted and condemned, confronted with a few scraps of burned paper and a torn letter case, then he would know that she had stood her trial, self accused, and meant to die for him.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000025_000000.wav|"no"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000103_000002.wav|It consisted of a few words, a kiss-the last one-on her hand, and that passionate murmur which had escaped from his lips when he knelt at her feet:|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000019_000000.wav|"As you please," she said curtly.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000020_000000.wav|"What were these papers?" he repeated, with a loud obscene oath which, however, had not the power to disturb the young girl's serenity.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000001_000000.wav|Atonement.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000006_000000.wav|"It is only the soldiers come back for me," said Juliette quietly.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000012_000000.wav|"Yes."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000062_000001.wav|Tell him," whispered Juliette.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER seventeen|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000029_000001.wav|She shuddered at the loathsome touch, but her quietude never forsook her for a moment.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000057_000001.wav|The crippled girl was face to face with a psychological problem, which in itself was far beyond her comprehension, but vaguely she felt that it was a problem.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000053_000002.wav|March!|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000014_000000.wav|She nodded quietly in reply.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000079_000000.wav|When Marie Antoinette mounted the guillotine she had forgotten that for six weeks she practically lived day and night in the immediate companionship of a set of degraded soldiery.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000044_000000.wav|"Nothing," she replied.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000096_000000.wav|"Yes," replied Merlin laconically.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000085_000000.wav|She was happy-supremely, completely happy.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000102_000001.wav|Well, perhaps that would be best.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000063_000000.wav|"Now then," shouted Merlin, "out of the way, hunchback, unless you want to come along too."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000085_000001.wav|She had saved him from the consequences of her own iniquitous crime, and she was about to give her life for him, so that his safety might be more completely assured.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000037_000000.wav|"Yes."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000077_000000.wav|Women, men, children-all were herded together, for one day, perhaps two, and a night or so, and then death would obliterate the petty annoyances, the womanly blushes caused by this sordid propinquity.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000087_000002.wav|It was ethereal, and perhaps not altogether human, but it was hers.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000018_000000.wav|She shrugged her shoulders.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000089_000000.wav|She had arrogated to herself that which was God's alone-"Vengeance!" which is not for man.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000102_000002.wav|She would have been afraid to meet Deroulede again, afraid to read in his eyes that story of his dead love, which alone might have destroyed her present happiness.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000087_000003.wav|She had been his divinity, his madonna; he had loved in her that, which was her truer, her better self.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000083_000000.wav|But Juliette had seen nothing of it all.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000010_000000.wav|In his hand he held a leather case, all torn, and split at one end, and a few tiny scraps of half charred paper.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000100_000000.wav|"Certainly not, without the special permission of the Public Prosecutor."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000074_000000.wav|Madame Guillotine was, above all, catholic in her tastes, her gaunt arms, painted blood red, were open alike to the murderer and the thief, the aristocrats of ancient lineage, and the proletariat from the gutter.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000011_000000.wav|"These are yours?" he said roughly.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000016_000000.wav|"Love letters."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000017_000000.wav|"You lie!"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000054_000000.wav|Juliette was too proud to insist any further.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000008_000000.wav|"Yes; they are coming to take me away.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000097_000000.wav|"You understand," added the governor; "we are so crowded.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000060_000001.wav|Tell him."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000076_000000.wav|There were twelve prisons in Paris then, and forty thousand in France, and they were all full.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000055_000000.wav|But that one word was not to be spoken.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000059_000000.wav|Juliette seemed to wake as if from a dream.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000104_000000.wav|"Juliette!"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000065_000001.wav|But at the door Juliette turned to her once more, and said:|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000084_000001.wav|The mob did not exist for her; she heard neither insult nor vituperation.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000081_000001.wav|"Spit on the aristocrat!" And the child tortured its own small, parched mouth so that, in obedience to its mother, it might defile and bespatter a beautiful, innocent girl.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000031_000002.wav|Was that it?"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000069_000000.wav|CHAPTER eighteen|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000028_000000.wav|He thrust his face quite close to hers, and she closed her eyes, sick with the horror of this contact with the degraded wretch.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000088_000001.wav|That awful oath, sworn so solemnly, had been her relentless tyrant; and her religion-a religion of superstition and of false ideals-had blinded her, and dragged her into crime.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000093_000001.wav|She was handed over to the governor of the prison, a short, thick set man in black trousers and black shag woollen shirt, and wearing a dirty red cap, with tricolour rosette on the side of his unkempt head.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000007_000000.wav|"For you?"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000080_000001.wav|One woman tried to push past the soldiers, and to strike her in the face-a woman! not thirty!--and who was dragging a pale, squalid little boy by the hand.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000039_000000.wav|"I knew it."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000033_000000.wav|"Yes," she replied firmly.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000022_000000.wav|"Who was your lover?" he asked.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000098_000000.wav|"Certainly," said Merlin, "you will be personally responsible for this prisoner to the Committee of Public Safety."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000078_000000.wav|Death levelled all, erased everything.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000021_000000.wav|"I have told you," she said: "love letters, which I wished to burn."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000065_000000.wav|Then the men pushed her roughly aside.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000084_000000.wav|She was walking as in a dream.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000075_000000.wav|But lately the executions had been almost exclusively of a political character.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7894/3551_7894_000067_000000.wav|And with a firm step she followed the soldiers out of the room.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000005_000001.wav|On a chair beside him lay a heavy caped coat, covered with the dust and the splashings of a long journey, but he himself was attired in clothes that suggested the most fastidious taste, and the most perfect of tailors; he wore with apparent ease the eccentric fashion of the time, the short waisted coat of many lapels, the double waistcoat and billows of delicate lace.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000047_000006.wav|She'd rebuke you publicly, and betray herself and you in a flash, sooner than submit to a loss of dignity."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000040_000001.wav|You see the trial of the Queen has not yet been decided on, but I know that it is in the air.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000061_000000.wav|He suddenly paused.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000032_000000.wav|"Will you tell me your plans?"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000040_000005.wav|Usually they drink and play cards all night long.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000010_000000.wav|"Not altogether, my friend.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000024_000000.wav|"Well! the result is obvious.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000057_000000.wav|"Burn them, my friend," said Blakeney laconically.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000005_000000.wav|A tall, somewhat lazy looking figure, he was sitting at a table face to face with the Citizen Deputy.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000058_000000.wav|"I can't burn these.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000059_000000.wav|"Better that than papers in these times, my friend: these papers, if found, would send you, untried, to the guillotine."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000023_000000.wav|"Well?"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000038_000002.wav|I must get them out of France, however, in case-in case ..."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000066_000000.wav|"In a moment, mademoiselle," he replied lightly, "my friend and I have just finished our talk.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000017_000000.wav|"Three things," he continued quietly; "an imprisoned Queen, about to be tried for her life, the temperament of a Frenchman-some of them-and the idiocy of mankind generally.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000055_000000.wav|"What are they?"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000053_000001.wav|He unlocked it and drew forth a bundle of papers.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000049_000004.wav|But you are bound to fail, and then who will help you all, if we too are put out of the way?"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000013_000000.wav|"Then why did you come?"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000049_000000.wav|"Ah! there's the trouble, friend.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000060_000000.wav|"I am careful, and, at present, quite beyond suspicion.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000039_000000.wav|"Of course," rejoined the other simply.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000049_000002.wav|We are still twenty strong, and heart and soul in sympathy with your mad schemes.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000047_000002.wav|Alas for her!|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000029_000001.wav|But I will help to get you all out of the demmed hole, when you have failed."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000049_000003.wav|The poor, poor Queen!|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000047_000004.wav|Can you take hold of Marie Antoinette by the shoulders, shove her into the bottom of a cart and pile sacks of potatoes on the top of her?|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000040_000007.wav|It should be easy, for I have a strong fist, and after that ..."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000002_000000.wav|The Scarlet Pimpernel.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER six|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000054_000000.wav|"Will you look through these?" he asked, handing them to Sir Percy Blakeney.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000041_000000.wav|"Well?|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000029_000000.wav|"By every means in my power," replied Blakeney, "save the insane.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000026_000002.wav|There is someone over the water now who weeps when I don't return-No! no! never fear-they'll not get The Scarlet Pimpernel this journey ..."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000011_000000.wav|"Fun, you call it?" queried the other bitterly.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000008_000000.wav|"La!|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000062_000000.wav|He turned, and there in the doorway, holding back the heavy portiere, stood Juliette, graceful, smiling, a little pale, this no doubt owing to the flickering light of the unsnuffed candles.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000022_000001.wav|I guessed it, that is why I came: that is also why I sent a pleasant little note to the Committee of Public Safety, signed with the device they know so well: The Scarlet Pimpernel."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000003_000000.wav|It was some few hours later.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000008_000001.wav|I took care of that!" responded Blakeney with his short, pleasant laugh.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000014_000000.wav|"To-What shall I say, my friend?" rejoined Sir Percy Blakeney, with that inimitable drawl of his.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000035_000000.wav|"Yes?"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000010_000001.wav|My faith!|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000025_000000.wav|"But in the meanwhile they'll discover you, and they'll not let you escape a second time."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000008_000002.wav|"I sent Tinville my autograph this morning."|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7887/3551_7887_000022_000000.wav|"I know it.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000025_000001.wav|Then the murder of Marat, by a young girl like herself, the pale faced, large eyed Charlotte, who had commited a crime for the sake of a conviction.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000052_000000.wav|Chivalrous-eh?--and innately so, evidently, for the girl was slightly deformed: hardly a hunchback, but weak and unattractive looking, with melancholy eyes, and a pale, pinched face.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000020_000002.wav|When he died, she looked upon her spiritual guide's death as a direct warning from God, that nothing could relieve her of her oath.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000013_000000.wav|The Archbishop was consulted.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000027_000000.wav|Juliette followed the trial of Charlotte Corday with all the passionate ardour of her exalted temperament.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000009_000000.wav|After that last glimmer of life beside the deathbed of his son, the old Duc had practically ceased to be.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000017_000002.wav|He was busy consoling a monarch for the loss of his throne, and preparing himself and his royal patron for the scaffold.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000045_000000.wav|Charlotte Corday was condemned.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000043_000000.wav|Juliette heard it all.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000015_000002.wav|He would make no promises.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000002_000000.wav|Citizen Deputy.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000046_000000.wav|Juliette left the court in a state of mad exultation.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000043_000001.wav|The knitters round her were talking loudly.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000049_000002.wav|Juliette felt impelled by duty, and duty at best is not so prompt a counsellor as love or hate.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000047_000001.wav|Great God!|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000051_000001.wav|Once or twice she saw him coming or going from home. Once she caught sight of the inner hall, and of a young girl in a dark kirtle and snow white kerchief bidding him good bye at his door.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000031_000001.wav|I killed Marat!"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000047_000000.wav|What scenes!|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000019_000000.wav|Juliette was one of those who escaped condemnation.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000050_000000.wav|Her adventure outside Deroulede's house had not been premeditated. Impulse and coincidence had worked their will with her.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000041_000000.wav|But there was no further comment.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000026_000000.wav|"Greater than Brutus!"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000041_000003.wav|His hospital would cover quite a good many defalcations.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000025_000000.wav|Two years later, she had heard the cries of an entire people exulting over a regicide.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000033_000000.wav|"I killed Marat!"|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000019_000001.wav|How or why, she herself could not have told.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3551/7884/3551_7884_000051_000002.wav|Another time she caught sight of him at the corner of the street, helping that same young girl over the muddy pavement.|3551
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/185485/1212_185485_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/185485/1212_185485_000006_000002.wav|Although the pills were but twenty five cents per box, they were soon sold to such a great extent, that tons of huge cases filled with the "purely vegetable pill" were sent from the new and extensive manufactory every week.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/185485/1212_185485_000012_000000.wav|"The laws of life are written upon the face of Nature.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/185485/1212_185485_000019_000000.wav|"Oh!" I replied, "I always bought my pills at the drug stores."|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000006_000000.wav|ZIP AT THE CANDY PULL|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000006.wav|For his four feet, mouth, one ear and tail were all sticking to the pan of candy.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000030_000003.wav|It was hard to think of the doctor without Zip, as they were always together.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000000.wav|Yes, they were surely coming!|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000007.wav|At last when Zip was entirely clean and had been wrapped in a big bath towel to dry, Doctor Elsworth apologized to Helen for his little dog spoiling her candy pull.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000007.wav|Indeed, he was held securely by the sticky, stringy candy.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000005.wav|Instead it got between his toes and held him still faster.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000002.wav|Now the doctor hurriedly took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, and in a jiffy had Zip and the molasses ball in his hands and was holding it so that the water could not get to Zip's head.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000007_000002.wav|Looking up, he saw that the house was lighted more than was usual, and he knew right away that they must be having a little dance or a children's party of some kind.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000018_000001.wav|She could not seem to escape it, and finally she stumbled and fell, sending the glasses of delicious lemonade flying in all directions.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000014_000000.wav|"Just the very thing!" one of the boys replied.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000021_000000.wav|A few feet from the door was the maid, sitting with limbs outspread, too dazed to move, while from under the corner of her skirt rolled a big, sticky ball of some kind that howled as it rolled.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000005.wav|As the candy began to loosen and drop off, first one black ear stood up and then the other, and last the little legs began to shoot out.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000020_000002.wav|Now he began to howl as if being killed.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000004.wav|First he released the little dog's head, which had been bent down between his fore legs.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000025_000002.wav|He knocked repeatedly but no one answered.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000019_000000.wav|Hearing a noise on the back stairs, as if the house was falling, mrs Hardway went to see what the trouble was, and opened the kitchen door just in time to receive a full glass of lemonade squarely on the chest.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000008.wav|Just then he thought he heard the children coming to see if their sweets were cool.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000008.wav|All they could see in the semi darkness was the candy, for Zip was too balled up to show a bit of dog sticking out of the soft mess.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000007_000004.wav|He stuck his nose up in the air and gave a long sniff.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000016_000000.wav|"Here, you Zip, keep still, or you'll slip out of the apron you're wrapped in and get my best suit all sticky," called the little boy who held him in his arms and was carrying him up to the bathroom.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000026_000000.wav|And this is what he saw.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000014_000001.wav|"Wait till I get something to wrap him in so I won't get all stuck up with the candy."|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000027_000001.wav|That was all that could be seen of Zip at that moment, for in his numerous rolls, the candy had spread all over him until he was no longer a dog with legs but just one round ball of molasses candy.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000017_000001.wav|One of the boys gave it a jerk to loosen it, but sad to relate, he gave too vigorous a pull and Zip dropped from the boy's arms, not into the tub, but at one side and by a mighty effort he gave himself two rolls which brought him to the head of the stairs.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000025_000004.wav|What he saw you already know.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000008_000000.wav|"They are having a candy pull.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000030_000002.wav|Besides, the doctor had been her family physician for years, and they were all very, very fond of him as well as of Zip.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000013_000001.wav|"Let's put him in the bath tub and soak it off."|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000021_000001.wav|Beyond him was an overturned hamper of soiled clothes, with stockings, collars, sheets and petticoats spilling out of it.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000007_000005.wav|Yes, it was molasses he smelled!|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000025_000006.wav|When he appeared in the door all the children stopped laughing and stepped back to give him a chance to see Zip.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000002.wav|He would never hear the last of it.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000024_000000.wav|The window of the bathroom was open and the doctor, coming out on his front porch to look at the sky before retiring, heard Zip howling somewhere across the street.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000007_000003.wav|Just then he thought he got a whiff of boiling molasses.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000020_000001.wav|In his roll down the stairs, he had lost some of the candy, so that now his mouth and nose were free, though he was minus a tooth and several of his long smeller whiskers.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000020_000003.wav|This brought more of the guests to the spot, and you would have laughed could you have seen their faces when first they peered into the kitchen, which looked as if a cyclone had struck it.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000025_000000.wav|The doctor made the circuit of the house and stable yard but could find no Zip.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000023_000001.wav|He was so afraid of being drowned before the water would soak off the candy and when the children tried to pull it off it nearly killed him with pain, for it took all the little fine hairs of his coat with it.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000020_000000.wav|When the waitress stumbled, she fell on Zip, pinning him under her.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000006.wav|All this made the children laugh to see what appeared to be a big ball of candy develop into a little dog.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000025_000005.wav|As by this time the children had started to bathe Zip, the doctor was told to go right upstairs.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000008_000001.wav|That's what is going on!|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000017_000002.wav|Another roll sent him tumbling bumpety bump down the long flight that led to the kitchen.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000001.wav|He was so busy gazing up at the lighted windows to see what was going on inside the house, that he neglected to look where he was stepping, and the first thing he knew, he was standing with all four feet in a pan of hot molasses candy.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000000.wav|But alas!|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000013_000000.wav|"I know the best way to get the sticky stuff off," said Helen Hardway, the little girl who was giving the party.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000012_000000.wav|The children ran after it, screaming with laughter, but when they caught up to the rolling ball and discovered their well-known, mischievous Zip rolled up so tight he was helpless, they clapped their hands with delight. He looked so crestfallen and funny that they forgave him on the spot for the loss of their candy.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000003.wav|So he made a frantic effort to loosen himself.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000001.wav|He could not stand it to have these children he saw every day find him in such a fix.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000011_000007.wav|As the children began to come down the back steps, he gave one yelp, doubled himself up and began to roll, so that what the children saw was a big ball of molasses candy rolling down the sloping walk.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000007_000000.wav|That evening the doctor had no calls to make, so Zip was left to amuse himself as best he could.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000008.wav|But she declared that he had given them more fun than if he had not come over, and the molasses had cooled and they had had a regular candy pull.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000018_000000.wav|The sudden appearance of a hamper apparently on legs coming toward her, surprised her, but nothing like the queer thing that was rolling about her feet, and which she could not see for the big tray in her hands.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000027_000000.wav|Just one of Zip's eyes stuck out of a hole where the candy had dropped off, and his poor little tail stuck out like a handle on the other side of the ball.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000021_000002.wav|At the other end of the room stood mrs Hardway, wiping the lemonade off her dress, while all over the place were slices of lemon and pieces of fruit and Maraschino cherries.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000003.wav|Then with one hand he gently threw the water upon the candy until it began to loosen and fall off.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000028_000001.wav|The children had never thought that the poor dog could not move his head to keep out of the water.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000009_000006.wav|He tried to bite it off, but instead of coming off, it only stuck to his teeth and he found himself sticking to the pan with his mouth as well as his feet.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000024_000002.wav|Consequently he hurried across the street to see where his pet was, with the worried Tabby close at his heels.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000015_000000.wav|On hearing this, Zip began to struggle and squirm, for he had visions of hot water and soapsuds in his eyes, with each one of the children feeling it was their duty to give him an extra scrub.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000025_000003.wav|As he still heard Zip howling and several people were talking all at once, he made bold to open the door and step in.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/75242/1212_75242_000024_000001.wav|He was crying in such a pitiful, frightened manner that the doctor knew he must be fast somewhere or hurt so he could not get home.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000054_000000.wav|I looked at her with respect; it was both real and feigned.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000060_000000.wav|"I must have lost it."|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000047_000001.wav|"It's been disagreeable but I'm obliged to you for-why, where's my purse!|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000009_000000.wav|"Yes, paper.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000067_000000.wav|And still I lingered.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000068_000000.wav|But there was nothing for it.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000026_000002.wav|I knew what that meant.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000036_000002.wav|I knew that kind of look-I'd seen it at the Cruelty.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000021_000000.wav|His manner changed.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000022_000001.wav|Here, Sergeant!"|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000036_000000.wav|The woman looked at me.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000035_000000.wav|"A small paper," he said eagerly.|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000008_000000.wav|"Paper?"|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000064_000000.wav|Oh, that admirable woman!|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000044_000000.wav|Risk!|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000040_000000.wav|Me?|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000015_000003.wav|I'm going to have that paper."|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000041_000000.wav|What?|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1212/14653/1212_14653_000018_000000.wav|"Look here, I give you one more chance," he squeaked; "if you don't-"|1212
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000035_000000.wav|These dynamic forces making for progress are at present, however, threatened from two sides.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000026_000000.wav|Few thoughtful persons now hold the view that the race can be rapidly improved biologically by the process of educating the individual. Education is cumulative in so far as it builds up a better environment into which other children will be born, but the betterment is not due to the inheritance by the child of the acquired knowledge and skill of the parent.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000028_000008.wav|That group of men, therefore, has left only three fourths enough descendants to maintain its numbers, and as the population has doubled within the same generation, that class represents only three eighths as large a proportion of the American stock as formerly.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000005.wav|The world's store of iron ore is not yet fully known, but much of it has been measured, and of the deposits known to be within the United States over one half are said to be owned by one corporation, and they are enough to continue its present output no more than sixty years.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000002.wav|Supply in the economic sense means the amount available at the given time in the market; but despite the great areas since brought into the world markets, the false idea of a century ago still persists in the text books, and shapes economic reasoning.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000012.wav|The pessimists-the communists, and socialists of that day-seeing the same evils, had other explanations to offer.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000006.wav|There are countless unmeasured factors in human action.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000026_000002.wav|Practically, selection is the only means of improving the innate capacity of any species in any large measure.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000032_000004.wav|Sympathy widens; economic wants include family, friends, and, in a growing measure, humanity.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000035_000003.wav|The freedom of America to so great a degree from this disdain of honest labor has been a large factor in her progress, but it is endangered when men become timidly conservative of social position. Progress is threatened, secondly, by democracy, with its tendency to carry the notion of literal equality over into industry.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000002.wav|This test, however, is one that only astronomy can meet in any remarkable degree.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000005.wav|New continents are about to be opened.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000010_000000.wav|three.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000014.wav|Thus far, surely, the economic student may question the oracles; for though the distant future is veiled from man's view, the role of economic theory is to show causal relations, to convert mystery into reason, and thus to give a lamp to the feet of the present.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000006.wav|The force in Mount Pelee, if chained and utilized, would run a million factories a million years.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000007.wav|While the supply of vegetable food promises to be ample, the supply of meat will be maintained with difficulty as population becomes denser.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000020_000003.wav|The industrial map of our country will be greatly altered a hundred years hence.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000032_000009.wav|Progress is made because to exceptional ability in general is now presented the hope of large rewards.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000008.wav|The rate of increase of population is slackening.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000012.wav|This is past and present; what of the economic future?|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000011.wav|The greatest misery and discontent is in the more backward communities.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000030_000005.wav|Progress is threatened unless social institutions can be so adjusted as to reverse the present process of multiplying the poorest, and of extinguishing the most capable families.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000026_000004.wav|The weak, the ignorant, the incapable in primitive societies were ruthlessly killed off.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000028_000000.wav|five.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000026_000005.wav|The strong, the sagacious, and the enterprising left the largest numbers of descendants.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000006.wav|Many other natural products are in like manner gathered by civilized man from a stock created long ago.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000004.wav|Forests are being so rapidly cut off that the price of fuel wood and lumber in many parts of the United States has, within twenty years, been multiplied by three.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000032_000005.wav|The happiness of a truly socialized man consists in part in the happiness of his fellows. As social sympathy broadens, the sense of duty becomes a stronger economic force.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000010.wav|The optimists, with faith in the perfectability of human nature and of society, believed that all social ills were due to bad government; if despotism were but overthrown, man's nature would develop, untrammeled, to perfection.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000030_000001.wav|If society were composed in equal parts of two distinct strains of stock, not intermarrying; if the total population kept intact from one generation to another (say each period of thirty years), but the superior strain contributed only three fourths of its own number, at the end of five generations it would have sunk from one half to a little more than one eighth of the population.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000008.wav|Though a number of facts unite to suggest some conclusions as to the immediate future, the experience of the last century bids one beware of sweeping predictions.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000002.wav|Living, he scratched the earth's surface, and dying, left his bones to fertilize the soil.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000028_000002.wav|Large families were the rule among the capable pioneers of America; now they are rare except in the lower industrial ranks. Democracy and opportunity are favoring this process of increasing the mediocre and reducing the excellent strains of stock.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000022_000000.wav|three.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000008.wav|Such a cheapening and diffusion of power would put a new face on many of the problems of industry.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000014.wav|In such a variety of mutually contradictory views there must have been much error, but likewise much truth if it could be disentangled.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000006_000001.wav|At times economic students have gained the ear of statesmen and rulers, and have exercised much influence upon practical politics.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000032_000008.wav|Individual wants and interests must, so far as can now be seen, continue to be among the stronger forces that move society.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000011.wav|Secure of these permanent sources, civilization will stand on a firmer foundation.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000006_000000.wav|Perhaps now also can be better appreciated what the influence of such a study might and should be on practical action.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000010.wav|Despite the problems and the abuses that every new change brings, the civilized world undoubtedly is more prosperous to day than ever before.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000013.wav|While the economists of that day believed the conditions of poverty and misery to be inevitable, the pessimists pronounced them unendurable, and advocated a radical social change as the only hope of saving the masses from starvation.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000035_000004.wav|When democracy becomes envious, it denies to exceptional ability an exceptional reward. The line of growth must be the resultant of the positive forces in these two principles.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000015_000003.wav|But to day, man exhausts the stores in the interior of the earth, burns the treasures of the carboniferous age, casts the fertilizing elements into the ocean, and leaves the world an empty shell.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000010_000006.wav|This was the panorama of the progress of society as seen by both the conservative economists and the socialists of less than a century ago: continued invention, an increasing population, low wages, scanty food, growing wealth for the few, and growing poverty and misery for the masses.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000008_000007.wav|Such generalizations as are possible must be based on actions that appear and reappear with practical constancy.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000013.wav|Is the present condition a normal one-is this prosperity likely to grow or to decline?|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000004.wav|In every thunder storm enough force is dissipated to run thousands of factories.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000035_000006.wav|If this can be done, the economic outlook is for a great development of wealth and popular welfare.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000035_000002.wav|The avoidance of certain kinds of work which, by social convention, come to be regarded as degrading, takes much ability out of business.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000010_000005.wav|It was not fully appreciated that a great change in social standards, controlling the growth of population, was in progress.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000010.wav|It is reasonable to hope that before iron ore has become extremely scarce, a cheap and practicable method of extracting aluminium from clay will have been perfected.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000007.wav|Population in Christendom has increased more rapidly than ever before in the history of the world, but it has not overtaken the progress in resources.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000003.wav|The tides flow on forever.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000006_000002.wav|It is sometimes bemoaned that economists have to day so small a direct part in the government of our republic.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000020_000002.wav|Because of distance from raw materials, New England even now finds herself hard pushed in her rivalry with the Southern states in the manufacture of textiles.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000020_000001.wav|When the coal districts are heaps of slag and cinders, industry will be found near the water power.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000012_000004.wav|Much of the so-called orthodox economic analysis was essentially erroneous as applied to the conditions of the past century; it is erroneous to day and will be so for years to come, if it ever fits the facts.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000004_000000.wav|one.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000032_000003.wav|In taking economic wants as the starting point of our study, it was not implied that men were entirely selfish.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000022_000009.wav|The difficult problems of the concentrated control of industry and of the control of wealth must be solved in the interests of all.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7051/259009/7051_259009_000018_000002.wav|The coal mines can be emptied, but so long as the sun shines and the rains fall, Niagara will remain as a source of light, heat, and power.|7051
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000036_000001.wav|Well, if they can be easy with an estate that is not lawfully their own, so much the better.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000034_000004.wav|Well, much good may it do them!|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000001.wav|mr Darcy has not authorised me to make his communication public.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000004.wav|I am not equal to it.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000026_000006.wav|The liberty of communication cannot be mine till it has lost all its value!"|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000002.wav|It is almost past belief.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000011_000003.wav|For my part, I am inclined to believe it all Darcy's; but you shall do as you choose."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000006_000000.wav|"Blame you!|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000027_000001.wav|Jane was not happy.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000035_000000.wav|"It was a subject which they could not mention before me."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000026_000004.wav|Here was knowledge in which no one could partake; and she was sensible that nothing less than a perfect understanding between the parties could justify her in throwing off this last encumbrance of mystery.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000019_000000.wav|"Lizzy, when you first read that letter, I am sure you could not treat the matter as you do now."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000030_000000.wav|"Oh well! it is just as he chooses.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000010_000000.wav|She then spoke of the letter, repeating the whole of its contents as far as they concerned George Wickham.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000004.wav|Dear Lizzy, only consider what he must have suffered.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000003_000000.wav|Miss Bennet's astonishment was soon lessened by the strong sisterly partiality which made any admiration of Elizabeth appear perfectly natural; and all surprise was shortly lost in other feelings.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000005.wav|Wickham will soon be gone; and therefore it will not signify to anyone here what he really is.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000007_000000.wav|"But you blame me for having spoken so warmly of Wickham?"|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000006_000001.wav|Oh, no"|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000029_000000.wav|"I do not believe he will ever live at Netherfield any more."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000025_000003.wav|We must not make him desperate."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000023_000000.wav|Miss Bennet paused a little, and then replied, "Surely there can be no occasion for exposing him so dreadfully.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000011_000000.wav|"This will not do," said Elizabeth; "you never will be able to make both of them good for anything.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000034_000005.wav|And so, I suppose, they often talk of having Longbourn when your father is dead.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000028_000003.wav|But I cannot find out that Jane saw anything of him in London.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000005.wav|Such a disappointment! and with the knowledge of your ill opinion, too! and having to relate such a thing of his sister!|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000026_000000.wav|The tumult of Elizabeth's mind was allayed by this conversation.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000003.wav|The general prejudice against mr Darcy is so violent, that it would be the death of half the good people in Meryton to attempt to place him in an amiable light.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000014_000001.wav|I know you will do him such ample justice, that I am growing every moment more unconcerned and indifferent.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000011_000001.wav|Take your choice, but you must be satisfied with only one.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000002_000000.wav|Elizabeth's impatience to acquaint Jane with what had happened could no longer be overcome; and at length, resolving to suppress every particular in which her sister was concerned, and preparing her to be surprised, she related to her the next morning the chief of the scene between mr Darcy and herself.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000001.wav|"Wickham so very bad!|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000018_000001.wav|It is such a spur to one's genius, such an opening for wit, to have a dislike of that kind.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000006.wav|It is really too distressing.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000036_000000.wav|"No; it would have been strange if they had; but I make no doubt they often talk of it between themselves.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000026_000005.wav|"And then," said she, "if that very improbable event should ever take place, I shall merely be able to tell what Bingley may tell in a much more agreeable manner himself.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000025_000001.wav|To have his errors made public might ruin him for ever.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000025_000002.wav|He is now, perhaps, sorry for what he has done, and anxious to re-establish a character.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000026_000003.wav|She dared not relate the other half of mr Darcy's letter, nor explain to her sister how sincerely she had been valued by her friend.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000015_000000.wav|"Poor Wickham! there is such an expression of goodness in his countenance! such an openness and gentleness in his manner!"|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000030_000001.wav|Nobody wants him to come.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000011_000002.wav|There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pretty much.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000010_000002.wav|Nor was Darcy's vindication, though grateful to her feelings, capable of consoling her for such discovery. Most earnestly did she labour to prove the probability of error, and seek to clear the one without involving the other.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000030_000003.wav|Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart; and then he will be sorry for what he has done."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000020_000002.wav|And with no one to speak to about what I felt, no Jane to comfort me and say that I had not been so very weak and vain and nonsensical as I knew I had!|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000033_000000.wav|"No, nothing at all."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000027_000000.wav|She was now, on being settled at home, at leisure to observe the real state of her sister's spirits.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000032_000002.wav|And what sort of table do they keep?|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000013_000003.wav|And poor mr Darcy!|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000022_000000.wav|"Certainly.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000030_000002.wav|Though I shall always say he used my daughter extremely ill; and if I was her, I would not have put up with it.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000016_000000.wav|"There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000014_000000.wav|"Oh! no, my regret and compassion are all done away by seeing you so full of both.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000032_000003.wav|Charlotte is an excellent manager, I dare say.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000005_000000.wav|"Indeed," replied Elizabeth, "I am heartily sorry for him; but he has other feelings, which will probably soon drive away his regard for me. You do not blame me, however, for refusing him?"|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000025_000000.wav|"You are quite right.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000027_000002.wav|She still cherished a very tender affection for Bingley.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000026_000002.wav|But there was still something lurking behind, of which prudence forbade the disclosure.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000020_000003.wav|Oh! how I wanted you!"|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000020_000001.wav|I was uncomfortable enough, I may say unhappy.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000014_000002.wav|Your profusion makes me saving; and if you lament over him much longer, my heart will be as light as a feather."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000004_000000.wav|"His being so sure of succeeding was wrong," said she, "and certainly ought not to have appeared; but consider how much it must increase his disappointment!"|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000022_000002.wav|There is one point on which I want your advice.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000022_000003.wav|I want to be told whether I ought, or ought not, to make our acquaintances in general understand Wickham's character."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000023_000001.wav|What is your opinion?"|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000032_000001.wav|Well, well, I only hope it will last.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000028_000001.wav|For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000000.wav|"That it ought not to be attempted.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000003_000001.wav|She was sorry that mr Darcy should have delivered his sentiments in a manner so little suited to recommend them; but still more was she grieved for the unhappiness which her sister's refusal must have given him.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000006.wav|Some time hence it will be all found out, and then we may laugh at their stupidity in not knowing it before.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000031_000000.wav|But as Elizabeth could not receive comfort from any such expectation, she made no answer.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000028_000002.wav|I told my sister Phillips so the other day.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000028_000004.wav|Well, he is a very undeserving young man-and I do not suppose there's the least chance in the world of her ever getting him now.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000012_000000.wav|It was some time, however, before a smile could be extorted from Jane.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000024_000007.wav|At present I will say nothing about it."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000032_000004.wav|If she is half as sharp as her mother, she is saving enough.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1150/3361_1150_000018_000000.wav|"And yet I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to him, without any reason.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000000_000000.wav|Chapter twenty three|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000023_000000.wav|"Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000002_000001.wav|Sir William, how can you tell such a story?|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000015_000002.wav|The chief of every day was spent by him at Lucas Lodge, and he sometimes returned to Longbourn only in time to make an apology for his absence before the family went to bed.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000012_000001.wav|Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; a report which highly incensed mrs Bennet, and which she never failed to contradict as a most scandalous falsehood.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000006_000000.wav|mr Bennet's emotions were much more tranquil on the occasion, and such as he did experience he pronounced to be of a most agreeable sort; for it gratified him, he said, to discover that Charlotte Lucas, whom he had been used to think tolerably sensible, was as foolish as his wife, and more foolish than his daughter!|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000020_000000.wav|"I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000018_000000.wav|"My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000021_000000.wav|"What should not you mind?"|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000019_000000.wav|This was not very consoling to mrs Bennet, and therefore, instead of making any answer, she went on as before.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000015_000001.wav|He was too happy, however, to need much attention; and luckily for the others, the business of love making relieved them from a great deal of his company.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000005_000003.wav|Nothing could console and nothing could appease her.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000011_000001.wav|On the contrary, she was as much disposed to complain of it as her husband.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000016_000005.wav|She complained bitterly of all this to her husband.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000022_000000.wav|"I should not mind anything at all."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000011_000002.wav|It was very strange that he should come to Longbourn instead of to Lucas Lodge; it was also very inconvenient and exceedingly troublesome.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000012_000000.wav|Neither Jane nor Elizabeth were comfortable on this subject.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000024_000000.wav|"I never can be thankful, mr Bennet, for anything about the entail.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000016_000000.wav|mrs Bennet was really in a most pitiable state.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000010_000001.wav|The promised letter of thanks from mr Collins arrived on Tuesday, addressed to their father, and written with all the solemnity of gratitude which a twelvemonth's abode in the family might have prompted.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000001_000000.wav|Elizabeth was sitting with her mother and sisters, reflecting on what she had heard, and doubting whether she was authorised to mention it, when Sir William Lucas himself appeared, sent by his daughter, to announce her engagement to the family.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000011_000003.wav|She hated having visitors in the house while her health was so indifferent, and lovers were of all people the most disagreeable.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000020_000001.wav|If it was not for the entail, I should not mind it."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000005_000002.wav|Two inferences, however, were plainly deduced from the whole: one, that Elizabeth was the real cause of the mischief; and the other that she herself had been barbarously misused by them all; and on these two points she principally dwelt during the rest of the day.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000018_000001.wav|Let us hope for better things.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000007_000001.wav|Kitty and Lydia were far from envying Miss Lucas, for mr Collins was only a clergyman; and it affected them in no other way than as a piece of news to spread at Meryton.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000016_000001.wav|The very mention of anything concerning the match threw her into an agony of ill humour, and wherever she went she was sure of hearing it talked of.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000009_000001.wav|Her disappointment in Charlotte made her turn with fonder regard to her sister, of whose rectitude and delicacy she was sure her opinion could never be shaken, and for whose happiness she grew daily more anxious, as Bingley had now been gone a week and nothing more was heard of his return.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000002_000002.wav|Do not you know that mr Collins wants to marry Lizzy?"|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000005_000004.wav|Nor did that day wear out her resentment.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000007_000000.wav|Jane confessed herself a little surprised at the match; but she said less of her astonishment than of her earnest desire for their happiness; nor could Elizabeth persuade her to consider it as improbable.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000010_000000.wav|Jane had sent Caroline an early answer to her letter, and was counting the days till she might reasonably hope to hear again.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000013_000002.wav|The united efforts of his two unfeeling sisters and of his overpowering friend, assisted by the attractions of Miss Darcy and the amusements of London might be too much, she feared, for the strength of his attachment.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000005_000000.wav|mrs Bennet was in fact too much overpowered to say a great deal while Sir William remained; but no sooner had he left them than her feelings found a rapid vent.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000011_000004.wav|Such were the gentle murmurs of mrs Bennet, and they gave way only to the greater distress of mr Bingley's continued absence.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000018_000002.wav|Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor."|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000016_000002.wav|The sight of Miss Lucas was odious to her.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000014_000001.wav|But as no such delicacy restrained her mother, an hour seldom passed in which she did not talk of Bingley, express her impatience for his arrival, or even require Jane to confess that if he did not come back she would think herself very ill used.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000011_000000.wav|mr Collins's return into Hertfordshire was no longer a matter of pleasure to mrs Bennet.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000015_000000.wav|mr Collins returned most punctually on Monday fortnight, but his reception at Longbourn was not quite so gracious as it had been on his first introduction.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000014_000002.wav|It needed all Jane's steady mildness to bear these attacks with tolerable tranquillity.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000013_000000.wav|Even Elizabeth began to fear-not that Bingley was indifferent-but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000002_000000.wav|"Good Lord!|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000001_000001.wav|With many compliments to them, and much self gratulation on the prospect of a connection between the houses, he unfolded the matter-to an audience not merely wondering, but incredulous; for mrs Bennet, with more perseverance than politeness, protested he must be entirely mistaken; and Lydia, always unguarded and often uncivil, boisterously exclaimed:|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000009_000000.wav|Between Elizabeth and Charlotte there was a restraint which kept them mutually silent on the subject; and Elizabeth felt persuaded that no real confidence could ever subsist between them again.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000013_000001.wav|Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive of Jane's happiness, and so dishonorable to the stability of her lover, she could not prevent its frequently occurring.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/1133/3361_1133_000016_000004.wav|Whenever Charlotte came to see them, she concluded her to be anticipating the hour of possession; and whenever she spoke in a low voice to mr Collins, was convinced that they were talking of the Longbourn estate, and resolving to turn herself and her daughters out of the house, as soon as mr Bennet were dead.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000015_000000.wav|The train left Oakland station at six o'clock.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000005_000000.wav|Chapter twenty six|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000018_000003.wav|It only remained to go to bed and sleep which everybody did-while the train sped on across the State of California.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000028_000001.wav|"Mere cattle stop the trains, and go by in a procession, just as if they were not impeding travel!|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000010_000002.wav|The work was at once commenced, and pursued with true American energy; nor did the rapidity with which it went on injuriously affect its good execution.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000025_000000.wav|This happened, indeed, to the train in which mr Fogg was travelling. About twelve o'clock a troop of ten or twelve thousand head of buffalo encumbered the track.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000013_000000.wav|The car which he occupied was a sort of long omnibus on eight wheels, and with no compartments in the interior.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000016_000002.wav|After recent events, their relations with each other had grown somewhat cold; there could no longer be mutual sympathy or intimacy between them.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000024_000001.wav|Sometimes a great herd of buffaloes, massing together in the distance, seemed like a moveable dam.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000016_000003.wav|Fix's manner had not changed; but Passepartout was very reserved, and ready to strangle his former friend on the slightest provocation.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000028_000000.wav|"What a country!" cried he.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000024_000002.wav|These innumerable multitudes of ruminating beasts often form an insurmountable obstacle to the passage of the trains; thousands of them have been seen passing over the track for hours together, in compact ranks.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000028_000003.wav|I should like to know if mr Fogg foresaw this mishap in his programme! And here's an engineer who doesn't dare to run the locomotive into this herd of beasts!"|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000022_000000.wav|The train entered the State of Nevada through the Carson Valley about nine o'clock, going always northeasterly; and at midday reached Reno, where there was a delay of twenty minutes for breakfast.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000017_000000.wav|Snow began to fall an hour after they started, a fine snow, however, which happily could not obstruct the train; nothing could be seen from the windows but a vast, white sheet, against which the smoke of the locomotive had a greyish aspect.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000011_000000.wav|The Pacific Railroad is joined by several branches in Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, and Oregon.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000013_000001.wav|It was supplied with two rows of seats, perpendicular to the direction of the train on either side of an aisle which conducted to the front and rear platforms. These platforms were found throughout the train, and the passengers were able to pass from one end of the train to the other.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000009_000000.wav|The journey from New York to San Francisco consumed, formerly, under the most favourable conditions, at least six months.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000012_000000.wav|Such was the road to be traversed in seven days, which would enable Phileas Fogg-at least, so he hoped-to take the Atlantic steamer at New York on the eleventh for Liverpool.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000013_000002.wav|It was supplied with saloon cars, balcony cars, restaurants, and smoking cars; theatre cars alone were wanting, and they will have these some day.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000019_000000.wav|The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly. The Central Pacific, taking Sacramento for its starting point, extends eastward to meet the road from Omaha.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000018_000001.wav|The backs of the seats were thrown back, bedsteads carefully packed were rolled out by an ingenious system, berths were suddenly improvised, and each traveller had soon at his disposition a comfortable bed, protected from curious eyes by thick curtains.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000018_000002.wav|The sheets were clean and the pillows soft.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000023_000000.wav|From this point the road, running along Humboldt River, passed northward for several miles by its banks; then it turned eastward, and kept by the river until it reached the Humboldt Range, nearly at the extreme eastern limit of Nevada.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000026_000000.wav|The travellers gazed on this curious spectacle from the platforms; but Phileas Fogg, who had the most reason of all to be in a hurry, remained in his seat, and waited philosophically until it should please the buffaloes to get out of the way.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000018_000000.wav|At eight o'clock a steward entered the car and announced that the time for going to bed had arrived; and in a few minutes the car was transformed into a dormitory.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000029_000001.wav|He would have crushed the first buffaloes, no doubt, with the cow catcher; but the locomotive, however powerful, would soon have been checked, the train would inevitably have been thrown off the track, and would then have been helpless.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000020_000001.wav|The railway track wound in and out among the passes, now approaching the mountain sides, now suspended over precipices, avoiding abrupt angles by bold curves, plunging into narrow defiles, which seemed to have no outlet.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000009_000001.wav|It is now accomplished in seven days.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000029_000000.wav|The engineer did not try to overcome the obstacle, and he was wise.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000007_000000.wav|"From ocean to ocean"--so say the Americans; and these four words compose the general designation of the "great trunk line" which crosses the entire width of the United States.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000014_000000.wav|Book and news dealers, sellers of edibles, drinkables, and cigars, who seemed to have plenty of customers, were continually circulating in the aisles.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000015_000001.wav|It was already night, cold and cheerless, the heavens being overcast with clouds which seemed to threaten snow.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000030_000001.wav|The procession of buffaloes lasted three full hours, and it was night before the track was clear.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000010_000001.wav|President Lincoln himself fixed the end of the line at Omaha, in Nebraska.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000030_000000.wav|The best course was to wait patiently, and regain the lost time by greater speed when the obstacle was removed.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000006_000000.wav|IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PARTY TRAVEL BY THE PACIFIC RAILROAD|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000016_000000.wav|There was but little conversation in the car, and soon many of the passengers were overcome with sleep.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000015_000002.wav|The train did not proceed rapidly; counting the stoppages, it did not run more than twenty miles an hour, which was a sufficient speed, however, to enable it to reach Omaha within its designated time.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000025_000003.wav|There was no use of interrupting them, for, having taken a particular direction, nothing can moderate and change their course; it is a torrent of living flesh which no dam could contain.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000027_000000.wav|Passepartout was furious at the delay they occasioned, and longed to discharge his arsenal of revolvers upon them.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000008_000001.wav|Between Omaha and the Pacific the railway crosses a territory which is still infested by Indians and wild beasts, and a large tract which the Mormons, after they were driven from Illinois in eighteen forty five, began to colonise.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3361/130131/3361_130131_000030_000002.wav|The last ranks of the herd were now passing over the rails, while the first had already disappeared below the southern horizon.|3361
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000007_000001.wav|One party, however, soon followed him into the swamp.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000048_000000.wav|"My wife's also, I fear," mr Travilla said with emotion, fondly stroking her sunny hair.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000063_000001.wav|Shall we not, wife?"|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000025_000001.wav|The stranger's clothes, though much soiled and torn in several places by contact with thorns and briers, were of good material, fashionable cut, and not old or worn; his manners were gentlemanly, and his speech was that of an educated man.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000007_000000.wav|Some now took one direction, some another, and he perceived with joy that his stratagem had been at least partially successful.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000018_000000.wav|"A glass of wine, Nap, quick!" cried the doctor, sprinkling some water in his patient's face, and applying ammonia to his nostrils.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000007_000002.wav|He could hear Spriggs urging them on and anathematizing him as "a scoundrel, robber, burglar, murderer, who ought to be swung up to the nearest tree."|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000056_000000.wav|"I do; I can," replied mr Travilla.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000005_000001.wav|Leaving the path, he plunged deeper into the woods, ran for some distance along the edge of a swamp, and leaping in up to his knees in mud and water, doubled on his track, then turned again, and penetrating farther and farther into the depths of the morass, finally climbed a tree, groaning with the pain the effort cost him, and concealed himself among the branches.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000020_000000.wav|"Food, for the love of God," he gasped.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000039_000000.wav|They were seated together on the veranda, her hand in his, the other arm thrown lightly about her waist, talking earnestly, and so engrossed with each other and the subject of their conversation, that they did not at first observe the doctor's approach.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000054_000000.wav|"Yes; but they did not find him.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000047_000000.wav|"A murderer, sir; one whose object was to take my husband's life," Elsie answered with a shudder, and in low, tremulous tones, leaning on Edward's arm and gazing into his face with eyes swimming with tears of love and gratitude.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000008_000000.wav|Every thicket was undergoing a thorough search, heads were thrown back and torches held high that eager blacks eyes might scan the tree tops, and Jackson began to grow sick with the almost certainty of being taken, as several stout negroes drew nearer and nearer his chosen hiding place.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000017_000001.wav|With the assistance of Nap's strong arm, the man tottered in, then sank, half fainting, into a chair.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000006_000001.wav|He could hear the sound of their footsteps and voices, and judge of their movements by the gleam of the torches many of them carried.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000013_000001.wav|Perhaps he had now two new murders on his hands; he did not know, but he had at least attempted to take life, and the story would fly on the wings of the wind; such stories always did.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000015_000000.wav|The storm had spent itself before the break of day, and descending from his perch with the first faint rays of light that penetrated the gloomy recesses of the swamp, he made his way out of it, slowly and toilsomely, with weary, aching limbs, suffering intensely from the gnawings of hunger and thirst, the pain of his injury, and the fear of being overtaken by the avengers of his innocent victims.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000030_000000.wav|The doctor's task was done.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000012_000000.wav|Jackson passed several hours most uncomfortably and painfully on his elevated perch, quaking with fear of both man and reptile, not daring to come down or to sleep in his precarious position, or able to do so for the pain of his wound, and growing hour by hour weaker from the bleeding which it was impossible to check entirely.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000058_000002.wav|Why, it's really dangerous to have him at large.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000034_000000.wav|"A bad business," he said, rising and beginning to draw on his gloves. "You are not fit to travel, but are welcome to stay here for the present; had better lie down on the sofa there and take a nap while I am away visiting my patients.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000032_000001.wav|We were roaming through a forest yesterday, looking for game, when I somehow got separated from the rest, lost my way, darkness came on, and wondering hither and thither in the vain effort to find my comrades, tumbling over logs and fallen trees, scratched and torn by brambles, almost eaten up by mosquitos, I thought I was having a dreadful time of it.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000029_000001.wav|'tis well you knew enough to apply it.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000009_000000.wav|He uttered a low, breathed imprecation upon his useless right arm, and the man whose sure aim had made it so.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000014_000001.wav|He must contrive a plausible story, and go to him; at break of day, before the news of the attack on Viamede would be likely to reach him.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000006_000000.wav|His pursuers came up to the spot where he had made his plunge into the water; here they paused, evidently at fault.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000032_000000.wav|"No; a party of us, from New Orleans last, came out to visit this beautiful region.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000055_000001.wav|I'd better return at once, lest he should make his escape.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000037_000000.wav|Nap went back into the office while the doctor mounted and rode away.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000033_000000.wav|The doctor listened in silence, his face telling nothing of his thoughts.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000029_000000.wav|"Oh yes; neither the bone nor nerve has suffered injury; the ball has glanced from the bone, passed under the nerve, and cut the humeral artery. Your tourniquet has saved you from bleeding to death.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000057_000000.wav|"The man's name is Tom Jackson; he is a noted gambler and forger, has been convicted of manslaughter and other crimes, sent to the penitentiary and pardoned out.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000025_000000.wav|dr Balis had his own suspicions as he ripped up the coat sleeve, bared the swollen limb, and carefully dressed the wound; but kept them to himself.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000058_000001.wav|"I must hurry home and prevent his escape.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000061_000001.wav|Why, where it goes in it makes merely a small hole; you see nothing but a blue mark; but a much larger opening in passing out, often tearing the flesh a good deal; as in this case.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000063_000000.wav|"Don't take the trouble, doctor," said mr Travilla; "we will mount and follow you at once, to identify him if he is to be found.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000042_000000.wav|"No, uncle, what is it?"|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000034_000001.wav|Nap, clean the mud and blood from the gentleman's clothes; take his boots out and clean them too; and see that he doesn't want for attention while I am gone.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000003_000001.wav|He stooped and felt on the ground in the darkness and rain, for a stick, by means of which to tighten it still more; for the bleeding, though considerably checked, was by no means stanched.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000024_000001.wav|You haven't strength for talk just now."|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000060_000000.wav|"But how could you tell where it entered or where it passed out, doctor?" inquired Elsie.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000038_000003.wav|have you been house breaking or some other mischief?" dr Balis was traveling in the direction of Viamede, intending to call there too, but having several patients to visit on the way, did not arrive until the late breakfast of its master and mistress was over.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000053_000000.wav|"You had him pursued promptly, of course?"|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000016_000001.wav|The man reeled as he walked, either from intoxication or weakness and fatigue.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000004_000001.wav|Here he again paused to search for the much needed stick, found one suited to his purpose, and by its aid succeeded in decreasing still more the drain upon his life current; yet could not stop the flow entirely.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000035_000000.wav|"Nap," he said, when they were out of ear shot of the stranger, "watch that man and keep him here if possible, till I come back."|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000026_000000.wav|"Is that mortification?" asked the sufferer, looking ruefully at the black, swollen hand and fore arm, and wincing under the doctor's touch as he took up the artery and tied it.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000050_000000.wav|"No; his ball passed over our heads, grazing mine so closely as to cut off a lock of my hair.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000011_000000.wav|The search was kept up for some time longer, with no light but an occasional flash from the skies; but finally abandoned, as we have seen.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000030_000001.wav|Nap had set a plate of food within reach of the stranger's left hand, and he was devouring it like a hungry wolf.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000052_000000.wav|"A flash of lightning showed us to each other and we fired simultaneously, I aiming for his right arm.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000056_000001.wav|"But, my little wife, how you are trembling!|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000021_000000.wav|"Bread, meat, coffee, anything that is on the table, Nap," said his master; "and don't let the grass grow under your feet."|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000020_000001.wav|"I'm starving!"|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000014_000002.wav|It would be a risk, but what better could be done?|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72200/7285_72200_000054_000001.wav|I expected to see them return with his corpse, thinking he must bleed to death in a very short time.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000043_000002.wav|Papa's own boy, he looks beautiful and as bright as the day."|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000041_000000.wav|"Oh, fighting's another thing, but I'll persevere as long as you do; unless I find I'm wearying my teacher."|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000091_000001.wav|"Is it not, Edward?"|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000050_000001.wav|"Papa!|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000005_000001.wav|I'd be glad to add to the comfort of the poor fellows on both sides."|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000057_000000.wav|"Thank God! she is still ours!" exclaimed the father, almost under his breath; then, a little louder, "Elsie, dear wife, I shall go at once for dr Channing, an English physician who has been highly recommended to me."|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000030_000001.wav|Mamma, may I, too?"|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000023_000001.wav|"Little wife, your jewels alone are worth what to very many would be a handsome fortune."|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000001_000000.wav|"Calm me, my God, and keep me calm While these hot breezes blow; Be like the night dew's cooling balm Upon earth's fevered brow." --H.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000050_000002.wav|Edward! she is dying!"|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000003_000000.wav|"Dear old auntie! to think how hard at work for her country she is, while I sit idle here," sighed Elsie, closing the letter after reading it aloud to the assembled family.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000073_000000.wav|With a silent prayer for help to control her emotion, Elsie cleared her voice, and began in low, sweet tones the old, old story of Jesus and His love, His birth, His life, His death.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000005_000000.wav|"I think you can," was the simultaneous reply; mr Travilla adding, "and we can help with the lint, and by running the sewing machines.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000043_000000.wav|"Ah! then I shall try harder than ever, to save your reputation; but take a recess now, for here comes my boy, reaching out his arms to papa.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000018_000000.wav|"I gave her leave to look over the contents of my jewel box; she is a very careful little body, and mammy and I are both on the watch:" answered mamma.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000009_000000.wav|Several busy weeks followed, and a large box was packed and sent off.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000021_000000.wav|"Let papa see where you put it, precious," he said, following her as she tripped across the room and seated herself on a cushion in front of the box.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000016_000000.wav|"Yes," he said, gently taking it from her, "but rather too valuable a plaything for my little pet.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000039_000000.wav|"I begin to think there's truth in the old saw, 'It's hard to teach old dogs new tricks,'" remarked mr Travilla, with a comically rueful face. "I've a mind to give it up.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000054_000001.wav|Quick, Aunt Chloe! a cloth dipped in spirits of turpentine, to lay over the stomach and bowels, and another to put between her shoulders.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000022_000000.wav|"Dere, papa, dus where Elsie dot it," she said, laying it carefully back in its proper place.|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000025_000000.wav|"No, it is a good investment; especially as things are at present."|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7285/72207/7285_72207_000038_000001.wav|"Mammy, sit close to Elsie and keep a careful watch, lest she should drop something."|7285
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000032_000006.wav|What are your plans?|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000012_000000.wav|"I did not!" the Black Doctor snapped.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000037_000000.wav|He reached out and placed Fuzzy gently in the Black Doctor's hand.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000041_000001.wav|He pulled his scarlet cape tightly around his throat.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000029_000000.wav|The Black Doctor smiled.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000038_000001.wav|For a moment the little creature shivered as if afraid.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000032_000005.wav|What about you?|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000026_000000.wav|"You didn't know that you were a guinea pig, did you?" the Black Doctor said.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000037_000002.wav|"I don't think I'll need him any more. I'll miss him, but I think it would be better if I don't have him now. Be good to him, and let me visit him once in a while."|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000025_000000.wav|"My name?"|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000037_000001.wav|"I want you to keep him," he said.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000034_000000.wav|"Then go along," dr Arnquist said, "with my congratulations and blessing.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000024_000000.wav|dr Arnquist laughed.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000020_000002.wav|What do you think?|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000040_000003.wav|He was a Star Surgeon from Hospital Earth.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000033_000000.wav|They talked then about the future.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000038_000002.wav|Then he blinked twice at Dal, trustingly, and snuggled in comfortably against the Black Doctor's neck.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000038_000000.wav|The Black Doctor looked at Dal, and then lifted Fuzzy up to his own shoulder.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000036_000004.wav|But now I think I've changed my mind."|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000021_000002.wav|The Black Doctor looked up, and beamed.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000032_000007.wav|What do you propose to do now that you have that star on your collar?"|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134176/1311_134176_000005_000001.wav|But things were different now.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000017_000002.wav|We are all dying, but if you must have a contract to come...."|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000028_000002.wav|Gives reference to the full report in the Confederation files.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000038_000000.wav|Tiger got the request off while Jack and Dal strapped down for the conversion to Koenig drive.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000018_000001.wav|"We're coming.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000028_000001.wav|Says it's an Earth type planet, and not much else.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000036_000000.wav|Jack stared at him.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000010_000000.wav|The message stared up at them cryptically.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000020_000000.wav|"They sound desperate," Dal said.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000014_000001.wav|"Who are you?"|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000006_000000.wav|"This is all?" Jack said.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000016_000002.wav|"Check these out fast," he told Jack.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000012_000001.wav|Can you hear me?|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000014_000000.wav|"We need your co ordinates in order to tell," Tiger said.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000032_000000.wav|"Contract!" Jack said.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000036_000002.wav|We can't do that, they'd skin us alive.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000005_000000.wav|GREETINGS|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000022_000003.wav|Tiger was right; this was almost too good to be true.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000013_000001.wav|Then a voice came whispering through the static.|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000019_000002.wav|A planet calling for help, with no Hospital Earth contract!"|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1311/134170/1311_134170_000032_000001.wav|"It doesn't even say there are any people there. Not a word about any kind of life form."|1311
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000007_000002.wav|Brutal and debasing as was Simon's regimen, it was not rapid enough in its process to satisfy "the Committee of Public Safety;" they, therefore, dismissed him from his post, and made different arrangements.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000007_000007.wav|On the eighth of June he told one of his keepers, "I have something to tell you!" but the man waited in vain for the revelation, for whilst he listened the poor child's life had passed away.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000002_000000.wav|THE FALSE DAUPHINS IN FRANCE.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000005_000003.wav|But his happy childish life was of short duration: the starving and infuriated populace of Paris, driven from one misery to another, deemed if they could only bring the king to the metropolis means would be discovered for overcoming their distress.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000008_000004.wav|"His eyes, which while suffering had half closed," he relates, "were now open, and shone as pure as the blue heaven, and his beautiful fair hair, which had not been cut for two months, fell like a frame round his face."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000006_000004.wav|From the date of their incarceration in the Temple their doom was sealed, and nothing but death released any one save the Princess Marie Theresa from captivity.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000008_000001.wav|The members of the Committee of Public Safety having concluded their day's sitting when the news was brought, it was deemed advisable to conceal the event until the morrow.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000006_000003.wav|From that time until the thirteenth of August, seventeen ninety two, when the royal family were imprisoned in the Temple, the whole of its members had been under close surveillance, and had no fresh opportunity of escaping from the capital.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000004_000000.wav|Had not these pages already proved to what an extent human credulity could go, it would be almost useless to offer the following most extraordinary details as matters of fact.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000005_000000.wav|On the twenty seventh of march seventeen eighty five, Louis Charles, the second son of Louis the Sixteenth of France, was born at the Chateau de Versailles.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000008_000002.wav|Supper was prepared for the child as usual, and Gomin, his attendant, took it up to the room.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000003_000000.wav|seventeen ninety three to eighteen fifty nine.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/84349/6395_84349_000008_000000.wav|When the dauphin died he was ten years and two months old.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000024_000002.wav|This drunken Caderousse has made me lose the thread of my sentence."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000083_000001.wav|you will not?|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000086_000000.wav|"Well," said Caderousse, "why, what a lie he told!|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000058_000000.wav|"When one thinks," said Caderousse, letting his hand drop on the paper, "there is here wherewithal to kill a man more sure than if we waited at the corner of a wood to assassinate him!|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000029_000000.wav|"Yes; but I added, to help you it would be sufficient that Dantes did not marry her you love; and the marriage may easily be thwarted, methinks, and yet Dantes need not die."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000010_000002.wav|I am not in love with Mademoiselle Mercedes; but for you-in the words of the gospel, seek, and you shall find."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000012_000000.wav|"What?"|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000037_000000.wav|"I won't hold my tongue!" replied Caderousse; "I say I want to know why they should put Dantes in prison; I like Dantes; Dantes, your health!" and he swallowed another glass of wine.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000043_000002.wav|I hate him!|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000010_000000.wav|"How do I know?|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000053_000000.wav|"Pen, ink, and paper," muttered Fernand.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000007_000000.wav|"As long as I have known her-always."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000042_000001.wav|None, on my word!|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000073_000001.wav|"Dantes is my friend, and I won't have him ill used."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000077_000000.wav|"I?" said Caderousse, rising with all the offended dignity of a drunken man, "I can't keep on my legs?|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000024_000000.wav|"What was I saying?|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000008_000000.wav|"And you sit there, tearing your hair, instead of seeking to remedy your condition; I did not think that was the way of your people."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000024_000001.wav|I forget.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000049_000000.wav|"No!--you undertook to do so."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000044_000003.wav|I won't have Dantes killed-I won't!"|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000083_000000.wav|"What do you mean?|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000061_000000.wav|"Well!" resumed the Catalan, as he saw the final glimmer of Caderousse's reason vanishing before the last glass of wine.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000088_000000.wav|"Well," said Caderousse, "I should have said not-how treacherous wine is!"|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000001_000000.wav|Danglars followed Edmond and Mercedes with his eyes until the two lovers disappeared behind one of the angles of Fort Saint Nicolas, then turning round, he perceived Fernand, who had fallen, pale and trembling, into his chair, while Caderousse stammered out the words of a drinking song.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000075_000000.wav|"In this case," replied Caderousse, "let's have some more wine.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000082_000000.wav|"I will not."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000066_000001.wav|Mercedes, who will detest you if you have only the misfortune to scratch the skin of her dearly beloved Edmond!"|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000065_000000.wav|"Oh, I should wish nothing better than that he would come and seek a quarrel with me."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000002_000000.wav|"Well, my dear sir," said Danglars to Fernand, "here is a marriage which does not appear to make everybody happy."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000083_000003.wav|Come along, Danglars, and let the young gentleman return to the Catalans if he chooses."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000033_000000.wav|"Yes; but one gets out of prison," said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, "and when one gets out and one's name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge"--|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000044_000002.wav|He's my friend, and this morning offered to share his money with me, as I shared mine with him.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000080_000000.wav|"No," said Fernand; "I shall return to the Catalans."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000020_000000.wav|"Yes," said Caderousse, "but how?"|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000038_000000.wav|Danglars saw in the muddled look of the tailor the progress of his intoxication, and turning towards Fernand, said, "Well, you understand there is no need to kill him."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000073_000000.wav|"All right!" said Caderousse.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000019_000000.wav|"Come," said Danglars, "you appear to me a good sort of fellow, and hang me, I should like to help you, but"--|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000010_000001.wav|Is it my affair?|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000023_000000.wav|"You were saying, sir"--said Fernand, awaiting with great anxiety the end of this interrupted remark.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000054_000000.wav|"Yes; I am a supercargo; pen, ink, and paper are my tools, and without my tools I am fit for nothing."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000022_000001.wav|I could drink four more such bottles; they are no bigger than cologne flasks.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000051_000000.wav|"Do you invent, then," said Fernand impatiently.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000078_000001.wav|Give me your arm, and let us go."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000015_000000.wav|"You do not know Mercedes; what she threatens she will do."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000043_000000.wav|"No, no," said Fernand, restraining him, "stay!|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000011_000000.wav|"I have found already."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000040_000000.wav|"It is to be found for the searching.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000060_000000.wav|The Catalan watched him until Caderousse, almost overcome by this fresh assault on his senses, rested, or rather dropped, his glass upon the table.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000084_000000.wav|Danglars took advantage of Caderousse's temper at the moment, to take him off towards Marseilles by the Porte Saint Victor, staggering as he went.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000005_000000.wav|"I adore her!"|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000062_000000.wav|"Well, then, I should say, for instance," resumed Danglars, "that if after a voyage such as Dantes has just made, in which he touched at the Island of Elba, some one were to denounce him to the king's procureur as a Bonapartist agent"--|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000056_000000.wav|"There's what you want on that table," said the waiter.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000057_000000.wav|"Bring them here." The waiter did as he was desired.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000040_000002.wav|it is no affair of mine."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000003_000000.wav|"It drives me to despair," said Fernand.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000032_000001.wav|"Let him run on," said Danglars, restraining the young man; "drunk as he is, he is not much out in what he says. Absence severs as well as death, and if the walls of a prison were between Edmond and Mercedes they would be as effectually separated as if he lay under a tombstone."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000047_000000.wav|"But the means-the means?" said Fernand.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000035_000000.wav|"And why, I should like to know," persisted Caderousse, "should they put Dantes in prison?|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000021_000001.wav|Drink then, and do not meddle with what we are discussing, for that requires all one's wit and cool judgment."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000000_000000.wav|Chapter four.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000042_000002.wav|I saw you were unhappy, and your unhappiness interested me; that's all; but since you believe I act for my own account, adieu, my dear friend, get out of the affair as best you may;" and Danglars rose as if he meant to depart.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000031_000004.wav|Dantes is a good fellow; I like Dantes.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000039_000000.wav|"Certainly not, if, as you said just now, you have the means of having Dantes arrested.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000018_000000.wav|"That's what I call love!" said Caderousse with a voice more tipsy than ever.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000044_000001.wav|I won't have him killed-I won't!|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000043_000003.wav|I confess it openly.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000031_000002.wav|I have answered for you.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000014_000001.wav|Women say those things, but never do them."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000078_000000.wav|"Done!" said Danglars, "I'll take your bet; but to morrow-to day it is time to return.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000081_000001.wav|Come with us to Marseilles-come along."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000083_000002.wav|Well, just as you like, my prince; there's liberty for all the world.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000035_000001.wav|he has not robbed or killed or murdered."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000079_000001.wav|Come, Fernand, won't you return to Marseilles with us?"|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000000_000001.wav|Conspiracy.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000031_000000.wav|"You talk like a noodle, my friend," said Caderousse; "and here is Danglars, who is a wide awake, clever, deep fellow, who will prove to you that you are wrong.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000063_000000.wav|"I will denounce him!" exclaimed the young man hastily.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000022_000002.wav|Pere Pamphile, more wine!" and Caderousse rattled his glass upon the table.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000079_000000.wav|"Very well, let us go," said Caderousse; "but I don't want your arm at all.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000069_000001.wav|Proof of this crime will be found on arresting him, for the letter will be found upon him, or at his father's, or in his cabin on board the Pharaon."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000031_000003.wav|Say there is no need why Dantes should die; it would, indeed, be a pity he should.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000030_000000.wav|"Death alone can separate them," remarked Fernand.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000076_000000.wav|"You have had too much already, drunkard," said Danglars; "and if you continue, you will be compelled to sleep here, because unable to stand on your legs."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000006_000000.wav|"For long?"|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000055_000000.wav|"Pen, ink, and paper, then," called Fernand loudly.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000017_000000.wav|"Before Mercedes should die," replied Fernand, with the accents of unshaken resolution, "I would die myself!"|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000071_000001.wav|"Yes, and that's all settled; only it will be an infamous shame;" and he stretched out his hand to reach the letter.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/86708/6395_86708_000039_000001.wav|Have you that means?"|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000003.wav|His disease seemed to yield to exercise and change of air; and when he arrived in London, he was apparently in much better health than when he left Edinburgh.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000011_000000.wav|I received, the day after, a letter from mr Hume himself, of which the following is an extract:--|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000020_000003.wav|It was a frugality founded not upon avarice, but upon the love of independency.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000008_000000.wav|But, though mr Hume always talked of his approaching dissolution with great cheerfulness, he never affected to make any parade of his magnanimity.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000004.wav|He was advised to go to Bath to drink the waters, which appeared for some time to have so good an effect upon him, that even he himself began to entertain, what he was not apt to do, a better opinion of his own health.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000019_000000.wav|"Yesterday, about four o'clock, afternoon, mr Hume expired. The near approach of his death became evident in the night between Thursday and Friday, when his disease became excessive, and soon weakened him so much, that he could no longer rise out of his bed He continued to the last perfectly sensible, and free from much pain or feelings of distress.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000015_000000.wav|"I go very fast to decline, and last night had a small fever, which I hoped might put a quicker period to this tedious illness; but unluckily it has, in a great measure, gone off.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000006_000000.wav|Though, in his own judgment, his disease was mortal and incurable, yet he allowed himself to be prevailed upon, by the entreaty of his friends, to try what might be the effects of a long journey.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000018_000000.wav|"DEAR SIR,|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000007.wav|His cheerfulness was so great, and his conversation and amusements ran so much in their usual strain, that, notwithstanding all bad symptoms, many people could not believe he was dying.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000020_000006.wav|To his friends who were frequently the objects of it, there was not perhaps any one of all his great and amiable qualities which contributed more to endear his conversation.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000014.wav|"I could not well imagine," said he, "what excuse I could make to Charon in order to obtain a little delay.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000010_000000.wav|"Since my last, mr Hume has passed his time pretty easily, but is much weaker.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000013_000000.wav|"MY DEAREST FRIEND,|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000006_000001.wav|A few days before he set out, he wrote that account of his own life, which, together with his other papers, he has left to your care.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000017.wav|If I live a few years longer, I may have the satisfaction of seeing the downfall of some of the prevailing systems of superstition.' But Charon would then lose all temper and decency.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000020_000007.wav|And that gayety of temper, so agreeable in society, but which is so often accompanied with frivolous and superficial qualities, was in him certainly attended with the most severe application, the most extensive learning, the greatest depth of thought, and a capacity in every respect the most comprehensive.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000009_000000.wav|On the twenty second of August, the doctor wrote me the following letter;--|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000008_000002.wav|The conversation which I mentioned above, and which passed on Thursday the eighth of August, was the last, except one, that I ever had with him.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000019_000001.wav|He never dropped the smallest expression of impatience; but when he had occasion to speak to the people about him, always did it with affection and tenderness.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000006_000002.wav|My account, therefore, shall begin where his ends.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000020_000002.wav|Even in the lowest state of his fortune, his great and necessary frugality never hindered him from exercising, upon proper occasions, acts both of charity and generosity.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000015_000001.wav|I cannot submit to your coming over here on my account, as it is possible for me to see you so small a part of the day; but dr Black can better inform you concerning the degree of strength which may from time to time remain with me.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000002.wav|As I had written to my mother that she might expect me in Scotland, I was under the necessity of continuing my journey.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000019.wav|Do you fancy I will grant you a lease for so long a term?|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000004_000000.wav|DEAR SIR,|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000020_000004.wav|The extreme gentleness of his nature never weakened either the firmness of his mind or the steadiness of his resolutions.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000005.wav|His symptoms, however, soon returned with their usual violence; and from that moment he gave up all thoughts of recovery, but submitted with the utmost cheerfulness, and the most perfect complacency and resignation.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000014_000000.wav|"I am obliged to make use of my nephew's hand in writing to you, as I do not rise to day.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000010_000001.wav|He sits up, goes down stairs once a day, and amuses himself with reading, but seldom sees any body.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000006.wav|Upon his return to Edinburgh, though he found himself much weaker, yet his cheerfulness never abated, and he continued to divert himself, as usual, with correcting his own works for a new edition, with reading books of amusement, with the conversation of his friends; and, sometimes in the evening, with a party at his favorite game of whist.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000009.wav|mr Hume's magnanimity and firmness were such, that his most affectionate friends knew that they hazarded nothing in talking or writing to him as to a dying man, and that so far from being hurt by this frankness, he was rather pleased and flattered by it.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000015_000002.wav|Adieu, etc"|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000020.wav|Get into the boat this instant, you lazy, loitering rogue.'"|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000020_000005.wav|His constant pleasantry was the genuine effusion of good nature and good humor, tempered with delicacy and modesty, and without even the slightest tincture of malignity, so frequently the disagreeable source of what is called wit in other men. It never was the meaning of his raillery to mortify; and therefore, far from offending, it seldom failed to please and delight, even those who were the objects of it.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000019_000003.wav|When he became very weak, it cost him an effort to speak; and he died in such a happy composure of mind, that nothing could exceed it."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000010_000002.wav|He finds that even the conversation of his most intimate friends fatigues and oppresses him; and it is happy that he does not need it, for he is quite free from anxiety, impatience, or low spirits, and passes his time very well with the assistance of amusing books."|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000001.wav|mr Home returned with him, and attended him during the whole of his stay in England, with that care and attention which might be expected from a temper so perfectly friendly and affectionate.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000016_000000.wav|Three days after, I received the following letter from dr Black:--|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6395/87997/6395_87997_000007_000012.wav|He answered, "Your hopes are groundless. An habitual diarrhoea of more than a year's standing, would be a very bad disease at any age; at my age it is a mortal one.|6395
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1607/134636/1607_134636_000004_000000.wav|The whole empire was deeply interested in the education of these five youths, the acknowledged successors of Constantine.|1607
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1607/134636/1607_134636_000004_000008.wav|The indulgence of Constantine admitted them, at a very tender age, to share the administration of the empire; and they studied the art of reigning, at the expense of the people intrusted to their care.|1607
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1607/134636/1607_134636_000020_000000.wav|To oppose the inroad of this destroying host, the aged emperor took the field in person; but on this occasion either his conduct or his fortune betrayed the glory which he had acquired in so many foreign and domestic wars.|1607
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1607/134636/1607_134636_000004_000014.wav|A just proportion of guards, of legions, and of auxiliaries, was allotted for their respective dignity and defence.|1607
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1607/134636/1607_134636_000004_000005.wav|In the free intercourse of private life, and amidst the dangers of the court of Galerius, he had learned to command his own passions, to encounter those of his equals, and to depend for his present safety and future greatness on the prudence and firmness of his personal conduct.|1607
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1607/134636/1607_134636_000004_000015.wav|The ministers and generals, who were placed about their persons, were such as Constantine could trust to assist, and even to control, these youthful sovereigns in the exercise of their delegated power.|1607
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1607/149245/1607_149245_000005_000010.wav|Some of them were quartered at such a distance that they did not arrive in time.|1607
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1607/149245/1607_149245_000007_000001.wav|In truth james would have done better to withhold all assistance from the Highlanders than to mock them by sending them, instead of the well appointed army which they had asked and expected, a rabble contemptible in numbers and appearance.|1607
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1607/149245/1607_149245_000004_000006.wav|White villas peep from the birch forest; and, on a fine summer day, there is scarcely a turn of the pass at which may not be seen some angler casting his fly on the foam of the river, some artist sketching a pinnacle of rock, or some party of pleasure banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine.|1607
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000026_000003.wav|Men lost in the snow travel in exact circles until they sink, exhausted, as their footprints have attested.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000030_000001.wav|Randy, who was playing with a pair of spurs on the ground, looked up for a moment at his father and went on spinning the rowels and singing a little song.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000014_000003.wav|He turned now to his right up a little hill, pebble covered, upon which grew only the tenacious and thorny prickly pear and chaparral.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000015_000000.wav|Sam rode down the sloping hill and plunged into the great pear flat that lies between the Quintanilla and the Piedra.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000005_000000.wav|"Oh, well," said his wife, carelessly, "put on your necktie-that'll keep it together."|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000016_000005.wav|They came upon a few, but so dense and interlaced was the brush that scarcely could a rabbit penetrate the mass.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000017_000005.wav|Marthy was afraid of the country-afraid of Mexicans, of snakes, of panthers, even of sheep.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000016_000000.wav|In about two hours he discovered that he was lost.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000007_000001.wav|At length he came out, ready for his ride.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000029_000000.wav|Mexico gave a protesting grunt as if to say: "What's the use of that, now we're so near?" He quickened his gait into a languid trot. Rounding a great clump of black chaparral he stopped short.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000007_000002.wav|This being a business trip of some importance, and the Chapman ranch being almost a small town in population and size, Sam had decided to "dress up" accordingly.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000026_000001.wav|Nature moves in circles.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000026_000000.wav|The straight line is Art.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000024_000003.wav|Sam thought of roving, marauding Mexicans, of stealthy cougars that sometimes invaded the ranches, of rattlesnakes, centipedes, and a dozen possible dangers.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000027_000000.wav|It was when Sam Webber was fullest of contrition and good resolves that Mexico, with a heavy sigh, subsided from his regular, brisk trot into a slow complacent walk.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000031_000000.wav|Sam shook himself queerly, like a man coming out of a dream, and slowly dismounted.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000013_000002.wav|He should have started three hours earlier.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000006_000003.wav|Only a few feet back of it began the thorny jungle.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000026_000002.wav|A straightforward man is more an artificial product than a diplomatist is.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000017_000003.wav|But in Sam's case it was different.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000031_000001.wav|He moistened his dry lips.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000007_000004.wav|The tight white collar awkwardly constricted his muscular, mahogany colored neck.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000016_000003.wav|At the moment his master's sureness of the route had failed his horse had divined the fact.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000012_000002.wav|I live in the bresh here like a varmint, never seein' nor hearin' nothin', and what other 'musement kin I have?|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000017_000001.wav|The thing often happened.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000006_000001.wav|The ranch house-a two room box structure-was on the rise of a gently swelling hill in the midst of a wilderness of high chaparral.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000025_000000.wav|Still the interminable succession of stretches of brush, cactus, and mesquite.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000016_000004.wav|There were no hills now that they could climb to obtain a view of the country.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000030_000000.wav|Marthy, serene and comfortable, sat in her rocking chair before the door in the shade of the house, with her feet resting luxuriously upon the steps.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000018_000004.wav|If so he was now something like fifty miles from home.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000033_000000.wav|Sam had traveled round the circle and was himself again.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/109656/7688_109656_000010_000000.wav|Sam climbed awkwardly into the saddle.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/105390/7688_105390_000026_000000.wav|"Ah! who is it?" asked the Prince.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/105390/7688_105390_000015_000000.wav|"His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and suite, Sir Percy Blakeney, Lady Blakeney."|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/105390/7688_105390_000009_000000.wav|In his official capacity he had been received courteously by his English colleagues: mr Pitt had shaken him by the hand; Lord Grenville had entertained him more than once; but the more intimate circles of London society ignored him altogether; the women openly turned their backs upon him; the men who held no official position refused to shake his hand.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000022_000000.wav|"I got up and shook Andy Tucker's hand hard and long.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000018_000000.wav|"'Boys,' says Murkison, 'I've got it in my mind that them fellows can't fool me.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000014_000000.wav|"'Ah, yes,' says Andy, gaping, 'it's the same old game.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000010_000002.wav|If you answer it they write again asking you to come on with your money and do business.'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000047_000001.wav|I think there are times when Andy don't exactly understand my system of ethics and moral hygiene.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000011.wav|You come up here all sanctified and vanoplied with respectability and a pleasing post office address to swindle him.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000005_000000.wav|"After we talk on all the notorious themes of the day, this Murkison- for such was his entitlements-takes a letter out of his coat pocket in a careful, careless way and hands it to us to read.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000007_000001.wav|It was one of them old time typewritten green goods letters explaining how for one thousand dollars you could get five thousand dollars in bills that an expert couldn't tell from the genuine; and going on to tell how they were made from plates stolen by an employee of the Treasury at Washington.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000020_000001.wav|In our idle hours we always improved our higher selves by ratiocination and mental thought.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000013.wav|If you get it he hocks the gray suit to buy supper and says nothing.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000013_000003.wav|They said telegraph to j Smith when I would start.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000028_000001.wav|'I can't consent to let the song of this Chicago siren waft by me on the summer breeze.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000028_000004.wav|Maybe you could help some when it comes to cashing in the ticket to that five to one shot.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000007.wav|How do you know,' says I, 'that that green goods man hasn't a large family dependent upon his extortions?|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000023_000000.wav|"'Andy,' says I, 'I may have had one or two hard thoughts about the heartlessness of your corporation, but I retract 'em now.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000023_000003.wav|I was just thinking the same thing that you have expressed. It would not be honorable or praiseworthy,' says I, 'for us to let Murkison go on with this project he has taken up.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000028_000005.wav|Yes, I'd really take it as a pastime and regalement if you boys would go along too.'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000035_000000.wav|"'Now, boys,' says Murkison, 'let's get our gumption together and inoculate a plan for defeating the enemy.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000014_000001.wav|I've often read about it in the papers.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000029_000001.wav|He wires j Smith that he will set foot in the spider web on a given date; and the three of us lights out for Chicago.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000041_000004.wav|I guess your high position there is worth more than two thousand dollars to you.'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000043_000000.wav|"On the train Andy was a long time silent.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000003_000000.wav|"One day the leading hardware merchant of Grassdale drops around to the hotel where me and Andy stopped, and smokes with us, sociable, on the side porch.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000013_000004.wav|When I get there I'm to wait on a certain street corner till a man in a gray suit comes along and drops a newspaper in front of me.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000017_000000.wav|"'I've always-I see by the papers that it always is,' says Andy.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000046_000000.wav|"'Why, certainly,' says i 'What else could it have been?|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000005.wav|No, sir; you was going to rob peter to stand off Paul.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000041_000001.wav|'No, I don't want it,' says i 'Lay it on the table and you sit in that chair till it ticks off an hour.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000003.wav|You come up here to rob these men of their money.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000041_000002.wav|Then you can go.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000028_000000.wav|"'No, boys,' says he.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000030_000000.wav|"On the way Murkison amuses himself with premonitions and advance pleasant recollections.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000013_000005.wav|Then I am to ask him how the water is, and he knows it's me and I know it's him.'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000012_000000.wav|"A few days later he drops around again.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000003_000001.wav|We knew him pretty well from pitching quoits in the afternoons in the court house yard.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000034_000001.wav|Murkison was to meet the gray man at half past nine.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000023_000004.wav|If he is determined to go let us go with him and prevent this swindle from coming off.'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000023_000002.wav|It does you credit.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000014_000004.wav|Of course it's brown paper when you come to look at it afterward.'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000013_000001.wav|I wrote to them rascals again just for fun.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000047_000000.wav|"In about half an hour Andy spoke again.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000009.wav|If it wasn't for you they'd go out of business. The green goods man you was going to rob,' says I, 'studied maybe for years to learn his trade.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000032_000000.wav|"Sometimes Murkison was serious and tried to talk himself out of his cogitations, whatever they was.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000036_000000.wav|"'"Bring 'em along," he'll say, of course, "if they care to invest." Now, how does that scheme strike you?'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000025_000000.wav|"'I don't call myself a religious man,' says I, 'or a fanatic in moral bigotry, but I can't stand still and see a man who has built up his business by his own efforts and brains and risk be robbed by an unscrupulous trickster who is a menace to the public good.'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000008.wav|It's you supposedly respectable citizens who are always on the lookout to get something for nothing,' says I, 'that support the lotteries and wild cat mines and stock exchanges and wire tappers of this country.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000000_000002.wav|I didn't approve of all of Andy's schemes for levying contributions from the public, and he thought I allowed my conscience to interfere too often for the financial good of the firm.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000024_000000.wav|"Andy agreed with me; and I was glad to see that he was in earnest about breaking up this green goods scheme.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000002_000001.wav|We was supposed to be horse drovers, and good decent citizens besides, taking a summer vacation.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000019_000000.wav|"Me and Andy tries to get this financial misquotation out of Murkison's head, but we might as well have tried to keep the man who rolls peanuts with a toothpick from betting on Bryan's election.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000013_000000.wav|"'Boys,' says he, 'I know you are all right or I wouldn't confide in you.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000004.wav|Does it excuse you?' I asks, 'that they were trying to skin you?|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000002_000002.wav|The Grassdale people liked us, and me and Andy declared a cessation of hostilities, never so much as floating the fly leaf of a rubber concession prospectus or flashing a Brazilian diamond while we was there.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000001_000000.wav|"'I don't know how you mean that, Andy,' says I, 'but we have been friends too long for me to take offense at a taunt that you will regret when you cool off.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000026_000001.wav|I'd hate to see any money dropped in it as bad as you would.'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000003_000002.wav|He was a loud, red man, breathing hard, but fat and respectable beyond all reason.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000014_000002.wav|Then he conducts you to the private abattoir in the hotel, where mr Jones is already waiting.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000012.wav|If he gets the money you can squeal to the police.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000021_000003.wav|There is but one way it can end.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000000_000000.wav|"The only times," said he, "that me and Andy Tucker ever had any hiatuses in our cordial intents was when we differed on the moral aspects of grafting.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000001.wav|Obey with velocity,' says I, 'for otherwise alternatives are impending.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000001_000001.wav|I have yet,' says I, 'to shake hands with a subpoena server.'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000033_000005.wav|Five dollars for one-that's what j Smith offers, and he'll have to keep his contract if he does business with Bill Murkison.'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000023_000001.wav|You have a kind nucleus at the interior of your exterior after all.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000021_000000.wav|"'Jeff,' says Andy after a long time, 'quite unseldom I have seen fit to impugn your molars when you have been chewing the rag with me about your conscientious way of doing business.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000021_000004.wav|Don't you think we would both feel better if we was to intervene in some way and prevent the doing of this deed?'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000000_000001.wav|Andy had his standards and I had mine.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000040_000000.wav|"I put the two thousand, which was all in twenty dollars bills, in my inside pocket.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000026_000000.wav|"'Right, Jeff,' says Andy. 'We'll stick right along with Murkison if he insists on going and block this funny business.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000002_000000.wav|"One summer me and Andy decided to rest up a spell in a fine little town in the mountains of Kentucky called Grassdale.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000046_000001.wav|Wasn't it yours, too?'|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000027_000000.wav|"Well, we went to see Murkison.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7688/112187/7688_112187_000039_000006.wav|You are ten times worse,' says I, 'than that green goods man. You go to church at home and pretend to be a decent citizen, but you'll come to Chicago and commit larceny from men that have built up a sound and profitable business by dealing with such contemptible scoundrels as you have tried to be to day.|7688
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000005_000005.wav|And as they were thus sorrowing behold, they heard a mighty clamour, that came from seaward and looking in the direction of the clamour saw a multitude of apes, as they were swarming locusts.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000002.wav|Better therefore lord it over the apes, for so long as thou shalt tarry amongst them they will be victorious over the Ghuls.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000005_000008.wav|The Prince and his followers came down from their seats and ate, and the apes ate with them, till they were satisfied, when the apes took away the meat and set on fruits of which they partook and praised Allah the most Highest.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000004.wav|Then they mounted again and, surrounded by the army of the apes who were rejoicing in their victory, returned to the castle.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000007_000009.wav|And while exploring the said mountain Janshah found a tablet of alabaster, whereon was written, 'O thou who enterest this land, know that thou wilt become Sultan over these apes and that from them there is no escape for thee, except by the passes that run east and west through the mountains.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000011.wav|They devoured many of their foes, and these also slew many of the ants; but help came to the emmets: now an ant would go up to an ape and smite him and cut him in twain, whilst ten apes could hardly master one ant and bear him away and tear him in sunder.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000009.wav|So they mounted and pursued them, some taking the eastern pass and others that which led to the Wady of Emmets, nor was it long before the apes came in sight of the fugitives, as they were about to enter the valley, and hastened after them.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000005.wav|Here Janshah abode, Sultaning over them, for a year and a half.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000008.wav|When the apes awoke and missed Janshah and his men, they knew that they had fled.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000012.wav|The sore battle lasted till the evening but the emmets were victorious.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000007_000002.wav|Then the Wazirs approached and exhorted him by signs to do justice amongst them and rule them righteously; after which the apes cried out to one another and went away, all save a small party which remained in presence to serve him.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000007.wav|Then he rose forthright and wrote letters and despatched them to all the islands of the sea.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000017.wav|The island pleased the Prince and he said to his companions, 'Which of you will land and explore?' Then said one of the slaves, 'That will I do'; but he replied, 'This thing may not be; you must all land and explore the place while I abide in the boat.' So he set them ashore,"-- And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000007_000004.wav|So they mounted, marvelling at the greatness of the dogs, and rode forth, attended by the four Wazirs and a host of apes like swarming locusts, some riding on dogs and others afoot till they came to the sea shore.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000005_000002.wav|When he heard their report, he cried, 'Needs must I solace myself with a sight of it;' so he landed and accompanied them to the palace, which he entered marvelling at the goodliness of the place.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000005_000009.wav|Then Janshah asked the apes by signs what they were and to whom the palace belonged, and they answered him by signals, 'Know ye that this island belonged of yore to our lord Solomon, son of David (on both of whom be peace!), and he used to come hither once every year for his solace,'"--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000008_000000.wav|When it was the Five Hundred and Fourth Night,|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000011.wav|But a stiff gale caught the Prince's craft which went spooning till they made a second island, where they landed and walked about.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000007_000006.wav|So he turned to the apes and asked them, 'What are these Ghuls?' and they answered, 'Know, O King, that these Ghuls are our mortal foes and we come hither to do battle with them.' Janshah marvelled to see them riding horses, and was startled at the vastness of their bulk and the strangeness of their semblance; for some of them had heads like bulls and others like camels.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000002.wav|Then they again embarked and taking with them the gazelle, set out to return homeward, but the murk of evening overtook them and they missed their way on the main.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000015.wav|When the voyagers saw this, they turned and fled seawards; but the cannibals pursued them and caught and ate three of the slaves, leaving only three slaves who with Janshah reached the boat in safety; then launching her made for the water and sailed nights and days without knowing whither their ship went.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000012.wav|Presently they came upon a spring of running water in the midst of the island and saw from afar a man sitting hard by it.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000007_000001.wav|The Prince slept that night on the throne and his men on the stools about him, and on the morrow, at daybreak, the four Wazirs or Captains of the apes presented themselves before him, attended by their troops, who ranged themselves about him, rank after rank, until the place was crowded.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000003_000016.wav|They killed the gazelle, and lived on her flesh, till the winds drove them to a third island which was full of trees and waters and flower gardens and orchards laden with all fashion of fruits: and streams strayed under the tree shade: brief, the place was a Garden of Eden.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60801/6494_60801_000009_000003.wav|And know also that he who wrote this tablet was the lord Solomon, son of David (on both be peace!).' When Janshah read these words, he wept sore and repeated them to his men.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60774/6494_60774_000027_000004.wav|He cast the stone at my stallion, and it killed him for it struck a vital part.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60774/6494_60774_000027_000003.wav|I ran to her, to drive her away, when behold, there appeared, at a breach of the wall, an old man and grey, whose eyes sparkled with angry ray, holding in his right a stone to throw and swaying to and fro, with a swing like a lion ready for a spring.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000007_000005.wav|Know that we have taken counsel with the astrologers and sages and mathematicians, and they tell us that we shall have boon of a boy child, and that by none other than thy daughter.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000003_000002.wav|How few things thou hast seen in thy life compared with mine.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000001_000005.wav|When Bulukiya found himself within the gate, he looked and beheld a vast ocean, half salt and half fresh, bounded on every side by mountain ranges of red ruby whereon he saw angels singing the praises of the Lord and hallowing Him.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000003_000003.wav|Know, O Bulukiya, that unlike thyself I have looked upon our lord Solomon, in his life, and have seen things past count or reckoning.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000005_000000.wav|She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Queen continued: "When Bulukiya ended his recount, the youth said, 'How few things of marvel hast thou seen in thy life, O unhappy!|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000002_000000.wav|When it was the Four Hundred and Ninety eighth Night,|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000009_000008.wav|They all ran at her to take her as their quarry, but she escaped from them and, throwing herself into the waves,"--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000001_000004.wav|So Gabriel descended and, saluting Bulukiya, opened the gate to him, saying, 'Enter this door, for Allah commandeth me to open to thee.' So he entered and Gabriel locked the gate behind him and flew back to heaven.|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000008_000000.wav|When it was the Five Hundredth Night,|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6494/60800/6494_60800_000005_000001.wav|Now I have looked upon our lord Solomon while he was yet living and I have witnessed wonders beyond compt and conception.' And he began to relate|6494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000012_000001.wav|I really do not know beyond once more repeating that everything is described in the accompanying manuscript exactly as it happened.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000009.wav|We are for reasons that, after perusing this manuscript, you may be able to guess, going away again this time to Central Asia where, if anywhere upon this earth, wisdom is to be found, and we anticipate that our sojourn there will be a long one.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000004_000000.wav|In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to explain what my exact connection with it is.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000005.wav|I heard afterwards that he was popularly supposed to be as much afraid of a woman as most people are of a mad dog, which accounted for his precipitate retreat.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000012_000006.wav|These and many other questions arise in my mind, but what is the good of asking them now?|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000003.wav|I have recently read with much interest a book of yours describing a Central African adventure.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000007_000005.wav|He had dark hair and small eyes, and the hair grew right down on his forehead, and his whiskers grew right up to his hair, so that there was uncommonly little of his countenance to be seen. Altogether he reminded me forcibly of a gorilla, and yet there was something very pleasing and genial about the man's eye.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000001.wav|Of the history itself the reader must judge.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000005.wav|However this may be, it has given me an idea.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000012_000000.wav|"And now what am I to say further?|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000005_000001.wav|One of these gentlemen was I think, without exception, the handsomest young fellow I have ever seen.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000015_000001.wav|Geoffrey and Jordan, to meet it.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000001.wav|Indeed, I think I had better begin by reminding you that we once met, now some five years ago, when I and my ward Leo Vincey were introduced to you in the street at Cambridge.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000008.wav|Nor should we alter our determination were it not for a circumstance which has recently arisen.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000007_000003.wav|He appeared to be about forty years of age, and was I think as ugly as his companion was handsome.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000013_000000.wav|"Will you undertake the task?|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000008.wav|Its explanation I must leave to others, and with this slight preface, which circumstances make necessary, I introduce the world to Ayesha and the Caves of Kor.--The Editor.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000002.wav|I give it him, with the exception of a very few alterations, made with the object of concealing the identity of the actors from the general public, exactly as it came to me.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000001.wav|I know Vincey; I'll introduce you," and he did, and for some minutes we stood chatting-about the Zulu people, I think, for I had just returned from the Cape at the time.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000007_000006.wav|I remember saying that I should like to know him.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000003_000000.wav|INTRODUCTION|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000007_000002.wav|They call him 'Charon.'" I looked, and found the older man quite as interesting in his way as the glorified specimen of humanity at his side.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000004_000001.wav|And so I may as well say at once that I am not the narrator but only the editor of this extraordinary history, and then go on to tell how it found its way into my hands.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000000.wav|"My dear Sir,--You will be surprised, considering the very slight nature of our acquaintance, to get a letter from me.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000005_000003.wav|In addition his face was almost without flaw-a good face as well as a beautiful one, and when he lifted his hat, which he did just then to a passing lady, I saw that his head was covered with little golden curls growing close to the scalp.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000015_000002.wav|We entrust the sherd, the scarab, and the parchments to your keeping, till such time as we demand them back again.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000004.wav|I take it that this book is partly true, and partly an effort of the imagination.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000004.wav|He suddenly stopped short in his talk, cast a reproachful look at his companion, and, with an abrupt nod to myself, turned and marched off alone across the street.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000019_000004.wav|Can it be that extremes meet, and that the very excess and splendour of her mind led her by means of some strange physical reaction to worship at the shrine of matter?|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000012_000005.wav|We never ascertained, and now, alas! we never shall, at least not yet.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000007_000001.wav|They call him 'the Greek god'; but look at the other one, he's Vincey's (that's the god's name) guardian, and supposed to be full of every kind of information.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000003.wav|I remember being rather amused because of the change in the expression of the elder man, whose name I discovered was Holly, when he saw the ladies advancing.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000010.wav|Possibly we shall not return.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000011.wav|Under these altered conditions it has become a question whether we are justified in withholding from the world an account of a phenomenon which we believe to be of unparalleled interest, merely because our private life is involved, or because we are afraid of ridicule and doubt being cast upon our statements.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000006.wav|I cannot say, however, that young Vincey showed much aversion to feminine society on this occasion.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000012_000004.wav|How did she first come to the Caves of Kor, and what was her real religion?|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000011_000002.wav|To be brief and come to my business.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000009_000000.wav|That same evening my visit came to an end, and this was the last I saw or heard of "Charon" and "the Greek god" for many a long day.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000013_000001.wav|We give you complete freedom, and as a reward you will, we believe, have the credit of presenting to the world the most wonderful history, as distinguished from romance, that its records can show.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000002.wav|Presently, however, a stoutish lady, whose name I do not remember, came along the pavement, accompanied by a pretty fair haired girl, and these two mr Vincey, who clearly knew them well, at once joined, walking off in their company.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000019_000005.wav|Was that ancient Kallikrates nothing but a splendid animal loved for his hereditary Greek beauty?|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000015_000000.wav|"p s--Of course, if any profit results from the sale of the writing should you care to undertake its publication, you can do what you like with it, but if there is a loss I will leave instructions with my lawyers, Messrs.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000015_000003.wav|--l h h"|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000006.wav|But as I went on I abandoned that idea also.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000005_000002.wav|He was very tall, very broad, and had a look of power and a grace of bearing that seemed as native to him as it is to a wild stag.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000009_000001.wav|Indeed, I have never seen either of them from that hour to this, and do not think it probable that I shall.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000005.wav|Then I thought that it might be a bold attempt to portray the possible results of practical immortality, informing the substance of a mortal who yet drew her strength from Earth, and in whose human bosom passions yet rose and fell and beat as in the undying world around her the winds and the tides rise and fall and beat unceasingly.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000007.wav|To me the story seems to bear the stamp of truth upon its face.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000006_000000.wav|"Good gracious!" I said to my friend, with whom I was walking, "why, that fellow looks like a statue of Apollo come to life.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000007_000004.wav|To begin with, he was shortish, rather bow legged, very deep chested, and with unusually long arms.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000018_000004.wav|At first I was inclined to believe that this history of a woman on whom, clothed in the majesty of her almost endless years, the shadow of Eternity itself lay like the dark wing of Night, was some gigantic allegory of which I could not catch the meaning.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000019_000000.wav|p s--There is on consideration one circumstance that, after a reperusal of this history, struck me with so much force that I cannot resist calling the attention of the reader to it.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000013_000002.wav|Read the manuscript (which I have copied out fairly for your benefit), and let me know.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/143521/1913_143521_000008_000007.wav|Indeed I remember laughing, and remarking to my friend at the time that he was not the sort of man whom it would be desirable to introduce to the lady one was going to marry, since it was exceedingly probable that the acquaintance would end in a transfer of her affections.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000012.wav|How far was I from questioning her unbelief!|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000012_000005.wav|I wept unrestrainedly.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000011.wav|One could experience excess and satiety without the inconvenience of learning what to do with one's hands in a drawing room!|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000010.wav|Her sudden illness, when the gayety was at its height, her pallor, the handkerchief she crushed against her lips, the cough she smothered under the laughter while Gaston kept playing the piano lightly-it all wrung my heart.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000006.wav|But what did it matter?|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000008_000000.wav|Between the acts we had no time to forget.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000007.wav|A couple of jack rabbits, run in off the prairie, could not have been more innocent of what awaited them than were Lena and i|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000002.wav|We arrived early, because Lena liked to watch the people come in.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000002.wav|She was a woman who could not be taught, it is said, though she had a crude natural force which carried with people whose feelings were accessible and whose taste was not squeamish.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000012_000004.wav|The New Year's presents were not too much; nothing could be too much now.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000012_000003.wav|I loved Nanine tenderly; and Gaston, how one clung to that good fellow!|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000001.wav|Decidedly, there was a new tang about this dialogue.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000003_000004.wav|She handed her feelings over to the actors with a kind of fatalistic resignation.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000008.wav|The men were dressed more or less after the period in which the play was written; the women were not.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000009.wav|I wanted to cross the footlights and help the slim waisted Armand in the frilled shirt to convince her that there was still loyalty and devotion in the world.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000010_000001.wav|Her conception of the character was as heavy and uncompromising as her diction; she bore hard on the idea and on the consonants.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000006.wav|I seem to remember gilded chairs and tables (arranged hurriedly by footmen in white gloves and stockings), linen of dazzling whiteness, glittering glass, silver dishes, a great bowl of fruit, and the reddest of roses.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000013_000002.wav|After leaving her, I walked slowly out into the country part of the town where I lived.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000010.wav|Their talk seemed to open to one the brilliant world in which they lived; every sentence made one older and wiser, every pleasantry enlarged one's horizon.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000003.wav|There was a note on the programme, saying that the "incidental music" would be from the opera "Traviata," which was made from the same story as the play.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000010_000004.wav|But the lines were enough.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000010_000002.wav|At all times she was highly tragic, devoured by remorse. Lightness of stress or behavior was far from her.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000007.wav|I believed devoutly in her power to fascinate him, in her dazzling loveliness.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000013_000001.wav|I had prudently brought along mrs Harling's useful Commencement present, and I took Lena home under its shelter.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000003_000000.wav|IN Lincoln the best part of the theatrical season came late, when the good companies stopped off there for one night stands, after their long runs in New York and Chicago.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000001.wav|She had been a member of Daly's famous New York company, and afterward a "star" under his direction.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000000.wav|The actress who played Marguerite was even then old-fashioned, though historic.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000013_000003.wav|The lilacs were all blooming in the yards, and the smell of them after the rain, of the new leaves and the blossoms together, blew into my face with a sort of bitter sweetness.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000011.wav|But not so much as her cynicism in the long dialogue with her lover which followed.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000012_000006.wav|Even the handkerchief in my breast pocket, worn for elegance and not at all for use, was wet through by the time that moribund woman sank for the last time into the arms of her lover.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000003.wav|She was already old, with a ravaged countenance and a physique curiously hard and stiff.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000008_000001.wav|The orchestra kept sawing away at the "Traviata" music, so joyous and sad, so thin and far away, so clap trap and yet so heart breaking.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000011_000004.wav|When Armand, with the terrible words, "Look, all of you, I owe this woman nothing!" flung the gold and bank notes at the half swooning Marguerite, Lena cowered beside me and covered her face with her hands.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000008_000003.wav|As I walked about there I congratulated myself that I had not brought some Lincoln girl who would talk during the waits about the Junior dances, or whether the cadets would camp at Plattsmouth.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000011_000001.wav|There were chandeliers hung from the ceiling, I remember, many servants in livery, gaming tables where the men played with piles of gold, and a staircase down which the guests made their entrance.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000003_000002.wav|I liked to watch a play with Lena; everything was wonderful to her, and everything was true.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000003_000005.wav|Accessories of costume and scene meant much more to her than to me.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000003.wav|This introduced the most brilliant, worldly, the most enchantingly gay scene I had ever looked upon.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000006.wav|This play, I saw, was by his son, and I expected a family resemblance.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000000.wav|Our excitement began with the rise of the curtain, when the moody Varville, seated before the fire, interrogated Nanine.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000013_000004.wav|I tramped through the puddles and under the showery trees, mourning for Marguerite Gauthier as if she had died only yesterday, sighing with the spirit of eighteen forty, which had sighed so much, and which had reached me only that night, across long years and several languages, through the person of an infirm old actress.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000007_000008.wav|I believed her young, ardent, reckless, disillusioned, under sentence, feverish, avid of pleasure.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000013_000000.wav|When we reached the door of the theater, the streets were shining with rain.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000009.wav|I saw no inconsistency.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000003_000006.wav|She sat entranced through "Robin Hood" and hung upon the lips of the contralto who sang, "Oh, Promise Me!"|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000009_000000.wav|Through the scene between Marguerite and the elder Duval, Lena wept unceasingly, and I sat helpless to prevent the closing of that chapter of idyllic love, dreading the return of the young man whose ineffable happiness was only to be the measure of his fall.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000001.wav|The weather was warm and sultry and put us both in a holiday humor.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000011_000002.wav|After all the others had gathered round the card tables, and young Duval had been warned by Prudence, Marguerite descended the staircase with Varville; such a cloak, such a fan, such jewels-and her face!|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000005_000005.wav|"The Count of Monte Cristo," which I had seen james O'Neill play that winter, was by the only Alexandre Dumas I knew.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147990/1913_147990_000006_000012.wav|When the characters all spoke at once and I missed some of the phrases they flashed at each other, I was in misery.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000010.wav|"Have you?" she whispered teasingly in my ear.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000014_000000.wav|I watched Lena sitting there so smooth and sunny and well cared for, and thought of how she used to run barefoot over the prairie until after the snow began to fly, and how Crazy Mary chased her round and round the cornfields.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000003.wav|You would n't care for them.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000024_000004.wav|"So that's Latin, is it?|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000011.wav|In a moment I watched her fade down the dusky stairway.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000023_000000.wav|"I think I'd better go home and look after Antonia," I said.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000001_000005.wav|I did so regretfully, and the dim objects in the room emerged from the shadows and took their place about me with the helpfulness which custom breeds.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000002.wav|I'm to meet some Swedes at the drug store.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000002_000000.wav|I propped my book open and stared listlessly at the page of the Georgics where to morrow's lesson began.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000003.wav|It was so soft and unexcited and appreciative-gave a favorable interpretation to everything.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000012_000002.wav|She was already at home in my place, had slipped quietly into it, as she did into everything.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000006.wav|I walked with her to the door.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000007.wav|"Come and see me sometimes when you're lonesome.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000012_000000.wav|"You like my new suit?|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000028_000002.wav|The old woman downstairs did n't want to let me come up very much.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000011_000001.wav|Perhaps it's your clothes that make a difference."|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000010.wav|I clung to it as if it might suddenly vanish.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000008_000005.wav|I've made a real good start."|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000018_000002.wav|She's housekeeper.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000007.wav|If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000022_000003.wav|That's Antonia's failing, you know; if she once likes people, she won't hear anything against them."|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000026_000003.wav|I board, to save time, but sometimes I cook a chop for myself, and I'd be glad to cook one for you.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000018_000001.wav|She works for mrs Gardener at the hotel now.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000000.wav|When I caught up my hat she shook her head.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000004_000002.wav|I was wondering whether that particular rocky strip of New England coast about which he had so often told me was Cleric's patria. Before I had got far with my reading I was disturbed by a knock.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000009.wav|Have you?" She turned her soft cheek to me.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000003_000000.wav|Cleric said he thought Virgil, when he was dying at Brindisi, must have remembered that passage.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000024_000003.wav|I caught a faint odor of violet sachet.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000026_000001.wav|I'd be ever so pleased.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000024_000008.wav|I can't stay at home in the evening if there's one in town.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000004_000003.wav|I hurried to the door and when I opened it saw a woman standing in the dark hall.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000010_000003.wav|I did n't know whether you'd be glad to see me." She laughed her mellow, easy laugh, that was either very artless or very comprehending, one never quite knew which. "You seem the same, though,--except you're a young man, now, of course.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000018_000000.wav|"She's fine.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000008.wav|But maybe you have all the friends you want.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000000.wav|When I turned back to my room the place seemed much pleasanter than before.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000020_000001.wav|I guess they're engaged.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000008_000004.wav|I'm in business for myself. I have a dressmaking shop in the Raleigh Block, out on O Street.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000020_000002.wav|Tony talks about him like he was president of the railroad.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000008_000003.wav|I live in Lincoln now, too, Jim.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000020_000004.wav|She won't hear a word against him.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000024_000007.wav|Don't you just love a good play, Jim?|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000005.wav|Lena had brought them all back to me.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000012_000001.wav|I have to dress pretty well in my business." She took off her jacket and sat more at ease in her blouse, of some soft, flimsy silk.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000020_000005.wav|She's so sort of innocent."|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000013_000000.wav|"This summer I'm going to build the house for mother I've talked about so long.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000012_000003.wav|She told me her business was going well, and she had saved a little money.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000024_000002.wav|Larry's afraid of them. They ship so much grain, they have influence with the railroad people. What are you studying?" She leaned her elbows on the table and drew my book toward her.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000026_000000.wav|"Would you like to?|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000008.wav|I understood that clearly, for the first time.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000030_000002.wav|How I loved to hear her laugh again!|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000029_000001.wav|"No, I don't want you to go with me.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000022_000001.wav|"Some of us could tell her things, but it would n't do any good.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000024_000001.wav|"It's a good thing the Harlings are friendly with her again.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000021_000000.wav|I said I did n't like Larry, and never would.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000004_000001.wav|In the evening, as I sat staring at my book, the fervor of his voice stirred through the quantities on the page before me.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000022_000002.wav|She'd always believe him.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000004_000000.wav|We left the classroom quietly, conscious that we had been brushed by the wing of a great feeling, though perhaps I alone knew Cleric intimately enough to guess what that feeling was.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000013_000002.wav|Next summer I'll take her down new furniture and carpets, so she'll have something to look forward to all winter."|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000001_000001.wav|There had been a warm thaw all day, with mushy yards and little streams of dark water gurgling cheerfully into the streets out of old snow banks.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000006_000002.wav|Her black suit fitted her figure smoothly, and a black lace hat, with pale blue forget me nots, sat demurely on her yellow hair.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000018_000003.wav|mrs Gardener's health is n't what it was, and she can't see after everything like she used to.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000013_000001.wav|I won't be able to pay up on it at first, but I want her to have it before she is too old to enjoy it.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000028_000004.wav|How surprised mrs Burden would be!" Lena laughed softly as she rose.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000010_000004.wav|Do you think I've changed?"|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000027_000001.wav|You've hardly told me anything yet."|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000011_000000.wav|"Maybe you're prettier-though you were always pretty enough.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000028_000000.wav|"We can talk when you come to see me.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000031_000000.wav|As I sat down to my book at last, my old dream about Lena coming across the harvest field in her short skirt seemed to me like the memory of an actual experience.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1913/147989/1913_147989_000007_000000.wav|I led her toward Cleric's chair, the only comfortable one I had, questioning her confusedly.|1913
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000027_000002.wav|But if the foregoing explication of the matter be received, this must be absolutely impracticable.|1473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000021_000001.wav|I shall therefore change the suppositions.|1473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000025_000004.wav|For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact.|1473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000001_000000.wav|PART one|1473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000018_000002.wav|He also expects that, when he carries his goods to market, and offers them at a reasonable price, he shall find purchasers, and shall be able, by the money he acquires, to engage others to supply him with those commodities which are requisite for his subsistence.|1473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000000_000000.wav|OF LIBERTY AND NECESSITY.|1473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1473/135657/1473_135657_000011_000002.wav|Such a uniformity in every particular, is found in no part of nature.|1473
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000011_000000.wav|The little girl, her father's favorite, ran up boldly, embraced him, and hung laughingly on his neck, enjoying as she always did the smell of scent that came from his whiskers.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000004_000000.wav|When he had finished his letters, Stepan Arkadyevitch moved the office papers close to him, rapidly looked through two pieces of business, made a few notes with a big pencil, and pushing away the papers, turned to his coffee.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000011.wav|But today that satisfaction was embittered by Matrona Philimonovna's advice and the unsatisfactory state of the household.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000016_000001.wav|And she blushed for her father.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000020_000000.wav|"For Grisha?" said the little girl, pointing to the chocolate.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000025_000000.wav|"How many times have I told you to tell me at once?"|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000003.wav|The liberal party said that in Russia everything is wrong, and certainly Stepan Arkadyevitch had many debts and was decidedly short of money.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000028_000002.wav|It appeared that he had forgotten nothing except what he wanted to forget-his wife.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000003_000001.wav|One was very unpleasant, from a merchant who was buying a forest on his wife's property.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000019_000000.wav|He took off the mantelpiece, where he had put it yesterday, a little box of sweets, and gave her two, picking out her favorites, a chocolate and a fondant.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000007_000000.wav|But this joyous smile at once recalled everything to him, and he grew thoughtful.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000012_000002.wav|He was conscious that he loved the boy less, and always tried to be fair; but the boy felt it, and did not respond with a smile to his father's chilly smile.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000004_000001.wav|As he sipped his coffee, he opened a still damp morning paper, and began reading it.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000030_000001.wav|He squared his chest, took out a cigarette, took two whiffs at it, flung it into a mother of pearl ashtray, and with rapid steps walked through the drawing room, and opened the other door into his wife's bedroom.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000027_000000.wav|"Well, show the person up at once," said Oblonsky, frowning with vexation.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000024_000000.wav|"Half an hour."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000013_000000.wav|"Mamma?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000003_000004.wav|And the idea that he might be led on by his interests, that he might seek a reconciliation with his wife on account of the sale of the forest-that idea hurt him.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000012_000001.wav|"Good morning," he said, smiling to the boy, who had come up to greet him.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000010_000001.wav|They threw down the box, that represented a train, and came in to their father.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000004.wav|The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000010_000000.wav|"Everything's in confusion," thought Stepan Arkadyevitch; "there are the children running about by themselves." And going to the door, he called them.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000030_000000.wav|"It must be some time, though: it can't go on like this," he said, trying to give himself courage.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000008_000000.wav|Two childish voices (Stepan Arkadyevitch recognized the voices of Grisha, his youngest boy, and Tanya, his eldest girl) were heard outside the door.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000012.wav|He read, too, that Count Beist was rumored to have left for Wiesbaden, and that one need have no more gray hair, and of the sale of a light carriage, and of a young person seeking a situation; but these items of information did not give him, as usual, a quiet, ironical gratification.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000000.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000018_000000.wav|"Well, go, Tanya, my darling.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000023_000000.wav|"Been here long?" asked Stepan Arkadyevitch.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000003_000000.wav|He read the letters.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000029_000002.wav|Except deceit and lying nothing could come of it now; and deceit and lying were opposed to his nature.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000017_000001.wav|"She did not say we must do our lessons, but she said we were to go for a walk with Miss Hoole to grandmamma's."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000011_000001.wav|At last the little girl kissed his face, which was flushed from his stooping posture and beaming with tenderness, loosed her hands, and was about to run away again; but her father held her back.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000009.wav|He read another article, too, a financial one, which alluded to Bentham and Mill, and dropped some innuendoes reflecting on the ministry.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000013.wav|Having finished the paper, a second cup of coffee and a roll and butter, he got up, shaking the crumbs of the roll off his waistcoat; and, squaring his broad chest, he smiled joyously: not because there was anything particularly agreeable in his mind-the joyous smile was evoked by a good digestion.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000015_000000.wav|"Well, is she cheerful?"|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000005_000001.wav|And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all these subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he only changed them when the majority changed them-or, more strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibly changed of themselves within him.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000016_000000.wav|The little girl knew that there was a quarrel between her father and mother, and that her mother could not be cheerful, and that her father must be aware of this, and that he was pretending when he asked about it so lightly.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000009_000000.wav|"I told you not to sit passengers on the roof," said the little girl in English; "there, pick them up!"|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000028_000001.wav|Having got rid of the staff captain's widow, Stepan Arkadyevitch took his hat and stopped to recollect whether he had forgotten anything.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000006.wav|And with all this, Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family-the monkey.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000017_000000.wav|"I don't know," she said.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000006_000010.wav|With his characteristic quickwittedness he caught the drift of each innuendo, divined whence it came, at whom and on what ground it was aimed, and that afforded him, as it always did, a certain satisfaction.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000005_000000.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000008_000001.wav|They were carrying something, and dropped it.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000003_000002.wav|To sell this forest was absolutely essential; but at present, until he was reconciled with his wife, the subject could not be discussed.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000021_000000.wav|"Yes, yes." And still stroking her little shoulder, he kissed her on the roots of her hair and neck, and let her go.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1732/56_1732_000014_000000.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch sighed.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000003_000001.wav|He bent his head towards his shoulder and tried to look pitiful and humble, but for all that he was radiant with freshness and health.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000010_000000.wav|"My God! what have I done?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000030_000001.wav|They may all know you are a scoundrel!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000033_000004.wav|"I must repeat that."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000033_000002.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch was fond of a joke: "And maybe she will come round!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000003_000004.wav|And that disgusting good nature, which every one likes him for and praises-I hate that good nature of his," she thought.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000011_000000.wav|She shut the bureau with a slam, and glanced at him.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000006_000001.wav|I can't see her!" she cried.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000040_000003.wav|Should they have any milk?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000027_000000.wav|She seemed to be pulling herself together for a few seconds, as though she did not know where she was, and what she was doing, and getting up rapidly, she moved towards the door.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000001.wav|"He has gone!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000001_000005.wav|Besides this, she realized that if even here in her own house she could hardly manage to look after her five children properly, they would be still worse off where she was going with them all.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000003_000003.wav|"Yes, he is happy and content!" she thought; "while i...|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000032_000002.wav|I don't see the least chance of it.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000023_000001.wav|"Your tears mean nothing!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000032_000005.wav|Horribly vulgar!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000038_000000.wav|"That's as it happens.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000006.wav|Even if we remain in the same house, we are strangers-strangers forever!" She repeated again with special significance the word so dreadful to her.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000044_000000.wav|And Darya Alexandrovna plunged into the duties of the day, and drowned her grief in them for a time.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000005_000000.wav|"Dolly!" he repeated, with a quiver in his voice.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000012_000001.wav|One thing: forgive...|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000001_000000.wav|Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the nape of her neck, with a sunken, thin face and large, startled eyes, which looked prominent from the thinness of her face, was standing among a litter of all sorts of things scattered all over the room, before an open bureau, from which she was taking something.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000004.wav|Why didn't I ask him!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000001_000004.wav|She still continued to tell herself that she should leave him, but she was conscious that this was impossible; it was impossible because she could not get out of the habit of regarding him as her husband and loving him.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000006_000000.wav|"Well, what is that to me?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000007.wav|"And how I loved him! my God, how I loved him!....|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000024_000003.wav|"No, she hates me.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000023_000000.wav|"You are loathsome to me, repulsive!" she shrieked, getting more and more heated.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000033_000000.wav|It was Friday, and in the dining room the German watchmaker was winding up the clock.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000021_000000.wav|"I think of the children, and for that reason I would do anything in the world to save them, but I don't myself know how to save them.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000021_000001.wav|By taking them away from their father, or by leaving them with a vicious father-yes, a vicious father....|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000017_000000.wav|"Dolly!" he said, sobbing now; "for mercy's sake, think of the children; they are not to blame!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000032_000001.wav|"Matvey says she will come round; but how?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000036_000000.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch put on his fur coat and went out onto the steps.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000030_000000.wav|"If you come near me, I will call in the servants, the children!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000018_000002.wav|She tried several times to begin to speak, but could not.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000016_000001.wav|His face relaxed, his lips swelled, his eyes were swimming with tears.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000032_000004.wav|And how vulgarly she shouted," he said to himself, remembering her shriek and the words-"scoundrel" and "mistress." "And very likely the maids were listening!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000038_000001.wav|But here's for the housekeeping," he said, taking ten roubles from his pocketbook.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000016_000000.wav|She tried to go out, but tottered, and clung to the back of a chair to support herself.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000040_000002.wav|Even now, in the short time she had been in the nursery, the English governess and Matrona Philimonovna had succeeded in putting several questions to her, which did not admit of delay, and which only she could answer: "What were the children to put on for their walk?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000017_000003.wav|I am to blame, no words can express how much I am to blame!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000007_000000.wav|"But you must, really, Dolly..."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000017_000001.wav|I am to blame, and punish me, make me expiate my fault.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000029_000000.wav|"Dolly, one word more," he said, following her.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000026_000000.wav|At that moment in the next room a child began to cry; probably it had fallen down.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000003_000005.wav|Her mouth stiffened, the muscles of the cheek contracted on the right side of her pale, nervous face.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000012_000000.wav|"Dolly, what can I say?....|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000017_000004.wav|But, Dolly, forgive me!"|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000021_000002.wav|Tell me, after what ... has happened, can we live together?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000004_000000.wav|"What do you want?" she said in a rapid, deep, unnatural voice.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000030_000002.wav|I am going away at once, and you may live here with your mistress!"|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000014_000000.wav|"--instant of passion?" he said, and would have gone on, but at that word, as at a pang of physical pain, her lips stiffened again, and again the muscles of her right cheek worked.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000028_000000.wav|"Well, she loves my child," he thought, noticing the change of her face at the child's cry, "my child: how can she hate me?"|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000010_000003.wav|You know...." He could not go on; there was a sob in his throat.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000009.wav|And now don't I love him?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000002_000000.wav|Seeing her husband, she dropped her hands into the drawer of the bureau as though looking for something, and only looked round at him when he had come quite up to her.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000017_000002.wav|Anything I can do, I am ready to do anything!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000026_000001.wav|Darya Alexandrovna listened, and her face suddenly softened.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000024_000001.wav|He did not understand how his pity for her exasperated her.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000015_000000.wav|"Go away, go out of the room!" she shrieked still more shrilly, "and don't talk to me of your passion and your loathsomeness."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000033_000001.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch remembered his joke about this punctual, bald watchmaker, "that the German was wound up for a whole lifetime himself, to wind up watches," and he smiled.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000002.wav|But has he broken it off with her?" she thought.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000032_000006.wav|horrible!" Stepan Arkadyevitch stood a few seconds alone, wiped his face, squared his chest, and walked out of the room.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000018_000000.wav|She sat down.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000018_000001.wav|He listened to her hard, heavy breathing, and he was unutterably sorry for her.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000023_000002.wav|You have never loved me; you have neither heart nor honorable feeling!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000025_000000.wav|"It is awful!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000040_000000.wav|Darya Alexandrovna meanwhile having pacified the child, and knowing from the sound of the carriage that he had gone off, went back again to her bedroom.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000042_000000.wav|"Let us send for my brother," she said; "he can get a dinner anyway, or we shall have the children getting nothing to eat till six again, like yesterday."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000041_000003.wav|"Can it be he sees her?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000022_000000.wav|"But what could I do?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000035_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000012_000002.wav|Remember, cannot nine years of my life atone for an instant...."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000025_000001.wav|awful!" he said.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000037_000000.wav|"You won't dine at home?" said Matvey, seeing him off.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000003_000002.wav|In a rapid glance she scanned his figure that beamed with health and freshness.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000010_000001.wav|Dolly!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000024_000000.wav|He looked at her, and the fury expressed in her face alarmed and amazed him.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000001_000001.wav|Hearing her husband's steps, she stopped, looking towards the door, and trying assiduously to give her features a severe and contemptuous expression.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000038_000002.wav|"That'll be enough."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000034_000000.wav|"Matvey!" he shouted.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000021_000003.wav|Is that possible?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000039_000000.wav|"Enough or not enough, we must make it do," said Matvey, slamming the carriage door and stepping back onto the steps.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1733/56_1733_000043_000000.wav|"Very well, I will come directly and see about it.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000010_000000.wav|Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky-Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather covered sofa in his study.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000022_000001.wav|What's to be done?" he said to himself in despair, and found no answer.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000006_000000.wav|PART ONE|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000014_000001.wav|And the most awful thing about it is that it's all my fault-all my fault, though I'm not to blame.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000012_000000.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes twinkled gaily, and he pondered with a smile. "Yes, it was nice, very nice.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000022_000000.wav|"But what's to be done?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000020_000001.wav|Catching sight of that smile, Dolly shuddered as though at physical pain, broke out with her characteristic heat into a flood of cruel words, and rushed out of the room.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000017_000000.wav|"What's this?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000011_000004.wav|Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000020_000000.wav|This idiotic smile he could not forgive himself.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000021_000000.wav|"It's that idiotic smile that's to blame for it all," thought Stepan Arkadyevitch.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000017_000001.wav|this?" she asked, pointing to the letter.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000011_000003.wav|Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000014_000000.wav|"Yes, she won't forgive me, and she can't forgive me.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000011_000000.wav|"Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his dream.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000012_000002.wav|And, as he had done every day for the last nine years, he stretched out his hand, without getting up, towards the place where his dressing gown always hung in his bedroom.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000012_000003.wav|And thereupon he suddenly remembered that he was not sleeping in his wife's room, but in his study, and why: the smile vanished from his face, he knitted his brows.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000011_000002.wav|To be sure!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000009_000003.wav|The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000019_000000.wav|There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000005_000000.wav|Translated by Constance Garnett|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000013_000002.wav|And again every detail of his quarrel with his wife was present to his imagination, all the hopelessness of his position, and worst of all, his own fault.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000020_000002.wav|Since then she had refused to see her husband.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000007_000000.wav|Chapter one|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000000_000000.wav|This is a LibriVox recording.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1730/56_1730_000008_000000.wav|Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000010_000000.wav|Matvey put his hands in his jacket pockets, thrust out one leg, and gazed silently, good humoredly, with a faint smile, at his master.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000017_000000.wav|"Alone.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000033_000001.wav|Maybe God will aid you.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000034_000000.wav|"But she won't see me."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000032_000000.wav|"Well, what now?" he asked disconsolately.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000020_000000.wav|"Yes, inform her.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000016_000000.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch could not answer, as the barber was at work on his upper lip, and he raised one finger.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000009_000002.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes asked: "Why do you tell me that?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000007_000000.wav|"Are there any papers from the office?" asked Stepan Arkadyevitch, taking the telegram and seating himself at the looking glass.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000033_000004.wav|Beg her forgiveness, sir.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000003_000001.wav|He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he repented of his conduct.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000026_000000.wav|"Come round?"|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000009_000000.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch made no reply, he merely glanced at Matvey in the looking glass.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000004_000001.wav|awful!" Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be done.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000015_000000.wav|"Alone, or with her husband?" inquired Matvey.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000011_000001.wav|He had obviously prepared the sentence beforehand.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000003_000000.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000008_000000.wav|"On the table," replied Matvey, glancing with inquiring sympathy at his master; and, after a short pause, he added with a sly smile, "They've sent from the carriage jobbers."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000003_000005.wav|Possibly he might have managed to conceal his sins better from his wife if he had anticipated that the knowledge of them would have had such an effect on her.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000009_000001.wav|In the glance, in which their eyes met in the looking glass, it was clear that they understood one another.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000035_000000.wav|"You do your part.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000022_000001.wav|The barber had gone.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000036_000000.wav|"Come, that'll do, you can go," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, blushing suddenly.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000003_000006.wav|He had never clearly thought out the subject, but he had vaguely conceived that his wife must long ago have suspected him of being unfaithful to her, and shut her eyes to the fact.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000033_000006.wav|One must take the consequences..."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000006_000003.wav|Matvey was followed by the barber with all the necessaries for shaving.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000018_000000.wav|"Inform Darya Alexandrovna: where she orders."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000025_000000.wav|"It's all right, sir; she will come round," said Matvey.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000028_000000.wav|"Do you think so?|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000027_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000020_000001.wav|Here, take the telegram; give it to her, and then do what she tells you."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000012_000001.wav|Tearing open the telegram, he read it through, guessing at the words, misspelt as they always are in telegrams, and his face brightened.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000003_000002.wav|He could not at this date repent of the fact that he, a handsome, susceptible man of thirty four, was not in love with his wife, the mother of five living and two dead children, and only a year younger than himself.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000006_000001.wav|He pulled up the blind and rang the bell loudly.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000017_000001.wav|Is the room to be got ready upstairs?"|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000012_000000.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch saw Matvey wanted to make a joke and attract attention to himself.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000003_000008.wav|It had turned out quite the other way.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000016_000001.wav|Matvey nodded at the looking glass.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000004_000004.wav|That's bad!|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000035_000001.wav|God is merciful; pray to God, sir, pray to God."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000019_000000.wav|"Darya Alexandrovna?" Matvey repeated, as though in doubt.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000004_000006.wav|Roland and her smile.) "But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000005_000000.wav|There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000021_000000.wav|"You want to try it on," Matvey understood, but he only said, "Yes sir."|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/56/1731/56_1731_000031_000000.wav|Although Stepan Arkadyevitch was completely in the wrong as regards his wife, and was conscious of this himself, almost every one in the house (even the nurse, Darya Alexandrovna's chief ally) was on his side.|56
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000020_000000.wav|My longing was beyond the power of opposition; I closed my eyes, stretched out my arms toward the god of my vocation and felt myself drawn with the suddenness of thought through the trackless immensity of space.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000009_000000.wav|Several times I thought I heard faint sounds behind me as of somebody moving cautiously, but eventually even these ceased, and I was left to the contemplation of my position without interruption.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000013_000002.wav|Have I indeed passed over forever into that other life!|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000002_000001.wav|I attempted to spring to my feet but was horrified to discover that my muscles refused to respond to my will.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000020_000001.wav|There was an instant of extreme cold and utter darkness.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000006_000002.wav|Their wild cries echoed in the canyon for a short time, and then all was still once more.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000017_000001.wav|As I did so I saw stretching far below me the beautiful vista of rocky gorge, and level, cacti studded flat, wrought by the moonlight into a miracle of soft splendor and wondrous enchantment.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000005_000001.wav|And then another savage face appeared, and a third and fourth and fifth, craning their necks over the shoulders of their fellows whom they could not pass upon the narrow ledge.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000003_000002.wav|I remember that I hoped they would make short work of me as I did not particularly relish the thought of the innumerable things they might do to me if the spirit prompted them.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000019_000001.wav|My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000011_000003.wav|And then something gave, there was a momentary feeling of nausea, a sharp click as of the snapping of a steel wire, and I stood with my back against the wall of the cave facing my unknown foe.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000019_000002.wav|As I gazed upon it I felt a spell of overpowering fascination-it was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000001_000000.wav|THE ESCAPE OF THE DEAD|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000019_000003.wav|As I gazed at it on that far gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000013_000003.wav|But I could not well believe this, as I could feel my heart pounding against my ribs from the exertion of my efforts to release myself from the anaesthesis which had held me.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000003_000000.wav|I lay facing the opening of the cave and where I could see the short stretch of trail which lay between the cave and the turn of the cliff around which the trail led.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000012_000001.wav|I looked first at my lifeless clay there upon the floor of the cave and then down at myself in utter bewilderment; for there I lay clothed, and yet here I stood but naked as at the minute of my birth.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000007_000001.wav|Fear is a relative term and so I can only measure my feelings at that time by what I had experienced in previous positions of danger and by those that I have passed through since; but I can say without shame that if the sensations I endured during the next few minutes were fear, then may God help the coward, for cowardice is of a surety its own punishment.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000002_000005.wav|There also came to my nostrils a faintly pungent odor, and I could only assume that I had been overcome by some poisonous gas, but why I should retain my mental faculties and yet be unable to move I could not fathom.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER two|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000002_000002.wav|I was now thoroughly awake, but as unable to move a muscle as though turned to stone.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000016_000003.wav|I reasoned with myself that I had lain helpless for many hours within the cave, yet nothing had molested me, and my better judgment, when permitted the direction of clear and logical reasoning, convinced me that the noises I had heard must have resulted from purely natural and harmless causes; probably the conformation of the cave was such that a slight breeze had caused the sounds I heard.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000013_000001.wav|My first thought was, is this then death!|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000013_000004.wav|My breath was coming in quick, short gasps, cold sweat stood out from every pore of my body, and the ancient experiment of pinching revealed the fact that I was anything other than a wraith.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000005_000002.wav|Each face was the picture of awe and fear, but for what reason I did not know, nor did I learn until ten years later.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000007_000000.wav|The sound which had frightened them was not repeated, but it had been sufficient as it was to start me speculating on the possible horror which lurked in the shadows at my back.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000008_000000.wav|To be held paralyzed, with one's back toward some horrible and unknown danger from the very sound of which the ferocious Apache warriors turn in wild stampede, as a flock of sheep would madly flee from a pack of wolves, seems to me the last word in fearsome predicaments for a man who had ever been used to fighting for his life with all the energy of a powerful physique.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000002_000003.wav|It was then, for the first time, that I noticed a slight vapor filling the cave.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000017_000000.wav|I decided to investigate, but first I lifted my head to fill my lungs with the pure, invigorating night air of the mountains.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000015_000001.wav|My carbine was in its boot, strapped to my saddle, and as my horse had wandered off I was left without means of defense.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000019_000000.wav|As I stood thus meditating, I turned my gaze from the landscape to the heavens where the myriad stars formed a gorgeous and fitting canopy for the wonders of the earthly scene.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000016_000001.wav|The crisp, fresh mountain air outside the cave acted as an immediate tonic and I felt new life and new courage coursing through me.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123500/303_123500_000006_000001.wav|So frantic were their efforts to escape from the unseen thing behind me that one of the braves was hurled headlong from the cliff to the rocks below.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER nine|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000018_000003.wav|They live at peace with all their fellows, except when duty calls upon them to make war, while we are at peace with none; forever warring among our own kind as well as upon the red men, and even in our own communities the individuals fight amongst themselves.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000004_000000.wav|Later, Sola, with the aid of several of the other women, remodeled the trappings to fit my lesser proportions, and after they completed the work I went about garbed in all the panoply of war.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000018_000001.wav|"She has never harmed us, nor would she should we have fallen into her hands.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000017_000001.wav|In our day we have progressed to a point where such sentiments mark weakness and atavism.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000015_000000.wav|"What will be the manner of her going out?" inquired Sola.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000015_000001.wav|"She is very small and very beautiful; I had hoped that they would hold her for ransom."|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000011_000002.wav|That it denoted jealousy I could not say, and yet, judging all things by mundane standards as I still did, I felt it safer to affect indifference in the matter until I learned more surely Sola's attitude toward the object of my solicitude.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000019_000000.wav|This wild outbreak on the part of Sola so greatly surprised and shocked the other women, that, after a few words of general reprimand, they all lapsed into silence and were soon asleep.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000021_000000.wav|I decided that at the first opportunity I would take Sola into my confidence and openly ask her to aid me, and with this resolution strong upon me I turned among my silks and furs and slept the dreamless and refreshing sleep of Mars.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000011_000001.wav|I had feared to question Sola relative to the beautiful captive, as I could not but recall the strange expression I had noted upon her face after my first encounter with the prisoner.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000006_000002.wav|In time of actual warfare they form a part of the reserves, and when the necessity arises fight with even greater intelligence and ferocity than the men.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000012_000000.wav|Sarkoja, one of the older women who shared our domicile, had been present at the audience as one of the captive's guards, and it was toward her the question turned.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000011_000000.wav|On the night following the prisoner's visit to the audience chamber the conversation finally fell upon this subject, and I was all ears on the instant.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000017_000000.wav|"It is sad, Sola, that you were not born a million years ago," snapped Sarkoja, "when all the hollows of the land were filled with water, and the peoples were as soft as the stuff they sailed upon.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000020_000001.wav|But where to go, and how, was as much of a puzzle to me as the age old search for the spring of eternal life has been to earthly men since the beginning of time.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000001_000000.wav|I LEARN THE LANGUAGE|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000010_000001.wav|After they had retired for the night it was customary for the adults to carry on a desultory conversation for a short time before lapsing into sleep, and now that I could understand their language I was always a keen listener, although I never proffered any remarks myself.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000005_000001.wav|I was not yet proficient with all the weapons, but my great familiarity with similar earthly weapons made me an unusually apt pupil, and I progressed in a very satisfactory manner.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000013_000000.wav|"When," asked one of the women, "will we enjoy the death throes of the red one? or does Lorquas Ptomel, Jed, intend holding her for ransom?"|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000005_000000.wav|From then on Sola instructed me in the mysteries of the various weapons, and with the Martian young I spent several hours each day practicing upon the plaza.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000002_000000.wav|As I came back to myself I glanced at Sola, who had witnessed this encounter and I was surprised to note a strange expression upon her usually expressionless countenance.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000007_000004.wav|In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000018_000000.wav|"I see nothing wrong with my expression of interest in this red woman," retorted Sola.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000006_000001.wav|They make the powder, the cartridges, the firearms; in fact everything of value is produced by the females.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000003_000000.wav|As I reached the doorway of our building a strange surprise awaited me. A warrior approached bearing the arms, ornaments, and full accouterments of his kind.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000007_000001.wav|They make the laws as they are needed; a new law for each emergency.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000003_000001.wav|These he presented to me with a few unintelligible words, and a bearing at once respectful and menacing.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123507/303_123507_000018_000002.wav|It is only the men of her kind who war upon us, and I have ever thought that their attitude toward us is but the reflection of ours toward them.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000022_000000.wav|Lorquas Ptomel was too astute an old warrior to be caught upon the open plains with a caravan of chariots and children, and so we remained at the deserted city until the danger seemed passed.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000010_000000.wav|Twenty minutes after the first volley the great fleet swung trailing off in the direction from which it had first appeared.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000012_000001.wav|From my vantage point in the window I could see the bodies of her crew strewn about, although I could not make out what manner of creatures they might be.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000003_000000.wav|A FAIR CAPTIVE FROM THE SKY|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000006_000002.wav|Whether they had discovered us or simply were looking at the deserted city I could not say, but in any event they received a rude reception, for suddenly and without warning the green Martian warriors fired a terrific volley from the windows of the buildings facing the little valley across which the great ships were so peacefully advancing.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000010_000001.wav|Several of the craft were limping perceptibly, and seemed but barely under the control of their depleted crews.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000005_000001.wav|A huge craft, long, low, and gray painted, swung slowly over the crest of the nearest hill.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000006_000001.wav|I could see figures crowding the forward decks and upper works of the air craft.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000004_000001.wav|As though trained for years in this particular evolution, the green Martians melted like mist into the spacious doorways of the nearby buildings, until, in less than three minutes, the entire cavalcade of chariots, mastodons and mounted warriors was nowhere to be seen.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000008_000000.wav|The fire from the vessels was most ineffectual, owing, as I afterward learned, to the unexpected suddenness of the first volley, which caught the ship's crews entirely unprepared and the sighting apparatus of the guns unprotected from the deadly aim of our warriors.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000021_000001.wav|The cavalcade was returning to the plaza, the homeward march having been given up for that day; nor, in fact, was it recommenced for more than a week, owing to the fear of a return attack by the air craft.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000024_000001.wav|She did not see me at first, but just as she was disappearing through the portal of the building which was to be her prison she turned, and her eyes met mine.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000005_000002.wav|Following it came another, and another, and another, until twenty of them, swinging low above the ground, sailed slowly and majestically toward us.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000012_000000.wav|As she neared the city the warriors rushed out upon the plain to meet her, but it was evident that she still was too high for them to hope to reach her decks.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000018_000001.wav|The last warrior to leave the deck turned and threw something back upon the vessel, waiting an instant to note the outcome of his act.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000011_000000.wav|One by one, however, the ships managed to dip below the crests of the outlying hills until only one barely moving craft was in sight.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000026_000001.wav|Just a moment we gazed upon each other, and then the look of hope and renewed courage which had glorified her face as she discovered me, faded into one of utter dejection, mingled with loathing and contempt.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000018_000002.wav|As a faint spurt of flame rose from the point where the missile struck he swung over the side and was quickly upon the ground.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000015_000001.wav|I could see them examining the dead sailors, evidently for signs of life, and presently a party of them appeared from below dragging a little figure among them.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000012_000002.wav|Not a sign of life was manifest upon her as she drifted slowly with the light breeze in a southeasterly direction.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000014_000000.wav|As the craft neared the building, and just before she struck, the Martian warriors swarmed upon her from the windows, and with their great spears eased the shock of the collision, and in a few moments they had thrown out grappling hooks and the big boat was being hauled to ground by their fellows below.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000011_000003.wav|Instantly the warriors ceased firing, for it was quite apparent that the vessel was entirely helpless, and, far from being in a position to inflict harm upon us, she could not even control herself sufficiently to escape.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000015_000000.wav|After making her fast, they swarmed the sides and searched the vessel from stem to stern.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000024_000003.wav|Her skin was of a light reddish copper color, against which the crimson glow of her cheeks and the ruby of her beautifully molded lips shone with a strangely enhancing effect.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000004_000000.wav|The third day after the incubator ceremony we set forth toward home, but scarcely had the head of the procession debouched into the open ground before the city than orders were given for an immediate and hasty return.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000021_000000.wav|Close at my heel, in his now accustomed place, followed Woola, the hound, and as I emerged upon the street Sola rushed up to me as though I had been the object of some search on her part.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000005_000000.wav|Sola and I had entered a building upon the front of the city, in fact, the same one in which I had had my encounter with the apes, and, wishing to see what had caused the sudden retreat, I mounted to an upper floor and peered from the window out over the valley and the hills beyond; and there I saw the cause of their sudden scurrying to cover.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000016_000001.wav|This operation required several hours, during which time a number of the chariots were requisitioned to transport the loot, which consisted in arms, ammunition, silks, furs, jewels, strangely carved stone vessels, and a quantity of solid foods and liquids, including many casks of water, the first I had seen since my advent upon Mars.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000020_000000.wav|Much depressed, and, to me, unaccountably so, I slowly descended to the street.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000025_000000.wav|She was as destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked, nor could any apparel have enhanced the beauty of her perfect and symmetrical figure.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000026_000002.wav|I realized I had not answered her signal, and ignorant as I was of Martian customs, I intuitively felt that she had made an appeal for succor and protection which my unfortunate ignorance had prevented me from answering.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000015_000002.wav|The creature was considerably less than half as tall as the green Martian warriors, and from my balcony I could see that it walked erect upon two legs and surmised that it was some new and strange Martian monstrosity with which I had not as yet become acquainted.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000019_000001.wav|The sight was awe inspiring in the extreme as one contemplated this mighty floating funeral pyre, drifting unguided and unmanned through the lonely wastes of the Martian heavens; a derelict of death and destruction, typifying the life story of these strange and ferocious creatures into whose unfriendly hands fate had carried it.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/303/123506/303_123506_000018_000000.wav|This operation concluded, they hastily clambered over her sides, sliding down the guy ropes to the ground.|303
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143264/2093_143264_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER THIRTY TWO.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143264/2093_143264_000004_000003.wav|Good bye."|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143264/2093_143264_000075_000002.wav|There."|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143264/2093_143264_000068_000001.wav|Where is my father?"|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000027_000002.wav|Hist!|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000027_000003.wav|I'll creep forward and listen."|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000074_000000.wav|I recoiled shuddering.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000007_000000.wav|"No!" he said.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000016_000001.wav|"Jimmy go look 'bout.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000005_000000.wav|He started and looked in the same direction as I did which was right down the gully, and saw what had taken my attention, namely, the stooping bodies of a couple of blacks hurrying away through the bushes at a pretty good rate.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000060_000000.wav|"How do you know?"|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000065_000001.wav|"Back, my boy! Francis, quick!"|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000080_000001.wav|"Come along."|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000041_000002.wav|Why, we've found your father.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER THIRTY NINE.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143271/2093_143271_000019_000000.wav|Mr Francis turned his head without a word, and, leaning upon a stout stick, started at once; and we followed in silence, just as the stars were coming out.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000011_000001.wav|No black fellow.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000011_000000.wav|"Much good him.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000032_000001.wav|Mass Joe no gun, no powder pop, no chopper, no knife, no fight works 'tall."|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000060_000000.wav|"Only a bit stunned," it said; and then I gasped out the one word:|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000005_000001.wav|These people are too strong.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000044_000000.wav|"Mass Joe, Mass Joe, he go eat up black fellow.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000036_000004.wav|"Black fellow come along."|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2093/143262/2093_143262_000017_000000.wav|"Yes.|2093
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000015_000003.wav|Who's there?" she called suddenly, hearing my steps.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000023_000002.wav|But, though he often makes his people beautiful in their sorrow, he more often than not sets their sad figures against a common and ugly background.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000029_000005.wav|He is a writer who desires above all things to see what men and women are really like-to extenuate nothing and to set down naught in malice.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000015_000001.wav|A crow ...|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000006_000006.wav|He portrays his characters instead of labelling them; but the portrait itself is the judgment.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000006_000003.wav|He has the most unbiassed attitude, I think, of any author in the world.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000016_000000.wav|"It's i"|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000019_000002.wav|"'God sent ... the crow ... a piece ... of cheese....' Have you written it?"|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000006_000001.wav|He does not run sympathy as a "stunt" like so many popular novelists.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000010_000000.wav|She waked up every morning with the one thought of "pleasing." It was the aim and object of her life.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000003_000003.wav|He is a man and a medical doctor.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000008_000000.wav|She would sleep every day till two or three o'clock; she had her coffee and lunch in bed.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000010_000002.wav|She wanted every day to enchant, to captivate, to drive men crazy.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000029_000006.wav|As a result, he is a pessimist, but a pessimist who is black without being bitter.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000003_000001.wav|He is so obviously not a god.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000028_000003.wav|'You're such a pretty dear!'"|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000006_000008.wav|His attitude to a large part of life might be described as one of good-natured disgust.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000004_000004.wav|At the same time he is a theme that they were bound to treat.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000019_000001.wav|And in the winter they will probably go abroad," she added after a pause.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000005_000003.wav|There is bound to be a break in the meanest life.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59175/7126_59175_000011_000000.wav|A few strokes of cruelty are added to the portrait:|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000013_000006.wav|It is wearisome even to repeat it all!|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000017_000000.wav|This is bound to be the fate of every artist who takes his political party or his church, or any other propagandist group to which he belongs, as his subject.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000017_000011.wav|He "simply did not know how to work otherwise," as he said.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000018_000003.wav|It would be foolish, I know, to pretend to sum up Dostoevsky as a contortionist; but he has that element in him.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000010_000004.wav|He is one of those authors whose books we love because they reveal a personality sensitive, affectionate, pitiful.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000010_000003.wav|We call him charming as Pater called Athens charming.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000015_000002.wav|He had that sense of truth which always upsets the orthodox.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000013_000002.wav|My friend, return to literary activity!|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000018_000014.wav|He was one of the first great novelists to endow his women with independence of soul. With the majority of novelists, women are sexual or sentimental accidents.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000017_000006.wav|In an access of self reproach he once declared that his character was comprised in one word-'poltroon!'" He showed neither timidity nor cowardice, however, in his devotion to truth.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000017_000014.wav|"I ought to confess," he once wrote, "that I never attempted to create a type without having, not an idea, but a living person, in whom the various elements were harmonized together, to work from.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000017_000013.wav|He had always to draw from the life.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000014_000002.wav|He was a man whom it was possible to disgust.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000014_000006.wav|One can guess exactly the frame of mind he was in when, in the course of an argument with Dostoevsky, he said: "You see, I consider myself a German."|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000013_000000.wav|That is out of the question.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000016_000000.wav|almost caresses, from people of the opposite camp, from enemies. This confused me, wounded me; but my conscience did not reproach me.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000013_000005.wav|I can neither walk, nor eat, nor sleep.|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7126/59167/7126_59167_000013_000007.wav|My friend-great writer of our Russian land, listen to my request!...|7126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000009_000001.wav|He motioned towards the room where Graham must wait, he insisted no other course was possible.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000018_000001.wav|"Tell me!|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000052_000003.wav|A big aeroplane is a clumsy thing.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000022_000000.wav|"The Channel!" said the man in yellow.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000056_000003.wav|You will be killed."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000061_000000.wav|They were both clear that he must go.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000050_000000.wav|"This monoplane-it is a chance-."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000003_000001.wav|Then with a start he returned to his previous preoccupation about the flying stages.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000023_000000.wav|"They still have three of the flying stages," said the old man.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000056_000000.wav|Helen made a step towards Graham.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000016_000002.wav|Ostrog's people have collapsed."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000045_000000.wav|"What do you mean?"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000009_000003.wav|"At any moment a crisis may arise needing your presence and decision."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000042_000000.wav|He turned suddenly to Helen.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000016_000000.wav|Bursting through the curtains appeared the man in yellow, startled and dishevelled with excitement, "Victory," he cried, "victory!|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000015_000000.wav|Metallic voices were shouting "Victory!" Yes it was "Victory!"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty four|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000005_000000.wav|He turned his eyes to Helen Wotton again.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000022_000001.wav|He calculated swiftly. "Half an hour."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000063_000000.wav|"To wake," she cried, "for this!"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000046_000000.wav|"I am an aeronaut.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000060_000000.wav|He stopped, he could speak no more, he swept the alternative aside by a gesture, and they stood looking at one another.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000057_000001.wav|Yet, not to do it-or to let some one else attempt it-."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000054_000000.wav|"There has been no need.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000039_000003.wav|But there is no aeronaut-."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000024_000000.wav|"Those guns?" cried Graham.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000036_000003.wav|You said there was a monoplane-?"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000031_000001.wav|"Now that we have found those guns.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000025_000000.wav|"We cannot mount them-in half an hour."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000013_000000.wav|Now the door would be closed and Graham and Helen were alone together; they seemed sharply marked off then from all the unprecedented world storm that rushed together without, vividly aware of one another, only concerned with one another.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000039_000000.wav|"no|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000047_000001.wav|"Tell them to put it upon the guides."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000005_000001.wav|His face expressed his struggle between conflicting ideas.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000046_000002.wav|Those days for which you reproached me were not altogether wasted."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000031_000003.wav|If once we could get them out upon the roof spaces."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000020_000002.wav|"It is all over," he cried.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000016_000001.wav|The people are winning.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000036_000001.wav|He tried to speak calmly, but his face was white.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000033_000000.wav|"An hour-certainly."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000013_000001.wav|Then the door would open again, messengers would enter, or a sharp bell would stab their quiet privacy, and it was like a window in a well built brightly lit house flung open suddenly to a hurricane.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000038_000000.wav|"Smashed?"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000001_000000.wav|WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000009_000000.wav|He explained elaborately.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000035_000002.wav|An hour!"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000059_000001.wav|Do you not see?|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000021_000000.wav|"What matters it now that we have Roehampton?|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000002_000002.wav|He was saying that the south-west wards were marching.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000005_000002.wav|"We must capture the flying stages," he explained.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000004_000000.wav|"Yes," he said.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000054_000004.wav|I see now why I am here!"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000035_000001.wav|"Even now-.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000057_000000.wav|"Perhaps.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000052_000000.wav|"To fight-yes.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000062_000000.wav|Her eyes brimmed with tears.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000042_000002.wav|"I must do it."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000040_000001.wav|He spoke after a long pause.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000007_000002.wav|He saw her face respond.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000054_000001.wav|But now the time has come.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000046_000001.wav|After all-.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000052_000004.wav|A resolute man-!"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000052_000002.wav|I have thought before-.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000056_000002.wav|"But, Sire!--How can one fight?|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000059_000002.wav|It may save-London!"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000039_000002.wav|It might be got upon the guides-easily.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000026_000000.wav|"Do you mean they are found?"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000043_000000.wav|"Do what?"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000009_000002.wav|"We must know where you are," he said.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000048_000000.wav|The man in yellow hesitated.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000041_000000.wav|"None."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000029_000000.wav|"Nothing can stop them now," said the old man.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000061_000001.wav|There was no step back from these towering heroisms.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000028_000000.wav|"If we could stop them another hour!" cried the man in yellow.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000006_000001.wav|He saw a touch of surprise in her eyes.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000003_000000.wav|Graham stared at him absent mindedly.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000032_000000.wav|"How long would that take?" asked Graham suddenly.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000017_000001.wav|"Victory?"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000002_000003.wav|"I never expected it so soon," he cried.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000013_000002.wav|The dark hurry and tumult, the stress and vehemence of the battle rushed in and overwhelmed them.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000011_000002.wav|Section after section of the Labour Societies reported itself assembled, reported itself marching, and vanished from knowledge into the labyrinth of that warfare. What was happening there?|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139325/1603_139325_000039_000001.wav|It is lying crossways to the carrier.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000012_000003.wav|Abruptly it was perfectly clear to him that this revolt against Ostrog was premature, foredoomed to failure, the impulse of passionate inadequacy against inevitable things.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000013_000002.wav|It was Helen Wotton.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000023_000001.wav|For that we did not work, and that has come.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000024_000005.wav|There is no faith but faith-faith which is courage...."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000003_000001.wav|In the centre was a bright oval lit by shaded electric lights from above.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000026_000002.wav|And at last he made an end to speaking.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000017_000001.wav|He addressed himself to the unseen multitudes who stared upon him through those grotesque black eyes.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000026_000006.wav|To all of you.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000014_000000.wav|"This is the girl who told us what Ostrog had done," he said.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000015_000000.wav|She came in very quietly, and stood still, as if she did not want to interrupt Graham's eloquence....|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000002_000008.wav|Many little things happened, and then he found himself with the man in yellow entering a little room where this proclamation of his was to be made.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000012_000009.wav|"Wait," cried someone, and a door opened.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000019_000000.wav|He stopped to gather words.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000026_000007.wav|I give it to you, and myself I give to you.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000022_000004.wav|How is it with man after two hundred years?|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000002_000004.wav|The men in yellow, and men whom he fancied were called Ward Leaders, were either propelling him forward or following him obediently; it was hard to tell.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000011_000000.wav|"Oh! what can it matter whether I speak well or ill?" he said, and felt the light grow brighter.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000002_000002.wav|Each of these facts seemed struggling for complete possession of his thoughts.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000012_000008.wav|Even as he stood, awkward, hesitating, with an indiscreet apology for his inability trembling on his lips, came the noise of many people crying out, the running to and fro of feet.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000028_000002.wav|I knew you would say these things...."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000020_000003.wav|Take no thought though I am beaten, though I am utterly overthrown.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000002_000006.wav|Perhaps some power unseen and unsuspected propelled them all.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000013_000000.wav|Through the open doorway he saw a slight girlish figure approaching.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000025_000001.wav|He spoke gustily, in broken incomplete sentences, but with all his heart and strength, of this new faith within him.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000023_000000.wav|"Great cities, vast powers, a collective greatness beyond our dreams.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty three|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000020_000002.wav|All your lives, it may be, you must fight.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000003_000005.wav|He walked into the centre of the light, and his shadow drew together black and sharp to a little blot at his feet.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000012_000010.wav|Graham turned, and the watching lights waned.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000004_000005.wav|"For a moment," he said, "I must wait.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000003_000004.wav|The huge ears of a phonographic mechanism gaped in a battery for his words, the black eyes of great photographic cameras awaited his beginning, beyond metal rods and coils glittered dimly, and something whirled about with a droning hum.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000027_000001.wav|He found the light of his present exaltation reflected in the face of the girl.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000013_000001.wav|His heart leapt.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000024_000004.wav|There is no promise, there is no security-nothing to go upon but Faith.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000021_000001.wav|He paused momentarily, and broke into vague exhortations, and then a rush of speech came upon him.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000026_000001.wav|His eloquence limped no longer.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000023_000003.wav|How is it with the common lives?|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000005_000000.wav|While he was still hesitating there came an agitated messenger with news that the foremost aeroplanes were passing over Madrid.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000023_000004.wav|As it has ever been-sorrow and labour, lives cramped and unfulfilled, lives tempted by power, tempted by wealth, and gone to waste and folly.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000015_000003.wav|He turned back to her.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000024_000002.wav|It does not matter if you understand. It does not matter if you seem to fail.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000016_000000.wav|"You have helped me," he said lamely-"helped me very much....|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000015_000001.wav|But his doubts and questionings fled before her presence.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000022_000002.wav|So we hoped in the days that are past.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000010_000002.wav|Aeroplanes at Madrid!|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/139324/1603_139324_000017_000002.wav|At first he spoke slowly.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000011_000002.wav|When, therefore, he thought it time to close, he simply rose up and took himself off, leaving his congregation to disperse when and how it pleased!|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000012_000000.wav|One night, while he was thus absent, the men of Ratura delivered the attack which they had long meditated.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000041_000000.wav|When Wapoota saw his deliverer, he ran to him, panting, and said-|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000006_000000.wav|"No-not so; sing thus," he said, giving the right notes.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000035_000000.wav|But Zeppa had heard enough.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000030_000001.wav|His surprise on hearing that the village had been attacked was great and his anxiety considerable.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000014_000003.wav|Not knowing the Gospel method of blotting out the latter, their one resource lay in obliterating the former.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000038_000000.wav|Before reaching him, however, his attention was arrested by a cry from some one in the midst of the enemy in front.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000034_000001.wav|They ran away from him in terror.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000055_000000.wav|On the way up, Wapoota, who felt somewhat timorous about the visit, had made up his mind as to the best mode of address with which to approach his friend.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000009_000000.wav|The assembling of these children for their lesson brought powerfully to Zeppa's mind, one day, the meetings of the Ratinga people for worship, and the appropriateness of beginning with prayer occurred to him. Accordingly, that morning, just as he was about to commence the hymns, he clasped his hands, raised his eyes, and briefly asked God's blessing on the work.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000060_000000.wav|The horrified intruder heard the terminal yell, and saw the maniac bound over the fire towards him, but he saw and heard no more, for his limbs became suddenly endued with something like electric vitality.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000013_000001.wav|Such a night as is apt to fill the guilty conscience with unresting fears, as though it felt the near approach of that avenging sword which sooner or later it must meet.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000048_000000.wav|As on former occasions of conquest, the Mountain men pursued the flying host into their swamps, but they did not, as in former times, return to slay the aged and carry the women and children into captivity.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000029_000000.wav|Meanwhile, at the first alarm, the women and children of the village had been sent off to the mountains for safety.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000035_000001.wav|Turning his face towards the village he sped over the ground at a pace that soon brought him in sight of the combatants, who seemed to be swaying to and fro-now here, now there-as the tide of battle flowed and victory leaned sometimes to one side sometimes to the other.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000062_000000.wav|When Wapoota went over the precipice and disappeared, Zeppa halted and stood erect, gazing with a questioning aspect at the sky, and drawing his hand slowly across his brows with that wearied and puzzled aspect which had become characteristic.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000059_000001.wav|"My son!|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000045_000000.wav|The race was a long one, but neither the madman nor his friend flagged until they overtook the party.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000021_000005.wav|Your death is nothing.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000036_000000.wav|Zeppa was unarmed.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000023_000001.wav|At the unexpected outcry in the rear the Raturans halted, and held a hasty council of war.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000030_000002.wav|Although he had refused to go out to war with his entertainers, he felt no disposition to stand idly by when they were attacked.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000003_000000.wav|Poor Zeppa! till that day, since his mental break down, the idea of singing had never once occurred to him, and this reception of his first attempt to teach disconcerted him.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000010_000000.wav|Profound astonishment kept the little ones quiet, and before they had time to recover the prayer was over.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000032_000000.wav|"She is caught and carried away-with her mother."|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000014_000001.wav|And they were right.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000001_000000.wav|Strange to say, the anger of the Raturans was not assuaged by the rebuff which they received at that time.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000037_000000.wav|Whirling it like a feather round his head, the maniac rushed on.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000016_000000.wav|Leaving the aged men and boys to protect the women and children, those dark skinned warriors marched away to battle-not with the flaunting banners and martial music of civilised man, but with the profound silence and the stealthy tread of the savage.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000036_000001.wav|As he drew near he was observed by both parties to stop abruptly in his career, and wrench out of the ground a stake that had been meant for the corner post of a newly begun hut.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000023_000000.wav|Wapoota performed his part nobly-and without being captured, for he did not agree with Ongoloo as to the unimportance of his own death!|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000007_000000.wav|The pupil took it up at once, and thus the singing lessons were fairly begun.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000008_000002.wav|Zeppa took pleasure in helping them, and at last permitted as many as could crowd into his hut to do so.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000053_000002.wav|The natives regarded his person as in some measure sacred, and would have deemed it not only dangerous but insolent to go up among the rocky heights when the madman was known to be there.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000060_000002.wav|It was sufficiently soft to prevent death.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000042_000000.wav|"Come with me-this way-Lippy is here!"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000027_000000.wav|"While we waste time here," said the leading chief, "the mountain dogs will get ready for us.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000016_000001.wav|Though the work in hand was the same, the means to the end were different; we will therefore describe them.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000029_000004.wav|The savage warriors pursued, and several were taken, among them Lippy and her mother, who were promptly despatched to the rear.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000021_000006.wav|Away!"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000022_000000.wav|A kick facilitated Wapoota's flight, and the two chiefs returned at speed to rouse the sleeping camp.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000021_000002.wav|As you did last time!|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000003_000007.wav|He took her on his knee, and told her, in her own tongue, to try it again.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000043_000000.wav|That was sufficient.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000005_000000.wav|Accordingly, she began in a sweet, tiny little voice, and her teacher gazed at her with intense pleasure depicted on his handsome face until she reached the note where she had formerly gone wrong.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000058_000000.wav|But he got no further.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000058_000001.wav|He could not well have hit upon a more unfortunate phrase.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000008_000001.wav|Gradually they grew bolder, and joined in the exercise.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000024_000000.wav|"Let us go back and fight them," said one.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000056_000000.wav|Zeppa looked up with a frown, as if annoyed at the intrusion.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000044_000000.wav|This was briefly explained to Zeppa by Wapoota, who had chanced to encounter the party when returning from his yelling mission, if we may so express it.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000027_000002.wav|Forward!"|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000055_000001.wav|He had decided that, although he was not particularly youthful, the language and manner of a respectful son to a revered father would best befit the occasion.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000037_000001.wav|He was thoroughly roused.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000008_000003.wav|Those who could not get inside sat on the ground outside, and, as the hut was open in front, the gathering soon increased.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000021_000004.wav|Fear not to be captured.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1603/140931/1603_140931_000003_000005.wav|In a short time he had the satisfaction of hearing Lippy attempt, of her own accord, to sing one of the hymns that had taken her fancy.|1603
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000005_000000.wav|So Agnes began to stroke herself once more, forgetting her late self stroking companion, and never reflecting that she was now doing what she had then abhorred.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000010_000002.wav|Just round the shoulder of the hill was the cottage where her parents lived, where she was born and whence she had been carried by the beggar woman.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000009_000000.wav|"Can there be such a city in the world?" she said to herself.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000005.wav|A thief who was trying to reform would.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000004.wav|What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets?|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000025_000002.wav|There was the picture, with the marble palace, and the proclamation shining in letters of gold upon its gates of brass.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000009_000001.wav|"If I only knew where it was, I should set out for it at once.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000002.wav|She fixed her eyes upon Agnes in a way that confused her, and made her cast hers down, for she felt as if she were reading her thoughts.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000021_000002.wav|Her heart was wormy, and the worms were eating very fast at it now.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000007.wav|Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible?|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000007.wav|She gave such a scream of horror that the wise woman pitied her, and laying aside the mirror, took her upon her knees, and talked to her most kindly and solemnly; in particular about the necessity of destroying the ugly things that come out of the heart-so ugly that they make the very face over them ugly also.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000022_000000.wav|Then the wise woman laid her gently down upon the heather bed, and she fell fast asleep, and had an awful dream about her Somebody.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000005.wav|Anyhow I will try my luck without asking her leave.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000003.wav|The wise woman, however, asked no questions, but began to talk about her work, approving of some of it, which filled her with arrogance, and showing how some of it might have been done better, which filled her with resentment.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000006.wav|It's not my work.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000026_000004.wav|There was the city far away on the horizon.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000003_000000.wav|As soon as she was left alone, Agnes set to work tidying and dusting the cottage, made up the fire, watered the bed, and cleaned the inside of the windows: the wise woman herself always kept the outside of them clean.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000017_000006.wav|And what a life to lead there!"|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000001.wav|She had been doing her duty, and had in consequence begun again to think herself Somebody.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000017_000002.wav|That snub nosed little fright could never be meant for me!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000000.wav|By this time her old disposition had begun to rouse again.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000003_000001.wav|When she had done, she found her dinner-of the same sort she was used to at home, but better-in the hole of the wall.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000009_000002.wav|THERE would be the place for a clever girl like me!"|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000012_000000.wav|As she said this, she turned her back with disdain upon the picture of her home, and setting herself before the picture of the palace, stared at it with wide ambitious eyes, and a heart whose every beat was a throb of arrogant self esteem.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000011_000002.wav|If I were but in this good, kind, loving, generous king's palace, I should soon be such a great lady as they never saw!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000004.wav|But the wise woman seemed to take no care of what she might be thinking, and went straight on with her lesson.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000017_000005.wav|What a dull, dirty, insignificant spot it is!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000023_000001.wav|In place of taking her dream as a warning, and thinking over what the wise woman had said the night before, she communed with herself in this fashion:--|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000023_000000.wav|When she woke in the morning, instead of getting up to do the work of the house, she lay thinking-to evil purpose.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000001.wav|That frame is only a trick of the woman to make me fancy it a picture lest I should go and make my fortune.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000008.wav|Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000026_000001.wav|The uproar was appalling.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000021_000001.wav|Would you believe it?--instead of thinking how to kill the ugly things in her heart, she was with all her might resolving to be more careful of her face, that is, to keep down the things in her heart so that they should not show in her face, she was resolving to be a hypocrite as well as a self worshipper.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000007_000000.wav|"By the will of the King, from this time until further notice, every stray child found in the realm shall be brought without a moment's delay to the palace.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000003.wav|How I do wish I could find the way to the good king's palace!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000018_000000.wav|She turned once more to the city picture.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000005_000001.wav|And in this mood she went into the picture gallery.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000000.wav|"If I stay here longer, I shall be miserable, It is nothing better than slavery.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000001.wav|There stood the wise woman, looking all round the place, and examining her work.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000000.wav|"I do believe it is real!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000017_000001.wav|"That is just how I used to do.--No," she resumed, "it is not me.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000002_000000.wav|eight.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000026_000002.wav|Agnes threw herself upon the ground, hid her face in her hands, and there lay until it was over.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000014_000000.wav|After gazing a while at the palace picture, during which her ambitious pride rose and rose, she turned yet again in condescending mood, and honored the home picture with one stare more.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000010_000000.wav|Her eyes fell on the picture which had so enticed Rosamond.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000013_000000.wav|The shepherd child was now worse than ever the poor princess had been. For the wise woman had given her a terrible lesson one of which the princess was not capable, and she had known what it meant; yet here she was as bad as ever, therefore worse than before.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000025_000001.wav|There was no wise woman to be seen; and she hastened into the hall.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000011_000000.wav|"Ah!" she said, "they didn't know me there.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000011_000001.wav|They little thought what I could be, if I had the chance.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000006.wav|How she has ill used me!"|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000025_000003.wav|She stood before it, and gazed and gazed; and all the time it kept growing upon her in some strange way, until at last she was fully persuaded that it was no picture, but a real city, square, and marble palace, seen through a framed opening in the wall.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000003_000002.wav|When she had eaten it, she went to look at the pictures.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000016_000000.wav|But presently she spied something in it she had not seen before, and drew nearer.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000007.wav|It's the old witch's; and she ought to do it herself."|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000020_000000.wav|But at that moment, she heard the voice of the wise woman calling, "Agnes!" and, smoothing her face, she tried to look as good as she could, and walked back into the cottage.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000016_000001.wav|It was the form of a little girl, building a bridge of stones over one of the hill brooks.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000002.wav|She is a witch, the ugly old creature!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000025_000005.wav|FREE was she, with that creature inside her?|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000025_000000.wav|She jumped out of bed, and hurried on her clothes.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000013_000002.wav|Nestling in her very heart, where most of all she had her company, and least of all could see her.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000005.wav|The work can wait.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000004.wav|I shall go and look at the picture again-if it be a picture-as soon as I've got my clothes on.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000006_000000.wav|The first picture she saw represented a square in a great city, one side of which was occupied by a splendid marble palace, with great flights of broad steps leading up to the door.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000015_000000.wav|"What a poor, miserable spot it is compared with this lordly palace!" she said.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000002.wav|However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it sometimes.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000018_000002.wav|In proportion as the other, to the eyes of her mind, receded into the background, this, to her present bodily eyes, appeared to come forward and assume reality.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000017_000000.wav|"Ah, there I am myself!" she said.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000004_000006.wav|To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000010_000001.wav|It was the very country where her father fed his flocks.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000026_000000.wav|The same moment a terrible storm of thunder and lightning, wind and rain, came on.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000018_000001.wav|And now a strange thing took place.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000019_000003.wav|It would serve her right to tell the king and have her punished for not taking me to the palace-one of his poor lost children he is so fond of!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/6176/4598_6176_000024_000002.wav|If I don't run away, that frightful blue prison and the disgusting girl will come back, and I shall go out of my mind.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000036_000000.wav|"Get out of here!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000026_000001.wav|"I see it here.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000047_000000.wav|And they were being answered from the ship!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000064_000004.wav|Where is he? Braile-Braile, you accursed fool!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000021_000000.wav|"Why?"|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000052_000002.wav|We may fire on them.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000028_000000.wav|"Yes," he said.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000030_000001.wav|Show me how the projector is operated.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000051_000002.wav|I rushed to it.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000013_000001.wav|I hoped not: it would not be easy to trick him and find an opportunity to flash a signal.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000013_000004.wav|If we could persuade this duty man to turn the projector on them!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000036_000001.wav|Go up to the dome-"|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000013_000002.wav|But that task was some hours away as yet; I would worry about it when the time came.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000044_000000.wav|It forced our hand.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000042_000000.wav|"Dead."|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000062_000002.wav|I stood another few seconds at the window.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000039_000004.wav|Blood from the giant's head was welling out, hot and sticky against my face as I lay sprawled on him.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000004_000003.wav|The range finder for the giant projector was here; its telescope with the trajectory apparatus and the firing switch were unmistakable.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000020_000002.wav|He sent up a signal-you saw it, didn't you?--just before Miss Prince and I came aboard.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000006.wav|Benson curve lights!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000026_000002.wav|It's obvious: I'm skilled at trajectory firing.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000065_000000.wav|But the duty man lay in his blood at our feet.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000002.wav|An error in the range?|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000039_000002.wav|I lay panting.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000062_000000.wav|Should I try the flash signal to Earth?|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000001.wav|I had missed!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000063_000003.wav|By the Almighty-his giant stature-Brotow, look!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000061_000000.wav|"I can't hit him," I gasped.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000053_000001.wav|It had only been a moment.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000000.wav|But down in the Earth glow at the crater base, Miko's lights had not vanished!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000031_000003.wav|It seemed that down there in the Earthlit shadows, where the spreading base of the giant crater joined the plains, a light was bobbing.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000026_000000.wav|I gestured.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000060_000000.wav|Anita was plucking at me.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000064_000005.wav|Are Haljan and the girl up there with you?"|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000049_000001.wav|And they are answering him!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000017_000000.wav|"This is not the control room."|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000066_000000.wav|I had dropped back from the window.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000060_000001.wav|"Gregg, come."|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000031_000002.wav|And my heart suddenly leaped into my throat.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000007_000001.wav|This upper trap was open.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000031_000000.wav|I had my back to them for a moment.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000009_000002.wav|We know where the treasure is."|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000030_000000.wav|She said sweetly, "Are you in charge of this room?|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000040_000000.wav|I cast him off.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000053_000000.wav|The signals were proceeding.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000003.wav|Abruptly I knew it was not that.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000009_000001.wav|You heard of it?|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000012_000001.wav|"We are not skilled with Martian."|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000057_000002.wav|I heard Potan's voice, his shout of protest and anger.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000027_000000.wav|"Is it connected?" Anita demanded boldly.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000052_000000.wav|Then Potan looked up and saw me.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000040_000001.wav|He was dead, his fragile Martian skull split open by my blow.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000003_000003.wav|He scowled, but when we reached the trap in the room floor grid, we found him standing aside to admit us.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000057_000000.wav|At the deck window the giant projector spat its deadly electronic stream.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000029_000000.wav|But that was what we did not want to do.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000064_000002.wav|It's Miko down there!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000028_000002.wav|Then go."|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000055_000000.wav|"Put on your helmet!"|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000051_000005.wav|One of them called up to me, but I ignored him.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000005_000001.wav|And a broad belt with bombs in its padded compartments.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000041_000000.wav|There had been no alarm.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000012_000000.wav|"You speak English?" I asked.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000016_000000.wav|"I am a navigator.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000031_000004.wav|I gazed, stricken.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000008_000002.wav|She spoke first.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000015_000001.wav|And this is the sister of George Prince-what do you want up here?"|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000062_000001.wav|Did we dare linger here?|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000020_000003.wav|He was trying to pretend he was your Earth party, Miko and Coniston."|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000005_000000.wav|I saw too, what seemed to be weapons: a row of small fragile glass globes, hanging on clips along the wall-bombs, each the size of a man's fist.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000038_000002.wav|I grasped its barrel, reached upward and struck with its heavy metal butt.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000032_000001.wav|With the naked eye, I could not be sure. Perhaps there was a telescope finder here in the cubby....|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000022_000000.wav|The fellow turned his scowl on me, but Anita brought his gaze back to her.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000024_000001.wav|You have its firing mechanism here."|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000058_000005.wav|His signals still coming. And I noticed now a faint distortion about them, the glow of his little group of hand lights faintly distorted and vaguely shot with a greenish cast.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000004_000001.wav|It was a metallic cubby, not much over fifteen feet square, with an eight foot arched ceiling.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000004_000000.wav|I flung a swift glance around.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000031_000005.wav|Miko's lights?|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000019_000002.wav|He did not speak: he was still scowling.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000052_000003.wav|I'll give you the word."|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000004_000002.wav|There were instrument panels.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000054_000000.wav|I was aiming the projector.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000039_000000.wav|We went down together, falling partly upon Anita.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000043_000000.wav|"Oh Gregg-"|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000010_000001.wav|A tremendous, beetle browed, scowling fellow. He stood with hands on his hips, his leather garbed legs spread wide; and as I confronted him, I felt like a child.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000059_000002.wav|He had gone back to his camp, equipped all his lights with the Benson curve. He was somewhere at the crater base now.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000050_000001.wav|There would be no time to do both: we must escape out of here.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000054_000002.wav|I pushed her back.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000049_000002.wav|Get your helmet: I'll try firing the projector."|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000067_000000.wav|The ship rang with the alarm.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000031_000007.wav|I tried to gauge the distance; it was not over two miles from here.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000007_000002.wav|Four feet above the room's roof was the arch of the dome, with the entrance to the exit lock directly above us.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000064_000001.wav|"Disconnect that projector!|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000035_000000.wav|He saw me coming.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4598/2503/4598_2503_000041_000002.wav|Anita and I crouched by the floor.|4598
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000012.wav|'I am tired myself of yourselves and your rewards,' said i 'I have no reward for you unless you take that cow down there.' They betook themselves to the cow, and indeed she did not last them long.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000012.wav|I went in, and I said to her, 'What was the matter that you were putting the knife on the neck of the child?' 'It is that he must be cooked for the giant who is here, or else no more of my world will be before me.' Just then we could be hearing the footsteps of the giant, 'What shall I do?|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000004.wav|'Pay now their reward,' said the head bard; and for sure, O king, I had no reward for them; and I said to them, 'I have no reward for you.' And surely, O king, there was a catterwauling between them.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000001_000000.wav|Conall Yellowclaw was a sturdy tenant in Erin: he had three sons. There was at that time a king over every fifth of Erin.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000014.wav|I went to the caldron, and by luck it was not hot, so in it I got just as the brute came in.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000013_000001.wav|The servants looked amongst the horses, and they did not find anything wrong; and they returned and they told this to the king, and the king said to them that if nothing was wrong they should go to their places of rest.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000001_000002.wav|The children of Conall got the upper hand, and they killed the king's big son.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000045_000002.wav|He left the gold and silver in his house, and he went with the horse to the king.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000029_000010.wav|I myself was telling him how he should heat the water, so that I should give its sight to the other eye.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000002.wav|There I was scalded by the bottom of the caldron.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000005.wav|Who should come in but one cat and ten, and one great one eyed fox coloured cat as head bard over them.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000033_000001.wav|Then I went and I put my legs in place of his legs, and my hands in place of his forelegs, and my head in place of his head, and the horns on top of my head, so that the brute might think that it was the buck.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000011.wav|'Pay them now their reward,' said the great fox coloured cat.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000019_000000.wav|The king followed the tracks of the men, and he found them.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000002.wav|I found the cow, and took her with us.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000045_000003.wav|They were good friends evermore.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000007_000000.wav|"If you will do me a kindness, and will put me in a way to get him, for certain I will pay ye for it."|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000021_000002.wav|And a double watch was set that night on the sons of Conall.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000011.wav|'Well, then,' said she, 'it was so I came also.' She showed me to the place where I should come in where she was.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000006_000000.wav|When they went to the house of the king's miller, the man asked them to stop there for the night.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000026_000002.wav|You have freed the soul of your son with your tale; and if you tell me a harder case than that you will get your second youngest son, and then you will have two sons."|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000001_000005.wav|If you and your sons will get me the brown horse of the king of Lochlann, you shall get the souls of your sons."|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000037_000000.wav|"Yes, indeed, Conall, you are wordy and wise," said the king.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000008.wav|The cats began to search for me through the wood, and they could not find me; and when they were tired, each one said to the other that they would turn back.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000008.wav|'Play up with you, why should you be silent?|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000013_000002.wav|When the gillies had time to be gone, Conall and his sons laid their hands again on the horse.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000000.wav|"I will tell a case as hard in which I was," said Conall.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000012.wav|And he fell cold dead where he was; and you may be sure, O king, that joy was on me.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000029_000006.wav|I heard a great clattering, coming, and what was there but a great giant and two dozen of goats with him, and a buck at their head.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000022_000000.wav|"Now, O Conall," said the king, "were you ever in a harder place than to be seeing your lot of sons hanged to morrow?|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000003.wav|I looked myself on the boat to see how I might get part of them.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000022_000002.wav|Tell me any case in which you were as hard as this, and if you tell that, you shall get the soul of your youngest son."|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000040_000000.wav|The king of Lochlann's mother was putting on a fire at this time, and listening to Conall telling the tale about the child.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000016_000001.wav|The gillies came, and the king went with them.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000018_000000.wav|"Be wary," said the king, "there are men within the stable, let us get at them somehow."|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000045_000001.wav|He got the brown horse and his sack full of gold and silver and stones of great price, and then Conall and his three sons went away, and they returned home to the Erin realm of gladness.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000028_000000.wav|"Let's hear," said the king.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000001.wav|I went to hunt.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000013_000000.wav|The servants went out, and when Conall and his sons saw them coming they went into the hiding holes.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000015_000000.wav|When Conall and his sons perceived that the gillies were gone, they laid hands again on the horse, and one of them caught him; and if the noise that the horse made on the two former times was great, he made more this time.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000022_000001.wav|But you set it to my goodness and to my grace, and say that it was necessity brought it on you, so I must not hang you.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000021_000000.wav|"Yes, Conall, it is well enough, but come in," said the king.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000003_000002.wav|His wife took much sorrow that he was obliged to part from herself, while she knew not if she should see him more.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000020_000001.wav|I am under thy pardon, and under thine honour, and under thy grace." He told how it happened to him, and that he had to get the brown horse for the king of Erin, or that his sons were to be put to death.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000035_000004.wav|He shouted, 'Where art thou, ring?' And the ring said, 'I am here,' though it was on the bed of the ocean.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000034_000000.wav|"'Aha!' said he, 'hast thou done this to me?|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000002.wav|And surely, O king, I had no care for them or for their cronan, for I began to see that they were not good comrades.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000027_000000.wav|"Well then," said Conall, "on condition that thou dost that, I will tell thee how I was once in a harder case than to be in thy power in prison to night."|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000041_000000.wav|"Is it you," said she, "that were there?"|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000012_000000.wav|When they rose to lay hand on the brown horse, said Conall, "You shall not do that.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000003_000000.wav|After these words Conall left the king, and he went home: when he got home he was under much trouble and perplexity.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000016.wav|And then I came home.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000011_000002.wav|The servants locked the door, and they went away.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000026_000001.wav|Conall," said the king, "you are full of words.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000013_000004.wav|The king sent a message for his gillies again, and said for certain there was something troubling the brown horse.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000005.wav|When I got out of the caldron I knew not what to do; and she said to me that there was no weapon that would kill him but his own weapon.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000013_000006.wav|The servants rummaged well, and did not find a thing.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000003.wav|There fell a shower of snow.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000016_000002.wav|When Conall and his sons perceived the company coming they went to the hiding holes.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000003.wav|When she perceived that he was asleep, she set her mouth quietly to the hole that was in the lid, and she said to me 'was I alive?' I said I was.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000012_000004.wav|"It must be my brown horse," said he to his gillies; "find out what is wrong with him."|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000036_000000.wav|"When the giant was drowned I went in, and I took with me all he had of gold and silver, and I went home, and surely great joy was on my people when I arrived.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000000_000000.wav|Conall Yellowclaw|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000010.wav|I thought to myself that I was near my foe and far from my friends, and I called to the woman, 'What are you doing here?' And she said to me 'What brought you here?' I told her myself word upon word how I came.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000037_000001.wav|"I see the finger is off you.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000032_000000.wav|"When he felt the birds calling in the morning, and knew that the day was, he said-'Art thou sleeping?|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000016_000000.wav|"Be this from me," said the king; "it must be that some one is troubling my brown horse." He sounded the bell hastily, and when his waiting man came to him, he said to him to let the stable gillies know that something was wrong with the horse.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000001.wav|Go up and sing a cronan to Conall Yellowclaw,' said the head bard.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000001_000004.wav|But I see that though I follow you revengefully, I shall not be much better for it, and I will now set a thing before you, and if you will do it, I will not follow you with revenge.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000029_000011.wav|I got heather and I made a rubber of it, and I set him upright in the caldron.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000044_000000.wav|The king said, "O Conall, you came through great hardships.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000029_000012.wav|I began at the eye that was well, pretending to him that I would give its sight to the other one, till I left them as bad as each other; and surely it was easier to spoil the one that was well than to give sight to the other.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000002_000001.wav|Hard is the matter you require of me, but I will lose my own life, and the life of my sons, or else I will do the pleasure of the king."|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000045_000000.wav|They lay down that night, and if it was early that Conall rose, it was earlier than that that the queen was on foot making ready.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000009.wav|She tried to put the knife to the throat of the babe, and the babe began to laugh in her face, and she began to cry, and she threw the knife behind her.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000005.wav|I did not know now what I should do.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000029_000009.wav|I am a good leech, and I will give you the sight of the other eye.' The giant went and he drew the great caldron on the site of the fire.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000009.wav|Make a cronan to Conall Yellowclaw,' said the head bard.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000001.wav|As fortune favoured me, the brute slept beside the caldron.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000013.wav|what shall I do?' cried the woman.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000038_000006.wav|The place was without meat or clothing, without the appearance of a house on it.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000013_000003.wav|If the noise was great that he made before, the noise that he made now was seven times greater.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000008_000000.wav|"The thing is silly that you are come to seek," said the miller; "for the king has laid his mind on him so greatly that you will not get him in any way unless you steal him; but if you can make out a way, I will keep it secret."|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000010_000000.wav|"The plan that has come into your head is not bad," said the miller.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000012.wav|'Certainly,' said the priest, 'it is a man in extremity-let us move.' They set themselves in order for moving.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000006_000001.wav|Conall told the miller that his own children and the children of his king had fallen out, and that his children had killed the king's son, and there was nothing that would please the king but that he should get the brown horse of the king of Lochlann.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000032_000001.wav|Awake and let out my lot of goats.' I killed the buck.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000035_000002.wav|I drew a dirk.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000039_000007.wav|But with every ill that befell me I got the spear loosed from him.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000023_000001.wav|"I was once a young lad, and my father had much land, and he had parks of year old cows, and one of them had just calved, and my father told me to bring her home.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000005_000000.wav|When he rose on the morrow, he set himself and his three sons in order, and they took their journey towards Lochlann, and they made no stop but tore through ocean till they reached it.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000035_000005.wav|He gave a spring after the ring, and out he went in the sea.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000011_000001.wav|The king's gillies came to seek the bran, and they took the four sacks with them, and they emptied them before the horses.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/86679/6294_86679_000025_000014.wav|Then I gave the third shout.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000009.wav|Almost inevitably with travel, with transport communications, with every condition of human convenience insisting upon it, formally or informally a bi lingual compromise will come into operation, and to my mind at least the chances seem even that French will emerge on the upper hand.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000004_000001.wav|I do not think that any other tongues than these are quite likely to hold their own in the coming time. Italian may flourish in the city of the Po valley, but only with French beside it.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000001_000007.wav|The serried ranks of lemon coloured volumes in the former have the whole range of human thought and interest; there are no taboos and no limits, you have everything up and down the scale, from frank indecency to stark wisdom.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000000.wav|But when one turns to China there are the strangest possibilities.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000004_000000.wav|These are the aggregating tongues.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000012.wav|It has the start of all other languages-the mechanical advantage-the position.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000009.wav|In the growing and changing body of science this counts for much.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000007.wav|The Englishman, the Frenchman, and the Italian have a certain community of technical, scientific, and philosophical phraseology, and it is frequently easier for an Englishman with some special knowledge of his subject to read and appreciate a subtle and technical work in French, than it is for him to fully enter into the popular matter of the same tongue.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000008.wav|Moreover, the technicalities of these peoples, being not so immediately and constantly brought into contrast and contact with their Latin or Greek roots as they would be if they were derived (as are so many "patriotic" German technicalities) from native roots, are free to qualify and develop a final meaning distinct from their original intention.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000004.wav|And German compared with French is an unattractive language; unmelodious, unwieldy, and cursed with a hideous and blinding lettering that the German is too patriotic to sacrifice.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000001.wav|And over German also French has many advantages.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000000_000000.wav|These things, if they were merely the grievances of the study, might very well rest there.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000000.wav|These two tongues must inevitably come into keen conflict; they will perhaps fight their battle for the linguistic conquest of Europe, and perhaps of the world, in a great urban region that will arise about the Rhine.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000004_000004.wav|By a d two thousand all these languages will be tending more and more to be the second tongues of bi lingual communities, with French, or English, or less probably German winning the upper hand.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000008.wav|Suppose, after all, I am not the victim of atmospheric refraction, and they are, indeed, as gallant and bold and intelligent as my baseless conception of them would have them be!|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000000.wav|These things count for French as against English now, and they will count for infinitely more in the coming years.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000009.wav|They would almost certainly find co-operative elements among the educated Chinese....|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000008.wav|I do not see how this great region is to unify itself without some linguistic compromise-the Germanization of the french-speaking peoples by force is too ridiculous a suggestion to entertain.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000001_000004.wav|The French reading public is something different and very much larger than the existing French political system.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000001_000008.wav|It is a shop for men.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000010.wav|Unless, indeed, that great renascence of the English speaking peoples should, after all, so overwhelmingly occur as to force this European city to be tri lingual, and prepare the way by which the whole world may at last speak together in one tongue.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000001.wav|Politically this region lies now in six independent States, but economically it must become one in the next fifty years.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000004.wav|The Japanese written language, the language of Japanese literature, tends to assimilate itself to Chinese, and fresh Chinese words and expressions are continually taking root in Japan.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000010.wav|But this is no doubt the lesser probability.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000012.wav|Moreover, against the German tongue there are hostile frontiers, there are hostile people who fear German preponderance, and who have set their hearts against its use.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000011.wav|And the shade of meaning, the limited qualification, that a Frenchman or Englishman can attain with a mere twist of the sentence, the German must either abandon or laboriously overstate with some colossal wormcast of parenthesis....|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000004_000003.wav|They are, I believe, already judged.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000007.wav|Its westward port may be Bordeaux or Milford Haven, or even some port in the south-west of Ireland-unless, which is very unlikely, the velocity of secure sea travel can be increased beyond that of land locomotion.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000001_000005.wav|The number of books published in French is greater than that published in English; there is a critical reception for a work published in French that is one of the few things worth a writer's having, and the French translators are the most alert and efficient in the world.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000000_000002.wav|And not only that, but it might be the prevalent and everyday language of Scandinavia and Denmark and Holland, of all Africa, all North America, of the Pacific coasts of Asia and of India, the universal international language, and in a fair way to be the universal language of mankind.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000002_000006.wav|In particular it has stood in the way of the international use of scientific terms.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000003_000003.wav|It will stretch from Lille to Kiel, it will drive extensions along the Rhine valley into Switzerland, and fling an arm along the Moldau to Prague, it will be the industrial capital of the old world.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000001_000013.wav|While the French bookshop reeks of contemporary intellectual life!|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000000_000005.wav|But here it is clear that upon the probability of such a renascence depends the extension of the language, and not only that, but the preservation of that military and naval efficiency upon which, in this world of resolute aggression, the existence of the English speaking communities finally depends.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000002.wav|Throughout Eastern Asia there is still, no doubt, a vast wilderness of languages, but over them all rides the Chinese writing.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6294/85684/6294_85684_000005_000003.wav|And very strong-strong enough to be very gravely considered-is the possibility of that writing taking up an orthodox association of sounds, and becoming a world speech.|6294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000020_000001.wav|Hot as he was, Chris felt himself go cold at the sound.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000029_000001.wav|From under their dirty headkerchiefs or straggly unkempt hair, the men who knew no other life but the sea, no happiness or danger unconnected with it, never took their eyes from their captain.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000035_000000.wav|"I am the Resurrection and the Life-"|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000010_000002.wav|It would be only a few minutes more before up he would jump once more to pace the deck or lean at the ship's rail.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000002_000001.wav|By the strength of the sun and the heat that seeped even through the boards of the ship, Chris judged that the morning was well advanced.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000027_000002.wav|As Chris came up to them, Captain Blizzard was speaking, a Bible in his hand.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000002_000000.wav|When Chris awoke he saw that amos had already stolen out of the cabin, for his hammock was rolled up and put away.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000020_000002.wav|He knew instantly, although he had never heard it before, that this was the death cry of a man.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000012_000001.wav|Before the words could leave his mouth, he was interrupted by the appearance of red faced Ned Cilley.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000036_000000.wav|But Chris, watching the disappearing backs of the Captain and first mate, was thinking what a curious and fortunate thing it was that the bales had fallen on Zachary just at the right time, and when there was not a ripple on the cove.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000007_000000.wav|He put these thoughts from his mind until the time came, and decided to tackle what was most pressing.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000027_000001.wav|Chris started up and joined the men gathered solemnly about the grave, and as he searched among them, knew a great sense of relief and joy when he saw, standing at the grave head, the Captain and mr Finney.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000004_000003.wav|The work was not yet finished, but most of the crew were sleeping during the hot hours, while a handful had volunteered to complete the job.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000010_000000.wav|He paused, and Chris, looking up, saw that the Captain's gaze was fixed on Zachary Heigh.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty three|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000016_000001.wav|How could he change himself to a fish or other shape, unobserved?|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000004_000000.wav|Running up to the bridge he was startled at first, at coming on deck, at the sudden green shade everywhere.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000022_000000.wav|"Someone's dead for sartin sure-"|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000020_000003.wav|The scream came a second time, terrified and despairing, and out over the water following it came a low, scattered rumble.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000015_000000.wav|Chris and amos were shoved along with their friends, Chris hiking up his breeches to cover the coil of the magic rope around his waist; the leathern bag hanging in plain sight about his neck.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000006_000001.wav|The deep water, with a white base of coral sand, flashed in emerald, turquoise, or sapphire blue.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000020_000000.wav|The boy had his hands on the scorching wood of a dinghy, his muscles tensed to thrust it into the waters of the cove, when out over the still harbor, jangling in the heat, came a prolonged and piercing scream.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000018_000000.wav|Chris knew the voice of the sailor was right, and was on the point of jumping into one of the dinghies, where they lay pulled up on the beach.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000029_000000.wav|He paused again, but there was not a stir from his audience.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000021_000001.wav|A babble of voices broke out, and one by one the boats were hastily launched, heading back to the ship, leaving Chris shaking and unnerved on the sand.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000019_000002.wav|He wondered too if he could row over in time, or if he would be blown up with the ship.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000030_000001.wav|Therefore, feeling as I do for my ship and my men, I cannot bring myself to read the holy words over this man who had no charity in his heart."|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000033_000001.wav|It is not proper that he should be left without even a token of respect." He gestured with his plump hand to the Bible.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000037_000000.wav|Chris watched the fat short man and the tall lean one go, resolution and anger still evident even in the set of their shoulders.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000015_000003.wav|Zachary Heigh, the Captain, and mr Finney were not to be found.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000021_000002.wav|Over the water as brawny backs bent to the oars the words came floating back:|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000026_000000.wav|It was a little later that Chris remembered amos having taken his arm and led him into the shade, and of how sick he was-the heat and the scream, the fear, and a sense of having failed in warning the Captain, combining to churn his insides into a queasy place that violently rejected his pleasant breakfast of so short a time before.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000028_000001.wav|We harbored a viper, men, who meant to destroy our ship and cargo and leave us to who knows what fate?|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000003_000000.wav|Dressing was rapid, for Chris, like the rest of the sailors in the tropic heat, wore only his breeches.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/187018/4278_187018_000012_000002.wav|Cheerful as a sand flea at the prospect of going ashore, Ned had come from his rest with a small company of the sailors to ask permission of the Captain if they might leave the ship.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000007_000001.wav|But I have at last decided on my course.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000001_000002.wav|He humbly confessed that the appeal he had made met with an unexpected response from men and women who, like Felicia, were hungry for something in their lives that the conventional type of church membership and fellowship had failed to give them.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000016.wav|But I feel as you do.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000017_000000.wav|Again that sudden silence fell over those two men.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000023_000000.wav|There had sprung up in them at the same time a longing that amounted to a passion, to get nearer the great physical poverty and spiritual destitution of the mighty city that throbbed around them.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000013.wav|I believe in her mission and have no desire to destroy. Least of all, in the step I am about to take do I desire to be charged with abandoning the Christian fellowship.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000014_000008.wav|Do you know, Calvin," he turned abruptly toward his friend, "I have been tempted of late to lash myself with a scourge. If I had lived in Martin Luther's time I should have bared my back to a self inflicted torture."|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000001_000001.wav|They were three months of great excitement in Nazareth Avenue Church. Never before had reverend Calvin Bruce realized how deep the feeling of his members flowed.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000003_000000.wav|"You know what I have come in this evening for?" the Bishop was saying after the friends had been talking some time about the results of the pledge with the Nazareth Avenue people.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000015_000000.wav|dr Bruce was very pale.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000012_000011.wav|I cannot endure this any longer.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000009.wav|The sin and misery of this great city have beaten like waves against the stone walls of my church and of this house in which I live, and I have hardly heeded them, the walls have been so thick.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000007_000002.wav|In order to follow it I shall be obliged to resign from Nazareth Avenue Church."|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000017_000001.wav|It was no ordinary action they were deciding.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000018_000002.wav|The Bishop's face grew in glory now every day.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000015.wav|In this action I judge no other minister and pass no criticism on others' discipleship.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000018.wav|And I know that to do that I must sever my immediate connection with Nazareth Avenue Church.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000013_000000.wav|The Bishop had risen now and walked over to the window.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000014_000001.wav|Its misery, its sin, its selfishness, appall my heart.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000018_000000.wav|"What is your plan?"|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000014_000000.wav|"Calvin, this is a terrible city in which we live!|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000007_000000.wav|"Edward," dr Bruce spoke abruptly, "I have not yet been able to satisfy myself, either, in obeying my promise.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000002_000000.wav|But dr Bruce was not yet satisfied for himself.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000022_000004.wav|And in this particular case it was the nearest approach to anything that would satisfy the hunger of these two men to suffer for Christ.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000021_000002.wav|So was dr Bruce from the same cause.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000012_000003.wav|I have had a beautiful house to live in, the most expensive food, clothing and physical pleasures.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000002.wav|My life has been one of comparative luxury.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000004_000000.wav|dr Bruce looked over at the Bishop and shook his head.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000014_000005.wav|Rather, I have followed the conventional soft habits of my position and have lived in the society of the rich, refined, aristocratic members of my congregations.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000000.wav|dr Bruce spoke at last: "Edward, I do not need to say that you have expressed my feelings also.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000009_000000.wav|dr Bruce turned and walked up to his friend.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000012_000006.wav|And I have been unable to silence the question of late: 'What have I suffered for the sake of Christ?' Paul was told what great things he must suffer for the sake of his Lord.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000012.wav|I am not forsaking the Church.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000011.wav|I love her.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000001.wav|I have been in a similar position for years.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000019_000001.wav|My wife is fully in accord with me.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000019.wav|I do not see any other way for myself to suffer for His sake as I feel that I ought to suffer."|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000012_000008.wav|Where has my suffering come in?|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000014_000006.wav|Where has the suffering come in?|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000001_000000.wav|THREE months had gone by since the Sunday morning when dr Bruce came into his pulpit with the message of the new discipleship.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000021_000001.wav|He was exultant.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000024_000002.wav|That was what they had promised.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000012_000013.wav|I have not been walking in His steps.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000009_000001.wav|They were both laboring under a repressed excitement.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000012_000004.wav|I have been able to go abroad at least a dozen times, and have enjoyed for years the beautiful companionship of art and letters and music and all the rest, of the very best.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000004.wav|But I cannot say that I have suffered any for Jesus.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13269/4278_13269_000016_000005.wav|That verse in peter constantly haunts me: 'Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that ye should follow His steps.' I have lived in luxury.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000014_000002.wav|I'm able to earn my own living now."|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000031_000000.wav|"We have met before," said Felicia looking at Clyde frankly.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000015_000001.wav|"How?|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000001.wav|My father lost his money and I was obliged to go to work.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000003.wav|The Bishop says I ought to be very grateful.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000025_000000.wav|"Aye, Aye!|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000037_000001.wav|"I am glad."|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000020_000001.wav|This is the Bishop.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000026_000005.wav|It belonged to God.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000023_000002.wav|But you must come to the Settlement.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000024_000002.wav|Shall I not follow it?"|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000024_000001.wav|"That is my gospel.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000026_000004.wav|It was good.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000009_000000.wav|"Why, don't you know?|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000004.wav|I am.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000040_000000.wav|"Yes, 'back in the world,' dear Bishop.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000029_000000.wav|"Miss Sterling, mr Stephen Clyde," said the Bishop.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000044_000001.wav|Then she looked her companion in the eyes frankly and answered: "Truly and truly, nothing more."|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000044_000000.wav|Felicia's face glowed for an instant.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000004_000004.wav|Those who went with him in making the promise breathed into the church the very breath of divine life, and are continuing that life giving work at this present time.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000033_000000.wav|"Yes." Felicia hesitated.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000018_000001.wav|"You poor Bishop!|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000011_000002.wav|Although, to speak truth for him, he had no desire to go back to it.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000014_000001.wav|You see, I thought I would get settled first and work out something, and then come with some real thing to offer.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000045_000004.wav|Love is older than I am, and wiser."|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000023_000005.wav|I begin to see what your plan is. You can be of infinite help to us.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000034_000001.wav|The flush of pleasure mounted to the young carpenter's forehead.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000009_000001.wav|These are the only clean windows in the block."|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000047_000000.wav|"Hold up your hands, and be quick about it!" said the man with the pistol.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000000.wav|"It is a long story, Miss Sterling.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000045_000001.wav|It was almost like the old pang over Camilla.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000006.wav|I learned the trade, hoping some time to be of use, I am night clerk at one of the hotels.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000006_000001.wav|There were two windows in the front, very clean, and that was remarkable to begin with.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000012_000005.wav|I am an expert and I have a plan I want you to admire and develop.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000025_000001.wav|You're right.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000037_000000.wav|"Did you?" said Felicia slowly.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000028_000003.wav|He looked up as the two entered, and took off his cap.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000042_000000.wav|"We were very good friends," added Felicia.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000035_000001.wav|How is it that you're working here?"|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000028_000001.wav|It was a small but well equipped carpenter's shop.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000005_000001.wav|The Bishop one afternoon came out of the Settlement and walked around the block, intending to go on a visit to one of his new friends in the district.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000043_000000.wav|"But nothing more?" the Bishop ventured to ask.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000015_000002.wav|Making those things?"|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000034_000000.wav|"Are you?"|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000036_000002.wav|A very good thing for me.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000012_000000.wav|"Well, dear Bishop," said Felicia, who had always called him so, "I knew how overwhelmed you were with your work.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000015_000000.wav|"You are?" the Bishop said a little incredulously.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4278/13270/4278_13270_000007_000000.wav|"Felicia!" exclaimed the Bishop.|4278
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000024_000000.wav|"By mail?" asked Freckles.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000031_000001.wav|"It's too bad!|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000007_000006.wav|There's a lot of hard backed bugs-beetles, I guess-colored like the brown, blue, and black of a peacock's tail.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000031_000003.wav|I think of you every day, and I just pray that those thieves are not getting ahead of you.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000026_000004.wav|Is she where I can see her?"|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000055_000000.wav|Noticing his bewilderment, she cried: "Why, Freckles!|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000028_000000.wav|"What a disappointment!" she cried.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000008_000003.wav|They come every color you could be naming, and every shape you could be thinking up.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000004_000000.wav|"What now, Freckles?" asked mrs Duncan.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000048_000000.wav|"A laugh is always good," said the Angel.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000007_000005.wav|The snake feeders are too full to feed anything-even more sap to themselves.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000012_000002.wav|He could find no trace of anything, yet he felt a tense nervousness, as if trouble might be brooding.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000016_000004.wav|His heart tugged in his breast as he mentally measured the print, but he did not linger, for now the feeling arose that he was being watched.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000005_000001.wav|I'm supposing it's my doings, but it all happened by accident, like.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000026_000000.wav|"Then that's likely where it is at present," said Freckles.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000023_000001.wav|"Haven't you come to my party? Didn't you get my invitation?|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000008_000002.wav|You never saw the like of the beauties!|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000028_000002.wav|Can't you stay anyway?"|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000007_000000.wav|"Why, just an army of black ants.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000048_000002.wav|Go ahead."|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000005_000011.wav|You see, cutting off the limbs and trimming up the trunk sets the sap running.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000017_000003.wav|Several times he locked the wheel and crossed the swamp on foot, zigzagging to cover all the space possible.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000005_000008.wav|I just cut the grass short all around it.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000038_000000.wav|"I must not," said Freckles.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000021_000001.wav|"So you could come?|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000054_000003.wav|She was smiling brightly; and until she spoke, Freckles had not realized fully that it was his loved Bird Woman.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000054_000000.wav|The curtains parted and a woman came toward them.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000039_000001.wav|Won't that be fun?"|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000022_000001.wav|"Were you expecting me?"|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000005_000009.wav|Then I started at the ground, trimmed up the trunk near the height of me shoulder, and left the top spreading.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149739/1961_149739_000041_000004.wav|He almost stopped breathing.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000027_000000.wav|The heart of poor Freckles almost burst with dull pain and his great love for her.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000014_000000.wav|"And what is it I've to be proud of, ma'am?" politely inquired Freckles.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000033_000000.wav|"Anything!" gasped Freckles.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000019_000000.wav|"In darkness I found thee" [She held it to the light],|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000009_000004.wav|Answer me that, please."|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000011_000000.wav|"You are a fraud," she said.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000043_000001.wav|"He took no advantage.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000046_000000.wav|That was a happy day.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000027_000002.wav|He literally burst forth:|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000044_000000.wav|McLean lifted his hat.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000032_000000.wav|Then she stepped back and faced him.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000016_000006.wav|Fancy England an appendage!|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000009_000000.wav|"Freckles james Ross McLean!" she was saying.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000008_000004.wav|McLean entered the swale and hunted up the bark.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000032_000002.wav|"Dear boy!|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000015_000006.wav|Proud!|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000051_000003.wav|They dinna stay on the outside.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000041_000000.wav|The Bird Woman stared across the gently waving swale.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000031_000001.wav|He had given his best and his all.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000034_000000.wav|"Anything," said the Angel.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000048_000001.wav|He stepped into the bright, cosy little kitchen, and as he reached down the wash basin he asked mrs Duncan a question.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000045_000000.wav|It was her first visit.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000022_000000.wav|"And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song" [She crashed into the notes of the accompaniment she had been playing for Freckles].|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000013_000000.wav|"Well," said the Angel disgustedly, "it seems to me that if I had all the things to be proud of that you have, I'd lift up my head and sing!"|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000032_000005.wav|Freckles, when you go into the world, if you can face a big audience and sing like that, just once, you will be immortal, and anything you want will be yours."|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000009_000001.wav|"You fill me with dark blue despair!|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000026_000003.wav|She was smiling encouragingly now, and as she came toward him, she struck the chords full and strong.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/149738/1961_149738_000023_000004.wav|Now you go over there and do it!|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000015_000000.wav|'Yes,' said the Emperor; and then he wept like a little child.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000020_000000.wav|'Yes,' said the Emperor, 'but there are so many who ask for a place that I don't know whether there will be one for you; but, still, I will think of you.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000021_000000.wav|And the Prince got the situation of Imperial Swineherd.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000019_000001.wav|He painted his face brown and black, drew his cap well over his face, and knocked at the door.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000001_000000.wav|There was once a poor Prince.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000057_000000.wav|So he took off his shoes, which were shoes though he had trodden them down into slippers.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000031_000000.wav|'Well, what does he say?' asked the Princess.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000045_000000.wav|'Oh, no, of course we won't!' said everyone.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000027_000001.wav|'What will you take for the pot?' asked the lady in waiting.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000029_000000.wav|'Heaven forbid!' said the lady in waiting.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000024_000000.wav|Now the Princess came walking past with all her ladies in waiting, and when she heard the tune she stood still and her face beamed with joy, for she also could play 'Where is Augustus dear?'|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000006_000001.wav|But the rose tree with the beautiful rose came out.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000047_000003.wav|Go down and ask him what this instrument costs; but I won't kiss him again.'|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000017_000000.wav|'Yes, it is a real bird,' said those who had brought it.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000023_000000.wav|But the most wonderful thing was, that when one held one's finger in the steam of the pot, then at once one could smell what dinner was ready in any fire place in the town.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000047_000001.wav|'I have never heard a more beautiful composition.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000050_000000.wav|'One ought to encourage art,' she said.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000044_000000.wav|'But don't say anything about it, for I am the Emperor's daughter.'|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000005_000000.wav|The Emperor had them brought to him in the great hall, where the Princess was playing 'Here comes a duke a riding' with her ladies in waiting.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000060_000000.wav|'Be off with you!' said the Emperor, for he was very angry.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000006_000000.wav|'If only it were a little pussy cat!' she said.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000039_000000.wav|And the ladies in waiting placed themselves in front and then spread out their dresses; so the Swineherd got his ten kisses, and she got the pot.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000026_000000.wav|'Why, that is what I play!' she said.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000037_000000.wav|'No, thank you,' said the Swineherd. 'Ten kisses from the Princess, or else I keep my pot.'|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000036_000000.wav|'Listen!' said the Princess.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000064_000000.wav|And the Swineherd went behind a tree, washed the black and brown off his face, threw away his old clothes, and then stepped forward in his splendid dress, looking so beautiful that the Princess was obliged to courtesy.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000004_000004.wav|This rose and this nightingale the Princess was to have, and so they were both put into silver caskets and sent to her.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000056_000001.wav|He rubbed his eyes and put on his spectacles. 'Why those are the ladies in waiting playing their games; I must go down to them.'|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000065_000000.wav|'I now come to this.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000030_000000.wav|'Yes, I will sell it for nothing less,' replied the Swineherd.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000050_000001.wav|'I am the Emperor's daughter! Tell him he shall have, as before, ten kisses; the rest he can take from my ladies in waiting.'|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000026_000002.wav|Listen!|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000022_000000.wav|'Where is Augustus dear? Alas! he's not here, here, here!'|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000019_000000.wav|'But he was nothing daunted.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000018_000000.wav|'Then let the bird fly away,' said the Princess; and she would not on any account allow the Prince to come.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000040_000001.wav|The whole night and the whole day the pot was made to boil; there was not a fire place in the whole town where they did not know what was being cooked, whether it was at the chancellor's or at the shoemaker's.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000040_000000.wav|What happiness that was!|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000047_000002.wav|Listen!|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000026_000003.wav|Go down and ask him what the instrument costs.'|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000004_000002.wav|Its scent was so sweet that when you smelt it you forgot all your cares and troubles.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000035_000000.wav|'Where is Augustus dear? Alas! he's not here, here, here.'|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000004_000000.wav|On the grave of the Prince's father grew a rose tree, a very beautiful rose tree.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000052_000000.wav|'That's nonsense,' said the Princess; 'and if I can kiss him, you can too.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000021_000001.wav|He had a wretched little room close to the pigsties; here he had to stay, but the whole day he sat working, and when evening was come he had made a pretty little pot.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000063_000000.wav|'If only I had taken the beautiful Prince!|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000058_000001.wav|He stood on tiptoe.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000038_000000.wav|'That is very tiresome!' said the Princess. 'But you must put yourselves in front of me, so that no one can see.'|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000028_000000.wav|'I will have ten kisses from the Princess,' answered the Swineherd.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1961/145733/1961_145733_000062_000000.wav|'Alas, what an unhappy creature I am!' sobbed the Princess.|1961
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000022_000000.wav|Postscript-I did not tell you that Blandly, who, by the way, is to send a consort after us if we don't turn up by the end of August, had found an admirable fellow for sailing master-a stiff man, which I regret, but in all other respects a treasure.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000011_000000.wav|"Well, who's a better right?" growled the gamekeeper.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000025_000002.wav|Any of the under gamekeepers would gladly have changed places with him; but such was not the squire's pleasure, and the squire's pleasure was like law among them all.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000045_000000.wav|I plucked up courage at once, crossed the threshold, and walked right up to the man where he stood, propped on his crutch, talking to a customer.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000077_000001.wav|I began to see that here was one of the best of possible shipmates.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000013_000003.wav|None of them dare, however, to deny the merits of the ship.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000011_000001.wav|"A pretty rum go if squire ain't to talk for dr Livesey, I should think."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000082_000000.wav|"Aye, aye, sir," cried the cook, in the passage.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000069_000004.wav|If we run down this Black Dog, now, there'll be news for Cap'n Trelawney!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000056_000001.wav|"In my house!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000066_000002.wav|Get back to your place for a lubber, Tom."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000005.wav|I'll put on my old cockerel hat, and step along of you to Cap'n Trelawney, and report this here affair. For mind you, it's serious, young Hawkins; and neither you nor me's come out of it with what I should make so bold as to call credit.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000041_000001.wav|The sign was newly painted; the windows had neat red curtains; the floor was cleanly sanded.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000008_000002.wav|You never imagined a sweeter schooner-a child might sail her-two hundred tons; name, HISPANIOLA.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000066_000001.wav|And a mighty suitable thing, too, and you may lay to that.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000016_000000.wav|I was standing on the dock, when, by the merest accident, I fell in talk with him.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000071_000005.wav|I see that when you first come in.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000054_000001.wav|"Black what?"|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000000.wav|"Why, what a precious old sea calf I am!" he said at last, wiping his cheeks.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000033_000000.wav|And I was going to sea myself, to sea in a schooner, with a piping boatswain and pig tailed singing seamen, to sea, bound for an unknown island, and to seek for buried treasure!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000031_000000.wav|"Bristol," said Tom.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000037_000000.wav|"Sail!" says he.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000008_000000.wav|The ship is bought and fitted.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000068_000001.wav|His name was Pew."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000061_000000.wav|"No, sir."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000067_000001.wav|And now," he ran on again, aloud, "let's see-Black Dog?|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000013_000000.wav|Blandly himself found the HISPANIOLA, and by the most admirable management got her for the merest trifle.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000085_000000.wav|"And now," added the doctor, "Jim may come on board with us, may he not?"|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000062_000002.wav|And what was he saying to you?"|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000056_000005.wav|Step up here."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000084_000000.wav|"The man's a perfect trump," declared the squire.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000064_000001.wav|"Don't rightly know, don't you!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000044_000002.wav|I had seen the captain, and Black Dog, and the blind man, Pew, and I thought I knew what a buccaneer was like-a very different creature, according to me, from this clean and pleasant tempered landlord.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000053_000000.wav|One of the others who was nearest the door leaped up and started in pursuit.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000021_000000.wav|Let young Hawkins go at once to see his mother, with Redruth for a guard; and then both come full speed to Bristol. john Trelawney|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000018_000002.wav|I declare we could fight a frigate.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000071_000002.wav|Here you comes and tells me of it plain; and here I let him give us all the slip before my blessed deadlights!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000024_000000.wav|p p s--Hawkins may stay one night with his mother. j t|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000071_000001.wav|There's Cap'n Trelawney-what's he to think? Here I have this confounded son of a Dutchman sitting in my own house drinking of my own rum!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000047_000001.wav|And who may you be?" And then as he saw the squire's letter, he seemed to me to give something almost like a start.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000003_000000.wav|I Go to Bristol|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000043_000000.wav|As I was waiting, a man came out of a side room, and at a glance I was sure he must be Long john.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000022_000001.wav|Long john Silver unearthed a very competent man for a mate, a man named Arrow.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000020_000000.wav|I am in the most magnificent health and spirits, eating like a bull, sleeping like a tree, yet I shall not enjoy a moment till I hear my old tarpaulins tramping round the capstan.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000080_000000.wav|The two gentlemen regretted that Black Dog had got away, but we all agreed there was nothing to be done, and after he had been complimented, Long john took up his crutch and departed.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000010_000000.wav|"Redruth," said I, interrupting the letter, "dr Livesey will not like that.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000041_000002.wav|There was a street on each side and an open door on both, which made the large, low room pretty clear to see in, in spite of clouds of tobacco smoke.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000062_000001.wav|"If you had been mixed up with the like of that, you would never have put another foot in my house, you may lay to that.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000002.wav|But come now, stand by to go about.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000054_000000.wav|"If he were Admiral Hawke he shall pay his score," cried Silver; and then, relinquishing my hand, "Who did you say he was?" he asked.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000051_000001.wav|It's Black Dog!"|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000044_000001.wav|But one look at the man before me was enough.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000036_000000.wav|"Oh, sir," cried I, "when do we sail?"|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000064_000004.wav|Pipe up!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000072_000000.wav|And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000032_000001.wav|Thither we had now to walk, and our way, to my great delight, lay along the quays and beside the great multitude of ships of all sizes and rigs and nations.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000064_000002.wav|Perhaps you don't happen to rightly know who you was speaking to, perhaps?|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000046_000000.wav|"mr Silver, sir?" I asked, holding out the note.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000007_000000.wav|Dear Livesey-As I do not know whether you are at the hall or still in London, I send this in double to both places.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000025_000003.wav|Nobody but old Redruth would have dared so much as even to grumble.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000009_000000.wav|I got her through my old friend, Blandly, who has proved himself throughout the most surprising trump.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000035_000001.wav|The ship's company complete!"|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000055_000000.wav|"Dog, sir," said i "Has mr Trelawney not told you of the buccaneers? He was one of them."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000019_000001.wav|He showed me in a moment that they were just the sort of fresh water swabs we had to fear in an adventure of importance.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000086_000001.wav|"Take your hat, Hawkins, and we'll see the ship."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000044_000000.wav|Now, to tell you the truth, from the very first mention of Long john in Squire Trelawney's letter I had taken a fear in my mind that he might prove to be the very one legged sailor whom I had watched for so long at the old Benbow.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000043_000003.wav|Indeed, he seemed in the most cheerful spirits, whistling as he moved about among the tables, with a merry word or a slap on the shoulder for the more favoured of his guests.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000070_000001.wav|My suspicions had been thoroughly reawakened on finding Black Dog at the Spy glass, and I watched the cook narrowly.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000028_000002.wav|One of my last thoughts was of the captain, who had so often strode along the beach with his cocked hat, his sabre cut cheek, and his old brass telescope. Next moment we had turned the corner and my home was out of sight.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000069_000008.wav|I'LL keel haul him!"|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000014_000001.wav|The workpeople, to be sure-riggers and what not-were most annoyingly slow; but time cured that.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000059_000000.wav|"Not I, sir," said Morgan with a salute.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000001.wav|"You and me should get on well, Hawkins, for I'll take my davy I should be rated ship's boy.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000079_000000.wav|Long john told the story from first to last, with a great deal of spirit and the most perfect truth.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000032_000002.wav|In one, sailors were singing at their work, in another there were men aloft, high over my head, hanging to threads that seemed no thicker than a spider's. Though I had lived by the shore all my life, I seemed never to have been near the sea till then.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000026_000000.wav|The next morning he and I set out on foot for the Admiral Benbow, and there I found my mother in good health and spirits.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000058_000000.wav|"Now, Morgan," said Long john very sternly, "you never clapped your eyes on that Black-Black Dog before, did you, now?"|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000020_000002.wav|Hang the treasure!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000040_000000.wav|WHEN I had done breakfasting the squire gave me a note addressed to john Silver, at the sign of the Spy glass, and told me I should easily find the place by following the line of the docks and keeping a bright lookout for a little tavern with a large brass telescope for sign.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000056_000000.wav|"So?" cried Silver.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000004_000003.wav|Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000050_000000.wav|Just then one of the customers at the far side rose suddenly and made for the door.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000069_000003.wav|Ah, he looked a shark, he did!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000017_000002.wav|He has no pension, Livesey.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000013_000001.wav|There is a class of men in Bristol monstrously prejudiced against Blandly.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000032_000000.wav|mr Trelawney had taken up his residence at an inn far down the docks to superintend the work upon the schooner.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000039_000000.wav|At the Sign of the Spy glass|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000048_000001.wav|"I see.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000052_000000.wav|"I don't care two coppers who he is," cried Silver.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000056_000003.wav|One of those swabs, was he?|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000051_000000.wav|"Oh," I cried, "stop him!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000042_000000.wav|The customers were mostly seafaring men, and they talked so loudly that I hung at the door, almost afraid to enter.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000018_000000.wav|Well, sir, I thought I had only found a cook, but it was a crew I had discovered.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000069_000006.wav|He should run him down, hand over hand, by the powers!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000003.wav|This won't do.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000010_000001.wav|The squire has been talking, after all."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000048_000002.wav|You are our new cabin boy; pleased I am to see you."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000043_000001.wav|His left leg was cut off close by the hip, and under the left shoulder he carried a crutch, which he managed with wonderful dexterity, hopping about upon it like a bird.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000035_000000.wav|"Here you are," he cried, "and the doctor came last night from London. Bravo!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000069_000007.wav|He talked o' keel hauling, did he?|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000007.wav|But dash my buttons!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000038_000000.wav|eight|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000056_000002.wav|Ben, run and help Harry.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000027_000000.wav|It was on seeing that boy that I understood, for the first time, my situation.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000018_000001.wav|Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable-not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000023_000000.wav|I forgot to tell you that Silver is a man of substance; I know of my own knowledge that he has a banker's account, which has never been overdrawn.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000004_000002.wav|Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I approached that island in my fancy from every possible direction; I explored every acre of its surface; I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spy glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000064_000005.wav|What was it?"|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000020_000004.wav|So now, Livesey, come post; do not lose an hour, if you respect me.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000027_000002.wav|I am afraid I led that boy a dog's life, for as he was new to the work, I had a hundred opportunities of setting him right and putting him down, and I was not slow to profit by them.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000034_000000.wav|While I was still in this delightful dream, we came suddenly in front of a large inn and met Squire Trelawney, all dressed out like a sea officer, in stout blue cloth, coming out of the door with a smile on his face and a capital imitation of a sailor's walk.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000029_000000.wav|The mail picked us up about dusk at the Royal George on the heath.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000013_000002.wav|They go the length of declaring that this honest creature would do anything for money, that the HISPANIOLA belonged to him, and that he sold it me absurdly high-the most transparent calumnies.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000040_000001.wav|I set off, overjoyed at this opportunity to see some more of the ships and seamen, and picked my way among a great crowd of people and carts and bales, for the dock was now at its busiest, until I found the tavern in question.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000070_000000.wav|All the time he was jerking out these phrases he was stumping up and down the tavern on his crutch, slapping tables with his hand, and giving such a show of excitement as would have convinced an Old Bailey judge or a Bow Street runner.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000052_000002.wav|Harry, run and catch him."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000050_000001.wav|It was close by him, and he was out in the street in a moment.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000025_000001.wav|I was half beside myself with glee; and if ever I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth, who could do nothing but grumble and lament.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000014_000002.wav|It was the crew that troubled me.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000075_000006.wav|Nor you neither, says you; not smart-none of the pair of us smart.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000008_000001.wav|She lies at anchor, ready for sea.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000065_000000.wav|"We was a talkin' of keel hauling," answered Morgan.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000026_000001.wav|The captain, who had so long been a cause of so much discomfort, was gone where the wicked cease from troubling.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000017_000001.wav|Long john Silver, he is called, and has lost a leg; but that I regarded as a recommendation, since he lost it in his country's service, under the immortal Hawke.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000023_000001.wav|He leaves his wife to manage the inn; and as she is a woman of colour, a pair of old bachelors like you and I may be excused for guessing that it is the wife, quite as much as the health, that sends him back to roving. j t|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000081_000000.wav|"All hands aboard by four this afternoon," shouted the squire after him.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000012_000000.wav|At that I gave up all attempts at commentary and read straight on:|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000031_000001.wav|"Get down."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000020_000001.wav|Seaward, ho!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000052_000001.wav|"But he hasn't paid his score.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000022_000002.wav|I have a boatswain who pipes, Livesey; so things shall go man o'-war fashion on board the good ship HISPANIOLA.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000074_000000.wav|And falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks. I could not help joining, and we laughed together, peal after peal, until the tavern rang again.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000026_000002.wav|The squire had had everything repaired, and the public rooms and the sign repainted, and had added some furniture-above all a beautiful armchair for mother in the bar.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/127518/781_127518_000016_000001.wav|I found he was an old sailor, kept a public house, knew all the seafaring men in Bristol, had lost his health ashore, and wanted a good berth as cook to get to sea again.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000030_000000.wav|"Stevie!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000031_000000.wav|"no|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000033_000001.wav|What next!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000086_000000.wav|"Poor!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000132_000002.wav|I'm sure she couldn't have thought you had enough of her.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000054_000000.wav|Not think of it!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000117_000004.wav|He was impressed and startled now, and his intelligence was very alert.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000017_000006.wav|The passionate expostulations of the big faced cabman seemed to be squeezed out of a blocked throat.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000083_000000.wav|"Bad!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000017_000001.wav|This last peculiarity caused some embarrassment.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000102_000003.wav|He hung back to utter it at once.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000053_000000.wav|"Mind!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000120_000001.wav|"Certainly not.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000015_000012.wav|What if Mr Verloc suddenly took it into his head to tell Stevie to take his blessed sticks somewhere out of that?|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000041_000001.wav|It was a complexion, that under the influence of a blush would take on an orange tint.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000039_000000.wav|"My dear," screamed the old woman earnestly above the noise, "you've been the best of daughters to me.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000083_000001.wav|Bad!"|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000057_000003.wav|They agreed as to that.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000140_000005.wav|He renewed his stock from Paris and Brussels.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000066_000000.wav|"Here you are!"|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000027_000000.wav|"You mustn't," stammered out Stevie violently.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000099_000007.wav|He knew it from experience.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000028_000009.wav|Is that boy hurt?"|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000104_000002.wav|Somebody, he felt, ought to be punished for it-punished with great severity.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000106_000000.wav|It was clear to Mrs Verloc that he was greatly excited.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000113_000003.wav|He had liked all police constables tenderly, with a guileless trustfulness.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000122_000001.wav|Stop that green 'bus."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000026_000002.wav|They remained closed.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000021_000003.wav|Stevie climbed on the box.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000124_000018.wav|Yet so it was.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000107_000001.wav|"Do come along.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000057_000009.wav|It was too difficult!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000135_000005.wav|And why?|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000031_000002.wav|Must walk."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000071_000001.wav|The little stiff tail seemed to have been fitted in for a heartless joke; and at the other end the thin, flat neck, like a plank covered with old horse hide, drooped to the ground under the weight of an enormous bony head.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000016_000003.wav|They went out at the shop door.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000077_000004.wav|Drunks."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000105_000000.wav|"Beastly!" he added concisely.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000125_000001.wav|Mr Verloc was sorry.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000038_000002.wav|And I don't think you'll be. That I don't.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000033_000003.wav|He won't be happy at all."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000103_000000.wav|"Bad world for poor people."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000021_000000.wav|The policeman's testimony settled it.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000131_000002.wav|They had stood by each other.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000077_000003.wav|Looking for fares.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000025_000000.wav|"Don't whip."|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000100_000000.wav|Mrs Verloc, his only sister, guardian, and protector, could not pretend to such depths of insight.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000031_000001.wav|no Walk.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000077_000000.wav|"You may well look!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000084_000002.wav|He pouted in a scared way like a child. The cabman, short and broad, eyed him with his fierce little eyes that seemed to smart in a clear and corroding liquid.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000015_000001.wav|She was leaving it in Brett Street, of course.|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/781/126737/781_126737_000098_000000.wav|"Poor!|781
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000084_000000.wav|'Yes, but I don't know when they may be proceeded on, or where they are,' rejoined Traddles, opening his eyes; 'and I anticipate, that, between this time and his departure, mr Micawber will be constantly arrested, or taken in execution.'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000050_000001.wav|Dear mr Traddles and dear Trotwood, papa once free with honour, what could I wish for!|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000067_000000.wav|'And indeed,' said Traddles, 'it was sold, by virtue of the power of management he held from you; but I needn't say by whom sold, or on whose actual signature.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000088_000001.wav|We both recommended a small sum in money, and the payment, without stipulation to mr Micawber, of the Uriah claims as they came in.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000032_000002.wav|At the same time, my dear, if they should condescend to reply to your communications-which our joint experience renders most improbable-far be it from me to be a barrier to your wishes.'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000072_000000.wav|'Ha!' said my aunt, knitting her brows thoughtfully, and glancing at Agnes. 'And what's become of him?'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000115_000000.wav|'Did he die in the hospital?'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000040_000001.wav|I never saw such a fellow.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000040_000003.wav|The heat into which he has been continually putting himself; and the distracted and impetuous manner in which he has been diving, day and night, among papers and books; to say nothing of the immense number of letters he has written me between this house and mr Wickfield's, and often across the table when he has been sitting opposite, and might much more easily have spoken; is quite extraordinary.'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000067_000001.wav|It was afterwards pretended to mr Wickfield, by that rascal,--and proved, too, by figures,--that he had possessed himself of the money (on general instructions, he said) to keep other deficiencies and difficulties from the light.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000097_000001.wav|'You are quite right,' she said.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000075_000005.wav|Always creeping along the ground to some small end or other, he will always magnify every object in the way; and consequently will hate and suspect everybody that comes, in the most innocent manner, between him and it.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000040_000002.wav|If he always goes on in the same way, he must be, virtually, about two hundred years old, at present.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000071_000001.wav|Micawber had so completely hemmed him in, and was always ready with so many new points if an old one failed, that he could not escape from us.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000085_000001.wav|'What's the amount altogether?'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000077_000000.wav|'Really I don't know about that,' observed Traddles thoughtfully.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000071_000003.wav|He said so to me, plainly.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000099_000004.wav|And don't any of you speak to me!' With that she smoothed her dress, and sat, with her upright carriage, looking at the door.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000040_000000.wav|'I must do mr Micawber the justice to say,' Traddles began, 'that although he would appear not to have worked to any good account for himself, he is a most untiring man when he works for other people.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000101_000003.wav|To see him at work on the stamps, with the relish of an artist, touching them like pictures, looking at them sideways, taking weighty notes of dates and amounts in his pocket book, and contemplating them when finished, with a high sense of their precious value, was a sight indeed.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000055_000001.wav|'All I have got to say about it is, that if it's gone, I can bear it; and if it's not gone, I shall be glad to get it back.'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000088_000003.wav|To this, I added the suggestion, that I should give some explanation of his character and history to mr Peggotty, who I knew could be relied on; and that to mr Peggotty should be quietly entrusted the discretion of advancing another hundred.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000003_000001.wav|mr MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000073_000003.wav|He seemed to consider himself hardly less indebted to me, than to mr Micawber; which I consider (as I told him) quite a compliment.'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000120_000000.wav|'I went.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000118_000003.wav|He was sorry then.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000125_000000.wav|'He was a fine looking man when I married him, Trot-and he was sadly changed!'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000114_000000.wav|'You understand it now, Trot,' said my aunt.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000043_000001.wav|Trot, you know it.'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000060_000000.wav|'Five thousand pounds,' said Traddles.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000035_000000.wav|'I am quite myself,' said I, after a pause.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000031_000002.wav|If so, that is their misfortune.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000044_000000.wav|'I am happy to say, Miss Wickfield,' pursued Traddles, at once with great delicacy and with great earnestness, 'that in your absence mr Wickfield has considerably improved.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000121_000000.wav|'He died the night before we went to Canterbury?' said i My aunt nodded.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000061_000002.wav|One, I paid for your articles, Trot, my dear; and the other two I have by me. When I lost the rest, I thought it wise to say nothing about that sum, but to keep it secretly for a rainy day.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000127_000000.wav|So we rode back to her little cottage at Highgate, where we found the following short note, which had arrived by that morning's post from mr Micawber:|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000075_000003.wav|He is such an incarnate hypocrite, that whatever object he pursues, he must pursue crookedly.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000044_000002.wav|At times, even his impaired power of concentrating his memory and attention on particular points of business, has recovered itself very much; and he has been able to assist us in making some things clear, that we should have found very difficult indeed, if not hopeless, without him.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000094_000000.wav|'There was-pardon me-really such a person, and at all in his power?' hinted Traddles.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000037_000000.wav|'But even that is not all,' said i 'During the last fortnight, some new trouble has vexed her; and she has been in and out of London every day. Several times she has gone out early, and been absent until evening. Last night, Traddles, with this journey before her, it was almost midnight before she came home.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000073_000000.wav|'I don't know.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000027_000000.wav|'mr|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000126_000001.wav|After the relief of tears, she soon became composed, and even cheerful.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000008_000000.wav|I was to go abroad.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000032_000001.wav|All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me,--in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000087_000003.wav|Five hundred pounds?'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000067_000002.wav|mr Wickfield, being so weak and helpless in his hands as to pay you, afterwards, several sums of interest on a pretended principal which he knew did not exist, made himself, unhappily, a party to the fraud.'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000024_000000.wav|'No doubt.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000068_000001.wav|Upon which I paid him a visit early one morning, called for a candle, burnt the letter, and told him if he ever could right me and himself, to do it; and if he couldn't, to keep his own counsel for his daughter's sake.---If anybody speaks to me, I'll leave the house!'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000071_000000.wav|'Why, the fact is,' returned Traddles, 'mr|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000083_000000.wav|'Well!|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000052_000003.wav|So many people know me here, and think kindly of me, that I am certain.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000015_000000.wav|'Madam,' he replied, 'mrs|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000086_000000.wav|'Why, mr Micawber has entered the transactions-he calls them transactions-with great form, in a book,' rejoined Traddles, smiling; 'and he makes the amount a hundred and three pounds, five.'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000020_000001.wav|'mrs|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000101_000002.wav|We, being quite prepared for this event, which was of course a proceeding of Uriah Heep's, soon paid the money; and in five minutes more mr Micawber was seated at the table, filling up the stamps with an expression of perfect joy, which only that congenial employment, or the making of punch, could impart in full completeness to his shining face.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000054_000000.wav|'Next, Miss Trotwood,' said Traddles, 'that property of yours.'|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000064_000000.wav|'Don't congratulate me, anybody!' exclaimed my aunt.|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1958/144503/1958_144503_000087_000002.wav|What should it be?|1958
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000019_000000.wav|Brilliant display of ingenious argument|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000042_000000.wav|Capacity for urbanity and moderation|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000117_000000.wav|Divested of all personal feelings|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000004_000000.wav|Based on a fundamental error|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000123_000000.wav|Dreaded and detested rival|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000029_000000.wav|By a whimsical diversion|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000073_000000.wav|Criticized with unsparing vigor|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000003_000000.wav|Bandied to and fro|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000103_000000.wav|Diffidence overwhelmed him|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000092_000000.wav|Delicacy of perception and quick tact|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000090_000000.wav|Degrading and debasing curiosity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000005_000000.wav|Beguile the tedium of the journey|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000025_000000.wav|But that is beside the mark|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000060_000000.wav|Conceded from a sense of justice|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000099_000000.wav|Dexterous modes of concealment|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000126_000000.wav|Dull and trite commonplaces|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000065_000000.wav|Confused rumblings presaging a different epoch|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000034_000000.wav|By the common judgment of the thinking world|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000067_000000.wav|Consumed by a demon of activity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000013_000000.wav|Blunt the finer sensibilities|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000084_000000.wav|Deeply engrossed in congenial work|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000036_000000.wav|By virtue of a common understanding|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000054_000000.wav|Clever and captivating eloquence|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000111_000000.wav|Disguised in sentimental frippery|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000053_000000.wav|Chivalrous loyalty and high forbearance|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000056_000000.wav|Coherent and continuous trend of thought|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000079_000000.wav|Dangerously near snobbery|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000052_000000.wav|Childishly inaccurate and absurd|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000105_000000.wav|Dignified by deliberation and privacy|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000100_000000.wav|Dictated by an overweening partiality|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000085_000000.wav|Deeply moved as well as keenly stung|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000045_000000.wav|Ceaseless tramp of humanity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000097_000000.wav|Devious and perilous ways|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000023_000000.wav|Bursts of unpremeditated frankness|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000016_000000.wav|Breathed an almost exaggerated humility|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000050_000000.wav|Cherished the amiable illusion|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000104_000000.wav|Diffusing beneficent results|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000115_000000.wav|Distracted by contending desires|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000077_000000.wav|D|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000069_000000.wav|Contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000120_000000.wav|Doomed by inexorable fate|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000014_000000.wav|Blustering desire for publicity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000022_000000.wav|Brutal recognition of failure|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000057_000000.wav|Commended by perfect suavity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000007_000000.wav|Beset with external dangers|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000070_000000.wav|Couched in terms of feigned devotion|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000094_000000.wav|Dense to the point of stupidity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000108_000000.wav|Disdaining the guidance of reason|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000064_000000.wav|Conducive to well-being and efficiency|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000122_000000.wav|Draw back in distrust and misgiving|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000062_000000.wav|Concentrated and implacable resolve|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000076_000000.wav|Cynically repudiate all obligations|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000078_000000.wav|Daily usages and modes of thinking|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000035_000000.wav|By the sheer centripetal force of sympathy|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000020_000000.wav|Bring odium upon the individual|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000051_000000.wav|Cherishing a huge fallacy|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000040_000000.wav|Calm strength and constancy|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000021_000000.wav|Brisk directness of speech|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000093_000000.wav|Delude many minds into acquiescence|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000107_000000.wav|Discreditable and insincere support|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000112_000000.wav|Dispel all anxious concern|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000047_000000.wav|Championing the cause of religious education|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000011_000000.wav|Blended with courage and devotion|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000026_000000.wav|But this is a digression|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000109_000000.wav|Disenchanting effect of time and experience|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000063_000000.wav|Conditions of unspeakable humiliation|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000055_000000.wav|Coarse and glittering ostentation|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000061_000000.wav|Conceived with imperfect knowledge|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000091_000000.wav|Deliberate and cautious reflection|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000098_000000.wav|Devoid of hysteria and extravagance|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000087_000000.wav|Defiant of analysis and rule|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000043_000000.wav|Carried into port by fair winds|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000089_000000.wav|Degenerated into deadness and formality|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000059_000000.wav|Complicated and infinitely embittered|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000058_000000.wav|Common ground of agreement|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000068_000000.wav|Continuous and stubborn disregard|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000048_000000.wav|Chastened and refined by experience|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000096_000000.wav|Devices generally held to be discreditable|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000110_000000.wav|Disfigured by glaring faults|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000009_000000.wav|Bewildering multiplication of details|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000049_000000.wav|Checked by the voice of authority|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000006_000000.wav|Bemoaning and bewailing his sad fortune|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000039_000000.wav|Calculated to create disgust|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000012_000000.wav|Blind leaders of the blind|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000038_000000.wav|C|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000118_000000.wav|Dogged and shameless beyond all precedent|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000015_000000.wav|Bound up with impossibilities and absurdities|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000121_000000.wav|Doomed to impermanence and transiency|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000071_000000.wav|Credulous and emotionally extravagant|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000032_000000.wav|By no means inconsolable|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000008_000000.wav|Betrayed into deplorable error|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000086_000000.wav|Deeply rooted in the heart of humanity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000119_000000.wav|Dominated by no prevailing taste or fashion|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000002_000000.wav|B|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000074_000000.wav|Crude undigested masses of suggestion|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000028_000000.wav|By a happy turn of thinking|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000106_000000.wav|Dimly implying some sort of jest|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000027_000000.wav|By a curious perversity of fate|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000125_000000.wav|Due to historical perspective|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000082_000000.wav|Debased by common use|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130549/1382_130549_000081_000000.wav|Dazzled by their novelty and brilliance|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000015_000000.wav|It is an uncommonly fine description|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000095_000000.wav|It seems unspeakably funny to me|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000027_000000.wav|It is my deliberately formed opinion|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000022_000000.wav|It is inexplicable|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000083_000000.wav|It may sound strange to you|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000020_000000.wav|It is incredible!|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000085_000000.wav|It must be fascinating|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000065_000000.wav|It's as logical as it can be under the circumstances|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000037_000000.wav|It is perfectly trite|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000089_000000.wav|It seems entirely wonderful to me|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000038_000000.wav|It is permissible to gratify such an impulse|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000017_000000.wav|It is for you to decide|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000016_000000.wav|It is extremely interesting, I can assure you|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000081_000000.wav|It's very wonderful|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000023_000000.wav|It is interesting, as a theory|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000068_000000.wav|It's going to be rather troublesome|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000107_000000.wav|It was not unkindly meant|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000012_000000.wav|It is an error of taste|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000117_000000.wav|It would be ill advised|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000048_000000.wav|It is simply a coincidence|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000075_000000.wav|It's really very perplexing|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000006_000000.wav|It is a rather melancholy thought|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000066_000000.wav|It's been a strange experience for you|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000034_000000.wav|It is one of the grave problems of the day|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000104_000000.wav|It was an unpardonable liberty|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000042_000000.wav|It is quite too absurd|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000052_000000.wav|It is true none the less|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000014_000000.wav|It is an ingenious theory|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000026_000000.wav|It is most unfortunate|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000011_000000.wav|It is an admirable way of putting it|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000070_000000.wav|It's mere pride of opinion|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000001_000000.wav|It is a curious fact|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000074_000000.wav|It's quite wonderful how logical and simple you make it|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000047_000000.wav|It is sickening and so insufferably arrogant|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000101_000000.wav|It sounds rather appalling|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000115_000000.wav|It will give me pleasure to do it|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000057_000000.wav|It is very splendid of you|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000028_000000.wav|It is my opinion you are too conscientious|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000053_000000.wav|It is very amusing|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000029_000000.wav|It is nevertheless true|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000045_000000.wav|It is really most callous of you to laugh|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000054_000000.wav|It is very far from being a fiction|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000118_000000.wav|It would interest me very much|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000108_000000.wav|It was peculiarly unfortunate|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000003_000000.wav|It is a huge undertaking|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000062_000000.wav|It's absolute folly|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000044_000000.wav|It is really impressive|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000073_000000.wav|It's past my comprehension|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000071_000000.wav|It's my chief form of recreation|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000013_000000.wav|It is an extreme case, but the principle is sound|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000092_000000.wav|It seems preposterous|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000069_000000.wav|It's inconceivable that it should ever be necessary|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000099_000000.wav|It sounds plausible|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000059_000000.wav|It is your privilege to think so|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000079_000000.wav|It's the natural sequence|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000103_000000.wav|It strikes me as rather pathetic|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000018_000000.wav|It is historically true|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000082_000000.wav|It makes it all quite interesting|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000041_000000.wav|It is quite conceivable|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000093_000000.wav|It seems the height of absurdity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000094_000000.wav|It seems to me that you have a perfect right to do so|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000040_000000.wav|It is quite an easy matter|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000036_000000.wav|It is perfectly defensible|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000061_000000.wav|It's a matter of immediate urgency|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000080_000000.wav|It's too melancholy|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000002_000000.wav|It is a great pleasure to meet you|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000114_000000.wav|It will divert your thoughts from a mournful subject|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000031_000000.wav|It is not always fair to judge by appearances|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000046_000000.wav|It is sheer madness|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000063_000000.wav|It's absurd-it's impossible|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000033_000000.wav|It is often very misleading|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000064_000000.wav|It's all nonsense|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000058_000000.wav|It is wanton capriciousness|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000098_000000.wav|It should not be objectionable|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000049_000000.wav|It is the most incomprehensible thing in the world|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000035_000000.wav|It is only a fancy of mine|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000067_000000.wav|It's deliciously honest|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000072_000000.wav|It's not a matter of vast importance|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000113_000000.wav|It will create a considerable sensation|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000055_000000.wav|It is very good of you to do this for my pleasure|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000060_000000.wav|It's a difficult and delicate matter to discuss|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000050_000000.wav|It is to you that I am indebted for all this|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000091_000000.wav|It seems like a distracting dream|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130516/1382_130516_000090_000000.wav|It seems incredible|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000102_000000.wav|At the mercy of small prejudices|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000015_000000.wav|An artful and malignant enemy|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000041_000000.wav|An imperturbable demeanor and steadiness of mind|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000053_000000.wav|An insatiable appetite for trifles|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000006_000000.wav|An air of round eyed profundity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000087_000000.wav|Ardently and enthusiastically convinced|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000082_000000.wav|Anticipated with lively expectation|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000085_000000.wav|Appreciably above the level of mediocrity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000093_000000.wav|As by a secret of freemasonry|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000097_000000.wav|Assailed by poignant doubts|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000106_000000.wav|Await the sentence of impartial posterity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000094_000000.wav|As odious as it is absurd|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000056_000000.wav|An intentional breach of politeness|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000032_000000.wav|An expression at once confident and appealing|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000065_000000.wav|An obnoxious member of society|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000010_000000.wav|An ample and imposing structure|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000026_000000.wav|An entirely negligible quantity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000067_000000.wav|An open and violent rupture|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000083_000000.wav|Apparent rather than real|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000045_000000.wav|An incredible mental agility|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000103_000000.wav|Attained by rigorous self restraint|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000058_000000.wav|An intolerable deal of guesswork|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000066_000000.wav|An ominous lull and silence|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000104_000000.wav|Attended by insuperable difficulties|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000052_000000.wav|An inexhaustible copiousness and readiness of speech|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000076_000000.wav|An unreasoning form of coercion|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000105_000000.wav|Averted by some happy stroke of fortune|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000086_000000.wav|Arbitrary assumption of power|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000057_000000.wav|An interchange of civilities|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000051_000000.wav|An inevitable factor of human conduct|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000090_000000.wav|Arrogance and untutored haughtiness|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000054_000000.wav|An insatiable voracity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000049_000000.wav|An indomitable and unselfish soul|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000092_000000.wav|As belated as they are fallacious|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000014_000000.wav|An arid dictum|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000080_000000.wav|Announced in a tone of pious satisfaction|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000047_000000.wav|An indescribable frankness and simplicity of character|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000063_000000.wav|An itching propensity for argument|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000091_000000.wav|As an impartial bystander|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000096_000000.wav|As we scan the vague unknown|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000005_000000.wav|An air of artificial constraint|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000028_000000.wav|An eternal and imperishable example|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000012_000000.wav|An appreciable menace|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000039_000000.wav|An immeasurable advantage|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000044_000000.wav|An incongruous spectacle|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000001_000000.wav|An accidental encounter|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000075_000000.wav|An unpatriotic and ignoble act|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000035_000000.wav|An honest and unquestioning pride|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000099_000000.wav|Assumed almost heroic proportions|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000089_000000.wav|Arrayed with scrupulous neatness|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000095_000000.wav|As ridiculous as it was unnecessary|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000013_000000.wav|An ardent and gifted youth|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000064_000000.wav|An object of indestructible interest|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000084_000000.wav|Appeal to a tardy justice|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130548/1382_130548_000008_000000.wav|An almost excessive exactness|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000072_000000.wav|Silence fell|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000106_000000.wav|Stripped to its bare skeleton|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000059_000000.wav|She thrived on insincerity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000006_000000.wav|Scorched with the lightning of momentary indignation|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000117_000000.wav|Such things as the eye of history sees|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000014_000000.wav|Serenity beamed from his look|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000018_000000.wav|Set anew in some fresh and appealing form|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000046_000000.wav|She recaptured herself with difficulty|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000068_000000.wav|She was stricken to the soul|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000095_000000.wav|Stale and facile platitudes|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000031_000000.wav|She fell into a dreamy silence|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000091_000000.wav|Sore beset by the pressure of temptation|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000087_000000.wav|Something eminently human beaconed from his eyes|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000055_000000.wav|She stilled and trampled on the inward protest|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000101_000000.wav|Stimulated to an ever deepening subtlety|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000024_000000.wav|She challenged his dissent|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000054_000000.wav|She spoke with sweet severity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000016_000000.wav|Seriousness lurked in the depths of her eyes|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000096_000000.wav|Stamped with unutterable and solemn woe|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000036_000000.wav|She frowned incomprehension|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000037_000000.wav|She had an air of restrained fury|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000131_000000.wav|Susceptibility to fleeting impressions|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000041_000000.wav|She nodded mutely|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000121_000000.wav|Suddenly smitten with unreality|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000082_000000.wav|Solitary and sorely smitten souls|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000092_000000.wav|Specious show of impeccability|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000051_000000.wav|She shook hands grudgingly|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000099_000000.wav|Stem the tide of opinion|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000017_000000.wav|Served to recruit his own jaded ideas|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000129_000000.wav|Sunny silence broods over the realm of little cottages|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000023_000000.wav|She bandies adjectives with the best|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000085_000000.wav|Some flash of witty irrelevance|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000022_000000.wav|She assented in precisely the right terms|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000048_000000.wav|She sat eyeing him with frosty calm|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000118_000000.wav|Such was the petty chronicle|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000056_000000.wav|She stood her ground with the most perfect dignity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000102_000000.wav|Stirred into a true access of enthusiasm|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000108_000000.wav|Struck by a sudden curiosity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000050_000000.wav|She seemed wrapped in a veil of lassitude|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000065_000000.wav|She was gripped with a sense of suffocation and panic|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000039_000000.wav|She hugged the thought of her own unknown and unapplauded integrity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000112_000000.wav|Subdued passages of unobtrusive majesty|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000128_000000.wav|Sunk into a gloomy reverie|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000025_000000.wav|She cherished no petty resentments|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000005_000000.wav|Sadness prevailed among her moods|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000080_000000.wav|Soar into a rosy zone of contemplation|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000009_000000.wav|Scrupulous morality of conduct|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000032_000000.wav|She fell into abstracted reverie|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000084_000000.wav|Some exquisite refinement in the architecture of the brain|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000060_000000.wav|She twitted him merrily|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000120_000000.wav|Suddenly overawed by a strange, delicious shyness|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000083_000000.wav|Some dim remembered and dream like images|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000043_000000.wav|She permitted herself a delicate little smile|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000109_000000.wav|Struck dumb with strange surprise|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000064_000000.wav|She was exquisitely simple|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000114_000000.wav|Submission to an implied rebuke|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000058_000000.wav|She swept away all opposing opinion with the swift rush of her enthusiasm|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000115_000000.wav|Subtle indications of great mental agitation|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000097_000000.wav|Startled into perilous activity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000007_000000.wav|Scorning such paltry devices|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000075_000000.wav|Slender experience of the facts of life|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000026_000000.wav|She curled her fastidious lip|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000019_000000.wav|Setting all the sane traditions at defiance|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000061_000000.wav|She was both weary and placated|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000062_000000.wav|She was conscious of a tumultuous rush of sensations|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000111_000000.wav|Stung by the splendor of the prospect|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000057_000000.wav|She strangled a fierce tide of feeling that welled up within her|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000020_000000.wav|Shadowy vistas of sylvan beauty|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000124_000000.wav|Sugared remonstrances and cajoleries|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000040_000000.wav|She lingered a few leisurely seconds|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000113_000000.wav|Sublime indifference to contemporary usage and taste|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000038_000000.wav|She had an undercurrent of acidity|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000012_000000.wav|Seize on greedily|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000089_000000.wav|Something indescribably reckless and desperate in such a picture|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000015_000000.wav|Serenity of paralysis and death|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000088_000000.wav|Something full of urgent haste|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000067_000000.wav|She was oppressed by a dead melancholy|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000078_000000.wav|Slowly disengaging its significance from the thicket of words|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000127_000000.wav|Sunk in a phraseological quagmire|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000086_000000.wav|Something curiously suggestive and engaging|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000063_000000.wav|She was demure and dimly appealing|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000011_000000.wav|Seething with suppressed wrath|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000004_000000.wav|Sacrificed to a futile sort of treadmill|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000125_000000.wav|Suggestions of veiled and vibrant feeling|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000100_000000.wav|Stern emptying of the soul|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000003_000000.wav|S|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000035_000000.wav|She forced a faint quivering smile|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000122_000000.wav|Suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000044_000000.wav|She poured out on him the full opulence of a proud recognition|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000027_000000.wav|She curled her lip with defiant scorn|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000076_000000.wav|Slope towards extinction|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000090_000000.wav|Something that seizes tyrannously upon the soul|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000073_000000.wav|Singing lustily as if to exorcise the demon of gloom|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000034_000000.wav|She flushed an agitated pink|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000130_000000.wav|Supreme arbiter of conduct|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000030_000000.wav|She disclaimed fatigue|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000010_000000.wav|Seem to swim in a sort of blurred mist before the eyes|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000126_000000.wav|Summer clouds floating feathery overhead|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000132_000000.wav|Sweet smoke of burning twigs hovered in the autumn day|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000070_000000.wav|Sheer superfluity of happiness|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000066_000000.wav|She was in an anguish of sharp and penetrating remorse|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000074_000000.wav|Skirmishes and retreats of conscience|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000049_000000.wav|She seemed the embodiment of dauntless resolution|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000071_000000.wav|Sickening contrasts and diabolic ironies of life|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000008_000000.wav|Scotched but not slain|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000042_000000.wav|She nourished a dream of ambition|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000069_000000.wav|She wore an air of wistful questioning|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000098_000000.wav|Startling leaps over vast gulfs of time|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000047_000000.wav|She regarded him stonily out of flint blue eyes|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000052_000000.wav|She softened her frown to a quivering smile|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000028_000000.wav|She did her best to mask her agitation|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000110_000000.wav|Stung by his thoughts, and impatient of rest|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000077_000000.wav|Slow the movement was and tortuous|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000021_000000.wav|She affected disdain|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1382/130492/1382_130492_000053_000000.wav|She spoke with hurried eagerness|1382
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1390/130494/1390_130494_000082_000000.wav|The preternatural pomposities of the pulpit|1390
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1390/130494/1390_130494_000087_000000.wav|The purple vaulted night|1390
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1390/130494/1390_130494_000021_000000.wav|The lights winked|1390
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1390/130494/1390_130494_000102_000000.wav|The rosy twilight of boyhood|1390
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1390/130493/1390_130493_000015_000000.wav|Tethered to earth|1390
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1390/130495/1390_130495_000058_000000.wav|They escaped the baffled eye|1390
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000044_000004.wav|I wondered if it had ruined me or only partly ruined me.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000032_000000.wav|I knew it was time now to make a bold stroke; so I used the method that I always employ.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000060_000001.wav|I've missed my stop.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000045_000000.wav|"One can never get over a loss like that," he continued solemnly.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000049_000001.wav|But it has its other side, too."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000028_000001.wav|There was evidently an old place somewhere to which I would hardly care to go.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000068_000000.wav|I waited.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000033_000001.wav|Do you ever hear anything of Billy now?"|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000059_000000.wav|His face was agitated.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000033_000000.wav|"Say!" I said, "where's Billy?|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000006.wav|It's not hard to laugh for fifty miles if you know how.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000065_000001.wav|Here's money."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000076_000000.wav|"Ah, there it is," he cried, seizing it and carrying it off.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000060_000002.wav|I should have got out at the last station.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000003_000000.wav|Then he saw me.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000005.wav|I had only fifty miles more to go.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000067_000000.wav|He sprang from the train.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000028_000002.wav|That was something to build on.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000015_000000.wav|And all the time I was wondering who he was.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000027_000001.wav|I beg your pardon," he said, and there was silence for a few moments.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000069_000000.wav|The porters were calling, "All abawd!|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000019_000000.wav|"But it has gone very quickly."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000043_000000.wav|"I often meant to write to you," he said, his voice falling to a confidential tone, "especially when I heard of your loss."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000065_000000.wav|"Here," I said, pulling some money out of my pocket, "don't bother with the lock.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000075_000001.wav|But it was not for me.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000070_000000.wav|"Idiot," I thought, "he's missed it;" and there was his fifty dollar suit case lying on the seat.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000048_000003.wav|That was easy.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000046_000000.wav|Evidently I was plumb ruined.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000032_000001.wav|I struck in with great animation.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000077_000000.wav|I sank back in dismay.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000077_000004.wav|And my money!|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000023_000000.wav|"Do you ever go back to the old place?" he asked.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000012_000000.wav|"Yes," I said, "a little; but you're stouter yourself."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000048_000005.wav|One has only to sit quiet and wait to find out who is dead.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000035_000001.wav|I saw him in Chicago last spring,--weighed about two hundred pounds,--you wouldn't know him."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000031_000000.wav|"Poor things," I thought, but I didn't say it.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000044_000000.wav|I remained quiet.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000048_000002.wav|I almost hiccoughed with joy.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000061_000001.wav|"She's late now, she's makin' up tahm!"|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000039_000001.wav|I often think of him."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000079_000000.wav|And next time that I fall into talk with a casual stranger in a car, I shall not try to be quite so extraordinarily clever.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000018_000000.wav|"A long time," I repeated with something of a note of sadness.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000009_000000.wav|"You haven't changed a bit," he said.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000013_000000.wav|This of course would help to explain away any undue stoutness on my part.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000020_000000.wav|"Like a flash," I assented cheerfully.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000004_000000.wav|"Well! well!" he said, and recognition broke out all over his face like morning sunlight.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000055_000001.wav|That was it, was it?|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000001_000000.wav|HE STEPPED into the smoking compartment of the Pullman, where I was sitting alone.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000035_000000.wav|"Yes," said my friend, "sure-Billy is ranching out in Montana.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000064_000000.wav|My one fear now was that he would fail to get off.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000075_000002.wav|It was for the fifty dollar valise.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000021_000001.wav|I often think about it.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000024_000001.wav|This had to be absolute.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000001.wav|Under these circumstances it is always supposed to be very funny if a man has got married.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000058_000000.wav|My friend looked quickly out of the window.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000002.wav|The notion of old peter (whoever he is) being married is presumed to be simply killing.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000024_000000.wav|"Never," I said, firmly and flatly.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000015_000001.wav|I didn't know him from Adam; I couldn't recall him a bit.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000024_000002.wav|I felt that once and for all the "old place" must be ruled out of the discussion till I could discover where it was.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000044_000003.wav|And if so, how much? And why had I lost it?|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000050_000000.wav|"Very true, especially, of course, at that age."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000048_000000.wav|Death!|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000015_000002.wav|I don't mean that my memory is weak. On the contrary, it is singularly tenacious.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000016_000000.wav|My friend sat down.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000002_000000.wav|He had on a long fur lined coat, and he carried a fifty dollar suit case that he put down on the seat.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000057_000000.wav|As I said this I could hear the rattle and clatter of the train running past the semaphores and switch points and slacking to a stop.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000047_000000.wav|"Yes," the man went on, "death is always sad."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000075_000000.wav|Then his face, too, beamed all at once with recognition.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000037_000000.wav|"And where's Pete?" I said.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000044_000001.wav|What had I lost?|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000042_000000.wav|But my friend wouldn't be content with it.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000054_000000.wav|"What," he said, perplexed, "did your grandmother----"|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000027_000000.wav|"I understand.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000029_000000.wav|Presently he began again.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000060_000000.wav|"Great heavens!" he said, "that's the junction.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000015_000007.wav|It only needs coolness and intellect, and it all comes right.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000000.wav|I started to laugh, too.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000021_000002.wav|I sometimes wonder," he continued, "where all the old gang are gone to."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000063_000001.wav|"Confound this lock-my money's in the suit case."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000026_000000.wav|"Not now," I said very gently.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000046_000001.wav|But I said nothing and remained under cover, waiting to draw his fire.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000077_000005.wav|I saw it all; the other man was "making talk," too, and making it with a purpose.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000051_000000.wav|"As you say at that age, and after such a life."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000036_000000.wav|"No, I certainly wouldn't," I murmured to myself.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000037_000001.wav|This was safe ground.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000039_000000.wav|"Yes, yes, Billy's brother Pete.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000025_000000.wav|"No," he went on, "I suppose you'd hardly care to."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000044_000002.wav|Was it money?|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000015_000005.wav|But when it does happen that a name or face escapes me I never lose my presence of mind.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000008_000000.wav|He looked at me more closely.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000017_000000.wav|"It's a long time since we met," he said.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000037_000002.wav|There is always a Pete.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000077_000001.wav|The "old gang!" Pete's marriage!|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000007_000000.wav|"Who, indeed," I thought to myself.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000018_000001.wav|I wanted him to feel that I, too, had suffered from it.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000003.wav|I kept on chuckling away quietly at the mere idea of it.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000038_000000.wav|"You mean Billy's brother," he said.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000014_000000.wav|"No," I continued boldly and firmly, "you look just about the same as ever."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000072_000000.wav|Then presently I heard the porter's voice again.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000041_000004.wav|I was hoping that I might manage to keep on laughing till the train stopped.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000028_000000.wav|So far I had scored the first point.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67584/6575_67584_000066_000000.wav|"Thanks," he said grabbing the roll of money out of my hand,--in his excitement he took all that I had.--"I'll just have time."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000067_000000.wav|I reached out my hand.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000035_000000.wav|"No," said the girl.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000007.wav|You are at liberty to make any use of them that you like."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000018_000000.wav|I waited for about an hour, wrote a few editorials advocating the rights of the people, smoked some Turkish cigarettes, drank a glass of sherry, and ate part of an anchovy sandwich.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000065_000001.wav|But I stopped him.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000071_000000.wav|I waived the question gravely aside.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000011_000001.wav|Sit down.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000066_000000.wav|"There is one other small thing," I said.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000078_000001.wav|You must be famished for lunch.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000057_000000.wav|"Stop a minute," I said.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000042_000001.wav|I want you to take this manuscript and read it.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000031_000001.wav|Have them keep a good eye on him.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000050_000000.wav|"And now tell me-for remember that the reputation of our magazine is at stake-does this story make a decided impression on you?|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000026_000000.wav|"Don't, don't," he pleaded.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000078_000000.wav|"My dear child,--pray pardon my forgetfulness.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000016_000000.wav|"Very good," I said.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000012.wav|She sank into a chair and you leave her.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000026_000001.wav|"I'll go away.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000048_000001.wav|I want you to answer me quite frankly, Jones,--there is nothing in it that would raise a smile, or even a laugh, is there?"|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000002_000001.wav|But this was an accident.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000003.wav|We never care to use more than six thousand.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000076_000003.wav|Spiggott and Fawcett's Home Plumbing Device Exposition which adorns the same number of the great review.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000002_000004.wav|The presidential election was drawing nearer every day and the market for reminiscences of Lincoln was extremely brisk, but, of course, might collapse any moment.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000077_000000.wav|I wrote this out, rang the bell, and was just beginning to say to the secretary-|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000011_000003.wav|Let me ring for a club sandwich."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000056_000000.wav|Joy broke upon his face.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000062_000000.wav|"But please," he said, "you have cut off all the end of the story: the whole conclusion is gone.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000025_000003.wav|Have you any idea, you idiot, of the expense we're put to in setting up our fifty pages of illustrated advertising?|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000010_000000.wav|"I hope I don't interrupt you, sir," said the girl.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000005.wav|And in any case in our magazine we print the end of each story separately, distributed among the advertisements to break the type.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000005_000000.wav|I knew at once in my dream where and what I was.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000033_000000.wav|I called her back for one moment.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000024_000000.wav|"It's the manuscript of a story," he faltered.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000058_000000.wav|"Yes?" he said timidly.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000032_000000.wav|"Very good, sir," said the secretary.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000043_000000.wav|The janitor took the manuscript and disappeared.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000045_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000010.wav|There we must leave her!' Excellent!|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000006.wav|But just at present we have plenty of these on hand.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000059_000000.wav|"In the first place, I don't like your title.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000071_000004.wav|Good bye."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000023_000000.wav|"What!" I shouted at him.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000068_000000.wav|"And now," I said, "I must wish you a good afternoon."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000062_000001.wav|The readers can't possibly tell,----"|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000043_000002.wav|It had occurred to me that by arranging the picture matter in a neat device with verses from "Home Sweet Home" running through it in double leaded old English type, I could set up a page that would be the delight of all business readers and make this number of the magazine a conspicuous success.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000054_000001.wav|He had assumed a look of depression.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000025_000000.wav|"A story!" I shrieked.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000016_000001.wav|"He's a contributor for sure.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000030_000000.wav|I rang the bell again.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000016_000003.wav|Ask the caretaker to lock him in the coal cellar, and kindly slip out and see if there's a policeman on the beat in case I need him."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000001_000001.wav|I offer no apology for this: I have often dreamt even worse of myself than that.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000017_000000.wav|"Very good, sir," said the secretary.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000026_000003.wav|I'll take it with me."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000002.wav|"This story contains nine thousand words.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000055_000000.wav|"I have decided," I said, "to take your manuscript."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000051_000000.wav|"I think it has," he said.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000076_000001.wav|His style has a brio, a poise, a savoir faire, a je ne sais quoi, which stamps all his work with the cachet of literary superiority.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000021_000001.wav|What's your business?"|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000020_000002.wav|I could see a bundle of papers in his hand, and I knew that the scoundrel was carrying a manuscript.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000023_000004.wav|What sort of a place do you think this is?"|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000022_000000.wav|"I've got here a manuscript," he began.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000005.wav|"These words," I said, "you may keep.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000007.wav|You see," I continued, for there was something in the man's manner that almost touched me, "all that is needed is that the last words printed must have a look of finality.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000019_000000.wav|Then I rang the bell.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000065_000000.wav|The contributor seemed about to protest.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000041_000000.wav|"Yes, sir," he said, "some."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000042_000000.wav|"Very good.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000012_000000.wav|"I came to say, sir," the secretary went on, "that there's a person downstairs waiting to see you."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000019_000001.wav|"Bring that man here," I said.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000013.wav|Nothing more natural."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000040_000000.wav|"Jones," I said, "can you read?"|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000002.wav|The beginning, I admit, may be, but the end!|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000021_000000.wav|"Now, sir," I said, "speak quickly.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000020_000001.wav|He was a timid looking man with an embarrassed manner and all the low cunning of an author stamped on his features.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000001.wav|"In the next place, the story is much too long." Here I reached for a large pair of tailor's scissors that lay on the table.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000004.wav|Come!|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000034_000000.wav|"Don't feed him anything," I said.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000031_000002.wav|He's an author."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000015_000000.wav|"He doesn't look exactly like a gentleman."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000052_000000.wav|"Very well," I answered; "now bring the author to me."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000038_000000.wav|"Kindly ask the janitor to step this way."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000001_000000.wav|I DREAMT one night not long ago that I was the editor of a great illustrated magazine.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000027_000000.wav|"No you don't," I interrupted; "none of your sharp tricks with this magazine.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000003_000000.wav|But it's a wearing occupation, full of disappointments, and needing the very keenest business instinct to watch every turn of the market.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000004_000000.wav|I am afraid that this is a digression.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000011_000002.wav|You must be fatigued after your labours of the morning.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000027_000002.wav|If I don't like it, I shall prosecute you, and, I trust, obtain full reparation from the courts."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000066_000005.wav|Such things as these, however, are mere details; we can easily arrange them."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000042_000002.wav|Read it all through and then bring it back here."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000004.wav|I must therefore cut some of it off." I measured the story carefully with a pocket tape that lay in front of me, cut off three thousand words and handed them back to the author.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000069_000000.wav|The contributor seemed to pluck up courage.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000036_000001.wav|It looked bulky.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000020_000000.wav|Presently they brought him in.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000008_000000.wav|A beautiful creature entered.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000025_000002.wav|Do you think we've nothing better to do than to print your idiotic ravings?|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000073_000001.wav|It ran like this:|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000011.wav|What better end could you want?|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000016_000002.wav|Tell him to wait.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000014_000000.wav|"Is he a gentleman or a contributor?" I asked.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000061_000000.wav|"Don't interrupt me," I said.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000006_000000.wav|"I am an editor, and this is my editorial sanctum." Not that I have ever seen an editor or a sanctum.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000023_000001.wav|"A manuscript!|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000071_000002.wav|You receive a cheque two years after publication.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000008.wav|That's all.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000056_000001.wav|He came nearer to me as if to lick my hand.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000046_000000.wav|"And you find it all right-punctuation good, spelling all correct?"|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000066_000004.wav|I shall ask you to alter this to Switzerland and make it winter time to allow for the breaking of steam pipes.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000073_000000.wav|Then I sat down, while my mind was on it, and wrote the advance notice of the story.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000025_000001.wav|"What on earth do you think we'd want stories for!|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000039_000000.wav|He came in.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000066_000003.wav|"I see," I said, "that your story as written is laid largely in Spain in the summer.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000047_000000.wav|"Very good indeed, sir."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000036_000000.wav|The manuscript lay before me on the table.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000063_000000.wav|I smiled at him with something approaching kindness.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000023_000003.wav|Bringing manuscripts in here!|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000053_000000.wav|In the interval of waiting, I hastily ran my eye through the pages of the manuscript.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000054_000000.wav|Presently they brought the author back again.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000013_000000.wav|My manner changed at once.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000031_000000.wav|"Please take this man away and shut him up again.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000029_000000.wav|To tell the truth, it had occurred to me that perhaps I might need after all to buy the miserable stuff.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000060_000000.wav|"But surely," began the contributor, beginning to wring his hands----|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000025_000007.wav|By heaven," I said, rising in my seat, "I've a notion to come over there and choke you: I'm entitled to do it by the law, and I think I will."|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000071_000001.wav|"You will, of course, be duly paid at our usual rate.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000064_000009.wav|Now, let me see," and I turned to the place where the story was cut, "what are the last words: here: 'Dorothea sank into a chair.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000009_000000.wav|This, I thought to myself, must be my private secretary.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6575/67592/6575_67592_000008_000002.wav|She has that indescribable beauty of effectiveness such as is given to hospital nurses.|6575
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000024_000000.wav|"Who is Black Donald?|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000033_000001.wav|Oh, how I should like to capture Black Donald!--There's my horse; good by!" and before mrs Condiment could raise another objection Capitola ran out, sprang into her saddle and was seen careering down the hill toward the river as fast as her horse could fly.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000003.wav|I shall not get back so soon; my horse is tired to death; it will take me three hours to reach Hurricane Hall.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000023_000000.wav|"mrs Condiment, once for all do tell me who this terrible Black Donald is?|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000035_000002.wav|That path attracted her; she followed it, charmed alike by the solitude of the wood, the novelty of the scene and her own sense of freedom.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000026_000002.wav|Black Donald is the chief of a band of ruthless desperadoes that infest these mountain roads, robbing mail coaches, stealing negroes, breaking into houses and committing every sort of depredation.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000010_000002.wav|mrs Condiment taught her the mysteries of cutting and basting, back stitching and felling, hemming and seaming.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000028_000002.wav|He is an outlaw, and a heavy price is set upon his head."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000015_000000.wav|Capitola, left alone, amused herself with her tasks until the afternoon; then, calling a boy, she ordered him to saddle her horse and bring him around.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000017_000000.wav|"I know that; but I cannot be mewed up here in the old house and deprived of my afternoon ride," exclaimed Capitola decidedly.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000000.wav|"I wonder how far I am from home?" said Capitola, uneasily; "somewhere between six and seven miles, I reckon.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000020_000000.wav|"But, my dear love, it is improper, imprudent, dangerous."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000001.wav|Forever, I hope.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000009.wav|that's what I am, crazy!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000035_000003.wav|But one thought was given to the story of Black Donald, and that was a reassuring one:|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000007_000000.wav|"There is no figure out of my past life in my present one except Herbert Greyson.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000032_000000.wav|"You, child!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000028_000000.wav|"Yes, child, yes; there are darker crimes.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000035_000001.wav|Then, gathering up her riding skirt and throwing it over the neck of her horse she plunged boldly into the stream, and, with the water splashing and foaming all around her, urged him onward till they crossed the river and climbed up the opposite bank. A bridle path lay before her, leading from the fording place through a deep wood.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000006.wav|Catch me coming to my senses, when it's so delightful to be mad.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000003_000000.wav|Capitola at first was delighted and half incredulous at the great change in her fortunes.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000010_000001.wav|Old Hurricane bought her books and maps, slates and copy books, set her lessons in grammar, geography and history, and made her write copies, do sums and read and recite lessons to him.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000022_000000.wav|"Good gracious, upon every account!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000034_000000.wav|"My Lord, but the major will be hopping if he finds it out!" was good mrs Condiment's dismayed exclamation.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000041_000001.wav|She drew rein and listened, and was sure of it.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000025_000002.wav|what is he?|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000003.wav|I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000041_000000.wav|She had gone on for about a mile, and it was growing dark, and her horse was again slackening his pace, when she thought she heard the sound of another horse's hoofs behind her.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000000.wav|"I wonder how long they'll keep me here?|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000031_000000.wav|"How I would like the glory of capturing Black Donald!" said Capitola.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000013.wav|This fine old military officer whom I call uncle is the head doctor.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000004.wav|Good gracious! it will be pitch dark before I get there.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000006.wav|It's just impossible!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000001_000000.wav|CAP'S COUNTRY CAPERS.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000014.wav|The servants who come at my call are the keepers.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000028_000001.wav|Only last winter he and three of his gang broke into a solitary house where there was a lone woman and her daughter, and-it is not a story for you to hear; but if the people had caught Black Donald then they would have burned him at the stake! His life is forfeit by a hundred crimes.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000001.wav|I, the little houseless wanderer through the streets and alleys of New York?|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000002.wav|I, the little newsgirl in boy's clothes?|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000007.wav|No; I see how it is.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000032_000001.wav|You capture Black Donald!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000016_000000.wav|"My dear, what do you want with your horse?|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000016_000001.wav|There is no one to attend you; Wool has gone with his master," said mrs Condiment, as she met Capitola in the hall, habited for her ride.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000002.wav|I've got over a great deal of ground in these two hours.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000005.wav|No, thank heaven, there will be a moon.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000026_000000.wav|"Black Donald!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000004.wav|It's a great deal too pleasant to be mad, and I'll stay so.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000033_000000.wav|"Oh, by stratagem, I mean, not by force.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000003.wav|I, the wretched little vagrant that was brought up before the recorder and was about to be sent to the House of Refuge for juvenile delinquents?|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000006.wav|But won't there be a row though?|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000021_000000.wav|"Why so?" asked Cap.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000000.wav|"Can this be really I, myself, and not another?|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000042_000001.wav|And thinking "discretion the better part of valor," she urged her horse once more into a gallop for a few hundred yards; but the jaded beast soon broke into a trot and subsided into a walk that threatened soon to come to a standstill.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000018_000000.wav|"But, my dear, you must never think of riding out alone," exclaimed the dismayed mrs Condiment.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000024_000001.wav|Good gracious, child, you ask me who is Black Donald!"|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000013_000005.wav|If she could only get rid of Wool, she resolved to go upon a limited exploring expedition.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000042_000000.wav|Now, without being the least of a coward, Capitola thought of the loneliness of the woods, the lateness of the hour, her own helplessness, and-Black Donald!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000014_000001.wav|It was a day of unusual beauty, when autumn seemed to be smiling upon the earth with her brightest smiles before passing away.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000043_000000.wav|The invisible pursuer gained on her.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000001.wav|Dear me, I didn't mean to ride so far.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000008.wav|I'm crazy!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000027_000000.wav|"Darker crimes than murder!" ejaculated Capitola.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000010.wav|For, now I think of it, the last thing I remember of my former life was being brought before the recorder for wearing boy's clothes.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000045_000000.wav|The thundering footfalls of the pursuing horse were close in the rear.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000013_000002.wav|And no sooner had Cap been commanded, if she valued her safety, not to cross the water or climb the precipice than, as a natural consequence, she began to wonder what was in the valley behind the mountain and what might be in the woods across the river.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000002_000000.wav|"A willful elf-an uncle's child, That half a pet and half a pest, Was still reproved, endured, caressed, Yet never tamed, though never spoiled."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000030_000000.wav|"No, my dear; at least, no one has been able to do so yet.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000030_000001.wav|His very haunts are unknown, but are supposed to be in concealed mountain caverns."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000014_000002.wav|In a word, it was Indian summer.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000022_000001.wav|Suppose you were to meet with ruffians; suppose-oh, heaven!--suppose you were to meet with-Black Donald!"|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000013_000003.wav|And she longed, above all things, to explore and find out for herself.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000013_000000.wav|Capitola had become a skilful as she had first been a fearless rider. But her rides were confined to the domain between the mountain range and the river; she was forbidden to ford the one or climb the other.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000023_000001.wav|Is he the Evil One himself, or the Man in the Iron Mask, or the individual that struck Billy Patterson, or-who is he?"|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000012_000000.wav|She was never weary of admiring the great forest that climbed the heights of the mountains behind their house; the great bleak precipices of gray rock seen through the leafless branches of the trees; the rugged falling ground that lay before the house and between it and the river; and the river itself, with its rushing stream and raging rapids.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000039_000008.wav|Well, I must turn about and lose no time. Come, Gyp, get up, Gyp, good horse; we're going home."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000009_000000.wav|So, half in jest and half in earnest, Capitola soliloquized upon her change of fortune.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000011_000000.wav|These hours were at first occupied with exploring the old house, with all its attics, cuddies, cock lofts and cellars; then in wandering through the old ornamental grounds, that were, even in winter and in total neglect, beautiful with their wild growth of evergreens; thence she extended her researches into the wild and picturesque country around.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000007_000001.wav|But, p shaw! he is not 'the nephew of his uncle;' he is only my old comrade, Herbert Greyson, the sailor lad, who comes here to the madhouse to see me, and, out of compassion, humors all my fancies.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000005.wav|No; it can't be!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000008.wav|I didn't grow up in Rag Alley, New York, for nothing."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000008_000007.wav|I'm too sharp for that.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000038_000001.wav|On her left hand the sun was sinking like a ball of fire below the horizon; all around her everywhere were the wintry woods; far away, in the direction whence she had come, she saw the tops of the mountains behind Hurricane Hall, looking like blue clouds against the southern horizon; the Hall itself and the river below were out of sight.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000046_000000.wav|"Oh, Gyp, is it possible that, instead of my capturing Black Donald, you are going to let Black Donald or somebody else catch me?" exclaimed Capitola, in mock despair, as she urged her wearied steed.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000047_000000.wav|In vain!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000004_000000.wav|Sometimes of a morning, after a very vivid dream of the alleys, cellars and gutters, ragpickers, newsboys, and beggars of New York, she would open her eyes upon her own comfortable chamber, with its glowing fire and crimson curtains, and bright mirror crowning the walnut bureau between them, she would jump up and gaze wildly around, not remembering where she was or how she came thither.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000010_000000.wav|Her education was commenced, but progressed rather irregularly.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000036_000000.wav|"If Black Donald is a mail robber, then this little bridle path is far enough off his beat."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000010_000003.wav|A pupil as sharp as Capitola soon mastered her tasks, and found herself each day with many hours of leisure with which she did not know what to do.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000025_000001.wav|where is he?|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000014_000000.wav|One day a golden opportunity occurred.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000013_000001.wav|Perhaps if such a prohibition had never been made Capitola would never have thought of doing the one or the other; but we all know the diabolical fascination there is in forbidden pleasures for young human nature.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000032_000002.wav|You are crazy!"|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000026_000001.wav|Oh, my child, may you never know more of Black Donald than I can tell you.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000005_000000.wav|Sometimes, suddenly startled by an intense realization of the contrast between her past and her present life, she would mentally inquire:|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000014_000003.wav|The beauty of the weather had tempted Old Hurricane to ride to the county seat on particular business connected with his ward herself.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/178748/3584_178748_000006_000004.wav|Can this be I, Capitola, the little outcast of the city, now changed into Miss Black, the young lady, perhaps the heiress of a fine old country seat; calling a fine old military officer uncle; having a handsome income of pocket money settled upon me; having carriages and horses and servants to attend me?|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000003_000001.wav|It was the hour when jokes were cracked and questions asked, and when Mamma, who was apt to be pretty busy during the daytime, had leisure to answer them.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000018_000000.wav|"Should you be proud of me if I showed presence of mind?" asked Dolly, leaning her arms on her mother's lap.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000027_000001.wav|Later, she found herself repeating, as if it were a lesson to be learned, "Presence of mind means keeping cool, and having your wits about you;" and she said it over and over every morning and evening after that, as she braided her hair.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000011_000000.wav|"Why, of course there is.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000045_000000.wav|"Why, Mamma, surely you haven't forgotten.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000036_000000.wav|"Float, and I'll hold you up," she gasped.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000040_000000.wav|"No, thank you; I'll swim!" she said.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000031_000001.wav|"How far out we are!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000034_000002.wav|Nothing is more dangerous than to be caught and held by a person who cannot swim, or who is too much disabled by fear to use his powers.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000029_000001.wav|Kitty had just been learning to swim, and was very proud of her new accomplishment; but she was by no means so sure of herself or so much at home in the water as Dolly, who had learned three years before, and practised continually.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000021_000000.wav|There was a general laugh.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000048_000001.wav|"I am glad and thankful that you learned it when you did, Dolly."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000030_000000.wav|The two children had swam out for quite a distance; then, as they turned to go back, Kitty suddenly realized her distance from the shore, and was seized with immediate and paralyzing terror.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000005_000000.wav|"Presence of mind sometimes means absence of body," remarked Jack, in answer to Dolly's question.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000025_000000.wav|"It would be lovely to be brave and do heroic things," remarked Phyllis.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000039_000000.wav|Oh, how welcome was the dash of the oars close at hand, how gladly she relinquished Kitty to the strong arms that lifted her into the boat! But when the men would have helped her in too, she refused.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000012_000000.wav|"Yes, and tying a string round the right place on your leg when you've cut an artery," added Harry, eagerly.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000002_000004.wav|It is a delightful moment, and all Nantucket dwellers learn to watch for it.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000037_000001.wav|Then Dolly, striking out strongly, and pushing Kitty before her, sent one wild cry for help toward the beach.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000035_000004.wav|As they rose, she pulled her hair away with a sudden motion, and seized Kitty by the collar of her bathing dress, behind.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000051_000000.wav|This capped the climax of Dolly's contentment.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000031_000002.wav|We shall never get back in the world!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000002_000003.wav|The sun dips down, and sends a flash of glory to the zenith; and small pink clouds curl up about the rising moon, fondle her, as it were, and seem to love her.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000042_000001.wav|"If she had fought with Kitty, or if she had tried to swim ashore and had not called for assistance, they might easily have both been drowned.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000049_000000.wav|"Are you proud of me?" demanded Dolly.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000048_000000.wav|"Well, it was a good lesson," said mrs Ware, with glistening eyes.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000017_000001.wav|Our minds-our reasoning faculties, that is-are apt to be stunned or shocked when we are suddenly frightened or excited; they leave us, and go away, as it were, and it is only afterward that we pick ourselves up, and realize what we ought to have done.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000016_000000.wav|"What funny things!" she cried.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000004_000003.wav|They were fine children, all of them,--frank, affectionate, generous, with bright minds and healthy bodies.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000017_000000.wav|"I think," said mrs Ware, in those gentle tones to which her children always listened, "that presence of mind means keeping cool, and having your wits about you, at critical moments.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000031_000004.wav|Dolly Ware, we shall certainly be drowned!"|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000019_000000.wav|"Very proud," replied mrs Ware, smiling as she stroked the brown head,--"very proud, indeed."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000045_000002.wav|I taught it to myself, and have said it over and over ever since,--'Keep cool; have your wits about you.' I said it in the water when Kitty was pulling me under."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000032_000000.wav|She made a vain clutch at Dolly, and, with a wild scream, went down, and disappeared.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000043_000000.wav|"It wasn't remarkable at all," Dolly declared, as soon as he was gone. "It was just because you said that on the piazza that night."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000040_000002.wav|She swam pluckily along, the boat keeping near, lest her strength should give out, and reached the beach just as Jack, that moment aware of the situation, was dashing into the water after her.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000024_000002.wav|You don't understand a bit!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000006_000001.wav|"I wasn't asking you."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000024_000001.wav|"How foolish you are!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000014_000000.wav|"Saving the silver, instead of the waste paper basket, when the house is on fire," put in Erma.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000042_000000.wav|"It was really remarkable," he said.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000007_000001.wav|What makes you want to know, midget?"|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000028_000000.wav|It is not given to all of us to test ourselves, and discover by actual experiment just how much a mental resolution has done for us.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000026_000000.wav|"You could at least be brave enough to use your common sense," said her mother.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000002_000000.wav|The sunset hour is best of all the twenty four in Nantucket.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000016_000002.wav|Mamma, tell me what it really means."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000027_000000.wav|"I will," said Dolly, and marched undauntedly off to bed.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000051_000001.wav|Mamma was proud of her; she was quite satisfied.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000044_000000.wav|"Said what?"|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000041_000000.wav|There was quite a little stir among the summer colony over the adventure, and mrs Ware had many compliments paid her for her child's behavior.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000038_000004.wav|And she kept firm grasp of her mind, and would not let the fright, of whose existence she was conscious, get possession of her.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000028_000003.wav|All the children who lived on the sandy bluff known as "The Cliff" were in the habit of bathing; and the daily dip taken in company was the chief event of the day, in their opinion.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000047_000000.wav|"Indeed, I did.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000028_000004.wav|The little Wares all swam like ducks; and no one thought of being nervous or apprehensive if Harry struck out boldly for the jetty, or if Erma and Phyllis were seen side by side at a point far beyond the depth of either of them, or little Dolly took a "header" into deep water off an old boat.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000013_000000.wav|"Swallowing a quart of whiskey when a rattlesnake bites you," suggested Jack.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000037_000000.wav|Kitty was too far gone to make any very serious struggle.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000004_000000.wav|Dolly was youngest of the family,--a thin, wiry child, tall for her years, with a brown bang lying like a thatch over a pair of bright inquisitive eyes, and a thick pig tail braided down her back.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000031_000003.wav|We shall be drowned!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000040_000001.wav|It seemed nothing to get herself to shore, now that the responsibility of Kitty and Kitty's weight were taken from her.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000040_000003.wav|She was very pale, but declared herself not tired at all, and she dressed and marched sturdily up the cliff, refusing all assistance.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000022_000001.wav|"Shall I step down to Hussey's, and get a shell for you to practise on?"|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000011_000001.wav|Picking up a shell just before it bursts in a hospital tent, and throwing it out of the door, is presence of mind."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000009_000001.wav|It didn't mean anything."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000022_000000.wav|"How will you go to work?" asked Jack.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000004_000001.wav|Phyllis, the next in age, was short and fat; then came Harry, then Erma, just sixteen (named after a German great grandmother), and, last of all, Jack, tallest and jolliest of the group, who had just "passed his preliminaries," and would enter college next year.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000035_000003.wav|She must escape from Kitty and hold her up, but not give Kitty any chance to drag her down again.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000026_000001.wav|"Yours is a very good resolution, Dolly dear, and I hope you'll keep to it."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000028_000002.wav|The bathing beach at Nantucket is a particularly safe one, and the water through the summer months most warm and delicious.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000034_000000.wav|It was really a hazardous moment.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000006_000000.wav|"I was speaking to Mamma," said Dolly, with dignity.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000033_000000.wav|Dolly dived after her, only to be met by Kitty coming up to the surface again, and frantically reaching out, as drowning persons do, for something to hold by.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000038_000002.wav|Dolly saw it rowing toward her, and held on bravely.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000041_000001.wav|mr Allen came over, and had much to say about the extraordinary presence of mind which Dolly had shown.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000004_000002.wav|mrs Ware might be excused for the little air of motherly pride with which she gazed at her five.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000009_000000.wav|"Oh, that was only fun!|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000015_000000.wav|Dolly looked from one to the other.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000008_000000.wav|"There was a story in the paper about a girl who hid the kerosene can when the new cook came, and it said she showed true presence of mind," replied Dolly.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000028_000001.wav|Dolly, however, was to have the chance.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000024_000000.wav|"I shall do no such thing," protested Dolly, indignantly.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000047_000001.wav|And then I seemed to know what to do."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000007_000000.wav|"I am aware of the fact, but I overlooked the formality, for once.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000035_000000.wav|And now it was that Dolly's carefully conned lesson about presence of mind came to her aid.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000046_000000.wav|"Did you, really?"|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000045_000001.wav|It was that about presence of mind, you know.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000038_000001.wav|It seemed to Dolly a terribly long time before any answer came, but it was in reality less than five minutes before a boat was pushed into the water.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000002_000001.wav|At no other time is the sea so blue and silvery, or the streaks of purple and pale green which mark the place of the sand spits and shallows that underlie the island waters so defined, or of such charming colors.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000035_000001.wav|"Keep cool; have your wits about you," rang through her ears, as, held in Kitty's desperate grasp, she was dragged down, down into the sea.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000029_000000.wav|It happened, about two months after the talk on the piazza, that Dolly was bathing with Kitty Allen, a small neighbor of her own age.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000020_000000.wav|"I mean to do it," said Dolly, in a firm tone.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000023_000000.wav|"She'll be setting the house on fire some night, to show what she can do," added Harry, teasingly.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000010_000000.wav|"Isn't there any such thing, then?"|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000050_000000.wav|"Yes, I am proud of you."|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000033_000001.wav|The first thing she touched was Dolly's large pig tail, and, grasping that tight, she sank again, dragging Dolly down with her, backward.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000038_000003.wav|"Be cool; have your wits about you," she said to herself.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3584/74477/3584_74477_000038_000000.wav|The cry was heard.|3584
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000001_000007.wav|He blessed the enterprise; and cursed Harold; and requested that the Normans would pay 'Peter's Pence'--or a tax to himself of a penny a year on every house-a little more regularly in future, if they could make it convenient.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000021_000000.wav|There was one tall Norman Knight who rode before the Norman army on a prancing horse, throwing up his heavy sword and catching it, and singing of the bravery of his countrymen.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000002.wav|The English pressed forward.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000025_000001.wav|His brothers were already killed.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000020_000003.wav|Holy Rood!' The Normans then came sweeping down the hill to attack the English.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000011_000000.wav|'No more?' returned the brother, with a smile.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000020_000000.wav|On an opposite hill, in three lines, archers, foot soldiers, horsemen, was the Norman force.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000025_000004.wav|The English broke and fled.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000024_000001.wav|Through all the wild October day, the clash and din resounded in the air.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000015_000003.wav|But they had once more made sail, led by the Duke's own galley, a present from his wife, upon the prow whereof the figure of a golden boy stood pointing towards England.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000016_000004.wav|'The Normans,' said these spies to Harold, 'are not bearded on the upper lip as we English are, but are shorn.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000003.wav|A cry went forth among the Norman troops that Duke William was killed.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000001.wav|The Normans gave way.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000016_000001.wav|Within a week, his army was ready.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000015_000004.wav|By day, the banner of the three Lions of Normandy, the diverse coloured sails, the gilded vans, the many decorations of this gorgeous ship, had glittered in the sun and sunny water; by night, a light had sparkled like a star at her mast head.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000004.wav|Duke William took off his helmet, in order that his face might be distinctly seen, and rode along the line before his men.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000024_000002.wav|In the red sunset, and in the white moonlight, heaps upon heaps of dead men lay strewn, a dreadful spectacle, all over the ground.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000019_000000.wav|Some proposals for a reconciliation were made, but were soon abandoned. In the middle of the month of October, in the year one thousand and sixty six, the Normans and the English came front to front.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000005_000000.wav|'The King of Norway,' he replied.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000000.wav|The English, keeping side by side in a great mass, cared no more for the showers of Norman arrows than if they had been showers of Norman rain. When the Norman horsemen rode against them, with their battle axes they cut men and horses down.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000016_000003.wav|William took them, caused them to be led through his whole camp, and then dismissed.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000010_000000.wav|'Seven feet of earth for a grave,' replied the captain.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000014_000000.wav|He did so, very soon.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000015_000001.wav|They had been tossed about by contrary winds, and some of their ships had been wrecked.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000021_000003.wav|But then a third rode out, and killed the Norman.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000009.wav|The Norman army closed again, and fell upon them with great slaughter.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000001_000006.wav|The Pope sent to Normandy a consecrated banner, and a ring containing a hair which he warranted to have grown on the head of Saint peter.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000005.wav|This gave them courage.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000007_000000.wav|He added, in a little while, 'Go yonder to my brother, and tell him, if he withdraw his troops, he shall be Earl of Northumberland, and rich and powerful in England.'|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000013_000000.wav|'Ride back!' said the brother, 'and tell King Harold to make ready for the fight!'|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000003_000000.wav|He found them drawn up in a hollow circle, marked out by their shining spears.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000003_000001.wav|Riding round this circle at a distance, to survey it, he saw a brave figure on horseback, in a blue mantle and a bright helmet, whose horse suddenly stumbled and threw him.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000004_000000.wav|'Who is that man who has fallen?' Harold asked of one of his captains.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000024_000000.wav|The sun rose high, and sank, and the battle still raged.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000006_000000.wav|'He is a tall and stately king,' said Harold, 'but his end is near.'|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000016_000002.wav|He sent out spies to ascertain the Norman strength.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000025_000005.wav|The Normans rallied, and the day was lost.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000007.wav|The main body still remaining firm, heedless of the Norman arrows, and with their battle axes cutting down the crowds of horsemen when they rode up, like forests of young trees, Duke William pretended to retreat.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000017_000000.wav|'The Saxons,' reported Duke William's outposts of Norman soldiers, who were instructed to retire as King Harold's army advanced, 'rush on us through their pillaged country with the fury of madmen.'|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000023_000001.wav|Shoot upward, Norman archers, that your arrows may fall down upon their faces!'|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000020_000002.wav|The English answered with their own battle cry, 'God's Rood!|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000008.wav|The eager English followed.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000001_000002.wav|When the news reached Norman William, hunting in his park at Rouen, he dropped his bow, returned to his palace, called his nobles to council, and presently sent ambassadors to Harold, calling on him to keep his oath and resign the Crown.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000021_000002.wav|Another English Knight rode out, and he fell too.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000016_000000.wav|Harold broke up the feast and hurried to London.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000022_000006.wav|As they turned again to face the English, some of their Norman horse divided the pursuing body of the English from the rest, and thus all that foremost portion of the English army fell, fighting bravely.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/139681/1343_139681_000002_000001.wav|This brother, and this Norwegian King, joining their forces against England, with Duke William's help, won a fight in which the English were commanded by two nobles; and then besieged York. Harold, who was waiting for the Normans on the coast at Hastings, with his army, marched to Stamford Bridge upon the river Derwent to give them instant battle.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158796/1343_158796_000006_000000.wav|"I think so," said mr Palliser.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158796/1343_158796_000002_000000.wav|Quints or Semitenths|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158796/1343_158796_000008_000000.wav|"But squint is an easier," said mr Gresham, with all a prime minister's jocose authority.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000004_000013.wav|It was all delightful;--and so much more delightful because mrs Carbuncle had not gone quite so well as she liked to go, and because Lucinda had fallen into the water.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000033_000001.wav|She did not look into his face as she asked this question, but stood with her eyes fixed on the stair carpet.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000027_000002.wav|But these Corsairs are known to be dangerous, and it would not be wise that she should sacrifice any future prospect of importance on behalf of a feeling, which, no doubt, was founded on poetry, but which might too probably have no possible beneficial result.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000026_000000.wav|"He'd send you grey stockings instead," said Lizzie.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000010_000000.wav|"About ten, perhaps," said Lord George.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000004_000000.wav|On their journey back to Portray, the ladies were almost too tired for talking; and Sir Griffin was sulky.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000011_000000.wav|"I'm sure it was thirty," said Lizzie, forgetting her fatigue in her energy.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000023_000001.wav|"There's something in that, certainly; but, still, I agree with mrs Carbuncle.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000023_000003.wav|I can't conceive anything so terrible.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000008_000000.wav|"You only killed one fox," said mr Emilius, pretending a delightfully clerical ignorance, "and on Monday you killed four.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000004_000009.wav|And she had by heart every kind word that Lord George had said to her,--and she loved the sweet, pleasant, Corsair like intimacy that had sprung up between them.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000005_000004.wav|"He proposed; but of course I could not answer him when I was wet through." There had been but a moment, and in that moment this was all that Lucinda would say.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000030_000000.wav|"It was a matter of course.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000005_000003.wav|"Yes." "Well?"|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000014_000000.wav|"I thought so," said Frank; "but I couldn't take the liberty myself."|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000040_000000.wav|"How would you like me to ask you questions?|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000040_000003.wav|And if you don't, what do you mean to do; and all the rest of it?"|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000034_000000.wav|"Indeed no"|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000013_000000.wav|"It was just whatever is best," said Lizzie.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000032_000000.wav|"Certainly not."|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000035_000000.wav|"Good night, Frank."|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000022_000000.wav|"But Frank wouldn't have had a horse at all," said Lizzie, "unless he had taken mr Nappie's."|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000031_000000.wav|"I did like it;--and so did you.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000037_000000.wav|"Why, Griff, you're rather out of sorts to night," said Lord George to his friend, before Frank had joined them.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000020_000000.wav|"It was cruel," said Frank.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000041_000000.wav|"As for marrying the widow, I should like to know the facts first. As to mrs c, she wouldn't object in the least.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000004_000001.wav|Sir Griffin had as yet heard nothing about Greystock's adventure, and did not care to be told. But when once they were at the castle, and had taken warm baths, and glasses of sherry, and got themselves dressed and had come down to dinner, they were all very happy.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000013_000001.wav|"I know Frank's friend, mr Nappie, said it was twenty.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000027_000005.wav|In a ride across the country the Corsair was all that a Corsair should be; but knowing, as she did, but very little of the Corsair, she could not afford to throw over her cousin for his sake.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000036_000000.wav|"Good night, Lizzie." Then she went, and he returned to a room below which had been prepared for purposes of tobacco and soda water and brandy.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000021_000000.wav|"If it had happened to me, I should have been very angry," said mrs Carbuncle.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000038_000001.wav|I don't like young women when they're damp and smell of mud."|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000017_000000.wav|"I felt that blow," said Frank.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000018_000000.wav|"I shall always call you Cousin Greystockings," said Lizzie.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000019_000001.wav|If the horse had been on the roadside, he or his men could have protected him.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1343/158781/1343_158781_000006_000000.wav|"Now I don't mean to stir again," said Lizzie, throwing herself into a corner of a sofa, "till somebody carries me to bed.|1343
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000015_000005.wav|Ours are all apple tarts.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000009_000002.wav|This was all that was generally known of her history. She had no visible friends but what had been acquired at Highbury, and was now just returned from a long visit in the country to some young ladies who had been at school there with her.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000005_000009.wav|She was a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited mr Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000011_000003.wav|The friends from whom she had just parted, though very good sort of people, must be doing her harm.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000011_000002.wav|The acquaintance she had already formed were unworthy of her.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000015_000010.wav|I do not think it could disagree with you."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000002_000004.wav|Not unfrequently, through Emma's persuasion, he had some of the chosen and the best to dine with him: but evening parties were what he preferred; and, unless he fancied himself at any time unequal to company, there was scarcely an evening in the week in which Emma could not make up a card table for him.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER three|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000006_000003.wav|She was a plain, motherly kind of woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional holiday of a tea visit; and having formerly owed much to mr Woodhouse's kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000005_000003.wav|She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000016_000000.wav|Emma allowed her father to talk-but supplied her visitors in a much more satisfactory style, and on the present evening had particular pleasure in sending them away happy.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000005_000000.wav|mrs Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000006_000002.wav|It was no wonder that a train of twenty young couple now walked after her to church.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000015_000007.wav|I do not advise the custard.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000009_000000.wav|Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of somebody.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000007_000000.wav|These were the ladies whom Emma found herself very frequently able to collect; and happy was she, for her father's sake, in the power; though, as far as she was herself concerned, it was no remedy for the absence of mrs Weston.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000002_000002.wav|He had not much intercourse with any families beyond that circle; his horror of late hours, and large dinner parties, made him unfit for any acquaintance but such as would visit him on his own terms.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000015_000001.wav|An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000015_000000.wav|"mrs Bates, let me propose your venturing on one of these eggs.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000002_000001.wav|He liked very much to have his friends come and see him; and from various united causes, from his long residence at Hartfield, and his good nature, from his fortune, his house, and his daughter, he could command the visits of his own little circle, in a great measure, as he liked.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000009_000001.wav|Somebody had placed her, several years back, at mrs Goddard's school, and somebody had lately raised her from the condition of scholar to that of parlour boarder.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000005_000004.wav|Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000008_000000.wav|As she sat one morning, looking forward to exactly such a close of the present day, a note was brought from mrs Goddard, requesting, in most respectful terms, to be allowed to bring Miss Smith with her; a most welcome request: for Miss Smith was a girl of seventeen, whom Emma knew very well by sight, and had long felt an interest in, on account of her beauty.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000005_000008.wav|The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4447/30_4447_000014_000000.wav|Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say:|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000045_000006.wav|Some people even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed, and others of the son and the uncle not letting him.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000025_000000.wav|"I am very glad I did think of her.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000007_000000.wav|Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000006_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000032_000002.wav|How did you all behave?|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000047_000005.wav|What are you proud of?|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000039_000001.wav|Miss Taylor has been used to have two persons to please; she will now have but one.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000016_000005.wav|His spirits required support.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000051_000004.wav|I think very well of mr Elton, and this is the only way I have of doing him a service."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000024_000007.wav|Nobody thought of Hannah till you mentioned her-james is so obliged to you!"|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000053_000000.wav|"With a great deal of pleasure, sir, at any time," said mr Knightley, laughing, "and I agree with you entirely, that it will be a much better thing.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000011_000001.wav|It was Miss Taylor's loss which first brought grief.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000040_000000.wav|"Well," said Emma, willing to let it pass-"you want to hear about the wedding; and I shall be happy to tell you, for we all behaved charmingly.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000012_000004.wav|A large debt of gratitude was owing here; but the intercourse of the last seven years, the equal footing and perfect unreserve which had soon followed Isabella's marriage, on their being left to each other, was yet a dearer, tenderer recollection.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000044_000000.wav|mr Knightley shook his head at her.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000026_000000.wav|Emma spared no exertions to maintain this happier flow of ideas, and hoped, by the help of backgammon, to get her father tolerably through the evening, and be attacked by no regrets but her own.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000047_000000.wav|"I do not understand what you mean by 'success,'" said mr Knightley. "Success supposes endeavour.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000012_000001.wav|mr Weston was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age, and pleasant manners; and there was some satisfaction in considering with what self denying, generous friendship she had always wished and promoted the match; but it was a black morning's work for her.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000045_000000.wav|"I promise you to make none for myself, papa; but I must, indeed, for other people.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000022_000000.wav|"No, papa, nobody thought of your walking.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000040_000001.wav|Every body was punctual, every body in their best looks: not a tear, and hardly a long face to be seen.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000011_000000.wav|Sorrow came-a gentle sorrow-but not at all in the shape of any disagreeable consciousness.--Miss Taylor married.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000027_000006.wav|I am afraid you must have had a shocking walk."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000047_000002.wav|A worthy employment for a young lady's mind!|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000017_000001.wav|What a pity it is that mr Weston ever thought of her!"|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000048_000003.wav|You have drawn two pretty pictures; but I think there may be a third-a something between the do nothing and the do all.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000045_000007.wav|All manner of solemn nonsense was talked on the subject, but I believed none of it.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000011_000004.wav|Her father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as usual, and she had then only to sit and think of what she had lost.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000039_000002.wav|The chances are that she must be a gainer."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000027_000005.wav|When this was over, mr Woodhouse gratefully observed, "It is very kind of you, mr Knightley, to come out at this late hour to call upon us.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000039_000000.wav|"Emma knows I never flatter her," said mr Knightley, "but I meant no reflection on any body.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000027_000004.wav|mr Knightley had a cheerful manner, which always did him good; and his many inquiries after "poor Isabella" and her children were answered most satisfactorily.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000051_000000.wav|"Only one more, papa; only for mr Elton.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000016_000004.wav|It was a melancholy change; and Emma could not but sigh over it, and wish for impossible things, till her father awoke, and made it necessary to be cheerful.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000027_000000.wav|mr Knightley, a sensible man about seven or eight and thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family, but particularly connected with it, as the elder brother of Isabella's husband.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000025_000001.wav|It was very lucky, for I would not have had poor james think himself slighted upon any account; and I am sure she will make a very good servant: she is a civil, pretty spoken girl; I have a great opinion of her.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000048_000005.wav|I think you must know Hartfield enough to comprehend that."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000012_000000.wav|The event had every promise of happiness for her friend.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000048_000004.wav|If I had not promoted mr Weston's visits here, and given many little encouragements, and smoothed many little matters, it might not have come to any thing after all.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000026_000001.wav|The backgammon table was placed; but a visitor immediately afterwards walked in and made it unnecessary.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000046_000001.wav|I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match making."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000029_000001.wav|I wish you may not catch cold."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000052_000002.wav|That will be a much better thing.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000022_000001.wav|We must go in the carriage, to be sure."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000009_000000.wav|Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in mr Woodhouse's family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000013_000001.wav|She dearly loved her father, but he was no companion for her.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000030_000002.wav|Not a speck on them."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000037_000004.wav|mr Knightley loves to find fault with me, you know-in a joke-it is all a joke.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000028_000000.wav|"Not at all, sir.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000043_000001.wav|I made the match, you know, four years ago; and to have it take place, and be proved in the right, when so many people said mr Weston would never marry again, may comfort me for any thing."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000051_000002.wav|You like mr Elton, papa,--I must look about for a wife for him.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000011_000003.wav|The wedding over, and the bride people gone, her father and herself were left to dine together, with no prospect of a third to cheer a long evening.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000045_000003.wav|Oh dear, no! mr Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occupied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful-mr|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000037_000000.wav|"My dearest papa!|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000016_000000.wav|Highbury, the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town, to which Hartfield, in spite of its separate lawn, and shrubberies, and name, did really belong, afforded her no equals.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000044_000001.wav|Her father fondly replied, "Ah! my dear, I wish you would not make matches and foretell things, for whatever you say always comes to pass.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000017_000000.wav|"Poor Miss Taylor!--I wish she were here again.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000051_000001.wav|Poor mr Elton!|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000013_000000.wav|How was she to bear the change?--It was true that her friend was going only half a mile from them; but Emma was aware that great must be the difference between a mrs Weston, only half a mile from them, and a Miss Taylor in the house; and with all her advantages, natural and domestic, she was now in great danger of suffering from intellectual solitude.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000024_000000.wav|"They are to be put into mr Weston's stable, papa.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000016_000002.wav|All looked up to them.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000021_000001.wav|Randalls is such a distance.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000031_000002.wav|I wanted them to put off the wedding."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000030_000000.wav|"Dirty, sir!|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000033_000000.wav|"Ah! poor Miss Taylor!|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000021_000002.wav|I could not walk half so far."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000018_000000.wav|"I cannot agree with you, papa; you know I cannot.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000037_000002.wav|What a horrible idea!|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000024_000006.wav|You got Hannah that good place.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000037_000005.wav|We always say what we like to one another."|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000024_000002.wav|We talked it all over with mr Weston last night.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000004_000000.wav|By Jane Austen|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000012_000003.wav|She recalled her past kindness-the kindness, the affection of sixteen years-how she had taught and how she had played with her from five years old-how she had devoted all her powers to attach and amuse her in health-and how nursed her through the various illnesses of childhood.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000053_000001.wav|Invite him to dinner, Emma, and help him to the best of the fish and the chicken, but leave him to chuse his own wife.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000021_000000.wav|"My dear, how am I to get so far?|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000031_000001.wav|It rained dreadfully hard for half an hour while we were at breakfast.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000023_000001.wav|But james will not like to put the horses to for such a little way;--and where are the poor horses to be while we are paying our visit?"|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000047_000003.wav|But if, which I rather imagine, your making the match, as you call it, means only your planning it, your saying to yourself one idle day, 'I think it would be a very good thing for Miss Taylor if mr Weston were to marry her,' and saying it again to yourself every now and then afterwards, why do you talk of success?|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000016_000006.wav|He was a nervous man, easily depressed; fond of every body that he was used to, and hating to part with them; hating change of every kind.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000045_000001.wav|It is the greatest amusement in the world!|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000013_000002.wav|He could not meet her in conversation, rational or playful.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000032_000003.wav|Who cried most?"|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000045_000002.wav|And after such success, you know!--Every body said that mr Weston would never marry again.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000027_000003.wav|It was a happy circumstance, and animated mr Woodhouse for some time.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/30/4445/30_4445_000050_000000.wav|"Emma never thinks of herself, if she can do good to others," rejoined mr Woodhouse, understanding but in part.|30
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000008_000001.wav|Now, however, owing to the labours of the mathematicians, notably Georg Cantor, it has appeared that the impossibility of infinite collections was a mistake.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000002_000008.wav|The Absolute Idea, therefore, is adequate to describe Absolute Reality; but all lower ideas only describe reality as it appears to a partial view, not as it is to one who simultaneously surveys the Whole.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000001_000002.wav|There can be no doubt that the hope of finding reason to believe such theses as these has been the chief inspiration of many life-long students of philosophy.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000012_000001.wav|The essential characteristic of philosophy, which makes it a study distinct from science, is criticism.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000003.wav|Hence the criticism of knowledge which philosophy employs must not be of this destructive kind, if any result is to be achieved.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000004_000009.wav|I may be acquainted, for example, with my toothache, and this knowledge may be as complete as knowledge by acquaintance ever can be, without knowing all that the dentist (who is not acquainted with it) can tell me about its cause, and without therefore knowing its 'nature' in the above sense.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000007_000003.wav|But as against these apparent facts-infinite extent and infinite divisibility-philosophers have advanced arguments tending to show that there could be no infinite collections of things, and that therefore the number of points in space, or of instants in time, must be finite.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000003_000003.wav|It is held that whatever has relations to things outside itself must contain some reference to those outside things in its own nature, and could not, therefore, be what it is if those outside things did not exist.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000006_000003.wav|Space and time appear to be infinite in extent, and infinitely divisible.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000012_000000.wav|Philosophical knowledge, if what has been said above is true, does not differ essentially from scientific knowledge; there is no special source of wisdom which is open to philosophy but not to science, and the results obtained by philosophy are not radically different from those obtained from science.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000005_000000.wav|It follows that we cannot prove that the universe as a whole forms a single harmonious system such as Hegel believes that it forms.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000014_000003.wav|To do more than this is not possible in a world where mistakes must occur; and more than this no prudent advocate of philosophy would claim to have performed.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000002_000010.wav|Any appearance to the contrary, in the world we know, can be proved logically-so he believes-to be entirely due to our fragmentary piecemeal view of the universe.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000002_000002.wav|Just as a comparative anatomist, from a single bone, sees what kind of animal the whole must have been, so the metaphysician, according to Hegel, sees, from any one piece of reality, what the whole of reality must be-at least in its large outlines.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000002.wav|For all refutation must begin with some piece of knowledge which the disputants share; from blank doubt, no argument can begin.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000004_000004.wav|There is a confusion, when this use of the word 'nature' is employed, between knowledge of things and knowledge of truths.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000006_000000.wav|Most of the great ambitious attempts of metaphysicians have proceeded by the attempt to prove that such and such apparent features of the actual world were self contradictory, and therefore could not be real.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000002_000003.wav|Every apparently separate piece of reality has, as it were, hooks which grapple it to the next piece; the next piece, in turn, has fresh hooks, and so on, until the whole universe is reconstructed.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000011.wav|But there are beliefs-such, for example, as the belief that physical objects exactly resemble our sense data-which are entertained until we begin to reflect, but are found to melt away when subjected to a close inquiry.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000010_000000.wav|What has happened in the case of space and time has happened, to some extent, in other directions as well.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000004_000007.wav|And although acquaintance with a thing is involved in our knowing any one proposition about a thing, knowledge of its 'nature', in the above sense, is not involved.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000009_000004.wav|Formerly it appeared that experience left only one kind of space to logic, and logic showed this one kind to be impossible.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000010.wav|In regard to such knowledge, philosophical criticism does not require that we should abstain from belief.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000001.wav|If we adopt the attitude of the complete sceptic, placing ourselves wholly outside all knowledge, and asking, from this outside position, to be compelled to return within the circle of knowledge, we are demanding what is impossible, and our scepticism can never be refuted.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000003_000001.wav|Nevertheless, when the arguments in support of it are carefully examined, they appear to involve much confusion and many unwarrantable assumptions.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000008_000000.wav|Kant, who first emphasized this contradiction, deduced the impossibility of space and time, which he declared to be merely subjective; and since his time very many philosophers have believed that space and time are mere appearance, not characteristic of the world as it really is.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000003_000002.wav|The fundamental tenet upon which the system is built up is that what is incomplete must be not self subsistent, but must need the support of other things before it can exist.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000008.wav|This is the kind of criticism which constitutes philosophy.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000008_000002.wav|They are not in fact self contradictory, but only contradictory of certain rather obstinate mental prejudices.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000004_000006.wav|Thus, acquaintance with a thing does not involve knowledge of its 'nature' in the above sense.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000014_000002.wav|Philosophy may claim justly that it diminishes the risk of error, and that in some cases it renders the risk so small as to be practically negligible.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000003_000000.wav|In this conception, there is undeniably something sublime, something to which we could wish to yield assent.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000004_000001.wav|It is of course the case that a truth which connects one thing with another thing could not subsist if the other thing did not subsist.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000010_000002.wav|Thus knowledge as to what exists becomes limited to what we can learn from experience-not to what we can actually experience, for, as we have seen, there is much knowledge by description concerning things of which we have no direct experience.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000002_000007.wav|In this way Hegel advances until he reaches the 'Absolute Idea', which, according to him, has no incompleteness, no opposite, and no need of further development.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000009_000000.wav|The mathematicians, however, have not been content with showing that space as it is commonly supposed to be is possible; they have shown also that many other forms of space are equally possible, so far as logic can show.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000007_000002.wav|Thus space and time appear to be infinitely divisible.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000005.wav|But it is not difficult to see that scepticism of this kind is unreasonable.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000005_000001.wav|And if we cannot prove this, we also cannot prove the unreality of space and time and matter and evil, for this is deduced by Hegel from the fragmentary and relational character of these things.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000009_000006.wav|Thus, while our knowledge of what is has become less than it was formerly supposed to be, our knowledge of what may be is enormously increased.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000012.wav|Such beliefs philosophy will bid us reject, unless some new line of argument is found to support them. But to reject the beliefs which do not appear open to any objections, however closely we examine them, is not reasonable, and is not what philosophy advocates.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000006_000002.wav|A good illustration of this is afforded by space and time.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000004_000003.wav|But if the word 'nature' is used in this sense, we shall have to hold that the thing may be known when its 'nature' is not known, or at any rate is not known completely.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000002_000009.wav|Thus Hegel reaches the conclusion that Absolute Reality forms one single harmonious system, not in space or time, not in any degree evil, wholly rational, and wholly spiritual.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000009_000005.wav|Now, logic presents many kinds of space as possible apart from experience, and experience only partially decides between them.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000007_000001.wav|In time, similarly, however little time may elapse between two moments, it seems evident that there will be other moments between them.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/142752/1826_142752_000013_000007.wav|His 'methodical doubt' consisted in doubting whatever seemed doubtful; in pausing, with each apparent piece of knowledge, to ask himself whether, on reflection, he could feel certain that he really knew it.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000074_000000.wav|"And here is my reply."|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000046_000004.wav|And this happiness he desired to add to the reputation to which he was entitled.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000014_000000.wav|"A reply," slowly answered Torres, "that will keep me from finding out the chief of the police at Manaos, and saying to him, 'A man is there whose identity can easily be established, who can be recognized even after twenty five years' absence, and this man was the instigator of the diamond robbery at Tijuco.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000023_000000.wav|The attitude of this guilty man, whose life he held in his hands, was enough to astonish him.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000044_000000.wav|"Is dead."|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000088_000000.wav|"This, Torres.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000033_000000.wav|"All?"|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000009_000001.wav|Had he made a mistake in accusing his host?|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000062_000000.wav|Master as he was of himself, Joam could stand it no longer.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000116_000000.wav|"No," answered the chief of the police, "it was given to me, with an order for its immediate execution, by his substitute.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000010_000001.wav|It was you whom they sought for this diamond affair, whom they convicted of crime and sentenced to death, and it was you who escaped from the prison at Villa Rica a few hours before you should have been executed!|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000025_000000.wav|"You have a daughter!--I like her-and I want to marry her!"|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000020_000001.wav|Do not be in a hurry to reply by a formal refusal.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000090_000000.wav|Torres shrugged his shoulders.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000039_000000.wav|"And I add," replied Joam, "that you hold the proof of his innocence, and are keeping it back to proclaim it on the day when you marry his daughter."|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000035_000000.wav|"You are a consummate scoundrel, Torres," quietly said Joam, whose coolness never forsook him.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000041_000000.wav|"I am listening, Torres."|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000061_000002.wav|You are condemned to death, and you know, in sentences for crimes of that nature, the government is forbidden the right of commuting the penalty.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000034_000000.wav|"All, if necessary.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000100_000000.wav|And making a sign to Manoel, he retired to his room with him.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000020_000002.wav|Remember that you are in my power."|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000016_000000.wav|"Nothing, for neither you nor I will have any interest in talking about the matter."|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000107_000000.wav|Next day, the twenty fourth of August, scarcely an hour before the ceremony was to take place, a large pirogue came off from the left bank of the river and hailed the jangada.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000123_000000.wav|"All communication between you and yours is now forbidden," said the chief of the police.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000112_000000.wav|At these words Yaquita and Minha, struck with stupor, stopped without any power to move.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000042_000000.wav|"Well," said the adventurer, half keeping back his words, as if he was sorry to let them escape from his lips, "I know you are innocent!|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000093_000000.wav|"At Judge Ribeiro's?" said Torres, evidently disconcerted.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000009_000003.wav|For Joam Garral made no start at the terrible accusations.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000018_000000.wav|"No!|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000062_000001.wav|He was about to rush on Torres.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000079_000001.wav|Yaquita opened her arms to protect, to defend her.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000080_000000.wav|"Father," said Benito, who had placed himself between Joam Garral and Torres, "what were you going to say?"|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000049_000000.wav|"And the writing?"|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000063_000000.wav|A gesture from the rascal cooled his anger.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000087_000000.wav|"What is it, then?"|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000124_000000.wav|Joam restrained by a gesture his dismayed children and servants.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000058_000000.wav|"And as I am not a criminal we were not made to understand one another."|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000003_000001.wav|BETWEEN THE TWO MEN|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000092_000002.wav|If you dare, meet me there!"|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000070_000000.wav|In extraordinary contrast, Joam Garral was master of himself, and almost smiling.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000126_000000.wav|And with his head unbent, he stepped into the pirogue.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000121_000000.wav|"But speak, father!" shouted Benito, mad with despair; "say one word, and we shall contest even by force this horrible mistake of which you are the victim!"|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000008_000000.wav|"You are Joam Dacosta," continued Torres, "who, twenty five years ago, were a clerk in the governor general's office at Tijuco, and you are the man who was sentenced to death in this affair of the robbery and murder!"|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000055_000000.wav|"It is thus."|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000005_000000.wav|Yes!|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000022_000000.wav|Torres hesitated for a moment.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000086_000000.wav|"No, that is not my last word."|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000050_000000.wav|Joam Garral was ready to throw himself on Torres, to search him, to snatch from him the proofs of his innocence.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000013_000000.wav|"What reply do you want from me?" said Joam quietly.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000104_000002.wav|He knew that Joam Garral had boldly undertaken the voyage with the sole object of canceling the hateful proceedings of which he had been the victim, so as not to leave on his daughter and son in law the weight of the terrible situation which he had had to endure so long himself.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000091_000003.wav|We shall not be long before we meet."|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000069_000000.wav|Benito, Manoel, and all of them, under a feeling of deep anxiety, had risen.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000105_000001.wav|What he did not know was that the material proof of the innocence of the fazender existed, and that this proof was in the hands of Torres.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000116_000001.wav|Judge Ribeiro was struck with apoplexy yesterday evening, and died during the night at two o'clock, without having recovered his consciousness."|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000038_000000.wav|"Really!"|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000012_000000.wav|"Will you reply?" repeated Torres.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000106_000000.wav|Manoel confined himself, then, to announcing that he was going to Padre Passanha to ask him to get things ready for the two weddings.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000006_000001.wav|Your name is Dacosta!"|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000009_000004.wav|Doubtless he wanted to know to what Torres was coming.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000088_000001.wav|I am master here.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000011_000001.wav|His elbow rested on a small table, and he looked fixedly at his accuser without bending his head.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000061_000003.wav|Denounced, you are taken; taken, you are executed.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000005_000001.wav|Probably so.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000114_000000.wav|By a gesture his father silenced him.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000046_000001.wav|Feeling his end approaching, he was seized with remorse.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000096_000000.wav|The scoundrel at last disappeared.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000068_000000.wav|Joam Garral made him no answer.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000122_000001.wav|I am in truth Joam Dacosta!|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000046_000005.wav|But death came-he intrusted to me, his companion, to do what he could no longer do.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000089_000000.wav|"Yes, this instant!" exclaimed Benito, "or I will throw you overboard."|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000079_000000.wav|But at the words Manoel had felt his heart beat as if it would break. The girl arose, ashy pale, as if she would seek shelter by the side of her mother.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000102_000000.wav|Manoel came out alone; his face glowed with generous resolution.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1826/139361/1826_139361_000046_000000.wav|"Dead," repeated Torres; "but this man, whom I knew a long time after his crime, and without knowing that he was a convict, had written out at length, in his own hand, the story of this affair of the diamonds, even to the smallest details.|1826
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000010_000001.wav|Stupidity militant.|210
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000114_000000.wav|What, what!|210
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000130_000000.wav|j p Morgan|210
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000087_000001.wav|Obstinate in a course that we approve.|210
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000110_000001.wav|Benefactor; philanthropist.|210
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000157_000001.wav|To destroy.|210
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000029_000001.wav|Apparently.|210
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000073_000001.wav|A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original.|210
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000151_000004.wav|"That," he said, "is the story."|210
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/210/129396/210_129396_000108_000000.wav|"The Sturdy Beggar"|210
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000017_000002.wav|A few tried to rise to the emergency, and got out an awkward "My lord," or "Your lordship," or something of that sort, but the great majority were overwhelmed by the unaccustomed word and its dim and awful associations with gilded courts and stately ceremony and anointed kingship, so they only fumbled through the handshake and passed on, speechless.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000022_000000.wav|The young strangers were kept long at the piano.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000005_000003.wav|His estates were confiscated, his personal property seized, and there we were, in Germany, strangers, friendless, and in fact paupers.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000004_000000.wav|"If it ain't asking what I ought not to ask, mr Angelo, how did you come to be so friendless and in such trouble when you were little?|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000013_000000.wav|"Good mornin', Sister Cooper"--handshake.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000012_000001.wav|The twins took a position near the door, the widow stood at Luigi's side, Rowena stood beside Angelo, and the march past and the introductions began.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000007_000002.wav|Experience had taught us some valuable things; among others, how to take care of ourselves, how to avoid and defeat sharks and sharpers, and how to conduct our own business for our own profit and without other people's help.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000004_000002.wav|But don't, if you do."|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000007_000001.wav|When we escaped from that slavery at twelve years of age, we were in some respects men.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000019_000002.wav|Napoleon and all his kind stood accounted for-and justified.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000007_000005.wav|We went to Venice-to London, Paris, Russia, India, China, Japan-"|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000022_000001.wav|The villagers were astonished and enchanted with the magnificence of their performance, and could not bear to have them stop.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000007_000004.wav|It was a pleasant life.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000010_000002.wav|Rowena was in the clouds, she walked on air; this was to be the greatest day, the most romantic episode in the colorless history of that dull country town.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000017_000000.wav|None of these visitors was at ease, but, being honest people, they didn't pretend to be.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000020_000001.wav|Again she was besieged by eager questioners, and again she swam in sunset seas of glory.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000020_000002.wav|When the forenoon was nearly gone, she recognized with a pang that this most splendid episode of her life was almost over, that nothing could prolong it, that nothing quite its equal could ever fall to her fortune again.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000014_000000.wav|"Good morning, Brother Higgins-Count Luigi Capello, mr Higgins" --handshake, followed by a devouring stare and "I'm glad to see ye," on the part of Higgins, and a courteous inclination of the head and a pleasant "Most happy!" on the part of Count Luigi.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000018_000000.wav|General conversation followed, and the twins drifted about from group to group, talking easily and fluently and winning approval, compelling admiration and achieving favor from all.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000004_000001.wav|Do you mind telling?|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000021_000000.wav|Here a prodigious slam banging broke out below, and everybody rushed down to see.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000006_000002.wav|But what they wouldn't consent to do, we had to do without the formality of consent.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000007_000003.wav|We traveled everywhere-years and years-picking up smatterings of strange tongues, familiarizing ourselves with strange sights and strange customs, accumulating an education of a wide and varied and curious sort.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139387/1445_139387_000015_000000.wav|"Good mornin', Roweny"--handshake.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000010_000000.wav|Still the story was unsatisfactory.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000005_000005.wav|Among them came a stranger named Pudd'nhead Wilson, and a woman named Roxana; and presently the doings of these two pushed up into prominence a young fellow named Tom Driscoll, whose proper place was away in the obscure background.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000007_000004.wav|I thought and thought and studied and studied; but I arrived at nothing.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000006_000001.wav|I hunted about and found them-found them stranded, idle, forgotten, and permanently useless.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000003_000007.wav|I carried the manuscript back and forth across the Atlantic two or three times, and read it and studied over it on shipboard; and at last I saw where the difficulty lay.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000007_000005.wav|I finally saw plainly that there was really no way but one-I must simply give her the grand bounce.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000003_000008.wav|I had no further trouble.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000010_000002.wav|There was a radical defect somewhere, and I must search it out and cure it.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000011_000004.wav|Also I took the twins apart and made two separate men of them.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000009_000000.wav|It seemed abrupt, but I thought maybe the reader wouldn't notice it, because I changed the subject right away to something else.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000005_000001.wav|I meant to make it very short.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000003_000009.wav|I pulled one of the stories out by the roots, and left the other-a kind of literary Caesarean operation.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000007_000008.wav|So at the top of Chapter seventeen I put a "Calendar" remark concerning July the Fourth, and began the chapter with this statistic:|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000003_000002.wav|Much the same thing happened with PUDD'NHEAD WILSON.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000001_000000.wav|AUTHOR'S NOTE TO "THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS"|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000007_000006.wav|It grieved me to do it, for after associating with her so much I had come to kind of like her after a fashion, notwithstanding she was such an ass and said such stupid, irritating things and was so nauseatingly sentimental.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000005_000000.wav|Originally the story was called THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139404/1445_139404_000003_000006.wav|It took me months to make that discovery.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000004_000002.wav|These intimacies quickly became horrible to him, and within the hour he began to try to get up courage enough to tell her so, and require that they be discontinued or very considerably modified.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000009_000001.wav|He said:|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000004_000003.wav|But he was afraid of her; and besides, there came a lull now, for she had begun to think.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000019_000000.wav|It had been imagined that she "would not know," and would think she was traveling upstream.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000010_000000.wav|"It's lovely of you, Mammy-it's just-"|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000019_000006.wav|For one moment her petrified gaze fixed itself there.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000003_000003.wav|It made him wince, secretly-for she was a "nigger." That he was one himself was far from reconciling him to that despised race.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000009_000000.wav|Tom's hopes began to rise, and his spirits along with them.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixteen -- Sold Down the River|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000015_000000.wav|So Tom argued with himself that it was an immense advantaged for Roxy to have a master who was pleased with her, as this planter manifestly was.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000004_000005.wav|Finally she started up, and said she had found a way out.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000006_000000.wav|Tom was dazed.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000018_000001.wav|When she went to her foul steerage bunk at last, between the clashing engines, it was not to sleep, but only to wait for the morning, and, waiting, grieve.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000008_000011.wav|Dat's de plan."|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000013_000001.wav|White folks ain't partic'lar.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000004_000001.wav|And she tried to comfort him, but that was not possible.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000004_000004.wav|She was trying to invent a saving plan.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000019_000002.wav|Why, she had been steamboating for years.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1445/139397/1445_139397_000004_000000.wav|Roxana poured out endearments upon him, to which he responded uncomfortably, but as well as he could.|1445
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000031_000000.wav|At last they were only one day's march from Wali Dad's little mud home. Here a great encampment was made, and the merchant was sent on to tell Wali Dad that the King and Princess of Khaistan had arrived and were seeking an interview.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000009_000001.wav|As soon as he had opportunity he presented himself at the palace, and sent in the bracelet, neatly packed in a little perfumed box provided by himself, giving at the same time the message entrusted to him by Wali Dad.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000021_000000.wav|This time the prince, too, was embarrassed, and questioned the merchant closely.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000004_000003.wav|he wondered.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000003_000002.wav|He only earned by this five halfpence a day; but he was a simple old man, and needed so little out of it, that he saved up one halfpenny daily, and spent the rest upon such food and clothing as he required.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000023_000003.wav|Do you take for yourself two horses, two camels, and two elephants, with all their trappings, and present the rest to her.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000003_000000.wav|Once upon a time there lived a poor old man whose name was Wali Dad Gunjay, or Wali Dad the Bald.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000010_000000.wav|The princess could not think who could have bestowed this present on her, but she bade her servant to tell the merchant that if he would return, after he had finished his business in the city, she would give him her reply.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000037_000000.wav|'What do you here?' questioned the other.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000014_000001.wav|When he was shown into his presence he produced the beautiful gift of silks that Wali Dad had sent, and begged the young man to accept them as a humble tribute to his worth and greatness.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000003_000001.wav|He had no relations, but lived all by himself in a little mud hut some distance from any town, and made his living by cutting grass in the jungle, and selling it as fodder for horses.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000028_000002.wav|In fact, after a few days, despair possessed him to such a degree that he made up his mind that all that happened was fate, and that escape was impossible; but he hoped devoutly some turn of fortune would reveal to him a way out of the difficulties which he had, with the best intentions, drawn upon himself.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000007_000000.wav|'Then,' said Wali Dad, 'next time you go that way, give her this little bracelet, with the respectful compliments of one who admires virtue far more than he desires wealth.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000024_000000.wav|The merchant at first objected to these remarks, and pointed out to Wali Dad that he was beginning to feel these embassies a little awkward.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000006_000001.wav|With this carefully wrapped up in his cotton waistband he went to the house of a rich friend, who was a travelling merchant, and used to wander about with his camels and merchandise through many countries.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000024_000002.wav|At length, however he consented to go once more, but he promised himself never to embark on another such enterprise.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000013_000000.wav|'Very well, then, take the silks to him, with the blessing of an old man,' said Wali Dad, much relieved to be rid of them.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000039_000001.wav|His old cotton rags of clothes were changed to beautiful linen and embroidered cloth; on his hard, bare feet were warm, soft shoes, and on his head a great jewelled turban.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000006_000003.wav|The merchant replied that the princess of Khaistan was renowned everywhere as well for the beauty of her person as for the kindness and generosity of her disposition.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000021_000004.wav|To take care of these animals the merchant hired a little army of men; and the troop made a great show as they travelled along.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000016_000005.wav|The princess then took her father into her confidence, and begged him to advise her what courtesy she might return to one who persisted in making her such presents.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000045_000001.wav|Every evening the king and his nobles were served on golden plates and from golden cups; and the smaller people on silver plates and from silver cups; and each evening each guest was requested to keep the places and cups that they had used as a remembrance of the occasion. Never had anything so splendid been seen.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000010_000002.wav|With these he set out on his journey.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000033_000001.wav|An owl laughed 'Hoo! hoo!' almost in his face, as he peered over the edge of the gulf, and the old man threw himself back in a perspiration of horror.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000039_000005.wav|And up an avenue of giant place trees the peris led him, dumb with amazement.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000012_000000.wav|'Of course,' cried the merchant, greatly amused; 'from Delhi to Baghdad, and from Constantinople to Lucknow, I know them all; and there lives none worthier than the gallant and wealthy young prince of Nekabad.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000042_000000.wav|When morning dawned he woke, and found that the palace, and himself, and his servants were all real, and that he was not dreaming after all!|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000032_000003.wav|He COULD not do it!|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000032_000000.wav|As soon as the merchant was gone Wali Dad made up his mind that there was only one honourable way out of the shame and distress that he had created by his foolishness, and that was-to kill himself.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000021_000001.wav|The merchant felt that his credit was at stake, and whilst inwardly determining that he would not carry the joke any further, could not help describing Wali Dad in such glowing terms that the old man would never have known himself had he heard them.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000038_000001.wav|And as they questioned him, he confessed all his story.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000036_000000.wav|'I weep for shame,' replied he.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000015_000003.wav|When he got back, with as much grass as he could possibly carry, he was greatly discomfited to find that the horses were all for himself.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000041_000001.wav|He walked on, thinking still that he must be dreaming.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000011_000002.wav|What was he to do with these costly things?|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000004_000000.wav|In this way he lived for many years until, one night, he thought that he would count the money he had hidden away in the great earthen pot under the floor of his hut.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000011_000000.wav|Some months later he got home again from his journeyings, and proceeded to take Wali Dad the princess's present.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000039_000007.wav|Its great porticoes and verandahs were occupied by hurrying servants, and guards paced to and fro and saluted him respectfully as he drew near, along mossy walks and through sweeping grassy lawns where fountains were playing and flowers scented the air. Wali Dad stood stunned and helpless.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000008_000000.wav|With that he pulled the bracelet from his waistband, and handed it to his friend.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000043_000000.wav|If he was dumbfounded, the merchant, who was ushered into his presence soon after sunrise, was much more so.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000002_000000.wav|Story of Wali Dad the Simple Hearted|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000039_000004.wav|before him a noble gateway stood open.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000016_000000.wav|The merchant departed, laughing.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000030_000000.wav|Day after day they moved on, and every day the poor merchant felt more ill and miserable.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000044_000000.wav|Then Wali Dad told the merchant all that had happened.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000011_000001.wav|Great was the perplexity of the good man to find a camel load of silks tumbled at his door!|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000046_000000.wav|On the fourth day the king of Khaistan took his host aside, and asked him whether it was true, as he had suspected, that he wished to marry his daughter.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000045_000002.wav|Besides the great dinners, there were sports and hunting, and dances, and amusements of all sorts.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000016_000003.wav|Now, the merchant was usually a most honest man, but he did not quite like to describe Wali Dad in his true light as an old man whose income was five halfpence a day, and who had hardly clothes to cover him.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000031_000001.wav|When the merchant arrived he found the poor old man eating his evening meal of onions and dry bread, and when he told him of all that had happened he had not the heart to proceed to load him with the reproaches which rose to his tongue.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000023_000000.wav|'Riches!' cried Wali Dad, 'what has an old man like me with one foot in the grave to do with riches?|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000029_000000.wav|On the seventh day they all started, amidst thunderous salutes from the ramparts of the city, and much dust, and cheering, and blaring of trumpets.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000005_000000.wav|At last he threw all the money into an old sack, which he pushed under his bead, and then, rolled in his ragged old blanket, he went off to sleep.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000041_000002.wav|Very soon he retired to rest in a splendid room, far grander than anything he had ever dreamed of.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000039_000000.wav|Then the first stepped forward and laid a hand upon his shoulder, and Wali Dad began to feel that something strange-what, he did not know-was happening to him.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000041_000000.wav|With these words they both disappeared and left him.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000027_000001.wav|The merchant, the king declared, was to guide the party.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000020_000000.wav|The merchant felt handsomely repaid for his trouble, and wondered greatly how the matter would turn out.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000010_000001.wav|In a few days, therefore, the merchant came back, and received from the princess a return present in the shape of a camel load or rich silks, besides a present of money for himself.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000045_000000.wav|For three nights and days a great feast was held in honour of the royal guests.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000022_000002.wav|Grass will be selling well to day!' And with that he hurried off to the jungle and cut grass as fast as he could.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000015_000000.wav|As before, the merchant at last arrived at home; and next day, he set out for Wali Dad's house with the twelve horses.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000038_000000.wav|'I came here to die,' said Wali Dad.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000031_000003.wav|With tears he begged the merchant to detain them for one day by any kind of excuse he could think of, and to come in the morning to discuss what they should do.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000033_000002.wav|He was afraid!|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000016_000001.wav|But, true to his old friend's request, he took the horses with him on his next journey, and eventually presented them safely to the princess.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000033_000003.wav|He drew back shuddering, and covering his face in his hands he wept aloud.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000015_000001.wav|When the old man saw them coming in the distance he said to himself: 'Here's luck! a troop of horses coming!|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000016_000002.wav|This time the princess sent for the merchant, and questioned him about the giver.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000004_000002.wav|What should he do with them all?|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000023_000001.wav|That beautiful young princess, now!|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000016_000004.wav|So he told her that his friend had heard stories of her beauty and goodness, and had longed to lay the best he had at her feet.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000028_000001.wav|Willingly would he have run away; but he was treated with so much hospitality as Wali Dad's representative, that he hardly got an instant's real peace, and never any opportunity of slipping away.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000004_000001.wav|So he set to work, and with much trouble he pulled the bag out on to the floor, and sat gazing in astonishment at the heap of coins which tumbled out of it.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000022_000001.wav|Elephants, too!|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000040_000000.wav|'Fear not,' said one of the peris; 'go to your house, and learn that God rewards the simple hearted.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86043/6927_86043_000022_000000.wav|When Wali Dad from a distance saw the cloud of dust which the caravan made, and the glitter of its appointments, he said to himself: 'By Allah! here's a grand crowd coming!|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000014_000003.wav|You are about to place me in a position which cannot fail to wring from jealousy and covetousness their flaming torch of abuse.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000003_000001.wav|They are no longer fit for construction unless on an approved principle.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000006_000000.wav|Walking leisurely along, and stooping to pick up some fallen fruit, he suddenly heard a faint sound issue amongst the trees.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000015_000000.wav|"I assure you your allusion to my verbal answer last night is very pronounced, and may be overlooked on the ground of pure disappointment. Our time of singleness is now short, and begging your forgiveness for my seeming neglect or indifference, I hope the tide, which until now has flown so gently, may not be stayed on the eve of entering the harbour of harmony, peace, and love."|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000014_000004.wav|Yes, Sir john, on me you have not ceased to lavish every available treasure and token of your unbounded love.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000005_000000.wav|It happened about three weeks preceding the day set apart for their holy union, on Sir john arriving at the castle, he was informed of Irene's recent exit, and gently turning away, he resolved to have a stroll in the tastefully laid out gardens with the sole object of meeting her.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000013_000001.wav|She pondered whether or not honesty should take the place of deceit-too often practised in women-and concluded to adopt the latter weapon of defence.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000014_000001.wav|Your words sting like a wasp, though, I am quite convinced, unintentionally.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000008_000000.wav|Irene held in her snowy palms a roll of Italian music, which she earnestly endeavoured to conceal from his penetrating stare, probably on account of the words contained therein, which for ever would be unknown to his varied sphere of knowledge, and which would undoubtedly have betrayed her feelings, never dreaming that they should strike other ears than those for whom they practically were intended.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000004_000000.wav|The little chat that Irene apparently enjoyed in the conservatory would gladly have become an act of forgetfulness on her part had not Sir john reminded her of its existence a few days afterwards.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000009_000001.wav|Sir john chatted gaily until he gained good ground for delivering to her the message that instinct had so prompted him to utter.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000006_000002.wav|Boldly moving towards the spot whence the sound of music issued, how delightfully surprised was he to find a magnificently constructed little summer house, a charming pyramidal Gothic structure, robed internally with mossy mantles of nature, and brightened beyond conception with the instrument of humanity which gave origin to such pathetic and sweetened strains.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000003_000000.wav|Our hopes when elevated to that standard of ambition which demands unison may fall asunder like an ancient ruin.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000014_000006.wav|You have resolved to place me by your side as your equal, whilst wealth in boundless store is thirsting for your touch.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000003_000002.wav|They smoulder away like the ashes of burnt embers, and are cast outwardly from their confined abode, never more to be found where once they existed only as smouldering serpents of scorned pride.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000013_000002.wav|Raising her hazel eyes to his, and clearing the weft of truth that had been mixing with the warp of falsehood to form an answer of plausible texture, fringed with different shades of love, she thus began:|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000014_000005.wav|You have been to me not only a loyal admirer, but a thoroughly upright and estimable example of life's purest treasures.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000012_000004.wav|And this evening, instead of being doubly rejoiced at my presence, you, on the contrary, seem doubly annoyed!|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000014_000000.wav|"My dearest and much beloved, I assure you your remarks have astounded me not a little!|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000012_000000.wav|"I must acquaint you, though it pains me deeply to do so, that lately you have not treated me with such respect or attention as you certainly lavished upon me before the announcement of our engagement, and for what reason or reasons I now wish to be apprised.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/87732/6927_87732_000012_000002.wav|I promised to be at the castle last night, but unfortunately I felt indisposed, and only that I wished to have a thorough understanding relative to your recent conduct, and which has pained me acutely, I should not have ventured out of doors this evening either.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000004.wav|He lashed his tail, and rolled his red eyes, and the dragon opposite was no whit behind him.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000032_000001.wav|But the young man did not heed them, and only struck a furious blow at the gate.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000050_000000.wav|'Yes, of course I did,' answered he.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000006.wav|This was too much, and with another roar which made the princess shake in her shoes, he flung himself upon his foe.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000033_000000.wav|Then a small grating opened, and there appeared the tip of a huge nose, which belonged to the ugliest old woman that ever was seen.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000012_000000.wav|'What is the matter?' asked he, pausing and looking round.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000064_000001.wav|'How do you propose that I should work that miracle?'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000009_000000.wav|Years passed away, and the babies were almost men.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000054_000001.wav|And the princess, who was a wise woman, only said: 'Well, go to bed now, for I am sure you must be very tired.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000054_000000.wav|'I must,' was all he answered.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000041_000001.wav|You shall live here with me and be my husband.' But at these words the knight let his spear fall, so surprised was he.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000021_000001.wav|He tossed his head with delight at the sight of her, and approached slowly to the place where she stood, a little in front of the mirror.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000024_000000.wav|Oh! what shouts of joy rang through the great city, when the youth came riding back with the princess sitting behind him, and dragging the horrible monster by a cord.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000002.wav|Neither of these things occurred, but, instead, the dragon stopped short with surprise and rage when he saw a monster before him as big and strong as himself.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000049_000000.wav|'And so you did go to the castle?' she asked.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000046_000002.wav|Ha! ha!'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000011_000000.wav|The youth who took the path that ran eastwards arrived presently at a large city, where he found everybody standing at the doors, wringing their hands and weeping bitterly.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000025_000000.wav|The first wet day after their marriage the bridegroom begged the bride to show him all the rooms in the palace, and it was so big and took so long that the sun was shining brightly again before they stepped on to the roof to see the view.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000039_000000.wav|'Harm!' repeated the echoes, but again the young man paid no heed.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000010_000000.wav|So, one fine morning, the two brothers left the hut, and walked together to the place where the great road divided.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000020_000001.wav|Have no fear; I shall be at hand.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000003_000000.wav|For a long while whey pretended to each other that they had no appetite, and that a few blackberries from the hedges were a great deal nicer than a good strong bowl of soup.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000035_000002.wav|Yes or No?'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000064_000000.wav|The young man laughed scornfully.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000065_000002.wav|Crush them together and boil them in a large tub of water, and then put me into it.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000020_000000.wav|'The moment the dragon comes near you, you must tear off the veil,' cried he; 'and be sure you hide behind the mirror.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000058_000000.wav|'Lady of all the ages,' cried the new comer, 'did you not give hospitality to a young knight but a short time ago?'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000005_000000.wav|He had not cast his line for ten minutes the next morning before he drew from the river the most beautiful fish he had ever seen in his life. But he nearly fell into the water from surprise, when the fish began to speak to him, in a small, squeaky voice:|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000021_000000.wav|He and his horse had scarcely found shelter amongst some rocks, when the flap of the dragon's wings could be plainly heard.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000042_000001.wav|'You are mad!|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000048_000000.wav|So he suffered himself to be borne in triumph to the palace, where the princess threw herself into his arms.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000051_000000.wav|'And what did you see there?'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000043_000000.wav|Old though she was, it seemed impossible to tire her.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000065_000000.wav|'Oh, it is quite easy.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000000.wav|The princess had not known, when she obeyed the orders of the Knight of the Fish, what she expected to happen.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000016_000000.wav|'Fly,' she cried; 'fly while you have yet time, before that monster sees you.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000007_000002.wav|And when they were safe in bed he stole out and buried the two pieces in the garden.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000068_000000.wav|As to the old witch, in the end she died of rage at seeing her prey escape her; and at the moment she drew her last breath the castle of Albatroz fell into ruins with a great noise.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000027_000001.wav|'It is enchanted, and no one that has tried to enter it has ever come back.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000027_000000.wav|'It is called the castle of Albatroz,' answered the princess.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000003_000001.wav|But at length there came a day when the cobbler could bear it no longer, and he threw away his last, and borrowing a rod from a neighbour he went out to fish.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000031_000001.wav|Neither governor, nor squire, not even a page?'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000032_000000.wav|'Not even a page!' answered the echoes.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000036_000000.wav|'No, No, No!' repeated the echoes.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000067_000000.wav|And, besides these, he found in another cavern the bodies of the girls who had been sacrificed to the dragon, and brought them back to life also.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000056_000000.wav|Early next day the young man started for the castle, feeling sure that some terrible thing must have happened to his brother.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000031_000000.wav|'Is there anyone inside?' cried the young man in his loudest voice; 'anyone who will give a knight hospitality?|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000009_000001.wav|They were tired of living quietly at home, being mistaken for each other by everybody they saw, and determined to set off in different directions, to seek adventures.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000006_000001.wav|Give two of the pieces to your wife, and bury two more in the garden.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000035_000001.wav|'Can I rest here this night?|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000002_000000.wav|Once upon a time there lived an old cobbler who worked hard at his trade from morning till night, and scarcely gave himself a moment to eat.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000044_000000.wav|At length they came to a stone staircase, which was so dark that you could not see your hand if you held it up before your face.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000012_000001.wav|And a man replied, in a faltering voice, that each year a beautiful girl was chosen by lot to be offered up to a dreadful fiery dragon, who had a mother even worse than himself, and this year the lot had fallen on their peerless princess.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000045_000000.wav|'I have kept my most precious treasure till the last,' said the old woman; 'but let me go first, for the stairs are steep, and you might easily break your leg.' So on she went, now and then calling back to the young man in the darkness.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000046_000000.wav|'So you would not marry me!' chuckled the old witch.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000002_000001.wav|But, industrious as he was, he could hardly buy bread and cheese for himself and his wife, and they grew thinner and thinner daily.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000034_000000.wav|'What do you want?' said she.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000062_000000.wav|'Where is my brother, cruel hag?' asked he sternly.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000015_000000.wav|She turned as she heard the sound of his sword, and removed her handkerchief from his eyes.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000017_000000.wav|She said it, and she mean it; yet, when he had turned his back, she felt more forsaken than before.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000038_000000.wav|'Come in, come in,' said she, 'so fine a gentleman will do us no harm.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000004_000000.wav|Now the cobbler was as patient about fishing as he had been about cobbling.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000024_000002.wav|And when they were all over the young couple went to the palace prepared for them, which was so large that it was three miles round.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000004_000001.wav|From dawn to dark he stood on the banks of the little stream, without hooking anything better than an eel, or a few old shoes, that even he, clever though he was, felt were not worth mending.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000030_000000.wav|The sound awoke all the sleeping echoes in the castle, and was repeated now loudly, now softly; now near, and now far.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000037_000000.wav|Between the fierce sun and his anger at being kept waiting, the Knight of the Fish had grown so hot that he lifted his visor, and when the old woman saw how handsome he was, she began fumbling with the lock of the gate.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000005.wav|Opening his mouth to its very widest, he gave an awful roar; but the other dragon only roared back.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000061_000000.wav|'Ill treated him!' answered the voices.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000029_000001.wav|But the Knight of the Fish knew no fear, and had never turned his back on an enemy; so he drew out his horn, and blew a blast.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000017_000001.wav|But in reality it was not more than a few minutes before he came back, galloping furiously on a horse he had borrowed, and carrying a huge mirror across its neck.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000047_000002.wav|At last it occurred to him that once more he had been taken for his brother.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000019_000000.wav|'Give me your veil,' he said hastily to the princess.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000003.wav|He shook his mane with rage and fury; the enemy in front did exactly the same.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000047_000000.wav|Meanwhile his brother had wandered far and wide, and at last he wandered back to the same great city where the other young knight had met with so many adventures.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000014_000000.wav|This time the Knight of the Fish did not stop to hear more, but ran off as fast as he could, and found the princess bathed in tears, and trembling from head to foot.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000053_000000.wav|'Must you really go back to that dreadful place?' she asked wistfully. 'You are the only man who has ever come back from it.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000066_000001.wav|She then told the young man what had become of his brother, and he went down into the dungeon, and brought up his body and the bodies of the other victims who lay there, and when they were all washed in the magic water their strength was restored to them.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000007_000000.wav|The cobbler did not know what to make of these strange words; but he was wiser than many people, and when he did not understand, he thought it was well to obey.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000047_000003.wav|'I had better say nothing,' thought he; 'perhaps I shall be able to help him after all.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000006_000000.wav|'Take me back to your hut and cook me; then cut me up, and sprinkle me over with pepper and salt.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000041_000000.wav|'You must call me the Lady Berberisca,' she answered, sharply; 'and this is my castle, to which I bid you welcome.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000046_000001.wav|'Ha! ha!|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000061_000001.wav|The woman did not stop to hear more; she turned to fly; but the knight's sword entered her body.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000065_000001.wav|Go into the garden and gather the flowers of the everlasting plant and some of dragon's blood.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000026_000000.wav|'What castle is that out there,' asked the knight; 'it seems to be made of black marble?'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000052_000000.wav|'I am forbidden to tell you anything about it, until I have returned there once more,' replied he.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000008_000000.wav|By and by two babies, exactly alike, lay in a cradle, and in the garden were two tall plants, with two brilliant shields on the top.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000022_000007.wav|In an instant the mirror lay at his feet broken into a thousand pieces, but as every piece reflected part of himself, the dragon thought that he too had been smashed into atoms.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000055_000000.wav|But the knight shook his head.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000010_000001.wav|There they embraced and parted, promising that if anything remarkable had happened to either, he would return to the cross roads and wait till his brother came.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000024_000001.wav|Everybody cried out that the king must give the victor the hand of the princess; and so he did, and no one had ever seen such balls and feasts and sports before.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000063_000000.wav|'I will tell you,' said she; 'but as I feel that I am going to die I shall keep that piece of news to myself, till you have brought me to life again.'|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000042_000002.wav|All I desire is to inspect the castle and then go.' As he spoke he heard the voices give a mocking laugh; but the old woman took no notice, and only bade the knight follow her.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000059_000000.wav|'A short time ago!' wailed the voices.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6927/86045/6927_86045_000035_000000.wav|'To enter,' he answered shortly.|6927
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000013_000002.wav|With the right hand she should hold together the folds of her gown, and draw them towards the right side.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000002_000000.wav|OF PROPRIETY OF DEPORTMENT IN REGARD TO OUR SOCIAL RELATIONS.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000023_000001.wav|This civility becomes a rigorous duty if they are accompanied by a lady.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000009_000000.wav|Further,--a young man of good breeding should promptly offer his hand to ladies, even if they are not acquaintances, when they pass such a place.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000013_000003.wav|To raise the dress on both sides, and with both hands, is vulgar.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000018_000003.wav|The direction being given us, we should thank them, at the same time bowing.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000001_000000.wav|PART two.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000018_000005.wav|If you are a man, and a lady or distinguished person asks this favor of you, you should take off your hat while answering them.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000022_000008.wav|We will add, that at Paris, a young man ought to avoid approaching, and even saluting a young lady of his acquaintance, out of regard to the natural timidity of her sex.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000007_000001.wav|They also, as they pass, ought to bow politely to you.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000010_000001.wav|Any person, particularly a lady, who walks in this improper manner, whatever her education may be in other respects, will always appear awkward and clumsy.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000022_000000.wav|When we meet, in the street, a person of our acquaintance, we salute them by bowing and uncovering ourselves, if there is occasion.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000021_000001.wav|This opinion, which obtains among some persons, is an error.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000013_000004.wav|This ungraceful practice can be tolerated only for a moment, when the mud is very deep.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/110056/7932_110056_000022_000005.wav|During this interview, which should be very short, the speaker of least importance ought to take the lower part of the side walk, in order to keep the person with whom he is conversing, from the neighborhood of the carriages.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000043_000000.wav|The girl shook her head.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000076_000001.wav|I think Ronald ought to be consulted."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000045_000000.wav|ruth Powlett did not speak for a minute or two, then she said, slowly:|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000031_000001.wav|I never did hear such expressions!"|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000025_000000.wav|"That cannot be all," ruth whispered; "there must be something more to tell, Mary."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000036_000000.wav|The two girls accordingly went back to the cottage.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000067_000000.wav|"You need not be afraid about that," Mary said, laying her hand assuringly on Ruth's shoulder.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000071_000000.wav|"What is it?" mr Armstrong asked in surprise.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000094_000001.wav|Anyhow, we must go cautiously to work.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000022_000001.wav|"They tried to kill me, and I killed them.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000036_000002.wav|ruth, who for a long time had scarcely taken up a needle, sat with her hands before her.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000013.wav|She has always been a good girl: not one of your light sort, but earnest and steady.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000027_000003.wav|It quite made my flesh creep; didn't it yours?"|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000077_000001.wav|"You think he knows a great deal better what ought to be done than I do?"|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000055_000000.wav|ruth had given a little gasp as Mary Armstrong began, then she sat rigid and immovable.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000060_000004.wav|And now, having told you this first, so that you should not think too hardly of me, I will tell you all."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000005_000000.wav|"Well, I thought I would just step over and speak to you," Hiram began, in a slow, puzzled sort of a way.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000075_000001.wav|"As you say, there could be no mistake about the knife, because she had given it to him herself, and had had his initials engraved upon it at Plymouth.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000011.wav|If I did, I would cut my tongue out before I would speak a word.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000062_000002.wav|"My love seemed to have been killed.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000011_000003.wav|Well, we shall see; we shall see.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000063_000001.wav|I must speak to my father, and he will think it over, and perhaps he will write and ask Ronald how he would like it done.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000067_000001.wav|"Why, child, you have been a benefactor to us both!|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000082_000000.wav|"Why did you not tell me of it before, father?" the girl said, reproachfully.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000075_000000.wav|"Yes, there's no doubt about it this time," her father said.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000090_000007.wav|However, it cannot be helped.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000062_000011.wav|I would have told then, but I did not know who to tell it to, or what good it could do if told.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000009.wav|I feel that myself, but there is no one in the village I should like to open my mind to about ruth, and seeing that you are father of a girl about the same age, and that I feel you are a true sort of a man, I come to you.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000097_000000.wav|"I think so too, father.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000006.wav|She is going about the house again this morning, but that white and still that it is cruel to look at her.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000075_000002.wav|I don't think any reasonable man could have a doubt that the scoundrel did it; and now, my dear, what is to be done next?"|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000073_000002.wav|I am thankful, indeed, my child; how did it all come about?"|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000108_000000.wav|And so three days afterwards a full account of all that ruth Powlett had said, and of the circumstances of the case, was despatched to "Sergeant Blunt, Cape Mounted Rifles, Kaffirland."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000083_000001.wav|Besides, as this is the fourth that you have had since you have been here, it is not of such extreme importance."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000087_000000.wav|"Well, my dear, that would be serious; at least I should have thought you would consider it so."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000015.wav|I believe she has got some secret or other that is just wearing her out, and if we can't get to the bottom of it I don't believe ruth will see Christmas," and Hiram Powlett wiped his eyes violently.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000012_000001.wav|She found her quiet and pale.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000103_000000.wav|"I don't, my dear.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000096_000001.wav|It is a grave question altogether, Mary, and at any rate we will wait.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000062_000017.wav|It has been dreadful," she said, wanly.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000004_000000.wav|"I can spare an hour-I can spare the whole morning, mr Powlett.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000081_000001.wav|The Cape mail touched at Plymouth yesterday."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000056_000000.wav|"It was Captain Mervyn," she said, at last, in a low whisper.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000106_000001.wav|I came in an hour ago, expecting to find tea ready, and there are no signs of it visible.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000071_000001.wav|"ruth Powlett nearly knocked me down in the passage, and rushed off without even the ordinary decency of apologising."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000015_000002.wav|Why, now, to look at you, I should have thought you could hardly have known what trouble meant, you always seem so bright and happy; that's what ruth has said, again and again."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000002.wav|She came in yesterday afternoon as white as a sheet, and fainted right off at the door.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000026_000000.wav|"I will tell you another time, ruth," Mary said, in equally low tones, and then rising, put on her hat again, said good bye, and went out.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000085_000000.wav|"What is it, my dear; has he changed his mind and married a Kaffir woman?|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000011_000004.wav|I will be off back again to my work now; I feel all the better for having had this talk with you.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000000.wav|"That's it; that's it," Hiram said, stroking his chin, thoughtfully, "that murder is at the bottom of it.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000041_000002.wav|Now, after what you said to me the other night, I don't know what to do.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000058_000000.wav|"You shall not be," ruth said, more firmly than she had before spoken. "You shall not be, Mary.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000062_000023.wav|Who shall I go to first?"|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000003.wav|I shouldn't think so much of that, because she has often fainted since her illness, but that wasn't all. When her mother got her round she went upstairs to her room, and didn't come down again.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000005_000001.wav|"You know what I was telling you the other day about my girl?"|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000092_000001.wav|This complicates matters a good deal."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000009_000004.wav|There is not much in that, you would say; after a girl has fainted she likes to lie quiet a bit; but she didn't lie quiet.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/93470/7932_93470_000062_000000.wav|"I firmly believe," ruth said, "he would have murdered me had he not heard people coming along the road." Then she told how she found the open knife stained with blood at Margaret Carne's bedside, and how she had hidden it.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000032_000001.wav|The detective called upon him two days after the interview at Scotland Yard.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000024_000000.wav|"No, Margaret," he thought; "even your pleading shall not turn me from my purpose.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000020_000002.wav|The letter was carefully worded, and very brief.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000024_000002.wav|It may have been written at Henry Dunbar's dictation, and under coercion.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000020_000001.wav|The sight of the well-known writing gave him a shock of mingled surprise and hope, and his fingers were faintly tremulous as they tore open the envelope.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000009_000001.wav|Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby's establishment.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000007_000000.wav|"I feel so old, mother," he said, sometimes; "I feel so old."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000027_000000.wav|"I'll look up a file of newspapers, and run my eye over the details of the case," said the detective.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000021_000001.wav|Henry Dunbar was not the murderer of my father.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000019_000001.wav|Before he went back to the quiet routine of life, he set himself a task to accomplish, and that task was the solution of the Winchester mystery.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000005_000002.wav|But I can afford to be contented, Clement, so long as I have you with me."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000029_000003.wav|My plan is to begin at the beginning; learn the alphabet of the case, and work up into the syntax and prosody."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty seven.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000031_000000.wav|"You're rather more likely to hinder than help, sir," mr Carter answered, with a smile; "but you're welcome to have a finger in the pie if you like, as long as you'll engage to hold your tongue when I tell you."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000013_000001.wav|poverty must indeed be a bitter school if it has prepared you for such degradation as this!"|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000033_000000.wav|"I've read up the Wilmot case, sir," mr Carter said; "and I think the next best thing I can do is to see the scene of the murder.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000013_000000.wav|"It was the knowledge of this business that made her shrink away from me that night when she told me that she was a contaminated creature, unfit to be the associate of an honest man Oh, Margaret, Margaret!|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000027_000002.wav|mr Dunbar himself offered a reward for the apprehension of the guilty party, didn't he?"|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000012_000001.wav|This girl, who seemed the very incarnation of purity and candour, had her price, perhaps, as well as other people, and Henry Dunbar had bought the silence of his victim's daughter.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000029_000001.wav|You must always look at these sort of things from every point of view.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000010_000000.wav|Poor Clement could not go into the world yet.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000016_000001.wav|At last, by dint of going over the ground again and again, always pleading Margaret's cause against the stern witness of cruel facts, Clement came to look upon the girl's innocence as a settled thing.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000035_000000.wav|"So be it, mr Austin.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000022_000000.wav|"MARGARET WILMOT."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000034_000000.wav|"Then I'll go with you," Clement said, promptly.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000002_000000.wav|MARGARET'S LETTER.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000019_000000.wav|This thought, working night and day in Clement Austin's brain, gave rise to a fixed resolve.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000006_000001.wav|His life seemed to have altogether slipped away from him, and he felt like an old man who has lost all the bright chances of existence; the hope of domestic happiness and a pleasant home; the opportunity of a useful career and an honoured name; and who has nothing more to do but to wait patiently till the slow current of his empty life drops into the sea of death.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000018_000001.wav|"There will be no peace for us until the secret of the deed done in the grove near Winchester has been brought to light."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000014_000001.wav|It might be that the banker had terrified this unhappy girl by some awful threat that had preyed upon her mind, and driven her from the man who loved her, whom she loved perhaps, in spite of those heartless words which she had spoken in the bitter hour of their parting.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000028_000000.wav|"Yes; but that might be a blind."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000030_000000.wav|"I should like to help you in this business," Clement Austin said, "for I have a vital interest in the issue of the case."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000004_000000.wav|"I have been cruelly disappointed, mother, and the subject is very bitter to me," he said; and mrs Austin had not the courage to ask any further questions.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000026_000000.wav|The detective business happened to be rather dull just now.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000025_000001.wav|He was a man whose appearance was something between the aspect of a shabby genteel half pay captain and an unlucky stockbroker: but Clement liked the steady light of his small grey eyes, and the decided expression of his thin lips and prominent chin.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000021_000003.wav|Let this knowledge content you, and allow the secret of the murder to remain for ever a mystery upon earth, God knows the truth, and has doubtless punished the wretched sinner who was guilty of that crime, as He punishes every other sinner, sooner or later, in the course of His ineffable wisdom.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000024_000001.wav|Besides, how can I tell in what manner this letter may have been written?|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000014_000000.wav|The longer Clement thought of the subject, the more certainly he arrived at the conclusion that Margaret Wilmot had been, either bribed or frightened into silence by Henry Dunbar.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000021_000002.wav|As Heaven is my witness, this is the truth, and I know it to be the truth.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000003_000001.wav|He told his mother that he and his betrothed had parted; but he would tell no more.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000020_000000.wav|On the very day after this resolution took a definite form, Clement received a letter from Margaret Wilmot.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000006_000000.wav|Clement went back to London.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000009_000000.wav|Clement Austin felt this, and yet he had no heart to begin life again, though tempting offers came to him from great commercial houses, whose chiefs were eager to secure the well-known cashier of Messrs.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000010_000002.wav|He wasted hour after hour, and day after day, in gloomy thoughts about the past.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000015_000001.wav|Again and again he went over the same ground, trying to find some lurking circumstance, no matter how unlikely in its nature, which should explain and justify Margaret's conduct.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000017_000001.wav|There was a mystery, and Henry Dunbar was at the bottom of it.|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7932/278228/7932_278228_000024_000003.wav|Be it as it may, the mystery of the Winchester murder shall be set at rest, if patience or intelligence can solve the enigma. No mystery shall separate me from the woman I love."|7932
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000020_000002.wav|jude grasped it-just as he had done before her marriage.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000030_000000.wav|"I suppose because we are both alike, as I said before."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000023_000000.wav|"I am not that sort-quite."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000068_000002.wav|Stay there."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000029_000001.wav|"I wonder what we both did that for?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000038_000000.wav|He waited in the light of the stove, the door of which she flung open before going out, and when she returned, followed by the maiden with tea, they sat down by the same light, assisted by the blue rays of a spirit lamp under the brass kettle on the stand.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000074_000003.wav|jude said good bye, and went away into the darkness.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000076_000001.wav|They were entirely in darkness.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000077_000003.wav|The mantelpiece was of the same heavy description, carved with Jacobean pilasters and scroll work.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000057_000000.wav|"No, I am not."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000077_000002.wav|Sue, evidently just come in, was standing with her hat on in this front parlour or sitting room, whose walls were lined with wainscoting of panelled oak reaching from floor to ceiling, the latter being crossed by huge moulded beams only a little way above her head.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000013_000002.wav|In front of the schools, which were extensive and stone built, grew two enormous beeches with smooth mouse coloured trunks, as such trees will only grow on chalk uplands.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000073_000001.wav|"When shall it be?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000032_000000.wav|"And they rule thoughts...|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000034_000000.wav|"I went to see him."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000070_000001.wav|I can talk to you better like this than when you were inside...|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000074_000000.wav|"To morrow week.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000037_000002.wav|It is no trouble to get the kettle and things brought in.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000056_000000.wav|"I didn't know that.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000047_000000.wav|"Why do you look at me like that?" said jude.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000074_000002.wav|She stretched out her hand and stroked his forehead pitifully-just once.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000024_000000.wav|"Not easily moved?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000013_000003.wav|Within the mullioned and transomed windows he could see the black, brown, and flaxen crowns of the scholars over the sills, and to pass the time away he walked down to the level terrace where the abbey gardens once had spread, his heart throbbing in spite of him.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000053_000000.wav|"no Don't come!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000069_000000.wav|"Where?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000020_000001.wav|She, like him, was evidently touched-to her own surprise-by the recalled air; and when she had finished, and he moved his hand towards hers, it met his own half-way.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000070_000004.wav|And a tragic Don Quixote.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000002_000000.wav|AT SHASTON|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000037_000006.wav|In a new place like these schools there is only your own life to support.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000037_000007.wav|Sit down, and I'll tell Ada to bring the tea things across."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000036_000000.wav|"Because we are not alike," he said drily.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000003_000000.wav|"Whoso prefers either Matrimony or other Ordinance before the Good of Man and the plain Exigence of Charity, let him profess Papist, or Protestant, or what he will, he is no better than a Pharisee."--J.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000064_000002.wav|"When do you leave here to catch your train, jude?" she asked.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000018_000001.wav|Play it for me."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000041_000001.wav|You don't read them in the school I suppose?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000074_000001.wav|Good bye-good bye!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000007_000004.wav|With the destruction of the enormous abbey the whole place collapsed in a general ruin: the Martyr's bones met with the fate of the sacred pile that held them, and not a stone is now left to tell where they lie.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000046_000000.wav|She regarded him curiously.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000079_000001.wav|It was too dark for her to see jude without, but he could see her face distinctly, and there was an unmistakable tearfulness about the dark, long lashed eyes.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000028_000000.wav|She played on and suddenly turned round; and by an unpremeditated instinct each clasped the other's hand again.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000007_000003.wav|To this fair creation of the great Middle Age the Dissolution was, as historians tell us, the death knell.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000077_000001.wav|He could see the interior clearly-the floor sinking a couple of steps below the road without, which had become raised during the centuries since the house was built.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000009_000000.wav|It has a unique position on the summit of a steep and imposing scarp, rising on the north, south, and west sides of the borough out of the deep alluvial Vale of Blackmoor, the view from the Castle Green over three counties of verdant pasture-South, Mid, and Nether Wessex-being as sudden a surprise to the unexpectant traveller's eyes as the medicinal air is to his lungs.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000044_000001.wav|"It is quite like the genuine article.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000061_000008.wav|I am sorry my husband is not at home."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000007_000000.wav|(as Drayton sang it), was, and is, in itself the city of a dream. Vague imaginings of its castle, its three mints, its magnificent apsidal abbey, the chief glory of South Wessex, its twelve churches, its shrines, chantries, hospitals, its gabled freestone mansions-all now ruthlessly swept away-throw the visitor, even against his will, into a pensive melancholy, which the stimulating atmosphere and limitless landscape around him can scarcely dispel.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000019_000000.wav|"Oh well-I don't mind."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000080_000001.wav|"Whose photograph was she looking at?" he said.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000070_000003.wav|You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear jude.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000066_000000.wav|"What will you do with yourself for the time?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000017_000001.wav|"I like it.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000031_000001.wav|Perhaps a little in our feelings."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000061_000007.wav|Now you must go.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000017_000003.wav|They used to play it in the training school."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000072_000005.wav|You must come to the house then."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000035_000001.wav|Why did you?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000062_000000.wav|"Are you?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000065_000000.wav|He looked up in some surprise.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000033_000000.wav|"What-you know him?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000001_000000.wav|Part Fourth|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000070_000006.wav|Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000073_000000.wav|"Yes!" said jude.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000080_000002.wav|He had once given her his; but she had others, he knew.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000051_000000.wav|"Yes, perhaps."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000081_000001.wav|But he could not.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000039_000000.wav|"This is one of your wedding presents to me," she said, signifying the latter.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000050_000000.wav|"We won't get on to that now!" she coaxed.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000025_000000.wav|"I didn't quite mean that."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126232/899_126232_000017_000000.wav|"Don't stop," said Sue.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000086_000000.wav|"No-I was awake."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000092_000002.wav|Guess what you like, but don't press me to answer questions!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000006_000000.wav|I acquiesce.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000085_000000.wav|"Did it keep you awake?" he said.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000091_000001.wav|"There is a stronger one left!" he said.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000034_000001.wav|But I have to go back by the six o'clock train.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000064_000001.wav|"You are teasing me-that's all-because you think I am not happy!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000091_000000.wav|jude seized her hand and kissed it.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000045_000000.wav|Her hand lay on the table, and jude put his upon it.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000041_000001.wav|Why?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000048_000000.wav|"Yes; very."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000082_000000.wav|"Yes, dear!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000066_000002.wav|Do you think, jude, that a man ought to marry a woman his own age, or one younger than himself-eighteen years-as I am than he?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000055_000001.wav|How has it come to be?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000055_000000.wav|"That's news.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000022_000000.wav|"Yes. Particularly for members of our family."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000092_000000.wav|"Don't say it!--I know what you mean; but I can't admit so much as that.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000091_000003.wav|Let them go!|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000006_000001.wav|You are right.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000026_000000.wav|Sue was silent.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000042_000003.wav|I was wrong.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000094_000000.wav|"I CAN'T be!|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000094_000009.wav|So I rushed on, when I had got into that training school scrape, with all the cock sureness of the fool that I was! ...|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000031_000004.wav|Sue, I believe you are not happy!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000037_000000.wav|"But stop-you can't go to night!|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000061_000001.wav|"What is it?" said jude, in a softened tone.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000002_000000.wav|However, if God disposed not, woman did.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000015_000001.wav|She had not written, and that seemed to signify rather that she would come than that she would not.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000014_000000.wav|Aunt Drusilla is dead, having been taken almost suddenly. The funeral is on Friday afternoon.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000042_000001.wav|Your part is that you ought not to have married him.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000071_000000.wav|jude could hardly speak, but he said, "I thought there was something wrong, Sue!|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000010_000002.wav|"I can see in his face that she is dead," said jude.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000062_000001.wav|Of course it is not now!|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000076_000001.wav|jude did not follow her.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000063_000000.wav|"A special Providence, I suppose, helped it on its way."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000033_000000.wav|"'Chose freely!'"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000093_000000.wav|"I wish you were happy, whatever I may be!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000010_000000.wav|He threw down his tools and went.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000035_000001.wav|This house is gone now. Shall I go to the train with you?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000030_000000.wav|"But even apart from that?|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000078_000003.wav|As was the little creature's habit, it did not soon repeat its cry; and probably would not do so more than once or twice; but would remain bearing its torture till the morrow when the trapper would come and knock it on the head.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000078_000002.wav|It was the cry of a rabbit caught in a gin.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000029_000000.wav|"Yes, I suppose.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000031_000001.wav|He said, looking away: "It would be just one of those cases in which my experiences go contrary to my dogmas.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000047_000003.wav|Is that good of me?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000072_000006.wav|Don't-don't!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000009_000001.wav|Come at once.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000007_000000.wav|jude.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000095_000001.wav|How I wish-I wish-"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000010_000003.wav|"Poor Aunt Drusilla!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000090_000000.wav|"I knew it-I knew it!|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000041_000000.wav|"No!|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000042_000000.wav|"I can't tell you all my part of the gloom.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000074_000000.wav|"I told you not to, jude!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000013_000002.wav|He wrote in the briefest terms:|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000060_000000.wav|"Of course-just as you live with your husband."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000049_000000.wav|"But I must tell him."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000096_000000.wav|"You must go in now!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000087_000000.wav|"How was that?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000080_000003.wav|The faint click of the trap as dragged about by the writhing animal guided him now, and reaching the spot he struck the rabbit on the back of the neck with the side of his palm, and it stretched itself out dead.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000090_000002.wav|But-I am SO GLAD to see you!--and, oh, I didn't mean to see you again, now the last tie between us, Aunt Drusilla, is dead!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000057_000000.wav|She winced at the hit; then said curiously, "When did you see her?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000058_000000.wav|"When I was at Christminster."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000017_000001.wav|And so-at the last moment-I came."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000036_000002.wav|You may come part of the way."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000031_000000.wav|jude threw a troubled look at her.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000083_000002.wav|They ought not to be allowed to set these steel traps, ought they!"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000051_000000.wav|"Richard."|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000081_000001.wav|"It is you-is it not?"|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000059_000000.wav|"So she's come back; and you never told me!|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000080_000002.wav|He reached the hedge bordering the widow's garden, when he stood still.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000077_000000.wav|In the lonely room of his aunt's house, jude sat watching the cottage of the Widow Edlin as it disappeared behind the night shade. He knew that Sue was sitting within its walls equally lonely and disheartened; and again questioned his devotional motto that all was for the best.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000038_000000.wav|"Very well," she said dubiously.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000092_000001.wav|There!|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000036_000001.wav|"I think not.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/899/126233/899_126233_000037_000002.wav|You must stay and go back to morrow.|899
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000101_000000.wav|"Where am I?" said Billy, as the smoke rose from before his eye.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000083_000000.wav|"Where are you going, Bob?"|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000099_000000.wav|"Well, clear the way! the Soap stick's coming, and she'll be along in there among 'em presently."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000106_000003.wav|Take care and don't touch the trigger until you've got your bead; for she's spring trigger'd and goes mighty easy: but you hold her to the place you want her, and if she don't go there, dang old Roper."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000138_000000.wav|"Tell her," said I, "that I send her a quarter of beef which I won, as I did the handkerchief, by nothing in the world but mere good luck."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000052_000000.wav|I therefore protested against his putting in for me, and urged every reason to dissuade him from it that I could, without wounding his feelings.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000135_000001.wav|"What's that!|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000105_000003.wav|The distinction is perfectly natural and equitable.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000068_000001.wav|Their report, however, was true; so much keener is the vision of a practiced than an unpracticed eye.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000074_000001.wav|"Buck killer made a clear racket. Where am I, gentlemen?"|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000045_000001.wav|A general inquiry ran around, in order to form some opinion as to the number of shots that would be taken; for, of course, the price of a shot is cheapened in proportion to the increase of that number.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000045_000000.wav|The beef was not present, nor is it ever upon such occasions; but several of the company had seen it, who all concurred in the opinion that it was a good beef, and well worth the price that was set upon it-eleven dollars.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000105_000000.wav|The third and fourth rounds were shot.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000133_000001.wav|"Second best, only?|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000092_000000.wav|Three or four followed him without bettering his shot; all of whom, however, with one exception, "eat the paper."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000045_000002.wav|It was soon ascertained that not more than twenty persons would take chances; but these twenty agreed to take the number of shots, at twenty five cents each.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000068_000000.wav|I looked with all the power of my eyes, but was unable to discover the least change in the surface of the paper.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000009_000001.wav|It seems to me I ought to know you."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000053_000000.wav|"Put it down!" said Billy, with the authority of an emperor, and with a look that spoke volumes intelligible to every by stander.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000121_000000.wav|"The stranger's got the peedoddles," said a fourth, with humorous gravity.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000093_000002.wav|He took his place, lowered his rifle slowly from a perpendicular until it came on a line with the mark, held it there like a vice for a moment and fired.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000017_000000.wav|"To be sure I will, my old coon; take it, take it, and welcome.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000015_000001.wav|"I find you're not the fool I took you to be; so here's to a better acquaintance with you."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000117_000002.wav|I had just strength enough to master Soap stick's obstinate proclivity, and, consequently, my nerves began to exhibit palpable signs of distress with her first imperceptible movement upward.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000049_000000.wav|"Five," was the reply.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000107_000000.wav|I took hold of Soap stick, and lapsed immediately into the most hopeless despair.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000021_000000.wav|"Well," said I, "if the shooting match is not too far out of my way, I'll go to it with pleasure."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000136_000003.wav|But I could not accept his hospitality without retracing five or six miles of the road which I had already passed, and therefore I declined it.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000141_000000.wav|"Yes," said Billy, "dang old Roper if we don't go our death for you, no matter who offers.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000022_000001.wav|I reckon you hardly ever was at a shooting match, stranger, from the cut of your coat?"|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000019_000000.wav|"Oh, yes there is, stranger!|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000116_000000.wav|"It may be fun," said the other, "but it looks mightily like yearnest to a man up a tree."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000060_000001.wav|Mealy stepped out, rifle in hand, and toed the mark.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000096_000001.wav|Had I judged Billy's chance of success from the looks of his gun, I should have said it was hopeless.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000036_000000.wav|"Well, mr Swinge cat," said the 'squire, "here's to a better acquaintance with you," offering me his hand.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000041_000000.wav|"Well, that's not my fault."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000103_000001.wav|Take her, and show the boys how you used to do when you was a baby."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000032_000000.wav|"Now I know you're the very chap, for I heard daddy tell that very thing about the half bullet.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000093_000001.wav|There was nothing remarkable in his person or manner.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000093_000000.wav|It now came to Spivey's turn.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000123_000000.wav|As soon as I found that Soap stick was high enough (for I made no farther use of the sights than to ascertain this fact), I pulled trigger, and off she went.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000034_000003.wav|It is the custom in this state, when a man has once acquired a title, civil or military, to force it upon him as long as he lives; hence the countless number of titled personages who are introduced in these sketches.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000002_000001.wav|They are still common throughout the Southern States, though they are not as common as they were twenty five or thirty years ago. Chance led me to one about a year ago.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000001_000001.wav|LONGSTREET|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000037_000000.wav|"How goes it, Uncle Archy?" said I, taking his hand warmly (for I am always free and easy with those who are so with me; and in this course I rarely fail to please).|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000110_000000.wav|"Go 'long, you old coon!" said Billy; "I see what you're at;" intimating that all this was merely to make the coming shot the more remarkable. "Daddy's little boy don't shoot anything but the old Soap stick here to day, I know."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000072_000001.wav|Here goes!"|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000091_000000.wav|"No great harm done yet," said Spivey, manifestly relieved from anxiety by an event which seemed to me better calculated to produce despair. Firmby's ball had cut out the lower angle of the diamond, directly on a right line with the cross.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000017_000001.wav|Anything else about me you'd like to have?"|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000106_000001.wav|Billy wiped out his rifle carefully, loaded her to the top of his skill, and handed her to me.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000107_000002.wav|"Why, Billy," said I, "you little mortal, you! what do you use such a gun as this for?"|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000105_000001.wav|Billy discharged his last shot, which left the rights of parties thus: Billy Curlew first and fourth choice, Spivey second, Firmby third and Whitecotton fifth.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000066_000000.wav|I was rejoiced when one of the company inquired, "Where is it?" for I could hardly believe they were founding these remarks upon the evidence of their senses.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000034_000000.wav|We soon reached the place appointed for the shooting match.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000005_000000.wav|"Going driving?" inquired i|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000035_000004.wav|Don't say nothing about it."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000030_000001.wav|I was too young to recollect you myself; but I've heard daddy talk about you many a time.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000118_000000.wav|"I swear poin' blank," said one, "that man can't shoot."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000061_000001.wav|"The way I'll creep into that bull's eye's a fact."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000024_000002.wav|He was born a shooting, and killed squirrels before he was weaned."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000127_000003.wav|Another sort for getting bets upon, to the drop sight, with a single wabble!|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000080_000000.wav|Simon Stow was now called on.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000136_000000.wav|Several received this palaver with a contemptuous but very appropriate curl of the nose; and Mealy Whitecotton offered to bet a half pint "that I couldn't do the like again with no sort o' wabbles, he didn't care what." But I had already fortified myself on this quarter of my morality.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000089_000000.wav|The next was Moses Firmby.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000063_000000.wav|"A pretty good shot, Mealy!" said one.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000023_000000.wav|"Oh, yes," returned I, "many a time.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000096_000003.wav|An auger hole in the breech served for a grease box; a cotton string assisted a single screw in holding on the lock; and the thimbles were made, one of brass, one of iron, and one of tin.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000130_000002.wav|Consequently, they were all transfixed with astonishment when the judges presented the target to them, and gravely observed, "It's only second best, after all the fuss."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000127_000004.wav|And the Soap stick's the very yarn for it."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000004_000000.wav|"How goes it, stranger?" said he, with a tone of independence and self confidence that awakened my curiosity to know a little of his character.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000028_000000.wav|"Why, stop, stranger, let me look at you good!|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000098_000000.wav|"About three quarters of an inch from the cross," was the reply.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000015_000000.wav|"Pretty digging!" said he.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000048_000000.wav|"How many shots left?" inquired Billy.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000081_000000.wav|"Oh, Lord!" exclaimed two or three: "now we have it.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000133_000000.wav|"Second best!" reiterated I, with an air of despondency, as the company turned from the target to me.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000106_000002.wav|"Now," said he, "Lyman, draw a fine bead, but not too fine; for Soap stick bears up her ball well.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000133_000002.wav|Here, Billy, my son, take the old Soap stick; she's a good piece, but I'm getting too old and dim sighted to shoot a rifle, especially with the drop sight and double wabbles."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000129_000000.wav|"Well," returned I, "you've seen it now, and I'm the boy that can do it."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000016_000000.wav|"With all my heart," returned I; "but you must be as clever as I've been, and give me your name."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000030_000003.wav|Come along, Lyman, and I'll go my death upon you at the shooting match, with the old Soap stick at your shoulder."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000076_000000.wav|"I said I'd eat paper, and I've done it; haven't I, gentlemen?"|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000050_000001.wav|Put down four shots to me, and one to Lyman Hall, paid for by William Curlew."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000123_000003.wav|Bet 'em two to one that I've knocked out the cross."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000051_000000.wav|I was thunder struck, not at his proposition to pay for my shot, because I knew that Billy meant it as a token of friendship, and he would have been hurt if I had refused to let him do me this favor; but at the unexpected announcement of my name as a competitor for beef, at least one hundred miles from the place of my residence.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000119_000000.wav|"He used to shoot well," said another; "but can't now, nor never could."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000034_000002.wav|Archibald had been a justice of the peace in his day (and where is the man of his age in Georgia who has not?); consequently, he was called 'Squire Sims.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000104_000001.wav|This round was a manifest improvement upon the first.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000061_000000.wav|"Kiss my foot!" said Mealy.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000053_000001.wav|"Reckon I don't know what I'm about?" Then wheeling off, and muttering in an under, self confident tone, "Dang old Roper," continued he, "if he don't knock that cross to the north corner of creation and back again before a cat can lick her foot."|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000090_000000.wav|Moses kept us not long in suspense.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000054_000006.wav|These were, that they should be fired off hand, while the shot guns were allowed a rest, the distance being equal; or that the distance should be one hundred yards for a rifle, to sixty for the shot gun, the mode of firing being equal.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5883/59268/5883_59268_000074_000000.wav|"I've eat paper," said he, at the crack of the gun, without looking, or seeming to look, toward the target.|5883
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000024.wav|When he designed to do us good, he took upon himself the form of a servant.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000016.wav|Members 'in good and regular standing,' fellowshipped throughout Christendom except by a few anti slavery churches generally despised as ultra and radical, reduce their fellow men to the condition of chattels, and by force keep them in that state of degradation.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000007.wav|He was a most loving father, and his daughter exercised considerable influence over him, and owing to her piety and judgment, that influence had a beneficial effect. Carlton, though a schoolfellow of the parson's, was nevertheless nearly ten years his junior; and though not an avowed infidel, was, however, a freethinker, and one who took no note of to morrow.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000007.wav|Slaveholding is the highest possible violation of the eighth commandment.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000009_000003.wav|Modest and self possessed, with a voice of great sweetness, and a most winning manner, she could, with the greatest ease to herself, engage their attention.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000009.wav|Nothing would be more dangerous to the soul of a young convert than to satisfy him that the Scriptures favoured such a system of sin." "Don't you suppose that I understand the Scriptures better than you?|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000009_000000.wav|The young Christian had indeed accomplished a noble work; and whether it was admitted by the father, or not, she was his superior and his teacher.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000004.wav|He too either had, or thought he had, poetical genius; and was often sending contributions to the Natchez Free Trader, and other periodicals.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000002.wav|To begin with, he was a man of some talent.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000003.wav|"I can't tell, my dear, till I know what it is," replied mr Peck.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000015.wav|He surveys the church, and, lo! thousands and tens of thousands of her accredited members actually hold slaves.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000000.wav|Georgiana had succeeded in riveting the attention of Carlton during her conversation, and as she was finishing her last sentence, she observed the silent tear stealing down the cheek of the newly born child of God.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000016.wav|Shall we not then do as the apostles did?|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000013.wav|Have we less precious promises in the Scriptures of truth?|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000005.wav|"I hope, my dear," answered she, "that papa would not think me capable of making an unreasonable request." "Well, well," returned he; "tell me what it is."|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000022.wav|When nothing can be further from the truth.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000007_000000.wav|"Believe me, dear papa," she replied, "I would not be understood as wishing to teach you, or to dictate to you in the least; but only grant my request, not to allude to the Bible as sanctioning slavery, when speaking with mr Carlton."|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000006.wav|"I hope," said she, "that in your future conversation with mr Carlton, on the subject of slavery, you will not speak of the Bible as sustaining it." "Why, Georgiana, my dear, you are mad, ain't you?" exclaimed he, in an excited tone.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000009.wav|The young Christian felt that she would not be living up to that faith that she professed and believed in, if she did not exert herself to the utmost to save the thoughtless man from his downward career; and in this she succeeded to her most sanguine expectations.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000028.wav|Let us not forget what followed.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000001.wav|mr Peck was a kind of a patriarch in his own way.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000010.wav|She not only converted him, but in placing the Scriptures before him in their true light, she redeemed those sacred writings from the charge of supporting the system of slavery, which her father had cast upon them in the discussion some days before.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000011.wav|What was the effect upon their minds?|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000014.wav|The infidel watches the religious world.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000031.wav|Then, should our labour fail to accomplish the end for which we pray, we shall stand acquitted at the bar of Jehovah, and although we may share in the national calamities which await unrepented sins, yet that blessed approval will be ours-'Well done, good and faithful servants, enter ye into the joy of your Lord.'"|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000009.wav|For my own part, I shall do all I can.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000018.wav|Moreover, those ministers and churches who do not themselves hold slaves, very generally defend the conduct of those who do, and accord to them a fair Christian character, and in the way of business frequently take mortgages and levy executions on the bodies of their fellow men, and in some cases of their fellow Christians.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000002_000001.wav|Theodore Clapp, of New Orleans.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000009_000001.wav|Georgiana had viewed the right to enjoy perfect liberty as one of those inherent and inalienable rights which pertain to the whole human race, and of which they can never be divested, except by an act of gross injustice.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000013.wav|I am afraid," continued the daughter, "that the acts of the professed friends of Christianity in the South do more to spread infidelity than the writings of all the atheists which have ever been published.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000005.wav|The Christian religion is opposed to slaveholding in its spirit and its principles; it classes menstealers among murderers; and it is the duty of all who wish to meet God in peace, to discharge that duty in spreading these principles.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000004_000019.wav|Shall not the manifold crimes and horrors of slavery excite more ardent outpourings at the throne of grace to grant repentance to our guilty country, and permit us to aid in preparing the way for the glorious second advent of the Messiah, by preaching deliverance to the captives, and the opening of the prison doors to those who are bound?"|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000020.wav|And must not this conclusion be strengthened, when they hear ministers of talent and learning declare that the Bible does sanction slaveholding, and that it ought not to be made a disciplinable offence in churches?|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000001.wav|At this juncture her father entered, and Carlton left the room.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000008.wav|If the Bible sanctions slavery, then it misrepresents the character of God.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000011.wav|I once heard you say, that you were opposed to the institution, when you first came to the South." "Yes," answered he, "I did not know so much about it then." "With great deference to you, papa," replied Georgiana, "I don't think that the Bible sanctions slavery.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000003_000005.wav|In the way of raising contributions for foreign missions, he took the lead of all others in his neighbourhood. Everything he did, he did for the "glory of God," as he said: he quoted Scripture for almost everything he did.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000005_000002.wav|"Dear papa," said Georgiana, "will you grant me one favour; or, rather, make me a promise?"|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/4145/5386_4145_000008_000000.wav|"Well," returned he, "I will comply with your wish."|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000030_000004.wav|When all was done to his liking he hastened quickly back to his master.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000045_000000.wav|'Whose cattle are these, and why are they here?' he asked; and his son told him the story.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000062_000003.wav|When they had heard everything, they hid him where no one could find him.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000005_000000.wav|'That you shall have,' replied the man; 'but to morrow I shall give you some work to do, for you must know that I am the chief herdsman of the king.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000042_000001.wav|You must look after forty oxen, and be sure you are very careful, for one of them has gold tipped horns and hoofs, and the king reckons it among his greatest treasures.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000016_000000.wav|'What are you talking about?' cried the father, pale with horror.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000023_000001.wav|To day you must take a hundred sheep to graze; but be careful that no harm befalls them.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000069_000000.wav|'I want to speak to your master,' said he.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000017_000002.wav|The pigs were killed, and laid side by side in a row.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000038_000000.wav|'Well, come with me,' said the youth.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000048_000000.wav|For a long while the old man refused to have anything to do with such a wicked scheme; but his son talked him over in the end, and they killed the oxen as they had killed the sheep and the pigs.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000007_000000.wav|The herdsman's two daughters and their mother were sitting at supper, and invited him to join them.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000007_000001.wav|Nothing more was said about work, and when the meal was over they all went to bed.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000017_000000.wav|'No, no; do as I tell you, and I will get out of it somehow,' replied the young man.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000060_000001.wav|Just make me ten scythes, one for every man, for I want the grass mown in one of my meadows to morrow.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000063_000000.wav|Time passed away, and the young man stayed at home doing all his parents bade him, and showing himself very different from what he had been before he went out to see the world; but one day he said to his father that he should like to marry, and have a house of his own.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000061_000000.wav|At these words the youth's heart sank, for he had never been trained either as a smith or a joiner.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000038_000002.wav|The young man brought the herdsman to the foot of the great rock, but it was so dark you could hardly see.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000066_000000.wav|'Well, I will do my best,' replied his son; 'but first give me the sword which hangs over your bed!'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000052_000000.wav|'It is always the same story!|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000012_000000.wav|'Oh, I am used to that,' answered the youth.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000059_000002.wav|But come, let us go home!|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000028_000000.wav|'No, no,' answered the youth; 'I am not so stupid as that!|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000009_000000.wav|'Now listen, and I will tell you what you have to do.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000024_000001.wav|And he opened the gate of the fold, where the sheep had been all night, and drove them out into the meadow.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000034_000001.wav|They-they-they were so-so troublesome-that I could not manage them at all.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000023_000000.wav|Next morning the herdsman said to the young man: 'I have got some other work for you to do.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000071_000000.wav|'I have come for something else besides a bed,' replied the young man, drawing his sword, 'and if you do not promise to give me your youngest daughter as my wife I will stab you through the heart.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000034_000004.wav|But-but-it was the sheep, which, be-before my very eyes, were carried straight up-up into the air.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000008_000000.wav|In the morning, when the young man was dressed, the herdsman called to him and said:|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000051_000001.wav|At last he answered:|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000062_000000.wav|Slowly and sadly he went to bed, but he could not sleep, for wondering how the scythes were to be made.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000049_000000.wav|The son had a rope ready to cast round its horns, and throw it to the ground, but the ox was stronger than the rope, and soon tore it in pieces.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000016_000001.wav|'We should certainly both be put to death if I did any such thing.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000019_000003.wav|At last, however, I collected them all and was about to drive them back, when suddenly they rushed down the hill into the swamp, where they vanished completely, leaving only the points of their tails, which you can see for yourself.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000073_000001.wav|And when the wedding was over he told his father in law, the herdsman, what he had done with the sheep, and pigs, and cattle.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000056_000001.wav|Come and see for yourself.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000037_000000.wav|'Then give me a proof of it,' cried his master.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000034_000000.wav|The youth began to sob, and stammered out: 'I-I hardly know how to tell you!|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000049_000001.wav|Then it dashed away to the wood, the youth following; over hedges and ditches they both went, till they reached the rocky pass which bordered the herdsman's land.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000034_000002.wav|They-ran about in-in all directions, and I-I-ran after them and nearly died of fatigue.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000024_000000.wav|'I will do my best,' replied the youth.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000033_000000.wav|'Tell me at once what has happened,' said the herdsman sternly.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000042_000000.wav|'I should not be surprised if the tasks I set you were too difficult, and that you were tired of them,' said the herdsman next morning; 'but to day I have something quite easy for you to do.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000070_000000.wav|'So it is you?' cried the herdsman, when he had received the message. 'Well, you can sleep here to night if you wish.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000022_000002.wav|Now let us return home, for it is time for supper.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000043_000000.wav|The young man drove out the oxen into the meadow, and no sooner had they got there than, like the sheep and the pigs, they began to scamper in all directions, the precious bull being the wildest of all.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000052_000001.wav|The oxen are-gone-gone!'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000015_000000.wav|'They belong to the king's chief herdsman,' answered his son.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000030_000003.wav|As there was a soft breeze blowing, the bushes to which the head was tied moved gently, and the bells rang.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000058_000000.wav|'What do you call that?' asked the youth.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000049_000002.wav|Here the ox, thinking itself safe, stopped to rest, and thus gave the young man a chance to come up with it.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000064_000000.wav|'When I served the king's chief herdsman,' added he, 'I saw his daughter, and I am resolved to try if I cannot win her for my wife.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000029_000000.wav|'You will lose your life if you do,' replied the father.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000032_000000.wav|'Oh! don't speak of them,' answered he.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000003_000001.wav|At length he came to a large house, at the door of which he knocked.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000010_000000.wav|'What is it?' asked the youth, sulkily.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000015_000001.wav|'He gave them to me to look after, but I knew I could not do it, so I drove them straight to you.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000043_000001.wav|As the youth stood watching them, not knowing what to do next, it came into his head that his father's cow was put out to grass at no great distance; and he forthwith made such a noise that he quite frightened the oxen, who were easily persuaded to take the path he wished.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000019_000000.wav|'Oh, don't speak of them!' answered the young man; 'I really can hardly tell you.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000040_000000.wav|'Yes, I hear; you have spoken the truth, and I cannot blame you for what has happened.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000035_000000.wav|'That is nothing but a lie from beginning to end,' said the herdsman.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000059_000000.wav|'Wonder upon wonder,' he exclaimed, 'so you really did speak the truth after all!|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000040_000001.wav|I must bear the loss as best as I can.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000004_000000.wav|'What do you want?' asked the old man who opened it.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000073_000000.wav|Then the young man went home to his parents, and bade them get ready to welcome his bride.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000011_000000.wav|'Nothing less than to look after two hundred pigs,' was the reply.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000058_000001.wav|And the herdsman looked and saw the traces of a fire, which seemed to have sprung up from under the earth.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000028_000001.wav|We will kill them and have them for dinner.'|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000039_000000.wav|'Do you hear?' asked the youth.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5386/8684/5386_8684_000026_000001.wav|But when the tale was ended the father shook his head.|5386
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/121734/122_121734_000038_000001.wav|Mill yarns are highly colored; those spun at sea much more so.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/121734/122_121734_000009_000002.wav|Good for countrymen.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/121730/122_121730_000059_000001.wav|For example, Progress and Congress.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/121730/122_121730_000000_000001.wav|At sea, the king of the elements; on shore, a mere surf.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/121730/122_121730_000053_000000.wav|A never present help in time of trouble.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000008_000001.wav|When light beat in a little at a time, a half cupful milk and a teaspoonful vanilla.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000011_000003.wav|Bake about twenty minutes, take from pan and cool.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000015_000002.wav|Beat hard and bake in a loaf in a moderate oven about half an hour.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000043_000003.wav|Fry in deep hot fat.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000032_000003.wav|Bake slowly.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000041_000004.wav|Serve hot. If any are left over, split, toast and butter them.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000001_000003.wav|While baking prepare the filling.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000034_000003.wav|Place them on a floured baking sheet and cook in a quick oven.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000036_000003.wav|Do not slice this cake, but cut through the crust with a sharp knife and break apart.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000002_000001.wav|Bake in one loaf.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000024_000002.wav|Bake, when cool, together with jelly, having the dark layer in the center.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/129752/122_129752_000046_000002.wav|Take a part at a time, roll half an inch thick, cut in rings and fry.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000000_000000.wav|Hell is paved with good intentions-also asbestos.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000016_000001.wav|"Hello, Central!|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000011_000001.wav|In the United States, only Twain.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000028_000002.wav|A swift kick for the people.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000038_000000.wav|Time and tide wait for no man-But time always stands still for a woman of thirty.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000014_000001.wav|Both halves are eminently successful.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/122/121729/122_121729_000045_000000.wav|Breaking the hair brush on the disobedient scion, then making him pay for a new one.|122
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000037.wav|And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point!|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000005.wav|Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ stop or something of the sort; for what is a man without desires, without free will and without choice, if not a stop in an organ?|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000010.wav|Of course, this very stupid thing, this caprice of ours, may be in reality, gentlemen, more advantageous for us than anything else on earth, especially in certain cases.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000035.wav|It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself-as though that were so necessary-that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000026.wav|May be it's monotonous too: it's fighting and fighting; they are fighting now, they fought first and they fought last-you will admit, that it is almost too monotonous.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000029.wav|The very word sticks in one's throat.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000019.wav|What will you see?|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000032.wav|Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities?|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000038.wav|He will launch a curse upon the world, and as only man can curse (it is his privilege, the primary distinction between him and other animals), may be by his curse alone he will attain his object-that is, convince himself that he is a man and not a piano key!|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000039.wav|If you say that all this, too, can be calculated and tabulated-chaos and darkness and curses, so that the mere possibility of calculating it all beforehand would stop it all, and reason would reassert itself, then man would purposely go mad in order to be rid of reason and gain his point!|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000006_000001.wav|Twice two makes four without my will.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000000_000000.wav|eight|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000031.wav|And yet we all know that those very people sooner or later have been false to themselves, playing some queer trick, often a most unseemly one.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000014.wav|But very often, and even most often, choice is utterly and stubbornly opposed to reason ... and ... and ... do you know that that, too, is profitable, sometimes even praiseworthy?|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000025.wav|Is it monotonous?|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000022.wav|With good reason mr Anaevsky testifies of it that some say that it is the work of man's hands, while others maintain that it has been created by nature herself.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000011.wav|And in particular it may be more advantageous than any advantage even when it does us obvious harm, and contradicts the soundest conclusions of our reason concerning our advantage-for in any circumstances it preserves for us what is most precious and most important-that is, our personality, our individuality.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000017.wav|But that is not all, that is not his worst defect; his worst defect is his perpetual moral obliquity, perpetual-from the days of the Flood to the Schleswig Holstein period. Moral obliquity and consequently lack of good sense; for it has long been accepted that lack of good sense is due to no other cause than moral obliquity.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000006.wav|Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning (some things, perhaps, it will never learn; this is a poor comfort, but why not say so frankly?) and human nature acts as a whole, with everything that is in it, consciously or unconsciously, and, even if it goes wrong, it lives.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000030.wav|And, indeed, this is the odd thing that is continually happening: there are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to be, so to speak, a light to their neighbours simply in order to show them that it is possible to live morally and rationally in this world.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000018.wav|Put it to the test and cast your eyes upon the history of mankind.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000020.wav|Is it a grand spectacle? Grand, if you like.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000003_000002.wav|We sometimes choose absolute nonsense because in our foolishness we see in that nonsense the easiest means for attaining a supposed advantage.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000024.wav|May be it is many coloured, too: if one takes the dress uniforms, military and civilian, of all peoples in all ages-that alone is worth something, and if you take the undress uniforms you will never get to the end of it; no historian would be equal to the job.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000003.wav|Indeed, if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices-that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in one case and in another and so on, that is a real mathematical formula-then, most likely, man will at once cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000004.wav|For who would want to choose by rule?|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000006_000002.wav|As if free will meant that!|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000003_000007.wav|In short, if this could be arranged there would be nothing left for us to do; anyway, we should have to understand that.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000012.wav|Some, you see, maintain that this really is the most precious thing for mankind; choice can, of course, if it chooses, be in agreement with reason; and especially if this be not abused but kept within bounds.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000001_000002.wav|But you know there is no such thing as choice in reality, say what you like," you will interpose with a chuckle.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000001_000000.wav|"Ha! ha!|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000036.wav|And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000041.wav|It may be at the cost of his skin, it may be by cannibalism!|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000002.wav|And here you have begun upon it.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000003_000006.wav|Then I should be able to calculate my whole life for thirty years beforehand.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000016.wav|In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000003_000004.wav|And as all choice and reasoning can be really calculated-because there will some day be discovered the laws of our so-called free will-so, joking apart, there may one day be something like a table constructed of them, so that we really shall choose in accordance with it.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000021.wav|Take the Colossus of Rhodes, for instance, that's worth something.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000006.wav|What do you think?|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000003.wav|And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000028.wav|The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000004.wav|Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000006_000000.wav|Good heavens, gentlemen, what sort of free will is left when we come to tabulation and arithmetic, when it will all be a case of twice two make four?|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000040.wav|I believe in it, I answer for it, for the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key!|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000013.wav|It is profitable and sometimes even praiseworthy.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000015.wav|Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000007.wav|Let us reckon the chances-can such a thing happen or not?|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000008.wav|I thoroughly agree, it can-by mathematics.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000000.wav|Stay, gentlemen, I meant to begin with that myself I confess, I was rather frightened.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000002_000001.wav|I was just going to say that the devil only knows what choice depends on, and that perhaps that was a very good thing, but I remembered the teaching of science ... and pulled myself up.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000034.wav|He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000027.wav|In short, one may say anything about the history of the world-anything that might enter the most disordered imagination.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/123715/806_123715_000004_000001.wav|Gentlemen, you must excuse me for being over philosophical; it's the result of forty years underground! Allow me to indulge my fancy.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000034_000000.wav|'I have never liked to speak of it to anybody in the office,' said Mr Waller, 'but I, too, am heart and soul in the movement.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000038_000004.wav|Now, as you are interested in the movement, I was thinking that perhaps you might care to come and hear me speak next Sunday.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000024_000004.wav|After all, there are worse things at the Zoo.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000002_000000.wav|He enjoyed being in the Cash Department.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000011_000001.wav|'There seems to be too much talking.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000003.wav|The moment I concentrate myself on Comrade Bickersdyke for a brief spell, and seem to be doing him a bit of good, what happens?|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000027_000000.wav|'And when you were speaking to Jackson, you spoke of yourself as a Socialist.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000015_000000.wav|Mike was becoming accustomed to deputizing for the cashier for short spaces of time.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000003.wav|It was this tolerance which sometimes got him into trouble with Mr Bickersdyke.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000013.wav|From ledger to ledger they hurry me, to stifle my regret.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000012_000001.wav|'Well, well, I will go back and do my best to face it, but it's a tough job.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000038_000000.wav|'no|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000040_000001.wav|Bring Jackson with you, and both of you come to supper afterwards, if you will.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000002_000001.wav|He liked Mr Waller.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000030_000000.wav|'I am delighted,' he said.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000013_000000.wav|He tottered wearily away in the direction of the Postage Department.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000002_000004.wav|Mike at his ease and unsuspicious of hostile intentions was a different person from Mike with his prickles out.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000006.wav|There was nobody to tell it to except the new man.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000036_000002.wav|Exactly.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000029_000000.wav|Mr Waller's face grew animated.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000038_000002.wav|Clapham Common.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000006_000001.wav|Bristow was always friendliness itself.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000005_000004.wav|The fact that he wore detachable cuffs, which he took off on beginning work and stacked in a glistening pile on the desk in front of him, was no proof of innate viciousness of disposition, but it prejudiced the Old Etonian against him.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000040_000000.wav|'Excellent.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000016.wav|I am a broken man.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000037_000000.wav|'Hyde Park?'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000015_000003.wav|People came in fairly frequently to cash cheques of two or three pounds, but it was rare that any very large dealings took place.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000008.wav|The London branch of the bank was really only a nursery.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000002_000003.wav|The cashier seemed to have taken a fancy to Mike; and Mike, as was usually the way with him when people went out of their way to be friendly, was at his best.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000000_000001.wav|Mr Waller Appears in a New Light|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000005_000002.wav|His others-which he could-were numerous.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000023_000000.wav|'Oh-er-Smith,' said Mr Waller, 'when you were talking to Jackson just now-'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000048_000000.wav|'Excellent,' said Mr Waller.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000005.wav|I saw the thing unexpectedly.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000007.wav|It is the suddenness of that waistcoat which hits you.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000005_000003.wav|His clothes were cut in a way that harrowed Psmith's sensitive soul every time he looked at them.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000043_000004.wav|But it would be a treat to listen to you.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000033_000001.wav|Mr Waller shook it with enthusiasm.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000012.wav|I try work, but that is no good either.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000024_000002.wav|Why should I dislocate the work of your department in my efforts to win a sympathetic word?|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000045_000000.wav|'Yes, yes.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000018.wav|One of Nature's blighters.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000004.wav|The manager did not often perambulate the office, but he did occasionally, and the interview which ensued upon his finding Hutchinson, the underling in the Cash Department at that time, with his stool tilted comfortably against the wall, reading the sporting news from a pink paper to a friend from the Outward Bills Department who lay luxuriously on the floor beside him, did not rank among Mr Waller's pleasantest memories.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000014.wav|And when they win a smile from me, they think that I forget.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000006.wav|The truth of the matter was that the New Asiatic Bank was over staffed.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000008.wav|I tell you, Comrade Jackson, I feel like some lion that has been robbed of its cub.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000015_000002.wav|Strictly speaking, perhaps, Mr Waller was wrong to leave such an important task as the actual cashing of cheques to an inexperienced person of Mike's standing; but the New Asiatic Bank differed from most banks in that there was not a great deal of cross counter work.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000020.wav|Comrade Rossiter awaits me.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000001_000001.wav|The important task of shooting doubloons across the counter did not belong to Mike himself, but to Mr Waller.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000029_000001.wav|He stammered in his eagerness.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000047_000001.wav|'I shall look forward to Sunday with every fibre quivering.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000006.wav|I tell you I was shaken.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000024_000001.wav|'It shall not occur again.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000041_000000.wav|'Thanks very much.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000025_000001.wav|By all means pay us a visit now and then, if it does not interfere with your own work.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000001.wav|'I miss you at every turn.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000009.wav|New men were constantly wanted in the Eastern branches, so they had to be put into the London branch to learn the business, whether there was any work for them to do or not.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000024_000003.wav|I will bear Comrade Bristow like a man here.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000010_000000.wav|Mr Waller intervened at this point.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000007.wav|There were too many men for the work.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000011_000000.wav|'I think you must really let Jackson go on with his work, Smith,' he said.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000002_000002.wav|The work was easy; and when he did happen to make mistakes, they were corrected patiently by the grey bearded one, and not used as levers for boosting him into the presence of Mr Bickersdyke, as they might have been in some departments.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000000_000000.wav|fourteen.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000006_000000.wav|Mike would sometimes stroll round to the Postage Department to listen to the conversations between the two.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000015_000001.wav|It generally happened that he had to do so once or twice a day.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000022_000002.wav|And yet I do not give way.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000042_000000.wav|'Perhaps you would speak yourself?'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000011.wav|We still talk brokenly about Manchester United-they got routed in the first round of the Cup yesterday and Comrade Rossiter is wearing black-but it is not the same.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000014_000002.wav|I shall be back very soon.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000038_000001.wav|no|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000036_000001.wav|Just so.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000036_000000.wav|'Just so.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000047_000002.wav|And Comrade Jackson shall be at my side.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000005_000005.wav|It was part of Psmith's philosophy that a man who wore detachable cuffs had passed beyond the limit of human toleration.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000044_000001.wav|Well, I am perhaps a little bitter-'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000004.wav|In the cart.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000030_000002.wav|I also-'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000008_000000.wav|It was after one of these visits of Psmith's that Mr Waller displayed a new and unsuspected side to his character.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000008.wav|It's discouraging, this sort of thing.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000046_000000.wav|'A little mordant and ironical.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000009.wav|I try always to think well of my fellow man.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000043_000003.wav|I seldom speak.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000001_000002.wav|Mike's work was less ostentatious, and was performed with pen, ink, and ledgers in the background. Occasionally, when Mr Waller was out at lunch, Mike had to act as substitute for him, and cash cheques; but Mr Waller always went out at a slack time, when few customers came in, and Mike seldom had any very startling sum to hand over.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000016_000000.wav|Having completed his business with the Inward Bills, Mr Waller made his way back by a circuitous route, taking in the Postage desk.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000007_000005.wav|But Mr Waller was too soft hearted to interfere with his assistants unless it was absolutely necessary.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000009_000004.wav|Why, Comrade Bristow sneaks off and buys a sort of woollen sunset.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000038_000005.wav|Of course, if you have nothing better to do.'|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000004_000015.wav|But I don't.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000001_000000.wav|The department into which Mike was sent was the Cash, or, to be more exact, that section of it which was known as Paying Cashier.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000005_000001.wav|His worst defect-which he could not help-was that he was not Mike.|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/806/124221/806_124221_000014_000000.wav|'Oh, Jackson,' said Mr Waller, 'will you kindly take my place for a few minutes?|806
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000004_000000.wav|The serious nature of what I was undertaking filled me at first with terror.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000017_000004.wav|A passionate love may not be necessary in marriage, but, at least, you will admit that there should be no repugnance.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000027_000000.wav|My one joy, and it is supreme, springs from the certainty of having brought new life to my husband before I have borne him any children. Louis has regained his youth, strength, and spirits.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000031_000001.wav|I insist too on his studying a great deal. Before long I hope to see him a member of the Council General of the Department, through the influence of my family and his mother's.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000034_000000.wav|So much for my pupil, dear!|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000002_000000.wav|My dear Louise,--I was bound to wait some time before writing to you; but now I know, or rather I have learned, many things which, for the sake of your future happiness, I must tell you.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000024_000002.wav|In spite of my coldness, Louis grew bolder, and his nature expanded.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000013_000001.wav|The favor I am about to ask from you will demand unselfishness on your part, far nobler than the servitude to which a man's love, when sincere, is supposed to reduce him.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000004_000001.wav|Marriage is a matter concerning the whole of life, whilst love aims only at pleasure.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000017_000003.wav|If during the time that I remained indifferent to you (yielding only a passive obedience, such as my mother has just been urging on me) a child were born to us, do you suppose that I could feel towards it as I would towards one born of our common love?|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000002_000001.wav|The difference between a girl and a married woman is so vast, that the girl can no more comprehend it than the married woman can go back to girlhood again.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000033_000014.wav|You cannot speak, breathe, act, or think, without adding to the admiration I feel for your charm both of body and mind.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000033_000002.wav|When I am with you, love so transports me that I am powerless to express the depth of my affection; I can but worship and admire.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000004_000003.wav|Might it not therefore be that the only requisite for a happy marriage was friendship-a friendship which, for the sake of these advantages, would shut its eyes to many of the imperfections of humanity?|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000035_000002.wav|Yet Louis is lovable; his temper is wonderfully even, and he performs, as a matter of course, acts on which most men would plume themselves.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000026_000000.wav|Yet, in spite of all this enchantment, I once more stood out for my complete independence.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000030_000000.wav|We have English horses, a coupe, a barouche, and a tilbury.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000027_000001.wav|He is not the same man.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000031_000004.wav|Under penalty, therefore, of forfeiting my esteem and affection, he must get himself chosen deputy for the department at the coming elections; my family would support his candidature, and we should then have the delight of spending all our winters in Paris.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000031_000002.wav|I have told him plainly that I am ambitious, and that I was very well pleased his father should continue to look after the estate and practise economies, because I wished him to devote himself exclusively to politics.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000005_000000.wav|The important point of separating marriage from marital rights was settled in a conversation between Louis and me, in the course of which he gave proof of an excellent temper and a tender heart.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000033_000005.wav|No doubt the love of husband and wife depends less on outward beauty than on graces of character, which are yours also in perfection; still, let me say that the certainty of having your unchanging beauty, on which to feast my eyes, gives me a joy that grows with every glance.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000017_000001.wav|It is the great desire I have for your respect which prompts my request.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000025_000000.wav|We celebrated our union in secret, and secret it must remain between us. When you are married you will approve this reserve.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000007_000003.wav|I made him talk, and got him to expound to me his ideas and plans for our future.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000017_000005.wav|Our position will not be without its dangers; in a country life, such as ours will be, ought we not to bear in mind the evanescent nature of passion?|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000011_000000.wav|"I cannot deny it," was my grave reply.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000033_000011.wav|Our own impulse shall with us alone dictate the expression of feeling.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000015_000004.wav|I am neither whimsical nor prudish, and should be sorry to get that reputation; but I feel sure that I can trust to your honor when I ask you to keep up the outward appearance of wedded life."|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000015_000000.wav|"Infuse with passion, then, if you will, this friendship, and let the voice of love disturb its calm.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000030_000003.wav|I apply all my intellect (I am speaking quite seriously) to managing my household with economy, and obtaining for it the maximum of pleasure with the minimum of cost.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000023_000001.wav|For how make a confidant of him?|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000009_000003.wav|The consciousness of these three obvious drawbacks made him distrustful of himself; he doubted his power to make me happy, and guessed that he had been chosen as the lesser of two evils.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000007_000002.wav|I drew him aside in the most natural manner on solitary walks, during which I discreetly sounded his feelings.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000037_000000.wav|Oh! Louise, don't spoil the splendid future which awaits us both!|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000037_000001.wav|Don't do the mad things with which you threaten me.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000023_000002.wav|My happiness would wound him, and has to be concealed.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000006_000000.wav|A contract of this kind, directly opposed to the legal contract, and even to the sacrament itself, could be concluded only between Louis and me.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000020_000001.wav|Now, in the solitude of a life like ours, marriage soon becomes intolerable unless the woman is the presiding spirit.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000019_000000.wav|We were married at the end of the week.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000004_000006.wav|My married life will be no slavery, but rather a perpetual reign.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000008_000001.wav|He got mixed up in his arguments, as people do when handicapped by fear; and before long it became clear that chance had given me for adversary one who was the less fitted for the contest because he was conscious of what you magniloquently call my "greatness of soul." Broken by sufferings and misfortune, he looked on himself as a sort of wreck, and three fears in especial haunted him.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000005_000002.wav|To grant nothing to duty or the law, to be guided entirely by one's own will, retaining perfect independence-what could be more attractive, more honorable?|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000027_000002.wav|With magic touch I have effaced the very memory of his sufferings. It is a complete metamorphosis.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000006_000002.wav|Although, at first, I may have made up my mind to accept anything rather than return to the convent, it is only in human nature, having got an inch, to ask for an ell, and you and I, sweet love, are of those who would have it all.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000014_000003.wav|Leave me absolutely free.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121148/22_121148_000033_000000.wav|"MY SWEET RENEE,--When you gave me permission to love you, I began to believe in happiness; now, I see it unfolding endlessly before me.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000014_000003.wav|I shall carry my park up the hillside and plant on the highest point some pretty kiosque, whence, perhaps, my eyes may catch the shimmer of the Mediterranean.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000003_000000.wav|In the Castle of Maucombe, which is so well known to you by description that I shall say no more of it, I found my room almost exactly as I left it; only now I can enjoy the splendid view it gives of the Gemenos valley, which my childish eyes used to see without comprehending.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000010_000004.wav|The rooms are scantily furnished.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000018_000002.wav|Oh! our deference and propriety are quite disquieting, I assure you.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000018_000003.wav|There, I am off again.... Good bye, dear.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000012_000001.wav|I have demanded from my father, in set terms, a grant of water, which can be brought thither from Maucombe.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000009_000002.wav|The garden in which it stands is a Provencal garden, enclosed by low walls, built of big round pebbles set in layers, alternately sloping or upright, according to the artistic taste of the mason, which finds here its only outlet.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000017_000001.wav|So you must narrate to me in full all your adventures, describe your balls and parties, tell me what you wear, what flowers crown your lovely golden locks, and what are the words and manners of the men you meet.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000011_000003.wav|At thirty seven he might be fifty.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000005_000001.wav|Who could have imagined, whilst fancy was leading us a giddy dance, that my destined husband was slowly traveling on foot through Russia, Poland, and Germany?|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000014_000004.wav|Orange and lemon trees, and all choicest things that grow, shall embellish my retreat; and there will I be a mother among my children.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000011_000000.wav|Nevertheless, the house of l'Estorade had done its best; the cupboards had been ransacked, and its last man beaten up for the dinner, which was served to us on old silver dishes, blackened and battered.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000011_000005.wav|His fine blue eyes are cavernous; he is a little deaf, which suggests the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000017_000002.wav|Your other self will be always there-listening, dancing, feeling her finger tips pressed-with you.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000011_000004.wav|The once beautiful ebon locks of youth are streaked with white like a lark's wing.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000015_000002.wav|They will be mine to train and make men of-the joy of my life.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000018_000001.wav|One kiss, then, on each cheek-my lips are still virginal, he has only dared to take my hand.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000014_000005.wav|The poetry of Nature, which nothing can destroy, shall hedge us round; and standing loyally at the post of duty, we need fear no danger.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000016_000004.wav|There will be nothing to fear, not even an admiration such as could only make a woman proud.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000009_000001.wav|The rafters bend under the weight of this brick kiln. The windows, inserted casually, without any attempt at symmetry, have enormous shutters, painted yellow.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000004_000001.wav|After Leipsic no more was heard of him.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000015_000001.wav|This century will not see another Bonaparte; and my children, if I have any, will not be rent from me.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/22/121140/22_121140_000017_000000.wav|You, my dear Louise, will supply the romance of my life.|22
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000003_000009.wav|They might contrast it unfavourably with Britain, but as compared with the other colonies, it ought to bear the palm.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000016_000000.wav|"This is one of your nieces, I suppose?" said Miss Rennie.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000004_000001.wav|When she came home after a long day's work, she thought she ought to try to keep up a little of her sister's discipline with the Lowries, and went over their lessons with them.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000010_000000.wav|"Well, Laura dear, have you made up your mind about the dresses?" continued Miss Rennie, in a louder voice.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000005_000002.wav|The white regular houses, all of one size and height, with their thousands of windows exactly on the same model, seemed always staring her out of countenance, and made her feel depressed even in the early morning.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000026_000001.wav|"He told us about them."|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000007_000001.wav|Elsie would rather not have had dealings with so many old acquaintances, but mrs Dunn thought it was a just reward for her kindness that she had this increase of custom.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000027_000000.wav|"Well, I'm not clear about the allotments; but the cottages I do most highly approve of, and I am coming upon my landlord to build me eight or nine, after the same plan, as near as may be.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000009_000004.wav|After all, what better luck could she look for than to be married for her money?|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000023_000001.wav|"Are you still living with Peggy Walker?|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000027_000002.wav|If I asked for five hundred pounds to add to the farmhouse, I would get it at once, for I am a good tenant; but my landlord demurred at such an expenditure for cot houses. I think I will carry my point, however."|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000022_000000.wav|"I can make to please Peggy Walker," said Elsie, smiling; "but you will wish for more style-a compromise between fashion and comfort."|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000018_000001.wav|We must go to the next room for Grace's frock," said Miss Rennie.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000005_000001.wav|It was not far from Peggy's house to mrs Dunn's place of business, and it was a very monotonous walk.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000011_000001.wav|"I must keep to my own department."|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000009_000000.wav|"It is really a case; Laura is engaged to mr Dalzell, your old friend and neighbour, and she is going to give one of her wedding orders here. mrs Dunn should be greatly obliged to you, for we never would have come to the house but for you.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000003_000000.wav|It was not mere fancy on Jane's part that Elsie was ill and unhappy. She had magnanimously made up her mind to go to work with industry and spirit, and mrs Dunn was perfectly satisfied with her.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000012_000000.wav|"Oh, Laura wants your taste to help us to decide; you know better what suits than mademoiselle," said Miss Rennie.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000024_000001.wav|I hope, however, to see her soon, for mrs Phillips has been so good as to ask me to spend a few weeks in London, and mrs Dunn is going to spare me."|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156230/2920_156230_000003_000008.wav|But they formed a pleasant little clique of their own, less exclusive than most cliques, and generally disposed to hold up each one his own particular colony as preferable to the others.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000008_000001.wav|Jane, my cup of prosperity has very many bitter drops in it."|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000032_000005.wav|I confess that if I were in their place I should do the same; but let my experiment succeed, it may be imitated."|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000037_000002.wav|For myself, I think just as highly of my own abilities and acquirements as ever I did.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000032_000003.wav|Our picked men, and many of our picked women, emigrate to America and Australia.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000002_000004.wav|He shook hands with her warmly, and looked inquiringly in her face, and then drew her into a quiet corner in a window seat, where they could talk without being much observed.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000026_000000.wav|"Very much, indeed.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000031_000000.wav|"You must let Peggy see them; she was brought up in one of those cottages you speak of, and will know all their deficiencies.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000002_000005.wav|Elsie did not sit beside them, but left them to their own conversation, assured that she would hear all that she cared to know by and by; yet she was not neglected, for Miss Rennie had taken a great fancy to her, and was determined, if possible, to get her partners.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000005_000001.wav|"I wrote to you of Elsie's last bitter disappointment.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000012_000000.wav|"Very much, indeed; all the more as I acquired the language.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000026_000001.wav|The art of conversing these French people carry to great perfection.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000009_000005.wav|He will make a figure in the world, and I will help him to do so.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000008_000000.wav|"Ah!|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000009_000002.wav|I am not happy, perhaps; but I am not miserable.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000021_000000.wav|"Indeed!" said Jane, "I thought it would have pleased you to be acknowledged."|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000038_000000.wav|"Can you not place your sister in the same care?" asked Francis.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000009_000001.wav|If any one had told me beforehand of these months that I have passed since my uncle's death, I should have thought them absolutely intolerable, and would have preferred death. But there is no human lot without its mitigations and ameliorations. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000002_000007.wav|Miss Rennie had judged hardly of Jane's personal appearance at first sight, but she thought Elsie a most elegant and interesting creature.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000028_000004.wav|I should like to try an experiment.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000001_000000.wav|Some Grave Talk In Gay Company|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000045_000004.wav|She had just left school, having made all the progress which money without natural ability or any of the usual incentives to application could attain, and was to live at the Rennies', which she thought a very dull place.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000032_000000.wav|"And, after all, it will not cost me more to build these cottages, and make thirty families more comfortable and more self respecting, than it would to enlarge Cross Hall, as mr Chalmers advises me strongly to do-by building a new wing and adding a conservatory in the place of your modest little greenhouse.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000033_000002.wav|You know nothing could give me greater pleasure than your success in such a noble work," said Jane, with sparkling eyes.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000033_000001.wav|I will watch the result with the greatest interest.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000045_000002.wav|Miss Wilson was ward of mrs Rennie's, as Jane had heard, a West Indian heiress, somewhat stupid, and very much impressed with her own wealth and importance.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000024_000002.wav|She was prettier than her daughter, at least in repose; but neither of them were at all like my ideal; for I forgot the French class of face, and embodied my fancy portraits in an English type."|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000022_000001.wav|I had a mother who did not care for me, and a father who did his duty, as he fancied, by me, but who disliked me, and they appear to have hated one another."|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000037_000003.wav|I am sorry that your minister has left his church, for I hoped to become acquainted with him; and he looked so cheerful that I thought he might do Elsie good. This new clergyman does not strike me as being so genial or kindly, though I certainly like his sermons and his devotional services very much.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000043_000001.wav|mr Dalzell, I forgot you."|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000018_000000.wav|"So far as I can see, she appears to be happy.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000046_000001.wav|I must attend to my other stranger before I fulfil my engagement to you, mr Hogarth, and I hope you will excuse me, when it is to get a partner for Alice.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000005_000000.wav|"No news," said Jane.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000030_000002.wav|I have got plans for the cottages which I wanted you to look at this morning; I think they will do."|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000046_000000.wav|"Now," said Miss Rennie, "I have done my best for mr Dalzell.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000029_000000.wav|"What an excellent idea!" said Jane.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000041_000000.wav|"How did our friends get acquainted with mr Dalzell?" said Jane.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000028_000005.wav|You know that sand flat, that is worth very little but for scanty pasture, at the back of the Black Hill, as it is called.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000031_000001.wav|It will set a good example to the neighbourhood," said Jane.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2920/156224/2920_156224_000046_000002.wav|Miss Melville, I suppose, does not care about dancing, she is so dreadfully matter of fact.|2920
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000004_000001.wav|"I'm going there, too . . .|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000011_000001.wav|"I never got really acquainted with him until after my little mother died. But he's splendid when you do get to know him.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000021_000006.wav|"Isn't it splendid to be that kind, teacher?"|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000016_000002.wav|He is really full of wickedness, I think."|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000050_000000.wav|"Friendship IS very beautiful," smiled mrs Allan, "but some day . . ."|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000024_000005.wav|It is better to possess it, living in a garret, than to be the inhabitant of palaces without it.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000042_000002.wav|There goes Gilbert Blythe on his wheel . . . home for his vacation too, I suppose.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000049_000002.wav|I think it is desecration to call that friendship.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000009_000006.wav|Grandmothers are better, next to mothers.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000051_000000.wav|Then she paused abruptly.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000024_000002.wav|The knowledge of that land's geography . . .|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000032_000000.wav|"Yes. . . .|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000009_000002.wav|Nobody else understands so well . . . not even grandma, although she's so good to me.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000045_000001.wav|"Marilla's eyes will never be much better than they are now, although we are so thankful to think that they will not get worse.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000007_000000.wav|Paul's voice quivered and his lip trembled.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000011_000008.wav|I expect she spoiled me.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000009_000000.wav|"No, indeed, I wouldn't . . . that's just the way I feel.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000024_000000.wav|and both knew the way to that happy land.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000009_000003.wav|Father understood pretty well, but still I couldn't talk much to him about mother, because it made him feel so bad.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000015_000001.wav|"How are your rock people coming on?|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000021_000002.wav|But you could see rock people of your own.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000000_000000.wav|fifteen|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000013_000003.wav|It's very exciting to have a birthday, isn't it?|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000036_000000.wav|"I shall try.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000011_000000.wav|"Father's not very easy to get acquainted with," Paul had said once.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000040_000000.wav|"Nonsense, dear, he deserved it.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000032_000004.wav|I feel one of my old 'thrills' at the mere thought."|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000028_000001.wav|They walked home together.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000020_000000.wav|Paul shook his head gravely.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000044_000000.wav|"Do you think you will ever get to college?"|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000018_000000.wav|"No; but I think she suspects.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000011_000006.wav|She takes it right out as soon as she tucks me up because she says I mustn't be a coward. I'm NOT scared, but I'd RATHER have the light.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000035_000002.wav|Life would be a sorry business without them.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000013_000005.wav|You'd never think it to look at me, would you?|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/122825/246_122825_000041_000000.wav|"He may have deserved it, but that is not the point.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000004_000003.wav|"Write to james on her behalf!|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000016.wav|He is the greatest coxcomb I ever saw, and amazingly disagreeable.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000013.wav|Afterwards he got worse, and became quite my shadow.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000009.wav|I hope you spend your time pleasantly, but am afraid you never think of me.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000013_000003.wav|But, suppose he had made her very much in love with him?"|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000007_000001.wav|I see that she has had designs on Captain Tilney, which have not succeeded; but I do not understand what Captain Tilney has been about all this time.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000015_000000.wav|"It is very right that you should stand by your brother."|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000008_000000.wav|"I have very little to say for Frederick's motives, such as I believe them to have been.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000010_000000.wav|"I am persuaded that he never did."|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000011_000000.wav|"And only made believe to do so for mischief's sake?"|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000022.wav|I would write to him myself, but have mislaid his direction; and, as I hinted above, am afraid he took something in my conduct amiss.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000005_000003.wav|I see what she has been about.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000012_000000.wav|Henry bowed his assent.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000001_000000.wav|The next morning brought the following very unexpected letter from Isabella:|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000004.wav|Thank God, we leave this vile place tomorrow.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000005_000005.wav|I do not believe she had ever any regard either for james or for me, and I wish I had never known her."|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000002_000000.wav|Bath, April|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000026.wav|You know I have a pretty good spirit of my own.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000011.wav|I rejoice to say that the young man whom, of all others, I particularly abhor, has left Bath.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000005_000001.wav|When she had finished it-"So much for Isabella," she cried, "and for all our intimacy!|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty seven|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000008_000001.wav|He has his vanities as well as Miss Thorpe, and the chief difference is, that, having a stronger head, they have not yet injured himself.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000013_000001.wav|Though it has turned out so well for us, I do not like him at all.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000016_000001.wav|But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge."|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000009_000000.wav|"Then you do not suppose he ever really cared about her?"|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000007_000000.wav|"There is but one thing that I cannot understand.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000018.wav|The last time we met was in Bath Street, and I turned directly into a shop that he might not speak to me; I would not even look at him.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000014.wav|Many girls might have been taken in, for never were such attentions; but I knew the fickle sex too well.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000017.wav|The last two days he was always by the side of Charlotte Davis: I pitied his taste, but took no notice of him.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000003.wav|Pray write to me soon, and direct to my own home.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000029.wav|Lose no time, my dearest, sweetest Catherine, in writing to him and to me, Who ever am, etc|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000008_000002.wav|If the effect of his behaviour does not justify him with you, we had better not seek after the cause."|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000000.wav|My dearest Catherine, I received your two kind letters with the greatest delight, and have a thousand apologies to make for not answering them sooner.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000013_000000.wav|"Well, then, I must say that I do not like him at all.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000019.wav|He went into the pump room afterwards; but I would not have followed him for all the world.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000024.wav|We happened to sit by the Mitchells, and they pretended to be quite surprised to see me out.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000001.wav|I really am quite ashamed of my idleness; but in this horrid place one can find time for nothing.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000004_000002.wav|Her professions of attachment were now as disgusting as her excuses were empty, and her demands impudent.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000007_000002.wav|Why should he pay her such attentions as to make her quarrel with my brother, and then fly off himself?"|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000006_000000.wav|"It will soon be as if you never had," said Henry.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000005.wav|Since you went away, I have had no pleasure in it-the dust is beyond anything; and everybody one cares for is gone.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000014_000000.wav|"But we must first suppose Isabella to have had a heart to lose-consequently to have been a very different creature; and, in that case, she would have met with very different treatment."|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000015.wav|He went away to his regiment two days ago, and I trust I shall never be plagued with him again.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000025.wav|I knew their spite: at one time they could not be civil to me, but now they are all friendship; but I am not such a fool as to be taken in by them.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000020.wav|Such a contrast between him and your brother!|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000004_000000.wav|Such a strain of shallow artifice could not impose even upon Catherine. Its inconsistencies, contradictions, and falsehood struck her from the very first.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000017_000001.wav|Frederick could not be unpardonably guilty, while Henry made himself so agreeable.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000028.wav|I wear nothing but purple now: I know I look hideous in it, but no matter-it is your dear brother's favourite colour.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000004_000001.wav|She was ashamed of Isabella, and ashamed of having ever loved her.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000008.wav|Your kind offices will set all right: he is the only man I ever did or could love, and I trust you will convince him of it. The spring fashions are partly down; and the hats the most frightful you can imagine.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000005_000002.wav|She must think me an idiot, or she could not have written so; but perhaps this has served to make her character better known to me than mine is to her.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000003_000002.wav|I have had my pen in my hand to begin a letter to you almost every day since you left Bath, but have always been prevented by some silly trifler or other.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000004_000004.wav|No, james should never hear Isabella's name mentioned by her again."|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000005_000000.wav|On Henry's arrival from Woodston, she made known to him and Eleanor their brother's safety, congratulating them with sincerity on it, and reading aloud the most material passages of her letter with strong indignation.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000013_000002.wav|As it happens, there is no great harm done, because I do not think Isabella has any heart to lose.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000017_000000.wav|Catherine was complimented out of further bitterness.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/246/224/246_224_000017_000002.wav|She resolved on not answering Isabella's letter, and tried to think no more of it.|246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000008_000000.wav|If it had not been a characteristic of Levin's to put the most favorable interpretation on people, Sviazhsky's character would have presented no doubt or difficulty to him: he would have said to himself, "a fool or a knave," and everything would have seemed clear.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000004_000001.wav|He was five years older than Levin, and had long been married.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000020_000003.wav|His brilliant black eyes were looking straight at the excited country gentleman with gray whiskers, and apparently he derived amusement from his remarks.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000015_000003.wav|He has so much to do, and he has the faculty of interesting himself in everything.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000006_000000.wav|Sviazhsky was one of those people, always a source of wonder to Levin, whose convictions, very logical though never original, go one way by themselves, while their life, exceedingly definite and firm in its direction, goes its way quite apart and almost always in direct contradiction to their convictions.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000012_000000.wav|The shooting turned out to be worse than Levin had expected.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000016_000001.wav|The little house covered with ivy, isn't it?"|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000014_000005.wav|He imagined, probably mistakenly, that this low necked bodice had been made on his account, and felt that he had no right to look at it, and tried not to look at it; but he felt that he was to blame for the very fact of the low necked bodice having been made.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000006_000006.wav|He believed neither in God nor the devil, but was much concerned about the question of the improvement of the clergy and the maintenance of their revenues, and took special trouble to keep up the church in his village.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000014_000006.wav|It seemed to Levin that he had deceived someone, that he ought to explain something, but that to explain it was impossible, and for that reason he was continually blushing, was ill at ease and awkward.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000012_000001.wav|The marsh was dry and there were no grouse at all.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/34501/5266_34501_000008_000001.wav|But he could not say "a fool," because Sviazhsky was unmistakably clever, and moreover, a highly cultivated man, who was exceptionally modest over his culture.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000060_000001.wav|To go running after servant girls?" said Levin.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000053_000002.wav|Vassenka has been getting up some fun there.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000012_000000.wav|"I don't understand you," said Levin, sitting up in the hay; "how is it such people don't disgust you?|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000066_000001.wav|"Well, what of it? It's not my fault." And he began thinking about the next day.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000004_000000.wav|Chapter eleven|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000067_000000.wav|"Tomorrow I'll go out early, and I'll make a point of keeping cool. There are lots of snipe; and there are grouse too.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000016_000001.wav|Work in this sense, that if it were not for him and others like him, there would have been no railways."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000005_000001.wav|He was sitting in the middle of the hut, clinging with both hands to the bench from which he was being pulled by a soldier, the brother of the peasant's wife, who was helping him off with his miry boots.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000067_000003.wav|Well, it can't be helped! Negative again...."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000041_000000.wav|"We are going out for the night with the beasts."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000016_000000.wav|"Of course it's work.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000022_000004.wav|That I receive a bigger salary than my chief clerk, though he knows more about the work than I do-that's dishonest, I suppose?"|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000021_000000.wav|"Making profit by dishonest means, by trickery," said Levin, conscious that he could not draw a distinct line between honesty and dishonesty. "Such as banking, for instance," he went on.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000059_000002.wav|That's all very well as an idyllic episode, but for your whole life that won't answer.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000014_000001.wav|"I simply don't consider him more dishonest than any other wealthy merchant or nobleman.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000042_000002.wav|Who's that singing, my friend?"|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000058_000000.wav|"How so?"|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000046_000003.wav|You've treated me to some good sport, and I won't forget you."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000039_000001.wav|I thought our gentlemen would be asleep, but I heard them chattering.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000061_000004.wav|There should be nothing in the home.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000067_000001.wav|When I come back there'll be the note from Kitty.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000034_000000.wav|"I'm not at all convinced.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000060_000000.wav|"In what way?|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000039_000002.wav|I want to get a hook from here.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000019_000000.wav|"No, that's another question; I am prepared to admit that they're useful.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000019_000001.wav|But all profit that is out of proportion to the labor expended is dishonest."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000046_000001.wav|"Good bye, gentlemen.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000065_000001.wav|He heard the horses munching hay, then he heard the peasant and his elder boy getting ready for the night, and going off for the night watch with the beasts, then he heard the soldier arranging his bed on the other side of the barn, with his nephew, the younger son of their peasant host.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000061_000002.wav|It won't do my wife any harm, and it'll amuse me.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000064_000000.wav|Levin pretended to be asleep, while Oblonsky, putting on his slippers, and lighting a cigar, walked out of the barn, and soon their voices were lost.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000053_000000.wav|"How strong the smell of the fresh hay is, though," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, getting up.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000007_000000.wav|"What should they take anything for?|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000059_000000.wav|"Do you suppose I don't see the line you've taken up with your wife?|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000061_000000.wav|"Why not, if it amuses him?|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000044_000002.wav|Oblonsky, come along!"|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000008_000000.wav|In spite of the dirtiness of the hut, which was all muddied by their boots and the filthy dogs licking themselves clean, and the smell of marsh mud and powder that filled the room, and the absence of knives and forks, the party drank their tea and ate their supper with a relish only known to sportsmen.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000006_000000.wav|"I've only just come.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000006_000002.wav|Just fancy, they gave me drink, fed me!|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000005_000002.wav|Veslovsky was laughing his infectious, good humored laugh.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000053_000004.wav|Hadn't we better go?|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000042_000001.wav|"But listen, there are women's voices singing, and, on my word, not badly too.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000007_000002.wav|Do you suppose they keep vodka for sale?" said the soldier, succeeding at last in pulling the soaked boot off the blackened stocking.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000012_000002.wav|They don't care for their contempt, and then they use their dishonest gains to buy off the contempt they have deserved."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000045_000001.wav|"It's capital lying here."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000038_000000.wav|"Yes, there's something of a sophistry about that," Veslovsky agreed. "Ah! our host; so you're not asleep yet?" he said to the peasant who came into the barn, opening the creaking door.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000014_000000.wav|"Not a bit of it." Levin could hear that Oblonsky was smiling as he spoke.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000031_000000.wav|"Give it to this peasant, he would not refuse it."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000006_000003.wav|Such bread, it was exquisite!|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000035_000000.wav|"No, excuse me, but if you consider this inequality is unjust, why is it you don't act accordingly?..."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000052_000002.wav|"Can it be that it's only possible to be just negatively?" he was asking himself.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000047_000000.wav|"He really is a capital fellow, isn't he?" said Stepan Arkadyevitch, when Veslovsky had gone out and the peasant had closed the door after him.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000068_000002.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch was saying something of the freshness of one girl, comparing her to a freshly peeled nut, and Veslovsky with his infectious laugh was repeating some words, probably said to him by a peasant: "Ah, you do your best to get round her!" Levin, half asleep, said:|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000052_000000.wav|Levin did not answer.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000059_000004.wav|A man has to be manly," said Oblonsky, opening the door.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000007_000001.wav|They were entertaining you, to be sure.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000025_000000.wav|"No, that's unfair," said Veslovsky; "how could envy come in?|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000049_000000.wav|"It's just this, my dear boy.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000059_000001.wav|I heard how it's a question of the greatest consequence, whether or not you're to be away for a couple of days' shooting.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000024_000001.wav|No, quite the contrary; I see that society takes up a sort of antagonistic attitude to these people, which is utterly baseless, and I fancy there's envy at the bottom of it...."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000014_000002.wav|They've all made their money alike-by their work and their intelligence."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000032_000000.wav|"Yes, but how am I to give it up?|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000024_000000.wav|"Well, but I can tell you: your receiving some five thousand, let's say, for your work on the land, while our host, the peasant here, however hard he works, can never get more than fifty roubles, is just as dishonest as my earning more than my chief clerk, and Malthus getting more than a station master.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000006_000005.wav|And they would not take a penny for anything. And they kept saying: 'Excuse our homely ways.'"|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000051_000000.wav|"What do you say, why not go after all?" said Stepan Arkadyevitch, evidently weary of the strain of thought.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000022_000000.wav|"Yes, that may all be very true and clever....|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000051_000002.wav|Come, let's go!"|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000022_000002.wav|He was obviously convinced of the correctness of his position, and so talked serenely and without haste.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000062_000000.wav|"Perhaps so," said Levin dryly, and he turned on his side.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000069_000000.wav|"Gentlemen, tomorrow before daylight!" and fell asleep.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000036_000000.wav|"Well, I do act negatively on that idea, so far as not trying to increase the difference of position existing between him and me."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000043_000000.wav|"That's the maids from hard by here."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000050_000001.wav|The great thing for me is to feel that I'm not to blame."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000018_000001.wav|But of course you think the railways useless."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000048_000000.wav|"Yes, capital," answered Levin, still thinking of the subject of their conversation just before.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000044_000000.wav|"Let's go, let's have a walk!|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000068_000000.wav|Half asleep, he heard the laughter and mirthful talk of Veslovsky and Stepan Arkadyevitch.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000018_000000.wav|"Granted, but it's work in the sense that his activity produces a result-the railways.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000017_000000.wav|"But that's not work, like the work of a peasant or a learned profession."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000032_000001.wav|Am I to go to him and make a deed of conveyance?"|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000023_000000.wav|"I can't say."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000011_000000.wav|Malthus was a well-known capitalist, who had made his money by speculation in railway shares.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000009_000000.wav|Though it was dusk, not one of them wanted to go to sleep.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000053_000001.wav|"There's not a chance of sleeping.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000054_000000.wav|"No, I'm not coming," answered Levin.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000048_000002.wav|This disconcerted him.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000051_000001.wav|"We shan't go to sleep, you know.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000026_000000.wav|"You say," Levin went on, "that it's unjust for me to receive five thousand, while the peasant has fifty; that's true.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000027_000001.wav|Why is it we spend our time riding, drinking, shooting, doing nothing, while they are forever at work?" said Vassenka Veslovsky, obviously for the first time in his life reflecting on the question, and consequently considering it with perfect sincerity.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000068_000001.wav|For an instant he opened his eyes: the moon was up, and in the open doorway, brightly lighted up by the moonlight, they were standing talking.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000052_000001.wav|What they had said in the conversation, that he acted justly only in a negative sense, absorbed his thoughts.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000011_000001.wav|Stepan Arkadyevitch described what grouse moors this Malthus had bought in the Tver province, and how they were preserved, and of the carriages and dogcarts in which the shooting party had been driven, and the luncheon pavilion that had been rigged up at the marsh.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000037_000000.wav|"No, excuse me, that's a paradox."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000067_000002.wav|Yes, Stiva may be right, I'm not manly with her, I'm tied to her apron strings....|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000013_000001.wav|"Perfectly!|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000066_000000.wav|"Is it really only negative?" he repeated to himself.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000029_000000.wav|There had arisen of late something like a secret antagonism between the two brothers in law; as though, since they had married sisters, a kind of rivalry had sprung up between them as to which was ordering his life best, and now this hostility showed itself in the conversation, as it began to take a personal note.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000055_000000.wav|"Surely that's not a matter of principle too," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, smiling, as he felt about in the dark for his cap.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000022_000003.wav|"But you have not drawn the line between honest and dishonest work.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000021_000003.wav|No sooner were the spirit monopolies abolished than the railways came up, and banking companies; that, too, is profit without work."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000065_000003.wav|He could only hear the snort of the horses, and the guttural cry of a snipe.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000033_000000.wav|"I don't know; but if you are convinced that you have no right..."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000015_000001.wav|Do you call it work to get hold of concessions and speculate with them?"|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000061_000003.wav|The great thing is to respect the sanctity of the home.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000057_000000.wav|"But do you know you are preparing trouble for yourself," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, finding his cap and getting up.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000015_000000.wav|"Oh, by what work?|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000008_000001.wav|Washed and clean, they went into a hay barn swept ready for them, where the coachman had been making up beds for the gentlemen.|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5266/41151/5266_41151_000061_000005.wav|But don't tie your own hands."|5266
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000082_000001.wav|I have never ceased to think how great your sufferings must have been in this shocking place.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000034_000002.wav|I have come here on purpose.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000001_000002.wav|mr Lowten had still to be ferreted out from the back parlour of the Magpie and Stump; and Job had scarcely accomplished this object, and communicated Sam Weller's message, when the clock struck ten.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000015_000002.wav|Perker nodded his head thoughtfully, and pulled out his watch.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000038_000001.wav|'And you know how she comes here, I suppose; I mean on what grounds, and at whose suit?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000061_000000.wav|'Who is it?' inquired mr Pickwick.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000095_000000.wav|As mr Pickwick uttered this adieu, the crowd raised a loud shout.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000057_000000.wav|'I can't speak to you just now, Sam,' said mr Pickwick. 'I am engaged at this moment, Sam.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000080_000003.wav|You must prevent mischief, my dear Sir.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000008_000000.wav|'From Pickwick, eh?' said the little man, turning quickly to Job. 'Well, what is it?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000012_000000.wav|'By Jove!' said Perker, taking both hands out of his pockets, and striking the knuckles of his right against the palm of his left, emphatically, 'those are the cleverest scamps I ever had anything to do with!'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000080_000001.wav|'You must take this matter in hand for them, my dear sir.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000087_000002.wav|In all the crowd of wan, emaciated faces, he saw not one which was not happier for his sympathy and charity.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000038_000000.wav|'Very good,' retorted Perker.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000079_000002.wav|He is so violent, so prejudiced, and has been so-so anxious in behalf of his friend, mr Sawyer,' added Arabella, looking down, 'that I fear the consequences dreadfully.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000095_000001.wav|Many among them were pressing forward to shake him by the hand again, when he drew his arm through Perker's, and hurried from the prison, far more sad and melancholy, for the moment, than when he had first entered it.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000039_000000.wav|'Yes; at least I have heard Sam's account of the matter,' said mr Pickwick, with affected carelessness.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000033_000000.wav|'I would rather that the subject should be never mentioned between us, Perker,' interposed mr Pickwick hastily.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000034_000000.wav|'Pooh, pooh, my dear Sir,' said the little man, untying the bundle, and glancing eagerly at mr Pickwick out of the corners of his eyes.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000081_000000.wav|'You forget, my love,' said mr Pickwick gently, 'you forget that I am a prisoner.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000018_000000.wav|As Lowten DID mean yes, he said no more on the subject, but inquired of Job, in an audible whisper, whether the portrait of Perker, which hung opposite the fireplace, wasn't a wonderful likeness, to which Job of course replied that it was.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000082_000004.wav|He is my only relation in the world, mr Pickwick, and unless you plead for me, I fear I have lost even him.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000044_000002.wav|It rests solely, wholly, and entirely with you.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000070_000002.wav|'Why, my dear girl,' said mr Pickwick, 'how has all this come about?|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000016_000003.wav|Will you take a glass of wine, Lowten?' 'No, thank you, Sir.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000072_000001.wav|'I shall not forget your exertions in the garden at Clifton.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000040_000001.wav|Well now, my dear Sir, the first question I have to ask, is, whether this woman is to remain here?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000026_000000.wav|'Oh, nothing, nothing,' replied Perker. 'Come, my dear Sir, draw up your chair to the table.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000074_000000.wav|'Mary, my dear, sit down,' said mr Pickwick, cutting short these compliments.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000024_000000.wav|mr Samuel Weller looked at the little lawyer, then at mr Pickwick, then at the ceiling, then at Perker again; grinned, laughed outright, and finally, catching up his hat from the carpet, without further explanation, disappeared.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000018_000003.wav|The attorney betook himself to his drawing room, the clerk to the Magpie and Stump, and Job to Covent Garden Market to spend the night in a vegetable basket.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000041_000000.wav|'To remain here!' echoed mr Pickwick.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000034_000004.wav|No hurry; if you are not, I can wait.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000053_000000.wav|'Not quite,' replied Perker.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000015_000001.wav|When they had in some measure recovered from their trance of admiration, Job Trotter discharged himself of the rest of his commission.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000092_000002.wav|Do you hear?|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000034_000001.wav|'It must be mentioned.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000009_000000.wav|'Dodson and Fogg have taken mrs Bardell in execution for her costs, Sir,' said Job.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000055_000001.wav|Who is that?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000069_000001.wav|'Can you forgive my imprudence?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000035_000000.wav|'Well, well,' said mr Pickwick, with a sigh, but softening into a smile at the same time.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000020_000002.wav|I rather think the gov'nor wants to have a word and a half with you, Sir.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000018_000002.wav|The gentleman in the plush shorts and cottons considering it no part of his duty to show the people from the office out, consistently declined to answer the bell, and they showed themselves out.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000087_000001.wav|He turned here, to look about him, and his eye lightened as he did so.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000000_000003.wav|PICKWICK'S BENEVOLENCE PROVES STRONGER THAN HIS OBSTINACY|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000079_000000.wav|'Oh, no, no,' replied Arabella, changing colour.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000070_000003.wav|Come!|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000028_000000.wav|'The papers in Bardell and Pickwick,' replied Perker, undoing the knot with his teeth.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000005_000000.wav|mr Perker had had a dinner party that day, as was testified by the appearance of lights in the drawing room windows, the sound of an improved grand piano, and an improvable cabinet voice issuing therefrom, and a rather overpowering smell of meat which pervaded the steps and entry.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000016_000002.wav|Tell him so.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000016_000001.wav|'Sam is quite right.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000002_000000.wav|'There,' said Lowten, 'it's too late now.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000000_000002.wav|WINKLE REAPPEARS UNDER EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES-mr|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000078_000003.wav|And is your brother acquainted with all this, my dear?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000050_000000.wav|'If I pay her costs for her,' said mr Pickwick indignantly.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000091_000000.wav|'Job you know, I think?' said mr Pickwick, presenting that gentleman.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000056_000000.wav|'Me, Sir,' replied Sam Weller, putting in his head.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000070_000004.wav|Sit down, and let me hear it all.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000082_000000.wav|'No, indeed I do not, my dear Sir,' replied Arabella. 'I never have forgotten it.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000000_000001.wav|IS CHIEFLY DEVOTED TO MATTERS OF BUSINESS, AND THE TEMPORAL ADVANTAGE OF DODSON AND FOGG-mr|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000082_000005.wav|I have done wrong, very, very wrong, I know.'Here poor Arabella hid her face in her handkerchief, and wept bitterly.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000007_000001.wav|'This is a messenger from mr Pickwick, Sir.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000053_000002.wav|I do mean to say, however, that the whole facts, taken together, will be sufficient to justify you, in the minds of all reasonable men.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000048_000000.wav|mr Pickwick, whose face had been undergoing most surprising changes during this speech, and was evidently on the verge of a strong burst of indignation, calmed his wrath as well as he could.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000006_000000.wav|'Now, Lowten,' said little mr Perker, shutting the door,'what's the matter?|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000092_000003.wav|Now, is there anything more?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000025_000000.wav|'What does this mean?' inquired mr Pickwick, looking at Perker with astonishment.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000093_000001.wav|'You have delivered the little parcel I gave you for your old landlord, Sam?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000097_000000.wav|'Sir,' called out mr Weller to his master.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000077_000000.wav|'Ah, to be sure!' interposed Perker; 'come, account for this idleness. You see mr Pickwick's only astonishment is, that it wasn't all over, months ago.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000003_000002.wav|But won't it be better to see mr Perker to night, so that we may be there, the first thing in the morning?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000035_000001.wav|'Say what you have to say; it's the old story, I suppose?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000037_000000.wav|'I know it,' was mr Pickwick's reply.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000007_000000.wav|'No, Sir,' replied Lowten.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000089_000001.wav|I hope you may live to remember and feel deeply, what I shall have to communicate, Sir.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000080_000004.wav|Hot blood, hot blood.' And the little man took a warning pinch, and shook his head doubtfully.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000031_000000.wav|'No, I do not indeed,' replied mr Pickwick.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000053_000004.wav|This one hundred and fifty pounds, or whatever it may be-take it in round numbers-is nothing to you.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000059_000000.wav|'I can't see any lady,' replied mr Pickwick, whose mind was filled with visions of mrs Bardell.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000043_000001.wav|'It rests with Dodson and Fogg; you know that very well.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000025_000001.wav|'What has put Sam into this extraordinary state?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000076_000000.wav|'Only three days, eh?' said mr Pickwick. 'Why, what have you been doing these three months?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000082_000003.wav|If my brother hears of this, first, from you, I feel certain we shall be reconciled.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000032_000000.wav|'Sorry for that,' resumed Perker, 'because it will form the subject of our conversation.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000018_000001.wav|The wine being by this time poured out, Lowten drank to mrs Perker and the children, and Job to Perker.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000066_000000.wav|'Miss Arabella Allen!' exclaimed mr Pickwick, rising from his chair.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000034_000003.wav|Now, are you ready to hear what I have to say, my dear Sir?|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000067_000002.wav|Winkle.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000002_000001.wav|You can't get in to night; you've got the key of the street, my friend.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000065_000000.wav|As Sam Weller spoke, he threw the door open, and there rushed tumultuously into the room, mr Nathaniel Winkle, leading after him by the hand, the identical young lady who at Dingley Dell had worn the boots with the fur round the tops, and who, now a very pleasing compound of blushes and confusion, and lilac silk, and a smart bonnet, and a rich lace veil, looked prettier than ever.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000040_000000.wav|'Sam's account of the matter,' replied Perker, 'is, I will venture to say, a perfectly correct one.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000045_000000.wav|'With me!' ejaculated mr Pickwick, rising nervously from his chair, and reseating himself directly afterwards.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000094_000000.wav|'I have, Sir,' replied Sam.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000051_000001.wav|'There is the very letter I speak of.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000026_000001.wav|I have a good deal to say to you.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000053_000005.wav|A jury had decided against you; well, their verdict is wrong, but still they decided as they thought right, and it IS against you.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000044_000001.wav|'It does NOT rest with Dodson and Fogg; you know the men, my dear Sir, as well as I do.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000053_000003.wav|And now, my dear Sir, I put it to you.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000070_000005.wav|How well she looks, doesn't she, Perker?' added mr Pickwick, surveying Arabella's face with a look of as much pride and exultation, as if she had been his daughter.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000071_000000.wav|'Delightful, my dear Sir,' replied the little man.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000063_000000.wav|'I suppose I must,' said mr Pickwick, looking at Perker.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000034_000007.wav|There!' Hereupon, the little man threw one leg over the other, and made a show of beginning to read with great composure and application.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000085_000000.wav|mr Tupman and mr Snodgrass arrived, most opportunely, in this stage of the pleadings, and as it was necessary to explain to them all that had occurred, together with the various reasons pro and con, the whole of the arguments were gone over again, after which everybody urged every argument in his own way, and at his own length.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000052_000000.wav|'Is this all you have to say to me?' inquired mr Pickwick mildly.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000003_000001.wav|'I can sleep anywhere.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000075_000000.wav|Arabella looked bashfully at her lord and master, who replied, 'Only three days.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000087_000000.wav|At three o'clock that afternoon, mr Pickwick took a last look at his little room, and made his way, as well as he could, through the throng of debtors who pressed eagerly forward to shake him by the hand, until he reached the lodge steps.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000044_000000.wav|'I know nothing of the kind,' retorted Perker firmly.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000048_000001.wav|Perker, strengthening his argumentative powers with another pinch of snuff, proceeded-|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000023_000000.wav|Perker nodded and smiled.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000004_000001.wav|Summoning the cab of most promising appearance, he directed the driver to repair to Montague Place, Russell Square.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000067_000001.wav|'mrs|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000010_000000.wav|'No!' exclaimed Perker, putting his hands in his pockets, and reclining against the sideboard.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000089_000000.wav|'Very good, my dear Sir,' replied Perker, looking hard at Jingle. 'You will see me again, young man, to morrow.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000092_000001.wav|'See after your friend, and be in the way to morrow at one.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000092_000000.wav|'I know the rascal,' replied Perker good humouredly.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000046_000000.wav|The little man gave a double knock on the lid of his snuff box, opened it, took a great pinch, shut it up again, and repeated the words, 'With you.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000090_000000.wav|Jingle bowed respectfully, trembled very much as he took mr Pickwick's proffered hand, and withdrew.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000036_000000.wav|'With a difference, my dear Sir; with a difference,' rejoined Perker, deliberately folding up the paper and putting it into his pocket again. 'mrs|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000036_000001.wav|Bardell, the plaintiff in the action, is within these walls, Sir.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000078_000001.wav|And when I had persuaded her, it was a long time more before we could find an opportunity.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000050_000001.wav|'A valuable document, indeed!'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000027_000000.wav|'What papers are those?' inquired mr Pickwick, as the little man deposited on the table a small bundle of documents tied with red tape.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000080_000000.wav|'Ah, to be sure,' said Perker gravely.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000083_000000.wav|mr Pickwick's nature was a good deal worked upon, by these same tears; but when mrs Winkle, drying her eyes, took to coaxing and entreating in the sweetest tones of a very sweet voice, he became particularly restless, and evidently undecided how to act, as was evinced by sundry nervous rubbings of his spectacle glasses, nose, tights, head, and gaiters.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135636/1265_135636_000079_000001.wav|'Dear mr Pickwick, he must only know it from you-from your lips alone.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000080_000001.wav|'He's not much used to ladies' society, and it makes him bashful.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000019_000001.wav|Here, Tommy, dear.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000045_000000.wav|'Well, mr Raddle,' said mrs Bardell; 'I'm sure you ought to feel very much honoured at you and Tommy being the only gentlemen to escort so many ladies all the way to the Spaniards, at Hampstead.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000052_000000.wav|'Oh!|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000079_000000.wav|'Oh, ask your friend to come here, Sir,' said mrs Bardell. 'Pray ask your friend here, Sir.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000051_000000.wav|'Oh, you wouldn't like that, ma'am,' replied mrs Bardell, rather hastily; for it was not at all advisable, with reference to the lodgings, to encourage such notions; 'you wouldn't like it, ma'am.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000096_000001.wav|mrs Bardell, leaning on Jackson's arm, and leading Tommy by the hand, had already entered the porch.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000064_000000.wav|'More company!' said mrs Sanders.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000103_000003.wav|What a comfort it must be, to you, to think how it's been done!|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000053_000001.wav|Perhaps I am,' sighed the first floor lodger.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000054_000000.wav|'For lone people as have got nobody to care for them, or take care of them, or as have been hurt in their mind, or that kind of thing,' observed mr Raddle, plucking up a little cheerfulness, and looking round, 'the country is all very well.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000023_000000.wav|'What?|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000012_000000.wav|'You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Raddle,' said the other little woman, who was no other than mrs Cluppins. 'What have I been a doing of?' asked mr Raddle.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000073_000001.wav|'It's very important and pressing business, which can't be postponed on any account.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000087_000000.wav|'Sad thing about these costs of our people's, ain't it,' said Jackson, when mrs Cluppins and mrs Sanders had fallen asleep; 'your bill of costs, I mean.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000003_000000.wav|'Oh!|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000042_000000.wav|'Which is mrs Cluppins's sister,' suggested mrs Sanders.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000001_000001.wav|Lastly, the two vixenish ladies and the heavy gentleman were giving the driver contradictory directions, all tending to the one point, that he should stop at mrs Bardell's door; which the heavy gentleman, in direct opposition to, and defiance of, the vixenish ladies, contended was a green door and not a yellow one.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000034_000000.wav|'Ah, poor thing!' said mrs Rogers, 'I know what her feelin's is, too well.' 'Ah, poor thing! so do I,' said mrs Sanders; and then all the ladies moaned in unison, and said they knew what it was, and they pitied her from their hearts, they did.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000092_000001.wav|She was awakened, after some time, by the stopping of the coach.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000103_000004.wav|This is the Fleet, ma'am. Wish you good night, mrs Bardell.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000005_000001.wav|'Settle it among yourselves.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000011_000002.wav|Oh!|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000016_000000.wav|'Oh, she's very well,' replied Master Bardell. 'She's in the front parlour, all ready.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000000_000002.wav|DODSON AND FOGG|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000061_000000.wav|mrs Sanders, who, according to custom, was very busy with the bread and butter, expressed the same opinion, and mr Raddle quietly retired.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000090_000000.wav|'Yes.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000015_000000.wav|'Well, Tommy,' said mrs Cluppins, 'how's your poor dear mother?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000086_000000.wav|mrs Bardell got in, mr Jackson got in after her, and away they drove. mrs Bardell could not help ruminating on what mr Jackson's friend had said.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000016_000001.wav|I'm ready too, I am.' Here Master Bardell put his hands in his pockets, and jumped off and on the bottom step of the door.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000054_000001.wav|The country for a wounded spirit, they say.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000037_000000.wav|'I have been a good deal flurried,' replied mrs Raddle, in a reproachful manner.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000080_000000.wav|'Why, thank'ee, I'd rather not,' said mr Jackson, with some embarrassment of manner.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000058_000001.wav|I can't bear the sight on you, you brute.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000102_000000.wav|'What do you mean?' said mrs Bardell, with a palpitating heart.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000024_000000.wav|Master Bardell put his hands deeper down into his pockets, and nodded exactly thirty five times, to imply that it was the lady lodger, and no other.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000053_000000.wav|'Perhaps I am, ma'am.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000034_000001.wav|Even the lodger's little servant, who was thirteen years old and three feet high, murmured her sympathy.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000083_000000.wav|'Well?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000069_000000.wav|As the lady spoke these words, mr Jackson turned from the coach where he had been addressing some observations to a shabby man in black leggings, who had just emerged from the vehicle with a thick ash stick in his hand, and made his way to the place where the ladies were seated; winding his hair round the brim of his hat, as he came along.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000097_000002.wav|And they stared so!|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000094_000000.wav|'We're not going quite so far,' replied Jackson.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000093_000000.wav|'Bless us!' said the lady.'Are we at Freeman's Court?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000080_000002.wav|If you'll order the waiter to deliver him anything short, he won't drink it off at once, won't he!--only try him!' mr Jackson's fingers wandered playfully round his nose at this portion of his discourse, to warn his hearers that he was speaking ironically.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000106_000001.wav|'Who's the plaintives?|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000086_000001.wav|Shrewd creatures, those lawyers.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000018_000001.wav|Sanders is going, she is,' replied Tommy; 'I'm going too, I am.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000011_000001.wav|'The house with the red door, cabmin.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000018_000000.wav|'mrs|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000014_000003.wav|The whole edge of the thing had been taken off-it was flatter than walking.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000037_000001.wav|Thereupon the ladies cast indignant glances at mr Raddle.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000049_000001.wav|mrs Bardell was unanimously voted into the chair, and mrs Rogers being stationed on her right hand, and mrs Raddle on her left, the meal proceeded with great merriment and success.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000059_000002.wav|Now go away, Raddle, there's a good soul, or you'll only aggravate her.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000082_000000.wav|'Isaac,' said Jackson, as mrs Bardell prepared to get in, looking up at the man with the ash stick, who was seated on the box, smoking a cigar.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000043_000000.wav|'Oh, indeed!' said mrs Rogers graciously; for she was the lodger, and her servant was in waiting, so she was more gracious than intimate, in right of her position.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000071_000000.wav|'I called in Goswell Street,' resumed mr Jackson, 'and hearing that you were here, from the slavey, took a coach and came on.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000005_000000.wav|'Now vere am I to pull up?' inquired the driver.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000084_000000.wav|'This is mrs Bardell.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000065_000000.wav|'It's a gentleman,' said mrs Raddle.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000070_000002.wav|mrs Rogers whispered mrs Raddle that he was really an elegant young man.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000046_000001.wav|'Indeed, to tell you the truth, I said, as we was a coming along in the cabrioily-'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000009_000000.wav|'Aggrawatin' thing!' said the vixenish lady last mentioned, darting a withering glance at the heavy gentleman.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000022_000000.wav|'Oh! mrs Rogers is a goin',' replied Master Bardell, opening his eyes very wide as he delivered the intelligence.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000063_000000.wav|It was at this moment, that the sound of approaching wheels was heard, and that the ladies, looking up, saw a hackney coach stop at the garden gate.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000076_000000.wav|There was a certain degree of pride and importance about being wanted by one's lawyers in such a monstrous hurry, that was by no means displeasing to mrs Bardell, especially as it might be reasonably supposed to enhance her consequence in the eyes of the first floor lodger.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000106_000000.wav|'A prisoner!' said Sam, quickly replacing his hat.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000025_000001.wav|'It's quite a party!'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000077_000000.wav|'But won't you refresh yourself after your walk, mr Jackson?' said mrs Bardell persuasively.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000104_000000.wav|As Jackson hurried away in company with the man with the ash stick another man, with a key in his hand, who had been looking on, led the bewildered female to a second short flight of steps leading to a doorway.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000097_000000.wav|The room they turned into was even more odd looking than the porch.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000040_000000.wav|All the ladies concurred in this opinion; so mr Raddle was pushed out of the room, and requested to give himself an airing in the back yard. Which he did for about a quarter of an hour, when mrs Bardell announced to him with a solemn face that he might come in now, but that he must be very careful how he behaved towards his wife.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000095_000000.wav|mrs Bardell, not yet thoroughly awake, complied.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000086_000002.wav|Lord bless us, how they find people out!|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000062_000001.wav|But that description of fainting fits, which is contagious among ladies, seldom lasts long; so when he had been well kissed, and a little cried over, mrs Bardell recovered, set him down again, wondering how she could have been so foolish, and poured out some more tea.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000099_000000.wav|'Only one of our public offices,' replied Jackson, hurrying her through a door, and looking round to see that the other women were following. 'Look sharp, Isaac!'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000021_000000.wav|'Who else is a goin', lovey?' said mrs Cluppins, in an insinuating manner.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000002_000000.wav|'Stop at the house with a green door, driver,' said the heavy gentleman.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000103_000005.wav|Good night, Tommy!'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000023_000001.wav|The lady as has taken the lodgings!' ejaculated mrs Cluppins.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000091_000000.wav|'Certainly,' replied Jackson drily.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000105_000000.wav|'Don't bother the woman,' said the turnkey to Weller; 'she's just come in.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000033_000000.wav|This was scarcely fair upon the unfortunate mr Raddle, who had been thrust aside by his good lady in the commencement of the dispute, and peremptorily commanded to hold his tongue.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000055_000000.wav|Now, of all things in the world that the unfortunate man could have said, any would have been preferable to this.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000055_000001.wav|Of course mrs Bardell burst into tears, and requested to be led from the table instantly; upon which the affectionate child began to cry too, most dismally.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000057_000000.wav|'My dear,' remonstrated mr Raddle, 'I didn't mean anything, my dear.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000058_000000.wav|'You didn't mean!' repeated mrs Raddle, with great scorn and contempt. 'Go away.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000043_000001.wav|'Oh, indeed!'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000013_000000.wav|'Don't talk to me, don't, you brute, for fear I should be perwoked to forgit my sect and strike you!' said mrs Raddle.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000101_000000.wav|'Here we are at last.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000029_000000.wav|'Mother said I wasn't to,' rejoined Master Bardell, 'I'm a goin' to have some, I am.' Cheered by this prospect, the precocious boy applied himself to his infantile treadmill, with increased vigour.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000069_000001.wav|'Is anything the matter?|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000068_000000.wav|'Dear me, how slow the gentleman is,'exclaimed mrs Rogers.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000103_000002.wav|It was their duty in the way of business, to take you in execution for them costs; but they were anxious to spare your feelings as much as they could.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000072_000000.wav|'Lor!' ejaculated that lady, starting at the sudden nature of the communication.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000100_000000.wav|'Safe and sound,' replied the man with the ash stick.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000075_000000.wav|The ladies agreed that it WAS very strange, but were unanimously of opinion that it must be very important, or Dodson and Fogg would never have sent; and further, that the business being urgent, she ought to repair to Dodson and Fogg's without any delay.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000091_000002.wav|Quite.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000068_000001.wav|'Why doesn't he make haste!'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000097_000001.wav|Such a number of men standing about!|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000041_000000.wav|'Why, mrs Rogers, ma'am,' said mrs Bardell, 'you've never been introduced, I declare!|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000106_000002.wav|What for?|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000050_000000.wav|'How sweet the country is, to be sure!' sighed mrs Rogers; 'I almost wish I lived in it always.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000066_000001.wav|Surely mr Pickwick can't have paid the damages.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000106_000003.wav|Speak up, old feller.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000108_000002.wav|I want him directly.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000028_000001.wav|Come, Tommy, tell your dear Cluppy.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000059_000001.wav|'You really must consider yourself, my dear, which you never do.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000096_000002.wav|They followed.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000088_000000.wav|'I'm very sorry they can't get them,' replied mrs Bardell. 'But if you law gentlemen do these things on speculation, why you must get a loss now and then, you know.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000067_000000.wav|'Or hoffered marriage!' said mrs Cluppins.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000073_000000.wav|'Yes,' said mr Jackson, biting his lip.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000073_000003.wav|I've kept the coach on purpose for you to go back in.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000100_000001.wav|The door swung heavily after them, and they descended a small flight of steps.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000036_000000.wav|'Ah, what has decomposed you, ma'am?' inquired mrs Rogers.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000081_000001.wav|mr Jackson then said he was afraid it was time to go; upon which, mrs Sanders, mrs Cluppins, and Tommy (who it was arranged should accompany mrs Bardell, leaving the others to mr Raddle's protection), got into the coach.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000070_000000.wav|'Nothing whatever, ma'am,' replied mr Jackson.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000044_000000.wav|mrs Raddle smiled sweetly, mr Raddle bowed, and mrs Cluppins said, 'she was sure she was very happy to have an opportunity of being known to a lady which she had heerd so much in favour of, as mrs Rogers.' A compliment which the last named lady acknowledged with graceful condescension.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000094_000001.wav|'Have the goodness to step out.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000019_000000.wav|'Drat the boy,' said little mrs Cluppins. 'He thinks of nobody but himself.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000027_000000.wav|'What is there, Tommy?' said mrs Cluppins coaxingly.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000041_000001.wav|mr Raddle, ma'am; mrs Cluppins, ma'am; mrs Raddle, ma'am.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000056_000000.wav|'Would anybody believe, ma'am,' exclaimed mrs Raddle, turning fiercely to the first floor lodger, 'that a woman could be married to such a unmanly creetur, which can tamper with a woman's feelings as he does, every hour in the day, ma'am?'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000108_000003.wav|I see some good in this.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000059_000000.wav|'You must not flurry yourself, Mary Ann,' interposed mrs Cluppins.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000032_000000.wav|'It's put me all over in such a tremble, Betsy,' replied mrs Raddle. 'Raddle ain't like a man; he leaves everythink to me.'|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1265/135635/1265_135635_000010_000000.wav|'My dear, it's not my fault,' said the gentleman.|1265
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000004.wav|In their delicate walking amidst the fragile articles on a table or mantel piece, is illustrated the tact and discrimination by which we should thread rather than force our way; and, in pursuit of our own ends, avoid the injuring of others.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000010.wav|I never see a mrs Mouser rubbing her soft coat against me, with round upturned eyes, but I translate her purr into words like these:--'I can't swim; I can neither fetch and carry, nor guard the house; I can only love you, mistress; pray accept all I have to offer.'"|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000027_000000.wav|As a strong instance of attachment, I can quote the case of a she Cat of my own, which always waited for me in the passage when I returned home of an evening, and mounted upon my shoulder to ride upstairs.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000023_000001.wav|How many times have her tender caresses made me forget my troubles, and consoled me in my misfortunes.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000014.wav|A cat rolled up into a ball, or crouched with its paws folded underneath it, seems an emblem of repose and contentment.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000003.wav|No! their errors are thrust upon them; they become selfish per force, cowards from their tenacious regard for that personal neatness which they so labour to preserve.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000009.wav|Had Minette been a Thomas, a whiskered fur collared Philander, he would most probably have surmounted that unmanly weakness, and received all favours as but his due.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000006.wav|The curiosity with which they spy into all places, and the thorough smelling which any new object invariably receives from them, commends to us the pursuit of knowledge, even under difficulties.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000016_000000.wav|Gottfried Mind, the celebrated Swiss painter, was called the "Cat Raphael," from the excellence with which he painted that animal.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000031_000003.wav|One Cat was killed in such a wood; another in such a hedge row; some in traps, some shot, some knocked on the head with a stick; but what was most remarkable was the different expression of countenance observable in each individual head.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000025_000002.wav|During Madame Helvetius's last illness, the poor animal never quitted her chamber, and though it was removed after her death, it returned again next morning, and slowly and mournfully paced to and fro in the room, crying piteously all the time. Some days after its mistress's funeral, it was found stretched dead upon her grave, having, it would seem, died of grief.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000004_000003.wav|Thus, in this work of world-wide celebrity, is the feline race discussed.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000013_000004.wav|His followers in this place ever afterwards paid a great respect to Cats, and supported the hospital in question by public subscriptions with much liberality.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000000.wav|An anonymous writer says: "We may learn some useful lessons from Cats, as indeed, from all animals.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000013_000003.wav|It was at Damascus that the incident above related occurred to Mahomet.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000006_000006.wav|In a word, the Cat is totally destitute of friendship."|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000029_000000.wav|The Cat is reproached with treachery and cruelty, but Bigland argues that the artifices which it uses are the particular instincts which the all wise Creator has given it, in conformity with the purposes for which it was designed.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000024_000000.wav|You have heard, of course, of Doctor Johnson's feline favourite, and how it fell ill, and how he, thinking the servants might neglect it, himself turned Cat nurse, and having found out that the invalid had a fancy for oysters, daily administered them to poor Pussy until she had quite recovered.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000015_000001.wav|On the bishop requesting one of the chaplains to help the Signora Desdemona, the butler stepped up to his lordship, and observed, 'My lord, La Signora Desdemona will prefer waiting for the roasts.'"|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000031_000004.wav|One had died fighting desperately to the last, and giving up its nine lives inch by inch.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000007.wav|Cats, however, will never smell the same thing twice over, thereby showing a retentive as well as an acquiring faculty.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000005.wav|In their noiseless tread and stealthy movements, we are reminded of the frequent importance of secresy and caution prior to action, while their promptitude at the right moment, warns us, on the other hand, against the evils of irresolution and delay.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000017_000004.wav|It is said that Minette sometimes occupied his lap, while two or three kittens perched on his shoulders; and he was often known to remain for an hour together in almost the same attitude for fear of disturbing them; yet he was generally thought to be a passionate, sour tempered man.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000031_000002.wav|There was a story attached to each head.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000029_000001.wav|Being destined to prey upon a lively and active animal like the mouse, which possesses so many means of escape, it is requisite that it should be artful; and, indeed, the Cat, when well observed, exhibits the most evident proofs of a particular adaptation to a particular purpose, and the most striking example of a peculiar instinct suited to its destiny.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000016_000003.wav|Mind offered to show what he could do, and did draw a Cat, which Frendenberger liked so much that he asked his pupil to elaborate the sketch, and the master copied the scholar's work, for it is Mind's Cat that is engraved in Frendenberger's plate.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000005_000000.wav|"The Cat is a faithless domestic, and only kept through necessity to oppose to another domestic which incommodes us still more, and which we cannot drive away; for we pay no respect to those, who, being fond of all beasts, keep Cats for amusement.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000018.wav|You never get to the bottom of Cats.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000016_000001.wav|This peculiar talent was discovered and awakened by chance.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000005_000002.wav|They are, naturally, inclined to theft, and the best education only converts them into servile and flattering robbers; for they have the same address, subtlety, and inclination for mischief or rapine.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000023_000002.wav|My beautiful companion at length perished.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000018_000000.wav|There is a funny story told of Barrett, the painter, another lover of Cats.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000022_000000.wav|"Dear me," cried Barrett, "so she could; well, I never thought of that."|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000012_000000.wav|Instances are frequent, I am happy to tell Cat haters, of illustrious persons who have been attached to the feline race, and of Cats who have merited such attachment.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000008.wav|poor Pussies!|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000018_000001.wav|He had for pets a Cat and a kitten, its progeny.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000021_000000.wav|"But," said his friend, "could not the little one go through the big hole?"|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000024_000002.wav|I dare say now, in that tavern parlour where the lexicographer held forth so ably after sun set, he made but scant allusion to his nursing feats, lest some mad wit might have twitted him upon the subject, for you may be sure that the wits of those days, as of ours, could have been mighty satirical on such a theme.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000008_000000.wav|"No!|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000031_000005.wav|Caught in a trap, it had lingered the night through in dreadful agony, the pain of its entrapped limb causing it to make furious efforts to free itself, each effort but lending another torment to the wound.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000037_000000.wav|"Authors seem to delight in exaggerating the good qualities of the Dog, while they depreciate those of the Cat; the latter, however, is not less useful, and certainly less mischievous, than the former."|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000019_000000.wav|"Why," replied his friend, "would not one do for both?"|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000033_000000.wav|A third head belonged to a poor little Puss that had died before it had attained the age of cathood; her young life had been knocked out of her with a stick: her head still retained the kitten's playful look, and there was an appealing expression about it as though it had died quickly, wondering in what it had done wrong.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000007.wav|Suppose they only fawn on us because we house and feed them, they have no nobler proofs of friendship with which to thank us; and if their very gratitude for this self interested hire be adduced as a crime, alas!|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000010_000004.wav|Oh! that all females made such good use of their tongues!|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000011_000009.wav|What Cat was ever awkward or clumsy?|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000030_000001.wav|The fox leaves the legs and hinder parts of a hare or rabbit; the weasel and stoat eat the brains, and nibble about the head, and suck the blood; crows and magpies peck at the eyes; the dog tears his prey to pieces indiscriminately; the Cat always turns the skin inside out like a glove.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000006_000001.wav|In his opinion the cat "is a useful but deceitful domestic.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000020_000000.wav|"You silly man," answered the painter, "how could the big Cat get into the little hole?"|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000034_000000.wav|I find a writer upon Cats who speaks thus in their praise:--|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000016_000002.wav|At the time when Frendenberger painted his picture of the "Peasant Clearing Wood," before his cottage, with his wife sitting by, and feeding her child out of a basin, round which a Cat is prowling, Mind, his new pupil, stared very hard at the sketch of this last figure, and Frendenberger asked with a smile whether he thought he could draw a better.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296467/9023_296467_000004_000004.wav|I give the author's words as I find them:--|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000029_000000.wav|Few, even amongst Pussy's most ardent admirers, who possess the faculty of hearing, and have heard the music of Cats, would desire the continuance of their "sweet voices"; yet a concert was exhibited at Paris, wherein Cats were the performers.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000014_000000.wav|A Cat, when falling with its head downwards, curls its body, so that the back forms an arch, while the legs remain extended.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000039_000007.wav|The same gentleman, writing of a favourite Cat, says, that if a hair of her mistress's head were laid upon the animal's back it would writhe as though in agony, and rolling on the floor, would strive to free herself from the object of her fears.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000033_000000.wav|Being an animal which hunts both by day and night, the structure of its visual organs is adjusted for both.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000010_000003.wav|All Cats are fond of warmth.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000017_000003.wav|It is a half bred Persian Cat, and its eyes are perfectly blue, with round pupils, not elongated, as those of Cats usually are.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000045_000000.wav|The she Cat goes with young from fifty five to fifty eight days, and generally has four or five kittens at a litter.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000006_000002.wav|He is slye and wittie, and seeth so sharpely that he overcommeth darkness of the nighte by the shyninge lyghte of his eyne.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000009_000001.wav|I have noticed this often myself, and have seen them rush about in a half wild state just before windy weather.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000040_000000.wav|It is difficult to account for the fondness of Cats for fish, as nature seems to have given them an appetite, which, with their great antipathy to water, they can rarely gratify unassisted.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000012_000001.wav|I knew that the sunny side would be left for me, and that Cats prefer the sunshine."|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000032_000002.wav|The rete mirabile is much developed in the sheep, but scarcely perceptible in the Cat.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000018_000001.wav|A Cat caught a sparrow, and was about to devour it, but the sparrow said,|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000047_000000.wav|"No experiment," says an intelligent writer, "can be more beautiful than that of setting a kitten for the first time before a looking glass.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000021_000000.wav|"As long as I live I will eat first and wash my face afterwards."|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000012_000000.wav|"Your Royal Highness," said Fox, "chose, of course, the shady side of the way as most agreeable.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000035_000000.wav|The cornea of the eye of the Cat, and of many other animals, has a great power of concentrating the rays and reflecting them through the pupil. Professor Bohn, at Leipsic, made experiments proving that when the external light is wholly excluded, none can be seen in the Cat's eye.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000039_000005.wav|The Reverend mr Wood expresses an opinion, that on account of the superabundance of electricity which is developed in the Cat, the animal is found very useful to paralysed persons, who instinctively encourage its approach, and from the touch derive some benefit.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000011_000001.wav|The Prince asked for an explanation of this apparent miracle.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000029_000001.wav|They were placed in rows, and a monkey beat time to them, as the Cats mewed; and the historian of the facts relates that the diversity of the tones which they emitted produced a very ludicrous effect.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000036_000000.wav|A German savant says, that at the end of each hair of a Cat's whiskers is a sort of bulb of nervous substance, which converts it into a most sensitive feeler.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000013_000001.wav|Cats alight softly on their feet, because in the middle of the foot is a large ball or pad in five parts, formed of an elastic substance, and at the base of each toe is a similar pad.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000025_000001.wav|A cat can look round pretty far behind it without moving its body, which might be apt to startle its prey. The spine of the Cat is very full and loose, in order that all its movements in all possible directions and circumstances may be free and unrestrained.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000040_000004.wav|At other times they were seen at opposite sides of the river, not far from each other, on the look out for game.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000040_000002.wav|A mr Moody, of Sesmond, near Newcastle upon Tyne, had a Cat in eighteen twenty nine which had been in his possession for some years, and caught fish with great assiduity, and frequently brought them home alive.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000033_000001.wav|The retina, or expansion of the optic nerve, is most sensitive to the stimulus of light; hence, a well marked ciliary muscle contracts the pupil to a mere vertical fissure during the day, while in the dark, the pupil dilates enormously, and lets in as much light as possible.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000034_000002.wav|When these rays reach the observer direct, he sees the lamps or luminiferous bodies themselves, but when he is out of their direct sight, the brightness of their illumination only becomes apparent, through the rays being collected and reflected by some appropriate substance.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000020_000001.wav|This vexed Pussy extremely, and he said,|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000035_000004.wav|When the animal is alarmed, or first disturbed, it naturally dilates the pupil, and the eye glares; when it is appeased or composed, the pupil contracts, and the light in the eye is no longer seen.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000041_000001.wav|She is now seven years old, and has long been a useful caterer.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000038_000004.wav|They stand out on each side in the lion, as well as in the common Cat; so that, from point to point, they are equal in width to the animal's body.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000038_000002.wav|They are organs of touch; they are attached to a bed of close glands under the skin; and each of these long and stiff hairs is connected with the nerves of the lip.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000018_000000.wav|Do you know why Cats always wash themselves after a meal?|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000046_000006.wav|It was clear that he had made me a present of the game; and, as we sometimes think, when we make anyone a present of something to eat, it would be more delicate for us to go away immediately, lest it might be supposed we desired to be asked to stop and partake of it, Tom thus departed, no doubt with a similar idea.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000026_000000.wav|"'A May kitten makes a dirty Cat,' is a piece of Huntingdonshire folk lore," says mr Cuthbert Bede, "quoted to me in order to deter me from keeping a kitten that had been born in May."|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000040_000001.wav|Many instances have, however, been recorded of Cats catching fish.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000023_000000.wav|A French writer says, the three animals that waste most time over their toilet are cats, flies, and women.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000038_000005.wav|If we imagine, therefore, a lion stealing through a covert of wood in an imperfect light, we shall at once see the use of these long hairs.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000030_000000.wav|This would seem to prove that Cats may be taught tricks, which is not generally believed, but is nevertheless the case.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000025_000002.wav|For this purpose, too, all the joints which connect its bones together are extremely loose and free.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000043_000001.wav|The animal is certainly rare, as is also a Queen Anne's farthing; but it is not such a rarity as we are led to believe.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000010_000001.wav|This is a question I cannot say I have gone into deeply.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000013_000000.wav|Cats usually, but not always, fall on their feet, because of the facility with which they balance themselves when springing from a height, which power of balancing is in some degree produced by the flexibility of the heel, the bones of which have no fewer than four joints.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000046_000003.wav|I have a black Cat, which is very fat, but a wonderful huntsman, and surprisingly nimble at the chase.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000025_000005.wav|The shape of the external ear, or rather cartilaginous portion, is admirably adapted to intercept sounds.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000033_000008.wav|Hence, in common with most animals, the Cat is furnished with a nictitating membrane, which is, in fact, a third eyelid, sliding over the transparent cornea beneath the common eyelids.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000047_000002.wav|It again views itself, and tries to touch the image with its foot, suddenly looking at intervals behind the glass.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000038_000000.wav|"Every one must have observed what are usually called the "whiskers" on a Cat's upper lip.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/9023/296468/9023_296468_000046_000002.wav|A good mouser does not eat the mouse.|9023
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000038_000002.wav|They were amazed that any one could be so mean, and longed to tell their Aunt Allison all about it; still, one of the conditions on which they had bought the bear was that they were to "keep mum," and they stuck strictly to that promise.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000017_000002.wav|The poor beast's foot is still too lame for him to do his best, and you're too kind hearted, I am sure, to want anything to suffer in order to give you pleasure."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000016_000000.wav|"Oh, goody!" cried Keith.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000061_000001.wav|"She is the prettiest girl here."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000070_000000.wav|Malcolm and Keith, with guilty faces, went dashing up the stairs, and the whole party followed them at a respectful distance.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000026_000000.wav|But the man shook his head, when they dashed into the cabin and told their errand.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000002.wav|The last to arrive was the Little Colonel.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000032_000004.wav|They were leading the bear between them.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000070_000004.wav|It was some time before they could make their story understood.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000055_000003.wav|Aunt Allison thinks it wouldn't be fair."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000034_000001.wav|They looked into each other's frightened faces, and then glanced around the dark barn in alarm.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000030_000005.wav|It wouldn't seem like he is really ours if we couldn't take him with us."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000040_000001.wav|"We'll tell her that we have a valentine six feet long, and keep her guessing."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000007_000000.wav|"Then let's go down before breakfast," exclaimed Keith, springing out of bed and beginning to dress himself.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000018_000001.wav|The man was a shrewd one, and knew well how to make these unsuspecting little souls serve his purpose, like puppets tied to a string.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000066_000004.wav|Before she could reach the staircase, Virginia came flying down the steps, white as a little ghost, and her eyes wide with terror.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000020_000000.wav|Every mail brought a few valentines to each of them, but it was not until the five o'clock train came that they found the long looked for letters from their father and mother.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000018_000000.wav|"Of course," answered both the boys, agreeing so quickly to all the man's smooth speeches that, before they left the cabin, they had renewed their promise to keep silent one more day.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000001.wav|They had been invited for half past six, and dinner was to be served soon after that time.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000046_000003.wav|But isn't it a splendid imitation?"|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000007.wav|Maybe it was not so much for the soft light hair, the star like beauty of her big dark eyes, or the delicate colour in her cheeks that made them as pink as a wild rose, as it was for the valentine costume she wore.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000007_000001.wav|A little while later, the old coloured coachman saw them run past the window, where he was warming himself by the kitchen stove.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000073_000002.wav|He was used to being pulled out to perform whenever a crowd could be collected.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000059_000000.wav|Down stairs, Malcolm and Keith were almost quarrelling about her.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000012_000001.wav|It's nicer than any pets we ever had, except the ponies.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000021_000005.wav|a base ball player.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000023_000001.wav|"Seems to me I have everything I want except a camera, and I couldn't buy the kind I want for two dollars."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000051_000000.wav|"Pull!" cried the little Queen of Hearts.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000074_000002.wav|She had a horror of tramps.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000058_000002.wav|Her dark eyes peered anxiously around the big shadowy room, lighted only by her flickering taper.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000078_000001.wav|The little Queen of Hearts listened smilingly, but her colour did not come back all evening, until after the archery contest.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000042_000001.wav|"I guess he'll not mind, though.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000065_000002.wav|I'll give you that Chinese puzzle you've been wanting so long if you will." Keith shook his head.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000047_000000.wav|Virginia, pleased to have caught them so cleverly, showed them the ends of twenty four pieces of narrow ribbon, peeping from under the delicately brown top crust.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000017_000001.wav|Give us one more day to rest up and get in a little better trim.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000027_000001.wav|He turned away, too disappointed to trust himself to answer any other way.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000078_000000.wav|Keith took Lloyd down to dinner, and his grandmother heard him apologising all the way down for having frightened her.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000034_000002.wav|An old cap pushed up through the hay.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000045_000003.wav|Mamma would never do such a thing."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000074_000003.wav|But the boys begged her to wait until daylight for Jonesy's sake.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000023_000000.wav|"I don't know what to get with mine," said Keith, folding his two bills together.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000051_000001.wav|The paper crust flew off, and twenty four yards of ribbon, each with a valentine attached, fluttered brightly through the air for an instant.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000010_000000.wav|Daphne had seen them setting rabbit traps there, but she knew well enough that was not what they had gone for now, and that the food they carried was not for the game of Robinson Crusoe, which they had played in the deserted cabin the summer before.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000070_000002.wav|The huge figure was certainly enough to frighten any one coming upon it unexpectedly in the dark, and when Miss Allison saw it she drew Virginia's trembling hand into hers with a sympathetic clasp.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000014_000000.wav|"Yes, and the gold fish, and the little baby alligator that froze to death in its tank," added Keith.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000053_000002.wav|Aunt Allison has forgotten where she put the box of arrows that we are to use in the archery contest after dinner.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000079_000000.wav|"Will you keep it to remember me by?" he asked, bashfully.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000058_000000.wav|It was a pretty picture that the little "Queen of Hearts" made, as she stood in the doorway, with the tall silver candlestick held high in both hands.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000046_000001.wav|She fooled us, sure, Malcolm," called back Keith, who had run on ahead to look.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000005_000000.wav|"Now we can tell Ginger about the bear," was Keith's first remark, when he awoke early next morning.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000044_000000.wav|Looking over the banisters, the boys saw that a table had been drawn into the middle of the wide reception hall, and on it sat the largest pie that they had ever seen.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000035_000005.wav|He never saw the bear till two months ago, and he sold it to you cheap because he's a goin' to steal it back again to night, and make off up the road with it.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000029_000005.wav|You can leave the bear here till we go."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000064_000000.wav|"Don't want your old stamps," declared Keith, stoutly.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000031_000000.wav|After some grumbling the man consented, and pocketed the four dollars, first asking very particularly the exact spot in the barn where they expected to hide their huge pet.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000032_000002.wav|There was no answer, and, after peering intently through the dusk for a moment, the old darkey concluded that he must have been mistaken, and passed on.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000000.wav|The guests came promptly.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000037_000001.wav|There was a hurried consultation in the hay mow.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000033_000000.wav|"We'll put him away back in the hay mow where he'll be warm and comfortable to night," whispered Malcolm.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000070_000003.wav|Before she could ask any questions, the boys began an excited explanation.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000032_000003.wav|As soon as he was gone, the boys came out from behind the cedars, and crept up the snowy hillside.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000056_000003.wav|Nobody comes over in this part of the house much in winter, unless there happens to be a great deal of company."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000025_000001.wav|"Come on, we'll ask the man now."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000027_000002.wav|The tears sprang to Keith's eyes.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000009_000002.wav|Lak enough dee's settin' a rabbit trap.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000066_000001.wav|Two voices were uttering piercing shrieks, one after another, so loud and frantic that even the servants in the back part of the house came running.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000019_000000.wav|Miss Allison was so busy with preparations for the party that she had no time all that day to notice what the boys were doing.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000055_000001.wav|"I used to practise so much with my Indian bow and arrow out at the fort, that I could hit centre nearly every time.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000024_000000.wav|They were half-way home when a happy thought came to Malcolm.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000070_000001.wav|When they opened the door the room looked very big and shadowy, and the bear, roused from its nap, was standing on its hind legs beside the high posted bed.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000029_000002.wav|You've been so kind to me that I ought to be willing to make any sacrifice for you.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000061_000000.wav|"'cause yours matches the Little Colonel's, and I want to take her out to dinner," admitted Malcolm.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000014_000002.wav|As soon as papa comes home I am going to ask him to buy us one."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000035_000007.wav|I'll never forget the little kid's givin' me the coat off his own back, if I live to be a hundred.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000015_000000.wav|"Jonesy's nearly done for," said the tramp, pointing to the boy who lay curled up in the hay, coughing at nearly every breath.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000058_000001.wav|Her hair shone like gold in the candlelight, and her glittering crown flashed as if a circle of fairy fireflies had been caught in its soft meshes.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000026_000001.wav|"No, sonny, that ain't a tenth of what it's worth to me," he said.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000028_000001.wav|"Papa will get us one when he comes home and finds how much we want one."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000022_000002.wav|They couldn't find anything down on the coast that they thought we would like."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000003.wav|She came in charge of an old coloured woman, Mom Beck, who had been her mother's nurse as well as her own.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000066_000000.wav|Just then a terrific scream sounded in the upper hall, followed by another that made every one down stairs turn pale with fright.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000004.wav|The child was so hidden in her wraps when Mom Beck led her up stairs, that no one could tell how she looked.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000021_000004.wav|Isn't it a stunner?|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000033_000001.wav|"Then in the morning we can tell everybody."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000049_000000.wav|"The Queen of Hearts," announced Aunt Allison, leading her forward.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000038_000000.wav|All the time that they were dressing for the party, they were trying to decide where to put it for the night, so that neither the tramp nor the family could discover it.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000030_000000.wav|"No!|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000041_000000.wav|There was no time for teasing, however, as the first guest arrived while they were still in the blue room.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000026_000003.wav|I've taught it, and fed it, and looked to it for company when I hadn't nobody in the world to care for me.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000064_000001.wav|"I'd rather have the Little Colonel for my partner."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000073_000001.wav|Keith whistled and kept time with his feet in a funny little shuffling jig he had learned from Jonesy, and the bear obligingly went through all his tricks.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER three.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000021_000001.wav|"I'll bet that papa's is a comic one.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000004_000000.wav|THE VALENTINE PARTY.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000066_000002.wav|Miss Allison, thinking of the candle she had told Virginia to light, and remembering the thin, white dress the child wore, instantly thought she must have set herself afire.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000048_000006.wav|A few minutes later, when she appeared in the parlours, there was a buzz of admiration.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000063_000000.wav|"I'll give you the pick of any six stamps in my album if you will."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000053_000001.wav|"Come up stairs with me for a minute, Lloyd," she whispered, "and help me look for something.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000077_000000.wav|There seemed no other way to settle it just then, so Bruin was allowed to go back to his rug in the blue room, and the door was securely locked.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000019_000001.wav|When they came back from reciting their lessons to the minister, she sent them on several errands, but the rest of the time they divided between the cabin and the post office.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000053_000003.wav|There is the prettiest prize for the one who hits the red heart in the centre of the target."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000009_000000.wav|Daphne, who had just been coaxed into filling a basket with a generous supply of cold victuals, pretended not to hear until he repeated his question.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000035_000002.wav|He started to the store for some tobacco as soon as you left.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000013_000000.wav|"Haven't we had a lot of things, when you come to think of it?" exclaimed Malcolm.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000066_000005.wav|Throwing herself into her aunt's outstretched arms, she began to sob out her story between great, trembling gasps.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000072_000001.wav|Let me bring him into the light, and show you what a kind old pet he is."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000083_000003.wav|No, there was one lamp that still burned.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000056_000000.wav|When they reached the top of the stairs, Virginia went into her room to light a wax taper in one of the tall silver candlesticks on her dressing table.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000025_000000.wav|"Let's do it!" exclaimed Keith, turning a handspring in the snow to show his delight.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000053_000000.wav|In the midst of it Virginia beckoned to the Little Colonel.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000055_000002.wav|I am not going to shoot to night.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000050_000000.wav|The big music box in the hall began playing one of its liveliest waltzes, the children gathered around the great pie, and twenty four little hands reached out to grasp the floating ends of ribbon.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000027_000003.wav|He had set his heart on having that bear.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000021_000000.wav|"I knew they'd each send us a valentine," cried Keith, tearing both of his open.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000067_000004.wav|It was so awful!" she wailed.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000067_000001.wav|It rose up and came after us out of the corner, and if I hadn't slammed the door just in time, it would have eaten us up.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000059_000001.wav|It began by Malcolm taking his brother aside and offering to trade valentines with him.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000043_000001.wav|"See what an enormous valentine pie Aunt Allison has made!"|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000062_000001.wav|"I want to take her myself."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000045_000001.wav|"Why don't they have it in the dining room?|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000014_000001.wav|"But a bear like this would be nicer than any of them.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000056_000001.wav|"I think that Aunt Allison must have left those arrows in the blue room," she said, leading the way down the cross hall which went to the north wing.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000039_000000.wav|By the time they were dressed, they had decided to put it in the blue room, a guest chamber in the north wing, seldom used in winter, because it was so hard to heat.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000045_000000.wav|"What a queer place to serve pie," said Malcolm, in a disapproving undertone to his brother.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000045_000002.wav|It looks mighty good, but somehow it doesn't seem proper to have it stuck out here in the hall.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000052_000000.wav|"Now match your verses," cried her Majesty again, opening her own to read what was in it.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000075_000000.wav|"The man will beat him if he finds out that Jonesy warned us," pleaded Keith.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46267/5655_46267_000082_000001.wav|"But there's one comfort," she added, gathering all her gay valentines together, "there needn't be any end to the remembering of it.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000041_000001.wav|Then they explored his cottage, much amused by his queer housekeeping, cracked nuts on the hearth, and roasted apples on a string in front of the fire.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000024_000000.wav|"Then what made him take to his heels so fast if he didn't?" some one asked.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000007.wav|He slept in the cellar of one of its poorest tenement houses, and lived in the gutters.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000032_000000.wav|"Yes," said mrs Maclntyre; "and when this little tramp is sent away, I want the children to go there often.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000087_000000.wav|"This would be a real sharing of themselves, all their time and best energies, for they will have to work hard to get up such an entertainment as this.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000003_000000.wav|Some people said that old Johann Heinrich never slept, for no matter what hour of the night one passed his lonely little house, a lamp was always burning.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000027_000002.wav|Sat beside him and talked with him!|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000086_000000.wav|"'Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare.'|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000073_000000.wav|"I bid to show off the bear," cried Malcolm, entering into Virginia's plan at once.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000008_000001.wav|"Somebody vill shust in his bed be burnt, if old Johann does not haste make!"|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000045_000000.wav|"Yes, so grandmother said," answered Keith.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000062_000000.wav|"Shouldn't be surprised," said Malcolm, beginning to whistle.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000030_000000.wav|"What a blessing that there are such places as orphan asylums for children of that class," said mrs Maclntyre, after one of her visits to him.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000044_000001.wav|"Barney is my brother, you know."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000058_000000.wav|Jonesy took his little snub nose out of the pillow as the professor came in, and looked around defiantly as if ready to fight the first one who dared to hint that he had been crying.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000072_000001.wav|"I've thought of a good way.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000072_000005.wav|We were always having them out at the fort."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000025_000000.wav|"I don't know," answered Jonesy.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000048_000002.wav|Now the bear's sold and the boss has run away, and I don't know how I can get back to Barney.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000026_000002.wav|There was no mistaking him.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000031_000002.wav|What a child lover he is, and what a delightful old man in every way!|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000016_000000.wav|Jonesy had struck out at the wall of fire with his helpless little hands, and then, half crazed by the scorching pain, dropped to the floor and crawled in the opposite direction, just as the professor burst open the door.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000043_000001.wav|"You haven't said a word for the last half hour."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000058_000002.wav|Then they walked slowly up to the house, their arms thrown across each other's shoulders.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000072_000002.wav|We'll give Jonesy a benefit, like great singers have.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER four.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000029_000002.wav|No one would ever find his cheek a tempting one to kiss, and no one would be moved, by any feeling save pity, to stoop and put affectionate arms around Jonesy.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000063_000000.wav|Virginia found them in the library, a little while later, sitting on the hearth rug, tailor fashion.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000031_000000.wav|"I think he will be very loath to leave the old professor," answered Miss Allison.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000031_000001.wav|"He has been so good to the child, amusing him by the hour with his microscopes and collections of insects, telling him those delightful old German folk lore tales, and putting him to sleep every night to the music of his violin.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000001.wav|"I do not believe their mother would like it," she answered.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000003_000003.wav|Why he should have chosen Lloydsborough Valley as the place to settle for the remainder of his life, no one could tell.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000054_000003.wav|"I've got Barney!|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000027_000009.wav|I shall see what can be done about it, as soon as possible."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000006_000001.wav|Then a tongue of flame shot up through the cedars, and another and another until the sky was red with an angry glare.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000013_000001.wav|"Is the child badly burned?|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000072_000000.wav|"Now you've made me think of it," cried Virginia, excitedly.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000029_000000.wav|Maybe if Jonesy had been an attractive child, with a sensitive mouth, and big, appealing eyes, he might have found his way more easily into people's hearts.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000011_000000.wav|Dragging the child to a safe distance from the burning building, he ran back, fearing that some one else might be in danger, but this time the flames met him at the door, and it was impossible to go in.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000022_000004.wav|There they suddenly disappeared.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000018_000001.wav|"Since it happened on our place, and my little nephews brought him here, it seems to me that we ought to have the care of him."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000085_000000.wav|When Miss Allison kept her promise she did not go to her mother with the children's story of Jonesy, to move her to pity.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000018_000000.wav|"But I feel responsible for him," urged Miss Allison.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000043_000000.wav|"What makes you so still, Jonesy?" he asked.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000012_000001.wav|She had an eiderdown quilt wrapped around her over her dressing gown.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000044_000000.wav|"I was thinking about Barney," he answered, keeping his face turned away.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000032_000002.wav|He is as poor as a church mouse, and would be very glad of the money."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000006_000002.wav|It lighted up the eastern window panes of the servants' cottage, but the inmates, tired from the unusual serving of the evening before, slept on.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000074_000001.wav|How many tableaux are you going to have, Ginger?"|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000041_000000.wav|They took the bear with them, which Jonesy welcomed like a lost friend. They spent an interesting hour among the professor's collections, listening to his explanations in his funny broken English.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000082_000000.wav|Aunt Allison answered Malcolm's last remark a little sternly.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000040_000000.wav|Notwithstanding mrs Maclntyre's fears, she consented to the boys visiting Jonesy that afternoon.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000077_000000.wav|"Let's get Aunt Allison on our side," suggested Virginia.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000088_000001.wav|I do want to keep them unspotted from a knowledge of the world's evils, but I do not want to make them selfish. If this little beggar at the gate can teach them where to find the Holy Grail, through unselfish service to him, I do not want to stand in the way.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000022_000003.wav|He found some tracks presently, and followed them over the meadow in the starlight, across the road, and down the railroad track several rods.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000003_000002.wav|He had been a professor in a large university until he grew too old to keep his position.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000012_000000.wav|While the professor was bending over Jonesy, trying to bring him back to consciousness, Miss Allison came running down the path.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000054_000002.wav|But I've got somebody!" he cried.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000005_000000.wav|To night he had read later than usual, and his fire was nearly out.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000014_000001.wav|The old professor shook his head, but did not look up.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000023_000001.wav|"We nearly froze to death that night," he said, when questioned about it afterward, "and the boss piled on an awful big lot of wood just before he went to bed."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000062_000001.wav|Keith joined in, and keeping step to the tune, like two soldiers, they marched on into the house.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000070_000000.wav|"How?" demanded Malcolm.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000083_000002.wav|"Then I'll go down stairs and put the matter before her, and report to you at dinner time.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000035_000000.wav|"Poor little lamb," murmured Miss Allison.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000078_000002.wav|They had come back before the little water colour sketch she was making was quite finished.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000008.wav|He has a brother only a little older, who is a bootblack.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000013_000002.wav|Is any one else hurt?|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000057_000002.wav|He's always helping people that get into trouble."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000070_000002.wav|You can't pick fruit in the dead of winter, can you? or pull weeds, or rake leaves? What other way is there?"|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000027_000000.wav|"And to think that that terrible man was harboured on my place!" exclaimed mrs MacIntyre when she heard of it.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000036_000004.wav|They have been two months on the road, and showed the bear in the country places they passed through. They avoided the large towns."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000042_000001.wav|Presently the old man left the room and Keith sat down on the side of the bed.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000059_000001.wav|"S'pose that you and I were left of all the family, and didn't have any friends in the world, and I was to get separated from you and couldn't get back?"|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000076_000000.wav|Malcolm promptly turned a somersault on the rug, to express his approval, but came up with a grave face, saying, "I'll bet that grandmother will say we can't have it."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000022_000005.wav|The tramp had evidently walked on the rail some distance.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000072_000004.wav|I love to arrange tableaux.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000052_000000.wav|He was crying violently now.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000015_000001.wav|Then there had been an awful moment of groping through the blinding, choking smoke, trying to find a way out.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000010_000002.wav|Dashing frantically around to the back door, he threw himself against it, shouting to know if any one was within.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000066_000002.wav|He has only a few dollars a month to live on.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000065_000001.wav|But if he could see Jonesy,--how pitiful looking he is, and hear him crying to go back to his brother, I know he'd feel the way we do about it."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000049_000001.wav|There was something so pitiful in the gesture that Keith looked across at Malcolm and then patted the bedclothes with an affectionate little hand.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000064_000000.wav|"Why don't you write to your father?" asked Virginia, when they had told her the story of their visit.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000009_000002.wav|He ran like a boy across the meadow, through the gap in the fence, and down the hill to the cabin by the spring.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000061_000000.wav|"Don't you s'pose Jonesy feels as badly about it as we would?" asked Keith.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000038_000002.wav|His speech is something shocking; nothing but the slang of the streets, and so ungrammatical that I could scarcely understand him at times.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000087_000001.wav|It isn't for Jonesy's sake I ask it, but for the children's own good."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000032_000001.wav|I asked him if he could not teach them this spring, at least make a beginning with them in natural history, and he appeared much pleased.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000079_000000.wav|There was no disappointment, however, in the bright face she turned toward them, and Virginia lost no time in beginning her story.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000015_000002.wav|The man sprang to a window and made his escape, but as the outside air rushed in through the opening he left, it seemed to fan the smoke instantly into flame.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000007_000000.wav|The old professor, on his way to the kitchen, noticed that it seemed strangely light outside.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000084_000000.wav|"Yes," they cried in chorus, "you're on our side.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000058_000001.wav|The boys took their leave soon after, leading the bear back to his new quarters in the carriage house, where they had made him a comfortable den.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000017_000002.wav|He said that he knew how to prepare the cooling bandages that were needed, and that he would sit up all night to apply them.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000068_000000.wav|"Yes," said Malcolm, "but that doesn't help matters much, for we children are the only ones who want him to stay, and our monthly allowances, all put together, wouldn't be enough."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000075_000001.wav|We can have the Little Colonel and the bear for 'Beauty and the Beast.'"|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000009.wav|On days when shines were plentiful they had something to eat, otherwise they starved or begged."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000006_000003.wav|It shone full across the window of Virginia's room, but she was dreaming of being chased by bears, and only turned uneasily in her sleep.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000084_000001.wav|It's all right now!" With a series of hearty hugs that left her almost breathless, they hurried away.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000049_000000.wav|The little fellow's lip quivered, and he put up one bandaged hand to wipe away the hot tears that would keep coming, in spite of his efforts not to make a baby of himself.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000025_000001.wav|"He said that luck was always against him, and maybe he thought nobody would believe him if he did say that he didn't do it."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000013_000003.wav|Is the tramp in the cabin?"|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000009_000000.wav|Not waiting to close the door behind him, or even to catch up something to protect his old bald head from the intense cold of the winter night, he ran out across the garden.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000073_000001.wav|"May be I'll learn something to recite, too."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000010_000001.wav|The fire was curling around the front door and bursting through the windows with fierce cracklings.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000014_000002.wav|He was bending over Jonesy, trying to restore him to consciousness.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000079_000001.wav|She had been elected to tell it, but before it was done all three had had a part in the telling, and all three were waiting with wistful eyes for her answer.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000021_000000.wav|There was no opposing the old man's masterful way.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000010_000004.wav|It was Jonesy.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000009_000001.wav|His shuffling feet, in their flapping old carpet slippers, forgot their rheumatism, and his shoulders dropped the weight of their seventy years.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000039_000001.wav|"Surely he cannot know so very much badness or hurt the boys if they go down to cheer him up for a little while."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000031_000003.wav|I am glad we have discovered him."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000026_000003.wav|That big, ugly scar branded him on cheek and forehead like another Cain.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000063_000001.wav|They were still talking about Jonesy.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000066_000001.wav|But he said that he is too poor.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000063_000002.wav|They could think of nothing else but the loneliness of the little waif, and his pitiful appeal: "Oh, don't let them shut me up where I can't never get back to Barney."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000082_000002.wav|"There is nobody in the valley so generous and kind to the poor as your grandmother." "Yes'm," said Virginia, meekly, "but you'll ask her, won't you please, auntie?"|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000078_000001.wav|This was the first time that she had touched her brushes since the children's coming, and she had hoped that this one afternoon would be free from interruption, when she heard them planning their afternoon's occupations at the lunch table.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000036_000003.wav|They walked all the way from Chicago to Lloydsborough, Jones told me, excepting three days' journey they made in a wagon.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000028_000001.wav|It seemed to set poor Jonesy apart from themselves as something unclean,--something that their happy, well filled lives must not be allowed to touch.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000039_000000.wav|"But he is so little, mother, and so sick and pitiful looking," pleaded Miss Allison.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000080_000000.wav|"Well, what is it you want me to do?" she asked, finally.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000000.wav|mrs MacIntyre hesitated.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000083_000001.wav|"Wait until I finish this," she said.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000083_000000.wav|Miss Allison smiled at her persistence.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000017_000003.wav|He could not sleep anyhow, he said, after such great excitement.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000028_000000.wav|"A child of the slums!" Malcolm and Keith repeated the expression afterward, with only a vague idea of its meaning.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000056_000001.wav|"I don't want nothing but him."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000005.wav|I questioned him very closely this morning.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000029_000003.wav|He was only a common little street gamin, as unlovely as he was unloved.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000004_000001.wav|They did not know that he had written two big books about the birds and insects he loved so well, or that he could tell them facts more wonderful than fairy tales about these little wild creatures of the woodland.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000026_000001.wav|He was a noted criminal who had escaped from a Northern penitentiary some two months before, and had been arrested by the Louisville police.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000029_000001.wav|But he was a lean, snub nosed little fellow, with a freckled face and neglected hair.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000053_000000.wav|"Who is going to put you in an asylum?" asked Malcolm, lifting an end of the pillow under which Jonesy's head had burrowed, to hide the grief that his eight year old manhood made him too proud to show.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000048_000001.wav|I could ride back on the cars and take a whole trunk full of nice things to Barney,--clothes, and candy, and a swell watch and chain, and a bustin' beauty of a bike.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000075_000000.wav|"I can't tell yet," she answered, but a moment after she cried out, her eyes shining with pleasure, "Oh, I've thought of a lovely one.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000083_000003.wav|Now are you satisfied?"|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000034_000006.wav|He comes from the worst of the Chicago slums.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000007_000001.wav|He shuffled to the door and looked out.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000015_000000.wav|It was not much, only a horrible recollection of being awakened by a feeling that he was choking in the thick smoke that filled the room; of hearing the boss swear at him to be quick and follow him or he would be burned to death.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000030_000001.wav|"I must make arrangements for him to be put into one as soon as he is able to be moved."|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000010_000003.wav|A blinding rush of smoke was his only answer as he backed away from the overpowering heat, but something fell across the door sill in a limp little heap.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000027_000008.wav|It is probably the only thing that can save him from growing up to be a criminal like the man who brought him here.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000067_000000.wav|"Then he would keep him till Uncle Sydney comes, if somebody would pay his board?" asked Virginia.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000038_000001.wav|I doubt if he ever heard the word.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000017_000000.wav|The sight of the poor little blistered face brought the tears to Miss Allison's eyes, and she called two of the coloured men, directing them to carry Jonesy to the house, and then go at once for a doctor.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000074_000000.wav|"I'll help print the tickets," said Keith, "and go around selling them, and be in anything you want me to be.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000057_000000.wav|"Well, we'll see what we can do," said Malcolm, as he heard the professor coming back.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5655/46268/5655_46268_000057_000001.wav|"If we could only keep you here until spring, I am sure that papa would send you back all right.|5655
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000026_000000.wav|There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half jailers, half thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000054_000000.wav|"Let's cut.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000127_000000.wav|"Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000054_000001.wav|What are we up to here?"|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000062_000000.wav|Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:--|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000134_000000.wav|"Is that all?|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000044_000000.wav|How had he got there?|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000014_000002.wav|Up above there were scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the direction of liberty.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000065_000005.wav|He's recaptured, there!|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000117_000000.wav|And he took off his shoes.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000059_000000.wav|"There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000105_000000.wav|"Climb up that flue."|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000063_000003.wav|You have to be a pretty knowing cove to tear up your shirt, cut up your sheet to make a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file your irons, hang out your cord, hide yourself, and disguise yourself! The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to work the business."|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000047_000000.wav|The rope which he had was too short.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000133_000000.wav|In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence posts; he waited a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, then he put on his shoes again, and said:--|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000092_000000.wav|"A brat must be got," resumed Brujon.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000013_000005.wav|His first studies in his art had been directed to roofs.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000046_000001.wav|A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the pavement of the street.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000081_000000.wav|"I can't budge."|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000045_000000.wav|The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000113_000000.wav|"Is that all!"|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000021_000000.wav|This wall, beside that rotunda, was Milton viewed through Berquin.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000012_000000.wav|Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a plan.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000063_000000.wav|"What are you jabbering about?|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000085_000000.wav|"I can't."|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000083_000000.wav|"My hands are benumbed."|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000125_000000.wav|"Now, whom are we to eat?"|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000013_000003.wav|Brujon, of whom it is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, and an atrocious smile.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000015_000000.wav|The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000038_000000.wav|At two o'clock in the morning, the sentinel, who was an old soldier, was relieved, and replaced by a conscript.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000089_000000.wav|It was very narrow.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000076_000000.wav|"Yes."|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000029_000000.wav|An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the surrounding wall.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000128_000000.wav|"Well! why not?" demanded Thenardier.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000107_000000.wav|"And fasten it," continued Brujon.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000132_000000.wav|"Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up."|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16020/4490_16020_000061_000000.wav|As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed him.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000008_000001.wav|From month to month the hostility increased, and from being concealed it became patent.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000040_000002.wav|This solution which is complete on one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, monstrous wretchedness.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000004_000008.wav|Whatever the nature of these tempests may be, human irresponsibility is mingled with them.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000041_000004.wav|It is therefore impossible to pause over these pretended solutions.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000040_000000.wav|England solves the first of these two problems.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000006_000001.wav|Born yesterday, it was obliged to fight to day.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000016_000000.wav|This cry was uttered equally by the republicans.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000013_000004.wav|Every revolution, being a normal outcome, contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives even when stained with blood.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000044_000001.wav|The nations always have our respect and our sympathy.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000041_000003.wav|It is a partition made by the butcher, which kills that which it divides.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000013_000002.wav|For in these revolutions, the one who revolts is not the people; it is the king.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000010_000002.wav|The most sagacious, the calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty translations on the public place.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000021_000000.wav|Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with indescribably vague epileptic shocks.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000040_000003.wav|All enjoyments for some, all privations for the rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, feudalism, born from toil itself.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000005_000000.wav|Let us complete this exposition.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000004_000001.wav|He had been born a Prince, and he believed himself to have been elected King.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000002.wav|A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000014_000002.wav|It is because it must be that it is.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000003.wav|From this secret conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the European cabinets is suspicious in itself.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000031_000000.wav|The first problem contains the question of work.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000016_000001.wav|But coming from them, this cry was logical.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000004.wav|The Royalty of July reared up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European cabinets.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000025_000000.wav|They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000041_000002.wav|Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000047_000001.wav|Sacred attempts!|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000027_000000.wav|The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the questions raised by socialism.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000036_000000.wav|From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000015_000001.wav|Errors make excellent projectiles.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000050_000000.wav|Piles of shadows covered the horizon.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000010_000001.wav|Men immediately make translations of it; translations hasty, incorrect, full of errors, of gaps, and of nonsense. Very few minds comprehend the divine language.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000040_000004.wav|A false and dangerous situation, which sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State in the sufferings of the individual.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000038_000000.wav|From these two things combined, the public power without, individual happiness within, results social prosperity.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000050_000004.wav|Spirits trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, a stranger, brought light.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000015_000003.wav|They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000049_000000.wav|He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000041_000001.wav|Their division kills production.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000050_000005.wav|Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000033_000000.wav|In the first problem the employment of forces is in question.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000026_000000.wav|From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works embraced everything.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000044_000002.wav|Venice, as a people, will live again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is immortal.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000004_000003.wav|Hence his possession was in good faith.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000014_000000.wav|Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000044_000003.wav|That said, we continue.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000016_000002.wav|What was blindness in the legitimists was clearness of vision in the democrats.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000011_000000.wav|Power itself is often a faction.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000042_000000.wav|The two problems require to be solved together, to be well solved.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000030_000000.wav|Second problem: To share it.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000005.wav|Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking straps.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000050_000001.wav|A strange shade, gradually drawing nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; a shade which came from wraths and systems.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000001.wav|To keep the peace, was an increase of complication.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000040_000001.wav|She creates wealth admirably, she divides it badly.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000014_000001.wav|A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000013_000000.wav|For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the right to revolt against them.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000015_000002.wav|They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this revolution in its royalty.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000017_000000.wav|Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the establishment of July struggled.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000040_000005.wav|A badly constituted grandeur in which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral element enters.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000027_000001.wav|We confine ourselves to indicating them.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000043_000001.wav|You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000010_000000.wav|God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text written in a mysterious tongue.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000047_000000.wav|Efforts worthy of admiration!|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000025_000002.wav|These men who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000034_000000.wav|In the second, the distribution of enjoyment.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000004_000002.wav|He had not served this mandate on himself; he had not taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance with duty.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000006.wav|Pushed on in France by progress, it pushed on the monarchies, those loiterers in Europe.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000050_000002.wav|Everything which had been hastily stifled was moving and fermenting.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000004_000007.wav|Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these formidable collisions.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000016_000003.wav|eighteen thirty had bankrupted the people. The enraged democracy reproached it with this.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000013_000001.wav|Error.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000037_000000.wav|By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must be understood.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000024_000000.wav|The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from society.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000012_000000.wav|There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are the old parties.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000008_000000.wav|Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the preceding evening.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000035_000000.wav|From the proper employment of forces results public power.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000043_000003.wav|And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a virtue or an idea.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000018_000007.wav|After having been towed, it undertook to tow.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000023_000000.wav|These men left to political parties the question of rights, they occupied themselves with the question of happiness.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000029_000000.wav|First problem: To produce wealth.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000043_000000.wav|Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will be England.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000009_000000.wav|The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have said.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000004_000000.wav|Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orleans, exercised no personal initiative.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000022_000000.wav|This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated epoch.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000042_000001.wav|The two problems must be combined and made but one.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000019_000000.wav|Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, penal servitude, prostitution, the fate of the woman, wealth, misery, production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above society, a terrible slope.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000032_000000.wav|The second contains the question of salary.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16003/4490_16003_000039_000000.wav|Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000028_000007.wav|He obstinately maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, those chatterers of the law, as he called them.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000026_000001.wav|His case is, as yet, only in the lower court.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000014_000000.wav|He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers in, by ballet dancers; this made a part of his bourgeois popularity.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000011_000000.wav|Let us return to eighteen thirty.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000014_000001.wav|He had no heart.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000028_000005.wav|Often, in the midst of his gravest souvenirs, after a day of conflict with the whole diplomacy of the continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do?|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000023_000001.wav|Louis Philippe is eighteen thirty made man.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000023_000004.wav|He had lived by his own labor.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000017_000000.wav|This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4490/16002/4490_16002_000013_000000.wav|Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the masses; he pleased.|4490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000007.wav|But by this time the damage was done.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000030_000001.wav|They started to go back, but the ship being blotted out, turned and gave us their company at breakfast.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000022_000002.wav|Nothing like it has been done before; nothing so expeditious and complete.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000030_000005.wav|It is a first rate building in an extraordinarily sheltered spot; whilst the wind was raging at the ship this morning we enjoyed comparative peace.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000024_000005.wav|This will be roofed with rafters and tarpaulin, as we cannot find enough boarding.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000014.wav|Half a minute later nothing remained but a big hole.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000055_000001.wav|We took a little provision and a cooker and our sleeping bags.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000003.wav|But whilst one of the sledges was being unpacked the pony tied to it suddenly got scared.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000042_000006.wav|I slept on board the ship and found it colder than the camp-the cabins were below freezing all night and the only warmth existed in the cheery spirit of the company.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000011_000005.wav|All day the sledges have been coming to and fro, but most of the pulling work has been done by the ponies: the track is so good that these little animals haul anything from twelve to eighteen hundredweight.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000056_000005.wav|We passed hundreds of seals at the various cracks.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000017_000001.wav|He proves a perfect treasure; there is not a single case he does not know or a single article of any sort which he cannot put his hand on at once.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000023_000000.wav|In addition to this oddments have been arriving all day-instruments, clothing, and personal effects.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER four|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000014.wav|All these troubles arose after he had made three journeys without a hitch and we had come to regard him as a nice, placid, gritty pony.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000001.wav|I stupidly gave permission for the third motor to be got out this morning.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000020_000001.wav|There was a report that the ice was getting rotten, but I went over it myself and found it sound throughout.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000024_000000.wav|The hut is progressing apace, and all agree that it should be the most perfectly comfortable habitation.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000030_000002.wav|The day was altogether too bad for outside work, so we turned our attention to the hut interior, with the result that to night all the matchboarding is completed.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000049_000005.wav|One can only be careful and hope for the best.'|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000015_000000.wav|Griffith Taylor's bolted on three occasions, the first two times more or less due to his own fault, but the third owing to the stupidity of one of the sailors.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000017.wav|The majority of our animals seem pretty quiet now, but any one of them may break out in this way if things go awry.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000010.wav|He galloped back and the party dejectedly returned.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000021_000000.wav|The weather has been very warm and fine on the whole, with occasional gleams of sunshine, but to night there is a rather chill wind from the south.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000013.wav|He remained fairly well on the outward journey, but on the homeward grew restive again; Evans, who was now leading him, called for Anton, and both tried to hold him, but to no purpose-he dashed off, upset his load, and came back to camp with the sledge.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000036_000004.wav|However, it's early days to decide such matters, and we shall learn much on the depot journey.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000042_000008.wav|I shaved and bathed last night (the first time for ten days) and wrote letters from breakfast till tea time to day.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000013_000002.wav|However, he tried one of the hardest cases to night, a very fine pony, and got him in successfully with a big load.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000006_000002.wav|I went near the ship and semaphored directions for her to get to this place as soon as she could, using steam if necessary.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000012.wav|Finally he was captured and led forth once more between Oates and Anton.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000033_000000.wav|As far as I can see the open water extends to an east and west line which is a little short of the glacier tongue.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000038_000000.wav|The hut could be inhabited at this moment, but probably we shall not begin to live in it for a week.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000007_000000.wav|Meares and I marked the new trail with kerosene tins before returning.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000017.wav|The actual spot where the motor disappeared was crossed by its fellow motor with a very heavy load as well as by myself with heavy ponies only yesterday.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000005_000001.wav|Bowers went back again with Meares and managed to ferry over some wind clothes and odds and ends.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000002.wav|This was done first thing and the motor placed on firm ice.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000020_000002.wav|The accident with the motor sledge has made people nervous.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000006.wav|I started for the shore with a single man load, leaving Campbell looking about for the best crossing for the motor.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000009.wav|Soon after Campbell and Day arrived to confirm the dismal tidings.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000031_000000.wav|I sent two or three people to dig into the hard snow drift behind the camp; they got into solid ice immediately, became interested in the job, and have begun the making of a cave which is to be our larder.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000022_000006.wav|We have more than twelve tons and could make this do if necessity arose.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000037_000003.wav|We are LANDED eight days after our arrival-a very good record.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000015.wav|Now I'm afraid it will take a deal of trouble to get him safe again, and we have three very troublesome beasts instead of two.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000013.wav|The men kept hold of the rope, but it cut through the ice towards them with an ever increasing strain, obliging one after another to let go.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000024_000003.wav|To add to the wall insulation the south and east sides of the hut are piled high with compressed forage bales, whilst the north side is being prepared as a winter stable for the ponies.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000006.wav|half-way over the floe my rear pony got his foreleg foul of his halter, then got frightened, tugged at his halter, and lifted the unladen sledge to which he was tied-then the halter broke and away he went.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000057_000001.wav|Shackleton reported that the door had been forced by the wind, but that he had made an entrance by the window and found shelter inside-other members of his party used it for shelter.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000012_000003.wav|Nobody seems to know the reason, but a post mortem is being held by Atkinson and I suppose the cause of death will be found.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000020_000000.wav|Wilson, Cherry Garrard, Wright, Griffith Taylor, Debenham, Crean, and Browning have been driving ponies, a task at which I have assisted myself once or twice.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000012_000004.wav|We can't afford to lose animals of any sort.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000032_000000.wav|The wind began to drop at midday, and after lunch I went to the ship.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000039_000000.wav|The grotto party are making headway into the ice for our larder, but it is slow and very arduous work.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000029_000000.wav|The threatened blizzard materialised at about four o'clock this morning.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000042_000009.wav|Meanwhile the ballast team has been going on merrily, and to night Pennell must have some twenty six tons on board.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000017_000000.wav|Bowers checks every case as it comes on shore and dashes off to the ship to arrange the precedence of different classes of goods.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000000.wav|Some of the ponies are very troublesome, but all except two have been running to day, and until this evening there were no excitements.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000058_000001.wav|We got some asbestos sheeting from the magnetic hut and made the best shelter we could to boil our cocoa.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000016.wav|It's a big blow to know that one of the two best motors, on which so much time and trouble have been spent, now lies at the bottom of the sea.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000049_000003.wav|Then, of course, there is the danger of losing them on thin ice or by injury sustained in rough places.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000031_000003.wav|We had been speculating as to the origin of this solid drift and attached great antiquity to it, but the diggers came to a patch of earth with skua feathers, which rather knocks our theories on the head.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000055_000006.wav|We found a good deal of compressed fodder and boxes of maize, but no grain crushed as expected.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000031_000001.wav|Already they have tunnelled six or eight feet in and have begun side channels.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000054_000003.wav|Eventually I turned, leaving Campbell, Gran, and Nelson roped together and on ski to make their way onward, but not before I felt certain that the route to Cape Royds would be quite easy.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000054_000001.wav|After our talk we went together to explore the route, which we expected to find much crevassed.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000037_000000.wav|Early in the afternoon a message came from the ship to say that all stores had been landed.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000021_000001.wav|The hut is progressing famously.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000015.wav|Perhaps it was lucky there was no accident to the men, but it's a sad incident for us in any case.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000019_000000.wav|Williamson and Leese load the sledges and are getting very clever and expeditious.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000030_000006.wav|Campbell says there was an extraordinary change as he approached the beach.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000049_000000.wav|Some of the ponies are not turning out so well as I expected; they are slow walkers and must inevitably impede the faster ones.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000022_000003.wav|This morning the main loads were fodder.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000008.wav|My pony snorted wildly and sprang forward as the sledge banged to the ground.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000008_000000.wav|It's a big job getting settled in like this and a tantalising one when one is hoping to do some depot work before the season closes.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000053_000001.wav|After Service I told Campbell that I should have to cancel his two ponies and give him two others.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000042_000004.wav|The organisation of this work is extremely good.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000012_000001.wav|Later in the day we made a start on the first of these, and got seven tons ashore before ceasing work.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000056_000001.wav|We came to a second crack, but avoided it by skirting to the west.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000011_000004.wav|A flag was hoisted immediately for the ponies to come out, and we commenced a good day's work.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000052_000001.wav|The morning promised well and the day fulfilled the promise: we had bright sunshine and practically no wind.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000012_000002.wav|We close with a good day to our credit, marred by an unfortunate incident-one of the dogs, a good puller, was seen to cough after a journey; he was evidently trying to bring something up-two minutes later he was dead.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000006_000000.wav|At six I went to the ice edge farther to the north.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000057_000000.wav|On the arrival at the hut to my chagrin we found it filled with snow.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000019_000001.wav|Evans (seaman) is generally superintending the sledging and camp outfit.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000006_000003.wav|She is at present wedged in with the pack, and I think Pennell hopes to warp her along when the pack loosens.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000003.wav|Later Campbell told me one of the men had dropped a leg through crossing a sludgy patch some two hundred yards from the ship.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000014_000000.wav|To morrow we ought to be running some twelve or thirteen of these animals.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000042_000003.wav|In the afternoon, with some moderation of conditions, the ballast party went to work, and wrought so well that more than ten tons were got off before night.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000007.wav|I sent Meares and the dogs over with a can of petrol on arrival.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000053_000002.wav|He took it like the gentleman he is, thoroughly appreciating the reason.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000005_000000.wav|It was clear that we were practically cut off, certainly as regards heavy transport.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000049_000002.wav|'Then I am not quite sure they are going to stand the cold well, and on this first journey they may have to face pretty severe conditions.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000022_000005.wav|Some addition to our patent fuel was made in the morning, and later in the afternoon it came in a steady stream.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000036_000001.wav|I ran six journeys with five dogs, driving them in the Siberian fashion for the first time.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000026_000000.wav|The weather has the appearance of breaking.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000029_000001.wav|The wind increased to force six or seven at the ship, and continued to blow, with drift, throughout the forenoon.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000010.wav|It appears that getting frightened of the state of affairs Campbell got out a line and attached it to the motor-then manning the line well he attempted to rush the machine across the weak place.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000009_000001.wav|To day seemed to be the hottest we have yet had; after walking across I was perspiring freely, and later as I sat in the sun after lunch one could almost imagine a warm summer day in England.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000024_000001.wav|'It amply repays the time and attention given to the planning.' The sides have double boarding inside and outside the frames, with a layer of our excellent quilted seaweed insulation between each pair of boardings.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000057_000002.wav|But they actually went away and left the window (which they had forced) open; as a result, nearly the whole of the interior of the hut is filled with hard icy snow, and it is now impossible to find shelter inside.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000044_000002.wav|The hard ice of this slope is a godsend and both grottoes will be ideal for their purposes.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000009_000000.wav|We had a keen north wind to night and a haze, but wind is dropping and sun shining brightly again.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000059_000002.wav|To camp outside and feel that all the old comfort and cheer had departed, was dreadfully heartrending.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000003_000011.wav|A man on the rope, Wilkinson, suddenly went through to the shoulders, but was immediately hauled out.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000026_000002.wav|The floe is cracking and pieces may go out-if so the ship will have to get up steam again.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000049_000004.wav|Although we have fifteen now (two having gone for the Eastern Party) it is not at all certain that we shall have such a number when the main journey is undertaken next season.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000011_000003.wav|After breakfast I went on board and was delighted to find a good solid road right up to the ship.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000059_000000.wav|There was something too depressing in finding the old hut in such a desolate condition.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000006_000001.wav|I found a place where the ship could come and be near the heavy ice over which sledging is still possible.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000056_000004.wav|I got my feet very wet crossing the latter.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000011_000007.wav|The dogs, working five to a team, haul five to six hundredweight. and of course they travel much faster than either ponies or men.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000055_000003.wav|The dogs pulled well, and we went towards the Glacier Tongue at a brisk pace; found much of the ice uncovered.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000024_000004.wav|The stable will stand between the wall of the hut and a wall built of forage bales, six bales high and two bales thick.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000026_000001.wav|We had a strongish northerly breeze at midday with snow and hail storms, and now the wind has turned to the south and the sky is overcast with threatenings of a blizzard.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000037_000001.wav|Nothing remains to be brought but mutton, books and pictures, and the pianola.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000034_000001.wav|I trust they may last for a few days at least.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000055_000007.wav|The open water was practically up to the Glacier Tongue.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000043_000001.wav|The grotto has been much enlarged and is, in fact, now big enough to hold all our mutton and a considerable quantity of seal and penguin.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000015_000002.wav|It was still funnier when he brought his final load (an exceptionally heavy one) with a set face and ardent pace, vouchsafing not a word to anyone he passed.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000054_000002.wav|I only intended to go a short way, but on reaching the snow above the uncovered hills of our Cape I found the surface so promising and so free from cracks that I went quite a long way.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000007_000002.wav|Meanwhile the hut proceeds; altogether there are four layers of boarding to go on, two of which are nearing completion; it will be some time before the rest and the insulation is on.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000023_000001.wav|Our camp is becoming so perfect in its appointments that I am almost suspicious of some drawback hidden by the summer weather.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000059_000003.wav|I went to bed thoroughly depressed.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000058_000000.wav|Meares and I were able to clamber over the snow to some extent and to examine the neat pile of cases in the middle, but they will take much digging out.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000018_000000.wav|Rennick and Bruce are working gallantly at the discharge of stores on board.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000056_000003.wav|There was a small pool of open water and a longish crack off Hut Point.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000030_000003.wav|The floor linoleum is the only thing that remains to be put down; outside, the roof and ends have to be finished.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000013_000001.wav|Oates thinks these three are too nervous to work over this slippery surface.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000027_000002.wav|The post mortem on last night's death revealed nothing to account for it.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6524/2299_6524_000025_000001.wav|After tea Oates suggested leading out the two intractable animals behind other sledges; at the same time he brought out the strong, nervous grey pony.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000037_000004.wav|They are excellent in quality.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000013_000002.wav|With a northerly blow she might turn rather close to the shore, where the soundings run to three fathoms, but behind such a stretch of ice she could scarcely get a sea or swell without warning.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000010_000001.wav|Atkinson declares it was the end of the Cape Barne Glacier.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000012_000002.wav|After getting things going at the hut, I walked over and suggested that Pennell should come round the corner close in shore.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000013_000003.wav|It looks a wonderfully comfortable little nook, but, of course, one can be certain of nothing in this place; one knows from experience how deceptive the appearance of security may be.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000007_000000.wav|It is really wonderful to realise the amount of work which has been got through of late.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000025_000000.wav|Bowers has completed his southern storeroom and brought the wing across the porch on the windward side, connecting the roofing with that of the porch.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000005_000004.wav|Simpson and Wright are near the instruments in their corner.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000003.wav|Here in this camp as usual we do not feel it much, but we see the anemometer racing on the hill and the snow clouds sweeping past the ship.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000023_000003.wav|It seems to me that the shaggy coats of our ponies are already improving.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000005.wav|Now the open water runs parallel to our ship road and only a few hundred yards south of it.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000055_000000.wav|Then she gathered stern way and was clear.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000049_000000.wav|We spent the day measuring our provisions and fixing up clothing arrangements for our journey; a good deal of progress has been made.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000050_000001.wav|Then as I went out on the floe came the report that she was ashore.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000042_000000.wav|The pianola has been erected by Rennick.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000001_000000.wav|On the south side we could see the Pressure Ridges beyond Pram Point as of old-Horseshoe Bay calm and unpressed-the sea ice pressed on Pram Point and along the Gap ice foot, and a new ridge running around c Armitage about two miles off.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000039_000000.wav|'Our clothing is as good as good.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000001.wav|The camp looks very white.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000003_000000.wav|I took Ponting out to see some interesting thaw effects on the ice cliffs east of the Camp.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000019_000001.wav|What shall we call it?|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000010_000002.wav|I hope they will know in the ship, as it would be interesting to witness the birth of a glacier in this region.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000015_000003.wav|But, indeed, it is hard to specialise praise where everyone is working so indefatigably for the cause.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000060_000001.wav|It only has to remain another three days, and it would be poor luck if it failed in that time.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000014_000005.wav|In the hut all is marching towards the utmost comfort.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000040_000000.wav|An Emperor penguin was found on the Cape well advanced in moult, a good specimen skin.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000047_000000.wav|We got out the men and gave some help.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000040_000002.wav|It seems clear that this parasite is not transferred from another host, and that its history is unlike that of any other known tapeworm-in fact, Atkinson scores a discovery in parasitology of no little importance.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000004_000002.wav|I heard that all the people who journeyed towards c Royds yesterday reached their destination in safety.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000054_000000.wav|The first ray of hope came when by careful watching one could see that the ship was turning very slowly, then one saw the men running from side to side and knew that an attempt was being made to roll her off.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000041_000000.wav|The wind has turned to the north to night and is blowing quite fresh.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000023_000004.wav|The dogs seem to feel the cold little so far, but they are not so exposed.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000015_000000.wav|Bowers has completed a storeroom on the south side, an excellent place to keep our travelling provisions.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000028_000000.wav|I have fixed the twenty fifth as the date for our departure.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000034_000002.wav|The stables are nearly finished-a thoroughly stout well roofed lean to on the north side.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000002_000005.wav|Simpson has almost completed the differential magnetic cave next door.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000013_000004.wav|Pennell is truly excellent in his present position-he's invariably cheerful, unceasingly watchful, and continuously ready for emergencies.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000037_000002.wav|First the felt boots and felt slippers made by Jaeger and then summer wind clothes and fur mits-nothing could be better than these articles.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000011_000000.wav|It is clearing to night, but still blowing hard.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000002_000003.wav|We got to camp about teatime.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000021_000003.wav|North and south of us are deep bays, beyond which great glaciers come rippling over the lower slopes to thrust high blue walled snouts into the sea.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000035_000001.wav|Record is a mixture of vegetable tar, paraffin, soft soap, and linseed oil, with some patent addition which prevents freezing-this according to Gran.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000050_000002.wav|I ran out to the Cape with Evans and saw that the report was only too true.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000057_000000.wav|From Pennell down there is not an officer or man who has not done his job nobly during the past weeks, and it will be a glorious thing to remember the unselfish loyal help they are giving us.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000012_000001.wav|In the morning she secured to the ice edge on the same line as before but a few hundred yards nearer.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000012_000003.wav|The ice anchors were tripped and we steamed slowly in, making fast to the floe within two hundred yards of the ice foot and four hundred yards of the hut.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000054_000001.wav|The rolling produced a more rapid turning movement at first and then she seemed to hang again.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000047_000001.wav|At six steam was up, and I was right glad to see the ship back out to windward, leaving us to recover anchors and hawsers.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000004_000000.wav|It has occurred to me that although the sea ice may freeze in our bays early in March it will be a difficult thing to get ponies across it owing to the cliff edges at the side.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000033_000000.wav|I have done quite a lot of thinking over the autumn journeys and a lot remains to be done, mainly on account of the prospect of being cut off from our winter quarters; for this reason we must have a great deal of food for animals and men.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000026_000000.wav|The carpenter has been setting up standards and roof beams for the stables, which will be completed in a few days.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000004.wav|The floe is breaking between the point and the ship, though curiously it remains fast on a direct route to the ship.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000060_000000.wav|Meares and Oates went to the Glacier Tongue and satisfied themselves that the ice is good.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000010_000000.wav|A big iceberg sailed past the ship this afternoon.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000035_000000.wav|Gran has been putting 'record' on the ski runners.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000007.wav|The big wedge of ice to which the ship is holding on the outskirts of the Bay can have very little grip to keep it in and must inevitably go out very soon.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000016_000000.wav|Each man in his way is a treasure.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000020_000000.wav|'The word "hut" is misleading.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000051_000000.wav|My heart sank when I looked at her and I sent Evans off in the whaler to sound, recovered the ice anchors again, set the people to work, and walked disconsolately back to the Cape to watch.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000019_000000.wav|Such a noble dwelling transcends the word 'hut,' and we pause to give it a more fitting title only from lack of the appropriate suggestion.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000063_000001.wav|I got up at five this morning to find the weather calm and beautiful, but to my astonishment an opening lane of water between the land and the ice in the bay.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000045_000003.wav|But even its own flavour is acceptable in our cook's hands-he really is excellent.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000020_000002.wav|to the eaves.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000034_000004.wav|Simpson has almost completed his ice cavern, light tight lining, niches, floor and all.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000000_000003.wav|The ski run was completely cut through in two places, the Gap and Observation Hill almost bare, a great bare slope on the side of Arrival Heights, and on top of Crater Heights an immense bare table land.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000031_000001.wav|We find we have a splendid selection of records.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000018_000001.wav|We have made unto ourselves a truly seductive home, within the walls of which peace, quiet, and comfort reign supreme.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000014_000002.wav|This afternoon it fell almost calm, but the sky clouded over again and now there is a gentle warm southerly breeze with light falling snow and an overcast sky.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000034_000001.wav|Bowers' annexe is finished, roof and all thoroughly snow tight; an excellent place for spare clothing, furs, and ready use stores, and its extension affording complete protection to the entrance porch of the hut.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000003_000001.wav|I noted that the ice layers were pressing out over thin dirt bands as though the latter made the cleavage lines over which the strata slid.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000000_000004.wav|How delighted we should have been to see it like this in the old days!|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000064_000003.wav|Meares and I walked till we came to the first ice.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000064_000005.wav|It was plain that only the ponies could go by it-no loads.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000029_000000.wav|Griffith Taylor and his companions have been seeking advice as to their Western trip.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000037_000003.wav|Finally to night we have overhauled and served out two pairs of finnesko (fur boots) to each traveller.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000015_000001.wav|Every day he conceives or carries out some plan to benefit the camp.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000011_000001.wav|The ponies don't like the wind, but they are all standing the cold wonderfully and all their sores are healed up.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000000.wav|It snowed hard all last night; there were about three or four inches of soft snow over the camp this morning and Simpson tells me some six inches out by the ship.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000062_000003.wav|The Eastern Party ponies were put on board the ship this morning.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000054_000002.wav|But only for a short time; the engines had been going astern all the time and presently a slight movement became apparent.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000017_000002.wav|Anton and Demetri are both most anxious to help on all occasions; they are excellent boys.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000048_000000.wav|She stood away to the west, and almost immediately after a large berg drove in and grounded in the place she had occupied.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000013_000000.wav|For the present the position is extraordinarily comfortable.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000056_000000.wav|The wind dropped as she came off, and she is now securely moored off the northern ice edge, where I hope the greater number of her people are finding rest.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000032_000001.wav|There seems to be little doubt that these ingenious people will make the most of their allotted space.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000025_000001.wav|The improvement is enormous and will make the greatest difference to those who dwell near the door.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000044_000000.wav|Everything looks hopeful for the depot journey if only we can get our stores and ponies past the Glacier Tongue.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000040_000001.wav|Atkinson found cysts formed by a tapeworm in the intestines.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000023_000002.wav|I think the hardening process must be good for animals though not for men; nature replies to it in the former by growing a thick coat with wonderful promptitude.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000032_000000.wav|Day and Nelson, having given much thought to the proper fitting up of their corner, have now begun work.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000043_000000.wav|Day has been explaining the manner in which he hopes to be able to cope with the motor sledge difficulty.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000029_000001.wav|Wilson, dear chap, has been doing his best to coach them.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000054_000003.wav|But we only knew she was getting clear when we heard cheers on board and more cheers from the whaler.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000023_000001.wav|The horses don't like it, naturally, but it wouldn't do to pamper them so soon before our journey.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000031_000003.wav|Oates goes steadily on with the ponies-he is perfectly excellent and untiring in his devotion to the animals.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000036_000000.wav|p o Evans and Crean have been preparing sledges; Evans shows himself wonderfully capable, and I haven't a doubt as to the working of the sledges he has fitted up.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000055_000001.wav|The relief was enormous.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000037_000005.wav|At first I thought they seemed small, but a stiffness due to cold and dryness misled me-a little stretching and all was well.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000031_000000.wav|Meares has become enamoured of the gramophone.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000034_000005.wav|Wright and Forde have almost completed the absolute hut, a patchwork building for which the framework only was brought-but it will be very well adapted for our needs.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000037_000008.wav|But indeed the whole time we are thinking of devices to make our travelling work easier.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000005_000002.wav|The space between my bulkhead and the men's I allotted to five: Bowers, Oates, Atkinson, Meares, and Cherry Garrard.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000000_000006.wav|The hole which we had dug in the mound in the pond was still there, as Meares discovered by falling into it up to his waist and getting very wet.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000045_000002.wav|It is the first time I have tasted seal without being aware of its particular flavour.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000014_000004.wav|The position of the ship makes the casual transport that still proceeds very easy, but the ice is rather thin at the edge.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000056_000001.wav|For here and now I must record the splendid manner in which these men are working.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000062_000001.wav|this evening.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000009_000008.wav|I hope this may result in the ship finding a more sheltered and secure position close to us.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000038_000000.wav|'We have now tried most of our stores, and so far we have not found a single article that is not perfectly excellent in quality and preservation.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000059_000000.wav|Campbell and his party returned late this afternoon-I have not heard details.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000002_000000.wav|The flagstaff was down, the stays having carried away, but in five minutes it could be put up again.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000030_000000.wav|Ponting has fitted up his own dark room-doing the carpentering work with extraordinary speed and to everyone's admiration.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2299/6525/2299_6525_000050_000005.wav|Later Pennell told me he had been trying to look behind the berg and had been going astern some time before he struck.|2299
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000016.wav|My will is all for his will, for his will is right.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000032.wav|I came into the world to show him.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000009.wav|My judgment is the faultless rule of things.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000003_000008.wav|He did not care for government.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000028.wav|You do not like to hear it because you are not like him.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000004_000007.wav|The Lord's is a kingdom in which no man seeks to be above another: ambition is of the dirt of this world's kingdoms.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000004_000005.wav|His subjects must be of his own kind, in their very nature and essence kings.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000022.wav|He is the truth, and I am the truth.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000004_000014.wav|They will kill him, but it matters not: the truth is as he says!|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000006_000001.wav|If I mistake, he will forgive me.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000010_000005.wav|Are we careful to be true?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000000.wav|Jesus is a king because his business is to bear witness to the truth. What truth?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000003_000001.wav|The question is called forth by what the Lord had just said concerning his kingdom, closing with the statement that it was not of this world.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000007_000004.wav|Of the men who before Christ bare witness to the truth, some were sawn asunder, some subdued kingdoms; it mattered nothing which: they witnessed.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000010.wav|My right is-what I desire. The more I am all in all to myself, the greater I am.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000003_000004.wav|He might have had them.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000004_000012.wav|Neither Pilate nor they ask the one true question, 'How am I to be a true man?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000008_000003.wav|The thought of God is the truth of everything.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000008_000005.wav|The man who responds to this with his whole being, is of the truth.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000025.wav|I fear nothing you can do to me.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000010_000008.wav|When contempt is cast on the truth, do we smile?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000003_000014.wav|Government, I repeat, was to him flat, stale, unprofitable.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000029.wav|I am low in your eyes which measure things by their show; therefore you say I blaspheme.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000009_000002.wav|When his witness is treated as a lie, then most he witnesses, for he gives it still.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000010_000000.wav|Is every Christian expected to bear witness?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000010_000013.wav|We are not bound to say all we think, but we are bound not even to look what we do not think.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10822/4010_10822_000005_000017.wav|He is righteousness itself.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000016_000001.wav|But is the reality intended, less or more than the figure?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000005_000003.wav|But it is so complete, so imaginatively comprehensive, so immediately operative on the conscience through its poetic suggestiveness, that when it is once understood, there is nothing more to be said, but everything to be done.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000014_000000.wav|Many a man, many a woman, fair and flourishing to see, is going about with a rusty moth eaten heart within that form of strength or beauty.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000013_000000.wav|This: that what is with the treasure must fare as the treasure; that the heart which haunts the treasure house where the moth and rust corrupt, will be exposed to the same ravages as the treasure, will itself be rusted and moth eaten.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000009_000000.wav|"Yes; by the moth and the rust and the thief."|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000012_000000.wav|"Of course the heart will be where the treasure is; but what has that to do with the argument?"|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000015_000000.wav|"But this is only a figure."|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000007_000000.wav|"Because there the moth and rust and the thief come."|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000018_000002.wav|Therein lies the hurt.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000016_000000.wav|True.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000003_000003.wav|Let us try to understand him.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000001_000001.wav|But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10798/4010_10798_000006_000000.wav|"Why not lay up for ourselves treasures upon earth?"|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000006_000001.wav|Every highest human act is just a giving back to God of that which he first gave to us.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000011_000011.wav|Bread, at least, will be given, and not a stone; water, at least, will be sure, and not vinegar mingled with gall.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000009_000008.wav|Thou knowest, if only from the cry of thy Son, how terrible that is; and if it comes not to me in so terrible a shape as that in which it came to him, think how poor to bear I am beside him.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000011_000003.wav|How the earthly father would love a child who would creep into his room with angry, troubled face, and sit down at his feet, saying when asked what he wanted: "I feel so naughty, papa, and I want to get good"!|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000005_000007.wav|It may have been all in one.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000011_000000.wav|Think, brothers, think, sisters, we walk in the air of an eternal fatherhood.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000009_000014.wav|I care not for the pain, so long as my spirit is strong, and into thy hands I commend that spirit.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000009_000004.wav|Am I going to do a good deed?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000011_000005.wav|Go away, and be good, and then come to me?" And shall we dare to think God would send us away if we came thus, and would not be pleased that we came, even if we were angry as jonah?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000009_000009.wav|I do not know what the struggle means; for, of the thousands who pass through it every day, not one enlightens his neighbour left behind; but shall I not long with agony for one breath of thy air, and not receive it?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000011_000004.wav|Would he say to his child: "How dare you!|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000009_000007.wav|Am I going to die?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000011_000002.wav|Whither else dare we send them?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000005_000015.wav|And the mighty story ends with a cry.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000009_000012.wav|Thou wilt know every shade of my suffering; thou wilt care for me with thy perfect fatherhood; for that makes my sonship, and inwraps and infolds it.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000006_000006.wav|I am thine, and therefore I am mine.'" The vast operations of the spiritual as of the physical world, are simply a turning again to the source.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000012_000001.wav|We may commend any brother, any sister, to the common fatherhood.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000012_000004.wav|For he cannot be our father save as he is their father; and if we do not see him and feel him as their father, we cannot know him as ours.|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000005_000001.wav|Was it the cry of relief at the touch of death?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4010/10801/4010_10801_000005_000002.wav|Was it the cry of victory?|4010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000096_000000.wav|"Your hat and boots, Watson, quick!|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000099_000000.wav|He quickened his pace until we had decreased the distance which divided us by about half.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000068_000001.wav|I put them both outside my door last night, and there was only one in the morning.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000023_000002.wav|"We will confine ourselves for the present with your permission to this very interesting document, which must have been put together and posted yesterday evening.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000116_000002.wav|We must see what further cards we have in our hands and play them with decision.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000047_000001.wav|The other words were all simple and might be found in any issue, but 'moor' would be less common."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000005_000001.wav|Our clients were punctual to their appointment, for the clock had just struck ten when dr Mortimer was shown up, followed by the young baronet.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000025_000001.wav|"Capital article this on free trade.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000091_000001.wav|Shall I have a cab called?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000037_000000.wav|"I presume, Doctor, that you could tell the skull of a negro from that of an Esquimau?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000114_000003.wav|As it is, by an indiscreet eagerness, which was taken advantage of with extraordinary quickness and energy by our opponent, we have betrayed ourselves and lost our man."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000033_000001.wav|Well, if that isn't smart!" cried Sir Henry.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000049_000001.wav|The address, you observe is printed in rough characters.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000134_000001.wav|Here is a copy of the Times.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000060_000001.wav|You have nothing else to report to us before we go into this matter?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000002.wav|"Meanwhile," said he, "I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000126_000002.wav|Now, Cartwright, there are the names of twenty three hotels here, all in the immediate neighbourhood of Charing Cross.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000068_000002.wav|I could get no sense out of the chap who cleans them.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000045_000000.wav|"Gum," said Holmes.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000082_000000.wav|"Or it may be that they wish, for their own purposes, to scare me away."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000102_000002.wav|Watson, Watson, if you are an honest man you will record this also and set it against my successes!"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000030_000000.wav|"On the contrary, I think we are particularly hot upon the trail, Sir Henry.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000065_000001.wav|You will find it when you return to the hotel.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000075_000001.wav|"dr Mortimer, I think you could not do better than to tell your story as you told it to us."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000100_000002.wav|We'll have a good look at him, if we can do no more."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000126_000000.wav|"Let me have the Hotel Directory," said Holmes.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000063_000001.wav|"I don't know much of British life yet, for I have spent nearly all my time in the States and in Canada.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000029_000000.wav|"I don't know much about the tariff and things of that kind," said he, "but it seems to me we've got a bit off the trail so far as that note is concerned."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000080_000000.wav|"It seems to show that someone knows more than we do about what goes on upon the moor," said dr Mortimer.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000125_000001.wav|He stood now gazing with great reverence at the famous detective.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000042_000000.wav|"So far as I can follow you, then, mr Holmes," said Sir Henry Baskerville, "someone cut out this message with a scissors-"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000023_000001.wav|I promise you that," said Sherlock Holmes.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000090_000000.wav|"Perfectly."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000102_000001.wav|"Was ever such bad luck and such bad management, too?|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000125_000000.wav|A lad of fourteen, with a bright, keen face, had obeyed the summons of the manager.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000106_000000.wav|"Well, it was evident from what we have heard that Baskerville has been very closely shadowed by someone since he has been in town.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000133_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000124_000000.wav|"Could you ring him up?--thank you!|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000021_000000.wav|"No, sir, but it might very well come from someone who was convinced that the business is supernatural."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000004.wav|I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000062_000000.wav|"I think anything out of the ordinary routine of life well worth reporting."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000128_000000.wav|"You will visit each of these in turn."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000068_000003.wav|The worst of it is that I only bought the pair last night in the Strand, and I have never had them on."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000060_000000.wav|"We are coming to that.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000134_000000.wav|"But what you are really looking for is the centre page of the Times with some holes cut in it with scissors.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000049_000002.wav|But the Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000108_000006.wav|It has, however, one obvious disadvantage."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000023_000000.wav|"You shall share our knowledge before you leave this room, Sir Henry.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000008_000000.wav|"Pray take a seat, Sir Henry.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000063_000002.wav|But I hope that to lose one of your boots is not part of the ordinary routine of life over here."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000073_000000.wav|"It seems a singularly useless thing to steal," said Sherlock Holmes. "I confess that I share dr Mortimer's belief that it will not be long before the missing boot is found."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000041_000000.wav|"But this is my special hobby, and the differences are equally obvious. There is as much difference to my eyes between the leaded bourgeois type of a Times article and the slovenly print of an evening half penny paper as there could be between your negro and your Esquimau.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000087_000000.wav|"Well, that is what we have to find out."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000001.wav|There is no devil in hell, mr Holmes, and there is no man upon earth who can prevent me from going to the home of my own people, and you may take that to be my final answer." His dark brows knitted and his face flushed to a dusky red as he spoke. It was evident that the fiery temper of the Baskervilles was not extinct in this their last representative.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000049_000005.wav|'Life,' for example is quite out of its proper place.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000105_000000.wav|"A spy?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000097_000000.wav|"Shall I run on and stop them?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000016_000003.wav|It ran:|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000099_000002.wav|Once our friends stopped and stared into a shop window, upon which Holmes did the same.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000098_000000.wav|"Not for the world, my dear Watson.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000034_000000.wav|"If any possible doubt remained it is settled by the fact that 'keep away' and 'from the' are cut out in one piece."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000083_000000.wav|"Well, of course, that is possible also.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000076_000000.wav|Thus encouraged, our scientific friend drew his papers from his pocket and presented the whole case as he had done upon the morning before. Sir Henry Baskerville listened with the deepest attention and with an occasional exclamation of surprise.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000018_000000.wav|The word "moor" only was printed in ink.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000112_000000.wav|"My dear Watson, clumsy as I have been, you surely do not seriously imagine that I neglected to get the number?|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000104_000000.wav|"I have not an idea."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000116_000000.wav|"There is no object in our following them," said Holmes.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000041_000001.wav|The detection of types is one of the most elementary branches of knowledge to the special expert in crime, though I confess that once when I was very young I confused the Leeds Mercury with the Western Morning News.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000111_000000.wav|"What a pity we did not get the number!"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000069_000000.wav|"If you have never worn them, why did you put them out to be cleaned?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000101_000001.wav|Holmes looked eagerly round for another, but no empty one was in sight.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000071_000000.wav|"Then I understand that on your arrival in London yesterday you went out at once and bought a pair of boots?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000106_000003.wav|You may have observed that I twice strolled over to the window while dr Mortimer was reading his legend."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000108_000002.wav|This matter cuts very deep, and though I have not finally made up my mind whether it is a benevolent or a malevolent agency which is in touch with us, I am conscious always of power and design.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000114_000002.wav|When our unknown had followed Baskerville home we should have had the opportunity of playing his own game upon himself and seeing where he made for.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000072_000000.wav|"I did a good deal of shopping.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000051_000001.wav|It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculation.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000126_000001.wav|"Thank you!|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000047_000000.wav|"Because he could not find it in print.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000044_000000.wav|"That is so.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000108_000005.wav|His method had the additional advantage that if they were to take a cab he was all ready to follow them.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000102_000000.wav|"There now!" said Holmes bitterly as he emerged panting and white with vexation from the tide of vehicles.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000048_000000.wav|"Why, of course, that would explain it.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000065_000002.wav|What is the use of troubling mr Holmes with trifles of this kind?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000013_000000.wav|"But dr Mortimer was no doubt already stopping there?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000124_000001.wav|And I should be glad to have change of this five pound note."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000086_000000.wav|"Do you mean danger from this family fiend or do you mean danger from human beings?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000019_000000.wav|"Now," said Sir Henry Baskerville, "perhaps you will tell me, mr Holmes, what in thunder is the meaning of that, and who it is that takes so much interest in my affairs?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000051_000000.wav|"Say, rather, into the region where we balance probabilities and choose the most likely.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000116_000003.wav|Could you swear to that man's face within the cab?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000135_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000119_000000.wav|He turned into one of the district messenger offices, where he was warmly greeted by the manager.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000061_000000.wav|"Well, it depends upon what you think worth reporting."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000056_000001.wav|"It is a blank half sheet of paper, without even a water mark upon it.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000107_000000.wav|"Yes, I remember."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000052_000000.wav|"How in the world can you say that?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000079_000000.wav|"And now there's this affair of the letter to me at the hotel.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000049_000006.wav|That may point to carelessness or it may point to agitation and hurry upon the part of the cutter.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000053_000002.wav|Now, a private pen or ink bottle is seldom allowed to be in such a state, and the combination of the two must be quite rare.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000098_000002.wav|Our friends are wise, for it is certainly a very fine morning for a walk."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000096_000001.wav|Not a moment to lose!"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000077_000002.wav|It's the pet story of the family, though I never thought of taking it seriously before.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000057_000001.wav|I think not."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000049_000000.wav|"There are one or two indications, and yet the utmost pains have been taken to remove all clues.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000022_000001.wav|"It seems to me that all you gentlemen know a great deal more than I do about my own affairs."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000063_000000.wav|Sir Henry smiled.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000094_000000.wav|"Then we meet again at two o'clock.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000117_000000.wav|"I could swear only to the beard."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000053_000003.wav|But you know the hotel ink and the hotel pen, where it is rare to get anything else.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000113_000000.wav|"I fail to see how you could have done more."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000020_000001.wav|You must allow that there is nothing supernatural about this, at any rate?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000077_000003.wav|But as to my uncle's death-well, it all seems boiling up in my head, and I can't get it clear yet.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000098_000001.wav|I am perfectly satisfied with your company if you will tolerate mine.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000043_000001.wav|"You can see that it was a very short bladed scissors, since the cutter had to take two snips over 'keep away.'"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000134_000002.wav|It is this page.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000108_000000.wav|"I was looking out for loiterers in the street, but I saw none.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000079_000001.wav|I suppose that fits into its place."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000015_000000.wav|"There was no possible indication that we intended to go to this hotel."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000136_000005.wav|There are ten shillings over in case of emergencies.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000059_000000.wav|"I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime novel," said our visitor.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000053_000000.wav|"If you examine it carefully you will see that both the pen and the ink have given the writer trouble.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000127_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000122_000001.wav|I have some recollection, Wilson, that you had among your boys a lad named Cartwright, who showed some ability during the investigation."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000114_000001.wav|I should then at my leisure have hired a second cab and followed the first at a respectful distance, or, better still, have driven to the Northumberland Hotel and waited there.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000084_000000.wav|"Why should I not go?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000040_000000.wav|"Because that is my special hobby.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000014_000000.wav|"No, I had been staying with a friend," said the doctor.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000074_000000.wav|"And, now, gentlemen," said the baronet with decision, "it seems to me that I have spoken quite enough about the little that I know.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000072_000002.wav|Among other things I bought these brown boots-gave six dollars for them-and had one stolen before ever I had them on my feet."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000085_000000.wav|"There seems to be danger."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000025_000000.wav|"Might I trouble you for it-the inside page, please, with the leading articles?" He glanced swiftly over it, running his eyes up and down the columns.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000074_000001.wav|It is time that you kept your promise and gave me a full account of what we are all driving at."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000027_000000.wav|"What do you think of that, Watson?" cried Holmes in high glee, rubbing his hands together with satisfaction.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000046_000001.wav|But I want to know why the word 'moor' should have been written?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000023_000003.wav|Have you yesterday's Times, Watson?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000020_000000.wav|"What do you make of it, dr Mortimer?|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000100_000000.wav|"There's our man, Watson!|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000136_000001.wav|Here are twenty three shillings.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000126_000003.wav|Do you see?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000064_000000.wav|"You have lost one of your boots?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000068_000000.wav|"Well, mislaid it, anyhow.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000108_000001.wav|We are dealing with a clever man, Watson.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000131_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000096_000003.wav|We hurried together down the stairs and into the street.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000004_000001.wav|Sir Henry Baskerville|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000048_000001.wav|Have you read anything else in this message, mr Holmes?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000005_000000.wav|Our breakfast table was cleared early, and Holmes waited in his dressing gown for the promised interview.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000010_000000.wav|He laid an envelope upon the table, and we all bent over it.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000121_000001.wav|You saved my good name, and perhaps my life."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000106_000001.wav|How else could it be known so quickly that it was the Northumberland Hotel which he had chosen?|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000070_000001.wav|That was why I put them out."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000121_000000.wav|"No, sir, indeed I have not.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000006_000000.wav|"This is Sir Henry Baskerville," said dr Mortimer.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000007.wav|I'll be able to tell you more clearly then how this thing strikes me."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000050_000000.wav|"We are coming now rather into the region of guesswork," said dr Mortimer.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000136_000006.wav|Let me have a report by wire at Baker Street before evening.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000096_000002.wav|He rushed into his room in his dressing gown and was back again in a few seconds in a frock coat.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000118_000002.wav|Come in here, Watson!"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000000.wav|"Whichever it is, my answer is fixed.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000003.wav|It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000025_000002.wav|Permit me to give you an extract from it.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000123_000000.wav|"Yes, sir, he is still with us."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000004_000000.wav|Chapter four.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000053_000007.wav|What's this?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000022_000000.wav|"What business?" asked Sir Henry sharply.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000028_000000.wav|dr Mortimer looked at Holmes with an air of professional interest, and Sir Henry Baskerville turned a pair of puzzled dark eyes upon me.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000056_000002.wav|I think we have drawn as much as we can from this curious letter; and now, Sir Henry, has anything else of interest happened to you since you have been in London?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000016_000002.wav|Across the middle of it a single sentence had been formed by the expedient of pasting printed words upon it.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000039_000000.wav|"But how?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000091_000000.wav|"Then you may expect us.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000016_000001.wav|Someone seems to be very deeply interested in your movements." Out of the envelope he took a half sheet of foolscap paper folded into four. This he opened and spread flat upon the table.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000012_000000.wav|"No one could have known.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000122_000000.wav|"My dear fellow, you exaggerate.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000054_000000.wav|He was carefully examining the foolscap, upon which the words were pasted, holding it only an inch or two from his eyes.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000065_000000.wav|"My dear sir," cried dr Mortimer, "it is only mislaid.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000041_000003.wav|As it was done yesterday the strong probability was that we should find the words in yesterday's issue."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000067_000001.wav|You have lost one of your boots, you say?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000012_000001.wav|We only decided after I met dr Mortimer."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000118_000000.wav|"And so could I-from which I gather that in all probability it was a false one.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000059_000001.wav|"Why in thunder should anyone follow or watch me?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000077_000001.wav|"Of course, I've heard of the hound ever since I was in the nursery.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000112_000002.wav|But that is no use to us for the moment."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000088_000005.wav|Now, look here, mr Holmes, it's half past eleven now and I am going back right away to my hotel.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000083_000001.wav|I am very much indebted to you, dr Mortimer, for introducing me to a problem which presents several interesting alternatives.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000049_000009.wav|Did the composer fear an interruption-and from whom?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000027_000001.wav|"Don't you think that is an admirable sentiment?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000032_000000.wav|"And yet, my dear Watson, there is so very close a connection that the one is extracted out of the other.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000036_000000.wav|"Really, mr Holmes, this exceeds anything which I could have imagined," said dr Mortimer, gazing at my friend in amazement.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000118_000001.wav|A clever man upon so delicate an errand has no use for a beard save to conceal his features.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000099_000003.wav|An instant afterwards he gave a little cry of satisfaction, and, following the direction of his eager eyes, I saw that a hansom cab with a man inside which had halted on the other side of the street was now proceeding slowly onward again.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000130_000000.wav|"You will begin in each case by giving the outside porter one shilling. Here are twenty three shillings."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000096_000004.wav|dr Mortimer and Baskerville were still visible about two hundred yards ahead of us in the direction of Oxford Street.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000067_000000.wav|"Exactly," said Holmes, "however foolish the incident may seem.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000040_000002.wav|The supra orbital crest, the facial angle, the maxillary curve, the-"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000103_000000.wav|"Who was the man?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000134_000003.wav|You could easily recognize it, could you not?"|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000132_000000.wav|"You will tell him that you want to see the waste paper of yesterday. You will say that an important telegram has miscarried and that you are looking for it.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000009_000000.wav|"Nothing of much importance, mr Holmes.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000081_000000.wav|"And also," said Holmes, "that someone is not ill disposed towards you, since they warn you of danger."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000010_000001.wav|It was of common quality, grayish in colour.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000031_000000.wav|"No, I confess that I see no connection."|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8050/110238/8050_110238_000056_000000.wav|"Nothing," said he, throwing it down.|8050
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000016_000000.wav|"I had hoped that he would give up," said Colonel Talbot.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000033_000002.wav|We are likely to see much of each other."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000041_000000.wav|"What has happened?"|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000044_000000.wav|"Take good care of yourself, mr Shepard.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000025_000001.wav|"We don't know anything against him!"|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000046_000001.wav|He looked down into a piazza and he saw two figures there, a man and a woman.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000008_000003.wav|It was the flag under which both his father and Colonel Talbot had fought.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000029_000000.wav|"I did not expect to find events so far advanced in Charleston," said Shepard.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000033_000000.wav|"A happy chance has put me at the same place as mr Kenton," continued Shepard easily.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000017_000001.wav|The wind had risen a little, and it whipped about the staff.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000007_000001.wav|Talk was one thing, action was another.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000003_000000.wav|Harry left Madame Delaunay's house immediately after breakfast, still firm in his purpose to avoid Shepard, and went to the bank, on which he held drafts properly attested.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000019_000003.wav|At that moment the wind strengthened, and the flag stood straight out over the lofty walls of Sumter.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000032_000000.wav|"You see truly," said Colonel Talbot, with some emphasis.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000042_000001.wav|I was not informed of it when I came here, but Madame Delaunay has recalled the fact and I cannot doubt the word of a Charleston lady.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000049_000001.wav|Strict orders kept anyone from offering violence or insult to them.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000046_000002.wav|They were Colonel Talbot and Madame Delaunay.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000029_000001.wav|"With the Federal garrison concentrated in Sumter and the batteries going up everywhere, matters begin to look dangerous."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000026_000000.wav|But Shepard himself acted first.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000003_000001.wav|Not knowing what the future held, and inspired perhaps by some counsel of caution, he drew half of it in gold, intending to keep it about his person, risking the chance of robbery.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000040_000000.wav|"I want to tell you good bye, mr Kenton," he said, "I thought we were to be together here at the inn for some time, but it is not to be so."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000031_000000.wav|"Casual, not careful," returned Shepard, in his usual cheerful tones. "It is impossible, at such a time, to keep from looking at Sumter, the batteries and all the other preparations.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000006_000003.wav|Yesterday, while we were enjoying our Christmas dinner and talking of the things that we would do, Major Anderson, who commanded the United States garrison in Fort Moultrie, quietly moved it over to Sumter, which is far stronger.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000011_000005.wav|He had heard his father speak of him; they had served together, but it was now evident to Harry that Anderson would not go with South Carolina.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000045_000001.wav|Nothing yet had been able to disturb his poise.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000008_000002.wav|He was not one to sentimentalize, but the sight of the defiant flag, the most beautiful in all the world, stirred him in every fiber.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000023_000003.wav|Shepard turned at that moment, and the colonel caught sight of his face.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000043_000000.wav|He did not seem at all discouraged, his tone being as cheerful as ever, and he held out his hand.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000015_000001.wav|"He is defiant.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000017_000004.wav|He, too, like the boy's father, had fought under that flag, the same flag that had led him up the flame swept slopes of Cerro Gordo and Chapultepec.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000020_000003.wav|I am to help in building the fortifications, and as I am about to make a tour of inspection I will take you with me."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000048_000004.wav|His quickness and zeal caused him to be used as a messenger, and he was continually passing back and forth among the Confederate leaders in Charleston. He also came into contact with the Union officers in Fort Sumter.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000048_000001.wav|The news about his cousin opened his eyes.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000047_000001.wav|Harry found that he was taken into the city's heart, and its spell was very strong upon him.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000038_000002.wav|A slight air of constraint appeared and Harry was glad when the dinner was over.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000048_000000.wav|The letter made the boy very thoughtful.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000013_000001.wav|Some one touched him upon the shoulder, and turning quickly he saw Colonel Leonidas Talbot.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000020_000000.wav|"I knew it would be so," said Colonel Talbot, with a sigh.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000047_000004.wav|He said that Harry's cousin, Dick Mason, had joined the home guards, raised in the interests of the old Union, and was drilling zealously.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000026_000001.wav|He came forward quickly, his hand extended, and his eyes expressing pleasure.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000005_000000.wav|"What is it, Arthur?" asked Harry.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000006_000004.wav|The wives and children of the soldiers and officers have been landed in the city with the request that we send them to their homes in the states, which, of course, we will do. But Major Anderson, who holds the fort in the name of the United States, refuses to give it up to South Carolina, which claims it."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000003_000002.wav|Then he went toward the bay, anxious to see the sea and those famous forts, Sumter, Moultrie and the others, of which he had heard so much.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000022_000000.wav|Strong works were going up along the mainland.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000019_000001.wav|It contained three commissioners, prominent men of Charleston who had been sent to treat with Major Anderson, and his answer was quickly known to all the crowd.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000035_000001.wav|"I'm already long overdue, but it will be forgiven at such a time as this.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000019_000002.wav|Sumter was the property of the United States, not of South Carolina, and he would hold it for the Union.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000011_000003.wav|He recognized for the first time that they might not share the opinions of Charleston, and this name of Anderson was full of significance for him.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000023_000002.wav|He wished to avoid him, and he wished also that his companion would not see him. He started to draw Colonel Talbot away, but it was too late.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000006_000002.wav|That's Fort Sumter.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000014_000000.wav|"I have just come into the city," said the colonel, "and I heard only a few minutes ago that Major Anderson had removed his garrison from Moultrie to Sumter."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000019_000000.wav|The small boat that he had predicted put out from Sumter and quickly landed at the Battery.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000025_000000.wav|"Come away, colonel!" said Harry hastily.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000050_000000.wav|He picked up a copy of the Mercury one morning and saw that a steamer, the Star of the West, was on its way to Charleston from a northern port with supplies for the garrison in Fort Sumter.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000023_000001.wav|He knew by his rigid attitude that he was looking intently at the battery and he knew, moreover, that it was Shepard.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000007_000000.wav|Harry felt an extraordinary thrill, a thrill that was, in many ways, most painful.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000036_000000.wav|"It is true, he doesn't, although I don't know just why," said Harry.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000042_000003.wav|So, I go."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000011_000004.wav|Major Anderson was a Kentuckian.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000017_000000.wav|He pulled his long mustache and looked somberly at the flag.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000047_000003.wav|A letter came from his father, to whom he had written at once of his purpose, giving his approval, and sending him more money. Colonel Kenton wrote that he would come South himself, but he was needed in Kentucky, where a powerful faction was opposing their plans.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000044_000001.wav|As I see it, the people of Charleston are not taking to you, and we do not know what is going to happen."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000047_000000.wav|Several more days passed.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000016_000001.wav|"It might help the way to a composition."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000038_000004.wav|The last thing Harry saw as he turned back toward Madame Delaunay's was that defiant flag of the Union, still waving above the dark and looming mass of old Sumter.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000010_000000.wav|"I suppose so," said Harry.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000010_000001.wav|"But look how the people gather!"|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000013_000000.wav|"I don't believe he'll do it," said Harry impulsively.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000027_000000.wav|"I missed you this morning, mr Kenton," he said.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244431/8494_244431_000017_000002.wav|Its fluttering motions seemed to Harry more significant than ever of defiance.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000018_000002.wav|Then in vivid phrases he heard once more the old woman's prophecy: "You will come again, and you will be thin and pale and in rags, and you will fall at the door." For a moment it shadowed the sunlight.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000011_000000.wav|"Good bye, governor," she said, holding out a wrinkled and trembling hand.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000033_000000.wav|"Yes, sir," replied the boy, "I came chiefly by the river and the Wilderness Road."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000041_000001.wav|But Harry did not know any of these officers and he felt a little lonely.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000021_000000.wav|The two days passed without event.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000043_000000.wav|The whole scene was inspiring in the extreme to the heart of youth. Far to the right he saw cavalry galloping back and forth, and to the left he saw infantry drilling.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000021_000002.wav|He slept the first night at a log cabin that Jarvis had named, having reached it in due time, and the second day he reached, also in due time, the old Wilderness Road.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000009_000001.wav|"I came a stranger, but this house has been made a home to me."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000047_000003.wav|A tall youth rushed forward, seized his hand and shook it violently, meanwhile uttering cries of welcome in an unbroken stream.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000011_000002.wav|You will come again, and you will be thin and pale and in rags, and you will fall at the door.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000019_000000.wav|He was now across the valley and his path led along the base of the mountain.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000025_000003.wav|Then a shade smaller than Charleston, it, too, was a famous place in the South, and it was full of great associations.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000017_000000.wav|"Good bye, Harry," repeated Jarvis.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000039_000005.wav|Be ready.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000029_000000.wav|He was informed at the "White House" that General Beauregard was there, and sending in his card he was admitted promptly.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000027_000000.wav|But Harry paused frequently on the way, as there was nothing to hurry him, and there was much to be seen.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000023_000001.wav|The Virginians were less volatile than the South Carolinians, and they had long refused to go out, but now that they were out they were pouring into the Southern army, and they were animated by an extraordinary zeal.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000014_000000.wav|He lifted her hand and kissed it in the old-fashioned manner.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000048_000002.wav|How did you get here, Harry?|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000018_000000.wav|When Harry rode away something rose in his throat and choked him for a moment.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000005_000000.wav|IN VIRGINIA|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000006_000001.wav|Affairs must be moving now in the great world in the east, and he wished to be at the heart of them.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000046_000000.wav|"It's a mixed regiment," he said, "made up of Virginians, South Carolinians, North Carolinians, and a few Kentuckians and Tennesseeans, but it's already one of the best in the service.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000046_000002.wav|They're mostly boys and already they call themselves 'The Invincibles.' You can see the tents of their commanding officers over there by that little creek."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000037_000000.wav|"If I may," returned Harry.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000009_000000.wav|"Good bye, Aunt Susan," he said.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000039_000002.wav|Colonel Talbot is at the front, and you'll probably find him closer than any other officer to the Yankee army.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000040_000002.wav|The boy's view of Richmond was in truth brief, as before night he saw its spires and roofs fading behind him.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000038_000000.wav|General Beauregard laughed a little.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000047_000000.wav|Harry's eyes followed the pointing finger, and again his heart leaped. His friends were there, the two colonels for whom he had such a strong affection, and the two lads of his own age.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000028_000000.wav|Harry stopped a while to look at the ancient and noble state house, now the home also of the Confederate Congress, standing in Capitol Square, and the spire of the Bell Tower, on Shockoe Hill.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000040_000000.wav|mr Benjamin did not speak throughout the interview, but he watched Harry closely.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000008_000000.wav|Jarvis, Ike, and mrs Simmons gave him farewells which were full of feeling.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000037_000001.wav|"In South Carolina I was with Colonel Leonidas Talbot.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000025_000005.wav|They were mighty names to him.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000026_000002.wav|It was said that he was at the residence of President Davis, called the White House, after that other and more famous one at Washington, in which the lank, awkward man, Abraham Lincoln, now lived.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000012_000000.wav|"Hush, Aunt Suse," exclaimed mrs Simmons.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000012_000001.wav|"It is not Governor Ware, it is his great grandson, and you mustn't send him away tellin' of terrible things that will happen to him."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000027_000001.wav|If Charleston had been crowded, Richmond was more so.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000026_000000.wav|He arrived about noon, and, as he carried no baggage except his saddle bags and weapons, he was quickly within the city, his papers being in perfect order.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000017_000003.wav|After that it's easy."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000013_000000.wav|"I'm not afraid," said Harry, "and I hope that I'll see Aunt Susan and all of you again."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000037_000002.wav|I have had a letter from him here, and, if it is your pleasure and that of General Beauregard, I shall be glad to join his command."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000039_000000.wav|"You do well," he said.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000042_000001.wav|Harry's heart leaped again.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000025_000006.wav|He was about to tread streets that had been trod by the famous Jefferson, by Madison, Monroe, Randolph of Roanoke, and many others.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000025_000007.wav|The shades of the great Virginians rose in a host before him.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000018_000004.wav|No one could see into the future.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000015_000000.wav|She smiled and he heard her murmur:|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000020_000000.wav|The path, in another minute, curved around the mountain, and the valley was shut from view.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000025_000004.wav|Harry, like all the educated boys of the South, honored and admired its public men.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000025_000000.wav|It was now early in June, and the country was at its best.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000016_000001.wav|He kissed my hand like that once before, when I went to Frankfort on the lumber raft."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000024_000000.wav|He had letters from his father and he expected to find his friends of Charleston in Richmond or at the front.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000041_000000.wav|Harry heard from some of the officers that the army was gathered at a place called Manassas Junction, where Beauregard had taken command on june first, and to which he would quickly return.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000048_000000.wav|"By all the powers, it's our own Harry!" he exclaimed, "the new Harry of the West, whom we were afraid we should never see again.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000021_000001.wav|The weather remained fair, and no one interfered with him.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000047_000002.wav|It was arranged neatly, and by its side flowed the clear, cool waters of Young's Branch, a tributary of the little Manassas River. He walked briskly, crossed the brook, stepping from stone to stone, and entered the grounds of the Invincibles.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000019_000004.wav|Could it be possible that he would come again, and in the manner that the old woman had predicted?|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000035_000000.wav|"The Southern leaders did their best, but they could not move the state."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000023_000002.wav|He began to hear new or unfamiliar names, Early, and Ewell, and Jackson, and Lee, and Johnston, and Hill, and Stuart, and Ashby, names that he would never forget, but names that as yet meant little to him.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000048_000001.wav|Everything is for the best, but we hardly hoped for this!|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000047_000001.wav|Theirs looked like a good camp, too.|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8494/244443/8494_244443_000039_000006.wav|It will take you part of the way and you will march on for the rest."|8494
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000023_000000.wav|The Cow Bird.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000051_000000.wav|The Cat bird.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000070_000001.wav|The Shamrock.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000051_000001.wav|The Cat nip.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000050_000000.wav|For Eskimos, perhaps, the Auk Performs the duties of the Stork.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000029_000001.wav|The Turnip.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/128036/208_128036_000033_000000.wav|Observe the Turnip in the pot. The Tern is glad that he is not!|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126600/208_126600_000043_000000.wav|Freddie Fisher fairly fussed When he came to eat his crust! Often on the floor he'd throw it, Hoping mother wouldn't know it! Goops all hate to eat the crust; If you're told to, then you must!|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126600/208_126600_000088_000000.wav|"I won't!" says young Amelia Pratt; "I won't do this!" "I won't do that!" Now isn't "won't" the naughtiest word That anyone has ever heard? Now isn't that the rudest way A Goop could answer? I should say!|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126600/208_126600_000058_000000.wav|How thoughtless was Roberto Lees! (For only thoughtless children tease). He teased the little pussy cat, He teased the puppy! Think of that! He even teased his sister, too! I think he was a Goop-don't you?|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126600/208_126600_000100_000000.wav|Just look at Percival b Sloop, A most unpleasant sort of Goop; He pokes his fingers in his nose And wipes his hands upon his clothes; He does a lot of things that you, I know, would never, never do!|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126600/208_126600_000004_000000.wav|A Goop that always makes me smile Is this one: Marmaduke Argyll. His mouth is full from cheek to cheek, Why should he then attempt to speak? It makes me smile, but still, the fact is, It is a most unpleasant practice.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000012_000000.wav|"But he has promised me," the Doctor answered, "that he will not bite any one.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000009_000003.wav|This is the last straw.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000025_000003.wav|The Winter is still a long way off.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000025_000001.wav|So long as the hens lay eggs and the cow gives milk we can have omelettes and junket.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000024_000000.wav|But still they didn't seem to make enough money to pay all the bills-and still the Doctor wouldn't worry.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000019_000001.wav|At least we can do that much.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000025_000004.wav|Don't fuss.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000008_000002.wav|But he wept such big tears, and begged so hard to be allowed to stay, that the Doctor hadn't the heart to turn him out.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000025_000000.wav|"Never mind.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000006_000001.wav|So he took the monkey away from the Italian, gave the man a shilling and told him to go.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000011_000001.wav|"It's a nasty thing to find under the bed.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000016_000001.wav|With all these mouths to fill, and the house to look after, and no one to do the mending, and no money coming in to pay the butcher's bill, things began to look very difficult.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000005_000002.wav|So in this way he went on getting more and more pets.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000005_000000.wav|And often even after they got well, they did not want to go away-they liked the Doctor and his house so much.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000007_000003.wav|He asked couldn't he sleep in the fish pond at the bottom of the garden, if he promised not to eat the fish.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000011_000000.wav|"I don't care what you call it," said his sister.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000007_000005.wav|But to every one in the house he was always as gentle as a kitten.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000020_000000.wav|So it was agreed that the monkey, Chee Chee, was to do the cooking and mending; the dog was to sweep the floors; the duck was to dust and make the beds; the owl, Too Too, was to keep the accounts, and the pig was to do the gardening.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/126851/208_126851_000012_000003.wav|Don't be so fussy."|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/124554/208_124554_000007_000000.wav|five.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/124554/208_124554_000005_000003.wav|Do I practise what I preach?|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/124554/208_124554_000017_000000.wav|eleven.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/124554/208_124554_000020_000000.wav|thirteen.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/208/124554/208_124554_000021_000000.wav|fourteen.|208
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000012_000000.wav|At first, the condition attaching to his wedding with the lovely Dorani troubled the prince very little, for he thought that he would at least see his bride all day.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000025_000000.wav|All through the night the women sang and danced before the rajah Indra, whilst a magic lute played of itself the most bewitching music; till the prince, who sat watching it all, was quite entranced.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000039_000001.wav|You have been talking to your husband!'|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000040_000000.wav|And Dorani replied: 'Yes, I have spoken; oh, yes, I have spoken!' But no more would she say.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000022_000000.wav|In a short while they arrived at the house of the fairy who, as I told you before, was the favourite friend of Dorani.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000035_000001.wav|However, in the evening, just as she was stepping into her palanquin, she said to the prince:|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000023_000001.wav|What is the reason of that, I wonder?|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000032_000000.wav|'I was there,' answered the prince.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000038_000000.wav|That evening the magic stool flew so unsteadily that they could hardly keep their seats, and at last the fairy exclaimed:|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000003_000006.wav|He opened it, and within he found a lock of hair like spun gold, and from which came a faint, exquisite odour.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000045_000000.wav|Dorani bowed her head silently as she took the lute, and passed with the fairy out of the great gate, where the stool awaited them.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000048_000000.wav|That day Dorani sat very quietly, but she answered the prince when he spoke to her; and when evening fell, and with it the time for her departure, she still sat on.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000009_000002.wav|The father bowed his head three times to the ground, and replied:|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000024_000001.wav|The fairy still looked doubtful, but made no answer, and took her seat beside Dorani, the prince again holding tightly one leg.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000012_000002.wav|Each evening she was carried in a palanquin to her father's house, and each morning she was brought back soon after daybreak; and yet never a sound passed her lips, nor did she show by any sign that she saw, or heard, or heeded her husband.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/80690/5133_80690_000015_000000.wav|The old man stood thinking for a moment, and then he hobbled off to his own cottage.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000021_000002.wav|This is a good day for the races.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000011_000000.wav|The woman noticed nothing of all this.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000043_000001.wav|The crowd hung silently on the track. "Lu Lu" and "Mascot" were neck and neck, getting in splendid work. half-way round the course "Lu Lu" forged half a neck ahead, and her backers went mad.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000014_000001.wav|Such things were not greatly in his line.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000009.wav|Their eyes met.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000011_000004.wav|Otherwise there was little change in the quiet features and somewhat stern grey eyes.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000022_000001.wav|She shivered slightly.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000010.wav|He stooped and said almost in a whisper:|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000016_000002.wav|She felt weak and hysterical. What if she should burst into tears before the whole crowd-before those coldly critical grey eyes?|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000044_000002.wav|In the front row a woman stood up, swayed and shaken as a leaf in the wind.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000030_000001.wav|"You thought so-you were right.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000012_000003.wav|She had been eighteen when they were married-a gay, high spirited girl and the season's beauty. He was much older and a quiet, serious student.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000011_000003.wav|He looked older than when she had seen him last-there were some silver threads gleaming in his close clipped dark hair and short, pointed beard.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000011_000002.wav|She studied the man's profile furtively.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000012_000001.wav|She shut her eyes and looked in on her past.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000015_000002.wav|Has Vanity Fair palled in any degree?"|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000014_000002.wav|Evidently their chance meeting had not disturbed him.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000027_000000.wav|"This is a curious meeting, is it not?--quite a flavor of romance! By the way, do you read as many novels as ever?"|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000009_000002.wav|Again he smiled, this time with a tinge of scorn, and shifted his eyes to the track.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000029_000000.wav|"Almost as many," she answered carelessly.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000018_000000.wav|He jotted down the score carefully before he replied.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000034_000000.wav|"I-I-did not say that," she murmured faintly.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000002.wav|I never cared for excitement, you know.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000040_000002.wav|A wild caprice flashed into her brain.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000006.wav|I must go as soon as the free for all is over, if not before.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000041_000000.wav|"See," she cried, "they're off now.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000038_000001.wav|I was too hard on you-I ought to have made more allowance.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000014_000005.wav|When the heat was over he turned to her.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000004.wav|I find it rather interesting, I must confess, much more so than I should have fancied.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000002_000000.wav|"Ah-I have dropped my scorecard."|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000033_000001.wav|His sleeve brushed against her shoulder. Something in his face arrested the answer she meant to make.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000016_000000.wav|She was angry at herself and him.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000004_000001.wav|Will you accept it?"|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000016_000003.wav|She almost hated him.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000010_000003.wav|The backers of "Mascot", the rival favourite, looked gloomy.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000038_000000.wav|"We were both to blame-but I the most.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000031_000000.wav|"Yes," she said defiantly, looking straight into his eyes.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000028_000003.wav|What right had he?|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000000.wav|There was a burst of cheering.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000012_000000.wav|They had not met for five years.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000000.wav|"I?|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000003.wav|The strong wills clashed.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000011.wav|Before it all she saw the tall figure by her side, his face turned from her, watching the track intently.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000007.wav|No one knew if she were satisfied or not; her world was charitable to her and she lived a gay and quite irreproachable life.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000007_000000.wav|His lips parted in the coldly grave smile she remembered and hated.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000005_000001.wav|Both started convulsively.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000024_000000.wav|"I am not at all cold, thank you.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000040_000003.wav|She sprang up.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000004.wav|She was tired of it all.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000009.wav|It was such an irritating encounter.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000042_000001.wav|He knew by bitter experience how unchangeable her whims were, how obstinately she clung to even the most absurd.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000021_000001.wav|One more for either will decide it.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000042_000000.wav|He turned paler, but bowed in assent.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000024_000001.wav|What race is this?--oh! the three minute one."|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000036_000000.wav|"Will you come back to me?"|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000020_000002.wav|"She belongs to a friend of mine, so I am naturally interested."|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000022_000000.wav|He leaned over and brushed a scrap of paper from her grey cloak.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000040_000000.wav|But the slender, scholarly hand on her shoulder was trembling with the intensity of his repressed emotion.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000010.wav|She opened her eyes wearily; the dusty track, the flying horses, the gay dresses of the women on the grandstand, the cloudless blue sky, the brilliant September sunshine, the purple distances all commingled in a glare that made her head ache.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000008_000003.wav|I had no suspicion that for the last half hour I had been standing next to my-"|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000033_000000.wav|He bent down a little.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000041_000003.wav|That is my decision."|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000001.wav|The free for all horses were being brought out for the sixth heat.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000008_000000.wav|"You are not glad to see me," he said calmly, "but that, I suppose, was not to be expected.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000030_000002.wav|You have been happier since you-left me?"|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000044_000005.wav|No one noticed her.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000017_000000.wav|"No-why should it?|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000001.wav|Oh, a book worm and recluse always leads a placid life.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000017_000001.wav|I have found it very pleasant-and I have been well-very well.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000015_000001.wav|You are looking extremely well.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000026_000000.wav|Presently he spoke again, in the low, even tone demanded by circumstances.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000038_000003.wav|Come back to me-my wife."|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000025_000001.wav|She was breathing heavily.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000014_000000.wav|She wondered with a vague curiosity what induced him to come to the races.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000028_000000.wav|She fancied there was mockery in his tone.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000021_000003.wav|Excuse me."|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000028_000002.wav|Besides, she resented the personal tinge.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000044_000006.wav|A man beside her drew her hand through his arm in a quiet proprietary fashion.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000005.wav|Sorry I can't stay until the end.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000004.wav|After two years of an unbearable sort of life they had separated-quietly, and without scandal of any sort.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000037_000000.wav|"I don't know," she whispered breathlessly, as one half fascinated.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000002.wav|She turned away to watch them.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000006.wav|In the following five years she had succeeded in burying all remembrance well out of sight.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000003.wav|The scoring began, and seemed likely to have no end.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000000.wav|The marriage had been an unhappy one.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000010_000001.wav|All eyes were on the track, which was being cleared for the first heat of another race.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000038_000002.wav|We are wiser now both of us.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000032_000000.wav|"And you do not regret it?"|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000009_000000.wav|She interrupted him by an imperious gesture.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000043_000000.wav|She leaned forward breathlessly.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000023_000000.wav|"You are cold!|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000008.wav|She had never before said, even in her own heart: "I am sorry," but-suddenly, she felt his hand on her shoulder, and looked up.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000044_000003.wav|She straightened her scarlet hat and readjusted her veil unsteadily.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000006_000000.wav|"You?" she faltered.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000041_000001.wav|This heat will probably decide the race.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000043_000002.wav|But one woman dropped her head in her hands and dared look no more.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000025_000000.wav|She bent forward with assumed interest to watch the scoring.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000044_000001.wav|They were on the home stretch, they were equal, the cheering broke out, then silence, then another terrific burst, shouts, yells and clappings-"Mascot" had won the free for all.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000039_000000.wav|His tone was cold and his face expressionless.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000035_000006.wav|Had Vanity Fair after all been a satisfying exchange for love?|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000005_000000.wav|Her small, modishly gloved hand closed eagerly on it before she lifted her eyes to his face.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000025_000002.wav|There were tears in her eyes-she bit her lips savagely and glared at the track until they were gone.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000043_000003.wav|One man with white face and set lips watched the track unswervingly.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000014_000004.wav|She sighed a little wearily and closed her eyes.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000002.wav|She Was impulsive and impatient, he deliberate and grave.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000008_000001.wav|I did not come here to annoy you.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000010_000000.wav|None of the people around them had noticed the little by play.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000007.wav|I have backed 'Mascot'; you?"|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000012_000002.wav|It all came back very vividly.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000019_000003.wav|I came down here to attend a sale of some rare editions, and a well meaning friend dragged me out to see the races.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000003_000000.wav|A man in front of her turned.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000030_000000.wav|"I was very intolerant, wasn't I?" he said after a pause.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5133/30591/5133_30591_000013_000008.wav|She wished that she had not come to the races.|5133
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000017_000000.wav|"Why, that is my name-what else should you call me?" she returned, evidently with surprise.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000003_000000.wav|The reading, I have said, had struck me as almost of the nature of a religious service; nevertheless, everything went on as before-reading, working, and occasional conversation; but the subdued talking and moving about did not interfere with one's pleasure in the old man's musical speech any more than the soft murmur and flying about of honey bees would prevent one from enjoying the singing of a skylark.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000037_000000.wav|"But surely your name is Smith?" said she, looking very much surprised.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000002.wav|Those last expressions I have quoted about the "august Mother of the house" were unintelligible, and appeared to me meaningless.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000014_000000.wav|Fortunately, no notice was taken of the exclamation, though it was hard to believe that her words had not been overheard; and presently, recovering from my fright, I apologized for hurting her, and hoped she would forgive me.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000007_000001.wav|"Besides, this is such easy work I could do it in the dark."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000007_000000.wav|"Oh, the light is good enough," she answered, taking no notice of the compliment.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000032_000000.wav|She assented, and, pleased at her ready intelligence, I added: "And it is particularly pleasant when you are understood.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000006.wav|It was perhaps stupid of me, but the story of Mistrelde, who died young, leaving only eight children, I had regarded as a mere legend or fable of antiquity.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000029_000002.wav|She was certainly very beautiful, with a far more mature and perhaps a nobler beauty than Yoletta's, her age being about twenty seven or twenty eight; but the divine charm in the young girl's face could, for me, exist in no other.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000023_000002.wav|I could wish for no greater pleasure than to sit here listening to you the whole evening."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000015_000001.wav|"You did not really squeeze hard, only my hand hurts, because to day when I pressed it on the ground beside the grave I ran a small thorn into it." Then the remembrance of that scene at the burial brought a sudden mist of tears into her lovely eyes.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000028_000000.wav|"Oh, you shall not be alone," she replied, and going away returned presently with another lady.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000019_000000.wav|"Yes; but is that strange-are not all people beautiful?"|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000028_000002.wav|"She will take my place by your side and talk with you."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000018_000001.wav|"But it is only right that you should have a pretty name, because-well, if I may tell you, because you are so very beautiful."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000022_000001.wav|"There are different kinds of beauty, I allow, and some people seem more beautiful to us than others, but that is only because we love them more.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000024_000000.wav|"Ah, then, I am sorry I must leave you now," she answered, with a bright smile which made me think that perhaps my little speech had pleased her.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000036_000002.wav|It is very kind of you, I'm sure."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000027_000000.wav|"Must you go?" I only said.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000034_000001.wav|"It must be patent to every one that women have far quicker, finer intellects than men, although their brains are smaller; but then quality is more important than mere quantity.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000002_000004.wav|But it was perhaps in their clear, sweet, penetrative voice, which sometimes reminded me of a tender toned wind instrument, that they most differed from others.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000004_000000.wav|"May I sit down near you?" said I with some hesitation; but she encouraged me with a smile and placed a cushion for me.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000003.wav|I had already come to the conclusion that however many of the ladies of the establishment might have experienced the pleasures and pains of maternity, there was really no mother of the house in the sense that there was a father of the house: that is to say, one possessing authority over the others and calling them all her children indiscriminately.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000036_000001.wav|It makes it so much more pleasant and homelike to be treated without formality.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000008_000000.wav|"It is very pretty work-may I look at it?"|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000035_000000.wav|"I am afraid I do not understand you, Smith," she returned, looking much distressed.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000000.wav|The reading went on, not of course "for ever," like that harvest melody he spoke of, but for a considerable time.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000029_000000.wav|I could not tell her that she had taken my words too literally, that being alone simply meant being separated from her; but there was no help for it, and some one, alas! some one I greatly hated was waiting for her.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000005_000004.wav|Then I remembered that ground, common and broad enough, of our human feelings, especially the sweet and important feeling of love.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000034_000000.wav|"There's not a doubt of it!" I returned warmly, glad to find that with Edra it was all plain sailing.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000034_000003.wav|Not that I care two straws about the question myself, and I only hope they'll never get it; but then I think it is so illogical-don't you?"|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000004.wav|Yet this mysterious non-existent mother of the house was continually being spoken of, as I found now and afterwards when I listened to the talk around me.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000005_000005.wav|But how was I to lead up to it?|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000005_000000.wav|I settled myself down in the most graceful position I could assume, which was not at all graceful, doubling my objectionable legs out of her sight; and then began my trouble, for I was greatly perplexed to know what to say to her.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000023_000000.wav|This seemed to reverse the usual idea, that the more beautiful the person is the more he or she gets loved.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000025_000000.wav|"Do you wonder why I smile?" she added, as if able to read my thoughts. "It is because I have often heard words like yours from one who is waiting for me now."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000013_000002.wav|You don't know what a hobble you'll get me into."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000038_000000.wav|"Oh yes, my name is Smith: only of course-well, the tact is, I was just wondering what to call you."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000029_000001.wav|I could only thank her and her friend for their kind intentions. But what in the name of goodness was I to say to this beautiful woman who was sitting by me?|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000003_000001.wav|Emboldened by what I saw the others doing, I left my seat and made my way across the floor to Yoletta's side, stealing through the gloom with great caution to avoid making a clatter with those abominable boots.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000039_000000.wav|"My name is Edra," she replied, looking more bewildered than ever; and from that moment the conversation, which had begun so favorably, was nothing but a series of entanglements, from which I could only escape in each case by breaking the threads of the subject under discussion, and introducing a new one.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000005_000002.wav|Ellen Terry's acting, the Royal Academy Exhibition, private theatricals, and twenty things besides, but they all seemed unsuitable subjects to start conversation with in this case.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000026_000000.wav|This speech caused me a jealous pang.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000013_000001.wav|"Oh, for goodness sake," I stammered, "please, do not make such an outcry!|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000022_000002.wav|The best loved are always the most beautiful."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000002_000001.wav|Just as I had been absorbed before in that beautiful book without being able to read it, so now I listened to that melodious and majestic voice, experiencing a singular pleasure without properly understanding the sense.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000032_000001.wav|But I have no fear that you, at any rate, will fail to understand anything I may say."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000001_000005.wav|After thinking the matter over, I came to the conclusion that "mother of the house" was merely a convenient fiction, and simply stood for the general sense of the women folk, or something of the sort.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000030_000000.wav|Presently she opened the conversation by asking me if I disliked being alone.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000012_000000.wav|"Oh, thank you," I exclaimed, delighted with the privilege; and then, to make the most of my precious "little while," I pressed it warmly, whereupon she cried out aloud: "Oh, Smith, you are squeezing too hard-you hurt my hand!"|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000018_000000.wav|"It is a pretty name, and so sweet on the lips that I should like to be repeating it continually," I answered.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000033_000000.wav|"You have had some trouble to day," she returned, with a charming smile. "I sometimes think that women can understand even more readily than men."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000002_000003.wav|In their rare physical beauty, the color of their eyes and hair, and in their fascinating dress, they had struck me as being utterly unlike any people ever seen by me.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000016_000000.wav|"I am so sorry I hurt you, Yoletta-may I call you Yoletta?" said I, all at once remembering that she had called me Smith, without the customary prefix.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000015_000000.wav|"There is nothing to forgive," she returned gently.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000023_000001.wav|However, I was not going to disagree with her any more, and only said: "How sweetly you talk, Yoletta; you are as wise as you are beautiful.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000034_000002.wav|And yet," I continued, "some people hold that women ought not to have the franchise, or suffrage, or whatever it is!|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000031_000000.wav|"Well, no, perhaps not exactly that," I said; "but I think it much jollier-much more pleasant, I mean-to have some very nice person to talk to."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000005_000006.wav|The work she was engaged with at length suggested an opening, and the opportunity to make a pretty little speech.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000005_000003.wav|There was, I began to fear, no common ground on which we could meet and exchange thoughts, or, at any rate, words.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000011_000000.wav|"That would prevent me from working," she answered, with the utmost gravity.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74797/6763_74797_000028_000001.wav|"This is Edra," she said simply.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000001_000000.wav|Chapter seven|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000001.wav|The hard bed, the cold night wind blowing on me, my wolfish visitor, were all forgotten.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000004_000008.wav|No, no, my venerable friend, that was all excellent acting about my extraordinary delusions, and the rest of it, but I am not going to be carried so far by them as to adhere to such an outrageously one sided bargain."|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000000.wav|Naturally, at this juncture, I began to draw a parallel between my case and that of an ancient historical personage, whose name is familiar to most.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000004.wav|There was no light for me except the light of the stars; for directly opposite the door by which I had entered stood another, open wide to the night, which was apparently not intended ever to be closed.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000004_000000.wav|It seemed very astonishing that an animal like a wolf should come into the house; but I soon remembered that I had seen no dogs about, so that all kinds of savage, prowling beasts could come in with impunity.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000002.wav|Once more I gave loose to my imagination, and saw myself (clothed and in my right mind) sitting at Yoletta's feet, learning the mystery of that sweet, tranquil life from her precious lips.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000004.wav|And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000005.wav|The prospect was the one I had already seen-the wilderness sloping to the river, and the glassy surface of the broad water, reflecting the stars, and the black masses of large trees.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000007.wav|And if a whole year's labor was only sufficient to pay for a suit of clothing, how many years of toil would be required to win Yoletta's hand?|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000004_000001.wav|It was getting beyond a joke: but then all this seemed only a fit ending to the perfectly absurd arrangement into which I had been induced to enter. "Goodness gracious!" I exclaimed, sitting bolt upright on my straw bed, "am I a rational being or an inebriated donkey, or what, to have consented to such a proposal?|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000000.wav|The moment of retiring, to which I had been looking forward with considerable interest as one likely to bring fresh surprises, arrived at last: it brought only extreme discomfort.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000003_000001.wav|He was intently watching me, his round eyes shining like a pair of green phosphorescent globes. Having no weapon, I was at the brute's mercy, and was about to utter a loud shout to summon assistance, but as he sat so still I refrained, and began even to hope that he would go quietly away.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000000.wav|It made me quite happy to end it in this way.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000011.wav|Oh, then, a million curses take it-respectability, I mean; may it sink into the bottomless pit, and the smoke of its torment ascend for ever and ever!|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000003_000002.wav|Then he stood up, went back to the door and sniffed audibly at it; and thinking that he was about to relieve me of his unwelcome presence, I dropped my head on the pillow and lay perfectly still.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000001.wav|History repeats itself-with variations.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000006.wav|And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000003.wav|He taketh acquaintance of Rachel, here called Yoletta.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000003.wav|Having reached the door of my box, my conductor pushed back the sliding panel, and when I had groped my way to the dark interior, closed it again behind me.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000005.wav|What had I to give in return for such a boon as that? Only that strength concerning which my venerable host had spoken somewhat encouragingly.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000012.wav|And having thus, by taking thought, brought my mind into this temper, I once more finally determined to have the clothes, and religiously to observe the compact.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000003.wav|Is it sinful to wish for any adornments other than wisdom and sobriety, a meek and loving spirit, good works, and other things of the kind?|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000004_000004.wav|I don't know much about plowing and that sort of thing, but I suppose any able bodied man can earn a pound a week, and that would be fifty two pounds for a suit of clothes.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000008.wav|Leah was considerably older than Rachel, and, like Edra, tender eyed.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000001.wav|I was conducted (without a flat candlestick) along an obscure passage; then, at right angles with the first, a second broader, lighter passage, leading past a great many doors placed near together.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000002.wav|These, I ascertained later, were the dormitories, or sleeping cells, and were placed side by side in a row opening on the terrace at the back of the house.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000004_000005.wav|Who ever heard of such a thing!|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000007.wav|The night air blew in cold and moist, which made my bones ache, though they were not broken; and feeling very sleepy and miserable, I groped about until I Was rewarded by discovering a narrow bed, or cot of trellis work, on which was a hard straw pallet and a small straw pillow; also, folded small, a kind of woolen sleeping garment.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000005.wav|That is a touch of nature I can thoroughly appreciate-the kissing, I mean; but why he wept I cannot tell, unless it be because he was not an Englishman.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000001.wav|Those strange garments had looked so refreshingly picturesque, and I had conceived such an intense longing to wear them!|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000009.wav|The misery of it! for although my body was warm-too warm, in fact-the wind blew on my face and bare feet and legs, and made it impossible to sleep.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000002_000006.wav|There was no sound save the hooting of an owl in the distance, and the wailing note of some mournful minded water fowl.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000003_000005.wav|When I looked again the brute had vanished, to my inexpressible relief.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000003_000000.wav|About midnight, I was just falling into a doze when a sound as of a person coming with a series of jumps into the room disturbed me; and starting up I was horrified to see, sitting on the floor, a great beast much too big for a dog, with large, erect ears.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000006.wav|He had also been so good as to mention my skill; but I could scarcely trade on that.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000005.wav|This has become, as every one knows, a custom among the race of men, and shows at present no sign of becoming obsolete.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000002.wav|Was it a very contemptible ambition on my part?|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000003_000003.wav|Then he turned and glared at me again, and finally, advancing deliberately to my side, sniffed at my face.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000006_000004.wav|But her hand-ah, that was another matter.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000007_000009.wav|I do not aspire or desire to marry both, especially if I should, like Jacob, have to begin with the wrong one, however tender eyed: but for divine Yoletta I could serve seven years; yea, and fourteen, if it comes to it.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000003_000004.wav|It was all over with me now, I thought, and closing my eyes, and feeling my forehead growing remarkably moist in spite of the cold, I murmured a little prayer.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6763/74798/6763_74798_000005_000010.wav|For the sake of respectability, perhaps, whatever that may mean.|6763
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000020_000004.wav|When she perceives that she cannot get into her nest she will fly round the tree uttering cries of distress, and then dart off towards the sun setting.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000046_000004.wav|If only he could come back again!|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000012.wav|If the door bursts open suddenly with great crackings and groanings do not be afraid, the noise is caused by the power of the magic root, and you will not be hurt.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000006_000003.wav|I took my dog with me, but he could find no trace of them, though we searched among the bushes till night fell; and then, as I did not know the country and could not find my way home in the dark, I decided to sleep under a tree.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000053_000000.wav|peter had made the journey to the treasure mountain successfully, without being found out by anybody.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000018_000001.wav|'I cannot tell if the spectre lied, for never a step did I go towards finding the hollow, for two reasons:--one was that my neck was too precious for me to risk it in such a snare as that; the other, that no one could ever tell me where the spring root was to be found.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000019_000000.wav|Then Blaize, another aged shepherd, lifted up his voice.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000066_000000.wav|'Alas!' said the young man, 'her father is a wandering good for naught, who has forsaken wife and child, and gone off-who knows where?|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000029_000001.wav|I have a good piece of business in hand which may turn out well for us.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000060_000000.wav|'Who knows?' answered Master peter.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000062_000008.wav|She was startled at first; but I persuaded her to listen to me, and I soon saw that I was not displeasing to her, though she scolded me gently for my disobedience to my master, and my deceit in disguising myself.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000053_000002.wav|Then he pressed on eagerly, and soon came to the little hollow in the wood; down he went, burrowing like a mole into the earth; the magic root did its work, and at last the treasure lay before his eyes.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000050_000003.wav|When Dame Ilse had set something to eat before her husband, she was curious to hear his adventures, and questioned him eagerly as to why he had gone away.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000001.wav|Do not cross the bridge, but keep to your right along the bank till a high rock stands before you.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000023_000001.wav|He could make fish jelly, and quince fritters, and even wafer cakes; and he gilded the ears of all his boars' heads.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000007_000000.wav|'Though I was still deadly cold with terror I plucked up my courage and said: "Get away from me, evil spirit; I do not desire your treasures."|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000002.wav|After he had faithfully done everything according to Father Martin's instructions, and pressed the earth well back into the hollow, he sat down to consider how he could bring his treasure back to his native place, and enjoy it there, without being forced to share it with his scolding wife, who would give him no peace if she once found out about it.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000034_000003.wav|His thoughts now turned to the mountain, and he secretly made preparations for his journey.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000010.wav|Neither must you go through the door to the left, it leads to the snake's chamber, where adders and serpents lodge; but open the fast closed door by means of the well-known spring root, which you must on no account forget to take with you, or all your trouble will be for naught, for no crowbar or mortal tools will help you.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000046_000000.wav|Now a great hurry burly began in the house, and preparations for the wedding went on apace.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000052_000003.wav|Father peter also stayed quietly with them, living, as everybody believed, upon the generosity of his rich son in law.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000007.wav|Now in the whole town there was only one red cloak, and that belonged to a man of whom nobody ever willingly asked a favour-Master Hammerling the hangman.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000012_000004.wav|So I thought to give it into your hand, having a kindness for you because you feed your flock upon my mountain."|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000020_000002.wav|The easiest way to get it is by the help of a black woodpecker.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000039_000002.wav|She decided to buy a strong ass to do the work, and having chosen one, and after some bargaining with the owner as to its price, she went to the cupboard in the wall to fetch the money.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000005_000000.wav|Presently up spoke the silver haired Father Martin.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000003.wav|At last, after much thinking, he hit upon a plan.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000006.wav|peter was overjoyed at this fortunate discovery, and instantly set himself to obtain a red cloak.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000037_000000.wav|Then a sudden thought startled her, and she felt for her keys.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000068_000000.wav|'If you will take my advice,' said he, 'I promise you that you shall marry this maiden whom you love so much, and that before you are many days older.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000064_000000.wav|Master peter, who had been listening attentively, pricked up his ears at the sound of his daughter's name, and very soon found out that it was indeed with her that this young man was so deeply in love.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000070_000000.wav|'Stay, hothead!' he cried; 'it is no jest, and I am prepared to make good my words.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000060_000001.wav|'I might be able to do something for you.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000031_000000.wav|'I am making my will,' said he, 'that when my hour comes my house may be in order.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000011.wav|If you want to procure the root ask a wood seller; it is a common thing for hunters to need, and it is not hard to find.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000047_000000.wav|'I should not be sorry myself to see him come back-there is always something lacking in a house when the good man is away.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000012_000002.wav|At twilight and at high noon it is hidden, but at midnight it may be dug up.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000015_000000.wav|'As the apparition left off speaking my dog pricked up his ears and began to bark.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000073_000001.wav|In his old age his prosperity was so great that he himself did not know how rich he was; but it was always supposed that the money was Friedlin's.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000046_000002.wav|The day for the wedding was chosen, and all their friends and neighbours were bidden to the feast.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000036_000000.wav|'Who knows?' cried Dame Ilse at last, 'the wretch may have been idling in some tavern since early morning.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000006.wav|At one place upon the road he met a handsome young man who seemed by his downcast air to be in some great trouble.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000060_000002.wav|Often enough in life help comes to us from the most unexpected quarter.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000065_000001.wav|'But where is the father of this maiden-why do you not ask him for her hand?|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000034_000002.wav|All Peter's plans had succeeded, and he actually held in his hand the magic root-that master key which would unlock all doors, and bring its possessor unheard of luck.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000030_000000.wav|'You with a good business?' cried she, 'you are good for nothing but talk!'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000015.wav|If you take as much as you can carry you will have sufficient to last your lifetime, and you may return three times; but woe betide you if you venture to come a fourth time.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000043_000001.wav|Since we last met my fortune has utterly changed; I am no longer the poor vagabond that I was then.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000042_000001.wav|I thought you were a hundred miles away.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000012_000001.wav|A vast treasure of gold and precious stones lies in safety deep under the earth.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000009_000001.wav|Do you scorn your good fortune?|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000006_000000.wav|'Comrades,' said he, 'you have had wonderful adventures; but I will tell you something still more astonishing that happened to myself.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000015_000001.wav|I heard the crack of a carter's whip and the noise of wheels in the distance, and when I looked again the spectre had disappeared.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000043_000003.wav|That I love you I know well; if you can love me I am indeed a happy man.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000026_000000.wav|This grieved the tender heart of his pretty daughter, who loved him dearly, and was the comfort of his life.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000004.wav|He carried his sack to the nearest village, and there bought a wheelbarrow, a strong barrel, and a quantity of nails.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000037_000003.wav|Mid day came, then evening, then midnight, and still no Master peter appeared, and the matter became really serious.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000002.wav|He sent them into the woods and fields, but instead of looking for a nest they only played pranks on him.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000000.wav|And she seized him like a fury, and tried to scratch out his eyes.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000013.wav|Now trim your lamp that it may not fail you, for you will be nearly blinded by the flash and glitter of the gold and precious stones on the walls and pillars of the vault; but beware how you stretch out a hand towards the jewels!|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000027_000003.wav|Soon he heard his wife's harsh voice singing its morning song as she went about her household affairs, scolding her daughter the while.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000027_000004.wav|She burst open his door while he was still dressing: 'Well, Toper!' was her greeting, 'have you been drinking all night, wasting money that you steal from my housekeeping?|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000006_000009.wav|If you will come with me you shall dig up much gold."|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000016.wav|You would have your trouble for your pains, and would be punished for your greediness by falling down the stone steps and breaking your leg.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000023_000004.wav|Therefore, when Master peter came along, and let himself be taken in by her boasted skill as a housewife, she jumped at his offer, and they were married the next day.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000009.wav|Do not go through the door to the right lest you disturb the bones of the lords of the treasure.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000043_000000.wav|'No, dearest girl,' answered he; 'I am come to complete your happiness and my own.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000014.wav|In the midst of the cavern stands a copper chest, in that you will find gold and silver, enough and to spare, and you may help yourself to your heart's content.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000013_000001.wav|It might be only yesterday so well do I remember every word he spoke.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000056_000001.wav|'What has the world been doing to you?'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000006_000006.wav|I shook like an aspen leaf at the sight, and my spirit quaked for fear.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000049_000000.wav|On the very eve of the wedding a man pushing a wheelbarrow arrived at the city gate, and paid toll upon a barrel of nails which it contained, and then made the best of his way to the bride's dwelling and knocked at the door.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000035_000006.wav|When Dame Ilse and her daughter returned they wondered to find the house door shut, and Master peter nowhere to be seen.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000065_000000.wav|'Your story is strange indeed,' said he.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000005.wav|Into this opening you must crawl, holding a lamp in your mouth.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000051_000000.wav|'God bless my native place,' said he.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000023_000002.wav|peter had looked about him for a wife early in life, but unluckily his choice fell upon a woman whose evil tongue was well known in the town.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000052_000004.wav|No one suspected that his barrel of nails was the real 'Horn of Plenty,' from which all this prosperity overflowed.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000003.wav|When you find this hollow dig it out; but it will be hard work, for the earth has been pressed down into it with care.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000020_000007.wav|Then spread the red cloth quickly under the tree, so that the woodpecker may think it is a fire, and in her terror drop the root.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000062_000005.wav|But at last I dressed myself as an old woman, and knocked boldly at her door.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000059_000001.wav|'You can give me neither help nor comfort.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000017_000000.wav|'Tell us now, Father Martin, did you go to the mountain and find what the spirit promised you; or is it a fable?'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000010_000001.wav|I will fill your knapsack-I will fill your pouch."|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000020_000005.wav|When you see her do this, take a scarlet cloak, or if that be lacking to you, buy a few yards of scarlet cloth, and hurry back to the tree before the woodpecker returns with the spring root in her beak.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000066_000001.wav|The wife complains of him bitterly enough, and scolds my dear maiden when she takes her father's part.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000013_000000.wav|'Thereupon the spectre told me exactly where the treasure lay, and how to find it.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000009_000000.wav|'"Simpleton!|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000007.wav|Father peter, who wished everybody to be as happy as he was himself, greeted him cheerfully, and asked where he was going, to which he answered sadly:|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000032_000001.wav|But her mother only cried: 'Wretch! have you not wasted goods and possessions, and now do you talk of making a will?'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000006_000002.wav|One autumn evening as we drove the flock homeward ten sheep were missing, and the master bade me go and seek them in the forest.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000051_000002.wav|This barrel of nails is my whole fortune, which I wish to give as my contribution towards the bride's house furnishing.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000039_000003.wav|But what were her feelings when she perceived that every shelf lay empty and bare before her!|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000009_000002.wav|Well, then, remain a ragamuffin all your days."|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000062_000009.wav|But when I begged her to marry me, she told me sadly that her mother would scorn a penniless wooer, and implored me to go away at once, lest trouble should fall upon her.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000001.wav|But even that did not trouble peter much; he was quite satisfied with what he had already.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000043_000002.wav|My rich uncle has died, leaving me money and goods in plenty, so that I dare to present myself to your mother as a suitor for your hand.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000034_000000.wav|peter now had all that was necessary to secure the magic root; he stopped up the entrance to the nest, and everything fell out exactly as Blaize had foretold.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000035_000004.wav|He stood still in sheer amazement, not knowing which to rejoice over most-this unexpected find, or the proof of the magic root's real power; but at last he remembered that it was quite time to be starting on his journey.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000041_000003.wav|He looked at her fondly, and took her hand, which she tried to draw away, crying:|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000001.wav|But by and by the quarrel was patched up, and everything went on as before. From that day peter saved up every penny that his daughter Lucia gave him on the sly, and bribed the boys of his acquaintance to spy out a black woodpecker's nest for him.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000039_000001.wav|After that the neighbours went out with long poles to fish in every ditch and pond, but they found nothing, and then Dame Ilse gave up the idea of ever seeing her husband again and very soon consoled herself, only wondering how the sacks of corn were to be carried to the mill in future.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000029_000000.wav|'Do not be annoyed, dear wife.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000067_000000.wav|Father peter was somewhat amused by this speech; but he liked the young man well, and saw that he was the very person he needed to enable him to enjoy his wealth in peace, without being separated from his dear daughter.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000008_000000.wav|'At this the spectre grinned in my face and cried mockingly:|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000053_000001.wav|He had enjoyed himself by the way, and taken his own time, until he actually reached the little brook in the valley which it had cost him some trouble to find.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000014_000017.wav|Do not neglect each time to heap back the loose earth which concealed the entrance of the king's treasure chamber."|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000032_000000.wav|These unexpected words cut his daughter to the heart; she remembered that all night long she had dreamed of a newly dug grave, and at this thought she broke out into loud lamentations.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000006_000001.wav|When I was a young lad I had no home and no one to care for me, and I wandered from village to village all over the country with my knapsack on my back; but as soon as I was old enough I took service with a shepherd in the mountains, and helped him for three years.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000062_000003.wav|I soon reached the little town where the maiden dwelt; but there fresh difficulties awaited me.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000004.wav|This went on for some time, but at last one of the boys spied out a woodpecker in the meadow lands among the wood pigeons, and when he had found her nest in a half dead alder tree, came running to peter with the news of his discovery.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000025_000002.wav|From his youth up, Master peter had hated trouble; when he had money he spent it freely, and fed all the hungry folk who asked him for bread.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000058_000002.wav|So peter perceived that what ailed his guest was sorrow of heart, and asked him kindly to tell him his story.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000005.wav|peter could hardly believe his good fortune, and went quickly to see for himself if it was really true; and when he reached the tree there certainly was a bird flying in and out as if she had a nest in it.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000058_000001.wav|But when good food was set before him he seemed to forget to eat.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000033_000003.wav|They led him miles over hill and vale, stock and stone, to find a raven's brood, or a nest of squirrels in a hollow tree, and when he was angry with them they laughed in his face and ran away.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000037_000004.wav|Dame Ilse knew right well what a torment she had been to her husband, and remorse caused her the gloomiest forebodings.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000025_000000.wav|But, by and by, he had a little daughter so strong and healthy that neither her mother's temper nor her father's spoiling could keep her from growing up tall and beautiful.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000034_000004.wav|He took with him only a staff, a strong sack, and a little box which his daughter Lucia had given him.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000054_000000.wav|However, all went well-he neither saw nor heard anything alarming; the only thing that happened was that the great iron barred door shut with a crash as soon as he was fairly outside it, and then he remembered that he had left the magic root behind him, so he could not go back for another load of treasure.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000055_000000.wav|'Into the wide world, good father, or out of it, where ever my feet may chance to carry me.'|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/8675/5876_8675_000059_000000.wav|'Where is the good, father?' said he.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000040_000002.wav|thirty four, because, what is such of itself precedes that which is by another.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000010_000001.wav|For, the Scripture says: "He set them in the firmament." But plants are described as produced when the earth, to which they are attached, received its form.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000025_000001.wav|But the lights are nobler than the earth.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000008_000001.wav|For the heavenly luminaries are by nature incorruptible bodies: wherefore their matter cannot exist without their form.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000011_000001.wav|Now, cause precedes effect in the order of nature. The lights, therefore, ought not to have been produced on the fourth day, but on the third day.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000002.wav|Yet for some of these operations, as sensation and nutrition, our body is a necessary instrument.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000030_000002.wav|But he says "signs," rather than "causes," to guard against idolatry.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000008.wav|It follows, then, that of the operations of the soul the only ones left to be attributed to the heavenly bodies are those of understanding and moving; for appetite follows both sensitive and intellectual perception, and is in proportion thereto.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000030_000001.wav|Hence nothing prevents a sensible cause from being a sign.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000032_000001.wav|Nor is it untrue to say that a higher creature may be made for the sake of a lower, considered not in itself, but as ordained to the good of the universe.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000010.wav|Accordingly, the union of a soul to a heavenly body cannot be for the purpose of the operations of the intellect.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000042_000002.wav|Nor was there less diversity of opinion among the Doctors of the Church.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000028_000003.wav|First, the lights are of service to man, in regard to sight, which directs him in his works, and is most useful for perceiving objects.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000028_000006.wav|And in this respect he says: "Let them be for signs."|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000012_000001.wav|Therefore the sun and the moon alone are not correctly described as the "two great lights."|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000036_000002.wav|Therefore the lights of heaven, as pertaining to its adornment, should be living beings also.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000003.wav|Hence it is clear that the sensitive and nutritive souls must be united to a body in order to exercise their functions.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000046_000002.wav|Also as regards movement the power that moves the heavenly bodies is of a nobler kind.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000008_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the lights ought not to have been produced on the fourth day.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000004.wav|There are, however, operations of the soul, which are not exercised through the medium of the body, though the body ministers, as it were, to their production.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000038_000002.wav|Much more, therefore, have the heavenly bodies a living soul.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000023_000002.wav|Therefore they are not signs.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000000_000000.wav|We must next consider the work of adornment, first as to each day by itself, secondly as to all seven days in general.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000035_000000.wav|Whether the Lights of Heaven Are Living Beings?|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000016.wav|A proof that the heavenly bodies are moved by the direct influence and contact of some spiritual substance, and not, like bodies of specific gravity, by nature, lies in the fact that whereas nature moves to one fixed end which having attained, it rests; this does not appear in the movement of heavenly bodies.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000015.wav|The Platonists explain the union of soul and body in the same way, as a contact of a moving power with the object moved, and since Plato holds the heavenly bodies to be living beings, this means nothing else but that substances of spiritual nature are united to them, and act as their moving power.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000016_000002.wav|Thus we observe that the rays of the sun have one effect, those of the moon another, and so forth.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000046_000001.wav|While, then, it is not conceded that the souls of heavenly bodies are nobler than the souls of animals absolutely it must be conceded that they are superior to them with regard to their respective forms, since their form perfects their matter entirely, which is not in potentiality to other forms; whereas a soul does not do this.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000008_000003.wav|It follows, then, that the lights were not produced on the fourth day.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000033_000001.wav|For although the perfect is developed from the imperfect by natural processes, yet the perfect must exist simply before the imperfect.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000000.wav|In examining the truth of this question, where such diversity of opinion exists, we shall do well to bear in mind that the union of soul and body exists for the sake of the soul and not of the body; for the form does not exist for the matter, but the matter for the form.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000007_000000.wav|Whether the Lights Ought to Have Been Produced on the Fourth Day?|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000003_000000.wav|(one) As to the production of the lights;|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000014_000004.wav|For the perfection of the heaven and the earth regards, seemingly, those things that belong to them intrinsically, but the adornment, those that are extrinsic, just as the perfection of a man lies in his proper parts and forms, and his adornment, in clothing or such like.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000025_000002.wav|Therefore they were not made "to enlighten it."|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000023_000001.wav|But the lights are the cause of what takes place upon the earth.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000008_000002.wav|But as their matter was produced in the work of creation, before there was any day, so therefore were their forms.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000040_000004.wav|Therefore the heavenly bodies are living beings.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000044_000000.wav|From what has been said, then, it is clear that the heavenly bodies are not living beings in the same sense as plants and animals, and that if they are called so, it can only be equivocally.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000006.wav|It is not, however, possible that the functions of nutrition, growth, and generation, through which the nutritive soul operates, can be exercised by the heavenly bodies, for such operations are incompatible with a body naturally incorruptible.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000001.wav|Now the nature and power of the soul are apprehended through its operation, which is to a certain extent its end.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000014_000005.wav|Now just as distinction of certain things is made most evident by their local movement, as separating one from another; so the work of adornment is set forth by the production of things having movement in the heavens, and upon the earth.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000014_000010.wav|Wherefore Scripture does not say: "Let the firmament produce lights," though it says: "Let the earth bring forth the green herb."|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000001_000000.wav|In the first place, then, we consider the work of the fourth day, secondly, that of the fifth day, thirdly, that of the sixth day, and fourthly, such matters as belong to the seventh day.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000037_000001.wav|Now the noblest of all forms is the soul, as being the first principle of life.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000026_000001.wav|The moon, therefore, was not made "to rule the night."|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000002_000000.wav|Under the first head there are three points of inquiry:|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000015_000001.wav|For those, however, who hold the heavenly bodies to be of another nature from the elements, and naturally incorruptible, the answer must be that the lights were substantially created at the beginning, but that their substance, at first formless, is formed on this day, by receiving not its substantial form, but a determination of power.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000043_000017.wav|Hence it follows that they are moved by some intellectual substances.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000044_000001.wav|It will also be seen that the difference of opinion between those who affirm, and those who deny, that these bodies have life, is not a difference of things but of words.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5876/10347/5876_10347_000036_000000.wav|Objection one: It would seem that the lights of heaven are living beings.|5876
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000019_000001.wav|That will make our supply last longer.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000057_000000.wav|With trembling fingers Tom pressed his own key.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000022_000001.wav|In the meanwhile, Tom continued to flash out his appeals for help, but no answers came.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000011_000001.wav|I think it would be a good plan to make one, then anchor it some distance out from the island.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000035_000000.wav|An instant later there came another tremor, but it was not like that of an earthquake shock.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000054_000001.wav|WHAT'S WANTED?"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000045_000000.wav|"Because I have faith in Tom Swift's luck!" declared the eccentric man.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000005_000001.wav|I." station-to Earthquake Island-and, after a little longer working of the key, Tom shut down the dynamo, and joined the group on the beach.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000041_000000.wav|They found that the earthquake shock had slightly disturbed the apparatus, and it took them half an hour to adjust it.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000064_000000.wav|"NO FAKE," Tom sent back.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000051_000001.wav|He tested the wireless apparatus.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000053_000003.wav|It was not a jumble of dots and dashes, conveying through space a message that meant nothing to him.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000030_000000.wav|Hardly had he spoken than there sounded the ominous rumble and shaking that presaged another earthquake.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000043_000002.wav|It does look hopeless but, do you know, I haven't given up yet."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000072_000002.wav|Then he seemed to recollect himself, and stopped suddenly. "Tell them to hurry," he begged Tom.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000053_000006.wav|The call of his station-"e i"--Earthquake Island!|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000002_000002.wav|They were gathered in a group about mr Jenks, who seemed to be talking earnestly to them. The two ladies were over near the small building that served as a kitchen.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000024_000002.wav|He heard message after message flash through space, and click on his instrument, but none of them was in answer to his.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000019_000003.wav|Just pretend that we're not hungry, but take only a quarter, or at most, not more than a half of what we have been in the habit of taking.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000076_000000.wav|"Another message," whispered Tom.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000064_000002.wav|HOW SOON CAN YOU COME?"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000007_000000.wav|"What do you think about it, Tom?" asked mr Damon, turning to the young inventor.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000012_000000.wav|"Yes, that's a good idea, too," conceded Tom.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000068_000000.wav|He rushed from the shack, calling to the others.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000051_000002.wav|It shot out great long sparks, which snapped viciously through the air.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000013_000000.wav|"And we must stock it well with provisions," said mr Damon.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000070_000000.wav|Tom briefly told of how the message had come to him in the night.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000063_000002.wav|THOUGHT IT A FAKE."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000019_000004.wav|There is plenty of water, thank goodness, and we may be able to live until help comes."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000053_000002.wav|He listened.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000031_000000.wav|"We must be doomed!" cried mr Parker.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000041_000001.wav|As there had been a delay on account of the landslide, it was eleven o'clock before Tom began sending out any flashes, and he kept it up until midnight.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000042_000000.wav|"It looks pretty hopeless; doesn't it?" said mr Fenwick, as he and mr Damon were on their way back to the sleeping shack.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000050_000000.wav|"Guess I'll start her up, and send out some calls," he murmured.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000052_000000.wav|For half an hour he sent it away into space, none of the others in their shacks below him, awakening.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000028_000000.wav|"Well, are you off?" asked mr Damon, kindly.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000022_000000.wav|This occupied them all that day, and part of the next.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000024_000003.wav|On his face there came a grim and hopeless look.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000018_000000.wav|"What?" asked Captain Mentor.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000029_000000.wav|"Oh, I don't mind it," answered the lad "Perhaps the message may come to night."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000050_000001.wav|"I might just happen to catch some ship operator who is up late.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000057_000001.wav|Out into the darkness went his call for help.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000059_000000.wav|Came then this query:|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000003_000002.wav|We've stripped the WHIZZER bare." He glanced toward what remained of the airship.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000001_000000.wav|A REPLY IN THE DARK|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000016_000001.wav|That's what I came down to speak about," and the lad related what mrs Nestor had said.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000072_000001.wav|"I must get to the place where-"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000056_000000.wav|"I GET YOUR MESSAGE 'E.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000036_000001.wav|Their gaze went in that direction, and, under the light of a full moon they saw, sliding into the sea, a great portion of one of the rocky hills.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000048_000000.wav|It was an hour past midnight.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000041_000002.wav|But there came no replies, so he shut off the power, and prepared to get a little rest.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000027_000000.wav|Tom, who had been sitting with the men in their sleeping shack, that evening, rose, as the hour of ten approached.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000037_000001.wav|"The island is slowly breaking up."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000051_000003.wav|Then, in the silence of the night, Tom clicked off his call for help for the castaways of Earthquake Island.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000014_000000.wav|"We can't," spoke Tom, quietly.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000024_000000.wav|This done, they could only wait, and weary was that waiting.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000032_000000.wav|"Wait and see how bad it is," counseled mr Hosbrook.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000076_000001.wav|He listened.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000032_000001.wav|"It may be only a slight shock."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000023_000002.wav|All the castaways could depend on, was to take with them, in the event of the island beginning to sink, what rations they had left when the final shock should come.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000060_000000.wav|"WHAT'S THAT ABOUT AIRSHIP?"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000048_000002.wav|The telephone receiver on his ear hurt him, and he could not sleep.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000069_000000.wav|"What's that?" demanded mr Hosbrook.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000028_000001.wav|"I wish some of us could relieve you, Tom."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000020_000000.wav|"Then shall we build the raft?" asked mr Hosbrook.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000058_000000.wav|"WE ARE ON EARTHQUAKE ISLAND." He gave the longitude and latitude. "COME QUICKLY o r WE WILL BE ENGULFED IN THE SEA!|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000008_000000.wav|"Think about what?"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000075_000000.wav|Suddenly the wireless instruments hummed.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000026_000001.wav|Some fish were caught, and some clams were cast up by the tide, all of which eked out the scanty food supply that remained.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000071_000000.wav|"Tell them to hurry," begged the rich yacht owner.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000003_000001.wav|"Well, I don't know where any more is to come from.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000053_000000.wav|But what was this?|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000046_000000.wav|"Perhaps, but here there doesn't seem to be anything to do.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000037_000000.wav|"A landslide!" cried Captain Mentor.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000054_000000.wav|"WHERE ARE YOU?|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000025_000001.wav|He caught some, by turning them over on their backs, and also located a number of nests of eggs under the warm sands.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000006_000002.wav|I have large interests at stake.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000047_000000.wav|"That's all right.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000019_000000.wav|"We must go on half rations, or quarter rations, if need be.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000063_000001.wav|JUST CAUGHT YOUR MESSAGE.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000022_000003.wav|Tom was glad that mrs Nestor did not renew her request to him to get out the reserve food supply from what remained in the wreck of the airship.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000072_000003.wav|The whole crowd of castaways, save the women, were gathered about the wireless shack.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000022_000004.wav|Perhaps mr Nestor had hinted to her the real situation.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000009_000001.wav|He thinks we should leave the island."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000056_000002.wav|DO I HEAR YOU RIGHT? REPEAT." Tom heard those questions in the silence of the night.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000013_000001.wav|"Put plenty of water and food aboard."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000034_000000.wav|"I guess it's passed over," spoke mr Fenwick.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000016_000000.wav|"Because we haven't plenty of provisions.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000022_000002.wav|The men cut down their rations, and when the two ladies joked them on their lack of appetite, they said nothing.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000030_000001.wav|The shack rocked, and threatened to come down about their heads.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000039_000000.wav|"Forget your theory for a while, Parker, please," begged mr Hosbrook.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000019_000002.wav|And another thing-we must not let the women folks know.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000005_000000.wav|But there came no answering clicks to the "E.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000071_000001.wav|"Say that I will give twenty thousand dollars reward if we are taken off!"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000065_000001.wav|Then came the report:|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000026_000002.wav|The two ladies suspected the truth now and they, too, cut down their allowance.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000043_000001.wav|Our signal hasn't been seen, no ships have passed this way, and our wireless appeal isn't answered.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000035_000001.wav|It was more like the rumble and vibration of an approaching train.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000031_000001.wav|"The island is about to sink! Make for the raft!"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000053_000004.wav|No!|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000047_000002.wav|He'll get an answer yet, you see if he doesn't."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000015_000000.wav|"Why not?"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115047/8176_115047_000017_000000.wav|"Then there is but one thing to do," declared mr Fenwick.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000052_000000.wav|His hand dropped from the key of the instrument.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000049_000000.wav|Tom did not answer.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000038_000001.wav|My theory will soon be confirmed," and the scientist actually seemed to take pleasure in it.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000027_000001.wav|"Bless my soul, I never can understand it!"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000046_000000.wav|"Yes, the supply you took from the wrecked airship.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty two|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000043_000000.wav|"None yet, but they may come any minute," and Tom tried to speak cheerfully.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000010_000000.wav|Tom shook his head.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000006_000001.wav|He consulted with his two friends on the subject, and mr Damon said:|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000020_000000.wav|"Yes," answered Tom, simply.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000007_000000.wav|"Well, the best plan, I think, would be only to send out the flashes over the wires at times when other wireless operators will be on the lookout, or, rather, listening.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000003_000001.wav|The matter had lost its novelty for them, though, of course, they were vitally interested in the success of Tom's undertaking.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000049_000003.wav|As a matter of fact there was not another can, except those in the kitchen shack.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000017_000000.wav|"Then won't you or some of us, have to be listening all the while?"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000013_000000.wav|"That ought to be sufficient," agreed mr Fenwick.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000008_000000.wav|"That's true," admitted Tom, "but how can we pick out any certain time, when we can be sure that wireless operators, within a zone of a thousand miles, will be listening to catch clicks which call for help from the unknown?"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000040_000001.wav|I."--Earthquake Island.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000015_000001.wav|"But, Tom, here is another matter.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000044_000000.wav|"I certainly hope so," added Mary's mother, "But I came up more especially now, mr Swift, to inquire where you had stored the rest of the food."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000049_000002.wav|Their food was nearly gone, yet the castaways from the RESOLUTE thought there was still plenty.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000037_000000.wav|"What is?" demanded mr Hosbrook.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000039_000001.wav|Haven't we troubles enough?" whereat mr Parker went off by himself, to look at the place where the cliff had fallen.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000036_000000.wav|"It is coming nearer," said mr Parker.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000005_000001.wav|"We can hardly expect any so soon," and mrs Nestor would depart, with a sigh.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000048_000001.wav|Isn't there any more?"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000028_000001.wav|"I did not catch it all, nor to whom it was sent."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000026_000002.wav|"'STEAMSHIP "FALCON" REPORTS A SLIGHT FIRE IN HER FORWARD COMPARTMENT,'" said Tom, slowly.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000009_000000.wav|"We can't," decided mr Fenwick.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000052_000004.wav|Tom shook his head.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000012_000000.wav|"I thought of this," said Tom.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000018_000003.wav|But to guard against that I will sleep with the telephone receiver clamped to my ear.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000041_000001.wav|mrs Nestor came up the little hill to the shack where Tom was clicking away.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000026_000000.wav|"But they are a message," spoke Tom.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000045_000000.wav|"The rest of the food?"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000047_000000.wav|"The reserve," murmured Tom.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000025_000000.wav|"All I can hear are some faint clicks," he said.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000015_000003.wav|How can you tell when that will come in?"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000038_000000.wav|"The destruction of our island.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000013_000001.wav|"Certainly we must save our gasolene, for there is no telling how long we may have to stay here, and call for help."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000051_000000.wav|"Oh-all right," answered Tom, weakly.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000024_000000.wav|"Yes," replied the young inventor, with a smile.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000026_000001.wav|"Wait, I'll translate," and he put the receiver to his ear.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000016_000000.wav|"I can't."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000026_000003.wav|"'IT IS UNDER CONTROL, AND WE WILL PROCEED.'"|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000015_000002.wav|Have you thought about getting an answer from the unknown-from some ship or wireless station, that may reply to your calls?|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000004_000000.wav|"Any answer yet, mr Swift?" she would ask.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000018_000000.wav|"No, for I think an answer will come only directly after I have sent out a call, and it has been picked up by some operator.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000011_000000.wav|"Have you any plan, then?" asked mr Damon.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000032_000000.wav|"Yes, but sometimes it is easier to pick up messages than it is to send them.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000015_000000.wav|"I guess we all do," remarked mr Fenwick.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000007_000002.wav|We can't get any more here."|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000039_000000.wav|"Oh, you and your theory!" exclaimed the millionaire in disgust. "Don't let me hear you mention it again!|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000024_000002.wav|The latter listened a moment.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000012_000002.wav|Then I'll wait, and send out another call from two to three in the afternoon.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8176/115046/8176_115046_000012_000001.wav|"I'll send out our call for help from nine to ten in the morning.|8176
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000010_000001.wav|Brooms and dishcloths never could be as distasteful as they once had been, for Beth had presided over both, and something of her housewifely spirit seemed to linger around the little mop and the old brush, never thrown away.|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000047_000000.wav|Was it all self pity, loneliness, or low spirits?|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000044_000000.wav|"Wait for me, my friend.|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000005_000001.wav|"I can't do it.|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000023_000000.wav|An hour afterward her mother peeped in and there she was, scratching away, with her black pinafore on, and an absorbed expression, which caused mrs March to smile and slip away, well pleased with the success of her suggestion.|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000037_000001.wav|But you are right in one thing.|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000047_000001.wav|Or was it the waking up of a sentiment which had bided its time as patiently as its inspirer?|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000009_000001.wav|She gave him entire confidence, he gave her the help she needed, and both found consolation in the act.|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000017_000004.wav|She had often said she wanted to do something splendid, no matter how hard, and now she had her wish, for what could be more beautiful than to devote her life to Father and Mother, trying to make home as happy to them as they had to her?|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000016_000001.wav|A little more sunshine to ripen the nut, then, not a boy's impatient shake, but a man's hand reached up to pick it gently from the burr, and find the kernal sound and sweet.|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000021_000000.wav|"We do.|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000019_000000.wav|"Why don't you write?|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000046_000000.wav|And holding the little paper fast, as if it were a promise yet to be fulfilled, Jo laid her head down on a comfortable rag bag, and cried, as if in opposition to the rain pattering on the roof.|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000014_000001.wav|You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it.|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1547/130184/1547_130184_000021_000002.wav|I'm sure it would do you good, and please us very much."|1547
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000024_000010.wav|I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000026_000000.wav|I add one purely pedantic note which comes, as a note naturally should, at the beginning of the book.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000013_000000.wav|PREFACE|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000024_000007.wav|And I was punished in the fittest and funniest way, for I have kept my truths: but I have discovered, not that they were not truths, but simply that they were not mine.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000000_000000.wav|This is a LibriVox recording.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000008.wav|And I offer this book with the heartiest sentiments to all the jolly people who hate what I write, and regard it (very justly, for all I know), as a piece of poor clowning or a single tiresome joke.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000022_000000.wav|To show that a faith or a philosophy is true from every standpoint would be too big an undertaking even for a much bigger book than this; it is necessary to follow one path of argument; and this is the path that I here propose to follow.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000015_000000.wav|Gilbert k Chesterton.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000021_000001.wav|There will probably be a general impression that the man who landed (armed to the teeth and talking by signs) to plant the British flag on that barbaric temple which turned out to be the Pavilion at Brighton, felt rather a fool. I am not here concerned to deny that he looked a fool.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000022_000007.wav|We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable. It is THIS achievement of my creed that I shall chiefly pursue in these pages.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000020_000000.wav|THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000026_000003.wav|When the word "orthodoxy" is used here it means the Apostles' Creed, as understood by everybody calling himself Christian until a very short time ago and the general historic conduct of those who held such a creed.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000021_000006.wav|What could be more glorious than to brace one's self up to discover New South Wales and then realize, with a gush of happy tears, that it was really old South Wales. This at least seems to me the main problem for philosophers, and is in a manner the main problem of this book.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000026_000002.wav|They are not intended to discuss the very fascinating but quite different question of what is the present seat of authority for the proclamation of that creed.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000014_000001.wav|Many critics complained of the book called "Heretics" because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000026_000001.wav|These essays are concerned only to discuss the actual fact that the central Christian theology (sufficiently summarized in the Apostles' Creed) is the best root of energy and sound ethics.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000000.wav|But I have a peculiar reason for mentioning the man in a yacht, who discovered England.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000022_000004.wav|If a man says that extinction is better than existence or blank existence better than variety and adventure, then he is not one of the ordinary people to whom I am talking. If a man prefers nothing I can give him nothing.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000014_000006.wav|It deals first with all the writer's own solitary and sincere speculations and then with all the startling style in which they were all suddenly satisfied by the Christian Theology. The writer regards it as amounting to a convincing creed.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000021_000005.wav|What could be better than to have all the fun of discovering South Africa without the disgusting necessity of landing there?|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000021_000007.wav|How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it? How can this queer cosmic town, with its many legged citizens, with its monstrous and ancient lamps, how can this world give us at once the fascination of a strange town and the comfort and honour of being our own town?|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000020_000004.wav|I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000014_000000.wav|This book is meant to be a companion to "Heretics," and to put the positive side in addition to the negative.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000022_000005.wav|But nearly all people I have ever met in this western society in which I live would agree to the general proposition that we need this life of practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000026_000004.wav|I have been forced by mere space to confine myself to what I have got from this creed; I do not touch the matter much disputed among modern Christians, of where we ourselves got it.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000022_000003.wav|Beyond stating what he proposes to prove he should always state what he does not propose to prove. The thing I do not propose to prove, the thing I propose to take as common ground between myself and any average reader, is this desirability of an active and imaginative life, picturesque and full of a poetical curiosity, a life such as western man at any rate always seems to have desired.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000002.wav|I do not see how this book can avoid being egotistical; and I do not quite see (to tell the truth) how it can avoid being dull.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000021_000002.wav|But if you imagine that he felt a fool, or at any rate that the sense of folly was his sole or his dominant emotion, then you have not studied with sufficient delicacy the rich romantic nature of the hero of this tale.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000021_000004.wav|What could be more delightful than to have in the same few minutes all the fascinating terrors of going abroad combined with all the humane security of coming home again?|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000024_000009.wav|The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000004.wav|I know nothing so contemptible as a mere paradox; a mere ingenious defence of the indefensible. If it were true (as has been said) that mr Bernard Shaw lived upon paradox, then he ought to be a mere common millionaire; for a man of his mental activity could invent a sophistry every six minutes.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000014_000004.wav|While everything else may be different the motive in both cases is the same.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000006.wav|I never in my life said anything merely because I thought it funny; though of course, I have had ordinary human vainglory, and may have thought it funny because I had said it.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000014_000007.wav|But if it is not that it is at least a repeated and surprising coincidence.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000014_000005.wav|It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it. The book is therefore arranged upon the positive principle of a riddle and its answer.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000005.wav|It is as easy as lying; because it is lying. The truth is, of course, that mr Shaw is cruelly hampered by the fact that he cannot tell any lie unless he thinks it is the truth. I find myself under the same intolerable bondage.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000024_000004.wav|Like them I tried to be some ten minutes in advance of the truth.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000024_000002.wav|I freely confess all the idiotic ambitions of the end of the nineteenth century.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137141/984_137141_000023_000007.wav|It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't. One searches for truth, but it may be that one pursues instinctively the more extraordinary truths.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000004_000003.wav|The thing is a mere accident of words.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000007.wav|It is rather like alluding to the obvious connection between the two ceremonies of the sword: when it taps a man's shoulder, and when it cuts off his head.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000002_000001.wav|But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000006_000003.wav|The doctrine seemingly most unpopular was found to be the only strength of the people. In short, we found that the only logical negation of oligarchy was in the affirmation of original sin.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000009.wav|These scraps of puerile pedantry would indeed matter little if it were not also true that the alleged philosophical resemblances are also of these two kinds, either proving too much or not proving anything.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000007_000011.wav|There was indeed. Those words have a profound and even a horrible truth.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000002_000000.wav|It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000006_000001.wav|We concluded the last chapter with the discovery of one of them.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000003.wav|Thus, as a case of the first class, he said that both Christ and Buddha were called by the divine voice coming out of the sky, as if you would expect the divine voice to come out of the coal cellar.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000007_000008.wav|The only thing which is still old-fashioned enough to reject miracles is the New Theology. But in truth this notion that it is "free" to deny miracles has nothing to do with the evidence for or against them.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000002.wav|The author solemnly explained that the two creeds were alike in things in which all creeds are alike, or else he described them as alike in some point in which they are quite obviously different.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000004_000001.wav|It is often suggested that all Liberals ought to be freethinkers, because they ought to love everything that is free.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000005_000004.wav|In fact, it is a remarkable circumstance (indeed not so very remarkable when one comes to think of it) that most things are the allies of oppression. There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression-and that is orthodoxy.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000008_000006.wav|The Catholic Church believed that man and God both had a sort of spiritual freedom. Calvinism took away the freedom from man, but left it to God. Scientific materialism binds the Creator Himself; it chains up God as the Apocalypse chained the devil.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000000.wav|Students of popular science, like mr Blatchford, are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000005_000001.wav|Almost every contemporary proposal to bring freedom into the church is simply a proposal to bring tyranny into the world.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000002_000008.wav|The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000011_000000.wav|The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those quite opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000007_000010.wav|Tennyson, a very typical nineteenth century man, uttered one of the instinctive truisms of his contemporaries when he said that there was faith in their honest doubt.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000002_000002.wav|Take one quite external case; the streets are noisy with taxicabs and motorcars; but this is not due to human activity but to human repose. There would be less bustle if there were more activity, if people were simply walking about.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000011_000001.wav|Here is a case. There is a phrase of facile liberality uttered again and again at ethical societies and parliaments of religion: "the religions of the earth differ in rites and forms, but they are the same in what they teach."|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000009_000003.wav|Just in the same way he calls the desire for immortality a paltry selfishness, forgetting that he has just called the desire for life a healthy and heroic selfishness. How can it be noble to wish to make one's life infinite and yet mean to wish to make it immortal?|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000004_000000.wav|A confusion quite as unmeaning as this has arisen in connection with the word "liberal" as applied to religion and as applied to politics and society.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000011_000007.wav|It is exactly the opposite. They agree in machinery; almost every great religion on earth works with the same external methods, with priests, scriptures, altars, sworn brotherhoods, special feasts.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000005_000002.wav|For freeing the church now does not even mean freeing it in all directions.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000008_000005.wav|A miracle only means the liberty of God. You may conscientiously deny either of them, but you cannot call your denial a triumph of the liberal idea.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000005_000005.wav|I may, it is true, twist orthodoxy so as partly to justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000003_000001.wav|This difficulty occurs when the same long word is used in different connections to mean quite different things. Thus, to take a well-known instance, the word "idealist" has one meaning as a piece of philosophy and quite another as a piece of moral rhetoric.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000012.wav|Most of humanity agrees that there is some way out. But as to what is the way out, I do not think that there are two institutions in the universe which contradict each other so flatly as Buddhism and Christianity.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000008_000008.wav|And those who assist this process are called the "liberal theologians."|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000002_000007.wav|But if you begin "I wish Jones to go to gaol and Brown to say when Jones shall come out," you will discover, with a thrill of horror, that you are obliged to think.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000002_000005.wav|We know they are carrying thousands who are too tired or too indolent to walk and think for themselves.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000008_000003.wav|If you wish to feed the people, you may think that feeding them miraculously in the wilderness is impossible-but you cannot think it illiberal. If you really want poor children to go to the seaside, you cannot think it illiberal that they should go there on flying dragons; you can only think it unlikely.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000008.wav|It is not at all similar for the man.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000011_000004.wav|You may walk round and round them and subject them to the most personal and offensive study without seeing anything Swedenborgian in the hat or anything particularly godless in the umbrella.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000009_000002.wav|Sometimes this truth is ignored in a singularly naive way, even by the ablest men. For instance, mr Bernard Shaw speaks with hearty old-fashioned contempt for the idea of miracles, as if they were a sort of breach of faith on the part of nature: he seems strangely unconscious that miracles are only the final flowers of his own favourite tree, the doctrine of the omnipotence of will.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000010_000000.wav|But I must pass on to the larger cases of this curious error; the notion that the "liberalising" of religion in some way helps the liberation of the world.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000013_000001.wav|This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it. The reasons were of two kinds: resemblances that meant nothing because they were common to all humanity, and resemblances which were not resemblances at all.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000007_000009.wav|It is a lifeless verbal prejudice of which the original life and beginning was not in the freedom of thought, but simply in the dogma of materialism. The man of the nineteenth century did not disbelieve in the Resurrection because his liberal Christianity allowed him to doubt it. He disbelieved in it because his very strict materialism did not allow him to believe it.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000009_000001.wav|But if he can believe in miracles, he is certainly the more liberal for doing so; because they mean first, the freedom of the soul, and secondly, its control over the tyranny of circumstance.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000010_000001.wav|The second example of it can be found in the question of pantheism-or rather of a certain modern attitude which is often called immanentism, and which often is Buddhism. But this is so much more difficult a matter that I must approach it with rather more preparation.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000014_000002.wav|Granted that both images are extravagances, are perversions of the pure creed, it must be a real divergence which could produce such opposite extravagances. The Buddhist is looking with a peculiar intentness inwards. The Christian is staring with a frantic intentness outwards.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000004_000004.wav|In actual modern Europe a freethinker does not mean a man who thinks for himself.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/984/137154/984_137154_000011_000009.wav|Creeds that exist to destroy each other both have scriptures, just as armies that exist to destroy each other both have guns.|984
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000109_000000.wav|Scarcely had he stepped down than a young, lean faced soldier, with flashing eyes, leaped to the platform, and dramatically lifted his hand:|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000071_000000.wav|On the corner of the Sadovaya about two thousand citizens had gathered, staring up at the roof of a tall building, where a tiny red spark glowed and waned.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000106_000001.wav|He could not proceed for several minutes.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000062_000003.wav|Soldiers and sailors stood around, evidently waiting for something.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000077_000001.wav|It will establish workmen's control over production and distribution of manufactured products, and will set up a general control over the banks, which it will transform into a state monopoly.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000061_000004.wav|"There will be much shooting," he said.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000045_000000.wav|"no Certainly not.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000081_000002.wav|Insane!" he shouted.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000019_000002.wav|Something unusual was going on around the Marinsky Palace, where the Council of the Russian Republic met.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000054_000001.wav|"The Women's Battalion decided to remain loyal to the Government."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000064_000000.wav|As we reached the Nevsky again another armoured car came around the corner, and a man poked his head out of the turret top.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000090_000000.wav|Dan, a mild faced, baldish figure in a shapeless military surgeon's uniform, was ringing the bell.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000045_000002.wav|We turned to the forbidden door, set in a temporary partition dividing the hall and locked on the outside. On the other side were voices, and somebody laughing.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000069_000003.wav|At the Mikhailovsky a man appeared with an armful of newspapers, and was immediately stormed by frantic people, offering a rouble, five roubles, ten roubles, tearing at each other like animals.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000053_000000.wav|Without consequence he changed the subject.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000102_000001.wav|The Front group will leave the Congress....|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000049_000000.wav|The place was all a huge barrack, and evidently had been for weeks, from the look of the floor and walls.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000085_000000.wav|Then Trotzky, that telegrams had been sent to the front announcing the victorious insurrection, but no reply had come.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000003_000000.wav|wednesday november seventh, I rose very late.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000069_000000.wav|Up the Nevsky the whole city seemed to be out promenading.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000110_000006.wav|No more talk!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000003.wav|At the inner gate, too, there was a blaze, by the light of which the sentries slowly spelled out our passes and looked us up and down. The canvas covers had been taken off the four rapid fire guns on each side of the doorway, and the ammunition belts hung snakelike from their breeches.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000000.wav|The massive facade of Smolny blazed with lights as we drove up, and from every street converged upon it streams of hurrying shapes dim in the gloom.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000007_000000.wav|FROM THE PETROGRAD MUNICIPAL DUMA:|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000029_000001.wav|"As your superior officer and as a member of the Council of the Republic I demand to be allowed to pass!"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000060_000004.wav|But in a few minutes it quieted down again.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000026_000000.wav|Before the door of the Palace was a crowd of soldiers and sailors.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000041_000000.wav|"They are meeting in some room-I don't know where.'|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000076_000000.wav|The new Workers' and Peasants' Government will propose immediately a just and democratic peace to all the belligerent countries.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000110_000005.wav|I tell you now, the Lettish soldiers have many times said, 'No more resolutions!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000093_000006.wav|The hall rose, thundering.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000105_000002.wav|Provocator!" were hurled at him.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000093_000000.wav|The election of the presidium took place amid stir and moving about. Avanessov announced that by agreement of the Bolsheviki, Left Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviki Internationalists, it was decided to base the presidium upon proportionality.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000063_000000.wav|"No, comrades," one was saying.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000108_000002.wav|"We are opposed to this kind of anarchy...."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000028_000001.wav|He was very red in the face.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000078_000001.wav|The Soviet expresses its conviction that the city workers, allies of the poor peasants, will assure complete revolutionary order, indispensable to the victory of Socialism.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000074_000000.wav|The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, saluting the victorious Revolution of the Petrograd proletariat and garrison, particularly emphasises the unity, organisation, discipline, and complete cooperation shown by the masses in this rising; rarely has less blood been spilled, and rarely has an insurrection succeeded so well.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000039_000000.wav|"He has gone to the Front. (See App.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000056_000001.wav|"It is a great responsibility," said he.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000103_000001.wav|"You speak for the Staff-not for the Army!"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000110_000000.wav|"Comrades!" he cried and there was a hush.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000027_000002.wav|There an enormous smiling sailor stopped me, and when I showed my pass, just said, "If you were Saint Michael himself, comrade, you couldn't pass here!" Through the glass of the door I made out the distorted face and gesticulating arms of a French correspondent, locked in....|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000036_000004.wav|We asked if we could interview the Minister president.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000045_000003.wav|Except for that the vast spaces of the old Palace were silent as the grave.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000051_000001.wav|Enchanted.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000059_000001.wav|"If the Bolsheviki come we shall show them how to fight.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000063_000001.wav|"How can we shoot at them?|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000053_000002.wav|I have made up my mind to join the American army. Will you please go to your Consul and make arrangements?|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000004.wav|A dun herd of armoured cars stood under the trees in the court yard, engines going.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000015_000001.wav|Then the land is assured to the peasants, then control of industry is assured to the workers, then bread is assured to the hungry, then the end of this nonsensical war!...|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000059_000000.wav|But soon they began to boast.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000080_000003.wav|It is just beginning...."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000003_000001.wav|The noon cannon boomed from Peter Paul as I went down the Nevsky.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000058_000002.wav|They didn't seem to know what to do, as a matter of fact, and it was plain that they were not happy.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000019_000001.wav|I ran out.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000042_000000.wav|"Are the Bolsheviki coming?"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000045_000001.wav|It is not permitted." Abruptly he shook hands all around and walked away.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000084_000001.wav|And Zinoviev, crying, "This day we have paid our debt to the international proletariat, and struck a terrible blow at the war, a terrible body blow at all the imperialists and particularly at Wilhelm the Executioner...."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000007.wav|If the Congress wishes to be the voice of the revolutionary democracy it must not sit with folded hands before the developing civil war, the result of which may be a dangerous outburst of counter revolution.... The possibility of a peaceful outcome lies in the formation of a united democratic authority....|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000047_000001.wav|After a few minutes he said something about having a glass of tea and went back up the hall.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000048_000006.wav|One had a gash across the upper right hand corner.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000037_000002.wav|"In fact, he is not here...."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000101_000002.wav|What do the soldiers say about it?" Jeers and hoots.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000065_000001.wav|"Let's go on through and attack!"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000002_000000.wav|The Fall of the Provisional Government|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000053_000003.wav|I will give you my address." In spite of our protestations he wrote it on a piece of paper, and seemed to feel better at once.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000012_000002.wav|BREAD!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000091_000000.wav|"We have the power in our hands," he began sadly, stopped for a moment, and then went on in a low voice.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000061_000000.wav|It was getting late when we left the Palace.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000090_000001.wav|Silence fell sharply, intense, broken by the scuffling and disputing of the people at the door....|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000057_000001.wav|After a few minutes two of the companies shouldered arms with a clash, barked three sharp shouts, and went swinging off across the Square, disappearing through the Red Arch into the quiet city.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000002.wav|There was no heat in the hall but the stifling heat of unwashed human bodies.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000067_000000.wav|Here the street cars had stopped running, few people passed, and there were no lights; but a few blocks away we could see the trams, the crowds, the lighted shop windows and the electric signs of the moving picture shows-life going on as usual.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000066_000001.wav|"The Committee says to wait.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000093_000003.wav|Hendelmann, for the right and centre Socialist Revolutionaries, said that they refused to take part in the presidium; the same from Kintchuk, for the Mensheviki; and from the Mensheviki Internationalists, that until the verification of certain circumstances, they too could not enter the presidium. Scattering applause and hoots.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000022_000000.wav|"Is there going to be any fighting?" I asked.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000003.wav|On principle and from a political standpoint we must urgently discuss a means of averting civil war. Our brothers are being shot down in the streets!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000012_000003.wav|LAND!" The leading article was signed "Zinoviev,"--Lenin's companion in hiding.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000000.wav|So we came into the great meeting hall, pushing through the clamorous mob at the door.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000102_000002.wav|The place to fight is out on the streets!"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000038_000000.wav|"Where is he?"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000080_000002.wav|Horribly much.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000012_000001.wav|PEACE!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000110_000007.wav|We want deeds-the Power must be in our hands!' Let these impostor delegates leave the Congress!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000052_000000.wav|"Not only these Bolsheviki," he said, "but the fine traditions of the Russian army are broken down.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000004_000000.wav|"What side do you belong to?" I asked.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000023_000002.wav|They will come from that direction," pointing toward the Admiralty.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000018_000000.wav|The Military Hotel at the corner of saint Isaac's Square was picketed by armed sailors.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000111_000002.wav|For an hour hammer blow after hammer blow had fallen from that tribune, welding them together but beating them down.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000047_000000.wav|"To keep the soldiers in," he answered.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000036_000000.wav|We couldn't make out whether the sentries were pro Government or pro Soviet.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000099_000000.wav|"Who are you speaking for?|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000048_000002.wav|On both sides of the parquetted floor lay rows of dirty mattresses and blankets, upon which occasional soldiers were stretched out; everywhere was a litter of cigarette butts, bits of bread, cloth, and empty bottles with expensive French labels.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000072_000000.wav|"See!" said a tall peasant, pointing to it.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000108_000000.wav|"Deserter!"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000103_000000.wav|Immense bawling outcry.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000106_000000.wav|On behalf of the Mensheviki, Khintchuk then announced that the only possibility of a peaceful solution was to begin negotiations with the Provisional Government for the formation of a new Cabinet, which would find support in all strata of society.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000097_000003.wav|"Some delegates are present," he said.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000059_000003.wav|But if we should be overpowered, well, every man keeps one bullet for himself...."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000078_000002.wav|The Soviet is convinced that the proletariat of the countries of Western Europe will aid us in conducting the cause of Socialism to a real and lasting victory.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000079_000000.wav|"You consider it won then?"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000099_000001.wav|What do you represent?" they cried.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000047_000002.wav|We unlocked the door.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000098_000009.wav|The Army is imperfectly represented in this Congress, and furthermore, the Army does not consider the Congress of Soviets necessary at this time, only three weeks before the opening of the Constituent-" shouts and stamping, always growing more violent.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000036_000005.wav|He bowed and clicked his heels.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000104_000000.wav|"I appeal to all reasonable soldiers to leave this Congress!"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000068_000001.wav|Men in various uniforms were coming and going in an aimless way, and doing a great deal of talking....|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000083_000000.wav|"The characteristic of bourgeois governments," he said, "is to deceive the people.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000082_000000.wav|It had been a momentous session.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000063_000002.wav|The Women's Battalion is in there-they will say we have fired on Russian women."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000006_000002.wav|A whole crop of new appeals against insurrection had blossomed out on the walls during the night-to the peasants, to the soldiers at the front, to the workmen of Petrograd.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000037_000000.wav|"No, I am sorry," he replied in French.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000062_000002.wav|A small boy had climbed up the side of the thing and was looking down the barrel of a machine gun.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000043_000001.wav|Certainly, they are coming.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000051_000002.wav|I am Stabs-Capitan Vladimir Artzibashev, absolutely at your service."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000052_000004.wav|Naturally there are many, many who are contaminated by the Revolution...."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000081_000001.wav|"It's insane!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000089_000003.wav|Gotz sat there, Dan, Lieber, Bogdanov, Broido, Fillipovsky,--white faced, hollow eyed and indignant.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000001_000000.wav|Chapter four|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000019_000000.wav|Suddenly came the sharp crack of a rifle outside, followed by a scattered burst of firing.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000004.wav|Occasionally some one in authority mounted the tribune and asked the comrades not to smoke; then everybody, smokers and all, took up the cry "Don't smoke, comrades!" and went on smoking.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000044_000000.wav|"Can we go in there?"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000023_000000.wav|"Soon, soon," answered a soldier, nervously.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000006.wav|We must create a power which will be recognised by the whole democracy.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000024_000000.wav|"Who will?"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000062_000001.wav|Under this stood a big armored automobile, with racing engine and oil smoke pouring out of it.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000036_000003.wav|In the dark, gloomy corridor, stripped of its tapestries, a few old attendants were lounging about, and in front of Kerensky's door a young officer paced up and down, gnawing his moustache.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000081_000003.wav|"The European working class won't move!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000046_000000.wav|"Why is the door locked?"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000097_000000.wav|The Left Socialist Revolutionaries and the United Social Democrats supported Martov's proposition.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000027_000000.wav|There was laughter.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000102_000000.wav|"We, the Front group, disclaim all responsibility for what has happened and is happening, and we consider it necessary to mobilise all self conscious revolutionary forces for the salvation of the Revolution!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000048_000000.wav|Just inside a couple of soldiers stood on guard, but they said nothing.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000026_000003.wav|I went up to the counter revolutionist Kornilovitz who sat in the president's chair.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000062_000000.wav|When we came out on the Morskaya again it was quite dark, except for one flickering street light on the corner of the Nevsky.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000021_000001.wav|A barricade had been heaped up across the mouth of Novaya Ulitza-boxes, barrels, an old bed spring, a wagon.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000111_000004.wav|Was Russia rising against them?|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000107_000000.wav|"Because the Bolsheviki have made a military conspiracy with the aid of the Petrograd Soviet, without consulting the other factions and parties, we find it impossible to remain in the Congress, and therefore withdraw, inviting the other groups to follow us and to meet for discussion of the situation!"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000001.wav|Martov, demanding the floor, croaked hoarsely, "The civil war is beginning, comrades!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000048_000004.wav|One had a bottle of white Burgundy, evidently filched from the cellars of the Palace. They looked at us with astonishment as we marched past, through room after room, until at last we came out into a series of great state salons, fronting their long and dirty windows on the Square. The walls were covered with huge canvases in massive gilt frames-historical battle scenes....|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000096_000000.wav|Always the methodical muffled boom of cannon through the windows, and the delegates, screaming at each other....|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000039_000002.wav|We had to send to the English Hospital and borrow some."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000075_000000.wav|The Soviet expresses its firm conviction that the Workers' and Peasants' Government which, as the government of the Soviets, will be created by the Revolution, and which will assure the industrial proletariat of the support of the entire mass of poor peasants, will march firmly toward Socialism, the only means by which the country can be spared the miseries and unheard of horrors of war.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000060_000002.wav|Inside all was uproar, soldiers running here and there, grabbing up guns, rifle belts and shouting, "Here they come!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000085_000001.wav|Troops were said to be marching against Petrograd-a delegation must be sent to tell them the truth.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000049_000001.wav|Machine guns were mounted on window sills, rifles stacked between the mattresses.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000066_000000.wav|The driver of the other car came over, and shouted so as to be heard above the roaring engine.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000001.wav|In the rows of seats, under the white chandeliers, packed immovably in the aisles and on the sides, perched on every window sill, and even the edge of the platform, the representatives of the workers and soldiers of all Russia waited in anxious silence or wild exultation the ringing of the chairman's bell.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000025_000000.wav|"That I couldn't tell you, brother," he answered, and spat.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000010_000000.wav|november seventh nineteen seventeen.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000062_000004.wav|We walked back up to the Red Arch, where a knot of soldiers was gathered staring at the brightly lighted Winter Palace and talking in loud tones.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000093_000007.wav|How far they had soared, these Bolsheviki, from a despised and hunted sect less than four months ago, to this supreme place, the helm of great Russia in full tide of insurrection!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000008.wav|We must elect a delegation to negotiate with the other Socialist parties and organisation...."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000031_000002.wav|Peters, Lettish member of the Military Revolutionary Committee, came hurrying across the Square.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000106_000002.wav|Raising his voice to a shout he read the Menshevik declaration:|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000026_000004.wav|'No more Council,' I says.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000035_000001.wav|All the entrances to the Palace Square were closed by sentries, and a cordon of troops stretched clear across the western end, besieged by an uneasy throng of citizens.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000029_000002.wav|The guard scratched his head, looking uneasily out of the corner of his eye; he beckoned to an approaching officer, who grew very agitated when he saw who it was and saluted before he realised what he was doing.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000098_000010.wav|"The Army does not consider that the Congress of Soviets has the necessary authority-" Soldiers began to stand up all over the hall.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000026_000002.wav|"We walked in there," he said, "and filled all the doors with comrades.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000065_000000.wav|"Come on!" he yelled.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000043_000000.wav|"Of course.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000061_000002.wav|The great semi circle of Government buildings seemed deserted.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000059_000002.wav|They do not dare to fight, they are cowards.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000078_000000.wav|The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies calls upon the workers and the peasants of Russia to support with all their energy and all their devotion the Proletarian Revolution.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000060_000003.wav|Here they come!" ...|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000001.wav|Automobiles and motorcycles came and went; an enormous elephant coloured armoured automobile, with two red flags flying from the turret, lumbered out with screaming siren.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000091_000001.wav|"Comrades!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000061_000001.wav|The sentries in the Square had all disappeared.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000060_000000.wav|At this point there was a burst of rifle fire not far off.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000005.wav|The long, bare, dimly illuminated halls roared with the thunder of feet, calling, shouting....|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000051_000004.wav|He began to complain of the state of Russia.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000054_000000.wav|"We had a review this morning early," he went on, as he guided us through the rooms and explained everything.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000097_000004.wav|"I move that they be given votes." Accepted.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000093_000001.wav|Several Mensheviki leaped to their feet protesting.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000031_000000.wav|An automobile came by, and I saw Gotz sitting inside, laughing apparently with great amusement.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000093_000004.wav|One voice, "Renegades, you call yourselves Socialists!" A representative of the Ukrainean delegates demanded, and received, a place.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000111_000001.wav|In the first moments of the session, stunned by the rapidity of events, startled by the sound of cannon, the delegates had hesitated.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000008.wav|The extraordinary meeting of the Petrograd Soviet was over.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000036_000001.wav|Our papers from Smolny had no effect, however, so we approached another part of the line with an important air and showed our American passports, saying "Official business!" and shouldered through.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000092_000000.wav|"I declare the first session of the Second Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies open!"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000067_000001.wav|We had tickets to the Ballet at the Marinsky Theatre-all theatres were open-but it was too exciting out of doors....|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000028_000000.wav|Around in front stood a little, grey moustached man in the uniform of a general, the centre of a knot of soldiers.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000073_000002.wav|It was cold, and at the outer gate the Red Guards had built themselves a bon fire.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000003_000002.wav|It was a raw, chill day. In front of the State Bank some soldiers with fixed bayonets were standing at the closed gates.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000098_000005.wav|You lie!"...|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000023_000001.wav|"Go away, comrade, you'll get hurt.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000101_000001.wav|You represent the officers, not the soldiers!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000005.wav|Petrovsky, Anarchist delegate from the Obukhov factory, made a seat for me beside him.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000083_000001.wav|We, the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies, are going to try an experiment unique in history; we are going to found a power which will have no other aim but to satisfy the needs of the soldiers, workers, and peasants."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000004.wav|At this moment, when before the opening of the Congress of Soviets the question of Power is being settled by means of a military plot organised by one of the revolutionary parties-" for a moment he could not make himself heard above the noise, "All of the revolutionary parties must face the fact!|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000108_000001.wav|At intervals in the almost continuous disturbance Hendelman, for the Socialist Revolutionaries, could be heard protesting against the bombardment of the Winter Palace....|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000056_000000.wav|"Yes, they are in the back rooms, where they won't be hurt if any trouble comes." He sighed.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000095_000002.wav|The first question must be a peaceful settlement of the crisis.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000088_000006.wav|Unshaven and filthy, he was reeling from three nights' sleepless work on the Military Revolutionary Committee.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000035_000002.wav|Except for far away soldiers who seemed to be carrying wood out of the Palace courtyard and piling it in front of the main gateway, everything was quiet.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000055_000000.wav|"Are the women soldiers in the Palace?"|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000033_000000.wav|"Oh," he answered, with the expression of a disappointed small boy. "The damn fools let most of them go again before we made up our minds...."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000009_000000.wav|Members of the Committee of Public Safety will be on duty in the building of the Municipal Duma.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000082_000001.wav|In the name of the Military Revolutionary Committee Trotzky had declared that the Provisional Government no longer existed.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000015_000000.wav|Or-the power will be transferred to the hands of the revolutionary workers, soldiers and peasants; and in that case it will mean a complete abolition of landlord tyranny, immediate check of the capitalists, immediate proposal of a just peace.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000080_000001.wav|"There is much to do.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000019_000003.wav|Diagonally across the wide square was drawn a line of soldiers, rifles ready, staring at the hotel roof.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000053_000001.wav|"I am very anxious to go away from Russia.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000031_000001.wav|A few minutes later another, with armed soldiers on the front seat, full of arrested members of the Provisional Government.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000089_000005.wav|It was ten forty p m|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000080_000000.wav|He lifted his shoulders.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000043_000002.wav|I expect a telephone call every minute to say that they are coming.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000017_000004.wav|Perhaps it's a good thing to let them try-that will furnish them...."|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000017_000003.wav|They haven't the men to run a government.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000089_000001.wav|It was the end of the first period of the Russian revolution, which these men had attempted to guide in careful ways....|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000027_000001.wav|By waving assorted papers I managed to get around to the door of the press gallery.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000097_000001.wav|It was accepted.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000006_000001.wav|Shops were open, and there seemed even less uneasiness among the street crowds than there had been the day before.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000013_000000.wav|Every soldier, every worker, every real Socialist, every honest democrat realises that there are only two alternatives to the present situation.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000032_000000.wav|"I thought you bagged all those gentlemen last night," said I, pointing to them.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000043_000003.wav|But we are ready.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000052_000001.wav|Look around you.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000018_000001.wav|In the lobby were many of the smart young officers, walking up and down or muttering together; the sailors wouldn't let them leave....|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000058_000000.wav|"They are going to capture the Telephone Exchange," said some one. Three cadets stood by us, and we fell into conversation.|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6694/70837/6694_70837_000012_000004.wav|It began:|6694
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000006.wav|How could we live without them?|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000005_000002.wav|To morrow a ruthless hand will close around your throats.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000005_000004.wav|The wretch, she may be passing fair.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000009_000007.wav|In Japan, one of the most popular of the No dances, the Hachinoki, composed during the Ashikaga period, is based upon the story of an impoverished knight, who, on a freezing night, in lack of fuel for a fire, cuts his cherished plants in order to entertain a wandering friar.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000009.wav|The mystic fire consumes our weakness, the sacred sword cleaves the bondage of desire.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000008.wav|What solace do they not bring to the bedside of the sick, what a light of bliss to the darkness of weary spirits?|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000007_000003.wav|He, at least, respects the economy of nature, selects his victims with careful foresight, and after death does honour to their remains.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000017_000008.wav|Thus Sekishiu ordained that white plum blossoms should not be made use of when snow lay in the garden. "Noisy" flowers were relentlessly banished from the tea room.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000005.wav|We have even attempted to speak in the language of flowers.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000007.wav|It was the shadow of the All devouring that the Gheburs greeted in the fire.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000006_000001.wav|He would call himself a Master of Flowers.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000022_000003.wav|The fame of his convulvuli reached the ear of the Taiko, and he expressed a desire to see them, in consequence of which Rikiu invited him to a morning tea at his house.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000010.wav|From our ashes springs the phoenix of celestial hope, out of the freedom comes a higher realisation of manhood.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000006_000002.wav|He would claim the rights of a doctor and you would instinctively hate him, for you know a doctor always seeks to prolong the troubles of his victims.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000001.wav|We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000006_000003.wav|He would cut, bend, and twist you into those impossible positions which he thinks it proper that you should assume.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000007.wav|It frightens one to conceive of a world bereft of their presence.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000004.wav|We have worshipped with the lily, we have meditated with the lotus, we have charged in battle array with the rose and the chrysanthemum.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000008_000000.wav|Why were the flowers born so beautiful and yet so hapless?|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000020_000005.wav|Again, if you go into a noon tea on some irritatingly hot summer day, you may discover in the darkened coolness of the tokonoma a single lily in a hanging vase; dripping with dew, it seems to smile at the foolishness of life.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000007_000004.wav|In the West the display of flowers seems to be a part of the pageantry of wealth,--the fancy of a moment.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000006_000009.wav|Would you not have preferred to have been killed at once when you were first captured?|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000004_000006.wav|What atrocities do we not perpetrate in the name of culture and refinement!|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000008_000001.wav|Insects can sting, and even the meekest of beasts will fight when brought to bay. The birds whose plumage is sought to deck some bonnet can fly from its pursuer, the furred animal whose coat you covet for your own may hide at your approach.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000007_000002.wav|Beside this utter carelessness of life, the guilt of the Flower Master becomes insignificant.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000004_000004.wav|We devastate nature in order to make sacrifice to him.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000023_000001.wav|They are not cowards, like men.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000009_000001.wav|The man of the pot is far more humane than he of the scissors.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000001.wav|Let us be less luxurious but more magnificent.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000022_000000.wav|Flower stories are endless.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000005_000006.wav|Tell me, will this be kindness?|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000000.wav|However, let us not be too sentimental.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000021_000003.wav|One of the guests has recorded that he felt in the whole composition the breath of waning autumn.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000003_000003.wav|We dare not die without them.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000004.wav|They are but counterparts one of the other,--The Night and Day of Brahma.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000022_000001.wav|We shall recount but one more.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000001_000001.wav|Flowers|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000008_000003.wav|The only flower known to have wings is the butterfly; all others stand helpless before the destroyer.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000020_000003.wav|The tea master deems his duty ended with the selection of the flowers, and leaves them to tell their own story.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000006_000005.wav|He would burn you with red hot coals to stop your bleeding, and thrust wires into you to assist your circulation.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000015_000005.wav|Here we are apt to see only the flower stems, heads as it were, without body, stuck promiscuously into a vase.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131295/868_131295_000013_000003.wav|Destruction below and above, destruction behind and before. Change is the only Eternal,--why not as welcome Death as Life?|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000004_000001.wav|We stagger in the attempt to keep our moral equilibrium, and see forerunners of the tempest in every cloud that floats on the horizon.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000008_000002.wav|Rikiu then removes his tea gown and carefully folds it upon the mat, thereby disclosing the immaculate white death robe which it had hitherto concealed.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000000_000000.wav|seven. Tea Masters|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000001_000004.wav|The cut and color of the dress, the poise of the body, and the manner of walking could all be made expressions of artistic personality.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000007_000012.wav|"Never again shall this cup, polluted by the lips of misfortune, be used by man." He speaks, and breaks the vessel into fragments.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000003_000004.wav|They have instructed us in the proper spirit in which to approach flowers.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000006_000001.wav|But the friendship of a despot is ever a dangerous honour.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000006_000005.wav|It was whispered to Hideyoshi that the fatal potion was to be administered to him with a cup of the green beverage prepared by the tea master.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000006_000004.wav|Taking advantage of the coldness which had for some time existed between the Taiko and Rikiu, the enemies of the latter accused him of being implicated in a conspiracy to poison the despot.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000005_000002.wav|Seeking always to be in harmony with the great rhythm of the universe, they were ever prepared to enter the unknown. The "Last Tea of Rikiu" will stand forth forever as the acme of tragic grandeur.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000001_000008.wav|Rikiu loved to quote an old poem which says: "To those who long only for flowers, fain would I show the full blown spring which abides in the toiling buds of snow covered hills."|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000001_000005.wav|These were matters not to be lightly ignored, for until one has made himself beautiful he has no right to approach beauty. Thus the tea master strove to be something more than the artist,--art itself.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000007_000000.wav|On the day destined for his self immolation, Rikiu invited his chief disciples to a last tea ceremony.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000002_000009.wav|The whole Korin school, as it is generally designated, is an expression of Teaism. In the broad lines of this school we seem to find the vitality of nature herself.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000008_000001.wav|One only, the nearest and dearest, is requested to remain and witness the end.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000003_000002.wav|Many of our delicate dishes, as well as our way of serving food, are their inventions.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000003_000005.wav|They have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000002_000003.wav|The Seven Kilns of Enshiu are well known to all students of Japanese pottery.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000007_000007.wav|Soon the host enters the room.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000005_000001.wav|The last moments of the great tea masters were as full of exquisite refinement as had been their lives.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000003_000000.wav|Great as has been the influence of the tea masters in the field of art, it is as nothing compared to that which they have exerted on the conduct of life.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000002_000004.wav|Many of our textile fabrics bear the names of tea masters who conceived their color or design.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000002_000007.wav|One of the greatest schools of painting owes its origin to the tea master Honnami Koyetsu, famed also as a lacquer artist and potter.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000006_000000.wav|Long had been the friendship between Rikiu and the Taiko Hideyoshi, and high the estimation in which the great warrior held the tea master.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000001_000000.wav|In religion the Future is behind us.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131296/868_131296_000008_000003.wav|Tenderly he gazes on the shining blade of the fatal dagger, and in exquisite verse thus addresses it:|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000002_000000.wav|Have you heard the Taoist tale of the Taming of the Harp?|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000006_000004.wav|Mind speaks to mind.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000015_000009.wav|We classify too much and enjoy too little.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000016_000001.wav|The art of to day is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000005_000001.wav|The forest swayed like an ardent swain deep lost in thought.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000016_000002.wav|In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000009_000006.wav|In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000004_000005.wav|Hark! a tiger roars,--the valley answers again.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000008_000004.wav|Several of his pupils submitted plays for his approval, but only one of the pieces appealed to him.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000004_000006.wav|It is autumn; in the desert night, sharp like a sword gleams the moon upon the frosted grass.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000014_000005.wav|As a Chinese critic complained many centuries ago, "People criticise a picture by their ear." It is this lack of genuine appreciation that is responsible for the pseudo classic horrors that to day greet us wherever we turn.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000004_000000.wav|At last came Peiwoh, the prince of harpists.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000014_000004.wav|The name of the artist is more important to them than the quality of the work.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000006_000005.wav|We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000015_000003.wav|The mere fact that they have passed unscathed through centuries of criticism and come down to us still covered with glory commands our respect.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000015_000008.wav|A collector is anxious to acquire specimens to illustrate a period or a school, and forgets that a single masterpiece can teach us more than any number of the mediocre products of a given period or school.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000006_000006.wav|The master calls forth notes we know not of. Memories long forgotten all come back to us with a new significance. Hopes stifled by fear, yearnings that we dare not recognise, stand forth in new glory.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000003_000001.wav|It reared its head to talk to the stars; its roots struck deep into the earth, mingling their bronzed coils with those of the silver dragon that slept beneath.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000010_000009.wav|Rarely was the object exposed to view, and then only to the initiated.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000010_000003.wav|He catches a glimpse of Infinity, but words cannot voice his delight, for the eye has no tongue.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000015_000000.wav|Another common mistake is that of confusing art with archaeology.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000006_000003.wav|At the magic touch of the beautiful the secret chords of our being are awakened, we vibrate and thrill in response to its call.|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/868/131294/868_131294_000005_000007.wav|I left the harp to choose its theme, and knew not truly whether the harp had been Peiwoh or Peiwoh were the harp."|868
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixteen.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000007_000041.wav|When properly played, it produces soft, melodious music that, to say nothing else, must exert a gentle soothing influence on the wild, turbulent souls of a herd of goats.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000003_000007.wav|Watching over this peaceful and gambolling flock of Armenian lambkins is a lone Circassian watchdog; he is of a stalwart, warlike appearance; and although wearing no arms — except a cavalry sword, a shorter broad sword, a dragoon revolver, a two foot horse pistol, and a double barrelled shot gun slung at his back — the Armenians seem to feel perfectly safe under his protection.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000007_000011.wav|Eggs there are none; they are devoured, I fancy, almost before they are laid.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000003_000005.wav|The Yuzgat maiden of "sweet sixteen" is a coy, babyish creature, possessed of a certain doll like prettiness, but at twenty three is a rapidly fading flower, and at thirty is already beginning to get wrinkled and old.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000007_000043.wav|East of Yennikhan, the road develops into an excellent macadamized highway, on which I find plenty of genuine amusement by electrifying the natives whom I chance to meet or overtake. Creeping noiselessly up behind an unsuspecting donkey driver, until quite close, I suddenly reveal my presence.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000004_000001.wav|The country develops into an undulating plateau, which is under general cultivation, as cultivation goes in Asiatic Turkey.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/76574/6509_76574_000004_000000.wav|These people invite me to remain with them until to morrow; but of course I excuse myself from this, and, after spending a very agreeable hour in their company, take my departure.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000039_000003.wav|But I never loved the city.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000032_000001.wav|Nothing surprises you.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000014_000006.wav|Liveried coachmen collected our baggage.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000044_000000.wav|"Oh," I explained happily, "it is n't that-I 'm not tired.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000003_000000.wav|mr MacLeod, the member of Parliament from Scotland, and Lord Lansdowne happened to be calling when I arrived, and Tom and the Scotch lady were there.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000035_000000.wav|I loved the French.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000008_000005.wav|Life was a stage.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000025_000009.wav|I looked at Tom.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000044_000012.wav|No one ever speaks of himself in England.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000013_000002.wav|In all the years together, which he made so rich and happy, Tom never understood how hard and bitter a school was that first year of my married life.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000036_000002.wav|Motherhood is the great and natural event in the life of a woman in France, and no one makes a secret of it.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000030_000007.wav|We loved each other.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000025_000005.wav|I tried to say a few words now and then to wake myself.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000037_000004.wav|Up to eleven o'clock certain attire was proper.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000044_000003.wav|It was the last bad break I made.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000034_000003.wav|I began to understand my mother and the glory in the character which never faltered, although she was alone and life had been hard.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000023_000000.wav|Tom went back to London on the next train, and reached the "farm" with our baggage before it was time to dress for the eight o'clock dinner.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000037_000005.wav|If your watch stopped you were sure to break a social law.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000033_000000.wav|There had been hours in England when only the knowledge that a woman's rarest gift was coming to me, and that Tom was proud and happy about it, kept me from running away-back to the simple life of my own United States.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000025_000007.wav|I watched the great French clock.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000011_000000.wav|I confessed to a little homesickness.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000011_000001.wav|Tom became very attentive. He took me sightseeing.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000030_000009.wav|She made me talk French with her. My first formal dinner in France was a pleasant surprise.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000032_000005.wav|No one was critical.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000040_000000.wav|So I was glad to return to England.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000039_000004.wav|I enjoyed its art, its fascinating shops, its picturesque streets and people, and its beautiful women.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000028_000003.wav|It "was n't done" in England.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000030_000011.wav|Everybody participated.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000044_000011.wav|But in England nobody must know, and everybody must be surprised.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000036_000000.wav|My new friends in Paris discovered my happy secret.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000009_000001.wav|When we were together I felt tongue tied.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000013_000005.wav|Tom did not suggest that we entertain in our turn.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000035_000004.wav|The free winds of the prairie had swept it from mine.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000019_000006.wav|After more of the same kind of talk, he began to cook up some yarn to tell the valet.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000014_000001.wav|I was not well, and Tom, manlike, felt sure the change, a trip down to Essex and new people, would do me good.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000029_000000.wav|"What do you do if you can't keep awake?" I asked.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000014_000002.wav|The thought of the country and a visit with some good simple country folk appealed to me too, so I packed the bags and met Tom at Victoria Station at eleven o'clock.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000032_000002.wav|You are at ease anywhere in the world.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000013_000004.wav|He took me to interesting places and we were entertained by a number of people, mostly ponderous and stupid.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000013_000001.wav|He never did.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000025_000003.wav|I batted my eyes to keep them open.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000039_000000.wav|Finally I rebelled.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000030_000010.wav|It was like a great family party-not dull and quiet like the English dinner, and ever so much more fun.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000041_000003.wav|Irving was interesting and striking, though certainly not handsome; but he took the compliment to himself, smiled, bowed his thanks, and said:|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000012_000007.wav|"The fault is with you," he said.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000003_000001.wav|The chef waiter was taking the coats of the gentlemen callers. I received the guests, acknowledged the introductions, and then, as I removed my own coat, I handed him the little package.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000013_000006.wav|I think he felt I was not ready for it, although even in after years, when we talked frankly about many things, he would never admit this.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000035_000002.wav|He never accepted intimacy.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000038_000001.wav|Then I laughed about it.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000008_000000.wav|I was homesick for Wisconsin, homesick for real and simple people. I wanted to go home!|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000013_000003.wav|But Tom did try to give me a good time in London.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000009_000002.wav|He had tried to be gentle with me; but I was strange in this world of his, and lonely and sensitive.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000008_000001.wav|That night Tom and I had our first real quarrel, and it was over my dismissal of the Scotch lady of aristocratic birth. Life became intolerable for a while.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000005_000001.wav|"Ladies never make gifts to their servants," she added.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000032_000008.wav|Happiness came back to me.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000015_000000.wav|We were led to a handsome cart drawn by a fine tandem team, and Tom and I were alone for a minute.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000045_000001.wav|I learned the ways of Europe, of the Orient, and of South America.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000025_000006.wav|I felt myself slipping. Once my head dropped and came up with a jerk.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000029_000001.wav|"You slip out quietly, go to your room ask a maid to call you after you have had forty winks, then you go back and pretend you are having a good time," said Tom.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000004_000001.wav|"In England," she said, "ladies never converse with their servants, particularly in the presence of guests."|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6509/67147/6509_67147_000012_000004.wav|And I was thinking-Tom would n't fit into my world, and I could not belong to his.|6509
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000021_000000.wav|Yes, the ox has passed, for in all Nebraska I was unable to find even one yoke.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000003_000005.wav|I finally unyoked, gave him a quart of lard, a gill of vinegar, and a handful of sugar, but all to no purpose, for he soon fell down and in two hours was dead."|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000003_000004.wav|I finally stopped, put him on the off side, gave him the long end of the yoke, and tied his head back with the halter strap to the chain; but to no purpose, for he pulled by the head very heavily.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000036_000004.wav|Dave and Dandy made good team mates.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000017_000000.wav|"Thirty dollars."|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000013_000000.wav|But one cow would not go at all!|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000016_000000.wav|"What is this cow worth to you?"|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000007_000003.wav|And yet, am I sure that at some points I did not abuse him?|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000002_000000.wav|A BIT OF BAD LUCK|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12545/4246_12545_000019_000000.wav|The fact gradually became apparent that the loss of that fine ox was almost irreparable.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000021_000001.wav|They resolved to build one, opened the subscription at once, and appointed a committee to carry the work forward.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000029_000002.wav|One of the old barracks, three hundred feet long, was in good preservation in nineteen o six, being utilized by the owner, Joseph Wilde, for a store, post office, hotel, and residence.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000033_000004.wav|He crawled to these Bluffs and there famished.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000033_000003.wav|Tradition says: "A trapper named Scott, while returning to the States, was robbed and stripped by the Indians.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000040_000000.wav|About twenty miles from Scott's Bluff stands old Chimney Rock.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000024_000000.wav|As we journeyed on down the Platte, we passed thrifty ranches and thriving little towns.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000035_000000.wav|The tire bore this simple inscription: "Rebecca Winters, aged fifty years." The hoofs of stock tramped the sunken grave and trod it into dust, but the arch of the tire remained to defy the strength of thoughtless hands that would have removed it.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000033_000007.wav|This occurred prior to eighteen thirty.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000024_000004.wav|All along the way was a spirit of good cheer and hearty welcome.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000025_000002.wav|Here the Laramie River and the Platte meet.|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4246/12544/4246_12544_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER TWENTY SIX|4246
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000022_000000.wav|"The lieutenant of musketeers?" asked Gondy.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000081_000000.wav|"For what?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000065_000000.wav|"Yes, but he must make haste; for hardly will the people of Paris have revolted before we shall have a score of princes begging to lead them. If he defers he will find the place of honor taken."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000019_000000.wav|"Why does my lord, belonging to the church, now receive me in the dress of an officer, with a sword at his side and spurs to his boots?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000072_000000.wav|"You must know it is not his element."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000075_000000.wav|"Since they force me to wear a hat of a form which does not become me," said Gondy, "I wish at least that the hat should be red."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000010_000000.wav|"And on what account?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000087_000000.wav|"Ah, Monsieur Mazarin, Monsieur Mazarin," said Rochefort, leading off his curate, who had not found an opportunity of uttering a single word during the foregoing dialogue, "you will see whether I am too old to be a man of action."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000071_000000.wav|"Of the war, yes, but in politics----"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000101_000000.wav|"I have given the signal."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000085_000000.wav|"Very good.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000061_000000.wav|"Good, my dear Rochefort; but that is not all.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000121_000000.wav|The beggar shook his head.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000120_000001.wav|I have blessed you and you are sacred to me.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000056_000000.wav|"And when will the dance begin?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000120_000002.wav|Come, have you committed some crime, pursued by human justice, from which I can protect you?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000078_000000.wav|"In five days."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000069_000000.wav|"To the end."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000050_000003.wav|It was the Count de Rochefort.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000118_000000.wav|"Yes, I have need of it."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000046_000000.wav|"Are you satisfied, my lord?" he asked.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000002_000000.wav|forty six.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000053_000000.wav|"It has been made up a long time," said Gondy.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000105_000000.wav|"For twenty years I have tasted nothing but water."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000014_000001.wav|You raised the whole district, so they told me!"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000055_000000.wav|"I hope so."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000119_000000.wav|The mendicant uttered these words in a tone of such humility, such earnest repentance, that Gondy placed his hand upon him and gave him his benediction with all the unction of which he was capable.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000009_000002.wav|You see in me, such as I am, a person sentenced to be hung."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000029_000000.wav|"You may count upon me, my lord, provided you want to make a complete upheaval of the city."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000026_000000.wav|"What do you mean by that?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000129_000000.wav|"Thank you, my lord," said the mendicant in a hoarse voice.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000106_000000.wav|The man took the bag from the hands of the coadjutor, who heard the sound of his fingers counting and handling the gold pieces.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000095_000000.wav|"You are not boasting?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000089_000000.wav|He knocked and the door was opened.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000125_000000.wav|"In the Bastile."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000006_000000.wav|"Your holiness," said the curate, "here is the person of whom I had the honor to speak to you."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000092_000000.wav|"Not exactly," replied the mendicant.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000131_000000.wav|"Adieu, your holiness," said the mendicant, opening the door and bending low before the prelate.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000099_000000.wav|The man went silently to each of the candles and blew them out one after the other.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000126_000000.wav|"And before you went to the Bastile?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000062_000000.wav|"He is in Vendome, where he will wait until I write to him to return to Paris."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000130_000001.wav|Adieu."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000030_000000.wav|"'tis that exactly.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000068_000000.wav|"Shall I tell him that he can count on you?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000076_000000.wav|"One must not dispute matters of taste and colors," said Rochefort, laughing.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000079_000000.wav|"Let him come and he will find a change, I will answer for it."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000104_000001.wav|Now remember that you are a general and do not go and drink."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000023_000000.wav|"Himself, my lord."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000094_000001.wav|Well, I have ten thousand for you."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000128_000001.wav|At whatsoever hour of the day or night you may present yourself, remember that I shall be ready to give you absolution."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000014_000000.wav|"Ah! really, yes," said the coadjutor, "I have heard this affair mentioned.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000113_000000.wav|"Singular man!" muttered Gondy, taking his hat to go away; but on turning around he saw the beggar between him and the door.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000021_000000.wav|"Well, my lord, before I became a confectioner I myself was three years sergeant in the Piedmontese regiment, and before I became sergeant I was for eighteen months the servant of Monsieur d'Artagnan."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000102_000000.wav|"For what?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000049_000000.wav|"He will do wonders then."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000109_000001.wav|Oh, misery, oh, vanity!"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000047_000000.wav|"Yes; he appears to be a resolute fellow."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000037_000000.wav|"Good!|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000116_000000.wav|"No, your holiness, I take you for what you are, that is to say, the coadjutor; I recognized you at the first glance."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000041_000000.wav|"Here are five hundred pistoles," he said; "and if the action goes off well you may reckon upon a similar sum to morrow."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000028_000000.wav|"You are an intelligent fellow, my friend; can we count upon you?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000110_000000.wav|"You take it, however."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000097_000000.wav|"Yes."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000030_000001.wav|How many men, think you, you could collect together to night?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000032_000001.wav|Are you disposed to obey Count de Rochefort?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000017_000000.wav|"That of a confectioner, in the Rue des Lombards."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000018_000000.wav|"Explain to me how it happens that, following so peaceful a business, you had such warlike inclinations."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000031_000000.wav|"Two hundred muskets and five hundred halberds."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000090_000000.wav|"Come in," said a voice which he recognized as that of the mendicant, whom he found lying on a kind of truckle bed.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000088_000002.wav|"Good," said he, "our syndic is at his post."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000085_000001.wav|Adieu, my lord."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000086_000000.wav|"Adieu, my dear Rochefort."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000039_000000.wav|"Money never comes amiss at any time, my lord; if one has it not, one must do without it; with it, matters go on much better and more rapidly."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000040_000000.wav|Gondy went to a box and drew forth a bag.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000112_000000.wav|His face was pale and drawn, like that of a man who had just undergone some inward struggle.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000054_000001.wav|Well, we are going to give a ball to Mazarin."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000115_000000.wav|"Your holiness!" said Gondy; "my friend, you take me for some one else."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000008_000000.wav|"And you are disposed to serve the cause of the people?" asked Gondy.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000051_000000.wav|"'tis you, then, my dear count," cried Gondy, offering his hand.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000050_000000.wav|The curate rejoined Planchet, who was waiting for him on the stairs.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000117_000000.wav|Gondy smiled.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000098_000000.wav|There were three candles alight, each of which burnt before a window, one looking upon the city, the other upon the Palais Royal, and a third upon the Rue Saint Denis.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000130_000000.wav|"Very well.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000043_000000.wav|"That is right; I recommend the cardinal to your attention."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000003_000000.wav|At a quarter to six o'clock, Monsieur de Gondy, having finished his business, returned to the archiepiscopal palace.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000044_000000.wav|"Make your mind easy, he is in good hands."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000038_000000.wav|"Do you want money?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000100_000000.wav|"What are you doing?" asked the coadjutor.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000088_000001.wav|He remarked that a light was burning in one of the highest windows of the tower.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000103_000000.wav|"For the barricades.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000009_000001.wav|"I am a Frondist from my heart.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000059_000000.wav|"Upon fifty soldiers?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000042_000000.wav|"I will give a faithful account of the sum to your lordship," said Planchet, putting the bag under his arm.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000036_000000.wav|"Every Frondist must put a knot of straw in his hat."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000076_000001.wav|"I answer for his consent."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000082_000000.wav|"For everything."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000080_000000.wav|"Therefore, go and collect your fifty men and hold yourself in readiness."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000037_000001.wav|Give the watchword."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000120_000000.wav|"Now," said Gondy, "there is a communion between us.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000094_000000.wav|"You asked me for five hundred men, did you not?|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000084_000000.wav|"A knot of straw in the hat."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000027_000000.wav|"Nothing, my lord; Monsieur d'Artagnan belongs to the service; Monsieur d'Artagnan makes it his business to defend the cardinal, who pays him, as much as we make it ours, we citizens, to attack him, whom he robs."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000117_000001.wav|"And you want my blessing?" he said.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000033_000000.wav|"I would follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000091_000000.wav|"Well," said Gondy, "have you kept your word with me?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000073_000000.wav|"He must leave me to negotiate for my cardinal's hat in my own fashion."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000020_000000.wav|"Not badly answered, i'faith," said Gondy, laughing; "but I have, you must know, always had, in spite of my bands, warlike inclinations."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000074_000000.wav|"You care about it, then, so much?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000128_000000.wav|"Good!|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000090_000001.wav|He rose on the entrance of the coadjutor, and at that moment ten o'clock struck.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000089_000001.wav|The vicar himself awaited him, conducted him to the top of the tower, and when there pointed to a little door, placed the light which he had brought with him in a corner of the wall, that the coadjutor might be able to find it on his return, and went down again.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000057_000000.wav|"The invitations are given for this evening," said the coadjutor, "but the violins will not begin to play until to morrow morning."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000045_000000.wav|Planchet went out, the curate remaining for a moment.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000096_000000.wav|"Do you wish for a proof?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000121_000001.wav|"The crime which I have committed, my lord, has no call upon human justice, and you can only deliver me from it by blessing me frequently, as you have just done."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000035_000000.wav|"By what sign to morrow shall we be able to distinguish friends from foes?"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000050_000002.wav|As soon as the door of Gondy's study was opened a man rushed in.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000005_000000.wav|The coadjutor glanced rapidly behind and saw that he was followed by another man.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000007_000000.wav|Planchet saluted in the manner of one accustomed to fine houses.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000123_000001.wav|I have pursued it for six years only."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000111_000000.wav|"Yes, but I make hereby a vow in your presence, to employ all that remains to me in pious works."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/121416/2010_121416_000108_000000.wav|The mendicant sighed and threw down the bag.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000005_000001.wav|He had read of the murder, and had been shocked, and, in his way, grieved.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000058_000002.wav|You fiend!"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000064_000001.wav|"That is the only truth I want to hear."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000030_000000.wav|"I shall be fortunate," said Ling Chu; "for prison is life.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000015_000000.wav|"I will come," he said.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000033_000003.wav|It was not a successful residence."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000019_000000.wav|He had gained some courage, because he had expected in the first place to be taken immediately to Scotland Yard and placed in custody.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000045_000001.wav|"Now listen to me.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000011_000001.wav|"It will be better for you if you do not make any trouble."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000045_000002.wav|A week or so ago, mr Thornton Lyne, your employer, was found dead in Hyde Park.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000050_000002.wav|Then he rose and went to the cupboard and took out a larger bottle and placed it beside the other.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000032_000003.wav|He spoke slowly and with great deliberation.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000050_000000.wav|He put his hand inside his blouse and Milburgh watched him fascinated, but he produced nothing more deadly than a silver cigarette case, which he opened.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000056_000000.wav|Milburgh scarcely felt a twinge of pain, only a mild irritating smarting and no more.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000018_000001.wav|"It is true I am mr Milburgh, but when you say that I have committed murder you are telling a wicked lie."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000027_000001.wav|He was beside himself with terror, but any cause for fear had yet to come.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000072_000000.wav|"You can wait," he said with a sinister smile.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000036_000001.wav|Then he grew serious again.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000069_000001.wav|"To night he does not return, so I must go myself to the hospital-you can wait."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000010_000000.wav|He had asked the question in identical terms of Sam Stay-his brain told him that much, mechanically.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000016_000002.wav|He was not used to travelling on omnibuses, being something of a sybarite who spared nothing to ensure his own comfort.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000065_000001.wav|I swear it, I swear it!" raved the prisoner. "Wait, wait!" he whimpered as the other picked up the handkerchief.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000032_000002.wav|His English was almost perfect, though now and again he hesitated in the choice of a word, and there were moments when he was a little stilted in his speech, and more than a little pedantic.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000059_000001.wav|"Little by little, millimetre by millimetre my brush will move, and you will experience such pain as you have never experienced before.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000008_000001.wav|He turned to look into a brown mask of a face he had seen before.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000042_000000.wav|"Has that idea sunk into your mind?" asked Ling Chu.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000033_000000.wav|"You do not know the Chinese people?|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000059_000000.wav|"With a little brush I will paint capsicum on these places." He touched Milburgh's chest with his long white ringers.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000056_000001.wav|The Chinaman laid down the knife and took up the smaller bottle.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000014_000000.wav|Milburgh's lips were quivering with fear and his face was a pasty grey.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000006_000000.wav|It was not to save Odette Rider that he sent his note to Scotland Yard, but rather to avenge himself upon the man who had killed the only woman in the world who had touched his warped nature.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000044_000000.wav|Ling Chu stopped him with a gesture.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000023_000001.wav|Ling Chu gripped the man by one hand and opening the door with the other, pushed him into a room which was barely furnished. Against the wall there was an iron bed, and on to this the man was pushed, collapsing in a heap.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000013_000000.wav|"If I am making a mistake," said Ling Chu calmly, "you have only to tell that policeman that I have mistaken you for Milburgh, who is wanted by the police on a charge of murder, and I shall get into very serious trouble."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000050_000001.wav|He selected a cigarette and lit it, and for a few minutes puffed in silence, his thoughtful eyes fixed upon Milburgh.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000037_000001.wav|From our own point of view we are rigidly honourable.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000033_000001.wav|You have not been or lived in China? When I say lived I do not mean staying for a week at a good hotel in one of the coast towns.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000061_000001.wav|"I have something to tell you-something that your master should know."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000025_000000.wav|Ling Chu turned him over, unfastened the handcuffs, and methodically bound first one wrist and then the other to the side of the bed.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000021_000000.wav|"Get up," said Ling Chu sternly, and, exerting a surprising strength, lifted the man to his feet.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000057_000002.wav|In this bottle," he picked up the larger, "is a Chinese oil which immediately relieves the pain which capsicum causes."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000069_000000.wav|"My master would wish that the little woman should escape danger," he said.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000066_000000.wav|The Chinaman checked his movement.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000017_000002.wav|But there was no sign of Tarling.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000057_000000.wav|"In this," he said, "is a vegetable extract.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000072_000001.wav|"I will go first to the hospital and afterwards, if all is well, I will return for you."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000018_000000.wav|"Now, my friend, what do you want?" he asked.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000054_000000.wav|"For God's sake don't, don't," half screamed, half sobbed Milburgh.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000062_000000.wav|"That is very good," said Ling Chu coolly, and pulled out the handkerchief.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000053_000000.wav|He took up his knife and bent over the terror stricken man.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000026_000000.wav|"What are you going to do?" repeated Milburgh, but the Chinaman made no reply.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000036_000000.wav|His thin lips curved for a second in the ghost of a smile, as though at some amusing recollection.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000055_000000.wav|"This will not hurt you," said Ling Chu, and drew four straight lines across the other's breast.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000068_000002.wav|Then, when Milburgh had finished, he put down his bottle and thrust in the cork.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000020_000002.wav|He felt something like a wire loop slipped about his wrists, and suffered an excruciating pain as the Chinaman tightened the connecting link of the native handcuff.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000033_000002.wav|Your mr Lyne lived in China in that way.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000063_000001.wav|Great beads of sweat were lying on his face.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000024_000000.wav|The Chinese thief catcher went about his work in a scientific fashion. First he fastened and threaded a length of silk rope through one of the rails of the bed and into the slack of this he lifted Milburgh's head, so that he could not struggle except at the risk of being strangled.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000017_000000.wav|No word was spoken until they reached the sitting room of Tarling's flat. Milburgh expected to see the detective.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000068_000000.wav|Brokenly, gaspingly, breathlessly, Milburgh told the story of his meeting with Sam Stay.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000038_000001.wav|For example," he explained carefully, "we are not tender with our prisoners, if we think that by applying a little pressure to them we can assist the process of justice."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000048_000001.wav|"It's a lie-I tell you it's a lie!"|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000058_000001.wav|"You dog!|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000037_000002.wav|Also-and this I would emphasise." He did, in fact, emphasise his words to the terror of mr Milburgh, with the point of his knife upon the other's broad chest, though so lightly was the knife held that Milburgh felt nothing but the slightest tingle.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty three|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000061_000000.wav|"Wait, wait!" gasped the muffled voice of Milburgh.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000032_000001.wav|Then he himself sat upon the edge of the bed and spoke.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000048_000000.wav|"That's a lie," roared Milburgh.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000071_000000.wav|Ling Chu shook his head.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000037_000000.wav|"From the Western standpoint we are a primitive people.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000038_000000.wav|"We do not set the same value upon the rights of the individual as do you people in the West.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000055_000001.wav|The keen razor edge seemed scarcely to touch the flesh, yet where the knife had passed was a thin red mark like a scratch.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000039_000000.wav|"What do you mean?" asked Milburgh, a grisly thought dawning upon his mind.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000040_000001.wav|You ask him questions and go on asking and asking, and you do not know whether he is lying or telling the truth."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000046_000000.wav|Milburgh's eyes never left the Chinaman's, and he nodded.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000006_000002.wav|He had the passports which he had secured a year before in readiness for such a step (he had kept that clerical uniform of his by him all that time) and was ready at a moment's notice to leave the country.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000062_000001.wav|"You shall tell me the truth."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000034_000000.wav|"I know nothing about mr Lyne," interrupted Milburgh, sensing that Ling Chu in some way associated him with Thornton Lyne's misadventures.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000065_000000.wav|"I swear I did not kill him!|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000016_000003.wav|Ling Chu on the contrary had a penchant for buses and seemed to enjoy them.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000068_000001.wav|In his distress and mental anguish he reproduced faithfully not only every word, but every intonation, and the Chinaman listened with half closed eyes.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000049_000000.wav|"I shall discover whether it is a lie in a few moments," said Ling Chu.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000045_000000.wav|"I am perfectly well aware of what I am doing," he said.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000032_000000.wav|He went to a cupboard in the wall, and took out a small brown bottle, which he placed on a table by the side of the bed.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000064_000000.wav|"You shall confess the truth that you killed Thornton Lyne," said Ling Chu.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000029_000000.wav|"You are acting illegally," breathed Milburgh, in a last attempt to save the situation.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000063_000000.wav|"What truth can I tell you?" asked the man, sweating with fear.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000070_000001.wav|"I will help you."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000035_000001.wav|It is said that the Chinaman does not fear death or pain, which is a slight exaggeration, because I have known criminals who feared both."|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000028_000000.wav|"If you cry out," he said calmly, "the people will think it is I who am singing!|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000023_000000.wav|There was no answer.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000041_000000.wav|mr Milburgh began to breathe heavily.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000060_000001.wav|He was watching Milburgh all the time, and when the stout man opened his mouth to yell he thrust a silk handkerchief, which he drew with lightning speed from his pocket, into the open mouth.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2010/147045/2010_147045_000060_000000.wav|He took out the cork and dipped a little camel hair brush in the mixture, withdrawing it moist with fluid.|2010
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/134674/1160_134674_000002_000014.wav|He reviled, in the most intemperate language, their baseness, their ingratitude, their insolence.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/134674/1160_134674_000002_000007.wav|But the haughty monarch was incapable of the magnanimity which dares to acknowledge a fault.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000022_000001.wav|That the king is not to be trusted without being looked after, or in other words, that a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000017_000000.wav|SECONDLY.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000013_000003.wav|But that it is imperfect, subject to convulsions, and incapable of producing what it seems to promise, is easily demonstrated.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000010_000002.wav|In this first parliament every man, by natural right, will have a seat.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000026_000002.wav|Such a power could not be the gift of a wise people, neither can any power, WHICH NEEDS CHECKING, be from God; yet the provision, which the constitution makes, supposes such a power to exist.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000028_000000.wav|That the crown is this overbearing part in the English constitution needs not be mentioned, and that it derives its whole consequence merely from being the giver of places and pensions is self evident; wherefore, though we have been wise enough to shut and lock a door against absolute monarchy, we at the same time have been foolish enough to put the crown in possession of the key.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000023_000001.wav|That the commons, by being appointed for that purpose, are either wiser or more worthy of confidence than the crown.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000026_000001.wav|HOW CAME THE KING BY A POWER WHICH THE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO TRUST, AND ALWAYS OBLIGED TO CHECK?|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000015_000000.wav|I know it is difficult to get over local or long standing prejudices, yet if we will suffer ourselves to examine the component parts of the English constitution, we shall find them to be the base remains of two ancient tyrannies, compounded with some new republican materials.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000016_000000.wav|FIRST.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000008_000000.wav|In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth, unconnected with the rest, they will then represent the first peopling of any country, or of the world.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000006_000001.wav|Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000016_000001.wav|The remains of monarchical tyranny in the person of the king.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000014_000000.wav|Absolute governments (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, that they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs, know likewise the remedy, and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000008_000004.wav|Disease, nay even misfortune would be death, for though neither might be mortal, yet either would disable him from living, and reduce him to a state in which he might rather be said to perish than to die.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000005_000000.wav|OF THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL, WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000029_000001.wav|Individuals are undoubtedly safer in England than in some other countries, but the WILL of the king is as much the LAW of the land in Britain as in France, with this difference, that instead of proceeding directly from his mouth, it is handed to the people under the more formidable shape of an act of parliament.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000022_000000.wav|FIRST.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000007_000000.wav|Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000007_000001.wav|Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000024_000000.wav|But as the same constitution which gives the commons a power to check the king by withholding the supplies, gives afterwards the king a power to check the commons, by empowering him to reject their other bills; it again supposes that the king is wiser than those whom it has already supposed to be wiser than him.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000021_000000.wav|To say that the commons is a check upon the king, presupposes two things.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000011_000003.wav|And as this frequent interchange will establish a common interest with every part of the community, they will mutually and naturally support each other, and on this (not on the unmeaning name of king) depends the STRENGTH OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE HAPPINESS OF THE GOVERNED.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000020_000000.wav|To say that the constitution of England is a UNION of three powers reciprocally CHECKING each other, is farcical, either the words have no meaning, or they are flat contradictions.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139336/1160_139336_000018_000001.wav|The new republican materials, in the persons of the commons, on whose virtue depends the freedom of England.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139730/1160_139730_000013_000002.wav|This engag'd the public attention everywhere.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139730/1160_139730_000002_000000.wav|SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139730/1160_139730_000004_000002.wav|I say much practice, for my house was continually full, for some time, with people who came to see these new wonders.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000013_000003.wav|They voted an aid of ten thousand pounds, to be laid out in provisions.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000003_000000.wav|fifteen|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000006_000001.wav|I had my share of it; for, as soon as I got back to my seat in the Assembly, I was put on every committee for answering his speeches and messages, and by the committees always desired to make the drafts.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000005_000000.wav|In my journey to Boston this year, I met at New York with our new governor, mr Morris, just arriv'd there from England, with whom I had been before intimately acquainted.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000005_000003.wav|I said, "No; you may, on the contrary, have a very comfortable one, if you will only take care not to enter into any dispute with the Assembly." "My dear friend," says he, pleasantly, "how can you advise my avoiding disputes?|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000005_000004.wav|You know I love disputing; it is one of my greatest pleasures; however, to show the regard I have for your counsel, I promise you I will, if possible, avoid them." He had some reason for loving to dispute, being eloquent, an acute sophister, and, therefore, generally successful in argumentative conversation.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000008_000001.wav|"Franklin," says he, "you must go home with me and spend the evening; I am to have some company that you will like;" and, taking me by the arm, he led me to his house.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000004_000000.wav|QUARRELS WITH THE PROPRIETARY GOVERNORS|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139727/1160_139727_000005_000005.wav|He had been brought up to it from a boy, his father, as I have heard, accustoming his children to dispute with one another for his diversion, while sitting at table after dinner; but I think the practice was not wise; for, in the course of my observation, these disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000009_000004.wav|He then show'd me his piece for my opinion, and I much approv'd it, as it appear'd to me to have great merit.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000006_000003.wav|Ralph was ingenious, genteel in his manners, and extremely eloquent; I think I never knew a prettier talker.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000004_000004.wav|He agreed to try the practice, if I would keep him company.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000003_000000.wav|Keimer and I liv'd on a pretty good familiar footing, and agreed tolerably well, for he suspected nothing of my setting up.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000004_000005.wav|I did so, and we held it for three months.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000004_000009.wav|He invited me and two women friends to dine with him; but, it being brought too soon upon table, he could not resist the temptation, and ate the whole before we came.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1160/139717/1160_139717_000003_000002.wav|We therefore had many disputations.|1160
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000043_000000.wav|Like the Spring time, fresh and green|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000029_000000.wav|Like the music in the patter of small feet|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000067_000000.wav|Lithe as a panther|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000085_000000.wav|Lovely as starry water|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000002_000000.wav|Like the bellowing of bulls|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000011_000000.wav|Like the dew on the mountain|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000076_000000.wav|Love as clean as starlight|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000063_000000.wav|Like wine stain to a flask the old distrust still clings|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000034_000000.wav|Like the sap that turns to nectar, in the velvet of the peach|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000031_000000.wav|Like the quivering image of a landscape in a flowing stream|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000014_000000.wav|Like the embodiment of a perfect rose, complete in form and fragrance|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000056_000000.wav|Like troops of ghosts on the dry wind past|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000038_000000.wav|Like the shadow of a great hill that reaches far out over the plain|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000077_000000.wav|Love brilliant as the morning|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000059_000000.wav|Like vaporous shapes half seen|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000064_000000.wav|Like winged stars the fire flies flash and glance|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000070_000000.wav|Loneliness struck him like a blow|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000032_000000.wav|Like the rainbow, thou didst fade|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000005_000000.wav|Like the cold breath of the grave|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000052_000000.wav|Like those great rivers, whose course everyone beholds, but their springs have been seen by but few|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000012_000000.wav|Like the dim scent in violets|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000082_000000.wav|Love shakes like a windy reed your heart|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000045_000000.wav|Like the sudden impulse of a madman|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000007_000000.wav|Like the cry of an itinerant vendor in a quiet and picturesque town|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000016_000000.wav|Like the faint exquisite music of a dream|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000072_000000.wav|Looking as sulky as the weather itself|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000071_000000.wav|Looked back with faithful eyes like a great mastiff to his master's face|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000047_000000.wav|Like the tattered effigy in a cornfield|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000022_000000.wav|Like the foam on the river|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000083_000000.wav|Love smiled like an unclouded sun|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000054_000000.wav|Like to diamonds her white teeth shone between the parted lips|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000015_000000.wav|Like the faint cry of unassisted woe|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000009_000000.wav|Like the dawn of the morn|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000050_000000.wav|Like the whole sky when to the east the morning doth return|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000001_000000.wav|Like the awful shadow of some unseen power|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000024_000000.wav|Like the jangling of all the strings of some musical instrument|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000069_000000.wav|Lofty as a queen|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000044_000000.wav|Like the stern lights of a ship at sea, illuminating only the path which has been passed over|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000075_000000.wav|Lost like the lightning in the sullen clod|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000060_000000.wav|Like village curs that bark when their fellows do|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130505/1641_130505_000046_000000.wav|Like the swell of Summer's ocean|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000077_000000.wav|Like some new gathered snowy hyacinth, so white and cold and delicate it was|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000010_000000.wav|Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000086_000000.wav|Like straws in a gust of wind|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000056_000000.wav|Like music on the water|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000085_000000.wav|upon the cool and still piazza|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000033_000000.wav|Like fixed eyes, whence the dear light of sense and thought has fled|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000061_000000.wav|Like one who talks of what he loves in dream|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000074_000000.wav|Like shy elves hiding from the traveler's eye|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000068_000000.wav|Like rowing upstream against a strong downward current|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000038_000000.wav|Like golden boats on a sunny sea|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000025_000000.wav|Like dead lovers who died true|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000041_000000.wav|Like having to taste a hundred exquisite dishes in a single meal|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000026_000000.wav|Like Death, who rides upon a thought, and makes his way through temple, tower, and palace|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000036_000000.wav|Like ghosts, from an enchanter fleeing|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000020_000000.wav|Like bursting waves from the ocean|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000008_000000.wav|Like an icy wave, a swift and tragic impression swept through him|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000088_000000.wav|Like sunlight, in and out the leaves, the robins went|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000076_000000.wav|Like some grave night thought threading a dream|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000003_000000.wav|Like an eagle clutching his prey, his arm swooped down|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000017_000000.wav|Like bright Apollo|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000080_000000.wav|Like some unshriven churchyard thing, the friar crawled|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000052_000000.wav|Like mariners pulling the life boat|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000024_000000.wav|Like crystals of snow|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000057_000000.wav|Like notes which die when born, but still haunt the echoes of the hill|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000054_000000.wav|Like mountain over mountain huddled|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000015_000000.wav|Like bells that waste the moments with their loudness|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000073_000000.wav|Like ships that have gone down at sea|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000051_000000.wav|Like making a mountain out of a mole hill|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000021_000000.wav|Like cliffs which have been rent asunder|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000070_000000.wav|Like separated souls|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000013_000000.wav|Like apparitions seen and gone|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000072_000000.wav|Like sheep from out the fold of the sky, stars leapt|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000062_000000.wav|Like organ music came the deep reply|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000016_000000.wav|Like blasts of trumpets blown in wars|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000055_000000.wav|Like mountain streams we meet and part|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000053_000000.wav|Like mice that steal in and out as if they feared the light|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000018_000000.wav|Like bright lamps, the fabled apples glow|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000042_000000.wav|Like Heaven's free breath, which he who grasps can hold not|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000019_000000.wav|Like building castles in the air|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000050_000000.wav|Like lighting a candle to the sun|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000065_000000.wav|Like planets in the sky|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000032_000000.wav|Like echoes from an antenatal dream|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000011_000000.wav|Like an unseen star of birth|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000071_000000.wav|Like serpents struggling in a vulture's grasp|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000004_000000.wav|Like an eagle dallying with the wind|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000049_000000.wav|Like leviathans afloat|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000039_000000.wav|Like great black birds, the demons haunt the woods|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000089_000000.wav|Like sweet thoughts in a dream|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000059_000000.wav|Like one pale star against the dusk, a single diamond on her brow gleamed with imprisoned fire|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000009_000000.wav|Like an unbidden guest|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000034_000000.wav|Like footsteps upon wool|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000066_000000.wav|Like pouring oil on troubled waters|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000027_000000.wav|Like dew upon a sleeping flower|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000078_000000.wav|Like some poor nigh related guest, that may not rudely be dismist|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000075_000000.wav|Like skeletons, the sycamores uplift their wasted hands|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000083_000000.wav|Like splendor winged moths about a taper|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000005_000000.wav|Like an engine of dread war, he set his shoulder to the mountain side|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130504/1641_130504_000028_000000.wav|Like dining with a ghost|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000005_000000.wav|Laughter like a beautiful bubble from the rosebud of baby hood|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000034_000000.wav|Like a festooned girdle encircling the waist of a bride|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000077_000000.wav|Like a stone thrown at random|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000024_000000.wav|Like a calm flock of silver fleeced sheep|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000002_000000.wav|L|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000032_000000.wav|Like a distant star glimmering steadily in the darkness|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000036_000000.wav|Like a game in which the important part is to keep from laughing|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000076_000000.wav|Like a star, unhasting, unresting|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000030_000000.wav|Like a dew drop, ill fitted to sustain unkindly shocks|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000041_000000.wav|Like a great ring of pure and endless light|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000015_000000.wav|Light as a snowflake|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000074_000000.wav|Like a star, his love's pure face looked down|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000023_000000.wav|Like a caged lion shaking the bars of his prison|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000068_000000.wav|Like a sheeted ghost|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000065_000000.wav|Like a sea of upturned faces|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000089_000000.wav|Like a wandering star I fell through the deeps of desire|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000027_000000.wav|Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000035_000000.wav|Like a flower her red lips parted|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000018_000000.wav|Like a blade sent home to its scabbard|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000011_000000.wav|Let thy mouth murmur like the doves|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000017_000000.wav|Like a ball of ice it glittered in a frozen sea of sky|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000093_000000.wav|Like a withered leaf the moon is blown across the bay|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000045_000000.wav|Like a jewel every cottage casement showed|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000019_000000.wav|Like a blast from a horn|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000025_000000.wav|Like a cloud of fire|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000042_000000.wav|Like a great tune to which the planets roll|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000050_000000.wav|Like a living meteor|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000006_000000.wav|Laughter like the sudden outburst of the glad bird in the tree top|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000038_000000.wav|Like a golden shielded army|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000061_000000.wav|Like a poet hidden|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000086_000000.wav|Like a vaporous amethyst|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000082_000000.wav|Like a thing read in a book or remembered out of the faraway past|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000022_000000.wav|Like a bright window in a distant view|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000003_000000.wav|Laboring like a giant|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000067_000000.wav|Like a shadow on a fair sunlit landscape|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000009_000000.wav|Let his frolic fancy play, like a happy child|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000046_000000.wav|Like a joyless eye that finds no object worth its constancy|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000092_000000.wav|Like a whirlwind they went past|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000058_000000.wav|Like a noisy argument in a drawing room|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000047_000000.wav|Like a knight worn out by conflict|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000052_000000.wav|Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000073_000000.wav|Like a stalled horse that breaks loose and goes at a gallop through the plain|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000039_000000.wav|Like a great express train, roaring, flashing, dashing head long|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000084_000000.wav|Like a triumphing fire the news was borne|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000079_000000.wav|Like a summer dried fountain|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000075_000000.wav|Like a star that dwelt apart|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000033_000000.wav|Like a dream she vanished|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000028_000000.wav|Like a damp handed auctioneer|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1641/130503/1641_130503_000016_000000.wav|Lights gleamed there like stars in a still sky|1641
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000016_000001.wav|Reference was made, a few lines above, to the resemblance of the spectra of sun spots to those of certain stars which seem to be failing through age.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000011_000001.wav|Either of them, when seen in projection against the brilliant solar disk, appears white, not red, as against a background of sky. The quiescent prominences, whose elevation is often from forty thousand to sixty thousand miles, consist, as the spectroscope shows, mainly of hydrogen and helium.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000008_000000.wav|The whole of these protuberances were visible even to the last moment of total obscuration, and when the first ray of light was admitted from the sun they vanished, with the corona, altogether, and daylight was instantly restored.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000009_000001.wav|Still, not every such eclipse offers an equally magnificent spectacle.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000001_000000.wav|As all the world knows, the sun, a blinding globe pouring forth an inconceivable quantity of light and heat, whose daily passage through the sky is caused by the earth's rotation on its axis, constitutes the most important phenomenon of terrestial existence.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000003_000002.wav|The interest centers in what happened at Pavia in Northern Italy, where the English astronomer Francis Baily had set up his telescope.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000002_000000.wav|But when an eclipse of the sun occurs, caused by the interposition of the opaque globe of the moon, we see its immediate surroundings, which in some respects are more wonderful than the glowing central orb. These surroundings, although not in the sense in which we apply the term to the gaseous envelope of the earth, may be called the sun's atmosphere.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000002_000008.wav|But if the corona has been a cause of terror in the past it has become a source of growing knowledge in our time.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000013_000007.wav|The earth itself would be driven away if, instead of consisting of a solid globe of immense aggregate mass, it were a cloud of microscopic particles.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000017_000000.wav|The corona, as we have said, varies with the sun spot cycle.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000003_000003.wav|The eclipse had begun and Bailey was busy at his telescope when, to quote his own words in the account which he wrote for the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society:|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000003_000000.wav|The story of the first scientific observation of the corona and the prominences is thrillingly interesting, and in fact dramatic.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000016_000009.wav|Looking backward, we see a time when the sun must have been more brilliant than it is now.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000013_000012.wav|If the diameter is still further decreased, the ratio of the surface to the volume will proportionally grow larger; in other words, the pressure will gain upon the attraction, and whatever their original ratio may have been, a time will come, if the diminution of size continues, when the pressure will become more effective than the attraction, and the body will be driven away.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000009_000008.wav|At Burgos it is said many made the sign of the cross.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000013_000000.wav|The association of the corona with sun spots is less evident than that of the eruptive prominences; still such an association exists, for the form and extent of the corona vary with the sun spot period of which we shall presently speak.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000002_000003.wav|Although many attempts have been made to render the corona visible when there is no eclipse, all have failed, and it is to the moon alone that we owe its revelation.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000014_000010.wav|Messages are abruptly cut off, sparks leap from the telegraph instruments, and the entire earth seems to have been thrown into a magnetic flurry.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000013_000001.wav|The constitution of the corona remains to be discovered.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000007_000000.wav|But the most remarkable circumstance attending the phenomenon was the appearance of three large protuberances apparently emanating from the circumference of the moon, but evidently forming a portion of the corona.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000002_000004.wav|To cover the sun's disk with a circular screen will not answer the purpose because of the illumination of the air all about the observer.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000014_000001.wav|This is beautifully shown in some of the photographs that have been made of the corona during recent eclipses.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000015_000011.wav|A final answer to this question cannot yet be given, for the evidence is contradictory, and the interpretations put upon it depend largely on the predilections of the judges.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000009_000000.wav|I have quoted nearly all of this remarkable description not alone for its intrinsic interest, but because it is the best depiction that can be found of the general phenomena of a total solar eclipse.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000014_000002.wav|Take, for instance, that of the eclipse of nineteen hundred.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000011_000002.wav|The latter, it will be remembered, is an element which was known to be in the sun many years before the discovery that it also exists in small quantities on the earth.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000009_000003.wav|Of course, something must be allowed for the effect of surprise; Bailey had not expected to see what was so suddenly disclosed to him.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000002_000007.wav|But the prominences are rarely large enough to be noticed by the naked eye, while the streamers of the corona, stretching far away in space, like ghostly banners blown out from the black circle of the obscuring moon, attract every eye, and to this weird apparition much of the fear inspired by eclipses has been due.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000015_000005.wav|After two or three years they begin to diminish in number, magnitude, and activity until they almost or quite disappear.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000012_000005.wav|Stars very far advanced in evolution, without showing variability, also exhibit similar spectra; so that there is much reason for regarding sunspots as emblems of advancing age.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000013_000006.wav|In that case the light pressure will prevail over the attraction of gravitation, and propel the attenuated matter away from the sun in the teeth of its attraction.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000016_000003.wav|The very inequalities in the sun spot cycle are suspicious.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000009_000002.wav|The eclipses of nineteen hundred and nineteen o five, for instance, which were seen by the writer, the first in South Carolina and the second in Spain, fell far short of that described by Bailey in splendor and impressiveness.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000017_000003.wav|It is then that the curved polar rays are most conspicuous.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000007_000003.wav|They resembled the Alpine mountains in another respect, inasmuch as their light was perfectly steady, and had none of that flickering or sparkling motion so visible in other parts of the corona...|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000015_000008.wav|It was not very long after the discovery of the sun spot cycle that the curious observation was made that a striking coincidence existed between the period of the sun spots and another period affecting the general magnetic condition of the earth.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153731/2388_153731_000011_000006.wav|It is known from mathematical considerations that the gravitation of the sun would not be able to bring back any body that started from its surface with a velocity exceeding three hundred and eighty three miles per second; so it is evident that some of the matter hurled forth in eruptive prominences may escape from solar control and go speeding out into space, cooling and condensing into solid masses.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000004_000001.wav|As handled by the Greeks from prehistoric times, the constellation myths became the very soul of poetry.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000008_000001.wav|The seven principle stars of the asterism, forming a surprisingly perfect coronet, have movements in three directions at right angles to one another.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000001_000002.wav|Even if the stars stood fast, the motion of the solar system would gradually alter the configurations, as the elements of a landscape dissolve and recombine in fresh groupings with the traveler's progress amid them.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000009_000003.wav|In time it will drift entirely out of connection with its present neighbors.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000003_000004.wav|At Izamal, in Yucatan, says Mr Stansbury Hagar, is a group of ruins perched, after the Mexican and Central American plan, on the summits of pyramidal mounds which mark the site of an ancient theogonic center of the Mayas.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000007_000005.wav|Four of them, Beta, Alpha, Delta, and Epsilon are traveling eastwardly at various speeds, while the fifth, Gamma, moves in a westerly direction.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000006_000007.wav|As far as is known, the motion of the seven stars are not shared by the smaller stars scattered about them, but on the theory of currents there should be such a community of motion, and further investigation may reveal it.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000003_000001.wav|To emphasize the importance of these effects it is only necessary to recall that the constellations register the oldest traditions of our race.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000007_000007.wav|It should be said, however, that no little uncertainty attaches to the estimates of the rate of motion of stars which are not going very rapidly, and different observers often vary considerably in their results.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000003_000009.wav|Thus the imagination of ancient America sought in the constellations symbols of the unchanging gods.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000003_000005.wav|Here the temples all evidently refer to a cult based upon the constellations as symbols.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000009_000002.wav|The chief star of the group, Aldebaran, one of the finest of all stars both for its brilliance and its color, is the most affected by the easterly motion.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000004_000002.wav|The imagination of that wonderful race idealized the principal star groups so effectively that the figures and traditions thus attached to them have, for civilized mankind, displaced all others, just as Greek art in its highest forms stands without parallel and eclipses every rival.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000011_000003.wav|Our figures show its appearance in three successive phases: first, as it was fifty thousand years ago (viewed from the earth's present location); second, as it is in our day; and, third, as it will be an equal time in the future.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000007_000006.wav|The motion of Beta is more rapid than that of any of the others.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000002_000002.wav|To the passing glance, which is all that we can bestow upon these figures, they appear so immutable that they have been called into service to form the most lasting records of ancient thought and imagination that we possess.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000002_000000.wav|And yet this secular fluctuation of the constellation figures is not without keen interest for the meditative observer.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000003_000008.wav|And the same star figures, having the same significance, were familiar to the Peruvians, as shown by the temples at Cuzco.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000012_000002.wav|Only by showing the changes from some definite point of view can we arrive at a due comprehension of them.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000011_000002.wav|Yet even in its transfigurations it has been for hundreds of centuries, and will continue to be for hundreds of centuries to come, a most striking object in the sky.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000011_000001.wav|This most attractive asterism, which has never ceased to fascinate the imagination of Christendom since it was first devoutly described by the early explorers of the South, is but a passing collocation of brilliant stars.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153728/2388_153728_000010_000000.wav|The great figure of Orion appears to be more lasting, not because its stars are physically connected, but because of their great distance, which renders their movements too deliberate to be exactly ascertained.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000008_000001.wav|It is true that the late Lord Kelvin raised difficulties in the way of the hypothesis of a direct magnetic action of the sun upon the earth, because it seemed to him that an inadmissible quantity of energy was demanded to account for such action.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000010_000002.wav|He would give the Aurora the same lineage with the Zodiacal Light.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000007_000003.wav|The coincidence was even closer.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000013_000000.wav|Yet another singular fact, almost mystical in its suggestions, may be mentioned.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000003_000002.wav|Toward the north the spectacle was appalling.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000006_000003.wav|Near noon on that day two intensely brilliant points suddenly broke out in a group of sun spots which were under observation by Mr r c Carrington at his observatory at Redhill, England.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000014_000000.wav|There are even other apparent confirmations of the hypothesis, but we need not go into them.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000013_000001.wav|It seems that the dance of the auroral lights occurs most frequently during the absence of the moon from the hemisphere in which they appear, and that they flee, in greater part, to the opposite hemisphere when the moon's revolution in an orbit considerably inclined to the earth's equator brings her into that where they have been performing.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000006_000002.wav|The first notable proof of the suspected connection was furnished with dramatic emphasis by an occurrence which happened on september first eighteen fifty nine.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000006_000006.wav|But neither of the startled observers could have anticipated what was to follow, and, indeed, it was an occurrence which has never been precisely duplicated.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000005_000003.wav|The lights, as I have already intimated, display astonishing colors, particularly shades of red and green, as they flit from place to place in the sky.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000011_000007.wav|These coincidences are certainly very striking, and they have a cumulative force.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000009_000004.wav|In short, the coincidences are so numerous and significant that one would have to throw the doctrine of probability to the winds in order to be able to reject the conclusion to which they so plainly lead.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000008_000003.wav|It was Lord Kelvin who, but a few years before the thing was actually accomplished, declared that aerial navigation was an impracticable dream, and demonstrated its impracticability by calculation.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000012_000001.wav|First, the number of aurorae, according to his explanation, ought to be greatest in the daytime, when the face of the earth on the sunward side is directly exposed to the atomic bombardment.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000010_000000.wav|But still the question recurs: How is the influence transmitted?|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000006_000004.wav|The points remained visible for not more than five minutes, during which interval they moved thirty five thousand miles across the solar disk.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000004_000000.wav|This exhibition occurred in Central New York, a latitude in which the Aurora Borealis is seldom seen with so much splendor.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000003_000007.wav|The spectacle continued with varying intensity for hours.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000003_000003.wav|A huge arch spanned an unnaturally dark segment resting on the horizon, and above this arch sprang up beams and streamers in a state of incessant agitation, sometimes shooting up to the zenith with a velocity that took one's breath, and sometimes suddenly falling into long ranks, and marching, marching, marching, like an endless phalanx of fiery specters, and moving, as I remember, always from east to west.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000000_000000.wav|Marvels of the Aurora|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000011_000008.wav|If we accept the theory, it would appear that we ought to congratulate ourselves that the inclination of the sun's equator is so slight, for as things stand the earth is never directly over the most active regions of the sun spots, and consequently never suffers from the maximum bombardment of charged particles of which the sun is capable.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000003_000004.wav|The absolute silence with which these mysterious evolutions were performed and the quavering reflections which were thrown upon the ground increased the awfulness of the exhibition.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000006_000005.wav|Mr r Hodgson happened to see the same phenomenon at his observatory at Highgate, and thus all possibility of deception was removed.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000005_000002.wav|The pages in the narratives of Arctic exploration that are devoted to descriptions of the wonderful effects of the Northern Lights are second to none that man has ever penned in their fascination.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2388/153733/2388_153733_000005_000006.wav|After the invention of magnetic telegraphy it was found that whenever a great Aurora occurred the telegraph lines were interrupted in their operation, and the ocean cables ceased to work.|2388
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000015_000002.wav|Have I ever been by any chance his enemy?|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000035_000000.wav|"I, Senor Don Quixote," answered the gentleman, "have one son, without whom, perhaps, I should count myself happier than I am, not because he is a bad son, but because he is not so good as I could wish.|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000033_000000.wav|"I am no saint," replied the gentleman, "but a great sinner; but you are, brother, for you must be a good fellow, as your simplicity shows."|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000007_000000.wav|"That's your affair," returned Samson, "but to suppose that I am going home until I have given Don Quixote a thrashing is absurd; and it is not any wish that he may recover his senses that will make me hunt him out now, but a wish for the sore pain I am in with my ribs won't let me entertain more charitable thoughts."|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000021_000000.wav|"In truth," replied he on the mare, "I would not pass you so hastily but for fear that horse might turn restive in the company of my mare."|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000031_000001.wav|What are these kisses for?"|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000029_000005.wav|I hear mass every day; I share my substance with the poor, making no display of good works, lest I let hypocrisy and vainglory, those enemies that subtly take possession of the most watchful heart, find an entrance into mine.|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000024_000004.wav|In short, to sum up all in a few words, or in a single one, I may tell you I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance;' for though self praise is degrading, I must perforce sound my own sometimes, that is to say, when there is no one at hand to do it for me.|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000019_000001.wav|The trappings of the mare were of the field and jineta fashion, and of mulberry colour and green.|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000036_000001.wav|Poetry, gentle sir, is, as I take it, like a tender young maiden of supreme beauty, to array, bedeck, and adorn whom is the task of several other maidens, who are all the rest of the sciences; and she must avail herself of the help of all, and all derive their lustre from her.|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000036_000011.wav|The reason is, that art does not surpass nature, but only brings it to perfection; and thus, nature combined with art, and art with nature, will produce a perfect poet.|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000015_000004.wav|Am I his rival, or does he profess arms, that he should envy the fame I have acquired in them?"|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000020_000000.wav|When the traveller came up with them he saluted them courteously, and spurring his mare was passing them without stopping, but Don Quixote called out to him, "Gallant sir, if so be your worship is going our road, and has no occasion for speed, it would be a pleasure to me if we were to join company."|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000029_000001.wav|To this, he in the green gaban replied "I, Sir Knight of the Rueful Countenance, am a gentleman by birth, native of the village where, please God, we are going to dine today; I am more than fairly well off, and my name is Don Diego de Miranda.|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000009_000000.wav|CHAPTER sixteen.|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000036_000003.wav|She is the product of an Alchemy of such virtue that he who is able to practise it, will turn her into pure gold of inestimable worth.|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000036_000002.wav|But this maiden will not bear to be handled, nor dragged through the streets, nor exposed either at the corners of the market places, or in the closets of palaces.|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000006_000000.wav|"In that case," said Tom Cecial, "I was a madman of my own accord when I volunteered to become your squire, and, of my own accord, I'll leave off being one and go home."|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000031_000000.wav|Seeing this the gentleman asked him, "What are you about, brother?|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000028_000000.wav|"I doubt it," said Don Quixote, "but never mind that just now; if our journey lasts long enough, I trust in God I shall show your worship that you do wrong in going with the stream of those who regard it as a matter of certainty that they are not true."|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1943/138033/1943_138033_000008_000000.wav|Thus discoursing, the pair proceeded until they reached a town where it was their good luck to find a bone setter, with whose help the unfortunate Samson was cured.|1943
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000135_000001.wav|Behold, I say unto you, that it is on the one hand even as it is on the other; and it shall be unto every man according to his work.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000037_000002.wav|Why do ye speak against all the prophecies of the holy prophets?|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000054_000001.wav|For behold, I say unto you, I know there is a God, and also that Christ shall come.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000106_000001.wav|O Lord, wilt thou give me strength, that I may bear with mine infirmities.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000039_000001.wav|Behold, I say they are in bondage.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000103_000001.wav|Behold, O God, they cry unto thee with their mouths, while they are puffed up, even to greatness, with the vain things of the world.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000106_000002.wav|For I am infirm, and such wickedness among this people doth pain my soul.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000112_000001.wav|And behold, as he clapped his hands upon them, they were filled with the Holy Spirit.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000036_000001.wav|And he came over into the land of Gideon, and began to preach unto them also; and here he did not have much success, for he was taken and bound and carried before the high priest, and also the chief judge over the land.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000114_000001.wav|Now this was according to the prayer of Alma; and this because he prayed in faith.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000138_000001.wav|Now this is not all; little children do have words given unto them many times which confound the wise and the learned.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000073_000001.wav|And Korihor did go about from house to house, begging food for his support.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000038_000001.wav|And Korihor said unto him: Because I do not teach the foolish traditions of your fathers, and because I do not teach this people to bind themselves down under the foolish ordinances and performances which are laid down by ancient priests, to usurp power and authority over them, to keep them in ignorance, that they may not lift up their heads, but be brought down according to thy words.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000006_000001.wav|I do not glory of myself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000068_000001.wav|And he said unto me: There is no God; yea, and he taught me that which I should say.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000108_000001.wav|Yea, wilt thou comfort their souls in Christ.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000037_000001.wav|Why do ye teach this people that there shall be no Christ, to interrupt their rejoicings?|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000026_000001.wav|Nevertheless, there was no law against a man's belief; therefore, a man was punished only for the crimes which he had done; therefore all men were on equal grounds.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000094_000001.wav|Amen.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000014_000002.wav|Amen.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000133_000001.wav|Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for if a man knoweth a thing he hath no cause to believe, for he knoweth it.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000014_000001.wav|And may God grant that it may be done according to my words, even as I have spoken.|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8228/232690/8228_232690_000028_000001.wav|Why do ye look for a Christ?|8228
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000026_000000.wav|"I put in two years there, too," Blount supported him.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000012_000001.wav|"When you get up north, watch how the peasants kill these little things like six legged iguanas that they raise for food."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000020_000003.wav|And most of the geek landowners are bitterly critical of the way we treat our labor at the mines; they claim we make them dissatisfied with the treatment they get at home."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000007_000000.wav|Mohammed Ferriera was still unconscious, the girl reported; he had a minor concussion, but the medics were not greatly disturbed, and expected him to be fully recovered in a few weeks.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000016_000002.wav|"Why, that's exactly how they'd pronounce it!"|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000048_000002.wav|They raided into Konkrook and Keegark territory, too.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000050_000001.wav|Just stay scientific about it and I'll be satisfied.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000046_000003.wav|That would give us about two to three hours.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000045_000000.wav|"I'm sure I could.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000040_000002.wav|Blount told him.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000030_000007.wav|In the north, metallurgy and food preparation have always been combined that way."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000021_000000.wav|"Of course, they're always glad to have the peasants taken off their hands during a slack agricultural season," Blount added, "and we train workers to handle contragravity power equipment.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000036_000003.wav|At Skilk, Rakkeed comes and goes openly; at Krink he has a price on his head."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000005_000002.wav|Miss Quinton, this is Lieutenant Governor Blount.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000024_000000.wav|"Well, I must admit, the Ullerans who work there are very well treated.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000009_000001.wav|"It's been played on us till it's lost its humor."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000041_000000.wav|"Ha!|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000002_000000.wav|If You Read It in Stanley Browne|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000008_000000.wav|"I suppose you think it's a joke, our being nearly murdered by the people we came to help," Paula began, a trifle defensively.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000048_000007.wav|We've taught them a lot-you'll see how much when you visit their town-but they aren't cultural mongrels.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000017_000003.wav|That's Rakkeed the Prophet's whole gospel."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000048_000003.wav|Well, we had to break that up.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000021_000001.wav|I won't deny that there's a lot of unnecessary brutality on the part of the native foremen and overseers, which we're trying, gradually, to eliminate. You'll have to remember, though, that we're dealing with a naturally brutal race."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000030_000005.wav|Then, when the winds fall, we move in for a couple of months. It isn't really mining, or even quarrying; we just scoop up ore from the surface, load it onto ore boats, and fly it down to Skilk and Krink and Grank, where it's smelted through the winter.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000013_000000.wav|"That isn't the reason, though," von Schlichten said.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000030_000001.wav|"You know what the seasons are like, at the poles of this planet.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000013_000001.wav|"As we use it, the word's pure onomatopoeia.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000044_000004.wav|That's four days from today."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000026_000002.wav|You know what the setup is, there, don't you? The Terran Federation Space Navy discovered and explored both Uller and Niflheim, which made both planets public domain.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000005_000003.wav|Eric, Miss Paula Quinton."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000046_000004.wav|If you think the Kragans are 'pathetic cultural mongrels,' what you'll see there will open your eyes.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000048_000008.wav|You'll like them."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000033_000000.wav|"That's a fair question," Blount replied, inverting a cocktail jug over his glass to extract the last few drops.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000044_000000.wav|Von Schlichten allowed himself to be smitten by an idea.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000030_000003.wav|There's the most intense sort of thermal erosion you can imagine-the ice cap melts in the spring to a sea, which boils away completely by the middle of the summer.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000035_000000.wav|Both jugs were empty.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000007_000001.wav|Von Schlichten invited her and her escort to join him and Blount.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000049_000001.wav|"But I warn you; if this is some scheme to indoctrinate me with the Uller Company's side of the case and blind me to unjust exploitation of the natives here, I don't propagandize very easily."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000022_000001.wav|"That's been SOP on every planet our Association's had any experience with."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000045_000001.wav|Why?"|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000005_000001.wav|"Feel better, now?...|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000006_000000.wav|"Delighted, Miss Quinton," Blount said.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000015_000001.wav|Even in the absence of any native, she used her handkerchief to mask the act.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000034_000001.wav|"They're the nomads who hire out to the northern merchants as caravan drivers, and also prey, or used to prey, on the caravans as brigands.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000006_000003.wav|No danger, I hope; we all like him."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000049_000000.wav|"Well, general, I'll take you up," she said.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000043_000000.wav|"Stanley Browne is one author you can depend on," O'Leary assured her. "If you read it in Stanley Browne, it's wrong.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000039_000000.wav|"Oh, but they're just a parasite race on the Terrans," dr Paula Quinton objected.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000006_000001.wav|"Carlos tells us he found you standing over poor Mohammed Ferriera, fighting like a commando.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000019_000001.wav|"I suspect that of being a principle you'd like me to bear in mind at the polar mines, when I see, let's say, some laborer being beaten by a couple of overseers with three foot lengths of three quarter inch steel cable."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000039_000001.wav|"You find races like that all through the explored galaxy-pathetic cultural mongrels."|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000003_000001.wav|Going to a bartending machine, von Schlichten dialed the cocktail they had decided upon and inserted his key to charge the drinks to his account, filling a four portion jug.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/167024/3224_167024_000018_000000.wav|"So you see," Eric Blount rammed home the moral, "this is just another case of nobody with any right to call anybody else's kettle black.... Cigarette?"|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000013_000001.wav|Thus they got to their ship, and with all speed put to sea, forcing the prisoners, before they let them go, to procure them as much flesh as was necessary for their voyage to Jamaica.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000004_000007.wav|The fight continued for an hour, till at last the Spaniards were put to flight.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000012_000006.wav|Nor did they spare the churches and most sacred things; all of which were pillaged and profaned, without any respect or veneration.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000007_000001.wav|In taverns and alehouses they have great credit; but at Jamaica they ought not to run very deep in debt, seeing the inhabitants there easily sell one another for debt.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000005_000000.wav|Having vanquished the enemy, they mounted on horses they found in the field, and continued their journey; Brasiliano having lost but two of his companions in this bloody fight, and had two wounded.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000005_000003.wav|Being thus masters of this fleet, they wanted only provisions, of which they found little aboard those vessels: but this defect was supplied by the horses, which they killed, and salted with salt, which by good fortune the wood cutters had brought with them, with which they supported themselves till they could get better.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000002_000001.wav|One day some of the mariners quarrelled with their captain to that degree, that they left the boat. Brasiliano following them, was chosen their leader, who having fitted out a small vessel, they made him captain.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000004_000008.wav|They stripped the dead, and took from them what was most for their use; such as were also not quite dead they dispatched with the ends of their muskets.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000006_000001.wav|Such of these pirates will spend two or three thousand pieces of eight in a night, not leaving themselves a good shirt to wear in the morning.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000004_000005.wav|Brasiliano, perceiving their imminent danger, encouraged his companions, telling them they were better soldiers, and ought rather to die under their arms fighting, as it became men of courage, than surrender to the Spaniards, who would take away their lives with the utmost torments.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000010_000001.wav|But neither was this of any service; for the pirates, finding few ships at sea, began to gather into companies, and to land on their dominions, ruining cities, towns, and villages; pillaging, burning, and carrying away as much as they could.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000012_000004.wav|He went first ashore, and instantly killed the sentinel: this done, they entered the city, and went directly to three or four houses of the chief citizens, where they knocked softly.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000005_000002.wav|Having given notice to their companions, they boarded them, and also took the little man of war, their convoy.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000006_000003.wav|He would do the like with barrels of beer or ale; and very often he would throw these liquors about the streets, and wet peoples' clothes without regarding whether he spoiled their apparel.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000009_000003.wav|Providing themselves with necessaries, they returned to Jamaica, from whence they set forth again to sea, committing greater robberies and cruelties than before; but especially abusing the poor Spaniards, who fell into their hands, with all sorts of cruelty.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000004_000000.wav|To the Spaniards he was always very barbarous and cruel, out of an inveterate hatred against that nation.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000012_000003.wav|Being arrived at the city the third night, the sentinel, who kept the post of the river, thought them to be fishermen that had been fishing in the lake: and most of the pirates understanding Spanish, he doubted not, as soon as he heard them speak. They had in their company an Indian who had run away from his master, who would have enslaved him unjustly.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000009_000002.wav|They got in this voyage, all together, five hundred pieces of eight; so that they tarried not long there after their arrival.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000011_000004.wav|But the bold attempts and actions of john Davis, born at Jamaica, ought not to be forgotten, being some of the most remarkable; especially his rare prudence and valour showed in the fore mentioned kingdom of Granada.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000014_000002.wav|He began his new command by directing his fleet to the north of Cuba, there to wait for the fleet from New Spain; but missing his design, they determined for Florida.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000013_000002.wav|But no sooner had they weighed anchor, when they saw a troop of about five hundred Spaniards, all well armed, at the sea side: against these they let fly several guns, wherewith they forced them to quit the sands, and retire, with no small regret to see these pirates carry away so much plate of their churches and houses, though distant at least forty leagues from the sea.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000004_000006.wav|The pirates were but thirty; yet, seeing their brave commander oppose the enemy with such courage, resolved to do the like: hereupon they faced the troop of Spaniards, and discharged their muskets on them so dextrously, that they killed one horseman almost with every shot.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000006_000002.wav|My own master would buy sometimes a pipe of wine, and, placing it in the street, would force those that passed by to drink with him, threatening also to pistol them if they would not.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000012_000005.wav|These, believing them to be friends, opened the doors; and the pirates, suddenly possessing themselves of the houses, stole all the money and plate they could find.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000007_000002.wav|This happened to my patron, to be sold for a debt of a tavern wherein he had spent the greatest part of his money.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000001_000000.wav|Nor less considerable are the actions of another pirate who now lives at Jamaica, who on several occasions has performed very surprising things. He was born at Groninghen in the United Provinces.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168199/3224_168199_000004_000001.wav|Of these he commanded several to be roasted alive on wooden spits, for not showing him hog yards where he might steal swine.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000012_000006.wav|One of his companions gave me an exact account of this tragedy, affirming that himself had escaped the same punishment with the greatest difficulty; he believed also that many of his comrades, who were taken in that encounter by those Indians, were, as their cruel captain, torn in pieces and burnt alive.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000006_000002.wav|They brought away some of the inhabitants as prisoners, with all they had, which was of no great importance, by reason of the poverty of the place, which exerciseth no other trade than working in the mines, where some of the inhabitants constantly attend, while none seek for gold, but only slaves.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000001_000000.wav|Our pirates therefore had many canoes of the Indians in the isle of Sambale, five leagues from the coasts of Jucatan.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000009_000008.wav|The nimble Frenchman escaped; but the Spaniard being not so swift, was taken and heard of no more.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000013_000001.wav|This fellow came from Jamaica, with intent to land at Gracias a Dios, and from thence to enter the river with his canoes, and take the city of Carthagena.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000012_000005.wav|Hither Lolonois came (brought by his evil conscience that cried for punishment), thinking to act his cruelties; but the Indians within a few days after his arrival took him prisoner, and tore him in pieces alive, throwing his body limb by limb into the fire, and his ashes into the air, that no trace or memory might remain of such an infamous, inhuman creature.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000009_000001.wav|From the bottom of the sea I saw them take up an anchor of six hundredweight, tying a cable to it with great dexterity, and pulling it from a rock.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000004_000000.wav|The ship being taken, they found not in her what they thought, being already almost unladen.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000010_000004.wav|They had good provision of Spanish wheat, bananas, racoven, and other things; with the wheat they made bread, and baked it in portable ovens, brought with them.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000001_000003.wav|In the lands that are surrounded by this sea, is found much Campechy wood, and other things that serve for dyeing, much esteemed in Europe, and would be more, if we had the skill of the Indians, who make a dye or tincture that never fades.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000009_000002.wav|Their arms are made of wood, without any iron point; but some instead thereof use a crocodile's tooth.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000001_000002.wav|Through this sea no vessels can pass, unless very small, it being too shallow.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000001_000001.wav|Here is great quantity of amber, but especially when any storm arises from towards the east; whence the waves bring many things, and very different.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168204/3224_168204_000013_000004.wav|These, because they were now considerably strengthened, to effect with greater satisfaction their designs. Hereupon, as soon as they were arrived at Gracias a Dios, they all put themselves into canoes, and entered the river, being five hundred men, leaving only five or six persons in each ship to keep them.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000009_000004.wav|Having possessed themselves of the ship, the wind being contrary to return to Jamaica, they resolved to steer to Cape saint Anthony (which lies west of Cuba), there to repair and take in fresh water, of which they were then in great want.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000010_000002.wav|Two days after this misfortune, there arose a great storm, which separated the ships from one another.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000009_000000.wav|Another bold attempt like this, no less remarkable, I shall also give you.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000009_000003.wav|The Portuguese lost only ten men, and had four wounded; so that he had still remaining twenty fighting men, whereas the Spaniards had double the number.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000009_000001.wav|A certain pirate of Portugal, thence called Bartholomew Portugues, was cruising in a boat of thirty men and four small guns from Jamaica, upon the Cape de Corriente in Cuba, where he met a great ship from Maracaibo and Carthagena, bound for the Havannah, well provided with twenty great guns and seventy men, passengers and mariners; this ship he presently assaulted, which they on board as resolutely defended.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000005_000001.wav|The pirates knowing these seasons (being very diligent in their inquiries) always cruise between the places above mentioned; but in case they light on no considerable booty, they commonly undertake some more hazardous enterprises: one remarkable instance of which I shall here give you.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER five|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000003_000003.wav|First, therefore, they mention how much the captain is to have for his ship; next, the salary of the carpenter, or shipwright, who careened, mended, and rigged the vessel: this commonly amounts to one hundred or one hundred and fifty pieces of eight, according to the agreement.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000008_000002.wav|All of which would have made this a greater prize than he could desire, which he had certainly carried off, if his main mast had not been lost, as we said before.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000002_000001.wav|Being all come aboard, they consider where to get provisions, especially flesh, seeing they scarce eat anything else; and of this the most common sort is pork; the next food is tortoises, which they salt a little: sometimes they rob such or such hog yards, where the Spaniards often have a thousand head of swine together.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000003_000002.wav|No prey, no pay.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000003_000004.wav|Afterwards, for provisions and victualling, they draw out of the same common stock about two hundred pieces of eight; also a salary for the surgeon, and his chest of medicaments, which usually is rated at two hundred or two hundred and fifty pieces of eight.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000003_000006.wav|All which sums are taken out of the common stock of what is gotten by their piracy, and a very exact and equal dividend is made of the remainder.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000004_000003.wav|They refresh themselves at one island or another, but especially at those on the south of Cuba; here they careen their vessels, while some hunt, and others cruise in canoes for prizes.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3224/168198/3224_168198_000006_000002.wav|Every vessel has at least two negroes in it, who are very dextrous in diving to the depth of six fathoms, where they find good store of pearls.|3224
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000002_000000.wav|First, I do not find that in the English, or any other modern tongue, the boundaries are exactly fixed between virtues and talents, vices and defects, or that a precise definition can be given of the one as contradistinguished from the other.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000010_000000.wav|Most people, I believe, will naturally, without premeditation, assent to the definition of the elegant and judicious poet:|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000013_000001.wav|These vices (for we scruple not to call them such) bring misery unpitied, and contempt on every one addicted to them.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000015_000001.wav|In the same manner, says he, as want of cleanliness, decency, or discretion in a mistress are found to alienate our affections.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000007_000000.wav|It is hard to tell, whether you hurt a man's character most by calling him a knave or a coward, and whether a beastly glutton or drunkard be not as odious and contemptible, as a selfish, ungenerous miser.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000026_000007.wav|They justly considered that cowardice, meanness, levity, anxiety, impatience, folly, and many other qualities of the mind, might appear ridiculous and deformed, contemptible and odious, though independent of the will.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000009_000002.wav|But where this pleasure is severe and serious; or where its object is great, and makes a strong impression, or where it produces any degree of humility and awe; in all these cases, the passion, which arises from the pleasure, is more properly denominated esteem than love.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000002_000005.wav|It is fortunate, amidst all this seeming perplexity, that the question, being merely verbal, cannot possibly be of any importance.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000028_000002.wav|That we owe a duty to ourselves is confessed even in the most vulgar system of morals; and it must be of consequence to examine that duty, in order to see whether it bears any affinity to that which we owe to society.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000009_000001.wav|The qualities, which produce both, are such as communicate pleasures.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000023_000007.wav|Waking or rest he used indiscriminately, by night or by day.--These great Virtues were balanced by great Vices; inhuman cruelty; perfidy more than punic; no truth, no faith, no regard to oaths, promises, or religion.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000005_000002.wav|No time can efface the cruel ideas of a man's own foolish conduct, or of affronts, which cowardice or impudence has brought upon him.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000024_000002.wav|But these VIRTUES were infinitely overbalanced by his VICES; no faith, no religion, insatiable avarice, exorbitant ambition, and a more than barbarous cruelty.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000011_000000.wav|Virtue (for mere good nature is a fool) Is sense and spirit with humanity.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000009_000003.wav|Benevolence attends both; but is connected with love in a more eminent degree.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000022_000002.wav|Where he compares the great men of Greece and Rome, he fairly sets in opposition all their blemishes and accomplishments of whatever kind, and omits nothing considerable, which can either depress or exalt their characters.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000026_000008.wav|Nor could it be supposed, at all times, in every man's power to attain every kind of mental more than of exterior beauty.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000023_000006.wav|Cold and heat were indifferent to him: meat and drink he sought as supplies to the necessities of nature, not as gratifications of his voluptuous appetites.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000005_000003.wav|They still haunt his solitary hours, damp his most aspiring thoughts, and show him, even to himself, in the most contemptible and most odious colours imaginable.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000021_000000.wav|Epictetus has scarcely ever mentioned the sentiment of humanity and compassion, but in order to put his disciples on their guard against it. The virtue of the Stoics seems to consist chiefly in a firm temper and a sound understanding.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000024_000001.wav|In this pope, says he, there was a singular capacity and judgement: admirable prudence; a wonderful talent of persuasion; and in all momentous enterprizes a diligence and dexterity incredible.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000000_000001.wav|OF SOME VERBAL DISPUTES.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000028_000001.wav|The explication of one will easily lead us into a just conception of the others; and it is of greater consequence to attend to things than to verbal appellations.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000008_000004.wav|The one produces love, the other esteem: the one is amiable, the other awful: we should wish to meet the one character in a friend; the other we should be ambitious of in ourselves.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000013_000000.wav|What pretensions has a man to our generous assistance or good offices, who has dissipated his wealth in profuse expenses, idle vanities, chimerical projects, dissolute pleasures or extravagant gaming?|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000007_000002.wav|The figure which a man makes in life, the reception which he meets with in company, the esteem paid him by his acquaintance; all these advantages depend as much upon his good sense and judgement, as upon any other part of his character.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000002_000002.wav|Should we affirm that the qualities alone, which prompt us to act our part in society, are entitled to that honourable distinction; it must immediately occur that these are indeed the most valuable qualities, and are commonly denominated the SOCIAL virtues; but that this very epithet supposes that there are also virtues of another species.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000023_000005.wav|No labour could fatigue his body or subdue his mind.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000023_000004.wav|Great boldness in facing danger; great prudence in the midst of it.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000023_000003.wav|To none would Hasdrubal entrust more willingly the conduct of any dangerous enterprize; under none did the soldiers discover more courage and confidence.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000002_000006.wav|A moral, philosophical discourse needs not enter into all these caprices of language, which are so variable in different dialects, and in different ages of the same dialect.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000008_000000.wav|What is it then we can here dispute about?|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000006_000002.wav|These we display with care, if not with ostentation; and we commonly show more ambition of excelling in them, than even in the social virtues themselves, which are, in reality, of such superior excellence.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6620/283138/6620_283138_000027_000002.wav|Every one may employ TERMS in what sense he pleases: but this, in the mean time, must be allowed, that SENTIMENTS are every day experienced of blame and praise, which have objects beyond the dominion of the will or choice, and of which it behoves us, if not as moralists, as speculative philosophers at least, to give some satisfactory theory and explication.|6620
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000086_000000.wav|"Yes, a whole package of them.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000048_000001.wav|Sergeant Latham, see that both of those men are put on extra duty to night."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000043_000000.wav|"Golly!|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000117_000000.wav|"Yes."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000003_000001.wav|Here he found little trouble in finding means to cross the Tennessee River.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000035_000000.wav|"Give them to me," said the Lieutenant.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000064_000000.wav|"Do as you please," replied mr Osborne, coldly; "I have seen no such Confederate; but if I had, I should have concealed him if I could.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000074_000000.wav|"Better let the Lieutenant tell the story, for I know nothing of it," answered mr Osborne; "but he spoke of searching the house for a supposed concealed Confederate."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000068_000001.wav|No wonder Lieutenant Haines felt his heart beat faster when he looked upon her.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000103_000000.wav|"Yes, sir," answered the soldier, saluting, and handing the package to his commander.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000047_000000.wav|"A fight! a fight!" shouted the men, and crowded around to see the fun.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000098_000001.wav|I see nothing more we can accomplish here," answered the Lieutenant.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000084_000001.wav|"From those letters we learned that his name was Calhoun Pennington, that he was a lieutenant in the command of Captain john h Morgan, a gentleman who has given us considerable trouble, and may give us more, and that he was on his way back to Kentucky to recruit for Morgan's command."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000038_000000.wav|He had read but a few lines when he exclaimed, with a strong expletive, "Boys, I would give a month's pay if we had captured that fellow!"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000019_000000.wav|"Only one," muttered Calhoun, looking back, as a pistol ball whistled by his head; "I can settle him," and he reached for a revolver in his holster.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000086_000001.wav|They were from members of Morgan's command to their friends back in Kentucky.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000040_000007.wav|We let a rare prize slip through our fingers."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000092_000000.wav|"Why, Miss Osborne, what can you do with them?" asked Haines, in surprise.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000016_000000.wav|Near Mount Pleasant he met a Confederate officer with a party of recruits which he was taking south.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000065_000000.wav|Just then they met Sergeant Latham returning from posting the guard. "Sergeant, you may withdraw the guard," said the Lieutenant; "mr|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000133_000000.wav|"Yes; the girl worked it fine."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000068_000003.wav|If not, you are welcome."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000041_000001.wav|"If you had captured him it might have put one bar, if not two, on your shoulder strap."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000053_000000.wav|The subject was rather a painful one to the Lieutenant, for during his visit to the Osbornes the week before, when he tried to make himself agreeable to the daughter, the lady told him in very plain words what she thought of Yankees.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000020_000000.wav|"Surrender, you Rebel!" cried the officer, but quick as a flash, Calhoun snatched a small revolver which he carried in his belt, and fired.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000013_000000.wav|"I reckon he is right," sighed the Doctor; "but may the time never come when he will have to give it up."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000088_000000.wav|"Some of them were rich," laughed Haines; "they were written by loving swains to their girls.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000012_000003.wav|'Under no consideration,' says Morgan, 'should Beauregard allow himself to be cooped up in Corinth.' "|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000137_000000.wav|The Lieutenant sighed.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000114_000000.wav|mr Osborne flushed deeply, but before he could reply, his daughter sprang in front of him, and faced Lieutenant Haines with flashing eye.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000052_000000.wav|"Shut up, or I will have you reduced to the ranks," growled the Lieutenant.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000130_000001.wav|I shall remember it."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000130_000000.wav|"Thank you, Sergeant, for your watchfulness.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000127_000002.wav|I suspected something was wrong all the time."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000040_000001.wav|He was a Lieutenant Calhoun Pennington, and he was from the Rebel army at Corinth.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000062_000002.wav|Are you afraid of an attack?|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000023_000001.wav|Did you get him?" asked the Lieutenant.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000004_000001.wav|They were mostly country boys, rough, uncouth, and with little or no education.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000115_000002.wav|I strove to entertain you and keep you from searching the house, and I accomplished my purpose."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000063_000001.wav|We captured his horse, but he succeeded in escaping to the woods, after killing my horse.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000040_000004.wav|He played the deuce with us in Kentucky last winter: burned the railroad bridge over Bacon Creek, captured trains, tore up the railroad, and played smash generally.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000083_000001.wav|The place for true knights, at this time, is at Corinth."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000024_000001.wav|He got across that field as if Old Nick was after him.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000121_000000.wav|mr Osborne now spoke.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000050_000006.wav|It was thought he sheltered these wandering bands of Confederates who make it dangerous to step outside the camp.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000062_000003.wav|I know of no body of Confederates in the vicinity."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000024_000003.wav|I took a crack at him, but missed."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000063_000000.wav|"The truth is," replied Haines, "we ran into a lone Confederate about a mile from here.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000093_000003.wav|Oh! give them to me, Lieutenant Haines, and you will sleep the sweeter to night."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000034_000000.wav|"A fine rubber and a good woollen blanket," remarked the Sergeant.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000119_000001.wav|"I did not intend that Lieutenant Pennington should show himself.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000137_000002.wav|"Gods!|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000029_000001.wav|Wonder who that feller can be.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000115_000001.wav|I alone am to blame, and I told you nothing.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000070_000001.wav|"Now, you must stay and take dinner with us while your men rest."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000090_000000.wav|"Nothing."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000012_000000.wav|"He can if any one can.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000029_000005.wav|I thought you had him sure, Lieutenant."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000034_000002.wav|Bet your life, they are a part of the plunder from Shiloh.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000095_000000.wav|"Thank you!|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000078_000000.wav|"Only my poor horse; he was killed," answered Haines.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000082_000000.wav|"Yes, but to all appearances a most gallant one."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000091_000001.wav|Will you not give them to me?"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000010_000001.wav|"Already thousands of her sons are flocking to the Southern standard.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000007_000000.wav|"The whelps and robbers!" he exclaimed; "how I should like to get at them! But their time will come.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000041_000000.wav|"Can't be helped now," dryly remarked Sergeant Latham.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000099_000000.wav|The Sergeant saluted and turned to go, when the officer stopped him with, "Say, Sergeant, you can gather up all those letters we captured and send them up here with my horse."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000045_000002.wav|I tell you it was hot stuff.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000042_000000.wav|The Lieutenant scowled, but did not reply.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000070_000000.wav|"Thank you," she answered, with a smile.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000123_000002.wav|So you see, after all, I am out nothing."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000016_000002.wav|I have no fears but that you can capture it, even with your small force."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000033_000000.wav|Sergeant Latham took the roll, which was securely strapped behind Calhoun's saddle, and began to unroll it as carefully as if he suspected it might be loaded.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000002_000000.wav|At the time Calhoun started for Kentucky, General Halleck was concentrating his immense army at Pittsburg Landing, preparatory to an attack on Corinth.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000040_000006.wav|But he may have carried important dispatches on his person.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000121_000003.wav|As my guest, you are entitled to my protection, and I shall make what reparation is in my power." Then turning to the colored boy who had stood by with mouth and eyes wide open, he said, "Tom, go and saddle and bridle Starlight, and bring him around for this gentleman."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000064_000001.wav|But do not let this circumstance spoil our good nature, or our dinner."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000104_000000.wav|"Very well, you may go now."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000066_000000.wav|The Sergeant turned back to carry out the order, muttering, "Confederate! Confederate!|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000093_000000.wav|"I can at least keep them sacred.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000027_000002.wav|I would make him pay dearly for that horse."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000027_000000.wav|"My leg is sprained," he groaned; "but the worst of it is, Jupiter is dead.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000057_000001.wav|After you get the guard posted, we will search the house."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000102_000000.wav|The family had accompanied Lieutenant Haines to the porch.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000044_000000.wav|"Or took fire from their warmth," put in a boyish looking soldier.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000109_000002.wav|"Oh, how could you betray us!" and stood with clasped hands, and with face as pale as death.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000102_000002.wav|I will catch up with you in a few moments.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000040_000003.wav|Morgan-Morgan, I have heard of that fellow before.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000055_000001.wav|It was a beautiful place. The country had not yet been devastated by the cruel hand of war, and the landscape, rich with the growing crops, lay glowing under the bright April sky.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000056_000000.wav|From underneath a rock near the house gushed forth a spring, whose waters, clear as crystal, ran away in a rippling stream.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000045_000003.wav|'My dearest Polly!' it commenced, 'I----' "|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000010_000000.wav|"She will, she must," cried Calhoun.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000056_000001.wav|It was near this spring that Lieutenant Haines, for that was the officer's name, halted his troops.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000059_000001.wav|I trust that the telegraph wire has not been cut, or the railroad torn up again."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000068_000002.wav|When he met her the week before, she treated him with the utmost disdain; now she greeted him with a smile, and said, "I trust you have not come to carry papa away in captivity.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000037_000002.wav|We will see." He tore open one of the letters.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000076_000002.wav|"Your father has assured me he has neither seen nor concealed any Confederate officer, and his word is good with me. Make yourself easy.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000075_000000.wav|As mr Osborne said this, Miss Osborne gave a little gasp and turned pale, but quickly recovering herself, she turned a pair of inquiring eyes on the Lieutenant-eyes that emitted flames of angry light and seemed to look him through and through.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000021_000002.wav|A scattering volley was fired by the foremost of the pursuers, but it did no harm, and Calhoun was soon across the field.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000110_000002.wav|Lower that weapon!"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000017_000002.wav|He was discovered by a squad of Federal cavalry, which immediately gave chase. But he was mounted on a splendid horse, one that he had brought with him from Kentucky.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25766/4719_25766_000084_000000.wav|"From letters captured with his horse, I take it he was from Corinth," said Haines.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000051_000000.wav|"I believe I could.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000054_000004.wav|Good night, now, for it is getting late."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000028_000000.wav|"He said he must see you," continued the orderly, "and if necessary he would wait all night."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000067_000000.wav|Conway fairly turned purple with rage.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000065_000001.wav|"I have heard a cousin of mine speak of him."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000048_000003.wav|Let's see!|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000012_000001.wav|Corinth is nothing; the army is everything."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000048_000004.wav|How would you like to go back to Kentucky?"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000052_000001.wav|My present force is small-not much over four hundred.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000021_000000.wav|"Well, good bye, john, if you try it," said one of the officers, laughing.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000004_000001.wav|Although defeated they had not been conquered.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000058_000000.wav|"True, General," replied Calhoun, "but if Morgan can keep thousands of the enemy in the rear guarding their communications, the great armies of the North will be depleted by that number."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000070_000000.wav|With these words he turned on his heel and stalked away.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000008_000002.wav|I am in favor of holding Corinth to the last man."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000009_000000.wav|"What is your opinion, Morgan?" asked one of the officers, turning to the captain of whom we have spoken.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000079_000000.wav|Just as Calhoun was ready to start, Morgan gave him his secret instructions.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000013_000000.wav|"Then you believe, Captain, that Corinth could be lost, and our cause not greatly suffer?"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000026_000000.wav|"A perfect dare devil.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000059_000001.wav|I have recommended him for a colonelcy.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000005_000005.wav|With faces to the foe, they slowly fell back, contesting every inch of ground.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000033_000000.wav|"That is what I have come to see you about.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000005_000004.wav|No charge could pierce that line of heroes.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000075_000002.wav|To my mind, Pennington is no better than that sneak of a cousin of his, and Morgan will find it out some day."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000008_000001.wav|"It looks to me," said Breckinridge, with a sigh, "that if we are forced to give up Corinth, our cause in the West will be lost.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000037_000002.wav|Uncle Dick is not dead."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000055_000000.wav|Thus dismissed Calhoun went away with a light heart.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000052_000002.wav|I do not look for much help from the Confederate Government.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000014_000000.wav|"Certainly.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000022_000000.wav|"Why good bye, Colonel?"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000042_000000.wav|"Captured?" echoed Morgan, in surprise.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000050_000000.wav|"Yes, to recruit for my command.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000002_000000.wav|AFTER SHILOH.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000019_000000.wav|A murmur of surprise arose, and then Trabue asked: "Will Beauregard let you make the hazardous attempt?"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000044_000000.wav|"Then you escaped?" queried Morgan.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000039_000000.wav|"He was desperately wounded," answered Calhoun, "but he did not die, and he is now a prisoner in the hands of the Yankees.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000060_000003.wav|May God bless you, and crown your efforts with victory!"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000011_000000.wav|"What! would you give up Corinth without a struggle?" asked the officer, in surprise.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000080_000005.wav|If possible (and I think it is), I shall try to reach Kentucky.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000032_000001.wav|"Now that he has gone, what do you propose doing?"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000004_000004.wav|But they had fallen back unmolested, for the Federal army had been too severely punished to think of pursuing.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000030_000004.wav|Let's see! You were on the staff of the late lamented Governor Johnson, were you not?"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000030_000000.wav|Morgan gave him a swift glance, and then exclaimed: "Bless my heart!|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000051_000001.wav|I could at least try," answered Calhoun, his face aglow with the idea.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000080_000003.wav|Much depends on your success.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000080_000007.wav|If I could be joined by a thousand when I reach Kentucky, I believe I could sweep clear to the Ohio River.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000065_000000.wav|"I believe I have heard of Captain Conway," said Calhoun, with a smile.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000045_000001.wav|I was dressed in citizen's clothes.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000016_000000.wav|"No joke about it.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000046_000002.wav|But as I failed to get him, I believe you would make a splendid substitute.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000081_000000.wav|"All right," replied Calhoun, "I will try to meet you there at that time, with at least one or two good companies."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000004_000003.wav|This hope was almost realized, when it suddenly perished: twenty thousand fresh troops had arrived upon the field, and the Confederates were forced to retreat.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000076_000000.wav|"Better keep a still tongue in your head, Conway," dryly replied the officer, a Captain Matthews, to whom Conway was complaining.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000041_000001.wav|But that is not all.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000005_000001.wav|They had fought as only brave men can fight; they left one third of their number on the field, killed and wounded.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000047_000000.wav|"A thousand times, yes.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000038_000000.wav|"Is that so?|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000052_000007.wav|When can you start?"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000024_000000.wav|"Perhaps!" answered Morgan, dryly, as he arose to go.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000050_000001.wav|Do you think you could dodge the Yankees?"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000037_000001.wav|"Yes," he answered; "but why do you say the late Colonel Shackelford?|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000048_000000.wav|Morgan's eyes sparkled.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000080_000010.wav|I expect to be in Glasgow by the tenth of May at the latest."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000031_000000.wav|"Yes," replied Calhoun; and his voice trembled, and tears came into his eyes in spite of himself, as he thought of the death of his beloved chief.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000037_000000.wav|Calhoun's brow clouded.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000034_000002.wav|Of course you are going to accept?"|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000038_000001.wav|I am rejoiced to hear it.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000071_000001.wav|"He can never forget that trick your cousin played on him."|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4719/25765/4719_25765_000004_000002.wav|They had set forth from Corinth in the highest hopes, fully expecting to drive Grant's army into the Tennessee River.|4719
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000002_000001.wav|Her little chin has grown quite pointed and her eyes are actually frightening," was an early observation.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000044_000008.wav|All the world was mad was the older woman's thought, and she herself after all the years, had for this moment no sense of balance and felt as if all old reasons for things had been swept away.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000024_000010.wav|He had wished he had been his own flesh and blood.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000002_000002.wav|But girls who are going into galloping consumption cough and look hectic and are weaker day by day and she had no cough, nor was she hectic and, though it was known that dr Redcliff saw her frequently, she insisted that she was not ill and begged the Duchess to let her go on with her work.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000036_000000.wav|"Child," she said.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000044_000007.wav|Why not?|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000008_000001.wav|Something came to life in each pair of eyes and it was something disturbed and reluctant. The Duchess spoke first.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000034_000004.wav|Just-to Mersham Wood!"|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000045_000001.wav|"I will let you go."|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000039_000000.wav|"Stay here, my poor child and talk to me," the Duchess said.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000024_000005.wav|He would not be indignant, or annoyed or embarrassed.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000015_000000.wav|"Two weeks ago she gave me something to reflect on.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000022_000000.wav|"My poor child," she said.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000025_000001.wav|"What he will do will be different.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000031_000002.wav|She looked like a starved baby.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000037_000000.wav|Robin went to her-oh, poor little soul!--in utter obedience.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000031_000001.wav|But she had on her small hat and coat and what the Duchess seemed chiefly to see was the wide darkness of her eyes set in a face suddenly pinched, small and snow white.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000009_000000.wav|"She has had no companions," she said painfully.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000007_000000.wav|"no|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000020_000000.wav|On her part Robin scarcely understood anything which was happening because nothing seemed to matter.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000018_000007.wav|I have been thinking constantly ever since." There was a brief silence between them; then he proceeded.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000046_000001.wav|But then again she said to herself, "Oh why, after all, should she be asked questions?|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000009_000001.wav|"The War put an end to what I thought I might do for her.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000010_000001.wav|"The old leisurely habit of observing details no longer exists.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000022_000001.wav|"Whatsoever he tells you don't be frightened. Don't think you are without friends.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000041_000002.wav|mrs Bennett is there.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000024_000007.wav|Sometimes she had felt that this had even verged on a tenderness of which he was himself remotely, if at all, conscious.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000025_000002.wav|It might seem cold; it might be merely judicial-but it might be surprising."|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000034_000003.wav|I must!|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000024_000001.wav|What she thought of chiefly was the Head of the House of Coombe.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000005_000001.wav|She asked herself questions and with great care sat on foot a gradual and delicate cross examination of Robin herself.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000044_000005.wav|Such things had been known.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000015_000004.wav|She said to me one afternoon, 'I hope the Duchess is still pleased with her companion.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000018_000011.wav|It is one of the tragedies.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000018_000002.wav|I asked him if he had seen her since the dance and he owned that he had-and then was cross at himself for making the slip.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000006_000000.wav|"I almost feel as if your interest in her had lapsed," she said at last.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000044_000000.wav|Hapless young creatures in her plight must always be touching, but her touchingness was indescribable-almost unendurable to the ripe aged woman of the world who watched and heard her.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000019_000000.wav|The Duchess was seeing again the two who had come forth shining from the conservatory.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000039_000001.wav|"The time has come when you must talk to some one."|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000005_000002.wav|But she discovered no reason common or uncommon for the thing she recognised each time she looked at her.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000034_000001.wav|"I must go, please!|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000045_000000.wav|"If you will come back," she said.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000041_000000.wav|"It is not far.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000019_000001.wav|She continued to see them as Lord Coombe went on speaking, telling her what dr Redcliff had told him.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000005_000004.wav|She could not avoid seeing that he was preoccupied.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000015_000001.wav|Her feeling for her daughter is that of a pretty cat like woman for something enragingly younger than herself.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000016_000000.wav|After a few seconds-|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000027_000000.wav|"I wish to God I had known him better!|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000021_000000.wav|Before she went to dr Redcliff the Duchess took her hand and held it closely in both her own.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000018_000012.wav|Perhaps you and I together-"|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000040_000000.wav|"When I come back-I will try.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000010_000002.wav|As Redcliff said in speaking of her-and girls generally-all the gates are thrown wide open."|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000044_000003.wav|And it was so awfully plain that there was some tragic connection with the Wood and that her whole soul cried out to it.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71531/3703_71531_000041_000003.wav|She loves me."|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000014_000000.wav|"Doctor Benton says plain that he has never had such a beautiful case and one that promised so well," she wrote.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000020_000000.wav|"Thank you for knowing it," he answered.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000020_000001.wav|"I come here on a pilgrimage to a shrine where peace is.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000006_000004.wav|Secretly triumphant though she was, she never so far lost her head as to do anything which would bore her or cause her to appear at less than an alluring advantage.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000008_000003.wav|I own I like being adored myself-and of course one likes doing good.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000018_000000.wav|He noticed that she never spoke of sad and dark hours.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000015_000000.wav|Robin herself wrote to Coombe-letters whose tender hearted comprehension of what he was doing always held the desire to surround him with the soothing quiet he had so felt when he was with her.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000019_000000.wav|"I know," she said once, "that you do not want me to talk to you about the War."|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000014_000001.wav|"He says she's as strong as a young doe bounding about on the heather.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000024_000000.wav|"How kind his face looked," was Robin's thought as he hesitated a second and then went on:|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000012_000000.wav|"They have not been able to bring about the wholesale disaster Germany hoped for and when nothing serious happens there is a relieved feeling that the things are futile after all," said Coombe.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000006_000006.wav|She found herself strung to her highest pitch of excitement by the air raids, which in the midst of their terrors had the singular effect of exciting many people and filling them with an insane recklessness.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000004_000002.wav|She still looked extraordinarily youthful and if her face was at times rather marvelous in its white and red, and her lips daring in their pomegranate scarlet, the fine grain of her skin aided her effects and she was dazzlingly in the fashion.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000015_000001.wav|What he discovered was that she had been born of the elect,--the women who know what to say, what to let others say and what to beautifully leave unsaid.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000004_000003.wav|She had never worn such enchanting clothes and never had seemed to possess so many.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000007_000000.wav|When Lord Coombe definitely refused to allow her to fit up the roof of the slice of a house as a sort of luxurious Royal Box from which she and her friends might watch the spectacle, she found among her circle acquaintances who shared her thrills and had prepared places for themselves.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000011_000000.wav|"Are we growing callous, or are we losing our wits through living at such high temperature?" the Duchess asked.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000006_000001.wav|Her patriotic entertainment of soldiers who required her special order of support and recreation was fast and furious.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000013_000004.wav|But supported by the testimony of such realities as breakfasts, long untiring walks and unvarying blooming healthfulness, she thanked God hourly.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000020_000002.wav|Darreuch is my shrine."|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000004_000001.wav|She had never found life so exciting and excitement had become more vitally necessary to her existence as the years had passed.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000011_000004.wav|It is such an experience.'"|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000013_000002.wav|She opened certain windows every night and felt that she was living in the world of supernatural things.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000004_000000.wav|So to speak, Feather blew about from one place to another.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000022_000000.wav|"Yes, I think it is," his look at her was deep.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000005_000001.wav|"That's my gift. Helene says I have genius.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000013_000003.wav|Robin's eyes sometimes gave her a ghost of a shock when she came upon her sitting alone with her work in her idle hands.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000015_000002.wav|Her unconscious genius was quite exquisite.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000022_000001.wav|Suddenly but gently he laid his hand on her shoulder.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000005_000003.wav|I have a little slave woman who does that by the day.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000007_000001.wav|Sometimes she was even rather indecently exhilarated by her sense of high adventure.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000010_000004.wav|He and Feather together at times achieved the effect, between raids, of waiting impatiently for a performance and feeling themselves ill treated by the long delays between the acts.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000011_000001.wav|"There's a delirium in the air.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000011_000003.wav|People say exultantly, 'I had a perfectly splendid view of the last Zepp!' A mother whose daughter was paying her a visit said to her, 'I wish you could have seen the Zepps while you were here.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000018_000001.wav|He was convinced that she purposely avoided them and he was profoundly glad.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000002_000001.wav|It was of an order requiring a more serious atmosphere.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000005_000004.wav|She admires me and will do anything that I tell her.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000017_000000.wav|"It was too sad," she said.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000009_000002.wav|I believe the War and living among soldiers has had an effect on me and made me braver. The Zepps don't frighten me at all-at least they excite me so that they make me forget to be frightened.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000013_000000.wav|Dowie faithfully sent him her private bulletin.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty six|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000026_000000.wav|It was she who now put her hand on his arm.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000006_000003.wav|She was such a success that important personages smiled on her and asked her to appear under undreamed of auspices.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000003_000000.wav|"Since the Dowager took her up she's far too grand for the likes of us," she said.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000009_000003.wav|I don't know what they do to me exactly.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000010_000001.wav|He also objected to a certain raffishness which in an extremely mixed crowd of patriots rather too obviously "swept away silly old fads" and left the truly advanced to do as they liked.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000006_000007.wav|Those so excited somehow seemed to feel themselves immune. Feather chattered about "Zepps" as if bombs could only wreak their vengeance upon coast towns and the lower orders.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000023_000001.wav|Blot the accursed thing out of the Universe while-you are here.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000016_000002.wav|She had done much fine and dainty work which she showed him with unaffected sweetness.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000013_000001.wav|Her first fears of peril had died away, but her sense of mystification had increased and was more deeply touched with awe.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000008_000002.wav|And interesting heroic men coming and going in swarms and being so grateful for kindness and entertainment. One is really doing good all the time-and being adored for it.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000016_000004.wav|Once she told him the story of her first meeting with Donal-but she passed over the tragedy of their first parting.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000010_000000.wav|She saw Lord Coombe but infrequently at this time, the truth being that her exhilaration and her War Work fatigued him, apart from which his hours were filled.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000012_000001.wav|"When the results are tragic they must be hushed up as far as is possible to prevent panic."|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000005_000005.wav|Things are so delightfully scant and short now that you can cut two or three frocks out of one of your old petticoats-and mine were never very old."|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000014_000003.wav|He is a clever gentleman with some wonderful comforting new ideas about things, my lord.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000016_000003.wav|She told him stories of Dowie and Mademoiselle and how they had taught her to sew and embroider.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000011_000002.wav|Among those who are not shuddering in cellars there are some who seem possessed by a sort of light insanity, half defiance, half excited curiosity.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000023_000002.wav|For you there must be no war."|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000006_000000.wav|There was probably a modicum of truth in this-the fact remained that the garments which were more scant and shorter than those of any other feathery person were also more numerous and exquisite.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000009_000000.wav|"I used to be rather a coward, I suppose," she chattered gaily on another occasion.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000016_000000.wav|Now and then he made the night journey to Darreuch Castle and each time she met him with her frank childlike kiss he was more amazed and uplifted by her aspect.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000007_000002.wav|The fact was that the excitement of the seething world about her had overstrung her trivial being and turned her light head until it whirled too fast.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000008_000004.wav|I never was so happy in my life."|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/71550/3703_71550_000010_000003.wav|Feather herself had no need of him. An athletic and particularly well favoured young actor who shared her thrills of elation seemed to permeate the atmosphere about her.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000005_000006.wav|The personal property is also very considerable.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000000.wav|What a wild and fiery chaos was the mind of Ferdinand Armine when he read this paragraph.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000005_000003.wav|mr Temple is a widower, and has no son.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000004.wav|And did she, could she love another?|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000006.wav|The Henrietta Temple whose beautiful lock of hair was at this very moment on his heart!|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000000.wav|O Woman, Woman!|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000007.wav|And when she found that Ferdinand, her own Ferdinand, had indeed never deceived her, was worthy of her choice affection, and suffering even at this moment for her sweet sake, what were all the cold blooded ties in which she had since involved herself?|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000002_000002.wav|As for Ferdinand, the spring had gradually restored him to health, but not to his former frame of mind.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000001.wav|The wonders it revealed succeeded each other with such rapidity that for some time he was deprived of the power of reflection.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000007.wav|Ah, no! he would not, he could not believe it.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000005_000001.wav|His lordship is considered one of the most accomplished noblemen of the day, and was celebrated at Rome for his patronage of the arts. Lord Montfort will shortly be united to the beautiful Miss Temple, the only daughter of the Right Honourable Pelham Temple.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000005.wav|His Henrietta Temple, the Henrietta Temple whom he adored, and by whom he had been worshipped!|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000004_000001.wav|Caring little for politics, his eye wandered over, uninterested, its pugnacious leading articles and tedious parliamentary reports; and he was about to throw it down when a paragraph caught his notice which instantly engrossed all his attention.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000009.wav|Should he not claim his right?|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000012_000000.wav|It so happened that he had promised this day to dine at his cousin's; for Glastonbury, who was usually his companion, had accepted an invitation this day to dine with the noble widow of his old patron. Ferdinand, however, found himself quite incapable of entering into any society, and he hurried to his hotel to send a note of excuse to Brook street.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000003.wav|Did she not believe herself trifled with by him, outraged, deceived, deluded, deserted?|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000005.wav|Was there another to whom she had poured forth her heart as to him, and all that beautiful flow of fascinating and unrivalled emotion?|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000000.wav|But she was not yet married.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000011_000003.wav|There is nothing that depresses a man so much as the conviction of bad fortune.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000009_000003.wav|Whatever she might think, his conduct had been faultless to her. It was not for Henrietta to complain.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000004.wav|Could he not explain all?|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000004.wav|Henrietta Temple about to be immediately married to another!|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000009_000000.wav|Claim what?|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000009_000004.wav|She was not the victim, if one indeed there might chance to be.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000005_000002.wav|Miss Temple is esteemed one of the richest heiresses in England, as she will doubtless inherit the whole of the immense fortune to which her father so unexpectedly acceded.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000008.wav|She was his by an older and more ardent bond.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000003.wav|Henrietta Temple one of the greatest heiresses in the country!|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000002.wav|Henrietta Temple in England!|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000001.wav|They were, according to these lines, to be soon united.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000008.wav|Light and false Henrietta could never be.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000012_000001.wav|As he arrived, Glastonbury was just about to step into a hackney coach, so that Ferdinand had no opportunity of communicating his sorrows to his friend, even had he been inclined.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000011_000000.wav|Yet how he had loved this woman!|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000010_000000.wav|Poor Ferdinand Armine! it was the first time he had experienced the maddening pangs of jealousy.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000004_000000.wav|It was in this mood, exhausted by a visit to his lawyer, that he stepped into a military club and took up a newspaper.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000003_000000.wav|A sudden residence in a vast metropolis, after a life of rural seclusion, has without doubt a very peculiar effect upon the mind.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000002_000004.wav|The month of April, which witnessed the arrival of the Temples and Lord Montfort in England, welcomed also to London Miss Grandison and her guests.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000001.wav|Put not thy trust in woman!|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000002.wav|And yet, could he reproach her?|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000005_000008.wav|Lord Montfort accompanied mr Temple and his amiable daughter to this country.'|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000007_000006.wav|Was there another to whom she had pledged her pure and passionate soul?|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000006_000007.wav|The Henrietta Temple for whom he had forfeited fortune, family, power, almost life!|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000004_000002.wav|It was in the 'Morning Post' that he thus read:|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000008_000005.wav|Could he not prove that his heart had ever been true and fond?|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000002_000003.wav|He remained moody and indolent, incapable of exertion, and a prey to the darkest humours; circumstances, however, occurred which rendered some energy on his part absolutely necessary. His creditors grew importunate, and the arrangement of his affairs or departure from his native land was an alternative now inevitable.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000005_000004.wav|mr Temple was formerly our minister at several of the German Courts, where he was distinguished by his abilities and his hospitality to his travelling countrymen.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3703/73732/3703_73732_000002_000000.wav|MISS GRANDISON had resolved upon taking a house in London for the season, and had obtained a promise from her uncle and aunt to be her guests.|3703
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000005_000001.wav|A boy of fifteen sat on a high stool at an old oak desk, and watched the snow falling in the street.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000030_000000.wav|Although Walter spent considerable time in his father's office, he was still studying under a tutor with other boys, preparing for college.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000019_000003.wav|The invaders fired one round, then turned and fled before a fierce charge.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000031_000003.wav|Then Walter waited with the greatest interest to see what would happen.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000034_000000.wav|Often in good weather the boys of George's Square would go on long excursions into the country, frequently staying away from home for several days at a time.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000021_000005.wav|He fell stunned, and the blood poured from a cut in his head.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000033_000000.wav|In a thousand ways Walter showed his love of history and romance. Anything that was picturesque, whether it was a view or an old dirk, caught his attention at once.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000019_000001.wav|Slipping from door to door, from one point of vantage to the next, the boys made the whole distance of the enemy's land without sight of an enemy.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000046_000000.wav|In course of time Scott was called to the bar as a lawyer, and took his place with the dozens of young men who hung about the Parliament House in Edinburgh waiting for briefs of cases to be argued.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000004_000000.wav|The Boy of the Canongate: seventeen seventy one to eighteen thirty two|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000041_000000.wav|Riding northward on this visit the vale of Perth first burst on his view.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000018_000000.wav|On the day the storm ceased Walter left his high stool and ponderous book early and joined his friends in solid array in their square.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000048_000000.wav|"Why," said Scott, with twinkling eyes, "I don't change stories.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000033_000001.wav|For a short time he took lessons in oil painting from a German.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000021_000001.wav|Green Breeks was now far in the lead of his forces, so far in the lead that he might have been cut off had not the pursued been panic stricken.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000020_000000.wav|Back the way they came the boys retreated, and after them came the enemy pelting them without mercy and with good aim.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000016_000000.wav|Walter was minstrel and prophet and historian to the boys of the Canongate by the winter fire, as he was to be later to the whole nation of Englishmen.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000007_000001.wav|He closed the book with a bang.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000021_000002.wav|Over their own fortifications the boys fled and dropped behind them for safety.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000009_000001.wav|The lawyer looked up from his writing, and smiled at the figure on the high stool.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000024_000002.wav|Stories of sprites and goblins, of witches and magicians, were eagerly sought by him.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000026_000000.wav|Every Saturday in fair weather, and more frequently during the vacations, his father allowed him a holiday from the office.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000046_000001.wav|There were lots of debating clubs in the Scotch capital at that time, and Scott was a member of several.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000031_000000.wav|At one time there was a certain boy who always stood at the top of Walter's class whom young Scott could not supplant, try as he would. Finally Walter noticed that whenever the master asked that boy a question the latter always fumbled with his fingers at a certain button on the lower part of his waistcoat.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000050_000003.wav|He had not changed much as he grew up.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000015_000002.wav|They sat in a circle about him, listening eagerly to story after story, forgetting everything but the boy's words, and showing their fondness and admiration for the romancer in each glance.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000021_000003.wav|Their banner, a flag given them by a lady of the Square, waved defiantly in Green Breeks' face.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000011_000001.wav|Wrap yourself up warm, for the night is cold."|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000031_000001.wav|Walter Scott thereupon determined to cut off that particular button, and see what would happen.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000026_000002.wav|There they read the books together, Walter always a little ahead of his friend, and obliged to wait at the end of every two pages for him to catch up.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000008_000000.wav|"Father."|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000050_000001.wav|Even the narrow streets of Edinburgh and the old Canongate itself became historic ground under the Wizard's spell.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000050_000002.wav|The Wizard was Walter Scott, and now he found the whole world as eager to hear the stories and poems he had to tell about his country as his boy friends had been years before.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000044_000000.wav|He found a man who knew that rugged country well, and for seven successive years Walter Scott made a "raid," as he called it, into that country, following each stream to its source, and studying every ruined tower or castle from foundation stone to topmost battlement.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000009_000000.wav|"Yes, Walter, lad?"|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000017_000001.wav|Walter Scott and his brothers belonged to a clan that made George's Square their headquarters, and their nearest and dearest enemies were the boys of the Crosscauseway, a poorer section of the city that lay not very far distant.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000048_000001.wav|I only put a cocked hat on their heads, and stick a cane into their hands-to make them fit for going into company."|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000033_000002.wav|He soon found that he had not the eye nor the hand for the work, but it happened that the teacher's father had been a soldier in the army of Frederick the Great, and as soon as Walter found this out, he plied the man with questions.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000018_000002.wav|Still no enemy appeared, and, eager for a chance to try their aim, the boys of the Square boldly left their own haunts and proceeded down the Crosscauseway in search of the foe.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000013_000002.wav|The Scotch evening meal was simple, soon over, and then came the time to sit before the blazing logs on the great open hearth and tell stories.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000021_000000.wav|Young Scott and his friends ran back into their square, but the enemy were close upon their heels.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000023_000003.wav|Thereupon Walter presented the old woman with a pound of snuff, and as soon as Green Breeks was out of the hospital made him one of his friends.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000022_000002.wav|Shortly after Green Breeks was in the hospital, his head bandaged, but otherwise little the worse for his mishap.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000024_000000.wav|With the opening of spring Walter spent all his spare hours in his favorite pursuit, riding through the country on a search for old legends or curious tales of the neighborhood.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000013_000001.wav|Nobody who could help it was abroad, and Walter was glad when he reached the door of his father's house in George's Square and could find shelter from the cutting wind.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000026_000001.wav|Walter and a boy friend named john Irving used to take two or three books from the public library of Edinburgh, and go out into the neighboring country, to Salisbury Crags, Arthur's Seat, or to a height called Blackford Hill, from which there was a splendid view of the Lowland country.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000049_000000.wav|Fifteen years passed and all England was reading eagerly the wonderful historical poems and romances written by a man who called himself the "Wizard of the North."|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000024_000003.wav|Many an old woman was led to tell the lame boy with the eager eyes the tales she had heard as a schoolgirl, and was well repaid by the boy's rapt attention.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000022_000001.wav|He hurried over to the fallen Green Breeks, and the boys of both armies melted silently away.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000020_000001.wav|In the van of the pursuit ran a tall, fair haired boy, who wore the bright green breeches of a tailor's clerk, who was famous for his prowess in these schoolboy battles, and who, because of his clothes, had been given the picturesque nickname of "Green Breeks."|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000010_000000.wav|"I'd best be going home; there's no more light here to see by."|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000012_000001.wav|He was a sturdy, well built lad, with tousled yellow hair, frank eyes with a twinkle in them, and a mouth that was large and betokened humor.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000035_000000.wav|His father was not at all pleased with his long absence, and asked how he had managed with so little money.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8771/294523/8771_294523_000032_000002.wav|Walter came next, and, being able to answer the question, took the other boy's place, chuckling to himself. He did not hold it long.|8771
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000008_000007.wav|No one will send us away empty handed; every one will give us something-a bronze tripod, a couple of mules, or a gold cup."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000018_000005.wav|They drove out through the inner gateway and under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000004_000004.wav|Go home, therefore, and put everything in charge of the most respectable woman servant that you have, until it shall please heaven to send you a wife of your own.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000036_000003.wav|It contains two communities, and the whole country is divided between these two.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000034_000000.wav|Ulysses answered, "Then you must have been a very little fellow, Eumaeus, when you were taken so far away from your home and parents. Tell me, and tell me true, was the city in which your father and mother lived sacked and pillaged, or did some enemies carry you off when you were alone tending sheep or cattle, ship you off here, and sell you for whatever your master gave them?"|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000035_000003.wav|As regards your question, then, my tale is as follows:|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000044_000000.wav|Then Theoclymenus said, "And what, my dear young friend, is to become of me?|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000049_000000.wav|And Piraeus answered, "Telemachus, you may stay away as long as you please, but I will look after him for you, and he shall find no lack of hospitality."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000009_000000.wav|"Menelaus," replied Telemachus, "I want to go home at once, for when I came away I left my property without protection, and fear that while looking for my father I shall come to ruin myself, or find that something valuable has been stolen during my absence."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000007_000000.wav|As he spoke day began to break, and Menelaus, who had already risen, leaving Helen in bed, came towards them.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000022_000003.wav|Neleus seized his goods and held them for a whole year, during which he was a close prisoner in the house of king Phylacus, and in much distress of mind both on account of the daughter of Neleus and because he was haunted by a great sorrow that dread Erinys had laid upon him.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000018_000004.wav|When the child of morning, rosy fingered Dawn, appeared, they again yoked their horses and their places in the chariot.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000011_000000.wav|With these words he placed the double cup in the hands of Telemachus, while Megapenthes brought the beautiful mixing bowl and set it before him.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000050_000001.wav|But Telemachus bound on his sandals, and took a long and doughty spear with a head of sharpened bronze from the deck of the ship.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000008_000002.wav|Moderation is best in all things, and not letting a man go when he wants to do so is as bad as telling him to go if he would like to stay.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000016_000000.wav|Menelaus was thinking what would be the most proper answer for him to make, but Helen was too quick for him and said, "I will read this matter as heaven has put it in my heart, and as I doubt not that it will come to pass.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000030_000001.wav|Give me your advice therefore, and let me have a good guide to go with me and show me the way.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000031_000003.wav|They would never think of taking a man like you for a servant.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000010_000005.wav|I will now present you with the finest and most precious piece of plate in all my house.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000010_000001.wav|At this moment Eteoneus joined him, for he lived close by and had just got up; so Menelaus told him to light the fire and cook some meat, which he at once did.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000015_000001.wav|It came quite close up to them and flew away on their right hands in front of the horses.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000025_000002.wav|I am flying to escape death at their hands, and am thus doomed to be a wanderer on the face of the earth.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000010_000006.wav|It is a mixing bowl of pure silver, except the rim, which is inlaid with gold, and it is the work of Vulcan.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000041_000000.wav|"On this she went back to the house.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000038_000000.wav|"The man who had seduced her then said, 'Would you like to come along with us to see the house of your parents and your parents themselves? They are both alive and are said to be well off.'|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000006_000002.wav|So long as he lives a guest should never forget a host who has shown him kindness."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000015_000000.wav|As he was thus speaking a bird flew on his right hand-an eagle with a great white goose in its talons which it had carried off from the farm yard-and all the men and women were running after it and shouting.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000022_000008.wav|His sons were Alcmaeon and Amphilochus.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000040_000003.wav|I am nurse to the son of the good man of the house, a funny little fellow just able to run about.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000018_000000.wav|As he spoke he lashed his horses and they started off at full speed through the town towards the open country.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000011_000001.wav|Hard by stood lovely Helen with the robe ready in her hand.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000035_000000.wav|"Stranger," replied Eumaeus, "as regards your question: sit still, make yourself comfortable, drink your wine, and listen to me.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000008_000000.wav|And Menelaus answered, "Telemachus, if you insist on going I will not detain you.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000021_000001.wav|"Now, my men," said he, "get everything in order on board the ship, and let us set out home."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000018_000003.wav|There they passed the night and were treated hospitably.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000008_000001.wav|I do not like to see a host either too fond of his guest or too rude to him.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000024_000003.wav|Therefore I have taken this ship and got my crew together to see if I can hear any news of him, for he has been away a long time."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000004_000005.wav|Let me tell you also of another matter which you had better attend to.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000020_000002.wav|I know how obstinate he is, and am sure he will not let you go; he will come down here to fetch you, and he will not go back without you.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000026_000000.wav|"I will not refuse you," replied Telemachus, "if you wish to join us. Come, therefore, and in Ithaca we will treat you hospitably according to what we have."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000010_000000.wav|When Menelaus heard this he immediately told his wife and servants to prepare a sufficient dinner from what there might be in the house.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000032_000000.wav|Ulysses answered, "I hope you may be as dear to the gods as you are to me, for having saved me from going about and getting into trouble; there is nothing worse than being always on the tramp; still, when men have once got low down in the world they will go through a great deal on behalf of their miserable bellies.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000014_000001.wav|I wish I were as certain of finding Ulysses returned when I get back to Ithaca, that I might tell him of the very great kindness you have shown me and of the many beautiful presents I am taking with me."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000031_000002.wav|If you go near the suitors you will be undone to a certainty, for their pride and insolence reach the very heavens.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000013_000003.wav|A maid servant brought them water in a beautiful golden ewer, and poured it into a silver basin for them to wash their hands, and she drew a clean table beside them; an upper servant brought them bread and offered them many good things of what there was in the house.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000046_000000.wav|As he was speaking a bird flew by upon his right hand-a hawk, Apollo's messenger.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000024_000000.wav|Telemachus said, "I will answer you quite truly.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000004_000000.wav|"Telemachus, you should not remain so far away from home any longer, nor leave your property with such dangerous people in your house; they will eat up everything you have among them, and you will have been on a fool's errand.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000021_000000.wav|With this he drove his goodly steeds back to the city of the Pylians and soon reached his home, but Telemachus called the men together and gave his orders.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000041_000003.wav|In the fore part of the house she saw the tables set with the cups of guests who had been feasting with my father, as being in attendance on him; these were now all gone to a meeting of the public assembly, so she snatched up three cups and carried them off in the bosom of her dress, while I followed her, for I knew no better.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000007_000002.wav|"Menelaus," said he, "let me go back now to my own country, for I want to get home."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000033_000007.wav|Servants want sometimes to see their mistress and have a talk with her; they like to have something to eat and drink at the house, and something too to take back with them into the country.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000030_000002.wav|I will go the round of the city begging as I needs must, to see if any one will give me a drink and a piece of bread.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000040_000002.wav|I will bring as much gold as I can lay my hands on, and there is something else also that I can do towards paying my fare.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000022_000002.wav|He was descended from Melampus, who used to live in Pylos, the land of sheep; he was rich and owned a great house, but he was driven into exile by the great and powerful king Neleus.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000013_000000.wav|So saying she gave the robe over to him and he received it gladly.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000013_000004.wav|Eteoneus carved the meat and gave them each their portions, while Megapenthes poured out the wine.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000020_000003.wav|But he will be very angry."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000010_000007.wav|Phaedimus king of the Sidonians made me a present of it in the course of a visit that I paid him while I was on my return home. I should like to give it to you."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/121528/258_121528_000006_000001.wav|It will be morning soon; wait till Menelaus has brought his presents and put them in the chariot for us; and let him say good bye to us in the usual way.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000072_000000.wav|"So, as I predicted, that man died during the night?"|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000037_000002.wav|I looked at his intelligent head, furrowed with premature wrinkles that misfortune, perhaps misery, had etched long before.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000069_000000.wav|Finally the ship's rays appeared.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000069_000002.wav|By one o'clock we had returned.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000053_000001.wav|This coral was the equal of those fished up from the Mediterranean off the Barbary Coast or the shores of France and Italy.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000074_000000.wav|"And now he rests beside his companions in that coral cemetery?"|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000066_000000.wav|The grave was then covered over with the rubble dug from the seafloor, and it formed a low mound.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000062_000000.wav|I finally understood!|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000012_000000.wav|This inquiry was so unexpected that I stared at him a good while without replying.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000007_000001.wav|And, contrary to custom, it executed such a maneuver several times during that day of january nineteenth.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000037_000003.wav|I was hoping to detect the secret of his life in the last words that might escape from his lips!|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000043_000000.wav|"If they're agreeable."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000003_000001.wav|Was I free or still a prisoner? Perfectly free.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000031_000000.wav|"You may talk freely," the captain told me.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000057_000002.wav|Looking with greater care, I observed that four of them were carrying on their shoulders an object that was oblong in shape.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000039_000003.wav|Was it a prayer for the dead, murmured in that language I couldn't understand?|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000077_000000.wav|"There lies our peaceful cemetery, hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the waves!"|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000003_000000.wav|I then considered leaving my stateroom.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000056_000000.wav|What an indescribable sight!|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000055_000000.wav|Finally, after two hours of walking, we reached a depth of about three hundred meters, in other words, the lowermost limit at which coral can begin to form.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000023_000000.wav|Captain Nemo led me to the Nautilus's stern and invited me into a cabin located next to the sailors' quarters.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000042_000000.wav|"With my companions?" I asked.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000025_000001.wav|Not only was he sick, he was wounded. Swathed in blood soaked linen, his head was resting on a folded pillow. I undid the linen bandages, while the wounded man gazed with great staring eyes and let me proceed without making a single complaint.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000003_000003.wav|Hatches that had been closed the day before were now open.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000001_000000.wav|The Coral Realm|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000073_000000.wav|"Yes, Professor Aronnax," Captain Nemo replied.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000056_000001.wav|Oh, if only we could share our feelings! Why were we imprisoned behind these masks of metal and glass! Why were we forbidden to talk with each other!|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000009_000004.wav|His face looked exhausted; his reddened eyes hadn't been refreshed by sleep; his facial features expressed profound sadness, real chagrin.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000048_000000.wav|A gentle slope gravitated to an uneven bottom whose depth was about fifteen fathoms.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000022_000000.wav|I admit that my heart was pounding.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000071_000000.wav|Captain Nemo rejoined me.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000026_000001.wav|The cranium had been smashed open by some blunt instrument, leaving the naked brains exposed, and the cerebral matter had suffered deep abrasions.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000015_000000.wav|"Excellent, sir."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000064_000000.wav|Meanwhile the grave digging went slowly.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000026_000002.wav|Blood clots had formed in this dissolving mass, taking on the color of wine dregs. Both contusion and concussion of the brain had occurred.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000051_000000.wav|We turned on our Ruhmkorff devices and went along a coral shoal in the process of forming, which, given time, will someday close off this whole part of the Indian Ocean.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000062_000002.wav|Captain Nemo and his men had come to bury their companion in this communal resting place on the inaccessible ocean floor!|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000075_000001.wav|We dig the graves, then entrust the polyps with sealing away our dead for eternity!"|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000009_000000.wav|Near two o'clock I was busy organizing my notes in the lounge, when the captain opened the door and appeared.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000018_000000.wav|"Someone is sick?"|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000062_000001.wav|This clearing was a cemetery, this hole a grave, that oblong object the body of the man who must have died during the night!|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000068_000000.wav|Then the funeral party went back up the path to the Nautilus, returning beneath the arches of the forest, through the thickets, along the coral bushes, going steadily higher.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000002_000001.wav|Much to my surprise, I was in my stateroom.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000064_000003.wav|The hole grew longer, wider, and soon was deep enough to receive the body.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000037_000001.wav|He grew still more pale under the electric light that bathed his deathbed.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000039_000002.wav|That night I slept poorly, and between my fitful dreams, I thought I heard a distant moaning, like a funeral dirge.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000063_000002.wav|Never had ideas of such impact raced through my brain!|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000003_000004.wav|I arrived on the platform.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000063_000001.wav|My mind was reeling as never before!|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000007_000000.wav|After renewing its air, the Nautilus stayed at an average depth of fifteen meters, enabling it to return quickly to the surface of the waves.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000052_000000.wav|Our lights produced a thousand delightful effects while playing over these brightly colored boughs.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000059_000001.wav|We stared, and it dawned on me that I was about to witness a strange scene. Observing the seafloor, I saw that it swelled at certain points from low bulges that were encrusted with limestone deposits and arranged with a symmetry that betrayed the hand of man.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000057_000000.wav|Meanwhile Captain Nemo had called a halt.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000065_000000.wav|Then the pallbearers approached.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000053_000003.wav|Coral sells for as much as five hundred francs per kilogram, and in this locality the liquid strata hid enough to make the fortunes of a whole host of coral fishermen. This valuable substance often merges with other polyparies, forming compact, hopelessly tangled units known as "macciota," and I noted some wonderful pink samples of this coral.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000011_000000.wav|"Are you a physician, Professor Aronnax?"|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000049_000000.wav|In the zoophyte branch, class Alcyonaria, one finds the order Gorgonaria, which contains three groups: sea fans, isidian polyps, and coral polyps. It's in this last that precious coral belongs, an unusual substance that, at different times, has been classified in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000045_000000.wav|"Then kindly put on your diving suits."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000020_000000.wav|"I'm ready to go with you."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000078_000000.wav|"At least, captain, your dead can sleep serenely there, out of the reach of sharks!"|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000002_000000.wav|THE NEXT DAY I woke up with my head unusually clear.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000069_000001.wav|Their luminous trail guided us to the Nautilus.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000054_000001.wav|The light from our glass coils produced magical effects at times, lingering on the wrinkled roughness of some natural arch, or some overhang suspended like a chandelier, which our lamps flecked with fiery sparks.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000060_000000.wav|In the middle of the clearing, on a pedestal of roughly piled rocks, there stood a cross of coral, extending long arms you would have thought were made of petrified blood.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000004_000002.wav|Lost in a heavy sleep of which they had no memory, they were quite startled to be back in their cabin.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000007_000002.wav|The chief officer would then climb onto the platform, and his usual phrase would ring through the ship's interior.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000044_000000.wav|"We're yours to command, captain."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000014_000001.wav|I was in practice for several years before joining the museum."|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000040_000000.wav|The next morning I climbed on deck.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000063_000000.wav|No!|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000029_000001.wav|My chief officer was standing beside him. This man leaped forward to intercept the blow.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000070_000000.wav|After changing clothes, I climbed onto the platform, and in the grip of dreadfully obsessive thoughts, I sat next to the beacon.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000017_000000.wav|"Professor Aronnax," the captain said to me, "would you consent to give your medical attentions to one of my men?"|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000009_000002.wav|I resumed my work, hoping he might give me some explanation of the previous afternoon's events.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000004_000001.wav|I questioned them. They knew nothing.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000050_000001.wav|These polyps have a unique generating mechanism that reproduces them via the budding process, and they have an individual existence while also participating in a communal life.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000053_000002.wav|With its bright colors, it lived up to those poetic names of blood flower and blood foam that the industry confers on its finest exhibits.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000058_000001.wav|Past the boundaries of the clearing, the darkness deepened again, relieved only by little sparkles given off by the sharp crests of coral.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000016_000000.wav|My reply obviously pleased Captain Nemo.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000064_000002.wav|I heard the pick ringing on the limestone soil, its iron tip sometimes giving off sparks when it hit a stray piece of flint on the sea bottom.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000057_000001.wav|My companions and I stopped walking, and turning around, I saw the crewmen form a semicircle around their leader.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000053_000000.wav|Sheer chance had placed me in the presence of the most valuable specimens of this zoophyte.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000003_000002.wav|I opened my door, headed down the gangways, and climbed the central companionway.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000025_000000.wav|I bent over him.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000048_000002.wav|Here I saw no fine grained sand, no underwater prairies, not one open sea forest.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000028_000000.wav|"How did he get this wound?" I asked him.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000059_000000.wav|Ned Land and Conseil stood next to me.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000079_000000.wav|"Yes, sir," Captain Nemo replied solemnly, "of sharks and men!"|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000075_000000.wav|"Yes, forgotten by the world but not by us!|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000037_000000.wav|For a few moments more I observed the dying man, whose life was ebbing little by little.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000014_000000.wav|"That's right," I said, "I am a doctor, I used to be on call at the hospitals.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000027_000000.wav|I took the wounded man's pulse.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000046_000002.wav|I informed them of Captain Nemo's proposition. Conseil was eager to accept, and this time the Canadian proved perfectly amenable to going with us.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000041_000000.wav|"Professor," he said to me, "would it be convenient for you to make an underwater excursion today?"|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000067_000000.wav|When this was done, Captain Nemo and his men stood up; then they all approached the grave, sank again on bended knee, and extended their hands in a sign of final farewell. . . .|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000009_000001.wav|I bowed to him. He gave me an almost imperceptible bow in return, without saying a word to me.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000009_000005.wav|He walked up and down, sat and stood, picked up a book at random, discarded it immediately, consulted his instruments without taking his customary notes, and seemed unable to rest easy for an instant.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000016_000001.wav|But not knowing what he was driving at, I waited for further questions, ready to reply as circumstances dictated.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/258/130878/258_130878_000061_000000.wav|At a signal from Captain Nemo, one of his men stepped forward and, a few feet from this cross, detached a mattock from his belt and began to dig a hole.|258
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000122_000001.wav|"I wish you could have gone.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000002_000001.wav|But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000051_000000.wav|"No, indeed!" said mrs Dilber and the man together. "We should hope not."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000114_000000.wav|They were very quiet again.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000014_000000.wav|They scarcely seemed to enter the city; for the city rather seemed to spring up about them, and encompass them of its own act.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000015_000000.wav|The Spirit stopped beside one little knot of business men. Observing that the hand was pointed to them, Scrooge advanced to listen to their talk.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000086_000002.wav|I have not the power."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000140_000001.wav|Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000122_000005.wav|My little, little child!" cried Bob.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000081_000000.wav|Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000164_000001.wav|I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000105_000000.wav|The Ghost conducted him through several streets familiar to his feet; and as they went along, Scrooge looked here and there to find himself, but nowhere was he to be seen.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000041_000001.wav|The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people half naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000122_000003.wav|But you'll see it often.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000147_000002.wav|The furniture was not the same, and the figure in the chair was not himself. The Phantom pointed as before.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000022_000001.wav|"Left it to his company, perhaps.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000129_000000.wav|"Very well observed, my boy!" cried Bob.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000025_000000.wav|"I don't mind going if a lunch is provided," observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000131_000000.wav|"You would be surer of it, my dear," returned Bob, "if you saw and spoke to him.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000150_000000.wav|The Spirit stood among the graves, and pointed down to One.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000081_000002.wav|It is not that the hand is heavy and will fall down when released; it is not that the heart and pulse are still; but that the hand WAS open, generous, and true; the heart brave, warm, and tender; and the pulse a man's.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000105_000001.wav|They entered poor Bob Cratchit's house; the dwelling he had visited before; and found the mother and the children seated round the fire.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000006_000001.wav|"Is that so, Spirit?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000079_000000.wav|The room was very dark, too dark to be observed with any accuracy, though Scrooge glanced round it in obedience to a secret impulse, anxious to know what kind of room it was.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000129_000005.wav|It really seemed as if he had known our Tiny Tim, and felt with us."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000042_000001.wav|Upon the floor within, were piled up heaps of rusty keys, nails, chains, hinges, files, scales, weights, and refuse iron of all kinds.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000074_000002.wav|If calico an't good enough for such a purpose, it isn't good enough for anything.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000029_000002.wav|Scrooge listened again, thinking that the explanation might lie here.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000029_000000.wav|The Phantom glided on into a street.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000147_000000.wav|Scrooge hastened to the window of his office, and looked in.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000101_000000.wav|"To whom will our debt be transferred?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000108_000001.wav|He had not dreamed them.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000111_000001.wav|Ah, poor Tiny Tim!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000154_000000.wav|The Spirit was immovable as ever.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000149_000001.wav|Here, then; the wretched man whose name he had now to learn, lay underneath the ground.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000067_000000.wav|"You were born to make your fortune," said Joe, "and you'll certainly do it."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000052_000001.wav|"That's enough. Who's the worse for the loss of a few things like these? Not a dead man, I suppose."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000014_000001.wav|But there they were, in the heart of it; on 'Change, amongst the merchants; who hurried up and down, and chinked the money in their pockets, and conversed in groups, and looked at their watches, and trifled thoughtfully with their great gold seals; and so forth, as Scrooge had seen them often.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000127_000000.wav|"Why, that you were a good wife," replied Bob.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000112_000001.wav|"It makes them weak by candle light; and I wouldn't show weak eyes to your father when he comes home, for the world.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000010_000002.wav|Will you not speak to me?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000025_000001.wav|"But I must be fed, if I make one."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000110_000000.wav|"The colour hurts my eyes," she said.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000057_000002.wav|A seal or two, a pencil case, a pair of sleeve buttons, and a brooch of no great value, were all.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000119_000003.wav|Don't be grieved!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000082_000001.wav|He thought, if this man could be raised up now, what would be his foremost thoughts?|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000037_000001.wav|That was their meeting, their conversation, and their parting.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000086_000001.wav|But I have not the power, Spirit.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000058_000000.wav|"That's your account," said Joe, "and I wouldn't give another sixpence, if I was to be boiled for not doing it. Who's next?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000156_000000.wav|"Am I that man who lay upon the bed?" he cried, upon his knees.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000028_000000.wav|Speakers and listeners strolled away, and mixed with other groups.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000006_000000.wav|"You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us," Scrooge pursued.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000060_000002.wav|"That's your account.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000091_000001.wav|She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was careworn and depressed, though he was young.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000080_000003.wav|He thought of it, felt how easy it would be to do, and longed to do it; but had no more power to withdraw the veil than to dismiss the spectre at his side.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000066_000000.wav|"Yes I do," replied the woman.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000118_000001.wav|And there is your father at the door!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000081_000001.wav|But of the loved, revered, and honoured head, thou canst not turn one hair to thy dread purposes, or make one feature odious.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000116_000000.wav|"And so have I," cried peter.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000096_000000.wav|"no|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000092_000000.wav|He sat down to the dinner that had been hoarding for him by the fire; and when she asked him faintly what news (which was not until after a long silence), he appeared embarrassed how to answer.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000117_000001.wav|So had all.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000057_000001.wav|It was not extensive.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000060_000001.wav|It's a weakness of mine, and that's the way I ruin myself," said old Joe.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000008_000001.wav|The Spirit paused a moment, as observing his condition, and giving him time to recover.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000161_000000.wav|For the first time the hand appeared to shake.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000100_000000.wav|"What the half drunken woman whom I told you of last night, said to me, when I tried to see him and obtain a week's delay; and what I thought was a mere excuse to avoid me; turns out to have been quite true.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000066_000001.wav|"Why not?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000055_000000.wav|"It's the truest word that ever was spoke," said mrs Dilber.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000001_000000.wav|THE Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000097_000000.wav|"If he relents," she said, amazed, "there is!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000153_000002.wav|Say it is thus with what you show me!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000145_000000.wav|"The house is yonder," Scrooge exclaimed.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000048_000001.wav|What odds, mrs Dilber?" said the woman.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000028_000001.wav|Scrooge knew the men, and looked towards the Spirit for an explanation.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000128_000000.wav|"Everybody knows that!" said peter.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000102_000000.wav|"I don't know.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000011_000000.wav|It gave him no reply.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000056_000002.wav|Speak out plain.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000143_000001.wav|I see the house.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000072_000000.wav|"Don't you be afraid of that," returned the woman.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000039_000001.wav|It gave him little surprise, however; for he had been revolving in his mind a change of life, and thought and hoped he saw his new born resolutions carried out in this.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000045_000002.wav|Stop till I shut the door of the shop. Ah!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000012_000001.wav|"Lead on!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000158_000000.wav|"No, Spirit!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000036_000002.wav|Something else to think of.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000040_000000.wav|Quiet and dark, beside him stood the Phantom, with its outstretched hand.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000142_000001.wav|Indeed, the Spirit did not stay for anything, but went straight on, as to the end just now desired, until besought by Scrooge to tarry for a moment.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000146_000000.wav|The inexorable finger underwent no change.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000033_000000.wav|"Well!" said the first.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000026_000000.wav|Another laugh.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000080_000001.wav|Its steady hand was pointed to the head.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000136_000000.wav|"Never, father!" cried they all.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000069_000000.wav|"His blankets?" asked Joe.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000084_000002.wav|Let us go!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000123_000002.wav|If he could have helped it, he and his child would have been farther apart perhaps than they were.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000124_000001.wav|Poor Bob sat down in it, and when he had thought a little and composed himself, he kissed the little face.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000061_000000.wav|"And now undo my bundle, Joe," said the first woman.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000149_000000.wav|A churchyard.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000057_000000.wav|But the gallantry of her friends would not allow of this; and the man in faded black, mounting the breach first, produced his plunder.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000030_000000.wav|He knew these men, also, perfectly.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000084_000001.wav|In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson, trust me.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000162_000000.wav|"Good Spirit," he pursued, as down upon the ground he fell before it: "Your nature intercedes for me, and pities me.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000124_000002.wav|He was reconciled to what had happened, and went down again quite happy.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000063_000001.wav|"Bed curtains!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000163_000000.wav|The kind hand trembled.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000048_000002.wav|"Every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000001_000001.wav|When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000087_000000.wav|Again it seemed to look upon him.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000150_000001.wav|He advanced towards it trembling.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000103_000000.wav|Yes.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000032_000000.wav|"How are you?" returned the other.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000138_000000.wav|"No, never, father!" they all cried again.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000152_000000.wav|Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000108_000003.wav|Why did he not go on?|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000130_000000.wav|"I'm sure he's a good soul!" said mrs Cratchit.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000106_000001.wav|Very quiet.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000054_000000.wav|"If he wanted to keep 'em after he was dead, a wicked old screw," pursued the woman, "why wasn't he natural in his lifetime?|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000123_000001.wav|He couldn't help it.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000056_000001.wav|Open that bundle, old Joe, and let me know the value of it.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000012_000002.wav|The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000103_000002.wav|The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000036_000003.wav|Good morning!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000059_000002.wav|Her account was stated on the wall in the same manner.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000021_000000.wav|"What has he done with his money?" asked a red faced gentleman with a pendulous excrescence on the end of his nose, that shook like the gills of a turkey cock.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000135_000001.wav|But however and whenever we part from one another, I am sure we shall none of us forget poor Tiny Tim-shall we-or this first parting that there was among us?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000074_000004.wav|He can't look uglier than he did in that one."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000091_000002.wav|There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000122_000004.wav|I promised him that I would walk there on a Sunday.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000080_000000.wav|Scrooge glanced towards the Phantom.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000039_000000.wav|He looked about in that very place for his own image; but another man stood in his accustomed corner, and though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the Porch.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000017_000000.wav|"When did he die?" inquired another.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000149_000002.wav|It was a worthy place.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000089_000000.wav|The Phantom spread its dark robe before him for a moment, like a wing; and withdrawing it, revealed a room by daylight, where a mother and her children were.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000102_000001.wav|But before that time we shall be ready with the money; and even though we were not, it would be a bad fortune indeed to find so merciless a creditor in his successor.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000117_000000.wav|"And so have I," exclaimed another.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000036_000000.wav|"no|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000062_000000.wav|Joe went down on his knees for the greater convenience of opening it, and having unfastened a great many knots, dragged out a large and heavy roll of some dark stuff.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000143_000002.wav|Let me behold what I shall be, in days to come!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000157_000000.wav|The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000098_000000.wav|"He is past relenting," said her husband.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000106_000000.wav|Quiet.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000005_000000.wav|The Spirit answered not, but pointed onward with its hand.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000077_000002.wav|The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way, now.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000070_000001.wav|"He isn't likely to take cold without 'em, I dare say."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000083_000001.wav|A cat was tearing at the door, and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearth stone.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000155_000000.wav|Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000040_000002.wav|It made him shudder, and feel very cold.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000077_000001.wav|"I see, I see.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000132_000000.wav|"Only hear that, peter," said mrs Cratchit.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000129_000004.wav|Pray come to me.' Now, it wasn't," cried Bob, "for the sake of anything he might be able to do for us, so much as for his kind way, that this was quite delightful.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000049_000000.wav|"That's true, indeed!" said the laundress.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000009_000001.wav|It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud, there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000137_000000.wav|"And I know," said Bob, "I know, my dears, that when we recollect how patient and how mild he was; although he was a little, little child; we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000011_000001.wav|The hand was pointed straight before them.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000142_000000.wav|The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come conveyed him, as before-though at a different time, he thought: indeed, there seemed no order in these latter visions, save that they were in the Future-into the resorts of business men, but showed him not himself.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000097_000001.wav|Nothing is past hope, if such a miracle has happened."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000044_000000.wav|"Let the charwoman alone to be the first!" cried she who had entered first.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000131_000001.wav|I shouldn't be at all surprised- mark what I say!--if he got peter a better situation."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000141_000001.wav|I know it, but I know not how.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000030_000002.wav|He had made a point always of standing well in their esteem: in a business point of view, that is; strictly in a business point of view.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000043_000001.wav|But she had scarcely entered, when another woman, similarly laden, came in too; and she was closely followed by a man in faded black, who was no less startled by the sight of them, than they had been upon the recognition of each other.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000119_000000.wav|She hurried out to meet him; and little Bob in his comforter --he had need of it, poor fellow-came in.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000107_000000.wav|"'And He took a child, and set him in the midst of them.'"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000013_000000.wav|The Phantom moved away as it had come towards him. Scrooge followed in the shadow of its dress, which bore him up, he thought, and carried him along.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000074_000000.wav|"Putting it on him to be buried in, to be sure," replied the woman with a laugh.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000145_000001.wav|"Why do you point away?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000133_000000.wav|"And then," cried one of the girls, "peter will be keeping company with some one, and setting up for himself."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000074_000003.wav|It's quite as becoming to the body.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000038_000001.wav|Nor could he think of any one immediately connected with himself, to whom he could apply them.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000122_000006.wav|"My little child!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000151_000000.wav|"Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point," said Scrooge, "answer me one question.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000038_000003.wav|For he had an expectation that the conduct of his future self would give him the clue he missed, and would render the solution of these riddles easy.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000016_000001.wav|I only know he's dead."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000065_000000.wav|"You don't mean to say you took 'em down, rings and all, with him lying there?" said Joe.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000056_000005.wav|It's no sin.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000140_000000.wav|mrs Cratchit kissed him, his daughters kissed him, the two young Cratchits kissed him, and peter and himself shook hands.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000002_000000.wav|It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000143_000000.wav|"This court," said Scrooge, "through which we hurry now, is where my place of occupation is, and has been for a length of time.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000075_000000.wav|Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000149_000003.wav|Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000120_000000.wav|Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all the family.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000064_000000.wav|"Ah!" returned the woman, laughing and leaning forward on her crossed arms.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000060_000000.wav|"I always give too much to ladies.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000134_000000.wav|"Get along with you!" retorted peter, grinning.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000020_000000.wav|"God knows," said the first, with a yawn.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000050_000000.wav|"Why then, don't stand staring as if you was afraid, woman; who's the wiser?|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000159_000000.wav|The finger still was there.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000056_000006.wav|Open the bundle, Joe."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000164_000000.wav|"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000081_000003.wav|Strike, Shadow, strike! And see his good deeds springing from the wound, to sow the world with life immortal!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000046_000001.wav|The old man raked the fire together with an old stair rod, and having trimmed his smoky lamp (for it was night), with the stem of his pipe, put it in his mouth again.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000124_000000.wav|He left the room, and went up stairs into the room above, which was lighted cheerfully, and hung with Christmas. There was a chair set close beside the child, and there were signs of some one having been there, lately.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000037_000000.wav|Not another word.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000042_000000.wav|Far in this den of infamous resort, there was a low browed, beetling shop, below a pent house roof, where iron, old rags, bottles, bones, and greasy offal, were bought.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000144_000000.wav|The Spirit stopped; the hand was pointed elsewhere.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000153_000001.wav|"But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000112_000002.wav|It must be near his time."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000082_000000.wav|No voice pronounced these words in Scrooge's ears, and yet he heard them when he looked upon the bed.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000121_000000.wav|"Sunday!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000099_000000.wav|She was a mild and patient creature if her face spoke truth; but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so, with clasped hands.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000071_000000.wav|"I hope he didn't die of anything catching?|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000047_000000.wav|While he did this, the woman who had already spoken threw her bundle on the floor, and sat down in a flaunting manner on a stool; crossing her elbows on her knees, and looking with a bold defiance at the other two.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000045_000007.wav|Come into the parlour.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000004_000000.wav|"I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come?" said Scrooge.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000055_000001.wav|"It's a judgment on him."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000059_000000.wav|mrs Dilber was next.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000096_000001.wav|There is hope yet, Caroline."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000059_000001.wav|Sheets and towels, a little wearing apparel, two old-fashioned silver teaspoons, a pair of sugar tongs, and a few boots.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000034_000001.wav|"Cold, isn't it?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000076_000001.wav|"This is the end of it, you see!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000045_000008.wav|Come into the parlour."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000012_000003.wav|Lead on, Spirit!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000125_000002.wav|"On which," said Bob, "for he is the pleasantest spoken gentleman you ever heard, I told him.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000111_000000.wav|The colour?|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000023_000000.wav|This pleasantry was received with a general laugh.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000160_000002.wav|Why show me this, if I am past all hope!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000050_000001.wav|We're not going to pick holes in each other's coats, I suppose?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000010_000000.wav|"Ghost of the Future!" he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000072_000003.wav|It's the best he had, and a fine one too. They'd have wasted it, if it hadn't been for me."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000030_000001.wav|They were men of business: very wealthy, and of great importance.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000129_000002.wav|'Heartily sorry,' he said, 'for your good wife.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000116_000001.wav|"Often."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000123_000000.wav|He broke down all at once.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000074_000001.wav|"Somebody was fool enough to do it, but I took it off again.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000048_000000.wav|"What odds then!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000153_000000.wav|"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000148_000000.wav|He joined it once again, and wondering why and whither he had gone, accompanied it until they reached an iron gate. He paused to look round before entering.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000121_000001.wav|You went to day, then, Robert?" said his wife.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000003_000000.wav|He felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him, and that its mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000119_000001.wav|His tea was ready for him on the hob, and they all tried who should help him to it most.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000056_000000.wav|"I wish it was a little heavier judgment," replied the woman; "and it should have been, you may depend upon it, if I could have laid my hands on anything else.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000100_000001.wav|He was not only very ill, but dying, then."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000091_000000.wav|At length the long expected knock was heard.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000031_000000.wav|"How are you?" said one.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000109_000000.wav|The mother laid her work upon the table, and put her hand up to her face.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000043_000002.wav|After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000102_000002.wav|We may sleep to night with light hearts, Caroline!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000149_000004.wav|A worthy place!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000007_000000.wav|The upper portion of the garment was contracted for an instant in its folds, as if the Spirit had inclined its head. That was the only answer he received.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000027_000002.wav|Bye, bye!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000126_000000.wav|"Knew what, my dear?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000129_000001.wav|"I hope they do.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000147_000001.wav|It was an office still, but not his.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000125_000000.wav|They drew about the fire, and talked; the girls and mother working still.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000068_000001.wav|"Don't drop that oil upon the blankets, now."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000141_000000.wav|"Spectre," said Scrooge, "something informs me that our parting moment is at hand.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000158_000001.wav|Oh no, no!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000084_000000.wav|"Spirit!" he said, "this is a fearful place.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000053_000000.wav|"No, indeed," said mrs Dilber, laughing.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000082_000002.wav|Avarice, hard dealing, griping cares? They have brought him to a rich end, truly!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000075_000001.wav|As they sat grouped about their spoil, in the scanty light afforded by the old man's lamp, he viewed them with a detestation and disgust, which could hardly have been greater, though they had been obscene demons, marketing the corpse itself.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84447/1638_84447_000019_000000.wav|"Why, what was the matter with him?" asked a third, taking a vast quantity of snuff out of a very large snuff box. "I thought he'd never die."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000047_000001.wav|Nice girl!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000034_000000.wav|He dressed himself "all in his best," and at last got out into the streets.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000047_000002.wav|Very.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000024_000000.wav|"Walk ER!" exclaimed the boy.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000013_000000.wav|"What's to day, my fine fellow?" said Scrooge.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000026_000000.wav|The boy was off like a shot.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000059_000002.wav|No Bob.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000056_000000.wav|"It's i Your uncle Scrooge.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000059_000004.wav|No Bob.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000057_000004.wav|So did the plump sister when she came.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000025_000000.wav|"No, no," said Scrooge, "I am in earnest.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000031_000001.wav|"You must have a cab."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000009_000003.wav|Oh, glorious, glorious!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000012_000000.wav|"EH?" returned the boy, with all his might of wonder.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000044_000002.wav|Bless you!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000029_000004.wav|Whoop! How are you!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000046_000000.wav|He passed the door a dozen times, before he had the courage to go up and knock.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000042_000002.wav|Will you come and see me?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000048_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000059_000006.wav|Scrooge sat with his door wide open, that he might see him come into the Tank.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000026_000001.wav|He must have had a steady hand at a trigger who could have got a shot off half so fast.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000036_000000.wav|"My dear sir," said Scrooge, quickening his pace, and taking the old gentleman by both his hands.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000051_000001.wav|He knows me," said Scrooge, with his hand already on the dining room lock.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000031_000000.wav|"Why, it's impossible to carry that to Camden Town," said Scrooge.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000002_000001.wav|They are here-I am here-the shadows of the things that would have been, may be dispelled.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000016_000000.wav|"Hallo!" returned the boy.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000023_000001.wav|"Go and buy it."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000060_000000.wav|His hat was off, before he opened the door; his comforter too.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000038_000002.wav|Allow me to ask your pardon. And will you have the goodness"--here Scrooge whispered in his ear.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000063_000000.wav|"You are?" repeated Scrooge.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000059_000001.wav|The clock struck nine.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000008_000005.wav|I don't care.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000006_000002.wav|There's the window where I saw the wandering Spirits!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000034_000001.wav|The people were by this time pouring forth, as he had seen them with the Ghost of Christmas Present; and walking with his hands behind him, Scrooge regarded every one with a delighted smile.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000042_000001.wav|"Come and see me.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000035_000000.wav|He had not gone far, when coming on towards him he beheld the portly gentleman, who had walked into his counting house the day before, and said, "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000036_000004.wav|A merry Christmas to you, sir!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000066_000000.wav|Bob trembled, and got a little nearer to the ruler.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000034_000002.wav|He looked so irresistibly pleasant, in a word, that three or four good humoured fellows said, "Good morning, sir!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000017_000000.wav|"Do you know the Poulterer's, in the next street but one, at the corner?" Scrooge inquired.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000050_000000.wav|"He's in the dining room, sir, along with mistress.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000007_000000.wav|Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000053_000000.wav|"Fred!" said Scrooge.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000049_000000.wav|"Where is he, my love?" said Scrooge.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000015_000002.wav|The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000036_000001.wav|"How do you do?|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000046_000001.wav|But he made a dash, and did it:|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000008_000003.wav|I'm quite a baby.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000004_000000.wav|"I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocooen of himself with his stockings.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000042_000000.wav|"Don't say anything, please," retorted Scrooge.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000050_000001.wav|I'll show you up stairs, if you please."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000020_000000.wav|"What, the one as big as me?" returned the boy.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000057_000003.wav|So did Topper when he came.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000008_000002.wav|I don't know anything.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000000_000000.wav|"I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!" Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000039_000001.wav|"My dear mr Scrooge, are you serious?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000051_000002.wav|"I'll go in here, my dear."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000068_000004.wav|His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000028_000000.wav|The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one, but write it he did, somehow, and went down stairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the poulterer's man.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000058_000001.wav|Oh, he was early there.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000006_000000.wav|"There's the saucepan that the gruel was in!" cried Scrooge, starting off again, and going round the fireplace. "There's the door, by which the Ghost of Jacob Marley entered!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000010_000002.wav|Oh, glorious! Glorious!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000009_000000.wav|He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000064_000000.wav|"It's only once a year, sir," pleaded Bob, appearing from the Tank.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000002_000002.wav|They will be.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000005_000000.wav|He had frisked into the sitting room, and was now standing there: perfectly winded.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000063_000001.wav|"Yes.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000015_000001.wav|"I haven't missed it.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000057_000006.wav|Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won der ful happiness!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000067_000003.wav|Make up the fires, and buy another coal scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000030_000000.wav|It was a Turkey!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000028_000001.wav|As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000043_000000.wav|"I will!" cried the old gentleman.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000068_000000.wav|Scrooge was better than his word.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000039_000000.wav|"Lord bless me!" cried the gentleman, as if his breath were taken away.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000065_000000.wav|"Now, I'll tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge, "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000040_000000.wav|"If you please," said Scrooge.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000058_000002.wav|If he could only be there first, and catch Bob Cratchit coming late!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000010_000001.wav|No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold; cold, piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000035_000001.wav|It sent a pang across his heart to think how this old gentleman would look upon him when they met; but he knew what path lay straight before him, and he took it.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000037_000000.wav|"mr Scrooge?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000040_000001.wav|"Not a farthing less.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000025_000003.wav|Come back with him in less than five minutes and I'll give you half a crown!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000045_000002.wav|In the afternoon he turned his steps towards his nephew's house.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000025_000002.wav|Come back with the man, and I'll give you a shilling.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000011_000000.wav|"What's to day!" cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps had loitered in to look about him.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000009_000002.wav|Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000052_000000.wav|He turned it gently, and sidled his face in, round the door. They were looking at the table (which was spread out in great array); for these young housekeepers are always nervous on such points, and like to see that everything is right.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000040_000002.wav|A great many back payments are included in it, I assure you. Will you do me that favour?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000036_000002.wav|I hope you succeeded yesterday.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000068_000001.wav|He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000057_000005.wav|So did every one when they came.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000015_000004.wav|Of course they can.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000015_000000.wav|"It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000059_000005.wav|He was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000033_000001.wav|But if he had cut the end of his nose off, he would have put a piece of sticking plaister over it, and been quite satisfied.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000002_000000.wav|"They are not torn down," cried Scrooge, folding one of his bed curtains in his arms, "they are not torn down, rings and all.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000067_000000.wav|"A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000021_000002.wav|Yes, my buck!"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000027_000000.wav|"I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's!" whispered Scrooge, rubbing his hands, and splitting with a laugh.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000038_000000.wav|"Yes," said Scrooge.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000068_000002.wav|He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000059_000000.wav|And he did it; yes, he did!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000067_000001.wav|"A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you, for many a year!|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000066_000001.wav|He had a momentary idea of knocking Scrooge down with it, holding him, and calling to the people in the court for help and a strait waistcoat.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000023_000000.wav|"Is it?" said Scrooge.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000045_000001.wav|He had never dreamed that any walk-that anything-could give him so much happiness.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000014_000000.wav|"To day!" replied the boy.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000063_000002.wav|I think you are. Step this way, sir, if you please."|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000033_000000.wav|Shaving was not an easy task, for his hand continued to shake very much; and shaving requires attention, even when you don't dance while you are at it.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000060_000001.wav|He was on his stool in a jiffy; driving away with his pen, as if he were trying to overtake nine o'clock.|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1638/84448/1638_84448_000056_000001.wav|I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred?"|1638
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/142358/1061_142358_000006_000000.wav|NOTWITHSTANDING mr Craig's prophecy, the dark blue cloud dispersed itself without having produced the threatened consequences.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/142358/1061_142358_000012_000000.wav|But it was Adam's strength, not its correlative hardness, that influenced his meditations this morning.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000014_000000.wav|It was very early Christmas morning, and in the stillness of the dawn, with the soft snow falling on the housetops, a little child was born in the Bird household.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000020_000001.wav|She was a person of so great decision of character that she would have blushed at such a thing; she said that to let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling about without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000023_000000.wav|Meanwhile dear mrs Bird lay in her room, weak, but safe and happy with her sweet girl baby by her side and the heaven of motherhood opening before her.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000004_000000.wav|BY|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000028_000000.wav|mrs Bird thought, as the music floated in upon her gentle sleep, that she had slipped into heaven with her new baby, and that the angels were bidding them welcome.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000033_000000.wav|"What!" said mr Bird, coming in softly and closing the door behind him.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000020_000002.wav|She also said that if one could not make up one's mind in twenty four hours it was a sign that-but I will not repeat the rest, as it might prejudice you against the most charming woman in the world.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000024_000002.wav|Fuller and fuller grew the burst of melody as one glad strain fell upon another in joyful harmony:|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000016_000000.wav|They were consulting about it in the nursery.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000029_000001.wav|It looked like a rose dipped in milk, she thought, this pink and white blossom of girlhood, or like a pink cherub, with its halo of pale yellow hair, finer than floss silk.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000035_000000.wav|"I think it is a charming name, dear heart, and that it sounds just like you, and I hope that, being a girl, this baby has some chance of being as lovely as her mother," at which speech from the baby's papa, mrs Bird, though she was as weak and tired as she could be, blushed with happiness.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000029_000000.wav|She opened her eyes and drew the baby closer.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000032_000000.wav|"Why, my baby," whispered mrs Bird in soft surprise, "I had forgotten what day it was.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000023_000001.wav|Nurse was making gruel in the kitchen, and the room was dim and quiet.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000018_000000.wav|Hugh, the "hitherto baby," if that is a possible term, sat in one corner and said nothing, but felt, in some mysterious way, that his nose was out of joint; for there was a newer baby now, a possibility he had never taken into consideration; and the "first girl," too, a still higher development of treason, which made him actually green with jealousy.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000024_000001.wav|It was the boy choir singing Christmas anthems. Higher and higher rose the clear, fresh voices, full of hope and cheer, as children's voices always are.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000032_000001.wav|You are a little Christmas child, and we will name you 'Carol'--mother's little Christmas Carol!"|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/146197/1061_146197_000015_000000.wav|They had intended to name the baby Lucy, if it were a girl; but they hadn't expected her on Christmas morning, and a real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named-the whole family agreed in that.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000009_000002.wav|Keep any of the youngsters in?|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000019_000000.wav|"Well, Master, it was this way.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000005_000004.wav|She talked little as a rule; but, in the pungent country phrase she never spoke but she said something.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000015_000000.wav|"Neil-Neil Gordon."|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000011_000000.wav|"Well, you've missed Alexander Tracy.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000013_000005.wav|Mother, pass the biscuits to the Master."|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000009_000001.wav|"You're late this evening.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000011_000009.wav|It's effective.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000012_000000.wav|"Perhaps I met mr Tracy," said Eric.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000011_000006.wav|But he met his match in mr West.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000013_000004.wav|No, sir!|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000028_000005.wav|And they kept talking TO mrs Foster and AT each other.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000020_000014.wav|But folks hereabouts don't like him.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000026_000001.wav|They never go away anywheres, except to church-they never miss that-and nobody goes there.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000020_000007.wav|Anyhow, they kept the baby.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1061/152224/1061_152224_000020_000009.wav|He's always lived there.|1061
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000025_000002.wav|Now that the meeting had come to pass, he looked at Henry Dunbar with an earnest, scrutinizing gaze, as if he would fain have discovered the secret of the man's guilt or innocence in his countenance.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000039_000005.wav|I am a rich man, but I don't exactly know how rich I am, and I want to realize rather a large sum of money."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000110_000001.wav|"You can send the carriage back to the Clarendon by and by.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000109_000000.wav|"No; it is seldom locked till four o'clock; the clerks use it sometimes, when they go in and out."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000111_000000.wav|He hurried out of the parlour, and into a passage leading to the yard, followed by mr Balderby, who wondered at his senior partner's excitement.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000066_000002.wav|Lord Yarsfield-a very old customer-talks of buying an estate in Wales; he may come down upon us at any moment for a very stiff sum of money.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000036_000000.wav|Henry Dunbar did not return his partner's greeting.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000002_000002.wav|He had no servant with him, and his luggage consisted only of a portmanteau, a dressing case, and a despatch box; the same despatch box whose contents he had so carefully studied at the Winchester hotel, upon the night of the murder in the grove.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000023_000001.wav|The banker passed across the threshold, which he had not crossed for five and thirty years until to day.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000060_000000.wav|"How is this money invested?" asked Henry Dunbar, pointing to the page. His fingers trembled a little as he did so, and he dropped his hand suddenly upon the ledger.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000082_000000.wav|"She is a young lady, sir."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000100_000002.wav|I am an old man, and I have been thirty five years in India.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000108_000000.wav|"Is it locked?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000031_000000.wav|"You are very punctual, mr Dunbar," he said.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000002_000001.wav|He went straight to the Clarendon Hotel.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000047_000001.wav|My father kept two accounts here, I believe-a deposit and a drawing account?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000006_000001.wav|He only paused now and then to take pencil notes of its contents in a little memorandum book, which he carried in the breast pocket of his coat.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000063_000000.wav|mr Balderby winced as if some one had trodden upon one of his corns.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000101_000000.wav|There was something very straightforward, very simple, in all this.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000063_000001.wav|He was a banker heart and soul, and he did not at all relish the idea of any withdrawal of the bank's resources, however firm that establishment might stand.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000038_000000.wav|mr Dunbar waved his hand with a deprecatory air.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000018_000001.wav|Dark thoughts came back upon his mind, and the shadows deepened on his face as he gave one rapid glance round the familiar office.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000062_000000.wav|"Then you can realize the Exchequer bills?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000110_000000.wav|"Then I shall go out that way," said mr Dunbar, who was almost breathless in his haste.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000041_000002.wav|So far so good.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000061_000001.wav|Most of the remainder is floating in Exchequer bills."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000087_000000.wav|"What is her name?--who-who is she?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000064_000000.wav|"It's rather a large amount of capital to withdraw from the business," he said, rubbing his chin, thoughtfully.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000028_000000.wav|The banker's gaze never flinched during that encounter.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000048_000000.wav|"He did."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000028_000001.wav|It is taken as a strong proof of a man's innocence that he should look you full in the face with a steadfast gaze when you look at him with suspicion plainly visible in your eyes; but would he not be the poorest villain if he shirked that encounter of glances when he knows full surely that he is in that moment put to the test?|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000055_000000.wav|Clement Austin appeared five minutes afterwards, carrying two ponderous morocco bound volumes.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000111_000001.wav|The door in the yard was not locked.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000096_000000.wav|"I am."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000081_000001.wav|That's not very business like, is it, mr Austin?|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000007_000002.wav|On that first page was written, in Henry Dunbar's bold, legible hand-|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000016_000000.wav|The vehicle travelled very slowly, for the traffic was concentrated in this quarter by reason of the stoppage on Ludgate Hill, and mr Dunbar was able to contemplate at his leisure the black prison walls, and the men and women selling dogs'-collars under their dismal shadows.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000067_000000.wav|"Good; and if you can dispose of the railway bonds to advantage, you may do so."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000040_000000.wav|mr Balderby bowed, but his eyebrows went up a little, as if he found it impossible to control some slight evidence of his surprise.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000018_000000.wav|Never since the day of the discovery of the forged bills had that man entered the banking house.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000024_000000.wav|But as mr Dunbar went towards the familiar parlour at the back of the banking house, he stopped for a minute, and looked at the cashier.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000041_000005.wav|I am not a demonstrative man, and I have never made any great fuss about my love for my daughter; but I do love her, nevertheless."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000072_000000.wav|There was very little heartiness in the tone of this invitation; and mr Balderby perfectly understood that it was only a formula which mr Dunbar felt himself called upon to go through.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000004_000000.wav|There was a black fog upon this November day, and the atmosphere out of doors was cold and bleak.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000029_000001.wav|The cashier closed the parlour door and returned to his desk in the public office.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000094_000001.wav|"She has friends who love her well enough to shield her from that."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000012_000001.wav|The business had gone on without him very well during his absence, and it went on without him now, for his place in India had been assumed by a very clever man, who for twenty years had acted as cashier in the Calcutta house.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000081_000002.wav|Who is the woman?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000056_000000.wav|mr Balderby opened both ledgers, and placed them before his senior partner.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000050_000002.wav|He rarely, spent as much as that; sometimes he spent less than half.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000083_000000.wav|"A young lady?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000043_000002.wav|You understand?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000036_000002.wav|There was very little alteration in the appearance of the dismal city chamber. There was the same wire blind before the window, the same solitary tree, leafless, in the narrow courtyard without.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000039_000000.wav|"Nothing is farther from my thoughts than any such design," he said. "No, mr Balderby, I have only been a man of business because all chance of another career, which I infinitely preferred, was closed upon me five and thirty years ago.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000104_000000.wav|No sooner had the door of the parlour closed upon the cashier than Henry Dunbar turned abruptly to his junior partner.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000046_000000.wav|"I did, in concurrence with mr Lovell."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000039_000002.wav|For ten years prior to my father's death he took no active part in the business.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000009_000000.wav|This was the book the banker had been studying all that winter's day.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000101_000001.wav|For a time, at least, Clement Austin's mind wavered.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000057_000000.wav|The last figures in the page were these:|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000047_000000.wav|"Precisely; Lovell wrote me a letter to that effect.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000093_000006.wav|But if she is in distress----"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000099_000000.wav|Henry Dunbar saw the look, and it seemed as if he endeavoured to answer it.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000023_000000.wav|The cashier bowed and opened the door.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000036_000001.wav|He was looking round the room, and remembering the day upon which he had last seen it.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000001_000000.wav|WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BACK PARLOUR OF THE BANKING HOUSE.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000106_000000.wav|He pointed to the dark little yard outside the window as he spoke.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000003_000000.wav|The day after his arrival was Sunday, and all that day the banker occupied himself in reading a morocco bound manuscript volume, which he took from the despatch box.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000111_000002.wav|Henry Dunbar opened it, went out into the court, and closed the door behind him.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000078_000000.wav|"Ah, then, I suppose I was mistaken."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000056_000002.wav|His eyes ran eagerly down the long row of figures before him until they came to the sum total.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000045_000001.wav|I may go rather recklessly to work and make a large investment in this necklace; it will be something for Lady Jocelyn to bequeath to her children.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000075_000000.wav|He looked about him a little absently as he re-entered the room.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000061_000000.wav|"There's fifty thousand in India stock," mr Balderby answered, as indifferently as if fifty thousand pounds more or less was scarcely worth speaking of; "and there's five and twenty in railway debentures, Great Western.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000006_000000.wav|Until long after dark that evening, Henry Dunbar sat by the fire, smoking and drinking, and reading the manuscript volume.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000084_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000069_000001.wav|I have an offer of an estate north of the metropolis, which I think will realize cent per cent a few years hence: but that is an after consideration.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000110_000002.wav|I don't want to see that girl.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000093_000004.wav|If she is poor and wants money of me, I am ready and willing to assist her.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000012_000000.wav|It was by no means wonderful, then, that, after becoming possessor of the united fortunes of his father and his uncle, Henry Dunbar should keep aloof from a place that had always been obnoxious to him.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000036_000003.wav|The morocco covered arm chairs had been re-covered, perhaps, during that five and thirty years; but if so, the covering had grown shabby again.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000007_000000.wav|It was not till seven o'clock, when the liveried servant who waited upon him came to inform him that his dinner was served in an adjoining chamber, that mr Dunbar rose from his seat and put away the book in the despatch box.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000032_000000.wav|"Yes, I am generally punctual."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000037_000001.wav|"I have made arrangements to assure our being undisturbed so long as you may remain here.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000045_000000.wav|"All I want is a large sum of money at my command.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000039_000001.wav|I am quite content to be a sleeping partner in the house of Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000015_000001.wav|Great wooden barricades and mountains of uprooted paving stones, amidst which sturdy navigators disported themselves with spades and pickaxes, and wheelbarrows full of rubbish, blocked the way; so the brougham turned into Farringdon Street, and went up Snow Hill, and under the grim black walls of dreadful Newgate.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000069_000000.wav|"I think of reinvesting the money.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000019_000000.wav|He walked straight towards the private parlour in which that well remembered scene had occurred five and thirty years ago.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000041_000004.wav|But this is not quite enough, mr Balderby.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000044_000000.wav|"Oh, perfectly," answered mr Balderby; "I shall be most happy to be of any use to you in the matter."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000022_000002.wav|My name is Dunbar."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000069_000004.wav|You will hold yourself ready after Wednesday, we'll say, to cash some very heavy cheques on my account?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000093_000003.wav|This young person can have no possible motive for wishing to see me.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000051_000000.wav|"Perhaps you can let me see the ledgers containing those two accounts?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000007_000001.wav|He laid down the volume on the table while he replaced other papers in the box, and it fell open at the first page.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000066_000004.wav|The Exchequer bills shall be realized immediately."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000074_000000.wav|The banker stopped suddenly, and went back to the parlour.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000041_000003.wav|Neither Laura nor her husband will have any reason for dissatisfaction.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000080_000001.wav|Henry Dunbar turned round as the cashier was about to leave the parlour.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000066_000000.wav|"Oh, yes; the bank can afford it well enough.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000050_000001.wav|The income which mr Percival Dunbar set aside for his own use was seven thousand a year.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000097_000001.wav|If you are-as I suspect from your manner-something more than a friend: if you love her, and she returns your love, marry her, and she shall have a dowry that no gentleman's wife need be ashamed to bring to her husband."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000100_000000.wav|"You have no need to be surprised that I shrink from seeing Margaret Wilmot," he said.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000049_000000.wav|"And those two accounts have gone on since my return in the same manner as during his lifetime?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000014_000001.wav|He was very pale as he rode citywards, in the comfortable brougham, from the Clarendon; and his face had a stern, fixed look, like a man who has nerved himself to meet some crisis, which he knows is near at hand.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000022_000000.wav|"Yes.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000056_000001.wav|Henry Dunbar looked at the deposit account.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000094_000000.wav|"She is not in distress, mr Dunbar," interrupted Clement Austin.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000110_000003.wav|Good morning."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000100_000004.wav|I have not yet recovered from the shock of that horrible business at Winchester.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000079_000000.wav|He still lingered in the parlour, putting on his gloves very slowly, and looking out of the window into the dismal backyard, where there was a dingy little wooden door set deep in the stone wall.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000068_000000.wav|"You think of spending----"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000107_000000.wav|"Yes, there is a door, I believe."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000039_000004.wav|The business that brings me to London is an entirely personal matter.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000050_000000.wav|"Precisely.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000091_000000.wav|"The daughter of that unfortunate man, Joseph Wilmot, who was cruelly murdered at Winchester!" answered the cashier, very gravely.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000036_000004.wav|Even the Turkey carpet was in the very stage of dusky dinginess that had distinguished the carpet on which Henry Dunbar had stood five and thirty years before.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000073_000000.wav|Five minutes afterwards mr Dunbar rose to leave the room.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000103_000000.wav|Clement returned to the office, where he had left Margaret, in order to repeat to her mr Dunbar's message.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000037_000000.wav|"I received your letter announcing your journey to London, and your desire for a private interview, on Saturday afternoon," mr Balderby said, after a pause.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000071_000000.wav|"Then I think that is really all I have to say.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000100_000003.wav|My health is shattered, and I have a horror of all tragic scenes.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000017_000002.wav|But he drew a long breath, and held his head proudly erect as he pushed open the doors and went in.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000050_000003.wav|The balance of this income, and his double share in the profits of the business, went to the credit of his deposit account, and various sums have been withdrawn from time to time, and duly invested under his order."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000005_000000.wav|He had drawn his chair close to the fire, and on a table near his elbow were arranged the open despatch box, a tall crystal jug of Burgundy, with a goblet shaped glass, on a salver, and a case of cigars.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000021_000000.wav|"Do you wish to see mr Balderby, sir?" he asked.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000043_000001.wav|I want to give my daughter a diamond necklace as a wedding present, and I want it to be such as an Eastern prince or a Rothschild might offer to his only child.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000090_000000.wav|"Shut that door, sir!" he said, impatiently, to the cashier; "the draught from the passage is strong enough to cut a man in two.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000092_000000.wav|He looked Henry Dunbar full in the face as he spoke.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000097_000000.wav|"Prove your friendship, then, by teaching Margaret Wilmot that she has a friend and not an enemy in me.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000066_000001.wav|Our calls are sometimes heavy.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000065_000000.wav|"I suppose the bank can afford it!" mr Dunbar exclaimed, with a tone of surprise.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000093_000002.wav|I have suffered enough already on account of that hideous business at Winchester, and I shall most resolutely defend myself from any further persecution.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000022_000001.wav|I have an appointment with him at one o'clock.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000080_000000.wav|While the banker loitered near the window, Clement Austin came into the room, to show some document to the junior partner.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000077_000001.wav|"I don't remember seeing one in your hand."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000002_000000.wav|Henry Dunbar arrived in London a couple of hours after mr Vernon left the Abbey.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000070_000000.wav|"Certainly, mr Dunbar."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000042_000000.wav|mr Dunbar spoke very slowly here, and stopped once or twice to pass his handkerchief across his forehead, as he had done in the hotel at Winchester.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000053_000000.wav|mr Balderby touched the spring of a handbell upon his table.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000056_000003.wav|Then his chest heaved, and he drew a long breath, like a man who feels almost stifled by some internal oppression.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000101_000002.wav|Margaret was, perhaps, wrong, after all, and Henry Dunbar might be an innocent man.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000098_000001.wav|Clement Austin locked at him, astonished by the change in his manner.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000066_000003.wav|However, the capital is yours, mr Dunbar; and you've a right to dispose of it as you please.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000037_000002.wav|If you wish to make any investigation of the affairs of the house, I----"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000017_000000.wav|It may be that the banker's face grew a shade paler after that contemplation.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000020_000000.wav|This man was Clement Austin, the cashier.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000095_000000.wav|"Indeed; and you are one of those friends, I suppose, mr Austin?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000028_000002.wav|It is rather innocence whose eyelids drop when you peer too closely into its eyes, for innocence is appalled by the stern, accusing glances which it is unprepared to meet.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000019_000001.wav|But before he arrived at the door leading from the public offices to the back of the house, he was stopped by a gentlemanly looking man, who came forward from a desk in some shadowy region, and intercepted the stranger.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000034_000000.wav|"It may seem late in the day to bid you welcome to the bank, mr Dunbar," said the junior partner, "but I do so, nevertheless-most heartily!"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000073_000003.wav|Between the end of the passage and the outer doors of the bank, Henry Dunbar saw the figure of a woman sitting near one of the desks and talking to Clement Austin.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000004_000001.wav|But the room in which Henry Dunbar sat looked the very picture of comfort and elegance.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000086_000000.wav|The cashier hesitated for a moment before he replied, "She-wishes to see you, mr Dunbar," he said, after that brief pause.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000015_000000.wav|There was a stoppage upon Ludgate Hill.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000030_000000.wav|The junior partner was sitting at an office table near the fire writing, but he rose as the banker entered the room, and went forward to meet him.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000073_000002.wav|This passage was very dark; but the offices were well lighted by lofty plate glass windows.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000052_000000.wav|"Most certainly."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000069_000003.wav|I shall buy the diamonds myself, direct from the merchant importers.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000072_000001.wav|The junior partner murmured his acknowledgment of Henry Dunbar's politeness; and then the two men talked together for a few minutes on indifferent subjects.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278217/8410_278217_000098_000000.wav|There was no anger, no impatience in the banker's voice now, but a tone of deep feeling.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000002_000000.wav|At one o'clock on the appointed Thursday morning, mr Dunbar presented himself in the diamond merchant's office.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000050_000000.wav|"Am I to go with you, sir?" the man asked.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000007_000002.wav|To night he retired very early, dismissed the servant who attended upon him, and locked the door of the outer room, the only door communicating with the corridor of the hotel.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000066_000000.wav|"Lord Herriston, the great Anglo Indian statesman.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000021_000000.wav|From his new abode mr Vernon was able to keep a tolerably sharp look out upon the two great houses in his neighbourhood-Maudesley Abbey and Jocelyn's Rock.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000057_000002.wav|The carriage conveyed him to the Shorncliffe station.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000054_000003.wav|You can follow me in a day or two with some more things."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000046_000000.wav|He did not leave Maudesley Abbey until he had succeeded in the object of his visit, and he carried away in his pocket book cheques to the amount of two thousand five hundred pounds.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000047_000001.wav|He means a bolt; and the money I've had to day is the last I shall ever receive from that quarter."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000014_000001.wav|He wore the chamois leather belt buckled tightly round his waist next to his inner shirt, and was able to defy the swell mob, had those gentry been aware of the treasures which he carried about with him.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000035_000000.wav|"I thought you were in London?" he said.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000041_000000.wav|Henry Dunbar smiled to himself as his friend said this.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000048_000000.wav|Almost immediately after Major Vernon's departure, Henry Dunbar rang the bell for the servant who acted as his valet whenever he required the services of one, which was not often.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000006_000002.wav|When he had made these purchases, he hailed the first empty cab that passed him, and went back to his hotel.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000021_000002.wav|Nothing could have better pleased the new inhabitant of Woodbine Cottage, who was speedily on excellent terms with his housekeeper.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000044_000000.wav|"Your sentiments are liberality itself, my dear friend.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000019_000001.wav|"Good morning."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000020_000001.wav|The deed which transferred to him the possession of Woodbine Cottage was speedily executed, and he took up his abode there.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000062_000000.wav|"Are you going by the next train?|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000065_000001.wav|I can't see any one, Lovell.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000001_000000.wav|GOING AWAY.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000063_000000.wav|"Why so?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000020_000002.wav|His establishment was composed of the old housekeeper, who had waited on the deceased admiral, and a young man of all work, who was nephew to the housekeeper, and who had also been in the service of the late owner of the cottage.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000013_000002.wav|He gave a long sigh of relief as he threw the waste scraps of leather upon the top of the low fire, and watched them slowly smoulder away into black ashes.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000038_000000.wav|"Yes!|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000031_000001.wav|Cold meats, raised pies, and other comestibles were laid out upon the carved oak sideboard.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000009_000002.wav|He measured these round his waist, and then began to stitch them together, slowly and laboriously.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000030_000002.wav|You need'nt trouble yourself; I know my way."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000066_000003.wav|You'll see him, wont you?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000075_000003.wav|But the old man's sight was not as good as his legs were; he looked eagerly into the carriage windows, but he only saw a confusion of flickering lamplight, and strange faces, and newspapers unfurled in the hands of wakeful travellers, and the heads of sleepy passengers rolling and jolting against the padded sides of the carriage.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000066_000002.wav|He talked a great deal about you, when my father told him that you'd settled at Maudesley, and would have driven over to see you if he could have managed to spare the time, without losing his train.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000037_000000.wav|"Do you mean to say that you have bought property in this neighbourhood?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000064_000000.wav|"Because there's some one here who very much wishes to see you; quite an old friend of yours, he says.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000013_000000.wav|When he had dropped a few into the belt, he stitched the leather across and across, quilting in the stones.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000057_000005.wav|There were lamps here and there, but they only made separate splotches of light in the dusky atmosphere.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000006_000000.wav|He went in and selected a couple of chamois skins, very thick and strong.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000073_000000.wav|"Is this my train, Lovell?" he asked.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000027_000001.wav|Major Vernon was not going to church on this bright winter's morning.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000044_000004.wav|What's a thousand or so, more or less, to the senior partner in the house of d, d, and b?|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000034_000000.wav|The dear boy did not look particularly pleased as he lifted his eyes to his visitor's face.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000049_000000.wav|"I shall start for Paris to night, Jeffreys," he said to this man.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000075_000002.wav|He ran along the platform, looking into the carriages.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000017_000000.wav|"Tell your employer that I will retain two or three of these designs," mr Dunbar said, selecting the drawings as he spoke; "and if, upon consideration, I find that one of them will suit me, I will communicate with your establishment.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000016_000000.wav|But when the jeweller's agent came, two or three days afterwards, mr Dunbar could find no design that suited him; and the man returned to London without having received an order, and without having even seen the brilliants which the banker had bought.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000076_000001.wav|"I didn't succeed in getting a glimpse of my old friend Henry Dunbar."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000070_000002.wav|The train came into the station at this moment.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000009_000001.wav|He spread the chamois leather out upon the table, and cut the skins into two long strips, about a foot broad.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000033_000000.wav|"It's comfortable!" he exclaimed; "to say the least of it, it's very comfortable, dear boy!"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000007_000001.wav|He had fires in his bedroom and dressing room every night.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000025_000000.wav|"You're a clever fellow, dear friend," he muttered, as he lighted his cigar; "you're a stupendous fellow, dear boy; but your friend can see through less transparent blinds than this diamond business.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000012_000001.wav|He filled his hands with the bright gems, and let them run from one hand to the other, like streams of liquid light.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000049_000001.wav|"I want to see what the French jewellers can do before I trust Lady Jocelyn's necklace into the hands of English workmen.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000055_000000.wav|"Yes, sir."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000074_000001.wav|mr Dunbar is here; he goes by this train.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000066_000001.wav|He is a friend of my father's, and he has been very kind to me-indeed, he offered me an appointment, which I found it wisest to decline.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000026_000000.wav|This little conversation between the new tenant of Woodbine Cottage and his housekeeper occurred on the very evening on which Major Vernon took possession of his new abode.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000056_000000.wav|There was no such thing as bustle and confusion in a household organized like that of mr Dunbar.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000071_000002.wav|Make my best compliments to Herriston; tell him I have been very ill.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000054_000002.wav|No, I won't take you to Paris with me.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000007_000000.wav|He dined, drank the best part of a bottle of Burgundy, and then ordered a cup of strong tea to be taken to his dressing room.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000074_000002.wav|You'll have time to speak to him."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000065_000002.wav|I'm very ill, I saw a physician while I was in London; and he told me that my heart is diseased, and that if I wish to live I must avoid any agitation, any sudden emotion, as I would avoid a deadly poison.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000047_000000.wav|"I flatter myself I was just in the nick of time," the Major thought, as he walked back to Woodbine Cottage, "for as sure as my name's what it is, my friend means a bolt.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000013_000003.wav|Then he put the chamois leather belt under his pillow, and went to bed.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000057_000003.wav|He got out and went upon the platform.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000058_000000.wav|Henry Dunbar walked slowly up and down the platform.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000012_000002.wav|Then, very slowly and carefully, he began to drop the diamonds into the open end of the chamois leather belt.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000064_000001.wav|Who do you think it is?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000057_000001.wav|This belt had never quitted him since the night upon which he made it.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000061_000001.wav|You quite startled me."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000020_000000.wav|Major Vernon had returned to the Rose and Crown at Lisford.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000030_000001.wav|"You may bring up some fresh coffee, john; for I haven't made much of a breakfast myself; and if you'll tell the cook to devil the thigh of a turkey, with plenty of cayenne pepper and a squeeze of lemon, I shall be obliged.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000068_000000.wav|"Here, in the station-in the waiting room.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000074_000000.wav|"No, my Lord.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000076_000000.wav|"My eyes are not what they used to be," he said, with a good tempered laugh, when he went back to Arthur Lovell.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000067_000000.wav|"Where is he?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000017_000001.wav|If not, I shall take the diamonds to Paris, and get them made up there."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000006_000001.wav|At another shop he bought some large needles, half a dozen skeins of stout waxed thread, a pair of large scissors, a couple of strong steel buckles, and a tailor's thimble.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000075_000000.wav|The train was moving.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000062_000001.wav|I was so anxious to see you."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000043_000000.wav|The Major looked at him sharply.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000030_000000.wav|"So much the better," Major Vernon answered, coolly.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000009_000000.wav|But he was not going to write; he pushed aside the writing materials, and took his purchases of the afternoon from his pocket.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000059_000000.wav|"mr Dunbar," he said; "mr|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000040_000000.wav|"I do."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000002_000001.wav|Henry Dunbar was not alone.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000012_000000.wav|A thrill of rapture ran through the banker's veins as he plunged his fingers in amongst the glittering stones.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000075_000001.wav|Lord Herriston was an active old fellow.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000042_000000.wav|"You're welcome to do so," he said, "as far as I am concerned."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000059_000001.wav|Dunbar!"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000053_000000.wav|"There's an express from the north stops at Rugby at six o'clock, sir. You might meet that, if you left Shorncliffe by the four thirty five train."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000005_000001.wav|He did not go straight back to the Clarendon, but pierced his way across Smithfield, and into a busy smoky street, where he stopped by and by at a dingy looking currier's shop.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000038_000001.wav|I am leasehold proprietor of Woodbine Cottage, near Lisford and Shorncliffe."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000070_000000.wav|Henry Dunbar stopped suddenly, with his hand upon his side.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000027_000000.wav|But not towards the church.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000065_000000.wav|"I don't know, I can't guess-I've so many old friends.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000071_000001.wav|Good bye, Lovell.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000025_000002.wav|And you've my best wishes, dear boy; but-you must pay for them-you must pay for them, Henry Dunbar."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000057_000004.wav|Although it was not yet five o'clock, the wintry light was fading in the grey sky, and in the railway station it was already dark.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000072_000001.wav|Henry Dunbar got into the carriage.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000044_000007.wav|Make it two five, Prince of Maudesley!"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000072_000002.wav|At the moment of his doing so, an elderly gentleman came out of the waiting room.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000069_000000.wav|"Yes, I shall be very glad; I----"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000051_000000.wav|Henry Dunbar looked at his watch, and seemed to reflect upon this question some moments before he answered.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000027_000003.wav|He went in by the low iron gate, for there was a bridle path by this part of the park-that very bridle path by which Philip Jocelyn had ridden to Lisford so often in the autumn weather.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000061_000000.wav|"Ah! my dear Lovell, is that you?|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000071_000003.wav|Good bye."|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000011_000001.wav|Every one of these canvas bags was full of loose diamonds.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000018_000000.wav|The jeweller ventured to suggest the inferiority of Parisian workmanship as compared with that of a first rate English establishment; but mr Dunbar did not condescend to pay any attention to the young man's remonstrance.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000071_000000.wav|"I shan't be able to see Lord Herriston to night," mr Dunbar said, hurriedly; "I must go by this train, or I shall lose a day.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000027_000002.wav|He went the other way, tramping through the snow, towards the eastern gate of Maudesley Park.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000010_000001.wav|It was past twelve o'clock when he had stitched both sides and one end of the double chamois leather belt; the other end he left open.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000065_000003.wav|Who is it that wants to see me?"|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000060_000000.wav|The banker turned sharply round, and recognized Arthur Lovell.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8410/278220/8410_278220_000057_000000.wav|Round his waist he wore the chamois leather belt which he had made with his own hands at the Clarendon Hotel.|8410
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000000.wav|"I don't think he was out of his head for a minute, mrs Burden," Fuchs declared.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000009_000001.wav|"Why, mam, it was simple enough; he pulled the trigger with his big toe.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000006_000001.wav|"I'd like to think he never done it.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000030_000000.wav|Ambrosch, Jake said, showed more human feeling than he would have supposed him capable of; but he was chiefly concerned about getting a priest, and about his father's soul, which he believed was in a place of torment and would remain there until his family and the priest had prayed a great deal for him.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000004_000001.wav|I held my tongue, but I listened with all my ears.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000001_000005.wav|Perhaps the barn had burned; perhaps the cattle had frozen to death; perhaps a neighbor was lost in the storm.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000001_000002.wav|I heard excited voices in the kitchen-grandmother's was so shrill that I knew she must be almost beside herself.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000006.wav|He must have gone right down to the barn and done it then.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000006.wav|I got "Robinson Crusoe" and tried to read, but his life on the island seemed dull compared with ours.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000027_000001.wav|I thought of how far it was to Chicago, and then to Virginia, to Baltimore,--and then the great wintry ocean.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000023_000001.wav|Stop at the Widow Steavens's for dinner.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000015_000002.wav|Otto reads you too many of them detective stories."|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000021_000001.wav|On the gray gelding, our best horse, he would try to pick his way across the country with no roads to guide him.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000024_000005.wav|Several times the poor boy fell asleep where he sat, wakened with a start, and began to pray again.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000001.wav|"He done everything natural.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000005_000003.wav|One of 'em ripped around and got away from him-bolted clean out of the stable.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000010_000000.wav|"Maybe he did," said Jake grimly.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000008.wav|When we found him, everything was decent except,"--Fuchs wrinkled his brow and hesitated,--"except what he could n't nowise foresee.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000003_000004.wav|That is Ambrosch, asleep on the bench.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000003.wav|Going out through the tunnel, I gave the hens their corn, emptied the ice from their drinking pan, and filled it with water.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000005.wav|Then he put on a clean shirt and clean socks, and after he was dressed he kissed her and the little one and took his gun and said he was going out to hunt rabbits.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000024_000003.wav|He did not say a word all morning, but sat with his rosary in his hands, praying, now silently, now aloud.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000002_000005.wav|I obeyed reluctantly.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000000.wav|It had begun to grow dark when my household returned, and grandmother was so tired that she went at once to bed.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000025_000004.wav|They looked very Biblical as they set off, I thought.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000024_000000.wav|After Fuchs rode away, I was left with Ambrosch.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000027_000003.wav|Surely, his exhausted spirit, so tired of cold and crowding and the struggle with the ever falling snow, was resting now in this quiet house.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000025_000003.wav|Grandfather tucked his bushy white beard inside his overcoat.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000017_000002.wav|They was blown up there by gunshot, no question."|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000001_000003.wav|I looked forward to any new crisis with delight.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000025_000006.wav|I watched them go past the pond and over the hill by the drifted cornfield.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000003_000001.wav|Old mr Shimerda is dead, and his family are in great distress.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000028_000005.wav|I thought about the friends he had mourned to leave, the trombone player, the great forest full of game,--belonging, as Antonia said, to the "nobles,"--from which she and her mother used to steal wood on moonlight nights.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000031_000000.wav|"I don't believe it," I said stoutly.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000028_000002.wav|There, on the bench behind the stove, I thought and thought about mr Shimerda. Outside I could hear the wind singing over hundreds of miles of snow.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000003_000000.wav|Presently grandfather came in and spoke to me: "Jimmy, we will not have prayers this morning, because we have a great deal to do.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000024_000002.wav|He was deeply, even slavishly, devout.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000015_000000.wav|Grandmother broke in excitedly: "See here, Jake Marpole, don't you go trying to add murder to suicide.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000005.wav|They were stabled there now, with the dead man, because there was no other place to keep them.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000027_000000.wav|I knew it was homesickness that had killed mr Shimerda, and I wondered whether his released spirit would not eventually find its way back to his own country.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000025_000001.wav|Grandfather came from the barn on one of our big black horses, and Jake lifted grandmother up behind him.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000019_000001.wav|"The body can't be touched until we get the coroner here from Black Hawk, and that will be a matter of several days, this weather."|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000025_000002.wav|She wore her black hood and was bundled up in shawls.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000002_000007.wav|Her lips were tightly compressed and she kept whispering to herself: "Oh, dear Saviour!" "Lord, Thou knowest!"|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000031_000003.wav|I remembered the account of Dives in torment, and shuddered. But mr Shimerda had not been rich and selfish; he had only been so unhappy that he could not live any longer.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000003.wav|If any one did, something terrible would happen, apparently. The dead man was frozen through, "just as stiff as a dressed turkey you hang out to freeze," Jake said.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000003_000002.wav|Ambrosch came over here in the middle of the night, and Jake and Otto went back with him.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000009_000002.wav|He layed over on his side and put the end of the barrel in his mouth, then he drew up one foot and felt for the trigger.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000003.wav|He shaved after dinner, and washed hisself all over after the girls was done the dishes.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000024_000004.wav|He never looked away from his beads, nor lifted his hands except to cross himself.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000020_000001.wav|The oldest one was his darling, and was like a right hand to him.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000005_000004.wav|His hands is blistered where the rope run through.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000010.wav|He was always coveting distinction, poor Marek!|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000005.wav|The quiet was delightful, and the ticking clock was the most pleasant of companions.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000002_000003.wav|On the bench behind the stove lay a man, covered up with a blanket.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000002_000002.wav|Their clothes and boots were steaming, and they both looked exhausted.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000015_000001.wav|We're deep enough in trouble.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000030_000001.wav|"As I understand it," Jake concluded, "it will be a matter of years to pray his soul out of Purgatory, and right now he's in torment."|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000006_000000.wav|"Poor soul, poor soul!" grandmother groaned.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000020_000003.wav|He's left her alone in a hard world." She glanced distrustfully at Ambrosch, who was now eating his breakfast at the kitchen table.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000025_000000.wav|No wagon could be got to the Shimerdas' until a road was broken, and that would be a day's job.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000004_000000.wav|After Jake and Otto had swallowed their first cup of coffee, they began to talk excitedly, disregarding grandmother's warning glances.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000006.wav|A lighted lantern was kept hanging over mr Shimerda's head.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000009.wav|I believed he felt cold as much as any one else, but he liked to be thought insensible to it.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000028_000004.wav|I went over all that Antonia had ever told me about his life before he came to this country; how he used to play the fiddle at weddings and dances.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000001_000001.wav|Before I opened my eyes, I seemed to know that something had happened.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000004.wav|After the cat had had his milk, I could think of nothing else to do, and I sat down to get warm.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000008_000000.wav|"I don't see how he could do it!" grandmother kept saying.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000009.wav|His coat was hung on a peg, and his boots was under the bed.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000022_000000.wav|"Don't you worry about me, mrs Burden," he said cheerfully, as he put on a second pair of socks.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000020_000000.wav|"Well, I can take them some victuals, anyway, and say a word of comfort to them poor little girls.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000022_000001.wav|"I've got a good nose for directions, and I never did need much sleep.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000007_000011.wav|He turned back his shirt at the neck and rolled up his sleeves."|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000031_000002.wav|Nevertheless, after I went to bed, this idea of punishment and Purgatory came back on me crushingly.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000027_000002.wav|No, he would not at once set out upon that long journey.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000011_000000.wav|"Now what do you mean, Jake?" grandmother asked sharply.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000029_000004.wav|The horses and oxen would not go into the barn until he was frozen so hard that there was no longer any smell of blood.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000002.wav|I remembered that in the hurry and excitement of the morning nobody had thought of the chickens, and the eggs had not been gathered.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000000.wav|I felt a considerable extension of power and authority, and was anxious to acquit myself creditably.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147967/2004_147967_000026_000009.wav|If he could have lived with us, this terrible thing would never have happened.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000012_000000.wav|Both man and wife came quickly to her assistance.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000032_000002.wav|So she kept silent, while mrs Sturgis (for that was the name of her hostess) talked away, and put her tea things by, and moved about incessantly, in a manner that increased the dizziness in Mary's head. She felt as if she ought to take leave for the night and go.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000018_000007.wav|That I never thought of that, to be sure!" exclaimed she, as he produced a square bottle of smuggled spirits, labelled "Golden Wasser," from a corner cupboard in their little room.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000012_000002.wav|She threw it straight over Mary; but though it caused a great sob, the eyes still remained closed, and the face as pale as ashes.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000040_000000.wav|Sturgis saw it.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000012_000001.wav|They raised her up, still insensible, and he supported her on one knee, while his wife pattered away for some cold fresh water.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000031_000002.wav|For the spirits had thrown her into a burning heat, and rendered each impression received through her senses of the most painful distinctness and intensity, while her head ached in a terrible manner.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000047_000001.wav|I shall catch it down stairs, I know.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000037_000000.wav|"No one!" answered Mary.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000015_000001.wav|Poor thing! we must not ask aught about her, but that she needs help.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000029_000001.wav|I know he will; so keep up your heart.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000008_000000.wav|He led her to an old-fashioned house, almost as small as house could be, which had been built long ago, before all the other part of the street, and had a country town look about it in the middle of that bustling back street.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000044_000000.wav|"I cannot sleep, thank you.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000032_000001.wav|She used quite different expressions to those she intended.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000019_000002.wav|It's just like him to be so tender and thoughtful!"|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000024_000000.wav|"Be hanged to you and your thanks." And he shook himself, took his pipe, and went out without deigning another word; leaving his wife sorely puzzled as to the character and history of the stranger within her doors.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000029_000003.wav|He's sure to be back."|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000020_000000.wav|"Not a bit!" snarled he, as he was relieved by Mary's returning colour, and opened eyes, and wondering, sensible gaze; "not a bit! I never was such a fool afore."|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000018_000003.wav|he's burning it!|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000018_000006.wav|Well! he is a bright one, my old man!|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000046_000001.wav|Her looks won her suit.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000028_000003.wav|The captain would not let him come, but he says he'll come back in the pilot boat." She fell to sobbing at the thought of her waning hopes, and the old woman tried to comfort her, beginning with her accustomed,|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000022_000000.wav|"All's right now, young woman?" asked the boatman, anxiously.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000023_000001.wav|I'm sure, sir, I don't know rightly how to thank you," faltered Mary, softly forth.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000033_000000.wav|Presently the old man came back, crosser and gruffer than when he went away.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000034_000002.wav|I'd bet a penny it has changed sin' thou looked."|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000028_000002.wav|There was a man in it as might save a life at the trial to morrow.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000033_000004.wav|By and bye, he said (looking right into the fire, as if addressing it), "Wind's right against them!"|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000021_000000.wav|His wife helped Mary to rise, and placed her in a chair.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000010_000001.wav|The boatman took it very quietly, never deigning to give any explanation, but sitting down in his own particular chair, and chewing tobacco, while he looked at Mary with the most satisfied air imaginable, half triumphantly, as if she were the captive of his bow and spear, and half defyingly, as if daring her to escape.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000041_000003.wav|Tide will help 'em when it turns."|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000032_000000.wav|She disliked speaking, her power over her words seemed so utterly gone.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000047_000000.wav|"Well, I suppose I mun.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000048_000000.wav|And quietly, noiselessly, Mary watched the unchanging weather cock through the night.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000033_000003.wav|But she was mistaken.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000042_000003.wav|The sheets looked made out of sail cloth, but were fresh and clean in spite of their brownness.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000026_000001.wav|Perhaps" (sinking her voice a little) "thou'rt a bad one; I almost misdoubt thee, thou'rt so pretty.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000015_000000.wav|"Well a well!" (in a soothing tone, such as you use to irritated children), and as if half to herself, "I only thought you might, you know, as you brought her home.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000041_000000.wav|"Don't bother her with thy questions," said he to his wife.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000033_000002.wav|Mary attributed this to his finding her still there, and gathered up her strength for an effort to leave the house.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000004_000000.wav|And now, where was Mary?|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000041_000002.wav|I'll see after the wind, hang it, and the weather cock, too.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147173/2004_147173_000048_000001.wav|She sat on the little window seat, her hand holding back the curtain which shaded the room from the bright moonlight without; her head resting its weariness against the corner of the window frame; her eyes burning and stiff with the intensity of her gaze.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000008_000000.wav|The Black Hawk boys looked forward to marrying Black Hawk girls, and living in a brand new little house with best chairs that must not be sat upon, and hand painted china that must not be used.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000002_000000.wav|Those girls had grown up in the first bitter hard times, and had got little schooling themselves.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000001.wav|The American farmers in our county were quite as hard pressed as their neighbors from other countries.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000009_000003.wav|They mistook the mettle of their sons. The respect for respectability was stronger than any desire in Black Hawk youth.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000014_000001.wav|I used to glare at young Lovett from a distance and only wished I had some way of showing my contempt for him.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000010_000003.wav|If he went into the laundry to get his collars, there were the four Danish girls, smiling up from their ironing boards, with their white throats and their pink cheeks.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000011_000001.wav|Mary Dusak had been housekeeper for a bachelor rancher from Boston, and after several years in his service she was forced to retire from the world for a short time.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000011_000002.wav|Later she came back to town to take the place of her friend, Mary Svoboda, who was similarly embarrassed.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000003_000000.wav|That was before the day of high-school athletics.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000007.wav|Determined to help in the struggle to clear the homestead from debt, they had no alternative but to go into service.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000012_000002.wav|He took all the dances Lena Lingard would give him, and even grew bold enough to walk home with her.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000009.wav|Others, like the three Bohemian Marys, tried to make up for the years of youth they had lost.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000001_000001.wav|All the young men felt the attraction of the fine, well set-up country girls who had come to town to earn a living, and, in nearly every case, to help the father struggle out of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000003.wav|All had borrowed money on their land.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000000.wav|The daughters of Black Hawk merchants had a confident, uninquiring belief that they were "refined," and that the country girls, who "worked out," were not.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000003_000005.wav|I remember those girls merely as faces in the schoolroom, gay and rosy, or listless and dull, cut off below the shoulders, like cherubs, by the ink smeared tops of the high desks that were surely put there to make us round shouldered and hollow chested.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000003_000002.wav|There was not a tennis court in the town; physical exercise was thought rather inelegant for the daughters of well to do families.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000011_000003.wav|The three Marys were considered as dangerous as high explosives to have about the kitchen, yet they were such good cooks and such admirable housekeepers that they never had to look for a place.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000004.wav|But no matter in what straits the Pennsylvanian or Virginian found himself, he would not let his daughters go out into service.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000007_000001.wav|To day the best that a harassed Black Hawk merchant can hope for is to sell provisions and farm machinery and automobiles to the rich farms where that first crop of stalwart Bohemian and Scandinavian girls are now the mistresses.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000006_000001.wav|What did it matter?|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000013_000003.wav|This remedy worked, apparently.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000003_000003.wav|Some of the high-school girls were jolly and pretty, but they stayed indoors in winter because of the cold, and in summer because of the heat.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000012_000003.wav|If his sisters or their friends happened to be among the onlookers on "popular nights," Sylvester stood back in the shadow under the cottonwood trees, smoking and watching Lena with a harassed expression.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000001_000000.wav|THERE was a curious social situation in Black Hawk.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000002_000002.wav|The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000005_000000.wav|One result of this family solidarity was that the foreign farmers in our county were the first to become prosperous.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000013_000001.wav|He was daft about her, and every one knew it.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000005_000001.wav|After the fathers were out of debt, the daughters married the sons of neighbors,--usually of like nationality,--and the girls who once worked in Black Hawk kitchens are to day managing big farms and fine families of their own; their children are better off than the children of the town women they used to serve.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000012_000004.wav|Several times I stumbled upon him there in the dark, and I felt rather sorry for him.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000010_000000.wav|Our young man of position was like the son of a royal house; the boy who swept out his office or drove his delivery wagon might frolic with the jolly country girls, but he himself must sit all evening in a plush parlor where conversation dragged so perceptibly that the father often came in and made blundering efforts to warm up the atmosphere.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000009_000000.wav|The country girls were considered a menace to the social order.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000014_000000.wav|So that was what they were like, I thought, these white handed, high collared clerks and bookkeepers!|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000003_000001.wav|Girls who had to walk more than half a mile to school were pitied.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000009_000001.wav|Their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000010_000002.wav|If he went to the hotel to see a traveling man on business, there was Tiny, arching her shoulders at him like a kitten.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000003_000004.wav|When one danced with them their bodies never moved inside their clothes; their muscles seemed to ask but one thing-not to be disturbed.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000007_000000.wav|I always knew I should live long enough to see my country girls come into their own, and I have.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000006_000002.wav|All foreigners were ignorant people who could n't speak English. There was not a man in Black Hawk who had the intelligence or cultivation, much less the personal distinction, of Antonia's father.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000012_000001.wav|Sylvester Lovett, who was cashier in his father's bank, always found his way to the tent on Saturday night.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000002.wav|All alike had come to Nebraska with little capital and no knowledge of the soil they must subdue.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000004_000005.wav|Unless his girls could teach a country school, they sat at home in poverty.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000013_000000.wav|Sylvester dallied about Lena until he began to make mistakes in his work; had to stay at the bank until after dark to make his books balance.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000009_000002.wav|But anxious mothers need have felt no alarm.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000002_000004.wav|Physically they were almost a race apart, and out of door work had given them a vigor which, when they got over their first shyness on coming to town, developed into a positive carriage and freedom of movement, and made them conspicuous among Black Hawk women.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2004/147981/2004_147981_000012_000000.wav|The Vannis' tent brought the town boys and the country girls together on neutral ground.|2004
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000052_000000.wav|"All right, Sam."|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000067_000001.wav|Well, had he given her a chance?|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000014_000000.wav|"Sure!|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000038_000000.wav|"Well, you better be," said Budd sharply.|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000064_000000.wav|"But I ain't."|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000009_000000.wav|There was more.|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000067_000000.wav|That was what Budd said.|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000044_000000.wav|"Look here, Jack, you're seein' things wrong.|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000018_000000.wav|"Well, see you again.|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000057_000000.wav|"I've heard."|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000026_000000.wav|"No, but one's comin'--Dave."|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000075_000000.wav|Hale choked.|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000051_000000.wav|"Don't you worry, Jack."|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000037_000000.wav|"I'm not worried."|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176682/3738_176682_000034_000000.wav|"Where you goin'?"|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176680/3738_176680_000019_000000.wav|"Go home, I tell ye-Uncle Judd's shot.|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176680/3738_176680_000007_000000.wav|"Howdye, little girl!" And the cat had got her tongue.|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176680/3738_176680_000020_000000.wav|"No, no, NO!|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176680/3738_176680_000022_000000.wav|"Dad!" she said.|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3738/176680/3738_176680_000007_000009.wav|What should she do?|3738
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000013_000000.wav|They stayed here all the monsoon time, which is about six months; after which they resolved for Madagascar.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000050_000002.wav|On a vote, they gave Captain Penruddock (from whom they took a considerable quantity of money) the Portuguese ship and cargo, with what bale he pleased to take out of his own, bid him go about his business, and make what he could of her.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000027_000001.wav|As soon as the purser was ashore, he was taken prisoner, by one Tom Collins, a Welshman, born in Pembroke, who lived on shore, and had belonged to the Charming Mary, of Barbadoes, which went out with a commission but was converted to a pirate.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000018_000000.wav|Three, I said, were in the cabin, and seven upon deck, who with handspikes and the arms seized, secured the ship's crew.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000040_000001.wav|They came on board in the night and surprised her, though not without resistance, in which the captain and chief mate were killed, and several others wounded.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000019_000000.wav|I hope this digression, as it was in a manner needful, will be excused. I shall now proceed.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000003_000001.wav|She took great care of his education, and when he was grown up, as he had an inclination to the sea, procured him the king's letter.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000048_000001.wav|These he plundered of what was for his turn, kept them a fortnight by him, and let them go.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000009_000000.wav|At the expiration of the above term, a pirate brigantine came in, on board which the king obliged them to enter, or travel by land to some other place, which they durst not do; and of two evils chose the least, that of going on board the pirate vessel, which was commanded by one William Read, who received them very civilly.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000030_000005.wav|Bowen answered, "they wanted his ship, his was a good one, and they were resolved to have her, to make amends for the damage he had done them."|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000012_000001.wav|Read fell ill and died, and was succeeded by one james.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000030_000001.wav|In a day or two after, he was invited by them to eat a barbacued shoat, which invitation he accepted.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000004_000001.wav|White's story obliges me, though I beg leave to take notice of their barbarity to the English prisoners, for they would set them up as a butt or mark to shoot at; several of whom were thus murdered in cold blood, by way of diversion.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000043_000006.wav|The latter was given them, but they could get no information of their companions.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000020_000002.wav|This gentleman and his whole ship's company had been cut off at the instigation of Ort Vantyle, a Dutchman of New York.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000043_000004.wav|This they supposed he had torn to wrap round his feet; that part of the country being barren and rocky.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000041_000007.wav|Wherefore they got into a harbor, of which there are many for small vessels.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000015_000000.wav|The pirates, who were headed by George Booth, now commander of the ship, went on board, (as they had often done,) to the number of ten, and carried money with them under pretence of purchasing what they wanted. This Booth had formerly been gunner of a pirate ship, called the Dolphin.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000023_000001.wav|She had been the latter, belonging to the French king, and could mount fifty guns; but being taken by the English, she was bought by some London merchants, and fitted out from that port to slave at Madagascar, and go to Jamaica.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000046_000000.wav|The rest of them were settled in small companies of about twelve or fourteen together, more or less, up the said river, and along the coast, every nation by itself, as the English, French, Dutch, and c.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000033_000001.wav|At eight o'clock they manned the twelve oared boat, and the one they found at Mayotta, with twenty four men, and set out for the ship.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000036_000001.wav|james, a pirate.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000039_000001.wav|At length part were for boarding, and advised it.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000023_000000.wav|The pirates knew not whether she was a merchantman or man of war.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000041_000005.wav|Here as Captain White was known to the king, they were kindly received, and staid about a fortnight in expectation of the ship, but she not appearing they raised their boat a streak, salted the provision the king gave them, put water aboard, and stood for the north end of the island, designing to go round, believing their ship might be at the island of saint Mary.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000008_000001.wav|His humanity not only provided for such, but the first European vessel that came in, he always obliged to take in the unfortunate people, let the vessel be what it would; for he had no notion of any difference between pirates and merchants.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000041_000000.wav|Those who were ashore with Captain White, resolving to enter in this ship, determined him to go also, rather than be left alone with the natives, hoping, by some accident or other, to have an opportunity of returning home.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000049_000005.wav|However they took what they liked, and kept him with them.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000049_000004.wav|They answered in the affirmative, but the captain could not believe them.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000039_000004.wav|The adventures of these pirates on this coast are already set down in Captain Bowen's life, to which I refer the reader, and shall only observe, that Captain White was all this time before the mast, being a forced man from the beginning.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000017_000002.wav|Standing near the awning, and being a nimble fellow, at one spring he threw himself upon it, drew the arms to him, fired his pistol among the men, one of whom he wounded, (who jumping overboard was lost) and gave the signal.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000034_000001.wav|"All well," said the mate, "get the lights over the side;" but spying the second boat, he asked what boat that was?|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000047_000003.wav|His provisions being taken in, the time proper, and the ship well fitted, he steered for Babel Mandeb, and running into a harbor, waited for the Mocha ships.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000050_000000.wav|After two days they met with the Dorothy, an English ship, Captain Penruddock, commander, coming from Mocha.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000022_000002.wav|They joined company, came to an anchor together in the above named river, where they had cleaned, salted and took in their provisions, and were ready to go to sea, when a large ship appeared in sight, and stood into the same river.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000046_000003.wav|But the others did not think it reasonable he should have the boat, but that it should be set to sale for the benefit of the company.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000047_000002.wav|From hence he shaped his course for the island of Mayotta, where he cleaned his ship, and waited for the season to go into the Red Sea.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000017_000000.wav|The captain invited them into the cabin to dinner, but Booth chose to dine with the petty officer, though one Johnson, Isaac and another, went down.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000033_000004.wav|Booth asked what he wanted!|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000039_000000.wav|Things being thus settled, they came to the mouth of the Red Sea, and fell in with thirteen sail of Moor ships, which they kept company with the greater part of the day, but afraid to venture on them, as they took them for Portuguese men of war.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000030_000003.wav|Bowen, who was, I have already said, a prisoner on board the French pirate, but now become one of the fraternity, and master of the grab, went out, and returned with a case of pistols in his hand, and told the Captain of the Speaker, whose name I won't mention, that he was his prisoner.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000027_000002.wav|He told the purser he was his prisoner, and must answer the damage done to two merchants who were slaving.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000037_000006.wav|The quarter master ran down sword in hand, and though he was attacked by many, he behaved himself so well, that he got into a little canoe, put off, and reached the long boat.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000016_000000.wav|They were all searched, but they however contrived to get on board four pistols, which were all the arms they had for the enterprise, though Fourgette had twenty hands on board, and his small arms on the awning, to be in readiness.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000030_000004.wav|He asked, upon what account?|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000013_000002.wav|They gave chase on both sides, so that they soon met.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000022_000001.wav|White.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000010_000003.wav|However, it was impracticable, for the French pretending to lord it over the natives, whom they began to treat inhumanly, were set upon by them, one half of their number cut off, and the other half made slaves.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000043_000002.wav|At length, having fine weather, and the strength of the current abating, they got round; and after sailing about forty miles on the east side, they went into a harbor, where they found a piece of a jacket, which they knew belonged to one of those men who had left them to go over land.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000048_000003.wav|A few days after, they met with a large ship of about one thousand tons and six hundred men, called the Malabar, which they chased, kept company with her all night, and took in the morning, with the loss of only their boatswain, and two or three men wounded.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000047_000000.wav|Captain White, finding these men proposed joining him, and going round to Ambonavoula, to make up a company, it was agreed upon, and they unanimously chose him commander.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000047_000001.wav|They accordingly put to sea, and stood away round the south end of the island, and touched at Don Mascarenhas, where he took in a surgeon, and stretching over again to Madagascar, fell in with Ambonavoula, and made up his complement of sixty men.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000034_000003.wav|They boarded in the instant, and made themselves masters of her, without the loss of a man on either side.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000051_000005.wav|Besides, they made a gathering among themselves, and made a present to Stacy's mate, and other of his inferior officers, and about one hundred twenty dollars to the children.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000010_000001.wav|His crew, however, did not exceed forty men.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000011_000000.wav|Read, with this gang, and a brigantine of sixty tons, steered his course for the Persian Gulf, where they met a grab, (a one masted vessel) of about two hundred tons, which was made a prize.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000023_000002.wav|The captain was a young, inexperienced man, who was put in with a nurse.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000002_000000.wav|THE LIFE, CAREER AND DEATH OF CAPTAIN THOMAS WHITE.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000030_000000.wav|After some days the captain of the Speaker came on shore, and was received with great civility by the heads of the pirates, having agreed before to make satisfaction.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000053_000001.wav|Here taking in fresh provisions, White steered for Madagascar, and fell in with Hopeful Point where they shared their goods, and took up settlements ashore, where White built a house, bought cattle, took off the upper deck of ship, and was fitting her up for the next season.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000044_000001.wav|They knew it to be the hand of one of their former shipmates.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000051_000006.wav|They then discharged Stacy and his crew, and made the best of their way out of the Red Sea.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000052_000001.wav|They found a French gentleman, one Monsieur Berger, on board, whom they carried with them, took out about two thousand dollars, and sold the ketch to the chief ashore for provisions.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000043_000003.wav|He had been a forced man, and a ship carpenter.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000037_000004.wav|The long boat, which lay off a grappling, was immediately put in by those who looked after her.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000006_000000.wav|After some time cruising along the coast, the pirates doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and shaped their course for Madagascar, where, being drunk and mad, they knocked their ship on the head, at the south end of the island, at a place called by the natives Elexa.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000020_000001.wav|Mosson's ship lay at anchor, between the island and the main.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000027_000000.wav|The captain of the Speaker sent his purser ashore, to go up the country to the king, who lived about twenty four miles from the coast, to carry a couple of small arms inlaid with gold, a couple of brass blunderbusses, and a pair of pistols, as presents, and to require trade.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3082/165428/3082_165428_000029_000003.wav|However, he, for a hundred pounds, undertook to wet all the priming, and assist in taking the ship.|3082
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000013_000003.wav|The parties what's in my 'ouse is most respectable,--most! and they couldn't abide the notion of there being police about the place.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000074_000000.wav|'I hope God will help you my poor fellow; you've been in need of His help if ever man was.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000008_000001.wav|It doesn't bear the best of characters, and if you asked me what I thought of it, I should say in plain English that it was a disorderly house.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000077_000003.wav|Words came from his quivering lips as if they were only drawn from him by the force of his anguish.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000071_000000.wav|'You've been with Miss Lindon all the afternoon and evening, haven't you, Mr Holt?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000045_000002.wav|How are you feeling?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000060_000000.wav|'What's he mean?' asked the Inspector.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000081_000003.wav|I turned to the doctor.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000059_000000.wav|'The beetle!' He stopped.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000056_000001.wav|Sydney, stooping over him, endeavoured to explain.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000045_000001.wav|that's more like the time of day!|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000044_000000.wav|The arrival of the brandy was not long delayed,--but the man on the bed had regained consciousness before it came.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000044_000001.wav|Opening his eyes he looked up at the doctor bending over him.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000059_000001.wav|Then, after an effort, spoke again.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000050_000001.wav|And I daresay you're feeling pretty well done up, and in want of something to eat and drink,--here's some brandy for you.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000048_000000.wav|'You are-you are-' The man's eyes closed, as if the effort at recollection exhausted him.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000058_000005.wav|At last words came.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000073_000000.wav|'Yes-all the afternoon-and evening-God help me!'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000023_000002.wav|There, on the floor in the space which was between the bed and the wall, lay the murdered man.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000065_000001.wav|The man relapsed into a state of lethargy.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000065_000000.wav|The lids closed.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000075_000001.wav|My God!'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000058_000000.wav|The man's eyelids were partially closed.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000020_000000.wav|A candle was guttering on a broken and dilapidated single washhand stand.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000046_000001.wav|Atherton bent down beside the doctor.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000009_000001.wav|So far as could be seen in the dark it consisted of a row of houses of considerable dimensions,--and also of considerable antiquity.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000077_000002.wav|He became possessed by uncontrollable agitation,--half raising himself in bed.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000025_000000.wav|'It's Holt!'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000057_000001.wav|Has anyone been hurting you?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000041_000000.wav|'You'll find it a joke if you have to hang, as you ought to, you-' The doctor said what he did say to himself, under his breath.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000085_000000.wav|'Now, Mrs Henderson, perhaps you'll tell us what all this means.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000021_000001.wav|I don't see anything here.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000033_000001.wav|Is there anything in his pockets?--let's lift him on to the bed.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000019_000001.wav|We all went in-we, this time, in front, and she behind.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000072_000000.wav|Atherton had reached a chord in the man's consciousness.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000023_000001.wav|Atherton and I went to the head of the bed, Lessingham and the Inspector, leaning right across the bed, peeped over the side.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000065_000002.wav|The Inspector was puzzled;--and said so.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000068_000000.wav|'I think I understand what he means,--and my friends do too.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000006.wav|Even his nose was wasted, so that nothing but a ridge of cartilage remained.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000004.wav|His cheeks and the sockets of his eyes were hollow.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000029_000000.wav|'I doubt,' I said, 'if this man has been murdered.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000000.wav|Thrusting the bed more into the centre of the room I knelt down beside the man on the floor.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000009_000002.wav|They opened on to two or three stone steps which led directly into the street.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000002_000000.wav|The Inspector spoke to me.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000047_000000.wav|'I'm glad to see you looking better, Mr Holt.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000015_000000.wav|The Inspector's tone was grim.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000051_000001.wav|He raised the patient's head, allowing it to trickle down his throat.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000005.wav|The skin was drawn tightly over his cheek bones,--the bones themselves were staring through.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000053_000001.wav|You won't be able to get much out of him,--he's too far gone, and I shouldn't bustle him, but get what you can.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000009_000005.wav|She greeted us with garrulous volubility.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER forty four|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000081_000000.wav|I felt a sudden pressure on my arm, and found that Lessingham was clutching me with probably unconscious violence.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000079_000001.wav|His whole frame quivered.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000051_000000.wav|The doctor had some in a tumbler.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000036_000001.wav|Why didn't you send for me directly you found him?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000003_000000.wav|'If what the boy says is correct it sounds as if the person whom you are seeking may have had a finger in the pie.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000034_000002.wav|He proved to be Dr Glossop, the local police surgeon, who had been sent for before our quitting the Station House.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000020_000003.wav|I could see nothing in the shape of a murdered man.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000012_000000.wav|'Never you mind who they are.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000043_000000.wav|'Then send for some,--to the tap downstairs, if that's the nearest!|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000058_000002.wav|His mouth opened too.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000020_000001.wav|A small iron bedstead stood by its side, the clothes on which were all tumbled and tossed.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000062_000000.wav|'It took me by the throat!'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000018_000001.wav|I locked the door so that nothing mightn't be disturbed.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000009_000003.wav|At one of the doors stood an old lady with a shawl drawn over her head.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000041_000001.wav|I doubt if it was flattering to Mrs Henderson. 'Have you got any brandy in the house?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000031_000000.wav|He referred to two abrasions of the skin,--one on either side of the man's neck.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000019_000000.wav|She turned the key.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000058_000001.wav|Then they opened wider and wider.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000032_000001.wav|They seem pretty deep, but I don't think they're sufficient in themselves to cause death.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000078_000000.wav|'The beetle's going to kill Miss Lindon.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000072_000001.wav|His lips moved,--in painful articulation.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000081_000002.wav|He trembled.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000007.wav|I put my arm beneath his shoulder and raised him from the floor; no resistance was offered by the body's gravity,--he was as light as a little child.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000007_000001.wav|'Mr Pleesman' and ''Gustus Barley' followed on foot.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000008_000000.wav|'Mrs Henderson keeps a sort of lodging house,--a "Sailors' Home" she calls it, but no one could call it sweet.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000066_000000.wav|'What's he mean about a beetle?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000007_000000.wav|We went four in the hansom which had been waiting in the street to Mrs Henderson's in Paradise Place,--the Inspector and we three.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000047_000001.wav|You know me don't you?|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000018_000002.wav|I knows 'ow particular you pleesmen is.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000057_000000.wav|'The Inspector wants to know how you got here, has anyone been doing anything to you?|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000013_000001.wav|'Don't you speak so loud, Mr Phillips.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000016_000000.wav|Mrs Henderson led the way up a staircase which would have been distinctly the better for repairs.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000043_000001.wav|If this man dies before you've brought it I'll have you locked up as sure as you're a living woman.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000047_000002.wav|I've been running about after you all day long.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000004_000001.wav|Atherton collared the youth by the shoulder which Mr Pleesman had left disengaged.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000051_000004.wav|The doctor laid him back upon the bed, feeling his pulse with one hand, while he stood and regarded him in silence.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000077_000001.wav|Now he opened them, wide; there came into them the former staring horror.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000029_000001.wav|It looks to me like a case of starvation, or exhaustion,--possibly a combination of both.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000007_000002.wav|The Inspector was explanatory.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000068_000001.wav|We'll explain afterwards.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000001.wav|A more deplorable spectacle than he presented I have seldom witnessed.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000006_000006.wav|That's all I knows about it.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000027_000000.wav|The relief in his tone was unmistakable.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000055_000001.wav|I'm an Inspector of police, and I want you to tell me what has brought you into this condition.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000048_000001.wav|He kept them closed as he continued to speak.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000006_000003.wav|"'Gustus Barley," she says, "a bloke's been murdered.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000004_000000.wav|I was of the same opinion, as, apparently, were Lessingham and Sidney.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000075_000000.wav|'Yes,--in my old clothes.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000023_000000.wav|We all four went hastily forward.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000079_000000.wav|A momentary paroxysm seemed to shake the very foundations of his being.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000011_000000.wav|Mr Phillips dismissed her inquiry, curtly.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000053_000000.wav|'If you want him to make a statement he'll have to make it now, he's going fast.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000058_000004.wav|He was evidently struggling to speak.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000079_000003.wav|The doctor examined him in silence-while we too were still.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000014_000000.wav|'We quite believe that, Mrs Henderson.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000076_000000.wav|'And where is Miss Lindon now?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000027_000001.wav|That the one was gone was plainly nothing to him in comparison with the fact that the other was left.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000052_000000.wav|Then, turning to the Inspector, he said to him in an undertone;|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000055_000000.wav|'I understand from this gentleman-' signifying Atherton-'that your name's Robert Holt.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000033_000000.wav|'They might be, joined to an already weakened constitution.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000058_000003.wav|On his skeleton features there came a look of panic fear.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000034_000000.wav|We lifted him on to the bed,--a featherweight he was to lift.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000061_000002.wav|Well, has the beetle done anything to you?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000049_000000.wav|'I know who you are.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000032_000000.wav|'They look to me like scratches.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000028_000003.wav|I doubt if there was an ounce of flesh on the whole of his body.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000054_000000.wav|The Inspector came to the front, a notebook in his hand.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000009_000004.wav|This was Mrs Henderson.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000035_000000.wav|His first pronouncement, made as soon as he commenced his examination, was, under the circumstances, sufficiently startling.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000034_000001.wav|While the Inspector was examining his pockets-to find them empty --a tall man with a big black beard came bustling in.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000085_000001.wav|Who is this man, and how did he come in here, and who came in with him, and what do you know about it altogether?|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000051_000002.wav|The man swallowed it mechanically, motionless, as if unconscious what it was that he was doing.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000063_000000.wav|'Is that the meaning of the marks upon your neck?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000082_000000.wav|'Doctor, if there is any of that brandy left will you let me have it for my friend?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000036_000000.wav|'I don't believe the man's dead.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000020_000004.wav|Nor, it appeared, could the Inspector either.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000064_000000.wav|'The beetle killed me.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000080_000000.wav|'This time he's gone for good, there'll be no conjuring him back again.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000069_000001.wav|There isn't much-only seconds.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000030_000000.wav|'What's that on his neck?' asked the Inspector,--he was kneeling at my side.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000084_000000.wav|The Inspector was speaking to the woman of the house.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000070_000000.wav|Sydney endeavoured to rouse the man from his stupor.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000024_000000.wav|At sight of him an exclamation burst from Sydney's lips.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176263/2769_176263_000005_000000.wav|'What sort of looking bloke is it who's been murdered?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000039_000001.wav|Sydney perceived him too.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000029_000000.wav|'My stars!--here's a sudden clearance!--Why, the place is empty,-- everything's clean gone!'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000015_000000.wav|'Was it open when you returned from your pursuit of Holt?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000012_000000.wav|'I hardly know,--I imagine that it was with some dim idea of Marjorie's being able to get in if she returned while I was absent,--but the truth is I was in such a condition of helter skelter that I am not prepared to swear that I had any reasonable reason.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000058_000000.wav|'Don't tell me!|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000034_000000.wav|'How long ago is it since you left?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000060_000008.wav|He shoves his old nose right through the smash in the pane, and wags his old head at me like a chattering magpie.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000076_000000.wav|He moved towards the door.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty seven|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000041_000000.wav|'Excuse me, sir, but who's the old gent?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000021_000000.wav|'It strikes me that this is another case of seeking admission through that hospitable window at the back.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000061_000004.wav|But, on the other hand, what could have become-in the space of fifty seconds!--of his 'old gent'?|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000019_000000.wav|'If Miss Lindon has returned, it does not look as if she were in the house at present.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000020_000000.wav|It did not,--unless silence had such meaning.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000062_000000.wav|Atherton put a question.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000069_000000.wav|'How am I to know what the thing's called?|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000078_000004.wav|Having removed it, we peered into the cavity it disclosed.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000053_000002.wav|He must be somewhere about,--he can't have got away,--he's at the back.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000064_000001.wav|It wasn't much of his face I could see, only his face and his eyes,--and they wasn't pretty.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000001_000000.wav|WHAT WAS HIDDEN UNDER THE FLOOR|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000072_000001.wav|It is strange, to say the least of it, that the cabman should be the only person to see or hear anything of him.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000013_000000.wav|'I suppose there is no doubt that you did leave it open?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000036_000000.wav|'Something over an hour,--possibly an hour and a half; I couldn't swear to the exact moment, but it certainly isn't more.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000061_000002.wav|As he himself suggested, what inducement could he have had to tell a lie like that?|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000068_000000.wav|'A burnoose do you mean?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000077_000001.wav|'Here's a board loose.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000044_000001.wav|I followed rather more soberly,--his methods were a little too flighty for me.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000046_000001.wav|That certainly was empty,--and not only empty, but it showed no traces of recent occupation.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000070_000000.wav|Mr Lessingham turned to me, all quivering with excitement.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000035_000000.wav|He referred to his watch.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000059_000000.wav|'One's eyes are apt to play us tricks;--how could you see what wasn't there?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000049_000000.wav|'That window, sir.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000031_000000.wav|The room was empty enough then.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000024_000000.wav|While he spoke, he scrambled over the sill.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000038_000000.wav|'Not a sign.' Going to the window he drew up the blind,--speaking as he did so.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000045_000000.wav|'What's the idiot mean!--with his old gent!|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000027_000003.wav|That someone has been here is pretty plain,--let's hope it's Marjorie.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000061_000001.wav|That the man was serious was unmistakable.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000046_000000.wav|He returned into the front room,--I at his heels.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000053_000001.wav|I saw him peeping through that bottom broken pane on your left hand as plainly as I see you.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000077_000000.wav|'Something tripped me up,--what's this?' He was stamping on the floor with his foot.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000026_000003.wav|Suddenly he stopped.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000048_000002.wav|'What do you mean with your old gent at the window?--what window?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000075_000000.wav|'By the Lord, I believe the Apostle's right,--the whole place reeks to me of hankey pankey,--it did as soon as I put my nose inside.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000011_000000.wav|'Why did you leave the door open when you went?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000006.wav|I glanced up,--there was no trap door which led to the roof.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000055_000000.wav|I returned to Sydney's shoulder to tell the cabman so.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000060_000000.wav|'That's what I want to know.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000024_000002.wav|When he was in, he shouted at the top of his voice,|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000074_000000.wav|I stared.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000016_000000.wav|'Wide open,--I walked straight in expecting to find her waiting for me in the front room,--I was struck all of a heap when I found she wasn't there.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000078_000003.wav|Together we prised it out of its place,--Lessingham standing by and watching us the while.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000060_000007.wav|But when you pulls up the blind downstairs, to my surprise back he come once more.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000026_000002.wav|He led the way to the front room.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000058_000001.wav|How could I come to think I saw something when I didn't?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000064_000000.wav|'Well, that I shouldn't hardly like to say.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000022_000000.wav|Atherton led the way to the rear.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000003_000000.wav|Atherton leaped out on to the grass grown rubble which was meant for a footpath.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000005.wav|The door at the side, which Sydney had left wide open, opened on to a closet, and that was empty.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000060_000004.wav|When the gentleman took to knocking, back he came,--to the same old spot, and flopped down on his knees.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000005_000000.wav|Nor did I,--I saw nothing but what appeared to be an unoccupied ramshackle brick abomination.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000051_000000.wav|'Begging your pardon, sir, but there was someone there not a minute ago.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000027_000002.wav|'It was up when I went, that I'll swear.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000044_000002.wav|When I reached the landing, dashing out of the front room he rushed into the one at the back,--then through a door at the side.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000063_000000.wav|'What did he look like,--this old gent of yours?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000010_000000.wav|He knocked.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000078_000002.wav|His stepping on it unawares had caused his stumble.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000066_000000.wav|'Why,--one of them cloak sort of things, like them Arab blokes used to wear what used to be at Earl's Court Exhibition,--you know!'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000079_000000.wav|There was something there.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000025_000001.wav|Marjorie!|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000078_000000.wav|I went to his aid.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000064_000002.wav|He kept a thing over his head all the time, as if he didn't want too much to be seen.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000002_000000.wav|The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap 'villa' in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood,--the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000047_000000.wav|'Are you sure, Atherton, that there is no one at the back?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000004.wav|In the corner stood a cupboard,--but a momentary examination showed that that was as bare as the other.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000032_000001.wav|They seem to have evaporated into smoke,--which may be a way which is common enough among Eastern curiosities, though it's queer to me.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000024_000001.wav|We followed.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000060_000010.wav|But for you to say that he wasn't there, and never had been,--blimey! that cops the biscuit.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000067_000000.wav|This piece of information seemed to interest my companions more than anything he had said before.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000073_000000.wav|'Some devil's trick has been played,--I know it, I feel it!--my instinct tells me so!'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000030_000000.wav|'What do you mean?--was it furnished when you left?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000025_000000.wav|'Marjorie!|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000007.wav|No practicable nook or cranny, in which a living being could lie concealed, was anywhere at hand.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000018_000000.wav|'None,--there were no signs of anything.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000002.wav|The room behind was small, and, despite the splintered glass in the window frame, stuffy.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000003.wav|Fragments of glass kept company with the dust on the floor, together with a choice collection of stones, brickbats, and other missiles,--which not improbably were the cause of their being there.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000057_000000.wav|The man waxed wroth.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000022_000002.wav|There was not even an apology for a yard, still less a garden,--there was not even a fence of any sort, to serve as an enclosure, and to shut off the house from the wilderness of waste land.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000026_000000.wav|The words echoed through the house.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000043_000000.wav|'Why the old gent peeping through the window of the room upstairs?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000018_000001.wav|Everything was just as I had left it, with the exception of the ring which I trod on in the passage, and which Lessingham has.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000027_000001.wav|'The blind's down!' I had noticed, when we were outside, that the blind was down at the front room window.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000056_000000.wav|'There is no place in which anyone could hide, and there is no one in either of the rooms,--you must have been mistaken, driver.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000039_000002.wav|He threw up the sash.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000033_000000.wav|Atherton was staring about him as if he found it difficult to credit the evidence of his own eyes.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000077_000003.wav|Who knows what mystery's beneath?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000037_000000.wav|'Did you notice any signs of packing up?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000053_000003.wav|Ain't there a cupboard nor nothing where he could hide?'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000048_000001.wav|Jehu's drunk.' Throwing up the sash he addressed the driver.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000050_000000.wav|'Go to!--you're dreaming, man!--there's no one here.'|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000044_000003.wav|He came out shouting.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000054_000000.wav|The cabman's manner was so extremely earnest that I went myself to see.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000010_000001.wav|While we waited for a response I questioned him.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/176256/2769_176256_000027_000000.wav|'Hollo!' he cried.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000008_000000.wav|"Well, we all know pretty much what's in the collection," Gresham said. "We were neighbors of his, and collectors are a gregarious lot.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000037_000001.wav|"Jeff, I'm not supposed to talk about this, but the fact is that I believe Fleming was about to lose control of the Premix Company," he said.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000012_000003.wav|Pierre was a Marine captain, invalided home after being wounded on Peleliu; he writes science fiction for the pulps.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000003_000000.wav|"I'm afraid I've been neglecting too many of my old friends lately," Rand admitted, sitting down and getting his pipe out.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000014_000000.wav|"About two years ago; right after I got back from Germany.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000012_000007.wav|That suit you?"|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000010_000002.wav|I can imagine Arnold Rivers, for instance, taking a very righteous view of such an arrangement."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000034_000001.wav|He was familiar with the type.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000021_000002.wav|A fine, early flintlock Kentuck, that had been made out of a fine, late percussion Kentuck by sawing off the breech end of the barrel, rethreading it for the breech plug, drilling a new vent, and fitting the lock with a flint hammer and a pan and frizzen assembly, and shortening the fore end to fit.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000031_000002.wav|I want my money, and if I don't get it in cash, I'm going to beat it out of that dirty little swindler's hide," Gresham replied, an ugly look appearing on his face.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000017_000000.wav|Gresham laughed heartily.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000026_000000.wav|"Why, that story's been absolutely disproved," Rand said.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000029_000000.wav|"Yes, and he was plenty burned up, but what could he do?|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000032_000000.wav|"I wouldn't blame you.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000014_000001.wav|You remember, we went there together, one evening in March."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000005_000002.wav|You see, the Fleming estate has just employed me to expertize the collection and handle the sale for them." Rand got his pipe lit and drawing properly.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000001_000000.wav|Stephen Gresham was in his early sixties, but he could have still worn his World War one uniform without anything giving at the seams, and buckled the old Sam Browne at the same hole.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000006_000002.wav|Humphrey Goode isn't competent to handle that.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000005_000000.wav|"I'm afraid you will, at that, Stephen," Rand told him.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000010_000001.wav|"I think you're entirely within your rights, but naturally, we won't mention this outside.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000018_000001.wav|"Remember, there were a couple of small human figures on each pistol, a knight and a huntsman? Did you notice that they had slant eyes?" He stopped laughing, and looked at Gresham seriously.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000011_000000.wav|"Yes, so can i Of course, if he'd call me a crook, I'd take that as a compliment," Rand said.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000009_000002.wav|I'm not obliged to call for sealed bids, or anything like that, so when I've heard from everybody, I'll give you a chance to bid against the highest offer in hand.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000035_000001.wav|"I can't believe that, Jeff.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER four|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000021_000001.wav|"Rivers sold a rifle to a collector down in Virginia, about three years ago, while you were still occupying Germany.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000017_000002.wav|"Made in Germany, about eighteen seventy or 'eighty, about the time arms collecting was just getting out of the family heirloom stage, wouldn't you say?"|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000010.wav|A Hall flintlock breech loader; an Elisha Collier flintlock revolver; a pair of Forsythe detonator lock pistols....|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000011_000002.wav|I want to be in a position to assure the Fleming family and Humphrey Goode that you're all serious and responsible."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000010_000000.wav|"Why, Jeff, I appreciate that," Gresham said.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000007_000001.wav|"Worst thing they could do; a collection like that would go for peanuts at auction.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000007_000003.wav|Why, here; I'm going to be in Rosemont, staying at the Fleming place, working on the collection, for the next week or so.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000002_000002.wav|Dot and Irene were wondering what had become of you."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000003_000003.wav|I understand that you and some others are forming a pool to buy the Lane Fleming collection."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000013_000000.wav|That, Rand agreed, would be all right.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000031_000001.wav|He could afford litigation like that; I can't.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000025_000000.wav|"Oh Lord, yes!|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000004_000000.wav|"Yes!" Gresham became enthusiastic.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000025_000005.wav|That story you find in Sawyer's book."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000022_000000.wav|"Rivers claimed, I suppose, that he had gotten it from a family that had owned it ever since it was made, and showed letters signed 'D.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000002_000001.wav|What have you been doing, and why don't you come out to Rosemont to see us?|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000035_000005.wav|And our coroner, out in Scott County, is eminently fixable, if you go about it right; a pitiful little nonentity with a tremendous inferiority complex."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000012_000005.wav|They intend using their share of the collection, plus such culls and duplicates as the rest of us can consign to them, to go into the arms business, with a general antique sideline, which Karen can manage while Pierre's writing....|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000019_000004.wav|You know, Fleming's death was an undeserved stroke of luck for Arnold Rivers.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000007.wav|He got that one in nineteen twenty four, at the Fred Hines sale, at the old Walpole Galleries.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000016_000000.wav|"By the way, Humphrey Goode showed me a pair of big ball butt wheel locks, all covered with ivory inlay," Rand mentioned.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000003_000001.wav|"Been busy as the devil.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000023_000000.wav|"No, he claimed to have gotten it in trade from some wayfaring collector," Gresham replied.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000012_000006.wav|Tell you what; I'll call a meeting at my place tomorrow evening, say at eight thirty.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000035_000000.wav|"The story is that Fleming found it hanging back of the counter at some roadside lunch stand, along with a lot of other old pistols, and talked the proprietor into letting it go for a few dollars," Gresham continued. "It was supposed to have been loaded at the time, and went off while Fleming was working on it, at home." He shook his head.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000027_000000.wav|"Not till Umholtz made one," Gresham replied.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000017_000001.wav|"Aren't they the damnedest ever seen, though?" he asked.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000019_000003.wav|Ordinarily, Lane was a careful buyer; he must have let himself get hypnotized by all that ivory and gold, and all that documentation on crested notepaper.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000006_000003.wav|What we were all afraid of was a public auction at some sales gallery."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000012_000004.wav|Karen has a little general antique business in Rosemont.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000005.wav|And about a hundred and fifty Colts, all models and most variants.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000031_000000.wav|"I'm not Fleming.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000008.wav|And seven Paterson Colts, including a couple of cased sets.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000000.wav|"Yes, that's right.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000029_000002.wav|You know, that bastard took me, once, just one tenth as badly, with a fake u s North and Cheney Navy flintlock seventeen ninety nine Model that had been made out of a French seventeen seventy seven Model." The lawyer muttered obscenely.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000019_000001.wav|"They're all.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000035_000002.wav|Lane Fleming would know a loaded revolver when he saw one.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000003.wav|Ten snaphaunces.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000025_000001.wav|This fellow Umholtz was practically turning them out on an assembly line, for a while.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000036_000000.wav|"But good Lord, why?" Rand demanded.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000021_000000.wav|"No; the National Rifle Association stopped his ad, and lifted his membership card for good measure," Gresham said.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000035_000003.wav|I believe he deliberately shot himself, and the family faked the accident and fixed the authorities.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000004_000001.wav|"Want in on it?|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000037_000003.wav|"Lane Fleming's death is on record as accidental, Jeff.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000019_000000.wav|Gresham shook his head.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000003_000002.wav|Fact is, it was business that finally brought me around here.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000025_000003.wav|I hate to see him prostitute his talents the way he does by making these fake antiques for Rivers.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000022_000001.wav|Boone' and 'Davy Crockett' to prove it?"|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000011.wav|Oh, that's a collection to end collections."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000019_000002.wav|They were Lane Fleming's one false step.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000030_000001.wav|"You might not have gotten anything, but you'd have given him a lot of dirty publicity. That's all Fleming was expecting to do about those wheel locks."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000021_000004.wav|I have an example of Umholtz's craftsmanship, myself.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000021_000005.wav|The collector who bought this spurious flintlock spotted what had been done, and squawked to the Rifle Association, and to the postal authorities."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000037_000004.wav|It's been written off as such.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000033_000001.wav|"I really don't know; I didn't see it.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000029_000001.wav|Rivers was dug in behind this innocent purchase and sale in good faith Maginot Line of his.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000005_000001.wav|"And not necessarily on account of Rivers.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000036_000001.wav|"I never heard of Fleming having any troubles worth killing himself over."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000033_000000.wav|Gresham frowned.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000007_000004.wav|I suppose your crowd wouldn't want to make an offer until I have everything listed, but I'd like to talk to your associates, in a group, as soon as possible."|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000001.wav|We didn't have time to see everything," Gresham said. "My God, Jeff!|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000015_000002.wav|Twenty five wheel locks!|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000034_000000.wav|Rand nodded.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000024_000000.wav|"Wasn't there some talk about Whitneyville Walker Colts that had been made out of eighteen forty eight Model Colt Dragoons?" Rand asked.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000007_000000.wav|Rand shook his head.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000008_000001.wav|But we aren't anxious to make any premature offers.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000035_000004.wav|The police never made any investigation; it was handled by the coroner alone.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000002_000000.wav|"Why, hello, Jeff!" he greeted the detective, grasping his hand heartily. "You haven't been around for months.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000018_000000.wav|"I'd say made in Japan, about nineteen twenty," Rand replied.|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2769/169619/2769_169619_000011_000001.wav|"I wonder if I could meet your group, say tomorrow evening?|2769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000010_000007.wav|Of the latter I now possess a specimen, and it is marked about the head differently from the French specific description.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000017_000000.wav|The geological structure of these islands is in most respects simple. The lower country consists of clay slate and sandstone, containing fossils, very closely related to, but not identical with, those found in the Silurian formations of Europe; the hills are formed of white granular quartz rock.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000007_000002.wav|From the great number of cows which have been killed, there is a large proportion of bulls.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000022_000000.wav|Two kinds of geese frequent the Falklands.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000024_000004.wav|These clumsy, loggerheaded ducks make such a noise and splashing, that the effect is exceedingly curious.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000018_000003.wav|It is not possible to ascertain their thickness, but the water of small streamlets can be heard trickling through the stones many feet below the surface.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000023_000001.wav|In the deep and retired channels of Tierra del Fuego, the snow white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort, and standing close by each other on some distant rocky point, is a common feature in the landscape.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000008_000003.wav|The Gauchos whom I asked, though asserting this to be the case, were unable to account for it, except from the strong attachment which horses have to any locality to which they are accustomed.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000010_000003.wav|It is asserted that in Sweden, which any one would have thought a more favourable climate, the rabbit cannot live out of doors.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000021_000006.wav|Another day, having placed myself between a penguin (Aptenodytes demersa) and the water, I was much amused by watching its habits.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000018_000000.wav|In many parts of the island the bottoms of the valleys are covered in an extraordinary manner by myriads of great loose angular fragments of the quartz rock, forming "streams of stones." These have been mentioned with surprise by every voyager since the time of Pernety.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000019_000000.wav|Their little inclination is the most remarkable circumstance in these "streams of stones." On the hill sides I have seen them sloping at an angle of ten degrees with the horizon; but in some of the level, broad bottomed valleys, the inclination is only just sufficient to be clearly perceived.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1740/141148/1740_141148_000017_000003.wav|The quartz rock must have been quite pasty when it underwent such remarkable flexures without being shattered into fragments.|1740
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3215/5757/3215_5757_000022_000002.wav|No, Halbert!|3215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3215/5764/3215_5764_000023_000000.wav|"My lord," answered the affrighted woman, "you know best.|3215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3215/5764/3215_5764_000023_000001.wav|You terrified the poor young creature.|3215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3215/5764/3215_5764_000025_000001.wav|You have slain her!"|3215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3215/5764/3215_5764_000010_000000.wav|Thunder now peaked over her head, and lightning shot across the mountains.|3215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3215/5758/3215_5758_000008_000001.wav|Besides, look at our country; God's gift of freedom is stamped upon it.|3215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3215/5758/3215_5758_000008_000002.wav|Our mountains are his seal.|3215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3215/5758/3215_5758_000027_000000.wav|"Then it is worthy its destination.|3215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3215/5758/3215_5758_000029_000001.wav|Thus time flew, till the sand glass told her it was the eighth hour.|3215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3215/5758/3215_5758_000010_000000.wav|Lady Mar looked at her.|3215
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000031_000000.wav|'Oh, my poor, poor husband, are you really dead?|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000006_000001.wav|If, when I am busy, I ask him to go and feed the poultry, he is certain to give them some poisonous stuff instead of their proper food, and when I visit the yard next I find them all dead.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000013_000000.wav|So the next morning she got up early, and after she had cleaned her house, and fed her chickens, and put everything in its place again, she bent over the kitchen table, and the sound of her big scissors might be heard snip!|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000013_000002.wav|Her husband could not see anything to snip at; but then he was so stupid that was not surprising!|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000018_000001.wav|"What a splendid coat!" they will exclaim when they see me.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000012_000001.wav|At last she got up, and said to her husband: 'I am too tired to finish it to night, so I shall go to bed, and to morrow I shall only have the cutting and stitching to do.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000030_000000.wav|All that day the man lay in bed, and whenever his wife entered the room and asked him, with a shake of the head, how he felt, he always replied that he was getting worse.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000014_000000.wav|After the cutting came the sewing.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000004_000000.wav|Unlike most women-who think that anything that belongs to them must be better than what belongs to anyone else-each thought her husband the more foolish of the two.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000008_000001.wav|For some minutes he stood with his mouth open watching her, and as she still remained silent, he said at last:|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000019_000000.wav|Meanwhile the other wife was not idle.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000020_000001.wav|Is there anything the matter?' asked he.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000033_000001.wav|Indeed, I think I shall go out to work.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000013_000001.wav|snap! as far as the garden.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000035_000002.wav|Just as the body was being placed in the ground the other woman's husband came running up, dressed, as far as anyone could see, in no clothes at all.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000022_000000.wav|The man was rather surprised at first, as he felt particularly well that evening; but the moment his wife spoke he became quite certain that he had something dreadful the matter with him, and grew quite pale.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000027_000001.wav|'I will get some dried herbs and make you a drink, but I am very much afraid that it is too late.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000026_000000.wav|'Oh, bad; very bad indeed,' answered he; 'I have not slept for a moment. Can you think of nothing to make me better?'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000034_000000.wav|'You will do no such thing,' replied his wife.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000031_000001.wav|I must go to morrow and order your coffin.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000028_000000.wav|'I thought perhaps the pain would go off in a day or two; and, besides, I did not want to make you unhappy,' answered the man, who was by this time quite sure he had been suffering tortures, and had borne them like a hero.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000035_000000.wav|The man was very frightened at her words, and lay absolutely still while the undertaker came and measured him for his coffin; and his wife gave orders to the gravedigger about his grave.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000035_000001.wav|That evening the coffin was sent home, and in the morning at nine o'clock the woman put him on a long flannel garment, and called to the undertaker's men to fasten down the lid and carry him to the grave, where all their friends were waiting them.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000003_000000.wav|In a little village that stood on a wide plain, where you could see the sun from the moment he rose to the moment he set, there lived two couples side by side.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000039_000000.wav|At this the wives both confessed that they had each wished to prove that her husband was stupider than the other.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000003_000001.wav|The men, who worked under the same master, were quite good friends, but the wives were always quarrelling, and the subject they quarrelled most about was-which of the two had the stupidest husband.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000010_000000.wav|'YOU may think that there is nothing on it,' answered she, 'but I can assure you that there is a large skein of wool, so fine that nobody can see it, which will be woven into a coat for you.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000027_000002.wav|Why did you not tell me before?'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000008_000000.wav|So, about the time that she expected her husband home from work, she got out her spinning wheel, and sat busily turning it, taking care not even to look up from her work when the man came in.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000011_000000.wav|'Dear me!' he replied, 'what a clever wife I have got!|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000005_000001.wav|'He puts on the baby's frock upside down, and, one day, I found him trying to feed her with boiling soup, and her mouth was scalded for days after. Then he picks up stones in the road and sows them instead of potatoes, and one day he wanted to go into the garden from the top window, because he declared it was a shorter way than through the door.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000017_000000.wav|'That is because it is so fine,' answered she; 'you do not want it to be as thick as the rough clothes you wear every day.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000028_000001.wav|'Of course, if I had had any idea how ill I really was, I should have spoken at once.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000021_000000.wav|'Oh! go to bed at once,' she cried; 'you must be very ill indeed to look like that!'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000029_000001.wav|Lie still, and keep yourself warm.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000034_000001.wav|'Just keep quite quiet, for before the sun rises you will be a dead man.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000029_000000.wav|'Well, well, I will see what can be done,' said the wife, 'but talking is not good for you.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000018_000000.wav|He DID, but was ashamed to say so, and only answered: 'Well, I am sure it must be beautiful since you say so, and I shall be smarter than anyone in the whole village.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000030_000001.wav|At last, in the evening, she burst into tears, and when he inquired what was the matter, she sobbed out:|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000006_000000.wav|'That is bad enough, of course,' answered the other; 'but it is really NOTHING to what I have to endure every day from MY husband.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86039/2758_86039_000020_000000.wav|'Why do you stare at me so?|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000014_000001.wav|Those who desire to become artists, can greatly facilitate their work, if beginning for example with very simple outline decorative designs, and having learned the principles on which they are constructed, they would repeat or revise them to themselves before sleep, resolving to remember them.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000011_000000.wav|The manner in which most artists form an idea, or project their minds to a plan or invention, be it a statue or picture; and the way they think it over and anticipate it-very often actually seeing the picture in a finished state in imagination-all amounts to foresight and hypnotic preparation in a crude, imperfect form.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000007_000001.wav|They had at least one topic on which they could converse intelligently with any grown up person, and in which they were really superior to most.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000007_000000.wav|It was not remarkable, because boys and girls who had, at an average age of twelve or thirteen, learned the principles of design and its practical application to several kinds of handiwork, and knew the differences and characteristics of Gothic, Arabesque, or Greek patterns, all developed a far greater intelligence in general thought and conversation than others.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000012_000003.wav|Some of them once had minds-and these are the most pitiful or pitiable of all.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000012_000002.wav|That the innumerable multitude of people who can do nothing of the kind, and who take no real interest in anything except spending money and gossiping, are to be really pitied, is true.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000012_000001.wav|In any case, if they had learned to use their hands and their inventiveness or adaptability, they would have been the better for it.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000006_000001.wav|And the result of the investigation was that the two hundred were in advance of the one hundred and ten thousand in every branch-geography, arithmetic, history, and so on.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000005_000001.wav|Nearly all of the pupils, who were from ten to sixteen years of age, acquired two or three, if not all, of these arts, and then very easily found employment in factories or fabrics, etc|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000003_000000.wav|"He would have taught you how you might employ Yourself; and many did to him repair, And, certes, not in vain; he had inventions rare." --WORDSWORTH.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000014_000002.wav|The same principle is applicable to all kinds of designs, with the proviso that they be at first very easy.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000012_000000.wav|It is probable that half the general average cleverness of men is due to their having learned, as boys, games, or the art of making something, or mending and repairing.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86588/2758_86588_000006_000000.wav|Many people believed that this was all waste of money and time, and, quite unknown to me, at their instigation an inquiry was made of all the teachers in the public schools as to the standing of my art pupils in their other classes, it being confidently anticipated that they would be found to have fallen behind.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000036_000003.wav|Asmund, on his side, asked for the hand of Prince Ring's sister, which was gladly granted him, and the double wedding was celebrated with great rejoicings.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000006_000000.wav|'Now,' said he to his sister, 'I will have the trees hollowed out, and then I will make rooms in them and furnish them so that I shall be able to live out in the forest.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000030_000000.wav|So she watched for an opportunity and managed to carry off the brocade the first time the witch left her room.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000034_000000.wav|'Once I am married to the king's son I shall be better off than now. I shall take care to have all that pack of courtiers put to death, and then I shall send for all my relations to come and live here instead. I fancy the giants will enjoy themselves very much with me and my husband.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000031_000002.wav|But he had scarcely left the house when the witch began to rage as furiously as ever, and never stopped till her brother Ironhead appeared.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000007_000002.wav|I will bring all my pretty things and ornaments, and the trees are so near home we shall be quite safe in them.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000018_000000.wav|She took care not to be noticed as she reached the ship, and directly she got on board she once more changed to her former lovely appearance and told the prince that her luggage was now all on board, and that they need wait for nothing more.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000025_000002.wav|The horrid pair set to and greedily devoured it all, and when the chest was quite empty the giant put it on his shoulder and disappeared as he had come, without leaving any trace of his visit.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000037_000002.wav|And that is the end of the story.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000011_000000.wav|The prince lost no time in setting out for the royal palace, and on his way there he met such a wonderfully lovely woman that he felt he had never seen such beauty in all his life.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000026_000000.wav|But his sister did not keep quiet for long, and tore and pulled at the rich brocade as if she wanted to destroy it, stamping about and shouting angrily.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000007_000000.wav|'Oh, Asmund!' exclaimed Signy, 'what a delightful idea!|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000030_000002.wav|When it was finished she climbed to the top of her tree and contrived to throw the clothes on to a table through the open window.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000022_000000.wav|'Then,' replied Ring, 'let us decide on this day fortnight.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000015_000000.wav|The witch listened to all he said and, much pleased, ended by accepting his offer; but she begged him to return to his ship for a little while as she wished to go some way further into the forest, promising to join him later on.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000010_000001.wav|Prince Ring had heard so much about the beauty and goodness of Princess Signy that he determined to marry her if possible.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000003_000000.wav|Long, long ago, in the days when fairies, witches, giants and ogres still visited the earth, there lived a king who reigned over a great and beautiful country.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000032_000001.wav|He went to Prince Ring and said: 'Do come with me and see the strange things that are happening in the new princess's room.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000022_000001.wav|And see, I have brought you some stuff to make your wedding dress of.' So saying he gave her a large piece of the most beautiful brocade, all woven over with gold threads, and embroidered with pearls and other jewels.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000033_000001.wav|The witch was raving and roaring as usual, and said to her brother:|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000010_000000.wav|Now, I must tell you, in another country a long way off, there reigned a king who had an only son named Ring.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000003_000001.wav|He was married to a wife whom he dearly loved, and had two most promising children-a son called Asmund, and a daughter who was named Signy.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000005_000000.wav|Prince Asmund dearly loved all outdoor sports and an open air life, and from his earliest childhood he had longed to live entirely in the forest close by.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000012_000000.wav|'I am Signy, the king's daughter,' was the reply.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000036_000001.wav|The prince was quite astonished at them and at all their contents, but still more so at the extreme beauty of Signy.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000024_000000.wav|'What was SHE to do with such things?' she roared.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000010_000002.wav|So he begged his father to let him have a ship for the voyage, set sail with a favourable wind, and after a time landed in the country where Signy lived.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000021_000000.wav|'Yes,' said she, quite pleased, 'I am quite ready to marry you whenever you like.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000031_000001.wav|The next time Prince Ring came to see her she gave them to him, and he paid her many compliments on her skilful work, after which he took leave of her in the most friendly manner.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000017_000000.wav|Here she resumed her own gigantic shape, tore up the trees by their roots, threw one of them over her back and clasped the other to her breast, carried them down to the shore and waded out with them to the ship.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000014_000000.wav|Ring was quite deceived by her, and never guessed that she was not Princess Signy at all, but a strong, gigantic, wicked witch bent on deceiving him under a beautiful shape.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000023_000000.wav|The prince had hardly left her before the witch resumed her proper shape and tore about the room, raging and storming and flinging the beautiful silk on the floor.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000027_000000.wav|Now, all this time Prince Asmund and his sister sat in their trees just outside the window and saw all that was going on.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000036_000002.wav|He fell in love with her at once, and entreated her to marry him, which, after a time, she consented to do.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000009_000002.wav|During his absence the queen fell ill, and after lingering for some time she died, to the great grief of her children.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000009_000000.wav|Unfortunately sadder days were to come.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000019_000000.wav|The prince gave orders to set sail at once, and after a fine voyage landed in his own country, where his parents and his only sister received him with the greatest joy and affection.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000030_000001.wav|Then she set to work, cutting out and sewing as best she could, and by the end of six days she had turned it into an elegant robe with a long train and a mantle.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000037_000000.wav|After this Prince Asmund and his bride returned to his country to live with the king his father.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/86040/2758_86040_000029_000000.wav|'I will try,' said Signy; 'it won't be an easy matter, but it's worth while taking some trouble to have a little peace.'|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/161217/2758_161217_000013_000001.wav|In their hands they bear either a dagger, scourge, torch, or serpent.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2758/161217/2758_161217_000002_000000.wav|THE HARPIES.|2758
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000016_000007.wav|They saw her vanish through the wicket gate into the churchyard, and when they came nearer they saw the ghouls sitting on the tombstone as Eliza had seen them, and the King turned away his head, for he thought she was with them-she whose head had rested on his breast that very evening.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000025.wav|The heavens were lighted up with continual flashes, and peal after peal of thunder rolled.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000009.wav|Early one morning the Queen went into the bathroom; it was built of marble, and had soft cushions trimmed with the most beautiful tapestry.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000013_000000.wav|"Come with me," he said; "here you cannot remain.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000016.wav|Then she offered a prayer from her inmost heart, but still no appearance of the rock.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000026_000001.wav|Every piece of fagot in the pile had taken root, and thrown out branches, and appeared a thick hedge, large and high, covered with roses, while above all bloomed a white and shining blossom that glittered like a star.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000012.wav|As Eliza dipped her head under the water one of the toads sat on her hair, a second on her forehead, and a third on her breast, but she did not seem to notice them, and when she rose out of the water there were three red poppies floating upon it.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000006.wav|By her side lay a branch full of beautiful ripe berries and a bundle of sweet roots; the youngest of her brothers had gathered them for her, and placed them by her side.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000004.wav|The ten coats of mail lay at her feet, she was working hard at the eleventh, while the mob jeered her and said, "See the witch, how she mutters!|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000005.wav|At sunset her brothers returned and were very much frightened when they found her dumb.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000016_000008.wav|"The people must condemn her," said he, and she was very quickly condemned by everyone to suffer death by fire.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000002.wav|It was very large and strong.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000013_000001.wav|If you are as good as you are beautiful, I will dress you in silk and velvet, I will place a golden crown on your head, and you shall dwell and rule and make your home in my richest castle." And then he lifted her on his horse.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000001_000005.wav|Their father, who was King of the country, married a very wicked Queen who did not love the poor children at all. They knew this from the very first day after the wedding.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000019.wav|These hideous creatures took off their rags, as if they intended to bathe, and then, clawing open the grassy graves with their long skinny fingers, pulled out the bones and threw them about!|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000010.wav|Altogether it formed a more beautiful picture than she had ever seen; but as the sun rose higher, and the clouds were left behind, the shadowy picture vanished away.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000007.wav|At fifteen she returned home, but when the Queen saw how beautiful she was, she became full of spite and hatred toward her.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000013_000012.wav|These things had been brought away from the cave as curiosities by one of the huntsmen.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000036.wav|So there continued to pass before her eyes a constant change of scene, till at last she saw the real land to which they were bound, with its blue mountains, its cedar forests, and its cities and palaces.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000013_000010.wav|Then the King opened the door of a little chamber in which she was to sleep; it was adorned with rich green tapestry, and resembled the cave in which he had found her.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000003.wav|Eliza laid herself down on the net, and when the sun rose and her brothers again became wild swans, they took up the net with their beaks and flew up to the clouds with their dear sister, who still slept. The sunbeams fell on her face, therefore one of the swans soared over her head, so that his broad wing might shade her.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000016.wav|When the wicked Queen saw this, she rubbed her face with walnut juice, so that she was quite brown; then she tangled her beautiful hair and smeared it with disgusting ointment, till it was quite impossible to recognize the beautiful Eliza.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000003_000002.wav|Then poor Eliza wept, and thought of her eleven brothers who were all away.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000012.wav|Therefore at night she crept away into her little chamber, which had been decked out to look like the cave, and quickly wove one coat after another.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000026_000002.wav|This flower the King plucked and placed in Eliza's bosom, when she awoke from her swoon with peace and happiness in her heart.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000021_000000.wav|And then they pressed toward her, and would have destroyed the coats of mail, but at the same moment eleven wild swans flew over her and alighted on the cart.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000005_000008.wav|It is God who makes the wild apples grow in the wood to satisfy the hungry, and He now led her to one of these trees, which was so loaded with fruit that the boughs bent beneath its weight.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000001_000001.wav|The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a star on his breast and a sword by his side.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000002.wav|Her lovely hair hung loose on her shoulders, her cheeks were deadly pale, her lips moved silently, while her fingers still worked at the green flax.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000001_000007.wav|The week after she sent little Eliza into the country to a peasant and his wife, and then she told the King so many untrue things about the young princes that he gave himself no more trouble respecting them.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000010_000008.wav|Break them to pieces with your hands and feet, and they will become flax, from which you must spin and weave eleven coats with long sleeves; if these are then thrown over the eleven swans the spell will be broken.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000010_000007.wav|These you must gather even while they burn blisters on your hands.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000004_000002.wav|She saw them writing with their diamond pencils on golden slates, while she looked at the beautiful picture book which had cost half a kingdom.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000008_000003.wav|Toward evening the rest came back, and as the sun went down they resumed their natural forms.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000004.wav|They hovered over the roof, twisted their long necks, and flapped their wings; but no one heard them or saw them, so they were at last obliged to fly away, high up in the clouds; and over the wide world they flew till they came to a thick, dark wood, which stretched far away to the seashore.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000015.wav|How should she get out there?|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000019_000003.wav|Then the guard appeared, and even the King himself, inquiring what all the noise meant.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000005_000001.wav|There was a sweet fragrance from the fresh verdure, and the birds almost perched upon her shoulders.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000003_000007.wav|The light of hundreds of glowworms shone amidst the grass and the moss, like green fire; and if she touched a twig with her hand ever so lightly, the brilliant fireflies fell down around her like shooting stars.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000014.wav|In a very few minutes all the huntsmen stood before the cave, and the handsomest of them was the King of the country.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000021.wav|They sank so rapidly that at the moment their feet touched the rock the sun shone only like a star, and at last disappeared like the last spark in a piece of burned paper.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000001.wav|An old horse drew the cart on which she sat They had dressed her in a garment of coarse sackcloth.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000019_000001.wav|They were told it could not be, it was yet almost night, and as the King slept they dared not disturb him.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000023.wav|There was but just room enough for them, and not the smallest space to spare.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000005_000002.wav|She heard water rippling from a number of springs, all flowing into a lake with golden sands. Bushes grew thickly around the lake, and at one spot an opening had been made by a deer, through which Eliza went down to the water.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000017.wav|"I must venture; I shall not be denied help from heaven." Then with a trembling heart, as if she were about to perform a wicked deed, she crept into the garden in the broad moonlight, and passed through the narrow walks and the deserted streets till she reached the churchyard.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000010.wav|Oh, if she had only been able to confide in him and tell him of her grief!|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000001_000000.wav|FAR away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and one daughter named Eliza.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000024_000000.wav|"Now I may speak!" she exclaimed.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000009.wav|But she loved the kind, handsome King, who did everything to make her happy, more and more each day; she loved him with her whole heart, and her eyes beamed with the love she dared not speak.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000003.wav|Even on the way to death she would not give up her task.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000008.wav|She kept at her work all night, for she could not rest till she had released her dear brothers.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000009.wav|During the whole of the following day, while her brothers were absent, she sat in solitude, but never before had the time flown so quickly.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000001_000003.wav|Their sister Eliza sat on a little stool of plate glass, and had a book full of pictures which had cost as much as half a kingdom.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000004.wav|Then the archbishop whispered wicked words in the King's ear, but they did not sink into his heart.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000004_000004.wav|In the picture book, too, everything was living.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000010_000010.wav|The first word you utter will pierce through the hearts of your brothers like a deadly dagger. Their lives hang upon your tongue.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000006.wav|She sits there with her ugly sorcery.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000013.wav|Immediately a great dog came bounding toward her out of the ravine, and then another and another; they barked loudly, ran back, and then came again.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000013_000009.wav|She looked the very picture of grief.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000014_000000.wav|"Here you can dream yourself back again in the old home in the cave," said the King; "here is the work with which you employed yourself.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000026_000003.wav|And all the church bells rang of themselves and the birds came in great troops.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000019_000002.wav|They threatened, they entreated.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000007_000027.wav|Two days longer we can remain here, and then must we fly away to a beautiful land which is not our home; and how can we take you with us?|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000000.wav|"Go out into the world and get your own living," said the Queen.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000016_000001.wav|From day to day his brow became darker, and Eliza saw it and did not understand the reason, but it alarmed her and made her heart tremble for her brothers.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000009_000015.wav|When the sun set they would change to men, fall into the sea, and be drowned.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000003_000006.wav|All nature was still, and the soft, mild air fanned her forehead.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000004.wav|So she bruised the nettles with her bare feet and spun the flax.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000011_000011.wav|The sound came nearer and nearer; she heard the dogs barking, and fled with terror into the cave.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000012_000001.wav|But Eliza shook her head.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000003_000000.wav|When her father saw her, he was much shocked and declared she was not his daughter.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000001.wav|She thought of her brothers, and their release made her so joyful that she kissed the King's hand.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000021_000001.wav|Then they flapped their large wings and the crowd drew on one side in alarm.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000000.wav|And now all the people came streaming forth from the gates of the city to see the witch burned.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000002_000005.wav|Poor little Eliza was alone in her room playing with a green leaf, for she had no other playthings, and she pierced a hole through the leaf and looked through it at the sun, and it was as if she saw her brothers' clear eyes, and when the warm sun shone on her cheeks she thought of all the kisses they had given her.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000012_000002.wav|She dared not speak, at the cost of her brothers' lives.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000026_000000.wav|"Yes, she is innocent," said the eldest brother; and then he related all that had taken place, and while he spoke there rose in the air a fragrance as from millions of flowers.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000020_000007.wav|Let us tear it in a thousand pieces."|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000016_000005.wav|She thought with terror of the solitary walk, and of the horrible ghouls, but her will was firm, as well as her trust in Providence.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000024_000001.wav|"I am innocent."|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000008_000006.wav|Have you courage to go with us?|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000015_000022.wav|Now he thought his opinion was evidently correct.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000023_000000.wav|As the executioner seized her by the hand to lift her out of the cart, she hastily threw the eleven coats of mail over the swans, and they immediately became eleven handsome princes; but the youngest had a swan's wing instead of an arm, for she had not been able to finish the last sleeve of the coat.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2741/159386/2741_159386_000003_000001.wav|No one but the watchdog and the swallows knew her, and they were only dumb animals and could say nothing.|2741
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000017_000001.wav|He sees visions of visits to Washington to consult the President upon matters of state, and perhaps he sees an ambassadorship in the misty future.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000009_000002.wav|He divided each of these states into units containing five thousand voters, and, at the national headquarters, he placed one man in charge of each unit.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000017_000002.wav|He becomes Rockland's ardent supporter, and his purse is open and his influence is used to the fullest extent.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000009_000006.wav|It was easy then to know how to reach each individual by literature, by persuasion or perhaps by some more subtle argument.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000002_000000.wav|THE MAKING OF A PRESIDENT|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000015_000005.wav|When he reached Rockland's home he would at first be denied admittance.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000019_000002.wav|Selwyn's force, from end to end, was composed of able men who did a full day's work under the eye of their watchful taskmaster.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000014_000000.wav|The opposition had its candidates going by special train to every part of the Union, making many speeches every day, and mostly to voters that could not be driven from him either by force or persuasion.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000022_000001.wav|But, after he had been bitterly assailed by Selwyn's papers and by his senators, he made no further attempts at independence.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000008_000000.wav|He began by eliminating all states he knew the opposition party would certainly carry, but he told the party leaders there to claim that a revolution was brewing, and that a landslide would follow at the election.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000013_000002.wav|These were the ones that would read every line in their local papers and ponder over it.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000006_000001.wav|It was done so adroitly that Rockland would have been fooled himself, had not Selwyn informed him in advance of each move as it was made.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000004_000000.wav|Newspapers were subsidized in ways they scarcely recognized themselves. Honest officials who were in the way were removed by offering them places vastly more remunerative, and in this manner he built up a strong, intelligent and well constructed machine.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000015_000006.wav|His sponsor would say,--"this is mr Munting of Muntingville." "Oh, pardon me, mr Munting, Governor Rockland expects you."|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000010_000000.wav|In the states so divided, there was, at the local headquarters, one man for each unit just as at the national headquarters.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000014_000002.wav|They wanted the candidate to remember the enthusiasm of these places, and to leave greatly pleased and under the belief that he was making untold converts.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000010_000003.wav|The money that it cost to maintain such an organization was more than saved from the waste that would have occurred under the old method.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000015_000003.wav|An appointment would be arranged.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000016_000000.wav|And in this way he is ushered into the presence of the great.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000013_000000.wav|The opposition was spending large sums upon the daily press.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000016_000002.wav|I recall the address you made a few years ago when you gave a library to Muntingville.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000015_000000.wav|Selwyn kept Rockland at home, and arranged to have him meet by special appointment the important citizens of the twelve uncertain states.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000010_000001.wav|So these two had only each other to consider, and their duty was to bring to Rockland a majority of the one thousand votes within their charge.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000017_000000.wav|When Munting leaves he is stepping on air.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000009_000000.wav|He also ignored the states where his side was sure to win.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000024_000000.wav|He now had the Senate, the Executive and a majority of the Court of last resort.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000008_000001.wav|This would keep his antagonists busy and make them less effective elsewhere.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000007_000003.wav|To ward heelers, to the daily press, and to professional stump speakers, he gave scant comfort.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000024_000002.wav|He had reached the summit of his ambition, and the joy of it made all his work seem worth while.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000011_000000.wav|The opposition management was sending out tons of printed matter, but they sent it to state headquarters that, in turn, distributed it to the county organizations, where it was dumped into a corner and given to visitors when asked for.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000009_000003.wav|Of the five thousand, he roughly calculated there would be two thousand voters that no kind of persuasion could turn from his party and two thousand that could not be changed from the opposition.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000007_000000.wav|After the nomination, Selwyn had trusted men put in charge of the campaign, which he organized himself, though largely under cover.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000007_000002.wav|He put out the cry of lack of funds, and indeed it seemed to be true, for he was too wise to make a display of his resources.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000013_000001.wav|Selwyn used the weekly press so that he could reach the fireside of every farmer and the dweller in the small country towns.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000021_000000.wav|There followed in orderly succession the inauguration, the selection of cabinet officers and the new administration was launched.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000005_000000.wav|It was a fascinating game to Selwyn.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000022_000002.wav|He felt that he was utterly helpless in that strong man's hands, and so, indeed, he was.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000003_000001.wav|The task was not difficult to a man of his sagacity with all the money he could spend.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000005_000003.wav|He arranged to have his name appear less frequently in the press and he never submitted to interviews, laughingly ridding himself of reporters by asserting that he knew nothing of importance.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000015_000004.wav|Just before he came into Rockland's presence, his name and a short epitome of his career would be handed to Rockland to read.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000016_000001.wav|His fame, up to a moment ago, was unknown to Rockland, but he now grasps his hand cordially and says,--"I am delighted to know you, mr Munting.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000010_000002.wav|The local men gave the conditions, the national men gave the proper literature and advice, and the local man then applied it.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000015_000002.wav|He would know it was his influence that was wanted but, even so, there was a subtle flattery in that.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000014_000003.wav|As a matter of fact his voice would seldom reach any but a staunch partisan.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000025_000001.wav|He did not know, could not know, what force was working to his ruin and to the ruin of his system.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000018_000001.wav|It was all so simple.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000019_000001.wav|The pay roll of the opposition was filled with incompetent political hacks, that had been fastened upon the management by men of influence.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000007_000004.wav|It was not to such sources that he looked for success.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000004_000001.wav|It was done so sanely and so quietly that no one suspected the master mind behind it all. Selwyn was responsible to no one, took no one into his confidence, and was therefore in no danger of betrayal.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000009_000007.wav|No mistake was made by sending the wrong letter or the wrong man to any of the desired one thousand.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000003_000000.wav|Selwyn now devoted himself to the making of enough conservative senators to control comfortably that body.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000009_000004.wav|This would leave one thousand doubtful ones to win over.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000024_000001.wav|The government was in his hands.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000023_000000.wav|One of the Supreme Court justices died, two retired because of age, and all were replaced by men suggested by Selwyn.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58025/6080_58025_000005_000004.wav|He had a supreme contempt for the blatant self advertised politician, and he removed himself as far as possible from that type.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000019_000001.wav|I have no desire to destroy and kill, and yet there is within me the lust for action and battle.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000017_000001.wav|"An American soldier has to fight so seldom that I have heard that the insurance companies regard them as the best of risks, so what attraction, mr Dru, can a military career have for you?"|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000006.wav|For him the door of opportunity was closed, and he struggled from the cradle to the grave for the minimum of food and clothing necessary to keep breath within the body.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000021_000001.wav|Is that all you have in mind to do in the world?"|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000025_000004.wav|Not satisfied with reasonable gain, they sought to multiply it beyond all bounds of need.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000003_000000.wav|GRADUATION DAY|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000004.wav|He therefore struck out blindly and cruelly, and the innocent went down with the guilty.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000007.wav|His labor and his very life itself was subject to the greed, the passion and the caprice of his over lord.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000014_000001.wav|And yet her frank glance of appraisal when he had been introduced to her, and her easy though somewhat languid conversation on the affairs of the commencement, perplexed and slightly annoyed him.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000027_000001.wav|And from the blood and travail of an enlightened people, there will be born a spirit of love and brotherhood which will transform the world; and the Star of Bethlehem, seen but darkly for two thousand years, will shine again with a steady and effulgent glow."|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000025_000001.wav|The divinity of kings, the God given right to rule, was shattered for all time.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000021_000000.wav|"But suppose there is no war," she demanded, "suppose you go on living at barracks here and there, and with no broader outlook than such a life entails, will you be satisfied?|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000025_000005.wav|They who had sprung from the people a short life span ago were now throttling individual effort and shackling the great movement for equal rights and equal opportunity."|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000026_000000.wav|Dru's voice became tense and vibrant, and he talked in quick sharp jerks.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000003.wav|He knew he had suffered grievous wrongs, but he did not know how to right them.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000019_000005.wav|Oftentimes our inclinations lead us in certain directions, and it is only afterwards that it seems as if fate may from the first have so determined it."|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000014_000002.wav|He even felt some embarrassment in her presence.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000011_000001.wav|He saw many of the civil institutions of his country debased by the power of wealth under the thin guise of the constitutional protection of property.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000022_000002.wav|He wondered, too, if she would understand if he told her all that was in his mind.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000006_000000.wav|The laborer in the cities, the producer on the farm, the merchant, the professional man and all save organized capital and its satellites, saw a gloomy and hopeless future.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000007_000000.wav|With these conditions prevailing, the graduation exercises of the class of nineteen twenty of the National Military Academy at West Point, held for many a foreboding promise of momentous changes, but the twelfth of June found the usual gay scene at the great institution overlooking the Hudson.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000000.wav|"Gloria, we are entering a new era.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000022_000000.wav|He looked at her more perplexed than ever.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000012_000000.wav|The young man's eyes had become bright and hard, when his day dream was interrupted, and he was looking into the gray blue eyes of Gloria Strawn-the one whose lot he had been comparing to that of her sisters in the city, in the mills, the sweatshops, the big stores, and the streets.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000019_000002.wav|It is the primitive man in me, I suppose, but sobered and enlightened by civilization.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000019_000004.wav|Fate, inclination, or what not has brought me here, and I hope my life may not be wasted, but that in God's own way, I may be a humble instrument for good.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000019_000000.wav|"As far back as I can remember," he said, "I have wanted to be a soldier.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000025_000002.wav|The giant at last knew his strength, and with head erect, and the light of freedom in his eyes, he dared to assert the liberty, equality and fraternity of man.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000015_000000.wav|Child though he knew her to be, he hesitated whether he should call her by her given name, and was taken aback when she smilingly thanked him for doing so, with the assurance that she was often bored with the eternal conventionality of people in her social circle.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000005.wav|He was almost wholly ignorant for in the scheme of society as then constructed, the ruling few felt that he must be kept ignorant, otherwise they could not continue to hold him in bondage.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000012_000001.wav|He had met her for the first time a few hours before, when his friend and classmate, Jack Strawn, had presented him to his sister.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000001.wav|The past is no longer to be a guide to the future.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000004_000000.wav|In the year nineteen twenty, the student and the statesman saw many indications that the social, financial and industrial troubles that had vexed the United States of America for so long a time were about to culminate in civil war.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000023_000002.wav|A century and a half ago there arose in France a giant that had slumbered for untold centuries.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000011_000002.wav|He saw the Army which he had sworn to serve faithfully becoming prostituted by this same power, and used at times for purposes of intimidation and petty conquests where the interests of wealth were at stake.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000009_000001.wav|He saw the gleaming brook that wound its way through the tangle of orchard and garden, and parted the distant blue grass meadow.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000014_000000.wav|To Philip Dru, whose thought of and experience with women was almost nothing, so engrossed had he been in his studies, military and economic, Gloria seemed little more than a child.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000022_000001.wav|Such an observation of life, his life, seemed beyond her years, for he knew but little of the women of his own generation.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000025_000000.wav|"But out of that revelry of blood there dawned upon mankind the hope of a more splendid day.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000016_000000.wav|Suddenly turning from the commonplaces of the day, Gloria looked directly at Philip, and with easy self possession turned the conversation to himself.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000008_000000.wav|There was among the young graduating soldiers one who seemed depressed and out of touch with the triumphant blare of militarism, for he alone of his fellow classmen had there no kith nor kin to bid him God speed in his new career.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000005_000000.wav|Wealth had grown so strong, that the few were about to strangle the many, and among the great masses of the people, there was sullen and rebellious discontent.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000024_000000.wav|"So when he awoke he could only destroy.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000020_000000.wav|The mischievous twinkle left the girl's eyes, and the languid tone of her voice changed to one a little more like sincerity.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000027_000000.wav|"Nowhere in the world is wealth more defiant, and monopoly more insistent than in this mighty republic," he said, "and it is here that the next great battle for human emancipation will be fought and won.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000010_000000.wav|He saw his aged mother sitting under the honeysuckle trellis, book in hand, but thinking, he knew, of him.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000013_000000.wav|She was disappointed in his appearance, for she had fancied him almost god like in both size and beauty, and she saw a man of medium height, slender but toughly knit, and with a strong, but homely face.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000013_000001.wav|When he smiled and spoke she forgot her disappointment, and her interest revived, for her sharp city sense caught the trail of a new experience.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000007_000002.wav|The scene had all the usual charm of West Point graduations, and the usual intoxicating atmosphere of military display.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000011_000003.wav|He saw the great city where luxury, dominant and defiant, existed largely by grace of exploitation- exploitation of men, women and children.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/58012/6080_58012_000019_000003.wav|I would do everything in my power to avert war and the suffering it entails.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000005_000003.wav|His proofs were so clear, his evidence so sharply superior to tradition, that he broke away finally from all control.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000006_000007.wav|Everything else is argument and opinion, and fluctuates with the vicissitudes, the self consciousness, and the courage of the human mind.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000011_000005.wav|The trouble lies deeper than the press, and so does the remedy.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000004_000002.wav|The rest is in the journalist's own discretion. Once he departs from the region where it is definitely recorded at the County Clerk's office that john Smith has gone into bankruptcy, all fixed standards disappear.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000003_000003.wav|In this sector, and only in this sector, the tests of the news are sufficiently exact to make the charges of perversion or suppression more than a partisan judgment.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000008_000002.wav|Unconsciously the theory sets up the single reader as theoretically omnicompetent, and puts upon the press the burden of accomplishing whatever representative government, industrial organization, and diplomacy have failed to accomplish.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000006_000000.wav|The task of deflating these controversies, and reducing them to a point where they can be reported as news, is not a task which the reporter can perform.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000009_000002.wav|It is not workable.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000006_000005.wav|The theory that the press can itself record those forces is false.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000008_000000.wav|If the newspapers, then, are to be charged with the duty of translating the whole public life of mankind, so that every adult can arrive at an opinion on every moot topic, they fail, they are bound to fail, in any future one can conceive they will continue to fail.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000008_000003.wav|Acting upon everybody for thirty minutes in twenty four hours, the press is asked to create a mystical force called Public Opinion that will take up the slack in public institutions.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000011_000000.wav|The press is no substitute for institutions.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000001_000000.wav|NEWS, TRUTH, AND A CONCLUSION|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000005_000001.wav|He may have all kinds of moral courage, and sometimes has, but he lacks that sustaining conviction of a certain technic which finally freed the physical sciences from theological control.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000009_000001.wav|The Court of Public Opinion, open day and night, is to lay down the law for everything all the time.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000004_000004.wav|There are no canons to direct his own mind, and no canons that coerce the reader's judgment or the publisher's.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000007_000002.wav|And when we expect it to supply such a body of truth we employ a misleading standard of judgment.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000002_000002.wav|We shall prove that on this point the newspaper lied.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000007_000000.wav|If the press is not so universally wicked, nor so deeply conspiring, as mr Sinclair would have us believe, it is very much more frail than the democratic theory has as yet admitted.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000012_000000.wav|That is the radical way.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000008_000006.wav|Institutions, having failed to furnish themselves with instruments of knowledge, have become a bundle of "problems," which the population as a whole, reading the press as a whole, is supposed to solve.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000004_000006.wav|How can he demonstrate the truth as he sees it?|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000006_000006.wav|It can normally record only what has been recorded for it by the working of institutions.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000011_000008.wav|Then, too, the news is uncovered for the press by a system of intelligence that is also a check upon the press.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000004_000000.wav|The absence of these exact tests accounts, I think, for the character of the profession, as no other explanation does.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000007_000001.wav|It is too frail to carry the whole burden of popular sovereignty, to supply spontaneously the truth which democrats hoped was inborn.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000012_000002.wav|It is because they are compelled to act without a reliable picture of the world, that governments, schools, newspapers and churches make such small headway against the more obvious failings of democracy, against violent prejudice, apathy, preference for the curious trivial as against the dull important, and the hunger for sideshows and three legged calves.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000011_000003.wav|They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000006_000002.wav|The press, in other words, can fight for the extension of reportable truth.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000005_000004.wav|But the journalist has no such support in his own conscience or in fact.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000012_000003.wav|This is the primary defect of popular government, a defect inherent in its traditions, and all its other defects can, I believe, be traced to this one.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000009_000003.wav|And when you consider the nature of news, it is not even thinkable.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000003_000006.wav|But when it comes to dealing, for example, with stories of what the Russian people want, no such test exists.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6080/233342/6080_233342_000002_000001.wav|If we assume with mr Sinclair, and most of his opponents, that news and truth are two words for the same thing, we shall, I believe, arrive nowhere.|6080
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000013_000001.wav|If your nose itches, it is a sign of a present.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000022_000001.wav|Itching in the palm is a sign of a fight, or of seeing a stranger.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000023_000001.wav|An unexpected scratch denotes surprise.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000035_000000.wav|APPAREL.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000003_000002.wav|Some say,--|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000048_000001.wav|If you break your needle in making a dress, you will live to wear it out.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128677/979_128677_000003_000001.wav|If your left ear itches, some one is saying unpleasant things about you; but if your right ear, pleasant things.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000032_000001.wav|Go out of doors, count three, stop and pick up the stone nearest to your toe.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000026_000001.wav|Make a wart bleed, and put the blood on a penny, throw the latter away, and the finder will get the wart.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000039_000001.wav|Take a potato and rub it over the wart, then wrap the potato in a piece of paper and throw it away.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000004_000000.wav|CURES.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000023_000001.wav|Warts are cured by stealing pork from the family barrel of salted pork, rubbing the warts with it, and throwing it into the road.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000040_000001.wav|Rub the wart with a cotton rag, spit on the rag and hide it under a water board (a wooden gutter used as a duct for rain water off the roof of a house), where the water will drip on it.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000032_000002.wav|Wrap it up in a paper, and throw it away.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000047_000002.wav|As the joints rot, the warts disappear.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000031_000003.wav|Roll them in paper and throw them away.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128670/979_128670_000009_000001.wav|If you find an old bone in the field, rub the wart with it, then lay it down exactly as you found it.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000035_000001.wav|An Indian doctor used for inflammation of the eyes rain water caught on the third, fourth, and fifth of June.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000024_000001.wav|Toothache may be cured by a written charm, sealed up and worn around the neck of the afflicted person.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000024_000002.wav|The following is a copy of the charm:--|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000046_000002.wav|Another custom is to steadily point a finger at the hiccougher, or to make him hold up his arm and shake it.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000042_000001.wav|A variant,--|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000029_000000.wav|WATER.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000054_000001.wav|For nose bleed, put a key down the back.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000016_000001.wav|Nightmare is caused by the nightmare man, a kind of evil spirit, struggling with one.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000056_000001.wav|For nose bleed, place a wad of paper between the upper lip and the gum.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000021_000001.wav|To cure a sty repeat at a cross roads,--|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000055_000001.wav|For nose bleed, hold up the right arm.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000034_000001.wav|Rain water caught the first of June will cure freckles.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000019_000000.wav|Sty, sty, go off my eye, Go on the first one that passes by.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128669/979_128669_000026_000001.wav|For toothache take an eyelash, an eyebrow, trimmings of the finger nails, and toe nails of the patient, bore a hole in a beech tree, and put them in.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128678/979_128678_000031_000001.wav|Wet the finger and touch the "letter" on the candle.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128678/979_128678_000042_000001.wav|Sweep the floor after dark, you'll see sickness before morning.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128678/979_128678_000056_000001.wav|If, when a newly married couple go to housekeeping, she slyly takes her mother's dish cloth or dish wiper, she will never be homesick.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128678/979_128678_000027_000000.wav|DOMESTIC LIFE.|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/979/128678/979_128678_000008_000001.wav|On cutting the finger nails:--|979
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000006_000005.wav|She had stood in it only the other day, penned from outsiders' view by the judge's outstretched arms.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000032_000001.wav|She had grasped and lifted the picture and seen-|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000028_000002.wav|Before she had begun to put things in order, the clock struck the half hour.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000017_000000.wav|"He will lock it when he goes out," she commented to herself.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000020_000005.wav|Certainly she had to take more than one look at the every day implements she carried to retain that balance of judgment which should prevent her from becoming the dupe of her own expectations.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000022_000002.wav|Not touch the curtain!|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000004.wav|Repose the most perfect and in the form of all others the sweetest to a tender mother, lay before her and touched her already yearning heart to tears.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000003_000002.wav|Was the child determined to share her vigil?|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000006_000007.wav|Instead of ignoring, she would recall the story of the place as it had been told her when she first came to settle in its neighbourhood.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000005_000000.wav|How calm the aspect of the lawn and its clustering shrubs.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000018_000004.wav|The doubt gave a tremulous eagerness to her step and caused her eye to wander immediately to that forbidden corner soon as she had stepped over the threshold.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000020_000002.wav|First, the great room before her presented a bare floor, whereas on her first visit it had been very decently, if not cheerfully, covered by a huge carpet rug.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000007_000001.wav|Well, it had been that, and Spencer's den of dissipation too!|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000025_000000.wav|"No," was his short reply.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000020_000001.wav|Two facts of which she immediately became cognisant, prevented this.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000007_000000.wav|Spencer's Folly!|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000035_000000.wav|IT WAS A HIGHLY FINISHED PORTRAIT OF OLIVER IN HIS YOUTH, WITH A BROAD BAND OF BLACK PAINTED DIRECTLY ACROSS THE EYES.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000004_000000.wav|Their rooms were over the parlour and thus as far removed as possible from the judge's den.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000033_000000.wav|But first, let me explain.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000034_000000.wav|The shock of what she saw would have unnerved a less courageous woman.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000023_000004.wav|She would ask.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000030_000000.wav|"There's another day to follow," he dryly remarked, rising and taking a key from his pocket.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000021_000000.wav|"I do not expect you to clean up here as thoroughly as you have your own rooms up stairs," he remarked, as she passed him.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000008_000001.wav|The family had been gone for months, and so no pity mingled with the excitement.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000008_000003.wav|Among the ruins, in a closet which the flames had spared, they found hunched up in one corner, the body of a man, in whose seared throat a wound appeared which had not been made by lightning or fire.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000023_000003.wav|It would be like him to shut out light and air.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000008_000005.wav|Spencer himself, returned they knew not how, to die of this self inflicted wound, in the dark corner of his grand but neglected dwelling.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000015_000001.wav|You will be choked, Judge."|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000029_000000.wav|"Oh!" she protested, with a pleading glance his way, "I'm not half done."|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000013_000001.wav|The carriage is ordered for half past nine."|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000006.wav|Yes, she was right.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000021_000002.wav|And mrs Scoville," he called out as she slipped through the doorway, "leave the door open and keep away as much as possible from the side of the room where I have nailed up the curtain.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000016_000000.wav|"No more than I have been for the last two days.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000020_000000.wav|But she could not, quite.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000006_000000.wav|Perched, as she was, in a window overlooking the lane, she had but to lift her eyes from the double fence (that symbol of sad seclusion) to light on the trees rising above that unspeakable ravine, black with memories she felt strangely like forgetting to night.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000026_000005.wav|She hastily slipped a cover on it, and without calling any further attention to her act, began to make up the bed.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000007.wav|Sorrow was slowly sapping the fountain of her darling's youth.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000021_000001.wav|"You haven't the time, or I the patience for too many strokes of the broom.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000006_000006.wav|Then, she had no mind for bygone horrors, her own tragedy weighed too heavily upon her; but to night, as she gazed, fascinated, anxious to forget herself, anxious to indulge in any thought which would relieve her from dwelling on the question she must settle before she slept, she allowed her wonder and her revulsion to have free course.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000021_000003.wav|I had rather not have that touched."|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000018_000002.wav|She was going to enter the room which had been barred from public sight by poor Bela's dying body.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000033_000001.wav|This picture was not like the others hanging about.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000018_000000.wav|Giving Reuther the rest of the work to do, she presently appeared before him with pail and broom and a pile of fresh linen.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000001.wav|Innocence was asleep at last.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000008_000002.wav|Not till the following day did the awful nature of the event break in its full horror upon the town.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000006_000004.wav|There, hidden but always seen by those who remembered the traditions of the place, mouldered away the walls of that old closet where the timorous, God stricken suicide had breathed out his soul.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000008.wav|If Reuther was to be saved, hope must come soon.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000020_000004.wav|Manifestly she was not to be allowed to pursue her duties unwatched.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000026_000003.wav|These had been left behind in the dead negro's room, and the judge had been sleeping just as she had feared, wrapped in a rug and with uncovered pillow.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000022_000003.wav|Why, that was the one thing in the room she wanted to touch; for in it she not only saw the carpet which had been taken up from the floor of the study, but a possible screen behind which anything might lurk-even his redoubtable secret.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000009_000000.wav|And this was what made the horror of the place till the tragedy of the opposite hollow added crime to crime, and the spot became outlawed to all sensitive citizens.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000031_000000.wav|The act expressed his wishes; and she was proceeding to carry out her things when a quick sliding noise from the wall she was passing, drew her attention and caused her to spring forward in an involuntary effort to catch a picture which had slipped its cord and was falling to the floor.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000013_000000.wav|"I am really sorry to trouble you, mrs Scoville; but if you have time this morning, will you clean up my study before I leave?|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000008_000000.wav|This was long before she herself had come to Shelby; but she had been told the story so often that it was quite as vivid to her as if she had been one of the innumerable men and women who had crowded the glistening, swimming streets to view this spectacle of destruction.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000011_000002.wav|Not a movement disturbed the closed lids on the wax like cheek.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000026_000001.wav|One thing was settled.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000026_000004.wav|This pillow was his own; it had not been brought down with the bed.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000004_000001.wav|In her own, which was front, she felt at perfect ease, and it was without any fear of disturbing either him or Reuther that she finally raised her window and allowed the cool wind to soothe her heated cheeks.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000033_000003.wav|From some motive of precaution or characteristic desire for concealment on the part of the judge, it had been closely wrapped about in heavy brown paper before being hung, and in the encounter which ensued between the falling picture and the spear of an image standing on a table underneath, this paper had received a slit through which Deborah had been given a glimpse of the canvas beneath.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000022_000001.wav|She felt that she had been set to work with a string tied round her feet.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000033_000002.wav|It was a veiled one.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000026_000002.wav|It was Bela's cot she saw before her-a cot without any sheets.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/69422/6286_69422_000028_000001.wav|He coughed and shook his head, but did not budge an inch.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000004.wav|Some, by energy and perseverance, rise from the bottom; some, by ill fortune or vice, fall from the top.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000007_000005.wav|So, too, in political society, statesmanship is made possible by traditional policies, generalship by military institutions, great financiers by established commerce.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000008_000002.wav|A certain personal idiosyncrasy must be assumed at bottom, else cotton damask would be as good as silk and all men having like opportunities would be equally great.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000001_000000.wav|An aristocratic society might accordingly be a perfect heaven if the variety and superposition of functions in it expressed a corresponding diversity in its members' faculties and ideals.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000001.wav|But such castes as exist in India, and the social classes we find in the western world, are not now based on any profound difference in race, capacity, or inclination.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000007_000001.wav|To be socially important and expressible in some common medium, initial differences in temper must be organised into custom and become cumulative by being imitated and enforced.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000007_000002.wav|The only artists who can show great originality are those trained in distinct and established schools; for originality and genius must be largely fed and raised on the shoulders of some old tradition.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000010_000004.wav|If Shakespeare had been born in Italy he might, if you will, have been a great poet, but Shakespeare he could never have been.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000002_000004.wav|One tribe would run errands as persistently as the ants; another would sing like the lark; a third would show a devil's innate fondness for stoking a fiery furnace.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000015_000004.wav|A bruised child wailing in the street, his small world for the moment utterly black and cruel before him, does not fetch his unhappiness from sophisticated comparisons or irrational envy; nor can any compensations and celestial harmonies supervening later ever expunge or justify that moment's bitterness.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000011_000004.wav|An exchange of places with such remote beings would too evidently leave each creature the very same that it was before; for after a nominal exchange of places each office would remain filled and no trace of a change would be perceptible.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000001_000001.wav|And, indeed, what aristocratic philosophers have always maintained is that men really differ so much in capacity that one is happier for being a slave, another for being a shopkeeper, and a third for being a king.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000002_000002.wav|It would seldom benefit a musician to be appointed admiral or a housemaid to become a prima donna.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000011_000003.wav|No one, except in wilful fancy, would envy the peculiar advantages of a whale or an ant, of an Inca or a Grand Lama.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000010_000000.wav|Distinction is thus in one sense artificial, since it cannot become important or practical unless a certain environment gives play to individual talent and preserves its originality; but distinction nevertheless is perfectly real, and not merely imputed.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000001_000002.wav|All professions, they say, even the lowest, are or may be vocations.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000011_000000.wav|The sense of injustice at unequal opportunities arises only when the two environments compared are really somewhat analogous, so that the illusion of a change of roles without a change of characters may retain some colour.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000000.wav|Aristocracy logically involves castes.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000015_000002.wav|The true reproach to which aristocracy and theism are open is the thwarting of those unequal natures and the consequent suffering imposed on them all.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000012_000001.wav|The first personal pronoun "I" is a concept so thoroughly universal that it can accompany any experience whatever, yet it is used to designate an individual who is really definable not by the formal selfhood which he shares with every other thinker, but by the special events that make up his life.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000006_000004.wav|Their only character is composed of the habits they have been led to acquire.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000008_000003.wav|This idiosyncrasy is brought out by social pressure, while in a state of nature it might have betrayed itself only in trivial and futile ways, as it does among barbarians.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000013_000004.wav|Even his most perversely metaphysical envy can begrudge to others only what he instinctively craves for himself.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000015_000005.wav|The pain may be whistled away and forgotten; the mind may be rendered by it only a little harder, a little coarser, a little more secretive and sullen and familiar with unrightable wrong.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000013_000000.wav|If a new birth could still be called by a man's own name, the reason would be that the concrete faculties now present in him are the basis for the ideal he throws out, and if these particular faculties came to fruition in a new being, he would call that being himself, inasmuch as it realised his ideal.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000007_000003.wav|A rich organisation and heritage, while they predetermine the core of all possible variations, increase their number, since every advance opens up new vistas; and growth, in extending the periphery of the substance organised, multiplies the number of points at which new growths may begin.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000008_000001.wav|Savages are born free and equal, but wherever a complex and highly specialised environment limits the loose freedom of those born into it, it also stimulates their capacity. Under forced culture remarkable growths will appear, bringing to light possibilities in men which might, perhaps, not even have been possibilities had they been left to themselves; for mulberry leaves do not of themselves develop into brocade.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000002.wav|They are based probably on the chances of some early war, reinforced by custom and perpetuated by inheritance.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000005.wav|But these readjustments are insignificant in comparison with the social inertia that perpetuates all the classes, and even such shifts as occur at once re-establish artificial conditions for the next generation.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000006_000003.wav|Most men have no vocation; and society, in imposing on them some chance language, some chance religion, and some chance career, first plants an ideal in their bosoms and insinuates into them a sort of racial or professional soul.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000015_000003.wav|Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000011_000005.wav|But the penny that one man finds and another misses would not, had fortune been reversed, have transmuted each man into the other.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000007_000000.wav|Variety in human dreams, like personality among savages, may indeed be inwardly very great, but it is not efficacious.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000002_000000.wav|Such assertions, coming from lordly lips, have a suspicious optimism about them; yet the faithful slave, such as the nurse we find in the tragedies, may sometimes have corresponded to that description.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000001_000003.wav|Some men, Aristotle tells us, are slaves by nature; only physical functions are spontaneous in them.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000015_000000.wav|It is not mere inequality, therefore, that can be a reproach to the aristocratic or theistic ideal.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000011_000007.wav|Yet the incipient fallacy lurking even in such suppositions becomes obvious when we inquire whether so blind an accident, for instance, as sex is also adventitious and ideally transferable and whether Jack and Jill, remaining themselves, could have exchanged genders.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000003.wav|A certain circulation, corresponding in part to proved ability or disability, takes place in the body politic, and, since the French Revolution, has taken place increasingly.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000015_000001.wav|Could each person fulfil his own nature the most striking differences in endowment and fortune would trouble nobody's dreams.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000007.wav|Thus stifled ability in the lower orders, and apathy or pampered incapacity in the higher, unite to deprive society of its natural leaders.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000010_000005.wav|Nor can it be called an injustice to all of us who are not Englishmen of Queen Elizabeth's time that Shakespeare had that advantage and was thereby enabled to exist.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000011_000001.wav|It was a just insight, for instance, in the Christian fable to make the first rebel against God the chief among the angels, the spirit occupying the position nearest to that which he tried to usurp. Lucifer's fallacy consisted in thinking natural inequality artificial. His perversity lay in rebelling against himself and rejecting the happiness proper to his nature.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000001_000004.wav|So long as they are humanely treated, it is, we may infer, a benefit for them to be commanded; and the contribution their labour makes toward rational life in their betters is the highest dignity they can attain, and should be prized by them as a sufficient privilege.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000006_000002.wav|It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6286/75355/6286_75355_000004_000006.wav|As a rule, men's station determines their occupation without their gifts determining their station.|6286
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000005_000001.wav|Suppose he had recognized you?" cried Henriette.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000001_000001.wav|I managed to raise twenty seven hundred dollars on my own account by the use of it last night."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000039_000000.wav|And, egad, it was: seventeen pearls of a value of twelve hundred dollars each, fifteen worth scarcely less than nine hundred dollars apiece, and some twenty seven or eight smaller ones that we held to be worth in the neighborhood of five hundred dollars each.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000029_000001.wav|Just watch me," she replied.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000000.wav|"Sarcasm does not suit your complexion, Bunny," retorted Henriette. "Your best method is to follow implicitly the directions of wiser brains.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000043_000000.wav|"I shall provide for that," said this wonderful woman.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000012_000000.wav|"Yes," said i "She is the lady who asked me for the olives at your last dinner."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000004_000002.wav|Muffling myself up so that no one could recognize me, I hired a cab and drove out to the Rockerbilt mansion, sent in word that mr de Pelt's man was waiting for him, and in ten minutes had the young gentleman in my possession.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000031_000000.wav|"There!" she said-and at last I understood.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000014_000002.wav|Cable, yes-frankly, when she came into the dining room the other night I thought it was a feather boa she had on."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000009_000000.wav|"I, Bunny?|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000013_000001.wav|"You possibly observed also that wherever she goes she wears about sixty nine yards of pearl rope upon her person."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000019_000001.wav|At my cry of dismay over the accident-"|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000006_000003.wav|He was very genial."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000025_000002.wav|Henriette was charming in her new gown specially imported from Paris-a gown of Oriental design with row upon row of brilliantly shining, crescent shaped ornaments firmly affixed to the front of it and every one of them as sharp as a steel knife.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000036_000001.wav|"Here, dear," she added, holding out a pair of teacups.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000035_000002.wav|There was a cry of dismay both from Henriette and her guest, and the rug beneath their feet was simply white with riches. In a moment I was upon my knees scooping them up by the handful.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000021_000000.wav|"Hush!|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000007.wav|At my next Tuesday tea she will be present.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000009.wav|A rope walk won't be in it with her, and every single little jewel will be worth a small fortune.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000002_000000.wav|"Indeed?" said Henriette, with a slight frown.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000002_000001.wav|"How, Bunny?|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000008_000000.wav|Again I laughed.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000027_000000.wav|"Remember, Bunny-calm deliberation-your gloves now," were her last words to me.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000006.wav|When a cold, formal handshake is necessary she perpetrates an embrace, and that is where we come in.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000009_000001.wav|Why, I haven't seen you since dinner," she demurred.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000005_000000.wav|"Mercy, Bunny, that was a terribly risky thing.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000020_000000.wav|"Better call it the incident," I put in.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000024_000000.wav|And then the conspiracy stopped for the moment.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000032_000000.wav|An hour later our victim arrived and scarce an inch of her but shone like a snow clad hill with the pearls she wore.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000001_000000.wav|"Well," I replied, pluming myself a bit, "I don't wish to boast, Henriette, but I think it is pretty good.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000001.wav|You are a first-class tool, but as a principal-well-well, never mind.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000037_000001.wav|"Tell me quickly-what was the result?"|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000019_000000.wav|"No, Bunny-you will behave like a gentleman, that is all," she responded, haughtily; "or rather like a butler with the instincts of a gentleman.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000005.wav|Where most people nod she describes a complete circle with her head.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000002_000002.wav|You know you are likely to complicate matters for all of us if you work on the side. What, pray, did you do last night?"|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000002.wav|You do what I tell you and some of those pearls will be ours.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000025_000000.wav|The following Tuesday at five the second of mrs Van Raffles's Tuesday afternoons began.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000011_000001.wav|You know mrs Gushington Andrews?"|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000010.wav|You, Bunny, will be in the room to announce her when she arrives.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000015_000001.wav|"There isn't one of the thousands that isn't worth anywhere from five hundred to twenty five hundred."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000007_000001.wav|I am delighted to have you show your nerve now and then, but please don't take any serious chances.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000023_000000.wav|"Nothing of the sort, Bunny; just do as I tell you-only bring your gloves to me just before the guests arrive, that is all," said Henriette.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000017_000008.wav|She will wear her pearls-she'll be strung with them from head to foot.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000043_000003.wav|Even then we'll be thirty five thousand dollars to the good.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000006_000000.wav|"Oh, he did-or at least he thought he did," I replied, smiling broadly at the recollection.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000004_000001.wav|It happened that it was I who took the message, and observing that Digby was engaged in a game of billiards, and likely to remain so for some time to come, I decided to go after the gentleman myself without saying anything to Digby about it.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000007_000000.wav|"Well, Bunny," said Henriette, "you are very clever at times, but do be careful.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000014_000000.wav|"Rope?" I laughed.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000014_000001.wav|"I shouldn't call that rope.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000004_000004.wav|His clothes I took, as a well ordered valet should, from his bed chamber into an adjoining room, where, after removing the contents of his pockets, I hung them neatly over a chair and departed, taking with me, of course, everything of value the young gentleman had about him, even down to the two brilliant rubies he wore in his garter buckles.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000023_000001.wav|"Instinct will carry you through the rest of it."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000029_000000.wav|"Hush!|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000033_000000.wav|"You dear, sweet thing!" cried mrs Gushington Andrews.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000025_000001.wav|Fortune favored us in that it was a beautiful day and the number of guests was large.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000015_000000.wav|"All pearls, Bunny, of the finest water," said Henriette, enthusiastically.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000004_000000.wav|"I was spending the evening at the Gentlemen's Gentlemen's Club," I explained, "when word came over the telephone to Digby, mr de Pelt's valet, that mr de Pelt was at the Rockerbilts' and in no condition to go home alone.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000042_000000.wav|"About that," said I, with an inward chuckle, for I, of course, did not tell Henriette of eight beauties I had kept out of the returns for myself.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107480/479_107480_000004_000005.wav|This consisted of two handfuls of crumpled twenty dollar bills from his trousers, three rolls of one hundred dollar bills from his waistcoat, and sundry other lots of currency, both paper and specie, that I found stowed away in his overcoat and dinner coat pockets.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000014_000000.wav|When Ribby had laid the table she went out down the field to the farm, to fetch milk and butter.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000018_000001.wav|They only bowed to one another; they did not speak, because they were going to have a party.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000007_000000.wav|"I am dreadfully afraid it WILL be mouse!" said Duchess to herself-"I really couldn't, COULDN'T eat mouse pie.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000083_000002.wav|Well I never did! . . .|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000034_000001.wav|"Just a shade longer; I will pour out the tea, while we wait. Do you take sugar, my dear Duchess?"|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000011_000000.wav|"The top oven bakes too quickly," said Ribby to herself.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000028_000000.wav|She sat down before the fire to wait for the little dog.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000009_000000.wav|"Oh what a good idea!|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/126480/479_126480_000033_000000.wav|"Oh, what lovely flowers!|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/134717/479_134717_000052_000000.wav|This Dust Was Once the Man|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/134717/479_134717_000043_000000.wav|O Captain!|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/134717/479_134717_000035_000000.wav|fifteen To the tally of my soul, Loud and strong kept up the gray brown bird, With pure deliberate notes spreading filling the night.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/134717/479_134717_000015_000000.wav|ten O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved? And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone? And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/134717/479_134717_000036_000000.wav|Loud in the pines and cedars dim, Clear in the freshness moist and the swamp perfume, And I with my comrades there in the night.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000034_000003.wav|The woman's presence in our household could not be but a source of danger to our peace of mind as well as to our profits, and for the life of me I could not see why Henriette should want her there.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000019_000000.wav|"No, indeed-she never saw me before, so how could she?|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000003_000001.wav|Few opportunities for personal profit escaped her eye, and I was able to observe as time went on and I noted the accumulation of spoons, forks, nutcrackers, and gimcracks generally that she brought home with her after her calls upon or dinners with ladies of fashion that she had that quality of true genius which never overlooks the smallest details.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000017_000002.wav|"He pointed her out to me in Piccadilly once and I have never forgotten her face."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000031_000001.wav|"The fact is," she added, "I have already engaged her.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000002_000006.wav|I had to join their club-an exclusive organization of butlers and "gentlemen's gentlemen"--otherwise valets-and in order to quiet all suspicion of my real status in the Van Raffles household I was compelled to act the part in a fashion which revolted me.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000020_000000.wav|"What for-to rob you?"|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000001_000000.wav|THE ADVENTURE OF mrs|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000015_000000.wav|"You don't understand," said Henriette.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000041_000000.wav|"Yes!" I cried, breathlessly.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000016_000000.wav|"How should I?" I demanded.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000047_000000.wav|Well, Henriette was right-except the Gaster jewels.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000017_000000.wav|"She was Fiametta de Belleville, one of the most expert hands in our business.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000042_000000.wav|"No, Bunny, no-the eaves," whispered Henriette.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000042_000002.wav|I am inclined to think-well, the moment she leaves the city let me know.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000009_000006.wav|For the good of our cause it is my task to lose steadily and with good grace.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000021_000000.wav|"No," returned Henrietta, "rather that we-but there, there, Bunny, I'll manage this little thing myself.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000022_000000.wav|"What do you suppose she is doing here?" I asked.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000021_000001.wav|It's a trifle too subtle for a man's intellect-especially when that man is you."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000004_000005.wav|I must do something to warn her against this momentary weakness.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000002_000005.wav|This went very much against the grain at first, for, although I am scarcely more than a thief after all, I am an artistic one, and still retain the prejudice against inferior associations which an English gentleman whatever the vicissitudes of his career can never quite rid himself of.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000004_000002.wav|Her color was high, and when she spoke her voice was tremulous.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000009_000003.wav|You don't suppose that I am going to risk my popularity with these Newport ladies by winning, do you?|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000009_000007.wav|This establishes my credit, proves my amiability, and confirms my popularity."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000002_000007.wav|Otherwise the position was pleasant, and, as I have intimated, more than lucrative.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000046_000002.wav|There were religious pictures upon the bureau, prayer books, and some volumes of essays of a spiritual nature were scattered about-nothing was there to indicate that the occupant was anything but a simple, sweet child of innocence except-|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000036_000000.wav|"Yes, madam," I said, responding immediately to her call.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000007_000001.wav|This won't do, Henriette.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000017_000001.wav|Poor old Raffles used to say that she diminished his income a good ten thousand pounds a year by getting in her fine work ahead of his," explained Henriette.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000013_000002.wav|We must get her, Bunny."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000027_000002.wav|Henriette and I, of course, knew that Fiametta de Belleville had accomplished her mission, but apparently no one else knew it.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000045_000001.wav|"And now, Bunny, for the Gaster jewels."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000003_000000.wav|It did not take me many days to discover that Henriette was a worthy successor to her late husband.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000041_000001.wav|"And search her trunks?"|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000033_000000.wav|"All right, Bunny, I'll remember," smiled mrs Van Raffles, and there the matter was dropped for the moment.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000044_000000.wav|I followed out Henriette's instructions to the letter, and an hour later returned with the information that Fiametta was, indeed, safely on her way.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000026_000000.wav|"Does it?" asked Henriette, enigmatically.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000038_000000.wav|"Yes!" said i "What of it?"|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000001_000001.wav|GASTER'S MAID|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000043_000001.wav|If I had not adored her before I-but enough.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000025_000001.wav|"That cuts us out, doesn't it?"|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000030_000000.wav|"Where then?" I asked.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000011_000000.wav|"I don't-but it is the prospect of future gain, not the reality of present losses, that has taken me off my poise," she said.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000006_000000.wav|"Yes," she replied.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000019_000004.wav|When I got the cloak back both were gone.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000043_000000.wav|Oh, that woman!|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000004_000001.wav|Henriette had been to a bridge afternoon at mrs Gaster's and upon her return manifested an extraordinary degree of excitement.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000028_000000.wav|"She'll skip now," said i|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000035_000000.wav|A week after Fiametta's arrival mrs Raffles rang hurriedly for me.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000000_000000.wav|three|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000009_000001.wav|"As if I cared about my losses at bridge!|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000039_000000.wav|"I want you during her absence to go with me to her room-"|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000014_000001.wav|"All this powwow over another woman's maid!"|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000019_000001.wav|But I knew her the minute she took my cloak," said Henriette.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000015_000002.wav|You can't guess who she was."|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000037_000001.wav|I have just sent Fiametta on an errand to Providence.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000029_000001.wav|"To disappear now would be a confession of guilt.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000002_000000.wav|Two days after my bargain with mr Harold Van Gilt, in which he acquired possession of the Scrappe jades and mrs Van Raffles and I shared the proceeds of the ten thousand dollars check, I was installed at Bolivar Lodge as head butler and steward, my salary to consist of what I could make out of it on the side, plus ten per cent. of the winnings of my mistress.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/479/107479/479_107479_000043_000002.wav|This is no place for sentiment.|479
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000038_000000.wav|OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000023_000000.wav|"If thou carriest thy wife with thee (and it is not well for those that administer governments to be long without their wives), teach and instruct her, and strive to smooth down her natural roughness; for all that may be gained by a wise governor may be lost and wasted by a boorish stupid wife.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000028_000000.wav|"When equity may and should be brought into play, press not the utmost rigour of the law against the guilty; for the reputation of the stern judge stands not higher than that of the compassionate.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000004_000001.wav|So having laid their plans and given instructions to their servants and vassals how to behave to Sancho in his government of the promised island, the next day, that following Clavileno's flight, the duke told Sancho to prepare and get ready to go and be governor, for his islanders were already looking out for him as for the showers of May.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000045_000000.wav|"Dine sparingly and sup more sparingly still; for the health of the whole body is forged in the workshop of the stomach.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000052_000000.wav|"Eruct, I shall say henceforth, and I swear not to forget it," said Sancho.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000009_000000.wav|"Senor," said Sancho, "it is my belief it's a good thing to be in command, if it's only over a drove of cattle."|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000051_000000.wav|"Eruct, Sancho, not belch," said Don Quixote.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000018_000000.wav|"That's the truth," said Sancho; "but that was when I was a boy; afterwards when I was something more of a man it was geese I kept, not pigs.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER forty two.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000062_000002.wav|Besides I can pretend my right hand is disabled and make some one else sign for me, for 'there's a remedy for everything except death;' and as I shall be in command and hold the staff, I can do as I like; moreover, 'he who has the alcalde for his father,' and I'll be governor, and that's higher than alcalde.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000006_000000.wav|"Recollect, Sancho," said the duke, "I cannot give a bit of heaven, no not so much as the breadth of my nail, to anyone; rewards and favours of that sort are reserved for God alone.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000050_000000.wav|"In truth, senor," said Sancho, "one of the counsels and cautions I mean to bear in mind shall be this, not to belch, for I'm constantly doing it."|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000039_000000.wav|Who, hearing the foregoing discourse of Don Quixote, would not have set him down for a person of great good sense and greater rectitude of purpose?|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000006_000001.wav|What I can give I give you, and that is a real, genuine island, compact, well proportioned, and uncommonly fertile and fruitful, where, if you know how to use your opportunities, you may, with the help of the world's riches, gain those of heaven."|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000059_000000.wav|"Thy attire shall be hose of full length, a long jerkin, and a cloak a trifle longer; loose breeches by no means, for they are becoming neither for gentlemen nor for governors.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000005_000001.wav|If your lordship would be so good as to give me ever so small a bit of heaven, were it no more than half a league, I'd rather have it than the best island in the world."|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000048_000000.wav|"Eruct!" said Sancho; "I don't know what that means."|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000063_000003.wav|Tell me, where dost thou pick them up, thou booby?|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000065_000000.wav|"That, Sancho, thou art not," said Don Quixote; "for not only art thou not sage silence, but thou art pestilent prate and perversity; still I would like to know what three proverbs have just now come into thy memory, for I have been turning over mine own-and it is a good one-and none occurs to me."|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000054_000000.wav|"God alone can cure that," said Sancho; "for I have more proverbs in me than a book, and when I speak they come so thick together into my mouth that they fall to fighting among themselves to get out; that's why my tongue lets fly the first that come, though they may not be pat to the purpose.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000014_000000.wav|"With so good a memory," said the duke, "Sancho cannot go wrong in anything."|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000003_000000.wav|OF THE COUNSELS WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA BEFORE HE SET OUT TO GOVERN THE ISLAND, TOGETHER WITH OTHER WELL CONSIDERED MATTERS|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000015_000006.wav|With a heart, then, inclined to believe what I have said to thee, attend, my son, to thy Cato here who would counsel thee and be thy polestar and guide to direct and pilot thee to a safe haven out of this stormy sea wherein thou art about to ingulf thyself; for offices and great trusts are nothing else but a mighty gulf of troubles.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000040_000000.wav|Sancho listened to him with the deepest attention, and endeavoured to fix his counsels in his memory, like one who meant to follow them and by their means bring the full promise of his government to a happy issue. Don Quixote, then, went on to say:|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000047_000000.wav|"Take care, Sancho, not to chew on both sides, and not to eruct in anybody's presence."|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000013_000001.wav|As for arms, I'll handle those they give me till I drop, and then, God be my help!"|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000029_000000.wav|"If perchance thou permittest the staff of justice to swerve, let it be not by the weight of a gift, but by that of mercy.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000015_000004.wav|Thou, who, to my thinking, art beyond all doubt a dullard, without early rising or night watching or taking any trouble, with the mere breath of knight errantry that has breathed upon thee, seest thyself without more ado governor of an island, as though it were a mere matter of course.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2127/138047/2127_138047_000015_000003.wav|Some will bribe, beg, solicit, rise early, entreat, persist, without attaining the object of their suit; while another comes, and without knowing why or wherefore, finds himself invested with the place or office so many have sued for; and here it is that the common saying, 'There is good luck as well as bad luck in suits,' applies.|2127
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000080_000000.wav|The rulers of these mournful regions were the Furies who, with unkempt hair and armed with whips, tormented the condemned without mercy by showing them continually in mirrors the images of their former crimes.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000088_000000.wav|Some distance from Sisyphus Hercules came upon Tantalus, who, in the flesh, had been King of Phrygia, but who now, weak from hunger and parched with thirst, was made to stand to his chin in water with branches of tempting luscious fruit hanging ripe over his head.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000011_000000.wav|All that was conceded to her was that Hercules should be put under the dominion of Eurystheus, King of Thebes, his eldest brother, a harsh and pitiless man.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000030_000000.wav|Minerva supplied Hercules with a brazen rattle with which he roused the birds from their nests, and then slew them with his poisoned arrows while they were on the wing.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000018_000000.wav|Finding that arrows and club made no impression upon the thick skin of the lion, the hero was constrained to trust entirely to his own thews and sinews.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000078_000000.wav|Immediately on quitting the presence of the three judges, Hercules saw them open out before him an immense gulf whence arose thick clouds of black smoke.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000108_000000.wav|With his powerful hands he broke off huge pieces of rock, tore up pine trees by their roots and hurled them with resounding din into the valley.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000013_000001.wav|But the hatred of Juno always pursued him.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000070_000001.wav|She held in her hand a distaff, wound with black and white woollen yarn, with which were sparingly intermixed strands of silk and gold.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000029_000000.wav|On an island in a lake near Stymphalus, in Arcadia, there nested in those days some remarkable and terrible birds-remarkable because their claws, wings and beaks were brazen, and terrible because they fed on human flesh and attacked with their terrible beaks and claws all who came near the lake.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000043_000002.wav|He had been told that Atlas could give him news of the tree.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000067_000000.wav|At the foot of Pluto's throne Hercules saw Death the Reaper.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000088_000001.wav|When he essayed to drink the water it always went from him, and when he stretched out his hand to pluck the fruit, back the branches sprang out of reach.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000059_000000.wav|As for Pirithous, the prime mover in the attempted outrage, him Hercules meant to leave to his fate.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000029_000001.wav|To kill these dreadful birds was the sixth labor.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000044_000001.wav|This means, perhaps, that in the kingdom of Atlas there were some mountains so high that their summits seemed to touch the sky.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000020_000000.wav|This reptile had nine heads of which the midmost was immortal.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000107_000001.wav|So when Hercules put it on, which he did immediately upon receiving it, he was seized with frenzy and, in his madness, he uttered terrible cries and did dreadful deeds.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000017_000001.wav|Arming himself with a heavy club and with a bow and arrows, he went in search of the lion's lair and soon found it.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000082_000001.wav|There were to be seen great scoundrels who had startled the world with their frightful crimes.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000065_000000.wav|As soon as the boat had touched the shore, Hercules went towards the gloomy palace of Pluto where he with difficulty, on account of the darkness, saw Pluto seated upon an ebony throne by the side of his beloved Proserpina.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000047_000000.wav|Hercules killed the dragon and carried off the apples, but they were afterwards restored to their place by Minerva.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000062_000000.wav|This river had not always run under the vaults of Hades.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000036_000002.wav|The scene of this labor was Thrace, an extensive region lying between the AEgean Sea, the Euxine or Black Sea, and the Danube.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000075_000000.wav|These judges could never be mistaken because Themis, the Goddess of Justice, held in front of them a pair of scales in which she weighed the actions of men.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000016_000000.wav|Eurystheus first set Hercules to keep his sheep at Nemea and to kill the lion that ofttimes carried off the sheep, and sometimes the shepherd also.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000097_000000.wav|Having at length found and released Theseus, Hercules set out with him for the upper world.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000104_000002.wav|He shot one of his poisoned arrows with so much force that it went right through the traitor Centaur, and wounded him even unto death.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000058_000001.wav|All this Hercules, who was the friend of Theseus, learnt while on one of his journeys, and he resolved to rescue Theseus from his eternal punishment.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000062_000002.wav|But when the Titans attempted to scale the heaven, this river had the ill luck to quench their thirst, and Jupiter to punish even the waters of the river for abetting his enemies, turned its course aside into the under world where its waves, slow moving and filthy, lost themselves in Styx, the largest of all the rivers of Hades, which ran round Pluto's gloomy kingdom no less than nine times.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000024_000000.wav|At length he shot at it and wounded it with an arrow-not, you may be sure, with one of the poisoned ones-and, having caught it thus wounded, he carried it on his shoulder to his brother and thus completed the third of his labors.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000113_000000.wav|Then he gathered together the trees he had uprooted and made a huge funeral pyre, such as was used by the ancients in burning their dead. Climbing to the top of the heap, he spread out the skin of the Nemean lion, and, supporting himself upon his club, gave the signal for Philoctetes to kindle the fire that was to reduce him to ashes.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000035_000000.wav|The taking of the mares of Diomedes was the eighth labor.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000114_000000.wav|In return for this service he gave Philoctetes a quiver full of those deadly arrows that had been dipped in the blood of the Hydra of Lerna.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000069_000000.wav|He had been wandering about some time when, in a gloomy chamber, he saw three old sisters, wan and worn, spinning by the feeble light of a lamp.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000070_000002.wav|The wool stood for the humdrum everyday life of man: the silk and gold marked the days of mirth and gladness, always, alas! too few in number.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000074_000000.wav|They were Minos, AEacus and Rhadamanthus, the three judges of Hades, whose duty it was to punish the guilty by casting them into a dismal gulf, Tartarus, whence none might ever emerge, and to reward the innocent by transporting them to the Elysian Fields where delight followed delight in endless pleasure.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000069_000001.wav|They were the Fates, deities whose duty it was to thread the days of all mortals who appeared on earth, were it but for an instant.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000034_000000.wav|He not only caught the monster, but tamed him, and bore him aloft on his shoulders, into the presence of the affrighted Eurystheus, who was at a loss to find a task impossible for Hercules to perform.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000012_000001.wav|These serpents, gliding into his cradle, were on the point of biting the child when he, with his own hands, seized them and strangled the life out of their slimy bodies.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000095_000000.wav|Across Lethe stretched the Elysian Fields where the shades of the blest dwelt in bliss without alloy.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000068_000001.wav|During his progress he saw the shades of many people of whom, on earth, he had heard much talk.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000019_000001.wav|As his second labor, Hercules was sent to slay this creature.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000109_000000.wav|He could not take off the fatal shirt, and as he tore off portions of it he tore, at the same time, his quivering flesh.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000067_000001.wav|He was clothed in a black robe spotted with stars and his fleshless hand held the sharp sickle with which he is said to cut down mortals as the reaper cuts down corn.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000066_000001.wav|When Hercules announced himself, however, he gave him a permit to go round his kingdom and, in addition, acceded to his prayer for the release of Theseus.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000028_000002.wav|Such was the fifth labor of Hercules.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000002_000000.wav|HERCULES|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000111_000000.wav|But at length the majesty and the courage of the hero asserted themselves, and, although still in agony, his madness left him.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000102_000001.wav|But many of them, although learned, were not good.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000097_000001.wav|The two left Hades by an ivory door, the key of which Pluto had confided to their care.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000100_000000.wav|THE TUNIC OF NESSUS THE CENTAUR|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000087_000000.wav|Theseus, whom Hercules was bent on freeing from his torment, had met and killed this robber assassin, and Jupiter, for his sins, decreed that the malefactor should continually be rolling up a hill in Tartarus a heavy stone which, when with incredible pains he had brought nearly to the top, always rolled back again, and he had to begin over and over again the heart breaking ascent.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000058_000000.wav|This rashness brought about their ruin, for they were seized by Pluto and chained to a rock.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000092_000000.wav|One only of the fifty, to wit Hypermnestra, had the courage to disobey this unlawful command and so saved the life of Lynceus, her husband, with whom she fled.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000022_000001.wav|This remarkable beast had brazen feet and antlers of solid gold.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000057_000000.wav|Theseus and Pirithous were two Athenians, who, after having been at enmity for a long time at last became the very best of friends.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000094_000000.wav|Glutted with horror Hercules at length quitted gloomy Tartarus and beheld in front of him still another river.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000064_000000.wav|Fierce Charon frowned when he beheld Hercules for he feared his light boat of bark would sink under his weight, it being only adapted for the light and airy spirits of the dead; but when the son of Jupiter told him his name he was mollified and allowed the hero to take his place at his side.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000053_000000.wav|He is said to have been the great friend of mankind, and was chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus because he stole fire from heaven and gave it as a gift to the sons of man.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000072_000001.wav|Hercules would have liked them to tell him how long they had yet to spin for him, but they had no time to answer questions and so the hero passed on.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000116_000000.wav|Thus died Hercules, and after his death he was received as a god amongst the Immortals on Mount Olympus, where he married Hebe, Jove's cupbearer.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000115_000000.wav|He further enjoined his friend to let no man know of his departure from life, to the intent that the fear of his approach might prevent fresh monsters and new robbers from ravaging the earth.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000057_000002.wav|This did not prevent them from forming a very foolish project.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000070_000000.wav|Clotho, the spinner of the thread of life, was the eldest of the three.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000035_000001.wav|These horses were not ordinary horses, living on corn.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000018_000001.wav|Seizing the lion with both hands, he put forth all his mighty strength and strangled the beast just as he had strangled the serpents in his cradle.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000020_000001.wav|When Hercules struck off one of these heads with his club, two others at once appeared in its place.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000027_000002.wav|The stench was terrible and greatly troubled the health of the land.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000077_000000.wav|BLACK TARTARUS AND THE ELYSIAN FIELDS|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000015_000003.wav|He therefore resolved to banish him and to impose such tasks upon him as must certainly bring about his destruction.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000095_000002.wav|Sunlit, yet never parched with torrid heat, everywhere their verdure charmed the delighted eye, and all things conspired to make the shades of the good and wise, who were privileged to dwell in these Elysian Fields, delightfully happy.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000015_000004.wav|Hence arose the famous twelve labors of Hercules.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000012_000000.wav|In fact, Hercules was but a child, when Juno sent two enormous serpents against him.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000018_000002.wav|Then, having despoiled the dead man eater of his skin, Hercules henceforth wore this trophy as a garment, and as a shield and buckler.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000046_000001.wav|These Hesperides were none other than the three daughters of Atlas, and it was their duty, in which they were helped by a dragon, to guard the golden apples.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000060_000001.wav|When he found himself face to face with Cerberus he seized him, threw him down and chained him with strong chains.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000101_000001.wav|They were called Centaurs, or Bull Slayers.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000022_000000.wav|The third labor imposed upon Hercules by Eurystheus was the capture of the Arcadian Stag.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000062_000001.wav|Formerly its course was upon the earth.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000014_000000.wav|When he came again to his sober senses, and learnt that he was the murderer of his own offspring he was filled with horror, and betook himself into exile so that he might hide his face from his fellow men. After a time he went to the oracle at Delphi to ask what he should do in atonement for his dreadful deed.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000040_000002.wav|Geryon was a three bodied monster whose cattle were kept by a giant and a two headed dog!|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000090_000001.wav|For this he was "tantalized" with food and drink, which, seeming always to be within his reach, ever mocked his hopes by eluding his grasp.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000093_000001.wav|Hypermnestra, on the contrary, was honored while alive, and also after her death, for loving goodness even more than she loved her father.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000005_000000.wav|THE TWELVE LABORS OF HERCULES|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000083_000000.wav|Among the criminals so justly overtaken by the divine vengeance Hercules noticed Salmoneus, whom he had formerly met upon earth.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000071_000000.wav|Lachesis, the second of the Fates, was quickly turning with her left hand a spindle, while her right hand was leading a fine thread which the third sister, Atropos by name, used to cut with a pair of sharp shears at the death of each mortal.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000094_000001.wav|This was Lethe.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000027_000003.wav|Eurystheus set Hercules the task of cleaning out these Augean stables in a single day!|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000112_000000.wav|Calling to his side his friend Philoctetes, he wished to embrace him once more before dying; but fearful lest he should, in so doing, infect his friend with the deadly poison that was consuming him, he cried in his agony: "Alas, I am not even permitted to embrace thee!"|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000019_000000.wav|In those days, there was in Greece a monstrous serpent known as the Hydra of Lerna, because it haunted a marsh of that name whence it issued in search of prey.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000079_000000.wav|Not far remote from this rolled Cocytus, another endless stream, fed by the tears of the wretches doomed to Black Tartarus, in which place of eternal torment Hercules now found himself.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000042_000000.wav|Hercules slew the giant, the two headed dog and Geryon himself, and in due course brought the oxen to Eurystheus.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000081_000000.wav|Into Tartarus were thrown, never to come out again, the shades or manes of traitors, ingrates, perjurers, unnatural children, murderers and hypocrites who had during their lives pretended to be upright and honorable in order to deceive the just.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000023_000000.wav|It proved no easy task to do this.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8401/280380/8401_280380_000086_000000.wav|Sisyphus, the brother of Salmoneus, was no better than he.|8401
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/154/123998/154_123998_000011_000004.wav|For that which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or absence is no real part of the whole.|154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/154/124003/154_124003_000007_000000.wav|Whatever its structure, a Noun must always be either (one) the ordinary word for the thing, or (two) a strange word, or (three) a metaphor, or (four) an ornamental word, or (five) a coined word, or (six) a word lengthened out, or (seven) curtailed, or (eight) altered in form.|154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/154/124003/154_124003_000007_000005.wav|Thus a cup (B) is in relation to Dionysus (A) what a shield (D) is to Ares (C).|154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/154/124003/154_124003_000004_000002.wav|In the Speech 'Cleon walks', 'Cleon' is an instance of such a part.|154
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/830/130728/830_130728_000000_000000.wav|Artistic Japan|830
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/830/130728/830_130728_000025_000000.wav|Select six nice fresh sand dabs.|830
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/830/130728/830_130728_000020_000001.wav|These are the recipes as he wrote them for us:|830
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4926/23311/4926_23311_000072_000000.wav|"Your daughter did you call her?|4926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4926/23281/4926_23281_000049_000001.wav|He answered,|4926
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000006_000000.wav|HUMAN FOLLY.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000003_000000.wav|eight.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000004_000012.wav|Can ye ever surpass the elephant in bulk or the bull in strength?|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000004_000011.wav|Again, on how slight and perishable a possession do they rely who set before themselves bodily excellences!|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000004_000003.wav|Why, thou must wrest it from its present possessor!|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000004_000006.wav|Dost thou long for power?|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121896/115_121896_000005_000000.wav|SONG eight.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000011_000000.wav|Distilled waters run deep.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000030_000004.wav|Pain, just the same.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000003_000000.wav|In this age of the arduous pursuit of peace, prosperity and pleasure, the smallest contribution to the gaiety, if not to the wisdom, of nations can scarcely be unwelcome.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000003_000001.wav|With this in mind, the author has prepared "The Foolish Dictionary," not in serious emulation of the worthier-and wordier-works of Webster and Worcester, but rather in the playful spirit of the parodist, who would gladly direct the faint rays from his flickering candle of fun to the shrine of their great memories.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000040_000001.wav|Often shy on meal tickets but strong on technique and the price of tripe sandwiches.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000004_000001.wav|How wise, flippant, sober or stupid, this treatment has been, it is for the reader alone to judge. However, if from epigram, derivative or pure absurdity, there be born a single laugh between the lids, the laborer will accredit himself worthy of his hire.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000009_000000.wav|It's a long lane that has no ashbarrel.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000015_000001.wav|Hence, water tankard, or "water wagon."|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000005_000000.wav|In further explanation it should be said that some slight deference has been made to other wits, and the definitions include a few quotations from the great minds of the past and present.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000004_000000.wav|With half a million English words to choose from, modesty has been the watchword, and the author has confined himself to the treatment of only about half a thousand.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/121720/115_121720_000028_000000.wav|A political office known as the Crook's Road to Wealth.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000098_000001.wav|Not only our reason, but also our conscience, truckles to our strongest impulse-the tyrant in us.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000090_000001.wav|Around the hero everything becomes a tragedy; around the demigod everything becomes a satyr play; and around God everything becomes-what? perhaps a "world"?|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000093_000001.wav|What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000008_000000.wav|sixty nine.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000007_000001.wav|"I did that," says my memory.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000037_000001.wav|What?|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000021_000000.wav|eighty one.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000096_000001.wav|Insanity in individuals is something rare-but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000019_000000.wav|seventy nine.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000107_000001.wav|To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame-and something precious.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000042_000005.wav|Or-or---"|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000030_000000.wav|ninety.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000063_000001.wav|Even concubinage has been corrupted-by marriage.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000037_000000.wav|ninety seven.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000112_000001.wav|One occasionally embraces some one or other, out of love to mankind (because one cannot embrace all); but this is what one must never confess to the individual.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000042_000002.wav|"What!|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000111_000001.wav|Pity has an almost ludicrous effect on a man of knowledge, like tender hands on a Cyclops.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000039_000000.wav|ninety nine.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000006_000000.wav|sixty seven.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000010_000000.wav|seventy one.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000037_000002.wav|A great man?|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000035_000000.wav|ninety five.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000007_000002.wav|"I could not have done that," says my pride, and remains inexorable.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000106_000001.wav|One may indeed lie with the mouth; but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000016_000000.wav|seventy six.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000000_000001.wav|APOPHTHEGMS AND INTERLUDES|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000040_000000.wav|one hundred.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000036_000000.wav|ninety six.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000036_000001.wav|One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000026_000000.wav|eighty six.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/115/122944/115_122944_000094_000001.wav|Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.|115
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000007_000003.wav|Even the policemen slumbered slyly and there happened to be no prowling thieves abroad.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000049_000000.wav|The king frowned.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000021_000000.wav|"Alas!" cried the other, who was the milliner, "no one will buy my hats partly trimmed, for the fashion is to wear birds upon them.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000058_000000.wav|Popopo after this found much enjoyment in visiting every millinery shop he could find and giving new life to the stuffed birds which were carelessly tossed aside as useless.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000045_000001.wav|What law is there, among birds or knooks, that requires us to be the slaves of fashion?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000023_000001.wav|He wanted, in some way, to replace the birds upon the hats, that the poor woman might be happy again.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000054_000002.wav|That will afford relief to your poor milliner and at the same time set free thousands of our darling birds who have been so cruelly used."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000017_000000.wav|By dawn he saw many interesting sights, but day broke before he had finished the city, and he resolved to come the next evening a few hours earlier.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000028_000000.wav|"What is it?|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000043_000000.wav|"Pooh!" exclaimed the blue jay, "we cannot be shot now, for we are stuffed.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000040_000002.wav|To be sure, wicked men shot and stuffed us, and sold us to the milliner; but the idea of our being her property is nonsense!"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000048_000000.wav|After much meditation he decided to consult the king of the knooks, and going at once to his majesty he told him the whole story.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000046_000000.wav|"What have we to do with fashions, anyway?" screamed a linnet.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000043_000001.wav|Indeed, two men fired several shots at us this morning, but the bullets only ruffled our feathers and buried themselves in our stuffing.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000016_000000.wav|The astonished birds at once obeyed, and when they had soared away into the night air the knook closed the door and continued his wandering through the streets.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000044_000000.wav|"Listen!" said Popopo, sternly, for he felt the birds were getting the best of the argument; "the poor milliner's business will be ruined if I do not return you to her shop.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000052_000000.wav|"Easily enough.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000003_000000.wav|Finally, by chance, Popopo thought of the earth people who dwell in cities, and so he resolved to visit them and see how they lived. This would surely be fine amusement, and serve to pass away many wearisome hours.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000051_000000.wav|"How shall I do that?" asked Popopo.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000052_000003.wav|So you must visit the newspapers and magazines and enchant the types."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000014_000000.wav|"Poor dears!" said the kind hearted knook, "you long to be in the fields and forests again."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000008_000000.wav|His nerves being soothed by the stillness, Popopo began to enjoy himself.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000030_000000.wav|Popopo, seeing this commotion, now realized that mice are especially disagreeable to human beings, and that he had made a grave mistake in placing them upon the hats; so he gave a low whistle of command that was heard only by the mice.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000002_000003.wav|But such was not the case with Popopo, the knook we are speaking of.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000015_000000.wav|Then he opened the outer door for them and cried: "Off with you!|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000057_000000.wav|The following morning when the poor milliner looked over her newspaper she was overjoyed to read that "no woman could now wear a bird upon her hat and be in style, for the newest fashion required only ribbons and laces."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000018_000001.wav|Entering he found two women, one of whom leaned her head upon the table and sobbed bitterly, while the other strove to comfort her.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000019_000000.wav|Of course Popopo was invisible to mortal eyes, so he stood by and listened to their conversation.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000020_000001.wav|"Even though your pretty birds have all been stolen the hats themselves remain."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000007_000001.wav|Everyone was in bed.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000011_000001.wav|To see so many of his little friends shut up in a glass case annoyed and grieved Popopo, who had no idea they had purposely been placed upon the hats by the milliner.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000059_000000.wav|Sometimes a hunter fires his gun at a bird and then wonders why he did not hit it.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000058_000001.wav|And they flew to the fields and forests with songs of thanks to the good knook who had rescued them.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000047_000002.wav|So he went home to think what could be done.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000013_000000.wav|Popopo did not know the birds were stuffed; but, stuffed or not, every bird is bound to obey a knook's whistle and a knook's call.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000040_000000.wav|"But remember how unhappy we were in her glass case," said a robin redbreast, gravely.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000044_000003.wav|So the poor milliner's wares, although beautified by lace and ribbons, are worthless unless you are perched upon them."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000006_000002.wav|He would visit them at night.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000020_000000.wav|"Cheer up, sister," said one.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000013_000001.wav|So they left the hats, flew out of the case and began fluttering about the room.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000010_000001.wav|Indeed, some of the most elaborate hats had two or three birds upon them.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000039_000000.wav|"Because I find the woman considers you her property, and your loss has caused her much unhappiness," answered Popopo.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000007_000000.wav|So at the proper time Popopo transported himself in a jiffy to a great city, where he began wandering about the streets.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000011_000002.wav|So he slid back one of the doors of the case, gave the little chirruping whistle of the knooks that all birds know well, and called:|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000046_000002.wav|Answer me, Popopo!"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000023_000000.wav|This thought brought him back to the millinery shop later in the night, when the two women had gone home.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000024_000000.wav|"Here are just the creatures," thought Popopo, "to place upon the woman's hats.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000036_000000.wav|"Thank you, Popopo.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000028_000001.wav|Oh! what is it?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000026_000000.wav|She came in the early morning, accompanied by her sister, and her face wore a sad and resigned expression.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000041_000000.wav|Popopo was puzzled.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000047_000001.wav|He could not wrong the birds by sending them back to the milliner, nor did he wish the milliner to suffer by their loss.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000052_000001.wav|Fashions often change among the earth people, who tire quickly of any one thing.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000002_000004.wav|He had lived thousands of years, and had enjoyed all the wonders he could think of.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000053_000000.wav|"Enchant the types!" echoed Popopo, in wonder.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000018_000000.wav|As soon as it was dark the following day he came again to the city and on passing the millinery shop noticed a light within.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000033_000001.wav|He loved the birds, and disliked to condemn them to slavery again; but that seemed the only way to end the trouble.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000035_000000.wav|When they saw the knook the birds cried:|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000027_000000.wav|But when she saw a tiny gray mouse nestling among the ribbons and laces she gave a loud shriek, and, dropping the hat, sprang with one bound to the top of the table.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000050_000001.wav|"But since you have caused all this trouble, it is your duty to remedy it.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000036_000001.wav|Thank you for setting us free."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000054_000000.wav|"Just so.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000055_000000.wav|Popopo thanked the wise king and followed his advice.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000037_000000.wav|"Do not thank me," returned the knook, "for I have come to send you back to the millinery shop."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000012_000000.wav|"Come, friends; the door is open-fly out!"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000004_000000.wav|Therefore one morning, after a breakfast so dainty that you could scarcely imagine it, Popopo set out for the earth and at once was in the midst of a big city.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000032_000000.wav|Popopo was a kind hearted knook, but on witnessing all this misery, caused by his own ignorance of the ways of humans, he straightway wished himself at home, and so left the poor women to recover as best they could.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000046_000001.wav|"If it were the fashion to wear knooks perched upon women's hats would you be contented to stay there?|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000025_000000.wav|So he exercised a charm that drew all the mice from the cellar and placed them upon the hats in the glass case, where they occupied the places the birds had vacated and looked very becoming-at least, in the eyes of the unworldly knook.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000034_000000.wav|So he set off to find the birds.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000038_000000.wav|"Why?" demanded a blue jay, angrily, while the others stopped their songs.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000029_000000.wav|"A mouse!" gasped the milliner, trembling with terror.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000025_000001.wav|To prevent their running about and leaving the hats Popopo rendered them motionless, and then he was so pleased with his work that he decided to remain in the shop and witness the delight of the milliner when she saw how daintily her hats were now trimmed.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000047_000000.wav|But Popopo was in despair.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000005_000001.wav|His nerves were so shocked that before he had looked around three minutes he decided to give up the adventure, and instantly returned home.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000040_000001.wav|"And as for being her property, you are a knook, and the natural guardian of all birds; so you know that Nature created us free.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/53458/5635_53458_000010_000000.wav|During his wanderings he entered a millinery shop, and was surprised to see within a large glass case a great number of women's hats, each bearing in one position or another a stuffed bird.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000040_000000.wav|"mr Rapid, it is utterly impossible; but if you insist, I will loan you a Latin book-"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000024_000002.wav|Why, sir, the sums come out, and bring the answers exactly like figures.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000008_000001.wav|At the first, he was kindly, yet honestly told, his knowledge was too limited and inaccurate; yet, notwithstanding this, and some almost rude repulses afterward, he persisted in his application and his hopes.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000020_000000.wav|"Well, mr Carlton, this algebra is a most powerful thing-ain't it?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000029_000000.wav|"I heerd, sir, you wanted somebody to teach the State school, and I'm come to let you know I'm willing to take the place."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000023_000000.wav|"Indeed!"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000025_000000.wav|"mr Jimmy, my company is nearly out of sight-if you can get along this way through simple and quadratic equations by our meeting, your chance will not be so bad-good morning, sir."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000055_000000.wav|"Yes, yes-but translate."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000007_000000.wav|But of all our unsuccessful candidates, we shall introduce by name only two-mr|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000036_000000.wav|"Oh! my dear sir, it is not possible-we-can't-"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000048_000000.wav|"Yes, as fast as English-and I didn't find it hard at all."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000009_000000.wav|"Ah! indeed!|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000013_000000.wav|"Yes, but mr Jimmy, how is a child's spelling book to be made any plainer?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000001_000000.wav|SELECTING THE FACULTY|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000038_000000.wav|"mr Rapid, I do not mean to question your abilities; but if you are now wholly unacquainted with the dead languages, it is impossible for you or any other talented man to learn them under four or five years."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000009_000001.wav|mr Jimmy?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000033_000000.wav|"Sir?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000002_000000.wav|BY BAYNARD RUST HALL|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000050_000000.wav|"Try away, try away; that's what I've come for."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000044_000000.wav|"Well, sir, I have done the Latin."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000030_000000.wav|"Yes, sir, we are going to elect a professor of languages who is to be the principal and a professor-"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000032_000000.wav|"Are you a linguist?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000008_000002.wav|To give evidence of competency, he once told me he was arranging a new spelling book, the publication of which would make him known as a literary man, and be an unspeakable advantage to "the rising generation." And this naturally brought on the following colloquy about the work:|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000041_000000.wav|"That's your sort, let's have it, that's all I want, fair play."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000021_000000.wav|"Indeed it is, mr Jimmy-have you been looking into it?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000058_000000.wav|"Render it!! how's that?" (forehead more wrinkled.)|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000054_000001.wav|I told you so."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000011_000000.wav|"On what new principle do you go, sir?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000039_000002.wav|Try me, sir,--let's have the furst one furst-how many are there?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000056_000000.wav|"Translate!" (eyebrows elevating.)|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000007_000001.wav|james Jimmy, a s s, and mr Solomon Rapid, a to z|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000017_000000.wav|"An example-"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000014_000000.wav|"Why, sir, by clear explifications of the words in one column, by exemplifying illustrations in the other."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000059_000000.wav|"Why, yes, render it into English-give me the meaning of it."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000043_000000.wav|In a few weeks, to my no small surprise, mr Solomon Rapid again presented himself; and drawing forth the book began with a triumphant expression of countenance:|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000027_000001.wav|He was now somewhat advanced into the shaving age, and was ready to assume offices the most opposite in character; although justice compels us to say mr Rapid was as fit for one thing as another.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000045_000000.wav|"Done the Latin!"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000024_000001.wav|Only to think of cyphering by letters!|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000027_000002.wav|Deeming it waste of time to prepare for any station till he was certain of obtaining it, he wisely demanded the place first, and then set to work to become qualified for its duties, being, I suspect, the very man, or some relation of his, who is recorded as not knowing whether he could read Greek, as he had never tried.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000004_000002.wav|For his chair there was one with a hickory bottom; and doubtless he would have filled it, and even lapped over its edges, with equal dignity in the recitation room of Big College.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000027_000000.wav|The most extraordinary candidate, however, was mr Solomon Rapid.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000049_000000.wav|"May I try you on a page?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000024_000004.wav|Why, sir, I done a whole slate full of letters and signs; and afterward, when I tried by figures, they every one of them came out right and brung the answer!|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000012_000001.wav|I allow school books for schools are all too powerful obstruse and hard like to be understood without exemplifying illustrations."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000016_000000.wav|"Sir?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000026_000000.wav|But our man of "letters" quit cyphering the new way, and returned to plain figures long before reaching equations; and so he could not become our professor.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000024_000005.wav|I mean to cypher by letters altogether."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000022_000000.wav|"Looking into it!|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000024_000000.wav|"Yes, sir! but it is such a pretty thing!|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000053_000000.wav|"That will do, mr Rapid-"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000008_000000.wav|mr Jimmy, who aspired to the mathematical chair, was master of a small school of all sexes, near Woodville.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/58137/5635_58137_000034_000000.wav|"You, of course, understand the dead languages?"|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000025_000000.wav|In Nazareth a carpenter laid down the saw and preached the brotherhood of man.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000013_000002.wav|Think of how a lens gathers and concenters the rays of light within a given circle.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000026_000003.wav|In Germany schools were closed for a third of a century, homes burned, women outraged, towns demolished, and the untilled land became a wilderness.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000029_000001.wav|We spend more money building one battleship than in the annual maintenance of all our state universities.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000010.wav|He laments thus pointedly:|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000005_000002.wav|The brain needs special training before it can do two or more things efficiently at the same instant.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000022_000001.wav|Read the following selection through to get its meaning and spirit clearly in your mind.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000028_000000.wav|At the window sits the widowed mother crying.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000031_000003.wav|Denver cannot fight Chicago and Iowa cannot fight Ohio.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000031_000002.wav|Like rival "gun gangs" in a back alley, the nations of the world, through the bloody ages, have fought over their differences.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000024_000003.wav|Warriors were saviours.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000007.wav|Read the chapter on "Will Power." Cultivate your will by willing and then doing, at all costs. Concentrate-and you will win.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000005_000001.wav|Unless your powers of cooerdination are well developed you will find it confusing, if not impossible.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000007_000001.wav|In a well prepared written speech the emphatic word usually comes at one end of the sentence.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000016_000001.wav|Select from any source several sentences suitable for speaking aloud; deliver them first in the manner condemned in this chapter, and second with due regard for emphasis toward the close of each sentence.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000029_000000.wav|We spend more money preparing men to kill each other than we do in teaching them to live.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000026_000001.wav|In the seventeenth century Germany, France, Sweden, and Spain warred for thirty years.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000012_000003.wav|Words are only a result.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000027_000000.wav|Two thirds of Germany's property was destroyed and eighteen million of her citizens were killed, because men quarrelled about the way to glorify "The Prince of Peace." Marching through rain and snow, sleeping on the ground, eating stale food or starving, contracting diseases and facing guns that fire six hundred times a minute, for fifty cents a day-this is the soldier's life.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000007.wav|Painful experience alike to audience and to speaker!|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000020_000000.wav|five.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000000.wav|"What do you read, my lord?" Hamlet replied, "Words.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000028_000001.wav|Little children with tearful faces pressed against the pane watch and wait. Their means of livelihood, their home, their happiness is gone. Fatherless children, broken hearted women, sick, disabled and dead men-this is the wage of war.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000022_000000.wav|seven.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000018_000000.wav|three.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000033_000001.wav|In times of peace prepare for peace.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000012_000001.wav|Such speeches lose nothing by repetition for the perfectly patent reason that they arise from concentrated thought and feeling and not a mere necessity for saying something-which usually means anything, and that, in turn, is tantamount to nothing.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000000.wav|You must concentrate by resolutely withdrawing your attention from everything else.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000024_000002.wav|Might decreed right.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000006.wav|Their trouble is a mental one-they are not concentratedly thinking thoughts that cause words to issue with sincerity and conviction, but are merely enunciating word sounds mechanically.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000003_000001.wav|Its power may be high or low; its field of view narrow or broad.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000006_000000.wav|Whatever is the psychological truth of this contention it is undeniable that the mind measurably loses grip on one idea the moment the attention is projected decidedly ahead to a second or a third idea.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000032_000000.wav|When mankind rises above creeds, colors and countries, when we are citizens, not of a nation, but of the world, the armies and navies of the earth will constitute an international police force to preserve the peace and the dove will take the eagle's place.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000002.wav|Words." That is a world old trouble.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000002_000000.wav|CONCENTRATION IN DELIVERY|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000015_000000.wav|QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000005.wav|You have listened to the ranting, mechanical cadence of inefficient actors, lawyers and preachers.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000031_000004.wav|Why should Germany be permitted to fight France, or Bulgaria fight Turkey?|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000026_000000.wav|History is an appalling tale of war.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000033_000000.wav|Our differences will be settled by an international court with the power to enforce its mandates.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000003_000002.wav|When high power is used attention is confined within very circumscribed limits, but its action is exceedingly intense and absorbing.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000003.wav|Center your thought on your strokes and your tennis play will gradually improve.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000021_000001.wav|Tell why concentration naturally helps a speaker to change pitch, tempo, and emphasis.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000024_000001.wav|The cave man's club made law and procured food.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000033_000002.wav|The wages of war are the wages of sin, and the "wages of sin is death."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000031_000000.wav|War only defers a question.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000008_000001.wav|Let it come from its proper source-within yourself.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000026_000002.wav|At Magdeburg thirty thousand out of thirty six thousand were killed regardless of sex or age.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000021_000000.wav|six.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000008.wav|A parrot is equally eloquent.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000016_000000.wav|one.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000012_000004.wav|Do not try to get the result without stimulating the cause.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000001.wav|If you concentrate your thought on a pain which may be afflicting you, that pain will grow more intense.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000013_000004.wav|It may seem like a harsh saying, but the man who cannot concentrate is either weak of will, a nervous wreck, or has never learned what will power is good for.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000001.wav|Words.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000003_000000.wav|Attention is the microscope of the mental eye.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000007_000006.wav|It is fatal to either the actor or the speaker to cross his bridges too soon.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000029_000003.wav|We pray for love but prepare for hate.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000029_000002.wav|The financial loss resulting from destroying one another's homes in the civil war would have built fifteen million houses, each costing two thousand dollars.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000007_000005.wav|They may not do so consciously and deliberately, but they will surely cease to give importance to the things that you yourself slight.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000008_000002.wav|You cannot deliver a broadside without concentrated force-that is what produces the explosion.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000017_000001.wav|Put into about one hundred words your impression of the effect produced.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000020_000001.wav|What relation does pause bear to concentration?|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000025_000002.wav|Triumphantly they wrote "In Solomon's Porch and in his temple our men rode in the blood of the Saracens up to the knees of their horses."|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000007_000002.wav|But an emphatic word needs emphatic expression, and this is precisely what it does not get when concentration flags by leaping too soon to that which is next to be uttered.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000002.wav|"Count your blessings" and they will multiply.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000006.wav|Remove the cause and the symptom will disappear.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000008_000004.wav|Divide your attention and you divide your power.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000019_000001.wav|What effect do such habits have on the audience?|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000014_000005.wav|If you find that you cannot do that, there is something wrong-attend to that first.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000011_000000.wav|My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000013_000003.wav|It centers them by a process of withdrawal.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000007_000004.wav|Remember that the mind of your audience follows yours very closely, and if you withdraw your attention from what you are saying to what you are going to say, your audience will also withdraw theirs.|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5635/44582/5635_44582_000010_000004.wav|Did you ever notice how hollow a memorized speech usually sounds?|5635
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000087_000000.wav|"Do you prefer the inside or the outside, j?"|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000056_000002.wav|Their taking it in the way they did irritated me.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000010_000007.wav|There is too much odour about cheese.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000042_000000.wav|"Very well, then," said my friend's wife, rising, "all I have to say is, that I shall take the children and go to an hotel until those cheeses are eaten.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000007_000004.wav|The High Street stunk of oil; we wondered how people could live in it.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000064_000004.wav|Then I found it inside a boot. I repacked once more.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000051_000000.wav|But I'm glad we took the whisky.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000029_000001.wav|Tom bought them in Liverpool, and asked me to bring them up with me."|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000081_000000.wav|Montmorency was in it all, of course.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000054_000000.wav|I said I'd pack.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000070_000001.wav|I never saw two men do more with one and twopence worth of butter in my whole life than they did.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000053_000002.wav|We got a big Gladstone for the clothes, and a couple of hampers for the victuals and the cooking utensils.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000019_000000.wav|And then they both began sniffing, and, at the third sniff, they caught it right on the chest, and rose up without another word and went out. And then a stout lady got up, and said it was disgraceful that a respectable married woman should be harried about in this way, and gathered up a bag and eight parcels and went.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000082_000000.wav|To get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour, is his highest aim and object; and, when he has succeeded in accomplishing this, his conceit becomes quite unbearable.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000086_000001.wav|He said:|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000021_000000.wav|I smiled at the black gentleman, and said I thought we were going to have the carriage to ourselves; and he laughed pleasantly, and said that some people made such a fuss over a little thing.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000026_000001.wav|When his wife came into the room she smelt round for an instant.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000031_000001.wav|She said:|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000010_000003.wav|It wants the whole boat to itself.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000014_000000.wav|It took two porters as well as the driver to hold him in at the station; and I do not think they would have done it, even then, had not one of the men had the presence of mind to put a handkerchief over his nose, and to light a bit of brown paper.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000066_000001.wav|I made no comment; I only waited.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000026_000000.wav|From Euston, I took the cheeses down to my friend's house.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000076_000000.wav|Then George got round at the back of Harris and saw it.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000010_000004.wav|It goes through the hamper, and gives a cheesy flavour to everything else there.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000019_000001.wav|The remaining four passengers sat on for a while, until a solemn looking man in the corner, who, from his dress and general appearance, seemed to belong to the undertaker class, said it put him in mind of dead baby; and the other three passengers tried to get out of the door at the same time, and hurt themselves.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000061_000002.wav|He couldn't have said a word until I'd got the bag shut and strapped, of course.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000052_000002.wav|They make you feel sleepy and heavy.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000062_000000.wav|I opened the bag and packed the boots in; and then, just as I was going to close it, a horrible idea occurred to me.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000010_000002.wav|Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000035_000001.wav|Had he smelt them?"|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000050_000000.wav|It seemed to me that George harped too much on the getting upset idea. It seemed to me the wrong spirit to go about the trip in.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000041_000000.wav|"Madam," I replied, "for myself I like the smell of cheese, and the journey the other day with them from Liverpool I shall ever look back upon as a happy ending to a pleasant holiday.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000015_000000.wav|I took my ticket, and marched proudly up the platform, with my cheeses, the people falling back respectfully on either side.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000053_000001.wav|The next day, which was Friday, we got them all together, and met in the evening to pack.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000067_000001.wav|They started with breaking a cup.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000064_000003.wav|I put the things back one by one, and held everything up and shook it.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000084_000003.wav|It's the natural, original sin that is born in him that makes him do things like that.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000066_000000.wav|They began in a light-hearted spirit, evidently intending to show me how to do it.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000049_000002.wav|For drink, we took some wonderful sticky concoction of Harris's, which you mixed with water and called lemonade, plenty of tea, and a bottle of whisky, in case, as George said, we got upset.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000063_000000.wav|My tooth brush is a thing that haunts me when I'm travelling, and makes my life a misery.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000046_000002.wav|Visitors said they had never noticed before how strong the air was, and weak chested and consumptive people used to throng there for years afterwards.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000007_000002.wav|The whole town was full of oil.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000047_000000.wav|Fond as I am of cheese, therefore, I hold that George was right in declining to take any.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000085_000004.wav|Harris was to sleep with us that night, and we went upstairs.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000013_000004.wav|It woke him up, and, with a snort of terror, he dashed off at three miles an hour.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000069_000004.wav|It made them nervous and excited, and they stepped on things, and put things behind them, and then couldn't find them when they wanted them; and they packed the pies at the bottom, and put heavy things on top, and smashed the pies in.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000074_000000.wav|"Most extraordinary thing I ever heard of," said George.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000067_000000.wav|It did.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000043_000000.wav|She kept her word, leaving the place in charge of the charwoman, who, when asked if she could stand the smell, replied, "What smell?" and who, when taken close to the cheeses and told to sniff hard, said she could detect a faint odour of melons.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000045_000000.wav|He said it was a plot to deprive him of his living by waking up the corpses.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000025_000000.wav|From Crewe I had the compartment to myself, though the train was crowded. As we drew up at the different stations, the people, seeing my empty carriage, would rush for it.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000055_000003.wav|George put on a pipe and spread himself over the easy chair, and Harris cocked his legs on the table and lit a cigar.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000079_000000.wav|"Stand still, can't you!" roared George, flying after him.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000081_000002.wav|If he can squirm in anywhere where he particularly is not wanted, and be a perfect nuisance, and make people mad, and have things thrown at his head, then he feels his day has not been wasted.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000022_000000.wav|"What's yours?" I said, turning to my friend.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000057_000003.wav|He said it made him feel that life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000065_000000.wav|When I had finished, George asked if the soap was in.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000021_000002.wav|He accepted, and we forced our way into the buffet, where we yelled, and stamped, and waved our umbrellas for a quarter of an hour; and then a young lady came, and asked us if we wanted anything.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000012_000000.wav|"Oh, with pleasure, dear boy," I replied, "with pleasure."|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000009_000000.wav|Therefore, in the present instance, we confined ourselves to methylated spirit.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000056_000001.wav|What I had meant, of course, was, that I should boss the job, and that Harris and George should potter about under my directions, I pushing them aside every now and then with, "Oh, you-!" "Here, let me do it." "There you are, simple enough!"--really teaching them, as you might say.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000009_000003.wav|But methylated spirit is more wholesome when taken into the system in large quantities than paraffine oil.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000084_000000.wav|Harris said I encouraged him.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000010_000005.wav|You can't tell whether you are eating apple pie or German sausage, or strawberries and cream.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000040_000001.wav|Let me send them round to you."|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000070_000002.wav|After George had got it off his slipper, they tried to put it in the kettle.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000064_000001.wav|I rummaged the things up into much the same state that they must have been before the world was created, and when chaos reigned.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000092_000000.wav|Harris said:|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000032_000000.wav|"What did Tom say about those cheeses?"|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000096_000000.wav|Harris and I had a bit of a row over it, but at last split the difference, and said half past six.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000016_000000.wav|A few moments passed, and then the old gentleman began to fidget.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000071_000000.wav|"I'll take my oath I put it down on that chair," said George, staring at the empty seat.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000093_000000.wav|"Seven."|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000084_000002.wav|A dog like that don't want any encouragement.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000059_000000.wav|However, I did not say anything, but started the packing.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000068_000000.wav|Then Harris packed the strawberry jam on top of a tomato and squashed it, and they had to pick out the tomato with a teaspoon.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000046_000000.wav|My friend got rid of them, at last, by taking them down to a sea side town, and burying them on the beach.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000013_000003.wav|There, the wind carried a whiff from the cheeses full on to our steed.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000007_000005.wav|And we walked miles upon miles out Birmingham way; but it was no use, the country was steeped in oil.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000013_000000.wav|I called for the cheeses, and took them away in a cab.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000044_000004.wav|And, after that, he took them one dark night and left them in the parish mortuary.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000018_000000.wav|"Quite oppressive," said the man next him.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000037_000000.wav|"You think he would be upset," she queried, "if I gave a man a sovereign to take them away and bury them?"|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000015_000001.wav|The train was crowded, and I had to get into a carriage where there were already seven other people.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000029_000000.wav|"It's cheeses.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000052_000001.wav|They are a mistake up the river.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000027_000001.wav|Tell me the worst."|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000041_000001.wav|But, in this world, we must consider others.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000023_000000.wav|"I'll have half a crown's worth of brandy, neat, if you please, miss," he responded.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000055_000000.wav|I rather pride myself on my packing.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000095_000000.wav|"No-six," because I wanted to write some letters.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000025_000002.wav|And they would run along, carrying heavy bags, and fight round the door to get in first.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000069_000003.wav|I felt that.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000009_000002.wav|You get methylated pie and methylated cake.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000040_000000.wav|"Do you mind keeping them for him?|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000033_000000.wav|I replied that he had directed they were to be kept in a moist place, and that nobody was to touch them.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER four.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000046_000001.wav|It gained the place quite a reputation.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000058_000003.wav|It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000009_000001.wav|Even that is bad enough.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000078_000000.wav|"Where?" cried Harris, spinning round.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000083_000000.wav|He came and sat down on things, just when they were wanted to be packed; and he laboured under the fixed belief that, whenever Harris or George reached out their hand for anything, it was his cold, damp nose that they wanted.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000061_000004.wav|They do make me so wild.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000034_000000.wav|She said:|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000035_000000.wav|"Nobody's likely to touch them.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000061_000001.wav|That's just like Harris.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000090_000000.wav|George said:|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000002_000000.wav|Then we discussed the food question.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000007_000001.wav|We left the boat by the bridge, and took a walk through the town to escape it, but it followed us.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000044_000005.wav|But the coroner discovered them, and made a fearful fuss.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000027_000000.wav|"What is it?|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000064_000002.wav|Of course, I found George's and Harris's eighteen times over, but I couldn't find my own.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000028_000000.wav|I said:|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000065_000001.wav|I said I didn't care a hang whether the soap was in or whether it wasn't; and I slammed the bag to and strapped it, and found that I had packed my tobacco pouch in it, and had to re-open it.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000049_000001.wav|George suggested meat and fruit pies, cold meat, tomatoes, fruit, and green stuff.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000061_000003.wav|And George laughed-one of those irritating, senseless, chuckle headed, crack jawed laughs of his.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000049_000000.wav|Harris grew more cheerful.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000015_000002.wav|One crusty old gentleman objected, but I got in, notwithstanding; and, putting my cheeses upon the rack, squeezed down with a pleasant smile, and said it was a warm day.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000002_000001.wav|George said:|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000075_000000.wav|"So mysterious!" said Harris.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000080_000000.wav|And they got it off, and packed it in the teapot.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000061_000000.wav|And I looked round, and found I had forgotten them.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000060_000000.wav|"Ain't you going to put the boots in?" said Harris.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000031_000000.wav|My friend was detained in Liverpool longer than he expected; and, three days later, as he hadn't returned home, his wife called on me.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000005_000000.wav|We had taken up an oil stove once, but "never again." It had been like living in an oil shop that week.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/953/130625/953_130625_000063_000001.wav|I dream that I haven't packed it, and wake up in a cold perspiration, and get out of bed and hunt for it.|953
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3070/166423/3070_166423_000024_000001.wav|Now I could see that the ring was not continuous.|3070
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3070/166423/3070_166423_000005_000002.wav|I'll look after ruth--er-I mean Miss Ventnor."|3070
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3070/166421/3070_166421_000010_000001.wav|"Where are you going?"|3070
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3070/166421/3070_166421_000014_000000.wav|"Anywhere you say suits me," he answered.|3070
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3070/166421/3070_166421_000011_000003.wav|He might get away."|3070
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000008_000000.wav|After a time, when he had grown so cold as to be fain to blow upon his fingers, he arose and knocked with his staff again, and listened again, and again sat down to wait.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000092_000003.wav|To ask another question.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000145_000002.wav|Having got behind the hedge, and put him in the light, I took a shot at him and brought him down plump.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000113_000001.wav|'O, sir, sir, sir!'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000004_000002.wav|Even in the surrounding country it was a foggy day, but there the fog was grey, whereas in London it was, at about the boundary line, dark yellow, and a little within it brown, and then browner, and then browner, until at the heart of the City-which call Saint Mary Axe-it was rusty black.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000143_000001.wav|'Slow, you may be; sure, you are!' This he twice or thrice repeated with much complacency, as he again dispersed the legs of the Turkish trousers and bent the knees.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000060_000000.wav|'Well then; there is,' said Lammle; 'there IS something wrong; the whole thing's wrong.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000148_000002.wav|If it had never let him out any more, the world would have had no irreparable loss, but could have easily replaced him from its stock on hand.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000045_000000.wav|Mr Fledgeby was thus amiably engaged when a step was heard at the outer door, and the door was heard to open hastily.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000094_000001.wav|'My compliments to her.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000023_000001.wav|You ain't asleep. Catch a weasel at it, and catch a Jew!'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000107_000000.wav|'No, sir.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000120_000000.wav|'Cut away,' said Fledgeby. 'Start with your motive.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000006_000001.wav|But the eyes of this history can follow him westward, by Cornhill, Cheapside, Fleet Street, and the Strand, to Piccadilly and the Albany.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000125_000001.wav|They gathered to a crisis.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000140_000004.wav|Got a beard besides, and presumes upon it.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000110_000002.wav|What are you up to?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000047_000003.wav|It is not my profit that arises therefrom.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000017_000000.wav|'Any snow, or sleet, or slush, or anything of that sort?' he asked.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000092_000001.wav|I only asked a question.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000059_000000.wav|'Because you show it,' replied Fledgeby in unintentional rhyme.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000021_000000.wav|'All right.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000018_000000.wav|'No, sir, no Not quite so bad as that.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000094_000002.wav|Good bye!'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000132_000003.wav|The other name's Hexam.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000122_000000.wav|Mr Fledgeby could only express the feelings to which this incredible statement gave rise in his breast, by a prodigiously long derisive sniff.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000026_000001.wav|It was an edifying spectacle, the young man in his easy chair taking his coffee, and the old man with his grey head bent, standing awaiting his pleasure.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000118_000000.wav|'Oh, certainly.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000082_000001.wav|And in the most friendly manner, let me mention one thing more.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000010_000000.wav|'Why, what time of night do you mean to call it?' inquired Fledgeby, turning away beneath the clothes, and presenting a comfortable rampart of shoulder to the chilled figure of the old man.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000084_000003.wav|Of course if you are sure that you have no personal security out, which you may not be quite equal to meeting, and which can have got into his hands, it must have been fancy.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000127_000004.wav|I showed her there was one to help her, and it was i And she is gone.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000085_000000.wav|The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. Fledgeby, watching him with a twitch in his mean face which did duty there for a smile, looked very like the tormentor who was pinching.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000040_000000.wav|'Sir, a long list,' replied Riah, taking out a pocket book, and selecting from its contents a folded paper, which, being unfolded, became a sheet of foolscap covered with close writing.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000117_000000.wav|'It is upon honour, sir?' the other still stipulated, with respectful firmness.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000139_000000.wav|'Wrayburn.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000115_000001.wav|But (your pardon for the stipulation) it is in sacred confidence; it is strictly upon honour.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000129_000000.wav|'I placed her,' said the old man, 'at a distance;' with a grave smooth outward sweep from one another of his two open hands at arm's length; 'at a distance-among certain of our people, where her industry would serve her, and where she could hope to exercise it, unassailed from any quarter.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000022_000002.wav|He was roused by Mr Fledgeby's appearing erect at the foot of the bed, in Turkish slippers, rose coloured Turkish trousers (got cheap from somebody who had cheated some other somebody out of them), and a gown and cap to correspond.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000039_000001.wav|What queer bills are to be bought, and at what prices?|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000140_000000.wav|'By Jupiter!' cried Fledgeby.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000119_000000.wav|The old man, never bidden to sit down, stood with an earnest hand laid on the back of the young man's easy chair.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000108_000000.wav|'Where is she then?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000126_000000.wav|'She took to one of the chaps then?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000007_000000.wav|Arrived at the house in which his master's chambers were on the second floor, Riah proceeded up the stairs, and paused at Fascination Fledgeby's door.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000082_000000.wav|Mr Fledgeby took it, saying, 'And if we ever find out who did this, we'll mark that person.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000092_000000.wav|'Don't break out, Lammle,' urged Fledgeby, in a submissive tone, 'because there's no occasion.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000043_000000.wav|'Half the lump will be waste paper, one knows beforehand,' said Fledgeby. 'Can you get it at waste paper price?|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000049_000001.wav|Of course.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000076_000002.wav|They both looked at it as it blazed, went out, and flew in feathery ash up the chimney.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000025_000000.wav|'Not you!' returned Fledgeby, with a cunning look.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000076_000000.wav|Lammle produced it, not without reluctance.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000028_000000.wav|Riah obeyed, and then taking a bag from his breast, and referring to the sum in the accounts for which they made him responsible, told it out upon the table.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000076_000001.wav|Fledgeby looked at it, identified it, twisted it up, and threw it into the fire.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000012_000001.wav|Then it must be precious foggy?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000044_000000.wav|Riah shook his head, and Fledgeby cast his small eyes down the list. They presently began to twinkle, and he no sooner became conscious of their twinkling, than he looked up over his shoulder at the grave face above him, and moved to the chimney piece.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000047_000001.wav|'I do as I am bidden by my principal.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000081_000000.wav|'Fledgeby, my hand.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000070_000001.wav|A certain remembrance connected with that feature operating as a timely warning, he took it thoughtfully between his thumb and forefinger, and pondered; Lammle meanwhile eyeing him with furtive eyes.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000134_000001.wav|Has he anything to do with the law?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000132_000000.wav|'Lizzie,' said Fledgeby, looking at the fire again, and then looking up. 'Humph, Lizzie.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000147_000000.wav|'As to Christians,' proceeded Fledgeby, 'look out, fellow Christians, particularly you that lodge in Queer Street!|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000002_000000.wav|Chapter one|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000087_000000.wav|'I showed her the letter.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000146_000000.wav|Another dry twist in place of a smile, made his face crooked here.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000044_000001.wav|Making a desk of it, he stood there with his back to the old man, warming his knees, perusing the list at his leisure, and often returning to some lines of it, as though they were particularly interesting.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000027_000001.wav|First of all, light that candle.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000036_000000.wav|'Not in generosity?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000027_000000.wav|'Now!' said Fledgeby. 'Fork out your balance in hand, and prove by figures how you make it out that it ain't more.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000080_000000.wav|'Yes.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000026_000000.wav|The old man shook his head, gently repudiating the imputation, and suppressed a sigh, and moved to the table at which Mr Fledgeby was now pouring out for himself a cup of steaming and fragrant coffee from a pot that had stood ready on the hob.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000019_000001.wav|'But you're always bragging about something.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000048_000000.wav|'Ha ha!' laughed Fledgeby.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000068_000000.wav|'Perhaps,' suggested Fledgeby, after reflecting with a very discontented brow, 'somebody has been giving you a bad character.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000105_000000.wav|'No, sir.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000039_000000.wav|'Next,' said Fledgeby, 'concerning that bill broking branch of the business; the branch I like best.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000022_000003.wav|In that costume he would have left nothing to be desired, if he had been further fitted out with a bottomless chair, a lantern, and a bunch of matches.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000142_000001.wav|Left alone, Mr Fledgeby locked his outer door, and came back to his fire.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000019_000002.wav|Got the books there?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000084_000001.wav|I didn't like his eye.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000018_000001.wav|The streets are pretty clean.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000045_000002.wav|That's your doing, you Pump of Israel,' said Fledgeby; 'you can't have shut it.' Then the step was heard within, and the voice of Mr Alfred Lammle called aloud, 'Are you anywhere here, Fledgeby?' To which Fledgeby, after cautioning Riah in a low voice to take his cue as it should be given him, replied, 'Here I am!' and opened his bedroom door.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000113_000000.wav|'O, sir!' expostulated Riah.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000031_000000.wav|'You may,' Fledgeby graciously conceded.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000043_000001.wav|That's the question.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000047_000000.wav|'I am but the representative of another, sir,' returned the Jew in a low voice.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000007_000001.wav|Making free with neither bell nor knocker, he struck upon the door with the top of his staff, and, having listened, sat down on the threshold.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000009_000000.wav|At length the door stood open, and Mr Fledgeby's retreating drapery plunged into bed again.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000037_000001.wav|'That's a good connexion!|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000125_000000.wav|'The better I knew her, the more interest I felt in her fortunes.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000016_000000.wav|With a plunge of enjoyment, Fledgeby settled himself afresh.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000121_000000.wav|'Sir, I have no motive but to help the helpless.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000058_000000.wav|'How do you know it?' demanded Lammle.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000041_000002.wav|These are to be disposed of in parcels; are they?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000049_000000.wav|'Ha ha!' laughed Lammle. 'Yes.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000049_000002.wav|We know.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000046_000003.wav|Can't I make ANY terms with you on my friend's part, Mr Riah?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000008_000001.wav|Thrice he repeated these actions before his listening ears were greeted by the voice of Fledgeby, calling from his bed, 'Hold your row!--I'll come and open the door directly!' But, in lieu of coming directly, he fell into a sweet sleep for some quarter of an hour more, during which added interval Riah sat upon the stairs and waited with perfect patience.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000102_000000.wav|'Oho!' said Fledgeby. 'Didn't expect it!|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000140_000001.wav|'That one, is it?|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000124_000001.wav|'Well.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000131_000000.wav|With one hand across his breast and the other on the easy chair, Riah, without justifying himself, waited for further questioning.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000082_000002.wav|I don't know what your circumstances are, and I don't ask.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000028_000001.wav|Fledgeby told it again with great care, and rang every sovereign.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000148_000001.wav|Pending which operation, and his morning ablutions, and his anointing of himself with the last infallible preparation for the production of luxuriant and glossy hair upon the human countenance (quacks being the only sages he believed in besides usurers), the murky fog closed about him and shut him up in its sooty embrace.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000110_000000.wav|'Come!' said Fledgeby. 'I won't press that just now.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000109_000000.wav|Riah bent his eyes upon the ground, as if considering whether he could answer the question without breach of faith, and then silently raised them to Fledgeby's face, as if he could not.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000048_000001.wav|'Lammle?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000055_000001.wav|Saint Mary Axe, or of somebody: which is far from our intention.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000042_000000.wav|'In parcels as set forth,' returned the old man, looking over his master's shoulder; 'or the lump.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000001_000000.wav|BOOK THE THIRD -- A LONG LANE|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000111_000000.wav|The old man, with an apologetic action of his head and hands, as not comprehending the master's meaning, addressed to him a look of mute inquiry.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000086_000000.wav|'But I mustn't keep him waiting too long,' said Fledgeby, 'or he'll revenge it on my unfortunate friend.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000065_000000.wav|Fledgeby took a note from his extended hand and read it aloud.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000034_000000.wav|'Not in justice?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000086_000001.wav|How's your very clever and agreeable wife?|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000075_000000.wav|'No,' said Fledgeby; 'provided you have brought my promissory note in your pocket, and now hand it over.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000050_000000.wav|'Devilish good, ain't it, Lammle?' said Fledgeby, unspeakably amused by his hidden joke.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000090_000000.wav|'Oh!--She lays it upon me, then?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000022_000000.wav|With another comfortable plunge, Mr Fledgeby fell asleep again.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000116_000000.wav|'Honour too!' cried Fledgeby, with a mocking lip.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000071_000000.wav|'Well!' said Fledgeby. 'This won't improve with talking about.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000009_000001.wav|Following it at a respectful distance, Riah passed into the bed chamber, where a fire had been sometime lighted, and was burning briskly.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000084_000004.wav|Still, I didn't like his eye.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000095_000000.wav|They shook hands, and Lammle strode out pondering.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000119_000001.wav|The young man sat looking at the fire with a face of listening curiosity, ready to check him off and catch him tripping.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000005_000001.wav|But the light went out, and the main door opened, and Riah came forth with a bag under his arm.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000124_000000.wav|'Did you?' said Fledgeby, distrustfully.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000013_000000.wav|'Very foggy, sir.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000144_000001.wav|'And a Jew brought down with it!|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000033_000000.wav|'I don't find it worth my while to cut things so fine as to go into the inquiry,' Fascination coolly answered.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000136_000000.wav|'I thought so.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000114_000000.wav|'Then why,' retorted Fledgeby, with some slight tinge of a blush, 'don't you out with your reason for having your spoon in the soup at all?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000038_000000.wav|The vouchers were produced, and for the next half hour Mr Fledgeby concentrated his sublime attention on them.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000003_000000.wav|LODGERS IN QUEER STREET|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000065_000002.wav|Sir: Allow Mrs Podsnap and myself to express our united sense of the polite attentions of Mrs Alfred Lammle and yourself towards our daughter, Georgiana.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000125_000002.wav|I found her beset by a selfish and ungrateful brother, beset by an unacceptable wooer, beset by the snares of a more powerful lover, beset by the wiles of her own heart.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000007_000002.wav|It was characteristic of his habitual submission, that he sat down on the raw dark staircase, as many of his ancestors had probably sat down in dungeons, taking what befell him as it might befall.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000064_000001.wav|OUR game.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000118_000001.wav|Honour bright,' said Fledgeby.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000100_000001.wav|Now a word about affairs that are not exactly mine. Where is she?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000044_000003.wav|He took none that could be detected, but, aware of his employer's suspicions, stood with his eyes on the ground.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000110_000001.wav|But I want to know this, and I will know this, mind you.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000093_000000.wav|'No, sir.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000092_000002.wav|Then she don't lay it upon me?|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000082_000003.wav|You have sustained a loss here.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000041_000001.wav|'Queer Street is full of lodgers just at present!|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000144_000000.wav|'A tidy shot that, I flatter myself,' he then soliloquised.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000030_000001.wav|'May I take the liberty to say something?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000062_000000.wav|'I tell you, Fledgeby,' repeated Lammle, with a sweep of his right arm, 'the whole thing's wrong.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000127_000000.wav|'Sir, it was only natural that she should incline towards him, for he had many and great advantages.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000063_000000.wav|'What game's up?' demanded Fledgeby, as slowly as before, and more sternly.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000127_000002.wav|Perils were closing round her, and the circle was fast darkening, when I-being as you have said, sir, too old and broken to be suspected of any feeling for her but a father's-stepped in, and counselled flight.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000039_000002.wav|You have got your list of what's in the market?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000140_000006.wav|Go on and prosper!'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000045_000001.wav|'Hark!|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000132_000002.wav|I'll be more communicative with you.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000096_000000.wav|'You have a pair of whiskers, Lammle, which I never liked,' murmured Fledgeby, 'and which money can't produce; you are boastful of your manners and your conversation; you wanted to pull my nose, and you have let me in for a failure, and your wife says I am the cause of it.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000054_000000.wav|'He is only the representative of another!' cried Fledgeby. 'Does as he is told by his principal!|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000147_000001.wav|I have got the run of Queer Street now, and you shall see some games there.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000148_000000.wav|With this apostrophe Mr Fledgeby appropriately proceeded to divest himself of his Turkish garments, and invest himself with Christian attire.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000035_000000.wav|'Bother justice!' said Fledgeby.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000143_000000.wav|'Well done you!' said Fascination to himself.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000130_000000.wav|Fledgeby's eyes had come from the fire to notice the action of his hands when he said 'at a distance.' Fledgeby now tried (very unsuccessfully) to imitate that action, as he shook his head and said, 'Placed her in that direction, did you?|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000116_000002.wav|Cut away.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000130_000001.wav|Oh you circular old dodger!'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000082_000007.wav|Never fall into his hands, Lammle, I beg of you as a friend!'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000103_000000.wav|Showing that he was taken by surprise, the old man looked at his master with some passing confusion, which the master highly enjoyed.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000127_000003.wav|I said, "My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight." She answered, she had had this in her thoughts; but whither to fly without help she knew not, and there were none to help her.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000131_000001.wav|But, that it was hopeless to question him on that one reserved point, Fledgeby, with his small eyes too near together, saw full well.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000056_000001.wav|Having closed it on him, Fledgeby returned to Lammle, standing with his back to the bedroom fire, with one hand under his coat skirts, and all his whiskers in the other.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125147/1027_125147_000032_000000.wav|'Do you not, sir-without intending it-of a surety without intending it-sometimes mingle the character I fairly earn in your employment, with the character which it is your policy that I should bear?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000020_000000.wav|'It sounds to me so.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000039_000001.wav|It has now this new unfortunate association connected with it.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000007_000000.wav|A SUCCESSOR|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000034_000001.wav|Bella felt a little vague trepidation as to the subject matter of this same consultation, until Mrs Boffin announced it.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000012_000001.wav|Nay, it was afterwards affirmed by a witness who shall at present be nameless, that in the seclusion of the Bower he poked out his wooden leg, in the stage ballet manner, and executed a taunting or triumphant pirouette on the genuine leg remaining to him.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000045_000000.wav|'Then,' said Mrs Boffin, 'we agree not to revive john Harmon's name, but to let it rest in the grave.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000014_000000.wav|'But I do thank you, Mr Rokesmith,' said Mrs Boffin, 'and I thank you most kindly.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000057_000001.wav|'Shall he be brought here, ma'am?' asked Rokesmith.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000021_000000.wav|'An only child?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000056_000000.wav|Here the footman whose feelings had been hurt on the former occasion, appeared, and crossing to Rokesmith apologetically announced the objectionable Sloppy.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000059_000001.wav|But, so much more powerful were the frailties of Sloppy's form than the strongest resources of tailoring science, that he now stood before the Council, a perfect Argus in the way of buttons: shining and winking and gleaming and twinkling out of a hundred of those eyes of bright metal, at the dazzled spectators.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000034_000000.wav|Rokesmith departed on that errand, and presently returned accompanied by Mr Boffin at his jog trot.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000014_000001.wav|You love children.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000045_000001.wav|It is, as Mr Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000035_000001.wav|Now, you see, what I want to talk about, is this.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000076_000002.wav|I don't want no sleep, I don't.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000043_000000.wav|'Now, give us your opinion, Noddy,' said Mrs Boffin.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000013_000000.wav|john Rokesmith's manner towards Mrs Boffin at this time, was more the manner of a young man towards a mother, than that of a Secretary towards his employer's wife.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000066_000000.wav|'How are the two poor little Minders?' asked Mrs Boffin.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000047_000003.wav|Wanting to do good, why not do it for its own sake, and put my tastes and likings by?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000065_000000.wav|'No, mum.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000046_000000.wav|'Hear, hear!' cried Mr Boffin.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000074_000001.wav|Mrs Higden goes before all.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000041_000000.wav|'And that's your opinion?' remarked Mr Boffin, observant of the Secretary's face and again addressing him.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000076_000003.wav|Or even if I any ways should want a wink or two,' added Sloppy, after a moment's apologetic reflection, 'I could take 'em turning.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000065_000001.wav|But I mean to it.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000058_000001.wav|Whereupon the footman disappeared, reappeared presenting Sloppy, and retired much disgusted.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000012_000000.wav|Mr Wegg chuckled, consequently, when he heard the tidings.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000067_000000.wav|'Striking right out, mum, and coming round beautiful.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000074_000003.wav|And she must be turned for, must Mrs Higden.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000063_000000.wav|'Yes, mum.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000062_000000.wav|'Have you just come, Sloppy?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000069_000000.wav|'Sloppy.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000050_000000.wav|'Laid it up as a remembrance,' suggested Bella, musingly.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000037_000000.wav|'--This has set me thinking, I say,' repeated Mrs Boffin, cordially beaming under the influence of her husband's compliment, 'and I have thought two things.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000035_000003.wav|Well.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000049_000000.wav|'Well, my dear,' returned Mrs Boffin, giving her a squeeze, 'it's kind of you to find that reason out, and I hope it may have been so, and indeed to a certain extent I believe it was so, but I am afraid not to the whole extent.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000008_000000.wav|Some of the Reverend Frank Milvey's brethren had found themselves exceedingly uncomfortable in their minds, because they were required to bury the dead too hopefully.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000029_000001.wav|Why do you ask me?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000017_000000.wav|john Rokesmith replied, 'Some among us supply the short comings of the rest.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000047_000002.wav|But this little death has made me ask myself the question, seriously, whether I wasn't too bent upon pleasing myself. Else why did I seek out so much for a pretty child, and a child quite to my liking?|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000074_000004.wav|Where would Mrs Higden be if she warn't turned for!' At the mere thought of Mrs Higden in this inconceivable affliction, Mr Sloppy's countenance became pale, and manifested the most distressful emotions.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000017_000001.wav|You have loved children well, Mr Boffin has told me.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000013_000002.wav|The completeness of his sympathy with her fancy for having a little john Harmon to protect and rear, he had shown in every act and word, and now that the kind fancy was disappointed, he treated it with a manly tenderness and respect for which she could hardly thank him enough.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000006_000000.wav|Chapter ten|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000076_000000.wav|'Even as to that, mum,' answered the ecstatic Sloppy, 'the turning might be done in the night, don't you see?|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000028_000000.wav|'Now, don't mind an old lady's talk,' said Mrs Boffin, 'but tell me.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000033_000000.wav|'No, don't go,' rejoined Mrs Boffin, 'because we are coming to business, instead of having begun it, and you belong to it as much now, my dear Bella, as I do.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000059_000000.wav|The consideration of Mrs Boffin had clothed Mr Sloppy in a suit of black, on which the tailor had received personal directions from Rokesmith to expend the utmost cunning of his art, with a view to the concealment of the cohering and sustaining buttons.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000011_000000.wav|There was grief in the aristocratic house, and there was joy in the Bower.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000030_000001.wav|Sometimes you have a kind of kept down manner with you, which is not like your age.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000073_000000.wav|'Yes.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000071_000000.wav|'Come forward, Sloppy.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000071_000001.wav|Should you like to dine here every day?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000074_000000.wav|'Oh, mum!--But there's Mrs Higden,' said Sloppy, checking himself in his raptures, drawing back, and shaking his head with very serious meaning. 'There's Mrs Higden.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000075_000002.wav|If Betty Higden can be turned for all the same, you shall come here and be taken care of for life, and be made able to keep her in other ways than the turning.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000035_000002.wav|Mr and Mrs Milvey have sent me the kindest note possible (which Mr Rokesmith just now read to me out aloud, for I ain't good at handwritings), offering to find me another little child to name and educate and bring up.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000049_000001.wav|However, that don't come in question now, because we have done with the name.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000040_000000.wav|'It has not been a fortunate name for me,' said Bella, colouring-'or at least it was not, until it led to my being here-but that is not the point in my thoughts.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000019_000000.wav|'Do I?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000032_000000.wav|Deeming it high time to make her presence known, Bella coughed here to attract attention, begged pardon, and said she would go, fearing that she interrupted some matter of business.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000055_000000.wav|'No,' returned Mrs Boffin.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000011_000002.wav|And why go beating about Brentford bushes, seeking orphans forsooth who had established no claims upon you and made no sacrifices for you, when here was an orphan ready to your hand who had given up in your cause, Miss Elizabeth, Master George, Aunt Jane, and Uncle Parker?|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000047_000001.wav|I meant that, I am sure, as much as I still mean it.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000059_000002.wav|The artistic taste of some unknown hatter had furnished him with a hatband of wholesale capacity which was fluted behind, from the crown of his hat to the brim, and terminated in a black bunch, from which the imagination shrunk discomfited and the reason revolted.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000055_000002.wav|That's as it may happen. A well disposed boy comes in my way who may be even a little wanting in such advantages for getting on in life, but is honest and industrious and requires a helping hand and deserves it.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000053_000000.wav|'No,' returned Mrs Boffin, stoutly.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000009_000001.wav|He only learned that the more he himself knew, in his little limited human way, the better he could distantly imagine what Omniscience might know.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000022_000000.wav|'No there was another.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000026_000001.wav|I never heard of any.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000070_000000.wav|'Yes, mum.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000040_000001.wav|As we had given the name to the poor child, and as the poor child took so lovingly to me, I think I should feel jealous of calling another child by it.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000057_000000.wav|The four members of Council looked at one another, and paused.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000076_000001.wav|I could be here in the day, and turn in the night.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000054_000000.wav|'Nor prepossessing then?' said Bella.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000044_000000.wav|'My opinion, old lady,' returned the Golden Dustman, 'is your opinion.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000039_000003.wav|Why revive it? Might I ask Miss Wilfer what she thinks?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000075_000001.wav|It shall be seen to.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000038_000000.wav|'Now, whether,' said Mr Boffin, gravely propounding a case for his Secretary's opinion; 'whether one might call that a superstition?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000008_000001.wav|But, the Reverend Frank, inclining to the belief that they were required to do one or two other things (say out of nine and thirty) calculated to trouble their consciences rather more if they would think as much about them, held his peace.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000031_000000.wav|'I am not yet thirty.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000039_000002.wav|The name has died out.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000030_000002.wav|You can't be thirty?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000025_000000.wav|'And the rest of your relations?'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000027_000001.wav|She paused at the door a moment, hesitating whether to remain or retire; perplexed by finding that she was not observed.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000035_000004.wav|This has set me thinking.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000037_000002.wav|It's an unfortunate name, and I fancy I should reproach myself if I gave it to another dear child, and it proved again unlucky.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000030_000000.wav|'Why, for this reason.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000077_000000.wav|On the grateful impulse of the moment, Mr Sloppy kissed Mrs Boffin's hand, and then detaching himself from that good creature that he might have room enough for his feelings, threw back his head, opened his mouth wide, and uttered a dismal howl.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000010_000000.wav|Wherefore, if the Reverend Frank had had to read the words that troubled some of his brethren, and profitably touched innumerable hearts, in a worse case than Johnny's, he would have done so out of the pity and humility of his soul.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000051_000000.wav|'Much better said, my dear; laid it up as a remembrance.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000045_000002.wav|Well; and so I come to the second thing I have thought of.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000009_000000.wav|Indeed, the Reverend Frank Milvey was a forbearing man, who noticed many sad warps and blights in the vineyard wherein he worked, and did not profess that they made him savagely wise.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000042_000000.wav|'I say again, it is a matter of feeling,' returned the Secretary.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000055_000003.wav|If I am very much in earnest and quite determined to be unselfish, let me take care of HIM.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000058_000000.wav|'Yes,' said Mrs Boffin.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000018_000001.wav|You speak rather sadly, Mr Rokesmith.'|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000020_000001.wav|Were you one of many children?' He shook his head.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1027/125140/1027_125140_000052_000000.wav|'Not pretty then?' said Bella.|1027
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000025_000002.wav|They take no exercise.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000001_000002.wav|Once I invited an entire class of officers who were attending lectures at the War College to come on one of these walks; I chose a route which gave us the hardest climbing along the rocks and the deepest crossings of the creek; and my army friends enjoyed it hugely-being the right sort, to a man.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000016_000000.wav|"To such men the book is invaluable.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000032_000001.wav|But he can do so, if only he will take the trouble.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000035_000007.wav|From the study of the first he can learn inspiration, he can get uplift and lofty enthusiasm. From the study of the second he can, if he chooses, find out how to win a similar success himself.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000033_000000.wav|I once made a speech to which I gave the title "The Strenuous Life." Afterwards I published a volume of essays with this for a title.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000002_000002.wav|The lunch party and the cougar were then photographed on the lawn.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000037_000004.wav|(I am using my own language, not Marryat's.) This was the theory upon which I went.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000002_000001.wav|At the end of the lunch Seth Bullock suddenly reached forward, swept aside a mass of flowers which made a centerpiece on the table, and revealed a bronze cougar by Proctor, which was a parting gift to me.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000004_000007.wav|This seems unbelievable; but Leonard assures me it is true. He did not inform me at the time, being afraid to "get in wrong" with his permanent superiors.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000000_000005.wav|If we swam the Potomac, we usually took off our clothes.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000000_000002.wav|Often, especially in the winters and early springs, we would arrange for a point to point walk, not turning aside for anything-for instance, swimming Rock Creek or even the Potomac if it came in our way.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155949/3072_155949_000017_000001.wav|They will look at the pictures and say it is a good book, but they won't read it.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000010_000001.wav|Bob Fitzsimmons was another good friend of mine.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000009_000001.wav|Take Mike Donovan, of New York.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000010_000005.wav|When I went to Africa he presented me with a gold mounted rabbit's foot for luck.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000017.wav|Managing to get near it, I whipped it up and threw the bead on him, calling, "Hands up!" He of course put up his hands, and then said, "Oh, come, I was only joking"; to which I answered, "Well, I am not.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000012.wav|But I rarely took exercise merely as exercise.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000011_000006.wav|But there was just nothing to be done with him.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000003_000002.wav|It was midwinter.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000021.wav|By this time he was quite sober, and really did not seem angry, looking at me quizzically.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000009_000002.wav|He and his family represent a type of American citizenship of which we have a right to be proud.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000009_000008.wav|Afterward I grew to know him well both while I was Governor and while I was President, and many a time he came on and boxed with me.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000008_000007.wav|Of course the men who look on ought to be able to stand up with the gloves, or without them, themselves; I have scant use for the type of sportsmanship which consists merely in looking on at the feats of some one else.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000013.wav|Primarily I took it because I liked it. Play should never be allowed to interfere with work; and a life devoted merely to play is, of all forms of existence, the most dismal.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000009_000006.wav|It culminated in a lively set to between myself and a Tammany Senator who was a very good fellow, but whose ideas of temperance differed radically from mine, and, as the event proved, from those of the majority of the meeting.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000002_000003.wav|I did not believe I would be followed, but still it was not possible to be sure, so, after getting supper, while my pony fed round, I left the fire burning, repacked the mare and pushed ahead until it literally became so dark that I could not see.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000007_000001.wav|The only objection I have to the prize ring is the crookedness that has attended its commercial development.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000011_000005.wav|I did my best to bring him up the way he ought to go.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000002_000007.wav|It was while hunting in vain for a grouse that I came on the bear and killed it as above described.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000005.wav|My two ponies were the only occupants of my stable except a cart horse.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000006.wav|He could not even take care of himself, not to speak of me.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000002.wav|I dropped the wrestling earliest.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000007.wav|Polo is a good game, infinitely better for vigorous men than tennis or golf or anything of that kind.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000013.wav|Accordingly I thought it better to acknowledge that I had become an elderly man and would have to stop boxing.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000014.wav|I then took up jiu jitsu for a year or two.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000011.wav|After a few years I had to abandon boxing as well as wrestling, for in one bout a young captain of artillery cross countered me on the eye, and the blow smashed the little blood vessels.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000010.wav|I suppose it sounds archaic, but I cannot help thinking that the people with motor boats miss a great deal.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000010.wav|While President I used to box with some of the aides, as well as play single stick with General Wood.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000010_000006.wav|I carried it through my African trip; and I certainly had good luck.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000014.wav|But the joy of life is a very good thing, and while work is the essential in it, play also has its place.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000011_000007.wav|His tastes were naturally low.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000013.wav|I answered "all right," that if I could not I could not, and began to move around to get some flour and salt pork.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000020.wav|I then made him move back, and picked up the rifle.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000007_000000.wav|Naturally, being fond of boxing, I grew to know a good many prize fighters, and to most of those I knew I grew genuinely attached. I have never been able to sympathize with the outcry against prize fighters.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000002.wav|When I worked on a ranch, I needed no form of exercise except my work, but when I worked in an office the case was different. A couple of summers I played polo with some of my neighbors.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000007_000008.wav|Many of these young fellows were not naturally criminals at all, but they had to have some outlet for their activities.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000002_000002.wav|I then traveled till dark, and that night, for the only time in my experience, I used in camping a trick of the old time trappers in the Indian days.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000009.wav|After that I took up boxing again.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000003_000004.wav|I could not help grinning when I found out that they did not even allude to me as the Vice President elect, let alone as a hunter, but merely as "Johnny Goff's tourist."|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000018.wav|Now straighten your legs and let your rifle go to the ground." He remonstrated, saying the rifle would go off, and I told him to let it go off.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000005_000005.wav|The oarsman turned out to know very little about wrestling.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000006_000000.wav|When I was in the Legislature and was working very hard, with little chance of getting out of doors, all the exercise I got was boxing and wrestling.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000007_000011.wav|Of course boxing should be encouraged in the army and navy.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000009.wav|But at Oyster Bay our great and permanent amusements were rowing and sailing; I do not care for the latter, and am fond of the former.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000007_000010.wav|I do not like to see young Christians with shoulders that slope like a champagne bottle.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000009_000007.wav|Mike evidently regarded himself as my backer-he was sitting on the platform beside me-and I think felt as pleased and interested as if the set to had been physical instead of merely verbal.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000007_000004.wav|But this is true of football games and of most other rough and vigorous sports.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000004_000006.wav|My wife and I rode and drove them, and they were used for household errands and for the children, and for two afternoons a week they served me as polo ponies.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000011_000004.wav|He was my sister's favorite son, and I always took a special interest in him myself.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000001.wav|He was a crippled old mountain man, with a profound contempt for "tenderfeet," a contempt that in my case was accentuated by the fact that I wore spectacles-which at that day and in that region were usually held to indicate a defective moral character in the wearer.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000008_000004.wav|It is idle to compare them with bull fighting; the torture and death of the wretched horses in bull fighting is enough of itself to blast the sport, no matter how great the skill and prowess shown by the bull fighters. Any sport in which the death and torture of animals is made to furnish pleasure to the spectators is debasing.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3072/155948/3072_155948_000001_000003.wav|He was very rheumatic and liked to lie abed late, so that I usually had to get breakfast, and, in fact, do most of the work around camp.|3072
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000030_000000.wav|Most of the young nobles were on horseback, with beautifully made saddles; and others, including Ukon no Jio, Yoshikiyo, and Koremitz, in fine uniforms of different colors (blue, green, or scarlet), according to their different ranks, formed the procession, contrasting with the hue of the range of pine trees on both sides of the road.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000009_000002.wav|Meanwhile the respect of the public towards Genji had now returned to its former state, and he himself had become a distinguished personage in the capital.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000012_000000.wav|At the end of the same month the Emperor abdicated the throne in favor of the Heir apparent, and his own son was made the Heir apparent to the new Emperor.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000014_000004.wav|He at first declined to accept the office, on the ground that he was advanced in age, that he had already retired from official life, and that the decline of his life left him insufficient energy.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000031_000002.wav|The young Genji was also in the procession on horseback, and followed the carriage.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000009_000003.wav|The Empress mother, though indisposed, regretted she had not ruined Genji altogether; while the Emperor, who had not forgotten the injunction of the late ex Emperor, felt satisfied with his recent disposition towards his half brother, which he believed to be an act of goodness.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000006_000000.wav|CHAPTER fourteen|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000032_000000.wav|The maiden of Akashi witnessed the procession, but she avoided making herself known.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000020_000004.wav|But this would make me heartless towards my undoubted offspring.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000020_000001.wav|He now, therefore, informed her of all the circumstances, and of the birth of the child, saying, "If you feel any unpleasantness about the matter, I cannot blame you in any way.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000014_000003.wav|He was to take an active part in the administration, but as he was not yet disposed to engage in the busy cares of official life, the ex Sadaijin, his father in law, was solicited to become the regent for the young Emperor.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000015_000000.wav|So the ex Sadaijin did not persist in his refusal, but finally accepted the post of Dajiodaijin (the Premier).|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000037_000002.wav|Her health, however, began to fail, and she became a nun, and after some time died.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000002.wav|When he reflected on this prediction and on the series of events, he began thinking of the remarkable coincidences they betrayed; and as he thought of sending for her, as soon as the condition of the young mother's health would admit, he hurried forward the repairs of the eastern mansion.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000022_000006.wav|But on the part of Violet she could not but think that it was cruel to her to give away part of his heart, while her thoughts were with no one but him, and she was quite cast down for some time.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000027_000003.wav|What will he eventually do about this matter?|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000036_000000.wav|"Divinely led by love's bright flame, To this lone temple's shrine we come; And as yon beacon meets our eye, To dream, perchance, of days gone by."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000029_000000.wav|By a coincidence the maiden of Akashi, who had been prevented from coming to the Temple since the last year, happened to arrive there on the same day.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000025_000000.wav|Let us now relate something about the Princess Wistaria.--Though she had become a nun, her title of ex Empress had never been lost; and now the change in the reigning sovereign gave her fresh honors.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000015_000005.wav|The young Genji too, the son of the late Lady Aoi, was admitted to the Court of the Emperor and of the Heir apparent.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000010.wav|She left the capital in a carriage, and proceeded by boat to the province of Settsu, and thence on horseback to Akashi.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000021_000000.wav|"Your saying this only makes me contemptible to myself, as I think my generosity may not yet be fully understood; but I should like to know when and where I could have learnt to be ungenerous."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000027_000001.wav|She took up her abode in the Kokiden, which had been formerly occupied by her maternal aunt, and she was also styled from this time the Niogo of Kokiden.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000022_000005.wav|You must not think of the matter too seriously." He then briefly sketched her character and her skill in music.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000020_000000.wav|Hitherto Genji did not confide the story of his relations with the maiden of Akashi to Violet, but he thought he had better do so, as the matter might naturally reach her ears.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000023_000000.wav|Genji tried to console her.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000033_000002.wav|As they proceeded Genji hummed,|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000032_000002.wav|As to Genji, he knew nothing of the maiden being a spectator of the procession, and spent the whole night in the Temple with his party in performing services which might please the God.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000015_000004.wav|His daughter by his wife, the fourth daughter of Udaijin, was now twelve years old, and was shortly expected to be presented at Court; while his son, who had sung the "high sand" at a summer day reunion at Genji's mansion, received a title.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000020_000003.wav|How greatly do I regret that in the quarter where I wished to see the heavenly gift, there is none, but see it in another, where there was no expectation. The child is merely a girl too, and I almost think that I need pay no further attention.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000020_000006.wav|Can you assure me you will be so?" At these words Violet's face became red as crimson, but she did not lose her temper, and quietly replied:|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000031_000001.wav|They were dressed in admirable taste, and their hair was twisted up in the form of a double knot, with ribbons of gorgeous purple.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000024_000000.wav|The fifth of May was the fiftieth day of the birth of the child, so Genji sent a messenger to Akashi a few days before the time when he would be expected.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000029_000001.wav|Her party travelled in a boat, and when it reached the beach they saw the procession of Genji's party crossing before them. They did not know what procession it was, and asked the bystanders about it, who, in return, asked them sarcastically, "Can there be anyone who does not know of the coming of Naidaijin, the Prince Genji, here to day to fulfil his vows?"|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000025_000002.wav|A liberal allowance was granted to her, and a becoming household was established for her private use.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000017_000000.wav|Now the young maiden also, whom Genji had left behind at Akashi, and who had been in delicate health, did not pass away from his thoughts. He despatched a messenger there on the first of March, as he deemed the happy event would take place about that time.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000014_000006.wav|Nor was it an unusual thing for a statesman who had retired from political scenes to assume again a place under another government.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000007.wav|Genji sounded her, through a certain channel, whether she would not be willing to be useful to him.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000019_000001.wav|The child was very healthy, and the nurse at once began to discharge her duties most faithfully.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000003.wav|He also thought that as there might not be a suitable nurse at Akashi for the child, he ought to send one from the capital.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000022_000004.wav|The attractions of the mother seem only to have arisen from the position in which she was placed.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000006.wav|She was now in miserable circumstances.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000020_000002.wav|It was not the blessing which I desired.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000010_000001.wav|He did not, however, believe he should be long on the throne, and when he found himself lonely, he often sent for Genji, and spent hours conversing with him, without any reserve, on public affairs.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000037_000003.wav|Before her death Genji visited her, and with her last breath she consigned her daughter to his care.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000014_000001.wav|Genji had been made Naidaijin.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000005.wav|Her mother, who had waited at Court when the late ex Emperor lived, and her father, who had been some time Court Chamberlain, were both dead.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000017_000001.wav|When the messenger returned, he reported that she was safely delivered of a girl on the sixteenth of the month.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000022_000001.wav|"How can you be so cruel to me?|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000028_000001.wav|His party consisted of many young nobles and Court retainers, besides his own private attendants.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000008_000000.wav|Genji well remembered the dream which he had dreamt at Suma, and in which his father, the late ex Emperor, had made a faint allusion to his fallen state.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000015_000001.wav|He was now sixty three years of age.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000009_000000.wav|He was now in the capital, and at liberty to do anything he wished.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000008.wav|This offer on his part she accepted without much hesitation, and was despatched with a confidential servant to attend on the new born child.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000008_000001.wav|He was always thinking of having solemn service performed for him, which might prove to be a remedy for evils.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000022_000000.wav|"These words sound too hard to me," said he.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000028_000000.wav|In the same autumn Genji went to the Temple of Sumiyoshi to fulfil his vows.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000024_000001.wav|At Akashi the feast for the occasion was arranged with great pains, and the arrival of Genji's messenger was most opportune.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000022_000003.wav|He felt sorry for her, and continued, "In my anxious thoughts about this child, I have some intentions which may be agreeable to you also, only I will not tell you too hastily, since, if I do so now, they might not be taken in a favorable light.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000035_000000.wav|and he stopped, while contemplating the bay.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000004.wav|Fortunately there was a lady there who had lately been delivered of a child.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000031_000000.wav|Genji was in a carriage, which was followed by ten boy pages, granted by the Court in the same way as a late Sadaijin, Kawara, had been honored.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000009_000001.wav|In October, therefore, he ordered the grand ceremony of Mihakko to be performed for the repose of the dead.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000033_000001.wav|On the morrow Genji and his party set off for their homes.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000014_000000.wav|The new reign opened with several changes in public affairs.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000018_000009.wav|He also sent with her a sword and other presents.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000027_000000.wav|In August, of this year, the daughter of Gon Chiunagon (formerly To no Chiujio) was introduced at Court.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000025_000001.wav|She had been recognized as equivalent to an Empress regnant who had abdicated.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3966/8142_3966_000025_000003.wav|She, however, still continued her devotion to religion, now and then coming to Court to see her son, where she was received with all cordiality; so that her rival, the mother of the ex Emperor, whose influence was overwhelming till lately, now began to feel like one to whom the world had become irksome.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000016_000000.wav|The Princess said very little, but her answer was, "I really thank you for your kind attention, but I do not think I am now fit to move about in the world.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000014_000000.wav|Here she manifested a certain sadness, but her delight at her husband's promotion was unmistakable, and she continued:--|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000017_000001.wav|Had Prince Genji been kind enough to repair the place, it might have become transformed into a golden palace, and how joyous would it not be?|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000011_000003.wav|It is not praiseworthy to display such self importance as you did in the lifetime of your father." And again she pressed her to go with her, but the Princess still clung to the hope that the time would come when Genji would remember her and renew his kindness.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000033_000003.wav|it might have been preordained to be so.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000028_000002.wav|To his inquiries he soon obtained a satisfactory answer, and duly reported it to Genji, who now felt a pang of remorse for his long negligence of one so badly circumstanced.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000013_000000.wav|"I must soon be leaving the capital," said the visitor.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000012_000000.wav|Winter came!|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000009_000001.wav|This marriage had been considered an unequal match by the father of the Princess, and for this reason she was not very friendly with the family.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000013_000004.wav|I cannot understand how you can be content with your present condition."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000015_000000.wav|"When your father was alive, I was looked down upon by him, which caused a coolness between us.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000017_000002.wav|but this you cannot expect.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000007_000004.wav|Only one blessing remained there-no thief intruded into the enclosure, as no temptation was offered to them for their attack.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000017_000004.wav|How, then, can you expect him to say that, because you have been faithful to him, he will therefore come to you again?"|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000019_000001.wav|Thus I am puzzled between the two.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000021_000000.wav|Jijiu had been an attendant on the Princess for a very long time, besides, her mother (the nurse), before she died, told the Princess and her daughter that she hoped they might be long together; so the parting with Jijiu was very trying to the Princess who said to her that though she could not blame her for leaving, she still felt sorry to lose her.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000008_000000.wav|But never did the Princess lose her accustomed reserve, which her parents had instilled into her mind.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000008.wav|Hence there were several Durios (local governors) who had become rich, and having returned from different provinces, sounded the Princess to see if she were inclined to part with her residence; but this she always refused to do, saying that, however unfortunate she might be, she was not able to give up a mansion inherited from her parents.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000032_000000.wav|This was about the time of the feast in the Temple of Kamo, and Genji received several presents under various pretexts.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000022_000002.wav|A sigh of the evening breeze shook them as they hung in the silver moonlight, and scattered their rich fragrance towards the wayfarer.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000006.wav|One might imagine some mysterious "tree spirit" to reign there.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000012_000002.wav|Her carriage dashed into the garden in a most pompous style, and drove right up to the southern front of the building.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000007_000002.wav|In spring and summer boys would sometimes play there.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000018_000000.wav|These words touched the Princess, but she gave no vent to her feelings.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000009_000005.wav|She fondly hoped to revenge herself for having been formerly looked down upon, by showing an apparent kindness to the Princess Hitachi, and by wishing to take her into her home, and make her wait upon her daughters.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000032_000003.wav|Moreover, he had a wooden enclosure placed all round the garden.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000028_000001.wav|He then asked her about the Princess, and told her of Genji's intention.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000022_000000.wav|It was one evening in April of the following year that Genji happened to be going to the villa of "the falling flowers," and passed by the mansion of the Princess.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000001.wav|Among these was the Princess Hitachi.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000016_000001.wav|I shall be quite happy to bury myself under this roof."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000015_000002.wav|I do really feel sorry to leave you behind."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000008_000001.wav|Society for her had no attractions.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000013_000002.wav|But this one, this Jijiu at least, I wish to take with me.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000003.wav|After Genji left the capital, however, no correspondence ever passed between them.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000004.wav|Several of her servants left her, and her residence became more lonely than ever.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000011_000000.wav|About this time Genji returned, but for some while she heard nothing from him, and only the public rejoicing of many people, and the news about him from the outside world reached her ears.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000032_000001.wav|He distributed these presents among his friends, such as those in the villa of "the falling flowers," and to the Princess.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000018_000001.wav|The visitor, therefore, hurried Jijiu to get ready, saying that they must leave before the dusk.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000005_000000.wav|The mansion contained also a store of rare and antique articles. Several fashionable persons endeavored to induce the Princess to part with them; but such people appeared only contemptible to her, as she looked upon them as proposing such a thing solely because they knew she was poor.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000003_000000.wav|OVERGROWN MUGWORT|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000009_000004.wav|It seems to me that where a lady of ordinary degree is elevated to a higher position, she often acquires a refinement like one originally belonging to it; but there are other women, who when degraded from their rank spoil their taste and habits just like the lady in question.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000019_000002.wav|Let me, however, say this, I will only see the lady off to day."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000029_000000.wav|Inside, meanwhile, the Princess, though she felt very pleased, experienced a feeling of shyness.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000009_000006.wav|With this view she told Jijiu to tell her mistress to come to her, and Jijiu did so; but the Princess did not comply with this request.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000015_000001.wav|But nevertheless I at no time entertained any ill will towards you, only you were much favored by Prince Genji, as I heard, which made me abstain from visiting you often; but fortune is fickle, for those in a humble position often enjoy comfort, and those that are higher in station are not quite so well circumstanced.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000013_000001.wav|"It is not my wish to leave you behind, but you would not listen to me, and now there is no help.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000033_000002.wav|How was this?|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000029_000003.wav|Genji was presently shown into the room.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000032_000002.wav|He also sent his servant to the mansion of the latter to cut down the rampant mugwort, and he restored the grounds to proper order.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000031_000000.wav|The Princess, as usual, said very little, only thanking him for his visit.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000000.wav|When Genji was an exile on the sea coast, many people had been longing for his return.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000017_000000.wav|"Well, you may think so, but it is simply foolish to abandon one's self, and to bury one's life under such a mass of dilapidation.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000029_000002.wav|She now took this out and put it on.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000007.wav|Nevertheless, such grounds as these, surrounded with lofty trees, are more tempting to those who desire to have a stylish dwelling.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000023_000001.wav|He stopped his carriage, and said to Koremitz, who was with him as usual-|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000021_000001.wav|To this Jijiu replied, that she never forgot the wishes of her mother, and was only too happy to share joy and sorrow with the Princess; yet she was sorry to say that circumstances obliged her to leave her for some time; but before she could say much, she was hurried away by the visitor.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000004_000002.wav|She was, as we have seen, the survivor of his Royal father, and the kindness which she had received from Genji was to her like the reflection of the broad starlit sky in a basin of water.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000024_000000.wav|"Is this not the mansion of the Princess Hitachi?"|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000013_000003.wav|I have come to day to fetch her.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000012_000001.wav|One day, quite unexpectedly, the aunt arrived at the mansion, bringing as a present a dress for the Princess.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000007_000001.wav|The surrounding walls of massive earth broke down here and there and crumbled away, being trampled over by wandering cattle.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000006_000000.wav|Scarcely anyone paid a visit to her dwelling, her only occasional visitor being her brother, a priest, who came to see her when he came to the capital, but he was a man of eccentric character, and was not very flourishing in his circumstances.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/3967/8142_3967_000009_000002.wav|Jijiu, however, who was a daughter of the Princess's nurse, and who still remained with the Princess, used to go to her.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000013_000000.wav|Two days had elapsed between the surrender of Fort Sumter and the proclamation of President Lincoln calling for seventy five thousand militia as before stated.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000010_000004.wav|The authorities on this subject have been heretofore cited, and need not be referred to again.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000007_000000.wav|The Commissioners sent by the Confederate Government, after having been shamefully deceived, as has been heretofore fully set forth, left the United States capital to report the result of their mission to the Confederate Government.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000009_000000.wav|The bloodless bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter occurred on april thirteenth eighteen sixty one.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000009_000005.wav|Had there been delay, the more serious conflict between larger forces, land and naval, would scarcely have been bloodless, as the bombardment fortunately was.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000010_000002.wav|The levy of so large an army could only mean war; but the power to declare war did not reside in the President-it was delegated to the Congress only.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000013_000001.wav|Two other days elapsed, and Virginia passed her ordinance of secession, and two days thereafter the citizens of Baltimore resisted the passage of troops through that city on their way to make war upon the Southern States.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000019_000001.wav|Referring to an application that had been made to him from Baltimore, I wrote: "Sustain Baltimore if practicable.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000018_000000.wav|To those who criticise South Carolina as having acted precipitately in withdrawing from the Union, it may be answered that intervening occurrences show that her delay could not have changed the result; and, further, that her prompt action had enabled her better to prepare for the contingency which it was found impossible to avert.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000010_000000.wav|On the fifteenth day of the same month, President Lincoln, introducing his farce "of combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings," called forth the military of the several States to the number of seventy five thousand, and commanded "the persons composing the combinations" to disperse, etc|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000009_000001.wav|The garrison was generously permitted to retire with the honors of war.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000019_000002.wav|We will reenforce you." The universal feeling was that of a common cause and common destiny.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000016_000000.wav|Virginia, as has been heretofore stated, passed her ordinance of secession on the seventeenth of April.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000014_000000.wav|The manly effort of the unorganized, unarmed citizens of Baltimore to resist the progress of armies for the invasion of her Southern sisters, was worthy of the fair fame of Maryland; becoming the descendants of the men who so gallantly fought for the freedom, independence, and sovereignty of the States.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000020_000000.wav|The early demonstrations of the enemy showed that Virginia was liable to invasion from the north, from the east, and from the west.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000021_000000.wav|The narrow peninsula between the james and York Rivers had topographical features well adapted to defense.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000009_000006.wav|The event, however, was seized upon to inflame the mind of the Northern people, and the disguise which had been worn in the communications with the Confederate Commissioners was now thrown off, and it was cunningly attempted to show that the South, which had been pleading for peace and still stood on the defensive, had by this bombardment inaugurated a war against the United States.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000015_000000.wav|The bold stand, then and thereafter taken, extorted a promise from the Executive authorities that no more troops should be sent through the city of Baltimore, which promise, however, was only observed until, by artifice, power had been gained to disregard it.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000011_000001.wav|To add that there could be no justification for the invasion of a State by an army of the United States, is but to repeat what has been said, on the absence of any authority in the General Government to coerce a State.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/276732/8142_276732_000006_000000.wav|The Congress, initiated by Virginia for the laudable purpose of endeavoring, by constitutional means, to adjust all the issues which threatened the peace of the country, failed to achieve anything that would cause or justify a reconsideration by the seceded States of their action to reclaim the grants they had made to the General Government, and to maintain for themselves a separate and independent existence.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000050_000002.wav|"I promised to repay you, the time has now come.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000021_000000.wav|Avenant pitied the poor thing, and put her carefully back into the water.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000023_000003.wav|The raven perched on a bough and cried.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000047_000002.wav|At the bottom of this pit there is a little cave where flows the fountain of beauty and health. Positively I must possess the water; all who wash in it, if they are beautiful, continue so always, if they are ugly they become beautiful; if they are young they remain young, if they are old they regain their youth.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000034_000000.wav|The Princess thought she must be dreaming when she saw the ring, but she set Avenant another task.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000046_000000.wav|Avenant advanced to the Princess, and said, "Madam, your enemy is dead.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000028_000000.wav|When Avenant reached the Palace of the Princess Goldenhair, and saw the Princess seated upon her throne, she looked so lovely that at first all his fine speeches forsook him, and he could not utter a word; however, taking courage, he addressed her in exquisitely chosen language, begging her to become the King's bride.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000051_000000.wav|And carrying the flask, the owl entered the grotto, unhindered, returning in less than a quarter of an hour with it full to the brim. Avenant thanked the owl heartily, and joyously started for the town, where he presented the flask to the Princess, who immediately gave orders to prepare for her departure.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000021_000001.wav|Recovering directly, the carp dived to the bottom, but returning to the edge of the river, said,|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000035_000000.wav|"Not far from here there is a prince named Galifron," said she; "he wishes to marry me, and threatens to ravish my kingdom if I refuse; but how can I accept him?|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000050_000001.wav|"You saved my life from the fowlers," said the owl.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000020_000000.wav|One day, alighting from his horse to write down some suitable words that had come into his mind, he saw a golden carp who, leaping from the water to catch flies, had thrown herself upon the river bank, and was now nearly dead.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000024_000000.wav|"Avenant you have saved my life, I will not be ungrateful, I will repay you."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000047_000000.wav|"Although it is so," answered the Princess, "I shall refuse him unless you will bring me some water from the Grotto of Darkness.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000035_000003.wav|You must fight and bring me his head."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000026_000000.wav|Not long after this, Avenant found an owl caught in a snare, he cut the strings, and freed the trembling captive.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000047_000001.wav|At the entrance there are two dragons, with fire in their eyes and mouths; inside the grotto there is a deep pit into which you must descend, it is full of toads, scorpions, and serpents.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000008_000000.wav|A handsome young King in the neighbourhood, although he had never seen this Princess, fell so deeply in love with her from what he had heard, that he could neither eat nor sleep.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000052_000000.wav|But as she considered Avenant altogether charming, before she set out, she several times said to him: "If you wish, we need not go, for I will make you king of my country." But Avenant made reply:|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000035_000002.wav|He will not take my refusal, but kills my subjects.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000026_000001.wav|"Avenant," said the owl, "you have saved my life, I will repay you."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000032_000001.wav|"Take it, dear Avenant," said she, "I promised to repay you for saving my life, and now I can fulfil my promise."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000032_000000.wav|They wandered down to the river, and there Avenant heard a voice calling him, and what should he see but the golden carp, with the Princess's ring in her mouth.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000050_000004.wav|I will bring you the water of beauty."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000047_000003.wav|You cannot wonder, Avenant, that I will not leave my kingdom without taking it with me."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000042_000002.wav|Then Avenant cut off his head, and the raven, who had perched on a tree, said,|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000015_000000.wav|In this sad plight, Avenant exclaimed one day, "How have I offended his Majesty?|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000018_000000.wav|"It is true, sir," replied Avenant, "I did say so, for I would have represented your noble qualities in such a way, that she could not help being persuaded."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000007_000000.wav|There was once a King's daughter who was the most beautiful thing in the world, and as her hair was fair and reached to her feet she was called the Princess Goldenhair.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000043_000000.wav|"I have not forgotten how you rescued me from the eagle; I promised to repay you, I think I have done so to day."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000012_000000.wav|When the King heard of her refusal he wept like a child.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000035_000001.wav|He is a giant, taller than my highest tower, he eats a man as a monkey would eat a chestnut, and when he speaks, his voice is so loud that it deafens those who hear him.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000023_000000.wav|Another day as Avenant journeyed he noticed a raven who was pursued by an eagle.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000045_000000.wav|When he entered the town, crowds followed him crying, "Here is the brave Avenant who has slain the monster."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000039_000000.wav|"Where are the children small, so small, With my teeth I will crush them all, On so many would I feed, feed, feed. The whole world can't supply my need."|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000050_000000.wav|As he was speaking, a voice called, "Avenant, Avenant," and looking around he saw an owl.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000013_000001.wav|He was as beautiful as the sun, and a more finely made fellow than any in the kingdom; everybody loved him except a few envious people, who were angry because the King favoured and confided in him, and in the presence of these, one day, Avenant incautiously remarked,|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8142/110520/8142_110520_000042_000001.wav|He began striking out on all sides, but Avenant avoided his blows, and with his sword pierced him so many times that at last he fell to the ground.|8142
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000006.wav|He would forget all about school hours, roam about the gardens and plantations, get into long conversations with the workmen, and eventually, when he found that he was somewhat too casual to please his employer, he enjoined us to "look him up" and let him know when it was school time.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000011_000004.wav|However, one day he announced that he had a grand scheme to put before us.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000011_000002.wav|I had no inclination to do anything with books myself: books were lessons, therefore repellent, and that any one should read a book for pleasure was inconceivable.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000010.wav|When lessons were not learned he would sympathize with and comfort us by saying we had done our best and more could not be expected.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000009_000004.wav|But he didn't know, and in any case he would like to correspond on these important matters with one on the other side.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000009_000005.wav|This letter met with a warm response, and there was much correspondence and meetings with other clerics Anglican or Episcopalian, I forget which.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000003.wav|He was, perhaps, of a better class, as his features were all good.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000007.wav|Looking him up usually took a good deal of time.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000009_000007.wav|Then he came for his year of waiting to us, during which he amused himself by teaching the little ones, smoothing the way for my mathematical brother, and fishing.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000009_000010.wav|He had waited patiently for months, and had been put off with idle promises or thrust aside, while every greedy pushing priest that arrived from Spain and Italy was received with open arms and a place provided for him.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000009_000009.wav|He had come, he told them, a Roman Catholic priest to a Roman Catholic country, and had found himself a stranger in a strange land.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000012_000001.wav|All went well for a few days.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000009_000006.wav|But there were also Presbyterians, Lutherans, and Methodist ministers, all with churches of their own in the town, and he may have flirted a little with all of them.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000012.wav|We found out that he was exceedingly fond of fishing-that with a rod and line in his hand he would spend hours of perfect happiness, even without a bite to cheer him, and on any fine day that called us to the plain we would tell him that it was a perfect day for fishing, and ask him to let us off for the afternoon.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000010_000001.wav|He did not go so far as to accept that offer: he was wise in his generation, and eventually got his reward.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000004.wav|A heavy man as well as a big one, he was not so amusing and so fluent a talker out of school as his predecessor, nor, as we were delighted to discover, so exacting and tyrannical in school.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000006_000011.wav|He was also glad of any excuse to let us off for half a day.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136280/1668_136280_000012_000011.wav|He would exhibit him as the meanest, most contemptible insect that ever crawled on the surface of the earth.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000032_000003.wav|One more is wanted to make the full dozen.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000027_000004.wav|The words mattered more than the air. For here we had before us not a small sweet singer, a goldfinch in a cage, but a cock-a fighting cock with well trimmed comb and tail and a pair of sharp spurs to its feet.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000032_000000.wav|The stanza ended, Marcos resumed his comments.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000020_000000.wav|And so there was no fight after all!|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000013_000001.wav|I refuse to play to you!|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000007_000002.wav|A stranger at the meeting quickly responded to the call.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000034_000002.wav|I thought him a coward.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000007_000006.wav|And this was soon settled.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000037_000002.wav|I disliked the whole tribe, except a little girl of about eight, a child, it was said, of one of the unmarried sisters. I never discovered which of her aunts, as she called all these tall, white faced heavy browed women, was her mother.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000003_000000.wav|The person-owner or tenant, I forget which-who lived in the house was an old woman named Dona Pascuala, whom I never saw without a cigar in her mouth.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000032_000002.wav|It is not the proper number in this case.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000007_000003.wav|Yes, he could play to any man's singing-any tune he liked to call.|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1668/136271/1668_136271_000027_000002.wav|Oh, the subject!|1668
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000035_000003.wav|The earth may have spun round then quite quickly.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000063_000000.wav|We have been speaking of millions of years somewhat familiarly; but what, after all, is a million years that we should not speak familiarly of it?|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000017_000001.wav|Think how they beat and tear, and drive and drag, until even the hardest rock, like basalt, becomes honeycombed into strange galleries and passages-Fingal's Cave, for instance-and the softer parts are crumbled away.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000028_000002.wav|The loss per revolution is exceedingly small, but it accumulates, and at any era the total loss is the sum of all the losses preceding it.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000035_000011.wav|Remember this, as a natural result of a three hour day, which corresponds to an unstable state of things; remember also that in some past epoch a three hour day is a probability.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000038_000000.wav|We have seen that the moon pulls the tidal hump nearest to it back; but action and reaction are always equal and opposite-it cannot do that without itself getting pulled forward.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000015_000005.wav|But still, to the eye of the geologist, all are of aqueous or sedimentary origin: roughly speaking, one may say they were all deposited at the bottom of some ancient sea.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000043_000003.wav|These high tides of enormously distant past ages constitute the denuding agent which the geologist required.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000020_000001.wav|That is to say, not greatly more than this period of time has elapsed since it was in a molten condition.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000015_000003.wav|The strata which were once horizontal are now so no longer-they have been tilted and upheaved, bent and distorted, in many places.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000054_000001.wav|The principal tide generating bodies will be Venus and Jupiter; the greater nearness of one rather more than compensating for the greater mass of the other.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000039_000001.wav|The time of revolution varies as the square of the cube root of the distance (Kepler's third law).|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000035_000005.wav|If it spun too fast it would fly to pieces.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000007_000000.wav|Halving the distance would make them eight times as high; quartering it would increase them sixty four fold.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000018_000000.wav|The scouring action of the tidal currents themselves is not to be despised.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000017_000004.wav|Not so limited, however, as they would be without the tides. Consider for a moment the denudation import of the tides: how does the existence of tidal rise and fall affect the geological problem?|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000059_000003.wav|Our moon differs from other satellites in being exceptionally large compared with the size of its primary; it is as big as some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000029_000006.wav|This minute quantity represents the retardation of the earth per day.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000040_000003.wav|It is superposed upon all periodic changes, and, though it seems smaller than they, it is more inexorable. In a thousand years it makes scarcely an appreciable change, but in a million years its persistence tells very distinctly; and so, in the long run, the month is getting longer and the moon further off.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000040_000002.wav|This is not a periodic disturbance, like the temporary acceleration of its motion discovered by Laplace, which in a few centuries, more or less, will be reversed; it is a disturbance which always acts one way, and which is therefore cumulative.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000004.wav|But they are unstable, and cannot go on thus: they must either separate or collapse.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000004_000001.wav|The effect of this tangential force acting on the tide compelling body is gradually to increase its distance from the other body.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000009_000002.wav|It appears to be about twenty miles in diameter, and weighs therefore, if composed of rock, forty billion tons.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000034_000005.wav|It is believed to be almost certainly the cause.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000043_000002.wav|Another five hours, and the water would come tearing and driving over the country, applying its furious waves and currents to the work of denudation, which would proceed apace.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000059_000001.wav|Nor is it necessary to assume that the satellites, as a class, originated in the way ours did; though they may have done so.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000062_000003.wav|Granted it is small, but it is terribly persistent; and it always acts in one direction.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000039_000003.wav|It may seem strange that an accelerating pull, directed in front of the centre, and therefore always pulling the moon the way it is going, should retard it; and that a retarding force like friction, if such a force acted, should hasten it, and make it complete its orbit sooner; but so it precisely is.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000061_000000.wav|When Laplace and Lagrange investigated the question of the stability or instability of the solar system, they did so on the hypothesis that the bodies composing it were rigid.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000017_000003.wav|They can undermine such cliffs indeed, and then grind the fragments to powder, but their direct action is limited.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000024_000003.wav|Why not exactly?|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000003_000001.wav|Hence the rotation takes place against a pull, and is therefore more or less checked and retarded.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000035_000006.wav|Attach shot by means of wax to the whirling earth model, Fig. one hundred ten, and at a certain speed the cohesion of the wax cannot hold them, so they fly off.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000015_000004.wav|Some of them again have been metamorphosed by fire, so that their organic remains have been destroyed, and the traces of their aqueous origin almost obliterated.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000052_000000.wav|This moon of Mars is not a large body: it is only twenty or thirty miles in diameter, but it weighs some forty billion tons, and will ultimately crash along the surface with a velocity of eight thousand miles an hour.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000027_000000.wav|The eclipse occurred later than calculation warrants.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000035_000004.wav|But there is a limit.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000046_000003.wav|Surely the two are connected.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000008_000003.wav|If so, it is probably an exceptional history.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000008.wav|The changes went on rapidly at first, because the tides were so gigantic; but gradually, and by slow degrees, the bodies get more distant, and the rate of change more moderate.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000026_000002.wav|This residual discrepancy, when every known cause has been allowed for, amounts to about one hour.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000000_000000.wav|NOTES FOR LECTURE eighteen|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000059_000004.wav|The earth is the only one of the small planets that has an appreciable moon, and hence there is nothing forced or unnatural in supposing that it may have had an exceptional history.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000050_000002.wav|It is a small effect, but it is cumulative; and gradually, by much slower degrees than anything we have yet contemplated, we are presented with a picture of the month getting gradually shorter than the day, the moon gradually approaching instead of receding, and so, incalculable myriads of ages hence, precipitating itself upon the surface of the earth whence it arose.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000030_000000.wav|What can have caused the slowing down?|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000005.wav|Some disturbing cause acts again, and the smaller mass begins to revolve less rapidly.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000038_000002.wav|And the way it increases will be for the radius vector to lengthen, so as to sweep out a bigger area.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000024_000002.wav|Modern astronomers have calculated back when it should have occurred, and the observed time agrees very closely with the actual, but not exactly.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000038_000006.wav|This is because it obeys a different law from gravitation-the force is not inversely as the square, or any other single power, of the distance.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000059_000000.wav|The solar tides are, however, much too small to appreciably push any planet away, hence we are not to suppose that the planets originated by budding from the sun, in contradiction of the nebular hypothesis.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000060_000000.wav|Evidently, however, tidal phenomena must be taken into consideration in any treatment of the solar system through enormous length of time, and it will probably play a large part in determining its future.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000016_000001.wav|For the geological era is not over.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000017_000000.wav|Of all denuding agents, there can be no doubt that, to the land exposed to them, the waves of the sea are by far the most powerful.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000062_000004.wav|Never does it cease: never does it begin to act oppositely and undo what it has done.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000007_000001.wav|A most powerful geological denuding agent.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000001.wav|Gradually, by reason of some disturbing causes, a protuberance, a sort of bud, forms at one side, and the great inchoate mass separates into two-one about eighty times as big as the other.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000018_000004.wav|The waves are a great planing machine attacking the land, and the tides raise and lower this planing machine, so that its denuding tooth is applied, now twenty feet vertically above mean level, now twenty feet below.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000055_000001.wav|They are as follows, calling that of the earth one thousand:--|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000020_000004.wav|The Laurentian and Huronian rocks of Canada constitute a stratum ten miles thick; and everywhere the rocks at the base of our stratified system are of the most stupendous volume and thickness.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000026_000000.wav|Laplace thought that this fact accounted for the whole of the discrepancy; but recently, in eighteen fifty three, Professor Adams re examined the matter, and made a correction in the details of the theory which diminishes its effect by about one half, leaving the other half to be accounted for in some other way.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000059_000002.wav|They were more probably secondary rings.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000022_000001.wav|To this discovery I now proceed to lead up.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000002_000001.wav|If either rotate on its axis, in the same or nearly the same plane as it revolves, that one is necessarily subject to tides.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000061_000001.wav|They reached a grand conclusion-that all the mutual perturbations of the solar system were periodic-that whatever changes were going on would reach a maximum and then begin to diminish; then increase again, then diminish, and so on.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000028_000003.wav|It may be worth while just to explain this point further.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000010.wav|This is the era we call "to day."|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000003.wav|Round and round the two bodies went, pulling each other into tremendously elongated or prolate shapes, and so they might have gone on for a long time.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000053_000000.wav|So far we have dealt mainly with the earth and its moon; but is the existence of tides limited to these bodies?|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000042_000007.wav|Manchester would be a seaport then with a vengeance!|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000052_000001.wav|Such a blow must produce the most astounding effects when it occurs, but I am unable to tell you its probable date.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000049_000002.wav|It will take too long to go into full detail: but I will shortly summarize the results.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000057_000000.wav|Mercury one thousand one hundred twenty one Venus two thousand three hundred thirty nine Earth one thousand Mars three hundred four Jupiter two thousand one hundred thirty six Saturn one thousand thirty three Uranus twenty one Neptune nine|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000062_000000.wav|But this conclusion is not final.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000040_000001.wav|The tides of the earth are pushing it away.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000063_000004.wav|A continent would be sometimes dry, sometimes covered with ocean; the stars we now call fixed would be moving visibly before our eyes; the earth would be humming on its axis like a top, and the whole of human history might seem as fleeting as a cloud of breath on a mirror.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000011_000000.wav|LECTURE eighteen|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000051_000001.wav|The planet rotates in twenty four hours as we do; but its tides are following its moon more quickly than it rotates after them; they are therefore tending to increase its rate of spin, and to retard the revolution of the moon.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000050_000001.wav|Yet neither will even this be the final stage; for the system is disturbed by the tide generating force of the sun|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000035_000008.wav|We find it about one revolution in three hours. This is a critical speed.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000008_000002.wav|Hence it is possible that this is the history of the moon.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000062_000001.wav|The hypothesis that the bodies are rigid is not strictly true: and directly tidal deformation is taken into consideration it is perceived to be a potent factor, able in the long run to upset all their calculations.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000034_000001.wav|The same cause must have been in operation, but with eighty fold greater intensity, on the moon.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000007.wav|Immediately the series of changes I have described begins, the speed of rotation gets slackened, the moon's mass gets pushed further and further away, and its time of revolution grows rapidly longer.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000042_000002.wav|The pushing away action was then a good deal more violent, and so the process went on quicker.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000032_000001.wav|The energy of the tides is, in fact, continually being dissipated by friction, and all the energy so dissipated is taken from the rotation of the earth.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000002.wav|The bigger one we now call earth, the smaller we now call moon.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000050_000000.wav|The date of this period is one hundred and fifty millions of years hence, but unless some unforeseen catastrophe intervenes, it must assuredly come.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000040_000000.wav|Gradually, but very slowly, the moon is receding from us, and the month is becoming longer.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000051_000002.wav|Mars is therefore slowly but surely pulling its moon down on to itself, by a reverse action to that which separated our moon.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000046_000001.wav|We found that it was just possible for the earth to rotate on its axis in three hours, and that when it did so, something was liable to separate from it.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000005_000001.wav|Also that the moon's rotation relative to the earth has been destroyed by past tidal action in it (the only residue of ancient lunar rotation now being a scarcely perceptible libration), so that it turns always the same face towards us.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000030_000002.wav|Contraction of the earth as it goes on cooling would act in the opposite direction, and probably more than counterbalance the dust effect.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000048_000006.wav|Tides at once begin-gigantic tides of molten lava hundreds of miles high; tides not in free ocean, for there was none then, but in the pasty mass of the entire earth.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000039_000002.wav|Hence, the tidal reaction on the moon, having as its primary effect, as we have seen, the pulling the moon a little forward, has also the secondary or indirect effect of making it move slower and go further off.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000042_000005.wav|Now just contemplate the effect of a six hundred-foot tide.|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5206/19376/5206_19376_000025_000002.wav|It is of the nature of a perturbation, and is therefore a periodic not a progressive or continuous change, and in a sufficiently long time it will be reversed. Still, for the last few thousand years the moon's motion has been, on the whole, accelerated (though there seems to be a very slight retarding force in action too).|5206
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000008.wav|For some reason or other, the pirates seemed very much disinclined to part with these prisoners.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000008_000006.wav|Probably thinking that some of their comrades were on the barque, but unable to set the necessary canvas to return, only two Moors were sent off with the captain, and these remained in the boat when the vessel was reached. Upon gaining the deck of the barque the captain was surprised to find himself alone.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000000_000000.wav|THE LAST OF THE SEA ROVERS|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000012.wav|Probably this got monotonous in course of time, for in their wild sea courses they took to harrying the vessels belonging to other nations, and so laid the foundation for a race of pirates, which has continued down to quite recently.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000018.wav|Ultimately the prize was usually taken, the crew put in irons, and the pirates returned home with their capture, no doubt being received with acclamation upon their arrival.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000016.wav|They also smashed the vessel's compass, and tore up the charts. For the next two days the crew existed on a few biscuits, which the pirates had left behind.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000007.wav|The risk, the uncertainty, the danger, the sense of superior skill and ingenuity, that attract the adventurous spirit, and the passion for sport, are stated by some writers to have brought such a state of things into existence.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000002.wav|Some of them went so far as to send warships to cruise along the Riffian coast.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000003.wav|It is said that in early days the Moors were some time in accustoming themselves to the perils of the deep.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000013.wav|As nowadays, the Moors cruised in boats from the commencement of their marauding expeditions.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000007.wav|When, however, the latter got within a hundred yards or so of the helpless vessel, the suspicions of the crew were aroused.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000012.wav|The ship's own boat was lowered, and into this the marauders put their booty, and took it ashore, also carrying the captain and one of the crew with them.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000003.wav|This step apparently had some moral effect upon the pirates, for from that time onwards attacks upon foreign vessels practically ceased. Something more than this, however, was needed, for no one could say how soon the marauding expeditions might be renewed upon a larger scale than ever, so as to make up for lost opportunities.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000008_000008.wav|The Moors who had been left in the boat were speedily cut adrift, much to their amazement, for it so happened that none of the pirates had stayed on board.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000015.wav|Those who remained on board the cutter fared very badly.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000008_000002.wav|When near enough they opened fire, and ordered the captain to lower his sails, which was done, as the Spaniards were, practically speaking, without arms.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000014.wav|Each man pulled an oar, and knew how to fight as well as row.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000008_000004.wav|When close to the land the captain was rowed ashore, and the pirates spent part of the night in unloading the cargo.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000013.wav|About an hour later another boat, containing about twenty pirates, came off and fired on the ship.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000002_000000.wav|w b LORD|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000009.wav|Only a short time before the attack on the French barque took place, a notice was issued by the British Board of Trade, in which the attention of ship owners and masters of vessels was called to the dangers attending navigation off the coast of Morocco.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000014.wav|Five of the crew managed to escape in the cutter's boat and were picked up some days later by a passing vessel.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000004.wav|The Spaniard was compelled to retire, leaving the captain of the barque in the hands of the Moors.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000017.wav|Next they were alongside their unsuspecting prey, and pouring in a first volley.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000018.wav|The crew of the schooner hoisted a shirt as a signal, which was fortunately seen, and a boat sent off in response thereto.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000009_000001.wav|Often, too, they were maltreated to such an extent that they were glad to escape with their lives.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000016.wav|Then oars out, and a quick stroke for a few minutes.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000014.wav|The crew, seeing that they could offer no effective resistance, hid themselves away in the hold.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000010.wav|Soon, however, their supply of ammunition became exhausted, and the pirates boarded the schooner without further opposition.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000007_000016.wav|After the vessel had been pillaged, the rigging and sails destroyed, the men were all securely bound and left to their fate.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000009.wav|There were only three revolvers on board the schooner, and with these the crew prepared to defend themselves.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000001.wav|For years past the Governments of several European Powers have sought to put friendly pressure upon the Sultan of Morocco to effectually stop the depredations of the Riffian coast pirates.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000000.wav|As far back as the sixteenth century the Spanish forts at Alhucemas-not to mention other places-were established for the purpose of repressing piracy in its vicinity.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000006.wav|They gave up marvelling at those who went to sea, and went on it themselves in search of plunder.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000015.wav|The other pirates had left very little for the new arrivals to take, and this seemed to annoy them so much that they gave vent to their ill feelings in several ways, not the least wanton being the pollution of the ship's fresh water.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000008_000007.wav|Without hesitating for a moment he released the crew, who were confined below, hoisted sail and stood out to sea.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000015.wav|Drawing little water, a small squadron of these craft could be pushed up almost any creek, or lie hidden behind a rock, till the enemy came in sight.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000008.wav|One fact seems to be pretty certain, that when these depredations were first made, they took the form of reprisals upon the Spaniards.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000006_000005.wav|Here she got becalmed, and while in that condition two boats approached her from the shore.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/169656/2294_169656_000005_000010.wav|Settling along a portion of the northern coast of Africa, they immediately proceeded to first attack all Spanish vessels that could be found.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000008_000002.wav|"Good!" I shouted.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000005_000000.wav|"No," I answered roughly.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000008_000001.wav|I would not listen to more.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000016_000001.wav|Quick as thought the beast twisted his head aside and tossed his antlers so that the try was fruitless.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000010_000008.wav|I staggered up, and tugging the metal from him turned on the next.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000009_000001.wav|Wherever I looked eyes dropped and timid hands fidgeted as their owners backed off from my dangerous enthusiasm.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000009_000000.wav|But blue mantle, biting his thumbs, murmured he had not breakfasted yet and edged away behind his companions.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000011_000001.wav|As the full meaning of the scene dawned upon her she started to her feet, looking wonderfully beautiful amongst those dusky forms, and extending her hands to me began to cry in the most piteous way.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000012_000001.wav|It was better than nothing perhaps, yet it was a poor awakening.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000007_000000.wav|"What!" I roared, "Heru taken from the palace by a handful of men and none of you infernal rascals-none of you white livered abortions lifted a hand to save her-curse on you a thousand times.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000003_000001.wav|And those hairy ruffians of whom a horrible vision danced before my waking eyes, were they fancy too? No, my wrists still ached with the strain of the tussle, the quaint, sad wine taste was still on my lips-it was all real enough, I decided, starting up in bed; and if it was real where was the little princess? What had they done with her?|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000003_000003.wav|And as I wondered a keen, bright picture of the hapless maid as I saw her last blossomed before my mind's eye, the ambassadors on either side holding her wrists, and she shrinking from them in horror while her poor, white face turned to me for rescue in desperate pleading-oh!|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000004_000000.wav|They peeped and peered all about the room, then one said, "Is Princess Heru with you, sir?"|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000007_000005.wav|With hasty feet I rushed down the hall out into the cool, sweet air of the planet morning.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000015_000000.wav|Closer and closer we came, one of us drifting helplessly, and the other swimming strongly for the islands.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000016_000003.wav|With all my strength I hurled myself upon him, missing my clutch again by a hair's breadth and going headlong into the salt furrow his chest was turning up.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000007_000003.wav|Amongst the litter little sapphire coloured finches were feeding, twittering merrily to themselves as they hopped about, and here and there down the long tables lay asprawl a belated reveller, his empty oblivion phial before him, his curly head upon his arms, dreaming perhaps of last night's feast and a neglected bride dozing dispassionate in some distant chamber.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000010_000007.wav|That last red beast turned on my blade, and as he fell dragged me half down with him.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000009_000002.wav|There was obviously no help to be had from them, and meantime the precious moments were flying, so with a disdainful glance I turned on my heels and set off alone as hard as I could go for the harbour.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000015_000003.wav|What that Martian mountain elk had hoped for can only be guessed, what he met with was a tangle of floating finery carrying a numbed traveller on it, and with a snort of disappointment he turned again.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000013_000000.wav|Where had we come to?|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000008_000005.wav|The big bullies are very few; the sea runs behind them; the maid in their clutch is worth fighting for; it needs but one good onset, five minutes' gallantry, and she is ours again.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000010_000000.wav|But it was too late.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000014_000001.wav|Nearer it came and nearer, right across my road, until I could see a black dot at the point, a head presently developed, then as we approached the ears and antlers of a swimming stag.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000015_000002.wav|Be this as it may, the beast came hurtling down on me lip deep in the waves, a mighty brown head with pricked ears that flicked the water from them now and then, small bright eyes set far back, and wide palmated antlers on a mighty forehead, like the dead branches of a tree.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000014_000002.wav|It was a huge beast as it loomed up against the glow, bigger than any mortal stag ever was-the kind of fellow traveller no one would willingly accost, but even if I had wished to get out of its path I had no power to do so.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000012_000000.wav|How long after I know not, but presently a tissue of daylight crept into my eyes, and I awoke again.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000016_000002.wav|But was I to lose my only chance of shore?|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000003_000000.wav|Was it a real feast we had shared in overnight, or only a quaint dream? Was Heru real or only a lovely fancy?|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161714/2294_161714_000005_000001.wav|"Saints alive, man, do you think I would have you tumbling in here over each other's heels if she were?"|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000010_000000.wav|Much else though I have forgotten, THAT fact remains as clear as the last sight of a well remembered shore in the mind of some wave tossed traveller.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000008_000000.wav|Dare I say it?|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000020_000001.wav|Broke his neck like a pipe stem.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000022_000001.wav|The bead was of no seeming value and slipped unintentionally into my waistcoat pocket as I chatted for a few minutes more with the doctor, and then, shaking hands, I said goodbye, and went back to the cab which was still waiting outside.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000027_000002.wav|How lonely I was!|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000025_000002.wav|In the centre appeared a round such as might be taken for the sun, while here and there, "in the field," as heralds say, were lesser orbs which from their size and position could represent smaller worlds circling about it.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000020_000002.wav|Most strange looking man, and none of us can even guess at his age.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000018_000000.wav|"Not mine," I answered somewhat roughly.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000031_000000.wav|"Yes, yes," I said at last, returning to the stove and taking my stand, hands in pockets, in front of it, "anything were better than this, any enterprise however wild, any adventure however desperate.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000032_000000.wav|How can I describe what followed those luckless words?|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000008_000002.wav|At times I tell myself I dare not: that you will laugh, and cast me aside as a fabricator; and then again I pick up my pen and collect the scattered pages, for I MUST write it-the pallid splendour of that thing I loved, and won, and lost is ever before me, and will not be forgotten.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000020_000000.wav|"Gone, sir-clean gone!|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000021_000000.wav|"Nothing whatever to do with me, sir.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000020_000003.wav|Not a friend of yours, I suppose?"|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000026_000000.wav|Altogether, I thought as I kicked it out straight upon my floor, it was a strange and not unhandsome article of furniture-it would do nicely for the mess room on the Carolina, and if any representatives of yonder poor old fellow turned up tomorrow, why, I would give them a couple of dollars for it.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000021_000002.wav|Were there any means of identification on him?"|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000021_000001.wav|He slipped on the pavement and fell in front of me just now, and as a matter of common charity I brought him in here.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000012_000000.wav|It made no difference to me, of course.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000023_000000.wav|It was only on reaching home I noticed the hospital porters had omitted to take the dead man's carpet from the roof of the cab when they carried him in, and as the cabman did not care about driving back to the hospital with it, and it could not well be left in the street, I somewhat reluctantly carried it indoors with me.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000026_000001.wav|Little did I guess how dear it would be at any price!|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000019_000001.wav|In five minutes the house surgeon on duty came in to see me, and with a shake of his head said briefly-|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000032_000004.wav|I gave a wild yell and made one frantic struggle, but it was too late.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000030_000001.wav|I made this apology to the good woman, and when she had set the table and closed the door took another turn or two about my den, continuing as I did so my angry thoughts.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000017_000000.wav|"Is this your rug, captain?" asked a bystander just as we were driving off.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000032_000001.wav|Even as I spoke the magic carpet quivered responsively under my feet, and an undulation went all round the fringe as though a sudden wind were shaking it.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000032_000002.wav|It humped up in the middle so abruptly that I came down sitting with a shock that numbed me for the moment.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000031_000002.wav|I WISH I WERE IN THE PLANET MARS!"|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000018_000002.wav|It belongs to this old chap here who has just dropped out of the skies on to his head; chuck it on top and shut the door!" And that rug, the very mainspring of the startling things which followed, was thus carelessly thrown on to the carriage, and off we went.|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2294/161707/2294_161707_000027_000006.wav|What a fool I had been!|2294
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000014_000001.wav|Let me wipe off that strawberry jam over your mouth."|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000028_000001.wav|"She THREATENED me," whispered Minnie, "but I never believe a word she says."|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000026_000000.wav|"You wouldn't darst," retorted Minnie.|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000034_000000.wav|The effect of this piece of doggerel was entirely convincing, and for days afterwards whenever Minnie met the Simpsons even a mile from the brick house she shuddered and held her peace.|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000030_000001.wav|This was the note:--|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000033_000000.wav|R. Randall.|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000025_000000.wav|"I'll take that piece of coral away from you, and I THINK I shall slap you besides!"|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000001_000000.wav|RIVERBORO SECRETS|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000026_000001.wav|"If you do, I'll tell my mother and the teacher, so there!"|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140041/1498_140041_000009_000002.wav|First they had it I wanted to marry the minister, and when he took a wife in Standish I was known to be disappointed.|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140040/1498_140040_000011_000001.wav|But mr Watson says he'll take back part of it, and let us have pink and blue for the same price."|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140040/1498_140040_000005_000004.wav|She felt instinctively that this was wrong and mean, and whenever the feeling of remorse was strong within her she made a desperate effort to please her grim and difficult relative.|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140040/1498_140040_000032_000000.wav|"What princes?|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140040/1498_140040_000011_000000.wav|"I know.|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1498/140040/1498_140040_000005_000006.wav|The searching look of the eyes, the sharp voice, the hard knotty fingers, the thin straight lips, the long silences, the "front piece" that didn't match her hair, the very obvious "parting" that seemed sewed in with linen thread on black net,--there was not a single item that appealed to Rebecca.|1498
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000008_000000.wav|To put up Butter for Winter.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000014_000001.wav|It should be kept in wooden vessels, or nice stone jars.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000022_000000.wav|Have a clean cloth in the vat, put in the curd, close it over and put on the cover; if you have no cheese press, a heavy stone will answer the purpose; press it very gently at first, to keep the richness from running out.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000003_000001.wav|Butter will be spoiled by neglecting to stir the cream, a yellow scum will form on it, which gives it an unpleasant taste.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000021_000000.wav|Persons living in the country sometimes have more milk than they can use, of which cheese may be made.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000031_000000.wav|Pick out the stones and black grains from the coffee, and if it is green, let it dry in an oven, or on a stove, then roast it till it is a light brown, be careful that it does not burn, as a few burnt grains will spoil the flavor of the whole.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000032_000002.wav|The whites of one or two eggs, well beaten, and stirred in the coffee when half cold, and well mixed through it, are sufficient to clear two pounds, and is the most economical way of using eggs.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000033_000002.wav|Coffee may be roasted in a dripping pan in a brick oven.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000002_000001.wav|Tin pans are best to keep milk in, and they should be painted on the outside to keep them from rusting when they are put in water.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000038_000000.wav|Milk is the best drink for children, but if that cannot be had, sweetened water, with a little milk, will do.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000025_000002.wav|In six or seven hours it will be ready to take out of the press, when rub it over with fine salt, set it in a dry dark place, change it from one plate to another twice a day, and it will be fit for use in less than a week.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000025_000000.wav|The cheese called by this name is not in reality made of cream.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000003_000000.wav|In summer, milk should be kept as cool as possible; before it is strained, the pans and strainer should be rinsed with cold water, and the milk not covered until it is cold, as soon as the cream rises sufficiently, it should be skimmed, and put in a large tin bucket with a lid that fits down tight, and stirred every day.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000016_000001.wav|It is very important to keep the butter in a cool place."|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000005_000003.wav|It can be kept in this way as firm and sweet as in an ice house.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000019_000001.wav|If the butter is good when put up in the fall, it will keep till you can get grass butter, in the spring.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000033_000004.wav|If you have a large family, by using several pans, six pounds of coffee can thus be roasted, and but little time spent on it.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000039_000000.wav|A New Mode of Preparing Chocolate.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000017_000002.wav|A large churning may be more effectually cleared of the butter milk in a few minutes, than in the old way in an hour.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000005_000001.wav|The air of a well will keep butter sweet for several weeks in the hottest weather.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000033_000000.wav|If you are careful, it can be done very well in the dripping pan of a stove.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000037_000002.wav|Persons with weak nerves should never drink strong tea and coffee.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000005_000005.wav|If you print butter for home use, it is not necessary to weigh it, make it out in little lumps that will weigh about half a pound, scald the print and ladle, and put them in cold water, as you print each lump, lay it on a dish.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000009_000001.wav|It should be tied up with paper to exclude the air.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000032_000003.wav|It will answer either for summer or winter.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000009_000000.wav|Work it well, and salt it rather more than for table use, and pack it in stone pans or jars, with a thin cloth on the top, and salt on it an inch thick, keep it in a cool place, and if it is sweet when made, it will keep good till spring.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000017_000000.wav|A great deal depends on the butter being well worked.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000033_000003.wav|After the bread is taken out, there will be heat sufficient, put about two pounds in a pan, stir it a few times-it will roast gradually, and if not sufficiently brown, finish in a stove or before the fire.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000024_000000.wav|Pennsylvania Cream Cheese.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000018_000000.wav|A Pickle for Butter.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000035_000001.wav|If you boil coffee too long, the aromatic flavor flies off.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000037_000000.wav|Always be sure that the kettle is boiling when you make tea, or the flavor will not be so good, scald the pot, and allow a tea spoonful for each person.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000014_000002.wav|Earthen ware jars are not suitable for butter, as during the decomposition of the salts, they corrode the glazing; and the butter becomes rancid and unhealthy.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000028_000000.wav|Cottage Cheese or Smearcase.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000032_000005.wav|Many persons use coffee roasters,--but some old experienced housekeepers think that the fine flavor flies off more than when done in a dutch oven, and constantly stirred.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000023_000000.wav|Cheese made in this way has a rich, mild taste, and most persons are fond of it.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000032_000000.wav|White coffee need not be dried before roasting, and will do in less time.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000004_000001.wav|When the butter is gathering, take off the lid of the churn to let the heated air escape, and move it gently, have your butter ladle and pan scalded and cooled, take out the butter and work it till all the milk is out, scrape some lumps of salt, and work in, cover it up, and set away in a cool place till the next morning, when work it again.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000034_000000.wav|Boiling Coffee.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000030_000000.wav|Roasting Coffee.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000002_000000.wav|It is of the first importance that every thing connected with milk and butter should be kept clean; if the milk acquires an unpleasant taste, it communicates it to the butter.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000037_000004.wav|Before pouring out tea, it should be stirred with a spoon that the strength of each cup may be alike.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000026_000000.wav|To Prepare Rennet for making Whey or Cheese.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000023_000001.wav|If you get eight gallons of milk a day, you may make cheese twice a week, and still have butter for the family.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000001_000000.wav|Butter.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000017_000003.wav|By doing it quickly, it does not get soft and oily in hot weather.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000015_000001.wav|Thus in cities during warm weather butter is often cheap, a house keeper may then purchase her winter supply.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000012_000000.wav|When your butter is worked and salted in the usual way, and ready to put in the jars, use one ounce of this composition to every pound of butter, work it well into the mass.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000004_000000.wav|If you have no way of keeping your cream cool in hot weather, it ought to be churned twice a week, the earlier in the morning the better. Always put cold water in your churn the night before you use it, and change it in the morning just before you put in the cream.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000013_000000.wav|Butter cured in this way, (it is said) will keep good for several years. I have never kept it longer than from the fall until late in the spring, it was then very sweet and good.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/123172/93_123172_000019_000002.wav|The jars for this purpose should not have been previously used for pickles.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000067_000000.wav|twenty four.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000056_000001.wav|On coming to another kingdom he said, 'Like my lord Ts'ui,' and left it.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000066_000000.wav|twenty three.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000032_000000.wav|nine.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000060_000000.wav|nineteen.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000002_000000.wav|one.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000015_000000.wav|five.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000064_000000.wav|twenty one.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000046_000000.wav|thirteen.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000053_000000.wav|He was faithful, said the Master.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000008_000000.wav|Thou art a vessel, said the Master.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000038_000001.wav|Why chide with Yue?|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000021_000000.wav|seven.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000019_000000.wav|When Tzu lu heard this he was glad.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000040_000001.wav|The Master said, I have met no firm man.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000060_000001.wav|Chi Wen thought thrice before acting.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000052_000000.wav|eighteen.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000047_000000.wav|fourteen.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000018_000000.wav|six.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000050_000000.wav|sixteen.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000039_000002.wav|I righted this on Yue.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000059_000000.wav|I do not know, said the Master: how should this amount to love?|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000062_000000.wav|twenty.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000051_000000.wav|seventeen.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000007_000000.wav|three.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000068_000000.wav|twenty five.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000029_000000.wav|eight.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000010_000000.wav|A rich temple vessel.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000011_000000.wav|four.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000009_000000.wav|What kind of vessel?|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124558/93_124558_000065_000000.wav|twenty two.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000015_000001.wav|The Master said, What is it to sway a kingdom by courteous yielding?|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000031_000000.wav|twenty five.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000005_000000.wav|five.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000016_000000.wav|fourteen.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000012_000002.wav|He follows right.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000020_000000.wav|After the Master had left, the disciples asked what was meant.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000003_000000.wav|three.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000027_000000.wav|twenty one.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000022_000000.wav|sixteen.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000017_000000.wav|fifteen.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000029_000000.wav|twenty three.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000025_000002.wav|If thou must travel, hold a set course.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000001_000000.wav|one.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000013_000000.wav|eleven.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000007_000000.wav|six.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000014_000000.wav|twelve.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000008_000001.wav|The Master said, A man and his faults are of a piece.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000030_000000.wav|twenty four.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000014_000001.wav|The Master said, The chase of gain is rich in hate.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000008_000002.wav|By watching his faults we learn whether love be his.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000009_000000.wav|eight.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000001_000001.wav|The Master said, Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000002_000001.wav|The Master said, Loveless men cannot bear need long, they cannot bear fortune long.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000012_000000.wav|ten.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000019_000000.wav|Yes, said Tseng tzu.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000025_000000.wav|nineteen.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000026_000000.wav|twenty.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/124557/93_124557_000010_000000.wav|nine.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000003_000001.wav|In fact, his disappointment at the nature of those tongues had, after a while, been the means of still further glorifying the erudition of Christminster.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000017_000002.wav|They built in a city; therefore he would learn to build.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000013_000003.wav|He began to wonder whether he could be reading quite the right books for his object in life.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000013_000002.wav|The more he thought of it the more convinced he was of his inconsistency.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000019_000001.wav|Some time later he went to a church builder in the same place, and under the architect's direction became handy at restoring the dilapidated masonries of several village churches round about.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000008_000000.wav|He was frequently met in the lanes by pedestrians and others without his seeing them, and by degrees the people of the neighbourhood began to talk about his method of combining work and play (such they considered his reading to be), which, though probably convenient enough to himself, was not altogether a safe proceeding for other travellers along the same roads.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000004_000001.wav|An aged horse with a hanging head had been purchased for eight pounds at a sale, a creaking cart with a whity brown tilt obtained for a few pounds more, and in this turn out it became Jude's business thrice a week to carry loaves of bread to the villagers and solitary cotters immediately round Marygreen.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000013_000004.wav|Certainly there seemed little harmony between this pagan literature and the mediaeval colleges at Christminster, that ecclesiastical romance in stone.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000017_000001.wav|Food, clothing, and shelter. An income from any work in preparing the first would be too meagre; for making the second he felt a distaste; the preparation of the third requisite he inclined to.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000015_000001.wav|On one of these pilgrimages he met with a hunch backed old woman of great intelligence, who read everything she could lay her hands on, and she told him more yet of the romantic charms of the city of light and lore.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000010_000002.wav|The sun was going down, and the full moon was rising simultaneously behind the woods in the opposite quarter.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000006_000000.wav|The only copies he had been able to lay hands on were old Delphin editions, because they were superseded, and therefore cheap.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000016_000002.wav|He had no trade or calling of any dignity or stability whatever on which he could subsist while carrying out an intellectual labour which might spread over many years.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000013_000000.wav|Reaching home, he mused over his curious superstition, innate or acquired, in doing this, and the strange forgetfulness which had led to such a lapse from common sense and custom in one who wished, next to being a scholar, to be a Christian divine.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000010_000004.wav|He turned first to the shiny goddess, who seemed to look so softly and critically at his doings, then to the disappearing luminary on the other hand, as he began:|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000012_000000.wav|The horse stood still till he had finished the hymn, which jude repeated under the sway of a polytheistic fancy that he would never have thought of humouring in broad daylight.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000020_000001.wav|He now had lodgings during the week in the little town, whence he returned to Marygreen village every Saturday evening.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000003_000003.wav|The mountain weight of material under which the ideas lay in those dusty volumes called the classics piqued him into a dogged, mouselike subtlety of attempt to move it piecemeal.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000018_000000.wav|As a preliminary he obtained some small blocks of freestone, metal not being available, and suspending his studies awhile, occupied his spare half hours in copying the heads and capitals in his parish church.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000015_000000.wav|As another outcome of this change of groove he visited on Sundays all the churches within a walk, and deciphered the Latin inscriptions on fifteenth century brasses and tombs.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000017_000000.wav|What was most required by citizens?|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000016_000000.wav|But how live in that city?|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000009_000002.wav|To do that official justice, he did not put himself much in the way of Jude's bread cart, considering that in such a lonely district the chief danger was to jude himself, and often on seeing the white tilt over the hedges he would move in another direction.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000017_000004.wav|He could not go far wrong in following his uncle's footsteps, and engaging himself awhile with the carcases that contained the scholar souls.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000019_000000.wav|There was a stone mason of a humble kind in Alfredston, and as soon as he had found a substitute for himself in his aunt's little business, he offered his services to this man for a trifling wage. Here jude had the opportunity of learning at least the rudiments of freestone working.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000003_000000.wav|In the course of a month or two after the receipt of the books jude had grown callous to the shabby trick played him by the dead languages.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000014_000003.wav|Moreover, on going into Alfredston one day, he was introduced to patristic literature by finding at the bookseller's some volumes of the Fathers which had been left behind by an insolvent clergyman of the neighbourhood.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000020_000000.wav|Not forgetting that he was only following up this handicraft as a prop to lean on while he prepared those greater engines which he flattered himself would be better fitted for him, he yet was interested in his pursuit on its own account.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000016_000001.wav|At present he had no income at all.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000014_000002.wav|He abandoned the now familiar Ionic for a new dialect, and for a long time onward limited his reading almost entirely to the Gospels and Epistles in Griesbach's text.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000004_000000.wav|He had endeavoured to make his presence tolerable to his crusty maiden aunt by assisting her to the best of his ability, and the business of the little cottage bakery had grown in consequence.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000003_000002.wav|To acquire languages, departed or living in spite of such obstinacies as he now knew them inherently to possess, was a herculean performance which gradually led him on to a greater interest in it than in the presupposed patent process.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000008_000002.wav|Then a private resident of an adjoining place informed the local policeman that the baker's boy should not be allowed to read while driving, and insisted that it was the constable's duty to catch him in the act, and take him to the police court at Alfredston, and get him fined for dangerous practices on the highway.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000014_000001.wav|He had dabbled in Clarke's Homer, but had never yet worked much at the New Testament in the Greek, though he possessed a copy, obtained by post from a second-hand bookseller.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000017_000003.wav|He thought of his unknown uncle, his cousin Susanna's father, an ecclesiastical worker in metal, and somehow mediaeval art in any material was a trade for which he had rather a fancy.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000006_000003.wav|And though jude may have had little chance of becoming a scholar by these rough and ready means, he was in the way of getting into the groove he wished to follow.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000008_000003.wav|The policeman thereupon lay in wait for jude, and one day accosted him and cautioned him.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126208/93_126208_000006_000002.wav|The hampered and lonely itinerant conscientiously covered up the marginal readings, and used them merely on points of construction, as he would have used a comrade or tutor who should have happened to be passing by.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000010_000000.wav|And then he continued to dream, and thought he might become even a bishop by leading a pure, energetic, wise, Christian life.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000015_000002.wav|Yes, Christminster shall be my Alma Mater; and I'll be her beloved son, in whom she shall be well pleased."|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000057_000000.wav|By this time she had managed to get back one dimple by turning her face aside for a moment and repeating the odd little sucking operation before mentioned, jude being still unconscious of more than a general impression of her appearance.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000067_000000.wav|"Lord! he's nobody, though you med think so.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000031_000000.wav|"But you want to speak to me, I suppose?"|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000036_000002.wav|They walked in parallel lines, one on each bank of the stream, towards the small plank bridge.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000012_000001.wav|Hoity toity!"|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000004_000000.wav|"I have acquired quite an average student's power to read the common ancient classics, Latin in particular." This was true, jude possessing a facility in that language which enabled him with great ease to himself to beguile his lonely walks by imaginary conversations therein.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000006_000000.wav|"I have done some mathematics, including the first six and the eleventh and twelfth books of Euclid; and algebra as far as simple equations.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000014_000000.wav|"Hoity toity!"|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000064_000000.wav|Meanwhile the girl had joined her companions, and she silently resumed her flicking and sousing of the chitterlings in the pellucid stream.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000008_000002.wav|Hence I must next concentrate all my energies on settling in Christminster. Once there I shall so advance, with the assistance I shall there get, that my present knowledge will appear to me but as childish ignorance.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000010_000001.wav|And what an example he would set!|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000010_000006.wav|Yet he thought of the bishop again.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000040_000000.wav|"Oh no"|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000063_000002.wav|And then this passing discriminative power was withdrawn, and jude was lost to all conditions of things in the advent of a fresh and wild pleasure, that of having found a new channel for emotional interest hitherto unsuspected, though it had lain close beside him.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000055_000001.wav|"Will you let me?"|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000003_000001.wav|He seemed to see his way to living comfortably in Christminster in the course of a year or two, and knocking at the doors of one of those strongholds of learning of which he had dreamed so much.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000041_000001.wav|He makes that into dubbin." She nodded towards the fragment on the grass.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000043_000000.wav|"Impudence.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000025_000000.wav|jude grew sarcastic as he wiped his face, and caught their remarks.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000003_000000.wav|He was in an enthusiastic mood.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000005_000002.wav|I wish there was only one dialect all the same.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000020_000000.wav|"I DIDN'T throw it, I tell you!" asserted one girl to her neighbour, as if unconscious of the young man's presence.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000036_000000.wav|jude was now aware that no message on any matter connected with her father's business had prompted her signal to him.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000026_000000.wav|"YOU didn't do it-oh no!" he said to the up stream one of the three.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000048_000000.wav|"I must have known it if I had often come this way.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000003_000002.wav|He might, of course, have gone there now, in some capacity or other, but he preferred to enter the city with a little more assurance as to means than he could be said to feel at present.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000027_000001.wav|She had a round and prominent bosom, full lips, perfect teeth, and the rich complexion of a Cochin hen's egg.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000051_000000.wav|"What a nice looking girl you are!" he murmured, though the words had not been necessary to express his sense of her magnetism.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000008_000000.wav|"These things are only a beginning.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000010_000005.wav|Perhaps a man could be as good and as learned and as useful in the capacity of archdeacon as in that of bishop.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000053_000000.wav|"I don't suppose I could?" he answered|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000059_000000.wav|"Shall I call?"|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000016_000000.wav|In his deep concentration on these transactions of the future Jude's walk had slackened, and he was now standing quite still, looking at the ground as though the future were thrown thereon by a magic lantern.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000054_000000.wav|"That's for you to think on.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000027_000000.wav|She whom he addressed was a fine dark eyed girl, not exactly handsome, but capable of passing as such at a little distance, despite some coarseness of skin and fibre.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000036_000003.wav|As the girl drew nearer to it, she gave without jude perceiving it, an adroit little suck to the interior of each of her cheeks in succession, by which curious and original manoeuvre she brought as by magic upon its smooth and rotund surface a perfect dimple, which she was able to retain there as long as she continued to smile.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000058_000000.wav|"Yes."|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000018_000000.wav|On the other side of the hedge was a stream, whence, as he now for the first time realized, had come the slight sounds of voices and laughter that had mingled with his dreams.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000047_000001.wav|I'm living here."|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000068_000001.wav|Don't you think it, my child!"|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000012_000002.wav|The sounds were expressed in light voices on the other side of the hedge, but he did not notice them. His thoughts went on:|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000041_000000.wav|"We are doing this for my father, who naturally doesn't want anything thrown away.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000015_000001.wav|I have staying power in abundance, thank God! and it is that which tells....|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000050_000000.wav|They talked a little more and a little more, as they stood regarding each other and leaning against the hand rail of the bridge.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000067_000003.wav|He wants to be a scholar, they say."|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000002_000001.wav|It being the end of the week he had left work early, and had come out of the town by a round about route which he did not usually frequent, having promised to call at a flour mill near Cresscombe to execute a commission for his aunt.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000048_000001.wav|But I mostly go straight along the high road."|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000032_000000.wav|"Oh yes; if you like to."|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000043_000001.wav|Don't tell folk it was I, mind!"|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000063_000001.wav|It had been no vestal who chose THAT missile for opening her attack on him. He saw this with his intellectual eye, just for a short; fleeting while, as by the light of a falling lamp one might momentarily see an inscription on a wall before being enshrouded in darkness.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000042_000000.wav|"What made either of the others throw it, I wonder?" jude asked, politely accepting her assertion, though he had very large doubts as to its truth.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000030_000000.wav|"Oh, that's nothing."|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000066_000000.wav|"I don't know.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000003_000004.wav|Now and then as he went along he turned to face the peeps of country on either side of him.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000062_000001.wav|He had just inhaled a single breath from a new atmosphere, which had evidently been hanging round him everywhere he went, for he knew not how long, but had somehow been divided from his actual breathing as by a sheet of glass.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000037_000000.wav|They met in the middle of the plank, and jude, tossing back her missile, seemed to expect her to explain why she had audaciously stopped him by this novel artillery instead of by hailing him.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000003_000003.wav|A warm self content suffused him when he considered what he had already done.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000049_000000.wav|"My father is a pig breeder, and these girls are helping me wash the innerds for black puddings and such like."|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000056_000000.wav|"I don't mind."|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000021_000000.wav|"Nor I," the second answered.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000036_000004.wav|This production of dimples at will was a not unknown operation, which many attempted, but only a few succeeded in accomplishing.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000023_000000.wav|"If I had thrown anything at all, it shouldn't have been THAT!"|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000069_000000.wav|"Oh, don't ye!|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000033_000000.wav|"Shall I clamber across, or will you come to the plank above here?"|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000057_000001.wav|"Next Sunday?" he hazarded. "To morrow, that is?"|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000016_000001.wav|On a sudden something smacked him sharply in the ear, and he became aware that a soft cold substance had been flung at him, and had fallen at his feet.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000063_000003.wav|He was to meet this enkindling one of the other sex on the following Sunday.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000010_000003.wav|Well, on second thoughts, a bishop was absurd.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000067_000002.wav|Since then he's been very stuck up, and always reading.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000022_000000.wav|"Oh, Anny, how can you!" said the third.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000055_000000.wav|jude felt himself drifting strangely, but could not help it.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000054_000001.wav|There's nobody after me just now, though there med be in a week or two." She had spoken this without a smile, and the dimples disappeared.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000008_000003.wav|I must save money, and I will; and one of those colleges shall open its doors to me-shall welcome whom now it would spurn, if I wait twenty years for the welcome.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000029_000000.wav|"Whoever did it was wasteful of other people's property."|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000015_000000.wav|"--but I can work hard.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000050_000001.wav|The unvoiced call of woman to man, which was uttered very distinctly by Arabella's personality, held jude to the spot against his intention-almost against his will, and in a way new to his experience.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000046_000000.wav|"Do!"|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000017_000000.wav|A glance told him what it was-a piece of flesh, the characteristic part of a barrow pig, which the countrymen used for greasing their boots, as it was useless for any other purpose.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000024_000001.wav|I don't care for him!" And they laughed and continued their work, without looking up, still ostentatiously accusing each other.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000017_000001.wav|Pigs were rather plentiful hereabout, being bred and fattened in large numbers in certain parts of North Wessex.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000019_000000.wav|"Thank you!" said jude severely.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000062_000002.wav|The intentions as to reading, working, and learning, which he had so precisely formulated only a few minutes earlier, were suffering a curious collapse into a corner, he knew not how.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000035_000000.wav|Springing to her feet, she said: "Bring back what is lying there."|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000018_000001.wav|He mounted the bank and looked over the fence.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000007_000000.wav|"I know something of the Fathers, and something of Roman and English history.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/93/126209/93_126209_000018_000002.wav|On the further side of the stream stood a small homestead, having a garden and pig sties attached; in front of it, beside the brook, three young women were kneeling, with buckets and platters beside them containing heaps of pigs' chitterlings, which they were washing in the running water.|93
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000002.wav|At a bend in the road opposite the water lily swamp, while I was cooling myself in the shade of a friendly pine tree,--enjoying at the same time a fence overrun with Cherokee roses,--a man and his little boy came along in a wagon.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000007.wav|He talked of his crops, his children, the climate, and so on, all in a cheerful strain, pleasant to hear.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000001.wav|I recall in particular some white crowned sparrows, the first ones I had seen in Florida.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000012_000006.wav|He "never was for barbarizing a poor colored person at all." Whipping?|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000013_000000.wav|The old man was thankful to be free; but to his mind emancipation had not made everything heavenly.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000020_000000.wav|When I reached the street car track at the foot of the hill, the one car which plies back and forth through the city was in its place, with the driver beside it, but no mules.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000004_000000.wav|The inconsistency, if such it was, was quickly punished.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000016_000003.wav|He was one of the very few persons whom I met at the South who did not recognize me at sight as a Yankee.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000021_000000.wav|"Are you going to start directly?" I asked.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000012_000000.wav|He grinned broadly, and thought he could.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000028_000000.wav|"Well, come inside.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000017_000001.wav|The estate itself is beautifully situated, with far away horizons; but it has fallen into great neglect, while the house, almost in ruins, and occupied by colored people, is to Northern eyes hardly more than a larger cabin.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000010_000000.wav|When I had skirted a cotton field-the crop just out of the ground-and a bit of wood on the right, and a swamp with a splendid display of white water lilies on the left, and had begun to ascend the gentle slope, I met a man of considerably more than seventy four years.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000009_000001.wav|His wife had died a year before, he said, and so far, though he had not let the grass grow under his feet, he had found no one to take her place.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000012_000008.wav|"He didn't miss your fault.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000001_000000.wav|A FLORIDA SHRINE.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000004.wav|It was pretty warm weather for walking, and he had meant to offer me a lift.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000015_000003.wav|May we find once in a while a patient listener.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000013_000002.wav|They had "sold their birthright," though exactly what he meant by that remark I did not gather.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000025_000000.wav|Half a minute afterwards two very neatly dressed little colored boys stepped upon the rear platform.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000017_000004.wav|"Have you seen any of those fine old country mansions," he asked, "about which we read so often in descriptions of Southern, life?" He had been on the lookout for them, he averred, ever since he left home, and had yet to find the first one; and from his tone it was evident that he thought the Southern idea of a "fine old mansion" must be different from his.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000002_000006.wav|The guide book told me so, vouchsafing also the information that after building the house he "interested himself actively in local affairs, became a naturalized citizen, and served successively as postmaster, alderman, and mayor"--a model immigrant, surely, though it is rather the way of immigrants, perhaps, not to refuse political responsibilities.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000005.wav|He was a Scandinavian, who had been for some years in Florida.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000006_000000.wav|In the front yard of one of the cabins opposite the car wheel foundry, and near the station, as I now remember, a middle aged negress was cutting up an oak log.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000007_000000.wav|She answered on the instant.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000018_000000.wav|The Murat house, certainly, was never a palace, except as love may have made it so.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000004_000001.wav|For, alas!|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000005_000003.wav|Prince Murat, or no Prince Murat, I should love to travel that road to day, instead of sitting before a Massachusetts fire, with the ground deep under snow, and the air full of thirty or forty degrees of frost.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000011_000000.wav|"Can you tell me just where the Murat place is?" I inquired.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000008_000000.wav|"I'm sure you would," I thought.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000029_000002.wav|"Sit down there," he said, "right there." They obeyed, and as he turned away he added, what I found more and more to be true, as I saw more of him, "I ain't de boss, but I's got right smart to say."|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000016_000000.wav|This patriarch's unfavorable opinion as to the prospects of the colored people was shared by my hopeful young widower before mentioned, who expressed himself quite as emphatically.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000009_000004.wav|He seemed a gentle spirit, and I withheld all mention of the stalwart and manless wood cutter.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000026_000001.wav|"Uptown?"|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000013_000003.wav|"They ain't got no sense," he declared, "and what sense they has got don't do 'em no good."|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000015_000002.wav|So it will be with us, if we live so long.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000009_000002.wav|He still meant to do so, if he could.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000019_000003.wav|The man seemed really disappointed when I told him that I was going into town, instead of coming from it.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000002_000002.wav|What a tourist prays for is something to see.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000005_000000.wav|The question, happily, was one of no great consequence.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000008_000001.wav|Her tongue was as sharp as her axe.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000003_000002.wav|Thus did an uncompromising democrat pay court to the shades of Royalty, while a mocking bird sang from a fringe bush by the gate, and an oriole flew madly from tree to tree in pursuit of a fair creature of the reluctant sex.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000002_000003.wav|If I had ever been a tourist in Boston, no doubt I should before now have surveyed the world from the top of the Bunker Hill monument.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000004_000003.wav|I appealed to the guide book.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000009_000005.wav|I hope he went farther, and fared better.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000003_000001.wav|Here lived once the son of the King of Naples; himself a Prince, and-worthy son of a worthy sire-alderman and then mayor of the city of Tallahassee.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000006_000001.wav|She swung the axe with vigor and precision, and the chips flew; but I could not help saying, "You ought to make the man do that."|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000009_000006.wav|So youthful as he was, surely there was no occasion for haste.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000004_000005.wav|For once, the guide book compiler must have been misinformed.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000012_000001.wav|He was one of the old Murat servants, as his father had been before him.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000016_000005.wav|But perhaps, after all, he only meant to flatter me.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000014_000001.wav|"Oh, I knows it," he exclaimed, "I knows it;" and he beamed with delight.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000017_000000.wav|If I am long on the way, it is because, as I love always to have it, the going and coming were the better part of the pilgrimage.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000018_000001.wav|But it was old; people had lived in it, and died in it; those who once owned it, whose name and memory still clung to it, were now in narrower houses; and it was easy for the visitor-for one visitor, at least-to fall into pensive meditation.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000012_000002.wav|"I was borned on to him," he said, speaking of the Prince.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000022_000001.wav|Do about!"|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000014_000000.wav|I told him finally that I was from the North.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000002_000001.wav|It is one of the most conveniently accessible of those "points of interest" with which guide books so anxiously, and with so much propriety, concern themselves.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000002_000005.wav|In fact, I went more than once; but I remember especially my first visit, which had a livelier sentimental interest than the others because I was then under the agreeable delusion that the Prince himself had lived there.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185126/3864_185126_000012_000007.wav|Oh, yes.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000005.wav|True enough, about the edges of the water were two or three solitary sandpipers, and at least half a dozen of the smaller yellowlegs,--two additions to my Florida list,--not to speak of a little blue heron and a green heron, the latter in most uncommonly green plumage.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000008_000002.wav|I had not noticed that.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000006_000007.wav|Then, from further away, he shouted once more to ask if I heard the mocking bird singing yonder, pointing with his whip in the direction of the singer.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000015.wav|"Still after the birds?" he said, as he checked his horse.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000013.wav|"Frogs," he said.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000003.wav|Yes, and it comes to me at this moment that here I heard the first and only bull frog that I heard anywhere in Florida.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000001.wav|In the latter case, indeed, and perhaps in the former as well, it would seem more reasonable to draw an exactly opposite inference.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000011.wav|A bright thought came to me.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000003_000000.wav|I approached them, two mornings afterward, from the opposite side, where, finding no other place of entrance, I climbed a six barred, tightly locked gate-feeling all the while like "a thief and a robber"--in front of a deserted cabin.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000003_000004.wav|It is one of the marks of a true Yankee, I suspect, to like such a perch.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000007.wav|"The letter killeth" is a pretty good text in emergencies of this kind.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000006.wav|Then I heard the clatter of a horse's hoofs, and lifted my eyes.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000002.wav|But, quibbles apart, one thing I do remember: I sat for some time on the fence, in the shade of a tree, with an eye upon the cane swamp and an ear open for bird voices.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000016.wav|I responded, as I hope, without any symptom of annoyance.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000008_000004.wav|A black line between the almost black beak and the dark blue head would be inconspicuous at the best, and quite naturally would escape a glimpse so hasty as mine had been.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000003.wav|Ordinarily I call myself a simple bird gazer, an amateur, a field naturalist, if you will; but on occasions like the present I assume-with myself, that is-all the rights and titles of an ornithologist proper, a man of science strictly so called.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000014.wav|At another time, in the flat woods of Port Orange (I hope I am not taxing my reader's credulity too far, or making myself out a man of too imaginative an ear), I heard the bleating of sheep.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000003_000005.wav|My own weakness in that direction is a frequent subject of mirth with chance fellow travelers. The attitude is comfortable and conducive to meditation; and now that I was seated and at my ease, I felt that this was one of the New England luxuries which, almost without knowing it, I had missed ever since I left home.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000002_000010.wav|His whole manner was most kindly and hospitable,--as was that of every Tallahassean with whom I had occasion to speak,--and I told him with sincere gratitude that I should certainly avail myself of his courtesy and stroll through his woods.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000001.wav|It was a likely spot for "waders," and would be worth a visit.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000023.wav|I scaled a barbed wire fence and made in that direction, but to no purpose.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000012.wav|A man was approaching, and when we met I asked him what was making that noise yonder.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000018.wav|He looked at the pine tree.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000004.wav|Here was a new bird, a bird about which I had felt fifteen years of curiosity; and, more than that, a bird which here and now was quite unexpected, since it was not included in either of the two Florida lists that I had brought with me from home.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000002_000009.wav|"We have orioles here," he added; and so far, at any rate, he was right; I had seen perhaps twenty that day (orchard orioles, that is), and one sat in a tree before us at the moment.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000008_000005.wav|And yet, while I reasoned in this way, I foresaw plainly enough that, as time passed, doubt would get the better of assurance, as it always does, and I should never be certain that I had not been the victim of some illusion.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000014.wav|Alas! he had too much courtesy to pass his own guest without speaking.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000017.wav|Then, of course, he wished to know what I was looking at, and I told him that a blue grosbeak had just flown into that pine tree, and that I was most distressingly anxious to see more of him.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000028.wav|How should he know that I was so insane a hobbyist as to care more for the sight of a new bird than for all the laws and customs of ordinary politeness?|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000021.wav|By this time the grosbeak had disappeared utterly.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000008_000001.wav|"Feathers around base of bill black," said the book.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000009.wav|I moved to bring him fully into view, and he flew into the thick of a pine tree out of sight.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000007.wav|My friend the owner of the plantation was coming down the road at a gallop, straight upon me.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000024.wav|The grosbeak was gone for good.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000000.wav|On one of my first jaunts into the suburbs of Tallahassee I noticed not far from the road a bit of swamp,--shallow pools with muddy borders and flats.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000006.wav|One chorus brought me out of bed in Daytona-in the evening-after a succession of February dog day showers.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000006_000000.wav|I was preparing to surmount the barbed wire fence again, when the planter returned and halted for another chat.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000000_000000.wav|ORNITHOLOGY ON A COTTON PLANTATION.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000003_000003.wav|Here was a wooden fence,--a most unusual thing,--and I lost no time in mounting it, to rest and look about me.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000004.wav|In the interest of science, then, I climbed the fence and picked my way across the field.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000006_000002.wav|There were a great many kinds of sparrows in that country, he said, and also of woodpeckers.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000007_000003.wav|At that point, as I now remember, the air was full of vultures (carrion crows), a hundred or more, soaring over the fields in some fit of gregariousness.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000004.wav|It was like a voice from home, and belonged with the fence.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000001.wav|Before me, in the leafy top of an oak sapling, sat a blue grosbeak.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000003_000002.wav|I wandered through them without finding anything more unusual or interesting than summer tanagers and yellow throated warblers, which were in song there, as they were in every such place, and after a while came out into a pleasant glade, from which different parts of the plantation could be seen, and through which ran a plantation road.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000005.wav|For perhaps five seconds I had my opera glass on the blue head and the thick set, dark bill, with its lighter colored under mandible.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000002_000002.wav|He pulled up his horse and bade me good afternoon.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000002.wav|I knew him on the instant.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000018.wav|Jug o' rum!"|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000006_000005.wav|As he rode off he called my attention to a great blue heron just then flying over the swamp.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000008.wav|If I was to see the grosbeak and make sure of him, it must be done at once.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000006_000006.wav|"They are very shy," he said.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000029.wav|As my feelings cooled, I saw that I was stepping over hills or rows of some strange looking plants just out of the ground.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000016.wav|But this frog in the sugar cane swamp was the same fellow that on summer evenings, ever and ever so many years ago, in sonorous bass that could be heard a quarter of a mile away, used to call from Reuben Loud's pond, "Pull him in!|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000004_000010.wav|A week or two later, in the New Smyrna flat woods, I heard in the distance a sound which I took for the grunting of pigs.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000007_000001.wav|Then I crossed more planted fields,--climbing more barbed wire fences, and stopping on the way to enjoy the sweetly quaint music of a little chorus of white crowned sparrows,--and skirted once more the muddy shore of the cane swamp, where the yellowlegs and sandpipers were still feeding.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000000.wav|I dismounted from my perch at last, and was sauntering idly along the path (idleness like this is often the best of ornithological industry), when suddenly I had a vision!|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000022.wav|Possibly he had gone to a bit of wood on the opposite side of the cane swamp.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000008_000000.wav|Once back at the hotel, I opened my Coues's Key to refresh my memory as to the exact appearance of that bird.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000001_000009.wav|The herons, meanwhile, had taken French leave, but the smaller birds were less suspicious; I watched them at my leisure, and left them still feeding.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000005_000019.wav|"I can't see him," he said. No more could i "It wasn't a blue jay, was it?" he asked.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000003_000001.wav|Then I had only to cross a grassy field, in which meadow larks were singing, and I was in the woods.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3864/185125/3864_185125_000002_000006.wav|As it was, he protected the birds on his plantation, and the place was full of them.|3864
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000011_000003.wav|Right into the middle of the Earth born Men the stone came.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000002_000001.wav|At a place that was called "The Ram's Couch" they fastened the Argo.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000022_000002.wav|And then he saw the guardian of the Golden Fleece.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000004_000001.wav|He followed the tracks until he came to the lair of the fire breathing bulls.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000003_000001.wav|From the king's hand he took the gleaming helmet that held the dragon's teeth. This he put into the hands of Theseus, who went with him.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000021_000001.wav|Along a path that went from the river Medea drew Jason.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000004_000005.wav|They came clanging up with loud bellowing, breathing out fire.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000011_000000.wav|Jason remembered the counsel of Medea.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000026_000000.wav|They came to the river and down to the place where the Argo was moored. The heroes who were aboard started up, astonished to see the Fleece that shone as with the lightning of Zeus.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000014_000001.wav|In the assembly place, with his son Apsyrtus beside him, and with the furious Colchians all around him, the king stood: on his breast was the gleaming corselet that Ares had given him, and on his head was that golden helmet with its four plumes that made him look as if he were truly the son of Helios, the sun|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000008_000003.wav|Jason flung the teeth between the open sods, often turning his head in fear that the deadly crop of the Earth born Men were rising behind him.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000015_000003.wav|So the king spoke, and the Colchians, hating all strangers, shouted around him.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000028_000002.wav|Beside the mast Medea stood; the Golden Fleece had fallen at her feet, and her head and face were covered by her silver veil.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000019_000001.wav|To Jason he spoke, and Jason quickly went to where Medea stood.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000024_000005.wav|The serpent's jaws closed; its eyes became deadened; far through the grove its length was stretched out.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000007_000002.wav|He fastened the plow to the yoke.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000025_000000.wav|Then Jason took the Golden Fleece.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000027_000000.wav|"O friends," he cried, "the quest on which we dared the gulfs of the sea and the wrath of kings is accomplished, thanks to the help of this maiden.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000010_000002.wav|Then he saw spears and shields and helmets rising up out of the earth.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000005_000000.wav|Medea's charm had made him strong; Medea's charm had made his shield impregnable.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000025_000002.wav|Medea called to him.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000010_000000.wav|He saw the field rising into mounds.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000011_000006.wav|The Earth born Men, as fast as they arose, went down before the weapons in the hands of their brethren.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000023_000000.wav|Like rings of smoke that rise one above the other, the coils of the serpent went around the tree-coils covered by hard and gleaming scales.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000021_000002.wav|They entered a grove.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000012_000001.wav|He slew some that had risen out of the earth only as far as the shoulders; he slew others whose feet were still in the earth; he slew others who were ready to spring upon him.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000009_000003.wav|And his knees that were stiffened with the plowing he bent until they were made supple again.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000021_000000.wav|It was then the hour when huntsmen cast sleep from their eyes-huntsmen who never sleep away the end of the night, but who are ever ready to be up and away with their hounds before the beams of the sun efface the track and the scent of the quarry.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000004_000003.wav|He set his feet firmly upon the ground and he held his shield before him.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000021_000003.wav|Then Jason saw something that was like a cloud filled with the light of the rising sun|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000024_000002.wav|But still its jaws were open, and those dreadful jaws threatened Jason.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000004_000006.wav|They lowered their heads, and with mighty, iron tipped horns they came to gore and trample him.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000025_000001.wav|As he raised his hands to it, its brightness was such as to make a flame on his face.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000020_000000.wav|She clasped Jason's hand and she drew him with her.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000004_000002.wav|Out of that lair, which was underground, smoke and fire belched.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000013_000000.wav|The Argonauts shouted loudly for Jason's victory.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000009_000001.wav|As yet the furrows were free of the Earth born Men.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000007_000001.wav|Jason bound it upon the necks of the bulls.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000003_000000.wav|Jason, carrying his shield and spear, went before the king.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000005_000001.wav|The rush of the bulls did not overthrow him.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000013_000003.wav|Day faded, and Jason's contest was ended.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000006_000001.wav|Grasping the horns of the bull that was upon his right hand, Jason dragged him until he had brought him beside the yoke of bronze.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000024_000004.wav|And still she chanted her Magic Song.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000008_000002.wav|The hard ground was torn up by the plow of adamant, and the clods groaned as they were cast up.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000011_000004.wav|They leaped upon it like hounds, striking at one another as they came together.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000016_000000.wav|Word of what her father had said was brought to Medea.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000022_000000.wav|His hand let slip Medea's hand and he went to seize the Fleece.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000022_000004.wav|Its hiss ran all through the grove and the birds that were wakening up squawked in terror.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000006_000002.wav|Striking the brazen knees of the bull suddenly with his foot he forced him down.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000024_000003.wav|Medea, with a newly cut spray of juniper dipped in a mystic brew, touched its deadly eyes.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000008_000001.wav|Beside Jason Theseus went holding the helmet that held the dragon's teeth.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000026_000001.wav|Over Medea Jason cast it, and he lifted her aboard the Argo.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000010_000003.wav|Then armed warriors sprang up, a fierce battle cry upon their lips.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000015_000000.wav|He would have them attack the strangers and burn the Argo.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000007_000000.wav|Castor and Polydeuces held the yoke to him.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000009_000000.wav|By the time that a third of the day was finished the field of Ares had been plowed and sown.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000013_000002.wav|The Colchians followed him.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000024_000000.wav|As she sang, the coils around the tree grew slack.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000017_000002.wav|Medea wept when she thought of all this.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000024_000001.wav|Like a dark, noiseless wave the serpent sank down on the ground.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000003_000002.wav|Then with the spear and shield in his hands, with his sword girt across his shoulders, and with his mantle stripped off, Jason looked across the field of Ares.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000005_000002.wav|His comrades shouted to see him standing firmly there, and in wonder the Colchians gazed upon him.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000014_000002.wav|Lightnings flashed from his great eyes; he spoke fiercely to the Colchians, holding in his hand his bronze topped spear.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000012_000002.wav|Soon all the Earth born Men were slain, and the furrows ran with their dark blood as channels run with water in springtime.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000022_000001.wav|As he did he heard a dreadful hiss.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000011_000002.wav|The Colchians shouted to see such a stone cast by the hands of one man.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000018_000000.wav|The palace doors were all heavily bolted, but Medea did not have to pull back the bolts.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000020_000001.wav|"The Golden Fleece," she said, "the time has come when you must pluck the Golden Fleece off the oak in the grove of Ares." When she said these words all Jason's being became taut like the string of a bow.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000028_000000.wav|Then he drew his sword and cut the hawsers of the ship, calling upon the heroes to drive the Argo on.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000009_000002.wav|Jason went down to the river and filled his helmet full of water and drank deeply.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000018_000001.wav|As she chanted her Magic Song the bolts softly drew back, the doors softly opened.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000017_000001.wav|Forever afterward she would be dependent on the kindness of strangers.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000016_000002.wav|They would not go, she knew, without the Golden Fleece; then she, Medea, would have to show them how to gain the Fleece.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000007_000003.wav|Then he took his shield and set it upon his back, and grasping the handles of the plow he started to make the furrow.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000006_000003.wav|Then he smote the other bull as it rushed upon him, and it too he forced down upon its knees.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000022_000003.wav|Coiled all around the tree, with outstretched neck and keen and sleepless eyes, was a deadly serpent.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000001_000001.wav|THE WINNING OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000019_000000.wav|She called to them, and Phrontis, Chalciope's son, heard the cry and knew the voice.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/96672/7434_96672_000006_000000.wav|The bulls roared mightily.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000021_000000.wav|"Yes, yes," exclaimed the prince, exciting himself like a self willed child; "but I will not endure it any longer, I must learn what is really going on."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000026_000000.wav|Anne of Austria raised her beautiful eyes towards him, and with an unmoved suavity of manner, said, "What do you allude to?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000027_000000.wav|"I wish to speak of Madame."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000004_000000.wav|Madame felt the reproach and the lesson, and the color rushed to her face.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000105_000001.wav|Think of what can be done."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000043_000001.wav|"If I give you facts," he said, "will you believe me?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000056_000001.wav|These young women easily take offense.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000108_000000.wav|"No; Philip has too much affection for me for that, and I, on my side, have too great a regard for him; we shall live together on very good terms.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000109_000000.wav|"That you will prevent Madame from being a coquette and Guiche from being amiable."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000125_000000.wav|"Would that not seem a somewhat serious step to take?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000045_000000.wav|"It is just the same as if your majesty were to desire me to hold my tongue, and sent me away unheard."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000057_000001.wav|Do not forget what you have just this moment said, that this morning's lesson ought to have been sufficient, and that if they had been doing what was wrong, they would have hidden themselves."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000003_000002.wav|If you wish to dine without me you have your ladies.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000069_000000.wav|"Unless you, my dear mother, who are so clever and so kind, will execute the commission yourself."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000034_000001.wav|You are speaking very heedlessly."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000124_000000.wav|"It would be better, perhaps, if I were to go and see Madame in her own apartment."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000117_000000.wav|"You will read her a lecture while you are dancing?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000135_000000.wav|"May you be successful, sire, as the family peacemaker."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000038_000001.wav|"Philip," she said, "your jealousy is not merely a defect, it is a disease."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000043_000000.wav|The prince bowed, slightly annoyed.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000079_000000.wav|Philip was as weak as a woman, and began to cry out, "Every one betrays me,--no one cares for me; my mother, even, joins my enemies."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000082_000000.wav|"I was about to propose that to you.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000083_000003.wav|Anne of Austria could not resist laughing, and was laughing still when the king entered.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000052_000000.wav|"No harm in that, surely."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000028_000000.wav|"Your wife?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000023_000001.wav|Wait for me here, chevalier, wait for me here." The prince disappeared in the neighboring apartment and inquired of the gentleman in attendance if the queen mother had returned from chapel.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000022_000000.wav|"Oh, monseigneur, an exposure-"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000093_000000.wav|"No, another."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000083_000000.wav|She had hardly finished when Philip heard the door of the ante room open with some noise.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000055_000000.wav|"Very good," exclaimed the duke, "I expected you to say that.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000062_000000.wav|"And Guiche?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000106_000000.wav|"To save Guiche-certainly."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000082_000001.wav|I am now expecting his majesty; it is the hour he usually pays me a visit; explain the matter to him yourself."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000008_000000.wav|"Come," replied the prince, as his only answer to the remark, hurrying him away, and turning round with so hasty a movement that he almost ran against Madame.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000092_000000.wav|"What, Buckingham still?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000065_000000.wav|"That I have been made a fool of; that Buckingham was only a pretext, and that Guiche is the one who is really to blame in the matter."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000090_000000.wav|"Well?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000006.wav|The Comte de Guiche had no power to move; Madame remained in the middle of one of the figures and of an attitude, unable to utter a word.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000009_000000.wav|"Give me your opinion," exclaimed the prince.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000009.wav|A dead silence succeeded the merry music of the dance. The Chevalier de Lorraine took advantage of this interval to salute Madame and De Guiche most respectfully, affecting to join them together in his reverences as though they were the master and mistress of the house.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000077_000000.wav|"I will have him drowned in my fish pond the very next time I find him in my apartments again." Having launched this terrible threat, the prince expected his mother would be frightened out of her senses; but the queen was unmoved.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000095_000000.wav|"Guiche."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000078_000000.wav|"Do so," she said.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000068_000000.wav|"Unless what?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000044_000000.wav|"If it regarded anything else but jealousy, I would believe you without your bringing facts forward; but as jealousy is the case, I promise nothing."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000085_000000.wav|"Because Spanish women are worth more than English women at least."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000108_000001.wav|But what is the substance of his request?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000080_000000.wav|"Your mother, Philip, sees further in the matter than you do, and does not care about advising you, since you will not listen to her."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000013_000000.wav|"It is abominable!|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000053_000001.wav|I forgot to tell you, that, during the last ten days, he has never left her side."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000042_000000.wav|"Because, Philip," said the queen dryly, "what you did for the other, you are going to do for this one."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000083_000002.wav|At the sound of the king's footsteps, which could be heard upon the carpet, the duke hurriedly made his escape.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000083_000005.wav|Seeing her laugh, his uneasiness on her account diminished, and he addressed her in a vivacious tone himself.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000081_000000.wav|"I will go to the king."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000059_000000.wav|"Well, just now, repenting of my hastiness of the morning, and imagining that Guiche was sulking in his own apartments, I went to pay Madame a visit.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000005_000000.wav|This repartee, which made Montalais and De Guiche smile, rekindled the prince's anger, no inconsiderable portion of which had already evaporated in words.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000121_000000.wav|"That is all right, then.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000014_000001.wav|"We hoped to enjoy tranquillity after that madman Buckingham had left."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000104_000000.wav|"That is a violent measure to resort to."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000032_000000.wav|"Of whom else could it be, then? for that poor fellow was, wrongly enough, the object of your jealousy, and I thought-"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000114_000000.wav|"That is more difficult; a word will not be enough.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000038_000000.wav|The queen clapped her hands together, and began to laugh.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000046_000000.wav|"Far from it; you are my son, I owe you a mother's indulgence."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000096_000000.wav|"Really?|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000126_000001.wav|Besides, the object is to prevent any violent measures on my brother's part, so that a little precipitation may be advisable.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000000_000001.wav|Monsieur is Jealous of Guiche.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000102_000000.wav|"What does he want?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000086_000000.wav|"Explain yourself."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000035_000000.wav|"No, no Madame has so managed matters, that I am still jealous."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000110_000001.wav|My brother has an exalted idea of sovereign power.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000040_000001.wav|You wish it to be said you are right in being jealous, when there is no ground whatever for your jealousy."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000060_000001.wav|"It was imprudent," she said.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000037_000000.wav|"Is it possible you have not remarked it?|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000010.wav|Monsieur then approached them, saying, in a hoarse tone of voice, "I am delighted; I came here expecting to find you ill and low spirited, and I find you abandoning yourself to new amusements; really, it is most fortunate.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000087_000000.wav|"Since your marriage you have not, I believe, had a single reproach to make against the queen."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000105_000000.wav|"Do not laugh; he is extremely irritated.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000071_000000.wav|"What, madame?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000096_000001.wav|Madame is a coquette, then?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000091_000000.wav|"He is now finding fault with Madame a second time."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000033_000000.wav|"My wife, madame, has already replaced the Duke of Buckingham."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000107_000000.wav|"Of, if your brother heard you, he would conspire against you as your uncle did against your father."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000029_000000.wav|"Yes, madame."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000047_000000.wav|"Oh, say what you think; you owe me as much indulgence as a madman deserves."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000122_000000.wav|"The king, madame, will take all upon himself.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000123_000000.wav|"What about?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000059_000001.wav|Can you guess what, or whom, I found there?|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000064_000000.wav|"Well, what is your opinion, Philip?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000004_000001.wav|"Monsieur," she replied, "I was not aware, when I came to the court of France, that princesses of my rank were to be regarded as the women in Turkey are.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000119_000000.wav|"You promise to convert her?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000067_000000.wav|"I wish De Guiche to be dismissed from my household, as Buckingham was, and I shall ask the king, unless-"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000100_000000.wav|"In Madame, certainly I do; but Madame is not a coquette at heart."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000010_000000.wav|"Upon what?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000031_000000.wav|"Oh! yes, madame; of course, it is a question of Buckingham."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000127_000000.wav|"I believe so."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000039_000000.wav|"Whether a defect or a disease, madame, I am the sufferer from it."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000051_000000.wav|"This morning at ten o'clock they were playing music in Madame's apartments."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000132_000001.wav|"I suppose my brother is kept a little at a distance," said the king.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000089_000000.wav|"And you, too, have been married some time.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000134_000001.wav|Permit me, madame, to kiss your hands, the most beautiful hands in France."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000126_000002.wav|Is Madame in her own apartment?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000013_000001.wav|I cannot live in this manner."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000008.wav|The pallor of the prince, and the convulsive twitching of his hands and limbs, were the first symptoms that struck those present.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000003.wav|The princess was dancing round him with a responsive smile, and the same air of alluring seductiveness.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000059_000002.wav|Another set of musicians; more dancing, and Guiche himself-he was concealed there."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000075_000000.wav|"Very well, I know what I shall do," said the prince, impetuously.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000011_000000.wav|"Upon what is taking place here."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000056_000000.wav|"Rely upon it, that is quite sufficient; it was, perhaps, even a little too much.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000074_000000.wav|"That is your own affair."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000110_000002.wav|To reform a man, not to speak about reforming a woman!"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000041_000000.wav|"Of course, you will begin to say for this gentleman what you already said on the behalf of the other."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000132_000000.wav|"Very well; I will go at once to see Madame." The king turned to look in the mirrors at his costume, which was very rich, and his face, which was radiant as the morning.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000112_000000.wav|"With a word to Guiche, who is a clever fellow, I will undertake to convince him."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000073_000000.wav|"He has displeased me."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000003_000000.wav|"And you are perfectly right," said the prince, coldly.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000114_000001.wav|I will compose a homily and read it to her."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000128_000000.wav|"What is my statement of grievances to consist of?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000113_000000.wav|"But Madame?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000084_000000.wav|"Why, madame?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000070_000000.wav|"I will not do it, Philip."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000048_000000.wav|"Do not exaggerate, Philip, and take care how you represent your wife to me as a woman of depraved mind-"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000103_000000.wav|"He wants to drown Guiche."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000024_000000.wav|Anne of Austria felt that her happiness was now complete; peace restored to her family, a nation delighted with the presence of a young monarch who had shown an aptitude for affairs of great importance; the revenues of the state increased; external peace assured; everything seemed to promise a tranquil future.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000055_000002.wav|This morning I took them by surprise, and showed my dissatisfaction in a very marked manner."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000063_000000.wav|"As much-oh, no! he muttered some impertinent remark or another."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000089_000001.wav|Your brother, on the contrary, has been married but a fortnight."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000001_000000.wav|Monsieur entered the room abruptly, as persons do who mean well and think they confer pleasure, or as those who hope to surprise some secret, the terrible reward of jealous people.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000061_000000.wav|"Nothing."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000097_000000.wav|"I fear so."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000134_000000.wav|"That will do.|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000025_000001.wav|"Dear mother," he exclaimed hurriedly, closing the door, "things cannot go on as they are now."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000122_000001.wav|But let me reflect."|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7434/75939/7434_75939_000130_000000.wav|"And the proofs?"|7434
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/134991/1387_134991_000010_000007.wav|At length they set the stranger damosel to wark; and whenever she began the stains came out pure and clean, but the auld wife made the knight believe it was her dochter had washed the sarks.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/134991/1387_134991_000008_000003.wav|"Yonder we maun be this night," quo' the bull; "for my auld brither lives yonder"; and presently they were at the place.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/134991/1387_134991_000010_000009.wav|So she bethought her of her apple, and breaking it, found it filled with gold and precious jewelry, the richest she had ever seen.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000005.wav|This would be the more likely to take place, as the delinquencies of the larger members might be expected sometimes to proceed from an ambitious premeditation in their rulers, with a view to getting rid of all external control upon their designs of personal aggrandizement; the better to effect which it is presumable they would tamper beforehand with leading individuals in the adjacent States.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000016_000002.wav|They would be obliged to act, and in such a manner as would leave no doubt that they had encroached on the national rights. An experiment of this nature would always be hazardous in the face of a constitution in any degree competent to its own defense, and of a people enlightened enough to distinguish between a legal exercise and an illegal usurpation of authority.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000016_000000.wav|But if the execution of the laws of the national government should not require the intervention of the State legislatures, if they were to pass into immediate operation upon the citizens themselves, the particular governments could not interrupt their progress without an open and violent exertion of an unconstitutional power.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000006.wav|If associates could not be found at home, recourse would be had to the aid of foreign powers, who would seldom be disinclined to encouraging the dissensions of a Confederacy, from the firm union of which they had so much to fear.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000007_000000.wav|THE tendency of the principle of legislation for States, or communities, in their political capacities, as it has been exemplified by the experiment we have made of it, is equally attested by the events which have befallen all other governments of the confederate kind, of which we have any account, in exact proportion to its prevalence in those systems.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000015_000003.wav|The State leaders may even make a merit of their surreptitious invasions of it on the ground of some temporary convenience, exemption, or advantage.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000016_000001.wav|No omissions nor evasions would answer the end.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000013_000002.wav|It must stand in need of no intermediate legislations; but must itself be empowered to employ the arm of the ordinary magistrate to execute its own resolutions.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000000.wav|It remains to inquire how far so odious an engine of government, in its application to us, would even be capable of answering its end.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000013_000005.wav|It must, in short, possess all the means, and have aright to resort to all the methods, of executing the powers with which it is intrusted, that are possessed and exercised by the government of the particular States.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000017_000000.wav|If opposition to the national government should arise from the disorderly conduct of refractory or seditious individuals, it could be overcome by the same means which are daily employed against the same evil under the State governments.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000017_000001.wav|The magistracy, being equally the ministers of the law of the land, from whatever source it might emanate, would doubtless be as ready to guard the national as the local regulations from the inroads of private licentiousness.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000005_000000.wav|HAMILTON|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000011_000002.wav|Such a scheme, if practicable at all, would instantly degenerate into a military despotism; but it will be found in every light impracticable.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000003.wav|And the guilt of all would thus become the security of all.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000000.wav|This may be considered as the violent death of the Confederacy.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000016_000004.wav|If the judges were not embarked in a conspiracy with the legislature, they would pronounce the resolutions of such a majority to be contrary to the supreme law of the land, unconstitutional, and void.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000008.wav|The suggestions of wounded pride, the instigations of irritated resentment, would be apt to carry the States against which the arms of the Union were exerted, to any extremes necessary to avenge the affront or to avoid the disgrace of submission.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000009.wav|The first war of this kind would probably terminate in a dissolution of the Union.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000013_000000.wav|The result of these observations to an intelligent mind must be clearly this, that if it be possible at any rate to construct a federal government capable of regulating the common concerns and preserving the general tranquillity, it must be founded, as to the objects committed to its care, upon the reverse of the principle contended for by the opponents of the proposed Constitution.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000017_000006.wav|It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000004.wav|Specious arguments of danger to the common liberty could easily be contrived; plausible excuses for the deficiencies of the party could, without difficulty, be invented to alarm the apprehensions, inflame the passions, and conciliate the good will, even of those States which were not chargeable with any violation or omission of duty.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000005.wav|There would, in fact, be an insuperable difficulty in ascertaining when force could with propriety be employed.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000002.wav|They would always be more ready to pursue the milder course of putting themselves upon an equal footing with the delinquent members by an imitation of their example.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000007.wav|The pretense of the latter would always be at hand.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000001.wav|Its more natural death is what we now seem to be on the point of experiencing, if the federal system be not speedily renovated in a more substantial form. It is not probable, considering the genius of this country, that the complying States would often be inclined to support the authority of the Union by engaging in a war against the non complying States.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000006_000000.wav|To the People of the State of New York:|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000008_000000.wav|This exceptionable principle may, as truly as emphatically, be styled the parent of anarchy: It has been seen that delinquencies in the members of the Union are its natural and necessary offspring; and that whenever they happen, the only constitutional remedy is force, and the immediate effect of the use of it, civil war.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000017_000004.wav|When they happen, they commonly amount to revolutions and dismemberments of empire.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000013_000001.wav|It must carry its agency to the persons of the citizens.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000015_000000.wav|The plausibility of this objection will vanish the moment we advert to the essential difference between a mere NON COMPLIANCE and a DIRECT and ACTIVE RESISTANCE.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000004.wav|Our past experience has exhibited the operation of this spirit in its full light.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000010_000008.wav|And the case must be very flagrant in which its fallacy could be detected with sufficient certainty to justify the harsh expedient of compulsion.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000011_000000.wav|It seems to require no pains to prove that the States ought not to prefer a national Constitution which could only be kept in motion by the instrumentality of a large army continually on foot to execute the ordinary requisitions or decrees of the government.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000009_000002.wav|It would rarely happen that the delinquency to be redressed would be confined to a single member, and if there were more than one who had neglected their duty, similarity of situation would induce them to unite for common defense.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000013_000003.wav|The majesty of the national authority must be manifested through the medium of the courts of justice.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000004_000000.wav|From the New York Packet.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1387/130989/1387_130989_000013_000004.wav|The government of the Union, like that of each State, must be able to address itself immediately to the hopes and fears of individuals; and to attract to its support those passions which have the strongest influence upon the human heart.|1387
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7342/73961/7342_73961_000005_000000.wav|Dahlias are now at their full growth.|7342
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7342/73961/7342_73961_000018_000006.wav|It is a native plant, but not found in this neighbourhood; I brought it from Cornwall, where it is so plentiful in the chinks of the granite stone fences.|7342
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7342/73961/7342_73961_000004_000000.wav|Hardy Poppies should be sown even earlier; August is the best time.|7342
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7342/73961/7342_73961_000001_000000.wav|SEPTEMBER|7342
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000016.wav|He accused the dog of robbing him.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000012_000004.wav|The French Academicians who mention this anecdote, add, that unless they had received the testimony of so great a man as Leibnitz, they should scarcely have dared to relate the circumstance.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000026_000002.wav|The dog impatiently waited for his arrival, and he at last returned, weary and hungry.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000007.wav|The magistrate said that Tyke was a most extraordinary animal; and having expressed a wish to see him, he was shortly after exhibited at the office, and some other peculiarities respecting him were related.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000004_000003.wav|That dogs clearly distinguish the return of Sunday cannot be doubted.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000002_000004.wav|After they had stood a short time they divided, taking post at each end of the pipe, and began to back alternately, thus giving the cat reason to suppose that they were both at one end, in order to induce her to come out. This manoeuvre had a successful result, and the cheated cat left her hiding place.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000014_000001.wav|Doll would come home in the evening after a hard day's sport, wet, tired and dirty, and then deposit herself on the rug before the fire.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000003.wav|Repeated provocation will, however, excite and revenge.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000005.wav|He is his fire side companion, evidently discerns days of household mirth or grief, and deports himself accordingly.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000003.wav|The fireman replied that he knew Tyke for the last nine years; and although he was getting old, yet the moment the engines were about, Tyke was to be seen as active as ever, running off in the direction of the fire.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000006.wav|The dog growled, and displayed his teeth.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000023_000001.wav|The animal trotted on a head of the boy, and stopped at every door where the paper was in use to be left, without making a single omission or mistake.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000004.wav|They knocked at the door, and were answered from within by the smith's wife.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000014.wav|Both the wild and domestic dog, however, appear to be possessed of and to exercise forethought.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000006.wav|He followed the chaise, went into the inn, and stuck close to the traveller.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000003.wav|He bounds exultingly forth to accompany his master in his walks, rides, and sports of the field.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000014_000004.wav|Poor Doll!|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000004_000001.wav|My mother, seeing that he attracted too much of my attention, ordered the servant to shut him every Sunday morning.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000008.wav|Has he no master?' 'No, sir,' rejoined the fireman; 'he calls none of us master, though we are all of us willing enough to give him a night's lodging and a pennyworth of meat.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000020_000000.wav|A gentleman in Cornwall possessed a dog, which seemed to set a value on white and shining pebble stones, of which he had made a large collection in a hole under an old tree.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000002.wav|When the two had proceeded some distance from the spot, m Dumont called to his dog that he had lost something, and ordered him to seek it.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000012_000002.wav|For this purpose he spared neither time nor pains with his pupil, who was about three years old when his learned education commenced; and at length he made such progress in language, as to be able to articulate no less than thirty words.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000005.wav|The fireman replied that Tyke liked one fireman as well as another; he had no particular favourites, but passed his time amongst them, sometimes going to the house of one, and then to another, and off to a third when he was tired.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000008.wav|The traveller, supposing him to be some dog that had been lost or left behind by his master, regarded his different movements as marks of fondness; and as the animal was handsome, he determined to keep him.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000015_000000.wav|A small cur, blind of one eye, lame, ugly, old, and somewhat selfish, yet possessed of great shrewdness, was usually fed with three large dogs.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000012.wav|Caniche snatched up the breeches, and away he flew.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000013_000001.wav|A medical friend of mine, who attended this gentleman, has frequently heard the animal utter these words; and a female relative of his, who was often on a visit at his house, assures me of the fact.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000011.wav|They become instantly sensible that no punishment is intended to be inflicted, and I have seen them lick the hand of the operator, as if grateful for what he was doing.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000004.wav|He acts as the faithful guardian of his property.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000008_000003.wav|In this mood he continued, till, to the amusement of the cook, he brought back the bone and laid it at her feet.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000013_000002.wav|Indeed it need not be doubted.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000005.wav|She said her husband was absent, but that she was willing to accompany the terrified women to their home.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000002.wav|He anticipates rewards and punishments, and learns to solicit the former and deprecate the latter.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000002_000000.wav|At Palermo, in Sicily, there is an extraordinary quantity of dogs wandering about without owners.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000020_000002.wav|This, I believe, is a fact by no means uncommon.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000011.wav|The animal began to bark at the door, which the traveller opened, under the idea that the dog wanted to go out.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000003.wav|In the night the women were disturbed by the uneasiness of the dog, and heard a noise apparently like an attempt to force an entrance into the premises, upon which they escaped by the back door, and ran to a neighbouring house, which happened to be a blacksmith's shop.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000016_000002.wav|The fourth,--a sort of fox hound,--which, as a puppy, had belonged to a poor man, always seemed to recognise beggars and ill dressed passengers as old familiar friends, growling at well attired strangers, barking vehemently at gigs, and becoming almost frantic with rage at a four wheeled carriage.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000007.wav|On entering they saw the body of a man hanging half in and half out of their little window, whom the dog had seized by the throat, and was still worrying.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000014_000006.wav|If she was affronted she would come to me, at a distance of four miles, remain some time, and then return to her master.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000018.wav|This is the cause of the robbery which he has committed upon you.' The stranger's rage now yielded to astonishment; he delivered the six livre piece to the owner, and could not forbear caressing the dog which had given him so much uneasiness, and such an unpleasant chase."|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000016.wav|But the domestic dog, perhaps, gives stronger proofs of forethought; and I will give an instance of it.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000006.wav|Hence, his energies and his sensibilities are all expanded, and what he feels he seeks to tell in various accents, and in different ways.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000009.wav|He gave him a good supper, and on retiring to bed took him with him to his chamber.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000002.wav|Their fears prevailed to such an extent, that, when a carrier whom they knew was passing by, they urgently requested him to remain with them all night, which, however, his duties would not permit him to do; but, in consideration of the alarm of the women, he consented to leave with them a large mastiff dog.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000021_000000.wav|My retriever will carry an egg in his mouth to a great distance, and during a considerable length of time, without ever breaking or even cracking the shell.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000003_000001.wav|mr Swainson, in his work on the instincts of animals, gives the following proof of this.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000028_000001.wav|None of them, however, were able to give any account of the early habits of the dog, or to offer any explanation of the circumstances which led to this singular propensity.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000004_000000.wav|In my younger days I had a favourite dog, which always accompanied me to church.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000004.wav|'Is this your dog, my friend?' said I to a fireman.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000010.wav|His delight is to be at all the fires in London; and, far or near, we generally find him on the road as we are going along, and sometimes, if it is out of town, we give him a lift.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000012_000003.wav|It appears, however, that he was somewhat of a truant, and did not very willingly exert his talents, being rather pressed into the service of literature, and it was necessary that the words should be first pronounced to him each time before he spoke.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000015_000001.wav|Watching his opportunity, he generally contrived to seize the best bit of offal or bone, with which he retreated into a recess, the opening to which was so small that he knew the other dogs could not follow him into it, and where he enjoyed his repast without the fear of molestation.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000008_000004.wav|Then, with the restoration of her stolen property, he resumed his cheerful manner.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000001.wav|The magistrate said the dog must have an extraordinary predilection for fires.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000005.wav|Caniche had just reached the spot in search of the lost piece when the stranger picked it up.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000007.wav|For instance, our little dog comes and pulls his mistress's gown and makes significant whines, if any one is in or about the premises whom he thinks has no right to be there.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000011.wav|A fireman commenced running.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000000.wav|"A most extraordinary circumstance has just occurred at the Hawick toll bar, which is kept by two old women.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000006_000001.wav|A still more extraordinary circumstance is upon record, of the late Colonel Hardy, who, having been sent for express to Bath, was accompanied by a favourite spaniel bitch in his chaise, which he never quitted till his arrival there.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000004.wav|The magistrate inquired whether the dog lived with any particular fireman.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000004.wav|For instance, a Newfoundland dog was quietly eating his mess of broth and broken scraps.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000009_000001.wav|By acting in this manner, he never loses sight of his master.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000023_000000.wav|One of the carriers of a New York paper called the "Advocate," having become indisposed, his son took his place; but not knowing the subscribers he was to supply, he took for his guide a dog which had usually attended his father.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000026_000003.wav|After showing his pleasure at the arrival of his master, greeting him with his usual attention, the animal remained tolerably quiet until he conceived a reasonable time had elapsed for the preparation of the Doctor's dinner.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000007_000001.wav|One day a game cock attacked a small bantam, and they fought furiously, the bantam having, of course, the worst of it.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000005.wav|While so employed, a turkey endeavoured to share the meal with him.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000008_000001.wav|He says that the cook in the house of a friend of his, a lady on whose accuracy he could rely, and from whom he had the anecdote, missed a marrow bone. Suspicion fell on a well behaved dog-a great favourite, and up to that time distinguished for his honesty.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000008_000000.wav|Here is another curious anecdote from mr Davy's work.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000003_000000.wav|The memory of dogs is quite extraordinary, and only equalled by that of the elephant.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000029_000001.wav|Still, he called no man master, disdained to receive bed or board from the same hand more than a night or two at a time, nor could the firemen trace out his resting place."|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000009.wav|But he won't stay long with any of us.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000025_000008.wav|On examination, the man proved to be their neighbour the blacksmith, dreadfully torn about the throat, and quite dead."|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000013_000000.wav|An invalid gentleman, who resided for some years on Ham Common, in Surrey, had a dog which distinctly pronounced john, William, and two or three other words.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000019_000015.wav|Caniche ran full speed to his master's house, where the stranger arrived a moment afterwards, breathless and enraged.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000007.wav|'Why so?|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000002.wav|He then asked what length of time he had been known to possess that propensity.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000019.wav|I had a dog, who, having once scalded his tongue, always afterwards, when I gave him his milk and water at breakfast, put his paw very cautiously into the saucer, to see if the liquid was too hot, before he would touch it with his tongue.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000016_000000.wav|Early habits predominate strongly in dogs, and indeed in other animals.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000007.wav|The intruder retired for a moment, but quickly returned to the charge, and was again "warned off," with a like result.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000007_000004.wav|How few human beings would have acted as this dog had done!|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000000.wav|A dog has been known to convey food to another of his species who was tied up and pining for want of it.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000000_000015.wav|They will bury or hide food, which they are unable to consume at once, and return for it.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000010.wav|It was found necessary to use stratagem for the purpose.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000003.wav|When the fire was got under, and I had leisure to look about me, I again observed the dog, which, with the firemen, appeared to be resting from the fatigues of duty, and was led to make some inquiries respecting him.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000018_000000.wav|We quote the following from the "Percy Anecdotes:"--|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000024_000000.wav|The following is from a newspaper of this year:--|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000012_000001.wav|A little boy, the peasant's son, imagined that he perceived in the dog's voice an indistinct resemblance to certain words, and was, therefore, determined to teach him to speak distinctly.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000002_000001.wav|Amongst the number, two more particularly distinguished themselves for their animosity to cats.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000010_000008.wav|After three or four attempts of the same kind, the dog became provoked, gave a sudden ferocious growl, bit off the delinquent's head, and then quietly finished his meal, without bestowing any further attention on his victim.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000011.wav|I don't think there has been a fire for these two or three years past which he has not been at.'|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000026_000004.wav|As it did not, however, make its appearance, the dog went into the kitchen, seized with his mouth a half broiled beefsteak, with which he hastened back to his master, placing it on the table cloth before him.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000014_000000.wav|These are the only two instances I have met with of talking dogs, but my brother had a beautiful little spaniel, named Doll, who was an indefatigable hunter after woodcocks and snipes.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000027_000006.wav|We call him the firemen's dog.' 'The firemen's dog!' I replied.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000004_000002.wav|This was done once, but never afterwards; for he concealed himself early every Sunday morning, and I was sure to find him either under my seat at church, or else at the church door.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67200/7134_67200_000030_000006.wav|Day or night, it was all the same to him; if a fire broke out, there he was in the midst of the bustle, running from one engine to another, anxiously looking after the firemen; and, although pressed upon by crowds, yet, from his dexterity, he always escaped accidents, only now and then getting a ducking from the engines, which he rather liked than otherwise.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000029_000003.wav|Keep his digestion in good order, and disease will rarely trouble him.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000002.wav|He must have the option of sunshine or shade.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000029_000000.wav|"In the hot season, with young dogs, raw meat should be avoided, except it be quite fresh, and then they should not be over fed, especially if debarred of abundant exercise, and excluded from their own natural medicine, grass.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000000.wav|"A house pet should always have a sleeping place allotted to him, warm and comfortable, not near the fire, nor in the damp.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000006.wav|No flea will remain alive; the skin will be thoroughly cleansed, and the coat beautified.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000000.wav|"The kennel should be located in a shady spot during the summer; in winter it should be sheltered from the wind, and so placed as to enable the dog to enjoy the sunshine at will.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000016_000002.wav|Their beds should, if possible, be placed on a wooden bench, or at least on some dry position.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000032_000000.wav|"I am satisfied as a general rule, that a well amalgamated mixture of animal and vegetable is the most healthful diet for dogs of all ages, breeds, and conditions.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000030_000000.wav|"Should you require your dog to be watchful at night, feed him in the morning; if you would have him quiet at night, feed him late, and don't leave him bones to gnaw.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000027_000002.wav|Early in the morning is preferable for summer exercise.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000003.wav|He should not be allowed to drink water that has been standing in the sun, or is otherwise damaged.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000008_000002.wav|It is best kept in bins in a granary, well trodden down.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000009_000000.wav|Well boiled greens-or mangel wurzel boiled to a jelly-are an excellent addition to the food of all dogs, and may be given twice a week; but they ought to be discontinued during the shooting season with pointers, setters, cockers, and greyhounds; and also during the hunting season with foxhounds, harriers, and beagles, as they are apt to render the bowels too open for hard work.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000026_000000.wav|"If you are in the habit of keeping your dog on the chain, let him at least run a few minutes every day.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000021_000005.wav|I ask you, then, neither to stuff nor starve; neither to chill nor burn.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000010_000000.wav|Flesh for dogs should be first thoroughly boiled and then taken out before the oatmeal is added to the broth, and left to cool.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000001.wav|Anything round is best for an animal to lay in; such as a tastefully ornamented box.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000008_000001.wav|Store sufficient for twelve or eighteen months' consumption ought, therefore, always to be kept by those who have a pack; and before used should be well dried, and broken into grits, but not too fine.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000025_000000.wav|"By attending to the general health of a dog, much disease may be avoided; indeed, this is far more essential than prescriptions for a cure.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000008_000000.wav|Stag hounds, fox hounds, harriers, and beagles, are generally fed on oatmeal,--some add well boiled flesh to it once in two days,--and the older the meal is the better.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000031_000003.wav|The punishment will be far more justly administered if the animal be let out at regular intervals; this being done he will not attempt to infringe the law, except in cases of dire necessity.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000006_000000.wav|Although the dog is naturally a voracious animal, he can endure hunger for a very great length of time, and be brought by habit to subsist on a very scanty meal.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000021_000000.wav|"I shall first throw out a few hints on the Management of Pets.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000012_000001.wav|Potatoes are also good, and although not so nutritious, or easy of digestion, as oatmeal, are less heating.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000005_000002.wav|The diet of sporting dogs in full work should, it is said by some, consist of at least two thirds of flesh, with a judicious mixture of farinaceous vegetables; but there is great diversity of opinion on this subject, and in France they are fed almost exclusively on soaked bread.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000016_000000.wav|The kennels of greyhounds should be kept comfortably warm and dry, be frequently replenished with dry and clean straw, and properly ventilated.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000013_000001.wav|This meal should, however, never be given in the hunting season, as it is too heating, and occasions the dogs to be perpetually drinking.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000011.wav|If your dog lie on straw, burn it once a week, as fleas harbour and propagate in the tubes of the straw.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000029_000002.wav|The better plan is to ascertain his average consumption, and then allow him a little less.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000016_000003.wav|On attention to cleanliness depends, in some degree, the dog's exquisite sense of smelling; for, if accustomed to strong or disagreeable effluvia, he will be but ill adapted to trace the fall of a deer, or scent of a fox.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000030_000002.wav|They should only be lightly fed before training lessons, or on sporting days; on the latter occasions a little refreshment may be administered as occasion may require.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000002.wav|If 'Butler's Mange Liniment and Flea Exterminator' cannot be obtained, the animal may be well sodden with soft soap and washed about ten minutes after.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000031_000002.wav|He should be invariably taken to the spot, be sufficiently twigged there, and unceremoniously scolded into the yard.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000004_000000.wav|A few words may not be out of place here on the feeding and management of dogs.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000027_000001.wav|Never take your dog out during the intense heat of the day; this is very apt to produce fits, often resulting in sudden death.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000015_000001.wav|The butchers' meat should be of the best quality, and not over fat, as greasy substances of all kinds are apt to render the body gross and the skin diseased.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000021_000004.wav|The tenderly nursed pet is affected by every change of atmosphere, and subjected to a variety of diseases unknown to the dog that has been hardened from his birth.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000023_000003.wav|Great care should be taken in the washing of delicate dogs.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000007_000002.wav|During the pursuit her master suddenly lost sight of her, and in a few days she was considered either killed or lost.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000019_000001.wav|Thomas Brown, Youatt, and Blaine, and to the practical information obtained from mr Herring of the New Road, and mr William George, an extensive dog fancier at Kensall New Town, may be appropriately subjoined a lively chapter from the recent work of mr Francis Butler, a leading American authority on the subject.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000008_000004.wav|Others are of opinion that oatmeal and barleymeal in equal proportions form a preferable food.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000004.wav|Lack of appetite, so common to pampered favourites, is generally the result of an overloaded stomach and disordered digestion.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000029_000004.wav|His coat and ribs will generally indicate whether he be sufficiently cared for, whether he be sick or sound in his digestive organs; feed him always in the same place, and at the same hour: once a day is sufficient, if he be over six months old.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000009.wav|I have seen animals literally worried to death by fleas, perfectly exhausted from incessant irritation, at last worn to a skeleton, and gradually extinguished by a creeping consumption.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000013.wav|Vermin revel in filth, and their extirpation depends mainly on cleanliness.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000031_000000.wav|"If a dog be regularly exercised he will seldom even soil around his kennel, and a healthy house pet is rarely troublesome, except after eating.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000017_000000.wav|A dog employed in watching premises should not be needlessly exposed to the damp or cutting night winds; but placed in as dry and sheltered a situation as possible.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000007_000001.wav|One day, when following her master through a grass park near Gilmerton, it happened that she started a hare.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000023_000002.wav|A moderate share of nursing is well enough, but should be indulged in only as an occasional treat.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000026_000001.wav|If he be kept indoors, he should also be allowed a little daily exercise outside.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000007.wav|Those who do not object to a trifling expense, may have the house posted on a large paving stone, with an excavation under it, as before recommended.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000017_000001.wav|If kept in the dwelling house he should have a place appropriated to his night's rest; this may be an open box, or a basket, with a piece of carpet or blanket, or clean straw at the bottom: if either of the former it should be often beaten, to free it from fleas or nits, which soon infest it, and frequently washed and dried.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000016_000001.wav|Indeed, nothing is more essential to the health and efficiency of all dogs than pure air and cleanliness.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000005.wav|This is easily cured by medicine, but more safely and simply without it.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000006.wav|Fast him for twenty four hours; after which, keep him on half his ordinary allowance.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000006.wav|In summer an excavation, two or three feet in depth, should be made under it, and left open at both ends, that the animal may have a cool retreat during the heat.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000021_000002.wav|Delicate breeds of dogs certainly require great care and attention in rearing; but overstrained tenderness is often more dangerous than culpable neglect.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000021_000001.wav|Whilst many are sacrificed for lack of necessary attendance, there are thousands who perish prematurely from overdoses of kindness.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000010.wav|In southern climates, especially, this method is all important.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000007_000004.wav|He lost no time in returning to the village, and having procured a hand basket, let it down by a rope into the shaft; the dog immediately leapt into it, and on being brought to the surface, proved to be Gipsy, worn to perfect skin and bone.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000005_000001.wav|The dog can subsist on many kinds of food, and it is a curious fact, that when fed entirely on flesh he will sometimes get lean; because, as has been well observed, it is not on what animals eat that they thrive, but on what they digest.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000001.wav|Fleas can live some time under water; which I have often thought only makes them bite the harder and stick the closer, when reanimated from their temporary torpidity.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000003.wav|He should never be fed to the full; neither excited to eat when he appears disinclined.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000005_000004.wav|A piece of rock brimstone kept in the pan will be found useful.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000007_000003.wav|Six weeks afterwards a person happening to look down an old coal pit, was surprised to hear a dog howling.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000030_000003.wav|Those kept in doors should be allowed to run a little after meals, when they generally require an evacuation.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000001.wav|Above all things, never chain a dog where he cannot screen himself from the sun's rays.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000007_000000.wav|An extraordinary instance of a similar kind occurred with a terrier bitch, named Gipsy.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000022_000007.wav|If this agrees with him, and he keeps in fair condition, continue the regimen.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000005_000000.wav|The natural food of the dog is flesh, and it is found that those in a wild state prefer it to every other kind of nutriment, but as raw meat engenders ferocity, it should not be given too freely, especially to house dogs and such as are not actively exercised.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000014_000000.wav|During the hunting season hounds should have sulphur mixed up with their mess once a week, in the proportion of three drachms to each.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000023_000000.wav|"Nursing in the lap is injurious; not in itself, but the animal is thereby subjected to constant chills, in emerging from a snoozy warmth to a cold carpet or chilly bed.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000025_000001.wav|It is very easy to carry off a slight indisposition by gentle purgatives and a reformed diet: whilst confirmed disease is often difficult to combat, as few of the canine race can have the advantages which are ofttimes essential to their restoration.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000011.wav|In this manner I have kept dogs from the polar regions, in comparative comfort, whilst many native born and neglected have been scalded into fits, paralysis, rabies, or hydrophobia.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000010.wav|Besides, who (for his own personal comfort), would not rid his immediate vicinity of a worthless mob of blood suckers awaiting the first favourable opportunity of regaling themselves on human blood?|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000011_000002.wav|If horse or cow flesh is not to be had, graves, in moderate quantity and well scalded, are a tolerable, though not very desirable, substitute.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000012.wav|If the bed be carpet, or anything similar, let it be often cleansed or changed.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000006_000001.wav|In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences it is stated, that a bitch which was forgotten in a country house, where she had access to no other nourishment, lived forty days on the wool of an old mattress which she had torn to pieces and digested.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000028_000008.wav|All burrowing animals seek the earth in hot weather.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000000.wav|"Once a fortnight is often enough to wash any dog but a white one. Washing has very little effect in the destruction of vermin.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000024_000003.wav|This cannot be done with safety, except in warm weather.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000002_000000.wav|ON THE FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT OF DOGS.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000023_000005.wav|Injudicious washing and bad drying are productive of running sore eyes, more especially visible in white poodles, where the hair is long and woolly, retaining the moisture.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000031_000001.wav|If a dog be uncleanly in the house, he should decidedly be broken of it, although it would be useless to correct him unless he has a fair opportunity of avoiding it.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000027_000000.wav|"In summer, particularly, be careful to provide a supply of fresh water and a cool shelter from the sun|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000018_000000.wav|Damp is exceedingly injurious to dogs, and is very likely to produce diseased lungs, rheumatism, and lameness in the shoulder and limbs.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000023_000001.wav|A dog accustomed to the lap is always shivering after it, and renders himself quite troublesome by his importunate addresses.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7134/67233/7134_67233_000011_000001.wav|Nothing is better than paunch, tripe, or good wholesome horse or cow flesh, boiled, and the liquor mixed well with oatmeal porridge; the quantity of each about equal.|7134
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000000.wav|But events had been fighting with Hamilton.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000006_000001.wav|"The Federalist," although a purely political argument, has survived the occasion which called it forth, as one of the master documents of political writing. That it has a distinct place in literature is admitted by so severe a critic as Professor Barrett Wendell in his recent "Literary History of America." It is worth while quoting his acute literary judgment of its merits:--|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000004.wav|Symptoms of relaxation in some of the leaders authorize a gleam of hope if you do well, but certainly I think not otherwise." Virginia justified his hopes by a majority of eighty nine against seventy nine for ratification (june twenty fifth seventeen eighty eight).|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000010_000002.wav|This result was only reached, however, after a long and sometimes acrimonious struggle, in which Hamilton was on his feet day after day explaining and defending each separate clause of the Constitution,--not only in its real meaning, but against all the distorted constructions put upon it by the most acute and jealous of critics.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000006.wav|The opposition there, though showing signs of relenting, was still stubborn.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000004_000003.wav|Clinton was not absolutely opposed to union, but he attached to it so many reservations that for practical purposes he was an opponent of the new Constitution.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000002.wav|Nine states, the number necessary to put the Constitution in force, were made up by the ratification of New Hampshire (june twenty first seventeen eighty eight).|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000010_000000.wav|It was fortunate for the state and the country that the leader of the opposition to the Constitution in the New York convention was a man of a high order of ability, whose mind was open in an unusual degree to the influence of logical reasoning.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000013_000006.wav|King had recently come from Massachusetts, and Hamilton's insistence that he should be chosen caused a breach with the Livingstons, which contributed to the defeat of Schuyler two years later and the election of Aaron Burr.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000009_000000.wav|So strong was the sentiment that the Constitution must be accepted in some form, that its opponents in the state convention did not venture upon immediate rejection.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000003_000002.wav|It was this alone which saved New York from being recorded against the Constitution.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000008_000001.wav|It was in some respects the hardest task ever set with any hope of success before a parliamentary leader.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000009_000001.wav|Fortunately, their course in fighting for delay only tended to make it clearer that New York would stand alone if she failed to ratify.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000001_000003.wav|"I consent to this Constitution," he declared, "because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best." Washington sought also to secure unanimity, and Hamilton declared:--|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000010.wav|Melancthon Smith then proposed ratification with the right to withdraw if the amendments should not be accepted.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000012.wav|Other similar proposals were brought forward, but they were evidently equivalent to rejection by indirection, which would have left New York out of the new Union.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000013_000005.wav|The state elections which followed resulted in defeat for the Federalists in the election of the governor, but they carried the legislature and elected two senators,--General Schuyler and Rufus King.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000011.wav|Hamilton exposed the folly of such a project in a brilliant speech, which led Smith to admit that conditional ratification was an absurdity.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000012_000001.wav|With the support of Smith, this form of ratification was carried by the slender majority of three votes (july twenty sixth seventeen eighty eight).|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000007.wav|Conditional ratification, with a long string of amendments, was first proposed.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000002_000000.wav|"I am anxious that every member should sign.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000012_000002.wav|By this narrow margin it was decided that New York should form a part of the Union, and that the great experiment in representative government should not begin with the two halves of the country separated by a hostile power, commanding the greatest seaport of the colonies.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000008.wav|Jay firmly insisted that the word "conditional" must be erased.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000004_000005.wav|It was in this field that Hamilton fought the great fight with his pen which has left to posterity the fine exposition of the Constitution known as "The Federalist." A society was formed in the city of New York to resist the adoption of the Constitution, and articles soon began to appear in the local press criticising and opposing it.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000001.wav|State after state had ratified the new document, and news of their action had reached New York.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000008_000005.wav|It was generally recognized, moreover, that however strong the objections were to the Constitution, the choice lay practically between this Constitution and none,--between the proposed government and anarchy.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000003_000001.wav|All the states voted for the Constitution, but several delegates went on record against it, and Hamilton's two associates from New York were absent.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000003_000000.wav|Such words had some weight, but not enough to secure unanimity.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000013_000000.wav|Hamilton thus played an important part in winning the first great battle for the Constitution.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000005.wav|The news reached New York on july third.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000012_000000.wav|Finally, Samuel Jones, another broad minded member of the opposition, proposed ratification without conditions, but "in full confidence" that Congress would adopt all needed amendments.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000002_000001.wav|A few by refusing may do infinite mischief.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000011_000003.wav|Still New York hesitated, and Hamilton wrote to Madison: "Our chance of success depends upon you.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107517/7732_107517_000013_000003.wav|When he returned to New York, he was beaten for reelection to Congress, and Governor Clinton and his party retained such a firm grip upon the legislature that a deadlock occurred between the Federalist House and the opposition Senate.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000008_000007.wav|The project was rejected in committee (april twelfth) by a vote of thirty one to twenty nine.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000000.wav|The situation was a grave one.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000010_000002.wav|In the sarcastic language of Professor McMaster, "The state debts might remain unpaid, the credit of the nation might fall, but come what might, the patronage of Congress must be drawn from New York and distributed among the grog shops and taverns of Philadelphia."|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000008_000003.wav|North Carolina had been late in accepting the Constitution, and her members had not been present on previous votes.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000004.wav|This opinion was shared by all those who favored a vigorous central government, and practically by all the members of the party in Congress which was forming in support of the measures of Hamilton and looking to him as their leader.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000012_000012.wav|In doing this, the influence he had established over the eastern members, with the agency of Robert Morris with those of the Middle States, effected his side of the engagement."|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000007.wav|It had already become involved with the assumption of the state debts.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000012_000004.wav|I told him that I was really a stranger to the whole subject; that not having yet informed myself of the system of finance adopted, I knew not how far this was a necessary sequence; that undoubtedly, if its rejection endangered a dissolution of our Union at this incipient stage, I should deem that the most unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which all partial and temporary evils should be yielded.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000006_000001.wav|Active partners and agents were associated and employed in every state, town, and county, and the paper bought up at five shillings, and even as low as two shillings in the pound, before the holder knew that Congress had already provided for its redemption at par."|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000005.wav|While casting about for some means for meeting the emergency, Hamilton fell upon a plan which represents one of the few cases in which he had recourse to diplomacy in his public career.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000006_000000.wav|"Couriers and relay horses by land, and swift sailing pilot boats by sea, were flying in all directions.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000012_000000.wav|"As I was going to the President's one day, I met him (Hamilton) in the street.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000012_000011.wav|Some two of the Potomac members (White and Lee, but White with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive) agreed to change their votes, and Hamilton undertook to carry the other point.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000007_000004.wav|This was shown to be so impracticable that only thirteen votes were given for it in a House of forty nine members voting.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000008_000006.wav|Further debate took place, but without shaking the firmness of the opposition to the assumption of the state debts.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000013_000004.wav|The form of the assumption differed somewhat from the proposal of Hamilton, but it accomplished the result at which he aimed.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000013_000005.wav|A specific sum, twenty one million five hundred thousand dollars, was assumed by the government and distributed among the states in set proportions.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000011_000003.wav|The latter held to their position and rejected the bill, thirty five to twenty three.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000008_000004.wav|When, therefore, a motion to recommit the financial projects was made, it was carried by a vote of twenty nine to twenty seven.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000004_000002.wav|He had endeavored to meet and disarm such opposition as far as possible in the careful and illuminating language of his report, but it soon became evident that against nearly all parts of it a bitter and persistent battle would be waged.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000013_000006.wav|The project passed the Senate july twenty second, by a vote of fourteen to twelve, and the House on july twenty fourth, by a vote of thirty four to twenty eight.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000007_000003.wav|He brought forward a project to pay the original holders the difference between par and the price at which they had sold, and to pay to the present holders only what they had paid for the securities.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000004_000004.wav|Rumors were already abroad that something was to be done to restore the national credit, but it was not until the reading of Hamilton's report in the House (january fourteenth seventeen ninety) that the full scope of his plans was made manifest.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000005_000004.wav|The absence of a well organized stock market, with the ramifications of telegraphic quotations throughout the Union, put in the hands of the more daring of these speculators an opportunity to avail themselves of the ignorance of others to an extent which would not be possible to day.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000003.wav|The government at Washington would be as helpless as the Continental Congress and its committees had been.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000012_000006.wav|The discussion took place.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000011_000004.wav|It was while matters were in this acute stage, while threats were made on behalf of the North that the Union would be broken up if assumption were not carried, that Hamilton one day in front of the President's house met Thomas Jefferson.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000011_000007.wav|Jefferson's account of the matter is as follows:--|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000001.wav|Hamilton felt that the future of the Union was at stake.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000007_000002.wav|But it was so obvious that a distinction between the holders of the debt would run directly counter to its character as negotiable paper, and would be almost impossible of just execution, that the friends of the funding project easily had the best of the argument. Madison, although inclined to oppose Hamilton, was forced to admit that the debt must be funded at par without discrimination.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000007_000005.wav|The advocates of the entire funding project carried it in committee of the whole (march ninth seventeen ninety) by a vote of thirty one to twenty six.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000013_000003.wav|The bill to remove the capital was passed on july ninth seventeen ninety, by a majority of three, and the assumption of the state debts was carried soon after.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000005_000001.wav|This came about through the sudden rise in the public funds, and the promptness with which speculators bought them up from holders who were ignorant of their value.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000011_000006.wav|What followed is best told in Jefferson's own words, because he afterwards claimed that he had been "duped" by Hamilton and acted without knowledge of the effect of what he was doing.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000009_000008.wav|A strong bid had been made by the opponents of assumption for the five votes of Pennsylvania by the offer to locate the capital for fifteen years at Philadelphia.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000010_000000.wav|The importance of having Congress and its officials in a given city represented more at that time, in spite of the small size of the body and the relative insignificance of the interests before it, than would be the case to day with either of the great commercial cities of New York, Boston, or Philadelphia.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7732/107520/7732_107520_000005_000005.wav|Agents were soon scouring the country, buying up the certificates of the debt in all its varied forms, before the news of Hamilton's great report had reached the humble holders, some of whom were old soldiers or quiet farmers who had been compelled to furnish supplies for the army.|7732
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000031_000001.wav|"Follow and punish."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000031_000000.wav|"We must follow," he declared.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000014_000001.wav|"Let them attempt it, and...."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000009_000000.wav|"Of what are they not satisfied?" demanded the Baron.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000026_000004.wav|But conceivably he might not.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000026_000000.wav|That shifted the basis of the argument to less hostile ground.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000022_000001.wav|I am a leader of armies, not of plundering thieves."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000032_000001.wav|Then came the consideration that only two of the buccaneer ships were seaworthy-and these could not accommodate the whole force, particularly being at the moment indifferently victualled for a long voyage.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000002_000004.wav|It was only by undertaking to voice their grievance to the Baron that their captain was able for the moment to pacify them.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000048_000000.wav|"Guns off Port Royal... that should argue Colonel Bishop at work.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000002_000003.wav|Resentment smouldered amongst them for a while, to flame out violently at the end of that week in Cartagena.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000008_000000.wav|"You may define our positions as you please," said he.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000019_000002.wav|They want to view the treasure itself.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000026_000003.wav|In an engagement, he might conceivably defeat Blood's followers.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000015_000000.wav|"Now don't be rash.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000002.wav|It may well be that he must vent the thing that oppressed him or be driven mad by it.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000008_000003.wav|My men demand it.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000018_000001.wav|They are there for all to see."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000016_000001.wav|How can we share the spoil before it has been completely gathered?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000045_000002.wav|The wind, to which they were sailing very close, was westerly, and it bore to their ears a booming sound which in less experienced ears might have passed for the breaking of surf upon a lee shore.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000007.wav|I had thought to have done with piracy; thought to have done with it for ever.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000007_000000.wav|Blood contained himself with difficulty.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000051_000000.wav|"An English ship!" he cried.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000048_000002.wav|Anyway, we'll stand in to investigate.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000025_000001.wav|I warn you of the trouble that a little prudence may avert.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000050_000002.wav|As the Arabella with the Elizabeth following closely raced nearer on their north westerly tack, the outlines of the blazing vessel grew clearer. Presently her masts stood out sharp and black above the smoke and flames, and through his telescope Blood made out plainly the pennon of saint George fluttering from her maintop.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000035_000000.wav|Within an hour, the water casks at least replenished and stowed aboard, the Arabella and the Elizabeth put to sea upon that angry chase.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000034_000000.wav|When Blood, torn as he was between conflicting considerations, still hesitated, they bore him almost by main force aboard the Arabella.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000011_000001.wav|The clerks at the tables laid down their pens, and awaited the explosion in a sort of terror.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000033_000004.wav|Unable to reach a decision, his own men and Hagthorpe's took the matter off his hands, eager to give chase to Rivarol.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000002_000001.wav|But at present, in his odd frame of mind, and its divorcement from piracy, he was content to smile his utter contempt of the French General.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000042_000000.wav|"There is more than that to it," groaned Blood.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000022_000000.wav|"What do you mean, you rogue?|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000004_000002.wav|My men are on the point of mutiny."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000047_000002.wav|"Does it concern us?" he asked.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000011_000000.wav|A blow in the face could scarcely have taken the Frenchman more aback. He stiffened, and drew himself up, his eyes blazing, his face of a deathly pallor.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000008_000004.wav|They are not satisfied."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000050_000000.wav|They held to their course, nevertheless, with all hands on deck, eagerly, anxiously scanning the sea ahead.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000021_000000.wav|"But you are learning quickly."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000008_000002.wav|Those articles provide for a certain distribution of the spoil.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000028_000003.wav|The French ships were gone.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000046_000001.wav|Blood nodded, listening.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000026_000002.wav|He gave it with an extreme ill grace, and only because Blood made him realize at last that to withhold it longer would be dangerous.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000013_000001.wav|It is they who are not satisfied, they who threaten that unless satisfaction is afforded them, and promptly, they will take it."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000017_000001.wav|They say that hereafter there will be no ascertaining what the spoil really amounts to."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000039_000000.wav|"Nay, peter--'t isn't on your soul; but on Rivarol's.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000049_000002.wav|Then, as, telescope to his eye, Blood raked the haze, expecting at any moment to behold the battling ships, the guns abruptly ceased.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000012_000003.wav|God's Blood!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000016_000000.wav|"God give me patience!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000020_000000.wav|"I know nothing of filibuster customs." The gentleman was disdainful.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000019_000005.wav|The men know-and they are very skilled in these computations-that it exceeds the enormous total of forty millions.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000049_000001.wav|Thus for an hour, perhaps.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000033_000002.wav|If he went off now, Heaven knew what would happen to the town, the temper of those whom he was leaving being what it was.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000003_000001.wav|The Baron sat there scrutinizing ledgers, like a city merchant, and checking figures to make sure that all was correct to the last peso.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000042_000001.wav|"What now?|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000039_000002.wav|What could you have done to prevent it?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000003_000000.wav|He found him in the offices which the Baron had set up in the town, with a staff of clerks to register the treasure brought in and to cast up the surrendered account books, with a view to ascertaining precisely what were the sums yet to be delivered up.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000042_000003.wav|Loyal service with France has led to this; and that is equally impossible hereafter. What to live clean, I believe the only thing is to go and offer my sword to the King of Spain."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000033_000003.wav|Yet if he remained, it would simply mean that his own and Hagthorpe's crews would join in the saturnalia and increase the hideousness of events now inevitable.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000028_000001.wav|But when the next dawn broke over Cartagena, they had the explanation of it.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000017_000000.wav|"My men have reason to believe that it is gathered; and, anyway, they view with mistrust that it should all be housed aboard your ships, and remain in your possession.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000010.wav|Think of the hell those devils will be making of it now!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty eight.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000033_000005.wav|Not only was a dastardly cheat to be punished but an enormous treasure to be won by treating as an enemy this French commander who, himself, had so villainously broken the alliance.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000043_000000.wav|But something remained-the last thing that he could have expected-something towards which they were rapidly sailing over the tropical, sunlit sea.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000048_000003.wav|Bid them put the helm over."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000004_000001.wav|"I must speak frankly; and you must suffer it.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000000.wav|"No," said Blood thickly.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000036_000001.wav|I found him sitting alone in his cabin, his head in his hands, torment in the eyes that stared straight before him, seeing nothing."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000026_000005.wav|And even if he succeeded, the effort would be so costly to him in men that he might not thereafter find himself in sufficient strength to maintain his hold of what he had seized.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000006_000001.wav|If there is a mutiny, you and your captains shall be held personally responsible.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000032_000005.wav|Let Blood and Hagthorpe and those who sailed with them do as they pleased.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000023_000000.wav|"Oh, but of course!" Blood's irony laughed in his eyes.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000002_000000.wav|This was a slight that at another time Captain Blood would not have borne for a moment.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000009.wav|Think of Cartagena!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000033_000001.wav|Blood was reduced to despair.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000049_000000.wav|Close hauled they tacked aweather, guided by the sound of combat, which grew in volume and definition as they approached it.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000019_000000.wav|"They do not wish to see account books.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000003_000003.wav|He looked up irritated by the interruption which Captain Blood's advent occasioned.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000012_000002.wav|"Do you really dare so much, you and the dirty thieves that follow you?|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000006.wav|O God!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000011.wav|And I must have that on my soul!"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000019_000003.wav|They know-you compel me to be blunt-that the accounts have been falsified.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000024_000001.wav|Am I to understand that you are threatening me?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000041_000001.wav|So why repine?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000019_000006.wav|They insist that the treasure itself be produced and weighed in their presence, as is the custom among the Brethren of the Coast."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000018_000000.wav|"But-name of Heaven!--I have kept books.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000032_000000.wav|At first that was the general cry.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000037_000002.wav|Surely 't isn't the thought of Rivarol!"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000025_000002.wav|You do not know on what a volcano you are sitting. You do not know the ways of buccaneers.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000040_000000.wav|"I would have stayed if it could have availed."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000048_000001.wav|And against whom should he be in action but against friends of ours I think it may concern us.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000050_000001.wav|And presently an object loomed into view, which soon defined itself for a great ship on fire.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000038_000004.wav|"But if she knew!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000012_000001.wav|Then the great gentleman delivered himself in a voice of concentrated anger.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000029_000000.wav|The two parties were fused into one by their common fury, and before the exhibition of it the inhabitants of that ill fated town were stricken with deeper terror than they had yet known since the coming of this expedition.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000008_000001.wav|"But I'll remind you that the nature of a thing is not changed by the name you give it. I am concerned with facts; chiefly with the fact that we entered into definite articles with you.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000046_000000.wav|"Guns!" said Pitt, who stood with Blood upon the quarter deck.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000032_000004.wav|They would remain behind to extort it whilst fitting their ships for sea.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/129808/1283_129808_000043_000001.wav|All this against which he now inveighed so bitterly was but a necessary stage in the shaping of his odd destiny.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000039_000004.wav|He grinned crookedly; this time the Englishman would be foiled.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000039_000002.wav|Outside was silence.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000024_000000.wav|"Like-Satan-"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000057_000004.wav|Then the hut and thirteen sinners went to Hell in a great roar of flame and smoke.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000023_000001.wav|"What does he look like, this Kane?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000072_000001.wav|No, you fool, I do not class you with myself!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000039_000003.wav|There was no moon, and Le Loup's keen imagination pictured the dark slayer, Solomon Kane, gliding through the blackness, a shadow among shadows.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000036_000001.wav|Then a sudden thought smote him.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000010_000006.wav|For we found his sword pierced corpse upon a cliff.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000059_000001.wav|You know the details better than i There was a girl there, a mere child, who, hoping to escape your lust, fled up the valley; but you, you jackal of Hell, you caught her and left her, violated and dying.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000026_000001.wav|"I told you!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000011_000003.wav|Then-ha, what was that?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000073_000001.wav|Shall I waste time in parleying with this base scoundrel!" Kane snarled in a voice suddenly blood thirsting, and his lean frame flashed forward like a bent bow suddenly released.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000049_000001.wav|The sensation was new to him-a new thrill to one who lived for thrills, and he laughed suddenly.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000009_000000.wav|"Faugh!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000062_000000.wav|The tone, and more especially the unexpected oath, coming as it did from Kane, slightly sobered Le Loup; his eyes narrowed and his hand moved toward his rapier.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000062_000001.wav|The air was tense for an instant; then the Wolf relaxed elaborately.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000066_000000.wav|"That, sir, is my own affair; it is sufficient that I do so."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000006_000001.wav|Dolt!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000063_000000.wav|"Who was the girl?" he asked idly.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000026_000003.wav|I tell you-"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000035_000001.wav|Then-why divide the treasure three ways?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000011_000002.wav|Kane can not hide forever.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000026_000002.wav|'tis the Horned One himself!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000019_000001.wav|"I knew it!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000037_000000.wav|"He," indicating the corpse on the floor, "said, 'I got here first.' Does that mean Kane was pursuing him here?" And as the Wolf nodded impatiently the other turned to the chests with chattering haste.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000005_000000.wav|The fellow spoken to replied sullenly, "This Solomon Kane is a demon from Hell, I tell you."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000071_000000.wav|Suddenly Le Loup threw back his head, his eyes dancing and leaping with a wild mockery and a kind of insane recklessness.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000046_000000.wav|That forehead marked the dreamer, the idealist, the introvert, just as the eyes and the thin, straight nose betrayed the fanatic.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000045_000005.wav|Strangely, the mephistophelean trend of the lower features was offset by a high, broad forehead, though this was partly hidden by a featherless hat.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000057_000001.wav|"I myself had the tale spread that the hermit possessed a store of gold, knowing that would draw your scum as carrion draws vultures.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000011_000001.wav|"Soon the rest return from that little trip to the hermit's; then we shall see.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000014_000001.wav|All dead!"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000074_000001.wav|His timing was perfect; his back flung hands struck the table and hurled it aside, plunging the cave into darkness as the candle toppled and went out.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000010_000005.wav|By the demons of perdition, it seems he met him!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000012_000002.wav|His eyes were wide and staring; he reeled on buckling legs, and a dark red stain dyed his tunic.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000001_000000.wav|Chapter two.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000020_000000.wav|"Silence, fool!" snarled the chief.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000045_000000.wav|A tall man, as tall as Le Loup he was, clad in black from head to foot, in plain, close fitting garments that somehow suited the somber face.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000039_000000.wav|The chests were empty, their treasure lying in a shimmering mass upon the bloodstained floor.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000002_000001.wav|The words came in a cold snarl that curdled the hearer's blood.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000067_000001.wav|A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000033_000001.wav|Let us take the gems and gold from the chests and flee, using the secret passageway."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000001_000001.wav|The Lair of the Wolf|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000029_000001.wav|"Keep close watch, La Mon; in a moment the Rat and I will join you."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000023_000000.wav|"Saints and devils!" raged the Wolf.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000035_000000.wav|"He can watch until we are ready to flee.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000045_000001.wav|Long arms and broad shoulders betokened the swordsman, as plainly as the long rapier in his hand.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000042_000001.wav|"Now for La mon"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000045_000004.wav|Eyes, large, deep set and unblinking, fixed their gaze upon the bandit, and looking into them, Le Loup was unable to decide what color they were.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000010_000007.wav|What now? Are we all to fall before this English fiend?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000057_000000.wav|"Your last question is easily answered, sir," Kane replied.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000017_000002.wav|The Wolf was raging with impatience.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000045_000003.wav|A kind of dark pallor lent him a ghostly appearance in the uncertain light, an effect heightened by the satanic darkness of his lowering brows.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000076_000001.wav|The taunt came from somewhere in front of him, but Kane, plunging toward the sound with the savage fury of baffled wrath, caromed against a blank wall that did not yield to his blow.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000012_000001.wav|Into the entrance of the cave that formed the bandit lair, a man staggered.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000030_000000.wav|The face withdrew and Le Loup turned to the other.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000007_000001.wav|Ask the mountain wolves that tore the flesh from their dead bones.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000010_000000.wav|"And at night he sallies forth and slays us," gloomily commented the other.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000015_000001.wav|Satan's curses on you, speak!"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000021_000000.wav|"I fled-Kane pursued-wounded me-but I outran-him-got-here- first-"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000059_000002.wav|I found her there, and above her dead form I made up my mind to hunt you down and kill you."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000010_000002.wav|The first we know of this man is when we find Jean, the most desperate bandit unhung, nailed to a tree with his own dagger through his breast, and the letters s l k carved upon his dead cheeks.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000007_000002.wav|Where does this Kane hide?|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000069_000001.wav|He seemed like a great condor about to launch himself upon his victim.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000039_000001.wav|The Wolf stopped and listened.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000007_000003.wav|We have searched the mountains and the valleys for leagues, and we have found no trace.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000025_000000.wav|The voice trailed off in silence.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000046_000001.wav|An observer would have been struck by the eyes of the two men who stood there, facing each other.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000004_000003.wav|His eyes danced and glittered with a kind of reckless mockery.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000009_000001.wav|I say again.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000004_000001.wav|The speaker leaned forward, his fist pounding emphasis on the rude table between them.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000027_000000.wav|He ceased as a frightened face peered in at the cave entrance.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000019_000002.wav|I-"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000017_000001.wav|Then what?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000012_000003.wav|He came a few tottering steps forward, then pitched across the table, sliding off onto the floor.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000031_000001.wav|"You, I, and that thief La Mon are all that are left.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000036_000000.wav|A faint smile touched the Rat's malevolent features.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000053_000000.wav|"No doubt I stated my inquiry wrongly," Kane said grimly.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000075_000000.wav|Kane's rapier sang like an arrow in the dark as he thrust blindly and ferociously.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000057_000005.wav|True, one escaped, but him I had slain in the forest had not I stumbled and fallen upon a broken root, which gave him time to elude me."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000073_000000.wav|"Shades of death!|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000016_000001.wav|"I stayed outside-to watch-the others went in-to torture the hermit-to make him reveal-the hiding place-of his gold."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000034_000000.wav|"And La Mon?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000028_000000.wav|"Kane?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000074_000000.wav|At the same instant Le Loup with a wild laugh bounded backward with a movement as swift as Kane's.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000042_000000.wav|"Why divide the treasure two ways?" murmured Le Loup, wiping his blade upon the dead man's doublet.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000026_000000.wav|"Like Satan!" babbled the other bandit.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000046_000002.wav|Eyes of both betokened untold deeps of power, but there the resemblance ceased.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000041_000000.wav|The Rat, with a muttered exclamation of surprize, bent over the chest indicated.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000063_000001.wav|"Your wife?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000051_000000.wav|"I am Solomon Kane." The voice was resonant and powerful.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000012_000000.wav|The two turned swiftly as a shadow fell across the table.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000008_000001.wav|His keen face, despite lines of wild living and dissipation, was the face of a thinker.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000013_000000.wav|"Hell's devils!" cursed the Wolf, hauling him upright and propping him in a chair.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000048_000000.wav|The eyes of the man in black, on the other hand, deep set and staring from under prominent brows, were cold but deep; gazing into them, one had the impression of looking into countless fathoms of ice.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000020_000001.wav|"Go on!"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000015_000002.wav|The Wolf shook the man savagely, the other bandit gazing on in wide eyed horror.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000009_000002.wav|The fellow has found some cavern or secret vale of which we do not know where he hides in the day."|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000069_000000.wav|Kane leaned forward, a terrible brooding threat growing in his cold eyes.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000068_000001.wav|There on the floor is the equivalent to an emperor's ransom.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000071_000001.wav|His shout of laughter sent the echoes flying.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000041_000002.wav|The Rat sagged to the floor without a sound.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000043_000000.wav|He stepped toward the door; then stopped and shrank back.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000061_000000.wav|"Le Loup, take care!" Kane exclaimed, a terrible menace in his voice, "I have never yet done a man to death by torture, but by God, sir, you tempt me!"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000031_000002.wav|What would you suggest?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000018_000000.wav|"Then the world turned red-the hut went up in a roar and a red rain flooded the valley-through it I saw-the hermit and a tall man clad all in black-coming from the trees-"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000004_000002.wav|He was a tall, rangy built man, supple as a leopard and with a lean, cruel, predatory face.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000041_000001.wav|With a single, catlike motion, the Wolf sprang upon him, sheathing his dagger to the hilt in the Rat's back, between the shoulders.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000053_000001.wav|"I will change it: Are you prepared to meet your master, the Devil?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000008_000000.wav|The Wolf strummed impatiently upon the table.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000060_000001.wav|"Yes, I remember the wench.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000076_000002.wav|From somewhere seemed to come an echo of a mocking laugh.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000058_000001.wav|Yet tell me this: Why have you followed me as a wolf follows deer?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000033_000000.wav|"You are right.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000022_000000.wav|The man slumped forward on the table.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000008_000002.wav|The superstitions of his followers affected him not at all.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000070_000000.wav|"Sir, do you assume me to be as great a villain as yourself?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000051_000001.wav|"Are you prepared to meet your God?"|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000049_000000.wav|Now the eyes clashed, and the Wolf, who was used to being feared, felt a strange coolness on his spine.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000040_000000.wav|"There is a chest yet unopened," said he, pointing.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1283/136983/1283_136983_000011_000000.wav|"True, our best men have been done to death by him," mused the bandit chief.|1283
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000013_000000.wav|"I fancy not.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000047_000002.wav|I counted the separate beads—they were round and there were fifty of them.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000040_000000.wav|"Well,"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000024_000000.wav|"Good afternoon, mr Glenarm," he said, taking the pipe from his mouth the better to grin at me.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000016_000000.wav|He met my gaze without flinching, and lighted me to the stair with our established ceremony.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000050_000002.wav|I went on to the door of my room, and still a muffled step seemed to follow me,—first it had come from below, then it was much like some one going up stairs,—but where?|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000023_000000.wav|"Good afternoon, Morgan."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000016_000002.wav|I had no intention of being killed, and now that I had due warning of danger, I resolved to protect myself from foes without and within.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000018_000002.wav|A group of idle laborers stopped talking to watch me; and when I was a few yards past them they laughed at a remark by one of the number which I could not overhear.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000029_000000.wav|"Morgan, you are an infernal blackguard.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000043_000000.wav|He snatched off his hat and bowed profoundly.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000019_000002.wav|Such was, I felt, the only honest course.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000017_000002.wav|The idea of being fired upon by an unseen foe would, I knew, give Larry a real lift of the spirit.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000018_000001.wav|The villagers stared at me blankly as on my first visit.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000002_000000.wav|A moment later Bates entered with a fresh supply of wood.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000034_000001.wav|I hadn't seen him for several years before he died.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000043_000002.wav|"Killing a man on your own property requires some explaining—you may have noticed it?"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000024_000002.wav|There was, perhaps, a certain element of recklessness in my visit to the house of a man who had shown so singular an interest in my affairs, and his cool greeting vexed me.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000012_000002.wav|Annandale is not what you would exactly call a diverting village."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000007_000000.wav|"Never mind.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000024_000001.wav|He showed no sign of surprise, and I was nettled by his cool reception.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000037_000001.wav|I fully agree with you! I'm as dull as an oyster; that's the reason I've called on you for enlightenment.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000009_000000.wav|"I dare say."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000006_000000.wav|"It doesn't belong here, I think, sir.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000014_000001.wav|I meet him occasionally when I go to the village; a very worthy person, I should call him, on slight acquaintance."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000044_000000.wav|"Yes; I commit most of my murders away from home,"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000013_000002.wav|That's what I'd call a pretty cheerless job,—watching summer cottages in the winter."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000044_000002.wav|"I formed the habit early in life.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000032_000000.wav|"You're a pretty fair shot, mr Glenarm.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000033_000003.wav|He stood in the doorway calmly awaiting my next move.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000050_000000.wav|That night, as I was going quite late to bed, bearing a candle to light me through the dark hall to my room, I heard a curious sound, as of some one walking stealthily through the house.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000021_000004.wav|There were many paths through the woods back of the cottages, and I followed several futilely before I at last found a small house snugly bid away in a thicket of young maples.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000047_000004.wav|I lifted my eyes and looked off toward saint Agatha's.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000039_000000.wav|He stroked his yellow beard reflectively and shook his head a little sadly.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000037_000000.wav|"There you have it, Morgan!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000043_000001.wav|"It'll suit me much better to continue handling the case on your grounds," he said, as though he referred to a business matter.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000040_000002.wav|And I don't hesitate to tell you,"—I was exerting myself to keep down my anger,—"that if I catch you on my grounds again I'll fill you with lead and sink you in the lake."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000026_000000.wav|"Won't you come in and rest yourself, mr Glenarm?" he interrupted.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000008_000001.wav|It's a bit sharper to night, but we're likely to have sudden changes at this season."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000039_000001.wav|He was not a bad looking fellow; and he expressed himself well enough with a broad western accent.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000034_000002.wav|I was never at Glenarm before in my life, so it's a little rough for you to visit your displeasure on me."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000050_000004.wav|Again there was a stumble and a hurried recovery,—ghosts, I reflected, do not fall down stairs!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000033_000002.wav|Morgan was a fellow of intelligence and, whatever lay back of his designs against me, he was clearly a foe to reckon with.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000019_000000.wav|On this day I really began to work.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000017_000000.wav|Before going to bed I wrote a long letter to Larry Donovan, giving him a full account of my arrival at Glenarm House.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000010_000000.wav|We were not getting anywhere; the fellow was certainly an incomparable actor.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000033_000001.wav|I know of nothing in the way of social adventure that is quite equal to it.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000047_000003.wav|The proper length for one turn about a girl's throat, perhaps; not more than that!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000002_000001.wav|I watched him narrowly for some sign of perturbation, but he was not to be caught off guard.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000029_000001.wav|You have tried twice to kill me—"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000020_000000.wav|When I plunged into the wood in the middle of the afternoon it was with the definite purpose of returning to the upper end of the lake for an interview with Morgan, who had, so Bates informed me, a small house back of the cottages.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000021_000002.wav|I scanned the water and the borders of the lake for signs of life,—more particularly, I may as well admit, for a certain maroon colored canoe and a girl in a red tam o'-shanter, but lake and summer cottages were mine alone.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000004_000001.wav|Oh! here's a hammer I picked up out in the grounds a bit ago.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000011_000001.wav|Don't hesitate to go to the village when you like."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000004_000000.wav|"I believe not, Bates.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000037_000002.wav|Consider that I'm here under a flag of truce, and let's see if we can't come to an agreement."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000050_000003.wav|In my own room I still heard steps, light, slow, but distinct.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000017_000001.wav|The thought of Larry always cheered me, and as the pages slipped from my pen I could feel his sympathy and hear him chuckling over the lively beginning of my year at Glenarm.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000032_000002.wav|Why, sir, when I saw you paddling out on the lake this afternoon I sighted you from the casino half a dozen times with my gun, but I was afraid to risk it."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000036_000001.wav|You'll excuse my bluntness, but I take it that you're a frank man.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000008_000000.wav|"Very good, mr Glenarm.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000045_000001.wav|I regained the lake shore, feeling no great discouragement over the lean results of my interview, but rather a fresh zest for the game, whatever the game might be.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000015_000001.wav|Any time through the winter you want to have him in for a social glass, it's all right with me."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000004_000002.wav|I wish you'd see if it belongs to the house."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000016_000004.wav|Morgan was, moreover, a cheerful scoundrel, and experience taught me long ago that a knave with humor is doubly dangerous.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000026_000001.wav|"I reckon you're tired from your trip over—"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000050_000001.wav|At first I thought Bates was still abroad, but I waited, listening for several minutes, without being able to mark the exact direction of the sound or to identify it with him.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000035_000000.wav|He smiled tolerantly as I spoke.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000044_000001.wav|I said.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000033_000004.wav|I struck a match on my box and lighted a cigarette.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000013_000001.wav|But the caretaker over at the summer resort has even a lonelier time, I suppose.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000040_000001.wav|I said, seeing that I should only make myself ridiculous by trying to learn anything from him, "I hope our little spats through windows and on walls won't interfere with our pleasant social relations.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000047_000000.wav|It was assuredly a spot for a pipe and a mood, and as the shadows crept through the wood before me and the water, stirred by the rising wind, began to beat below, I invoked the one and yielded to the other.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000011_000000.wav|"You must find it pretty lonely here, Bates.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000032_000001.wav|The fact about me is,"—and he winked,—"the honest truth is, I'm all out of practice.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000032_000003.wav|He seemed to be shaken with inner mirth.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000049_000000.wav|With this foolishness I rose, thrust the beads into my pocket, and paddled home in the waning glory of the sunset.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000025_000000.wav|"Morgan—"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000021_000000.wav|I took the canoe I had chosen for my own use from the boat house and paddled up the lake.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000038_000001.wav|There was a time when we might have done some business; but that's past now.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000015_000000.wav|"No doubt of it, Bates.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000018_000000.wav|The next morning I walked into the village, mailed my letter, visited the railway station with true rustic instinct and watched the cutting out of a freight car for Annandale with a pleasure I had not before taken in that proceeding.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000012_000001.wav|I keep a few books by me for the evenings.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000016_000003.wav|Both Bates and Morgan, the caretaker, were liars of high attainment.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000025_000001.wav|I began.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000019_000003.wav|I should work every day from eight until one, and my leisure I should give to recreation and a search for the motives that lay behind the crafts and assaults of my enemies.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000036_000002.wav|He was a very keen person, and, I'm afraid,"—he chuckled with evident satisfaction to himself,—"I'm really afraid, mr Glenarm, that you're not!"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000003_000000.wav|"Is there anything further, sir?"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000035_000001.wav|I knew—and he knew that I did—that no ill feeling against my grandfather lay back of his interest in my affairs.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000047_000001.wav|Something in the withered grass at my feet caught my eye. I bent and picked up a string of gold beads, dropped there, no doubt, by some girl from the school or a careless member of the summer colony.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000018_000003.wav|But I am not a particularly sensitive person; I did not care what my Hoosier neighbors said of me; all I asked was that they should refrain from shooting at the back of my head through the windows of my own house.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000027_000000.wav|"Thank you, no," I snapped.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000045_000000.wav|As I turned away he closed his door with a slam,—a delicate way of assuring me that he was acting in good faith, and not preparing to puncture my back with a rifle ball.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000014_000000.wav|"That's Morgan, sir.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000031_000000.wav|He lifted the gray fedora hat from his head, and poked his finger through a hole in the top.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000022_000000.wav|The man I was looking for came to the door quickly in response to my knock.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000036_000000.wav|"You're not quite the man your grandfather was, mr Glenarm.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000007_000001.wav|I need such a thing now and then and I'll keep it handy."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000038_000002.wav|You seem like a pretty decent fellow, too, and I'm sorry I didn't see you sooner; but better luck next time."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000006_000001.wav|But we sometimes find tools left by the carpenters that worked on the house.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000019_000001.wav|I mapped out a course of reading, set up a draftsman's table I found put away in a closet, and convinced myself that I was beginning a year of devotion to architecture.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45204/4595_45204_000021_000001.wav|The air was still warm, but the wind that blew out of the south tasted of rain.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000012_000001.wav|That's what I learned in the village.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000022_000001.wav|She wore black—perhaps to fit her the better into the house of a somber Sisterhood.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000020_000000.wav|"I am sorry to have kept you waiting, mr Glenarm. But this is my busy hour."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000049_000000.wav|Her tone, changing from cold indifference to the most severe disdain, stung me into self pity for my stupidity in having sought her.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000019_000000.wav|The piano pounding continued and I waited for what seemed an interminable time.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000038_000000.wav|"You probably thought I was a fool," I retorted.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000006_000000.wav|"I said Miss Devereux," he repeated in dignified rebuke. "She came up this morning, and the Sister left at once for Chicago.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000025_000001.wav|I'm glad to see that you lose no time."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000007_000000.wav|"You seem full of information,"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000006_000001.wav|Sister Theresa depends particularly upon Miss Devereux,—so I've heard, sir.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000024_000000.wav|"Do you?" she asked.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000007_000001.wav|I remarked, taking another step toward my hat and coat.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000009_000000.wav|"Well?"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000041_000000.wav|"I fancy it would not be very difficult to eliminate you as a factor in the situation," she remarked icily.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000023_000000.wav|"I suppose you have come to take charge of the property."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000056_000000.wav|"Of course I mean it!"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000039_000004.wav|I even went so far, after you knew perfectly well who I was, as to try to help you—to give you another chance to prove yourself the man your grandfather wished you to be.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000010_000000.wav|"They all came together, sir."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000035_000000.wav|"I suppose that even then the conspiracy was thoroughly arranged,"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000034_000000.wav|Her forehead contracted slightly and she pressed her lips together.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000054_000002.wav|Why her eyes haunted me for days.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000030_000000.wav|"That is quite remarkable," she said, and nodded her head ironically.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000039_000003.wav|But you are not the one and you haven't the other.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000016_000002.wav|She was now entitled to my grandfather's property and she had lost no time in returning as soon as she and Pickering had discussed together at the Armstrongs' my flight from Annandale.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000039_000005.wav|And now you come to me in a shocking bad humor,—I really think you would like to be insulting, mr Glenarm, if you could."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000017_000000.wav|"Tell mr Donovan that I've gone to saint Agatha's," I said, and I was soon striding toward the school.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000040_000000.wav|"But Pickering,—you came back with him; he is here and he's going to stay!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000004_000000.wav|"The devil!"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000021_000000.wav|"I shall not detain you long.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000048_000003.wav|But, of course, that is all a matter of past history now."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000021_000001.wav|I came,"—I hesitated, not knowing why I had come.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000019_000003.wav|It was The Life of Benvenuto Cellini and "Marian Devereux" was written on the fly leaf, by unmistakably the same hand that penned the apology for Olivia's performances.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000001_000000.wav|Bates had been into Annandale to mail some letters, and I was staring out upon the park from the library windows when he entered.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000032_000000.wav|I was intent upon the recollection, eager to fix and establish it.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000029_000000.wav|"I remember now the first time!"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000022_000004.wav|The silence grew intolerable; she was waiting for me to speak, and I blurted:|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000016_000001.wav|Marian Devereux had come back to Annandale with Arthur Pickering; my faith in her snapped like a reed at this astounding news.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000033_000001.wav|It was at Sherry's.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000057_000000.wav|He took the pipe from his mouth, pressed the tobacco viciously into the bowl, and swore steadily in Gaelic until I was ready to choke him.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000053_000000.wav|"You may remember her," I concluded, "she was the girl we saw at Sherry's that night we dined there.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000025_000000.wav|"And you came back with the executor to facilitate matters.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000049_000001.wav|My anger was not against her, but against Pickering, who had, I persuaded myself, always blocked my path.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000022_000000.wav|She took a chair near the open door and bent forward with an air of attention that was disquieting.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000001_000001.wav|Stoddard, having kept watch the night before, was at home asleep, and Larry was off somewhere in the house, treasure hunting.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000036_000000.wav|She rose and stood by her chair, one hand resting upon it.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000016_000003.wav|Her return could have no other meaning than that there was a strong tie between them, and he was now to stay on the ground until I should be dispossessed and her rights established.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000019_000004.wav|I saw in the clear flowing lines of the signature, in their lack of superfluity, her own ease, grace and charm; and, in the deeper stroke with which the x was crossed, I felt a challenge, a readiness to abide by consequences once her word was given. Then my own inclination to think well of her angered me.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000016_000005.wav|It was a black record, and the thought of it angered me against myself and the world.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000044_000001.wav|I had accepted your own renouncement of the legacy in good part, but now, please believe me, it shall be yours to morrow. I'll yield possession to you whenever you ask it,—but never to Arthur Pickering!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000014_000001.wav|The reason is that he's worn out with his work, and wishes quiet. The other people went back to New York in the car."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000044_000002.wav|As against him and his treasure hunters and assassins I will hold out for a dozen years!"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000016_000000.wav|I had been blue enough without this news.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000018_000002.wav|Two girls passing through the hall made a pretext of looking for a book and came in and exclaimed over their inability to find it with much suppressed giggling.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000053_000001.wav|She was with Pickering, and you noticed her,—spoke of her, as she went out."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000040_000001.wav|And now that the property belongs to you, there is not the slightest reason why we should make any pretense of anything but enmity. When you and Arthur Pickering stand together I take the other side of the barricade!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000039_000001.wav|I must say it to justify myself.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000035_000001.wav|I said tauntingly, laughing a little perhaps, and wishing to wound her, to take vengeance upon her.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000019_000005.wav|It was only a pretty bit of chirography, and I dropped the book impatiently when I heard her step on the threshold.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000033_000000.wav|"You are quite right.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000045_000001.wav|Yours is really an admirable, though somewhat complex character."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000060_000000.wav|The trilling of his r's was like the whirring rise of a flock of quails.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000029_000001.wav|I exclaimed, more angry than I had ever been before in my life.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000051_000000.wav|She left me so quickly, so softly, that I stood staring like a fool at the spot where she had been, and then I went gloomily back to Glenarm House, angry, ashamed and crestfallen.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000027_000000.wav|"I suppose you thought it unwise to wait for the bluebird when you had beguiled me into breaking a promise, when I was trapped, defeated,—"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000002_000000.wav|"Well, what of it?" I demanded, without turning round.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000058_000001.wav|I bawled.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000045_000000.wav|"Nobly spoken, mr Glenarm!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000039_000000.wav|"No;"—she smiled slightly—"I thought—I believe I have said this to you before!—you were a gentleman. I really did, mr Glenarm.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000046_000000.wav|"My character is my own, whatever it is," I blurted.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000042_000000.wav|"And I suppose, after the unsuccessful efforts of mr Pickering's allies to assassinate me, as a mild form of elimination, one would naturally expect me to sit calmly down and wait to be shot in the back.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000052_000000.wav|While we were waiting for dinner I made a clean breast of my acquaintance with her to Larry, omitting nothing,—rejoicing even to paint my own conduct as black as possible.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000043_000000.wav|"I quite sympathize with your reluctance to deliver it yourself," she said.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000018_000001.wav|I heard the sound of a piano, somewhere in the building, and I consigned the inventor of pianos to hideous torment as scales were pursued endlessly up and down the keys.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000012_000002.wav|And mr Pickering is going to stay—"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000013_000000.wav|"Pickering stay!"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000033_000002.wav|I was wearing black then; many things made me unhappy that night."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000001_000002.wav|I was feeling decidedly discouraged over our failure to make any progress with our investigations, and Bates' news did not interest me.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000058_000000.wav|"Stop!"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000049_000002.wav|She went on.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000016_000004.wav|She had led me to follow her, and my forfeiture had been sealed by that stolen interview at the Armstrongs'.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000019_000002.wav|I took a book from the table.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000003_000000.wav|"Nothing, sir; but Miss Devereux has come back!"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000011_000000.wav|"Who came; if you please, Bates?"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000043_000001.wav|"Is this all you came to say?"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000026_000001.wav|Her calmness was maddening.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000054_000001.wav|Bless me!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000050_000001.wav|mr Pickering is decidedly more than a match for you, mr Glenarm, —even in humor."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000056_000001.wav|I thundered at him.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000031_000001.wav|You were in black that night; it was the unhappiness in your face, in your eyes, that made me remember."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000040_000002.wav|I suppose chivalry would require me to vacate, so that you may enjoy at once the spoils of war."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45218/4595_45218_000031_000000.wav|"It was at Sherry's; you were with Pickering—you dropped your fan and he picked it up, and you turned toward me for a moment.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000042_000000.wav|"Where's Bates?" demanded the chaplain.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000024_000000.wav|Bah, these women!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000022_000003.wav|To think of it—that fellow, after my treatment of him—my cursing and abusing him since I came here!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000039_000001.wav|Stoddard turned from the fire suddenly:|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000035_000003.wav|Better let Bates raid the village shops to morrow.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000043_000000.wav|"I'll thank you for the answer,"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000040_000001.wav|There's some one up stairs!"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000014_000000.wav|He met my gaze imperturbably.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000047_000000.wav|I went directly to the rear of the house and found Bates putting the dishes away in the pantry.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000022_000000.wav|"Larry Donovan, I've been tempted to kill that fellow a dozen times!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000035_000004.wav|I've tried being hungry, and I don't care to repeat the experience."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000024_000002.wav|No wonder she had been anxious for me to avoid Pickering after daring me to follow her!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000057_000001.wav|The suggestion came, I believe, from Stoddard, whose interest in my affairs was only equaled by the fertility of his suggestions.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000024_000001.wav|My own heart caught the words. I was enraged and bitter.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000028_000002.wav|Amid the day's perplexities I started sometimes, thinking I heard her voice, her girlish laughter, or saw her again coming toward me down the stairs, or holding against the light her fan with its golden butterflies.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000005_000000.wav|"How did he find out?"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000059_000000.wav|It was a cheerful company of conspirators that now gathered around the big hearth.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000028_000001.wav|All the good impulses I had ever stifled were quickened to life by the thought of her.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000022_000001.wav|This thing is too damned complicated for me.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000029_000000.wav|"You don't intend fighting the fact of your absence, do you?" demanded Larry, after a long silence.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000011_000002.wav|"Close your accounts at the shopkeepers' and I will audit your bills on my arrival."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000030_000000.wav|"Of course not!" I replied quietly.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000037_000002.wav|I suppose there's no way of preventing a man from leaving his property to a young woman, who has no claim on him,—who doesn't want anything from him."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000025_000001.wav|I summoned Stoddard to our conference, feeling confident of his friendliness.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000023_000004.wav|And now we've got to go to work."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000018_000001.wav|You see—"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000035_000001.wav|And now we'd better stock up at once, in case we should be shut off from our source of supplies.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000030_000003.wav|They might nail me for perjury besides."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000028_000000.wav|She was always before me,—the charmed spirit of youth, linked to every foot of the earth, every gleam of the sun upon the ice bound lake, every glory of the winter sunset.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000056_000001.wav|Certain things were planned that night.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000036_000000.wav|And Larry reached for the tobacco jar.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000025_000000.wav|We called a council of war for that night that we might view matters in the light of Pickering's letter. His assuredness in ordering me to leave made prompt and decisive action necessary on my part.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000043_000001.wav|I replied.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000007_000004.wav|But perhaps it was Bates?"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000005_000002.wav|Had Marian Devereux told him!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000046_000000.wav|The noise ceased suddenly, leaving us with no hint of its whereabouts.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000052_000001.wav|"All it needed was a cheerful ghost, and now I believe it lacks absolutely nothing.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000054_000001.wav|"It's as still outside as a country graveyard."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000019_000000.wav|"But I don't see!"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000005_000003.wav|How else could he know?|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000028_000005.wav|The doubt that crept through my mind as to any possibility of connivance between her and Pickering was as vague and fleeting as the shadow of a swallow's wing on a sunny meadow.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000035_000000.wav|"Spoken like a man of spirit.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000057_000002.wav|One of us should remain abroad at night, ready to sound the alarm in case of attack.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000048_000000.wav|"Where have you been?"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000051_000000.wav|I joined the others in the library.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000044_000000.wav|Larry stood at the top of the staircase, holding a candle at arm's length in front of him, staring about.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000017_000000.wav|He was carrying away the coffee tray and his eyes wandered to the windows.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000037_000000.wav|"I can't imagine, I really can't believe," began the chaplain, "that Miss Devereux will want to be brought into this estate matter in any way.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000026_000000.wav|"Of course," said the broad shouldered chaplain, "if you could show that your absence was on business of very grave importance, the courts might construe in that you had not really violated the will."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000023_000000.wav|"As I have said before, you're rather lacking at times in perspicacity.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000053_000001.wav|Just now it's the wind in the tower probably; the wind plays queer pranks up there sometimes."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000059_000002.wav|He and Larry understood each other at once, and Larry's stories, ranging in subject from undergraduate experiences at Dublin to adventures in Africa and always including endless conflicts with the Irish constabulary, delighted the big boyish clergyman.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000053_000000.wav|"It's not on a schedule.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000007_000003.wav|Take that for your impertinence.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000010_000000.wav|"From Morgan, quite possibly.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000008_000001.wav|I was not in a mood for reflection or nice distinctions.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000057_000003.wav|Bates should take his turn with the rest—Stoddard insisted on it.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000009_000000.wav|"Bates, mr Pickering has learned that I was away from the house on the night of the attack, and I'm ordered off for having broken my agreement to stay here. How do you suppose he heard of it so promptly?"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000003_000002.wav|Very truly yours, Arthur Pickering, Executor of the Estate of john Marshall Glenarm.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000054_000000.wav|"You'll have to do better than that, Glenarm," said Stoddard.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000038_000000.wav|"Bah, these women!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000052_000002.wav|I'm increasingly glad I came.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000034_000000.wav|"So much the worse for the sheriff and the rest of them!" I declared.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000058_000000.wav|Within two days we were, as Larry expressed it, on a war footing.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000021_000000.wav|He left hurriedly, as though to escape from the consequences of his words, and when I came to myself Larry was gloomily invoking his strange Irish gods.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000052_000003.wav|How often does it walk?"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000027_000000.wav|Larry looked at the ceiling and blew rings of smoke languidly.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000012_000001.wav|Bates had failed to satisfy Pickering and was flung off like a smoked out cigar.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000059_000001.wav|Larry, always restless, preferred to stand at one side, an elbow on the mantel shelf, pipe in mouth; and Stoddard sought the biggest chair,—and filled it.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000027_000002.wav|On such a matter I knew I should get precious little sympathy from Larry, and I had, moreover, a feeling that I could not discuss Marian Devereux with any one; I even shrank from mentioning her name, though it rang like the call of bugles in my blood.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000022_000004.wav|Great Scott, man, I've been enjoying his bounty, I've been living on his money!|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000002_000000.wav|The next morning Bates placed a letter postmarked Cincinnati at my plate.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000058_000001.wav|We added a couple of shot guns and several revolvers to my own arsenal, and piled the library table with cartridge boxes.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000027_000001.wav|I had not disclosed to either of them the cause of my absence.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000011_000000.wav|He placed before me a note bearing the same date as my own.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000012_000000.wav|The tone was peremptory and contemptuous.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000052_000000.wav|"Why didn't you tell me this feudal imitation was haunted?" asked Larry, in a grieved tone.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000008_000002.wav|The man came in just then with a fresh plate of toast.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000005_000001.wav|I asked lamely, but my heart sank like lead.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000056_000002.wav|We determined to exercise every precaution to prevent a surprise from without, and we resolved upon a new and systematic sounding of walls and floors, taking our clue from the efforts made by Morgan and his ally to find hiding places by this process.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000048_000001.wav|I demanded.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000030_000002.wav|And it would not be square to my grandfather, —who never harmed a flea, may his soul rest in blessed peace!—to lie about it.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000038_000002.wav|Of course she'll take it."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000057_000000.wav|We resolved, too, upon a day patrol of the grounds and a night guard.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000006_000000.wav|"Probably from the stars,—the whole universe undoubtedly saw you skipping off to meet your lady love. Bah, these women!"|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000039_000000.wav|Then his eyes widened and met mine in a gaze that reflected the mystification and wonder that struck both of us.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000011_000001.wav|It was a sharp rebuke of Bates for his failure to report my absence, and he was ordered to prepare to leave on the first of February.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000023_000001.wav|Your intelligence is marred by large opaque spots.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000040_000000.wav|"What's that?|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000050_000000.wav|"Nothing."|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4595/45217/4595_45217_000056_000003.wav|Pickering would undoubtedly arrive shortly, and we wished to anticipate his movements as far as possible.|4595
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000011.wav|When they left the wharf they had taken on board all the stores they required, and more; they were happy and glorious.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000032_000002.wav|He whispered to his men, "I don't like to shoot at a gown; there may be a lubra in it, but I'll take the middle fellow in the shirt, and you take the other two, one to the right, the other to the left; when I say one, two, three, fire."|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000024_000000.wav|At last there was an echo of the closing words which seemed to come from a large gum tree beyond the tents, against which a ladder had been reared to the forks, used for the purpose of a look out by Captain Leebrace.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000001_000001.wav|It is the Isle of Blasted Hopes. Its enchanting landscape has allured many a landsman to his ruin, and its beacon, seen through the haze of a south-east gale, has guided many a watchful mariner to shipwreck and death.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000003.wav|The pigs ran wild, but multiplied.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000018_000001.wav|Their hopes and troubles had come to a sudden end.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000025_000004.wav|But first they examined their game critically, poking their fingers about him, pinching him in various parts of the body, stroking his broad nose and ample lips with evident admiration, and trying to pull out the curls on his woolly head.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000029_000002.wav|In a few minutes Captain Leebrace and the wreckers arrived at the camp, bringing with them Kennedy and his wife, who had recovered their senses, and were able to tell what had happened.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000016_000000.wav|"I am thinking, Flora," he said, "that this would be a grand island to live on-far better than Skye, because it has no rocks on it.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000031_000001.wav|He went up the ladder to the forks of the gum tree with his telescope, and soon obtained a view of the retreating thieves, appearing occasionally and disappearing among the long grass and timber; and after observing the course they were taking he came down the ladder.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000004_000000.wav|At daybreak a boy, the son of Ratcliff, the signal man, started out to look for his goats, and as they sometimes passed the night in the old fowlhouse, he looked in for them.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000008.wav|He heard the men in the water shouting to one another, "Make for the light." That course led them away from the nearest land, which they could not see.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000012.wav|He found an old hut without a door.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000007_000000.wav|There was a fair wind and a smooth sea when the 'Clonmel' went ashore at three o'clock in the morning of the second day of January, eighteen forty one. Eighteen hours before she had taken a fresh departure from Ram's Head to Wilson's Promontory.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000013_000002.wav|The work of taking out the cargo was continued under various captains for six years, and then mr Grose lost a schooner and was himself landed in the Court of Insolvency.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000010.wav|When he recovered his senses he began to look for shelter; there was a signal station not far off, but he could not see it.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000000.wav|After the discovery of Gippsland, Pearson and Black first occupied the island under a grazing license, and they put eleven thousand sheep on it, with some horses, bullocks, and pigs.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000048_000002.wav|The night wind sighed a soothing lullaby through the spines of the she oak, and his spirit passed peacefully away with the ebb.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000006.wav|Campbell, like a skilful general, ordered his men to pursue at once the flying foe, in order to reap to the full the fruits of victory, and they ran across the open ground to deliver a volley; but on arriving at the scrub no foe was to be seen, either dead or alive.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000015_000003.wav|She stood with her hands on her hips, pensively contemplating the garments.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000039_000002.wav|The twelve canoes, the spoils of victory, were of little value; they were placed on the camp fire one after another, and reduced to ashes.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000007_000002.wav|The seventy five passengers and crew were safely landed; sails, lumber, and provisions were taken ashore in the whaleboats and quarter boats; tents were erected; the food supplies were stowed away under a capsized boat, and a guard set over them by Captain Tollervey.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000029_000001.wav|But there was a sound of voices from the waterhole, and they quickly gathered together their stolen goods and disappeared.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000042_000002.wav|Before that terrible journey over the mountains he had been the life and soul of the Port.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000032_000000.wav|Three of the blacks were wearing the stolen shirts, a fourth had put on the lilac dress, and they were strutting around to display their brave apparel just like white folks.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000048_000001.wav|It was high tide, and there was a gentle swish of long low waves lapping the sandy beach.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000037_000000.wav|He went into his store to get the charge ready.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000005.wav|Then there was a moment of complete silence.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000019_000001.wav|The tents occupied by the wreckers had been enclosed in a thick hedge of scrub to protect them from the drifting sand.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000006_000001.wav|The signal for a wreck was hoisted at the flagstaff, but when the signallman went to look for a wreck he could not find one. He searched along the shore and found the dead body of the captain, and a piece of splintered spar seven or eight feet long, on which the cabin boy had come ashore.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000025_000001.wav|The echo was repeated, and then he wheeled about in real earnest, transfixed with horror, unable to move a limb.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000008.wav|But by this time a lighthouse had been erected, and Watts the keeper of it had a boat, and was, moreover, fond of liquor.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000019_000002.wav|There was only one opening in the hedge, through which the blacks could see Sambo cooking the wreckers' dinner before a fire.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000031_000003.wav|During the pursuit the captain every now and then, from behind a tree, searched for the enemy with his telescope, until at last he could see that they had halted, and had joined a number of their tribe.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000008_000002.wav|They then pulled for the mainland, and reached Sealer's Cove about midnight, where they landed, cooked supper, and passed the rest of the night in the boat for fear of the blacks.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000037_000001.wav|He tied some powder tightly in a piece of calico and rammed it home.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000005.wav|There were nine men in the water, while the cabin boy stood shivering on deck.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000002.wav|The cabin boy was standing on deck near the captain, when he held a consultation with his mate, who was also his son.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000044_000000.wav|But by degrees the musician grew weary, and began to play odds and ends of old tunes, sacred and profane.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000039_000000.wav|Two victories had been gained by the pioneers, and it was felt that they deserved some commemoration.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000002.wav|They were of the opinion that they had made an excellent bargain, but when the muster was made nine thousand six hundred of the sheep were missing.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000035_000000.wav|The men who had guns-Campbell, Shay, and Davy-fetched them out of their huts and stood ready to receive the enemy; even McClure, although very weak, left his bed and came outside to assist in the fight.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000010_000003.wav|At two o'clock p.m. they were abreast of Port Philip Heads; but they found a strong ebb tide, with such a ripple and broken water that they did not consider it prudent to run over it.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000015_000005.wav|It is, I believe, a thing that often happens.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000008_000000.wav|Next morning seven volunteers launched one of the whaleboats, boarded the steamer, took in provisions, made a lug out of a piece of canvas, hoisted the Union Jack to the mainmast upside down, and pulled safely away from the 'Clonmel' against a head wind.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000026_000000.wav|Sambo was usually proud of his personal appearance, but just now fear prevented him from enjoying the applause of the strangers.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000011_000000.wav|Captain Lewis, the harbour master, went to rescue the crew and passengers and brought them all to Melbourne, together with the mails, which had been landed on the island since known by the name of the 'Clonmel'.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000006.wav|He placed his brother in charge of it, to be out of the way of temptation, as he was too fond of liquor.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000004.wav|The seamen stripped off their heavy clothing, and went overboard; the captain and his son plunged in together and swam out of sight.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000001.wav|The sheep began to die, so they sold them to Captain Cole at ten shillings a head, giving in the other stock.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000012_000000.wav|For fifty two years the black boilers of the 'Clonmel' have lain half buried in the sandspit, and they may still be seen among the breakers from the deck of every vessel sailing up the channel to Port Albert.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000015_000001.wav|Her husband had left the camp with his gun in the hope of shooting some wattle birds, which were then fat with feeding on the sweet blossoms of the honeysuckle.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000042_000001.wav|He said to kindly enquirers that he felt quite well, and would soon regain his strength.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000042_000003.wav|He could play on the violin, on the bagpipes-both Scotch and Irish-and he was always so pleasant and cheerful, looking as innocent as a child, that no one could be long dispirited in his company, and the most impatient growler became ashamed of himself.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000008_000001.wav|They hoisted the lug and ran for one of the Seal Islands, where they found a snug little cove, ate a hearty meal, and rested for three hours.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000013.wav|There was no one in it; he went inside, and lay down shivering.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000005.wav|Morrison next occupied the island until he was starved out. Then another man named Thomas took the fatal grazing license, but he did not live on the land.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000013.wav|The Isle of Blasted Hopes was useless even as an asylum for inebriates.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000012.wav|Next day the masthead of their boat was seen sticking out of the water near Sunday Island. The pilot schooner went down and hauled the boat to the surface, but nothing was found in her except the sand ballast and a bottle of rum. Her sheet was made fast, and when the squall struck her she had gone down like a stone.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000031_000002.wav|He selected two of his most trustworthy men, and armed them and himself with double barrelled guns, one barrel being smooth bore and the other rifled, weapons suitable for game both large and small.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000031_000000.wav|Captain Leebrace soon resolved on a course of reprisals.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000007.wav|The elevation of the artillery had been too great, and the missiles had passed overhead; but the result was all that could be hoped for, for two months afterwards not a single native was visible.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000010_000001.wav|At eight o'clock in the evening they brought up in a small bay at the eastern extremity of Western Port, glad to get ashore and stretch their weary limbs.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000001.wav|The time was midnight, the sky was misty, and the gale was from the south-east, when the watch reported a light ahead.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000000.wav|He then thrust a wooden skewer down the touch hole into the powder bag below, primed and directed the piece towards the scrub, giving it, as he judged, sufficient elevation to send the charge among the thickest of the foe.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000000_000000.wav|THE ISLE OF BLASTED HOPES.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000048_000003.wav|He was the first man who died at the Old Port, and he was buried on the bank of the river where Friday first saw its waters flowing towards the mountain.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000010.wav|The last time they sailed together the barometer was low, and a gale was brewing.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000004_000002.wav|"Who are you?" he said, "and what are you doing here, and where did you come from?"|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000000.wav|The 'Ecliptic' was carrying coals from Newcastle.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000007.wav|The brother was not allowed the use of a boat; he, with his wife and family, was virtually a prisoner, condemned to sobriety.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000035_000003.wav|None, however, but the very bravest ventured far into the cleared space, and they showed no disposition to make a rush or anything like a concerted attack.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000040_000001.wav|They dipped pannikins of tea out of the iron pot.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000011.wav|He went away from the pitiless sea through an opening between low conical hills, covered with dark scrub, over a pathway composed of drift sand and broken shells.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000003.wav|Every man was watching the scrub to see the effect of the discharge.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000006_000002.wav|The 'Ecliptic', with her cargo and crew, had completely disappeared, while the signalman, near at hand, slept peacefully, undisturbed by her crashing timbers, or the shouts of the drowning seamen.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000007_000001.wav|The anchors were let go, she swung to wind, and at the fall of the tide she bedded herself securely in the sand, her hull, machinery, and cargo uninjured.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000006_000003.wav|Ratcliff was not a seer, and had no mystical lore. He was a runaway sailor, who had, in the forties, travelled daily over the Egerton run, unconscious of the tons of gold beneath his feet.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000015_000000.wav|One morning the wreckers had gone to the wreck; a man named Kennedy was left in charge of the camp; Sambo, the black cook, was attending to his duties at the fire; and mrs Kennedy, the only lady of the party, was at the water hole washing clothes.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000013_000001.wav|He sent a party of wreckers who pitched their camps on Snake Island, where they had plenty of grass, scrub, and timber.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000003.wav|Father and son agreed; they said the light ahead was the one on Kent's Group, and then the vessel grounded amongst the breakers.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000005_000000.wav|"I have been shipwrecked," replied the cabin boy; and then he sat up and began to cry.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000002.wav|He then selected a long piece of bark, which he lighted at the fire, and, standing behind an angle of the building, he applied the light to the touch hole.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000010_000002.wav|After a night's refreshing repose on the sandy beach, they started at break of day, sailing along very fast with a strong and steady breeze from the east, although they were in danger of being swamped, as the sea broke over the boat repeatedly.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000042_000000.wav|McClure was dying of consumption as everybody knew but himself; he could not believe that he had come so far from home only to die, and he joined the revellers at the camp fire.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000035_000002.wav|They were not in hundreds, as the boys imagined, their number apparently not exceeding forty; but it was evident that they were threatening death and destruction to the invaders of their territory.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000009.wav|The two men soon became firm friends, and often found it necessary to make voyages to Port Albert for flour, or tea, or sugar.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000048_000000.wav|He went into his tent.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000013_000000.wav|The 'Clonmel', with her valuable cargo, was sold in Sydney, and the purchaser, mr Grose, set about the business of making his fortune out of her.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000021_000001.wav|It was first heard with tremendous applause in New Orleans, it was received with enthusiasm by every audience in the Great Republic, and it had been the delight of every theatre in the British Empire.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000006_000000.wav|Young Ratcliff ran off to tell his father what he had found; and the boy was brought to the cottage, put to bed, and supplied with food and drink.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000028_000000.wav|The blacks seemed to understand his meaning, and they began to inspect the dinner; so instead of taking the food like sensible men, they upset all the pots with their waddies, and scattered the beef, pork, plum duff and potatoes, so that they were covered with sand and completely spoiled.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000002_000004.wav|When the last sheep had perished, Cole sold his license to a man named Thomas, who put on more sheep, and afterwards exchanged as many as he could find with john King for cattle and horses.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000004_000001.wav|But instead of the goats, he saw the naked cabin boy.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000007.wav|He could not make up his mind to jump overboard.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000038_000004.wav|There was a fearful explosion, succeeded by shrieks of horror and fear from the blacks, as the ball and nails and broken glass went whistling over their heads through the trees.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000020_000000.wav|The hearing of the Australian aboriginal is acute, and his talent for mimicry astonishing; he can imitate the notes of every bird and the call of every animal with perfect accuracy.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000041_000000.wav|When Burke and Wills were starving at Cooper's Creek on a diet of nardoo, the latter recorded in his diary that what the food wanted was sugar; he believed that nardoo and sugar would keep him alive. The pioneers at the Old Port were convinced that their great want was fat; with that their supper would have been perfect.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000003_000009.wav|At length a great sea swept the boy among the breakers, but his good angel pushed a piece of timber within reach, and he held on to it until he could feel the ground with his feet; he then let the timber go, and scrambled out of reach of the angry surge; but when he came to the dry sand he fainted and fell down.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000025_000002.wav|The blacks were close to him now, but even their colour could not restore his courage.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4860/13185/4860_13185_000027_000000.wav|At length he recovered his presence of mind sufficiently to make an effort to avert his impending doom.|4860
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000117_000003.wav|I have now to put it behind me, and be truthful for evermore, if I can.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000059_000000.wav|'Ah!|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000085_000000.wav|mr Bell's whole manner changed.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000053_000003.wav|I must go and see her; would you mind calling at the school?'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000072_000001.wav|Who's there!|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000104_000002.wav|I was puzzled at the time.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000024_000001.wav|That is, if you don't walk so fast.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000128_000003.wav|It is very good and kind of them; but indeed I could not go.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000056_000003.wav|She knew at once it was the present Vicar's wife, her mother's successor; and she would have drawn back from the interview had it been possible; but in an instant she had conquered this feeling, and modestly advanced, meeting many a bright glance of recognition, and hearing many a half suppressed murmur of 'It's Miss Hale.' The Vicar's lady heard the name, and her manner at once became more kindly.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000122_000006.wav|But I should pine after my kind; no, not my kind, for love for my species could never fill my heart to the utter exclusion of love for individuals.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000113_000001.wav|Still, somehow one does not like to have sunk so low in-in a friend's opinion as I have done in his.' Her eyes were full of tears, but her voice was steady, and mr Bell was not looking at her.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000031_000000.wav|'I am in good hopes.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000023_000000.wav|'My little Susan was disappointed when I left without wishing her goodbye; and it has been on my conscience ever since, that I gave her pain which a little more exertion on my part might have prevented.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000099_000001.wav|Did you ever tell him the strong, instinctive motive?'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000018_000000.wav|Here and there old trees had been felled the autumn before; or a squatter's roughly built and decaying cottage had disappeared.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000024_000003.wav|You would think it romantic to be walking with a person "fat and scant o' breath" if I were Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000127_000002.wav|I thought you would not want to go.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000065_000003.wav|Still she was glad to have seen them all again, though a tinge of sadness mixed itself with her pleasure.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000059_000003.wav|First class stand up for a parsing lesson with Miss Hale.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000131_000001.wav|Oh, Helstone!|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000122_000002.wav|I am so tired-so tired of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000109_000001.wav|I know it now.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000064_000000.wav|'An adjective absolute,' said half a dozen voices at once.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000091_000000.wav|'Then he did not die directly?'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000024_000002.wav|You see, here there are no views that can give one an excuse for stopping to take breath.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000125_000001.wav|Now I've got a little piece of news for you.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000025_000001.wav|I like you twenty times better than Hamlet.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000034_000000.wav|They reached the cottage where Susan's widowed mother lived.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000117_000000.wav|'What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000128_000002.wav|Let us start at twelve.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000028_000000.wav|'I am content to take your liking me, without examining too curiously into the materials it is made of.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000119_000002.wav|Her thoughts ran upon the idea, before entertained, but which now had assumed the strength of a conviction, that mr Thornton no longer held his former good opinion of her-that he was disappointed in her.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000044_000000.wav|'I don't know.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000121_000002.wav|She had twenty questions on the tip of her tongue to ask mr Bell, but not one of them did she utter.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000003.wav|The tainting blood of falsehood runs through us all.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000130_000002.wav|But as she returned across the common, the place was reinvested with the old enchanting atmosphere.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000078_000001.wav|I hadn't heard of it before.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000072_000002.wav|Where are we?|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000070_000000.wav|'Don't scold, Margaret.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000111_000000.wav|'I am not likely ever to see mr Thornton again,'--and there she stopped.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000075_000000.wav|Margaret was silent for some time.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000020_000002.wav|The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000066_000000.wav|The parsonage was so altered, both inside and out, that the real pain was less than she had anticipated.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000093_000002.wav|You forgot yourself in thought for another.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000069_000007.wav|But no! she took it all literally, and with such good faith, that Margaret could not help remonstrating with him as they walked slowly away from the parsonage back to their inn.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000078_000000.wav|'I recollect.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000006.wav|Nay, now we'll not talk of it, if it ends in this way.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000035_000000.wav|'Oh! it is quite right,' said Margaret. 'I am very glad to hear it.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000010_000004.wav|You don't remember me I see, but my name is Bell, and once or twice when the parsonage has been full, I've slept here, and tasted your good ale.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000030_000002.wav|What do you think?'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000071_000004.wav|A great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000110_000001.wav|Margaret was the first to speak.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000121_000001.wav|But it was a truism, a phantom, and broke down under the weight of her regret.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000016_000000.wav|'Shall we go past the vicarage?' asked mr Bell.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000018_000002.wav|They came past the spot where she and mr Lennox had sketched.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000009_000002.wav|But never a word of the Vicar's being ailing!'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000013_000000.wav|The little casement window in Margaret's bed chamber was almost filled up with rose and vine branches; but pushing them aside, and stretching a little out, she could see the tops of the parsonage chimneys above the trees; and distinguish many a well-known line through the leaves.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000092_000004.wav|I knew nothing about it.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000038_000001.wav|So she turned to her and asked,|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000038_000000.wav|Margaret did not want to encourage him to go on by replying to him, and so prolonging the discussion before the mother.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000005.wav|What! crying, child?|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000048_000000.wav|'Roasted it!' explained the woman.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000083_000000.wav|Margaret wiped her eyes, and tried to talk about something else, but suddenly she burst out afresh.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000057_000001.wav|I see it by the likeness.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000034_000002.wav|She was gone to the parochial school.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000041_000000.wav|'Why not?' asked Margaret, who had formerly been the peacemaker of the village.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000125_000002.wav|What do you think of an invitation to dinner?|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000046_000000.wav|'No! for she'd burnt it.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000089_000000.wav|'How awkward.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000101_000001.wav|But he always speaks of you with regard and esteem, though now I understand certain reservations in his manner.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000088_000000.wav|'Yes; and then at the station a man came up-tipsy and reeling-and he tried to collar Fred, and over balanced himself as Fred wrenched himself away, and fell over the edge of the platform; not far, not deep; not above three feet; but oh!|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000004_000000.wav|Margaret was ready long before the appointed time, and had leisure enough to cry a little, quietly, when unobserved, and to smile brightly when any one looked at her.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000024_000004.wav|Have compassion on my infirmities for his sake.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000067_000002.wav|How did you manage, Miss Hale, without a nursery?'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000122_000001.wav|"From everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God." That sky above me looks as though it could not change, and yet it will.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000118_000001.wav|If you like to be uncomfortable and morbid, be so.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000097_000000.wav|'Well! he would know nothing of this riot about the drunken fellow's death.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000018_000004.wav|There was a small garden on the place where the beech tree had been.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000055_000000.wav|They did not speak much more, but thridded their way through many a bosky dell, whose soft green influence could not charm away the shock and the pain in Margaret's heart, caused by the recital of such cruelty; a recital too, the manner of which betrayed such utter want of imagination, and therefore of any sympathy with the suffering animal.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000056_000004.wav|Margaret wished she could have helped feeling that it also became more patronising.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000002_000000.wav|'So on those happy days of yore Oft as I dare to dwell once more, Still must I miss the friends so tried, Whom Death has severed from my side.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000122_000000.wav|'I begin to understand now what heaven must be-and, oh! the grandeur and repose of the words-"The same yesterday, to day, and for ever." Everlasting!|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000012_000000.wav|'Come down to me, mrs Purkis, after you have attended to Miss Hale.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000000.wav|'True, that was bad I own; not but what I have told a pretty round number in my life, not all in downright words, as I suppose you did, but in actions, or in some shabby circumlocutory way, leading people either to disbelieve the truth, or believe a falsehood.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000110_000000.wav|There was a long pause of silence.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000079_000000.wav|'And I thought-I always thought that papa had told you about it.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000125_000000.wav|'Ah, Missy! you were up late last night, and so you're late this morning.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000012_000001.wav|I want to have a consultation with you about dinner.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000011_000004.wav|Well, to be sure, we must all die; only that gentleman said, he was quite picking up after his trouble about mrs Hale's death.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000124_000003.wav|I must not think so much of how circumstances affect me myself, but how they affect others, if I wish to have a right judgment, or a hopeful trustful heart.' And with a smile ready in her eyes to quiver down to her lips, she went into the parlour and greeted mr Bell.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000000.wav|'The instinctive want of faith, and clutching at a sin to keep myself from sinking,' said she bitterly.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000085_000001.wav|'Tell me all about it, child,' said he.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000102_000000.wav|Margaret did not speak; did not attend to what mr Bell went on to say; lost all sense of it.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000118_000000.wav|'Very well.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000130_000001.wav|She would not take a flower the day before, for fear of being observed, and her motives and feelings commented upon.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000015_000000.wav|mr Bell had strawberries and cream, a loaf of brown bread, and a jug of milk, (together with a Stilton cheese and a bottle of port for his own private refreshment,) ready for Margaret on her coming down stairs; and after this rustic luncheon they set out to walk, hardly knowing in what direction to turn, so many old familiar inducements were there in each.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000127_000001.wav|I know; so I told him.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000023_000002.wav|Are you sure you will not be tired?'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000037_000002.wav|But I should say, that the child was getting a better and simpler, and more natural education stopping at home, and helping her mother, and learning to read a chapter in the New Testament every night by her side, than from all the schooling under the sun'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000076_000000.wav|'Last night.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000097_000001.wav|I suppose the inquiry never came to anything.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000080_000001.wav|But what about it, Margaret?'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000071_000001.wav|There was change everywhere; slight, yet pervading all.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000127_000003.wav|Still it is open, if you would like it.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000035_000002.wav|Only she used to stop at home with you.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000011_000003.wav|To think of the Vicar being dead!|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000069_000005.wav|The whole family were quick, brisk, loud talking, kind hearted, and not troubled with much delicacy of perception.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000028_000001.wav|Only we need not walk at a snail's' pace.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000053_000001.wav|I remember.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000069_000000.wav|'Seven.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000004_000004.wav|Later on in the year, this line of railway should be stirring and alive with rich pleasure seekers; but as to the constant going to and fro of busy trades people it would always be widely different from the northern lines.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000022_000000.wav|'With all my heart, though I have not an idea who little Susan may be. But I have a kindness for all Susans, for simple Susan's sake.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000056_000001.wav|The door was wide open, and they entered.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000065_000000.wav|Margaret spoke no more during the lesson.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000002.wav|Well! a great number of folk, thinking themselves very good, have odd sorts of connexion with lies, left hand marriages, and second cousins once removed.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000094_000002.wav|At that very time Fred was safely out of England, and in my blindness I forgot that there was another witness who could testify to my being there.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000007_000001.wav|How's the Vicar and Miss Dixon?|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000120_000000.wav|'To turn and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000068_000000.wav|'We were but two,' said Margaret.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000005_000000.wav|mr Bell knew something of what would be passing through her mind, and wisely and kindly held his tongue.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000122_000007.wav|Perhaps it ought to be so, perhaps not; I cannot decide to night.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000003.wav|He knew nothing of Frederick.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000033_000001.wav|But she would rather have gone over these dear loved walks in silence, if indeed she were not ungrateful enough to wish that she might have been alone.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000054_000001.wav|I am curious to see something of the teaching she is to receive.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000121_000004.wav|A sense of change, of individual nothingness, of perplexity and disappointment, over powered Margaret. Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all pervading instability, had given her greater pain than if all had been too entirely changed for her to recognise it.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000009.wav|I did bear it.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000052_000001.wav|Anything rather than have that child brought up in such practical paganism.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000029_000001.wav|Walk at your own pace, and I will follow.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000094_000001.wav|It was wrong, disobedient, faithless.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000106_000000.wav|'True.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000076_000001.wav|Where was I? Oh, I remember!|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000051_000000.wav|'How?|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000053_000002.wav|Poor little Susan!|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000075_000003.wav|Then she sighed, and putting down her spoon, she began, apropos of nothing at all, and in the high pitched voice which usually shows that the speaker has been thinking for some time on the subject that they wish to introduce-'mr|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000104_000001.wav|Like an old fool, I thought that every one would have the same opinions as I had; and he evidently could not agree with me.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000121_000000.wav|She kept choking and swallowing all the time that she thought about it. She tried to comfort herself with the idea, that what he imagined her to be, did not alter the fact of what she was.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000014_000005.wav|But I must go, miss, though I'm wanting to hear many a thing; I'll come back to you before long.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000096_000002.wav|You know he had seen me close to the station; we had bowed to each other.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000029_000000.wav|'Very well.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000093_000000.wav|'I say it was right.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000050_000000.wav|'You are a good girl not to triumph over me,' said mr Bell.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000122_000005.wav|If I were a Roman Catholic and could deaden my heart, stun it with some great blow, I might become a nun.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000027_000000.wav|'Perhaps so.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000071_000005.wav|She sate by the window on the little settle, sadly gazing out upon the gathering shades of night, which harmonised well with her pensive thought.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000001.wav|You know who is the father of lies, Margaret?|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000117_000002.wav|It is done-my sin is sinned.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000004_000009.wav|And now sharper feelings came shooting through her heart, whether pain or pleasure she could hardly tell.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000059_000002.wav|I know it by myself.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000011_000001.wav|Let me show you to a room, Miss Margaret, where you can take off your bonnet, and wash your face.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000053_000000.wav|'Oh!|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000062_000000.wav|'A, an indefinite article,' said Margaret, mildly.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000049_000002.wav|The poor woman evidently believed in its efficacy; her only feeling was indignation that her cat had been chosen out from all others for a sacrifice.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000114_000000.wav|'Certainly.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000004_000014.wav|Nature felt no change, and was ever young.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000082_000004.wav|I should have guessed you as far from it as most people.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000024_000000.wav|'Quite sure.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000127_000000.wav|'Yes!|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000018_000003.wav|The white, lightning scarred trunk of the venerable beech, among whose roots they had sate down was there no more; the old man, the inhabitant of the ruinous cottage, was dead; the cottage had been pulled down, and a new one, tidy and respectable, had been built in its stead.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000040_000001.wav|'We'se not friends.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000003_000000.wav|But ever when true friendship binds, Spirit it is that spirit finds; In spirit then our bliss we found, In spirit yet to them I'm bound.' UHLAND.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000004_000011.wav|The last time she had passed along this road was when she had left it with her father and mother-the day, the season, had been gloomy, and she herself hopeless, but they were there with her.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000098_000000.wav|'No! the proceedings they had begun to talk about on the inquest were stopped.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000052_000000.wav|'I own, I am wrong about schooling.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000125_000004.wav|Why, I've had the Vicar here already, on his way to the school. How much the desire of giving our hostess a teetotal lecture for the benefit of the haymakers, had to do with his earliness, I don't know; but here he was, when I came down just before nine; and we are asked to dine there to day.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000107_000001.wav|I never thought of anything of that kind,' said Margaret, reddening, and looking hurt and offended.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000118_000003.wav|So I coax it down again, as the fisherman coaxed the genie.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000092_000001.wav|And then-oh, mr Bell! now comes the bad part,' said she, nervously twining her fingers together.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000006_000002.wav|'Come here, come directly, it's Miss Hale!' And then she went up to Margaret, and shook her hands with motherly fondness.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000008.wav|I could bear the shame-I thought I could at least.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000126_000000.wav|'But Edith expects me back-I cannot go,' said Margaret, thankful to have so good an excuse.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000070_000003.wav|But if you must go on preaching, keep it till after dinner, when it will send me to sleep, and help my digestion.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000118_000002.wav|I always keep my conscience as tight shut up as a jack in a box, for when it jumps into existence it surprises me by its size.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000116_000000.wav|'Which I don't blame you for.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000072_000003.wav|Who's that,--Margaret?|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000067_000000.wav|'Ah!' said mrs Hepworth, 'you must excuse this untidiness, Miss Hale. When the nursery is finished, I shall insist upon a little order.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000114_000001.wav|I think he ought to know.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000099_000000.wav|'Did you have any explanation with him?|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000036_000002.wav|It were not much to be sure.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000039_000000.wav|'How is old Betty Barnes?'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000017_000001.wav|We will go this way, and make a round so as to come back by it,' replied Margaret.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000010.wav|mr Thornton has never respected me since.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000098_000001.wav|mr Thornton did know all about it.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000112_000000.wav|'There are many things more unlikely, I should say,' replied mr Bell.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000004_000006.wav|The hot air danced over the golden stillness of the land, farm after farm was left behind, each reminding Margaret of German Idyls-of Herman and Dorothea-of Evangeline.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000074_000002.wav|Shut the window, and come in and make tea.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000105_000000.wav|'But it was my brother!' said Margaret, surprised.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000049_000003.wav|Margaret listened in horror; and endeavoured in vain to enlighten the woman's mind; but she was obliged to give it up in despair.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000008_000000.wav|Margaret tried to speak and tell her of her father's death; of her mother's it was evident that mrs Purkis was aware, from her omission of her name.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000031_000001.wav|She used to be considered a famous cook as far as Helstone opinion went.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000087_000000.wav|'And he saw Frederick of course,' said mr Bell, helping her on with her story, as he thought.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000042_000000.wav|'She stole my cat.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000071_000002.wav|Households were changed by absence, or death, or marriage, or the natural mutations brought by days and months and years, which carry us on imperceptibly from childhood to youth, and thence through manhood to age, whence we drop like fruit, fully ripe, into the quiet mother earth.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000070_000002.wav|If she had not shown you every change with such evident exultation in their superior sense, in perceiving what an improvement this and that would be, I could have behaved well.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000006.wav|You see, papa never told, even you.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000020_000000.wav|'Yes!' said mr Bell. 'It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young, afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000006_000000.wav|'Why, bless me!' exclaimed she, as at the end of her apology, a glint of sunlight showed her Margaret's face, hitherto unobserved in that shady parlour.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000077_000000.wav|'Yes-and do you not remember that mr Lennox spoke about his having been in England about the time of dear mamma's death?' asked Margaret, her voice now lower than usual.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000017_000000.wav|'No, not yet.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000002.wav|How could I?|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000007_000003.wav|God bless him!|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000109_000002.wav|I bitterly repent it.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000019_000000.wav|'I did not think I had been so old,' said Margaret after a pause of silence; and she turned away sighing.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000118_000004.wav|"Wonderful," say I, "to think that you have been concealed so long, and in so small a compass, that I really did not know of your existence.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000029_000002.wav|Or stop still and meditate, like the Hamlet you compare yourself to, if I go too fast.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000098_000002.wav|He was a magistrate, and he found out that it was not the fall that had caused the death.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000106_000001.wav|But how was he to know that?'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000130_000000.wav|Before they left Margaret stole round to the back of the Vicarage garden, and gathered a little straggling piece of honeysuckle.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000096_000001.wav|Thornton.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000081_000001.wav|'I told a lie;' and her face became scarlet.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000100_000005.wav|Fred's last words had been to enjoin me to keep his visit a secret from all.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000058_000000.wav|Margaret explained that it was not her father, and stammered out the fact of his death; wondering all the time how mr Hale could have borne coming to revisit Helstone, if it had been as the Vicar's lady supposed. She did not hear what mrs Hepworth was saying, and left it to mr Bell to reply, looking round, meanwhile, for her old acquaintances.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000109_000000.wav|'It was not.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000104_000003.wav|But he must be perplexed, if the affair has never been in the least explained.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000088_000001.wav|mr Bell, somehow that fall killed him!'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000098_000004.wav|Oh, mr Bell!' She suddenly covered her face with her hands, as if wishing to hide herself from the presence of the recollection.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000092_000005.wav|I had no conscience or thought but to save Frederick.'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000010_000002.wav|Come Margaret, my dear!|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000104_000004.wav|There was first your walking out with a young man in the dark-'|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000128_000001.wav|'Let us keep to our plan.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000124_000001.wav|'If the world stood still, it would retrograde and become corrupt, if that is not Irish.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000113_000002.wav|'And now that Frederick has given up all hope, and almost all wish of ever clearing himself, and returning to England, it would be only doing myself justice to have all this explained.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000076_000002.wav|Why it seems a week ago.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000011_000000.wav|'To be sure; I ask your pardon; but you see I was taken up with Miss Hale.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000036_000000.wav|'Yes, she did; and I miss her sadly.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1731/142320/1731_142320_000084_000000.wav|'Please, mr Bell, let me tell you about it-you could perhaps help me a little; no, not help me, but if you knew the truth, perhaps you could put me to rights-that is not it, after all,' said she, in despair at not being able to express herself more exactly as she wished.|1731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000026_000004.wav|The brother having long laboured under this malady, when no human means availed to save his eye, but rather, it grew daily worse, on a sudden, through the grace of the mercy of God, it came to pass that he was cured by the relics of the holy father, Cuthbert.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000010_000004.wav|He also desired that instruments for husbandry might be brought him, and some wheat; but having prepared the ground and sown the wheat at the proper season, no sign of a blade, not to speak of ears, had sprouted from it by the summer.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000027_000002.wav|The priest, having given his friend as much as he thought fit, gave the rest to the youth to put back into its place.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000005_000000.wav|Chap. twenty seven.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000019_000001.wav|They thought to find them dry and all the rest of the body consumed and turned to dust, after the manner of the dead, and they desired to put them into a new coffin, and to lay them in the same place, but above the pavement, for the honour due to him.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000009_000001.wav|How the same saint Cuthbert, living the life of an Anchorite, by his prayers obtained a spring in a dry soil, and had a crop from seed sown by the labour of his hands out of season.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000023_000004.wav|Then he awoke, and rose up in perfect health, and returning thanks to the Lord for his recovery, told the brothers what had been done for him; and to the joy of them all, returned the more zealously, as if chastened by the trial of his affliction, to the service which he was wont before to perform with care.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000021_000001.wav|Of one that was cured of a palsy at his tomb.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000012_000000.wav|Following the example of the blessed Apostles, he adorned the episcopal dignity by his virtuous deeds; for he both protected the people committed to his charge by constant prayer, and roused them, by wholesome admonitions, to thoughts of Heaven.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000027_000000.wav|One of the priests of the monastery, named Thruidred, who is now abbot there, had a small part of these relics by him at that time.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000007_000000.wav|After he had departed to the Lord, Cuthbert became provost of that monastery, where he instructed many in the rule of monastic life, both by the authority of a master, and the example of his own behaviour.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000002_000001.wav|But the islanders, while to the utmost of their power they repelled force with force, implored the assistance of the Divine mercy, and with constant imprecations invoked the vengeance of Heaven; and though such as curse cannot inherit the kingdom of God, yet it was believed, that those who were justly cursed on account of their impiety, soon suffered the penalty of their guilt at the avenging hand of God.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000023_000002.wav|As he prayed, he seemed to fall into a deep sleep, and, as he was afterwards wont to relate, felt a large and broad hand touch his head, where the pain lay, and likewise pass over all that part of his body which had been benumbed by the disease, down to his feet.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000025_000001.wav|Of one who was lately cured of a disease in his eye at the relics of saint Cuthbert.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000022_000002.wav|When he got up, he felt one half of his body, from the head to the foot, struck with palsy, and with great trouble made his way home by the help of a staff.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000012_000001.wav|He first showed in his own life what he taught others to do, a practice which greatly strengthens all teaching; for he was above all things inflamed with the fire of Divine charity, of sober mind and patient, most diligently intent on devout prayers, and kindly to all that came to him for comfort.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000015_000003.wav|Whilst they alternately entertained one another with draughts of the celestial life, the bishop, among other things, said, "Brother Herebert, remember at this time to ask me and speak to me concerning all whereof you have need to ask and speak; for, when we part, we shall never again see one another with bodily eyesight in this world.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000006_000003.wav|Cuthbert, humbly submitting himself to this man's direction, from him received both a knowledge of the Scriptures, and an example of good works.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000012_000003.wav|And when he offered up to God the Sacrifice of the saving Victim, he commended his prayer to the Lord, not with uplifted voice, but with tears drawn from the bottom of his heart.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000010_000002.wav|When, after expelling the enemy, he had, with the help of the brethren, built himself a narrow dwelling, with a mound about it, and the necessary cells in it, to wit, an oratory and a common living room, he ordered the brothers to dig a pit in the floor of the room, although the ground was hard and stony, and no hopes appeared of any spring.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000023_000001.wav|There prostrating himself before the body of the man of God, he prayed with pious earnestness, that, through his intercession, the Lord might be propitious to him.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000026_000002.wav|In that monastery was a youth whose eyelid was disfigured by an unsightly tumour, which growing daily greater, threatened the loss of the eye.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000023_000003.wav|Gradually the pain departed and health returned.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000020_000002.wav|The miracles of healing, sometimes wrought in that place testify to the merits of them both; of some of these we have before preserved the memory in the book of his life.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000007_000003.wav|It was then the custom of the English people, that when a clerk or priest came to a township, they all, at his summons, flocked together to hear the Word; willingly heard what was said, and still more willingly practised those things that they could hear and understand.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000015_000000.wav|There was a certain priest, called Herebert, a man of holy life, who had long been united with the man of God, Cuthbert, in the bonds of spiritual friendship.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000007_000002.wav|In order to correct the error of both sorts, he often went forth from the monastery, sometimes on horseback, but oftener on foot, and went to the neighbouring townships, where he preached the way of truth to such as had gone astray; which Boisil also in his time had been wont to do.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000025_000000.wav|Chap. thirty two.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000019_000002.wav|They made known their resolve to Bishop Eadbert, and he consented to it, and bade them to be mindful to do it on the anniversary of his burial.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000019_000000.wav|In order to show forth the great glory of the life after death of the man of God, Cuthbert, whereas the loftiness of his life before his death had been revealed by the testimony of many miracles, when he had been buried eleven years, Divine Providence put it into the minds of the brethren to take up his bones.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000024_000000.wav|Moreover, the very garments which had been on Cuthbert's body, dedicated to God, either while he was alive, or after his death, were not without the virtue of healing, as may be seen in the book of his life and miracles, by such as shall read it.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000023_000000.wav|He did accordingly as he had determined, and supporting his weak limbs with a staff, entered the church.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000017_000000.wav|The most reverend father died in the isle of Farne, earnestly entreating the brothers that he might also be buried there, where he had served no small time under the Lord's banner.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7558/89894/7558_89894_000010_000003.wav|When they had done this relying upon the faith and prayers of the servant of God, the next day it was found to be full of water, and to this day affords abundance of its heavenly bounty to all that resort thither.|7558
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000021_000000.wav|"Every one has taken him up," said the curate, with the least little touch of resentment in his tone.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000009_000002.wav|I promptly seized my opportunity, and in a moment her whole mind was full of me.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000008.wav|It was strange that she should be so ready to believe evil of her neighbour, and so eager to spread the story.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000010_000003.wav|She walked slowly through the churchyard, feeling much pleased to see that the curate had just left the vestry door, and that in a few moments their paths must converge.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000005.wav|The way in which mortals practise pious frauds on themselves is really delightful!|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000012_000001.wav|"Do you happen to know if your brother is at home?|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000008_000002.wav|Whether this clergyman had a toothache, or a headache, or a heavy load on his mind, I cannot say, but his reading was more lugubrious than the wind in an equinoctial gale.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000008_000001.wav|Then the rector walked over to the lectern, and the moment he opened his mouth I knew that my time had come, and that there was a very fair chance of victory before me.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000029_000000.wav|"Yes, that is the worst of it," she replied, with a sigh.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000009_000003.wav|She was an excitable, impressionable sort of girl, and when once I had obtained an entrance into her mind I found it the easiest thing in the world to dominate her thoughts.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000015_000000.wav|"I am so glad to have this chance of speaking to you," she began rather nervously.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000006_000001.wav|It was a fine old Gothic building, and the afternoon sunshine seemed to flood the whole place; even the white stones in the aisle were glorified here and there with gorgeous patches of colour from the stained glass windows.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000027_000002.wav|You can't think how unhappy she is about poor Gertrude, and so am I, for we were at school together and have always been friends."|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000010_000002.wav|We were out in the open air once more, and I had triumphed; I was quite sure that she would tell the first person she met, for, as I have said before, she was entirely taken up with me, and to have kept me to herself would have required far more strength and unselfishness than she at that moment possessed.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000022_000000.wav|"Yes, every one thinks they are either engaged or on the brink of it.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000018_000000.wav|"It was only that I was so troubled about something mrs O'Reilly has just told me," said Lena Houghton.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000020_000000.wav|"Well, you know mr Zaluski, and how the Morleys have taken him up?"|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000026_000000.wav|"What did she tell you?" he asked with some curiosity.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000028_000000.wav|"I am very sorry to hear about it," said mr Blackthorne, "but I don't see that anything can be done.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000007_000001.wav|Try as I would, I could not distract her attention or gain the slightest hold upon her, and I really believe I should have been altogether baffled, had not the rector unconsciously come to my aid.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000000.wav|This sentiment amused me not a little.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000029_000001.wav|"I suppose we can do nothing.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000011_000000.wav|mr Blackthorne had only been ordained three or four years, and was a little younger, and much less experienced in the ways of the world, than Sigismund Zaluski.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000001_000000.wav|MY SECOND STAGE|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000009_000005.wav|I crowded out the Magnificat with a picture of Zaluski and Gertrude Morley.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000016_000001.wav|True, he was becoming well accustomed to this sort of thing, since the ladies of Muddleton were far more fond of seeking advice from the young and good looking curate than from the elderly and experienced rector.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000019_000000.wav|"On no account," said the curate, warmly.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000016_000000.wav|mr Blackthorne, being human and young, was not unnaturally flattered by this remark.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000028_000001.wav|You see, one does not like to interfere in these sort of things.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000010_000001.wav|Lena Houghton, still dominated by me, knelt longer than the rest, but at last she got up and walked down the aisle, and I felt a great sense of relief and satisfaction.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000009_000000.wav|Hardly had the rector announced, "Here beginneth the forty fourth verse of the sixteenth chapter of the book of the prophet ezekiel," than a sort of relaxation took place in the mind I was attacking.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000004_000002.wav|That, for instance, while it takes years to develop the man from the baby, and months to develop the dog from the puppy, the baby monad will grow to maturity in an hour.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000024_000000.wav|"Why, I don't profess to like mr Zaluski," he said.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000015_000001.wav|"I wanted particularly to ask your advice."|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000006_000000.wav|As we passed down the High Street the bells rang out loud and clear, and they made me feel the same slight sense of discomfort that I had felt when I looked at Zaluski; however, I went on, and soon entered the church.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000023_000000.wav|The curate looked startled.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000027_000000.wav|"Why, she has found out that he is really a Nihilist-just think of a Nihilist going about loose like this, and playing tennis at the rectory and all the good houses!|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000008_000000.wav|All through the prayers and psalms I had fought a desperate fight without gaining a single inch.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000009_000006.wav|I led her through more terrible future possibilities in the second lesson than would be required for a three volume novel.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000011_000001.wav|He was a good well meaning fellow, a little narrow, a little prejudiced, a little spoiled by the devotion of the district visitors and Sunday School teachers; but he was honest and energetic, and as a worker among the poor few could have equalled him.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000029_000002.wav|Still, it has been a great relief just to tell you about it and get it off my mind.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000004_000001.wav|But I developed with great rapidity; and I believe men of science will tell you that this is always the case with low organisms.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000028_000002.wav|It seems officious rather, and meddlesome."|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000007.wav|To keep my tongue from evil speaking, lying, and slandering." What is more, she took great pains to teach these words to a big class of Sunday School children, and went, rain or shine, to spend two hours each Sunday in a stuffy school room for that purpose.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000024_000001.wav|"But I don't know anything exactly against him."|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000002.wav|Had she not caused me to grow stronger and larger by every word she uttered? And had not the conversation revealed to me mr Blackthorn's one vulnerable part?|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000029_000003.wav|I suppose we can only hope that something may put a stop to it all-we must just leave it to chance."|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000005_000001.wav|But I received orders to attend evensong at the parish church, and to haunt the mind of Lena Houghton.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000003.wav|I knew well enough that I should be able to dominate his thoughts as I had done hers.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000018_000001.wav|"You won't tell any one that I told you?"|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000009.wav|But my progenitor is clever, and doubtless knows very well, whom to select as his tools.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000014_000000.wav|And they walked home together.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000025_000000.wav|"But I do.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000011_000002.wav|He seemed to fancy, however, that with the poor his work ended, and he was not always so wise as he might have been in Muddleton society.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000004.wav|Finding me burdensome, she had passed me on to somebody else with additions that vastly increased my working powers, and then she talked of leaving it to chance!|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000009_000001.wav|Lena Houghton's attention could only have been given to the drearily read lesson by a very great effort; she was a little lazy and did not make the effort, she thought how nice it was to sit down again, and then the melancholy voice lulled her into a vague interval of thoughtless inactivity.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000005_000000.wav|Personally I should have preferred to linger in mrs O'Reilly's pleasant drawing room, for, as I said before, my victim interested me, and I wanted to observe him more closely and hear what he talked about.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000006.wav|And yet Lena Houghton was a good sort of girl, and had from her childhood repeated the catechism words which proclaim that, "My duty to my neighbour is to love him as myself . . .|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000017_000001.wav|For though he liked the honour of being consulted, he did not always like the trouble it involved, and he remembered with a shudder that Miss Houghton had once asked him his opinion about the 'Ethical Concept of the Good.'|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000006_000002.wav|But the strange stillness and quiet oppressed me, I did not feel nearly so much at home as in mrs O'Reilly's drawing room-to use a terrestrial simile, I felt like a fish out of water.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000012_000002.wav|I want just to speak to him about the choir treat."|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000010_000000.wav|The congregation rose.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000002_000000.wav|Bear not false witness, slander not, nor lie; Truth is the speech of inward purity.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000004_000000.wav|In my first stage the reader will perceive that I was a comparatively weak and harmless little slander, with merely that taint of original sin which was to be expected in one of such parentage.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000030_000001.wav|Leave it to chance indeed!|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/88761/2269_88761_000021_000001.wav|"I knew that the Morleys were his special friends; I imagine that he admires Miss Morley."|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000025_000000.wav|At last he decided to visit the court of Sigurd Ring and find out whether Ingeborg was really happy.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000002_000000.wav|Frithiof was a Norwegian hero, grandson of Viking, who was the largest and strongest man of his time.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000005_000000.wav|Frithiof was now one of the wealthiest and most envied of land owners. His treasures were richer by far than those of any king.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000010_000000.wav|Then the two brothers were glad to send a messenger after Frithiof, asking his aid.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000025_000001.wav|Landing, he wrapped himself in an old cloak and approached the court.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000027_000000.wav|"Who are you who comes to us thus?" asked Sigurd Ring.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000008_000000.wav|His request was not granted and Helge dismissed him contemptuously.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000024_000000.wav|But Frithiof was often homesick, and longed to enter a harbor, and lead again a life of peace.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000033_000000.wav|Soon after this Sigurd died, commending his wife to the young hero's loving care.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000003_000003.wav|The warning, however, came too late, for Frithiof already loved the fair maiden, and vowed that he would have her for his bride at any cost.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000035_000000.wav|"Behold your king," he cried, "and until he is grown to manhood I will stand beside him."|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000007_000000.wav|Great was his grief when the time came for her to sail away.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000032_000000.wav|"You are Frithiof the Bold," he said, "and from the first I knew you. Be patient now a little longer and you shall have Ingeborg, for my end is near."|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000023_000001.wav|It was followed again and again by the brave men of the North.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000015_000003.wav|But many of the crew were worn out by the battle with the elements and had to be carried ashore by Frithiof and Bjoern when they reached the Orkney Islands.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000002_000001.wav|Viking had sailed the sea in a dragon ship, meeting with many adventures, and Thorsten, Frithiof's father, had likewise sailed abroad, capturing many priceless treasures and making a great name for himself.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000007_000002.wav|His ship was prepared and soon he touched the shore near the temple of the god Balder.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000014_000001.wav|Speaking to his good ship, which could both hear and obey, he bade it run down the whale and the witches.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000030_000002.wav|But Frithiof was too fine and loyal to listen to such suggestions.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000014_000000.wav|From there he spied a huge whale, upon which the two witches were seated, delighted at the tempest they had stirred up.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000004_000000.wav|Soon after this the king died, leaving his kingdom to his two sons and giving instructions that his funeral mound should be erected in sight of that of his dear friend Thorsten, so that their spirits might not be separated even in death.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000034_000000.wav|The people, admiring his bravery, wanted to make Frithiof king, but he would not listen to their pleadings.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000011_000001.wav|But the kings had heard of how Frithiof had spoken to Ingeborg in the temple, and although they feared Sigurd they would not grant the request.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000010_000001.wav|The hero, still angry, refused; but he hastened at once to Ingeborg.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000022_000000.wav|Horror stricken, Frithiof tried to stop the blaze, and when he could not, hurried away to his ship.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000009_000000.wav|Soon after his departure another suitor, the aged King Ring of Norway sought the hand of Ingeborg in marriage, and being refused, collected an army and prepared to make war on Helge and Halfdan.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000010_000002.wav|He found her in tears at the shrine of Balder, and although it was considered a sin for a man and woman to exchange words in the sacred temple, he spoke to her, again making known his love.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000023_000000.wav|So Frithiof became an exile, and a wanderer on the face of the earth. For many years he lived the life of a pirate or viking, exacting tribute from other ships or sacking them if they would not pay tribute; for this occupation in the days of Frithiof was considered wholly respectable.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000017_000000.wav|Frithiof had no weapons, but with a turn of his wrist he threw his opponent.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000030_000000.wav|One spring day Sigurd and Frithiof had ridden away on a hunting expedition, and the old king being tired from the chase lay down on the ground to rest, feigning sleep.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000026_000000.wav|At this Sigurd Ring invited the old man to remove his mantle and take a seat near him.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000013_000002.wav|He comforted his crew, and then climbed the mast to keep a sharp lookout for danger.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/147627/2269_147627_000034_000001.wav|Instead he lifted the little son of Sigurd upon his shield.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2269/165387/2269_165387_000000_000000.wav|CHAP.|2269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000027_000000.wav|"Send soon, O frog, the jewel of water! And ripen the wheat and millet in the field."|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000013_000002.wav|Here for a space of time, which might vary, according to different doctors of the law, from one to twelve years, he had to observe certain rules of life, among which were the following.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000002_000000.wav|THE READER may remember that we were led to plunge into the labyrinth of magic by a consideration of two different types of man god.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000034_000010.wav|After this the rain was sure to fall within twenty four hours.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000026_000002.wav|They have been known to keep frogs under a pot and to beat them with rods when there was a drought.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000008.wav|So when the Siamese need rain, they set out their idols in the blazing sun; but if they want dry weather, they unroof the temples and let the rain pour down on the idols.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000006.wav|Here is a body of men relieved, at least in the higher stages of savagery, from the need of earning their livelihood by hard manual toil, and allowed, nay, expected and encouraged, to prosecute researches into the secret ways of nature.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000009.wav|They produce rain by spilling water from a basket in the air; they make fine weather by shaking a small flat piece of wood attached to a stick by a string; they raise storms by strewing down on the ends of spruce branches.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000002.wav|After that he pours water and medicine into a vessel; if the charm has succeeded, the water boils up and rain follows.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000008.wav|This saves the corn.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000008.wav|So among the Toradjas the rain doctor, whose special business it is to drive away rain, takes care not to touch water before, during, or after the discharge of his professional duties.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000019_000000.wav|"We go through the village; The clouds go in the sky; We go faster, Faster go the clouds; They have overtaken us, And wetted the corn and the vine."|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000012.wav|In ordinary years these holy sweepings preserve the crops; but that year, if you will believe me, they had no effect whatever. At Nicosia the inhabitants, bare headed and bare foot, carried the crucifixes through all the wards of the town and scourged each other with iron whips.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000000.wav|Thus, for example, in a village near Dorpat, in Russia, when rain was much wanted, three men used to climb up the fir trees of an old sacred grove.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000009.wav|If they meet a man, they maul him and thrust him aside.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000016.wav|In the arid wastes of Arizona and New Mexico the Apaches sought to make rain by carrying water from a certain spring and throwing it on a particular point high up on a rock; after that they imagined that the clouds would soon gather, and that rain would begin to fall.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000014.wav|But if fine weather is wanted, the victim must be white, without a spot.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000026_000004.wav|The Thompson Indians of British Columbia and some people in Europe think that to kill a frog will cause rain to fall.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000015.wav|We must perish indeed.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000003.wav|Every day the sun rose and set in a sky of cloudless blue.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000021_000008.wav|In Minahassa, a province of North Celebes, the priest bathes as a rain charm.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000011.wav|However, the foregoing ceremonies are religious rather than magical, since they involve an appeal to the compassion of higher powers.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000029.wav|Some years ago the emperor Menelik forbade the custom.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000015.wav|Masses, vespers, concerts, illuminations, fire works-nothing could move him.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000006.wav|The blood is thought to represent the rain, and the down the clouds.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000013.wav|To maintain at least a show of knowledge was absolutely necessary; a single mistake detected might cost them their life. This no doubt led them to practise imposture for the purpose of concealing their ignorance; but it also supplied them with the most powerful motive for substituting a real for a sham knowledge, since, if you would appear to know anything, by far the best way is actually to know it.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000001.wav|By the end of april eighteen ninety three there was great distress in Sicily for lack of water.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000001.wav|For example, in Arcadia, when the corn and trees were parched with drought, the priest of Zeus dipped an oak branch into a certain spring on Mount Lycaeus.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000004.wav|The people of Crannon in Thessaly had a bronze chariot which they kept in a temple.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000023_000001.wav|Thus in New Caledonia the rain makers blackened themselves all over, dug up a dead body, took the bones to a cave, jointed them, and hung the skeleton over some taro leaves.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000008.wav|The Garos of Assam offer a black goat on the top of a very high mountain in time of drought.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000012.wav|Thus they force their way through it and reappear on the other side, repeating the process till the hut is wrecked.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000006.wav|The rain ceased and the god was restored to liberty.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000024_000004.wav|Then he makes an arched bundle of grass stalks in imitation of a rainbow, and sets it up over the snake.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000026.wav|However, they were not so well pleased next day, when they felt their wounds stiff and sore.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000000.wav|Among the objects of public utility which magic may be employed to secure, the most essential is an adequate supply of food.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000000.wav|The Chinese are adepts in the art of taking the kingdom of heaven by storm.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000002.wav|It is otherwise when the rites are performed, not by the hunters, the fishers, the farmers themselves, but by professional magicians on their behalf.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000017_000000.wav|"Perperia all fresh bedewed, Freshen all the neighbourhood; By the woods, on the highway, As thou goest, to God now pray: O my God, upon the plain, Send thou us a still, small rain; That the fields may fruitful be, And vines in blossom we may see; That the grain be full and sound, And wealthy grow the folks around."|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000007.wav|Indeed he declared that he was actually Zeus, and caused sacrifices to be offered to himself as such.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000019.wav|Other saints were turned, like naughty children, with their faces to the wall.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000001.wav|When their corn is being burnt up by the sun, the Zulus look out for a "heaven bird," kill it, and throw it into a pool.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000003.wav|On the other hand, if the sorcerer wishes to prevent rain from falling, he withdraws into the interior of the hut, and there heats a rock crystal in a calabash.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000000.wav|Sometimes an appeal is made to the pity of the gods.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000005.wav|If they wish to make rain they simulate it by sprinkling water or mimicking clouds: if their object is to stop rain and cause drought, they avoid water and resort to warmth and fire for the sake of drying up the too abundant moisture.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000012.wav|If clouds should appear in the sky while he is at work, he takes lime in the hollow of his hand and blows it towards them.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000020_000002.wav|When they have thus visited all the houses, they strip the Rain King of his leafy robes and feast upon what they have gathered.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000007.wav|Lastly, they squirt the water into the air, making a fine mist.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000021_000007.wav|The Arabs of North Africa fling a holy man, willy nilly, into a spring as a remedy for drought.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000017.wav|Most of the saints were banished.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000013_000005.wav|It is clear, as Professor Oldenberg well points out, that "all these rules are intended to bring the Brahman into union with water, to make him, as it were, an ally of the water powers, and to guard him against their hostility.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000010.wav|This the Mura muras see, and at once they cause clouds to appear in the sky.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000020.wav|After the rains have fallen, some of the tribe always undergo a surgical operation, which consists in cutting the skin of their chest and arms with a sharp flint.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000022_000007.wav|Next they sit on the harrow and keep a tiny flame burning on each corner of it for an hour.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000027.wav|In Java, when rain is wanted, two men will sometimes thrash each other with supple rods till the blood flows down their backs; the streaming blood represents the rain, and no doubt is supposed to make it fall on the ground.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000014.wav|Thus, however justly we may reject the extravagant pretensions of magicians and condemn the deceptions which they have practised on mankind, the original institution of this class of men has, take it all in all, been productive of incalculable good to humanity.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000009_000004.wav|That is supposed to stop the downpour.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000002.wav|Then the heaven melts with tenderness for the death of the bird; "it wails for it by raining, wailing a funeral wail." In Zululand women sometimes bury their children up to the neck in the ground, and then retiring to a distance keep up a dismal howl for a long time.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000003.wav|Hence in savage communities the rain maker is a very important personage; and often a special class of magicians exists for the purpose of regulating the heavenly water supply.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000002.wav|Thus the Tsimshian Indians of British Columbia believe that twins control the weather; therefore they pray to wind and rain, "Calm down, breath of the twins." Further, they think that the wishes of twins are always fulfilled; hence twins are feared, because they can harm the man they hate.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000008.wav|In particular they can make good or bad weather.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000005.wav|The impotence of the means adopted by most of these practitioners to accomplish their ends ought not to blind us to the immense importance of the institution itself.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000013.wav|At Sagami in Japan there is a stone which draws down rain whenever water is poured on it.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000011.wav|In Manipur, on a lofty hill to the east of the capital, there is a stone which the popular imagination likens to an umbrella.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000007.wav|Put down your water cask, close it properly, that not a drop may fall out." While he utters this prayer the sorcerer looks upwards, burning incense the while.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000022_000002.wav|Girls yoke themselves to a plough and drag it into a river, wading in the water up to their girdles.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000002_000001.wav|This is the clue which has guided our devious steps through the maze, and brought us out at last on higher ground, whence, resting a little by the way, we can look back over the path we have already traversed and forward to the longer and steeper road we have still to climb.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000011.wav|The pipes were perforated like the nozzle of a watering can, and through the holes the rain maker blew the water towards that part of the sky where the clouds hung heaviest.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000003.wav|He must observe a fast, and may neither drink nor bathe; what little he eats must be eaten dry, and in no case may he touch water.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000007.wav|Having done so they go on their way, shrieking out their loose songs and dancing immodest dances.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000021.wav|After that he throws water all over himself, scatters it about, and returns quietly to the camp.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000003_000006.wav|He is not merely the receptacle of a divine spirit.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000018.wav|After that the rain is sure to come driving up in heavy clouds.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000023_000006.wav|Some of the party beat the corpse, or what was left of it, about the head, exclaiming, "Give us rain!" while others poured water on it through a sieve.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000004.wav|In their childhood they can summon any wind by motions of their hands, and they can make fair or foul weather, and also cure diseases by swinging a large wooden rattle.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000001_000001.wav|The Public Magician|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000009.wav|Sometimes the Toradjas attempt to procure rain as follows.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000014.wav|When the Wakondyo, a tribe of Central Africa, desire rain, they send to the Wawamba, who dwell at the foot of snowy mountains, and are the happy possessors of a "rain stone." In consideration of a proper payment, the Wawamba wash the precious stone, anoint it with oil, and put it in a pot full of water.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000005.wav|Food was becoming scarce.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000011.wav|In the fire he burns various kinds of wood, which are supposed to possess the property of driving off rain; and he puffs in the direction from which the rain threatens to come, holding in his hand a packet of leaves and bark which derive a similar cloud compelling virtue, not from their chemical composition, but from their names, which happen to signify something dry or volatile.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000022_000006.wav|In a district of Transylvania when the ground is parched with drought, some girls strip themselves naked, and, led by an older woman, who is also naked, they steal a harrow and carry it across the fields to a brook, where they set it afloat.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000004.wav|But a great step in advance has been taken when a special class of magicians has been instituted; when, in other words, a number of men have been set apart for the express purpose of benefiting the whole community by their skill, whether that skill be directed to the healing of diseases, the forecasting of the future, the regulation of the weather, or any other object of general utility.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000021.wav|The wound is then tapped with a flat stick to increase the flow of blood, and red ochre is rubbed into it.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000029_000000.wav|Sometimes, when a drought has lasted a long time, people drop the usual hocus pocus of imitative magic altogether, and being far too angry to waste their breath in prayer they seek by threats and curses or even downright physical force to extort the waters of heaven from the supernatural being who has, so to say, cut them off at the main.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000003_000002.wav|This may also appropriately be called the inspired or incarnate type of man god.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000008.wav|Men, women, and children, telling their beads, had lain whole nights before the holy images.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000008.wav|I will now illustrate them by instances drawn from the practice both of public and private magic.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000004.wav|Among some tribes of north-western Australia the rain maker repairs to a piece of ground which is set apart for the purpose of rain making.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000004.wav|In order to procure rain the Wagogo sacrifice black fowls, black sheep, and black cattle at the graves of dead ancestors, and the rain maker wears black clothes during the rainy season.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000006_000001.wav|The Magical Control of Rain|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000034_000013.wav|In all such cases the practice is probably at bottom a sympathetic charm, however it may be disguised under the appearance of a punishment or a threat.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000007.wav|The Shuswap Indians, like the Thompson Indians, associate twins with the grizzly bear, for they call them "young grizzly bears." According to them, twins remain throughout life endowed with supernatural powers.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000001.wav|One of them drummed with a hammer on a kettle or small cask to imitate thunder; the second knocked two fire brands together and made the sparks fly, to imitate lightning; and the third, who was called "the rain maker," had a bunch of twigs with which he sprinkled water from a vessel on all sides.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000024_000000.wav|Animals, again, often play an important part in these weather charms.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000008.wav|Then the wizards who were bled carry away the two stones for about ten or fifteen miles, and place them as high as they can in the tallest tree.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000006.wav|Water is sprinkled on the stone and huge fires are kindled.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000000.wav|There is a widespread belief that twin children possess magical powers over nature, especially over rain and the weather.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000023_000013.wav|Here, as in New Caledonia, we find religion blent with magic, for the prayer to the dead chief, which is purely religious, is eked out with a magical imitation of rain at his grave.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000011.wav|Ridicule and blame are the just meed, not of those who devised these crude theories, but of those who obstinately adhered to them after better had been propounded.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000034_000012.wav|In Mingrelia, when the crops are suffering from want of rain, they take a particularly holy image and dip it in water every day till a shower falls; and in the Far East the Shans drench the images of Buddha with water when the rice is perishing of drought.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000005.wav|When they desired a shower they shook the chariot and the shower fell.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000010.wav|When they have cleansed the wells, they must go and pour water on the graves of their ancestors in the sacred grove.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000013_000001.wav|The hymn, which bears the name of the Sakvari¯ song, was believed to embody the might of Indra's weapon, the thunderbolt; and hence, on account of the dreadful and dangerous potency with which it was thus charged, the bold student who essayed to master it had to be isolated from his fellow men, and to retire from the village into the forest.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000004.wav|The methods by which they attempt to discharge the duties of their office are commonly, though not always, based on the principle of homoeopathic or imitative magic.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000009.wav|Then a handful of twigs is dipped in water and weighted with stones, while a spell is chanted.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000002.wav|The drought had lasted six months.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000004.wav|Then the women dig the children out and feel sure that rain will soon follow.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000015_000003.wav|The one signifies his sympathy with water by receiving the rain on his person and speaking of it respectfully; the others light a lamp or a fire and do their best to drive the rain away.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000018_000001.wav|Thus disguised she is called the Dodola, and goes through the village with a troop of girls.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000013.wav|Custom has prescribed that on these occasions the colour of the victim shall be black, as an emblem of the wished for rain clouds.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000001.wav|In a Samoan village a certain stone was carefully housed as the representative of the rain making god, and in time of drought his priests carried the stone in procession and dipped it in a stream.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000000.wav|OF THE THINGS which the public magician sets himself to do for the good of the tribe, one of the chief is to control the weather and especially to ensure an adequate fall of rain.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000003.wav|On the other hand, if the wished for rain falls, the god is promoted to a higher rank by an imperial decree.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000012.wav|When rain is wanted, the rajah fetches water from a spring below and sprinkles it on the stone.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000002.wav|When a man is about to give a great feast in the rainy season and has invited many people, he goes to a weather doctor and asks him to "prop up the clouds that may be lowering." If the doctor consents to exert his professional powers, he begins to regulate his behaviour by certain rules as soon as his customer has departed.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000024_000005.wav|After that all he does is to sing over the snake and the mimic rainbow; sooner or later the rain will fall.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000007.wav|In Kumaon a way of stopping rain is to pour hot oil in the left ear of a dog.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000001.wav|The examples cited in preceding pages prove that the purveyors of food-the hunter, the fisher, the farmer-all resort to magical practices in the pursuit of their various callings; but they do so as private individuals for the benefit of themselves and their families, rather than as public functionaries acting in the interest of the whole people.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000015_000005.wav|It is the old fallacy that the effect resembles its cause: if you would make wet weather, you must be wet; if you would make dry weather, you must be dry.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000009.wav|He does not bathe, he eats with unwashed hands, he drinks nothing but palm wine, and if he has to cross a stream he is careful not to step in the water.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000005.wav|This had a salutary effect.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000009.wav|Consecrated candles had burned day and night in the churches.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000024_000003.wav|He catches a snake, puts it alive into the pool, and after holding it under water for a time takes it out, kills it, and lays it down by the side of the creek.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000004_000001.wav|Further, I pointed out that the public magician occupies a position of great influence, from which, if he is a prudent and able man, he may advance step by step to the rank of a chief or king.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000003.wav|A similar mode of making rain is still practised, as we have seen, in Halmahera near New Guinea.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000021_000004.wav|Later on we shall see that a passing stranger is often taken for a deity or the personification of some natural power.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000003.wav|In the Keramin tribe of New South Wales the wizard retires to the bed of a creek, drops water on a round flat stone, then covers up and conceals it.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000022_000004.wav|The oldest woman, or the priest's wife, wears the priest's dress, while the others, dressed as men, drag the plough through the water against the stream.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000021_000005.wav|It is recorded in official documents that during a drought in seventeen ninety the peasants of Scheroutz and Werboutz collected all the women and compelled them to bathe, in order that rain might fall.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000026_000000.wav|The intimate association of frogs and toads with water has earned for these creatures a widespread reputation as custodians of rain; and hence they often play a part in charms designed to draw needed showers from the sky.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000011.wav|At the chosen spot they tether the beast to a stone, and make it a target for their bullets and arrows.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000021.wav|At Caltanisetta the golden wings of saint Michael the Archangel were torn from his shoulders and replaced with wings of pasteboard; his purple mantle was taken away and a clout wrapt about him instead.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000018.wav|At Palermo they dumped saint Joseph in a garden to see the state of things for himself, and they swore to leave him there in the sun till rain fell.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000013_000004.wav|If a man walked in the way of all these precepts, the rain god Parjanya, it was said, would send rain at the wish of that man.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000011.wav|It often happens, too, that at the bidding of the wizard they go and pour water on the graves of twins.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000012.wav|When its life blood bespatters the rocks, the peasants throw down their weapons and lift up their voices in supplication to the dragon divinity of the stream, exhorting him to send down forthwith a shower to cleanse the spot from its defilement.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000007.wav|No layman may approach the sacred spot while the mystic ceremony is being performed.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000026_000001.wav|Some of the Indians of the Orinoco held the toad to be the god or lord of the waters, and for that reason feared to kill the creature.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000000.wav|The reader may smile at the meteorology of the Far East; but precisely similar modes of procuring rain have been resorted to in Christian Europe within our own lifetime.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000006.wav|The people were in great alarm.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000015.wav|After that the rain cannot fail to come.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000023_000017.wav|Then drought ensues, the most dreaded of all calamities in China, because bad harvests, dearth, and famine follow in its train.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000004_000000.wav|We have seen that in practice the magic art may be employed for the benefit either of individuals or of the whole community, and that according as it is directed to one or other of these two objects it may be called private or public magic.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000019.wav|In these practices we see a combination of religion with magic; for while the scattering of the water drops by means of branches is a purely magical ceremony, the prayer for rain and the offering of beer are purely religious rites. In the Mara tribe of Northern Australia the rain maker goes to a pool and sings over it his magic song.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000021_000006.wav|An Armenian rain charm is to throw the wife of a priest into the water and drench her.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000003_000008.wav|But the line between these two types of man god, however sharply we may draw it in theory, is seldom to be traced with precision in practice, and in what follows I shall not insist on it.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000003_000003.wav|In it the human body is merely a frail earthly vessel filled with a divine and immortal spirit.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000016_000001.wav|Among the Greeks of Thessaly and Macedonia, when a drought has lasted a long time, it is customary to send a procession of children round to all the wells and springs of the neighbourhood.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000010.wav|After that rain should follow.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000001.wav|Thus, when rain is wanted they make a huge dragon of paper or wood to represent the rain god, and carry it about in procession; but if no rain follows, the mock dragon is execrated and torn to pieces.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000005.wav|The Nootka Indians of British Columbia also believe that twins are somehow related to salmon. Hence among them twins may not catch salmon, and they may not eat or even handle the fresh fish.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000011.wav|Lastly, the men, young and old, surround the hut, and, stooping down, butt at it with their heads, like so many rams.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000000.wav|In time of severe drought the Dieri of Central Australia, loudly lamenting the impoverished state of the country and their own half starved condition, call upon the spirits of their remote predecessors, whom they call Mura muras, to grant them power to make a heavy rain fall.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000015.wav|They were the direct predecessors, not merely of our physicians and surgeons, but of our investigators and discoverers in every branch of natural science.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000010.wav|Palm branches, blessed on Palm Sunday, had been hung on the trees.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000003_000005.wav|Thus, whereas a man god of the former or inspired type derives his divinity from a deity who has stooped to hide his heavenly radiance behind a dull mask of earthly mould, a man god of the latter type draws his extraordinary power from a certain physical sympathy with nature.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000005.wav|At the same time the two bleeding men throw handfuls of down about, some of which adheres to the blood stained bodies of their comrades, while the rest floats in the air.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000017.wav|Next they take branches of trees and dance and sing for rain. When they return to the village they find a vessel of water set at the doorway by an old woman; so they dip their branches in it and wave them aloft, so as to scatter the drops.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000013_000000.wav|Some of the foregoing facts strongly support an interpretation which Professor Oldenberg has given of the rules to be observed by a Brahman who would learn a particular hymn of the ancient Indian collection known as the Samaveda.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000013.wav|When the rains do not come in due season the people of Central Angoniland repair to what is called the rain temple.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000009_000001.wav|Thus the Sulka of New Britain heat stones red hot in the fire and then put them out in the rain, or they throw hot ashes in the air.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000015.wav|The Dieri also imagine that the foreskins taken from lads at circumcision have a great power of producing rain.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000006.wav|Further, the women must repair to the house of one of their gossips who has given birth to twins, and must drench her with water, which they carry in little pitchers.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000007_000007.wav|They are, or used to be, common enough among outwardly civilised folk in the moister climate of Europe.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000023_000010.wav|When the land suffers from unseasonable drought, the people go to this grave, pour water on it, and say, "O grandfather, have pity on us; if it is your will that this year we should eat, then give rain."|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000033_000008.wav|When the Sulka of New Britain wish to procure rain they blacken stones with the ashes of certain fruits and set them out, along with certain other plants and buds, in the sun|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000024.wav|Apparently the operation is not very painful, for the patient laughs and jokes while it is going on.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000016.wav|At last the peasants began to lose patience.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000011.wav|At Solaparuta, in accordance with a very old custom, the dust swept from the churches on Palm Sunday had been spread on the fields.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000006.wav|Akkemat is your country.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000014.wav|"No wonder," says the wizard in such a case, "that the sky is fiery.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000003_000000.wav|As a result of the foregoing discussion, the two types of human gods may conveniently be distinguished as the religious and the magical man god respectively.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000000.wav|It is interesting to observe that where an opposite result is desired, primitive logic enjoins the weather doctor to observe precisely opposite rules of conduct.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000000.wav|Like other peoples, the Greeks and romans sought to obtain rain by magic, when prayers and processions had proved ineffectual.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000015_000004.wav|Yet the principle on which all three act is the same; each of them, by a sort of childish make believe, identifies himself with the phenomenon which he desires to produce.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000005_000009.wav|The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000008_000023.wav|They cut a branch from a certain tree in the desert, set it on fire, and then sprinkled the burning brand with water. After that the vehemence of the rain abated, just as the water vanished when it fell on the glowing brand.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000023_000016.wav|These wretched souls, therefore, do all in their power to prevent the rain from falling, and often their efforts are only too successful.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000031_000014.wav|Even the great saint Francis of Paolo himself, who annually performs the miracle of rain and is carried every spring through the market gardens, either could not or would not help.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000025_000000.wav|Among the Wambugwe of East Africa, when the sorcerer desires to make rain, he takes a black sheep and a black calf in bright sunshine, and has them placed on the roof of the common hut in which the people live together.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000032_000003.wav|The sky is supposed to melt with pity at the sight.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000009.wav|Meanwhile the other men gather gypsum, pound it fine, and throw it into a water hole.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000010.wav|Having thus prepared himself for his task he has a small hut built for himself outside of the village in a rice field, and in this hut he keeps up a little fire, which on no account may be suffered to go out.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000028.wav|The people of Egghiou, a district of Abyssinia, used to engage in sanguinary conflicts with each other, village against village, for a week together every January for the purpose of procuring rain.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000035_000002.wav|Thus troubled, the water sent up a misty cloud, from which rain soon fell upon the land.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000022_000000.wav|Women are sometimes supposed to be able to make rain by ploughing, or pretending to plough.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000014.wav|Should rain afterwards be wanted, he has only to pour water on his fire, and immediately the rain will descend in sheets.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000016_000002.wav|At the head of the procession walks a girl adorned with flowers, whom her companions drench with water at every halting place, while they sing an invocation, of which the following is part:|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000011_000001.wav|This curious superstition prevails among some of the Indian tribes of British Columbia, and has led them often to impose certain singular restrictions or taboos on the parents of twins, though the exact meaning of these restrictions is generally obscure.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000001_000000.wav|one.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000010_000022.wav|Raised scars are thus produced.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000012_000013.wav|If all their efforts to procure rain prove abortive, they will remember that such and such a twin was buried in a dry place on the side of a hill.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000014_000004.wav|The host, on his side, and his servants, both male and female, must neither wash clothes nor bathe so long as the feast lasts, and they have all during its continuance to observe strict chastity.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/139035/1776_139035_000030_000002.wav|At other times they threaten and beat the god if he does not give rain; sometimes they publicly depose him from the rank of deity.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000005_000005.wav|If this doubt is raised, we find ourselves in the same position as when the doubt about the sunrise was first raised.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000004_000002.wav|Why?|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000014_000003.wav|Thus probability is all we ought to seek.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000005_000002.wav|If we are challenged as to why we believe that it will continue to rise as heretofore, we may appeal to the laws of motion: the earth, we shall say, is a freely rotating body, and such bodies do not cease to rotate unless something interferes from outside, and there is nothing outside to interfere with the earth between now and to morrow.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000024_000001.wav|But this affords no evidence for their truth in the future, unless the inductive principle is assumed.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000011_000002.wav|This brings us back to the question: Have we any reason, assuming that they have always held in the past, to suppose that they will hold in the future?|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000012_000002.wav|We have experience of past futures, but not of future futures, and the question is: Will future futures resemble past futures?|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000014_000002.wav|It can never quite reach certainty, because we know that in spite of frequent repetitions there sometimes is a failure at the last, as in the case of the chicken whose neck is wrung.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000013_000000.wav|The reference to the future in this question is not essential.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000019_000000.wav|As just stated, the principle applies only to the verification of our expectation in a single fresh instance.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000025_000000.wav|Thus all knowledge which, on a basis of experience tells us something about what is not experienced, is based upon a belief which experience can neither confirm nor confute, yet which, at least in its more concrete applications, appears to be as firmly rooted in us as many of the facts of experience.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000004_000001.wav|We are all convinced that the sun will rise to morrow.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000021_000000.wav|b)|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000007_000000.wav|Now in dealing with this question we must, to begin with, make an important distinction, without which we should soon become involved in hopeless confusions.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000019_000003.wav|We may therefore repeat the two parts of our principle as regards the general law, thus:|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000012_000004.wav|We have therefore still to seek for some principle which shall enable us to know that the future will follow the same laws as the past.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1776/142744/1776_142744_000025_000001.wav|The existence and justification of such beliefs-for the inductive principle, as we shall see, is not the only example-raises some of the most difficult and most debated problems of philosophy.|1776
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000005.wav|These may be regarded as feminine virtues, and may be said to be sometimes tarnished, by faults which are equally feminine.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000005_000004.wav|When they came to reckon her up they did not see how any change was to be made for the better.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000008.wav|She knew well what was due to herself, though she would not claim it.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000006.wav|Unselfishness may become want of character; generosity essentially unjust; confidence may be weak, and purity insipid.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000008_000004.wav|She did not analyse his character, but she felt it.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000025_000000.wav|"How can you say that?|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000023_000004.wav|We'll go and spend six weeks with your uncle at Brussels.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000009.wav|Why should she not marry her cousin?|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000011_000001.wav|This occurred on the very day on which Septimus Jones had been vaguely informed of the iniquitous falsehood of Harry Annesley.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000037_000001.wav|I did tell you.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000027_000004.wav|We cannot go to him to be out of the way of himself."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000047_000001.wav|Daughters are twice more troublesome than their mothers."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000000.wav|Sir Magnus Mountjoy, the late general's elder brother, had been for the last four or five years the English minister at Brussels.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000010_000008.wav|Another charmer had come, most objectionable in her sight, but to him no word of absolute encouragement had, as she thought, been yet spoken.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000012.wav|But in these days she had loved no man, and was inclined to think so little of herself as to make her want of love no necessary bar to the accomplishment of the wish of others.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000008_000005.wav|And when it came to pass that tidings of his debts at last reached her, she felt that she was glad of an excuse, though she knew that the excuse would not have prevailed with her had she liked him.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000003_000004.wav|Of this she was all unconscious, but was as chary with her fingers as though it seemed that she could ill spare her divinity.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000027_000001.wav|He is minister plenipotentiary.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000006.wav|There were those who declared that Lady Mountjoy was of all women the most overbearing and impertinent.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000032_000000.wav|"I don't think anything, my dear."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000000.wav|But this change had been presented to Florence in a manner more than ordinarily burdensome.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000010.wav|It must be understood that these questions had been asked before any of the terrible facts of Captain Scarborough's life had been made known to her.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000039_000001.wav|"At any rate they must come.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000011.wav|For the time you would then fancy that you had been let into the inner life of this girl, and would be proud of yourself that so much should have been granted you.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000033_000001.wav|"At any rate, Sarah and her daughter are proposing to come here."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000004.wav|At any rate, poor Sir Magnus had always been well placed, and was now working out his last year or two before the blessed achievement of his pursuit should have been reached.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000034_000000.wav|"Good gracious!|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000022_000000.wav|"I do not know that the family can have any honor left," said Florence, severely.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000005.wav|The beholder felt that she must have been as graceful when playing with her doll in the nursery.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000008.wav|In season and out of season her mother had represented as a duty this marriage with her cousin.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000039_000002.wav|They have never troubled us before, and we ought to put up with them once."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000005_000003.wav|I shouldn't like to have the altering of her." It was thus that men generally felt in regard to Florence Mountjoy.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000044_000000.wav|"But that son of his-Mountjoy.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000033_000000.wav|"You never do." Lady Mountjoy, who had not yet undergone her painting, looked cross and ill natured.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000005.wav|Mountjoy Scarborough had been so represented to her that she had considered it to be almost a duty to yield.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000045_000003.wav|To give mrs Mountjoy her due, it must be said that this had not entered into her consideration when she had written to her brother in law; but it was a burden to Sir Magnus, and had always tended to produce from him a reiteration of those invitations, which mrs Mountjoy had taken as an expression of brotherly love.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000018_000000.wav|"We at any rate are not implicated in that."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000009_000001.wav|She partly disbelieved her brother, and partly thought that circumstances could not be so bad as they were described.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000019_000002.wav|Poor Augustus is thrown into terrible difficulties."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000024_000000.wav|"Oh, mamma, he does not want us."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000030_000000.wav|He knew well that as a rule it was not fitting that he should ask a married man without his wife; but there are occasions on which an excuse can be given, and upon the whole the men liked it.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000034_000001.wav|At once?"|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000001_000000.wav|SIR MAGNUS MOUNTJOY.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000010_000003.wav|Augustus, whom she had regarded always as quite a Mountjoy, because of his talent, and appearance, and habit of command, had whispered to her a word.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000013_000001.wav|Your poor uncle is dying."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000030_000003.wav|But other gentlemen would lay themselves out to meet Sir Magnus and to ride with him, and in this way he achieved that character for popularity which had been a better aid to him in life than all the diplomatic skill which he possessed.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000057_000000.wav|And so it was settled that she and her mother were to spend a month at Brussels.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000003.wav|He was not a man who would have been left out in the cold in silence, and perhaps the feeling that such was the case had been as efficacious on his behalf as his well attested popularity.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000005_000001.wav|"No," said another,--"no|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000048_000001.wav|And for goodness' sake don't make so much trouble about things which need not be troublesome." Then Sir Magnus left his wife to ring for her chambermaid and go on with her painting, while he himself undertook the unwonted task of writing an affectionate letter to his sister in law.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000044_000005.wav|There never was such a mess about anything since London first began."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000007.wav|She had been subjected to what might be called cruel pressure.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000028_000000.wav|"Why do you want to go anywhere, mamma?|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000010.wav|But her eyes were more than ordinarily bright, and when she laughed there seemed to stream from them some heavenly delight. When she did laugh it was as though some spring had been opened from which ran for the time a stream of sweetest intimacy.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000026_000001.wav|Besides, how could that be retiring into private life?|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000001.wav|Early in life, when naturally she would not have begun to think seriously of marriage, she had been told rather than asked to give herself to her cousin Mountjoy.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000008_000007.wav|She could consent to become the wife of the man who had squandered his property and wasted his estate; but not of one who before his marriage demanded of her that submission which, as she thought, should be given by her freely after her marriage.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000017_000000.wav|"We cannot help ourselves.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000040_000000.wav|"But, my dear, what is all this about her brother?"|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000003_000002.wav|When she spoke a peculiar melody struck the hearer's ears.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000021_000000.wav|"Who tells you that?|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000003_000001.wav|But when her spell had once fallen on a man's spirit it was not often that he could escape from it quickly.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000007.wav|Here it was that the strength of Florence Mountjoy asserted itself.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000001.wav|He had been minister somewhere for a very long time, so that the memory of man hardly ran back beyond it, and was said to have gained for himself very extensive popularity.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000025_000001.wav|How do you know?"|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000027_000000.wav|"My dear, he is not ambassador.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000003.wav|They have studied their graces, and the result is there only too evident.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000045_000000.wav|Then Sir Magnus declared that, let Mountjoy Scarborough and his father have misbehaved as they might, mr Scarborough's sister must be received at Brussels.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000002.wav|She had erected nothing.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000027_000003.wav|And then he is our nearest relative,--our nearest, at least, since my own brother has made this great separation, of course.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000030_000001.wav|He was a stout, tall, portly old gentleman, sixty years of age, but looking somewhat older, whom it was a difficulty to place on horseback, but who, when there, looked remarkably well.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000011.wav|Because, it may be said, she did not love him.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000030_000002.wav|He rarely rose to a trot during his two hours of exercise, which to the two attache's who were told off for the duty of accompanying him was the hardest part of their allotted work.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000010_000005.wav|She did not like to be untrue to her gallant nephew. But as she came to turn it in her mind there were certain circumstances which recommended the change to her-should the change be necessary. Florence certainly had expressed an unintelligible objection to the elder brother.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000008_000006.wav|Then came his debts, and with the knowledge of them a keener perception of his imperiousness.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000052_000000.wav|"What does he say?"|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000044_000004.wav|The girl was engaged to him, you know, and has only thrown him off since his own father declared that he was not legitimate.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000001.wav|There are women whose grace is so remarkable as to demand the attention of all.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000015_000001.wav|And then poor Mountjoy has disappeared.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000010.wav|Though pure herself, she was rarely shocked by the ways of others.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000015_000000.wav|"I fear, nevertheless, that he is dying,--though it may, perhaps, take a long time.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000007_000015.wav|She did not quite know at first that she loved Harry Annesley, but was almost sure that it was impossible for her to become the wife of Mountjoy Scarborough.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000049_000000.wav|The letter which Sir Magnus wrote was as follows:|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000017_000001.wav|This making his eldest son out to be-oh, something so very different-is too horrible to be thought of.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000021_000001.wav|You have no right to believe anything about such near relatives from any one.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000009.wav|She could trust to another, but in silence be quite sure of herself.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000006_000004.wav|And yet it has to be always thought of, and generally done.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000006_000002.wav|and whom should she decline to marry?|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000000.wav|In height she was a little above the common, but it was by the grace of her movements that the world was compelled to observe her figure.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000013.wav|Of Sir Magnus it was hinted that he was afraid of his wife; but in truth he desired it to be understood that all the disagreeable things done at the Embassy were done by Lady Mountjoy, and not by him.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000010_000006.wav|Why should the younger not be more successful?|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000014.wav|He did not refuse leave to the ladies to drop their cards at his hall door.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000056_000000.wav|"I never saw him but that once," said Florence.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000039_000000.wav|"Anderson will know how to look after himself," said Sir Magnus.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000035_000001.wav|Of course, I've asked them over and over again, and something was said about this autumn, when we had come back from Pimperingen."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000043_000000.wav|"He is dying, and can't be moved."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000003.wav|Nor did she know that she attempted to live by grand rules.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000026_000000.wav|"I am sure Sir Magnus will not care for our coming now.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000011.wav|You could not see her going along the boulevards in her carriage without being aware that a special personage was passing.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000004.wav|But Florence seemed to have studied nothing.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000045_000002.wav|Sir Magnus had borrowed three thousand pounds from the general which had been settled on the general's widow, and the interest was not always paid with extreme punctuality.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000021_000002.wav|Whoever told you so has been very wicked." mrs Mountjoy no doubt thought that this wicked communication had been made by Harry Annesley.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000023_000005.wav|He has always been pressing us to come."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000015_000002.wav|I think that we should see no one till the mystery about Mountjoy has been cleared up. And then the story is so very discreditable."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000010_000009.wav|Augustus had already obtained for himself among his friends the character of an eloquent young lawyer.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000026_000002.wav|Sir Magnus, as ambassador, has his house always full of company."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000047_000000.wav|"And the daughter?|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000027_000002.wav|It is not quite the same thing.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000044_000003.wav|What would you do if he were to turn up here?|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000050_000000.wav|MY DEAR SARAH,--Lady Mountjoy bids me say that we shall be delighted to receive you and my niece at the British Ministry on the first of October, and hope that you will stay with us till the end of the month.--Believe me, most affectionately yours, MAGNUS MOUNTJOY.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000008.wav|Of these Lady Mountjoy had been heard to declare that she saw no reason why, because she was the minister's wife, she should be expected to entertain all the second class world of London.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000006.wav|And it was the same with her beauty.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000020_000000.wav|"I am told that he is greatly pleased at finding that Tretton is to belong to him."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000006_000003.wav|To a girl, when it is proposed to her suddenly to change everything in life, to go altogether away and place herself under the custody of a new master, to find for herself a new home, new pursuits, new aspirations, and a strange companion, the change must be so complete as almost to frighten her by its awfulness.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000023_000001.wav|The Scarboroughs have always held their heads very high in Staffordshire, and more so of late than ever.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000035_000000.wav|"Yes, at once.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000007.wav|But they were generally English residents at Brussels, who had come to live there as a place at which education for their children would be cheaper than at home.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000005.wav|Sir Magnus had a wife of whom it was said at home that she was almost as popular as her husband; but the opinion of the world at Brussels on this subject was a good deal divided.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000054_000000.wav|"Do you know her, mamma?" asked Florence.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000008_000003.wav|He was a dark, handsome, military looking man, whose chief sin it was in the eyes of his cousin that he seemed to demand from her affection, worship, and obedience.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000044_000001.wav|It's altogether a most distressing story.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000029_000015.wav|He could ask a few men to his table without referring the matter to his wife; but every one would understand that the asking of ladies was based on a different footing.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000031_000000.wav|"What do you think?" said he, walking off with mrs Mountjoy's letter into his wife's room.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000055_000000.wav|"I did see her once; but I cannot say that I know her.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000023_000000.wav|"My dear, you have no right to say that.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000003_000000.wav|In figure, form, and face she never demanded immediate homage by the sudden flash of her beauty.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000005_000000.wav|"She's not such a wonderful beauty, after all," once said of her a gentleman to whom it may be presumed that she had not taken the trouble to be peculiarly attractive.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000002_000000.wav|It was the peculiarity of Florence Mountjoy that she did not expect other people to be as good as herself.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000004_000008.wav|Had you taken her face and measured it by certain rules, you would have found that her mouth was too large and her nose irregular.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000042_000000.wav|"How can you be sure of that?" said the anxious lady.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000017_000002.wav|I am told that nobody knows the truth."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000053_000000.wav|"That he will be delighted to receive us on the first of October.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000041_000000.wav|"She won't bring her brother with her."|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000036_000000.wav|"Why did you not tell me?"|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/104483/7460_104483_000046_000000.wav|"Take her about in the carriage," said Sir Magnus, who was beginning to be a little angry with this interference.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000028_000011.wav|It was with difficulty that she had brought herself to do that,--telling herself, however, that as the linen was there, it must be hemmed; when there had come a question of marking the sheets, she had evaded the task,--not without raising suspicion in the bosom of Madame Voss.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000020_000010.wav|'Don't put it into her head that there is to be a doubt,' said Madame Voss.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000022_000005.wav|'Speak softly to her, my dear,' said Madame Voss.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000005.wav|you must!|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000023_000000.wav|'Don't I always speak softly?' said he, turning sharply round upon his spouse.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000033_000000.wav|'If you will come, I will show you.'|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000047_000001.wav|I can't repent it.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000002.wav|There was an hour during which he could continue to exercise his eloquence upon his niece, and endeavour to induce her to authorise him to contradict her own letter.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000007.wav|Why can't you let all that come as it does with others?' 'Letter gone;--yes indeed, and now I must go after it.' 'Trouble!--yes!|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000031_000009.wav|It was seldom that she would sit down to dinner, and this therefore gave rise to no special remark.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000006.wav|This was not what Madame Voss had meant by speaking softly.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000020_000001.wav|Michel Voss had gone to his niece immediately upon his return from his walk, intending to obtain a renewed pledge from her that she would be true to her engagement.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000029_000008.wav|But Marie had been sharp enough to understand perfectly the gist of her aunt's manoeuvres and of the priest's incidental information.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000012.wav|Of course he won't.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000046_000000.wav|'I say it means nothing.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000029_000010.wav|But she did fear that if she simply told him that it must be done, he would have such a power over her that she would not succeed.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000031_000006.wav|When that hour was passed, the conveyance of her letter was insured, and then she must show the copy to her uncle.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000014.wav|She was exquisitely dear to him.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000028_000000.wav|In the mean time Marie was quite aware that it was incumbent on her to determine what she would do.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000008.wav|Why could you not tell me before you sent it?|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000003.wav|He appealed first to her affection, and then to her duty; and after that, having failed in these appeals, he poured forth the full vials of his wrath upon her head.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000011.wav|He would kiss Marie's hand, and press Marie's wrist, and hold dialogues by the eye with Marie.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000038_000000.wav|The letter was as follows:|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000047_000003.wav|I shall never become his wife;--indeed I shall not.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000030_000001.wav|Much of the day after George's departure, and much of the night, was spent in the preparation of this letter.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000025_000000.wav|'And so I do.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000002.wav|He is not deceived at all.' 'Trash-you are not fond of another man.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000012.wav|But with his wife his speech was,--not exactly yea, yea, and nay, nay,--but yes, yes, and no, no It was not unnatural therefore that she should specially dislike this weakness of his which came from his emotional temperament.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000028_000009.wav|Marie had thought of that also, and was aware that she must lose no time in making her purpose known, so that articles which would be unnecessary might not be purchased.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000001.wav|He put his hand upon her shoulder, and smiled, and murmured some word of love.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000003.wav|It is all nonsense.' 'You must do what your uncle wishes.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000037_000003.wav|I am afraid you will be angry with me, and-turn me away; but I cannot help it.'|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000029_000000.wav|But it was, as she knew, absolutely necessary that her uncle should be informed of her purpose.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000034_000001.wav|What will you show me?'|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000010.wav|I will not defend myself.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000007.wav|Could she have been allowed to dilate upon her own convictions, or had she been able adequately to express her own ideas, she would have begged that there might be no sentiment, no romance, no kissing of hands, no looking into each other's faces,--no half murmured tones of love.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000022_000002.wav|She will see the things bought for her wedding, and when she remembers that she has allowed them to come into the house without remonstrating, she will be quite unable to object.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000034_000000.wav|'Show me!|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000007.wav|She had at last formed a resolution, and her uncle's words had no effect towards turning her from it. 'Uncle Michel,' she said at last, speaking with much seriousness of purpose, and a dignity of person that was by no means thrown away upon him, 'if I am what you say, I had better go away from your house.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000043_000000.wav|'Your most humble servant, 'With the greatest respect, 'MARIE BROMAR.'|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000008.wav|I know I have been bad.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000013.wav|'I would just let things go, as though there were nothing special at all,' she said again to him, before supper, in a whisper.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000004.wav|You must, now!|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000036_000000.wav|'A letter to Urmand,' he said, as he took the paper suspiciously into his hands.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000004.wav|She was ungrateful, obstinate, false, unwomanly, disobedient, irreligious, sacrilegious, and an idiot.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000028_000006.wav|But when she had learned the truth,--a truth so unexpected,--then such servitude became impossible to her.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000046_000003.wav|'If I cannot do that, I shall at any rate see him before he gets it.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000037_000001.wav|I was obliged to write it.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000025_000001.wav|What would you have me say?'|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000042_000002.wav|I hope that you will forget me, and try to forgive me.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000013.wav|How should he? Are you not betrothed to him?|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000042_000001.wav|I did not mean to be bad.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000027_000003.wav|But he was unable to adopt that safe and golden mean, which his wife recommended.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000013.wav|He wanted to do her good, not evil.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000022_000001.wav|Let the matter go on.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000029_000004.wav|Her mind, the reader must remember, was somewhat dark in the matter.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000027_000004.wav|He could not keep himself from interchanging a piteous glance or two with Marie at supper, and put a great deal too much unction into his caress to please Madame Voss, when Marie came to kiss him before she went to bed.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000010.wav|You have been very good.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000000.wav|The letter had taken her long to write, and it took her uncle long to read, before he came to the end of it.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000005.wav|She knew that he was asking her to consent to the sacrifice, and he knew that she was imploring him to spare her.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000012.wav|You had better let me go away, and get a place as a servant among our friends at Epinal.' But Michel Voss, though he was heaping abuse upon her with the hope that he might thus achieve his purpose, had not the remotest idea of severing the connection which bound him and her together.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000047_000002.wav|How can I repent it when I really mean it?|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000020_000005.wav|After that, when George was gone, he kept away from her during the remainder of the morning.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000041_000001.wav|I have promised to be your wife, but it cannot be.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000031_000002.wav|She had posted the letter between six and seven with her own hands, and had then come trembling back to the inn, fearful that her uncle should discover what she had done before her letter should be beyond his reach.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000042_000003.wav|No one knows better than I do how bad I have been.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000037_000000.wav|'Yes, Uncle Michel.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000006.wav|Though she had deserved all these bad things which he had spoken of her, yet she should be regarded as having deserved none of them, should again be accepted as having in all points done her duty, if she would only, even now, be obedient. But she was not to be shaken.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000016.wav|'Of course, it means nothing.'|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000030_000004.wav|But the letter was written and sent.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000015.wav|If she would only let him have his way and provide for her welfare as he saw, in his wisdom, would be best, he would at once take her in his arms again and tell her that she was the apple of his eye.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000009.wav|But then her husband was, by nature, of a fervid temperament, given to the influence of unexpressed poetic emotions;--and thus subject, in spite of the strength of his will, to much weakness of purpose.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000035_000003.wav|It went this morning, and you must see it.'|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000024_000003.wav|Craft indeed was not the strong point of his character.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000044_000006.wav|Of course, you will love him.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000029_000005.wav|She was betrothed to the man, and she had always heard that a betrothal was half a marriage.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000031_000008.wav|When pressed to do so by her uncle, she declared that she had eaten lately and was not hungry.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000031_000001.wav|Then it was necessary that she should show the copy to her uncle.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000020_000006.wav|Once or twice he said a few words to his wife, and she counselled him to take no farther outward notice of anything that George had said to him.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7460/92002/7460_92002_000048_000011.wav|But nothing on earth shall make me marry him.|7460
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000015_000005.wav|The other three were bitten or scratched and treatment came too late.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000011_000000.wav|Jason was aware of part of it.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000024_000000.wav|"Wait," Jason said, taking him by the arm.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000048_000003.wav|In fact, it might be the beginning of one.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000047_000001.wav|Why did you lead those animals in here ..." His voice cracked and broke as anger choked him and spilled over.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000029_000000.wav|He was inside the city.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000041_000000.wav|Jason grabbed up the gun as it skidded almost to his feet.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000047_000000.wav|"What do you want, Jason-what are you trying to do?|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000048_000002.wav|If you want them to share it with you, you had better learn to talk nicely. Now come over here at once-and bring Brucco and Meta." Jason looked at the older man's florid and swollen face and felt a measure of sympathy. "Don't look so unhappy, it's not the end of the world.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000042_000001.wav|The single city Pyrran looked like a pin cushion.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000016_000000.wav|"Dam' beasts hurt m'head," Naxa muttered.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000028_000001.wav|Others grabbed on and bent the jagged pieces aside.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000010_000001.wav|"Biggest thing I 'ver heard.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000031_000002.wav|But they were Pyrrans, too.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000034_000000.wav|This time three men didn't make it.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000037_000001.wav|"It would blow this thing open."|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000013_000000.wav|The men were on their feet now, staring in the direction of the city. Jason had felt the twist as the attack had been driven home, and knew that this was it.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000033_000000.wav|"Keep going!" Jason shouted.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000008_000000.wav|"He's right," Naxa snorted.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000048_000006.wav|Make sure it's taped too, for replay."|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000003_000005.wav|This overlapped a length of pitted metal, large plates riveted together.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000003_000000.wav|Ahead, on the far side of a burnt corridor, stood the perimeter.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000048_000004.wav|And another thing, leave this channel open when you go.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000035_000002.wav|It broke off in his hand but the hatch remained closed.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000021_000000.wav|The sound from the speaker changed.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000011_000002.wav|It would work, he knew, if they could only keep the attack confined to a small area.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000048_000000.wav|"Watch your tongue, Kerk," Jason said with soft menace.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000028_000002.wav|The hole was filled with smoke and nothing was visible through it.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000012_000000.wav|"They hit!" Naxa said suddenly.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000034_000006.wav|Their time was running out.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000045_000008.wav|Pour in so much that it would run out of the stern tubes.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000046_000000.wav|There was only silence in the cabin now, the men who had won the ship turned to face him.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000006_000002.wav|What they had to do could only be done with a fast, light force.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000008_000003.wav|Do like 'e says."|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000027_000000.wav|The first men had slapped their wads of sticky congealed sap against the wall.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000040_000000.wav|He returned quickly, darting into the open to throw the gun to them. Before he could dive back to safety the shells caught him.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000032_000001.wav|A hail of bolts from the bows crashed into it with no effect.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000017_000001.wav|"We wait for the signal."|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000045_000006.wav|"That's the main fuel pump.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000031_000005.wav|The ship stood ahead.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000045_000007.wav|If I let it run-which I won't right now-it could quickly fill the drive chamber with raw fuel.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000006_000001.wav|There were only thirty men in the party.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000024_000003.wav|"We have four minutes to the next one-we hit the long period!"|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000049_000000.wav|Kerk started to say something, but changed his mind before he did.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000036_000000.wav|The big guns had stopped now and they could hear again.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000045_000004.wav|Do you hear that sound?"|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000003_000003.wav|Generations of attackers had bruised, broken, and undermined it. Repairs had been quickly made, patches thrust roughly into place and fixed there.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000045_000000.wav|"Yes, it's me," Jason answered.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000041_000003.wav|They were all through the air lock before the first truck appeared.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000045_000002.wav|"Listen to me, Kerk-and don't doubt anything I say.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177641/3490_177641_000007_000003.wav|That isn't the danger.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000030_000002.wav|Though they shouldn't talk.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000029_000000.wav|There was only a slight click.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000009_000006.wav|The anger washed away the fear and brought him back to reality.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000002_000000.wav|twenty three.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000032_000000.wav|It leaped.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000014_000000.wav|When nightfall came it was still raining.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000027_000003.wav|Nothing really mattered.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000034_000000.wav|Grubbers.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000028_000004.wav|One of them exposed himself and Jason pulled the trigger.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000029_000002.wav|The gun was empty, as was the spare clip pouch at his belt.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000009_000001.wav|Something caught in his throat and he coughed to clear it, spitting out blood.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000025_000000.wav|As soon as the thought hit him he looked up-not a moment too soon.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000027_000002.wav|Yet the fact didn't bother him greatly.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000024_000003.wav|Did they hunt in packs, too?|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000009_000005.wav|He ended up shouting and shaking his fist at nothing in particular, but it helped.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000019_000000.wav|Pneumonia.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000030_000000.wav|This, then, was the end.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000030_000003.wav|It would kill them all in the end, too. Pyrrans never died in bed.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000030_000004.wav|Old Pyrrans never died, they just got et.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000022_000000.wav|A choking growl echoed behind him.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000018_000003.wav|The way he felt.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000010_000000.wav|Sitting on the ground felt good now.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000020_000002.wav|Well, he had the remedy for this one, too.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177638/3490_177638_000011_000001.wav|Well battered, but still alive.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000038_000005.wav|It was immense, at least two meters thick and with no indication of its length. The flames didn't stop it at all, just annoyed it.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000052_000000.wav|Jason crawled.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000038_000000.wav|This was putting it very mildly.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000046_000002.wav|Shaped like a plant, yet with the motions of an animal. And cracking, splitting.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000009_000000.wav|Kerk burst through the door and headed for the street entrance.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000018_000000.wav|"All perimeter stations send twenty five per cent of your complement to Area Twelve."|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000038_000001.wav|The napalm caught, tongues of flame and roiling, greasy smoke climbed up to the sky.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000037_000000.wav|"Back quick.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000033_000004.wav|I can still shoot.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000023_000002.wav|Orders?"|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000010_000001.wav|Can't you tell me?" He shook her arm.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000030_000005.wav|He couldn't have been more wrong.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000037_000001.wav|They don't like heat," he said.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000012_000002.wav|I'll be all right."|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000045_000002.wav|Jason stood, frozen.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000007_000001.wav|It took Jason a moment to realize that it was a mechanical signal, not a human voice.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000035_000001.wav|"They found the napalm.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000039_000003.wav|Not that it seemed to have any effect.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000052_000006.wav|He offered no protest and could not have even if Kerk had killed him.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000048_000001.wav|He should have died.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000047_000000.wav|Seams and openings appeared.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000033_000002.wav|When he smiled it was a grimace of pain, empty of humor.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000045_000000.wav|There are seconds of time that seem to last an eternity.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000053_000001.wav|He did not lose consciousness as the truck bounced away, yet he could not move.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000009_000002.wav|Meta looked confused, leaning towards the door, then looking back at Jason.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000042_000002.wav|But what area?|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000045_000001.wav|A moment of subjective time that is grabbed and stretched to an infinite distance. This was one of those moments.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000017_000002.wav|He used it for general commands.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000044_000000.wav|It was too late.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000004_000000.wav|"Kerk must see this book," Jason said.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000029_000006.wav|Other than that he couldn't determine the nature of the battle.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000044_000002.wav|Safety lay ahead.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000051_000000.wav|It was too late.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000044_000003.wav|Only in front of it rose an arch of dirt encrusted gray.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000008_000000.wav|"What is it?" he asked.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000020_000000.wav|"... Abandon the first floor, acid bombs can't reach."|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000028_000003.wav|He lay there, his chest heaving.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000033_000005.wav|Two half men-maybe we equal one whole." Jason was laboring too hard to even notice the insult.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000001_000003.wav|He never lived to change his mind.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000019_000000.wav|The small images reappeared and the babble increased, red lights flickering from face to face.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000001_000000.wav|Further reading of the log produced no new evidence.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3490/177627/3490_177627_000048_000003.wav|Jason knew nothing.|3490
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000024_000000.wav|'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000060_000000.wav|She looked at the Queen, who seemed to have suddenly wrapped herself up in wool.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000096_000001.wav|'How do you sell them?'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000045_000000.wav|By this time it was getting light.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000050_000001.wav|Let's consider your age to begin with-how old are you?'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000035_000000.wav|Alice was just beginning to say 'There's a mistake somewhere-,' when the Queen began screaming so loud that she had to leave the sentence unfinished.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000043_000000.wav|'But why don't you scream now?' Alice asked, holding her hands ready to put over her ears again.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000023_000001.wav|'I can't remember things before they happen.'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000011_000001.wav|'Come, you look rather better now!' she said, after altering most of the pins.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000011_000000.wav|Alice carefully released the brush, and did her best to get the hair into order.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000034_000000.wav|'But if you HADN'T done them,' the Queen said, 'that would have been better still; better, and better, and better!' Her voice went higher with each 'better,' till it got quite to a squeak at last.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000084_000001.wav|'If you don't mind stopping the boat for a minute.'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000084_000000.wav|'No, but I meant-please, may we wait and pick some?' Alice pleaded.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000029_000000.wav|Alice felt there was no denying THAT. 'Of course it would be all the better,' she said: 'but it wouldn't be all the better his being punished.'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000060_000002.wav|She couldn't make out what had happened at all.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000037_000000.wav|'What IS the matter?' she said, as soon as there was a chance of making herself heard.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000068_000000.wav|'Are you a child or a teetotum?' the Sheep said, as she took up another pair of needles.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000091_000001.wav|'That was a nice crab you caught!' she remarked, as Alice got back into her place, very much relieved to find herself still in the boat.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000056_000002.wav|There goes the shawl again!'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000093_000000.wav|'Are there many crabs here?' said Alice.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000066_000002.wav|It'll puzzle it to go through the ceiling, I expect!'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000031_000000.wav|'Only for faults,' said Alice.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000045_000001.wav|'The crow must have flown away, I think,' said Alice: 'I'm so glad it's gone.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000066_000001.wav|'And this one is the most provoking of all-but I'll tell you what-' she added, as a sudden thought struck her, 'I'll follow it up to the very top shelf of all.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000091_000000.wav|However, she wasn't hurt, and was soon up again: the Sheep went on with her knitting all the while, just as if nothing had happened.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000012_000001.wav|'Twopence a week, and jam every other day.'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000042_000000.wav|'That accounts for the bleeding, you see,' she said to Alice with a smile.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000062_000000.wav|'I don't QUITE know yet,' Alice said, very gently.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000014_000000.wav|'It's very good jam,' said the Queen.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000062_000001.wav|'I should like to look all round me first, if I might.'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000059_000000.wav|'Oh, much better!' cried the Queen, her voice rising to a squeak as she went on.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000074_000002.wav|'You'll be catching a crab directly.'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000020_000000.wav|'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first-'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000057_000001.wav|The Queen spread out her arms again, and went flying after it, and this time she succeeded in catching it for herself.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000048_000003.wav|Consider what o'clock it is.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000049_000000.wav|Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. 'Can YOU keep from crying by considering things?' she asked.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000082_000002.wav|'There really are-and SUCH beauties!'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000087_000002.wav|Only I couldn't quite reach it.' 'And it certainly DID seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000027_000000.wav|'Suppose he never commits the crime?' said Alice.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000099_000000.wav|'Only you MUST eat them both, if you buy two,' said the Sheep.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000044_000000.wav|'Why, I've done all the screaming already,' said the Queen. 'What would be the good of having it all over again?'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000056_000000.wav|'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000025_000000.wav|'What sort of things do YOU remember best?' Alice ventured to ask.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000048_000001.wav|'Consider what a great girl you are.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000094_000000.wav|'Crabs, and all sorts of things,' said the Sheep: 'plenty of choice, only make up your mind.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000008_000000.wav|'I don't know what's the matter with it!' the Queen said, in a melancholy voice.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000100_000001.wav|For she thought to herself, 'They mightn't be at all nice, you know.'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000060_000004.wav|And was that really-was it really a SHEEP that was sitting on the other side of the counter?|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000082_000000.wav|'Oh, please!|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000098_000000.wav|'Then two are cheaper than one?' Alice said in a surprised tone, taking out her purse.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000058_000000.wav|'Then I hope your finger is better now?' Alice said very politely, as she crossed the little brook after the Queen.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000096_000000.wav|'I should like to buy an egg, please,' she said timidly.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000092_000001.wav|I didn't see it,' Said Alice, peeping cautiously over the side of the boat into the dark water.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000101_000000.wav|The Sheep took the money, and put it away in a box: then she said 'I never put things into people's hands-that would never do-you must get it for yourself.' And so saying, she went off to the other end of the shop, and set the egg upright on a shelf.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000055_000000.wav|Alice laughed.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000102_000002.wav|Why, it's got branches, I declare!|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000007_000001.wav|'Every single thing's crooked,' Alice thought to herself, 'and she's all over pins!--may I put your shawl straight for you?' she added aloud.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000060_000001.wav|Alice rubbed her eyes, and looked again.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000037_000001.wav|'Have you pricked your finger?'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000017_000000.wav|'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to day,"' Alice objected.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000075_000000.wav|'A dear little crab!' thought Alice. 'I should like that.'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000087_000000.wav|'I only hope the boat won't tipple over!' she said to herself.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000033_000000.wav|'Yes, but then I HAD done the things I was punished for,' said Alice: 'that makes all the difference.'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000048_000004.wav|Consider anything, only don't cry!'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000051_000000.wav|'I'm seven and a half exactly.'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000092_000000.wav|'Was it?|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000048_000000.wav|'Oh, don't go on like that!' cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000053_000000.wav|'I can't believe THAT!' said Alice.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000056_000001.wav|Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000019_000000.wav|'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing!'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000076_000000.wav|'Didn't you hear me say "Feather"?' the Sheep cried angrily, taking up quite a bunch of needles.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000079_000000.wav|'WHY do you say "feather" so often?' Alice asked at last, rather vexed. 'I'm not a bird!'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000015_000000.wav|'Well, I don't want any TO DAY, at any rate.'|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000054_000000.wav|'Can't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2785/163322/2785_163322_000061_000000.wav|'What is it you want to buy?' the Sheep said at last, looking up for a moment from her knitting.|2785
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000002.wav|The officers bade me accompany them in their search.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000020_000000.wav|For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000005.wav|The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the spectators.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000006_000001.wav|Observing my partiality for domestic pets, she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000007.wav|I walked the cellar from end to end.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000002.wav|He went about the house as usual, but, as might be expected, fled in extreme terror at my approach.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000004.wav|But this feeling soon gave place to irritation.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000003.wav|They left no nook or corner unexplored.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000020_000004.wav|I did not, for some weeks, strike or otherwise violently ill use it, but gradually-very gradually-I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence as from the breath of a pestilence.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000020_000002.wav|By slow degrees these feelings of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000004_000008.wav|Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the commonplace-some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000027_000002.wav|Many projects entered my mind.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000004.wav|At length, for the third or fourth time they descended into the cellar.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000018_000002.wav|I at once offered to purchase it of the landlord; but this person made no claim to it-knew nothing of it-had never seen it before.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000021_000001.wav|This circumstance, however, only endeared it to my wife, who, as I have already said, possessed in a high degree that humanity of feeling which had once been my distinguishing trait, and the source of my simplest and purest pleasures.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000004_000003.wav|But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburthen my soul.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000009_000005.wav|I not only neglected but ill used them.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000026_000002.wav|Uplifting an ax, and forgetting in my wrath the childish dread which had hitherto stayed my hand, I aimed a blow at the animal, which of course would have proved instantly fatal had it descended as I wished.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000003.wav|In the next a dozen stout arms were toiling at the wall.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000017_000002.wav|I approached it, and touched it with my hand.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000028_000001.wav|Its walls were loosely constructed and had lately been plastered throughout with a rough plaster, which the dampness of the atmosphere had prevented from hardening.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000015_000000.wav|When I first beheld this apparition-for I could scarcely regard it as less-my wonder and my terror were extreme.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000019_000001.wav|I permitted it to do so, occasionally stooping and patting it as I proceeded.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000023_000000.wav|This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil-and yet I should be at a loss how otherwise to define it.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000001.wav|By means of a crowbar I easily dislodged the bricks, and having carefully deposited the body against the inner wall, I propped it in that position, while with little trouble I relaid the whole structure as it originally stood.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000004.wav|It fell bodily.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000006.wav|Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000005.wav|I quivered not in a muscle.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000026_000000.wav|One day she accompanied me upon some household errand into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000006.wav|I looked around triumphantly, and said to myself-"Here at last, then, my labour has not been in vain."|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000006.wav|My heart beat calmly as that of one who slumbers in innocence.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000010_000006.wav|I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000021_000000.wav|What added, no doubt, to my hatred of the beast was the discovery, on the morning after I brought it home, that, like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one of its eyes.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000013_000004.wav|My entire worldly wealth was swallowed up, and I resigned myself forward to despair.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000013_000001.wav|The curtains of my bed were in flames. The whole house was blazing.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000011_000000.wav|When reason returned with the morning-when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch-I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty, but it was at best a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000014_000010.wav|There was a rope about the animal's neck.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000013_000003.wav|The destruction was complete.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000013_000002.wav|It was with great difficulty that my wife, a servant, and myself, made our escape from the conflagration.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000005_000003.wav|With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000026_000005.wav|She fell dead upon the spot without a groan.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000030_000001.wav|Had I been able to meet with it at the moment there could have been no doubt of its fate, but it appeared that the crafty animal had been alarmed at the violence of my previous anger, and forbore to present itself in my present mood.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000014_000000.wav|I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect between the disaster and the atrocity.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000009_000001.wav|I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000014_000004.wav|This exception was found in a compartment wall, not very thick, which stood about the middle of the house, and against which had rested the head of my bed.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000010_000000.wav|One night, returning home much intoxicated from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000026_000001.wav|The cat followed me down the steep stairs, and nearly throwing me headlong, exasperated me to madness.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000004_000005.wav|In their consequences these events have terrified-have tortured-have destroyed me.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000009_000004.wav|My pets of course were made to feel the change in my disposition.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000023_000002.wav|My wife had called my attention more than once to the character of the mark of white hair, of which I have spoken, and which constituted the sole visible difference between the strange beast and the one I had destroyed.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000008_000002.wav|It was even with difficulty that I could prevent him from following me through the streets.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000005_000004.wav|This peculiarity of character grew with my growth, and in my manhood I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000022_000001.wav|It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000034_000000.wav|But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the arch fiend!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000005_000002.wav|I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000016_000000.wav|Although I thus readily accounted to my reason, if not altogether to my conscience, for the startling fact just detailed, it did not the less fail to make a deep impression upon my fancy.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000025_000000.wav|Beneath the pressure of torments such as these, the feeble remnant of the good within me succumbed.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000010_000002.wav|The fury of a demon instantly possessed me.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000028_000002.wav|Moreover, in one of the walls was a projection caused by a false chimney or fireplace, that had been filled up and made to resemble the rest of the cellar.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000030_000002.wav|It is impossible to describe or to imagine the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000004_000001.wav|Mad indeed would I be to expect it in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000028_000003.wav|I made no doubt that I could readily displace the bricks at this point, insert the corpse, and wall the whole up as before, so that no eye could detect anything suspicious.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000007_000001.wav|In speaking of his intelligence, my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000004_000000.wav|For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000001.wav|The socket of the lost eye presented, it is true, a frightful appearance, but he no longer appeared to suffer any pain.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000004_000004.wav|My immediate purpose is to place before the world plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000025_000001.wav|Evil thoughts became my sole intimates-the darkest and most evil of thoughts.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000005.wav|And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of PERVERSENESS.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000030_000000.wav|My next step was to look for the beast which had been the cause of so much wretchedness, for I had at length firmly resolved to put it to death.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000005.wav|The rubbish on the floor was picked up with the minutest care.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000031_000006.wav|I looked upon my future felicity as secured.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000009.wav|The police were thoroughly satisfied, and prepared to depart.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000017_000000.wav|One night, as I sat half stupefied in a den of more than infamy, my attention was suddenly drawn to some black object, reposing upon the head of one of the immense hogsheads of gin or of rum, which constituted the chief furniture of the apartment.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000022_000002.wav|Whenever I sat, it would crouch beneath my chair or spring upon my knees, covering me with its loathsome caresses.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000027_000001.wav|I knew that I could not remove it from the house, either by day or by night, without the risk of being observed by the neighbours.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000019_000002.wav|When it reached the house it domesticated itself at once, and became immediately a great favourite with my wife.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000003.wav|When I had finished I felt satisfied that all was all right.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000033_000001.wav|I wish you all health, and a little more courtesy.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000031_000005.wav|Even a search had been instituted-but of course nothing was to be discovered.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000017_000003.wav|It was a black cat-a very large one-fully as large as Pluto, and closely resembling him in every respect but one.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000027_000000.wav|This hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith and with entire deliberation to the task of concealing the body.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000017_000001.wav|I had been looking steadily at the top of this hogshead for some minutes, and what now caused me surprise was the fact that I had not sooner perceived the object thereupon.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000027_000006.wav|I determined to wall it up in the cellar-as the monks of the middle ages are recorded to have walled up their victims.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000000.wav|And in this calculation I was not deceived.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000010.wav|The glee at my heart was too strong to be restrained.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000001.wav|Swooning, I staggered to the opposite wall.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000023_000001.wav|I am almost ashamed to own-yes, even in this felon's cell, I am almost ashamed to own-that the terror and horror with which the animal inspired me had been heightened by one of the merest chimeras it would be possible to conceive.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000014_000007.wav|The words "Strange!" "Singular!" and other similar expressions, excited my curiosity.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000031_000002.wav|I should behold it no more!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000020_000003.wav|I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000010.wav|This spirit of perverseness, I say, came to my final overthrow.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000009_000006.wav|For Pluto, however, I still retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him, as I made no scruple of maltreating the rabbits, the monkey, or even the dog, when by accident, or through affection, they came in my way.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000002.wav|Having procured mortar, sand, and hair with every possible precaution, I prepared a plaster which could not be distinguished from the old, and with this I very carefully went over the new brick work.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000010_000004.wav|My original soul seemed at once to take its flight from my body, and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin nurtured, thrilled every fiber of my frame.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000032_000001.wav|Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000010_000005.wav|I took from my waistcoat pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000022_000000.wav|With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000015_000003.wav|Upon the alarm of fire this garden had been immediately filled by the crowd, by some one of whom the animal must have been cut from the tree and thrown through an open window into my chamber.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000009_000003.wav|At length, I even offered her personal violence.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000009_000000.wav|Our friendship lasted in this manner for several years, during which my general temperament and character-through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance-had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000014_000005.wav|The plastering had here in great measure resisted the action of the fire, a fact which I attributed to its having recently spread.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000031_000001.wav|The monster, in terror, had fled the premises forever!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000010_000001.wav|I seized him, when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000035_000002.wav|For one instant the party upon the stairs remained motionless, through extremity of terror and of awe.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000015_000004.wav|This had probably been done with the view of arousing me from sleep.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000017_000004.wav|Pluto had not a white hair upon any portion of his body; but this cat had a large, although indefinite splotch of white, covering nearly the whole region of the breast.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000018_000000.wav|Upon my touching him he immediately arose, purred loudly, rubbed against my hand, and appeared delighted with my notice.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000003.wav|I had so much of my old heart left as to be at first grieved by this evident dislike on the part of a creature which had once so loved me.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000029_000004.wav|The wall did not present the slightest appearance of having been disturbed.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000012_000006.wav|Of this spirit philosophy takes no account.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000015_000002.wav|The cat, I remembered, had been hung in a garden adjacent to the house.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000018_000001.wav|This, then, was the very creature of which I was in search.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000015_000001.wav|But at length reflection came to my aid.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/80192/5012_80192_000033_000003.wav|These walls-are you going, gentlemen?--these walls are solidly put together;" and here, through the mere frenzy of bravado, I rapped heavily with a cane which I held in my hand upon that very portion of the brick work behind which stood the corpse of the wife of my bosom.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000003.wav|The blood stings. The heart leaps.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000010.wav|It is red.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000012.wav|His face is white, but still the smile is there; and now it is calmer and more sweet, though still he whispers, 'I know not if it be the end or the beginning!'|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000006.wav|Flickering of light on steel, the flash of servant forces used to slay, the reverberant growl of engines made for death, the passing of men in cloth and men in blankets, the tramp of hurrying hoofs, the falling of men who die-can you see this-can you catch the horror, the exultation, the joy of this, I say?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000015.wav|Do you see him lay his head upon the earth?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000008.wav|He goes by saddle, and the mountains hem him in, but now he smiles the more.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000001.wav|Now, since he cherished the rose so well, see, the rose will not leave him.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000001.wav|The heavens weep for him.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000002.wav|Out of the dust it rises, it grows, it blooms. Against his lips it presses.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000001.wav|Do you know the mowing of the death scythes? Hark!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000008.wav|It is the end and the beginning.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000005.wav|It is all.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000010.wav|See, the trail is gone!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000007_000004.wav|We do not understand.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000018_000001.wav|The pageant of the hills, the panorama of the battle, faded and were gone.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000012_000000.wav|"Here are those who ride against those who slay.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000000.wav|"You know of this biting whistle in the air-this small thing that smites unseen?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000006.wav|He was so brave and strong!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000000.wav|"He loved the valley, the mountain, the grass, the rose.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000007.wav|They come, they go; they run their race, and it is all.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000006.wav|It is done.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000000.wav|"Look!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000004.wav|He loved, he thought, he knew.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000007.wav|It is the way of life.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000003.wav|It is the beginning!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000007_000003.wav|The rose and the skull love one another. They understand.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000001.wav|It is the time of war.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000003.wav|The earth pillows him.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000012.wav|Do you see the red rose on his breast?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000011_000002.wav|There is music.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000017_000002.wav|We do not yet understand."|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000017_000001.wav|They understand.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000013.wav|Always the rose is there.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000004.wav|He sleeps.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000004.wav|He has fallen.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000018_000002.wav|The table and the books came back.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000006.wav|It is but the beginning!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000016_000005.wav|He is not dead He is with Nature.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000013_000011.wav|The rose upon his breast is red.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000006_000002.wav|It plucked the leaf, which made a buckler for its small throbbing breast.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000000.wav|"It is peace upon the land.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000014_000000.wav|"He is alone with Nature again.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000006_000003.wav|It spoke:|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000002.wav|He smiles, but he is sad.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000006_000001.wav|It reached down a tiny pink paw and touched a leaf of the brave red rose which every day lies before the skull.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000010_000014.wav|Do you see him look up at the mountains, about him at the trees?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000012_000002.wav|It is he who said in the mountains that riddle of the end and the beginning-who knew that to the heart of nature we must come, for either the end or the beginning of this, our life.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31089/5012_31089_000017_000000.wav|"Let the rose press against his lips in an eternal, pure caress. There is no end.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000024_000002.wav|After that, motherly reproach, fatherly inquiry, plenteous bread and milk, many eager explanations and much descriptive narrative simultaneously uttered by two mouths eager both to eat and to talk.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000025_000003.wav|I thank you, Singing Mouse; but I beg you do not go for yet a time.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000014.wav|Father must be asked about this tremendous, startling bird.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000011_000005.wav|There were known to be strange creatures in these woods, one knew not what.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000008.wav|This was the valley of Ajalon, perhaps, of which one had heard in the class at Sabbath school. And surely this was a good, droning, yellow bodied bee-where did the bees go to when they rose up straight into the air?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000018_000001.wav|It gathers its forces, it flies!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000007.wav|The pulse must have grown hard, the mouth must have been dry with the ardor of the chase, at those times.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000003.wav|Surely, it must be the footfall of some large animal, this cadenced rustling on the leaves!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000021_000000.wav|The elder hunter bethinks him of a solution for this problem. The broken blade will do to gnaw off this bough, and it will serve to make a split in the end of it.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000005.wav|Look!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000000.wav|But hush!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000017_000006.wav|Victory!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000004_000006.wav|They brought forth to view in alternate eclipse and definition the great, grim bear's head which hung above the mantel.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000004_000007.wav|Every trophy gathered in years of the chase, once perhaps prized, now perhaps forgotten, was brought into evidence, nor could one escape noting each one, and giving to each, for this one night more, the story which belonged to it.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000007_000001.wav|"Maker of dreams, tell me what you know to night."|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000011_000004.wav|It was not, perhaps, safe to venture so far.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000015.wav|Meantime, the heart having begun to beat again, let the two adventurers press yet a little farther on.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000025_000001.wav|"It all comes back again.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000006.wav|The blood must have surged, in those moments.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000014_000000.wav|And so, with fears and tremblings, with doubts and joys, through briers and flowers, through hindrances and recompenses, along this crooked, winding, unknown road which led on out into the Unknown, they wandered, as in life we all are wandering to day.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000013.wav|How should either of you yet know the thunderous flight of the wild grouse, this great bird which whirled away through the brown leaves of the oaks?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000012.wav|Clutch closer, little brother, though both be pale!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000004.wav|Of course, they all were thrilling, exciting, delightful, glorious, all those things.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000003.wav|That wolf-how many of the hounds he mangled, I remember; and the giant bear, it was a good fight he made, perhaps dangerous, had the old rifle there been less sure. Yes, yes, of course, I could recall each incident.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000020_000006.wav|What is to be done?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000025_000002.wav|No chase was ever or will ever be so great as this one-back there, near the Delectable Mountains, in those days gone by, those incomparable days of youth!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000019_000003.wav|The heart of the hunter has now been born for each. Fear and defeat are known no longer in the compass of their thoughts.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000009.wav|And this little mouse, what became of it in winter?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000010_000004.wav|But when the Singing Mouse whispered, "Do you see?" I murmured in reply, "I see it all again!"|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000009_000000.wav|"I will tell you which trophy you most prize," it said.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000019_000006.wav|Better for this creature had it never disturbed these two with its footfalls approaching among the leaves.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000019_000005.wav|So spake the good old savagery of the natural man.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000004_000003.wav|They danced about the tangled front of the big bison's head which hung upon the wall.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000002.wav|What is it, this sound, approaching, coming directly toward the road?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000010_000003.wav|The level swinging speed of the antelope, the slinking of the lynx, the crashing flight of the wapiti-no, it was none of these that came to mind; nor did the mountains nor the plains, nor the wilderness of the pines.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000010.wav|Does the heart leap to night, do the veins fill with the rush of the blood, tumultuous in the joy of stimulus or danger?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000020_000004.wav|The hole in the stump yields not to slashings, nor to attempts to pry it open.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000006_000000.wav|"I know," said the Singing Mouse, which unknown to me had come and placed itself upon the table.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000017_000000.wav|Each heart now thumped hard with the surging blood it bore; but it was now the blood of hunters and not of boys.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000020_000000.wav|The sun forgot its part, and sank red, though reluctant, beyond the Delectable Mountains.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000010_000001.wav|I heard not the thunder of the hoofs of buffalo, nor the faint crack of the twig beneath the panther's foot.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000011.wav|What was that-that awful burst of sound?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000022_000001.wav|Cruel barbarians, thoughtless, relentless!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000006.wav|Yet the cawing of a crow across the woods seemed friendly, and a small brown bird which hopped ahead along the road was intimate and kind, and thus touched the founts of bravery in the two venturous hearts.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000006_000001.wav|"I know." And it climbed upon my arm which lay across the table.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000006.wav|There it is, a great animal, half the length of one's arm, with bushy, long red tail arched high for easier running, its grayish coat showing in the bars of sunlight, its eyes bright and black and keen.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000005.wav|Of course, the heart must have leaped in those days.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000004_000008.wav|I sat and looked upon them all, and so there passed a panorama of the years.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000020_000002.wav|Be kindly, for by moonlight one still may labor, and here is labor to be done.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000010_000002.wav|I saw not the lurching gallop of the long jawed wolf, nor the high, elastic bounding of the deer.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000002.wav|These huge antlers could grow only amid the forests of the Rockies.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000004_000002.wav|And so each shadow found its partner in a ray of firelight, and there they danced.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000020_000003.wav|Every blade in the Barlow knives is broken.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000019_000004.wav|Follow, follow, follow!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000025_000004.wav|The heads upon the wall grin much, and the dust lies thick upon them all."|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000010_000000.wav|And so I gazed where the Singing Mouse pointed, quite beyond the dusty walls, and there I saw as it had said.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000002.wav|They scarce dared fare farther on, but yet would not turn back.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000003_000000.wav|THE BEAST TERRIBLE|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000008_000001.wav|I looked at it so closely that a dream came upon my eyes, so that the voice of the Singing Mouse sounded far away and faint, though it was still clear and resonant in its own peculiar way and very fine and sweet.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000011_000000.wav|I saw the small, low hills, well covered with short oaks and hazel bushes, which rolled on away from the village, far out, almost to the Delectable Mountains, which are well known to be upon the edge of the world.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000011.wav|Why does not the old eagerness come back?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000004.wav|It comes-it will cross near-there, it has turned, it is near the road!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000020_000005.wav|The prey is still unreached.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000009.wav|But why?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000004.wav|The sudden clanging note of the jay near by caused them to stop, heart in mouth for the moment.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000008.wav|But now?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000021_000001.wav|And if one be fortunate, and if this split bestride the tail of the concealed animal, and if the stick be twisted-|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000018_000002.wav|Pursuit then, but pursuit apparently useless, for the animal has found refuge deep in this hollow stump, beyond the reach of longest mortal arm!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000019_000001.wav|Roar, grouse, and clamor on, all ye jangling jays.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000024_000000.wav|The moon was over Ajalon when these two hunters, after all the perils of the long, black road, marched up into the dooryard, bearing on a pole between them their quarry, well suspended by the gambrels.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000001.wav|This antelope takes me back to the hard, white Plains.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000011_000002.wav|This was a pleasant road, lined with brave sumacs, with bushes of the wild blackberry, and with small hazel trees which soon would offer fruit for the regular harvest of the fall, this same to be spread for drying on the woodshed roof.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000016_000001.wav|Listen!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000012.wav|Which of these trophies is the one to bring this back again?|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000018_000000.wav|But ho! the creature rallies-recovers!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000011_000001.wav|Through these low hills a winding road led on, a road whose end no man had ever reached, but which went to places where, no doubt, many wonders were-perhaps even to the Delectable Mountains; for so a wise man once had said, his words harkened to with awe.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000013_000010.wav|And-ah!|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5012/31097/5012_31097_000005_000000.wav|"There," thought I, "is the stag which once fell far in the pine woods of the North.|5012
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000071_000000.wav|"I will not swear that I put the bank note inside the letter," deliberately repeated mr Galloway.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000088_000000.wav|He spoke a word of farewell, which mr Galloway replied to by a nod, and went into the front office.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000055_000001.wav|mr Galloway also was of their party.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000073_000000.wav|"The meaning is plain enough," replied mr Galloway, calmly.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000080_000000.wav|"Who said our office was going to be put down for a thief's!" uttered Roland.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000080_000002.wav|Here's your place, Arthur."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000069_000000.wav|The magistrates pricked up their ears.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000066_000000.wav|"No doubt he was."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000030_000003.wav|Were I told that I might lie in bed every morning until nine or ten o'clock, as a great favour, I should consider it a great punishment."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000024_000001.wav|When she was a little girl, a child of her own age, the daughter of one of the nobility, was brought to Kensington Palace to spend the day with her.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000033_000000.wav|"What?" asked Caroline, eagerly.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000037_000000.wav|It was one of the first of Constance Channing's bitter pills; they were to be her portion for many a day.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000005_000004.wav|Caroline kept it for two mornings and then failed. This morning and the previous morning Constance had been there at seven, and returned home without seeing either of the children.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000023_000000.wav|"Oh, Miss Channing, now you are laughing at me!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000015_000001.wav|But it was not spoken very readily, for she had a suspicion that Miss Channing was laughing at her.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000091_000001.wav|"Galloway has never turned you off!"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000026_000003.wav|What do you suppose would be her Majesty's surprise, were one of her daughters-say, the Princess Helena, or the Princess Louise-to decline to rise early for their morning studies with their governess, Miss Hildyard, on the plea that it was not 'lady like'?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000063_000001.wav|Did he see you put it into the letter?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000097_000000.wav|"Did you help him to take it, pray, that you identify yourself with the affair so persistently and violently?" demanded mr Galloway, in a cynical tone.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000027_000000.wav|Caroline's objection appeared to be melting away under her.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000040_000000.wav|"Oh no"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000094_000000.wav|"Are you taken crazy, mr Roland Yorke?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000070_000000.wav|"What do you say?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000034_000001.wav|"Jesus Christ said, 'If any will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.' When once we learn HOW to take it up cheerfully, bravely, for His sake, looking to Him to be helped, the sting is gone.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000019_000001.wav|Mary Jolliffe says she never gets up until half past eight, and that it is not lady like to get up earlier.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000005_000000.wav|There are times in our every day lives when all things seem to wear a depressing aspect, turn which way we will.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000080_000001.wav|"Old Galloway's a trump!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000042_000001.wav|"He did not take it," she replied, in a clear, soft tone.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000095_000000.wav|The question proceeded from his master, who came forth to make it. Roland turned to him, his temper unsubdued, and his colour rising.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000057_000000.wav|"On the afternoon of the loss, before you closed your letter, who were in your office?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000027_000001.wav|"But it is a dreadful plague," she grumbled, "to be obliged to get up from one's nice warm bed, for the sake of some horrid old lessons!"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000028_000001.wav|"Put that notion away from you at once and for ever, Caroline; there cannot be a more false one.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000054_000000.wav|Meanwhile, at the very moment her ladyship was speaking, the magistrates were in the town hall in full conclave-the case before them.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000007_000001.wav|"I can't wake when Martha comes."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000030_000001.wav|"Do you remember the good old saying, 'Do what you ought, that you may do what you like'?|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000059_000000.wav|"They saw the letter, I believe?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000028_000002.wav|The higher we go in the scale of life, the more onerous become our duties in this world, and the greater is our responsibility to God.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000083_000002.wav|Do you wish me to leave?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000014_000000.wav|"You think 'real ladies' wait until the sun has been up a few hours and warmed the earth for them?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty six.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000047_000000.wav|"Oh, dear!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000036_000001.wav|Some visitors have just called in upon me, and they say the town is ringing with the news."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000085_000001.wav|Once convince mr Galloway that he was not the guilty party, and that gentleman would forthwith issue fresh instructions to Butterby for the further investigation of the affair: of this Arthur felt convinced.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000063_000000.wav|"It was the prisoner, Arthur Channing, who fetched the bank note from your private room to the other?|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000005_000003.wav|You heard the promise made to her by Caroline Yorke, to be up and ready for her every morning at seven.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000052_000000.wav|"Not by actual proof, I fear," answered Constance, pressing her hand upon her brow as she remembered that he could only be proved innocent by another's being proved guilty.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000037_000001.wav|Her heart fluttered, her cheek varied, and her answer to Lady Augusta Yorke was low and timid.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000021_000000.wav|"Oh, yes!" replied Caroline, her listless mood changing to animation; anecdotes, or anything of that desultory kind, being far more acceptable to the young lady than lessons.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000087_000000.wav|"Yes," shortly replied mr Galloway.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000045_000001.wav|"We were late, and he was the only one up; Gerald and Tod were in bed.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000056_000002.wav|mr Galloway was questioned; and for some minutes it all went on swimmingly.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000092_000000.wav|"Yes, he has."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000050_000001.wav|She bent her face over the exercise she was correcting.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000081_000001.wav|He had seen from the window the approach of mr Galloway, and delicacy prevented his assuming his old post until bade to do so.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000026_000001.wav|I think there is little doubt of its truth.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000029_000001.wav|"I wish mamma had trained me to it when I was a child, as the Duchess of Kent trained the princess!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000093_000002.wav|Catch me stopping for it!"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000050_000000.wav|Constance felt her colour deepen.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000039_000000.wav|"What a shocking thing!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000020_000000.wav|"My dear, shall I relate to you an anecdote that I have heard?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000024_000000.wav|"Very good.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000029_000002.wav|I might have learned to like it by this time."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000048_000000.wav|"Be at ease, Lady Augusta," returned Constance, with a tinge of irony she could not wholly suppress.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000049_000001.wav|He does not deserve that such a blow should come to him."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000056_000001.wav|The latter gentleman was in high feather also, believing he saw his way clear to a triumphant conviction.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000048_000001.wav|"Your son will incur no harm from the companionship of Arthur."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000034_000002.wav|'No cross, no crown,' you know, my children."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000051_000000.wav|"Is he likely to be cleared of the charge?" perseveringly resumed Lady Augusta.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000024_000003.wav|'At seven o'clock!' exclaimed the young visitor; 'how early that is to be abroad!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000017_000001.wav|"Don't you call Colonel Jolliffe's daughters ladies, Miss Channing?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000047_000002.wav|"It would be quite a dangerous thing, you know, for my Roland to be in the same office."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000009_000000.wav|"I don't see any good in getting up early," cried Caroline.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000085_000002.wav|He could only be silent and remain under the stigma.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000004_000000.wav|Constance Channing proceeded to her duties as usual at Lady Augusta Yorke's.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000004_000002.wav|It had half broken Constance's heart.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000073_000002.wav|I will not swear that I put the note into the letter."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000067_000000.wav|"Then what should hinder his seeing you put the note into the letter?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000091_000000.wav|"Going!" roared Roland, jumping to his feet, and dashing down his pen full of ink, with little regard to the deed he was copying.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000081_000000.wav|Arthur did not take it.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000038_000000.wav|"It is true that he was arrested yesterday on suspicion."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000089_000000.wav|"What's that for?" asked Roland Yorke.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000030_000002.wav|Habit is second nature.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000031_000000.wav|"But I have not been trained to get up, Miss Channing; and it is nothing short of punishment to me to do so."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000065_000001.wav|"But he was in full possession of his eyes just then?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000045_000003.wav|But, Miss Channing, this must be a dreadful blow for you all?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000049_000000.wav|"What does Hamish say?--handsome Hamish!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000093_000001.wav|He'll be turning me out next!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000010_000000.wav|"Do you see any good in acquiring good habits, instead of bad ones?" asked Constance.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000032_000000.wav|"The punishment of self denial we all have to bear, Caroline.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000012_000000.wav|"Is it only the poor who are accountable to God for waste of time, Caroline?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000006_000000.wav|"How am I to deal with you?" she said to Caroline, in a sad but affectionate tone.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000026_000000.wav|"It was related to my mother, many years ago, by a lady who was, at that time, very much at Kensington Palace.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000035_000000.wav|"No cross, no crown!" Constance had sufficient cross to carry just then.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000099_000000.wav|"And that's all the thanks a fellow gets for taking up a cause of oppression!" muttered mr Roland Yorke, as he sullenly resumed his place at the desk.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000006_000001.wav|"I do not wish to force you to obey me; I would prefer that you should do it cheerfully."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000008_000000.wav|"Whether Martha goes to you at seven, or at eight, or at nine, she has the same trouble to get you up."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000098_000001.wav|"Sit down, sir, and go on with your work."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000062_000000.wav|"Most probably."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000024_000006.wav|We may be thankful to her admirable mother for making her in that, as in many other things, a pattern to us."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000005_000001.wav|They were wearing it that day to Constance.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000060_000000.wav|"They did."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000030_000000.wav|"Long before this," said Constance.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000041_000000.wav|"Did he take the note?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000075_000000.wav|"I will not swear it," reiterated the witness.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000073_000001.wav|"Must I repeat it for the third time?|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000045_000000.wav|"And Roland could not open his lips to tell me of this when I came home last night!" grumbled my lady.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000034_000000.wav|Constance bent towards her.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000069_000001.wav|mr Butterby pricked up his, and looked at the witness.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000043_000000.wav|"But he was before the magistrates yesterday, I hear, and is going up again to day."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000072_000000.wav|"Not swear that you put the bank note into the letter?|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000019_000002.wav|Real ladies don't, Miss Channing."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000052_000001.wav|"The note seems to have been lost in so very mysterious a manner, that positive proof of his innocence will be difficult."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000026_000002.wav|One fact we all know, Caroline: the Queen retains her early habits, and implants them in her children.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000058_000000.wav|"My clerks-Roland Yorke and Arthur Channing."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000024_000002.wav|In talking together, the Princess Victoria mentioned something she had seen when out of doors that morning at seven o'clock.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000098_000000.wav|"If you cannot attend to your business a little better, you will get your dismissal from me; you won't require to dismiss yourself," said mr Galloway.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000017_000000.wav|Caroline pouted.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000035_000001.wav|In the course of the morning Lady Augusta came into the room boisterously, her manner indicative of great surprise.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000032_000001.wav|But I can tell you what will take away half its sting."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000011_000001.wav|We are ladies. It's only the poor who need get up at unreasonable hours-those who have their living to earn."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000044_000000.wav|"Yes, that is so."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000004_000001.wav|She drew her veil over her face, only to traverse the very short way that conveyed her thither, for the sense of shame was strong upon her; not shame for Arthur, but for Hamish.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000019_000000.wav|"That's where we went yesterday, you know.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000013_000000.wav|Caroline paused.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000065_000000.wav|A halt.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000045_000002.wav|I shall ask him why he did not.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000042_000002.wav|"To those who know Arthur well, it would be impossible to think so."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000053_000000.wav|"Well, it is a dreadful thing!" concluded Lady Augusta.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000061_000000.wav|"And the bank note?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000013_000001.wav|She did not like to give up her argument.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000083_000000.wav|"I thank you, sir," Arthur said, "for that and all other kindness.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000056_000000.wav|mr Galloway was the first witness put forth by mr Butterby.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000024_000004.wav|I never get out of bed until eight.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000028_000003.wav|He to whom five talents were intrusted, did not make them other five by wasting his days in idleness.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000022_000000.wav|"Before I begin, will you tell me whether you condescend to admit that our good Queen is a 'real lady'?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000013_000003.wav|I don't think real ladies ever do it."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000018_000000.wav|"Yes-in position."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000096_000001.wav|It is not just to turn him away."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000055_000000.wav|Arthur appeared, escorted by his brother Hamish and by Roland Yorke. Roland was in high feather, throwing his haughty glances everywhere, for he had an inkling of what was to be the termination of the affair, and did not conceal his triumph.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000097_000001.wav|And Roland answered with a hot and haughty word.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000064_000000.wav|"I cannot say."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000082_000000.wav|"Arthur Channing," he said, "I have acted leniently in this unpleasant matter, for your father's sake; but, from my very heart, I believe you to be guilty."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000084_000000.wav|"If you can give me no better assurance of your innocence-if you can give me no explanation of the peculiar and most unsatisfactory manner in which you have met the charge-yes.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000086_000000.wav|"Then-I had better-you would wish me, perhaps-to go at once?" hesitated Arthur.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000025_000000.wav|"Is it a true anecdote, Miss Channing?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000072_000001.wav|What is it that you mean?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000078_000000.wav|"I have been checkmated," ejaculated the angry Butterby.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000007_000000.wav|"It is tiresome to get up early," responded Caroline.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000005_000005.wav|Both were ready for her when she entered now.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000096_000000.wav|"Channing never took the money, sir!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262291/6904_262291_000085_000000.wav|To give this explanation was impossible; neither dared Arthur assert more emphatically his innocence.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000038_000002.wav|Ketch stood a statue transfixed, and stared as hard as the flickering blaze from his dying fire would allow him.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000001_000001.wav|KETCH'S EVENING VISIT.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000040_000002.wav|Cutting himself a piece of bread and cheese, lamenting at its dryness, and eating it as he went along, he proceeded out again, locking up his lodge as before.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000009_000001.wav|Such a thing as a run on the delicacy had occurred more than once, to Ketch's certain knowledge, and tardy customers had been sent away disappointed, to wait in longing anticipations for the next tripe night.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER forty.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000006_000000.wav|"Old Jenkins ain't here," said she.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000021_000001.wav|"Did you think it was a pitch?|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000031_000002.wav|Take yourself off.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000028_000000.wav|"Is this the way to treat a man?" foamed Ketch, disappointment and hunger driving him almost into the state hinted at by mrs Jenkins.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000000.wav|"Here, Lydia, open the door and let him out," cried mrs Jenkins, waving her hand imperatively towards it.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000006.wav|What else?|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000036_000002.wav|"This comes of their not having been flogged for that!" he groaned.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000018_000002.wav|But she must have been a long time "fixing" the mustard; whatever that might mean.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000020_000000.wav|The words fell as ice on old Ketch.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000034_000001.wav|"All the world knows you are soft enough for anything.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000022_000002.wav|She had gone up herself, as soon as her shop was shut, to administer a mustard plaster.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000044_000003.wav|The other masters lived at a distance, and Ketch's old legs were aching. What was he to do?|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000036_000000.wav|In a frame of mind that was not enviable, he turned his steps homeward, clasping his hands upon his empty stomach, and vowing the most intense vengeance upon the college boys.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000022_000000.wav|Nothing more certain.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000001_000000.wav|mr|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000008_000005.wav|"That's right! she won't let 'em serve her with short onions, she won't; she has a tongue of her own.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000021_000002.wav|There's a fire lighted in his room, and she's making it there."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000009_000002.wav|He went into a cold perspiration at the bare idea.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000031_000001.wav|There!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000021_000000.wav|"What else but a mustard plaster!" she retorted.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000023_000000.wav|Before he had seen his way out of the shock, or the girl had done staring at him, mrs Jenkins descended the stairs and joined them, having been attracted by the conversation.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000009_000004.wav|And where was Joe?|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000015_000000.wav|"There ain't no tripe for supper," replied she.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000018_000001.wav|Old Ketch thought mustard the greatest condiment that tripe could be accompanied by, in conjunction with onions.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000011_000002.wav|My name's Lidyar, if you please."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000038_000003.wav|Seizing a match box, he struck a light and held it to the hook.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000008_000002.wav|"They're going to have it downstairs in the kitchen," soliloquized he.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000048_000000.wav|Hamish turned round.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000005.wav|Write a note!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000035_000000.wav|mr Ketch had at length come to the same conclusion: the invitation must be the work of the college gentlemen.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000024_000000.wav|"He says he's come to supper: tripe and onions," said the girl, unceremoniously introducing mr Ketch and the subject to her wondering mistress.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000043_000001.wav|It was possible, it was just possible that, going, keys in hand, the master might refuse to believe his tale.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000006_000001.wav|"You had better go into the parlour, if you're come to supper."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000044_000004.wav|Make his complaint to some one, he was determined upon.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000037_000001.wav|No wonder that he turned his eyes upon the cloister keys, the reminiscence being so strong within him.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000040_000001.wav|Nothing, however, appeared to have been touched or disturbed, and there was no soot on the floor.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000030_000001.wav|"I was promised a treat of-"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000039_000005.wav|It was that insolent Bywater!--or that young villain, Tod Yorke!--or that undaunted Tom Channing!--or perhaps all three leagued together!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000033_000000.wav|"My dear," said Jenkins, revolving the news, and speaking as well as his chest would allow him, "it must have been a trick played him by the young college gentlemen.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000018_000004.wav|"Go up and ask your missis how long I be to wait?" he growled.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000010_000001.wav|"Here, Sally, Betty-whatever your name is-ain't there nobody at home?"|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000020_000001.wav|"A mustard plaster?" shrieked he.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000027_000002.wav|Tripe and onions! If Jenkins was to hint at such a thing as a plate of tripe coming inside my house, I'd tripe him.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000049_000001.wav|"Here's his exercise, not finished yet, and his pen left inside the book.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000017_000002.wav|Missis is upstairs, fixing the mustard."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000045_000001.wav|He told Ketch-and with truth-that he knew nothing about it, but would make inquiries in the morning.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000026_000000.wav|"Why, I have come for supper, that's what I have come for," shrieked Ketch, trembling.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000022_000004.wav|A man in bed, with a plaster on his chest, was not likely to invite company to supper.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000047_000000.wav|"The primest lark," returned Tom.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000033_000002.wav|He's not very agreeable or good tempered, I'm afraid it must be allowed; but-I'd not have sent him away without a bit of supper, my dear."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000002_000001.wav|He shuffled along at the very top of his speed, his mouth watering, while the delicious odour of tripe and onions appeared to be borne on the air to his olfactory nerves: so strong is the force of fancy.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000031_000003.wav|My goodness, me! disturbing my house with such a crazy errand!" And, taking old Ketch by the shoulders, who was rather feeble and tottering, from lumbago and age, mrs Jenkins politely marshalled him outside, and closed the door upon him.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000016_000000.wav|"There is tripe for supper," persisted Ketch.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000028_000001.wav|"Joe Jenkins sends me down a note an hour ago, to come here to supper with his old father, and it was to be tripe and onions!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000026_000001.wav|"Jenkins invited me to supper; tripe and onions; and I'd like to know what it all means, and where the supper is."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000008_000001.wav|There was a fire in the grate, but no light, and there were not, so far as Ketch could see, any preparations yet for the entertainment.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000039_000004.wav|He didn't think they'd mind a little fire.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000039_000000.wav|Ketch was no conjuror, and it never occurred to him to suspect that the keys had been removed before his own departure.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000044_000005.wav|The new senior, Huntley, lived too far off for his lumbago; so he turned his steps to the next senior's, Tom Channing, and demanded to see him.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000009_000006.wav|What could they mean by it?|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000016_000002.wav|There's tripe and onions."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000034_000000.wav|"I dare say you'd not," retorted mrs Jenkins.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000017_000001.wav|"I dun know nothing about it.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000030_000000.wav|"I shall be drove one," sobbed Ketch.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000018_000003.wav|His spirits dropped again, and he grew rather exasperated.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000007.wav|He has wrote no note; he has been too suffering the last few hours to think of notes, or of you either.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000022_000001.wav|Poor Jenkins, who had coughed more than usual the last two days, perhaps from the wet weather, and whose chest in consequence was very painful, had been ordered to bed this night by his wife when tea was over.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000017_000000.wav|The girl shook her head.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000046_000000.wav|"What is the matter?" they asked.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000032_000001.wav|"I wonder what he'll pretend he has next from you?|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000040_000000.wav|He examined the window; he examined the door; he cast a glance up the chimney.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000011_000001.wav|"Who be you calling to, I'd like to know?|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000002_000000.wav|It were surely a breach of politeness on our part not to attend mr Ketch in his impromptu evening visit!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000007_000001.wav|Sharp as fancy is, he could not say that he was regaled with the scent of onions, but he supposed the saucepan lid might be on.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000003.wav|If I do put you into that mask I have threatened, you won't like it, girl.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000035_000002.wav|Deceived, betrayed, fainting for supper, done out of the delicious tripe and onions, he leaned against the shutters, and gave vent to a prolonged and piteous howl.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000027_000000.wav|"You are going into your dotage," said mrs Jenkins, with an amount of scorn so great that it exasperated Ketch as much as the words themselves.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000042_000000.wav|"There ain't a boy in the school but what'll come to be hung!" danced old Ketch in his rage.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000033_000001.wav|We should not be too hard upon the poor old man.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000004_000000.wav|"In time for what?" responded the girl.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000047_000001.wav|"Some of the fellows have been sending Ketch an invitation to sup at Jenkins's off tripe and onions, and when he arrived there he found it was a hoax, and mrs Jenkins turned him out again.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000038_000001.wav|No keys were there.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000036_000001.wav|The occurrence naturally caused him to cast back his thoughts to that other trick the locking him into the cloisters, in which Jenkins had been a fellow victim-and he doubled his fists in impotent anger.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000002_000004.wav|mr Ketch seized the knocker on the shop door-there was no other entrance to the house-and brought it down with a force that shook the first floor sitting room, and startled mr Harper, the lay clerk, almost out of his armchair, as he sat before the fire.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000018_000000.wav|Oh come! this gave a promise of something.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000010_000000.wav|He groped his way round the corner of the shop to where lay the kitchen stairs, whose position he pretty well knew, and called.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000013_000000.wav|"Gone out for what tripe?" asked the girl.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000005_000000.wav|"Why, for supper," said Ketch, penetrating into the shop, which was lighted by a candle that stood on the counter, the one the girl had brought in her hand.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000027_000001.wav|"You'll be wanting a lunatic asylum next.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000037_000000.wav|Engaged in these reflections of gall and bitterness, old Ketch gained his lodge, unlocked it, and entered.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000044_000000.wav|Away he hobbled, and arrived at the house of the head master.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000014_000000.wav|"The tripe for supper," said Ketch.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000045_000000.wav|Tom heard the story, which was given him in detail.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000043_000000.wav|He would have preferred not to find the keys; but to go to the head master with a story of their theft.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000001.wav|"And what have you been at with your face again?" continued she, as the candle held by that damsel reflected its light.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000008_000004.wav|She's gone out to fetch it, I shouldn't wonder!" he continued, alluding to mrs Jenkins, and sniffing again strongly, but without result.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000008_000000.wav|Ketch entered the parlour, and sat down.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000002.wav|"One can't see it for colly.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000038_000000.wav|But, to say he turned his eyes upon the cloister keys, is a mere figure of speech.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000011_000000.wav|The girl heard, and came forth, the same candle in hand.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000034_000002.wav|I have sent him away with a flea in his ear; that's what I have done."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000016_000001.wav|"And me and old Jenkins are going to have some of it.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000032_000000.wav|"Insolent old fellow!" she exclaimed to her husband, to whom she went at once and related the occurrence.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000008_000003.wav|"And that's a sight more comfortabler.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000009_000005.wav|A pretty thing to invite a gentleman out to an impromptu supper, and serve him in this way!|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000019_000002.wav|"He's gone to bed, and missis is putting him a plaster on his chest."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000007_000000.wav|Ketch went down the shop, sniffing curiously.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000022_000003.wav|Ketch was quite stunned with uncertainty.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000047_000002.wav|That's what Master Charley must have gone after."|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000039_000002.wav|"Had they forced his winder?--had they took a skeleton key to his door?--had they come down the chimbley?|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000035_000003.wav|It might have drawn tears from a stone.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000002_000002.wav|Arrived at his destination, he found the shop closed.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000003_000000.wav|"Be I in time?" demanded Ketch, his voice shaking.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000045_000002.wav|Ketch was fain to depart, and Tom returned to the sitting room, and threw himself into a chair in a burst of laughter.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6904/262305/6904_262305_000029_000004.wav|Hold your tongue, old Ketch, or I'll call mr Harper down to you.|6904
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000011_000005.wav|We may add, that there must be still a wider difference between man and man in a savage and domestic condition, than between beast and beast; for as men and beasts have been treated alike by nature, all the conveniences with which men indulge themselves more than they do the beasts tamed by them, are so many particular causes which make them degenerate more sensibly.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000009_000004.wav|We need only call to mind the good constitution of savages, of those at least whom we have not destroyed by our strong liquors; we need only reflect, that they are strangers to almost every disease, except those occasioned by wounds and old age, to be in a manner convinced that the history of human diseases might be easily composed by pursuing that of civil societies.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000010_000001.wav|Ask those who make hunting their recreation or business, if in their excursions they meet with many sick or feeble animals.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000011_000003.wav|It is thus with man himself.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000002_000001.wav|I could only form vague, and almost imaginary, conjectures on this subject.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000001_000000.wav|DISCOURSE FIRST PART|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000009_000003.wav|Allowing that nature intended we should always enjoy good health, I dare almost affirm that a state of reflection is a state against nature, and that the man who meditates is a depraved animal.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000011_000001.wav|Nature behaves towards all animals left to her care with a predilection, that seems to prove how jealous she is of that prerogative.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000006_000003.wav|Had he a horse, would he with such swiftness shoot along the plain?|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000007_000003.wav|But savage man living among other animals without any society or fixed habitation, and finding himself early under a necessity of measuring his strength with theirs, soon makes a comparison between both, and finding that he surpasses them more in address, than they surpass him in strength, he learns not to be any longer in dread of them.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000011_000002.wav|The horse, the cat, the bull, nay the ass itself, have generally a higher stature, and always a more robust constitution, more vigour, more strength and courage in their forests than in our houses; they lose half these advantages by becoming domestic animals; it looks as if all our attention to treat them kindly, and to feed them well, served only to bastardize them.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000004_000000.wav|The earth left to its own natural fertility and covered with immense woods, that no hatchet ever disfigured, offers at every step food and shelter to every species of animals.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000007_000000.wav|Hobbes would have it that man is naturally void of fear, and always intent upon attacking and fighting.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000002_000002.wav|Comparative anatomy has not as yet been sufficiently improved; neither have the observations of natural philosophy been sufficiently ascertained, to establish upon such foundations the basis of a solid system.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000010_000000.wav|Man therefore, in a state of nature where there are so few sources of sickness, can have no great occasion for physic, and still less for physicians; neither is the human species more to be pitied in this respect, than any other species of animals.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143484/1769_143484_000012_000000.wav|Nakedness therefore, the want of houses, and of all these unnecessaries, which we consider as so very necessary, are not such mighty evils in respect to these primitive men, and much less still any obstacle to their preservation.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000018_000002.wav|Religion commands us to believe, that men, having been drawn by God himself out of a state of nature, are unequal, because it is his pleasure they should be so; but religion does not forbid us to draw conjectures solely from the nature of man, considered in itself, and from that of the beings which surround him, concerning the fate of mankind, had they been left to themselves.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000019_000004.wav|'tis in a manner the life of your species that I am going to write, from the qualities which you have received, and which your education and your habits could deprave, but could not destroy.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000016_000000.wav|What therefore is precisely the subject of this discourse?|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000010_000000.wav|QUESTION PROPOSED BY THE ACADEMY OF DIJON|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000014_000001.wav|This species of inequality consists in the different privileges, which some men enjoy, to the prejudice of others, such as that of being richer, more honoured, more powerful, and even that of exacting obedience from them.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000008_000000.wav|During Rousseau's later years he was the victim of the delusion of persecution; and although he was protected by a succession of good friends, he came to distrust and quarrel with each in turn.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000013_000001.wav|I shall therefore maintain with confidence the cause of mankind before the sages, who invite me to stand up in its defence; and I shall think myself happy, if I can but behave in a manner not unworthy of my subject and of my judges.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000018_000000.wav|Let us begin therefore, by laying aside facts, for they do not affect the question.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000018_000003.wav|This is then the question I am to answer, the question I propose to examine in the present discourse.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000011_000000.wav|What is the Origin of the Inequality among Mankind; and whether such Inequality is authorized by the Law of Nature?|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000000_000000.wav|This is a LibriVox recording.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000005_000001.wav|His education was irregular, and though he tried many professions-including engraving, music, and teaching-he found it difficult to support himself in any of them.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000019_000003.wav|How much you are changed from what you once were!|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000008_000001.wav|He died at Ermenonville, near Paris, july second seventeen seventy eight, the most widely influential French writer of his age.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000019_000006.wav|Uneasy at your present condition for reasons which threaten your unhappy posterity with still greater uneasiness, you will perhaps wish it were in your power to go back; and this sentiment ought to be considered, as the panegyric of your first parents, the condemnation of your contemporaries, and a source of terror to all those who may have the misfortune of succeeding you.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000004_000000.wav|INTRODUCTORY NOTE|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000019_000005.wav|There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will look out for the age at which, had you your wish, your species had stopped.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000019_000001.wav|All that I shall repeat after her, must be true, without any intermixture of falsehood, but where I may happen, without intending it, to introduce my own conceits.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000007_000000.wav|His most famous work, the "Confessions," was published after his death.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000012_000000.wav|A DISCOURSE UPON THE ORIGIN AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE INEQUALITY AMONG MANKIND|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000002_000000.wav|A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000016_000001.wav|It is to point out, in the progress of things, that moment, when, right taking place of violence, nature became subject to law; to display that chain of surprising events, in consequence of which the strong submitted to serve the weak, and the people to purchase imaginary ease, at the expense of real happiness.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143483/1769_143483_000019_000000.wav|O man, whatever country you may belong to, whatever your opinions may be, attend to my words; you shall hear your history such as I think I have read it, not in books composed by those like you, for they are liars, but in the book of nature which never lies.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000008_000003.wav|The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000008_000001.wav|His imagination paints nothing to him; his heart asks nothing from him.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000006_000000.wav|Let moralists say what they will, the human understanding is greatly indebted to the passions, which, on their side, are likewise universally allowed to be greatly indebted to the human understanding. It is by the activity of our passions, that our reason improves: we covet knowledge merely because we covet enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a man exempt from fears and desires should take the trouble to reason.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000012_000000.wav|I must now beg leave to stop one moment to consider the perplexities attending the origin of languages.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000008_000000.wav|But exclusive of the uncertain testimonies of history, who does not perceive that everything seems to remove from savage man the temptation and the means of altering his condition?|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000006.wav|Beings perfectly abstract are perceivable in the same manner, or are only conceivable by the assistance of speech.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000014_000000.wav|The first language of man, the most universal and most energetic of all languages, in short, the only language he had occasion for, before there was a necessity of persuading assembled multitudes, was the cry of nature.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000002.wav|When a monkey leaves without the least hesitation one nut for another, are we to think he has any general idea of that kind of fruit, and that he compares these two individual bodies with his archetype notion of them?|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000004_000002.wav|Is it not, because he thus returns to his primitive condition?|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000000.wav|Besides, general ideas cannot be conveyed to the mind without the assistance of words, nor can the understanding seize them without the assistance of propositions.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000005.wav|Endeavour to represent to yourself the image of a tree in general, you never will be able to do it; in spite of all your efforts it will appear big or little, thin or tufted, of a bright or a deep colour; and were you master to see nothing in it, but what can be seen in every tree, such a picture would no longer resemble any tree.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000009_000002.wav|How many different accidents must have concurred to make them acquainted with the most common uses of this element?|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000012_000001.wav|I might here barely cite or repeat the researches made, in relation to this question, by the Abbe de Condillac, which all fully confirm my system, and perhaps even suggested to me the first idea of it.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000009_000003.wav|How often have they let it go out, before they knew the art of reproducing it?|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000001.wav|This is one of the reasons, why mere animals cannot form such ideas, nor ever acquire the perfectibility which depends on such an operation.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000004.wav|Every general idea is purely intellectual; let the imagination tamper ever so little with it, it immediately becomes a particular idea.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000001_000000.wav|As yet I have considered man merely in his physical capacity; let us now endeavour to examine him in a metaphysical and moral light.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000012_000003.wav|The first that offers is how languages could become necessary; for as there was no correspondence between men, nor the least necessity for any, there is no conceiving the necessity of this invention, nor the possibility of it, if it was not indispensable.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000007.wav|The definition of a triangle can alone give you a just idea of that figure: the moment you form a triangle in your mind, it is this or that particular triangle and no other, and you cannot avoid giving breadth to its lines and colour to its area.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000009_000008.wav|In a word, how could this situation engage men to cultivate the earth, as long as it was not parcelled out among them, that is, as long as a state of nature subsisted.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000009_000001.wav|How many ages perhaps revolved, before men beheld any other fire but that of the heavens?|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000009_000004.wav|And how often perhaps has not every one of these secrets perished with the discoverer?|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000008_000005.wav|His soul, which nothing disturbs, gives itself up entirely to the consciousness of its actual existence, without any thought of even the nearest futurity; and his projects, equally confined with his views, scarce extend to the end of the day.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000015_000000.wav|We must allow that the words, first made use of by men, had in their minds a much more extensive signification, than those employed in languages of some standing, and that, considering how ignorant they were of the division of speech into its constituent parts; they at first gave every word the meaning of an entire proposition.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000013_000000.wav|Let us suppose this first difficulty conquered: Let us for a moment consider ourselves at this side of the immense space, which must have separated the pure state of nature from that in which languages became necessary, and let us, after allowing such necessity, examine how languages could begin to be established.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000017_000008.wav|We must therefore make use of propositions; we must therefore speak to have general ideas; for the moment the imagination stops, the mind must stop too, if not assisted by speech.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1769/143485/1769_143485_000012_000005.wav|They parted with the same ease.|1769
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000008_000011.wav|An invaluable blessing of Nature!|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000001_000001.wav|I mean erysipelas of new born infants, which commences at the genital organs, thence spreads over the skin, and terminates in the induration and destruction of this organ.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000007_000001.wav|To this end we dissolve a globule of Apis thirty, in seven dessert spoonfuls of water, by shaking the solution vigorously in a corked vial, and giving a dessert spoonful every three, six, or twelve hours as the case may require.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000006_000002.wav|The sequelae especially are rendered less dangerous by this means.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000003_000008.wav|twelve thirty six: scarlatina does not come out, in the place of which the throat becomes ulcerated. twelve thirty seven: retrocession of scarlatina, violent fever, excessive heat, congestion of the head, reddened eyes, violent delirium.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000002_000000.wav|The American Provings likewise show that Apis may be of great use in scarlatina.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000004_000002.wav|Thanks to the curative powers of Apis, scarlatina has ceased to be a scourge to childhood.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000008_000004.wav|If this change takes place, it is proper to exhibit Apis in a more dynamic form, in order to assimilate it more harmoniously to the newly awakened reactive power of the organism.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000004_000003.wav|The dangers to which children were usually exposed in scarlatina, have dwindled down to one, which fortunately is a comparatively rare phenomenon.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000008_000009.wav|As soon as the improvement is well marked, all repetition of the medicine should cease, and the natural reaction of the organism should be permitted to complete the cure.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000004_000005.wav|In all other cases, unless some strange mishap should interfere, the physician, who is familiar with Apis, need not fear any untoward results in his treatment of scarlatina.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000001_000003.wav|Hence I content myself with offering this suggestion for further practical trials.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000005_000000.wav|In all lighter cases, where the disease sets in less tumultuously, and runs a mild course, it is proper, as soon as the disease has fairly broken out, to give a globule of Apis thirty, and to watch the effects of this dose without interference.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000009_000001.wav|This treatment likewise keeps off dropsy and its dangers.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000008_000008.wav|In this way I succeeded in developing the curative powers of Apis, so that in a few days a gradual improvement, however slight, became perceptible to the careful observer.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000008_000006.wav|If no improvement sets in after Apis has been used for three days, we may rest assured that a psoric miasm is in the way of a cure, which requires to be combated with some anti psoric remedy.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000010_000001.wav|These are the only exceptions to the curative power of this drug.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98876/7398_98876_000010_000002.wav|Here we are told by our law of cure, that the sphere of Lachesis commences.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000014_000000.wav|The world is not only indebted to Hahnemann for a knowledge, but also for a natural corrective of this serious abuse.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000013_000003.wav|Indeed, the old proverb is again verified: "Where need is greatest, there help is nearest."|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000002_000003.wav|Who has not been struck by the strange irregularity that in a disease which generally sets in as an epidemic, different remedies are often indicated by different groups of symptoms?|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000013_000001.wav|The distress consequent upon them, increases in proportion as the reactive powers of the organism decrease, which is more particularly the case in the present generation.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000011_000006.wav|Those who cannot afford to go to the springs, use artificial mineral water in order to accomplish similar purposes.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000009_000001.wav|In such a case, Apis alone often develops a powerful reaction, which is avoided by the alternate use of Aconite.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000013_000000.wav|In spite of all this, long habit has secured to these pernicious customs a sort of prescriptive right.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000005_000002.wav|All my previously obtained results in practice, testify to the correctness of this statement.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000006_000000.wav|At the very commencement of the disease, a globule of Apis three is sufficient to cut short the disease so that the patient feels easy, and sleeps quietly.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000009_000004.wav|May we not expect the same result at the commencement of Asiatic cholera, and thus arrest the further development of the disease?|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000002_000002.wav|Who has not often felt embarrassed to select the right remedy among three or four that seemed indicated by the symptoms, and where it was nevertheless important, in view of the threatening danger, to select at once the right remedy?|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000011_000008.wav|It is still a profitable business to sell patent purgatives, such as cider in which a little magnesia has been dissolved.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000014_000002.wav|Few men, if their attention has once been directed to this abuse, will feel disposed to deny its extent.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000011_000002.wav|It is his habit, in after life, to combat every little costiveness, every digestive derangement, every incipient disease, by means of his cathartic mixture, and his skill is considered proportionate to the quantity of stuff which the bowels expel under the operation of his drugs.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000009_000000.wav|This end is not always attained with equal certainty and rapidity, if Apis is not given in alternation with Aconite.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000014_000004.wav|It should be considered a duty by every physician, to be acquainted with the new means of cure. The continued use of purgatives should be considered a crime against health.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000007_000001.wav|Under these circumstances we repeat the medicine every hour, or every two or three hours, one globule at a time, until all further medication has become unnecessary.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000011_000000.wav|Scarcely has the little being seen the light of the world, when the process of purgation begins.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98880/7398_98880_000001_000000.wav|DYSENTERY.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000014_000000.wav|Apis will likewise afford speedy and certain help.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000017_000003.wav|In the former case the medicine should be permitted to act still further; in the latter case, another dose of Apis thirty should be given, after which the result has to be carefully watched.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000017_000000.wav|These developments lead us to suspect that urticaria and pemphigus are identical in essence; this fact is richly substantiated by the hom[oe]opathic law which furnishes identical means of cure for either of these affections.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000009_000001.wav|After Apis, the cough speedily begins to become looser and milder, to loose its dubious character, and to gradually disappear without leaving a trace behind.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000017_000007.wav|Syphilis may likewise complicate the disease, in which case Mercurius thirty, one pellet, may be given; or, if Mercury had been previously taken in excessive doses, Mercurius six thousand, one globule.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000005_000000.wav|likewise, Apis will prove a curative agent.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000003_000001.wav|In|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000011_000001.wav|If, after using the Aconite, the eruption breaks out and the fever abates, no further medication is necessary.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000018_000000.wav|After one or the other of these remedies, the symptoms should be carefully observed without doing anything else, with a view of instituting whatever treatment may afterwards be necessary, we wind up the treatment with another dose of Apis thirty, one pellet, after which, the organic power is permitted to complete the cure.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000012_000003.wav|In|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98877/7398_98877_000017_000006.wav|The best anti psoric under these circumstances, is Sulphur thirty, one pellet, provided this drug has not yet been abused; or Causticum thirty, one pellet, if such an abuse has taken place.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000002_000000.wav|are likewise cured by Apis in the speediest and easiest manner.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000017_000002.wav|In either case the medicine need not be repeated, and the organic reaction will be sufficient to complete a cure without the interference of surgery.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000017_000003.wav|A simple bread and milk poultice may be used as soothing palliative, especially if the external skin is of a firm, hard texture. Resolution may be depended upon in every case, where Apis has been resorted to in time.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000013_000004.wav|This result is most certainly accomplished by means of Apis.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000017_000006.wav|In such a case we have at once to resort to a very high potency of Sulphur.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000016_000001.wav|Unfortunately the non abuse of Sulphur is an exception to the rule, whereas the abuse of Sulphur is quite common even in our age.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000017_000007.wav|A single globule of Sulphur six thousand would frequently ameliorate the worst aspect of the case as by a miracle, after which a few more doses of Apis three, a drop morning and evening, would so improve the symptoms, as to render all further medication unnecessary.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000016_000000.wav|From all this we deduce the highly important practical rule: In a case of whitlow, first ascertain whether and how far Sulphur has been abused by the patient.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000013_000003.wav|Sulphur seems to attack the evil at its very foundation, and we feel perfectly satisfied with its action, except that we would like to hasten the course of the disease still more, in order to abbreviate the tortures inherent in this malady.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000015_000000.wav|The curative indications contained in the "American Provings," have been confirmed by my own experience.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000010_000001.wav|In|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000017_000005.wav|If the Sulphur miasm gains the ascendancy, there will be no marked improvement during the first days of the treatment.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000004_000000.wav|Apis has been a popular remedy for boils from time immemorial; the people have been in the habit of covering boils with honey, more particularly honey in which a bee had perished.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000007_000001.wav|No other remedial means are required, much less a surgical operation.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000017_000000.wav|In case Sulphur had been abused by the patient, we mix a few drops of Apis three in twelve tablespoonfuls of water, giving a tablespoonful every hour, or every two or three hours, according as the pains are more or less violent.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000019_000000.wav|These explanations likewise point out the true course to be pursued, in case we should at the outset find that a whitlow owes its existence to the psoric miasm.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000005_000000.wav|Apis, hom[oe]opathically prepared, is better adapted to such an end than honey.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7398/98878/7398_98878_000014_000005.wav|In all such cases Apis is of the best use to us; it is even sufficient to arrest the disorganizing process, and to bring about a satisfactorily progressing cure.|7398
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000001.wav|Add a level teaspoonful of salt and one of sugar.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000000.wav|The case demands careful treatment to preserve its beauty and polish, Never use anything other than a soft piece of cotton cloth or cheese cloth to dust it with.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000006_000000.wav|A Compend of the General Claims Made by Professional Hypnotists.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000009.wav|Wipe over a small part at a time with the sponge, following quickly with the wet chamois skin wrung out of the same water. This will dry it immediately and leave it as beautiful and clean as new. Never use patent polishes.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000001_000002.wav|They hold that this is the only rightful source of public revenue, and they would therefore abolish all taxation-local, state and national-except a tax upon the rental value of land exclusive of its improvements, the revenue thus raised to be divided among local, state and general governments, as the revenue from certain direct taxes is now divided between local and state governments.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000005.wav|It should rise at least an inch and a half.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000010.wav|If your piano needs polishing employ a competent polisher to give it a hand rubbing friction polish.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000012_000000.wav|HOW TO CARE FOR A PIANO. By William h Damon|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000008.wav|Use nothing but a small, soft sponge and a chamois skin.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000007.wav|Do not let the heat get out of the dough while working. Grease the loaves well on top and set your bread where it will be warm and rise.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000006.wav|If the piano is dingy, smoky or dirty looking, it should be washed carefully with lukewarm water with a little ammonia in it to soften it.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000014_000004.wav|When not in use the music rack and top should be closed to exclude dust.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000006.wav|When it has raised mix to a stiff dough, make into loaves and put into pans.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000007_000002.wav|The transmitting force is the concentrated effort of will power, which sends the magnetic current through the nerves of the operator to the different parts of the body of his subject.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000004.wav|In dusting never use a feather duster, nor rub the piano hard with anything.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000017_000000.wav|[Transcriber's Note: The highest point in New Guinea is Puncak Jaya (Mount Carstensz or the Carstensz Pyramid), at sixteen thousand twenty three feet.]|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000005.wav|The dust should be whipped off, and not rubbed into the varnish.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000003.wav|Reduce to a temperature of one hundred and eight degrees with cold water, using a milk thermometer to enable you to get exactly the right temperature.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000023_000001.wav|Set them over a gentle fire of love, sweeten it with sugar of forgetfulness, skim it with the spoon of melancholy, put it in the bottom of your heart, cork it with the cork of clean conscience.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000004_000001.wav|It would call upon men to contribute for public expenses in proportion to the natural opportunities they monopolize, and make it unprofitable for speculators to hold land unused or only partly used, thus opening to labor unlimited fields of employment, solving the labor problem and abolishing involuntary poverty.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000013_000006.wav|The most potent means of avoiding extreme dryness is to place a single loaf bread pan half full of water in the lower part of the piano, taking out the lower panel and placing it on either side of the pedals inside.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000000.wav|"In the morning, when all is ready, take a one gallon stone jar and into this put one scant cupful of new milk.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000023_000002.wav|Let it remain and you will quickly find ease and be restored to your senses again.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000011_000000.wav|The operator, to be successful, must have control of his own mind, be in perfect health and have the ability to keep his mind concentrated upon the object he desires to accomplish with his subject.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000007_000004.wav|Its action in general should be soothing and quieting upon the nervous system; stimulating to the circulation of the blood, the brain and other vital organs of the body of the subject.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000005_000000.wav|THE MYSTERIES OF HYPNOTISM.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000009_000001.wav|No one was ever induced to commit any crime under hypnosis, that could not have been induced to do the same thing much easier without hypnosis.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000008_000001.wav|From the intelligent operator using it to overcome disease, a patient experiences a soothing influence that causes a relaxation of the muscles, followed by a pleasant, drowsy feeling which soon terminates in refreshing sleep.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000014_000005.wav|The keyboard need never be closed, as the ivory needs both light and ventilation and will eventually turn yellow unless left open.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000010_000000.wav|The hypnotic state is a condition of mind that extends from a comparatively wakeful state, with slight drowsiness, to complete somnambulism, no two subjects, as a rule, ever presenting the same characteristics.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000007.wav|Never use soap.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000003.wav|A dry chamois skin picks up the dust and grit and gradually scours off the fine finish.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000002.wav|Silk is not as soft as cotton and will scratch.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000002_000001.wav|It would thus be a tax, not on use or improvements, but on ownership of land, taking what would otherwise go to the landlord as owner.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000009.wav|When you take the loaves from the oven wrap them in a bread cloth."|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000003_000000.wav|In accordance with the principle that all men are equally entitled to the use of the earth, they would solve the transportation problem by public ownership and control of all highways, including the roadbeds of railroads, leaving their use equally free to all.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000014_000001.wav|The hammers need occasional and careful attention to preserve original tone quality and elasticity.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000023_000000.wav|Take twelve ounces of dislike, one pound of resolution, two grains of common sense, two ounces of experience, a large sprig of time, and three quarts of cooling water of consideration.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000013_000005.wav|Plants in the room are desirable and vessels of water of any kind will be of assistance.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000020_000002.wav|This can be made in a cup.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000015_000001.wav|Never wipe it with a dry chamois skin or silk cloth.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000007_000001.wav|It may be transmitted from one person to another.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000000_000000.wav|THE SINGLE TAX.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000020_000001.wav|Scald this with new milk heated to the boiling point and mix to the thickness of mush.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000021_000002.wav|Scald this with three cupfuls of water heated to the boiling point.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000014_000000.wav|The action of a piano, like any other delicate piece of machinery, should be carefully examined, and, if necessary, adjusted each time it is tuned.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000002_000000.wav|The single tax would not fall on all land, but only on valuable land, and on that in proportion to its value.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000007_000005.wav|It is the use and application of this power or force that constitutes hypnotism.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000014_000003.wav|This is ruinous to both the action and tuning.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000013_000008.wav|In cases where stove heat is used these precautions are not necessary.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133224/1046_133224_000001_000000.wav|This idea was first formulated by mr Henry George in eighteen seventy nine, and has grown steadily in favor.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000030_000000.wav|A draft is sometimes the most convenient form for collecting an account. The prevalence of the custom is due to the fact that most men will wait to be asked to pay a debt.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000014_000001.wav|This is ill advised for two reasons: First, it is much easier to alter a typewritten check than one filled in with a pen; in the second place, a teller, in passing on the genuineness of a check, takes into consideration the character of the handwriting in the body of the check as well as in the signature.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000030_000002.wav|This makes it practically a note, to be paid at maturity.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000029_000000.wav|Collections.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000002_000002.wav|This being satisfactory, he will hand you a passbook, and some deposit tickets, whereupon you make your first deposit, entering the amount on the ticket.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000021_000000.wav|Checks or drafts received by you should be deposited as soon as possible.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000043_000002.wav|Some one "raises" their checks by writing another figure in front of the proper amount. "Five hundred" might be "raised" to "twenty five hundred" in this way, even by an unskilled forger.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000018_000001.wav|The text and numbers for the amount is in the center of their fields, leaving of space for extra text.]|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000021_000002.wav|That formality makes the paper as good as money so long as the bank accepting it is solvent.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000002_000000.wav|In opening your account with a bank it is proper that you should first be introduced to the cashier, or some other official.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000046_000000.wav|The altered check is the bane of the paying teller's profession, and it is the general practice in conservative banks to accept no checks or other paper which shows signs of erasure or alteration in either words or figures.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000028_000002.wav|Drafts on New York are worth their face value practically all over the United States in settlement of accounts.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000040_000001.wav|The cleverest crooks in the country are pitting their brains against his.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000012_000000.wav|The first facsimile shows a check properly made.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000007_000000.wav|How to Avoid Mistakes.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000006_000000.wav|When making a deposit, always use the deposit ticket provided by the bank, filling it out yourself in ink.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000004_000004.wav|In that case, supposing you had adopted the form j Henry Smith for your regular signature, and the check is made payable to john h Smith, you should first write on the back of that check "john h Smith," and immediately under this you should place your regular signature.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000041_000002.wav|Apparently, every new generation contains a number of dishonest people who lay the same traps, and a number of careless people who fall into these traps in the same old way.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000043_000000.wav|One of the first lessons, for instance, that a depositor should learn before he is qualified to own a check book is to commence writing the amount as near as possible to the extreme left of the check.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000036_000005.wav|If your own name on the face of the check, draft or note is misspelled, or has the wrong initials, but if the paper is clearly intended for you, you should first write your name as it appears on the face, and under it your regular signature.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000012_000001.wav|It will be seen, in the first place, that this check is written very plainly, and that there is no room for the insertion of extra figures or words.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000014_000000.wav|Some business men allow their clerks to fill out checks on the typewriter.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000025_000001.wav|Banks will not pay notes or drafts without instructions.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000033_000001.wav|That is what they exist for.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000041_000001.wav|It is the simple, ordinary mistake or the time worn trick that makes continuous trouble.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000033_000000.wav|Banks are always willing to loan their funds to responsible persons within reasonable limits.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000028_000000.wav|"Exchange" means funds in other cities made available by bankers' drafts on such places.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000013_000001.wav|If you have made a mistake, tear a blank check from the back of your check book and use that in place of the one spoiled.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000006_000001.wav|From this ticket, which is first checked up by the receiving teller, the amount of your deposit is placed to your credit.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000008_000001.wav|Sometimes the requirements of the banks may seem arbitrary and troublesome, but reflection will show that they safeguard the depositor as well as the bank.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000011_000001.wav|The name and amount are against the left side of their fields.]|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000004_000002.wav|john h Smith or john Henry Smith, but whatever form you adopt should be used all the time. Once having adopted the form, it should be maintained in exactly that way.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000019_000000.wav|[Illustration: The Same Check "Raised".|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000030_000001.wav|If a draft is a time draft it is accepted by the person on whom it is drawn by writing his name and date across the face.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000034_000001.wav|At the same time he should not be offended if his bank refuses to take it even without giving reasons.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000036_000003.wav|The end which is then farthest from you is the top.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000018_000000.wav|[Illustration: A Check Carelessly Drawn.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000017_000001.wav|It is for that reason that bankers and business men use such great care in accepting checks.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000021_000001.wav|Should you receive a check for a considerable amount and have no convenient bank account, you should go to the bank on which the check is drawn and have the cashier certify it by stamping "Accepted" or "Certified" across the face over his signature.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000008_000002.wav|The simple rules here laid down will enable anyone who has business with a bank to do so with the least trouble and with absolute safety.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000041_000000.wav|But it is not the unique and novel swindle that is most dangerous, either to a bank or an individual.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000039_000000.wav|One wrong word, or figure, or letter-the right thing in the wrong way or the wrong place-the scratch of an eraser or the alteration of a word-or any one of these things, in the making or cashing of a check, is liable to become as expensive as a racing automobile.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000036_000006.wav|You should indorse every check you deposit, even though it be payable to bearer.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000027_000000.wav|Exchange.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000009_000000.wav|How to Make Out a Check.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000002_000001.wav|If you are engaged in business, that officer will inquire as to your particular business or calling, your address, etc, and unless he is already satisfied on this point, he may make inquiries as to your business standing.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000036_000004.wav|If, however, the check, draft or note has already been indorsed by another person, you should write your name directly under the other indorsement, even if that is on the wrong end.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000017_000000.wav|If you make your check payable say, to William Armstrong or order, nobody but William Armstrong, or some one to whom he indorses the check, can collect the amount, and if through fraud or otherwise some one not entitled to it gets the money which the check calls for, the responsibility is not yours, but the bank's.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000015_000000.wav|Never mail a check drawn to "Bearer." Remember that if your check is made payable to "Bearer" or to "john Smith or Bearer" it may be cashed by anybody who happens to have it.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000010_000001.wav|The stub of your check book will furnish a permanent memorandum, and when the check is canceled and returned to you by the bank, it is an indisputable evidence that the debt has been paid, or that the remittance has been made.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000044_000000.wav|The highest court has recently decided that a bank cannot be held responsible, when it pays a "raised" check, if the maker of the check failed in the first place to write it out correctly.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000034_000000.wav|The customer should not hesitate, when occasion requires, to offer to the bank for discount such paper as may come into his hands in the course of business, if, in his opinion, the paper is good.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000042_000000.wav|Check Raising Made Easy.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000036_000001.wav|The proper way to indorse a check or draft-this also applies to notes and other negotiable paper-is to write your name upon the back about one inch from the top.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000037_000000.wav|Mistakes in Banking.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000011_000000.wav|[Illustration: A Check Properly Drawn.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000003_000000.wav|The Signature.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000040_000002.wav|After he has learned the proper guard for all the well-known tricks and forgeries it is still possible that an entirely new combination may leave him minus cash and plus experience.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000032_000000.wav|Borrowing.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000012_000002.wav|The writing of the amount commences as nearly as possible to the extreme left of the check. The figures are written close together and there is no space between the first figure and the dollar mark.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000002_000003.wav|You will then be asked to write your signature in a book provided for that purpose, or upon a card to be filed away for reference.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000040_000000.wav|The paying teller of a bank, says mr Woods, must keep his eyes open for new dangers as well as old ones.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1046/133225/1046_133225_000024_000001.wav|Whether it or other banks hold them for collection, they will be presented to your bank when due.|1046
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000025_000001.wav|The sash of leaded panes was raised as high as it would go, and beneath it was a screen of the roller curtain type, raised about six inches from the window sill.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000005_000000.wav|"A horrible thing to happen in a man's home, Dundee," Miles was saying, his plump, rosy face blighted with horror.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000010_000001.wav|"I turned off the light when I left, and there was no light burning in there this morning when Celia, the parlor maid, went there to put the anagram box back in the cabinet, and found the body....|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000022_000000.wav|Dundee crossed the room, stepping over the dead man's stick-a swank affair of dark, polished wood, with a heavy knob of carved onyx, which lay about a foot beyond the reach of the curled fingers of the stiff right hand.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000001.wav|This is the way I figure it out: Sprague has good reason to be afraid he's next on the program.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000008_000001.wav|"Beg pardon, sir, but I did not close the trophy room windows because I thought you might be using the room again....|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000006_000000.wav|"What do you mean?" Dundee asked.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000034_000000.wav|"Sure!"|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000012_000000.wav|"In bed.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000013_000003.wav|It's on this floor, I understand."|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000010_000003.wav|Miles-had brought the anagrams in from the porch and left them on a table in the living room, as our guests were getting ready to leave.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000002.wav|He's nervous.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000016_000000.wav|Not until he had taken in the general aspect of the room did Dundee look at the thing over which Captain Strawn and the coroner were bending-the body of Dexter Sprague.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000015_000002.wav|It was not a large room-twelve by fourteen feet, possibly-but it looked even smaller, crowded as it was with the long ping pong table, bags of golf clubs, fishing tackle, tennis racquets, skis and sleds.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000000.wav|"Sure.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000008_000000.wav|A pale faced, bald headed butler had materialized while his master was speaking.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000012_000002.wav|She is prostrated from the shock."|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000030_000000.wav|"Just a few-one in particular," Dundee said.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000012.wav|Not much of a drop at that.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000019_000000.wav|"Hello, boy!" dr Price greeted him placidly.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000032_000003.wav|He says he waited there until half past ten, then went on back to town, sore'n a boiled owl."|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000016.wav|Of course, nobody knew Sprague was in here, and since his hat and stick was both missing from the hall closet, they took it for granted he'd beat it....|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000004_000000.wav|His approach must have been expected and observed, for it was the master of the house who opened the great, iron studded doors and invited the detective into the broad main hall, at the end of which, down three steps, lay the immense living room.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000032_000002.wav|The driver says he was called about nine fifteen, told to come immediately, and to wait for Sprague at the foot of the hill, on the main road.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000017_000003.wav|The one visible eye was half open, but on the sallow, thin face, which had been strikingly handsome in an obvious sort of way, was a peace and dignity which Dundee had never seen upon Sprague's face when the man was alive.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000031_000000.wav|But Dundee was not allowed to finish his sentence, for Strawn was summoned to the telephone, by Whitson.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000017_000004.wav|The left leg was drawn upward so that the knee almost touched the bullet pierced stomach.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000010_000000.wav|"I was, except Sprague, of course, and I had no idea he'd gone there. Drake wanted to play anagrams, and before the bridge game started, I went to the trophy room to get the box," Miles explained.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000004_000001.wav|The detective's first glance took in stately armchairs of the Cromwell period, thick, mellow toned rugs, and, in the living room beyond, splendid examples of Jacobean furniture.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000026_000000.wav|Dundee nodded, frowning, and Strawn began eagerly:|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000017_000001.wav|He lay on his side, his left cheek against the floor, the fingers of his left hand still clutching the powder burned bosom of his soft shirt, now stiff with dried blood, a pool of which had formed and then half congealed upon the rug.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000013_000002.wav|Just point it out.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000010_000002.wav|Flora-mrs|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000017.wav|Any objections to that theory, boy?"|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000011_000002.wav|By the way, where is mrs Miles now?"|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000029_000006.wav|He phones for a taxi to go back to his hotel-about nine fifteen, that was, Miles says-but decides to walk down the hill to meet it.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000018_000000.wav|"How long has he been dead, doctor?" Dundee asked quietly.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000021_000001.wav|"He may have lived an hour or more-unconscious, of course. For the indications are that he did not die instantly, but staggered a few steps, clutching at the wound.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000007_000000.wav|"Why, that the-the body wasn't discovered sooner," Miles explained.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000011_000000.wav|"Yes, I know," Dundee interrupted.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000001_000001.wav|Of modified Tudor architecture, its deep red, mellowed bricks had achieved in three decades almost the same aged dignity and impressiveness as characterized the three century old mansion in England which Silas Hackett's architect had used as an inspiration.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000009_000000.wav|"I see," Dundee interrupted.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000025_000002.wav|A pair of curved, nickel plated catches in the center of the inch wide metal band on the bottom of the coppernet curtain showed how the screen was raised or lowered.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145083/1845_145083_000032_000001.wav|Collins-the lad I sent to check up on the taxi companies-says he's located the driver that answered Sprague's call last night.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145088/1845_145088_000011_000002.wav|Why?"|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145088/1845_145088_000008_000001.wav|There was no answer.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1845/145088/1845_145088_000029_000000.wav|He was too late-thanks to Captain Strawn.|1845
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000033_000007.wav|But the constant motion of the tides offers, at some favored points, a source of power that will remain as long as the earth revolves upon its axis.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000029_000002.wav|In the earliest societies known, some sorts of domestic animals are found supplementing man's efforts and acting upon the material world to alter it for man. The dog joining in the chase guards his master's safety, and helps to bear his burdens.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000036_000005.wav|When anything is seen to contain a series of uses, it becomes a rent bearer, and the economic problem of rent arises, one step more complex than the problem of valuing simple consumption goods.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000035_000000.wav|five.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000011_000002.wav|The hammer, the hoe, the tree, the field may all be considered as agents to secure consumption goods.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000011_000001.wav|The inhabited house is a source of continued gratification in each moment's shelter it affords; but, further, it is the durable source of a series of future uses, as yet unripened.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000035_000002.wav|As man grows in power of control over nature, he seeks to apply these forces in forms and at places he has selected.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000020_000000.wav|Natural supplies of metals, of coal, and of timber are important consumption goods, but they are also indirectly the condition for a vast variety of other goods.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000033_000002.wav|To make use of the wind for sailing a boat, only the simplest arrangements are needed; a windmill fixed at one place requires more ingenuity and machinery.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000017_000003.wav|As temperature must be adjusted to man's need, climate satisfies wants directly.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000005_000002.wav|If one wishing the hickory nut hanging above his head must first pick up a stick to throw at it, the nut is removed one step from desire.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000026_000005.wav|A moderate force applied to any of the senses gives the maximum clearness or pleasure. Man is constantly endeavoring to secure forces from the outer world and to adjust motion so that it will directly or indirectly best serve his purposes.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000019_000003.wav|Man, therefore, depends on the resources of the soil directly or indirectly; a fertile soil furnishes him either directly a supply of vegetable food, or indirectly a supply of animal food.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000005_000004.wav|The Indian with a crude knife fashions his bow and arrow, fastens the flint and cord which represent still other processes of industry, and shoots the bird which satisfies his hunger.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000022_000003.wav|Animals that are fit for domestication are a necessary intermediate agent by aid of which man can appropriate and turn to his use the fertile qualities of the soil.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000036_000002.wav|Likewise, durable material agents and sources of power are limited in number and vary in convenience of location and efficiency.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000010_000001.wav|Apples and potatoes are kept in a cellar so that their use is distributed throughout the winter; cider and wine are kept till they get a quality that appeals more to the palate.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000026_000000.wav|The law of "conservation of energy" helps to explain economic action; the supply of energy in the universe cannot be increased or diminished, but may take on new forms.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000015_000002.wav|CONDITIONS OF ECONOMIC WEALTH|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000026_000004.wav|If light or heat is too intense, it causes pain; the glare of the sun blinds instead of giving keener vision.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000036_000003.wav|As men seek to gratify their desires, they attach importance to these agents of power.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000026_000002.wav|One and the same source of energy may be converted into the different forms of heat, light, motion, electricity, etc|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000017_000000.wav|one.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000025_000002.wav|The outer world is to man the sole source of motive forces.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000011_000003.wav|Some of these are but one step removed from direct gratification, as the hoe helping the gardener to get food for his own use.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000007_000007.wav|A number of technical steps may be taken in half an hour, or a process of a single technical step may last a year.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000023_000000.wav|Not content with the material world about him, even when it is at its best, man alters it in many ways.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000036_000004.wav|Each is valued for its service or its series of services.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000010_000000.wav|Many goods of just the same form as the foregoing may not be affording current gratification (except that afforded by thrift and forethought), but are kept because later they will gratify a more intense want or gratify a want better.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000036_000000.wav|But all the efforts of men in the most developed economy cannot make to disappear the differences in the quality of goods and agents.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000017_000005.wav|Climate affects, further, the supply of material economic goods.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000022_000000.wav|The variety of flora and fauna, and their fitness for man's needs, largely condition the possible production.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000005_000003.wav|But even among savages the processes are much more complicated.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000022_000001.wav|If, in the course of evolution, it had chanced that wheat and corn, the horse and the cow, had been crowded out in the struggle for existence, we should have had a very different civilization.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000023_000001.wav|He enriches the soil, improves the varieties of animals, he even in some slight degree affects the climate, and by the use of a multitude of artificial bits of matter called tools, works profound changes in the world in which he lives.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000030_000002.wav|Such a method of increasing one's control over the forces of the world requires only superior strength, no special intelligence in mechanics, and is thus one of the first crude devices in a primitive civilization.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000033_000004.wav|If some means can be found for equalizing the flow and for storing the power of the wind, it may yet become a great agency of industry.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000031_000000.wav|Fuel has been, up to the present time, perhaps the most important source of energy.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000000_000000.wav|DIVISION B-WEALTH AND RENT|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000026_000001.wav|So a limited supply in man's control may take on various forms and so have different effects on gratifications.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000010_000003.wav|Such goods as these are sometimes called unripened consumption goods, but until ripened they bear in part the character of durable agents.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000017_000008.wav|So civilization moved northward from Egypt and India to Greece and Rome, to northern Europe and America.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000031_000002.wav|In this age of steam the liberation of the energy of the sun, stored up in coal in ages past, is still the indispensable condition of our developed industry.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000035_000004.wav|He ceases to accept passively its conditions, and to live on its grudging gifts; he becomes its fashioner, in a sense its creator.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000019_000001.wav|Animal life from one point of view is a parasite, living on the vegetable; it is only the vegetable that has power to assimilate most inorganic compounds.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000019_000000.wav|Soil conditions for vegetable life determine first the amount and kind of animal life.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000033_000005.wav|The force of falling water, long used in a petty way by the old water mills, is just beginning to be employed on a large scale at such points as Niagara.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000028_000002.wav|There must be a source of energy likewise that mental action may go on, and the power of sunbeams, stored for a time in food, is liberated in the processes of thought.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000031_000001.wav|Fire in the hands of savage man gave him dominion over the forests and over the metals.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000007_000004.wav|Meantime, there are many other possible uses for the tree: it may be used for fuel, or to make a canoe with which to catch fish, or to follow some other indirect method of production.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000030_000000.wav|Man further increases his control over the material world by making other men do his bidding.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000013_000003.wav|Yet the classification is practical, corresponding as it does with thoughts which men have in the use of goods.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000007_000006.wav|The number of steps has no necessary relation to the time.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000022_000002.wav|The possibilities of civilization in Peru, and those of all the Indians on the American continent, were limited for lack of domestic animals.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000036_000001.wav|Desirable goods to consume are limited in quantity, and they vary in quality; hence they have value and some higher than others.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000029_000003.wav|The draft beast in the field turns the heavy soil, and aids in the final harvest.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000010_000002.wav|Coal, wood, and stocks of goods, are thus kept in the form of enjoyable goods, destined to be physically destroyed when at length they yield a gratification. Evidently they must be storing up meantime a certain additional utility, for otherwise there would be no reason why they should be kept for the future.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000007_000003.wav|A tree may not be fitted to bear fruit for ten years to come.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000005_000000.wav|one.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000011_000000.wav|Abiding sources of economic enjoyments are called durable agents.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000025_000005.wav|To secure this either he must move to get the goods, or he must cause goods to move toward him.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000030_000001.wav|Domestic slavery, where wife or child serves the father of the family, or chattel slavery, where the vanquished toils for the victor, are all but universal in early communities.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000025_000003.wav|He can bring things together and they produce the result. Further, it may be said that nearly every kind of utility is conditioned on motion.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000007_000002.wav|No agent or influence intervening, a thing may yet be removed a long way from gratification.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000026_000003.wav|But there must be some source. Man's desire is directed to getting force at the right place and in the right degree.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000020_000001.wav|The industry that could exist without iron, copper, and coal would be of a very low grade.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000017_000002.wav|Climate is itself a direct source of gratification.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000035_000005.wav|His intelligence and his wants are most important factors determining what the form of the physical world about him shall be.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000017_000004.wav|Health, energy, the beauty of noonday woods and of sunlit clouds are conditioned on the favor of nature.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258959/7994_258959_000014_000000.wav|It is to be noted further that the enjoyable goods pass over into psychic income, that is, they are the stream of objective utilities that is each moment detaching itself as income from the great mass of wealth. The durable goods are those utilities which for the time remain, not yet ripened or ready to be converted into psychic income.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000022_000001.wav|Here it is simply the difference between gross and net rent.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000028_000000.wav|three.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000026_000005.wav|In many cases it is necessary, therefore, to follow the form of the renting contract in order to determine the net yield of indirect goods.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000018_000000.wav|Sec.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000022_000000.wav|Economic and contract rent usually diverge also because of the agreement that the owner, or lender, keep up the repairs and pay the taxes.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000011_000001.wav|In the well founded opinion of some recent critics this usage rests on a mistaken reasoning. However, in the midst of this wide variety of usage the student must be forewarned and alert.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000021_000002.wav|Contracts of long standing often bind the tenant or borrower to pay either more or less than the present competitive price.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000023_000001.wav|If the contract rent is less than the economic rent, evidently the borrower enjoys a part of the usufruct, without charge, and to that degree is in the position of an owner.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000028_000006.wav|There was a certain rotation of crops; the tenant was obliged to keep his stock up to standard; and, moreover, he had a certain interest in the land because his contract rent (as explained above) was less than the economic rent. The landlord, therefore, could count pretty surely on the undiminished power of his land and stock from one year to another.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000028_000003.wav|Land was granted to the tenant or serf in return for services.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000033_000001.wav|It is a simple example of the association of ideas.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000010_000001.wav|This was put in contrast with interest for money and capital, and with wages of labor.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000017_000003.wav|This is the essential thought in typical rent-that it is the value of the surplus, or net product, of an economic agent leaving the agent itself unimpaired in efficiency.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000005_000004.wav|To explain what fixes the value of the temporary use is the problem of rent; to explain what determines the value of long continued use or of permanent control and ownership of a use bearer is the problem of capitalization.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000017_000000.wav|five.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000023_000003.wav|Such instances were numerous in the Middle Ages in the renting of land, and still are found in many countries.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000033_000002.wav|In the transfer or loan of movable goods, the rent contract was quite overshadowed by the other form of contract, that of a money loan.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000024_000000.wav|Contract rent is based on economic rent and tends to conform to it whenever there is competition.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000029_000000.wav|At that time, truck and barter were the common modes of exchange, and rents were paid in products and services, not in money.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000037_000000.wav|Many less durable goods are rented for brief periods.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000020_000003.wav|The rents usually spoken of are contract rents.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000033_000004.wav|But as forms of wealth differ in their fitness for transfer under the two forms of contract, there goes on a competition between them, as a result of which each becomes associated with certain groups of goods.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000028_000004.wav|The contract was pretty strictly drawn and all items were specified.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000023_000002.wav|The usufruct in this case is divided between the two parties.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000010.wav|So in America, far more than in the older countries, land changes hands by sale, the purchaser going into debt for it, giving his note and paying interest on the loan rather than rent for the farm.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000020_000002.wav|The one is impersonal or economic; the other is personal or legal, being fixed by agreements between persons.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000003.wav|About twenty five years ago, the great fall in the price of agricultural products brought ruin to many of the tenant farmers.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000037_000002.wav|Sewing machines, boats, guns, tents, and even diamond engagement rings, yield their joys under the renting contract.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000039_000001.wav|Economic rent is not confined to the cases of contract rent.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000021_000003.wav|If, after a time, the value of the use is greater than the contract rent, the tenant is fortunate in having his lease.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000029_000001.wav|The fruits of the soil were consumed on the spot instead of being sold as now.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000037_000003.wav|People frequently hesitate between the renting and the purchase of a piano, and in some cases renting is the more convenient and desirable way of securing its use.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000009.wav|On the other hand, the tenant under the renting contract has little motive for improvement, and many occasions for discontent.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000039_000000.wav|A final word of caution may be given.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER eight|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000021_000004.wav|But he is the loser if he is bound by lease or agreement to pay rent in a locality where land has become less valuable.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000026_000004.wav|If they count the gross product of an agent as rent, it is bad bookkeeping.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000029_000002.wav|Land was rarely, if ever, sold outright, so that there was no occasion to estimate its total selling value.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000037_000001.wav|Carriages are rented for the day, bicycles by the week or month.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000009_000002.wav|In the European languages the word is used more frequently in that sense.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000005.wav|When the lease expired, the landlord could appropriate all the improvements that the tenant had made.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000002_000000.wav|THE RENTING CONTRACT|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000024_000001.wav|The existence of economic rent is the basis of the agreement to pay contract rent.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000031_000003.wav|He must agree to repay the loan in goods of the same kind and quality as those received, a contract most difficult to execute, and giving occasion to costly tests and countless disagreements.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000039_000003.wav|The owner who uses a thing himself gets the advantage in the product as clearly as if he collected rent from a borrower.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000031_000005.wav|With the growth of industry and commerce, wealth increased in towns, taking many forms, as those of ships, wagons, tools, and stocks of goods, that could not conveniently be rented.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000029_000007.wav|Thus, in the Middle Ages, it was all but universal to look upon most indirect agents as exchangeable only under the renting contract, as subject to renting but not to complete transfer and sale.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000037_000005.wav|For a moderate sum its temporary use may be had, and it is then returned, little the worse for wear, to the accommodating clothier.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000037_000004.wav|The purchase of a dress coat or of a masquerade suit to be worn but once, involves for some an excessive and needless sacrifice.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000015_000008.wav|Things yielding rent are not indestructible, but generally they are preserved undestroyed.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000015_000007.wav|It is only by a fiction that most indirect agents can be regarded as indestructible.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000000.wav|five.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000017_000004.wav|The total product is sometimes called the "gross rent," but economic rent is "net rent."|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000006.wav|In America farms are let usually on shares, and from year to year, but the plan of a money rent is increasingly followed.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000005_000002.wav|The apple tree is valued because it bears fruit, and the orchard because the trees give promise of yielding a succession of crops for years to come.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000007_000006.wav|Rental is a collective term for a number of rents.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000002.wav|Under the old, almost fixed, conditions in agriculture such a lease was equitable, but when prices are rapidly changing and when new methods are being introduced, it gives rise to great hardships.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000033_000005.wav|In the Middle Ages the renting contract was the dominant form, but it has been progressively displaced by loans in the money form, and its importance is still declining.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000035_000007.wav|The difficulty of getting an equitable arrangement between landlord and tenant is recognized by all.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000020_000000.wav|one.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000028_000002.wav|But at a later stage, as in the Middle Ages in Europe, land and the things pertaining to it, as ditches, houses, mills, cattle, stock, and the few simple implements, constituted the larger portion of the wealth.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000005_000003.wav|There are thus two problems of value in connection with durable goods: that of the value of a temporary use for a brief period, as for a year; and that of the value of a thing itself, the use bearer, for a long series of years or in perpetuity.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000011_000000.wav|A wider meaning recently given to the word by many economists turns on the supposed relation of some portions of price to cost of production. Thus, frequent use is made of the expressions: consumer's rent, producer's rent, buyer's rent, seller's rent, etc|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000033_000003.wav|According to this explanation the essential and primary difference between renting wealth and borrowing money at interest is not in the kind of wealth whose use is thus temporarily transferred, but in the nature of the contract.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000029_000006.wav|Many medieval estates were so tied up by legal conditions that they could not be sold outright; all that the owner could do was to sell or mortgage the annual rental.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000017_000002.wav|When this allowance has been made, the income may be considered as a net sum not due to the sale, or to the using up of any part of the thing rented.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000018_000002.wav|THE HISTORY OF CONTRACT RENT AND CHANGES IN IT|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000024_000002.wav|Prospective hirers of agents forecast what the use will be worth to them and make their bids accordingly.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000011_000003.wav|Throughout this work we shall endeavor to use the term rent uniformly and consistently as it is now to be defined.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000011_000002.wav|Doubtless agreement will at length be arrived at. Meantime, no economist can dictate what meaning is to be attached to the term, but one may suggest the definition that seems to him most expedient.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000017_000005.wav|This thought is made clearer by the following discussion.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000007_000007.wav|The total yield of an estate was called its rental or rent roll, and a list of the various sources of income, including all payments from tenants in money, produce or services, constituted its rental.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000021_000000.wav|The two diverge more or less.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000026_000002.wav|Some provide that one party, some that the other party, shall keep up repairs.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000015_000003.wav|Every economist since Ricardo's time has recognized this, and many excuses for the inaccuracy have been given.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000029_000004.wav|Its yearly use was all that was subject to contract, sale, and exchange.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7994/258960/7994_258960_000028_000005.wav|It was not hard to hold the tenant to his contract to keep the land in about the same condition.|7994
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000020_000003.wav|When I afterward had time for reflection, I did not fail to attribute the extreme violence of the explosion, as regarded myself, to its proper cause-my situation directly above it, and in the line of its greatest power.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000002.wav|It proved to be a small pamphlet treatise on Speculative Astronomy, written either by Professor Encke of Berlin or by a Frenchman of somewhat similar name.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000014_000001.wav|With the means thus accruing I proceeded to procure at intervals, cambric muslin, very fine, in pieces of twelve yards each; twine; a lot of the varnish of caoutchouc; a large and deep basket of wicker work, made to order; and several other articles necessary in the construction and equipment of a balloon of extraordinary dimensions.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000019_000002.wav|I also secured in the car a pair of pigeons and a cat.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000007.wav|In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000011_000004.wav|Credit was good, employment was never wanting, and on all hands there was no lack of either money or good will.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000010.wav|I was not, of course, at that time aware that this apparent paradox was occasioned by the center of the visual area being less susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the exterior portions of the retina.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000024_000005.wav|I determined to depart, yet live-to leave the world, yet continue to exist-in short, to drop enigmas, I resolved, let what would ensue, to force a passage, if I could, to the moon.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000008.wav|But still worse. Suspended by blue ribbons to the end of this fantastic machine, there hung, by way of car, an enormous drab beaver hat, with a brim superlatively broad, and a hemispherical crown with a black band and a silver buckle.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000017_000002.wav|She was what people call a notable woman, and could manage matters in the world without my assistance.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000002.wav|It appeared to be-yes! it was undoubtedly a species of balloon; but surely no such balloon had ever been seen in Rotterdam before.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000005_000001.wav|From behind the huge bulk of one of those sharply defined masses of cloud already mentioned, was seen slowly to emerge into an open area of blue space, a queer, heterogeneous, but apparently solid substance, so oddly shaped, so whimsically put together, as not to be in any manner comprehended, and never to be sufficiently admired, by the host of sturdy burghers who stood open mouthed below.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000023_000005.wav|Immediately beneath me in the ocean, lay a small black object, slightly oblong in shape, seemingly about the size, and in every way bearing a great resemblance to one of those childish toys called a domino.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000007.wav|And this similitude was regarded as by no means lessened when, upon nearer inspection, there was perceived a large tassel depending from its apex, and, around the upper rim or base of the cone, a circle of little instruments, resembling sheep bells, which kept up a continual tinkling to the tune of Betty Martin.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000006.wav|Then, in a knowing manner, I felt in both my breeches pockets, and, missing therefrom a set of tablets and a toothpick case, endeavored to account for their disappearance, and not being able to do so, felt inexpressibly chagrined.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000008_000000.wav|Having descended, as I said before, to about one hundred feet from the surface of the earth, the little old gentleman was suddenly seized with a fit of trepidation, and appeared disinclined to make any nearer approach to terra firma.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000003_000001.wav|Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected-so entirely novel-so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions-as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000011.wav|For a few minutes I remained wrapped in the profoundest meditation.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000011.wav|This knowledge, and some of another kind, came afterwards in the course of an eventful five years, during which I have dropped the prejudices of my former humble situation in life, and forgotten the bellows mender in far different occupations.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000010.wav|If I felt any emotion at all, it was a kind of chuckling satisfaction at the cleverness I was about to display in extricating myself from this dilemma; and I never, for a moment, looked upon my ultimate safety as a question susceptible of doubt.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000015_000003.wav|These-the keg and canisters-I connected in a proper manner with covered trains; and having let into one of the canisters the end of about four feet of slow match, I covered up the hole, and placed the cask over it, leaving the other end of the match protruding about an inch, and barely visible beyond the cask.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000011_000009.wav|This was a state of things not to be endured.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000011_000006.wav|People who were formerly, the very best customers in the world, had now not a moment of time to think of us at all.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000008.wav|But, strange to say!|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000019_000004.wav|Dropping a lighted cigar on the ground, as if by accident, I took the opportunity, in stooping to pick it up, of igniting privately the piece of slow match, whose end, as I said before, protruded a very little beyond the lower rim of one of the smaller casks.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000007_000005.wav|His hands were enormously large.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000010_000000.wav|To their Excellencies Von Underduk and Rub a dub, President and Vice President of the States' College of Astronomers, in the city of Rotterdam.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000019_000003.wav|It was now nearly daybreak, and I thought it high time to take my departure.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000018_000000.wav|"It was the first of April.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000015_000000.wav|"On the spot which I intended each of the smaller casks to occupy respectively during the inflation of the balloon, I privately dug a hole two feet deep; the holes forming in this manner a circle twenty five feet in diameter.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000009_000000.wav|In the meantime the balloon arose like a lark, and, soaring far away above the city, at length drifted quietly behind a cloud similar to that from which it had so oddly emerged, and was thus lost forever to the wondering eyes of the good citizens of Rotterdam.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000020_000000.wav|"Scarcely, however, had I attained the height of fifty yards, when, roaring and rumbling up after me in the most horrible and tumultuous manner, came so dense a hurricane of fire, and smoke, and sulphur, and legs and arms, and gravel, and burning wood, and blazing metal, that my very heart sunk within me, and I fell down in the bottom of the car, trembling with unmitigated terror.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000007_000002.wav|He could not have been more than two feet in height; but this altitude, little as it was, would have been sufficient to destroy his equilibrium, and tilt him over the edge of his tiny car, but for the intervention of a circular rim reaching as high as the breast, and rigged on to the cords of the balloon.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000017_000001.wav|Indeed I had no fear on her account.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000012.wav|But at the epoch of which I speak, the analogy which a casual observation of a star offered to the conclusions I had already drawn, struck me with the force of positive conformation, and I then finally made up my mind to the course which I afterwards pursued.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000014_000003.wav|In the meantime I worked up the twine into a net work of sufficient dimensions; rigged it with a hoop and the necessary cords; bought a quadrant, a compass, a spy glass, a common barometer with some important modifications, and two astronomical instruments not so generally known.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000023_000002.wav|My implements were all safe, and, fortunately, I had lost neither ballast nor provisions.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000005_000002.wav|What could it be?|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000016_000005.wav|It had received three coats of varnish, and I found the cambric muslin to answer all the purposes of silk itself, quite as strong and a good deal less expensive.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000014.wav|This buckle had three teeth, which, being somewhat rusty, turned with great difficulty on their axis.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000013_000000.wav|"It was late when I reached home, and I went immediately to bed.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000012.wav|But to return.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000004.wav|I drew up to my eyes each of my hands, one after the other, and wondered what occurrence could have given rise to the swelling of the veins, and the horrible blackness of the fingernails.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000008_000002.wav|He then proceeded, in a hurried and agitated manner, to extract from a side pocket in his surtout a large morocco pocket book.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000008.wav|Nature herself seemed to afford me corroboration of these ideas.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000024_000003.wav|In this state of mind, wishing to live, yet wearied with life, the treatise at the stall of the bookseller opened a resource to my imagination.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000020_000007.wav|I gasped convulsively for breath-a shudder resembling a fit of the ague agitated every nerve and muscle of my frame-I felt my eyes starting from their sockets-a horrible nausea overwhelmed me-and at length I fainted away.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000022_000006.wav|In good time came to my rescue the spirit of despair, and, with frantic cries and struggles, I jerked my way bodily upwards, till at length, clutching with a vise like grip the long desired rim, I writhed my person over it, and fell headlong and shuddering within the car.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000003.wav|For who, let me ask, ever heard of a balloon manufactured entirely of dirty newspapers? No man in Holland certainly; yet here, under the very noses of the people, or rather at some distance above their noses was the identical thing in question, and composed, I have it on the best authority, of the precise material which no one had ever before known to be used for a similar purpose.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000020_000006.wav|It is impossible-utterly impossible-to form any adequate idea of the horror of my situation.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000018_000001.wav|The night, as I said before, was dark; there was not a star to be seen; and a drizzling rain, falling at intervals, rendered us very uncomfortable.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000019.wav|Drawing now my body upwards, with a prodigious exertion of muscular force, I succeeded, at the very first trial, in throwing the buckle over the car, and entangling it, as I had anticipated, in the circular rim of the wicker work.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000000.wav|In the meantime, however, lower and still lower toward the goodly city, came the object of so much curiosity, and the cause of so much smoke.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000007_000008.wav|This odd little gentleman was dressed in a loose surtout of sky blue satin, with tight breeches to match, fastened with silver buckles at the knees.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000023_000003.wav|Indeed, I had so well secured them in their places, that such an accident was entirely out of the question. Looking at my watch, I found it six o'clock.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000022_000000.wav|"My body was now inclined towards the side of the car, at an angle of about forty five degrees; but it must not be understood that I was therefore only forty five degrees below the perpendicular.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000009_000003.wav|It was accordingly opened by those dignitaries upon the spot, and found to contain the following extraordinary, and indeed very serious, communications.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000006_000001.wav|In a very few minutes it arrived near enough to be accurately discerned.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000015_000001.wav|In the centre of this circle, being the station designed for the large cask, I also dug a hole three feet in depth.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000022_000004.wav|In fact, the blood so long accumulating in the vessels of my head and throat, and which had hitherto buoyed up my spirits with madness and delirium, had now begun to retire within their proper channels, and the distinctness which was thus added to my perception of the danger, merely served to deprive me of the self possession and courage to encounter it.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000004_000002.wav|Nevertheless, about noon, a slight but remarkable agitation became apparent in the assembly: the clattering of ten thousand tongues succeeded; and, in an instant afterward, ten thousand faces were upturned toward the heavens, ten thousand pipes descended simultaneously from the corners of ten thousand mouths, and a shout, which could be compared to nothing but the roaring of Niagara, resounded long, loudly, and furiously, through all the environs of Rotterdam.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000011_000007.wav|They had, so they said, as much as they could do to read about the revolutions, and keep up with the march of intellect and the spirit of the age.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000008_000001.wav|Throwing out, therefore, a quantity of sand from a canvas bag, which, he lifted with great difficulty, he became stationary in an instant.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000020_000001.wav|Indeed, I now perceived that I had entirely overdone the business, and that the main consequences of the shock were yet to be experienced.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000017.wav|I had to rest several times before I could accomplish this manoeuvre, but it was at length accomplished.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000018_000003.wav|I therefore kept my three duns working with great diligence, pounding down ice around the central cask, and stirring the acid in the others.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000009.wav|In the contemplation of the heavenly bodies it struck me forcibly that I could not distinguish a star with nearly as much precision, when I gazed on it with earnest, direct and undeviating attention, as when I suffered my eye only to glance in its vicinity alone.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000012_000004.wav|By this time it began to grow dark, and I directed my steps toward home.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000013_000004.wav|In this I finally succeeded-partly by selling enough of my household furniture to satisfy a moiety of their claim, and partly by a promise of paying the balance upon completion of a little project which I told them I had in view, and for assistance in which I solicited their services.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000022_000001.wav|So far from it, I still lay nearly level with the plane of the horizon; for the change of situation which I had acquired, had forced the bottom of the car considerably outwards from my position, which was accordingly one of the most imminent and deadly peril.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000007_000009.wav|His vest was of some bright yellow material; a white taffety cap was set jauntily on one side of his head; and, to complete his equipment, a blood red silk handkerchief enveloped his throat, and fell down, in a dainty manner, upon his bosom, in a fantastic bow knot of super eminent dimensions.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000007_000000.wav|The balloon (for such no doubt it was) had now descended to within a hundred feet of the earth, allowing the crowd below a sufficiently distinct view of the person of its occupant.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000024_000004.wav|I then finally made up my mind.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000008_000004.wav|His Excellency stooped to take it up.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000004_000001.wav|The day was warm-unusually so for the season-there was hardly a breath of air stirring; and the multitude were in no bad humor at being now and then besprinkled with friendly showers of momentary duration, that fell from large white masses of cloud which chequered in a fitful manner the blue vault of the firmament.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000011_000010.wav|I soon grew as poor as a rat, and, having a wife and children to provide for, my burdens at length became intolerable, and I spent hour after hour in reflecting upon the most convenient method of putting an end to my life.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000021_000016.wav|Holding the instrument thus obtained within my teeth, I now proceeded to untie the knot of my cravat.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6373/65772/6373_65772_000023_000001.wav|I then, however, examined it with attention, and found it, to my great relief, uninjured.|6373
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000018_000002.wav|I made no ado, but set to work on the biscuits at once, while the white haired man helped Montgomery to release about a score more of the rabbits. Three big hutches, however, went up to the house with the puma. The brandy I did not touch, for I have been an abstainer from my birth.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000015_000001.wav|You'll find this island an infernally rum place, I promise you.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000010_000001.wav|He raised his eyebrows slightly at that.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000006_000005.wav|He had a large, almost lipless, mouth, extraordinary lank arms, long thin feet, and bow legs, and stood with his heavy face thrust forward staring at us. He was dressed like Montgomery and his white haired companion, in jacket and trousers of blue serge.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000010_000000.wav|I told him I had spent some years at the Royal College of Science, and had done some researches in biology under Huxley.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000007_000002.wav|I was struck especially by the curious movements of the legs of the three swathed and bandaged boatmen,--not stiff they were, but distorted in some odd way, almost as if they were jointed in the wrong place.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000007_000003.wav|The dogs were still snarling, and strained at their chains after these men, as the white haired man landed with them.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000011_000003.wav|"I and Montgomery, at least," he added.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000006_000003.wav|I fancied while we were still far off that I saw some other and very grotesque looking creatures scuttle into the bushes upon the slope; but I saw nothing of these as we drew nearer.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000005_000003.wav|As I stared at them, they met my gaze; and then first one and then another turned away from my direct stare, and looked at me in an odd, furtive manner.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000004_000000.wav|The white haired man I found was still regarding me steadfastly, but with an expression, as I now fancied, of some perplexity. When my eyes met his, he looked down at the staghound that sat between his knees.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000016_000000.wav|His procedure with the rabbits was singular.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000011_000002.wav|This is a biological station-of a sort." His eye rested on the men in white who were busily hauling the puma, on rollers, towards the walled yard.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000001_000002.wav|There were three other men besides,--three strange brutish looking fellows, at whom the staghounds were snarling savagely. Montgomery, who was steering, brought the boat by me, and rising, caught and fastened my painter to the tiller to tow me, for there was no room aboard.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000015_000003.wav|"I wish you'd help me with these rabbits," he said.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000002_000000.wav|I had recovered from my hysterical phase by this time and answered his hail, as he approached, bravely enough. I told him the dingey was nearly swamped, and he reached me a piggin. I was jerked back as the rope tightened between the boats. For some time I was busy baling.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000007_000005.wav|Montgomery, having unshipped the rudder, landed likewise, and all set to work at unloading.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000017_000000.wav|"Increase and multiply, my friends," said Montgomery. "Replenish the island.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000001_000000.wav|BUT the islanders, seeing that I was really adrift, took pity on me. I drifted very slowly to the eastward, approaching the island slantingly; and presently I saw, with hysterical relief, the launch come round and return towards me.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000007_000000.wav|At a word of command from Montgomery, the four men in the launch sprang up, and with singularly awkward gestures struck the lugs. Montgomery steered us round and into a narrow little dock excavated in the beach.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000006_000006.wav|As we came still nearer, this individual began to run to and fro on the beach, making the most grotesque movements.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000013_000001.wav|That captain was a silly ass. He'd have made things lively for you."|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000011_000004.wav|Then, "When you will be able to get away, I can't say. We're off the track to anywhere.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000009_000001.wav|Now you are our guest, we must make you comfortable,--though you are uninvited, you know." He looked keenly into my face.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000003_000000.wav|It was not until I had got the water under (for the water in the dingey had been shipped; the boat was perfectly sound) that I had leisure to look at the people in the launch again.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000017_000001.wav|Hitherto we've had a certain lack of meat here."|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000012_000000.wav|He left me abruptly, and went up the beach past this group, and I think entered the enclosure.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000008_000000.wav|Presently the white haired man seemed to recollect my presence, and came up to me.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000015_000000.wav|"That depends.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000006_000000.wav|It was low, and covered with thick vegetation,--chiefly a kind of palm, that was new to me.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000018_000001.wav|"Something to go on with, Prendick," said he, in a far more familiar tone than before.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000004_000001.wav|He was a powerfully built man, as I have said, with a fine forehead and rather heavy features; but his eyes had that odd drooping of the skin above the lids which often comes with advancing years, and the fall of his heavy mouth at the corners gave him an expression of pugnacious resolution. He talked to Montgomery in a tone too low for me to hear.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000009_000002.wav|"Montgomery says you are an educated man, mr Prendick; says you know something of science.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000014_000000.wav|"It was you," said I, "that saved me again."|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000005_000004.wav|It occurred to me that I was perhaps annoying them, and I turned my attention to the island we were approaching.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000006_000001.wav|From one point a thin white thread of vapour rose slantingly to an immense height, and then frayed out like a down feather. We were now within the embrace of a broad bay flanked on either hand by a low promontory.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000011_000001.wav|"As it happens, we are biologists here.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000018_000000.wav|As I watched them disappearing, the white haired man returned with a brandy flask and some biscuits.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129582/716_129582_000009_000003.wav|May I ask what that signifies?"|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000011_000001.wav|"Shut up,--that's your name. Mister Shut up."|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000023_000000.wav|He distorted his lower lip, and nodded his head hopelessly at the grey haired man beside him, to indicate his powerlessness to help me.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000010_000000.wav|"Prendick," said i|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000011_000000.wav|"Prendick be damned!" said he.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000029_000003.wav|Then I realised that I was in that little hell of mine again, now half swamped; and looking back over the gunwale, I saw the schooner standing away from me, with the red haired captain mocking at me over the taffrail, and turning towards the island saw the launch growing smaller as she approached the beach.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000025_000000.wav|Then began a curious three cornered altercation. Alternately I appealed to one and another of the three men,--first to the grey haired man to let me land, and then to the drunken captain to keep me aboard.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000004_000002.wav|I jumped into my clothes and went on deck.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000012_000000.wav|It was no good answering the brute; but I certainly did not expect his next move.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000014_000000.wav|Montgomery and his companion turned as he spoke.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000019_000001.wav|He had the squarest and most resolute face I ever set eyes upon.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000016_000000.wav|"That way, Mister Blasted Shut up,--that's what I mean! Overboard, Mister Shut up,--and sharp!|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000028_000001.wav|I drifted slowly from the schooner.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000008_000001.wav|He came round with a start, and staggered back a few paces to stare at me.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000012_000001.wav|He held out his hand to the gangway by which Montgomery stood talking to a massive grey haired man in dirty blue flannels, who had apparently just come aboard.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000027_000000.wav|Presently that work was finished, and then came a struggle. I was hauled, resisting weakly enough, to the gangway. Even then I noticed the oddness of the brown faces of the men who were with Montgomery in the launch; but the launch was now fully laden, and was shoved off hastily.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000021_000001.wav|"This ship aint for beasts and cannibals and worse than beasts, any more.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000017_000002.wav|The lost prospect of a journey as sole passenger with this quarrelsome sot was not one to mourn over. I turned towards Montgomery.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000017_000001.wav|Then it occurred to me that it was exactly the thing I wanted.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000020_000000.wav|"Look here," I began, turning to the captain.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000030_000002.wav|In a passion of despair I struck with my fists at the water in the bottom of the boat, and kicked savagely at the gunwale.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000021_000003.wav|If they can't have you, you goes overboard. But, anyhow, you go-with your friends.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000028_000000.wav|The dingey of the "Lady Vain" had been towing behind; it was half full of water, had no oars, and was quite unvictualled. I refused to go aboard her, and flung myself full length on the deck. In the end, they swung me into her by a rope (for they had no stern ladder), and then they cut me adrift.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000027_000002.wav|The hands in the launch shouted derisively, and I heard Montgomery curse at them; and then the captain, the mate, and one of the seamen helping him, ran me aft towards the stern.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000008_000002.wav|It needed no expert eye to tell that the man was still drunk.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000029_000001.wav|At first I could scarcely believe what had happened.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000027_000001.wav|A broadening gap of green water appeared under me, and I pushed back with all my strength to avoid falling headlong.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000025_000002.wav|I'm king here." At last I must confess my voice suddenly broke in the middle of a vigorous threat. I felt a gust of hysterical petulance, and went aft and stared dismally at nothing.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000026_000002.wav|Neither Montgomery nor his companion took the slightest notice of me, but busied themselves in assisting and directing the four or five sailors who were unloading the goods. The captain went forward interfering rather than assisting. I was alternately despairful and desperate.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000029_000002.wav|I crouched in the bottom of the dingey, stunned, and staring blankly at the vacant, oily sea.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000008_000000.wav|He stood in my way, so that I had perforce to tap his shoulder to come on deck.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000006_000000.wav|The poor brute seemed horribly scared, and crouched in the bottom of its little cage.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000013_000000.wav|"That way, Mister Blasted Shut up! that way!" roared the captain.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000015_000000.wav|"What do you mean?" I said.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000021_000005.wav|I've had enough of it."|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000022_000000.wav|"But, Montgomery," I appealed.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000017_000000.wav|I stared at him dumfounded.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129581/716_129581_000018_000000.wav|"Can't have you," said Montgomery's companion, concisely.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000009_000000.wav|"I've been thinking of the same things," Montgomery answered. "There's my room with the outer door-"|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000014_000000.wav|"We usually have our meals in here," said Montgomery, and then, as if in doubt, went out after the other.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000002_000000.wav|I turned and saw that the launch had now been unloaded, run out again, and was being beached, and the white haired man was walking towards us. He addressed Montgomery.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000001_000001.wav|I followed the llama up the beach, and was overtaken by Montgomery, who asked me not to enter the stone enclosure. I noticed then that the puma in its cage and the pile of packages had been placed outside the entrance to this quadrangle.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000023_000000.wav|What could it all mean?|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000010_000001.wav|"I'm sorry to make a mystery, mr Prendick; but you'll remember you're uninvited. Our little establishment here contains a secret or so, is a kind of Blue Beard's chamber, in fact.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000022_000001.wav|I stared before me out at the green sea, frothing under a freshening breeze, and let these and other strange memories of the last few days chase one another through my mind.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000012_000000.wav|He twisted his heavy mouth into a faint smile-he was one of those saturnine people who smile with the corners of the mouth down,--and bowed his acknowledgment of my complaisance.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000019_000004.wav|"The Moreau Horrors!"|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000014_000001.wav|"Moreau!" I heard him call, and for the moment I do not think I noticed. Then as I handled the books on the shelf it came up in consciousness: Where had I heard the name of Moreau before?|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000019_000005.wav|The phrase drifted loose in my mind for a moment, and then I saw it in red lettering on a little buff coloured pamphlet, to read which made one shiver and creep. Then I remembered distinctly all about it.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000016_000003.wav|Then I recalled the eyes of Montgomery's ungainly attendant.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000020_000005.wav|Yet some of his experiments, by the journalist's account, were wantonly cruel. He might perhaps have purchased his social peace by abandoning his investigations; but he apparently preferred the latter, as most men would who have once fallen under the overmastering spell of research. He was unmarried, and had indeed nothing but his own interest to consider.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000016_000002.wav|Indeed, they had all seemed remarkably taciturn, and when they did speak, endowed with very uncanny voices. What was wrong with them?|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000022_000000.wav|Yet surely, and especially to another scientific man, there was nothing so horrible in vivisection as to account for this secrecy; and by some odd leap in my thoughts the pointed ears and luminous eyes of Montgomery's attendant came back again before me with the sharpest definition.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000000_000000.wav|seven.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000003_000001.wav|What are we to do with him?"|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000006_000000.wav|"I daresay you are," said Montgomery, in anything but a cordial tone.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000021_000002.wav|It dawned upon me to what end the puma and the other animals-which had now been brought with other luggage into the enclosure behind the house-were destined; and a curious faint odour, the halitus of something familiar, an odour that had been in the background of my consciousness hitherto, suddenly came forward into the forefront of my thoughts.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000015_000000.wav|Through the window I saw one of those unaccountable men in white, lugging a packing case along the beach.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000016_000001.wav|From that my thoughts went to the indefinable queerness of the deformed man on the beach. I never saw such a gait, such odd motions as he pulled at the box. I recalled that none of these men had spoken to me, though most of them I had found looking at me at one time or another in a peculiarly furtive manner, quite unlike the frank stare of your unsophisticated savage.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000005_000000.wav|"I'm itching to get to work again-with this new stuff," said the white haired man, nodding towards the enclosure. His eyes grew brighter.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000020_000000.wav|Was this the same Moreau?|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000021_000003.wav|It was the antiseptic odour of the dissecting room.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000021_000000.wav|I felt convinced that this must be the same man.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000019_000001.wav|He turned and went towards the door, regarding me oddly over his shoulder. I followed him out with my eyes; and as I did so, by some odd trick of unconscious cerebration, there came surging into my head the phrase, "The Moreau Hollows"--was it?|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000010_000000.wav|"That's it," said the elder man, promptly, looking at Montgomery; and all three of us went towards the enclosure.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000003_000000.wav|"And now comes the problem of this uninvited guest.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000021_000004.wav|I heard the puma growling through the wall, and one of the dogs yelped as though it had been struck.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000017_000003.wav|Under his stringy black locks I saw his ear; it jumped upon me suddenly close to my face.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000020_000002.wav|He had to leave England. A journalist obtained access to his laboratory in the capacity of laboratory assistant, with the deliberate intention of making sensational exposures; and by the help of a shocking accident (if it was an accident), his gruesome pamphlet became notorious. On the day of its publication a wretched dog, flayed and otherwise mutilated, escaped from Moreau's house.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000010_000002.wav|Nothing very dreadful, really, to a sane man; but just now, as we don't know you-"|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000019_000006.wav|That long forgotten pamphlet came back with startling vividness to my mind. I had been a mere lad then, and Moreau was, I suppose, about fifty,--a prominent and masterful physiologist, well-known in scientific circles for his extraordinary imagination and his brutal directness in discussion.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000021_000001.wav|Everything pointed to it.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000019_000003.wav|It sent my memory back ten years.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000008_000000.wav|"I'm in your hands," said i I had no idea of what he meant by "over there."|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000017_000002.wav|Then astonishment paralysed me.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000018_000000.wav|"Your breakfast, sair," he said.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000000_000001.wav|THE LOCKED DOOR.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000014_000002.wav|I sat down before the window, took out the biscuits that still remained to me, and ate them with an excellent appetite.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000004_000000.wav|"He knows something of science," said Montgomery.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000012_000002.wav|I followed him, and found myself in a small apartment, plainly but not uncomfortably furnished and with its inner door, which was slightly ajar, opening into a paved courtyard.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000012_000003.wav|This inner door Montgomery at once closed. A hammock was slung across the darker corner of the room, and a small unglazed window defended by an iron bar looked out towards the sea.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000007_000000.wav|"We can't send him over there, and we can't spare the time to build him a new shanty; and we certainly can't take him into our confidence just yet."|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000020_000004.wav|The doctor was simply howled out of the country. It may be that he deserved to be; but I still think that the tepid support of his fellow investigators and his desertion by the great body of scientific workers was a shameful thing.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000019_000000.wav|I stared at his face without attempting to answer him.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/716/129583/716_129583_000017_000000.wav|Just as I was thinking of him he came in.|716
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000009_000001.wav|One of the most gratifying recognitions I ever received was the invitation to talk on the films in Fullerton Hall, Chicago Art Institute.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000003.wav|No three people would more welcome opportunities to outline the idealistic possibilities of this future art.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000009_000008.wav|So this enterprise, in my fond and fatuous fancy, is associated with the sweet Mae Marsh as The Wild Girl of the Sierras-one of the loveliest bits of poetry ever put into screen or fable.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000008.wav|He is said to be like one of o Henry's misquotations of the classics.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000008_000007.wav|Of course those bodies touch on a thousand others.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000008_000003.wav|Now I realize that those who approach the theory from the general University standpoint, or from the history of the drama, had best begin with Freeburg's book, for he is not only learned in both matters, but presents the special analogies with skill.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000009.wav|He looks to me like that artist Edgar Poe, if Poe had been obliged to make millions laugh.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000001.wav|They should take the lead.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000007.wav|He is praised for a kind of o Henry double meaning to his antics.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000008_000000.wav|The nineteen fifteen edition was used by Victor o Freeburg as one of the text books in the Columbia University School of Journalism, in his classes in photoplay writing.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000011_000002.wav|The school was to be largely devoted to producing music for the photoplay, in defiance of chapter fourteen.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000010.wav|I do not like Chaplin's work, but I have to admit the good intentions and the enviable laurels.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000011_000004.wav|Neither music nor films have as yet shaken the world.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000004.wav|And a well-known American painter was talking to me of a midnight scolding Charlie Chaplin gave to some Los Angeles producer, in a little restaurant, preaching the really beautiful film, and denouncing commerce like a member of Coxey's illustrious army.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000007_000000.wav|This book tries to find that fourth dimension of architecture, painting, and sculpture, which is the human soul in action, that arrow with wings which is the flash of fire from the film, or the heart of man, or Pygmalion's image, when it becomes a woman.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000009_000000.wav|The work is being used as one basis of the campaign for the New Denver Art Museum, and I like to tell the story of how George w Eggers of Denver first began to apply the book when the Director of the Art Institute, Chicago, that it may not seem to the merely University type of mind a work of lost abstractions.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000009_000002.wav|Then there came invitations to speak at Chicago University, and before the Fortnightly Club, Chicago, all around nineteen sixteen-seventeen.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000008_000006.wav|From there it must work its way out.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000012_000001.wav|I felt that once it was started the films would take their proper place and dominate the project, disinterested non-commercial films to be classed with the dramas so well stimulated by the great drama department under Professor Baker of Harvard.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000006_000001.wav|I find the eyes of all others wandering when I make talks upon the plastic artist's point of view.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER one|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000013_000000.wav|As I look back over this history I see that the printed page had counted too much, and the real forces of the visible arts in America had not been definitely enlisted.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000009_000007.wav|It took a deal of will and breaking of precedent, on the part of all concerned, to show this film, The Wild Girl of the Sierras, and I retired from the field a long time. But now this same Eggers is starting, in Denver, an Art Museum from its very foundations, but on the same constructive scale.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000010_000000.wav|For about one year, off and on, I had the honor to be the photoplay critic of The New Republic, this invitation also based on the first edition of this book.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000006_000000.wav|While there is a great deal of literary reference in all the following argument, I realize, looking back over many attempts to paraphrase it for various audiences, that its appeal is to those who spend the best part of their student life in classifying, and judging, and producing works of sculpture, painting, and architecture.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/88349/4331_88349_000009_000004.wav|I talked at these three and other places, but hardly knew how to go about crossing the commercial bridge.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000004.wav|The Duchess knew all about her and vouchsafed to her the smallest possible recognition.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000003.wav|It had always seemed that she was to be allowed to come and go by reason of her relationship, but that she was to receive no special mark of confidence or affection.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000004.wav|And he was handsome too, and good humoured, though these qualities told less with her than the others.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000007.wav|The girl was his niece and the Duke had an idea that he should be kind to the family of which he was the head.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000003_000004.wav|She could hardly hope for more than one day's hunting and yet that had been provided for as though she were going to ride with the hounds through all the remainder of the season.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000025_000000.wav|"I thought it might settle everything if we had mr Morton here."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000029_000002.wav|I beg the Duke's pardon, but I suffer the less because I know his Grace never waits for anybody."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000019_000001.wav|You should think of it very seriously.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000024_000000.wav|"As one does know men that one meets about."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000004.wav|The Duke's punctuality at dinner time was well known, and everybody else was then assembled.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000013.wav|She thought of it all, and made her plans carefully and even painfully.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000019_000003.wav|There is a neighbour of his coming here to morrow, and perhaps he knows him."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000006_000000.wav|During the first evening Arabella did contrive to make herself very agreeable.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000018_000002.wav|And yet she had to remember that her coming campaign with Lord Rufford must be carried on in part beneath her aunt's eyes. When she had come to Mistletoe she had fondly hoped that none of the family there would know anything about mr Morton.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000011_000000.wav|"You are engaged to him?"|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000006.wav|And she would meet him with the remembrance fresh in his mind as in her own of those passages of love at Rufford.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000002.wav|Everybody knew that she was a Trefoil and her presence therefore raised no question.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000027_000002.wav|But the Duchess expected him on the morrow.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000030_000000.wav|"Certainly not," said the Duke, "having some regard for my friends' dinners."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000014.wav|She would be at any rate two days in the house before his arrival.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000005_000006.wav|By many who understood the subject he was supposed to be the best amateur judge of wine in England.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000005.wav|Lady Chiltern had met her before, and as Lady Chiltern was always generous, she was gracious to Arabella. She was sorry to see Lady Drummond, because she connected Lady Drummond with the Foreign Office and feared that the conversation might be led to Patagonia and its new minister.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000005.wav|Within two minutes after the Duke's word dinner was announced, and a party numbering about thirty walked away into the dinner room.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000031_000000.wav|"And I find myself next to you," said Lord Rufford as he took his seat.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000008.wav|The most that she could expect would be four or five days of his company, and she knew that she must be upon her mettle.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000021_000002.wav|I will ask him about the property."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000012.wav|Lord Drummond tells me that he is a most respectable young man."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000000.wav|When she reached Mistletoe there were people going and coming every day, so that an arrival was no event.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000008.wav|His brother's wife had become objectionable to him, but as to the girl, if she wanted a home for a week or two, he thought it to be his duty to give it to her.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000003_000003.wav|She forgot nothing.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000006.wav|"My dear," said her aunt, when the door was closed, "I want to ask you whether you would like me to ask mr Morton to come here while you are with us?" A thunderbolt at her feet could hardly have surprised or annoyed her more.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000005.wav|She nodded her head, heard a few more words from Lady Drummond, and then, with a pretty apology and a statement made so that all should hear her, that her aunt wanted her, followed the maid up stairs.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000026_000004.wav|Arabella, with many expressions of thanks and a good humoured countenance, left the room, cursing the untowardness of her fate which would let nothing run smooth.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000019_000000.wav|"I hope not.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000007.wav|If the man were to come, fortune would have favoured her in that.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000001.wav|Such a thing had never happened to her before.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000006.wav|Arabella, when they were all settled, found that there was a vacant seat next herself.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000019_000002.wav|As for money, you know, you have none of your own, and I am told that he has a very nice property in Rufford.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000010.wav|She did it very well, and betrayed nothing.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000018_000001.wav|She could not say that she certainly was not going with him.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000002.wav|She could not recollect that, on any of those annual visits which she had made to Mistletoe for more years than she now liked to think of, she had ever had five minutes' conversation alone with her aunt.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000011.wav|"I ask," said the Duchess, "because I have been very glad to hear that you are engaged to marry him.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000009.wav|With a great effort she restrained all emotion and simply shook her head.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000003_000000.wav|She had stretched her means and her credit to the utmost in regard to her wardrobe, and was aware that she had never been so well equipped since those early days of her career in which her father and mother had thought that her beauty, assisted by a generous expenditure, would serve to dispose of her without delay.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000021_000000.wav|"Lord Rufford.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000010.wav|She must scruple at nothing that might bind him.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000026_000000.wav|"I couldn't meet him, aunt; I couldn't indeed.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000009_000000.wav|"And I thought that if it were so, you would be glad that he should meet you here.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000023_000000.wav|"Know Lord Rufford very well!"|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000018_000003.wav|And now she was called upon to answer these horrid questions without a moment's notice!|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000027_000001.wav|That at any rate was now almost certain. Up to the present she had doubted, knowing the way in which such men will change their engagements at the least caprice.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000005_000005.wav|He was a grey haired comely man of sixty, with a large body and a wonderful appetite.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000003.wav|"We won't wait, Duchess," said the Duke to his wife at three minutes past eight.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000007_000004.wav|The message was whispered into her ear by her aunt's own woman as she was listening with great attention to Lady Drummond's troubles in regard to her nursery arrangements.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000011.wav|She would be in the house of her uncle and that uncle a duke, and she thought that those facts might help to quell him.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000006_000003.wav|She was all smiles and all pleasantness, and seemed to want no other happiness than what the present moment gave her.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000014_000001.wav|"Yes," said Arabella; "I was engaged to him."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000012_000000.wav|"Well; I was going to tell you.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000005_000001.wav|There is nothing in England more ugly or perhaps more comfortable.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000002.wav|When she came into the drawing room, a little late, he was not there.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000009.wav|She must do more now than she had ever attempted before.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000006_000002.wav|After dinner, something having been said of the respectable old game called cat's cradle, she played it to perfection with Sir Jeffrey,--till her aunt thought that she must have been unaware that Sir Jeffrey had a wife and family.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000021_000001.wav|He is coming to shoot.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000026_000003.wav|After what Arabella had told her mr Morton could not be asked there to meet her niece. But all the slight feeling of kindness to the girl which had been created by the tidings of so respectable an engagement were at once obliterated from the Duchess's bosom.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000013_000000.wav|"But you were engaged to him?"|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000003_000001.wav|A generous expenditure may be incurred once even by poor people, but cannot possibly be maintained over a dozen years.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000004_000003.wav|The Duchess of Omnium was among the guests.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000027_000000.wav|Lord Rufford was to come.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000001_000000.wav|MISTLETOE.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000029_000001.wav|"There never were trains so late as yours, Duchess," he said, "nor any part of the world in which hired horses travel so slowly.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000009_000001.wav|I could manage it very well, as the Drummonds are here, and Lord Drummond would be glad to meet him."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000007.wav|It would be impossible that he should even seem to forget them.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000028_000000.wav|When she went up to dress for dinner on the day of his expected arrival Lord Rufford had not come.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000029_000000.wav|The fish and soup had already disappeared and the Duke was wakening himself to eloquence on the first entree when Lord Rufford entered the room.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000002_000005.wav|And now she was to meet him in the house of her great relations,--in a position in which her rank and her fashion would seem to be equal to his own.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000003_000002.wav|Now she had taken the matter into her own hands and had done that which would be ruinous if not successful. She was venturing her all upon the die,--with the prospect of drowning herself on the way out to Patagonia should the chances of the game go against her.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57179/4331_57179_000017_000000.wav|"I suppose you will go with him?"|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000007.wav|She had come to feel that the time was slipping between her fingers and that she must say something effective.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000014_000000.wav|"Nothing on earth so jolly if your pastors and masters and all that will let you."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000003.wav|Tons of game had been killed, and tons more were to be killed after luncheon. The Duchess was not there and Arabella contrived so to place herself that she could be waited upon by Lord Rufford, or could wait upon him.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000017_000000.wav|"I thought all that kind of nonsense was over," said Arabella.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000020_000001.wav|We couldn't ride back, you know, as we did at Rufford.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000032_000000.wav|"I don't mean to let the Duchess interfere with me," said Arabella in a whisper.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000020_000000.wav|"I'm afraid that would be worse.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000019_000000.wav|"But the railway!"|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000044_000000.wav|"To morrow is Sunday."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000048_000001.wav|One of the beaters was so near that he could not but have heard;--but what does a beater signify?|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000045_000000.wav|"I am quite aware of that, but I didn't know whether you could live a day without sport."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000009_000000.wav|"Is it very far?" asked Arabella.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000034_000001.wav|She would have her one day's hunting, and she had secured the presence of Lord Rufford at Mistletoe for Sunday.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000011.wav|The Duchess of Omnium had since declared that she also would go, and there were to be two carriages.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000012_000003.wav|Upon this Lord Rufford turned round and looked at Arabella mournfully.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000008_000005.wav|But when a lady is added, the difficulty is often increased fivefold.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000022_000003.wav|But Lord Rufford cared more about the chance of a good run than her company!|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000023_000001.wav|This is Thursday."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000007.wav|She could see that though her niece might be very anxious to marry Lord Rufford, Lord Rufford might indulge himself in a close intimacy with the girl without any such intention on his part.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000031_000001.wav|Ladies always like to see a meet, and perhaps we could make a party.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000003.wav|The Duchess, though she was at some distance down the table, had seen that her niece and Lord Rufford were intimate, and remembered immediately what had been said up stairs.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000001.wav|Lord Rufford had at last consented to be one of the party.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000010_000000.wav|"It is a little far.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000028_000000.wav|"Where is Peltry?"|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000006.wav|The Duchess was in her way a clever woman and could see many things.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000011_000000.wav|"Heaven only knows.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000033_000003.wav|It was, however, understood that she was to have a place in the carriage.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000002.wav|With logs of trees, a few hurdles, and other field appliances, a rustic banqueting hall was prepared and everything was very nice.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000034_000005.wav|When the ladies went up to bed Arabella had had no other opportunity than what Fortune had given her at dinner.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000034_000004.wav|On this evening it was ten o'clock before the gentlemen came into the drawing room, and then Lord Rufford's time was spent in arranging the party for the meet on Monday.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000008_000000.wav|"There are difficulties, and I ought to have written to you about them.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000012_000002.wav|Then a hunting man who had heard the question said that he and another intended to travel by train to Oundle.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000022_000002.wav|The Duke might have been persuaded to send a carriage that distance.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000008.wav|And, as far as the family was concerned, she would have been quite contented with the Morton alliance.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000000.wav|And even then she had been watched.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000004_000000.wav|"Jack is here," said Lord Rufford, as soon as the fuss of his late arrival had worn itself away.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000041_000001.wav|"Of course there is a little danger, but who is going to be stopped by that?"|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000026_000000.wav|"I wouldn't mind if I didn't go to bed at all."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000025_000000.wav|"To morrow will be Friday and the Duke has his great shooting on Saturday.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000036_000004.wav|She did not see Lord Rufford before dinner, and at dinner sat between Sir Jeffrey and an old gentleman out of Stamford who dined at Mistletoe that evening.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000009.wav|"Do we hunt or shoot to morrow?" she said.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000042_000001.wav|"Nasty old dragon!" Arabella said to herself when she was thus left alone.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000031_000000.wav|"It's rather far for that, but we could talk over the Duke to send a carriage.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000022_000000.wav|Then Lord Rufford ate his dinner and seemed to think that that matter was settled.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000046_000000.wav|"The country is so full of prejudice that I am driven to Sabbatical quiescence."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000031_000003.wav|I shouldn't fear the Duchess so much for twelve miles as I should for twenty."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000004.wav|They could not have talked as they were then talking,--sometimes whispering as the Duchess could perceive very well,--unless there had been considerable former intimacy.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000016_000000.wav|"The Duchess!" suggested Lord Rufford.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000023_000000.wav|"I have been thinking about it ever since.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000034_000000.wav|Arabella had gained two things.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000018_000000.wav|"I believe a great deal is over.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000013_000000.wav|"Cannot I go by train to Oundle?" she asked.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000010_000001.wav|I wonder who are going from here?"|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000029_000000.wav|"It's a Cottesmore meet,--about five miles this side of Melton."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000027_000002.wav|I hate being anywhere on Sunday except in a railway carriage. But if I thought the Duke would keep me till Tuesday morning we might manage Peltry on Monday.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000013.wav|Nor did Arabella intend that she should know it till the morning came.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000034_000003.wav|He worked so hard at his amusements that he was as bad a lover as a barrister who has to be in Court all day,--almost as bad as a sailor who is always going round the world.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000037_000000.wav|"The old dragon took care of that," replied Arabella.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000012_000001.wav|The Duke said that he did not know of anything on wheels going to Holcombe Cross.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000031_000002.wav|If not we must put a good face on it and go in anything we can get.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000005.wav|She began gradually to understand various things;--why Arabella Trefoil had been so anxious to come to Mistletoe just at this time, why she had behaved so unlike her usual self before Lord Rufford's arrival, and why she had been so unwilling to have mr Morton invited.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000012.wav|But still it never occurred to the Duchess that Arabella intended to hunt.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000030_000000.wav|"We could ride from here."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000007_000000.wav|"Oh yes," said Arabella, rapturously.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000022_000001.wav|Arabella knew that he might have hunted elsewhere,--that the Cottesmore would be out in their own county within twelve miles of them, and that the difficulty of that ride would be very much less.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000036_000005.wav|"We've had no such luck to night," Lord Rufford said to her in the drawing room.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000011_000001.wav|I have passed my time in playing cat's cradle with Sir Jeffrey Bunker for the amusement of the company, and in confidential communications with my aunt and Lady Drummond.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000025_000003.wav|That wouldn't suit you."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000027_000000.wav|"At any rate it wouldn't suit the Duchess.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000000.wav|The Saturday was the day of the great shooting and at two o'clock the ladies went out to lunch with the gentlemen by the side of the wood.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000008_000001.wav|I am going with the Fitzwilliam." Now Mistletoe was in Lincolnshire, not very far from Peterborough, not very far from Stamford, not very far from Oakham.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000043_000005.wav|Nobody was present who could dare to interfere with her.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000025_000002.wav|I shall go with the Pytchley if I don't shoot, but I shall have to get up just when other people are going to bed.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000021_000000.wav|"I am not at all," said Arabella, angrily.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000039_000000.wav|"Because-; I can't very well tell you why, but I dare say you know."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000035_000009.wav|She would have asked Morton now only that it would be impossible that he should come in time to be of service.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000048_000000.wav|"But the Duchess?" exclaimed Lord Rufford in a stage whisper.|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000006_000000.wav|"Can you come to morrow?"|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000020_000004.wav|To tell you the truth I'm the least bit in the world afraid of the Duchess."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000024_000000.wav|"Not a doubt about it."|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4331/57180/4331_57180_000022_000006.wav|"And is that to be the end of Jack as far as I'm concerned?"|4331
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000108_000001.wav|"You should not have spoken.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000057_000000.wav|"Why do you rock?" she asked slowly.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000011_000000.wav|It was a childish game of funerals at which the children played.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000094_000002.wav|The gipsy's eyes rested on the bridal party....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000004_000001.wav|Coming back again, they had had some ado to discover the spot where their three caravans made a hummock of white against a broken wall.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000070_000005.wav|Her hands moved.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000005_000001.wav|She stood in the latticed porch, dark and handsome against the whiteness, and then, advancing, put her head into the great hall kitchen.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000109_000000.wav|The swarthy woman turned her almond eyes on her once more.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000008_000002.wav|In the ancient walnut chair by the hearth sat the old, old lady who had told them to bring the chairs.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000130_000000.wav|That afternoon, Jack and Flora had shaken down to wedlock as married folk should, and sat together before the board spread with the dolls' tea things.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000105_000000.wav|But Aunt Rachel only turned the betrothal ring on her finger.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000089_000000.wav|"Many years; but it is always small; it never grows."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000142_000002.wav|It's the carol singers, singing because Jesus was born."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000077_000001.wav|Therefore it must have lived."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000025_000001.wav|Shall we go and ask the chair woman if she's warm enough?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000092_000000.wav|"Would it come to another chair?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000070_000007.wav|Annabel lifted one hand.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000101_000000.wav|"No, Annabel," said Aunt Rachel faintly.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000012_000001.wav|She stopped.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000047_000001.wav|It was a hoop of pearls.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000037_000001.wav|Aunt Rachel had been awakened for the conclusion of Flora's funeral, but her eyes were closed again now, and once more her cheek was dropped in that tender suggestive little gesture, and she rocked.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000126_000002.wav|Another has seen....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000083_000000.wav|She broke another long silence.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000033_000000.wav|"May I look at it, please?" she asked timidly.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000052_000000.wav|Then, after a minute, she drew still closer.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000117_000000.wav|"Lady dear, you must rock or you cannot live."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000082_000001.wav|The gipsy's face became grave....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000043_000000.wav|Annabel made roving play with her eyes.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000129_000000.wav|Annabel stooped and kissed the hand that bore the betrothal hoop of pearls.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000002_000000.wav|There was little need for the swart gipsies to explain, as they stood knee deep in the snow round the bailiff of the Abbey Farm, what it was that had sent them.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000070_000000.wav|It was a curious thing that followed.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000060_000000.wav|It was more than a minute before Aunt Rachel spoke.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000124_000000.wav|"But for that little time, rock-"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000075_000000.wav|Aunt Rachel opened her eyes again.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000091_000000.wav|"Except yourself, none.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000030_000000.wav|"Tell the lady, when she wakes, that I will tack a strip of felt to the rocker, and then it will make no noise at all," said the low and wheedling voice; and the child retired again.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000094_000001.wav|At the other end of the room Flora was now bestowed on Jack, the disreputable sailor.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000102_000000.wav|"Will you rock again?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000097_000000.wav|"No; but yet....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000091_000001.wav|I sit here; presently it creeps into my arms; it is small and warm; I rock, and then... it goes."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000105_000001.wav|Over at the altar Jack was leering at his new made bride, past decency; and little Angela held the wooden horse's head, which had parted from its body.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000015_000000.wav|"Flora's dead!"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000067_000001.wav|"None except I have seen it.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000006_000000.wav|"Has the lady any chairs for the gipsy woman to mend?" she asked in a soft and insinuating voice....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000136_000000.wav|"... and Joseph wouldn't pluck the cherries," somebody was whispering to the tiny Angela....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000122_000000.wav|"Annabel fears she has taken away your comfort."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000014_000000.wav|"Yes, dear?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000068_000000.wav|The gipsy sat suddenly erect.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000041_000001.wav|Though all the chairs were mended, Annabel still came daily to the farm, sat on the box they used to cover the sewing machine, and wove mats.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000070_000006.wav|Noiselessly on the rockers that the gipsy had padded with felt the chair began to rock.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000037_000000.wav|Before replying, the gipsy once more turned her almond eyes towards Aunt Rachel's chair.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000084_000001.wav|"It is a new kind-but no more wonderful than the other.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000084_000002.wav|The other I have seen, now I have seen this also.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000027_000000.wav|Again the message was taken, and this time it seemed as if Annabel, the gipsy, was not warm enough, for she gathered up her loops of cane and brought the chair she was mending a little way into the hall kitchen itself.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000058_000002.wav|In a voice soft as sliding water the gipsy continued:|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000046_000000.wav|"Lady dear," she murmured with irresistible softness, "your husband died, didn't he?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000019_000000.wav|"In a what, dear?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000080_000000.wav|Still the shake of the head.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000075_000001.wav|She repeated dully after Annabel:|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000141_000000.wav|The little Angela, within the arms that held her, murmured, "It's the gipsies, isn't it, mother?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000077_000000.wav|"Ghosts," the gipsy whispered presently, "are of the dead.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000072_000000.wav|Aunt Rachel did not appear to hear her.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000142_000000.wav|"No, darling.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000127_000000.wav|"They thank you, lady dear....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000049_000001.wav|"Then that is-?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000126_000003.wav|Say good bye to your companions; they are very welcome to what they have had; and God speed you."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000026_000000.wav|"Do, dears."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000035_000000.wav|"Sometime, perhaps-if I'm very careful-"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000002_000001.wav|The unbroken whiteness of the uplands told that, and, even as they spoke, there came up the hill the dark figures of the farm men with shovels, on their way to dig out the sheep.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000145_000001.wav|The gipsy woman wouldn't go without her little baby, would she?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000113_000003.wav|Only Aunt Rachel sat, still and knitting, in the black walnut chair; and the children played on the floor.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000108_000006.wav|Please go."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000126_000000.wav|"no|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000098_000000.wav|"Angela."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000062_000000.wav|But the gipsy shook her head.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000080_000002.wav|They took my white garments away and gave me black ones.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000123_000001.wav|The door closes behind us, but it opens again."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000096_000000.wav|"None has."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000058_000001.wav|She did not reply.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000113_000002.wav|He and the farm men had ceased work, and were down at the church, practising the carols.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000021_000000.wav|"She means, Aunt Rachel,|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000055_000000.wav|"Did what die?" she asked slowly and guardedly....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000056_000001.wav|As the child settled, Annabel gave Aunt Rachel a long look.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000070_000002.wav|The gipsy sat with her own hands folded over the mat on her knees.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000123_000000.wav|"Only for a little while.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000069_000001.wav|Keep still in your chair," she ordered, "and I will tell you when-"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000090_000002.wav|None other has ever seen it?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000132_000000.wav|When at midnight, faintly on the air from the church below, there came the chiming of Christmas morning, all bestirred themselves.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000114_000000.wav|A night in the toy box had apparently bred discontent between Jack and Flora-or perhaps they sought to keep their countenances before the world; at any rate, they sat on opposite sides of the room, Jack keeping boon company with the lead soldiers, his spouse reposing, her lead balanced eyes closed, in the broken clockwork motor car.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000042_000001.wav|(The children at the other end of the apartment had converted a chest into an altar, and were solemnising the nuptials of the resurrected Flora and Jack, the raffish sailor doll.)|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000129_000003.wav|Then she departed with her companions.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000011_000001.wav|The hand of Death, hovering over the dolls, had singled out Flora, the articulations of whose sawdust body were seams and whose boots were painted on her calves of fibrous plaster.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000072_000001.wav|With that ineffable smile still on her face, she rocked....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000027_000001.wav|She sat down on the square box they used to cover the sewing machine.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000108_000004.wav|It was not meant to be seen by another.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000106_000000.wav|"Rock, and comfort yourself-" tempted the voice.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000099_000001.wav|Look, the doll who died yesterday is now being married....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000037_000002.wav|But you could see that she was not properly asleep....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000058_000000.wav|Aunt Rachel was trembling.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000144_000000.wav|"Look where?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000031_000000.wav|The interment of Flora proceeded....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000073_000000.wav|Then, after some minutes, there crossed her face such a look as visits the face of one who, waking from sleep, strains his faculties to recapture some blissful and vanishing vision....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000043_000002.wav|"Is there anything Annabel can bid him do?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000093_000002.wav|It was his chair."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000044_000000.wav|"Nothing, thank you," said Aunt Rachel.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000025_000000.wav|"Yes, we will, presently, Aunt Rachel; gee up, horse!...|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000079_000000.wav|"You were young, and beautiful?..."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000045_000001.wav|She leaned so close towards her that she had to put up a hand to steady the babe at her back.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000070_000004.wav|Once more her head dropped.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000131_000001.wav|There was merry talk, but Aunt Rachel took no part in it.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000054_000001.wav|Her eyes avoided those of the gipsy, sought them, and avoided them again.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000129_000002.wav|It trembled as it rested there, but the tremor passed, and Annabel, turning once at the porch, gave her a last look.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000110_000000.wav|"You cannot live without it," she said as she also rose....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000118_000000.wav|Aunt Rachel did not look up from her work.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000048_000000.wav|"I have never had a husband," she said.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000062_000002.wav|I speak of eyes-these eyes."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000085_000000.wav|"It was his chair; he died in it," said Aunt Rachel.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000128_000000.wav|"No more."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000023_000000.wav|Sabrina, the eldest, interpreted.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000100_000000.wav|Again the voice was soft and wheedling....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000032_000000.wav|An hour later Flora had taken up the burden of Life again.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000125_000000.wav|Aunt Rachel shook her head.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000008_000000.wav|As she worked, she cast curious glances into the old hall kitchen.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000065_000000.wav|But there came a sudden note of masterfulness into the gipsy's voice.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000081_000002.wav|Tell me the truth."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000115_000001.wav|She approached the chair in which Aunt Rachel sat|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000135_000000.wav|It was the Cherry Tree Carol that rose outside, of how sweet Mary, the Queen of Galilee, besought Joseph to pluck the cherries for her Babe, and Joseph refused; and the voices of the singers, that had begun hesitatingly, grew strong and loud and free.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000034_000000.wav|The gipsy set one shoulder forward, and Sabrina put the shawl gently aside, peering at the dusky brown morsel within.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000099_000000.wav|"That means 'angel'...|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000097_000001.wav|The door does not always shut behind us suddenly. Perhaps one who has toddled but a step or two over the threshold might, by looking back, catch a glimpse....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000051_000000.wav|"Ah!..." said Annabel.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000050_000000.wav|"That is a betrothal ring," Aunt Rachel replied.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000086_000000.wav|"And you-shall you die in it?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000053_000000.wav|"Ah!...|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000059_000000.wav|"Lady dear, we are a strange folk to you, and even among us there are those who shuffle the pack of cards and read the palm when silver has been put upon it, knowing nothing...|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000003_000000.wav|"The hares and foxes were down four days ago, and the liquid manure pumps like a snow man," the bailiff said....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000016_000000.wav|The old lady, when she smiled, did so less with her lips than with her faded cheeks.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000056_000000.wav|The child at the gipsy's back did not need suck; nevertheless, Annabel's fingers worked at her bosom, and she moved the sling.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000121_000000.wav|"All leave me."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000078_000000.wav|But again Aunt Rachel shook her head.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000038_000000.wav|"You'll know some day, little missis, that a wean knows its own pair of arms," her seductive voice came.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000039_000002.wav|The little regular noise of the rocker ceased.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000029_000000.wav|The gipsy woman beckoned to one of the children.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000093_000001.wav|I think not.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000076_000000.wav|"It is gone."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000108_000000.wav|"No, Annabel," she said gently.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000012_000000.wav|The youngest of the children passed the high backed walnut chair in which the old lady sat|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000024_000000.wav|"Ah!...|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000039_000001.wav|She opened her eyes with a start.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000133_000001.wav|The children were in their nightgowns, hardly fully awake; a low voice outside was heard giving orders; and then there arose on the night the carol.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000104_000000.wav|"Rock..." urged the cajoling voice.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000049_000000.wav|The gipsy glanced at the ring.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000063_000001.wav|Aunt Rachel had given a little start, but had become quiet again.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000032_000001.wav|It was as Angela, the youngest, was chastising her for some offence, that Sabrina, the eldest, looked with wondering eyes on the babe in the gipsy's sling. She approached on tiptoe.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000099_000002.wav|It may be that Life has not yet sealed the little one's eyes. Will you let Annabel ask her if she sees what it is you hold in your arms?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000081_000001.wav|But sometimes a woman will lie through her life, and at the graveside still will lie....|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000063_000002.wav|When at last she spoke it was in a voice scarcely audible.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000114_000002.wav|In the intervals of kissing they told one another in whispers that Aunt Rachel was not very well, and Angela woke Flora to tell her that Aunt Rachel had Brown titus also.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000113_000001.wav|It was on the morning of Christmas Eve that they came down in a body to the Abbey Farm to express their thanks to those who had befriended them; but the bailiff was not there.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000064_000003.wav|For my bridal clothes they made me black garments instead.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000071_000001.wav|"It is there."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000045_000000.wav|For a minute the gipsy watched Aunt Rachel, and then she got up from the sewing machine box and crossed the floor.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000084_000003.wav|Tell me, does it come to any other chair?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000107_000000.wav|Then slowly Aunt Rachel rose from her chair.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000087_000000.wav|"As God wills."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000041_000003.wav|It was always the white haired lady who spoke first, and Annabel made all sorts of salutes and obeisances with her eyes before replying.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000090_000000.wav|"To their mothers babes never grow.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000064_000004.wav|It is long ago, and now I wear neither black nor white, but-" her hands made a gesture.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000003_000002.wav|Maybe you'll help us find our sheep too-"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000108_000005.wav|I no longer want it.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/8592/7739_8592_000133_000000.wav|"They'll be here in a few minutes," they said; "somebody go and bring the children down;" and within a very little while subdued noises were heard outside, and the lifting of the latch of the yard gate.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000036_000001.wav|Do you think you can let me have it by Tuesday next?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000058_000001.wav|The Rockerbilt tiara itself was as bogus as our own copy.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000026_000004.wav|Understand?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000010_000001.wav|"What I meant, my dear boy, was not a permanent affair but one of these Newport marriages.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000014_000002.wav|There is mrs Rockerbilt's tiara, for instance.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000041_000000.wav|"Theatricals?" said i|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000026_000000.wav|"Just the thing!" cried Henriette.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000032_000002.wav|And I have always remembered dear old Raffles's remark, "Take everything in sight, Bunny," he used to say; "but, damn it, do it like a gentleman, not a professional."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000043_000001.wav|Why, darn it all, she'd scream the minute I tried it," I protested.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000017_000002.wav|Besides, what's to prevent my wife from blabbing when we try to ship her?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000026_000002.wav|They adjoin ours.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000014_000000.wav|"That's because you are a man, Bunny," said Henriette.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000054_000000.wav|"And mrs Rockerbilt never even suspected?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000051_000000.wav|"Isn't it a beauty, Bunny," said Henriette the next morning, as she held up the tiara to my admiring gaze, a flashing, coruscating bit of the jeweler's art that, I verily believe, would have tempted the soul of honor itself into rascally ways.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000053_000002.wav|The copy was in the table drawer, and while my right hand was apparently engaged in manipulating the refractory light, and my voice was laughingly calling down maledictions upon the electric lighting company for its wretched service, my left hand was occupied with the busiest effort of its career in substituting the spurious tiara for the other."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000038_000000.wav|"Agreed," said Henriette.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000008_000000.wav|"That is not what I meant, Bunny," she retorted, coldly, frowning at me.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000039_000000.wav|And Sikes was true to his word.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000015_000001.wav|You forget that I am a gentleman."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000004_000001.wav|You must get married."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000005_000001.wav|As you must by this time have realized yourself, there was only one woman in the world that I could possibly bring myself to think fondly of, and that woman was none other than Henriette herself.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000047_000000.wav|"Dear me!" cried Henriette, rising hurriedly and full of warm sympathy. "How very awkward!"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000018_000001.wav|"I hadn't thought of that-it would be dangerous, wouldn't it?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000039_000002.wav|It was so like that none but an expert in gems could have told the copy from the original, and when I bore the package back to Newport and displayed its contents to my mistress she flew into an ecstasy of delight.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000050_000002.wav|Meanwhile Henriette and mrs Rockerbilt had gone above.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000036_000000.wav|"I am going to a little fancy dress dance, mr Sikes," she explained, "as Queen Catharine of Russia, and this tiara is a copy of the very famous lost negligee crown of that unhappy queen.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000027_000000.wav|"I do," said i|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000050_000001.wav|Tommy Dare gave three cheers for mrs Van Raffles, and mrs Gramercy Van Pelt, clad in a gorgeous red costume, stood up on a chair and toasted me in a bumper of champagne.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000040_000000.wav|"We'll have the original in a week if you keep your nerve, Bunny," she cried.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000005_000002.wav|I could not believe, however, that this was at all the notion she had in mind, and what little poise I had was completely shattered by the suggestion.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000001_000000.wav|seven|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000046_000003.wav|All was as Henriette had foretold, mrs Rockerbilt's lovely blond locks were frightfully demoralized, and the famous tiara with it had slid aslant athwart her cheek.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000058_000000.wav|But, alas! later on Henriette made a discovery herself that for the time being turned her eyes red with weeping.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000005_000000.wav|To say that I was shocked by the observation is putting it mildly.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000056_000000.wav|"Well, you're a wonder, Henriette," said I, with a sigh.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000052_000000.wav|"Magnificent!" I asserted.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000011_000000.wav|"I don't understand," said I, affecting denseness, for I understood only too well.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000025_000000.wav|"Pretty good," said i "Chiefly architectural drawings, however-details of facades and ornamental designs."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000037_000003.wav|It will cost you forty eight dollars.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000042_000000.wav|"No, indeed," said Henriette.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000026_000003.wav|She will wear her tiara, and I want you when she is in the gardens to hide behind some convenient bit of shrubbery and make an exact detail sketch of the tiara.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000016_000000.wav|"It's only a temporary arrangement, Bunny," she pleaded.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000029_000000.wav|"And then?" I asked, excitedly.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000058_000002.wav|There wasn't a real stone in the whole outfit, and the worst part of it was that under the circumstances Henriette could not tell anybody over the teacups that mrs Rockerbilt was, in vulgar parlance, "putting up a shine" on high society.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000030_000000.wav|"Bring it to me; I'll attend to the rest," said she.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000014_000001.wav|"There are splendid opportunities for acquiring the gems these Newport ladies wear by one who may be stationed in the dressing room.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000006_000000.wav|I drew myself up with dignity, however, in a moment and answered her.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000016_000001.wav|"It's done all the time in the smart set."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000034_000001.wav|"You have even got the sparkle of that incomparable ruby in the front."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000014_000003.wav|It is at present the finest thing of its kind in existence and of priceless value.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000028_000001.wav|Get the whole thing to a carat," she commanded.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000019_000000.wav|"Very," said i "The only safe way out of it would be to kill the young woman, and my religious scruples are strongly against anything of the sort.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000015_000000.wav|"Well, I'll tell you one thing, Henriette," I returned, with more positiveness than I commonly show, "I will not marry a lady's maid, and that's all there is about it.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000042_000004.wav|mrs Rockerbilt will sit at my left-Tommy Dare to the right.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000017_000000.wav|"Well, the morals of the smart set are not my morals," I retorted.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000057_000001.wav|"She'll never have occasion to test the genuineness of her tiara.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000055_000001.wav|"In fact, she placed the bogus affair in her hair herself.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000035_000000.wav|Next morning we went to New York, and Henriette, taking my design to a theatrical property man we knew on Union Square, left an order for its exact reproduction in gilt and paste.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000034_000000.wav|"It is simply perfect, Bunny," she cried, delightedly, as she looked at it.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000048_000000.wav|"Oh, don't speak of it," laughed mrs Rockerbilt, amiably.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000052_000001.wav|"But-which is this, the forty eight dollar one or the original?"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000013_000000.wav|"I fail to see the necessity for a maid of that kind," said i|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000053_000000.wav|"The original," said Henriette, caressing the bauble.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000055_000000.wav|"No," said Henriette.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000020_000000.wav|"Then what shall we do, Bunny?" demanded mrs Van Raffles.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000057_000000.wav|"She won't, Bunny," said Henriette.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000007_000002.wav|You must have banked enough by this time to be able to support me in the style to which I am accustomed."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000012_000000.wav|"Stupid!" cried Henriette.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000042_000002.wav|No, indeed-a dinner.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000010_000002.wav|Not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith," she explained.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000039_000001.wav|The following Tuesday afternoon brought to my New York apartment-for of course mrs Raffles did not give Sikes her right name-an absolutely faultless copy of mrs Rockerbilt's chiefest glory.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000022_000000.wav|"That is a good idea," said Henriette; "only I hate amateur theatricals. I'll think it over."|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000003_000000.wav|Henriette had been unwontedly reserved for a whole week, a fact which was beginning to get sadly on my nerves when she broke an almost Sphinxlike silence with the extraordinary remark:|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000048_000001.wav|"It is nothing, dear mrs Van Raffles.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000042_000006.wav|At the moment you are passing the poisson I will throw the room into darkness, and you-"|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000037_000001.wav|"It is a beautiful thing and it will give me real pleasure to reproduce it.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7739/107483/7739_107483_000037_000000.wav|"Easily, madam," said Sikes.|7739
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000063_000000.wav|With Husky Haughty Lips, O Sea!|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000020_000000.wav|My Canary Bird|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000107_000000.wav|While not the past forgetting, To day, at least, contention sunk entire-peace, brotherhood uprisen; For sign reciprocal our Northern, Southern hands, Lay on the graves of all dead soldiers, North or South, (Nor for the past alone-for meanings to the future,) Wreaths of roses and branches of palm.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000051_000000.wav|How they sweep down and out!|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000051_000001.wav|how they mutter! Poets unnamed-artists greatest of any, with cherish'd lost designs, Love's unresponse-a chorus of age's complaints-hope's last words, Some suicide's despairing cry, Away to the boundless waste, and never again return.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000110_000000.wav|Stronger Lessons|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000028_000000.wav|America|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000093_000000.wav|The United States to Old World Critics|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000030_000000.wav|Memories|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000029_000000.wav|Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, Chair'd in the adamant of Time.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000048_000002.wav|what Sirius'? what Capella's? What central heart-and you the pulse-vivifies all?|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000090_000003.wav|The Female equally with the Male, I sing. Nor cease at the theme of One's Self.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000018_000000.wav|As I Sit Writing Here|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000047_000000.wav|[three] You Tides with Ceaseless Swell|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000012_000000.wav|A Carol Closing Sixty Nine|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000039_000000.wav|Apple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms; Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital emerald green; The eternal, exhaustless freshness of each early morning; The yellow, golden, transparent haze of the warm afternoon sun; The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white flowers.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000133_000000.wav|After a week of physical anguish, Unrest and pain, and feverish heat, Toward the ending day a calm and lull comes on, Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000014_000000.wav|The Bravest Soldiers|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000111_000000.wav|Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000090_000001.wav|That, for the use of the New World, I sing. Man's physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000134_000000.wav|Old Age's Lambent Peaks|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000118_000000.wav|Twilight|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000131_000002.wav|Drums! or To the Leaven'd Soil they Trod, Or Captain!|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000048_000004.wav|what clue to all in you?|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000083_000000.wav|Yonnondio|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000048_000003.wav|what boundless aggregate of all? What subtle indirection and significance in you?|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000090_000000.wav|Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest-namely, One's Self- a simple, separate person.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000036_000000.wav|Abraham Lincoln, Born february twelfth eighteen o nine|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000113_000000.wav|Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn, The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors; The light, the general air possess'd by them-colors till now unknown, No limit, confine-not the Western sky alone-the high meridian- North, South, all, Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000115_000001.wav|What of the future?)|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000085_000000.wav|Life|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000126_000000.wav|As the Greek's Signal Flame|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000091_000000.wav|True Conquerors|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000124_000000.wav|The Dead Emperor|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000067_000000.wav|Red Jacket (From Aloft)|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000131_000003.wav|My Captain!|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000031_000000.wav|How sweet the silent backward tracings! The wanderings as in dreams-the meditation of old times resumed --their loves, joys, persons, voyages.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000122_000000.wav|Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000003_000000.wav|BOOK thirty four.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000003_000001.wav|SANDS AT SEVENTY|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000131_000001.wav|Beat!|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000097_000000.wav|Thanks in Old Age|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000060_000000.wav|Then last of all, caught from these shores, this hill, Of you O tides, the mystic human meaning: Only by law of you, your swell and ebb, enclosing me the same, The brain that shapes, the voice that chants this song.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000016_000000.wav|A Font of Type|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000038_000000.wav|Out of May's Shows Selected|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000059_000000.wav|[eight] Then Last Of All|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000011_000000.wav|To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast, To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead, To calm, devoted engineers-to over ardent travelers-to pilots on their ships, To many a lofty song and picture without recognition-I'd rear laurel cover'd monument, High, high above the rest-To all cut off before their time, Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire, Quench'd by an early death.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000094_000000.wav|Here first the duties of to day, the lessons of the concrete, Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty; As of the building of some varied, vast, perpetual edifice, Whence to arise inevitable in time, the towering roofs, the lamps, The solid planted spires tall shooting to the stars.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000006_000000.wav|Paumanok|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000071_000000.wav|Of That Blithe Throat of Thine|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000023_000000.wav|Approaching, nearing, curious, Thou dim, uncertain spectre-bringest thou life or death? Strength, weakness, blindness, more paralysis and heavier? Or placid skies and sun?|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000130_000000.wav|Now Precedent Songs, Farewell|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000136_000000.wav|After the Supper and Talk|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000069_000000.wav|Washington's Monument February, eighteen eighty five|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000040_000000.wav|Halcyon Days|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000076_000000.wav|To get the final lilt of songs, To penetrate the inmost lore of poets-to know the mighty ones, Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakespere, Tennyson, Emerson; To diagnose the shifting delicate tints of love and pride and doubt- to truly understand, To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance price, Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000004_000000.wav|Mannahatta|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000057_000000.wav|[seven] By That Long Scan of Waves|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000048_000001.wav|you power that does this work! You unseen force, centripetal, centrifugal, through space's spread, Rapport of sun, moon, earth, and all the constellations, What are the messages by you from distant stars to us?|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000128_000000.wav|The Dismantled Ship|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000073_000000.wav|Broadway|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000105_000000.wav|Thine eyes, ears-all thy best attributes-all that takes cognizance of natural beauty, Shall wake and fill.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000077_000000.wav|Old Salt Kossabone|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000065_000000.wav|Death of General Grant|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000052_000000.wav|On to oblivion then! On, on, and do your part, ye burying, ebbing tide! On for your time, ye furious debouche!|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000026_000000.wav|The First Dandelion|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000035_000000.wav|After the dazzle of day is gone, Only the dark, dark night shows to my eyes the stars; After the clangor of organ majestic, or chorus, or perfect band, Silent, athwart my soul, moves the symphony true.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000062_000001.wav|it serves to purify-while the heart pants, life glows: These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships, Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000037_000000.wav|To day, from each and all, a breath of prayer-a pulse of thought, To memory of Him-to birth of Him.|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000075_000000.wav|To Get the Final Lilt of Songs|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/454/134728/454_134728_000112_000000.wav|A Prairie Sunset|454
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000033_000000.wav|A tall, rather handsome girl, with dark coarse hair and a face lit up by round grey eyes, entered.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000046_000000.wav|'I promised to go out with Walter to night.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000025_000000.wav|'I paint portraits when I can get them to do; when I can't, I come here and copy....|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000047_000000.wav|'You can put him off.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000012_000004.wav|Time went by without her perceiving it; she was startled by the sound of her master's voice and looked in glad surprise.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000012_000001.wav|This was a disappointment.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000049_000000.wav|'As you like....|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000040_000001.wav|Elsie asked for whom Cissy was making the copy.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000041_000000.wav|'For a friend of Freddy's-a very rich fellow.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000043_000001.wav|I'm dining with him to night.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000004_000001.wav|For the first time she found something romantic in that train.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000051_000001.wav|You shouldn't have talked so openly before her.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000050_000001.wav|Mildred heard Cissy ask who she was.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000012_000003.wav|She grew absorbed in her work; she did not see the girl in front of her, nor the young man copying opposite; she did not notice their visits to each other's easels; she forgot everything in the passion of drawing.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000002_000002.wav|He was a good looking, blond man, somewhat inclined to the poetical and melancholy type; his hair bristled, and he wore a close cut red beard; the moustache was long and silky; there was a gentle, pathetic look in his pale blue eyes; and a slight hesitation of speech, an inability to express himself in words, created a passing impression of a rather foolish, tiresome person.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000010_000002.wav|Don't be afraid,' he said, glancing round; 'lots of them can't do as well as you.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000011_000007.wav|It was more difficult than sketching from nature.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000041_000004.wav|He says he's "stony" and doesn't know how he'll pull through.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000015_000001.wav|Will you let me sit down?|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000010_000001.wav|It will take you at least a couple of days to get it right....|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000039_000003.wav|But Cissy had insisted, and he had put her and the picture into a little room off the main gallery, where she could pursue her nefarious work unperceived.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000005_000000.wav|'I'm so frightened,' she said; 'I'm afraid I don't paint well enough.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000006_000002.wav|This way.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000030_000000.wav|The men turned to the left top to go to their room, the women turned to the right to go to theirs.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000011_000006.wav|But before she began to paint she would have to draw those heavenly faces in every feature.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000026_000001.wav|It quickly disappeared, and he said, 'Will you take Miss Lawson to the refreshment room, Miss Laurence?|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000020_000000.wav|'Only a few months,' said Mildred.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000034_000000.wav|'So you are here, Elsie,' and she stared at Mildred.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000037_000001.wav|Is this your first day?'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000002_000004.wav|Ralph Hoskin was very poor: his pathetic pictures did not find many purchasers, and he lived principally by teaching.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000007_000000.wav|They went up to the galleries.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000011_000008.wav|She could not follow the drawing, it seemed to escape her.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000022_000001.wav|'You must tell me which you use.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000028_000003.wav|The contrast between its twilight and the brightness of the courtyard is quite in his manner.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000016_000001.wav|If you get them exactly right the rest will come easily.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000015_000002.wav|Will you give me your charcoal?'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000008_000001.wav|She glanced at the work, seeking eagerly for copies, worse than any she was likely to perpetrate.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000018_000000.wav|'I would give anything to paint like that,' said Mildred.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000040_000000.wav|The girls laughed heartily.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000050_000000.wav|When lunch was over Cissy and Elsie took each other's arms and went upstairs together.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000031_000000.wav|'This way,' said Miss Laurence, and she opened a glass door, and Mildred found herself in what looked like an eating house of the poorer sort.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000041_000003.wav|He has lost all his money....|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000049_000004.wav|He'll do anything I ask him.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000002_000003.wav|But beneath this exterior there lay a deep, true nature, which found expression in twilit landscapes, the tenderness of cottage lights in the gloaming, vague silhouettes, and vague skies and fields.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000045_000000.wav|'No, I forgot to tell you, I'm staying with you, so be careful not to give me away if you should meet mother.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000004_000000.wav|She was anxious to get away from Sutton, and the prospect of long days spent in London pleased her, and on the following Thursday Harold took her up to London by the ten minutes past nine.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000011_000009.wav|It did not exist in lines which she could measure, which she could follow.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000049_000002.wav|Johnny and Herbert are coming.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000001_000001.wav|In the pauses of her painting she wondered if he thought of her, if he missed her.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000009_000000.wav|'I should like you to see the drawing,' she said, 'before I begin to paint.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000006_000003.wav|I've got your easel, and your place is taken.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000032_000001.wav|But you don't know what it is to want money,' and in a rapid glance Miss Laurence roughly calculated the price of Mildred's clothes.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000035_000001.wav|Miss Lawson, Miss Cissy Clive.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000016_000005.wav|'You're doing an excellent copy, Miss Laurence.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000051_000000.wav|Elsie whispered, 'A pupil of Ralph's.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000041_000002.wav|Freddy has just come back from Monte Carlo.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000042_000000.wav|'Was he here this morning?'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000026_000002.wav|You're going there I suppose.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000003_000000.wav|But he had not given Mildred her fourth lesson in landscape painting when he received an advantageous offer to copy two pictures by Turner in the National Gallery.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000008_000005.wav|He told her where she would find him, in the Turner room, and that she must not hesitate to come and fetch him whenever she was in difficulties.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000043_000000.wav|'He ran in for a moment to see me....|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000048_000000.wav|'Then he'd want to come round to the studio.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000038_000000.wav|'Yes, this is my first day.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000023_000000.wav|'mr Hoskin can tell you better than i You can't have a better master.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000011_000012.wav|The girl in front of her was making, it seemed to Mildred, a perfect copy.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000052_000000.wav|'So his name is Ralph,' Mildred said to herself, and thought that she liked the name.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000016_000003.wav|Let me introduce you to Miss Laurence,' he said.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000035_000000.wav|'Let me introduce you to Miss Lawson.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000048_000001.wav|I don't like to put him off.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234067/6497_234067_000015_000000.wav|'No, not so badly.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000052_000002.wav|I will go and tell him so.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000021_000006.wav|I don't want to marry any one, and mother doesn't seem to understand that.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000053_000000.wav|The Major stood up, he was pale, and Agnes noticed that his lips trembled.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000009_000002.wav|I thought I'd like to sit and watch you.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000018_000000.wav|'I'm afraid she would.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000009_000003.wav|Here, take your chair.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000049_000000.wav|'But that will take a long time, father; in the meantime----'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000038_000003.wav|I'll tell you, Agnes, but you must not breathe a word of it to any one, if you did, they would take the machine from me: for they'd like me to remain a mere expense.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000034_000003.wav|Your mother said, in reply to some question about me, that I was "merely an expense." I believe the phrase was considered very clever, it went the round of society, and eventually was put into a play.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000015_000004.wav|They are very pleased with my work....|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000010_000004.wav|But I'll tell him I took it for you.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000012_000001.wav|I promised to get them finished this evening.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000060_000000.wav|'I am sure, father, that it is not right of him to put his arms round me-he tried to kiss me.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000023_000001.wav|I don't want to say anything against mother; she loves me, I'm sure: but we're so different, I shall never understand mother, I shall never get on in society.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000047_000000.wav|'Mother said he is so poor that she has often to lend him money.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000044_000002.wav|Is he kind to you, dear; tell me that; do you like him?'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000075_000002.wav|In these clothes,' he repeated.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000021_000000.wav|'There's something, father, dear, that I must speak to you about.... Mother thinks I ought to marry Lord Chiselhurst, that I ought to make up to him and catch him if I can.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000008_000001.wav|I can stand, I've been sitting so long.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000015_000003.wav|Still, seventy is a good average, and I have hardly any corrections to make.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000016_000002.wav|We could sit together, you in that corner, I in this.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000034_000000.wav|'A great deal of it is my fault, dear.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000007_000000.wav|'Nothing, at least nothing in particular.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000029_000001.wav|How selfish I am.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000068_000001.wav|But not now, this is not the time.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000016_000004.wav|I could pay her back out of the money I earned, just like you.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000075_000000.wav|'I will not make a scene, but I must do something....|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000046_000000.wav|'He has dined and lunched here every day for the last ten years.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000022_000000.wav|She was too intent on what she was saying to notice the light which flashed in the Major's eyes.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000064_000000.wav|'Yes; but, father, you cannot speak to him now, there are people in the drawing room.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000034_000001.wav|When I lost my money I got disheartened, and little by little I lost control.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000056_000001.wav|Whatever his faults may be, I feel sure when he sees that I do not want him, that he will cease to think of me...|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000042_000002.wav|I was thinking. Somehow it seems to me that I rather like him, though I have no reason to do so.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000007_000002.wav|But I've taken your chair.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000036_000000.wav|'Never mind, best not to ask....|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000025_000000.wav|'But, father, you're not listening.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000027_000000.wav|'Of what?'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000071_000000.wav|'Oh, father, don't, for my sake, please.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000005_000000.wav|'I'm not disturbing you, father?'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000011_000000.wav|The Major returned a moment after with a chair.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000038_000004.wav|As long as I'm that, they can do what they like, but as soon as I gain an independence, as soon as I am able to pay for my meals,' he whispered, 'I mean to put my house in order But you mustn't breathe a word.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000010_000001.wav|I can get one out of the butler's room.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000021_000003.wav|He is-no, I cannot marry him.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000023_000002.wav|I cannot, father, dear, I cannot, I feel so far away; I do not know what to say to the people I meet.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000008_000000.wav|'It doesn't matter.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000074_000000.wav|'Father!'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000030_000002.wav|So you think you'll never get on in society.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000075_000001.wav|I promise you that I will not make a scene, but I must go down to the drawing room in these clothes.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000031_000000.wav|'I don't think I'm suited for society.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000068_000000.wav|'I want you to speak to mr Moulton....|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000009_000000.wav|'But no, father, I can't take your chair.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000060_000002.wav|And he speaks in a way that I do not like-I don't know....|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000018_000003.wav|Last night at Lord Chiselhurst's----'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000029_000000.wav|'Poor father, you have a great deal to think of, and I come interrupting your work.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000015_000000.wav|'I think I picked it up pretty quickly.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000006_000000.wav|'No, dear: you never disturb me,' he said, getting up from the type writer and giving her his chair.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000043_000000.wav|'Is he a fast man, father, is he like Lord Chiselhurst?'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000070_000003.wav|Agnes answered, 'Father, for my sake ... not now.' But he must obey the idea which pierced his brain, and before she could prevent him he slipped past her and opened the door.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000038_000001.wav|It took me a long while, but I have found the way-there it is,' he said, pointing to the type writing machine.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000042_000003.wav|He thinks me crazy, but so do others; I know that my conversation bores him, he always tries to get away from me, yet somehow it seems to me that I do like him.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000072_000000.wav|His lips moved but he did not speak.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000019_000001.wav|You must have enjoyed yourself there.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000058_000000.wav|'I don't wish you to be violent, father, but you might hint to mr Moulton that I do not wish----'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000010_000000.wav|'I can get another.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000016_000000.wav|'Will you, father?|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000010_000002.wav|He won't mind just for once.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000021_000004.wav|I do not like him, I'm only sixteen, and he's forty or fifty.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000015_000005.wav|I'll teach you-you'd soon pick it up.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000057_000000.wav|'Who, then, is the worst?|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000019_000000.wav|'Yes; tell me about it.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000015_000002.wav|Some typists can do eighty, but my fingers are too old for that.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000030_000000.wav|'No, dear, you're not selfish....|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000061_000001.wav|That fellow-that fellow!'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000040_000000.wav|'I shall be able to sweep out all those you don't like.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000007_000001.wav|I got tired of the drawing room, and thought I'd like to come and sit with you.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000057_000001.wav|Who is it that you wish me to rid you of?'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000010_000003.wav|He's a very particular man.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000048_000002.wav|I'll put my house in order.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000059_000000.wav|'That man-he, too, is merely an expense.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000048_000001.wav|When I've got together a little independence, when I can pay for my meals and my clothes, you shall see; none that you dislike shall ever come here, dearest.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000021_000002.wav|But, father, I cannot marry him.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000052_000001.wav|Lord Chiselhurst ought to be ashamed, a man of his age to want to marry a young girl like you.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000025_000001.wav|Listen to me, I've only you.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000052_000000.wav|'They shall not force you to marry, they shall not ask you to do anything you do not like.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000017_000000.wav|'Your mother would say you were wasting your time.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000012_000000.wav|'I shan't be many minutes before I finish this lot,' he said; 'then we shall be able to talk.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000015_000001.wav|I can do seventy words a minute.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000011_000001.wav|He gave it to Agnes and resumed his place at the machine.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000009_000001.wav|I don't want to stop you from working.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000075_000005.wav|She noticed that his step was heavy and irresolute and hoped he would refrain.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000044_000001.wav|I don't think he's a bad man-no worse than other men.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000070_000002.wav|He only muttered that the time had come to put his house in order.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000045_000000.wav|'Yes, father; he and mr saint Clare are the men I like best here.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000062_000000.wav|'Yes; he asks me questions.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000034_000004.wav|And that is why I told you that money is everything, that it is difficult to be truthful, honourable, or respectable if you have no money, a little will do, but you must have a little, if you haven't you aren't respectable, you're nothing, you become like me, a mere expense.... I've borne it for your sake, dearest.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000021_000007.wav|She said if that were so, she really didn't see why I left the convent.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000020_000000.wav|Agnes did not answer for a long while, at last she said,--|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000050_000000.wav|'What, dear?'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000041_000000.wav|'Tell me, father, do you like Lord Chadwick?' The Major's face changed expression.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000061_000000.wav|'Frightens you!|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000073_000000.wav|'I will not make a scene,' he said at last.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000026_000000.wav|'I'm thinking.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234106/6497_234106_000046_000001.wav|He's been an expense too.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000004.wav|What had happened?|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000008_000006.wav|On this point he was uncertain, this was nature's secret.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000004_000003.wav|He crept downstairs.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000003_000006.wav|She had walked with him on the hills, she had accompanied him as far as the burgh; she had waved her hand to him before they walked quite out of each other's sight.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000005_000006.wav|She had lent him this book-she who was now but clay.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000007_000000.wav|He had walked up and down his study, his mind aflame; he had sat in his arm chair, facing the moonlight, considering a question, to him so important, so far reaching, that his mind at moments seemed as if like to snap, to break, but which was accepted by nine tenths of humanity without a second thought, as lightly as the most superficial detail of daily life.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000007.wav|like a bolt from the blue.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000008_000000.wav|He must not adventure into a life he was not fitted for; he must not wreck another's life; in considering himself he was considering her; their interests were mutual, they were identical; there was no question of egotism.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000013_000000.wav|A temptation of the flesh had come upon him; he had yielded to it instead of opposing it with the contrary habit of chastity.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000005_000001.wav|Only three days ago she had been sitting in that basket chair.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000004_000002.wav|He envied the hard sobbing father's grief, the father who held his dead daughter's hand, and showed a face on which was printed so deeply the terror of the soul's emotion, that john felt a supernatural awe creep upon him; felt that his presence was a sort of sacrilege.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000005_000003.wav|Shadow like is human life! one moment it is here, the next it is gone.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000004_000000.wav|Had he loved her?|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000006_000006.wav|Such had been his theory; he must now make his theory and practice coincide.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000007_000001.wav|But how others acted was not his concern; he must consider his own competence to bear the burden-the perilous burden he had asked, and which had been promised to him.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000006_000005.wav|He had often said he had no pity for those who accepted burdens and then complained that they had not sufficient strength to carry them.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000015_000002.wav|Perhaps it were better so; the reasons that prompted suicide were better unrevealed....|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000005.wav|By what strange alienation of the brain, by what sudden snapping of the sense had madness come?|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000013_000001.wav|For chastity had never afflicted him; it had ever been to him a source of strength and courage.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000016_000003.wav|He had been spared that!|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000016_000000.wav|And now, as he returned home after the tragedy, about midway in his walk across the downs, the thought came upon him that the breaking off of his engagement might have been sufficient reason in an affected mind for suicide.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000006_000004.wav|He had exchanged it for the life of the hearth, of the family; that private life-private, and yet so entirely impersonal which he had hitherto loathed.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000010.wav|Had she guessed that when it came to the point that he would not, that he might not have been able to marry her?|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000015_000000.wav|He had gone to bed hoping to find counsel in the night, and in the morning he had waked firm in his resolve, and had gone to Shoreham in the intention of breaking his engagement.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000002.wav|But how had she become mad?|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000010_000001.wav|And the work of the good and wise man is to use appearances according to Nature.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000017_000000.wav|'She was here with me yesterday,' he said.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000006_000000.wav|He took up his hat and set forth to walk home across the downs, all the while thinking, thinking over what had happened.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000011.wav|If so, he was in a measure responsible.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000013_000006.wav|A passing emotion of which I am ashamed, of which I would speak to no one.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000003_000007.wav|Now she was dead.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000008_000005.wav|A desire had come he knew not whence; and he asked himself if it were a passing weakness of the flesh, or if this passion abided in him, if it had come at last to claim satisfaction?|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000003_000002.wav|He saw things moving, moving, but they were all far away.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000012_000002.wav|The contrary habit.'|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000018_000000.wav|He sat down by the blown hawthorn bush that stands by the burgh.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000006_000002.wav|She had consented, and, alarmed at the prospect of the new duties he had contracted, he had returned home.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000020_000006.wav|Something must have happened. Did madness fall like that?|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000003_000000.wav|mr Hare stood looking at his dead daughter; john Norton sat by the window.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000016_000002.wav|He knew it was not so.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000016_000001.wav|But this was not so.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6497/234100/6497_234100_000003_000004.wav|He knew that Kitty had thrown herself out of the window and was dead.|6497
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000003_000005.wav|For just as a man is not righteous merely because he serves and is devoted to works and ceremonial rites, so neither will he be accounted righteous merely because he neglects and despises them.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000002_000001.wav|There are very many persons who, when they hear of this liberty of faith, straightway turn it into an occasion of licence.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000013_000001.wav|For unless He himself teach us inwardly this wisdom hidden in a mystery, nature cannot but condemn it and judge it to be heretical.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000013_000000.wav|We have therefore need to pray that God will lead us and make us taught of God, that is, ready to learn from God; and will Himself, as He has promised, write His law in our hearts; otherwise there is no hope for us.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000004_000006.wav|twenty).|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000009_000004.wav|They must rather be taught that they have been thus imprisoned, not with the purpose of their being justified or gaining merit in this way, but in order that they might avoid wrong doing, and be more easily instructed in that righteousness which is by faith, a thing which the headlong character of youth would not bear unless it were put under restraint.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000006_000001.wav|These we must spare, lest they should be offended.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000004_000001.wav|Faith redeems our consciences, makes them upright, and preserves them, since by it we recognise the truth that justification does not depend on our works, although good works neither can nor ought to be absent, just as we cannot exist without food and drink and all the functions of this mortal body.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000003_000001.wav|three)!|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000010_000000.wav|Hence in the Christian life ceremonies are to be no otherwise looked upon than as builders and workmen look upon those preparations for building or working which are not made with any view of being permanent or anything in themselves, but only because without them there could be no building and no work.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000007_000003.wav|If you wish to use your liberty, do it secretly, as Paul says, "Hast thou faith?|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000004_000002.wav|Still it is not on them that our justification is based, but on faith; and yet they ought not on that account to be despised or neglected.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000008_000003.wav|An infinite number of souls have been drawn down to hell by these snares, so that you may recognise the work of antichrist.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000007_000005.wav|twenty two).|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000007_000006.wav|But take care not to use it in the presence of the weak.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000008_000001.wav|This is a thing which easily happens, and defiles very many, unless faith be constantly inculcated along with works.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000010_000001.wav|When the structure is completed, they are laid aside.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000004_000000.wav|It is not from works that we are set free by the faith of Christ, but from the belief in works, that is from foolishly presuming to seek justification through works.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000005_000001.wav|He may meet with hardened and obstinate ceremonialists, who, like deaf adders, refuse to listen to the truth of liberty, and cry up, enjoin, and urge on us their ceremonies, as if they could justify us without faith.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000011_000000.wav|Thus, too, we do not contemn works and ceremonies-nay, we set the highest value on them; but we contemn the belief in works, which no one should consider to constitute true righteousness, as do those hypocrites who employ and throw away their whole life in the pursuit of works, and yet never attain to that for the sake of which the works are done.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000005_000000.wav|The Christian must therefore walk in the middle path, and set these two classes of men before his eyes.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000003_000002.wav|You see here how the Apostle blames those who, not from religious feeling, but in mere contempt, neglect and rail at ceremonial observances, and teaches them not to despise, since this "knowledge puffeth up." Again, he teaches the pertinacious upholders of these things not to judge their opponents.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000011_000003.wav|They appear to wish to build, they make preparations, and yet they never do build; and thus they continue in a show of godliness, but never attain to its power.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000007_000000.wav|Thus, though we ought boldly to resist those teachers of tradition, and though the laws of the pontiffs, by which they make aggressions on the people of God, deserve sharp reproof, yet we must spare the timid crowd, who are held captive by the laws of those impious tyrants, till they are set free.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000003_000004.wav|In this matter we must listen to Scripture, which teaches us to turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, but to follow those right precepts of the Lord which rejoice the heart.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000006_000003.wav|For since these men do not act thus from hardened malice, but only from weakness of faith, therefore, in order to avoid giving them offence, we must keep fasts and do other things which they consider necessary.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000007_000001.wav|Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000006_000004.wav|This is required of us by charity, which injures no one, but serves all men.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000002_000004.wav|Both these parties are plainly culpable, in that, while they neglect matters which are of weight and necessary for salvation, they contend noisily about such as are without weight and not necessary.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000009_000003.wav|And yet it would be death to them to persevere in believing that they can be justified by these things.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000002_000000.wav|Finally, for the sake of those to whom nothing can be stated so well but that they misunderstand and distort it, we must add a word, in case they can understand even that.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000006_000000.wav|Or else we may meet with simple minded and ignorant persons, weak in the faith, as the Apostle calls them, who are as yet unable to apprehend that liberty of faith, even if willing to do so.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000006_000002.wav|We must bear with their infirmity, till they shall be more fully instructed.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000007_000007.wav|On the other hand, in the presence of tyrants and obstinate opposers, use your liberty in their despite, and with the utmost pertinacity, that they too may understand that they are tyrants, and their laws useless for justification, nay that they had no right to establish such laws.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000008_000002.wav|It is impossible to avoid this evil, when faith is passed over in silence, and only the ordinances of men are taught, as has been done hitherto by the pestilent, impious, and soul destroying traditions of our pontiffs and opinions of our theologians.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000002_000003.wav|On the other hand, they are most pertinaciously resisted by those who strive after salvation solely by their observance of and reverence for ceremonies, as if they would be saved merely because they fast on stated days, or abstain from flesh, or make formal prayers; talking loudly of the precepts of the Church and of the Fathers, and not caring a straw about those things which belong to our genuine faith.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000011_000002.wav|seven).|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000005_000006.wav|In this way Paul also would not have titus circumcised, though these men urged it; and Christ defended the Apostles, who had plucked ears of corn on the Sabbath day; and many like instances.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/106611/6060_106611_000005_000002.wav|Such were the Jews of old, who would not understand, that they might act well.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000016_000003.wav|But we see in the bishoprics everywhere so many parishes vacant and desolate that one's heart would break, and yet neither the bishops nor canons care how the poor people live or die, for whom nevertheless Christ has died, and who are not permitted to hear Him speak with them as the true Shepherd with His sheep.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000013_000001.wav|How shall I complain?|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000015_000004.wav|Regarding the rest it will be said, Woe, and, alas!|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000014_000007.wav|For while they have lied so shamefully against us and by means of lies wished to retain the people, God has constantly advanced His work, and been making their following ever smaller and ours greater, and by their lies has caused and still causes them to be brought to shame.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000017_000003.wav|If we first had performed God's command and order in the spiritual and secular estate we would find time enough to reform food, clothing, tonsures, and surplices.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000000_000002.wav|For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000014_000000.wav|Indeed, I ought to reply to everything while I am still living.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000018_000002.wav|Just as though He were bound to honor our jugglery as a reward of our treading His solemn commandments under foot.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000011_000000.wav|I have accordingly compiled these articles and presented them to our side.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000018_000003.wav|But our sins weigh upon us and cause God not to be gracious to us; for we do not repent, and, besides, wish to defend every abomination.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000015_000000.wav|I must tell a story.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000018_000000.wav|Therefore I have presented few articles; for we have without this so many commands of God to observe in the Church, the state and the family that we can never fulfil them.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000017_000004.wav|But if we want to swallow such camels, and, instead, strain at gnats, let the beams stand and judge the motes, we also might indeed be satisfied with the Council.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000016_000004.wav|This causes me to shudder and fear that at some time He may send a council of angels upon Germany utterly destroying us, like Sodom and Gomorrah, because we so wantonly mock Him with the Council.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000016_000002.wav|Not that we need It, for our churches are now, through God's grace, so enlightened and equipped with the pure Word and right use of the Sacraments, with knowledge of the various callings and of right works, that we on our part ask for no Council, and on such points have nothing better to hope or expect from a Council.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000015_000003.wav|God convert to repentance those who can be converted!|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000013_000000.wav|For what shall I say?|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000000_000001.wav|All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000018_000001.wav|What, then, is the use, or what does it profit that many decrees and statutes thereon are made in the Council, especially when these chief matters commanded of God are neither regarded nor observed?|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000015_000005.wav|eternally.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000007_000000.wav|Translated by f Bente and w h t Dau|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000013_000003.wav|[Good God!] Alas! what first will happen when I am dead?|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000014_000001.wav|But, again, how can I alone stop all the mouths of the devil?|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000014_000004.wav|I often think of the good Gerson who doubts whether anything good should be [written and] published.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6060/58090/6060_58090_000017_000002.wav|If such chief matters of the spiritual and worldly estates as are contrary to God would be considered in the Council, they would have all hands so full that the child's play and absurdity of long gowns [official insignia], large tonsures, broad cinctures [or sashes], bishops' or cardinals' hats or maces, and like jugglery would in the mean time be forgotten.|6060
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000037_000002.wav|But should the piquet be negligent in their duty, and suffer the main body to be surprised, the delinquents are severely punished.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000030_000001.wav|Some dead bodies floating down the canal struck our boat, which had a very disagreeable effect on the minds of our brave fellows, whose nerves were reduced to a very weak state from sickness.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000007_000002.wav|They drew bills on the British government, and were supplied with every necessary they stood in need of.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000008_000009.wav|In many places of the coast of South Wales, they found very good coal; a circumstance that was not before known.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000010_000001.wav|The first toast after dinner was the dead king's health.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000003_000002.wav|They have a governor of their own nation, but pay large tribute to the Dutch.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000008_000010.wav|Our men were now beginning to regain their strength; and Captain Dadleberg of the Rembang Indiaman was making every possible dispatch with his ship to carry us to Batavia.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000021_000001.wav|Our seven barrelled pieces made great havoc amongst them.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000003_000000.wav|The exclusive trade of sandlewood was valuable and convenient to the Dutch; but, from the vast extent of territory lately acquired in India, we have plenty of that commodity without going to the Dutch market.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000024_000001.wav|The alternative was dreadful, as famine presented them on the one hand, and shipwreck on the other.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000034_000002.wav|We met nothing particular in passing the island of Sumatra, but experienced great death and sickness in going through the Straits of Sunda; and after a tedious passage, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000006_000002.wav|I could dwell with pleasure for an age in praise of this honest Dutchman; it is the tribute of a grateful heart, and his due.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000011_000002.wav|As he was preceded by music, and colours flying, every one turned out to see him. Amongst the rest was a captive king in chains, who was employed blowing the bellows to our armourer, whilst he was forging bolts and fetters for our prisoners and convicts.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000006_000003.wav|This is the third time he has had an opportunity of extending his hospitality to shipwrecked Englishmen.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000014_000001.wav|In crossing a shallow part of the river, his black boy was snapped up by an alligator; but the Governor immediately dismounted, rescued the boy out of his mouth, and slew him.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000012_000001.wav|That domestic strife serves likewise amply to supply the slave trade from the prisoners of both parties.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000008_000005.wav|They had been supplied with a quadrant, a compass, a chart, and some small arms and ammunition, from a Dutch ship that lay there; and the expedition was conducted by the Governor's fisherman, whose time of transportation was expired.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000014_000000.wav|The Governor, Mynheer Vanion, relates a circumstance that happened to him while hunting.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000004_000001.wav|One of the petty princes, in settling his account with a merchant of this place, was some dollars short of cash.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000034_000000.wav|In our passage from this to the Cape, before we left Java, one of the convicts had jumped over board in the night, and swam to the Dutch arsenal at Honroost.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000008_000007.wav|They dragged along the coast of New South Wales; and as often as the hostile nature of the savage natives would permit, hauled their boat up at night, and slept on shore.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000016_000006.wav|The Dutch seamen were struck with horror, and went below; and the ship was preserved from destruction by the manly exertion of our English tars, whose souls seemed to catch redoubled ardour from the tempest's rage.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000016_000000.wav|On the sixth of October, we embarked on board the Rembang Dutch Indiaman, taking with us the prisoners and convicts.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000038_000001.wav|They have even contrived to carry canals to the top of a mountain.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000013_000006.wav|At stated periods it makes a noise exactly like a cuckoo clock.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000033_000003.wav|The compass of my work will not allow me to be particular; but I must instance one among many others.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000028_000000.wav|The town is regular and beautiful, and the houses are built in a style of architecture, which has given loose to the most sportive fancy.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000009_000002.wav|Six months had been spent in preparations for this fete, at which an emperor and twenty five kings assisted and attended in person with all their body guards, standards, and standard bearers, were present.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000020_000000.wav|Immediately on our coming to anchor, we were agreeably surprised to find our tender here which we had so long given up for lost.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000019_000000.wav|On the twenty sixth, saw the island of Java; and on the thirtieth, anchored at Samarang.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000004_000004.wav|He went passenger in the ship with us to Batavia.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000009_000001.wav|The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and all the Europeans were invited.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/711/187466/711_187466_000003_000001.wav|Close to the Dutch town is a Chinese town and temple.|711
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000002.wav|Perhaps the blame may be shouldered upon Shylock, Fagin, and their ilk; but I had conceived an entirely different type of individual.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000008_000003.wav|People discreetly dropped their eyes before my proud gaze, and into their hearts I know I forced the query, What manner of man can this mortal be?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000006.wav|But I refused to be so judged.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000002.wav|A fur cap, soiled and singed by many camp fires, half sheltered the shaggy tendrils of my uncut hair.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000005.wav|In people's eyes the cabbage question no longer brooded.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000004.wav|I was a sight to give merriment to gods and men.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000001.wav|I purchased a host of things from the tradespeople, and bought me such pleasures and diversions as befitted one who had long been denied.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000012.wav|My feet were uncertain and heavy, and my soul became as a meal sack, limp with emptiness and tied in the middle.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000009.wav|I communed with myself: By his brow he is a thinker, but his intellect has been prostituted to a mercenary exaction of toll from misery.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000005_000002.wav|And he permits these things, and continues to permit them, for he cannot help them, and he is a slave. Out of his ideas he may weave cunning theories, beautiful ideals; but he is working with ropes of sand.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000000.wav|Faugh!|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000004_000004.wav|At the best, if he work hard, and cherish himself exceedingly, he may duplicate any or all previous performances of his kind; he may even do some of them better; but there he stops, the composite hand of his whole ancestry bearing heavily upon him.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000009.wav|While my heels thrust the cabbage man beyond the horizon, my toes were drawing me, faltering, like a timid old beggar, into a roaring spate of humanity-men, women, and children without end.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000007.wav|Within me coursed an unwonted sap, and I felt as though I were about to burst out into leaves and buds and green things.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000005.wav|I gathered together certain certificates of goods and chattels, pointed my heel towards him and his cabbages, and journeyed townward.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000005_000004.wav|He is only a clay born; so he bends his neck.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000011.wav|I do not know, save that in such way did my fathers before me.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000012.wav|He is a bloodsucker and a vampire.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000001.wav|I was glad to be quit of it.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000011_000003.wav|I am sure it was.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000008_000001.wav|I was possessed of the arrogance of a Roman governor.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000010.wav|Why?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000000.wav|I shrank back.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000000.wav|I remember once absenting myself from civilization for weary months. When I returned, it was to a strange city in another country.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000006.wav|And there was a spring to my body, an elasticity of step as I covered the pavement.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000000.wav|Wherefore it was in fear and trembling, and with great modesty of spirit, that I entered the Presence.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000002.wav|How good the outside air was!|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000017_000003.wav|Never had they appeared so insignificant and paltry as then, when he sniffed over them with the air of one disdainfully doing a disagreeable task.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000011_000006.wav|They are again enshrined, as bright and polished as of yore, and my destiny is once more in their keeping.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000008_000006.wav|The sweat of months was upon it, toil had defaced it, and it was not a creation such as would appeal to the aesthetic mind; but it was plethoric.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000016_000004.wav|Moreover, he was possessed of a formula whereby to extract juice from a flattened lemon, and he would do business with me.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000005.wav|I moved through wind swept groves of limber backs; across sunny glades, lighted by the beaming rays from a thousand obsequious eyes; and when I tired of this, basked on the greensward of popular approval.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000008.wav|My brain was clear and refreshed.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000005.wav|Olympus must have roared at my coming. The world, knowing me not, could judge me by my clothes alone.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000012_000007.wav|And as he stood there drearily, he became reproach incarnate.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000004.wav|Nor was it refused.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000012_000003.wav|The inexorable pendulum had swung the counter direction, and there was upon me an urgent need.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000010.wav|They had no concern with me, nor I with them. I knew it; I felt it.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000002.wav|I refused to answer the question.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000017_000004.wav|It is said, "Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury"; but he evidently was not my brother, for he demanded seventy per cent.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000007.wav|There was naught in those certificates to be ashamed of.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000012_000004.wav|The hogskin belt was flat as famine, nor did it longer gird my loins.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000008_000002.wav|At last I knew what it was to be born to the purple, and I took my seat in the hotel carriage as though it were my chariot about to proceed with me to the imperial palace.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000007.wav|Here was hope!|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000008_000004.wav|I was superior to convention, and the very garb which otherwise would have damned me tended toward my elevation.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000014_000006.wav|It is mentioned in exodus; so it must have been created soon after the foundations of the world; and despite the thunder of ecclesiastics and the mailed hand of kings and conquerors, it has endured even to this day.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000008.wav|And I did these things, not that I was an egotist, not that I was impervious to the critical glances of my fellows, but because of a certain hogskin belt, plethoric and sweat bewrinkled, which buckled next the skin above the hips.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000015.wav|But before fancy could father the act, I recollected myself and all which had passed.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000016_000003.wav|Law and order upheld him, while I titubated, cabbageless, on the ragged edge.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000015_000011.wav|He trades upon sorrow and draws a livelihood from misfortune. He transmutes tears into treasure, and from nakedness and hunger garbs himself in clean linen and develops the round of his belly.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000004_000003.wav|But the common clay born man, possessing only talents, may do only what has been done before him.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000006.wav|Money was very good, I thought, and for the time was content.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000011_000005.wav|Oh no, not for long.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000006_000001.wav|In the watches of the night, we may assure ourselves that there is no such dignity; but jostling with our fellows in the white light of day, we find that it does exist, and that we ourselves measure ourselves by the dollars we happen to possess.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000014_000003.wav|Why?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000013.wav|People looked upon me scornfully, pitifully, reproachfully. (I can swear they did.) In every eye I read the question, Man, where are your cabbages?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000017_000005.wav|I put my signature to certain indentures, received my pottage, and fled from his presence.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000012_000001.wav|Without the bitter one may not know the sweet.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000014_000007.wav|Nor is it unfair to presume that the accounts of this most remarkable business will not be closed until the Trumps of Doom are sounded and all things brought to final balance.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000003.wav|And, because of these things I did, I demanded homage.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000011_000002.wav|It was a very foolish thing to do.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000013.wav|I would go back and wreck the establishment.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000009.wav|For a giddy moment I had forgotten this, and tottered.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000007_000003.wav|My foot gear was of walrus hide, cunningly blended with seal gut. The remainder of my dress was as primal and uncouth.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000018_000010.wav|My nerves were tingling and I was a pulse with the times.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000012_000005.wav|From my window I could descry, at no great distance, a very ordinary mortal of a man, working industriously among his cabbages.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000014_000001.wav|At last I came hard by the place, and peering stealthily to the right and left that none who knew might behold me, I entered hurriedly, in the manner of one committing an abomination. 'Fore God!|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000009_000008.wav|But, luckily for my soul's welfare, I reflected and was saved. By the clearer vision vouchsafed me, I beheld Erasmus, fire flashing, heaven born, while I-I was merely a clay born, a son of earth.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000013_000004.wav|And a dignity entered into me, and my neck was stiffened, my head poised.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294114/8820_294114_000014_000000.wav|So I avoided their looks, shrinking close to the kerbstone and by furtive glances directing my progress.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000018_000005.wav|She might have been a power for good in his life, she might have shed light into it and lifted him up to safety and honour and understanding.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000004_000002.wav|For Gorky, the Bitter One, is essentially a Russian in his grasp on the facts of life and in his treatment.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000008_000003.wav|And you must know that when a man complains about everything, and cries out and groans-he is not worth more than two kopeks, he is not worthy of pity, and will be of no use to you if you do help him."|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000005_000000.wav|He raises the cry of the miserable and the despised, and in a masterly arraignment of commercialism, protests against social conditions, against the grinding of the faces of the poor and weak, and the self pollution of the rich and strong, in their mad lust for place and power.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000006_000005.wav|Come, now, you're clever, you know everything-tell me, why do you live?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000004_000000.wav|"Foma Gordyeeff" is a big book-not only is the breadth of Russia in it, but the expanse of life.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000006.wav|But my idea is that everybody ought, without fail, to know solidly what he is living for.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000006_000003.wav|Your daughter-what is she?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000008.wav|No; life means something in itself. . . .|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000014.wav|A five kopek piece-that is your God!|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000006.wav|What satisfaction was it to them to live on the earth?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000015.wav|But you have expelled your conscience!"|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000018_000007.wav|No story is told, nothing is finished.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000001.wav|He is neither to be enticed nor cajoled. The cry of his nature is for light.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000015_000001.wav|You shall perish-you shall be called to account for all!|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000005.wav|It was strange-why did they live?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000016_000000.wav|Stunned by this puddle of life, unable to make sense of it, Foma questions, and questions vainly, whether of Sofya Medynsky in her drawing room of beauty, or in the foulest depths of the first chance courtesan's heart.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000011.wav|You have disseminated filth and stifling exhalations by your deeds.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000002.wav|He must have light.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000004.wav|And how will all the people who give their orders justify themselves?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000010.wav|All of us must consider why we are living, by God, we must!|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000007.wav|Is it possible that a man is born to toil, accumulate money, build a house, beget children, and-die?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000010_000004.wav|Not once, but, in all probability, a thousand times, we have given Him over to be crucified, but still we cannot banish Him from our lives so long as His poor brethren sing His name in the streets and remind us of Him.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000004_000005.wav|There is a purpose to it.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000020_000002.wav|He knows life, why and how it should be lived.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000003.wav|And in burning revolt he goes seeking the meaning of life.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000019_000002.wav|But it is a less tedious realism than that of Tolstoy or Turgenev.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000018_000003.wav|Yet it was not finished, was not decisive. She left him to go with the son of a rich vodka maker.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000007.wav|All they did was to perform their dirty, arduous toil, eat poorly; they were miserably clad, addicted to drunkenness.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000005.wav|It is all utterly despicable and sordid, but thither his quest leads him and he follows the quest.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000017_000000.wav|It is not a pretty book, but it is a masterful interrogation of life-not of life universal, but of life particular, the social life of to day.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000013.wav|Do you remember God?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000003.wav|He does not drink because liquor tastes good in his mouth.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000012_000003.wav|Why should men fetch and carry for him?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000004.wav|"His thoughts embraced all those petty people who toiled at hard labour.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000007_000003.wav|It is without significance!|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000000.wav|But Foma can only be destructive.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000007_000005.wav|What is there underneath?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000012_000004.wav|be slaves to him and his money?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000016_000002.wav|And so, wondering, pondering, perplexed, amazed, whirling through the mad whirlpool of life, dancing the dance of death, groping for the nameless, indefinite something, the magic formula, the essence, the intrinsic fact, the flash of light through the murk and dark-the rational sanction for existence, in short-Foma Gordyeeff goes down to madness and death.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000007_000006.wav|What is the meaning of that which is underneath?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000004.wav|In the vile companions who purvey to his baser appetites he finds no charm.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000008.wav|One was sixty years old, but he still toiled side by side with young men.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000004_000004.wav|And, like all his brother Russians, ardent, passionate protest impregnates his work.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000010_000005.wav|And so now we have hit upon the idea of shutting up the beggars in such special buildings, so that they may not roam about the streets and stir up our consciences."|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000002.wav|Why is that?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000011.wav|There is no sense in our life-there is no sense at all.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000006_000000.wav|"Why do you brag?" Foma, bursts out upon him.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000012.wav|Have you any conscience?|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000010_000003.wav|But men have so ordered their lives that it is utterly impossible for them to act in accordance with Christ's teaching, and Jesus Christ has become entirely superfluous to us.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000004_000007.wav|From that clenched fist of his, light and airy romances, pretty and sweet and beguiling, do not flow, but realities-yes, big and brutal and repulsive, but real.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000009_000001.wav|Now comes Mayakin, speaking softly and without satire:|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000012_000000.wav|He becomes the living interrogation of life.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000017_000003.wav|So fearful is its portrayal of social disease, so ruthless its stripping of the painted charms from vice, that its tendency cannot but be strongly for good.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000018_000006.wav|Yet she went away next day, and he never saw her again.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000015_000002.wav|For all-to the last little tear drop!"|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000011_000000.wav|But Foma will have none of it.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000013_000000.wav|"Work is not everything to a man," he says; "it is not true that justification lies in work . . .|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000018_000002.wav|It was pregnant with possibilities.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000005_000003.wav|To them it will be inexplicable that this man, with his health and his millions, could not go on living as his class lived, keeping regular hours at desk and stock exchange, driving close contracts, underbidding his competitors, and exulting in the business disasters of his fellows.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000018_000000.wav|But no story is told, nothing is finished, some one will object.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294120/8820_294120_000014_000010.wav|"You have not constructed life-you have made a cesspool!|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000018_000002.wav|The world of graft!|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000023_000001.wav|The prize fighting apes and tigers will die all in good time in the course of natural evolution, but they will not die so long as the cowardly, somnambulistic apes and tigers club and scratch and slash.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000016_000000.wav|"Ah, but we do not stand for the commercial life," object the refined, scholarly, and professional men.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000007.wav|Dummy boards of directors and fake accountings are not foul blows of the fist under the belt.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000016_000007.wav|They paint pictures for the commercial men, write books for them, sing songs for them, act plays for them, and dose them with various drugs when their bodies have grown gross or dyspeptic from overeating and lack of exercise.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000012_000002.wav|With tremendous exercise of craft, deceit, and guile, he devotes his life godlike to this purpose.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000007_000001.wav|Tell a plains Indian that he has failed to steal horses from the neighbouring tribe, or tell a man living in bourgeois society that he has failed to pay his bills at the neighbouring grocer's, and the results are the same. Each, plains Indian and bourgeois, is smeared with a slightly different veneer, that is all.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000004_000005.wav|Give to Plato or Aristotle the same fund of knowledge that man to day has access to, and Plato and Aristotle would reason as profoundly as the man of to day and would achieve very similar conclusions.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000003_000002.wav|Civilization (which is part of the circle of his imaginings) has spread a veneer over the surface of the soft shelled animal known as man.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000003.wav|Only they are not called foul blows.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000011_000001.wav|This is the dictum of the man who walks in his sleep.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000004_000004.wav|Man has to day no concept that is too wide and deep and abstract for the mind of Plato or Aristotle to grasp.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000000.wav|In a prize fight men are classed.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000012_000006.wav|He reads only the newspapers and magazines that tell him what he wants to be told, listens only to the biologists who tell him that he is the finest product of the struggle for existence, and herds only with his own kind, where, like the monkey folk, they teeter up and down and tell one another how great they are.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000011_000000.wav|Prize fighting is terrible.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000007_000000.wav|It is not necessary to call him a liar to touch his vanity.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000009_000000.wav|True, he lives in a real world, breathes real air, eats real food, and sleeps under real blankets, in order to keep real cold away.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000007_000002.wav|It requires a slightly different stick to scrape it off.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000018_000004.wav|The world of somnambulism, whose exalted and sensitive citizens are outraged by the knockouts of the prize ring, and who annually not merely knock out, but kill, thousands of babies and children by means of child labour and adulterated food.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000021_000003.wav|They are the foul blows of the spirit that have never been disbarred, as the foul blows of the prize ring have been disbarred. (Would it not be preferable for a man to strike one full on the mouth with his fist than for him to tell a lie about one, or malign those that are nearest and dearest?)|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000005_000002.wav|As he persuades himself against the latter till it arouses and shakes down a city, so does he persuade himself against the former until it shakes him out of his dreaming and he stands undisguised, a brute like any other brute.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000006.wav|A Wall Street raid is not a fang slash.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000018_000005.wav|Far better to have the front of one's face pushed in by the fist of an honest prize fighter than to have the lining of one's stomach corroded by the embalmed beef of a dishonest manufacturer.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000013_000002.wav|He has a piece of cloth which he calls a napkin, with which he wipes from his lips, and from the hair on his lips, the greasy juices of the meat.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000009_000001.wav|And there's the rub.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000012_000003.wav|As he succeeds, his somnambulism grows profound.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000012.wav|They gather together and solemnly and gloatingly make and repeat certain noises that sound like "discretion," "acumen," "initiative," "enterprise." These noises are especially gratifying when they are made backward.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000005_000001.wav|The raw animal crouching within him is like the earthquake monster pent in the crust of the earth.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000011_000005.wav|The man who walks in his sleep ignores the flesh and all its wonderful play of muscle, joint, and nerve.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000008.wav|A present of coal stock by a mine operator to a railroad official is not a claw rip to the bowels of a rival mine operator.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000016_000002.wav|They do not stand for the commercial life, but neither do they stand against it with all their strength.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000016_000004.wav|They develop classical economists who announce that the only possible way for men and women to get food and shelter is by the existing method.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000023_000002.wav|This is not a brief for the prize fighter.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000003_000000.wav|The mightiest and absurdest sleep walker on the planet!|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000007_000003.wav|The raw animals beneath are identical.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000004_000001.wav|The flesh and blood body of man has not changed in the last several thousand years.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000014.wav|And in either case, forward or backward, the spirit of the dream is not disturbed.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000017_000002.wav|But the good, kind people who don't do anything won't believe this, and the assertion will make them angry-for a moment.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000012_000005.wav|And the funniest thing about it is that this arch deceiver believes all that they tell him.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000009_000003.wav|The result of this admixture of the real and the unreal is confusion thrice confounded.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000014_000001.wav|He will chatter about things refined and spiritual and godlike like himself, and he and the men who herd with him will calmly adulterate the commodities they put upon the market and which annually kill tens of thousands of babies and young children.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000013_000000.wav|In the course of his life godlike he ignores the flesh-until he gets to table.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000013.wav|They mean the same things, but they sound different.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000003_000001.wav|Chained in the circle of his own imaginings, man is only too keen to forget his origin and to shame that flesh of his that bleeds like all flesh and that is good to eat.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000004.wav|The world of claw and fang and fist and club has passed away-so say the somnambulists.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000023_000000.wav|It is well enough to let the ape and tiger die, but it is hardly fair to kill off the natural and courageous apes and tigers and allow the spawn of cowardly apes and tigers to live.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000017_000004.wav|The phrases that the good, kind people repeat to themselves and to one another sound like "abstinence," "temperance," "thrift," "virtue." Sometimes they say them backward, when they sound like "prodigality," "drunkenness," "wastefulness," and "immorality." They do not really know the meaning of these phrases, but they think they do, and that is all that is necessary for somnambulists.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000017_000003.wav|They possess several magic phrases, which are like the incantations of a voodoo doctor driving devils away.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000002.wav|Yet in the world of the somnambulists, where soar the sublimated spirits, there are no classes, and foul blows are continually struck and never disallowed.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000002_000000.wav|"'tis only fools speak evil of the clay- The very stars are made of clay like mine."|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000011_000002.wav|He prates about it, and writes to the papers about it, and worries the legislators about it.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000014_000000.wav|He is fastidiously nauseated at the thought of two prize fighters bruising each other with their fists; and at the same time, because it will cost him some money, he will refuse to protect the machines in his factory, though he is aware that the lack of such protection every year mangles, batters, and destroys out of all humanness thousands of working men, women, and children.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8820/294113/8820_294113_000019_000010.wav|The man who walks in his sleep says it is not a club.|8820
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000005.wav|Never a word to reproach her for the unalterable; it should be as though there were no gap between the old love and its renewal in the present.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000066_000000.wav|'There's no harm.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000010.wav|He would take Sidney into council.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000057_000002.wav|When she spoke, it was as if to herself.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000068_000000.wav|'Only whilst I'm here.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000014_000000.wav|'What a day for her to be travelling all that distance, poor thing!|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000059_000000.wav|'Not much; I don't see much change, myself, but then of course- No, he's pretty much the same.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000009.wav|He would not admit to himself that there were any difficulties ahead; if it came to that, he would manage to get some extra work in the evening and on Saturday afternoons.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000053_000000.wav|'You wouldn't care to say who it was?'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000004.wav|Do you know the Burial Club broke up just before she died?|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000037_000001.wav|If you'd rather, we'll manage it somehow else.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000031_000001.wav|Do you feel able to sit up?'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000027_000002.wav|She was sitting by the fire, her face resting upon her hands.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000061_000003.wav|No, not he.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000012_000000.wav|He was busy in the usual way this afternoon, as he sat on the bed, coatless, a trade journal open on his knees.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000015_000008.wav|The fluid had been thrown too low to effect the worst injury; the accident of a trembling hand, of a movement on her part, had kept her eyes untouched.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000011.wav|Don't be afraid, my dearest.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000041_000000.wav|When her father had taken a place near her she asked him, 'Have you got that piece of newspaper still?'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000064_000000.wav|'Have you told him?'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000047_000000.wav|'And where did you live before you came here?'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000055_000001.wav|Was it mr Kirkwood?'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000000.wav|'If you went,' he continued, huskily, 'I should be afraid myself.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000005_000004.wav|mrs Eagles had a shrewd eye; having glanced at Annie and Tom with a discreet smile, she turned her look towards the elder girl, who was standing full in the lamplight.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000071_000005.wav|You won't speak about goin' away?'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000042_000000.wav|He had, and at her wish produced it.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000025_000002.wav|Is this stuff in the saucepan ready?' 'mrs Eagles said it would be in five minutes.'.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000071_000000.wav|'Now don't-now don't talk like that!' exclaimed her father, putting his hand on her.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000072_000000.wav|She remained mute.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000057_000001.wav|Clara's head sank lower; she drew her hand away from her father's, and used it to shield her face.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000049_000000.wav|'And that was where-?'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000066_000001.wav|You couldn't keep it a secret.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000061_000004.wav|He had to move not long ago; his lodgin's is in Red Lion Street now.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000071_000001.wav|'You shall do what else you like, my girl, but don't talk about goin' away from me.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000022_000000.wav|'Shall I pour out the tea, father?' Amy ventured to ask, when there was again perfect silence.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000036_000000.wav|john hesitated before going.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000015_000003.wav|They read the report together.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000056_000000.wav|'Yes, my dear, it was.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000033_000000.wav|The tone was not exactly impatient; it spoke a weary indifference to everything and every person.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000040_000002.wav|Clara sat by the fireside, in her attitude of last night, hiding her face as far as she was able.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000021_000000.wav|He led the muffled form into the chamber where Amy and Annie slept.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000044_000001.wav|It's a bit high up, but that don't matter much.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000063_000000.wav|'He has been-just now an' then.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000025_000001.wav|Yes, you can pour me out a cup-and put another on the little tray.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000032_000000.wav|'Yes.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000037_000000.wav|'Clara-shall you mind Amy and Annie comin' to sleep here?|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000028_000001.wav|Here's somethin' as has been made particular.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000010_000001.wav|Inadequate nourishment, and especially an unsatisfied palate, frequently have this result in female children among the poor; it is an anticipation of what will befall them as soon as they find their way to the publichouse.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000012_000001.wav|His wife never disturbed him; she was a placid, ruminative woman, generally finding the details of her own weekly budget quite a sufficient occupation.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000021_000001.wav|The door closed, and for several minutes the three children stood regarding each other, alarmed, mute.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000057_000000.wav|Neither spoke for a long time.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000038_000002.wav|They can come when they like, only they mustn't want me to talk to them.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000066_000002.wav|But he mustn't come whilst I'm here; you understand that, father?'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000008.wav|It was Sidney Kirkwood found the money-he did!|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000060_000000.wav|'He's married, isn't he?|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000061_000001.wav|Why, what made you think that.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty seven|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000070_000001.wav|I shall find some way of earning a living, and then I shall go and get a room for myself.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000015_000007.wav|One consolation alone offered itself in the course of Hewett's inquiries; Clara, if she recovered, would not have lost her eyesight.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000042_000003.wav|Hewett took her hand, and for a while they kept silence.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000003.wav|I've broke myself off that; but if you was to leave me-I've had hard things to go through.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000011_000009.wav|Indefatigably he worked on, and the work had to be its own reward.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000034_000001.wav|But you'll eat just a bit?|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000035_000001.wav|I'll eat it presently; I promise you.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000044_000000.wav|'We do, Clara.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000046_000001.wav|The old was all done for, you know.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000072_000001.wav|Shadows from the firelight rose and fell upon the walls of the half darkened room.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000018_000000.wav|A tall figure, so wrapped and veiled that nothing but the womanly outline could be discerned, entered, supported by john Hewett.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000035_000000.wav|'It'll do well enough.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000067_000001.wav|He shall never come, if you don't wish it.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000061_000002.wav|Clara?|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000071_000002.wav|That's the one thing as I couldn't bear. I ain't so young as I was, and I've had things as was hard to go through-I mean when the mother died and-and other things at that time.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000046_000000.wav|'Yes, some new things.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000017_000001.wav|The children were aware that an all but forgotten sister was returning to them, and that she had been very ill; they promised quietude.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000019_000000.wav|'Is there a light in the other room, Amy?' john inquired in a thick voice.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000045_000000.wav|'You've got new furniture.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000021_000005.wav|Turning suddenly away, he stood before the fire and made a pretence of warming himself; but his sobs overmastered him.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000004.wav|Impossible to separate the sorrow he felt for her blighted life, her broken spirit, and the solace lurking in the thought that henceforth she could not abandon him.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000031_000000.wav|'Well, well; it do want to cool a bit.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000011_000002.wav|On the bed sat mr Eagles, a spare, large headed, ugly, but very thoughtful looking man; he and Sidney Kirkwood had been acquaintances and fellow workmen for some years, but no close intimacy had arisen between them, owing to the difference of their tastes and views.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000011_000005.wav|Long before there existed a 'Financial Reform Almanack,' Eagles practically represented that work in his own person.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000011_000008.wav|'There it is in black and white!' But Sidney's faculties were quite unequal to calculations of this kind, and Eagles could never summon resolve to explain his schemes before an audience.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000032_000002.wav|I'd rather you left me alone.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000062_000000.wav|'And does he ever come here?'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000034_000002.wav|If you don't like this, you must tell me, and I'll get something you could fancy.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000021_000004.wav|The girl was startled to hear him sob and to see tears starting from his eyes.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000054_000001.wav|Clara moved her head a little, so as to regard him, but at once turned away, shrinkingly, when she met his eyes.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000025_000000.wav|'Get it, then-all of you.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000028_000002.wav|After travellin'--just a spoonful or two.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000013_000000.wav|'They'll have a bad journey.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000027_000003.wav|The lamp was extinguished; she had said that the firelight was enough.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000043_000000.wav|'Do you live comfortably here, father?' she said presently.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000016_000000.wav|Necessity brought the father back to London almost at once, but the news sent him at brief intervals continued to be favourable.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000027_000000.wav|He went to mrs Eagles' room and talked there for a short time. Presently mrs Eagles herself came out and silently removed from the saucepan a mixture of broth and meat.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000010_000000.wav|Of late Amy Hewett had become the victim of a singular propensity; whenever she could obtain vinegar, she drank it as a toper does spirits.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000065_000000.wav|'Why-yes, dear-I felt I had to.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000011.wav|But thereupon his face darkened again, and he lost himself in troubled musing.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000021_000003.wav|He looked about in an absent way, slowly drew off his overcoat, and when Amy offered to take it, bent and kissed her cheek.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000027_000004.wav|john deposited his burden on the table, then touched her shoulder gently and spoke in so soft a voice that one would not have recognised it as his.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000013.wav|You won't mind mrs Eagles; she's very good to the children.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000006_000000.wav|'Come here, Amy,' she said after a moment's scrutiny.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000003.wav|Overcome at first by the dark aspect of this home coming, he now began to taste the joy of having Clara under his roof, rescued alike from those vague dangers of the past and from the recent peril.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000026_000000.wav|'All right.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000051_000000.wav|'And how did you manage to buy this furniture?' Clara asked, after a pause.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000001.wav|I haven't told you.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000012_000002.wav|When she had taken off her bonnet and was turning out the contents of her bag, Eagles remarked quietly:|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000038_000001.wav|What does it matter?|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000055_000000.wav|'Why don't you like to tell me, father?|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000040_000003.wav|The beauty of her form would have impressed anyone who approached her, the grace of her bent head; but the countenance was no longer that of Clara Hewett; none must now look at her, unless to pity. Feeling herself thus utterly changed, she could not speak in her former natural voice; her utterance was oppressed, unmusical, monotonous.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000006.wav|For Clara used to love him, and already she had shown that his tenderness did not appeal to her in vain; during the journey she had once or twice pressed his hand in gratitude.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000011_000000.wav|Having administered a scolding, mrs Eagles went into the room which she and her husband occupied.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000023_000000.wav|'Haven't you had yours?' he replied, half facing her.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000005_000003.wav|She reached the door at length, and being too much exhausted to search her pocket for the latchkey, knocked for admission. Amy Hewett opened to her, and she sank on a chair in the first room, where the other two Hewett children were bending over 'home lessons' with a studiousness not altogether natural.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000005_000001.wav|This afternoon her pause on each landing was longer than usual, for a yellow fog, which mocked the pale glimmer of gas jets on the staircase, made her gasp asthmatically.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000007.wav|You may think how I felt, Clara, with her lyin' there, and I hadn't got as much as would pay for a coffin.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000027_000001.wav|Having already taken the cup of tea to Clara, Hewett now returned to her with this food.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000008_000000.wav|'Why, I haven't touched a drop, mrs Eagles!'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000054_000000.wav|john was gravely embarrassed.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000050_000000.wav|'Yes-yes-it was there.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000007.wav|How well it was that he had this home in which to receive her!|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000000.wav|He went softly from the room, and joined the children at their tea.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000016_000001.wav|Now that the girl could be removed from the infirmary, there was no retreat for her but her father's home.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000004_000000.wav|CLARA'S RETURN|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000020_000000.wav|'Yes, father.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000015_000004.wav|Before the coroner it had been made public that the dead woman was in truth named Rudd; she who was injured refused to give any details concerning herself, and her history escaped the reporters.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000032_000001.wav|Don't take so much trouble, father.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000010.wav|Things is better with me now, but I'd rather beg my bread in the streets than you should go away.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000009_000002.wav|You're a silly girl, that's what you are!'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000012.wav|I promise you nobody shan't come near.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000029_000000.wav|Clara expressed reluctance.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000039_000008.wav|Half a year ago, and what should he have done?|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000017_000002.wav|Amy set the tea table in order, and kept the kettle ready. . . .|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000034_000000.wav|'Yes, I'll go away, dear.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000015_000002.wav|The truth of the situation was, that john had received by post, from he knew not whom, a newspaper report of the inquest held on the body of Grace Danver, wherein, of course, was an account of what had happened to Clara Vale; in the margin was pencilled, 'Clara Vale's real name is Clara Hewett.' An hour after receiving this john encountered Sidney Kirkwood.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000071_000003.wav|Let you an' me stay by each other whilst we may, my girl.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000017_000004.wav|mrs Eagles withdrew into her own room; Amy went to the door.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000015_000005.wav|Harbouring no doubt of the information thus mysteriously sent him-the handwriting seemed to be that of a man, but gave no further hint as to its origin-Hewett the next day journeyed down into Lancashire, Sidney supplying him with money.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000030_000000.wav|'I don't feel hungry, father.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000052_000000.wav|'Well, my dear, to tell you the truth-it was a friend as-an old friend helped us a bit.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000042_000001.wav|Clara held it in the light of the fire, and regarded the pencilled words closely.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000048_000000.wav|'Oh, we had a place in King's Cross Road-it wasn't much of a place, but I suppose it might a' been worse.'|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000011_000001.wav|It was so encumbered with furniture that not more than eight or ten square feet of floor can have been available for movement.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000038_000000.wav|'no|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/80534/7910_80534_000073_000005.wav|I couldn't get not a ha'penny!|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000014_000004.wav|We neither of us possessed money enough to advertise in the newspapers.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000002.wav|I ran, I flew, along the path that led to Dermody's cottage.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000009.wav|The furniture still remained in the cottage.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000012_000000.wav|I knelt down and kissed the writing.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000001.wav|I broke away from him, with a desperation which not even his resolution could resist.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000000.wav|My father himself took me to the carriage.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000002_000000.wav|The next morning I made an effort to escape, and was discovered before I had got free of the house.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000009_000002.wav|Come with me."|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000007.wav|After the insulting words which his master had spoken to him, Dermody's pride was concerned in leaving no trace of his whereabouts; my father might consider it as a trace purposely left with the object of reuniting Mary and me.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000004_000000.wav|She was quite unfit, poor soul, to intercede for me, or to serve my interests in any way.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000010_000002.wav|I stooped, and discovered some writing in pencil.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000004_000001.wav|My father had completely overwhelmed her by announcing that his wife and his son were to accompany him, when he returned to America.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000005_000001.wav|He has raised money in London; he has let the house to some rich tradesman for seven years; he has sold the plate, and the jewels that came to me from his mother.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000003_000000.wav|Later in the day, my mother was permitted to see me.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000011_000000.wav|"Good by, dear.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000008.wav|I had no keepsake to speak to me of my lost darling but the flag which she had embroidered with her own hand.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000017_000000.wav|For ten long years afterward I never again met with my little Mary; I never even heard whether she had lived to grow to womanhood or not.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000002_000004.wav|The woman was suspected and followed, and the letter was taken from her.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000002_000002.wav|Useless!|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000010.wav|I sat down in our customary corner, by Mary's empty chair, and looked again at the pretty green flag, and burst out crying.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000010_000003.wav|I looked closer-it was writing in Mary's hand! The unformed childish characters traced these last words of farewell:|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000005.wav|The bailiff had left the place; and his mother and his daughter had gone with him.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000014_000002.wav|She also referred the lawyers to two of Dermody's relatives, who lived in the city, and who might know something of his movements after he left my father's service.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000012_000001.wav|It comforted me-it was like a farewell touch from Mary's hand.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000006_000000.wav|An hour afterward the post chaise was at the door.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000016_000000.wav|With this the first epoch in my love story comes to an end.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000010_000000.wav|I rose and silently gave her my hand.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000014_000003.wav|When she had done this, she had done all that lay in her power.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000017_000001.wav|I still kept the green flag, with the dove worked on it.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000009_000000.wav|"We shall not find Mary here, George," she said, gently.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000000_000001.wav|THE CURTAIN FALLS.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000003.wav|The door stood open; the parlor was empty.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000007_000006.wav|No friend or neighbor lingered near with a message; no letter lay waiting for me; no hint was left to tell me in what direction they had taken their departure.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000002_000005.wav|My father tore it up with his own hands.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000014_000000.wav|My good mother did all that the most compassionate kindness could do (in her position) to comfort me.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000008_000000.wav|A light touch roused me.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000011_000001.wav|Don't forget Mary."|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000005_000003.wav|We have no home, George, and no choice but to go with him."|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000012_000002.wav|I followed my mother quietly to the carriage.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000001_000000.wav|FOR the rest of the day, and through the night, I was kept a close prisoner in my room, watched by a man on whose fidelity my father could depend.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000014_000001.wav|She privately wrote to the solicitors employed by her family, inclosing a description of Dermody and his mother and daughter and directing inquiries to be made at the various coach offices in London.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000010_000001.wav|Something low down on the clean white door post caught my eye as we passed it.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/294690/7910_294690_000017_000002.wav|For the rest, the waters of oblivion had closed over the old golden days at Greenwater Broad.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000010.wav|The demands of the rebels were so exorbitant, that Norfolk rejected them; and they prepared again to decide the contest by arms.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000027_000001.wav|The males of all ranks, if endowed with industry might be of service to the public; and none of them could want employment suited to his station and capacity.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000004_000001.wav|As Cromwell's person was little acceptable to the ecclesiastics, the authority which he exercised, being so new, so absolute, so unlimited, inspired them with disgust and terror.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000015_000002.wav|Every place was full of jealousy and complaints.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000002.wav|He encamped near Doncaster, together with the earl of Shrewsbury; and as his army was small, scarcely exceeding five thousand men, he made choice of a post where he had a river in front, the ford of which he purposed to defend against the rebels.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000003_000002.wav|Even the most moderate and reasonable deemed it somewhat iniquitous, that men who had been invited into a course of life by all the laws, human and divine, which prevailed in their country, should be turned out of their possessions, and so little care be taken of their future subsistence.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000023_000000.wav|Henry would by no means acknowledge any error in these particulars; and was displeased that they should pretend to prescribe rules to so great a monarch and theologian.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000019_000003.wav|Sir William Fitz Williams, high admiral, was created earl of Southampton; Sir William Paulet, Lord saint John; Sir john Russel, Lord Russel.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000021_000000.wav|Henry continued desirous of cementing a union with the German Protestants; and for that purpose he sent Christopher Mount to a congress which they held at Brunswick; but that minister made no great progress in his negotiation.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000014.wav|He published, however, a manifesto against the rebels, and an answer to their complaints; in which he employed a very lofty style, suited to so haughty a monarch.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000008_000001.wav|He sent forces against the rebels, under the command of the duke of Suffolk; and he returned them a very sharp answer to their petition.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000023_000001.wav|He found arguments and syllogisms enough to defend his cause; and he dismissed the ambassadors without coming to any conclusion.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000012.wav|But while they were preparing to pass the ford, rain fell a second time in such abundance, as made it impracticable for them to execute their design; and the populace, partly reduced to necessity by want of provisions, partly struck with superstition at being thus again disappointed by the same accident, suddenly dispersed themselves.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000008_000002.wav|There were some gentry whom the populace had constrained to take part with them, and who kept a secret correspondence with Suffolk. They informed him, that resentment against the king's reply was the chief cause which retained the malecontents in arms, and that a milder answer would probably suppress the rebellion.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000000_000000.wav|The concurrence of these two national assemblies served, no doubt, to increase the king's power over the people, and raised him to an authority more absolute than any prince in a simple monarchy, even by means of military force, is ever able to attain.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000008_000004.wav|This expedient had its effect: the populace was dispersed: Mackrel and some of their leaders fell into the king's hands, and were executed: the greater part of the multitude retired peaceably to their usual occupations: a few of the more obstinate fled to the north, where they joined the insurrection that was raised in those parts.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000019_000002.wav|Sir Edward Seymour, the queen's brother, formerly made Lord Beauchamp, was raised to the dignity of earl of Hertford.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000015_000008.wav|Before his execution, he accused Norfolk of having secretly encouraged the rebels; but Henry, either sensible of that nobleman's services, and convinced of his fidelity or afraid to offend one of such extensive power and great capacity, rejected the information.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000024_000002.wav|Anew visitation was appointed of all the monasteries in England; and a pretence only being wanted for their suppression, it was easy for a prince, possessed of such unlimited power, and seconding the present humor of a great part of the nation, to find or feign one.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000000.wav|The duke of Norfolk was appointed general of the king's forces against the northern rebels; and as he headed the party at court which supported the ancient religion, he was also suspected of bearing some favor to the cause which he was sent to oppose.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000000_000001.wav|But there are certain bounds, beyond which the most slavish submission cannot be extended.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000009_000000.wav|The northern rebels, as they were more numerous, were also on other accounts more formidable than those of Lincolnshire; because the people were there more accustomed to arms, and because of their vicinity to the Scots, who might make advantage of these disorders.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000016_000000.wav|Soon after this prosperous success, an event happened which crowned Henry's joy-the birth of a son, who was baptized by the name of Edward.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000005.wav|It was agreed that two gentlemen should be despatched to the king with proposals from the rebels; and Henry purposely delayed giving an answer, and allured them with hopes of entire satisfaction, in expectation that necessity would soon oblige them to disperse themselves.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000012_000002.wav|The earls of Huntingdon, Derby, and Rutland imitated his example.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000019_000001.wav|The prince, not six days old, was created prince of Wales, duke of Cornwall, and earl of Chester.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000003_000001.wav|It seemed unjust to abolish pious institutions for the faults, real or pretended, of individuals.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000024_000003.wav|The abbots and monks knew the danger to which they were exposed; and having learned by the example of the lesser monasteries that nothing could withstand the king's will, they were most of them induced, in expectation of better treatment, to make a voluntary resignation of their houses.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000005_000000.wav|The first rising was in Lincolnshire.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000016.wav|"And we," he added, "with our whole council, think it right strange that ye, who be but brutes and inexpert folk, do take upon you to appoint us who be meet or not for our council."|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000015_000006.wav|Lord Hussey was found guilty, as an accomplice in the insurrection of Lincolnshire, and was executed at Lincoln.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000024_000000.wav|There was only one particular in which Henry was quite decisive; because he was there impelled by his avarice, or, more properly speaking, his rapacity, the consequence of his profusion: this measure was the entire destruction of the monasteries.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000024_000005.wav|Some, also, having secretly embraced the doctrine of the reformation, were glad to be freed from their vows; and on the whole, the design was conducted with such success, than in less than two years the king had got possession of all the monastic revenues.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000014_000008.wav|Norfolk, therefore, soon found himself in the same difficulty as before; and he opened again a negotiation with the leaders of the multitude.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000004_000003.wav|The secular priests, finding themselves thus reduced to a grievous servitude, instilled into the people those discontents which they had long harbored in their own bosoms.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000015_000007.wav|Lord Darcy, though he pleaded compulsion, and appealed for his justification to a long life spent in the service of the crown, was beheaded on Tower Hill.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7910/105673/7910_105673_000004_000002.wav|He published, in the king's name, without the consent either of parliament or convocation, an ordinance by which he retrenched many of the ancient holy days; prohibited several superstitions gainful to the clergy, such as pilgrimages, images, relics; and even ordered the incumbents in the parishes to set apart a considerable portion of their revenue for repairs and for the support of exhibitioners and the poor of their parish.|7910
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000031_000008.wav|I am informed by mr Blackwall that the sexes whilst young usually resemble each other; and both often undergo great changes in colour during their successive moults, before arriving at maturity.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000027_000000.wav|The mental powers of the Crustacea are probably higher than at first sight appears probable.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000017_000001.wav|Unfortunately the habits of crustaceans are very imperfectly known, and we cannot explain the uses of many structures peculiar to one sex.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000010_000001.wav|Nevertheless with the pulmoniferous gasteropods, or land snails, the pairing is preceded by courtship; for these animals, though hermaphrodites, are compelled by their structure to pair together.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000013_000004.wav|We have not here the case of a number of males becoming mature before the females, with the more beautiful males selected by the more vigorous females.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000026_000009.wav|This fact shews that in the Amphipoda, an order low in the scale, the males and females recognise each other, and are mutually attached.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000013_000000.wav|These naked sea slugs are hermaphrodites, yet they pair together, as do land snails, many of which have extremely pretty shells.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000027_000001.wav|Any one who tries to catch one of the shore crabs, so common on tropical coasts, will perceive how wary and alert they are. There is a large crab (Birgus latro), found on coral islands, which makes a thick bed of the picked fibres of the cocoa nut, at the bottom of a deep burrow.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000012_000009.wav|But many brightly coloured, white, or otherwise conspicuous species, do not seek concealment; whilst again some equally conspicuous species, as well as other dull coloured kinds live under stones and in dark recesses.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000031_000013.wav|From these several considerations, we may admit with some confidence that the well marked differences in colour between the sexes of certain species are the results of sexual selection; though we have not here the best kind of evidence,-- the display by the male of his ornaments.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000032_000004.wav|In this species, as I may add, the male is testaceous and the female black with legs banded with red.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000027_000003.wav|It then breaks through one of these eyes by hammering with its heavy front pincers, and turning round, extracts the albuminous core with its narrow posterior pincers.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000009_000004.wav|But in the latter case the males never possess special organs for finding, securing, or charming the females, or for fighting with other males.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000011_000000.wav|Even in the highest class of the Mollusca, the Cephalopoda or cuttle fishes, in which the sexes are separate, secondary sexual characters of the present kind do not, as far as I can discover, occur.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000017_000000.wav|In this great class we first meet with undoubted secondary sexual characters, often developed in a remarkable manner.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000003_000002.wav|Moreover it is almost certain that these animals have too imperfect senses and much too low mental powers to appreciate each other's beauty or other attractions, or to feel rivalry.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000015_000001.wav|These animals are often beautifully coloured, but as the sexes do not differ in this respect, we are but little concerned with them.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000010_000000.wav|The Gasteropoda, though capable of locomotion and furnished with imperfect eyes, do not appear to be endowed with sufficient mental powers for the members of the same sex to struggle together in rivalry, and thus to acquire secondary sexual characters.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000029_000001.wav|This seems a general rule in the whole class in respect to the many remarkable structural differences between the sexes.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000027_000008.wav|In about five minutes the crab brought out the shell which had fallen in, and carried it away to a distance of a foot; it then saw the three other shells lying near, and evidently thinking that they might likewise roll in, carried them to the spot where it had laid the first.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000007_000004.wav|Bearing in mind how many substances closely analogous to natural organic compounds have been recently formed by chemists, and which exhibit the most splendid colours, it would have been a strange fact if substances similarly coloured had not often originated, independently of any useful end thus gained, in the complex laboratory of living organisms.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000031_000012.wav|The males search eagerly for the females, and have been seen by Canestrini and others to fight for possession of them. This same author says that the union of the two sexes has been observed in about twenty species; and he asserts positively that the female rejects some of the males who court her, threatens them with open mandibles, and at last after long hesitation accepts the chosen one.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000009_000006.wav|But differences of this nature, it may be presumed, are directly connected with the act of reproduction, or with the development of the ova.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000026_000005.wav|mr Bate put a large male Carcinus maenas into a pan of water, inhabited by a female which was paired with a smaller male; but the latter was soon dispossessed.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000028_000017.wav|From these various considerations it seems probable that the male in this species has become gaily ornamented in order to attract or excite the female.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000026_000008.wav|After a time the male was put again into the same vessel; and he then, after swimming about for a time, dashed into the crowd, and without any fighting at once took away his wife.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000017_000004.wav|In various crustaceans, belonging to distinct families, the anterior antennae are furnished with peculiar thread like bodies, which are believed to act as smelling organs, and these are much more numerous in the males than in the females.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000012_000010.wav|So that with these nudibranch molluscs, colour apparently does not stand in any close relation to the nature of the places which they inhabit.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000012_000001.wav|The colours do not appear in most cases to be of any use as a protection; they are probably the direct result, as in the lowest classes, of the nature of the tissues; the patterns and the sculpture of the shell depending on its manner of growth.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000005_000001.wav|It should be borne in mind that in no case have we sufficient evidence that colours have been thus acquired, except where one sex is much more brilliantly or conspicuously coloured than the other, and where there is no difference in habits between the sexes sufficient to account for their different colours.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000017_000003.wav|But these extraordinary differences between the two sexes are no doubt related to their widely different habits of life, and consequently do not concern us.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000009_000002.wav|In the Lamellibranchiata, or bivalve shells, hermaphroditism is not rare.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000027_000002.wav|It feeds on the fallen fruit of this tree by tearing off the husk, fibre by fibre; and it always begins at that end where the three eye like depressions are situated.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000010_000005.wav|mr Lonsdale concluded that it had deserted its sickly mate; but after an absence of twenty four hours it returned, and apparently communicated the result of its successful exploration, for both then started along the same track and disappeared over the wall.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000009_000005.wav|As I am informed by mr Gwyn Jeffreys, the sole external difference between the sexes consists in the shell sometimes differing a little in form; for instance, the shell of the male periwinkle (Littorina littorea) is narrower and has a more elongated spire than that of the female.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000031_000011.wav|Spiders are possessed of acute senses, and exhibit much intelligence; as is well known, the females often shew the strongest affection for their eggs, which they carry about enveloped in a silken web.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000010_000004.wav|After a short time the strong and healthy individual disappeared, and was traced by its track of slime over a wall into an adjoining well stocked garden.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000009_000003.wav|In the next higher class of the Gasteropoda, or univalve shells, the sexes are either united or separate.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000029_000002.wav|We shall hereafter find the same law prevailing throughout the great sub kingdom of the Vertebrata; and in all cases it is eminently distinctive of characters which have been acquired through sexual selection.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000031_000009.wav|In other cases the male alone appears to change colour.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000029_000000.wav|It has just been stated that the male Gelasimus does not acquire his conspicuous colours until mature and nearly ready to breed.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000028_000016.wav|They are also, as we have seen, highly intelligent animals.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000009_000000.wav|Throughout this great division of the animal kingdom, as far as I can discover, secondary sexual characters, such as we are here considering, never occur.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000003_000001.wav|In many cases where the sexes are separate, both are permanently attached to some support, and the one cannot search or struggle for the other.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000006_000005.wav|Conspicuous colours are likewise beneficial to many animals as a warning to their would be devourers that they are distasteful, or that they possess some special means of defence; but this subject will be discussed more conveniently hereafter.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000013_000001.wav|It is conceivable that two hermaphrodites, attracted by each other's greater beauty, might unite and leave offspring which would inherit their parents' greater beauty.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46240/5684_46240_000008_000000.wav|THE SUB KINGDOM OF THE MOLLUSCA.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000009_000002.wav|Hence it is this side which is often coloured so as to imitate the objects on which these insects commonly rest.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000012_000006.wav|It would naturally be thought that this would be a source of danger; but mr j Jenner Weir believes that it actually serves them as a means of escape, for birds strike at these brightly coloured and fragile surfaces, instead of at the body.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000007_000004.wav|In the third place, we have seen that when the sexes nearly resemble each other, this appears due either to the male having transferred his colours to the female, or to the male having retained, or perhaps recovered, the primordial colours of the group.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000010_000005.wav|Nevertheless, it is probable that conspicuous colours are indirectly beneficial to many species, as a warning that they are unpalatable.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000018_000004.wav|They certainly discover flowers by colour.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000001_000002.wav|I have not alluded to the well-known noise made by the Death's Head Sphinx, for it is generally heard soon after the moth has emerged from its cocoon.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000013_000000.wav|DISPLAY.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000020_000000.wav|Some facts, however, are opposed to the belief that female butterflies prefer the more beautiful males; thus, as I have been assured by several collectors, fresh females may frequently be seen paired with battered, faded, or dingy males; but this is a circumstance which could hardly fail often to follow from the males emerging from their cocoons earlier than the females.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000016_000010.wav|The Saturniidae include some of the most beautiful of all moths, their wings being decorated, as in our British Emperor moth, with fine ocelli; and mr t w|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000007_000001.wav|Hence in most groups the females of the several species resemble each other much more closely than do the males.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000003_000002.wav|Before attempting to answer these questions a body of facts must be given.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000012_000000.wav|Most Moths rest motionless during the whole or greater part of the day with their wings depressed; and the whole upper surface is often shaded and coloured in an admirable manner, as mr Wallace has remarked, for escaping detection.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000015_000007.wav|Other such cases could be added.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000018_000003.wav|We know that ants and certain Lamellicorn beetles are capable of feeling an attachment for each other, and that ants recognise their fellows after an interval of several months. Hence there is no abstract improbability in the Lepidoptera, which probably stand nearly or quite as high in the scale as these insects, having sufficient mental capacity to admire bright colours.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000003_000001.wav|Or have successive variations been accumulated and determined as a protection, or for some unknown purpose, or that one sex may be attractive to the other? And, again, what is the meaning of the colours being widely different in the males and females of certain species, and alike in the two sexes of other species of the same genus?|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000009_000001.wav|With many species of butterflies the upper surfaces of the wings are obscure; and this in all probability leads to their escaping observation and danger. But butterflies would be particularly liable to be attacked by their enemies when at rest; and most kinds whilst resting raise their wings vertically over their backs, so that the lower surface alone is exposed to view.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000018_000000.wav|From the several foregoing facts it is impossible to admit that the brilliant colours of butterflies, and of some few moths, have commonly been acquired for the sake of protection.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000006_000000.wav|Another striking case was pointed out to me in the British Museum by mr a Butler, namely, one of the tropical American Theclae, in which both sexes are nearly alike and wonderfully splendid; in another species the male is coloured in a similarly gorgeous manner, whilst the whole upper surface of the female is of a dull uniform brown.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000000.wav|With our beautiful English butterflies, the admiral, peacock, and painted lady (Vanessae), as well as many others, the sexes are alike.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000002.wav|But in certain other tropical groups, and in some of our English butterflies, as the purple emperor, orange tip, etc (Apatura Iris and Anthocharis cardamines), the sexes differ either greatly or slightly in colour.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000018_000007.wav|As I hear from mr Doubleday, the common white butterfly often flies down to a bit of paper on the ground, no doubt mistaking it for one of its own species.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000012_000005.wav|The common Yellow Under wings (Triphaena) often fly about during the day or early evening, and are then conspicuous from the colour of their hind wings.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000019_000000.wav|The courtship of butterflies is, as before remarked, a prolonged affair. The males sometimes fight together in rivalry; and many may be seen pursuing or crowding round the same female.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000009_000004.wav|Many analogous and striking facts could be given.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000020_000002.wav|The females, as several entomologists have remarked to me, lie in an almost torpid state, and appear not to evince the least choice in regard to their partners.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000004.wav|Even within the same genus we often find species presenting extraordinary differences between the sexes, whilst others have their sexes closely alike.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000001.wav|This is also the case with the magnificent Heliconidae, and most of the Danaidae in the tropics.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000010_000002.wav|Both the males and females in these cases are conspicuous, and it is not credible that their difference in colour should stand in any relation to ordinary protection.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000011.wav|Hence we may infer that these nine species, and probably all the others of the genus, are descended from an ancestral form which was coloured in nearly the same manner.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000012.wav|In the tenth species the female still retains the same general colouring, but the male resembles her, so that he is coloured in a much less gaudy and contrasted manner than the males of the previous species.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000015_000005.wav|Hence the lower surface generally affords to entomologists the more useful character for detecting the affinities of the various species.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000009_000000.wav|With animals of all kinds, whenever colour has been modified for some special purpose, this has been, as far as we can judge, either for direct or indirect protection, or as an attraction between the sexes.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000009_000008.wav|In some other cases the lower surfaces of the wings are brilliantly coloured, and yet are protective; thus in Thecla rubi the wings when closed are of an emerald green, and resemble the young leaves of the bramble, on which in spring this butterfly may often be seen seated.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000019_000003.wav|The process of sexual selection will have been much facilitated, if the conclusion can be trusted, arrived at from various kinds of evidence in the supplement to the ninth chapter; namely, that the males of many Lepidoptera, at least in the imago state, greatly exceed the females in number.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000016_000009.wav|Hence the lower surface of the wings being brighter than the upper surface in certain moths is not so anomalous as it at first appears.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000014_000000.wav|The bright colours of many butterflies and of some moths are specially arranged for display, so that they may be readily seen.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000007_000002.wav|In some cases, however, to which I shall hereafter allude, the females are coloured more splendidly than the males.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000020_000004.wav|dr Wallace, who has had great experience in breeding Bombyx cynthia, is convinced that the females evince no choice or preference.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000018_000002.wav|Hence I am led to believe that the females prefer or are most excited by the more brilliant males; for on any other supposition the males would, as far as we can see, be ornamented to no purpose.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000014_000001.wav|During the night colours are not visible, and there can be no doubt that the nocturnal moths, taken as a body, are much less gaily decorated than butterflies, all of which are diurnal in their habits.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000015_000004.wav|Nevertheless, as a general rule, the upper surface, which is probably more fully exposed, is coloured more brightly and diversely than the lower.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000017_000000.wav|It is a singular fact that no British moths which are brilliantly coloured, and, as far as I can discover, hardly any foreign species, differ much in colour according to sex; though this is the case with many brilliant butterflies.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000007_000005.wav|It also deserves notice that in those groups in which the sexes differ, the females usually somewhat resemble the males, so that when the males are beautiful to an extraordinary degree, the females almost invariably exhibit some degree of beauty.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000004_000014.wav|Hence in these two latter species the bright colours of the males seem to have been transferred to the females; whilst in the tenth species the male has either retained or recovered the plain colours of the female, as well as of the parent form of the genus.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000007_000000.wav|I have given the foregoing details in order to shew, in the first place, that when the sexes of butterflies differ, the male as a general rule is the more beautiful, and departs more from the usual type of colouring of the group to which the species belongs.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5684/46243/5684_46243_000016_000003.wav|For instance, in the Australian Gastrophora the upper surface of the fore wing is pale greyish ochreous, while the lower surface is magnificently ornamented by an ocellus of cobalt blue, placed in the midst of a black mark, surrounded by orange yellow, and this by bluish white. But the habits of these three moths are unknown; so that no explanation can be given of their unusual style of colouring.|5684
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12538/4238_12538_000014_000001.wav|The ship struck on an uncharted rock.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12538/4238_12538_000021_000002.wav|I saw a great big cat sharpening his claws on a great big tree, just the way pussy does!" she said as soon as she could catch her breath.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000012_000001.wav|Behind them was a large clearing of about a hundred acres in extent; a comfortable house, with buildings for cattle, stood at a distance of some three hundred yards from the lake; broad fields of yellow corn waved brightly in the sun; and from the edge of the clearing came the sound of a woodsman's ax, showing that the proprietor was still enlarging the limits of his farm.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000007_000000.wav|"Massachusetts is in a ferment, as indeed are all the Eastern States, and the people talk openly of armed resistance against the Government.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000051_000000.wav|"He went out to scout round the house, leaving me at the gate," Harold said.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000052_000002.wav|mr Welch," he shouted, "it is all safe here, so far as we know; we are all on the lookout to cover you as you come up."|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000006_000000.wav|"MY DEAR COUSIN: I am leaving next week with my husband for England, where we intend to pass some time visiting his friends.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000007_000004.wav|Upon the other hand, I naturally incline toward my husband's views.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000007_000003.wav|As an American woman, it seems to me that the colonists have been dealt with somewhat hardly by the English Parliament, and that the measures of the latter have been high handed and arbitrary.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000007_000005.wav|He maintains that, as the king's army has driven out the French, and gives protection to the colony, it is only fair that the colonists should contribute to its expenses. The English ask for no contributions toward the expense of their own country, but demand that, at least, the expenses of the protection of the colony shall not be charged upon the heavily taxed people at home.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000013_000000.wav|William Welch had settled ten years before on this spot, which was then far removed from the nearest habitation.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000008_000002.wav|The dissenting clergy are, as my husband says was the case in England before the great civil war, the fomenters of this discontent.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000004_000000.wav|A FRONTIER FARM.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000025_000005.wav|I stopped at Burns' and Hooper's. Burns said he should clear out at once, but Hooper talked about seeing it through.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000010_000000.wav|"Your Affectionate Cousin,|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000022_000005.wav|I hoped that nothing would come of it, but I might have known better.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000009_000001.wav|One has heard so many dreadful stories of Indian fights and massacres that I tremble a little at the prospect; but I do not mention this to john, for as other women are, like yourself, brave enough to support these dangers, I would not appear a coward in his eyes.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000029_000013.wav|If they succeed there and get lots of booty and plenty of scalps, they may march back without touching you; they will be in a hurry to get to their villages and have their feasts and dancing.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000055_000000.wav|"I thought it was something of the sort.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000029_000014.wav|If they are beaten off at the settlements I reckon they will pay you a visit for sure; they won't go back without scalps.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000009_000006.wav|john joins me in kind love to yourself and your husband, and believe me to remain,|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000005_000000.wav|"Concord, march first seventeen seventy four.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000050_000000.wav|"What is it?" they exclaimed.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000006_000002.wav|His father thinks that a great future will, ere many years, open in the West, and that it is therefore well the boy should learn something of frontier life. For myself, I would rather that he stayed quietly at home, for he is at present over fond of adventure; but as my husband is meditating selling his estate here and moving West, it is perhaps better for him.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4238/12895/4238_12895_000035_000004.wav|Of course you will take your rifles with you and keep a sharp lookout; but they will have heard the bell, if they are in the neighborhood, and will guess that we are on the alert, so they are not likely to attempt a surprise.|4238
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000024_000001.wav|They then found their way to Brussels, and by dint of excessive impudence, brought themselves into notice.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000004.wav|All the country have their eyes upon this gentleman; some deny loudly, others are incredulous; but those who have seen acknowledge the truth.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000011.wav|He came; and I had him escorted by eight or ten vigilant men, to whom I had given notice to watch his hands strictly. Before all of us he changed two pieces of lead into gold and silver.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000007_000015.wav|He is unpolite, fantastic, and a dreamer, and acts by fits and starts."|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000015.wav|At all events, posterity will hear of him."|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000008.wav|Still, however, I was not quite satisfied.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000006.wav|I offered him some iron nails, which he changed into silver in the chimney place before six or seven credible witnesses.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000024_000000.wav|When he left Marseilles, he had not a shoe to his foot or a decent garment to his back, but was provided with some money and clothes by his wife in a neighbouring town.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000013.wav|My former bad opinion of Delisle was now indeed shaken.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000008.wav|As I had the honour to dine with him on Thursday last, the twentieth of this month, being seated at his side, I told him in a whisper that he could, if he liked, humble all the enemies of France.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000016_000002.wav|But this did not suit the plans of Delisle.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000012_000014.wav|He has, in consequence, been unable to work, and has not collected a sufficient quantity of his oil and powder, or brought what he has got to the necessary degree of perfection.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000010.wav|I therefore summoned the alchymist to come to me at Castellane.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000018.wav|My reason was convinced by my eyes; and the phantoms of impossibility which I had conjured up were dissipated by the work of my own hands.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000012_000010.wav|His year, strictly speaking, consists only of the four summer months; and when by any means he is prevented from making the proper use of them, he loses a whole year.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000024_000010.wav|He withdrew secretly in the night, and retired to Paris.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000022_000004.wav|Suspecting that all was not right, he left Aix secretly the same evening, and proceeded to Marseilles.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000007_000011.wav|He rubs the lead or iron with his powder, and puts it over burning charcoal.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000011_000016.wav|A hundred persons in my diocese have been witnesses of these things.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000004_000003.wav|He turns lead into gold, and iron into silver, by merely heating these metals red hot, and pouring upon them in that state some oil and powder he is possessed of; so that it would not be impossible for any man to make a million a day, if he had sufficient of this wondrous mixture.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000006.wav|He told me that it generally took him six months to make all his preparations.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000020_000005.wav|The fate of Delisle was no inducement for them to stop in France.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000009.wav|He only keeps two horses and two men servants.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000016_000000.wav|That Delisle was no ordinary impostor, but a man of consummate cunning and address, is very evident from this letter.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000020_000007.wav|They travelled about the Continent for several years, sponging upon credulous rich men, and now and then performing successful transmutations by the aid of double bottomed crucibles and the like.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000013_000000.wav|"Permit me, sir, in conclusion, to repeat, that such an artist as this should not be driven to the last extremity, nor forced to seek an asylum offered to him in other countries, but which he has despised, as much from his own inclinations as from the advice I have given him.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000002.wav|This excellent workman received, a short time ago, a very kind letter from the superintendent of the royal household, which I read.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000023_000000.wav|As the proofs against him were too convincing to leave him much hope of an acquittal, he planned an escape from durance.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000013_000001.wav|You risk nothing in giving him a little time, and in hurrying him you may lose a great deal.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000012_000006.wav|This mere suspicion, without any proof whatever, had caused him to be condemned for contumacy; a common case enough with judges, who always proceed with much rigour against those who are absent.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000003_000003.wav|He then disguised himself as a pilgrim, and returned to France.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000003.wav|He offered to use all his influence with the ministers to prevent any attempts upon his liberty, which has twice been attacked by the agents of government.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000008_000000.wav|Delisle, it would appear, was afraid of venturing to Paris.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000021_000003.wav|It was his usual practice to pretend that he possessed only a few grains of his powder, with which he would operate in any house where he intended to fix his quarters for the season.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000010.wav|In fact, this man is the miracle of art.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000005.wav|I have read the passport that has been sent to him from court, with orders that he should present himself at Paris early in the spring.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000006.wav|He told me that he would go willingly, and that it was himself who fixed the spring for his departure; as he wanted to collect his materials, in order that, immediately on his introduction to the king, he might make an experiment worthy of his majesty, by converting a large quantity of lead into the finest gold.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000009.wav|He did not deny it, but began to smile.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000002.wav|I have in my possession a nail, half iron and half silver, which I made myself.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000020_000003.wav|He discoursed learnedly upon projections, cimentations, sublimations, the elixir of life, and the universal alkahest; and on the death of Delisle gave out that the secret of that great adept had been communicated to him, and to him only.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000024_000011.wav|Here all trace of him is lost.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000010.wav|Besides, he loves his liberty, has no politeness, and speaks very bad French; but his judgment seems to be solid.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000012_000013.wav|Two, or even three, summers have been lost to him, owing to the continual inquietude he has laboured under.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000007_000010.wav|Delisle transmutes his metals in public.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000020_000010.wav|The duke afterwards boasted to Lenglet du Fresnoy of his achievements as an alchymist, and regretted that he had not been able to discover the secret of the precious powder by which he performed them.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000006_000001.wav|A good deal of that was only hearsay, but now I am enabled to speak from my own experience.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000004_000008.wav|He promised to give me one of them, in a long conversation which I had with him the other day, by order of the Bishop of Senes, who saw his operations with his own eyes, and detailed all the circumstances to me.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000007.wav|I told him that, apparently, the king wanted to see him.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000005_000008.wav|He replied that he could not exercise his art in every place, as a certain climate and temperature were absolutely necessary to his success. The truth is, that this man appears to have no ambition.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000024_000002.wav|He took a house, fitted up a splendid laboratory, and gave out that he knew the secret of transmutation.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000007_000013.wav|Delisle is altogether an illiterate person.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000004_000005.wav|He also sold twenty pounds weight of it to a merchant of Digne, named Taxis.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000008_000001.wav|He knew that his sleight of hand would be too narrowly watched in the royal presence; and upon some pretence or other he delayed the journey for more than two years.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000004_000000.wav|"I have something to relate to you, my dear cousin, which will be interesting to you and your friends.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000007_000002.wav|For five years this man was looked upon as a madman or a cheat; but the public mind is now disabused with respect to him.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155152/2960_155152_000012_000012.wav|What I have now told you, sir, removes the third objection, and is the reason why, at the present time, he cannot go to Paris to the king, in fulfilment of his promises made two years ago.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000030_000007.wav|Some of them used a hollow wand, filled with gold or silver dust, and stopped at the ends with wax or butter.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000007_000002.wav|The States General wisely resolved to have nothing to do with him.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000003_000001.wav|He pretended to invisibility and absolute chastity.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000004.wav|I shall soon bring my chemical studies to a happy conclusion, by the discovery of the philosopher's stone, and by this means we shall all have as much gold as we desire.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000002_000001.wav|He was born at Goerlitz, in Upper Lusatia, in fifteen seventy five, and followed till his thirtieth year the occupation of a shoemaker.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000014_000001.wav|Borri's trial proceeded in his absence, and lasted for upwards of two years.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000010_000003.wav|At the age of sixteen Joseph was sent to finish his education at the Jesuits' college in Rome, where he distinguished himself by his extraordinary memory.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000017_000004.wav|He became in time much attached to him; and defended him from the jealous attacks of his courtiers, and the indignation of those who were grieved to see their monarch the easy dupe of a charlatan.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000005_000000.wav|Boehmen died in sixteen twenty four, leaving behind him a considerable number of admiring disciples.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000005.wav|He was detained in prison, and a letter despatched to the Emperor Leopold, to know what should be done with him.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000029_000003.wav|Van Helmont also pretended to have once performed with success the process of transmuting quicksilver, and was in consequence invited by the Emperor Rudolph the second. to fix his residence at the court of Vienna.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000029_000002.wav|He pretended to find the elixir of life, and Louis expected by his means to have enjoyed the crown for a century.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000000.wav|The reputation of his great sanctity had gone before him; and he found many persons ready to attach themselves to his fortunes.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000023_000004.wav|Helvetius repeated the experiment alone, and converted six ounces of lead into very pure gold.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000002_000008.wav|He contended that the divine grace operated by the same rules, and followed the same methods, that the divine providence observed in the natural world; and that the minds of men were purged from their vices and corruptions in the very same manner that metals were purified from their dross, namely, by fire.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000008_000004.wav|Sir Walter Scott also endowed the White Lady of Avenel with many of the attributes of the undines or water sprites.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000007_000003.wav|He thereupon determined to shame them by printing his book, which he did at Leyden the same year.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000001.wav|He went first to Saxony; but met so little encouragement, and encountered so much danger from the emissaries of the Inquisition, that he did not remain there many months.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000007_000001.wav|He applied to the States General to grant him a public audience, that he might explain the tenets of the sect, and disclose a plan for rendering Holland the happiest and richest country on the earth, by means of the philosopher's stone and the service of the elementary spirits.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000001.wav|He afterwards went to Strasbourg, intending to fix his residence in that town.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000017.wav|She encouraged him to search for the great secret of the alchymists, and provided him with money for the purpose.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000023_000000.wav|Some weeks afterwards, when he had almost forgotten the subject, he received another visit from the stranger.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000030_000003.wav|Between the two they placed as much gold or silver dust as was necessary for their purpose.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000008_000005.wav|German romance and lyrical poetry teem with allusions to sylphs, gnomes, undines, and salamanders; and the French have not been behind in substituting them, in works of fiction, for the more cumbrous mythology of Greece and Rome.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000027_000001.wav|The learned Borrichius relates, that he saw coins which had been struck of this gold; and Lenglet du Fresnoy deposes to the same circumstance.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000004.wav|In vain he protested his innocence, and divulged his real name and profession.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000022_000010.wav|After his departure, Helvetius procured a crucible and a portion of lead, into which, when in a state of fusion, he threw the stolen grain from the philosopher's stone.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000002.wav|He was received with great cordiality, as a man persecuted for his religious opinions, and withal a great alchymist.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000016_000000.wav|On his arrival in that city, he found the celebrated Christina, the ex queen of Sweden.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000026_000002.wav|All the alchymists were in arms immediately, to refute this formidable antagonist.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000008_000001.wav|The literature of England, France, and Germany contains hundreds of sweet fictions, whose machinery has been borrowed from their day dreams.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000016_000001.wav|He procured an introduction to her, and requested her patronage in his endeavour to discover the philosopher's stone.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000011.wav|When the proposition was made to him, he accepted it with eagerness.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000002_000003.wav|From that time he began to neglect his leather, and buried his brain under the rubbish of metaphysics.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000010.wav|They were to the full as ridiculous as his philosophical pretensions.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000009.wav|The request was complied with; and Borri, closely manacled, was sent under an escort of soldiers to the prison of the Inquisition at Rome.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000018.wav|It may well be supposed that Borri benefited most by this acquaintance, and that Christina got nothing but experience.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000008_000000.wav|Poetry and romance are deeply indebted to the Rosicrucians for many a graceful creation.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000010.wav|This hope never abandoned him, even in the worst extremity of his fortunes; and in his prosperity it led him into the most foolish expenses: but he could not long continue to live so magnificently upon the funds he had brought from Italy; and the philosopher's stone, though it promised all for the wants of the morrow, never brought any thing for the necessities of to day.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000031_000004.wav|A nail of this description was, for a long time, in the cabinet of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000003.wav|He found that sphere too narrow for his aspiring genius, and retired in the same year to the more wealthy city of Amsterdam.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000002_000005.wav|But he was nothing daunted by the miseries and privations of the flesh; his mind was fixed upon the beings of another sphere, and in thought he was already the new apostle of the human race.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000011_000004.wav|Like his predecessor, Jacob Boehmen, he mixed up religious questions with his philosophical jargon, and took measures for declaring himself the founder of a new sect.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000011_000001.wav|The abandoned rake put on the outward sedateness of a philosopher; the scoffing sinner proclaimed that he had forsaken his evil ways, and would live thenceforth a model of virtue.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000003_000005.wav|He neglected this good advice, and continued his studies; burning minerals and purifying metals one day, and mystifying the Word of God on the next.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000027_000000.wav|It was also pretended that Gustavus Adolphus transmuted a quantity of quicksilver into pure gold.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000030_000002.wav|The trick to which they oftenest had recourse was to use a double bottomed crucible, the under surface being of iron or copper, and the upper one of wax, painted to resemble the same metal.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000016.wav|Borri now thought it high time to change his quarters.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000018.wav|He also obtained six diamonds of great value, on pretence that he could remove the flaws from them without diminishing their weight.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000005.wav|I am assured of the aid of the angelic hosts, and more especially of the archangel Michael's.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000022_000000.wav|Besides the pretenders to the philosopher's stone whose lives have been already narrated, this and the preceding century produced a great number of writers, who inundated literature with their books upon the subject.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000030_000006.wav|The same result was produced in many other ways.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000012.wav|With this diminution of splendour came a diminution of renown.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000003.wav|To those who follow me all joy shall be granted.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000017_000000.wav|This prince was a firm believer in the transmutation of metals.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000017_000007.wav|He lived six years in this manner at the court of Frederick; but that monarch dying in sixteen seventy he was left without a protector.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000015.wav|Queen Christina, during her residence at Rome, frequently visited the old man, to converse with him upon chemistry and the doctrines of the Rosicrucians.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000011.wav|As the number of his followers increased, he appears to have cherished the idea of becoming one day a new Mahomet, and of founding, in his native city of Milan, a monarchy and religion of which he should be the king and the prophet.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000031_000002.wav|M. Geoffroy produced several of these nails to the Academy of Sciences, and shewed how nicely the two parts were soldered together.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000010_000011.wav|At the age of thirty seven he found that he could not live by the practice of medicine, and began to look about for some other employment.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000001_000000.wav|JACOB BOeHMEN.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000023_000003.wav|They tried the experiment, and succeeded to their heart's content.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000011_000000.wav|All at once a sudden change was observed in his conduct.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000002_000002.wav|In this obscurity he remained, with the character of a visionary and a man of unsettled mind, until the promulgation of the Rosicrucian philosophy in his part of Germany, toward the year sixteen o seven or sixteen o eight.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000003_000006.wav|He afterwards wrote three other works, as sublimely ridiculous as the first.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000003_000000.wav|Besides the sylphs, gnomes, undines, and salamanders, he acknowledged various ranks and orders of demons.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000015_000008.wav|He performed several able cures, and increased his reputation so much that he was vaunted as a prodigy.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000002_000000.wav|It is now time to speak of Jacob Boehmen, who thought he could discover the secret of the transmutation of metals in the Bible, and who invented a strange heterogeneous doctrine of mingled alchymy and religion, and founded upon it the sect of the Aurea crucians.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000010_000007.wav|By the aid of his friends he established himself as a physician in Rome, and also obtained some situation in the pope's household.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000011_000003.wav|He pretended that he held converse with beneficent spirits; that the secrets of God and nature were revealed to him; and that he had obtained possession of the philosopher's stone.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000007.wav|In sign of it I saw a palm tree, surrounded with all the glory of paradise.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000013_000002.wav|"Whoever shall refuse," said he, "to enter into my new sheepfold shall be destroyed by the papal armies, of whom God has predestined me to be the chief.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000022_000004.wav|He says, that, sitting one day in his study, a man, who was dressed as a respectable burgher of North Holland, and very modest and simple in his appearance, called upon him, with the intention of dispelling his doubts relative to the philosopher's stone.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000011_000002.wav|To his friends this reformation was as pleasing as it was unexpected; and Borri gave obscure hints that it had been brought about by some miraculous manifestation of a superior power.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000018_000016.wav|She even obtained permission that he should leave his prison occasionally for a day or two, and reside in her palace, she being responsible for his return to captivity.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000010_000004.wav|He learned every thing to which he applied himself with the utmost ease.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000031_000006.wav|Nothing at one time was more common than to see coins, half gold and half silver, which had been operated upon by alchymists, for the same purposes of trickery.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000030_000004.wav|They then put in their lead, quicksilver, or other ingredients, and placed their pot upon the fire.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000010_000000.wav|Just at the time that Michael Mayer was making known to the world the existence of such a body as the Rosicrucians, there was born in Italy a man who was afterwards destined to become the most conspicuous member of the fraternity.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000008_000007.wav|Having these obligations to the Rosicrucians, no lover of poetry can wish, however absurd they were, that such a sect of philosophers had never existed.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2960/155151/2960_155151_000022_000011.wav|He was disappointed to find that the grain evaporated altogether, leaving the lead in its original state.|2960
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000008_000006.wav|Yet He is not far from every one of us.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000017_000007.wav|Very rarely do they bring any conception of personality to the native mind, very rarely do they signify any object of worship, perhaps never did in the olden times.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000014_000000.wav|Armed with these analogies, we turn to the primitive tongues of America, and find them there as distinct as in the Old World.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000000.wav|This last expression leads to another train of thought.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000013.wav|But the breath is nothing but wind. How easy, therefore, to look upon the wind that moves up and down and to and fro upon the earth, that carries the clouds, itself unseen, that calls forth the terrible tempests and the various seasons, as the breath, the spirit of God, as God himself?|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000017_000006.wav|In most instances they are entirely of modern origin, coined at the suggestion of missionaries, applied to the white man's God.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000007_000004.wav|It must be true, for it is evolved from the laws of reason, our only test of truth. Furthermore, the sense of personality and the voice of conscience, analyzed to their sources, can only be explained by the assumption of an infinite personality and an absolute standard of right.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000005_000000.wav|THE IDEA OF GOD.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000011_000001.wav|Numerous languages bear trace of this.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000011_000002.wav|The Latin Deus, the Greek Zeus, the Sanscrit Dyaus, the Chinese Tien, all originally meant the sky above, and our own word heaven is often employed synonymously with God.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000017_000000.wav|Let none of these expressions, however, be construed to prove the distinct recognition of One Supreme Being.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000008.wav|Etymologically, in fact, ghosts and gusts, breaths and breezes, the Great Spirit and the Great Wind, are one and the same.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000010_000004.wav|There the sun and bright stars sojourn, emblems of glory and stability.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000008_000005.wav|The exhibitions of force in nature seemed to them the manifestations of that mysterious power felt by their self consciousness; to combine these various manifestations and recognize them as the operations of one personality, was a step not easily taken.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000011_000003.wav|There is at first no personification in these expressions.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000009_000001.wav|Therefore a word is usually found in their languages analogous to none in any European tongue, a word comprehending all manifestations of the unseen world, yet conveying no sense of personal unity.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000008_000004.wav|We are speaking of a people little capable of abstraction.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000007_000000.wav|If we accept the definition that mythology is the idea of God expressed in symbol, figure, and narrative, and always struggling toward a clearer utterance, it is well not only to trace this idea in its very earliest embodiment in language, but also, for the sake of comparison, to ask what is its latest and most approved expression.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000007_000002.wav|He has shown that our reason, dwelling on the facts of experience, constantly seeks the principles which connect them together, and only rests satisfied in the conviction that there is a highest and first principle which reconciles all their discrepancies and binds them into one.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000008_000001.wav|In every heart was an altar to the Unknown God.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000001.wav|As the philosopher, pondering on the workings of self consciousness, recognizes that various pathways lead up to God, so the primitive man, in forming his language, sometimes trod one, sometimes another.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000016_000003.wav|As if man ever did or ever could draw the idea of God from nature!|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000010.wav|The soul is the life, the life is the breath.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000009.wav|It is easy to guess the reason of this.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000017_000001.wav|Of monotheism either as displayed in the one personal definite God of the Semitic races, or in the dim pantheistic sense of the Brahmins, there was not a single instance on the American continent.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000016_000004.wav|In the identity of wind with breath, of breath with life, of life with soul, of soul with God, lies the far deeper and far truer reason, whose insensible development I have here traced, in outline indeed, but confirmed by the evidence of language itself.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000011_000004.wav|They embrace all unseen agencies, they are void of personality, and yet to the illogical primitive man there is nothing contradictory in making them the object of his prayers.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000010_000001.wav|The heavens, the upper regions, are in every religion the supposed abode of the divine.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000017_000003.wav|How could they expect it?|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000003.wav|This firm belief has left its impress on language in the names devised to express the supernal, the spiritual world.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83606/6993_83606_000013_000011.wav|Invisible, imponderable, quickening with vigorous motion, slackening in rest and sleep, passing quite away in death, it is the most obvious sign of life.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000009_000000.wav|So in many instances it turns out that what has been reported to be the evil divinity of a nation, to whom they pray to the neglect of a better one, is in reality the highest power they recognize.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000002_000005.wav|He is like a tethered beast who makes a daily round under the eye of a master; he is like an arrow, which must go whither it is sent, not whither it wishes.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000006_000000.wav|The confusion of these distinct ideas has led to much misconception of the native creeds.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000004_000003.wav|They could not have made the beauty of the heaven, the sun, the moon, and the stars which adorn it, and which light the earth, with its countless streams, its fountains and waters, its trees and plants, and its various inhabitants.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000000_000003.wav|It is never the object of veneration or sacrifice, no myth brings it down to his comprehension, it is not installed in his temples.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000015_000002.wav|These are his enemies or his friends, as he conciliates or insults them.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000001_000001.wav|It is related that about the year fourteen forty, at a grand religious council held at the consecration of the newly built temple of the Sun at Cuzco, the Inca Yupanqui rose before the assembled multitude and spoke somewhat as follows:--|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000014_000003.wav|But when they appeared it was terrible.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000013_000001.wav|After a prolonged struggle, which brought on the general deluge and the destruction of the world, he won the victory.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000012_000001.wav|It is of undoubted native origin and venerable antiquity.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000004_000000.wav|No better success attended the attempt of Nezahuatl, lord of Tezcuco, which took place about the same time.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000007_000000.wav|This view, which has obtained without question in every work on the native religions of America, has arisen partly from habits of thought difficult to break, partly from mistranslations of native words, partly from the foolish axiom of the early missionaries, "The gods of the gentiles are devils." Yet their own writings furnish conclusive proof that no such distinction existed out of their own fancies.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000012_000000.wav|Perhaps no myth has been so often quoted in its confirmation as that of the ancient Iroquois, which narrates the conflict between the first two brothers of our race.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000015_000001.wav|The gods of the primitive man are beings of thoroughly human physiognomy, painted with colors furnished by intercourse with his fellows.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000002_000002.wav|Now many things happen when the Sun is absent; therefore he cannot be the universal creator.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000005_000004.wav|They prove something in regard to a consciousness of divinity hedging us about, but nothing at all in favor of a recognition of one God; they exemplify how profound is the conviction of a highest and first principle, but they do not offer the least reason to surmise that this was a living reality in doctrine or practice.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000006_000002.wav|This notion, which has its historical origin among the Parsees of ancient Iran, is unknown to savage nations.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000008_000000.wav|A passage often quoted in support of this mistaken view is one in Winslow's "Good News from New England," written in sixteen twenty two.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000002_000000.wav|"Many say that the Sun is the Maker of all things.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000012_000003.wav|At length the Good Mind turned upon his brother in anger, and crushed him into the earth.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000014_000002.wav|The writer adds of the latter, who clearly represent to his mind the Evil One and his adjutants, "in the old times they did not have much power; they were but annoyers and opposers of men, and in truth they were not regarded as gods.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000004_000002.wav|At length, in indignation and despair, the prince exclaimed, "Verily, these gods that I am adoring, what are they but idols of stone without speech or feeling?|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000011_000001.wav|Writers anxious to discover Jewish or Christian analogies, forcibly construed myths to suit their pet theories, and for indolent observers it was convenient to catalogue their gods in antithetical classes.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000015_000006.wav|Moral dualism can only arise in minds where the ideas of good and evil are not synonymous with those of pleasure and pain, for the conception of a wholly good or a wholly evil nature requires the use of these terms in their higher, ethical sense.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000005_000000.wav|In neither case, be it observed, was any attempt made to substitute another and purer religion for the popular one.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000000_000002.wav|But it still remains to him but an unapplied abstraction, a mere category of thought, a frame for the All.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000015_000000.wav|A little reflection will convince the most incredulous that any such dualism as has been fancied to exist in the native religions, could not have been of indigenous growth.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000015_000004.wav|Personal, family, or national feuds render some more inimical than others, but always from a desire to guard their own interests, never out of a delight in evil for its own sake.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6993/83607/6993_83607_000014_000001.wav|They narrate the struggles between the rulers of the upper and the nether world, the descent of the former into Xibalba, the Realm of Phantoms, and their victory over its lords, One Death and Seven Deaths.|6993
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000008_000004.wav|You ask the price of a dwarf wistaria growing in a pot.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000012_000002.wav|The streets are gayly decorated with flags, and bright lanterns-all alike in design and color-are hung in rows from the low eaves of the houses.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000005_000004.wav|This platform is screened from the street by dark blue cotton curtains or awnings hung from the low projecting eaves of the heavy roof.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000006_000004.wav|Each of the workers, in turn, takes an occasional holiday, for there is no day in the Japanese calendar when the shops are all closed; and even New Year's Day, the great festival of the year, finds most of the stores open.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000004_000002.wav|With infinite patience, he waits while the merits of each piece are examined and discussed, and if none of his stock proves satisfactory, he is willing to come again with a new set of wares, knowing that in the end purchases will be made sufficient to cover all his trouble.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000005_000006.wav|When this is given, the work begins; the little boys are summoned, and are soon sent off to the great fire proof warehouse, which stands with heavy doors thrown open, on the other side of the platform, away from the street.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000002_000002.wav|Hence English and American merchants, who only see Japan from the business side, continually speak of the Japanese as dishonest, tricky, and altogether unreliable, and greatly prefer to deal with the Chinese, who have much of the business virtue that is characteristic of the English as a nation.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000005_000003.wav|The store appears, to the foreign eye, to be simply a roofed and matted platform upon which both clerks and customers sit.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000009_000004.wav|Each of these shows is well advertised by the beating of drums, by the shouting of doorkeepers, by wonderful pictures on the outside to entice the passer by, or even by an occasional brief lifting of the curtains which veil the scene from the crowd without, just long enough to afford a tantalizing glimpse of the wonders within.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000011_000000.wav|By ten o'clock, when the crowds have dispersed and the purchasers have all gone home and gone to bed, the busy booth keepers take down their stalls, pack up their wares, and disappear, leaving no trace of the night's gayeties to greet the morning sun|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000009_000003.wav|The long line of stalls ends with booths, or tents, in which shows of dancing, jugglery, educated animals, and monstrosities, natural or artificial, may be seen for the moderate admission fee of two sen|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000007_000004.wav|The hard, confining factory life, with its never ceasing roar of machinery, bewildering the minds and intellects of the men who come under its deadening influences, until they become scarcely more than machines themselves, is a thing as yet almost unknown in Japan.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000008_000005.wav|The man answers at once, "Two dollars." "Two dollars!" you answer in surprise, "it is not worth more than thirty or forty cents." "Seventy five, then," he will respond; and thus the buyer and seller approach nearer in price, until the bargain is struck somewhere near the first price offered.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000002_000005.wav|Their trade, conducted in a small way upon small means, is more of the nature of a game, in which one person is the winner and the other the loser, than a fair exchange, in which both parties obtain what they want.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000007_000000.wav|The stranger visiting any of the great Japanese cities is surprised by the lack of large stores and manufactories, and often wonders where the beautiful lacquer work and porcelains are made, and where the gay silks and crepes are woven.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000012_000011.wav|Then slowly the great shell closed, once more the shouting crowds seized hold of the straining ropes, and the great bivalve with its fair freight was drawn slowly along through the gayly illuminated streets.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000008_000001.wav|Very often there is a magnificent display of young trees, potted plants, and flowers, brought in from the country and ranged on both sides of the street.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000006_000002.wav|And at the back are rooms, which serve for dwelling rooms, opening upon well kept gardens.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000012_000012.wav|Jimmu Tenno and other heroes of Japanese legend or history, each upon its lofty platform, a white elephant, and countless other subjects were represented in the festival cars sent forth by all the districts of the city to celebrate the great event.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000002_000007.wav|With them, trade is a warfare between buyer and seller, in which every man must take all possible advantage for himself, and it is the lookout of the other party if he is cheated.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000005_000007.wav|Through the doorway one can see endless piles of costly stuffs stored safely away, and from these piles the boys select the required fabric, loading themselves down with them so that they can barely stagger under the weights that they carry.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000007_000002.wav|The delicate vases, the bronzes, and the silks are often made in humblest homes, the work of one or two laborers with rudest tools.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000008_000002.wav|Here the gardeners make lively sales, as the displays are often fine in themselves, and show to a special advantage in the flaring torchlight. The eager venders, who do all they can to call the attention of the crowd to their wares, make many good bargains.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000005_000001.wav|Like all things else in Japan, shopping takes plenty of time.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000005_000010.wav|During her stay in the store, the foreign customer, making her first visit to the place, is frequently startled by loud shouts from the whole staff of clerks and small boys,--outcries so sudden, so simultaneous, and so stentorian, that she cannot rid herself of the idea that something terrible is happening every time that they occur.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000006_000001.wav|Many such little places are the homes of the people who keep them.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000012_000008.wav|An evening walk through one of these thoroughfares was a sight to be remembered for a lifetime.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000012_000004.wav|It takes a day or two for the rejoicings to get fully under way, but by the second or third day the fun is at its height, and the streets are thronged with merrymakers.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000009_000006.wav|The supposed object of the expedition, the visit to the temple, has occupied but a small share of time and attention, and the little hands are filled with the amusing toys and trifles bought, and the little minds with the merry sights seen.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000007_000003.wav|There are no great manufactories to be seen, and the bane of so many cities, the polluting factory smoke, never rises over the cities of Japan.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000008_000000.wav|On certain days in the month, in different sections of the city, are held night festivals near temples, and many shopkeepers take the opportunity to erect temporary booths, in which they so arrange their wares as to tempt the passers by as they go to and fro.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000006_000003.wav|The whole work of the store is often attended to by the proprietor, assisted by his wife and family, and perhaps one or two apprentices.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000009_000002.wav|Some of the booths are devoted to dolls; others to toys of various kinds; still others to birds in cages, goldfish in globes, queer chirping insects in wicker baskets, pretty ornaments for the hair, fans, candies, and cakes of all sorts, roasted beans and peanuts, and other things too numerous to mention.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000013_000000.wav|Upon such festival occasions the shopkeeper does not put up his shutters and leave his place of business, but the open shop fronts add much to the gay appearance of the street.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98644/7478_98644_000009_000001.wav|The darkness is illuminated by torches, whose weird flames flare and smoke in the wind, and shine down upon the little sheds which line both sides of the road, and contain so tempting a display of cheap toys and trinkets that not only the children, but their elders, are attracted by them.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000003_000000.wav|The business of hotel keeping we have referred to in a previous chapter, and it is a well-known fact that unless a hotel keeper has a capable wife, his business will not succeed.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000013_000001.wav|In no case are the roles taken by both sexes upon one stage.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000006_000001.wav|The brother himself, while not a Christian, had little belief in the old superstitions of his people; his wife was a professing Christian.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000001.wav|She returned to her home and consulted the servants upon the matter; but though they quite agreed with her that something should be done, they had little capital to invest in the enterprises suggested by the fortune teller.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000005_000000.wav|A man and his family were about to move from their residence to another part of the city.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000008_000003.wav|When thoroughly taught, they form a valuable investment, and well repay the labor spent upon them, for a popular geisha commands a good price everywhere, and has her time overcrowded with engagements.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000014_000001.wav|Each gesture, and each modulation of the voice, is studied as carefully as are those of the actors.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000012_000001.wav|We have already mentioned incidentally the theatre as one of the favorite diversions of the people; and though it has never been regarded as a very refined amusement, it has done and is doing much for the education of the lower classes in the history and spirit of former times.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000006_000004.wav|The fortune teller revealed to her the fact that two occult forces were at work bringing evil upon the house.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000003_000003.wav|When this time comes, the labor is redistributed, the woman frequently taking upon herself the reception of the guests and the keeping of the accounts, while the hired help waits on the tables.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000003.wav|She retired discouraged, but, urged by the servants, she decided to make a last appeal, this time to her sister in law, who must surely be moved by the evil that was threatening herself and her children.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000010_000006.wav|If the wives of the leaders in Japan are to come from among such a class of women, something must be done, and done quickly, for the sake of the future of Japan; either to raise the standards of the men in regard to women, or to change the old system of education for girls.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000017_000000.wav|And so, amid the shopping, the festivals, the amusements of the great cities, the women find their lives varied in many ways.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000005.wav|This was her last resort, and she clung to her forlorn hope longer than many would have done, the servants adding their arguments to her impassioned appeals, only to find out after all that the steadfast sister could not be moved, and that she would not propitiate the horse's spirit, or allow money to be used for such a purpose.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000006_000007.wav|The fortune teller hinted, moreover, that for a consideration he might be able to afford material aid in the search for the well.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000014_000004.wav|Unfortunately, the class of people who patronize these places is low, and the moral tone of some of the stories is pitched accordingly; but the best of the story tellers-those who have talent and reputation-are often invited to come to entertainments given at private houses, to amuse a large company by their eloquence or mimicry.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000000.wav|At this information Go Inkyo Sama was much perturbed, for further aid for her afflicted family seemed to require the use of money, and of that commodity she had very little, being mainly dependent upon her brother for support.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000005_000003.wav|As the family could not wait two years before moving, it was decided that the change of residence should be made at once, but that the son should live with his uncle until the next year.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000016_000013.wav|A roof of matting shields each group from the sun by day, and a slight sprinkling every night serves to keep the plants fresh for nearly a month, and the flowers continue their blooming during that time, as calmly as if in perfectly natural positions.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000014_000003.wav|A long story is often continued from night to night until finished.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000006.wav|She gave it up then, and sat down to await the fate of her doomed house, doubtless wondering much and sighing often over the foolish skepticism of her near relatives, and wishing that the rationalistic tendencies of the time would take a less dangerous form than the neglecting of the plainest precautions for life and health.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000002_000000.wav|There are, however, occupations in the city for women, by which they may support themselves or their families.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000002.wav|At last, the old lady went to her brother, but he only laughed at her well meant attempts to help his family, and refused to give her money for such a purpose.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000012_000005.wav|This alone, the most ancient and classical of Japanese theatrical performances, is considered worthy of the attention of the Emperor and the nobility, and takes the place with them of the more vulgar and realistic plays which delight common people.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000011_000009.wav|A few may have sacrificed themselves freely but reluctantly for those whom they love, and by their revolting slavery may be earning the means to keep their dear ones from starvation or disgrace.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000008_000004.wav|A Japanese entertainment is hardly regarded as complete without geishas in attendance, and their dancing, music, and graceful service at supper form a charming addition to an evening of enjoyment at a tea house.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000010_000000.wav|The geishas unfortunately, though fair, are frail.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000006_000003.wav|The old lady was quite sure that there was some witchcraft or art magic at work among her dear ones, and, after consulting the servants (for she knew that she could expect no sympathy in her plans from either her brother or his wife), she betook herself to a fortune teller to discover through his means the causes of the illness in the family.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000007_000004.wav|Taking some of the head servants with her, she went to her sister and presented the case.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000013_000003.wav|A lunch and dinner, with innumerable light edibles between, go to make up the usual bill of fare for a day at the play, and tea houses in the neighborhood of the theatre provide the necessary meals, a room to take them in, a resting place between the acts, and whatever tea, cakes, and other refreshments may be ordered.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000010_000007.wav|A liberal education, and more freedom in early life for women, has been suggested, and is now being tried, but the problem of the geisha and her fascination is a deep one in Japan.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000005_000004.wav|The uncle's home was, however, inconveniently remote, and so the young man stayed as a visitor at his father's house for the remaining months of the year, after which he became once more a member of the household.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000014_000002.wav|Many charming tales are told of old Japan, and even Western stories have found their way to these assemblies.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000004_000001.wav|They are consulted on every important step by believing ones of all classes.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000015_000001.wav|Solemn and sad subjects are touched upon, as well as merry and bright things, and he never fails to make his audience weep or laugh, according to his theme, and well merits the applause he always receives at the end.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000013_000002.wav|As the performances last all day, from ten or eleven in the forenoon until eight or nine in the evening, going to the theatre means much more than a few hours of entertainment after the day's work is over.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000016_000002.wav|The river is crowded with picnic parties in boats.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000016_000007.wav|Dango Zaka has its own peculiar attraction, the famous chrysanthemum dolls.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000011_000002.wav|The supervision that the government exercises over these places is extremely rigid; the effort is made, by licensing and regulating them, to minimize the evils that must flow from them.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7478/98645/7478_98645_000009_000000.wav|The Japanese dances are charmingly graceful and modest; the swaying of the body and limbs, the artistic management of the flowing draperies, the variety of themes and costumes of the different dances, all go to make an entertainment by geishas one of the pleasantest of Japanese enjoyments.|7478
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000066_000000.wav|'Perhaps I have been wrongly informed.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000007.wav|you were going to tell me.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000041_000001.wav|I never doubted you had been told.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000031_000006.wav|Taken more than half the trouble off my hands.'|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000007_000000.wav|It was very well for Margaret that the extreme quiet of the Harley Street house, during Edith's recovery from her confinement, gave her the natural rest which she needed.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000054_000004.wav|mrs Shaw and Captain Lennox, each in their separate way, gave mr Bell a kind and sincere welcome, winning him over to like them almost in spite of himself, especially when he saw how naturally Margaret took her place as sister and daughter of the house.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000048_000001.wav|Cannot you come here?|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000005.wav|You shall make me some tea, Margaret.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000060_000003.wav|I'm thankful they haven't a bed.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000070_000004.wav|Do we part here?|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000012_000000.wav|'Oh, mr Bell!|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000008_000001.wav|'It is a little sad for you to be left, night after night, just at this time when all the world is so gay.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER forty four|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000036_000005.wav|For, to tell the truth, he had rather forced himself up to Harley Street this evening, with a view of getting over an awkward meeting, awkward even in the presence of Captain Lennox and Edith, and doubly awkward now that he found her the only lady there, and the person to whom he must naturally and perforce address a great part of his conversation.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000060_000000.wav|'Thank you.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000027_000000.wav|'Not i But I thought, perhaps, you might.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000032_000001.wav|How is mrs Thornton?' asked Margaret hurriedly and below her breath, though she tried to speak out.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000043_000003.wav|Stay!' (interrupting himself rather abruptly) 'was it at your mother's funeral?'|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000019_000000.wav|'Whew! is that all?|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000004_000000.wav|EASE NOT PEACE|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000041_000002.wav|Of course, it was a great secret, and perhaps I should not have named it now,' said Margaret, a little dismayed.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000014_000001.wav|How did you come?|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000009_000003.wav|She was really very fond of him, excepting when he was anxiously attentive to Edith's dress and appearance, with a view to her beauty making a sufficient impression on the world.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000000.wav|'Why, to tell you the truth, I dined at my club.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000033_000002.wav|It was too much for Thornton himself, though she was his sister.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000007_000005.wav|And she felt that it was almost ungrateful in her to have a secret feeling that the Helstone vicarage-nay, even the poor little house at Milton, with her anxious father and her invalid mother, and all the small household cares of comparative poverty, composed her idea of home.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000006.wav|And now, what were you thinking of?|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000035_000000.wav|'Perhaps so.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000033_000004.wav|He's getting past the age for caring for such things, either as principal or accessory.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000028_000001.wav|He has been on circuit now since I came.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000033_000001.wav|I've been staying at their house till I was driven out of it by the perpetual clack about that Thornton girl's marriage.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000036_000000.wav|'I know it,' said Margaret.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000031_000003.wav|Luckily, mr Thornton found a tenant for it.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000035_000001.wav|You've studied her, have you?|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000031_000004.wav|Why don't you ask after mr Thornton, Margaret?|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000065_000001.wav|'You must have heard some wrong statement.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000015_000002.wav|But where are the others?|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000049_000001.wav|But I will certainly come if you wish it,' replied mr Lennox, with a little afterthought of extreme willingness, which made Margaret shrink into herself, and almost wish that she had not proposed her natural request.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000067_000000.wav|'I differ from you.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000070_000001.wav|And you don't know Milton. Such a change from Helstone!|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000033_000000.wav|'I suppose they're well.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000045_000001.wav|To be sure!|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000007_000015.wav|There was a strange unsatisfied vacuum in Margaret's heart and mode of life; and, once when she had dimly hinted this to Edith, the latter, wearied with dancing the night before, languidly stroked Margaret's cheek as she sat by her in the old attitude,--she on a footstool by the sofa where Edith lay.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000031_000001.wav|In Oxford, I could have managed all the landlords in the place, and had my own way, with half the trouble your Milton landlord has given me, and defeated me after all.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000030_000001.wav|But I thought that it might be the effect of the antiquities of Oxford.'|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000022_000000.wav|'mr|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000028_000002.wav|But-mr|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000024_000003.wav|What did you think of him?'|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000022_000001.wav|Henry Lennox?' asked Margaret.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000055_000001.wav|And for mr Bell! for Margaret's mr Bell---- '|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000030_000000.wav|'Certainly.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000054_000002.wav|To be sure, in her quiet black dress, she was a contrast to Edith, dancing in her white crape mourning, and long floating golden hair, all softness and glitter.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000047_000000.wav|There was a pause for a moment or two.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000025_000002.wav|Do you call him good looking, Margaret?'|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000015_000004.wav|Left you alone?'|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000036_000007.wav|She began to talk on the subject which came uppermost in her mind, after the first flush of awkward shyness.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000007_000011.wav|Then her thoughts went back to Milton, with a strange sense of the contrast between the life there, and here.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000036_000004.wav|She could hardly tell what to say at first, and was thankful for all the tea table occupations, which gave her an excuse for keeping silence, and him an opportunity of recovering himself.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000040_000000.wav|'Frederick in England! you never told me that!' exclaimed mr Bell in surprise.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000053_000003.wav|I suppose I am not much to "see," eh, Margaret?'|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000051_000000.wav|'I believe I shall stay and see my brother and sister,' said mr Lennox, making no movement of departure.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000060_000001.wav|I am much obliged to you.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000023_000000.wav|'Yes,' replied mr Bell.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000005_000000.wav|'A dull rotation, never at a stay, Yesterday's face twin image of to day.' COWPER.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000004.wav|If their skill and their fires will stand it, their tempers won't.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000045_000002.wav|Why, some one asked me if he had not been over then, and I denied it stoutly-not many weeks ago-who could it have been?|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000054_000000.wav|He joked, to give her time to recover from the slight flutter which he had detected in her manner on his proposal to leave; and she caught the tone, and threw the ball back.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000024_000000.wav|'I liked him long ago,' said Margaret, glancing down for a moment.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000067_000001.wav|I do not think they are very apt to do as my poor friend Hale did.' mr Bell was inwardly chafing.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000052_000001.wav|'I want you to see Edith; and I want Edith to know you.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000063_000000.wav|'She has had a great deal to go through,' said mr Bell.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000008.wav|Whose letters were those, god daughter, that you hid away so speedily?'|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000062_000000.wav|'I thought her looking remarkably well.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000042_000000.wav|'I have never named it to either my brother or your cousin,' said mr Lennox, with a little professional dryness of implied reproach.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000017_000002.wav|But never mind, never mind!|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000049_000002.wav|mr Bell got up and looked around him for his hat, which had been removed to make room for tea.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000008_000000.wav|'Poor child!' said Edith.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000019_000001.wav|Who do you think came up in the train with me?'|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000028_000003.wav|Bell-have you come from Oxford or from Milton?'|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000033_000006.wav|I thought mrs Thornton had been made of sterner stuff.'|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000039_000001.wav|mr Lennox has discovered that he sailed for Australia only last August; only two months before Frederick was in England, and gave us the names of---- '|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000006_000000.wav|'Of what each one should be, he sees the form and rule, And till he reach to that, his joy can ne'er be full.' RUCKERT.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1705/142318/1705_142318_000043_000001.wav|I am not living in a talking, babbling world, nor yet among people who are trying to worm facts out of me; you needn't look so frightened because you have let the cat out of the bag to a faithful old hermit like me.|1705
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000020_000000.wav|"Take Bazin."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000151_000000.wav|"A woman of mark!" said Porthos, with his loud laugh.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000073_000002.wav|At the sound of the gold Aramis raised his eyes and Porthos started.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000121_000000.wav|The four friends, during the period of these two absences, had, as may well be supposed, the eye on the watch, the nose to the wind, and the ear on the hark.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000049_000000.wav|"And me also," said Porthos.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000029_000003.wav|What the devil!|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000078_000001.wav|Let us take some heed of the welfare of her dear Buckingham.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000104_000000.wav|"Now," continued he, addressing Planchet, "you have eight days to get an interview with Lord de Winter; you have eight days to return-in all sixteen days.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000110_000000.wav|"And I," said Aramis, with his soft, melodius voice, "remember that I will roast you at a slow fire, like a savage."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000018_000000.wav|"Not to be found!" cried Athos.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000157_000000.wav|But all at once a shadow appeared in the darkness the outline of which was familiar to d'Artagnan, and a well-known voice said, "Monsieur, I have brought your cloak; it is chilly this evening."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000148_000000.wav|"Well, if he does not come, it will be because he has been delayed, that's all.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000146_000002.wav|To be imprisoned.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000177_000001.wav|"Go to bed, Planchet, and sleep soundly."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000146_000005.wav|Why, every day in the trenches we go cheerfully to expose ourselves to worse than that-for a bullet may break a leg, and I am convinced a surgeon would give us more pain in cutting off a thigh than an executioner in cutting off a head.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000014_000001.wav|Athos talked of the discretion of Grimaud, who never spoke a word but when his master unlocked his mouth.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000148_000001.wav|He may have fallen from his horse, he may have cut a caper from the deck; he may have traveled so fast against the wind as to have brought on a violent catarrh.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000040_000000.wav|"Well, then, we will put simply, My Lord, do you remember a certain little enclosure where your life was spared?"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000074_000000.wav|"How much in that little bag?"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000042_000000.wav|"The devil!" said d'Artagnan, "you are insupportable.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000041_000003.wav|that's unworthy.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000046_000002.wav|I have obtained proof of it by listening to her conversation with the cardinal."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000123_000000.wav|The four friends exchanged a joyful glance; half of the work was done. It is true, however, that it was the shorter and easier part.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000127_000000.wav|"Oh, pardieu, less than nothing," said Aramis; "a charming little seamstress, whom I love dearly and from whose hand I requested a few lines as a sort of keepsake."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000066_000000.wav|"I am he."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000153_000001.wav|The bars were filled with drinkers.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000129_000000.wav|Aramis read the letter, and passed it to Athos.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000149_000000.wav|"That's all very well," replied d'Artagnan; "but I am tired of fearing when I open a fresh bottle that the wine may come from the cellar of Milady."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000097_000000.wav|"My dear Athos," said Aramis, "you speak like Nestor, who was, as everyone knows, the wisest among the Greeks."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000070_000000.wav|Aramis accordingly took the quill, reflected for a few moments, wrote eight or ten lines in a charming little female hand, and then with a voice soft and slow, as if each word had been scrupulously weighed, he read the following:|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000099_000001.wav|The matter had been named to him by d'Artagnan, who in the first place pointed out the money to him, then the glory, and then the danger.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000065_000000.wav|"Are you quite sure of it?"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000071_000004.wav|Watch her arrival, for she has great and terrible projects.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000071_000001.wav|As you have several times since declared yourself the friend of that person, he thinks it his duty to respond to that friendship by sending you important information.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000168_000000.wav|It contained half a line, in a hand perfectly British, and with a conciseness as perfectly Spartan:|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000078_000002.wav|That is the least we owe her."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000026_000001.wav|Are our lackeys sufficiently devoted to us to risk their lives for us?|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000024_000000.wav|"Doubtless," said Aramis, "for we not only require to be well served in order to succeed, but moreover, not to fail; for in case of failure, heads are in question, not for our lackeys-"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000171_000000.wav|Athos took the letter from the hands of d'Artagnan, approached the lamp, set fire to the paper, and did not let go till it was reduced to a cinder.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000135_000000.wav|"And what dream does she mean?" asked the dragoon, who had approached during the reading.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000133_000002.wav|Take care of yourself, and act so that we may from time to time hear you spoken of.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000061_000000.wav|"And who has seen this fleur de lis?" inquired Aramis.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000146_000001.wav|And what does it amount to, after all?|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000006_000000.wav|Porthos had discovered the means, the diamond.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000132_000000.wav|"My cousin,|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000057_000000.wav|"Yes."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000064_000000.wav|"He still lives."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000181_000000.wav|"And me, too!" said Aramis.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000124_000000.wav|Aramis, blushing in spite of himself, took the letter, which was in a large, coarse hand and not particular for its orthography.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000103_000000.wav|D'Artagnan looked at his friends, as if to say, "Well, what did I tell you?"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000153_000005.wav|At half past seven the retreat was sounded.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000169_000000.wav|Thank you; be easy.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000043_000000.wav|"And you will do right.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000166_000001.wav|He wished to hasten their steps; but Athos took his arm and passed it under his own, and the young man was forced to regulate his pace by that of his friend.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000146_000003.wav|Well, but we should be taken out of prison; Madame Bonacieux was released.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000083_000000.wav|"My dear cousin."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000112_000001.wav|We will not venture to say whether it was from terror created by the threats or from tenderness at seeing four friends so closely united.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000014_000000.wav|Everyone offered his own.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000094_000001.wav|My cousin knows nobody but Bazin, and places confidence in nobody but him; any other person would fail.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000155_000002.wav|Let us to bed!"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000013_000000.wav|In the evening, at the appointed hour, the four friends met.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000030_000000.wav|"Not at all," cried d'Artagnan, who was anxious the matter should be accomplished; "on the contrary, I think it very easy.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000121_000001.wav|Their days were passed in endeavoring to catch all that was said, in observing the proceeding of the cardinal, and in looking out for all the couriers who arrived.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000113_000000.wav|D'Artagnan took his hand.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000014_000003.wav|Aramis, confiding in the address of Bazin, made a pompous eulogium on his candidate.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000072_000003.wav|But as the lackey who goes may make us believe he has been to London and may stop at Chatellerault, let us give him only half the sum promised him, with the letter, with an agreement that he shall have the other half in exchange for the reply.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000081_000000.wav|"Oh, that's simple enough!" replied Athos.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000096_000002.wav|Will that do?"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000126_000000.wav|"What does you mean by boor Michon?" said the Swiss, who was chatting with the four friends when the letter came.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000025_000000.wav|"Speak lower, Aramis," said Athos.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000034_000000.wav|"Monsieur and dear friend-"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000054_000002.wav|What do you say-that she wanted to have her brother in law killed?"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000042_000001.wav|If the letter must be written under your censure, my faith, I renounce the task."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000045_000000.wav|"Well, so be it," said d'Artagnan.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000115_000001.wav|He gained just twelve hours by this engagement; he was to be back on the sixteenth day, by eight o'clock in the evening.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000032_000002.wav|I will write to him, then, nearly in these terms."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000026_000002.wav|no"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000144_000001.wav|He forgot the necessary slowness of navigation; he exaggerated to himself the power of Milady.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000047_000000.wav|"Lower!|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000054_000000.wav|"Bah!" cried Porthos.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000050_000000.wav|D'Artagnan and Athos looked at each other for some time in silence.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000133_000000.wav|"My sister and I are skillful in interpreting dreams, and even entertain great fear of them; but of yours it may be said, I hope, every dream is an illusion.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000160_000001.wav|He promised to be back by eight o'clock, and eight is striking.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000073_000000.wav|"I have what is still better.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000078_000000.wav|"But, gentlemen, in all this," said d'Artagnan, "we do not think of the queen.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000153_000000.wav|The day, however, passed away; and the evening came on slowly, but finally it came.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000005_000000.wav|Aramis had discovered the idea, the lackeys.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000140_000000.wav|"Neffer," replied the Swiss, enchanted that a man like Athos could envy him anything.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000027_000000.wav|"My faith," said d'Artagnan.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000041_000001.wav|Where your life was spared!|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000004_000000.wav|Athos had invented the phrase, family affair.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000058_000000.wav|"And her husband found out that she had a fleur de lis on her shoulder?" cried Porthos.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000084_000001.wav|"This clever person is your relative, then?"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000041_000000.wav|"My dear d'Artagnan, you will never make anything but a very bad secretary.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000139_000000.wav|"You are very fortunate," said Athos, rising; "I wish I could say as much!"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000155_000001.wav|"Come, gentlemen," said he, "they are beating the tattoo.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000029_000004.wav|we are not children.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000102_000000.wav|"You will give me a copy this evening, which I shall know by heart tomorrow."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000011_000000.wav|After breakfast, it was agreed that they should meet again in the evening at Athos's lodging, and there finish their plans.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000144_000004.wav|This anxiety became so great that it even extended to Aramis and Porthos.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000091_000000.wav|He folded the letter fancifully, and took up his pen and wrote:|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000144_000003.wav|Still further, his confidence in the worthy Picard, at one time so great, diminished day by day.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000029_000001.wav|"They will promise everything for the sake of the money, and on the road fear will prevent them from acting.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000003_000000.wav|forty eight A FAMILY AFFAIR|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000036_000000.wav|"Well, perhaps.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000033_000000.wav|"Let us see," said Athos, assuming in advance a critical look.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000060_000000.wav|These three yeses had been pronounced by Athos, each with a sadder intonation.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000004_000001.wav|A family affair was not subject to the investigation of the cardinal; a family affair concerned nobody.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000008_000000.wav|Ah! no, we were mistaken; he had discovered a purchaser for his diamond.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000086_000000.wav|"Go on, to your cousin, then!"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000036_000001.wav|I will say, then, Monsieur, quite short."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000015_000000.wav|These four virtues disputed the prize for a length of time, and gave birth to magnificent speeches which we do not repeat here for fear they should be deemed too long.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000056_000000.wav|"She was married?" asked Aramis.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000156_000002.wav|Aramis mumbled verses to himself, and Porthos from time to time pulled a hair or two from his mustache, in sign of despair.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000007_000000.wav|D'Artagnan alone had discovered nothing-he, ordinarily the most inventive of the four; but it must be also said that the very name of Milady paralyzed him.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000146_000000.wav|"Really," said Athos to them, "you are not men but children, to let a woman terrify you so!|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000089_000002.wav|There is nothing now to do but to put the address to this letter."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000072_000002.wav|Lord de Winter will now be upon his guard if the letter should reach him; and even if it should fall into the hands of the cardinal, we shall not be compromised.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000041_000005.wav|A benefit reproached is an offense committed."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000063_000000.wav|"And does the husband of this frightful creature still live?" said Aramis.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000121_000002.wav|More than once an involuntary trembling seized them when called upon for some unexpected service.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000116_000000.wav|In the morning, as he was mounting his horse, d'Artagnan, who felt at the bottom of his heart a partiality for the duke, took Planchet aside.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000144_000000.wav|But, as we have said, Bazin had not, by his fortunate return, removed more than a part of the uneasiness which weighed upon the four friends. The days of expectation are long, and d'Artagnan, in particular, would have wagered that the days were forty four hours.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000088_000003.wav|He would extinguish the sun if the sun incommoded him.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000031_000000.wav|"Speak lower!" said Athos.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000109_000000.wav|"Ah, monsieur!"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000035_000002.wav|Bravo, d'Artagnan!|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000055_000000.wav|"Yes."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000029_000007.wav|Really, I think the thing very difficult."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000077_000000.wav|"It appears so," said Athos, "since here they are.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000088_000002.wav|His Eminence is the most illustrious politician of times past, of times present, and probably of times to come.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000035_000001.wav|Dear friend to an Englishman," interrupted Athos; "well commenced!|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000004_000003.wav|Therefore Athos had invented the phrase, family affair.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000146_000004.wav|To be decapitated?|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000050_000001.wav|At length Athos, after serious reflection and becoming more pale than usual, made a sign of assent to d'Artagnan, who by it understood he was at liberty to speak.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000088_000007.wav|Be assured, then, of seeing me soon return."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000147_000000.wav|"But if he does not come?" said d'Artagnan.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000069_000002.wav|The chancellor himself would be puzzled how to write such a letter, and yet the chancellor draws up an official report very readily.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000043_000002.wav|That's his province."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000165_000000.wav|"That's well," said Athos, "let us go home and read it."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000177_000000.wav|"So be it," said d'Artagnan.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000018_000001.wav|"I know it well, so take Grimaud."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000111_000000.wav|"Ah, monsieur!"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000117_000001.wav|"When you have given the letter to Lord de Winter and he has read it, you will further say to him: Watch over his Grace Lord Buckingham, for they wish to assassinate him.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000094_000004.wav|You can understand that a man who has such views will never allow himself to be taken, or if taken, will undergo martyrdom rather than speak."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000093_000000.wav|The three friends looked at one another and laughed; they were caught.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000108_000000.wav|"And I," said Porthos, rolling his large eyes, "remember, I will skin you alive."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000069_000003.wav|Never mind!|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000072_000001.wav|"My dear Aramis, you have the pen of a secretary of state.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000174_000000.wav|"Well!" cried d'Artagnan, "tell us all about it."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000029_000006.wav|A passport for embarkation must be obtained; and the party must be acquainted with English in order to ask the way to London.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000022_000000.wav|"Gentlemen," said Aramis, "the principal question is not to know which of our four lackeys is the most discreet, the most strong, the most clever, or the most brave; the principal thing is to know which loves money the best."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000043_000001.wav|Handle the musket and the sword, my dear fellow. You will come off splendidly at those two exercises; but pass the pen over to Monsieur Abbe.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000106_000002.wav|But remember, also, that if by your fault any evil happens to d'Artagnan, I will find you, wherever you may be, for the purpose of ripping up your belly."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000017_000000.wav|"But where is such a lackey to be found?"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000137_000000.wav|"Well, pardieu!" said Aramis, "it was only this: I had a dream, and I related it to her."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000046_000000.wav|"I ask no better," said Aramis, with that ingenious air of confidence which every poet has in himself; "but let me be properly acquainted with the subject.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000085_000000.wav|"Cousin german."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000071_000003.wav|But the third time, which is the present, you may succumb. Your relative left La Rochelle for England during the night.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000069_000004.wav|Be silent, I will write."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000148_000003.wav|Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000121_000003.wav|They had, besides, to look constantly to their own proper safety; Milady was a phantom which, when it had once appeared to people, did not allow them to sleep very quietly.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000115_000000.wav|It was decided that Planchet should set out the next day, at eight o'clock in the morning, in order, as he had said, that he might during the night learn the letter by heart.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000073_000003.wav|As to Athos, he remained unmoved.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000062_000000.wav|"d'Artagnan and i Or rather, to observe the chronological order, I and d'Artagnan," replied Athos.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000170_000000.wav|d'Artagnan translated this for the others.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000101_000000.wav|"Well, but then you will not be able to fulfill your commission," said d'Artagnan.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000016_000000.wav|"Unfortunately," said Athos, "he whom we send must possess in himself alone the four qualities united."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000082_000000.wav|Aramis resumed his pen, reflected a little, and wrote the following lines, which he immediately submitted to the approbation of his friends.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000088_000006.wav|I cannot recollect whether it was by steel or by poison; only of this I am sure, I have dreamed he was dead, and you know my dreams never deceive me.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000067_000000.wav|There was a moment of cold silence, during which everyone was affected according to his nature.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000047_000001.wav|SACRE BLEU!" said Athos.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000032_000000.wav|"--of intrigues and secrets of state," continued d'Artagnan, complying with the recommendation.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000012_000000.wav|D'Artagnan passed the day in exhibiting his Musketeer's uniform in every street of the camp.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000029_000002.wav|Once taken, they will be pressed; when pressed, they will confess everything.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000026_000000.wav|"That's wise-not for the lackeys," resumed Aramis, "but for the master-for the masters, we may say.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000094_000002.wav|Besides, Bazin is ambitious and learned; Bazin has read history, gentlemen, he knows that Sixtus the Fifth became Pope after having kept pigs.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000140_000001.wav|"Neffer, neffer!"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000095_000005.wav|With that you may be satisfied he can make his way, both going and returning."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000030_000001.wav|It would be, no doubt, parbleu, if we write to Lord de Winter about affairs of vast importance, of the horrors of the cardinal-"|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000141_000000.wav|D'Artagnan, seeing Athos rise, did likewise, took his arm, and went out.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000073_000001.wav|I have the price;" and d'Artagnan threw the bag upon the table.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000046_000001.wav|I have heard here and there that this sister in law was a hussy.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000079_000000.wav|"That's true," said Athos; "but that concerns Aramis."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000094_000000.wav|"Now," said Aramis, "you will please to understand, gentlemen, that Bazin alone can carry this letter to Tours.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000072_000000.wav|"Well, now that will do wonderfully well," said Athos.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000071_000005.wav|If you require to know positively what she is capable of, read her past history on her left shoulder."|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000179_000000.wav|"And me, too!" said d'Artagnan.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/122467/126_122467_000089_000001.wav|You speak like the Apocalypse, and you are as true as the Gospel.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/125084/126_125084_000008_000002.wav|Aaron founded a settlement.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/126/125084/126_125084_000002_000003.wav|A thick cloak, gathered by a belt at the waist, enwraps the stalwart figure.|126
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000107_000001.wav|Then Ojo said "Krizzle Kroo!" and the Glass Cat said "Krizzle Kroo!"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000026_000002.wav|When they got to the top of the fence they began to get down on the other side and soon were in the forest.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000069_000000.wav|"I'll help you," exclaimed Scraps, coming to the boy's side.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000043_000000.wav|"Nothing at all.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000116_000000.wav|"All right; I'll promise," said the Woozy, cheerfully.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000020_000000.wav|"Let's go on and find some other Woozy," suggested the cat.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000058_000001.wav|Why, that's all I have-on my tail or anywhere else," exclaimed the beast.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000054_000000.wav|"Well, I must say I'm much obliged, and I'm glad you came," announced the beast.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000017_000000.wav|"That means," he said, "that there's a Woozy inside that fence, and the Woozy must be a dangerous animal or they wouldn't tell people to beware of it."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000115_000001.wav|You would get us all into trouble, and we can't afford to have any more trouble than is necessary.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000066_000000.wav|"What's the trouble?" asked the Woozy, which Ojo had dragged here and there all around the clearing in his endeavor to pull out the hair.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000082_000000.wav|"Come on, then," said the boy, picking up his basket; "let us start at once.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000063_000002.wav|"May I pull out the hairs now?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000110_000000.wav|In a few moments the board had burned to a distance of several feet, leaving an opening big enough for them all to pass through.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000080_000001.wav|"If I take the three hairs to the Magician, it won't matter if they are still in your body."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000025_000001.wav|How shall we get over the fence?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000013_000000.wav|"Please don't quarrel," begged Ojo.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000118_000001.wav|"No one could trust that Crooked Magician, for instance, just because he is crooked; but a square Woozy couldn't do anything crooked if he wanted to."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000053_000001.wav|"It's what I eat."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000005_000000.wav|"There seem to be very few houses around here, after all," remarked Ojo, after they had walked for a time in silence.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000072_000000.wav|"Give it up," advised the Glass Cat, as the boy arose and assisted the Patchwork Girl to her feet.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000023_000000.wav|"It would hurt him, I'm sure, and that would make him cross," said the cat.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000024_000000.wav|"You needn't worry, Bungle," remarked the Patchwork Girl; "for if there is danger you can climb a tree.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000104_000000.wav|"Terribly angry."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000117_000000.wav|"I don't see what difference that makes," observed the Patchwork Girl, as they found the path and continued their journey.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000021_000000.wav|"Perhaps there isn't any other, at all," answered Ojo.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000030_000001.wav|"Shall I throw in a stone, to waken him?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000106_000000.wav|"I don't know; that's what makes me so angry," replied the Woozy.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000050_000001.wav|"Any more?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000099_000002.wav|Then he could walk away with us easily, being free."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000040_000000.wav|"Why not?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000076_000001.wav|He was so disheartened that he sat down upon a stump and began to cry.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000098_000000.wav|"Of course, real fire.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000112_000000.wav|"So they will," declared the Woozy, chuckling gleefully.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000053_000000.wav|"I hope not," said Ojo.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000092_000002.wav|Nor can I gnaw away the boards, as I have no teeth."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000035_000003.wav|Nice place, isn't it?|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000108_000000.wav|"Aha!|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000030_000000.wav|"I guess the Woozy is asleep," said Scraps.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000074_000000.wav|"They're goners, I guess," said the Patchwork Girl.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000078_000001.wav|"Then, when at last you get to the Magician's house, he can surely find some way to pull out those three hairs."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000062_000001.wav|So you may have the three hairs, and welcome.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000083_000000.wav|But the Glass Cat gave a little laugh and inquired in her scornful way:|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000014_000002.wav|When the group of adventurers peered through the bars of the fence they thought this forest looked more gloomy and forbidding than any they had ever seen before.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000065_000002.wav|He pulled with all his might; but the hair remained fast.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000047_000001.wav|"Any more?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000013_000002.wav|To be brave, one must be cheerful, so I hope you will be as good tempered as possible."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000052_000000.wav|"That'll do," said the Woozy, at last; "I'm quite full.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000011_000000.wav|"I wouldn't!" retorted the cat.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000059_000000.wav|"I know; but I want them very much."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000056_000001.wav|"Name the favor and I will grant it."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000118_000000.wav|"Of course it does," returned the Woozy, very decidedly.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000016_000000.wav|"BEWARE OF THE WOOZY!"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000065_000000.wav|So Ojo went up to the queer creature and taking hold of one of the hairs began to pull.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000020_000002.wav|Maybe we shall find another that is tame and gentle."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000121_000000.wav|Scraps didn't understand this, but she had an uneasy misgiving that she had a cotton back herself.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000115_000002.wav|I'll feed you all the bread and cheese you want, and that must satisfy you."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000062_000000.wav|"I always keep my word, for I pride myself on being square.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000032_000001.wav|As this is the only Woozy that has ever lived, either in the Land of Oz or out of it, I must describe it to you.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000033_000004.wav|The tail was square and stubby and perfectly straight, and the four legs were made in the same way, each being four sided.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000086_000000.wav|"Let us go to the fence, and then we may find a way," suggested Scraps. So they walked through the forest to the fence, reaching it at a point exactly opposite that where they had entered the enclosure.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000107_000002.wav|The Woozy began to tremble with anger and small sparks darted from his eyes.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000080_000000.wav|"That's it!" he cried, wiping away the tears and springing to his feet with a smile.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000055_000000.wav|"Yes," said Ojo earnestly, "you have it in your power to do me a great favor, if you will."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000021_000001.wav|"The sign doesn't say: 'Beware a Woozy'; it says: 'Beware the Woozy,' which may mean there's only one in all the Land of Oz."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000087_000000.wav|"How did you get in?" asked the Woozy.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000081_000000.wav|"It can't matter in the least," agreed the Woozy.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000032_000000.wav|But he had not long to wait, for the Woozy heard the sound of voices and came trotting out of his cave.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000068_000000.wav|"I was afraid of that," declared the beast.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000108_000002.wav|It was a happy thought for you to yell all together, for that made me as angry as I have ever been. Fine sparks, weren't they?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000071_000000.wav|Ojo grasped the hair with both hands and pulled with all his strength, while Scraps seized the boy around his waist and added her strength to his.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000079_000000.wav|Ojo was overjoyed at this suggestion.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000028_000000.wav|So far they had met no living creature, but when Ojo saw the cave he knew it must be the den of the Woozy.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000107_000004.wav|Then it burst into flame, and the Woozy stepped back and said triumphantly:|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000070_000000.wav|"Wait a jiffy," called the Woozy, and then it went to a tree and hugged it with its front paws, so that its body couldn't be dragged around by the pull.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000063_000000.wav|"Thank you!|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000051_000000.wav|"Plenty," replied Ojo.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000073_000000.wav|"Then what shall I do?" asked the boy, despairingly.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000060_000001.wav|"If I give up those three hairs I-I'm just a blockhead."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000035_000004.wav|But lonesome-dreadfully lonesome."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000048_000000.wav|"Try some cheese," said Ojo, and threw down a piece.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000029_000002.wav|The opening was perfectly square, and about big enough to admit a goat.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000019_000001.wav|"The Magician wants me to get three hairs from the end of a Woozy's tail."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000006_000001.wav|Won't it be funny to run across something yellow in this dismal blue country?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000041_000000.wav|"My skin is so thick and tough that nothing can get through it to hurt me.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000096_000002.wav|Also, when I am angry, my eyes flash fire, whether I growl or not."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000014_000001.wav|It ran directly across the road and enclosed a small forest of tall trees, set close together.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000038_000000.wav|"Are you fond of eating honey bees?" inquired the boy.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000107_000003.wav|Seeing this, they all cried "Krizzle Kroo!" together, and that made the beast's eyes flash fire so fiercely that the fence board caught the sparks and began to smoke.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000026_000001.wav|Ojo followed and found it more easy than he had expected.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000100_000000.wav|"Ah, I have never thought of that plan, or I would have been free long ago," said the Woozy.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000006_000000.wav|"Never mind," said Scraps; "we are not looking for houses, but rather the road of yellow bricks.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000052_000001.wav|I hope the strange food won't give me indigestion."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000072_000002.wav|I believe they're clinched on the under side of the Woozy's thick skin."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000039_000002.wav|But the farmers did not like to lose their bees and so they tried to destroy me.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000105_000000.wav|"What does it mean?" asked Scraps.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000076_000000.wav|But Ojo did not feel that way.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000049_000000.wav|The Woozy ate that, too, and smacked its long, thin lips.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000099_000000.wav|"In that case, I've solved the riddle," cried Scraps, dancing with glee.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000089_000001.wav|"I'm a very swift runner, for I can overtake a honey bee as it flies; and I can jump very high, which is the reason they made such a tall fence to keep me in.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000029_000000.wav|It is hard to face any savage beast without a sinking of the heart, but still more terrifying is it to face an unknown beast, which you have never seen even a picture of.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000068_000001.wav|"You'll have to pull harder."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000013_000001.wav|"This is an important journey, and quarreling makes me discouraged.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000063_000001.wav|Thank you very much," cried the boy, joyfully.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000015_000000.wav|They soon discovered that the path they had been following now made a bend and passed around the enclosure, but what made Ojo stop and look thoughtful was a sign painted on the fence which read:|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000054_000001.wav|"Is there anything I can do in return for your kindness?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000102_000000.wav|"I'll try.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000070_000002.wav|Go ahead!"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000093_000000.wav|"You're not such a terrible creature, after all," remarked Scraps.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000019_000000.wav|"But one of our errands is to find a Woozy," Ojo explained.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000112_000001.wav|"When they find I'm gone the farmers will be badly scared, for they'll expect me to eat up their honey bees, as I did before."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000061_000001.wav|The beast listened with attention and when Ojo had finished the recital it said, with a sigh:|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000094_000001.wav|"When I growl, the sound echoes like thunder all through the valleys and woodlands, and children tremble with fear, and women cover their heads with their aprons, and big men run and hide.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000089_000002.wav|But I can't climb at all, and I'm too big to squeeze between the bars of the fence."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000060_000000.wav|"They are my sole ornaments, my prettiest feature," said the Woozy, uneasily.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000090_000000.wav|Ojo tried to think what to do.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000092_000001.wav|My feet are quite flat on the bottom of them.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000039_000001.wav|They are really delicious.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000047_000000.wav|"That's rather good," declared the animal.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000111_000000.wav|"We don't want to burn the whole fence down," said he, "for the flames would attract the attention of the Munchkin farmers, who would then come and capture the Woozy again.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000116_000001.wav|"And when I promise anything you can depend on it, 'cause I'm square."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000046_000000.wav|So the boy opened his basket and broke a piece off the loaf of bread. He tossed it toward the Woozy, who cleverly caught it in his mouth and ate it in a twinkling.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000097_000000.wav|"Real fire?" asked Ojo.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000072_000001.wav|"A dozen strong men couldn't pull out those hairs.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000071_000002.wav|Instead, it slipped out of Ojo's hands and he and Scraps both rolled upon the ground in a heap and never stopped until they bumped against the rocky cave.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000099_000001.wav|"Those fence boards are made of wood, and if the Woozy stands close to the fence and lets his eyes flash fire, they might set fire to the fence and burn it up.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000043_000001.wav|I've tried the leaves from the trees and the mosses and creeping vines, but they don't seem to suit my taste.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000092_000000.wav|"No," answered the Woozy, "for I have no claws.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000071_000001.wav|But the hair wouldn't budge.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000089_000000.wav|"I can't do that," said the beast.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000070_000001.wav|"All ready, now.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000095_000000.wav|"Please don't growl, then," begged Ojo, earnestly.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000050_000000.wav|"That's mighty good!" it exclaimed.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000035_000000.wav|"Well, well," he exclaimed; "what a queer lot you are!|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000088_000000.wav|"We climbed over," answered Ojo.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000111_000001.wav|I guess they'll be rather surprised when they find he's escaped."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000069_000001.wav|"You pull the hair, and I'll pull you, and together we ought to get it out easily."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000062_000002.wav|I think, under such circumstances, it would be selfish in me to refuse you."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000107_000000.wav|He then stood close to the fence, with his head near one of the boards, and Scraps called out "Krizzle Kroo!"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000057_000000.wav|"I-I want three hairs from the tip of your tail," said Ojo, with some hesitation.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000091_000000.wav|"Can you dig?" he asked.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000082_000001.wav|I have several other things to find, you know."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000044_000002.wav|Would you like that kind of food?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000051_000001.wav|So he sat down on a Stump and fed the Woozy bread and cheese for a long time; for, no matter how much the boy broke off, the loaf and the slice remained just as big.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000033_000006.wav|The beast was dark blue in color and his face was not fierce nor ferocious in expression, but rather good humored and droll.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000033_000005.wav|The animal was covered with a thick, smooth skin and had no hair at all except at the extreme end of its tail, where there grew exactly three stiff, stubby hairs.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000094_000000.wav|"You haven't heard me growl, or you wouldn't say that," declared the Woozy.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000027_000000.wav|Here there was no path of any sort, so they entered the woods, the boy leading the way, and wandered through the trees until they were nearly in the center of the forest.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000039_000003.wav|Of course they couldn't do that."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000004_000000.wav|They Meet the Woozy|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000024_000001.wav|Ojo and I are not afraid; are we, Ojo?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000120_000001.wav|"Do not blame me, Miss Gorgeous, if I regard you with suspicion. Many a satin ribbon has a cotton back."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000014_000000.wav|They had traveled some distance when suddenly they faced a high fence which barred any further progress straight ahead.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000003_000000.wav|Chapter Nine|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000033_000001.wav|Its head was an exact square, like one of the building blocks a child plays with; therefore it had no ears, but heard sounds through two openings in the upper corners.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000008_000000.wav|"Oh; do you mean the pink pebbles you call your brains, and your red heart and green eyes?" asked the Patchwork Girl.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000036_000000.wav|"Why did they shut you up here?" asked Scraps, who was regarding the queer, square creature with much curiosity.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000085_000000.wav|That puzzled them all for a time.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000034_000000.wav|Seeing the strangers, the Woozy folded his hind legs as if they had been hinged and sat down to look his visitors over.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000018_000001.wav|"That path is outside the fence, and mr Woozy may have all his little forest to himself, for all we care."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000031_000000.wav|"No; please don't," answered Ojo, his voice trembling a little.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000117_000001.wav|"The shape doesn't make a thing honest, does it?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000096_000000.wav|"There is no danger of my growling, for I am not angry.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000026_000003.wav|The Glass Cat, being small, crept between the lower bars and joined them.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000102_000001.wav|You just say 'Krizzle Kroo' to me."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000041_000002.wav|Unkind, wasn't it?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000119_000000.wav|"I am neither square nor crooked," said Scraps, looking down at her plump body.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000044_000001.wav|"I've got some bread and cheese in my basket.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000064_000000.wav|"Any time you like," answered the Woozy.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000103_000000.wav|"Will that make you angry?" inquired the boy.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000108_000001.wav|That did the business, all right.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000022_000000.wav|"Then," said Scraps, "suppose we go in and find him?|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000096_000001.wav|Only when angry do I utter my fearful, ear splitting, soul shuddering growl.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000042_000000.wav|"But what do you eat now?" asked Ojo.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000027_000001.wav|They now came upon a clear space in which stood a rocky cave.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000109_000000.wav|"Reg'lar fireworks," replied Scraps, admiringly.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000041_000001.wav|So, finding they could not destroy me, they drove me into this forest and built a fence around me.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000026_000000.wav|"Climb," answered Scraps, and at once she began climbing up the rows of bars.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000020_000001.wav|"This one is ugly and dangerous, or they wouldn't cage him up.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/1187/5054_1187_000100_000001.wav|"But I cannot flash fire from my eyes unless I am very angry."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000074_000000.wav|The man under him, thrown to the ground by the suddenness of Tom's leap on him, was wriggling and squirming with all the desperation of a trapped creature, when the individual with the flying footsteps hove in sight.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000016_000000.wav|"I don't like Paris." Tom let the words out before he thought.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000029_000001.wav|And Adela, who was to stay a day or two at the hotel with them before going back into her school, was very important, indeed.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000042_000000.wav|"We thought we'd come here first," said old mr King.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000030_000000.wav|"I do want to see the Venus de Milo," said Polly, quite gone with impatience.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000085_000000.wav|"No, no, Phronsie," said mr King, hastily.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000018_000000.wav|"And the parks and gardens, I suppose, are perfectly lovely," cried Polly, feeling as if she must get away from the bonnets and clothes.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000041_000001.wav|"Well, all right," she said, and turned off, to come directly into the path of Grandpapa, with Phronsie clinging to his hand, and the rest of his part of the "family" standing in silent admiration.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000052_000001.wav|And then they all got out of the carriages, and walked about among the beautiful trees, and on the winding, sheltered paths.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000026_000000.wav|"And you can't go there too often, Polly," said Jasper.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000072_000000.wav|"I'll have you yet!" said Tom, through set teeth; "I haven't trained at school for nothing!"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000007_000000.wav|"Like it?" repeated her mother.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000009_000002.wav|For you do need that, and your father and I are going to give it to you."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000052_000000.wav|And when they tired of driving, old mr King gave orders for the drivers to rest their horses.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000087_000000.wav|"Oh, my goodness!" exclaimed old mr King, starting backward and putting up his hands to his face to shut out the sight.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000035_000001.wav|"Come, I'm for the Venus de Milo.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000068_000002.wav|Polly flew to Phronsie, who was clinging to Grandpapa's hand, and wailing bitterly.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000042_000002.wav|The Venus de Milo is quite enough for me. To morrow, now, we'll drop in again, and look at some of the pictures."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000002_000000.wav|Notwithstanding all the glory of the shops, and the tempting array of the jewellery and trinkets of every description therein displayed, after a few days of sailing on the exquisite lake, and some walks and drives, Polly, down deep in her heart, was quite ready to move on from Geneva.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000081_000001.wav|"I should say so," he added drily, "and give him the best recommendation for a long term, too.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000076_000001.wav|Unkempt and unwashed, his long, black hair hung around a face sallow in the extreme.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000022_000001.wav|"Of something besides clothes and bonnets," he broke out.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000028_000000.wav|"We'll go there the first day, Polly," said Jasper, "the Louvre, I mean.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000080_000000.wav|"Can't help it," said Tom.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000079_000000.wav|"Don't, Tom," said Jasper, "joke about it."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000063_000000.wav|"Yes, Phronsie," Grandpapa was saying, as the young people had left them, and the others had wandered off to enjoy the quiet, shady paths, "this place was the old Foret de Rouvray.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000082_000000.wav|"Grandpapa," suddenly cried Phronsie, who hadn't taken her eyes from the man's face, "what are you going to do-where is he going?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000073_000001.wav|And realising, if he caught the man at all, he must do one of his sprints, he covered the ground by a series of flying leaps,--dashed in where he saw his prey rush; one more leap with all his might, and-"I have you!" cried Tom.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000011_000000.wav|"Well, we shall give it to you," said Mother Fisher.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000085_000001.wav|"Say no more, child; you don't understand.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000010_000000.wav|"Oh, Mamsie," protested Polly, "I don't need it; really, I don't."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000069_000000.wav|"My pocket book," said Grandpapa; "some fellow has seized it, and frightened this poor child almost to death." He seemed to care a great deal more about that than any loss of the money.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000034_000000.wav|"It's the early French school, you know," she brought up glibly.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000046_000000.wav|"I don't care about the features," said the lady, "it's the expression; the child hasn't a thought of herself, and that's wonderful to begin with."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000009_000001.wav|"Well, now, Polly," she said, decidedly, "I shall go down and get that chain we were looking at.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000025_000000.wav|"I should think it would be," cried Polly, beaming at her, and answering the first part of Adela's sentence.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000087_000002.wav|Why, the fellow is starving."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000060_000000.wav|Just then a child screamed.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000063_000002.wav|And now let us go and find a seat, child, and I'll show you one or two little pictures I picked up in the shop this morning; and you can send them in your next letter, to joel and David, if you like."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000013_000000.wav|When they neared Paris, Adela drew herself up in her corner of the compartment.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000032_000000.wav|"Are they?" said poor Polly, listlessly.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000063_000001.wav|It wasn't a very pretty place to come to in those days, what with the robbers and other bad people who infested it.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000017_000000.wav|"That's just because you are a boy," sniffed Adela.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000019_000000.wav|"Yes, and the Bois de Boulogne to drive in, that's elegant.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000024_000000.wav|"Yes," said Adela, "that's best of all, and it doesn't cost anything; so Mademoiselle takes us there very often."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000014_000000.wav|"I've been staring all the time since we started on our journey, Adela, as hard as I could," said Polly, laughing.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000081_000000.wav|"Turn him over?" repeated mr King.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000083_000001.wav|"And as soon as possible, too."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000004_000000.wav|"Why, Polly, you haven't anything for yourself," Mother Fisher exclaimed, as Polly ran into her room and told the news-how Grandpapa said they were to pack up and leave in the morning.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000073_000000.wav|A thud of fast flying feet in his rear didn't divert him an instant from his game, although it might be a rescue party for the thief, in the shape of a partner,--who could tell?|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000053_000000.wav|"It's perfectly lovely off there," said Polly, "and almost like the country," with a longing glance off into the green, cool shade beyond. So they strolled off there, separating into little groups; Polly and Jasper in front, and wishing for nothing so much as a race.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000061_000000.wav|"Oh, no, Polly," Jasper tried to reassure her, as he ran after her. They were having their race, after all, but in a different way from what they had planned.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000033_000000.wav|"Yes, they are," said Adela, twitching her sleeve, "and Mademoiselle brings us in this room every single time we come to the Louvre."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000062_000002.wav|As that was impossible, she gave a hasty glance around the shrubbery, and seeing no one to notice her, she broke out into a lively run.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000028_000002.wav|And it wasn't until Polly was driving up in the big cab with her part of mr King's "family," as he called it, through the broad avenues and boulevards, interspersed with occasional squares and gardens, and the beautiful bridges here and there across the Seine, gleaming in the sunshine, that she could realise that they were actually in Paris.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000040_000000.wav|"Well, it's much better to see the pictures," said Adela.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000068_000003.wav|"What is it?|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000087_000001.wav|"Cover it up, man-bless me-no need to ask him a question.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000040_000001.wav|"And then we can come here again to morrow."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000021_000000.wav|"Oh, those don't go into the Bois de Boulogne," cried Adela, in a tone of horror.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000075_000000.wav|When the thief saw him, he looked to see if any more were coming, and resigned himself at once and closed his eyes instinctively.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000042_000001.wav|"I don't mean to see anything else to day.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000031_000000.wav|"Well, that old statue will wait, too," cried Adela, pulling her off into another gallery.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000043_000001.wav|Just look at that child's face, Edward."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000005_000002.wav|Mamsie, isn't this pin for Alexia just too lovely for anything?"|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000015_000001.wav|"There isn't anything in all this world that isn't in Paris," she brought up, not very elegantly.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000006_000000.wav|She curled up on the end of the bed, and drew it out of its little box. "I think she'll like it," with anxious eyes on Mother Fisher's face.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000090_000000.wav|"Hum-hum-very bad case; very bad case, indeed!" mr King was exploding at intervals, while the torrent was rushing on in execrable French as far as accent went.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000048_000000.wav|"Let us walk slowly down the corridor again," said Evelyn, "and then come up; otherwise we shall attract attention to be standing here and gazing at them."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000074_000004.wav|His hat was gone, and his toes scarcely seemed to touch the ground.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000015_000000.wav|"Well, you'll stare worse than ever now," said Adela, in an important way.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000031_000001.wav|"Now, Polly, Mademoiselle says, in point of art, the pictures in here are quite important."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000022_000000.wav|This nettled Tom.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000023_000000.wav|"Well, there's the Louvre," said Polly, after an uncomfortable little pause.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000074_000002.wav|And they had just persuaded the robber that it would be useless to struggle longer against his fate, when the parson, running as he hadn't run for years, appeared to their view.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000017_000004.wav|You never saw such bonnets, Polly Pepper, in all your life!" She lifted her hands, unable to find words enough.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000029_000000.wav|And the next day they did go to the Louvre.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000049_000000.wav|"And I'd like to see that little beauty again," remarked Edward, "I'll confess, Evelyn."|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000036_000001.wav|"Why, she's smiling at us," as the afternoon sunshine streamed across the lovely face, to lose itself in the folds of the crimson curtain in the background.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000071_000000.wav|Tom saw the fellow slink with the manner of one who knew the ins and outs of the place well,--now gliding, and ducking low in the sparser growth, now making a bold run around some exposed curve, now dashing into a dense part of the wood.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000003_000001.wav|"I have the presents for the girls.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000008_000000.wav|"I think so too," said Polly, happily, replacing it on the bed of cotton, and putting on the cover to look over another gift.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5054/18527/5054_18527_000074_000003.wav|And after him, at such a gait that would have been his fortune, in a professional way, was the little doctor.|5054
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000011_000001.wav|Knowledge of these processes will also enable us to comprehend more thoroughly the dangers to which woman is exposed by our antiquated laws, and how much better it would be for her to employ such preventive measures as would keep her out of the hands of the abortionist, into which the laws now drive her.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000009_000003.wav|Shall normal, safe, effective contraceptives be employed, or shall we continue to force women to the abnormal, often dangerous surgical operation?|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000013_000004.wav|It occurs about once a month or every twenty eight days.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000029_000000.wav|Try as they will they cannot escape the truth, nor hide it under the cloak of stupid hypocrisy.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000008_000003.wav|The abortionist could not continue his practice for twenty four hours if it were not for the fact that women come desperately begging for such operations.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000032_000003.wav|The one means health and happiness-a stronger, better race.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000016_000002.wav|The means used is known as a contraceptive.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000014_000002.wav|In the semen is the life giving principle called the sperm.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000033_000002.wav|These conditions-not the woman-outface society with this question:|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000004_000002.wav|Nevertheless, so strong is their purpose that they do obtain it and use it, correctly or incorrectly.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000030_000000.wav|"He who would combat abortion," says dr Hirsch, "and at the same time combat contraceptive measures may be likened to the person who would fight contagious diseases and forbid disinfection.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000028_000001.wav|The suffering and the death of these women is squarely upon the heads of the lawmakers and the puritanical, masculine minded person who insist upon retaining the abominable legal restrictions.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000015_000000.wav|When intercourse takes place, if no preventive is employed, the semen is deposited in the woman's vagina.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000006_000000.wav|"Our examinations," says dr Max Hirsch, an authority on the subject, "have informed us that the largest number of abortions (in the United States) are performed on married women.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000027_000001.wav|We know that the woman's own system feels the strain of these drugs and that the embryo is usually poisoned by them.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000007_000000.wav|Thus a high percentage of women in comfortable circumstances escape overbreeding by the use of contraceptives.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000018_000001.wav|An abortion is as important a matter as a confinement and requires as much attention as the birth of a child at its full term.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER ten|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000033_000001.wav|These conditions give her the choice between the surgeon's instruments and the sacrificing of what is highest and holiest in her-her aspiration to freedom, her desire to protect the children already hers.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000027_000000.wav|There are no statistics, of course, by which we may compute the amount of suffering to mother and child from the use of such drugs, but we know that the total of physical weakness and disease must be astounding.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000009_000002.wav|The question that society must answer is this: Shall family limitation be achieved through birth control or abortion?|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000015_000004.wav|This process is called fertilization, conception or impregnation.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000032_000000.wav|There is the case in a nutshell.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000023_000000.wav|If death does not result, the woman who has undergone an abortion is not altogether safe from harm.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000022_000002.wav|It is these, too, who are most often forced to resort to such operations.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000013_000003.wav|This is called the menstrual period.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000004_000000.wav|Most of the women of the middle and upper classes in America seem secure in their knowledge of contraceptives as a means of birth control.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000016_000001.wav|When scientific means are employed to prevent this meeting, one is said to practice birth control.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000013_000002.wav|If fertilization takes place, the fertilized ovule or ovum will cling to the lining of the womb and there gather its nourishment. If fertilization does not take place, the ovum passes out of the body and the uterus throws off its surplus blood supply.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000032_000001.wav|Family limitation will always be practiced as it is now being practiced-either by birth control or by abortion.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000006_000001.wav|This fact brings us to the conclusion that contraceptive measures among the upper classes and the practice of abortion among the lower class, are the real means employed to regulate the number of offspring."|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000007_000002.wav|When accidental conception takes place, some women of both classes resort to abortion if they can obtain the services of an abortionist.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000032_000002.wav|We know that.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000012_000001.wav|They are in every female at birth, and as the girl develops into womanhood, these ovules develop also.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000031_000001.wav|It follows, therefore, that America stands at the head of all nations in the huge number of abortions."|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000005_000001.wav|Being given their choice by society-to continue to be overburdened mothers or to submit to a humiliating, repulsive, painful and too often gravely dangerous operation, those women in whom the feminine urge to freedom is strongest choose the abortionist.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95870/4731_95870_000008_000000.wav|When society holds up its hands in horror at the "crime" of abortion, it forgets at whose door the first and principal responsibility for this practice rests.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000013_000004.wav|I have often wished that I lived where I knew I never could see you, for then I would not have my hopes raised, and to be disappointed in this manner; however, it is said that a bad beginning makes a good ending, but I hardly expect to see that happy day at this place.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000006_000000.wav|"Go away," he gruffly answered, "do not bother me."|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000009_000004.wav|The child of which he was the father was the only child that I ever brought into the world.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000002_000008.wav|The salary was small, and we still had to practise the closest economy.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000002_000006.wav|The years passed slowly, and I continued to serve them, and at the same time grew into strong, healthy womanhood.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000011_000000.wav|"HILLSBORO', april tenth eighteen thirty eight.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000005_000006.wav|Oh God!|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000004_000001.wav|I drew myself up proudly, firmly, and said: "No, mr Bingham, I shall not take down my dress before you.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000010_000001.wav|In this connection I desire to state that Rev.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000005_000005.wav|It cut the skin, raised great welts, and the warm blood trickled down my back.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000013_000006.wav|Tell Aunt Bella that I was very much obliged to her for her present; I have been so particular with it that I have only worn it once.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000005_000000.wav|My words seemed to exasperate him.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000007_000000.wav|I would not be put off thus.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000005_000003.wav|Then he picked up a rawhide, and began to ply it freely over my shoulders.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000013_000002.wav|I really believe you and all the family have forgotten me, if not I certainly should have heard from some of you since you left Boyton, if it was only a line; nevertheless I love you all very dearly, and shall, although I may never see you again, nor do I ever expect to.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000013_000005.wav|Give my love to all the family, both white and black. I was very much obliged to you for the presents you sent me last summer, though it is quite late in the day to be thanking for them.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000005_000001.wav|He seized a rope, caught me roughly, and tried to tie me.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000008_000003.wav|No, I could not sleep, for I was suffering mental as well as bodily torture.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/58193/4731_58193_000008_000027.wav|These revolting scenes created a great sensation at the time, were the talk of the town and neighborhood, and I flatter myself that the actions of those who had conspired against me were not viewed in a light to reflect much credit upon them.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000017_000003.wav|The darkness that surrounded the whole field of sex was made as complete as possible.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000014_000001.wav|His body has been entombed but the evil that he did lives after him.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000025_000003.wav|They will do it at once unless, like men, they use the ballot for those political honors which many years of experience have taught men to be hollow.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000010_000000.wav|It is the dead hand that holds imprisoned within the obscenity laws all direct information concerning birth control.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000015_000003.wav|Usually the prosecutor who presents the case against a birth control advocate, trapped by a detective hired by the Comstock Society, has no children at all or a small family.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000006_000001.wav|It had for its object the right to hold such political beliefs as one might choose, and to act in accordance with those beliefs.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000026_000002.wav|Man has not protected woman in matters most vital to her-but she is awaking and will sooner or later realize this and assert herself.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000019_000000.wav|Those who believe in strictly legal measures, as well as those who believe both in legal measures and in open defiance of these brutal and unjust laws, are demanding amendments to the obscenity statutes, which shall remove information concerning contraceptives from its present classification among things filthy and obscene.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000013_000003.wav|None of these acts made it an offense to prevent conception-all of them provided punishment for anyone disseminating information concerning the prevention of conception.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000014_000006.wav|Each year this hand reaches out to compel the birth of hundreds of thousands of infants who must die before they are twelve months old.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000022_000000.wav|This proposed amendment should without doubt include midwives as well as nurses.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000012_000003.wav|This act made it a crime to use the mails to convey contraceptives or information concerning contraceptives.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000018_000001.wav|The rapidity with which women are going into industry, the increasing hardship and poverty of the lower strata of society, the arousing of public conscience, have all operated to give force and volume to the demand for woman's right to control her own body that she may work out her own salvation.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000009_000002.wav|It is the hand of such as have lived on earth but have not loved humanity.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER fifteen|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000016_000002.wav|They break the first law of nature, which is that of self preservation.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000009_000001.wav|This hand of the past reaches up into the present to smother the rising flame of modern ideals, to reforge our chains when we have broken them, to arrest progress.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000015_000004.wav|The family of the judge who passes upon the case is likely to be smaller still.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000009_000003.wav|At the call of those who fear progress and freedom, it rises from the gloom of forgotten things to oppress the living.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000013_000001.wav|Meanwhile, the provisions regarding contraceptives had been dropped from the amended New York State law of eighteen seventy two.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000016_000001.wav|Millions of them know nothing of reliable contraceptives. When women of the impoverished strata of society do not break these laws against contraceptives, they violate those laws of their inner beings which tell them not to bring children into the world to live in want, disease and general misery.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000011_000002.wav|The act made it exactly as great an offense to give such information as to exhibit the sort of pictures and writings at which the legislation was ostensibly aimed.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000026_000000.wav|It is only a question of how long it will take women to make up their minds to this result.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000005_000001.wav|In the birth control movement, she has already begun to fight for her right to have, without legal interference, all knowledge pertaining to her sex nature.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000015_000002.wav|They limit their families to one, two or three well cared for children.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000011_000001.wav|In that year, however, the General Assembly of New York passed an act which specifically included the subject of contraceptives.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000003_000002.wav|Laws are seldom exactly what they seem, rarely what their advocates claim for them.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000009_000000.wav|The French have a saying concerning "mort main"--the dead hand.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000022_000003.wav|It does exist, however, and was specifically declared by the New York State Court of Appeals, as we shall see when we consider that court's opinion in the Sanger case, farther on in the book.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000013_000002.wav|In eighteen seventy three, however, a new section, said to have been drafted by Comstock himself, was substituted for the one enacted in eighteen seventy two, and that section is essentially the substance of the present law.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000015_000000.wav|Like many laws upon our statute books, these are being persistently and intelligently violated.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000003_000001.wav|This will be no easy undertaking; it is usually much easier to enact statutes than to revise them.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000002_000000.wav|LEGISLATING WOMAN'S MORALS|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000005_000000.wav|Woman, bent upon her freedom and seeking to make a better world, will not permit the indecent and unclean forces of reaction to mask themselves forever behind the plea that it is necessary to keep her in ignorance to preserve her purity.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000010_000001.wav|It is the dead hand that thus compels millions of American women to remain in the bondage of maternity.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000008_000001.wav|If the obscenity laws are not radically revised or repealed, few reactionaries will dare to face the public derision that will greet their attempts to use them to stay woman's progress.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000015_000005.wav|The words "It is the law" sums it all up for these officials when they pass sentence in court.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/4731/95875/4731_95875_000006_000000.wav|The first and most dramatic of the three great struggles for liberty reached its apex, as we know, in the American Revolution.|4731
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/132776/1052_132776_000007_000001.wav|The whole plan was opened to him; and he approved of it. But in a few days he began to be unquiet.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/132776/1052_132776_000005_000001.wav|Sidney sounded Halifax. Shrewsbury took his part with a courage and decision which, at a later period, seemed to be wanting to his character.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/132776/1052_132776_000006_000002.wav|The brow, the eye, and the mouth of Halifax indicated a powerful intellect and an exquisite sense of the ludicrous; but the expression was that of a sceptic, of a voluptuary, of a man not likely to venture his all on a single hazard, or to be a martyr in any cause.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/132776/1052_132776_000006_000007.wav|He had passed years in a prison.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/132776/1052_132776_000000_000000.wav|The Whigs saw that their time was come.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000071_000000.wav|"What council?"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000045_000000.wav|The Council?|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000012_000000.wav|"Was it a social trouble-that-in the great roadway place?|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000004_000001.wav|He stopped abruptly.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000008_000005.wav|Your counting, I understand, is different."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000076_000000.wav|"That is better," said Howard.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000076_000005.wav|I am sorry."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000002_000002.wav|He was still detached, an astonished spectator, still but half involved in life.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000065_000001.wav|Begin.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000029_000000.wav|As they crossed the gallery he heard a whisper from below, "The Sleeper," and was aware of a turning of heads, a hum of observation.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000037_000000.wav|"Whose orders?"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000015_000000.wav|"About fourteen."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000078_000002.wav|There was an inkling of some vast inheritance already in his mind-a vast inheritance perhaps misapplied-of some unprecedented importance and opportunity. What had he to do?|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000073_000000.wav|Graham made a petulant movement.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000025_000000.wav|"I want to see more of that," cried Graham, resisting.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000003_000000.wav|"We have our troubles," said Howard.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000017_000002.wav|To tell you the truth, I don't understand it myself very clearly.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000036_000000.wav|"Orders, Sire."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000073_000001.wav|"This is not right," he said.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000064_000000.wav|"Precisely."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000078_000003.wav|And this room's secluded silence was eloquent of imprisonment!|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000019_000005.wav|This Howard, it seemed, was a person of importance.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000070_000002.wav|Your awakening-no one expected your awakening.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000052_000000.wav|He stopped.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000044_000000.wav|"Oh!" said Graham, and after an equally ineffectual attempt at the other man, went to the railing and stared at the distant men in white, who stood watching him and whispering together.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000059_000001.wav|"This is strange!" he said.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000004_000000.wav|He spoke jerkily, like a man not quite sure of his breathing.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000045_000004.wav|And why should he be brought to them, and be looked at strangely and spoken of inaudibly? Howard appeared beneath, walking quickly across the polished floor towards them.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000006_000000.wav|"It will be clearer later," said Howard.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000081_000003.wav|For a moment he did not perceive this was himself.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000053_000000.wav|"Yes?" said Graham.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000003_000002.wav|And, in fact, your appearance, your waking just now, has a sort of connexion-"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000073_000002.wav|"I should be told what is happening."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000062_000000.wav|"But you must be kept here-"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000076_000004.wav|While I attend the discussion in the Council....|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000051_000000.wav|"You must understand," began Howard abruptly, avoiding Graham's eyes, "that our social order is very complex.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000055_000000.wav|"Yes?"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000057_000000.wav|"Keep me prisoner!" exclaimed Graham.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000038_000000.wav|"Our orders, Sire."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000058_000000.wav|"Well-to ask you to keep in seclusion."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000014_000000.wav|"Several?"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000060_000000.wav|"No harm will be done you."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000076_000003.wav|For a space.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000048_000001.wav|The two men in red stopped on either side of this door.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000039_000000.wav|Graham looked his exasperation.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000017_000004.wav|You will, perhaps-bye and bye.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000061_000000.wav|"No harm!"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000072_000000.wav|"The Council you saw."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000002_000007.wav|What is the danger?"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000008_000003.wav|Anything.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000074_000000.wav|"You must wait.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000074_000001.wav|Really you must wait."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000005_000000.wav|"I don't understand," said Graham.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000056_000000.wav|"Things have come to such a pass that, in fact, it is advisable to seclude you here."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000031_000001.wav|Then he stopped.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000013_000000.wav|"Several," said Howard.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000017_000000.wav|"Very probably not.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000067_000000.wav|"Why not?"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139307/1052_139307_000021_000002.wav|He asked Howard to slacken his speed.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000054_000000.wav|"What do you mean by company?"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000025_000001.wav|"This new world," he said.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000042_000002.wav|Is that it?"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000056_000000.wav|Graham stopped dead.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000022_000001.wav|But here was no Utopia, no Socialistic state.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000047_000004.wav|Is there any sort of company?"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000039_000000.wav|"You were never expected to act at all.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000061_000007.wav|There is a city, a multitude-.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000007_000002.wav|But this thing before him was not a book as he understood it.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000067_000005.wav|He clung to his anger-because he was afraid of fear.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000036_000000.wav|"Am I a fool?"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000037_000000.wav|"Certainly not."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000049_000000.wav|"Yes," said Graham thoughtfully.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000055_000004.wav|We think it no scandal.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000052_000000.wav|"That," said Howard, "I am afraid-But-"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000019_000006.wav|Something snapped.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000044_000007.wav|I am a man come back to life.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000039_000005.wav|And-but it is too complex.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000044_000002.wav|It will be ill.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000064_000001.wav|He stopped.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000039_000006.wav|We dare not suddenly---while you are still half awake."|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000017_000005.wav|The music was unfamiliar.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000048_000000.wav|He paused meaningly.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000041_000000.wav|Howard pulled his lip.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000024_000000.wav|He began to talk to himself.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000014_000003.wav|And they had spoken of the Sleeper; it had not really struck him vividly at the time that he was the Sleeper.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000033_000000.wav|"It is not that.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000024_000012.wav|"Steady!"|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000057_000000.wav|"It would pass the time," said Howard.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000044_000003.wav|I am alive.|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1052/139308/1052_139308_000070_000001.wav|But what do they want?|1052
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000013_000003.wav|That me repenteth, said Tristram, for of all knights I loved to be in his fellowship.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000004.wav|Then the lady prayed the fishers to bring him to her place.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000012.wav|What are ye, said Sir Lamorak, that knoweth me?|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000002_000003.wav|So the knight went his way unto King Mark, and brought him that rich horn, and said that Sir Lamorak sent it him, and thereto he told him the virtue of that horn.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000007_000009.wav|And then when Sir Tristram came toward the old manor he found the track of many horses, and thereby he wist his lady was gone.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000002.wav|Then Gouvernail went to the king and said: Sir, I counsel you to desire my lord, Sir Tristram, as in your need to help you.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000006.wav|Then Sir Tristram issued out of the town with such fellowship as he might make, and did such deeds that all Brittany spake of him.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000015_000004.wav|That forthinketh me, said Sir Lamorak, for that knight's death, for he was my cousin; and if I were at mine ease as well as ever I was, I would revenge his death.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000013.wav|I am Sir Tristram de Liones.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000007_000005.wav|So the good knight bade his men go from him: For at this time I may not help you.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000014.wav|Ah, sir, remember ye not of the fall ye did give me once, and after ye refused me to fight on foot.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000005_000001.wav|So then Sir Tristram gat the chapel and kept it mightily.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000003.wav|I will do by your counsel, said the king.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000007_000000.wav|SO when they were departed, Gouvernail, and Sir Lambegus, and Sir Sentraille de Lushon, that were Sir Tristram's men, sought their master. When they heard he was escaped then they were passing glad; and on the rocks they found him, and with towels they pulled him up.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000007.wav|I will well, said Sir Lamorak, that ye have seen me and met with me.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000013_000001.wav|Then said Sir Tristram: Heard ye anything of me?|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000018.wav|Therefore, said Sir Tristram, ye shall leave all your malice, and so will I, and let us assay how we may win worship between you and me upon this giant Sir Nabon le Noire that is lord of this island, to destroy him.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000015_000002.wav|And these fishers told Sir Lamorak all the guise of Sir Nabon; how there came never knight of King Arthur's but he destroyed him.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000007.wav|And then, at the last, by great might and force, he slew the Earl Grip with his own hands, and more than an hundred knights he slew that day.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000003_000001.wav|For that horn did never good, but caused strife and debate, and always in her days she had been an enemy to all true lovers.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000005.wav|So on the morrow they brought him thither in a fisher's raiment; and as soon as Sir Tristram saw him he smiled upon him and knew him well, but he knew not Sir Tristram.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000013_000004.wav|So Sir Tristram made great moan and was ashamed that noble knights should defame him for the sake of his lady.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000004_000007.wav|No! said Sir Andred, and therewith he drew his sword, and would have slain him.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000002.wav|We wot not, said the fishers, but he keepeth it no counsel but that he is a knight of King Arthur's, and by the mighty lord of this isle he setteth nought.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000016.wav|Well, said he, an it were to do again, so would I do, for I had liefer strife and debate fell in King Mark's court rather than Arthur's court, for the honour of both courts be not alike.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000017_000002.wav|And then either saluted other.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000003_000003.wav|Also Sir Tristram was passing wroth that Sir Lamorak sent that horn unto King Mark, for well he knew that it was done in the despite of him.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty four.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000003_000004.wav|And therefore he thought to quite Sir Lamorak.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000011_000004.wav|And then he took such a thought suddenly that he was all dismayed, and other cheer made he none but with clipping and kissing; as for other fleshly lusts Sir Tristram never thought nor had ado with her: such mention maketh the French book; also it maketh mention that the lady weened there had been no pleasure but kissing and clipping.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000008_000003.wav|And when King Howel wist that it was Sir Tristram he was full glad of him.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000003_000002.wav|So there were many knights made their avow, an ever they met with Morgan le Fay, that they would show her short courtesy.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000002_000004.wav|Then the king made Queen Isoud to drink thereof, and an hundred ladies, and there were but four ladies of all those that drank clean.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000009.wav|Then King Howel embraced him in his arms, and said: Sir Tristram, all my kingdom I will resign to thee. God defend, said Sir Tristram, for I am beholden unto you for your daughter's sake to do for you.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000001.wav|What is his name? said Sir Tristram.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000002_000005.wav|Alas, said King Mark, this is a great despite, and sware a great oath that she should be burnt and the other ladies.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000017_000004.wav|And then Sir Segwarides brought Sir Tristram to a lady thereby that was born in Cornwall, and she told him all the perils of that valley, and how there came never knight there but he were taken prisoner or slain.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000007_000010.wav|And then Sir Tristram took great sorrow, and endured with great pain long time, for the arrow that he was hurt withal was envenomed.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000008.wav|And then Sir Tristram was received worshipfully with procession.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000004_000005.wav|Fie upon thee, said Sir Andred, false traitor that thou art, with thine avaunting; for all thy boast thou shalt die this day.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000007_000006.wav|So they departed all save Gouvernail.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000005_000003.wav|When Sir Tristram saw the people draw unto him, he remembered he was naked, and sperd fast the chapel door, and brake the bars of a window, and so he leapt out and fell upon the crags in the sea.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000008_000002.wav|Then Sir Tristram and Gouvernail gat them shipping, and so sailed into Brittany.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000000.wav|Then one told him there was a knight of King Arthur's that was wrecked on the rocks.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000004_000003.wav|And then by the assent of King Mark, and of Sir Andred, and of some of the barons, Sir Tristram was led unto a chapel that stood upon the sea rocks, there for to take his judgment: and so he was led bounden with forty knights.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000011_000002.wav|And at the last they were wedded, and solemnly held their marriage.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000007_000002.wav|Sir, said Gouvernail, she is put in a lazar cote.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000006.wav|Fair sir, said Sir Tristram, meseemeth by your cheer ye have been diseased but late, and also methinketh I should know you heretofore.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000018_000010.wav|Well, said Sir Lamorak, since ye have said so largely unto me, my name is Sir Lamorak de Galis, son unto King Pellinore.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000010_000005.wav|Sir, said Sir Tristram, I will go to the field and do what I may.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/137618/1789_137618_000013_000007.wav|But in the end, Queen Guenever said, it shall be thus, that he shall hate her, and love you better than ever he did to fore.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000058_000002.wav|It wasn't as if Cutty was asking her to be his wife; he wasn't.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000058_000008.wav|The ancient female fear of the trap?|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000057_000000.wav|Six days, and her problem was still unsolved.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000003.wav|Truth is, Kitty, you'd better dress in monotones.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000009.wav|It mighta killed him.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000055_000000.wav|Fifty two.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000039_000006.wav|Step lively."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000005_000000.wav|"What's the matter?"|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000013_000004.wav|So she will be quite as interested in you as you are in her.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000051_000003.wav|But they detained him in Washington overtime because he was a fount of information the departments found it necessary to draw upon constantly.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000008.wav|A crack on the conk.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000044_000000.wav|"Bed?"|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000055_000001.wav|Never before had he thought old.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000034_000000.wav|"Every day but Sunday."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000058_000009.wav|That could not be it.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000051_000006.wav|What they wanted to know was an American's point of view, based upon long and intimate associations.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000004.wav|I can get a fast roadster and run you out in a couple of hours.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000036_000000.wav|About the same time in Cutty's apartment rather an amusing comedy took place.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000011_000001.wav|You're an actress, but the Big Dramatist writes your business for you.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000015_000000.wav|Burlingame jerked his thumb toward a photograph on the wall.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000040_000000.wav|"But," began Miss Frances in protest.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000013_000007.wav|Stay as long as she wants you to."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000006_000001.wav|A Knight of the Round Table, a prince of chivalry.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000004_000001.wav|In newspaper offices you belong at once or you never belong; and to belong is to have your name sheared to as few syllables as possible.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000055_000005.wav|Kitty's youth would shore up the debacle, suspend it indefinitely.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000003.wav|"Better not go by train.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000059_000000.wav|Comfy.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000011.wav|No flapdoodle or mush; straight stuff.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000005.wav|She has a husband round the lot somewhere.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000000.wav|"I do," said the ex pugilist.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000019_000000.wav|"I am going out of town, mr Bernini.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000053_000003.wav|Fundamentally, this catastrophe could be laid to the drums of jeopardy.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000036_000001.wav|Professor Ryan, late physical instructor at one of the aviation camps, stood Hawksley in front of him and ran his hard hands over the young man's body.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000002.wav|Eve didn't have anything to speak of, but she travelled a lot.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000057_000001.wav|Something in her-she could not define it, she could not reach it, it defied analysis-something, then, revolted at the idea of marrying Cutty, divorcing him, and living on his money.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000051_000000.wav|Cutty attended his conferences.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000000.wav|"Not that we know of.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000025_000000.wav|"Why wasn't I told this at the start?"|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000053_000001.wav|He could dig up all this dry information with the precise accuracy of an economist, all the while his actual thoughts upon Kitty. His nights were nightmares.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000056_000004.wav|She got up suddenly, excused herself, and went to her room.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000059_000002.wav|An evil thought had entered her head; fate had made it honourably possible.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000007.wav|Here's all the dope-introduction, expenses, and tickets.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000002.wav|Either he was a false alarm, or he'd attempt the job even if he fell down.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000032_000000.wav|"He and the Conover girl left that office building together this morning, and I followed them to Park Row.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000010.wav|Remember, I want a page yarn.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000004.wav|If he's got any pride, dig it up.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000056_000003.wav|The Tschaikowsky waltz.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000001_000000.wav|Kitty hung up her hat and coat.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000061_000000.wav|Windows.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000039_000002.wav|Soft.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000001.wav|Still, you never can tell.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000060_000000.wav|Romance?|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000060_000003.wav|She wasn't cheating herself or Cutty: she was cheating convention, a flimsy thing at best.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000051_000004.wav|The political and commercial aspects of the polyglot peoples, what they wanted, what they expected, what they needed; racial enmities.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000041_000002.wav|If he makes it, he follows my instructions."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000013.wav|If you go at it right you two will react upon each other as a tonic."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000011_000002.wav|Now, I've got some fairly good news for you.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000060_000001.wav|She was not surrendering her right to that.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000026_000001.wav|We did not care to frighten you."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000055_000002.wav|His splendid health and vigorous mentality were the results of thinking young.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000056_000000.wav|Kitty's days were pleasant enough, but her nights were sieges.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000023_000000.wav|"Anybody would consider that Karlov was after me instead of Hawksley."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000032_000001.wav|This man uses the loft of the building for his home.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000032_000002.wav|No elevator goes up unless you have credentials. Our man is hiding there, Boris."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000009.wav|Run along home and pack.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000028_000001.wav|But we wish to the Lord you were, Miss Conover.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000001.wav|"I told him to.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000024_000000.wav|Bernini smiled.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000033_000000.wav|Karlov dry washed his hands.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000029_000001.wav|Karlov's agent sought his chief and found him in the cellar of the old house, sinisterly engaged.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000001_000002.wav|The coat tree stood at the right of the single window, and out of this window Kitty stared solemnly, at everything and at nothing.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000054_000004.wav|This dogged his thoughts like a murderer's deed, terrible in the watches of the night. Marry her, and then tell her.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000016_000000.wav|"Oh!|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000008_000000.wav|Kitty laughed; and that was what he wanted.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000005.wav|Right after lunch you go to the boss's garage and wait for me.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000006.wav|I'll take care of your grips and camera.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000009_000000.wav|What had that old rogue been doing now-offering Kitty his eighteen story office building?|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000042_000000.wav|When Hawksley returned to the starting line the walls rocked, there were two or three blinding stabs of pain; but he faced this unusual Irishman with never a hint of the torture.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000035_000000.wav|"Good news.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000051_000002.wav|His itinerary began at Piraeus, in Greece, and might end in Vladivostok.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000050_000001.wav|Believe me!|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000022_000007.wav|I'll follow on your heels."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000036_000002.wav|Miss Frances stood at one side, her arms folded, her expression skeptical.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000054_000002.wav|If she loved some chap it would not be so hard, the temptation would not be so keen-to cheat her.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000051_000001.wav|He learned immediately that he was booked to sail the first week in May.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000043_000000.wav|"All right," said Ryan.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000054_000001.wav|At any rate, there would have been none of this peculiar intimacy-Kitty coming to him in tears, opening her young heart to him and discovering all its loneliness.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000004_000000.wav|"I beg your pardon, Burly!"|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000058_000003.wav|Just wanted to dodge convention, and give her freedom and happiness.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000016_000002.wav|I'm wild about her!|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000006.wav|He hasn't lost any blood.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000013_000005.wav|I want you to note her ways, how she amuses herself, eats, exercises.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000016_000001.wav|This will be the most scrumptious event in my life.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000039_000004.wav|That's it.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000055_000006.wav|Marry her, cheat her, and stay young. Green stones, accursed.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000013_000006.wav|I want you to note the contents of her beautiful home; if she likes dogs or cats or horses. You will take a camera and get half a dozen good pictures, and a page yarn for Easter Sunday.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000053_000002.wav|And all this unhappiness because he had been touched with the lust for loot.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000016_000003.wav|But I haven't any clothes!"|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000019_000001.wav|I may be gone a week."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000012_000001.wav|What is it?"|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000001.wav|"I knew I'd hear that yodel.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000027_000000.wav|"I'm not frightened," said Kitty.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000062_000002.wav|She would go back by train, alone, unhampered.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000046_000001.wav|He wasn't going to let them know, but that bed was going to be tolerably welcome.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000020_000000.wav|"All right, Miss Conover." Bernini hid a smile.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000061_000001.wav|We carry our troubles to our windows; through windows we see the stars.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000058_000005.wav|Because he had loved her mother; because, but for an accident of chance, she, Kitty, might have been his daughter.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000058_000001.wav|Why not?|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000037_000000.wav|"Nothin' the matter with you, Bo, but the crack on the conk."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000029_000003.wav|Had the New York bomb squad known of the existence of this den, the short hair on their necks would have risen.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000010_000000.wav|"It's odd, isn't it, that I shouldn't possess a little histrionic ability.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000024_000003.wav|There is death in this game.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000060_000002.wav|What was a year out of her life if afterward she would be in comfortable circumstances, free to love where she willed?|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000013_000001.wav|She is going to return to Broadway this autumn, and she has a trunkful of plays to read.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000057_000002.wav|There was a touch of horror in the suggestion.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000035_000001.wav|Two bolts; one or the other will go home."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000047_000000.wav|"Well!" said Miss Frances.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000061_000003.wav|So Kitty sought her window and added her question to the countless millions forlornly wandering about up there, and finding no answer.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000052_000002.wav|For Washington would go to sleep again, naturally.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000006.wav|Make him think his wife is a lucky woman.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000028_000000.wav|"Nope.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000054_000005.wav|Cheat her.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000018_000001.wav|When this heartrending business was over she summoned Tony Bernini.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000042_000001.wav|A wild longing to be gone from this kindly prison-to get away from the thought of the girl.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000054_000006.wav|Break her heart and break his own.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000045_000000.wav|"Yep.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000012_000000.wav|"Work!|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000006_000002.wav|What would you say if you saw one in spats and a black derby?"|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000004_000002.wav|You are formal only to the city editor, the managing editor, and the auditor.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000024_000005.wav|We are easing them along because we want the top men in our net. But if Karlov takes it into his head to get you, and succeeds, he'll have a stranglehold on the whole local service; because we'd have to make great concessions to free you."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000040_000001.wav|This was cruelty.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000057_000003.wav|It was tearing her to pieces, this hidden repellence. And yet this occult objection was so utterly absurd.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000004.wav|She might wake up to the fact that you're a mighty pretty young woman and suddenly become temperamental.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000011_000000.wav|"It is, Kitty; only not to mimic.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000013_000002.wav|I have found your judgment ace high. Mornings you will read with her; afternoons you will visit.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000011_000003.wav|An assignment."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000000.wav|Burlingame waved his hands.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000007_000000.wav|"Why," answered Burlingame, "I suppose I'd consider July first as the best thing that could happen to me."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000017_000008.wav|Train leaves at two fifty.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000047_000001.wav|"I don't see how he did it."|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000038_000000.wav|"Right o!" agreed Hawksley.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000006_000000.wav|"I've been set in the middle of a fairy story," said Kitty, "and I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble to try to find a way out.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000030_000000.wav|"Well?" greeted Karlov, moodily.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000062_000000.wav|But she would return to New York on the morrow.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000024_000001.wav|"Miss Conover, the moment Karlov puts his hands on you the whole game goes blooey.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000057_000004.wav|If he died and left her a legacy she would accept it gratefully enough.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000020_000001.wav|He knew all about this trip, having been advised by Cutty over the wire.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000002_000003.wav|Burlingame had intended sending Kitty out of town on an assignment during Easter week. An exchange of telegrams that morning had closed the gap in time.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000039_000003.wav|Now stand on that threshold.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000012.wav|So my dope is right.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000029_000000.wav|Another fragment.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000024_000002.wav|That's the plain fact.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000048_000007.wav|No serious body wound.|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1789/142896/1789_142896_000003_000000.wav|"Well, you might say 'Good morning.'"|1789
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000068_000000.wav|'Now you are in the flames of purgatory, to be cleansed and purified for life everlasting', said the Master Thief; and with that he went his way, and took all the gold which the Priest had laid together in his dining room.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000103_000002.wav|If he could do that, he should have her.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000062_000000.wav|'Who is that calling me?' said the Priest.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000067_000000.wav|'This is the narrow way which leadeth unto the kingdom of heaven', said the Master Thief, who went on dragging him along till he had nearly broken every bone in his body.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000050_000000.wav|So he went back and told the youth, who thought it would be an easy job.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000033_000001.wav|But the robbers, they knew all about it, and they said to the youth, that if he could steal this ox as he had stolen the other two, then he should be master over the whole band. Well, the youth set off, and ran into the wood; and as the man came by with his ox he set up a dreadful bellowing, just like a great ox in the wood.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000096_000001.wav|I daresay I could', said the Master Thief, 'if I were really sure of getting your daughter.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000000_000000.wav|THE MASTER THIEF|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000095_000000.wav|Further on in the day came the Master Thief again, and told how he had managed the matter, and asked for the Squire's daughter, as he had promised; but the Squire gave him one hundred dollars down, and said he must do something better still.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000070_000000.wav|'Oh!' said the Priest, 'if you are an angel from heaven, do let me out, and let me return again to earth, for it is worse here than in hell.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000118_000001.wav|But just then it came across his mind that he had forgotten to lock the house door, so he must step down and look to that before he came back to bed, and away he went with both shift and sheet.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000093_000000.wav|'Ho! ho!' said the Squire; 'I see very well who has been here; but as for you, a pretty set of blockheads you must be to sit here and let the Master Thief steal the horses from between your legs.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000048_000001.wav|So he told him the whole story; how he had three sons who set off one day, and how he had given them leave to go whithersoever they would, and to follow whatever calling they chose.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000030_000001.wav|Is it likely now that they should have been so heavy at heart as to hang themselves, all these three? No!|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000030_000000.wav|'Well! this is an ugly business!|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000050_000002.wav|But the Squire himself and all his household were in the kitchen watching the roast.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000074_000001.wav|Now, I have twelve horses in my stable, and on them I will put twelve grooms, one on each.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000002_000000.wav|So it fell out one night as he was going through a great wood that such bad weather overtook him.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000039_000001.wav|Well, after a little while he did know him again.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000054_000000.wav|'Well, it is a fine hare', said the Squire; 'come let's see if we can't lay our hands on it.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000033_000000.wav|So he went home and set off with the ox, and his old dame knew never a word about the matter.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000063_000000.wav|'I am an angel', said the Master Thief, 'sent from God to let you know that you shall be taken up alive into heaven for your piety's sake.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000029_000001.wav|But when the man saw this sight for the third time, he said to himself:|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000035_000001.wav|So he drove up to the door as if he were any other great man.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000074_000000.wav|'You must do one masterpiece better still, that I may see plainly what you are fit for.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000029_000000.wav|Now the youth did just as he had done twice before; he jumped down from the tree, ran through the wood by a footpath, and hung himself up right in the man's way again.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000030_000002.wav|I cannot think it is anything else than a piece of witchcraft that I see.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000060_000000.wav|'Well, as for that, it wouldn't be hard', said the Master Thief.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000114_000002.wav|But just let me have the sheet to wipe myself with-he was so bloody-and I have made myself in such a mess with him.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000022_000001.wav|So when the man came by he saw the shoe at once.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000105_000000.wav|'It shall be done', said the Master Thief. 'I only wish I was as sure of getting your daughter.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000048_000002.wav|'And here now is the youngest come home, and has thrashed me till he has made me come to you and ask for your daughter for him to wife; and he bids me say, besides, that he's a Master Thief.' And so he fell to crying and sobbing again.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000059_000000.wav|Later in the afternoon came the Master Thief, and wanted to have the Squire's daughter, as he had given his word.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000047_000001.wav|But the man was still loath to go; so he stepped after him, and rubbed him down with a good birch cudgel, and kept on till the man came crying and sobbing inside the Squire's door.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000039_000000.wav|'Don't you know me again?' said the youth.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000075_000000.wav|'Very well, I daresay I can do it', said the Master Thief; 'but shall I really have your daughter if I can?'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000031_000000.wav|So he tied up his ox, and ran back to see if the others were still really hanging there.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000119_000000.wav|A little while after came the true Squire.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000098_000001.wav|'No', said the man, 'I haven't seen a soul.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000025_000000.wav|So he set off, and hunted and hunted up and down for the shoe, but no shoe did he find; and at length he had to go back with the one he had.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000032_000000.wav|'There's no other help for it than to go home and take the third ox without my dame's knowing it, and to try and drive a good bargain with it, so that I may get a good sum of money for it.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000113_000000.wav|'Why, dear, back already!' said she, for she thought it was her husband.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000025_000003.wav|But the robbers knew all about it, and they said to the youth, if he could get this ox too, without the man's knowing it, and without his doing him any harm, he should be as good as any one of them.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000059_000001.wav|But the Squire began to talk him over, and said, 'Oh, you must first prove your skill a little more; for what you did to day was no great thing, after all. Couldn't you now play off a good trick on the Priest, who is sitting in there, and making game of me for letting such a fellow as you twist me round his thumb.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000038_000000.wav|'What, you my son!' said the man.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000031_000001.wav|But while he went and peered up into all the trees, the youth jumped down and took his ox and ran off with it. When the man came back and found his ox gone, he was in a sad plight, and, as any one might know without being told, he began to cry and bemoan; but at last he came to take it easier, and so he thought:|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000001_000002.wav|At last he said he would give them leave to take to anything each liked best, and to go whithersoever they pleased, and he would go with them a bit of the way; and so he did.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000042_000000.wav|Now there lived a Squire close by to his father's cottage, and he had such a great house, and such heaps of money, he could not tell how much he had.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000013_000000.wav|With that the youth got into a bed which stood there, but he dared not go to sleep, and very soon after in came the robbers; so the old dame told them how a stranger fellow had come in whom she had not been able to get out of the house again.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000092_000001.wav|Then the Master Thief threw off his beggar's rags, and took one groom after the other so softly off their horses, and set them astride on the beams between the stalls; and so he called his eleven men, and rode off with the Squire's twelve horses.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000037_000000.wav|'You always were a stingy old hunks', said the youth, 'and so you are still, when you won't take your own son in.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000001_000001.wav|He had nothing to leave them when he died, and no money with which to put them to any trade, so that he did not know what to make of them.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000076_000003.wav|Just as he got there they were watering the horses for the night, and had their hands full of work.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000010_000002.wav|'They stole me away when I was little, and have kept me as their housekeeper ever since.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000072_000000.wav|'Oh!' groaned the Priest, 'this is all that Master Thief's doing.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000102_000001.wav|At last the Squire grew weary of standing there with his finger in the taphole, so he took it out.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000111_000000.wav|'Well', said the Squire, 'it is quite true that I am the chief magistrate in these parts; but people are fond of talking, and it would be a bore if they came to see this dead man's body.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000010_000001.wav|And a bad lot of them too', said the old dame.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000026_000001.wav|So the man came along with his ox, and when he saw such a sight hanging there he began to feel a little queer.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000097_000000.wav|Well, well, the Squire would see what he could do; and he told the Master Thief a day when he would be taking a ride on a great common where they drilled the troops.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000061_000001.wav|Father Laurence!'--for that was the Priest's name.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000114_000000.wav|'O yes, I only just put him into a hole, and threw a little earth over him.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000016_000001.wav|Meantime the youth got up and began to talk to them, and to ask if they didn't want a servant, for it might be that he would be glad to enter their service.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000049_000002.wav|Just go and tell him that.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000015_000000.wav|'Such a one as he money!' said the old dame, 'the tramper!|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000097_000003.wav|No harm should happen to her; she should only be driven about a little; and if he took his finger out more than once, she was to have ten dollars more.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000033_000003.wav|Now, when the man came back and found he had lost this ox too, he was so wild that there was no end to his grief.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000023_000000.wav|'That's a nice shoe', said he.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000025_000001.wav|But, meanwhile the youth had taken the ox and gone off with it; and when the man came and saw his ox gone, he began to cry and bewail, for he was afraid his old dame would kill him outright when she came to know that the ox was lost.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000052_000000.wav|Yes, the Squire saw it running too.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000043_000000.wav|'If he asks by what trade I get my living, you can say I'm a Master Thief.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000021_000000.wav|Now there lived a man a little way off who had three oxen.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000004_000000.wav|'Good evening!' said the old dame.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000041_000002.wav|'You said I might take to any trade I chose, and so I bound myself apprentice to a pack of thieves and robbers, and now I've served my time out, and am become a Master Thief.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000034_000000.wav|As for the robbers, they were not very well pleased either, when they had to own that the youth was master over the whole band.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000076_000001.wav|So the Master Thief set off to a shop, and bought brandy enough to fill two pocket flasks, and into one of them he put a sleepy drink, but into the other only brandy.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000033_000004.wav|He cried and roared and beat his breast, and, to tell the truth, it was many days before he dared go home; for he was afraid lest his old dame should kill him outright on the spot.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000076_000002.wav|After that he hired eleven men to lie in wait at night, behind the Squire's stable yard; and last of all, for fair words and a good bit of money, he borrowed a ragged gown and cloak from an old woman; and so, with a staff in his hand, and a bundle at his back, he limped off, as evening drew on, towards the Squire's stable.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000076_000004.wav|'What the devil do you want?' said one of the grooms to the old woman.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000104_000000.wav|'Do you think, now', said the Squire, 'you can steal the sheet off our bed, and the shift off my wife's back.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000007_000000.wav|'Can I get leave to have a bed and shelter here to night?' asked the youth.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000084_000000.wav|'That it is', said another; 'I freeze so, that my teeth chatter.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000008_000000.wav|'You'll get no good by sleeping here', said the old dame; 'for if the folk come home and find you here, they'll kill both me and you.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000098_000000.wav|At last the Squire rode right up to him, and asked if he had seen any one lurking about in the wood thereabouts.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000107_000001.wav|'Now see if I don't shoot him, that's all.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000097_000001.wav|So the Master Thief soon got hold of an old worn out jade of a mare, and set to work, and made traces and collar of withies and broom twigs, and bought an old beggarly cart and a great cask.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000070_000001.wav|The little fiends keep on pinching me with tongs.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000099_000000.wav|'Harkye, now', said the Squire, 'if you have a mind to ride into the wood, and hunt about and see if you can fall upon any one lurking about there, you shall have the loan of my horse, and a shilling into the bargain, to drink my health, for your pains.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000055_000001.wav|But meantime the youth took the roast and ran off with it; and where the Squire got a roast for his dinner that day I don't know; but one thing I know, and that is, that he had no roast hare, though he ran after it till he was both warm and weary.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000082_000000.wav|As the night wore on, the men found it rather cold work to sit so still and quiet on horseback.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000003_000000.wav|'Good evening!' said the youth.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000015_000001.wav|Why, if he had clothes to his back, it was as much as he had.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000067_000001.wav|At last he tumbled him into a goose house that belonged to the Squire, and the geese began pecking and pinching him with their bills, so that he was more dead than alive.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000068_000001.wav|The next morning, when the goose girl came to let the geese out, she heard how the Priest lay in the sack, and bemoaned himself in the goose house.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000116_000000.wav|After a while he said:|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000055_000000.wav|So out he ran, and the rest with him-away they all went, the hare before, and they after; so that it was rare fun to see.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000030_000003.wav|But now I'll soon know for certain; if the other two are still hanging there, it must be really so; but if they are not, then it can be nothing but witchcraft that I see.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000076_000000.wav|'Yes, if you can, I'll do my best for you', said the Squire.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000042_000001.wav|He had a daughter too, and a smart and pretty girl she was.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000088_000001.wav|Then she pulled out the flask with brandy in it, and her hand shook so that the spirit splashed about in the flask, and then she took such a gulp, that it went 'bop' in her throat.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000033_000002.wav|When the man heard that, you can't think how glad he was, for it seemed to him that he knew the voice of his big bullock, and he thought that now he should find both of them again; so he tied up the third ox, and ran off from the road to look for them in the wood; but meantime the youth went off with the third ox.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000060_000002.wav|And when the Priest came home in the evening, the youth began to bawl out:|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000028_000001.wav|Aye, aye! you may hang for all I care, whether you are a ghost or whatever you are.' So he passed on with his ox.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000053_000000.wav|A little while after, the youth let the second hare go, and they saw it in the kitchen, and thought it was the same they had seen before, and still wanted to run out and catch it; but the Squire said again it was no use.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000035_000002.wav|After that he went in and asked if he could have a lodging?|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000092_000002.wav|But when the Squire got up in the morning, and went to look after his grooms, they had just begun to come to; and some of them fell to spurring the beams with their spurs, till the splinters flew again, and some fell off, and some still hung on and sat there looking like fools.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000072_000001.wav|Ah! my gold and my silver, and my fine clothes.' And he beat his breast, and hobbled home at such a rate that the girl thought he had lost his wits all at once.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000050_000001.wav|So he set about and caught three hares alive, and put them into a bag, and dressed himself in some old rags, until he looked so poor and filthy that it made one's heart bleed to see; and then he stole into the passage at the back door of the Squire's house on the Sunday forenoon, with his bag, just like any other beggar boy.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000106_000001.wav|Then he got a long ladder and set it up against the Squire's bedroom window, and so climbed up, and kept bobbing the dead man up and down, just for all the world like one that was peeping in at the window.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000016_000000.wav|Then the robbers began to talk among themselves what they should do with him; if they should kill him outright, or what else they should do.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000026_000000.wav|This time he took with him a rope, and hung himself up under the arm pits to a tree right in the man's way.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000025_000002.wav|But just then it came across his mind that he would go home and take the second ox, and drive it to the town, and not let his old dame know anything about the matter. So he did this, and went home and took the ox without his dame's knowing it, and set off with it to the town.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000124_000001.wav|So the Master Thief lived well and happily from that time forward.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000047_000000.wav|Yes, there was no help for it, said the Master Thief; he should go whether he would or no; and if he did not go by fair means, he would soon make him go by foul.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000115_000000.wav|So he got the sheet.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000080_000000.wav|'Oh! the poor old bag of bones', said another, whose heart took pity on her, 'the old hag may sit inside and welcome; such a one as she can do no harm.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000091_000002.wav|Do let me have a drop', screamed the whole twelve, one after another.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000041_000001.wav|I'll soon tell you', said the youth.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000104_000001.wav|Do you think you could do that?'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000058_000000.wav|'Very well-only keep a sharp look out', said the Squire; 'maybe he'll come to see you before you know a word of it.' But the Priest stuck to his text-that he did, and made game of the Squire because he had been so taken in.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000002_000002.wav|But as he went on and on, at last he saw a glimmering of light far far off in the wood.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000045_000000.wav|No! he had not lost his wits, his father must and should go to the Squire, and ask for his daughter.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000103_000001.wav|The day after, he came to the Squire and would have his daughter, as he had given his word; but the Squire put him off again with fine words, and gave him two hundred dollars, and said he must do one more masterpiece.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000020_000000.wav|'I don't care', said the youth, for he thought it would not take long to learn that trade.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000121_000000.wav|'What do you say?' said the Squire.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000044_000000.wav|'I think you've lost your wits', said the man, 'for you can't be in your right mind when you think of such stuff.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000053_000002.wav|Now, they saw it from the kitchen, and still thought it was the same hare that kept on running about, and were all eager to be out after it.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000107_000000.wav|'That's the Master Thief, old lass!' said the Squire, and gave his wife a nudge on the side.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000061_000000.wav|'Father Laurence!|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000089_000000.wav|'What's that you've got in your flask, old girl?' said one of the grooms.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000097_000004.wav|Then he threw a few rags and tatters over himself, and stuffed himself out, and put on a wig and a great beard of goat's hair, so that no one could know him again, and set off for the common, where the Squire had already been riding about a good bit.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000112_000000.wav|'You must do as you think best, dear', said his wife.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000027_000001.wav|Down slipped the youth from the tree, and ran by a footpath, and got before the man, and hung himself up right in his way again.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000122_000000.wav|'Why, I am asking what you have done with the sheet and shift that you had to wipe off the blood', said she.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000002_000001.wav|It blew, and sleeted, and drove so that he could scarce keep his eyes open; and in a trice, before he knew how it was, he got bewildered, and could not find either road or path.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000001_000000.wav|Once upon a time there was a poor cottager who had three sons.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000041_000000.wav|'Oh!|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000052_000001.wav|'Oh, let it run', said he; 'there's no use in thinking to catch a hare on the spring.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000002_000004.wav|There it was in a large house, and the fire was blazing so brightly inside, that he could tell the folk had not yet gone to bed; so he went in and saw an old dame bustling about and minding the house.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000106_000000.wav|So when night began to fall, the Master Thief went out and cut down a thief who hung on the gallows, and threw him across his shoulders, and carried him off.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000018_000000.wav|'It's all one to me what trade I follow', said the youth; 'for when I left home, father gave me leave to take to any trade I chose.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000024_000000.wav|Then the youth took up the shoe, and made all the haste he could to get before the man by a short cut through the wood, and laid it down before him in the road again.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000108_000000.wav|So saying he took up a rifle which he had laid at his bedside.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000048_000000.wav|'How now, my man! what ails you?' said the Squire.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000079_000000.wav|'To the devil with your leave', said one.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000025_000004.wav|If that were all, the youth said, he did not think it a very hard thing.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000117_000000.wav|'Do you know I am afraid you must let me have your nightshift too, for the sheet won't do by itself; that I can see.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/163518/3274_163518_000011_000000.wav|'Well, for all that, I think I'll just go to bed', said the youth. 'Come what may, I'll not stir out at night in such weather.'|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000025_000000.wav|"You know, I went a little too far," von Schlichten confessed.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000007_000000.wav|More protocol about welcoming Gorkrink.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000026_000000.wav|"We can't go too slowly, either," Blount replied.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000027_000001.wav|"Did you notice the green specks in the hide of that Prince Gorkrink?" he asked.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000026_000001.wav|"If we wait for him to change his mind, it'll be the same as waiting for him to retire. And that'll be waiting too long."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000002.wav|After a brief interval, the wide doors at the other end of the hall slid open, and the Konkrookan notables, attended by a dozen Company native officers and a guard of Kragan Rifles, entered.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000029_000001.wav|You know, four of our best native Intelligence operatives have been murdered in Keegark in the last three months, and six more have just vanished there."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000007_000001.wav|Then Gurgurk cleared his throat with a series of barking sounds.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000015_000003.wav|That had been the Terran Federation's idea, from the beginning; why else give the Company's chief representative the title of Governor General?|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000025_000002.wav|He's got to be conditioned to accept that idea."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000020_000001.wav|"These geeks need having the fear of Terra thrown into them."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000002_000000.wav|Four slaves brought up the rear carrying an ornately inlaid box on poles.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000006.wav|He was considerably past the Ulleran prime of life-seventy or eighty, to judge from the worn appearance of his opal teeth, the color of his skin, and the predominantly reddish tint of his quartz speckles.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000009_000001.wav|He probably hadn't even heard of the riot.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000013_000001.wav|He also managed to convey King Orgzild's pleasure at having obtained the plutonium.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000030_000002.wav|And I'll see what I can find out for myself."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000030_000001.wav|"I'll have a talk with Hendrik Lemoyne and MacKinnon.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000014_000000.wav|Gurgurk then announced that so enormous a crime against the friends of His Sublime etcetera had not been allowed to go unpunished, signaling behind him with one of his lower hands for the box to be brought forward.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000004_000001.wav|"The Company is honored by this visit."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000019_000009.wav|Now he's laughing up his non-existent sleeve at us."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000003.wav|The honor guard advanced in two columns; between them marched an unclad and heavily armed native carrying an ornate spear with a three foot blade upright in front of him with all four hands.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000015_000000.wav|The three Terrans looked at them gravely.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000015_000002.wav|If the Extraterrestrial's Rights Association were really serious about the rights of these geeks, they'd advocate booting out all these native princes and turning the whole planet over to the Company.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000021_000000.wav|"Oh, nonsense, Eric; you're just as bad as Carlos, here!" Harrington tut tutted.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000004_000000.wav|"Welcome, Gurgurk," Harrington gibbered through his false palate.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000019_000004.wav|Miss Quinton killed that one with the bolo; see where she chopped him on the back of the neck?|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000001.wav|Von Schlichten and Blount put in theirs, and Harrington pressed the floor button with his toe.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000019_000005.wav|The cut that took off the head was a little low, and missed it.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000020_000000.wav|"That's what I've been preaching, all along," Eric Blount took up after him.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000014_000003.wav|They had all been freshly scrubbed and polished, but they still smelled like crushed cockroaches.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000012_000000.wav|Gurgurk spoke at length, expressing himself as delighted, on behalf of his royal master, at hearing such high praise from so distinguished a soldier.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000000_000001.wav|He didn't look particularly regal, even on that high seat-with his ruddy outdoorsman's face and his ragged gray mustache and his old tweed coat spotted with pipe ashes, he might have been any of the dozen odd country gentleman neighbors of von Schlichten's boyhood in the Argentine.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000014_000002.wav|On this, from the box, they placed twenty four newly severed opal grinning heads, in four neat rows.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000019_000002.wav|"See that head, there?" he asked, rolling it over with his toe.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000021_000001.wav|"Next, you'll be saying that we ought to depose Jaikark and take control ourselves."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000002_000004.wav|Von Schlichten regarded the assemblage sourly through his monocle.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000019_000008.wav|I don't like this butchery of worn out slaves and petty thieves any better than anybody else, but this I don't like either. Six months ago, Gurgurk wouldn't have tried to pull anything like this.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000025_000001.wav|"Or too fast, rather.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000011_000000.wav|"Within minutes, Your Excellency," von Schlichten replied gravely. "Their promptness, valor, and efficiency were most exemplary."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000022_000000.wav|"Well, what's wrong with that, for an idea?" von Schlichten demanded. "Don't you think we could?|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000000.wav|He took the false palate and tongue clicker, officially designated as an "enunciator, Ulleran" and, colloquially, as a geek speaker, out of his coat pocket and shoved it into his mouth.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000004.wav|It was the Konkrookan Spear of State; it represented the proxy presence of King Jaikark.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000015_000001.wav|A double dozen heads was standard payment for an attack in which no Terran had been killed. Ostensibly, they were the heads of the ringleaders: in practice, they were usually lopped from the first two dozen prisoners or over age slaves at hand, without regard for whether the victims had even heard of the crime which they were expiating.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000023_000000.wav|"My God!" Harrington exploded.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000013_000003.wav|When a geek prince hired out as a laborer for a year on Niflheim, he did so for only one purpose-to learn Terran technologies.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000003_000001.wav|Out of the corner of his eye, von Schlichten watched a couple of Kragan mercenaries with fifty shot machine rifles move unobtrusively to positions from whence they could, if necessary, spray the visitors with bullets without endangering the Terrans.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000016_000000.wav|There was another long speech from Gurgurk, with the nobles behind him murmuring antiphonal agreement-standard procedure, for which there was a standard pun, geek chorus-and a speech of response from Sid Harrington.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000002_000001.wav|When the spear bearer reached the exact middle of the hall, he halted and grounded his regalia weapon with a thump.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000023_000001.wav|"Don't let me hear that kind of talk again!|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000030_000000.wav|"Well, I'm going there in a few days, myself, to talk to Orgzild about this spaceport deal," Blount said.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000001_000007.wav|An immature Ulleran would be a very light gray, white under the arms, and his quartz specks would run from white to pale yellow.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167023/3274_167023_000022_000001.wav|Our Kragans could go through that army of Jaikark's like fast neutrons through toilet paper."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000024_000002.wav|Maybe Rakkeed wanted the dog, to kill before a congregation of his followers, killing us by proxy, or in effigy.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000003_000000.wav|He watched Blount move one of his pieces and nodded approvingly.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000022_000003.wav|Keeluk wanted Stalin for sacramental purposes."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000049_000001.wav|A platoon of Jaikark's Household Guards, with rifles; the Spear of State; a royal litter; about thirty geek nobles, on foot; a gift litter; another platoon of riflemen, if you say the last syllable quick enough."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000020_000001.wav|I'm fond of that mutt, and God only knows what sort of stuff he's been getting to eat.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000044_000000.wav|"Oh, they're not as bad as all that.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000003_000003.wav|They're making mass arrests, indiscriminately.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000022_000001.wav|He chain lit another cigarette and stubbed out the old one.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000040_000002.wav|"Before we get off the subject, how about those letters the Rev.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000009_000000.wav|"My Intelligence Section has," von Schlichten put in.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000052_000000.wav|"I'll mate you in four moves," he predicted.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000045_000002.wav|Blount whistled softly and made a quick re arrangement.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000009_000002.wav|Eric is absolutely correct in making that statement."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000014_000000.wav|"Rakkeed has no following, except among the rabble." Harrington puffed furiously at his pipe, trying to figure the best protection for his king.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000037_000000.wav|"Where can he get it?" Harrington replied.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000022_000002.wav|"Maybe the Rev.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000040_000000.wav|"Maybe there are burglars," Blount said, pointing with his cigarette holder to Harrington's threatened king.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000033_000001.wav|"I hope you see whose king's threatened, now."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000012_000000.wav|Eric Blount moved the piece that had taken Harrington's pawn.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000045_000000.wav|A calculating look came into Harrington's eye.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000007_000000.wav|"Then why's Gurgurk been supporting this damned Rakkeed?" Blount wanted to know, hastily interposing a piece.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000041_000000.wav|"All addressed to Skilkans known to be Rakkeed disciples and rabidly anti Terran," von Schlichten replied.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000006_000000.wav|"Oh, Gurgurk wouldn't dare try anything like that," the Governor General said.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000033_000000.wav|"Yes, I see." Blount brought a piece clockwise around the board and took the threatening piece, then moved again.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000003_000004.wav|More slaves for Jaikark's court favorite, of course."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000025_000000.wav|That wasn't the first time he'd made that wish.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000003_000002.wav|There is also the equivalent of a regiment of King Jaikark's infantry-spearmen, crossbowmen, and a few riflemen-and two of those outsize cavalry companies of his, helping hold the lid down.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000025_000002.wav|At the same time, the average Ulleran probably had complexes and neuroses that would have had Freud talking to himself, and they certainly indulged in practices that would have even stood Krafft Ebing's hair on end.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000002_000000.wav|"Nothing much," he replied.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000004_000001.wav|"He's been building quite a political organization, lately.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000030_000000.wav|"What's it going to cost him?" Blount asked.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000052_000001.wav|"Want to play it out, before we go down?"|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000039_000000.wav|"Oh, God, I hope not!" Harrington exclaimed.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000038_000000.wav|"That's a hell of a lot of plutonium," Blount said.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000048_000002.wav|He flipped a switch and spoke into the box.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000027_000001.wav|"A few fanatics hate us, and a few merchants who lost money when we replaced this primitive barter economy of theirs, but nine tenths of them have benefited enormously from us, and continue to benefit...."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000013_000001.wav|"And Hitler was just a paper hanger."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000046_000002.wav|Why don't you invite her to make the trip with you?|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000002_000004.wav|At least one of the rabbits had been kept on the premises, too, some time ago.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000022_000000.wav|"A mr Keeluk, a clergyman," von Schlichten quoted.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000029_000000.wav|"Yes, this spaceport proposition of King Orgzild of Keegark looks like it, now doesn't it?" Harrington retorted.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000023_000002.wav|"Or sympathetic magic?"|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000043_000001.wav|"These Extraterrestrials' Rights Association people are a lot of blasted fanatics, themselves. We're a gang of bloody handed, flint hearted, imperialistic sons of bitches in their book, and anything we say's sure to be a Hitler sized lie."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000051_000001.wav|Immediately, Blount took one of his pieces, moved again, took another, and made the third move to which he was entitled.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000010_000001.wav|That will put him in the position of the friend of the Company, and most of his dupes will be rounded up and sold as slaves, and King Gurgurk'll pocket the proceeds.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000046_000004.wav|Maybe you can plant a couple of ideas where they'll do the most good.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000040_000001.wav|"Can't you do something about that, Sid?" Then he turned to von Schlichten.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000013_000000.wav|"Your king's in danger," he warned.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000030_000001.wav|"He furnishes the land-sequestered from the estate of some noble he executed for treason-and the labor-all forced.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000026_000001.wav|"It doesn't take any Ulleran psychologist to know that about eighty percent of them hate us poisonously."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000050_000000.wav|"That'll be Gurgurk, coming to tell us how unhappy his Sodden and Inebriated Geekship is about that fracas on Seventy second Street," Harrington said.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000024_000001.wav|"Take your choice.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000032_000000.wav|"Now look whose king's threatened!" he crowed.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000041_000003.wav|He couldn't find any indications of cipher, but there was a lot of gossip about Keeluk's friends and parishioners which might have arbitrary code meanings.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000004_000000.wav|"Or else Gurgurk wants them to use for patronage," Blount added.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000046_000006.wav|You know and I know and we all know that there are a lot of things up there at the polar mines that would look like hell to anybody who didn't understand local conditions...."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000010_000006.wav|This business, for instance; Keeluk's one of Rakkeed's followers."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000040_000003.wav|Keeluk gave to the Quinton girl?"|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000044_000001.wav|I never met the girl before today, but old Mohammed Ferriera's a decent bloke.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000017_000000.wav|"You sure this spy wasn't just romancing?" Harrington asked.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000002_000003.wav|The dog had been kept in a lean to back of the house; it had been removed, probably as soon as Keeluk called in his goon gang.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000019_000002.wav|"Sid, this damn dog business worries me."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000016_000001.wav|"Intelligence got that from a spy we'd planted among the embassy servants."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000008_000000.wav|"You haven't any proof of that," Harrington protested.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000044_000003.wav|For one thing, they put an end to the peonage system on Yggdrasill, and I know what conditions were like, there, before they did."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000007_000004.wav|Gurgurk has been subsidizing Rakkeed...."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000007_000001.wav|"Gurgurk can follow one of two lines of policy.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000050_000003.wav|Take them to the Reception Hall, and hold them there till I signal from the Audience Hall, and then herd them in."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000017_000001.wav|"You get so confounded many wild stories about Rakkeed.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000020_000000.wav|"Worries me, too.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000007_000002.wav|He can undertake to heave Jaikark off the throne and seize power, or he has to support Jaikark on the throne. We're subsidizing Jaikark.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000005_000000.wav|Harrington pushed one of his pieces out along a radial line toward the rim.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000005_000002.wav|He shifted another piece, a sort of combination knight and bishop, to threaten the piece Harrington had moved.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000016_000000.wav|"The last time Rakkeed was in Konkrook, he was the guest of the Keegarkan Ambassador," von Schlichten stated.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000011_000000.wav|"Eric, you have Rakkeed on the brain!" Harrington exclaimed impatiently, then moved the threatened piece counterclockwise on the circle where he had placed it.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000031_000000.wav|He made a move.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000030_000002.wav|We furnish the structural steel, the machine equipment, the engineering.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000036_000000.wav|"Where's he getting the plutonium?" von Schlichten asked.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000038_000001.wav|"I wonder if he mightn't have some idea of what else plutonium can be used for, beside generating power."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000010_000004.wav|And more of a threat to the Company.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000029_000001.wav|"He hates and resents us so much that he's offered us a spaceport at his city...."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000000_000000.wav|"Well, then what?" Harrington asked.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000053_000002.wav|Good Lord!|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000018_000001.wav|"He travels on our ships, in disguise, coolie class, on the geek deck."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000027_000000.wav|"Oh, rubbish!" Harrington blew the exclamation out around his pipe stem with a gush of smoke.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000018_000000.wav|"No mystery to that," von Schlichten said.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000046_000000.wav|"Carlos, did you say she told you she was going to Skilk, in the near future?" Harrington asked.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000034_000000.wav|Harrington swore, reached out to move a piece, and then jerked his hand back as though the piece were radioactive.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000001_000000.wav|Von Schlichten dropped ash from his cigarette into the tray that served all three of them.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000024_000000.wav|Von Schlichten shrugged.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000041_000001.wav|"We radioed the list to Skilk; Colonel Cheng Li, our intelligence man there, teleprinted us back a lot of material on them that looks like the Newgate Calendar.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000034_000001.wav|For a while, he sat puffing his pipe and staring at the board.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000031_000001.wav|Instantly, Harrington slashed out from the middle of the board with one of his heavy duty, all purpose pieces and took a piece, then moved again.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000020_000002.wav|And I hate to think of why those geeks stole him, too."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000028_000001.wav|"They resent everything we've done for them."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000023_000001.wav|"Ritual killing?" he asked.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000015_000001.wav|"Here in Konkrook, he's always entertained by one or another of the big ship owning nobles. They probably deprecate his table manners, but they just love his politics.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000011_000001.wav|"He's just a barbarian caravan driver."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000007_000003.wav|Rakkeed has been preaching this crusade against the Terrans, and against Jaikark, whom we control.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000009_000001.wav|"We can give sums of money, and dates, and the names of the intermediaries through whom they were paid to Rakkeed.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000010_000005.wav|Everywhere we turn, Rakkeed's at the bottom of whatever happens to be wrong.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000004_000002.wav|Getting ready to shove Jaikark off the throne, I'd say."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000006_000001.wav|"He knows we wouldn't let him get away with it. We have too much of an investment in King Jaikark."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000002_000002.wav|We picked up a few of his ragtag and bobtail, and they're being questioned now, but I doubt if they'll tell us anything we don't know already.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000051_000000.wav|He came back and made a move.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000043_000000.wav|"Think she'll listen to you?" he asked.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000045_000001.wav|He puffed slowly at his pipe and slid a piece from the center toward the sector of the board nearest him.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000010_000002.wav|The only question is, will Rakkeed let himself be used that way?|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000028_000000.wav|"And hate us more deeply with each new benefit," Blount added.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000002_000005.wav|No trace of the goat."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000042_000000.wav|Harrington had gotten his king temporarily out of danger, losing a piece doing it.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000010_000003.wav|I think Rakkeed's bigger than Gurgurk ever can be.|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3274/167022/3274_167022_000047_000001.wav|"I won't guarantee anything, of course...."|3274
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1754/140639/1754_140639_000039_000001.wav|I was almost conscious of a definite presence, Nature silently near.|1754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1754/140639/1754_140639_000038_000005.wav|Arcturus right overhead.|1754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1754/140639/1754_140639_000035_000000.wav|Early came the|1754
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000018_000002.wav|His defiant words therefore raised a storm of protests.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000025_000000.wav|It was a shrewd reply, and covered as good a "double dare" as ever one boy made to another.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000068_000000.wav|And so he returned a most ungracious answer:|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000023_000000.wav|But now the Lord of Arkell had found his tongue.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000082_000000.wav|But the knights and nobles who followed her banner loudly praised her valor and her fearlessness, and their highest and most knightly vow thereafter was to swear "By the courage of our Princess."|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000054_000000.wav|The dream of future power and greatness as Queen of France, in which the girl wife of the Dauphin had often indulged, was thus rudely dispelled, and Jacqueline returned to her father's court in Holland, no longer crown princess and heiress to a throne, but simply "Lady of Holland."|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000069_000000.wav|"Tell the Countess Jacqueline," he said to the knight of Leyenburg, "that the honor of her hand I cannot accept.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000017_000004.wav|So each faction had its leaders, its partisans, its badges, and its followers.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000058_000000.wav|It was he who lifted the standard of revolt against her regency.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000044_000000.wav|But Ajax, fiercest of the three, took no notice of the lad.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000022_000000.wav|"Nay, nay, my lord," she said to her husband, the Dauphin; "'t is not a knightly act thus to impeach the honor of a noble guest."|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000020_000001.wav|So this fling of the Dauphin's cut deep.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000078_000001.wav|There was neither mercy nor gentleness in her heart then.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000080_000000.wav|But in the flush of victory wrath gave way to pity again, and the young conqueror is reported to have said, sadly and in tears:|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000084_000000.wav|The story of Jacqueline of Holland is one of the most romantic that has come down to us from those romantic days of the knights.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000062_000000.wav|Jacqueline's eye caught the flutter of the broad banner of the house of Arkell that waved over the rebel camp.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000086_000000.wav|To be "the most picturesque figure in the history of Holland," as she has been called, is distinction indeed; but higher still must surely be that gentleness of character and nobility of soul that, in these days of ours, may be acquired by every girl and boy who reads this romantic story of the Countess Jacqueline, the fair young Lady of Holland.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000079_000002.wav|The ponderous battle axe of the knight of Leyenburg crashed through the helmet of the Lord of Arkell, and as the brave young leader fell to the ground, his panic stricken followers turned and fled. The troops of Jacqueline pursued them through the streets of Gorkum and out into the open country, and the vengeance of the countess was sharp and merciless.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000076_000000.wav|On the morrow, a murky December day, in the year fourteen seventeen, the battle was joined, as announced.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000009_000000.wav|Her husband?|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000046_000000.wav|But before he could act, Ajax himself had acted.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000047_000002.wav|Then the voice of Jacqueline rang out fresh and clear as, standing with her hand buried in the lion's tawny mane, she raised her face to the startled galleries.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000034_000003.wav|My father!" she cried, turning now toward Count William, whose attention had been drawn to the dispute, "the Lord of Arkell is pledged to face your lions!"|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000014_000001.wav|"This Hubert of Malsen is but a craven, sirs, if he doth say the merchants of Dort are rascal cowards.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000058_000003.wav|This the Lord of Arkell beseiged, and, demanding its surrender, sent also a haughty challenge to the young countess, who was hastening to the relief of her beleaguered town.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000060_000000.wav|Her doughty Dutch general, von Brederode, counselled immediate attack, but the girl countess, though full of enthusiasm and determination, hesitated.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000016_000000.wav|"I said nothing of him, madam," replied Count Otto.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000018_000001.wav|Among these had been the young Lord of Arkell, now a sort of half prisoner at Count William's court because of certain bold attempts to favor the Cods in his own castle of Arkell.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000067_000001.wav|In that is greater glory and more of power than being husband to the Lady of Holland."|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000073_000000.wav|"Hear ye, Countess of Holland," rang out the challenge of the herald of Arkell, as his trumpet blast sounded before the gate of the citadel, "the free Lord of Arkell here giveth you word and warning that he will fight against you on the morrow!"|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000016_000001.wav|"I did mean these young red hats here, who do no more dare to bait your father's lions than to face the Cods of Dort in fair and equal fight."|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000034_000002.wav|john," she said, turning appealingly to her young husband, who sat sullen and unmoved, "tell him you meant no such murderous test.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000084_000001.wav|Happy only in her earliest and latest years, she is, nevertheless, a bright and attractive figure against the dark background of feudal tyranny and crime.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000037_000000.wav|"But, my father," persisted the gentle hearted girl, "spear and banner are not lions' jaws.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000061_000000.wav|From her station in the citadel she looked over the scene before her. Here, along the low bank of the river Maas, stretched the camp of her own followers, and the little gayly colored boats that had brought her army up the river from the red roofs of Rotterdam.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000045_000002.wav|The Dauphin john turned pale with fright, and Count William of Holland, calling out, "Down, Ajax! back, girl, back!" sprang to his feet as if he would have vaulted over the gallery rail.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000018_000000.wav|Certain of the younger nobles, however, who were opposed to the reigning house of Holland, of which Count William, young Jacqueline's father, was the head, had espoused the cause of the merchants, seeing in their success greater prosperity and wealth for Holland.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000045_000001.wav|A cry of terror broke from every lip.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000009_000001.wav|Yes.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000051_000002.wav|For the Princess Jaqueline of Holland was reared in the school of so-called chivalry and romance, which in her time was fast approaching its end.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000025_000001.wav|Some of the manlier of the young courtiers indeed even dared to applaud.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000077_000001.wav|The brave von Brederode fell pierced with wounds, and the day seemed lost, indeed, to the Lady of Holland.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000032_000002.wav|See, now: I will face Count William's lions!"|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000013_000000.wav|Then uprose the young Lord of Arkell.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000043_000000.wav|Boldly and without hesitation, while all the watchers had eyes but for him alone, the young Lord of Arkell walked straight up to Hercules, the largest of the three, and laid his hand caressingly upon the shaggy mane.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000049_000000.wav|The Lord of Arkell sprang to his comrade's side.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000055_000000.wav|But in Holland, too, sorrow was in store for her.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000034_000000.wav|"No, no; you shall not!" she cried.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000078_000000.wav|Then Jacqueline the Countess, seeing her cause in danger-like another Joan of Arc, though she was indeed a younger and much more beautiful girl general,--seized the lion banner of her house, and, at the head of her reserve troops, charged through the open gate straight into the ranks of her victorious foes.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000024_000001.wav|Go YOU into the lions' den, lord prince, and I will follow you, though it were into old Hercules' very teeth."|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000031_000000.wav|The Lord of Arkell drew the loose gray cloak over his rich silk suit, and turned toward the door.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000048_000000.wav|"You who could dare and yet dared not to do!" she cried, "it shall not be said that in all Count William's court none save the rebel Lord of Arkell dared to face Count William's lions!"|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000041_000000.wav|With the gray gabardine drawn but loosely over his silken suit, so that he might, if need be, easily slip from it, Otto von Arkell boldly entered the inclosure.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000024_000000.wav|"My lord prince," he said, bowing low with stately courtesy, "if, as my lady mother and good Count William would force me, I am to be loyal vassal to you, my lieges here, I should but follow where you dare to lead.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000051_000003.wav|She was, indeed, as one historian declares, the last heroine of knighthood.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000033_000000.wav|The Princess Jacqueline sprang up in protest.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000076_000001.wav|On the low plain beyond the city, knights and men at arms, archers and spearmen, closed in the shock of battle, and a stubborn and bloody fight it was.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000008_000000.wav|As she sat, that day, in the great Hall of the Knights in the massive castle at The Hague, she could see, among all the knights and nobles who came from far and near to join in the festivities at Count William's court, not one that approached her father in nobility of bearing or manly strength-not even her husband.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000017_000000.wav|At this bold speech there was instant commotion.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000051_000000.wav|And it WAS a rash and foolish act.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000061_000002.wav|And yet they were all her countrymen-rebels and retainers alike.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000011_000001.wav|For there have always been heroes and cowards in the world.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000078_000002.wav|As when she had cowed with a look Ajax, the lion, so now, with defiance and wrath in her face, she dashed straight at the foe.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000032_000000.wav|"Otto von Arkell lets no one call him fool or coward, lord prince," he said.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000034_000001.wav|"My lord prince did but jest, as did we all.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000064_000001.wav|Thus says the Lady of Holland: 'Were it not better, Otto of Arkell, that we join hands in marriage before the altar, than that we spill the blood of faithful followers and vassals in a cruel fight?'"|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000063_000002.wav|But how much better, so she reasoned, that the name and might of her house as rulers of Holland should be upheld by a brave and fearless knight.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000085_000000.wav|And we cannot but think with sadness upon the power for good that she might have been in her land of fogs and floods if, instead of being made the tool of party hate and the ambitions of men, her frank and fearless girl nature had been trained to gentle ways and charitable deeds.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000027_000001.wav|But without a word, with scarce a look toward his challenger, he turned to his nearest neighbor, a brave Zealand lad, afterward noted in Dutch history-Francis von Borselen.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000042_000001.wav|up, Hercules; hollo, up, Ajax!" cried Count William, from the balcony.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000084_000002.wav|The story of her womanhood should indeed be told, if we would study her life as a whole; but for us, who can in this paper deal only with her romantic girlhood, her young life is to be taken as a type of the stirring and extravagant days of chivalry.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000038_000000.wav|"Nay, madam, have no fear," the Lord of Arkell said, bending in courteous recognition of her interest; "that which I do of mine own free will is no murder, even should it fail."|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000030_000000.wav|"It is here, my Otto," he said.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000083_000000.wav|The brilliant victory of this girl of sixteen was not, however, to accomplish her desires.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000061_000001.wav|There, stretching out into the flat country beyond the straggling streets of Gorkum, lay the tents of the rebels.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000026_000003.wav|See, Lord of Arkell, you who can prate so loudly of Cods and lions: here before all, I dare you to face Count William's lions yourself!"|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000057_000000.wav|And chief among the rebellious spirits, as leader and counsellor among the Cods, appeared the brave lad who had once been the companion of the princess in danger, the young Lord of Arkell.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000005_000000.wav|"One fair daughter, and no more, The which he loved passing well;"|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000063_000003.wav|On the impulse of this thought she summoned a loyal and trusted vassal to her aid.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000071_000000.wav|"Crush we these rebel curs, von Brederode," she cried, pointing to the banner of Arkell; "for by my father's memory, they shall have neither mercy nor life from me."|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000069_000001.wav|I am her foe, and would rather die than marry her."|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000040_000000.wav|A raised gallery looked down into the spacious inclosure in which Count William kept the living specimens of his own princely badge of the lion. And here the company gathered to see the sport.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000011_000000.wav|Other young people were there, too,--nobles and pages and little ladies in waiting; and there was much of the stately ceremonial and flowery talk that in those days of knighthood clothed alike the fears of cowards and the desires of heroes.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000047_000001.wav|Ajax slowly rose and looked up into the girl's calm face.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000083_000003.wav|It is, however, pleasant to think that she was happy in the love of her husband, the baron of the forests of the Duke of Burgundy, a plain Dutch gentleman, Francis von Borselen, the lad who, years before, had furnished the gray gabardine that had shielded Count William's daughter from her father's lions.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000074_000000.wav|And from the citadel came back this ringing reply, as the knight of Leyenburg made answer for his sovereign lady:|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000021_000000.wav|But before the young Otto could return an angry answer, Jacqueline had interfered.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000029_000000.wav|The young von Borselen took from the back of the settle, over which it was flung, his gabardine-the long, loose gray cloak that was a sort of overcoat in those days of queer costume.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000070_000000.wav|All the hot blood of her ancestors flamed in wrath as young Jacqueline heard this reply of the rebel lord.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000042_000000.wav|"Soho, Juno!|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000056_000001.wav|The death of Count William showed the Cods a way toward greater liberty.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000066_000000.wav|To the Lord Arkell, however, this unexpected proposition came as an indication of weakness.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000051_000004.wav|Her very titles suggest the days of chivalry.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000045_000000.wav|The watchers in the gallery followed the lion's stare, and saw, with horror, the advancing figure of this fair young girl.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000003_000000.wav|Count William was a gallant and courtly knight, learned in all the ways of chivalry, the model of the younger cavaliers, handsome in person, noble in bearing, the surest lance in the tilting yard, and the stoutest arm in the foray.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000079_000001.wav|The result came quickly.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000025_000002.wav|But the Dauphin john was stronger in tongue than in heart.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000072_000000.wav|Fast upon the curt refusal of the Lord of Arkell came his message of defiance.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000075_000000.wav|"Hear ye, sir Herald, and answer thus to the rebel Lord of Arkell: 'For the purpose of fighting him came we here, and fight him we will, until he and his rebels are beaten and dead.' Long live our Sovereign Lady of Holland!"|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000061_000003.wav|Hollanders all, they were ever ready to combine for the defence of their homeland when threatened by foreign foes or by the destroying ocean floods.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000044_000001.wav|Straight across his comrades he looked to where, scarce a rod behind the daring lad, came another figure, a light and graceful form in clinging robes of blue and undergown of cloth of gold-the Princess Jacqueline herself!|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000000_000000.wav|JACQUELINE OF HOLLAND: THE GIRL OF THE LAND OF FOGS, a d fourteen fourteen.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000051_000001.wav|But we must remember that those were days when such feats were esteemed as brave and valorous.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000017_000001.wav|For the nobles and merchants of Holland, four centuries and a half ago, were at open strife with one another.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000019_000001.wav|Face YOU the lions, lord count, and I will warrant me they will not prove as forbearing as did she."|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000052_000000.wav|All girls admire bravery, even though not themselves personally courageous.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000065_000000.wav|It was a singular, and perhaps, to our modern ears, a most unladylike proposal; but it shows how, even in the heart of a sovereign countess and a girl general, warlike desires may give place to gentler thoughts.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000083_000001.wav|Peace never came to her.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000063_000000.wav|Again she saw the brave lad who alone of all her father's court, save she, had dared to face Count William's lions; again the remembrance of how his daring had made him one of her heroes, filled her heart, and a dream of what might be possessed her.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000058_000002.wav|The stout citadel of the town, was, however, garrisoned with loyal troops.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000004_000000.wav|Like "Jephtha, Judge of Israel," of whom the mock mad Hamlet sang to Polonius, Count William had|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000028_000000.wav|"Lend me your gabardine, friend Franz, will you not?" he said.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000079_000000.wav|Her disheartened knights rallied around her, and, following the impetuous girl, they wielded axe and lance for the final struggle.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000035_000000.wav|Count William of Holland dearly loved pluck and nerve.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000055_000001.wav|Swiftly following the loss of her husband, the Dauphin, came the still heavier blow of her father's death.|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7384/84010/7384_84010_000014_000002.wav|Had they been fairly mated, he had no more dared to put his nose within the gates of Dort than dare one of you here to go down yonder amid Count William's lions!"|7384
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000020_000001.wav|As he approached, he began crying, "Who will exchange old lamps for new ones?" As he went along, a crowd of children collected, who hooted, and thought him, as did all who chanced to be passing by, a madman or a fool, to offer to change new lamps for old ones.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000011_000000.wav|Aladdin, who knew that all the sultan's endeavours to make this window like the rest were in vain, sent for the jewellers and goldsmiths, and not only commanded them to desist from their work, but ordered them to undo what they had begun, and to carry all their jewels back to the sultan and to the vizier.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000015_000000.wav|Aladdin had conducted himself in this manner several years, when the African magician, who had for some years dismissed him from his recollection, determined to inform himself with certainty whether he perished, as he supposed, in the subterranean cave or not.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000018_000002.wav|"Well," said he, rubbing his hands in glee, "I shall have the lamp, and I shall make Aladdin return to his original mean condition."|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000004_000012.wav|The princess, dazzled to see so much riches collected in one place, said to Aladdin, "I thought, prince, that nothing in the world was so beautiful as the sultan my father's palace, but the sight of this hall alone is sufficient to show I was deceived."|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000003_000000.wav|When the sultan's porters came to open the gates, they were amazed to find what had been an unoccupied garden filled up with a magnificent palace, and a splendid carpet extending to it all the way from the sultan's palace.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000007_000001.wav|But what most surprises me is, that a hall of this magnificence should be left with one of its windows incomplete and unfinished." "Sire," answered Aladdin, "the omission was by design, since I wished that you should have the glory of finishing this hall." "I take your intention kindly," said the sultan, "and will give orders about it immediately."|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000008_000001.wav|"I sent for you," said he, "to fit up this window in as great perfection as the rest.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000022_000001.wav|the children and mob crowding about him, so that he can hardly stir, make all the noise they can in derision of him."|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000011_000004.wav|Aladdin went out of the hall, and returning soon after, found the window, as he wished it to be, like the others.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000004_000011.wav|The vases, basins, and goblets were gold also, and of exquisite workmanship, and all the other ornaments and embellishments of the hall were answerable to this display.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000000_000001.wav|As soon as he dismounted, he retired to his own chamber, took the lamp, and summoned the genie as usual, who professed his allegiance.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000010_000002.wav|In short, they used all the jewels the sultan had, and borrowed of the vizier, but yet the work was not half done.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000004_000006.wav|Bands of music led the procession, followed by a hundred state ushers, and the like number of black mutes, in two files, with their officers at their head.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000002_000000.wav|When Aladdin had examined every portion of the palace, and particularly the hall with the four and twenty windows, and found it far to exceed his fondest expectations, he said, "Genie, there is one thing wanting, a fine carpet for the princess to walk upon from the sultan's palace to mine.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000006_000000.wav|The next morning the attendants of Aladdin presented themselves to dress him, and brought him another habit, as rich and magnificent as that worn the day before.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000000_000000.wav|Aladdin returned home in the order he had come, amidst the acclamations of the people, who wished him all happiness and prosperity.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000018_000001.wav|The result of his consultation informed him, to his great joy, that the lamp was in the palace.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000028_000002.wav|In his perplexity he ordered the grand vizier to be sent for with expedition.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000024_000000.wav|The princess, who knew not the value of this lamp, and the interest that Aladdin had to keep it safe, entered into the pleasantry, and commanded a slave to take it and make the exchange.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000000_000006.wav|Let there be also kitchens and storehouses, stables full of the finest horses, with their equerries and grooms, and hunting equipage, officers, attendants, and slaves, both men and women, to form a retinue for the princess and myself.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000000_000004.wav|Let its walls be massive gold and silver bricks laid alternately.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000017_000000.wav|He then quickly learnt about the wealth, charities, happiness, and splendid palace of Prince Aladdin.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000027_000003.wav|"I command thee," replied the magician, "to transport me immediately, and the palace which thou and the other slaves of the lamp have built in this city, with all the people in it, to Africa." The genie made no reply, but with the assistance of the other genies, the slaves of the lamp, immediately transported him and the palace, entire, to the spot whither he had been desired to convey it.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000029_000007.wav|I beg you to give me forty days, and if in that time I cannot restore it, I will offer my head to be disposed of at your pleasure." "I give you the time you ask, but at the end of the forty days, forget not to present yourself before me."|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000003_000001.wav|They told the strange tidings to the grand vizier, who informed the sultan, who exclaimed, "It must be Aladdin's palace, which I gave him leave to build for my daughter.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000001_000003.wav|The genie then showed him the treasury, which was opened by a treasurer, where Aladdin saw large vases of different sizes, piled up to the top with money, ranged all round the chamber.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000019_000000.wav|The next day the magician learnt, from the chief superintendent of the khan where he lodged, that Aladdin had gone on a hunting expedition, which was to last for eight days, of which only three had expired.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000028_000000.wav|Early the next morning, when the sultan, according to custom, went to contemplate and admire Aladdin's place, his amazement was unbounded to find that it could nowhere be seen.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000006_000002.wav|The sultan consented with pleasure, rose up immediately, and, preceded by the principal officers of his palace, and followed by all the great lords of his court, accompanied Aladdin.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000002_000001.wav|Lay one down immediately." The genie disappeared, and Aladdin saw what he desired executed in an instant.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000001_000000.wav|When Aladdin gave these commands to the genie, the sun was set.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000026_000000.wav|The African magician stayed no longer near the palace, nor cried any more, "New lamps for old ones," but made the best of his way to his khan.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000022_000000.wav|The slave returned, laughing so heartily that the princess rebuked her. "Madam," answered the slave, laughing still, "who can forbear laughing, to see an old man with a basket on his arm, full of fine new lamps, asking to change them for old ones?|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000018_000000.wav|On his return he had recourse to an operation of geomancy to find out where the lamp was-whether Aladdin carried it about with him, or where he left it.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000020_000000.wav|The next day the magician called for the twelve lamps, paid the man his full price, put them into a basket hanging on his arm, and went directly to Aladdin's palace.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000016_000000.wav|On the very next day, the magician set out and travelled with the utmost haste to the capital of China, where, on his arrival, he took up his lodgings in a khan.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000010_000000.wav|When the sultan returned to his palace, he ordered his jewels to be brought out, and the jewellers took a great quantity, particularly those Aladdin had made him a present of, which they soon used, without making any great advance in their work.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000000_000007.wav|Go and execute my wishes."|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000002_000002.wav|The genie then returned, and carried him to his own home.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000029_000002.wav|On his son in law being brought before him, he would not hear a word from him, but ordered him to be put to death.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000030_000001.wav|The lords who had courted him in the days of his splendour, now declined to have any communication with him.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000001_000002.wav|The genie led him through all the apartments, where he found officers and slaves, habited according to their rank and the services to which they were appointed.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000014_000003.wav|Thus Aladdin, while he paid all respect to the sultan, won by his affable behaviour and liberality the affections of the people.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000021_000001.wav|He repeated this so often, walking backward and forward in front of the palace, that the princess, who was then in the hall with the four and twenty windows, hearing a man cry something, and seeing a great mob crowding about him, sent one of her women slaves to know what he cried.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000019_000002.wav|He went to a coppersmith, and asked for a dozen copper lamps: the master of the shop told him he had not so many by him, but if he would have patience till the next day, he would have them ready.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000013_000000.wav|The sultan returned to the palace, and after this went frequently to the window to contemplate and admire the wonderful palace of his son in law.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000025_000002.wav|The slave picked out one and carried it to the princess; but the change was no sooner made than the place rung with the shouts of the children, deriding the magician's folly.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000003_000002.wav|He has wished to surprise us, and let us see what wonders can be done in only one night."|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000023_000001.wav|If the princess chooses, she may have the pleasure of trying if this old man is so silly as to give a new lamp for an old one, without taking anything for the exchange."|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000008_000000.wav|After the sultan had finished this magnificent entertainment, provided for him and for his court by Aladdin, he was informed that the jewellers and goldsmiths attended; upon which he returned to the hall, and showed them the window which was unfinished.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000010_000001.wav|They came again several times for more, and in a month's time had not finished half their work.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6359/64713/6359_64713_000011_000002.wav|He took the lamp, which he carried about him, rubbed it, and presently the genie appeared.|6359
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000040_000002.wav|Honestly criticise your own effort.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000022_000007.wav|If your thought goes to your gesture, their thought will too.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000017_000000.wav|But preparation goes beyond the getting of the facts in the case you are to present: it includes also the ability to think and arrange your thoughts, a full and precise vocabulary, an easy manner of speech and breathing, absence of self consciousness, and the several other characteristics of efficient delivery that have deserved special attention in other parts of this book rather than in this chapter.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000022_000004.wav|Do not carry any thoughts of inflection with you to the platform.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000018_000000.wav|Preparation may be either general or specific; usually it should be both.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000036_000000.wav|The Socialist Party is a strenuous worker for peace.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000026_000005.wav|As an inexperienced speaker you will find a great deal of difficulty at first in putting principles into practise, for you will be scared, like the young swimmer, and make some crude strokes, but if you persevere you will "win out."|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000028_000001.wav|What good habit does not?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000011_000000.wav|At first blush it would seem that fluency consists in a ready, easy use of words.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000018_000011.wav|But that method must not be applied on the platform!|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000011_000001.wav|Not so-the flowing quality of speech is much more, for it is a composite effect, with each of its prior conditions deserving of careful notice.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000031_000001.wav|What influences, within and without the man himself, work against fluency?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000042_000000.wav|There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000050_000000.wav|Beware of desperate steps!|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000023_000000.wav|You have doubtless been adjured to "forget everything but your subject." This advice says either too much or too little.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000019_000000.wav|After all this enrichment of life by storage, must come the special preparation for the particular speech.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000028_000000.wav|But this means work.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000022_000000.wav|Do not feel surprised or discouraged if practise on the principles of delivery herein laid down seems to retard your fluency.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000035_000000.wav|Machinery has created a new economic world.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000005_000000.wav|FLUENCY THROUGH PREPARATION|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000004_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000064_000001.wav|I learn to be content.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000034_000000.wav|five.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000066_000000.wav|eight.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000029_000000.wav|QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000032_000000.wav|three.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000016_000005.wav|He was banished by the Spartans.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000019_000001.wav|This is of so definite a sort that it warrants separate chapter treatment later.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000026_000001.wav|Learn by rules to speak without thinking of rules.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000022_000006.wav|There is an absolute telepathy between the audience and the speaker.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000022_000003.wav|This warning, however, is strictly for the closet, for your practise at home.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000024_000000.wav|A nice balance between these two kinds of attention is important.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000048_000000.wav|His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000030_000000.wav|one.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000026_000000.wav|Return to the opening chapter, on self confidence, and again lay its precepts to heart.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000028_000003.wav|If it were, it would be thrown away, because it would kill our greatest joy-the delight of acquisition.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44585/5622_44585_000041_000000.wav|seven.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000043_000002.wav|As the breath is taken your hands will be forced out.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000068_000001.wav|What are your voice faults?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000036_000000.wav|Voice is a series of air vibrations.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000040_000000.wav|A certain very successful speaker developed voice carrying power by running across country, practising his speeches as he went.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000068_000000.wav|eight.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000036_000001.wav|To strengthen it two things are necessary: more air or breath, and more vibration.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000054_000003.wav|Failure to do this results in a breathy tone.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000047_000001.wav|Do you feel the lips vibrate? After a little practise they will vibrate, giving a tickling sensation.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000005_000001.wav|Leaving the message aside, the same may justly be said of public speaking.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000009_000002.wav|Try this for yourself.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000054_000002.wav|Utilize all that you give out.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000063_000000.wav|three.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000029_000006.wav|The sensation is so slight that you will probably not be able to detect it at once, but persevere in your practise, always thinking the tone forward, and you will be rewarded by feeling your voice strike the roof of your mouth.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000058_000000.wav|Avoid pitching your voice too high-it will make it raspy.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000040_000001.wav|The vigorous exercise forced him to take deep breaths, and developed lung power.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000014_000002.wav|Remember, you must relax the jaw to obtain command of it.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000029_000007.wav|A correct forward placing of the tone will do away with the dark, throaty tones that are so unpleasant, inefficient, and harmful to the throat.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000015_000000.wav|The lips also must be made flexible, to aid in the moulding of clear and beautiful tones.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000031_000002.wav|Practise until you can.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000040_000003.wav|When these methods are not convenient, we recommend the following:|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000058_000006.wav|A wide range will give you facility in making numerous changes of pitch.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000058_000001.wav|This is a common fault.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000026_000000.wav|The nose is an important tone passage and should be kept open and free for perfect tones.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000030_000001.wav|Think the tone forward.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000050_000003.wav|The mere act of thinking about any portion of your body will tend to make it vibrate.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000035_000001.wav|This habit not only gives the speaker an amateurish appearance but if the head is hung forward the voice will be directed towards the ground instead of floating out over the audience.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000058_000003.wav|Do not wait until you get to the platform to try this.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000010_000003.wav|Don't work.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000026_000003.wav|This is quite important, aside from voice, for the general health will be much lowered if the lungs are continually starved for air.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000013_000006.wav|Roll the upper part of your body around, with the waist line acting as a pivot.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000057_000000.wav|Do not drink cold water when speaking.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000002_000000.wav|THE VOICE|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000067_000001.wav|How can resonance and carrying power be developed?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000049_000002.wav|Can you feel the vibration there?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000054_000004.wav|Take in breath like a prodigal; in speaking, give it out like a miser.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000063_000001.wav|Give some exercises for development of these conditions.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000005_000002.wav|A rich, correctly used voice is the greatest physical factor of persuasiveness and power, often over topping the effects of reason.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000030_000002.wav|Do you feel it strike the lips?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000012_000000.wav|Nervousness and mental strain are common sources of mouth and throat constriction, so make the battle for poise and self confidence for which we pleaded in the opening chapter.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000048_000002.wav|Can you feel the nose vibrate?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000067_000000.wav|seven.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000013_000004.wav|Now-withdraw all power and let it fall.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000066_000000.wav|six.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000046_000001.wav|You can increase its vibrations by practise.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twelve|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000017_000000.wav|Mo-E-O-E-OO-Ah.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000024_000002.wav|Open your mouth wide, relax all the organs of speech, and let the tone flow out easily.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000037_000001.wav|As a bullet with little powder behind it will not have force and carrying power, so the voice that has little breath behind it will be weak.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000043_000000.wav|Take a deep breath.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000038_000003.wav|Practise this until it becomes second nature.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000033_000000.wav|It is not necessary to speak loudly in order to be heard at a distance. It is necessary only to speak correctly.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000035_000000.wav|Do not gaze at the floor as you talk.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000010_000004.wav|Let the yoke of speech be easy and its burden light.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000014_000003.wav|It must be free and flexible for the moulding of tone, and to let the tone pass out unobstructed.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000057_000001.wav|The sudden shock to the heated organs of speech will injure the voice.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000031_000001.wav|Can you feel the forward tones strike against your hand?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000033_000003.wav|If you will only use your voice correctly, you will not have much difficulty in being heard.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000010_000000.wav|In practising voice exercises, and in speaking, never force your tones. Ease must be your watchword.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000021_000000.wav|All the activity of breathing must be centered, not in the throat, but in the middle of the body-you must breathe from the diaphragm.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000061_000000.wav|one.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000013_000001.wav|you ask.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000054_000000.wav|This quality is sometimes destroyed by wasting the breath.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000045_000000.wav|Many methods for deep breathing have been given by various authorities. Get the air into your lungs-that is the important thing.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000014_000001.wav|Relax until your jaw feels heavy, as though it were a weight hung to your face.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000021_000003.wav|This is the natural and correct method of breathing.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000065_000001.wav|Tell how range of voice may be cultivated.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000013_000003.wav|Hold your arm out straight from your shoulder.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000025_000002.wav|If so, a skilled physician should be consulted.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000069_000000.wav|nine.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000013_000005.wav|Practise relaxation of the muscles of the throat by letting your neck and head fall forward.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000021_000001.wav|Note the way you breathe when lying flat on the back, undressed in bed.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000039_000000.wav|Do not try to speak too long without renewing your breath.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000060_000000.wav|QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000037_000000.wav|Breath is the very basis of voice.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/44586/5622_44586_000058_000005.wav|Repeat the alphabet, beginning A on the lowest scale possible and going up a note on each succeeding letter, for the development of range.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000037_000001.wav|I will write to him.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000023_000000.wav|"Yes," he said, "the letter was so strange.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000005.wav|All feeling of wounded pride had passed now; she was only afraid of the expression of his displeasure.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000019_000000.wav|He told her about the election, and Anna knew how by adroit questions to bring him to what gave him most pleasure-his own success.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000006.wav|He looked at me with a cold, severe expression.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000010_000000.wav|He was sitting on a chair, and a footman was pulling off his warm over boot.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000007_000003.wav|However hard she tried, she could not love this little child, and to feign love was beyond her powers.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000022_000000.wav|As soon as she had said it, she felt that however warm his feelings were to her, he had not forgiven her for that.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000007_000006.wav|She dreaded a repetition of the severe look he had flung at her at parting, especially when he knew that the baby was not dangerously ill. But still she was glad she had written to him.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000007_000004.wav|Towards the evening of that day, still alone, Anna was in such a panic about him that she decided to start for the town, but on second thoughts wrote him the contradictory letter that Vronsky received, and without reading it through, sent it off by a special messenger.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000000.wav|She was sitting in the drawing room near a lamp, with a new volume of Taine, and as she read, listening to the sound of the wind outside, and every minute expecting the carriage to arrive.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000009_000000.wav|"Well, how is Annie?" he said timidly from below, looking up to Anna as she ran down to him.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000005_000005.wav|And she began to long for that, and made up her mind to agree to it the first time he or Stiva approached her on the subject.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000008.wav|"That glance shows the beginning of indifference."|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000002_000000.wav|Chapter thirty two|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000015_000000.wav|"Well, I'm glad.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000002.wav|Not simply to go away, but to leave me.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000018_000003.wav|When he's here I never take it-hardly ever."|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000026_000000.wav|"Yes, you do doubt it.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000005_000000.wav|And though she felt sure that a coldness was beginning, there was nothing she could do, she could not in any way alter her relations to him.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000041_000001.wav|It was a moment's impression, but she never forgot it.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000007_000008.wav|Let him weary of her, but he would be here with her, so that she would see him, would know of every action he took.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000036_000001.wav|But for that..."|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000003.wav|He has every right, and I have none.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000033_000000.wav|"Anna, that's cruel.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000002.wav|At last she heard not the sound of wheels, but the coachman's shout and the dull rumble in the covered entry.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000009.wav|She heard his voice.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000019_000001.wav|She told him of everything that interested him at home; and all that she told him was of the most cheerful description.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000030_000000.wav|"Why not talk about it?" she said.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000003_000001.wav|But the cold, severe glance with which he had looked at her when he came to tell her he was going had wounded her, and before he had started her peace of mind was destroyed.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000018_000000.wav|"What am I to do?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000035_000002.wav|Either we must separate or else live together."|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000031_000002.wav|Oh, Anna, why are you so irritable?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000000.wav|In solitude afterwards, thinking over that glance which had expressed his right to freedom, she came, as she always did, to the same point-the sense of her own humiliation.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000013_000000.wav|She took his hand in both of hers, and drew it to her waist, never taking her eyes off him.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000024_000000.wav|"It was all the truth."|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000005.wav|What has he done, though?...|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000004.wav|She suddenly felt ashamed of her duplicity, but even more she dreaded how he might meet her.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000015_000001.wav|And are you well?" he said, wiping his damp beard with his handkerchief and kissing her hand.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000028_000000.wav|"The duty of going to a concert..."|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000021_000000.wav|"Tell me frankly, you were vexed at getting my letter, and you didn't believe me?"|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000010.wav|And forgetting everything, she ran joyfully to meet him.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000006_000000.wav|Absorbed in such thoughts, she passed five days without him, the five days that he was to be at the elections.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000014_000000.wav|"Well, I'm glad," he said, coldly scanning her, her hair, her dress, which he knew she had put on for him.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000020_000001.wav|She said:|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000037_000003.wav|But I will come with you to Moscow."|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000003.wav|Even Princess Varvara, playing patience, confirmed this, and Anna, flushing hotly, got up; but instead of going down, as she had done twice before, she stood still.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000005_000004.wav|That means was divorce and marriage.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000008_000008.wav|Then she thought of him, that he was here, all of him, with his hands, his eyes.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000004_000007.wav|Of course that is something indefinable, impalpable, but it has never been so before, and that glance means a great deal," she thought.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000005_000001.wav|Just as before, only by love and by charm could she keep him.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/41172/5622_41172_000018_000001.wav|I couldn't sleep....|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000016_000001.wav|He had under his arm, a package which bore considerable resemblance to an octavo volume enveloped in paper.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000006.wav|It is your right.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000020.wav|The Bible says: Multiply.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000061_000000.wav|Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank notes. They were turned over and counted.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000031.wav|I made lint all the time; stay, sir, look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers."|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000012_000003.wav|Ashamed of loving in the presence of all these people.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000020.wav|And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with the scissors.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000016_000002.wav|The enveloping paper was of a greenish hue, and appeared to be mouldy.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000012_000002.wav|She stammered all pale, yet flushed, she wanted to fling herself into Marius' arms, and dared not.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000032_000000.wav|"Talk loud, the rest of you.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000046_000000.wav|"Yes, Courfeyrac."|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000026_000000.wav|"Permission to adore each other!"|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000022.wav|I have cried till I have no eyes left. It is queer that a person can suffer like that.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000057_000000.wav|"I am she," replied Cosette.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000021.wav|In order to save the people, Jeanne d'Arc is needed; but in order to make people, what is needed is Mother Goose.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000043_000000.wav|"By the way!"|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000018_000001.wav|What then?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000001.wav|So much the worse!|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000026.wav|So our unhappiness is over! I am quite foolish.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000003.wav|They talked low.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000000.wav|They did not require him to repeat it twice.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000051_000000.wav|"She is exquisite, this darling.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000047_000000.wav|"What has become of him?"|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000005.wav|It's perfectly simple.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000018_000003.wav|Monsieur Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart like that."|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000051_000010.wav|It has just occurred to me!|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000012_000000.wav|Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000011.wav|Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle!|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000045_000000.wav|"Have not you an intimate friend?"|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000018_000002.wav|Is that his fault?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000010.wav|The church is better.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000012.wav|It is more coquettish.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000011.wav|It was built by the Jesuits.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000001.wav|She's a Greuze.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000017.wav|Do speak! You let me do all the talking.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000051_000006.wav|Be foolish about it.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000049_000000.wav|"That is good."|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000067_000000.wav|CHAPTER five-DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000044_000000.wav|"What is it, father?"|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000051_000008.wav|Adore each other.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000040_000022.wav|So, marry, my beauties.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000039_000000.wav|Then he turned to Cosette.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000019.wav|They told me that you could put your fist in it.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000012_000005.wav|Lovers have no need of any people whatever.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000024_000000.wav|"That's settled," said the grandfather.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000025_000000.wav|And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, he cried:|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000006_000001.wav|There are things which one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000016.wav|I have not taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar?|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000014_000000.wav|He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/5622/19214/5622_19214_000027_000021.wav|That is frightful.|5622
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000004_000002.wav|A few fanatical men, who had made it the vehicle of violent expressions, had kept it under the ban of popular prejudice.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000014_000000.wav|The very inception of the struggle had provoked bitter words.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000003_000001.wav|The boasted finality was a broken reed; the life boat of compromise a hopeless wreck.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000012_000000.wav|When, in the opening of the anti Nebraska contest, the Free soil leaders undertook the formation of a new party to supersede the old, they had, because of their generally democratic antecedents, with great unanimity proposed that it be called the "Republican" party, thus reviving the distinctive appellation by which the followers of Jefferson were known in the early days of the republic.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000008_000001.wav|The united efforts of Douglas and the Administration held the body of the Northern Democrats to his fatal policy, though protests and defections became alarmingly frequent.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000019_000000.wav|The influence of this result upon parties, old and new, is perhaps best illustrated in the organization of the Thirty fourth Congress, chosen at these elections during the year eighteen fifty four, which witnessed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000018_000001.wav|While the measure was yet under discussion in the House in March, New Hampshire led off by an election completely obliterating the eighty nine Democratic majority in her Legislature.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000010_000004.wav|But public opinion in that part of the Union was fearfully tyrannical and intolerant; and opposition dared only to manifest itself to Democratic party organization-not to these Democratic party measures.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000005_000003.wav|It labored specially to bring about the dissolution of the old party organizations and the formation of a new one, based upon the general policy of resisting the extension of slavery.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000013_000004.wav|Perhaps for the first time in our modern politics, the pulpit vied with the press, and the Church with the campaign club, in the work of debate and propagandism.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000003_000007.wav|This was the ready made, common ground of cooperation.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000012_000001.wav|Considering the fact that Jefferson had originated the policy of slavery restriction in his draft of the ordinance of seventeen eighty four, the name became singularly appropriate, and wherever the Free soilers succeeded in forming a coalition it was adopted without question.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000012_000003.wav|As it turned out, a great variety of party names were retained or adopted in the Congressional and State campaigns of eighteen fifty four, the designation of "anti Nebraska" being perhaps the most common, and certainly for the moment the most serviceable, since denunciation of the Nebraska bill was the one all pervading bond of sympathy and agreement among men who differed very widely on almost all other political topics.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000010_000002.wav|The Whig party, however, having carried two slave States for Scott in eighteen fifty two, and holding a strong minority in the remainder, was not so unanimous.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000005_000004.wav|Since, however, the repeal had shaken but not obliterated old party lines, this effort succeeded only in favorable localities.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000017_000001.wav|The gradual disruption of parties, and the new and radical attitudes assumed by men of independent thought, gave ample occasion to indulge in such epithets as "apostates," "renegades," and "traitors." Unusual acrimony grew out of the zeal of the Church and its ministers.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000010_000006.wav|Those of extreme pro slavery views, like Dixon, of Kentucky,--who, when he introduced his amendment, declared, "Upon the question of slavery I know no Whiggery and no Democracy,"--went boldly and at once over into the Democratic camp, while those who retained their traditional party name and flag were sundered from their ancient allies in the Northern States by the impossibility of taking up the latter's antislavery war cry.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000004_000001.wav|If there were demagogues here and there among them, seeking merely to create a balance of power for bargain and sale, they were unimportant in number, and only of local influence, and soon became deserters. There was no mistaking the earnestness of the body of this faction.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000013_000003.wav|All ranks and occupations therefore joined with a new energy in the contest it provoked. Particularly was the religious sentiment of the North profoundly moved by the moral question involved.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000006_000000.wav|[Illustration: HISTORICAL MAP OF THE UNITED STATES IN eighteen fifty four SHOWING THE VARIOUS ACCESSIONS OF TERRITORY etc|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000013_000002.wav|The alarm of the nation on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was serious and startling.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000008_000003.wav|The real and effective gain, therefore, was the more or less thorough alliance of the Whig party and the Free soil party of the Northern States: wherever that was successful it gave immediate and available majorities to the opposition, which made their influence felt even in the very opening of the popular contest following the Congressional repeal.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000003_000002.wav|If the agreement of a generation could be thus annulled in a breath, was there any safety even in the Constitution itself?|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000012_000002.wav|But the refusal of the Whigs in many States to surrender their name and organization, and more especially the abrupt appearance of the Know Nothings on the field of parties, retarded the general coalition between the Whigs and the Free soilers which so many influences favored.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000003_000006.wav|The measure once passed, and the Compromise repealed, the first natural impulse was to combine, organize, and agitate for its restoration.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000005_000000.wav|This small party of antislavery veterans, over one hundred fifty eight thousand voters in the aggregate, and distributed in detachments of from three thousand to thirty thousand in twelve of the free States, now came to the front, and with its newspapers and speakers trained in the discussion of the subject, and its committees and affiliations already in action and correspondence, bore the brunt of the fight against the repeal.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000012_000004.wav|This affiliation, however, was confined exclusively to the free States.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000004_000004.wav|Despite objurgation and contempt, it had become since eighteen forty a constant and growing factor in politics.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000002_000000.wav|THE DRIFT OF POLITICS|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000009_000000.wav|It happened that this was a year for electing Congressmen.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000018_000002.wav|Connecticut followed in her footsteps early in April. Long before November it was evident that the political revolution among the people of the North was thorough, and that election day was anxiously awaited merely to record the popular verdict already decided.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000010_000005.wav|The Whigs of the South were therefore driven precipitately to division.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000013_000001.wav|However languidly certain elements of American society may perform what they deem the drudgery of politics, they do not shrink from it when they hear warning of real danger.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000014_000002.wav|Douglas, seizing only too gladly the pretext to use denunciation instead of argument, replied in his opening speech, in turn stigmatizing them as "abolition confederates"|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000003_000005.wav|Men were for or against the bill-every other political subject was left in abeyance.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000019_000001.wav|Each Congress, in ordinary course, meets for the first time about one year after its members are elected by the people, and the influence of politics during the interim needs always to be taken into account.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000010_000003.wav|Seven Southern Representatives and two Southern Senators had voted against the Nebraska bill, and many individual voters condemned it as an act of bad faith-as the abandonment of the accepted "finality," and as the provocation of a dangerous antislavery reaction.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000020_000001.wav|In the new Congress there were in the House, as nearly as the classification could be made, about one hundred eight anti Nebraska members, nearly forty Know Nothings, and about seventy five Democrats; the remaining members were undecided.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000008_000002.wav|On the other hand, the great mass of Northern Whigs promptly opposed the repeal, and formed the bulk of the opposition, nevertheless losing perhaps as many pro slavery Whigs as they gained antislavery Democrats.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000008_000000.wav|For the present, party disintegration was slow; men were reluctant to abandon their old time principles and associations.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000009_000001.wav|The Nebraska bill did not pass till the end of May, and the political excitement was at once transferred from Washington to every district of the whole country.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000011_000002.wav|Operating in entire secrecy, the country was startled by the sudden appearance in one locality after another, on election day, of a potent and unsuspected political power, which in many instances pushed both the old organizations not only to disastrous but even to ridiculous defeat.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000017_000005.wav|But they, on the other hand, persisted all the more earnestly in justifying their interference in moral questions wherever they appeared, and were clearly sustained by the public opinion of the North.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000021_000000.wav|But as yet the new party was merely inchoate, its elements distrustful, jealous, and discordant; the feuds and battles of a quarter of a century were not easily forgotten or buried.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000005_000002.wav|Now, combining wisdom with opportunity, it became conciliatory, and, abating something of its abstractions, made itself the exponent of a demand for a present and practical reform-a simple return to the ancient faith and landmarks.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000009_000002.wav|It may be said with truth that the year eighteen fifty four formed one continuous and solid political campaign from January to November, rising in interest and earnestness from first to last, and engaging in the discussion more fully than had ever occurred in previous American history all the constituent elements of our population.|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7647/102250/7647_102250_000014_000003.wav|"assembled in secret conclave"|7647
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000008_000006.wav|By smiles and flattering caresses they let him know that the stories are meant for him alone, and before long, if the boy is a suitable subject, he smiles back just as slyly.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000012_000002.wav|If there are any boys in the crowd, they are made use of by all who care to have them.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000010_000008.wav|What the pleasure consists in I cannot say.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000019_000005.wav|As such, and all the more because it is such, it deserves to be more thoroughly investigated and more reasonably treated.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000015_000005.wav|If my figures are, as I believe, at least approximately correct, the sexually perverted tramps may be estimated at between five and six thousand; this includes men and boys.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000005_000000.wav|BY "JOSIAH FLYNT."|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000015_000003.wav|A vagabond in Texas who saw this statement wrote me that he considered my estimate too low.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000010.wav|He was seized, kissed, and caressed by quite a number of men, some of whom endeavored to masturbate him, which he resisted, but performed it for them.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000006.wav|All eyes were turned on the pair and they were quickly offered drinks.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000014_000001.wav|As a rule, the prushun is freed when he is able to protect himself.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000020_000000.wav|"Josiah Flynt" who wrote the foregoing account of tramp life for the second edition of this volume, was well known as author, sociologist, and tramp.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000019_000004.wav|That it is, however, a genuine liking, in altogether too many instances, I do not, in the least, doubt.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000024_000003.wav|Another and very powerful influence in 'tramps' toward homosexuality is that, in the low lodging houses they are obliged to frequent, a single bed is perhaps double to one with a bedmate whom perhaps he has never seen before, and especially in hot weather, when the rule is nakedness.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000014_000003.wav|This is the one reward held out to prushuns during their apprenticeship.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000007_000001.wav|The latter are the real tramps. They make a business of begging-a very good business too-and keep at it, as a rule, to the end of their days.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000001.wav|The incident took place in a small seafaring town in Scotland one evening before a Fair was to be held.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000012_000009.wav|They slashed away for over half an hour, cutting each other terribly, and then their backers stopped them for fear of fatal results.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000010_000005.wav|At first they do not submit, and are inclined to run away or fight, but the men fondle and pet them, and after awhile they do not seem to care.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000004_000000.wav|HOMOSEXUALITY AMONG TRAMPS.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000020_000005.wav|I am able to supplement his observations on tramps, so far as England is concerned, by the following passages from a detailed record sent to me by an English correspondent:--|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000008_000007.wav|In time he learns to think that he is the favorite of the tramp, who will take him on his travels, and he begins to plan secret meetings with the man.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000024_000000.wav|"Another one, who told me that he had been twenty five years on the road, said that he could not endure to sleep alone. (He was a pedlar, openly of cheap religious books and secretly of the vilest pamphlets and photographs).|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000010_000011.wav|Among the men the practice is decidedly one of passion.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000004.wav|He had long, curling, fair hair which reached to his shoulders and on it an old bonnet was perched.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000012_000007.wav|Two men said they loved him, and he seemed to return the affection of both with equal desire.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000003.wav|A blind man came in led by an extremely pretty but effeminate looking youth of about seventeen, wearing a ragged kilt and with bare legs and feet.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000005.wav|He also wore an old velveteen shooting jacket.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000008_000011.wav|They are also expected to beg in every town they come to, any laziness on their part receiving very severe punishment.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000019_000001.wav|In their intercourse with boys they always take the active part.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000011_000007.wav|I asked him why he went with boys at all, and he replied: "'cause there ain't women enough.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000020_000003.wav|His real name was f Willard and he was a nephew of Miss Frances Willard.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000011_000005.wav|On learning that she was still approachable, he looked her up immediately after his release, and succeeded in staying with her for nearly a month.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000026_000008.wav|The boy said, 'I will show you I am a laddie,' and pulled up his kilt, exposing his genitals and then his posterior. Boisterous laughter greeted this indecent exposure and suggestion, and more drinks were provided.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000010_000002.wav|A colored boy succeeded in scrambling into the car, and when the train was well under way again he was tripped up and "seduced" (to use the hobo euphemism) by each of the tramps.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000016_000005.wav|So much for my finding in the United States.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000010_000001.wav|In company with eight hoboes, I was in a freight car attached to a slowly moving train.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000012_000006.wav|In one of these places I once witnessed the fiercest fight I have ever seen among hoboes; a boy was the cause of it.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000024_000001.wav|He had 'done time' and he said the greatest punishment to him was not being able to have a 'make' who would submit to penetration, though he was not particular what form the sexual act took.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000006_000003.wav|This can only be done by becoming part and parcel of its manifestations.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000009_000000.wav|How the act of unnatural intercourse takes place is not entirely clear; the hoboes are not agreed.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000003_000000.wav|APPENDIX a|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000015_000004.wav|The newspapers have criticised it as too high, but they are unable to judge.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000012_000001.wav|In the daytime the prisoners are let out into a long hall, and can do much as they please; at night they are shut up, two and even four in a cell.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000015_000002.wav|I have stated in one of my papers on tramps that, counting the boys, there are between fifty and sixty thousand genuine hoboes in the United States.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000006_000001.wav|I have lived with the tramps there for eight consecutive months, besides passing numerous shorter periods in their company, and my acquaintance with them is nearly of ten years' standing.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000010_000010.wav|Those who have passed the age of puberty seem to be satisfied in pretty much the same way that the men are.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000011_000008.wav|If I can't get them I've got to have the other."|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000021_000000.wav|"I am a male invert with complete feminine, sexual inclinations.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000016_000003.wav|But from what I know of their disinclination to adopt the latter alternative, I am inclined to think that the passion may be dying out somewhat.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233382/8028_233382_000015_000000.wav|It is difficult to say how many tramps are sexually inverted.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000033_000000.wav|Also as a result of the psychoanalysis, but trying to eliminate the influence of suggestion, he recollects and emphasizes more the attraction he felt toward girls before the age of twelve.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000002.wav|For instance there was a boy whom he considered very pretty.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000033_000001.wav|Had his sexual experiences subsequently proved normal, he doubts if those before twelve could be held to give evidence of homosexuality, but only of precocious nervous and sexual irritability, greatly heightened and directed by the secret practices of the children with whom he associated.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000028_000001.wav|My estheticism is very pronounced as compared with most of the men with whom I associate, although I have never been able to give it much scope. It makes for cleanliness, order, and general good taste.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000041_000005.wav|With her they are not passionate, but they are animated by the strong desire for children.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000017_000002.wav|He thinks that while boys of from thirteen to fifteen might possibly be rendered inverts, those who reach sixteen without it cannot be bent that way.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000007_000001.wav|From this time until the changes of puberty were well under way his sexual life contrasted strongly, in its solitude, with the former promiscuity.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000032_000007.wav|His greatest craving was for affection, and his greatest grief the fancied belief that no one cared for him.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000005.wav|He and another boy were once in an abandoned garden, and they took off all their clothes, the better to examine each other.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000007.wav|m o is sure that with himself the main consideration was always the other boy's beauty.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000001_000005.wav|Has an aversion from most outdoor sports, but a great esthetic attraction to nature.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000002.wav|m o's sexual curiosity was certainly greater in regard to the opposite sex.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000029_000001.wav|He often wants to pinch one who interests him sexually.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000014_000001.wav|Life has been very disappointing to him in other respects.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000003_000000.wav|From it, m o removed to another of just about the same character, and lived there until he was eleven years old.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000040_000007.wav|His relations with boys continued.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000008_000002.wav|Masturbation soon followed. Certain days he would perform the act two or three times, but again he would avoid it for days.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000015_000001.wav|Feminine beauty he perceives objectively, as he would any design of flowing curves and delicate coloring, but it has no sexual charm for him whatever. Women have put themselves in his way repeatedly, but he finds himself more and more irritated by their specifically feminine foibles.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000017_000000.wav|m o has no wish to injure society at large.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000003_000002.wav|With a single exception, all the children between five and fourteen years of age appear to have indulged freely in promiscuous sexual play.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000029_000000.wav|m o states that he practises the love bite at times, though very gently.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000001.wav|This was conventional among the children, and was fostered by the banter of older persons.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000004.wav|In school they looked and looked at each other until delicious, uncontrollable giggling spells came on.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000001.wav|Before this removal, he remembers two distinctly sexual experiences.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000002.wav|A cousin five years older was in the bathroom, seated, and m o was feeling his sexual organs; his mother called him out.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000023_000009.wav|If trained for it early, I believe I would have made a good contortionist.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000028_000003.wav|I have been complimented often on my ability to select appropriate presents, clothing, and to arrange a room."|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000007_000004.wav|He flirted, consciously flirted, with certain school girls, but never even suggested anything sexual to them.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000022_000001.wav|My feeling for them is much like my feeling for flowers.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000031_000001.wav|During this interval m o's health has very greatly improved.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000039_000002.wav|His physical relation with m o then ceased, but the friendship otherwise continues strong.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000010_000006.wav|Their parents may have been slightly uneasy at times, but the connection continued uninterruptedly for a year and a half or more.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000041_000006.wav|Of the parental instinct he had become aware several years before this.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000017_000001.wav|As an individual he holds that he has the same right to be himself that anyone else has.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000000.wav|Toward the end of this period there was a new and increasing development of another sort, not recognized then as at all sexual in character.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000000.wav|As far back as he can remember, he lived in a house from which his parents removed when he was four years old.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000034_000001.wav|Such interest as did exist ceased wholly or almost so as the relation with Edmund developed. There was no aversion from the company of girls and women, however; the intellectual friendships were mainly with them, while the emotional ones were with boys.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000018_000000.wav|m o feels strongly the poetic and elevated character of his principal homosexual relationships, but he shrinks from appearing too sentimental.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000032_000008.wav|At ten or eleven he attempted suicide for this reason.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000014_000002.wav|His greatest joys have come to him in this way.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000011_000000.wav|Then m o and Edmund went to college at different places, but they met in vacations and wrote frequent and ardent love letters. Both had genuine attacks of love sickness and of jealousy.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000011_000002.wav|It doubtless had great formative influence.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000024_000002.wav|These tastes I attribute largely to my sedentary life.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000025_000000.wav|"My physical courage has never been put to the test, but I observe that others appear to count on it.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000031_000000.wav|The foregoing narrative was received eight years ago.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000006.wav|She said: "I am going to tell mamma; you know she said for you not to do that any more." With each of these clear memories comes the strong impression that it was but one among many.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000013_000000.wav|On the whole m o preferred boys a year or two younger than himself, but as he grew older the age difference increased.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000038_000001.wav|With the improvement in general health, has come the changes that would be expected in food and other matters of daily life.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000035_000002.wav|Neither regrets anything of the past, but feels that the final outcome of their earlier relation has been good. Edmund's beauty is still pronounced, and is remarked by others.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000040_000003.wav|m o felt that in honor he must propose marriage to her.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000001.wav|He began to feel toward certain boys in a way very different and much keener than he had done thus far toward girls, although at the time he made no comparisons.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000007.wav|It caused a surprisingly keen and distinctly sexual sensation, the first sexual shock that he can remember experiencing.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000005.wav|Sexual matters were never discussed or thought of.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000006.wav|The other boy then offered to kiss m o's fundament, and did so.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000040_000006.wav|They corresponded, but less and less often.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000024_000001.wav|The dessert is always the best part of the meal.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000032_000000.wav|Two years since m o consulted a prominent specialist who performed a thorough psychoanalysis.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000005.wav|The girl's older sister came in and found them.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000007.wav|Five years ago m o met a man of his own age who had lived in that neighborhood at the same time. Comparing notes, they found that nearly all the small children in it had been given to such practices.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000003.wav|At this time, however, his homosexual interests appeared.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000032_000003.wav|m o had continued up to that age very affectionate toward his mother and dependent on her.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000010_000001.wav|He lay for hours dreaming of this, and inventing thrilling situations. Suddenly, at church, he became acquainted with the very youth, Edmund, who seemed to satisfy all his longings.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000027_000001.wav|Then I became irritated over a piece that troubled me, put it in the fire, and have not wanted to touch any since.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000014_000000.wav|m o is always unhappy unless his affections have fairly free course.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000019_000000.wav|With regard to the traces of feminism in inverts he writes:--|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000001_000006.wav|Highly educated.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000030_000001.wav|Very few people, he says, are perfectly honest, and the more dangerous society makes it for a man to be so, the less likely he is to be.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000012_000000.wav|After the first year at college, Edmund transferred to another school farther away from m o and the opportunities for meeting became rarer, but their affection was maintained and the intercourse resumed whenever it was possible.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000031_000002.wav|There has been a marked increase in outdoor activities and interests.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000016_000003.wav|He enjoys Pater, appreciating his attitude toward his own sex.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000010_000007.wav|In the meantime m o occasionally had relations with other boys, but never wavered in his real preference for Edmund.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000016_000004.wav|Four or five years, later he came across Raffalovich's book, and ever since has felt a real debt of gratitude to its author.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000002_000004.wav|They were lying on a carriage seat attempting intercourse.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000005_000003.wav|They visited each other often and spent long times playing together.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000001_000001.wav|He is five feet eight inches in height, and has brown hair and eyes.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000035_000000.wav|Very recently m o spent several days with Edmund, who has been married for several years.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000041_000003.wav|After a full and prolonged consideration of all sides of the matter they married.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000034_000000.wav|The psychoanalysis recalled to m o that during the period of early flirtation he had often kissed and embraced various girls, but likewise he recalled having observed at the same time, with some surprise, that no definitely sexual desire arose, though the way was probably open to gratify it.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000016_000002.wav|He read what he could of classic literature.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000021_000001.wav|When I was about thirteen my family began to make fun of me for it.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000040_000001.wav|He confided to her his abnormality, and was not repulsed.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000037_000000.wav|Again, as to traces of feminism: Perhaps two years ago, all impulse to give the love bite disappeared suddenly.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000011_000001.wav|As m o looks back on this first love passion he can by no means regret it.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000023_000005.wav|One or two have suggested that I have a finer discrimination than most men, and that I take care of my rooms somewhat as a woman might, though this does not extend to the style of decorations.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000008_000001.wav|He repeated the thing and before long produced emissions.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000041_000002.wav|m o had no secrets from this woman.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000032_000004.wav|He can remember friends and neighbors commenting on it.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000004_000008.wav|He refused to reciprocate, however, when asked.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000040_000000.wav|Shortly after the first break in this relation, m o became, through the force of quite unusual circumstances, very friendly and intimate with a young woman of considerable charm.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000026_000000.wav|"I am, perhaps, a better whistler than most men.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000016_000000.wav|The first literature that appealed to him was Plato's dialogues, first read at twenty years of age.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000003_000008.wav|In all these plays he is sure that girls took the initiative as often as boys did.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000001_000004.wav|He is of quick, nervous temperament.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000007_000005.wav|He read a few family medical books.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/8028/233366/8028_233366_000028_000002.wav|My dress is economical and by no means fastidious; yet it seems to be generally approved.|8028
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000006.wav|The emperor, who by this time was thoroughly frightened, said he would agree to anything Virgilius desired.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000040_000001.wav|Then make a proclamation that at ten o'clock a bell will toll, and every man is to enter his house, and not leave it again.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000014_000000.wav|'Well, I'll just get in and show you,' said the spirit, and after turning and twisting, and curling himself up, then he lay neatly packed into the hole.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000023_000004.wav|And when the maiden appeared, clad in her white smock, flames of fire curled about her, and the romans brought some torches, and some straw, and some shavings, and fires were kindled in Rome again.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000027_000001.wav|Virgilius spent many days in deep thought, and at length invented a plan which was known to all as the 'Preservation of Rome.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000019_000003.wav|After which he lifted the spell, and the invading army slunk back to Rome, and reported what Virgilius had said to the emperor.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000032_000000.wav|And the senators gave leave, and the messengers hired boats and men, and let down ropes with hooks, and at length drew up the pot of gold, some of which they gave as presents to the senators.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000023_000003.wav|And further, he bade every one to snatch fire from the maiden, and to suffer no neighbour to kindle it.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000042_000000.wav|But at the last stroke of the bell the horse set off at full gallop through the streets of Rome, and by daylight men counted over two hundred corpses that it had trodden down.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000006_000000.wav|'I do,' replied Virgilius.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000010_000001.wav|Underneath was a small hole, and out of this the evil spirit gradually wriggled himself; but it took some time, for when at last he stood upon the ground he proved to be about three times as large as Virgilius himself, and coal black besides.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000034_000001.wav|Now, seeing that by your goodness we have been greatly enriched by our former dreams, we wish, in gratitude, to bestow this third treasure on you for your own profit; so give us workers, and we will begin to dig without delay.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000041_000000.wav|The emperor did as Virgilius advised, but thieves and murderers laughed at the horse, and went about their misdeeds as usual.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000003_000001.wav|But one afternoon, when the boys were given a holiday, he took a long walk, and found himself in a place where he had never been before.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000029_000001.wav|So the people chose three men who could be trusted, and, loading them with money, sent them to Rome, bidding them to pretend that they were diviners of dreams.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000002.wav|He did not know how to fight the magician, but with a great effort struggled to open his Black Book, which told him what spells to use.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000051_000000.wav|Then the sultan ordered his guards to bind him, and left him there till the following day.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000043_000000.wav|Then the emperor commanded two copper dogs to be made that would run after the horse, and when the thieves, hanging from the walls, mocked and jeered at Virgilius and the emperor, the dogs leaped high after them and pulled them to the ground, and bit them to death.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000047_000001.wav|The hours passed as if they were minutes, till the princess said that she could be no longer absent from her father.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000005.wav|All day they stayed there like flies upon the wall, but during the night Virgilius stole softly to the emperor, and offered him his freedom, as long as he would do him justice.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000002_000000.wav|Long, long ago there was born to a Roman knight and his wife Maja a little boy called Virgilius.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000050_000000.wav|When they were all seated at the feast the princess rose and presented the cup to Virgilius, who directly he had drunk fell into a deep sleep.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000031_000000.wav|A few days later the diviners again appeared before the senate, and said, 'Oh, noble lords, grant us leave to seek out another treasure, which has been revealed to us in a dream as lying under the bridge over the river.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000011_000000.wav|'Why, you can't have been as big as that when you were in the hole!' cried Virgilius.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000012_000000.wav|'But I was!' replied the spirit.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000026_000000.wav|He went quietly with his guards, but the day was hot, and on reaching his place of execution he begged for some water.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000013_000000.wav|'I don't believe it!' answered Virgilius.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000003_000002.wav|In front of him was a cave, and, as no boy ever sees a cave without entering it, he went in.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000054_000000.wav|'Not so!' cried the sultan, 'but a shameful death you shall die!' And the princess fell on her knees, and begged she might die with him.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000015_000001.wav|But at the end of that time a messenger from his mother arrived in Toledo, begging him to come at once to Rome, as she had been ill, and could look after their affairs no longer.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000017_000001.wav|Of course, Virgilius paid no attention to this behaviour, though he noticed they looked with envy on the rich presents he bestowed on the poorer relations and on anyone who had been kind to his mother.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000007.wav|So Virgilius took off his spells, and, after feasting the army and bestowing on every man a gift, bade them return to Rome.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000016_000001.wav|So he entrusted to the messenger four pack horses laden with precious things, and a white palfrey on which she was to ride out every day.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000035_000000.wav|And receiving permission they began to dig, and when the messengers had almost undermined the Capitol they stole away as secretly as they had come.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000002_000001.wav|While he was still quite little, his father died, and the kinsmen, instead of being a help and protection to the child and his mother, robbed them of their lands and money, and the widow, fearing that they might take the boy's life also, sent him away to Spain, that he might study in the great University of Toledo.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000040_000000.wav|'Great prince,' said he, 'cause a copper horse and rider to be made, and stationed in front of the Capitol.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000055_000000.wav|'You are out in your reckoning, Sir Sultan!' said Virgilius, whose patience was at an end, and he cast a spell over the sultan and his lords, so that they believed that the great river of Babylon was flowing through the hall, and that they must swim for their lives.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000025_000001.wav|And when everything was ready he was led out to the Viminal Hill, where he was to die.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000055_000001.wav|So, leaving them to plunge and leap like frogs and fishes, Virgilius took the princess in his arms, and carried her over the airy bridge back to Rome.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000039_000000.wav|Virgilius thought hard for a long time, and then he spoke:|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000001.wav|His proposals were gladly accepted, and in a moment the whole of the garrison sank down as if they were dead, and Virgilius himself had much ado to keep awake.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000023_000001.wav|The emperor, guessing that this was the work of Virgilius, besought him to break the spell.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000009_000000.wav|'I am an evil spirit,' said the voice, 'shut up here till Doomsday, unless a man sets me free.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000003.wav|In an instant all his foes seemed turned to stone, and where each man was there he stayed.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000018_000001.wav|But as these were kinsmen to the emperor he gained nothing, as the emperor told him he would think over the matter for the next four years, and then give judgment.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000026_000001.wav|A pail was brought, and he, crying 'Emperor, all hail! seek for me in Sicily,' jumped headlong into the pail, and vanished from their sight.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000016_000002.wav|Then he set about his own preparations, and, followed by a large train of scholars, he at length started for Rome, from which he had been absent twelve years.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000025_000000.wav|But the emperor was wroth at the vengeance of Virgilius, and threw him into prison, vowing that he should be put to death.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000029_000002.wav|No sooner had the messengers reached the city than they stole out at night and buried a pot of gold far down in the earth, and let down another into the bed of the Tiber, just where a bridge spans the river.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000018_000002.wav|This reply naturally did not satisfy Virgilius, and, turning on his heel, he went back to his own home, and, gathering in his harvest, he stored it up in his various houses.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000038_000000.wav|The emperor, desiring nothing so much as the safety of his subjects, took counsel with Virgilius how this violence could be put down.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000019_000002.wav|Coming forth from the castle so as to meet them face to face, he cast a spell over them of such power that they could not move, and then bade them defiance.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000037_000000.wav|From that day things went from bad to worse, and every morning crowds presented themselves before the emperor, complaining of the robberies, murders, and other crimes that were committed nightly in the streets.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000022_000003.wav|Virgilius was enchanted at this quite unexpected favour, and stepped with glee into the basket.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000052_000001.wav|The moment he appeared the sultan's passion broke forth, and he accused his captive of the crime of conveying the princess into distant lands without his leave.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000018_000000.wav|Soon after this had happened the season of tax gathering came round, and everyone who owned land was bound to present himself before the emperor. Like the rest, Virgilius went to court, and demanded justice from the emperor against the men who had robbed him.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000000.wav|Things seemed getting desperate, when a magician arrived in the camp and offered to sell his services to the emperor.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000030_000001.wav|Have we your leave to dig for it?' And leave having been given, the messengers took workmen and dug up the gold and made merry with it.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000021_000004.wav|Some were half way up the ladders, some had one foot over the wall, but wherever they might chance to be there every man remained, even the emperor and his sorcerer.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000045_000000.wav|Now about this time there came to be noised abroad the fame of the daughter of the sultan who ruled over the province of Babylon, and indeed she was said to be the most beautiful princess in the world.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000016_000000.wav|Though sorry to leave Toledo, where he was much thought of as showing promise of great learning, Virgilius would willingly have set out at once, but there were many things he had first to see to.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000008_000000.wav|'But who are you?' asked Virgilius, who never did anything in a hurry.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101289/7553_101289_000030_000000.wav|Next day they went to the senate house, where the laws were made, and, bowing low, they said, 'Oh, noble lords, last night we dreamed that beneath the foot of a hill there lies buried a pot of gold.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000028_000001.wav|So he said to the King of the Snakes, 'Send me home, I pray.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000015_000001.wav|And this he did every day for three months.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000012_000000.wav|'Knock again!' cried they.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000018_000001.wav|And when the men were dividing the money, one said, 'Let us send a little to our friend's mother,' and they sent some to her; and every day one took her rice, and one oil; one took her meat, and one took her cloth, every day.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000018_000000.wav|Then they arose and went into the town and told his mother as they had agreed, and she wept much and made her mourning for many months.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000007_000000.wav|'Many days have passed, and I have thought nothing of them.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000022_000001.wav|This was the King of the Snakes coming in state to his palace.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000020_000005.wav|And when he had got outside, he saw a large open space in front of him, and a path leading out of it.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000032_000000.wav|Now the Sultan of the city was very ill, and all the wise men said that the only thing to cure him was the flesh of the King of the Snakes, and that the only man who could get it was a man with a strange mark on his chest.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000003_000001.wav|When he ceased to be a baby, and his mother thought it was time for him to learn to read, she sent him to school.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000037_000000.wav|They went together a long, long way, till they reached the palace of the King of the Snakes.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000030_000000.wav|'I will do you no evil,' replied Hassebu; 'send me home, I pray.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000021_000001.wav|Inside was a great hall, and in the middle of the hall a throne set with precious stones and a sofa spread with the softest cushions.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000012_000001.wav|And he knocked and listened.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000044_000000.wav|And the Sultan loved Hassebu, who became a great physician, and cured many sick people.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000010_000001.wav|And for six days they went and did the like, but on the seventh it rained, and the wood cutters ran and hid in the rocks, all but Hassebu, who did not mind wetting, and stayed where he was.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000003_000003.wav|His mother never wished him to do anything he did not like, so she said: 'Well, stay at home, my son.' And he stayed at home, eating and sleeping.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000013_000001.wav|And they dug, and found a large pit like a well, filled with honey up to the brim.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000031_000000.wav|But the king said, 'I know it.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000043_000000.wav|And they went their way into the town, and all happened as the King of the Snakes had said.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000019_000002.wav|And by night he slept, and by day he took a little of the honey he had gathered and ate it; and so many days passed by.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000021_000002.wav|And he went in and lay down on it, and fell fast asleep, for he had wandered far.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000033_000000.wav|For three days Hassebu remembered his promise to the King of the Snakes, and did not go near the baths; then came a morning so hot he could hardly breathe, and he forgot all about it.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000029_000000.wav|But the King of the Snakes answered, 'When you go home, you will do me evil!'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000019_000000.wav|It did not take long for Hassebu to find out that his companions had left him to die in the pit, but he had a brave heart, and hoped that he might be able to find a way out for himself.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000006_000000.wav|'Where, then, are his books?' asked Hassebu.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000042_000002.wav|But take some of the water that I am boiled in, and put it in a bottle and lay it on one side.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000022_000000.wav|By and by there was a sound of people coming through the courtyard, and the measured tramp of soldiers.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000024_000000.wav|'Who are you?' asked Hassebu.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000041_000000.wav|'Then I am already dead,' said the King sadly, 'but you must carry me there yourself.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000032_000001.wav|So the Vizir had set people to watch at the public baths, to see if such a man came there.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000020_000004.wav|Then his heart felt glad, and he took out his knife and dug and dug, till the little hole became a big one, and he could wriggle himself through.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000031_000001.wav|If I send you home, you will come back, and kill me.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000023_000001.wav|The soldiers wished to kill him at once, but the king said, 'Leave him alone, put me on a chair,' and the soldiers who were carrying him knelt on the floor, and he slid from their shoulders on to a chair.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000036_000000.wav|Then Hassebu cried, 'Loose me, that I may take you.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000028_000000.wav|For some days Hassebu rested and feasted in the palace of the King of the Snakes, and then he began to long for his mother and his own country.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000020_000000.wav|One morning, while he was sitting on a rock having his breakfast, a large scorpion dropped down at his feet, and he took a stone and killed it, fearing it would sting him.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000005_000000.wav|'He was a very learned doctor,' answered she.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000027_000000.wav|'Then stay for a little with me,' said the king, and he bade his soldiers bring water from the spring and fruits from the forest, and to set them before the guest.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000035_000000.wav|'I do not know it!' answered he, but the Vizir did not believe him, and had him bound and beaten till his back was all torn.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000044_000001.wav|But he was always sorry for the poor King of the Snakes.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000034_000000.wav|The moment he had slipped off his robe he was taken before the Vizir, who said to him, 'Lead us to the place where the King of the Snakes lives.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000042_000004.wav|Then take some more of the water, and drink it, and you will become a great physician, and the third supply you will give to the Sultan.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000039_000000.wav|'Who has beaten you like this?' asked the King.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000031_000003.wav|Then he went straight to his mother's house, and the heart of his mother was glad.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000003_000000.wav|Once upon a time there lived a poor woman who had only one child, and he was a little boy called Hassebu.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000042_000003.wav|The Vizir will tell you to drink it, but be careful not to do so.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000009_000000.wav|And his mother answered, 'Very well; to morrow I will buy him a donkey, and you can all go together.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000031_000002.wav|I dare not do it.' But Hassebu begged so hard that at last the king said, 'Swear that when you get home you will not go to bathe where many people are gathered.' And Hassebu swore, and the king ordered his soldiers to take Hassebu in sight of his native city.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000010_000000.wav|So the donkey was bought, and the neighbours came, and they worked hard all day, and in the evening they brought the wood back into the town, and sold it for a good sum of money.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000008_000000.wav|He was sitting at home one morning poring over the medicine book, when some neighbours came by and said to his mother: 'Give us this boy, that we may go together to cut wood.' For wood cutting was their trade, and they loaded several donkeys with the wood, and sold it in the town.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000042_000005.wav|And when the Vizir comes to you and asks, "Did you drink what I gave you?" you must answer, "I did, and this is for you," and he will drink it and die! and your soul will rest.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000020_000002.wav|Perhaps there is a hole.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000020_000003.wav|I will go and look for it,' and he felt all round the walls of the pit till he found a very little hole in the roof of the pit, with a tiny glimmer of light at the far end of it.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000021_000000.wav|He went along the path, on and on, till he reached a large house, with a golden door standing open.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000015_000000.wav|The following day each man brought every bowl and vessel he could find at home, and Hassebu filled them all with honey.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000042_000001.wav|And on the way the King said, 'When I arrive, I shall be killed, and my flesh will be cooked.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000003_000002.wav|And, after he had done with school, he was put into a shop to learn how to make clothes, and did not learn; and he was put to do silversmith's work, and did not learn; and whatsoever he was taught, he did not learn it.|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000038_000000.wav|And Hassebu said to the King: 'It was not I: look at my back and you will see how they drove me to it.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000004_000000.wav|One day the boy said to his mother: 'What was my father's business?'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7553/101278/7553_101278_000026_000000.wav|'My name is Hassebu, but whence I come I know not, nor whither I go.'|7553
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000023_000004.wav|General Ames put him among the gunners, and we were quickly made aware of the loss we had sustained, by receiving a frequent artful ball which seemed to light with unerring instinct on any nose that was the least bit exposed.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000017_000001.wav|Nothing on earth could represent the state of things after the first volley.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000021_000001.wav|The rest retired confused and blinded by our well directed fire.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000033_000002.wav|They could not get within ten yards of the fort, our fire was so destructive.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000007_000001.wav|The walls were four feet high, and twenty two inches thick, strengthened at the angles by stakes driven firmly into the ground.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000027_000001.wav|We held thirteen of his men, and he eleven of ours.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000025_000000.wav|It was glorious excitement, those pell mell onslaughts and hand to hand struggles.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000029_000005.wav|Of course we had to vacate the fort.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000013_000001.wav|The interview had taken place on the hillside between the opposing lines.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000004_000001.wav|An immense stratum of granite, which here and there thrust out a wrinkled boulder, prevented the site from being used for building purposes.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000009_000000.wav|In less than an hour it was known all over town, in military circles at least, that the "Puddle dockers" and the "River rats" (these were the derisive sub titles bestowed on our South End foes) intended to attack the fort that Saturday afternoon.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000033_000001.wav|In vain the four guardians of the peace rushed up the hill, flourishing their clubs and calling upon us to surrender.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000031_000001.wav|At every assault three or four boys on each side were disabled.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000013_000000.wav|These preliminaries settled, the commanders retired to their respective corps.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000031_000000.wav|It was no longer child's play to march up to the walls of Fort Slatter, nor was the position of the besieged less perilous.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000025_000001.wav|Twice we were within an ace of being driven from our stronghold, when General Harris and his staff leaped recklessly upon the ramparts and hurled the besiegers heels over head down hill.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000001_000000.wav|The memory of man, even that of the Oldest Inhabitant, runneth not back to the time when there did not exist a feud between the North End and the South End boys of Rivermouth.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000010_000001.wav|The enemy was not slow in making his approach-fifty strong, headed by one Mat Ames.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000026_000000.wav|At sunset, the garrison of Fort Slatter was still unconquered, and the South Enders, in a solid phalanx, marched off whistling "Yankee Doodle," while we cheered and jeered them until they were out of hearing.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000035_000000.wav|But we lost Fort Slatter forever.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000015_000001.wav|It was also their duty, when not otherwise engaged, to manufacture snow balls.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000004_000000.wav|Slatter's Hill, or No man's land, as it was generally called, was a rise of ground covering, perhaps, an acre and a quarter, situated on an imaginary line, marking the boundary between the two districts.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000010_000000.wav|At two o'clock all the fighting boys of the Temple Grammar School, and as many recruits as we could muster, lay behind the walls of Fort Slatter, with three hundred compact snowballs piled up in pyramids, awaiting the approach of the enemy.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000020_000003.wav|The shouts of the leaders, and the snowballs bursting like shells about our ears, made it very lively.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000024_000002.wav|Already there were two bad cases of black eye, and one of nosebleed, in the hospital.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000034_000004.wav|So, after one grand farewell volley, we fled, sliding, jumping, rolling, tumbling down the quarry at the rear of the fort, and escaped without losing a man.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000007_000000.wav|The rear of the entrenchment, being protected by the quarry, was left open.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000019_000000.wav|The thrilling moment had now arrived.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000008_000000.wav|Fancy the rage of the South Enders the next day, when they spied our snowy citadel, with Jack Harris's red silk pocket handkerchief floating defiantly from the flag staff.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000028_000001.wav|I forget whether it was on that afternoon or the next that we lost Fort Slatter; but lose it we did, with much valuable ammunition and several men.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000020_000000.wav|The fort opened fire first-a single ball from the dexterous band of General Harris taking General Ames in the very pit of his stomach.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000034_000000.wav|Perceiving that it was impossible with their small number to dislodge us, the watch sent for reinforcements.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000029_000000.wav|General Ames handled his men with great skill; his deadliest foe could not deny that.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000011_000001.wav|As it was impossible for the North Enders to occupy the fort permanently, it was stipulated that the South Enders should assault it only on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons between the hours of two and six.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000031_000002.wav|It was not an infrequent occurrence for the combatants to hold up a flag of truce while they removed some insensible comrade.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000029_000001.wav|Once he outgeneralled our commander in the following manner: He massed his gunners on our left and opened a brisk fire, under cover of which a single company (six men) advanced on that angle of the fort.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000024_000001.wav|The battle raged.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000027_000000.wav|General Ames remained behind to effect an exchange of prisoners.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000024_000000.wav|But we had no time for vain regrets.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000022_000000.wav|When General Harris (with his right eye bunged up) said, "Soldiers, I am proud of you!" my heart swelled in my bosom.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000036_000001.wav|You ought to have been at the fights on Slatter's Hill!"|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000035_000001.wav|Those battle scarred ramparts were razed to the ground, and humiliating ashes sprinkled over the historic spot, near which a solitary lynx eyed policeman was seen prowling from time to time during the rest of the winter.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000030_000005.wav|snow balls containing marbles.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000010_000002.wav|Our forces were under the command of General j Harris.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000033_000000.wav|The watch were determined fellows, and charged the boys valiantly, driving them all into the fort, where we made common cause, fighting side by side like the best of friends.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000030_000002.wav|A ball stuck full of sand bird shot came tearing into Fort Slatter.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000032_000001.wav|Seven North Enders had been seriously wounded, and a dozen South Enders were reported on the sick list. The selectmen of the town awoke to the fact of what was going on, and detailed a posse of police to prevent further disturbance.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000034_000002.wav|This formidable array brought us to our senses: we began to think that maybe discretion was the better part of valor.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000011_000002.wav|For them to take possession of the place at any other time was not to constitute a capture, but on the contrary was to be considered a dishonorable and cowardly act.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000004_000002.wav|The street ran on either side of the hill, from one part of which a quantity of rock had been removed to form the underpinning of the new jail. This excavation made the approach from that point all but impossible, especially when the ragged ledges were a glitter with ice.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000023_000003.wav|Whitcomb was one of the most notable shots on our side, though he was not much to boast of in a rough and tumble fight, owing to the weakness before mentioned.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000032_000000.wav|Matters grew worse and worse.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000000_000000.wav|Chapter Thirteen-The Snow Fort on Slatter's Hill|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000034_000001.wav|Their call was responded to, not only by the whole constabulary force (eight men), but by a numerous body of citizens, who had become alarmed at the prospect of a riot.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000016_000002.wav|Each scaler was provided with only two rounds of ammunition, which were not to be used until he had mounted the breastwork and could deliver his shots on our heads.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000015_000000.wav|The repellers were called light infantry; but when they carried on operations beyond the fort they became cavalry.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000023_000001.wav|Six North Enders, having rushed out to harass the discomfited enemy, were gallantly cut off by General Ames and captured.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000036_000000.wav|The event passed into a legend, and afterwards, when later instances of pluck and endurance were spoken of, the boys would say, "By golly!|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000029_000006.wav|A cloud rested on General Harris's military reputation until his superior tactics enabled him to dispossess the enemy.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66176/6269_66176_000030_000006.wav|After this, both sides never failed to freeze their ammunition.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000008_000000.wav|Our return, therefore, by the first train on the following day did not surprise him.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000007_000001.wav|He knew that the faithful old sailor would not let me come to any harm, and even if I had managed for the time being to elude him, was sure to bring me back sooner or later.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000022_000003.wav|It was hard to give up the long cherished dream of being a Harvard boy; but I gave it up.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000018_000001.wav|Little Black Sam, by the by, had been taken by his master from my father's service ten months previously, and put on a sugar plantation near Baton Rouge.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000011_000001.wav|"I thought I could."|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000005_000000.wav|I must turn back for a moment to that eventful evening.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000004_000000.wav|My father had died at New Orleans during one of his weekly visits to the city.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000020_000000.wav|I was sorry when it became necessary to discuss questions more nearly affecting myself.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000024_000000.wav|'We adopted Uncle Snow's views so far as to accede to his proposition forthwith.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000014_000000.wav|As the days went by my first grief subsided, and in its place grew up a want which I have experienced at every step in life from boyhood to manhood.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000003_000002.wav|I do not like to look back to the agony and suspense of that moment.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000015_000001.wav|There were many tranquil, pleasant hours in store for me at that period, and I prefer to turn to them.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000011_000000.wav|"I can't read it, Tom," said the old gentleman, breaking down.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000004_000001.wav|The letter bearing these tidings had reached Rivermouth the evening of my flight-had passed me on the road by the down train.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000023_000000.wav|The decision once made, it was Uncle Snow's wish that I should enter his counting house immediately.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000026_000000.wav|In the excitement of preparing for the journey I didn't feel any very deep regret myself.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000024_000001.wav|My mother, I neglected to say, was also to reside in New York.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000014_000001.wav|Often, even now, after all these years, when I see a lad of twelve or fourteen walking by his father's side, and glancing merrily up at his face, I turn and look after them, and am conscious that I have missed companionship most sweet and sacred.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000027_000000.wav|As the carriage swept round the corner, I leaned out of the window to take a last look at Sailor Ben's cottage, and there was the Admiral's flag flying at half mast.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000022_000000.wav|In the midst of our discussions a letter came from my Uncle Snow, a merchant in New York, generously offering me a place in his counting house.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000016_000005.wav|With my mother's hand in mine once more, all the long years we had been parted appeared like a dream.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000002_000000.wav|A letter with a great black seal!|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000016_000001.wav|My mother had arrived at New York, and would be with us the next day.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000007_000000.wav|My grandfather, however, was too full of trouble to allow this to add to his distress.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000022_000002.wav|If I accepted my uncle's offer, I might hope to work my way to independence without loss of time.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000005_000002.wav|I had evidently got off by the train and Sailor Ben had followed me.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000016_000003.wav|I was to go to Boston with the Captain to meet her and bring her home.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000003_000001.wav|But which was it, father or mother?|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000019_000000.wav|How all these simple details interested me will be readily understood by any boy who has been long absent from home.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000017_000001.wav|There were consultations with lawyers, and signing of papers, and correspondence; for my father's affairs had been left in great confusion.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000012_000000.wav|He handed it to me.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000023_000003.wav|It was not only a bad investment, it was lunacy.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000005_000001.wav|When I failed to make my appearance at supper, the Captain began to suspect that I had really started on my wild tour southward-a conjecture which Sailor Ben's absence helped to confirm.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000001_000000.wav|Chapter Twenty One-In Which I Leave Rivermouth|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000023_000002.wav|His fears were based upon the fact that I had published in the Rivermouth Barnacle some verses addressed in a familiar manner "To the Moon." Now, the idea of a boy, with his living to get, placing himself in communication with the Moon, struck the mercantile mind as monstrous.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000020_000001.wav|I had been removed from school temporarily, but it was decided, after much consideration, that I should not return, the decision being left, in a manner, in my own hands.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000006_000000.wav|There was no telegraphic communication between Boston and Rivermouth in those days; so my grandfather could do nothing but await the result. Even if there had been another mail to Boston, he could not have availed himself of it, not knowing how to address a message to the fugitives. The post office was naturally the last place either I or the Admiral would think of visiting.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000015_000000.wav|I shall not dwell on this portion of my story.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66184/6269_66184_000023_000001.wav|The cause of my good uncle's haste was this-he was afraid that I would turn out to be a poet before he could make a merchant of me.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000006_000001.wav|I hope all the praises she received and all the spangled trappings she wore did not spoil her; but I am afraid they did, for she was always over much given to the vanities of this world!|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000005_000001.wav|A month after my departure from Rivermouth the Captain informed me by letter that he had parted with the little mare, according to agreement.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000005_000003.wav|She did not disappoint my glowing anticipations, but became quite a celebrity in her way-by dancing the polka to slow music on a pine board ball room constructed for the purpose.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000003_000000.wav|The new life upon which I entered, the new friends and foes I encountered on the road, and what I did and what I did not, are matters that do not come within the scope of these pages.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000005_000000.wav|First about Gypsy.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000017_000000.wav|Young Conway went into the grocery business with his ancient chum, Rodgers-RODGERS and CONWAY!|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000014_000001.wav|Great events no longer considered it worth their while to honor so quiet a place.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000004_000000.wav|I am sure that the reader who has followed me thus far will be willing to hear what became of her, and Sailor Ben and Miss Abigail and the Captain.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000002_000000.wav|With the close of my school days at Rivermouth this modest chronicle ends.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000008_000000.wav|The old house became very lonely when the family got reduced to Captain Nutter and Kitty; and when Kitty passed away, my grandfather divided his time between Rivermouth and New York.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000010_000000.wav|He also expressed a wish to have his body stitched up in a shotted hammock and dropped into the harbor; but as he did not strenuously insist on this, and as it was not in accordance with my grandfather's preconceived notions of Christian burial, the Admiral was laid to rest beside Kitty, in the Old South Burying Ground, with an anchor that would have delighted him neatly carved on his headstone.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000005_000002.wav|She had been sold to the ring master of a travelling circus (I had stipulated on this disposal of her), and was about to set out on her travels.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000012_000000.wav|For several months after leaving Rivermouth I carried on a voluminous correspondence with Pepper Whitcomb; but it gradually dwindled down to a single letter a month, and then to none at all.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000018_000000.wav|I have reserved my pleasantest word for the last.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6269/66185/6269_66185_000018_000001.wav|It is touching the Captain.|6269
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000050_000002.wav|"He must have clothes, you know," said the poor woman, wailing.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000052_000000.wav|"Papa has not had a new pair of trousers this year," said Sophy.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000009_000000.wav|"They must have their dinner, at any rate," said mr Grey.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000081_000000.wav|"But if you don't hate them it is because you won't take the trouble, and that again is not right.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000073_000003.wav|I don't know which I hate the worst,--Uncle Carroll or mr Scarborough."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000071_000000.wav|"But in that case he should have nothing more.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000091_000000.wav|"I don't mean the law in that sense.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000011_000000.wav|"Very badly.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000066_000000.wav|"In what way 'done,' my dear?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000004_000000.wav|"And the three eldest girls are coming."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000027_000000.wav|"We were out to day on the Brompton Road," said the eldest, "and there came up Prince Chitakov's drag with four roans."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000088_000002.wav|Tell Minna I will lend her that book I spoke of.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000021_000000.wav|"Papa has, unfortunately, something to do with his time, which is not altogether his own." There was not much in these words, but the tone in which they were uttered would have crushed any one more susceptible than Amelia Carroll.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000050_000004.wav|The loan had to be arranged in full conclave, as otherwise mrs Carroll would have found it difficult to obtain access to her brother's ear.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000007_000001.wav|They said their papa would be away on business."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000073_000002.wav|It is not that I wish to avoid my share of the world's burdens, but that justice should be done.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000007_000002.wav|It was understood that mr Carroll was never asked to the Manor house.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000092_000000.wav|"You propose it all as though it were the easiest thing in the world."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000091_000002.wav|If his son is willing to pay these money lenders what sums they have actually advanced, and if by any effort on his part the money can be raised, let it be done.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000039_000001.wav|Don't married ladies wear little fluffy fur ornaments?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000064_000003.wav|Then mr Grey got out his check book and wrote the check for twenty pounds.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000059_000002.wav|It was very necessary that she should do so, if the family was to be kept on its legs at all. "I don't think any good can come from discussing what my uncle does with the money."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000019_000001.wav|This came from his afflicted wife, who, in spite of all his misfortunes, would ever speak with some respect of her husband's employments.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000072_000001.wav|Poor Jane suffers worse from this gnat than you or i Put up with it; and understand in your own mind that when he comes for another twenty pounds he must have it.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000006.wav|At half past six punctually they came.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000044_000002.wav|For it was in that light that Miss Grey regarded it. "And did you have any farther adventures besides this memorable encounter with the prince?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000037_000000.wav|"But it isn't the Princess of Christian, nor yet the Princess of Teck, nor the Princess of England.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000024_000000.wav|"I won't be half a moment," said the repentant father, hastening up stairs to go through his ordinary dressing arrangement.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000073_000001.wav|He is an evil thing, and should be made to reap the proper reward.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000065_000001.wav|This was said by Dolly as soon as the family had withdrawn.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000091_000005.wav|Go there prepared with your opinion.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000043_000000.wav|"He did," said Sophy.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000043_000002.wav|If my father had seen it he'd have had the prince off the box of the coach in no time."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000009_000003.wav|She despatched her father in a cab, the cab having been procured because he was supposed to be a quarter of an hour late, and then went to work to order her dinner.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000009_000002.wav|This had been a subject much discussed between them, but on the present occasion Miss Grey would not renew it.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000003_000002.wav|I don't think she ever has a nice dinner at home."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000004.wav|She was sixteen, and was possessed of terrible vitality.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000047_000000.wav|"We were not disappointed in the least," said Amelia.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000064_000002.wav|"He does want them very badly-for decency's sake," said the poor wife, thus winding up her plea.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000088_000001.wav|I have got a frock which I will bring with me as a present for Potsey; and I will make her sew on the buttons for herself.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000036_000001.wav|"It's the Princess of Wales."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000072_000000.wav|"My dear," said mr Grey, "you cannot get rid of the gnats of the world. They will buzz and sting and be a nuisance.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000049_000000.wav|"That is because the prince did not kiss his hand to you," said Sophy. Then Miss Grey sunk again into silence, crushed beneath this last blow.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000056_000001.wav|"Uncle john would not like not to have any clothes."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000031_000001.wav|I never saw anything more tasty than her dress,--dark red silk, with little fluffy fur ornaments all over it.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000069_000000.wav|"That would be intended," said Dolly.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000016_000000.wav|"Poor papa isn't very well, either," said Sophy, who was supposed to be her father's pet.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000045_000000.wav|"Nothing nearly so interesting," said Sophy.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000040_000001.wav|"It really isn't becoming."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000054_000000.wav|"Hold your tongue, miss!" said her mother.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000003.wav|Georgina, the third, was still at school under similar circumstances, and was pardoned her egregious noisiness and romping propensities under the score of youth.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000087_000002.wav|It is not what the clergyman may say of you, but that your mind will get away for two hours from that other reptile and his concerns." Then mr Grey, with a loud, long sigh, allowed his boots, and his gloves, and his church going hat, and his church going umbrella to be brought to him.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000002.wav|This lover had something to do with horses, and had only been heard of, had never been seen, at the Manor house. Sophy was a good deal hated also, being a forward, flirting, tricky girl of seventeen, who had just left the school at which Uncle john had paid for her education.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000051_000000.wav|"I dare say something ought to be done at some time," said mr Grey, who knew that he would be told, when the evening was over, that he would give away all his substance to that man if he were asked.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000017_000000.wav|"I hope his state of health will not debar him from dining with his friends to night," said Miss Grey.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000050_000005.wav|But the one auditor whom she feared was her niece.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000030_000001.wav|What did the prince do?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000091_000003.wav|There seems to be some justice in repaying out of the property that which was lent to the property when by mr Scarborough's own doing the property was supposed to go into the eldest son's hands.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000013_000000.wav|"Poor Potsey has got a nasty boil under her arm."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000020_000000.wav|When they had waited three quarters of an hour Amelia began to complain,--certainly not without reason.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000039_000000.wav|"But," continued the attorney, "why shouldn't the lady have been his wife?|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000089_000002.wav|"I should lay down the law to him-" began Dolly.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000087_000001.wav|You must come to church, in order that some idea of what Christianity demands of you may make its way into your heart.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000068_000000.wav|"He'd only spend it, my dear."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000064_000000.wav|Dolly had gone back to her book, and disdained to make any farther reply.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000078_000000.wav|"I am not sure that I hate anybody very much."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000089_000001.wav|The discussion was held in the dining room, and may, therefore, be supposed to have been premeditated. Those at night in mr Grey's own bedroom were generally the result of sudden thought.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000028_000001.wav|I didn't know there was such a prince."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000079_000000.wav|"I do."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000026_000000.wav|"Well, girls, what is your news?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000033_000000.wav|"I don't think the prince is a married man," said Sophy.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000043_000001.wav|"It's the most impertinent thing I ever heard.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000087_000003.wav|It was, in fact, his aversion to these articles that Dolly had to encounter.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000007.wav|Dolly heard a great clatter of four people leaving their clogs and cloaks in the hall, and would not move out of the unused drawing room, in which for the moment she was seated.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000032_000000.wav|"mrs Chitakov, probably," said the attorney.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000005.wav|"I am sure they take after their father altogether," mr Grey had once said when the three left the Manor house together.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000000.wav|It has been said that Miss Grey hated the Carrolls; but she hated the daughters worse than the mother, and of all the people she hated in the world she hated Amelia Carroll the worst.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000084_000000.wav|"Then you certainly ought to go to church."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000012_000001.wav|How are Minna, and Brenda, and Potsey?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000038_000000.wav|"Papa, don't bamboozle her," said his daughter.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000050_000006.wav|On the present occasion Miss Grey simply took up her book to show that the subject was one which had no interest for her; but she did undoubtedly listen to all that was said on the subject. "There was never anything settled about poor Patrick's clothes," said mrs Carroll, in a half whisper.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000061_000000.wav|"Your cousin Dorothy is very fortunate," said mrs Carroll.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000093_000001.wav|I would not discuss anything of which the justice may hereafter be disputed."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000074_000000.wav|The next day was Sunday, and Dolly was very anxious before breakfast to induce her father to say that he would go to church with her; but he was inclined to be obstinate, and fell back upon his usual excuse, saying that there were Scarborough papers which it would be necessary that he should read before he started for Tretton on the following day.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000012_000000.wav|"I haven't counted; but when I do come I don't often do any good.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000025_000000.wav|"I wouldn't hurry for her," said Dolly; "but of course you'll hurry. You always do, don't you, papa?" Then they sat down to dinner.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000064_000004.wav|But he made it payable, not to mr but to mrs Carroll.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000067_000000.wav|"As to settling some farther sum for himself."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000061_000001.wav|"She does not know what it is to want for anything."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000062_000001.wav|"It is Dolly's only fault that she won't."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000055_000001.wav|Of course, papa is a trouble."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000003_000000.wav|"I know she is.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000001.wav|Amelia, the eldest, entertained an idea that she was more of a personage in the world's eyes than her cousin,--that she went to more parties, which certainly was true if she went to any,--that she wore finer clothes, which was also true, and that she had a lover, whereas Dolly Grey,--as she called her cousin behind her back,--had none.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000014_000001.wav|"I told her it would."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000021_000001.wav|But at that moment the cab arrived, and Dolly went down to meet her father.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000058_000002.wav|There was one hundred and fifty pounds a year coming from settled property, which had been preserved by the lawyer's care, and which was regarded in the family as "papa's own."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000087_000000.wav|"I know you would, you dear, sweet, kind hearted, but most un Christian, father.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000065_000000.wav|"I suppose, papa, nothing can be done about mr Carroll."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000072_000002.wav|You needn't tell him, but so it must be."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000008_000000.wav|"Business!|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000031_000002.wav|I wonder who she was?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000059_000004.wav|"If he is to have it, let him have it, but let him have as little as possible."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000077_000000.wav|"Do you think that you hate people when you go to church as much as when you don't?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000081_000002.wav|You'd hate Uncle Carroll's idleness and abominable self indulgence worse than you do."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000044_000001.wav|That she should be sitting at table with a girl who could boast that a reprobate foreigner had kissed his hand to her from the box of a fashionable four horsed coach!|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000009_000001.wav|"I don't think they should suffer because he drinks."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000006_000000.wav|"You asked them yourself on Sunday."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000010_000010.wav|"Well, Aunt Carroll, how does the world use you?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000053_000000.wav|"Except those green ones he wore at the races," said Georgina.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000046_000001.wav|"Jane, you will have a glass of port wine?|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000015_000000.wav|"How very nasty you are!" said Miss Carroll.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000046_000002.wav|Girls, you must have a glass of port wine to support you after your disappointment with the prince."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000029_000000.wav|"Oh, dear, yes; with very stiff mustaches, turned up high at the corners, and pink cheeks, and a very sharp, nobby looking hat, with a light colored grey coat, and light gloves.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000093_000000.wav|"Easy or difficult.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000094_000000.wav|What was the result of the consultation on mr Grey's mind he did not declare, but he resolved to take his daughter's advice in all that she said to him.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000058_000001.wav|His "own" income consisted of what had been saved out of his wife's fortune, and was thus named as in opposition to the larger sum paid to mrs Carroll by mr Grey.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000029_000001.wav|You must know the prince."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000073_000000.wav|"If I had my way," said Dolly, after ten minutes' silence, "I would punish him.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000046_000000.wav|"That was hardly to be expected," said the attorney.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000070_000000.wav|"And then he would come back just the same."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000014_000000.wav|"It comes from eating too much toffy," said Georgina.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000020_000001.wav|"I wonder why Uncle john always keeps us waiting in this way?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000031_000000.wav|"He was tooling his own drag, and he had a lady with him on the box.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000050_000000.wav|In the evening, when the dinner things had been taken away, a matter of business came up, and took the place of the prince and his mustaches. mrs Carroll was most anxious to know whether her brother could "lend" her a small sum of twenty pounds.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000023_000001.wav|"That girl up stairs is nearly famished."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/104491/7717_104491_000076_000001.wav|That is the intention; but somehow it fails with me sometimes."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000094_000000.wav|"How far is the nearest village from here?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000060_000000.wav|"But if he had no choice?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000109_000000.wav|Whilst he gave these curt and concise orders, he had completed his change of attire.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000104_000000.wav|With a final, most abject and cringing bow, the old Jew shuffled out of the room.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000108_000006.wav|These royalists are good swordsmen, and the Englishman is devilish cunning, and looks very powerful.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000027_000000.wav|"What is it?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000025_000000.wav|"That is right," said Chauvelin, rubbing his hands, well pleased.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000076_000000.wav|"Enough, do you think, to loosen that honest tongue of yours?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000056_000000.wav|"And, of course, the horse and cart were ready?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000017_000000.wav|"The tall stranger, citoyen-" he stammered.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000104_000001.wav|Chauvelin seemed pleased with his interview, for he rubbed his hands together, with that usual gesture of his, of malignant satisfaction.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000063_000000.wav|"Aye! that I have, your Excellency, and if your Excellency wants to drive . . ."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000090_000000.wav|"Where?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000070_000000.wav|"Twenty francs, your Excellency," replied the Jew, "and I have been an honest man all my life."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000039_000001.wav|Thus several minutes went by.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000082_000000.wav|"You know the place?|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000038_000001.wav|Still, she was determined to keep a close watch over his enemy, and a vague hope filled her heart, that whilst she kept Chauvelin in sight, Percy's fate might still be hanging in the balance.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000032_000000.wav|"A few minutes' walk from this door."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000108_000002.wav|We shall corner our game there, I'll warrant, for this impudent Scarlet Pimpernel has had the audacity-or the stupidity, I hardly know which-to adhere to his original plans.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000037_000000.wav|He could not now advance many steps, without spying eyes to track and denounce him.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000051_000000.wav|"I did not say anything," said the Jew in an injured tone, "Reuben Goldstein, that accursed traitor, that son of Belial . . ."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000005_000004.wav|How far could Percy go, thus arrayed in his gorgeous clothes, without being sighted and followed?|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000080_000000.wav|"To a place called the Pere Blanchard's hut?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000036_000000.wav|She had come all this way, and with such high hopes and firm determination to help her husband, and so far she had been able to do nothing, but to watch, with a heart breaking with anguish, the meshes of the deadly net closing round the daring Scarlet Pimpernel.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000004_000002.wav|Chauvelin was still absolutely helpless, far more so than he could even have been under a blow from the fist, for now he could neither see, nor hear, nor speak, whilst his cunning adversary had quietly slipped through his fingers.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000092_000001.wav|How far can you drive me in it?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000011_000001.wav|not five minutes ago."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000015_000001.wav|Fortunately, there's not much harm done, or it had fared ill with you, Citoyen Desgas."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000023_000001.wav|"That impudent Scarlet Pimpernel would slip through clumsy fingers.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000065_000000.wav|Thoughtfully the Jew rubbed his dirty chin.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000035_000000.wav|Desgas went to give the necessary orders to one of the men.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000050_000000.wav|"What did you say?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000084_000000.wav|"You know the road?" repeated Chauvelin, roughly.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000086_000002.wav|Chauvelin quietly waited while the old man scrambled on the floor, to find the piece of gold.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000075_000000.wav|"At least five, I should say, your Excellency," he replied obsequiously.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000040_000000.wav|About five minutes later, Desgas returned, followed by an elderly Jew, in a dirty, threadbare gaberdine, worn greasy across the shoulders.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000004_000000.wav|When she realised what had happened, a curious mixture of joy and wonder filled her heart.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000011_000000.wav|"Here, man! through that door!|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000097_000000.wav|"He could-if he ever got so far."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000041_000001.wav|The group of the three men were standing just underneath the hanging oil lamp, and Marguerite had a clear view of them all.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000041_000000.wav|Chauvelin, who had all the Frenchman's prejudice against the despised race, motioned to the fellow to keep at a respectful distance.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000059_000002.wav|An Englishman too!--He ought to have known Reuben's nag was not fit to drive."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000021_000001.wav|He again assured me that the watch had been constant all day, and that no stranger could possibly get to the beach, or reach a boat, without being sighted."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000100_000000.wav|"That is my intention," said Chauvelin very quietly, "but remember, if you have deceived me, I shall tell off two of my most stalwart soldiers to give you such a beating, that your breath will perhaps leave your ugly body for ever.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000086_000000.wav|Chauvelin without another word threw the five pieces of gold one by one before the Jew, who knelt down, and on his hands and knees struggled to collect them.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000012_000000.wav|"We saw nothing, citoyen!|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000091_000001.wav|Will your Excellency deign to look."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000005_000005.wav|Now she blamed herself terribly for not having gone down to him sooner, and given him that word of warning and of love which, perhaps, after all, he needed.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000078_000000.wav|"Whether your horse and cart can take me to where I can find my friend the tall stranger, who has driven off in Reuben Goldstein's cart?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000108_000009.wav|The Englishman is ahead of us, and not likely to look behind him."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000061_000001.wav|He would not listen.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000061_000003.wav|If he was in a hurry, he would have had better value for his money by taking my cart."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000061_000002.wav|Reuben is such a liar, and has such insinuating ways. The stranger was deceived.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000039_000002.wav|Chauvelin was evidently devoured with impatience.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000039_000003.wav|Apparently he trusted no one: this last trick played upon him by the daring Scarlet Pimpernel had made him suddenly doubtful of success, unless he himself was there to watch, direct and superintend the capture of this impudent Englishman.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000072_000000.wav|"How many gold pieces are there in the palm of my hand?" he asked quietly.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000005_000003.wav|Every place was watched, and every stranger kept in sight.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000016_000001.wav|There was so much rage and hatred in his superior's whole attitude.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000091_000000.wav|"Not ten meters from this door.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000018_000001.wav|For obvious reasons, I dared not tackle him alone. Brogard is too big a fool, and that cursed Englishman appears to have the strength of a bullock, and so he slipped away under your very nose."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000110_000002.wav|The Pere Blanchard's hut is-an I mistake not-a lonely spot upon the beach, and our men will enjoy a bit of rough sport there with the wounded fox.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000040_000001.wav|His red hair, which he wore after the fashion of the Polish Jews, with the corkscrew curls each side of his face, was plentifully sprinkled with grey-a general coating of grime, about his cheeks and his chin, gave him a peculiarly dirty and loathsome appearance.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000005_000000.wav|Blakeney was gone, obviously to try and join the fugitives at the Pere Blanchard's hut.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000043_000000.wav|"No, citoyen," replied Desgas, "Reuben could not be found, so presumably his cart has gone with the stranger; but this man here seems to know something, which he is willing to sell for a consideration."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000049_000000.wav|"He spoke to us, your Excellency.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000047_000000.wav|"Yes, your Excellency," replied the Jew, who spoke the language with that peculiar lisp which denotes Eastern origin, "I and Reuben Goldstein met a tall Englishman, on the road, close by here this evening."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000015_000000.wav|"You did what I ordered you to do," said Chauvelin, with impatience. "I know that, but you were a precious long time about it.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000066_000001.wav|He gazed at them thoughtfully, then remarked, in a quiet tone of voice,--|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000098_000000.wav|"Can you?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000038_000000.wav|For the moment, even her chance of ever seeing the man she loved again, had become a remote one.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000101_000000.wav|The Jew again thoughtfully rubbed his chin.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000048_000000.wav|"Did you speak to him?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000007_000000.wav|Chauvelin had partially recovered; his sneezing had become less violent, and he had struggled to his feet.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000065_000002.wav|She had heard the peremptory question; she looked anxiously at the Jew, but could not read his face beneath the shadow of his broad brimmed hat.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000019_000000.wav|"He cannot go far without being sighted, citoyen."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000053_000000.wav|"He took the words out of my mouth, your Excellency: when I was about to offer the wealthy Englishman my horse and cart, to take him wheresoever he chose, Reuben had already spoken, and offered his half starved nag, and his broken down cart."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000100_000001.wav|But if we find my friend the tall Englishman, either on the road or at the Pere Blanchard's hut, there will be ten more gold pieces for you.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000102_000000.wav|"I accept."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000022_000000.wav|"That's good.--Do the men know their work?" "They have had very clear orders, citoyen: and I myself spoke to those who were about to start. They are to shadow-as secretly as possible-any stranger they may see, especially if he be tall, or stoop as if he would disguise his height."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000057_000001.wav|Reuben's nag was lame as usual; she refused to budge at first.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000086_000001.wav|One rolled away, and he had some trouble to get it, for it had lodged underneath the dresser.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000033_000000.wav|"Send one of the men to find out if the stranger has driven off in Reuben's cart."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000058_000000.wav|"Then they started?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000046_000000.wav|"The citoyen tells me," said Chauvelin peremptorily to him, "that you know something of my friend, the tall Englishman, whom I desire to meet . . .|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000108_000007.wav|Still, we shall be five against one at least.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000037_000001.wav|Her own helplessness struck her with the terrible sense of utter disappointment.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000031_000000.wav|"It is past that now.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000082_000001.wav|Which road leads to it?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000108_000001.wav|There will be hot work presently, if I mistake not, in the Pere Blanchard's hut.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000045_000000.wav|The Jew, with characteristic patience, stood humbly on one side, leaning on the knotted staff, his greasy, broad brimmed hat casting a deep shadow over his grimy face, waiting for the noble Excellency to deign to put some questions to him.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000101_000002.wav|After a moment's pause, he said deliberately,--|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000073_000001.wav|No doubt he feared that threats of the guillotine, and various other persuasive methods of that type, might addle the old man's brains, and that he would be more likely to be useful through greed of gain, than through terror of death.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000088_000000.wav|"How soon can your horse and cart be ready?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000034_000000.wav|"Yes, citoyen."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000029_000000.wav|"Yes-and?" queried Chauvelin, impatiently.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000092_000000.wav|"I don't want to see it.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000073_000000.wav|Evidently he had no desire to terrorize the man, but to conciliate him, for his own purposes, for his manner was pleasant and suave.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000065_000001.wav|Marguerite's heart was beating well nigh to bursting.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000100_000002.wav|Do you accept the bargain?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000052_000000.wav|"Cut that short, man," interrupted Chauvelin, roughly, "and go on with your story."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000037_000002.wav|The possibility of being the slightest use to her husband had become almost NIL, and her only hope rested in being allowed to share his fate, whatever it might ultimately be.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000031_000001.wav|Where does that Reuben live?"|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000095_000000.wav|"On the road which the Englishman took, Miquelon is the nearest village, not two leagues from here."|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7717/105405/7717_105405_000042_000000.wav|"Is this the man?" asked Chauvelin.|7717
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2499/156153/2499_156153_000006_000007.wav|At the time referred to in Snow Bound she was boarding at the Rocks Village about two miles from us.|2499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2499/156153/2499_156153_000007_000000.wav|In my boyhood, in our lonely farm house, we had scanty sources of information; few books and only a small weekly newspaper.|2499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2499/156153/2499_156153_000006_000004.wav|She early embraced the doctrine of the Second Advent, and felt it her duty to proclaim the Lord's speedy coming.|2499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2499/156153/2499_156153_000000_000000.wav|SNOW BOUND.|2499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/2499/156153/2499_156153_000007_000003.wav|My father when a young man had traversed the wilderness to Canada, and could tell us of his adventures with Indians and wild beasts, and of his sojourn in the French villages.|2499
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000027_000000.wav|thirteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000053_000000.wav|twenty six.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000055_000000.wav|twenty seven.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000010_000000.wav|But, like a virtuous medicine, self diffused Through all men's hearts thy love shall sink and float; Till every feeling false, and thought unwise, Selfish, and seeking, shall, sternly disused, Wither, and die, and shrivel up to nought; And Christ, whom they did hang 'twixt earth and skies, Up in the inner world of men arise.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000041_000000.wav|twenty.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000049_000000.wav|twenty four.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000025_000000.wav|twelve.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000039_000000.wav|nineteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000059_000000.wav|twenty nine.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000002_000000.wav|JUNE.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000031_000000.wav|fifteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000029_000000.wav|fourteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000021_000000.wav|ten.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000018_000001.wav|Lo, the Christ!|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000057_000000.wav|twenty eight.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000018_000000.wav|No likeness?|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000026_000000.wav|They will not, therefore cannot, do not know him. Nothing they could know, could be God.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000033_000000.wav|sixteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000017_000000.wav|eight.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66465/6518_66465_000054_000000.wav|Make my forgiveness downright-such as I Should perish if I did not have from thee; I let the wrong go, withered up and dry, Cursed with divine forgetfulness in me. 'tis but self pity, pleasant, mean, and sly, Low whispering bids the paltry memory live:-- What am I brother for, but to forgive!|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000031_000000.wav|fifteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000035_000000.wav|seventeen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000033_000000.wav|sixteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000023_000000.wav|eleven.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000025_000000.wav|twelve.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000015_000000.wav|seven.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000037_000000.wav|eighteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000032_000000.wav|Afresh I seek thee.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000017_000000.wav|eight.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000064_000000.wav|'tis heart on heart thou rulest.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000055_000000.wav|twenty seven.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000029_000000.wav|fourteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000041_000000.wav|twenty.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000004_000000.wav|WHAT though my words glance sideways from the thing Which I would utter in thine ear, my sire! Truth in the inward parts thou dost desire- Wise hunger, not a fitness fine of speech: The little child that clamouring fails to reach With upstretched hand the fringe of her attire, Yet meets the mother's hand down hurrying.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000027_000000.wav|thirteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000049_000000.wav|twenty four.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000021_000000.wav|ten.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000002_000000.wav|MAY.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000039_000000.wav|nineteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66464/6518_66464_000057_000000.wav|twenty eight.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000056_000000.wav|She leaves, but not forsakes.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000057_000000.wav|twenty nine.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000008_000001.wav|To and fro The dull thought surges, as the driven waves fight In gulfy channels.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000055_000000.wav|twenty eight.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000014_000001.wav|In all my wrong, Self love and weakness, laziness and fear, This one thing I can say: I am content To be and have what in thy heart I am meant To be and have.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000014_000002.wav|In my best times I long After thy will, and think it glorious dear; Even in my worst, perforce my will to thine is bent.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000022_000000.wav|My Lord, I have no clothes to come to thee; My shoes are pierced and broken with the road; I am torn and weathered, wounded with the goad, And soiled with tugging at my weary load: The more I need thee!|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000010_000001.wav|Stumbling through the night, To my dim lattice, O calling Christ!|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000027_000000.wav|fourteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000010_000000.wav|"Wake, thou that sleepest; rise up from the dead, And Christ will give thee light." I do not know What sleep is, what is death, or what is light; But I am waked enough to feel a woe, To rise and leave death.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000035_000000.wav|eighteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000025_000000.wav|thirteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000031_000000.wav|sixteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000019_000000.wav|ten.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000023_000000.wav|twelve.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000008_000000.wav|If we might sit until the darkness go, Possess our souls in patience perhaps we might; But there is always something to be done, And no heart left to do it.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000051_000000.wav|twenty six.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000037_000000.wav|nineteen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000033_000000.wav|seventeen.|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6518/66470/6518_66470_000014_000000.wav|Wilt thou not one day, Lord?|6518
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000043_000000.wav|"Do you know what they have done to me?" came the answer through the closed door.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000036_000001.wav|Brother!"|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000036_000000.wav|"Brother!|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000064_000001.wav|Then it closed again.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000050_000000.wav|"Poor Brother!" repeated Shaggy.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000010_000000.wav|"Goodness gracious!" cried Betsy.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000060_000000.wav|Shaggy looked at the little square of cloth and shook his head.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000047_000000.wav|"She was right!|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000041_000000.wav|"Free!|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/135033/1264_135033_000044_000000.wav|"no Tell me, Brother, what have they done?"|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000010.wav|He knew too much.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000018_000001.wav|What else was you expecting?"|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000021_000001.wav|Wolverstone congratulated himself upon the discretion he had used with Dyke.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000075_000003.wav|The buccaneers were firm.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000069_000000.wav|"With the rank of Capitaine de Vaisseau for yourself, and suitable ranks for the officers serving under you.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000076_000003.wav|But his consent remained passive.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000019_000001.wav|"Was you expecting to find the Arabella here?"|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000041_000002.wav|His friends at Government House, bewildered at this change in him, sought to reclaim him.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000027_000003.wav|It was his only expression for emotion of all kinds.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000024_000000.wav|Having delivered himself of his decoction of fact and falsehood, and thereby added one more to the exploits of peter Blood, he enquired where the Captain might be found.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000044_000001.wav|Christian departed fuming, and on the morrow the Clotho weighed anchor and sailed away, setting an example of desertion from which the loyalty of Blood's other captains would soon be unable to restrain their men.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000042_000000.wav|Later, as the rainy season approached its end, he was sought by his captains with proposals of remunerative raids on Spanish settlements. But to all he manifested an indifference which, as the weeks passed and the weather became settled, begot first impatience and then exasperation.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000017_000000.wav|"But I see the Arabella."|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000047_000000.wav|Wolverstone, the only one who held the clue to this degeneration, ventured once-and once only-to beard him frankly about it.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000014.wav|In the end, though it took a fortnight, Blood bubbled him.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000025_000002.wav|A moment they sharpened in their gaze as he brought his visitor into focus.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000068_000000.wav|Blood looked at him with a faint kindling of interest.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000009.wav|But Bishop didn't trust us.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000050_000002.wav|If there's no other expedition'll tempt you, why not Port Royal?|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000041_000000.wav|But it did not pass.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000031_000000.wav|"I'm asking you what ails you?" he bawled.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000067_000002.wav|There is war-formally war-between France and Spain in Europe.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000068_000001.wav|"You are offering to take us into the French service?" he asked.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000024_000001.wav|Being informed that he kept his ship, Wolverstone stepped into a boat and went aboard, to report himself, as he put it.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000035_000001.wav|The Captain steadied himself to grasp it.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000005_000002.wav|Guns were fired in his honour and the ships made themselves gay with bunting. The town, aroused by all this noise in the harbour, emptied itself upon the jetty, and a vast crowd of men and women of all creeds and nationalities collected there to be present at the coming ashore of the great buccaneer.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000037_000001.wav|"Meanwhile ye'll please to remember the tale I've told, and say nothing that'll make me out a liar.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000039_000001.wav|"We'll talk again to morrow."|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000027_000004.wav|Then he rolled forward, and dropped into a chair at the table, facing the Captain.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000003_000000.wav|CHAPTER twenty five.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000075_000001.wav|He had his instructions.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000020_000000.wav|Wolverstone looked him over in contempt, then laughed and spoke loud enough to be heard by all around him.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000004.wav|The Captain damned his soul to hell for answer.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000050_000007.wav|There's enough plunder in the town to tempt the lads, and there's the wench for you.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000073_000000.wav|"I will consult my officers," he said; and he sent for them.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000006_000001.wav|His mood was taciturn; his face grim and sneering.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000025_000003.wav|Then he laughed, a loose, idiot laugh, that yet somehow was half a sneer.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000040_000002.wav|Rum was in itself an effect, and not by any means the cause of the Captain's listless apathy.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000009_000000.wav|At first the buccaneers jumped to the conclusion that Wolverstone was following with some rare prize of war, but gradually from the reduced crew of the Arabella a very different tale leaked out to stem their satisfaction and convert it into perplexity.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000026_000002.wav|"Got here at last, eh?|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000049_000000.wav|The blue eyes glared at him from under the jet black eyebrows, and something of their old fire began to kindle in them.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000027_000000.wav|Old Wolverstone stared at him in sombre silence.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000006.wav|So I goes to him, and 'accept this poxy commission,' says I; 'turn King's man and save your neck and ours.' He took me at my word, and the London pimp gave him the King's commission on the spot, and Bishop all but choked hisself with rage when he was told of it.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000043_000000.wav|Christian, who commanded the Clotho, came storming to him one day, upbraiding him for his inaction, and demanding that he should take order about what was to do.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000076_000000.wav|After that followed days of activity in Tortuga, refitting the ships, boucanning meat, laying in stores.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000009_000001.wav|Partly out of loyalty to their captain, partly because they perceived that if he was guilty of defection they were guilty with him, and partly because being simple, sturdy men of their hands, they were themselves in the main a little confused as to what really had happened, the crew of the Arabella practised reticence with their brethren in Tortuga during those two days before Wolverstone's arrival.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000046_000001.wav|He had entirely lost the almost foppish concern for his appearance, and was grown careless and slovenly in his dress.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000019_000000.wav|"Expecting?" Dyke stared at him, open mouthed.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000050_000001.wav|That's not the Old Wolf's way.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000050_000004.wav|It's commanded by Colonel Bishop, and there's no lack of rascals in your company'd follow you to hell if it meant getting Colonel Bishop by the throat.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000076_000001.wav|In these matters which once would have engaged all Captain Blood's attention, he now took no part. He continued listless and aloof.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000074_000004.wav|For one fifth of the prizes, the officers would answer for their men; not for less.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000033_000000.wav|"I've done it," said Wolverstone.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000045_000002.wav|Neither backward nor forward could he move, it seemed.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000018_000000.wav|"Of course, since there she rides.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000050_000005.wav|It could be done, I tell you.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000069_000001.wav|You will enjoy the pay of that rank, and you will be entitled, together with your men, to one tenth share in all prizes taken."|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000026_000001.wav|The Old Wolf!" said he.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000058_000000.wav|"You have a good force here under your command, my Captain," said he.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000005_000000.wav|In that snug anchorage he found his fleet awaiting him-the four ships which had been separated in that gale off the Lesser Antilles, and some seven hundred men composing their crews.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000026_000000.wav|"Ah!|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000016.wav|His game-as he'd secretly told me-was to follow and give chase.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000050_000003.wav|What a plague do it matter if it is an English settlement?|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000025_000001.wav|As Wolverstone came in, the Captain raised bloodshot eyes to consider him.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000007.wav|But happened it had, and he was forced to swallow it.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000067_000000.wav|"I am speaking officially, my Captain.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000070_000000.wav|"My men will hardly account it generous.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000040_000004.wav|He cursed all things that daggled petticoats, and, knowing his world, waited for the sickness to pass.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000002.wav|Why, it was like this.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000001.wav|"It's not his way to be sounding his own praises.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000015_000001.wav|This time Wolverstone answered him.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000070_000001.wav|They will tell you that they can sail out of here to morrow, disembowel a Spanish settlement, and keep the whole of the plunder."|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000067_000005.wav|I have letters from him desiring me to equip a supplementary squadron and raise a body of not less than a thousand men to reenforce him on his arrival.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000012_000000.wav|The sight of the Arabella at anchor in the bay had at first amazed him as he sailed round the rocky headland that bore the fort.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000052_000002.wav|The subject was not raised again, and Captain Blood was left to his idle abstraction.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000071_000002.wav|So that the one tenth in this case may be equal to more than the whole in the other."|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000072_000000.wav|Captain Blood considered.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000022_000013.wav|But that hound Bishop had passed the word, and the fort kept a sharp lookout.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000020_000001.wav|"Of course.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000023_000000.wav|There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1264/129805/1264_129805_000015_000000.wav|Dyke repeated his question.|1264
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000003_000001.wav|God bless me, how he hated them, that same apothecary! And so what I'm thinking is, if all duennas, of whatever sort or condition they may be, are plagues and busybodies, what must they be that are distressed, like this Countess Three skirts or Three tails!--for in my country skirts or tails, tails or skirts, it's all one."|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000014_000000.wav|"Sancho is right," said the duke; "we'll see what the countess is like, and by that measure the courtesy that is due to her."|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000032_000000.wav|"I will," replied the countess.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000036_000000.wav|"She died, no doubt," said Sancho.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000029_000000.wav|Come Death, so subtly veiled that I Thy coming know not, how or when, Lest it should give me life again To find how sweet it is to die.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000028_000001.wav|Another time he sang:|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000041_000004.wav|What father or mother will feel pity for her?|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000016_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty eight.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000030_000009.wav|No, no, not that; marriage must come first in any business of this sort that I take in hand.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000004_000000.wav|"Hush, friend Sancho," said Don Quixote; "since this lady duenna comes in quest of me from such a distant land she cannot be one of those the apothecary meant; moreover this is a countess, and when countesses serve as duennas it is in the service of queens and empresses, for in their own houses they are mistresses paramount and have other duennas to wait on them."|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000023_000001.wav|I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, whose calling it is to give aid to the needy of all sorts; and that being so, it is not necessary for you, senora, to make any appeal to benevolence, or deal in preambles, only to tell your woes plainly and straightforwardly: for you have hearers that will know how, if not to remedy them, to sympathise with them."|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000007_000002.wav|By my faith, if it were permitted me and time allowed, I could prove, not only to those here present, but to all the world, that there is no virtue that is not to be found in a duenna."|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000006_000000.wav|"For all that," said Sancho, "there's so much to be clipped about duennas, so my barber said, that 'it will be better not to stir the rice even though it sticks.'"|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000041_000001.wav|Don Quixote and Sancho were overwhelmed with amazement, and the bystanders lost in astonishment, while the Trifaldi went on to say: "Thus did that malevolent villain Malambruno punish us, covering the tenderness and softness of our faces with these rough bristles!|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000035_000000.wav|By every word that Sancho uttered, the duchess was as much delighted as Don Quixote was driven to desperation.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000011_000000.wav|"In respect of her being a countess," said Sancho, before the duke could reply, "I am for your highnesses going out to receive her; but in respect of her being a duenna, it is my opinion you should not stir a step."|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000017_000000.wav|WHEREIN IS TOLD THE DISTRESSED DUENNA'S TALE OF HER MISFORTUNES|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000039_000000.wav|"Thou art right, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for with a knight errant, if he has but two fingers' breadth of good fortune, it is on the cards to become the mightiest lord on earth.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000009_000000.wav|To which Sancho replied, "Ever since I have sniffed the governorship I have got rid of the humours of a squire, and I don't care a wild fig for all the duennas in the world."|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000001_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty seven.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000026_000004.wav|But that they have not, for Heaven will not suffer so great a wrong to Earth, as it would be to pluck unripe the grapes of the fairest vineyard on its surface.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000026_000003.wav|Then, it must not be supposed her intelligence was childish; she was as intelligent as she was fair, and she was fairer than all the world; and is so still, unless the envious fates and hard hearted sisters three have cut for her the thread of life.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000010_000001.wav|The duchess asked the duke if it would be proper to go out to receive her, as she was a countess and a person of rank.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000039_000001.wav|But let senora the Distressed One proceed; for I suspect she has got yet to tell us the bitter part of this so far sweet story."|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000019_000003.wav|On seeing this the duke, the duchess, and Don Quixote went some twelve paces forward to meet her.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/138045/3221_138045_000002_000000.wav|WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000024_000001.wav|And when there are no longer men willing to fill these offices, these offices themselves will disappear too.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000012_000001.wav|The most delicate and moral people (they are generally also the most cultivated) avoid such positions and prefer more humble callings that are not dependent on the use of force.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000042_000006.wav|The policeman turned his horse and went off without a word.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000008_000001.wav|But the rising Christian ideal, which must at a certain stage of development replace the heathen ideal of life, already makes its influence felt.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000053_000003.wav|For it may come any time, in such an hour as ye think not.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000032_000000.wav|The same rich men, but it becomes more and more evident that they can only be of use by ceasing to administer their property in person and giving up to society the whole or at least a part of their wealth.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000050_000004.wav|And already they are beginning to understand it.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000044_000003.wav|And this is the position in which all these unlucky rulers, ministers, members of parliament, governors, generals, officers, archbishops, priests, and even rich men find themselves to some extent already, and will find themselves altogether as time goes on.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000028_000002.wav|And it becomes less and less possible to rely on the army for the pacification of riots, and more and more evident, consequently, that generals, and officers, and soldiers are only figures in solemn processions-objects of amusement for governments-a sort of immense-and far too expensive-CORPS DE BALLET.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000040_000000.wav|But even before those who support these institutions decide to abolish them, the men who occupy these positions will be reduced to the necessity of throwing them up.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000025_000001.wav|As the positions based on the rule of force become less attractive and fewer men are found willing to fill them, the more will their uselessness be apparent.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000048_000001.wav|And to him came two tailors, who promised to make him some extraordinary clothes.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000007_000001.wav|Only let the mist, which veils from men's eyes the true meaning of certain acts of violence, pass away, and the Christian public opinion which is springing up would overpower the extinct public opinion which permitted and justified acts of violence.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000014_000001.wav|They are the men whose praises are celebrated in poetry, who are honored by sculpture and received with triumphant jubilations.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000034_000000.wav|And what good to us are these armies with their generals and bands and horses and drums?|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000007_000000.wav|And to bring this to pass, nothing new need be brought before men's minds.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000044_000001.wav|He had been put, poor fellow, in a position in which he had no choice but to give orders.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000015_000000.wav|The best men of our day are all striving for such places of honor. Consequently the class from which the wealthy and the government officials are drawn grows less in number and lower in intelligence and education, and still more in moral qualities.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000052_000000.wav|But when will it be?|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000016_000001.wav|One may often nowadays hear from persons in authority the naive complaint that the best people are always, by some strange-as it seems to them-fatality, to be found in the camp of the opposition.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000019_000000.wav|It is just the same with the army.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000026_000000.wav|Everywhere throughout the Christian world the same rulers, and the same governments, the same armies, the same law courts, the same tax gatherers, the same priests, the same rich men, landowners, manufacturers, and capitalists, as ever, but the attitude of the world to them, and their attitude to themselves is altogether changed.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000044_000004.wav|They can do nothing but give orders, and they give orders and send their messengers, as the officer sent the policeman, to interfere with people.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000003_000000.wav|THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF LIFE HAS ALREADY ARISEN IN OUR SOCIETY, AND WILL INFALLIBLY PUT AN END TO THE PRESENT ORGANIZATION OF OUR LIFE BASED ON FORCE-WHEN THAT WILL BE.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000018_000005.wav|The majority of them do not keep up their old unapproachable majesty, but become more and more democratized and even vulgarized, casting aside the external prestige that remained to them, and thereby destroying the very thing it was their function to maintain.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000021_000009.wav|Some of them form co-operative associations in which they have shares on the same terms as the others. Capitalists expend a part of their capital on educational, artistic, philanthropic, and other public institutions.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000019_000005.wav|Military exploits are openly reprobated by the military themselves, and are often the subject of jests among them.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000018_000004.wav|And even this duty they perform less and less successfully.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000044_000005.wav|And because the people they hinder turn to them and request them not to interfere, they fancy they are very useful indeed.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000022_000001.wav|Just as one might fancy the first leaves on the budding trees in April were exceptional if we did not know that they all have a common cause, the spring, and that if we see the branches on some trees shooting and turning green, it is certain that it will soon be so with all.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000046_000000.wav|The time will come and is inevitably coming when all institutions based on force will disappear through their uselessness, stupidity, and even inconvenience becoming obvious to all.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000019_000004.wav|And it often happens (there was a case, indeed, within the last few days) that when called upon to quell disturbances they refuse to fire upon the people.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000002_000000.wav|CHAPTER eleven.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000035_000000.wav|And what is the use of these lawyers and judges who don't decide civil cases with justice and recognize themselves the uselessness of punishments in criminal cases?|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000005_000000.wav|The position of Christian humanity with its prisons, galleys, gibbets, its factories and accumulation of capital, its taxes, churches, gin palaces, licensed brothels, its ever increasing armament and its millions of brutalized men, ready, like chained dogs, to attack anyone against whom their master incites them, would be terrible indeed if it were the product of violence, but it is pre eminently the product of public opinion.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000050_000002.wav|All those things are the work of men.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000055_000000.wav|The answer is like that of the wise man who, when asked whether it was far to the town, answered, "Walk!"|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000019_000002.wav|In the last plots against the Russian Government many of the conspirators were in the army.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000021_000008.wav|Millowners and manufacturers build hospitals, schools, savings banks, asylums, and dwellings for their workpeople.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000043_000000.wav|That is just what should be done in all cases of violence.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000020_000004.wav|The learned jurists whose business it is to justify the violence of authority, are more and more disposed to deny the right of punishment and to replace it by theories of irresponsibility and even of moral insanity, proposing to deal with those they call criminals by medical treatment only.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000020_000003.wav|The prosecutors themselves often refuse to proceed, and even when they do proceed, often in spite of the law, really defend those they ought to be accusing.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000036_000000.wav|And what is the use of tax collectors who collect the taxes unwillingly, when it is easy to raise all that is wanted without them?|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000041_000001.wav|And hence they must become more and more superfluous.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000021_000000.wav|Jailers and overseers of galleys generally become the champions of those whom they ought to torture.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000022_000000.wav|All these phenomena might seem to be mere exceptions, except that they can all be referred to one common cause.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000042_000002.wav|It was absolutely unnecessary for the officer to disperse it.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000012_000000.wav|The position of a government official or of a rich man is no longer, as it once was, and still is among non Christian peoples, regarded as necessarily honorable and deserving of respect, and under the special blessing of God.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000048_000002.wav|The emperor engages them and they begin to sew at them, but they explain that the clothes have the extraordinary property of remaining invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000008_000004.wav|The external aspect is unchanged.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000021_000005.wav|Governors, police officials, tax collectors often have compassion on the people and try to find pretexts for not collecting the tax from them.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000038_000000.wav|And what is the use of capital in the hands of private persons, when it can only be of use as the property of all?|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000021_000006.wav|The rich are not at ease in spending their wealth only on themselves, and lavish it on works of public utility.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000044_000000.wav|The officer was bored, he had nothing to do.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000056_000001.wav|All we can know is what we who make up mankind ought to do, and not to do, to bring about the coming of the kingdom of God.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000048_000007.wav|The emperor undresses and puts on his new clothes, that is to say, remains naked, and naked he walks through the town.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000042_000003.wav|A group of twenty men was no obstruction to anyone, but he had been standing there the whole morning, and he wanted to do something.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000005_000001.wav|And what has been established by public opinion can be destroyed by public opinion-and, indeed, is being destroyed by public opinion.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000008_000003.wav|It is just so with the present order of society, based on force.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000028_000001.wav|One year, ten, twenty years pass by.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000029_000000.wav|The same lawyers and judges, and the same assizes, but it becomes more and more evident that the civil courts decide cases on the most diverse grounds, but regardless of justice, and that criminal trials are quite senseless, because the punishments do not attain the objects aimed at by the judges themselves.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000048_000006.wav|The day of the procession comes in which the emperor is to go out in his new clothes.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000042_000000.wav|I once took part in Moscow in a religious meeting which used to take place generally in the week after Easter near the church in the Ohotny Row.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000056_000000.wav|How can we tell whether it is far to the goal which humanity is approaching, when we do not know how men are going toward it, while it depends on them whether they go or do not go, stand still, slacken their pace or hasten it?|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000048_000008.wav|But remembering the magic property of the clothes, no one ventures to say that he has nothing on till a little child cries out: "Look, he is naked!"|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000030_000000.wav|The same priests and archbishops and churches and synods, but it becomes more and more evident that they have long ago ceased to believe in what they preach, and therefore they can convince no one of the necessity of believing what they don't believe themselves.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000033_000001.wav|Wouldn't it be better, as some humorist suggested, to make a queen of india rubber?"|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000042_000005.wav|It might do you good"; and turning round he continued his discourse.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000031_000000.wav|The same tax collectors, but they are less and less capable of taking men's property from them by force, and it becomes more and more evident that people can collect all that is necessary by voluntary subscription without their aid.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000025_000000.wav|But this is not the only way in which public opinion is leading men to the abolition of the prevailing order and the substitution of a new order.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/3221/9174/3221_9174_000008_000002.wav|A dead tree stands apparently as firmly as ever-it may even seem firmer because it is harder-but it is rotten at the core, and soon must fall.|3221
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000019_000000.wav|Constance gave a disagreeable little laugh.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000015_000000.wav|"I know it.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000024_000006.wav|If you like, I'll give you the address of the family I boarded with."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000031_000000.wav|"Haven't they any children?" asked Constance indifferently.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000012_000000.wav|"No-no, I haven't anybody in the world.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000032_000000.wav|"no|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000044_000001.wav|"I must know, I must ask you.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000004_000003.wav|Isn't it good?"|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000017_000006.wav|There is nobody to care anything about me, whether I live or die."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000030_000000.wav|"Heartsease Farm," said mrs Hewitt promptly.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000023_000001.wav|She must help Constance, but Constance was not easily helped.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000049_000003.wav|But I have now, and it has led me to Him.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000008_000000.wav|"I haven't any," said Constance wearily.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000050_000000.wav|"I am not going back to Taunton.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000017_000004.wav|I struggled against it at first, but it has been too much for me.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000014_000002.wav|You seem so reserved and-and, as if you didn't want to be asked about yourself."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000015_000003.wav|It's the truth, and it hurts me, but I can't help it.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000009_000000.wav|"It's worse than heresy," said Miss Channing briskly.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000020_000003.wav|There, I've shocked you in good earnest now.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000026_000000.wav|"Yes, but listen to me, dear.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000015_000006.wav|I'm nobody.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000003_000003.wav|Miss Channing was the oldest teacher on the staff, and taught the fifth grade.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000032_000003.wav|She ran away with a worthless fellow-I forget his name, if I ever knew it.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000031_000001.wav|Her interest was in the place, not in the people.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000044_000000.wav|"Oh," cried Constance excitedly.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000003_000004.wav|She was short and stout and jolly; nothing, not even the iciest reserve, ever daunted Miss Channing.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000032_000005.wav|She died soon after and it just broke their hearts.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000015_000014.wav|Father never would talk of her.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000024_000001.wav|"Have you any particular place in view?|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000032_000002.wav|They brought her up and they just worshipped her.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000018_000000.wav|"Oh, yes, there is One," said Miss Channing gently.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000032_000001.wav|They had a niece once, though.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000001_000000.wav|Her Own People|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000040_000005.wav|Good night dearie, and I hope you'll have pleasant dreams."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000032_000004.wav|He was handsome and smooth tongued, but he was a scamp.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65534/6339_65534_000018_000001.wav|"God cares, Constance."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000021_000001.wav|I heard her.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000036_000000.wav|"You are cruel and unjust, Grandfather.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000051_000001.wav|Deborah obeyed.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000039_000000.wav|"We haven't been strict enough with the girl, Mother," said Cyrus angrily.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000048_000001.wav|"This is all I have to say.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000038_000000.wav|Joscelyn went but she left consternation behind her.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000043_000002.wav|I told her I wished to do so. I am going."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000047_000000.wav|"My blood isn't bad," cried Joscelyn proudly.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000031_000000.wav|"Aunt Annice sent it to me," answered Joscelyn, casting a quick glance at the book on the table.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000007_000002.wav|He had married an actress!|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000047_000002.wav|You are unjust, Grandfather.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000052_000003.wav|Pauline was a quiet, docile maiden, industrious and commonplace-just such a girl as they had vainly striven to make of Joscelyn, to whom Pauline had always been held up as a model.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000048_000002.wav|Go to your play acting aunt if you want to.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000045_000003.wav|I must."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000046_000001.wav|"It's in your blood ... your bad blood, girl."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000049_000001.wav|She clung to Deborah and wept at parting, but Cyrus did not even say goodbye to her.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000033_000002.wav|Please give me my book."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000038_000002.wav|They talked the matter over bitterly at the kitchen hearth that night.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000036_000001.wav|I have done no wrong ... it is not doing wrong to develop the one gift I have.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000067_000005.wav|Wasn't our girl Josie splendid?"|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000030_000002.wav|Where did you get that play?"|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000064_000004.wav|Play acting hadn't spoiled her-couldn't spoil her.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000024_000002.wav|She spoke, moved, posed, gesticulated, with an inborn genius shining through every motion and tone like an illuminating lamp.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000008_000000.wav|They could not be brought to see it in any other light.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000036_000005.wav|So I mean to be."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000068_000002.wav|She took the shine off the other play actors all right.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000026_000000.wav|It was Cyrus who spoke, advancing into the room like a stern, hard impersonation of judgment.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000012_000005.wav|Every smile was a caress, every gurgle of attempted speech a song.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000020_000000.wav|"What company has Josie got?" she wondered, as she opened the hall door and paused for a moment on the threshold to listen.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000042_000007.wav|Joscelyn rebelled, but she did nothing secretly ... that was not her nature.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000034_000001.wav|"Go to your room, girl, and take off that rig.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000009_000000.wav|At the end of that time Elinor Morgan, the mother of an hour, died; three months later Paul Morgan was killed in a railroad collision. After the funeral Cyrus Morgan brought home to his wife their son's little daughter, Joscelyn Morgan.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000048_000006.wav|You can choose your own way and walk in it."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000029_000001.wav|"I have not been doing anything wrong, Grandfather."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000037_000000.wav|"Oh, Josie, Josie," said her grandmother in a scared voice.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000043_000000.wav|"Grandfather, this letter is from my aunt.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000059_000002.wav|But I guess she can hold her own.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000006_000000.wav|Their Girl Josie|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000017_000000.wav|Yet they loved her and were proud of her.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000012_000000.wav|But the love came ... it had to.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000026_000002.wav|A moment before she had been a woman, splendid, unafraid; now she was again the schoolgirl, too confused and shamed to speak.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000007_000001.wav|They had been too proud of Paul ... their only son and such a clever fellow ... and this was their punishment!|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000028_000001.wav|She lifted her head proudly.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000045_000002.wav|I must go ...|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000064_000005.wav|Wasn't she Paul's daughter! And all this applause was for her-for Josie.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000039_000002.wav|Did you hear how she defied me?|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000047_000005.wav|I wish that you could understand what...."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000031_000002.wav|Don't take it away."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000046_000000.wav|"Yes, you must," said Cyrus cruelly.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000021_000000.wav|"Cyrus, Josie is play acting in the room ... laughing and reciting and going on.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000041_000000.wav|"I ain't going to be harsh.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000064_000000.wav|The curtain went up and Cyrus rubbed his eyes.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000047_000003.wav|But I don't want you to be angry with me.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000062_000002.wav|He bought a ticket apologetically and sneaked in to his seat.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000042_000001.wav|From that day Josie was watched and distrusted.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000039_000004.wav|Mother, we'll have trouble with that girl yet."|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000025_000000.wav|"Josie, what are you doing?"|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000050_000004.wav|She had all her mother's gifts, deepened by her inheritance of Morgan intensity and sincerity ... much, too, of the Morgan firmness of will. When Joscelyn Morgan was twenty two she was famous over two continents.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000030_000000.wav|"Wrong!|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000014_000000.wav|The girl was never allowed to visit her Aunt Annice, although frequently invited.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000068_000001.wav|Cyrus Morgan cleared his throat and said, "It was great, Mother, great.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000030_000001.wav|It's your mother's blood coming out in you, girl, in spite of all our care!|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000013_000001.wav|Cyrus and Deborah were nothing if not thorough.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000036_000002.wav|It's the only thing I can do ... and I am going to do it.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000036_000003.wav|My mother was an actress and a good woman.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000051_000002.wav|She thought her husband was right, albeit she might in her own heart deplore the necessity of such a decree.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000051_000003.wav|Joscelyn had disgraced them; could that be forgiven?|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/6339/65554/6339_65554_000045_000000.wav|"I know you despise the profession of an actress," the girl went on with heightened colour.|6339
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7665/104979/7665_104979_000062_000000.wav|"I doubt if mrs Packard more than knows of his presence.|7665
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7665/104979/7665_104979_000053_000000.wav|"Well-yes.|7665
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7665/104979/7665_104979_000001_000003.wav|In doing this she had walked into a fortune.|7665
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7665/104979/7665_104979_000044_000001.wav|I have political enemies, of course men, who, influenced by party feeling, are not above attacking methods and possibly my official reputation; but personal ones-wretches willing to stab me in my home life and affections, that I can not believe.|7665
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7665/104979/7665_104979_000001_000000.wav|I knew all the current gossip about mrs Packard before I had parted with Miss Davies.|7665
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7665/104978/7665_104978_000007_000004.wav|You understand me?"|7665
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7665/104978/7665_104978_000007_000000.wav|"You are discreet, and you evidently desire a position.|7665
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7665/104978/7665_104978_000012_000001.wav|The difficulties will not be great to a discreet person.|7665
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/7665/104978/7665_104978_000009_000000.wav|"Not even to me," she emphasized.|7665
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000004.wav|why am I running to and fro as though I were crazy...?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000011.wav|I shall read what you write, I shall hear about you from everyone, and sometimes you'll come yourself to see me.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000004.wav|I've been like that ever since your father's death.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000054_000000.wav|"Enough, mother," said Raskolnikov, deeply regretting that he had come.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000002.wav|You don't know, but they really thought that.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000037_000000.wav|"Yes."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000041_000000.wav|"I can't stay, I must go now...."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000029_000005.wav|I'll get it at once!"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000091_000000.wav|At last they both went out.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000078_000000.wav|"You are crying, sister, but can you hold out your hand to me?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000000.wav|"No, Rodya.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000000.wav|"I used to talk a great deal about it to her, only to her," he said thoughtfully.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000055_000000.wav|"Not for ever, it's not yet for ever?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000064_000000.wav|"I don't remember clearly.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000034_000002.wav|I shall never cease to love you....|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000004.wav|She was sucking the life out of poor people.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000029_000002.wav|My goodness, why am I sitting here?" she cried, jumping up.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000001.wav|"Don't be angry with me, Rodya, for welcoming you so foolishly with tears: I am laughing not crying.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000068_000000.wav|"Have you been at mother's?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000091_000002.wav|He was still in sight.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000064_000001.wav|You see, sister, I wanted to make up my mind once for all, and several times I walked by the Neva, I remember that I wanted to end it all there, but...|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000012.wav|What could be better?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000007.wav|I felt all the morning as though I were going to be hanged, waiting for something, expecting something, and now it has come!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000073_000000.wav|There was a gleam of fire in his lustreless eyes; he seemed to be glad to think that he was still proud.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000093_000002.wav|Would not twenty years of continual bondage crush him utterly?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000000.wav|"No, no," Pulcheria Alexandrovna hurriedly interrupted, "you thought I was going to cross question you in the womanish way I used to; don't be anxious, I understand, I understand it all: now I've learned the ways here and truly I see for myself that they are better.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000087_000001.wav|He felt that he had, anyway, made these two poor women miserable, that he was, anyway, the cause...|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000044_000000.wav|"Let me bless you and sign you with the cross.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000081_000000.wav|"Aren't you half expiating your crime by facing the suffering?" she cried, holding him close and kissing him.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000016_000002.wav|Raskolnikov walked with lagging steps, as though still hesitating whether to go or not.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000044_000001.wav|That's right, that's right.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000008.wav|Learned people are always like that.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000005.wav|What's the object of these senseless sufferings?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000006.wav|But opening his door he saw Dounia.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000001.wav|He wanted to finish all before sunset.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000092_000004.wav|Yes, that's it, that's it, that's what they are sending me there for, that's what they want.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000016_000000.wav|The same day, about seven o'clock in the evening, Raskolnikov was on his way to his mother's and sister's lodging-the lodging in Bakaleyev's house which Razumihin had found for them.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000032_000000.wav|"Mother, whatever happens, whatever you hear about me, whatever you are told about me, will you always love me as you do now?" he asked suddenly from the fullness of his heart, as though not thinking of his words and not weighing them.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000071_000003.wav|"It's pride, Dounia."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000003.wav|Ah, the despicable creatures, how could they understand genius!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000085_000001.wav|Brother, what are you saying?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000006.wav|Sit down, dear boy, you must be tired; I see you are.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000048_000000.wav|"You'll come again?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000017.wav|Ah, yes!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000077_000000.wav|Big tears fell down her cheeks.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000007.wav|'A crime! a crime!' Only now I see clearly the imbecility of my cowardice, now that I have decided to face this superfluous disgrace.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000009.wav|Razumihin will be with you.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000004.wav|I keep thinking about it and lie awake at nights.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000002.wav|"That I killed a vile noxious insect, an old pawnbroker woman, of use to no one!...|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000039_000000.wav|"Good bye, mother."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000076_000000.wav|"It's late, it's time to go!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000079_000000.wav|"You doubted it?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000016.wav|Don't cry, don't cry: we are not parting for ever!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000006.wav|I caught something, but I couldn't make it out.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000015_000000.wav|CHAPTER seven|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000007.wav|Don't leave her at all; I left her in a state of anxiety, that she is not fit to bear; she will die or go out of her mind.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000086_000000.wav|"Ah, it's not picturesque, not aesthetically attractive!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000040_000000.wav|"What, to day?" she cried, as though losing him for ever.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000005.wav|I entreat you to!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000008.wav|Be with her!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000008.wav|Rodya, Rodya, where are you going?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000046_000001.wav|You would run like this to me and hug me and kiss me.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000000.wav|"But, however foolish I may be, Rodya, I can see for myself that you will very soon be one of the leading-if not the leading man-in the world of Russian thought.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000092_000005.wav|Look at them running to and fro about the streets, every one of them a scoundrel and a criminal at heart and, worse still, an idiot.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000049_000001.wav|I'll come."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000038_000001.wav|I can come with you, you know, if you need me.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000080_000000.wav|She threw her arms round him.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000001.wav|What crime?" he cried in sudden fury.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000001.wav|"I've been thinking all this time that we were simply boring you and now I see that there is a great sorrow in store for you, and that's why you are miserable.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000003.wav|Killing her was atonement for forty sins.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000018_000001.wav|His face was almost distorted from fatigue, exposure, the inward conflict that had lasted for twenty four hours.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000042_000000.wav|"And can't I come with you?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000033_000002.wav|Besides, I shouldn't believe anyone, I should refuse to listen."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000071_000001.wav|At once.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000002.wav|Did you think I was crying?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000024_000000.wav|Raskolnikov took the magazine and glanced at his article.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000034_000003.wav|Well, that's enough: I thought I must do this and begin with this...."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000092_000001.wav|"But why are they so fond of me if I don't deserve it?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000016_000001.wav|The stairs went up from the street.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000007.wav|Of course, I am sure that Dounia has far too much sense, and besides she loves you and me... but I don't know what it will all lead to.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000003.wav|But, my goodness!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000043_000001.wav|Your prayer perhaps will reach Him."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000000.wav|"I don't know what is wrong with you, Rodya," she said at last.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000070_000001.wav|You are, aren't you?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000086_000003.wav|I've never, never been stronger and more convinced than now."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000052_000001.wav|Some post or career for you?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000084_000001.wav|Look into it more carefully and understand it!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000036_000003.wav|Forgive me for speaking about it.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000009.wav|He may have some new ideas in his head just now; he is thinking them over and I worry him and upset him.' I read it, my dear, and of course there was a great deal I did not understand; but that's only natural-how should I?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000068_000001.wav|Have you told her?" cried Dounia, horror stricken.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000058_000000.wav|"Am I to come in or go away?" he asked uncertainly.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000062_000000.wav|He glanced at her mistrustfully.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000075_000001.wav|Silence lasted for two minutes.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000024_000005.wav|He flung the article on the table with disgust and anger.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000019_000003.wav|At first Pulcheria Alexandrovna was speechless with joy and surprise; then she took him by the hand and drew him into the room.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000005.wav|He had a disgusted vision of Porfiry.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000018_000002.wav|He had spent all the previous night alone, God knows where.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000069_000001.wav|I am sure she half understands it already.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000000.wav|"Here you are!" she began, faltering with joy.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000016_000003.wav|But nothing would have turned him back: his decision was taken.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000084_000004.wav|And yet I won't look at it as you do.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000024_000002.wav|It lasted only a moment.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000005.wav|I am not complaining.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000091_000003.wav|At the corner he too turned and for the last time their eyes met; but noticing that she was looking at him, he motioned her away with impatience and even vexation, and turned the corner abruptly.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000010.wav|Her eyes, fixed upon him, betrayed horror and infinite grief.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000067_000000.wav|"I haven't faith, but I have just been weeping in mother's arms; I haven't faith, but I have just asked her to pray for me.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000005.wav|I cry for anything.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000008.wav|Why am I consenting to that life now?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000012.wav|Perhaps I shall some day make a name.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000004.wav|Do I want it myself? They say it is necessary for me to suffer!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000005.wav|Was that a crime?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000050_000001.wav|I know I mustn't. Only say two words to me-is it far where you are going?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000053_000000.wav|"What God sends... only pray for me." Raskolnikov went to the door, but she clutched him and gazed despairingly into his eyes.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000008.wav|He stopped short in the doorway.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000065_000002.wav|Thank God, thank God!"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000002.wav|We won't dispute.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000024_000003.wav|After reading a few lines he frowned and his heart throbbed with anguish.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000003.wav|Going up the stairs he noticed that Nastasya rushed from the samovar to watch him intently.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000003.wav|He loves you and respects you, my dear.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000076_000001.wav|I am going at once to give myself up.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000019_000002.wav|Even the servant happened to be out.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000069_000002.wav|Perhaps I did wrong in going to see her.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000092_000002.wav|Oh, if only I were alone and no one loved me and I too had never loved anyone!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000007.wav|But now I see again how foolish I was, for you can attain any position you like by your intellect and talent.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000093_000001.wav|It must be so.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000001.wav|And they dared to think you were mad!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000043_000000.wav|"No, but kneel down and pray to God for me.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000084_000000.wav|"Which all men shed," he put in almost frantically, "which flows and has always flowed in streams, which is spilt like champagne, and for which men are crowned in the Capitol and are called afterwards benefactors of mankind.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000068_000002.wav|"Surely you haven't done that?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000089_000001.wav|It was the portrait of his landlady's daughter, who had died of fever, that strange girl who had wanted to be a nun.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000050_000000.wav|"Rodya, don't be angry, I don't dare to question you.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000076_000002.wav|But I don't know why I am going to give myself up."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000052_000000.wav|"What is awaiting you there?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000013.wav|I won't disgrace you, you will see; I'll still show....|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000046_000004.wav|The first time I saw you, that evening, you remember, as soon as we arrived here, I guessed simply from your eyes.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000033_000001.wav|How can you ask me such a question? Why, who will tell me anything about you?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000063_000000.wav|"Where were you all night?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000006.wav|She has her ways and I have mine; she seems to have got some secrets of late and I never have any secrets from you two.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000030_000000.wav|"Mother, don't trouble, I am going at once.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000004.wav|But you go at once and sit with mother.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000010.wav|I shall know, anyway, that you are fond of me, that will be enough for me.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000092_000000.wav|"I am wicked, I see that," he thought to himself, feeling ashamed a moment later of his angry gesture to Dounia.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000069_000000.wav|"No, I didn't tell her... in words; but she understood a great deal. She heard you talking in your sleep.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000085_000000.wav|"But that's not so, not so!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000000.wav|"Crime?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000007.wav|Directly I saw it I cried out to myself: 'There, foolish one,' I thought, 'that's what he is busy about; that's the solution of the mystery!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000006.wav|shall I know any better what they are for, when I am crushed by hardships and idiocy, and weak as an old man after twenty years' penal servitude?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000055_000001.wav|You'll come, you'll come to morrow?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000004.wav|"Can anyone have come to see me?" he wondered.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000072_000000.wav|"Pride, Rodya."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000083_000001.wav|Why, you have shed blood?" cried Dounia in despair.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000046_000005.wav|My heart sank at once, and to day when I opened the door and looked at you, I thought the fatal hour had come.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000026_000000.wav|"Dounia's not at home, mother?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000045_000000.wav|Yes, he was glad, he was very glad that there was no one there, that he was alone with his mother.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000018.wav|Wait a minute, I'd forgotten!"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000038_000003.wav|You see, I am glad to look upon her as a daughter even... Dmitri Prokofitch will help us to go together. But... where... are you going?"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000051_000000.wav|"Very far."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000049_000000.wav|"Yes...|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000084_000003.wav|But i.. I couldn't carry out even the first step, because I am contemptible, that's what's the matter!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000029_000003.wav|"There is coffee and I don't offer you any.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000015.wav|"Why are you crying?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000008.wav|It's simply because I am contemptible and have nothing in me that I have decided to, perhaps too for my advantage, as that...|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000002.wav|Don't be uneasy," he returned to Dounia, "she was as much opposed to it as you, and I am glad that she is gone.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000082_000009.wav|Porfiry... suggested!"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000009.wav|She rose from the sofa in dismay and stood up facing him.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000011.wav|Don't cry about me: I'll try to be honest and manly all my life, even if I am a murderer.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000070_000000.wav|"A contemptible person, but ready to face suffering!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000001.wav|I've made up my mind once for all: how could I understand your plans and expect you to give an account of them?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000003.wav|It's time, high time to go. Don't follow me, I beseech you, I have somewhere else to go....|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000047_000000.wav|"No!"|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000045_000003.wav|And she was not surprised and did not question him this time.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000028_000000.wav|Here Pulcheria Alexandrovna began to cry.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000007.wav|And what shall I have to live for then?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000019_000000.wav|He knocked at the door which was opened by his mother.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000091_000001.wav|It was hard for Dounia, but she loved him. She walked away, but after going fifty paces she turned round to look at him again.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000060_000000.wav|Raskolnikov went into the room and sank exhausted on a chair.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000093_000000.wav|He fell to musing by what process it could come to pass, that he could be humbled before all of them, indiscriminately-humbled by conviction. And yet why not?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000056_000000.wav|"I will, I will, good bye." He tore himself away at last.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000074_000000.wav|"You don't think, sister, that I was simply afraid of the water?" he asked, looking into her face with a sinister smile.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000022_000005.wav|I am reading your article in the magazine for the third time, Rodya.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000057_000002.wav|He did not want to meet anyone till then.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000089_000000.wav|He went to the table, took up a thick dusty book, opened it and took from between the pages a little water colour portrait on ivory.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000090_000003.wav|The great point is that everything now is going to be different, is going to be broken in two," he cried, suddenly returning to his dejection. "Everything, everything, and am I prepared for it?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000045_000004.wav|For some days she had realised that something awful was happening to her son and that now some terrible minute had come for him.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000075_000003.wav|Suddenly he got up.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000018_000000.wav|He was appallingly dressed: his clothes torn and dirty, soaked with a night's rain.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000001.wav|Good bye!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000013.wav|Here you've come now to comfort your mother, I see that."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000084_000005.wav|If I had succeeded I should have been crowned with glory, but now I'm trapped."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000030_000001.wav|I haven't come for that. Please listen to me."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000061_000000.wav|"I feel weak, Dounia, I am very tired; and I should have liked at this moment to be able to control myself."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000045_000001.wav|For the first time after all those awful months his heart was softened.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000025_000005.wav|Your father sent twice to magazines-the first time poems (I've got the manuscript and will show you) and the second time a whole novel (I begged him to let me copy it out) and how we prayed that they should be taken-they weren't!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000014.wav|Now good bye for the present," he concluded hurriedly, noticing again a strange expression in Dounia's eyes at his last words and promises.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000007.wav|Ah, how muddy you are."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000027_000002.wav|Dmitri Prokofitch comes to see me, it's so good of him, and he always talks about you.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000065_000000.wav|"Thank God!|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000088_000006.wav|It's my last request of you.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000017_000000.wav|"Besides, it doesn't matter, they still know nothing," he thought, "and they are used to thinking of me as eccentric."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000059_000001.wav|We were both waiting for you. We thought that you would be sure to come there."|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000020_000003.wav|No, I am delighted, but I've got into such a stupid habit of shedding tears.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000024_000004.wav|He recalled all the inward conflict of the preceding months.|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1903/132499/1903_132499_000083_000000.wav|"Brother, brother, what are you saying?|1903
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000005_000000.wav|And so they did; Harry was as clever at stable work as a much older boy, and always wanted to do what he could.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000021_000001.wav|I was quick and bold and could always trust my driver; Jerry was quick and patient at the same time, and could trust his horse, which was a great thing too.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000026_000001.wav|Here, porter!|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000036_000000.wav|"If you ever do get rich," said Governor Gray, looking over his shoulder across the top of his cab, "you'll deserve it, Jerry, and you won't find a curse come with your wealth.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000027_000000.wav|"'So glad!' he said, 'so glad!' Poor young fellow!|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000040_000001.wav|"Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000024_000000.wav|Just then the cart in front of us began to move on, and then we had a good turn.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000011_000000.wav|Larry's cab was standing next to ours; he flung open the door, and said, "I'm your man, gentlemen! take my cab, my horse will get you there all right;" and as he shut them in, with a wink toward Jerry, said, "It's against his conscience to go beyond a jog trot." Then slashing his jaded horse, he set off as hard as he could.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000020_000003.wav|All this is what you have to be ready for. If you want to get through London fast in the middle of the day it wants a deal of practice.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000035_000001.wav|I have heard the commandments read a great many times and I never noticed that any of them said, 'Thou shalt be rich'; and there are a good many curious things said in the New Testament about rich men that I think would make me feel rather queer if I was one of them."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000005_000001.wav|Then Polly and Dolly used to come in the morning to help with the cab-to brush and beat the cushions, and rub the glass, while Jerry was giving us a cleaning in the yard, and Harry was rubbing the harness.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000027_000001.wav|I wonder what it was that made him so anxious!"|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000037_000000.wav|"Well," said Larry, "what is a fellow to do if his horse won't go without it?"|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000020_000000.wav|It is always difficult to drive fast in the city in the middle of the day, when the streets are full of traffic, but we did what could be done; and when a good driver and a good horse, who understand each other, are of one mind, it is wonderful what they can do.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000007_000000.wav|He could not bear any careless loitering and waste of time; and nothing was so near making him angry as to find people, who were always late, wanting a cab horse to be driven hard, to make up for their idleness.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000009_000001.wav|You shall have a shilling extra."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000029_000000.wav|On Jerry's return to the rank there was a good deal of laughing and chaffing at him for driving hard to the train for an extra fare, as they said, all against his principles, and they wanted to know how much he had pocketed.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000022_000000.wav|The streets were very full that day, but we got on pretty well as far as the bottom of Cheapside, where there was a block for three or four minutes.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000035_000000.wav|"Most likely not," said Jerry; "but I don't know that I shall be the less happy for that.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000022_000001.wav|The young man put his head out and said anxiously, "I think I had better get out and walk; I shall never get there if this goes on."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000030_000000.wav|"A good deal more than I generally get," said he, nodding slyly; "what he gave me will keep me in little comforts for several days."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000003_000002.wav|He was very fond of making little songs, and singing them to himself.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000004_000000.wav|"Come, father and mother, And sister and brother, Come, all of you, turn to And help one another."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000011_000001.wav|Jerry patted me on the neck: "No, Jack, a shilling would not pay for that sort of thing, would it, old boy?"|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000003_000001.wav|He was kind and good, and as strong for the right as john Manly; and so good tempered and merry that very few people could pick a quarrel with him.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000028_000000.wav|Jerry often talked to himself quite loud enough for me to hear when we were not moving.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000017_000000.wav|"I must go," he said earnestly, "please to open the door, and let us lose no time."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000038_000001.wav|Because you never give them any peace or encouragement."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000025_000002.wav|Take this extra half crown."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000023_000001.wav|This block up cannot last much longer, and your luggage is very heavy for you to carry, sir."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000026_000000.wav|"No, sir, no, thank you all the same; so glad we hit the time, sir; but don't stay now, sir, the bell is ringing.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000003_000003.wav|One he was very fond of was this:|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000024_000002.wav|At any rate, we whirled into the station with many more, just as the great clock pointed to eight minutes to twelve o'clock.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000008_000000.wav|One day two wild looking young men came out of a tavern close by the stand, and called Jerry.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000015_000001.wav|I should be most thankful if you could get me there in time, and will gladly pay you an extra fare."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000018_000000.wav|The next minute Jerry was on the box; with a cheery chirrup to me, and a twitch of the rein that I well understood.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000003_000000.wav|I never knew a better man than my new master.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000010_000000.wav|"I will take you at the regular pace, gentlemen; shillings don't pay for putting on the steam like that."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000013_000000.wav|I well remember one morning, as we were on the stand waiting for a fare, that a young man, carrying a heavy portmanteau, trod on a piece of orange peel which lay on the pavement, and fell down with great force.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000040_000000.wav|"And you never will," said the governor.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000033_000000.wav|"Look here, mates," said Jerry; "the gentleman offered me half a crown extra, but I didn't take it; 'twas quite pay enough for me to see how glad he was to catch that train; and if Jack and I choose to have a quick run now and then to please ourselves, that's our business and not yours."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000021_000000.wav|Jerry and I were used to it, and no one could beat us at getting through when we were set upon it.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000019_000000.wav|"Now then, Jack, my boy," said he, "spin along, we'll show them how we can get over the ground, if we only know why."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000021_000002.wav|He very seldom used the whip; I knew by his voice, and his click, click, when he wanted to get on fast, and by the rein where I was to go; so there was no need for whipping; but I must go back to my story.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000025_000000.wav|"Thank God! we are in time," said the young man, "and thank you, too, my friend, and your good horse.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000023_000000.wav|"I'll do all that can be done, sir," said Jerry; "I think we shall be in time.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000014_000000.wav|Jerry was the first to run and lift him up.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000002_000000.wav|thirty five Jerry Barker|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000005_000003.wav|They were always early in the morning, for Jerry would say:|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000036_000001.wav|As for you, Larry, you'll die poor; you spend too much in whipcord."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000016_000000.wav|"I'll do my very best," said Jerry heartily, "if you think you are well enough, sir," for he looked dreadfully white and ill.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000025_000001.wav|You have saved me more than money can ever pay for.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000015_000000.wav|"Can you take me to the south-eastern Railway?" said the young man; "this unlucky fall has made me late, I fear; but it is of great importance that I should not lose the twelve o'clock train.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000012_000000.wav|Although Jerry was determinedly set against hard driving, to please careless people, he always went a good fair pace, and was not against putting on the steam, as he said, if only he knew why.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/123036/175_123036_000032_000000.wav|"He's a humbug," said another; "preaching to us and then doing the same himself."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000021_000000.wav|"But where are the huts?"|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000011_000007.wav|Suddenly he dropped from the tree, and in another moment was holding the fronds apart and staring curiously at me.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000016_000001.wav|His back was to me.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000016_000000.wav|I pushed out of the brake after him, and was astonished to find him swinging cheerfully by one lank arm from a rope of creepers that looped down from the foliage overhead.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000029_000003.wav|The path coiled down abruptly into a narrow ravine between two tumbled and knotty masses of blackish scoriae. Into this we plunged.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000007_000005.wav|The wild scene about me lay sleeping silently under the sun, and the only sound near me was the thin hum of some small gnats that had discovered me.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000007_000000.wav|Another minute, thought I, and he would have had me locked in, and as ready as a hospital rabbit for my fate.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000020_000000.wav|"Eat!" he said.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000028_000000.wav|The creature was little better than an idiot.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000026_000000.wav|My ape like companion trotted along by my side, with his hands hanging down and his jaw thrust forward.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000014_000000.wav|"Oh!" he said, and his bright, restless eyes travelled over me, to my hands, to the stick I carried, to my feet, to the tattered places in my coat, and the cuts and scratches I had received from the thorns. He seemed puzzled at something.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000008_000002.wav|Some of these no doubt they could press into their service against me if need arose. I knew both Moreau and Montgomery carried revolvers; and, save for a feeble bar of deal spiked with a small nail, the merest mockery of a mace, I was unarmed.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000011_000005.wav|I gripped my stick, and stood up facing him. He began chattering.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000010_000001.wav|I remember a growth of thorny plants, with spines that stabbed like pen knives.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000024_000000.wav|At that he swung round, and set off at a quick walk. All his motions were curiously rapid.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000029_000000.wav|I was so intent upon these peculiarities that I scarcely noticed the path we followed.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000011_000006.wav|"You, you, you," was all I could distinguish at first.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000013_000000.wav|"Yes," I said, "I came in the boat.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000006_000005.wav|I hesitated a moment, then turned and fled, round the corner of the house.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000011_000003.wav|I saw that it was the simian creature who had met the launch upon the beach.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000006_000006.wav|"Prendick, man!" I heard his astonished cry, "don't be a silly ass, man!"|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000015_000001.wav|But guessing this was in some way a greeting, I did the same thing by way of reply. He grinned with immense satisfaction.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000020_000002.wav|"At the huts."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000010_000003.wav|Then I heard no more, and presently began to think I had escaped.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000025_000000.wav|I went with him to see the adventure out.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000007_000001.wav|He emerged behind the corner, for I heard him shout, "Prendick!"|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000006_000002.wav|Then with an inspiration I turned over the deck chair, put my foot on the side of it, and tore away the side rail.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000013_000001.wav|From the ship."|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000010_000000.wav|Then suddenly I heard a staghound bay, and at that realised a new danger. I took little time to think, or they would have caught me then, but snatching up my nailed stick, rushed headlong from my hiding place towards the sound of the sea.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000006_000000.wav|I looked round for some weapon.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000029_000002.wav|On our right, over a shoulder of bare rock, I saw the level blue of the sea.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000009_000002.wav|At last in the desperation of my position, my mind turned to the animal men I had encountered.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000030_000000.wav|It was extremely dark, this passage, after the blinding sunlight reflected from the sulphurous ground.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000030_000004.wav|I became aware of a disagreeable odor, like that of a monkey's cage ill cleaned.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000006_000004.wav|He meant to lock the outer door! I raised this nailed stick of mine and cut at his face; but he sprang back.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000022_000000.wav|"Oh!"|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000006_000001.wav|Nothing.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000025_000001.wav|I guessed the huts were some rough shelter where he and some more of these Beast People lived. I might perhaps find them friendly, find some handle in their minds to take hold of.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000009_000003.wav|I tried to find some hope in what I remembered of them. In turn I recalled each one I had seen, and tried to draw some augury of assistance from my memory.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000011_000004.wav|He was clinging to the oblique stem of a palm tree.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000007_000003.wav|This time running blindly, I went northeastward in a direction at right angles to my previous expedition.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000008_000000.wav|After about an hour I heard Montgomery shouting my name, far away to the north.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000008_000001.wav|That set me thinking of my plan of action. As I interpreted it then, this island was inhabited only by these two vivisectors and their animalised victims.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000018_000000.wav|He came down with a twisting jump, and stood facing me.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000015_000000.wav|I did not grasp his meaning then; afterwards I was to find that a great proportion of these Beast People had malformed hands, lacking sometimes even three digits.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/129587/175_129587_000030_000002.wav|Blotches of green and crimson drifted across my eyes. My conductor stopped suddenly.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000003.wav|About two thirds of the trunk is commonly free of limbs, but close, fringy tufts of spray occur nearly all the way down to the ground.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000006.wav|The heat, however, is sufficient to kill the tree and in a few years the bark shrivels and falls off.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000010.wav|It seems to be a survivor of some ancient race, wholly unacquainted with its neighbors. Its broad stumpiness, of course, makes wind waving or even shaking out of the question, but it is not this rocky rigidity that constitutes its silence.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000002.wav|It is as massive and suggestive of enduring strength as an oak.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000006.wav|Every feature or every gesture it makes expresses steadfast, dogged endurance.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000001_000001.wav|Murrayana), above the Silver Fir zone, forms the bulk of the alpine forests up to a height of from eight thousand to nine thousand five hundred feet above the sea, growing in beautiful order on moraines scarcely changed as yet by post glacial weathering.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000000.wav|Therefore this tree more than any other is subject to destruction by fire.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000005.wav|It lasts, however, only a few seconds, vanishing with magical rapidity, to be succeeded by others along the fire line at irregular intervals, tree after tree, upflashing and darting, leaving the trunks and branches scarcely scarred.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000005.wav|It never makes anything like a forest; seldom even a grove. Usually it stands out separate and independent, clinging by slight joints to the rocks, living chiefly on snow and thin air and maintaining sound health on this diet for two thousand years or more.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000000.wav|The Mountain Pine (Pinus monticola) is the noblest tree of the alpine zone-hardy and long lived towering grandly above its companions and becoming stronger and more imposing just where other species begin to crouch and disappear.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000008_000000.wav|I have spent a good deal of time trying to determine the age of these wonderful trees, but as all of the very old ones are honey combed with dry rot I never was able to get a complete count of the largest.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000003.wav|Some trees are mere storm beaten stumps about as broad as long, decorated with a few leafy sprays, reminding one of the crumbling towers of old castles scantily draped with ivy.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000001_000004.wav|The average height of mature trees throughout the entire belt is probably not far from fifty or sixty feet with a diameter of two feet.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000003_000002.wav|Being so slender and at the same time clad with leafy boughs, it is often bent and weighed down to the ground when laden with soft snow; thus forming fine ornamental arches, many of them to last until the melting of the snow in the spring.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000005.wav|The cones are from four to eight inches long, smooth, slender, cylindrical and somewhat curved. They grow in clusters of from three to six or seven and become pendulous as they increase in weight.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000001.wav|At its best it is usually about ninety feet high and five or six feet in diameter, though you may find specimens here and there considerably larger than this.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000006.wav|This species is nearly related to the sugar pine and, though not half so tall, it suggests its noble relative in the way that it extends its long branches in general habit.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000003.wav|Then the leaves catch forming an immense column of fire, beautifully spired on the edges and tinted a rose purple hue.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000007.wav|The bark is of a bright cinnamon color and is handsomely braided and reticulated on thrifty trees, flaking off in thin, shining ribbons that are sometimes used by the Indians for tent matting.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000009.wav|At length the roots decay and the forlorn gray trunks are blown down during some storm and piled one upon another, encumbering the ground until, dry and seasoned, they are consumed by another fire and leave the ground ready for a fresh crop.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000001_000007.wav|The short, rigid needles in fascicles of two are arranged in comparatively long cylindrical tassels at the ends of the tough up curving branches.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000000.wav|The Juniper or Red Cedar (Juniperus occidentalis) is preeminently a rock tree, occupying the baldest domes and pavements in the upper silver fir and alpine zones, at a height of from seven thousand to nine thousand five hundred feet.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000006_000000.wav|The Western Juniper|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000001_000005.wav|It is a well proportioned, rather handsome tree with grayish brown bark and crooked, much divided branches which cover the greater part of the trunk, but not so densely as to prevent it being seen.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000002.wav|The tops of old trees are almost always dead, and large stubborn looking limbs push out horizontally, most of them broken and dead at the end, but densely covered, and imbedded here and there with tufts or mounds of gray green scalelike foliage.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000003_000001.wav|I frequently found specimens fifty feet high less than five inches in diameter.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000004_000000.wav|The Mountain Pine|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000008.wav|Later the branches drop off, leaving a forest of bleached spars.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000008_000005.wav|Beyond this the count was stopped by dry rot and scars.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000007.wav|Forests miles in extent are thus killed and left standing, with the branches on, but peeled and rigid, appearing gray in the distance like misty clouds.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000002_000004.wav|It rushes aloft thirty or forty feet above the top of the tree, forming a grand spectacle, especially at night.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000008_000004.wav|The first fifteen inches from the bark of a medium size tree six feet in diameter, on the north Tenaya pavement, had eight hundred fifty nine layers of wood.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000011.wav|In calm, sun days the sugar pine preaches like an enthusiastic apostle without moving a leaf.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000007_000001.wav|In such situations, rooted in narrow cracks or fissures, where there is scarcely a handful of soil, it is frequently over eight feet in diameter and not much more in height.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/175/127696/175_127696_000005_000004.wav|On trees that occupy exposed situations near its upper limit the bark is deep reddish brown and rather deeply furrowed, the main furrows running nearly parallel to each other and connected on the old trees by conspicuous cross furrows.|175
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000008_000000.wav|In the Shark's body Pinocchio finds whom?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000036_000000.wav|"The time has come for us to escape," he whispered, turning to his father.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000019_000002.wav|And the matches with which to light it-where did you get them?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000023_000000.wav|"And then?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000001.wav|It is I! Look at me!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000014.wav|The trap caught me and the Farmer put a collar on me and made me a watchdog.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000041_000001.wav|Give me your hand, dear Father, and be careful not to slip!"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000045_000001.wav|I'll take care of everything else."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000036_000002.wav|The sea is calm and the night is as bright as day.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000033_000000.wav|"Follow me and have no fear."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000007_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty five|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000021_000000.wav|"What!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000020_000001.wav|The sailors were all saved, but the ship went right to the bottom of the sea, and the same Terrible Shark that swallowed me, swallowed most of it."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000044_000000.wav|With these words Pinocchio took his father by the hand and, always walking on tiptoes, they climbed up the monster's throat for a second time.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000043_000001.wav|Come with me and don't be afraid."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000006.wav|He was the one who gave me the five gold pieces for you, but I met the Fox and the Cat, who took me to the Inn of the Red Lobster.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000035_000000.wav|I want you to know that the Shark, being very old and suffering from asthma and heart trouble, was obliged to sleep with his mouth open. Because of this, Pinocchio was able to catch a glimpse of the sky filled with stars, as he looked up through the open jaws of his new home.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000039_000000.wav|"And now?" asked Pinocchio with a serious face.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000037_000001.wav|They climbed up the throat of the monster till they came to that immense open mouth.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000000.wav|"Yes, yes, yes!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000036_000001.wav|"The Shark is fast asleep.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000034_000001.wav|When they reached the throat of the monster, they stopped for a while to wait for the right moment in which to make their escape.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000028_000000.wav|"You speak well, but I cannot swim, my dear Pinocchio."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000003.wav|Oh, my dear Father, how good you are!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000026_000000.wav|"Escape!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000037_000002.wav|There they had to walk on tiptoes, for if they tickled the Shark's long tongue he might awaken-and where would they be then?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000005.wav|Just think that on the day you sold your old coat to buy me my A B C book so that I could go to school, I ran away to the Marionette Theater and the proprietor caught me and wanted to burn me to cook his roast lamb!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000007.wav|There they ate like wolves and I left the Inn alone and I met the Assassins in the wood.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000026_000001.wav|How?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000011_000001.wav|On and on he walked till finally he found-I give you a thousand guesses, my dear children!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000016_000001.wav|The sea was rough and the whitecaps overturned the boat.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000022_000000.wav|"At one gulp.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000037_000003.wav|The tongue was so wide and so long that it looked like a country road.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000045_000000.wav|"Climb on my back and hold on tightly to my neck.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000046_000000.wav|As soon as Geppetto was comfortably seated on his shoulders, Pinocchio, very sure of what he was doing, dived into the water and started to swim.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000029_000000.wav|"Why should that matter?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000022_000002.wav|To my own good luck, that ship was loaded with meat, preserved foods, crackers, bread, bottles of wine, raisins, cheese, coffee, sugar, wax candles, and boxes of matches.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000002.wav|And you have forgiven me, haven't you?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000014_000001.wav|"Are you really my own dear Pinocchio?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000017_000000.wav|"And how long have you been shut away in here?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000010.wav|It grew and it grew, till I couldn't get it through the door of the room.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000038_000000.wav|To make matters worse, the candle went out and father and son were left in the dark.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000004.wav|And to think that I-Oh, but if you only knew how many misfortunes have fallen on my head and how many troubles I have had!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000036_000003.wav|Follow me closely, dear Father, and we shall soon be saved."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000042_000000.wav|"Where will you take me?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000015_000015.wav|He found out I was innocent when I caught the Weasels and he let me go.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000041_000000.wav|"Why lost?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000011_000003.wav|They wriggled so that, now and again, one of them slipped out of the old man's mouth and escaped into the darkness under the table.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000011_000000.wav|The farther on he went, the brighter and clearer grew the tiny light.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000031_000001.wav|And in any case, if it is written that we must die, we shall at least die together."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000034_000000.wav|They walked a long distance through the stomach and the whole body of the Shark.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000021_000001.wav|Swallowed a ship?" asked Pinocchio in astonishment.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000025_000001.wav|We must try to escape."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000044_000002.wav|But before they took the last great leap, the Marionette said to his father:|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000025_000000.wav|"Then, my dear Father," said Pinocchio, "there is no time to lose.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000029_000001.wav|You can climb on my shoulders and I, who am a fine swimmer, will carry you safely to the shore."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000027_000000.wav|"We can run out of the Shark's mouth and dive into the sea."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000043_000000.wav|"We must try again.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125882/369_125882_000040_000000.wav|"Now we are lost."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000111_000007.wav|Here, take them, little Snail, and give them to my good Fairy."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000007_000001.wav|"Remember, Father, that I am like a cat.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000041_000000.wav|"On us."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000039_000000.wav|"If you are poor; you deserve it!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000097_000001.wav|But he was not satisfied with this.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000111_000004.wav|But I have only fifty pennies.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000086_000002.wav|After looking at him a long time, he said to himself: "I know that Donkey!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000072_000001.wav|First give me the penny."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000008_000002.wav|He felt he could not go on much longer, and the shore was still far away.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000065_000000.wav|"She will never come back.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000023_000000.wav|"Heavy?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000116_000000.wav|"And where is the new suit?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000091_000001.wav|"What should I do-I, who have paid my good money for him?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000047_000001.wav|"Let us see for ourselves."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000014_000001.wav|You are Pinocchio."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000120_000000.wav|At that very moment, Pinocchio awoke and opened wide his eyes.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000029_000001.wav|We will walk very, very slowly, and if we feel tired we can rest by the wayside."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000127_000001.wav|He ran into the next room, and there stood Geppetto, grown years younger overnight, spick and span in his new clothes and gay as a lark in the morning.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000106_000001.wav|"Answer me quickly, pretty Snail, where have you left my Fairy?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000071_000000.wav|"I want a full glass."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000045_000001.wav|Remember the old proverb: 'Whoever steals his neighbor's shirt, usually dies without his own.'"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000009_000001.wav|Then he turned to Geppetto and cried out weakly:|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000052_000001.wav|As soon as they went in, they looked here and there and everywhere but saw no one.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000066_000001.wav|Then it was she-it was-my dear little Fairy," cried out Pinocchio, sobbing bitterly.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000082_000002.wav|He had never worked so hard in his life.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000106_000000.wav|"I remember everything," cried Pinocchio.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000076_000002.wav|Do you know how to draw water from a well?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000024_000000.wav|As soon as they reached the shore, Pinocchio was the first to jump to the ground to help his old father.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000010_000000.wav|"Help me, Father!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000080_000000.wav|"After you have finished, I shall give you a glass of warm sweet milk."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000052_000000.wav|Pinocchio turned the key and the door opened.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000104_000000.wav|"Yes and no"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000016_000000.wav|"I am the Tunny, your companion in the Shark's stomach."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000119_000000.wav|After that he went to bed and fell asleep.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000125_000002.wav|The bright face of a tall boy looked at him with wide awake blue eyes, dark brown hair and happy, smiling lips.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000003_000001.wav|All at once he noticed that Geppetto was shivering and shaking as if with a high fever.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000074_000000.wav|"Very bad, my Marionette," answered the Farmer, "very bad.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000081_000000.wav|"I am satisfied."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000095_000002.wav|You had donkeys in your school?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000121_000003.wav|There, he found a new suit, a new hat, and a pair of shoes.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000079_000000.wav|"Very well."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000127_000002.wav|He was once more Mastro Geppetto, the wood carver, hard at work on a lovely picture frame, decorating it with flowers and leaves, and heads of animals.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000105_000001.wav|Do you not remember how she opened the door for you one night and gave you something to eat?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000067_000000.wav|"Tell me, little Cricket, where shall I find a glass of milk for my poor Father?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000009_000000.wav|He swam a few more strokes.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000113_000002.wav|Go, and hurry.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000020_000001.wav|Hang onto my tail, both of you, and let me lead you.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000095_000000.wav|"What," shouted Farmer john, bursting out laughing.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000019_000000.wav|"Tunny, you arrived at the right moment!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000069_000000.wav|Pinocchio ran all the way to Farmer John's house.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000051_000000.wav|"Turn the key and the door will open," said the same little voice.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000005_000000.wav|"Courage, Father!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000122_000000.wav|As soon as he was dressed, he put his hands in his pockets and pulled out a little leather purse on which were written the following words:|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000027_000000.wav|In the meantime day had dawned.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000125_000000.wav|Pinocchio ran to the mirror.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000127_000000.wav|"And where is Father?" he cried suddenly.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000082_000001.wav|Pinocchio set to work as well as he knew how, but long before he had pulled up the one hundred buckets, he was tired out and dripping with perspiration.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000034_000002.wav|We are old, tired, and sick."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000097_000002.wav|He learned to make baskets of reeds and sold them.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000003.wav|Ink he had none, so he used the juice of blackberries or cherries.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000086_000003.wav|I have seen him before."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000008_000001.wav|He was beginning to feel discouraged, his strength was leaving him, and his breathing was becoming more and more labored.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000069_000001.wav|The Farmer said to him:|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000029_000000.wav|"Lean on my arm, dear Father, and let us go.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000073_000000.wav|"I have no penny," answered Pinocchio, sad and ashamed.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000101_000000.wav|"I am going to the market place to buy myself a coat, a cap, and a pair of shoes.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000011_000000.wav|Father and son were really about to drown when they heard a voice like a guitar out of tune call from the sea:|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000119_000003.wav|Boys who love and take good care of their parents when they are old and sick, deserve praise even though they may not be held up as models of obedience and good behavior.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000042_000000.wav|"Addio, false friends.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000060_000000.wav|"You are right, little Cricket, you are more than right, and I shall remember the lesson you have taught me.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000025_000001.wav|Allow me to embrace you as a sign of my eternal gratitude."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000111_000002.wav|My poor, dear little Fairy!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000001.wav|With some of the money he had earned, he bought himself a secondhand volume that had a few pages missing, and with that he learned to read in a very short time.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000004_000003.wav|But Pinocchio, thinking his father was frightened, tried to comfort him by saying:|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000113_000000.wav|"What does that matter?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000107_000000.wav|At all these questions, tumbling out one after another, the Snail answered, calm as ever:|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000028_000000.wav|Pinocchio offered his arm to Geppetto, who was so weak he could hardly stand, and said to him:|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000025_000000.wav|"Dear friend, you have saved my father, and I have not enough words with which to thank you!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000109_000000.wav|"In a hospital?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000090_000000.wav|"Oh, my poor Lamp Wick," said Pinocchio in a faint voice, as he wiped his eyes with some straw he had picked up from the ground.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000023_000002.wav|You are as light as sea shells," answered the Tunny, who was as large as a two year old horse.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000058_000000.wav|"You are right, dear Cricket.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000113_000003.wav|Come back here within a couple of days and I hope to have more money for you!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000133_000001.wav|And he pointed to a large Marionette leaning against a chair, head turned to one side, arms hanging limp, and legs twisted under him.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000111_000006.wav|I was just going to buy some clothes.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000013_000000.wav|"It is I and my poor father."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000118_000000.wav|That night, Pinocchio, instead of going to bed at ten o'clock waited until midnight, and instead of making eight baskets, he made sixteen.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000117_000000.wav|"I couldn't find one to fit me.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000111_000005.wav|Here they are.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000074_000001.wav|If you have no penny, I have no milk."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000095_000001.wav|"What!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000131_000000.wav|"Just this.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000084_000000.wav|"Will you take me to see him?" said Pinocchio.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000119_000001.wav|As he slept, he dreamed of his Fairy, beautiful, smiling, and happy, who kissed him and said to him, "Bravo, Pinocchio!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000125_000001.wav|He hardly recognized himself.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000114_000000.wav|The Snail, much against her usual habit, began to run like a lizard under a summer sun|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000006.wav|Besides this, he was able to save the great amount of fifty pennies.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000108_000000.wav|"My dear Pinocchio, the Fairy is lying ill in a hospital."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000113_000005.wav|Now I shall have to work for my mother also.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000075_000000.wav|"Too bad," said Pinocchio and started to go.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000021_000000.wav|Geppetto and Pinocchio, as you can easily imagine, did not refuse the invitation; indeed, instead of hanging onto the tail, they thought it better to climb on the Tunny's back.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000005.wav|He succeeded, not only in his studies, but also in his work, and a day came when he put enough money together to keep his old father comfortable and happy.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000128_000000.wav|"Father, Father, what has happened?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000130_000000.wav|"What have I to do with it?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000126_000001.wav|He rubbed his eyes two or three times, wondering if he were still asleep or awake and decided he must be awake.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000101_000001.wav|When I come back I'll be so dressed up, you will think I am a rich man."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000026_000000.wav|The Tunny stuck his nose out of the water and Pinocchio knelt on the sand and kissed him most affectionately on his cheek.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000037_000001.wav|Today we are truly poor and starving."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000063_000000.wav|"I don't know."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000056_000000.wav|"Oh, my dear Cricket," said Pinocchio, bowing politely.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000132_000000.wav|"I wonder where the old Pinocchio of wood has hidden himself?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000124_000000.wav|The Marionette opened the purse to find the money, and behold-there were fifty gold coins!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000097_000003.wav|With the money he received, he and his father were able to keep from starving.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000062_000000.wav|"And where did the Goat go?" asked Pinocchio.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000072_000000.wav|"A full glass costs a penny.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000077_000000.wav|"I can try."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000045_000000.wav|"Addio, false friends.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000012_000000.wav|"What is the trouble?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000095_000003.wav|How you must have studied!"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000020_000000.wav|"With great pleasure indeed.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000004_000000.wav|Was he shivering from fear or from cold?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000093_000000.wav|"Your friend?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000000.wav|In the evening the Marionette studied by lamplight.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000033_000000.wav|It was the Fox and the Cat, but one could hardly recognize them, they looked so miserable.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000035_000000.wav|"Sick!" repeated the Cat.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000058_000002.wav|I deserve it! But spare my poor old father."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000110_000001.wav|She has been stricken with trouble and illness, and she hasn't a penny left with which to buy a bite of bread."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000115_000000.wav|When Pinocchio returned home, his father asked him:|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000106_000002.wav|What is she doing?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000096_000000.wav|The Marionette, ashamed and hurt by those words, did not answer, but taking his glass of milk returned to his father.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000008_000000.wav|Poor Pinocchio pretended to be peaceful and contented, but he was far from that.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000106_000005.wav|Does she still love me?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000061_000000.wav|"This cottage was given to me yesterday by a little Goat with blue hair."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000059_000000.wav|"I am going to spare both the father and the son.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000092_000000.wav|"But, you see, he was my friend."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000068_000002.wav|Go there and he will give you what you want."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000128_000001.wav|Tell me if you can," cried Pinocchio, as he ran and jumped on his Father's neck.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000022_000000.wav|"Are we too heavy?" asked Pinocchio.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000019_000001.wav|I implore you, for the love you bear your children, the little Tunnies, to help us, or we are lost!"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000018_000000.wav|"I imitated your example.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000044_000000.wav|"Abandon us," repeated the Cat.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000068_000000.wav|"Three fields away from here lives Farmer john.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000097_000000.wav|From that day on, for more than five months, Pinocchio got up every morning just as dawn was breaking and went to the farm to draw water. And every day he was given a glass of warm milk for his poor old father, who grew stronger and better day by day.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000033_000003.wav|That sly thief had fallen into deepest poverty, and one day he had been forced to sell his beautiful tail for a bite to eat.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000082_000000.wav|Farmer john took the Marionette to the well and showed him how to draw the water.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000076_000000.wav|"Wait a moment," said Farmer john.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000037_000000.wav|"Believe us!|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000113_000006.wav|Good by, and I hope to see you soon."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000126_000000.wav|Surrounded by so much splendor, the Marionette hardly knew what he was doing.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000036_000000.wav|"Addio, false friends!" answered the Marionette.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000094_000000.wav|"A classmate of mine."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000036_000001.wav|"You cheated me once, but you will never catch me again."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000017_000000.wav|"And how did you escape?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000112_000000.wav|"What about the new clothes?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000005_000001.wav|In a few moments we shall be safe on land."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000111_000000.wav|"Really?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000000_000000.wav|CHAPTER thirty six|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000015_000001.wav|And you?"|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000003_000000.wav|Without another word, he swam swiftly away in an effort to reach land as soon as possible.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000038_000000.wav|"Starving!" repeated the Cat.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000031_000000.wav|"To look for a house or a hut, where they will be kind enough to give us a bite of bread and a bit of straw to sleep on."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000004_000001.wav|Who knows?|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000066_000002.wav|After he had cried a long time, he wiped his eyes and then he made a bed of straw for old Geppetto.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000098_000000.wav|Among other things, he built a rolling chair, strong and comfortable, to take his old father out for an airing on bright, sunny days.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000103_000000.wav|"Don't you recognize me?" said the Snail.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000113_000004.wav|Until today I have worked for my father.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000099_000002.wav|As far as writing was concerned, he used a long stick at one end of which he had whittled a long, fine point.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000020_000002.wav|In a twinkling you will be safe on land."|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000026_000001.wav|At this warm greeting, the poor Tunny, who was not used to such tenderness, wept like a child.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000026_000002.wav|He felt so embarrassed and ashamed that he turned quickly, plunged into the sea, and disappeared.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000004_000002.wav|Perhaps a little of both.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/369/125883/369_125883_000053_000000.wav|"Oh-ho, where is the owner of the hut?" cried Pinocchio, very much surprised.|369
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000008_000001.wav|Now an arrow stuck above the ear of Double Face.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000007_000003.wav|Aboo!" and at the same time he switched the naked baby with a thorny wild rose bush.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000014_000000.wav|"Hun he!" exclaimed Manstin, bending over the freshly made footprints in the moist bank of the brook.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000019_000001.wav|These are magic bags which never grow empty.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000004_000001.wav|He was scarce over the great high hills when he heard the shrieking of a human child.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000034_000001.wav|Nearer and louder grew the voices-one was the clear flute tones of a young brave and the other the tremulous squeaks of an old grandfather.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000028_000003.wav|Soon he stumbled upon thickly strewn dry willow sticks.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000024_000000.wav|"How! you have said it.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000028_000004.wav|Eagerly with both hands he gathered the wood into his outspread blanket.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000007_000000.wav|This brown giant was without clothes save for a wild cat skin about his loins.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000032_000001.wav|Manstin let go his bundle and began to lament having given away his two eyes.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000009_000000.wav|When gallant Manstin returned the child to the eager arms of the mother there came a sudden terror into the eyes of both the Dakotas.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000007_000002.wav|In a laughing voice he hummed an Indian mother's lullaby, "A boo!|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000010_000000.wav|That night a strange thing happened.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000028_000002.wav|"I go for some fire wood!" he said, following the rawhide rope which led into the forest.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000015_000000.wav|Quietly he lifted the door flap and entered in.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000010_000002.wav|With his feet placed gently yet firmly upon the tiny toes of the little child, he drew upward by each small hand the sleeping child till he was a full grown man.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000016_000001.wav|I cannot see you.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000005_000002.wav|he delights in torturing helpless creatures!"|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000027_000002.wav|Exhausted and inwardly disgusted with his mishaps, he crawled more cautiously on all fours to his wigwam door.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000004_000000.wav|With these words of caution to the bent old rabbit grandmother with whom he had lived since he was a tiny babe, Manstin started off toward the north.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000003_000003.wav|I am going to the North country on a long hunt."|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000009_000003.wav|Do not fear."|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000014_000003.wav|At once his eyes became fixed upon the solitary dwelling and hither he followed his curiosity,--a real blind man's rope.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000006_000000.wav|Muttering indistinct words, Manstin ran up the last hill and lo! in the ravine beyond stood the terrible monster with a face in front and one in the back of his head!|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000036_000001.wav|The old grandfather crept into his wigwam, which is often mistaken for a mere oak tree by little Indian girls and boys.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000014_000002.wav|This rope is his guide by which he comes for his daily water!" surmised Manstin, who knew all the peculiar contrivances of the people.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000013_000002.wav|His alert eye caught sight of a rawhide rope staked to the water's brink, which led away toward a small round hut in the distance. The ground was trodden into a deep groove beneath the loosely drawn rawhide rope.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000028_000005.wav|Manstin was naturally an energetic fellow.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000021_000000.wav|"Grandfather, I wish I lived in such sure luxury!|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000016_000000.wav|"How, grandchild," he mumbled, for he was old enough to be grandparent to every living thing, "how!|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000015_000001.wav|An old toothless grandfather, blind and shaky with age, sat upon the ground.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000022_000000.wav|"My grandchild, your eyes are your luxury! you would be unhappy without them!" the old man replied.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000026_000003.wav|Thus he skipped confidently along jerking the old weather eaten rawhide spasmodically till all of a sudden it gave way and Manstin fell headlong into the water.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000026_000002.wav|He was full of glee, for it had been many long moons since he had tasted such good food.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000031_000000.wav|With a bold face, he made a start at random.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000034_000000.wav|Scarcely had he spoken when the sound of voices was audible on the outer edge of the forest.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000016_000002.wav|Pray, speak your name!"|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000011_000000.wav|"Henceforth we are friends, to help each other," said Manstin, shaking a right hand in farewell.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000018_000000.wav|"Grandfather, what is it so tightly packed in all these buckskin bags placed against the tent poles?" he asked.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000033_000001.wav|The old oak tree grandfather has gone off with my eyes and I am lost in the woods!" he cried with his lips close to the earth.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000023_000000.wav|"Grandfather, I would give you my two eyes for your place!" cried Manstin.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000005_000001.wav|Shameless coward!|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000008_000004.wav|Soon he came to a teepee from whence loud wailing voices broke.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000012_000000.wav|"Ho! Be it so!" answered the newly made man.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000026_000000.wav|Manstin grew thirsty, but there was no water in the small dwelling. Taking one of the rawhide ropes he started toward the brook to quench his thirst.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000017_000000.wav|"Grandfather, I am Manstin," answered the rabbit, all the while looking with curious eyes about the wigwam.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000026_000001.wav|He was young and unwilling to trudge slowly in the old man's footpath.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000027_000003.wav|Dripping with his recent plunge he sat with chattering teeth within his unfired wigwam.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000008_000005.wav|It was the teepee of the stolen baby and the mourners were its heart broken parents.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000035_000001.wav|I have had pleasure seeing with your eyes and trying your bow and arrows, but since I am old and feeble I much prefer my own teepee and my magic bags!"|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000008_000002.wav|It was a poisoned arrow, and the giant fell dead.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000035_000000.wav|It was Manstin's friend with the Earth Ear and the old grandfather. "Here Manstin, take back your eyes," said the old man, "I knew you would not be content in my stead, but I wanted you to learn your lesson.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000015_000002.wav|He was not deaf however.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141644/1535_141644_000025_000001.wav|For a short time it was a most pleasant pastime to smoke willow bark and to eat from the magic bags.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000020_000004.wav|You have never heard me weep.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000025_000000.wav|"No, no!" pouted the boy with some impatience.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000031_000000.wav|"This is he!" murmured the hunter to himself as he ran to his wigwam.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000012_000000.wav|"We will search with you," they said to her as she started off.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000013_000002.wav|He was nowhere to be found.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000020_000005.wav|I can please your ear and break your heart.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000016_000001.wav|Every autumn with the hunters came the unhappy parents of the lost baby to search again for him.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000026_000002.wav|Oh, no, I cannot give away the pretty creature I have taught to call me 'mother' all these many winters."|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000016_000000.wav|Thus ten summers and as many winters have come and gone since the strange disappearance of the little child.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000026_000001.wav|I cannot keep him longer, I fear.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000032_000000.wav|At once the unhappy father and mother cried out, "'tis he, our boy!" Quickly he led them to the lake.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000008_000000.wav|Running with clinched fists to the nearest teepees, she called: "Has any one seen my baby?|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000021_000002.wav|She had reared a large family of little toads, but none of them had aroused her love, nor ever grieved her.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000009_000001.wav|Hinnu!" exclaimed the women, rising to their feet and rushing out of their wigwams.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000009_000000.wav|"Hinnu!|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000018_000000.wav|At length, when the moaning ceased, he sprang to his feet and ran like a nymph with swift outstretched toes.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000021_000005.wav|In a gruff, coarse voice she broke forth:|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000019_000001.wav|Mother!|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000029_000001.wav|Very closely watched the old toad mother her stolen human son.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000010_000001.wav|What has happened?" queried the women.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000032_000001.wav|Peeping through the wild rice, he pointed with unsteady finger toward the boy playing all unawares.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000024_000002.wav|Do you not like my wailing better?"|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000017_000000.wav|Toward the latter part of the tenth season when, one by one, the teepees were folded and the families went away from the lake region, the mother walked again along the lake shore weeping.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000020_000001.wav|"It was the voice of a weeping woman you heard.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000025_000002.wav|Tell me, mother, why the human voice stirs all my feelings!"|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000014_000001.wav|The birds were flying high toward the south.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000028_000000.wav|The big, ugly toad, looking at her pudgy children, said: "The eldest is always best."|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000004_000000.wav|In the largest teepee sat a young mother wrapping red porcupine quills about the long fringes of a buckskin cushion.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000015_000000.wav|Till the winter snow covered the ground and ice covered the lakes, the wailing woman's voice was heard from that solitary wigwam.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000020_000002.wav|My son, do not say you like it.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000010_000000.wav|"We have not seen your child!|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000006_000001.wav|She was strong and swung an ax as skillfully as any man.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000027_000000.wav|"Mother," went on the child voice, "tell me one thing.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000030_000004.wav|He had heard of the baby stolen long ago.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000030_000003.wav|One day an Indian hunter, wading in the deep waters, spied the boy.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000020_000006.wav|Listen!" replied the great old toad.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000019_000000.wav|"Mother!|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000017_000004.wav|He wore a loin cloth of woven sweet grass.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000021_000001.wav|She was old and badly puffed out.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000025_000001.wav|"I want to hear the woman's voice!|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000013_000003.wav|After many days and nights the search was given up.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000029_000000.wav|This reply quieted the boy for a while.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000014_000002.wav|The teepees around the lakes were gone, save one lonely dwelling.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000013_000000.wav|They met the returning husbands, who turned about and joined in the hunt for the missing child.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000005_000002.wav|It was almost time for the return of her husband.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000011_000000.wav|With great tears in her eyes the mother told her story.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000017_000003.wav|His long, loose hair hanging down his brown back and shoulders was carelessly tossed from his round face.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000029_000002.wav|When by chance he started off alone, she shoved out one of her own children after him, saying: "Do not come back without your big brother."|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000023_000001.wav|Having shrieked in a torturing voice and mouthed extravagant names, the old toad rolled her tearless eyes with great satisfaction.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000004_000001.wav|Beside her lay a black eyed baby boy cooing and laughing.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000008_000001.wav|He is gone!|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000006_000003.wav|Soon carrying easily a bundle of long willows on her back, with a loop of rope over both her shoulders, she came striding homeward.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000018_000001.wav|He rushed into a small hut of reeds and grasses.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000020_000003.wav|Do not tell me it brought tears to your eyes.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000017_000005.wav|Crouching low to the marshy ground, he listened to the wailing voice.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000024_000000.wav|"My son, did my voice bring tears to your eyes?|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000007_000003.wav|There was nowhere any sign of the child.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000006_000002.wav|Her loose buckskin dress was made for such freedom.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000021_000004.wav|Now, in her great desire to keep the stolen boy awhile longer, she ventured to cry as the Dakota woman does.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000004_000002.wav|Reaching and kicking upward with his tiny hands and feet, he played with the dangling strings of his heavy beaded bonnet hanging empty on a tent pole above him.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000030_000002.wav|Always at his feet hops a little toad brother.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000008_000002.wav|My little son is gone!"|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000014_000000.wav|It was growing late in the autumn.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000021_000000.wav|Stepping outside, she stood by the entrance way.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000031_000001.wav|"I saw among the tall reeds a black haired boy at play!" shouted he to the people.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000002_000000.wav|THE TOAD AND THE BOY|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000013_000004.wav|It was sad, indeed, to hear the mother wailing aloud for her little son.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000013_000001.wav|Along the shore of the lakes, among the high grown reeds, they looked in vain.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000017_000001.wav|One evening, across the lake from where the crying woman stood, a pair of bright black eyes peered at her through the tall reeds and wild rice.|1535
LibriTTS/train-clean-360/1535/141642/1535_141642_000023_000000.wav|Not knowing that the syllables of a Dakota's cry are the names of loved ones gone, the ugly toad mother sought to please the boy's ear with the names of valuable articles.|1535
